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The Capital Unit of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke will begin work in the area of Veterans Boulevard this Friday in order to replace the water and sewer mains.  After that work is completed, the road base will be reconstructed and a new asphalt surface will be installed. Residents in the area may be inconvenienced by temporary loss of water, dust and noise from trucks and equipment.

On Wednesday, an additional Indian Day School Settlement Kiosk will be in operation in the community. Louise Mayo will be adding some hours for claimant’s who are unable to arrive by 4:00pm The Kiosk will run from 9:00am to 3:00pm, followed by a 1-hour break and a return by Mayo at 4:oopm until 5:30pm, again at the Kahnawake Business Complex (KBC) main entrance/foyer, adjacent to the Canada Post Office. A reminder that the IDS claims process is closed with Deloitte no longer accepting claims.

There will be Community Consultations on proposed amendments to the Kahnawà:ke Animal Control Law tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25^th, from 1 to 4pm. The Kahnawà:ke Legislative Commission saying that proponents of the amendments will also appear on K1037’s Tetewathá:ren Partyline Talkshow, on Tuesday, between 12 noon and 12:30. The Kiosks will be held at the Golden Age Club for one-on-one opportunities for community members to discuss the proposed changes to the law, a 2nd one already scheduled for next Tuesday, August 1^st, from 9am to Noon.

The Draft Kahnawà:ke Animal Control Law is currently in the 30-day Feedback Period, which concludes on Friday, August 4^th.

Feedback can be submitted in writing or by telephone to Ratsénhaienhs Ryan Montour, or Robyn Montour, or by completing the Feedback Form on the Community Decision Making Review Process website.

There will be Community Consultations on proposed amendments to the Kahnawà:ke Animal Control Law on the way. The Kahnawà:ke Legislative Commission saying that proponents of the amendments will appear on the K1037 Tetewathá:ren Partyline Talkshow on Tuesday, July 25, from noon to 12:30pm. Kiosks will also be held at the Golden Age Club for one-on-one opportunities for community members to discuss the proposed changes to the law on the following dates: Tuesday, July 25, from 1pm to 4pm; Tuesday, August 1, from 9am to noon.

The Draft Kahnawà:ke Animal Control Law is currently in the 30-day Feedback Period, which concludes on Friday, August 4^th.

Feedback can be submitted in writing or by telephone to Ratsénhaienhs Ryan Montour, or Robyn Montour, or by completing the Feedback Form on the Community Decision Making Review Process website.

Water quality monitoring equipment will be installed in the Recreation Bay today by The Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO). KEPO personnel will be installing the equipment, which will monitor turbidity, oxygen, temperature and pH levels in the Recreation Bay area. The monitors will help KEPO evaluate the effects of excavation work on bay water quality. Data loggers will be mounted on green signposts with orange flagging tape as markers and will be secured to the shore with aircraft cable. They will be removed after one week of data collection on Wednesday, July 26^th. In total, there will be four (4) one-week deployments from now until the end of October. KEPO is asking that the data loggers not be disturbed during these periods.

There will be Kiosk on Draft Regulations Concerning Dispensaries and Dispensary Licenses that the Kahnawake Cannabis Control Board (KCCB) and Ietsénhaienhs Tonya Wentanoron Perron will hold an all-day information kiosk to provide information. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke is inviting community members to drop in, provide feedback and ask questions about the Draft Dispensary Regulations. The kiosk will be held at the Golden Age Club on Thursday, July 27^th, from 9am to12 noon and again from1pm until 4pm. Copies of the Draft Regulations will be available, along with: a step-by-step checklist of the dispensary license application process as set out in the Draft Regulations; an information sheet about the KCCB members and the Kahnawake Cannabis Control Office; and contact and website information.

A copy of the Draft Dispensary Regulations can also be found online at www.Kahnawake.com/legalcannabis.

Swimming in Tioweró:ton has been suspended again. The Public Safety Division of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke with the late day announcement, advising the community that all common swimming areas in Tioweró:ton are now closed due to elevated bacteria levels. Recent water sampling by technicians from Environmental Health Services (EHS) of Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services has revealed an unacceptable increase in bacteria and recommends staying out of the water until levels return to what is considered adequate for swimming and recreation. EHS will test the waters again next week.

For more information, you can reach out to EHS at 450-635-9945 or the Public Safety Unit at 450-632-0635.

The Kahnawake Peacekeeper’s encourage the community to continue to make safe choices, if you choose to consume, have a designated driver. This as the statistics from the PK’s were released today on rides provided during this past weekends Pow-Wow. Kyle Zachary is a spokesperson with the Peacekeepers:

“I had taken a meeting with a couple representatives from KSCS earlier the week before on an initiative that they had come up with to provide a safe ride home for people who were going to be consuming alcohol or other substances during the celebrations that follow the Pow-Wow especially on the Friday and Saturday nights. There were a lot of events planned around the community and the goal was to minimize peoples’ impaired driving within the territory.”

Zachary saying that many community members were provided with safe rides home:

“Come Monday morning, they updated us that they provided 54 rides to individuals within the community. During that time we conducted spot-check operations; we opened 3 separate interceptions of vehicles to check for impaired driving and we did have to make 1 arrest. But, one arrest compared to giving 54 rides home, those are good numbers to us. We’re really happy about that.”

The PK’s worked along with KSCS and their: ‘Sober Drive Initiative.’

33 years ago today, history was changed in the Pines in Kanesatake. In studio on Tetewatharen, the party line talk show today on K1037, with host Peggy Mayo Standup, Ellen Gabriel was the guest. Gabriel reminiscing about the Oka crisis and why don’t we teach our youth about what went down:

“I don’t know why, the community schools, especially the ones that are directly impacted are not teaching this and not asking the people who were there, ‘what happened,’ because I think a lot of youth have the wrong impression of what this was about. I think a lot of them think it’s about guns and weapons and it’s like, no, it started in March, we had a lot of community discussions. The women agreed when the police arrived that they would go to the front and we did, with our arms in the air to show them that we didn’t have weapons, we told them that the people are not leaving.”

Gabriel on the deception and blame that continues:

“All the games that the colonizer has played over centuries of lying to us and them blaming us for the inconvenienced motorists the inconvenienced people, in Kanesatake and I say Kanesatake, because people call it the ‘Oka Crisis’ but it’s not.”

Akwirente Deer was in Kahnawake at the time. This morning he and several of the warriors from that day, as well as others are at the Greenspace on the 132 at the foot of the Mercier Bridge to remind people of the beginning of the crisis.

A Community Stakeholders Consultation will be held tonight at the Golden Age Club from 6pm to 8:30pm. Allan John Rice is the Executive Operations Officer with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake on what’ s on the agenda:

“When the law goes back through the CDMP process, essentially what we’re doing is asking Community Stakeholders to come and verify the changes and amendments that were requested as far back as 2 years ago. There were some amendments requested by community members and by different Stakeholders of the elections: the Electoral Officer, Office of Council of Chiefs and MCK Justice. Some of those are meant to make the procedural aspects of the election go a lot smoother, others were different parts of the law that community members elected to change. So, today, we’re looking to get the scope of the work that’s going to happen and to get an actual mandate from the community to go there make amendments to the Election Law.”

Rice saying that there will be a selection of three (3) Community Representatives to sit on the Technical Drafting Committee. The purpose of the Law is intended to provide the criteria and procedures for the nomination and selection of a twelve (12) member Council, composed of eleven Ratitsénhaienhs and Ohén:ton Í:iente ne Ratitsénhaienhs. The scope is to assist with managing the election process as efficiently and effectively as possible.