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hether your preferred fuel is gasoline or Gatorade, it seems Whitehorse trail users want to work together, not against each other.

The city’s new East Yukon River trail plan was approved by city council on Monday night, even as debate over its effectiveness continues.

The plan will see some major artery trails on the east side of the Yukon River and behind Riverdale designated as allowing ATVs and dirt bikes in the summer, and snowmobiles in the winter.

Any trail not specifically designated for motorized use is assumed to be non-motorized.

That’s not good enough, said a number of stakeholders who spoke at Monday’s council meeting, though the groups pushing for more motorized trails may seem surprising.

Sierra van der Meer, president of the Contagious Mountain Bike Club, said throughout the trail planning process the city has assumed motorized and non-motorized users could never get along.

“The concern is that this plan is inadequate in meeting the needs of the motorized community,” van der Meer said.

She said the bike club is standing up for its motorized comrades because everyone can help build a better trail system.

“The bike club cares because we want a strong, sustainable trail network and we believe that sharing is key to achieving this. I believe by telling two groups they cannot be expected to get along and that motorized and nonmotorized uses should be enemies, we encourage conflict,” van der Meer said.

Van der Meer said creating a motorized link via the Cantlie Lake Connector, as proposed in the new plan, would go a long way to helping motorized users access the full suite of available trails without having to ride on roads or transport their machines with trailers.

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Nancy Thomson of the Yukon Trail and Ultra Running Association, seen on the Chadburn Lake trails. Thomson said sharing trails with motorized vehicles is the best solution for Whitehorse’s recreational trail system.

the Trail and Ultra Running Association, agreed.

She said that while many of the trails above Riverdale are too narrow for ATVs or snowmobiles, her club has never had an issue sharing larger trails with those users.

Active Trails Whitehorse’s Keith Lay also spoke at the meeting, though he wasn’t so in favour of sharing.

One of his major concerns was that currently there are competing rules governing snowmobiles in the city.

“We have a 2007 trail plan that says ATVs and snowmobiles cannot go on non-motorized trails, and one says they can. In this city, no means yes, at least when it comes to snowmobiles,” he said.

He’s also worried that motorized users, especially younger riders, won’t obey the new rules anyway and the city doesn’t have enough bylaw manpower to enforce them.

Chris Locke, the president of the Yukon Cross Country Motorcycle Association, also worries the new rules will have a negative impact. “Now they’ve said basically ‘no kids allowed’ because of licensing. And you look at the access around Riverdale, it’s breeding contempt for motorized trails,” he said in an interview after the meeting.

Locke said he wasn’t surprised that the runners and mountain bikers are asking for a more collaborative approach, because everyone wants the same thing.

Alaska could offer an example to follow, he said, where motorists and non-motorists share the same state parks. There are shared arteries that everyone can use, as well as designated trails for motorized and non-motorized, but they are all in the same area and all equally accessible.

“They were of the same mindset. I was up in Anchorage, and they have a giant sports complex built out of their state park where their largest cross-country ski area is. They have park-and-rides right there. Clearly they’ve got it all sorted,” he said.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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First Nations launch Peel lawsuit Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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irst Nations and environmental groups have sued the Yukon government over its new plan for the Peel watershed.

The details of the legal action were announced at a press conference in Vancouver Monday morning, and the statement of claim was filed in Yukon Supreme Court on Monday afternoon.

Thomas Berger, a pioneering lawyer in the area of Canadian aboriginal rights, will lead the case.

“It’s a lawsuit that nobody wanted to bring,” said Berger at the press conference, “but the Yukon government has forced these plaintiffs to go to court not only in defence of First Nations and environmental values in Yukon, but also to uphold principles entrenched in the Constitution.”

The First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, the Tr’ondek Hwech’in, the Yukon Conservation Society and the Yukon chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society are parties to the suit.

The Yukon government last week implemented a land use plan for the Peel watershed that opens 71 per cent of the area to new staking.

The plan recommended by the Peel planning commission called for 80 percent of the area to be protected from new staking and roads.

“Does that seven years of work and consultation with First Nations and Yukoners mean anything at all?” Berger asked in an interview. “Or was it an interesting exercise that the government of Yukon, at the eleventh hour, can say, ‘No, no, we’re not going to do this?’”

That, he said, is the central question of the lawsuit.

The process for developing land use plans is outlined in the Umbrella Final Agreement signed in 1993 by Yukon First Nations.

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Tr’ondek Hwech’in Chief Eddie Taylor speaks during a news conference in Vancouver on Monday alongside legal team members Margaret Rosling and Thomas Berger.

This case will be a profound test of whether or not the Yukon government is required to live up to its agreements, said Berger.

The plaintiffs argue in their statement of claim that the Yukon government’s new plan amounts to a rejection of the final recommended plan, and does not follow from the process outlined in the treaty.

Premier Darrell Pasloski was not available for an interview this week, but the Yukon government will likely file a statement of defence in the next few weeks.

In it they will likely argue, as they have in the past on this question, that they have followed the word of the agreements with First Nations, and that their plan is merely a modification of that proposed by the planning commission.

But the Yukon government has been recently warned by Canada’s

top court that following agreements in a literal way won’t cut it.

“The treaty will not accomplish its purpose if it is interpreted by territorial officials in an ungenerous manner or as if it were an everyday commercial contract,” wrote Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie in his 2010 decision regarding a land dispute between Yukon and the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation.

“The treaty is as much about building relationships as it is about the settlement of ancient grievances. The future is more important than the past. A canoeist who hopes to make progress faces forwards, not backwards.”

There are fundamental differences between the plan announced by the Yukon government last week and that advanced by the planning commission.

The government’s plan focuses on active management. Rather

than all-out prohibitions on activities, the government insists that development in sensitive areas can be controlled and that landscapes will be returned to a natural state after industrial work is completed.

The planning commission discovered early on that this approach would please no one.

“It would have involved additional expenses and new ways of operating for industry,” wrote the planning commission in the foreward to its final recommended plan. “It would also have required acceptance and reduced expectations from First Nations, wilderness tourism, the environmental community, and from much of the public. They would have to be patient as impacted sites and roadbeds recovered over time through state-of-the-art restoration.

“No one wanted this. Not

industry, not the First Nations, not wilderness businesses, not environmentalists, and apparently, not the Yukon public.”

Indeed, the Yukon government’s plan appears to have few supporters. First Nations and environmental groups say it opens the whole region to development, while industry groups worry that strict environmental conditions will make many projects unprofitable.

It’s up to the courts to decide if the plan is even legal.

The plaintiffs have asked for the court to rule that the planning commission’s recommended plan is binding to the Yukon government.

They will not be asking for a staking ban while the case is before the courts, said Berger.

It will be up to the mining companies to decide if it is worth investing in the area.

“They’ll have to look over their shoulder and decide what’s in their own interest,” said Berger.

“But they have lawyers who can advise them, I’m not going to advise them.”

Ed Champion, the chief of the Nacho Nyak Dun warned that his First Nation will not look favourably on any resource company that seeks to explore the area while the future of the land use plan is uncertain.

Noon-hour protests in support of final recommended plan and the legal action were planned for Wednesday in Yukon and N.W.T. communities including Whitehorse, Mayo, Dawson, Haines Junction, Aklavik, Fort McPherson and Inuvik.

A petition on www.avaaz.org calling for the government to protect the Peel had collected 5,000 signatures in just three days as of Wednesday morning.

The issue has received international attention, including coverage in National Geographic.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Show us the money: chamber to city Jesse Winter

10 years is more like seven per cent.”

Fitzgerald also noted that he Whitehorse Chamber of more than 80 per cent of Commerce wants to know respondents believe the city exactly how the city is spending should present the capital and public money. operations budgets together, At a public input session on something the chamber has the city’s proposed 2014 opera- been critical of throughout this tions budget on Monday night, year’s budgeting process.

Philip Fitzgerald, the chair of The chamber also wants the chamber, outlined some of to see more information on the business community’s con- the money that flows into city cerns with the spending plan. coffers, beyond property taxes, “We surveyed our membersuch as federal transfers and gas ship last week after the city tax money. tabled its budget. Nearly 75 per As well, Fitzgerald said it’s cent believe the city could do important to have a breakdown a better job of communicating on wages, the number of emthe reasons for its continued tax ployees at year end, and exactly increases,” Fitzgerald said. how much is spent on payroll, “The tax increase is 1.7 per which the chamber says is the city’s largest single expense. cent this year, but the aver“Over 85 per cent of our age tax increase over the last News Reporter

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respondents see the need for a budget bylaw that mandates what information is available when council presents its budget over the years … so we can compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges on a yearly basis,” Fitzgerald said.

Mayor Dan Curtis tabled the city’s proposed operations budget earlier this month. It cut an expected 4.5 per cent tax increase down to 1.7 per cent.

On Monday night Curtis compared Whitehorse’s budgeting process with that of larger cities.

“It’s important to do so, because all municipalities have the same struggles. Calgary and Edmonton have proposed 5 and 6 per cent increases respectively.

Out staff is working very hard to keep taxes low,” he said.

Revenue has not kept pace with rising costs, Curtis said.

That’s led the city to kick $1 million in spending down the road.

Of the $68 million operating budget, the council is putting $13 million into the city’s reserves.

That may seem like a lot of money to sock into the piggy bank during a “belt-tightening budget,” but acting city manager Brian Crist explained that number is based on a formula the city uses to maintain a healthy rainy day fund.

“That’s a standard formula that we use. It’s part of a reserve policy that we have, so the $13 million follows a standard format and it’s in place to ensure good fiscal health. It’s just standard practice,” Crist said.

The money doesn’t all go into one place, either. Instead, it will flow into various reserve funds, and be used as a buffer to cover maintenance and other potentially unseen costs.

Some of it will go into the city’s capital reserve, and could eventually be used to fund the city’s plan to consolidate its municipal services into two new buildings. It’s hard to say exactly how much because the total funding for those projects will come from a number of places, likely including federal transfer money, and the details are still being worked out, Crist said.

The city passed its $12.9 million capital budget for 2014 late last year.

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

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Ross River bridge to come down this winter Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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he Yukon government has circumvented assessors in order to fast-track the demolition of the Ross River bridge.

Community Services submitted an application to take down the bridge to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board in late December.

But the proposal was withdrawn last week, because waiting for the board to assess the plan would have jeopardized the department’s ability to take down the bridge this winter, said Jennifer Macgillivray, director of infrastructure development with Community Services.

“In the bridge’s current condition, it poses a serious life and property threat as long as it remains in place.”

The department declared an emergency action for the benefit of public safety and also to ensure that the ferry is able to operate next summer, she said.

The ferry runs on a cable next to the bridge. If the structure fell, it could cause Demolition of the Ross River footbridge will be fast-tracked by the Yukon government. damage to the ferry and harm the people on board.

Under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act, no assessment is required “when it is in the interest of public welfare, health or safety or of protecting property or the environment that the activity be undertaken immediately.”

The department has no complaint with the assessment

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“We value the work of YESAB and we support the mandated timelines the board observes. However, in this instance we need to proceed more quickly in order to safeguard the public.”

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The project will require one or two cranes, boom trucks and temporary scaffolding, all supported by the Pelly River ice, according to the nowwithdrawn YESAB proposal.

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An engineer assessed the 70-year old footbridge in the fall and found it to be as risk of imminent collapse.

The government later hired a second engineer to look at the costs for repair and replacement options, under pressure from the Ross River community.

But those options were found to be too expensive and too temporary, according to the YESAB proposal.

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Her petition has about 75 names so far, and she said hen it comes to childcare every daycare she visits is supworker qualifications portive of her push. in the territory, it seems that But there is only so much experience counts for little. that childcare services can do At least that’s how Stephanie because most of the regulaJoyeux sees it. She works with tions are laid out in the Child children at a local daycare, and Care Act, explained Brad Bell, has more than six years experithe manager of early childhood ence as a level three childcare development. worker – the highest level there “The educational requireis. ments comes in under the But because her education legislation, and that’s what we isn’t from a certified Early recognize,” Bell said.

Childhood Development proThe government only sets gram, she has to jump through the minimum education rehoops every year to maintain quirements to work in the field, her qualifications and her pay Bell said. Its up to the employer scale. to decide how it wants to rec“When I first started workognize relevant work experiing in the Yukon, I was told to, ence.

‘Get ready, you’re going to be “Research has actually jumping through hoops. All drawn a link between having I’ve been doing is jump, jump, trained staff in terms of quality jump,” she said. programs. We really don’t get Jesse Winter/Yukon News into somebody’s experience.

Her frustration isn’t with the fact that she has to take cours- Stephanie Joyeux wants to see the Yukon recognize worker experience when evaluating We’re really not qualified to es. She would happily do them childcare worker qualifications. assess somebody’s work experiif she thought it was helping ence or skills,” Bell said. ing and being paid at that level. employer took that as a loss. It much stuff you already know. her improve as a childcare There are three main levels meant less money for the kids, and two sub-levels of qualifica“People don’t really feel that Neither she nor her employer worker, but because of territorial regulations, the classes she you’re learning anything to do noticed when her level expired, and I felt really bad.” tion that a childcare worker Joyeux ended up being able but a daycare inspector caught those classes. It’s not like prohas to take are redundant, she can achieve, based on the to simply challenge the exam in number of coursework hours it. fessional development where said. the class, and once she passed The Yukon government you’re learning new informaGraduates of an ECD procompleted. Only the full level it, her subsidy was reinstated. gives a $9 per hour subsidy tion that comes out every year,” gram don’t have to take yearly three granted to someone withShe asked if the territory would out an ECD diploma requires a to daycare operators to help she said. courses, regardless of their also pay back the lost wages encourage them to hire level Joyeux said it’s particularly work experience or specializayearly update. and subsidies, but the governthree workers. When Joyeux’s frustrating for her because tion.

Workers like Joyeux are able ment said no. level expired, the government her background is in special The extra hassle for people to apply to programs at acAt first, the child care sercut the subsidy to her employer education. She’s qualified to with related backgrounds like credited institutions like Yukon vices unit told Joyeux she could College to have their past eduwork with children with special until she had recertified.

Joyeux is likely keeping good She lost $2,000 in wages and appeal the decision, but was needs, and has done so for workers out of the profession, cational experience credited then told the appeals process her employer lost $5,000 in years. In Quebec, she worked she said. towards ECD program requireno longer exists. subsidies.

“I’ve been going around and with developmentally chalments, Bell said.

She tried to set up meetings “If your level expires, they lenged children and managed a meeting people who have a Requiring one ECD course with the department but got cut the subsidies. Because I daycare. But all of that counts bachelor of education. That is per year is a way of encouragnowhere. still not recognized. The classes for very little in the Yukon, she had already been paid as a ing workers to complete the Frustrated, she started a level three, my options were they ask you to go do, if you’ve said. training, Bell said. petition to ask the government to reimburse my employer or, When Joyeux’s level three been working in the field for Contact Jesse Winter at to take work experience into expired last year, she was work- what actually happened, my 10, 15 or 20 years, it’s pretty jessew@yukon-news.com Jesse Winter News Reporter

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economic Assessment Board, First Nation land departments, Environment Yukon he Yukon Conservation and the territory’s oil and gas Society has invited a hy- branch have all confirmed drogeologist to come to the that they will participate, said Yukon to speak about how Jones. fracking could impact the The goal of the workshop territory’s water. will be to come to a comGilles Wendling runs an mon understanding on what environmental consulting is known, what is unknown company that specializes in and what needs to be known assessing water resources and about Yukon’s water resourcdetermining the risk that es before fracking should be development projects pose to allowed in the territory, he them. said.

He will deliver a public We currently know very presentation at 7 p.m. Thurs- little, and monitoring proday at the Kwanlin Dun grams are inadequate, said Cultural Centre.

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He will also lead a techniFracking, or hydraulic cal workshop during the day fracturing, is a controversial for regulators and policymethod of extracting natumakers, said Sebastian Jones, ral gas from tight shale rock energy co-ordinator for the deposits deep underground.

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Both of these scenarios are bad, said Jones. You don’t want to lose surface water for obvious reasons, and subsurface water is often salty and has the potential to be naturally radioactive.

Wendling will also present to the Yukon Legislative Assembly’s committee on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing while he is here.

That committee must present a report to the assembly this spring with recommendations on whether fracking should be allowed in

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Police are investigating a suspiArnold Johnson, 57, was cious vehicle fire from early anything until you have done to get personal information. working for an independent Monday morning.

Yukon RCMP say the fraud- your homework and checked contractor rounding up wild The Whitehorse RCMP and ster on the phone will claim the credentials of the company horses near Kusawa Lake on fire department were called to they have found errors on a that you are dealing with.

Sunday, said government Diamond Way in Copper Ridge person’s computer.

• Never send money, or give spokesperson Ron Billingham. at approximately 4:45 a.m.

“The caller attempts to credit card or online account They found a 2012 Ford He died Monday at Whiteobtain personal information or details, to anyone you do not F350 pickup truck fully enhorse General Hospital. attempts to convince the recipi- know or trust. gulfed in flames.

The Yukon Workers’ Coment to purchase programs that If you have received calls or Police have classified the fire will repair the errors,” police pensation Health and Safety messages that you think might as suspicious and are investiBoard said Johnson became said in a statement. be a scam, you can call the local gating. tangled up with a horse and Police offer these guidelines RCMP or contact the Canadian Anyone with information was seriously injured. to help avoid falling victim to Anti-Fraud Centre at www. is asked to call the Whitehorse The investigation is still in such scams: antifraudcentre-centreantiRCMP Detachment at 867-667its early stages and few details • Always get independent ad- fraude.ca or by calling 1-8885551. are being released, said spokesvice if an offer involves money, 495-8501.

(Ashley Joanou) person Richard Mostyn. More personal information, time or (Ashley Joannou) information will likely be availcommitment. able soon, he said.

• There are no guaranteed Police warn of phone scam Worker killed Coroner Kirsten Macdonald get-rich-quick schemes – somerounding up horses times the only people who said Johnson’s body has been Police are warning Yukoners make money are the scammers. about a scam involving people sent for an autopsy and toxicol• Do not hand over money or The territory’s occupational claiming to work for a computogy report. health and safety officials are personal information, or sign er repair service in an attempt (Ashley Joannou)

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It will host two days of public proceedings on January 31 and February 1.

Experts, industry representatives and regulators will be present, and there will be an opportunity for committee members to ask questions.

Members of the public will be allowed to submit questions in writing, which will be answered if time permits.

The proceedings will take place in the legislative assembly from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The hearings will be broadcast on 93.5 FM and will be streamed from the legislative assembly’s website. Videos and transcripts will later be made available online as well.

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Thin ice spurs route change in Yukon Quest Tom Patrick

Yesterday was the second day in a row Quest officials announced course changes for the 1,600-kilometre sled dog race between Fairhis year’s Yukon Quest will banks, Alaska and Whitehorse. be a different experience for For the second consecutive year mushers and spectators alike. teams will bypass American SumUnseasonably warm weather mit, the shortest of four mountains over the past week on both sides of the border has prompted major on the Quest route at 1,042 metres.

Racers will instead follow the changes to the course.

Yukon River between Eagle, Alaska, Both the start and finish lines and Dawson City, the race’s halfhave been moved, the Quest anway point. nounced late Tuesday night.

“The only reason why we’d take “It’s no secret to the public how that peak off is because of impaswarm the weather has been and sible conditions,” said Belanger. “If how difficult it is for any outdoor it’s precarious or dangerous for the activities, but for mushing on a teams, that’s the only reason why river, it was just too dangerous,” said Quest executive director Marie we’d make changes to the trail.

“The Alaskan trail-breakers Belanger.

The Quest will start on Second went up there, just like last year, and it was very difficult, if not Avenue in downtown Fairbanks, impossible, to pass with snowa couple blocks from the original machines. So we can suspect dog start on Chena River. Warmerteams are going to struggle.” than-usual temperatures have By circumnavigating American thinned the river’s ice, which has Summit, the route to Whitehorse been deemed unsafe for mushing will be shortened by about 80 teams and the 3,000 spectators kilometres. expected to witness the start.

The year’s race will feature the Whitehorse spectators will have much farther to go to view the end smallest field of teams in Quest of the race. This year the finish line history, with only 21 registered, including five Canadians. will be at Takhini Hot Springs off Whitehorse’s Normand Casathe Northern Klondike Highway, vant, Yukon’s top finisher in last shaving about 30 kilometres off year’s Quest, and Dawson City’s the length of the race. The Yukon Brian Wilmshurst and Jean-Denis River, used in the final stretch of the race in prior years, is also con- Britten are the only Yukoners in this year’s Quest. sidered unsafe for dog sled teams.

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OMMENTARY The government’s Peel plan promises what it cannot deliver David Loeks

deliver. It claims to preserve the Peel’s wilderness character by placing 44 per cent of the land in “Restricted Use ivisive, dishonest, and likely Wilderness” areas, and 29 per cent in illegal.

Strong words for the Yukon Protected Areas. It even introduces a brand new Wild Rivers Park status for government’s alternative plan for the the Hart, Wind, Bonnet Plume, Snake Peel Watershed, and richly deserved. and Peel Rivers.

Its divisiveness is self-evident, Sounds good, but the reality is difflying in the face of the First Nations governments, and ignoring the clearly ferent. Yukoners told the commission that they understand “wilderness” to expressed wishes of most Yukoners. be big, undeveloped, and roadless, and By rejecting the final recommended a “Protected Area” to be wilderness plan written by the Peel Watershed that has legal certainty to stay that way.

Planning Commission, the Yukon In the Yukon government’s “plan”, government came out solidly on the Restricted Use Wilderness Areas are side of elitism and anti-democratic devoted to development – exploration, governance.

The people in the cabinet in effect mines, roads. Worse, the Protected Areas can accept all season access claim that they understand what is roads anywhere. Since surface access good for the public better than the is promised to all mining claims, the public does. How cabinet became “Wild Rivers Parks” will have to have gifted with such insight is not clear. roads in them too. There is no other The commission, on the other hand, relied on seven years of research, open way to get roads to mining claims east of the Wind River. processes, and public input to detect Because roads are the nub of the the common interest.

“Dishonest” comes clear on exam- issue, wilderness protection drops ining the fine print. The government’s from 80 per cent in the commission’s plan to precisely zero in the govern“plan” promises what it does not

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ment’s version. Zero.

Finally, “likely illegal.” The First Nations announced Monday that they must take the Yukon government to court to defend the integrity of the land claims settlement agreements. This is serious litigation and the Yukon government’s cabinet was warned about this for the past 24 months.

Thanks to these agreements, we’ve enjoyed social and economic stability in the Yukon for 20 years. Who would knowingly risk this? Especially since there is no economic need to open the Peel at this time? The Yukon has had full employment and a booming economy without industry active in the Peel watershed.

The commission’s plan is recog-

nized by most Yukoners as a fair and balanced compromise that preserves all future options, even for development. Why provoke a lawsuit now?

That sound you hear might be that of corporate briefcases slamming shut.

Way to go, fellas.

David Loeks is the former chair of the Peel Watershe d Planning Commission.

Time for an overhaul of our regulatory system Samson Hartland

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he Yukon Chamber of Mines was very disappointed to learn of the 44 jobs lost by employees of Pelly Construction.

Pelly Construction, the Byram family, and their employees are all part of the Yukon. We can all be proud of the contributions that they have made to improve the social fabric of the territory with their support of the Yukon Hospital Foundation, Mount Sima and many other causes and charities that are too numerous to mention.

It is uncertain how large a role permitting delays in Minto mine’s expansion played in the layoffs. The Yukon Chamber of Mines would like to take this opportunity to highlight the fact that there are serious deficiencies in our current permitting system.

The timelines and costs to successfully permit mineral exploration

and mining activities in Yukon have increased significantly, and this is resulting in direct and indirect job losses and a lowering of the competitiveness of Yukon as a place to invest.

An efficient, timely and fair permitting process is in the best interests of all Yukoners. The chamber of mines is not advocating a less stringent permitting system, regulations, or environmental and social economic reviews of projects, but we are advocating for an improved and more efficient and streamlined environmental assessment and permitting process.

Projects such as Capstone’s Minto mine and Alexco’s Keno Hill silver district have been through the YESAA process numerous times for various mine plan changes. These projects are adding resources that are very similar in nature and proximal to those already permitted.

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timelines and costs for operating mines, but this unfortunately has not been the case, as the current environmental assessment process requires these projects to essentially start all over again for routine mine plan expansions.

Alexco has recently submitted a project proposal for the Flame and Moth deposit, an underground mine that sits directly below the already permitted and built Keno District Mill. This assessment will represent the ninth time Alexco has gone through the YESAA process since 2006.

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There must be a solution to create a more efficient, fair and timely permitting and environmental and socio-economic review process in Yukon. It will take the co-operation of the Yukon government, federal government and Yukon First Nations

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The Yukon Chamber of Mines, its partners and members are proud to represent a modern, responsible mining industry whose goal is to generate a vibrant economy with the least amount of impact on the environment for the benefit of all Yukoners, First Nations, and Canadians.

Samson Hartland is executive director of the Yukon Chamber of Mines.

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You are your data

by Keith Halliday

YUKONOMIST A

s we begin a new year, it’s worth taking a step back and considering where we are in history’s big picture.

The industrial revolution had been going on for decades before someone got around to labelling it with a snappy name (it was Arnold Toynbee in case you’re asking). Sure, people realized there were a lot more steam engines and textile factories around, but they probably didn’t realize that school children two centuries later would be learning that they were living through a gamechanging event.

I’ll go out on the pundit’s New Year’s prediction limb and say that we too are living in a period that future schoolchildren will flip through as quickly as possible in their textbooks. If the robot schoolteachers monitoring their eyeball movements and page flipping metadata permit it, of

course.

I am going to write a series of three columns about the potentially tectonic technological change we are living through, and their economic implications. This one will be about you and your data. The next two will be about robots and mobile technology.

Most of our ancestors went through their lives with an amazingly small amount of information written down about them.

As recently as 150 years ago, some of our ancestors lived in societies without writing. Even most people from so-called advanced countries had little more than a brief entry in the parish register recording birth, marriage and death. Maybe there were a few mentions in court record or tax rolls. All the data from Canada’s first census would probably fit on my iPod. I recently participated in National Geographic’s human genographic project. As I downloaded my DNA into Excel (more about that later), I tried to list all the places that had data on me.

There is probably more data on me than all the previous Hallidays combined: tax records, medical files, credit histories, emails, texts, browser cookie records, credit card bills, cellphone roaming, embarrassing YouTube uploads, a dozen shop loyalty schemes and

Karen Walker Whitehorse

The Peel is a jewel To the opportunist puppets: I am tired of hearing the same lines from our community “big boys.” There is no transparency and mostly no integrity, all in the name of big bucks and keeping the status quo for those in power – that is, oil and gas corporations,

factors.

There could be amazing health benefits to all this. There could also be disturbingly creepy downsides. Will future mother-in-laws demand genetic testing in prenuptial agreements? Will future employers and insurance companies mine your data for genes linked to laziness and unprofitably premature heart attacks?

It gets worse, or better, depending on your point of view.

We are also beginning to leave increasingly big psychographic data footprints. The radio show Planet Money recently highlighted a trend in employment tests.

The old resume-and-interview method of finding employees has been notorious forever for how haphazardly it puts people in jobs.

So now they make applicants take batteries of tests with questions like, “Which word better characterizes you: ‘consistent’ or ‘witty?’”

While this may seem pointless, the way people answer these questions – and even how long they take to answer the questions and whether they go back and change their answers – can have an amazingly powerful predictive effect on whether people will be good at certain jobs. These questions can have even more predictive power than typical resume questions around education and experience.

Again, there is good and bad to

LETTERS

New meaning to ‘approved’ Recent taxpayer-funded newspaper ads begin with this carefully crafted statement: “The Yukon government has approved a land use plan for public lands within the Peel Watershed Region.” I draw your attention to the verb “approved,” which the Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines as “confirm; declare acceptable.”

What exactly has the government confirmed or declared acceptable? Oh, yeah, its own plan, developed behind closed doors and in near-total disregard for the democratic process and public opinion. How nice to be able to “approve” your own plan! More truthful wording would have been “announced,” “declared,” “imposed,” or even “rammed down our throats.”

On the other hand, had the government accepted the severalyears-in-the-making, democratically-developed Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Commission’s plan, it could have justifiably and proudly used the verb “approved.”

so on.

Twenty years ago it would have been impossible to sequence my DNA. Five years ago it would have cost millions of dollars. This year National Geographic did it for me for $149. They matched my DNA with samples from 650,000 other participants and told me some amazing stuff. It turns out I am quite similar to most people of British ancestry, with lots of Viking, Mediterranean and even a dollop of Middle Eastern gene markers. More amazing, they know the path my DNA took since it left Africa.

On my mother’s side, the ancestors left Africa around 70,000 years ago. About 2,500 generations ago, the ancestors left their friends somewhere around Iran and headed north into central Asia. Apparently my 2,500th cousins are still there. Then around 10,000 years ago, give or take a few millennia, they walked across the Beringian landbridge into North America before settling down in Eastern Canada and meeting some nice FrenchCanadian DNA. If they know this much about me, how much else can they figure out? A company called 23andMe, run by the wife of one of Google’s founders, offers DNA tests that provide information on inherited traits and genetic risk

big pharmaceuticals, avaricious water thieves, to name a few.

(They’re all related anyways.)

Often lately, I’m ashamed of being human.

I have yet to witness something different than hypocrisy in our present Yukon “leaders,” or should I say followers. I keep hoping that someday, someone will actually inspire me – a real leader who is not afraid to stand up for what is right in the big scheme of things.

Are there no leaders anywhere amongst us?

Is no one capable of using creativity and thinking outside the box? There are numerous prosperous economic ventures possible in this era without having to keep the status quo.

I implore: respect your commitment to the Yukon people and implement the final recommendations of the Peel! Let’s not let this planetary jewel of rare wilderness become anything less than what it is.

Hoping this reaches heart wisdom, anyone?

Rachelle Dufour Whitehorse

Listen to the people When more than 7,500 Canadians have said that they want the Peel planning commission’s final recommended plan adopted, how come the Yukon government is going against the wishes of the

this. It saves a call centre a lot of money not hiring people who are bad at the job or hate it so much they quit. The applicants are also more likely to end up in jobs they are good at. The idea that a computer model will decide which job you get is vaguely troubling, even if the model is more finely tuned than the “Choices” software that the F.H. Collins high school counsellor’s office had in the 1980s.

It is hard to estimate the economic impact of this tsunami of data. Preventing illness and matching the right people with the right jobs would eliminate truly vast amounts of lost productivity. But the economic impact pales in front of the social implications, which amount to a world that is unrecognizable in many ways from the one we knew a few decades ago.

At what point do you stop being “you” and become a cloud of data that algorithms are constantly assessing to predict what you’ll buy, who you’ll marry, where you’ll work and what you’ll die of?

And that’s even before we get to our next topics of robots and mobile technology.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels.

You can follow him on Channel 9’s Yukonomist show or Twitter @hallidaykeith

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

Open letter to Whitehorse Mayor and Council: Stop using the gas tax rebate as your private slush fund for eco-nut projects. The latest was spending our gas tax rebate to make compost rot faster. Stop that sort of frivolous spending.

The gas tax rebate is intended to be used to improve transportation infrastructure so we use less petroleum, not to make compost rot faster. Got it?

Use the gas tax rebate money to make public transit cheaper.

Use it to subsidize free transit during peak traffic periods.

Use it sensibly, don’t fritter it away on your latest green fad project.

Especially when you continue to raise our taxes to finance this sort of financial mismanagement.

Open letter to the Yukon government: As a Canadian, my heart sunk when I heard you had decided to spit on the best advice of the Peel watershed commission and recklessly barge ahead with still more destructive industrial development in your wonderful territory.

Just how much development is enough development for you, anyway?

If I understand correctly, even the commission’s own recommendations would have allowed for substantial development as it was. But that apparently is not enough.

You invertebrates who seem to frequent the halls of power in Whitehorse obviously want it all.

So, instead of acting on behalf of the people, you’ve chosen to leave a legacy of greed and destruction of our wild places in your wake.

I hope you sleep well tonight!

The Yukon government’s plan for the Peel River watershed released last week is a radical departure from the thoughtfully crafted final plan of the Peel planning commission.

The Yukon Party has failed to heed the explicit (and vocal) voice of the overwhelming majority of Yukoners. Sadly the Yukon Party has missed a golden opportunity to be applauded locally, nationally and internationally had it adopted the far-sighted planning commission recommendations in its final report.

Instead, the Yukon Party, I believe, has created uncertainty for mining and resource extraction industries and a future of litigation and acrimony for Yukoners.

I do appreciate the value of mining, wilderness tourism and land use planning. I have worked in open pit and underground mines (five years), land use and park planning (seven years), wilderness tourism (nine summers) and post-secondary trades education (22 years).

I believe the planning commission’s recommended plan provided a beacon and a model for how to both develop and protect the Peel River watershed region in a precautionary, far-sighted fashion. It left options open for future generations.

I am deeply saddened and disappointed with the Yukon Party’s decision to disregard the commission’s plan. The party has proverbially shot itself in the foot.

M.J. Peltier Whitehorse

Larry Powell Neepawa, Manitoba

Jim Gilpin Whitehorse

people and are voting for leaving 71 per cent of the Peel watershed open to industrial development?

Who are these people in the Yukon government that don’t know how to protect their own land, and how did they get into power?

Fiona Old White Rock, B.C.

Spend the gas tax rebate as it was intended

Play fair I think Darrell and all the little boys and girls in his gang should be sent to their rooms and not allowed out until they promise to play fair.

Pete Beattie Whitehorse

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Internet improvements needed but costly: report Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ithout better Internet connectivity, the North will suffer.

That’s according to a panterritorial report released last week.

The report, Northern Connectivity: Ensuring Quality Communications, was completed by a pan-territorial group led by Yukon’s Economic Development Department.

“In the Canadian Arctic, accessible, reliable and affordable communication services are seen as a foundation for northerners to meet many of the socio-economic challenges

they face, enabled by networks capable of handling 21st century applications,” the report says.

“There is much documented evidence showing the telecommunications infrastructure serving Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut has not kept pace with services available in many large Canadian cities.”

The report predicts that if things are not changed, things could get worse.

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lead Canada in GDP growth through increased development – development that benefits Canada, but may not benefit northerners without strategic investments in the communications infrastructure.”

The report recommends that transfer speeds be improved to a minimum average target of 9 Mbps for downloads and 1.5 Mbps for uploads.

“This target should be achieved by 2019 in order to meet projected consumer, business and government needs, while recognizing the constraints posed by the backbone infrastructure.”

According to the Yukon’s Economic Development Department, the only communities in Whitehorse that meet those standards currently are Whitehorse and Carcross.

But the cost of doing that is not cheap.

The report looks at costs as well as what kind of government subsidy “may be required to provide an operator with a reasonable business case for deploying and providing affordable service.”

If you combine the three territories, the costs for a network upgrade range from $622.68 million to $2.2 billion, depending on which option is chosen.

When it comes to who will pay for these upgrades, the report notes that financial

resources inside the territories would not likely be enough to pay for the recommended network upgrades. “Some outside funding of an initial capital investment would be necessary,” it says.

In countries like Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., where broadband expansion has been successful, that money usually comes from the federal government.

Improvements to reliability, availability and service quality are also recommended.

Improvements to the Internet would spur economic growth, create jobs and produce consumer savings, the report says.

“Without improved broadband connectivity in the North, the three territories may lose potential growth and their ranking relative to other economies worldwide that are experiencing these positive impacts,” the report says.

“As a result, the North might lose its competitive advantage in the global market, experience losses in jobs (migration of workers) and a decrease in quality of life.”

Better broadband connectivity would make rural communities more attractive to businesses.

“As reports from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the National Aboriginal

Economic Development Board conclude, current infrastructure deficits are serious impediments to economic activity, adding to the costs of doing business and increasing the logistical challenges to development in the area,” the report says.

It also notes that better Internet means better education opportunities.

It even goes as far as suggesting that better Internet would mean better healthcare.

“Average per capita healthcare expenditure (2012 estimates) are much higher in the territories: Yukon ($8,916), Northwest Territories ($9,853) and Nunavut ($13,250) than the Canadian average $5,948.

Similarly, the portion of GDP spent on healthcare is higher in the territories,” it says.

“Broadband connectivity – when combined with e-health technology – can play a large role in bringing these costs down for the territories and closer to the national average.”

First responders in emergencies also need fast, reliable communications to be effective, the report says.

No official for NorthwesTel was available for an interview in time for today’s deadline. In a written statement, company spokesperson Eric Clements said: “ The report raises many valid points about connectivity in the North.

“NorthwesTel has taken steps to address a large majority of them. In 2013, Northwestel’s $233 million modernization plan proposed a comprehensive strategy to address many concerns around speed and transport. Last year, we began implementing that plan and have proven our commitment to providing broadband speed that is faster than the minimum target set by the CRTC and NCIS report.

Over the next several years, NorthwesTel will continue to roll out high-speed packages across the North, which will further enable programs such as tele-health and e-learning.”

The entire 156-page report is available online at www.northernconnectivity.ca.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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SELECT COMMITTEE REGARDING THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS The Select Committee Regarding the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing was established by Order of the Legislative Assembly on May 6, 2013 (Motion #433).

The Committee will be holding public proceedings January 31 and February 1 in the Legislative Assembly Chamber, located in Whitehorse in the Yukon Government Main Administration Building at 2071 2nd Avenue.

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The Peel Watershed A balanced plan for Yukon

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pan-northern business crowd gathered around a dripping ice sculpture at the High Country Inn on Thursday for the Frozen Globe Awards.

It was the second year of the event, created by Up Here Business magazine, celebrating businesses across the North, large and small.

A jury of luminaries including former N.W.T. premier Joe Handley, former Yukon MP Larry Bagnell, and former Toronto Star publisher John A. Honderich, made the final decisions on who would be named the masters of northern mercantilism.

Yukon Brewing was named Yukon Entreprenuer of the Year, for a business under 100 employees.

“We were pretty surprised, we had no idea,” said Bob Baxter of Yukon Brewing. “I look at it as a feather in the cap of all the people that work here. You go to work everyday, slaving away, and you wonder if anyone notices. It nice to know you’re not working in a vacuum.”

Aasman Brand Communications was named Most Innovative Business.

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A land use plan for public lands in the Peel Watershed region. present

The Yukon government has approved a land use plan for public lands within the Peel Watershed Region.

Mineral exploration, outfitting, wilderness tourism and recreation, and First Nation traditional uses have co-existed in this region for decades. It is still considered one of the most pristine areas of Yukon.

This land use plan will ensure this successful co-existence continues. It balances economic opportunity and job creation with protection of key wilderness areas.

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Bob Baxter accepted the Frozen Globe Award for Yukon Entrepreneur of the Year on behalf of Yukon Brewing last week.

said the Whitehorse-based company has been at the forefront in applying responsive design to web-based projects, including the Yukon News’ new website.

“Responsive design is not a new idea, but it hadn’t really caught on in the North,” said Bradbury. “That website is one of the first major responsive websites in the North.”

Responsive design is a way to build websites so they work well across different platforms, such as desktop, tablet, or smartphone.

Bradbury also said the company has embraced nontraditional campaign methods to get a client’s message out.

Five years ago, the company made a major shift in philosophy, even changing their name its Aasman Design Inc. to Aasman Brand Communications, emphasizing its

bigger-picture communications approach, rather than simply making logos.

Canoe North Adventures, an guiding company that has led trips across the North, and is most recently based in Norman Wells, N.W.T., won the top prize, Northern Entrepreneur of the Year.

EBA Engineering, with offices in Whitehorse and Yellowknife, among other places, was named Top Large Business.

Northern Vision Development won the Best Marketed Business award.

Iqaluit’s Arctic Circle Dental Services won the People’s Choice Award, decided by online voting.

A complete list of winners and finalists can be found at frozenglobes.ca.

Contact Ian Stewart at istewart@yukon-news.com

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Lori Garrison looks to news stories as a jumping-off point for her year-long poetry project entitled Today, In The News.

Ashley Joannou

be that way, she said.

Choosing the day’s news story is often a balancing act between finding oetry as an art form predates what is most important and what is literacy. most entertaining.

In many ancient cultures, In last week’s Wednesday edition the poem was used as a way to of the News, Garrison found two maintain oral history and transport it contenders. It came down to the Peel across long distances.

River watershed versus prehistoric Lori Garrison is not exactly a reptiles. medieval minstrel when she sits in The Yukon government had a downtown coffee shop flipping released its final plan for the Peel through the latest copy of the Yukon watershed under threat of legal action News. from First Nations – a threat that has But the Whitehorse poet is using since come to fruition. her own talent to share the day’s most Deeper in the paper is a story newsworthy events. about ancient fossils found in the Each day the 27-year-old wakes territory. up and searches through her online “The Peel is pretty important. But newsfeed of local, national and inter- the dinosaurs are pretty freaking awenational news. some,” Garrison said.

After picking a news story she A former freelancer for the Otgives herself 90 minutes to create a tawa Citizen, Garrison came to the poem and post it online.

Yukon from Ontario in May. She has If all goes as planned, by the end of a degree in English literature and also 2014 she’ll have created one for every went to journalism school. day of the year.

That means she looks at newspaGarrison says the way people read pers differently, she said, from the way poetry has changed. the page is laid out, to how a story is “It’s gotten this rap for being the written.

‘I’m so sad and I love you’ medium,” It also means she knows the imshe said. portance of people being engaged in “This touchy-feely, little black the news around them. beret, hipster bongo medium, when “What happens in the world haporiginally it was a medium for talking pens to you. I think a lot of people about what’s happening in the world.” watch a lot of cat videos. There’s too many cat videos,” she said.

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people to become more aware.

“I think a lot of people really miss reading the hard copy. Either that or they don’t read the news anymore, they read whatever Viral Nova is posting, whatever random YouTube clip happens to pop up.”

Most of her news comes from online sources. That allows her to include poetry based on news from both national and international sources.

Getting a hard copy of a newspaper in the North can be pricey.

National newspapers are often twice as expensive as they are in Ontario, and sometimes a day old.

Aside from connecting the two things she cares about, Garrison said the project is also a discipline exercise.

“It’s really easy just to say, ‘I’ll make time to write later, I’ll make time to write later, I’ll do that tomorrow.’ But when you have to do it and you have to write at a certain time every day then you train you brain to be creative, even when you don’t want to be,” she said.

In the end, after going through that copy of the News, it’s the story on the watershed that wins the day and the article becomes the poem The Concern of the Butcher (see sidebar).

Garrison’s daily work can be found at: todayinthenewsproject.tumblr. com Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

The Concern of the Butcher A slit throat and a hanging tongue, the hot smell of smoke from the gun, smoke and blood, the beast can now be strung up by the gambrels, dressed out, purple and blue as strange fruit, carefully plucked, spilled guts, you must keep everything tidy wear rubber gloves, a mess means the odour of shit detectable to even the most untrained nose, and now the splitting, neat as cellular division, replicating mitochondria, the victim drawn and quartered into primary, secondary cuts divided, portioned-out and placed in the display case, now the bidding starts, who will take loin and chops? roundhouse, porter house, t-bone, ground chuck? Four-hundred kilometres on the Hart? The bend of the Bonnet, sole claim to Snake River? Don’t be shy boys, pull the credit cards out this is prime tenderloin, free range organic, worth every coin, we sell a premium product for a premium price, that’s the concern of the butcher.

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Pete Seeger, iconic folk singer and activist, dies at 94 Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “Where Have All the Associated Press Flowers Gone” and “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.” He lent ALBANY, N.Y. his voice against Hitler and uoyed by his characteristi- nuclear power. A cheerful warcally soaring spirit, the rior, he typically delivered his surging crowd around him broadsides with an affable air and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger and his fingers poised over the walked through the streets of strings of his banjo.

Manhattan leading an Occupy In 2011, the canes kept Wall Street protest in 2011.

Seeger from carrying his Though he would later adbeloved instrument while mit the attention embarrassed he walked more than three him, the moment brought back kilometres with hundreds of many feelings and memories protesters swirling around him as he instructed yet another holding signs and guitars. With generation of young people a simple gesture – extending how to effect change through his friendship – Seeger gave the song and determination – as protesters and even their ophe had done over the last seven ponents a moment of brotherdecades as a history-sifting hood the short-lived Occupy singer and ever-so-gentle movement sorely needed. rabble-rouser.

When a policeman ap“Be wary of great leaders,” proached, Tao Rodriguezhe told The Associated Press Seeger said at the time he two days after the march. feared his grandfather would “Hope that there are many, be hassled. many small leaders.”

“He reached out and shook The banjo-picking troubamy hand and said, ‘Thank dour who sang for migrant you, thank you, this is beautiworkers, college students and ful,”’ Rodriguez-Seeger said. star-struck presidents in a “That really did it for me. career that introduced genera- The cops recognized what we tions of Americans to their folk were about. They wanted to music heritage died Monday at help our march. They actually the age of 94. Seeger’s grandwanted to protect our march son, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, because they saw something said his grandfather died beautiful. It’s very hard to be peacefully in his sleep around anti-something beautiful.”

9:30 p.m. at New York-PresThat was a message Seeger byterian Hospital, where he spread his entire life. had been for six days. Family With The Weavers, a quarmembers were with him. tet organized in 1948, Seeger “He was chopping wood helped set the stage for a na10 days ago,” Cahill-Jackson tional folk revival. The group recalled.

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“Every kid who ever sat around a campfire singing an old song is indebted in some way to Pete Seeger,” Arlo Guthrie once said.

His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil rights to the cleanup

of his beloved Hudson River.

Seeger said he left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced it. But the association dogged him for years.

He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: “I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have

known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.”

He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal.

Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high point of his career. He was on the road touring college campuses, spreading the music he, Guthrie, Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter and others had created or preserved.

“The most important job I did was go from college to college to college to college, one after the other, usually small ones,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “And I showed the kids there’s a lot of great music in this country they never played on the radio.”

His scheduled return to commercial network television on the highly rated Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam protest song, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” and Seeger accused the network of censorship.

He finally got to sing it five months later in a stirring return appearance, although one station, in Detroit, cut the song’s last stanza: “Now every time I read the papers/ That old feelin’ comes on/ We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy/

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Seeger’s output included dozens of albums and single records for adults and children.

He appeared in the movies “To Hear My Banjo Play” in 1946 and “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon” in 1970. A reunion concert of the original Weavers in 1980 was filmed as a documentary titled “Wasn’t That a Time.”

By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honours.

Official Washington sang along – the audience must sing was the rule at a Seeger concert – when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994.

President Bill Clinton hailed him as “an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them.”

Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early influence. Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honoured him with “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions,” a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by Seeger.

While pleased with the album, Seeger said he wished it was “more serious.” A 2009 concert at Madison Square Garden to mark Seeger’s 90th birthday featured Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder and Emmylou Harris among the performers.

Seeger was a 2014 Grammy

Awards nominee in the Best Spoken Word category, which Stephen Colbert won.

Seeger’s sometimes ambivalent relationship with rock was most famously on display when Dylan “went electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Witnesses say Seeger became furious backstage as the amped-up band played, though just how furious is debated.

Seeger dismissed the legendary tale that he looked for an axe to cut Dylan’s sound cable, and said his objection was not to the type of music but only that the guitar mix was so loud you couldn’t hear Dylan’s words.

Seeger maintained his reedy 6-foot-2 frame into old age, though he wore a hearing aid and conceded that his voice was pretty much shot. He relied on his audiences to make up for his diminished voice, feeding his listeners the lines and letting them sing out.

“I can’t sing much,” he said.

“I used to sing high and low.

Now I have a growl somewhere in between.”

Nonetheless, in 1997 he won a Grammy for best traditional folk album, “Pete.”

Seeger was born in New York City on May 3, 1919, into an artistic family whose roots traced to religious dissenters of colonial America. His mother, Constance, played violin and taught; his father, Charles, a musicologist, was a consultant to the Resettlement Adminis-

tration, which gave artists work during the Depression. His uncle Alan Seeger, the poet, wrote “I Have a Rendezvous With Death.”

Pete Seeger said he fell in love with folk music when he was 16, at a music festival in North Carolina in 1935. His half brother, Mike Seeger, and half sister, Peggy Seeger, also became noted performers.

He learned the five-string banjo, an instrument he rescued from obscurity and played the rest of his life in a long-necked version of his own design. On the skin of Seeger’s banjo was the phrase, “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender” – a nod to his old pal Guthrie, who emblazoned his guitar with “This machine kills fascists.”

Dropping out of Harvard in 1938 after two years as a disillusioned sociology major, he hit the road, picking up folk tunes as he hitchhiked or hopped freights.

“The sociology professor said, ‘Don’t think that you can change the world. The only thing you can do is study it,”’ Seeger said in October 2011.

In 1940, with Guthrie and others, he was part of the Almanac Singers and performed benefits for disaster relief and other causes.

He and Guthrie also toured migrant camps and union halls. He sang on overseas radio broadcasts for the Office of War Information early in

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World War II. In the Army, he spent 3 1/2 years in Special Services, entertaining soldiers in the South Pacific, and made corporal.

He married Toshi Seeger on July 20, 1943. The couple built their cabin in Beacon after World War II and stayed on the high spot of land by the Hudson River for the rest of their lives together. The couple raised three children. Toshi Seeger died in July at age 91.

The Hudson River was a particular concern of Seeger’s.

He took the sloop Clearwater, built by volunteers in 1969, up and down the Hudson, singing to raise money to clean the water and fight polluters.

He also offered his voice in opposition to racism and the death penalty. He got himself jailed for five days for blocking traffic in Albany in 1988 in support of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose claim of having been raped by white men was later discredited. He continued to take part in peace protests during the war in Iraq, and he continued to lend his name to causes.

“Can’t prove a damn thing, but I look upon myself as old grandpa,” Seeger told the AP in 2008 when asked to reflect on his legacy. “There’s not dozens of people now doing what I try to do, not hundreds, but literally thousands. ... The idea of using music to try to get the world together is now all over the place.”

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LIFE Year of the Horse

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Clockwise from top, Weijie Wu, right, leads a lion dance during Chinese New Year celebrations at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre on Saturday. Dancers from the Northern Lights School of Dance perform a Chineseinspired ballet. Karyn Qiu, dressed as a horse, welcomes in the year of the horse with children dressed in costumes of their Chinese zodiac year.

Meixia Li, centre, sings with the Cantonese choir.

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Flowers at son’s funeral still cause mother pain

by Judith Martin

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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: I don’t know how to word this so you won’t think it’s untrue, although I know that at this point, you’ve heard everything.

My son was killed a little over five years ago in a street-racing collision. He was in no way at fault; my two oldest sons were traveling home and were hit head-on a little after 9 in the evening.

Life has been incredibly difficult ever since; I miss him with all my heart. He was the most amazing son — he’d just graduated magna cum laude with a degree in philosophy and was going into the field of missions.

There were so many flowers at his funeral service that as I was writing thank-you notes, I could not figure out from the name who one of the arrangements was from. A month later, the driver who killed my son was arrested; that was when I learned his name, and that is when I learned who had sent the flowers.

(His mother, I’m sure, had placed his name on them.)

Have you ever heard of such a thing? How can you kill someone

and send flowers to their funeral, thinking that would make up for it? It absolutely compounded the pain, which some people seem prone to do.

GENTLE READER: Please understand that it is with the deepest sympathy that Miss Manners feels obliged to remind you that it is not those flowers that cause the terrible pain that you suffer.

Nor is it useful to think of that gesture as having been intended to “make up for” the horror of your loss. Most likely, the flowers were sent out of guilt or shame.

And while learning his name was a reminder, it was at least in the context of his being held accountable for criminal behavior.

Miss Manners suspects that the reason you are still thinking of those flowers, five years later, is that you wrote conventional thanks for them at the time, figuring it was a well-wisher whom you didn’t know, only to have this seem to you, in retrospect, as if it constituted forgiveness. She can assure you that anyone who was able to feel guilt or shame — and you may be right that it was the mother — is not going to consider that absolved by a mere acknowledgment of the flowers. She recommends leaving the killer to his own deserved suffering.

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rope across the door? A meanlooking bouncer?

Unless you have provided comfortable seating elsewhere, preferably with somewhere to park the plates, Miss Manners fails to see how you can expect your guests to realize that they will not be trusted in your living room.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have been thinking about the standards of television news after violent tragedies. Some of the questions posed to people being interviewed strike me as both non-newsworthy and rude.

For example, how would Miss Manners respond to a question about how parents reacted when told their young child had been murdered? Would ending the interview with, “I’m sorry, but I thought I was talking to a news reporter, not a daytime talk-show host,” be appropriate?

GENTLE READER: Not really.

Besides, you intend this as an insult, but the days are long gone when news and entertainment were separated enough to allow each field to look down on the other.

What astonished Miss Manners, when she was a young, intrepid reporter, was how few people in tragic situations simply decline to be interviewed. She understands that some may need public help (in finding a murderer, for example), and that many are too distressed to distinguish between official and media questioning. But it is pitiful to see people squirming under this attention, apparently without realizing the option of refusing.

Furthermore, the ubiquitous question, “How does this make you feel?” is not only intrusive but pointless. However well or badly they articulate it, the victims of tragedy feel terrible. We know that, and should not prod them to declare it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is the baby shower given for the baby or the parents of the baby?

GENTLE READER: In view of the fact that at the time a shower is given, it is impossible to separate the mother from the baby, Miss Manners is puzzled about why you feel you need to choose. If you must, she would advise choosing the one who has

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learned to write letters of thanks.

admit that your feelings are hurt at being excluded.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I GENTLE READER: The had custom correspondence temptation to respond, “Oh, cards printed with a motif on please don’t feel bad about this the top left and my full name — I wouldn’t have gone anyway,” (first, middle and last) on the must be enormous. lower right corner. While I love Certainly that is a lot more the look of the card, my choice tempting than going shopof style poses a problem: If my ping with the bride, to watch name is already printed, should I her spend the money she saved also sign it? by excluding you, and to help I’ve been signing just my first choose a cake of which you will name right above the printed not be offered a slice. name. It feels impersonal not to Miss Manners understands sign my name, but redundant to that it might sometimes be write what is already printed for necessary to respond to pushy me. How should I continue? people who announce their GENTLE READER: What you intention of attending a wedding have is the modern version of to which they have not been inwhat used to be called (despite vited. Even then, pleading budget the crime of turning an adjective concerns is ugly, as an admission into a noun) “informals.” These that the arrangements are more were smaller, fold-over cards, important than the people. with the name engraved on the They should be told, “It’s front and room for a short mes- a very small wedding — just sage inside. family and a few close friends.”

The change to larger cards was And no, that’s not a lie, because made when the postal service “small” and “close” are subject to declared that it would cease to interpretation. But to say, “Nyah, bother with anything that small. nyah, you’re not invited to my But even before then, informals wedding” to people who were were misunderstood. Not heedminding their own business is as ing the name, brides often wrote mean as it is vulgar. formal letters of thanks on them.

As no invitation was issued, “Informal” means informal, no response is necessary. But you although not in the anythingcould reassure them that you are goes sense. (That would be the not devastated by saying cheerubiquitous “casual.”) Informal, fully, “Fine” or, “That’s quite all in this case, just means that you right.” And for the sake of form, needn’t follow the forms of a Miss Manners hopes you will add letter. You can omit both the your good wishes. salutation and the closing, writing brief invitations, notes with DEAR MISS MANNERS: presents or other short messages.

What is the proper thing to say Although it is not strictly neceswhen family or friends come sary, you can add an informal over and you are ready to call it a signature — your first name or night, but they don’t leave? initial — if you draw a slanted My husband and I have line through your formal name. friends, a married couple, who often come over for lunch and DEAR MISS MANNERS: Just an afternoon visit. They usuwhen one thinks that the Wedding Industrial Complex cannot ally arrive about 11:30 a.m. and sometimes stay past dinnertime, get any worse, it does. One of usually until 8:30 or 9 p.m. the latest trends is to suggest to I don’t want to also offer brides- and grooms-to-be that dinner after preparing a nice it is a good thing to tell those lunch. If they come for dinner at whom they are not inviting to 5:30, I have to throw them out the wedding just why they are at 1 a.m. because I start falling not being invited. asleep in their presence. We are The explanation given is that seniors and usually go to bed by the couple would adore to have 11 o’clock at the latest. We really you attend their wedding, but that their budget will not permit like this couple and don’t want to hurt their feelings. Help! it. It is also suggested that to GENTLE READER: What make the excluded feel included, would you do if they were taking they be invited to go along on expeditions to “help choose” the leave of you at a proper time?

Miss Manners is guessing that dress, the cake or whatever. you would stand up and, while As the occasional recipient of moving toward the door, say such announcements, I would something about having enjoyed like your advice about how to seeing them and hoping to see respond. It seems churlish to say that you’re relieved not to be them again before too long.

Do that. invited, but it seems awkward to

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Studer stupendous in Carbon Hill race Tom Patrick News Reporter

C

rispin Studer is the Carbon Hill king once again.

The Carcross musher won his fourth 30-mile dog sled division at the 20th annual Carbon Hill Sled Dog Race on Saturday at the Mount Lorne Community Centre.

“I’m happy, it’s always fun to win the race,” said Studer.

“The people who put the trail in – I think it was the (Canadian) Rangers – did a really good job.

“The dogs did really good, the trail was awesome, it was colder than I thought, which was good for the dogs.”

The 33-year-old, who won the race’s 30-mile dogsled division three straight years between 2008 and 2010, completed the race in one hour, 43 minutes and 44 seconds.

That would be a record if not for the course being shorter than usual. Because of warm temperatures leading up to Saturday, 30-mile racers didn’t cross Annie Lake and the course was instead about 28.7 miles.

Temperatures dipped down to about minus 10 Celsius at the start of the race.

“It’s warmer than we’d like, but not plus eight or 10 like it was a few days ago,” said Studer.

Jonathan Lucas placed second at 1:48:35, ahead of William Kleedehn in third at 1:51:55.

After taking off the 2011/12 race season, Studer returned to win his second Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race last year in Dawson City. He also won his third River Runner race last February.

Studer, who is originally from Switzerland and moved to the Yukon in 2006, placed 13th in last year’s Yukon Quest.

Tagish’s Dave Johnson finished the 10-mile dog sled in record time … barely.

Johnson crossed the finish line in 30:35, just one second faster than his record-setting 2012 time. Johnson also set the previous record in 2006.

“It was awesome. I couldn’t believe it, I thought with the hot weather the trail would be worse, but it was super fast,” said Johnson. “The (Canadian) Rangers do such an awesome job with the trails. It’s such a fun weekend.”

Johnson recently returned from racing in the Grande

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Top, Tagish musher Dave Johnson races in the Carbon Hill Sled Dog Race on Saturday in Mount Lorne. Johnson set a new record in the 10-mile division. Bottom, Julie Dessureault mushes her team in the 10-mile race.

Prairie Sled Dog Derby in Alberta and the Caribou Challenge in 100 Mile House in B.C. He took third in Grande Prairie and second, by one second, at 100 Mile House.

“It’s always nice to do the local stuff too,” said Johnson.

“I’ve been doing this one for quite a few years. It’s one of our favourite races up here.”

Whitehorse’s Adam Robinson was likely the only racer to travel over 30-miles by trail on Saturday.

Robinson took first in the 30-mile skijor race, but encountered some navigational troubles during the race.

“A snowmachine came up behind me and the driver said, ‘You’re going the wrong

way,’” said Robinson. “I think (I did an extra) five or six miles.”

Robinson, who was in the race for the first time, finished the trek in 2:47:24.

“On the way out the trail was super icy, so you can’t really skate,” said Robinson.

“You’re kind of just holding on for dear life. It’s all bumpy, so you have no smooth glides.

“On the way back, once the sleds went over it and the sun warmed it up, I could skate.

I think I was probably 15, 20 minutes faster on the way back. It’s usually the opposite because the dogs are tired.”

The only other skijorer in the 30-mile division was Katherine Sheepway. She scratched from the race when she decided to return on more familiar trails. She too found the conditions less than ideal for skijoring.

“I wasn’t able to slow down completely or brake completely because of an injury on my foot – I wasn’t able to dig in enough,” said Sheepway. “I was approaching a really difficult part of the trail and I wasn’t feeling confident, so I turned my team around.”

Sheepway won the first two Yukon Brewing Twister races so far this season, setting the overall fastest time in both races ahead of dog sled teams. She also placed third in the six-mile skijor race on Saturday.

“This trail is notoriously icy and it was pretty bad out there, but (my husband) Darryl (Sheepway) told me it’s in the best condition he’s ever seen it in. So my hat goes off to all the mushers running eight-dog teams out there.”

Johnson wasn’t the only record setter on Saturday.

Whitehorse’s Cynthia Corriveau set a new record in the six-mile skijor with a time of 21:17, beating the previous time of 21:26 set by Charmyn Harms in 2002.

Carriveau placed second in the 30-mile skijor at last year’s Carbon Hill and in 2011. She also placed second behind Katherine in this season’s Twister races.

This year’s Carbon Hill race featured 19 sled teams and 15 skijor teams. No junior or kids races were held this year.

See full results at www.yukon-news.com.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Team Koltun places 10th to end eight-year run at junior nationals Tom Patrick

rink earlier in the championship pushed Yukon into 10th.

“All we can do is learn from it hitehorse’s Sarah Koltun and move forward,” said Koltun, notched her 31st national 20. “We’re lucky that we have the win to finish her junior curling Scotties to go to right afterward. career on Friday.

There’s less time to dwell on Koltun and her Yukon rink what happened and more time defeated Newfoundland/Labto look forward to what could rador 10-5 to place 10th at the happen next week.”

Canadian Junior Curling ChamTeam Koltun will become pionships in Liverpool, Nova the first Yukon rink to compete Scotia. at the Scotties Tournament of The win closed a chapter Hearts – the Canadian women’s spanning eight years. championship – in 13 years on “I think we’re all sad it’s over Saturday in Montreal. now but glad that it happened,” Koltun will also become the said Koltun. “Obviously, we were first curler to skip a team at the expecting a little more to come junior nationals and the Scotties out of this weekend, but that’s in the same season. At the Scotjust how sport is sometimes. ties the team will exchange Jenna Sometimes it doesn’t come out Duncan for older sister Chelsea, the way you want it.” who curled with Koltun at seven Koltun, who made a record junior nationals before aging out eighth appearance at the chamat the end of last season. Team pionships, finished with a 5-4 Koltun will face Alberta’s Valerie record.

Sweeting to start the Scotties.

It was Koltun’s fourth time placing in the top-10 at the Yukon curler golden in championship since first comCanadian Curling Association photo mixed doubles peting in 2007 at the age of 12.

Team Koltun may have missed Team Yukon skip Sarah Koltun, centre, delivers a shot, with Jenna Duncan, left, and Patty Her team placed fourth last Wallingham at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships last week in Liverpool, Nova the medal round at junior nayear and eighth in 2011.

Team Koltun, which includes tionals, but the team didn’t leave Scotia. empty-handed. third Andrea Sinclair, second Koltun second Andrea Patty Wallingham and lead Sinclair teamed up with B.C.’s Jenna Duncan, also took wins Cameron de Jong to win gold over Nunavut, N.W.T., Northin the mixed doubles tournaern Ontario and B.C., which went on to take silver with a loss ment portion of the nationals in Liverpool. against Alberta on Saturday.

Yukon finished with the same “Not too bad for my first time record as ninth place’s P.E.I., but at it,” said Sinclair. “It was my a 7-6, extra-end loss to the island first official time playing mixed News Reporter

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doubles. We sometimes do it in practice if we have extra time.”

The pair won five consecutive games and beat Chloe McCloskey of P.E.I. and Evan Kearley of Newfoundland/Labrador 5-4 in the final.

Adding some extra Yukon presence to the team was Yukon junior men’s coach Kevin Patterson, who was made coach for the Sinclair-de Jong pair.

“The thing I found most interesting about the mixed doubles is that you can have the male or female be the first and fifth shot or the second, third and fourth,” said Patterson.

“With Andrea, we pitted her against a lot of the male throwers of the opposing team. She had absolutely no problem keeping up with the boys. In fact, she beat them every time.”

Forty-four teams participated in the single-knockout tournament for curlers on teams that did not advance to championships rounds of the junior championships. The Canadian Curling Association uses a system to pair up male and female curlers from different provinces and territories.

It was two in a row for the territory in the mixed doubles

tournament introduced last year.

Yukon’s Mitch Young won the inaugural doubles competition with Nova Scotia’s Sarah Sears.

“It actually worked out really well,” added Sinclair. “I was hearing from the men’s teams my skip was infamous for his draw weight. Combine that with I had a good feel for the ice, it worked out really well.”

Sinclair, 20, is in her first season with Team Koltun. The Ottawa native helped Team Ontario win bronze at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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ukon’s Team Wallingham missed the medal rounds but finished with a bang.

The Whitehorse rink won four straight games to place ninth in junior men at the 2014 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, on Friday.

“It was fun to leave on a good note like that,” said skip Joe Wallingham. “It happened like that last year too.

“After just missing the championship round, it was nice to go out on a four-game win streak.”

“The biggest thing we took away from the end of the week was that we won four straight to close out the championship,” said coach Kevin Patterson. “That was huge. To go from a 1-4 record to finish 5-4, we were pretty happy with that.”

Wallingham’s 5-4 record put the rink at the top of seeding pool that determines the draws for next year’s nationals, which every member of the Wallingham rink is eligible to compete at.

Team Wallingham, which includes third Brayden Klassen, second Spencer Wallace and lead Trygg Jensen, finished the championship with an 11-3 win over Nunavut, who placed last in 14th, on Friday.

Yukon squeaked out a 6-5 win against Newfoundland/Labrador on Thursday.

“Our best game at the event, for me, was against Newfoundland,” said Patterson. “That game meant something in terms of the seeding pool standings and they pulled it off.”

“That was probably the best game we played all week,” said Wallingham.

Tied 5-5 going into the last end, “I did a draw to the four foot for the win …

It kept our momentum with our win streak.”

Team Wallingham beat B.C. 6-4 on Jan. 18 to open the championships before four straight losses. They then took a 11-6 win over P.E.I. and 11-4 win over Quebec – who finished behind Yukon in 10th – in the middle of last week, just missing the championship round.

“We wanted to finish at the top of the seeding pool,” said Patterson. “After we didn’t make the championship round, we wanted to stand out as best we could. We built something we can put together for next year.”

The ninth place finish is second in a row for Yukon in junior men at the nationals. Last year Yukon’s Team Young, which included skip Mitch Young, Wallingham and Wallace, placed ninth with a matching 5-4 record, finishing with three consecutive wins.

This year’s championship was Wallingham’s second and first as a team skip.

“It was different a experience from last year, playing second with Mitch and Will (Mahoney) as the more experienced guys,” said Wallingham, 17. “It was different leading the team this year, leading them into a national event. You feel a lot of pressure, but it’s The new Yukon home of

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Yukon’s Joe Wallingham prepares to make a shot during the Canadian Junior Curling Championships last week in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Team Wallingham placed ninth.

just fun to be a part of.

“The whole team played well this week. I’m proud of the guys. They came out, fought for every game and didn’t give up.”

The junior championship usually marks the end of the season, but not for Team Wallingham.

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March in Fairbanks, Alaska. Because of Sunday in Liverpool. Alberta, which a conflict, Wallace will be replaced by beat Yukon with a close score of 8-6, Klassen’s little brother, Will. took the bronze.

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There is no registration fee for this event. Parts of the workshop require preregistration; however, the afternoon session on the 5th is open to the public from 1:30pm to 5:00pm. There will also be a cash barand-finger food evening gathering from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm on the evening of February 4th. This evening session is also open to the general public.

This workshop will feature projects that Cold Climate Innovation and Technology Innovation have helped bring into fruition.

It will also be featuring a demonstration of the potential local applications of 3D printer technology.

The keynote speaker for this year’s event is Vasile Nedelciuc from Moldova. Mr. Nedelciuc has served as Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee and co-authored the Declaration of Independence for the Republic of Moldova. He also co-founded the IT company ENDAVA and served as a member of its board of directors. He will speak to the challenges and opportunities involved in developing an IT industry sector in “remote” areas not usually associated with “high tech”—like Moldova, or Yukon.

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Outdoor ice continues to challenge Henry

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Whitehorse’s Troy Henry competes at the Canada Cup 3 in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday. Henry struggled on the outdoor ice, posting a 12th-place finish in the 5,000 metre.

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son the 25-year-old failed to get his usual results outdoors while competing at the Canada Cup 3 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan over the weekend.

“I tend to not do well at outdoor races,” said Henry. “I’m try-

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ing to figure out what the issue is that’s causing me problems. It’s been difficult, but I’m hoping that I’ll eventually find a solution with outdoor racing.

“Currently, for the five-kilometre, it seems like I’ll make it six laps into the 12-and-a-half race and then I have nothing left.

“I’m trying to figure out what’s causing issues for me.

Hopefully I’ll find out what the issue is and I’ll solve it.”

Henry skated to 12th in the 5,000-metre at 8:22.59 on Saturday, far off his personal best of 6:42.06 set indoors.

He also came 23rd in the

500-metre at 40.85 on Friday.

Sunday’s 500-metre and 1,000-metre races were cancelled due to minus-20 temperatures outdoors in Quebec City in early and 50-70-kilometre winds.

December.

Henry competed in his first At the Canada Cup 2 inTeam Canada’s Olympic trials doors at the Calgary Oval, at the Calgary Oval over the Henry skated to 10th in the holidays.

1,500-metre in a field of 63 skatHe sped to fifth place in the ers.

10,000-metre with a season best While wind can definitely be time of 14:07.57 and also placed a factor in outdoor skating, a lot of it can do with the ice. The ice 11th in the 5,000-metre with a can be too soft or too hard, and time of 6:46.24.

Henry was not named to the dust and other particles trapped in the ice can cause friction. team last week.

“That does have a bit to do Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com with it, for sure,” said Henry.

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Draws to the button decide Ladies Bonspiel Curling with Scott was third Ally Goncalues, second Allison Nette and Vy Tang.

Team Eby – skip Laura Eby, third Deb Enoch, second Janine Peters and lead Lorna Spenner – slipped to fourth.

A total of 14 teams participated in this year’s bonspiel, each playing five six-end games. The modified skins format awarded the winner of an end two points and the losing side one point.

It kept scores fairly close across the board.

“It was ‘ultimate scoring’ so it was a level playing field for everybody,” said Smallwood.

Smallwood and her husband Bob Smallwood will compete this week against just one other team for Yukon’s one spot at the Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials.

The Smallwoods reached the quarterfinal of the mixed doubles nationals for the world championships last March.

They also represented Yukon at the 2014 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in November, narrowly getting edged out in the qualifier.

Their mixed team was also the runner-up at the Polar Eyes Cashspiel in Whitehorse at the start of December.

The Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials will take place this March in Ottawa. The 2014 World Mixed Doubles Championship will follow the next month in Dumfries, Scotland.

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Skip Jody Smallwood lets a shot go during the Whitehorse Motors Ladies Bonspiel at the Whitehorse Curling Club on Sunday. Team Smallwood took first place.

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he first shots made the difference at the end of the Whitehorse Motors Ladies Bonspiel at the Whitehorse Curling Club over the weekend.

Before the first games, skips for each team threw one shot for the button to determine winners in the case of a tie.

Those draws to the button decided spots first through fourth.

Team Smallwood took first over second place’s Team White with skip Jody Smallwood having landed her shot smack-dab on the button.

Smallwood was joined by third Joan Ewing, second Paula Nugent and lead Jari Smarch.

“Joan, Jari and I curled together last year as a team,

we don’t have a ladies team because I’m doing the mixed and mixed doubles,” said Smallwood. “So it was just a weekend of throwing friends together, going out there and giving it all we’ve got.”

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Donna Scott, drawing to 76 centimetres from the centre of the button, snapped a tie for third, placing ahead of Team Eby.

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Utah ski resort that bans snowboarding faces lawsuit in culture clash on the slopes Paul Foy

for refusing to open its slopes to snowboarders – a legal action that again exposed a culture clash on SALT LAKE CITY the slopes.

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Young skiers ride the conveyor belt at Alta Ski Resort near Salt Lake City. Long known as a skiers’ mountain, Alta has been sued for refusing to open its slopes to snowboarders.

discrimination on national forest lands that make up most of the Alta ski area in the mountains east of Salt Lake City.

The lawsuit says the plaintiffs bought tickets Sunday knowing they would be turned away at the chairlifts and could then sue the resort. One of them later sneaked onto the lift using “split boards” – a snowboard that splits apart and resembles skis – but was intercepted and escorted down the mountain.

Alta is one of the last remaining U.S. ski areas that bans snowboarding, and the lawsuit claims Alta dislikes snowboarders for their allegedly reckless skiing, inconsiderate attitude, baggy clothes and their overuse of such words as “gnarly” and “radical” when describing difficult terrain.

Deer Valley, another Utah resort, and Mad River Glen in Vermont also ban snowboarding. Taos in New Mexico relented in 2009 and allowed the practice.

Skiers’ chief complaint is that snowboarders’ sideways stance leaves them with a blind spot that can make their wide, sweeping turns a danger to others on the slopes.

Some say the culture war is old

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DENVER ot at the county fair? Why not?

Colorado’s Denver County is adding cannabis-themed contests to its 2014 summer fair.

It’s the first time pot plants will stand alongside tomato plants and homemade jam in competition for a blue ribbon.

There won’t actually be any marijuana at the fairgrounds.

The judging will be done offsite, with photos showing the winning entries. And a live joint-rolling contest will be done with oregano, not pot.

But county fair organizers say the marijuana categories will add a fun twist on Denver’s already-quirky county fair, which includes a drag queen pageant and a contest for dioramas made with Peeps candies.

“We thought it was time for us to take that leap and represent one of the things Denver has going on,” said Tracy Weil, the fair’s marketing and creative director.

The nine marijuana categories include live plants and clones, plus contests for marijuana-infused brownies and

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boarders in the 1990s has become a cliche, and banning snowboarding remains a matter of safety, not style.

“I’m a skier, always have been,” he said. “There are skiers out there that appreciate going to a place that allows skiers only, not snowboarders.”

The U.S. Forest Service also was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Government officials declined comment, said Loyal Clark, a spokeswoman for the Uinta-Cache Wasatch National Forest.

Snowboarding might have lost some of its cool since starting in the late 1970s, but about a third of all resort visitors are still sliding downhill on one plank, not two, according to surveys by the National Ski Areas Association.

The lawsuit concedes that snowboarders were “perhaps rightfully” stereotyped as riffraff decades ago by more sophisticated and affluent skiers, but times have changed.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Rick Alden, Drew Hicken, Bjorn Leines and Richard Vargas. They are asking a federal judge to declare that Alta’s ban violates the Constitution’s promise of equal treatment under the law.

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news now that young people are turning back to using a pair of skis instead of one board.

“Snowboarding as a sport peaked a couple of years ago. It was counter-culture, but it became too mainstream,” said Riley Cutler, a partner at a Salt Lake City ski shop, Wasatch Touring. “Now kids are going back to skiing on twin tips and riding rails.”

News of the lawsuit lit up the websites of Utah newspapers with passionate comments such as: Snowboarders “ruin all the snow” by scraping it down to ice; they “don’t watch where they’re going;” and they “stop in the middle of the hill and sit down! What’s up with that?”

David Quinney, a minority owner of Alta, said customers prefer to have the mountain kept for skiers only.

“Alta is forbidden fruit for snowboarders,” said Quinney, whose grandfather Joe Quinney founded Alta in 1939. “The thing about Alta, so much of it involves hiking, climbing and traversing.

That’s not real conducive to snowboarding.”

Quinney said the culture clash that separated skiers and snow-

savory foods. Homemade bongs, homemade roach clips and clothing and fabric made with hemp round out the categories.

Judges will look only at plant quality, not the potency or quality of the drugs they produce.

Other contests – patterned after Amsterdam’s famed Cannabis Cup – already gauge drug quality and flavour.

Top prize is $20, plus of course a blue ribbon. The fair already has a green ribbon – awarded for using environmentally conscious methods.

The entries will be shown in a “Pot Pavilion” open only to people over 21. Alongside the pot entrants will be 24 categories of homemade beer, four categories for homemade wine and one category for “spirits and liqueurs.”

Prizes will also be given for speedy joint-rolling, though fair organizers insist there won’t be any marijuana consumption on-site. Competitors in the live Doritos-eating contest will have to acquire their munchies elsewhere.

Even the photographs of the winning plants will be viewable only by adults 21. Organizers don’t want 4-H competitors in the popular rabbit and goat con-

tests wandering by a pot display.

“We have a lot of families and kids at the fair, of course, and we wanted to be respectful of that,” Weil said.

Denver’s fair is far from traditional, though. Denver County didn’t have a county fair until 2011. Organizers wanted an urban, hip element alongside traditional fair favourites like a Ferris wheel and cotton candy.

There’s a speed text-messaging contest, and the highlight staple of a Western fair, a rodeo, has been replaced with a bicycle rodeo and a troupe of performing pigs. About 20,000 people attended last year.

The marijuana contests aren’t likely to spread to other fairs in Colorado. Officials in Routt County, in western Colorado, voted last year to expressly ban marijuana from its county fair.

And Colorado State Fair organizers have expressed no interest in marijuana competition.

California holds an Emerald Cup at the fairgrounds in Sonoma County, Calif., where guests with medical clearance are able to sample the drug. That contest is held at the fairgrounds but isn’t a part of the county fair.

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Forbidden (var. sp.)

5. Strike a heavy blow 9. Guy (slang) 12. Tel __, Israel 13. The superior of an abbey 15. Swiss river 16. South American nation 17. Span. town Aranda de ___ 18. Yellow’s complement 19. Sun in Spanish 20. Sharp slaps 22. Cash dispensing machine 25. Persistently annoying person 26. Japanese rolls

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Ethan Thompson Congratulations to our winners and runners-up and good luck to those of you entering next week’s competition.

Name: _____________________________ Address: ____________________________ __________________________________ Phone: _____________________________ Age Up to five Six to eight Nine to twelve years years years Group:

Chloe Edgecombe Nine to twelve years

Entries for both contests should be dropped off or mailed to:

211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2E4.

Open to kids up to age 12. Entries for this week’s contests must be received by 12 pm next Monday in order to appear in next week’s paper. If your entry arrives late (which may happen with out-of-town entries), it will be judged along with the contestants from the following week. Please limit entries to ONE PER CHILD PER WEEK. The contests are divided into three age groups: Up to five years, Six to eight years, Nine to twelve years. Drawings for the drawing contest must be on a separate piece of paper and reproducible on a photocopier to win. (Black and white drawings on white paper are easier to reproduce.)

Winners will receive their prizes by mail so be sure to include your complete address!

Please note that only winning entries will be returned. WINNERS RECEIvE GIft CERtIfICatES fOR “AngelinA’s Toy BouTique”.

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www.yukon-news.com • 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E4 • Phone: (867) 667-6285 • Fax: (867) 668-3755 For Rent ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com HOBAH APARTMENTS: Clean, spacious, walking distance downtown, security entrance, laundry room, plug-ins, rent includes heat & hot water, no pets. References required. 668-2005 ARE YOU New to Whitehorse? Pick up a free Welcome to Whitehorse package at The Smith House, 3128-3rd Ave. Information on transit, recreation programs, waste collection & diversion. 668-8629 WEEKEND GET AWAY Rustic Cabin-45 minutes from town Hiking Trails in the summer Skiing in the winter Includes sauna. Reasonable rates.

Rent out by the week or for a weekend.

867-821-4443 $575, $775, $900, ROOMS. BACHELORS. 1-BDRMS. Clean, bright, furnished, all utilities incl, laundry facilities. Close to college & downtown. Bus stop, security doors. Live-in manager. 667-4576 or Email: barracksapt@hotmail.com SKYLINE APTS: 2-bdrm apartments, Riverdale. Parking & laundry facilities. 667-6958 1-BDRM APT in Copper Ridge, full bath, big L/R, shared laundry, avail Jan 1, $1,000/mon + util. 456-7099 ROOM FOR rent, N/S, N/P, immed, $750/mon. all incl. 393-2275

Office Space fOr LeaSe

Above Starbuck’s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 544 sq.ft. (can be leased as one office or can be split into two smaller spaces).

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

DOWNTOWN 3-BDRM upper level of house, bright & clean, N/S, N/P, shared laundry, heat inclʼd, available immed, $1,700/mon.

334-5448

ROOMMATE WANTED, Crestview, new designer home, no drugs, N/S, near bus stop & trails, cat welcome, $625/mon all incl.

335-2083

SINGLE FATHER of 2 looking for a reasonably priced 3 bedroom in Whitehorse for long term or lease to own. Contact dalvincalby@gmail.com

3 BDRM on large corner treed lot, 2 driveways, basement suite, close to bus stop & elementary/high schools, will sell furnished or unfurnished, 49 Redwood St. 633-6553

NEW 3-BDRM, 2-bath condo in Porter Creek, 1,700 sqft, elec heat, N/S, N/P, $1,600/mon. 336-0600

2-BDRM APT, Riverdale, clean, secure, quiet adult complex, N/S, N/P, refs reqʼd. $1,200/mon. 668-3167

Real Estate

3-BDRM UPPER level downtown, bright & clean, heat inclʼd, avail immed, $1,700/mon.

334-5448

1-BDRM APT, 20 mins south of Whitehorse, N/S, $750/mon + utils. 456-2135 after 8pm

309-ACRE WORKING farm, hayfields, pasture, forest, long growing season, 1.6km Skeena front, 3,000 sqft rancher, outbuildings, B&B, 10 min. to Hazelton, adj. to crown land, www.trakehnerhof.ca, $850,000, 250-842-5400

3-BDRM DUPLEX, CR, garage, greenbelt, fenced yard, lg patio, avail immed, refs&dd req. $1,700/mon + utils. 334-1907 Available Now Newly renovated OFFICE SPACE & RETAIL SPACE Close to Library & City Hall A short walk to Main Street Phone 633-6396 RENDEZVOUS PLAZA on Lewes Blvd, Riverdale Lots of parking 1,100 sq ft (previously flower shop, studio) 7,000 sq ft (previously Frazerʼs) Call 667-7370

This historic building is the first L.E.E.D. certified green building in Yukon. It features state of the art heat and ventilation, LAN rooms, elevator, bike storage, shower, accessibility and more.

Call 867-333-0144

3-BDRM HOUSE, D/T, group renting available, $1,900/mon. 334-1759 2-BDRM 2 bath bsmnt suite, D/T, avail Mar. 1st, clean, close to amenities, recent renos, N/S, no parties, 668-6888 xt 21 Mon-Fri. days FURNISHED ROOM PC, TV/Cable, wifi internet, utilities, phone, laundry facilities/parking, close to bus, avail immed, $650/mon. 332-7054 or 667-7733 3-BDRM 2-BATH DUPLEX, Takhini, garage, N/S, N/P, $1,500/mon. + utils. 334-6510

RENT ONE of our cozy cabins with sauna for a weekend getaway Relax and enjoy the winter wonderland on the S. Canol Road 332- 3824 or info@breathofwilderness.com.

ROOMMATE REQUIRED, female, to share suite in house, $600/mon. 633-3086 or 587-434-9834

2-3 BDRM upper level house Riverdale, bright & clean, sundeck, fireplace, carport, avail immed. $1,650/mon heat incl. 334-5448

3-BDRM 1 bath mobile home in Lobird, clean, storage shed, quiet neighborhood, no dogs, N/S, $1,400/mon +util. 456-7397

LARGE ROOM in PC (12ʼx24ʼ), private ent, recent reno, shared accom, avail immed, $750/mon + dd. 668-7213

1 BEDROOM in Riverdale house, upper level, fully furnished, close to bus, avail immed, dd reqʼd, N/P, N/S, $650/mon incl utils.

334-3280 after 4 pm

2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Copper Ridge, avail Mar. 1, sep ent/driveway, w/d, fridge/stove, HRC, free sat, $1,375/mon incl. utils. 668-6446 or 336-1406 STUDIO/OFFICE SPACE available on Copper Road.

Two spaces available or able to combine for one large space.

First unit, 780 sq. ft.

Second unit, 1,080 sq. ft.

Full lunchroom and utilities included.

Contact Brenda or Michelle at 667-2614 or email totalfire@northwestel.net 3-BDRM 2-BATH new townhouse Porter Creek, avail immed, $1,600/mon + utils & dd.

334-8088 1-BDRM BSMT suite, Porter Creek, full bath, w/d, N/S, N/P, avail immed or Jan. 1, $1,000/mon + dd, heat/light incl. 456-7729 ROOM IN 3-bdrm Copper Ridge home, furnished, shared common areas, avail immed, $725/mon incl elec, heat, TV, internet.

334-4430 WANTED: FEMALE roommate, prefer over 40, to share 2-bdrm apt beside Riverdale Super A, basic cable & utils incl, $450/mon + $450 dd. 335-8915

Beautifully finished office space is available in the Taku Building at 309 Main Street.

ROOM AT KK, $500/mon all inclusive.

336-1695

ROOM IN Northland, smokerʼs home, everything included, avail Feb. 1, $750/mon.

668-4776 MAIN STREET 1-bdrm executive condo, east-south facing windows, top finishings, rooftop patio, covered parking, avail Feb. 1 $1,550/mon + elec. 335-7640

2-STOREY 2-BDRM house, contemporary design, open concept on cul-de-sac, $275,000 as is, 10+ acres, fire-smarted around house, plenty of dry wood, 1,350 sqft, view of St. Elias Mtns, 634-2240 NEW 28ʼX34ʼ 2-storey unfinished house in Atlin, drilled well, power & septic field, on 2-acres w new 18ʼx28ʼ cabin, mobile home on concrete foundation, shop, $196,000.

250-651-7868 WATSON LAKE split level home, 2 acres, private well, 3-bdrm 2-bath, custom kitchen, heated workshop, garage and outbuildings, patio. Winter sale: $199,000 (appraised at $250,0000). Call 867-536-7757 1,400 SQ ft 2-bdrm house, Ibex Valley, 1 acre of land, 65x65 ft dog pen, 500 sq ft attached shop both wood/oil heat, owner motivated for quick sale. 335-2103

.86 ACRE lot, 9 Raven Crescent, New Constabulary, Marsh Lake, small cabin clad to weather, treed lot, power to property line, $85,000. 333-9976 for more info ATLIN 1,250 sqft' 2-br 1-bath log home, 5.57 private acres, gated driveway, 2 guest cabins, greenhouse, 1,500 sq' heated shop c/w bath/office, $985,000, information @ canadiangolmine.com 778-233 2855

Help Wanted GPRC, FAIRVIEW Campus, Alberta needs Power Engineering Instructors. No teaching experience, no problem. Please contact Brian Carreau at 780-835-6631 and/or visit our website at www.gprc.ab.ca.

1-BDRM APT D/T, N/P, $950/mon heat & hot water incl, avail immed. 668-2416

LOOKING FOR single female to share apartment near downtown, reasonable rent, N/S, N/P, 336-0465, lv msg.

ROOM IN Copper Ridge home, bright, c/w private bathroom/shower, kitchen/laundry access, high speed internet access, N/S, must love animals, $750/mon. 335-3359 2-BDRM 1 bath apt, 7179 7th Ave, top level of house, clean, close to Extra Foods etc., ample parking, refs&dd reqʼd, N/S, no parties. 668-6888 ext 21 ROOM IN Copper Ridge, spacious, unfurnished, everything included, first/last months reqʼd, $650/mon. 689-1727 after 6pm STOREFRONT, OFFICE/RETAIL, 1,600 sq.ft, excellent location, 668-7111 FURNISHED ROOM, c/w TV/Cable, Wifi Internet, phone, long dist, utils, share large 5 bedroom house with 3 other adults, w/d, exercise room, parking. $650/mon. 667-7733 1-BDRM APT D/T, bright, private, central, full bath, boot room, main level/ private ent, N/S, N/P, refs&dd reqʼd, $850/mon incl most utils. 334-2269 2-BDRM NEWLY updated apt, Riverdale, spacious, hardwood floors, new kitchen, butcher block counter, dishwasher, laundry, N/S, N/P, refs&dd reqʼd, $1,450/mon incl heat. 334-2269

Wanted to Rent

3-4-BDRM 1.5 bath house, PC, 6 appliances, close to schools & bus, $1,600/mon + utils, dd&refs reqʼd. 633-4626

HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871

3-BDRM, 2 bath condo/townhouse, Stone Ridge, parking space, N/S N/P, avail immed, near Takhini School/Game Centre, refs reqʼd. $1,600.00/mon. 633-4110

WANTED: 2 or 3 bedroom apt, house or cabin north of Whitehorse or Porter Creek, long term rent, call 867-393-2111 or email: waldlaeufer_c@web.de

2-BDRM 1.5 bath townhouse/condo, 1,300 sqft, N/S, pets negotiable, avail immed, $1,550/mon + utils obo, 334-7515

1 TO 2 acres of farm land, need level ground for building greenhouses, David, 335-3616, growninthewild@gmail.com

is looking for

Community Skills Development Officer Workforce Development Full Time

Reporting to the Director Workforce Development, the Community Skills Development Officer is responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining and reviewing the First Nation’s plans and policies related to the education and skills development of citizens and community members. The incumbent is responsible for developing, coordinating, managing, and evaluating programs that provide support to citizens, community members and students pursuing post secondary education.

Education & Experience • Post-secondary completion of education relating to career counseling and counseling psychology, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Certification as a career practitioner or course work in counseling, and several years experience in the area of counseling • Training plan development and implementation Main Duties • Participating in the development of and implementing a community training and education strategy which will create a labor pool for TTC staffing needs • Organizing and recommending training programs for the long term requirements of TTC staffing requirements, including identifying specific training requirements and priorities of TTC, researching training program costs and developing budgets • Assessing clients’ employability and learning needs to determine learning requirements and career aspirations • Providing counseling and career guidance for citizens and community members • Developing training plans and counseling clients on financial supports that they may access For more information please call 867.390.2532 ext 316.

Please quote the job title in the subject line of your email, fax and/or cover letter: Workforce Development, Teslin Tlingit Council Box 133, Teslin, Yukon Y0A 1B0 f. 867.390.2176 humanresources@ttc-teslin.com Closing Date: Monday, February 3rd, 2014 **no later than 4pm**

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY www.ttc-teslin.com

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Executive Director

Yukon Women in Trades and Technology (YWITT)

Closing Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2014 Hours: 37.5 hours per week (some evening and weekend hours required) Wage: $25-$30 per hour DOE Job Description/Duties: YUKON WOMEN IN TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY (YWITT) If you are an energetic, visionary leader committed to making a real difference for Yukon women of all ages, this job is for you. As the Executive Director you will be the leader and senior manager responsible for carrying out the YWITT strategic plan. Working with governments, industry and non-government partners, you will be responsible for overseeing the funding, developing, managing and delivering of a variety of diverse training programs for adults and exciting and educational events for youth. Additional highlights of necessary knowledge, skills and abilities are: • • • • • • • • •

excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills public relations –strong networking skills proposal development financial management within a context of multiple government funding agencies flexible program planning, implementation and evaluation ability to provide hands on support to trainers in a variety of trades and technology related workshops ability to flex hours to accommodate evening and weekend programs Trades and/or Technology industry experience will be considered an asset.

Applicants must have a reliable vehicle and be willing to travel to various communities within Yukon.

requirements/qualiFications: The ideal candidate will have a university degree in a relevant field and/or a minimum of five years experience in a similar work environment/capacity. You understand the responsibilities of an Executive Director reporting to the volunteer, policy-oriented Board of Directors of a non-government organization.

HoW to apply: Quoting the title, please submit your resume to: YUKON WOMEN IN TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY #191 – 108 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6C4 or Email: ywitt@yukonwitt.org Phone: 867-667-4441, Fax: 867-633-5689.

Contact Name: Kim Solonick WE THANK ALL THOSE WHO APPLY AND ADvISE THAT ONLY THOSE CANDIDATES INvITED FOR AN INTERvIEW WILL BE CONTACTED.

EMPloYMEnt oPPoRtunitY Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC)

Finance Manager

Currently Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC) has an opening for a Finance / Office Manager. Reporting to the General Manager, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the overall success of the corporation (and its subsidiaries) by effectively managing all financial tasks along with administrative oversight. The position will also include efforts to minimize corporate risks, coordination of Board of Director meetings, provide corporate support, property management and assisting with researching and assessing business cases and emerging investment opportunities while providing recommendations to Senior Management.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate should possess a university degree or college diploma in Accounting, Commerce, or Business Management/Administration and a minimum of 3- 5 years of progressive financial and office administration experience. Knowledge of the construction and manufacturing sector is considered to be an asset. Candidates should also possess advanced knowledge of all aspects of financial analysis, accounting and financial reporting. The candidate should further possess demonstrated skills in problem solving and analysis, proficiency in the use of computer programs particularly excel, relational databases, MS office. Good oral and written communication skills to be able to clearly explain financial concepts and the ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality as it concerns sensitive financial information are required. A valid driver’s license is required. Some travel may be required.

HoW to aPPlY: Qualified candidates are invited to send their resume and cover letter by February 10, 2014 to: Human Resources at #6 – 17 Burns Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z3, fax to (867) 668-5841, or email to michelle@dakwakada.com Preference will be shown to a qualified Champagne Aishihik First Nation Citizen.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. oRGaniZational BacKGRounD: Dakwakada Development Corporation (DDC) is a privatelyheld investment firm located in Whitehorse, Yukon. Our sole-shareholder is the Champagne and Aishihik Trust, an organization whose purpose is to hold and manage most investment and business assets of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, based in Haines Junction, Yukon.

DDC has made numerous investments in the Yukon, primarily in growing sectors. Investments in construction and manufacturing sector include Castle Rock Enterprises, Kilrich Industries Limited and the RAB Energy Group/Northerm. Other investments include a variety of property holdings.

Dakwakada Development corporation #6 - 17 Burns Road, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 4Z3

www.dakwakada.com | p. 867-668-5831 | f. 867-668-5841

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Gold Village Chinese Restaurant Looking for experienced full-time kitchen helper and server Apply with resume to 401 Craig Street, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 867-993-2368 THERE IS a CRITICAL need for Medical Transcriptionists across Canada. Work from Home. CanScribe graduates welcome and encouraged to apply. Apply through MTR at www.hds-mt.com/jobs NOW HIRING Class 1 Drivers to transport dangerous goods for oilfield service company in northern Alberta. Competitive wages, benefits and lodging. Experience hauling fluids preferred.

Email: dispatch@brekkaas.com.

NOC: 6435 Wanted: Hotel Front Desk Clerk Full time, 40 hours per week, permanent Wage: $13.00 per hour Main Duties: Register guests, Answer Inquiries Follow Safety and Emergency Procedures Clerical duties (faxing, photocopying) Apply by email to yukon202@gmail.com Employer: Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. CANADIAN LYNDEN TRANSPORT Looking for Class 1 drivers with superb experience Please e-mail resume to abjork@lynden.com or Fax 867-668-3196 Phone: 668-3198

Labourers Required Fort Nelson Area.Camp accommodations supplied.

Term: 6 - 8 weeks commencing February 5, 2014 Transportation provided from Whitehorse.

Rate: $15.00/hour Call: 333-9252

Creative Play Daycare is seeking a full-time and part-time child care worker Wage will depend upon level of ECD education Level 1 - $16.00/hr Level 2 - $18.00/hr Level 3 - $22.00/hr Downtown location Health Benefits Off the floor planning Wonderful facility with on-site playground and indoor mini gym Drop off resume to 312 Strickland Street or Phone 667-2761

Sanchez Cantina is taking applications for a

Part-time server Part-time dishwasher/general kitchen helP Minimum two years experience Willing to work evenings and weekend .

Drop off resumé to 211 Hanson street.

No phone calls please.

Pharmacists Medicine Chest Pharmacy is expanding & will soon have 2 locations in Whitehorse. To continue our excellent customer service we are hiring more pharmacists.

Both full time and part time will be considered.

Inquiries by e-mail only to traceev@gmail.com

Positions Available

Medicine Chest Pharmacy Selkirk First Nation

P.O. Box 40, Pelly Crossing, YT Y0B 1P0 Phone: 867-537-3331 Fax: 867-537-3902

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Finance Director THE CANDIDATE: Reporting to the Chief and Council through the Executive Director, the Director of Finance will be a key member of and support to the Selkirk First Nation (SFN) senior management team. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded and hands on accountant who is responsible for all financial activities of SFN. She/he will provide leadership, direction, training and guidance to the finance staff, overseeing and carrying out a full range of day-to-day financial activities including: overseeing the payroll, preparing budgets, managing and monitoring funding and financial agreements and reporting requirements, cash flow analysis, preparation of financial statements, month end and year end reports.

The Director of Finance will develop and enhance financial controls and systems while supporting and overseeing financial administration and reporting for several.

She/he will also possess the following qualifications: • an accounting designation, complimented by a minimum of five (5) years financial management or an equivalent combination of demonstrated ability and education; • Proven skills in developing, implementing and monitoring financial systems, controls, policies and best practices while ensuring compliance with all regulators and funding agencies; • Advanced proficiency in with Excel and accounting software, ideally Quickbook; • Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills combined with the ability to work • Effectively with all internal and external stakeholders including auditors, lending institutions and • Government agencies; familiarization with Selkirk First Nation Final Agreement and FTA an asset • Strong organizational and administrative skills as well as experience managing multiple projects and time sensitive deadlines; • Previous knowledge and experience working with First Nations governments and communities • (preferably within the Yukon Territory), INAC, CMHC and other government agencies is an asset; and A competitive annual salary with full benefits is offered, commensurate with qualifications / experience for this senior management position located at Pelly Crossing, Yukon Territory. If you are interested in this exciting career opportunity, please provide your resume and cover letter in complete confidence by, January 31, 2014 to: Albert Drapeau, Executive Director preferably by Email: execdir@selkirkfn.com Or by Fax: (867) 537-3902.

No phone calls will be accepted.

The successful candidate will be required to complete/provide: 1.

3 recent work related references; 2.

The successful candidate will be subject to a criminal records check; 3.

Applicants must be able to work in Canada.

Applicants are requested to submit resume package consisting of a cover letter describing their qualifications and resume. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic/Welder Temporary Full Time until June 2014 40 hours per week – 10 hours per day; Sunday to Saturday 0700 to 0700.

This is a Salary Range 12 position ($30.97 to $36.45 per hour).

Apply to careers@ whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm February 5. For details, please visit our website.

www.whitehorse.ca

Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic/Welder Temporary Full Time until June 2014 40 hours per week – 10 hours per day; Sunday to Saturday 0700 to 0700.

This is a Salary Range 12 position ($30.97 to $36.45 per hour).

Apply to careers@ whitehorse.ca by 11:59pm February 5. For details, please visit our website.

www.whitehorse.ca

Miscellaneous for Sale BETTER BID NORTH AUCTIONS Foreclosure, bankruptcy De-junking, down-sizing Estate sales.

Specializing in estate clean-up & buy-outs.

The best way to deal with your concerns.

Free, no obligation consultation.

333-0717 We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, cameras, furniture, antiques, artwork, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, vehicles & ATVs. G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS STAMPS, ALBUM of United Nations 1950s-70s, $30. 660-5101 NIKON 401X Autofocus Camera for slides/prints, 90 mm Lens with Nikon adaptors, lg Lowepro Camera bag, $50, Slik tripod, $50. 660-5101 COMMERCIAL PROPANE 48” flat top griddle, reconditioned. 333-0943 STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca DISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect Home Phone Service. No One Refused! Low Monthly Rate! Calling Features and Unlimited Long Distance Available. Call National Teleconnect Today!

1-866-443-4408. www.nationalteleconnect.com.

PORCELAIN COLLECTIBLE dolls, various prices. 667-6847 2 WATER pumps, 1 1/2” Homelite, like new, and 3” Briggs and Stratton. 633-6553 3 TON chain hoist, new, 30,000 BTU propane forced air heater, new. 633-6553 JIM ROBB prints, "Moon over the Klondike", “Caribou Crossing", Bateman print "End of Season Grizzly", prints signed by the artists & framed. 633-6553

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 RENDEZVOUS RENTAL COSTUMES AND all accessories for the ladies, exquisite vests for gentlemen, wool tailcoats, ruffled shirts in many sizes, bowties, colored tophats, suspenders & feathers for fun. Phone 660-4218 RENDEZVOUS DRESS, blue velvet/gold trim, evening gown, size 8, c/w feather hat, purse, pic at Sequels, $200. 667-6752 MOVING OUT sale, queen size bed, quad, coffee table, wardrobe cabinet, ice fishing gear, Bradley smoker, dog sled, book shelves, Keurig coffee machine, cast iron pots/pans, etc. 335-2103

2 DOZ squirrel boards, $3 each, 8 Marten stretchers, $5 each, all made according to NAFA specifications. Mike 633-2945 1990 POLARIS Indy Lite 500cc, liquid cool, fun, fast trail machine, $1,700. 399-3911 MASON COMMERCIAL sewing machine for carpets, CM3.601, #3, second-hand, good cond, $600. 393-4552 MASTER CRAFT drill, 18 v. cordless c/w 2 batteries, $25. 334-7250

4 TONNE wood splitter, $100 obo. 335-2103

DAYTON EXHAUST fan c/w back draft damper, 1,500 CFM, $150. 667-6752 or 332-8706

RELIO M3 burner, $175. 667-6752 or 332-8706

MAKING JEWELLERY? 2 pkgs of jewellery equipment, great shape. 334-7250

TIGERLOOP FOR oil furnace or boiler, $100, 30-gal John Woods oil-fired hot water tank, $500. 667-6752 or 332-8706

Electrical Appliances

BINDERS IN exc cond, different sizes. $1 to $2/piece, 335-7535

KENMORE DRYER, front loader, works great, $300. Also nw pump out of Kenmore washer, $40. 332-7797

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y

COMMUNITY WELLNESS SOCIAL WORKER Position Type: Full-time, Term - one year Department: Health - Counselling Unit Salary: Level 6 - $66,107 to $79,329 plus benefits Closing: Jan. 23, 2014 For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y DIRECTOR - EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE Position Type: Full-time, Permanent Department: Education Closing: Feb. 7, 2014 Salary: Level 9 - $90,352 to $117,458 For complete details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

KENMORE CERAMIC top range, convection, self-clean, delay cook, etc, top end model, works well, $300, can deliver in Whse area, 667-2276 KENMORE 12 cu ft deep freeze, $150.

250-651-7868

DRYER FOR sale $150, exc cond, matching washer to give away, broken switch, unbalanced drum. 336-1864 after 5pm HOTPOINT (GE) washer & dryer, 8 years old, works great (we upgraded) $500 obo for both. 334-5323

E M P L OY M E N T O P P O RT U N I T Y TUTOR (Part-Time Casual to June 10, 2014) Department: Education Closing: Feb. 7, 2014 Salary: $25-$30/hour, depending on experience For full details, visit www.kwanlindun.com/employment

SELKIRK

FIRST NATION

expression of interest Selkirk First Nation is seeking interested individuals for one contract position as Chief Returning Officer, and one contract position as Deputy Chief Returning Officer to administer the Selkirk First Nation General Election, according to the Selkirk First Nation Election Act (2013).

Interested individuals can obtain a Request for Proposal package from the Selkirk First Nation office.

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014, at 4:30 p.m.

Inquiries or submissions can be sent by email or facsimile to:

SelkiRk FiRSt NatiON

attention: albert Drapeau, executive Director PHONe: 867-537-3331 | FaCSiMile: 867-537-3902 eMail: execdir@selkirkfn.com

ANTIQUE WOOD cook stove, warming oven, water jacket, ready to use, $900.

336-1412 DALL SHEEP shoulder mount for sale. Pristine condition and craftsmanship. Wildlife Act Permit # 5320 $1,000.00 Call Dan 867-336-1412 YUKON PARKA, womenʼs sz small, red with wolf trim, midlength, good shape, 335-0342 WOMENS TELEMARK boots, Garmont Venus size 24.5, fits womens 8-8.5, never worn or thermo-molded, great for the backcountry, $200 obo. 335-0342 BAFFIN SNOPACKS Boots, sz 12, Arctic type, new, $90. 660-5101 FUJI S5000 digital camera, one owner, $75, http://www.dcviews.com/_fuji/s5k.htm, 336-1412 WOOD LATHE with bench, 3/4 hp, adjustable speed, $250. 660-5101 DENBY "MEMORIES" Stoneware, complete set for 4 dinner plates, side plates, soup bowls, cups & saucers plus 1 quiche/serving plate, oven, dishwasher, freezer safe, exc cond, $175 obo. 633-4618 DAY LIGHT, safe effective bright light therapy. like new, $130. 335-8964 ROYAL DOULTON "Carnation" Fine Bone China 4 dinner plates, 4 side plates, 4 salad plates, 3 teacups, 4 saucers, good cond, $75 obo. 633-4618 4-PERSON SOFT tub from Waterstone, 4 yrs. old, exc cond, no special wiring required, take home and set up in a day, 334-6724 COFFE MACHINE, DeLonghi Magnifica ESAM 3000 B Automatic Cappuccino, precoffee directly from beans, imported, exc cond, $290. 335-8964 WOOD STOVE, $200. 250-651-7868 WOODEN 250-651-7868

TOOL

boxes, $40 ea.

BOGS, WOMENʼS size US 10, rated to minus 40C, new, only worn once, $141 new, asking $110. 667-2715 STEEL BUILDING...”THE BIG YEAR END CLEAR OUT!” 20X22 $4,259. 25X24 $4,684.

30X34 $6,895. 35X36 $9,190. 40X48 $12,526. 47X70 $17,200. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca BLACK & Decker bread machine, like new, $40. 667-6752 MOULINEX MASTERCHEF 850 food processor, makes juice, slices, chops, $100 obo.

667-6752 MOTOMASTER HYDRAULIC Body and Frame Repair Kit, 4-ton hydraulic pressure, 18 pc set, used once, like new, 1/2 price of new for $80. 336-1412

Castle Rock Enterprises accepting applications for: Paving Operator, Screed Operators, Rakers and Labourers DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Paver Operator: • Maintain proper paver maintenance and operation.

• Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Operate paver and control asphalt delivery to and placement by the paver to mitigate mix segregation and support of screed personnel to maintain required asphalt thickness and smoothness requirements.

• Coordinate truck dumping.

Screed Operator: • Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Observe and control distribution of asphalt mix to ensure uniformity to obtain specified compacted mat thickness and cross section while achieving proper surface drainage with minimal segregation.

• Ability to discuss and plan daily project paving procedures and goals with fellow paving personnel to maximize productivity and workmanship.

Rakers & Labourers: • Able to follow direction, abide by company rules and comply with safety policies and OH&S regulation.

• Clean or prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.

REQUIRED ABILITIES: • Physically fit in order to perform manual labor and work extended hours.

Wages will commensurate with experience.

Please submit resumes with cover letter as follows: No phone calls please. office@castlerockent.com Or fax: 867-633-2621

Castle Rock Enterprise is looking for a qualified and skilled Paving Superintendent to work in the construction and maintenance of driveways, parking lots and roadways.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Plans, assigns, schedules, and supervises the work of laborers, truck drivers, and equipment operators engaged in the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of streets, driveways, and parking lots; including grading, excavation, base prepping, paving and patching.

• Knowledge and experience for the proper setup, operation and maintenance of paver auger feed and automatic grade control systems.

• Supervise and assist in land leveling projects.

• Instructs and trains employees in the safe operation of construction equipment and tools and in job techniques and skills.

• Prepare time and other required reports.

• Monitor quality control to ensure specifications are met.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE High school diploma or GED; related experience including supervisory or lead experience and considerable experience in construction and maintenance projects including some supervisory experience in the related area; or any equivalent combination of training and experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES • Thorough knowledge of paving operations • Knowledge of practices, methods, equipment, materials and tools used in construction and maintenance.

• Knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions of the work.

• Ability to interpret and work from instructions, penciled plans and sketches, and construction drawings.

• Ability to layout, direct and supervise construction and major repair projects.

• Ability to supervise the work of others.

• Ability to keep records and to prepare work and timely reports.

Wages will commensurate with experience.

Please submit resumes with cover letter as follows: No phone calls please. office@castlerockent.com Or fax: 867-633-2621

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Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS 32 INCH Sony Bravia Flatscreen TV, $125.00. 334-1785 BLACK 19" & gray 27" TV's, exc cond, no storage room, $20 for the 19” and $30 for the 27". 334-2888

Computers & Accessories BROTHER MFC 290 Printer, exc cond, printer, scanner, fax, includes cords & new ink $99 obo. 633-4618

1967 GIBSON J50 acoustic guitar w B-Band pickup, hard shell case, fabulous sound, $1,900. 336-1412

Firewood

Duke’s Firewood standing dry beetle Killed spruce

avoid the Fall rush & prices! spring Wood prices: 6 cord load $210/cord $230 for multiples of 2 cords Come cut your own at $75/cord Approx 20 cord truckload logs $2800 Approx 8 cord loads of 20ft dry logs $1300

cash and debit accepted

334-8122

Musical Instruments We will buy your musical instrument or lend you money against it.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com DRUM KIT, bass, floor tom, snare, high hat, 2 hanging toms, 2 cymbals. 393-3929 CASIO KEYBOARD, CTK-710 with stand, gently used, great for beginner. 633-4699 DRUMS, BLACK 5 piece Westbury Pro-Cussion kit with drummer's stool for $275. 335-9875

ANTIQUE 1960'S Gerhard Heintzman upright piano, $1,800 obo. 334-3053

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC. Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

✔ Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed ✔ Everything over 8" split ✔ $250 per cord (2 cords or more) ✔ Single and emergency half cord deliveries ✔ You-cut and you-haul available ✔ Scheduled or next day delivery

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash S.A. vouchers accepted.

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanic Key Responsibilities: This position is responsible for safely completing all fleet and commercial mechanical repairs to trucks, trailers, and other equipment. Ideally you have achieved your journeyman status of the Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic or Truck & Transport Mechanic program and are able to diagnose and complete repairs on all aspects of heavy equipment. This position will also entail completion of work orders and offering direction and assistance to apprentice mechanics. Along with managing the Mechanics Shop you are responsible for scheduling of the fleet and commercial vehicles.

Wage: Starting at $40.00/hr and up, based on experience Schedule: This position has a Monday thru Friday work week, with shifts from 8:00am – 5:00pm and overtime and weekends as needed.

Qualifications and Skills • High School Diploma • Red-Seal Journeyman status in Heavy Equipment Technician, Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic and/or Truck & Transport Mechanic • CVIP License is an asset, or must be willing to obtain • Previous experience with repairing on-road heavy duty equipment is an asset • Strong mechanical aptitude and demonstrate the willingness to learn • Excellent interpersonal skills with proven leadership ability • Ability to triage the work in the Mechanics shop • Knowledge of the technology side of the mechanic’s job would be a huge asset as well.

This is a tremendous opportunity for a dynamic, ambitious and enthusiastic individual looking for a career with a vibrant and growth oriented company. If this sounds like something that would interest you, we want to hear from you.

Our preferred method of application is to email resumes to sheldon@pnwgroup.ca We would like to thank all candidates in advance for their interest in this position, however only those being considered will be contacted.

Applications are being accepted until February 3rd 2014.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed $3,000 per logging truck load Delivered to Whitehorse Approximately 20 cord loads Also community deliveries Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 HURLBURT ENTERPRISES $250 per cord We have wood. You-cut, You-haul available.

Discount for larger quantities.

Stockpiled in Whitehorse for PROMPT Delivery Visa, M/C, Cheque, Cash Dev Hurlburt 335-5192 • 335-5193 EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery • Dry accurate cords • Clean shavings available • VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432

Cheapest wood from Haines Junction!!

CGFJ WOODCUTTING SERVICE Delivered $220 - 16” lengths $200 - 4ʼ lengths Prompt, friendly service Dry timber, money-back guarantee Prices vary for Communities 689-1727 FIREWOOD Clean, beetle-kill, dry Ready for pick-up, $210/cord or Local delivery, $250/cord 1/2 cords also available for pick-up only Career Industries @668-4360 DIMOK TIMBER 6 CORD OR 22 CORD LOADS OF FIREWOOD LOGS BUNDLED SLABS U-CUT FIREWOOD @ $105/CORD CALL 634-2311 OR EMAIL DIMOKTIMBER@GMAIL.COM ANDYʼS FIREWOOD SERVICE February 1st Price Drop!

Limited time quantity offer Haines Junction Standing Dry Fully stacked, measured cords $220/cord - 7-cord loads $230/cord - small orders Stock up now!

667-6429

DONʼS FIREWOOD 20-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun Wy wait? Prompt delivery $245/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397

DRY SPRUCE FIREWOOD $250/cord Call David 335-3616

Guns & Bows

1ST QUALITY heating wood Season-dried over 3-yrs. to be picked up on Levich Drive in Mt. Sima industrial subdivision.

Complete info at 335-0100.

TEN TON Firewood Services $150/cord for 10-cord load - 30ʼ lengths $200/cord - 3-cord load 11' lengths $240/cord - bucked up, discounts on multiple-cord orders Call or text David 867-332-8327

Case cutlery, high quality hand-crafted pocket and hunting knives available at G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS BUSHNELL 15 x 60 spotting scope, older, aluminum construction, extendable light barrel, mechanical fine focus, lens cover, rarely used, $75.00. 336-1412

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

Please check www.volunteeryukon.ca to find more volunteer opportunities.

Call for Visual Arts Facilitators!

It would also be appreciated if artists could send one or two images of their work, but is not required.

The Boys and Girls Club of Yukon (BGCY) is currently looking for facilitators in the following areas: · Print Making · Ceramics · Drawing/Painting · Fiber Arts

Honorariums may be discussed on case by case basis.

SAKO A7, stainless synthetic, 300 wm, bolt action, removable magazine, after market limbsaver recoil pad, rings, bases, 4 x Bushnell scope, sling swivels, $925 obo.

633-4322 LEE ENFIELD No. 4Mk2, c/w Redfield L9 scope, action glass bedded, PAL reqʼd, $350. 334-8175 WINCHESTER 12-GAUGE, pump action, c/w folding stock, pistol grip, sling. PAL reqʼd, $175. 334-8175 CROSSBOW FOXFIRE, 125 lbs older model, c/w pouch w spare parts, $125.

334-8175 COMPOUND BOW, Hoyt 45-60 older model, good shape, $125. 334-8175 WINCHESTER LONG barrel, lever action, 30-30 cal, Canadian Centennial model, used, good shape, $400 firm. 633-2488 or 333-5640 SAVAGE FOX BST sxs 16-gauge shotgun, 28” ventilated rib barrels, choked full/modified, checkered walnut stocks, beavertain forearm, gold trigger, recoil pad, good cond, $500, 633-2443 TOBIN ARMS 16-gauge shotgun, older model sxs, barrels choked full/modified, good bores, tight lock-up, good blueing in barrels, action/sidelocks have no blueing remaining, double triggers, $375. 633-2443 ENFIELD P-14 .303 British rifle, $150.

633-2443 ZEISS CONQUEST 3x9x40 rapid z-600 riflescope, exc cond, c/w original warranty card, $475. 335-8925 WINCHESTER MODEL 12 pump action 16-gauge shotgun, 28” barrel, full choke, good bore, good cond overall, hunting gun, not collector, $325. 633-2443

Wanted WANTED: OLDER snowmobiles, working, almost working, and not working. 456-4922 WANTED: VHS to DVD recorder. 456-4922 WANTED: USED dartboard in good condition 667-2940 WANTED: PROTECTIVE riding gear for dirtbike, 5ʼ09” & 180 lbs & size 8.5/9 mens.

667-2940 WANTED: OLD guitars and amplifiers for fix up or parts for cash, also any other musical instruments you may have. Dave at 333-9084 WANTED: 2003 753 bobcat snow blade, 336-3922 WANTED: A ukulele with case, 336-0096

Cars

Email applications to artpal@bgcyukon. com no later than Feb. 20th with the subject line: Facilitator Application. The BGCY arts program area leader will contact successful applicants.

The BGCY runs the Weekday Warrior program at four different elementary schools as well as the Teen-Drop in Center.

The students are preparing for an art show for the month of June. The purpose of these facilitators is to introduce the students to the professional art world and to reach them new artistic mediums.

The facilitator will be required to attend a general meeting with all facilitators and facilitate a project day. Our program runs between 3 and 6, Monday to Friday.

Facilitation must be presented with this frame.

In order to facilitate and with BGCY one must: · Complete a Criminal Reference Check, or · Have a Character Reference on their resume.

To apply please provide the following: · A short paragraph explaining your intended project and how the facilitation of your project will look · A current resume or CV.

Volunteers Wanted:

Battle of the Bands Event, January 31, 2014

2012 NISSAN Versa SL, 12,000km, 6-spd manual, HID headlights, DC air intake and exhaust, winter tires/rims, summer tires/17" rims, $16,500. 335-7878

Security, Ticket Sales, Set-up / tear-down, coat checker, Food & Beverage Sales

2009 DODGE Caliber SXT, 58,000kms, exc cond, mint inside, c/w command start, new mud/snow tires, $11,750 obo. 668-4206

BYTE and Frostbite Music Festival need volunteers to help out on the night of Battle of the Bands on January 31st, 2014.

Volunteers should plan to arrive at the event between 6 and 6:30 and to stay until late. You’ll get to assist with event logistics, spend time with the BYTE Team, meet Battle of the Bands competitors, judges, and sponsors, and get free food and refreshments.

Contact info@yukonyouth.com or call 667-7975 if you are interested!

You work for a non-profit organization and you would like to add your volunteer opportunities? Please click on http://www.volunteeryukon.ca/.

2008 PONTIAC G5, 5-sp manual, power windows/locks, great cond, low Kms, $12,000 obo. 633-2262 2007 DODGE Caliber, like new, 126,000 km, standard. C/w extra tires, stereo system, tow pkg, garage door opener. $9,500 obo.

456-4112 or 333-0236 2007 TOYOTA Matrix, std trans, exc running cond, $7,500. 633-2740 2005 CAVALIER, 5-speed, great cond, $4,000 obo. 336-0594 2004 CHEVY Optra 4dr sedan, manual, 100,000kms, $4,200 obo. 456-7026 2004 FORD Focus, 2 dr hatchback, auto, 237,000 kms, well-maintained, great car, 667-7535 2004 HONDA Civic LX, 88,000 km, c/w 17' maxxis ferris rims, injen cold air intake, 335-5036 for details. $8,000 obo. 335-5036 2002 CHEVY Tracker, 124,000km, 5 sp, 35 mpg, studded ice & summer tires, driving lights, $7,000. 335-3656 after 5pm

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Community Services

2002 C H R Y S L E R Concorde LX, 117,000kms, leather, CD, A/C, fully optioned, super clean cond, $3,800. 335-3868

2002 MUSTANG GT, 8-cyl standard, low kms, great cond, $8,500. 633-2740 2001 FORD Crown Vic, V8 auto, c/w winter tires, reliable car, $2,000 firm, call or text 867-332-7781 1998 HONDA Civic 4-dr, auto, a/c, 179,000 miles, 2 sets tires, great cond, $2,200.

334-5964 1998 SUBARU Forester, manual, 230,200 kms, new radiator, snow tires, AWD, good cond, $3,200 obo, text 250-499-0495

Trucks

We Sell Trucks!

1-866-269-2783 • 9039 Quartz Rd. • Fraserway.com

2012 4X4 Toyota Tacoma, access cab, 4-cyl standard, new snow tires, good cond, $23,000 obo. 633-3347 2010 DODGE 3500 Laramie dually, 4X4, 29,000kms, every option plus, mint cond, $65,000 obo. 668-4206 2009 SUBARU Tribeca Ltd, loaded, 7-seater, CD/DVD, heated seats, remote start, back-up camera, regularly serviced, 50,000kms, $22,900. 667-6752 2008 F250 supercab, 7' flatdeck, 5.4L V8, 4WD, auto, recently serviced, new windshield/battery, winter package, new tires/ rims, low kms. $11,500 obo. 334-3049 lv msg

15” NOKIAN winter tires on alloy rims, 195x65R from 2001 Honda accord, 65% treadwear remaining, $1,500 new, asking $500. 335-5964

Pets 8 MONTH old Chihauhau available for stud service. Purebred tea cup. Exchange for pick of the litter. Contact 393-3868 LARGE DOG Whisperer dog crate, wood & metal, 250-651-7868 SPRINT SLED for sale, mint cond, blue/yellow sled bag, snow hook incl, $900.

335-2103 FREE TO good home male hypoallergenic poodle X . Quiet and calm very gentle demeanour. Would do well with children and likes cats. 335-6343 NEW FULLY insulated dog house for small to medium dog, measures 32"x32"x22 high, opening 12"x14", finished inside, shingled roof & painted. 668-7369

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles TAITʼS CUSTOM TRAILER SALES 2-3-4- place snowmobile & ATV trailers Drive on Drive off 3500 lb axles

by Trailtech - SWS & Featherlight CALL ANYTIME: 334-2194 www/taittrailers.com

2002 CHEVY Tracker, 124,000km, studded ice and summer tires, 5 speed, driving lights, 35 mpg, $7,000 obo. 335-4656 after 5:00pm 2002 FORD Windstar, 270,000kms, bucket middle seats, bench 3rd row, new stereo, power locks, windows, mirrors & power sliding back doors, runs great, summer/winter tires, $4,000. 334-2888 2001 DODGE Dakota Sport RT, 5.9L, auto, new tires/windshield, low kms, exc cond, $6,500. 633-2740 2000 FORD F150 XL Triton V8 4X4, new brakes master/cylinder 2012, engine replaced 2007, well maintained, $2,500 obo.

660-4567 2000 YUKON XL SLT, 198,000kms, exc shape, $7,500 obo. 633-3088 1996 CHEV 1500 Silverado Ext Cab w/canopy/suspension air bags, lots of recent work, needs brake master cylinder/steering column combo switch, $2,750 obo. 334-7262 1994 FORD F250 Econoline van, runs, needs windshield/battery, insulated, and 1995 Ford Aerostar, runs, needs TLC & windshield. Info 333-9358

2003 RXI Yamaha 1000 turbo sled, for parts or rebuild, low miles, $1,500. 334-5739 2010 VK pro 4 stroke widetrack, red, 1600 km, located in Dawson but will deliver to Whitehorse if needed, $10,000 firm, 993-6217 PITSTER PRO X2 140cc 2011 model, some cosmetic damage but repairable, runs great, $900 obo. 335-8405 1996 ARCTIC Cat Bearcat 440 162" track, fan cooled, good cond, new pistons, rebuilt clutches, completely serviced, $3,200.

334-8261 2004 YAMAHA WR 450F, street legal, elec start, Rekluse clutch, bar riser, heat grips TrailTech Vapor digital gauge, low miles, well maintained, $4,200 obo. 633-5495 2011 YAMAHA 25hp LS 4 Stroke outboard w/ 5gal tank/stand, less than 60 hours, well maintained, yearly maintenance on lower unit oil/lube changes, quiet, easy to start, $3,950. 334-8324 2010 SWT Skandic, 800 4 stroke, 8,000kms, new track, good cond, $9,000 obo.

390-2689

weighing 7lbs 13oz

2004 DODGE 1500 4x4 Laramie, fully loaded, c/w canopy, new tires, windshield, $12,500, call or text 867-334-2846

Pet of the Week!

B

ianca

Hey hey hey!

I’m Bianca!

I’m a well behaved young lady who just loves to cuddle up to whoever is closest. I’m super excited to be out of isolation, now I have a couple friends to play with! Come on by and say hi soon!

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

www.humanesocietyyukon.ca

1990 TOYOTA Hiace, 4wd, 4-cyl diesel, auto, excellent fuel consumption, seats 8, middle seats swivel, 128,000 kms. $3,900.

333-9020

Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 6 750X15 bias ply directional lug snow tires with tubes, good for plowng snow, $25 ea or offers, 667-6752 or 332-8706

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For inFormation call

633-6019

LOST/FOUND LOST

• MCINTyRE AREA, 10yrs old, black with white on chest and white toes, male, wearing camo collar with city tags. if found contact Jarmah @ 335-4802 • GRANGER AREA, choc. labX , f/s, wearing a black collar with pink paw prints on it, answers to Gunniss. if found contact mike @ 250-775-0570 (24-01-14) • MT SIMA AREA, 7 yrs old, f/s, black and brown GSD/ HuskyX no collar right eye is half blue. if found contact mia @ 333-0383. (28/01/14).

• GRANGER AREA, choc. lab 5 months old, female, no collar. if found contact todd @ 332-3814 (28/01/14).

FOUND

• GRANGER AREA, 4 month old choc. lab, female, no collar. if this is your dog please call 456-2222.

(25/01/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

if you have lost a pet, remember to check with city Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

• 5 year old, spayed female, lab/Pit Bull X, black (Gaia) • 3 yr old, female spayed, BeardogX GSD, black and tan (Holly)

DOGS

1990 NISSAN 4X4 5-spd, regular cab, c/w winch, extensive maintenance done, invoice available, c/w utility trailer electric hook-up, $2,500 obo. 633-2837

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box

WeDneSDay, January 29

• 6 months old, female, Husky / labX, blonde (Winnie)

CATS

• 11 month old, neutered male, DlH, grey (Deegan)

AT THE SHELTER

1990 DODGE 1-ton van, V8, auto, rear cabinets c/w heater, mint cond (needs differential), near-new rubber, $1,400. 667-7777

Auto Parts & Accessories

Hours of operation for tHe sHelter: Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm • Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CloSed Sundays & Mondays

633-6019

Thanks to Dr. Gudapati & all the nurses who helped with the delivery.

1992 DIESEL Pathfinder, right-hand drive, 190,000kms, $4,250 obo. 668-2773

WANTED: LOOKING for 4-wd mid-size pick-up truck, standard, with ext cab.

660-4321

Pet Report

2005 FIRE Cat 700 runs awsome, low kms. $3,000. 336-3922

Sativa Laurel Joanne Lewis on January 15, 2014,

2005 GMC Sierra, crew cab, leather, Bose stereo, lots of miles, regularly serviced, runs good, $6,500. 334-5739

2003 TACOMA TRD, 4 cyln, 2 wh/drv, 180,000 miles double cab, PWR, AC, new winter tires, well maintained, $7,500.

335-4436

RONʼS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVʼs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

Beth Dawson, Calvin Lewis & big brother Rayden are pleased to announce the arrival of

2007 TOYOTA Sienna limited AWD 7 passenger minivan, 74,000 kms, power sliding doors/rear hatch, sunroof, every option available, new winter tires on rims. 333-9020

2003 FORD Explorer SportTrac XLT, 4x4, 4L.V6, 4-door, heated leather seats, remote start, sunroof, c/w 4 winter tires, pickup box cover & extension rack. $7,500. Call 667-6951 eves

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Little Footprints, Big Steps was founded to provide ongoing care and protection for the children of Haiti. We welcome and greatly appreciate your support. Please check our website to donate, fundraise or to get involved.

• 4 mos old, female, husky X, blonde (Bianca) • 1 yr old, neutered male, labX GSD, black and tan ( rider) • 5 yr old, neutered male, labX collie, black (arlo) • 1 yr old, neutered male, Pekingese, white and brown (christmas) • 8 wks old, female, alaska malamute/ Husky, tan and black (Dasher) • 8wks old, female, alaska malamute / Husky, tan and black (Donner) • 2 yr old, neutered male, black and white, Husky X (D.o.G) • 1 yr old, female, blonde, Husky/ lab X (lucky) • 5 months old, male, Husky, white (cupid) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/ rottweiler, black and brown (

• • • •

CATS

• 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy) • 6 months old,DSH, grey and white, neutered male (moss) • 2 yr old, DSH, white and black, neutered male (tom) • 6mos old, DSH, black and white, neutered male (onyx) • 3 yr old, DmH, black and white, spayed female (cece)

SPECIAL • Homes needed for retired sled dogs. they would make excellent pets.

Please contact 668-3647 or kennelmanager@muktuk.com if your lost animal has been inadvertently left off the pet report or for more info on any of these animals, call 633-6019 or stop by 126 Tlingit Street.

www.littlefootprintsbigsteps.com

This ad sponsored by the

trouble) 8 months old, spayed female, black, StaffordshireX, black ( Peanut) 8 months old, male, StaffordshireX, black ( tank) 1yr old, neutered male, mastiffX, brindle and white (apollo) 4mos old, male, Blue Heeler/Pitbull, white and black (Skylos)

Pets will be posted on the Pet report for two weeks. Please let us know after that time if you need them re-posted.

You can also check out our award winning website at:

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MICHAEL KELLY Patriot elec guitar, set-neck construction, mahogany body/neck, flame maple top, rosewood fretboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, 24 3/4" scale, tune-o-matic bridge, MK PAF pickups, $300. 336-1412 2 SKIDOOS, 1995 Phazer 488 and Arctic Cat F700, both in good shape, 390-2313 TO GIVE away, 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300RZZ GSX-R Sport Bike, 100% mechanically ok, starkjohn336@yahoo.com 2009 BEARCAT XT wide track 570, 3,500kms, reverse, winch, 2-up seat, heated grips, $5,800. 335-2083 8FT LONG skimmer toboggan for snowmobile. Teflon with metal frame. Manufactured locally by Art Lock. $1,800 new, asking $1,000. 332-5364 2013 SUMMIT XM 163, 1400 kms, lots of upgrades, fantastic sled in amazing shape. $12,500 obo. 335-3633 250 SUZUKI Sport quad, mint cond, good for young rider, $750. 335-2103

D-8K STRAIGHT blade, double hydraulic tilts, new corner bits & cutting edges (still in pkg, never installed), $5,000. 667-7777

LPW-2 CYL Lister 6kw genset, new engine, $6,000. 633-4822 LISTER 3 cyl, 6kw genset, $5,500. Yanmar 8kw, low hrs, mounted on fuel tank, $7,000.

633-4822 KUBOTA ENCLOSED genset 10kw, mounted on fuel tank and on wheels, $7,000. Lister 3 cyl, 14kw, mounted on oil sump, $5,000. 633-4822 DEUTZ 1 cyl, 5kw genset, $5,000. Lister 2 cyl, 4.5kw genset, $5,500. Ph 633-4822 BOBCAT S650, good condition, must sell, I canʼt drive. $1,000 firm. 334-4474

2012 KODIAK Yamaha ATV 450 4x4 EPS, exc shape, 34.8 hrs and 105 km, c/w winch, plow, hitch, 4ʼ dump trailer, paid $9,900, asking $9,000 obo. 633-6855

FORD LOUISVILLE fuel truck, A-train tank trailer, 3208 Cat diesel, $6,500, parting out 945 Fiat Allis Loader, good 29.5x29 tires, $3,000 ea, 250-651-7773

2010 RMK assault, new 146 2/12 paddle track, new chain case sprockets/chain, 2 extra windshields, new sliders, ice scratchers, slp silencer, extra clutch weights, call or text 335-1983

2002 CAT 315 CL excavator, 5,000 hrs, quick change, dig bucket, thumb, $55,000, 2 rebuilt 6” & 1 10” flight pumps, $10,000 & $20,000. 250-651-7773.

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 98 SEA sport efi 5.0 liter/dp furuno radar raymarine chartplotter/fishfinder, autopilot 2012 9.9 highthrust kicker wallas two burner stove with blower under 500 hrs. $45,000 obo.

633-6502 HOUSEBOAT ATLIN Lake 12x54, refurbished, dishes, fish finder, life jackets, rod holders, ext. 14' front deck, 2 way radio, trailer, one year storage, moorage conditions apply, $55,000. 778-233-2855

Heavy Equipment HOBART 2 2 5 AMP, gas powered welder/genset on transport wagon, $2,500 obo. 633-6502

10KW LISTER genset, $1,500, 37KW Cat genset w fresh D311 engine, $3,500.

250-651-7773 45,000 L envirotank, $15,000, 2 lg., 1 sm.

Knelson concentrators, misc hardrock machines, 250-651-7773

Campers & Trailers TAITʼS TRAILERS www.taittrailers.com taits@northwestel.net Quality new and used Horse * Cargo * Equipment trailers For sale or rent Call Anytime 334-2194 Southern prices delivered to the Yukon TRAILER 5ʼX10ʼ, HD construction, 3 new tires, stake pockets, 2 toys or firewood, 5km on new trailer, $700 obo, 456-4137 after 4pm 48ʼ TRAILER & 53ʼ insulated trailer, $6,000 obo ea. 633-3088

YUKON SCHUTZHUND Association AGM, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room.

Dog training enthusiasts invited.

LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre, Foodie Club meeting February 10th 7:00pm. Discover East India cuisine. Register 667-7083, more info www.mountlorne.yk.net

ATLIN GUEST HOUSE Deluxe Lakeview Suites Sauna, Hot Tub, BBQ, Internet, Satellite TV Kayak Rentals In House Art Gallery 1-800-651-8882 Email: atlinart@yahoo.ca www.atlinguesthouse.com

WEEKLY DROP-IN Recovery Group meetings, Wednesdays: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Alcohol and Drug Services. Call 667-5777 for more information

LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre February 8th Coffeehouse, Two Piano Tornado with Annie Avery, Grant Simpson, doors open 7pm, tickets $18, info www.mountlorne.yk.net

SEEKING SAFETY Group, for women dealing with trauma and addiction. Call Alcohol and Drug Services at 667-5777 for more information

ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS “your quiet get away” Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

PEER FACILITATED Support Group for people with a diagnosis of cancer. First Monday of each month, Copper Ridge Place, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Next meeting February 3, 2014. Info: yukonsupport@hotmail.com

ROTARY MUSIC Festival online registration is open until February 1st. Regulations & Syllabus document available online, www.rmfestival.ca. For info: 393-2389 or rmfestival@yahoo.ca

Coming Events

GOLD SHAKER sluice box, spray bar, on metal skids, $5,000, for info call 867-536-7610

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. Group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713 HOSPICE YUKON: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement. Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F 11:30-3:00, www.hospiceyukon.net, 667-7429 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 17 au 19 janvier : fin de semaine réservée aux activités non motorisées. 867-667-3910 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekend, Jan 17-19. Other weekends & weekdays, Multi-Use. For more info: 867-667-3910 THE YUKON Orienteering Association AGM will be held Jan. 29, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sport Yukon boardroom. Members are welcome.

LDAY SNOWSHOE Loppet: Saturday, February 1st at Mt. Mac, 2.5 and 5 km routes.

Hot lunch, prizes and silent auction. $20 adults/$10 children/$40 families. www.ldayukon.com/668-5167 for details QUEER YUKON: upcoming socials events for the LGBT and allies community at www.queeryukon.com. Bowling night, Rendezvous Drag Dance, Film Fests and more!

FALUN GONG, an advanced practice of Buddha school self-cultivation. Fa study Monday, Wednesday, Friday at Wood Street Annex from 6 p.m. No charge. For an introduction to the practice call 633-6157

PEER FACILITATED Support Group for people with a diagnosis of cancer. First Monday of each month, Copper Ridge Place, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Next meeting February 3, 2014. Info: yukonsupport@hotmail.com YUKON WIG Bank provides wigs, free of charge, to individuals suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment. For more information contact: yukonsupport@hotmail.com QUALITY ASSURANCE Course for Health Canada's COMMERCIAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM. February 22 & 23 Best Western Hotel, Kelowna, BC. Tickets: www.greenlineacademy.com or 1-855-860-8611 or 250-870-1882

LORNE MOUNTAIN Centre Skate-A-Thon, February 16th 2:00pm. Join us for fundraising activity for the whole family, pledge forms, info on great prizes, www.mountlorne.yk.net

RickRicard

June 8, 1961 - January 28, 2006 We thought of you today.

But that is nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday, and the day before that too.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting. All welcome!

Thursday January 30, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room 3:45 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon

We think of you in silence, we often speak your name, all we have are memories and a picture in a frame.

PORTER CREEK Community Association meeting Monday, February 3rd, 5:15 pm at the Guild Hall. More information 633-4829.

Everyone Welcome. Come show your support YUKON GIRL Guides celebrate 100 years of Guiding history. Exhibit opens Sat Feb 1 at 2:00pm, MacBribe Museum. Reception open to public. There will be cookies! Phone 667-2709 or 667-2455

Your memory is a keepsake from which we’ll never part.

A DAY of Quiet Retreat at Hospice Yukon, Sunday, February 2. Remember your loved one with writing, painting, collage or simple reflection. 667-7429 info@hospiceyukon.net

God has you in His hands, and we have you in our hearts.

YUKON LIBERAL Party Leadership. Per YLP constitution 29A, this is notice of a leadership convention to be held March 1, 2014.

See ylp.ca for details

Ben, David, Amy and Michelle Ricard

MT LORNE Classic Ski Race 2014, Feb 22nd noon, info and registration @ www.mountlorne.yk.net

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse:

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THE YuKoN NEWS IS AlSo AVAIlABlE AT No CHARGE IN All YuKoN CoMMuNITIES AND ATlIN, B.C.

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY * FRIDAY

GWAANDAK AND YAC present public reading of Paradise by Patti Flather, Feb. 4th, 6;30pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Artist Studio, admission by donation, limited space, RSVP at 393-2676 or marketing@gwaandaktheatre

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 DANCE PARTY! Put on your summer clothes and make the snow melt! Jan. 30, 10pm, Yukon Arts Centre Lobby, 393-2676, info@gwaandaktheatre.com, facebook/gwaandaktheatre.com

YUKON CIRCLE of Change AGM Thursday February 6, 7:30, Whitehorse Library. Get involved in creating positive change in our community. www.yukoncircleofchange.com

GWAANDAK THEATRE et l'AFY offrent un atelier en théâtre physique avec l'acteur, chorégraphe et éducateur, Trevor Copp le 1er février, de 13 h à 16h, au Centre de la francophonie. 668-2663, vhamel@afy.yk.ca

2014/2015 FRENCH Immersion Kindergarten Info Night: Thur. Feb. 6th at Whitehorse Elementary: 6pm. Info: 667-8083

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Association general sharing meeting. All welcome!

Thursday January 30, Whitehorse Public Library meeting room, 3:45 pm. Find out/tell us about EE in Yukon

ZERO WASTE Garage Sale, Saturday, February 14th, 10:00am to 2:00pm, Canada Games Centre, $20/table by February 7th.

633-5402 for info JACK HULLAND School Council, regular council meeting February 5, 2014, 7:00pm, school library, everyone welcome

ELIJAH SMITH School Council regular council meeting February 4, 2014, 6:30pm, school library, everyone is welcome

pUBlIC TENdER

PUBLIC TENDER

PUBLIc TENdEr

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL

MOOSE HABITAT STRATIFICATION SURVEY - MAYO

DOOR ACCESS SYSTEM, COPPER RIDGE PLACE - BLDG.# 1389 WHITEHORSE, YUKON

SUPPLY OF SATELLITE EQUIPMENT

CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR NEW WHITEHORSE CONTINUING CARE FACILITY - BUSINESS CASE ANALYSIS AND PRE-CONCEPT PLANNING WHITEHORSE, YUKON 2014

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Wayne Beauchemin at (867) 667-8039.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 14, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Anwar Rizvi at (867) 667-3533.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rose Heisz at (867) 667-5797.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 7, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Johnstone at (867) 667-8450.

Site Visit: January 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Energy, Mines and Resources

public Tender iSOTOpe AnAlYSiS (cArbOn, niTrOGen, SulpHur) OF cArniVOre SAMpleS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL #2014-002

DSM Launch Support Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC) and Yukon Electrical Company Limited (YECL) are inviting proposal responses from qualified firms to provide a full suite of services for the implementation of the Yukon Five Year Demand Side Management (DSM) Plan. YEC and YECL will be jointly implementing and operating the DSM Programs under the public brand ‘inCharge’.

The Utilities will be engaging a contractor who will bring more than ten years of utility DSM experience with specific experience in participant delivery systems and processes, market understanding, ability to provide guidance related to financial management and an understanding of ‘best practices’ in other Canadian jurisdictions. The contractor will provide on the ground local services to work directly with the Yukon DSM team.

Sealed proposals, clearly marked “RFP# 2014-002 DSM Launch Support” will be received up to 4:00:00 PM Yukon time, March 2, 2014, at Yukon Energy’s corporate offices, #2 Miles Canyon Road, Box 5920, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail. To obtain a Request for Proposal package contact Matthew Sills at Yukon Energy Corporation, 867-393-5335 or e-mail at matthew.sills@yec.yk.ca .

WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

House Hunters Advertise your Home in 3 issues (3 consecutive weeks)

for only $60+GST PHONE: 867-667-6283

HeMATOlOGY AnAlYSiS OF cArniVOre SAMpleS project description: Environment Yukon requires hematology analysis of carnivore samples.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Environment

Environment Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

public Tender

PubLIC TENDER

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL WATER SAMPLING AND MONITORING SERVICES FOR YUKON MINE SITES AND MINE REMEDIATION PROJECTS

project description: Environment Yukon requires analysis of carnivore samples for carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes. The lab must also complete isotope analysis on plant material and tissue samples.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: Environment Yukon requires quantitative fatty acid signature analysis of carnivore samples to assess diet.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Project Description: Provision of surface and ground water sampling and monitoring services related to Yukon mine sites and mine remediation projects for the Assessment and Abandoned Mines Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 26, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Carenn Kormos at (867) 3937429.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Environment

Environment

Energy, Mines and Resources

FATTY ACID ANALYSIS OF CARNIVORE SAMPLES

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Stand out from the crowd and be seen!

Advertise your business in the Yukon News.

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ALL-CITY BAND Dessert & Dance, Feb 9, 2013 7:00pm featuring The Big Band, Westmark Whitehorse, tickets: Riverside Grocery, Dean's Strings, online @ allcityband.com Home-Baked Desserts!

YUKON GREEN Party AGM, Friday, February 7th, 6:30pm, Whitehorse Public Library, election of directors, refreshments. Everyone welcome, come and volunteer.

633-3392 or yukongreenparty@gmail.com for details

WORLD-RENOWNED COMPOSERS of sacred music, Don Besig and Nancy Price, Whitehorse United Church, Saturday, February 15. Workshop 9:00am-3:00pm. 667-2989 to register

Services

CONCERT FEATURING world-renowned composers of sacred music, Don Besig and Nancy Price, Whitehorse United Church, Saturday February 15, 7:00pm. Free-will offering WHITEHORSE UNITED Church is again offering Singing Valentines, February 14. We do phone Valentines too, better get your orders in soon. 667-2989 COME TO the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition's monthly meeting on Thursday, February 20, 5:00pm to 7:00pm at CYO Hall. Everyone welcome. Call 334-9317

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Carcross Y.T. Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Library Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Carmacks Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Dawson City Y.T.

Thursday - 8:00 p.m.

New Beginners Group Richard Martin Chapel Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Saturday 7:00 p.m.

Community Support Centre 1233 2nd Ave.

Destruction Bay Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Faro Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Haines Junction Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Mayo Y.T.

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Old Crow Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Pelly Crossing Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Ross River Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Tagish Y.T. Monday 7:30pm Lightwalkers Group Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach Telegraph Creek B.C. Tuesday - 8:00 p.m.

Soaring Eagles Sewing Centre

Teslin Y.T. Wednesday - 7:00pm Wellness Centre #4 McLeary Friday - 1:30p.m.

Health Centre Watson Lake Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

- INSULATION Upgrade your insulation & reduce your heating bills Energy North Construction Inc. (1994) for all your insulation & coating needs Cellulose & polyurethane spray foam Free estimate: 667-7414 BACKHAULS, WHITEHORSE to Alberta.

Vehicles, Furniture, Personal effects etc.

Daily departures, safe secure dependable transportation at affordable rates. Please call Pacific Northwest Freight Systems @ 667-2050 SHARPENING SERVICES. For all your sharpening needs - quality sharpening, fair price & good service.

At corner of 6th & Strickland.

667-2988 MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles Kitchen, Bathroom, Doors, Windows Framing, Board, Drywall, Painting Drop Ceiling, Fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com THOMAS FINE CARPENTRY • construction • renovation • finishing • cabinets • tiling • flooring • repairs • specialty woodwork • custom kitchens 867-633-3878 or cell 867-332-5531 thomasfinecarpentry@northwestel.net DROWNING IN DEBT? Cut debts more than 60% & DEBT FREE in half the time! AVOID BANKRUPTCY! Free Consultation. www.mydebtsolution.com or Toll Free 1-877-556-3500 BBB Rated A+

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS in Whitehorse

MONDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 8:00 pm New Beginnings Group (OM,NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. TUESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 7:00 pm Juste Pour Aujourd’hui 4141B - 4th Avenue.

8:00 pm Ugly Duckling Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. WEDNESDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St..

8:00 pm Porter Crk Step Meeting (CM) Our Lady of Victory, 1607 Birch St. 8:00 pm No Puffin (CM,NS) Big Book Study Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. THURSDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Grapevine Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 6:00 pm Young People’s Meeting BYTE Office, 2-407 Ogilvie Street 7:30 pm Polar Group (OM) Seventh Day Adventist Church 1609 Birch Street (Porter Creek) FRIDAY: 12 noon Joy of Living (OM, NS) Big Book Discussion Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. 1:30 pm #4 Hospital Rd. (Resource Room) 8:00 pm Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) Maryhouse, 504 Cook St. SATURDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 2:30 pm Women’s Meeting (OM) Whitehorse General Hospital (room across from Emergency) 7:00 pm Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS) SUNDAY: 1:00 pm Sunshine Group (OM, NS) DETOX Building, 6118-6th Ave. 7:00 pm Marble Group Hospital Boardroom (OM, NS)

NS - No Smoking OM - open mixed, includes anyone CM - closed mixed, includes anyone with a desire to stop drinking

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AA 867-668-5878 24 HRS A DAY

NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Snow Shovelling and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 LOG CABINS & LOG HOMES Quality custom craftsmanship Using only standing dead local timber For free estimate & consultation contact: Eldorado Log Builders Inc. phone: 867.393.2452 website: www.ykloghomes.com

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 GET RESULTS! Post a classified in 125 newspapers in just a few clicks. Reach more than 2 million people for only $395 a week for 25-word text ad or $995 for small display ad. Choose your province or all across Canada. Best value. Save over 85% compared to booking individually. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222.

CITYLIGHT RENOS Flooring, tiling, custom closets Painting & trim, kitchens & bathrooms Fences & gates Landscaping & gardening Quality work at reasonable rates Free estimates Sean 867-332-1659 citylightrenos@gmail.com TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865

S.V.P. CARPENTRY Journey Woman Carpenter Interior/Exterior Finishing/Framing Small & Medium Jobs “Make it work and look good.”

Call Susana (867) 335-5957 susanavalerap@live.com www.svpcarpentry.com IBEX BOBCAT SERVICES “Country Residential Snow Plowing” •Post hole augering •Light landscaping •Preps & Backfills Honest & Prompt Service Amy Iles Call 667-4981 or 334-6369 LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368 IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It's That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

867-332-7879 SNOW CLEARING/REMOVAL Sidewalks, Driveways, Parking lots, Compounds Private and Commercial Properties Fast and reliable service Aurora Toolcat Services 867-334-8447 FINISHING CARPENTRY & RENOVATIONS For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, Wood & Laminate, Stairs.

EXTERIOR Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed DIDIER MOGGIA 633-2156 or cell 334-2156

60 Below Snow Management Commercial & Residential

Snow Removal (867) 336-3570

Parking Lots, Sidewalks, Rooftops and Sanding

AL-ANON MEETINGS contact 667-7142

Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking ???

WEDNESDAY 12:00 noon Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott

CLOSED DEC. 25TH FOR CHRISTMAS

FRIDAY

7:00 pm Lutheran Church Basement Beginners Mtg ( 4th & Strickland ) 8:00 pm Lutheran Church Basment Regular Mtg ( 4th & Strickland )

Snowblower and Shovelling Driveways, sidewalks, and Low sloped roofs Put me to work!

Good rates.

Call Dave at 333-9084 SNOW CLEARING No job too big or too small Skid Steer & Trailer Call Lawrence at 335-3390 Budo-Taijutsu-Ninjutsu Private, semi-private & group classes Esoteric lessons for the modern warrior More than self defence, This is a lifeʼs journey Sensei Jason Wyatt, Moku Senshi 334-3480 Property Management for Condos Accounting, Contractors, Reserve studies.

North of 56 Property Mgmt Call 332-7444

Lost & Found LOST: DENIM fur-lined vest on Main St. Jan. 14, would really appreciate it being returned, no questions asked. 667-6699 LOST: SKIDOO "mud" flap between Porter Creek/dump/Haeckel Hill area. Need it back.

633-5495 LOST ON Jan 10, 2 right hand cowling pieces, one yellow and one black. from a skidoo somewhere between Watson Lake and Johnson Crossing, Contact 334-9244 FOUND: SET of keys in Porter Creek at the top of Pine street on the trail. Call 633-4618 FOUND: LACOSTE prescription glasses on corner of 12th Ave and Spruce St. in Porter Creek, around Jan 13th. 633-3810 to claim FOUND: SET of keys at Golden Horn school, Dodge ram key & others, 667-8130

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Sports Equipment EXERCISE EQUIPMENT for free! Gym pull-up/dip frame, Bowflex Extreme, approx 10 yrs old, needs new rods (cost of $230).

393-3638 FREESPIRIT ELECTRIC exercise cycle, programmable, exc cond, c/w manual $75 obo. 633-4618 OZONE 11M Frenzy Snow Kite, 2012 model, as new, flown 3 times, new $1,600, asking $1,300 obo. 660-4711 STEP CLIMBER, good cond but electronic counter doesnʼt work well, $20 obo.

633-4618 SNOWSHOES, TSL-225. Excellent quality and condition. One pair $60. Two pairs $100.

Solid price. 335-7535

Livestock QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for full delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192 HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Dev & Louise Hurlburt Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix Small square & round bales Discounts for field pick up or delivery Straw bales also for sale 335-5192 • 668-7218 HAY FOR SALE Good variety of excellent quality hay 1st cut alfalfa/timothy mix (65/35%) 60-65 lb, $14.50 2nd cut alfalfa/timothy mix (90/10%) $15 Brome/timothy/orchard grass mix $14.50 Plus we have our own brome hay, $12 for 50-55 lb Oat straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms - Maureen at 333-0615 or email: yukonfarm@gmail.com

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 DOUBLE STROLLER, converts to bike trailer, $40, 2 infant car seats w base, $5 ea, crib & matching change table, $75.

250-651-7868 2-SEATER BIKE trailer, CCM, pretty new, $150. 393-2630

Childcare MAY-MAY'S FAMILY Day Home in Cowley Creek has two (18 months & up) spaces available M-F 7:30-3:30pm.

Hot meals and diapers included.

Day Home is closed on all school holidays (Christmas/Spring breaks & summers from July to mid-August) Please call Mary @ 668-3348 for more info LOLAʼS DAYHOME Located downtown Has spaces available for children 6 months & up ECE with more than 12 years of experience Fully licensed Call 668-5185 days or 667-7840 evenings

Furniture TV/STEREO CABINET (or other uses), 4ʼ high, black with glass doors on castors, offers. 333-9020.

RESIN SHELF, 36”, new, $12. 335-8964 LARGE WOOD office desk and matching credenza, two large metal filing cabinets.

633-6553 BUNK BEDS, bottom converts to desk, $250, sleigh bed/mattress, $200, cabinet/hutch, $250, 6 matching wooden chairs, $100, 2 pine dressers, $100 & $75, desk/chair, $250, wood dresser $30.

250-651-7868

Baby & Child Items ONE-PIECE BOYʼS snowsuit, size 3+, blue/black/grey, pretty new, $60. 393-2630

ARE YOU MÉTIS? Are you registered?

Would you like to be involved?

There is a Yukon Metis Nation that needs your support Contact 668-6845 CITIZENS ON PATROL. Do you have concerns in your neighborhood & community?

Be part of the solution! Volunteer valuable time to the C.O.P.S. program. With your eyes & ears we can help stomp out crime.

Info: RCMP 867-667-5555

Town and Mountain Hotel 401 Main Street Apply to Kayle Tel: 668-7644 Fax: 668-5822 Email: info@townmountain.com

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

Territory, Deceased, who died on November 2, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 14th day of February, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Mary Bracken c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

PubLIC TENDER STRESS HORMONE ANALYSIS (CORTISOL, ALDOSTERONE, TESTOSTERONE AND ESTRADIOL) OF CARNIVORE SAMPLES Project Description: Environment Yukon requires stress hormone analysis of carnivore samples for cortisol, aldosterone, testosterone, and estradiol.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

Personals

Kitchen or Restaurant for Lease

Nicole Evelyn Marie Wynnyk, of Marsh Lake, Yukon

FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

BLACK ENTERTAINMENT centre, fits 32” TV, $40. 393-2630

Fresh free run farm eggs for sale. $6.00 / dozen Phone 633-4249 LOOKING FOR a companion horse for boarding close to Whitehorse. Will be well cared for. 633-3086

DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office

GERALD BRIAN TONER, of Watson Lake, Yukon Territory, Deceased, who died on Oct. 28, 2013, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 19th day of February, 2014, after which date the Administrator will distribute the Estate among the parties entitled thereto, having regard to the claims of which they have notice.

AND FURTHER, all persons who are indebted to the Estate are required to make payment to the Estate at the address below.

BY: Sandra Ellis, Proposed Administrator c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

Environment

public Tender dieT AnAlYSiS OF YuKOn WildliFe ScAT SAMpleS And relATed FOrAGe project description: Environment Yukon requires diet-related analyses with scats and relevant forage for different wildlife species from the Yukon.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to ramona Maraj at (867) 393-7423.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

The Yukon Contractors Association is presenting an information session on Construction Bonds on January 31. This session will be of interest to owners and clients for construction services, as well as general contractors and sub-contractors. The cost for attending is $10.00 for YCA members and $30.00 for nonmembers. Admission can be paid at the door as available, or space can be reserved ahead of time by calling the YCA at 335-0374 or email yca@northwestel.net Location: High Country Inn Meeting Room A When: 8:30 -12:00 noon January 31 Presenter: Dan Calderhead Managing Director, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Canada Inc.

PROJECT INSPECTION AND QUANTITY CONTROL - ENWIA EXTENSION AND RESURFACING RUNWAY 32R-14L Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 12, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 - 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Kyle Jansson at (867) 633-7922.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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PUBLIC TENDER CLEARING HIGHWAY RIGHTOF-WAY KM 79.0 TO KM 94.9 CAMPBELL HIGHWAY #4 YUKON 2013-2014

Construction Bonds

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Project Description: Clearing highway right-ofway of approximately 61.0 ha Machine Clearing, 24.3 ha Minimal Disturbance Clearing, 5.9 ha Hand Clearing and other related contract items.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is February 18, 2014. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to Dale Enzenauer at (867) 633-7940.

This project is partially funded through Build Canada by the Government of Canada.

The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Agreement on Internal Trade.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

Bidders are advised to review documents to determine Certificate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

View or download documents at: www.gov.yk.ca/tenders/tms.html

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