Fort Providence, N.W.T. is saying goodbye to many of the evacuees it hosted for nearly three weeks. Meanwhile Big River Service Station is ready for the swaths of travelers that that will soon be using its pumps en route back to Yellowknife, Dettah and Ndilǫ.
'Maybe next time they'll come and say hello instead of just driving by,' mayor says of evacuees hamlet hostedEvacuees camping in Fort Providence, N.W.T. The hamlets camground and hotel along with residents' spare beds, were full with about 150 evacuees.
"I'd like to see everyone get what they want when they come back for that last little leg of their journey," Croft said. Big River will be open from 6 a.m. to midnight when the evacuation order lifts on Wednesday and the days that follow. It had stayed open for 24 hours as evacuees left the capital three weeks prior, but after one employee returned to school and another took vacation, the service centre didn't have the staff to work around the clock. Though, Croft said if it gets "really, really busy" she would keep it open.
"On Saturday, they had karaoke at the bar. There were about a hundred people there and a mixture of people from Yellowknife and Hay River and Fort Smith, and people were having fun and enjoying themselves and you see people just walking around town and talking to people," Beaulieu said. Lois Little is one of the Yellowknife evacuees who's been staying in Fort Providence. She says learning when they could return home helped morale and she hopes decisions makers will provide more timelines in the future, even if those timelines change.
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