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Tuesday June 23 2015 5 COLUMNS 15 Years Ago... MP faces illness Western Arctic MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew was diag- nosed last week with a very early and treatable form of breast cancer according to information released by her Ottawa ofce. The Secretary of State for Children and Youth plans to return to Yellowknife to resume her summer working schedule as quickly as possible. Issue June 20 2000 20 Years Ago... NWT policing under review Police services are currently under review across the NWT and its the publics perception of the Norths fu- ture policing needs that count most. The accounting rm of Peat Marwick is heading up the independent review team under the Nunavut Project a plan to design the Norths future after division in 1999. Issue June 21 1995 30 Years Ago... Mass bison drowning More than 70 bison carcasses have been spotted scat- tered over 10 miles of shoreline on the northeast side of Lake Claire in Wood Buffalo National Park. It appears the bison attempted to swim the three or four miles from the small peninsulas on the east side of the lake. Issue June 20 1985 ARCHIVES Northern Journal 2015 Join us online Like Northern Journal on Facebook and get the weekly news delivered to your feed FACEBOOK FEEDBACK The community of Fort Smith showed its true colours last week as thousands of dollars in donations piled in for the Lafferty family following a tragic vehicle acci- dent on Sunday evening. Fort Smith pulls together after tragic car accident Lena Illasiak Fort Smith always pulls together it has always been the best... Relay for Life fundraisers surpass 150000 goal Patricia Sepp I hope they get to use that money in the community By DAWN KOSTELNIK Please please please can I Please let me go I will be careful Ill dress warm and Ill listen. My friend Alice as I will call her for this story is going out for the Easter weekend on the sea ice. Her family is trav- eling with two skidoos and two komatiks to hunt seals on the long weekend I have been invited to come along. Thiswouldbe myrstexperi- ence of hunting and camping on the frozen ocean with no trees. I wonder how we will hunt the seals do they snare seals like we did with rabbits in Good Hope My father nally relents extracting promises from me regarding listening to my el- ders and making sure that I cover my face and wear my snow goggles the wooden carved ones that tie around my head with a caribou hide thong. ThisissoexcitingAlicehas twosistersandthreebrothers her parents of course and an aunt and uncle accompany us on this trip. We divide people between sleds to equalize the load. Komatiks have wooden runners with cross support sections that are lashed to- gether with caribou lacing. The size of them depends on thebuilderswantsandneeds average length is probably eight feet long. Runners are often rein- forced with some type of metal along the bottom. Snow or ice is melted and spit on the metal rails to help them glide fast through the snow and over the ice packs. Lead lines to the skidoo are 10 to 20 feet in length depending on how rough the sea ice is. A long lead line allows the skidoo to get over the ice and pull the weighted komatik up and over behind it. There is no traction being balanced on the top of an ice pack. Going out for even a week- end requires a lot of gear. The snow is too soft to make ig- loos so we will be spending the nights in canvas tents. On the Mackenzie River we used spruce trees as support poles to hold the walls of the tent up and keep it from be- coming a kite. We also used spruce boughs woven to- gether to cover the oor and keep us warm. There are no trees how will this work Speaking of kites we will be using a kite to hide behind to hunt seals. We start off at six in the morning while the snow is still hard. As the sun heats the snow it gets soft and makes it difcult for the ski- doos to pull the weight of the full Komatik. Camp needs to be made by noon. It seems to me that we are heading out into empty white noth- ingness. How do they know where the seals are There are no game trails how do they know where to go To be continued www.thewhitegirl.ca White Girl Easter in the Arctic By LONE SORENSEN Thinningistheprocessofre- moving selected plants if they are too close together. Many of the common plants grown in our Northern gardens like carrots turnips Swiss chard beetsandromainelettucesown fromseedrequirethinningas they need space to grow into big fat juicy plants Carrots During the first thinning of carrots at about an inch in height leave the strongest plant and only one per every half ngers width. The thin- ning process with carrots can be done over several times but its very important to thin properly during the rst thin- ning as this sets them up for successfulgrowingthroughto the fall. With carrots doing a second thinning towards late June or early July to make sure each carrot has enough space is a good thing. By the time they are a small ngers thickness you can start pick- ingeverysecondoneforsome delectablemunching.Goeasy inthebeginningsoitleavesat leasthalfofyourcarrotstogrow to full size by the rst week in September. Beets Beetsneedthinningassoon as they have developed the crownleaves.Thintoangers width.Whenbeetsarethesize of a small egg thin again tak- ing every second one. You can thenhaveafeastofbabybeets and beet greens. Leave half to growtofullpotentialspacedat about10cmbetweeneachplant. Lettuce Romaine lettuce if planted fromseedneedstobethinned to create about 10cm between each plant. If carefully lifted out from under the root the thinned out plant can be Gardening with Lone Thinning your vegetables replanted somewhere else in thegardenwherethereisspace. This only works if done very gently. Swiss chard is thinned andreplantedinthesameway as romaine lettuce. Turnips Turnipsneedthinningwhen crown leaves have developed. Thin to 10 cm between each plant. Hilling potatoes Ideallypotatoeswouldhave beenplantedinafurroworde- pressionandasthestemsgrow toaboutafootinheightputthe soiluparoundthestems.This willallowtheplanttosendout moreumbilicalcordsforset- ting some more potatoes. Boosting Plants Throughout the growing season some plants need an extra boost. Compost tea is a fantastic meal for any plant as it sends the nutrients mi- crobes and minerals quickly down deep to where the roots can absorb them. Liquid kelp and sh fertilizers also work well. Broccoli for instance benefits from a boost after the rst cutting of the biggest crown so it can send out nice strongsideshootsforcontinu- ousproductionthroughtofall. All coles brassicas like cab- bagecauliowerandbroccoli dontmindrawfertilizersuch asliquidshfertilizer.Beware thatcarrotsdonotlikerawfer- tilizerssoifyoundyourcar- rots are not growing and they need a boost make a tea out of well-rotted compost. Tomakecompostteasimply put some compost in a bucket oremptygarbagecan.Fillwith compostandwater.Ifyou donthaveyourownwell-rotted compostyoucanusecompos- tedsheepmanureoranyother compostthatcanbeboughtin bags. Stir well and stir again after an hour. Let this brew for a day or two. Pour some of thisbrewintoyourwatering canandwateryourplants.They will like it Lone Sorensen is the founder of Northern Roots andhaslivedandgrownfood in Yellowknife for 27 years. Charlene Donald Gary Greenland Fort Smith rocks