Citxw Nlaka pamux Assembly

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1 Citxw Nlaka pamux Assembly (C.N.A.) P A R T I C I P A T I N G B A N D S I N C L U D E : Ashcroft Indian Boston Bar First Nation Coldwater Indian Cook s Ferry Indian Community Open Houses Citxw Nlaka pamux Assembly and Highland Valley Copper had 8 Open Houses which included Ashcroft, Boston Bar, Coldwater, Cook s Ferry, Nicomen, Nooaitch, Shackan and Siska. The final Open House will be in Merritt on Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 at the Merritt Civic Centre from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. Please join us. There will be representatives from Citxw Nlaka'pamux Assembly and Highland Valley Copper to answer any questions or concerns. Door Prizes Available! Siska Indian Open House on June 4th, 2015 Nicomen Indian Nooaitch Indian Shackan Indian Siska Indian. Coldwater Indian Open House on May 28th, 2015 Our new office location is 2187A Coutlee Avenue in Merritt New phone number is Please stop by anytime! For more information contact Juanita at jquewezance@cna-trust.ca or Natasha at Natasha.Fountain@teck.com Shackan Indian Open House on May 26th, 2015 We have moved to a new location!

2 P A G E 2 High School Graduation Bursary To recognize the accomplishment of graduating high school or successfully completing the GED or Dogwood, and to encourage further education skills development by the graduate, The C.N.A. We Did It Program is a cash award program designed to celebrate the success and to support participating C.N.A. s Members. The program is currently available for the academic years. The gift is given to individuals as a gift of $500 in Canadian Funds and is available for students who have graduated. This is an open call and cheques will be processed monthly at month s end. Am I Eligible for the Gift? -Must have graduated grade 12 or successfully completed the GED or Dogwood -Must provide proof of membership, preferably a valid Status Card of a C.N.A. participating, which include Ashcroft Indian, Boston Bar First Nation, Coldwater Indian, Cook s Ferry Indian, Nicomen Indian, Nooaitch Indian, Shackan Indian and Siska Indian. -Must provide a certificate of achievement from a recognized institute or transcripts -Must provide a letter requesting the bursary with complete mailing address. Please forward letter to: Juanita Quewezance, Client Coordinator Employment & Training Office Address: 2187A Coutlee Ave, Merritt BC, V1K 1B8 To catch the reader's Mailing Address: P.O Box 209, Spences Bridge, V0K 2L0 Office Phone: jquewezance@cna-trust.ca attention, place an interesting sentence or quote from the story here. Caption describing picture or graphic. Heavy Equipment Operator Course We have 16 participant s from the 8 s taking a nine week, fully accredited Industry Training Authority (ITA) Road Builder and Heavy Construction Foundation (RB) and Heavy Equipment Operator Apprenticeship (HEO) program starting June 22nd! These students will receive the theoretical and practical skills needed to become a skilled entry-level heavy equipment operator. This will be followed by a possible two week work practicum at Teck Highland Valley Copper Mine Site. WAY TO GO!! C I T X W N L A K A P A M U X A S S E M B L Y

3 ARE YOU INTERESTED IN OBTAINING YOUR DRIVERS LICENCE? We are collecting names of people who want to obtain their class 5 (car) Driver s Licence. We will be holding an information meeting with ICBC to discuss the process to obtain your Class 5 Driver s licence. We will contact everyone with a date and location for the meeting. This program will give each person driving lessons with a goal of passing the ICBC road test and obtain their class 5 Driver s licence. You must be 16 years of age to obtain your Driver s license. Please contact the C.N.A. Office for a form to submit your Name, Phone Number, Mailing Address and Birthdate. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN OBTAINING YOUR CLASS 1 OR 3 DRIVERS LICENCE? P A G E 3 We are collecting names of people who want to obtain their class 1 or 3 (Truck) Driver s licence. We will be holding an information meeting with ICBC to discuss the process to obtain your Class 1 or 3 Driver s licence. We will contact everyone with a date and location for the meeting. This program will give each person driving lessons with a goal of passing the ICBC road test and obtain their class 1 or 3 Driver s licence. You must be 19 years of age to obtain your Class 1 or 3 Driver s licence and not have an N. Please contact the C.N.A. Office for a form to submit your Name, Phone Number, Mailing Address and Birthdate. Methods to sending Employment & Training Packages for job and training opportunities: resume, cover letter, grade 12 transcripts and a copy of your status card to jquewezance@cna-trust.ca or GO TO WEBSITE w w w.nsee.ca to the homepage and click Employment Form and fill out or MAIL to P.O. Box 209, Spences Bridge, B.C. V0K 2L0

4 Page 4 HVC INTERNSHIP PROGRAM ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Lena Nicholson & Tamlyn Botel Mike Ohata (HVC), Juanita Quewezanze (CNA), Tanya Hollo (DFO), Interns Tamlyn Botel and Lena Nicholson and Kristy Henkes (CNA). Downloading data for a research project The Citxw Nlaka pamux Assembly and Highland Valley Copper have a very successful Internship Program which gives youth an opportunity to gain valuable work experience in the mining industry. We have 2 new interns who started in the Environment Department, Lena Nicholson from Cook s Ferry and Tamlyn Botel from Nooaitch. We will be expanding this program to other departments at the mine. Please watch for future internship opportunities in Administration, Health and Safety and Water and Tailings. Lena Nicholson: Henle, my name is Lena Nicholson. I am Nlaka pamux, from Cooks Ferry, and grew up in Spences Bridge. Over the years, I ve lived in different places, Ontario, New Mexico (where I pursued Fine Arts post-secondary studies) and at the coast. I recently returned to my community and finally feel like I am where I belong. I enjoy being out on the land, harvesting our traditional foods and medicines; as well as fishing in the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. In May I began working as a First Nations Intern at Highland Valley Copper in the Environment department. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the reclamation side of mining operations, and also to use some of the skills I gained through the Environmental Technician training (sponsored by the CNA trust) I took last spring in Spences Bridge. This includes working with water sampling, an acoustic fish tagging program with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, in addition to as surveys of waterfowl, blue-birds and night-hawks. Tamlyn Botel: Gnawed Lake Rainbow Trout Acoustical Tagging Gnawed Lake is a relatively shallow body of water (approximately no more than 3 meters deep) with an area of 13.7 ha located north of the Highmont East pit at the Teck-Highland Valley Copper. Annually the lake is stocked with four strains of rainbow trout, Pennask Lake, Carp Lake, Blackwater River and Fraser Valley. These strains are commonplace throughout BC and play a large role in recreational fisheries. Due to Gnawed Lake s lack of natural inlets and outlets, as well as its isolation from public use the area provides a unique opportunity for a controlled study on the behavior of the trout. This summer the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with the aid of two HVC environmental interns plan to do just that using acoustical tagging technology.

5 Continued... Page 5 Acoustic tag technology allows for individual fish to be tracked real-time in the lake creating data on which parts of the lake are used by certain strains of fish and at what time of day; furthermore it may give insight into interactions between different fish strains. The tags are approximately 1 inch in length, cylindrical in shape and are inserted on the ventral side of this fish just anterior to the pelvic girdle. Each tag is programmed with its own specific acoustical stamp which is detected by nine hydrophones located at various locations in the lake. Using the time it takes for the unique signal to reach each hydrophone the approximate location of the fish can be determined. A habitat assessment of the lake bottom will also be conducted using underwater cameras to determine the substrate type and vegetation composition. In addition, temperature and oxygen levels will be monitored at various depths in the lake to give a detailed view of the habitat conditions and how it changes over the season. Correlating fish movement and position in the lake with respect to the habitat type found at the lake bottom will give insight into any habitat preference the fish may have. Furthermore, it could give insights into whether different strains prefer different locations in the lake. Acoustical tagging also gives an interesting opportunity to track individual fish, this may lead to discoveries in how a single fish utilizes the lake and if they have distinct home ranges. No matter what the outcome, from exciting revelations on fish behaviour to an increase in rainbow trout data, there will definitely be new information discovered about this popular freshwater species. Citxw Nlaka'pamux Assembly (C.N.A.) Office Address: 2187A Coutlee Ave, Merritt BC, V1K 1B8 Mailing Address: P.O Box 209, Spences Bridge BC, V0K 2L0 Phone: Fax: admin@cna-trust.ca Website: Facebook Page: The Participating s include: Ashcroft Indian Boston Bar First Nation Coldwater Indian Cook s Ferry Indian Nicomen Indian Nooaitch Indian Shackan Indian Siska Indian Wayne Kaboni Manager, Citxw Nlaka'pamux Assembly wkaboni@cna-trust.ca Juanita Quewezance Client Coordinator Employment & Training jquewezance@cna-trust.ca Kristy Henkes Communications Coordinator khenkes@cna-trust.ca

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