Nominations of candidates for election for the AngajukKâk for the community government elections for the municipality of Nain will be received between the hours of 9am for 4pm starting on Tuesday, August 16 to 23, 2022 at the Nain Inuit Community Government office/meeting room.

Nominations shall be in writing and shall state the name and residence of the candidate and shall be signed by the proposer and seconder, both of whom shall be present together with the candidate, who shall also sign signifying his or her acceptance of the nomination.

Every candidate for election for the AngajukKâk shall, at the time of his or her nomination, deposit the sum of twenty-five dollars with the returning officer.

The qualifications of a candidate for election for the AngajukKâk are as follows:

1. An Inuk
2. Candidate citizen of the full age of 19 years
3. Ordinary resident in the community or area for at least two months prior to the date set for nominations.

The election, if required, will take place on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 between the hours of 8am and 8pm at polling booth to be located at the Nain Inuit Community Government office.

Today marks the 2nd day of the Makkovik Trout Festival.

They began at 9am this morning with a build your own raft and race at Ranger Bight.

A family sand sculpture contest was held at 1pm at Ranger Bight.

From 2-4pm, they will be selling bingo cards at the arena.

Starting at 5:45pm this evening, there will be a movie night for all ages at the community hall.

And at 6pm, they will be hosting their radio bingo with $1000 Jackpot to go.

Then at 9pm tonight, they are holding the Albert Ford Memorial Dart Tournament at the community hall.

Tomorrow Saturday, August 13, the amazing paint race season 3 will be held starting at 10am.

At 11am, the homemade miniature boat race begins, followed by the trout festival fair at the arena at 12 noon.

They will end off the festival with the trout festival supper at 5pm with live entertainment at the tout festival dance from 10pm-1:30am by 2 members from the Silver Wolf band, 2 local musicians Jimi and Dicky, and Bon and Jamie Jackman.

The Hebron Family Project went ahead this summer.

Lena Onalik is the Archeologist for Nunatsiavut Government.

She says the Hebron Family Committee decided to send 4 relocates.

Onalik says they were so happy to be able to go back to their home.

She says they told stories about when they had to relocate, they also went char fishing with rods.

Also a special Church Service was held at the Hebron Moravian Church.

Click here to hear more from Onalik.

The Department of Health and Social Development is looking for a drum dancing instructor in Hopedale.

To be interested in teaching an evening program of drum dancing for ages 15 years and older.

Classes will be twice a week for an hour and a half.

Successful candidate will be compensated along with provided any necessary training equipment, he or she may need.

Time and place are yet to be determined.

Interested candidates may contact Nicole Lane at 933-3894, extension 240 or check out her email at nicole.lane@nunatsiavut.com.

A lot more char has been landed in Nain since last week.

Deidi Kohlmeister is the Supervisor at the Nain fish plant.

She says a total of 34,505 lbs has been landed, and 16,149 more pounds of char was landed since last week.

Kohlmeister says there are 8 char licensed fishermen fishing, and this week, there is an additional of 4 more fisherman.

Right now, they have 20 fish plant workers, and two of those are summer students.

In Makkovik, Angel Chaulk is the Clerk.

She says a total of 169,950 lbs of snow crab has been landed, which is an additional 73,317 lbs landed since last week.

Chaulk says 37 employees are working and 12 of those are summer students.

She added there are 3 long liners fishing.

This year, the community of Makkovik are celebrating their 32nd annual Trout Festival today.

The festival began this morning at 10am with an Open House in the museum and story telling.

This afternoon started at 1pm, they held a Water mania by the Museum.

From 4-5pm, there will be a community BBQ sponsored by Vale by the Museum grounds.

Then later at 6:30 this evening, the Trout Festival parade begins, $25 prizes will be awarded for best decorated Bikes, Truck/ATV, Stroller with the Trout festival theme, and everyone must meet at the school at 6:30pm for judging.

At 7:30, the Annual Albert Ford Memorial Dart tournament beings for ages 19 and older at the Community Hall.

And at 10:30pm, there will be fireworks at Hebron.

We will have Day 2 of the scheduled events for the festival tomorrow.

8 more people have died from COVID-19 in NL over the past week according to data posted last Wednesday on the Health Department website.

It’s the most reported deaths in a week since April 20, when the province reported 10 people had died.

6 people had died in the Central Health Region.

Two of the deceased were in their 60’s, two in the 70’s and 4 were over 80 years old.

These latest deaths bring the provincial total to 217 since the pandemic’s first cases were reported in March 2020.

The number of people hospitalized because of the virus dropped slightly, down 2 to 14 since the update on August. Two of those are in critical care.

Public Health has also confirmed 360 new confirmed cases of the virus over the past week.

That number, however, is not an accurate reflection of the presence of COVID-19 in NL, because the Health Department limits who is eligible for a test, and the daily case count only includes those found through testing by Health officials and not people doing their own tests.

The Hopedale Inuit Community Government are still short staff in a few positions.

Marjorie Flowers is the AngajukKâk for the Hopedale Inuit Community Government Office.

Right now, they have a call-in dog catcher, and they are looking to hire on a casual call-in for the Office Assistance position, and for the Recreation Department.

She also adds that they are applying for the CEEP project, and that project won’t go ahead until this fall.

Click here to hear more information from Flowers.

Pauktuutit, Inuit Women of Canada is happy to announce the upcoming meeting for the special gathering of Qarjuit Youth Council.

The annual general meeting will take place in Ivujivik, Nunavik on Monday, September 26 to the 30th.

Their team will be bringing in two per community to the incredible event.

Youth can fill out an application on their webpage at qarjuit.ca/events/annual meeting.

Pauktuutit also had the opportunity to attend and participate in the 9th International Indigenous Pre-Conference HIV and AIDS, and 24th International Conference in Montreal this past week.

Their Executive Director, Rosemary Cooper highlighted Pauktuutit’s sexual health priorities during a plenary at the Indigenous pre-conference.

Once again, the Qarjuit Youth Council AGM umping is on September 26 to the 30th.

Two toll-free phone numbers have been established to help field pertaining to the Central Newfoundland Forest Fire emergency.

These include:

• Provincial Emergency Operations Centre phone lines; 1-833-845-0775 for inquiries regarding supplies, transportation and general
questions. The PEOC phone line will operate from 8am to 8pm.

• Central Health Phone Line: 1:833-960-4571 for all health inquiries. The Central Health phone line will be open from 8am to 8pm.

A messaging service is available to assist with incoming calls outside the hours of 8am to 8pm.

For the most up to date information, please follow the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador on Facebook and Twitter.