Whitehorse Daily Star

April 4, 2004

• 1958 Takhini Fire With black smoke hanging over the Yukon valley like a dark conscience, forestry men continued to battle the flames that are tearing the heart from tinder dry woods

April 3, 2004

• 1984 - FIRST YUKON QUEST After months of hoping and planning. 26 dog teams charged out of the starting gate in Fairbanks for the first run of the Yukon Quest on February 25, 1984.

April 2, 2004

• Naive, immature' bank teller sentenced A bank teller caught skimming thousands of dollars in cash off a client's account falls more under the naive category than the truly criminal, the chief territorial court judge said this morning.
• Woman scares off intruder A woman visiting her parents' Riverdale home scared off a would-be intruder Thursday morning.
• Shelter wants to hear from dogs' owner Mae Bachur Animal Shelter staff were greeted by a depressingly familiar sight when they arrived at work last Sunday morning abandoned pets.
• YTG blamed for laboratory's demise A Yukon entrepreneur can't understand why the Yukon Party government shut his business down and took money out of the economy by calling in an unpaid loan after promising it wouldn't.
• Hearing slated for fish farm's plans The Icy Waters Arctic char farm is not trying to hoodwink anybody with its request for a change to its water licence, says company president John Rose.
• YTG seeks better handle on animal diseases The Yukon government is expanding its efforts to monitor and manage the potential spread of animal diseases in the territory, Environment Minister Jim Kenyon said Wednesday.
• Kenyon will unveil game farm data The Environment Minister is willing to release some of the report the government used to establish the price it paid to buy the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.
• Graduates to reunite 25 years later When Linda Steinbach and Debbie Wren worked on organizing their F.H. Collins Secondary School 10-year reunion in 1989, they had to contact people the old-fashioned way snail mail.
• Child benefit boost touted The territory's enriched child benefit will kick in July 1 and help more than 1,000 Yukon families, Health and Social Services Minister Peter Jenkins said Monday.
• Economy lured Staples' interest Signs of economic growth and 'a strong entrepreneurial spirit in the region' prompted the creation of a Staples Business Depot in Whitehorse, the company said today.
• Numerous lessons learned from six-week Challenge After six weeks of intense competition, the winners of The challenge have been announced.
• Council's high noon' set for Tuesday DAWSON CITY Dawson council has no appetite for the difficult choice it faces next week, says Mayor Glen Everitt.
• There's a vampire in here for everyone's taste Before there was Anne Rice there was Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, who took the traditional vampire story and stood the notion on its head by creating le Comte de Saint-Germain.
• Telephone directory cover art competition begins Northwestel Inc. is once again inviting artists to submit artwork they wish to have considered for use on the company's three annual telephone directories.
• Northwestel auction raised almost $3,000 for art gallery A silent auction featuring reproductions of artwork from Northwestel Inc.'s northern art collection has raised nearly $3,000 to benefit the Public Art Gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre.
• Reaching a level of serenity and beauty in life It's been a marvelous couple of weeks.