The Peninsula News Review is our small-time local newspaper. This last Friday, they put the Aboriginal Women’s Conference on the front page. I missed the AWC this year and was choked when I found out. Last year, I volunteered babysitting the kids, but really, I’ll help out any way I can for it next year if I’m around. It’s so important to make sure women are healthy:

The idea was, the women were the majority caregivers for the families and community, to honour that work and remind them to put themselves in the health picture…

So to promote the self-care, health and happiness of the aboriginal women of the community the daylong conference offers sessions including everything from card reading to blood pressure reading. A salsa dance session and new hairdos mingled with Quit Now campaign material and Coast Salish healing methods, presented as often as possible by people within the community, Sansregret said.

Nearly 200 preregistered for the annual conference which usually draws more than 250 women from Greater Victoria. Her Honour Gwendolyn Point, wife of Lieutenant Governor Steven Point was the keynote speaker and kicked off the conference with her own personal testament to how traditional ceremonies, fasting and sweat lodges have helped her live a healthy life. -Christine van Reeuwyk, news staff

Maybe next year they’ll have on-site testing for CD. Maybe next year that’ll by my booth.