Whitehorse Daily Star

February 7, 2014

• Event gives $10,000 infusion to cancer fund It was advertised as a "hootenanny.”
• Heritage fair will see delegations from Atlin to Old Crow in May Students from Atlin, B.C. to Old Crow will gather in Whitehorse in early May to showcase their family history, paleontology facts and a variety of topics on the region's culture and history.
• Super Show Looms Katelyn Bushell,
• Record race time could be broken For the second straight year, a new Yukon Quest race record may be established.
• Screening At The Festival Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, left, a 20-year-old actress from the Mohawk Nation, speaks with Doris McLean at The old Fire Hall Tuesday.
• Lone Yukon musher happy to reach home town There was a bit of a traffic jam at the Yukon Quest checkpoint in Dawson City this morning.
• Government looks to exploit air link advantages The Yukon government is exploring ways to grow Ottawa as a tourism market and help promote Air North's new service between Whitehorse and the capital, via Yellowknife.
• SOVA Students' Skills Shown Curtis Collins, left, the director of the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson City, and Neil Graham work Thursday afternoon on installing String Theory,
• Zero Waste kicks off with campaign for coffee drinkers At -31 C, a hot cup of coffee is very enticing to many weary-eyed college students, workers and other facing a mid-morning funk.
• Minister, outfitters at Sin City event Tourism and Culture Minister Mike Nixon, the Yukon Outfitters Association and several outfitting businesses are attending the Safari Club International Convention and trade show in Las Vegas this week to promote the Yukon as a world class hunting destination.
• Tower Power While the federal government was unveiling plans this week to stiffen community consultation requirements for cellphone tower installations,
• Police investigating break-in at Selkirk Elementary School Whitehorse RCMP are asking for the public's help in their investigation of a break-in at Selkirk Elementary School last weekend.
• Acclaimed documentary to be shown Saturday ( Preview ) In Hi-Ho Mistahay, director Alanis Obomsawin reveals through a documentary lens both the dearth and urgency of equitable education in remote indigenous communities.
• Fun and Fitness The 45th Annual Polar Games started Thursday in Whitehorse.
• Performers to gather Sunday to support Peel plan opponents As lawyers ready for courtroom arguments over the Yukon government's plan for the Peel watershed, local musicians are getting ready to stage their support for protecting the region.
• Musher charting new course with laid-back pace Ken Anderson isnʼt used to this.
• Pace of change in Carcross stirs reservations Edna Helm, a Carcross/Tagish First Nation (C/TFN ) elder, is worried that change is coming too fast to her little community.
• Family provides mammoth donation to Peel legal case A Yukon family has given the fund for those challenging the new Peel watershed plan a $5,300 boost.
• Changes would assist suddenly-bereaved families The territorial government is moving to increase the amount of money Yukoners receive in the wake of a family member's unintended death.

February 6, 2014

• Cadets to compete this weekend in Whitehorse More than 70 army and air cadets from across the territories will converge this weekend at the Grey Mountain Biathlon facilities for a chance to become the Canadian Cadet Movement Biathlon Territory Champions.
• Marking The Occasion Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomed an Air North delegation to Parliament Hill to celebrate todayʼs launch of twice-weekly flights between Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Ottawa.
• Better late than never: Dawson has an ice bridge It's taken some time this year, more than usual, but an official ice bridge across the Yukon River has been constructed.
• ‘Hard' trail will change hourly, mushers told Yukon Quest mushers will face a smooth but hard trail on the Canadian side of the border this year.
• Entertaining The Crowd Rob Hunter performs Tuesday evening for about 20 people
• ‘We havenʼt even started racing': frontrunner The Yukon Quest will be a three-horse race from Dawson City to Whitehorse.
• Partnerships can provide inspiration, delegates told Yukon First Nations gathered at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre this week for the annual First Nation Governance and Capacity Development Conference.
• Kwanlin Dun chief opts not to seek re-election There will be a new Kwanlin Dun First Nation chief as of March 19.
• Woman survives near-fatal mishap A woman nearly froze to death in Pelly Crossing early Tuesday morning before a neighbour heard her cries for help and called 911.

February 5, 2014

• Loppet downgraded to leisure ski Due to weather conditions, changes have been made to this Saturday's 20th annual Marsh Lake Classic Cross Country Ski Loppet.
• A Spirited Battle The annual Battle of the Bands took place Friday at the Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre.
• French Immersion Week celebrated at schools Members of the local chapter of Canadian Parents for French are helping mark French Immersion Celebration Week (Feb. 3-9).
• Musical Victors The Battle of the Bands took place last Friday at the Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre.
• Run has proved a mental challenge: leader Who says nice guys finish last?
• Making a Milestone Yukon Quest sled dog race musher Allen Moore
• No changes suggested for municipal operating budget The city is moving ahead with its proposed $68.5-million operating budget this year.
• Offender praised for finding the right track A Whitehorse man convicted of assaulting an RCMP officer in 2011 has "come so far,” a Yukon territorial court judge said at his sentencing this week.
• Cabs getting more difficult to summon It seems five local cab companies may be out of service – or, at the very least, their phones are.
• It took dogged determination to track elusive payload Followers of the renowned neon orange drink cooler — which achieved local fame last week when it was launched into space for several fleeting, flighty hours — found closure Tuesday evening at an event trumpeting its trajectory.
• Western Arctic Gwich'in plan legal action The Gwich'in Tribal Council of the Western Arctic will file a legal action against the Yukon government regarding the Peel land use plan, says the council's vice-president.