Whitehorse Daily Star

April 8, 2011

• Learn to fly cast, at no cost to you! On Saturday at the Canada Games Centre, the Yukon Fish and Game Association will host free lessons on the basics of fly casting.
• The dangerous village of Three Pines ( Bookends ) The dangerous village of Three Pines
• The ODD Gallery features rituals and tactics Rituals of Identity, Tactics of Resistance is the latest offering at Dawson's ODD Gallery.
• Games Centre management policy may change A new policy could soon be governing how the Canada Games Centre is operated.
• It Must Be Spring! Patrick Singh sells smokies and hot dogs at the corner of Third Avenue and Main Street on Wednesday afternoon.
• Festival's adjudicators have wealth of experience Here are the adjudicator biographies for the 2011 Rotary Music Festival, which began this week in Whitehorse:
• Law Day events set for next week The Canadian Bar Association's Yukon branch will host a legal fair April 14 as part of Law Day 2011.
• Hundreds of students making festival music The sound of music filled the Yukon Arts Centre and the Riverdale Baptist Church on Thursday as the 43rd annual Rotary Music Festival began.
• Council members plan trip to Haines Junction It's more than a month away, and a schedule for it has yet to be published.
• RCMP pick up spray painter With help from a member of the public, Whitehorse RCMP have identified one of the city's prolific spray paint wielders.
• Air North's planes free of ‘convertible effect' The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's order to inspect Boeing 737s
• Annual education summit set for Monday The third Yukon College First Nations Education Summit will be held Monday.
• Winds Took A Toll This Maple Street home in Porter Creek received an unexpected delivery of firewood during Thursday evening's gale force winds.
• Opinions sought on zoning changes Do you want to build a garden suite, but can't because of zoning regulations? Talk to city planners.
• Hands Of Hope fund-raiser set for Saturday The focus of Yukon College may be on post-secondary education for Yukoners.
• Streicker focuses on policies, not personalities Yukon Green candidate John Streicker unveiled his party's platform yesterday,
• Trapping, furbearers conference goes next week Yukon trappers are being encouraged to attend next week's conference of experts in the field of furbearing animals and their habitats, says the territory's fur harvest manager.
• Difficulties see major hotel put up for sale Continuing opposition to the Yukon Queen II tour boat and a disastrous season of washouts on the Taylor and Top of World highways last summer have prompted Westmark Hotels to put one of its local properties on the market.
• Religion rule foils teacher's bid for job Amy Davignon wants everybody to know she's not sore at anyone.

April 7, 2011

• 1950s-era pumphouse will be replaced Work on a new $7.4-million pumphouse in Riverdale would start this summer if all goes according to plan.
• Health care assistant students craft items for homeless Yukon College health care assistant (HCA) students recently used needles to assist the city's homeless population.
• Bridge building competition to showcase youthful engineering Innovators in the Schools and the Association of Professional Engineers of Yukon are gearing up for Saturday's 18th annual Bridge Building Competition.
• Truck goes through red light, slams into taxi There were no serious injuries Wednesday evening
• Spring Motorcycling Peter Zwikirsch stands with his 1968 Chang Jiang motorcycle with sidecar
• Society has general meeting this afternoon The Northern Cultural Expressions Society (NCES), the non-profit society which administers the carving program,
• Artist launches quest to turf ‘God' from the Constitution Local artist James Kirby is aiming to gather one million signatures for his online petition to strike "God” from the Constitution.
• Swan numbers likely to peak next week Wildlife viewing biologist Bruce Bennett expects the peak period for trumpeter swans migrating through M'Clintock Bay won't for be another week or so.
• Four candidates face flurry of forums Four candidates face flurry of forums
• Avalanche forecasting team funded for 2012 By next winter, people using the Yukon's backcountry will have an avalanche forecasting team to warn them of risks in the territory's most-played in mountains.

April 6, 2011

• Musical environmentalist releasing new CD ( Preview ) Tomorrow evening, Remy Rodden performs songs from his second recording In the Hills at the Centre de la froncophonie in Whitehorse.
• Lineup unveiled for annual writers' festival Several well-known writers will attend the Yukon Writers' Festival in Whitehorse, set for April 27-30.
• Tonight is the night for film geeks Morgan Whibley never shot video before, but he knew a lot about still photography and that his Nikon Digital SLR had a movie function.
• Veal as an example of Italian cousine First: Picata al limone.
• With a greenhouse, the covering is crucial One day in early spring some years ago, we noticed the ravens used the ridgepole of one of our 100-ft. greenhouses as a landing strip to observe their surroundings.
• Theatre group planning auditions for show, tour Yukon Educational Theater is planning mid-April auditions for a substance abuse show to go on tour this fall.
• Group is out to expand Dawson's housing stock Eighty-seven households comprising 204 people responded to the Klondike Development Organization's (KDO's) housing survey launched in February in response to Dawson's housing crunch.
• Circle participants will spread joy on Main Street The Yukon Circle of Change, an organization which promotes positive social change through acts of kindness, will be spreading some joy Friday on Main Street.
• Recyclers push for zero waste in Whitehorse It's a lofty goal, but local recyclers are pushing for the city to achieve its vision of a zero waste community.
• City agrees to lot division development pact A Centennial Street property will soon become two after city council agreed to sign off on a development agreement for the subdivision.
• Transit manager transfers to public works Former city transit manager Dave Muir might be seated at a new desk this week,
• A Changing Waterfront Work continues on the city's riverfront wharf.
• Man receives house arrest for lesser charge A Yukon man who raped his cousin in Whitehorse while she was passed out on a family member's couch has been sentenced to 18 months' house arrest after pleading guilty to the crime.
• Campaigns head into full-swing mode By this time tomorrow, all four candidates vying for the Yukon's seat in Parliament in the May 2 general election will be on the campaign trail.
• Quarry would be ‘monstrosity', resident argues Residents and groups have been granted another two weeks to let a regulatory board know what they think of proposed test work near Crestview which could lead to a quarry site.
• Rezone cliff-hugging property: city staff It will be another week before former residents of the escarpment area who feel they were forced to leave their homes in the 1970s will learn whether city council will rezone another property in the area.
• Man's drug conviction will stand, court rules A Yukon man who says he was convicted of drug trafficking on bad evidence has had his appeal dismissed by the B.C.-Yukon Court of Appeal.