Whitehorse Daily Star

May 27, 2014

• City council approves landfill contracts P&M Recycling has been tasked with running the recycling operation at the city's waste management facility and, as council learned Monday evening,
• Funding enables healing centre to offer after-care A new funding agreement with the Yukon government for the Jackson Lake Healing Camp means more people will be able to take advantage of the programs there, and it will now include follow-up care.
• Dawson Driver Investigated Police are investigating a 28-year-old man Dawson City man for possible intoxicated driving charges after he rolled his car into the ditch along the Chadburn Lake Road in Whitehorse shortly after 10 p.m. Monday.
• Board clamps five-per-cent growth ceiling on territory The Yukon's economy isn't likely to see average growth higher than five per cent again this decade,
• Police seize weapons and drugs Two Whitehorse residents are up on charges of drug and weapons offences.
• ‘They're treating me inhumanely at WCC': inmate Michael Nehass appeared in territorial court for a fitness hearing Monday,
• ‘They were down on their hands and knees': RCMP The weekend search for more human remains along the Donjek Trail in Kluane National Park is being described as successful.

May 26, 2014

• Elder Honoured Teslin Tlingit elder Sam Johnston waves during Friday afternoon's First Nations graduation ceremonies.
• You can move mountains, First Nations grads told Yukoners celebrated the high school graduation of 109 First Nations on Friday afternoon.
• Welcome Aboard Alexandra Rochat (left) receives her citizenship papers last Thursday afternoon
• Yukon wildfire personnel helping Alaskans Two senior fire personnel with Yukon Wildland Fire Management were deployed last Thursday afternoon to Alaska to provide support with the state's current wildfire situation.
• No Go The sidewalk beside the northbound lane of the Robert Campbell Bridge is closed
• Arts centre takes wraps off 2014-2015 season The Yukon Arts Centre has unveiled its 2014-2015 performing and visual arts season.
• Bluegrass festival returns to the Junction The return of the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival to Haines Junction in 2015 is good news for the village, says its acting mayor.
• Independent power producers policy released A draft policy to open the door for independent power producers interested in contributing to the territory's energy needs was released last Thursday.
• Yukon Electrical challenges board's decision Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd. wants to appeal the recent decision by the Yukon Utilities Board.

May 23, 2014

• Trade show diverted lots of waste The recent Lake Laberge Lion's Club Trade Show achieved its best waste diversion rates ever at the 35th annual event.
• Levity rules during lesson on AYC's founding Ken McKinnon was actually at the Association of Yukon Communities' (AYC's) annual general meeting to talk about the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.
• Jury still out on affordable rental housing projects It will likely be another four or five weeks before the Yukon Housing Corp. can announce which affordable rental housing projects will receive government funding.
• Improvement Time The ramp at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport
• Municipalities embrace Health and Fitness Day Yukon municipalities have agreed to designate June 7 National Health and Fitness Day.
• Operations at the landfill could change New contracts will determine how things operate at the city's waste management facility over the next five years as council considers two contracts at the site off the Alaska Highway.
• Season Finale Heidi Marion presented the seasonʼs last Talk at The Old Fire Hall on Wednesday evening.
• Territory welcomes 128 new Canadians The Yukon welcomed 128 new Canadians in a citizenship ceremony held Thursday afternoon at Yukon College – more than six times the number affirmed last May.
• Sima lease can move to the Friends It seems Mount Sima will be getting by with a little help from its friends for the foreseeable future after city council voted at a special meeting Tuesday to allow the Great Northern Ski Society (GNSS) to assign its lease on the ski hill to the Friends of Mount Sima Society.
• Local mother-daughter team releases new book Not many mother/daughter bonding experiences end in a published book, but for Rachel and Ursula Westfall,
• Compost prices closer to dropping Avid gardeners and commercial compost users may want to wait until June to make any big compost purchases from the city after council approved first and second readings of a bylaw that will lower the price of bulk compost purchases from the city's facility.
• Art competition slated for May 31 WildWise Yukon is inviting Yukoners of all ages to submit their art work to an art competition set for May 31.
• Whistle Bend lot sales are becoming brisk Phase three of the Whistle Bend subdivision could go out to tender as early as this fall.
• Familiar businesses to give way to fresh development The Roadhouse Bar and Grill is closing its doors for good.
• ‘We really lost someone huge in our community' The Yukon's medical community has lost a venerable member of its clan.
• Child's field trip tumble spurs lawsuit A six-year-old child is suing his former daycare and the Yukon government after he fell up to 4.5 metres (15 feet) onto a rock pile during a field trip at the government's main administration building.
• Parking enforcement not a cash grab, city insists The city's new digital parking enforcer is in operation, but it won't be used to issue tickets until June 9.