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Tuesday September 1 2015 5 COLUMNS 15 Years Ago... NWT ID cards The government of the Northwest Territories has in- troduced a General Identication Card GIC. Begin- ning Sept. 5 residents who have reached the age of 14 and meet current motor-vehicle identity requirements will be able to apply for a GIC. Identication cards cost 25 plus the applicable agents fee and will be valid for ve years. Issue August 29 2000 20 Years Ago... Premier wont run Nellie Cournoyea NWT premier since 1991 made it ofcial Monday she wont be seeking re-election in this falls territorial election after 16 years in the leg- islative assembly. Cournoyea represents the Nunakput riding including four Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie Delta communities. Issue August 30 1995 30 Years Ago... Park achieves world heritage status The long-awaited much-heralded world heritage plaquing of Wood Buffalo National Park culminated in an afternoon of ceremonies complete with protes- tors in Fort Smith and a citizens extravaganza in Fort Chipewyan. About 150 people came out to enjoy the WBNP ofcial plaquing ceremony in Fort Smiths Coni- bear Park last Thursday. Issue August 29 1985 ARCHIVES Northern Journal 2015 Join us online Like Northern Journal on Facebook and get the weekly news delivered to your feed FACEBOOK FEEDBACK An update on barren ground caribou populations holds more bad news for herd management and harvesters in the NWT. The initial results of the most recent calving ground survey shows a decrease in the number of cows. Bathurst Bluenose-East caribou still in decline report Patricia Sepp Why not do a study to nd out the source Radio tag groups These animals have been over studied since I was a child What happened to all that information It should be used in Northern classrooms as part of Environ- mental Science source Broadcaster Dneze Nahehko to run for Nahendeh MLA By DAWN KOSTELNIK After school some of the older boys are allowed to use the gym to practice their music. We hang outside of the doors listening to the screech of an amplier gone wild twangings of an elec- tric guitar that has escaped from its musician we cover our ears and laugh. They are taking turns deciding who will be the singer. There is an electric guitar a bass guitar and the drums Philip plays the drums. Isee-eeaba-d-dmoooon the voice breaks up and straggles off in the distance we cant tell who is audition- ing. A stronger voice picks up the tune I see a bad moon rising It sounds like Jonah. They try again and again. Now they are stomping their Kamik-clad leather home- made shoes feet to the beat of the song. Full on now I see a bad moon rising I feel troubleontheway.Weaccom- pany them out in the hallway. Man those Eskimo boys can play Creedence We are without television and radio but the doors to the outside world swing both ways. Flights to Yellow- knife NWT are a few times a week. The sched ights are a form of entertainment for the community families with children walk down to meet the plane and see whos coming in and whos getting a parcel. Ah-h-h old Henry comes home from Camsell. Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton My-y-y his kids is all grown up he is sick with that T.B so-o-o many years. His kids don know hes comin get his kids quick. Henry Henry its so-o-o good to see you Everyone shakes hands and smiles then shakes hands again and again. An old woman with tattoos etched on her face breaks through the crowd it isHenryssister. Tearsstream down her face she grabs her brothers hand. She has not seen him for 10 years. Rub- bing her nose on his she jerks his hand up and down in her excitement. I was sure you was dead I was sure you was dead. Peoples what goes to the hospital comes back dead Drum dance tonight for sure P.S. Thisisalongtimecom- ingMr.Adamswhereveryou are. The last I heard of your whereaboutsthroughthemoc- casin telegraph was that you wereteachinginFortSimpson NWT. I would like to thank you for caring enough to en- surethatwelearnedaboutthe worldandwhatwewouldneed to participate in it as respon- sible adults. You taught me to love learning. I dont know how you can thank someone for that but I do thank you. www.thewhitegirl.ca White Girl Settling into a polar winter Eileen Norman Maybe need smaller guns and slower skidoos Patricia Sepp Good for you We need First Nations to participate in Local and Federal Elections. By MEAGAN WOHLBERG This is my last issue as edi- tor of the Northern Journal. The word last feels a bit strange today even in thought like it was mean- ingless until this moment but now is so signicant. I am moving on. I arrived in Fort Smith four years ago to be a news reporter at the Slave River Journal. Thanks to the leg- endary turnover of the north- ern media world within a few months I was the sole employee. Needless to say I was a shoo-in to become the youngest editor in the papers history In late 2011 our publisher Don Jaque came forward to me with a crazy idea what if we expanded the paper to be another voice for the people of the North In a world where newspa- pers are said to be the ghost of an already dead medium it was a tremendous risk. To write investigative in-depth print articles when the world was turning away from the Goodbye and thanks with all my heart page Would anyone read it But then as now I believed. Ibelieveinthispublication in one of the last bastions of trulyindependentprintmedia left in Canada. I believe in telling full stories of telling hard stories and of spending time with the written word. I believe in the people this paper represents the voices that ll the pages every week. For as many awards as weve received and praises sung this paper could not exist without the trust of the people of the North. Thank you for trusting in me in my efforts to create something new through my struggles to nd space for your impor- tant words and for caring so deeplyabouttheworldwelive in. Without your concern without your commitment there would be no story. And without stories we could never learn and grow. I have written close to 2000 articles for this paper. It has become a brief record not only of our communities but of my life in the North where I have made my home. Thank you to the strong proud and welcoming people of the North for allowing me to make a career and a home here where I plan to stay. I look forward to continu- ing to tell your stories as a freelance writer based in Fort Smith. With all my heart Mahsi Marsi Kinonaskomitanawa Hai Choo Quanaqpiaqqutin Merci Thank you Meagan Wohlberg is leaving her post as editor.