Whitehorse Daily Star

August 2, 2019

• Whitehorse Motors donates $5,000 to Dawson museum Whitehorse Motors has made a $5,000 donation to the Dawson City Museum.
• Family Time A family of swans is seen July 24 outside of Burwash.
• Festival fare promises to be diverse and delicious Fire-roasted Yukon meats, white fish and vegetables spiced with wild herbs are just a few of the offerings promised at this weekend’s annual Yukon Culinary Festival.
• Ambling Along This quartet was seen July 24 outside Beaver creek.
• Judge poised to decide on mine’s receivership The Yukon government is petitioning the territory’s Supreme Court to appoint a receiver in the matter of Yukon Zinc Corp. and the Wolverine Mine.
• Part of Second Avenue to close Sunday Work will continue this weekend on repaving Second Avenue.
• Ferry workers’ strike has ended Alaska’s ferry workers strike is over, KTUU-TV reported this morning.
• Impaired driving charges rise Haines Junction RCMP have seen what they call an alarming increase in impaired driving charges, they said this afternoon.
• Pelly Crossing residents set to receive infrastructure projects Yukon MP Larry Bagnell has announced funding for three local infrastructure projects in Pelly Crossing. They are:
• Bishop reflects on apology to school’s former students The Anglican Church of the Yukon has issued an apology to First Nations for its participation in the residential school system.
• Yukon MLAs summoned back to house The Yukon’s MLAs will reconvene at 1 p.m. Oct. 3, Premier Sandy Silver said Thursday.
• First Fish The season’s first chinook salmon,
• Catalyst of sister city program honoured The late Shirley “Cookie” Morgan was recognized Monday night by Mayor Dan Curtis for her involvement in beginning Whitehorse’s sister city exchange program.
• Exhibt Opens This Afternoon Kathy M. Haycock will open Landscapes at 5:00 this afternoon in the Arts Underground Focus Gallery.
• Challenges confronting economic growth The Yukon Territory is expecting economic growth, but lacks the labour force and adequate housing to comfortably support the increase.
• Business Milestone Feted Rolf and Marg Hougen
• Company awarded landfill contract A $355,562 contract has been awarded by city council to Cobalt Construction for the expansion of the city’s landfill facility.
• Dogs’ owner charged under Environment Act The former owner of the Tagish Kennel has been charged with two violations under the Environment Act.
• Man is not entitled to review of SARC decision, judge rules A Yukon Supreme Court justice has dismissed the appeal of a Whitehorse man asking for a review of a Social Assistance Review Committee (SARC) decision.
• Fabled hotel’s history comes alive in new book The spooky and expansive story of the historic Caribou Hotel in Carcross is being told for the first time by Yukon author John Firth, with a release party set for this evening.
• YP condemns school tender’s abrupt revocation The Yukon government announced the cancellation of the tender for the much-anticipated Whistle Bend Elementary School on Thursday afternoon.

August 1, 2019

• Exhibit To Open Friday Kathy M. Haycock will open ‘Landscapes’ at 5 p.m. Friday in the Arts Underground Focus Gallery.
• PNWER summit was fruitful, MLA says Liberal MLA Paolo Gallina was in Saskatoon last week to attend the 2019 Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) annual summit.
• Hunting season officially opens This year’s Permit Hunt Authorization lottery is complete, the Yukon government said Tuesday, two days before the hunting season opened.
• IPC stresses YG’s duty to assist applicants Diane McLeod-McKay, the territory’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC),

July 31, 2019

• Firepower Galore .
• Season Winding Down Gordie Tentrees
• Workshops, mini-concerts filled several sites Aside from exciting main stage concerts on both evenings,
• Lunchtime Concerts Continue An unplugged concert by Yukon Summer Music Camp faculty
• Bear put down after attack A black bear was euthanized Monday after it attacked and killed the dog of two American vacationers near Tutshi Lake.
• Act on ongoing social tragedy, council urged Michelle Stimson says somebody needs to do something about the social tragedy she sees every day in the alleyway behind the homeless shelter on Alexander Street.
• Bylaw permits subdivision’s expansion City council has approved the zoning bylaw required to go forward with the final phase of development in the Whistle Bend subdivision.
• Whistle Bend lottery offers historically small lots Some of the smallest residential lots in the history of the Whistle Bend subdivision development were released Tuesday for a public lottery.