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News Briefs: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Woman sentenced for threats
Roberta Marie Simmonds was back in court Wednesday after pleading guilty to perjury charges earlier this month.
Sentencing on the perjury matter was held over until Dec. 7, but Simmonds was sentenced on a charge of uttering death threats. Simmonds had threatened the mother of a man she involved in an emergency protection order obtained under false pretenses. For threatening the woman, Simmonds was ordered to keep the peace, have no contact with the mother and not to be within 50 metres of her residence.
- Laura Busch
Liquor board hearing
A compliance hearing regarding an alleged incident at the Gold Range bar on March 12 will "most likely not proceed" and result in an agreement, according to GNWT counsel Alanhea Vogt and Mike Danyluik, a lawyer representing the Gold Range, at a NWT Liquor Licensing Board hearing Tuesday.
The allegations read by NWT Liquor Board chair Colin Baile concern an intoxicated person being allowed to enter or remain in a licensed premises and the selling or serving of liquor in a licensed premises to an intoxicated person. Tuesday's hearing at the Yellowknife Inn was adjourned until Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
- Katherine Hudson
Light up the night
Although the days are getting darker, the city will be shining tomorrow night. The City of Yellowknife and the legislative assembly are hosting the annual Christmas Lights Across Canada festivities starting at 4:45 p.m. with the Mildred Hall School choir singing in the front foyer of City Hall.
At 5 p.m., deputy mayor Mark Heyck will turn on the Christmas lights outside City Hall and a procession will make its way to the legislative assembly where kindergarten students from Yellowknife, Ndilo and Dettah have spent this week and last decorating the Great Hall for the Christmas season.
- Katherine Hudson
Music at the museum
Old Man Luedecke, a popular banjo player from Nova Scotia, will take to the stage at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Cafe tomorrow night. Organizers are asking ticket holders to bring a donation of cash or non-perishable food items for the Yellowknife Food Bank.
Old Man Luedecke has been in Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet as part of the Alianait Arts Festival concert series. The show starts at 8 p.m. with opening act Ryan McCoy of the Dawgwoods.
- Nicole Garbutt
Time for science
Rankin Inlet - Manni Ulujuk Ilinniarvik (MUI) in Rankin Inlet will be holding its annual science fair tomorrow, Dec.1.
The MUI gym will house the projects and be open for student visits from all three Rankin schools from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Additional project viewing for the general public will be held at MUI from 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., with a science show held at 8 p.m.
The science fair awards will be presented on Friday, Dec. 2, during MUI's monthly assembly.
MUI will host the Kivalliq Regional Science Fair in Rankin next March.
Bball time
Baker Lake - The community of Baker Lake was scheduled to host the Junior Male Nunavut Territorial Basketball Championship this past weekend. The event was originally scheduled for the previous weekend, but was weathered out.
The females will take to the court in Baker this coming weekend, Dec. 24, to compete for the Junior Female Nunavut Territorial Basketball Championship.
Results from the male championship were not known at press time.
National award
Nunavut - Nunavut Conservative MP Leona Aglukkaq of Iqaluit is among three Inuit women who will receive a National Aboriginal Achievement Award in Vancouver in February.
Aglukkaq, who is federal Health minister and the minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, earned the prestigious distinction for her contributions to politics.
Also earning acclaim will be Makivik Corp. chief negotiator of selfgovernment Minnie Gray of Nunavik (public service) and former vicepresident of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Violet Ford of Labrador (law and justice).
Mum's the word
Nunavut - Former Nunavut Health minister Tagak Curley has stated he will not talk to the media until later this week after his time as a minister without portfolio ends Nov. 30. Curley shocked the territory when he resigned from cabinet earlier this month.
All indications are he intends to remain as the MLA for Rankin Inlet North.
Bay Boys overseas
Scotland/Rankin Inlet - Longtime Rankin Inlet resident John Todd was one of five Hudson's Bay Boys who travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, this past week with their families for the screening of a one-hour BBC Scotland TV documentary, The Hudson's Bay Boys, produced by Gilly Mathieson.
Todd was joined at the reunion by fellow Bay Boys John Graham of Iqaluit, Donald Mearns of Panniqtuuq, Neil Greig of Kuujjuaq and Jim Deyell of Ottawa.
While there, the men organized a fundraising ceilidh to celebrate the Inuit and Scottish connection. The event raised $1,500 for the family of Noah Metuq of Panniqtuuq, who lost his life in a boating accident this past summer.
Metuq appears in the documentary, and is seen taking the Bay Boys to the floe edge in Panniqtuuq to hunt for seal.
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