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Yellowknife youth leading effort to re-connect Canadians with nature 14 Tuesday August 11 2015 NORTHERNERS YOUTH Spiritual Wisdom on Health and Healing Come explore divine keys to good health. Learn how dreams can bring healing and discover the greatest creative force you can use for healing. Attendees will receive a free copy of Spiritual Wisdom on Health and Healing. This class will include sharing information and experiences small group discussions and exercises you can do in class and at home. Friday August 14 700 - 830 p.m. Seniors Room Rec. Center Fort Smith A Free Public Workshop All Welcome Presented by ECKANKAR For information call 867-633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca Life After Death Spiritual Wisdom on A Free Public Workshop Explore the eternal nature of you Gain new perspectives on seeing heaven before you die meeting with departed loved ones near-death experiences help from spiritual guides do animals go to heaven and dealing with grief Receive a free book which include techniques and a spiritual exercise to help you explore the secrets of life after death. 1000 - 1130 a.m. Saturday Aug. 15 Seniors Room Rec. Center Fort Smith Presented by ECKANKAR For information call 867-633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca All Welcome Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. AvalonFawn domestic long hair Looking for a new home SpayedNeutered Up-to-date with routine shots House trained Avalon is a lovely girl who is just a princess. She loves being brushed and just about any attention. Avalon will make a great addition to any family. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Avalon Fawn domestic long hair Looking for a new home SpayedNeutered Up-to-date with routine shots House trained Avalon is a lovely girl who is just a princess. She loves being brushed and just about any attention. Avalon will make a great addition to any family. Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. WESCLEAN NORTHERN SALES LTD. Ph 867 875-5100 Fax 867 875-5155 E-mail infowescleannwt.com web www.wescleannwt.com Avalon Cat Hair - long Size - medium Gender - female Avalon is a very loving and beautiful cat. She is spayed and is up-to-date with all her shots.If you think you have a home for a Avalon please call the shelter at 872-5543. Miss Stache is a sophisticated and cute little lady. Isnt she just precious If you brought her home shed be so happy and give you cuddles. SpayedNeutered Up-to-date with routine shots House trained Please leave a message at 872-5543 for details. Miss Stache Black and white Looking for a new home By DALI CARMICHAEL If people spend time out on the land to me you cant help but care about it. So said Chloe Dragon Smith 25 an optimistic Yel- lowknifer striving to share her passion for the outdoors with young Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Recently Dragon Smith graduated with a bachelors degree in earth and oceans sciences. Soon after she took a position as the youth co- chair of Connecting Youth to Nature a Parks Canada working group focused on ensuring children have an opportunity to grow their roots outdoors before they get too used to a contempo- rary wired lifestyle. Theres been research coming out thats showing kids are lacking in nature timeDragonSmithsaid.She made a reference to Richard Louvs 2005 book Last Child in the Woods which warns of the staggering divide be- tween children and the out- doors and the negative im- pacts of such a relationship including obesity attention disorders and depression in the youngest demographic. There is starting to be a lot of growing awareness on the fact we need to reconnect Canadianstonature.Itsbeen recognized that the best way to do that or at least one of the best ways to do that is to get youth involved when theyre really young get them out on the land and spark a passion that will continue into adulthood. Dragon Smith and her co- chair Eric Schoff director for Parks Yukon recruited mem- bers of the working group back in June. They have one yeartodeveloptheirresearch which will be recorded in a nal report Best Practices for Connecting Youth with Nature in Canada. We are a working group of 14 people half youth aged 20-25 and half experienced professionals she said. Were brainstorming now. Were going to be writing this document and we have full leeway on how we want to do it and what we want it to look like and what we want to have in it. Our strength as a group is were very diverse and its more of a citizen- based group. Its not about Parks its just about getting Canadians out into nature which I think makes it re- ally cool. DragonSmithsexperiences make her well-suited to take on the initiative. In addition to growing up participating in traditional on the land activities - like huntingwithherfur-trapping grandmother Jane Dragon - she has spent summers working for the department of Environment and Natural Resources and leading expe- ditions for NARWAL North- ern Adventures. She has also been rec- ognized nationally for her efforts. Earlier this year Dragon Smith was named as one of the top 25 environ- mentalists under 20 by The Starsh a publication with a focus on young people work- ing to preserve the natural environment. In November of last year Dragon Smith was invited to travel abroad with her environmental connection initiatives. She attended the Interna- tionalUnionforConservation of Natures World Parks Con- gress in Sydney Australia where she had the opportu- nity to share her knowledge from a northern Canadian perspective and network withover 6000international environmentalists. There were two really key messages I found that came out of the World Parks Con- gressandtheywereaboutthe importanceofengagingyouth andengagingindigenouspeople and cultures for the benet of boththeculturesandnature she said. Those are the two mostimportantthingstome. Dragon Smiths pathway to acareerstudyingtheenviron- ment and encouraging others to appreciate its gifts wasnt There is starting to be a lot of growing awareness on the fact we need to reconnect Canadians to nature. Its been recognized that the best way to do that or at least one of the best ways to do that is to get youth involved when theyre really young get them out on the land and spark a passion that will continue into adulthood. Chloe Dragon Smith intentional moreso she felt it was simply a natural t. I was out on the land a lot and so I think that I was alwaysreallydrawntonature andstudiesaboutnaturesoI didnt really have to think too much about the de- gree I was going to do she said. It felt really right to do something in the natu- ral sciences it just inspires me way more than anything Id ever found in the past. As she grows into her ca- reer Dragon Smith looks for- ward to planning even bigger projects and focusing her studies on the intersection between indigenous cultures and the environment. For now though she is happy encouraging others to simply get outside. Even when she isnt on the clock for Parks she enjoys taking people out to experience the wonders of nature. Most re- cently she paddled the Slave river from Hay Camp to Fort Fitzgeraldonafour-daycanoe trip with Northern Youth in late July. I really just want people to be able to have some of the experiences and joy that I had as a kid she said. I really think it makes a dif- ference growing up on your perspectives and your self es- teem and your sense of self. Its so invaluable to me that I just want to be able to share it with other people. PhotocourtesyofChloeDragonSmith Yellowknife environmentalist Chloe Dragon Smith presents at the International Union of Conservation of Natures World Parks Congress in Sydney Australia last November.