Whitehorse Daily Star

November 15, 2011

• Youth Art Enrichment celebrates its 11th year The annual Youth Art Enrichment week ended last Saturday with a fine banquet and art show in the Oddfellows Hall.
• Companies help Mt. Sima's cause Nuway Crushing Ltd. and Yukon Yamaha will contribute $25,000 cash toward the new Mt. Sima chair lift, the companies said last Tuesday.
• First Nations poverty must be tackled: speakers First Nations poverty is Canada's biggest challenge, according to a former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
• Snowy Scholar The bust of Jack London in downtown Whitehorse
• Whistle Bend subdivision consultation period ends The consultation period on the proposed concepts for future phases of the Whistle Bend subdivision is over, Mayor Bev Buckway said recently.
• Buried, But Never Forgotten The wreaths set up on Veterans Square
• Power failure occurred during the testing of equipment Last Thursday's loss of power to the grid occurred during testing of new equipment required for the addition of the third turbine at the Aishihik dam.
• Winged Hood Ornament Photo Spread
• Accused pair chooses judge and jury The pair accused of shooting at an RCMP officer in Haines Junction have elected to have their case heard in front of a judge and jury.
• River's mercury levels astound researchers The Yukon River is 32 per cent higher in mercury than eight other comparable river systems, concludes a recent study from the U.S. Geological Society (USGS).
• Watershed court case is adjourned to Wednesday The court case between the Ross River Dena Council and the federal government got off to a somewhat slow start Monday in the Supreme Court of Yukon.
• Council clears way for higher fees City council has approved a list of new fees and charges which will be added to the 2012 operating budget.
• Yukon judged poorly on drinking water safety More than a decade after deadly gaps in drinking water management killed seven people in Walkerton, Ont.,
• Frost heaves ruled out as rollover's cause A judge has found a Whitehorse man guilty of impaired driving after a 2009 rollover which paralyzed one friend and seriously injured another.

November 14, 2011

• Volunteer fair set for Nov. 28 Volunteer Yukon is organizing a volunteer fair set for Nov. 28 in the ballroom of the downtown Westmark Whitehorse Hotel.
• Restorative justice advocate tells of her healing path It was November 2005, the morning of her one-month wedding anniversary, and Shannon Moroney woke up in a hotel room in Toronto, where she had been attending a conference for work.
• Veterans' sacrifices recalled on Remembrance Day The Robert Service School gymnasium began to fill up for this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies at about 10:35 a.m.,
• Exhibit Highlights Boreal Forest Kelly Borger's Boreal Portraits, depictions of the Canadian boreal forest in pristine and devastated states,
• Correction Last Thursday,
• Driver charged following collision A 20-year-old Whitehorse man has been charged with impaired driving after his pickup truck crossed the centre line on the Alaska Highway last Thursday night.
• Tent city residents comply with eviction order Last Thursday was moving day for tent city residents in Whitehorse, but they didn't have to go far.
• Snowmobile bylaw includes test component The City of Whitehorse has released its new draft bylaw regulating snowmobile use in the community.

November 10, 2011

• Museum auction takes in almost $14,000 The 34th edition of the Dawson City Museum Auction held last Saturday pulled in just shy of $14,000.
• Sports Lodge grows bigger; helping preserve a creek Hougens Sports Lodge has really gone big.
• Spenser spends some time to examine the nature of love ( Bookends ) The 37th installment of the late Robert B. Parker's long-running Spenser mystery series
• Know your target market before you begin to plan strategy When I first began as a small business strategist, I thought I would be talking to clients about financing, business systems and management skills.
• Climate change adoption plan back before council The Whitehorse Community Adaptation Plan (WhiteCAP),
• Remembrance Day ceremony to start at 10 a.m. The City of Whitehorse is inviting all residents to participate in this year's Remembrance Day ceremony at the Canada Games Centre (CGC), Mayor Bev Buckway said this week.
• Ready For Display Valery Monohan, left, a conservator, and Garnet Muething, an art curator, touch up Yukon Seasons at the Canada Games Centre Tuesday.
• Alert had been issued for missing woman After several days of searching the Nakusp and Revelstoke area, RCMP have located 83-year-old Kay Mansour.
• Fans gallop to hilltop for horse's official unveiling The City of Whitehorse and local artists officially unveiled the Whitehorse horse art piece this afternoon.
• Pending trial carries historic implications ( Analysis ) History is about to knock on the Yukon's door.
• Battle to oust chief lands in Supreme Court A member of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation is petitioning the Yukon Supreme Court to step in and set aside a decision by the elders council that permitted Chief Eddie Skookum to stay in office after he was charged with assaulting his girlfriend.
• Dedicated congregation has kept church alive Whitehorse's Trinity Lutheran Church has always had a small congregation.
• Power failures struck several areas Power outages late this morning were due to a loss of generation in Yukon Energy's Aishihik plant, Janet Patterson, a spokesperson for Yukon Energy, said late this morning.
• Honouring The Fallen Wreaths were laid
• Coalition asks premier to assist campers Coalition asks premier to assist campers
• Decision reserved on adjudication question A Yukon Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision on how much time an adjudicator has to rule on Yukon Human Rights Board of Adjudication cases.
• Movement complies with eviction order Occupy Whitehorse has moved to the parking lot outside the Yukon legislature to comply with the White Pass and Yukon Route's eviction letter.
• Power outage, traffic jam ambush man's candidacy Thirteen candidates had submitted their applications to run in the city's Dec. 1 byelection by the deadline at noon today.