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Teachers Surprised By Kwadacha Lifestyle
April 30, 2013
KWADACHA -- From Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to Kwadacha in northern B.C, schoolteacher Crystal Gatza is far removed from the kind of school she grew up with.
Geographically and philosophically, Gatza was raised on the tradition that teachers ruled the roost and if you didn't behave there'd be trouble at home when mom and dad found out. But as she learned soon after she arrived in this remote First Nations community 570 kilometres north of Prince George.

First Grad Eyes Return To Classroom
April 30, 2013
KWADACHA -- Right now, Angela Hocken is a language teacher at Aatse Davie school, but give her time.
Hocken, 26, has already made history in Kwadacha, a village of about 320 people located 570 kilometres north of Prince George. In 2006 she became the first student ever to receive a diploma from the school.

Rural Community Yearns For Power
May 1, 2013
KWADACHA - Kwadacha chief Donny Van Somer can't wait for the day when the diesel generator that supplies power to his village is permanently silenced. Van Somer lives in the remote First Nations settlement formerly known as Fort Ware and looks forward to the day he can buy locally-produced produce grown in village greenhouses heated year-round by a renewable source of energy.