Whitehorse Daily Star

September 4, 2015

• Available For Viewing Icarius Decending overlooks the Southern Lakes Artist Collective collaboration show which opened Thursday evening at Arts Underground beneath the Hougen Centre in Whitehorse.
• The beaver is a creative builder of ecosystems I have a personal interest and an association with the Canadian beaver.
• Mark Twain builds a boat on the Riverworld ( Bookends ) In the second volume of Farmer’s Riverworld saga, we follow the adventures of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, better known to us all as Mark Twain.
• Ginger Pet Of The Week

September 2, 2015

• Don’t let the snow chase you from the garden With the snow line creeping down the local mountains, I’m almost ready to put the garden to bed for the winter.

August 28, 2015

• A Time To Celebrate Guests at the celebration of Long Ago Peoples Place (Kwaday Dan Kenji)
• Archery is great for concentration and self-improvement There is far more to archery than just pulling a string and shooting an arrow.
• New Rotary president plans to engage youth Liza Muyco began her term as president of the Whitehorse Rotary Club earlier this summer.
• Jack Reacher decides to become real personal ( Bookends ) The Jack Reacher novels defy the usual conventions of series’ story telling in that they are given to us in two distinctly different voices.
• Lottie Pet Of The Week

August 26, 2015

• Aura Borealis launched in Dawson Holly Haustein (Driftwood Holly) believes in creating unique events.

August 21, 2015

• Long-Term Project Nearing Fruition Neil Graham,
• All good fables, as they say, must come to an end ( Bookends ) Fables, the comic book series, began with a mystery.
• Serving Up Tunes With Burgers The Midnight Sons, Alex Johnston, Daniel Stark and Patrick Docherty (left-right),
• Prepared the right way, bear meat is very good Properly prepared, and that is the key word, bear meat is as good as any pork or beef roast on the market.
• Widow Pet Of The Week

August 19, 2015

• Nasturtiums are a source of diverse delights With harvesting this summer’s bounty of vegetables well underway, a friend discovered the many seed pods on my nasturtium plants.

August 14, 2015

• Keeping the Sun shining in the Klondike (UFFISH THOUGHTS) The Klondike Sun, Dawson’s local paper, wasn’t started up to make anyone a lot of money but, until this year, it’s managed to skate close to the line between being in the red and being in the black.
• Scientific wildlife management includes hunting (VOICE OF THE OUTDOORS) I was in conversation the other day with a husband and wife, and we got onto the topic of hunting.
• Enjoying the fruits of a two-part Martian odyssey (BOOKENDS) The two books in this week’s column are part of John Varley’s four-part tribute to the young adult novels of Robert A. Heinlein.
• PENNY PET OF THE WEEK
• YUKONER AT UNITED NATIONS EVENT Whitehorse resident Leonard Boniface was among hundreds of young leaders from all over the world attending the United Nations (UN) Youth Assembly

August 13, 2015

• In True Tradition It’s Filipino tradition to hold a lavish debutante party to celebrate the birthday of a young woman turning 18.

August 7, 2015

• This caper depends on following the money ( Bookends ) This is number six in Baldacci’s King and Maxwell series, yet it is, oddly enough, the first to have only that as the book title.
• More on the alarming decline of fish runs If anyone knows more about this than everyone else, it is biologists dealing in the environmental sciences, especially limnology.
• Willow Pet Of The Week

August 5, 2015

• Hydroponics: there are strong arguments for it My interest was piqued last spring, when I learned thru Facebook that someone in Tagish was growing vegetables hydroponically.