Foged and freezing rained in.

Nain has been chosen as one of the sites for a military exercise this weekend. Up to ten members of the Military are in town to brush up on the communications and interpretation skills. Amongst the group are two wee members of the Royal Marines Reserve of Scoootlund.

The intent is to break up into three groups, surround the town and ambush any suspicious people skulking around. The skulkers will be taken to a secret local and given lots of water to drink until they tell them what they know. OK I’ve been exposed to way too much American Media.

The real action plane is to break up into three groups and then go interview organizations or groups who have Inuktitut speaking skills.

Originally the intent was to have a military Video Crew with them to film the whole exercise, the video would then be used to train personnel in communication skills who were destined for overseas theatres like Afghanistan.
Unfortunately as of last evening the video crew had not arrived. They were in a separate convoy at the rear, changes in weather patterns [that were predicted in advance] meant that they did not get into Nain. A good lesson there one presumes.

Another up coming event for Nain is a meeting between the Community Government and the Torngat Fish Producers Co Op. I presume this is pertaining to the non opening of the fish plant this year. The AngajukKâk is asking the public to come out for this meeting, at this time I do not now the date, time, place, but keep your eyes open for this event.

I hope that people of the coast have some pennies put away in the piggy bank. As we all know the fuel prices have been frozen our way since last November. Outside, the cost of gas and especially heating fuels have been very volatile, mainly in an upward spin.
With the freeze due to be lifted next month some time it may be a smart move to stock up on fuels, depending o the piggy bank size that is.

Since the freeze, and using HV-GB as the reference point, gas has risen 17.2 cents a liter.
Stove oil has risen 30.03 cents a liter, plus taxes.
At the moment gas is 140.6 and stove oil 109.85 plus tax and plus delivery.

With the world finances in a mess, natural disasters all over the place, no end to the mess in the middle east and oil companies continuing to make record profits one would not be far off predicting that fuel prices wont be coming down in the very short term.
So if you can afford it fill up or at least partly fill the old tank soon.

So the weather is the pits today, fog, rain, freezing rain forecast, so wont be many people out to be ambushed, sorry, interviewed by the forces group. I’m sure they have things strategize though.