Whitehorse Daily Star

May 31, 2012

• Countdown begins to 12-hour Relay For Life The Canadian Cancer Society is counting down the days to Whitehorse's ninth annual Relay For Life fund-raiser taking place from noon until midnight Saturday at Shipyards Park.
• The Sounds Were Electric Electric Cheese performed during Wednesday evening's concert at Arts in the Park in downtown Whitehorse.
• Dawson golf course tees off on reincarnation With last Saturday's opening of the newly-renamed Dawson City Golf Course, the Dawson Golf Association has been busy getting the fledgling business on its feet.
• Youthful Lunch Time Fare The Holy Family Elementary School choir and ukelele ensemble entertained the Arts In the Park crowd at noon Wednesday (Kids' Day) at LePage Park.
• CBC to leave the AM band CBC Radio One in Whitehorse will launch its FM service Friday and discontinue its AM signal Sept. 1, the network confirmed Wednesday.
• Crews help with house fire in Upper Liard Three firefighters and a regional protection officer with Wildland Fire Management helped volunteer firefighters quell a house fire in the Upper Liard area just before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
• Federal NDP wants to hear Yukoners Throughout May, the federal NDP has been holding public consultation sessions on the 2012 budget.
• ‘We need to stand up against this' About 75 people took to the streets of Whitehorse Wednesday evening to stand in solidarity with striking students in Quebec.
• Hard-boiled egg found in coyote How the hard-boiled egg got into the coyote's stomach remains a mystery, but it was there when the animal shot at the Canada Games Centre was opened up Monday for examination.
• Asp testifies to troubling formulative years After more than two months of sitting in court listening to the case against her, a Whitehorse woman accused of murder took the stand in her defence Wednesday.

May 30, 2012

• Judicial review of inquest begins A judicial review of the coroner's inquest into the in-custody death of Raymond Silverfox is underway in court for the next two days.
• Black particulate spurred workers' complaints Workers in the pharmacy at Whitehorse General Hospital had to cope with black particulate which had found its way into their workplace.
• Premiers discussed nation-wide energy strategy A national energy strategy was a key discussion topic at this year's Western Premiers Conference in Edmonton.
• Fish For Frying The annual Hidden Lake fry release took place Saturday.
• Noted documentary wins award Former Yukon broadcaster Lucy van Oldenbarneveld and local lawyer Laura Cabott have won the Founder's Award at the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival for the documentary North Boys: The Story of Jimmy and Charlie.
• Did you know? On the trail of local history! Ed. note: these historic items, submitted by the Whitehorse History Book Society, are published every second Wednesday.
• Our priority is the land, not money: elders Elders from the four First Nations—Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, Na‐Cho Nyak Dun, Tetlit Gwich'in and Vuntut Gwitchin—which call the Peel watershed home gathered off the Dempster Highway last Saturday to discuss the protection of their region.
• Teachers meeting here The Yukon Teachers' Association (YTA), with the Canadian Teachers' Federation, is hosting the national presidents' meeting at the High Country Inn.
• Connecting Over The Grill Whitehorse Connects connected with Whitehorse residents Tuesday at The Old Fire Hall.
• Review of municipal structure carries on The City of Whitehorse is reviewing the structure of its government with a view to improving the organization's efficiency, effectiveness and customer service, Mayor Bev Buckway said this week.
• Territory's population reaches a record high The Yukon's population reached a record high in March, hitting 35,944, representing an increase of 614 people since March 2011, according to the latest numbers from the Yukon Bureau of Statistics.
• ‘Northwestel's monopoly is officially at an end' One of this country's largest voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers, has announced its plans to expand services in the North to provide competition for Northwestel Inc.
• Advocate pecks away at plan's perceived flaws Allowing for backyard chickens is great, but the city needs to loosen its knickers when it comes to the regulations, council heard Monday night.

May 29, 2012

• Another sign of Spring The ice on Teslin Lake finally broke up last weekend,
• Hard at Work A yellow-bellied sapsucker finished his entry hole recently and spent several days mucking out the inner cavity.
• NDP honoured to be invited to elders' gathering on Peel Members of the NDP official Opposition caucus say they were honoured to have been invited to last weekend's special gathering up the Dempster highway organized by elders concerned with preserving the Peel River watershed.
• Curiosity In The Wilderness When the photographer first spotted this item along the banks of the Teslin River
• More waterfront claims staked but rejected Four more mineral claims have been staked – and rejected – along the Whitehorse waterfront.
• Enjoying Nature Tours of the walking trails at the Yukon forest management branch open house,
• Politicians react to report on poverty A research report on poverty in the Yukon released last week is a reiteration of what we already know, says Jan Stick, the NDP critic for the Department of Health and Social Services.
• Serious housing problems persist, coalition says The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition released the first of three progress reports on its housing action plan Monday.
• Ski society's latest funding bid irks councillor Funding for Mount Sima raised something of a mini-feud among the five members of city council present for Monday evening's meeting.
• Servicing would have found blocked fuel line The failed motor on the boat which capsized, killing a Mayo RCMP officer, had a blockage in the fuel system — something that would best be corrected through scheduled service and repair, independent reports into the officer's death say.