Whitehorse Daily Star

October 5, 2010

• Massage clinic hearing set for Oct. 25 A public hearing on the rezoning of an Alaska Highway property is now slated for the Oct. 25 city council meeting.
• On stage tonight: the spirit of Hank Williams ( Review ) On Aug. 11, 1952, Hank Williams was fired from the Grand Ole Opry and told not to return until he kicked the bottle.
• Cheating drivers have coughed up $7,500 It's been a month since the city started enforcing rules around disabled parking on private property, and it has 30 tickets to show for it.
• Agreement Signed Mike Blumenschein, president of the Yukon Agricultural Association,
• Rounded-up horses galloping toward auction The original Yukon horse which roamed the territory 20,000 years ago was a robust little beast who shared its territory with wooly mammoths and steppe bison.
• Photography With A Conscience Brian Marcyniuk took part in the Guerrilla Photography for Social Change project Monday evening.
• Police plan Mayo barbecue The Yukon's RCMP will host a barbecue in Mayo tomorrow to thank the community's residents for their assistance and moral support during the search for Const. Michael Potvin, who drowned in the Stewart River last July.
• Phone ban written to dovetail with other areas By permitting the use of hands-free devices, the territory's proposed distracted driving legislation will be in line with other regions in the country.
• Vehicle seized after teenager hit Whitehorse RCMP believe a late-night fight may have resulted in a local teenager being hit by a car Saturday on the Chadburn Lake Road.
• Missing hunters had sought shelter after ATV had broken down The effort by Faro RCMP, area residents and search and rescue volunteers to find a pair of missing hunters ended in success Monday morning, and averted a possible medical emergency, police say.

October 4, 2010

• United Way's annual breakfast raised $6,150 Yukoners were in a giving mood Friday during the annual United Way breakfast at the Yukon Convention Centre.
• In Tribute To Those Lost RCMP members march to Sunday's United Church service
• Council approves changes in burial regulations Third reading and adoption of amendments to its cemeteries bylaw means the city will now meet occupational health and safety regulations when it does burials.
• Councillors encouraged to think climate change Climate change could be on the minds of city councillors as they look at potential project ideas to help the city adapt to the changing environment.
• Artery-Building Equipment works on the new Whistle Bend subdivision road,
• Habitat for Humanity opens landmark duplex Over the weekend, on the eve of National Family Week and the UN World Habitat Day,
• Campus cost overruns justified Political hay being made in the legislature for more than $600,000 in cost overruns at Yukon College's new campus in Pelly Crossing is not sitting well with college president Terry Weninger.
• Peel watershed submissions near 1,000 The number of submissions on the hotly contested land use plan for the Peel River watershed is approaching 1,000.
• Chief vows to stop mining project Chief Liard McMillan says the Liard First Nation will take immediate steps to halt the Selwyn underground exploration project until the First Nation's concerns are addressed.

October 1, 2010

• Listing the top 100 Canadian singles of the last 60 years ( Bookends ) Does it really come as a surprise to anyone that the Guess Who's "American Woman”/"No Sugar Tonight” double hit single has been selected as #1 in the latest survey of Canadian popular music?
• Have we become too lazy to walk and climb? Recently, I read where a person suggested that nature destroys itself and heals itself, so why can't ATVs do the same, as nature will heal whatever they destroy?
• Northern Kids launched in Dawson City The Dawson Community Library set a new record for Berton House readings and local book launches on Sept. 21
• Elvis Presley's grand adventure in Hogtown The Yukon has, since her inception and before,
• Rousing homecoming in store for Gordie Tentrees ( Preview ) For much of the past year, Yukon musician Gordie Tentrees has been out of the territory touring his latest album, Mercy or Sin.
• Shattering superficial stereotypes in Whistler ( Preview ) Over by the Yukon Inn, in a rehearsal space decorated with art and full of music,
• Auction Action At The Yukon Convention Centre
• Ceremony will honour northern Mounties who have fallen on duty A special service will be held Sunday to commemorate those Mounties who have fallen in the line of duty while working in the northern territories.
• Annual food drive underway soon; students will door-knock next week The Food Bank of Society of Whitehorse says its fall food drive week will grow thanks to the efforts of two local organizations.
• Most employers' assessment rates will drop, WCB says More than 90 per cent of Yukon employers will see their workers' compensation assessment rates drop in 2011, it was announced Thursday.
• Dana Naye Ventures expands defamation suit The not-for-profit financial institution has added 16 unnamed individuals to a defamation suit,
• Marijuana Seized In Bust This was part of what Whitehorse RCMP officers found Tuesday afternoon
• Sun transit may disrupt telecommunications Brief disruptions are expected this month to telecommunications services provided via satellite, due to a natural phenomenon called sun transit.
• Firefighters don pink to support cancer patients It's out with the blue and in with the pink for Whitehorse firefighters next month as they show they "Care Enough to Wear Pink”.
• Modular homes closer to rule extension City council has taken the first step in granting a five-year extension for new modular homes to meet the same insulation standards other buildings in Whitehorse must meet.
• Councillor objects to road closure One councillor's voice was not enough to convince the rest not to go ahead with closing off a section of Sixth Avenue.
• Award-winning kill required great sweat equity It's been 22 years since Whitehorse hunter Paul Deuling shot his world-record woodland caribou.
• Visual snapshots will explore reflections on home If you look in the place where art and social conscience intersect in Whitehorse, you will find Guerrilla Photography for Social Change.
• Yukon activities planned for pending National Family Week In the week leading up to Thanksgiving (Oct. 11),
• Yukoners held their own with The Debaters ( Review ) Local comedians Anthony Trombetta and Al Macleod, a.k.a. Jim from Dawson,
• Proposed development still awaiting a vote The city has once again put off deciding whether to rezone a Porter Creek property to permit a proposed six-plex townhouse development to be built.
• Commercial vehicle can stay, JP rules A Porter Creek man has won his right to keep a commercial vehicle parked in his driveway because he uses it to pull his motorhome.
• Caller taken aback by request for her S.I.N. Northwestel Inc. customer service staff do not ask for social insurance numbers, a company spokeswoman said today.
• Political will called essential for police reforms Changing the way the Yukon RCMP do their job will take more than just recommendations from the currently sitting policing review committee.
• Government sets up a tale of two shelters The Yukon government remains tight-lipped about why an emergency shelter for young adults was temporarily relocated beside a fledgling Whitehorse shelter with a similar aim,