The Labrador Winter Games Coordinators in Nain and Postville are practising for the games.
It will be held from March 12-18 in Happy Valley Goose Bay this year.
Kelly Edmunds is the Coordinator for Team Nain.
She says that the team has been picked and will be using the school gym and the Jeremias Sillitt Community Centre gym to do their practices and drills.
She also says they didn’t have as much support in fundraising, but are still trying to reach their budget goal, and out of town athletes in the team are doing their own training and fundraising.
Edmunds adds Team Nain would like to thank those who helped support and couldn’t do it without them with their funds.
Kayla Andersen is the coordinator in Postville.
She says they have nine males and nine females on their team including Andersen.
The team have their practices once a week. The Recreation Department are very accommodating to the athletes.
They have sports in the evening so they can practice playing volleyball, badminton, table tennis and darts. Team members out of town are practicing on their own time.
Outdoor sports can be practiced on their own free time or go to scheduled practices assigned by Andersen as well.
They had their clothing and registration sponsored by the Inland Resource Trust fund and the Postville Inuit Community Government sponsored their vehicle rent.
In the next few weeks, they will start doing their fundraising.
We will have Hopedale, Makkovik and Rigolet Coordinators next week.