Edward Tuttauk is the Chairperson.

He says the Inuit Community Corporation hired a Program Co-ordinator last Thursday.

Tuttauk says Clara Michelin is the successful applicant.

He says her duties will include:  submitting funding proposals, develop training opportunities for the residents in NWR and organize workshops  on craft projects.

Tuttauk says the work projects are the result of community consultations held in 2007.

Catharyn Andersen is the Director of Torngasok Cultural Center.

She says Tom Dawe a Superintendent of the Hebron project accompanied by two local people left Nain by skidoos on Saturday.

She says the purpose of their trip is to look at what the conditions of the Mission Building after it was winterized last fall, and to see how much snow there at the site, and to check out the tools and equipment and the conditions of the cabins.

Andersen says Tom Dawe, William and Andrew Andersen are expected back sometime today and report back what the condition are like.

She says if everything is in place they plan to move forward with the Hebron Restoration Project as early as mid April of next month till September. 

Sarah Erickson is the AngajukKâk of the Nain Inuit Community Government.

She says their regular Maintenance Services staff, along with five other people are working on the problem.

They’ve had water problems to deal with since early January.

Erickson says the Nain IC Government is still within its operating budget because they’ve made allowances for any over-time work if required.

NICG is hiring residents who need more hours to qualify for Employment Insurance through Make Work projects.

Erickson says they’ve borrowed a Steam Ginny from the Makkovik Inuit Community Government to thaw out freeze ups in Town.

She says there are two leaks in Town and she says hopefully they will have completed the repairs this week.

After all the repairs, the NICG will have to find proper equipment to fill up the holes.

They will use land-fill from the rock quarry at the dump.

The Department of Health and Social Development of Nunatsiavut Government has had difficulty recruiting full time Interpreter/Translators for Melville Hospital.

Michelle Kinney is Deputy Minister for Nunatsiavut Government.

She says a permanent translator for the Health Center in Happy Valley is now in place.

Miriam Saunders has filled that position.

Kinney also says that Saunders also acts as interpreter at the Pine Lodge and Paddon Home.

Saunders was hired a couple of weeks ago and has assistance from other interpreters on a call-in basis.  

Janet O’Donnell is Executive Director of the Libra House in Happy Valley Goose Bay.

O” Donnell says they meet every three or four months to share information on what work is being done at each center.

She says Kim Draddy, Coordinator for Transition Houses made a presentation.

O’' Donnelll classified the meetings a success.

Roger MacDonald is the Superintendent of the Environmental Response Team in St. John’s, Nfld.

He says the last word received from the Nunatsiavut Government was that the barge is still covered over in ice near Hebron.

He says interested parties are meeting in three weeks to determine whether any pollution was caused over the winter.

The parties being Nunatsiavut Government, MacNally Olympics Construction, Environment Canada, Canadian Coast Guard and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The barge was carrying 90,000 litres of diesel fuel and 20,000 litres of waste fuel when it ran aground last fall.

A survey will be conducted in the Hebron area to see if  migratory birds were impacted.

To date, the Nunatsiavut Government has not reported any changes to the barge situation over the winter months.