Whitehorse Daily Star

June 17, 2010

• A Study In People Local photogrrapher Morgan Whibley will opens The Alley Series this evening at Gallery 22.
• Phone book recycling program breaks records The 2010 Northwestel Directory Recycling Program has broken several more records, with more schools participating than ever before and more money raised than in the program's nine-year history.
• Fire ban in park is cancelled Parks Canada has lifted the fire ban that was in place for Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwest Yukon.
• NWTel welcomes new aboriginal relations director Tom Lie is the new director of aboriginal relations for Northwestel Inc., the company announced Wednesday.
• Skookum Asphalt helps child centre Skookum Asphalt, a division of TERUS Construction, has donated $30,000 to Variety – The Children's Charity at the Child Development Centre in Whitehorse.
• Speed, drugs a factor in B.C. fatality One Yukon man is dead and two others are injured after their truck rolled over near Prince George, B.C. last weekend.
• Focus Of Admiration Awakening Spirits, by the Sundog Carvers, and Sewing our Traditions: Dolls of Canada's North opened at the Yukon Arts Centre last Thursday evening.
• Benefit set for musical victims of Ontario theft Local musicians are set to stage a monster benefit Friday for Whitehorse heavy metal exiles Sanktuary, who had more than $10,000 worth of music gear swiped during a tour stop in Toronto earlier this month.
• Palace Grand packed for Van Bibber's last ball The Old Post Office was the place to be for many locals and tourist last Saturday night as the guests arrived for Commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber's last Klondike Commissioner's Ball.
• College chancellor to remain in role Whitehorse businessman and philanthropist Rolf Hougen has accepted another term as Yukon College's chancellor, the Star has learned.
• Dawson cancels its action against miner Dawson City has withdrawn its injunction against a local miner, but will continue to seek legal advice, Mayor Peter Jenkins said this morning.
• Parking problems crest at Main Street: study Call it a problem or a transition.

June 16, 2010

• Red chateau Haut Mallet paired with a T-bone steak The Chateau Haut Mallet comes from Soulignac, a commune part of the southwest region of France, which, until some 15 years past, was part of the Bordeaux region.
• Peering through the cracks at the truth from the past ( Uffish Thoughts ) St. Andrews Presbyterian Church has the distinction of being almost the sole reminder of how a town once flourished here.
• Last Stand Commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber's many guests pose for a group photo outside the Palace Grand Theatre in Dawson City last Saturday night.
• Dawson planning to take back the river Discussions about the future of Dawson's flood dike area along Front Street began within the now-defunct Klondike Improvement Action Group over a year ago.
• Volunteers pulled invasive weeds The Yukon Invasive Species Council organized a weed-pull during the spring celebration of Friends of McIntyre Creek.
• DCTV goes digital and raises its rates Big changes are coming to Dawson City Television (DCTV), the town-owned cable service.
• Copier Room Damaged – There was an estimated $50,000 damage done to the copier room at F.H. Collins Secondary School after a fire started at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.
• Epilepsy awareness is Miami biker's quest The man behind the Destiny Maker campaign is about to complete his fifth annual cross-country cycle trip in Anchorage.
• City puts off its decision on a downtown parking garage It will be at least another few weeks before the city decides whether to sell off its Third Avenue at Steele Street parking lot so private investors can try their hand at providing parking downtown.
• Students turn to celluloid to make graduations safer Two Yukon high school students have become filmmakers to try to make graduation safe for their peers.
• Centre's waste heat recovery system in for major expansion It appears Coun. Ranj Pillai will have to wait for the city's waste heat recovery system to expand at the Canada Games Centre before he learns how much the city is saving in energy costs through such efforts.
• Centre's waste heat recovery system in for major expansion It appears Coun. Ranj Pillai will have to wait for the city's waste heat recovery system to expand at the Canada Games Centre before he learns how much the city is saving in energy costs through such efforts.
• American fighter jet had extended stay here A U.S. fighter jet headed to Fairbanks for an international combat exercise this month was stalled in Whitehorse for several days last week while waiting for a replacement engine.
• Contract awarded for work on Grove Street Castle Rock Enterprises will provide services to new lots on Grove Street, but the city still has to decide whether it will sell the properties.
• Hospital corporation chair is granted whopping pay boost The Yukon government is not talking about a massive raise it has approved for Craig Tuton, the Yukon Hospital Corp. Board of Trustees' chair.
• Compost will cost $6, bag included Local gardeners will likely pay a buck more than they expected for city compost, at least for their initial order.
• Accused woman was smiling: stabbing victim A man who says he was stabbed by the son of his ex-girlfriend recounted the details of a "rocky” relationship, in court Tuesday.

June 15, 2010

• First nation is holding referendum today The Kwanlin Dün First Nation (KDFN) is holding an important referendum today for all its eligible beneficiaries.
• Training fund receives boost The Department of Education has contributed $50,000 toward the Yukon Tourism Training Fund (YTTF).
• Helping Grandmothers In Africa Local representatives of Grandmothers to Grandmothers walked to support grandmothers in Africa early last Friday afternoon.
• Public Service Week celebrated Territorial employees are celebrating Yukon Public Service Week at various events until Friday.
• Find described as best in a century A nearly intact mammoth skull, complete with ivory tusks pulled from a placer claim near the 60 Mile River last week is being hailed as the best fossil find in the Yukon in more than a century.
• Fire prompts school's evacuation F.H. Collins Secondary School students spent part of this morning outside after a fire broke out in the copier room, causing the school to be evacuated.
• Truck Rolls Emergency responders work at the scene of this single-vehicle Dodge truck rollover late Monday morning
• Interim grand chief faces challenge Two former Yukon chiefs have put forward their names for the position of grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations.
• Oil, gas rights awarded in basin The territorial government has issued oil and gas rights in the Eagle Plain basin of northern Yukon following the spring 2010 call for bids.
• Child care centre comes back to council A new child care centre in Takhini North could be up for council's consideration yet again, sooner than a year after it turned down a zoning amendment that would have allowed it to go ahead then.
• Premier brought territorial agenda to ministers' meeting As provinces, territories and the federal government moved closer to improving the Canada Pension Plan (CPP),
• Catholic Diocese faces a lawsuit A former Yukon resident is suing the Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse, the commissioner of the Yukon and others for damages resulting from alleged incidences of sexual abuse, which date back to the 1960s.