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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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
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STRUMMIN' ALONG
Ryley Blake of Inuvik plays Copperhead Road at the Midway Lake Music Festival outside of Fort McPherson July 30 where crowds gathered for four days
of festivities involving many talented performers.
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NEIGHBOURLY
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Company is coming
Aklavik
Several NWT cabinet ministers will be joining MLA
Frederick Blake Jr. on a tour of Mackenzie Delta communities this week.
The contingent will be in Aklavik Aug. 3 at 5:30 p.m.
at the Sittichinli Complex, in Tsiigehtchic Aug. 4 at noon
at the community gym, and in Fort McPherson Aug. 4 as
well at 5:30 p.m. at the Johnny D. Charlie Hall.
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.
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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
inuvikdrum@nnsl.com
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,
confidential@nnsl.com
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 confidential@nnsl.com 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
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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.
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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."