Whitehorse Daily Star

August 14, 2014

• Outfit Pronounced a Winner A WINNER
• Volunteers’ group plans fresh approach to attract new members Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon is launching a new campaign
• Delivering Sustenance Osprey
• City closer to adopting bylaw governing major history book The future of Whitehorse’s illustrated history
• Minister Visits Young People Deputy Premier Elaine Taylor attended the celebration
• Red foxes are focus of fund-raiser The campaign is on to raise the funds to build a red fox enclosure at the preserve
• Local IT company brings in Google Glass It’s the stuff sci-fi dreams were made of.
• Vancouver executive chosen to head Yukon Energy Yukon Energy has hired a new president and chief executive officer
• Man has already been punished, lawyer says A Yukon Supreme Court judge has quashed another judge’s ruling
• Corrections, clarification Corrections apply to three recent articles

August 13, 2014

• Accused makes his second court appearance Michael MacPherson, the man accused of second-degree murder
• NVD delivers food bank relief NVD delivers food bank relief
• First Nations gather for workshop The Firelight Group and Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation
• Support heard for large caretaker suite City council heard support Monday evening for permitting
• A large cast of characters Cheshire cats
• Cultural society program a success but under threat The Northern Cultural Expressions Society
• Councillors making travel plans From Faro to Prince Edward Island
• ‘It’s been crazy good’ over at fish ladder, staff report The arrival of chinook salmon at the Whitehorse Fish Ladder
• Yukon River chinook run is proving robust The strongest run of Yukon River chinook salmon
• Fund-raising begins for family members of collision victims The families of Derrick Gibbons and Brendan Kinney

August 12, 2014

• Boys and Girls Club getting ready for fall It’s that time of year again.
• Juno-winning group to empower Yukon youth Naomi Crey speaks glowingly about a national program that has provided at-risk aboriginal youth in the Yukon with culturally relevant activities and programming.
• Yukoners recall encounters with fallen star It was more than 10 years ago that Chris McNeill and his wife drove down to Dyea for a bike ride through its roads, flats and trails on a brisk April weekend.
• Cyclist assaults elderly woman in Riverdale A local woman is suffering minor injuries after being assaulted Sunday afternoon just outside a Riverdale apartment building.
• ‘Rest in peace beautiful’ among poignant sentiments The two victims of a weekend highway collision are being remembered this week by family and friends.