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News Briefs: Monday, March 13, 2013
Henry Zoe faces sex assault charge
Former cabinet minister and MLA Henry Zoe is facing a charge of sexual assault related to an alleged incident in Hay River in July 2009.
He appeared in Supreme Court in Yellowknife, Monday. However, since Zoe has not yet retained counsel, the matter was put over to May 6. Zoe was minister of Municipal Affairs and Community Development in 1999 but was stripped of his portfolio by then-premier Joe Handley in 2004. He was first elected as an MLA for Rae-Lac La Martre in 1987 and was MLA for North Slave from 1991 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2005. He has been convicted twice for assault and was convicted of resisting arrest in 2005.
- Miranda Scotland
Trial set for wood case
A case against a Yellowknife resident who allegedly harvested wood for personal use last year is set for trial June 20.
In September 2012, Barrett Lenoir was stopped near Behchoko by a GNWT natural resources officer who found him with harvested wood in the back of his pickup track. He was subsequently charged under the Forest Management Act for cutting timber without authorization.
Lenoir, a member of the Liidlii Kue First Nation in Fort Simpson, previously pleaded not guilty on the grounds he was in Treaty 11 territory.
- Miranda Scotland
March break swim schedule
Between March 16 and 28, Ruth Inch Memorial Pool will be open daily for a noon Swim and Splash from noon to 12:55 p.m., public swim from 1 to 2:55 p.m., and family swim from 3 to 4:55 p.m.
- Miranda Scotland
Library holds reading challenge
The Yellowknife Public Library is challenging residents to read six books by March 15 for a chance to win an e-reader. Entry forms are at the library. The titles must be chosen from six different categories. There are a total of 16 options listed on the ballot.
- Miranda Scotland
Medal recipient
Baker Lake
Elder Jean Simailak of Baker Lake was presented with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal during a special presentation in Baker Lake on March 2.
Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson presided over the ceremony.
Simailak was honoured with the medal for her contributions as a nurse's assistant in Fort Churchill, for starting a breakfast program in Baker Lake, and being a respected kindergarten teacher and retired minister at St. Aidan's Anglican Church.
Checking prices
Kivalliq
The Government of Nunavut (GN) will begin monitoring food prices at local retailers before the end of this month.
The monitoring will be launched as a GN pilot project with monitoring taking place in 10 communities.
The GN has announced volunteers will be used to check prices at retail stores in an effort to determine the cost of living in the participating communities. The Nunavut Bureau of Statistics and the AntiPoverty Secretariat will work together to collect the information.
Soccer silver
Rankin Inlet/Iqaluit
The Rankin Inlet boy's 14andunder team earned a silver medal at the Nunavut Territorial Soccer Championship in Iqaluit earlier this month.
The Rankin team went through the tournament with a perfect 70 record before falling to the Iqaluit White squad by a score of 43 in the championship game.
Law day
Arviat
A special Arviat Law Day will be held at the Arviat Community Learning Centre on March 14.
The event is sponsored by the Akitsiraq Law School and will give youths the opportunity to take a day to consider law as a career. Participating youths will learn how they can possibly attend a southern law school, get an idea of whether a career in law appeals to them, and learn what lawyers do, how long legal studies take, what a person has to do to be accepted, what a law class is like and what options a student has.
The event will also feature a law school lecture with law school professors.
Hockey talk
Rankin Inlet
The community of Rankin Inlet will be hosting the annual Powerful Peewees hockey tournament this coming weekend, March 15 to 17.
Players from all seven Kivalliq communities, including two teams from the host community, are expected to compete at the event.
Following the peewee action, the Northern Hockey Challenge teams from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, and Repulse Bay will be in Rankin for an ultraimportant slate of games.
The March 22 weekend marks the end of roundrobin play in the NHC's Eastern Division and, with the standings so close, chances are good a final playoff spot will be decided during the weekend's action.
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