Whitehorse Daily Star

March 30, 2009

• Hospital transfer due for lengthy study It's going to take 13 months for the territorial government and the Yukon Hospital Corp. (YHC) to figure out if transferring the management of Watson Lake Hospital to the corporation is a good idea.
• Fish calculations out of sync with reality It looks like something is going on in the ocean environment that is affecting the survival of Yukon River chinook, says fisheries biologist Pat Milligan.
• Gatt takes Percy De Wolfe Memorial Race DAWSON CITY - It was a bit crowded in the Dawson Curling Club for 90-plus people to hold a banquet,
• People stranded in elevator About four or five people, including a toddler, found themselves waiting to get out of a warm elevator at the Shoppers Plaza on Main Street this morning.
• School ponders advanced placement class F.H. Collins Secondary School students heading into Grade 12 this September could get a taste of university-level learning if the school goes ahead with offering an advanced placement (AP) class.
• If A Car Flips In The Forest And Nobody See It ... No emergency services were called
• Offender appeals sentence After standing up in court to ask for more time in jail, Calvin Carlick is appealing his sentence, saying it is too harsh.
• Stanley Cup helps Special Olympics raise some money A Special Olympics fund-raiser staged by six schools has brought in more than $18,000.
• Sides differ on meaning of consultation Alexco Resource CEO Clynt Nauman called it "constructive dialogue" with Keno City neighbours,
• Most Yukoners kept their lights on The lights stayed on for many Yukoners during Earth Hour Saturday evening.
• Trouble kept police officers hopping It wasn't just the hotels and bars of Whitehorse that were packed over weekend.

March 27, 2009

• Defining the sportsman and the hunter The word "sportsman" came about at the closing of the market hunting error.
• Lake Laberge Lions mark a milestone with 40th anniversary The past Tuesday's meeting of the Lake Laberge Lions Club celebrated the organization's 40th anniversary.
• Paying hommage to the blues In the Saturday Night Live- inspired film The Blues Brothers, Aretha Franklin describes Jake and Elwood Blues, seated in her Chicago fried chicken joint, as "two guys dressed like Hasidic diamond merchants."
• Serving God in an age of anarchy The Pillars of the Earth seems like a most unlikely novel for Ken Follett to have written.
• Part theatre, part dance, all visual delight Theatre lovers, Rejoice!
• Long-awaited liquor rules to kick in next week Brad Cathers, the minister responsible for the Yukon Liquor Corp.,
• Quake shakes part of territory It's been a shaky month in the northern Yukon, with three earthquakes powerful enough to feel the ground move.
• Fish have been vanishing for a decade: panelist Fish have been vanishing for a decade: panelist
• Girl Guide cookies on sale It's Girl Guide cookie time again, continuing an 81-year tradition.
• Planned paving encounters some potholes DAWSON CITY - It certainly seems the paving of Dawson's Front Street from Crocus Bluff to the George Black ferry landing will be proceeding early this summer.
• Going My Way? This fox was photographed
• Keno residents watch MLAs discuss mine plan A company's proposal to erect its mill and crusher less than a kilometre from Keno City has angered residents there and yesterday,
• Two additional races fill up the Percy's calendar DAWSON CITY - The addition of the Percy Junior race to Fortymile and back, and the two-day figure-eight Percy Skijor race brought the number of contestants in this year's Percy DeWolfe events up to 26.
• Frenzied cheers send mushers on their way DAWSON CITY - While it was a grey day at 10 a.m. Thursday, the snow hadn't yet started to drift in from the south when Gaby Sgaga and Sarah Lenart announced the departure of bib #1 in the Percy De Wolfe Memorial Race.
• First nation plans general assemblies The Liard First Nation has scheduled two general assemblies over the next few months.
• 'I think I've been hounded, I really do' When Whitehorse businessman Con Lattin moved his sign from his Roadhouse Inn to his Fourth Avenue property, he didn't think it would be an issue.
• Councillor admits to mistake, but still votes against quarry Coun. Dave Stockdale has admitted he was wrong about information that came forward on the plans for the proposed quarry on the Old Livingstone Trail.
• Appologies Extended Cathy Busby (right) is seen at the Yukon Arts Centre Thursday evening
• Dope-dealing bartender is served up some cell time A local bartender who was busted selling crack cocaine in an alley last spring is back in jail after getting caught dealing on the job.
• Local mom wants song dedicated to slain toddler The tragic story of one little boy's death has reached across decades and continents to touch one Whitehorse woman's heart.
• Ex-Yukoner shortlisted for astronauts roster Fifteen years ago, Joshua Kutryk delivered the Star on his bicycle.
• Legendary publisher dies at 92 Bob Erlam was a storyteller at heart.
• Outlook bleak for chinook salmon fisheries It's looking like another poor year for the return of Yukon River chinook salmon, though the jury is still out on the fall run of chum salmon.

March 26, 2009

• Older workers acquiring skills in communications Yukon College's Haines Junction campus has put a spin on its Older Worker Program this semester.
• Truck's driver was powerless to avert rollover One of the Whitehorse airport's three fire trucks sustained "extensive damage" Wednesday afternoon when it flipped over during a drill exercise.
• Doors are open in Dawson this week This week, the Klondike is playing host to Doors Open Dawson,
• Highway work has caught the interest of many bidders Officials with the Department of Highways and Public Works aren't sure if anything is to be drawn from an unusually high number of bids for a stretch of highway reconstruction work.
• Here I Come Lew Piercy participates in the first annual Alf Whinton Tricycle Race
• Government tables potpourri of new territorial legislation As opposition MLAs sparred with the cabinet over the territory's dismal high school graduation rates and the cost of the new Whitehorse Correctional Centre ($67 million-plus)
• City will fund compost plans As gardening season draws closer, tenants at 600 College Rd. will be getting set to use their own compost in their garden plots this season thanks to a $1,228 grant from the city.
• Greenhouse collapses from weight of ice, snow The community greenhouse in Haines Junction is used for much more than just growing plants, says Steve Osborne.
• Local RCMP seize computers A cross-Canada investigation into the making and sharing of child pornography resulted in three search warrants being executed in Whitehorse this week,
• Show Winding Down The Electric Company Theatre is presenting Studies in Motion at the Yukon Arts Centre.