Whitehorse Daily Star

July 13, 2012

• Yukoners invited to help plan new budget As the implementation of the controversial 2012 federal budget gets underway, so has consultation for budget 2013.
• Rotarians and Filipinos partner in service About $9,000 raised by the Yukon Filipino Association is the basis of a $45,800 Rotary matching grant project which will provide equipment and supplies essential in effective responses to disasters.
• Yukoners needed for TV commercial A commercial is scheduled to be shot early next month at Yukon College.
• Government supports community youth projects across territory Yukon youth are benefiting from almost $53,000 from the Youth Investment Fund that will support 21 projects across the territory.
• Local resident was crowned weight loss queen A Whitehorse woman was crowned queen of the Yukon Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) weight loss club in May.
• Air Canada cancels flights Air Canada Jazz flights between Whitehorse and Vancouver were cancelled Thursday and this morning,
• Accused of attempted murder, man still needs lawyer The Attorney General of Canada has been ordered to pay for the lawyer of a man accused of trying to kill an RCMP officer, after Yukon legal aid ran out of lawyers who could work with him.
• Dropping In This Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane landed Wednesday
• Diesel-fired pump irrigation system touted The intent of a $366,000 Takhini River project is to see if it's feasible for Yukon farmers to get off diesel-fired pumps to irrigate their fields.
• First Yukoner eager to attend burn camp For some people, getting up early to make a morning flight out of Whitehorse can be a bit of a struggle.
• Power Summer Yukon to go later this month For many athletes, training camps are a time to hone their skills in their chosen sport.
• Bear shot after invading home; C.O.s planning to kill another Conservation officers have shot one black bear and are planning to destroy another after the two animals made their way to – and in one case, through – Whitehorse homes on Thursday.
• ‘These things were like a loaded gun' Her father described her as a charismatic, outgoing, bright-eyed, bushy-haired little girl.

July 12, 2012

• Treating Water With Respect Lorraine Wolfe and her children, Jewel and Navarro, go through some basic water safety techniques while out near Teslin Lake.
• Changes needed to make health system work: NDP The territory's health care system needs fixing, say the Yukon New Democrats.
• Opening This Evening Aimée Dawn Robinson is the Artist in Residence at the Arts Underground beneath the Hougen Centre on Main Street.
• Grants assist Yukon performers' development Eleven advanced artists will share $37,855 through Yukon's Advanced Artist Award for their literary, performing or visual arts development.
• Packed House A large crowd greeted Solid Fuel
• City opts to delay zoning decision It could be some time before major changes to zoning regulations become law after city council voted Monday night to put off third reading of the bylaw changes.
• Summer Time Creativity Deanna Slonski takes part Monday in the Yukon Artists @ Work Plein Air Festival.
• Flooding closes Dempster campground Environment Yukon has closed the Engineer Creek territorial campground to campers until further notice.
• Byrd Singing Jonathan Byrd, a singer/songwriter from North Carolina, performed at The Old Fire Hall on Tuesday evening.
• College is awarded a federal research grant Yukon College and the University of Saskatchewan have been jointly awarded $660,600 in project funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
• Yukon firefighters sent to Alberta Seven crews with Yukon Wildland Fire Management are being deployed to Alberta today to assist with the forest fire situation in that province.
• Late pilot hailed from Yellowknife The Yukon Coroner Service has identified the pilot killed in a helicopter crash near Carcross on Tuesday afternoon.
• Major drugs, weapons bust took months of police work A months-long investigation by the Yukon RCMP's drug section has culminated in the seizure of drugs and weapons from three homes in Whitehorse.

July 11, 2012

• Dyea lodge takes prestigious award A Dyea, Alaska lodge has been honoured as a highly rated resort as reviewed by travellers on the world's largest travel site.
• Animal lovers, pets summoned to church on Sunday Come rain or shine, the annual blessing of all pets will be held Sunday at Whitehorse United Church.
• Municipal Act meetings have now concluded Like many of us, municipalities are looking for new ways to make money.
• Tuning Up Team Netherlands was out practising this morning
• Watson Lake area fire risk elevated The wildfire danger rating for Watson Lake has been updated to extreme due to high winds that are forecast to be headed for the area,
• Warbling Into The Wind The Blue Warblers – Natalie Edelson, left, and Kim Beggs
• Names of injured released after ambulance lost control on road Emergency officials have released the names of two Skagway first responders injured when their ambulance crashed while its occupants were returning from a medevac trip to Carcross earlier this week.
• Rezoning proceeds for Raven Ridge development Ravens Ridge developers say they will continue planning for the second phase of the country residential development off the Alaska Highway despite confusion over subsurface rights in the area.
• Pony Car Devotees Grant and Linda Holm (left), with Holm's Mechanical, sponsored the Best Mustang event at the fourth annual Whitehorse Motors Show and Shine held last Sunday at the Real Canadian Superstore parking lot.
• Report assesses animal welfare laws The Yukon falls in the middle of the pack where animal protection is concerned, according to the latest rankings by the U.S.-based Animal Legal Defense Fund.
• Dempster washout has stranded travellers A washout at kilometre 225 on the Dempster Highway has the Eagle Plains Lodge cut off from southern Yukon.
• Searing winds played havoc with power Fifty households in Tagish were expected to have power restored this afternoon in the wake of a windstorm which caused outages in Whitehorse, Teslin and Tagish on Tuesday.
• Target of SCAN law agrees to be evicted for three months A Porter Creek property owner has volunteered to be evicted from his home for 90 days under the territory's Safer Communities and Neighbourhood Act (SCAN).
• ‘We're devastated; the whole company is devastated' A pilot has died and one person had to be airlifted to hospital in Vancouver after a helicopter with three people aboard crashed Tuesday afternoon on the north side of Nares Lake near Carcross.