Whitehorse Daily Star

February 4, 2010

• Eat well, cookbook urges youngsters Grade 5 students throughout the territory will soon receive a free cookbook to promote healthy eating.
• Local businessman is named to Canadian Chamber of Commerce Whitehorse businessman Craig Hougen has been appointed to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
• Clean up, Dawson tells dog team owners Front Street in Dawson is a parking place for many kinds of vehicles: cars, trucks, SUVs, RVs and snowmobiles.
• Helping Haiti Celebrities Buck Smarch, Yukon NDP Leader Elizabeth Hanson, Yukon MP Larry Bagnell and Darius Elias,
• CDF doles out $500,000-plus in grants Thirteen community groups and organizations have received more than $500,000 in funding from the Yukon government under the latest Community Development Fund (CDF) intake.
• Learning From The Master Chef TV celebrity Massima Capro works with students at Yukon College in the Culinary Arts Program this morning.
• LDAY planning Valentine's ‘event of the year' Feb. 12 The Learning Disabilities Association of Yukon will sponsor a Valentine Extravaganza at The Old Firehall on the evening of Feb. 12.
• City's move to well system is complete Tap water in Whitehorse is no longer coming from the surface of Schwatka Lake.
• Territory still dedicated to caribou pact The Yukon government remains committed to finalizing a harvest management plan for the Porcupine caribou herd, says Premier Dennis Fentie.
• People will pay lot prices in Takhini North: realtor Twelve new residential lots in Takhini North will be dispensed through a lottery to be held March 2, the City of Whitehorse announced this morning.

February 3, 2010

• Subdivision approved by council A property originally proposed to house a commercial-residential structure will instead become two properties after city council voted Jan. 25 to subdivide 1307 Centennial St.
• Lawsuit was unavoidable: Gwich'in leader Gwich'in leader Richard Nerysoo says the Gwich'in and Inuvialuit had no choice but to file a lawsuit against the Yukon government.
• Master chef visits students Culinary Arts students at Yukon College will be getting some special tutoring in their craft on Thursday.
• Hospital's location worries festival planners Among the numerous local objections to the Yukon Hospital Corp. (YHC) and the territorial government's decision to build a new hospital
• Rush-hour mishap sends pair to hospital A car in the ditch along the Alaska Highway at the Wolf Creek subdivision caused a chain reaction
• A Slippery Highway's Toll This Chevrolet SUV slid off the Alaska Highway near Wolf Creek at about 4:30 Tuesday afternoon,
• CBC, former regional director are keeping mum on departure The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) and its Yukon network's regional director, John Boivin, are saying little about parting ways from one another last Thursday.
• First nation implementing its Family Act Following the standard preamble of definitions in the Yukon's Child and Family Services Act, the legislation's guiding principles in section 2 begin:
• Cars performed smartly in gruelling conditions It's smaller than a moose, has just 70 horsepower and wheels slightly larger than a moose-meat pie,
• Vote issue likened to ‘Pandora's box' A Yukon Chamber of Commerce proposal to change who can vote in municipal elections would "open up a Pandora's box” which shouldn't be touched, warns Coun. Dave Stockdale.

February 2, 2010

• Three mushers withdraw from Yukon Quest Three mushers have dropped out of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.
• Yukon Housing Corp.will receive Fraser's report card The Yukon Housing Corp.will receive its first report card from federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser when she arrives in Whitehorse next week.
• Crashing, bashing joyrider targets curbside carts Residents of Tamarack Drive awoke last Tuesday to find their street covered in garbage after a late-night joyrider took out a dozen garbage carts awaiting pickup.
• Black History Month Observed A show celebrating Black History Month (February),
• Soccer group kicks off campaign for floor A new four-layer Astroturf-style floor would go a long way to preventing injuries many soccer players are suffering in games held on the soccer pitch at the Canada Games Centre.
• Marking A Milestone Deputy Yukon premier Elaine Taylor helps out at the Girl Guides'
• Patrolling citizens save cold teenager A Whitehorse teenager who passed out in the snow last Friday night was saved from a tragic end by a pair of volunteer citizens on patrol, the RCMP said Monday.
• Crime Prevention Yukon dispenses final funds Even after formally disbanding Crime Prevention Yukon last year, the organization is continuing its efforts to make the community a better, crime-free place.
• Government sued over hunting restrictions The Yukon government broke every treaty commitment under the sun last fall when it brought in new hunting restrictions on the Porcupine caribou herd, say two N.W.T. aboriginal organizations.