Whitehorse Daily Star

February 17, 2005

• Marsh Lakers get fire truck Community Services Minister Glenn Hart and staff from the protective services branch delivered a new, state-of-the-art fire truck to the Marsh Lake Fire Department on Wednesday.
• Banned from the wheel for life, man jailed again A man who was given a lifetime ban from driving more than two decades ago was sent to jail Wednesday for being behind the wheel without a licence for the 12th and 13th times.
• Yukoners celebrate historic Kyoto protocol The world is at the beginning steps of a revolution, believes Ed Schultz, the grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations.
• Final Quebecer scratches from Quest DAWSON CITY Quebecer Marcelle Fressineau became the third musher to quit the Yukon Quest today, which means there are no more teams representing that province.
• Musher mines gold in Dawson City DAWSON CITY A Quest veteran has found his pot of gold gold nuggets, to be more specific.
• Musher can turn outcasts into shining trail stars PELLY CROSSING Mushers spend years breeding the fastest, strongest dogs for the Yukon Quest, but only one has the courage to work with the rarest type of sled dog: the discarded.
• MLA plans meeting NDP Leader Todd Hardy will host a public meeting this Tuesday evening to update residents on initiatives to address concerns with drug use and trafficking downtown.
• Musher struggles on with half her team PELLY CROSSING It was 'devastating' to have to drop almost half her dog team, says Yukon Quest musher Kelley Griffin.
• Ex-MP named to national body A former Yukon MP has been named to a national committee by Prime Minister Paul Martin.
• Dawson waiting for report from auditor DAWSON CITY The auditor has left the building, but the report has not yet arrived, and trustee Ray Hayes doesn't know just when it will. The future of any potential elected town council in Dawson rests on its outcome.
• Pendereck Quartet brings a classical touch to school DAWSON CITY The Penderecki String Quartet provided an introduction to chamber music for strings to the students at Robert Service School on Wednesday.
• STRANGE AND FUNNY TIDBITS FROM THE '99 QUEST TRAIL John Schandelmeier joked during the mushers' banquet in Fairbanks before the Yukon Quest that he'd be carrying medical gear on top of his sled.

February 16, 2005

• More Yukon lynx headed for Colorado Colorado is again looking to the Yukon for support in its effort to raise the state's lynx population from the dead.
• Accident victim grateful for help The Atlin, B.C. man who spent two weeks in hospital after a head-on collision near Marsh Lake wants to extend his thanks to those who freed him from his pickup truck and kept him warm.
• Family can remain One of the refugee families who have been staying in Whitehorse was granted the right to remain Tuesday.
• Secondary line kept dogs lashed to sled MCCABE CREEK Whitehorse-area musher Frank Turner could have lost all his dogs Tuesday after the lines that attach the animals to his sled were mysteriously severed.
• Quebec musher scratches from race MCCABE CREEK A Quebec musher has quit the Yukon Quest, just three days into the race.
• Quest a really special race': frontrunner PELLY CROSSING Kasilof, Alaska musher Jon Little was the first Yukon Quest musher to take off toward Dawson City on Tuesday, leaving Pelly Crossing at 4:47 p.m.
• They won't run,' says sidelined musher PELLY CROSSING Quebec musher Martin Massicotte became the second person to quit the Yukon Quest today.
• Driver free after court rejects breath readings An RCMP foul-up has led to a charge of drinking and driving being dropped against a 47-year-old man.
• Yukon students visited Quebec Vanier Catholic Secondary School students have made a language and cultural exchange to Quebec City, through the YMCA National Exchange Program.
• For the births of U.S. kids, we can no longer deliver SKAGWAY One of the most difficult aspects of living in Skagway is its isolation.
• Fairbanks couple uses race to send a charming message The Yukon Quest runs along an old mail route, so it's only appropriate that mushers carry a small bundle of mail with them.

February 15, 2005

• Subdivision approved as critics look on The proposed Whitehorse Copper subdivision may have zoning approval from the city.
• Rendezvous & Main Street in business partnership A new $3 'rocks' button designed by Chris Caldwell is being used as a fundraiser for the upcoming Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous.
• Group loses bid for forestry land The Yukon Agricultural Association's application for land inside the forest research area has been denied by the Yukon land application review committee.
• Willomitzer becomes first Quest musher into Pelly CARMACKS Whitehorse area musher Gerry Willomitzer took the lead of the 22nd edition of the Yukon Quest with his arrival this morning in Pelly Crossing.
• Aerial search tracks down missing Quest 300 musher CARMACKS An aircraft was needed to locate a lost musher involved in the Yukon Quest 300.
• Musher is literally his own man on the trail Whitehorse-area musher Gerry Willomitzer is a busy man.
• Ferry service assurance issued The Yukon government will take 'every appropriate action' to ensure the timely movement of people and goods across the Yukon River at Dawson City this summer season.
• Judge will review accused's medical records Crown prosecutors will likely get to see medical records of a woman accused of killing her baby but not until the judge has taken a look at them first.
• Plans laid to house 3,600 athletes, coaches New housing for seniors and college students with families is part of the multimillion-dollar plan for construction of the athletes' village for the 2007 Canada Winter Games.
• FASD program greeted positively With three assessments having been done through the Yukon Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnostic and support team, there seems to be a good reaction to the program.
• RAISING PUPPIES The Van Bibbers were born and raised in the wilderness around Pelly Crossing long before it became the community site for the Northern Tutchone Selkirk First Nation. Dogs were a way of life for the family.