Whitehorse Daily Star

February 9, 2004

• Teachers donate to shelters For the past few years, the Yukon Teacher's Association has taken on some sort of activity as part of the White Ribbon Campaign against violence toward women.
• Liberals spurn leadership vote Liberal Leader Pat Duncan isn't going anywhere except back to her office.
• Film crew has equipment stolen A French film crew making a movie about a Yukon fur trapper is missing electronic equipment following a break-in to its office.
• Average Yukoner earned more than $42,000 in 2002 The average Yukoner was making more than $42,000 a year in 2002. The Yukon Bureau of Statistics recently released the total wages earned by Yukoners in 2002.
• Snow grader takes a tumble DAWSON CITY It's hard to say exactly what happened here.
• Brother Soucy dies after falling from ladder A religious brother of more than six decades' service died yesterday while cleaning up after the Sacred Heart Cathedral's weekend soup kitchen.
• CYFN to weigh structural changes The Council of Yukon First Nations is looking to change itself again. Grand Chief Ed Schultz said Friday he tabled, with CYFN's 11 chiefs during a private meeting last week, a plan to begin reviewing the group's constitution and its structure.
• Young Quester looks for top-10 finish With two decades' worth of mushing experience, 21-year-old Kyla Boivin is hoping to place in the top 10 when she competes in her third Yukon Quest sled dog race later this month.

February 6, 2004

• Survey bites notion of higher dog limit The city's dog limit for each household could rise to three, says Mayor Ernie Bourassa.
• Liberal leader faces test Members of the Yukon Liberal Party will vote on whether they still want Pat Duncan to lead them.
• Teenager still can't go home A teenager released by the courts two weeks ago with nowhere to live will have to wait at least another six weeks before he can go home.
• Teen vandal sentenced A 14-year-old boy won't be going out anytime soon after breaking into a storage tent and trashing four antique vehicles in December.
• RCMP officers get their men Two young men learned the hard way that beat cops are in pretty good shape.
• Mother can't find help for disabled son Janice Ward has had to make decisions no mother should ever be called upon to make.
• YEC hopes disputes won't trigger suits The president of the construction company that built the Mayo-Dawson City hydro line hopes there will be no lawsuits coming out of the project.
• Bids open on Shakwak project The first tender for what will be close to $17 million worth of work on the Alaska Highway will be issued this week as part of the Shakwak Agreement between Canada and the United States, Highways and Public Works Minister Glenn Hart announced Thursday afternoon.
• Kennel cough closes shelter A doggie cold has closed the Humane Society Yukon's animal shelter until at least next Wednesday.
• Ex-handler back in Quest as musher And she's back ....
• Zip challenge takes flight Zip has become the major sponsor of the first Zip Snow Sculpture Challenge to take place during this month's Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous festival, the City of Whitehorse announced recently.
• Kenyon takes bait for angling changes Environment Minister Jim Kenyon has agreed with a recommendation to reduce the maximum size of trout, pike and Arctic grayling anglers are allowed to keep.
• Janitor saves the day A Vanier Catholic Secondary School janitor saved the photography department's equipment from being pilfered Thursday.
• Bridge debate spans many opinions DAWSON CITY If a building can feel emotion, Dawson's town council chambers were probably still in a state of shock Thursday morning, after the previous evening's Bridge Awareness Campaign meeting.
• Dawsonites to help Russians with governing DAWSON CITY Mayor Glen Everitt and town manager Scott Coulson may have had their business travel budgets gutted by recommendations from Andre Carrel, Dawson's financial supervisor.
• Veteran musher Kleedehn is out to win Yukon Quest William Kleedehn has a goal for the Yukon Quest. 'I want to win the race,' he said in an interview last week.

February 5, 2004

• Jason Small If this was the Northwest Territories, taxpayers would know nothing about the government debts of two cabinet ministers.
• CPAWS official leaves his post After 14 years heading the local chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Juri Peepre is stepping back.
• We're very sorry that that happened' Personal information about 150 to 200 Yukoners on probation is now out in the public and the territorial government doesn't know where it has gone.
• Officer's fate remains unknown An Outside prosecutor has finished a review to determine whether a police officer will be charged in a prisoner's death, but the Yukon RCMP won't be making any announcements until they've clarified a few things.
• Damage from jail bedlam estimated at $52,000 Jail riots don't come cheap. The preliminary estimate of the cost to repair damage done during an eight-man riot at Whitehorse Correctional Centre has run to nearly $52,000.
• NDP welcomes spending but demands budget A total of $166,000 is flowing into the Watson Lake area for training and employment opportunities in forest fuel reduction in the southeast Yukon community.
• Poster challenge up and running Helene Chalifour Scherrer, the federal minister of Canadian Heritage, has invited students from the Yukon to participate in the Canada Day Poster Challenge 2004.
• Dawson continues compliance with supervisor's report DAWSON CITY It might have been called Bylaw Night or Carrel Compliance Night at Dawson's council meeting Tuesday.
• Yukon Historic Resources Fund invites applications The first call for applications to the Yukon Historic Resources Fund has been issued, Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor said Tuesday.
• Second life breathed into municipal budget Whitehorse city council will consider the 2004 budget once again at its meeting next Monday night.