If you want your news/articles to be promoted on this page, send your information to the Communications Department at communications@millbrookfn.ca.
Be sure to include ALL relevant information (including the who, what, when, where, why and how to find out more).
Objective: To promote Millbrook First Nation's presence at ECMA and engage with social media followers by offering the chance to win wristbands to the event.
Platforms: One contest will be run on Facebook and the other on Instagram, participants can enter on both platforms. The Facebook contest will be a cross-promotion between Millbrook FN and Mi’kmaw Summer Games, the Instagram contest is for Millbrook FN promotion only.
https://www.facebook.com/MikmawSummerGames
https://www.facebook.com/MillbrookFirstNation/
https://www.instagram.com/millbrookfirstnation/
How to Enter:
1. Facebook contest: Follow MFN and Mi’kmaw Summer Games on Facebook. Instagram contest: follow Millbrook First Nation on Instagram.
2. Like and share the contest post on your own Instagram or Facebook
3. Tag a friend in the comments who you would like to bring to ECMA
4. Use the hashtag #EastCoastIndigenousMusic in your post
Prize: Two wristbands to ECMA (2x each winner)
Selection Process: Two winners will be randomly selected from all valid entries on each social media platform. The winners will be contacted via direct message and announced on Millbrook First Nation's social media accounts.
Terms and Conditions:
· Participants must be 19 years or older to enter.
· The prize is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.
· The winner must provide their full name, contact information, and age to receive the prize.
· The contest is open to residents of Canada.
· This contest is not sponsored or endorsed by ECMA.
Promotion: The contest will be promoted using eye-catching graphics and engaging captions, encouraging followers to participate in the contest and promoting Millbrook First Nation's presence at ECMA/ The upcoming Mi’kmaw summer games. Additionally, Millbrook First Nation can collaborate with ECMA to promote the contest through their social media channels, expanding the reach of the contest and increasing engagement.
Please be advised that DFO has closed all elver fisheries by Fisheries Management Order for conservation and public safety concerns.
Millbrook Fisheries is advising community members to not fish or retain elvers (effective immediately) and to remove all gear by tomorrow at noon.
It has been communicated to Millbrook First Nation that any gear left in the water after 4:00 p.m. on April 16th, 2023, will be seized and not returned by fisheries officers.
On behalf of Millbrook First Nation,
We acknowledge the recent arrest and charges laid by the Nova Scotia RCMP against Dawn Ellis-Abbott for the theft of funds that rightfully belong to our community. We are pleased to see that steps are being taken towards a resolution and that Ms. Ellis-Abbott will be held responsible. Our community remains committed to ensuring that justice is served and that the appropriate measures are taken to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. We would like to thank the RCMP for their work on the investigation.
Chief Bob Gloade
Over the next few weeks, Millbrook By-law & Public Safety will be conducting bear checks in the Fern South and Spruce Ave areas; if a bear is spotted, By-law Officer Adam Francis will be deploying a bear banger which is a projectile that sounds like a shotgun to try and attempt to scare the bear. Security and RCMP will notify the community via Facebook before deploying the Bear Banger. I appreciate your understanding.
- Millbrook By-law & Public Safety
SUNDAY SKATE CLOSURES: Dear community members, there will be no ice available on March 19 and April 16 at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre. Sunday Morning skates are cancelled for those dates. - Rath Eastlink Community Centre
The Administration Office will be CLOSED for the DAY, due to weather conditions and the roads being unfit for travel.
OFFICE REOPENING: Millbrook’s Administration Office will REOPEN at 9:00AM tomorrow, Friday, February 17.
A reminder that the office will be closed on Monday, February 20, in observance of Heritage Day honouring Millbrook born, Mi’kmaw poet, Rita Joe.
Thank you all for your patience.
Millbrook Administration Office is closed until further notice. Water main break is currently being fixed.
Daniel Paul’s portrait by Mi’kmaw artist Alan Syliboy will be displayed at Dalhousie University to honour his enormous contributions to the recognition and understanding of the history and continued significance of the Mi’kmaq people regionally and nationally.
Mi’kmaw elder, author, editor, and activist Daniel Paul has made an indelible mark in Canadian history and the history of Turtle Island, as the author of his ground-breaking book, We Were Not the Savages, which is now in its fourth edition. This authoritative version of Mi’kmaq history challenges conventional versions of Canadian colonial history by exposing the violence inflicted on Mi’kmaq populations from the beginning of European colonization of the New World to the present. Daniel Paul has fundamentally changed how we understand Canada’s origins and the complex roles and sophisticated social, political, economic and cultural structures of the Mi’kmaq people. He was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer; the portrait of Daniel Paul by talented Mi’kmaw artist, Alan Syliboy will provide a lasting tribute to Paul and his singular impact on Canadian history.
Our goal is to raise $8500 for this commissioned portrait. Any extra funds raised will be put toward a scholarship to be established in Daniel Paul’s honour at Dalhousie.
Please be advised that Millbrook busing services are for Millbrook band members and community members. Non-band members will be allowed on buses at the driver's discretion and only if spaces are available. I appreciate your cooperation.
- Educational Services
MEDIA RELEASE
Dedication ceremony for Indigenous healing garden at Colchester East Hants Health Centre
Monday, Oct. 24, 2022
On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, a dedication ceremony will be held for the Indigenous healing garden at Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro beginning at 1:00 p.m., with people gathering at 12:30 p.m. in tents set up in the parking area adjacent to the hospital. Following the dedication ceremony, small group visits to the garden will be offered.
This is the first Indigenous healing garden of its kind within a hospital in Atlantic Canada. The initiative is the culmination of a partnership between the family of John C. Gloade of Millbrook First Nation and Colchester East Hants Health Central to transform the hospital’s healing garden into a memorial Indigenous healing garden. The ceremony will honour the life of Sheila Rose Gloade and dedicate the garden in her memory as a place within the hospital where patients, their families, and staff can find peace and tranquility.
The Indigenous health garden now contains traditional Indigenous symbols of healing that have been part of the Mi’kmaq culture for many centuries. The space is available to all clients of the hospital and provides a place for prayer and traditional Mi’kmaq ceremonies related to healing.
Please note:
o Public parking is available in front of Colchester East Hants Health Centre.
o Masks will be required when moving through the hospital to reach the garden.
Please contact our media relations team if you plan to attend or if you have questions about the event at NSHAmedia@nshealth.ca.
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Millbrook First Nation is seeking four (4) interested candidates to take part in School Bus Driver Training with Commercial Safety College.
This is not a guarantee for work placement, however upon successful completion of the three (3) week School Bus Driver Training program you will place you on a sub list for MFN bus drivers.
Stipends will be allotted based on provincial standards. We are looking to fill 4 seats for this training. A valid class 5 drivers license is a pre-requisite for this training.
For more information please email klittle@millbrookfn.ca and include the following details/ or complete the online form below:
Name:
Phone number:
Email:
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT INTEREST October 28, 2022
