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Joe Augustine never expected to be in movies, but at 82, Red Bank's oldest male resident is making his debut.

Beaver Creek Pictures of Toronto, Ontario plans to produce two films on his Micmac village of Metepenagiag.

One half-hour episode is for the Sketches of Our Town TV series. The second, extended version, is for international audiences.

Conrad Beaubien, producer and director of the show, came to Miramichi with cinema photographer Helmfried Muller to film New Brunswick's oldest village.

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Joe Augustine never expected to be in movies, but at 82, Red Bank's oldest male resident is making his debut.

Beaver Creek Pictures of Toronto, Ontario plans to produce two films on his Micmac village of Metepenagiag.

One half-hour episode is for the Sketches of Our Town TV series. The second, extended version, is for international audiences.

Conrad Beaubien, producer and director of the show, came to Miramichi with cinema photographer Helmfried Muller to film New Brunswick's oldest village.

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If it is true that many people tend to consider Nayive arts as being limited to beadwork, totem pole carving, or Norval Morrisseau-type paintings, the seventh annual Native Visual and Performing Arts Show held in Kamloops,. B.C., proved them wrong. The creative works exhibited in the show were as diverse and inspiring as the lives and the stories of the artists themselves.

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What's two weeks more when you've been waiting 20 years?

That's the question facing many Sechelt Nation residents after an eleventh hour agreement with provincial government officials concerning the Sechelt's threats to cut the water supply to the town of Sechelt and neighboring communities, was reached.

The band threatened to remove Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) water pipes off their land by Feb. 14 unless the British Columbia government opened land claim discussions with them.

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Summer forest fires that lit evening skies in northwestern Saskatchewan will brighten the lives of nearby communities in the future with a timber salvage plan that comes into effect this year.

The fire that cut a swatch through the Primrose Air Weapons Range in 1993 left an abundance of harvestable logs, approximate 600,000 cubic metres worth, according to Norsask Forest Products of Meadow Lake representatives. That represents almost all of Norsasks' needs for the next two years, saving other areas the company is licensed to harvest.

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Summer forest fires that lit evening skies in northwestern Saskatchewan will brighten the lives of nearby communities in the future with a timber salvage plan that comes into effect this year.

The fire that cut a swatch through the Primrose Air Weapons Range in 1993 left an abundance of harvestable logs, approximate 600,000 cubic metres worth, according to Norsask Forest Products of Meadow Lake representatives. That represents almost all of Norsasks' needs for the next two years, saving other areas the company is licensed to harvest.

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Summer forest fires that lit evening skies in northwestern Saskatchewan will brighten the lives of nearby communities in the future with a timber salvage plan that comes into effect this year.

The fire that cut a swatch through the Primrose Air Weapons Range in 1993 left an abundance of harvestable logs, approximate 600,000 cubic metres worth, according to Norsask Forest Products of Meadow Lake representatives. That represents almost all of Norsasks' needs for the next two years, saving other areas the company is licensed to harvest.

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Summer forest fires that lit evening skies in northwestern Saskatchewan will brighten the lives of nearby communities in the future with a timber salvage plan that comes into effect this year.

The fire that cut a swatch through the Primrose Air Weapons Range in 1993 left an abundance of harvestable logs, approximate 600,000 cubic metres worth, according to Norsask Forest Products of Meadow Lake representatives. That represents almost all of Norsasks' needs for the next two years, saving other areas the company is licensed to harvest.

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Being named Prince Albert Citizen of the Year 1993 proves relations between the city's Native and non-Native communities are getting better, said the winner of the award.

"It shows you some of the realities we have dealt with here in Prince Albert," Eugene Arcand said. "Ten years ago, no one would have dreamt of a First Nations man being named Citizen of the Year."

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Being named Prince Albert Citizen of the Year 1993 proves relations between the city's Native and non-Native communities are getting better, said the winner of the award.

"It shows you some of the realities we have dealt with here in Prince Albert," Eugene Arcand said. "Ten years ago, no one would have dreamt of a First Nations man being named Citizen of the Year."