He says they were very busy preparing their duties at the Canadian Embassy prior to the historic moment.

As newly annointed President pasted the Canadian Embassy, they honoured his presense with a royal solute.

Lyall says he did not get to meet the President, because like all previous inaugurations, the president was surrounded by FBI and CIA agents, and military personnel.

He mention he did see famous actors and singers in the likes of Michael J. Fox, Bruce Springsteen and Mary J. Blidge.

Judy Decker is the Angajukak in Hopedale and said she got the call around 3:00 am this morning about the fire.

She said the only thing left of the community hall and the radio station are the exterior walls and when we talked to her it was still smouldering.

The roof and interior of the building is gone along with everything that was in the building.

It contained all the youth and children equipment including all the band equipment, tv's, games, computers, ski's, a new pool table and much more.

Decker says she's very upset and doesn't know where the youth are going to go now. She would like to thank all the community members that came out to help with the fire last night.

Martin Basto is the Fire-chief with the Hopedale Fire Department.

He says they got a call saying the Community Hall was on fire, sometime after 2 AM.

Basto says nine firemen responded to the fire and they were able to get water fairly quickly but it took sometime to put the fire out.

He says even when they put the fire out it flared-up again but they were able to put it once more.

A few people from Hopedale did get out of bed to see the fire.

Basto would like to thank the fire-men and all those who came to help out during the fire.