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November 21, 2003
Prank could have been
fatal: RCMP
A 14-year-old Iqaluit girl
is nursing some bumps and bruises after falling off the back bumper of a private
security truck she was riding without the driver's knowledge.
Police report that a group
of youth were hanging around the Northmart parking lot shortly after midnight
on Nov. 17, when the truck's driver noticed a few of them hanging on to his
back bumper.
The driver told them to
get off the truck, and reversed when he thought they were clear of his path.
One girl who kept hanging
on fell and was hit by a wheel.
She was taken to Baffin
Regional Hospital and treated for minor injuries.
The RCMP said the prank
could have been fatal, and have issued a public advisory asking parents to educate
their children about playing near vehicles.
November 21, 2003
A rock n' roll winter
for Iqaluit
The City of Iqaluit has
taken a rock and roll approach to ensuring safer streets in the winter.
City workers drove a frontend-loader
down to the tidal flats below Tundra Valley over the weekend of Nov. 15 and
cleared boulders to make a path for hunters from that end of the city.
Coun. Glenn Williams said
the rock-removal answers local hunters' long-standing need for more access points
to the city along the shore.
Williams said that, until
now, hunters were forced to drive their skidoos and heavy-loaded sleds through
playgrounds and streets when they were coming home from the frozen bay in the
winter.
"It's a public safety
issue," he said. "Now hunters can access the community and not have
to drive through the middle of town with a sled and a qamutik and that kind
of stuff."
The new trail should accomodate
hunters from several neighbourhoods, including Tundra Valley, Happy Valley and
Crystal Ridge near the Road to Nowhere.
Previously, hunters used
access points beside the breakwater and the sealift beach.
November 21, 2003
Safety in threes
Safety comes in three languages, under a recently passed bylaw for signs in
Iqaluit.
All contractors working within Iqaluit's city limits must now display any signs
related to public safety in English, French and Inuktitut. The new city council
gave final approval to the Trilingual Safety Signage Bylaw at its first meeting
on Nov. 12.
Any contractor who fails to display public safety signs in the three languages
could be fined up to $10,000. Under the bylaw, the city's public works department
must also post trilingual signs about public safety where they are doing construction
and maintenance work.
The new bylaw does not cover city traffic signs.
November 21, 2003
Council elects Annie
Gordon as deputy mayor
Before Annie Gordon had
spoken her first official words as a city councillor, she became deputy mayor.
Gordon was elected by council
in a secret ballot at the council's first meeting on Nov. 12. Her responsibilities
will include running council meetings in the mayor's absence.
Gordon is a newcomer to
municipal politics, but harvested more votes than any other councillor in the
October election.
November 14, 2003
Man falls five storeys, found conscious
Iqaluit emergency personnel found a 40-year-old man awake this Wednesday morning
after he fell five storeys from a window in the six-storey high-rise apartment
building in Iqaluit.
Paramedics responded to a call from RCMP shortly before 6:15 a.m. on Nov. 12,
reporting that a man had fallen about 40 feet and survived.
He was found lying on top of a garbage shed outside the Storehouse bar.
Iqaluit's fire chief, Cory Chegwyn, said the man was taken to Baffin Regional
Hospital with multiple injuries, but could not give many details on the man's
condition.
"He had multiple injuries from what you'd expect from a fall like that,"
Chegwyn said.
Police are investigating the incident, and at press-time this week, were withholding
the man's name.
November 14, 2003
Tagak Sr. new chair of IDEA
The Iqaluit District Education Authority has elected Andrew Tagak Sr. to serve
as its chairperson. He replaces Kathy Smith, who will now serve as a regular
member.
Tagak is a senior Inuit Qaujimatuqangit coordinator with Nunavut's department
of health and social services. He will serve a one-year term as chair.
Members of the IDEA made the decision in advance of their first scheduled meeting,
which will take place on Nov. 17.
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