Looking back at five decades of Inuvik`s home for news Sunrise

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016
50 years of the Drum
Looking back at five decades of Inuvik's home for news
Sunrise
Festival returns
for another year
New heads
at Cafe Gallery
Basketball
tourney returns
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On Jan. 6, 1966, the first Inuvik Drum hit the streets. The first Drum was a family business, with the children of the Butters family
all carrying cameras if they came across something exciting or interesting.
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Cafe Gallery
under new
management
Chef seeks to combine
old favourites with new options
by Sarah Ladik
Northern News Services
A familiar face took over
a popular location over the
holidays.
Inukshook Catering has
upped stakes and moved
downtown to
take over Cafe
Gallery, opening the doors
shortly after
the new year
began.
Chef Joey Watters said the
change has been welcome.
"We had outgrown the
college," he said of the company's previous location at
Aurora College.
"We were seeking other
venues and this just happened
to drop in our laps."
The main thing Watters
hopes to be able to provide
is another option for diners
in Inuvik. He said that while
he may not have the biggest
menu, he hopes to expand it
as the business settles into its
new location.
"I didn't do
any pre-made
stuff at the
college," he
said.
"Here, it's
a different set
up. Now it's a mix of what
I did that worked and what
previous owners have done
here that works."
Each day was busier than
the last during the first week
after the holidays, something
Watters said was a good sign.
While the cafe is open Monday through Saturday from 8
COFFEE
Break
a.m. to 5 p.m. now, he said
he is looking at extending the
hours, depending on whether
there are enough customers to
warrant it.
"People keep asking if I'm
going to do a fixed menu," he
said. "Maybe. We'll see how
things go. There are some
things I'd like to do, like real
pasta."
Watters said he has always
served comfort food wherever he has worked in Inuvik,
but that just because it's comfort food doesn't mean it can't
be well executed.
"There's enough people
here that you can do different
things," he said, acknowledging that no matter what, he
can't please everyone.
"Everybody loves comfort
food, you're never going to
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
Debbie Bernhardt, left, and Joey Watters are Inukshook Catering, the company
now managing Cafe Gallery.
get away from that, but that
doesn't mean you can't do it
well."
In a rare moment of quiet,
employee Tanya Moore
said she is happy with the
new management and that
the cafe has been getting
busier every day.
"One person came in
today and said how nice it
was to see new faces," said
Moore.
While still settling in,
Watters said he is eager
to start trying new things
and gauging his customers'
responses.
"This is something that
was desperately needed here,"
he said.
"Another option for
people. Another place to eat
and be comfortable."
Woman dies in police custody
Medicine Hat RCMP conducting external review
by Sarah Ladik
Northern News Services
An Inuvik woman has
died while in police custody.
RCMP stated in a Jan.
12 news release the woman
was in the process of being
released from Inuvik RCMP
cells Jan. 10 when she went
into medical distress.
Officers administered
first aid and took the woman
to the Inuvik Regional Hospital, where she died.
The release stated the
woman had been taken
into custody the night
before. Her identity and age
was not released but the
family of the deceased
has been notified of her Staff Sgt. Trevor Humphries
death.
told the Drum from Medi"RCMP received a com- cine Hat two officers with the
plaint from a concerned cit- Major Crimes Unit arrived
izen about a person believed in Inuvik Jan. 12 at midto be intoxicated walking day and would be conducting
along Bonnetplume Road in an investigation that would
Inuvik," Const. Kevin Devoe likely last the better part of
the week.
stated.
"They are
"Members
not junior memconducted
a
bers, one is a
patrol and located an intoxiconstable and
cated female.
one is a sergeant," he said,
The female was
adding
that
arrested without incident for
interviews will
being intoxibe conducted
cated in public.
with
people
Police escorted
outside
the
the
female Staff Sgt. Trevor Humphries detachment if
to the Inuvik
required.
Hospital for a
All deaths
medical assessin police cusment, where she was tody trigger an automatic
considered fit for incar- autopsy, which was to be
ceration by the medical conducted this week, said
staff."
NWT chief coroner Cathy
She was then taken to cells Menard. The body was
at the detachment, where transported to Edmonton
she was slated for release Jan. 11 for a postmortem
when sober. Devoe said the examination.
The final report, however,
woman had been co-operawill likely take between four
tive throughout the night.
The incident triggered an and six months to complete.
external review, to be con- Devoe stated the cause of
ducted by officers from the death is not known at this
Medicine Hat Police Service. time.
"They are
not junior
members, one
is a constable
and one is a
sergeant."
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NEWS
Briefs
Children First
seeks assistance
The Children First Society went
before Inuvik town council Jan. 11
to present a newly completed business strategy for the centre.
Society co-chair Mike Harlow
said the centre's financial outlook
is "not the rosiest."
Essentially, since the society
has already cut staffing expenses to
the bare minimum allowed by the
licensing authority, without new
money the centre will be forced
to close its doors. Complicating
the issue is the $10,000 a month
the society owes the town, which
Harlow said it is unable to pay at
this time.
"We know our fees are out of
reach for many families in the
community. This is not by choice,"
he told council. "Enrolment numbers are back up – even a little
higher – from last year's incident,
and we can't reasonably take more
children."
Council agreed to work to lobby
federal and territorial governments
on behalf of the society and also
said an in-camera meeting would
be scheduled to discuss the financial implications.
"It's a grave situation, no doubt,"
said Mayor Jim McDonald. "The
town has a lot at stake, we're $3.2
million into it now. No one is going
to win if we put it down now."
First baby of 2016
The Inuvik Regional Hospital
welcomed the first baby of the year
Jan. 5.
Axle William Max Gabriel
Stewart Spencer was born to
Katrina Stewart Jan. 5 at 3:53 a.m.,
weighing seven pounds, 12 ounces.
Hospital CEO Arlene Jorgensen
said donations to the new mother
and baby were provided by five
businesses and the town.
Winter Games trials
held this weekend
Trials for several teams headed
to the Arctic Winter Games later
this year will be held in Inuvik this
weekend, including snowshoeing
in Jim Koe Park.
Trials for the Arctic Winter
Games team will also be taking
place in the East Three School
gym.
Students will also be travelling
to Yellowknife for badminton tryouts this weekend.
Financial
workshops offered
The Inuvik Chamber of Commerce is hosting free financial
management skills workshops over
the course of the next three weeks.
The sessions are geared towards
people looking to better manage
their small business, organization,
or their own personal finances.
They will be held at the Aurora
Research Institute Jan. 14, 21 and
28 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
Doe David Nasogaluak, left, and Larsen Nasogaluak dance in a Sunrise Festival performance at the ice village Jan. 9.
Community rallies at festival
Sunrise welcomed back
with celebration
by Sarah Ladik
Northern News Services
Inuvik marked the return of the
sun after weeks of darkness with a
bang last weekend.
"It was an incredible weekend,
full of community spirit and awesome events," said organizer Ray
Solotki. "The only thing that was
missing was the sun itself, but I can
only do so much."
Despite the fog – and perhaps in
part because of it – the Sunrise Festival was hard to beat in terms of
sheer beauty. Mayor Jim McDonald
said the warm weather was a boon
and that while the fog blocked the
actual sun, it made everything else
even more picturesque.
"The festival itself has been
growing over the last number of
years," McDonald told the Drum,
adding that the ice road village
down on Twin Lakes was bigger this year. "The new location
worked really well … the ice vil-
lage is maybe something we could
look at expanding next year. There
were a lot of kids and families who
went to see it both Saturday and
Sunday and it was really popular."
The weekend events kicked off
Friday night with an opportunity
for diners to try all kinds of food
presented by vendors at the community hall, followed by an old
time dance and jigging contests
that lasted long into the night. Saturday saw a snow carving contest
at Jim Koe Park and the Arctic
Market at the Midnight Sun Complex, as well as the opening of
the village on Twin Lakes, complete with snow forts and slides for
children. Sunday wrapped up with
more fun at the village and a game
of snow-pitch. Solotki said seeing
how many people came out to the
village and the amazing turnouts
at sunrise yoga and the snow-pitch
game topped her list of highlights
for the Jan. 8-10 weekend.
"I was really impressed with the
community involvement," she said.
"It seemed difficult to get commitments at first, but so many people
and companies came together to be
a part of it. We had so many prizes
to give away that were donated."
Snow-carving contestant Ryan
Taylor said the warm weather was
a nice change from previous years,
but that the festival is always a good
time.
Joe Nasogaluak came in with
the Tuktoyaktuk Siglit Drummers
and Dancers, who performed for
crowds at the ice village.
"We're a very young group, and
this is good for them to get out and
show what they can do," he said.
"Things like this, especially this
time of year, it makes January a
little brighter."
Next year, if given the chance
to run the event again, Solotki said
she would like more involvement
from the Delta communities.
"Next year, I would try to get a
skating rink sorted out earlier – we
couldn't quite pull it off in time,"
she said. "And also to get all the
outdoor events in one place. A lot
of effort goes into making the village, so having it as the main outdoor location would be beneficial
to everyone."
McDonald said planning will
soon get underway for next year's
event, hopefully one that will be
even greater and more welcoming.
His greatest thanks went out to the
people of Inuvik for heading out
and participating in the festival.
"While there are always things
that can be improved or built upon
year to year, it was wonderful to
speak to so many happy people and
hear such positivity from everyone," said Solotki. "We had the perfect number of volunteers at each
event, and we had so many people
just offer to help when they saw
how well things were going."
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Looking back,
standing tall
Northern News Services
people in a big land. So stand
Putting together the feature for tall." I am a relative newcomer
to the North and an actual newthe 50th anniversary this week
comer to Inuvik and even I can
has thrown some things into
see that sentiment still has merit.
sharp relief.
The Drum was founded on that
First off, some things have
principle, not as a place
changed in a big way.
for higher-ups to speak
The paper started when
the oil field was still in
THE ISSUE: down to the general
50TH
population, and we hope
play and the military
ANNIVERSARY
to continue that tradition
maintained a base in
today.
the community, adding WE SAY:
In the same way it
not only to the populaIT TAKES A
takes
a village to raise
tion, but the disposable
COMMUNITY
a child, it takes a comincome floating around
munity to make a newstown. Inuvik was the
paper.
bustling centre of an exciting
You have seen a revolving door
region with many eyes from both
of journalists from the south
southern Canada and abroad
traipse through this office over
trained on it.
the last two decades -- more in
Tom Butters saw the need for
the last few years -an alternate voice -- one
and that the paper still
that represented the
exists and people still
people on the ground
agree to speak to the
-- and made it happen,
likes of me is testament
despite the uncertainty
to the strength of the
of the newspaper busicommunity, as well as
ness, even when the
the importance of such
economy was trending
a publication.
upwards. Dan Holman
Over the next year, we
took over before he
SARAH
will be printing select
knew what he was getstories from the last 50
ting into (his words, not LADIK
years of the Drum. We
mine) and kept it going
hope you enjoy them
until hard times truly
and the memories they stir up.
began to hit, when the oil dried
up and the military pulled out. To But more than anything, we hope
you reach out and make this
give it the best chance of survivnewspaper your own moving foral, he sold the Drum to Northern
News Services Ltd., the company ward.
Now more than ever, we need
that employs yours truly today.
More important are the things to stand tall.
that haven't changed. Inuvik is
still a fiercely independent community that stands on its own
two feet in so many ways. The
ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2016?
youth centre and two facilities
No, the NWT has had too many setbacks.
serving people experiencing
homelessness are not govern73%
ment-run, although they do
Yes, we're turning a corner.
depend largely on government
money. People here help each
27%
other.
In an advertisement in the
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all
the outdoor attractions be at
zie School yearbook -- the year
Twin Lakes for next year's Sunrise Festival?
the paper was founded – ButGo online to www.nnsl.com/inuvik to vote in
ters wrote simply "we are small
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50 years of
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
An early issue of the Drum speaks to finicky presses malfunctioning in cold weather, resulting in a
cessation of subscriptions until the problem could be solved. When the newspaper did make it to the
press, it was under the motto Hodie Acta Cras Cacarta Charta, which translates to, "Today the newspaper,
tomorrow toilet paper."
NNSL file photo
The first Inuvik Drum was published On Jan. 6.
1966. Ian Butters, son of founding publisher Tom
Butters, called its publication a "family business."
The children all carried cameras in case they came
across something newsworthy.
photo courtesy of Dan Holman
Dan Holman bought the Inuvik Drum from Tom
Butters in 1978 and ran it for 10 years.
Publishers past and present look back
on a half-century of stories
by Sarah Ladik
Northern News Services
Running a newspaper is
not a path to easy money, as
decades of owners and their
families can attest.
"I don't know what motivated him," said Ian Butters, the
son of Inuvik Drum founder
Tom Butters who died last
year. "But he knew the power
of the word and saw the need
for a word other than the official one."
An inherent lack of stability
didn't stop Tom Butters from
giving up a lucrative career in
government to start the Inuvik Drum in 1966. This year
– this week – the newspaper
celebrates its 50th anniversary.
This story not only looks back
on how far it has come but also
how little some things have
changed.
The house on Reliant Street
where the majority of the newpaper's production took place
in its early years has changed
but Butters' son, Ian Butters,
still lives there. Sitting in the
kitchen where copy was written, pages laid out, and papers
assembled, he said his child-
hood was caught up in the thought if he was going to be
story of the paper itself. His serving the people of Inuvik,
whole family was involved in he should live among them."
its creation.
Ian and his siblings grew
"It was a family business," up in a house in the West
he said. "At 12 or 13, my End with a honey bucket and
brother and I walked around a 45-gallon drum in the front
with cameras in our coat pock- yard for water. On Jan. 6, 1966,
ets under instruction to take his father printed the first issue
photos of anything; especially of the Inuvik Drum on an offkids on sleds, things like that." set press in a drafty old buildTom Butters moved to Inu- ing on Mackenzie Road. It was
vik in 1961 after
only a few pages
a few years as a
but it certainly
northern service
made an impresofficer in Baker
sion.
Lake. He soon
"He wanted
became the top
to give a voice
federal governto the ordinary
ment official in
person," said
town for anyIan. "Largely the
thing outside
people who lived
of health and
on this (the west)
education but
end of town.
became disilluHe was a man
sioned with the
of principles, a
Ian Butters
promises and
man of honour,
decisions made
and a man of his
by faraway polword."
iticians.
Tom Butters' daughter Meg
"They lived on Snob Hill Innes worked as a paper car– what they called Spruce rier growing up, along with her
Hill at the time – for about siblings. She said the people
six months," said Ian. "But he she met through the family
"At 12 or 13,
my brother
and I walked
around with
cameras in
our coat
pockets."
business were real characters.
Copywriter gives birth,
gets back to business
"Women
especially
were really tough," she said,
recounting how Jackie Norris, a copywriter for her father
with four or five children and
another on the way, had called
one day to say she would be a
bit late with the week's work
but that Tom should go by her
house later in the evening. He
went to her house around 8
p.m. to find Norris had given
birth at home and still managed to get the copy done, a
mere three hours late.
"Because he grew up as a
foster child he was very aware
of the paternalistic attitude
the government could have
when it came to people," Innes
said. "He named it the Drum
because drums were a method
of communication. Dad never
took himself that seriously but
he took what a local paper
means to community very seriously."
The person who allowed
Tom to take the paper so seriously, despite the patent lack
news
INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, January 14, 2016 7
drum beats
of advertising in the early
issues, was his wife Peg Butters. Not only did she go back
to work as a teacher to support
the family when the newspaper
was founded, she raised four
small children while allowing
her kitchen to be taken over for
production night every week.
"Behind every great man is
an even greater woman," Innes
said, laughing. "I don't think
people realized how much she
did to make the Drum possible
for Dad."
Tom Butters is now remembered for his massive contributions in the development of
responsible government in the
North, and until recently, was
the longest-serving MLA on
record in the NWT. Ian said
his experience owning and
running a newspaper was a
large part of why he got into
politics in that writing articles
exposed him to all the issues
of the day. He said the motivation, namely giving the people
a voice, were the same.
When Tom was elected
to the legislative assembly in
1970, he continued to run the
paper, making provisions for
the few weeks a year when he
was busy in session. When he
became a cabinet minister the
company was put in a blind
trust.
When Ian reached the end
of his university career, his
father asked him if he would
be interested in taking over
the family business. While he
liked the writing well enough,
Ian said he didn't like living
under the pressure of a weekly
deadline and decided to pursue
a career elsewhere.
A new publisher
In 1978, Dan Holman had
been driving a truck for the
military for a grand total of
three days when he got a call
from Tom, asking him if he
wanted to take over the newspaper. Spurred on by youthful
optimism, Holman said yes.
The paper was then being
printed in Whitehorse, which
meant every page had to be
camera ready and driven out to
the airport to catch the flight
on Tuesdays.
Still, even without the
printing, it was a lot of work
to get it all typeset. Innes was
hired while still in high school
to help out and came back
to work at her father's former paper from 1981 to 1985.
Thinking she would be working somewhere in the back
with the machines, she was
instead sent out on her first
news assignment to cover a
tour by the NWT commissioner, trying all the while to
not look too lost.
"I really enjoyed my time
there," she said. "We were a
small crew, everyone had to
wear many hats. There was
never a dull moment and the
people were amazing."
Holman's own recollections
from the decade he owned the "Northern News Services
Drum are colourful to say the could do that."
least.
Ten years to the day since
One week, he said the Holman had bought the newsmilitary bought 1,200 copies paper from Butters, he sold it
and drove them straight to the to Northern News Services out
dump. That issue contained a of Yellowknife.
story about a boy – the son of
one of the people in charge at
Northern News
the base – who had been playServices steps in
ing on a utilidor when he fell
That purchase saw the
and died. Holman had writ- Drum become part of a wider
ten an editorial encouraging chain that would eventually
people to watch their children reach across the NWT and
and be sure they were safe and Nunavut.
the two items ran on the same
Mike Scott, operating manpage.
ager for NNSL, said the acqui"That caused some heads to sition was the next logical step
explode," he said.
for the company, which had
He successfully fought off a News/North bureau in the
a hostile takeover by compet- community since the early
ing newspaper the Mackenzie 1980s.
Drift, started by the same man
"We've been publishing the
who started the Slave River Drum since 1988, 28 years is
Journal in Fort Smith, and a long time in any business,"
implemented many changes he said. "Many of the people
at the paper, including the working with us on the Drum
addition of special supple- today were not even born when
ments. Innes said Holman also we first took over with Nancy
bumped up the price of adver- Begalki as editor and Keera
tising, which her father hadn't Kieken as manager. The Drum
changed since he started the is Canada's most northern
paper.
weekly newspaper and we are
"It was a
privileged and
tough time but
thankful for the
I learned and
support we've
got through,"
had from great
Holman said.
staff, readers
"People would
and advertisers
say, how do
over the years.
you
remain
Producing qualunbiased? It's not
ity journalism
Dan Holman
really possible;
and being the
you sideswipe
public record in
people every
a community is
week and you don't even mean a responsibility we take very
to. I would say, 'I don't waste seriously."
my time, I just try to treat
Although there have been
everybody equally bad.'"
many reporters and editors
But the 1980s were a hard working at the paper through
time for Inuvik. Holman said the years, Scott pointed out
the loss of oil field production that some employees invested
came as a heavy blow to the for the long haul.
community so soon after the
"Our longest serving
closure of the military base. employee, Bonnie Rioux (now
Other publications began to Logsdon), started her newssprout up, representing the paper career at the Inuvik
interest of various groups in Drum in 1982," he said. "She
town – something he didn't was designing advertising for
begrudge them, although he Dan Holman before there were
admitted it meant the already- computers used in newspaper
shrinking market was further production. She is now a senior
divided. When visiting a friend designer in our Yellowknife
in Victoria, B.C., Holman said office."
he came to something of a
From here, the paper would
realization.
continue in its mandate to
"I got on a plane at -30 serve the people of Inuvik,
in Norman Wells, and I got those who live in the West End
off six or eight hours later in as much as those on Spruce
Victoria and everything was Hill. As all newspapers struggreen and growing," he said. "I gle to make sustainable decithought about how I was going sions in the Internet age, comto have to hunker down at the munity news remains a strong
paper, and I felt like other voice in small towns across the
parts of my life were passing country, as well as a forum for
me by."
residents.
On top of that, to keep
"Local news has always
abreast of production trends he been our connection with readwould have had to pour tens of ers," Scott said.
thousands of dollars into new
"The Drum has been Inuequipment. He said he tried to vik's trusted, reliable local
sell the Drum to a few local news source for 50 years.
parties but in the end their Whether you prefer we deliver
pockets were not deep enough the news via your phone or
to keep the paper afloat.
printed page, we look forward
"My top priority was keep- to continuing being the public
ing the paper alive," he said. record and voice for Inuvik."
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
Tom Butters took out an ad in the 1965-66 Sir Alexander Mackenzie School
yearbook, promoting what was his greatest motivation in founding the Drum.
"I just try to
treat
everybody
equally bad."
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
Ian Butters stands in the kitchen in the house on Reliant Street where he grew
up and where the Drum was produced in the early years.
NNSL photo
Mike Scott, operating manager for Northern News Services, with Bonnie
Logsdon, a senior ad designer for the company. Logsdon started with the Inuvik
Drum in 1982 when the newspaper was still owned by Dan Holman.
We want to hear from you
Northern News Services
The Drum will be running one article from
the past 50 years each week in 2016 and we
want to hear from you.
Do you have a particularly funny, sad, or
memorable moment about the Drum or one of
its past employees to share? Perhaps a story you
might like to request?
Call at 777-4545, write us at inuvikdrum@
nnsl.com, or stop in for a chat. This is a community newspaper and it belongs to the whole
community.
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NEIGHBOURLY
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Kassina Ryder is a reporter with
News/North. Send your ideas
to newsinuvik@nnsl.com
Aklavik gears up
for Arctic Winter Games
Aklavik
Athletes in Aklavik are busy getting ready for
this year's Arctic Winter Games, which is scheduled
to take place in Nuuk, Greenland from March 5 to
March 12.
Recreation co-ordinator Dean McLeod said a total
of 17 athletes were trying out for the games. Thirteen
were trying out for Dene Games while an additional
four were trying out for various Arctic sports.
The trials were scheduled to take place from Jan.
14 to Jan. 16.
McLeod said the community also held successful Christmas activities this year with lots
of participants from Aklavik and surrounding
communities.
It's ladies' night
in Tuktoyaktuk
Tuktoyaktuk
Women in Tuktoyaktuk have an evening full
of activities to look forward to once a month, said
recreation co-ordinator Caroline Loreen. The ladies'
night runs from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Kitti Hall and
features games, prizes
and snacks.
January's ladies' night "Come on out
took place on Jan. 8, but
and support
the weekend of Jan. 16
is scheduled for another the recreation
activity; a loonie/toonie
auction. The auction is a special events."
fundraiser to raise money
Caroline Loreen
for the recreation department, Loreen said. It was
scheduled to begin at 8
p.m.
"Come on out and support the recreation special
events," Loreen said.
All hail the
new king and queen
Paulatuk
An annual tradition took place during Paulatuk's Christmas games with the crowning of the
community's king and queen on the first Sunday in January, said recreation co-ordinator Aaron
Ruben.
The winners are selected by participants each
eating a cupcake. The male and female who finds a
marble in their cupcake become the king and queen
for the evening.
Kelly Ruben was this year's king while Kim
Ruben was queen.
Winter hours
for hunters begin
Paulatuk
The Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee is operating on its winter hours schedule as of
January.
The office will be open from 10 a.m. to noon
and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday to Friday. The
office will resume its regular hours in April.
A traditional feast
in Sachs Harbour
Ikaahuk/Sachs Harbour
A traditional feast was held at the Inualthuyak School gym on Dec. 30. at 6 p.m. The
feast included geese, caribou, muskox, fish and
bannock.
The election for the Sachs Harbour Community
Corporation took place on Dec. 14, according to the
community's Facebook page.
The winners were: Kyle Wolki, Abel Joe Kudlak,
Choochy Lucas, Issiac Damon Elanik, Sharan Rose
Dillon Green and Norm Anikina.
Sarah Ladik/NNSL photo
Teacher Danny Jellema stands over a bubbling pot, getting ready to serve lunch to students, staff and
community members at the day-long wellness fair at East Three Secondary School Jan. 8.
Wellness workshops
reach out to youth
East Three helps students with
health basics to kick off the year
by Sarah Ladik
else in to say it, not a teacher like usual,"
said Allum.
With workshops, activities, speak"It's been nice so far, just shows that
ers and meals, East Three Secondary they care about what we could be going
School welcomed back its students with through. That they care about not just
a wealth of wellness last
what we learn, but how we
week.
feel."
"The staff have really
Charlie agreed, saying
gone above and beyond
she appreciated the school
here and have done a great
putting the focus on emojob," said principal Debtional wellness along with
orah Reid.
physical and mental health.
"It's a bit of an experiStaff are hoping the
ment this year. Last year
strategies the students
we did more of a booth
learned will follow them
Joelle Charlie
thing, and this year we
much further than the end
wanted to make it a whole
of day at the wellness fair.
day."
The goal was not only to
Reid credited the organizers with help them identify potential issues as
getting the community involved, bring- they come up, but to encourage them to
ing in outside expertise, and engaging make good choices.
students.
"Wellness in many ways has been
"I'm learning more about self- a focus in the North, especially at this
awareness," said student Joelle Charlie time of year, with the darkness and the
who, along with Deena Allum, had just cold," said Reid.
wrapped up a yoga session, having gone
"Having the kids learn to make
to a workshop on sexual health earlier healthy choices around what food they
Friday morning, Jan. 8.
eat, attendance at school, all that, is what
"I knew what they were talking we're hoping to encourage here."
about, but it was nice to have someone
The approach, she said, is meant
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"It was nice
to have
someone else
in to say it."
to cover mind, body, and spirit and
include things people may not think of
when they talk about health. Reid herself
presented a workshop on online safety
– things like what kind of social media
posts can be problematic and the basics
of cyber-bullying prevention – while
another session was offered on how
electronic devices can have an impact
on overall health in terms of screen time.
"It's a really holistic approach," she
said.
"And instead of having the kids go
around booths, we set it up like a miniconference for them."
Fair co-organizer Sharla Greenland
said she was pleased with how it had
been going so far, making particular note of the keynote speech by the
Gwich'in Tribal Council's Jordan Peterson. She said the students seemed to be
responding really well to the activities
and that she hoped they would be able
to make use of those skills in their lives
moving forward.
"The best thing so far, I was just in
the yoga workshop this morning and
there were these two boys saying how
much they liked it," Greenland said.
"That was really great."'
photo stories
INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, January 14, 2016 9
Fun in the sun
Northern News Services
Hundreds of people
turned out for Sunrise Festival events that stretched from
Friday to Sunday last week,
from the frozen ice of Twin
Lakes to the cozy community hall at the Midnight Sun
Complex.
Not only were spirits high
throughout, participants also
raised money for worthy
causes through donations at
some events.
The Inuvik Youth Cen-
Seiya McEachern plays in one of the forts at the ice village Jan. 9.
FESTIVAL
Feature
by Sarah Ladik
tre garnered $1,500 from
the pancake breakfast while
the Inuvik Homeless Shelter raised $800 and the Inuvik Food Bank received
$300 in cash, plus many
food donations. Organizers
said that next year they hope
to extend the reach of the
festival even more by trying
to include more Delta communities.
Dee Dee Nasogaluak dances for the crowd at the Sunrise Festival last weekend.
More than 50 people turned out to participate in sunrise yoga on the frozen Twin Lakes Jan. 9 during the
Sunrise Festival.
Joe David Nasogaluak,
left, Henson Nasogaluak
and Kolton Ruben
of the Tuktoyaktuk
Siglit Drummers and
Dancers drum during a
performance at the ice
village Jan. 9.
Ryan Taylor, left, and Marion Pokiak stand with
their nearly completed snow sculpture at Jim Koe
Park Jan. 9.
alternatives
10 INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, January 14, 2016
STREET talk
What is your
New Year's resolution?
with Sarah Ladik
inuvikdrum@nnsl.com
John Voudrach
"To bring peace to the world."
Maica McEachern
"I want to be better at playing
my flute in front of crowds."
Student of the week
Joseph Moore
"To be better at violin."
DANIELLE ROGERS
Tamara Kaglik
"To make a difference in the
world."
Jade Goose
"Be better at math."
Horoscopes Jan. 14 to 21
ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, do not allow distractions to keep
you from completing tasks that need to get done. Use your ability
to focus to plow through your to-do list and finish in record time.
TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, this week you may be tempted
to take risks you never would have considered before. Just don't let
excitement get in the way of common sense.
GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Something totally unexpected will grab
your attention in the next few days, Gemini. Trust your intuition to
take things slowly and put out all feelers before you forge ahead.
CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, although you have a plan to
reach all of your goals, do not put success ahead of others' feelings. Be considerate of others even if their efforts are not up to
par.
LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, proceed with caution in a new friendship
or partnership. Test the waters before you devote yourself fully.
This approach will ensure you made the right decision.
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, if the potential to be criticized
scares you, you may not be inclined to express yourself honestly.
Worry less about what others think of you and be confident in
yourself.
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, if you're feeling on edge lately, it
may be because you haven't had a chance to relieve stress. Exercise can be a surefire fix to what ails you, so get up and go.
SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, an opportunity presents itself
in the weeks ahead, and this will be too good to pass up. Embrace
the changes that this opportunity offers.
SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, your social life is
bustling, but sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with all of the
things filling your calendar. You may want to take a few days off.
CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Career obstacles may pop up from
time to time, but you have the commitment to see things through
for the long haul. Keep up that perseverance this week.
AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 You can't always play the peacemaker, Aquarius. Sometimes you just have to let others fight their
own battles and then offer support to those who need it.
PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, there is more going on than
meets the eye. You have to pay attention to the subtle undercurrents to figure out fact from fiction.
Dreven Devoe
"Be better at science."
Problem is with
you, not mother
Hey, guys. I need advice and I can't think of someone who
would not take sides.
Ninety-nine per cent of my childhood memory is my dad
beating my mom. Not just a push or slap but a beating until she
sometimes bled. My sister and I used to get between. My brother would apply wet towels to mom's wounds afterwards.
My dad had affairs, didn't work much, didn't drink and never
smoked. He attended school meetings, woke up the village
dentist when our teeth ached at midnight and made sure boys
who harassed my sister and I regretted it immediately. My sister
thinks he's a great father.
Mom went to work, and with my brother's support, took
charge financially while us girls went to school. They worked
and worked and you could say we became an upper-class family
after 20 years.
All this time, at home and publicly, the beatings continued.
When mom got sick, dad took the work reins. He now controls
every cent. If we, his kids, ask for anything, he gives. Readily.
Mom, however, is afraid to buy anything if he's around.
I'm currently visiting them and asked if he still hits her.
Years ago I threatened to get him jailed if he did it again. She
said he threatens but doesn't do it. Then she told me about their
other problem, untidiness.
If you didn't know him, you'd think he's an extreme hoarder.
So I thought I would have a calm, understanding chat with him
about it.
His response took me by surprise. He accused me of being
ungrateful, taking my mother's side and promised to "leave us
all soon." Those words took me back 20 years to the time he
beat her and then locked himself up with a bottle of poison and
threatened to drink it.
I wanted to tell him he could go die right now.
Honestly I'm so angry at her for staying with him. I don't
understand their relationship. I'm still young yet twice divorced.
Being alone is hard, but it's so much easier than being in an abusive, unhappy relationship.
Danielle, 12, likes math best at school because she likes
learning about numbers and finds it easy. In class, she
said students were learning how to express large numbers in the billions and trillions in various ways.
DIRECT
Answers
with Wayne & Tamara Mitchell
confidential@nnsl.com
Mom continues to complain but chooses to do nothing. I told
her I won't listen to her complaints anymore unless she does
something, and this hurts her.
Marlia
Marlia, every time you visit your parents, it puts you back in
your child self. "My father and mother are doing this to each
other and I am powerless to stop it." Both parents have traumatized you. That the damage is in part unintentional, unthinking
or unnoticed doesn't make it any less.
There is no reason to explain why you are twice divorced.
You didn't have good role models. You don't have the same baseline as the daughter of parents who loved her and cared about
her and loved each other.
Listening to your mother complain and letting her vent
doesn't help her leave, it helps her stay. She is hurting you.
When she complains, say, "Who are we going to call? But if we
are not calling someone, if I am not taking you somewhere else,
if you are not filing for divorce, I don't want to hear about it."
When your mother took over the financing and the breadwinning, what was her husband there for?
Your mother wouldn't leave even for the sake of her kids. So
what is most important to her? The man. Not her kids. All she
wants is to have him fixed.
Your letter really is about you, not your mother. Your mother
chooses abuse and you cannot stop her. You need to heal as
much as you can so your future life is as good as it can be. You
need to stop being abused.
The real victims in situations like this are the children. They
are the innocent ones. That is why the most important thing you
can do is change your point of view.
Wayne & Tamara
If you have any questions or comments for Wayne or Tamara,
please forward e-mail to confidential@nnsl.com or write to Wayne
& Tamara Mitchell, Station A, Box 2820, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2R1
sports & recreation
INUVIK DRUM, Thursday, January 14, 2016 11
NNSL file photo
Vanessa Lennie attempts to keep the ball from Fort McPherson player Colleen Kangegana during a previous year's three-on-three basketball tournament. East
Three is hosting the event Jan. 22 and 23.
East Three hoops it up
Basketball clinic and tournament
back on after year off
by Sarah Ladik
kickoff of back-to-school
after the Christmas break for
East Three Secondary close to 10 years, barring the
School is hosting its annual last when Guy was away.
three-on-three basketball
Students come in from all
tournament next week to kick over the Beaufort Delta to
off the new year with a full participate at no cost to the
court press.
players, something Guy said
"It's high energy, lots of he was eager to see expand.
fun, and a good way to get out
"Inuvik is the hub of the
and meet people
region," he said.
and spread the
"If I get more
good word of
kids from the
basketball," said
Delta, we can
coach and viceget more funding to run our
principal Lorne
programs. I've
Guy.
always been a
"We didn't
numbers guy,
run it last year,
Lorne Guy
and the more
so I'm curious
kids we can get
to see how it's
playing basketgoing to be. I
ball, the better."
hope a lot of
Participation in previous
teams sign up."
The tournament, and clin- years ranged from 30 playic that precedes it, will run ers in the best years, to 10
Jan. 22 and 23 at the school. or 12 players in the slowest.
The event has been a staple Still, Guy said he is happy
Northern News Services
"I hope a
lot of teams
sign up."
to run the clinic for anyone
who wants to come out and
benefit from it. The real
highlight of the weekend,
however, is the tournament
played on the Saturday afternoon, Jan. 23, to which teams
from the community are also
invited.
Making categories on the
spot, depending on the number and ability of teams who
show up, organizers open up
the gym and run four games,
all at the same time. Scrimmages last seven minutes,
and then everyone swaps out,
playing round robin to crown
the victor.
Player Jackson Christie
said the tournament is always
a good time, largely because
it's all for fun.
"You get to play with all
your buds, and there's no
pressure," he told the Drum.
"It's not like if you lose,
you're done."
While Christie is mostly
looking forward to the tournament itself, he said he
expects the clinic will also be
valuable.
"It's always cool to do
stuff like that," he said.
"More communities are
coming down, so you get to
meet up with other people
who play basketball."
Typically, the event draws
between 20 and 25 adult
players from the community,
with a $10 entry fee going
to cover their membership
with NWT Basketball. Guy
said the more people involved
in the game he loves, the
better.
"I played for 13 years, and
I made a pledge to myself
that I would give back for 13
years," he said.
"I'm proud to say I'm on
my second 13 years now and
I hope it keeps going."
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transferred to a new class and says he
likes it much better.
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01/14/16
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