Whitehorse Daily Star

May 7, 2004

• Yukon Teachers' Association honours departing members A large number of teachers are retiring at the end of this year. Nineteen of the 25 were able to attend the retirement and awards celebration held at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel last Friday evening.
• Whitehorse Junior Concert Band to host Delta, B.C. musicans The Whitehorse Junior Concert Band, made up of Grades 9/10 students from F.H. Collins and Porter Creek Secondary School, will welcome a group of 32 musicians from Burnsview Junior Secondary in Delta, B.C., Monday for a seven-day exchange.
• Visiting Australian delegation is guest of Whitehorse Rotarians The Whitehorse and Rendezvous Rotary Clubs of Whitehorse are hosting a visiting delegation from Australia this week. The guests arrived Tuesday from Fairbanks and will leave May 11.
• Scenes and conversations along the riverbank DAWSON CITY I was walking along the Dawson dike on Tuesday afternoon with my English 10 class in search of sensory details to write about later on.
• Whatever happened to all the Neanderthals? While the publisher had deliberately removed this book from its Del Rey science fiction imprint and labelled it simply 'fiction' on the spine, this is a science fiction novel.
• YTG partly responsible for Dawson's mess Carrel While it was Dawson City's debt which helped lead to the mayor and council being fired, the former supervisor recommends the territorial government should pay most of that off.
• Spring grants set The city could be doling out more than $66,000 to various groups for recreation this spring.
• Roadhouse checks out of inn business The Roadhouse Inn on Second Avenue has closed its doors for good, throwing approximately 13 people out of work.
• Gang of eight' pared in half And then they were four.
• Fishing Branch management plan signed off A management plan was signed off this morning for the Fishing Branch Wilderness Preserve and Habitat Protection Area.
• Territory's jobless rates continue tumbling act The Yukon continues with its record-low unemployment rates.
• Soaring gas prices: It's absolutely terrible' The Yukon government is ready to meet with other territories and provinces to talk about how they can work with the federal government on a pricing policy for gasoline.
• Indian Affairs must go: Fontaine Blunt in his message to Yukon aboriginal leaders this week was national Chief Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations.
• Water metering interests councillor A water and sewer study suggests the city should look at metering water, a move at least one councillor supports.
• Watson Lake answers a shrieking alarm This is the first in a series about a momentous year for Watson Lake, as it morphed from a sleepy 1,550-person burgh labelled nationally as crime-ridden to a town staring down its problems and tackling them as a community.
• Areas touted as world heritage sites The Klondike, along with Herschel Island and Ivvaik and Vuntut national parks, may soon be listed as world heritage sites.
• April offered a 67-degree variance in high and low As hard as it is for me to believe, April 2004 turned out to be a pretty decent month.
• After 59 years' service, bridge receives upgrading The 59-year-old Teslin River Bridge in the south Yukon is undergoing the second phase of a $4.8-million rehabilitation.
• Transit union, city to talk about new contract deal The city's transit union, Local YO22 of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, will soon be negotiating a new deal with the city.
• College cooks up deal with NAIT Yukon College culinary arts grads can now complete their second year at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).
• More charges laid after man assaulted A second person has been charged in connection with a case that saw a local man hit his head on the pavement, sending him to a Vancouver hospital with a serious head injury.

May 6, 2004

• Yukon Party sought a feel-good' motion The legislature unanimously passed a motion Wednesday on the 25th anniversary of the Dempster Highway.
• House was ready, waiting Despite what the Community Services Minister said earlier this week, the town manager's house in Dawson City was not being renovated.
• Job crew' adding to life's comforts Elders and others waiting at the bus stop on McIntyre Drive next to the Kwanlin Dun First Nation housing building will now have a place to sit and be sheltered from the elements.
• Visit leads to cocaine find RCMP officers who arrived at a local hotel to chat up a man who lived there ended the trip by putting cocaine in exhibit bags.
• Think of emergencies, Hart urges Community Services Minister Glenn Hart is urging all Yukoners to think about individual emergency preparedness this week, Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada.
• Multiplex committee members proposed Up to 10 people could decide which artwork will be displayed in the new multiplex sports centre.
• Artwork donated for Run For Mom Through the Berry Patch, an original piece of art by Yukon artist Nathalie Parenteau, graces the front of the 2004 Run for Mom T-shirt.
• CMHA not marking Mental Health Week A lack of territorial funding is the reason no events were planned for Mental Health Week, says Dudley Morgan, the local chair of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).
• CP Air pilot One of the more unusual air rescue stories in the Yukon took place on November 7, 1971 when a CP Air jet shepherded a small Cessna to safety at Whitehorse airport.

May 5, 2004

• Chief faces charges under Wildlife Act A Yukon first nation chief is facing territorial charges following a bison hunt in February.
• Walkout may dry up domestic suds There may be tears, but they likely won't be in Molson or Labatt beers in the territory.
• Sister was like a mom to victim The last time Lucette Lemaire saw her youngest brother, it was at a family reunion for their parents' 50th wedding anniversary, some 12 to 15 years ago.
• New foals need names Under the B óneigh.
• Genetically-engineered wheat a crumby concept, council says Many people have heard of a sit-in, but few have probably heard of a bread-in, which is what happened at the Alpine Bakery on Tuesday.
• Season's first fire hit Carmacks The Yukon's first brush fire of the 2004 season was doused through a combined effort of the Carmacks Volunteer Fire Department and Yukon Wildland Fire Management.
• Trail bike stolen; car's items swiped A home near the McCrae subdivision is down one dirt bike.
• Jenkins painted as hypocrite on welfare remarks The NDP leader doesn't think a cabinet minister who owes taxpayers more than $275,000 should be attacking anyone for abusing government assistance.
• Conservative field likely final for a spring election The prime minister may help decide who will run for the Conservatives in the Yukon.
• Gathering RVs a sign of spring The tourism season is drawing closer and RVs are beginning to park at the Wal-Mart store at the bottom of Two Mile Hill.
• Bed and breakfast rules may change A change in the city's definition of bed and breakfast has some Whitehorse residents asking how the city would enforce any new regulations that come with the definition.
• Northern premiers plan summit Health care will top the agenda as the premiers of Canada's three territories meet in Whitehorse this weekend.
• Porter Creek under increasing scrutiny Intensive monitoring of Porter Creek is needed, says a retired science teacher who has had extensive involvement with the watershed.
• Teachers to lobby for child advocate Yukon teachers will be pushing for a child advocate to be established in the territory.