We heard on Monday, Aug. 28 that the fire near Yellowknife is no longer out of control and that we may be able to go home within a week.

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I have been a vegetarian and wannabe vegan for 35 years, but the cheese and salami sandwich gifted to me while I waited in line up at the Big River gas station in Fort Providence was the best sandwich I ever ate. The dogs got the salami but I ate every bite of that processed cheese on white bread with great delight. I savoured every one of the 12 grapes, the orange, the Oreo cookie SA国际影视传媒� everything.

This has been such a week for residents of the South Slave, Delta and Sahtu regions as wildfires moved closer to communities. In the South Slave, the fires closed off the highway and people had to be airlifted to Alberta communities.

It is always interesting how current events can trigger memories of the past. With all the forest fires going on, I thought about the first time I worked in a burn. It was a rather recent burn that had gone through the area I was working in a few weeks previously.

It looks like the City of Yellowknife wants to shut down the summer water lines that pipes water through the Flats, the Old Town, and to Ndilo. Not cool.

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Bad Cree by Jessica Johns is a riveting novel that follows Mackenzie, a Cree woman from High Prairie who is unable to outpace her memories. Having moved from her hometown in Alberta to Vancouver to escape the emptiness created by her sister SabrinaSA国际影视传媒檚 death, Mackenzie is nonetheless haunted by dreams that break the boundaries of sleep and start slipping into reality.