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NOVEMBER Hap's memoir set for spring release Hap Wilson's newest book is set to go to press this spring. Like Cabin, his last book, it is a memoir of life along the trail. He writes that "you can't survive without first learning how to 'live' in the wilderness." Trails and Tribulations: Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder is co-illustrated with his partner Ingrid Zschogner.
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Bear Island politics reaches YouTube Videos of the ongoing protest against the June 12 Bear Island elections and supporting new elections are posted on YouTube. Video producer Virginia Hope, a student in North Bay, made the five videos because she found it "hard to get information." "It is my way of staying in touch."
Help with context: In one scene a frustrated Chief Gary Potts is talking to a woman partially off-screen, the day after the third election on October 26. The newly elected council and chief, which Potts and the June 12 council (from the original election) do not recognize, are inside council offices conducting business. The woman is an OPP officer who appears to be blocking Potts entrance to council offices, and says she is only there to maintain the peace and not take sides. In fact, Potts is blocked from entry by other members of the Temagami First Nation, unseen on the video. The people did not remove them.
(Gary Potts allegedly removing election notices after a new election is approved at a community meeting.)
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NOVEMBER Elections challenged on Bear Island Three elections on Bear Island and each challenged. Who is chief: Gary Potts or Roxane Ayotte? Protesters camped outside the Temagami First Nation offices on October 14 after a community meeting voted for a new election. Twenty-one days later the "community fire" continues to burn. It began with the first election on June 12 that brought Gary Potts back to power in a tie vote that was settled by a coin toss. But four or five voters were denied ballots by the elections officer. The election was immediately challenged and two subsequent runoffs, which elected Ayotte, were ignored by the June 12 council. Now it will be settled in court.
NOVEMBER Lost route re-opens in Chiniguchi: Marjorie Lake The resurrection of nastawgan continues with the re-opening of a lost route off Wolf Lake in Chiniguchi.
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