Boo Maga November 2021

Council Meeting Highlights
November
The October 6th WLFN Open House was a huge success. The
presentations by all the departments were fantastic.
The turnout for Orange Shirt Day impressed the council.
At the entrance to Scout Island, a Secwepemc
culture information sign will be installed.
Council toured the WLFN Admin building, Sugar Cane Community, Unity
Cannabis, and Sugar Cane Cannabis with the Staff from Northern Development
Initiative Trust.
A premiere for WLFN Members at Paradise Theatre for a showing
of “Portraits from a Fire” was approved by Council and the event
was a huge sucess.
Clear Sky Consulting completed a WLFN Hazard Risk Vulnerability Assessment that Council has
approved, and WLFN will move forward with a WLFN Emergency Plan.
The Williams Lake government building at 640 Borland St. is installing
Secwepemc signage. There will be a ceremony once it is completed.
Council Members participated in a 2-day WLFN
Council strategy session in Osoyoos.
St. Joseph Mission
Investigation Updates
GeoScan has been working on
site, in some of the hayfield areas
to gather more data related to
GPR and magnetometry. Crews
from Borland Creek Logging have
been hard at work removing the
long grass from any areas they
are working on, before it becomes
too wet to work.
WLFN is working to finalise a date
to deliver the preliminary results
of the geophysical work. That
date is still being discussed as the
GeoScan team continue to assess
the SJM site but, we are hoping to
foreshore of Yellow Lake, as
shown in the picture above.
The Terrestrial LiDAR processing
be implementing regular healing
and support groups as we realise
not everyone prefers one-on-one
be able to provide a tentative date is now complete. Terrestrial sessions.
by the beginning of November.
The current study area for SJM has
been expanded from the original
proposal, which was initially 460
hectares. This area includes large
LiDAR is a scan which creates a
3D image of building structures.
This will enable the WLFN team to
create 3D models of the SJM site,
with accompanying photos.
We are also introducing a trauma
training workshop for Community,
Chief, Council and staff members
at WLFN. The sessions will be
conducted with Patricia Vickers,
portions of the valley however, as On a more personal note, and centre around mental health.
the survivor interviews progress,
it has become apparent that we
also need to focus our search on
areas outside of that boundary.
The study area has now been
Williams Lake First Nation is still
heavily focused on improving
health and wellness supports
for community members, amidst
the SJM investigation. In addition
Dave Archie will also be helping to
organise more cultural wellness
activities, related to connection
with the land, with culture and with
one another, such as a hunting
extended to encompass the to our weekly clinicians, we will camp or medicine picking.
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