Whitehorse Daily Star

August 29, 2005

• First nations, groups divide $259,252 Eighteen applicants have received $259,252 in Community Development Fund money for projects in six communities.
• First aid shouldn't be job condition: YTA First aid training should not be mandatory for teachers in the territory, says the president of the Yukon Teachers Association (YTA).
• Rangers called key to northern sovereignty A Conservative government in Ottawa would likely provide money to help move forward the feasibility study of the proposed Alaska-Canada rail link, says Gordon O'Connor, the party's defence critic.
• Smoking bylaw case to be tough, ex-manager says The Capital Hotel may have a tough time beating the rap when it appears in court on charges of breaking the city's smoking bylaw.
• Store fined for selling cigarettes to a minor Herbie's Grocery store has been fined $500 in territorial court after one of its cashiers was caught selling cigarettes to minors.
• UArctic to tap Bagnell for funding help University of the Arctic (UArctic) members will meet with Yukon MP Larry Bagnell this week to ask him to bring their $2.5-million message to the federal cabinet, says Yukon College president Sally Webber.
• Local teen to volunteer in Third World A local teenager is embarking on an eight-month volunteer mission to Tanzania and India.

August 26, 2005

• Caroline Drury is Loving You, Loving Me 'It's very intimate and simple, with roots in jazz, but also has lots of other flavours,' says Caroline Drury, talking about her new album.
• Watch out for the Crow Chronicles, to witness the gathering 'Move in, everyone. If you can't see me, you probably can't hear me either, so move in. Move up the tree, move up the trunk, move closer on the branch.'
• What the world needs now is more art and music: writer DAWSON CITY The world, says Paul McKay, is in a bit of a mess and the arts, especially music, may be the best way to fix it.
• In celebration of golden words, of all categories DAWSON CITY It's easy to see why people think there must be something special about Dawson City. There are so many thousands of words that say so: adventurous words, plain words, descriptive words, poetic words.
• Gas prices may fuel bus ridership boost The gas-price wallet pinch Whitehorse motorists are feeling at the pump could be good news for the city's transit system, Whitehorse Transit manager Dave Muir said recently.
• Airline, teen sound different notes over guitar Air Canada will be in court next month answering a small claims charge filed by a local teen, who says he won't be pushed around by Canada's largest airline.
• Rollover kills Whitehorse contractor south of Dawson A well-known Whitehorse contractor died in a roll-over Thursday evening on the Klondike Highway outside of Dawson City.
• City's stance on program irks local property owner City council's reasons for delaying a decision that would provide the city's country residential taxpayers with access to a 'basic service' are 'obscure', says Bill Barnie, a Pineridge resident and local business owner.
• YTG stands firm on well program The Yukon government will not accept changes to its well-drilling program proposed by the Association of Yukon Communities (AYC), says a Department of Community Services spokesperson.
• Past Yukon prospectors identified The accompanying old photograph is of two well-known and respected prospectors.
• Major education reform plan unveiled The territorial government and the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) have announced a two-year process to look at reforming the education system.
• Quest eyes slate of 50 mushers as '06 race looms With the starting day of the Yukon Quest drawing nearer, the race's management is slowly creeping toward their 'constant goal' of having a full slate of 50 racers ready for the starting date of Feb. 11, 2006.
• Kathleen Lake spruce-up planned Volunteers are needed to remove debris from Kathleen Lake in southwest Yukon on Saturday, Sept. 10.
• Sentencing put off for man who killed cabbie The sentencing of a man who killed a cab driver last summer has been postponed by almost two months.
• Rowdy behaviour prompts locked gate A dirt road that skirts the west edge of Schwatka Lake has been put under lock-and-key to protect the area from partyers who throw garbage and defecate in the city's watershed area.
• Northwestel pursuing several projects Work is progressing well on Northwestel Inc.'s 2005 capital construction program, the company reported Tuesday.
• What does it feel like to be a butterfly?' I am alone. Emptiness circles around me and settles, creating an unwanted silence.
• Youth takes top writing honour Yukon MP Larry Bagnell congratulated Whitehorse youth Marie Abbott recently for winning first place in the individual writing category of the 2005 butterfly 208 contest for young Canadians.
• Junior Canadian Rangers gather in Whitehorse Junior Canadian Rangers from across the North and across Canada are in Whitehorse to take part in the largest-ever gathering of Junior Canadian Rangers in the North.
• Trolley's policy is simply unfair Have you read the newspaper headlines -ñ'Teens trash trolley'? No, you haven't. It has not happened.

August 25, 2005

• East coast music meets the Gold Rush DAWSON CITY 'Traditional music is very important to us,' fiddler Ward MacDonald told his audience on the evening of Aug. 12 at the D‰nÚja Zho Cultural Centre. 'So we try to play it the way everyone before has played it.
• Counterfeit money circulation tailing off The number of Canadian counterfeit bills is levelling off in 2005 after three years of dramatic increases, according to an analyst with the Bank of Canada visiting Whitehorse this week.
• Challenges dot education transfer talks The legacy of residential schools in the Yukon will have an impact on how the transfer of education programs to self-governing first nations will be negotiated, says Elizabeth Hansen, regional director general for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
• Northern youth staging conference Thirty-two youth from around the Circumpolar North are meeting minds this week at a conference held at the Yukon College in Whitehorse to create the first ever Arctic Council Youth Network.
• Community fixtures to migrate south After 24 years, the Randhawa family is moving away from the Yukon and down to Surrey, B.C., where Grace, 23, Jessica, 21, and Jasmina, 17 attend university.
• Gold Rush-era saw mill and telegraph office celebrated DAWSON CITY The Yukon Saw Mill wasn't the first of the big milling operations to supply the construction boom of 1896-99. That honour went to the operation established by Joe Ladue, who founded Dawson City.