Whitehorse Daily Star

January 14, 2004

• Excellent day' for mushers, Quest says Yukon Quest mushers on both sides of Yukon-Alaska border have the green light to ship dog food made from various meat products across the border.
• Wolf took leashed dog from lit yard The most recent local case of a pet killed by wolves was a sled dog taken from a kennel enclosure at the Meadow Lakes Golf Club.
• City needs transit committee, council told With city council voting on the proposed 2004 budget in two weeks, a group calling itself the Transit Improvement Committee is pushing council to establish a citizens' advisory transit committee.
• Judge set to rule on accused's statement Is a statement given to police during a 2:30 a.m.-interrogation while sleep-deprived from a week-long cocaine binge reliable?
• Man to clean mess A young male in Porter Creek will be scrubbing off spray paint soon. Several homes in the 12th Avenue area fell victim to graffiti last weekend, and another home on that street was discovered Tuesday to have also been vandalized.
• Computer probe's fallout still unfolding The government may be saying the porn probe is over but the fallout is still raining down.
• Accused and complainant stay in jail An accused and the man he's charged with stabbing are both staying in the territory's jail, but are being kept apart by a piece of paper.
• Lone wolf stalked dogs in Dawson DAWSON CITY Whitehorse has not been the only community with a bit of a wolf problem lately.

January 13, 2004

• MP announces money, basks in praise Four Whitehorse groups will be sharing more than $1 million over the next 2 1/2 years to help the city's homeless.
• Council motors to swift defeat of idling proposal Whitehorse city council didn't idle too long Monday night in defeating a proposed motion that city staff develop a bylaw to govern vehicle idling. Even the councillor who brought the motion forward last week voted it down.
• Sima needs money, supporters tell city It was the sport of snowboarding that changed Kate White's life. 'It gives you direction and it gives you freedom,' she told council at its Monday evening meeting.
• Ice patch gave up astounding' artifacts Melting in the alpine last summer revealed the oldest artifact recovered from what is now an inventory of 18 archeological ice patches on Yukon mountains.
• Police tip likely averted thefts A late-night call to Whitehorse RCMP may well have prevented a half-dozen thefts from vehicles early this morning.
• Hunter nets three as Assante edges Cartier Gino Hunter booted four goals for Assante Financial Management as they snuck past Cartier Partner Securities 11-10 in Whitehorse Coed Soccer League action Sunday.

January 12, 2004

• Workers merit apology, NDP says after deal Some of the people fired during the territorial government's porn probe are getting their jobs back.
• Rangers rescue stranded snowmobilers When Joe Girves' cousin perked his head up and said he heard a gunshot, Joe put it off to more hallucinations and lay back down in the snow.
• Carvers set to break the ice in Russia Don Watt, Gisli Balzer and Mike Lane will be taking a classic Klondike scene to Russia when they leave the territory for the fourth International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival in Murmansk, Russia later this week.
• Gun-wielding men visit home Whitehorse RCMP are still talking to a houseful of witnesses after two gun-toting men walked into a McIntyre subdivision residence looking for someone.
• Lodge closed to visitors A flu outbreak at Macaulay Lodge in Riverdale means the seniors' care facility will be closed to visitors until at least Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Services said Friday afternoon.
• Another dog killed Another Mary Lake dog has been taken by wolves.
• Quake rumbles through Junction An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale shook Haines Junction at 7:32 this morning, though the tremor was mild and over quickly, residents say.
• Yukoner wins Basin Carcross musher William Kleedehn has won the Copper Basin 300 sled dog race in a record time of 47 hours and 44 minutes.
• New wash bay weighs in at $400,000 The Yukon government is spending more than $400,000 to build an environmentally-friendly wash bay for its large vehicles.
• Mayor, most councillors stayed off Sima It didn't surprise Kevin Rumsey, president of the Great Northern Ski Society, when only two city councillors came out to see the Mount Sima Ski Area over the weekend.
• With apologies to Robert Frost I want to dedicate this poem to George Bush and cronies, who blame Canada for every problem (Sept. 11 destruction, free trade disputes and now the mad cow disease) they encounter in the United States: