Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free june local plenty of Bab not enough j school Battles loss of Hope in Remote Community by Gordon free press columnist when Shirley Zagalik arrived Here from Montreal 20 years Eskimo Point was the norths dual dilemma in the Remote Hudson Bay coastal Community just North of Churchill had one of the highest per capita birthrates and highest unemployment rates in two decades the babies Are still coming As fast the jobs All that changed is the Community name it s known As Arviat now and North Twenty years ago free press columnist Gordon Sinclair spent two years based in covering the far North for the Edmonton we went Back for the first time vow v 11v by tag Aliks marital status and Job this is the last of three reports on what he she married an the towns Only found when he returned to new by its most celebrated was she married an the towns Only and gave birth to three All of whom attend Titi Liq where Shes the now she sees the birth rate walk in the door each the kindergarten enrolment will be 54 next year and 60 the year after 70 per cent of the families in the Community of Are drawing either welfare or unemployment the dual dilemmas add up to what Zagalik sees As Arviat biggest child in the child neglect manifests itself As its fairly Zagalik referring to Absentee rates of 25 per cent Overall and As High As 50 per cent in the High part of the problem is the 18 hours of Daylight the area gets by late i can hear kids Well after Midnight Zagalik alcohol abuse int the principal gambling officially Arviat has been a dry Community since even though Home brew consumption and smuggled booze Are on the people Are caught in this they dont have any their main occupation is they dont see the Point in going to school because youre not going to get a Job you cant blame the the inuit salvation is supposed to be the Shirley Zagalik Doest see Nunavut meaning much to even if nearby Rankin Inlet becomes the a lot of our kids Arent what Are we going to give them Zagalik says the Only future for this Community would be Small business that Why the school has started an entrepreneurship to teach kids How to Start and run Small computer construction video renewable resources there All part of the schools custom fit the school has also developed soapstone Zagalik Hopes daughter and her Sisters return to not much change after 20 years Nunavut land claim settlement with and the jobs and economic spinoff f created when the new Homeland arrives in and a possible Mother ode of diamonds and Gold that have apparently been discovered recently just in Rankin a cooperative venture with local Arviat construction company owner Bob Leonard decided that instead of importing Southern made Sheds for Carvers to work the Community should make their students could learn carpentry As Well As provide a local the school won a conference Board of Canada National award for that in spite of the the motivational posters on the school the Ann Landers esque letters the students write and answer themselves on topics such As drug abuse and teen there were Only seven graduates from Titi Liq school this All Are boys and none will go on to one has applied to the ramp and the rest will take trades in the Pas and Thompson and fort but that where most of the jobs Are in the far driving and fixing natural tag Aliks girls Are the academic aged 11 and they not Only have a principal for a they have a View of the world most of their fellow students each summer they leave Arviat and Fly to the family summer cottage in near the Vermont they will probably end up going to South to even Shirley Zagalik wants her girls to return to she come Back and photos by Gordon a Winnipeg free press about 70 per cent of the families in Arviat Are drawing either welfare or surfing with a multimedia pc of Compaq Presari cd 744 desktop pc is better than Ever processor upgradable to pentium overdrive expandable to 104mb 535mb 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