Cambridge Bay comes through

Local fundraisers led by the Hamlet of Cambridge Bay proudly presented an $80,000 cheque to the Government of Nunavut this week that fulfills a promise they made to contribute to the cost of building a larger gym for the community’s new high school.

Cambridge Bay Mayor Keith Peterson, elder Luke Novoligak and high school student Sarah Jancke handed the cheque to Alan Sim, the chair of Cambridge Bay’s district education authority, at a community event on Feb. 1.

In 1998, Cambridge Bay’s high school burned to the ground. The school was replaced, and the community has been busy raising money to pay for an enlarged gym that could not be funded by the GN.