Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak today for a few minutes about an event that is going to be taking place in Hay River this weekend. We have a Youth Resource Center in Hay River, which is managed by a local youth council in conjunction with the Soaring Eagle Friendship Center. They have been funded for a number of years by some programs under the federal government and they are uncertain of their future. So some very well known musicians in the Northwest Territories have agreed to come to Hay River and put on a performance on Saturday night, which would raise funds and the proceeds would go directly to the Youth Resource Center in Hay River.

The Youth Resource Center performs a very important function in the community. It provides tutoring for students after school and has a fitness center and many other activities that give our youth something to do other than hanging out, perhaps getting into mischief that they shouldn't. So, it does provide a very worthwhile cause for people to get behind and get involved in. I would like to thank people like George Tuccaro and John Tees and John Landry, Pat Burke, Paul Andrew, Premier Kakfwi, Commissioner Hansen, quite a number of well known Northern performers that will be coming to Hay River on Saturday to have a jam session in the afternoon with the youth and then put on a performance for the public in the evening.

So, anyone in Hay River who is watching this, Mr. Speaker, I encourage them to come out, it's well worthwhile for the $12 ticket, and also I would like to invite my colleagues who happen to be in the South Slave this weekend to join us for this. We hope to be able to hand a fair amount over to the youth center. I also would like to thank the youth who named the music festival Northern Friends, and who also have been out distributing posters and selling tickets and very involved, not just waiting for somebody to do something for them, but getting actively involved themselves in fundraising. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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