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What's new in Cam Bay
with Navalik Tologanak
Guest columnist
e-mail: helent@qiniq.com
Monday, July 7, 2008

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HALU INUIT. ANILGAKMIYUGA. ILIHAKGIAHIMAGAMA IKALUNUN. KOANA TAKUYUMANAKTUT INUINAIT ILANUATKALU. INUIN NAMAINAKTUT IKALUKTUTIAMI. AKULAILGUMITUT INUIT IKLUKPAKMITUTLU. ANIGIAMI ALIANAKHIYUK. UNAGALUKIHIMI. MIPKULIUKPAKTUTLU PIFFILIULIKTUT INUIN IKALIKIYUTLU KUVYAKIYUTLU EKALOKTOTIAMILU AKULAILGUMILU. PULAKPAKTUGA TAUNANI. AVALATKUTLU. EPILUTITKUTLU,INUGIAHIYUK ILA TAUNANI. HIKULIK HULI. HIKUIKNIALIKMIYUK KILAMINUAK. KOANA INUIN KAYATUGUMAKTUT. HIUGAINAK APKUTIT IKALUKTUTIAMI. HANAKIYAUYUTLU KOANA. ILA INUIN NAMAINAKTUT. UTAKIYUT HIKUIKAT AUDLAKNIAKMIYUT KAYAKUT. NUTAKATLU UNAGUIKHIYUT. NAMAKPAKLUHI ILA. AYUKNAKMAT ILAIYAGAGAPTA. PITIAKPAKLUHI. MUNAKTAUYUGUT ILA. KUVIAHUKPAKLUHI.

Hello and welcome back to Tea Talk. It is good to be back home with my family, and especially my grandson Heik. First of all it is so good to be home again and to see everyone again. My little hometown is so busy and weather has been so beautiful and hot. Everyone is once again returning to their summer camps, Avalaks, Epilons, Chuck and Rosie Nahogaloaks, Tommy and Jean Ekpakohaks, and many more families have been camping since Omingmak Frolics weekend in May. People are busy making dried fish now that the char is running. Everyone gets excited when the fish start running. Lots of piffi now to eat. A very healthy snack. Fish is one of the healthiest foods to eat so we up here in Cambridge Bay and Nunavut are so lucky to have plenty of fish all over. It's so nice to go out there and visit family and friends to just have a nice fresh cup of tea with good water and of course bannock. People are just fine, especially our Elders always there for us always welcome to greet their visitors.

School is out now for the summer and soon the swimming pool will be open again so our kids and youth will be happy and their parents. By the time you read this column the swimming pool will be open for the short summer months for kids. Yippee! Day camp for kids will soon be up and running, they will as usual operate out of the community hall and sometimes at the high school gym.

This time of the year the roads are so dusty and municipal services staff have been busy keeping the dust control by watering down the main roads in town. Also Kitnuna with Danny Mala are busy repairing the roads going out to Mount Pelly and to Gravel Pit, just like his Dad Cyril Mala use to do. It's always good to see Danny operating the machines his dad use to work with. The Ovayok Territorial Park up at Mount Pelly has some new picnic tables, benches, fire pits and can't go without the outhouse. It's very beautiful and peaceful out there.

Soon the flowers will be in full bloom all over the nuna. Town cleanup will soon happen in the next couple of weeks, weather has been so strange with late snowfalls which deayed town cleanup.

Once again we hope kids will be more energetic to earn their own extra money by picking up garbage and filling up those garbage bags. some of them can get very rich.

Watch out for signs and announcements on the town cleanup in Cambridge Bay.

There is quite a bit of construction going on in town, few more houses and apartment buildings going up. This little town on Victoria Island is growing so fast along with our kids growing up fast!

We have two barges that have been docked all winter down at the dock due to being iced up so when the ice melts and shipping season begins they will return to carry goodies to the communities. I understand we have a new shipping company coming to service the Kitikmeot communities. We will have to wait and see when they arrive, whenever the ice goes. People are busy getting all their barge orders in before deadline, groceries. vehicles, construction material and goods for the stores we will all be waiting for.

Well, Happy Nunavut Day everyone. Have a safe summer everyone and enjoy fishing. Take care of each other. Happy Birthday to my son Tolok, who has a beautiful little family now.