As we’ve all come to expect Rez Notes once again attempts to say as little as possible with the most number of words. We just might have succeeded this time.
We have not spotted any geese flying over here in Montreal yet oh, gentle hunters. But we’ve been informed that several have been shot down already in Moose country. John G. Quachegan killed the first on the 10th of April, so says our newly hired Moose Factory correspondent. He shall remain anonymous because he’s started digging around for some dirt for us in the twin cities. Another one of his items has to do with a bridge linking Moose Factory and Moosonee. “As if, ahh!” he exclaimed.
Billy Boy lost his chance to get a goose days ago. He was busy setting up his blind and decoys when two geese snuck up on him. “Otherwise you would have heard two thuds.” He is reported to have said. Another Billy (they are legion), Billy Shecapio killed the first goose in Waskaganish.
A Wemindji resident enjoying a cold one at a once great watering hole in downtown Montreal asked, “Where the hell’s the bar?(ln Wemindji) It’s been six months since the resolution. We want action!!!” He then proceeded to order another round.
The Eagles will be playing at the Corel Centre in Kanata on June 29. The band not the fowl.
Francine Weistche will be performing at Canadore College’s Weaver Auditorium in North Bay on May 2nd. She will also be in Inuvik, NWT on May 8. The show in Inuvik will be broadcast nationwide on Canada Day. That’s July 1st to us mere mortals.
A trained pilot/meteorologist friend of mine, his wife and others were eyewitnesses to a strange sight three kilometres east of Eastmain, Sunday morning at 3 a.m. He did not specify what they were doing out there at that ungodly hour. Anyway, they were all in their vehicle doing God knows what, probably observing the weather, when they spotted a slow moving light in the night sky with smoke coming out of it. The object broke apart and the smaller part followed it. My friend says he went to “check it out” but his wife “was very scared. She thought it was a UFO and she was holding me back” He also says that, “It must have been enormous.” because people in Wemindji later reported a similar object at the same time. More on this story should it ever unfold.
Some lonely guy from Wolfville wrote to thank us for placing his personal ad in The Nation a few weeks ago: “Dear Friends:” It starts, “Thank you for running my personal ad in your paper. My situation has changed and I no longer need you to run it. Thank you.” You might recall his ad. He was the one looking for a Cree/Native female between 25-45 years of age. Nice work my friend. Hope you’ll be happy. We’ll hold on to your ad just in case things don’t work out.
We come to the end of another Reservation Notes gentle readers and we mustn’t forget to apologize for embarrassing Katrina Orr of Nemaska. We…OK…I reported that she had won the Little Miss Nemaska contest when in fact it was her four year old sister Catherine who won. The contest was a part of Nemaska’s Year Of The Child festivities.
This just in: Ontario has extended its bar hours to two o’clock.
