YELLOWKNIFE — The shelves have been filled with food at the Yellowknife Co-op and the grocery store is preparing for tens of thousands of people to return as an evacuation order is scheduled to be lifted Wednesday.
"I'm glad that tomorrow it will finally be over and people will be able to return to beautiful Yellowknife," said Justin Nelson, the grocery store's general manager.
Yellowknife city manager Sheila Bassi-Kellett said workers in grocery stores, pharmacies, home-heating providers, and even some taxi drivers and day-care providers, had already started to return. NWT Emergency Management Organization information officer Jay Boast said more than 2,000 people have registered for re-entry flights."We are overjoyed that folks are coming home. It's been a very long wait," said Kieron Testart, who works with Yellowknives Dene First Nation emergency operations.
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