Around Iqaluit
April
1, 2005
Iqaluit this week
Martinis tonight
Friday, April 1, 5 - 7 p.m. Martinis at the Francophone Centre. Admission
is free.
Bingo for volleyball
Friday, April 8, 6 p.m., Inuksuk High School. The Iqaluit Ladies
Volleyball team hosts a Bingo. Cost is $70 to play. Jackpot is $5,000, mini
jackpot is $2,000.
Aerobathon!
Sunday, April 10, Atii Fitness Centre. Everyone is welcome to enter
the 3-hour aerobics marathon. To enter, you must find at least $50 in pledges
before April 3. For info, call 979-0348.
Upcoming
Toonik Tyme
date set
Toonik Tyme 2005 will be celebrated from April 18 - 23. Volunteers
needed. Contact Ailsa at 979-5617.
April
1, 2005
KRG gives Iqaluit
the silent treatment
Iqaluit city officials
were all but convinced last year that Nunavik's Kativik Regional Government
could help them find a way of cutting Iqaluit's road paving costs by up to 50
per cent, through a surface treatment technique called "chip-seal."
But staff at the KRG, whose
head office is located in Kuujjuaq, have stopped talking to Iqaluit city officials
about a proposed contract between the two organizations for a chip-seal pilot
project, and no one at the city of Iqaluit knows why.
"We've encountered
a non-response situation," said Mark Hall, the City of Iqaluit's director
of public works.
Last year, Hall and Coun.
Annie Gordon visited Kuujjuaq to take a look at Nunavik's highly successful
road paving project. Using a technique called "chip-seal," the KRG
paved about 3.6 km of roads in Kuujjuaq for almost half the cost of using asphalt,
and also trained local people how to do it.
The "chip-seal"
technique involves laying down a thin layer of asphalt and water, followed by
a layer of gravel, which is then rolled flat.
Ian Fremantle, the city's
CAO, said Iqaluit was seeking a contract with the KRG to use the Nunavik organization's
equipment in a chip-seal pilot project that would pave the Apex Road and some
residential roads in Apex.
But he also said that the
key to maintaining Iqaluit's inadequate roads is to create a drainage plan,
since it's poor drainage that's responsible for most of the washboarding and
pot-holes. Even paved roads are damaged by poor drainage, Fremantle said.
April
1, 2005
Tenant vacates apartment
near waste site
An Iqaluit business that
was maintaining an apartment in a leased building near an old waste disposal
site at the end of the federal road has vacated the unit.
This information was contained
in a letter sent to city council by NCC Development Ltd., the owner of the building.
The city's planning department
first brought the issue to city council, pointing out that the business had
not sought approval from the GN health department for occupancy of the apartment.
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