Coinciding with Nunatsiavut Day this was posted on the door of the post office.

Now the post office has large boards that are used for public notices, yard sales and the like, and you have to received a date time stamp [see bottom right] from the post office staff or they take it down.

Just a thought but maybe yous are not smarter than that considering the church has been in danger of toppling down for decades yet no action was taken within the community to right the situation.

Until now that is; with a group working hard on a volunteer basis [well I know Fran and a several others are] to save the church and upgrade it.

The church has heritage status now and all that is needed is lots more money to carry out the shoring up of the footing, the steeple and retro fit the exterior to heritage standards.

Plus all the forms to be filled in and contacting people with expertise and pricing material and engineers etc.

So maybe unknown will come forward and help out?

Bloody busy day yesterday on the phone. The CPP and OAS cheques still have not arrived in town.
Lots of people hanging around the post office area the last two days hoping that 'the next mail bag' contains the cheques.

I started making some calls, 20 minutes listening to music at the Canada Post 800 #. Gave up on that and called postal station B and asked for the area supervisor. She not in so left a message.

Meantime called the NG liaison officer. He got thing rolling by talking to the president who said he would give instructions to the NG communications guy to look into it.

Then I called CBC HV-GB and gave them a run down of the situation.

Then the station B area supervisor called back and said they were aware of the situation and were monitoring mail as it came in as it was not sure if it was a Canada Post problem or a CPP problem.. Still shaking my head at that one but was grateful for the call back.

Then I called the Torngat Mountains MHA constituency office in Hopedale mainly to find out if they had receved their cheques. They had on Monday.

Constituency person said she would make some phone calls.

Constituency parson called back with update of contact with Canada Post person in St. John's who said this was the first they had heard of the missing cheques. Then another call back saying that mail was due in Nain Friday morning and that the post master here was to let the person in St. John's know if cheques arrived or not.

In between all that I called CPP office [Service Canada it is called now] in St. John's and discovered that one would have to wait untill the 3rd November before bothering them with a lost or overdue payment claim.

So depending on what is in the mail bags which depend on weather permitting today will be either a busy one or not.

Updateded: Even more news from the north on Nutrition North program. I'm hanging by the short and curlies here waiting for Labrador media to pick up on this story.

The rates for Labrador look a bit squeey to me.


Update on the overdue cheques: They arrived this am. relief is in the air and the hounds have been kenneled.

But, something is afoot with rumors about changes in Federal mailing policy, checking on that.