Whitehorse Daily Star

April 7, 2004

• We lost an excellent council person' DAWSON CITY Dawson City's council is one member smaller after last night's regular council meeting.
• CBC, physician settle out of court A radio report about a local doctor's several-year battle after a local girl died of botulism has cost taxpayers money.
• Children's Act website up The Yukon Children's Act revision project website was launched last Thursday and the first seven discussion papers were released.
• Officials hope United Keno will sell A receiver has been appointed to help wrap up the affairs of the abandoned Mount Nansen and United Keno Hill mine sites.
• Highway tender called The initial tender is being called this week on the first of $4.8 million in repairs and upgrades to the Campbell Highway, Highways and Public Works Minister Glenn Hart said Monday.
• Sick game farm animals numbered 12 A government report shows 12 animals on an area game farm were found with a wasting disease more than the minister claimed.
• Outside writers to visit for conference Science and outdoor writers Frank Clifford and Wayne Grady will give a slide show and readings at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre April 20 as part of the 2004 Yukon Writers' Festival.
• Three Northern Sights film competition finalists announced The finalists of the short form documentary and animation competition, Northern Sights, were announced last Friday by Rina Fraticelli, a National Film Board of Canada-Pacific Centre executive producer .
• $6,000 Gold Nugget Found Near City Max Fuerstner considers himself a lucky man, and he has good reason to. Sunday, he pulled one of the largest gold nuggets to be found since the Gold Rush out of his sluice box on Livingstone Creek.

April 6, 2004

• Kids refused health coverage for three months Some baby Yukoners are being denied health cards if the stork dropped them off overseas and not here so the territorial government can save a buck.
• Movie recruiting extras Young fellas and your flashy snowmachines, more over.
• Mountie pleads not guilty after fatal 2003 crash The Mountie charged in a crash that proved fatal for a Tagish woman has pleaded not guilty.
• Councillor dead set against Super A site Permitting the construction of a new Super A supermarket in the Granger subdivision would kill the convenience store next door, says city councillor Yvonne Harris.
• Helpful officer ends up assaulted A Whitehorse police officer nearing the end of his 12-hour night shift received a wake-up call this morning when a man he'd been dispatched to help assaulted him.
• YTG paid $2.06 million for local game farm The Yukon government paid $2.06 million for the Yukon Wildlife Preserve 65 per cent above the lowest value of the game farm.
• Minister mute on court actions Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Archie Lang wasn't commenting this morning on court actions filed late Monday afternoon.
• Unpaid loans won't prompt charges After looking into the Liard First Nation's concerns about $250,000 in unpaid personal loans, the Watson Lake RCMP have decided they won't be laying charges.
• March gave us weather without a true theme The Yukon didn't have a weather theme in March it was warm or cold, dry or wet, depending on where you were.
• GreenHoG handbook shows how to pare greenhouse gases The Energy Solutions Centre has released the new GreenHoG handbook for Yukon householders who want to take action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and save money.
• Bridge competition drew 218 builders Last Saturday's 11th annual bridge building competition saw 148 bridges erected by 218 builders from 13 schools.
• FIRST AIRCRAFT AUG. 16, 1920. For a history of aviation in the Yukon Territory we have to go back to June, 1920, when Capt. H.T. Douglas of the U.S. Air Force and Capt. H.A. Leroyer of the Canadian Air Board arrived in Whitehorse to talk over a proposed international aeroplane flight from Mineola, N.Y. to Nome Alaska.

April 5, 2004

• We need a change,' says NDP candidate A long-time NDP organizer now has the party's blessing to put her name on a ballot.
• Premier spent $35,872 for travel outside Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie's jaunts around and outside of the Yukon cost taxpayers more than $87,000 in the last fiscal year.
• Crane with forklift tines hits pedestrian A collision between a pedestrian and a crane fitted with forklift tines has left a local woman in hospital in stable condition.
• Low Shakwak bid conforms to estimate The low bid on the first Shakwak highway contract of the year was about what the Yukon government expected to pay for the work.
• Atlin phones working again Long distance and emergency telephone service, as well as dial-up Internet service, was restored to Atlin Friday afternoon almost two days after it went dead.
• Dawson arena can be used again DAWSON CITY The Vancouver structural engineering firm of Fast and Epp says Dawson's arena may be used on a temporary basis without any danger.
• Young man admits guilt to 15 charges A young man who drove 160 kilometres per hour to escape pursuing Mounties is in no hurry to be sentenced.
• R.W. SERVICE: Bard of the Yukon Robert W. Service, a young Englishman with a soft Scottish accent, was probably more responsible for making the Yukon known around the world than any other writer. His books of poems, particularly 'The Songs of a Sourdough' are still steady sellers across the country and especially in the north.