Whitehorse Daily Star

October 11, 2022

• Rock and mineral collection donated to Yukon University Close to 500 rock and mineral samples collected from across the Yukon and the western United States by the late George Gilbert have been donated to the Earth Sciences program at Yukon University.
• Filling up the food bank The Mountainview Church held the annual Stuff the Bus event on Saturday at the Real Canadian Superstore.
• Vote, local Democrats urge The Yukon chapter of Democrats Abroad reminds all U.S. citizens living in the territory to be sure to register to vote in next month’s U.S. mid-term elections.
• Available For Viewing Dennis Shorty opened Our Relations in the Focus Gallery last Friday.
• Temperature marks toppled Nineteen temperature records have been broken across the Yukon this month, says Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon.
• Leaders celebrated active living Recreation leaders from across the Yukon celebrated excellence in community recreation and active living at the territory’s annual recreation gathering held last Tuesday through Thursday in Dawson City.
• CWG budget summary puts operating costs at $45.6 M A bid budget summary prepared for the 2027 Canada Winter Games shows a total operating expense of $45.6 million in financial and in-kind services.
• Flu shots will become available on Oct. 24 Beginning Oct. 24, flu shots will be offered to high-risk Yukoners, seniors and elders over the age of 65.
• Lot buyers told one thing, given another: MLA Whistle Bend residents who bought properties expecting them to look out on “green streets” are upset that wider, paved streets are now planned, says a Yukon Party MLA.

October 7, 2022

• Input collected on mining industry emissions The Yukon government is engaging with the mining industry,
• Restaurant Fortifies Special Olympics Whitehorse Tim Hortons presented a cheque for $8,042 to Special Olympics Yukon on Tuesday.
• Dawson land use plan called ‘important milestone’ The Dawson Regional Planning Commission’s Recommended Plan, covering about 10 per cent of the Yukon land mass, is now available to the public.
• Changes proposed for blueprint of city’s evolution During the Sept. 12 public hearing into proposed changes to the city’s Official Community Plan (OCP), the city received 114 written submissions, council was told Monday during a report on the public hearing.
• Fine Furs The Yukon Trappers Association
• COVID-19 maintains a presence There were four new COVID-19 cases officially reported in the Yukon between Wednesday and Thursday, and the official total of new cases from Monday to Thursday was 18.
• Bed bugs found at Closeleigh Manor The daughter of a senior who lives at Closeleigh Manor moved her mom out of the seniors’ apartment complex two weeks ago because of bed bugs.
• Colourful Characters Whitehorse artist Jim Robb took this photo of Pete Brady (left) an old Hunker Creek miner, and Archie Gillespie, a Whitehorse newspaper writer, in Dawson City.
• Supervised Consumption Site turns a year old Health and Social Services Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee marked the Sept. 29 one-year anniversary of the opening of the Yukon’s Supervised Consumption Site.
• Talent At The Fire Hall Tom Keenlyside, left, and Paul Lucas perform
• City mulls planned airport work City council is being asked to approve a bylaw that would facilitate the development a new runway end safety area at the airport.
• No Star Monday The Star will not be published Monday, Thanksgiving Day,
• YG, medical association reach agreement The territorial government and the Yukon Medical Association (YMA) have reached a new three-year agreement for services covering the period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025.
• Opposition parties critical of spending choices Yukon opposition leaders say the Liberal government’s $26.2-million supplementary budget falls well short of expectations.
• Fires necessitated flood of extra spending Fighting forest fires and staving off flood damage cost the Yukon government more money than was envisioned last spring.

October 6, 2022

• United Way Month proclaimed Mayor Laura Cabott has proclaimed October as United Way Month in Whitehorse.
• MLAs take their seats in the assembly The 2022 fall sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly began at 1 p.m. today.
• Housing Summit was useful exercise, YG says The input from Tuesday’s second Housing Summit will inform the Yukon government’s draft action plan to address concerns laid out by the Office of the Auditor General earlier this year, the government said Wednesday.
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on track to become statutory day The Yukon will mark Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as a statutory day starting in 2023, Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn announced today.
• Klukshu River salmon return stirs optimism Unlike the past summer’s below-average return of Yukon River chinook and fall chum salmon, the return of sockeye salmon to the Klukshu River is well above what was projected.
• YG updates Safer Schools Action Plan The Yukon government has completed 13 of the 23 commitments in the Safer Schools Action Plan.
• RCMP investigating sudden death in McIntyre subdivision Whitehorse RCMP responded to a report of an unresponsive male at a residence in the McIntyre subdivision at about 3:30  p.m. Tuesday.