Whitehorse Daily Star

March 10, 2014

• Volunteers preparing for Iditaroders' arrival As Jeff King attempts to hold off other mushers in the last stages of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the town famous for the finish line is getting ready for the teams to come in.
• Man charged with drug trafficking An 18-year-old man was arrested on charges of trafficking cocaine last Thursday
• A Bird's Eye View The lengths at which some people will go to take a photo of swans
• Correction Friday's edition reported that local engineer Robert Wills said
• Three Shows Exhibited Duran Henry, an artist in the show, looks over the carvings at the Arts Underground on Friday.
• Admirers were shooting the bull in Dawson City Saturday's big draw at the Dancing Moose was Heinz Naef's set of bull moose antlers.
• Council to vote tonight on boundary change issue Despite the objections of one company, city staff are recommending council move forward with the final two readings of a rezoning bylaw that would realign lease boundaries for Skookum Asphalt.
• Idea would honour late life guard/swim instructor The Kelly Patrick Community Pool.
• Company asked to give more thought to hiring locally A local drilling contractor says the mining company pursuing the Howard's Pass project should be putting more emphasis on local employment.
• Snowmobile fatality investigated Carmacks is in mourning after a snowmobile mishap resulted in the death of a 37-year-old man Saturday.

March 7, 2014

• Twenty-first Trek Over the Top riders hit Dawson Crossing the Yukon River at Dawson is a little different for this year's Trek Over the Top riders.
• Yukoners invited to share thoughts on park Yukoners are invited to tell the Kusawa Park Steering Committee what they think the management plan should look like for Kusawa Park, west of Whitehorse.
• Dawson doctor feels like she's won the lottery Dr. Aedes Scheer sits back comfortably in the family room at the new Dawson City Community Hospital and Health Services Facility.
• Rate subsidy's future remains an unknown Premier Darrell Pasloski has not announced whether his government will extend the monthly electrical bill beyond the March 31 expiry date.
• School councils still awaiting department's answer to request Neither the Department of Education nor Education Minister Elaine Taylor are ready to provide a public response to a request from the territory's three Catholic school councils regarding a policy on homosexuality in the separate system.
• City council considers grants The city could spend close to $20,000 on festivals and events in the coming year.
• Yukoner to offer user-generated porn channel Rob Hopkins veers between the innocent and the x-rated.
• Nervous villagers grappling with groundwater flooding Mayo is dealing with more groundwater flooding but no damage to personal property has been reported since water levels began rising last Friday.
• Late worker's emails bemoaned working environment A series of personal emails between a Whitehorse tire technician and his former partner have shed new light on the workplace conditions of the tire shop — found guilty of breaching workplace safety law in January — where he was crushed by a semi-truck more than two years ago.
• Swim instructor remembered as an enthusiastic dynamo Kelly Patrick's enthusiasm for swimming and just being in the water was evident whether she was playing Fishy In The Middle with a group of toddlers or leading a seniors' aquafit class.
• Don't raze historic foot bridge, heritage group urges Heritage Canada The National Trust is calling on the Yukon government to abandon its plans to demolish the Ross River Suspension Bridge.
• Girl hadn't been able to enter her residence A 15-year-old girl was found safe this morning after an intensive search was initiated in Copper Ridge following a 911 call at 3:45 a.m. to report her missing.

March 6, 2014

• Bistro Event Goes This Afternoon Field Notes and Friends,
• Dawsonites debated the meaning of Tr'ondëk-Klondike What does the notion of Tr'ondëk-Klondike mean to you?
• Swinging Into The Second Semester Members of the MAD (Music, Art and Drama) 11/12 class opened their annual variety show Wednesday evening,
• Nominations for volunteers sought The city is inviting organizations to nominate a Volunteer of the Year before the March 19 deadline.
• A Teslin Treat Heavy early-winter snowfall and the wolves have brought the moose down into Teslin, as seen above.
• Restudy land use planning process: chamber The executive director of the Yukon Chamber of Mines says it's time for the territory to review its land use planning process.
• Report outlines details of wrangler's death Preliminary findings have been released into the death of a wrangler fatally injured Jan. 26 while rounding up wild horses near the Kusawa Lake Road.
• Discussing Career Shows Michele Karch-Ackerman talks about her shows past, present and future Tuesday evening at The Old Fire Hall.
• Board gives blessing to lakeside subdivision The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) has recommended that construction of a 55-lot Carcross subdivision along Bennett Lake be permitted to proceed.
• Fired city manager turns up in Saskatchewan Former city manager Stan Westby, who was fired from his position last fall, has left the North for flatter ground in the Prairies.
• Police investigate assault on youth Two boys could face charges under the Youth Criminal Justice Act after Whitehorse RCMP were called to investigate an assault Monday where another boy's clothes were set on fire.
• ‘Vigilantism cannot be condoned,' judge says during sentencing A young man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for an act of violent vigilante justice in Burwash Landing last year.