Whitehorse Daily Star

April 22, 2010

• Utilities warn of phone scam A phone scam heralding a device endorsed by Yukon Energy which will save 30 per cent of electricity consumption has apparently moved to the territory.
• College celebrating Earth Day in many fashions Students and staff at Yukon College are commemorating Earth Day today by holding green activities at the 12 community campuses across the territory.
• Traditional Drum-Making Michel Labine is in Whitehorse on a cultural exchange at the Rosati Arts Centre in McRae.
• Former leader joins board Former NDP government leader Piers McDonald has been appointed to the board of Golden Predator Royalty & Development Corp.
• The Sound of Music Alyssa Bunce performs at the 42nd annual Rotary Music Festival on Tuesday afternoon at the Yukon Arts Centre.
• Board reaches assessment milestone A placer mine received the distinction of becoming the 1,000th assessment completed by the Yukon Environmental and Socio‐economic Assessment Board
• Subdivision comes forward As the city continues moving forward with the bylaw to get two chunks of land close to the Hamilton Boulevard extension,
• Ex-mayor lauded for strengthening his town When no one else wanted to take on the role of mayor in a town that was coming out of a Yukon government-run trusteeship
• Policing review fails to mollify opposition A review of policing in the Yukon is not good enough,
• Dad's treatment compared to Third World country As the inquest into the death of Raymond Silverfox enters its final days,

April 21, 2010

• Yvette Nolan: coming home to the Yukon Yvette Nolan is coming home for this month's Yukon Writers' Festival and Young Authors' Conference in Whitehorse.
• A pork roast to match a unique wine The Terlano Classico is a blend of Welschriesling (nothing to do with Riesling), a northern European grape,
• Author to launch new book Watson Lake writer Tor Forsberg will launch her first book, North of Iskut: Grizzlies, Bannock and Adventure, at Mac's Fireweed Books on Saturday in Whitehorse.
• Author says she writes to feel alive Miriam Toews, one of the writers coming to the territory for this month's Yukon Writers' Festival, began writing early in life.
• Music stimulates memories of those with Alzheimer's The doors slide open and a small troupe of happily chatting women enters Copper Ridge Place in Whitehorse.
• City will mark Earth Day tomorrow The city is encouraging its residents to leave their environmental mark on the community Thursday in recognition of Earth Day.
• Learning From The Expert Adjudicator Dan Wardrope works with Jamie Phillips-Freedman at the Yukon Arts Centre
• Area lynx receives charming companion A potential mate has arrived for the 14-year-old male lynx living at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.
• Choppers are active over city Helicopter activity above the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport is brisk this week as pilots go through their annual springtime safety re-certification.
• Minister quizzed on letter from chiefs Environment Minister John Edzerza got spanked via letter last Friday by two first nation chiefs and then again on Tuesday in the legislature by Liberal environment critic Eric Fairclough.
• Mineral staking was big focus of AYC meeting Yukon communities want to be part of the discussion over mining within municipal boundaries.
• City may have new OCP by the fall It will likely be September before the city finally adopts a new Official Community Plan (OCP), says Mayor Bev Buckway.
• Architect named for design of F.H. Collins Secondary School FSC Architects and Engineers Ltd. of Whitehorse has been awarded the contract for design and contract administration of the proposed new F.H. Collins Secondary School,
• Lawyer says jail cell policies were not followed There have been changes in the way prisoners are monitored and cared for at the Whitehorse RCMP detachment since the death of Raymond Silverfox.
• Conservative radio ads target Liberal MPs Pressure is mounting on Yukon MP Larry Bagnell over an upcoming vote to scrap the long-gun registry,

April 20, 2010

• Signs of Klondike spring arrived early this year Springtime comes to Dawson with certain signs along the Yukon River.
• Liberal MLA to seek another term Darius Elias plans to seek a second term as the Liberal MLA for Vuntut Gwitchin.
• Probe into collision continues The investigation is ongoing into a two-vehicle collision that closed the Alaska Highway for more than five hours last Friday, Whitehorse RCMP Sgt. Don Rogers said today.
• Stuctural Failure Josée Perron reacts to a bridge breaking at Saturday's 17th Annual Bridge Building Competition
• Watson Lake may be on verge of getting day care service The Yukon Party government is a few steps behind its statements on efforts to reopen Watson Lake's daycare,
• ‘Blindness' distorting looming health care costs, Hardy warns It's the blind leading the blind, according to NDP MLA Todd Hardy.
• Sweet Sounds Sophia Ross performs during the 49th annual Rotary Music Festival at the Yukon Arts Centre last Thursday
• Grad Fashion Show Grad Fashion Show 2010
• This sign of spring beckons a dedicated cleanup crew If garbage buried beneath the melting winter snow was considered treasure,
• Man left in own filth on cell floor The RCMP officers and guards who were working in Whitehorse cells the day Raymond Silverfox died saw that the Carmacks man had soiled himself and his cell but left him lying on the floor of the drunk tank.
• Mayor to explore issue of trucks bypassing scales Mayor Bev Buckway will be drafting a letter to the Yukon government questioning whether there's a problem with commercial trucks bypassing the weigh scales on the Alaska Highway in favour of the Hamilton Boulevard extension.
• Developer seeks consistent road standards A local developer is calling on the city to keep the same standards it sets for those building private subdivisions.