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DENVER (AP) — On a hazy July afternoon, wolf expert Karin Vardaman returned to a spring-fed pond in Colorado’s northwestern-most corner. Enough rain had fallen to wet the ground around the watering hole.
For nearly two years, wolf expert Karin Vardaman has tracked wolves in northwest Colorado's Moffat County for Working Circle, a nonprofit that helps ranchers live with predators.
Staff photo. Residential School memorial We must continue to listen and respect the survivors of the residential school system. That’s the message being delivered by the City of Dryden in response to the horrific discovery of the remains of 215 children buried at a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Deputy Mayor Norm Bush is a member of the ‘Working Circle’, aimed at bringing the Indigenous and non-Indigenous community closer together. “We wanted to reach out and recognize that people were suffering mentally from this discovery and we wanted to make sure that the...
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 28 Colonization Road in Fort Frances, Ont., will be renamed after a committee and town council sift through suggested names. Colonization Avenue in Dryden, Ont., will officially have a new name as of June 21, 2021. City councillors voted on Monday night to change the name of the southern portion of the road to Memorial Avenue, and the northern section of the street to Boozhoo Avenue. The names were chosen by the Working Circle, a committee of council, which sorted through 400 suggested names for the street. "I am proud of the support and e...
Goodbye Colonization, hello Boozhoo and Memorial Avenues. Like other municipalities in northwestern Ontario including Fort Frances, Dryden is also grappling with the history and negative connotations behind the term colonization and featuring it as a prominent roadway name within the community. Now, thanks to work done by the city and the Dryden Working Circle Committee, along with input from emergency first responders, the town has chosen new names for the pair of roads, aiming to replace Colonization Ave. N with Boozhoo Ave. and Colonization Ave. S with Memorial Ave. The two names were narr...