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Community Newsletter
Summer 2014
www.mountlorne.yk.net
Joint Effort of the Hamlet Advisory Council and the Lorne Mountain Community Association LORNE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION HAMLET OF MT LORNE ADVISORY COUNCIL Ward 1, Kookatsoon/CCC Jan Aalt Van den Hoorn 667 7268
Ward 4, The Meadows Erin Woods 334-9251
Ward 2, Cowley Peter Percival 668-6817
Ward 5, Annie Lake Rd Al Foster 393-1949
Executive President :
Vice president: Christel S. Percival
456-2032 668-6817
Treasurer: Michelle Harper DIRECTORS Bob Sharp
Ward 3, Robinson Bill Dunn Administrative Assistant Katherine Scheck
Sharon Hickey
456-4031 668 4965
Peter Carr Dave Bouquot
667-7083
668 7693
“To catch the reader's attention, place an interesting sentence or quote from the
story here.” Helene Girardeau
Mailing Address: Box 10009 Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 7A1
Executive Director
Agnes Seitz
Hall Rentals/Membership:
667-7083 667-7083
Mailing Address: Box 10009 Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 7A1 E-mail: lmca@northwestel.net Website: www.mountlorne.yk.net
Phone/Fax: 667-7083 E-mail: mtlorne@northwestel.net Website: www.mountlorne.yk.net
LMCA Annual General Meeting
everybody invited !!
Thursday , May 15th 7.00pm We are looking for BOARD MEMBERS- join us !
See more page 3
Letter from the Hamlet Council Property owners within the Hamlet should have received a letter from the Yukon Government’s (YG). Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) department advising them of the passing of Order in Council 2014/40, allowing the subdivision of private lots within the hamlet. It is advisable that residents take the time to read this document, to insure they have a proper understanding of how subdivision may occur within the Hamlet. If you need further information on how the subdivision process happens, then going to the YG website on subdivision will provide you with the necessary documentation. Council has been informed that come this summer the Department of Highways will be erecting Road Signs on many of the unnamed roads within the Hamlet. At some later time, numbers will be assigned to residents. The establishment of road names and a resident numbering scheme will greatly assist the fire department and other emergency services in locating your home in case of an emergency. The Hamlet council for the past year and half has been trying to find a better way of getting information out to residents. If council wants to inform residents of important issues, we presently have to submit our request to the Yukon Government and then they compile a mailing list of residents and mail the information out. The council is then billed for the mail out, but at no time do we actually know who has received or not received the information. All the Local Advisory Councils (LAC), Marsh Lake, Tagish, Carcross and Ibex Valley, are faced with this same issue. Presently a letter jointly signed by all the LACs has been sent to the minister in the hopes that the LACs will be granted access to a resident list for each of our communities. The Hamlet council provides support to the Lorne Mt. Community Association (LMCA), Fire Hall and the Mile 9 Dump when needed. Either through letters of support, or by talking with the appropriate government departments trying to make them aware of issues presently affecting these organization in their day to day operation. Presently we are looking into funding issues for the LMCA in hopes that core funding for the association can be increased to put it on par with other community associations. We are also supporting the dump in its initiative to boost the Hamlets present recycling rate of 50% up to 75% or better. Last fall a government website was launched to showcase the various Yukon Communities Profiles. However in turns out Mount Lorne , Marsh Lake and Ibex Valley were not considered Yukon communities on this website, even though Order in Councils (OIC) had been passed creating them (there was a community listed though that had no OIC creating it). This was brought to the government’s attention at the LAC forum held at Mt. Lorne last November and now Mount Lorne, Marsh Lake and Ibex Valley are recognized as Yukon Communities. There are still further government webpages that need to be updated such that this recognition is consistent through the various government departments. Page 2
Hamlet Council continued More from council—read on
Small communities like Mount Lorne exist because of volunteer efforts. But finding enough people to volunteer in small communities can be a real struggle. Here are some reasons why you should consider volunteering in Mount Lorne. To: Help others Make new friends Learn and develop new skills Test out career options Gain work experience Develop self-confidence and personal leadership ability Belong Be recognized Be part of a team Receive professional training Be creative Stay physically healthy HAVE FUN Al Foster - Councillor, Annie Lake Road Ward
LMCA - AGM
everybody invited
Thursday , May 15th 7.00pm We are looking for BOARD MEMBERS- join us ! Short business meeting—financial update— followed by :
TheCallOfTheYukon
22min
This three-part TV series tells the stories of German-speaking immigrants, who decided to live their dreams of adventure and freedom in the Yukon and are completely spellbound with the lifestyle of the Canadian North.
Werner Walcher
Rosvita Dransfeld
Director / Producer Executive Producer
Producer / Executive
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LORNE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Hello friends and neighbors,
President’s Report
I don’t know if this is the longest winter on record or the laziest spring but I am ready for warmer weather and no snow! I know it’s coming but the longer days make me wish it was here now….oh yes, and a desire to be rid of my winter boots for a few months! We’ve had a busy winter at the community centre. In January we celebrated the 20th running of the Carbon Hill dogsled race. As all of the long-time volunteers have moved on to other interests, there will be no future Carbon Hill races without a new slate of volunteers to run it. If dogs are your thing, here’s a great opportunity for you. Our ancient Olympia ice-resurfacer really is on life support so the Board bit the bullet and applied to the Community Development Fund for 90% of the money necessary to buy a new one. We had to use our reserves for our 10% or $15,000 so we’ll be holding events throughout 2014 to make that money back up. We had a skate-a-thon in February to help with this and more events are planned. Please attend where you can. The concert with the Leesiders alone will be awesome!! Date TBA. We had an awesome ski race again this year…..170 participants! That must be close to a record. Thanks to everyone who helped organize the race and groom the trails. The Foodie Club has been meeting once a month with all kinds of ethnic cooking opportunities. Check our website for upcoming events. The kids had fun at the chocolate making event…or 23 of them did! The stories and Voices of the Valley project is still underway with more and more stories being recorded all the time. We can thank Christel Percival for getting us organized on this project. The Northern Backyard Gardening program will be offered again. Sign up and learn how to grow your own food. Mark your calendars for June 7th. We’ll have our spring/summer volunteer workday and an arctic char bake is on the menu as a small token of our appreciation. I hear there will also be a campfire and s’mores! Our AGM will be on May 15th at 7 PM. Come and see one of Werner’s latest films about a family living in the Wheaton Valley. After almost 10 years, it will also be my last AGM as I am stepping down so Carol and I can travel more. Being on the Board has been a very rewarding experience. Thanks to our amazing staff, it’s a very small time commitment (1-2 hours a month) and I have gotten to know so many of you because of my involvement with LMCA. I encourage all of you to consider being on the Board…I found it to be so much fun it’s one of my big regrets about going traveling….but go I must. Sharon Hickey , President Page 4
News from the Firehall Spring 2014 We are happy to report that there were no call-outs for house or chimney fires during the past winter. We did respond to two incidents of burning slash that required our input and assistance. Mostly our volunteers kept busy with regular training, vehicle/equipment maintenance and advanced courses offered by the Fire Marshal’s Office. Over the Winter, our firefighters took Hazardous Materials Operations, Incident Command System 200, Emergency Scene Management, Yukon Emergency Strategies, Tactics and Accountability as well as Incident Safety Officer training. On October 10, 2013 we held our Annual General Meeting. Colin O’Neill moved up from his Deputy Chief position to become our Fire Chief. We were also fortunate to have Claire Desmarais return again and be our Deputy Chief. The public is welcome to attend any of our regular Board meetings as well. Check our website for updates. The Fire Marshal’s Office also gave us a wonderful early Easter present – a “new” 4x4 truck to use for quick response. It’s a white 2010 Ford F250 Super Duty. If it is a hot, dry summer again, you will no doubt see us patrolling the community when fire hazards are extreme. As the snow starts to disappear, it’s never too soon to start thinking about the forest fire season. No one can ever predict 100% what the weather will be like but there are numerous preventative measures you can implement around your home. Rake combustible materials, such as leaves and pine cones, from around your buildings. Clean debris out of eaves troughs. Do more Fire Smarting around your property and remove a few more trees, especially in a 30ft / 10 meter circle around the buildings. If you are able, you might even want to devise a water sprinkler system for your roof and area surrounding your buildings. Creating a mist can go a long way to inhibiting flying embers from landing and igniting a fire. The Wildland Fire Management people would like to come to our community to give talks and sprinkler demonstrations before the forest fire season. We did this sort of public service day at the firehall during our 10 anniversary celebrations in 2006 and it was a big hit. Tentative date is Saturday, May 31st at the community centre. More advertised soon. If you do plan on having any sort of a fire between April 1st and September 30th, you must obtain a permit from the Southern Lakes District office, located at Mile 918 on the Alaska Highway, just north of the Two Mile Hill. Office hours are 0800 - 1200 and 1300 - 1600 Monday to Friday. These permits are FREE and you must have one to do any type of burning – brush, grass, bonfire and even garbage in a burning barrel. If you do not obtain a permit, or breach the conditions of the permit and burn carelessly, you are liable to prosecution and punishment, including the costs associated with the extinguishment of any fires. Page5
You are also required to contact the MLVFD when you are planning to burn brush – just so we have a heads-up in case of an emergency. Contact 668-6613 Fire Chief Colin O’Neill) or 393-1949 (Deputy Chief Claire Desmarais).
Training continues the first and third Wednesdays each month at 19:00. In addition, we meet on the alternative Wednesdays to do safety checks on equipment and vehicles and to help the newer recruits with their training. Our two new recruits have now finished their Basic Level training. We have two more qualified Firefighter Level 1 volunteers and 3 who are almost finished. We always welcome new faces to our MLVFD family. Community members can also assist in a number of non-firefighting ways. We are also willing and eager to come to your property to do pre-incident planning/evaluation. Also, if you happen to have an old building or shed, we would love to use it for entry and search practice. Our fundraising efforts are always on-going: You can donate your recyclables at the Mile 9 Dump to MLVFD. We will co-host the 11th annual MisAdventure Run around the golf course and up Mt. Lorne on Sunday, July 20th . And we will be putting all our efforts into another Fundraiser dinner and silent auction at the community centre on Friday, October 17th. Agnes has generously offered to cater the event for us so you know it will be a gourmet event not to be missed. Fundraising proceeds will go to cover costs of the new NFPA certified overalls and helmets/goggles used in wildland fire fighting. We always put safety at the top of our wish lists. So mark October 17th on your calendars now – the last one in October 2011 was a sold out success. Play safe and have a fire free summer.
2014 Fire Smart Project in Mt Lorne The Community Association has submitted a proposal to complete the FireSmart project that we have been working on for the last 4 years. Since 2010 we have been working piece by piece to create a 50 meter boarder around the entrance to and western boundary of the Robinson Subdivision. If the project is accepted by Wildland Fire Management our local contractor will be able to complete the 50 metre wide FireSmart thinning behind the western and southern boundaries of Robinson Subdivision. It is by conducting projects like this that we are able to provide added wildfire safety to not only our citizens but to emergency responders both for Wildland Fire Management crews and for our local Volunteer Firefighters. To learn more about what you can do on your property to reduce Wildfire risks please visithttp://www.community.gov.yk.ca/firemanagement/firesmart.html Watch out for a LMCA / MLVFD / Wildland fire management info day coming Saturday May 31st !! Colin O’Neill firesmart coordinator LMCA PAGE 6
Mt Lorne Transformation Station News E waste – electronics are becoming a bigger and bigger part Summer HOURS of the waste stream – you can see this just by looking at the e waste piles in any territorial waste disposal site.
Over the past several years we have been successfully experimenting with dismantling some of these items for recycling locally. We’ve found that well over 90% of most electronic items are recyclable once you separate them into component materials.
Friday
7.00 am - 3.00 pm
Saturdays
10.00 am— 6.00pm
Sundays
10.00 am—6.00 pm
Mondays
7.00 am - 3.00 pm .
Summer hours in effect April 25 until Oct 20.
This makes sense when you realize that just about everything is made of material that is recyclable – wood, metal, plastic, metal for example. Once you break the materials down into these components, you have transformed a waste material into a resource material. So help us out! Don’t throw away anything electronic. This means that anything with a cord can be recycled. So lets recycle it. Drop it off at the electronics table at the dump. Of course if it works put it in reuse first. Remember REDUCE - REUSE— and then RECYCLE. But please don’t reuse our tools. As we work on site, and the site gets busier we are more often called away to do other things and leave tools unattended only to return and find them reused. Thanks!! Wood pile – Note to everybody – the WOOD PILE is NOT a construction waste pile or a household garbage pile or anything other than a wood and drywall pile. This material gets reused for firewood for dump staff and the public and every fall it gets chipped up. So please check with the attendant and ensure that only wood or wood materials (cabinets, wood tables wood chairs etc ) are dropped off there. Thanks. All info by Mike Bailey
Overall Waste Diversion We have been diverting about 50% of the waste resources—But well over 80% of residential garbage is recyclable. So we are looking at ways to achieve much higher waste diversion. About 40% of residential garbage is compostable so we are going to hopefully focus on directing more of the compost from the compactor and into the composter. The reality of waste is that once it hits the compactor we pay to haul it to town and we pay tipping fees to dispose of it there. But if it is recycled or composted or diverted at our site, we don’t have to pay for haulage or tipping fees of the material and we receive a diversion credit for diverting it from the landfill. An interesting fact is that for every job required to dispose of garbage, seven jobs are created by recycling, by transforming that garbage into a resource. So aside from all the environmental benefits of saving natural resources, and decreasing greenhouse gas emission and saving landfill space, there are economic benefits to recycling !! Page 7
LORNE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LMCA Foodie club /
Canada Day 2014 at LMCC
Community Kitchen presents :
Tuesday ,July 1st
Roll away
Trans Canada path exhibition Family game day in the meadow Community BBQ with music
Sushi and springrolls April 28th
we have the burgers and bison sausages .. potluck for salads and desserts Come and join us.. Free event—open to all or come as a volunteer
Monday 7pm
Thai lettuce rolls Vegetarian fresh spring vermicelli rolls Gingered Chicken rolls make perfect sushi rice…. Nigiri sushi Sushi maki Inside out roll
Agnes and the foodie club folks….
Please register !! Cost $ 15.00 per person
We need BBQ chefs, kitchen helpers and bar chef… call 667 7083
Stories and Voices
Volunteer Work Day
of the Valley
At LMCC
History and Stories of Mt Lorne Check out our posted interviews
Give us a hand !!!!!
June 7th, Saturday
Bill Thomson
Ian and Betty Campbell
Marie Chouinard
First shift 11-3
Shiela Alexandrovich
Second shift 4-7pm
At www.mountlorne.yk.net And if you are interested to record or be recorded…
11am –7pm
7pm
3pm snack break
Char Bake , campfire
Music and volunteer appreciation
Contact us lmca@northwestel.net
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LORNE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Northern Backyard Gardening series at LMCC
Southern Lakes Bike Loppet 2014 Coming July 26th 2014 start and end in Tagish Community Centre We will need some volunteer timers for Mt Lorne Station !! For registration and info on participation…. Watch for our website info www.mountlorne.yk.net
( in collaboration with TCMS)
Is back and ADVANCED Local knowledge and wisdom from our neighborhood farmers and master gardeners on growing in the north and its special challenges
4H Summer Camp at LMCC August 4-8 Please watch out for all the horses
Hands on skill training class May – September with Sheila Alexandrovich, rent a garden bed and get 6 days of education on growing your own food , everything from raised beds to harvest !
Roundtable discussions :
In our meadow …...
MT Music
performances
fall music event series coming at LMCC
ers/experts
Yukon perennials :Berries and more - propagation, nursery , care - June 14th in Tagish
Fruit trees in the North– early August—Day workshop with John Lennart-
September -Barn Dance with Bob Kuiper , barn dance band
October - Mt Music part1
Klondike nursery Dawson
Musical speed dating for performers
- Mt Music part2 Performance of new found Mt music bands
November Bluegrass night 3 local bluegrass bands– one great night
30 ways to increase your harvest -May 24th with local farm-
Southern Lakes Harvest Fair in September !!!
With vendors, harvest talks, food and Barn Dance
Made possible with support from
Growing Forward 2 Page 9
Happening at LORNE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CENTER
Moms and Girls Club Still going at LMCC May -Empowering songs for women with Nicole Edwards June - Natural Beauty with Bev Gray Join us… check for more details www.mountlorne.yk.net
This program made possible with support from
CPVSTF
YT
Youth programs and youth employment at LMCC We offer various youth jobs throughout the summer For details check our website.. Do you have an idea for a youth event or activity at LMCC ?? Contact us to make it happen !!!
667 7084
www.mountlorne.yk.net
We had great programming and events throughout the last fiscal year and
LMCA would like to thank:
YTG -Community Youth Activities 2013/14 Program Funding for $ 14,000.00
Lotteries Yukon for Community Lottery Program 2013/14 $ 12 ,896.00
Sport and Recreation department YTG—for all their support in keeping our great facilities going !
Growing Forward 2 / YTG Agriculture Branch for supporting our Northern backyard gardening 2014
CPVSTF—Crime Prevention Victim Serviced Trust Fund for our Moms and Girls club
Heritage Canada for Canada Day celebration funding
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COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Kevin Barr, MLA
LMCC
SHOWERS
Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes
Facility
available at
Phone 867-393-7015 Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 ext. 7015 kevin.barr@yla.gov.yk.ca www.yukonndpcaucus.ca
LMCC
rental Community hall, kitchen , outdoor pavilion, showers, camp area — everything for your special event…book now for next summer check www.mountlorne.yk.net for rates and more info or call 667 7083
Members can get access to coin operated showers.. contact Agnes for the access code Ph 667 7083 lmca@northwestel.net
Watson River Design and Woodworking Custom woodworking, CNC routing, Wooden signs and Snow plowing Contact Al Foster at: Box 11258, Whitehorse Yukon, Y1A 6N5 Tel. (867) 393-1949 E-mail: afoster@northwestel.net
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COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY
The CTRRC is the local management body for fish, wildlife and forestry in the Carcross Tagish First Nation Settlement area. The Council is your voice in managing local renewable resources. We provide strong input into planning and regulation processes by raising public awareness of specific issues and by providing local and traditional information. The Council also plays an important advisory role to territorial, federal and First Nations governments and the Yukon Fish & Wildlife Management Board. The CTRRC is comprised of 8 Council members including 2 alternate members. Three members and 1 alternate are each nominated by the First Nation and the Yukon Government. Your representatives are: Albert James (Co-Chair) Ken Reeder (Co-Chair) Paul Brisley Patrick James Don Toews Edna Helm Blair Corley (Alternate) Ted Hall (Alternate)
Annie Lake Wilderness Golfcourse will reopen for summer season : May 15th Please note there is a $ 5.00 access fee to be paid at deposit box
Regular Council meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at the Tagish Community Hall from 10:00 am - 4.00pm You are welcome to attend. To find out more about what we do or to add your voice call us or visit our office in the Tagish Community Centre.
contact us for a season pass ! Golfcards are available at entrance or website www.mountlorne.yk.net or call
667 7083
THE OFFICE IS OPEN: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 am 4:00 pm –
Ph: 867.399.4923 Fax: 867.399.4978 Email: carcrosstagishrrc@gmail.com