Community clean-ups kick off in Nunavut

The GN and Nunavut’s municipalities have scheduled community clean-up days to help clear away litter and refuse that accumulated over the winter months. (FILE PHOTO)

Tired of looking at all that trash?

The Government of Nunavut is inviting everyone in Iqaluit to come out and lend a hand at the city’s 2015 clean-up, which gets underway June 19.

Between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., volunteers can pick up bags and gloves from the parking lot of the Unikkaarvik Visitors’ Centre, the GN said in a June 11 release.

Following the clean-up, the GN is hosting a free barbecue for volunteers at the visitors’ centre.

If work or school groups plan to take part June 19, they can contact Karlene Napayok at knapayok@gov.nu.ca to be assigned to a specific area of the community.

Similar clean-ups will be scheduled in communities across Nunavut this month, the GN said, depending on when snow cover melts.

Contact your local hamlet office or the GN’s environment department for more details.

Clean-up volunteers in each region will also get a chance to enter a draw to win a pair of Canadian North plane tickets.

There are two tickets up for grabs in each region: North Baffin, South Baffin, Kivalliq and Kitikmeot.