As they prepared for an overnight march around Queen Elizabeth Park, participants in this year’s Fort Smith Relay for Life were ecstatic to learn they had not only met their $150,000 fundraising goal, but had passed it by several thousand dollars.
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Shari Olsen started organizing this year’s Fort Smith Relay for Life cancer fundraiser event over six months ago, the same as she does each year since she got involved in organizing the biannual event in 2006.
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Northern New Democrat MPs are pushing for an additional 46 communities to immediately be given full subsidies under the federal food subsidy program, Nutrition North.
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The organizers behind Fort Smith’s biannual Relay for Life fundraising event took a break from their preparation duties for an afternoon to host a Cancer Survivors’ Lunch.
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Over the last three years, the creative arts-based sexual health awareness and empowerment group Arctic FOXY (Fostering Open eXpression among Youth) has strictly catered to the needs of teenage girls.
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The Nunee Health Board Society has responded to a wave of media attention and aghast residents who expressed shock last week following the dismissal of one of its on-call doctors.
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