Whitehorse Daily Star

July 18, 2022

• Someone to foot the honours for the 100,000th cocktail The Downtown Hotel in Dawson City will be serving the milestone 100,000th sourtoe cocktail on or around Thursday – and is searching for a candidate to do the honours.
• Animals welcomed at church for blessing Photo Spread
• Missing couple found A missing person investigation has been concluded with the sought-after woman and man both located safely, Whitehorse RCMP said Friday afternoon.
• No One Injured In Incident The Whitehorse Fire Department responded to a multi-residential building at 60 Selkirk St. for a report of fire alarms ringing and smoke at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
• Families need help with rising costs: Singh On his third day in the Yukon, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh continues to hear from people in the territory about rising costs for their families.
• Filmmakers Attend Festival Key Yukoners involved in producing the Yukon science fiction film Polaris are seen last week at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it was screened.
• Fires slowing Yukon Wildland Fire Management reports the cool, wet weather has helped reduce the number and severity of fires over the past few days.
• Dawson hit with telecom blackout Dawson City was cut off from telephone, Internet and cell phone service from mid-morning Saturday until about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
• Vaccines set for young children The Yukon government is expanding the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to children between the ages of six months and five years.
• Seniors fail to receive monthly benefit An undefined technical problem is hitting Yukon seniors hard – with no firm deadline from the territorial government as to when it will be fixed.

July 15, 2022

• Cultivating Reconciliation The Jubilee Reconciliation Garden was unveiled June 22 at Taylor House on Main Street.
• Sandbags available to residents The Yukon’s Emergency Coordination Centre will be providing sandbags to Lake Laberge residents who want to make preparations for potential flooding.
• Remount of Dogtown: The Musical Dogtown: The Musical, by Roy Ness and Grant Simpson, is a musical comedy about the late Trevor the dog.
• The Colourful Five Per Cent Illustrated .
• Pets to be blessed Sunday The Whitehorse United Church will be celebrating the blessing of the animals again at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the sanctuary.
• ‘What a crazy, unbelievable find’ “Something looking at me,” miner Travis Delawski recalled Wednesday as he talked about the June 21 discovery of a nearly fully-preserved wooly mammoth calf on Eureka Creek.
• Vehicles Tangle These two vehicles collided at the intersection of Two Mile Hill and the Alaska Highway at about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
• Metals prices are dropping The prices for gold and silver have fallen noticeably in recent times, as has the price of copper.
• Chief MD out to build a public health consciousness This new medical boss might not be the same as the old medical boss.
• Deputy Justice minister named to territorial court Longtime Yukoner John Phelps has been appointed as a territorial court judge. He is the great grandson of the first-ever lawyer to settle in Whitehorse.
• COVID-19 dashboard receiving fewer updates While cases of COVID-19 continue to mount in the Yukon, the territorial government has announced plans to transition to handle the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

July 14, 2022

• Quarry hearing drew no input There were no oral nor written submissions at city council’s public hearing Monday into a proposed zoning amendment to allow for a quarry on a piece of land in the Mount Sima area.
• Collision injured motorists, closed highway A recent serious collision on the Alaska Highway south of Beaver Creek injured several people and closed the artery for more than two hours.
• Territory closer to a new ombudsman According to a news release issued late Wednesday morning,
• Rain has foiled fires’ growth The growth of wildfires across the Yukon has been minimal given the recent rain, says this morning’s activity report from Yukon Wildland Fire Management.
• Bear was euthanized, Environment Yukon says A black bear captured in Riverdale last Saturday was euthanized, not relocated, Environment Yukon said this week.
• Remaining vaccine mandates for public workers may be lifted The hiring of a new chief medical officer of health for the Yukon is ushering in a new era and a new approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Recruitment for committee is underway City council voted Monday to begin the process of recruiting eight community members to sit on the new inclusivity advisory committee the city is creating.