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Staff at K1037 were saddened to announce the death of Jim Hum last week, a legend whose voice was the first heard on the station’s airwaves when it went live on March 30, 1981.

Lacrosse has always been a medicine game, and that was shown to be especially true at the Kahnawake Sports Complex last weekend, when community members took part in a smoke dance before the Eastern Conference Finals series of the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League.

Veterans’ issues were on the margins of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual general assembly at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal last week.

Roadside inspections of dump trucks entering Kanesatake on Monday were once again routine mechanical checks, but some believe the enforcement has been a step in the right direction.  “For one thing, I’m glad they’re taking any action at all,” said Mohawk Council of Kanesatake chief Serge Otsi Simon.

When the buzzer rang at the Howard Darwin arena in Nepean last Sunday, it was hard to tell who was more excited – the players on the floor, or the fans in the stands who had travelled from Kahnawake, releasing confetti cannons and blasting air horns as they cheered.

What does a real Kahnawake ironworker think of Empire the Musical? “Personally, I think it’s fantastic,” said Chester Deer.

They say your sense of smell is the one linked closest to your memory. Sometimes the savoury smell of a pot of soup might take you back to Sunday nights at tóta’s, the scent of fresh-cut grass can remind you of a hot summer day, or a whiff of fried chicken was a telling sign that your father was home for the weekend from ironworking.

Back in May, members of Kanesatake’s Longhouse listened as Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille and MCK chief Valerie Bonspille shared with them information about a group of paddlers that had scheduled a six-day trip, including a stop in Kanesatake.

Spurred by a recent wave of external media coverage of dumping in the community, a group of Oka residents and affiliated groups have vowed to support Kanehsata’kehró:non with a blockade to stop dump trucks if necessary.

Rumours have been circulating for months about the future of Mohawk Online Ltd. (MOL), an online gaming company from Kahnawake that has given millions of dollars to the community since 2015, but it was finally publicly confirmed on K1037 Radio Monday that things are about to get very real.