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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Husky withdraws Whitebeach Point sand request
Husky Oil Operations Ltd. withdrew a controversial application to drill bore holes for sand near Whitebeach Point along Great Slave Lake to be used for hydraulic fracturing operations in Western Canada. The company notified the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board of the change in a letter Tuesday but did not explain why.
Board hearings were set to be held Thursday in Behchoko and June 23 and 24 in Yellowknife.
- Shane Magee
Fire ban lifted
A ban placed on open air fires issued June 11 ended Monday morning as rain fell across the city.
A news release from city hall announced the end of the ban, although residents were encouraged to follow safe burning practices and use only approved fire pits.
- Shane Magee
Council election results in for Dettah and Ndilo
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation elected their new band council on Monday. Eight candidates ran for the five council positions in Dettah and seven candidates ran for the five councillor seats in Ndilo, according to a news release. Candidates re-elected in Dettah are Bobby Drygeese, Mary Rose Sundberg and Jonas Sangris while Randy Baillargeon and Gordie Liske were elected as new councillors. In Ndilo Paul Betsina, Napoleon Mackenzie and Philip Liske won the right to stay on council while the new councillors are Lena Black and Catherine Lafferty.
- Evan Kiyoshi French
William McDonald gets new principal
A teacher from William McDonald School is taking over as principal in the fall. Jeff Seabrook - who began teaching math, science and industrial arts at the school in 2003 - will take over for Rachell Simmons, who is moving to J.H. Sissons School to take over for Paul Bennett, who will be the new vice-principal at Sir John Franklin High School.
- Evan Kiyoshi French
Season looms
Rankin Inlet/Kivalliq
Preparations are already well under way for what promises to be an exciting summer of softball action in Rankin Inlet.
The Rankin Inlet Coed Softball League is scheduled to host its first executive meeting this week. Listed below are the activities already undertaken by organizers, and the schedule of known events to take place on the diamond this summer.
- Supplies have been ordered (balls, batting mats, etc.) for league play and tournaments.
- The Juggernauts will represent Rankin Inlet at the 2015 SPN Nationals (Coed 'E' Division) in Niagara Falls from July 31 to Aug. 3.
The Juggernauts are representing the community by virtue of their win during last year's National Qualifier Tournament held in Rankin Inlet.
- The 2015 Calm Air Cup will be held in Rankin Inlet from Aug. 7 to 9.
All Kivalliq communities are invited to participate. For more details about the tournament, please contact Robert Connelly.
- The hamlet will be removing the tarp from the field very shortly, so teams and players can begin preparing for the upcoming season.
- The hamlet and league are currently in preliminary discussions to design and build a second ball field in the community.
- The 2015 softball season is expected to start the first week of July.
Barbecue coming up
Rankin Inlet
The Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre will be hosting a summer kickoff barbecue on Saturday, June 20, beginning at noon.
Everyone in the community is invited to come out and enjoy a great lunch with friendship centre staff members.
Culture camp
Kivalliq
The Kivalliq Inuit Association (KIA) will be hosting a Pijunnaqsiniq Culture Camp from July 27 to Aug. 7 at NiaquungutNorth Pole River outside of Repulse Bay (Naujaat).
The camp is aimed at youth aged 15 to 29.
It will feature activities such as sewing traditional Inuit clothing, the preparation and use of marine and land mammal skins, traditional food preparation and preservation, learning survival skills out on the land, fishing and pipsi making, land and sea mammal harvesting skills, traditional Inuit weather observation and a grief-and-loss workshop and healing.
Applications may be picked up at the KIA office in Rankin Inlet, or through the community liaison officer in the other six Kivalliq communities.
Spotter training
Rankin Inlet
Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay will be hosting members of the Royal Canadian Air Force later this week, as they come into the two communities to train search spotters.
The personnel will be in Rankin Inlet tomorrow, June 18, and in Cambridge Bay on June 19.
A C130 Hercules aircraft from the 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron at CFB Trenton will be part of the training exercise, along with local Civil Air Search and Rescue volunteers.
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