Environmental Workshop

Cameco and Orano held a joint workshop on June 6th in at Cameco’s Operations Centre. The focus of the workshop was to bring awareness to the role the community plays in the decommissioning process, from the beginning to the end of mining. 35 people attended, including representatives from English River First Nation, , Black Lake, , Fond du Lac, , and the Lac Indian Band. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ministry of Environment and Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources also participated in the workshop by outlining their role in the decommissioning process. In addition, Carmen Melis, Cameco and Orano conducted hands Cameco, and on experiments to demonstrate how Georgie McDonald, Athabasca Joint tailings are actively managed today and Engagement and how they will eventually be Environment Subcommittee decommissioned to keep people and (rep – Fond Du Lac) demonstrate the environment safe over the long term. how tailings are managed.

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Cameco Northern Affairs Office: 306-425-4144 cameconorth.com Pinehouse Lake Early Literacy Program

For the past decade, literacy data has We have one Each center proactively engages been collected by staff at Minahik 30-month old child parents in their early literacy programs, Waskahigan Elementary School and in the inclusion loaning books and establishing the Northern Lights School Division. program who has reading logs with incentives for the The results showed that more focused an E.A. working number of books read. The results to attention to literacy education was with him. He knows date have been very positive. Parental required. The need was also identified all his alphabets and is involvement has increased for early literacy intervention to better beginning to learn the sounds of dramatically and, today, most pre- prepare the community’s pre-schoolers the alphabets. He knows his schoolers in the three centers can for school life. readily identify letters, letter sounds as numbers and can count to 100. Partnering with the Teen Infant Center, well as numbers, shapes and colors. Magloire Kiddie Care and the Annie These early literacy programs have Johnson Aboriginal Headstart Pre- sparked a quest for learning in parents children’s books and early childhood School program, and with funding from and pre-schoolers alike. This literacy resources. the Six Rivers Fund, the Miniahik knowledge has prompted a developing Wasahigan Elementary School launched All funding received from the Six Rivers interest in learning colours and its early literacy program in 2017. In the Fund went directly to the purchase of numbers in the Cree language, fall, school staff and directors from each these important resources. Travel which is commonly spoken in the center personally traveled to Saskatoon expenses were funded from alternate community. to hand-select more than 1,300 sources.

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