Whitehorse Daily Star

June 11, 2009

• Students helped out in Bolivia With the financial help of the Rendezvous Rotary Club, Grades 11 and 12 students of the Academie Parhelie at Emilie-Tremblay School went to Bolivia recently to install an ecological toilet in a village.
• Museums get money for collections, exhibits Twelve Yukon museums and first nations cultural/heritage centres, along with the Yukon Historical and Museums Association, will share $300,000 to support capital projects, the Yukon government said last Thursday.
• Territory reports eight more fires Eight new fires were reported in the territory as of 9 p.m. Wednesday, Yukon Wildlife Fire Management officials said this morning.
• Wildlife federation loop created The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) will leave a lasting footprint on the Yukon, where it is holding its 2009 annual general meeting.
• Wildlife federation loop created The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) will leave a lasting footprint on the Yukon, where it is holding its 2009 annual general meeting.
• Mock election is being held in Shipyards Park Canada's way of electing representatives doesn't work, says the Yukon's former federal returning officer, and he wants people to do more than just talk about changing it.
• Backhoe sparked 'major service disruption' It was a backhoe working at the M'Clintock River Bridge that knocked out voice and data service to Northwestel Inc.'s Yukon customers shortly after noon Wednesday.
• 'I'm tired of the lip service...and the tom foolery' The Canadian government can best reconcile with first nations by providing the means to implement the modern day treaties, say those who turned out at a protest in front of the Elijah Smith Building in Whitehorse this morning.
• 'Coincidence' sees pair of arrests It's open season for thieves of vehicle contents and prowlers in Whitehorse, as evidenced by two more arrests made last night.
• Students invited to apply for 2009 scholarships Northwestel Inc. is once again giving post-secondary students across the North the chance to win one of its Northern Futures Scholarships.
• Small claims court can hear woman's suit against city Visiting Yukon Supreme Court Judge Earl Johnson has confirmed an earlier small claims court judgment of territorial court Judge John Faulkner which found Patricia Cunning's case against the city could be heard in small claims court.
• Simultaneous 'emergencies' kept personnel busy A wildfire forcing parts of the city to be evacuated, a collision on the Alaska Highway at Robert Service Way and a broken water main on Falcon Drive ....
• Rebate plan won't cover government, businesses Premier Dennis Fentie has announced a new $3-million subsidy for electrical consumers, but nothing for business nor government.

June 10, 2009

• Cultural grants total $138,735 for 19 recipients The Department of Tourism and Culture Arts Fund is contributing $138,735 to 19 recipients with "exciting and diverse artistic goals," Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor said Monday.
• Performances will launch dance society A society dedicated to fostering dance in Yukon will be launched this week at the Old Fire Hall iin Whitehorse, with performances by several dance artists.
• Local artist to act as spokesperson for visual artists in Canada Whitehorse artist Mario Villeneuve was elected to be the spokesperson for visual artists in Canada at the Canaadian Artists' Representation's (CARFAC) annual general meeting in St. John's last weekend.
• The makings of an iconic Canadian artist (REVIEW) Joseph Tisiga is a young first nations, self-taught artist creating thought-provoking visual landscapes in his installations.
• Fires banned in Kluane Park Parks Canada has implemented a fire ban throughout Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwest Yukon.
• 'This is a mini-disaster area of the first order' The dump in Old Crow is a big mess and getting bigger, but it's more than just the trash piling up in the remote village's landfill that's causing the problem.
• Cable damaged services cut Cell phone connections and other services tied to the Yukon's long distance telephone feed died shortly after noon today.
• Public deserves answers on departures: NDP Yukoners are owed a detailed explanation about what specifically forced Monday's mass resignations of board members representing key public corporations, says NDP Leader Todd Hardy,
• Mackey to train Jamaican musher Lance Mackey, the three-time Iditarod and four-time Yukon Quest champion, will be training Jamaica Dogsled Team musher Newton Marshall as the Jamaican prepares to race the Iditarod in 2010.
• 'The Captain' tells one toe of a tale DAWSON CITY - Capt. Dick Stevenson, 79 years old and not in the best of health, was nevertheless in fine fettle during his recent visit to Dawson.
• Food prices up six per cent A worldwide spike in commodities prices, market volatility and food production challenges combined to push up the price of groceries by more than six per cent over last year in the Yukon.
• Firefighters kept busy with lightning, B.C. blazes Increased lightning activity Tuesday afternoon triggered two new fires in the territory, Wildland Fire Management said this morning.
• Man admits to violently raping woman A man accused of violently raping two women in Whitehorse in the fall of 2007 has pleaded guilty to one of the assaults.
• 'His head's bigger than mine, for God's sake' Within an hour of arriving on the Tagish Bridge, a Whitehorse man was reeling in the biggest fish he'd ever caught: a 38-pound lake trout.
• City bylaw worker helps woman who fell in river Kaeli Ritchie knows from experience just how important first aid training is.
• Two canoeists rescued Experience, preparedness and a chartered helicopter got two canoeists out of a spot of trouble Tuesday after their boat capsized on the Jarvis River.

June 9, 2009

• Teacher caps 30 years in Dawson City DAWSON CITY - The initials R.S.S. usually stand for Robert Service School, but for the last Good News assembly of the year, something new was added.
• Colleges pursue northern university The three northern colleges - Yukon College, Aurora College and Nunavut Arctic College - have agreed to establish the legal foundation for a University of the Arctic (UArctic) Canada.
• Mines chamber releases spending forecast The Yukon Chamber of Mines is estimating $222 million will be spent this year developing new mines and assets, and searching for new ore bodies.
• Local man sent to penitentiary One of several people arrested during a drug bust has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison for dealing cocaine.
• Sign saga lands in the courts The sign is down - but the fight continues.
• Carelessness with fires 'a bit worrisome' Despite warnings that hot, dry conditions are making the region ripe for fire and a territory-wide burn ban, human carelessness is responsible for a dozen of the 17 fires in the Yukon this summer.
• About To Wing Away George Balmer secures Tyrell Boyd into his RV8 homebuilt kit plane last Saturday.
• City officials back Mt. Sima Road quarry City staff are recommending council approve a gravel quarry for Mt. Sima Road, attaching with it a dozen conditions.
• Missing bag's contents could be lethal, police warn The contents of a red duffel bag lost in the Mt. McIntyre subdivision could be deadly, Whitehorse RCMP warned Monday.
• 'At some point, you have to bow out' Political interference by Premier Dennis Fentie's government is behind the sudden departures of four veteran board members of Yukon Energy and the Yukon Development Corporations, says the resigning chair of the two boards.