Whitehorse Daily Star

June 3, 2016

• Health, safety board to get new president Kurt Dieckmann will become the new president and chief executive officer of the Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board on July 9.
• KPMA challenged to support First Nation’s goals Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Chief Roberta Joseph issued a number of challenges to the Klondike Placer Miners Association (KPMA) and the Yukon government recently.
• Guidance from a river rescue professional Ed. note: this is part of a series of articles on river safety being published Fridays.
• Seniors, elders invited to tea next Thursday Mayor Dan Curtis and city council plan to celebrate the contributions local seniors and elders make to the community.
• How tea kindled a meaningful correspondence There’s something about a letter in the mail, the paper, the text, the scent, that conveys so much more than today’s digital correspondence.
• Carmacks village official to seek a YP nomination Cory Bellmore, a lifelong Carmacks resident, said Thursday she will seek the Yukon Party nomination for Mayo-Tatchun in the upcoming territorial election.
• Aurore goes to Minnesota, and the land of podcasts This first book in the MacBride Yukon Kids Series began being released as a serialized novel on a weekly basis on Wednesday.
• Tour On Tap Old Cabin performs Wednesday evening at Arts in the Park for a Saturn Return EP CD release and start of their Canadian tour.
• Resort to re-open after long closure In an era where highway lodges are becoming distant memories, one will actually reopen this weekend after a decade’s dormancy.
• Learning About Limitations Eva Von Flotow is wheeled up the ramp at Mac’s Fireweed Books by Sarah Ott on Thursday afternoon.
• Home-based business gets city staff’s approval Flitch & Burl Custom Woodworks could have the city’s approval to operate as a home-based business as early as June 13.
• Yukon nurse receives Leadership Award Sharon Specht, the territory’s continuing care director of extended care services, has been awarded the Leadership Award from the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nurses Group.
• Shakespearean Experience The fourth annual Whitehorse Elementary School’s Shakespeare Festival took to the stage Thursday evening.
• First new campground in three decades hosting visitors June may be off to a cool, overcast start, but at least the Yukon’s first new government campground in almost 30 years is open to visitors.
• See Them Tonight Or Sunday These young talents are among those whom audiences will see as Leaping Feats Creative Dance Works presents Dancing Through Life
• Keep snowmobilers off trail, resident urges city A resident of Wolf Creek who lives next to the Dawson Road trail is calling on the city to no longer permit snowmobile operators to use the trail.
• Climate change is undeniable, delegates told While the talks were technical, the message was simple: climate change is having an impact in the North that must not be ignored.
• Trail plan consultation continues The city is in the final stages of developing a trail plan for Porter Creek,
• ‘We’re making the best of our last day’ After nearly two decades in business, Whitehorse’s Kumon Math and Reading Centre is closing its doors.
• Murals project reflected late artist’s versatility Edith Jerome is being remembered for her skill in turning the tools of the prospector into beautiful works of art showcasing the territory she loved.
• Territory unaffected by western gasoline shortage Drivers in Whitehorse can cruise easy, for now.
• Report prompted a heavy police response RCMP officers responded to a report of males heard fighting followed by what was believed to be the sound of gun shots early Thursday morning near McIntyre Drive in Whitehorse.

June 2, 2016

• Council begins pondering AWG hosting role The city and many local sporting groups are no strangers to hosting elite athletes and major competitions that have ranged from national ski championships,
• The Merriment Continues The Frantic Follies opened their 47th season
• New aircraft should be in service this fall Two new aircraft purchased by Air North will add speed and efficiency to its northern routes, resulting in expanded daily service to Dawson City.
• Town hall meeting set for Tuesday The Whitehorse East town hall meeting which was cancelled last month has been rescheduled.
• Cultural, heritage projects receive projects funding Fifteen Yukon museums and First Nation cultural centres have received $453,000 in territorial grants for facility improvements, artifact inventories, exhibition development and marketing ventures.
• Correction Wednesday’s front page
• Vandals delay Wednesday classes at WES Whitehorse Elementary School students received a short reprieve from classes early Wednesday morning after vandals broke into the school overnight.
• Incoming grand chief to stress team approach to leadership “Together today for our children tomorrow.”
• Tootoo seemed fine at convention: Bagnell Yukon MP Larry Bagnell expressed his regret Wednesday over losing a northern colleague after Nunavut MP Hunter Tootoo suddenly resigned from the cabinet and left the Liberal party caucus earlier this week.

June 1, 2016

• Climate change research embraces science, culture The University of Saskatchewan and Yukon College have been awarded a Social Science and Humanities Research Council grant to make climate change research more relevant to northern indigenous communities.
• Welcoming Condor Officials Premier Darrell Pasloski and Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor met recently with representatives of Condor Airlines while they visited Whitehorse.
• Alberta-Bound Yukon Wildland Fire Management personnel leave the Southern Lakes fire base Tuesday to fly to Fort McMurray, Alta., to help crews there battle wildfires in the region.
• Eighteen-year-old faces numerous charges An 18-year-old man is in custody and facing six charges after Whitehorse RCMP were called to the territory’s young offender facility on Range Road on Monday night.
• Geese With Golf Canada geese
• Geological, mineralogical event draws 400-plus The ongoing campaign to figure out how to deal with the abandoned Faro mine and the Herculean task of water treatment.
• Tearing Up Relatively New Road As work to develop new sections of Whistle Bend continues,
• Relative recounts literary legend’s family history His stories brought the North to the world, and his short time in the Klondike is the stuff of legend.
• NDP gains potential candidate in Riverdale Rod Snow, a longtime Whitehorse lawyer and former president of the Canadian Bar Association, is seeking the NDP nomination in Riverdale North for the coming territorial election.
• New Grand Chief to be acclaimed Peter Johnston, the former chief of Teslin Tlingit Council,