Whitehorse Daily Star

February 12, 2004

• Residents assess the state of downtown A meeting about the city's downtown core Wednesday evening heard that more people living in the area are needed to keep it thriving.
• Californian leading inclusion workshops It doesn't sound like much to ask: a group of Yukoners want to live in their own homes and have decent jobs that pay a decent wage.
• 40 Wann Road won't be considered for rezoning City council gave no second chances Monday evening to an application that would have permitted more housing on Wann Road.
• Local filmmakers receive funding The Yukon Filmmaker's Fund is providing four local filmmakers with a total of $12,500 to develop their projects.
• Fracas breaks out A local man who thought he spotted someone walking down the street with his belongings is now the owner of a sore head, but no stolen items.
• Recycling group receives grant The Raven Recycling Society has received $2,166 from the Shell Environment Fund.
• Major seismic program set to begin A $930,000 seismic program to search for natural gas pockets around Carmacks is scheduled to begin later this month in the middle of the highway.
• Yellowknifer likes our trail conditions Not many dogs have to travel 1,600 kilometres to live up to their name. However, on Saturday, Marcel Marin's canines will have the opportunity to do so as part of the musher's Yukon Quest team.
• Quest has proved to be an addiction, veteran Dawson musher says For some mushers, the Yukon Quest is a competition. For others, it's about the challenge of conquering 1,600 kilometres of trail by dog sled, but Dawson musher Peter Ledwidge calls it an addiction.

February 11, 2004

• People fed up' with Grits, unionist says The first challenger for Larry Bagnell's job has made himself known.
• Witness helps thwart theft of TV set A timely call to the RCMP last night appears to have saved a television set belonging to a downtown senior citizens' home.
• Weather rewrites records books Record temperatures have been set along the Yukon/B.C. border, with new daily high records set at Faro, Environment Canada reports.
• Cantung mine's operator looks to resume trading North American Tungsten has applied to resume trading its stock.
• Handy bus returns to city's outlying areas The city's handy bus is back on the road to country residential areas of Whitehorse after council voted to reinstate the service at Monday night's council meeting.
• Yukon boasts more employed The number of employed Yukoners has gone up for the first time in 18 months.
• KVA contemplates some lean times DAWSON CITY Like many a volunteer organization, the Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) is facing the problem of how to attract the next generation of volunteers.
• Hans Gatt remains the man to beat in the Quest Hans Gatt is the musher to beat in the 2004 Yukon Quest.
• Musher is back after long hiatus It's been seven years since Trevor Braun competed in the Yukon Quest, but the 31-year-old musher says the time has come to enter the 1,600-kilometre sled dog race again.
• Slide show includes spectacular vistas This ain't Uncle Chester's summer vacation slide show.

February 10, 2004

• YTG, CYFN to review education program The Yukon government will talk with the Council of Yukon First Nations on its plan for the native teacher training program after the minister announced changes.
• First nation receives royalties The Kluane First Nation received its first oil and gas Crown royalty cheque for $209,380.84 from the Yukon government last week.
• Budget expected to be later than usual Yukoners may have to wait another month before finding out how the premier plans to spend money in the coming fiscal year.
• Lodges will receive beds The Yukon's $1.8-million share of the $2-billion surplus will support the opening of seven more beds in Macaulay Lodge and 12 new beds at Copper Ridge Place.
• Stehelin lone holdout against budget Coun. Mel Stehelin is standing by his vote against the city's 2004 budget.
• Couple walked 1,500 km in caribous' hooves For five months last year 1,500 kilometres, 300 rolls of film and 50 hours of videotape Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison followed the Porcupine caribou herd on foot.
• RCMP on lookout for man accused of robbery Armed with an arrest warrant, local Mounties are searching for a man accused of robbery, but it's not known how much evidence has been drunk.
• City life forum planned People who live and work in downtown Whitehorse will have an opportunity to discuss priorities for keeping their community safe and vibrant at a public forum Wednesday evening.
• Graham's defenders remain optimistic A group defending a Yukon first nations man accused with the murder of an American Indian Movement member says it's looking at helping appeal his co-accused's guilty verdict.