You could barely see or hear for the wind whipping by your face.

But, in the Moravian church in Nain, you could hear a pin drop.

The audience was completely absorbed in the story five young women were telling them.

It was an old story: a complicated, but a touching story that we've all heard before.

But not like this.

Not with the strength and conviction of these five students.

Today on AtjiKangitut we have a special Christmas treat for you.

We will be bringing you some sounds from the moving performance that happened last Saturday in Nain.

We will also speak with CBC “Ideas” host Paul Kennedy who mentored the students and will be producing a documentary on his experience in Nain.

Our piece today will not include the whole presentation that happened on Saturday because it is too long to run our regular program.

So, we will be airing the whole recording during the Christmas season, so stay for that.

The OKâlaKatiget radio crew is calling different communities to find out where each community is with preparing for this years Hamper delivery.

Sarah Jensen is with the Moravian Church in Hopedale.

She says they've recieved donations from the Hopedale Women's Group and the Nunatsiavut Governments in Nain and Happy Valley- Goose Bay for their hampers.

Jensen says they have thirty or more hampers ready, which will be delivered on December 20^th.

Edna Winters is the Team Leader of the Department of Health and Social Development and is a member of the Hamper Committee in Nain.

She says they will be delivering 145 to 150 hampers to needy people on Saturday, December 20^th.

They've had donations from different groups and organizations and some of them are;

• The Nunatsiavut Department of Health and Social Dvelopment in Happy Valley- Goose Bay.

• The Nunatsiavut Government in Nain

• Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro

• Woodward's Oil Ltd

• Vale Inco

• Big Land Groceries and

• Shining Light Ministries.

St. Timothy's Anglican Church in Rigolet co-ordinates the Christmas Hamper Program in their Community.

Sarah Baikie is one of the Lay-minister with the Anglican Church in Rigolet.

She says they don't shop and do hamper deliveries as such, but they collect donations of money and have a Christmas Hamper voucher program.

They find out who and how many people may need a voucher and then mail it to them.

Once people have recieved their hamper vouchers, they can go to the Northern Store and do their shopping.

They're encouraged to shop for food items for their Christmas dinner and not junk food or cigarettes.

This year they have twenty-three people on their list and their vouchers are in the mail.

Donations came from different groups and organizations including:

• Torngat Fish Producers Co-operative

• Nunatsiavut Department of Health and Social Development in Happy Valley-Goose Bay

• Nunatsiavut Government

• The Northern Store in Rigolet

• and individual people from Rigolet

Baikie would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

She would also like to remind people in Rigolet of the Christmas Eve Church Services, which are 2:30 PM – The Children's Christmas Eve Service and 9:30 PM- The Adult Christmas Eve Service.

We spoke to Nancy Sillitt in Nain who has been working as a lab technician for the International Polar Year since September.

Sillitt works for Manon Simard, the project manager in Kuujjuuaq.

She says the projects they are working on in the Canadian North involve investigating to find out if there are parasites on different animals such as caribou, fish, seals, rabbits, foxes, partridges, white whales and jumpers.

She says they are doing this by engaging northern communities who consume traditional food.

They are trying to find out if these parasites can be transmitted to humans.

Sillitt adds there will be posters around the communities with images of animals and the logo of the International Polar Year.

Jim Farrow is the President.

He says there was a motion at the AGM a couple of years ago to change the date of the AGM, so the next one is scheduled for March 11- 13, 2009.

Farrow says the Councils recently held a meeting in St. John's and met with the Government and the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs.

He says the discussions surrounded many issues MHA Patty Pottle is working on to help her constituents for each of the north coast communities.

And Farrow commented that “Pottle is doing a great job.”

Farrow added the combined councils are planning to meet with the Nunatsiavut Government in Goose Bay in January of the new year.

Here's a list of the Current Executives: Ernie McLean is the contact person and VP for the Central Labrador, Matt Moore, VP for the Straits, Alton Rumbolt VP for the South East coast.

And they are looking for a VP position for the North Coast.

He says the term for the President is 2 years, and for vice-president is 1 year.