Whitehorse Daily Star

May 31, 2004

• Attempt to retrieve climber's body fruitless A pair of climbing partners could only watch last weekend as the third member of their group plunged 50 metres to his death shortly after reaching the summit of Mt. Logan's east peak.
• RCMP seeing spike in home break-ins A string of break-ins to local homes has the Whitehorse RCMP urging residents to call police if they spot anything unusual.
• Citizen's tip leads to stolen goods' recovery A truckful of stolen goods is in police hands thanks to a sharp-eyed man on the Annie Lake Road.
• Local actor makes the cut A homegrown Whitehorse actor opened on the big screen in town and across North America on Friday in the summer blockbuster thriller, The Day After Tomorrow.
• Sign comes down; owners not giving up Sign, sign, everywhere a sign ... except by the Superstore.
• Conservatives pick candidate The latest entrant into the race to become the Yukon's next MP decried the current Member of Parliament for not being a man of his word.
• MP refutes claims The Yukon's MP feels he did the right thing in a vote on the gun registry more than a year ago despite comments from the Conservative candidate.
• Yukoner's musical career gathering steam Yukoner Alex Murdoch is making great strides toward musical success, having wrapped up production on his first-ever music video.
• Mayor has ideas for pending windfall Mayor Ernie Bourassa is waiting until the cash is here to believe municipalities across the country will receive a share of the national gasoline tax.
• Program will simplify rental rates system A new territorial Highways and Public Works program will enhance the long-standing third party equipment rental rates system.
• Adapt to challenges, Vanier grads urged Graduation was a time for Vanier Catholic Secondary School students to recall pranks of years past.

May 30, 2004

• THE DALTON TRAIL Visitors to the Yukon and Alaska are always interested in the history of the areas through which they travel. One of these is the route traversed by the Haines Highway, which follows to some extent 'The Dalton Trail' of gold rush days - 159 miles from tidewater at Haines, Alaska, to Haines Junction. Mile 1016 on the Alaska Highway in Yukon Territory.

May 28, 2004

• MAD performance was well-received in Ontario Not all school plays have a budget of more than $50,000, but that's how much it might cost for the Wood Street Centre's latest production óWizards.
• M&M Meat Shops sets donation record M&M Meat Shops, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada and Whitehorse franchise operators Kim Farrow and Jerry Quaile presented Robyn Friesen, the foundation's local representative, with a cheque for $2,560.00 recently.
• Local event will make canine show history There is a sub-culture in our society and it has existed for much of humanity's history.
• Author Rachel Manley is haunted by the ghosts of a Jamaican childhood Rachel Manley grew up with her grandparents, Norman and Edna Manley, in Jamaica, surrounded by the ferment of politics and art that had to be the result of such an upbringing.
• Yukon Volunteer Bureau continues to flourish As of April 1, 2004, the Yukon Volunteer Bureau has been standing on its own two feet.
• Sharp appeals dangerous offender tag A Yukon Supreme Court judge failed to consider the lone Yukon dangerous offender's remorse and willingness to change when he handed the man a jail term with no end, defence counsel argued this week.
• City drinks to glasses request The city will be forking over $1,728 to the Whitehorse RCMP for their regimental dinner next month.
• Driver hurt after truck rolls over A local woman is facing a medivac to an Outside hospital after her truck rolled Thursday on the Alaska Highway north of Whitehorse.
• Bus rides to be free Wednesday The City of Whitehorse is urging commuters to take the bus for at least one day this year.
• Culinary cornerstone fades to history After a quarter of a century, the sign on the No Pop Sandwich Shop came down last week.
• Housing market rarely better, realtor says The vice-president of the Yukon Real Estate Association won't say the Whitehorse housing market is hot.
• Summit hears bridge update Discussions are continuing on involving the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation as the territorial government continues to work on plans to build a bridge across the Yukon River in Dawson City.
• Bridge work complaints taken seriously' The Yukon government will finally have an inspector at the Teslin River Bridge on Tuesday after receiving a letter from the Teslin Tlingit Council (TTC) about the repair work to the bridge, says cabinet spokesman Peter Carr.
• Women's centre marks 30 years of achievements Thirty years ago, the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre was seen as a force that could tear families apart.
• Election delays potential labour disruption Parks Canada workers have voted to strike if deemed necessary.
• German chums start river book project A chance meeting for Nils Bohn and Christian Breier led to a joint photo book venture and the start of a trip of a lifetime down the Yukon River to the Bering Sea.
• Council awards parks master plan contract Inukshuk Planning and Developing will be leading the work on parks and recreation master plan after Tuesday evening's city council meeting.
• Fourteen rural roads on improvement list A total of $430,000 from this year's $750,000-budget for the Yukon Rural Roads Upgrading Program will be invested in 14 projects this summer.
• City arranges snow-clearing safety net' Snow clearing could be getting a little easier for the city.
• Council adopts strategic plan City council has its direction for the rest of the term after adopting its strategic plan Tuesday night.
• City permits lot subdivision A Porter Creek property has received the city's go-ahead to become two lots instead of one.
• Dawson scraps arbitration ruling appeal DAWSON CITY The City of Dawson has dropped plans to appeal the arbitration ruling into its dispute with TSL Contractors Ltd. over the construction of the recreation centre.
• Dawson trustee seeking advisors DAWSON CITY The territorial government trustee in charge of the City of Dawson would like to wind down his appointment as early as January 2005, but is now thinking his plans might be a bit ambitious.