Whitehorse Daily Star

October 1, 2021

• Sourdough Thermometer By Jim Robb
• Fire Prevention Week will begin on Sunday Mayor Dan Curtis has proclaimed Oct. 3-9 as Fire Prevention Week.
• The Klondike strike and the village of Moosehide This is the 125th anniversary year of the Klondike Gold Discovery, Aug. 17, 1896.
• Taco Treats Members of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations were serving up taco in a bag, beading kits and colouring Tuesday afternoon at Rotary Peace Park.
• Paid Sick Leave Rebate extended to late 2022 The Yukon government is renewing and extending its Paid Sick Leave Rebate through September 2022.
• Presley Produces New Work The Yukon’s Elvis Presley has released what he says may be his last CD, Elvis Presley’s Pandemic Foe .
• Zoning amendment approved City council at its meeting Monday approved third and final reading of the bylaw to amend zoning for an industrial lot in the Marwell industrial subdivision.
• Plentiful Firepower Tao Sun
• Things cooking for the Smoke and Sow The Smoke and Sow restaurant and food truck business is one step closer to becoming the new operators of the kitchen in the Frank Slims Building at Shipyards Park.
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation The inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was held Thursday.
• Weather warning out for White Pass, Chilkat Pass It’s a tough job being a meteorologist at times.
• Parties hope YG isn’t backtracking on relief Two government initiatives dealing with the past summer’s flooding are causing some concerns amongst the public and opposition politicians.

September 30, 2021

• COVID-19 cases stood at 36 Wednesday Dr. Catherine Elliott, the Yukon’s acting chief medical officer of health, reports four new cases of COVID-19 from noon Monday to noon Wednesday.
• A Special Reading The Guild Hall and the Music, Arts and Drama class collaborated Wednesday to perform a reading of Tara Beagan’s ‘They Know Not What They Do’, the story of three children who attend residential school.
• Political parties recognize special day The territory’s three political parties released statements Wednesday commemorating today’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
• Water levels still diminishing: hydrologist While the water levels of the big lakes remain high, they are continuing to drop, says hydrologist Anthony Bier of Environment Yukon.
• Woman dies following explosions, fire A Dawson City-area woman died last Thursday from two explosions and a consequent fire destroyed a house at Kilometre 1 of the Old Bonanza Road.
• NDP MLA welcomes supervised consumption site Annie Blake, the NDP MLA for Vuntut Gwitchin, says she was excited to see the Yukon’s first supervised consumption site open Wednesday morning.

September 29, 2021

• Out of the box, into the bush Theatre in the Bush presented the 11th annual show last weekend.
• Flagging A Major Occasion Monique Levesque made a flag for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation featuring a T-shirt and a heart in orange.
• Chum run called ‘pretty terrible’ The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is calling this year’s run of fall chum salmon up the Yukon River the worst on record.
• ‘A day to honour survivors, their families’ Yukon Regional Chief Kluane Adamek of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has offered some thoughts on Reconciliation Week and what it means for survivors, First Nations and all Canadians.
• Probe sought into handling of educator’s charges An independent investigation is needed into the Department of Education’s actions regarding criminal behaviour by a former educational assistant at Hidden Valley School, says the Yukon Party.
• Safe consumption site begins operations The Yukon government opened its high-profile safe consumption site today.