The Mercier Bridge will be down to one lane in either direction this weekend, starting tonight at 10 pm until tomorrow, Saturday at 11 am, with the closure of the Kahnawake bound span and the Airlie entrance. The plan is for a 4th attempt by Rice Mohawk Steel to repair the hole that appeared in the right lane on the Montreal side of the bridge, where a protective plate has been covering it for over a month.
Vaccinations for flu, pneumonia, COVID-19 and shingles are now being scheduled through the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC). The dates planned that require an appointment are Tuesday, October 29th from 9:00am until 5:00pm and Thursday, October 31st from 9:00am until 2:00pm. An additional clinic will be held at the Golden Age Club on Wednesday, October 30th from 11:00am to 1:00pm as a Walk-In Vaccination Clinic. KMHC is offering vaccines (Flu, Covid, Pneumonia and Shingles) to those that need and qualify and who are from Kahnawake
The Office of the Kahnawà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Registry (OKKR) on a change to next week’s scheduled information session. The session has now been modified to an Information Kiosk, which will now take place on Thursday, November 7th, from 1pm to 3:30pm in the lobby of the Kahnawà:ke Services Complex. The Kiosk serving to answer questions about applying for recognition as per the Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawà:ke Law or for residency as per the Kahnawà:ke Residency Law. Copies of the Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawà:ke Law and the Kanien’kehá:ka Residency Law will be available for review. Updates to contact information will be accepted on-site. Attendees can also receive a printed Family Tree.
A section of the River Road will be closed tomorrow, Friday, October 25th. The purpose of the work according to the Public Works and Capital Units of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) is to install a new water main valve. The work will begin at 7am and is expected to be completed by 2:30pm.
If there are any concerns about this work, you are asked to reach out to the 24-hour waterline and sewer emergency hotline at: 514-891-9751.
It is time to increase one’s knowledge of the land and water. A ‘Creek Clean n’ Learn’ event is scheduled for Sunday, October 27th, from 10am to 2pm. The Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO), in collaboration with the Waste Management department of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) saying that the cleanup will focus on the area of North Creek, starting near Slippery Elm Avenue and Red Bird Road and will continue upstream towards the first culvert with the yellow railings. KEPO will provide gloves and garbage bags for collecting trash around the creek, but participants are encouraged to bring their own boots or waders. In addition to the cleanup, KEPO will discuss the health of North Creek and its future and offer demonstrations on how to identify and remove invasive Reed Canary Grass and possibly Phragmites grass. Participants can park at the Tewatohnhi’saktha parking lot, where Waste Management will have a tent to distribute cleanup supplies.
The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) vaccination clinics for flu, pneumonia, COVID-19 and shingles are now being scheduled. Starting on Thursday, October 17th, from 9:00am until 5:00pm, then on Tuesday, October 22nd, from 9:00am until 5:00pm and again on Thursday, October 24th, between 9 and 5. Additional dates will be announced on an as they are finalized. KMHC long-term residents and staff are currently receiving their vaccinations, and some minor delays might be expected.
Kahnawake officially has five new firefighters who are part of the KFB. Kwaronienhawi Jacobs, Konwatharani Jacobs, Summer Martin, Brandon Chuby and Heather McGregor this past weekend they were at the Justice Institute of British Columbia in Maple Ridge BC to complete Live Fire 1. They were all approved and passed the qualifications that took nearly 20 months to complete.
Wihse Stacey is the Assistant Fire Chief with the KFB:
“This was the last course of 6 that they had to complete in order to become ‘Firefighter 1’ certified. Live Fire 1 is the culmination of everything that they did over the last 5 courses. You’re going into a building, you’re going into actual fire, high-heat, you have to go upstairs into the fire, you have to go downstairs through the fire. You’re entering a building at 400-550 degrees already at the very top and you’re working your way through it. That’s one of the more dangerous parts of firefighting.”
There is a necessary water main repair set for the Clay Mountains area. The Public Works Department of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) announcing that the repair work will begin at 7am tomorrow, Wednesday, October 16th and it should be completed by early in the afternoon. No road closure is required for this intervention. Area residents may experience a drop in water pressure or have no water service during the repair work.
New measures are coming to Route 207 in Kahnawake in an effort to make the road safer. As first reported by Ioriwase, yellow warning flashing lights will be installed at two intersections at Peter Fox’s road and Zachary road. David Lahache is the Transport Coordinator at the MCK, saying that are nearly 10,000 vehicles a day travelling on the road and that Arnold Boyer, the Ratsisahiens on the Transportation file, had requested that the MTQ conduct a safety study of the roadway.
The yellow warning flashing lights will be following a study that was conducted by the Transport Ministry this summer.
There was an attempted break-in at a residence in the New Development in Kahnawake. The Peacekeepers say witnesses saw several kids running away from the home after the attempt. They managed to damage the door frame. Kyle Zachary PR Officer with the Peacekeepers says, that while there have been a few robberies in the last week in the community, he stopped short of calling it a rash of break-ins.
There were break-ins earlier this week at 2 other homes and at the John Owens Oasis Restaurant. Despite that, the PKs, citing statistics, say the number of break-ins each year have remained consistent throughout the last 5 years.