Whitehorse Daily Star

December 14, 2015

• Council planning its 2016 meeting schedule It might only be December of 2015, but members of Whitehorse city council are already contemplating their meeting schedule for the year ahead.
• Serving Seniors Members of the 2016 F.H. Collins Secondary School graduating class serve up meals Saturday night at the annual seniors’ Christmas dinner and dance at the Elks Hall.
• Travel, per diems approved for members’ Winnipeg trip Travel, per diems approved for members’ Winnipeg trip
• Unplanned Detour This truck was seen Sunday morning
• Home was undergoing post-sale renovations A Sunday evening fire caused extensive damage to an older home under renovations at the corner of Wood Street and Eighth Avenue.
• Top-rated fiddlers will play Rendezvous festival The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Society will bring a world-class fiddle show to Whitehorse next year, headlined by Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy.
• Program axed on eve of refugees’ arrival As the territory is awaiting and preparing for the arrival of Syrian refugee families,
• Contaminated waste concerns go before council Yukoners Concerned About Oil and Gas Exploration/Development have brought their concerns to city council.
• Offender preyed on four children in Watson Lake A Dawson Creek, B.C. man will serve a 44-month penitentiary sentence for sexually assaulting four young Watson Lake girls.

December 11, 2015

• Youth ambassador savouring her COP21 experience Since arriving in Paris last Sunday, Sabrina Clarke says she’s spent her days gaining a “wealth of knowledge” on climate change – knowledge she will bring back to the Yukon next week.
• Chimney alert issued The city’s fire department reminds citizens to inspect and clean their wood stove chimney.
• Seasonal Favourite Offered Danielle Lister, left, and Lexi Braden
• Gov’t. slammed for state of psychiatric services As the push for a territorial mental health strategy is starting to take shape, the Yukon is running dry on psychiatric services.
• Municipal Act amendments granted assent Amendments to the Municipal Act were granted assent Thursday after they were passed last week in the legislature.
• The Lobby Rang With Music Students from the Selkirk Elementary School String Stars band perform at noon Wednesday
• Husky Bus transcends an award-winning company Jesse Cooke didn’t come to Dawson for the first time in 2006 intending to establish a ground transportation company.
• Governor General honours Yukoner Governor General David Johnston recognized a Yukoner today among 43 recipients of the Meritorious Service Decoration.
• Annual teddy bear campaign is underway The Yukon Liquor Corp. has brought back its popular pre-Christmas Twin Bears program.
• Popular Event Shifts Location The annual 12 Days of Christmas market opened at noon today.
• Waste conference to be held in March Zero Waste Yukon has planned a major conference for March 3-5 at Yukon College.
• Tinsel Time In Teslin Teslin hosted its annual Christmas lights contest and a hay ride earlier this week.
• Man convicted of sexual assault on 13-year-old A Yukon man was convicted Nov. 10 in Yukon territorial court of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
• Oops! This truck hit the Alaska Highway ditch Wednesday morning
• Scientists must listen to the people: bear expert In one Arctic community, those on polar bear patrol use sticks to usher the big predators away from town, says research scientist Doug Clark.
• Governments planning rideshare program The Yukon government and the City of Whitehorse are working together on a program that will make commuting easier for residents and benefit the environment.
• More work sought on committee’s terms of reference The head of the Active Trails Whitehorse Association is calling for additional work to be done before city council adopts a document governing the Whitehorse Trail and Greenways Committee.
• Nutcracker Nimbleness This is one of the young performers audiences will enjoy when the Northern Lights School of Dance
• Lights of Life ceremony is Tuesday The opening ceremony for Hospice Yukon’s 25th annual Lights of Life events will begin at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in the atrium of the Elijah Smith Building.
• Snow and ice policy shovelled forward for 2016 Residents aren’t likely to notice any major changes to the level of snow clearing or road maintenance next year if city council adopts the proposed 2016 policies for each.
• Hartland kicks sports complex issue onto council’s agenda Hartland kicks sports complex issue onto council’s agenda
• Premier’s hopes for climate change agreement are sunny “You can feel the pressure that people want it.”
• Man questions prolonged ban from games centre A local man may have to pursue court action if he wants to return to the Canada Games Centre (CGC).
• ‘Where the reservoir would be is our bread basket’ Chief Kevin McGinty of the Selkirk First Nation says the First Nation is opposed to a hydro dam on the Pelly River.

December 10, 2015

• Musical Offerings On Track Annie Avery and Grant Simpson, Two Piano Tornado, performed last Saturday at the Whitehorse Waterfront Trolley roundhouse during the Winterval celebrations.
• Yukon tourism operators win national awards The night of Dec. 2 was a great one for the Yukon at the Tourism Industry Association of Canada’s annual awards gala.
• A Popping Good Time In The Galaxy The Whitehorse Pop Choir
• Company’s search for oil called flawed Northern Cross Ltd.’s proposed drilling activities in the Eagle Plains region are fraught with problems that have not been sufficiently addressed in the company’s proposal, the Yukon Conservation Society believes.
• Upended Paramedics were among the responders to this single-vehicle incident
• Chamber, government help Yukon Imagination Library More than $30,000 for the Yukon Imagination Library was raised during a special evening in November.
• Digging In Jude Slater enjoys a pancake breakfast Tuesday at Vanier Catholic Secondary School.
• RCMP warn of scams involving their name Scammers have been calling Whitehorse residents pretending to be RCMP officers fundraising for kids’ programs.
• MLAs take first step to a new statutory holiday to honour First Nations Nearly six months after putting forth the original idea to make National Aboriginal Day a statutory holiday in the territory, the Yukon NDP finally got to discuss it in the legislature Wednesday.
• Main Street store is broken into Snowboard shop Boardstiff was broken into sometime this morning.
• Vandals ravage ski trails, intimidate woman A couple of vandals driving trucks Tuesday night left the Mount McIntyre ski trails in a mess and one woman frightened.