Tom Axtell is the National Coordinator of Nâsautet.

Nasâutet is working with Statistics Canada and the National Aboriginal Health Organization to conduct these workshops.

Axtell says the purpose of the workshop is to train people about how to use numbers in their line of work.

For example, if we were looking at the number of Inuktitut speaking people in Nain, we would find there were about 200 people out of 1200.

The trainees would be taught how to figure out the percentage of people this equals.

The workshop wraps up tomorrow afternoon with a dinner at the Atsanik Lodge.

This is the day the Canadian Government established in 1991 to mark the annniversary of the murders of fourteen young women in Montreal.

So, to remember women and girls who died because of violence and to encourage action for those who continue to live with violence daily, two women in Nain organized a gathering for tomorrow night.

They are Nancy Ikkusik and Frances Murphy.

Murphy says people will gather outside of the Nunatsiavut Government Department of Health & Social Development building tomorrow.

This building is the old Women's Centre, near the Nain Safe House.

The gathering will take place at 6:00 p.m. On Saturday, December 6th.

Murphy says she wants everyone to bring their own candles because this event is a candle light gathering.

Frances Murphy is the Acting Coordinator of the Nunatsiavut Government's Status of Women office.

So come out tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm to participate in this important event.

And many organizations are beginning to hold sales and fund raisers for Christmas.

The Moravian Church in Nain is planning a sale for next Saturday.

Dorothy Ford is a member of the Nain Moravian Church Sewing Circle.

This group helps to make and sell home-made items which people can make good use of.

Ford says the Nain sale will take place on Saturday, December 13^th, at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Hall.

She says there will be cold plates, chili and caribou soup for sale, as well as an auction for Christmas baskets.

They will also have Moravian stars and 2009 Moravian daily text books for sale.

If you would like to purchase these items now, you can contact Ford at 922 -2214.

You may also use that telephone number if you would like to make donations of baked goods or other items and they will be picked up before the sale.

Ford says her group of women would like to thank everyone for their help in supporting the Nain Moravian Church.

He says that the Corporation now has a full Board of Directors from Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Mud Lake.

Alex Saunders was voted in as a board member, with Sheila Saunders named the secretary by acclamation.

Winters also tells us that the Corporation is presently seeking funds for a print making and painting course.

But they haven't had any favourable responses yet.

He says the corporation is also helping Mandy Hope and Andrea Keats, with the Drum Dancers and throat singers group.

Hope is the youth coordinator, and Keats is the youth worker with the Labrador Friendship Centre.

Winters goes on to say the drum dancers and the throat singers have been invited to perform at the closing ceremony of Cain's Quest next year in March.

Winters adds that the community freezer project is going well.

They currently have redberries, bakeapples, salted fish, rabbits, and fresh frozen char available at this time.

He says he hopes they will have fresh caribou in about a week.

Winters mentions some new criteria for beneficiaries able to access the freezer including that the beneficiaries must be permanent residents of Happy Valley/Goose Bay and Mud lake.

And , they must be a beneficiary of sixty years of age or older, or be a disabled beneficiary.

"We're taking one month of production out of the equation," Cory McPhee, director of external communications with Vale Inco, told CBC News Thursday.

He said the company can not promise, at this point, that any production slowdowns will be limited to the one-month shutdown.

This will obviously hurt those employee's who will have to take this vacation time, especially if the time ends up being extended.

If you are a VBNC employee, or work for one of the contract companies, please give OK Radio a call.

We want to hear from you on Monday December 8^th at 2:00 pm.

We will be having a phone-in so that you can voice your opinion on the shutdown.

This will be open to the general public too who have opinions they would like to be heard.

So give us a call... we want to hear from you!