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kkellar@fortfrances.com
It’s coming up on the second graduation season under the spectre of COVID-19, and Seven Generations Education Institute (SGEI) is looking at new ways to keep the experience memorable for this year’s graduating class.
Even though a large-scale graduation ceremony won’t be going ahead this year – SGEI has used the Ice for Kids arena at the Memorial Sports Centre in the past – the institute recognizes that graduating from a post-secondary school isn’t something graduates will necessarily do more than once. In that spirit, SGEI has elected to go virtual with its ceremony this year, and is planning out ways to make the event special and unique to the graduates.
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memara@fortfrances.com
All flags have been lowered at the Civic Centre in the Town of Fort Frances since Monday in respect and memory of the children whose bodies were found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The discovery was made on Thursday when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children, who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.