Tiny Tlicho community of Gameti wins Northern Region ParticipACTION Challenge

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Photo of Gameti courtesy of GNWT

Posted By: John McFadden July 2, 2019

Congratulations are going out to the tiny Tlicho community of Gameti.

The community has won the ParticipACTION: Canada’s Most Active Community regional prize for the North region which included all three territories.

Residents of Gameti logged  a total of 110,648 minutes of tracked physical activity across 235 events.

That’s pretty heady stuff for for Gameti which only has about 300 residents.

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John McFadden
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018. John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports. He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL). John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.

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