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News Briefs: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Parachutes over lake
About 120 paratroopers from Bravo Company, Third Battalion, Princess Patricia Light Infantry are scheduled to jump from a Hercules aircraft at about 1,250 feet above Great Slave Lake at the Edzo Bridge during training today.
The first jump is scheduled for 1 p.m. and a second jump is to take place around 3 p.m. Two containers of supplies are also to be dropped onto the lake ice.
- Laura Busch
SSi server goes down
The SSi Micro customer care centre issued an apology to clients Tuesday after its e-mail server went down until 3 a.m.
Tuesday following a power outage which led to complications Monday night, said spokesperson William Ingarfield.
- Simon Whitehouse
Property tax appeal deadline approaches
The deadline for Yellowknifers who wish to appeal their property tax assessment is Feb. 20. Taxpayers must file a complaint with the board of revision, then fill out an appeal form.
Details are in a guide mailed with assessments. Feb. 20 is also the deadline for taxpayers to make a school tax support declaration.
- Kevin Allerston
Cupcake challenge
Today is the last day to register for the Cupcake Challenge, being held in the Yellowknife Public Library meeting room from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 25. The event is geared toward children 7 to 12 years old.
The event is free and kids can be signed up at the library's front desk.
- Kevin Allerston
Blizzard woes
Kivalliq
A fourday winter storm blasted the Kivalliq region this past week, bringing blizzard or near blizzard conditions to every community for more than two days.
A number of minor sports teams in the region that were scheduled to travel to tournaments outside the Kivalliq had their plans thwarted by the storm.
As of press time, a female hockey team from Iqaluit that was originally scheduled to play five exhibition games against the Rankin females this past weekend had rescheduled their flight to arrive in Rankin Sunday afternoon.
The team was looking for enough ice time in Rankin to make up for as many of their five scheduled games as they possibly could between Sunday and Tuesday evenings.
Bantam tourney in works
Coral Harbour
The community of Coral Harbour is working on short notice to try to host a Hockey Nunavutsanctioned bantam hockey tournament from March 30 to April 1.
The number of tournaments already scheduled in the region for February and March, coupled with a shortage of regional officials, are combining to make the task a difficult one for the community.
Sport Nunavut has been trying to assist Coral in making the bantam tournament a reality.
Busy weekend
Rankin Inlet/Repulse Bay/Iqaluit
The weekend of March 23 to 25 is shaping up be a busy one on the Kivalliq hockey front.
Rankin Inlet is expecting upwards of eight teams to attend its annual Powerful Peewees tournament, including squads from Winnipeg and Iqaluit, while Team Kivalliq is headed to Iqaluit the same weekend to play Team Baffin in the annual Challenge Cup junior C event.
Meanwhile, it has just been announced Repulse Bay will be hosting the annual Young At Heart female hockey tournament the same weekend.
Tourney winners
Baker Lake
The Kivalliq region managed to capture two medals in the territorial volleyball championships held in Baker Lake from Feb. 3 to 5.
Both Kivalliq medals came courtesy of male teams.
Iqaluit mined gold in the boy's division, while Rankin Inlet captured silver and the hometown Baker Lake squad earned bronze.
On the girls side of the court, Gjoa Haven took top spot, while Panniqtuuq took silver and Iqaluit won bronze.
Dropping numbers
Kivalliq
More than a few eyebrows were raised in Rankin Inlet when Statistics Canada listed the hamlet as one of six Nunavut communities with a shrinking population in its latest census numbers released this past week.
Also listed with a dropping population from the Kivalliq was Chesterfield Inlet, along with Grise Fiord, Resolute Bay, Iglulik and Hall Beach.
On the positive side of the ledger, Repulse Bay was listed as the fastestgrowing community in Nunavut.
Overall, the census showed the Nunavut population has grown at a rate of eight percent from 2006 to 2011.
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