Students from along the coast will be joining in the sports meet once again.

Nicole McLean is the athletic director for the sports meet at Amos Comenius Memorial school in Hopedale.

She says it will be going ahead from October 13 to the 16th, 2022 with students participating from Nain, Natuashish, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik and Rigolet schools.

With the COVID numbers rising, McLean would like to encourage those attending to wear a mask, sanitize, and physically distance as best way possible.

Click here to hear more from McLean on this upcoming event.

The OKâlaKatiget Society has a job ad for the position of a full-time permanent Executive Director.

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 successful applicant should have:

• A degree in Journalism or related education and work experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• High degree of self-motivation and interest in current Labrador issues
• Ability to speak and understand Inuttitut a major asset

The salary range will start at $57,000 and will commensurate with experience.

The deadline for applications is Thursday, October 6, 2022 at noon and can be sent to:

OKâlaKatiget Society
PO Box 160, Nain NL
A0P 1L0

Or by email at rutie.dicker@nuntsiavut.com.

The public is invited by Noreen Careen, Labrador Grenfell Health Chair of the Board of Trustees and Heather Brown, President and CEO to attend Labrador Grenfell Health AGM at 9am on Sunday, September 25 this year.

The meeting will be hosted in person at the Lawrence O-Brian Town Centre on 11 Branch Road in L’Anse Au Loup and online Microsoft Teams. Details will be posted at www.lghealth.ca/agm.

At the AGM, Labrador Grenfell Health will share strategic priority accomplishments and challenges, financial information, and partnerships highlights from the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

The Nunatsiavut Government is seeking bids from qualified contractors to complete civil works for a new regional education building at 13 Seaview Crescent in the Inuit community of Makkovik.

The civil works comprises of general clearing, grubbing, trenching, and rough grading of the site, and further works as identified and outlined in the tender documents.

Full project details can be found on MERX Canadian public tenders at www.merx.com

Bids are to be submitted electronically through MERX no later than 2pm on October 12, 2022.

Inquires to be emailed to Terry Rice, Capital Projects Coordinator at terry.rice@nunatsiavut.com (c.c infra.ngprocurement@nunatsiavut.com) with subject line Regional education building Makkovik – site preparation.

The lowest-cost or any tender may not necessarily be accepted, and the Nunatsiavut Government reserves the right to cancel this RFT.

Proposals will be evaluated of the Inuit content factor pursuant to the procurement act.

Nanilavut is outing out a call to artists for expressions of interest to create an art piece as part of their initiative to honour Inuit in Nunatsiavut who never returned form being away for Tuberculosis treatment.

Nanilavut is looking for artists to create one piece of art to be displayed in locations where Inuit are buried including Cartwright, Northwest River, Goose Bay, St. John’s, and the communities on the north coast of Labrador.

Selected artists will be asked to provide a piece of art along with text describing the art piece. Nanilavut is specifically focusing on the years 1940-1960 and asks that artists consider this in the content of their work.

The deadline for artists to submit an expression of interest is September 29, 2022 at 4pm.

Expressions of interest can be submitted to Cathy Ford, Nanilavut Project Manager by email at cathy.ford@nunatsiavut.com or call her at 709-923-2489.

The English River Fish count near Makkovik is just about closed up for the summer.

Todd Broomfield is the Director of Renewable Resources for the Nunatsiavut Government.

He says they will be closing up the fence beginning of October and the numbers for this year are very good compared to last year.

Fall season has also approached and the hunting season for moose and geese are now open.

Click here to hear more from Broomfield on the English River Fish Count and fall hunting season.

To allow for consultation events to take place, the Nunatsiavut Executive Council has extended the public consultation period for the environmental review of the Nain wind micro-grid project. Nunatsiavummiut now have until the 26th of October to provide comments and knowledge regarding the proposed project. Consultation events are being planned for Nain; more information will be provided when available.

The goal of this public consultation is to gather the views of Inuit regarding the project, as well as knowledge about the environment at the site of the project and potential environmental impacts. Comments can be submitted to the Community Liaison Officer’s at your Nunatsiavut Government community office. Comments can also be sent via email at environmentalreviews@nunatsiavut.com. Please note that comments received in writing will be made publicly available.

Led by Natural forces and the Nunatsiavut secretariat (the proponent), the Nain wind micro-grid project is a plan to build wind turbine(s), battery storage and associated infrastructure in Nain to reduce diesel reliance for electricity generation.

The project description and summaries in English and Inuktitut are available on the Nunatsiavut Government website. You may also request it by email from the proponent at (jbyrne@naturalforces.ca), and a paper copy can be requested from your Nunatsiavut Government community liaison officer.

If you have any questions, please contact Environmental Assessment Manager, Frederic Dwyer-Samuel, at 709-899-6702 or by email at environmentalreviews@nunatsiavut.com.

It’s almost time for the Makkovik Fish Plant to close up for the season.

Angel Chaulk is the clerk.

She says the last turbot landing was on September 16th.

A total of 358,933 lbs was caught this season.

Chaulk adds that they have 23 employees working and will finish up on doing the secondary on crab meat.

Flu season is upon us and health officials in the province are bracing for a more severe season than in previous years.

Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to begin its fall flu vaccination campaign sometime in October. This will be the first year with flu circulating widely since COVID restrictions all but put an end to it over the last few years.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald explains that they look to the southern hemisphere for indications of what our flu season could look like. It started sooner than usual in Australia and more people, especially the younger ones, were admitted to hospital.

Fitzgerald attributes the more severe season to people not being exposed to the flu over the last few years.

She says because the flu hasn’t been circulating, people haven’t had an opportunity to boost their immunity to it. Fitzgerald says it also depends on the type of flu. The H3 strain tends to be more severe, which is what has been circulating.

The Nunatsiavut Government conservation officers will have the Avian Influenza swabs in each community this hunting season for anyone that wishes to have their migratory game birds swabbed for the Avian Influenza.

The migratory birds should be fresh and not frozen to collect the sample.

They will collect samples in each community for hunters wishing to have their birds swabbed. It may take several weeks to get the results back from the lab once the samples are sent out.

For more information, you can contact the Wildlife Manager Jason Dicker at 922-2942 or your local conservation officer.