newsletter - Tsawout First Nationtsawout.com/files/Newsletters/Newsletter_November2014.pdfIssue #53 NOVeMBeR 2014 Chief Harvey Underwood is presented a plaque by Astronomer David Balam

Issue #53NOVeMBeR 2014

Chief Harvey Underwood is presented a plaque by Astronomer David Balam in honour of the planetary naming of Tsawout.

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notice regarding dumpingPlease be aware that the dumping of any garbage or

household waste within the community is illegal. We

would ask the people responsible for dumping garbage to

do so in the designated areas. Any license plates that are

noted when illegal dumping is observed will have charges

pressed. Members are also encouraged to compost food

organics in the proper containers. Thank you for your cooperation.

cONteNtsNotices and Events p 02

Elections Information p 07

Elders’ News p 09

Health p 10

Housing p 11

Recreation p 12

Marine Use Study p 13

Learning House p 13

New Planet: Tsawout p 16

new planet - tsawoutDavid Balam, a world-expert in Near Earth Objects

(NEOs) and an Astronomer with the National Research

Council of Canada, has named a new planet Tsawout in

honour of the community. More on page 15.

1PHONE: 250-652-9101 [email protected] WWW.TSAWOUT.COmTSAWOUT FIRST NATION

owl pendant raFFle updateThank you to everyone who supported the raffle for the owl pendent (made out of maple) with sliver chain.

The lucky winner was Eric Pelkey Sr.

Drawn by Cathy Webster @ Tsawout Band Office.

Submitted by Tuesday Lafortune

a reminder regarding road-blocksPlease be advised that road-blocks / drinking and driving checks are for the safety of the entire community. Thank you for not drinking and driving!

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elDeRs’ NeWs39th Annual Elders Gathering Website Launch

We are happy to announce the launch of the 39th Annual BC Elders Gathering Website. You can visit the site at www.bcelders2015.ca. You can find inportant information on the site about the gathering, registration, sponsorship opportunities, volunteering and artist / vendor registrations.

We are seeking feedback on the site, so please feel free to provide your input. Suggestions can be emailed to [email protected].

Rukus Rock & Roll Dance

50’s and 60’s Dance

Fund Raiser for the Elders Gathering:

Happening in December. Dates will be announced soon!

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

$10 / each

$15 / couple

$20 / Family

Door Prizes & Concession.

PeRRy lAfORtuNe Is

WORkINg ON gettINg

elDeRs gutteRs AND

cHIMNeys cleANeD,

AND fIReWOOD

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HealtH newsnotes From tHe nurseYOU can help protect our elders and children this fall!

The flu is a common illness every fall and winter. Usually those who are sick get headaches, chills, fever, cough, loss of appetite, sore joints, tiredness, sneezing, watery eyes and sore throat. Some people vomit and have diarrhea as well. These symptoms last a week to ten days in most people. However, people over 65 and adults and children with chronic health conditions can become even more severely ill.

Elders, young children, pregnant women and people who have a chronic illness like heart problems or diabetes are especially at risk of becoming seriously ill or even dying from influenza (“The flu”). Getting a flu shot is the safest, longest-lasting and most effective way to prevent the flu. Every year there is a new vaccine to protect against the expected types of flu for that season. The flu shot is safe, and protects both you and those around you.

You can have the flu and pass it onto other people without even having symptoms. That means that you might be feeling fine but can pass the flu onto your grandmother or a baby without knowing it. The best way to prevent this is to get a flu shot. Other ways to protect against the flu are to wash your hands frequently, cover your mouth when coughing, and stay away from people who are sick.

Flu shot clinics are held every Tuesday afternoon 1-3 at my office in the health building. Extra clinics will be held throughout November and December as needed. Watch for advertisements at the band office and signs outside the health building. Tell your family! Tell your friends! Tell your elders! We want Tsawout to be protected!

For more information, feel free to call me at 250-652-1149-208 or text my cell at 250-530-9099 or add me as a friend on Facebook.

Have a safe flu season,

Shannon JoyceCommunity Health Nurse at Tsawout

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HealtH newsPeople at high risk of influenza related complications or hospitalization are adults (including pregnant women) and children with

the following chronic health conditions:

• Cardiac or pulmonary disorders (including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cystic fibrosis and asthma);

• Diabetes mellitus and other metabolic diseases;

• Cancer, immune compromising conditions (due to underlying disease and/or therapy);

• Renal disease;

• Anemia or hemoglobinopathy;

• Conditions that compromise the management of respiratory secretions and are associated with an increased risk of aspiration;

• Morbid obesity (BMI≥40) (114)

• People of any age who are residents of nursing homes and other chronic care facilities.

• People ≥65 years of age.

• All children 6 to 59 months of age.

• Healthy pregnant women (the risk of influenza related hospitalization increases with length of gestation, i.e., it is higher in the third than in the second trimester)

• People capable of transmitting influenza to those at high risk

• Health care and other care providers in facilities and community settings who, through their activities, are capable of transmitting influenza to those at high risk of influenza complications.

• Household contacts (adults and children) of individuals at high risk of influenza

• Household contacts of infants <6 months of age as these infants are at high risk of complications from influenza but cannot receive influenza vaccine

• Members of a household expecting a newborn during the influenza season.

• Those providing regular child care to children ≤59 months of age, whether in or out of the home.

• People who provide essential community services.

Housing news Staffing has changed in our Housing Department and Peter Mitchell is no longer with Tsawout First Nation.

Please direct all housing-related questions to the Housing Clerk Shana Sylvester.

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recreation news

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Wednesday’s through

-Volleyball Open to community members

-Hip Hop Dance Class – 5-6pm (8-12yrs old) -Hip Hope Dance Class – 6-7pm (13-18yrs old)

The Weight Room is open from: 10am - 5pm-Unsupervised 5pm - 8pm-Supervised **Please see the Recreation staff for passes and rates**

marine use study concerns- Submitted by Floyd Pelkey & Adelynne Claxton.

We are currently doing the Marine Use Study with people in our community. A couple of concerns have come up with someone who is cutting loose boats, and allowing them to drift far away. Theft of fishing gear, boat motors, crab traps have also been reported. Please try to try keep an eye out for any suspicious activity along the beach. For Community Members who rely on fishing for their way of life, and as a source of income and food - these reports are a very serious concern. Anyone who sees suspicious activity is asked to contact the police, or a member of Chief & Council.

SȾÁUTW̱ I,TOTELṈEW̱,ÁUTW̱ TSawOUT LEarnIng HOUSE

This month there was a change in staff:

Nick Henry- Grade 2-6 students

Anna Walkus- Pre-school to Grade 1 students

Anthony Sam- V.N.F.C. Student Support Worker

Elliott Pelkey- V.N.F.C. Student Support Worker

Thank You Bridgette Underwood for your temporary support with T.L.H. and for remaining on our substitute list and a big HÍ,SWKE to Gina Horne, you are excellent with the students. If you would like to be on Tsawout Learning House substitute list, please call me to confirm your contact number and I can provide you with a letter for your Criminal Record Check which is required when working with children.

Reminder about T.L.H. schedule:Monday to Thursday 3:00-5:00Friday 2:00-4:00 (Friday is Computer Lab for Nick’s class and Movie Day for Anna’s class.)Thank You for picking up your child(ren) on time.


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breakFast For learningBreakfast for Learning is an awesome support to Tsawout Learning House!Our school’s nutrition program is proudly funded by Breakfast for Learning. Thanks to their support, we are able to offer our students a healthy meal or snack during the school day.Breakfast for Learning is a national charity that is committed to ensuring students attend school well nourished and ready to learn, giving them the best chance of success in life.In the 2013/14 school year, Breakfast for Learning funded 2,402 breakfast, lunch and snack programs, served 251,531 children and youth and provided over 40 million nourishing meals and snacks.Since 1992, Breakfast for Learning has helped serve over 510 million meals to children and youth across Canada.

For more information, please visit breakfastforlearning.ca.

This month Anna has started practising the Paddle Song and other SENĆOŦEN songs with the 4-6 years old students. Their voices are so beautiful when they are singing in unison as they get ready for the Elder’s Conference to be hosted by Tsawout First Nation in July 2015.

Tsawout Learing House was open 9:00-4:30 on Friday, October 24th Non-Instructional Day for Provincial and ȽÁU,WEL,NEW Tribal School and we were privileged to have the University of Victoria Science Venture Workshop from 1:30-4:30.

On Friday, October 31st T.L.H. annual Halloween Carnival was from 2:00-4:30 with a variety of fun activities such as: cake walk, pumpkin carving, gourd rattles, costume contest, trick or treat, face painting, Balloon Twister, Fun Time Obstacle and refreshments. Thank You to T.L.H. staff and our U.Vic

Practicum Nurses for helping make this special event a success.

Friday, November 7th is another N.I.D. Tsawout Learning House will be open 9:00-4:30 for Provincial and ȽÁU,WEL,NEW Tribal School students and the University of Victoria Science Venture Workshop is scheduled from 1:30-4:30.


Monday, November 10th 4:00-4:30 to be confirmed Remembrance Day Elder visits Anna’s class. Wednesday, November 26th at 3:30-5:00 to be confirmed and determined based the number of interested participants, Showcasing of Talents Show. If you are interested please see Stephanie to sign up. We have a piano in the Computer Lab that is available for practising your songs.

Our five 4th year Nursing students from the University of Victoria have connected with the students and staff and been involve in the Tsawout Community with great enthusiasm. They continue to visit us on Monday’s and Wednesday’s and are willing to attend as needed on Thursday’s and every other Friday until December 5th 2014. Just a reminder that they offer their services to students of middle school and high school too.Thursday’s and every other Friday Amylynn King is scheduled Monday and Wednesday 2:30-5:30 for Tutoring the Middle and High School students and can also be available as needed on Thursday and every other Friday until December 5, 2014.Stelly’s Secondary School Vice-Principal, Tina Peirik, has allowed all Tsawout Nation students to access the tutors available at Stelly’s Secondary School: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 3:10-4:25 for extra help in Math/Science, English/Social Studies and in the near future a Tutor from University of Victoria Education Department will be available to visit Tsawout Learning House.

HÍ,SWKE to the ongoing generous donations from Tsawout Assembly of Praise Church and volunteers of the Wednesday 10:00-2:00 bread delivery from Cobbs and to Mustard Seed Food Bank. Peter and I make a bi-monthly pick-up and their very generous donations supplement the T.L.H. budget to a great extent whereas I am able to provide nutritious snacks and a hot meal once a week for up to 40 students who have been attending. Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard is also available to families who are challenged by meeting the needs of your growing child(ren). Please see me if you need extra school snacks. The storehouse is so full that we have been able to share these donations with Tsawout families, Tsawout Assembly of Praise Church, Tsawout Head Start and Tsawout kitchen for community meals.

HÍ,SWKE to everyone for your great support.

Stephanie H. Adams SȾÁUTW̱ I,TOTELṈEW̱,ÁUTW̱ - Tsawout Learning House Coordinator [email protected] 250 652-1149 Ext. 332


Feature storyNew planet named in Tsawout’s honour

about tHe discoveryTsawout has been immortalized with a place among the stars! David Balam, a world-expert in Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and an Astronomer with the National Research Council of Canada has named a new planet Tsawout in honour of the community. The planet Tsawout was discovered in October of 2007, and was recently made official by the International Astronomical Union, and published in Minor Planet Circulars issued from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Cambridge (Mass).

The CFHT Megaprime Telescope where the planet Tsawout was discovered. The telescope is located on the island of Hawaii (Big Island)


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New planet cont’d more about david balam:David has deep roots in W̱SÁNEĆ territory and is a relative of the Jack family of Tsawout. This picture was taken in 1911 and shows his family (the Cheviliers from Stewart Island).

Below is a message that David Balam wanted to share with the community:message From david balam to tHe communityIt was a great experience to meet everyone involved this morning (October 15, 2014.) One of the truly enjoyable aspects of my work has been to bestow the honor of a planet name upon people and groups. It is a bit like bestowing immortality. The previous recipient of one of my planets was Bob McDonald the CBC science reporter. He nearly fell overboard from his boat when he got the news.

Although I now work at the National Research Council of Canada. In addition to the solar system work I also conduct many programs (on the local telescope) involving stellar magnetic fields, extra-galactic supernovae, red dwarf stars and high-mass X-ray binary star systems.

Discovering and Naming a Planet

Let me give you an overview of the process involved with naming a minor planet and, in particular, the minor planet Tsawout. I had

been working for an international program called the Canada-France Legacy Survey from 2001 until 2007. My task in the program was to discover several thousand exploding stars (supernovae) in distant galaxies using a very large telescope located on the top of a 15,000 foot-high volcano in Hawaii (see attached picture: CFHT-Megaprime). Every third night, for 6 years, I would scan very large digital images of four fields. Each field was the area of four full-moons (1 degree square) and there were about 200,000 galaxies located in each field. The galaxies were located at distances between a few hundred million light years to around 9 billion light years. Typically, I’d discover several dozen supernovae each time we acquired a set of images. The supernovae were, and are, being used to map the space-time geometry of the universe. As it turns out, the reality of the situation is quite bizarre and has created far more questions than they have answered.


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New planet cont’dOne of the things that happens when you shoot very deep sky images is that the unexpected will happen at intervals more frequent than one might expect. Specifically, with each set of images I would find large numbers of unknown solar system objects (minor planets, comets, Earth-impactors and trans-Neptunian objects) traversing my telescope fields. Most observers would tend to just take little notice of such things and get on with the program, however, I’ve been cursed with an obsessive-repulsive personality and could not let them go.

To be accredited with the discovery of these objects it is necessary to find the same objects on a second night, wait about a week and position the telescope in such a way as to locate them yet again. Precise measurement of the positions of the unknown objects will then yield what is known as a ‘starting orbit’. In other words, we now have a rough idea of the objects true trajectory in the solar system. One fundamental aspect of the work is that the moon will always get in your way (13 times a year...).

The next step is to wait until the moon gets out of the way and locate the objects again. The starting orbit now becomes much more precise if the new object is located after a month. This process continues for about 3 months and then, unfortunately, the new object gets lost in the glare of the sun. At this point we need to wait for about a year before we can go back and search for the objects using the original starting orbits. It is not unusual to lose the object at this stage. It all depends on how good the starting orbit is from the first apparition.

The end point of the process is to provide precise positions of the unknown object over a period of from 5-15 years. The criterion for the object to be considered as a permanently numbered object is that the object must be within 30 seconds of arc of its predicted position after 100 years. If this is achieved then the discovered is then able to submit a name for the object to the International Astronomical Union. The IAU has a board, consisting of astronomers from many countries (Canada, USA, China, Japan, Australia Germany to name a few) that meet once a year to consider the naming of small bodies, If the name is approved then it is announced the a publication called the Minor Planet Circulars issued from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and

Cambridge (Mass).

The minor planet Tsawout was approved and made official last tuesday October 7,2014. There is a copy of the discovery image attached below (tsawout.jpg). The minor planet is the faint trail marked with a red box. The image(s) are from the night of Oct. 7, 2007. I consider it a great honor to have named this planet for the Tsawout First Nation. My family has roots that run deep here and I’m certain that my grandfather (Henry Balam) would have approved.

Additional Information

These are some examples of “ Glaxay Fields” that have been photographed by CFHT Megaprime Telescope

There is a very nice NASA-JPL website listing all solar system objects at:

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=tsawout&orb=1

Here is a fairly accurate Canadian Geographic article about my work at this link:

http://www.astro.uvic.ca/media/press/1.htm

Wiki article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Balam

Feel free to contact me at any time for additional details.

Cheers, Dave


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newsletter - Tsawout First Nationtsawout.com/files/Newsletters/Newsletter_November2014.pdfIssue #53 NOVeMBeR 2014 Chief Harvey Underwood is presented a plaque by Astronomer David Balam