YELLOW QUILL RESERVE, Sask. -- A Saskatchewan community is preparing to say goodbye to two little girls who froze to death earlier this week.

But the Yellow Quill First Nation wants to do it without the media there.

Chief Robert Whitehead said yesterday they banned the media at the request of the family and the band's elders, to allow people time to mourn.

"A lot of times, our belief system's kind of overlooked when something like this happens. It's not respected, and therefore I think our young people are beginning to see that, nobody else respects it, why should we respect it?"

RCMP say the two girls were taken outside by their father early Tuesday morning and ended up freezing to death in a field by their home. .

Thursday, January 24

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SBA Business Matchmaker (Small Businesses)

The U.S. Small Business Administration, SCORE and Business First have teamed up to present the 3rd Annual Western New York Small Business Expo and Matchmaker event.

Included in your registration is the opportunity to take advantage of a FREE Pre-Matchmaker Training Session (Highly recommended). This Selling to the Government/Primes training session will take place Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the SBA's offices, Niagara Center, 130 South Elmwood Avenue, Suite 463, Buffalo, NY 14202.

The gluten-free phenomenon

Just when bread was starting to make a comeback after the low-carb craze, it has been hit with the gluten-free frenzy.

Hoards of people are giving up gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Yet the growing numbers of gluten avoiders are not only people with celiac disease--which was once dismissed as a rare condition but is now estimated to affect 1 out of every 100 Americans.

Gluten has become the dietary villain du jour, the new "carb," if you will.

Rail Transport 1991-2000

A fight flared up around Baltic Bank (OR owned 49.7% of the bank's shares), because Eurosib, which owned 24.5% of Baltic Bank's shares, had not repaid bank loans of $1.4 million and 55 billion rubles.

On May 14, Aleksandr Kuznetsov became head of the October Railway.

On May 27, the All-Russian Rate Convention and Conference of Railway Transport Service Users and Employees began. The "Support Agency" as railway men themselves called it, nevertheless became history: at the convention, Nikolai Aksensenko made the first announcement about the creation of private operating companies.

In July, President Yeltsin rescinded the decree " On the Creation of a High-Speed St. Petersburg-Moscow Main Passenger Line." The project departed this life, leaving Russian taxpayers with debts of $500 million.