Whitehorse Daily Star

August 23, 2011

• More Games Centre parts ready to be reopened The city is preparing to reopen even more of the Canada Games Centre which was damaged by fire in June.
• Few turned out to premier's public meeting There were piles of leftover sandwiches after Premier Darrell Pasloski held his community meeting in Whitehorse last Friday afternoon.
• Missing geologist was found unharmed A geologist was found cold and wet but unharmed last Sunday morning
• FOXY INSPECTOR This fox paid a visit
• PM due here later this week before attending funeral Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in the Yukon this week.
• Liberal MLA is acclaimed to run for a second term Don Inverarity, the first-term MLA for Porter Creek South, was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate for that riding last week.
• Leaders pay tribute to late New Democrat Premier Darrell Pasloski and Liberal Leader Arthur Mitchell have offered their condolences on Monday's death of Jack Layton
• Driver takes off after hitting pedestrian Whitehorse RCMP are investigating a hit and run crash last Saturday morning in downtown Whitehorse.
• Council vetoes banning snowmobiles on streets City council provided direction to city staff on the renewal of a Whitehorse snowmobile bylaw Monday night
• Council endorses golf course condo project City council on Monday night reversed its objection to a proposed condo development at the Meadow Lake Golf Course.

August 22, 2011

• What will our health care look like in 2012? DAWSON CITY – As the steel framework of the new Dawson City Hospital begins to come together and show the shape of the eventual roofline
• Council poised to award contracts Installing water and sewer services for 14 infill lots is set to cost the city nearly $1 million.
• Housing development promoted for ex-RV park A piece of land formerly used as an RV park could turning into a housing development, pending an amendment to the city's Official Community Plan (OCP).
• Liberals propose tax credit for renters Most Yukoners who pay rent would be eligible for a $600 tax credit under a Liberal government
• City asked to contribute to local history book Whitehorse's rich history needs to be documented, says one local group.
• ‘He never swayed from his basic values' Yukoners will remember Jack Layton as a man rooted in his social democratic values.

August 19, 2011

• Take precautions before warming up to the great sport of ice fishing As the early fall winds start to chill and the leaves start to turn colour, it's time to think about ice fishing.
• Remembering the Yukon before the modern highways (Bookends) There's a great variation in the quality of self-published memoirs.
• Yukon art student wins prestigious national recognition Graham Rudge, a student at the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson City, has won a $2,500 recognition award in BMO's first Art! Invitational Student Art Competition.
• Helping The Cause Stuart Mackay with the Whitehorse Food Bank
• Local residents face charges of drug trafficking A pair of Whitehorse residents have been charged with drug trafficking after two ounces of marijuana were found in a car in Ross River.
• Celebrants were on their best behaviour It was a relatively quiet long weekend for the Dawson City RCMP during this year's Discovery Day festivities.
• Presley shakes, rattles and rolls into election The coming election's first independent candidate has stepped up to the plate.
• Heavy metal show to be remounted at city park A heavy metal concert shut down in July because of excessive noise will be remounted in Shipyards Park later this month thanks to the help of the Boys and Girls Club of Whitehorse.
• Aboriginal water rights in the Yukon to be researched The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council 2011 Summit addressed aboriginal rights to water and called for internationally recognized human rights to water.
• New Democrat wins contested nomination NDP supporters have chosen life skills coach Kate White to represent their riding of Takhini-Kopper King in the coming election.
• Potential candidate steps forward Ted Adel, a longtime Yukoner, businessman and public servant, is seeking the Yukon Liberal Party nomination in the new Southern Lakes for the coming election.
• Name changes were a long time coming: veterans There is much in a name for Yukon veterans, who are celebrating this week's decision to change the names of three divisions of the Canadian Armed Forces back to historic titles abandoned more than 40 years ago.
• Yukon Party candidate withdraws. The Yukon Party's candidate for Whitehorse Centre will not be running
• Scholarship Presented Whitehorse Midnight Sun Rotary Club
• YTG survey shows some fluctuations Not much is changing when it comes to how engaged Yukon government employees feel at work, according to the Public Service Commission's latest survey.
• Moratorium on subdivision bids proposed There may soon be a pause on lot subdivision in Whitehorse's country residential neighbourhoods.
• ‘We are all tied to one another': fund-raiser A benefit dinner for Brendan Matheson was held at the MacBride Museum on Thursday evening, raising as much as $10,000 for the family of the 15-year-old Whitehorse resident.