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Pamela Carifelle: a chip off the old block

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Although Raymond Carifelle is thinking about retiring from community baseball, his 17-year-old daughter Pamela lives for sports -- any sports.

A "chip off the old block" Pamela won five gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Canadian Native Friendship Center's track and field competitions in 1989.

She plays baseball for the Peavine Young Guns and her enthusiasm for sports does not stop there.

"When she was younger her love for hockey drove her to join a boys' hockey team. "I was a hockey mite," she says with pride.

Swan River Native a foster mother to many

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Dorothy Walker runs a foster home in Grande Prairie.

Her oldest ward, Mike Michalzuk was born in 1910. Her youngest, Cassy Kiwassew, is handicapped and "only eight years old," Dorothy commented.

A member of the Swan River Indian band at Kinuso, Dorothy has been a foster mother for over 22 years. Her efforts earned her the provincial volunteer of the year award in 1983.

But what makes a woman like Dorothy dedicate most of her life to helping others?

Swan River Native a foster mother to many

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Dorothy Walker runs a foster home in Grande Prairie.

Her oldest ward, Mike Michalzuk was born in 1910. Her youngest, Cassy Kiwassew, is handicapped and "only eight years old," Dorothy commented.

A member of the Swan River Indian band at Kinuso, Dorothy has been a foster mother for over 22 years. Her efforts earned her the provincial volunteer of the year award in 1983.

But what makes a woman like Dorothy dedicate most of her life to helping others?

Swan River Native a foster mother to many

Page 17

Dorothy Walker runs a foster home in Grande Prairie.

Her oldest ward, Mike Michalzuk was born in 1910. Her youngest, Cassy Kiwassew, is handicapped and "only eight years old," Dorothy commented.

A member of the Swan River Indian band at Kinuso, Dorothy has been a foster mother for over 22 years. Her efforts earned her the provincial volunteer of the year award in 1983.

But what makes a woman like Dorothy dedicate most of her life to helping others?

Swan River Native a foster mother to many

Page 17

Dorothy Walker runs a foster home in Grande Prairie.

Her oldest ward, Mike Michalzuk was born in 1910. Her youngest, Cassy Kiwassew, is handicapped and "only eight years old," Dorothy commented.

A member of the Swan River Indian band at Kinuso, Dorothy has been a foster mother for over 22 years. Her efforts earned her the provincial volunteer of the year award in 1983.

But what makes a woman like Dorothy dedicate most of her life to helping others?

Christianity and Indian spirituality coming together

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In 1977 Lucien and William Meek packed their belongings and began the long trip west, from their Ojibwa home on Tenagami reserve in Ontario.

Most of Lucien's family had migrated to the Edmonton area from the east in the 60s so the move wasn't that hard on her and their family of five children, she says.

Today, she's the director of the Native Pastoral Centre in Edmonton, a job she loves because religion has always been an important part of her life.