Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This weekend I have the opportunity to attend some of the events going on in Hay River. As I indicated yesterday, it will be March 1st and the beginning of spring is here, because we have the carnival. The Kamba Carnival will be starting this week and I’d like to thank all the organizers that had to help organize it. I would like to wish the five queen contestants good luck on the competition, and also those people that are in the snowmobile races, snocross races and drag races. Good luck. Hopefully everyone participates safely.
This brings a lot of people into the community and I’d like to bring a couple of other events that are coming to Hay River here soon. On March 15th to 17th Polar Pond Hockey is going to be celebrating its fifth anniversary. They build 10 hockey rinks and play hockey right on the ice like they did in the old days, maybe in Deline when they started. I’d like to have people look into the Polar Pond Hockey, sign up. There’s a last-minute signup sheet. You can look on line at polarpondhockey.com and sign your four-person team up. You can be an open team, a ladies’ team, a seniors’ team.
Also that same weekend on the Saturday, the 16th, we have a Hay River ice fishing challenge. It’s basically an ice fishing derby that’s going to be the second annual. Last year was very successful and the early draw will be happening tonight.
The weekend of the 15th to 17th is going to be an exciting weekend, but I look forward to seeing the activities that are going on in Hay River tomorrow. Tomorrow we will have an official half day off for the Kamba Carnival.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.
