Whitehorse Daily Star

April 10, 2012

• Open house on ATV law set The city will host a public open house Wednesday to gather views and opinions on ATV use in Whitehorse.
• Rotary Music Festival to hear from 1,000-plus More than 1,000 participants will perform during the 2012 Rotary Music Festival, which will begin Wednesday.
• Love Of Food Urban narcissists in pursuit of love, missing husbands and the perfect bagel.
• Artists sharing $226,043 in territorial grants The Yukon government's Arts Fund will provide $226,043 to 17 groups in support of art development and programming.
• Augering Anglers Colton Blackjack(left) and Scott Roberts take their turn at the ice auger at Hidden Lake last week.
• Yukon senator, MP hail long-gun registry's demise Yukon Senator Dan Lang and Yukon MP Ryan Leef have welcomed last week's final passage of legislation to end the long-gun registry.
• Artists' retreat looking for alternate funding The Ted Harrison artist retreat will be seeking an alternate source for its approximately $35,000 in funding this year.
• Cleanup plan seen as double-edged sword Chevron's decision to reclaim a fuel storage area in the Peel River watershed is good, says the mining analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society.
• Cathers invited to oil, gas development meeting The official public consultation period for oil and gas development in the Whitehorse Trough may have ended, but Yukoners still have things to say.

April 9, 2012

• Bowl for Kids Sake set for April 15 The 20th annual Bowl for Kids Sake event is set to go at Mad Trapper Alleys on from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 15.
• Sneak Peek Phoebe Qui looks though a telescope at Swan Haven on Saturday afternoon
• Groups awaiting council's verdict on money requests City council will vote Tuesday night whether to provide a total of $25,000 in funding for a handful of upcoming special events.
• Council will vote on compost facility future The city is moving forward with its first private-public partnership to operate the composting facility.
• MP will speak at Yukon NDP's spring convention Megan Leslie, a Halifax NDP MP and the official Opposition Environment critic, will deliver a keynote address at the Yukon NDP's annual convention later this month.
• Exhibit Opens Cassidy Fenske takes a sneak peek at the art exhibit called Formalism – Premonitions of the Past, which opened last Thursday at Arts Underground.
• Yukoner staying musically active during medical wait At 82 years old, a time many of us begin to slow down, local fiddler Rusty Reid joined an orchestra.
• Yukon Literacy Coalition receives territorial funding Yukon Literacy Coalition is receiving $200,000 so it can continue operating the Family Literacy Centre for another year, Education Minister Scott Kent announced last month.
• Yukon Literacy Coalition receives territorial funding Yukon Literacy Coalition is receiving $200,000 so it can continue operating the Family Literacy Centre for another year, Education Minister Scott Kent announced last month.
• Minister quizzed on higher jobless rate The Yukon's unemployment rate rose last month, coming in higher than February's rate and that of March 2011.
• Motion urged more help for caregivers A motion urging for new supports for people caring for family members who are sick or who have a disability received unanimous support in the legislative assembly last week.
• ‘I should have pulled the fire alarm': youth The lawyer for a 12-year-old girl who set the multi-million dollar fire to the Canada Games Centre last year says a judicial reprimand, or stern warning from the judge, is enough of a punishment for his client.

April 5, 2012

• College invites public to imagine the future The chair of Yukon College's board of governors is inviting the public to get involved in imagining the college's future.
• Councillors sorry for neighbours' dispute Members of city council took turns apologizing for a situation that has caused an emotional division between two neighbours in Takhini North.
• Fire gutted vehicle, burned school siding Whitehorse RCMP are still looking for a suspect in a vehicle fire which occurred last Friday in the parking lot of Elijah Smith Elementary School.
• Buses' rise in popularity ‘absolutely wonderful' It's wonderful to see the increase in the number of residents taking the bus, says city councillor Florence Roberts.
• Special hour saw consumption fade Yukoners saved a little electricity during Earth Hour between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 last Saturday, says a Yukon Energy spokeswoman.
• Sexual interference on kids nets man jail term A B.C. man has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual interference on two young girls.
• NDP questions the approach to better heating device safety The NDP has questioned the need for a "made-in-the-Yukon” solution when it comes to the safety of oil-fired appliances, saying Canada already has national standards.
• A Pause In The Wild This caribou surveys the terrain
• Swans gathering south of city There were 80 trumpeter swans and 90 common goldeneye out on M'Clintock Bay as of Tuesday, reports Jukka Jantunen, the bird monitor at Swan Haven.
• Filipinos discovering home away from home After three years of living alone in Whitehorse, a single man gets used to his morning routine.
• Gleaming Gold Megan Roche (left) and Jordan Macdonald (right)
• City needs more revenue sources, councillor says The city is heading toward dark days if it doesn't find some way to save money or generate more revenue, says Coun. Betty Irwin.
• Witnesses describe accused being mired on logging road As emergency officials sifted through the remains of the fire at Gordon Seybold's Ibex Valley cabin in 2008,
• Friends help youth recover from traumatic injury After a tragic mishap this past winter left Aidan Love permanently bound to a wheelchair, friends and family have sent the message that though life may have changed, they'll still be there for him.
• Witness feared assailant would kill cabbie A Whitehorse man has been found guilty of aggravated assault after severely beating a taxi driver in 2010 – even after the man had lapsed into unconsciousness.