Whitehorse Daily Star

May 8, 2014

• Sexualized Assault Prevention Month events are underway The Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre and Les EssentiElles have launched their annual campaign for Sexualized Assault Prevention Month.
• Training Up High City of Whitehorse firefighters work Wednesday with Air North staff during 2014 North American Occupational Safety and Health Week activities.
• Mining employs many aboriginal people: executive Not many realize the mining industry is the largest private sector employer of aboriginal people in the Yukon and Alaska.
• Cool In Shades Vanier Catholic Secondary School students will make public presentations of their spring musical Leader of the Pack
• Government outdoes city in community cleanup challenge With a tremendous turnout, five pickup truck loads of litter and garbage were cleaned up Wednesday from Whitehorse properties, alleyways and greenbelts.
• Hunger Awareness Week activities underway The Whitehorse Food Bank, along with other food banks across the country, wants to give hunger a voice.
• Quarter-Century Of Community Service Marked Health and Social Services Minister Doug Graham and Lori Eastmure cut the cake Wednesday at an open house staged by Hospice Yukon, celebrating 25 years in the community.
• Bubbles teaches kids about personal space Preschool children and their families can learn more about personal space and setting safe boundaries with a newly published trilogy of fun and colourful stories.
• Victim of sneezes, back injury may be compensated An electrician's sneezing fit that aggravated symptoms from a back injury he'd sustained on the job seven years earlier may result in compensation spanning nearly 15 years.
• Firefighters return to scene to quell flare-up Sometimes, the fire isn't completely out.
• Motocrosser ‘worked hard and played hard' The 23-year-old man who died in a dirt biking accident last weekend has been identified as Eric Bonneteau, the BC Coroners Service has confirmed.

May 7, 2014

• City's phone survey is underway The city launched its citizen survey April 30.
• City asked to open up more agricultural land The city needs to open up more agricultural land within municipal boundaries, council was told last month.
• Seeing The Wares Thousands of people strolled through the 35th annual Lake Laberge Lions Yukon Trade Show last weekend.
• School bus firm workers eye unionization The staff of Takhini Transport, the Yukon's major school buses operator, have filed an application with the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to unionize.
• Many Rivers, union reach collective pact Many Rivers Counselling and Support Service's unionized employees and management team have reached a tentative collective agreement.
• MLAS Go Spic-And -Spanning Energy, Mines and Resources Minister Scott Kent, Yukon Party MLA Darius Elias and Health and Social Services Minister Doug Graham take part in the Community Cleanup Challenge this morning.
• Keys to the city awarded to star skiers Emily Nishikawa became the first person to receive a key to the city Monday night during a ceremony at city hall.
• Council election featured record vote Vanier Catholic Secondary School saw a record number of voters turn-out for its school council election.
• Astronaut to take part in health hackathon A "health hackathon” will make its debut in Whitehorse this weekend, as the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre hosts the first ever Hacking Health event North of 60.
• Fracking committee to mull landmark federal report The federal report on hydraulic fracturing must be given due consideration, say members of the Yukon's legislative committee researching the risks and benefits associated with fracking
• Government's commitment to fire towers questioned The NDP is asking questions about the government's fire management programs as the territory prepares for another wildfire season.
• Erosion continues to plague tennis courts City planning manager Pat Ross says he will work with both the city's engineering department and Tennis Yukon to create a plan to mitigate erosion problems that continue to plague the outdoor tennis courts at the Mt. McIntyre Recreation Centre.
• Fire blamed on improper disposal of cigarettes A house fire that threatened the life of a teenaged boy in Dawson City on Tuesday morning has drawn renewed attention to the lack of 911 services in the communities.

May 6, 2014

• Cardboard is now a controlled waste Cardboard has been a controlled waste at the Solid Waste Facility since May 1.
• Top Musicians Recognized The All-City Band awards were presented Monday evening at the May Music Magic concert, the seasonsʼ final.
• Legislature sees another pro-Peel protest Another protest dominated a sunny noon hour in front of the Yukon legislature Monday as Brad Firth – perhaps better known as Caribou Legs – ran with supporters from the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre along the Whitehorse waterfront to the legislature.
• Truck stolen, recovered; teen arrested An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a stolen pickup truck.
• Festival To Begin This Evening Andra Hunter is one of the performers in this weekʼs Nakai Homegrown Festival,
• Lack of new exploration rules puzzles Silver Liberal Leader Sandy Silver says he's baffled by how little the Yukon government has done to reorganize class 1 activities for mineral exploration.
• Inspecting The Merchandise Evan Hudson Dickson Bill checks out the Lake Laberge Lions Yukon Trade Show on Saturday.
• Fire damages home in Dawson A mother and son managed to avoid a fire this morning at their house in Dawson City.
• Meeting set for tower proposal in Hillcrest A new cell tower that could be installed 100 metres northwest of Hillcrest Drive and the Alaska Highway on Yukon government land will be the subject of a public session set for this evening.
• Yukon NDP took in most funds The Yukon NDP received the most political contributions in 2013, raising $49,424.99.
• Teachers have been punched, spat at, threatened The president of the Yukon Teacher's Association wants every school in the territory to have at least one full-time counsellor.