Whitehorse Daily Star

September 5, 2012

• Mayor will travel to Regina post-election Mayor Bev Buckway will be off to Regina next month to talk infrastructure.
• Production Opens This Evening Broken, opening at 8:00 this evening,
• Household Hazardous Waste Day set The city will be holding its last Household Hazardous Waste Day for 2012 on Sept. 15.
• Klondike Medical Clinic taking patients Whitehorse has received a bit of a reprieve from the territory's shortage of medical professionals with the arrival of four new doctors.
• Your Licence, Please The bears were doing their thing along the Chilkat River in Haines, Alaska,
• N.W.T. MP is in Iceland Northwest Territories MP Dennis Bevington will be among four Canadian delegates attending the 10th Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, which began today in Akureyri, Iceland.
• Chow Time Mayor Bev Buckway and Commissioner Doug Phillips serve up burgers Tuesday
• Society repeats call for fracking moratorium The Yukon Conservation Society is echoing calls for a territory-wide moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
• Plan envisions paring size of swelling wood bison herd Thinning the Aishihik wood bison herd to 1,000 animals is among the primary objectives of the new bison management plan officially adopted Tuesday.
• It's ‘all or nothing,' says fourth mayoral candidate Mandeep Sidhu has become the fourth mayoral candidate to announce his plans for the Oct. 18 municipal election in the hopes of taking over the reins at city hall.
• Residents object to Hillcrest townhouses proposal A townhouse development proposed for Hillcrest Drive would mean a loss of privacy and daytime sun for other residents of the neighbourhood.

September 4, 2012

• Arcrite Northern wins city well contract Arcrite Northern has been tasked with putting a new city well into production.
• Fox With Foxtails This visitor dropped in on a Riverdale front yard
• Dawson raises rental fees for a variety of services No one can actually recall anyone wanting to rent a coffee urn from the City of Dawson's Recreation Department.
• Unions Feed The People Laurie Butterworth, the former president of the Yukon Employees Union,
• Power fails Dawson City, Mayo residents Yukon Energy was continuing to investigate the cause of a partial failure of the electrical grid at 5:32 a.m. today that knocked out power to Dawson and Mayo.
• Roadside Prowler Motorists along the the Haines Road
• Soggy Bottoms prove the tops for outhouse glory The route for this year's edition of the Great International Outhouse Race, held Sunday, was a familiar one.
• Lottery winner glad he stuck with Quick Pick Whitehorse resident Donald Barker has some personal numbers he likes to play on Lotto Max and Lotto 6/49, but when it comes to Western 649, he always asks for aQuick Pick.
• 1940s-era document delaying springs development A more than 60-year-old document is holding up development at the Takhini Hot Springs, and the company's owners are now asking the Yukon Supreme Court for some clarification.
• Hillcrest developments to be focus of meeting With two new developments in the planning stages, parts of the Hillcrest neighbourhood could have a very different look in the coming years.
• Support growing for NDP, YP, poll reports Yukoners have named housing as the number one issue in the territory, according to the results of the latest DataPath Systems poll.

August 31, 2012

• Dawson's council, chamber object to Northwestel's plans Neither the City of Dawson nor the local chamber of commerce are enthusiastic about the proposed Northwestel Modernization Plan that the company is proposing to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
• Liberal MLA has doubts about ‘major upheaval' Premier Darrell Pasloski believes his sweeping shuffle of deputy ministers will ultimately lead to better government.
• Premier unveils major shake-up of DMs Premier Darrell Pasloski has unveiled major changes in the roles of several senior leaders within the Yukon government public service.
• Registration fair proved popular The city's annual registration fair, held last Saturday, saw a large number of Whitehorse residents taking an interest in active living, Mayor Bev Buckwaysaid Tuesday.
• College set for 10 days of orientation events More than 540 new and returning students starting classes next week can look forward to 10 days of music, food, games, and competitions during orientation activities at Yukon College.
• ‘Sundog opened so many doors,' artist says Five years after starting the beginner carving program at the Sundog Carving Studio, Justien Senoa Wood returns to the Northern Cultural Expressions Society (NCES) to host her first solo art show.
• College helping students find digs Yukon College Student Services is putting up a new housing board to help students find rental units in the city.
• Arctic adventure has youth eying a career as a conservation officer If there's one thing a sea voyage from Canada's eastern Arctic to Greenland's western Arctic region can do, it's to push the resolve of a prospective conservation officer further down his career path.
• City manager bylaw passed It took two weeks after new city manager Stan Westby started his job with the city, but council has an updated City Manager Bylaw in place.
• Youth still pressing to seal the deal on the Peel The Peel Youth Alliance sent a visual message to the Yukon government Thursday, urging it to accept the Peel watershed land use plan.
• Soggy summer helped protect bush from burning The latest wildfire season saw an above-average number of fires this year but a smaller amount of total hectares burned.
• Cooking Up Assistance Volunteers from Yukon College worked a variety of jobs Wednesday,
• City marks Millennium Trail's first decade This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Millennium Trail, Mayor Bev Buckway said Thursday.
• Late Summer Snacking With jowls that are filling up with sunflowers seeds, this chipmunk is also another of nature's seed carriers.
• Beloved bartender earned his place in Yukon folklore At around 7:45 last Friday morning, Barney Roberge passed away at the age of 88.
• Energy literacy: is Ottawa a help or a hindrance? A report released last month by a standing Senate committee calls for Canadians to become more energy-literate.
• Daycare has helped rear a generation of kids One local daycare's Downtown Days are numbered.
• Museums ‘saddened' by city funding denial Representatives of three local museums say they are "saddened” the city won't be a doling out the $10,000 they requested.
• Family's tormentor sent to federal penitentiary A Yukon father who believed God approved of him taking his teenaged daughter as his wife and proceeded to torment his family with years of physical, sexual and psychological abuse, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.