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Article: Women's basketball squad support Aboriginal youth.(sports)(University of Manitoba Bisons)
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- Windspeaker
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- January 1, 2009
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Having fresh drinking water every day is something a vast majority of Canadians take for granted. But for those who attend Manitoba's Skownan First Nation School, their clean water comes via some corporate donations forged through a relationship with the Winnipeg-based University of Manitoba Bisons.
The university women's basketball squad has had a huge interest in the Aboriginal school, located four hours north of Winnipeg, since 2006 when some Bisons first visited it.
During a school visit last year, Bisons' head coach Pam Danis and her players discovered plastic bags had been placed over water fountains at the Aboriginal school as it was unsafe to ...