Whitehorse Daily Star

July 24, 2009

• Have you ever wondered about certain things? We take so many things for granted and never question them, especially dealing with wildlife that survives the four seasons of Canadian temperatures.
• Faro's artists show their best offerings FARO - Faro's latest project is the resurrection of the former Legion Hall,
• Permanent Art Collection makes new acquisitions Thirteen new acquisitions to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection are featured at the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery,
• A life told as an epic and personal fantasy This book is an omnibus edition of two late 1980s fantasy novels by Tanya Huff, who writes fantasy, science fiction and horror/thriller fiction.
• Musicians receive round of territorial grants The Yukon government's Film and Sound Commission is awarding a collective $29,000 to 10 Yukon artists through the Yukon Sound Recording Program.
• Turn off that phone when you're driving DAWSON CITY - Yet another study has come forward to issue the warning that using cellphones while driving dramatically increases the chance of having an accident.
• The festival was a smokin' this year (Reveiw) After the Great Flood motif of 2008, the combination of sunshine, rain,
• Visitors to arrive tomorrow The city will be welcoming representatives from its Japanese sister when 11 students and their chaperone arrive from Ushiku, Japan on Saturday.
• ABCP interest starts flowing into coffers More than $90,000 worth of returns on the Yukon government's troubled multimillion-dollar asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) investment returned to government coffers this week.
• RCMP helped keep order at big music festival Dawson's RCMP detachment geared up for last weekend's music festival by putting 19 officers on the street over the weekend,
• Fire crews brace for heightened action Hot temperatures and strong winds forecast for this weekend have fire crews preparing for an increase in fire activity this weekend, according to Yukon's wildland fire management team.
• Vessel's owner accused of stalling board's review The Tr'ondek Hwech'in have issued a press release accusing the Holland America Lines of "undermining the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAB) process by ignoring the Tr'ondek Hwech'in while continuing to operate the MV Yukon Queen II without required authorizations."
• New governor dropped in on local Rotarians Following his inauguration this month, the governor for Rotary District 5010 stopped by Whitehorse recently to visit the newly-elected presidents of the Yukon's three clubs.
• Waterfront development issue is close to vote With no vocal or written opposition to a request by the Vuntut Development Corp. to take out any reference to the number of storeys it must have in its waterfront development,
• Home owners could get a larger property Tom and Tammy Banks could end up with a larger property fairly soon.
• Assistance for Eagle inspired by Good Samaritan parable EAGLE, Alaska - One of the best loved stories in the New Testament is that of the Good Samaritan,
• 'Never give up on a child' was educator's creed When the morning bell rings at Whitehorse Elementary this September, the man who opened up the school to students and families will no longer sit in the principal's office, but his legacy has staying power.
• Funding provided to determine feasibility of daycare centre Premier Dennis Fentie, also MLA for Watson Lake, announced a $19,294 Community Development Fund grant to the Watson Lake Daycare Society on Wednesday.
• Council still weighing proposed daycare City staff are suggesting that a proposed rezoning allowing a daycare to operate out of a Takhini North home come forward with second and third readings, but with an amendment that would permit the child care centre as a secondary use.
• Two more swine flu cases surface Two more swine flu cases in the Yukon were confirmed Thursday, bringing the number of affected in the territory to three since the global outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus was identified in April.
• 'Equine world of the Yukon' on display this weekend Tens of thousands of years ago, a short and stocky horse roamed the Yukon, but the little animal dwindled away to extinction, and for thousands of years, the Klondike had no horses.
• Cadets exercise Freedom of the City Cadets and staff from the Whitehorse Cadet Summer Training Centre will march on city hall tomorrow to exercise their right to the Freedom of the City and to recognize a Century of Service by cadet instructor cadre (CIC) officers.
• CT scanner will 'help our community' In a case of out with the old and in with the new, Whitehorse General Hospital officials and the local medical community are singing the praises of the new $1.3-million CT scanner at the hospital.
• Dog's fate may land in the courts A group of concerned citizens has joined the Humane Society Yukon in its effort to save an abused dog from being put down.
• Community rallies to help injured barber Scissors, razors and the like all make the list of a barber's tools, but at the top of that list are a barber's hands, needed to use all those other tools.
• Teenager faces charges after woman is stabbed A family dispute resulted in one Whitehorse woman spending last night in hospital and another in jail.

July 23, 2009

• Rendezvous Rotary Club of Whitehorse lauded for efforts The Yukon Literacy Coalition is acknowledging recent literacy awards received by the Rendezvous Rotary Club of Whitehorse.
• Stallion riders became hooked as children Just like the youthful Yukon audience that crowed in the Takhini Arena for the "World Famous" Lipizzaner Stallions on Wednesday,
• Stallion riders became hooked as children Just like the youthful Yukon audience that crowed in the Takhini Arena for the "World Famous" Lipizzaner Stallions on Wednesday,
• Proud Performers Lead rider for the Lipizzaner Stallions Tony Jackson,
• Yukon Geological Survey geologists lauded Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) geologists Tammy Allen and Tiffani Fraser have received an award for their work on a project that examined a sedimentary basin that straddles northeastern Yukon and western N.W.T.
• Kenyon gets support from PNWER Forum Economic Development Minister Jim Kenyon recently received support for the Shakwak Highway project from the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) Leadership Forum in Boise, Idaho.
• Comment wasn't aimed at Fentie: ombudsman Tracy-Anne McPhee, the Yukon's ombudsman and information privacy commissioner,
• Firefighters rescue stranded elevator riders City firefighters had to show up before a local family of four and two Korean tourists could leave the Shoppers Plaza on Main Street early Wednesday evening.
• Alberta firefighters arrive to bolster local crews' work More firefighting resources were scheduled to arrive in Whitehorse today from Alberta as conditions through most of the territory remain volatile.
• Salmon sub-committee being 'pushed aside' First nations say the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) narrow interpretation of the Umbrella Final Agreement is preventing the Yukon's Salmon Sub-Committee from doing its job.
• Woman had doffed life jacket before capsizing Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans made a grim catch last night in Dawson City when they found a corpse in the Klondike River.

July 22, 2009

• More Dawson Pic's Luke Doucet rocks out the main stage
• The festival: music, mud, fun and friends ( Reveiw ) DAWSON CITY - Long before I had ever thought of moving to the Yukon, I had heard about the Dawson City Music Festival, or DCMF.
• Legal aid fiscal reforms needed: bar association The Canadian government needs to provide more legal aid funding to the provinces and territories,
• Finders seek salvage fee for bomber found in Yukon lake The Flying Prostitute found in a northern lake may end up in the hands of government after all - as long as the men who found her get a salvage fee.
• Petition demands continued CBC AM service The public outcry for the continuation of CBC Yukon's AM radio service visited city hall Monday night.
• Helping Fight Cancer Alyssa and Brooke Bunce, along with Rene, Esha and Anna Grewal (left to right) helped raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society
• Youth society makes abrupt change in premises A hurried move from Second Avenue to Jeckell Street last week was necessary for the Youth of Today Society to keep its new home and site of the long-awaited Angels Nest shelter.
• State of property spurs neighbours' complaints The city's bylaw department is investigating the state of a Porter Creek property after a neighbour called on city council to take action against the property owner so the lot can be cleaned up.
• Seafood store owners ordered to pay ex-landlord Pulling out of a lease three years early will cost the former owners of the Wharf On Fourth seafood shop more than $18,000.
• Biologists' view at odds with earlier warnings All looks well with the Dall sheep population on Pilot Mountain and throughout the Miner's Range, say wildlife biologists with Environment Yukon.