Whitehorse Daily Star

September 30, 2015

• REM brings a variety of courses to Dawson Ninety-five students and 13 visiting teachers descended upon Dawson City’s Robert Service School on the afternoon of Sept. 21 for this year’s edition of the Rural Experiential Model (REM
• Don’t let the early snow keep you from planting! After a few hours of wet snow last Saturday, we had a pretty hard frost in Riverdale. It’s a good indication it is now time to do a little fall garden planting.

September 29, 2015

• Celebrating Culture Artist Jonathan Wurtak works on a piece last Saturday
• Yukon First Nations artists receive training Two First Nations artists from the Yukon attended a national training program in Ottawa last week aimed at building the business skills needed for a successful career as an artist.

September 25, 2015

• Murder and intrigue in the Deep South ( Bookends ) When he’s not hanging out with Stephen King and playing garage band rock and roll as part of the Rock Bottom Remainders (they’re all writers),
• Bird houses, feeders: education equates to enjoyment Not to take away from commercial stores that sell beautiful, bright-coloured bird houses, but while the colours may enhance your yard, they do very little, if anything, to attract birds.
• Belting Out The Tunes MC TurMoil & Riddz, Jonathan Steele and David Richardson perform last Friday at the Battle of the Bands’ Future Routes concert at the Yukon College.
• Play tours international arts festival in Ontario Gwaandak Theatre’s poetic, challenging production of Paradise tours to the international IMPACT 15 Festival in Kitchener, Ont. this month and next month,
• Turbo Pet Of The Week

September 23, 2015

• Little Fish In A Big Pond Boaters fish
• Somewhere Over The Rainbow A rainbow stretches across a dark sky
• Relating the case of the invisible parking ticket ( Uffish Thoughts ) Our recent foray into the wilds of downtown Toronto has left us with a bit of a puzzle to solve.
• An offbeat evening of vocal and piano stylings Last Thursday night was not a usual concert night here.

September 18, 2015

• Lunchtime Fundraising The Blood Ties Four Directions Centre
• A young woman is forced to deal with a hairy situation ( Bookends ) Sam Lee isn’t your normal 18-year-old.
• It’s time to start feeding our winged wonders First things first, so that means picking up a small pamphlet at the Yukon government administration building with the title Check list of Yukon birds.
• Life next to Ontario’s fast lanes is no lark ( Uffish Thoughts ) After driving in Ontario for a week, I find that a couple of thoughts have occurred to me daily.
• Dog Pile Pet Of The Week

September 16, 2015

• An Evolving Series Neil Graham is seen last Thursday evening
• Preparing for the next gardening season starts now Garden maintenance in the fall should not be just a matter of putting gardening tools away and walking away from the garden and/or greenhouse.

September 14, 2015

• Mayo Honours The Monarch Couple of photos from this weekends events

September 11, 2015

• Autumn brings lingering fundamental questions Some paint hunting with a grey brush.
• Fun At The Feed Children have fun in the bouncy castle
• Be sure not to judge this book by its cover ( Bookends ) When I interviewed Susan Musgrave back in March and again in April, when she was touring the Yukon, she made a point of complaining about her relationship with technology.
• Joey Pet Of The Week

September 9, 2015

• Pressing For Progress Whitehorse resident Ramesh Ferris,

September 8, 2015

• Sharply reminded of the benefits of globalization ( Uffish Thoughts ) When I returned our rental car to the Robert L. Stanfield International Airport last Thursday, I was able to do so with a full tank of gas.