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Most of Canada will hold National Addictions Awareness Week activities Nov. 18-24, but British Columbia's kick-off ceremony and activities will get underway several days earlier.

"We wanted to coincide with the provincial drug awareness week which begins Nov. 4," explains Deborah Senger, regional co-ordinator for National Addictions Awareness Week in Vancouver. Senger feels the goals of the two yearly awareness weeks are similar. The provincial slogan is Be Part of the Solution.

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"The goal is to have all Indian and Inuit Communities, bands and organizations participate in the Join the Circle Campaign," says Louis Mayo, National Addictions Awareness Week Co-ordinator at the Nechi Institute.

Last year 405 Native communities sent in declarations of intent to participate and over 18,000 people were involved.

"This unity exemplifies the work being accomplished by Indian and Inuit people to fight addictions in their communities," adds Mayo.

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"The goal is to have all Indian and Inuit Communities, bands and organizations participate in the Join the Circle Campaign," says Louis Mayo, National Addictions Awareness Week Co-ordinator at the Nechi Institute.

Last year 405 Native communities sent in declarations of intent to participate and over 18,000 people were involved.

"This unity exemplifies the work being accomplished by Indian and Inuit people to fight addictions in their communities," adds Mayo.

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"The goal is to have all Indian and Inuit Communities, bands and organizations participate in the Join the Circle Campaign," says Louis Mayo, National Addictions Awareness Week Co-ordinator at the Nechi Institute.

Last year 405 Native communities sent in declarations of intent to participate and over 18,000 people were involved.

"This unity exemplifies the work being accomplished by Indian and Inuit people to fight addictions in their communities," adds Mayo.

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"The goal is to have all Indian and Inuit Communities, bands and organizations participate in the Join the Circle Campaign," says Louis Mayo, National Addictions Awareness Week Co-ordinator at the Nechi Institute.

Last year 405 Native communities sent in declarations of intent to participate and over 18,000 people were involved.

"This unity exemplifies the work being accomplished by Indian and Inuit people to fight addictions in their communities," adds Mayo.

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A tiny village located in Canada's Northwest Territories received support from an unexpected source last year. The 150 students at the Attanajuak school wrote Hulk Hogan, one of their most popular heroes, and invited him to participate in their 1989 Stop Smoking and Say No to Drugs activities.

"Although the World Wrestling Federation champion couldn't attend the week-long festivities, he threw his support behind the project," says former community health nurse Shelly Fletcher.

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A tiny village located in Canada's Northwest Territories received support from an unexpected source last year. The 150 students at the Attanajuak school wrote Hulk Hogan, one of their most popular heroes, and invited him to participate in their 1989 Stop Smoking and Say No to Drugs activities.

"Although the World Wrestling Federation champion couldn't attend the week-long festivities, he threw his support behind the project," says former community health nurse Shelly Fletcher.

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A tiny village located in Canada's Northwest Territories received support from an unexpected source last year. The 150 students at the Attanajuak school wrote Hulk Hogan, one of their most popular heroes, and invited him to participate in their 1989 Stop Smoking and Say No to Drugs activities.

"Although the World Wrestling Federation champion couldn't attend the week-long festivities, he threw his support behind the project," says former community health nurse Shelly Fletcher.

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A tiny village located in Canada's Northwest Territories received support from an unexpected source last year. The 150 students at the Attanajuak school wrote Hulk Hogan, one of their most popular heroes, and invited him to participate in their 1989 Stop Smoking and Say No to Drugs activities.

"Although the World Wrestling Federation champion couldn't attend the week-long festivities, he threw his support behind the project," says former community health nurse Shelly Fletcher.

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As a manager of the band-owned Standoff Restaurant on the Blood Nation reserve in southern Alberta three years ago, Patsy Rabbit was getting fed up with her job.

"I was getting so frustrated because the band was always saying that I wasn't making enough money for them," she said. "One day I thought, I'd like to be on my own."

Problem was, even after working for the restaurant for 20 years, Rabbit had no idea how to run a business of her own.