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Porter Creek Rams’ Kennedy Locke-Cairns goes up for two against the F.H. Collins Warriors during Super Hoops action at Porter Creek Secondary on Thursday. The Rams held on for a 41-39 win despite playing the fourth quarter with just four players.
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City Councillor John Streicker says that a new agreement with Elections Canada will help increase voter turnout.
a list, they’re less likely to want to vote, said Streicker. Voter turnout for the 2012 municipal election was low at approximately 43 per cent, and even lower at 37 per cent in 2009. That’s compared to the roughly 76 per cent turnout for the last territorial election. Streicker said voter lists would be shared between polling stations around the city, making it easier for people to vote where it’s most convenient for them. “If you want to vote near work because it’s more con-
venient, the list will be shared and live, meaning other polling stations will know where and when you voted,� he said. “If you’re running around to bring your kids somewhere and you don’t have time to get to your polling station, you might not vote. But if we make it more flexible, we hope we’ll capture more people.� Streicker said details should be finalized by the spring, as elections are typically prepared six months ahead of time. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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Yukon Zinc owes $3M in mine security their licence. But they are responsible for the site, and they’re doing everything they need to do ukon Zinc’s Wolverine to keep the site in good environmine has been out of mental standing. So we’re not compliance with its mining really worried about any of that at licence since October for failing to this point. pay a security earmarked for mine “Our inspectors are out there, reclamation and closure plans. looking at things, and I think The company, which anthey’re fairly happy with what’s nounced a temporary shutdown happening.” of the mine this week, owes the The shutdown announced this Yukon government close to $3 week will result in the layoff of million. 220 employees of Yukon Zinc and About every two years, mining its contractors. companies are required to submit The company has cited declinan updated reclamation and cloing mineral prices and unfavoursure plan, explained Bob Holmes, able market conditions as the a director with Energy, Mines and reason for the closure. Resources in an interview this While zinc prices are doing week. alright at the moment compared That document must estimate with the fi ve-year average, prices the costs of the plan, and the for other minerals that Yukon company must post a security to Zinc depends on to make a buck the government to cover those have fallen dramatically over the potential costs. past couple years, including silver, After Yukon Zinc’s most recent John Thompson/Yukon News copper and gold. closure plan, the company owed Watson Lake is already feeling A roof bolter in a Wolverine mine tunnel in 2009. Yukon Zinc announced a temporary closure about $3.5 million on top of the the pinch, according to Mayor $7 million it had already posted as of the mine this week. Richard Durocher. security. out of compliance with its licence issue was turned over to the comhave been made, a major deadline “We’re noticing it in town. It’s The initial payment schedule and that failure to make the paypliance, monitoring and inspecwas missed in the fall. a lot quieter. There’s not as much would have seen that paid in full ment could result in prosecution, activity as there was before.” “Back in October they ran into tions branch. by July 2014. he said in a statement. How the compliance issue yet another worsening fi nancial The company hired 145 Yu“They were unable to comYukon Zinc has not responded koners over the course of 2013, it dealt with is up to them, said situation, so they were unable to ply with that because of their to several requests for comment. Holmes. make the payment.” financial difficulties, and they’ve according to its most recent There are no major compliance annual report for the Wolverine Rob Thomson, director of the The company missed a payhad financial difficulties off and issues beside the lack of payment, mine. compliance branch, said he will ment of $350,000 on Oct. 31, on for the last couple of years,” said Holmes. not comment extensively on the said Holmes. “So we worked out a 2014, and as a result fell out It spent $1.24 million on goods “The fact that they are behind and services in Watson Lake, and case because the investigation is of compliance with its licence. schedule of payment with them.” on their security is certainly a ongoing. But meeting the new schedule, The next scheduled payment, of $264,000 in Ross River, in 2013. problem,” he said. However, the department has $450,000, is due tomorrow. too, proved a challenge for the Contact Jacqueline Ronson at “They are not complying with informed the company that it is jronson@yukon-news.com After the missed payment the company. While some payments Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter
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Hydro project shortlist announced Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter
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he Yukon Development Corporation has shortlisted 10 sites as possible locations for the territory’s next hydro dam. The corporation has hired Midgard Consulting Inc. to evaluate Yukon’s need for new hydro power and recommend one or more projects. The selected sites are located on the Stewart, Hess, Pelly, Teslin, and Frances rivers, and are located closest to the communities of Mayo, Pelly Crossing, Whitehorse, Ross River and Watson Lake. Over the next year engineers will further evaluate the potential of these sites to meet the needs of the Yukon, and produce several technical reports on how well they match the territory’s future power needs and the potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts. The Yukon Development Corporation plans to complete a business case recommending one or more of the projects to the Yukon government in a year’s time. Midgard’s most recent evaluation of Yukon’s future energy
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Workers upgrade the lift gate system of the Whitehorse dam in 2013. The Yukon Development Corporation has released a shortlist of potential sites for the territory’s next hydro facility.
needs found that the territory will require an additional 11 megawatts of reliable winter capacity by 2035, and 31 megawatts by 2065. That probably will mean focusing on projects that provide
the most power over the winter months, when the difference between Yukon’s demand for power and supply of power is expected to be greatest. The Whitehorse hydro facility, for example, has a potential ca-
pacity of 40 megawatts, but only reliably produces 24 megawatts of power in the winter time, when water levels are low. The Aishihik hydro facility, on the other had, was designed with winter power in mind. It
has a potential capacity of 37 megawatts, and it can run at full capacity through the winter time. All of the shortlisted projects will have environmental impacts if built, said Peter Helland with Midgard at a technical briefing this week. “No project is perfect,” he said. The key will be to find the project that best balances meeting the power needs of the territory with minimal negative impacts. The trick is to “find that sweet spot,” he said. One of the major challenges will be to manage impacts to the fisheries, he said. All of the sites have been identified as being good fish habitat. Whatever location is picked, managing the fisheries risk will likely have to involve some solution to get fish from one side of the facility to the other. The next round of public talks on the project are expected to be scheduled for some time in May. Visit nextgenerationhydro.ca to learn more about the technical work done to date or get in contact with the engagement team. Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com
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Seven half-day Kindergarten students got back to class Wednesday at a former teachtudents in Ross River are er’s residence in town. back in school after an The Grade 10 students were unplanned break of about also among the first to get back two weeks. to class Wednesday, situating On Jan. 9, teachers sent chil- themselves in the Mackenzie dren home after coming into Building. work and discovering large On Thursday the Grade cracks in the walls. 1-3 class resumed in the Hope The cracks were inspected Centre, the Grade 4 and 5 and the building was declared class took over the first mobile safe just days after, and classes classroom, and Grade 6 and resumed on Jan. 13. 7 students set up shop in the But that wasn’t the end of Mackenzie Building. the story. Again, just a few The Grade 8 and 9 class will days later, a more detailed have resumed this morning in engineer’s report came in that the second mobile classroom, found the building to be in if all went according to plan. critical condition and at risk In total, 55 students were of collapse in the event of affected by the school closure. high winds, heavy snow or an They were given homework earthquake. packages to keep them busy. The school shuttered indefiThe Department of Educanitely, pending repairs, on Jan. tion had toyed with different 19. plans to get the students back This week, students and to class, including busing them teachers have trickled back to Faro, about 75 kilometres into makeshift classrooms down the road. around town. “Our priority has been to Two mobile classrooms minimize the disruption to were shipped up from Yukon students and staff and to get College to help with the space them back to class as soon crunch. They do not have as possible,� said Education bathrooms, but are parked Minister Doug Graham in a outside the arena to allow stu- news release this week. “With dents and staff to use facilities input from the community, the there. Department of Education has In addition, the Hope Cendeveloped a plan that ensures tre, the Mackenzie Building students can stay in their comand a former teacher’s resimunity as they resume their studies.� dence are also being used. Jacqueline Ronson
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Territory gets new child and youth advocate wanted to congratulate him, and they also wanted to know where his office stood on federal issues. n 2010, when Andy Nieman There were government departwas about three months into his ment heads who wanted to meet new job as the Yukon’s child and about how his office would mesh youth advocate, he wasn’t sure if he with theirs and policy writers who was going to make it. wanted to get to work. “By July I was pulling my hair “Oh, yeah and we’re also seeing out, what little hair I have left. My clients, to top it all off,� he said. moccasins were smokin’ from all “I’ve got a 16-year-old teenager the running around I was doing. on the line saying, ‘I’m in a group I said man, I don’t think I can do home, I’m pregnant, I’m having this, I think I bit off more than I can this baby. They said they’re going chew.� to support me but then one of the He says it was his faith in God social workers came and told me that got him through. they’re going to apprehend my child “I went to church one night and I at birth. Can you help me?� said pray for me, I’m not sure if I’m Nieman’s office looks out for the the right person for this job,� he said. rights of children and youth who After the service a woman came are getting government services. up to him and told him it was God That could mean kids whose special who gave him the job and God who needs are not being met in the was going to bring him through it. classroom, teens in group homes or “That was all I needed to hear.� youth struggling with mental illness. Nieman was the Yukon’s first In the five years he’s been on child and youth advocate. After five the job his office has created two years on the job he will be handing important protocols, he said, one over the reins in March. with the Department of Health and As he remembers it, opening a Social Services and the other with new office in 2010 was a stressful Education. thing. They lay out the rules for when He walked in the door to find an the department interacts with his ofe-mail inbox full of messages from fice, who has what responsibility and advocates around the country. They how information is to be released.
either Alberta or B.C. for an assessment. Nieman said the waiting list is three to six months. Kids shouldn’t have to go away to get help, he says. “There are just so many problems that that creates. Parents can’t always afford to go down with their child so they just say no, we’re not going to go. So the child doesn’t get the treatment they need.� Providing more mental health services for youth in the Yukon could let patients stay close to their families and culture. It could become a northern centre for the three territories, he said. After five years on the job, Nieman is moving into private practice Mike Thomas/Yukon News doing counselling and mediation. “When I look at all the grief and Andy Nieman, Yukon’s first child and youth advocate, is the hurt and the suicides that are retiring in March. happening in First Nation communities in the North and Yukon here, Getting both done is an accomplish- deserves attention, he said. it’s time for me to use my skill set to “The sooner you diagnose ment, Nieman said. mental health in children and youth, help with some of that,� he said. “I mean, let that sink in for The job is being taken over by the easier it is to treat and the more a minute, to get government to Annette King. A born-and-raised change policy or a program or legis- effective the treatment is, right? Yukoner, King’s last job with the lation or procedures or protocols is And so those children have a better Yukon government was as director chance of growing up to be produca slow moving beast. of victim services. She said she is tive, healthy adults.� For years, Nieman has been looking forward to continuing the Right now, if a child or youth has work that Nieman started. calling for better diagnostic and a serious mental illness, they are put treatment services for youth with Contact Ashley Joannou at mental illnesses. It’s an issue that still on a waiting list and sent down to ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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afety concerns have prompted the Village of Carmacks to shut down its only skating rink. In December, a routine inspection of the village’s facilities by its insurance company revealed that supports holding the roof above the outdoor rink were unstable. The company would no longer insure the rink until it had been further inspected, said Lee Bodie, acting mayor of Carmacks.
At a council meeting the same night, the decision was made to shut it down indefinitely. Problems started two years ago when concrete under the ice surface buckled, forcing the village to remove it entirely. Melting permafrost also caused the supports to move. An engineering firm used cables to stabilize the supports, Bodie said, but that wasn’t meant as a permanent solution. “It seemed safe – we just filled up the skating rink using a gravel base and everything was fine,� he said. “But in December the insur-
ance company determined some of the roof supports weren’t 100 per cent to their liking. We immediately closed it down for safety reasons and hired Stantec to inspect it.� The engineering firm’s report is expected to be released soon, said Bodie. It’s unfortunate to have to close the rink down at this time of year, but the community can’t take the risk of leaving it open, said Bodie. Council hasn’t been able to find an alternative site, as there aren’t any other flat locations in town with lighting that are suit-
able for a rink. If the village can’t afford the rink repairs it plans to turn to the Yukon government for financial assistance, said Bodie. Skating is a popular activity in the town of approximately 500 residents. “Kids are always skating on it and there are makeshift hockey games,� he said. “It’s the only place to skate in town. There used to be a makeshift rink at the school but it was operated by a RCMP member who is no longer here.�
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Close to a dozen valuable items, ranging from an ATV to a wood stove, were recently stolen from an empty home near the Mendenhall subdivision. The property owners, gone between Jan. 12-22, were away breaking trail for the Yukon Quest, according to RCMP Cpl. Natasha Dunmall. The thieves also made off with a snowmobile, a wall tent, a chainsaw, elk antlers, blankets and snowshoes. The crime was reported to police on Jan. 26. The thieves managed to gain entry to the property by damaging a driveway gate and the door to the residence. “This type of theft would have taken time, and quite possibly more than one suspect,� said Dunmall in a news release. “It was not a smash and run, as large, cumbersome items were taken.� Anyone with information is asked to call the Whitehorse RCMP at 867667-5551. (Myles Dolphin)
A trial date has finally been set for a man who is accused of assaulting a Watson Lake woman, threatening her with a knife and threatening to kill her family. Michael Nehass, 30, has spent the last three years in jail. His Supreme Court trial by jury, originally scheduled for March, has now been set for May 11-15. Yesterday, a clean-shaven Nehass appeared in court via video link from the Whitehorse Correctional Centre. He acknowledged the trial date and was agitated for most of the hearing, making comments about various conspiracy theories. His mental health has received a lot of public attention. Last July, a Yukon territorial court judge found him unfit to stand trial. The Yukon Review Board later reversed that decision. It ruled Nehass understood the process, the possible consequences and could communicate with a lawyer. Since being locked up, Nehass has racked up charges for assaulting jail staff, destroying jail property and
attempting to escape. In November, he pleaded guilty to five territorial court charges he has accumulated while in jail, though he said he did not agree with the Crown’s version of events. (Myles Dolphin)
was the deadline to comply with the court order. Talks with the First Nation are going well, said Michael Hale, assistant deputy minister for aboriginal relations, in an interview this morning. “We are having more regular meetings and more positive meetings on this file than we have in a long time. That certainly doesn’t guarantee an outcome, but it tells us that it’s worth investing our time.� The two-year extension will give some space for that work to continue, he said. “We don’t want this to be something that’s hanging over people’s heads. We want to be able to work towards some sort of outcome.� The ban could be lifted before the 2017 deadline if the parties can reach an agreement, said Hale. “Our hope is that before two years we’re able to get somewhere with Ross River. But it’s hard to predict the future, so we’ve given ourselves enough time to make an arrangement.� The Ross River Dena Council could not be reached for comment by press time. (Jacqueline Ronson)
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Staking ban in Ross River to continue to 2017 The Ross River staking ban has been extended for another two years. Unless the Yukon government and the Ross River Dena Council can come to an agreement, no staking will occur in a large swath of eastern Yukon through Jan. 31, 2017. The Yukon Court of Appeal ruled in Dec. 2012 that the Yukon government must consult the Ross River Dena Council before allowing staking on its traditional territory. Since then, the government has tried to reach an agreement on which parts of that land should be open for mineral staking. But so far there’s little to show for that work. A full staking ban in the area has been in place since Dec. 2013, which
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Committee brainstorms solutions to footbridge conflicts Myles Dolphin News Reporter
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uild a new bridge for motorized vehicles to cross the Yukon River near the Millennium Trail. Or paint a line down the middle of Rotary Centennial Bridge and allow ATVs and snowmobiles to one side. Or simply knock down the footbridge entirely and end the bickering over who gets to use it. Those are some of the more dramatic solutions proposed during a recent Trails and Greenways Committee Members brainstorming session. The 13-member committee, made up of eight volunteers and five city representatives, was tasked by council to come up with new solutions for the future use of the footbridge. The thorny issue was first brought to city administration’s attention in May 2013, after a Whitehorse resident was concerned with increased traffic on the bridge, which spans the Yukon River to the Riverdale subdivision. Motorized vehicles are currently not allowed on the bridge. Since then, two distinct camps have butted heads on the issue: those who support motorization of the bridge and those who oppose it. Last Thursday evening, the committee convened to flesh out possible solutions that hadn’t been brought
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The city’s trails and greenways committee members met last week to discuss possible solutions to address conflicts over use of the Rotary Centennial Bridge.
up in the past. In total, seven ideas were interesting enough for the committee to hang onto. One idea was to keep the status quo but launch a public education campaign to encourage motorized vehicle users to stick to trails on their side of the river. Another was to draw a line down the middle of the bridge so pedestri-
ans could have one side, and motorized users could have the other. Adding a Bailey bridge – a pre-fabricated truss bridge – at an approximate cost of $2.5 million, or some sort of secondary crossing, was also mentioned. Knocking down the existing bridge was also briefly mentioned. Finally, one member suggested a shared space concept, similar to what
already exists in many other countries where pedestrians and motorists share the same area. Obstacles would be set up to force motorized traffic to slow down. Members will take those ideas and distill them down to one or two at their next scheduled meeting on Feb. 19. A recommendation to council will follow shortly after. But that
doesn’t mean it’s the only idea council will consider, said committee chair Doug Hnatiuk. “Other user groups around the city have already called on their members and supporters to contact council about the issue, while questionnaires have also been sent out to Riverdale residents about the issue,� he said. “Our committee isn’t discounting any of the ideas until we’ve had more time to talk about them. These are developed by members of the public who represent community groups, clubs and organizations that have an interest in trail management. “They’re looking out for what’s in the best interest of all citizens and trail users.� Once they’ve narrowed down their options, council will be requesting feedback from the public, although it’s unknown in what shape or form, Hnatiuk said. In 2013, the newly formed committee tested a barricade prototype to attempt to restrict ATV and snowmobile traffic across the bridge. It was vandalized after two weeks and had to be removed, Hnatiuk said. The next committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 19 at 4:45 p.m. at the Sport Yukon Boardroom #2. Contact Myles Dolphin at myles@yukon-news.com
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e wouldn’t wish upon anybody the job of being chief of the Ta’an Kwach’an Council. The fractious First Nation comprises of five families that seem to be in perpetual battle with one another, to the point that some have lately threatened to break up the organization and go their own way. Trying to lead in this climate of mutual distrust must be a truly thankless task. Chief Kristina Kane recently tendered her resignation, citing unspecified threats to her personal safety and a vicious rumour mill at work. These concerns are believable enough and deserve sympathy. However, it’s hard to believe this is the whole story. Kane tendered her resignation just as the First Nation’s judicial council was preparing to issue a damning decision about her leadership. This was prompted by the discovery that, long ago back in 1998, Kane was convicted of two counts of theft for shoplifting. The First Nation’s constitution specifically forbids citizens from becoming chief if they have been convicted of such a crime. This means that for half of Kane’s four-year term, up until she finally obtained a pardon in late December 2014, she was actually ineligible to hold the office. What’s more, for at least four months, and perhaps much longer, Kane knew her leadership ran afoul of her First Nation’s constitution, but she did not disclose this fact to her government. Just in case things were not complicated enough, the same day that the judicial council handed down its decision saw Kane announce that she was rescinding her resignation and declaring herself newly eligible to serve as chief, as she had finally obtained a pardon for her past
crimes. In doing so, Kane managed to make the story about her standing up to her detractors. Meanwhile, she refuses to answer many outstanding questions about her failure to properly disclose her past criminal charges. Kane told her First Nation’s judicial council that she reckoned that she received a pardon years ago, as she had applied for one, and the theft charges never showed up on the criminal record checks she was required to file when she ran for office. Kane admits she never received confirmation a pardon had been granted, but she maintains she believed that the paperwork had been lost in the mail at a time when she often changed addresses. Perhaps this is true. But the fact remains that the parole board told Kane in May that the theft charges still stood on her record. Rather than inform her First Nation’s government at that time, as she should have, she instead waited four months before making a disclosure in late September. There are a few points to be made about all this. First, the First Nation’s tough rules against chief candidates having criminal convictions deserves to be re-examined. The fact that Kane made the poor decision of trying to steal some shoes and a pack of cigarettes when she was 19 should not bar her from holding office 17 years later. Lots of us do stupid things when we’re young. A simple solution would be to revise the restriction so it only applies to more serious, indictable offenses. (Kane’s charges didn’t appear on her RCMP record check because they were summary convictions.) Yet Kane remains far from faultless. As chief, she is expected to uphold her First Nation’s constitution. Instead, she knowingly Publisher
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flouted it. She had an obligation as chief to disclose to her government that her leadership violated the constitution, yet she sat on this information for months before sharing it. The fact that Kane refuses to even answer questions about her behaviour, by denying interview requests and ignoring written questions put to her, is not exactly reassuring, either. Ta’an Kwach’an citizens deserve a more open and accountable leader than the performance Kane has given to date. In cases like this an election often helps clear the air. But Kane’s term ends not too long from now, in October 2015. And whether Kane stays or goes, many of the longstanding divisions within the First Nation, which predate this spat, will likely remain. If the Ta’an Kwach’an Council were a married couple, its friends would be begging them to see a therapist. That’s maybe not such a bad idea. A professional mediator may have ideas about how to help the feuding parties sit in the same room and identify common concerns they’re willing to work together on. Maybe it’s time to bring one in before starting more serious talks about a divorce. (JT) Reporters
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Let the raven lady be Re: “Birds of a feather feed together” (Yukon News, Jan 23). Feeding ravens must have triggered the most deadly and intense stakeout ever performed by Yukon conservation officers. I could just see it: Parked at a safe distance, alongside of a large disposal bin for protection, armed to the teeth and a spotting scope, COs finally caught 70-year-old Patricia MacKenzie feeding ravens. Quick, get CBC North, Yukon chapter, on the case! Threatened with being taken to court if she doesn’t stop feeding ravens, kindhearted Patricia MacKenzie
was stopped in her tracks! Even though, technically, it isn’t illegal to feed ravens. I inquired years ago about this and was told it was not illegal, so long as birds consumed the food that is put out. Fine, we know how leaving food around can cause issues regarding wildlife. But countless bears, wolves and other wildlife have been killed by COs and members of the public. Has there been threats of court, fines for people causing the very problem they created? Patricia MacKenzie’s heart is in the right place, the world needs more humans like her. Mike Grieco Whitehorse
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hitehorse “no longer is a city of pioneers working with their hands. Mining engineers, professional men, government employees, businessmen make up a large percentage of the population and many of these men are married to women who are university graduates.” You’re right, that’s not from the latest Yukon government promotional website. It’s from the May 1974 edition of Trade and Commerce magazine, which did a special edition on the Yukon economy. The edition is full of retro gems, and I’m not talking only about the spectacular plaid sport coats and monster sideburns displayed by the Whitehorse business community. The profile of Whitehorse marvels that “Fashion from the pages of Vogue are in demand, stereo components are displayed in store windows along with massive color TV sets, many of the homes in residential Riverdale subdivision will have a cabin cruiser powerboat stored under canvas in the back garden during the winter months.” The ads are mostly from the “real” economy: shirtless General Enterprises men laying concrete, Trans North choppers slinging gear into camp, Clinton Creek’s aerial tramway carrying asbestos fibre to the mill for shipment to Whitehorse, and so on. Perhaps the most retro thing about the magazine is its unswerving confidence in the future
of the Yukon. Pretty much every chart shows unrelenting growth: mining production, population, tourism, electricity generation, salaries and wages paid and booze sales. Forest production is the only chart that breaks the pattern; some things never change I suppose. Government is also getting ready to support the growth. Northern Canada Power Commission’s ad says “First … find your mine anywhere in Northern Canada, then call the power people at NCPC.” There’s also a photo of the architect’s model for the new Yukon government building, including its never-built 11-storey tower that would have provided office space for 800 officials. The Yukon’s Department of Industrial Development also has a full-page ad encouraging investors to put down roots here. The bar for mineral production in 1973 goes right off the page, but is over $120 million. That’s over $500 million in today’s dollars. There were five operating mines: lead and zinc at Faro, asbestos at Clinton Creek, copper at Whitehorse Copper, silver and lead at United Keno Hill, and tungsten at Cantung. The asbestos mine at Cassiar, B.C. also contributed strongly to the Yukon economy. The magazine reports promising copper exploration near Minto as well as other minerals near Howard Pass, McMillan Pass and the Bonnet Plume. To put that in perspective, let’s look at some data from the current Department of Economic Development (heirs to the 1974 Department of Industrial Development mentioned above). Mineral production almost hit the $500 million figure in the last few years, but still remains below 1973 levels in inflation-adjusted terms. From 2000-07 it was even lower, never topping $100 million. So what can we learn today from Trade and Commerce magazine? One lesson is how
prone humans are to extrapolate recent trends into the future. The Yukon’s population had gone up from 15,000 in 1964 to 21,000 a decade later. People in their twenties and thirties had only known rapid growth. But remember the date of the magazine: May 1974. The Arab oil embargo following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war had just ended in March, and oil had quadrupled in price from $3 per barrel to $12. The magazine gives the impression that no one in the Yukon was much worried about it, but the crisis was about to whack the global economy in a big way. For the rest of the seventies, the headlines would be about unemploy-
Study will shed light on log home heat efficiency Local architect Charles McLaren saw fit to weigh in on the energy performance of log homes last week. He assures us that his opinions carry punch because his first degree was in physics. On the basis of this credential, he took me to task over my contention that building codes do not adequately anticipate the real energy performance of solid timber homes. For what it is worth, my science degree (master of forestry science) taught me to be cautious about what we think we know. Forestry requires observation of nature. It reinforces awareness that there can be a big difference between predictions from theories, formulae, modeling, and laboratory testing – and what is observed in the real world.
The fact is that the energy provisions of building codes – when applied to solid timber buildings –are based on modeling and laboratory work. They project from laboratory experience and limited-case studies into the real world – they are not based on out-in-the-environment data. A survey of the literature shows that the energy use of truly comparable structures – situated outdoors, with all variables other than wall construction held constant – has never been measured and compared. Thus we have a disparity between what is predicted and what people experience. People who live in well-built log homes report that their homes are more comfortable and less costly than Mr. McLaren’s application of the Law of Thermodynamics would
predict. Indeed, more comfortable than regular homes. By conventional measures, my home with 10” timbers is equivalent to a 2x4 stud wall. This is nutty. But even though a thousand years of timber home dwellers know otherwise, the data to prove it are lacking. There is indeed something else beyond presumed R values (R1.4/inch of timber) going on with timber homes. So kudos to the Yukon government for their fair-minded policy that exempts solid timber from an inadequately informed energy performance code. And kudos to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) for undertaking a badly needed study that will at last provide valid comparative data. Over a full year, SAIT will
ment, stagflation and spiralling government deficits. The economic mayhem of the 1970s had a profound impact on the Yukon. Although there is a copper mine at Minto now, most of the exploration properties mentioned above are still not in production. A lot of money must have been lost on projects that didn’t pan out. It’s a salutary lesson if you’re making a big decision today, whether that’s a big mining investment or buying a house. Behind every decision are a bunch of usually unspoken assumptions about things like interest rates, future house prices, population growth and so on. Those things
can fundamentally change faster than we usually think. The other remarkable thing is how much the Yukon has changed socially in just 40 years. If women are mentioned at all, it is as marriage prospects or secretaries. Of the 53 people pictured in the magazine, just four are women. One is a tourist. Another is a secretary. The only two businesswomen pictured aren’t actually Yukoners, but are part of a visiting Hong Kong delegation. Aboriginal people are barely mentioned. (One of the few times is when Charlie Taylor of Taylor & Drury cuts short his “Man of the Month” interview with Trade and Commerce to go downstairs and personally serve a long-standing First Nations client from Teslin who has come into the store.) Nowadays, young Yukoners can see female role models in prominent private and public leadership roles, and meetings with aboriginal CEOs and development-corporation chairs are a routine part of business in the Yukon. It’s a very positive development for our economy. I wonder what our economy will look like 40 years in the future. Will we be using Google Telepath to find out how the Yukon First Nation asteroidmining joint venture is going? Or will they still be writing hopeful articles about mining properties in Howard Pass? Will the Department of Economic Development have another new name, and still be working on diversifying the economy? And, most importantly, will sideburns and plaid be back in style? Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith
will be evaluated as well. Mr. McLaren calls log buildings “energy hogs” and “unicorns,” but the data proving his measure the constant energy opinion do not yet exist. Saying consumption of a set of buildit’s so doesn’t make it so. ings that are sited in the same We are all entitled to our own way and are identical in every opinion, but not to our own facts. respect except for type of wall The SAIT real-world study will construction. Several thicknesses give the facts we need to underof timber homes and several types stand how timber homes compare of stud-wall homes will be tested to conventional homes. and monitored. The comparative Dave Loeks effectiveness of different energy Whitehorse modeling computer programs
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near Alaska’s northeast corner, giving it the highest degree of federal protecAssociated Press tion available to public lands. More than 7 million acres of the refuge curJUNEAU, ALASKA rently are managed as wilderness. resident Barack Obama is proposThe refuge’s coastal plain has long ing to designate the vast majority been at the centre of the struggle beof Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife tween conservationists and advocates Refuge as a wilderness area, including of greater energy exploration in the its potentially oil-rich coastal plain, U.S. Political leaders in Alaska have drawing an angry response from top supported allowing for exploration state elected officials who see it as a and production within the coastal land grab by the federal government. plain. They have opposed attempts “They’ve decided that today was to further restrict development on the day that they were going to declare federal lands, which comprise about war on Alaska. Well, we are ready to two-thirds of the state, includengage,� said U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkows- ing within the National Petroleum ki, R-Alaska, and chair of the Senate Reserve-Alaska. energy committee. A resolution passed the state The designation would set aside an Legislature with bipartisan support additional nearly 12.3 million acres as last year urging Congress to allow wilderness, including the coastal plain for exploration and development on
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the coastal plain. A federal lawsuit brought by the state over the Interior Department’s refusal to consider a proposed exploration plan for the refuge’s coastal plain is pending. The state in 2013 proposed an exploration plan that it said was aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential in the refuge. The Republican congressional delegation, along with Alaska’s new governor, Bill Walker, sent out a joint news release Sunday morning calling the action “an unprecedented assault on Alaska.� Walker changed his GOP affiliation to undeclared in running for office last year. Walker told reporters in Anchorage that while he is not leaning toward litigation, the state is reviewing its options. He said this is one more example of a restriction that the federal government wants to put on Alaska. He wants to reach out to other governors in hopes of banding together to fight the proposal, Walker said. The federal government is taking Alaska’s economy away from it piece by piece, he said. In a White House video released Sunday, Obama said he is seeking the designation “so that we can make sure that this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations.� The Interior Department issued
a comprehensive plan Sunday that for the first time recommended the additional protections. If Congress agrees, it would be the largest wilderness designation since passage of the Wilderness Act in the 1960s, the agency said. However, the proposal is likely to face stiff resistance in the Republicancontrolled Congress. Murkowski said in an interview that Obama is going after something “that is not possible in this Congress.� She said she sees it as an attempt by the administration to “score some environmental points� and to rile passions ahead of another announcement by Interior in the coming days that Murkowski said she was told would propose putting offlimits to development certain areas of the offshore Arctic. Murkowski said she spoke with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Jewell’s chief of staff in the last few days. Interior Department spokeswoman Jessica Kershaw, responding by email Sunday, did not offer details, but she said a proposed five-year offshore drilling plan is forthcoming and that environmental reviews of lease areas in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s shores are underway. The department pegged the timing of Obama’s announcement in part to recent legislation proposed in Con-
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Yvonne Benoit is the owner and general manager of Club 867, which opened in Whitehorse in October.
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n the parking lot behind the Ramada hotel on a recent Saturday night, you can hear the latin beats pumping from Whitehorse’s newest night club. Inside, a dozen or so Yukon couples dance while the DJ spins upbeat contemporary tracks. It’s salsa night at Club 867. Many of the dancers have taken lessons together. At one point they form a circle and perform a choreographed routine. Their unison hand claps give them away to the rest of the partiers. Groups of friends take breaks from the dance floor and sip beer and cocktails at the tables scattered through the expansive space. For club owner Yvonne Benoit, managing a Whitehorse nightclub is a dream come true. “I’ve always wanted to own some sort of establishment like this,” she said in an interview last week. “I’m very outgoing. I’m a people person. I love meeting people, and I think it kind of suits me very well.” Benoit launched Club 867, attached to the Ramada hotel, about three months ago. She’s worked in bars and clubs before, but this is her first try at
running her own place, she said. “It’s been like swimming uphill, but we’re hitting some waterfalls now, so it’s going to be good.” Benoit is originally from Newfoundland, but moved to Faro as a teenager. Since then she’s moved between Faro and Whitehorse, with a couple of stints Outside. “I always come back here. I always come back here, and I’m not going anywhere now.” Before becoming a bar owner and manager, Benoit has been a full-time mom for about three years, she said. And before that she worked in home care with the Yukon government. She had been saving for a while to start her own club, she said. But her plans got a boost from an unexpected source. Her mom was one of eight coworkers in Faro who split a $25-million Lotto Max jackpot a little more than a year ago. “Luckily she was there to make my dream even bigger,” said Benoit. “It wouldn’t have been this big. We were thinking of doing something, like a smaller lounge or something. “She’s always helped me my whole life, and she’s pretty amazing.” Benoit hopes to offer a little
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The Midnight Sons will be playing tonight at Club 867.
something for everyone at the club, she said. The focus so far has been on promoting local musicians and fundraising for good causes. Recently the club hosted a fundraiser for the Whitehorse Food Bank, featuring a Pink Floyd tribute band called Pigs on a Wing. The venue also saw a CD release party for ukelele-fronted indie band Ukes of Hazard, and has hosted Whitehorse rockers the
Midnight Sons regularly. DJKJ makes occasional appearances to spin the top-40 hits that the kids like to dance to. The best thing about running Club 867 is meeting new people and being able to give back to the community, said Benoit. “There’s always new faces coming through here, because there’s always something different going on here,” she said. “I’m all for helping everybody out.”
One of the hurdles has been making a big space feel full, she said. “If there’s 50 people in here and someone walks in here, it doesn’t seem like there’s that much going on in here. If you walk into Lizards and there’s 50, 60 people in there, it looks kind of busy, right? People want to go where it looks kind of busy. So we’re working on that right now.” Plans include turning a lounge space at the back of the bar into a games room. Benoit has a pool table, foosball tables and big screen TVs on the way, she said. “It takes time to get where we are, and we’re not even close to where we want to be,” she said. She’s also eyeing expanded hours for the club. Now, it’s only open Thursday through Saturday evenings, but the plan is to be open seven days a week, including a weekday happy hour from 4-7 with an appie menu from Ricky’s. Getting the club off the ground hasn’t always been easy, but Benoit wouldn’t have it any other way, she said. “It’s been an uphill battle, but I’m not going anywhere else but up.” Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com
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Tired of scraping car windows? Meet the startup Neverfrost David Friend Canadian Press
WATERLOO, ONT. ed up with the dismal winter ritual of chiselling ice off their car windows, a group of engineering students from Waterloo, Ont. came up with a way to ensure they never have to scrape another windshield again. What began as university project two-and-a-half years ago to solve a pet peeve has evolved into Neverfrost, a startup company that’s developed a transparent film for vehicle windows to prevent frost and deflect harsh elements like snow and freezing rain. The concept has already grabbed the attention of the trucking industry and its founders are so confident in Neverfrost’s future that one of them brushed off a job at Facebook and another sidelined plans for grad school, to chase their dreams of making the ice scraper obsolete. ``Cars have been around for a century, but this problem hasn’t been fixed,’’ said Khanjan Desai, one of the creators of Neverfrost. ``It was something so practical and we felt every winter morning we never had a solution.’’ Neverfrost isn’t the first company to want to eliminate frost. Anti-freeze developer Prestone sells chemical sprays that create a ``resilient barrier’’ between glass and the outside world - but some critics says it also puts a greasy film on the windshield. Drivers have even struggled with their own household remedies. Online resources suggest creative approaches that range from spraying a mixture of vinegar and water on your windshield to rubbing a raw onion on the window. Neverfrost hopes to vault all of the alternatives with a patented, transparent film permanently applied to the outside of a vehicle’s windows. The film incorporates nano technology, or the manipulation of objects on a molecular level, to prevent the windshield surface from reaching the conditions necessary for condensation and temperatures low enough to freeze. Neverfrost also claims to be
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Desai and Shen arrived in California with aspirations for Neverfrost and were soon calling up American trucking companies making a case for why their fleets would be the perfect guinea pigs for an idea that was still in its infancy. ``We got cursed at on the first few calls,’’ Desai said. The most effective sales tactic came when the co-founders met with a trucking executive and demonstrated the film’s resistance to the
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Young artists showcase talent in Carving our Path Ashley Joannou News Reporter
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rtwork from the Northern Cultural Expressions Society is on display at Yukon College. The Carving our Path exhibit runs until April. About 20 pieces, carvings and prints are for sale. They include work from beginners to senior carvers. The exhibit is a mix of prints, masks, paddles, plaques and panel carvings in the Tlingit and Southern Tutchone traditions. Everything is on display at the college’s Hilltop Bistro. Shows like this, done outside of the society’s own space, are rare, said Colin Teramura, carving and education programs supervisor for the society. “The bistro as well is very busy during the week. At this time of year traffic is pretty slow down here, that bistro is open three days a week and there’s a high volume of people going through there,” he said. “You’re reaching a different audience for sure.” The college does not take a commission on the pieces that are for sale. The society is a non-profit organization that aims to help struggling youth by showing them how to channel their energy into carving. Most of the work they do there Top: Nathan Dawson - Eagle Round Panel is driven by the artists, Teramura said. For the advanced carvers, these shows allow them to get their name out in the public, he said. “For the younger kids it’s firsthand experience in the business of art, which is really the most effective learning tool you can have.” This won’t be the last time the artists get a chance to show off their wares. The society is currently in talks with the renowned Inuit Gallery in Vancouver to put on a show sometime in the summer, Teramura said. “Typically they don’t accept any work into their gallery that isn’t essentially world class. Our senior carvers, they’re definitely on par,” he said. But in this case, the manager of the gallery is highly supportive of the program and is accepting pieces from beginners as well. “It’s a massive opportunity for them.” The Hilltop Bistro is open for lunch Tuesdays to Thursdays with seatings from 11 to 12:30. Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Holocaust survivor returning to Auschwitz for 70th anniversary of liberation Liam Casey Canadian Press
TORONTO n a cold January day in 1945, nine-year-old Miriam Friedman Ziegler watched as Red Army soldiers approached Auschwitz. An army photographer captured the historic moment: 13 wideeyed children – Friedman Ziegler among them –staring out through a barbed-wire fence. The thought of freedom was a scary notion for the Jewish girl who’d spent a year in Auschwitz separated from the rest of her family. “What’s going to happen to me now?” she recalls thinking at the time. “I have nobody.” She would later reunite with her mother, but her father never made it out of the infamous Nazi camp alive. Auschwitz has become a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically killed. Friedman Ziegler, who lives in Thornhill, Ont., is among about 100 survivors who are returning to Poland this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Going back is not easy for the 79-year-old. “I swore I would never go back to Poland, but I feel it’s my duty now to do it,” Friedman Ziegler said during a recent interview with The Canadian Press.
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Miriam Friedman Ziegler, 79, an Auschwitz holocaust survivor, tells her story at her home in Toronto on Monday.
On Monday, she will reunite for the first time with four of the girls – now women in their 70s and 80s – featured in the iconic photo. A new photo will capture the moment. This time, however, it will be in the comfort of a hotel in Krakow – the emotions of hav-
ing the photo taken at the nearby camp too overwhelming. Leafing through photographs at her apartment north of Toronto, Friedman Ziegler kept returning to the black-and-white photo, where she looks bewildered, her left sleeve pulled up revealing her
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 They hid in the forest during the day and walked at night, eventually reaching her grandparentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; home. The Nazis had not arrived, but they were coming. So Friedman Zieglerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandfather paid a sympathetic farmer to hide her. The farmer would take her to town to beg for food and money, introducing her as his niece. She fit in because she looked like many other Polish girls with long, blond hair. On her walks along the countryside, she says she saw death. Dogs tearing at bodies, a family hanged outside their house. Shortly after she reunited with her family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a pattern that continued for years, sometimes hiding with strangers, sometimes hiding with her family. Every now and then the Nazis would pin them down for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;selectionâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in which they picked out people to take them away or kill them on the spot. During one of those â&#x20AC;&#x153;selections,â&#x20AC;? she watched her family line up outside along with her aunt Bella, who was holding her newborn baby in her arms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could see what they were doing and I saw them shooting the baby,â&#x20AC;? said a teary Friedman Ziegler, her voice breaking with emotion. When she turned eight, the Nazis loaded her and her parents in cattle cars and shipped them to Auschwitz. The children were taken to the adjacent Birkenau death camp, where Friedman Ziegler found a few of her cousins and met many other girls who would later become lifelong friends. The Nazi â&#x20AC;&#x153;selectionsâ&#x20AC;? continued inside the camp, she said, but they became more sinister. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everytime they took out a few of the children for experiments some came back, some didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t,â&#x20AC;? she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I remember is going to this big room with people in white uniforms and lots of tables with things on them,â&#x20AC;? she said. Later she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember anything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came back and had pain in my hips and legs and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all I
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eration, according to Anne Marie Stein of the USC Shoah Foundation. The photograph Friedman Ziegler appears in is actually a still image from the film, part of which was shown at the Nuremberg trials. After Auschwitz, Friedman Ziegler spent time in various hospitals and orphanages in eastern Europe. Eventually, she came to Canada as part of a group of 1,000 child refugees. She lived for a while in Hamilton with relatives â&#x20AC;&#x201C; memories of death and suffering still fresh in her mind. One time, when she was told
she was going to summer camp, Friedman Ziegler said she broke down in tears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to another camp?â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then they explained to me â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No no, this is a nice camp. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to ride horses, learn English, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have the best time in your lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, which was true.â&#x20AC;? Two years later her mother came to Canada and the pair settled in Toronto. She eventually met her husband â&#x20AC;&#x201C; also an Holocaust survivor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on a blind date. The couple has three children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a very, very good life,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never dreamt that I
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Canada is trading away its environmental rights in 2011 pending an environmental review of the controversial gas-andby DAVID oil drilling practice. A U.S. company headquartered in Calgary, Lone Pine SUZUKI Resources Inc., is suing the federal government under NAFTA for $250 million. A preliminary assessment by Quebec’s Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement found fracking would have “major impacts,” including air and water pollution, n 1997, Canada restricted import acrid odours and increased traffic and noise. Fracking can also cause and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a sus- seismic activity. According to the CCPA, Canada pected neurotoxin that had already been banned in Europe. Ethyl Corp., has been sued more often than any the U.S. multinational that supplied other developed nation through investor-state dispute settlement the chemical, sued the government mechanisms in trade agreements. for $350 million under the North American Free Trade Agreement and Under NAFTA, “Canada has already lost or settled six claims, paid out won! Canada was forced to repeal damages totaling over $170 million the ban, apologize to the company and incurred tens of millions more and pay an out-of-court settlement in legal costs. Mexico has lost five of US$13 million. The free trade agreement between cases and paid damages of US$204 million. The U.S. has never lost a Canada, the U.S. and Mexico was NAFTA investor-state case.” never designed to raise labour and NAFTA does, however, have a environmental standards to the watchdog arm that’s supposed to highest level. In fact, NAFTA and address environmental disputes and other trade agreements Canada public concerns, the Commission has signed – including the recent for Environmental Cooperation. But Foreign Investment Promotion and Canada is blocking the commission Protection Agreement with China from investigating the impacts of – often take labour standards to the lowest denominator while increasing tailings ponds at the Alberta oilsands. Environmental Defence, the environmental risk. The agreements are more about facilitating corporate Natural Resources Defense Council and three people downstream flexibility and profit than creatfrom the oilsands asked the CEC to ing good working conditions and investigate whether tailings leaking protecting the air, water, land and diverse ecosystems that keep us alive into the Athabasca River and other waterways represent a violation of and healthy. the federal Fisheries Act. According Canada’s environment appears to the complaint, the tailings ponds, to be taking the brunt of NAFTAenabled corporate attacks. And when which are actually much larger than what most people would think of as NAFTA environmental-protection ponds, are spilling millions of litres provisions do kick in, the governof toxic liquid every day. Environment often rejects them. According to a study by the Can- mental Defence says the CEC found adian Centre for Policy Alternatives, “plenty of evidence that tar sands companies were breaking Canadian more than 70 per cent of NAFTA law and lots of evidence that the claims since 2005 have been against Canada, with nine active cases total- Canadian government was failing to do anything about it.” ling $6 billion outstanding. These It’s the third time in the past year challenge “a wide range of governthat Canada has prevented the comment measures that allegedly interfere with the expected profitability of mission from examining environmental issues. Canada earlier blocked foreign investments,” including the an investigation into the protection Quebec government’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. of polar bears from threats including Quebec imposed the moratorium climate change and one concerning
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link between the number of small earthquakes triggered by tides and great earthquakes that send tsunamis racing thousands of miles. How might tides cause earthquakes? At high tide, more water piles on top of geological faults, adding to stress thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already there. If the fault is close to slipping, the tides can trigger small tremors. Solid ground also responds to the gravitational pulls of the moon and sun. Joe Tan is looking at the combined effects of ocean and Earth tides. A Japanese researcher has studied the relationship between tides and earthquakes. Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, found that tidally triggered earthquakes were common off the northeast coast of Japan several to 10 years before the magnitude 9 earthquake that triggered the tsunami in 2011. She found similar results when she
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Buldir Island, with its tremendous population of seabirds, is just north of the Aleutian Trench, home to giant earthquakes.
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Using records of past earthquakes, Yen Tan wants to see if any parts of the Aleutian Arc are perhaps giving the same signals. Though his data are much more sparse than that available to Tanaka, he has seen three areas that seem to increase in seismicity when tidal forces are high. Those zones are southeast of Kodiak, south of Tanaga in the central Aleutians and south of Buldir in the western Aleutians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They might be currently critically stressed,â&#x20AC;? he said of these areas. The potential for a giant earthquake along the sweep of the Aleutians is no secret. When U.S. Geological Survey scientists and others last year imagined an earthquake/ tsunami scenario that would affect millions on the anniversary of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, they chose a fictional magnitude 9.1 epicentered just south of Sand Point. The Alaska effects would be terrifying and deadly, and the researchers estimated the resulting tsunami would inundate the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, crippling a supply system we all depend upon. Joe Tan hopes to see if his approach of using statistics could be useful in improving forecasting earthquakes in great subduction zones, like the one where southern Alaska meets the sea. Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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he Yukon Transportation Museum had an open house last Friday afternoon, and Bob Cameron and his airplane restoration projects were the featured attraction of the event. Cameron, a long-time aviation history enthusiast and author, has devoted considerable time to preserving the tangible dimension of that history by restoring two important aircraft, a ZQC-6 Custom Waco (rhymes with taco), and a Fairchild model 2W2. He can still recall the throaty rumble of the Waco and the Fairchild from his childhood. When I arrived at the museum, I was ushered into a small workshop where I was greeted by Cameron and the skeletal remains of the Custom Waco. The Waco, call sign CF-BDZ, was destroyed in a fire in October 1949. When I saw it at the museum, it was nothing but a fuselage made up of a criss-crossing network of tubular steel, although the tail section, which has the final fabric covering installed, gives a hint of what the restored version of the aircraft is going to look like. George Simmons, who operated out of Carcross, saw the optimistic move of Grant McConachie to provide twice-weekly air service between Edmonton and Dawson City. If McConachie was going to take a chance, why not Simmons too? He proposed to open a competing route between Vancouver and Dawson City. Simmons purchased the brandnew Waco Custom in January of 1938. It could seat five passengers, including the pilot, and a small amount of luggage. Simmons had the Waco designed with a passenger door on each side of the fuselage, as well as a larger than normal freight door aft on the pilot side of the aircraft. The first northward flight of the new airplane took place at the end of January, when pilot Bill Holland took three passengers north to Dawson City. The plane had to make several stops to fuel up; at Burns Lake, the pilot changed the wheels for skis for the completion of the trip to the Yukon. According to Cameron, the passengers were pressed into service to assist in the change from wheels to skis. The route did not prove viable, and McConachie and United Air Transport ultimately received the mail contract for this route. Holland made only six scheduled passenger trips from Vancouver to Dawson before Simmons placed the Waco into local charter service. Cameron has been working simultaneously on the restoration of the Waco and the Fairchild (call sign CF-BXF) for 10 years now. They have both been advanced to the same state of repair, although the Waco is his current focus of
attention. He is now installing the control cables, he explained, demonstrating the operation of the tail rudder as he spoke. The original fabric was totally incinerated, the wood burned, and the aluminum components melted, leaving only the charred and rusting tubular frame to work with. Using the network of contacts he has developed over the years, he has been able to scrounge badly needed parts from all over the map. They don’t have to be functional pieces, he notes, as the restored plane is not intended to be airworthy when restoration is completed. He explained how a lady in Skagway has been able to weld together pieces from the control column using design details that were obtained from original drawings at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.. Certain sprockets were damaged in the fire, he told me, but a contact at a bicycle shop was able to supply him with what he needed, as well as bicycle chain when he couldn’t find suitable original parts anywhere. The cables have been installed, and he is measuring up fabricating the wooden floor panels and stringers. Eventually, the cloth skin will be installed over the remainder of the fuselage (The wings are already completed). Mounting the material to the airframe is very exacting work. For one thing, the fabric must be stitched tight to the wings and body so that it doesn’t flap in the wind during flight, causing excess wear. There is a real art to doing this well, says Cameron. His friend, Peter Killon, who flies the only remaining Martin Mars water bomber, is also a “fabric guru,” a man who can quickly and skillfully do this work. When they stitch the skin on the main fuselage, Cameron will mount the frame on a gigantic “spit” which will enable
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This ZQC-6 Custom Waco was purchased in 1938 by George Simmons of Carcross to carry passengers from Vancouver to Dawson City. It was quickly converted to charter service in the Yukon until it was destroyed by fire in October of 1949. It is being restored by Bob Cameron for display at the Yukon Transportation Museum.
him to rotate it to any orientation, making the work easier. Cameron has arranged for tickets from Vancouver, accommodation and the scotch for Killon’s visit to do this volunteer work. But Killon is not the only person who has contributed extraordinary time and skill in the project. Among the many volunteers who have helped him along the way, he singled out three other local individuals for the amount of time they have contributed to the project: Don Graham, who built the wings for the Waco; Joe Pollack, who constructed the wings for the Fairchild; and Phil Merchant, who built the stabilizer for the Waco. He had just mentioned these volunteers when Merchant arrived in person, drawn in by the radio announcement of the open house. The two men began an impassioned discussion of the progress of the work, with Cameron pointing out some of the details of the restoration on which he had been recently working. Another eight years are required to bring the restoration of these two planes to their completion. In the meantime, each spring
the aircraft are reassembled for the visitor season and displayed in the north gallery of the museum. But as if that wasn’t enough work for him, he already has another project under way. This fall, he retrieved the remains of a 1950 Hiller 360 helicopter, which had
been damaged and abandoned in 1952 near Old Crow. He has the main body of the helicopter stored in his back yard for the moment, while other parts, including the engine and transmission, are resting at his son’s home. Meanwhile, he has sent the landing apparatus to another restoration devotee in Texas, who needs the details of the float struts to fabricate similar parts for another restoration project. Cameron appears to be the only one on the planet who can help the fellow out with this detail. In exchange, the Texan will send back the struts along with a pair of the rubber floats, tail boom, and rotor blades for Bob’s restoration project. So is he almost finished, or just starting his restoration work? Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net
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Understanding Legislation This 1-day workshop introduces non-lawyers to the theory and practice of interpreting legislation and regulations. No previous course work in law is required to take this course. If you are new to working with legislation and regulations, or if you want to expand your understanding of the purpose, development and application of these tools, this training may meet your needs. In the workshop you will work through the following areas: the sources of law; researching the law in relation to reading and understanding statutes; and how to interpret actual statutes and prepare draft rules or policies.
Feb 9, 2015 9:00am to 5:00pm CRN: 20480 $175 + gst Location: Yukon College Room C1440 (The Glass Class)
Practice and Procedures for Decision Makers This introductory course is for members of boards, tribunals, and committees with a quasi-judicial function. The course was developed by the B.C. Council of Administrative Tribunals, and is designed to provide participants with a better understanding of their role and responsibilities as tribunal members. **This course is a pre-requisite to take Advanced Decision Writing**
Feb 10-11, 2015 9:00am to 5:00pm Feb 12 9:00am to 12:00pm CRN: 20481 $600 + gst Location: Yukon College Room C1440 (The Glass Class)
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Sharp-shooting Velocity Squad wins nine medals at B.C. Cup Tom Patrick News Reporter
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ou can’t practise skiing without snow, but you can practise shooting. Biathlon Yukon has taken that idea and run with it, getting members of its Velocity Squad to practise at the range during the off season. The results were showing this past weekend. Members of the Velocity Squad captured nine medals with some keen shooting at the B.C. Cup #2 over the weekend in Whistler. “Our summer training has really affected our winter training because we’re not spending as much time trying to teach shooting skills in the cold weather,” said Velocity coach Dennis Peters. “In summer it’s pretty easy to shoot when you’re not freezing and you’re comfortable. In winter it’s really hard to get those skills down. “I think that’s starting to pay off.” Four Velocity biathletes won medals both days, in the sprint and the pursuit, in Whistler. They prevailed over tough competition and wet, rainy conditions on Saturday. “We had a really successful trip,” said Peters. “These kids were competing in tough conditions and there was never a complaint by a single kid. They were soaking wet, they were skiing through lakes, through mounds of slush, and they just did great.” Yukon’s Nadia Moser was golden both days. The 17-year-old took first in the two-person junior women’s division with 80 per cent accuracy at the range on Saturday. Maria Peters won bronze both days in senior girls, showing some perseverance in Sunday’s 7.5-kilometre pursuit. She missed all five shots in her first trip to the range before shooting clean her next trip, and hitting eight out of 10 while standing. “After her five penalty laps she was way behind everybody else and she kept gaining on people and passing people,” said Dennis. Moser and Maria will be Yukon’s two biathletes at the Canada Winter Games next month in Prince George, B.C. Last month Moser won a silver medal at a national team trials event, which was also a North American Cup, in Canmore, Alta. “I’m really excited. I think it will be a really good experience for me,” said Maria in a recent interview with the News. “I’m not really hoping to podium because I don’t think that’s realistic, but I’m hoping that I’ll do my best.” Yukon’s Jake Draper had two very different races in junior boys, but came away with a medal in both. Draper won silver in Saturday
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Velocity Squad biathlete Daniel Sennett takes refuge from the rain before competing at the B.C. Cup #2 in Whistler on Saturday. The Yukon team captured nine medals at the event.
4.5-kilometre sprint despite hitting just three of 10 at the range and was only 37 seconds behind the winner. “When Jake doesn’t shoot well, he gives it everything on skiing,” said Dennis. “His skiing was just exemplary on that day.” On Sunday Draper captured gold in the six-kilometre pursuit, pegging off nine out of 10 to finish a full two minutes in front of Saturday’s gold medalist in second. Yukon’s Micah Hildes captured silver in junior girls 4.5-kilometre sprint Saturday and then gold in the six-kilometre pursuit Sunday, hitting 12 out of 15. Teammate Dana Sellars won bronze Saturday in the same division and placed fourth Sunday. Both Sellars and Hildes shot at 80 per cent Saturday. “The announcer … started commenting on all the people who shoot clean and by the fourth or fifth time he says, ‘Another Yukon clean – what are these guys doing?’” said Dennis. “And we just kept on cleaning, shooting well, shooting four out of five. It was a real highlight for all the Yukoners.” Torsten Petersson was twice edged out of hardware, placing
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Yukon’s Liam Adel races to a sixth place finish in the junior boys pursuit on Sunday.
fourth both days in junior boys. He was just nine seconds behind the bronze finisher on Sunday. “This year he has really excelled,” said Dennis. “He’s shooting well, his skiing has improved by leaps and bounds, and he’s determined.” The Velocity Squad had four biathletes in the 17-competitor senior boys division with five top-
10 placings. Daniel Sennett placed sixth Saturday, eighth Sunday; Liam Adel seventh Saturday, sixth Sunday; Francis Reid 12th Saturday, 10th Sunday; and Bruce Wilson finished 11th Saturday, 12th Sunday. Clodagh Berg finished 10th Saturday and ninth out of 10 on Sunday in senior girls.
Bronwyn Goodwin-Williams, in junior girls, came eighth Saturday and seventh Sunday. Aidan Hupe came 16th Saturday and 13th Sunday in mixed juvenile while teammate Amma Marnik placed 15th both days, out of 23 competitors on Saturday. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Gymnastics duo preps for Games in Edmonton Set to represent Yukon at the Games in Prince George, B.C. are Reena Coyne and Emily King. hitehorse’s Polarettes GymnasThe team has lost some heavytics Club was hoping to send a hitters, including multi-time Yukon team of five athletes to compete at the champ Fayne O’Donovan, who has Canada Winter Games next month. decided to retire from competition Following a string of injuries, following long-time problems with Team Yukon’s gymnastics squad is nerve damage in her ankle. down to two. “She’s had to leave the sport “We’re pretty devastated,” said because of it,” said Catherine. “It was Polarettes and Team Yukon coach a hard decision … We kind of lost our Catherine O’Donovan. “It’s not the team leader. team we were expecting to bring, but “We lost Megan Banks too. She’s we have two girls working very hard.” been riddled with injuries and she’s Tom Patrick News Reporter
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16 now and just wanted to focus on coaching. “Anisa Albisser was on our Canada Games team until a week ago, but she broke her foot in practice.” At 11 and 14 years old, King and Coyne will be some of the youngest gymnasts to compete in Prince George. King made the cutoff by only a few months and could be up against gymnasts as old as 19. “Canada Games is national-level gymnasts and we don’t have anybody at national level. They are one level below that; they are Level 5,” said Catherine. “They qualify, but it’s going to be a hard match for them. So we’re more building the team for the future. So we’re giving them that experience and exposure to the national level.” To prepare for the Games, King and Coyne compete at the Gym Power Invitational at Edmonton’s Capital City Gym Club over the weekend. King competed in Level 5 tyro, a small division because so few gymnasts are at that level at such a young age. She captured four bronze medals, taking third in vault, uneven bars, beam and all-around. Coyne competed in the open Level 5 category, taking 10th on the vault and placing 13th all-around. “I think the team was a little shook up,” said Catherine. “It was their first meet of the season, so I think jitters came into play a little bit. “There were a lot of firsts. It was the first time they competed in Edmonton, it was the first time they competed Level 5, and it was their first meet of the year. So jitters were evident, but they still went out and did all the skills we were trying to do.” A couple highlights from Edmonton include: both King and Coyne performed a tsukahara vault – a quarter turn onto the horse followed by a back flip off the horse – for their first time in competition. Coyne also completed a fly-away
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Atom Mustangs take on Tier 2 teams in Kelowna Tom Patrick News Reporter
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fter taking a string of losses on the weekend, the Atom Jr. Mustangs received a bit of good news: they were in the wrong division. The Tier 3 Whitehorse rep team played the Tier 2 division in the Kelowna Classic Atom Development Tournament over the weekend in B.C. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought we were in a Tier 3 division and then at the end of the weekend when we played our fourth and final game â&#x20AC;Ś (a couch from Kelowna) said they play solid Tier 2 all season long,â&#x20AC;? said Mustangs head coach Trevor Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when we found out we were in a Tier 2 division â&#x20AC;Ś again.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the first time the Mustangs took on a Tier 2 challenge. At the very start of the season they went winless at the Seafair International Ice Breaker Rep Tournament, getting outscored 46-10 over five games. This past weekend they narrowed the gap to 34-14 over four games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we compare that Tier 2 tournament to the one in RichStephanie Gorrell/Yukon News mond, our kids have definitely Atom Jr. Mustangsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ty Beacon brings the puck up ice against the Kelowna Jr. Spartans in Kelowna, B.C., on Sunday. The Musmade huge gains as a team and tangs went winless against Tier 2 teams at the tournament. theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing great,â&#x20AC;? said Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we told them they we were not in a Tier 3, we were in a Tier 2, it brought their spirits back up, knowing they competed well in that Tier 2 division.â&#x20AC;? The Mustangs opened with their closest contest in Kelowna, losing 4-3 to the Kelowna Junior Spartans on Friday. Whitehorse was down 4-1 and pulled to within one but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get that tying goal in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The momentum was our way with two and a half minutes left or so, we just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pop in that tying goal,â&#x20AC;? said Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had there been a few more minutes on the clock, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure we would have.â&#x20AC;? Dr. Amelie Janin The Mustangs lost 13-1 to the Industrial Research Chair, Yukon Research Centre, Yukon College Penticton Junior Vees Saturday Animated 3 minute ďŹ lm about John, who has morning and 8-2 to the Vernon When Amelie Janin lifts a shovelful of mud out of a creek at received an insurance claim settlement. His life Vipers Saturday evening. Keno Hill, she knows it will be full of unusual bacteria that have is disrupted when his daughter with an alcohol They got a rematch with the a peculiar diet and a promising future. They eat heavy metal Spartans Sunday in the playoff, problem moves in. His friends, Bob and Linda come compounds, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the latest word in mine cleanup. but dropped the game 9-6. for a visit and discover the impact on Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Bacteria are cheap and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sustainable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requiring little â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re running three lines and human support for up to 100 years. The challenge is to adapt every line is getting goals for us,â&#x20AC;? Director: Arlin McFarlane. Illustrator: Doug Urquhart these biological technologies to cold temperatures and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said Matthews. Written by Lillian Nakamura Maguire and The Atom Mustangs will close what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working on. Produced by Yukon Public Legal Education Association out the season with a return to FREE ADMISSION Join her as she explores the environmental and economic Richmond in March. Team staff benefits of biologically-based technology and its future are taking measures to make sure Thursday, February 5th development in Yukon. they are slotted in the correct 7:00PM - 8:30PM | Westmark Whitehorse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Conference room 1 division this time around. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to know the kids Discussion follows on: 7:30 PM BERINGIA CENTRE, WHITEHORSE can compete in that level, to a t )PX UP SFDPHOJ[F EJGGFSFOU LJOET PG BCVTF PG PMEFS BEVMUT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015 degree,â&#x20AC;? said Matthews. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s t 8BZT UIBU ZPV DBO QSPWJEF TBGF BOE BQQSPQSJBUF TVQQPSU UP PMEFS BEVMUT SUPPER & LECTURE STARTING AT 6:00 PM also mid-year and you want to 'BDJMJUBUFE CZ "MJTPO -FBOFZ OBUJPOBM USBJOFS GPS UIF i*U T /PU 3JHIU /FJHICPVST 'SJFOET VILLAGE OF MAYO COMMUNITY HALL, MAYO be seeded in the right division so BOE 'BNJMZ 4VQQPSUJOH 0MEFS "EVMUTw BOE -JMMJBO /BLBNVSB .BHVJSF 4FOJPST 1SPKFDU you can also get some wins. Kids Coordinator, Yukon Public Legal Education Association. this age need those wins for their FVOEJOH JT QSPWJEFE CZ $SJNF 1SFWFOUJPO 7JDUJN 4FSWJDFT 5SVTU 'VOE PG :VLPO 4QPOTPSFE CZ :VLPO 1VCMJD confidence.â&#x20AC;? -FHBM &EVDBUJPO "TTPDJBUJPO JO QBSUOFSTIJQ XJUI i*U T /PU 3JHIU /FJHICPVST 'SJFOET 'BNJMJFT GPS 0MEFS
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Yukon third Kelsey Meger delivers a shot at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships this week in Corner Brook, N.L. Yukon’s two rinks – Team Wallingham in the male divison and Team Horte in the female division – each have three wins going into Friday.
Religious Organizations & Services Whitehorse United Church
Yukon Bible Fellowship
601 Main Street 667-2989
FOURSQUARE GOSPEL CHURCH 160 Hillcrest Drive Family Worship: Sunday 10:00am
(Union of Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches) 10:30 a.m. - Sunday School & Worship Service Rev. Beverly C.S. Brazier
Grace Community Church 8th & Wheeler Street Pastor Dave & Jane Sager 689-4598 10:30 AM FAMILY WORSHIP WEEKLY CARE GROUP STUDIES Because He Cares, We Care.
PASTOR SIMON AYRTON PASTOR RICK TURNER www.yukonbiblefellowship.com
Church Of The Nazarene 2111 Centennial St. (Porter Creek) Sunday School & Morning Worship - 10:45 am Call for Bible Study & Youth Group details
PASTOR NORAYR (Norman) HAJIAN
www.whitehorsenazarene.org 633-4903
Quaker Worship Group RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Meets regularly for Silent Worship. For information, call 667-4615 email: whitehorse-contact@quaker.ca
website: quaker.ca
Seventh Day Adventist Church
1607 Birch St. 633-2647
149 Wilson Drive 668-5727 Sunday 10:00am Prayer / Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Wednesday Praise & Celebration 7:30 pm Pastor Roger Yadon
4th Avenue & Steele Street • 667-2437 Masses: Weekdays: 12:10 pm. Saturday 5 pm Sunday: 9 am - English; 10:10 am - French; 11:30 am English
Saturday Evening Mass: 7:00 p.m.
ALL WELCOME
Whitehorse
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Baptist Church
668-4079 tlc@northwestel.net
2060 2ND AVENUE • 667-4889
4th Avenue & Strickland Street
Pastor Deborah Moroz pastor.tlc@northwestel.net
www.whbc.ca
EVERYONE WELCOME!
Family Worship & Sunday School
Riverdale Baptist Church 15 Duke Road, Whse 667-6620 Sunday worship Service: 10:30am REV. GREG ANDERSON
www.rbchurch.ca
at 10:30 AM
St. Nikolai Orthodox
Christian Mission
Saturday Vespers 5:00 pm Sunday Liturgy 10:00 am FR. JOHN GRYBA 332-4171 for information www.orthodoxwhitehorse.org
www.vajranorth.org • 667-6951
Christ Church Cathedral ANGLICAN
Box 31419, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6K8
403 Lowe Street Mondays 5:15 to 6:15 PM
TAGISH Community Church
Sacred Heart Cathedral (Roman Catholic)
Bethany Church Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Early Morning Service 9:00 - 10:00 am Family Service 10:30 am - Noon Filipino Service 4:00 - 5:00 pm Sunday School Ages 0-12
91806 Alaska Highway Ph: 668-4877
ECKANKAR
Religion of the Light and Sound of God
For more information on monthly activities, call (867) 633-6594 or visit www.eckankar-yt.ca www.eckankar.org ALL ARE WELCOME.
Meditation Drop-in • Everyone Welcome!
OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM to 12 Noon
First Pentecostal Church
Confessions before Mass & by appointment. Monday 7:00 PM Novena Prayers & Adoration Tuesday through Friday: Mass 11:30 a.m.
Vajra North Buddhist Meditation Society
1609 Birch St. (Porter Creek) 633-5385 “We’re Open Saturdays!” Worship Service 11:00 am Wednesday 7:00 pm - Prayer Meeting All are welcome.
Our Lady of Victory (Roman Catholic)
Rigdrol Dechen Ling,
4TH AVENUE & ELLIOTT STREET Services Sunday 8:30 AM & 10:00 AM Thursday Service 12:10 PM (with lunch)
668-5530
Meets 1st & 3rd Sunday each Month Details, map and information at:
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Calvary Baptist 1301 FIR STREET 633-2886 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Pastor L.E. Harrison 633-4089
Bahá’Í Faith For information on regular communityactivities in Whitehorse contact: whitehorselsa@gmail.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Meeting Times are 10:00 AM at 108 Wickstrom Road
The Salvation Army 311-B Black Street • 668-2327
Sunday Church Services: 11 am & 7 pm EVERYONE WELCOME!
www.bethanychurch.ca
The Temple of Set The World’s Premier Left Hand Path Religion
A not-for-prophet society. www.xeper.org canadian affiliation information: northstarpylon@gmail.com
Church of the Northern Apostles
An Anglican/Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:00 AM Sunday School during Service, Sept to May
THE REV. ROB LANGMAID 45 Boxwood Crescent • Porter Creek 633-4032 • All Are Welcome
Yukon Muslim Association 1154c 1st Ave • Entrance from Strickland
www.yukonmuslims.ca For further information about, and to discover Islam, please contact: Javed Muhammad (867) 332-8116 or Adil Khalik (867) 633-4078 or send an e-mail to info@yukonmuslims.ca
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Snowboarder Melvin-McNutt reaches out for Yukon support Melvin-McNutt rode to a fifthplace finish at the Canadian Freestyle Snowboard Championships at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alta., last March. He took fifth in menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slopestyle out of 27 of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best, including members of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national team. Four seasons ago Melvin-McNutt became the first Yukoner to make the B.C. Freestyle Snowboard
Team. In his first two seasons with the team he racked up some fantastic results before a broken collarbone took him out of action two seasons in a row, causing him to miss the nationals. To help Melvin-McNutt reach his goals, donate at www.gofundme.com/maxswcjourney. Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com
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Yukon government. life, I felt like I just needed a break Melvin-McNutt almost decided from it,â&#x20AC;? said Melvin-McNutt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I to take this season off. He told the just needed to find some answers hitehorse snowboarder Max News last month he was going to and I found them as soon as I left. Melvin-McNutt has some take a year off from competing, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just realized how much I big plans and big goals for this then realized how much he would missed snowboarding and had to season, and he hopes Yukoners will miss it while on vacation. come back. I refound that passion help him out on the financial side â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a confusing part of my just from being away from it.â&#x20AC;? of things. The 20-year-old member of the national development team has launched a crowd-funding webpage to raise money so he can compete at some major international events this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To help out with the cost of travel, accommodation, lift tickets, food and everything involved with traveling,â&#x20AC;? said Melvin-McNutt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to do well in these three contests, as well as two more when I get back to Whistler (including Are you looking to start or expand your Yukonthe national championships),â&#x20AC;? based business? If so, a small loan can make a big he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to make the difference with the Yukon Micro Loan Program. national team next season and I want to progress with a bunch of The Yukon Micro Loan Program lends small amounts of new tricks, just get better at snowmoney starting at $3,000 for a first loan -- to individuals who boarding.â&#x20AC;? want to start, maintain or expand small businesses. Those Melvin-McNutt is currently who repay their loans in a timely fashion may qualify for ranked 13th in Canada for slopeinterest rate reductions on subsequent loans up to $12,000. style. He hopes to compete at the Stoneham World Cup near Quebec Micro Loans can be used for business purposes such as: City and Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park City World t #VZJOH PS MFBTJOH FRVJQNFOU UPPMT PS DPNQVUFST Cup next month. He then hopes t .BLJOH MFBTFIPME JNQSPWFNFOUT to jump the pond to compete at a t 1VSDIBTJOH NBUFSJBMT TVQQMJFT BOE JOWFOUPSZ major international event outside t 1BZJOH ĂĽSTU BOE MBTU NPOUI T SFOU PO B DPNNFSDJBM TQBDF Toulouse, France. t .BSLFUJOH BOE BEWFSUJTJOH Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll finish the season with the national championships and a t &TUBCMJTIJOH PS SFCVJMEJOH DSFEJU IJTUPSZ showcase event in Whistler, B.C., where he currently resides, at the Take the first step towards business successâ&#x20AC;Ś end of March. Through his GoFundMe web contact us today. page, Melvin-McNutt hopes to raise $8,000 to cover travel ex409 Black St. (867) 668.6925 penses. By press time on Thursday, Whitehorse 1.800.661.0448 just three days after launching the Yukon dnv@dananye.yk.ca page, he already raised more than Growing Yukon businesses since 1985 Y1A 2N2 dananaye.yk.net half his goal. As an elite athlete, he also receives funding from the Tom Patrick
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Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues. Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction. No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.
WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: to deceive or trick.
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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a difficult and dangerous military retreat.
Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Bay Area Transit Auth. (abbr.) 5. Pull apart by force 9. Ancient Egyptian King 12. Missing soldiers 13. Capital of Japan 14. Diamond month (abbr.) 15. Spheres 16. Surpassing good 17. British thermal unit 18. Philippine island & seaport 19. Legally argued 20. Belonging to singer Fitzgerald 22. Bowler hats
24. Has a strong odor 25. Doyens 26. London Gallery 27. Rural delivery 28. Rods 31. Stonhenge plain 33. Withdraw from membership 34. Execute or perform 35. Central or Yellowstone 36. Municipality in Norway 39. Bay of NW Rep. of Ireland 40. Skin designs 42. Son of Jephunneh
43. Baseball’s Ruth 44. Clare Booth __, Am. writer 46. Black tropical American cuckoo 47. Filled with fear or apprehension 49. 6th Jewish month 50. Wide metal vessel used in cooking 51. Make by pouring into a cast 52. Colombian city 53. Heat unit 54. Carpenter, red and army 55. Adam and Eve’s garden
CLUES DOWN 1. Big man on campus 2. Made public by radio or television 3. Labelled 4. Inform positively 5. Drinks habitually 6. Supplemented with difficulty 7. SW Scottish river & port 8. American poet 1874-1963 9. Pads 10. Ingestion or intake 11. Tie up a bird before cooking
13. Bulrushes of the genus Scirpus 16. Turned rod on a spinning wheel 21. Having or covered with leaves 23. The 44th U.S. President 28. Midway between S and SE 29. Tuberculosis (abbr.) 30. Inspected accounting procedures 31. A twilled woolen fabric 32. Potato state 33. The work of a sailor 35. Involving 2 dimensions
36. Fanatical or overzealous 37. Consolation 38. Wild sheep of northern Africa 39. Erect leafless flower-bearing stalk 40. Afrikaans 41. Weighing device 43. Very dry champagne 45. Emerald Isle 48. A resident of Benin
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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a term that is newly created and adopted to distinguish the original or older version, form, or example of something from other, more recent
Puzzle C
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2-BDRM MOBILE home, Ibex Valley, avail immed, 10 mins from Porter Creek, wood heat, water tank, water delivery avail, furnished or non-furnished, pets ok, $750/mon. 668-6885
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2-BDRM 2-BATH house, Ingram, open concept, fenced/landscaped yard, long term rental, avail February 1, N/S, N/P, $1,500/mon + utils. 332-6688
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2-BDRM HOUSE, downtown, avail Feb. 1, 5 appliances, fully fenced, pets negotiable, N/S, refs reqĘźd, first, last & dd, $1,650/mon + utils & oil. 334-1471
SHOP/OFFICE/STUDIO Multi-Use Building with space available to rent Very Competitive rates Various sizes, short & long term Washroom on site Friendly environment whserentals@hotmail.com Phone 667-6805
3-BDRM 2-BATH house, Copper Ridge, garage, living/dining room, family/rec room, stainless steel appliances, $2,100/mon, heat included. 332-2252
FURNISHED ROOM in newer new home in Ingram Sub. Incls cable tv, internet, laundry. Available March 1, $700/mon. 334-3186
BRIGHT OFFICE/STUDIO Space Available for Rent: Up to 2000 sq. ft. available for immediate occupation. Location: 129 Copper Road. Space includes Kitchen area with stove & fridge. Call 667-2614 ask for Brenda or Michelle or e-mail: totalfire@northwestel.net ROOM IN 2-bdrm apt, shared kitchen/living areas, quiet responsible tenant, fully furnished, clean, $650/mon incl heat, light, cable, Internet. Vern @332-5181 ROOMMATE WANTED, Marsh Lake, quiet scenic waterfront home, N/S, animals welcome, $500/mon. 660-4321
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FURNISHED BEDROOM w/bath & private entrance, Porter Creek, near bus stop, $500/mon. Kim @ 333-9077 BUNGALOW, COPPER Ridge, on 2 bus routes, 10 mins from downtown, new propane furnace, private back yard, double car garage, furnished/unfurnished, N/S, N/P. 633-4278 1-BDRM APT, unfurnished, downtown, secured entry, $952/mon including heat. 334-1458
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JASPER PLACE TRIPLEX now available for rent â&#x20AC;˘New, large (1,900 sq ft) â&#x20AC;˘2 bedroom, 2.5 bath units. â&#x20AC;˘Each bedroom has its own bathroom and patio. â&#x20AC;˘Dishwasher, washer, dryer, plenty of space to park extra vehicles including boat and motorhome â&#x20AC;˘Walking distance to downtown core â&#x20AC;˘Garage â&#x20AC;˘$2,200/mon plus utilities. To schedule a viewing Call 334-8052
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MATURE ROOMMATE wanted to share home with same, includes large bedroom w/full bath ensuite, wifi, etc, full use of kitchen/LR, $700/mon. 334-4914 for more info
Beautifully ďŹ nished ofďŹ ce space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street. This historic building is the ďŹ rst L.E.E.D. certiďŹ ed green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.
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Miscellaneous for Sale For Sale NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices Phone (780)335-3557 If no one is available please leave msg or call (780)461-9677
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â&#x20AC;˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â&#x20AC;˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames. Now selling: â&#x20AC;˘Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets. 333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo. G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL
KING SIZE navy blue velvet duvet cover, clean, vg cond, $35; 3-blade Eco-fan, 334-7555 after 6pm
HALO EDITION XBox w/14 games, Guitar Hero, Metallica edition Guitar Hero, all cords & batteries, $150. 336-0306
BATEMAN SIGNED/NUMBERED prints, Shadow of the Rainforest, Air Forest and the Watch, At the Cliff, Cougar in the Snow, all professionally framed, reasonable offers, 334-7555 after 6pm
INDOOR GARAGE sale, Sunday February 1, 11am-4pm, #3 Glacier Rd, houshold items, tools, furniture, clothing, dog crates, etc. 333-0505
CANNING JARS, 125ml, 250ml, 500ml, 1 litre, salmon jars, All American pressure canner, 25qt, Presto pressure canner, 22 qt, vg cond, 334-7555 after 6pm
Electrical Appliances PROPANE CLOTHES dryer, heavy duty, Kenwood, brand new, $1,200. 334-8335
PIONEER FEATHER-LITE parka, menĘźs sz med, like new, $150, snowmobile suit, unisex down insulated, $75. 633-3053 BLONDE GRIZZLY bear rug, $900 obo. 335-5465 CRAFT, HOBBY, ribbon supplies, dinosaur diarama, resist step exerciser, pocket charts, 36X30 Levi jeans, new & used, HO starter set tracks. 667-7144 GORGEOUS PERSIAN carpet, Habibian Nain, creme colour with blue trim. 600 knots psi, 5'X8'. Bought in Middle East. Appraised + docs, $2,700. Open to offers. 204-880-7245 herbeeking@hotmail.com CRAFT SUPPLIES, dinosaur diaramas, resist step exerciser, teaching pocket charts, HO Snap-Track starter set. 667-7144 FIREWOOD, 2.5 cord of 18â&#x20AC;? seasoned & split, ready to pick up. 668-4291 GUINESS BAR set, gorgeous, new cond, incl bar, 2 leather embossed stools, embossed bar mirror, bought from Waterstone Products, paid $3,600, asking $2,800. 333-0519 WHITE GOLD sapphire stud earrings, $200; white/yellow gold teardrop earrings, $250. 667-6587 lv msg PALLETS FOR sale, $5 ea or 3 for $10. 668-4291 LARGE SOLID white gold hoop earrings, $400; medium yellow gold hoop earrings, $300. 667-6587 lv msg NAVY GEORGE Plus jacket, sz L, $40; Northern Lifestyles, sz M, $40; ReitmanĘźs down jacket, dark green, sz LX, $40; Bear design imitation fur jacket, sz LX, $40. 537-3511 or 332-2088 BRASS KNUCKLE Society live CD Bending The Floorboards now on sale $10 at Dean's Strings, MacĘźs Fireweed, and bandcamp.brassknucklesociety.com 58 STAMPINUP stamps, 37 ink pads, big shot, 2 boxes assorted paper, 2 paper cutters, hot gun, pastels, 38 colored pens, etc, selling altogether $400. 867-821-2954 YUKON PARKA, emerald green, sz L, $150; Yukon Parka, long, sapphire, sz S, $250. 667-6587 lv msg ORIGINAL JIM Logan painting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Against the Wallâ&#x20AC;?, 3 young First Nations men, evaluation of $5,000. Fundraiser for Grandmothers to Grandmothers, call 668-3321 HOME-MADE HIGH banker styled sluice box, tried & true, 5ĘźLx16â&#x20AC;?W, top piece is 3Ęź long with steel grate & water hose attachment, used one last year. 333-9084 JEWELRY-MAKING EQUIPMENT, beads, wires, tools, storage binds, DVDs & how-to books etc. 667-7206 for info
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Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com Guitar/Bass and Music Theory Lessons with Jim Holland in the Takhini Hot Springs area starting in January 2015. Beginners to intermediate Call for times and prices 867-335-0396 YAMAHA TYROS 3 keyboard, speakers & accessories, paid over $6,000, open to offers. Leave message 336-1445 SINGER/SONGWRITER JUST moved here, I play everything/anything but looking to be in rock band, I play lead guitar & harmonica & bit of piano/drums, am a good, dedicated artist. Call/text 306-320-1714 ROLAND HP 236 Digital Piano w/leather seat, $500. 667-2940
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST (0.8 Position - Indeterminate) The Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (Board) is hiring an energetic, highly self-motivated individual to fill the position of Information and Communications Specialist for a 0.8 position (approximately 4 days per week). This is a permanent position and includes an attractive benefits package. Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for information management and communications to assist the Board in fulfilling its mandate and objectives, which includes territorial, national and international issues relating to the management of Yukon’s fish, wildlife and their habitats. This position will support the Board in making recommendations to the appropriate Ministers, Yukon First Nations and Renewable Resources Councils on all matters related to fish and wildlife management, including legislation, regulations, policy, planning, research and programs. Priority Skills and Qualifications: t Excellent communication skills, both oral and written; t Knowledge of the mandate and responsibilities of the Board t Strong information management and analysis skills; t Knowledge of the Umbrella Final Agreement, specifically Chapter 16; t Developing, analyzing, implementing communication/media strategy t Excellent computer literacy; t Website management, updating, maintenance and training. t Strong project management skills; t Good interpersonal and presentation skills; t Knowledge of fish and wildlife management planning processes; t Knowledge of the preparation and planning of public reviews, hearings, meetings or other events; t Administering the production of public information materials including reports, printed materials, educational brochures etc. t Knowledge of Yukon environmental, land claims, and resource issues; t Knowledge of resource management principles and practices; t Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; To view the full job description, please visit our website:
www.yfwmb.ca CLOSING DATE: FEBRUARY 20TH, 2015 Applications may be submitted in person, by mail, or email to: Graham Van Tighem, Executive Director Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board (In person) #409 Black Street (2nd floor däna Näye Ventures Building) (Mail to) P.O. Box 31104 Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 5P7 Phone: 867-667-5835 executivedirector@yfwmb.ca
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DONʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE •Single cord specialist •Wood stockpiled in Whitehorse for quick daily deliveries •Social Services accepted 393-4397 DJG CONTRACTING Delivering single/multiple cord orders cut to length 20 cords in tree length Pick up in Whitehorse or Haines Junction Call or text David at 332-8327 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise. ORDER NOW 456-7432 FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Also offering approx 8-cord orders Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD Cut to length 16” and up From Haines Junction Local delivery $250 per cord 456-2035 DUKE'S FIREWOOD Round Firewood Multiples of 2 cords, $250/cord Round 6 cord load, $230/cord Cash sales only 334-8122 FIRE-KILLED FIREWOOD for sale $250/cord 334-7005 FRANKʼS FIREWOOD Standing dead spruce cordwood •$230/cord for stove length delivered in town •$90/cord u-cut on the landing •1/2 cord orders welcomed •Special rates for cordwood resellers Phone 334-8960
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3006 REBARRELED to .376 Steyr c/w 4x leupold scope, incl bullets, brass, reloading components, $700. Doug @ 867-689-6169
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CIL MODEL 9500 bolt action 270 clipped c/w Bushnell DOA 600 3x9x40, exc cond, lots of ammo, $600. Doug @ 867-689-6169 REMINGTON MODEL 700 in 7mm mag c/w vortex 4x12 scope, lots of ammo, $750. Doug @ 867-689-6169 BROWNING X bolt 300 Win mag c/w nikon prostaff BDC 2.5-10 scope, some ammo, $1,000. Doug @ 867-689-6169 SAVAGE MODEL ll .243 c/w Simmons 3x9 scope stock cut for smaller person, extra new full size stock, lots of ammo, $500. Doug @ 867-689-6169 ANSCHUTZ CIL model 111.22 single shot, vg to exc cond, $175. 633-2443 NON RESTRICTED Canadian firearms safety course presented by Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club February 7 & 8, 2015. For more info call 334-1688 or 667-6728 REMINGTON 870, 12gauge, almost new, in the box, sling, $375; Remington 597, 22LR, almost new, scope, sling with few boxes of hypersonic amo, $250. 336-0511 MARLIN MODEL XL7S 30-06, c/w scope bases, $300, Winchester 3030 Model 94ae, $400, Leupold scope Model VX3, 2.5 -8, 36mm Boone & Crockett, $400, exc cond, FAC required. 668-5268
Wanted LOOKING FOR a generous volunteer driving instructor. Gas and vehicle provided. Please call 867-335-3289 WANTED: 4Ęź or 8Ęź panel of chain link fence with opening entrance gate, reasonable price. 334-6197 WANTED: DISHWASHER, 18â&#x20AC;?, portable. 335-0678 WANTED: VOLUNTEER to teach beginner English to an adult. 393-2275 WANTED: BOBCAT snow bucket, large 100â&#x20AC;? wide; Bobcat bucket, standard size clean-up type, must have bolt on cutting edge & good/new shape. 336-0306 WANTED: TRUCK bush bar, preferably from Toyota, Nissan etc size truck. 633-4322 WANTED: OLD used or no-good-anymore snowboard to make swing, free would be awesome, super cheap ok. 393-3300 & lv msg
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CZ 550, cal 300 win mag with vortex rifle scope, 3X9-40, exc cond, have FAC, $775. 333-9209 REMINGTON MODEL 750 semi-auto 30 06 c/w Leupold 4x scope, lots of ammo, $750. Doug @ 867-689-6169
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2011 YARIS CE, 3-dr hatchback, 5-speed manual, less than 44,000 km, red color, good visibility, heated side mirrors, extended 7 year/200,000 km transferable warranty, $9,500. anna.lorrina@gmail.com
AYA (SPANISH) 12-gauge boxlock sxs shotgun, vg to exc cond, trade for good quality 16-gauge sxs or sell for $475. 633-2443
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Administrative Assistant School of Continuing Education and Training
Applied Science and Management Ayamdigut (Whitehorse) Campus Term Position to: September 5, 2016 Salary: $53,630 to $63,844 per annum (Based on 75.0 hours bi-weekly) Competition #:15.11 Initial Review Date: February 11, 2015 Are you looking for a new challenge to apply your administrative skills? This position requires someone who HQMR\V EHLQJ WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW FRQWDFW DQG SURYLGLQJ SURJUDP VXSSRUW services for the school of Continuing Education and Training 7KH VFKRRO KDV D G\QDPLF RIĂ&#x20AC;FH HQYLURQPHQW VFKHGXOLQJ and delivering hundreds of open enrolment professional development, workforce development, and community interest courses and contract training in Whitehorse and throughout the Territory. As the administrative assistant, you will be supporting the day-to-day administration of the SCET by providing administrative support, directing enquiries, supporting LQVWUXFWRUV VWXGHQWV DQG DVVLVWLQJ ZLWK Ă&#x20AC;QDQFLDO SURFHGXUHV 7KH LGHDO DSSOLFDQW ZLOO KDYH FHUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ LQ RIĂ&#x20AC;FH RU EXVLQHVV administration at a post-secondary leave with related administrative experience. Experience taking comprehensive minutes and basic bookkeeping skills are required. Candidates with an acceptable combination of experience and education may also be considered. Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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Reporting to the Manager IT Services, the position is responsible for the administration, design, maintenance and implementation of all data base systems within Yukon College. This position will manage the database resources and services and ensure data quality and integrity and availability to all applications. As the primary resource for the Student Management System (OOXFLDQ %DQQHU \RX ZLOO LQVWDOO VHWXS FRQĂ&#x20AC;JXUH SDWFK administer, troubleshoot and maintain the Banner and Millenium Fast Systems. As well, with your experience in operating systems and business analysis, you will be working closely with a variety of users in the college to determine their current and future requirements and you will work with the user community to further implement our data warehouse environment (Millenium Fast), providing users with the capability of developing and running their own queries and reports. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working closely with users, who can lead the process of providing timely and accurate information as required. Applicants will have Post-secondary Information Technology FHUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ DQG RU VHYHUDO \HDUV RI ,7 LQGXVWU\ WUDLQLQJ LQ Database Management/Development preferably Oracle and /or Banner, programming experience with PL/SQL, Oracle and Unix VKHOO VFULSWLQJ VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;FDOO\ LQ FUHDWLQJ DQG UXQQLQJ UHSRUWV DQG experience in project management. <XNRQ &ROOHJH RIIHUV D FRPSUHKHQVLYH EHQHĂ&#x20AC;W SDFNDJH Go to: http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/employment for more information on all job competitions. Quoting the competition number, please submit your resume and cover letter to: Yukon College, Human Resources Services, Box 2799, 500 College Drive, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 5K4 Fax: 867-668-8896 Email: hr@yukoncollege.yk.ca
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 2007 CHEV Avalanche, 11,200km, interior in mint condition, new brakes, tires, Nav entertainment center, brake box, only 1 driver, $14,000 obo. 335-2180 for more info
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Trucks 1997 TOYOTA 4-Runner, 234,000k, c/w winter tires + off road tires, off road lights, great cond, new brake pads, starter & battery, includes engine winter package, $8,500 obo. 993-3519 2011 FORD F250 4x4 Supercab long box, 106,000km, $17,000 obo. 336-2121 2011 HONDA Pilot Touring Ed, fully loaded, nav system, heated seats, dvd, sunroof, low kms 62000kms, grey, exc cond, $32,995. 667-2880 2010 NISSAN X-Terra 4X4, 6-spd manual, stock off-road lighting, new trailer hitch, diff lock, good glass & tires, low kms, extended warranty. 332-3928
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DIRECTOR, NATURAL & HERITAGE RESOURCES THE JOB: Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is responsible for directing the business of the Natural & Heritage Resources Department in lands, environment, heritage, and ďŹ sh and wildlife. This position supervises the Heritage Manager, Lands Manager, Fish & Wildlife Manager and Administrative Assistant. This position also serves as a member of the Senior Management Team in the Vuntut Gwitchin Government. THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will hold a degree or diploma in one or more of the following: natural or renewable resource management, land management, environmental studies and have extensive relevant work experience at a senior management level. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of the principles, practices, issues and legislations associated with natural resources management. Strong skills are needed for managing projects, developing policies and procedures, applying ďŹ nancial management, negotiating, supervising and problem solving. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
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Auto Parts & Accessories 5 BRAND new Goodyear 245/75-17â&#x20AC;? 10ply mud/snow tires, $420 cost each, complete set of 5 for $1,500 obo, will not fit my truck. Call 332-1374 TOYOTA ALLOY wheels, fits Tacoma or Tundra, 16X7, retail $490/ea, asking $125/ea or all for $400. 633-3053 WILL HAUL your complete unwanted vehicle away free of charge. 633-3088 5 TRUCK tires, one new, other four have 75% tread left, LT265/70R17. 668-4291 4 NOKIA tires, 225/60 R16, $200. 633-3088 BOAT/UTILITY RACK for full-size p/u, rated at 800lbs, 3 yrs old. Paid $800 at Buffalo Tools, asking $275. 334-8738 TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100
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Pets DOG CRATES for sale, various sizes. 633-2714 6-WK OLD black kitten, litter trained, weaned, Siamese mother, $60. 633-2837 WANTED: PICK of litter male kitten, free, 6-9 weeks, prefer black/ black & white, prefer larger medium haired cat, going to great home out of town. 667-2940
THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713
POMERANIAN PUPPIES, 11 weeks old, 2 males, 2 females, have first shots, paper trained, red fox colour, very loyal, understand commands, $600. Donna @ 250-651-2464 Has your fur buddy slowed down? Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step. Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder. Dosage based on weight. 332-7828 CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy fundamentals March 10 Private Lessons Reactive dog rehabilitation Professional, high quality certified trainers Phone 333-0505 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net www.caninesandcompany.ca
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2009 YAMAHA Venture MP 4-stroke, exc cond, rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, spare carbide runners, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover, $5,500. Mike 333-6392 2008 YAMAHA Nytro Custom Race sled, $8,500 obo, can be seen at Yukon Yamaha, ported & polished head, K&N intake race exhaust, 1.75 track, etc. 334-5613 15 X 1.6" X 141 track, used twice, $550 obo. 334-5613 580 ARCTIC Cat XLT snowmobile, new parts, $1,500 obo. 689-9715
Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467
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RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment. Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg
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2011 SKANDIC WT 600 ACE, $6,500 obo. 633-5955 2013 BEARCAT snowmobile long track, low mileage, $7,200 obo. 633-4115 2009 SKI-DOO Summit 800 154" track, 1800 miles, C&A skis, ceramic coated can, includes extra a arms, Ski-doo cover, great shape, $5,500 obo. 333-0484
26' SILVER Streak aluminum ocean cruiser, Twin 200hp Honda outboards, full cabin, berth & head, tandem axle trailer w/new axles, tires, elec. over hyd. brakes. 334-3378
1,000 GAL waste oil tank, $500. 668-4291
Campers & Trailers 4-WHEELER TRAILER wagon, $700. 537-3511 or 332-2088 2010 32Ęź Jayco G2 travel trailer, double axle, 2 push outs, regular hitch, used 5 times, $18,000. 633-5155
ARCTIC CAT snowmobile trailer covers, 3 available, $250 new, asking $50 to $100 ea. 336-0306
20Ęź GOOSENECK low boy equipment trailer, dual 7,000lb axles, slide-out ramps, newer tires, hardly used, $5,500. 336-0306
2006 SNOWMOBILE Trailtech trailer w/ramp GVW 2998 lbs, gd shape, $2,200. 668-4291
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AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3PM. 667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net CONGRATULATIONS! Planning a 2015 Wedding? Contact Glenn King, Yukon Marriage Commissioner to perform your ceremony. Experience with: Vows, Timelines, Processions, Elopement, Outside, Simple home, Formal Events. herbeeking@hotmail.com 867-456-4109 or 204-880-7245 EXHIBITION: LABORATOIRE dĘźhiver January 9-31, Arts Underground. CĂŠcile Girard, ioleda, Joe la Jolie et Karen Ă&#x2030;loquin-Arseneau unveil works created during the winter season. afy.yk.ca
RCMP VICTIM Assistance volunteers looking for applicants. Program offers immediate support to victims. For further info contact: philip.whiles@rcmp-grc.gc.ca EQUINE ASSOCIATION of Yukon AGM, January 31, 6:30 pm, upstairs at the Indoor Riding Arena. All interested horse people are welcome to attend YUKON SEARCH & Rescue AGM Wednesday, February 4 2015 at 7pm in the EMO boardroom, 60 Norseman Road, open to the public. For info: e-mail info@yukonsar.org LOVE A Liberal Dance, February 6, 7:30pm, Transportation Museum. Music provided by Soul Migration, tickets $25, cash bar, Melissa at 333-9493 for tickets or email: melissakcraig@yahoo.com SATURDAY SALSA Dancing at the Wheelhouse, latest Latin music will play all night long, 9pm-12:30am, Saturday January 31st 2015, Wheelhouse Restaurant, 2237 2nd Ave. salsayukon@gmail.com for info BABY STORY Time, Ages 6-24 months & caregiver(s), Friday Jan 16 to Friday Mar 6, 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30am, no program on Fri Feb 20, Whitehorse Public Library THE MOUNT Lorne Local Advisory Council will be meeting Tuesday, February 3, 2015, at the Mount Lorne Community Centre at 7pm. Agenda is available on the Mount Lorne Website. NEW TO Whitehorse? 35 or over? Come out and meet other newcomers. Email newtowhitehorse@gmail.com to get reminders of upcoming events HEALING TOUCH Yukon Association AGM will be Wednesday, Feb 25 at 5:30 pm at 412 Cook Street. Email jenniferg@northwestel.net for more information.
COFFEE HOUSE, Saturday Feb. 7, featuring Stewart Ely + the Open Stage. Help set up 6pm + open stage sign-up, show at 7:30pm, $5, United Church bsmt, 6th + Main, 633-4255
THE WHITEHORSE Photography Club's Tuesday February 3 meeting features Yukon photographer Mark Prins. 7:00pm Whitehorse Public Library. Info at whitehorsephotoclub.ca/
YUKON YOUNG Farmers AGM. Saturday January 31st, 11am-2pm @ Whse Public Library. Elections, new strategic plan, compost presentation. Info: neelytamara@yahoo.ca
TODDLER STORY Time, 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30am, for children 2 & 4 yrs of age & caregiver(s), Wednesday Jan 14 to Wednesday Mar 11 at Whitehorse Public Library
FREE WORKSHOPS for seniors & youth, January, February & March, provided by Yukon Artists at Work. To register & for info call Kate, 668-4268
F.H. COLLINS School Council regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 in the Fine Dining Room at the school. Everyone welcome.
YUKON FISH & Game Association is holding a Wild Game Banquet & Dance January 31st at the High Country Inn. Tickets available @ 509 Strickland St or call 667-4263
HOSPICE POETRY-WRITING Workshop. Explore a loss you are grieving through poetry with guidance from a poet and Hospice counsellor. Feb 5, 12, 19, 7-8:30pm 667-7429
ALL-GIRLS SCIENCE Club starts Jan 31. Plenty of hands-on science, interesting guests and fun activities. www.scienceadventures.ca
JACK HULLAND School Council is holding it's Regular Council Meeting, Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 7:00pm in the School Library. Everyone is welcome
YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents, Can we use bacteria to clean up mine water? with Amelie Janin, Sunday, February 1, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free. ECKANKAR WORSHIP Service "Transcending the Wheel of Rebirth", Sunday, Feb. 1, 12:30 p.m. at Whitehorse library meeting room ARTFUL EVOLUTION exhibition at Arts Underground: Meet the artist. Live demonstration and interactive art, 12-2pm Thurs 29, 12-2pm Fri 30, 3-5pm Sat 31 Jan. Exhibition ends 31 Jan 2015. KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION Night for 2015/2016 Early French Immerison Program, February 4th @ 6:30pm, Whitehorse Elementary. 667-8083 GROWERS OF Organic Food Yukon Annual General Meeting is on Sunday, March 8th at Yukon College, room C1440. For more info e-mail goofy@yukonfood.com or visit organic.yukonfood.com. New members welcome. ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association meeting, Tuesday February 10, 7pm, Sport Yukon Boardroom #1. Info: www.active twa.org 44TH ANNUAL Carmacks Sweetheart Bonspiel, February 13-15, $200 per team. To register call Carmacks Rec Centre, 867-863-5057 or George Skookum, 867-863-6134, George.skookum@lscfn.ca. Deadline to register February 12th @ 6pm SOURDOUGH PANCAKE Supper, Tuesday February 17, 5pm-7pm, Whitehorse United Church, 6th & Main, elevator access, adults $10, seniors $7, children 12 & under $5, family price $25 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Writing Circle meeting Tuesday, February 24, 7pm - 9pm, Whitehorse United Church (upstairs), scent free. Writing letters to support human rights worldwide. www.amnesty.org TAX RETURN Basics February 10, 6pm, Centre de la francophonie. Free workshop on useful tips and resources available. Held in French. Registration: 867-668-2663, xt 500 ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com
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Mary Jacquot Remembering you with Love As you watch over us. Your family
HAVEN STAYING ALIVE IN WHITEHORSE Refresh, deepen, and expand your Haven experience. Meeting weekly starting Monday, February 9. For info call Gisela at: 335-4150 or sartori.gisela@gmail.com
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THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Renovation â&#x20AC;˘ Finishing â&#x20AC;˘ Cabinets â&#x20AC;˘ Tiling â&#x20AC;˘ Flooring â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Specialty woodwork â&#x20AC;˘ Custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447
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SUBARU GURU Fixâ&#x20AC;˘Buyâ&#x20AC;˘Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 JUDEĘźS PAINTING & HOME RENOVATIONS â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen/bathroom renovations â&#x20AC;˘Hardwood & Laminate flooring â&#x20AC;˘Tile â&#x20AC;˘Window & door installation Additions, sheds & water rooms â&#x20AC;˘Interior painting New Customers 10% off Call 867-689-1458 Email judewaldman@gmail.com
PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 BURGESS BUILT CONSTRUCTION Journeyman Carpenter New Construction, Renovations Big or Small Frame to Finish Call Shawn 867-334-5190 shwn.burgess@gmail.com MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Cabinets, Windows, Framing, Board, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com GORGE SAURE Carpentry â&#x20AC;˘Interior finishing of stairs, wood flooring, kitchen installation â&#x20AC;˘Custom woodwork â&#x20AC;˘New construction â&#x20AC;˘Renovations Call for a Free Estimate 333-9530
Big or Small Jobs Construction and Handy Man Work Call James at 335-1328 HOUSECLEANING SERVICES *Kitchens & Bathrooms *Floors & Walls *Laundry *Basic Yard Work â&#x20AC;˘Errands, Prep Cooking & More See how I can help make your life easier! LACEY @ 867-689-5223 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates. Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Country Residential Snow Plowingâ&#x20AC;? All Subdivisions & acreages off Mayo Rd, MacPherson, Hidden Valley, Pilot Mountain & Hot Springs Rd. Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 PROFESSIONAL CLASS 1 DRIVER seeking full-time position. Over one million miles, clean abstract, fully certified. Oil patch construction experience. 902-443-8087 davidandsandra@bellaliant.net
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May 25, 1973 - January 2, 2015
With great sadness we announce the passing of Don Henry, known to many as Bill Henry. Don passed away with family and friends by his side on January 25, 2015.
It is with great sadness that we heard about the sudden passing of our friends, (Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife) Margaret and their daughter Lori in a vehicle accident around Revelstoke, BC on January 2nd.
His family would like to invite you to his memorial service to be held on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 2:00pm.
Margaret and John Chatten moved to the Yukon, from Ontario in 1970 and left in 2008 for retirement to Burstall, SK. It was in the Yukon, where their 3 children (Dan, Paul and Lori) grew up, and enjoyed their lives together: camping, fishing, square-dancing, hiking and building homes together.
The service will be held at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Witnesses at 191 Alsek Road in Riverdale Whitehorse. All are warmly welcome to attend and share in remembering our Dad.
A CELEBRATION of LIFE
service will be held at Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre (the Grey Mountain Room)
Friday, February 6, 2015 at 2:00PM. John Chatten, together with a gathering of friends will commemorate Margaret and Loriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives with an open mike available to share memories and stories. You are invited to bring yours.
They spent 2 years up in Inuvik, NWT. Most of their time in the North was spent in Whitehorse, YT. We can remember these 2 beautiful women and remember they are gone, or we can cherish their memory and let it live on.
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Sports Equipment
Fred, Val, and Shadelle announce the passing of their son and brother.
FOUND: REMOTE control car keys in Riverdale greenbelt. 667-7253 to claim
OLYMPIC-STYLE BENCH 300 lb Olympic weight set, inclʼg rowing attachment, $300 for both. 668-2791
David Fredrick Chambers
LOST: TEDDY lost on Ogilvie Street on Friday, Jan 9th, desperately missed by our son. Teddy is light brown and scruffy. Please call if you have found it. 334-5388
With sadness,
August 21, 1981 - January 19, 2015
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS
SUPREME COURT OF YUKON
John Edward Peterson
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
Dennis Patrick Smith COURT AUDIO UPGRADES
Funeral will be held in Champagne Saturday January 31, 1:00 pm
The family of the late
Janet Couture,
wish to extend our sincere appreciation to our many friends and acquaintances in Yukon and from across Canada; for their love and support through their expressions of sympathy, condolences, and many acts of kindness: the cards, offerings of Masses, phone calls, emails and visits, the gifts of flowers and food, and the help in our home. Our family is very grateful and wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks: Dr. PJ Anderson, Dr. A Poole, the surgical ward nurses and staff, at Whitehorse General Hospital, for their compassion and professional care during Janet’s illness. The many who attended the funeral and reception, especially to those who traveled from the outlying communities of Faro, Carmacks, Teslin and Watson Lake. To our friends and family who travelled from Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Father Jean-Augustine Some for the spiritual care provided to Janet and our family. Fathers: Kieran Kilcommons, Jean-Augustine Some, Paul Mariampillai, Jack De Verteuil, & Deacon Ben, for concelebrating the funeral Mass. Val Royle, Ryan Sikkes, Mark Connell, Helen Lapensee, Don and Mary Inverarity, Brian McGovern, Joe Hanrath, Dawn Kobewka, Monica Lauer, Josh & Simon Lauer, Ketlego Khoza, Kris & Garrett Temple, Kip Callahan Sr & Jr., Bill Power, John Minder, Sr. Edith Elder, Sr. Karen Schneider, members of Sacred Heart Catholic Women’s League, Knights of Columbus Council #6252 and Assembly #1842, Maryhouse, and many members of Sacred Heart Parish Community for their help with the funeral Mass, reception and many other tasks that helped make the service so special. Nancy Irvine (our food fairy) for taking care of us all, during Janet’s illness, and in our time of need in the days that followed. Krystal Olito and staff at Heritage North Funeral Home Leslie and staff at Plantation Flowers and Gifts Everyone at Air North, Yukon’s Airline, for helping bring up our family from outside of Yukon. There are no words to express what this has meant to have all of our family together during this difficult time. For all the Faith that lifts us up, the Love that brings us comfort, and for the Strength that allows us to move on. Our sincere thank you to everyone. Loving husband Rudy, daughter Judy Couture, grandson Kris (Stephanie) twin great grandchildren Logan and Nash, and grandson Garrett; daughter Wendolyn Callahan (Kip Sr.), grandson Kip Jr. (Tanya); daughter Glenda Power (Bill), granddaughters Krista and Jody (John Paul); and extended family, Jim and Jack Douglas and families.
Project Description: Remove old audio components; install, commission and train staff on new audio components; and relocate the A/V component cabinets Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 11, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Mark Daniels at (867) 667-8548. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT(S) FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 10, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Amanda Price at (867) 633-7906. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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WOMENʼS XC skis, 90, Noruik non-wax, fibreglass & XC Rossignol skiboots, sz 8, $150; North Face womenʼs winter jacket, sz L, $350 new, asking $175. 537-3511 or 332-2088
Deceased, late of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory, who died on
December 2nd, 2014. All persons having claims against the above mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Bhreagh D. Dabbs, on or before February 20, 2015, after which date the said Estate will be distributed, having reference only to claims which have been so filed. All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to:
AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attn: Bhreagh D. Dabbs Barristers & Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Ext Deadline
ended
TAKE NOTICE that a legal action for personal injury and damages resulting from a motor vehicle accident on January 18, 2013 on the Alaska Highway & Two-Mile Hill, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, has been filed against you in the Supreme Court of Yukon, Registry Action No. 14-A0132. You have 14 days from the date of this Notice to file an Appearance in the Supreme Court of Yukon at the Law Courts, 2134 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (867) 667-5937).
The Yukon Outfitters Association is accepting proposals to develop a
STRATEGIC MARKETING AND PROMOTION PLAN FOR MEMBERSHIP COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 20th, 2015. Please refer to the complete document package for closing time and location. Complete document package may be obtained by contacting the Yukon Outfitters Association, Executive Director, Darren Parsons, by phone (867) 6684118 or email info@yukonoutfitters.net. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Artwork for Whitehorse Public Library Deadline: Friday, February 27 at 4:00PM Theme: Discover and Curiosity
Friends of the Whitehorse Library (FOWL) would like to purchase artwork created by a Yukon artist to display in the Library. The staircase inside the building entrance invites community members to the library upstairs. We are looking for art to enhance this area, and the existing atmosphere we enjoy as a welcoming community space. We encourage artists to think of the Library not as a collection of books but all of the things the library is: community meeting space, a place to rest and reflect, to access technology, for children and adults, for programming, entertainment, literacy, and access to information. We would love to see artwork that is colourful, demonstrates our welcoming, sharing philosophy, and reflects the rich, diverse community we serve.
For more information and to obtain a proposal package go to
http:/www.ypl.gov.yk.ca/about/friends.html, call 667-8062, Highways and Public Works
or drop by the Library at 1171 Front St. during opening hours.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS
GENERAL SALES AGENT FOR THE NETHERLANDS (BENELUX)
NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 24, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Val Bumstead at (867) 667-5147. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 19, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Robin Anderson at (867) 6673532. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
BIKE TRAINER, Minoura M60, exc cond, $125 obo. 633-4628 for info
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Clayton L. Martin of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on December 31, 2014,
are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 9th day of February, 2015, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice. AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below. BY: Chance Martin c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, Y.T. Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AERODROME RADIO STATION (CARS) SERVICES FARO
PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AERODROME RADIO STATION (CARS) SERVICES MAYO
Project Description: Provision of weather observations; flight information to aircraft; emergency services; radio navigation aids monitoring; aerodrome and facility status reporting; building caretakers services, site security; and related administrative duties. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Tickie Hayes at (867) 634-2035. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: Provision of weather observations; flight information to aircraft; emergency services; radio navigation aids monitoring; aerodrome and facility status reporting; building caretakers services, site security; and related administrative duties. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darren Ronaghan at (867) 6342046. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Project Description: Provision of weather observations; flight information to aircraft; emergency services; radio navigation aids monitoring; aerodrome and facility status reporting; building caretakers services, site security; and related administrative duties. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Darren Ronaghan at (867) 6342046. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AERODROME RADIO STATION (CARS) SERVICES BEAVER CREEK
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 BROME HAY BALES 55 lb bales No rain, no weeds Nice leafy hay $12.00 each $10.00 per bale for orders over 100 bales 456-2035
Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192
HAY FOR SALE Dry bales kept under a shelter Great quality, $12/bale. 633-4496 or astra@northwestel.net DRY BROME HAY BALES For Sale 65 lb square bales $10 850 lb round bales price negotiable Phone 867-668-2407
Kwanlin Dün First Nation 35 M c Intyre Dri ve Whi te ho rse , Yuk o n Y1A 5 A5 Ph: (86 7) 63 3-7 80 0 Fa x: (86 7) 66 8-5 05 7
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
ADVISORY COMMITTEE KDFN WHITEHORSE WATERFRONT HERITAGE INTERPRETIVE PROJECT Kwanlin Dün First Nation is seeking expressions of interest by KDFN community members to serve on an advisory committee in support of the Whitehorse Waterfront Heritage Interpretive Project. Committee members must be members of the KDFN community and have direct experience or considerable knowledge of the Kwanlin Dün people’s history along the Whitehorse Waterfront. Committee members will champion the project in the community and help to provide advice and direction on known resources to enhance the sharing of the Kwanlin Dün people’s history and stories along the Whitehorse waterfront. The committee will meet 3-4 times for 1-2 hours in duration during the current phase of this multi-year project. KDFN’s policy on honorariums will apply. The committee will provide direction and advice supporting the work to: s solicit input from the community on potential historical themes and stories s gather heritage and historical materials that can be used to help share Kwanlin Dün’s story s advise on any other known documentary or visual resources held in the community s identify Elders and other tradition bearers to interview on camera. If you are interested in participating in this committee, please contact Project Manager Geoff Cowie via email at geoff.cowie@kdfn.net or by calling 633-7802 before Wed., Jan 21st at 4:30p.m.
Call for Proposals-2 Year Projects Homelessness Partnering Strategy: Designated, Aboriginal and Rural and Remote funding streams April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2017 Closing Date: February 13, 2015– 4:00 pm
HPS Background: The Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) aims to prevent and end homelessness across Canada. It does so by developing partnerships that contribute to a sustainable and wide range of supports to help those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness move towards self-suf iciency through three separate funding streams. 1. Designated Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): Designated funds are targeted to local priorities identi ied in the 2014-2019 Community Plan, and must be cost-matched (directly or in-kind) by other funding partners. Proposals will be assessed according to whether the projects are meeting or working towards the HPS Community Plan priorities, which are as follows: 1. To reduce homelessness through a Housing First approach. 2. To improve the self-suf iciency of homeless individuals/families and those at imminent risk of homelessness through individualized services. 3. To preserve/increase the capacity of facilities used to address the needs of people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. 2. Aboriginal Funding Stream (Whitehorse only): This stream funds projects delivered primarily by Aboriginal service providers and is also guided by the 2014-2019 Community Plan priorities outlined above. It includes activities that promote inclusion within the Aboriginal community and that are congruent with Aboriginal identity and practices to ensure services are integrated and culturally-appropriate. 3. Rural and Remote Funding Stream (Rural communities only): Projects that address prevention and reduction of homelessness in communities outside of Whitehorse are eligible for funding. This funding stream does not require funding from other sources, although partnerships are strongly encouraged. In order to receive an application package including the Proposal Guide please contact: Candice Menzi, Homelessness Partnering Strategy Coordinator Council of Yukon First Nations – HPS Community Entity 2166-2nd Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 4P1 Phone: (867) 393-9222 E-mail: Candice.Menzi@cyfn.net
Baby & Child Items CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903
Furniture TWO ADJUSTABLE beds, 6 years old. Individual remote controls, can be put together to form king size bed. $800 obo. P/U. 668-7115 RECLINER, PLUM coloured fabric, has heating pad in back, phone in arm rest, exc cond. 332-4455
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS
FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office
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WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB January 27, 2015 1st - Darwin Wreggitt & Jan Ogilvy 2nd - Bruce Beaton & Lynn Daffe 3rd - Bill Grandy & Andrzej Jablonski We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society. New players are welcome. For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.co
DOUBLE-SIZE SOFA bed, navy blue print, clean, $100 obo; antique double-size brass bed frame, approx 100 yrs old, $200 obo; antique steamer trunk, very old, $150 obo. 334-7555 after 6pm 2-DRAWER LETTER size filing cabinet, good cond, $35; oak veneer TV stand, 36”Wx24”H, good cond; large L-shape office desk, $150; black leatherette chair, vg cond, $50. 334-7555 after 6pm CORNER BAKERʼS rack, like new, $40. 334-7555 after 6pm
Personals CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community? Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime. Info: RCMP 867-667-5555
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FOR AUCTION Snowmobile with Trailer: 1995 ARCTIC CAT BEARCAT 440cc, long track, Aircooled, 2 stroke, 2 cylinder engine, White, No windshield, does not run (needs work), Mileage: 2611 Miles. 1994 Yamaha utility trailer, 96" X 94" manual tilt deck, 910 kg capacity, Single axle, 2" ball receiver. Items are located in Watson Lake, Yukon and are sold as is, where is. To view, contact Trevor at 867-334-2562 between the hours of 8:00AM and 5:00PM. Bids are being accepted by mail or in person to: ATCO Electric Yukon 205 Tungsten Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 0G4 Attention: Fleet Manager Bids will be accepted until February 10th, 2015 at 4:30PM. The successful bidders will be notified by end of day February 12th, 2015.
Yukon College Tender yukoncollege.yk.ca
Stipulated Price Tender General Contractor Services CNIM Building Construction Yukon College
Arthur James Kettley
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Deceased of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory who died on December 29, 2014. All persons having claims against the above-mentioned Estate are requested to file a claim, supported by Statutory Declaration, with Bhreagh D. Dabbs, on or before February 16, 2015, after which date the Estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed. All persons indebted to the Estate are requested to make immediate payment to: AUSTRING, FENDRICK & FAIRMAN Attention: Bhreagh D. Dabbs Barristers and Solicitors 3081 Third Avenue Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z7
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
Closes: NOON PST, February 18, 2015. Yukon College is inviting stipulated price bids for General Contractor services for the construction of the Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining (CNIM) Building on the Ayamdigut Campus site in Whitehorse, Yukon. The project includes the acceptance of an existing foundation, and owner supplied pre-engineered steel frame (Butler package) for the shop portion; and then completion of the full foundation work, provision of building materials, and construction of the complete building. Bidders must agree to adhere to a cash flow requirement of $4,500,000 to be spent on the project by March 31, 2016. Sealed tenders, completed in conformance with the contract documents provided will be received up to NOON local time, February 18, 2015 at: Yukon College – Procurement and Contracts Office PO Box 2799 500 College Drive Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 5K4
PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AERODROME RADIO STATION (CARS) SERVICES TESLIN Project Description: Provision of weather observations; flight information to aircraft; emergency services; radio navigation aids monitoring; aerodrome and facility status reporting; building caretakers services, site security; and related administrative duties. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Tickie Hayes at (867) 634-2035. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
Contract documents will be available on the Merx site at https://www.merx.com . Any questions to be directed to purchasing@yukoncollege.yk.ca.
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Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande
PM14-034 (Renewal of PM04-432)
Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire
Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu
Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise
Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h
James Donald Connelly
Vancouver Creek
Placer Mining
February 25, 2015
Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice. Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.
Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis. Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL CARCROSS HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN Project Description: The Department of Tourism and Culture is seeking consultants to develop a Heritage Management Plan and Design Guidelines for the community of Carcross, Yukon. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 17, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Rebecca Jansen at (867) 6678258. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CMHC SCHEDULES COMPLIANCE AUDIT YUKON HOUSING CORPORATION Project Description: Compliance Audit of schedules per Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Luzelle Nagel at 867-456-5549. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROVISION OF COMMUNITY AERODROME RADIO STATION (CARS) SERVICES BURWASH Project Description: Provision of weather observations; flight information to aircraft; emergency services; radio navigation aids monitoring; aerodrome and facility status reporting; building caretakers services, site security; and related administrative duties. Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location. Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Tickie Hayes at (867) 634-2035. The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted. All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review. View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html
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