The schedule for National Indigenous Day for Nain has been set up for next week.

Anyone can go down to the Illusuak Cultural Centre to celebrate on June 22nd, 2022, from 3 to 8pm.

The day will start with the lighting of the Kullik, with NG President Johannes Lampe saying a prayer at 3pm.

From 3:15 to 4pm, there will be Inuit games, storytelling, with tea and panitsiak.

There will be a community supper at 5pm and there will be a choice of having a soup of partridge, beef, chicken or chili.

Music Events will start at 5:30pm, the Beardos will be perform along with the brass band, some throat singers also will an open mic.

People of all ages can participate in a prize draw for traditional dressed starting at 7:45pm.

Infants ages zero to 4 years could win a baby gift, children between the ages of five to seven years and children ages 8 to 12 years got a chance to win a bicycle, youth between the ages of 13 to 18 years have a chance to win a $250 gift card, and adults ages 19 years and older could win a drum of gas or oil.

There will also be tickets sold for door prizes of an Air Borealis Ticket and a $300 food voucher.

The day will end of with singing Labradorimiut at 8pm.

Labrador Marine Inc. has undertaken a pilot project to open the freight shed in Goose Bay on Saturday morning.

According to MHA Lela Evans post on Facebook, she would like to thank LMI for incorporating this into their schedule.

She says it wasn’t only her who advocated for this important change. The ICGs AngajukKât and NG have lobbied to have hours on Saturday.

This is a pilot project to evaluate impact on the ship loading process and may be suspended or reversed if the Saturday hours impact the ability to safely load the Kamutik W or interferes with the ability for the Kamutik W to stay on schedule.

LMI plan to evaluate this over the next month to determine the impact on ship loading procedures.

The following is added to the LMI website effective this coming Saturday:
– Saturday 8 to 10am
– Local individual shipments only, no commercial shipments will be accepted
– Freight will only be accepted within these hours
– Freight shipped this late is not guaranteed, see freight policy and procedures
– Freight will be loaded in order of date received and correct port order

Regards, Lela Evans.

The 2021-2022 school year will be ending next Thursday, June 23rd, OK Radio called each of the schools along the coast to see when they will be holding their cap and gown.

Dion Rideout is the principal for the J.C. Erhardt Memorial School in Makkovik.

Graduates will be having their graduation on Saturday, June 25th.

Juanita Skanes is the Vice Principal for the Jens Haven Memorial School in Nain.

Skanes says they will have their cap and gown on Thursday, June 23rd.

The Kindergarten graduates of the Jens Haven Memoriam Primary School will be having their graduation tonight, Thursday, June 16th, at 6pm.

Carmine Sheppard is the Principal for B.L. Morrison Memorial School in Postville.

The school will be having a day out the ballfield and have a BBQ lunch on Tuesday, June 21st and they will be having an awards ceremony next week, Wednesday, June 22nd.

The Northern Lights Academy of Rigolet already had their cap and gown on May 28th.

OK Radio will get the Amos Comenius Memorial School in Hopedale once details become available.

The Inuttitut uKâlalautta took place in Nain on Monday, June 13, 2022.

OK Radio was invited to attend to record the event.

Christine Nochasak says it was a good turnout, with about 30 people that attended including the invited guests.

Students from Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, and Rigolet participated in the event and did a very good job in their speeches.

Click here to hear the second part of Inuttitut uKâlalautta of the speeches from the invited guests.

The Stanley Cup Playoffs will start tonight Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 9pm.

The Colorado Avalanche will host the Tampa Bay Lightning team.

Those are the last two teams left to go for the Stanley Cup.

On Saturday, June 11, the New York Rangers team was put out by the Tampa Bay Lightning team which began at 9pm.

Here is the schedule for this week’s championship games:

Saturday, June 18, Monday, June 20, Wednesday, June 22 and Friday, June 24.

Nunatsiavut Government has summer students job ads out for Nunatsiavut Beneficiaries and Upper Lake Melville.

The assistant positions are with various departments.

The deadline for summer students to apply is tomorrow, Thursday, June 16.

Torngat Fish Producers Cooperative Society Limited Annual General Meeting (AGM) has been postponed.

Keith Watts is the General Manager.

He says the AGM is postponed due to no flights available this morning.

He says he will be working on the flight arrangements next week.

Watts says the fish plant in Makkovik has been under cleanup since last Monday.

COVID-19 hospitalizations have sharply increased in Newfoundland and Labrador, rising from five to 14 in the last week.

Four of those people are in critical care which is double what it was in last weeks COVID-19 update.

The province also reported three more deaths due to the virus on Wednesday.

All three people were in their 70s. One was living in the Eastern Health area and two were in the Western Health region.

The Department of Health counted 500 more positive cases over the last week; 78 on Thursday, 77 on Friday, 89 on Saturday, 70 on Sunday, 39 on Monday, 83 on Tuesday and 64 on Wednesday.

The Inuttitut uKâlalautta took place in Nain last evening.

OK Radio was invited to attend to record the event.

Christine Nochasak says it was a good turnout, with about 30 people that attended including the invited guests.

Students from Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, and Rigolet participated in the event and did a very good job in their speeches.

They also announced that the Inuttitut uKâlalautta Speak Off will now be held in Nain at the Illusuak Cultural Centre from here on out.

Click here to hear the audio of the students’ speeches at the event.

The 17th Annual George Lane Memorial Dart Tournament is scheduled this month from June 24th and 25th, 2022.

Jill Nitsman is one of the coordinators for the tournament.

It will be taking place at the Nanuk Centre at 6pm, Friday evening and will continue Saturday morning at 9am.

Teams must have four players that consist of two males and two females with a fee of $20 per player.

First place will get $2000, second place will get $1000, and third place will get $500.

Registration must be paid by Friday, June 23rd, for scheduling.

The dates set for the tournament is yet to be determined.