Whitehorse Daily Star: Living Archive

Living Archive

Fine weather graced Dawson City's Canada Day weekend Canada Day celebrations in Dawson City spread themselves over the long weekend, beginning with a feast of sourdough pancakes last Saturday morning.

Film and Sound Commission helps backdrop Yukon film The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) has announced a $15,000 investment from the Yukon Film and Sound Commission for its NSI Features First training course.
Yukon's Touring Artist Fund supports audience appreciation The territory's Touring Artist Fund will provide $23,027 to nine Yukon artists representing the literary and visual arts.

Emergency survival columns seem to have aroused interest My recent survival columns have brought more responses than just about any previous columns I have written for the Star.
Considering the rise and possible fall of the West ( Bookends ) The temptation to evaluate the narrative of history according to our current circumstances has been with us for a long time.
Being Creative Sara Villeséche, with the Northern Cultural Expression Society,
Tour to promote local band's second album The Yukon francophone group Soir de Semaine will be touring in Quebec and Ontario to promote their second album titled Faire des voeux.

Beef Tagalog with a Quebec beer; and lamb with wine I present Beef Tagalog paired with a hefeweizen beer from the Les Trois Mousquetaires brewery in Brossard, Que.
Singing For A Cause Madison Dixon performs at the annual Sunstroke Festival last Friday
How to control a garden and greenhouse pest The president of a major greenhouse operation once told me, when I complained to him about the bugs that came in on plants that I had ordered, that insects are part of our environment, and I had better get used to dealing with them.

The Colours Of Summer Deanna Slonski celebrated the new season by opening Summer Expressions on Friday afternoon at Yukon Artists @ Work.

Spenser from the start: author has done his homework ( Bookends ) The very first book in the Spenser series introduces us to a fellow who is a lot more like Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer than he would be later in his life.
Hiring temporary foreign workers may help you What do you do when you can't find anyone for a job that's open now?
Remembering a rainy day in Ontario's Medonte Hills Last Monday, I heard a loud noise outside only to look out the window to see the heaviest downpour of rain these old eyes, pushing 80 years, had ever seen.
Celebrated cast tackles story of healing and survival Gwaandak Theatre and The Savage Society will present readings of Kevin Loring's Governor-General Award-winning play Where the Blood Mixes later this month.
Author enjoyed taking a saunter down Memory Lane Tim Falconer had reached the point, common to most guests at the Berton House Writers' Residence, where he was counting down the days that he had left in Dawson and wishing there were more.

Federal government helps finance annual festival Leona Aglukkaq, the minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency and Minister of Health, announced $290,000 in funding over two years Tuesday for the Adäka Cultural Festival.
‘Floor of Heaven' screenwriter faces demanding audience In 2011, when Howard Blum was the guest and keynote speaker of the North Words Writers' Symposium in Skagway, he had been invited due to his reputation in the southern U.S. and the fact that he had just finished a book called The Floor of Heaven.
Haskap berries could play a role during a food shortage With the recent closure of our food supply line, the Alaska Highway, thoughts of food security are on the front burner of many people's minds and a topic of coffee shop discussions.

Students rewarded for their directory recycling efforts So far this year, 9,127 Northwestel Inc. phone directories have been collected and the company has awarded $16,600 to 23 schools in the Yukon.

Are you ready to survive a crisis worse than this week's? My May 25 and June 1 columns asked if there was a serious situation, could you survive?
History provides an intricate tale of 19th-century life, murder ( Bookends ) I suspect that Margaret Atwood became interested in the story of Grave Marks while she was reading Susanna Moodie's work before writing the poems in The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), which would mean that the idea for this novel was gestating for a quarter-century before it finally appeared in print.
The Big Moment Blake Lepine, with the Northern Cultural Expression Society, drums at Hidden Valley School's totem ceremony Wednesday.
The ODD Gallery plays host to ravaged quilts, bingo beavers The two displays currently on view at the ODD Gallery don't seem, at first glance, to have a lot to do with each other.

Walking For An Important Cause About 75 people turned out for last Sunday's Multiple Sclerosis walk.

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