Whitehorse Daily Star

July 27, 2010

• Geothermal energy to be harnessed in Mayo By the spring of 2011, the central Yukon village of Mayo should be in hot water.
• Yukon firefighters heading to B.C Seven Yukon fire crews and the DC-6 air tanker, along with its spotter plane, have been dispatched to B.C. as the wildfire situation worsens across that province.
• Local firm offers lowest bid for hospital work A local company has submitted the lowest bid to lay the foundation for the new Watson Lake Hospital.
• Lively Lake Schwatka Lake is the scene of plenty of recreational activity lately
• Buskers hear sour note from Yukon Liquor Corporation Buskers hear sour note from Yukon Liquor Corporation
• Snowbirds winged their way through city The Snowbirds are Canada's premier demonstration air squadron.
• Takhini North child care centre can proceed It's amazing what a difference a year can make, at least for one child care provider.
• Deportee's advocates to appeal to minister Francis Dura, one of two Filipinos arrested last month for working illegally in the Yukon,

July 26, 2010

• City looks to talk parking with employers The city's Big Three employers in town – the Yukon and federal governments and Northwestel Inc. – are being asked to meet with officials involved in the city's parking study in August to discuss the situation in the downtown core.
• Learning Safe Biking The Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Yukon hosted a bike rodeo Sunday
• Taxi driver's accused assailant gains freedom A man charged with assaulting a cab driver was released on a $1,000 recognizance Friday.
• Two stolen vehicles are recovered Whitehorse RCMP have recovered two vehicles stolen from a Riverdale residence earlier this month.
• Youth arrested after theatre broken into A Whitehorse youth was nabbed by police after he broke into the Yukon Theatre and passed out early Friday morning.
• Woman rescued from Miles Canyon trail Whitehorse firefighters and ambulance attendants joined forces to get an injured woman out of Miles Canyon early Saturday evening.
• Van Takes Out Post Whitehorse RCMP are investigating a single-vehicle collision near the Porter Creek Super A early Friday evening.
• City well floods after equipment fails City crews were at work this morning at the city well behind Firth Road in Riverdale cleaning up after a piece of equipment which failed inside the city's well house.
• Moon Over McRae Saturday night's resplendent moon
• Dawson RCMP assess annual festival fallout Charges have been laid for the damage done at the golf course
• Accused chief awarded bail by Alaska court Chief Eddie Skookum of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation was released on bail last week.
• Repaving Main Street costlier than thought New pavement for Main Street could cost more than $30,000 over what the city had estimated it would. Council will vote on the contract this evening.
• Rains playing havoc with Taylor, Dempster arteries The Taylor Highway has been closed again because of washouts caused by heavy rains, and a disaster declaration for the area is expected from Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell.
• Road washouts crimping tourism season The week-long closure of the Taylor Highway brought a temporary halt to what many in Dawson had been calling a very good season.

July 23, 2010

• Peering into the Middle Eastern crystal ball Between 2011 and 2014, the world will change drastically.
• The future of the fishery in Canada Last week's question has turned into a column.
• Thirty-second festival had a positive vibe ( Review ) That the performer choices and evening lineups for this year's Dawson City Music Festival were well made could be evidenced by the numbers of people who were actually in the main stage tent last Friday evening, when the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Singers opened the show.
• Constantines anticipate well-earned hiatus Those who showed up for the Weakerthans at Coasters in Whitehorse last summer would have left remembering the Constantines.
• General assembly underway The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) began hosting its annual general assembly at the Kusawa Lake campground Thursday.
• It's the ‘last call' to join this community project ( Comment ) There is an exciting project that is about to start. It's coming down to the wire, but you still have a chance to be involved.
• Hose mishap spills 500 litres of oil More than 500 litres of oil spilled out onto the Canadian Tire parking lot Thursday following a failed attempt to transfer the substance from one tank to another.
• Premier not so talkative on Tombstone issue Premier Dennis Fentie will not be commenting on the suggestion it's time for his government to involve itself with the issue of mineral claims inside the Tombstone Territorial Park.
• Equestrian Action On This Weekend Cathy Mattson, of Juneau, grooms Sea Irish Gold this morning at the Yukon Horse and Rider Association grounds.
• Peel watershed consultation now underway The land use management plan recommended for the Peel River Watershed has come up for air from the recesses of government.
• Police foil suspected suicide attempt Whitehorse RCMP intercepted a possible suicide attempt on Miles Canyon Road Wednesday morning.
• Man guilty of sexually assaulting friend A Carmacks man charged with sexually assaulting a family friend has been found guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
• Gold stampeders' path retraced One hundred and twelve years after the discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek, promptly renamed Bonanza Creek, there is a crew of 10 people following the original stampeders' path from Skagway/Dyea to the goldfields of the Klondike.
• Wiggles' owner keeping him on a tight leash There's a no-flight restriction on Wiggles the teddy bear.
• Wreck offers up treasures from the past Entertainment via commercial radio was but a glimmer in someone's eye back in the 1900s
• Society envisions rail service to Schwatka Lake Richard Jamieson knows it takes more than the vision of the Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society to expand the rail service from its current end at Rotary Peace Park to Schwatka Lake.
• Family's lawyer given more time with documents The family of Raymond Silverfox is one step closer to seeing a judicial review of the coroner's inquest into the man's death.