Whitehorse Daily Star

June 2, 2006

• Northwestel offers scholarships to northern students For the fifth year in a row, Northwestel Inc. is inviting post-secondary students from across the North to apply for this year's Northern Futures Scholarships.
• Leaping Feats musical about Dancing Through Life For 10-year-old Jenna Duncan, what makes dance a fun experience is performing in front of people.
• Bookends Loeb and Sale present all the colours of loss In comic books, some artists and writers simply go together like peanut butter and jam: Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams.
• Scaled-down' festival to precede Games The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous will go ahead next year after all. Rendezvous president Marj Eschak announced today the annual festival will be held from Feb. 16-18, 2007.
• Veteran hotelier checks out of the inn The man with the golden tooth Gold Nuggie Dougie has sold the Gold Rush Inn Hummers not included.
• Green space laws carry consequences: realtor New green space bylaws in Whitehorse will lead to an even longer development process, inflate housing prices and cause trades workers to go South to make a living.
• Court steps in after filing deadline missed A failure to file documents with the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada last week could have left Yukon MP Larry Bagnell on the sidelines in the House of Commons.
• Water park may be ready next month A new water park slated for the city's Rotary Peace Park will likely be done by the end of July and could include solar-heated water.
• Quest's start change will help downtown commerce The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race will be leaving Whitehorse on a Saturday in 2007 for the first time in 17 years.
• Guard your water use, officials urge residents Whitehorse residents are being asked to conserve water.
• Expert shares knowledge on autism Autism, contrary to pop-culture stereotypes, doesn't always look like Dustin Hoffman in the 1980s movie Rain Man.
• Officials hope for best, brace for worst 'What the season is going to be like is an age-old question without any real answer,' says Al Beaver, the science and planning supervisor with Wildland Fire Management.
• Bank pursues former R.V. park owners for repayment Linda and Ed Brennan, the former owners of the Trail of '98 RV park, could be forced to pay back loans totalling more than $350,000 to the Business Development Bank of Canada.
• Motorcyclist escaped serious injury A motorcyclist was taken to Whitehorse General Hospital following a crash late Thursday morning, but injuries appeared to be minor, Whitehorse RCMP Sgt. Ross Milward said this morning.
• City now officially out of lots There are no more lots for sale in the city of Whitehorse.
• Graphic tobacco ads stir strong reaction World No Tobacco Day was Wednesday, and to mark the occasion, the Department of Health and Social Services invited the local media to a screening of Smoke Screening III, a short video of 12 anti-smoking videos.
• Veteran realtor calls for land disposition policy The territorial and municipal governments should develop an open land disposition policy to enable private developers to buy land and build new houses in Whitehorse.
• Bylaw called a positive step' A bylaw to be voted on in a citywide referendum later this month isn't perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
• Secondary school turns out 112 grads Porter Creek Secondary School held its graduation ceremonies Thursday night. Hundreds of parents and friends crowded into the gymnasium to watch tomorrow's leaders take their diplomas.
• Film festival gets reels ready to roll And action....

June 1, 2006

• Murder trial hears last of witnesses Mark Lange will not take the stand in his defence at his and Dean Boucher's second-degree murder trial in the 2004 death of Robert Olson.
• Man's body is identified The body pulled from the Yukon River Tuesday evening has been identified as that of 27-year-old Curtis Garret Woods of Whitehorse.
• First nation opposes agricultural lease The Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation is seeking a court injunction against the Yukon government's decision to issue an agricultural lease near McGregor Creek.
• Cancer relay is set for weekend Yukon residents are being challenged to participate in the Canadian Cancer Society's annual Relay For Life planned for Saturday at Rotary Peace Park.
• Bike to work, locals are urged The federal and municipal governments are encouraging Whitehorse residents to get out of their vehicles and bike to work this summer.
• First nation, town will pave arteries The Liard First Nation and the Town of Watson Lake have received approval for paving the Two Mile community roads under the Municipal Roads Infrastructure Fund (MRiF).
• Ottawa offers land deal to first nation OTTAWA (CP) The federal government is offering land and cash to the only native group that hasn't signed on to the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline.
• College to honour 230 graduates on Saturday Yukon College will celebrate and honour about 230 students at its graduation ceremonies on Saturday.
• Schools complete phone book challenge Sixteen Yukon schools have been busy collecting outdated Northwestel Inc. telephone directories as part of the company's 2006 Directory Recycling Program.

May 31, 2006

• He got hit pretty damn hard': accused Dean Boucher lied numerous times throughout the four statements he gave to the RCMP about the death of Robert Olson, a 12-member jury heard Tuesday.
• Body discovered in Yukon River The identity of a body recovered from the Yukon River Tuesday evening should be known later today, Whitehorse RCMP Sgt. Ross Milward said this morning.
• I've really got to do this now,' adventurer says A pair of British men christened their canoe with a water melon Tuesday and named it the Li-Su. They will spend the next three months in the Li-Su raising money for sick children.
• Appeal court asked to quash park orders Three judges of the B.C.-Yukon Court of Appeal are being asked to strike down orders from the territorial cabinet that gave rise to the Tombstone Territorial Park in 2004.
• Safety groups to meet here Canada's leaders in safety program delivery will meet in Whitehorse from tomorrow through Saturday.
• Old Crow New Democrats acclaim MLA Vuntut Gwitchin MLA Lorraine Peter will seek a third term as a New Democrat in the territorial election expected this fall.
• Glenn Hart, you should be scared' Whitehorse Correctional Centre veteran Phil Treusch has won the Liberal nomination to serve as a candidate for Riverdale South in the pending territorial election.
• Crews are mopping up forest fire Wildland Fire Management firefighters from Whitehorse and Carmacks were dispatched to a 1.6-hectare fire at the north end of Little Fox Lake early Tuesday evening.