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A medical health center here is "turning away" patients.

The Boyle McCauley Health Centre treats about 10,000 patients each year ? half of whom are Native people, says health co-ordinator Sherry McKibben, noting the clinic has been sending patients elsewhere of late. She estimates the clinic turns away about two people a day because it does not have "adequate space to deal with everyone that tries to get help at the clinic.

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Roy Randolph, an Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) board member, passed away at 65 years of age on March 7.

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Metis Children's Services in Edmonton is recruiting urgently needed volunteers to provide friendship, support and expertise to Metis families.

The statement "we want you" is a plea for help, comments family service worker, John Sinclair. He says the organization is seeking individuals from various walks of life who possess a variety of skills or education.

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A 15-bed hospital being built here will provide residents with complete medical care.

Work on the new hospital, expected to cost $6.3-million, began last October. So far, construction is on schedule and the facility is expected to be open February 1989, according to budget administrator Cliff Cottingham.

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Nursing assistants are being trained here for Wabasca's first hospital, currently under construction.

Students from the Wabasca area have been training in the 10-month registered nursing assistant program since January. When they complete their training Oct. 14, six of the 10 students now in the program will be stationed at the Wabasca hospital, expected to open next year.

The students are in their third month of training in the joint AVC/CVC (Alberta Vocational Centre/Community Vocational Centre) program.

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The Alexander band election procedures declared illegal last December have been approved by the federal government.

The band, located 25 km northwest of Edmonton, experienced problems when they moved to custom elections and failed to notify the government it would be setting up its own rules rather than following regulations governing band elections under the Indian Act.

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Metis settlements to get electrified

Metis settlement residents are now eligible to receive grants under a $14-million rural electrification program (REP), for all Alberta farmers, which will assist in opening up unused land for farm development and provide 100 per cent grants for residential services.

Most settlements contacted by Windspeaker say they are accessing the program to bring power to individual homes.

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Following a March 4 meeting in which Alberta Premier Getty offered an interim settlement of 66 square km of reserve land without prejudice to future negotiation for more land, the Lubicons have decided to wait for negotiation structure before considering the offer.

Getty also proposed a tribunal mediating process to monitor progress on negotiation talks and to personally encourage the federal government to move forward toward a settlement.

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If policing doesn't grab you, perhaps you like things a little hotter. Try your hand at becoming a professional firefighter.

Fire Chief Wayne Snitzler of the Westside Fire and Rescue Department in the town of Westbank in British Columbia's Okanagan region always knew he wanted to be a firefighter. His dad had been for 25 years before him. He virtually grew up in the fire hall, and so at age 19 while going to college, he started his official career as a volunteer firefighter in Surrey.

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Going to medical school not only changed Shannon Waters' life, it also brought her closer to the heritage that she'd never known.

Finishing up her last year of medical school at the University of British Columbia, 25-year-old Shannon Waters from Chemainus First Nation on Vancouver Island is now in the midst of applying for residency. Her first choice is the First Nations Family Practice program, in its inaugural year run by UBC, which sends medical school graduates to rural areas of the province with large Native populations.