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Wednesday December 16 2015 5 COLUMNS 15 Years Ago... Smith-Chip winter road open The winter road between Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan opened Friday. According to Lindsay Wasy- lyshyn the technical services manager with Wood Buf- falo National Park the opening had not been expected so soon because of unusual conditions on the Peace River crossing at Moose Island. Issue December 19 2000 20 Years Ago... CRTC approves NWTels cable TV application The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunica- tions Commission approved Northwestels application to provide cable television service in the Northwest Ter- ritories and Yukon December 15. With this approval Northwestel is planning to go ahead and purchase three existing cable systems in the North. Issue December 19 1995 30 Years Ago... Albertans buy Buffalo Airways An Alberta father and son team are the new owners of the Fort Smith operations of Buffalo Airways Ltd. Terry Harrold and son Brian of Lamont Alta. bought the com- pany on Nov. 25 from receivers Peat Marwick of Edmon- ton. The sale will mean a change of name since a part of Buffalo Airways is still operating in Hay River under the original name. The Harrolds company is currently known as Northwestern Air Lease Ltd. Issue December 19 1985 ARCHIVES Northern Journal 2015 Join us online Like Northern Journal on Facebook and get the weekly news delivered to your feed FACEBOOK FEEDBACK A decade later the Mikisew Cree First Nation v. Canada landmark decision still resonates in Canadian courtrooms. Ten years on Mikisew Cree First Nation v. Canada still a landmark Ron Gwynne Daryl C. English Jackie Hookimaw and Sandra Wilson like this. De Beers halts mining at Snap Lake 21 people shared this. By DAWN KOSTELNIK A group of spectators has formed around her. Ev- eryone wants to watch her dance and sing her story. She swoops with the drum her song rises in a chant. Faster and faster she goes. Eyes are widening in amazement. No one has ever seen the dance that she is doing. All of a sud- den she drops the drum. Her tiny bent body begins to gy- rate in a dance that is caus- ing even more wonderment. What is she doing Her full fur trimmed Itigi swings and sways around her hips Her head comes up and a big smile reveals that she needs some teeth. Grinning from ear to ear she twists to White Girl The Night Before Christmas Elvis playing a song in her mind. We all laugh. Some lit- tle kids copy her and fall on the oor in glee. It is Christ- mas after all. Our home- grown version of Credence Clearwater Revival starts to warm up guitar strings at the front of the hall. It only takes a minute and the dance oor is full. Parkas are pulled over heads and thrown in a pile. Wideeyedbabiesarepulled from their mothers backs and set in the pile of clothing that is growing. Everyone watches for the babies. One of them could get lost in the mountain of cloth and fur. Kids dance with grandmas. There are no particular partners every- one just dances Chairs are pushed back against the wall as the dance oor lls. This dance will go until the Cop- permine CCR needs a break then award winning ddler Colin Adjun will cause feet to ash as no one can resist a jig or three. Coppermine Credence will come back once theyve had their ll of jigging and Annie may pick up her drum again. Christmas morning in- volves church. Catholics are a minority in Coppermine most people are of Anglican or Pentecostalfaith.Iamglad to see that Mrs.Priest haslots of families in her church here. There werent many that went to visit her and Mr. Priest in Fort Norman. It was mainly Catholic there. My family attends Mass with the Nip- tanatiaks the Gaus and the Elgoks.Afterchurchthe visit- ing starts. Everyone comes to our house for tea and cookies and cake. My mom spends a lot of time baking. All day long people stop in to say hello and wish us a MerryChristmas.Weplaylots of cards here we got a brand new game called Monopoly for Christmas. The Anglicans seem to think its okay to play cards. It is great to learn all of the new games Double soli- taire is my favourite. I wish I could remember how to play that game it uses two decks of cards. We played cards on the Mackenzie River too but we didnt talk about it much. I get to pack the babies around so their moms can relax there are a lot of ba- bies. The babies ride on your back under your Itigi a belt or rope is tied under their bums and around your waist so they dont fall out. Some- times they pee on you. It is so much fun to have every- one visiting shaking hands. Some of the older people still rub noses. There are not many presents lots of food and dancing smiling people. How nice. I love Christmas www.thewhitegirl.ca Going to ground Time to sequester the legacy load By KIM RAPATI How did we do with our goal of bringing the message ofhopethatsoilhasforglobal climate change to leaders at the Paris conference A historic event has oc- curred for the first time world leaders at the UN Con- ference of the Parties on cli- mate change COP21 have made the capture of carbon in the soil a formal part of the global response to cli- mate change Our growing number of healthy soil advocates is starting to break through in teaching others that one of the best opportunities for drawing carbon back to the Earth is for farmers and land managers to sequester more carbon in the soil. Reducing emissions is an essential part of the equation but that will not change the legacy load of carbon in the atmosphere already. The time is now to talk about sequestering car- bon. The technology is there plants use photosynthesis to draw carbon from the air and deposit in the soil and the management practices to maximize soils potential to capture this energy are also readily available using regen- erative agriculture and holis- tic planned grazing. As conventional industrial agriculture and food produc- tion has intensied it is esti- mated that between 50 and 80 per cent of soil carbon has been lost around the world. We know with regenerative agriculture which mimics nature to ensure ecosystem processes function properly we can reverse high levels of CO2 in the air. Just at the end of November our Savory Hub in Turkey Anadolu Meralari posted that they received their results for their Ho- listic Management learning site this year they increased the soil organic matter in the rst 30 centimetres by 0.62 per cent. This is a huge ac- complishment for their small project of 20 hectares with a three-person team they have sequestered 2000 tons of C02 in one year or their personal carbon emission for the next 110 years while producing the best quality meat and cheese in the area. We felt the exhilaration of being connected to a global group of revolutionary farm- ers when we hosted our Soil for Climate event in Fort Simpson and in Hay River while our friends hosted similar events in Paris South Africa Malawi the British Isles Australia Mexico and the United States. The most exciting news to come out of COP21 is that the French government has launched the 4 Per 1000 Initiative Soils for Food Se- curity and Climate which aims to protect and increase carbon stocks in soils. A 0.4 per cent annual growth rate in soil carbon content would make it possible to stop the present increase in atmo- spheric CO2 and achieve the long-term goal of limiting the average global tempera- ture increase to the 1.5 2C threshold which is necessary. Twenty-ve countries and 75 researchersandNGOssigned on at the launch of the 4 Per 1000Initiative.Youcanread more at the Regeneration In- ternational website. One of NFTIs long-term goals is to build a carbon- negative campus. We will be working actively to track the carbon we emit and what we sequester so we can be a part of this exciting global mo- mentum to heal our planet Kim Rapati is the opera- tions manager at the North- ern Farm Training Institute in Hay River.