Tuesday, October 25, 2022, the OKalaKatiget Society will celebrate their 40th Anniversary.

There has been many hurdles in the last forty years, but also many good years.

During those years we have suffered Budget cuts, loss of a building due to fire, a flood, COVID-19 and the latest is definitely staff shortages.

Tomorrow, we celebrate, and ask you all to join us by tuning in to CKOK radio.

We will give out forty cold plates for our Nain audience as well as many T-shirt draws for all our listening audience from Nain to Goose Bay, if you correctly answer our trivia questions and other quizzes.

So, between the hours of 1pm to 4pm, please remember to tune in.

The Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project are partnered with the Nunatsiavut Government, also run through Ocean frontiers with Dalhousie University.

We spoke with Veleska is the project communications coordinator with the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project.

She also adds that Kate Ortenzi also is here in Nain, she is working on the GoPro project.

If anyone is interested in borrowing the GoPro’s during their fishing and hunting season, you are welcome to do so. You can pop by the Research center or give them a phone call @ 922-2502.

Click here to hear more from Veleska.

The OKâlaKatiget Society has many employment opportunities for the positions of a full-time permanent Executive Director, Radio Producer andTelevision Producers.

Under the direction of the Board of Directors, the Executive Director co-ordinates all administrative and policy activity to ensure that the OKâlaKatiget Society meets its goals and objectives.

The Radio Producer prepares news, current affairs for daily broadcast on the Society’s radio network and the salary will be dependant on qualifications.

The television producer films and produces television shows for broadcast via APTN.

For more information or if you would like to apply, you can call our office at 922-2955.

Gas price Analyst anticipates high cost of diesel and home heating oil throughout the winter.

The high oil costs have been proven to be a windfall for the provincial Government, but it is going to be a rough winter for those who use oil.

Furnace oil actually went down 5 cents a litre yesterday, but industry watcher Dan McTeague said that we’re in short supply of that family of distillates which includes diesel, furnace and stove oil and jet fuel.

McTeague said inventories of those are low. It is a 60% below the 5 year average which is dangerous territory, he sees a $3 for a litre of diesel come January to February.

The Nunatsiavut Status of Women’s office is looking for seal skin mitt making instructors.

Instructors are needed in: Rigolet, Makkovik, Postville, Nain, Hopedale.

If you are interested, please contact your local DHSD office, to leave your name, by Monday, October 24th, 2022.

Sewing, socializing and supporting – a woman’s evening out!

The Nunatsiavut Government would like to highlight and commend the tremendous efforts of those who provide safe, nurturing and supportive homes for foster children to grow, develop and flourish. The contributions of foster parents have positive long-term impacts a child’s life by allowing them to remain connected to family, community and culture.

October is Foster Families Month, and the Nunatsiavut Government is celebrating by hosting appreciation events, by special invitation only, to honour foster parents in the five Labrador Inuit communities as well as Upper Lake Melville.

Events were held in Rigolet and Postville earlier this week. Events will take place at the Nanuk Centre in Hopedale on Tuesday, October 25 from 4-6pm, and at the JS Centre in Nain on Thursday, October 27 from 4-6pm.

The Nunatsiavut Government also extends congratulations to the Newfoundland and Labrador Foster Families Association as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. The association assists the Nunatsiavut Government in supporting and recruiting foster parents.

The Nunatsiavut Government aims to support and recruit new foster families through the Caring for our Children Project, a supportive service available in the Labrador Inuit Settlement Area and Upper Lake Melville. To learn more about this program, please contact Kerry Davis at 896-5828.

The provinces Chief of Health Medical Officer, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says easing some of the isolation restrictions due to the evolving evolution of the virus.

She says there have been dramatically different sub-lineages for the Omicron that first emerged in late 2021.

That means that some of the restrictions surrounding self-isolation for those with COVID-19 symptoms and who have to test have changed.

Effective Monday, if you develop systems and you test negative but your systems persist, you can test again in 48 hours. That is a reduction from the original 72 hours previously required.

In the meantime, anyone with symptoms, regardless of a positive or negative test result, must isolate at home until the results have resolved for 24 hours. People should also wear masks in public until 10 days after the systems first started, even if the symptoms have resolved.

Th Moderna bivalent vaccine, which protects against the Omicron variants is now being administered throughout the province, but the new Pfizer bivalent will be available starting, Friday, October 28, for anyone 12 years or older.

Both vaccines are equally effective says Fitzgerald and people are being asked to accept which ever vaccine is offered.

The JS Community Centre in Nain is holding activities for Halloween this year.

Lisa Ivany is the Recreation Director with the Nain Inuit Community Government.

She says they have youth who are already signed up for sleepover and Movie Marathon that will be going ahead tonight.

On Monday and Tuesday, October 24 and 25th, they will be having candy apple making for ages 13-16.

Click here to hear more from Ivany on the Halloween activities.

There are five more people dead from COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the latest numbers from the province’s Health Department.

Which raises the provincial death toll to 253 people since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

According to Wednesday afternoon’s weekly update, four of the deaths were in the Eastern Health region, and the fifth was in the Central Health region. One person was in their 60s, one was in their 70s, and the other three were 80 or over.

The number of people in hospital because of the virus dropped by one since last week, down to nine, with one person in critical care.

Health officials have also confirmed 224 new cases of the virus in the province, but because of strict limits on who’s eligible for testing by Public Health, that number is not an accurate reflection of the presence or spread of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

We’ve contacted the coastal community freezers once again to see what they have to offer the public.

In the Nain community freezer, they have seal, char and mattak.

The Hopedale community freezer has musk ox, and Postville freezer has salmon

The Makkovik community freezer has cod fish, smoke char and fresh char.

We will have Rigolet community freezer once it becomes available.

Please note that the community freezer is open to everybody who lives in the community and is open from Monday-Friday from 8:30am-4:30pm.