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t’s the age-old debate about the chicken and the egg. Sometimes, we simply don’t know what is cause and what is effect. This is especially true when it comes to matters that touch on personal feeling. As a for-instance, do you love cream of broccoli soup because your Grandma used to make it? Or do you love your Grandma because she made the best darned cream of broccoli soup on the planet? (If you hate cream of broccoli soup, it’s probably not Old Gran’s fault. I’m you still have tons of fond memories of her for a host of other reasons.) Science may eventually solve the conundrum of whether the egg preceded the chicken, or vice versa. But I’m not holding my breath. And I’m resigned to the fact that no-one will ever know with certainty why that darned clucker crossed the road. Many things in life can keep an under-utilized brain busy trying to unravel what triggered which, or which triggered what. Perhaps more so as we get older and farther away from our formative years. When I was a snippet of about eight years old, I was enchanted by a photo of Edinburgh Castle the teacher pinned to our classroom wall. I dreamed of that place day and night (mostly day, because I was the day-dreamy sort). Soon, I was ransacking the Book of Knowledge and every back issue of National Geographic I could lay my hands on, searching for pictures of Scotland. I was convinced it was a magical kingdom, with all those misty, moody castles. When I ﬁnally saw Edinburgh Castle in the ﬂesh at the age of 53, I was instantly smitten. I wanted to stay there forever, or possibly longer. But why? Did I love it for itself and the sense of history it imparted, or because it looked exactly like that unforgettable photo? Do we love fresh bread because it smells like a bakery, or do we love bakeries because they

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Autumn leaves on the ground on path through the grounds of Dobroyd Castle smell like fresh bread? A brilliant neurosurgeon like the late Wilder Penﬁeld might be able to ﬁgure that out. Not me. This all came to mind recently when I was editing a photo essay about autumn for What’s Up Yukon. All unbidden, that delicious poem of John Keats sprang to mind. You know the one, about mists and mellow fruitfulness, and autumn conspiring with the sun to load the vines running around the eaves with fruit. Et cetera. Maybe it’s because I’m an ag-

ing sentimentalist who has adored that poem since the ﬁrst time I encountered it. But here’s the question: Is autumn my favourite season because of that poem, or do I cherish that poem because autumn is my favourite season? Are we talking chicken, or egg?

Our resident Geezer lives southeast of Whitehorse. You can contact him via Editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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What’s Inside Geezerville ......................... 2 Let’s Learn Gwich’in! ............. 3 Living With Wildlife................ 4 The Bookshelf....................... 4 My Mother’s Kitchen ............... 5 The Guild Opener .................. 6 Harvest Time ........................ 7 Ignite Counselling .................. 9 Hasselback Potatoes ............ 10 Yukon Brewing .................... 12 Lumel Studios .................... 13 Yukon Flickers .................... 21 Dispatches ......................... 21 The Kalalau Trail ................. 22

Silly Goose Poem Is there an eagle on eagle river? Is there an old crow at old crow? Is there a moose at Moosehide? Is there a goose and goose camp? Is there a beaver at beaver? Is there a bluefish in bluefish? IS there a black fox at blackfox creek? Is there a caribou at caribou bar creek? Is there a bear on bear cave mountain? Is there a salmon at salmon cache? Is there a wolverine at wolverine lake? Is there a rat at rat indian creek? Is there a porcupine on porcupine river? Is there a jackfish in jackfish lake? Is there a howling dog at howling dog? Is there a weasel on weasel mountain? Is there a snake in snake river?

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hen we were clearing trees to build a guest cabin this summer, we discovered a woodpecker tree. The parents guarded it with their lives all through noisy chainsawing, stump removal and excavation work. These photos show the male - he is either a black-backed three-toed woodpecker or anorthern threetoed woodpecker. They are very similar. Late in June, we started hearing noises from inside the hole and the parents bringing food back to their young. Then one day, they were gone. I did see the female once later in the summer in a nearby tree so we are hoping they will remain in the area. The tree has become a “landscape sculpture” in the hopes that the birds will return and we will be able to sit on the deck and watch them again (the last photo shows the tree on the left). These photos were taken with a simple Olympus Stylus camera in zoom mode.

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focussing on individuals and their impact on how we see ourselves. “Our country owes its success not to some imagined tribal singularity but to the fact that, although its thirty-ﬁve million citizens do not look, speak or pray alike, we have learned to share this land and for the most part live in neighbourly sympathy.” This book was published in 2016 by Simon and Schuster Canada, and is 400 pages divided into

three sections, which are subdivided into 10 chapters. In the chapter, Laying the Foundation, there are four key people. You can’t talk about the building of Canada without referring to John A. Macdonald, but Gray chooses rather to emphasize the role of George Étienne Cartier, who she feels was the mind behind the idea of our fed-

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People Who Crafted the Promise of Canada ... cont’d eration, even though John A. was the obvious salesman. Next comes a chapter celebrating ours as the only nation which has a police force as a national symbol. Perhaps influenced by her time in Dawson, she focussed this on Sam Steele. To show artists causing the public to look at the land in a different way she chose, not the Group of Seven, though they are mentioned, but Emily Carr. For economics and geography she picked Harold Innis, who explained why the fur trade and the river systems caused Canada to make economic sense. Without him, there would never have been a Marshall McLuhan, who applied a similar analysis to communications theory and taught us the connection between the medium and the message. Continuing to the chapter called A Different Kind of Country, she picked out Tommy Douglas, for Medicare and good intentions; Margaret Atwood, who proved that literature could map the Canadian mind and play in the big leagues; and Justice Bertha Wilson, who epitomized the activist character of our Supreme Court, which has come to interpret and shape government policy. Straining at the Seams introduces an element that might otherwise have appeared to have been missing entirely when it brings in the career of Elijah Harper, the man who said no to Meech Lake. Then, to talk about the shift in the structure of Canadian politics and economics, she turns to Preston Manning, who developed the populist movement in Canada. The final chapter, called Secret Handshake: The Power of Now, is the most diverse, featuring segments on Douglas Coupland, Shad (when he was still hosting the CBC radio and tv show “q”), Michaëlle Jean (former Governor General), Lise Bissonnette (journalist), Annette Verschuren (business person), and Naheed Nenshi (Calgary’s mayor), explaining how they react to events and trends in the country. The chapter concludes with some autobiographical reflections. Gray is herself an immi-

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grant, having relocated here from the United Kingdom in 1979, and feels that an outsider’s perspective is useful in this sort of a study. To assist in the reader’s thinking, Gray has assembled a timeline of all the people and events she highlighted. I don’t know how the hard copy is organized, but the e-book has about 20 pages of artwork and advertising posters related to items in the book at the very end. Overall, the Photo: Amazon.ca book is very thought provoking and informative. You can ﬁnd Charlotte Gray’s book The Promise of Canada: 150 Years – People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country for loan through the Yukon Public Libraries, and for sale at Mac’s Fireweed Books on Main Street. Dan Davidson has been writing about books for Yukon publications since 1977. Please send comments about his stories to dawson@whatsupyukon.com.

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BAKED FISH AND VEGETABLES 4 large mushrooms, sliced 1 cup peas 2 chopped white onions 1 cup string beans 2 tomatoes chopped 1 cup shredded cabbage 2 cloves garlic,minced 2 medium potatoes, sliced 2 carrots, sliced 1 green green pepper, finely sliced 1 cup salad oil ⅛ tsp thyme 1 bay leaf 2 tsp salt 1 ½ tsp pepper 6 large slices of fish of your choice Fry the mushrooms, then combine all ingredients except the fish in a deep, oven-proof dish. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350ºF for 30 minutes. Place the fish on top of this presentation and bake for another 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaf and serve.

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OLD FASHIONED MACARONI AND MEAT 3 cups macaroni 1½ cups chopped celery 1 cup grated medium cheddar cheese 1 green pepper, chopped 1 20 ounce tin tomatoes 1 can of cream of mushroom soup 1 Tbsp white sugar 1 Tbsp chilli powder 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 2 pounds of ground beef 2 white onions, chopped 2 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp garlic powder Cook the macaroni in salted water; drain and rinse with cold water. Combine celery, cheese, chopped pepper, tomatoes, cream of mushroom soup, sugar, chilli powder, Worcestershire sauce and add to cooked macaroni. Combine the meat, onions, salt, pepper and garlic powder and fry in pan until onions are transparent. Add this to other mix. Place in a casserole and bake at 350ºF for one hour. This should serve 12 people.

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1 cup water 1 Tbsp sugar 1 ½ Tbsp crushed oregano 1 ½ tsp salt ½ tsp pepper Cook onions and garlic in hot oil until tender, but not brown. Stir in remaining ingredients. Simmer uncovered for 30 minutes. Add meat and cook 30 minutes longer. MEATBALLS 4 slices dry white bread ½ cup grated Romano cheese 1 pound ground meat 2 eggs 1 Tbsp chopped parsley 1 clove of garlic, minced 1 tsp crushed oregano 1 tsp salt A dash of pepper 2 Tbsp oil Soak bread in some water for a couple of minutes then squeeze out moisture. Combine bread with remaining ingredients except oil and mix well. Form in small balls and brown in hot oil. Add to spaghetti sauce and cook for 30 minutes, as stated above. Serve over hot cooked spaghetti pasta. Murray Martin is a former Ontario Conservation Ofﬁcer and a long standing member of The Outdoor Writers of Canada. Questions about his stories can be sent to editor@whatsupyukon.com

LA SÉANCE D’AUTOMNE 2017 DE L’ASSEMBLÉE Législative du Yukon

The 2017 Fall Sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly convened on Tuesday, October 3, 2017.

La séance d’automne 2017 de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon été convoquée mardi 3 octobre 2017.

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Good Night, Good Morning The Guild opens its 2017-18 season with a Canadian comedy classic about identity and gender politics

nn-Marie MacDonald’s award-winning comedy Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) has been around for almost 30 years, but Brian Fidler and Clare Preuss are convinced it will still play well to contemporary Whitehorse audiences. “I think it appeals to the core audience of the Guild that likes a good Canadian classic show, and that loves Shakespeare,” Fidler said, explaining why he chose it to open his second season as the Guild Society’s artistic director. For the play’s director, Torontobased Clare Preuss, the themes of sexual identity and gender politics are just as relevant now as when it the play premiered in 1988. “Part of the reason it survives is that it’s asking questions without giving hard and fast answers. It’s asking a lot of questions, which is great. It’s really fun to play with.” While Desdemona/Juliet has a philosophical core, “… it’s also slapstick comedy and full of gender-bending and questions about gender and sexual orientation,” Preuss said. “I think it really plays quite intelligently with Shakespeare’s themes, and also challenges some of those themes.”

Veteran Whitehorse theatregoers will recognize the GovernorGeneral’s award-winning piece from a 1991 production here, directed by Anton Solomon. This time around, Preuss has recruited Solomon to serve as fight choreographer. The play’s starting premise involves the efforts of a Queen’s University academic, Constance Ledbelly, to unravel an obscure text that may, or may not, have been the source for both Shakespeare’s Othello, and his Romeo and Juliet. “The language is challenging, because you’re juggling Shakespearean language that’s taken out of context, with Ann-Marie’s sort of philosophical and intellectual hypothesis, or thesis,” Preuss said. Language is not the only challenge her five-person cast has to face. “We actually have a lot of fight choreography, which Anton has done beautifully for it. And then there’s actually dance choreography, like full-on dances. So, they’re taking it all and running with it.” Recognizing that sexual politics – “especially the queer politics” – has changed considerably between

Reid Vanier, left, as the Nurse, with Carman Lam Brar as Juliet in the Guild’s upcoming production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) the 1980s and 2017, Preuss chose to update the play’s current-day setting to the 1990s. “We toyed with the idea that when Constance, the lead character, goes back into these Elizabethan realities, she’s actually going back to them in her mind, through her ﬁlter of the mid-’90s reality. “So, we’re mashing up all the costumes [by Kaori Torigai], which are incredible. It’s a real mix of super-’90s pop style mixed with Elizabethan style. We’ve done

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that with the dance as well, and the fights,” she said. “The Romeo and Mercutio and Tybalt scene is set in a pool hall, so they begin fighting with their pool cues, almost like street fighting, then they go into using daggers. And there’s Elizabethan dance mixed with ’90s Paula Abdul-style dancing.” Besides shifting centuries, each of the actors – except Telek Rogan as the questing Constance - has to shift among different roles. Reid Vanier, for example, starts off as Professor Claude Night before morphing into Othello, Tybalt, and even Juliet’s nurse. “Which is also very funny, because he’s got a large beard and he’s a very tall, broad-shouldered man.” Carman Lam Brar plays a student who is late handing in a paper, as well as a Gulf war-era soldier, and the young Juliet. Loughran Thorson-Looysen is cast as her Romeo, as well as the Chorus, Iago and a ghost. Katie Avery plays the professor’s love-interest, Ramona, as well as both Mercutio and Desdemona, and a servant. “In our version of the servant, she plays guitar, she plays the Indigo Girls version of Romeo and Juliet, and she is also the DJ at the party, so it’s pretty funny.” This is the second play Preuss has done for the Guild. Last year, she directed Matt Murray’s Myth of the Ostrich. But until rehearsals started, she hadn’t met her Desdemona/Juliet cast members, even during auditions. “I was in Switzerland at the time, auditioning people over Skype. It was a bit nerve-wracking, especially because there’s a lot of requirements of the cast. It’s a very physical show,” she said. “Juliet has to appear 13. She says she’s 13 going on 14, and Romeo’s very young as well. I had never auditioned folks that age [in Whitehorse]. I’d never auditioned men before, because Myth of the Ostrich was all women, so when Brian proposed the show to me, I said I trust you know there’s going to be people who can do this.” In the end, she said, “Everyone came through the door who needed to come through the door.” Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) opens on Thursday, October 5 and runs until Saturday, October 21 at the Guild Hall at 27 - 14th Avenue in Porter Creek. Curtain is at 8:00 p.m. For more information, go to www.GuildHall.ca. Ken Bolton is a freelance writer and former editor of What’s Up Yukon who lives southeast of Whitehorse.

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This Season’s Lineup Besides Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), the Guild’s playbill for 2017-18 includes an eclectic selection of plays, directed by two visiting directors (one female, one male) and two local directors (one male, one female). The next show scheduled is Good People, by Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. According to the Guild’s artistic director, Brian Fidler, “It speaks to the racially-charged times that we’re living in right now, and the polarity in the United States between the rich and the poor – these two Americas that have their own versions of what is true.” It also has “some really juicy parts for women in their 40s and 50s,” he said. There are some great performers in that age group in Whitehorse, and I wanted to get something really good for them.” Good People will run from November 30 to December 16, under the direction of Torontonian Clinton Walker, who has previously mounted several Guild shows. Fidler, who is also a puppeteer, will direct Hand to God, a dark comedy by Robert Askins, about a group of teens who use puppets to act out biblical stories in a church basement until one of the puppets runs amok. “I was looking for something that was up my alley, and also something that would be a little bit edgier. I think there’s an appetite for that kind of edginess, mixed with really dark humour,” Fidler said. Hand to God will run from January 25 to February 11. The season will end with a musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin. Fidler chose it, in part, to provide opportunities for participants in last year’s improv classes at the Guild. “There is an improvisational element to the spelling bee show that I thought would appeal to this group of performers that has been coming out regularly. I wanted to have something that we could really sink our teeth into,” he said. Directed by Jessica Hickman, that show will run from April 5 to 21.

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Harvest at the Yukon Grain Farm by Meredith Winkelaar

he giant green machine inches its way along a row of potato plants with the fall coloured mountains as the backdrop. From far away it looks like a slowmoving, peaceful agrarian scene, but this changes as I get closer. First I begin to hear the big John Deere tractor motor running, then I make out five people who are standing on the potato harvester. Their attention is on a fast-moving conveyer belt that is propelling potatoes before their eyes. Their hands are moving very quickly as they pick out rocks, weeds, and anything else that doesn’t look like a potato. Welcome to the harvest at the Yukon Grain Farm: the busiest – but most rewarding – time of the year. The Yukon Grain Farm is owned by Bonnie and Steve MackenzieGrieve who started farming here in 2001. They initially focused on grain production, but then branched out to also growing potatoes and vegetables. The farm is located 30 kilometres north of Whitehorse – a short distance for food to travel when much of the produce at the grocery stores in the Yukon travels thousands of kilometers to get here. Potato Harvest Potato harvest begins at the beginning of September and usually lasts for six long and dusty days. Twenty acres of potatoes with pretty names are harvested, such as Sylvania and LaBella, and, of course, Yukon Gold. They range in colour from red, to golden, to purple. The potato harvester digs out the potatoes and then sends them onto the conveyer belt where the crew picks out debris. Then, they fall into the hopper where they get stored until it is full. The hopper is emptied into the 4’x5’x4’tall wood pallet boxes that get transported and stored in the climate-controlled cold storage at the farm. A good potato crew consists of a tractor driver, five people on the harvester, one truckdriver who transports all the potatoes to the farm and one person who puts them into storage. Once the potatoes are all harvested, the washing and bagging can begin. The potatoes are first size-graded, then loaded into the drum washer

that cleans them to impeccable grocery store standards. Next they are bagged into 3lb, 5lb, and 10lb bags, which is the ﬁnished product you see in the grocery stores in Whitehorse. Keep your eyes peeled for some beautiful ‘taters this year (that you won’t need to peel!). Everyone here is excited about them. Vegetable Harvest Now it’s time for the other veggies: carrots, beets, cabbages and parsnips. The carrots and beets get harvested by the carrot harvester, which is smaller than the potato harvester, but has a similar set-up in terms of the crew and operation. Acreage wise, the farm plants less carrots, beets, and cabbages, and parsnips than potatoes so it does not take as long as the potato harvest. The most fun and least dusty harvesting job is picking cabbages. Three people cut the cabbages and then in a sandbagging type fashion pass them down the line to the people on the trailer who gently place them into boxes. It involves a lot of yelling of names, grunting, laughing and bad cabbage jokes. Some of the cabbages are pretty hefty and it feels like you are heaving a medicine ball across the ﬁeld. This job requires good throwing and catching skills… otherwise you may get hit in the head (has happened)! All these veggies also get put into the big bins and then stored in the climate-controlled storage.

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Potatoes are loaded from the hopper into the boxes

Agriculture in the Yukon is a race against time and once the harvest is in, everyone breathes a little easier. It’s been another successful year at the Yukon Grain Farm with the following safely in storage so far: Potatoes: 236 boxes Carrots: 95 boxes Beets: 24 boxes Cabbage: 24 boxes Parsnips: in progress Grain: in progress Produce from the Yukon Grain Farm can be found in most lo-

cal grocery stores from fall until spring and livestock feed is available year round.

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Grain Harvest The last to get harvested is the grain. The Yukon Grain Farm grows approximately 300 acres of barley, rye, oats, wheat and ﬁeld peas. This grain gets processed on the farm into a variety of livestock feeds and then sold to local farmers and outﬁtters. The main livestock feeds sold are for chickens, pigs, horses and cattle. Grain is harvested with a combine and then dried to a 13 per cent moisture content in a grain dryer. This is done so that it will not heat or rot when it is stored in the grain bins for the year. After the grain is combined, the straw that is left over is baled into small square and round bales. These are also sold from the farm, usually for livestock bedding and to mushers for their dogs.

This is the potato harvester at the Yukon Grain Farm. Here the crew picks out debris from the potatoes

Meredith Winkelaar lives and occasionally helps at the Yukon Grain Farm.

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Whitehorse EVENTS ART SHOWS

Fri, Oct, 6 - Sat. Oct.28 Sandra G. Storey & Margriet Aasman - I Never Really Played with Dolls Arts Underground In the Focus Gallery Fri, Oct, 6 - Sat. Oct.28 Rebecca Manias, The Modern Mystic Arts Underground In the Edge Gallery Until Sat, Nov, 25, Trapped by Willow Rector Yukon Arts Centre Explores cultural narratives of the Canadian landscapes through intricate embroidery on trap-line hides Until Sat, Nov, 25, Human / Nature by Suzanne Paleczny Yukon Arts Centre Asks the viewer about their impact on the natural world. More speciﬁcally, how that impact is not always positive Daily, Oct, 3-30 Far From North Yukon Arts Centre From the North brings together musicians, visual artists, media artists, storytellers, dancers and Dene and Inuit athletes from the three territories on a tour that will commence in Whitehorse and continue on to Yellowknife, Iqaluit, Ottawa, Montréal and Vancouver.

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Wednesdays Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 pm Epic Pizza goes till we are done! Wed, Oct, 4 A Night of Classical Piano 5:30 pm Baked Cafe Featuring music of Debussy, Kapustin, and Bizet. Piano and Bass-Baritone. Thu, Oct, 5 Jazz in the Hall featuring Roxx Hunter 7:00 pm The Old Fire Hall “Learn” with Steve Gedrose educational vignette, “listen” to featured act led by guitarist Roxx Hunter, followed by a “jam” with instrumentalists and vocalists. 334-2789 duncan.sinclair@jazzyukon.ca Thu, Oct, 5 East Coast Party with Johny Pogue 7:30 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Thu, Oct, 5 Jam Night with Patrick Jacobson 7:30 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Thu, Oct, 5 Joe Loutchan - Fiddler on the Loose 9:00 pm 98 Hotel Thu, Oct, 5 Ginger Jam 10:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler room fully electric jam session with PA system, drum kit and guitars provided to musicians. Featuring guest cohosts and performers. Fri, Oct, 6 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 pm Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Oct, 6 Open Mic with Patrick Jacobson 8:30 pm Town & Mountain Hotel Fri, Oct, 6 Karaoke 9:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Oct, 7 CoffeeHouse 7:30 pm Whitehorse United Church Featuring: Fraser Canyon +the Open Stage! Bsmt United Church, 633-4255 Sat, Oct, 7 Community-City Concert Event 7:30 pm Yukon Arts Centre A free event, bringing together multicultural talent from within our incredible, communityminded city, Whitehorse. Sat, Oct, 7 Ukes Of Hazard 9:00 pm Whiskey Jacks Pub & Grill Original songs and great cover tunes. No cover charge. Sat, Oct, 7 Karaoke 9:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sun, Oct, 8 Open Mic Night 3:00 pm 98 Hotel Sun, Oct, 8 Ben Mahony 7:30 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Sun, Oct, 8 The Peters Bros 7:30 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Tue, Oct, 10 Ginger Jam 10:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler room fully electric jam session with PA system, drum kit and guitars provided to musicians. Featuring guest cohosts and performers.

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Wednesdays Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 pm Yukon Government Administration Building Join us inside the Bridges Café 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Wednesdays Whitehorse United Church Choir Practice 7:30 pm Whitehorse United Church Wednesdays Klondike Cruiser Night! 6:30 pm A&W Restaurant Join Yukon Automobile Enthusiasts as they admire hot cars and talk the talk. Wednesdays Hump Day Trivia 9:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room

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Wednesdays Seniors Line Dancing Wednesdays starting Sept. 27. Beginners 12:45pm, Regular 2:00pm. Ages 55+. All are welcome to attend both sessions. 4061 4Ave Wed, Oct, 4, Lunch and Learn - Harm Reduction 12:00 pm Blood Ties Four Directions Centre Join us for a meal and a conversation about harm reduction associated with drug use and to learn the signs and symptoms of overdose. Everyone welcome! Wed, Oct, 4, C/TFN Community Dinners 5:30 pm Nakwataku Potlatch House Whitehorse For citizens in Tagish and Whitehorse, Chicken and fresh veggies from the garden will be on the menu. Call 8214251 ext. 8210 or email patricia.james@ ctfn.ca Wed, Oct, 4, Whitehorse United Church Choir Practice 7:30 pm Whitehorse United Church Wed, Oct, 4, Project: Humanity’s Freedom Singer 8:00 pm Yukon Arts Centre An original documentary theatre concert performed live by Vancouver-based musician Khari McClelland. Tickets online. Wed, Oct, 4, Many Rivers Family Dinner 5:00 pm Whitehorse Elementary Entertainment and Prizes! Wed, Oct, 4, Food Drive for Foodbank 6:00 pm Holy Family Elementary Support Families in need! Thu, Oct, 5, Come and Give it a Try Scottish Country Dancing 7:00 pm Holy Family Elementary All ages are welcome. Call Kat 334-1547 for more information. Thu, Oct, 5, Alexander Keith’s Birthday Party! 5:00 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Music, cake, and Keiths on special, buy memberships to YECCA and maybe talk to us about getting involved. Thu, Oct, 5, Canada 150 Sock Project 6:00 pm Itsy-Bitsy Yarn Store For help learning to knit-crochet, help with already attempted socks, or just to hang out knitting or crocheting. Call 334-6629 for more information. Thu, Oct, 5, Chess Corner 6:30 pm Yukon College Chess played in room A2101, beginners welcome, welcome to bring your own ‘lucky’ board. Everyone welcome to sit in on this game of strategy. Thu, Oct, 5, Audio Arts Immersion Program 7:00 pm Shipyards Park Biweekly workshops where we will learn about different aspects of sound, history, techniques, as well as allow participants to discuss and work on their own projects. Call 457-2582 or email audioart@cjucfm.com for more info. Thu, Oct, 5, Christ Church Cathedral Choir Practice 7:30 pm Christ Church Cathedral Thu, Oct, 5, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Fri, Oct, 6, Dusk’a Friday Language Lunches 12:00 pm Duska Head Start and Family Learning Center Bring a bag lunch and come learn Southern Tutchone with our special guest speakers. Call Erin Pauls for more information 633-7816. All Kwanlin citizens and staff are welcome! Fri, Oct, 6, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Sat, Oct, 7, Canada 150 Sock Project 10:00 am The Match Girl For help learning to knit-crochet, help with already attempted socks, or just to hang out knitting or crocheting. Call 334-6629 for more information. Sat, Oct, 7, Crib Tournament 6:15 pm Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 Crib tournaments every Saturday - Member and non-members welcome. Sat, Oct, 7, Mardi Bra 2017 - A Manhattan Cocktail Party 8:00 pm Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Ladies Night 8:00 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn

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Sat, Oct, 7, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Sun, Oct, 8, Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Are you a wordy person, put your words to the test and join the Scrabble Club. Must be 19+ Sun, Oct, 8, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 pm Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/hour. Sun, Oct, 8, Drop In Improv 6:00 pm The Guild Hall Drop in Improv, admission by donation, bring your funny bone and an extra pair of pants - just kidding! Sun, Oct, 8, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Mon, Oct, 9, Free drop-in computer labs 10:00 am Yukon Learn Free Drop-In Computer Lab for Self Directed Studies A tutor/Instructor will be available on site to assist you. 867-668-6280 or toll free: 888668-6280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Mon, Oct, 9, GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 pm Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Mon, Oct, 9, Euchre Night 6:00 pm Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 667-2802 Mon, Oct, 9, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Tue, Oct, 10, Second-hand Clothing Bazaar 5:30 pm Whitehorse Seventhday Adventist Church All the funds we raise to toward projects in our community. Everything goes by donation and all donations go toward our refugee sponsorship fund. Tue, Oct, 10, Available Light Cinema: In Pursuit of Silence 6:00 pm Yukon Arts Centre The negative impact of noise in our lives and the beneﬁts of setting aside time for silent reﬂection. 81 min Screening preceded by a performance of 4’33” by Scott Maynard Tue, Oct, 10, Basic Obedience Level 2 - Combine Socialization 6:00 pm Top Dog Training Academy 8 week session, this class will be an outdoor class, continue basic obedience training in preparation for off leash intermediate level obedience. 334-7924 Tue, Oct, 10, Canada 150 Sock Project 7:00 pm Heart Of Riverdale For help learning to knit-crochet, help with already attempted socks, or just to hang out knitting or crocheting. Call 334-6629 for more information. Tue, Oct, 10, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Tue, Oct, 10, Available Light Cinema: Detroit 8:15 pm Yukon Arts Centre In the summer of 1967, rioting and civil unrest starts to tear apart the city of Detroit. 143 min, Parental Guidance Advised Wed, Oct, 11, 100 Women Who Care Whitehorse 5:30 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn Women commit to donating when attending - the fun part is deciding which presentation makes your heart sing the most! Wed, Oct, 11, Basic Obedience Level 1 - Advanced Class 6:00 pm Top Dog Training Academy This class is designed to teach basic on-leash commands. Receive the tools to communicate with your dog effectively. 8 week session, email or call for more information or to register 334-7924 Wed, Oct, 11, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet 8:00 pm The Guild Hall Constance Leadbelly, a young English

literature professor is trying to decipher a coded manuscript that she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Wed, Oct, 11, The Tragically Hip: Long Time Running 8:30 pm Yukon Arts Centre Documentary that cuts to the heart of the Canadian consciousness. Tickets on sale now

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Saturdays, Ball Pit Fun 10:00 am Heart Of Riverdale The play area features tonnes of climbing and scurrying equipment for playful monkeys. Parental Supervision Required. Sat, Sep, 30 Family Drop In 3:00 pm Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 9 and under, must be accompanied by a parent. Call 668-4794 or email info@polarettes.org for more information. Monday & Fridays, Parent and Tot Drop In 10:00 am Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 0-4 yrs. Call 668-4794 or email info@ polarettes.org for more information. Limit of 25 participants, arrive early. Tuesdays & Thursdays Youth Drop In 5:30 pm Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 10 - 17 yrs. Call 668-4794 or email info@ polarettes.org for more information. Limit of 25 participants, arrive early. Wed, Oct, 4, Yoga and Yogurt 7:45 am Jack Hulland Elementary Whitehorse Wed, Thurs. & Fridays Family Drop In 12:30 pm Family Literacy Centre. Read, make crafts and participate in imaginative play. Thu, Oct, 5, Mindfulness for Families 6:30 pm Learning Disabilities Association of Yukon (LDAY) A series of five classes is for parents and children (8 years and older) who want to learn more about what Mindfulness is, a light snack is provided. To register call 668-5167 or email ed@ ldayukon.com. Thu, Oct, 5, Family Math Day 12:00 pm Whitehorse Elementary Thu, Oct, 5, Dinner and Movie 5:00 pm Centre de la francophonie. Le film débutera à 6 p.m Thu, Oct, 5, Family Dinner 5:00 pm Whitehorse United Church Great Thanksgiving Draws! Thu, Oct, 5, Family Swim & Snacks 6:30 pm Canada Games Centre. Fri, Oct, 6, Cooking Program for Teens! 2:00 pm Whitehorse Public Library 6678900 Free summer cooking program for teens! If you love cooking or want to learn how, and are between the ages of 12 and 16. To register email yplevents@gov.yk.ca or call 667-8900. Fri, Oct, 6, Community Living Film Festival 6:00 pm Beringia Centre Familyfriendly films about the value of diversity and inclusion. For more Info: Call 667-4606 Sat, Oct, 7, Family Drop In 3:00 pm Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 9 and under, must be accompanied by a parent. Call 668-4794 or email info@polarettes.org for more information. Sun, Oct, 8, Beringia for Families 12:00 pm Beringia Centre Film, Find the Mammoth, Treasure Hunt.

MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS Wednesdays, Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 am Sport Yukon Supportive members will help you develop your public speaking, communication and leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail. com Thu, Oct, 5, Waste Management Bylaw Consultation 8:30 am Westmark Whitehorse For more information or to RSVP contact by email organics@ whitehorse.ca Thu, Oct, 5, Sundogs Toastmasters Club 12:00 pm Sport Yukon A lunch time session to learn the skills, practice the speaking, receive the feedback to improve your public speaking, communication and leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail.com Thu, Oct, 5, Entrepreneur Speaker Series with Bob Baxter 5:00 pm (co)space coworking space` Hear hard won start up successes and laugh out loud blunders. FREE admission and snacks - cash bar

Thu, Oct, 5, Midnight Sun Toastmasters Club 5:30 pm Yukon College Room A2714. An after work meeting to help you gain confidence in public speaking, improve communication and add to your leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail.com Thu, Oct, 5, The Friends of Mt Sima AGM 7:00 pm Mount Sima All are welcome! Fri, Oct, 6, Living Life to the Full - Fall course 12:00 pm Mental Health Association Yukon Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) 8 weeks, educational course delivered with a Certified Counsellor. To register, please call the MHAY office at 668-6429 Sat, Oct, 7, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:00 am A&W Restaurant Casual event. Hams from outside the Yukon and those are interested are welcome Tue, Oct, 10, YuKonstruct Open House 7:00 pm YuKonstruct Makerspace Tue, Oct, 10, Busy 7:00 pm YuKonstruct Makerspace Tue, Oct, 10, The Yukon Prospectors Association 7:00 pm Yukon Chamber of Mines Prospectors and those interested in mineral exploration welcome! Wed, Oct, 11, Living with Loss 6:30 pm Whitehorse Public Library Learn about the grief cycle that accompanies any kind of loss. Call or email for more information. 667-7429 Wed, Oct, 11, AGM - École Whitehorse Elementary School Council 6:30 pm Whitehorse Elementary All are welcome. Regular monthly School Council meeting will follow AGM.

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f something isn’t working, try differently, not harder. Art therapist Zoë Armstrong lives by these words, but last fall, she embodied this expression even further: she decided she needed a change from the local counselling agency where she had been working for five years. It wasn’t that Armstrong wasn’t connecting with, and forming meaningful relationships with her clients. In fact, she had a full caseload. She just believed she could do more. Armstrong moved to the Yukon to complete a generalist contract after completing her post baccalaureate diploma in art therapy at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute in Nelson, B.C. “I was going to come for two years to fill my contract and then leave, and here I am six years later with a private practice,” she says. It is Armstrong’s personal mission to bring validity and legitimacy to the art therapy field, and to dispel labels of being the “paint and sparkle lady.” That’s why she’s currently pursuing an art therapy doctorate degree at Mount Mary University in Wisconsin. Armstrong is passionate about having a voice in policy change and advocating for her field, which is heavily based in neuroscience. Her juried art show, Auspicious Spaces, is currently exhibiting at Arts Underground until September

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Meet the three mental health practitioners at Whitehorse’s newest private practice: Ignite Counselling and in October she will be presenting at the National Art Therapy Conference in Vancouver. “There is a different way of approaching things,” Armstrong says. “Mental health services often involve a lot of medication, and people are looking for something different that works.” That something different presented itself last year while Armstrong was out celebrating a friend’s internship with friends Jonathan Van Viegen and Erin Legault. Van Viegen, a marriage and therapy counsellor, told Armstrong and Legault he was starting a private practice. He invited Armstrong, a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, and Legault, a Canadian Certiﬁed Counsellor, to join him in his wellness venture. “It’s not the greatest story,” laughs Armstrong. “Jonathan said, ‘Let’s do this’ ...and we did!” In October 2016, the trio realized this dream, opening up Ignite Counselling, a private practice located in downtown Whitehorse. A large sign announcing their practice hangs out front of their building: an intentional decision to help decrease the stigma that is often attached to counseling and therapy. “Our space is welcoming, warm and as non-clinical as possible. It doesn’t feel like a doctor’s ofﬁce,” Armstrong says. Ignite Counseling offers a holistic

view that embraces mental, emotional and physical well-being. The three practitioners also rent out a room to registered massage therapist Dorothy Heimersson, who offers in-house massage therapy. A unique service that Ignite Counselling offers is collaborative, in-house work from three diverse and skilled practitioners. “If I work with a child and family, maybe the adult wants to work with Erin or Jonathan,” Armstrong explains. “In this way, we are working together to look at a system, rather than just the individual.” Van Viegen is a counsellor who specializes in marriage and family therapy. He believes that “creating healing environments is key to helping individuals change and overcome troublesome interactions or negative thought patterns.” He uses “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy” to engage with individuals, couples and families. This approach focuses on highlighting what is working and in discovering effective, new solutions to old behaviours, patterns and conﬂicts. In individual therapy, Van Viegen specializes in depression, addictions, anger management, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma and LGBTQ issues. Legault is a counsellor who specializes in working with youth. Since 2008 she has been working with

youth and at-risk youth, but she also works with children and adults, as well. Over the last three years she worked as a youth counsellor at Many Rivers Counselling, and currently works as a training and knowledge exchange coordinator with the Yukon Government, helping to implement a new Mental Wellness Strategy in the territory. Legault believes that the relationship between counsellor and client is key, and that a positive therapeutic alliance is essential to the work. She specializes in relationships (family, friends, romantic), suicide, self-harm, depression, anxiety, and “youth stuff” like frustrations and stressors. Finally, Armstrong is a Nationally Registered Art Therapist who specializes in trauma, grief and loss. As Armstrong explains, art therapy is an effective therapeutic medium that really works. Unlike traditional talk therapy, art therapy has the ability to bypass the sometimes highly defended processes of language. She says many people come to see her after they’ve tried everything else. “[Art therapy] is an amazing way of processing trauma and other experiences,” Armstrong says. The idea behind art therapy is not only examining what you’re processing, but how you’re processing it. Armstrong says that the question “how come?” often gets over-

looked. She stresses the importance of exploring the context and environment of an individual’s life in a safe and contained way. Armstrong says that while some individuals prefer to come in every week, others check in once a month, or every few months on an as-needed basis. The compassionate team at Ignite Counselling is there to support individuals when and if they need it. “It’s amazing to see people progress and change how they do things,” says Armstrong. “The idea is to work differently and not harder, because most people are already at their capacity, and it’s not working.” If you would like to book an appointment with Zoë Armstrong, Jonathan Van Viegen or Erin Legault, you can do so by calling 867-6685498 or emailing info@ignitecounselling.ca. Referrals are not necessary and, at the time of writing, there was is no waiting list. For more detailed information about Ignite Counselling, visit www.IgniteCounselling. ca. The practice is located at suite #1, 3089 - 3rd Ave. in Whitehorse. Aislinn Cornett is a Yukon born and raised freelance writer, artist and art therapist who recently returned from a spell of writing and living on the beach in Mexico.

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Set oven at 425ºF. Using a sharp knife carefully cut neat slits along one side of the potato so that it resembles an accordion, but make sure the bottom of the potato stays intact. Using a brush apply one teaspoon of oil all over each potato and into each slice, season to taste with salt and place in and oven-safe pan, cut side up.

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f you’re feeling dapper this weekend, you’ve got an opportunity to dust off your best prohibition era outﬁts and celebrate the Yukon Brewery’s 20th Anniversary. The brewery is throwing a shindig to celebrate, offering the public 20 per cent off stock in their retail store (off everything but the booze. Bummer, I know). There will be live music, canapés, beer and cocktails along with door prizes awarded every hour. There will also some special 20th anniversary merchandise available, as well as the release of a wild berry brandy, a super exciting new product made with only Yukon harvested berries. Yukon Brewing opened in 1997 as Chilkoot Brewing Co. Ltd. Coowners Bob Baxter and Alan Hanson have been expanding their boozy empire to include not only the Yukon’s most popular draft beer, but also a full retail store and in the past few years hard alcohol and spirits. The idea of opening their brewery stemmed from a conversation between friends on a canoe trip over a campﬁre, and over the past two decades has grown into a Yukon

institution. Baxter and Hanson both started off as home brewers, but used their backgrounds in chemistry and mechanical engineering to ﬁne tune their recipes and eventually sourced equipment through a brewing trade show in Boston, MA. After being initially hesitant due to fears about the scalability of a ﬁnancially sustainable brewery in the Yukon, Baxter and Hanson began building their brewery. Baxter said one of their biggest turning points as sending a sample of Yukon Red to a beverage testing and tasting facility based out of Chicago, IL. When the results came back they were ranked the best amber ale in the world. “At that time the highest ranked amber ale was 92, and we scored 93” Baxter said. “We were able to go public with the idea that maybe the best amber beer in the world was made down the road.” Award-winning Yukon Red is now one of their core products, and Yukon Brewing had been giving the national breweries a run for their money. “We’ve had fantastic local support,” Baxter added. Baxter and Hanson continue to

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Yukon Brewing co-owners Bob Baxter and Alan Hanson in the Yukon Brew retail store work as owners and chief operators, growing the company outside the Yukon. The brewery’s eight packaged products in cans and bottles are available across Alberta and British Columbia with some even ﬁnding their way as far east as Quebec and at the Hanover Zoo in Germany. When asked about the secret to a 20-year business relationship, Baxter said, “Of course we didn’t always see eye to eye, but there was never a time where we couldn’t sit down, close the door and leave with consensus.” They had worked together in

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government before founding the brewery, but not enough to ensure that they would be a good match as partners. “We were never in a pissing match,” Baxter said. When asked about his favourite product, Baxter laughed. “It’s like picking a favourite child.”

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Everything You N eed to Know to Go Who: Yukon Brewing What: 20th Anniversary Celebration with a prohibition/roaring twenties theme When: Saturday, Oct. 7 Time: Doors open at 11 a.m., the event starts at 1 p.m. with canapes, beer, cocktails. There will be live music by Hayley and Co. from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dress Code: flappers and dapper gentlemen encouraged Where: Yukon Brewing is located at 102 Copper Rd. Introducing: 20th anniversary special edition Wild Berry Brandy – only 800 bottles available Nevertheless, he admitted that he loves one of his original recipes, Discovery Ale, which is a honey pale ale that was one of the first beers they made. It has been discontinued and brought back, and discontinued again. The last time they produced it they sourced enough fireweed honey to be able to make it solely from local fireweed honey. “It’s as good as I remembered,” Baxter said.

really excited about releasing it to the public at the anniversary party. “We’re all here because of the support that we get,” Baxter said. “You’re only the home team at home”. Sydney Oland lives in Whitehorse. Her work can be found in The Boston Globe, Seriouseats.com as well as other publications.

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How’sBUSINESS The glassblower co-owns Lumel Studios in downtown Whitehorse with her husband, Mel Johnson How’Rhiannon sBUSINESS by Russell Rhiannon Russell: You opened in June 2016. How has the ﬁrst year of business been? Luann Baker-Johnson: Absolutely spectacular. The community support is phenomenal. We always thought that this medium is wonderful and almost addictive in nature. It is. We’ve had over 5,000 people come in here for Hot Dates — that’s a one- or a two-hour session. And Hot Dates can be for a couple or they can be for a family. In our year, we’ve also had 58 classrooms come in. Over half are creating. But we also do free demos for classes. The Whitehorse Elementary Grade 2 class has taken advantage of this for its science unit, and I want other schools to do that too for their Grade 2 class. They talk about liquids, solids, and gases and that’s what we have here. We take an hour to do it and the kids are totally absorbed, listening to how it relates to their studies. One fellow came in last November and he said we should change our name to the Happiness Factory. That was pretty sweet. We have a Happiness Manifesto in our employees’ manual. It does radiate. It is visible. So it’s a fabulous place to come in and create. RR: When you were opening Lumel, you talked about wanting to get vulnerable people in the city involved. How have you done that? LBJ: We thought originally it would be structured, where one day per month would be for the “river walkers.” But Yukoners’ lives aren’t structured — any Yukoner. That’s why we don’t even have structured classes. From 9:30 in the morning to 9:30 at night, you tell us what you want to do and we ﬁll you in. So why expect our street people to be structured? So we have an open policy: if you’re feeling good in the morning and you can come in sober, then you create. We have two staff on the bench with each of them. Normally, we have one on one, but with our river walkers, we want two glass blowers with each person. We want everyone to be safe.

So we have it as open as we can. Every single Yukoner should be able to sit down on our bench and play with molten glass. RR: Where did the name Lumel come from? LBJ: Most people think it’s for “luminous” but it’s actually me and my high-school sweetheart from F.H. Collins: Lu and Mel. RR: What sparked your interest in glassblowing? LBJ: One of our kids died from leukemia. So that’s why I went to school—I went to draw and paint at ACAD [Alberta College of Art and Design]. I saw that I could sign up for first-year glass and that first day, I thought, this is amazing. That’s why I became a glassblower. I’m also a potter. Clay was my comfort and glass was my struggle in the five years I spent at ACAD. Both are needed for moving through grief — struggle and comfort. We built this studio with the idea of having some kilns at the back for our local potters that are wood-fired and gas-fired. And a local potter just donated her gasfired kiln. So last weekend, I was with a group of potters and we took apart her kiln and moved it. It’s in two big piles at the back of our studio. Next spring, we’re going to cover all the code issues and have a gas-fired kiln for ceramic pottery. Arts Underground has electric kilns. They don’t have gas-fired kilns. It’s important that we don’t go into anyone else’s territory and compete. RR: Is there a deeper meaning or symbolism to glass beyond it being just a pretty piece of art? LBJ: It’s fire and it’s born through fire. It’s also a struggle to create and I can say that people come to our bench and they walk away totally thrilled. But they’ve also struggled. And struggle makes us stronger, even though we don’t like it. So that’s a part of it. There’s always the healing aspect of fire, and whether you’re a mystic or agnostic or atheist, I

think we all acknowledge that. The warmth has a power in itself and we all gravitate to it. You struggle through the heat, you deal with the heat, and you walk away knowing that you’ve manipulated 1,200-degree glass successfully. That’s amazing. You have to woo it. You learn to woo the material. Struggle and woo. Put the two together and something positive comes of it. RR: The studio has helped furnish homes for Habitat for Humanity Yukon. Tell me about that.

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o hear Hugh Kitchen tell it, operating a Northern aviation business seems a lot like trying to romance a porcupine. Besides needing opportunity, courage and excellent timing, “you have to be flexible and fast on your feet.” Kitchen ought to know. He’s been involved with Whitehorsebased Alkan Air for the past 35 years, both as a pilot and as a long-time partner in the company, which officially turns 40 years old on October 21. After getting his pilot’s licence in the late 1970s, he flew for three years with another fledgling Yukon company, Air North (which also turns 40 this year) before joining Alkan Air in 1982. At that time, the company was still being run by its three founders, Joe and Win Muff and Barrie Watson. When the Muffs left to pursue other business opportunities in 1987, Watson persuaded Kitchen to become a partner. “At first I didn’t want to. I just didn’t feel that I had the knowledge, or was confident enough,” he admits. “But then, as I kind of got more involved in the day-to-day business end, it looked like a pretty good investment. I certainly don’t regret it. It worked out really well for me. I love flying, but I really enjoyed the business end of it as well.” Although the company now has 70 people in its personnel roster, Kitchen recalls some fairly lean times. “I remember back in the mid’80s, we’d get laid off in the winter time, and it would be Barrie, Joe and Win sitting there for a couple of months, hoping the phone was going to ring,” he says. “At that time, we were mostly a summer operation. There were some pretty slow times there, with less than half a dozen people.” At one point, Alkan ran regularly-scheduled flights to Watson Lake, Faro, Ross River, Mayo, Dawson, Old Crow and Inuvik, although that service later got whittled down to just Old Crow and Inuvik. In the late ’90s, the company faced both a major slump in the crucial mining and exploration business, and changes in aviation rules that led to aggressive competition from Air North for sched-

uled flights. “When they brought the Hawker-Siddeleys in, that was kind of a game-changer in the scheduled service business. They basically just pushed us out of there with the Hawkers. We were just using the smaller aircraft.” That’s when Watson, as majority partner, decided the company should focus on the charter side of its business, including the increasingly-important air ambulance flights it conducted for the Yukon government. “Alkan had been involved in medevacs even before I was there, but it was kind of an ad hoc service. They would just call,” Kitchen explains. Eventually, this grew into a share program, where Trans North, Alkan Air and Air North would each do it for a month, “which just created chaos,” he adds. “In the middle of the night, the nurses would never know where to go or who was on call. And you didn’t really need to have an airplane available. So if they called up and your airplane was away, they would just call the next guy.” In the early 1990s, the government moved to a dedicated-contract system in which the successful bidder agreed to have aircraft and flight crew available at any time. Alkan Air has been the successful bidder ever since that program began. In 1993, Watson hired a new employee in the company’s accounting department. Raised in the Yukon from infancy, Wendy Tayler always knew she wanted to pursue a business career. “I came here at 20 years old for an accounts receivable job. It was an opportunity to use my education that I had at that point, and I very quickly fell in love with the industry,” Tayler says. “Not just the aviation industry, but also the exploration and mining industry we serve, and the air ambulance component of this business. Both of those are near and dear to my heart, and near and dear to the heart of the company.” By 2000, frustrated because there seemed to be no opportunity to become a partner, Tayler left Alkan Air, intending to move to Calgary and work for WestJet. She took what was to be an interim job with the Hougen Group of

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Part of Alkan Air’s fleet of 18 aircraft at its hangar built in 2009 near the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport Companies in Whitehorse. When Watson retired in 2008, Tayler says, she was “delighted” to come back to Alkan as a minority partner. For the next four years, she and Kitchen took “joint leadership roles” in the company. “The timing of that transaction was fantastic, because it was during the last spike in the mining industry and the aviation industry. And at that time, we were able to make some signiﬁcant strides.” Those strides included buying a number of new aircraft, as well as building a new hangar to replace the one the company had bought from Crown Assets Disposal after the previous owners went broke in 1981. “A hangar is a direct cost, so you tread cautiously when you’re putting those kinds of buildings up,” Kitchen says. But in 2009, it became a necessity. “We were very busy down in Atlin, when Redfern Resources was going gung ho. And with the regulations nowadays, you have to have a facility that will hold your largest aircraft. You can’t do maintenance out in a snowbank any more. “We had brought the Twin Otter online, and we needed to do maintenance, so we pulled the trigger on the hangar. We were just moving into it when Redfern fell apart, so there were some tense moments there, for sure.” In 2012, Kitchen decided to sell his shares and retire, although he still works as a line pilot and owns two aircraft that he leases back to the company. The four years Kitchen and Tayler spent steering Alkan Air

together witnessed a “growth spurt” that Tayler calls “a really exciting time for our company, and a very enjoyable period for Hugh and me.” Now, as majority partner and company president, and with a few new partners added into the mix, Tayler says the company has entered it next growth phase. One sign of growth is the flight school it opened two years ago, in “a great partnership” with Yukon College (Tayler’s alma mater, where she obtained her qualifications as a Certified Management Accountant). Another is last year’s re-introduction of scheduled service to Watson Lake, using a three-seat Seneca, which is off to a promising start, according to Tayler. A third part of the growth spurt is the acquisition of a hangar in Nanaimo, B.C.,and the deployment of two aircraft to that Vancouver Island community. The Nanaimo hangar and operations base had its official opening on Septem-

ber 19 this year. One of the two aircraft there is a Beech 1900, used to facilitate twice-weekly crew changes at the Silver Tip mine near Watson Lake, as well as other charter operations around B.C. The other is a King Air 300, dedicated to providing air ambulance service for the travel insurance business across North America and elsewhere. “We have gone to Greenland and Iceland. We were in Cuba the day before President Obama. We’ve also been to Costa Rica and we go to Mexico regularly. With the snowbird traffic, we do a great number of flights to Arizona,” Tayler says. With a current fleet of 18 fixedwing craft, the 40-year-old company is going stronger than ever. Chalk it up to timing, courage, and flexibility. Ken Bolton is a freelance writer who lives southeast of Whitehorse.

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Nov 7, 9:00am–4:30pm | Nov 8, 9:00am-12:00pm Location: Westmark Whitehorse Hotel

Supporting Your Staff through Loss & Grief 3 hours | $95 +gst Supporting Your Staff through Loss and Grief is a half-day course developed and delivered by Hospice Yukon staff for the NISJ. Grief affects all workplaces. The effects of grief are felt be those who experienced the loss, and by their co-workers. This course is intended for managers and supervisors. For more information call Hospice Yukon 667-7429 CRN 10401

Nov 29, 8:30am-12:00pm Location: Association Franco-Yukonnaise Centre, 302 Strickland St.

Working in Social Services: 6 hours | The Essential Skills *EARLY BIRD RATE*$209 +gst| STANDARD RATE $235 +gst This introductory workshop focuses on the fundamental understanding and skills required for working with people in a helping capacity. Whether working in the role of general helper, counsellor or administrator, there are key areas that are essential to providing helpful, collaborative and ethical services. Nov 29, 9:00am–5:00pm

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To register online please visit https://ca.ctrinstitute.com/, or call 877.353.3205 to register by telephone. For enquiries please contact CTRI by email at info@ctrinstitute.com, or call CTRI at 877.353.3205, or call the Northern Institute of Social Justice at 867.456.8590.

YFN 101: HISTORY OF YUKON FIRST NATIONS & SELF-GOVERNMENT 6 hours| $200 +gst This course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about Yukon First Nations and SelfGovernment. Develop a broader understanding and appreciation for the key moments in Yukon First Nations distant and recent past, in a day that includes interactive activities, discussions and presentations by staff in the Yukon First Nations Initiative department at Yukon College.

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Dec 6, 8:30am-4:30pm

Location: Yukon College

YFN 101: ONLINE* CRN 10398 | SELF-PACED | $89.99 +gst Yukon First Nations 101 was designed to educate students and employees about the culture and history of the First Nations Peoples of the Yukon, the cultural values shared among Yukon First Nations today, and how to communicate respectfully with First Nations individuals and communities. This self-paced course was developed in partnership with Yukon College and the Council of Yukon First Nations, and has been vetted by the 14 Yukon First Nations. *Registration starting Sept 1/17 and ending Dec 31/17.

Registrants have until the end of the following term (April 30/18) to complete the online course. Registration: Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above. Refund Policy: Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee. Please note that no refunds will be provided for the YFN 101 online course once registered. For more information on the Northern Institute of Social Justice and courses offered: Visit our website: yukoncollege.yk.ca/programs/info/nisj Call: 867.456.8589 Email: nisj@yukoncollege.yk.cam

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Active Interest LISTINGS Tuesdays & Thursdays Grappling 6:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Tuesdays & Thursdays Muay Thai 7:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Tuesdays Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 pm Golden Horn Elementary Terice 6686631 Wednesdays Biathlon Practice 4:30 pm Biathlon Range Wednesdays Danceﬁt 12:00 pm Better Bodies Crosstraining Centre Workout dance rooted in jazz, hip hop and Latin styles will take you away from your stresses. Wednesdays with an extra class on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m Call 633-5245 for more info. Wednesdays Youth Aikido 6-12 years 5:30 pm Aikido Yukon Dojo Sessions now has several elements, one every 4 weeks. Each element covers physical skills, techniques, cultural aspects and stories. First class is always FREE, feel free to come try anytime (we will lend you an uniform). 667-4690 info@ aikidoyukon.ca Wednesdays Continuing Tai Chi 6:00 pm Elijah Smith Elementary School Wednesdays Beginners Tai Chi 6:00 pm Hidden Valley School Wenesdays Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan - Section 2 7:00 pm Hidden Valley School Wenesdays Beginners Tai Chi 7:30 pm Grey Mountain Primary School Wednesdays Seniors Tai Chi 10:00 am Golden Age Society Wed, Oct, 4, Yoga and Yogurt 7:45 am Jack Hulland Elementary Thu, Oct, 5, Intermediate Tai Chi Chuan 7:30 pm Jack Hulland Elementary

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Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays Kickboxing Age 5 - 12 4:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Monday, Wednesday & Thursdays Seniors Tai Chi 10:00 am Golden Age Society Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays COBRA Self Defense Age 5 - 12 5:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Monday & Wednesdays Judo Age 13+ 6:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Monday, Wednesday & Sundays Kickboxing Age 13+ 7:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Daily Kickboxing Age 5 - 12 4:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Monday & Wednesdays Ladies COBRA SD 8:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Monday & Wednesdays Velocity/ Pursuit Practice 4:30 pm Biathlon Range Monday & Wednesdays Cardio Dance Party 7:30 pm Long Lean Mean Fitness Drop in classes will lead you through blocks of choreography to build endurance, increase memory & get you sweating! Email info@llmf.ca for more information. Monday & Wednesdays Adult Aikido 5:30 pm École Émilie-Tremblay Sessions now has several elements, one every 4 weeks. Each element covers physical skills, techniques, cultural aspects and stories. First class is always FREE, feel free to come try anytime (we will lend you an uniform). 667-4690 info@aikidoyukon.ca Tuesdays & Thursdays Ladies Kickboxing 5:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Tuesdays & Thursdays Archery 6 8PM 5:00 pm Biathlon Range

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Thu, Oct, 5 YASC 4 - 7 4:00 pm Biathlon Range Thu, Oct, 5 Ladies Kickboxing 5:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Thu, Oct, 5 One Hour Drop In Classes - Barreilates 5:15 pm Long Lean Mean Fitness This class sculpts, tones, and gives you a strong core. Register online or call 334-3479 for more information. Thu, Oct, 5 Trail Run 6:30 pm Whitehorse, Yukon For more information call Nancy Thompson 333-0983 3330983 Thu, Oct, 5 Muay Thai 7:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Fri, Oct, 6 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 pm Golden Horn Elementary Fri, Oct, 6 Free Family Swim 6:00 pm Canada Games Centre Fri, Oct, 6 Womens kickboxing 6:00 pm Peak Fitness Runs for 5 Fridays, Drop in or register. Call 668-4628 for more information. Fri, Oct, 6 Ladies Grappling 6:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Fri, Oct, 6 Kickboxing Age 13+ 7:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Fri, Oct, 6 Beginners kickboxing. 7:00 pm Peak Fitness This is open to anyone wanting to try it out, Runs for 5 Fridays, Drop in or register. Call 668-4628 for more information. Fri, Oct, 6 COBRA FS 8:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Sat, Oct, 7 Parent/Tot Soccer 3:30 pm Canada Games Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Open Tai Chi Practise 10:00 am Takhini Elementary School Sun, Oct, 8, Insanity Live 11:15 am Peak Fitness Challenging, groupfocused athletic training, cardio conditioning, and total-body strength drills, designed for people of ALL levels. Call 668-4628 to register Sun, Oct, 8 Families on the Move 9:00 am Canada Games Centre Families with small children can access balls, hoops, cars, parachutes, scooters and more! Sun, Oct, 8 Carcross Kids Kickboxing 11:30 am N60 Combative Arts Sun, Oct, 8 Carcross Kickboxing 12:30 pm N60 Combative Arts Sun, Oct, 8 Pre School Martial Arts 3:30 pm N60 Combative Arts Sun, Oct, 8 Family Skate 5:00 pm Canada Games Centre Skates available for rental. Sun, Oct, 8 Ladies Grappling 6:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Sun, Oct, 8 COBRA FS 8:00 pm N60 Combative Arts Tue, Oct, 10, Beginners Tai Chi 7:30 pm Jack Hulland Elementary

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Monday & Fridays, Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 pm Whitehorse Food Bank Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children 3349317 Wenesdays The Counselling Drop-In Clinic 10:00 am Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services Free Drop-In counselling is offered every Wednesday from 10am - 4pm. Wednesdays Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 am Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Oct, 4, French - Training in Suicide Prevention 9:00 am Centre de la francophonie Training in suicide prevention: Decode a suicidal emergency Act appropriately. FREE, offered in French, Francophone Health Network. Registration 668-2663. Wed, Oct, 4, An Evening with Bruno Guevremont 5:00 pm Best Western Gold Rush Inn All are welcome to attend the event and panel discussion about mental health and mental illness awareness. Wed, Oct, 4, The Yukon Mental Wellness Summit 2017 - Inspiration Innovation Celebration 8:00 am Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre This event will involve a sacred fire, inspiring speakers, the comedy of Ryan McMahon, a cultural feast Continental breakfast, lunch and snacks provided. Call 332.5283, or email bellaeliteconsulting@ gmail.com for more info. Wed, Oct, 4, Lunch and Learn - Harm Reduction 12:00 pm Blood Ties Four Directions Centre Join us for a meal and a conversation about harm reduction associated with drug use and to learn the signs and symptoms of overdose. Everyone welcome! Wed, Oct, 4, Red Tara Meditation 6:00 pm White Swan Sanctuary Everyone welcome. For more info contact Vicky 633-3715 Thu, Oct, 5, Ladies Night at Fassy 7:00 pm FASSY an evening of fun activities and socializing for women of all ages. 393-4948 girls@ycommunityliving.com Fri, Oct, 6, Quantum Touch Healing Energy Workshop Level 1 Elemental Holistic Therapies For registration please email elementalholistictherapies@live.com or call 335-0078 Fri, Oct, 6, Living Life to the Full Fall course 12:00 pm Mental Health Association Yukon Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) 8 weeks, educational course delivered with a Certified Counsellor. To register, please call the MHAY office at 668-6429 Sun, Oct, 8, Quantum Touch Healing Energy Workshop Level 2 Elemental Holistic Therapies For registration please email elementalholistictherapies@live.com or call 335-0078 Mon, Oct, 9, Shamata Meditation 5:15 pm White Swan Sanctuary Group meditation all levels welcome Mon, Oct, 9, Buddhist Meditation Society 5:15 pm White Swan Sanctuary All are welcome! Mon, Oct, 9, Overeaters Anonymous Meeting 7:30 pm Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services Overeaters Anonymous Meeting every Monday Please ring the buzzer if the door is locked. Tue, Oct, 10, Weight Watchers 5:00 pm Yukon College Please arrive 30-minutes prior to the listed meeting time for weigh-in and registration, room A2202. 403-4730645 blong@weightwatchers.ca

Wed, Oct, 11, Living with Loss 6:30 pm Whitehorse Public Library Learn about the grief cycle that accompanies any kind of loss. Call or email for more information. 667-7429 info@hospiceyukon.net Wed, Oct, 11, Sharing Circles 5:00 pm Skookum Jim Friendship Centre Men only, Dinner provided Call 633-7688 Wed, Oct, 11, The Alzheimer/Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group 7:00 pm Copper Ridge Place A group for family or friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 3341548 or Joanne 668-7713.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Wednesday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance Porter Creek Step meeting (CM) 8:00 PM Our Lady of Victory No Pufﬁn (CM, NS) 8:00 PM 6210 - 6th Ave Thursday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance. Polar Group (OM) 7:30 PM 6210 - 6th ave. Friday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance Yukon Unity Group Meeting 1:30 PM #4 Hospital Road Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM 305 Wood Street - Back Entrance. Saturday Detox Meeting (OM, NS) 1:00 PM, Sara Steel building 609 Steele St., Main Entrance Women’s Meeting (CM, NS) 2:30 PM Whitehorse General Hospital (across from emergency) Hospital Meeting Whitehorse General Hospital (OM NS) 7:00 pm - Hospital Board Meeting. Sunday Detox Meeting (OM NS) 1:00 PM 1:00 PM, Sara Steel building 609 Steele St., Main Entrance Hospital Meeting (OM NS) 7:00 PM Whitehorse General Hospital Monday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance New Beginnings Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM 6210 - 6th Ave Tuesday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance Ugly Duckling Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM 6210 - 6th Ave. Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (OM, NS) 7:00 PM 4141B 4th Ave. Phone: AA 1-888-453-0142 (24 hours a day)

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Community EVENTS ATLIN

Wednesdays Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Fri, Oct, 6, Barrier Buster Dinner 5:00 pm Atlin Rec Centre Salmon and Pork Loin dinner with special speaker Darryl Tait, musical guest Stockstill & Rose

BEAVER CREEK

Mondays & Fridays Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tuesdays & Saturdays Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

CARCROSS

Tuesdays & Thursdays Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:30 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door. Everyone welcome! no fee for community members 867-399-3321 Wednesdays Healthy Choices & Nutrition Activities 9:00 am Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Wednesdays Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School For more info:kathleen.cranﬁeld@ctfn.ca 8214251 Wednesdays Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Oct, 4, AA Carcross 6:30 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Wed, Oct, 4, School Council 7:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Oct, 5, Executive Council Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Oct, 5, CPNP Lunch 12:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Oct, 5, Sewing Nights 6:30 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Oct, 5, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranﬁeld, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Sat, Oct, 7, Traditional Handgames 1:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Mon, Oct, 9, Art at the Carving Shed 5:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Mon, Oct, 9, AA - Tagish 7:30 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Oct, 10, Elders Breakfast 10:00 am Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Oct, 10, Tlingit Language classes 5:00 pm CTFN Capacity Building Tue, Oct, 10, Excellence Group 5:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Oct, 10, Sports Night 6:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Oct, 10, Tlingit Language Game Nights 6:00 pm Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Oct, 10, Women’s Group 7:00 pm Carcross Community Campus 821-4251

CARMACKS

Mondays-Fridays Kids Club After School Program 3:30 pm Carmacks Recreation Centre Ages 5-12, snacks provided DAWSON CITY Wednesdays, CFYT Trivia 8:00 pm The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio. Thu, Oct, 5 Open Mic In The Lounge 9:00 pm Westminster Hotel Hosted by Jonathan Howe Thu, Oct, 5, Fall Family BBQ 5:00 pm Community Support Centre Food and refreshments provided. Door Prizes! Fri, Oct, 6, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 am Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 6 & Mon. Oct. 9 - Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 pm Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 6, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 pm Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Painting 1:00 pm KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered. Sat, Oct, 7, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 pm Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre

Sun, Oct, 8, St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 am St Paul’s Church 867-9935381 Sun, Oct, 8 Soul Sunday with The Sweet Nuggets 11:00 pm Westminster Hotel Mon, Oct, 9, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 am Dawson City Fitness Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Step n Strong 7:00 pm Robert Service School For more information email: getrealﬁt(at)me.com 867-993-2520 Tue, Oct, 10, Dawson City Council Meeting 7:00 pm Dawson City Town Hall The meetings are aired live on Dawson City TV Channel 12. Council holds a Question Period at each meeting that takes place towards the end of the meeting. This provides the public an opportunity to ask Council questions. 867-993-7400

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Thu, Oct, 5, Raising Chum Salmon at School 12:00 pm Kluane Lake School Salmon egg collecting and milt at Kluane River. Potluck lunch.

FARO

Tuesdays & Thursdays Parents and Tots 10:00 am Faro Recreation Centre Join us in song, socializing, play and lots of giggles and fun. Tuesdays & Thursdays Faro Kids Club 3:30 pm Faro Recreation Centre Wednesdays, Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 pm Faro Recreation Centre Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting. Wednesdays - Faro Market in Forever Faro Square Wednesdays-Fireside Chats and Bocce Tournaments Campbell Region Interpretive Center Wed, Sep, 27 Home Routes Concerts - Kevin Roy Duo 7:00 pm Home Routes Concerts Wednesdays, - Carpet Bowling, 1-2:30pm Wednesdays, Senior Walk, 1:302:30pm, Faro Rec. Centre Wednesdays, Senior Cards, 2:303:00pm, Faro Rec. Centre Thu, Oct, 5, After School Kids Club 3:30 pm Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-12, snacks, crafts, ﬁeld trips and lots of fun games. Call 994-2375 for more information. Thu, Oct, 5, Environment Club 3:45 pm Del Van Gorder School Thu, Oct, 5, Floor Hockey 7:00 pm Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 6, Seniors Cribbage 2:00 pm Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 6, Teen Drop in Gym 7:00 pm Del Van Gorder School Sun, Oct, 8, Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 am Church of Apostles Sun, Oct, 8, Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 am Faro Bible Chapel with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 9942442 Tue, Oct, 10, Parent & Tot Storytime 10:00 am Faro Community Library For babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Tue, Oct, 10, After School Kids Club 3:30 pm Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-12, snacks, crafts, ﬁeld trips and lots of fun games. Call 994-2375 for more information.

HAINES JUNCTION

Wednesdays, Seniors - Drop-In and Activities 1:30 pm Haines Junction Seniors Apartments Arts, craft, ﬁtness, pool tournaments, shufﬂeboard, carpet bowling, and card and board games. Refreshments. Wednesdays, Adult Volleyball 6:30 pm St. Elias Community School Wed, Oct, 4, Gopher Blanket Project 5:00 pm Da Ku Cultural Centre Wed, Oct, 4, Village of Haines Junction Council Meeting 7:00 pm St Elias Convention Centre Thu, Oct, 5 Open Mic 7:30 pm St Elias Convention Centre Thu, Oct, 5, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 am Mun Ku

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Thu, Oct, 5, Seniors - Carpet Bowling 1:30 pm St Elias Convention Centre All Seniors and Elders welcome! Thu, Oct, 5, Chair Yoga For Seniors 3:00 pm Haines Junction Seniors Apartments Thu, Oct, 5, Community Dinner and Gopher Blanket Project Completion 5:00 pm Da Ku Cultural Centre Thu, Oct, 5, Women’s Circle 5:30 pm Mun Ku Email elskloppers@gmail.com for more information. Thu, Oct, 5, Adult Soccer 7:30 pm St. Elias Community School Fri, Oct, 6, Story Hour 10:00 am Haines Junction Community Library Sun, Oct, 8, St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 am St Christopher’s Church Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere 867-634-2360 Mon, Oct, 9, Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 pm Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 pm Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 pm Takhini Hall

MARSH LAKE

Wed, Oct, 4, Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Oct, 4, Yukon Plans Meeting 5:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre The Options are ready for your review, input and feedback. Join in person or online. Fri, Oct, 6, Jackalope Friday Dinners 7:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Tot Group 10:00 am Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Knitting Circle 1:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre 6604999 managermarshlake@gmail.com Sat, Oct, 7, Paint Party 6:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Ages 14 and up ( this event will take place in the Jackalope club room) For more information call 660-4999 email managermarshlake@gmail.com. Sun, Oct, 8, Drop in Badminton 11:00 am Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Oct, 10, North of 60 Seniors Cafe 2:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Tot Group 2:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Yoga 5:30 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre Drop in Yoga info@ yogawhitehorse.ca Tue, Oct, 10, Local Advisory Council 7:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre followed by hot apple cider and refreshments. 660-4999 Tue, Oct, 10, Choir and Drama Group Start Up Meeting 7:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre For more information email Sarah Sage at marshlake@gmail. com. Tue, Oct, 10, Darts and Games Night 7:00 pm Marsh Lake Community Centre We’ll be doing a quick orientation for those who haven’t played before and playing 301. The bar will be open for a beverage while we play.

MAYO

Thu, Oct, 5, Fall Feast - Family Dinner and Activities 5:00 pm Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Come have dinner with your family. Fri, Oct, 6, Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 pm Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 8, St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 am St Mary’s Church (867)6677746 Tue, Oct, 10, Mayo Sewing Nights 7:00 pm Yukon College Mayo Campus OLD CROW Thu, Oct, 5, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 pm Old Crow Community Center Sun, Oct, 8, St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 am St. Luke’s Church 867-9935381 Tue, Oct, 10, Gym Night 7:00 pm Old Crow Community Center

ROSS RIVER

Fri, Oct, 6, Stew, Bannock and Handgames 12:00 pm, Ross River School. Bring a side dish to share.

TAGISH

Tuesdays & Thursdays Adv. Beginner Tai Chi 7:30 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Wednesdays Tlingit Language Class 3:30 pm Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Wednesdays Open Mic Nite 10:00 pm Pioneer Bar Wednesdays Tlingit Language Class 3:30 pm Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Thursdays Tai Chi 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm Chilkat Centre For The Arts Sat, Sep, 30 Murder Mystery Theater 8:00 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Sun, Oct, 1 St Michael’s - lobby 11:30 am Chilkat Center For The Arts

TESLIN

Mondays, Wednesdays & Friday SpinFlex w/Katherine 7:00 am Skagway Recreation Centre Mondays, Wednesdays & Friday Hatha Yoga w/Sherry- ALL Levels 6:15 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Wednesdays Acro Jam 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Playful practice that combines acrobatics and yoga. This is an unstructured class to work on things you would like to improve on or trade Wednesdays, TRX Suspension Training 5:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Wednesdays, Love and Logic Workshops 6:00 pm Skagway School Parenting workshops utilizing practical skills and tools to help the parenting process. Call 907-983-2255 for more information. Wednesdays Aerial Tissue w/Renee 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Tuesday& Thursday Spinning w/ Katherine 5:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday& Thursday Mindful Vinyasa Flow 6:00 am Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday& Thursday Mat Pilates 7:15 am Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate core based class using classical mat exercises to create long, lean muscles. Tuesday& Thursday Senior Weights with Dana 10:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors. Tuesday & Thursday, Basketball For Adults 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday& Thursday Zumba with Keara 5:15 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Latin�inspired cardio�dance workout that uses music and choreographed steps to form a ﬁtness party atmosphere. Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday Dance Fusion with Kaera New Latin Hip Hop Class 5:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Thursdays Easy Does it YogaRestorative Yoga w/Jeanne- ALL Level 6:30 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 6, Gentle Flow 6:15 pm Skagway Recreation Centre A gentle and calming practice that combines breath with movement. Sat, Oct, 7, Bouncy House Fun Time! 12:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre A parent or guardian must accompany children 12 and under. Sat, Oct, 7, Volleyball For Adults 6:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 7, Flow and Restore 6:30 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Powerful vinyasa style class with a focus in strengthening the entire body, ending with restorative/yin style poses to soak in the energy and heat created in the ﬂow. Sun, Oct, 8, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 6:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Mon, Oct, 9, Restorative - Yin Yoga w/ Jeanne- ALL Levels 9:00 am Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 9, Roller Hockey For Adults 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 10, Let it Roll - Hatha Flow with Foam Roller 6:30 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Hatha Flow practice followed by foam roller and pinky balls.

Tuesday - Saturdays Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Wednesdays Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fresh baked goods every Wednesday. Wednesdays & Saturdays Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Oct, 4, Tagish Advisory Council meeting 7:00 pm Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.ca Sat, Oct, 7, Pickleball 11:00 am Tagish Community Centre Come try Pickleball, a new sport offered which combines table tennis and regular tennis.

Thu, Oct, 5, Badminton Nights 7:00 pm Teslin Rec Center Every Thursday, bring your racket or just bring your self for some swift fun! 335-4250 teslinrec@ teslin.ca Fri, Oct, 6, Youth Club 8:00 pm Teslin Rec Center For grades 7-12, come hang out, games, activities and snacks! Call Kelsey 335-4250 for more information. Tue, Oct, 10, After School Sports K Gr. 4 3:30 pm Teslin Rec Center Tue, Oct, 10, Yoga in the Mezzanine 5:15 pm Teslin Rec Center Every Tuesday, mats provided just bring your zen. 335-4250 teslinrec@teslin.ca Tue, Oct, 10, Teslin Dance Group Practice 7:00 pm Teslin Healing Centre Every Tuesday evening, for more info contact Melaina at 867.390.2532 ext. 333 or Melaina.sheldon@ttc-teslin.com

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Go Where the Road Takes You PHOTOS: Ben Barrett-Forrest

Yukon Film Society presents In Pursuit of Silence at the YAC on Oct. 10 at 6 p.m.

Hiking in Shendandoah National Park, in Virginia. I planned to go there for just two days, but loved it so much that I stayed for five. I met a fellow fiddle player in the campsite next to me, and we spent a couple nights jamming around the campfire PHOTOS : courtesy of the Cinema Guild

Tea ceremony participants in Kyoto Japan from Patrick Shen’s IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE

“For the ﬁrst – I don’t know how many hundred thousand – years of human life, (when we were out on the Savanna learning about the forest) silence was essential to our survival. So, silence is our natural milieu, and the farther we get away from silence the more we lose our humanity.” -- Maggie Ross, theologian

his week’s Available Light Cinema documentary is essentially a study of how noise affects our minds and even our bodies. The 2016 ﬁlm In Pursuit of Silence explores human beings’ long-term relationship with silence; the message is that we’ve become dangerously distant from it as of late. Since the Industrial Revolution, we have been incorporating more and more noise into our daily soundscapes that has now reached a sort of fever pitch. Our natural habitat has become an overcrowded circus of sound. In Pursuit of Silence begins by recalling experimental composer John Cage’s 1952 composition 4’33” wherein no instrument is played for four minutes and

thirty-three seconds. The film offers an array of perspectives on what silence means to humanity, in terms of the scientific, medical and spiritual. Dyson engineers measure the decibels as well as the “quality” of sound emitted by their home appliances; a Japanese doctor prescribes and conducts certified “forest therapy” sessions as preventative medicine; and seeking auditory asylum, a young man takes a vow of silence and walks from Nashua, New Hampshire to Los Angeles, California; and Watching this documentary is like taking a sensory vacation from the franchise movie junk food crowding our theatres and living rooms. It’s amazing how jarring a simple image of a peaceful windswept field can be to our over-stimulated minds. The film makes the argument that amid the constant barrage of beeps, rings, action movie explosion sequences, aeroplanes, automobiles, canned laughter and babbling radio stations your inner voice becomes dangerously muffled, and a fundamental connection with the universe is lost. This documentary asks us to listen closely to the silent moments in our modern lives as they become ever more precious oases of reflection. Humans have a tendency toward the visual; we obsess over colour and form. Take for example

that interior decorating and architecture directives consider the appearance and physical feeling of a room, but rarely do they consider the soundscape. So, how will we experience sound in a postmodern world? Will architects, city planners, and interior designers soon be tailoring complex soundscapes to accompany their designs? We have put our technological cart before its horse, if you will. It is healthy to consider the effects the sound pollutants of the last century have had on our organic minds and bodies as they struggle to keep up with our addictive, noisy technology. The Yukon Film Society presents In Pursuit of Silence at the Yukon Arts Centre on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. Whitehorse musician Scott Maynard will perform John Cage’s composition 4’ 33” before the screening. Heather Austin is a copywriter and ﬁlm nerd based in British Columbia. She loves gangster movies, lofty literature, and wild places. HLAustinCompostion.com.

Greg Hindy, a young US man who has taken a one year vow of silence as he walks across America, in Patrick Shen’s IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE

any of us daydream about packing everything into a van and hitting the road at one time or another. For one Yukoner, 25-yearold Ben Barrett-Forrest, this is a dream come true, and it’s happening at this very moment. I caught up with Ben on the tail end of a brief Canadian detour, on his way from Ottawa back down into Vermont, about three months into an as-yet-undetermined time frame. Barrett-Forrest, a Yukoner born and raised, began working at the Globe and Mail in Toronto as an assistant art director in 2014. Considering his artistic and techsavvy proclivities, it was a dream job that saw him designing the front page, doing typographic layout, working with illustrators and photographers and designing web pages, all in the hustle and bustle of downtown Toronto. After two years however, the long hours and constant creative output began to take their toll; he knew it was time for a change. Early this year, he purchased a 1996 Volkswagen Eurovan Camper (nicknamed Vanna White), and hit the road in the spring. “While I only started planning for this trip at the beginning of 2017, I have always been ﬁlled with wanderlust,” he says. “My parents have always had Volkswagen camper vans… so I grew up travelling around the territory and country every summer in a little home on wheels. To me, a VW van is synonymous with freedom.” Because he’d already seen so much of Canada, venturing down into the States seemed the most logical option. He began his drive in Washington, D.C. and progressed through the Virginias and Carolinas down to Georgia, and back up to Tennessee and Kentucky. He was joined in New Orleans by childhood friend Bryson McLachlan, and the two cut across to Texas, and up to Chicago via Memphis before Barrett-Forrest returned to Ontario for July to visit family before taking off again. For him, the traveling van life has been an exercise in self-sufﬁciency and social connection. “I love having all my stuff with me when I explore new places. I have my cameras and recording

gear, and my viola, mandolin, and ukulele in my van.” An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Barrett-Forrest notes that he’s made most of his personal connections so far through music. “Meeting fellow fiddlers around the campfire in Shenandoah National Park, playing at an open mic in Thomas, West Virginia, jamming at a bluegrass festival near Paducah, Kentucky. I’ve found that playing music with people bridges any cultural differences and forms instant friendships.” Barrett-Forrest found that traveling alone has allowed him to better find the real essence of a place, and integrate with the people that live there. “Being alone, with an open attitude, people seem to engage with me, and invite me into their lives,” he says, adding that some of the most welcoming people he’s met have been in the Deep South. “Southern hospitality really is a thing! As soon as I went south across the border into North Carolina, the accents got thicker, the serving sizes got bigger, and the smiles got wider. Everyone called me ‘Honey,’ and people were happy to give me hours of their time, showing me around their town, buying me meals, and even letting me stay in their guest bedrooms. “The warmth of the Deep South (to me, as a white person) was very noticeable. The presence of Confederate flags on people’s front porches, especially in Alabama and Mississippi, made me aware that not everyone gets this treatment, though.” Here, Barrett-Forrest touches on an important note: the cultural, socio-economic, and privilege gap becomes even more glaringly apparent when viewed through the lens of his Yukon background. “Since leaving Toronto, I’ve gotten a deeper understanding of the hardship and poverty that much of the U.S. population lives in,” he explains. “There are patches of hundreds of miles where are the houses are crumbling, the cars are decrepit, and there isn’t a corner store or restaurant in sight. Having lived in cont’d on page 22...

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Go Where the Road Takes You ... continued from page 21 Eating breakfast in Charleston, South Carolina. My VW Eurovan has two propane burners, a sink, and a propane fridge, so I have everything I need to make a decent meal My van parked in front of a little corner store near Manton, Kentucky. The inside looked like someone’s living room, with two old folks sitting on chairs around a dining room table. But there was a cooler of soft drinks, and chocolate bars, so it was technically a shop

Hiking the Nā Pali Coast’s Kalalau Trail

A waterfall is always a pleasant diversion from a hot day of driving

afﬂuent areas for my whole life, it was quite startling to see the scale of poverty that exists in so many areas. “Also, the racial divide and tensions in some parts of the U.S., particularly New Orleans, gave me a better perspective on all the horrible news stories about racially-motivated crimes that come out of the U.S. every day. I was very aware of my privilege during many parts of my trip.” The south also offered some pleasant surprises. Barrett-Forrest recalls a particularly eyeopening experience in Kentucky: “I met a bunch of very talented bluegrass musicians and after jamming, went for dinner with them. They had incredibly thick Kentucky accents, which is the accent I’ve always [associated with] hillbilly/redneck American. But these people were all educated, erudite people, talking about intelligent things with this thick accent. It was hard for my brain to reconcile.” These experiences and more have led Barrett-Forrest to feel even more grateful for his upbringing in the relatively progressive and artistic city of Whitehorse, with so many resources available to him. “I travelled a lot in my youth, which is something that many people I’ve met on my trip have not had the privilege of doing. The more places I visit, the more I realize how special Whitehorse really is. There are very few places I’ve visited where I would actually want to live (the only ones so far are Asheville, North Carolina; Thomas, West Virginia; and Austin, Texas).

There and Back

by Alexander Mark Weber

Sometimes it’s nice to have company on the road

“The pull of the Yukon strengthens as I find out how different it is from the rest of the world. The natural beauty, downto-earth people and vibrant arts scene, are what I miss the most.” After settling into a routine after three months and 17 states, Barrett-Forrest has found van living something akin to a full-time job, every day full of planning and responsibility. “I have adored this trip, but this style of travel is certainly not for everybody. It involves a lot of time by oneself, and a lot of uncertainty, with a bit of risk,” he says. “I’ve had to practise a lot of self-sufficiency, and be very social and extroverted… and there is just an awful lot of driving to do!” The longest stretch he’s driven (with McLachlan) was 30 hours, from Austin to Ottawa, in three days, but this immersive style of travel (not to mention having a complete home on wheels) makes those long drives bearable, if not downright enjoyable. “I get into the groove of driving, and the miles just slip away, and the vast and ever-changing scenery rolls past and is spellbinding,” Barrett-Forrest says. “I find myself getting restless to get back on the road after a few days in one place.” Keep up with Barrett-Forrest’s travels on his Instagram page, @ benexploring Willow Gamberg is a traveling music writer and editor who is currently attending university in Vancouver. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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he Nā Pali Coast’s Kalalau Trail is a stunning 18-kilometre there-and-back hike on the north coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Often topping Greatest-Hikesin-the-World lists, along with Most-Dangerous-Hikes-in-theWorld, it promises a rugged trek along incredibly steep rain-forest mountain-sides, long side trails to massive waterfalls, deep blue water and crashing waves, and an opportunity to sleep on a worldfamous secluded beach. Camping permits are required for anyone going past the ﬁrst three kms, with two places to set up your tent: a forested streamside campsite at Hanakoa Valley (9.5km) and the beautiful Kalalau Beach (trail terminus; 18 km). My friend and I ﬁrst heard about the trail while researching “things to do in Hawaii,” as we were heading there for a conference in Honolulu.

Day 1:

I arrived in Kauai in the morning in early May, where my coworker, Mike, and his partner, Christa, picked me up in a rental car. First thing I really noticed about Kauai was all the chickens. How did I not know that Kauai is littered with chickens? Supposedly, a combination of all birds being protected, and a freak tornado in the ’90s that set the chickens free, has resulted in this hilarious problem. After running some errands and checking into our hotel, we ate lunch at the hotel restaurant, which is right on the beach. Of course, I ordered ﬁsh tacos. As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans; when in Hawaii, eat ﬁsh tacos. Then it began to rain. We hung out in the hotel for a while: Mike and I packed for our hike, while Christa, who did not obtain a permit in time (let this be a lesson to you, Dear Reader), perused the guidebook for things to do later. When the rain stopped and the sun came out, we drove out to a nearby 25-metre waterfall, Wailua Falls, which you can see

PHOTOS: Alexander Mark Weber

Christa immediately in front, Mike in middle, within the first three kilometres, where you don’t need a permit to hike from a vantage point at the top of the cliff. I wanted to hike down to the bottom, but Mike and Christa were not too psyched. We made plans to separate, leaving me to my reckless behaviour, and letting them drive off and explore some more of the area. I ended up following the wrong way down, which was a little scary because the mud made it very possible to slip and slide an alarming amount. I went down barefoot and dug my toes in while grabbing tree trunks and roots on the descent. “Hopefully I can find the right way up later,” I thought to myself. Once at the bottom, I was still a distance from the falls, so I had to wade and bushwhack for a while. All worth it for the waterfall I had all to myself. After taking some pictures from various angles, I decided to take a dip. The mist and waves, combined with the cold, sort of made it a little intense… also, seeing Jaws in my youth has forever ruined swimming in any body of water for me. I swam out to the middle and just floated on my back to take the whole thing in. This is the true and proper way to experience a raging 25-metre waterfall. After looking around for a bit, I managed to find the proper way out via a nice trail, with portions of it led by a rooster caught on the same trail. After I met back up with Mike and Christa, we went out for fish tacos (for those keeping count that’s my second fish taco meal of the day) and called it a night.

Day 2:

A 5 a.m. wake-up. We ate and left around 6, and were at the trailhead by 7. Christa joined us for the ﬁrst 6.5 kms. The ﬁrst 3.2 kms are gorgeous and take in these incredible short views with violently crashing waves, intense-

Roosters everywhere!

ly steep and jagged cliffs covered in green. The path itself seemed threatened to be choked off by the dense foliage all around. Giant ferns, coconut trees, green things growing on green things growing on green things. A veritable Russian nesting doll of vegetation. Every now and then you would catch a songbird’s tune. At one viewpoint, where we could see the coastline in front of us, we couldn’t imagine where the trail could be, as the cliffs seemed so steep and jagged and too close to the coast. We would later discover we were looking at the trail, but it was hidden deep within the thick greenery. As we started early in the morning, I found it odd to see many hikers coming the other way. Since this is a there-and-back trail, this meant either that they had awoken at a god-forsaken hour in order to be coming back now… or they had slept overnight. The former seemed strange, but the latter was downright crazy, as these people did not look like they were equipped for sleeping, as they had tiny daypacks. They were also all wearing identical cheap rain ponchos… and looked miserable. We later found out that the rain from the day before had created flash floods at the first creek crossing, which stranded what seemed like several dozen individuals and forced them to stay the night, in the rain, unprepared. At the 3.2km mark, we crossed our first of several creeks. There is a beach here, infamous for its breaking surf and undertow that has taken many lives (somewhere in the high 80s). Inexplicably, there were also four cats and a rooster that seemed to live here. The next 3.2 kilometres were off trail, to check out a waterfall. I think there were up to six crossings, mostly within the last kilometre. The falls themselves are huge and intense. Best of all, there was a black kitten waiting there for us. Very friendly; my senses were overwhelmed with cuteness and nature’s grandeur. The falls were raging due to the rain from the day before. Although it was cold near the mist and wind, I went for a swim. It was hard to get into because the rocks were jagged and uneven. I cont’d on page 23...

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Looking back at the beach we started from [INSET BELOW] The author looking up at Hanakoa Falls, nine kilometres from the trailhead

There and Back ... cont’d swam out halfway and took in the glory. On the way back, I got lost on a side trail. Back at the beach, we said goodbye to Christa and were off for the final 16 kms of our journey. Kilometres 3.2 to 4.8 are up a steep mountain face, then down towards kilometre 9.6. This is a campsite, and another waterfall opportunity. This waterfall is only 0.8 kms off the trail, and involves only one creek crossing. The falls were once again massive; I think bigger than the first. No cats, but also no people. Once again braving the freezing cold, I took a dip, and waded with a giant. The final 11 to 13 kilometres head steeply up again, then around this treacherous area called Crawler’s Cove. Luckily, the mud was drying up, making this reasonable. The most exposed region is on narrow lava rock, which at least makes for good purchase. After we passed this section it began to rain. Nothing too intense, just enough to annoy. We stepped it into high-gear for the final stretch. Luckily, we were treated to a break in the weather once we reached the beach. What a superb way to end a trail. This thing is super pretty and remote, with only a smattering of people visible. We found a beautiful place to set up camp on the beach, but still in some trees. After the tarp went up (in an effort to shed weight, we had brought along a lightweight tarp instead of a tent), it began to rain again. Just in time. Now the rain fell hard. We ducked in under-

neath our shelter and secured our belongings. We made dinner under our shelter… and who decides to pay us a visit on this hard-to-get-to paradise? A hungry kitten. Who knew there were so many cats here on this trail? I did my best not to feed her, but I did give her some love scratches. After dinner we did dishes, secured our food, and passed out.

Day 3:

We awoke without an alarm, sometime in the early morning, with the rising sun. With plenty of time to make it back, and beautiful weather greeting us, we explored the beach: swam in the Paciﬁc Ocean blue, took panorama pictures with our phones, and laid out on the beach. Our hike back to the start of the trail was absolutely splendid, surprisingly affording us views we had neglected to see the day before, as we were not always looking over our shoulders. I was surprised to ﬁnd that hiking back the way we came provided us with a sense of ease, as we had no anxiety about anything we were about to encounter, and an opportunity to sort of shut off and just take it all in. What bliss. Alexander Mark Weber is a writer currently based in Vancouver, BC. He divides his time between squeezing every available free second into an adventure and recovering with beer and ice cream.

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If this piques your interest, and you’re thinking of going, I highly suggest you book waaaaaaaaaaaay in advance, as permits get snatched up quickly and months ahead of time. Contact these people: Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources. In addition, please do your research. There are multiple sources online that warn of the dangers of the hike; hikers have lost their lives exploring the beauty of this trail. The website KalalauTrail.com describes these dangers, and ways to stay safe. Happy hiking :)

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