NunaKatiget Inuit Community Corporation Inc. is pleased to announce it has received a grant of $10,000.00 from Community Food Centres Canada’s Good Food Access Fund.

The grant will enable the NunaKatiget Inuit Community Corporation to provide much needed funds to purchase food items for our Inuit Elders and persons with disabilities through the Max Winters Community Freezer.

Funding is provided in part by the Government of Canada’s Local Food Infrastructure Fund, as part of the Food Policy for Canada. The Fund aims to strengthen food systems and facilitate access to safe and nutritious food for at-risk populations.

“NunaKatiget Inuit Community Corporation Inc.is extremely grateful for the grant of $10,000.00 from Community Food Centres Canada to purchase traditional food items and staples for the Max Winters’ Community Freezer. We provide traditional food to Inuit Elders and people with disabilities each month,” says Patricia Kemuksigak, Chairperson of the NunaKatiget Inuit Community Corporation Inc. “During the COVID-19 crisis, our vulnerable population of Elders and people with disabilities are experiencing additional food insecurity and financial hardship. This funding will provide food to put on their tables to feed their families. During this time of year, the only traditional food items we can provide is seal meat. People are very pleased to get seal meat but requires additional foods to supplement their food supply. Many Inuit suffer from food insecurity in our communities. More than 180 families visit in the freezer every month. During the COVID-19 crisis, we are delivering food and ensuring social distancing for our vulnerable clientele.”

“Food insecurity was already an urgent problem before the COVID-19 crisis, with one in 8 Canadians struggling to put food on the table. In a time of national crisis, it is in our nature as Canadians to do what we can for our most vulnerable neighbours. We are grateful to the Government of Canada for their quick response, as well as the many corporate partners and generous donors who have stepped forward” says Nick Saul, CEO of Community Food Centres Canada. “The Good Food Access Fund aims to make sure that as many people as possible will be able to get the food that they need. And while we must deal with the current circumstances, CFCC remains committed to advancing policy change that addresses the underlying causes of food insecurity and poverty in Canada. We can’t forget that structural inequity is at the core of so many of the challenges that Canadians face, a fact which painfully confronts us when an emergency like this occurs.”

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador of Canada would like to provide information about the Alert Levels regularly with continued monitoring of COVID-19 in our communities.

The COVID-19 Alert Level System provides Newfoundlanders and Labradorians with an overview of the steps that will be taken as precaution from public health measures.

They would like to inform the public about the Alert Level 4.

According to the NL Life with Covid-19 it states: Life at Alert Level 4.

Here are your responsibilities: please follow public health guidance for all alert levels: Stay at home as much as possible, except to get essentials like groceries and medications.

You can expand your household bubble to include one other household effective April 30th, 2020.

And if you have COVID-19 symptoms, contact 811.

Public Spaces and Gatherings: Gatherings are expanded to 10 people as long as physical distancing can be maintained.

Gatherings at funerals, burials, and weddings are restricted to no more than 10 people, visitations and wakes remain prohibited.

Recreational activities: recreational angling and hunting are permitted, golf courses can open with restrictions in place, municipal parks are open, playground equipment in municipal parks is not to be used, gym and fitness facilities, yoga studios, arenas, dance studios remain closed, outdoor activities including walking, hiking or riding your bike are encouraged as long as physical distancing can be maintained.

The Nain Inuit Community Government would like to provide a quick update to our community members of Nain.

Joe Dicker is our AngajukKâk for the NICG.

Dicker says crew members are quite busy out on the field, plowing the roads.

He adds right now we are all on the Alert Level 4 that we still have to follow steps and restrictions within our home community.

Keep the restrictions in place for the social distancing and maintain our practice of good health.

Click here to find out more details from our AngajukKâk.

Two snowmobilers were arrested by Nain RCMP for impaired driving within the community on May 3, 2020.

At approximately 9:00 a.m., police received a report of a suspected impaired driver operating a snowmobile. Officers patrolled the community and located the described snowmobile parked at a residence. The driver, 33-year-old John Angnatok, was intoxicated and was seated on the snowmobile, which was still running. He was arrested for impaired driving and was transported via Kamutik to the detachment and refused to provide breath samples. Angnatok is prohibited from driving stemming from a previous impaired driving conviction. He was also found to be in breach of a recent release document by operating the snowmobile and now has four separate incidents of impaired driving currently before the court. Angnatok is charged with failing to provide breath samples, impaired driving, driving while prohibited, and failing to comply with a release order. Due to the risk of repetition of impaired driving and public safety, police held Angnatok in custody to appear before a judge and he is scheduled for a bail hearing via telephone on May 5, 2020.

At approximately 3:30 p.m., police were parked conducting traffic enforcement in the community and observed a snowmobile that attempted to avoid police by making a sharp turn from the road onto a wooded trail. The officer caught up to the snowmobile and conducted a traffic stop near the Jeremias Sillett Community Centre. The man was suspected to be impaired by alcohol and failed a roadside breath test. He was arrested and transported back to the detachment where he provided breath samples that were over the legal limit. He was released from custody and is set to attend court on July 21, 2020, to answer to charges of impaired driving.

RCMP NL continues to fulfill its mandate to protect public safety, enforce the law and ensure the delivery of priority policing services in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ninety staff at the Health Science Centre who recently came in contact with a COVID-19 patient have all tested negative for the virus.

That’s according to Premier Dwight Ball who provided the information during the daily COVID-19 update yesterday.

Eastern Health confirmed the situation late last Monday afternoon.

Premier Ball says he was not aware of the situation during Monday’s daily COVID-19 update.

The exposure came from a patient who previously tested positive for the illness and subsequently underwent two more tests- both of which came back negative- and was considered recovered.

Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Janice Fitzgerald the tests are very sensitive and sometimes pick up dead virus.

None of the ninety Health Science workers require further contact tracing unless they test positive.

There were no new confirmed cases of COVID -19 in the province again yesterday.

241 of the 259 known cases of the virus are now recovered.

Four people are in hospital two of whom are ICU, while three people have died.

Dr. Fitzgerald met with the business community yesterday, and says she understands the stress and worry the current situation has caused them.

She assures that they will work with the business community to ensure that businesses can open safely when health restrictions are eased.

There are a lot of ongoing issues since COVID-19 first started.

Lela Evans is the Member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for Torngat Mountains Region.

She says there are people out there with a lot of questions in regards to travel, healthcare, federal government money, and the prices of stove oil and gas.

Click here to hear MHA Evans talk more about these issues plus a few more items.

Help track the spring Goose migration on SIKU and you could win $100!

For each Inuit community in Canada, the person who posts the first goose Hunting Story with photos of your geese from this spring on SIKU will receive a $100 gift card and a free SIKU toque.

If you don’t have the SIKU app, you can download it for iPhone and Android devices.

For more info visit siku.org/first-goose.

Yesterday it was announced that there were no new cases of COVID-19 in the province again.

The provincial government says the total number of positive cases remains at 259.

233 people have now recovered.

There are a total of 23 active cases across Newfoundland and Labrador.

By region, there are 241 cases in the Eastern Health region, eight cases in Central Health, six cases in Labrador-Grenfell Health and four cases in Western Health.

Four people are in the hospital due to the virus, two of those people are in Intensive care.

To date, 8,935 people have been tested.

There are a lot of worries and concerns amongst our elders on the COVID-19.

Please listen to what you hear from Medical health, the province and Nunatsiavut, stay safe, social distance and stay home.

The OK Radio was fortunate to be able to speak with our own elder of Nain to find out what he would like to say and what his thoughts are about this pandemic.

Click here to hear Gordon Obed speak about his thoughts on COVID-19.

We are also asking if any elders who would like to call in to say their thoughts can contact the office at 922-2955.

Any elders out of town can call our toll free number at 1-855-922-2955.

Today at 11:30 am, the new Illonata show will be airing Part 1 of Kelly Fraser coming to Nain on APTN N.