Whitehorse Daily Star

October 10, 2013

• A Mother-Daughter Moment Amy Stuart has some fun with daughter Tyne
• Bicycle bylaw deferred after concerns raised at meeting The rules of the road for cyclists aren't changing, just yet.
• Infrastructure Work Spurs Detour Motorists were diverted around construction occurring on the Alaska Highway near the Whitehorse airport Wednesday night.
• Students, community help replenish food bank The Whitehorse Food Bank has been replenished – and a lot more.
• Learning Together program's expansion celebrated The Learning Together program room is right at the end of the primary wing of Hidden Valley Elementary School, down a hall lined with red coat racks, strewn with colourful jackets and backpacks, hung up, zippers mostly undone.
• Way paved for court to rule on contract dispute The city's tender process will become a question for the Yukon Supreme Court.
• RCMP nab three suspects; still looking for fourth Whitehorse RCMP have arrested two men and a woman after another man and woman were robbed Wednesday at Shipyards Park.

October 9, 2013

• Border-to-border patrol arrived in Dawson right on time Dawson's Ranger Patrol pulled up to the banks of the Yukon River just over the dike from the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Admin. Building close to their expected arrival time of 3:30 p.m. Sept. 30.
• Off-Season Railway Improvements Volunteer Bryan Clayson (left) cuts off the old rail support to then insert a new rubber support to fill in the empty gaps between the waterfront trolley rail ties and the sidewalk,
• Performer's ‘identity quest' is on stage until Saturday Mani Soleymanlou travelled a long way to get to Whitehorse.
• Empowering Yukon's Seniors Marg Dunn (right) speaks last week with Emily Tyson (left) of Yukon Palliative Care during a day-long information session and speakers series
• Convicted man to be sentenced in January The 31-year-old Whitehorse man convicted last week of attempting to murder an RCMP officer and a deputy conservation officer is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 23, 2014.
• Road Warrior Elizabeth Nelson is travelling south in her hybrid vehicle
• Yukon College fills vacancy from within Deborah Bartlette has been named as vice-president Academic and Student Services at Yukon College.
• 'Legal aid's not asking be a fat cat' The Yukon's legal aid director says additional funding announced by the territorial government Tuesday is welcome, but comes too little too late for some.
• Woman gets conditional term for stabbing boyfriend An abusive relationship in which a Dawson City woman consistently mistreated her boyfriend culminated in her stabbing the man in the chest last year, a territorial judge has concluded.
• Local non-profit group suffering from break-ins After three break-ins over a 2 1/2 week period, the Challenge-Disability Resource Group has improved lighting around its Front Street location.

October 8, 2013

• Territory gets second Little Free Library A year after the first Little Free Library opened in Riverdale, another branch opened last Saturday morning at the Bean North coffee shop on the Takhini Hot Springs Road.
• A Rare Sight A Korean Coast Guard plane touched down recently at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport.
• Site was in compliance with safety rules The Sidhu Trucking construction site by Range Road and Mountainview Drive was found to be in compliance with safety requirements following a second inspection by the Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board.
• Old Sol Circled A sun circle is seen Sunday
• Complaint dismissed after man fails to attend hearing The Yukon Human Rights Board of Adjudication dismissed a complaint of racial discrimination Monday because the complainant failed to show up to the hearing.
• A Guiding Hand Hazel Venzon (foreground), Nakai Theatre's producer for last weekend's 24-hour Playwriting Challenge,
• Carcross Commons sees business turnover as season ends Two Carcross Commons business operators opted to leave their ventures after the commercial village's first season in operation.
• Dempster caribou hunting ban imposed An emergency ban on caribou hunting along the Dempster Highway has been imposed because of the presence of the Fortymile caribou herd.
• Tax increase presumption is premature: chamber This Thursday evening's public input meeting and the online questionnaire focusing on the city's 2014 budget is a good step forward and something the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce has been calling on for years, says chamber president Rick Karp.
• City wants to know how society spent money The city will pay up to $15,000 to find out how government money and various grants that went to the Great Northern Ski Society (GNSS) was spent.