The Bike Rodeo that was held here in Nain yesterday was a success, and here are the results:

Congratulations to the bicycle winners:

Brayden Karpik
Martina Harris-Dicker
Quinn Harris
Jordan Holwell
Wanda-Lynn Harris-Dicker
Kara Solomon

And to all the other children who have received a bicycle helmet, bicycle elbow/knee pads, bicycle spokes, and bicycle bells.

Unfortunately, there was no engraving for personal bikes at the time, but there will be engraving available at the RCMP detachment on Monday, August 30th at 5 pm.

The Nain DHSD would like to thank all the children and parents for showing up to the bike rodeo and to the RCMP staff for partnering with this event.

The 11th Annual CYN and Mr. Volleyball Tournament will be going ahead this evening, August 27, 2021

The opening ceremonies will be held this evening at 6pm at the Jeremias Sillitt Community Center.

Due to so many teams registered, the tournament had to start early with local players.

There are 5 teams in the men’s division and 10 teams in the women’s division.

This evening, the tournament will be starting at 6pm until 9:15pm.

On Saturday, August 28, a tournament will be held throughout the day and night, starting at 8:30am onto 10:45pm.

On Sunday, August 29, the tournament will start at 8:30 am to 10:45 am.

The women’s semi-finals will start at 2pm until 4 pm with the best out of 3 games advancing to finals, and games will be up to 21.

The finals will be best out of 5 games with points up to 25, starting at 4pm with the men’s and women’s starting at 5:30 pm.

The Women’s gold medal game will be held at 7 to 8pm, while the men’s gold medal game will be held from 8:30 to 9:30 pm.

Torngat Wildlife, Plants and Fisheries Secretariat is looking for five laboratory technicians for the new goose project. No prior lab technician is required.

You will be provided with all the training to conduct this week.

There is one position available in each community in Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, Postville and Rigolet – to collect and process geese donated by harvesters for research this fall.

Technicians must be organized, detail oriented and comfortable with plucking and cleaning geese.

Lab training will be provided. This is a short-term position by approximately two to three full days of work.

Preferences will be given to Beneficiaries of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement. Applicants will be required to:

Collect goose samples from harvesters. Collect muscle and feathers from geese and take morphological measures. Coordinate shipping samples to Goose Bay.

Interested in applying to be a Lab Technician you may contact Meredith Purcell at 709-896-8912 or her e-mail meredith.purcell@torngatsecretariat.ca for more information. Closing date is Thursday, September 16, 2021.

The province’s next live briefing COVID-19 is delayed for another week.

The briefing originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been re-scheduled for Tuesday, September 7 at 2pm.

Public advisories will continue to be issued on Monday, Wednesday and Friday – except Labour Day, when the latest numbers will be released on Tuesday.

The schedule will be updated if the province’s COVID change.

Courtesy VOCM News.

There are three representatives here in Nain from the Canadian Military based out of Gander to recruit Canadian Rangers and Junior Canadian Rangers.

Rob Patterson oversees the programming for the Junior Canadian Rangers.

Patterson says that the purpose of their visit to Nain is to generate some interest for ages 12 to 18 years to become JCR’s.

He adds that Rex Holwell Junior is a Corporal for the JCR’s and Steven Moore is the Junior Canadian Ranger Master Corporal.

Patterson also adds that they will be traveling to the other Nunatsiavut communities.

We will be speaking with Patterson later in the AtjiKangitut program to find out more.

Echo Henoche of Nain has been painting and drawing since she can remember, and has been inspired by her grandfather, Gilbert Hay who is also an artist.

Henoche says that her work is based on traditional and cultural images and landscapes.

She adds that she has done a short film with the National Film Board about the polar bear that is marked on Mount Sophie.

We will be speaking with Echo Henoche later in the Teen Rockers program to find out more about the work that she do.

There is a significant drop at the gas pumps today.

The regulated price of gas has dropped by nearly 6 cents a litre.

Diesel, furnace and stove oils are all down by just over 2 cents a litre.

Propane is up by 1.8 cents a litre.

The char fishery is now winded down, and scallop fishery is ongoing in Nain.

Deidi Kohlmeister is the Supervisor of the Fish Plant.

She says a total of 29,986 lbs of char was landed this summer, a total of 44,278 lbs of green scallops, and 582 lbs shucked meats.

Kohlmeister says they have 17 employees working, shucking and cleaning scallops.

Meanwhile at the Makkovik Fish Plant, Angel Chaulk is the Clerk.

She says they have 5 active turbot boats, and two of them are going on their last trip.

Chaulk says a total of 56,556 lbs of turbot has been landed.

There are 21 employees working including 3 summer students.

The 2021 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival will showcase the talents of visionary filmmakers from across Atlantic Canada, the country and beyond, from September 16th to 23rd.

Award-winning feature-length documentaries by Indigenous and Acadian creators are just part of the selection, which includes four world premieres of NFB shorts.

Atlantic works debuting at the festival include two new films from the Labrador Doc Project, featuring inspired documentary shorts by Inuit creators from Nunatsiavut, as well as two short docs by PEI filmmakers, with a world premiere and a festival award winner.

Screenings will be presented in theatres as well as online via FIN Stream, available across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Inuk filmmaker Jennie Williams plunges audiences directly into the action in this bone-chilling black-and-white short documentary about a winter night like no other.

Every January 6, from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal and otherworldly as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain.

Produced for the Labrador Doc Project by Latonia Hartery, Rohan Fernando and Kat Baulu, with Annette Clarke as executive producer for the NFB’s Quebec and Atlantic Studio.

The 13-minute film will be online on FIN STREAM from September 19 until 11:59 p.m. on September 20th.

The Department of Health and Social Development in Nain has a bicycle rodeo on the go that starts at 1pm at the playground today.

Jane Merkuratsuk is a Community Health Worker with DHSD.

She says that this is being sponsored by DHSD and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Merkuratsuk adds that the Northern Store in Nain has donated snacks and refreshments to be served.

There will be door prizes such as bicycles and biking accessories, and there will also be engraving on bicycles.

This is for children beginning to ride bikes to ages 16 years of age.

The bicycle rodeo will be held until 3pm today.