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PAGE 2 • JUNE 2015 aDVErtiSiNG matErial SpECiFiCatioNS First Nations Voice creates an opportunity for advertisers, businesses and all levels of government to reach First Nations audiences in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andt Ontario. With a focus on training, education and employment opportunities, this publication serves to showcase opportunities available to First Nations and all Aboriginal people. All digital advertising files, whether on disk or delivered electronically, should be Mac compatible. Please include all files necessary for output. Call the Winnipeg Free Press pre-press department, 204-697-7020, for more information about file types accepted. The Free Press can also build your ad. Please contact your First Nations Voice ad sales rep for details. NEXT ISSUE: June 27, 2015 The advertising deadline is June 17, 2015 For your ad placement and contents CONTACT TREVOR GREYEYES (204-282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com Toll free 1-800-542-8900 Alan Isfeld (204-256-0645) / e-mail: rdeagle@mymts.net HoW to CoNtaCt US pUBliSHEr Al Isfeld (204.256.0645) EDitor Trevor Greyeyes (204.282-6341) tgreyeyes@shaw.ca firstnationsvoice@winnipegfreepress.com All Rights Reserved. Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Scanterbury, MB R0E 1W0 Phone 204.256.0645 E-mail rdeagle@mymts.net 100-per-cent First Nations owned — Distribution: 100,000 copies No material in First Nations Voice may be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. First Nations Voice is published monthly by the First Nations Voice. All payments for advertisements in the First Nations Voice should be directed through the Winnipeg Free Press office. No out of office sales rep will collect cash outside of this office. Please direct questions to Trevor Greyeyes 204.282-6341. 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 advertising Sales Laurie Finley, VP Sales and Marketing / laurie.finley@freepress.mb.ca Barb Borden, Manager Niche Publishing/ barb.borden@freepress.mb.ca Subscriptions $26.25 annually, payable to First Nations Voice c/o Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2X 3B6 Lenard Monkman sounds excited and more than a little exhausted as he talks about his event 100 Basketballs that has grown into a day long event. For Monkman, the idea came about from a Facebook post about giving back to the North End to help the community's youth. "As a kid, you know I played a lot of basketball and that seemed to keep me out of a lot of trouble," said Monkman. Indeed, Monkman found himself at 18 graduating from Children of the Earth High School in the North End with his first year of university before him. However, problems with securing post secondary funding for his second year found him following a different and easier path. He sold drugs for the next few years but found the high life over after getting arrested. The judge offered him a choice and he chose to go to work full time as a floor installer instead of going to jail. There Monkman toiled quietly at his job and raising a family but he wondered what life would have been had he followed a different trajectory and how he could gave back to his community. Then one day the idea about basketballs just hit him but Monkman had no idea what he was getting himself into. "If I out it out there, I knew I'd have to follow through on this," said Monkman. "And once I did then I didn't realize that it would be this much work." March 31 will see the culmination of his Facebook post with a 3-on-3 basketball tournament starting at noon at the Ralph Brown Community Centre at 460 Andrews Street. During the day there will be a free barbecue, face painting for the kids, all kinds of demonstrations and activities for children. The big basketball game between a motley North End team helmed by Kevin Chief will play the Winnipeg Police Service basketball team. Then the basketball giveaway will follow the game with Monkman now sitting on 200 plus basketballs and counting. If Monkman had to do it all over again, he said with no hesitation and he hopes to repeat his early success somewhere in "Central." As for Monkman, he's taking two university classes right now and if he can keep his grades up then he'll be attending university full time in the fall. And a job offer in community development just may be coming his way this summer. By First Nations Voice staff Former drug dealer Finds giving back to community a second chance lenard Monkman

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