It is unfortunate that the fire in the belly subsided so quickly. Complacency is the bane of many communities, as the saying goes ‘we get the government [in this case community government] we deserve.

From CKOK: In Nain, Sarah Leo, George Lyall, Duane Dicker, Margie Fox and Beni Andersen will serve as councilors for the Nain ICG.

Jacob Larkin will serve as councilor in the non-beneficiary seat.

They all got in by acclamation.

With one exception I have never had a conversation with any of the new/old councilors on policy or planning or community governance or anything else pertaining to community government.

Ditto for the new mayor.

I don’t know anyone else who has any conversations mentioned above with those mentioned above.

So I raise the question; who has the onus in making people aware of what policies and objectives all the councilors have for the future advancement of the community.

Is the onus on the councilors to provide or on the public at large to seek out this information?

Three overdue hunters from Nain were found holed up in a cabin on Okak Island at 3 am this morning.

The three had left Nain on 21^st of this moth to hunt for caribou in the Mugfords area just north of Okak Bay.

They were due home last Sunday, when they had not arrived home family notified the local RCMP.

The local SAR and RCMP did a fly over of the route the hunters would have taken without noticing them.

The coordinated search center in Halifax was then notified and a cormorant helicopter from Gander was dispatched to the area via Nain.

After finding the hunters boat ashore the chopper landed at a near by cabin where the hunters were located safe and sound with lots of food.

The hunters were delayed with all this windy weather we are having and indicated they would continue on with the hunt.