Welcome to AMMSA.COM, the news archive website for our family of Indigenous news publications.

Alberta Sweetgrass

  • ROB MCKINLEY, Sweetgrass Writer, Hobbema

Page 10

Hobbema has a new facility. Although this one isn't somewhere that people should want to spend any time, it is a place that's worth taking a look at.

The Pe Sakastew Centre is a federal minimum security correction facility, specially made to house Aboriginal inmates. It opened its doors to the first guest on April 2.

When full, it will hold up to 60 inmates.…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • ROB MCKINLEY AND BARB GRINDER, Sweetgrass Writers, Lethbridge

Page 9

Hockey legend Reggie "The Rifle" Leach missed his son's climb through the hockey ranks because his own career was in full swing. Leach, 47, is now getting a second chance to teach kids all over again - but not his own kids and not about hockey.

Leach, the superstar Philadelphia Flyers right-winger, retired from hockey in 1984 with 14 years of NHL experience, one Stanley…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • TERRY LUSTY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 9

A left hook, right, left hook combo that sent Troy Roberts reeling may spell the end of what could have been a promising boxing career for the heavyweight fighter.

Roberts, a gentle West Coast Indian fisherman from Campbell River, B.C., was decked by American Rupert Thomas at a June 12, winner take all boxing tourney at Edmonton's Mayfield Inn. The knock-out punch came…

  • ROB MCKINLEY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 8

On June 11, the University of Alberta's Faculty Club played host to the 1997 Edmonton Catholic School Board's Most Improved Aboriginal Student Awards.

Seventeen promising students received awards for improving their performances in school and in the community over the last year.

The awards ceremony has been held for the last nine years, and is put on by a group of…

  • ROB MCKINLEY, Sweetgrass Writer, Edmonton

Page 8

On June 11, the University of Alberta's Faculty Club played host to the 1997 Edmonton Catholic School Board's Most Improved Aboriginal Student Awards.

Seventeen promising students received awards for improving their performances in school and in the community over the last year.

The awards ceremony has been held for the last nine years, and is put on by a group of…