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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 07, 2013, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A4 A 4 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2013 TOP NEWS winnipegfreepress. com Patrick Clarke Ron Terleski You have won a Double Pass to Fruitvale Station Call Rae- Ann @ 204- 697- 7224 to claim your prize before noon, Aug 14/ 13. T. Sharma Krissy Paul You have won a Double Pass to Jobs Call Rae- Ann @ 204- 697- 7224 to claim your prize before noon, Aug 14/ 13. Bob Beck Carla Holyk You have won a Double Pass to The Butler Call Rae- Ann @ 204- 697- 7224 to claim your prize before noon, Aug 14/ 13. UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE AT Kaye's Auction House 263 Stanley St. Thursday, August 8th, 2013 at 7: 00 PM ( Viewing after 2: 00 PM Same Day of Sale Only) Received thru Estate & Others: 2009 Saga Deluxe 50 scooter* Vintage collection of Boy Scouts & Girl Guides ( shirts, hats, badges, etc.)* assorted flags* Vintage kids toy gun & holster* coal oil lamps* Senator tobacco tin & others* Catelli bean pots* Vintage black phones* New Humminbird 345C fish finder* New fish TV* assorted new fishing rods* Thunder Chief train set* assorted new screwdrivers, LED lights, heaters, metal brushes, clamps, cleaners & etc.* New 7- person tent* books* 4- New Diplomat 5,000BTU air conditioners* 2- New toilets* 6- boxes of Laminate plank flooring* assorted new endless slings* unique drift wood floor lamp* antique oak dresser w/ mirror* plus lots of misc. items too numerous to mention. TERMS: Cash, Visa, MasterCard or Debit Paid in Full Day of Sale. 5% Buyers Fee " Subject to Additions & Deletions" " Everything Sold As Is, Where Is" with no warranties implied or expressed KAYE'S AUCTIONS 204- 668- 0183 ( WPG) www. kayesauctions. com Name That Feeling. A support group for children aged 7 and up who have a family member with a mental illness. It offers young people the opportunity to discuss their needs and feelings and to learn about mental illness and some ways of coping. Manitoba Schizophrenia Society 204- 786- 1616 www. mss. mb. ca IT is been more than a month since an eight- yearold Manitoba girl died under mysterious circumstances on a remote, troubled First Nation. Now the Free Press has uncovered new details as justice officials continue to weigh whether the case was a tragic accident or something more sinister. Skye Bighetty has been identified as the victim. Her aunt, Sue Caribou, says the little girl suffered a broken neck inside her home in Pukatawagan. Bighetty's 23- year- old brother, Kyle, has been identified by Caribou as being a suspect. But no charges have been laid at this time. Kyle was immediately taken to the psychiatric unit at The Pas following his sister's death in late June and was recently transferred to Selkirk Mental Health Centre. Caribou said her nephew escaped last week and was on the loose for several days until he was located and returned to the facility. " We were terrified he would hurt himself somehow," Caribou told the Free Press Tuesday. The deadly incident began when Skye's mother, Linda Colomb - Caribou's sister- in- law - asked the little girl to go downstairs to retrieve a mosquito coil. " When she didn't hear any noise, she went downstairs a few minutes later. There Kyle was, holding his sister. He was in a daze, out of it," said Caribou. Attempts to revive Skye failed, so family members rushed her to a nearby nursing station where she was pronounced dead. " There are lots of stories about what happened," said Caribou. Caribou said the investigation has been complicated by her nephew's mental state. " If you don't snap him out of it, he just stands there, blankly," she said. The Bighetty family lived for years in Regina before moving to northern Manitoba in 2007. Kyle is the oldest of six children. Skye was the youngest. RCMP would only confirm this week their investigation is ongoing. No other details have been released. Members of the Winnipeg- based serious crime unit, Thompson- based major crime unit and the north district crime- reduction enforcement support team have been brought in to assist. There was even more silence from Chief Arlen Dumas and council in Pukatawagan, who repeatedly told the Free Press they would provide a statement but ultimately refused to return phone calls. Pukatawagan is more than 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg and is one of the most troubled reserves in Canada. About 2,000 people live in the community, which can only be accessed by air or train. www. mikeoncrime. com Some details emerge in girl's mysterious death Charges mulled amid questions about tragedy By Mike McIntyre F ISHER RIVER CREE NATION - No one at the Fisher River powwow knew who the white guy in the Jets jacket was until he'd already walked on by. " Are you a Jets coach?" asked one lanky teen in a ball cap. " No, I just work for them," replied Mark Chipman. After the Winnipeg Jets co- owner posed for pictures with a group of very high- spirited jingle dancers, they waited until he was out of earshot to ask who they'd just cuddled up to. " Are you kidding?" said Micheline Berard, a M�tis artist and nurse from Portage la Prairie. " Can you tell him I want tickets right behind the visitors box?" joked Shelly Cameron, who used to teach in the Interlake community. As Chipman walked through the powwow grounds with the band's popular chief, David Crate, one teen leaned over to her boyfriend and said: " That's Mark Chapman, the billionaire." Chipman was on the reserve, about 200 kilometres north of Winnipeg, Tuesday for a low- key tour in the back of the band's van, a chance to see where the Jets' half of a $ 250,000 contribution to a new on- reserve youth program is going. The Province of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Jets True North Foundation donated the money to fund the first Right to Play program at Fisher River Cree Nation as well as at Pine Creek First Nation in western Manitoba. Right to Play, a program best- known for its work in developing countries, is a few months into its work on Fisher River creating a program meant to teach young people life skills through recreation. It's part of what business leaders such as Chipman and ex- premiers talked about earlier this summer as they gathered for a brainstorming session hosted by the Business Council of Manitoba. There was a consensus that the fate of Manitoba's booming aboriginal youth population and their full participation in the workforce was the province's biggest problem, one the business community needed to help solve. If Chipman is one of Winnipeg's top business leaders, Crate is one of the province's best chiefs, the leader of a reserve that helped create a new provincial park, bought land for a cottagelot development, has an outstanding school with near- perfect attendance and graduation rates and even a plan to install geothermal heating in dozens of homes this year. There is little turnover in leadership at Fisher River, a governance structure that earned kudos from the right- leaning Frontier Centre and a 20- year plan for the band's economic and community development. " We're not going to sit and wait for government," said Crate. " We're going to move ahead." If Fisher River is doing so well, why does the band need cash from the province and the Jets? Because the reserve is a test case, a safe place to start the program before moving on to other, more remote and troubled reserves, a place where there is still need but also a good chance the new program will work. " When you have a high degree of success, let it flourish and move on from there," said Chipman. But the Right to Play program also represents another foray by charities and the province into what ought to be a federal responsibility - the provision of recreation, education and social services. Manitoba Children and Youth Opportunities Minister Kevin Chief, who accompanied Chipman to Fisher River Tuesday, said the hope is the federal government will come on board with proven programs. " If there's a need, you gotta respond to it," he said. maryagnes. welch@ freepress. mb. ca Powwow trip for Jets brass At First Nation to check out progress of youth program By Mary Agnes Welch PHOTOS BY JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The grand entry of Fisher River Cree Nation's annual powwow Tuesday evening. Among the attendees was Winnipeg Jets co- owner Mark Chipman ( inset). A_ 04_ Aug- 07- 13_ FP_ 01. indd A4 8/ 6/ 13 10: 38: 37 PM ;