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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Soldier Talks About Challenges Steve Feeney Said ASAS LOWLOW 0 Down* ASAS $114.00*$114.00* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly + taxtax 20082008 ClassicClassic CCampamp 116565 with Yamaha F50, EZ Loader Trailer, 3 Pedestal seats Lowrance X-50 & more! Volume 17, No. 39 www.siouxbulletin.com Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Soldier talks about challenges Steve Feeney said. “I worked at the mill but STAFF WRITER it wasn’t something that was for me…I just fi gured, “Hey I’ll try EN Laviolette has been it out.” They said, “Yeah, try the enjoying the past few infantry.” I said, “Yeah I like Bdays he’s had off since roughing it up,” so I tried it out he came back from Afghanistan and I liked it. It’s not for every- for his R&R break. body though. There are so many “It feels great, the best feeling trades you have to go for.” ever,” Laviolette said. “When I In 2006 Laviolette trained got off that plane I was just like, for nine months in Wainwright, yes!” Alberta. Laviolette has been in “They have a big battle school Afghanistan since March, fi ght- out there and that’s where I did ing in the war along with other all my training. That place is so Canadian soldiers. cold…I never want to go back.” “I’m part of re-supply so what After the training, Laviolette I do is I supply all the guys at dif- and his son went to Princess ferent areas,” Laviolette said. “I Patricia’s Canadian Light Bulletin Photo/Steve Feeney help load vehicles, get them all Infantries located in Shilo, ready, ammo, water, you name Manitoba. it. I set all that stuff up.” “I went out there. They told From the mountain top Laviolette decided to join the me I was going on tour, did Canadian Forces to provide sup- some training, and they sent me This scenic view of Sioux Lookout was taken from the top of Sioux Mountain on a warm July evening. port for his son Deikyn. over,” Laviolette said. “I’m a single dad so I needed Two other battalions are some kind of job,” Laviolette See NOT on page 6 Inside The Bulletin Rotary exchange student NEWS: July council meeting shares her year’s experience notes in France See MUNICIPAL on page 3 Steve Feeney noticed a huge difference right per would occur. STAFF WRITER away. “We usually had dinner at NEWS: “One thing that sticks out in my 8:30 at night which is very late,” Flooded highway MY McDonald recalls mind was when I fi rst got there McDonald said. “At the beginning fond memories of her ex- with going to school, my school- it was very hard because I would Aperiences while living in ing started at 8 o’clock in the be constantly eating. I would have Vichy, France for ten months as morning and fi nished at 5 o’clock four or fi ve meals a day because See EAST on page 4 a Rotary exchange student from in the afternoon,” McDonald said. I was jetlagged, because I wasn’t August 2007 to early July this “We had a 45 minute lunch break. used to eating a small breakfast SPORTS: year. Also, on Saturday mornings we and then small lunches and then Sioux-nami storms Ignace McDonald had the option to go had school from 8 until noon.” having to wait for dinner because to other countries but France stuck McDonald said her studies of dinner was a fairly big meal.” out to her when she was discuss- French in elementary school and McDonald also mentioned that See SIOUX on page 17 ing it with the Rotary club. high school did help her to under- the French appreciate their food “I chose France because Canada stand the teachers. She also read more than she’s ever seen. FEATURE: is bilingual, has two National French books so she could get a “We’d sit at the table for hours Looking good in languages and I wanted to learn better understand of the language. and hours just talking about what French so I could speak French,” The biggest culture shock for we were eating, why we were eat- commercials McDonald said. McDonald was the food and ing it,” she said. how her host families had dif- McDonald described a tradition See LOCAL on page 18 As soon as she started to go to high school in France, McDonald ferent time periods when sup- See I on page 7 DINGWALLDINGWALL FORDFORD YAMAHAYAMAHA HOTHOT FFUNUN ININ TTHEHE SSUMMERUMMER ASAS LOWLOW 2008 Navigator 165 ASAS LOWLOW 2008 Dominator 165 Sport 35 KING ST 2008 Yamaha F60 2008 Yamaha F90 SIOUX LOOKOUT ASAS ASAS 807-737-3440 2008 EZ Loader 2008 EZ Loader 1-877-515-3673 ext 3 PLUS 3 pedestal seats, Plus 2 extra seat, full top Lowrance X-52 & more! *O.A.C 60 month term/120 month amortization. $114.00*$114.00* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly $141.00*$141.00* Bi-weeklyBi-weekly lowrance X-50 & lots more See dealer for details + taxtax + taxtax Page 2 - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Sioux Lookout Bulletin N E W S Students talk about Hero Holiday experience Steve Feeney what they could expect. The humidity was a STAFF WRITER The girls traveled with the struggle the girls faced rest of the Hero Holiday when working in the TUDENTS Kayla participants on a bus to Dominican Republic. Couette, Cesan Buffalo, then, after wait- “If you didn’t wear SMartin-Asmus, ing a few hours, they fl ew sunscreen, you burned in Andrea Finney, Coral to Dominican Republic. like fi ve minutes or less,” Baisch, Brittany Baum The girls stayed at the Baum mentioned. and leader Diana Couette Sosua by the Sea resort for “They told us to drink a recently went on a trip the next week. litre of water an hour be- for Hero Holiday in the One hundred twenty cause you sweat a litre of Dominican Republic to participants were split water an hour. That’s how participate in humanitar- into fi ve groups, each per- hot it was.” ian relief projects by help- forming a different activ- The reality of the third ing those in extreme pov- ity every day. The Sioux world hit the girls, specifi - erty. Lookout girls were all cally when working in the The journey started put into one group. They dumps. when the girls drove to worked from 9 a.m. to “We had trouble seeing Thunder Bay on Canada 4:30 p.m. every day. all the poverty and being Submitted Photo Day to catch their fl ight The girls helped build a like, “holy we want to fi x The heroes pose for a picture with two of the local people they met while helping out in to Toronto the next morn- house for a Hero Holiday everything but we can’t,” Dominican Republic. Clockwise from back left: Diana Couette, Kayla Couette, Brittany ing. While in Toronto the interpreter and helped col- Finney said. Baum with Dominican friends, Coral Baisch, Andrea Finney and Cesan Martin-Asmus girls received some orien- lect recyclable items from “It was good making holding a boy they met. tation and information on a huge garbage dump. the difference that we Although it was tough happy. She showed us her the trip,” Martin-Asmus could but it was hard not to see the poverty around house.” said. being able to do more, stay them, that didn’t stop the “The fi rst day that we “It was good. It was life The Beer Store longer to help everybody, girls from making friends were there, we went to changing,” Kayla Couette or even just learn about with local children while this school and worked said. “You go home and Dryden all the cultures,” Baum working. there and this little girl you look at things differ- said. “You learn a little bit “Playing duck, duck, was playing with my ently. I don’t go out and about the culture there but goose, I fell down a foot hair,” Finney said. “And buy things spontaneously not everything.” slope and I must have hit she gave me this ridicu- anymore. I think about is seeking a motivated “I held children with my head on a rock and lously ugly comb over it and think buying food business or individual with distended tummies not this little girl wrapped me just so she could laugh at that I can easily eat at storage facility to act as an from being full, but from in her arms, laid my head me. She thought that was home would probably be starvation. I saw the hope on her lap, and was petting cute. She taught me some a month’s wage for some- Empty Bottle Dealer for the in their eyes,” Diana my head making sure I was clapping games and some body that worked in the Hudson service area - pay is on Couette shared. “I was not ok,” Baum shared. “When hand games.” dump.” prepared for the reality of the kids went around again After bonding with “Being smacked in the a per case commission basis - this situation even though playing duck, duck, goose, other participants and face with poverty was a for more info call: I read through all the prep- she’d cover my head and experiencing life-chang- real eye opener for every- aration material.” say, “no, no, no.” ing moments, it was time body,” Diana Couette said. Gord McDonald, MGR Couette shared a story “When we were help- for the girls to leave.
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