{"id":606,"date":"2016-09-28T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T16:24:50","slug":"six-series-blog-no7-how-i-came-be-absi-connect-northern-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/six-series-blog-no7-how-i-came-be-absi-connect-northern-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"How I came to be an ABSI Connect Northern Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was at work on January 22nd 2016, when an online news headline caught my eye. \u201cBreaking News: School Shooting in La Loche, Saskatchewan.\u201d &nbsp;I struggled to read the words that seemed scrambled on my computer screen, and I heard my co-worker gasp and say, \u201coh my God, there was a school shooting in La Loche\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JOrQvGqBYobF5ujW0xCawRTn-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JOrQvGqBYobF5ujW0xCawRTn-edited.jpeg 572w, https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JOrQvGqBYobF5ujW0xCawRTn-edited-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>La Loche is a small, isolated Dene community in Northern Saskatchewan. The annual winter road from Fort McMurray to La Loche is about 200 kilometers. Everyone in my department knew that I had distant relatives there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tears that were welling in my eyes fell as my coworker softly said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d That day my aunty and a close friend of mine decided we would make the trip to La Loche. \u201cWhat do we bring?\u201d I asked myself. \u201cFlowers? Cards? Water?\u201d I didn\u2019t know what the community needed. At that moment, everything that I could think to bring seemed so useless. I found moose meat to offer. We raised money to buy nice flowers and a wreath with the victims\u2019 names &#8211; Dayne, Drayden, Marie, and Adam &#8211; to lay at the school. It wasn\u2019t good enough for me. There will always be moose meat, hopefully. Flowers eventually die. Fake flowers fade. A picture of Drayden on Facebook caught my eye. He looked so happy and I didn\u2019t want that to fade. As a mother, that\u2019s what I would miss the most. I wanted to bring that to his family. I thought it was impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellthomas.ca\/\">Russell Thomas<\/a>&nbsp;is a well-known artist, actor, and writer here in Fort McMurray. He is also the Director of Communications at the local&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmunitedway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Way<\/a>. Worrying about how much it would cost and how little time I was giving him, I asked in a private Facebook message: will you paint these pictures for me, please. Attached were images of Dayne, Dreyden, Marie and Adam. Russell assured me he would do what he can to get the paintings done in time, at no cost. They were done in time and were the last thing I picked up on the way to La Loche. \u201cI hope they like them,\u201d I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was dark when we arrived. Our first stop was the brothers&#8217; home &#8211; Dayne and Drayden &#8211;&nbsp;on Dene crescent to drop off what we had brought for them. Their mother, Alicia Fontaine, wasn\u2019t home so we left some moose meat and the paintings with the man that was there. \u201cThat painting is from an artist in Fort McMurray,\u201d my aunty explained in Dene. \u201cMerci\u201d (thank you) the man replied. We left to make our way to my Great Aunty Marie\u2019s for the night. We passed by Marie Janvier\u2019s wake on the way there. We didn\u2019t go inside so that there were more seats for her loved ones. The silhouette of a cross could be seen through the living room curtains. Sounds of Dene hymns were carried by the cold, crisp air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We laid the flowers outside the school and retreated back to my Great Aunty\u2019s house on Semchuk Trail. That night, I knew that I did what I was supposed to do, nothing more. The next morning the Prime Minister arrived. My Great Aunt and I were looking out her front window at Saleski Lake.&nbsp; The street was quiet, except for the Black SUV\u2019s rushing down the road. There wasn&#8217;t another vehicle in sight. Just the lake. The calmness didn\u2019t last long. We watched as reporters, camera-men, police, and community members gathered to listen to the Prime Minister speak. The window acted as our television. Eventually, the streets went quiet again. The show was over. \u201cI bet you that street never saw traffic like that before!\u201d my Great Aunt joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>While all this was going on, in an effort to weave the social innovation ecosystem in Alberta, ABSI Connect and their platform of support,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigeneration.ca\/\">SiG<\/a>, were seeking someone to fill the roll of Northern Fellow. Kelsey Spitz, Senior Associate of Social Innovation Generation, happened to \u2018cold email\u2019 my newfound friend Russell Thomas, who then directed her to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you for referring me to Kelsey for the Northern Fellow position being offered by ABSI Connect,\u201d I wrote Russell a couple of months later. \u201cI hope you and &nbsp;your family are doing well since returning home from the (May 3rd Wildfire) evacuation\u201d. \u201cWe are doing as well as could be expected,\u201d he replied before saying \u201cbut thank you.&nbsp;Our connection to the tragedy in La Loche had a profound impact on me. In the madness of the evacuation, I got a message from someone in La Loche, Alicia Fontaine. She was making sure that I was okay\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPortraits of La Loche shooting victims a \u2018gift to the community\u2019 says painter\u201d reads one&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/paintings-of-la-loche-victims-1.3424870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBC news headline<\/a>. \u201cPortraits pay tribute to victims of La Loche shooting,\u201d says&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ckom.com\/article\/525551\/portraits-pay-tribute-victims-la-loche-shooting\">News Talk 650<\/a>;&nbsp;the list of related articles goes on. A small gesture of comfort ended up having an unimaginable ripple effect, creating powerful connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been a Northern Fellow for a little over a month now and since beginning this role, I have learned how to spot social innovators from a mile away. Funny because two months ago I couldn\u2019t define social innovation for the life of me. The May 3rd Wildfire has drastically shifted some realities in Fort McMurray, making it easier to plant seeds of innovation,&nbsp;while being able to recognize what\u2019s working and just as importantly, what is not working. The more I explore and learn from this experience, the more I hope to capture and share the strengths of the place that I call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Melissa on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelissaMKHerman\">@MelissaMKHerman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original version of this blog was posted on the ABSI connect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/absiconnect.ca\/news\/2016\/8\/22\/how-i-came-to-be-an-absi-connect-northern-fellow\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About SIX Series on post-conflict societies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the run to the Summer School in Colombia 2016, we developed a blog&nbsp;series&nbsp;on social innovation and peace building. How has conflicts shaped social innovation cultures across different places? 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