Jan 06issue.pub (Read-Only)

The Native Village of Unalakleet (NVU)
turned their annual financial records to
auditors from Newhouse & Vogler. John
Farner (l.) and his co-worker, David Gimbel,
compares their math skills and use
their training as certified public accountants
(CPAs) to do a checks & balance.
As an annual event, auditors will make
recommendations to our daily lives and
hopefully, it would improve your trust in
the Native Village of Unalakleet.
Teri Paniptchuk
Vista Volunteer
Teri Paniptchuk is a recent addition to
NVU staff. She is a local member and
born/raise in Unalakleet. She grew up
with her grandmother, Laura Paniptchuk,
and has three beautiful children. Her children
are Weeluck (Corwin),Reni Christopher
(Doquak,Ipaclook, Evaloo) and Bernadette
Quinn (adopted to Mike Quinn).
Teri is credited to obtaining a grant to start
the Day Care Center at the Paneok-
Gonangnan Memorial Hall. This grant
comes from Kawerak for an amount of
$10,214.00. Teri is traveling to Flagstaff,
Arizona later in February to attend a disability’s
grant writng workshop for vista
volunteers.
As you may know volunteers do not get
paid and serves the public. VISTA stands
for Volunteer In Service To America. It
places individuals, like Teri, with agencies,
like NVU, to help find long-term solutions
to the problems caused by urban/rural poverty.
VISTA started in 1965 and was
closely followed by another group called
the Friends of VISTA. This latter group
sought to secure funding that would otherwise
be lost in federal bureaucracy. Good
job Teri Boomboom.
NSEDC, A Strong
Supporter of NVU
Norton Sound Economic Development
(NSEDC) has been a successful
CDQ program after 13 years in serving
the people in the Norton Sound
Region. An objective of the NSEDC
(CDQ program) is to enhance the
social and economic development of
our region. The process for
“allowing” certain types of species
caught in the Bering Sea is a lengthy process
and many times under scrutiny. However,
our NSEDC has shown a profitable
and viable entity that receives a portion of
the total allowable catch along with 6 CDQ
groups that serve 65 communities in the
Bering Sea region.
Eugene Asicksik is at the helm of our
NSEDC organization and he has several of
our people working for his organization.
NSEDC helps NVU with certain types of
funding relating to fisheries. One of those
is the enumeration (counting) tower at the
North River drainage. This camp is called
Camp JB. Four of our members work for
NVU at the tower, and in addition, 1/2 of
the watershed coordinator’s salaries is paid
by NSEDC.
NSEDC also rents the fish plant
($60,000.00/annually) and mans the plant
when a strong showing of salmon or herring
is marketable. The plant hires from
our community as well as from other communities.
Recently, NSEDC passed NVU’s request
to fund 2 of the Camp JB crew, part of the
watershed’s salaries, and expand the Aaron
Paneok-Miles Gonangnan Memorial Hall
for salmon research. The 2006 funding
request for $72,902.00 was approved and
just recently, NVU had to request for an
additional funding of $25,000.00 because
of an unexpected cut of funding from
BSFA. (BSFA stands for Bering Strait
Fisherman’s Association and has funded
our tower crew for the past few years.)
NVU General Manager Helga Eakon also
mentioned that NSEDC will provide NVU
with training/maintenance internship to
keep our facilities maintained during the
winter and summer seasons.
NSEDC, your support is so important to
our members in Unalakleet. Qayanna!!
Update on Elders’ Lunch
We serve approximately 50 members and
would appreciate food donations due to the
increased expenses for freight/postal and
groceries.
Food for donations could include: caribou,
fish, berries, cash donations, flour, and
other goods that our cooks could use.
Thanks to: the sled dog club donation of
$500.00; Vern Harvey donated 2 caribou
that was already processed and ready to
cook; smelts from fisherman like Vern;
UNC donated 5 turkeys and 4 hams; Dr
Tom Vasseloff donated 3 tubs of cut silver
salmon.
The lunch program could last until mid-
February 2006 and leave us in the “cold”
for 1 ½ months. A new budget would
begin when the fiscal year starts on April
1st till March 31st. The program is in dire
need for changes or reduction in services.
The rationale for set figures from the funding
source and the increase for operating
the service is two-fold. One is that the
rotation for applying is a 3-year cycle.
Secondly, if the total number of applicants
are under 100 then NVU would be granted
a set amount of monies for a period of
time. This does not allow for the increase
in the numbers that are coming for lunch.
Please contact Nuckoo Harvey for more
information or any donations you might
have. 907-624-3443
Volume 3, Issue 1 The Unalik p. 10