Wiky man killed in hit-and-run

WIKWEMIKONG-The early morning discovery of a mortally injured man on the Kaboni Road, near Odawa Valley Road in the village of Wikwemikong, has turned into an investigation of a hit and run fatality after the 25-year-old pedestrian was pronounced dead on arrival at the Manitoulin Health Centre.

At approximately 6:30 am on Saturday morning, the Wikwemikong Tribal Police received a report of a pedestrian hit-and-run.

The victim has been identified as Anthony (Antz) Mandamin of Wikwemikong, described by family as a gentle, light-spirited young man with a great sense of humour.

The Ontario Provincial Police are assisting in the investigation with a police forensic identification unit, technical traffic collision investigation unit and the Manitoulin OPP criminal investigation unit.

No further details were being released as of press time, but the police are requesting the assistance of the public in their investigation. Anyone with information can contact the Wikwemikong Tribal Police at (705) 859-3141 or through the provincial communication centre of the OPP at 1-888-310-1122.

Abattoir proponents throw in towel

by Michael Erskine

M'CHIGEENG-Citing a lack of support from the M'Chigeeng First Nation, federal and provincial funders and local farmers, the owners of the proposed Manitoulin abattoir at M'Chigeeng have put their two buildings and property up for sale.

"Both buildings are up for sale, with the billboards having been put up today, stating interested buyers or partners phone 368-2311," explained the couple's business advisor, Keith Harfield. "Funds have not come in to get this viable business up and running."

Although, according to Mr. Harfield, Richard and Miriam Williams have said they are not willing to go through another winter "with nothing being done to open up the abattoir," the couple have apparently not closed the door on being involved in a project in another community.

Mr. Harfield has said that the chief and council of M'Chigeeng First Nation have indicated they would not support the building of the abattoir in their community, M'Chigeeng Chief Joe Hare disputed that assertion.

"We asked him (Mr. Williams) for financial information that we needed in order to make a decision," he said. "They just kept telling us that they had already given us that information and that it must be somewhere here in the office."

Chief Hare noted that he and his council were largely new to the issue, and he felt some dismay that the proponents of the project would not supply the information they needed to properly assess their support.

"We can't just hand out money and endorsements without practising due diligence on behalf our membership," said Chief Hare. "That would not be responsible. Instead of giving us that information, they just kept telling us we already had it."

Chief Hare said that he and his council understood the program could be a good thing for the Island, but without the financial information they needed the council's hands were tied.

In a letter to the Expositor, Mr. Harfield lamented what he said was the lack of support for the project from both Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Mike Brown and Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Brent St. Denis, invoking the memory of former provincial MPP John Lane as a promoter of Island economic development and "self-sufficiency." Mr. Williams, in turn, was quoted in Mr. Harfield's letter as lauding the efforts on his behalf made by unsuccessful NDP federal candidate Carol Hughes and her Sault Ste. Marie compatriot Tony Martin.

"One has to wonder if Brent and Mike really care for farmers locally," said Mr. Williams, suggesting that the 200-300 local farmers should "remember who let them down," in the next election. Although the same letter notes that Brent St. Denis has asked anyone with concerns about the abattoir project to contact him personally on the matter. Mr. Williams criticized Mr. St. Denis for 'falling back on privacy laws that prevent him from giving any detail concerning our project.

The Harfield letter also cited the Williamses as blaming Waubetek Business Services as one of the causes of their current financing troubles. "Waubetek was supposed to help us, but took more security than was necessary," said Mr. Williams. "Now, Waubetek won't release any of the security, even when other agencies like Farm Credit are willing to help."

Privacy laws are cited as a reason the claims by the Williams cannot be commented on in any detail by federal and other funding and financial agencies.

The Williamses credited their children in Alberta with helping them to stave off bankruptcy since funding for their abattoir project stalled after changes to their original project plan delayed the funding.

Although it seems the abattoir project is well and thoroughly dead, Mr. Harfield noted that the project could still move ahead with sufficient support from the farming community, although the operation would likely be in another location.

The farming community was given the opportunity to buy into the program through the project's 'Hook Program,' in which farmers were encouraged to buy future hook space in the abattoir. The key element of the program was to provide a tangible expression of local farmer support.

The communication from Mr. Harfield gave no indication of how many hooks had been sold or how strong tangible farm support for the project has been.

The M'Chigeeng buildings and property, which have been partially built by the Williamses have attracted interested parties to date, notes the letter, and the couple indicate that paying off creditors would be the first order of business after the sale-but should those buying the buildings express an interest in building an abattoir, the couple would still help out.

"We still have a good amount of equipment that could be used to help establish an abattoir," said Mr. Williams. "As well, we have a good knowledge and background of what is needed to get an abattoir up and running, with the right amount of funding on hand."

INAC confirms funds set aside for tire removal

by Jim Moodie

ZHIIBAAHAASING-Money has been budgeted and a tendering process is in the works for the removal of a million-plus tires from the Zhiibaahaasing First Nation, a government spokesperson confirmed last week.

"We've earmarked some funds to help with the work required, and we're developing a tendering process," said Tony Prudori of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). "We're still working with the First Nation and a variety of other parties to finalize the tendering process."

The department spokesman declined to put a dollar figure on the job, noting that this would influence bids from contractors, but said he expected to be fielding proposals "in about a month."

The actual removal will likely take months, depending on the nature of the proposals that come forth, but "everyone involved wants to get this done," maintained Mr. Prudori.

In the meantime, INAC officials "met with the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin (UCCM) and the Fire Marshal's Office on August 30 to implement fire prevention at the site," said Mr. Prudori. "The UCCM is also working with its technical unit to develop a fire prevention and protection strategy."

Reached on Monday, Zhiibaahaasing Deputy Chief Kevin Mossip expressed satisfaction that a plan was in the works to rid his community of the hazard. "People can now relax a bit and rest assured that the tires won't be here forever," he said.

"We're working with INAC on the RFP (request for proposals) right now, going through the motions, and Bob Kells and I will be sitting on the committee to review proposals," Mr. Mossip noted.

Once a bid is accepted, Mr. Mossip said he anticipated the removal process could take at least half a year. "I've read one paper where it said it would be six months to clean this up, but I think it will actually take longer than that. But the tires will get cleaned up," he promised.

The deputy chief said that his community expects to be involved in the actual cleanup. "As part of the RFP, the contractor will have to satisfy some local content, meaning that if we have the equipment, they can use our equipment, or they can use some of our people to help do the job," said Mr. Mossip.

Contrite nurse hopes verdict brings closure Sarah Bowes speaks about her crimes,

the circumstances surrounding them,  and her aspiration to start life afresh

by Jim Moodie

LITTLE CURRENT-Chastened and contrite, yet hopeful she can now move forward with the help of treatment, friends and family, Sarah Bowes returned home to Little Current this week to serve out two years of house arrest for crimes that have caused a stir across the country.

The 28-year-old former nurse pled guilty in an Alberta court last week to administering a noxious substance to four coworkers, as well as to charges pertaining to credit card fraud and public mischief. And while she doesn't expect everyone on Manitoulin to understand why she did these things-Ms. Bowes is still trying to fully understand it herself-let alone excuse them, she hopes people will at least try to appreciate that such behaviour was atypical of her true character, and that she doesn't pose a threat to anyone now.

"I certainly don't intend to ever break the law again," she told the Expositor in an exclusive interview last Thursday, the day after sentencing wrapped up in the high-profile, three-day trial. "I served 53 days of hard time before my bail hearing, in a maximum security prison and then a correctional centre, so I know the consequences. And being aware now that I have a mood disorder makes a huge difference, because once you know something's wrong with you and it's treatable, you're not going to avoid treatment."

Ms. Bowes did not testify at the recent hearing, and has not spoken to any other media before or since, but agreed to share her thoughts with the Expositor because she felt the local paper would be more sensitive to the nuances of her story, and because she wanted to reassure Islanders that she's not a serial 'poisoner' or a nasty person by nature.

"The real Sarah Bowes is the Sarah Bowes that everyone knows," she said. "That behaviour was a direct result of an undiagnosed mood disorder, which was exacerbated by my own use of lorazepam (the same benzodiazepine-type sedative she administered to colleagues). It's something I initially took to stabilize my own moods because I was having trouble sleeping, but it actually made the symptoms of my disorder worse."

The undiagnosed condition "certainly doesn't excuse my bad behaviour, which is why I took responsibility for it by entering a guilty plea," she qualified. "But it does help explain how I personally ended up in this predicament."

Following her arrest last spring, Ms. Bowes was diagnosed by two psychiatrists as suffering from bipolar disorder-a condition, formerly referred to as manic depression, that is characterized by extreme mood swings, with periods of mania interspersed with crushing lows.

Prior to this, Ms. Bowes said she sought help for depression and insomnia, but doctors didn't connect her symptoms to bipolar disorder, "probably because you only go to see someone when you're depressed," she reasons. "When you're in a manic state you feel fantastic, so you don't go for treatment then."

She was prescribed lorazepam for anxiety, and continued to take it later, in unsanctioned doses, enough so that "I pretty much became addicted to it," she admitted. But rather than alleviate her problems, the sedative just exacerbated her bipolar condition and impaired her judgment further, she contends. 

Or, more to the point, her psychiatrist does. In a written submission made to the court last week, Dr. Marc Nesca, one of the two psychiatrists who examined Ms. Bowes, stated that, through a combination of her undiagnosed condition and an abuse of pills that only worsened that state, "Ms. Bowes' functioning became compromised to a degree that led to the uncharacteristic behaviours that resulted in criminal charges against her."

In explaining the mental state that might have led Ms. Bowes to sprinkle the very sedative she was taking on the food of fellow employees and friends, Dr. Nesca reasoned, "profound feelings of inadequacy played a particularly prominent role in this behaviour, as, in her depressed state of my mind, Ms. Bowes concluded that drugging others would impair their ability to notice her personal and professional deficiencies."

Lorazepam is a sedative in the same family as Valium (or diazepam), most commonly prescribed for depression-related anxiety and insomnia, as well as to prevent nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing chemotherapy, according to a definition at a pharmacological website. Side effects, according to this same source, range from dizziness to sleep disturbance. And, "like all benzodiazepines, lorazepam can cause physical dependence," the site adds. 

The lacing of coworkers' food with this downer has, understandably, occupied the centre of attention, both in terms of the media coverage of Ms. Bowes' transgressions and the comments of hospital staff. But it's only part of the story, and the other parts, while less sensational, provide a fuller sense of how Ms. Bowes was thinking (or not thinking) at the time-mischievously, in some cases, but also generously, or a mixture of the two at once. 

When she wasn't spiking her coworkers' food with sedatives, she was showering them with gifts. During her manic phases, Ms. Bowes sent flowers and food to her colleagues, but didn't sign her own name. 

"I'd make something up, like Dr. Watson," she recalled, the embarrassment palpable in her voice. "It seemed like a fantastic idea at the time, but now it just seems absurd." Her skewed reasoning-or "compromised thinking," as Dr. Nesca termed it in his submission to court-was that her fellow employees would relish receiving something from a secret admirer, whereas the unexpected presents from unknown people just made her coworkers more confused and nervous.

"I felt it was a really good idea then, but now it's just completely shocking," said Ms. Bowes. "I thought it was a nice thing, but they just felt stalked. It's an example of how impaired my judgment was."

Clouded and contradictory thinking also influenced her illegal use of credit cards. Ms. Bowes said this began one night when she was watching a TV program about identity theft, "and I thought, wow, that would be a good idea. So I ordered a card using information from somebody else-either real names of people I knew, or a hybrid name."

This, she said, occurred during what she now recognizes was a manic phase. But "then I would wake up, and be in a normal state, and think, 'God, what have I done?' So I'd have these moments of clarity, and I'd go and make payments on the cards."

Ms. Bowes insists that, as doubtful as it may sound, "there was never any malicious intent" in any of her actions. "It was just that all these things, this very bad behaviour, made sense in my mind at the time."

But she does feel horrible about it. "Of course I'm sorry," she said. "And I've admitted my guilt."

She didn't directly voice her regret in court, opting not to testify at all, which left some people feeling that she hadn't fully owned up to her mistakes. To add to the perception that she might be unrepentant, some media reports described her as wearing a blank expression when victim impact statements were being read in court.

But Ms. Bowes insists that such descriptions are misleading. "I was looking directly ahead, or putting my face in my hands, so the reporters couldn't even see my face," she said. 

As to not making a public apology, Ms. Bowes said she was tempted to speak out in court, but decided not to, as "I would have had trouble composing myself, and nothing I said would have been enough, so I let my lawyer articulate it for me." Speaking for her, defence attorney D'Arcy DePoe said Ms. Bowes felt great remorse for everything that had occurred.

Victim impact statements were presented last Tuesday, with 10 former colleagues recounting how scared and baffled they had become as several members of the nursing unit developed flu-like symptoms in 2004 and various suspicions were raised, but no-one knew what, or who, was responsible, or how far the situation might go.

When contacted on Friday of last week, Deb Guerette, director of communications at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Grande Prairie, said she was not in a position to make a direct comment on the Bowes trial. "As you can imagine, we've been deluged with media requests, and our nurses haven't been able to walk in and out of the building without being mobbed."

She did, however, share a statement that was released by the hospital on Monday of last week (the first day of the court hearing), which expresses relief that a guilty plea had been made to a number of the charges. "The admission of responsibility from the individual facing the charges brings both relief and closure to Peace Country Health and staff at the QEII hospital," the statement reads.

Incidents of staff feeling unwell were first noted in the summer of 2004. In September of that year, a unit on the fourth floor of the hospital was closed for air quality and environmental testing, with lab testing in 2005 confirming the presence of a prescription sedative in one staff member. Patients, the hospital notes, were never affected.

In its release, the hospital stresses that "an important part of the court proceedings will be the opportunity for affected staff members to read victim impact statements and to speak about their feelings with regards to the incidents before sentencing occurs."

Some of those statements were quite emotional and chilling. Supervising nurse Anne Marie Muldoon, according to a story in the Edmonton Journal, said she'd "never been in such fear" in her 32 years as a registered nurse, while coworker Renee Maher, who developed a fear of being alone after becoming mysteriously ill, expressed the shock of learning that "I was actually sleeping beside the very person who was doing this to me," according to a CBC news report on the trial.

Such comments "were very upsetting to hear, but they needed to say it and I needed to hear it," said Ms. Bowes. "I hope that it maybe helps them. I still feel devastated about everything that occurred, and it will take a long time to get over the sorrow I feel, but I hope it was cathartic for them. Some of the girls speaking were good friends at one time, so that was very difficult."

Ms. Bowes, when arrested, originally faced 56 charges. In the end, 44 were dropped and she was found guilty of a dozen, only a third of which pertained to lacing coworkers' food with a sedative. Her only prior offence had been a speeding ticket.

While she doesn't deny she committed some indefensible acts, she feels she's already paid a significant price for them, and that the implication in many news reports that she got off with a light sentence is somewhat unfair. Apart from the 53 days she spent in jail before she had a bail hearing, Ms. Bowes noted that there's been an emotional and financial toll that will not be lifted any day soon. "I lost my job and career, and will carry this stigma for the rest of my life," she said. A relationship also fell apart during the time she was awaiting trial, and although the two remain friends, Ms. Bowes attributes the breakup to the stress and financial strain of her incarceration and trial.

During the next two years, she will not be allowed to leave home except for medical requirements or work, and if she works, there will be strict stipulations on the type of work she can do. She won't be able to resume nursing, or work in any food-related industry. She will report to a supervisor for five years and be under curfew.

She remains haunted by her jail time but also came to appreciate fleeting moments of human kindness during her incarceration. "The first seven days were spent in RCMP holding cells-a very primitive setting-but there was hidden kindness among some of the cell guards," she said. "In that kind of loneliness, any human touch is appreciated."

After that first week, she was transferred to maximum security prisons in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan, which she described as "the scariest places I've ever been-but they're supposed to be, otherwise prison wouldn't be a deterrent." She added that she appreciated the help of prison ministers, and that "without faith I would never have survived the dehumanizing experience."

Reflecting further on her jail time, Ms. Bowes was able to wryly note that "I met some pretty good bad people inside prison," and that, "at least I'm no longer claustrophobic."

After being granted bail, Ms. Bowes came back to Manitoulin to await her preliminary hearing. The option existed to extend the court process further (Ms. Bowes' abrupt guilty plea surprised many who had been following the case) and possibly beat more charges, but "I wanted to acknowledge some responsibility, and I also wanted everyone to be able to get on with their lives, especially the nurses at the hospital," said Ms. Bowes.

For herself, the process of admitting guilt and receiving what she feels is an acceptable sentence provides a welcome end to a strange, dark chapter in her life which she now hopes to surmount. "I do have some sense of closure now, and I want to move past it and get on with my life. And I think it's better for me right now to live with family and serve the conditional sentence in a community where I have support."

She credits her lawyer, Mr. DePoe, with being able to effectively "convey that I was a candidate for rehabilitation rather than incarceration." That argument was based on a number of factors: foremost, her undiagnosed condition, but also the fact that she had already served time, had adhered to stringent bail conditions, and had taken responsibility for her actions by entering a guilty plea.

On a personal level, Ms. Bowes added that her lawyer's confidence and deep, authoritative voice provided comfort through the course of the court proceedings. "Sometimes just hearing him talk was reassuring," she remarked.

Reassuring, too, were remarks made by the crown prosecutor in the case, who said he didn't believe Ms. Bowes posed a risk to the public. And trial judge Nemirsky, while terming the impact on Ms. Bowes' victims "enormous and far-reaching," felt jail wasn't the answer. "Her rehabilitation should take priority," he said.

Having sought treatment for bipolar disorder over the past five months, and kicked the unhelpful medication she was misusing, Ms. Bowes now feels better, and more stable, than she has in years. "I now have the clarity I did when I was about 19 or 20," she said, elaborating, "my psychiatrist estimates that the onset of the mood disorder occurred when I was in my early 20s."

She hasn't taken a lorazepam pill since her arrest last spring. "Now that I'm not taking those, and following the new treatment guidelines I have, I feel like I'm back to the way I was at 19-except that I'm more mature," she said.

In her late teens, Ms. Bowes was living in Peterborough, where her father worked as a police officer; she was a popular, attractive and promising young woman who, after high school, completed an arts and science diploma at Sir Sandford College. She subsequently studied nursing at Cambrian College when her dad retired from the police force and the family relocated to Manitoulin, where they had always spent summers.

Things went horribly wrong after she moved to Grande Prairie, took the wrong meds, committed inexcusable acts, and ended up at the centre of a sensational court case that made headlines in major media, but she hopes that she is back to being the person she was before all the craziness and harm occurred.

"I think I'm now feeling much better, and I'm definitely in enough of a controlled mindset that I would never, ever, find myself in a predicament like that again," she said.

EDITORIAL

The cycle of violence in the name of God must end

The globe was rocked by violent protest this past week, as Muslims around the world reacted to the words of the aged head of the world's largest Christian denominations, Pope Benedict XVI, quoting an obscure 14th century Byzantine monarch's view of his Muslim neighbours.

While one may wonder at the thinking process of a Roman Catholic pontiff that would lead him to utter such provacative words the reaction of radical Islam should give pause to those more moderate Muslims who decry the western world's view of their religion.

The pope was speaking about the evils of using the sword to spread religion, and in that context, the words he uttered certainly show how long the West has held its views of the followers of Mohammed. The reactions of religious mobs from Cairo to the Philippines, however, did nothing to abate that view.

Mohammed was never one to suffer slight, or turn the other cheek to cheekiness. In his siege of Medina, he officially ordered the deaths of only two people, a relatively moderate reaction for the times, but that relative tolerance has been used to engage in acts of violence. Those two people were the general who led the forces against him, and a poet who wrote ribald limericks as propaganda against him. That Koranic reference was used as the basis for the fatwa against writer Salman Rushdie, and the massive outrage against the, to the Western eye, relatively innocuous political cartoons depicting Mohammed.

Such reactions are a complete anathema to the Christian foundations of western culture, the Spanish Inquisition notwithstanding-for that period of Christian intolerance to heresy is almost universally regarded as its greatest historical shame.

As (or perhaps if) the Muslim (largely Arab) world progresses into the modern era, perhaps they too will come to regard this kind of intolerance as being beyond the pale. But to revile the pontiff as racist towards Muslims for saying that spreading faith by the sword is wrong, gives lie to those champions of that faith who claim their religion is peaceful and tolerant.

The faith of Mohammed is being used to justify death, destruction and the murder of innocence today, just as Christianity, Judaism and the Hindu religions are being twisted to such ends. To turn a blind eye to this truth, to claim it is a lie, is a deceit that would do the great deceiver of any religion proud.

Little wonder is it that children seem to turn their backs on religious faith as they become more educated-too many have used religion of nearly every faith as an excuse to practice intolerance and violence. Have more people been killed in the name of Christ, Mohammed, Vishnu, Krishna or Jehovah? Who is keeping score? The game is obviously long from being over.

It is easy to sit in secular disdain of the inhumanity being inflicted on the world in the name of God, but the followers of mammon on Wall Street or Bay Street also have plenty of blood on their hands.

Inhumanity and intolerance seem to be one of the foundations of the human condition and certainly not the province or domain of any religion, or lack thereof.

One thing is plainly certain, however: as we become more technologically advanced, as the powers of the universe fall more and more to our hand, the room for intolerance between cultures shrinks ever smaller and the use of the sword in the name of religion brings us closer to our doom as a species.

That is the message that the pope was trying to get across to the world, and the violence which followed his words brutally makes his point.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Visitors discover Island honesty

A mistake that could have ruined a visit turned into a wonderful memory of Manitoulin

To the Expositor:

I have been coming to Manitoulin Island since 1948 as a small child, and I have always loved being there. Our family has a place on Lake Manitou, but for the past few years my husband and I have been staying at Northernaire Lodge in the western end of the Island. Because of that, we have spent more time in Gore Bay and Providence Bay areas and touring the western part of the Island.

During our stay in August, we shopped at the Co-op in Gore Bay, left there and drove off, not knowing I had dropped my wallet outside the store. When I discovered my wallet was missing, we drove back to Gore Bay and went to check to see if it was found. We really didn't expect to have anyone turn it in, but to our surprise, the wallet was in the manager's office.

Since credit cards, money and passports, as well as photo IDs were carried in the wallet, one can only imagine our relief. The woman who turned the wallet in to the office was still in the store, and the manager pointed her out to me. When I approached her to thank her, she insisted "it was nothing" and said she was glad she found it and that we came back to get it. She would not agree to taking a small reward, and I had to put some money in her basket to get her to accept my token of gratitude.

A mistake that could have ruined our visit turned into a wonderful memory of Manitoulin to add to all the rest from over the years.

Joan Shaver

Ruffsdale, Pennsylvania

Tire pile would make a fearsome candle

The inner spirit has to be developed to reflect values in the spirit and soul of a nation

To the Expositor:

That pile of tires at the West End of Manitoulin would make one fearsome candle if it were ignited. We need Dalton McGuinty's expertise and considered opinion in these Ontario Deliberations. All Canadians are wondering about the advisability of sponsoring the Canadian Foreign Legion in Afghanistan. They are not really being welcomed with open arms in their effort to export Canadian Democracy by force of arms. Perhaps what is needed is a regiment composed of Queen's Park bureaucracy who regulate the lottery gambling in Ontario to take all that expertise and transport it overseas where they can monitor how the camels chew their cud. I'm sure this would benefit the liberty-loving and free Canadians living as residents of Ontario.

If young Canadians are to benefit through a diversified, all-embracing cultural education so as to fully mature the individuality, creativity and self-identity of its human energy and collateral, we should adhere to and remember the old axiom-it takes a global community to raise a child.

There are at least 127 psychiatric designated terms for mental illness-not the least of which is the moral cowardice of those who flee when avian flu or chicken crap in the blood reduces them to the equivalent of a sanctimonious hypocrite. Faith without works is dead. It has been said an ostrich buries its head in the sand. Abraham Lincoln said it is not from without we have to fear it, is that from within. Creeping fascism destroys the individual by making it conform to the goose-stepping youth of regimented authority.

Local autonomy is taken away or surrendered to totalitarian rule-all life is a gamble. Perhaps the new or old lottery rules should be processed through the new water-purifying pumping facility and further processed by the data 'Quality Act' to see if it constitutionally qualifies as the True North, Strong and Free under the peace, order and good government, or life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness requirements.

Caledonia, the destruction of the Little Current bridge, the burning of Jewish Libraries, desecration of memorials and cemeteries are all symptoms of a society that has lost the touchstone of spiritual and ethical conduct. It is that from within the individuals that constitutes the spirit and soul of a person that has to be developed to reflect those values in the spirit and soul of a nation.

George W. Strain

Gore Bay