The Makkovik fish plant is doing good with the snow crab and turbot that’s being landed.

Angel Chaulk is the Clerk for Makkovik.

She says a total of 210,389 lbs of snow crab have landed, and there’s one long liner left.

There are two turbot boats fishing and one landed in 28,533 lbs of turbot.

Chaulk says they have 36 employees working including 10 summer students.

The Nain fish plant is also doing good with the char that’s being landed.

Deidi Kohlmeister is the Supervisor.

She says a total of 41,879 lbs has been landed.

There are 13 plant workers hired, one summer student, and 8 char licensed fishermen are fishing.

There are smoked char, whole char, scallops and crab legs to buy.

Kohlmeister adds that they also have free char heads if anyone would like to get some.

Yesterday, Eastern Health reported 4 more people died from COVID-19 over the week, raising the provinces total number of deaths to 221 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

Two people were in their 70’s and one was in their 60’s and one in their 50’s.

By health region one was in Eastern Health, two were in Central Health and one was in Labrador Grenfell Health.

Hospitalizations have also increased by 4 since last week’s update. The total now is 18 including one person in critical care, down from two last week.

The province also confirmed 377 new cases over the past week: 62 on Thursday, 49 on Friday, 57 on Saturday, 30 on Sunday, 29 on Monday, 60 on Tuesday and 90 on Wednesday.

Those numbers however, don’t accurately represent the true spread of COVID-19 in NL since the province has restricted tests administered by regional health authorities and doesn’t count positive rapid tests done by individuals.

Mark Turner from the Memorial University in St. John’s is doing a documentary project for OKâlaKatiget Society.

He came to Nain earlier this week to meet with the Society.

Turner is archiving OK radio shows that’s been aired over the years and been working out in the city since.

He adds that there are many, many recordings that will be transcribed and are hoping the documented book will be finished by next year.

Click here to hear Turner talk more about the project he is working on.

Children got to learn how to operate a Kajak this summer in Nain.

Noah Nochasak has been teaching young children how to Kajak in the old dam and new dam this summer.

With a lot of interest from children he has taught the children how to use a life jacket, how to get into a kayak and how to paddle.

We had one of our radio producers go down and to record the children by the old dam.

Nochasak says that they have ordered four Kajait each for the other Nunatsiavut communities including Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik and Rigolet.

Click here to hear the recorded audio of children learning how to Kajak.

The campsite at Voisey’s Bay website, says they continue to work with Northern Health to monitor the latest developments of COVID-19 pandemic in order to help spread of the virus in the project.

With the support of Northern Health, the project has a rapid testing program to focus on workers showing symptoms. Rapid Tests continue to be used for case and contact management.

As of January 2020, all workers at worksite are fully vaccinated.

In addition, British Columbia Hydro is strictly following Ministry Health guidelines.

The numbers are updated weekly.

Site C camp status August 12, 2022, number of workers 1,783.
Number of active of COVID-19 cases – 5.
Number of COVID-19 cases over the past 7 days- 15.
Total number of cases since January 1, 2022 – 903.
Total number of cases since March 1, 2022 – 1,257.

The Terry Fox run event will be held on Sunday, September 18, 2022.

It will be 42 years when Terry first started his walk to fight cancer.

So, lets join on that day and keep this special event going.

That day on April 18, 1980, Terry started his walk at 3pm travelling with Doug to Outer Cove Beach to collect two bottles of Atlantic Sea water.

He planned to keep one as a souvenir, and pouring the second one in the Pacific Ocean when he arrived home, but the blustery ocean carried one out to sea. At 3pm Terry met with Mayor Dorothy Wyatt and had a brief ceremony and began his Marathon of Hope with a 12-mile run.

He said, “I had a police escort out of the city and many people followed me in cars, the mayor ran a few steps with me. Along the way everyone was honking and waving.”

The Torngat Mountains National Park is cooperatively managed with Labrador Inuit and Nunavik Inuit.

Sarah Townley attended the Co-management Board meeting with Parks Canada at Saglek beginning of this month.

She says she went to basecamp for the one-week meeting and was glad to finally see familiar faces after not being able to meet since the spread of COVID-19.

Click here to hear more from Townley.

The 1st annual William Tuglavina Volleyball tournament was a big success.

The tournament was held on Friday evening on August 12, 2022 at 6pm.

We spoke with Mackenzie Frieda who was one of the organizers.

Frieda says herself along with Kendra Winters started up the tournament.

She says there were 12 teams registered.

This year they had sponsors by the K Committee in Hopedale and DJ’s Store.

She adds the first-place winners won Crewnecks and t-shirts for the second-place winners.

1st place for the women’s team was team Willa and 1st place for the men’s team was team Nain.

There were 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals, and awards for MVPs and most sportsmanlike.

Most sportsman like went to Isaiah, Ashley and Keryn and MVP went to Tristan, Michelle, and Angelica.

Frieda adds there were people who volunteered their time to be referees/linesmen for the games and scorekeepers.

The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture has made arrangements to open a number of forest access roads in the area of Paradise Lake and Bay d’Espoir highway (Route 360), so that residents may access their cabins and campers.

The Bay d’Espoir highway (Route 360) continues to remain open to traffic, however, not all forest access roads or cabins are accessible.

If you are planning to use forest access roads in the vicinity of these fire, please examine whether your cabin or campers is accessible.

The map shows closed forest access roads in yellow. The two fires shown in white crosshatch are active forest fires areas and are now accessible.

The ‘STOP’ symbols represent the points at which the public may not go any further as they are considered unsafe.

If residents decide to use the newly opened forest access roads, they are asked to proceed cautiously and safely and to be aware that crews continue to address the forest fires in the broader region.

The Nain Public Health Nurses at the Department of Health and Social Development will be holding their 3rd Bebik and Tetuk program tomorrow.

We spoke with Vanessa Webb who is a casual Public Health Nurse.

She says this is a program is for all parents, support people, & caregivers.

The first program was held on Wednesday July 13, 2022 at the DHSD Boardroom.

During the program, parents are joined together for tea, enjoy a treat, visit other parents and babies, they have weigh-ins, lactation consults, and postpartum supports.

Webb says they usually share stories and this is a place for parents to get together and visit with there babies.

She adds that they have been getting really good turnouts.

During the next program, they will be collaborating with the Nain Family Resource Center for the first time.

The next Bebik and Tetuk will be held tomorrow Wednesday, August 17 from 1:30-4pm at the Nain Family Resource Center.

Webb adds that if you would like to find out more information or would like to join this program, you can contact her at the Nain DHSD at 922-2962.