The Spruce Meadows Farms is located in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

We spoke with the owner of the farm, Tom Angiers.

He says Spruce Meadow Farms provides fresh vegetables year-round.

As a supplier with Nutrition North, they offer subsidized freight to Northern communities, further reducing food prices for these communities without sacrificing the quality of the produce.

He says they that if you are living on the north coast communities and would like the best quality of fresh produce, or any frozen meats shipped to you, Spruce Meadows Farm is the best place to order.

Angier’s says they own and harvest their own vegetables year-round in their greenhouse.

Click here to find out more information about how their operations are with the Spruce Meadows Farm.

The Youth Centre in Nain still have regular programming on the go for the community.

Kim Oliver is the Regional Youth Services Manager.

The centre is open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm, excluding the dinner hour, and night program is from 8pm to 8am.

The Regional Youth Program Coordinator, Keryn Andersen is working on the schedule for February 2023.

Staff at the centre are in the process of hiring a youth outreach worker.

The Community Shed Coordinator Susan Saksagiak is busy assembling Kamutet for the past few months, but people are welcome to do smaller projects, even repairing furniture.

Oliver would like to add that they are still recruiting youth for the youth symposium.

They are still in the planning stage to what will be going on at the symposium.

Any youth age 15-30 can submit a brief paragraph to why language and culture is important to you by email to Oliver or Chaim Andersen.

Deadline to apply is on February 15, 2023.

The ice conditions on the North Coast are starting to freeze over with the cold temperatures.

We spoke with Rex Holwell Jr., the Manager for Nunatsiavut Operations with SmartICE.

Holwell says his team traveled by snowmobile to Taktok pond on Friday, February 3, 2023.

He says the ice conditions are now approximately a foot and seven inches.

They had snowmobile issues during the trip so they didn’t go as far as they planned.

We also spoke with Ian Winters who is the Conservation Officer for Hopedale.

Winters says the ice conditions seems to be more rougher after the storm.

He adds that people are still traveling up north, but no one is traveling down to Postville or Makkovik yet due to ice conditions.

In Postville, we spoke with Samantha Jacque who is the Conservation Officer.

Jacque says the ice conditions are now good to travel on, but advises to be careful of the bad rapids that was caused by the wind storm recently.

The Nigivik Centre in Nain has been in operation now since December of 2018.

Their work hours are from Monday to Friday, from 8:30am to 12 noon, and again from 1 to 4:30pm.

The Food Security Coordinator is Debbie Lyall.

She sent us this month’s schedule of planned activities.

Activities planned for today February 8, families who are interested in learning and making homemade bread are welcome to drop by to the Nigivik center now until 8pm this evening.

On tomorrow agenda for February 9, they will be teaching elders on how to bake, bake goods from 8:30am to 4:30pm.

On Friday, February 10, one staff member from the Nigivik center will be going down to the youth center to assist and help youth to make cinnamon buns this will take place from 3pm to 4:30pm.

If anyone would like more information about the Nigivik Schedule, you can call the Nigivik Centre at 922-2968.

Or you can contact Debbie by email: debbie.lyall@nunatsiavut.com.

The Nunatsiavut Government is now accepting applications for the 2023 Home Repair Program.

It is available to all Beneficiaries of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement residing in the Inuit Communities of Nain, Hopedale, Postville, Makkovik, and Rigolet, regardless of household income.

Repairs will be cost-shared with the NHC to a percentage set depending on household income brackets.

Applications must be submitted to the Nunatsiavut Housing Commission by 4:30 pm on Friday, February 10, 2023.

Hard copies of the application forms available at every Nunatsiavut Government and DHSD front desk, or by email at brenna.jarrar@nunatsiavut.com.

To submit your application, you can send them to:

PO Box 2760, Station B, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, A0P-1E0, or by fax at 1-709-896-2610.

For more information, please contact Brenna Jarrar at 709-896-4081.

The kinatuinamut Ilingajuk magazine holds interesting stories within Labrador.

For example, there was a story about the Land Claims Opening that was held in Nain in 1988.

About 300 people from the north coast communities, St. John’s and Ottawa gathered at the Jens Haven Memorial School gym to witness this historical event.

Nain’s chief elder back then, Jerry Sillitt did an opening prayer, followed by a hymn sung by the Moravian Coastal Choir.

Click here to hear more of this event that was held in 1988.

Here is the Recreation and CYN schedule for this week until the Feb 11, 2023.

The afterschool program is from 3 to 5pm for children aged 5 to 7, or for 8 to 12.

CYN Activities are in the gymnasium from 8 to 9:45pm for anyone 13 years and older.

Today, at 3pm, children ages 5 to 7 will be making sundaes, followed by women’s volleyball at 8pm.

Tomorrow, February 8, children ages 8 to 12 will be making sundaes, card games begin at 7pm, and men’s volleyball will be at 8.

On Thursday, February 9, seniors will have bingo from 1:30 to 3pm. Children ages 5 to 7 will be making arts and crafts for valentine’s at 3pm, and ball hockey will be for ages 13 and up at 8pm.

Friday, February 10, children ages 8 to 12 will have their turn to make arts and crafts for valentines at 3pm, co-ed volleyball will be 7 to 9pm, and men’s volleyball from 9 to 10:45pm.

On Saturday, February 11, children ages 5 to 7 will have a movie at 2pm, hot dogs and juice will be provided, there will be men’s volleyball from 2 to 5pm, and anyone 13 years of age and older will have ball hockey from 7 to 10:45pm.

The 26th Annual Youth Symposium will be held in Nain this year.

This is for any youth between the ages of 15 to 25 years old and will be held on March 27 to the 31st, 2023.

The deadline to apply is February 15th, 2023.

They are looking for 3 youth from Rigolet, 3 youth from Makkovik, 5 youth from Postville, 2 youth from Hopedale, 3 youth from Nain, 3 youth from the Upper Lake Melville area, and 2 youth from the Canadian Constituency.

Please submit a brief paragraph of why language and culture is important to you, please email your paragraph to Kim Oliver at kim.oliver@nunatsiavut.com, or you can call her office at 709-899-3159.

You can also get in touch with Chaim Andersen by email at chaim.andersen@nunatsiavut.com.

The OKâlaKatiget Society Radio Department had a long wait for our transmitter to be fixed.

This morning a Bell Aliant employee came and worked on the issue.

He was in our main broadcast room and then later he went down to the Nain Moravian Church to check out the transmitter.

Now to our big fans out there, OK Radio has good news that the transmitter is all fixed and you can now turn your radio on next Sunday coming to listen to the Inuktitut church service at 10am.

Apparently, the transmitter has not been working for a month and two weeks.

Nomination of Candidates for the By-Election of 1 community member of the community government for the unexpired term of office.

Nominations of candidates for by-election of 1 community member of the community government for the municipality of Postville will be received between the hours of 9am and 4pm on Thursday, February 16, 2023 to Friday February 24, 2023.

Nominations will take place at the Postville Inuit Community Government at 20 Kaipokok Drive.

There is a non-refundable fee of $25 to be paid during nomination.

Nominated candidates must not be in arrears with the Postville Inuit Community Government.

Nominations shall be in writing and state the name and residence of the candidate and shall be signed by the proposer and seconder, both of whom shall be present together with the candidate who shall sign also signifying his or her acceptance of the nomination.

The qualifications of a candidate for election for the community member are as follows:

– An Inuk beneficiary
– Canadian Citizen of the full age of 19 years
– Ordinarily resident of the community for at least 2 months prior to the date set for the nomination period
– Unless he or she is disqualified in terms of subsection 5 of the elections act

The election if require will take place on Tuesday March 21, 2023 between 8am to 8pm at the Recreation Hall.