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Tuesday June 23 2015 9 HEALTH WELLNESS FACILITIES www.rmwb.ca IMPORTANT DEADLINE 2015 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENT DUE MONDAY JUNE 30 2015 Tax Notices were mailed to all property owners on Friday May 29 2015. Payments are due Tuesday June 30 2015. A Tax Installment Payment Plan TIPP is available for your convenience. You may find this an easy and cost-effective way of paying your annual tax bill. If you have not received your Property Tax Notice please contact the Taxation branch. Information regarding your Property Tax Notice and the TIPP program are available on our website at www.rmwb.cataxes or by calling 780-743-7900 or toll free at 1-800-973-9663. Payments are due June 30 2015 Regardless of circumstances CELEBRATE NATIONAL ABORIGINAL DAY JUNE 21 2015 Constituency Office 5014-50th Avenue P.O. Box 1986 Yellowknife NT X1A 2P5 Tel 867 873-6995 Toll Free 1-800-661-0802 Fax 867 920-4233 Ottawa Office Confederation Building 229 Wellington Street Room 239 Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 Toll Free 1-866-992-4587 Fax 613 992-1586 Dennis Bevington Member of Parliament for the Northwest Territories Let us celebrate this day together and acknowledge all the members of the First Nations communities who make Canada whole. New health centre opens in Fort Providence By DALI CARMICHAEL The community of Fort Providence cel- ebrated the opening of a new Health and Social Services centre last week where residents hope modern health practices and traditional healing methods will be used hand in hand. Local leaders residents and health offi- cials gathered at the new facility on June 15 to cut the ribbon on the new 9.7-mil- lion facility. For the first time in the community both health and social services will be housed in the same facility. Included in the new health centre is an upper-floor residence for visiting doctors and nurses. The centre itself is expected to employ around 20 staff members. At the request of the local Deh Gah Gotie Dene First Nation the centre also hosts a morgue in the basement a service that was unavailable in the community until now. The facility replaces Fort Providences former health centre which is over 40 years old. The new building is about 1085 square metres about a third bigger than the previous building. It did its job but it was getting too old and expensive to operate Deh Gah Gotie Chief Joachim Bonnetrouge said of the previous facility. Patient care is in high demand theres so much happening in our community Bonnetrouge said noting the high traffic in the area from travelers morel mush- room pickers and the communitys aging population. New vision for an updated facility To compliment the new services and staff at the facility Bonnetrouge is asking all staff from outside the region receive cultural sen- sitivity training. As part of the opening I had to make a remark and I said it would be wonderful - we all welcome people coming to work for us and work in the community - but I think they should have more cultural sensitivity programs or workshops Bonnetrouge said. Its gotta be mandatory because a lot of these people come from Ontario Saskatchewan and Providence is basically a First Nations community there are certain things that we do here and those workers need to know. Bonnetrouge said he would be happy to provide the training from the community but Health and Social Services Minister Glen Abernethy has stated a territorial cultural sensitivity training system is in development. Were quite willing to provide that and basically the elders are the ones that teach those things - culture stuff protocols cer- tain things that we need to do Bonnetrouge said. Especially in care giving there are a lot of sensitive areas that people need to learn about so thats what were suggesting. Patient care is in high demand theres so much happening in our community. Chief Joachim Bonnetrouge Deh Gah Gotie Dene PhotocourtesyofGlenAbernethyTwitter Regional and territorial leaders gather as Fort Providence elder Margaret Sabourin centre cuts the ribbon on the communitys new health care facility.