The 2012 Graduates of Piikani Nation Secondary School

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Spiritriver Striped Wolf, Columnist, Pincher Creek Voice

This year I’m actually graduating from PNSS. The Grad ceremony is on June 1—Although time and date isn’t totally written in stone until we give out the invitations, though I will post when we decide on a for sure time. Anyone’s free to come and share this special time with us graduates, in fact having people from the community of Pincher or else where to share this day with us would be really awesome.

It’s actually going to be quite a unique Graduation. It’s free to come to the event and around 5 to 10 dollars for a plate of food (Prices haven’t been written in stone either). Because it’s a small high school, it’s going to be a grad/prom event, with only the graduates, their dates, their families, and those awesome to show up for the traditional graduation ceremony, then at the end of the grad, a dance.

Graduates Eva-Mai, Leland, and Alex
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I really hope it works out great since this is a very historic moment in the lives of those graduating, and with limited funds, it’ll be difficult, but at least we’ll be able to make the best of it. We’ve been fundraising like crazy, really; we’ve done raffles, bake sales, we’ve served hot meals, and even did a flea market at Co-op and we’re definitely not done. It’s a really good experience fundraising to have an awesome grad, and it’ll totally be worth it knowing we worked for our special day together.

Graduate Tamara
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There’s six graduating from Brocket school this year, a small number, however I think we’ve kind of bonded. We’re a bunch that are very different in personality, yet it’s almost like we’re family. It’s kind of corny, but it’s the benefit of graduating with a small number of peers that you know well during your high school year that pulls you together, especially with the whole ordeal with having to raise funds for the success of our event. Either way, whether our day isn’t as spectacular as most grad and proms are, we’ll still be there with the knowledge that we made it—and that’s something not a whole lot of people can say.

Graduates catering for the “Youth and Education meeting for donations
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If you would like to donate for the success of our Grad and Prom the address and phone number of our treasurer is:
627-8115
Box 3178 Brocket Alberta T0K 0H0
Leland English

I’ll have a lot for the Voice in a couple weeks or so. The Pow Wow that I was going to cover was postponed to May 11, which is hosted by the “Piikani Youth Chief and Council”. If you’d like to experience this event, it will be at the Community Hall in Brocket. I’m not so sure what else will be taking place in May, but you can count on me for finding any and all happenings in Brocket.

Thanks for reading! If you would like, you can contact me by email at spiritriver.knowlton@facebook.com, or you can just post a comment here.