Whitehorse Daily Star

April 24, 2009

• Will politics destroy the dream of McIntyre Creek? If anyone is connected to Whitehorse, if anyone reads newspapers, if anyone is in politics, municipal, territorial or federal, they can't help but to have heard of McIntyre Creek and the Friends of McIntyre Creek.
• The Terror is stalked in the Arctic night What was the British Navy thinking when they picked the ships for the last ill-fated Franklin Expedition in 1845?
• 'Work that muscle,' playwright tells students This is one of a series of author's profiles leading up to the Yukon Writers' Festival and the Young Authors' Conference.
• 'Recent work' had a few surprises for its visitors DAWSON CITY - Walking into the ODD Gallery, one's first impression was an exhibit was being set up and it hadn't quite been finished.
• Musician's holiday hibernation pays off in spades Yukon singer/songwriter Gordie Tentrees will be touring throughout Alaska and the Yukon in May promoting his third CD, Mercy or Sin in May.
• Tell Me More... tonight and Saturday night Call it community theatre if you like, but the members of Whitehorse's Ynklude troupe are fast becoming veterans of the visual and performance art scenes.
• Dawson council compiles list of concerns for the RCMP DAWSON CITY - The town's RCMP officers would like to see more interaction between themelves and students of Robert Service School.
• Sexual orientation definition may be changed A potentially discriminatory definition of sexual orientation will be stricken from the Yukon Human Rights Act if amendments to the 21-year-old legislation are passed during this sitting of the legislature.
• Some grant applicants may be out of luck The city could be turning away at least a few organizations looking for a recreation grant this spring.
• Alberta program teaches bear awareness A young teacher and mother was killed by a grizzly bear while hiking in Alberta's ever-popular Bow River Valley in 2005.
• Funding crucial to take on scourge of FASD This is the second instalment of a series on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Yukon. The first part was published last Friday.
• Students poised to take over Yukon legislature Nine high school students from Watson Lake, Haines Junction, Dawson City and Whitehorse are embarking on a crash course in parliamentary affairs, as the annual Youth Parliament prepares to sit in the legislative assembly this afternoon.
• Peel River watershed plan proving divisive The miners aren't happy. The wilderness tour guides aren't happy.
• Yukon artist featured on new phone directory The work of an artist with a long history and love for the Yukon is being featured on Northwestel Inc.'s 2009 Yukon and northern British Columbia directory cover.
• Council ponders subdivision of lot A property at the corner of Falaise and Normandy Roads in Takhini West could become two parts if city council approves a subdivision at its meeting next week.
• Architectural Firm Helps Out Tim Turner-Davies (left), of FSC Architects and Engineers in Whitehorse
• Man's efforts to reform result in lighter sentence Try, and if you fail, get up and try again.
• Rotary Club marks milestone The Rotary Club of Whitehorse celebrated its 40th anniversary this afternoon at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel.
• Norovirus keeping Macaulay Lodge closed An outbreak of norovirus - commonly known as Norwalk - will keep Macaulay Lodge in Whitehorse closed until Sunday at the earliest, health officials said today.
• Final sign-off looms for veteran broadcaster The voice that launched CKRW on an early November morning in 1969 will sign off from the station for a final time at the end of next Friday's 5 p.m. newscast.
• Riverdale bridge repairs could cost $401,000-plus The city might be shelling out close to $24,000 more than what it expected to spend on fixing up the Robert Campbell Bridge this year.

April 23, 2009

• Arctic research funding headed to territory The territory's senator says the recent federal funding announcement of more than $13 million to upgrade Arctic research facilities will benefit the Yukon's economy.
• Performing For The Master Adjudicator Wayne Jeffery works with Porter Creek Secondary School's Grade 8 band Wednesday.
• College to turn out educational assistants Next fall, students will be training at the Yukon College for careers as educational assistants.
• Na-cho Nyak Dun, Tetlit Gwich'in hit ancestral trail Members of the First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun and the Tetlit Gwich'in First Nation have returned from what they call a tough but exhilarating snowmobile trip into their traditional territories in the Peel Watershed.
• AYC meeting set for weekend Land development, water and sewer issues, the federal Building Canada fund,
• Healed owl eagerly returns to the wild Yukon Wildlife Preserve staff released a rehabilitated northern hawk owl on Wednesday evening at the preserve.
• What brand of banana republic is the Yukon? On April 8, While Kluane MLA Gary McRobb
• Law run to help the Angels Nest The Yukon Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Law Day Committee has chosen the Angels Nest
• Man's longtime volunteer work earns city's top nod Michael Purves' volunteer work in Whitehorse has spanned decades and organizations,
• Committee ball is in Yukon Party's court, Mitchell says The sandbox that the government's public accounts committee has become in the past year just lost another four playmates.
• Premier scolded for ceremony absence The absence of the premier and members of his government from last Thursday's closing ceremony for Yukon Hall earned independent MLA John Edzerza's scorn Wednesday in the legislative assembly.

April 22, 2009

• Author brings the treadmill approach to writing Arthur Slade, a Governor General's Award winner (for the young adult novel Dust)
• A good beer, a delicious recipe We have recently witnessed the merger of two of the biggest competitors worldwide in the beer business.
• Festival tickets sold exclusively online this year DAWSON CITY - Dawson City Music Festival tickets went on sale early last week, and are only available through the contact links (the Ticket Pro website or phone number) on the festival's website.
• Yukoners to participate in national science fair Three Whitehorse students will be attending Canada's nation school science fair in Winnipeg in early May.
• Two Yukon hotels make magazine's 'stay list' At least one hotel owner is already reaping the rewards of being chosen for National Geographic's Traveler's Stay list.
• Myths' importance can outweigh the artifacts' The message of Thomas King's Massey Lectures from a few years ago is one that professionals working in the conservation of first nations' artifacts need to consider and take to heart.
• Mining company will modify its plans, Keno residents told Alexco Resource Corp. notified Keno City residents in a letter Tuesday it is prepared to make changes to its plan for a local mine.
• Policy saps council of thinking power: Graham City councillor Doug Graham is pleased with some of the proposed changes to the city services policy, and not so happy with others.
• Trolley signs get funding approved Trolley riders will have some reading material this year as they wait for their ride along the city's waterfront.
• Replenishing The Supply Danny Lewis, from the Raven Recycling Society,
• City awards accounting contract The city has awarded a $119,000 contract to the Ontario-based TCA Consulting Ltd.
• Honours From Hawaii Jessica Collins, one of instructor Carole Mullin's dancers,
• Ban 'archaic' free entry claim staking: NDP Bring an end to free entry mineral claim staking in the Yukon, urges NDP Leader Todd Hardy.
• Court orders payment to Dawson carpenter A project that began as a business agreement among friends then descended into an argument over money has been settled in small claims court.
• Celebrating Earth Day The Departments of Education and Environment announced a new recycling program for schools today
• Road approval disappoints local conservation group A proposed 37- kilometre all-season road into the Red Mountain mineral deposit in southeast Yukon has been recommended for approval.