Whitehorse Daily Star

January 19, 2004

• Alert staff help in arrest of suspect Good attention to detail by staff of a local hotel helped nab a suspected burglar within minutes early Saturday morning.
• Charges laid after home invaded Two young local men are behind bars after a gun-toting home invasion a week ago.
• Village bracing -25 C with no power A frigid Fort McPherson, N.W.T., was without power through most of today while emergency workers searched for generators to replace the community's power plant, which was destroyed by fire early this morning.
• Territory recycles electrical apparatus The Yukon Entrepreneurship Centre Society, which operates the Computers for Schools Program, is sending more than 70 pallets of waste out of the territory for final recycling.
• New born party holds first Yukon meeting The Conservative Party of Canada is up and running in the Yukon. The new right-wing party, born out of a merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party, held its first organizational meeting in the Yukon on Sunday.
• Immigrants will be paid to take course For immigrants who come to Canada because they've heard there are opportunities for skilled workers, it's not always an easy task finding work once they arrive.

January 16, 2004

• Offender ponders March court date After a trial, a lengthy sentencing hearing and other various legal arguments over a two-year period, Thomas Sharp's time in Yukon courts still hasn't ended.
• Snowbank blamed for crash A snowbank left in the middle of the road by street-clearing crews contributed to a crash late Thursday afternoon.
• Parents weigh school canine patrols Though F.H. Collins Secondary School principal Darren Hayes doesn't believe drugs are a big problem at the facility, the school is looking at having the RCMP bring in a drug dog.
• Movie fans' vehicles burglarized Moviegoers got more than just some popcorn and a flick last night when two vehicles were broken into.
• Ottawa seen as impediment to rail project The proposed northern railway is still stalled at the station waiting for Ottawa to send it chugging down the track.
• Judge finds man guilty for second time Earl Atlin has been found guilty, again. Yukon Supreme Court Justice Leigh Gower convicted the 48-year-old this morning after deliberating for a month about evidence from the man's December trial.
• Lost hunter found safely A Whitehorse man separated from his partners when he followed some bison tracks was found this morning after a night spent in frigid temperatures in the Champagne area.
• Fish hatchery's growth debated To Coun. Yvonne Harris, deferring a council vote on telling the Yukon government that council doesn't support the proposed fish hatchery expansion made 'more sense' than dropping the idea entirely. Six other council members, however, disagreed.
• Actors to have strings attached Eric Bass' puppets take centre stage at the Yukon Arts Centre The Yukon Arts Centre will present Eric Bass' Autumn Portraits at 8 p.m. Jan. 29-31.
• Families take on energy-use challenge Ten-year-old Riley Simpson-Fowler and his sister, five-year-old Grace, will be taking in lessons on how to be more energy-efficient next month and into March.
• Whitehorse couple named Mr. and Mrs. Yukon 2004 Bill and Lenore Ford of Whitehorse have been named Mr. and Mrs. Yukon 2004.
• Yukon students to help ignite smoke screening Grades 6 through 12 students in the Yukon will join their counterparts in the N.W.T. and Nunavut during National Non-Smoking Week by participating in smoke screening.
• RV parks issue: third summer of discontent looms RV park owners could be looking forward to another summer of slow business, says city councillor Dave Stockdale.
• Late author Coutts left a legacy of recorded history One man's hobby 30 years ago, sparked by his curiosity about the place names he encountered while prospecting in southwest Yukon and the Cassiar district, eventually resulted in a priceless collection of 1,000 photos, manuscripts, sound recordings of Gold Rush history and 2,800 books and pamphlets.

January 15, 2004

• McKinnon hired to study B.C. electoral reform The Yukon government is going to watch B.C.'s review of how that province elects its MLAs before conducting its own electoral reform.
• Stockdale to epresent city in Vancouver City councillor Dave Stockdale will visit Vancouver at the end of the month. Stockdale will represent the city at the annual miner exploration roundup, known as the Cordilleran Roundup, Jan. 26-29.
• Motorized traffic damaging trails, council told Before city council passes a proposed bylaw governing off-road vehicles like ATVs and snowmobiles, Dave Roddick wants to see the city develop legislation that will protect areas like Chadburn Lake.
• Compost project funded Yukon College will be teaching a lesson on compost in its cafeteria.
• Confession was voluntary, judge rules So desperate for a fix, a young man armed with a knife walked into an off-sales store to rob the place, despite knowing a video camera was recording.
• Report clear cuts logging industry concept Rushing to clear cut areas of southeast Yukon doesn't make sense in today's market for logs and lumber, says a spokeswoman for the Yukon Conservation Society.