Photo by Vince Fedoroff
MONUMENT HONOURS FORMER STUDENTS – Ken Anderson’s monument to honour and remember former Whitehorse Indian Mission School students was unveiled Thursday afternoon by the Healing Totem on the waterfront. Also released was a second edition of ‘Finding Our Faces and History through Photographs and Stories’, a book of photos and stories from the school.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
THE DRIVE FOR NOURISHMENT – Tristan Newsome, third from right, directs Wednesday’s chaos during the annual Schools of Whitehorse Food Drive. Newsome, the executive director of the Whitehorse Food Bank, figures there is food for about two to three months.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
FEEDING TIME - Two young grizzly bears were foraging along the Carcross Road recently. Here, one of them is seen chowing down.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
CELEBRATING A CENTURY – Olive Patton, a resident of Copper Ridge Place, celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday. Patton moved to Atlin in 1937 and to Whitehorse in 1951. Here, she blows out the candles. She received congratulations from Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Julie Payette, along with all her friends.
Photo by Vince Fedoroff
A SOLEMN EVENT – The Aboriginal Women’s Council’s annual Sisters in Spirit walk and vigil took place at noon Thursday in memory of murdered and missing Indigenous women. The walk began at the Whitehorse RCMP detachment and proceeded down Main Street to the Healing Totem for a moment of silence.
Photo by Photo Submitted
GALLOPING INTO AUTUMN – The city’s horse sculpture at the top of Two Mile Hill is seen last Friday morning against a dramatic sky. Photo by DOUG SPENCER
The number of substitute teachers available in the Yukon is down by 50 per cent or more, says the president of the Yukon Teachers’ Association.
The Yukon Hospital Foundation is $200,000 closer to its goal of raising $1 million to build a medical simulation centre.
A 27-year-old man’s sentencing has been put off so the court can consider options, and he was not taken into custody.
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