Whitehorse Daily Star

March 18, 2010

• City may award contract for lift station upgrade Arcrite Northern Ltd. is in line for a $348,555 city contract to replace the adjustable drives at the Marwell sewage lift station.
• Weather blessed second snowmobile trek With 132 participants on the second and last running of this year's Trek Over the Top
• Environmental projects could receive funding From replacing a truck to bird banding to Earth Day, the city could soon be helping out with five projects aimed at the environment.
• Haywood Ski Photos Brooke Gosling, centre, with the Foothills, Alta. club,
• College to host skiers for dinner Yukon College will welcome many of the 400 national cross-country ski athletes in Whitehorse this week by providing dinner this evening.
• Gov't bolsters tourism marketing The Yukon government said Tuesday it is investing an additional $500,000 for a total of $750,000 in annual funding for the domestic marketing campaign, Destination Yukon.
• Hunters have taken 132 bison so far, figures show With two weeks to go in the hunting season for wood bison, records indicate 132 of the animals have been harvested so far.
• Liberals renew push for electoral reforms Yukon Liberal Party Leader Arthur Mitchell wants an independent commission to review the territory's voting system.
• Media alert helped round up suspect RCMP in the Yukon have arrested a man suspected of scamming people across the country,

March 17, 2010

• Whitehorse to participate in World Storytelling Day The arrival of spring this year will also herald the debut of an event sponsored by the Yukon International Storytelling Festival.
• Deadline looms for submissions to May Homegrown Festival! March 22 is the deadline for Yukoners to submit their ideas to Nakai Theatre for this year's Homegrown Festival, set for May 11-16.
• Yukon shares Paralympic Winter Games spirit The Yukon is proud to support the first ever Paralympic Winter Games held in Canada in Vancouver, says Premier Dennis Fentie.
• Haywood 2010 cross-country ski nationals More Pic's
• MPs favour banning outside-riding mail-outs Federal Liberals can at least claim a moral victory after parliamentarians in Ottawa voted Tuesday in favour of a motion banning MPs from sending taxpayer-funded literature to addresses outside their ridings.
• Exercise caution, snowmobilers warned Local avalanche expert Kirstie Simpson says back-country snowmobilers would do well to take a little more time testing conditions before tackling the big slopes.
• KFC outlet owners taken to court The owners of the now-defunct KFC outlet in Whitehorse are on the hook for almost $850,000, according to documents filed in Yukon Supreme Court last week.
• Snowshoe hare collapse is driving lynx into the city It's likely hunger which is driving lynx into close contact with area residents, says Whitehorse conservation officer David Bakica.
• Step Right Up For An Autograph Local author Gus Karpes
• City recommends awarding parking study contract Boulevard Transportation Group, based in British Columbia, could be leading the city's next major parking study.
• Dawson loses a tireless volunteer Dawson City has lost a colourful individual and an important source of volunteer energy with last Sunday's passing of Madeleine Gould.
• With verdict in, officers face hearing They have been exonerated by a Yukon Supreme Court judge,

March 16, 2010

• Michigan riders helping fight diabetes The three groups of the MichCanSka snowmobile trek from Michigan to Alaska
• Jobless rate dipped slightly The territory's unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.9 per cent in February,
• Convention bureau hands out awards The Yukon Convention Bureau presented eight awards at its sixth annual Bravo Awards held last Thursday evening at the High Country Inn.
• Maintaining The Pace Whitehorse musher Hans Gatt leaves the Elim, Alaska checkpoint
• Beware of ticket-selling scammer A man selling tickets to concerts in Vancouver is an experienced scam artist,
• ‘Only a mad man can write a draft like this' More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling on the city to scrap the draft of a revised bylaw governing cabs and limousines.
• Ex-mayor steps down from human rights panel Former Faro mayor Michelle Vainio has resigned from the Human Rights Panel of Adjudicators before ever sitting on a single hearing, the Star has learned.
• Snowslide warning out for Tombstone Territorial Park Snow conditions in the Tombstone Territorial Park are unstable following an abnormally high accumulation of snow recently.
• Judge finds RCMP officers not guilty Judge finds RCMP officers not guilty