Whitehorse Daily Star

June 16, 2009

• Local youth emulates mom's yearning for travel A Yukon youth will continue a family legacy of cultural exploration and self-discovery by journeying to Quebec and Mali as a volunteer with a national organization.
• MLA hasn't joined Dawson's bid for office DAWSON CITY - Most of the power brokers in Dawson would like to see the Yukon branch of the new federal Northern Development Agency (as yet unnamed) located in the Klondike capital, or some other rural community rather than in Whitehorse.
• Park's fire ban is lifted Parks Canada has lifted the general fire ban that was put in place in Kluane National Park and Reserve.
• Pre-show Pampering Coal enjoys a grooming from Mike Frost
• Give wildlife, habitat part of carbon credit funds: federation However Ottawa decides to divvy up revenue from whatever type of carbon credit program it adopts, wildlife and its habitat should get a slice.
• Fire Relief Wet weather in the Whitehorse area
• Chamber ponders changes to graffiti elimination program The Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce is being forced to rethink its summer graffiti removal program because of human resource obstacles.
• Bylaw may exempt mobile homes for a year Ask and you may receive.
• AFN regional chief faces challenger When aboriginal leaders meet next month at the Council of Yukon First Nations' (CYFN) annual assembly,
• Takhini North work is on schedule, contractor says Construction in Takhini North will soon be moving closer to area homes as Castle Rock Enterprises wraps up infrastructure work on the new Rhine Way Road and moves on to Nijmega and Cassino streets.
• 'One-punch case' lands in Supreme Court In laying out the Crown's argument against a local bouncer charged with assaulting a customer, prosecutor David McWhinnie called it "a one-punch case" Monday.

June 15, 2009

• Band society ends the year on a high note It has been another exciting school year for the various musical stars of the All-City Band Society!
• Crews extinguish forest fire close to Whitehorse hospital Three news fires were reported in the territory over the weekend, with the most notable being a 0.2-hectare blaze burning just north of Whitehorse General Hospital.
• Ski society is assessing report Great Northern Ski Society's board is praising the final report from Trek International of Vancouver, hired to review the potential opportunities for Mount Sima.
• Communications services disrupted again Long-distance phone service to the South, cell phone service and the Internet were disrupted last night due to a damaged cable, the second damaged cable in less than a week.
• 'It's a tough ride for an old car': Bentley buff DAWSON CITY - A dozen vintage Bentleys pulled up to the ferry landing early Saturday morning and proceeded to block any hope of people from West Dawson getting off the George Black ferry when it arrived on the Dawson side.
• Man rescued from his ill-fated lake venture A man who was in the territory for a solo canoeing trip learned a difficult lesson while on Lake Laberge over the weekend: youth and strength are no match for high winds and near-freezing waters.
• Approval of mine, mill disappoints resident A territorial assessment board's Mayo office has recommended the approval of Alexco's Bellekeno mine and mill proposal outside Keno City, with scores of conditions.
• Fire scene items sent Outside for tests The police and fire department officials are hoping tests on items removed from the burned-out building at 3181 Third Ave. will determine the cause of last Thursday evening's blaze there.
• Federal money, mining will help shelter territory Transfer payments from Ottawa and the development of new and operating mines in the territory should keep the Yukon's bubble economy from going flat this year, according to an economic forecast released by the territorial government last Thursday.
• Whistle Bend will need expensive road changes The city could end up spending anywhere between $20 million and $30 million on fixing up and building roads to accommodate the upcoming Whistle Bend subdivision.

June 12, 2009

• Positively going batty over bats In 1962, when rabies was rapid in Ontario, I had the expressed good fortune to work on the Bat Rabies Project.
• Trio's reunion helped create a magical night The Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament (PGI) has a long and storied history as a fund-raiser for literacy throughout Canada.
• Breakup comes to Dawson's Confluence Gallery DAWSON CITY - Breakup might be the end of winter. It might be the end of a romance.
• Foiled again (or cut off at the cyber pass) DAWSON CITY - The Internet was sllloooww Wednesday. It wasn't supposed to be.
• Yukoner's book wins national science award Whitehorse author Claire Eamer's first science book for kids, Super Crocs & Monster Wings:
• From the graveyard to the underground Neil Gaiman will be the guest of honour at the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (or Worldcon) in Montreal this August.
• Celebrated author to attend local events The Yukon will welcome one of the country's most famous authors next week when novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje arrives for the Whitehorse Poetry Festival.
• Yukon artists to take their talents on the road The Touring Artist Fund will contribute $44,378 in funding to 14 Yukon artists travelling to the Northwest Territories, Alberta, B.C., the U.S. and Jamaica,
• Superior Carrying Capacity Jeff Faulkner, pilot on Alcan Air's Shorts Skyvan give a tour to youth attending the ground school for Canadian Owners and Pilots Association
• Yukoner back from seminar Tara Klippert, 22, of Whitehorse, has returned from The War Amps 2009 Child Amputee (CHAMP) Seminar in Vancouver.
• Fentie won't discuss charge of meddling in energy affairs Premier Dennis Fentie is declining to discuss accusations his government is interfering in the business of the Yukon Development Corp. (YDC) and Yukon Energy.
• Raven cited as cause of latest power failure A raven caused Thursday's widespread power outage, says the operations superintendent of Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd.
• Businessman granted liquor licence - with conditions The Yukon Liquor Board has approved a controversial application for a liquor licence, food primary and offsales in Granger, provided some conditions are met.
• Taylor attended climate change meeting Environment Minister Elaine Taylor joined her ministerial counterparts from across Canada,
• Oil and gas rights awarded in Eagle Plain Basin The Yukon government has issued oil and gas rights in the Eagle Plain basin of northern Yukon following the spring 2009 call for bids.
• Skin mite may have affected bear's face The Star showed the accompanying photo to Philip Merchant, animal health co-ordinator of the territory's fish and wildlife branch laboratory.
• Lightning strikes spark more forest fires Close to 700 positive lightning strikes across Yukon Wednesday afternoon and evening sparked nine new fires in the territory, Wildland Fire Management officials said Thursday.
• D-Day anniversary unleashes flood of memories DAWSON CITY - John Gould recalls just where he was on June 6, 1944, at the beginning of the D-Day Invasion, celebrated extensively on television last weekend.
• Trolley plan would turn campers into tourists As early as this summer, Whitehorse could see rubber-tire trollies running routes along the Alaska Highway, turning overnight campers into tourists about town.
• Premiers head to Dawson next week Canada's western premiers will gather in Dawson City next week to discuss issues of common interest, ranging from strengthening the west's competitiveness to Canada's energy future.
• Investigation begins into major downtown fire Whitehorse RCMP are leading the investigation into a downtown blaze Thursday evening that heavily damaged an abandoned warehouse while scores of people looked on.
• Warehouse Burns Firefighters battled this warehouse blaze
• Parking plans don't embrace downtown parkade: resident Proposed changes to downtown parking regulations seem to be ducking the need for a multi-level parkade in the city's core, says Johan Groenewegen.
• Bentleys due back in city on June 18 Millions of dollars worth of vintage Bentley touring automobiles arrived in Whitehorse on Wednesday afternoon as part of the Bentley Drivers Club Alaska Tour 2009.
• 'They came, they saw, they blew up, they left' The bombs went off in Watson Lake this week, when staff from the Department of National Defence arrived in the town on the B.C./Yukon border to inspect a pair of Second World War explosive devices.
• 'I know it was wrong, but that's what I did' A British Columbia man who came to the Yukon to help his father bag a moose has been handed a $7,500 fine instead, after conservation officers caught him hunting without a licence.