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November 28, 2014
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Showing What They've got Members of the Music, Art and Drama class perform
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‘Flat Stanley’ wore mayoral chain, fished in Haines Ellie Atkinson has been Flat Stanleyed. And she’s had a blast with it.
- Yukon Women in Trades and Technology host career fair Yukon Women in Trades and Technology is hosting an all-day event today entitled “Young Women Exploring Trades Career Fair” at Yukon College.
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Taking The Oath Seventy-four people from 23 countries
- Habitat For Humanity marks a decade in the Yukon Ten years, 12 families, 11 homes and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of volunteers.
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Getting The Answers Handri Pratama
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FASSY still optimistic despite bill’s withdrawal The head of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon (FASSY)
- Suspected impaired driver was asleep in parking lot A 62-year-old man has been charged with impaired care and control of a motor vehicle,
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Local Talent Sarah Ott performs
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Breast cancer survivors raise money for Karen’s Fund Amanda Robinson-Fuerstner was 44 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Becoming New Citizens Judge Ann Dillon welcomed 74 new citizens
- Potential flooding prompting anxieties, MLA warns The potential for a new hydro project flooding vast tracts of land along the Pelly River is already stirring emotions in Pelly Crossing, says NDP energy critic Jim Tredger.
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‘Carmacks has lost a true community champion’ She was a force to be reckoned with, someone who stood her ground and fought for what she believed in.
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Yukon Energy hears opposition to possibility of raising lake levels The Southern Lakes community is planning to come up with its own solution to find more energy that doesn’t require raising the lake levels, says a community spokeswoman.
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Ex-minister mute on bailout of golf club Archie Lang, the former Community Services minister who backed the covert bailout of the Mountain View Golf Club in 2011,
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‘I’m not guilty, but I’m going to plead guilty’ Michael Nehass has been in jail, awaiting trial, for two years and 11 months.
November 27, 2014
- Child support service available The Yukon government has launched the new Child Support Administrative Recalculation Service for parents seeking to change the amount of child support they currently pay or receive when their income changes.
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Christmas In The Klondike The City of Dawson’s recreation department lit up the pre-Christmas season
- Long Ago Yukon plans presentation Saturday from paleontologist Long Ago Yukon will co-host the second presentation in its occasional series Encounters with First Peoples at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.
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Showcasing Sounds Micah Taggart-Cox performs Wednesday evening
- City to receive sustainability award Whitehorse is among a list of nine municipalities from across the country being recognized for its work in sustainability.
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Project will submerge hunting grounds, workshop told Somebody’s hunting grounds are going to be flooded, says the director of communications for the Yukon government’s Next Generation Hydro project.
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Chamber reviews city’s capital budget plans Should the city move ahead with its building consolidation plans,
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Archie Lang sought to ‘help’ club: NDP The previous Yukon Party government paid $750,000 to buy back its own land — leased by the Mountain View Golf Club — claiming it wanted the riverside property for possible lot development in the Whistle Bend subdivision and had the support of the city.
November 26, 2014
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City on pace to meet 2014 financial target It appears the city will be on-budget by the end of the year.
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First workshop for Next Generation Hydro project began this morning The first major workshop in the government’s plan to build a new hydro facility 10 or 15 years down the road opened this morning.
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One in four Yukon women will be sexually assaulted Twelve Days to End Violence Against Women is officially underway.
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Complaints spark review of school’s EA allocation Department of Education officials will be meeting with the school council and administrators at Jack Hulland Elementary School tomorrow to discuss a review of the allocation of education assistants (EAs) to the school.
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‘Alex Van Bibber enriched the lives of our nation’ Fourteen years ago, Alex Van Bibber sat alone on a gravel bar in the northern Mackenzie Mountains, enduring a blistering snowstorm.