Joan Andersen is the Chair of the NL Moravian Church.

She says the idea of re-newing the translations of the original 7 testaments from 1871 came about quite a few years ago.

The idea to make a change in the written language was that so people can read the Bible in Inuktitut better.

She says the translators who did an excellent job include: K. Naeme Tuglavina of Nain, Amos Onalik of Hopedale, Sophie Tuglavina of of Makkovik, Hilda Lyall, Andrea Webb, Sarah Townley of Happy Valley and also Sabina Hunter who was the co-ordinator of the project.

The church held a public meeting in Nain last evening, and the issues discussed was update on new minister staff and training, Heritage issues on the Moravian Church Buildings, and what was lost in the fire when the Nain Manse burnt down.

Andersen says even though some artifact written scripts was lost in the fire, they are happy because there was no loss of life.

She is also happy to say that during one of Dr. Hans Rolhman trips to Nain, he had made a visit to the Manse and came across some of the artifacts, and from there had decided to photograph some of the pieces, except that he regret not to have taken photos of all the past autographs on what the visitors wrote from the past.

Andersen says the board wants to purchase a fire proof cabinet for the Church archives and to act now, and to send a written proposal letter to the Tessiujatsuak Trust Fund to build a new Manse in Nain.

The exhibit is a joint production by the Torngâsok Cultural Centre and the Rooms Corporation, are recognizing Uncle Jim Andersen's 50 plus years of photography.

Mina Campbell-Hibbs is the curator at the Interpretation Center

She says because of limited space in the centre, they can only display 20 of the 80 large photographs of Uncle Jim's photos.

The remaining 60 will be displayed via slide show, and a DVD presentation on Uncle Jim, surrounding his accomplishments.

Campbell-Hibbs says the exhibit will last approximately two hours.

She included Nunatsiavut Governments Ben Ponniuk the Minister of Culture, Tourism & Recreation will be a guest speaker.

After Ponniuks speech, there will be live entertainment, in which Uncle Jim himself, with Natalie Fost will perform.

Campbell-Hibbs says he will also provide a little speech.

She says food and beverages will be served, and thinks they'll have a very good turnout.

Campbell-Hibbs says the exhibit will be available for public viewing until April 26, afterwards, it will be visit in all of the Nunatsiavut communities to exhibit.

This year it's happening on January 25^th.

We spoke to Richard Haye who is the second captain.

He says Elias Obed is the first captain this year.

Haye says ten young men will celebrate this year, including four who will participate for the first time.

And if others are interested they can call or see him in person to have their day.

Haye says he asked the Nunatsiavut Government and Big Land Grocery for donations so far and he will ask other organizations as well.

He says Joey Angnatuk has donated caribou and seal meat for the feast so far.

Sue Maggo and Maria Ikkusek will be the cooks and the servants will be Maggie Kohlmeister and Jerry Tuglavina.

The first timers pay a fee of $15.00 and others have to pay $20.00 to join.

We will contact Hopedale to find out when young men's day happens in the community.