Whitehorse Daily Star

February 3, 2006

• Review Swordplay by David Belke pushes the boundaries of absurdity At long last, the Whitehorse arts community presents a play which is supposed to be bad.
• Bookends How a murderer helped create the Oxford English Dictionary Imagine when there was no such thing as a dictionary.
• Artist Colin Flanagan works with copper and heat at retreat CRAG LAKE Using fire as a brush and copper plate as a canvas with heat as the palette, Colin Flanagan is developing a new art form at the Ted Harrison Artist's Retreat.
• Robbie Burns and Robert W. Service celebrated with food and verse DAWSON CITY Robert W. Service was a great fan of Robbie Burns, and even credited him, in one of his poems, with having had a considerable influence on his own career.
• The Colourful Five Per Centô Located at the North Fork Power Plant? The above photograph was taken at the North or South Fork of the Klondike River, I believe.
• Lake is no game sanctuary: YTG In what appears to be the end of the line for an argument by local residents, it has been determined that McLean Lake is not a game sanctuary.
• First nation still threatens court action Flanked by a battery of support, Chief Ruth Massie reiterated her challenge to the Yukon government Thursday: halt the process for a Shallow Bay agriculture property or face legal action.
• Woman succumbs to injuries A 23-year-old woman who was in a major car crash on Range Road last month died in Edmonton on Wednesday.
• Musician steps into breach after fiddle is crushed It's thanks to a local musician that Manitoba fiddling sensation Sierra Noble will perform at the Skookum Jim Folklore show on Saturday evening.
• River level up substantially Ice is being blamed as part of the reason for the significant increase in Yukon River water levels downtown near the Robert Campbell Bridge.
• Western store lopes off into sunset Richard Jensen's career has taken him and his wife from furniture to hauling hay and feed to selling a slew of Western products at Jensen's Western Store on Black Street.
• Film festival to screen Big White The locally-shot big-screen film, Big White, is coming soon to a film festival near you.
• School's opening delayed Carmacks students won't be heading off to a new school in September after all.
• Family appeals for return of missing holiday photos A Whitehorse family has issued a missing photos bulletin after a local picture developer replaced their Scandinavian vacation pictures with ones from a senior citizens' golf tournament.
• Berton may be honoured with museum A Yukon son could soon be honoured with a museum in Vaughn, Ont. However, it remains unknown just how much of Pierre Berton's Yukon life could be part of the proposed centre.
• Cinematic trailer sought from young people The Yukon International Film Festival wants Yukon young people to take their best shot at creating a cinematic trailer for the upcoming festival.
• Garbage-burning a definite hazard, conservationist says The Yukon government's practice of burning household garbage releases dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere and is a fire hazard.
• Rangers take more duties The Canadian Rangers are slated to take on more responsibility during search and rescue efforts, the Department of National Defence said recently.
• Commissioner presents four keys to wisdom DAWSON CITY Commissioner Geraldine Van Bibber was keynote speaker at a recent community dinner for high school students and their parents, sponsored jointly by the Tr'ond'k Hw'ch'in First Nation and the Robert Service School.

February 2, 2006

• Green space petition reaches objective In what is sure to prove interesting, the city could be heading for a greenbelt referendum this summer.
• Grits will defend their values: Bagnell The elected Liberal members of Parliament are going to go into the House of Commons and continue to reflect the party's values of tolerance, diversity and maintaining a social safety net, says Yukon MP Larry Bagnell.
• Suspects sought after armed robbery at the Airline Inn Thieves made off with some cash from the convenience store at the Airline Inn early Tuesday morning.
• Weather review found a balmy 2005 Whitehorse saw 10 months with above normal temperatures in 2005, reports Bill Miller of the Meteorological Services of Canada's local office.
• Meth peddlers called mass-murderers' 'Don't tell me crystal meth is not in Whitehorse. It's here.'
• On crystal meth? Expect to live seven years Cherylee Highway has been teaching addiction counselling at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies for a number of years.
• Justice sides with WCB appeal body The territorial workers' compensation board has been denied its attempt to have a judge clip the wings of the appeal tribunal that has final say over matters involving injured workers.
• City lauded for its fiscal stewardship The City of Whitehorse has been recognized as a Canadian leader in financial transparency and accountability.
• TransNorth Blaze For many Whitehorse residents who lived here six years ago, last night's fiery destruction of Hangar C at the Whitehorse airport awakened memories of the 1993 inferno that destroyed nearby Hangar B.
• TransNorth Blaze HISTORY Hangar C, destroyed by fire last night, was the last one of three hangars built during the Second World War. They were a part of the Northwest Staging Route to ferry aircraft from the lower United States and Canada to Russia.

February 1, 2006

• Website advocated Tory-Bloc coalition Early this week, the official Yukon Party website published an endorsement of a Conservative-Bloc Quebecois coalition in the House of Commons.
• Corrine Cyr remembered as a pioneer Corrine Cyr had always said there are two kinds of people: those who want to live in the Yukon and those who live in the Yukon.
• Ta'an issues court challenge to YTG Premier Dennis Fentie and the Yukon Party government are souring the relationship with the Ta'an Kwachan Council, says Ta'an Chief Ruth Massie.
• Four-week trial set for two accused Four weeks have been set aside in Yukon Supreme Court for the trial of Mark Lange and Dean Boucher, who are facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Robert Olson.
• Ex-deputy chief will find lawyer The former deputy chief of the Champagne-Aishihik First Nation has been given until Feb. 14 to get a lawyer.
• Group to help those living in poverty A new peer-support group for Yukoners living in poverty will have its first meeting this month.
• Council approves this year's budget City council has passed its 2006 annual budget.
• BYTE conference was a big success Bringing Youth Towards Equality (BYTE) was all about bringing youth together last weekend as it hosted its annual youth conference.
• Two councillors' travel plans authorized City council approved travel expenses for one councillor to travel to British Columbia and another to go to Europe.