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Historical Information Fred Koe is no longer a member of the Legislative Assembly.

Last in the Legislative Assembly September 1995, as MLA for Inuvik

Lost his last election, in 1995, with 42% of the vote.

Statements in the House

Mike Zubko December 8th, 1991

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to express my sympathy to the family and friends of the late Mike Zubko. Mr. Zubko was a well-respected friend and businessman of the Delta. He passed away on October 28, 1991, after a year-long fight with cancer. Mike worked for Canadian Pacific Airlines in the early 1940s out of Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Yellowknife. He flew with Ernie Boffa, a well-known bush pilot of those days who taught him how to fly and how to navigate about the North without maps, which largely did not exist in those days.

He moved to Aklavik in 1946 and started Aklavik Flying Service. He married Dawn Smith, the first nurse in Fort McPherson. In 1950 he started a family and eventually had six children. During the early 1950s he flew on the DEWline project and provided the first and only air service to people in the Delta and Beaufort area, including medical evacuations to Aklavik, which were lifesaving to many during the measles epidemic in the early 1950s. He assisted in the new townsite selection which eventually became Inuvik, where he moved to in 1959 and continued to run his business until 1985.

Tom Butters said that Mike Zubko was one of the few people who lived in the North that always had his door open. Commissioner Dan Norris had his first job working for Mike Zubko in Aklavik as his office manager.

Memorial services were held in Inuvik at Sir Alexander Mackenzie School on November 16th. A trust fund for education of aviation students is being set up in Mike's name, to continue the kind of help that Mike gave freely to all who asked for his help and wisdom.

The family requests that people direct donations to this fund. We all will miss him. Mahsi cho.

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Motion 4-12(1): Appointments To The Management And Services Board, Carried November 13th, 1991

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker:

WHEREAS this Assembly is required to appoint Members to the Management and Services Board in accordance with section 35(1) of the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act;

AND WHEREAS the Management and Services Board is required to be appointed at the first session of each Legislature;

NOW THEREFORE, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for North Slave, that the following Members be appointed to the Management and Services Board of this Assembly: Hon. Michael A. Ballantyne; Mrs. Jeannie Marie-Jewell; Ms. Rebecca Mike; Mr. Richard Nerysoo; Hon. John Pollard.

Motion 8-12(1): Election Of Deputy Speaker, Carried November 13th, 1991

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to deal with my motion today on the matter of the appointments to the Management and Services Board.

Notice Of Motion 4-12(1): Appointments To The Management And Services Board November 13th, 1991

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on November 18, 1991, I will move the following motion: Now therefore, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for North Slave, that the following Members be appointed to the Management and Services Board of this Assembly: Hon. Michael A. Ballantyne; Mrs. Jeannie Marie-Jewell; Ms. Rebecca Mike; Mr. Richard Nerysoo; Mr. John Pollard.

Mr. Speaker, I will be requesting, at the appropriate time, unanimous consent to deal with my motion today.