August 4, 2016 - Northern News Services
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August 4, 2016 - Northern News Services
'There was so much going on it was tough to keep track' Daughter reflects on career of first mayor of Inuvik Volume 52 Issue 31 75 CENTS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016 Wet fun in the sun Several dogs die after removal from owner Pokemon Go comes to Inuvik Just Call Vince win Midnight Sun tourney Publication mail Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo Contract #40012157 community 2 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 Pokemon Go takes over town Smartphone app brings back memories for game players by Kaila Jefferd-Moore to respect other people's property. They stressed that playInuvik residents young and ing the game while riding a old are out walking around bike or skateboarding could town with their eyes focused on be potentially dangerous, and their phones, hunting Pokemon driving while playing is disand swiping up on the screens, tracted driving, which is not throwing Poke Balls to catch only illegal, it is dangerous and potentially fatal. them. Crocker said his training Pokemon Go allows players to relive the glory days of being tip is using the Pokemon spell a Pokemon trainer, this time on incense to attract Pokemon to the trainer, and a Smartphone running. app instead of "I read that a Game Boy. if you run 7.5 "The fact kilometres an that you can hour you can go out and do catch 30 Pokewhat you wanted to do as a kid, it's living a mon in 30 minutes," he said. "It brings people together," childhood dream," said Deklen Crocker, who has collected said Crocker, who said it's easy about 46 of 150 Pokemon in to tell who is playing Pokemon and that it acts as an icebreaker. the game. The Pokemon trainers in Pokemon Go was released July 17 in Canada, just over a Inuvik can be found hanging week after its initial release in out around the Diefenbaker statue in Jim Koe Park, otherthe U.S. It's a "throwback" for Dez wise known as the "the Gym" in town. Trainers Loreen, a casual go to the statue Pokemon Go to battle their player who used Pokemon to take to play the original. over the gym for "The point their team. is to join a "I'm really team, and help surprised by the advance your amount of people team," he said. that have latched "It's this global onto this. Not just thing, people all young people, over the world but even 30-yearare playing this old people are game." playing it," said Deklen Crocker The augmentLoreen. ed reality game The statue is is GPS based. only one of a few When looking at their screens Pokemon hotspots in Inuvik. and walking around, players There are four other locations can see the map changing as in Inuvik, called "PokeStops," their location changes. located at the Jim Koe Park "From the very beginning sign, Our Lady of Victory it's about wanting people to get Church -- better known as the together with friends across the Igloo Church -- Alexander globe and getting active," said Peace Park trailhead, and Jak Loreen. "And I think they've Park. Trainers can go there to cracked it." collect more Poke Balls and In order to catch Pokemon, different spells to help them players need to walk around catch more Pokemon. the map to find them. To hatch Loreen said the developers Pokemon eggs, players need have "done a really great job" to walk a certain distance at with the app but that it's still a certain pace. Driving won't bare bones for now. There is a work, the game only counts lot of potential with what the the distance when the player developers can continue to do moves at a walking pace. with the game. RCMP have put out a state"Trading Pokemon would ment cautioning people to be really help out others. To get safe and cautious when using people actually talking to each the app, reminding players to other rather than standing 10 be aware of their surround- feet from each other battling ings at all times, taking cau- because they're at the same tion to stay out of streets and spot," said Loreen. Northern News Services Kaila Jefferd-Moore/NNSl photo Pokemon Go trainer Fitzgerald Stewart standing in front of the John Diefenbaker statue at Jim Koe Park, also known as the Pokemon Gym, after winning a battle and taking over the gym as a member of Team Mystic Aug. 1. COFFEE Break Jessica Davey-Quantick/NNSL photo Pokemon Go plunks virtual critters into the real world – in this case, a Charmander in a living room. Jessica Davey-Quantick/NNSL photo A Pidgeys pays a visit to an office. "I read that if you run 7.5 kilometres an hour you can catch 30 Pokemon in 30 minutes." feature news Did we get it wrong? Inuvik Drum is committed to getting facts and names right. With that goes a commitment to acknowledge mistakes and run corrections. If you spot an error in Inuvik Drum, contact the editor at (867) 777-4545 or e-mail [email protected]. NEWS Briefs Community mourns former teacher Sandra Ipana passed away July 28 in the morning, leaving behind masses of people who loved and admired her. A teacher at East Three Elementary School, she was one of the first people the youngest students encountered there in kindergarten class. Several community members have taken to social media to express their sadness at the loss of such a respected woman. Funeral services are set for Aug. 4 at 2 p.m. in the Lighthouse Church in Inuvik. Summer speaker series The Aurora Research Institute's summer speaker series continues Aug. 5 with a presentation by Dustin Whalen, a physical scientist with Natural Resources Canada, on changing climate, changing coasts, and changing perspectives in the southeastern Beaufort Sea. There will be a presentation on understanding the destruction of coastal archaeological sites in the Mackenzie Delta caused by modern climate change with Max Friesen, a professor at the University of Toronto. As always, the session is free and open to the public, and will run from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Aurora Research Institute. Anyone looking for more information may contact Catarina Owen or consult the institute's website and Facebook page. Yoga is back Back by overwhelming popular demand, yoga at the greenhouse is back this month. Classes will run every Monday and Thursday in August starting at 7 p.m. in the upstairs section of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse. There is a drop-in fee, and participants should bring their own mat, towel, and water bottle. Walking for a cause Carol Norwegian and her family plan to trek 125 kilometres to Inuvik from Tsiigehtichic this week in memory of Therese Remi-Norwegian and Claude Tom Sawyer, who passed away in 2010 and 2011 respectively. They are also walking to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society, which funds research for cures for cancer, but also developments in treatment that can make living with the disease more bearable. Donations can be made online through the Canadian Cancer Society website, or the Walk of Love's own website. Learning on the land The Nihtat Gwich'in Council is taking names for medicine and berrypicking classes this month. They are offering three trips, with space for seven or eight people for each, that will help participants learn the Gwich'in names for plants and berries, as well as what they can be used for. Anyone looking to sign up may contact Amanda Vittrekwa at the council's office. INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 3 Man of many hats fondly remembered Dick Hill was Inuvik's first mayor, a scientist, entrepreneur and businessman by Sarah Ladik Northern News Services Jessie Hill doesn't remember coming to Inuvik as an infant. She does remember growing up in the community, not realizing until much later just how unique an experience that was. "It was very isolated, but it was the centre of the world," she said. "People, important people, would go there when they would never go to another small town like that. It was the model Arctic town for Canada." If Inuvik was the centre of the world, Dick Hill was at the centre of Inuvik. The man who was Inuvik's first mayor, the founder of the Inuvik Research Laboratory, and former prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, among many other things, passed away in his sleep in the early hours of July 21, according to a statement from his family. He was residing at Campbell House Hospice in Collingwood, Ontario. "There was so much he got involved in, it was hard to keep track of all of it all," said Hill. "That's what I thought everyone did, that kind of civic engagement... I certainly grew up thinking that was normal." Born in 1930 in Lamont, Alta., he grew up in London, Ont. He went to school there and completed his education in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved with his young family to the North in November 1963 and stayed until 1995, when he went back to Ontario with his second wife, Brigitte Hill. "My father was joking with my mother one day, he had seen an ad in the Globe and Mail for a position at the new research lab in the Arctic," Hill said. "They thought it would be a good adventure, that they would be here for a few years, but then they just didn't leave. They just bonded with the place. There was no place else in the world where you could have had a life like that." That is certainly borne out in the stories Inuvik residents tell of Hill. Tom Zubko, owner of New North Networks, got a job at Hill's lab – which eventually became the Aurora Research Institute – doing small research tasks at the age of 12. "Dick was a fairly entrepreneurial kind of guy," he said, acknowledging that while they approached things differently – Zubko wasn't a government man like Hill – he fundamentally respected Hill's work. Zubko said Hill started Inuvik TV and made the community one of the first three in Canada to have satellite television. He eventually sold the company to Zubko, and it is now New North Networks. "He was always introducing me to people," Zubko said. "He was very generous in that manner, of understanding what your interests were and steering people your way." from the collection can be checked out, others consulted in the library, and still others live in glass cases to protect their delicate pages. The only thing that binds it all together is that it all has something to do with the North, either through authorship or content. "Other libraries, maybe research libraries, were certainly bigger and might have been a better fit," she said. "But he wanted it to stay here, in the North." After more than 20 years, people still come into the Inuvik Centennial Library looking for the Dick Hill collection. Sometimes they knew him, sometimes they know of him through friends and family, and some use it purely for research. Karst had no hesitation in saying how Hill would have reacted to those visitors. "He'd have been thrilled, and he'd have been there chatting with them," she said. "He loved talking about anything to do with the North, and of course, he was incredibly knowledgeable." Homecoming While Hill did not stay along with his books, Mayor Jim McDonald recalls Hill's influence from long after he had moved away. His manytimes-over predecessor came back to Inuvik for the community's 50th anniversary celebrations. "He had already left, but he was still pretty excited about it," McDonald said, adding that he still has an e-mail from Hill in which he lobbied for Inuvik to be included on a list of best towns in Canada in a popular publication. "That was just a year or two ago. He really was a part of the community; he has a very broad range of friends." His daughter would love to bring photo courtesy of Jessie Hill her own family back to the Delta, Dick Hill was the first mayor of Inuvik, as well a scientist, to see once again the setting of her entrepreneur and businessman, among other things. He own idyllic childhood, but lamented the high cost of getting here. passed away July 21 in Collingwood, Ont. In some ways, Inuvik is even Hill always had his eye on the was the librarian when the collec- more isolated now than it was in her father's time, despite increasnext thing, the latest development, tion was donated. "Local people had heard about it ingly easy communication with the when it came to science and technology, but in some ways, he also clung and wanted to see it, and for people outside world. With airfare at a to the past. who didn't always have a lot of premium and little industry driv"His house was full of book- books in the home, it was an oppor- ing improved infrastructure, fewer shelves everywhere," said Zubko. tunity for them to come and see and people are heading North than in the "Everywhere you turned, there were read things about people they knew. golden years of the 1960s and 70s. In Ontario, Hill books." That was quite powerfound other interests ful for some people." to investigate, includA literary legacy Karst said geting his own family Those books are perhaps the ting the collection in lineage of Loyalists. most substantive legacy Inuvik has the first place was Still, Jessie said a part of Hill. When he left in 1995, he something of a coup, of him was always far donated them -- all of them -- as a although there was away, in a small Arctic negotiation collection to the Inuvik Centennial some town. involved. The set, Library. Jessie Hill "He was all-in for With hundreds of books and about 10 per cent of anything Inuvik," she documents ranging from technical which remains in storsaid. scientific PhD theses to children's age and uncatalogued "He never disconfiction, the Dick Hill collection is a at the library, had to stay together, and originally, Hill nected. He really stayed in touch rare resource in the region. "People came in specifically hadn't wanted any of it to go into with people, activities, and issues in looking for it," said Deb Karst, who circulation. Now, common books the community." "He was all-in for anything Inuvik." 4 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 news photo courtesy of Sean Cairns Two more dogs were sent to Yellowknife from Inuvik last week, after having received basic vaccines and some care, to be socialized and eventually adopted to good homes. Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo TOURIST OF THE WEEK Mayor Jim McDonald, left, shakes hands with tourist of the week Frans Rijnbeek July 29 at the Western Arctic Visitors' Centre. Rijnbeek is from Pijnacker, The Netherlands, and is in the process of travelling around the world for a year with his partner. He said travelling the Dempster is not complete without a trip to Inuvik and that he heard about the community from a brochure from a former Whitehorse RCMP officer from Holland. SPCA seeks help for rescued dogs Several animals dead after removal from neglectful owner by Sarah Ladik Northern News Services While the first hurdle of rescuing nearly 30 dogs in Inuvik has been cleared, there is still much work to be done. "It's a huge deal, but that's what we're here for," said Nicole Spencer, president of the NWTSPCA. "It's a huge strain on resources. We need help, we need resources, and we need volunteers to donate their time more than ever." The Drum previously reported that 21 dogs were seized from an Inuvik residence July 15, including two which are just puppies. Bylaw officers returned July 21 and took away three more dogs. Five other dogs evaded capture. Nine of the dogs have been sent south to the NWTSPCA in Yellowknife and to the SPCA in Red Deer for further treatment and hopefully their forever homes. But there are many issues to overcome before that can happen. "We went in expecting eight to 12 dogs, and now we're at 29," said bylaw officer Sean Cairns, adding that many of the dogs were not healthy. The two puppies, he said, had canine distemper, a highly contagious virus that presents with a high fever, eye inflammation, and eye and nose discharge, as well as laboured breathing and coughing, and vomiting, among other things. It is usually fatal in puppies, and one has indeed died from it. Another dog was found to have signs of canine distem- per, as well as a large tumour on his abdomen. Another dog, which officials initially thought was pregnant, turned out to have a serious infection called pyometra. Cairns said the infection in the dog's uterus – which was removed in an emergency surgery in Yellowknife – was likely the result of having had many litters with no veterinary care. "We've vaccinated all the dogs we have in the pound, but them having distemper makes it hard to find places for them to go," he said. "The shelters to go to have to have the capacity to keep them quarantined." Spencer said that while the Yellowknife facility does have that capacity, it is straining the organization's resources. With six dogs from Inuvik there now, there is less room for dogs from the rest of the territory, as well as an increased need for volunteers and crates in which to ship dogs further south. Beyond that, there are the vet costs. "All six dogs are females, and they're all getting fixed," she said. "We get a discount, but that's $300 each. We haven't got the bill for the dog that needed surgery yet, but that was a serious procedure and will be pretty expensive." That dog, now named Clover, she said, was not doing well despite the surgery and would perhaps need to go back to the vet for IV fluids and medication. The cost of transporting them south, however, is at least mostly taken care of. A partnership between the municipality and Canadian North has allowed the town to operate a no-kill pound for three and a half years, Cairns said. The airline provides three to four free flights for dogs per month, and has worked with Cairns to get more dogs out for a discounted price as a result of this incident. Still, the costs for the care and treatment of nearly 30 dogs is mounting, and the town and shelters are looking for help from the community to ensure it can continue. Cairns said they are accepting donations at town hall until Aug. 19. As to preventing this kind of thing happening in the future, Cairns said there is a new option. A year and a half ago, the town prosecuted Horst Podzadny for having too many dogs on his property, but was ultimately unsuccessful because the judge found ownership of the dogs could not be established. Now, he said, the court order obtained to seize the dogs in this most recent action doesn't have an end date, so there will be regular check-ups. While animal cruelty is against federal law, Sgt. Scott Young of the Inuvik RCMP said in an e-mail they are not pursuing any charges and that it is a matter for municipal bylaw. "Now we're just hoping that removing the dogs will be more effective than court action," said Cairns. opinions INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 5 Community can do better for the animals Northern News Services that he had many more than that. The municipality has tried takThe NWT has once again come in second to last when it comes to ing it to the courts, but that effort was unsuccessful when the judge legislation that protects animals found ownership imposin Canada. The territory sible to prove. came out better than THE ISSUE: It doesn't matter who Nunavut. DOG LAWS is involved or what are This is hardly a surthe circumstances. The prise, especially to WE SAY: fact that more than a anyone working to help ENFORCE dozen animals have been improve the treatment LEGISLATION allowed to exist on one of animals in the North. property once -- never Several organizations -mind several times -- is including the NWTSPCA proof that there is a need for in Yellowknife, as well as Arctic Paws in Inuvik -- work very hard to stronger legislation to prevent it from happening again. get dogs and cats the veterinary There are obviously other issues care they need, shelter when there involving humans that are no other options, have to take precedence and transit to their new over the welfare of anihomes in southern Canmals. Some people may ada. not like to hear that, but They also spend a lot at the end of the day, a of time trying to educate human life needs to be people about animal welmore important than a fare and explain to them dog's life or existence. that they have other That being said, how options besides letting we treat the most vulnertheir beasts reproduce SARAH able creatures, in this over and over again, per- LADIK case dogs, is a good petuating the cycle. indicator of where we're There are rules in at as a community. The fact that municipalities that limit how this has now happened more than many dogs a person can have, once, despite the very best intenwith some fines and other consetions of all involved, means what quences imposed when people we're doing clearly isn't working. break those rules. This was the More education is needed, as is case most recently in Inuvik when more support for organizations set bylaw officers obtained a court up to help animals in need. order to go on to a property and More than that, however, we seize the dogs there. We heard this need to bring the level of legislaweek that they expected between eight and 12 dogs, but have ended tion up to par with the best in Canada and then actually enforce it. up dealing with 29 dogs so far. This is not the first time the town and wider community have stepped in and taken dogs away from this particular resident. In DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD HAVE 1997, they seized 87 dogs from USABLE SPORTS FIELDS? the property, and reports were NNSL WEB POLL ational Yes, they're a win for everyone. ie kenz Mac ay B Tuktoyaktuk Aklavik 100% Cape Bathurs No, there are other priorities that need attention. o Eskim s e k a INUVIK L de An Mac ke Peel Rive HAVE YOUR SAY o rs Fort McPherson Tsiigehtchic 0% Does the NWT need better legislation to protect animals? Go online to www.nnsl.com/ inuvik to vote in this week's poll. INUVIK OFFICE: Sarah Ladik (Editor) Deanna Larocque (Office assistant) 169 Mackenzie Road, Box 2719 Inuvik, NT, X0E 0T0 Phone: (867) 777-4545 Fax: (867) 777-4412 Toll free: (855) 873-6675 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nnsl.com/inuvik Published Thursdays PUBLISHER: J.W. 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Transportation, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Wally Schumann, Public Works Minister Caroline Cochrane, who is the minister for the NWT Housing Corp., and Justice Minister Louis Sebert will be in attendance. All community members are invited to attend the meetings. Call out for fish camp The Inuvik Drum celebrated the 25th annual Northern Games in 1995, with particular emphasis put on getting youth out to participate in the cultural and sporting events. Judging by Inuvik's recent performance at the Arctic Winter Games, that effort was well-rewarded. Health and social services combine This week in 1995 Northern News Services Editor's note: To celebrate half a century in print, the Inuvik Drum is reprinting selected articles from the past 50 years each week this year. This was the front page article on Aug. 3, 1995. Health care recipients can expect integrated and holistic service, now that the departments of Heath and Social Services have amalgamated at the regional level, said Drew Lockhart, the combined board's newly appointed chief executive officer. For users of the system, the change will mean "one stop shopping" when it comes to health care, said Lockhart. In the Inuvik region, the change officially took place July 24. The amalgamation was implemented at headquarters in Yellowknife about one year ago. Formerly the chief executive officer of the Inuvik Regional Health Board (IRHB), Lockhart was directly appointed by deputy minister Ken Lovely as the board's chief executive officer. The board, with 16 members from 12 communities in the region, is now responsible for both Health and Social Services and will eventually exchange the IRHB name for a new one. Lockhart is now responsible for putting together an implementation plan for the amalgamation. That will involve taking an inventory of all human resources, facilities, capital, programs and services, he said. The plan will be implemented later this year, after the board approves it in September. The amalgamation will mean that people will be able to get help for both the mental and physical aspects of their medical condition from one place, Lockhart said. Integrated and holistic services will mean that social workers and nursing staff will be able to coordinate their work and there will be better referral among health care providers, he said. About 230 people are employed in Health and Social Services in the Inuvik region. The change will likely result in combined offices and facilities in Inuvik and where possible in the communities. "It will be a while before people in the communities feel the effects of the change but certainly by the new year, the changes will be made," he said. The amalgamation may prompt "work force adjustment," where positions are duplicated at the administration level, he said. Most health care provider positions, which are what most Inuvik employees are, will remain intact, he said. LOOKING Back We want to hear from you! Do you have any thoughts about the story we re-printed this week? A story about a past Drum publisher, editor, or reporter? A request for a particular story from the last 50 years? We want to hear about it. Stop in for a chat, call us at 777-4545 or email us at [email protected] to be part of the conversation. Aklavik The Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee is looking for someone to host elders, community members and youth at their fish camp for four days this summer. Funded by the Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program and offered in conjunction with the Fisheries Joint Management Committee, the program would provide gas and grocery money. Anyone interested is asked to contact the HTC office by Aug. 10 at 3 p.m. Anyone looking to participate in the camp itself is also encouraged to contact the HTC office and leave their name for consideration. Preference will be given to Inuvialuit beneficiaries. New administrator hired Tetlit'zheh/Fort McPherson A new municipal administrator has been hired for Fort McPherson, according to a release sent out by the GNWT July 29. Osei Bosompem will take the reins of local government until the Municipal Administration Order expires, and will become the hamlet's senior administrative officer following the election of a hamlet council, expected to be on Dec. 12. "This hiring is an important milestone and reflects the hard work of community residents and employees as the community government begins to transition out "This of municipal administration announcement and towards a hamlet council election later this year," reads shows the the statement. progress that "In July 2014, the Hamlet of Fort McPherson was placed is being made under municipal administrathrough the tion. As a part of this process, the hamlet council was dis- hard work of the solved and a representative people was appointed by the minister of Municipal and Community in Fort Affairs to manage and overMcPherson." see the hamlet's business." Bosompem has worked for Robert C. McLeod the Tsuu Tina First Nation in Calgary and has 16 years of public administration under his belt. "On behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories, I wish to congratulate both Mr. Osei Bosompem on his new position, and thank Mr. Bill Buckle for his work in the community," stated Municipal and Community Affairs Minister Robert C. McLeod in a news release. "This announcement shows the progress that is being made through the hard work of the people in Fort McPherson." Volunteers sought for emergency exercise Ulukhaktok/Holman The hamlet office and the GNWT are looking for volunteers to take part in a simulated emergency for the airport's full scale emergency exercise taking place Aug. 11. Such exercises are important to train airport staff, rescue workers, and community members to respond properly in the event of an actual disaster. Anyone interested in participating or looking for more information is encouraged to contact the hamlet office. photo stories INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 7 Water guns on the ready Northern News Services Delayed by chilly weather for weeks, the Inuvik Youth Centre finally had its promised water fight last week. About a dozen children made the most of the heat July 26 to battle it out for supremacy of the centre's parking lot, hurling water balloons at each other and jealously guarding their water guns. The match finished with everyone involved well soaked and refreshed. WATER Feature by Sarah Ladik Rufus Elanik, left, escapes bombardment from Jason Nasogaluak and Christian Kimiksana during a water fight at the youth centre July 26. Rufus Elanik makes the most of the summer weather during a water fight at the Inuvik Youth Centre July 26 . About a dozen children took part in a water fight July 26 at the Inuvik Youth Centre. Layton Kotokak recovers from a direct hit during a water fight at the youth centre July 26. Chucky Esau makes the most of a vantage point to hit fellow competitors July 26 during a water fight at the Inuvik Youth Centre. 8 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 alternatives STREET talk Youth of the week What is the one Pokemon you have to catch? with Kaila Jefferd-Moore [email protected] Dylan Jones "Lapraus. It's like a blue turtle with a long neck." INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 9 Stuart Morgan "Snorlax. It's like a fat sleepy bear." Dez Loreen "Gengar. It's a small purple psychic monster." PAIGE STEEN-COCKNEY Deklen Crocker "Feraligatr. This massive bipedal alligator." Ben Kaufman "Mew. A weird looking pink cat that flies." Horoscopes Aug. 4 to 11 ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 – It may take a little extra effort to solve a particularly puzzling problem this week, Aries. It's not an insurmountable obstacle, just one that takes patience. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 – Taurus, all of your efforts thus far in relation to personal challenges have been well worth the sacrifices you have made. Keep doing what you are doing. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 – Gemini, you cannot control the actions of others all of the time, but you can change the way you react to certain situations. Take time to develop a response. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 – Cancer, you will have to adapt when your schedule gets turned upside down. Let others see how capable you are by modifying the situation as needed. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 – Leo, an unconventional approach to a problem may see things fall into place. While others are following one path, you'll be marching to the beat of a different drummer. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 – Virgo, it's time to get your head out of the clouds for a little bit. Focus on the priorities in your life, which may include family and work responsibilities. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 – Friends may prove a distraction this week, Libra. It will take a lot of energy to focus on what you need to accomplish rather than getting sucked into other plans. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 – Scorpio, adjusting to a changing situation at work will require some patience and trial and error. Keep your head down because you will grow comfortable before you know it. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 – Drama seems to find you this week, Sagittarius. But you can handle whatever comes your way. Remove yourself from gossip and keep a low profile until things seem to dissipate. CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 – Capricorn, resist the temptation to dive in when you sense a potential conflict brewing. It may be difficult to stay out of the fray, but you will ultimately be glad you did. AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 – Aquarius, you need to be more assertive at work, especially if you want to receive the acclaim you feel you deserve. Be confident in your abilities. PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 – Pisces, it may take some time for things to develop, but plans will start to go your way. This could be a week of big change. Fitzgerald Stewart "Snorlax. It's like a fat mouse." Paige, 11, likes to play with friends on the trampoline in the summer. She also likes playing with a musical app that allows her to video herself and others lip-syncing to popular songs. She also likes to go boating with friends and family. Secret phone calls prompt suspicions in husband My wife and I have been married many years. Recently old friend? Not many. "Oh yeah, I have two kids, a girl and a she received a phone call out of the blue from an old boyboy. I'm still in the insurance business and we live in Toledo." friend she knew before she met me. He is a guy she almost End of story. married. I could tell my wife was thrilled to know he was still But what is common with renewed contact between old thinking of her. lovers? They pick up where they left off. Your wife knows you A week later I asked if they had any further contact. She well enough to know that if you found out it would upset you. assured me the call was a one-time thing and she had no But the reward to her of calling outweighed the pain to you if intention of talking with him again. you found out. A few weeks later, in one day, I received three consecutive Often the why given by a cheater is based on you and your phone calls from a number belonging to the old boyfriend. reaction, not based on their truth. What will calm this person down, what will make the consequences to me less? If a This made me suspicious and led me to check my wife's cheater can't make up an excuse fast enough, they often resort phone. I discovered she had repeated contact with him and she made most of the calls. All calls were placed after she left to the classic "I don't know why." Which is also a lie. Your wife doesn't get to blame you home so I could not overhear. by saying "I knew you would get upset When I spoke to my wife, at first she if you knew." She doesn't get to blame denied contact. When I told her I had proof, you for concealing what she did. she admitted she lied. She insisted they were Each time she called him was an only catching up with each other's lives and act of betrayal. Each time she replayed didn't want to cause me concern. When I with Wayne & Tamara Mitchell the calls in her mind it was a betrayal. asked why she left home to make the calls, [email protected] Because she lied, now you can't trust she insisted it was all very innocent. any reason she offers for the lie. I feel betrayed and hollow. I find it hard She wants to bury the problem in to believe after years of what seemed like a silence, but she doesn't get to ignore your justifiable feelings. happy marriage she would do this to me. I feel bad for looking at her cellphone records but felt even worse when I saw You need to ask her again for the truth. If you can't accept the what was on them. answer, then you need to decide what you are going to do, just My wife doesn't want to talk about this any further, but I as she got to decide what she was going to do. worry I am being set up by them for a shock to my marriage. We can grieve for many things, not just death. We can Ken grieve for a lost job, a house that burned, missing mementos, a lost dog. We can grieve for the loss of a belief. I used to Ken, a person should feel bad when they snoop for the sake believe my wife loved me. of snooping. But when a person has good reason to snoop, it Wayne & Tamara isn't snooping. It's investigating. It is no different than smellIf you have any questions or comments for Wayne or Tamara, ing smoke and searching for the source. please forward e-mail to [email protected] or write to Wayne How many phone calls do you need to "catch up" with an & Tamara Mitchell, Station A, Box 2820, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2R1 DIRECT Answers sports & recreation 10 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 Sarah Ladik/NNSL photos Karl Kuptana of the Rockin' Robins runs to first base after a hit in the quarter finals Aug. 1. Ball under the midnight sun Just Call Vince snags the win against Native Yankees in finals by Sarah Ladik Northern News Services It was a nail biter of a final game at last weekend's Midnight Sun Tournament. The reigning league champion, Just Call Vince, was down by eight runs early in the game, but worked hard to catch up and ended up scoring the two runs needed to win in the bottom of the seventh inning to finish 16-15 against the Native Yankees. "It was very one-sided in the wrong direction at the start," said Mark Robertson, a player with the winning slopitch team. "Everybody just started hitting the ball and played great defence. We kept positive and it turned around." Robertson also noted that the winning hit was by Scott Healey, who has lived in Inuvik for more than 20 years and is moving to the East Coast next week, making this his last tournament as an Inuvik resident. "It was a great game, and a great tournament," said slopitch league president Barry Jacobson, adding that he has been playing in the Midnight Sun Tournament every August long weekend as long as he can remember. "The level of competition was very good." Eight teams turned out for the weekend, including two from outside Inuvik. The Rockin' Robins from Tuktoyaktuk tied for third place overall and the team from Aklavik tied for fifth. While Jacobson said while the organizers are always looking for more teams to sign up, this was a pretty typical roster for this tournament. With an added holiday Jason Nasogaluak gets ready to pitch Aug. 1. Monday, the tournament was a longer one than usual with 27 games played overall. Jacobson said each team was guaranteed five games in the round robin, and all teams got to play at least one game in the playoffs. "It's competitive, and it's lots of ball," Jacobson said, noting that the weather cooperated on the last day at least, if not for most of the weekend. The Midnight Sun Tournament is also the only event of the summer so far to have men and women play slopitch together, as they do in the regular league. All the other tournaments so far, according to Jacobson, haven't been co-ed. "It's just a good weekend," he said. "Lots of ball, lots of games, and lots of fun." SPORTS CARD SPEEDSKATING AGE: 10 While she isn't in training right now, Micah McEachern is very much looking forward to getting back on the ice. She says she likes just skating around and playing games. She also likes skating because she can go much faster than just walking. MICAH MCEACHERN Nolan Kasook hits the ball for the Aklak Air Falcons Aug. 1. INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 11 Check out the NNSL online at DELTA MARKETPLACE www.nnsl.com! 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Commercial (business) Classifieds $10 (includes GST) SUPER SPECIAL! Advt this size (1.5 inches on 2 columns) $30 plus GST Really stands out! Ideal for meeting announcements, selling a house or car. Inuvik :22'(1 2)),&( 'HVN $VNLQJ 2%2 3OHDVH FDOO Birthday • Wedding Engagement • Anniversary or Obituary Announcements: Various sizes available. Colour included. No extra charge for artwork or supplied photos. We accept Visa, MasterCard, money orders, cheque and cash. 12 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, August 4, 2016 news Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo Kyla Hvatum, left, and Nicole Collison have spent the summer creating digital maps of the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility and parts of the community. Women tackle science Federal program encourages young indigenous women to pursue STEM studies by Sarah Ladik Northern News Services Girls just wanna have fun, and this summer, that fun was all about science. "It introduced me to a whole new field of science," said federal government summer student Nicole Collison. "And it made me interested in a career in geomatics." Over the school break, Kyla Hvatum and Collison were employed through a federal program seeking to get indigenous women into STEM programs (science, technology, engineering, and math) after high school. With four projects across the three territories, Inuvik's focused on geomatics and getting people excited about the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility. "Before this, I never wanted to go near geography," said Hvatum. "Now it's really interesting." Geomatics is really just a fancy word for anything that has to do with maps, which are all created on computers and have a lot more data than the cardinal points of the compass. The project the women are working towards this summer is more of a slideshow with all kinds of information about the satellite facility, as well as some interesting points in Inuvik. "People all over the world, all across Canada, are using them," said Laura Salisbury, a geomatics officer with Natural Resources Canada and the lead person on the project. "They're used for research, earth observation, planning and land use, all kinds of things." Much of what Hvatum and Collison learned had to do with data manipulation and the computer programs used to do it, something neither were familiar with before. They found out about it from their science teacher, Adam Wright, as well as from Matt Dares, head of the robotics club, of which Collision is a member. "He told us we'd be researching things to do with mapping, and it sounded pretty cool," said Hvatum. As a fun way of working with the data, the project also involves the creation of a Minecraft world replica of the satellite facility and its surroundings, something Collision said was much harder to create than she had anticipated. While Salisbury returned to Ottawa last week, Hvatum and Collison will continue their work this month, hopefully producing something ready to be shared with the public in the future. "You don't realize how much geomatics is involved in our daily lives," Collison said. "There are going to be a lot of career opportunities at the station, and they want people in Inuvik to be trained in all kinds of things for those careers."
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