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From understanding your role as an executor of someone’s estate to learning about the role of a notary in writing a will, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s wills and estates coordinator has community members covered this fall.

Even if it might have been a tough weekend results-wise for the two summer Kahnawake Warhawks baseball teams still in action, both the U15B girls and U18 mixed team gave it their all.

Another important road work project will be happening in the streets of Kahnawake this year, this time on the stretch of Old Malone Highway between the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway tunnel and the intersection with Highway 132.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) this week released July report cards, with only two at the Council table submitting reports of their activities and progress for the month.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) will cover private tuition for 25 special needs students after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) announced earlier this summer that it would no longer provide this funding through Jordan’s Principle.

August really is more than half over, which means it’s almost time to go back to school - and that means the streets of Kahnawake are about to see the return of school buses full of kids.n

The heat was intense this week, with temperatures reaching well into the 30s, and humidex of 40 C. To help the community avoid heat-related illnesses, Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) opened up the Turtle Bay Elders’ Lodge for the community to serve as a cooling shelter during the sweltering weather.

Kanesatake’s general election was cancelled on the eve of election day, with the electoral officer blaming a flawed electoral code for a mountain of irregularities, escalating the community’s governance problems into a full-blown crisis and leaving Kanehsata’kehró:non scrambling to make sense of their new political reality.

Call it what you will - a governmental crisis, a political crisis, a leadership crisis - the cancellation of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) general elections is a recipe for disaster for the community.

At 39 years old, Leya Jacobs has proven that school can come a little later. She studied special care counselling at Champlain College St. Lambert, finishing up a 22-month course in just nine months.