Men’s program reaches milestone meeting

Miles General, on left, and Austin Staats are co-founders of the 7Sticks Men’s Mental Health and Addictions Circle. (Photo courtesy Miles General.)

By Sam Laskaris Writer A milestone event will be held at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena (ILA) on Wednesday night. The 100th meeting of the 7Sticks Men’s Mental Health and Addictions Circle will be held at the Six Nations arena. The group was co-founded in 2024 by a pair of individuals well known in local lacrosse circles, Miles General and Austin Staats. Those in the program meet once a week, for two hours on Wednesday nights, inside one of the ILA dressing rooms. “We use lacrosse as a platform,” General said. “And we call it 7Sticks because of the concept of our seven generations that’s with our Iroquois people. And so that’s why we incorporated that into it. It’s just to help provide an alternative pathway to healing for all of…

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