Whitehorse Daily Star

August 18, 2015

• Boyle Barracks Cadet Final Parade Photo Spread
• Students On Ice to talk about experience tonight It’s an experience like no other and one that is continuing to have a major impact on Patrick Soprovich and Sabrina Clarke.
• Free To Go Julianna Campbell with the Yukon Wildlife Preserve released two orphaned red-necked ducks that were rehabilitated by the preserve.
• Computer problem cut power Residents in the north half of Porter Creek and the Hunker Creek area near Dawson City lost power for close to a half-hour last Saturday morning.
• Looming In A Post-Frost Fog This beautiful morning scene
• New DM named Premier Darrell Pasloski has appointed an Albertan, Katherine White, as the new deputy minister for the Department of Finance.
• Truck stolen from airport is recovered A youth suspect is facing charges after a pickup truck stolen from the Whitehorse airport was recovered last week.
• Composition of leaked substance still not made public by EMR Almost two weeks after a petroleum substance spill was discovered in southeast Yukon,
• Company had been reminded it would need a permit A B.C. company working on the new F.H. Collins Secondary School has been fined $2,300 for violations of the territory’s gas-burning devices legislation.

August 14, 2015

• Commemorative project committed to T-shirt A local artist was on a mission to create a commemorative souvenir of what he felt was the tale of a man who started it all for the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.
• Yukon College taking action to reduce human-bear conflict Yukon College is taking action to reduce bear activity in the Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) campus neighbourhood by lowering the number of external garbage dumpsters.
• Regional economic development plan finalized Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Yukon government and CanNor officials gathered Tuesday to announce the finalization of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory Regional Economic Development Plan.
• Café owner announces a run for city council A Whitehorse man has announced his intention to run for city council in the Oct. 15 election.
• RCMP appoint a new head for Haines Junction detachment A new RCMP detachment commander has been named for Haines Junction.
• Power surge blamed for disruptions A power surge in a Northwestel Inc. facility was responsible for Thursday afternoon’s telecommunications services disruptions.
• No Star Monday The Star will not be published Monday, and our offices will be closed, in honour of Discovery Day. We wish our readers a happy and safe long weekend.
• Retired CO relishing first free fall in 32 years After 32 years of wildlife management in the territory, conservation officer Torrie Hunter has retired.
• Bears shepherded away from populated area After ambling into the Copper Ridge-Granger area Thursday, a family of grizzly bears was herded away by Environment Yukon conservation officers and a group of Karelian bear dogs.
• Airline aims to fly more federal government workers Yukon’s airline might be one step closer to feeding more mouths delightfully warm cookies.
• THERE YOU GO Lawrence Vano, the manager of the Whitehorse Rapids Fish Hatchery, hands a male chinook salmon to Calysta Stoker on Wednesday morning at the fish ladder.
• CELEBRATING NEW WORK Holly Haustein, from Dawson City, performs with Driftwood Holly
• THE OPENING ACT Lianne Cranfield opens for Driftwood Holly
• LENDING A HAND Ethan Lien adds his handprints to the ‘Protect the Peel’ sign
• Proposal could see businesses receive pennies on the dollar A plan to settle the debts of the Yukon Zinc Corp. could see some businesses receive just pennies for every dollar owed.
• ‘I loved it,’ dismissed manager says of job Betty Irwin, the manager of the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter, has been fired.

August 13, 2015

• New CD Released Holly Haustein, right, Jackie Reznicek, middle, and Pavel Osvald, of Driftwood Holly and the Landed Immigrants, released a CD, Aurora Borealis, at The Old Fire Hall Wednesday evening.
• Pep rally held on eve of Peel’s return to court A pep rally was held at mid-day Wednesday for Peel Watershed activists to rouse support as the upcoming land use case heads back to court next week.
• Serving UP Grub Archbishop Terry Buckle, left, and Dean Sean Murphy cook up hamburgers and hot dogs Tuesday at Stringer Park.
• Restaurant staff fired after alleged ‘incident’ Whitehorse RCMP are investigating an alleged after-hours “incident” at Earls Restaurant last weekend.
• Man granted bail until trial Mark McDiarmid has been granted bail, but he’s not yet signed his release document.
• Decision reserved in cocaine-trafficking trial There’s a lack of evidence against a B.C. man accused of possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, his lawyer argued Wednesday.
• Caution urged as grizzly bears visit residential area Environment Yukon conservation officers were using trained dogs this morning and early this afternoon to guide a family of grizzly bears away from Hamilton Boulevard.