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Posted: Jul 05, 2021 2:06 PM CT | Last Updated: July 5 Eight students graduated high school in Colville Lake, N.W.T., in 2021, despite added challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Johanna Rose French/Facebook) Eight students made up the first class to graduate from the school in Colville Lake, N.W.T., in eight years. The community put on a feast last week to mark the occasion and celebrate the achievements of students from Colville Lake School during a year of adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a momentous occasion and, as it was described by Behdzi Ahda First Nation Chief Wilbert Kochon, a long time coming. ....
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 30 The men s transitional home in Fort Good Hope established and run by the K ásho Got’ıne Housing Society. Arthur Tobac said the transitional home really highlighted the effect having a roof over your head can have.(Amanda Blair) This is part six of a series on the housing crisis in the Northwest Territories While the NWT Housing Corporation said they re going to need $500-$600 million dollars to improve housing conditions in the N.W.T., almost double the cost predicted in 2017, some community leaders across the territory have taken it upon themselves to find a solution for their people. ....
Rays of light in the dark: How N.W.T. communities got through a year of COVID-19 With large gatherings cancelled and out of territory travel strongly discouraged, people in Northwest Territories communities have spent more time over the last year with their families, helping out in their communities and venturing out on the land. Social Sharing With gatherings cancelled and travel discouraged, people are spending more time with family, out on the land Posted: Apr 01, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 1 A child at a spring culture camp outside Fort Good Hope. (Alex Brockman/CBC) Paulina Roche says she s never seen so many fishing huts out on Great Bear Lake. ....
Posted: Jan 29, 2021 2:17 PM CT | Last Updated: January 29 Colville Lake, N.W.T., a community with a population of about 129, got off to a chaotic start Thursday morning when a planned power outage in extreme cold caused pipes to freeze across the community. (Alex Brockman/CBC) Colville Lake, N.W.T., got off to a chilly start Thursday morning after a two-hour power outage resulted in frozen pipes. The Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) scheduled community-wide power outages in Colville Lake Jan. 28 and 29, from 5 to 7 a.m. to carry out maintenance at the local plant. But with temperatures around -40 C on Thursday morning, several buildings and homes lost heat for hours after pipes froze. ....