The Labrador Aboriginal Training Partnership will be funding clients this fall for different training programs.

Eligible training programs for clients who are wishing to go back to school for trades this fall.

LATP can provide funding for the following: Office Administration, Aboriginal Bridging program, Carpenter, CAS Trades, Commercial Diver class 1 and class 3, Construction Industrial Electrician, Cook, Heavy Duty Mechanic Technician, Heavy Equipment Operator, Industrial Mechanic (Millwright), Instrumentation and control technician, Insulator, Machinist, Metal Fabricator, Plumber, Refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic, sheet metal worker, Small equipment service technician, Steamfitter/Pipefitter, welder, welder/metal fabricator (fitter)

You must fill out the LATP application forms.

If you or anyone would like to apply for funding through LATP please contact your local NG Career Counsellor or call the main office in Goose Bay, toll free: 1-877-896-5006.

The OK Radio contacted some Nunatsiavut communities to see what they have to offer in their communities freezers.
Here in Nain, we have char.

In Hopedale, they have moose meat, chicken, and chicken hearts.

In Postville, they have moose and char.

The Community Freezer in Makkovik is running low on polar bear meat but is waiting for some char.

And in Rigolet, they have moose, red berries, bake apples, cod, and char.

Today marks Day five of this year’s Easter Games here in Nain.

Started at 10am this morning, there was a Children’s Easter Glow in the Dark Dance Party followed by an Easter Egg Hunt at the Jeremias Sillitt Community Centre.

And at dinner time, 12 noon was children’s lunch serving hotdogs, juice and jell-o.

Starting at 5:15pm there will be Adult’s Cash Bingo; door’s opening at 4:45 with $20 cards, $1,500 Jackpot, and Draws for 5 free $21 Bingo Vouchers, and a Mystery Door Prize.

Limited seating will also be available for Senior’s 65 and up.

Also, at 7:30pm tonight will be Entertainment Night with the Flummies presenting Richard Dyson, Simeon Asivak, Leander Baikie, and Tunker Campbell.

This entertainment night will also be open to any local performers.

So anyone wanting to perform in tonight’s Entertainment Night can contact Recreation Director Lisa Ivany or Recreation Assistant, Mary Maggo at the Jeremias Sillitt Community Centre at 922-2690 or 922-2691.

The next TaKuaKautik food giveaway will be tomorrow, Thursday, April 25th from 6-8pm at the Nigivik Centre.

The TaKuaKautik would also like to remind the community that they will be handing out food once a month only.

It will be on the one day a month that is designated and advertised.

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

Please make sure to put extra effort into making an order and picking up a bag on that one day of the giveaway.

The TaKuaKautik food bank is ran completely by volunteers and due to the amount of work put into the food bank, this is what we are able to provide for the community until further notice.

Also please note that the Nigivik is not a part of the TaKuaKautik food bank. It is just space we use once a month for the give always.

The Nigivik staff are not food bank staff.

If you have already filled out a registration form, you do not need to fill another. You just need to leave your name and the number of people in your household.

The Nigivik Centre would also like for the bags to be returned before the next giveaway.

If you have any questions, please call toll free 1-709-700-4739 to place your order before 12pm on Wednesda

The Nain Inuit Community Government is inviting the Flummies to Nain, who will be performing during the Talent night tomorrow evening.

Leander Baikie a long time member of the Flummies who is also a songwriter and singer.

He says that this year marks 41 year the Flummies are together as a band.

And the Flummies are coming to town to rock out the Easter Games and for the Community of Nain.

They will perform 2 difference shows; first performance will be at the Jeremias Sillitt Community Center on April 25th for the Community and again at the Atsanik Lodge on Saturday April 27, 2019.

Thanks to Tom Goodwin for helping make this possible.

The NICG are looking for any local performers to perform.

If you’re interested and would like to perform please contact Lisa Ivany or Mary Maggo.

To hear more from Baikie, click here.

Today, April 24, marks day four of the Easter Games here in Nain.

The day Started at 1pm at the Nain Harbour, the Children’s and Adult’s games are in play.

Games such as crab race ball/egg between legs, running race, and etc.

The Adult evening event starts at 7pm at the Jeremias Sillitt Community Centre.

Games such as pass the parcel, blindfold dress up, baby feeding contest, chubby bunny, and etc.

Tomorrow, April 25, 2019, the day starts with a children’s Easter Glow in the Dark Dance Party at the JSCC at 10am-12pm followed by Children’s lunch at 12 noon.

Ok Radio will have more of the Easter events for day five tomorrow.

The Labrador Correctional Center in Happy Valley Goose Bay is getting $1Million for expansion to house female inmates.

According to the Labradorian; The LCC can have a maximum capacity of 53 inmates.

The governing Liberals put aside $1 million dollars to expand the Labrador Correctional Facility.

This will increase the capacity for female inmates who have had to be sent to Newfoundland cells.

This change would allow inmates to be jailed in a location closer to their families and loved ones.

During protests outside the gates of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric megaproject in 2016, RCMP arrested a number of demonstrators.

Because there is limited capacity for keeping people in custody in Goose Bay, some of the women arrested were sent to St. John’s to be held in Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, a provincial jail for men that often houses violent criminals serving federal sentences.

That move prompted demonstrations outside the aging prison from people who were appalled that the women were flown out of Labrador and to St. John’s.

One of those inmates was Beatrice Hunter, whose family took part in the protests.

Supporters of Beatrice Hunter gathered outside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in June 2017, while she was incarcerated inside.

The Pauttutiit Women of Canada is very busy this year.

Rebecca Kudloo is the President for this organization.

She says In March of this year, she went to New York for the 63rd sessions of the United Nation Commission on Status of Women.

Kudloo adds the federal government usually has a Canadian delegate that goes there, and she was there to talk to the Audience.

To hear more from Kudloo on Pauttutiit, click here.

Youth from Hopedale can take part in a free Slipper Making Workshop.

Veronica Winters who is in charge of the workshop.

She says this slipper making workshop is for youth between the ages from 12-20.

She hopes to get 8-10 youth for the workshop, and right now they have 3 youth who are confirmed.

Winters says she received grant monies from the Students on Ice Expedition to complete this workshop.

This is a great way for youth to learn how to sew your own Labrador Inuit style slippers.

All materials are provided and the workshop is free.

Winters says the workshop will take place on May 1 to the 21, 2019.

Youth will learn step by step on how to make their own traditional pair of slippers.

Winters will be assisted by Andrea Flowers and Sarah Jensen.

Youth can keep their slippers when the workshop is completed, they can make slippers for themselves or for a friend and family member.

So if you are interested in taking part in this slipper making workshop please contact Veronica Winters by email: veronica.flowers25@gmail.com

This year’s Labrador Inuit Youth Symposium will centre on land-based programming with a focus on cultural healing.

The annual event will be taking place at the Department of Health and Social Development’s Healing Lodge at Little Bay near Hopedale from April 24-29.

They will be gathering youth from each five Labrador Inuit Communities and Upper Lake Melville, as well as from the Canadian Constituency.

The delegates will take part in a variety of activities, such as including a session on throat singing, and presentations on governance and leadership, reducing the carbon footprint and language.

There will also be discussions on revitalizing the Rising Youth Council, as well as sessions on how to prepare and make cultural foods.

A cultural feast will also being planned for a later day of the week.