Whitehorse Daily Star

July 19, 2010

• Paddlers navigate lonely miles in Yukon 1000 The second annual running of the world's longest canoe and kayak race, the Yukon 1000, takes off from Whitehorse today.
• Rescue personnel plan exercise here Canadian Forces Search and Rescue (CFSAR) personnel will hold their annual national training exercise in the territory in September.
• Northwestel scholarships deadline looms July 31 Post-secondary students across the North have another two weeks to submit applications to win one of Northwestel Inc.'s Northern Futures Scholarships for the 2010-2011 academic year.
• Summer camp kids mixing fun with French Learning a language is about so much more than sitting in a classroom conjugating verbs and learning the prefix for words.
• Yukon Artists @ Work open new gallery Yukon Artists @ Work, the territory's only artists' co-op, opened its new gallery at 120 Industrial Rd. Friday.
• Campground is open again The Lake Creek Campground south of Beaver Creek re-opened Friday, Environment Yukon spokesman Dennis Senger said this morning.
• College board members named The Yukon College board has had two new members appointed by the Department of Education.
• Art gallery's permanent collection goes on-line The Yukon Art Centre gallery's permanent collection of more than 100 art works are now visible from cyberspace,
• Pre-Scrutiny Spruce-Up Thomas Thomas works on his 1941 Beechcraft Staggerwing today at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.
• Charges lodged after rollover Two people were medevaced to Whitehorse General Hospital after a vehicle rolled over just south of Pelly Crossing last week.
• Fire danger near city now rated as high While forest fire activity in the Yukon has cooled off, warmer temperatures recently have pushed up the danger rating in the Whitehorse region to high.
• Phase of search for missing officer ends A dive team has completed their portion of the search for RCMP Const. Michael Potvin, who disappeared last week when the boat he was in capsized on the Stewart River near Mayo.
• Lots offering: ‘I think these will be appealing' Prospective owners of the seven new lots on Grove Street in Porter Creek will find a number of changes to the city's lottery.

July 16, 2010

• Politicians and a legacy of caribou deaths Three cheers for Whitehorse Star reporter Jason Unrau for his July 7 article on the political, bad-management decision for the future of the Porcupine caribou herd.
• Palace Grand echoed to the sounds of Wilf Carter ( Review ) The show begins as it will continue, in a good-natured vein, with the three musicians emerging from the wings at the Palace Grand Theatre on hobby-horses.
• Growing up in the Klondike was special ( Bookends ) Fifteen years ago, Frances Backhouse produced Women of the Klondike, one of the first in what has become a small shelf of books about Klondike women.
• Dawson's festival has lost some of its allure ( Comment ) Five years ago, if you wanted a ticket to the Dawson City Music Festival (DCMF), you'd better have gotten it by early April or you were basically out of luck.
• Elliott BROOD looking foward to clean air ( Preview ) The red sun high in a smoky sky as forest fires surrounded the town.
• Northwestel invites artists' submissions Northwestel Inc. is once again looking for northern artwork to be featured on its annual telephone directory covers.
• Dawson geared up for 32nd annual festival Organizers of the Dawson City Music Festival are still seeking billets for performers and volunteers to usher at the Palace Grand Theatre during Saturday and Sunday nights' concerts there.
• Accused chief sees bail reduced Chief Eddie Skookum of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation had his bailed reduced by $30,000 US in Juneau Superior Court on Thursday afternoon.
• Inmate dissatisfied with timeliness of dental care An inmate at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre says he's in dire need of a dentist because his teeth are rotting, but that the jail is dragging its feet.
• New website links youth to services and funds Yukon youth and people who work with youth can now connect to information about services, programs, funds, activities and events through the Youth Directory.
• Company donates equipment to search and rescue personnel The Whitehorse Search And Rescue volunteer unit received a welcome surprise from local busiiness Kilrich Industries Ltd.
• Yukon College to host foreign students For the third consecutive year, nine students will arrive in Whitehorse from an elite Japanese university next month to learn English and outdoor survival skills in Yukon.
• Construction boom is vibrating Dawson It's a busy season for construction in Dawson, with four major projects under away.
• African Children's Choir to perform here At the age of eight, Tony Were's life was dramatically changed for the better, thanks to the African Children's Choir.
• Two vehicles stolen in Riverdale Police are seeking public assistance to locate two vehicles that were stolen from a Riverdale residence early Thursday morning.
• Whitehorse cadet is tapped for prestigious position at centre Cadet Nathan Brown, 18, of 2685 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps (RCACC) in Whitehorse,
• Exploration trainees went out on the land The Yukon Mine Training Association has teamed with a group of local exploration companies to develop and deliver a three-phase pilot program in exploration field assistant training.
• Aboriginal food fishery can likely proceed There should be enough Yukon River chinook salmon for an aboriginal food fishery in the Yukon, says the regional director of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
• Northerners are affected by national meat product recall Yukon residents are being cautioned against consuming a meat product suspected of causing cases of a rare strain of salmonella (S. Chester) in British Columbia and Ontario.
• Shelter bursting at the seams, say stressed staff Wanted: a few good homes.
• Murky water complicating search for missing officer The ground search for a missing RCMP officer is not continuing today, but dive teams still scour the river near Mayo in hopes of finding the man alive.
• Tombstone park mining debate rekindled The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) is escalating its fight against mineral claims inside the Tombstone Territorial Park.
• Magnitude of feedback sees city postpone OCP report It will be another two weeks before city staff deliver a report to council on the public hearing for the proposed draft of the Official Community Plan (OCP).
• Traffic stop yields marijuana, cocaine Four people are facing drug-related charges after RCMP conducted a traffic stop and seized cocaine, marijuana and scales from a residence in the Upper Liard area last Saturday.
• Six charged after suburban drug busts Whitehorse RCMP have seized between $30,000 and $35,000 worth of drugs after they executed search warrants on two local residences earlier this week.

July 15, 2010

• Lang condemns planned Iranian stoning death Yukon Senator Dan Lang rose in the Senate this week to join his colleague,
• Council approves waste study An $80,000 study that will look at where landfill waste is coming from will go ahead.
• Parks Canada to mark 125 years with special Whitehorse events For 125 years, Canadians have enjoyed the scenery and history of their national parks and National Historic Sites.
• Excessive water closes campground Lake Creek Campground south of Beaver Creek is closed due to flooding, Environment Yukon said today.
• First Nation awaiting chief's next move Members and councillors of the Little Salmon-Carmacks First Nation are still waiting to hear from their jailed chief, Eddie Skookum,
• New doors swing open to kids in care It's like many newly-built homes in the Yukon – large, with new siding, and built to energy-efficient standards.
• Grand Chief assesses commanding mandate Former Ta'an Kwach'an Council leader Ruth Massie took her oath of office for Grand Chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN)
• ‘This is still a rescue operation' The RCMP have released the name of a missing officer near Mayo, after notifying the young man's family of his disappearance.