Whitehorse Daily Star

August 9, 2022

• COVID death toll reaches sad milestone The COVID-19 virus has now killed 30 Yukoners.
• Canyon Creations Celebrated The Yukon Conservation Society’s Created at the Canyon event is celebrating its 11th anniversary this year.
• Arts centre bringing Serena Ryder north The Yukon Arts Centre is celebrating its 30th anniversary with performances by Broken Social Scene and Serena Ryder, a Canadian singer-songwriter.
• Lease germinates between city, society City council has adopted a lease arrangement with the Whistle Bend Community Garden Society for an area measuring an estimated 1,000 square metres.
• Council clears way for gravel quarry City council amended the zoning for a portion of the Copper Haul Road on Monday to allow for a gravel quarry.
• Projects will address violence against Indigenous women, girls The territorial Prevention and Aboriginal Women Fund is providing $150,000 for projects addressing and preventing violence against Indigenous women and girls.
• Sister City connection to be feted The City of Whitehorse and the Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) will celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the Whitehorse-Lancieux Sister City connection on Wednesday evening.

August 8, 2022

• Dancing out the season The Tagish Nation Dancers shared their culture at Sunday’s final Guild Hall ’Round Back series.
• Honouring The Fallen Comrade John Nystad laid a wreath Sunday at the Cenotaph
• Runway work requires city rezoning The Yukon government has asked the city to rezone a section of the escarpment from environmental protection to airport land to allow for the lengthening of a secondary runway.
• First Nations Birth Worker Program developed The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is developing the first Yukon First Nations Birth Worker Program.
• Coroner’s report had called death ‘uneventful’ The family of Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie received an apology Friday from the Yukon RCMP regarding the handling of her death 55 years ago.

August 5, 2022

• Inquest set for two deaths Chief coroner Heather Jones has determined that an inquest should be held into the Jan. 19 deaths of two women at the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
• Feeling fine at the market Photo Spread
• The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated Snap Shots
• Yukoners head to the Niagara for Summer Games The first wave of Yukon athletes is travelling to the 2022 Niagara Canada Summer Games.
• Yukon’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 29 Wednesday saw two more COVID-19 deaths in the Yukon reported on the territorial government’s dashboard, following the fatality reported Tuesday.
• Community rallies to help theft victim What’s on the corner of Main Street and Second Avenue in downtown Whitehorse?
• Committee to advise on housing, land development A committee to advise the city on housing and land development has been approved by city council.
• The family who saved the Log Skyscrapers In 1972, the Log Skyscrapers in downtown Whitehorse were in danger of tipping.
• Council OKs money for water main City council has approved an additional $850,000 to address concerns raised about the cross-town water main and the Takhini sanitary trunk line.
• Traffic infrastructure is falling behind: councillor City councillor Ted Laking says many residents are telling him the city’s traffic infrastructure is simply not keeping pace with the steady population growth.
• Musicians rallied around terminally-ill colleague Matthew Lien, a Yukon musician and producer, and 18 Yukon and B.C. musicians came together for their late friend and colleague, Paul Stephens.
• Deaths trigger ‘ongoing grief and heartbreak’ Toxic illicit drugs have claimed the lives of 17 Yukoners since Jan. 1, the Yukon Coroner’s Service confirmed today.