Whitehorse Daily Star

August 6, 2013

• Four Yukon College students receive awards Four Yukon College students received a total of $2,500 in financial awards as they prepare to enter their second year of studies.
• Minister explains location for new F.H. Collins Secondary School The minister of Education says the new location for F.H. Collins Secondary School is the best spot and will allow for the least amount of disruption to regular activities during construction.
• New Arrivals Marcus Hinton checks out the chinook salmon at the Whitehorse Fish Ladder this morning.
• Local author launches ‘Law of the Yukon' at MacBride Museum The public is invited to join local historian and author Helene Dobrowolsky as she launches a new revised edition of her definitive history of the RCMP in the Yukon: Law of the Yukon: A History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon in Whitehorse.
• Implementation of Operation Nanook emergency exercise in full swing Governor General David Johnston visited the Operation Nanook command centre this morning at the Takhini Arena.
• Kennedy counters minister Dixon's criticisms Robert Kennedy Jr. returned yesterday from his rafting trip down the Alsek River to find he'd ignited a bit of a political firestorm.
• Gwitchin declare their traditional territory ‘frack-free,' for now The citizenship of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation sent a message to its leaders over the weekend regarding their stance on hydraulic fracturing on traditional territory.
• Yukon government offers to pay off Sima debts Both the Great Northern Ski Society and Mayor Dan Curtis are welcoming news that the Yukon government will pay off the society's debts to local creditors.

August 5, 2013

• Keep foxes away: Environment Yukon Environment Yukon is reminding Whitehorse residents that now is the time to take action to keep fox families from moving into backyards next spring.
• Students honoured for political activism Three F.H. Collins Secondary School students are being recognized for their political activism aimed at keeping their school gym open during construction of the new high school.
• Season Winding Down Zumba was featured at Arts in the Park last Wednesday afternoon.
• First chinook salmon ascends fish ladder The first chinook salmon of the season climbed the Whitehorse Fish Ladder on Sunday.
• Conducting The Review Mayor Dan Curtis reviews the graduating cadets Friday
• Young Yukoners at national science camp Three Yukon First Nations youth are attending the First Nations and Inuit Youth Employment Strategy National Science Camp until Aug. 11 in Quebec City and Montreal.
• Look But Don't Touch Hundreds of people checked out a show and shine event held Sunday at the Yukon Transportation Museum.
• Council moves to 5:30 p.m. starts Anyone showing up to council chambers tonight for its usual 7:30 p.m. meeting start time will be two hours late.
• No new wildfires reported: officials It's been a quiet couple of days on the fire front in the territory.
• Hundreds of soldiers here for mock disaster exercise The armed forces have invaded Whitehorse.
• Sweeping shuffle underwhelms opposition parties Premier Darrell Pasloski announced major changes to his cabinet this morning.

August 2, 2013

• Van Bibber legacy helps out film, music projects There was initially some concern among the members of the Van Bibber family about raising enough money to publish J.J. Van Bibber's memoir, I was born under a spruce tree.
• Dawson park designated a Municipal Heritage Site Minto Park has become Dawson City's third Municipal Heritage Site and the second within the last six months.
• Rehabilitation called part of environmental stewardship Last month's timely rescue of two eaglets is a reminder of the role we can each play in maintaining the health and diversity of the Yukon's wilderness, Environment Minister Currie Dixon said recently.
• Business owner is ready to help search efforts Doug Brehmer, the owner and operator of High Country Rentals, opened his rental business for ATVs, motor bikes and snowmobiles in May.
• First Nation, government renew accord The Yukon government and the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation have renewed an intergovernmental accord.
• Cougar sightings being reported around Old Crow Fish and wildlife manager William Josie of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation says he doesn't know much about cougars.
• Donald Emerson Taylor: gone, but not forgotten The summer residents of Stewart Lake, along with a few close friends from around the Yukon and across Canada,
• Sexual health conference to begin this evening The Kwanlin Dün First Nation is engaging youth on making positive health‐related choices by hosting the CHOICES Youth Sexual Health Conference from this evening through Sunday.
• Mountain Fest Music Fabian Brook (left) and Aiden Tentrees perform last Saturday at the annual Frog Mountain Festival held west of Whitehorse.
• Lock vehicles, local motorists warned again Whitehorse RCMP are reminding the public to lock their vehicles after a vehicle was deliberately set on fire Thursday.
• Watershed council to vote on management plan The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council is holding its biennial summit in Mayo.
• Musical Showcase Goes Saturday The Yukon Summer Music Camp is in full swing until Saturday.
• Farmer looks to sweet harvests of haskap berry Meet the haskap berry.
• Tailings project could still begin this year: company Producing iron-ore from tailings at the old Whitehorse Copper Mine could still begin this year, says the owner of Eagle Industrial Minerals.
• Wildfire came close to lodge Yukon Wildland Fire Management crews were back on site this morning dealing with a blaze which broke out Thursday just 2 1/2 kilometres from the Moose Creek Lodge in the Mayo fire district.
• Cell tower meeting drew critics, supporters An information meeting hosted by Bell Canada on its proposed cell tower in Copper Ridge drew a crowd of between 40 and 60 people Wednesday night, say local resident Tracey Twa and city planning manager Pat Ross.
• RFK. Jr. ‘spewed ill-informed nonsense': Dixon Bobby Kennedy Jr. has added his voice to the contingent of Yukoners who say the Peel watershed planing process has been undemocratic.