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"Jailed planner back at work Christmas Eve or no job", p. 1

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Jailed planner back at work Christmas Eve or no job by Lynda Powless - Editor A Six Nations planner serving a sentence for the death of a Buffalo University professor will be expected to return to work Christmas Eve or lose his job as a band planner. Sam Hill, who may become the first aboriginal inmate in Ontario to be transferred to the care of his community, will be required to return to work Dec., 24, or lose his job. The move came after Six Nations band councillor David Green quipped, "If you do the crime, you have to do the time." Six Nations Director of Operations Cynthia Jamieson asked band council to extend Hill's original six-month-leave of without pay, after learning he may be transferred to Six Nations this month. Hill was sentenced to three-and-a-­half years in prison in July after pleading guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing death in connection with a head-on collision on the QEW in Burlington last year. He is currently serving his sentence at Beaver Creek, a minimum security prison at Gravenhurst, Ont. Green and Councillor Wendy (Continued on page 2)

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