Whitehorse Daily Star

April 13, 2011

• Multi-layered musical fairy tale to premiere Thursday Into The Woods is the latest Guild Hall production, opening Thursday evening.
• Students promote peace and harmony among all peoples As part of a First Nation Rural Experiential Model (REM) class, the Grades 10, 11 and 12 students at Del Van Gorder School in Faro invited Kaska artist Dennis Shorty to collaborate on a school mural last month.
• Spreading Floral Joy The Yukon Circle of Change group gathered on Main Street
• Benefit planned for fire-stricken family When their home went up in smoke in late January, the Penner family received immediate and generous support from Carcross and Tagish residents, Walmart and their congregation at the Church of the Nazarene.
• Hospital's construction begins despite concerns With spring in the air, excavation and foundation work has begun on the new 24,000-square-foot (2,600-square-metre) replacement for the aging Dawson City Health Care Centre.
• Date set for Watson Lake officers' hearing The internal disciplinary hearing for two former Watson Lake RCMP officers charged and acquitted of sexual assault has finally been announced.
• Migrating birds need their rest, council says The Carcross-Tagish Renewable Resource Council is asking the public to give migrating waterbirds, particularly swans, a wide berth.
• Bringing Music To Young Ears The All-City Senior Concert Band performed at Takhini Elementary School last Friday morning.
• Potential tragedy narrowly averted The Yukon's RCMP are urging drivers to slow down when passing emergency vehicles after a close call last week.
• Corrections A story in Monday's edition said Max Fraser's documentary Never Happen Here – The Whitehorse 9/11 Story will be shown on April 26 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. There are actually two showings, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
• New RCMP commander boasts 20 years' experience Whitehorse is getting a new RCMP detachment commander.
• Winged Wind-Surfing Ravens
• Council decision delights longtime resident It's not over, but on Monday night, a smiling Edith Wienecke was ready to dance in victory after city council passed second reading of a bylaw to change her property back to a residential zone.
• City adopts Games Centre operating policy Just how the Canada Games Centre (CGC) is operated will now fall under a new city policy.
• Debate offered more of the same, Yukoners say Last night's English language federal election debate offered nothing new to voters,
• Project assessment was in order, court told There was nothing wrong with the environmental assessment of the Selwyn Project, several lawyers argued Monday and Tuesday in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Board's project review wasn't finished, court told An assessment board's review of an advanced underground exploration project was substantially incomplete, says a lawyer representing the Liard First Nation of Watson Lake.

April 12, 2011

• Churches' food drive to extend its reach The annual food drive undertaken by Whitehorse churchs will occur during the last week of April, with bag distribution to residences.
• Awesome Projects Visitors and participants look over the bridges
• New director named to Northwestel board Northwestel Inc. has appointed Lillian Hvatum-Brewster to its board of directors.
• Show To Open Thursday Maxime Deschesnes will open his show at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Umbellula Café in the Spook Creek Station.
• Visualize a government-side MP, Leef urges Ryan Leef, the Yukon's Conservative election candidate, says he's not taking cues from Ottawa,
• Transition to high-level schooling has pitfalls More guidance – and more homework – would make the graduation from high school to post-secondary easier for Yukoners,
• Branding issue: ‘We're back to the drawing board' The horse or the boat ... the choice is yours.
• Volunteer of the Year to be honoured Wednesday The city's 2010 Volunteer of the Year will be named Wednesday night.
• Hands off our green areas: residents to council It came as little surprise to Mayor Bev Buckway Monday night when more than a dozen residents told city council they don't want to see more residential development in the green spaces and environmentally protected areas of Porter Creek and Crestview.

April 11, 2011

• Missing woman sought Whitehorse RCMP are hoping for the public's help in locating a woman who has been missing for as long as three weeks.
• Platform helps rural Yukon: MP The federal Liberals' election platform supports rural Canada, says Yukon MP Larry Bagnell.
• City gets financial reporting award The city has once again been recognized for its financial reporting with the Canadian Award for Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.
• First Nation takes case to court A two-day review of the Yukon government's decision to issue Selwyn Chihong Mining an advanced exploration permit began this morning in Yukon Supreme Court.
• Look for Girl Guide cookies near you Whitehorse Sparks, Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders launched their annual cookie blitz today with door-to-door sales in most neighbourhoods.
• City to mark 25th anniversary of sister city relationship The city is scheduled to welcome some very special visitors this week.
• Couple's dream home hinges on council vote A local couple may be closer to their dream of building a new home after tonight's city council meeting.
• Yukoners help create well-appointed library With another successful fund-raiser under her belt, Liesel Briggs now has the task of deciding how to distribute the $5,000 she and her daughter Rosemarie raised Saturday at Yukon College.
• Beware of fraudulent e-mails: commissioner The Yukon information and privacy commissioner is warning Yukoners to be extremely cautious about responding to e-mails that request personal or financial information.
• Low jobless rate persists The Yukon continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in Canada, despite rising 0.4 percentage points since February.
• City starts planning downtown charette Predicting the future is impossible, but planning for it is another matter, and this month, the city will begin doing just that for the south end of downtown.
• City's LIC policy may be changed How much Whitehorse property owners pay for a local improvement charge (LIC) could be changed, and the Marwell area could be the first neighbourhood to deal with the new prices.
• 9/11 documentary to premiere at Dawson festival It's been nearly a decade since much of the downtown area was evacuated as a Korean Air plane believed to have been hijacked was diverted to the Whitehorse airport.
• Local woman goes public in quest for kidney transplant Time is running out for 57-year-old Whitehorse resident Julia Broeren, who has been on dialysis for the past four years after her kidneys failed.