Whitehorse Daily Star

August 31, 2010

• Ottawa invests in wood-cutting projects The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency is investing in two Yukon projects aimed at reducing fuel for wildfires and maximizing economic benefits from the cut wood.
• Freedom Run Jacinda Williams was the first walker in Sunday's Freedom Run
• Caribou count can proceed on basis of photographs Aerial photographs of the Porcupine caribou herd taken early last month are good enough for a count, says Alaska biologist Cathy Harms.
• Social inclusion campaign ends A portion of the territory's campaign aimed at promoting social inclusion is wrapping up as pressure washers are being taken to the streets to remove the painted work along sidewalks.
• Scaffolding Over The Water Work continues
• Officers on lookout for school zone speeders Local law enforcers are joining Whitehorse students as they head back to school this week, to remind drivers of the road rules in school zones.
• Hunting The Right Way The Yukon Fish and Game Association
• DFO boosts numbers for recreational anglers A heavy return of sockeye salmon up the Alsek and Tatshenshini rivers has prompted an increase in the number of fish recreational anglers can keep.
• Calgary's food bank fortifies local organization Staff and volunteers at the Whitehorse Food Bank have a new focus thanks to the Calgary Food Bank.
• Fentie fields queries on energy, byelection The bulk of what Premier Dennis Fentie told Yukon business people attending the annual Northern Chambers Meeting in Whitehorse is common knowledge.

August 30, 2010

• $30,000 fire sees inn evacuated A fire in a basement room of the Chilkoot Inn on Saturday morning forced the evacuation of the building, Whitehorse fire chief Clive Sparks said this morning.
• Yukon Rose OKed for dike-side dry dock The question of what to do with the Yukon Rose,
• Correction An article in Friday's edition about the Bellekeno mine development
• Students get scholarships to prestigious school Two Yukon students will soon be leaving for a prestigious college in Victoria on scholarships, Education Minister Patrick Rouble said Friday.
• Crafts society's market was ‘screaming success' Members of the Yukon Crafts Society are hailing their first foray into day-to-day retail as a success, as they prepare to clear out of their summer home in the Westmark Klondike Inn.
• Foul play ruled out in man's death The RCMP have ruled out foul play in last week's death of a young Carcross man, the Yukon's coroner said today.
• Impaired driver badly injured U.S. visitor Territorial court Judge Karen Ruddyhas released her reasons behind her 2009 sentencing of an impaired driver who badly injured a man in another vehicle.
• Wasn't expecting radio host's question, MP says Larry Bagnell, the Liberal MP for the Yukon, has yet to ask his party's leader, Michael Ignatieff, if he can skip voting on a private member's bill to scrap the long-gun registry.

August 27, 2010

• Writers attending special workshop Yukon writers who want to improve how they present their work and engage their audiences are attending the first of two "writer's toolkit” workshops presented by the Whitehorse Poetry Society.
• Ignatieff comes, goes and misinforms Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff ("Iggy”) continues to quote the police chiefs of the country who claim the registry helps saves lives.
• Who will know the venerable Bluenose? ( Uffish Thoughts ) Thinking about the sad waste of an attraction represented by the Hector in Pictou, N.S.,
• When the old folk go marching off to war "I did two things on my 75th birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.”
• Artist's mixed-media works contrast with the norm There's a void at Gallery 22, located above Triple J's Music Café in Whitehorse, but it's not for a lack of art on the walls.
• Day home closer to moving City council is proceeding with a bylaw allowing a Riverdale day home to relocate the business to a renovated garage on the Ketza Road property.
• Local teenager awarded air cadet pilot's wings A Whitehorse teenager is one of B.C.'s newest glider pilots.
• City to host community registration fair The City will host its fifth annual Community Registration Fair tomorrow to showcase Whitehorse sporting and community organizations to the public, Mayor Bev Buckway said Tuesday.
• RV Becomes Toast Haines Junction RCMP keep a watchful eye on a 13-metre RV burning in a pullout off the Alaska Highway near Kluane Lake
• Chilkoot Centre properties become focus of litigation The owners of multiple commercial lots in Whitehorse claim those responsible for managing the sites have improperly diverted rent proceeds to themselves.
• PM ‘really engaged,' says Dream Catcher director On Wednesday afternoon, members of the Dream Catcher Mentoring program had an audience with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was in to Whitehorse as part of his annual northern tour.
• Law student receives Rotary scholarship Bhreagh Dabbs is just the type of post-secondary student the Rotary Club of Whitehorse Midnight Sun hoped to support with its annual $2,000 scholarship for Yukon students.
• Ticket pays off for local woman A simple suggestion led Leah Davy-Ryckman to a $100,000 lottery win.
• Burglar dropped meat, scooped up $10,000 A man convicted of breaking into two local restaurants will spend the next nine months in jail.
• City serves up Tennis Yukon's desire Tennis Yukon received its wish from city council Monday night.
• PM says he stands on guard for the North In a stump speech worthy of an election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed a packed house of local Conservative Party faithful at the High Country Inn in Whitehorse,
• Centre hardly offered solutions, businessman says Local business owners claim the Energy Solutions Centre is solutions-less, after their attempts to work with the government body on green infrastructure projects have proved fruitless.
• Bellekeno deposit going back into production Trucks loaded with silver concentrate should be rolling out of Keno City in a little over a month, says Alexco Resource vice-president Rob McIntyre.
• Deceased's daughter takes action against RCMP The daughter of Grant McLeod, a man who died in police custody two years ago, is taking legal action against members of the Whitehorse RCMP.