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Around Iqaluit
March
18, 2005
Iqaluit this week
Kids spring break camp registration
Saturday, March 18, starting 5:15 p.m., curling rink. City recreation department hosting camp March 28 to April 1.
Anti-racism feast
Monday, March 21, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Aqsarniit Middle School. John Howard Society of Nunavut hosts traditional feast, with international cuisine. All welcome.
Activate your health workshops
Monday and Tuesday, March 21-22, 7-9 p.m., Atii Fitness Centre. Dietician discusses diabetes prevention (first day), healthy living tips (second day). For info, call 979-0348.
Inuktitut hockey book launch
Saturday, March 26, 1-5 p.m., Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum. Silvia Pecota launches the Inuktitut version of her book, Hockey Across Canada.
Free adults and kids sports clinics
Beginning Thursday, March 30, Inuksuk High School and the AWG Arena. Sports include volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Call Ailsa at City of Iqaluit Recreation Department at 979-5617 for more details.
Toonik Tyme date set
Toonik Tyme 2005 will be celebrated from April 18 – 23.
March 18, 2005
City targets bootleg snowmobile repair shop
One of Iqaluit’s newest enterprises is operating illegally and should be ordered to shut down, an Iqaluit council committee was told this week.
Michele Bertol, director of planning and lands, said a snowmobile repair shop which opened just after Christmas in a sea-can does not conform to zoning bylaws, which prohibit such businesses in the capital district zone.
The engineering and planning committee voted to recommend that council serve Marco Blanchette, son of Yvon Blanchette, who owns the site, with a notice to stop using the sea-can as a repair shop immediately.
March 18, 2005
Council appoints new councillor
Iqaluit city council voted March 9 to appoint Brad Hall, a 33-year-old employee of the Nunavut justice department, to fill the council seat vacated recently by former deputy mayor Chris Wilson.
In the council election held in October, 2003, Hall finished with the next highest number of votes after Theresa Rodrigue, who was appointed last last year to replace the late Goola Nakasuk.
March 18, 2005
58-unit development gets committee thumbs-up
A new apartment development in the Lake subdivision on the north side of the Road to Nowhere should be approved by Iqaluit council, the engineering and planning committee says.
The development, by Nova Builders Ltd., consists of two buildings, each with 23 one-bedroom and six two-bedroom apartments, for a total of 58 units.
March 18, 2005
It’s waterfront living, sort of
Iqaluit council has been asked to approve a subdivision development on Toonik Pond which would add 90 residential lots and 40 mixed-use residential-commercial lots to the municipality’s scant supply of land for housing.
The recommendation came this week from the engineering and planning committee after a discussion on whether it would be feasible, given the shortage of flat land to build on in Iqaluit, to just go ahead and fill up Toonik Pond.
That suggestion came from Coun. Glenn Williams, who said he thought the pond was artificial and resulted from excavation for an old quarry.
But Michele Bertol, director of planning and land, said the pond was, in fact, a natural feature and filling it in would cost too much to make it worthwhile for building lots.
March 18, 2005
Iqaluit’s own grow-op comes closer to reality
A local organization’s dream of allotment gardens under glass is approaching fruition.
The engineering and development committee decided this week to recommend to council that it lease a lot in the first phase of the Plateau subdivision to the Greenhouse Society to provide space to residents for community gardens.
The lease would be for 20 years at $1 annually. But if council approves, the society must, within three years of signing a lease, provide proof of funding for the greenhouse. And construction would have to be completed within six years of signing the lease.
As well, the society would have to post a performance deposit of $100,000 before construction commenced.
March 11, 2005
Iqaluit this week
Urban art in Iqaluit
Saturday, March 12, 1-5 p.m., Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum. Meet Jonathan Cruz whose oil paintings will be on display until April 2. Cruz will also offer a tour of his work on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Northern Ramblers at the Legion
Saturday, March 12, 8:30 p.m., Legion. The Northern Ramblers will play a show to celebrate the release of their new CD, Guitars, Tundra, Whiskey and Women. Regular sign-in rules apply.
Storysacks at the library
Tuesday, March 15, 10:30 a.m., Iqaluit Libarary. Parents and children are invited to come out for a storysacks presentation featuring the Moles Sisters. The library will also be displaying 100 new children’s books recently added to the collection.
Restorative justice AGM
Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m., Parish Hall. The Amaat Restorative Justice Society holds its annual general meeting. Refreshments served. Everyone welcome.
Upcoming
Toonik Tyme date set
Toonik Tyme 2005 will be celebrated from April 18 – 23.
March 11, 2005
Fire extinguished at elders’ residence
RCMP are applauding the quick response of Iqaluit residents in saving the elder’s residence from serious damage in a recent fire.
Firefighters found smoke coming from a hole in a light fixture when they were responding to report of a fire at the buiding on March 6. They quickly put a fire found inside the north wall.
Investigators haven’t released the cause of the fire, but ruled out arson.
No one was hurt.
Police thanked Jake Angurasuk, Joe Adams, and Jimmy Stanley for their speedy reaction to the fire.
March 11, 2005
Iqaluit teen wins scholarship
An Iqaluit high school student recently became the first in Nunavut to win a prestigious scholarship from the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation.
Ashley Tufts won a scholarship worth $75,000 for four years of university study.
Foundation officials said they picked Ashley because she has leadership potential, entrepreneurial energy as well as academic excellence.
Tufts was a youth representative with the Department of Justice and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention in Nunavut. She counsels youth and is a board member of Kamatsiaqtut Baffin Crisis Line.
Tufts is also president of the student council and the graduate editor of the Inuksuk High School yearbook. She coaches speed skating, and competed in the sport at the Arctic Winter Games and Canada Games.
March 4, 2005
Coffee house
Saturday, March 5, 7 p.m., Inuksuk High School. The Iqaluit Music Society hosts a coffee house with performances for all tastes. For information or updates in case of bad weather call Bonita at 979-6731 or Heather at 975-1299.
Women rock the radio
Saturday, March 5, 8-10 p.m., on CFRT 107.3 FM. Audio Missile Defense — a new show featuring the latest in indie rock, dance and hip-hop — plays women only in honour of International Women’s Day.
Women’s arts and crafts fair
Tuesday, March 8, 7-9 p.m., Parish Hall. The Qulliit Status of Women and the Iqaluit Women’s Group are holding a Women’s Arts and Crafts Fair in honour of International Women’s Day. To book a table, call 979-6690.
Restorative justice AGM
Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m., Parish Hall. The Amaat Restorative Justice Society holds its annual general meeting. Refreshments served. Everyone welcome.
Toonik Tyme date set
Toonik Tyme 2005 will be celebrated from April 18 – 23.
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