2nd Annual Aboriginal Spring Festival Sponsors May 2009

Thank you to the following for helping to make our event a success!


Eagle Feather Sponsors $1,000 or over

The Ontario Arts Council

Big Drum Sponsors  $400.- 999.

Xerox Corp. 2009

Moccasin Sponsors  100. - 249.

Niagara College Aboriginal Student Services

 Brock University Aboriginal Student Office

 Anonymous

Leslie White - Eye 

 District School Board of Niagara 

Community Supporters  $25. - 99. 

 DRAW PRIZE / GIFT SPONSORS

Curves for Women Fort Erie

O.L.G. Fort Erie Slots

Yoga For Fitness Centre - Niagara Falls

Wendy Sturgeon

Penny Bowers Massage

Media Sponsors

Fort Erie Chamber of Commerce 

25th Anniversary Annual General Meeting
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008
12:00 noon  - 3:00 p.m.
Optimist Hall
Gilmore Road, Fort Erie
RSVP please 905-871-8770
Announcing:  Vera Hill-Sharrow Award Recipient
Post Secondary Scholarships Award Recipients

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25th Anniversary Celebration
MARCH 15, 2008

St. Paul's Anglican Church
4:00 p.m.

This was a great event and fun was had by all!!! 
The hall was packed,we had to bring more chairs!

We're starting out with a Storytelling and Dance workshop presented by Ojibway Storyteller, Aaron Bell and the White Pine Dancers.
Then....we're
"Honoring our Founders".
Cynthia Lickers-Sage, a Mohawk artist from Six Nations and
Executive Director at Association for Native Development
in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) is our Guest Speaker.
The White Pine Dancers will perform.
April Doxtator will perform solo from her work in progress
"generational roots"
Maajii Maadzi emerging women's hand drum and singing group
and the
Youth Troupe of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre
will help round out the evening for us.
There will be draws and door prizes.

Thank you to the Ont. Arts Council
our many sponsors, supporters, members
and our youth volunteers!

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS

NCNW Learner’s Academy 1989 - 2002

NCNW has operated various child care services since 1989 when we purchased a for-profit child care centre and converted it into a non-profit high quality child care centre. We operated the full-time child care centre until 2002 when we had to close the center as a result of declining Bingo revenue.


Conference Childcare Services 1996 - 2000
 
NCNW once offered conference childcare services, high quality child-care on-site. This was available, as needed, for parents to attend meetings, conferences, banquets, weddings and more. This was an excellent and very convenient service for families visiting the Fort Erie area. Unfortunately, this service is no longer available as a result of dwindling funds.


ECE Teacher Training 1994 - 2000

In 1994, NCNW started a collaborative training project with Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology (Welland campus) to educate Native women and afford them the opportunity to attain their Early Childhood Education diploma (also known as ECE). Successful candidates gained valuable on-the-job training/experience at our daycare while participating in academic classes part-time to attain their ECE diplomas. This training consisted of fifty percent (50%) theory and fifty percent (50%) practicum at our daycare. Four Native women successfully completed this excellent program. Unfortunately, as the result of the loss of our daycare, the Early Childhood Program has been discontinued.