Saturday Special: Millionaires safe at home
The Fontaines take care of Sagkeeng, and vice versa
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This article was published 11/12/2009 (6088 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SAGKEENG FIRST NATION – Drive into any small town and you can expect second looks and cool, measuring glances. Drive into Sagkeeng and you’ll get open appraisal salted with suspicion.
That’s what $50 million can do to a place.
The people of Sagkeeng have become media savvy. They were already tightknit the way places are where everyone has one of only a dozen last names and everyone seems to be some kind of cousin to everyone else.
They grew even tighter, more protective, after Kirby and Marie Fontaine — two of the nicest people you ever met, according to many here — won the lottery.
Mostly, reserve residents want to protect the Fontaines’ privacy. They like these people, and they like what they’re doing with some of their windfall.
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