Whitehorse Daily Star

September 16, 2014

• Event planners tour Yukon The Yukon Convention Bureau (YCB) is hosting four professional event planners/business owners on a familiarization tour in the Yukon.
• Edible Bounty For The Bank A trailer of more than $6,000 worth of food was delivered last Friday to the Whitehorse Food Bank from the staff and listeners of CKRW/The Rush.
• Boot Camp Whitehorse firefighters
• Community discusses access to justice issues What is justice?
• Action Canada plans luncheon The Yukon education system’s structure,
• Residents Help The Cause Residents of Copper Ridge Place held their own Terry Fox event last Friday afternoon,
• Review board finds man unfit for trial The Yukon Review Board has decided that an elderly inmate is unfit to stand trial and should receive treatment for his mental health issues.
• Health concerns spur ventilation system work The Yukon Housing Corp. has launched a quarter-million-dollar upgrade to the ventilation system at a Whitehorse seniors home
• Crown appeals sentence for sexual assault The Crown is appealing a territorial court judge’s sentence for a man who sexually assaulted his friend at a party, arguing it is“demonstrably unfit.”
• Developers plan 11 townhouses over three years The city will return tax dollars to two local developers, provided their proposed 11-unit townhouse project goes ahead as planned.

September 15, 2014

• Ottawa had little interest in talking treaties: expert Professor Theodore Binnema spent all day Friday in Yukon Supreme Court explaining the settlement of Canada and Yukon’s inclusion into the Dominion.
• Man fined for hunting without licence A man who hunted without a valid licence has been fined $1,000 and instructed to take a hunting ethics course.
• Clarification A story from Sept. 10 stated the head of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon (FASSY)
• Chief not pursuing third term Chief Eddie Taylor of Dawson City’s Tr’ondek Hwech’in is not seeking a third term as chief,
• Work Week Ends Poorly A three-vehicle collision
• Stranded boaters rescued from lake A local man and woman are safe after they became stranded along the shore of Lake Laberge over the weekend.
• Mushroom pickers enjoyed a bonanza season They travelled north by the hundreds, looking to make their fortune.
• Resident asks for reversal of tree-cutting plan A resident of New Constabulary is asking the Yukon government to reverse a decision that will see trees removed from cul-de-sacs around the neighbourhood.
• Ottawa bolsters battle to keep youth away from drugs Ashley Duchesne and Tia Stone wanted to drive home a point.
• Autumn proves a critical season for bears As leaves change colour and the thermometer dips, bears are stocking up on calories, preparing for hibernation.

September 12, 2014

• Communities gather to discuss economic development Seventy delegates to the 2014 fall conference of the Council of Northern Economic Developers
• Police remain silent on fatal collision Whitehorse RCMP have not released any new information
• Renowned speaker returns to Whitehorse Bestselling author and speaker Gabor Maté is in Whitehorse this weekend.
• School bus schedule tweaking rolls on There could be more changes to some school bus schedules around Whitehorse for Monday,
• Ketza may well be awarded well contract Ketza Construction could soon begin building the city’s next well house, a contract worth more than half a million dollars.
• Man jailed for sex with underage girl A Whitehorse man convicted of having sex with an underage girl will spend 14 months in jail.
• Book stresses the importance of quality service There’s one major advantage local businesses have over online shopping, and that’s service.
• City council will vote on Curteanu’s travel Coun. Jocelyn Curteanu won’t know until next week whether her attendance at the change of command ceremony for HMCS Whitehorse earlier this month will be funded.
• Mayor Gets The Early Scoop Mayor Dan Curtis (right) congratulates Brant Torgerson,
• United Way seeks city staff’s support United Way Yukon officials are hopeful city staff will help it reach its fund-raising goals this year,
• Family revisits origins of middle name Kluane When Jim Lightner drove the Alaska Highway in 1951,
• Food-Fest With A Flair Japanese students attending Yukon College brought Japanese treats
• City transit passengers get big, rolling, yellow surprise A few city transit passengers received an unexpected drive down Memory Lane when they caught the bus Tuesday morning.
• Pelly family loses ‘everything’ in fire A woman and her two children escaped from their Pelly Crossing house after a fire broke out earlier this week.
• Busy highway stretch loses asphalt long-term The chip seal surface being laid over repair work on the Alaska Highway from Two Mile Hill to Robert Service Way
• Ambassador effusive in gratitude to Canadians United States Ambassador Bruce Heyman
• Culvert finally cleared after beavers’ deaths The Yukon government today unclogged a culvert previously blocked by beaver-felled tree branches
• Man had sex with foster child decades previously A man who had sex with and impregnated his foster daughter cried in court Wednesday afternoon as he begged the judge to spare him jail time.
• Man died of drowning, hypothermia The young man who jumped into the Pelly River in July, triggering a community-wide search, died of drowning and hypothermia.
• Medevac system’s failures ‘concerning’: NDP critic The Yukon government will review its policies and procedures for transporting patients at community health centres to Whitehorse General Hospital, as recently recommended by the territory’s coroner.