Whitehorse Daily Star

January 31, 2005

• City council: how do your feet taste? Smoking, and I think all will agree, is a vial, disgusting, stinky, finger-staining, teeth-yellowing, breath-fouling, health-hampering, expensive, controlling, hazardous habit, just to name a few of its attributes. Yet it is legal, as is alcohol!
• Two fleas fighting over a dog's back If there is one thing Yukoners have in abundance, it's land. We have nearly 484,000 square kilometres of the stuff, or about 161,000 hectares for each man, woman, and child living here.
• Keep the fairground out of the forest What the heck is our government and, in particular, the minister responsible, the Hon. Archie Lang, doing with the Yukon research forest at the corner of the Mayo and Takhini Hot Springs Roads?
• People must stand up for their beliefs Just a significant piece of observation made at home and abroad through recent visits in foreign lands and reviewing things here at home in Canada. I will start off with Canada first.

January 28, 2005

• Kindly walk that agreement over to us Ed. note: this is a letter to Brad Cathers, the Yukon Party MLA for Lake Laberge.
• Volunteers helped the cancer fight After another successful Rent-A-Santa fundraiser program for 2004, the Whitehorse Canadian Cancer Society would like to thank everyone who participated in the program.
• Members are entitled to seek contracts The Yukon Agriculture Association (YAA) has been 'making the news' lately! We are quite amazed that our association is such a hot item.
• My heart still cries for the Ukrainians I read the letter from Gregory Heming from Haines Junction, about the Ukraine and lots of it is the truth, but he missed lots of it, or maybe he just did not know what Josef Stalin did to the Ukraine and its people.
• I detect a touch of hypocrisy Let's have at it time is running out for the good guys.

January 26, 2005

• My officials take their duties seriously This is in response to concerns raised by Peter Stoffer recently in the Whitehorse Star ('Why are mine lobbyists getting access?'', Jan. 14).
• Depressing day' stuff is nonsense Monday, Jan. 24 was a big day for me. It was the 30th anniversary of an important event in my personal life.
• Carmacks electors call for referendum On Oct. 13, 2004, Mayor Mick Larkin and three of his four councillors gave their support to Education Minister John Edzerza on behalf of the Village of Carmacks in attaching the college campus to the new school being planned for Carmacks.
• Country residential living has costs Re: Brad Cathers' letter of Jan. 25.

January 25, 2005

• Reconsider your decision on wells Ed. note: this is an open letter to Whitehorse city council.

January 24, 2005

• Support appreciated On behalf of the Yukon Women's Transition Home/Kaushee's Place, I would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the Yukon Women's Directorate for co-ordinating this year's 'Bare Essentials' campaign.
• A valid argument? There has been a lot written about the politics of this vet school place, and the latest twist is an argument about whether the Yukon needs more vets.

January 21, 2005

• Some smokers have threatened us First off, I would like to thank all of the regular patrons of the Discovery Bar in the Bonanza Inn for your support during the transition of the implementation of the new non-smoking law, especially those who have gone so far as trying to quit because of it.
• Her criticism bewilders me I don't understand why my friend Judi Johnny should be so critical of the wheelchair access to the public library (Whitehorse Star letters, Jan. 13).
• Julius Debuschewitz Human decency must replace politics If 2004 was not a bad enough year until Christmas, it surely turned horrific on Dec. 26. That is when a powerful earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck the region near Sumatra and caused a terrible tsunami.
• Buzz Hudson: a man steeped in integrity I was deeply saddened to read in the Star of the untimely death of Ralph 'Buzz' Hudson on Jan. 14, and would like to share a couple of stories about him with his many friends and admirers.
• Casting director plans northern swing Lynne Carrow, casting director for DaVinci's Inquest, The Final Cut, Human Cargo and Corner Gas (as well as films for Universal and Disney), will be in Whitehorse giving audition workshops and a general information session to extras and those wanting to understand more about acting for film.