Whitehorse Daily Star

August 12, 2015

• North Waste Mounties win annual outhouse race Parks Canada returned to the races in fine style last Saturday as its Fart Herchmer team of the North Waste Mounted Police captured first place in the 38th running of the Great International Outhouse Race.
• Second Ember Fire Academy a success, participants say The Yukon government contributed $40,000 toward the operation of Ember Fire Academy,
• Activities Galore Jessica Vellenga
• Liberals pledge a monthly benefit to families A Liberal government would create one fair tax-free monthly child benefit that would give Yukon families more money for the high costs of raising kids.
• Hawkins Street is partly closed off Motorists are advised that Hawkins Street is closed to traffic between Second and Third avenues today and Thursday from 7 a.m. to midnight both days.
• Riverside Observers Otters are seen recently in the Teslin area.
• Mayo detachment receives a new RCMP commander The Mayo RCMP detachment has a new commander.
• Fewer people were working last month There were 1,100 fewer Yukoners working in July of this year compared to the same time in 2014.
• Primary investigator testifies about Project Monolith The lead RCMP officer on a large Yukon drug investigation testified Tuesday at a trial of a man alleged to have possessed cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
• Ministers poring over fresh mandate letters Premier Darrell Pasloski issued his cabinet ministers new mandate letters Tuesday– seven months after the cabinet “shuffle” that resulted in almost all ministers taking on new departments.
• Complications forced cyclist back into surgery It was an ordinary commute home for 20-year-old Simon Geoffroy that resulted in an accident that has put him in a Vancouver hospital.

August 11, 2015

• Quartz Road Becomes Safer A crew works on installing the new pedestrian lights
• Vintage iron took fans back many decades at annual Show and Shine Dozens of vintage and modern vehicles – including motorcycles – and hundreds of people turned out Sunday for the annual Show and Shine at the Yukon Transportation Museum off the Alaska Highway.
• Questions linger in wake of petroleum spill After a fuel leak at the Kotaneelee gas processing plant was discovered,
• Personal items had been left visible to thieves In the wake of an extensive vandalism and theft spree at Erik Nielson Whitehorse International Airport, motorists are being reminded they park there at their own risk.
• Informant agreed to $1,500 per week plus $235,000 Security was tight at the Whitehorse Law Courts building Monday as a drug dealer turned police agent testified during a cocaine-trafficking trial.

August 10, 2015

• Five appointed to college board of governors The territorial government has appointed Kluane Adamek, Alyce Johnston, Vera Holmes, Mary Samolczyk and Matthew Landry to the 12-member Yukon College board of governors.
• Station Improvements Planned CJUC station manager Bill Polonsky, left, and Rob Hopkins are seen in the radio studio in the Chambers House in Shipyards Park.
• Crime prevention projects receive funding Four First Nation governments and two Yukon community organizations are receiving funding from the territorial Crime Prevention and Victim Services Trust Fund.
• Running For A Cause Special Olympian Michael Sumner (holding torch) runs Friday
• More than $1.4 M in sport funding set The territory’s sport and recreation community will benefit from more than $1.4 million in funding this year.
• Season Finale Calla Paleczny was one of the artists performing Friday during the season’s final Arts in the Park presentation.
• Rendezvous Queen is working year-round The 2015 Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous festival was six months ago, with the 2016 edition more than half a year away.
• A Final Day Of Fun Alana Warner, left,
• Tories’ child benefit worth ‘a measly $14.23 per year’ Melissa Atkinson, the territory’s NDP candidate for the Oct. 19 federal election, talked up the party’s $15-per-day child care plan at a press conference this morning at Rotary Peace Park.
• Leef condemns challenger about vote results remarks Yukon MP Ryan Leef has chided former Liberal MP Larry Bagnell for “blaming Yukon voters” for not winning the election in 2011.
• RCMP detachment in Faro receives a new commander Cpl. Karina Watson has been selected as the new RCMP detachment commander in Faro.
• Government officials investigate hydrocarbon spill in southeast Government officials responded to hydrocarbon spill reported Friday at a non-operational processing plant in southeast Yukon.
• Vehicles vandalized, entered at airport Up to 20 vehicles were vandalized and/or broke into at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport over the weekend.
• Accident claims local man’s life A 34-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle accident south of Whitehorse on Saturday afternoon.