Whitehorse Daily Star

August 7, 2015

• Camp will celebrate 20th anniversary in Champagne Long Ago Peoples Place (Kwaday Dan Kenji) has planned a 20th anniversary celebration for Aug. 23 at the camp,
• Exhibit Opens Today Maya Rosenberg is one of the Yukon Art Society Members opening In the Kitchen & On the Table at 5 p.m. today in the Focus Gallery in the Arts Underground beneath the Hougen Centre.
• Court Watch Yukon to offer seminar on findings After a year of observing cases of violence against women, Court Watch Yukon will present its findings later this month.
• Take That! The Yukon Association for Community Living held nerf wars Thursday evening at the Canada Games Centre as part of its Community Living Summer Recreation Program.
• Young girls rocked out on festival stage One of the delightful surprises at last month’s Dawson City Music Festival was a Saturday afternoon performance of the five bands from the Girls Rock Camp.
• Wholesale sales rose: stats The preliminary unadjusted estimate for wholesale sales in Yukon for May 2015 was $9.7 million, Statistics Canada reported recently.
• Nature happens, so don’t interfere, biologist says Leave Mother Nature alone.
• Minister kicks off annual Yukon mineral exploration site tour Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Scott Kent recently visited two of the Yukon’s key mineral exploration projects.
• Going Places A spawning salmon
• A home-grown backyard circus delighted onlookers in Dawson Aerial arts came to Grant Street last Sunday as the Amos family and some friends put on a backyard circus.
• An Unintended Deposit A trucker was hauling gravel to a project in Teslin
• Cougar possibly prowling Hidden Valley There may be a cougar in the Hidden Valley area.
• Justice plans to comply with disclosure order The territory’s Justice department says it will “soon” provide documents about Michael Nehass’ incarceration to the Yukon Human Rights Commission.
• Yukoner had been slated to take doomed flight Fifty years ago, western Canada was reeling in the wake left behind by one of the most destructive plane crashes the country has ever seen; it is also an accident that is seldom recognized.
• Campaigns getting organized for a long haul It has been five days since the writ dropped, and the territory’s federal election candidates’ plans for campaigning are starting to take shape.
• Man ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’ One of the suspects arrested in drug raids earlier this year in Whitehorse was sentenced this morning in territorial court.

August 6, 2015

• Meet The Artists This Evening Veteran Yukon musician Steve Slade
• Council adopts updated joint use agreement City council has adopted an updated three-year joint use agreement with the territory and passed the first two readings of a bylaw authorizing its use.
• A Trip To The Agricultural Branch Research Farm Photo Spread
• Sales rose in May, latest data indicate The preliminary unadjusted estimate for retail sales in the Yukon for May 2015 was $63.5 million, Statistics Canada reported recently.
• More Than Music On The Menu Soda Pony performed at Arts in the Park
• Cajun Dance Party set for The Wharf It is going to be Cajun Dance Party time from 6-8 p.m. Friday on The Wharf in downtown Whitehorse.
• Ottawa takes Liard First Nation to court The federal government is seeking a court order to force the Liard First Nation to disclose its financial information.
• Feedback sought on local food strategy The government’s agriculture department is looking for feedback on the recently released draft strategy with one main objective in sight: let them eat locally.
• Chinese parent company to assist in restructuring attempt, court informed The Yukon Zinc Corp. will attempt to restructure its Wolverine Mine operation, with the support of its Chinese parent company.

August 5, 2015

• Documentary to be screened Monday The documentary All the Time in the World, by Dawson City filmmaker Suzanne Crocker,
• Culinary adventurers welcomed to the Klondike The two days of the Dawson portion of the Yukon Culinary Arts Festival 2015 wrapped up last Saturday night with a dinner at the Commissioner’s Residence.
• Young But Accomplished The beginner violin participants in the Yukon Summer Music Camp
• Contestants flush with excitement for Saturday’s race So you were thinking about entering a team in the Great Klondike International Outhouse Race,
• Fun Under The Sun The Schwatka Lake day use area
• Crowdfunding comes to newspaper’s rescue Dawson City’s newspaper took to crowdfunding last Thursday morning to get its next issue out on newsstands.
• Fifth hopeful may be in the running It’s not too late to join the fun – a fifth candidate may have emerged in the territory’s riding for the Oct. 19 federal election.
• Program Winding Down Declan O'Donovan performs
• Yukon adopts a harmonized workplace hazards data system The Yukon has adopted the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System 2015 (WHMIS 2015),
• Association recruits former mayor Former Whitehorse mayor Bev Buckway is the Association of Yukon Communities’ (AYC’s) new executive director.
• Local banker to make TV debut this evening A local banker will make his television debut in a commercial to air on CTV this evening,
• Suspect was driving a grey or turquoise sedan Police are seeking a male suspect after an attempted abduction in downtown Whitehorse Monday evening.