Organ playing always played an important role in our Moravian tradition.

Simeon Nochasak is originally from Hebron, but now lives in Makkovik.

He says his father taught him how to play when they lived in Hebron in 1959.

Nochasak recently retired from playing the organ.

Nellie Winters is originally from Nutak and now lives in Makkovik as well.

She says she remembers Nochasak playing the organ, when she moved to Makkovik.

Winters adds Nochasak played the organ very well.

Click here to hear from Nochasak and Winters today about Nochasak’s retirement on playing the organ.

The Family Literacy Day was celebrated this Monday all across Canada on January 27th.

The Jens Haven Memorial School students from K-3 and Grades 4-12 held their Family Literacy Day in both schools.

We had one of our Radio Producers there to record both events.

Today we will air the audio from the JHMS Primary students from grades kindergarten to grade 3.

Click here to hear the audio of the Family Literacy Day.

There will be an information session on the Torngat Mountains Caribou in February.

Meredith Purcell is the Wildlife Research Program Manager at Torngat Wildlife Plants and Fisheries Secretariat.

There will be a brief presentation on the results of past monitoring, an open discussion on caribou distribution, methodologies and issue with the Torngat Mountains Caribou.

In the session, they will also teach how the caribou are being monitored.

You can participate in survey designing and help to map areas where the caribou have been seen this year.

This will be held on February 18th at the NG boardroom in Nain at 7 pm.

For more information, you can contact Purcell at 709-896-6780 or by email at meredith.purcell@torngatsecretariat.ca.

Nain Youth will have an opportunity to go out on the land this week.

Kim Oliver is the Youth Centre Outreach Worker in Nain.

She says six youth aged 16-30 are planned for this outing this Friday, January 31st, 2020 and they plan to meet by DHSD Building at 8:00 am.

They will be going out to Anaktalik to fish, have a boil-up and get wood to donate to an elder.

The deadline to register is tomorrow, Thursday, January 30th.

If you like to register or get more information, you can contact Kim Oliver by phone at 922-1692, drop a message on Facebook, or drop by to the Youth Centre.

The Labrador Aboriginal Training Partnership Executive Producer and the LATP Career Counsellor have been quite busy.

Ocean Lane is the Career Counsellor for the North Coast with LATP, and Keith Jacque is the Executive Producer.

Lane and Jacque did an information session in Hopedale on January 22nd to January 23rd last week.

The sessions went well and there were a lot of people in attendance that filled out applications.

Lane adds that the Camp Attendant Training went ahead last Monday, January 27th, and will finish on February 7th.

The trainees are training at the Assembly building and at the hotel.

She adds that the LATP is now accepting applications for the training in Nain.

If anyone would like to fill out an application, you can contact Ocean Lane by email at olane@latp.ca or you can call her office in Makkovik at (709) 923-2313.

Inuktitut Classes will be starting up in Goose Bay next month.

Holly Pye is the Finance Administrator for Mokami Status of Women.

She says Selma Jararuse will be the instructor and has 10 people that are registered for the free sessions.

The Inuktitut Classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-8 pm.

She says there are a total of 20 sessions and will be starting next Monday, February 3rd.

The classes will be held at the Women’s Centre at 43 Grenfell Street.

We will have more information on these Inuktitut Classes once it becomes available.

The Status of Women office with the Nunatsiavut Government in Happy Valley-Goose bay will be holding an event on “Aboriginal Women for Tomorrow” workshop next month.

They are looking for two women in each Nunatsiavut communities to attend.

We spoke with Tracy Ann Evans Rice who is the Status of Women Coordinator with Nunatsiavut Government.

She says this workshop is to help women improve their public speaking and their written skills.

The deadline to apply is today, January 28th, 2020.

This workshop will be held in Goose Bay on February 24th and 25th.

Click here to find out more about this workshop for women.

There was a Language Workshop held here in Nain last weekend, January 25th and 26th.

Shirley Jararuse is the Language Program Coordinator with the Nunatsiavut Government.

She says the workshop was aimed to develop community linguists for each community.

There were 15 participants including Inuttitut teachers, Language Nest workers, and Master and Apprentices from Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik and Rigolet that attended the workshop.

Presentations were held by Nicholas Welch on Documentary linguists in the community, Instructor, Sophie Tuglavina on reading and writing Inuttut, Instructor, Joan Dicker on the linguistic structure of Inuttut, and Instructor, Nancy Ikkusek who also did a presentation on teaching Inuttut.

Jararuse also says that everyone really enjoyed the program and thought it was very interesting and informative.

19 people in Ontario are being investigated for corona virus after 1 case confirmed, 1 presumed.

According to the CBC News website, it says the Ontario associate chief medical officer says ‘We’re being extra, extra cautious about this”.

Passengers and people waiting to pick them up are wearing masks at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Sunday.

Canada’s first case of a new strain of corona virus has been officially confirmed, Ontario health officials said Monday, as they announced the patient’s wife has also contracted the illness.

Another 19 people in the province are also under investigation for possible infection, said Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer.

The couple had traveled to Wuhan, China, and recently returned to Toronto.

The woman has been in self-isolation at home since they arrived, Williams said.

The Corona viruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds.

In humans, the virus causes respiratory infections which are typically mild but, in rare cases, can be lethal.

This virus can be in cows and pigs they may cause diarrhea, while in chickens it can cause an upper respiratory disease.

Story Courtesy of the CBC News.

There will be a Food Bank Giveaway this Thursday, January 30th, 2020.

The TaKuaKautik Food Bank is run completely by volunteers.

And today is the last day to place your orders for the food distribution.

To place an order by the next giveaway, you can call the toll free number at 709-700-4739.

You must fill out the intake forms that can be picked up at the Clinic, Nunatsiavut Government building, Family Connections Staff, and the Nigivik Centre.

They would also like to remind the community that the TaKuaKautik will be handing out food on the one day a month that is designated and advertised.

If you miss this date, you will have to wait until the next month to pick up any ordered food.

If you have any questions, please reach out to the food bank committee.