After a promising start to the day, t’was mostly clear early, it ended up one mauzy day all round.
We headed to the store around 1o.30 in a light mist, very quite in the stores, no one around town much at all. Not the sort of day you would want to ‘go off, but spotted a couple of speed boats skimming across the harbor heading east.
Later in the afternoon took a walk around town with grandson tagging along [or rather ahead] on his bike. Down to the dock, only action at all seemed to be there, a crew putting in posts for a fence around the lay down area, trucks still off loading freight from the containers left by the Astron.
I have to retract my retraction on the oil tanks being removed from the site. Only 4 were removed, I’m told they are headed for Rigolet. So 9 of them still remain and in the way.
It was the kind of day that makes one wonder what the rest of the population is doing behind the walls. Are they hunkered down because of the weather, resting after a long weeks work, hung over from a bit of a too good time at the dance?
I do not lose sleep over such thoughts; guess it’s just that type of day that gets the mind wondering/wondering. Why even the 5 puppies across the road spent all day hugging the wall of a house instead of playing out on the road.
To return to the dance bit. Word is that an incident there Friday evening resulted in an innocent person receiving head injuries from a thrown chair. Be interesting to see if any charges are laid, and what if anything the Nunatsiavut Government does considering all the rhetoric about accountability and implementing changes. I’m no prude, but things cannot keep regressing like they are, time for people to grow up, well actually way past time, but it is never too late they say.
2 comments:
There's nothing like a chair thrown at the Atsanik on a Saturday night to make one grow up fast, eh.
I used to really like the community events they'd have down there once in a while, when there was Easter games or some such thing. OKalaKatiget birthday party was a highlight. It would be nice if the restaurant was open for everyone without a reservation. I've been to some northern communities where the restaurant becomes a gathering place for young and old alike, three meals a day.
"It would be nice if the restaurant was open for everyone without a reservation. I've been to some northern communities where the restaurant becomes a gathering place for young and old alike, three meals a day."
Yes, having the dinning room open for local use could work well here, it worked before when the right person was in control of the kitchen.
The Amaruk Inn in Hopedale caters to locals in its restaurant, simple fare but good quality; it’s a nice break to have a quite place to have a meal out. Things that are taken for granted elsewhere can be nice little luxuries in remote communities.
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