Whitehorse Daily Star

April 15, 2004

• Year two of recovery underway Twenty-nine of 30 pregnant caribou cows captured from the Chisana herd last week will remain in protective pens until after their calves are strong enough to evade predation.
• City councillor moves up to association president A month before its annual general meeting, the Association of Yukon Communities has found itself with a new president.
• Burglars strike two homes Two Whitehorse homes suffered break-ins during broad daylight Wednesday.
• Students set for French conference Yukon high school students will join others nation-wide this coming Tuesday in the French for the Future conference.
• Dawson's new rulers pelted with questions DAWSON CITY The simple reason why Dawson's town council was replaced Tuesday was that 'there was more money going out than there was coming in.'
• Inconsistent' council led to dismissal: Hart The Community Services minister admits he tossed out Dawson City's mayor and council because they didn't always play nice with him.
• Fentie plans to scrutinize land claim vote results The premier wants to look at the voting numbers from the Carcross-Tagish First Nation.
• 1959 ROYAL VISIT The Royal Standard fluttered from the flag stays on the White Pass Locomotive diesel engine as Engineer Charlie Rapuzzi eased the Royal Train out of Whitehorse on its short journey to McCrae.

April 14, 2004

• Wayne Grady: I think I have always been a writer' DAWSON CITY For Wayne Grady, this year's invitation to be a guest writer at the 25th annual Young Authors' Conference was a chance to return to the scene of his library and archives writer-in-residence posting of two years ago.
• Booker prize-winning author, Yann Martel, headed to the Yukon DAWSON CITY Yann Martel is nothing if not well-travelled. This son of diplomats was born in Spain in 1963 and his biography notes that he grew up in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Alaska and Canada.
• Super A cleared to build Granger store A 4-2 vote by city council Tuesday to permit a Super A grocery store in Granger could mean closure for Herbie's Grocery, a nearby convenience store on Wilson Drive.
• City approves enriched handy bus service The city will put another $7,884 into its handy bus service.
• Stockdale approved for Haines trip City councillor Dave Stockdale will be heading off to Haines, Alaska later this week.
• Social worker ejected from local home A Porter Creek man is facing charges after a social worker was physically thrown out of a home Tuesday morning.
• It's a sad state of affairs,' Jenkins says Klondike MLA Peter Jenkins is not responding to a request by Dawson City's ex-mayor to do the town a favour and quit.
• Hart to wing his way to troubled town The Community Services minister will be flying up to Dawson City this evening to talk to residents about what happens now after he fired the elected mayor and council.
• Yukoners' opinions sought on off-road vehicles Yukoners are being asked to provide their thoughts on the issue of off-road vehicles and how they affect the territory's wildlife and wilderness areas.
• Define Wilderness City', council told City council was asked last week to provide its interpretation of what is meant by the Whitehorse slogan 'Wilderness City'.
• Old Crow resident faces several charges A Whitehorse man visiting family in Old Crow over the Easter weekend returned home on an RCMP plane under armed escort.

April 13, 2004

• CTFN leaders still want claims process Chief Mark Wedge of the Carcross-Tagish First Nation expects it will take some time to unravel the reasoning behind the first nation's rejection of its land claim package.
• Multi-member melee broken up by Mounties Seven men who discovered it can take more than two to tango are facing charges after a tiff outside a downtown hotel last Saturday evening.
• Old Crow is planning for busy summer Now that equipment and supplies have been moved into and out of Old Crow via a winter road, the village is turning its attention to this summer's construction projects.
• Young Authors' Conference celebrates 25-year milestone DAWSON CITY Twenty-five years ago, 33 students got together at the F.H. Collins Secondary School library in Whitehorse to meet three professional writers and be part of the first Young Authors' Conference.
• It's a bloody takeover,' NDP says Glenn Hart fired Dawson City's mayor and council today. During a press conference this morning, the Community Services minister dropped the axe on the council elected by the people of Dawson City last October.
• Harris wants city's interests looked after City councillor Yvonne Harris wants to know who will guard the city's interest during phase-two construction of the multiplex.
• Groups plan to continue alliance Ed Schultz, the international chair of the Arctic Athabaskan Council, and Pavel Salyandziga, first vice-president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIP0N), met in Whitehorse last month.
• 1955 - WHITEHORSE GAL NAMED MISS CANADA Dalyce Smith (of Whitehorse) last week was named Miss Canada at the annual pageant held this year in connection with centennial celebrations of London, Ontario. Pride of the Yukon, Queen of the Canadian Rockies, she has now been recognized officially from one coast to the other as Queen of them all.