Former NHL Hockey Player, Theo Fleury, turned motivational speaker, will be in Happy Valley Goose Bay on Sunday, February 3rd at the College of the North Atlantic for a speaking engagement.

Sharon Edmunds is the Team Leader at the Department of Health & Social Development.

She says Fluery will talk about his experience through trauma, addiction and his journey to helping others.

This is a free event open to the public, doors will open at 4pm, and his presentation will run from 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

Edmunds says he will be available from 5:30 to 6:30 for autographs and photos, so please note that there are to be no photos or video recording during his session.

Children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult due to the sensitive nature of his talk.

For more information please call Carla Blake at 896-3396.

The TaKuaKautik distribution is tonight, January 31st from 6-8pm at the Nigivik Centre in Nain.

Orders were asked to be in by Jan 30th and must be picked up between 6 and 8pm tonight, Thursday Jan 31st.

Intake forms can be picked up at the clinic, NG porch, family connections staff, and the Nigivik Centre. They can be filled ahead of time and dropped off when picking up your bag or filled at the Nigivik centre with the help of a volunteer.

And if you are to place an order, make sure you call ahead of time to ensure you can pick up a bag of food.

Also, please note that all bags from the giveaway must be returned as soon as possible as they are the only bags that they have, or if you have any bags to donate, it can be dropped off to the Nigivik Centre.

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

Labrador Aboriginal Training Program (LATP) is in partnership with 3 Labrador Aboriginal Groups, Nunatsiavut Government, Innu Nation and NunatuKavut Community Council.

Janelle Barbour of Nain is the Career Counsellor for Nunatsiavut with LATP.

She says they are also partnered with Vale NL in mining at Voisey’s Bay.

Barbour says there’s already been some Nunatsiavut Beneficiaries sent to Sudbury, Ontario for training within the underground mining.

She says there are more training involved depending on what Vale NL is looking for: such as heavy equipment technicians, and electricians.

To hear Barbour give you details on the training program, click here.

Former NHL Calgary Flames Theo Fleury, will be in Nain on February 8, 2019.

This visit is sponsored by Nunatsiavut Governments, Dept. of Health and Social Development.

An expert in the field of relational trauma, Theo presents a message of resilience and Determination about personal growth, overcoming sexual abuse and trauma.

There is a Community Feast planned for that evening at the Jeremias Sillitt Memorial Community Centre at 6:30pm.

Fish will served and everyone is welcome.

The 16th Annual Inuktitut Speak-Off went really well last week in Makkovik.

Joan Dicker was one of the Judges.

She says there were nine students participating this year.

Dicker says the female students received akuliks and one male had a silapak as well.

To hear from Dicker on the Inuktitut Speak-Off that was held in Makkovik last week, click here.

Every year on January 27, Family Literacy Day is celebrated all across Canada and this year everyone is celebrating the 20th year anniversary.

This year the Family Literacy Day falls on a Sunday so the Jens Haven Memorial elementary School grades from 4-6 held their Family Literacy Day on Friday Jan 25 and the Primary grades from Kindergarten to grade 3 held their FLD on January 28.

We had one of our radio producers visit the school to record this event.

To hear the Family Literacy Day event that was held at the JHMS Primary School, later today at 3:30, click here.

The OK Radio contacted some Nunatsiavut communities to see what they have to offer in their communities freezers.

Here in Nain, we have moose and char.

In Hopedale freezer, they have moose, char, salmon, trout, and some pantries.

And in Postville, they have moose and char.

The last time we checked in Makkovik, they had Char and Polar Bear meat to offer in their community freezer.

Today, January 30, 2019, is Bell let’s talk day. Bell is donating five cents for every time anyone tweets hash tag(#) BellLetsTalk, Each time you use the bell let’s talk face book frame,

each time you watch bells official video on instagram, each time you send a snap using the bell let’s talk filter on snap chat, or if you watch and share Bell’s official video on any of these apps.

For every text message sent by a Bell mobility customer and for every mobile and long distance call made by a Bell, Bell Aliant or Bell MTS customer also.

As a result of Bell Let’s talk day last year in 2018 Bell donated a total of six million, nine hundred nineteen thousand, one hundred ninety-nine and seventy five cents ($6,919,199.75) toward mental health initiatives.

Also for Bell Let’s talk day the Nunatsiavut Department of Health and Social development (DHSD) will be holding free skating for youth and families in Nain. This will take place at 3:30 to 4:30pm at the Nain Husky Center arena, there will be hot chocolate and snacks provided.

The OKalaKatiget Society would like to apologize to our listening audience for lack of phone services for the past two months.

When our Radio producer arrived at work on Sunday, December 9, 2018, she discovered that the phones were completely dead.

The earliest date Aliant could give us to repair was March 22nd.

So after numerous calls and complaints concerning this, they have finally committed to putting in the new system, the week of February 4, weather permitting.

All they have told us is that many managers have now retired and due to our remote location we no longer have our own account manager and are considered low-end.

Thank-you for your patience, this has been very difficult for staff and audience alike.

The new Yoga class was a great success last Tuesday evening.

Cate Carlson is the instructor for the classes.

She says they held their first yoga class at the JC center on January 25.

She would like to notify those who are attending her classes that they have a new location for Yoga.

Carlson says she would like to say a big thank you to principle Jacob Larkin for allowing them to use the gym at the Primary School.

The next Yoga class will be held Thursday night, at 7:30 at the JHMS Primary School.

She adds please be there at least 10 minutes early to get yourself set up so that class does not get interrupted.

The yoga classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday night.

Carlson says they had a great turnout and hopes they continue to have a good amount of people who are interested.

They learned some basics, poses and breathing, and will learn to do more flows and more complicated poses in a few classes.

For more information you can contact Cate via Facebook or the group called “Nain Yoga 2019”.