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October 6, 2006

CamBay dumps SAO, brings in GN

Last Wednesday, Sept. 27, the hamlet of Cambridge Bay dismissed its senior administrative officer, Mark Calliou.

“We’ve made our decision, and we feel we have cause,” said Cambridge Bay’s mayor, Michelle Gillis.

“We’re asking the community to bear with us during this time of transition.”

On the advice of the hamlet’s lawyer, Gillis said she could not describe what led to Calliou’s departure.

Calliou’s dismissal follows the recent mass resignation on Sept.13 of the community’s fire fighters, including fire chief Keith Morrison, who all cited irreconcilable differences with Calliou.

The hamlet has entered a “voluntary supervision” arrangement with the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Community and Government Services, to select a new SAO, Gillis said.

Denise Ohokak, the hamlet’s manager of human resources, is serving as interim SAO in the mean time.

The hamlet council meets next on Oct. 11.

October 6, 2006

Aqsarniit school still unfinished

The opening date for new classrooms under construction in Iqaluit’s Aqsarniit School has been pushed back another month, from the end of September to Oct. 27.

Students attending the middle school discovered this September that the new classrooms and gymnasium built by SNC Lavalin were unfinished.

This is the first year that Aqsaarniit will hold take in Grade 8 students, as well as Grade 7 and Grade 6 students. That makes a total of 15 homeroom classes, but the building only has only eight finished classrooms.

To deal with the shortage of classrooms, students have been split into morning and afternoon shifts, giving them an hour and a half less class time each day.

If the new classrooms now open on Oct. 27, that means students will have lost 13 days of classes.

However, the school has plans to make up for one week of classes with extracurricular activities, said principal Darlene Nuqingaq.

October 6, 2006

Ben Williams remembered by trophy

Arctic Bay’s most-improved cadet will have a new trophy to hold next spring.

More than $1,000 has been raised to create a trophy for the Cst. Ben Williams Memorial Award for Most Improved Cadet.

Williams was a much-admired Inuk RCMP officer who grew up in Arctic Bay and was once a distinguished cadet.

He died in a snowmobile accident outside Iqaluit during the spring of 2005.

“He was a driving force in the cadet corps, so it’s appropriate,” Cpl. Aletha MacDonald said of the award.

The Mounted Police Foundation, the Hamlet of Arctic Bay, the Taqqut Co-op and the Northern Store donated money for the trophy.

The trophy is expected to be ready by March 2007, when the annual awards ceremony for cadets is held.

October 6, 2006

Search on for worst handyman

If you know someone who’s never used a tape measure or level in his or her life, because these tools take too long to use, you may be able to get them on television.

Producers from the Discovery Television program Worst Handyman have expressed interest in receiving nominations from the eastern Arctic.

This year’s challenge: to build the worst shed, from the bottom up.

You can nominate friends, family and colleagues by sending an email to handyman@propertelevision.com, or visit http://www.discoverychannel.ca/worsthandyman for more information.

October 6, 2006

Dope politician jailed

Nunavut’s candidate for the Marijuana Party in the last federal election has been sentenced to six months in jail for drug-related offences.

Ed deVries was sentenced in Igloolik on Sept. 25 to six months in jail and one month of probation for trafficking and laundering the proceeds of crime.

Those charges date back to December 2003, when police intercepted a filing cabinet sent through the mail, filled with more than 2,000 grams of pot, and addressed to a company owned by deVries.

During an interview this summer, deVries told Nunatsiaq News that he was confident he would be acquitted by a jury of his peers in Igloolik, because, he said, many Igloolik residents smoke marijuana.

Those comments caused much anger in the community, leading some to call for his banishment. DeVries pleaded guilty shortly afterwards.

During the last federal election, deVries received more votes than the Green Party candidate, about seven per cent of ballots cast.

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