The UjagaKutit Recreation Committee in Hopedale have set up Easter games for their community.

The games scheduled for April 21, 2022, starts at 10am.

Anyone ages 18 years and older can attend the dog team race having a maximum of five dogs, the course will be going around Big Land.

There will be events of ball throw, running race and Find Your Parent for children ages 2 to 3 years.

Anyone between the ages of 4 years to 50 years and older have events such as sled race, spoon/potato race, running race, ball throw, egg toss, boot kick, bunny hop, sack race, soccer kick, Head on Bat race, and 120 skidoo race.

A helmet and a consent form is mandatory to participate into the 120 skidoo race.

There are also supplies needed such as bringing in your own teaspoon, potato, a noma sled and an egg.

Nain has an exciting week ahead with the Easter games events being held all week long. There are games held for babies from ages 0 to elderly ages 60+.

The events held for today, April 19, 2022 will be held on Nain Harbour, starting at 1pm and ending at 3pm.

The games will include: Children’s games- such as egg between leg race, leap frog, three-legged race and many more. Following that are some adult games that include: stick throw, four-legged race, bunny hop race, football throw, soft ball throw and snow shoe race to name a few.

There will be Recreation bingo held this evening, starting at 5:30 PM, card selling will be from 12:30 until 5pm at the JSCC.

There will be an adult evening held at the JSCC starting at 7pm, this event will include games such as pass the parcel, blind fold dress up, musical chairs, and a step dance partners competition plus many more.

Events for tomorrow, Wednesday April 20, will start off with children’s games on Nain Harbour, from 1-3pm. These games will include bean bag on head race, belly ball partner, blindfold, head knees and toes, horse obstacle, stick throw, and stick hold.

Following at the JSCC at 7pm, there will be a plastic bag seal skin mitts and chimo plastic knitted cap contest. The requirements are that you must have both items to participate in this event. (All designs must be made of plastic bags, participants can use clear tape to keep design together for attaching design, but everything must be made of plastic bags.)

Events for ages 13+ at the JSCC from 7-10pm will follow. Those games will include owl hop, foot high kick, airplane game, seal crawl race, monkey dance, musk ox, arm wrestling and push ups plus many more.

There will also be an Easter cake decorating contest held at the JSCC starting at 7pm. 1st place winning prize of $250, 2nd place winning prize $175, and a 3rd place prize $100. Cakes must be delivered by 7pm for judging and please use the back entrance at the JSCC. Winners will be announced at 7:30PM. All cakes will be auctioned off.

For more information, please contact the Recreation Department at 922-2691.

The Nunatsiavut Government have been working on an archeological project over the year.

Helioq Barbel is an PHD student at Laval University in Quebec City.

Barbel says they were doing surveys last year and will be doing excavations on one of the sites they have visited last year.

Click here to hear more of the archeological project the Nunatsiavut Government is doing with Barbel.

Due to the increase in COVID cases in the community of Hopedale and many of the volunteers & workers being in isolation, they have decided to modify the schedule for next week.

On Easter Monday, they’ll start at 10am on the ice with the Dog Team Race and games starting once mushers leave.

Tents will be set up & Recreation will be selling food. They planned on having games at the Nanuk Centre in the evening.

Those games will be postponed and we’ll have outdoor events only. They’ll post a schedule of games once it’s finalized.

For the Festival all outdoor events will be going ahead as scheduled. The Community Feast, Traditional Dress, Beauty Pageant, Women’s Self Care @ the Safe House, Toddler Social, Children’s Social will be postponed to a later date. The senior’s luncheon will be pick up / take out.

The OKalaKatiget Radio will update if anything else changes.

Here is the schedule of the Easter Games in Makkovik for Sunday, April 17 and Monday, April 18, 2022.

Kim Andersen is the Team Leader with the Makkovik Department of Health and Social Development.

On April 17, there will be games in the gym for children ages 12 years and younger, masks are to be worn at all times while in the gym.

There will also be a virtual scavenger hunt for children ages five years and younger, they can find items at home, the list will be posted Sunday morning, April 17 at 9am and have until 5pm to message Andersen with your items.

That evening, there will be a draw for partners for the dog team race at the Youth Centre at 7pm.

On Easter Monday, April 18, starting at 8am, there will be dog team race with the course of going around Big Island with an entry fee of $20, anyone can contact Lindsay Andersen to enter. Children ages 5 to 13 years will have their dog team race at 10:30am.

At 11am, men, or those who identify as men, or gender diverse folks, will be doing a snowshoe race while at 11:10am, women, or those who identify as women or gender diverse will have their snowshoe race, and children ages 10 to 13 years of age will have their snowshoe race at 11:20.

Men, or those who identify them as men, or gender diverse folks will be doing a one-mile skiing race at 11:30. women, or those who identify as women, or gender diverse folks will be doing their race at 11:40 , children ages 10 to 13 years will be doing a half a mile skiing race at 11:50 and children 12 years and younger will have theirs at 12 noon.

Bingo cards will be sold at the youth centre from 1 to 3pm for the church, then cards will be sold from 4 to 5pm.

Cakes can also be dropped off at the youth centre from 1 to 3pm for the Easter cake decorating contest.

Monday evening, the Easter bingo will start at 6pm with a jackpot to go of $1000. There are also Early Bird, haf tak in of Early Bird cards, wild #’s, money plus half take in and tickets for certain items.

The fireworks are yet to be determined.

There will be a Easter parade on Sunday April 17th starting at 1pm.

The parade will start at the airport and ending at the Jeremias Sillett community center.

Easter bunny will give out chocolate treats to children ages 12 years and younger.

There will be a prize for best decorated vehicle (ATV/Ski-doo)

The following day, the 3rd annual Martin R Jararuse Easter dart competition will go ahead for ages 16 years and up to attend this tournament.

They will start at 3pm at the JS community center it will consist of 6 players per team, must have 3 women and 3 men on each team and $10 a player to get into the competition.

1st place team will get $80 per player, 2nd place team will get $50 per player, and 3rd place team will get $30 per player.

On Tuesday April 19th they will have children and adult ice games being held at the Nain Harbour from 1pm-3pm.

For the children ice games, the games will be Egg between leg race, leapfrog, three-legged race, crab race, softball throw, hula hoop running race, running race, bouncing ball race.

As for the adults the games will be stick throw, four-legged race, Bunny hop race, football throw, soft ball throw, blindfold race, snowshoe race, blindfold dizzy egg race, horse obstacle race, smush race.

Recreation radio bingo will be held the following evening starting at 5:30pm at the JS community center. Cards will be on sale from 11am-5pm at the Nain Husky Center with $21 a card, $75 prize per game, $300 mini jackpot, and jackpot to go of $1,000.

Adult evening event will start at 7pm at the JS Community center they will have pass the parcel, blindfold dress up, baby feeding contest, chubby bunny, Neck/ball game, cracker eating, wiener eating, number game, cheesy toss/partner, Jell-O race, fruit roll up, musical chairs, bubble blowing, blindfold marshmallow pick up, step dance partners competition.

The $600,000 in total provided by the provincial government to bring the NASCAR Pinty’s series to NL over the next 3 years came for considerable in the House of Assembly yesterday.

The majority of those responding to VOCM’s question of the Day yesterday, -74 %
– Disagree with the funding provided by the event.

Opposite Leader David Brazil questioned Tourism Minister, Steve Crocker and Premier Andrew Furey on the expenditure in the light of shortages of health care professionals including doctors and nurses.

Brazil asked how many doctors for $600,000, While Furey shot back, referencing Muskrat Falls and drawing other members to join him echoing back in response how many doctors and nurses can be hired and hospitals built for $500 million a year.

PC MHA’s in the region say that Central Newfoundland is on the brink of a health care disaster. Five health care centres in the are poised to lose their physician.

MHA’s Pleaman Forsey and Chris Tibbs say tens of thousands of people are set to their doctors between now and June. They say if basic medical services go away, family medicine will become inaccessible.

They are calling on the provincial government to take action in the are and ensure Central Newfoundland is not forgotten.

Former NLMA President, Dr. Lynette Powell tweeted yesterday that, at one point, the emergency room at the hospital at Grand Falls Windsor was jam-packed with people who were having to wait for very long time.

An update is coming today, Wed. April 13 on a fourth dose of COVID vaccine for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald will address reporters at Confederation Building today, at 1pm to discuss the latest recommendations from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and how this province will administer the fourth dose to those who need it.

NACI is recommending the fourth dose of the COVID vaccine for more vulnerable populations including seniors and residents in congregate living in facilities.

Some people from Labrador went for a trip up north of Nain couple weeks ago.

Joseph Townley is the Wildlife Facilitator for Nunatsiavut Government.

He says they even went up to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

Townley says some youth went along with them.

He says they taught the youth how to skin caribou and the going was really good.

Click here when Townley will also give an update on the caribou and muskox meat that had arrived Happy Valley-Goose Bay last weekend.