Whitehorse Daily Star

November 24, 2006

• They're all dog days at the ODD Gallery in Dawson City DAWSON CITY Depending on where you're standing, the latest exhibit at the ODD Gallery is either a display of canine portraits or laundry day at the pound.
• Pondering poems for an early winter in northern Canada DAWSON CITY Sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words and sometimes a picture inspires a few hundred.
• The wonderful Fab Four are revisited in Beatles biography The first thing I have to say about Bob Spitz's captivating book is that it made me go back and listen to my Beatles' Anthology tapes, all three volumes of them.
• Author Robert Service is Under the Spell of the Yukon once again In the centennial year of his first published book of verse in the Klondike, the Bard of the Yukon is front and centre again!
• 40,000 guides to fan out across the capital In what's being called the first of its kind in Whitehorse, the city unveiled a bilingual visitors' guide Wednesday afternoon.
• Games will bring changes to centre Ed. note: this is one of a series of articles tracing the planning for the 2007 Canada Winter Games.
• Check your chimney, chief warns Whitehorse fire chief Clive Sparks is reminding residents with wood stoves to check their chimneys every week and clean them regularly after crews were called to a chimney blaze downtown Thursday afternoon.
• Cultural exchange brought visitors here From South to North America, first nation people in both continents face many of the same challenges as they work toward regaining their culture, says Roman Vizcarra.
• Yukon Party sets out governing blueprint 'We've already been doing that,' Premier Dennis Fentie told reporters in response to several questions regarding the government's agenda announced in Thursday's Speech from the Throne.
• Speech was lacking, Opposition says It isn't so much what's in the Speech from the Throne as what isn't in it, the opposition parties are saying.
• Animal shelter's latest manager sets out agenda The new head of the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter is calling on the territorial government for new cruelty legislation and appealing to city residents for a new vehicle.
• Yukoners invited to bid on trees Soon it will be Christmas Day. . . .
• Whistle Bend' could encompass 10,000 people The plan developed from the city's recent Porter Creek bench charrette was presented to council this week.
• Landmark service station calls it a day There's still a tiger in the tank. But the roar from the Second Avenue Whitehorse Esso is about to go quiet.
• Judge convicts man passed out in truck Territorial court Judge John Faulkner has ruled a man who was found drunk and passed out in his truck was guilty of operating the vehicle while he was over the legal alcohol limit.
• Collector switches focus to smaller debtors Dana Naye Ventures has collected on the 'big five' of delinquent government loans and is now turning its attention to the smaller amounts, says Wayne McLennan of the organization.

November 23, 2006

• Weather, construction woes delayed new lots After delays and pushed timelines, lots for the city's newest government-built country residential subdivision will be on the market next summer.
• Events designed to raise addictions awareness Sitting on couches in the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre early Wednesday afternoon, four women listen to prevention consultant Marlene Walde talk about both addictions and family violence.
• MDs seek clarification of one-stop clinic Yukon doctors aren't clear what's meant when the territorial government talks about the creation of a collaborative health care clinic, says the president of the Yukon Medical Association (YMA).
• Every day, we are still losing life to AIDS' 'No fear, no pain, no broken heart,' says one panel on the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
• Yukon museums receive special grants Eleven projects designed to enhance the development and outreach activities of Yukon museums will share $340,000 in Special Projects Assistance Program funding, Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor announced Tuesday.
• Garbage free schools collect their prizes The winners of the seventh annual Garbage Free Lunch competition in Whitehorse schools were awarded their prizes from the Raven Recycling Society last Friday.

November 22, 2006

• Country residential home averages $308,300 With a 71.3-per-cent rise in housing prices since 2000 and no new lots on the horizon, the city's land crunch problems are coming to a head.
• Summer archaeology project unearthed original Fort Selkirk An archaeological dig performed last summer near the confluence of the Pelly and Yukon rivers unearthed the remains of the original Fort Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company post.
• Season can be lonely for FASSY clients The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon (FASSY) is asking the community to give to those afflicted with the disorder this holiday season.
• RCMP looking for recruits Looking for a career change? Want to help make and keep Canadian communities safe?
• At no time in life is it time to stop learning' 'Education is one of those issues that's very emotional. It affects people directly and it's often very hard to look at it through a cold analytical lens,' says new Education Minister Patrick Rouble.
• Labour lauds anti-scab legislation The Yukon Federation of Labour is applauding the passing of anti-scab legislation through its second reading in the House of Commons.
• $10-million hydro project planned for northern B.C. Details of a $10-million-plus hydro project for Atlin will be released at an official signing ceremony Thursday in the northern B.C. community.
• Theft victim underwhelmed by RCMP response Keep that vehicle locked, Whitehorse RCMP are warning drivers around the city.
• Dawson health facility is a priority: Cathers The Yukon government will be moving quickly to build a multi-level care facility for Dawson City, Health Minister Brad Cathers told Yukon doctors last Friday afternoon.