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After months of early mornings, school sports, field trips, and exams, students at Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) schools are finally on summer vacation - and so too are KEC staff.

Dr. Kona Williams, the first Indigenous person in Canada to be a forensic pathologist, will be tackling a new challenge - this time in the field of education, being named the new section chair in pathology at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) on June 27.

Recent Ratiwennahní:rats graduate Tióhrhano Zack Diabo says that his cohort of learners isn’t just special, they’re like “lightning in a bottle.”

For the 18th year, Jim Foote has donated a bicycle to a lucky Kateri School student, and this year’s winner, Lacey McComber, is thrilled about her new wheels.

Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) will have a new leader next year, with Sha’teiohserí:io Patton set to become the school’s new principal, while Melissa Lasante will serve as the new associate principal at Kateri School.

Kahnawa’kehró:non participating in the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s first-ever Motion Commotion colour run didn’t just run through clouds of eco-friendly coloured powder being thrown at them during their race - many picked up handfuls from the floor and showered themselves with it, and some even rolled in piles of the stuff, committing fully to the rainbow of the day.

The 186 athletes, coaches, and volunteers that made up Team Kahnawake at this year’s First Nations Education Council (FNEC) Inter-School Games have a lot of hardware to go with their hard work, winning 55 medals.

Clouds of colour will be bursting into the air of Kahnawake in just a few short weeks, as the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC) prepares for the first edition of a new running event that’s all about promoting community health in the most creative way possible.

Council (FNEC) celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, its Inter-School Games - which started yesterday, Thursday - are in their 17th year, and while that’s not a nice, round number like 40, FNEC Inter-School Games coordinator David Gill said it is still a meaningful number.

When Angus “Nias” Bordeau buys his lottery tickets, he sticks with the same numbers - and the same dream for his big winnings: the foundation of a kidney dialysis clinic in Kahnawake.