The Christmas holidays are just around the corner for schools in Labrador and each year at around this time, students prepare for the Christmas Concerts.

Before the holidays, we will speak with every school in Nunatsiavut and Upper Lake Melville to see what is on their agenda for this year's concert.

Wendy Pottle is the secretary at Northern Lights Academy.

She says they are hosting their Christmas Concert on December 12 in the school gym.

Pottle says the doors for the public will open at 6:30 pm, and the concert will commence at 7:15 pm.

She says the agenda has not been finalized yet, but she knows each class will perform a play.

Following the plays, there will be two skits.

The first skit will be in Inuktitut, followed by a musical piece with the music teacher.

Next, OK Radio spoke with Jacob Larkin, Principal of Jens Haven in Nain.

He says they are scheduled to host their two Christmas concerts on December 17.

First will be the Kindergarten to grade 3 group.

And then they'll have the grades 4-12 perform.

The concert will begin at 6:30 pm in the gym.

Larkin says there will be admission charged for all who attend or you can donate something for their hamper.

Nancy Tuglavina is the secretary at Amos Comenius School in Hopedale.

She says the Christmas concert in Hopedale is on December 17^th at 6pm at the school gym and all grades will be performing.

She adds the Christmas holidays are from December 19^th until January 5^th.

Lastly, we contacted the B.L. Morrison School in Postville.

Darlene Jacque is their secretary and she provided us with their pre-holiday happenings.

She says Postville's Christmas Concert will he held at the gym on December 17^th and it will begin at 6:00 pm.

The agenda for the night has not been finalized yet, however Jacque says the only thing she knows is that all of their students will participate.

She added that their school's last day of classes before the Christmas Holidays is December 19^th, and they are scheduled to come back on January 5^th, 2009.

Keep listening to OK radio because we still have to find out about the Christmas concerts in Makkovik, Goose Bay and North West River.

The Labrador Society's 19th Annual Christmas Gathering was held last Friday in Ottawa.

Allan Michelin is the President of the Labrador Society.

He says Labradorians who are away from their home town get to socialize with old friends and get to meet new ones at the annual gathering.

The night of the gathering, a local bridge was shut down so the Seventy-five people who attended had to make it through very heavy traffic.

Michelin says people are always happy to get together, although attendance was down from the usual 150 or so.

He says the opening ceremony started off with the singing of “Ode to Labrador.”

And Senator Bill Rompkey played the piano, while some people played the guitar.

He says they had tickets to sell and raffled off a Christmas stocking which was filled with Labrador made items.

He says everyone helps out in bringing food, sandwiches and refreshments to serve, including desserts.

Michelin says the next executive meeting will be held on March 1^st and at that time there will be an election for the new executive.

The executive positions available will be the president, vice -president, secretary, treasurer, PR person, web-site director, member director, and members at large, which totals 14 members.

The thirty-two year old organization known as Labrador Legal Services has changed it's name.

Georgia Davies is the executive director of what is now called Labrador Aboriginal Legal Services Inc.

She says the name change happened at the board of directors meeting in September of this year in Happy Valley Goose Bay.

They will be distributing a news letter about what they've been up to before Christmas which should be interesting to their readers.

Davies says their Anti-Violence Team offers programs for Labrador Correctional Centre inmates and to the community as well.

The programs include support programs like talking cirles held once a week, counselling services for individual clients, educational videos on family violence, spousal abuse and arts and culture programs for the inmates.

As well Davies says they've bought arctic char for the inmates to enjoy.

She adds that they received a donation of two guitars and the Rosetta Stone Program from the Nunatsiavut Government to be used by clients of the LCC.

They still need two more guitars because a lot of inmates play the instrument and the inmates are in two separate units.

Davies says Labrador Aboriginal Legal Services doors are always open at 3 Hunt Street in Goose Bay and the telephone number is 896-2929.

They would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, adding Be safe and God Bless!

The Moravian Church in Newfoundland and Labrador and the Anglican Church of Canada have signed a Memorandum of understanding to have an Anglican Church Minister serve in the community of Hopedale.

Reverend Brian Burrow from the Anglican Church started his Ministry in Hopedale on November 21^st.

His assignment to Hopedale is for three years, but he says he'll stay for one year and see how it goes.

Reverend Burrow is originally from England and moved to Canada in 1962.

He has served in the communities of Povungnituk in Nunavik and Iqaluit in Nunavut.

Living in these Inuit communities, Burrow was able to pick up some of the Inuktitut language.

So, we'll be speaking with Reverend Burrow on our PiusituKavut program today in Inuktitut and this afternoon we'll have the english version of what Burrow says on our Labrador Memories program at 4:30 pm, so stay tuned.