Whitehorse Daily Star

July 22, 2010

• Frog Mountain fest: great fun, but no cow tipping ( Preview ) If you want to catch an up-and-coming band before it hits the big time,
• First Nations icon rocked the Palace Grand ( Review ) The lineup went down King Street and along Third Avenue the night Buffy Sainte-Marie came to play at the Palace Grand Theatre.
• Climate exchange to offer advice to YTG decision makers The Northern Climate Exchange will now offer support and expertise to Yukon government decision makers to ensure the inclusion of climate change considerations in projects, planning and decision-making processes.
• Fire centre's open house captivated Klondike kids Kids from the Dawson Daycare, Trinke Zho Daycare and the City of Dawson's summer Daycamp visited the Klondike Fire Centre of Wildland Fire Management last Friday, and saw plenty.
• Taking Over Dory L. Haney is the new executive director with Arts Underground
• New land policy may affect Takhini sales A revised city land use policy could affect how new properties will be sold in Takhini North this fall and other subsequent land sales.
• Demonstrating From Down Under Cass Collins is taking part in the Artist Down Under
• Woman sexually assaulted in Dawson City A man has been charged after a woman was sexually assaulted in Dawson City last weekend.
• Stand up, be counted on census issue, Fentie told Premier Dennis Fentie should tell his federal Conservative colleagues to forget about scrapping the national long-form census, says Liz Hanson, leader of the Yukon NDP.
• Attack victim had declined to accept would-be rider A Whitehorse man has been charged after a taxi driver was assaulted early Wednesday morning.

July 21, 2010

• Grave rubbings fascination takes artist everywhere Death comes to us all reads the storied cliché. For some, death is their companion as they pursue their artistic intent.
• Band is helping keep Ukrainian culture alive As if there weren't enough stages to play on, Canadian folk-rock group Ukrainia created their own venue at last weekend's 32nd Dawson City Music Festival.
• Dawson became Fred Penner's Place If an entire festival with dozens of first-rate performers can be said to have been influenced by the presence of one person, the person that did it for the 2010 Dawson City Music Festival was certainly Fred Penner.
• Midnight Sun Challenge 2010 Flying North More Pic's
• Aviators relish their flight path to the North It's anything but a quiet Monday afternoon on a gravel stretch of runway that links to Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.
• Roadside fishing took on new meaning Some 30,000 pounds of halibut and sockeye salmon were spoiled following a traffic mishap near Beaver Creek on Monday.
• Centennial Street may gain new housing A property on Centennial Street could soon join the ranks of other redeveloped lots where condominiums have risen in recent years.
• Mines chamber seeks allies in Peel quest The Yukon Chamber of Mines is asking the territory's business community to support its fight against the recommended management plan for the Peel River watershed.
• Bagnell Brew Yukon MP Larry Bagnell serves up sake-tinis last Saturday night at the Dawson City Music Festival.
• YTG moves to abandon ambulance base plan The Yukon government has officially withdrawn its application to rezone the Range Road property housing the former mine rescue station.
• Are You Alive? Canada's Parks Day was celebrated near the SS Klondike last Saturday
• Driven to distraction by polls of the absurd ( Comment ) Voters in the Yukon should seriously consider tossing the current system of government in favour of a troupe of consultants,
• Friends of injured woman raising money for family Friends of a Whitehorse woman seriously injured in a single-vehicle rollover last week are raising money to send family members to be by her side at a Vancouver hospital .
• Tombstone bid draws torrent of opposition An application to renew a mineral exploration permit inside the Tombstone Territorial Park has exploded overnight into the largest file ever handled by a key regulatory board.

July 20, 2010

• Tuton's gigantic pay leap ‘all relative': Fentie Premier Dennis Fentie defended Craig Tuton's nearly 1,000-per-cent raise as the chair of the Yukon Hospital Corp. board that cabinet approved in June.
• Burning Hell to ignite the stage tomorrow After impressing audiences around the world, globetrotter Mathias Kom of the Burning Hell has returned to the Yukon to perform at the 32nd Dawson City Music Festival and in Whitehorse this week.
• Bird observatories to open this month It's that time of year again.
• Colourful Celebrations Clowns were painting eager young faces on Saturday
• Illegal parking space hogs could pay big time Illegally parking in spots reserved for those with disabilities – whether it's on private or public property – could soon cost offenders 10 times as much.
• Alcohol may have been involved in mishap The Whitehorse Fire Department used the jaws of life to free the driver of a vehicle that collided with a guard rail on the Hamilton Boulevard extension last weekend.
• Trail open, but bears may be lingering The Slims River West Trail in Kluane National Park re-opened Saturday to hikers.
• Last of five accused people gets bail A man who is charged in connection with a major RCMP drug bust last week was granted bail Monday afternoon.
• Highway reopens; search for officer goes on Traffic is flowing again between Dawson City and Alaska along the Top of the World Highway, but the Taylor Highway into Eagle, Alaska remains largely impassable.
• Child care centre plans return to council It appears a day home operator in Takhini North is finally on her way to operating a child care centre out of her Ortona Road home.
• ‘They've offloaded all this research to us' The federal government's plan to scrap the mandatory national census could cost the territory more than $1.5 million,