Whitehorse Daily Star

March 10, 2010

• Two wines nicely complement a pork roast Pfalz (Palatinate) lies along the French border of Alsace. It's the sunniest region of Germany, with vines growing along an 80-kilometre stretch.
• It was wonderful to see old friends again Well, what a great time we had in Whitehorse, also working with Grant Simpson from the Frantic Follies.
• Roberts nominated to hospital board City councillor Florence Roberts has received the go-ahead from her fellow council members to represent the city on the Yukon Hospital Corp. board.
• Preserve our greenery, residents tell city Riverdale residents have found themselves once again fighting a battle they may have thought they won in 2005.
• Lang takes on more duties Yukon Senator Dan Lang is continuing to serve on the Standing Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment, but has added two new committees to his responsibilities.
• SEARING GALE'S TOLL One of the tarps covering the construction of the new Whitehorse Correctional Centre was shredded by high winds Tuesday.
• Design contract awarded for ambulance station The contract for the design of the new Whitehorse Integrated Emergency Response Facility has been awarded to Kobayashi + Zedda Architects Ltd., Community Services Minister Archie Lang said Tuesday.
• Protective services branches donate gear and clothing Used coats and surplus firefighting equipment are getting a new lease on life, thanks to the generosity of Yukon volunteers, the Yukon Fire Marshal's Office and Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
• Board recommends against Dawson mine plan DAWSON CITY – Should the Yukon government follow a key board's recommendation, Darrell Carey's Slinky Mine will not receive approval for its application to extend by a decade its operations in the former government gravel pit.
• Funding issue may force CAIRS closure Four Yukon organizations which have been providing services to residential school survivors will run out of some core funding at the end of the month.
• Yukon promoted at mining industry gathering Yukoners are promoting the territory's investment opportunities and mineral potential with the world's mineral industry at the 2010 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto.
• Complainant wanted officers to like her A lawyer for one of two RCMP officers accused of raping a woman in Watson Lake last March attempted to portray the alleged victim as the initiator of the sexual encounter.

March 9, 2010

• Plate was issued by mistake: bureau Issuing a personalized licence plate after the old U.S. military acronym SNAFU was an honest mistake, says a spokesman for the Yukon's motor vehicles branch.
• Thomson Centre plans take next step It will cost the Yukon government $1.5 million to take the mothballed Thomson Centre off life support and rehabilitate it to a standard capable of housing 29 continuing care patients.
• SNACK TIME Watson Lake's Great Backyard Bird Count.
• Council agrees with mall expansion plan Parents who take their kids to day care at the Granger Mall have come a step closer – on paper, anyway – to having their own parking area.
• City to extend landfill site contracts City council has agreed to extend by two years the contracts for three companies working at the city's landfill.
• Energy research should be revealed: NDP The NDP wants to see the results of research into the potential for wind and geothermal energy in the territory but Yukon Energy is refusing to share the material, says the parties energy critic.
• Husband regretted not attending party The husband of the woman accusing two RCMP officers of sexually assaulting her after a party in Watson Lake took the stand this morning in the trial of constables Graham Belak and Shawn McLaughlin.

March 8, 2010

• Yukon fugitive turns himself in There is no longer a warrant out for Yukon Christopher Schafer after the 33-year-old Old Crow man turned himself in to police in Vancouver on Friday.
• Whitehorse earns another financial reporting award The city has once again been praised for its financial reporting with an award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.
• THE CHAMP AND THE ROOKIE Former Yukon Quest musher Lance Mackey, left, visits with rookie Newton Marshall.
• Expo explored many facets of growing older Last week's Aging Well Expo that drew close to 200 people, 95 being seniors, could help Yukon government officials develop a strategy to help meet the needs of the territory's senior population.
• Chamber praises new federal budget The Yukon Chamber of Commerce says it's pleased with the federal budget.
• First Trek run was beautiful, veteran says DAWSON CITY – The Trek Over the Top may be reduced in numbers this year, and cut back to two weekends from the usual three, but that doesn't mean it hasn't attracted both veterans and rookies once again.
• Accused officers' trial begins in Supreme Court The trial of two RCMP constables accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Watson Lake last March began in Whitehorse this morning.
• Government recalls unique licence plate The owner of the territory's SNAFU licence plate said he can't believe he's being ordered to give it back.
• Jury declares man not guilty Members of a Yukon Supreme Court jury have exonerated one of their fellow citizens who had stood accused of breaking into a downtown house and attacking the residents with a knife.