Yellowknifer

Some tourism business owners are eager for the GNWT to start allowing vaccinated travellers to enter the territory more freely – ending nearly two years of economic pain.

Well, we are getting pretty close to Halloween and that usually means there will be snow on the ground. It will be interesting to see if that happens this year because it has certainly been a mild fall. The pansies and violas are still blooming in our yard. I reckon that every day that is above zero this time of year is a real bonus.

How about that late bit of news we got on Tuesday afternoon?

Toastmasters, a club that officially started in 1924 and helps to provide improvement in personal and social skills, is seeking an official return to Yellowknife for the first time since 2016.

Det’on Cho Management LP and subsidiary Det’on Cho We Le Dai LP, operators of the Vital Abel Boarding Home, have acquired the former Slave Lake Inn at 4105 Franklin Ave.

A Covid-19 public exposure notification was announced on Oct. 27 for NJ Macpherson School, which led to a temporary suspension of after-school programs until Tuesday.

A recruiting campaign that attracted nearly two dozen applicants has produced an “excellent” new executive director, according to the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce.

Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit Canada with a theme of “healing and reconciliation,” however, when that will take place and whether it will include an apology for abuses that took place at residential schools is still to be decided.

Eligibility for Covid-19 vaccine booster doses has now been expanded to all NWT residents in all communities who are, or will be, 18 years of age by Dec. 31, as directed by the chief public health officer.

The NWT experienced 139 wildfires in 2021, with close to 52 per cent of them requiring a response from territorial resources.