An interesting interview was aired yesterday with Noah Nochasak on CKOK radio. Not available to listen to [or transcribe] on the OK web site but I feel confident that these services are not overly far off.

Noah you may remember is the guy who constructed his own kayak and then paddled it to Natuashish and back. In the interview he described his fears and triumphs on the trip, plus the trials and tribulations during the construction phase.

Noah also talked about how two local elders provided invaluable help during the construction, plus a little recent history of kayak construction in the area, it has been some decades since any have been attempted, until now.

It is not my role to provide public service announcements to NG beneficiaries, none the less in the absence of any other service provider:

Brian Flowers of Hopedale is the new Property Manager [PM] for the Nunatsiavut Government.

The position had been vacant for some time due to the abrupt departure of the previous PM.

The interim role of PM had been the responsibility of the Deputy Minister to the First Minister, this changed this past Monday.

I came about this information quite by accident. Last evening while down at the dock checking if I had any freight on the Northern Ranger [I did not, nor did many people as she was almost devoid of freight, strange for this time of year]. Sitting on the dock for loading was a pallet of shrink wrapped filling boxes loaded with files.

The address label said, To: Brian Flowers, Property manager, NG, Hopedale.

I’m sure NG will have this and other news out in due course, or later as is usual the case, or not at all as is the case at times also.

For those wot have an interest in these things, the new PM is the brother in law of the Deputy Minister to the First Minister who was the interim PM after the previous PM abruptly departed.

Now to something fishy: I knocked up a different fish cake last evening.

I had the usual; couple left over pieces of fried char, a small tin of salmon but was hankering for a different twist.

So I puréed [mashed up] some chick peas, added an egg, some dried oregano, basil, Thai spice, green onion, chili pepper. Chilled the cakes before frying, turned out not bad either.