'Society should be horrified;' 15-year-old found dead in Winnipeg river

By Chinta Puxley and Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press


Yahoo Canada News/Winnipeg Police Service - The body of Tina Fontaine, 15, was found on Sunday (Handout)

WINNIPEG - Officers are investigating the slaying of a 15-year-old aboriginal girl from rural Manitoba whose body was found wrapped in a bag and dumped in the Red River after she ran away from her foster home.

Police on Monday identified the girl as Tina Fontaine, who was in the care of Child and Family Services and was reported missing Aug 9.

Winnipeg police Sgt. John O'Donovan said Tina had only been in Winnipeg for a month, but was rebelling and had run away. Described as five-foot-three-inches tall and weighing only about 100 pounds, she was last seen in the city's downtown Aug. 8. She was wearing a white skirt, blue jacket and pink-and-white runners.

Her body was pulled from the river Sunday.

"At 15, I'm sure she didn't realize the danger that she was putting herself in," O'Donovan told a news conference.

"She's a child. This is a child that's been murdered. Society would be horrified if we found a litter of kittens or pups in the river in this condition. This is a child.

"Society should be horrified."

Thelma Favel and her husband had been caring for Tina for about 10 years. Favel is Tina's great aunt, but added Tina called her mama.

Favel had also cared for Tina's father, Eugene Fontaine, for many years, and when he was diagnosed with cancer, he asked her to look after his children.

"He asked me and my husband if we would look after his kids seeing that he lived with us for so long when he was younger, and he said he knew the kids would have a good home and food to eat all the time."

Favel said the last time she saw Tina was July 1, when she took her to Winnipeg to visit her biological mother. Tina had run away a few times starting last summer.

"She ran away twice and then she sort of settled down and she went back to school and she was doing so good," Favel said, sobbing.

Favel said Tina called her sister Sarah about a week and a half ago.

"The last time her sister heard from her, she told her, 'Tell mama and papa I love them, I miss them, but I'm not ready to go home yet."

No arrests have been made, O'Donovan said. Investigators are calling on anyone who saw Fontaine in the last 10 days, or who knows what happened to her, to contact police.

Fontaine, who had just turned 15, had a history of running away, but O'Donovan said police knew roughly where she went each time she was previously reported missing.

Police aren't saying how Fontaine died or whether she was sexually assaulted, but O'Donovan said she was already dead by the time her body was dumped in the river.

"The autopsy has been conducted and it's obvious that this child didn't put herself in the river in that condition," he said. "It's something that we're going to hold back on and we're not going to get into exactly how this girl died."

There are only a handful of people who know how Fontaine died, including those responsible for her death, he said.

"She's definitely been exploited and taken advantage of, murdered and put into the river in this condition," O'Donovan said. "Somebody may have seen her. We would like to talk to anybody who has seen her."

Last week, Manitoba unveiled a monument to almost 1,200 missing and murdered aboriginal women. The two-metre-high granite statue stands just by the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in downtown Winnipeg.

In May, the RCMP issued a detailed statistical breakdown of 1,181 cases since 1980. The report said aboriginal women make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, yet account for 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women.

Also on Sunday, the body of a man was pulled from the river near a north-end park. That man has not been publicly identified, but police say the death is not suspicious.

Police have not identified the man, but several Winnipeg media outlets reported Monday night that a family member said the man was Faron Hall, also known as the "Homeless Hero."

Hall received national media attention for saving two people from the Red River on separate occasions in 2009.

Ted Nugent: Native Americans Are ‘Unclean Vermin’ Who Don’t ‘Qualify As People’

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/07/23/ted-nugent-native-americans-are-unclean-vermin-who-dont-qualify-as-people/


AUTHOR: STEPHEN D FOSTER JR

In response to Idaho Native Americans canceling one of his performances, Ted Nugent displayed the behavior that caused the tribe to do so in the first place.

Nugent had been scheduled to perform a concert at Couer D’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho on Aug. 4, but it was canceled after tribal officials were made aware of the racism Nugent has spewed over the years. The conservative rocker didn’t take the news very well, of course, and went on a discuting rant during an interview with Gannett Wisconsin Media in which he called those who canceled the concert “unclean vermin” who aren’t real people.

“I take it as a badge of honor that such unclean vermin are upset by me and my positive energy,” Nugent hatefully said. “By all indicators, I don’t think they actually qualify as people, but there has always been a lunatic fringe of hateful, rotten, dishonest people that hate happy, successful people.”

To be blunt, it sounds like Nugent is talking about himself considering the racist remarks he has made about President Obama in recent years. 

The Idaho Native Americans who made the decision to cancel the concert did so precisely because of how hateful, dishonest, and rotten ‘The Motor City Madman’ is. 

We’re talking about a man who crapped his pants to avoid serving in Vietnam, a man who married a teen girl he was the legal guardian of just so he could have sex with her, a man who has called for the execution of Democrats and the President of the United States, and a man who has made racist comment after racist comment.

Native Americans are not only people, they’re the first people and original inhabitants of North America. Their ancient culture has played a large role in shaping America, and it’s because of hateful bigoted people like Nugent that Native Americans have been nearly wiped out.

This isn’t the first time Nugent has been stopped from performing a concert. Earlier this year, a town in Texas actually paid him $16,000 to stay away from them, and it’s amazing that more towns don’t do the same thing. 

But if the Couer D’Alene tribe wants a real rock star to perform at their casino, I suggest asking rock legend Tom Petty. Not only will they get to see a better show, they’ll get a better human being.

Second casino cancels Ted Nugent's shows

Janet Kim and Travis Pittman, KING-TV, Seattle

TACOMA, Wash. -- Emerald Queen Casino will cancel two Ted Nugent concerts that were scheduled August 2 and 3, citing racist remarks made by the singer.

Puyallup Tribe officials said they also received threats from community members who demanded the casino cancel his shows.

The Washington tribe's action comes days after the Coeur d'Alene Tribe cancelled Nugent's August 4 shows at its Idaho casino because of the rocker's "racist and hate-filled remarks."

The Idaho tribe said Monday it booked Nugent without realizing he espoused "racist attitudes and views." The tribe did not detail which of Nugent's specific views it opposes.

Nugent in the past has referred to President Barack Obama as a "subhuman mongrel." Nugent later apologized "for using the street fight terminology," but he maintained that Obama was a "liar" violating the Constitution.

USATODAY

Tribe cancels Ted Nugent show, cites 'racist' views

Officials for Nugent's music management company were out of the office on Monday and not available for comment.

But Nugent defended himself on Tuesday on Radio.com. Nugent said his music has been influenced by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he has paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. in his songs, and that lyrics in his song Great White Buffalo are not racist toward Native Americans.

Nugent also told Radio.com he's the target of an "army assigned to destroy Ted Nugent."

"I am so good at advancing the most politically incorrect policies in the world," the rocker said. "I have been involved in upgrading our Second Amendment rights in all 50 states, so we the people can in fact keep and bear arms…the left hates that. ... I have expanded and increased hunting opportunities all across the globe. So I am able to, dare I say, perfectly articulate my case — they are not."

(Contributing: Associated Press)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/07/24/ted-nugent-washington-casino-cancels-shows/13133233/

Chief Dan George

“May the stars carry your sadness away, 
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.”

― Chief Dan George (Geswanouth Slahoot) Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh


One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

Chief Dan George


When Christ said that man does not live by bread alone, he spoke of a hunger. This hunger was not the hunger of the body. It was not the hunger for bread. He spoke of a hunger that begins deep down in the very depths of our being. He spoke of a need as vital as breath. He spoke of our hunger for love.

Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world...

But with love, we are creative. With it, we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

Chief Dan George

Lament for Confederation

"How long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred years. And many, many seelanum more. And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, Oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land.

For I have known you when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat and my clothing. I have known you in your streams and rivers where your fish flashed and danced in the sun, where the waters said 'come, come and eat of my abundance.' I have known you in the freedom of the winds. And my spirit, like the winds, once roamed your good lands.

But in the long hundred years since the white man came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously out to sea. The white man's strange customs, which I could not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe.

When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy. When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority.

My nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains. I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, and when I drank your fire-water, I got drunk - very, very drunk. And I forgot.

Oh Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred years? Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my beautiful forests? For the canned fish of my rivers? For the loss of my pride and authority, even among my own people? For the lack of my will to fight back? No! I must forget what's past and gone.

Oh God in heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs. Let me wrestle with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on.

Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success-his education, his skills- and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.

Before I follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh Canada, I shall see these things come to pass. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of our great land.

So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations."

Chief Dan George's speech Lament for Confederation on Canada's 100th year "birthday"

Yesterday marked the 147th birthday of Canada's Confederation.

Below, is a speech made by Chief Dan George at Empire Stadium marking Canada's 100th birthday on July 1, 1967.

There is also an active link.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+This+history+July+1967/6876736/story.html

This day in history: July 1, 1967

 VANCOUVER SUN JULY 1, 2013 

On Canada's 100th birthday, Chief Dan George silenced a crowd of 32,000 with his 'Lament for Confederation' at Empire Stadium.

Photograph by: Glenn Baglo , Vancouver Sun file photo

On Canada's 100th birthday, Chief Dan George silenced a crowd of 32,000 with his "Lament for Confederation" at Empire Stadium. George's mournful speech began with, 

"Today, when you celebrate your hundred years, oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land."

George - chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band in North Vancouver - was also an author, poet and an Academy Award nominated actor. 

But above all, he was an activist and an influential speaker on the rights of native peoples of North America. 

Some of this activism may have stemmed from the fact that, at the age of five, George was placed in a residential school where his First Nations language and culture were prohibited. 

His "Lament for Confederation" - a scathing indictment of the appropriation of native territory by white colonists - was his most famous speech.

What follows is the complete text:

Lament for Confederation

How long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred years. And many, many seelanum more. And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, Oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land.

For I have known you when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat and my clothing. I have known you in your streams and rivers where your fish flashed and danced in the sun, where the waters said 'come, come and eat of my abundance.' I have known you in the freedom of the winds. And my spirit, like the winds, once roamed your good lands.

But in the long hundred years since the white man came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously out to sea. 

The white man's strange customs, which I could not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe.

When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy. When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority.

My nation was ignored in your history textbooks - they were little more important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains. 

I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, and when I drank your fire-water, I got drunk - very, very drunk. And I forgot.

Oh Canada, how can I celebrate with you this Centenary, this hundred years? 

Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my beautiful forests? 

For the canned fish of my rivers? 

For the loss of my pride and authority, even among my own people? 

For the lack of my will to fight back? No! I must forget what's past and gone.

Oh God in heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs. Let me wrestle with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on.

Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success-his education, his skills- and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.

Before I follow the great chiefs who have gone before us, Oh Canada, I shall see these things come to pass. 

I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of our great land.

So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations.

                                           -------------------------------------

Native Apology

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/white-people-heres-your-one-time-canada-day-special-native-people-apologize-back/article4382016/

White people, here's your one-time Canada Day special: Native people apologize back!

DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR - Jun. 30 2012

Canada Day has always been a mixed bag for Canada's native people. It makes us think of many things: patriotism, flags, sunburned cottagers, barbeques and exploding fireworks. That's the good stuff.

For some, though, it's a reminder that it was four years ago when Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to the first nations, Inuit and Métis inhabitants of this country for the imposition and effects of the infamous residential-school system.

Since then, much has been said and written about that apology: Did it go far enough? Too little too late? What's next? That is something I am afraid only educated, wealthy white men in positions of power can decide.

However, some in the native community feel that perhaps we are being a little lax in not issuing an apology of our own.

We are not without some culpability. In the centuries that have passed since that fateful day of contact, we ourselves have been negligent and irresponsible in not acknowledging our liability in many regretful incidents and events in the past.

So in the spirit of cooperation, I would like to offer up these apologies to the people of Canada on behalf of the NAFNIP (native/aboriginal/first nations/indigenous people):

We hereby apologize for being so inconsiderate as to occupy land that, one day, your people would want. Even though we did not have a postal system or an Internet, this was an inexcusable oversight. We hope you are enjoying it.

We apologize for having so many politically correct and incorrect names for you to call us - everything from native to aboriginal to first nations to wagon burner to status-card number 48759375876-1.

In retrospect, to make things easier for you, we should have stayed in India, where we were originally thought to have come from. Unfortunately today it is really hard to get decent palak paneer on the reserve.

We hereby apologize for not understanding the subtle connections between God, children and sexual abuse. Some are still struggling with appreciating this association.

They are forgetting that, early in the Bible, it says, "Let there be white. And it was good."

We apologize for wanting rights to minerals and other natural resources that exist beneath our feet. When you negotiated for our land, you meant to the Earth's core.

We did not fully comprehend that when we were put on reserves where our rights to the land only went two or three feet below the surface.

Anything that falls down a sewer grate basically belongs to the Federal Government.

We apologize for being so concerned about the disappearances of so many native women.

We did not realize that the professional attitude of most law-enforcement agencies towards this issue was basically "out of sight, out of mind." From now on, we'll report any native women that go missing as white women with dark tans. That should speed up response time.

No need to thank us.

We hereby apologize for straining the Canadian health system due to our propensity towards diseases like diabetes. I know it has been said we put the word "die" in diabetes, but being introduced to all that Kraft Dinner and potato chips was definitely worth giving up the steady diet of salmon and deer.

I am sure the vegetarians are happy.

We apologize for launching so many land claims against the federal and provincial governments. One of our most ancient teachings tells us it is our sacred responsibility to make sure as many lawyers as possible are fed and looked after.

Where would they be without us?

We hereby apologize for wanting autonomy from the Federal bureaucracy of the DIA (Department of Indian Affairs). ... Wait a minute, make that DIAND (Department of Indian and Northern Development). ... Sorry, but I think it's now called INAC (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada). ... No, I have just been informed the Ministry's official name is now AANDC - short for Aboriginal Affairs Northern Development Canada. ... Now I forget what my original point was.

And though it had nothing to do with us, we are sorry for obvious reasons for the unique acronym of a once-testy office known as the Government of Ontario Native Affairs Directorate.

Finally, and perhaps most of all, we apologize for helping Canada/Great Britain win the War of 1812 against the Americans. There are many in the native community who feel Barack Obama would be a far more interesting leader than Mr. Harper.

But in our defence, who could have guessed?

Drew Hayden Taylor is a playwright and filmmaker who lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario.

 

National disgrace? Marlene Bird attacked, burned but not national news Re post and follow up to this story

Jo Ann Lawrence | June 13, 2014

First Nations woman Marlene Bird will have both legs amputated

A YWCA director wants to know why a horrific attack June 1 on First Nations woman Marlene Bird in the northern Saskatchewan city of Prince Albert isn’t national news.

Marlene Bird

Marlene Bird, First Nations woman and victim of a vicious assault June 1 in Prince Albert, Sask. Photo: 

Handout.

Marlene Darlene Bird was assaulted and burned in an attack outside a community centre in the city of 35,000 that is home to a large aboriginal population. The aunt of the homeless woman says her niece has been upgraded to stable condition.

Lorna Thiessen said that Marlene Bird was to have her second leg amputated on Thursday because it was “burned to the bone.”

Thiessen said Bird is in a critical burn unit and has extensive burns all over her body and has had several skin grafts.

Marlene Bird, who is 47, was first taken to hospital in Prince Albert, then transferred to Saskatoon and then to Edmonton’s University of Alberta Hospital.

Prince Albert YWCA executive director Donna Brooks said it’s appalling that Bird’s story hasn’t received attention outside of Prince Albert.

“If this attack would have happened to a middle class woman in a suburban Toronto neighbourhood, I guarantee you it would have been on the national news, I guarantee you that,” she said.

“But, because it happened in Prince Albert, it happened to an aboriginal woman who is a part of the homeless community, because of all those factors I don’t think it received the media attention it should.”

Police continue to investigate and have asked anyone with video surveillance footage of the area where Marlene Bird was found to hand it over to them.

Marlene Bird is conscious and Thiessen said she has been speaking, but is heavily sedated most of the time.

“When she comes out, she’s going to need living accommodations, she’s going to need support for probably prosthetics, and probably maybe a scooter, or things in that line.”

She said Marlene Bird will also need a place to live and a support system around her.

YWCA staff is collecting letters of support and financial donations for Bird and her family, and has mailed the first batch to her in Edmonton.

“It’s very important to show her that she matters, that what has happened to her has saddened a lot of people in our community and that she is important and there are a lot of people who care about her,” Brooks said.

The Edmonton YWCA has also stepped up by helping Bird’s family during their stay in the Alberta city.

On June 6, more than 100 people marched through downtown Prince Albert in Bird’s honour and against violence. 

The march culminated in a prayer at the spot where Marlene Bird was found.

With file from the Canadian Press

Marlene Bird’s mother asks for prayers for daughter

By Thia James

paNOW Staff

The family of Marlene Bird gathered in Prince Albert on Thursday for a march against violence affecting women and men in the community.

On hand, but unable to take part in the walk itself was Bird’s mother, 77 year old Jane Toles, who family members said has a heart condition. Members of the family have travelled from Saskatchewan to Edmonton, where Bird remains in the University of Alberta Hospital recovering from a brutal attack that resulted in a double leg amputation and left her in need of facial reconstruction surgery and skin grafts.

On June 1, Bird was burned and assaulted and left in the 1200 block of First Avenue West, where police found her.

“I’d like to know if they [the public] can pray for her to get well,” Toles said after the Honouring Our Sisters and Brothers Memorial Walk on Thursday afternoon. “That’s what I’m hoping for. That’s all.”

She has been out to Edmonton twice to see her daughter since she was transferred to the burn unit in Edmonton from Saskatoon. She had plans to return either later that day or on Friday.

"It’s bad for me. I can’t stay in that room too long to see her and stay there for a little while [with the] nurses,” she said.

Toles said she hasn’t been doing too well since her daughter was assaulted. “Thinking too much.”

She said her two younger sisters, Lorna Thiessen, and Rosella Carney, have been helping her.

Carney, 70, said members of Bird’s family are still very hurt about what happened to her and are very emotional. 

She said it’s very hard for them to handle that.

She said it’s affecting her sister, Marlene’s mother. 

“There’s a lot of stress emotionally, and physically, mentally. Stress that’s upon her.”

Carney said there have been a lot of people supporting Toles, giving her hugs and praying with her, “and trying to bring her out; not always dwelling on the problem, but her well-being as well, to try to be, you know, as cheerful as she can.”

Carney herself will be heading to Edmonton on Friday. Carney lives outside of La Ronge in Molanosa, Sask. with her husband and cares for her granddaughter. She said she isn’t visiting as often now because her niece needs rest.

“I’m just kind of hoping that there’ll be a time when she can talk, because as of now, she’s not talking. So, I’d like to talk with her and hear her talk.”

When she first visited Bird, she spoke to her and let her know that she was there, not knowing if she would here. 

She said her niece opened one of her eyes and nodded her head when asked if she could see Carney.

“So, I said, ‘I just came to tell you I love you.’ And she kind of moved her lips.”

When Carney first heard about her niece’s assault, she was en route to Prince Albert. She received a phone call from Bird’s sister, Shirley.

“And that was a sudden thing, because I’m behind the wheel and I get this message from her sister and she’s crying and says Marlene was assaulted and she’s in Saskatoon, got her foot amputated and she’s going on and on, and it was hard for me to comprehend all this and soak it in. And even when I arrived in PA, I’m saying ‘what are all those yellow ribbons doing over there.’ It didn’t occur to me that this is where it happened.”

She described her disbelief and heavy heart after she heard the news. She said Shirley and Marlene were close, and their two other sisters died years before.

Carney said Shirley sent her a text the day before Thursday’s walk, saying that Marlene is her “only sister.”

“She’s taking it very hard. She was close to Marlene.”

Marlene and Shirley Bird’s sisters died after struggling with alcohol abuse, according to Carney. “There’s this bondage that’s been passed on from the generational curses of the forefathers of alcoholism that’s been passed on and usually nobody can do anything about it unless God breaks this curse of bondage.”

Carney’s nephew, Earl Clarke, who is also a cousin of Bird, hasn’t been out to see her, but has known her for years. He said that she had alcohol addictions, but she never had a bad word to say about anyone.

He said his cousin was friendly all the time. “Maybe that’s part of the problem. You know, maybe she got to know the wrong people.”

Carney said her sisters, Thiessen and Toles, have told her that Bird is doing better and they couldn’t see the stitches in her face anymore. The swelling has also gone down.

“In spite of that, I don’t know how really she’s taking it because she [has] her legs missing. But I believe she’s grateful to be alive, because by the grace of God, she’s alive.”

The family hasn’t had a lot of discussion about the plan for Bird’s care after she leaves the hospital, and Carney said everything is up in the air for family members.

“It’s a daily thing, like daily planning. We can only live for today. We don’t know what tomorrow holds.”

More support for Marlene Bird

Organizers of the Facebook group “A Day for Marlene” are encouraging communities to come together on July 12 and have a “massive day of fundraising.”

In Calgary, there will be a fundraising event on June 27 aimed at raising money towards a wheelchair for Bird. 

As well, La Ronge resident JC Fafard will be donating one of his classic cars for an auction in which all of the proceeds will go towards the YWCA’s fund for Marlene Bird.

tjames@panow.com

On Twitter: @thiajames
 

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Note: 

Please remember Marlene in your prayers.

If you would like to send Marlene a card or a note, here is the address.

University of Alberta Hospital - 8440 112 Street 

NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2B7 

Telephone: 780-407-8822.