Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation

For links to each of these, check out:

Mosquitoes and wild animals can carry West Nile—take simple steps to stay safe:

✅ Remove standing water around your home
✅ Wear long sleeves and use bug spray with DEET or Icaridin
✅ Never handle dead birds or animals with bare hands
✅ Report freshly dead crows, jays, magpies, large water fowl and raptor birds that you suspect to have West Nile to Community Health: 905-768-1181

For more prevention tips, click here.
Let’s stay safe and protect our community this summer! 🌿💧

Book a free 30-minute one-on-one massage session with a Registered Massage Therapist.

📅 Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
🕘 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
📍 Biskaabiidaa Healing Lodge
4136 Highway 6, Hagersville

✨ Open to MCFN Members

Registration deadline: Monday, August 17th by 4 p.m.

For more information or to register, please contact Tiffany Niece:
📧 tiffany.niece@mncfn.ca

The Ministry of Natural Resources is continuing its 2026 surveillance program to monitor Ontario’s deer, moose and other cervid populations for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal and untreatable disease that has been detected in neighbouring provinces and U.S. states.

Hunters can help support early detection by submitting eligible harvested deer for testing. During the 2026 hunting seasons, MNR crews will be conducting sampling in designated surveillance areas, including areas of Southern Ontario. Hunters may also be able to submit deer heads at ministry freezer depots, with locations to be announced in the fall.

Please review the attached fact sheet for information on CWD prevention, sampling, safe handling and what to do if you encounter a sick-appearing or strangely behaving cervid.

Questions or interested in providing samples? Contact Larissa Nituch at 705-313-2043 or Larissa.Nituch@ontario.ca.

Click here to view the 2026 CWD South Zone Sampling area.
Click here to view the 2026 CWD East Zone Sampling area.

For more information, visit Ontario.ca/CWD.

School supply gift cards will be available for Lloyd S. King Elementary students registered for the 2026–2027 school year, JK – Grade 8.

📅 Monday, August 24th – Friday, August 28th

🕗 8 a.m.–4 p.m.

📍 DoLL Portable, 659 New Credit Road

Registration forms will also be available at the portable for families who still need to register.

A week of activities, trips, sports, crafts, food and fun is coming up for MCFN youth!

📅 August 17th–21st, 2026

There are youth drop-ins throughout the week, plus several trips and activities with limited spaces. Registration is required for the activities on August 18th, 19th and 21st!

⏰ Registration deadline: Friday, August 14th at 4 p.m.

For registration or questions, please contact Darienne King at youth.council@mncfn.ca or 226-920-9439.

Are you a family member of David John “Jack” LaForme?

Jack was born in 1913 and was married to Mildred Laforme. They had two kids, David Jr. and Sally. He passed away on June 25, 1976 at age 63. His mother was Mary Jane Myke LaForme who passed in 1948 and one of his brothers was George Clifford LaForme who passed in 1999.

He doesn’t appear to have a grave marker and the Last Post Fund wants to change that.

Contact Maria Trujillo, Program Coordinator mtrujillo@lastpost.ca

Telephone: 1-800-465-7113; 222.

Since 1909, the Last Post Fund’s mission is to ensure that no Veteran is denied a dignified funeral and burial, as well as a military gravestone, due to insufficient funds at time of death.

Over 12,000 Indigenous people have served in the Canadian Armed Forces.

In keeping with the spirit of the ongoing Reconciliation process, The Last Post Fund (LPF) is eager to help commemorate and honour Indigenous Veterans through the Indigenous Veterans Initiative (IVI), launched in March 2019.

To view the pdf version of the newsletter, please click here.

UPDATE 8/7: This craft day will be paused until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience. Stay tuned for updates!

Join us for a hands-on craft day exploring tufting, a traditional Indigenous art form where participants create soft, 3D designs—like flowers, leaves, or animals—by stitching and shaping dyed hair into sculpted forms!

📅 Register by Tuesday, August 25th at 4 p.m.

To register or for more info, contact:

Chelsea King

📧 chelsea.king@mncfn.ca

If your student lives on-reserve and plans to take the high school bus this September, please complete and submit the Student Information Form as soon as possible so transportation arrangements can be finalized before the school year begins.

📄 Download the form here:
https://mncfn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HSUpdatedBusForm-2026_Fillable-NEW.pdf

Questions? Contact the Department of Lifelong Learning at 905-768-0516