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. .

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The company's "Health and Wellness" website pictures a smiling family in tennis shoes and workout clothes enjoying a brisk walk. All are consuming Pepsi products. Dad is drinking a can of Pepsi. Grandma is toting a bag of Lay's potato chips. Aside from the questionable workout, we're left to wonder: When did Pepsi become an advocate for health?

Marsha Holmberg, a food editor at the Oregonianwho flew in from Portland, says too many Americans have become culinary illiterates, convinced by television commercials that processed food is nutritious. "Nobody thinks they have the time to cook," Holmberg says. "They think it's complicated. In reality, it takes as much time to make from a mix as it does to make from scratch. It's an illusion that food preparation takes time."

At the convention's bookstore, neat rows of dietitian guidebooks -- with covers of colorful fruit and vegetables, alongside the occasional whole grain cereal or wheat stalk -- lined the booths.

Janet Lince

Janet Lincé is Musical Director of the Reading Festival Chorus, Oxford University Press Choir and the chamber choir Choros, as well as co-director with Sarah Tenant-Flowers of the newly-formed choir Encoro. She has also worked with several orchestras including London Concertante, Oxford Sinfonia, Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra and the period instrument group Canzona.

Janet has a particular interest in the period instrument performance of the music of JS Bach and his contemporaries. However, her repertoire also includes the major oratorios such as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Brahms's Requiem, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony. Performances have included less well-known works such as Britten's The company of Heaven, the Choral Fantasia of Gustav Holst and Janácek's Otcenas, as well as newly commissioned works.