Photo: A new man on the weather beat

Bobby Aupaluk, centre left, was presented his observer-communicator certificate at the Puvirnituq airport Oct. 25 by ATS Services instructor Marcel Lefebvre, centre right, with Puvirnituq mayor Aisara Kenuajuak, left, and senior observer-communicator William Quara, right. Observer-communicators use aerodrome radio stations in Nunavik to transmit local weather and runway conditions to regional airline pilots. Aupaluk trained for six-weeks at a centre in Cornwall, Ontario, before completing a three-week internship in Puvirnituq. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KRG)