First Light Facts
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Meet the SLT (Senior Leadership Team)
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Cultural Questions
100

This is at the centre of First Light’s strategy wheel

Culture and Community

100

This many spaces are licensed for our infant room (ages 0–2) at the Childcare Centre

6

100

This SLT member is very creative, and like to tell stories.

Heidi Dixon

100

This location is a temporary headquarters

70 brookfield road

100

The act of using medicines to cleanse negativity and bring in positivity and carry prayers to the Creator.

Smudging 

200

First Light has been serving the community for this many years

41

200

First Light currently operates this many housing units that currently have people living in them

15

200

This SLT likes to practise newfinese even though they are not originally from here.

Justin Campbell

200

This location that First Light currently owns, used to be a church.

4O Quidi Vidi/caledonia

200

The powwow occurs here every year, typically the first weekend in July. Also home to a few staff members.

Miapukek First Nation

300

First Light has this many vans dedicated to Medical Transportation 

4

300

This social enterprise works to support patients travelling in the city for medical appointments

The Lunar Inn

300

This person used to have a toothless weiner dog. 

Scott Whitten

300

This location was once told it had the oldest "rock garden" in St.Johns

716 Water Street

300

Type of stone that is typically used in carving because it is soft.

Soapstone

400

This person holds the position of Chair of the First Light Board of Director

Blair Benoit

400

This building that First Light currently owns and operates, used to be a residential home. First Light had a few challenges with NIMBY before being able to open.

The Childcare Centre on 97 Elizabeth Ave.

400

This SLT member has 2 pets, pineapple and blueberry

Stacey Howse

400

This location has a community garden directly behind it

36 Quidi Vidi, lunar inn

400

This game, played by Inuit, has a somewhat reference to a certain type of underwear.

Thong Pull

500

There are this many lawyers on the Board of Directors

2

500

This Indigenous artists' work is displayed on a giant canvas in the "red room"/green room at CPAC

Marcus Gosse

500

This SLT member used to own and operate a bar

Vicki Francis

500

This location is shared in partnership with B&G Club

Buckmaster

500

A word that is used to describe Innu people prior to contact (how they lived)

Nomadic

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