Whitehorse Daily Star

June 14, 2005

• Power is at citizens' fingertips: Ralston Saul The state of the world is in a 'vacuum' and it is now time for the global citizenship to acknowledge the end of globalization and to work at reinventing itself, says John Ralston Saul, an author and the husband of Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson.
• Details of murder scene are described in court The man who murdered a 5th Avenue taxi driver a year ago called and specifically requested that driver pick him up for the deadly fare, says an agreed statement of facts filed Monday with the courts.
• Hot springs' expansion includes retreat centre Walking along the new boardwalk of the retreat centre at the Takhini Hot Springs, Garry Umbrich, a director on the facility's board, shows off the 11 cabins being built to open in four to five weeks.
• Unemployment rate down slightly According to May's unadjusted employment figures, the territory's unemployment rate is continuing to slowly drop.
• Warrant out for man Whitehorse RCMP are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of Tyrell Sidney to contact the detachment or call Crime Stoppers.
• Filmmakers' work to be screened in Toronto Mother's Day, a short film by Rachel Grantham and Richard Lawrence of Whitehorse, is in Toronto this week to be screened at the Worldwide Short Film Festival.
• 'TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE TRAGEDY' As Hangar C burned to the ground last night at the Whitehorse airport, Al Kapty, the co-founder of Trans North Helicopters, trembled as he drove up Robert Service Way.

June 13, 2005

• Goods found; quartet charged More than $50,000 in stolen goods were seized Thursday from a Whitehorse-area home.
• Governor General to attend ceremony Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson will arrive in Whitehorse today and will be presiding over a citizenship ceremony tomorrow at the Yukon government administration building.
• City hopes to take over multiplex in July Construction on the Jeux du Canada Games Centre isn't finished, but Bernie Van Hoft, supervisor of the sports centre, is already thinking about what will be added after the site has been opened for a year or two.
• Victim's father also perished in an avalanche FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) The father of an Alberta woman who perished May 31 in an avalanche on Mount Logan also died in a snowslide.
• MP to leave bachelors' ranks DAWSON CITY An ecstatic Larry Bagnell announced his engagement at the annual Commissioner's Ball here on Saturday night.
• Firefighters tackle Dawson-area blaze Forest firefighters supported by the DC-6 retardant bomber took action on a fire Saturday at Deadwood Creek near Dawson City.
• Dawson budget is worth $4.2 M DAWSON CITY Dawsonites can expect some increases in fees and reductions in subsidies as a result of the 2005 budget.
• Annual dog jog generates $2,500 Approximately 70 feet and wheels and a lot more paws marched along the Millennium Trail on Sunday for the Humane Society Yukon's annual dog jog.
• Cable enjoys last hurrah in Dawson DAWSON CITY Prayers for good weather may have worked for the Commissioner's Tea on Saturday.

June 12, 2005

• NO MORE FREE LUNCH FOR HUNGRY PIGEONS Do you feel lucky, Pigeon?