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Earthworms are burrowing their way north, prompting researchers to worry about the consequences.

There’s a support group for the territory’s amateur archeologists and paleontologists.

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“Yukon government received sufficient concern from the community of Teslin that we cancelled the Nisutlin Bay Bridge project at this time,” said Kendra Black, spokesperson for Highways and Public Works.

The plan was to replace the steel grating deck with concrete, construct a separated bike lane and walkway.

She wouldn’t say what the nature of the concerns were.

Forty individuals had signed up to receive updates on the tender for the project, which had been set to close April 23, said Black, but not all of them were contractors.

All of those interested parties were informed of the cancelation on Friday, she said. A mandatory site visit for bidding contractors, scheduled for Monday, was also cancelled.

The $14.5 million project would have been paid for jointly by the federal and territorial governments. But because of the cancellation, the $6.75 million in federal money earmarked for the project will no longer be available to it.

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31, 2016. In order to meet that deadline, the contract for the twoyear bridge rehabilitation project would have had to be awarded in the next few weeks, said Black.

Public Works will try and find other projects that meet the criteria for using that money, she said.

And it will work to secure funding for the Nisutlin Bay Bridge project in the next iteration of the federal infrastructure funding.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to access that funding,” said Black.

Frank Thomas, CAO for the Village of Teslin, also wouldn’t get into specifics of the community’s concerns with the project.

But the bridge is very important to the community, and impacts of any work on it could be significant, he said.

“Our bridge in the community is a fairly active place. We have a marina there. A lot of people use it. It’s not like a bridge on the Yukon River or something where mostly people just use it to cross the river. It’s right

in our community.”

The community had lots of questions about the project, and there wasn’t enough time for all of those questions to be answered, he said.

“There wasn’t enough leadtime on this thing, and the government maybe didn’t realize what impacts it might impose on the community,” said Thomas.

“It’s probably, at the end of the day, a good thing,” he said, because now there is more time to make sure that the project reflects the needs of the community.

It will “create a better project at the end if we do it jointly,” said Thomas.

“The tender was stopped, but it doesn’t mean the job is not going to continue in the future. They still have to fix the bridge.

“The bridge ain’t going to fall apart. It’s been there for a long time, so I imagine it’ll hang out for a few more years yet.”

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Plans to improve the Nisutlin Bay Bridge in Teslin have been cancelled.

he Dawson wastewater treatment plant is still failing water quality tests.

The facility has been plagued with problems since in opened in 2012. Operations of the plant had been scheduled to be handed over to the City of Dawson in 2013, but still have not been because of the outstanding problems.

Samples taken on March 25 failed water quality tests, according to a report filed with the town in April. This is particularly concerning because the load on the system will increase dramatically as tourists begin to show up in a month or two.

“The toxicity test passed although one of the fish died which is unusual for March when our wastewater is normally dilute,” according to the report. “Clearly the plant is not compliant with our water licence even in March.

It should prove interesting to see what the results will look like in May and June. There are many construction deficiencies left outstanding such as valving problems, concrete liner failure and ventilation.

“It is possible that both the territorial and federal regulatory authorities will become more aggressive now that the plant has proven to be non-compliant with our water licence in both winter and summer.”

Klondike MLA and Liberal Leader Sandy Silver asked about the outstanding problems in the legislature Monday.

He wanted to know if the Yukon government would help out if operations costs turn out to be higher than projections suggest.

“Earlier this year, officials from the minister’s department put the operating cost to run this new facility at $340,000. People I’ve spoken to in Dawson think that this number might be a little bit unrealistic and don’t believe that the amount will even cover the fuel bill, let alone operations of the facility.”

Dawson Mayor Wayne Potoroka confirmed in an email that the town expects the facility to cost $872,440 annually in operating costs. Heat and electricity costs alone are expected to run $365,000.

Community Services Minister Brad Cathers confirmed that the Yukon government will continue

to work with Dawson to ensure that the facility is affordable.

“If the costs of operating the facility turn out to be significantly higher than anticipated, we have a commitment to work with the City of Dawson around that financial sustainability provision,” he said in the legislature Monday.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

Correction A story in Friday’s edition incorrectly described Health Canada’s new prescription marijuana laws. Under the new laws, patients holding a prescription to possess marijuana must purchase their pot from a federally-licensed producer.

Users with a license to grow their own marijuana may continue to do so on an interim basis under a court injuction.

Prescription holders may not purchase marijuana from an unlicensed source without breaking the law themselves.

The News regrets any confusion this error may have caused.

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Farmers ask city for space Jesse Winter

through agricultural leases, and then because they can’t make a go of it, they turn around and come he Yukon Agricultural Asback to council and beg and plead sociation is asking the City to change the zoning on that land of Whitehorse for farming so they can do something else with space inside municipal boundaries. it.

Mike Blumenschein, the “How do you think you would president of the farmers’ assoget around that issue? When it ciation, spoke at city council on doesn’t work, we get criticized Monday night, asking the city for for suddenly having a golf course time, space and resources to supwhere a farm should be,” he said. port farming.

Blumenschein himself is now “Only two per cent of the retired, but he said the farm he Yukon is suitable for production,” once operated was a successful fullBlumenschein said. The assotime business. With some support, ciation is looking to increase the it is possible to make a living as a amount of food production in the farmer in the Yukon, Blumenschcity, and hopes to use land that is ein said, and that is something the already set aside for agriculture, he city can have a hand in. said.

Coun. Betty Irwin asked about Blumenschein said the associathe cost of raising livestock in the tion is looking not only at plated Yukon, given the need to shelter crops, like the popular Yukon animals through the winter.

Gold potatoes, but also livestock By focusing production in the farming and indoor greenhouse summer months and freezing and growing. storing meat for the winter, Vangel Jesse Winter/Yukon News That allows for a lot of flexibilsaid he’s able to avoid the worst of ity in the type of land the associa- Cain Vangel, left, and Mike Blumenschein from the Yukon Agricultural Association the Yukon weather complications. tion could use, Blumenschein said. address Whitehorse City Council on Monday. The group wants more city land made Stockdale also asked why the available for farming. “(The type of land) totally deassociation was approaching the pends what you want to grow,” said city, rather than the territory, with Coun. Dave Stockdale expressed The 2010 Community Plan Blumenschein is eyeing two past YAA president Cain Vangel, its request. some concern over supporting parcels. One is next to the Cousins also references supporting local who joined Blumenschein at the “They are looking into it too,” farming initiatives only to see airstrip, and the other is along Fish agriculture, Blumenschein said. It council meeting.

Blumenschein said, “but there is them fail.

“If you’re growing livestock, you Lake Road. They have already been would be up to the city to decide only so much space to go around.”

“Over the years the Yukon govwhether it makes more sense to designated for agricultural use, can get away with a much smaller Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com ernment has supported farming purchase or lease land, he said.

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t’s a tradition that harkens back to the knights of old, when cities and castles were walled and guarded against armies of marauding enemies.

It’s the keys to the city, a token granted that allowed someone to come and go as they pleased through the locked city gates, proof that they were trusted by residents.

Now the City of Whitehorse wants the ability to bestow a similar ceremonial honour of its own.

Investigation underway into worker’s death at Home Hardware Occupational health and safety officials are investigating after a worker at Home Hardware died last week.

Gary Martin was found on the ground in a back room of the Whitehorse store Thursday morning. The 55-year-old was medevaced to Vancouver but died the next day.

Health and safety spokesperson Richard Mostyn said there were no witnesses to what happened. A colleague heard a noise and went to investigate, and found Martin unconscious.

“We don’t know specifically what happened. There was a ladder at the site,” Mostyn said.

City administration presented the keys to the city policy to city council on Monday night. Robert Fendrick, director of corporate services, explained the idea is to give the city a means of recognizing accomplishments of “national or international significance.”

Potential recipients could include artists, athletes, visiting heads of state and people who have made “significant contributions that bring positive recognition to Whitehorse,” according to the draft policy.

Any Whitehorse citizen could Occupational health and safety is warning Yukoners to identify the hazards involved with any job and make sure the proper tools, training and procedures are being used.

“This tragedy has affected many people in our community and our hearts go out to the man’s family and friends,” Mostyn said.

This is the third workplace fatality in the Yukon this year.

Arnold Johnson died while corralling wild horses near Kusawa Lake in January.

In February, a truck driver died in a collision on the Alaska Highway north of Watson Lake. Since the trucking industry is a job that crosses through multiple jurisdictions, that investigation is being handled by Employment and Social Development Canada.

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recommend someone be given the keys.

Coun. Dave Stockdale raised a question about the language regarding eligibility, wondering whether restricting key recipients to people with national or international recognition might preclude some very worthy, if very local, Whitehorse volunteers and community members.

“I know we have a volunteer recognition process in the city,” Stockdale said, “but it seems to me that if somebody locally does something that is way over and above volun-

BRIEFS Failed gizmo caused outage Most of the territory woke up to blinking clocks Tuesday after the power went out for a few early morning hours.

Power went out to almost all of the grid, except for the Village of Mayo and Keno, at about 3 a.m., Yukon Energy’s spokesperson Janet Patterson confirmed.

Most communities had their lights back on by 5 a.m. Minto Mine was connected at 5:50 a.m. Pelly Crossing, the last community to have the power restored, was back online at 7:20 a.m.

The cause was traced to the largest hydro unit in Whitehorse.

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teer work, is there an opportunity there to recognize someone who isn’t related to a national or international situation, or has this been set in stone since 1066 or something?”

Fendrick said that other cities with a similar policy on keys tend to use keep it focused on accomplishments at the national level or higher, but that Whitehorse could conceivably do whatever it likes.

“We are our own jurisdiction,” Fendrick said. “The sky’s the limit, here.”

So, what would these proposed keys look like? Well, it won’t be just

any old brass key.

The options include a plaque with a mounted key, a special presentation key with an inscription, a framed letter from the mayor, proclamations read at city council or even just a stack of documents including the administrative reports, recommendation documents and subsequent resolution.

The keys would be presented at public events. Council will vote on the proposal at the next council meeting.

ler of hydro unit number four failed.

Patterson said the controller “is essentially a sophisticated computer and the main brain of the hydro unit.”

The failure caused damage to other equipment. Patterson said staff are still investigating the damage.

It could be several days before the damaged unit is back in service.

In the meantime, Patterson said, there is enough power coming from other available units in Whitehorse, Mayo and Aishihik.

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call from an employee of the bar reporting a robbery.

Witnesses told police two people entered the bar, one wearing an ATV helmet and the other a balaclava.

According to police the suspects approached the bartender and demanded money. The bartender was pushed to the ground and the suspects grabbed a handful of cash from the register before fleeing.

Police recovered what they believe to be the ATV helmet worn by one of the robbers. Investigators asked the public to help identify its owner.

Tyler Benson, 23, and Adam Cormack, 22 are each charged with robbery and disguise with intent to commit a criminal offence. The pair appeared in court Monday afternoon.

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Pair arrested after Casa Loma robbery Police have arrested two people in connection with a robbery at the Casa Loma last week.

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report, the board of the ski society did not prepare its accounting records accurately or on a timely basis, budgeting for capital projects and operations was not done regularly, and the whole bookkeeping system lacked sufficient “formality.”

The report was commissioned by the City of Whitehorse last year after

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the collapse of the old society as a way of examining what went wrong, with the aim of helping the hill run more smoothly in the future.

The old society has since been replaced by the Friends of Sima, which ran a successful fundraising drive to save the hill this fall, and broke the all-time record for season passes.

According to the report, things started to go wrong for the society during the 2012/13 year. The society went into that year expecting to earn $227,000 in income and spend only $58,000 on capital expenditures.

Instead, the hill earned only $55,000 that year, and capital expenditures soared to $287,000.

That same year, operating expenditures exceeded revenues plus sponsorship and donations by $730,000.

In all, the board’s deficit that year rose from a planned $245,000 to an actual $961,000 by year’s end.

By the fall of 2012, cash-flow was a serious problem for the society, with bills going unpaid.

The 2012/13 summer was the first year the Wildplay Adventure Park was open at the hill, which the report attributes a large portion of the increased expenses to, especially increased staffing costs.

Opening the park proved to be an unsuccessful venture, and soon the society owed almost $400,000 to the franchise.

Last spring, the society asked the city for $800,000 to cover its debts

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and help provide funding for future operations. That request came after $3 million in city money – most of it transferred from the federal government – had been given over the previous two years.

After the city refused to continue funding the hill, the society began the process of dissolving, and Friends of Sima formed in an effort to save the hill and keep it open this winter.

Craig Hougen, the president of the now-defunct GNSS, said the society is pleased to see the report out, and not surprised by any of its findings.

“We’re not surprised that they didn’t find any wrongdoing. Obviously we struggled with the reporting,” he said.

Hougen said there were funding problems with the Wildplay park that contributed to it opening late its first summer, and failing to earn the income expected of it.

“We substantially missed the revenue targets for Wildplay,” Hougen said, explaining the shortfall in the 2012/13 summer.

Right now, the old society is in the final stages of settling its debts and dissolving. An outstanding $13,000 in unpaid employee wages has been cleared, Hougen said, and his group is working “daily” with the Friends of Sima to officially transfer all the ski hill’s assets to the new society.

That will happen in the coming weeks, now that the Friends have wrapped up their first season and will have a chance to look at their own

BRIEFS being asked to do so by the NDP a year ago.

Currently, an employee can be fired without cause or notice at any point during the first six months on the job.

“We feel it is important because the Yukon is woefully behind the rest of the country,” said NDP MLA Jan Stick in May of last year. “We’ve looked across the country to see what other jurisdictions are doing, and we are at the bottom. Some are as little as 30 days; most are three months’ probationary period.”

Only Yukon, New Brunswick and P.E.I. have a probationary period of six months. In Manitoba, it is 30 days.

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season-end financials.

“Until you do the books, you never really know,” Hougen said.

Friends of Sima president Laurie Henderson said she could not comment on the report because it is not related to the new society’s financial situation.

She did say that the old society has been very helpful through the transition to the new society, and provided all the financial information they had to help the Friends run the hill more sustainably.

“We have been meticulous in terms of the financial accounts. GNSS has been quite willing to provide what they had.

“We’ve taken the view that by starting a new society, starting our own accounts, and working up, there is some value in a comparison, but for us, the concern has been how we got money and how we spent money and managing the expenditures for this year,” she said.

Henderson said the new society’s budgeting for next season will take place after they’ve been able to review their own spending for the past season and assess how it went. Formal financials should be available later this spring, but anecdotally she said the season has been great.

“It’s been fantastic,” Henderson said. “We couldn’t have asked for anything better with the weather and the snow. It’s been a great season.”

Contact Jesse Winter at jessew@yukon-news.com

sultation on employment standards laws. Fifty-seven percent of those supported changing the probation period to three months.

But in the legislature last week, Community Services Minister Brad Cathers said the results weren’t “clear cut” enough to merit changing the law.

“It is quite clear that there was very limited participation and feedback on that specific question from both employers and employees,” he said Monday.

But there were actually more responses to that question than to any other on the survey. Other questions had to do with making more unpaid leave available to parents of a child who is critically ill or has disappeared or died as a result of a crime.

The government followed through on that consultation in legislative amendments that passed third reading Monday.

It was the same consultation that led to those changes, said Stick in an interview Tuesday.

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ously.’ And they’ve committed to it. It’s an ongoing conversation that we have to have with them eno City is still a busand we want to have with them. tling, vibrant community, “Are we going to effectuate according to a group of change? I would like to think people who operate tourism that we will effectuate some businesses in the town. change. Are we going to get evLast week the News reported erything we want when we want that some Keno residents want it? Likely not. But that’s pretty to close up shop because of much the story of life, isn’t it?” conflicts over mining near the Leo Martel owns the Keno townsite.

City Hotel with his brother “There’s very few of us left, Mark, and plans to make Keno and we want the hell out,” said his full-time home as of this Jim Milley, owner of the Soursummer. He first moved there in dough Cafe.

1984, when he was working at Keno’s population fluctuates the mine in Elsa. from about seven in the dead of Martel said he is looking winter to about 20 in the sumforward to being the first person mer, when tourism operators to be buried in Keno. return to their businesses.

He bought the place because There are still lots of residents it was quiet in Keno, he said. and business owners who are Now there’s a mill in town, interested in investing in the but it won’t be around forever, community’s future, said Tracy said Martel. In fact, it hasn’t de la Barre in an interview last Jesse Winter/Yukon News been in operation since the fall. week.

There are lots of reasons to Kenoites Dirk Rentmeister, left, Tracy de la Barre and Leo Martel say Keno is “We think that articles like come visit Keno, he said. open for business. this and what Jim Milley has “We have a world-class mubeen saying is doing, by far, seum up there, and Mike has the road,” said de la Barre. “Jim Mil- portions of the town. There’s they’ve promised to keep a betmore damage to Keno City’s best pizza in the North.” ley was right about one thing. It ample opportunity up there ter handle on maintaining the very fragile tourism economy Martel, de la Barre and is a resilient little town.” for people to explore, hike, fish, roads in and around the mill, than anything that Alexco has Rentmeister invited all YukonMore people have bought pick berries, mountain bike, and wetting them down so the done in the past.” ers to come check out Keno for property in the area since Alexco tour around.

The roads go back dust is not so much of an issue.

De la Barre owns the SilverThey’ve recommitted to making themselves. moon Bunkhouse with her hus- came to town than in the previ- forever.”

“Places like Keno have had ous two decades, she said. And There are real issues with the sure that when there’s more peoband, Dirk Rentmeister. Rentto roll with the punches duronly two people have left town mining operations in town, but ple in camp that their vehicles meister grew up in Keno, and ing their entire existences, from citing mining as the reason for they are best dealt with through stay out of the centre of town, the two bought property there booms and busts to 20 people negotiation, not confrontation, they’ve committed to looking at to 400 people,” said de la Barre. in 2005. They live in Keno in the packing it in.

“You don’t have to go very said de la Barre. some initial remediation that is summer and in Whitehorse the “Who knows what the future has “We’re not here to praise unsightly to the town. rest of the year. This will be their far from Keno and you’re into got in store for it? But we don’t pristine, serene areas,” said Alexco by any means, that’s not “We’ve put pressure on them think that it’s right to write it third operating season.

Rentmeister. “You don’t have to the point,” she said. and said, ‘Listen, surely there “People who love Keno love off.”

“We’ve just had a meeting are things you can do right here, Keno because it’s still that funky restrict yourself to focusing on Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com little town at the end of the what goes on in the industry with Alexco in February, and right now, that you can see obviNews Reporter

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Roger Lepage filed documents this week asking the country’s top court to hear the case between la Commission scolaire francophone du Yukon and the Yukon government.

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Lepage said there are at least two areas where this case qualifies as nationally important.

He said the ruling by the appeal court, that there was a reasonable apprehension of bias by Ouellette, is important.

The appeals court ruled that Ouellette’s conduct during the trial and his status as a governor of the Fondation franco-albertaine in Alberta, was enough to raise concerns.

The test for bias is a high standard, but the Yukon case lowers that bar, Lepage said.

“We’re saying that the Supreme Court of Canada should look at that because it has not

only an impact on that judge, it has an impact on all Canadian judges.”

Aside from the question of bias, Lepage said concerns around access also deserve the attention of the court.

Section 23 is the portion of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms that deals with language rights.

“There’s no doubt that section 23(2) allows access to French language schools. The government could control that access, or the francophone school boards,” Lepage said.

He will be arguing that control should belong to the school board.

“It’s a question of national importance because it impacts not only on the Yukon, it impacts every jurisdiction.”

The government has 30 days to reply to the school board’s application.

Lepage acknowledges that not every case that applies to the Supreme Court of Canada is heard.

He says he’s as confident as you can be that this case will be heard.

“I’m satisfied that these two questions raise issues of national importance. As soon a you’re raising a constitutional issue, and especially a language rights issue, which goes to the very foundation of Canada, usually the Supreme Court of Canada is prepared to hear it.”

In 2012 the Supreme Court of Canada only granted a hearing to about 12 per cent of the cases that applied. According to the most recently available statistics, it takes on average 4.4 months for the court to decide if it will hear a case.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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On Friday afternoon Justice Ron Veale had the final word on what will happen to the shell of an apartment building that stands at Falcon Ridge.

The judge approved a plan, presented by developer Brian Little, with a series of four-plexes to be built on the spot the developer had hoped would hold an apartment building.

Instead of a three-storey apartment block, the development will The new Yukon home of

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The unfinished apartment building at the Falcon Ridge condominium development will be replaced with multiple fourplex units, after a Yukon Supreme Court decision on Friday.

now be only two stories high, with a total of 25 homes.

The land will hold three connected four-plexes, three standalone four-plexes and one single-family home.

The lower roofline will better blend in with the character of the neighbourhood, the developer argued.

That’s a significant change from what he had originally wanted.

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In 2012 the condo board took the developer to court over the planned apartment building.

Veale granted an injunction halting that construction after ruling the developer did not get the appropriate consent.

At the time he called the case “a cautionary tale for condo developers, condo corporations and condo owners.”

Since then the half-built structure has sat empty.

The condo board argued against the proposed plan of attached four-plexes.

But on Friday Veale said the new proposal did meet all the requirements outlined in the 2005 site plan for the property.

In this case there is not a need for approval or consent from the condo board, he said.

On Friday Veale also gave the developer a deadline to finish work on other areas of the property.

The Falcon Ridge neighbourhood includes older homes on one half and newer homes on the other.

The judge ordered that work on parking spaces, landscaping and drainage for the newer homes begin by May 30 and be completed in four months.

It will now be up to the city of Whitehorse to approve all the required permits before construction on the new homes can begin.

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arry Bagnell is remaining mum on his plans for the next federal election.

But, if you didn’t know any better, an event this past weekend looked a lot like a campaign stop.

Bagnell was one of five panelists on Saturday brought together by the Victoria Faulkner Women’s centre to discuss federal crime policy.

It was the end of a week’s worth of activities to mark National Victims of Crime Awareness Week.

The panel included two of the people Bagnell, the Yukon’s former Liberal MP, faced in the last federal election: current MP Ryan Leef, and Green Party member and Whitehorse city councillor John Streicker.

It also had territorial NDP Justice critic Lois Moorcroft and Chantal Genier with the Council of Yukon First Nation’s justice program.

The group touched on topics including the federal government’s proposed victims’ bill of rights.

Bagnell credited the bill with doing a lot to help victims but said it was really only a good first step.

“But far more important is to reduce the victimization, to give

Former Liberal MP Larry Bagnell.

the judges back their authority, which they’ve lost recently, to make good decisions, to reduce having more victims,” he said.

“More treatment, more courses, more restorative justice. By not doing those things we’re actually creating more victims.”

The group also touched on the need for a federal inquiry

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into missing and murdered aboriginal women - something Leef has publicly supported and Leef ’s private member’s bill to update the criminal code to include fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a mitigating factor when someone is sentenced.

Bagnell slammed the Harper government for the “disaster” that is food security in the

When it came to the issue of restorative justice, Bagnell criticized “one particular party.”

“Because they didn’t believe in restorative justice, they limited judges authority so they couldn’t give the widest range of options, they limited the times when restorative justice could be used. It totally flies in the face of the facts when you have 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 per cent recidivism from criminals. What are you going to do?”

Leef said there is an exaggerated idea as to where mandatory minimums have been put in place.

Mandatory minimums are only in place for the most serious of crimes, he said. He said there is not an over-representation of Yukoners facing those charges.

In November 2000, Bagnell became the Yukon’s MP, winIan Stewart/Yukon News ning by just 70 votes.

In 2011 he lost his seat to Leef by 132 votes.

After the event Bagnell reNorth. That prompted Leef to call for a bit more civility in the mained coy when it came to his election plans. discussion.

“I’m certainly going to be “I think it’s important that involved somehow in the elecwe have these discussions, particularly in panels like this,” Leef tion to try and get a change in government,” he said. replied. “But you cannot help When asked directly if he was but notice the partisan jabs that going run again Bagnell replied: get thrown in as we have these “We’ll see.” opportunities … I’m not sure Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com that serves a fruitful discussion.”

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our government has set aside $6.9 million in the 2014-15 territorial budget for design work on a new continuing care facility for Yukoners.

As minister of health and social services, I would like to provide you with the facts about our planned facility and the reasons why continuing care is a priority for this government.

Like all other areas of Canada, Yukon has a growing population of seniors. It is critical that planning is done now to ensure that services are in place to meet this growing demand. Other related health care issues include dementia, respite needs, mental health diagnosis and hospice palliative care.

Our overall approach is to support seniors in living in their homes as long as possible, while also ensuring we have facilities in place to provide more complex care when needed, at a cost that we can afford.

Some things for you to consider: • Yukon has the highest ratio of individuals over 85 who are living alone.

• National trends show that the greatest growth in the percentage of seniors in the population will be in the North.

• Across Canada there is a rapidly growing need for dementia care.

Yukon currently has one of the most comprehensive bundles of no cost home care programming in Canada, offering home support, personal care and professional care services (through nursing, therapies and social workers). Although home care is very effective in keeping people safely in their own homes longer, both in Whitehorse and in rural Yukon communities, it is not a

substitute for continuing care for those who require a significant level of support or specialized services. Our data shows that 40 per cent of home care clients are at high risk for institutionalization, and 14 per cent have no local caregiver at all.

When communities are not able to support individuals, and when continuing care beds are not available, people often end up in hospital. This is a problem for several reasons: • They don’t receive the specialized care and services that they require (this is especially an issue for dementia care clients).

• Hospital beds are extremely expensive, and therefore this is not a sustainable practice.

• Beds filled with clients waiting for continuing care have an impact on the operation of a hospital.

For example, those beds will not be available for elective surgeries.

The waitlist for long term care in Yukon currently has 41 clients, and the list grows each month.

The average wait is four months, with a range of anywhere from one to 15 months. Last year, a needs analysis was completed which identified significant need for additional bed capacity in continuing care over the next 20 years. Conservative estimates project the need by 2021, based on current utilization patterns, will be 320 to 380 beds, and by 2035, it will have grown to 430 to 550 beds.

This is why we are proceeding with planning a new facility to provide up to 150 beds in the early stages of the project, with infrastructure to support 300 beds in total, which will be added on in phases. We anticipate that design work will occur throughout 2014 and 2015, with construction from 2015 to 2017.

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We want to ensure that Yukoners have timely access to the best, safest, most appropriate care possible. Planning for this new facility will ensure we can support the growing number of seniors who will require complex care or specialized dementia care. Ensuring there is a strong First Nations cultural component will be an integral part of the planning.

The new facility will be designed to best practise standards of smaller congregate living units or neighbourhoods that are warm, home-like and easy for residents to navigate and socialize in. We are reviewing best practices and best industry intelligence to ensure we meet clients’ needs.

Since our announcement was made, there has been some public comment concerning centralization of continuing care in Whitehorse. The government considers it a priority to help ensure seniors can remain in their home communities as long as possible, which is why we have built new seniors’ residences in Haines Junction, Watson Lake, Teslin and Faro over the last few years, with plans to replace MacDonald Lodge in Reporters

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Dawson City and funding allocated for a seniors’ residence in Mayo. However, when a community is no longer able to support an individual with complex, specialized care requirements, the advantage of a larger facility is that you can group individuals with similar care requirements and needs, as the staffing, programming and supports required are very different. To have specialized care in each and every Yukon community is not affordable, nor sustainable.

Significant assessment and planning has gone into the government’s decision to proceed with this project. Long-term care is an issue that affects every Yukoner. It is important that we take steps now to ensure high

quality care in the future for the benefit of all Yukoners.

If you have ever been faced with the challenge of caring for loved ones who are aging, or who have dementia or other long-term health issues, you will agree that Yukon has some of the best care available, thanks to our extraordinary staff and volunteers. Our goal is to continue to provide a continuum of services to meet care needs, from supports for aging in place, to a robust home care program, to continuing care beds, while ensuring our health care workers have the best facilities and programming to continue their fine work.

Doug Graham is Yukon’s minister of health and social services.

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End the liquor monopoly

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t’s time that the Yukon government got out of the liquor business.

That’s not because the individuals working at the liquor corporation aren’t doing a good job, but rather because we can use other levels of government and the marketplace to more efficiently achieve the goals of the monopoly.

The Yukon government, through the liquor corporation, has enjoyed a monopoly on the sale of alcohol throughout the territory as long as I have been alive. The monopoly, by virtue of a lack of competition and the overhead connected to the Crown corporation, results in higher prices for alcohol throughout Yukon.

This is before we include the artificial 15 per cent increase in prices at off-sales once the sole liquor store in Whitehorse closes.

Further, the liquor corporation, an unelected body, is tasked with regulating the sale of alcohol, meaning that the issuance and enforcement of liquor licences is carried out by a body that is accountable only to the courts, rather than the democratically elected legislature.

As citizens we should expect some return for the resulting higher prices and democraticdisconnect, meaning the monopoly should serve some public purpose.

The purpose of the monopoly must be to reduce the harm associated with the use of alcohol throughout the terri-

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tory. The question is, can the specific manner in which the liquor corporation pursues that policy be reproduced more efficiently (read cheaper) by the marketplace or other levels of government without sacrificing safety? If so, then I would say the monopoly must end.

The liquor corp. currently engages in three broad activities connected to liquor: the direct sale of liquor, advertisement concerning safe use of liquor and the issuance and enforcement of third-party liquor licences.

These activities are designed to, respectively, raise money for the Yukon government to deal with social harm stemming from liquor, provide information to the public to hopefully prevent future harm and to regulate sales of alcohol to achieve reduction in harm.

I would suggest that the above three broad policy goals can be met without the liquor corp. by, firstly, privatizing liquor

or Old Crow have to come to the Yukon government, cap in hand, to request that their communities be dry communities?

Further, why should Whitehorse care whether Dawson City wants to keep its bars open until 4 a.m. all summer? Leave these decisions to the citizens of the communities – it will lead to a more transparent system of liquor regulation.

The municipalities will be able to raise funds through setting liquor licence fees.

The Yukon government will still be in the regulation game when it comes to broad control of marketing and safety surrounding the sale of liquor, much like the control of cigarettes, but the day-to-day regulation and inspection of establishments can be left to the municipalities.

As a bonus, the downloading of regulation to the municipalities will also harness further economic efficiencies in that

LETTERS

The wind blows hard in winter’s cold I would like to thank Chuck Tobin of the Star and Jacqueline Ronson of the Yukon News for their coverage of the Yukon Energy LNG hearing last week. This is an important issue for all Yukoners and the good newspaper coverage was much appreciated.

In one article the Chuck recalls the cold windless day of January 29, 2006 when one of the power cables at the Aishihik power plant failed and the entire grid went down and we relied on lot of back-up diesel power for two days, and more than normal for a few months afterwards until permanent repairs were completed. Those of us who were here at the time would recall the event too.

What is interesting to note about this situation is this, although it generally is not windy in Whitehorse when the weather is very cold, the wind generally is blowing at the higher altitudes like Haeckel Hill, or Mt. Sumanik, or Ferry Hill (Tehcho)

and instituting a liquor tax, secondly, by tasking the alcohol and drug services branch (which already exists) with the advertisement and promotion side of prevention and, thirdly, by downloading the day-to-day regulation and licensing of establishments to the municipalities.

First, by privatizing sale and instituting a liquor tax we can raise the same amount of revenue as today less the overhead of the liquor corp. With or without the monopoly, people will purchase alcohol. That means that, depending on where the tax rate is set, we can easily determine the rate required to raise an appropriate amount to offset the profits lost from the wind-up of the liquor corp.

Secondly, by downloading responsibility of regulation and issuance of liquor licences to the municipalities we democratize the process, leaving decisions on liquor to the affected communities. Why should Pelly Crossing

in the cold of winter more often than not.

Haeckel Hill has two test wind turbines now and Mt. Sumanik and Ferry Hill could have wind farms built on them.

From January 29 to 31, 2006 when it was cold and we had the power emergency with the Aishihik power plant shut down, the wind was blowing steadily up there according to Environment Canada’s weather balloon data.

During this critical period the wind speed at the altitude of Haeckel Hill and Mt. Sumanik ranged from 8.7 to 12 meters per second (m/s).

This means that a 20-megawatt wind farm would have been producing from 8 to 19 MW (based on Enercon E82 2MW wind turbines) during this crisis period. Just imagine how much diesel that would have saved us!

Analyzing the wind speeds from Environment Canada’s weather balloon data for the 13-year period from 2000 to 2012 yields the following interesting characteristics about a 20 MW wind farm should there have been one there: Annual average output 5.6 MW (wind about 7.2 m/s); When -30 C or colder in Whitehorse, average output 6.2 MW (7.5 m/s); October to May average output 7.1 MW (7.9 m/s); December to March average output 8.6 MW (8.5 m/s); and June through August average output 2.5 MW (5.3 m/s).

It is true that some of this will be lost due to icing and we cannot turn the wind on and off when as we want it or need it, but it can reliably provide a lot of energy in the winter each and every year when we most

need it. And it provides much less in summer when we hardly need it.

Best of all, like water for hydro, the wind is free.

Wind energy as part of our winter energy supply is cost effective and it can and should be part of our renewable energy supply.

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Don’t get hooked on fracked gas We recently attended the public input session of the Yukon Utilities Board regarding the liquefied natural gas proposal of Yukon Energy.

We did not speak but had discussed the project for a number of months.

The Ta’an Kwach’an Council recently passed a resolution to ban hydraulic fracking on their traditional

instead of having liquor inspectors and municipal bylaw officers both inspecting businesses in town, we would just have municipal bylaw officers. Remember that we currently have to transport Whitehorse-based liquor inspectors as far as Eagle Plains, which is not the most efficient use of resources. Having individuals who live in the area and who are already tasked with reviewing municipal bylaws inspecting liquor establishments makes more sense.

Lastly, the download of all liquor related issues to alcohol and drug services will create a one-stop-shop for issues stemming from the use of alcohol in the territory. For example, both the liquor corp. and the alcohol and drug services are currently concerned with advertising to prevent harm stemming from use of alcohol. Would it not make more sense to have one government agency tasked with creating one global policy, rather than the current fragmented approach?

Taking the above three steps will place licensing in the hands of the affected communities, centralize preventative steps with one government department and reduce prices of alcohol, all without reducing funds flowing to government or sacrificing safety.

All that occurs is we remove the middleman from the equation, being the liquor corp.

Government and the marketplace can engage in a bit of synergy here, with government doing what it does best, which is tax harmful products and provide services for those in need, while the marketplace doing what it does best, which is sell things. By letting each sector focus on its strength the system as a whole will certainly come out ahead.

Graham Lang is a Whitehorse lawyer and long-time Yukoner.

territory. We honour them and their added decision not to invest in this Yukon Energy project.

This project will inevitably lead to using “fracked” gas. This is the moral and ethical decision not to participate in this destructive industry.

We, as parents, grandparents, and great grandparents of fourteen Kwanlin Citizens, ask the Kwanlin Dun Council to reconsider their involvement and potential investment in this project. At the most recent General Assembly of Kwanlin Dun, a resolution was passed that banned fracking on Kwanlin Dun traditional territory. If fracking is not good for us and the land, it is not good for any other people and their lands.

We feel this is a poor investment of the financial inheritance of land claims beneficiaries and feeds a hypocrisy that is unwise and unhealthy for the well-being of future generations.

Ann Smith and Brian Walker Whitehorse

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NATIONAL Federal lawyers argued vouching a ‘failsafe’ before Bill C 23 eliminated it Bruce Cheadle

under Bill C-23, dubbed the Fair Elections Act, that would eliminate vouching altogether.

OTTAWA Elections experts say the constitutional challenge to measure will disenfranchise tens voter-identification rules of thousands of voters in 2015. brought in by the Harper And constitutional experts say the government in 2007 may be on legislation doesn’t pass muster. its way to the Supreme Court of Pierre Lortie, chairman of Canada – where the latest Cona 1992 royal commission on servative electoral reforms would electoral reform, testified to a create an awkward legal backdrop. House of Commons committee That’s because the government last week that eliminating vouchof Canada has successfully argued ing “undoubtedly contravenes the in B.C. courts that its previous Canadian Charter of Rights and round of ID requirements were Freedoms.” protected, in part, by the “failsafe” And lawyer Brent Olthuis, who of voter vouching. represents three B.C. voters who Now the Conservatives have have been battling the previous introduced sweeping new changes round of federal identification Canadian Press

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Olthuis makes the link explicitly in his April 1 application to the Supreme Court.

“Regardless of whether that bill (C-23) is ultimately passed, this case offers the Court the opportunity to offer guidance to Parliament – and for that matter to the provincial legislatures and the wider public debate – about the constitutional issues engaged by voter ID legislation and how Charter-resistant legislation in this area might be crafted,” Olthuis writes in his leave application.

The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether it will hear the

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Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative minister for democratic reform, was asked at a Senate committee last week whether Justice Department lawyers had checked that Bill C-23 was Charter-proof.

“They have considered the legality of it and I am convinced the proposal is constitutionally compliant,” Poilievre responded, somewhat ambiguously.

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she did not have identification on hand showing her address. Her poor eyesight prevented her from identifying anyone who could vouch for her, and after an hour at the poll she returned home without voting.

Rose Henry and Clyde Wright, both aboriginals who have spent time on the street, managed to vote in 2008 but argued their future qualifications were tenuous at best.

The B.C. Supreme Court found that the voter ID rule enacted in 2007 “creates a new condition precedent to voting that did not exist previously.”

Moreover, Madame Justice Lynn Smith found that the new rules did breach the Charter, which makes voting a right. But she ruled the breach was justifiable, a decision upheld in January by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Vouching, as it turns out, was one of the arguments federal lawyers put forward to prove the bill was “minimally impairing.”

“Canada argues that this procedure provides yet greater accessibility and a ‘failsafe’ measure because it enables those without acceptable identification to cast a ballot if vouched for by another elector who is on the list at the same polling division and who does have acceptable identification,” Justice Smith wrote in her trial judgment.

She also dismissed arguments that citizens should be allowed more identification options, such as the voter information cards mailed by Elections Canada, or that people should be allowed to vouch for multiple voters.

“No doubt the list of documents authorized by the (chief electoral officer) could be further expanded or the vouching provisions could be made more flexible without completely destroying the effectiveness of the scheme,” wrote Justice Smith.

“But the question is whether the scheme falls within a range of reasonable alternatives … I conclude, therefore, that Canada has established that the provisions are minimally impairing.”

The trial judge also wrote what seems prescient now in the heat of a pitched parliamentary battle over the Fair Elections Act that has seen various Conservatives, including Poilievre, openly question the motives and integrity of the chief electoral officer and various elections experts.

“I accept Canada’s submission that the harm of electoral fraud lies not only in its potential to impact the actual outcome of an election, but also in its capacity to undermine public confidence in the electoral process,” wrote Justice Smith.

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B.C. law society clears way for Christian law school, despite same sex policy James Keller

B.C. government to reject the university’s proposal, pointing to a passage in the covenant that VANCOUVER says students must abstain from Christian university that “sexual intimacy that violates the requires students to abide sacredness of marriage between by a so-called community a man and a woman.” Students covenant forbidding intimacy can face discipline for violating outside heterosexual marriage the covenant, either on or off has been cleared by the Law campus.

Society of British Columbia to The school already received open its own law school, despite preliminary approval from the complaints that the covenant Federation of Law Societies of discriminates against gays and Canada, and B.C.’s Advanced Edlesbians. ucation Ministry has approved Trinity Western University, the school to grant degrees. which has about 3,600 students Members of the Law Society at its Langley, B.C., campus of B.C. debated a motion Friday southeast of Vancouver, applied that could have overruled the to open a law school in 2016. federation’s approval, but they Gay rights advocates and ultimately voted 20-6 to allow members of the legal community the school’s plans to proceed. had called on regulators and the The debate over Trinity Western’s proposed law school fuelled Canadian Press

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a sensitive and emotional debate about how to balance the beliefs of a private Christian institution with the rights of gays and lesbians.

Trinity Western says it will be the first Christian university in Canada to open a law school.

The university’s president, Bob Kuhn, has accused critics of prejudice, telling the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society earlier this year that nothing in the school’s policies would prevent students from acting professionally and ethically when they become lawyers.

Kuhn issued a statement Friday welcoming the law society’s vote in favour of the school.

“It (the decision) says that there is room in a democratic country like Canada for a law school at a Christian university,” the statement said.

At the law society meeting, Vancouver-based constitutional lawyer Joseph Arvay said the school was effectively putting up a sign at its doors telling gays and lesbians they are not

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“What I fail to understand is how approving this law school in any way balances the rights of religious freedom and the rights of equality,” Arvay said “TWU is requiring LGBT students and faculty, as a condition of entry, to hide their sexual orientation and to re-enter the closet.”

However, the majority of the speakers on Friday urged the law society to allow the school to proceed, even as some of them condemned the community covenant.

Criminal lawyer David Crossin said the school’s decision to press ahead without revising its covenant to respond to concerns about the document was discriminatory, hurtful and hypocritical.

Still, Crossin said the school’s behaviour isn’t enough to block the proposed law school.

“In my view, however, the law and the public interest demand recognition of TWU’s right to conduct their affairs in this way,” Crossin said.

“There is no evidence the ability of the teachers to properly teach will be compromised.

There is no evidence the ability of the students to learn and

think will be improperly stunted.

There is no evidence the graduates will be unable or unwilling to properly serve the public and the administration of justice.”

Trinity Western says law societies in several provinces and territories, including Alberta, Saskatchewan, P.E.I., Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nunavut, have said they will allow students from Trinity Western to article in their provinces. Societies in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and New Brunswick are still debating the issue.

The school has faced debate over its Bible-based morality policies before.

In the late 1990s, the British Columbia College of Teachers blocked Trinity Western from granting teaching degrees over the very same issue. At the time, students were required to sign an agreement not to engage in activities that were “biblically condemned,” including “homosexual behaviour.”

The case went to the Supreme Court of Canada, which overturned the college’s decision and said the British Columbia College of Teachers failed to offer evidence that Trinity Western graduates would go on to discriminate against students in the classroom.

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Worms wiggle their way north ‘There is a belief that they arrived in North America with the first European settlers on boats and with soil and plants.’

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Researchers from the University of Alberta are tracking the spread of non-native earthworm species, which can damage ecosystems.

They’ve asked Yukoners to keep an eye out for worms.

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iny Europeans are making their way to the North.

They’re potentially dangerous. But not to worry, they move pretty slowly on their own.

Researchers with the University of Alberta are studying the spread of non-native earthworms in the boreal forest of northern Alberta.

They’re asking Yukoners to keep their eyes peeled as well.

The crawlers have developed a reputation of being a gardener’s best friend. While that may be the case in some situations, the worms also have a potentially dark, dirty, squishy secret.

While digging around in the dirt, earthworms mix up a forest’s leaf litter layer. But there are plants that depend on that layer to grow, explains researcher Erin Cameron with the Alberta Worm Invasion Project.

Formerly earthworm-free hardwood forests of the Great Lakes Region have been invaded. One sensitive fern in the sugar maple forests in Minnesota has been

completely wiped out thanks to the worms.

Other plants and ground-nesting birds have also seen a decline in areas where earthworms are found.

Cameron is studying the effect on forests in Northern Alberta.

There, damage is not as advanced as you might find south of the border. But research does show early changes.

“The invasions in the boreal, these species have probably arrived much more recently,” she said. “So we do see changes in the leaf litter, they do consume the leaf litter in the same way.”

Most earthworms are not native to Canada. Nearly all of them died out about 10,000 years ago during the last ice age.

“There is a belief that they arrived in North America with the first European settlers on boats and with soil and plants,” Cameron said.

The Yukon does have a few native species of worm, but most of the worms we find are members of the European invasion.

If worms were left to their own

devices to wiggle their way across the country, we wouldn’t have to worry too much.

On their own they can spread 10 to 20 metres a year.

But the fact is that they’re not moving on their own. They’re hitching rides on car tires or in anglers’ tackle boxes.

“We found that they were much more common along the road and at the boat launches. Which suggests that humans are introducing them,” Cameron said.

While most of their work is Alberta-based, Cameron said the invasion project is interested in worms’ northern trajectory.

Like many other places, exotic earthworms have been found in the Yukon, mainly near Whitehorse and other areas where humans are plentiful.

Even when the Yukon’s winter dips into temperatures that make humans uncomfortable, some breeds of worms have a freeze tolerance that allows them to survive through the winter and thaw when the sun comes out.

In the Yukon, the title of local

worm specialist would likely fall to Bruce Bennett, the co-ordinator for the Yukon Conservation Data Centre.

He said it’s common to find non-native worms all around populated areas in the territory, including everywhere from Riverdale to Haines Junction to the islands in the Yukon River.

But the Yukon has not officially labelled any of the species as invasive.

“It would have to show that it causes either environmental or ecological harm. The presence of non-native worms is something to be aware of and to track, to see if they would qualify,” he said.

Bennett says he’ll be following the University of Alberta study and is most interested in watching just how these worms are being moved around the country.

“In places such as Whitehorse, if people are getting their ATVs muddy in Whitehorse and then taking them into the backcountry, is that a vector for moving these things around?” he asked.

In the Yukon, he said, we tend

not to have that deep layer where the worms would do damage, Bennett said.

“You tip over a tree and you’ve got about a quarter inch of soil…

We don’t have deep soil,” he said.

“The threat of these worms in the Yukon is probably much smaller, which is why I hesitate to call them invasive.”

Still, having data available on worms and species movement is important in case it is ever needed, he said.

If anyone finds a worm, especially if it’s found away from town, Bennett said he’s more than willing to help Yukoners identify the discovery.

Very few people can identify a worm species at first glance, he said. The different breeds are only distinguishable by the little hairs, or cilia, found along their bodies.

The University of Alberta researchers have created an online Worm Tracker App where the public can upload photos of worms along with information on where they were found.

Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com

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Partington said the drop was something of a surprise, given Environment Canada had predicted an uptick. But he said it’s too soon to say what direction the figure will go in the coming years.

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School couNcil ElEctioNS

ÉlEctioNS DES coNSEilS ScolAirES

This is your Elections Yukon information page. If you can’t find the election information that you need here, please call Elections Yukon at 667-8683 or toll free 1-866-668-8683.

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Notice of nominations

Avis de présentation des candidatures

Pursuant to the Elections Act, the nomination date for candidates as members of school councils is Thursday, April 24, 2014. Nominations will be received on this date between 10 a.m and 12 noon.

Conformément aux dispositions de la Loi sur l’ éducation, la date de présentation des candidatures aux postes des conseils scolaires est le jeudi 24 avril 2014. Ce jour-là, les déclarations de candidature seront acceptées entre 10 h et midi.

Who is eligible to run?

Candidates must have lived in the attendance area for at least three months or be a parent of a child attending the school.

Candidates must be Canadian citizens who are at least 18 years old.

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Qui peut présenter sa candidature?

Peut présenter sa candidature toute personne qui réside dans la zone de fréquentation du conseil depuis au moins trois mois ou a un enfant qui fréquente une école située dans la zone de fréquentation. La personne doit être citoyenne canadienne et être âgée d’au moins 18 ans.

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Scratching the surface on Yukon’s ancient treasures ‘We have such a rich but largely undiscovered heritage here.’

Jacqueline Ronson News Reporter

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reasure hunters of the Yukon gathered at the Whitehorse Public Library over the weekend to check out each others’ collections and hopefully learn or a thing or two.

The event was hosted by Long Ago Yukon, a “support group” for amateur archeologists and palaeontologists, says organizer Michael Dougherty.

The group’s purpose is “deepening and widening the community of interest and concern on the preservation and protection of our heritage in the Yukon,” he said.

“We have such a rich but largely undiscovered heritage here.”

A professional archeologist and a professional palaeontologist were each on hand Saturday to help identify treasures. They also brought some treasures of their own.

In one part of the room, archeologist Greg Hare demonstrated the use of an atlatl throwing dart – the preferred hunting tool of Yukon First Nations until about 1,100 years ago.

It’s made from a long, thin stick with an arrowhead on one end and feathers on the other. The dart is launched using a special throwing board that acts like a lever, similar to a ball launcher a dog owner might use to throw tennis balls at the park.

“It leaps off the end of the board, and they think the idea with the feathers is it actually goes slower than the front end, and it drags it down so you get greater distance,” said Hare. “So that’s the ballistic property of it. You can throw these like hundreds and hundreds of metres.”

Accuracy at that range would be limited, however, said Hare.

It would be more likely that it would have been used to hunt at distances of 15 to 20 metres, he said.

The atlatl was the preferred hunting method in the Yukon for 8,000 years, said Hare.

About 1,200 years ago a volcano erupted off the Alaskan coast, blanketing Yukon with ash and pushing people from the area.

Within a generation new people moved into the area, and they brought with them the bow and arrow, which replaced the atlatl as weapon of choice.

On the other side of the room, paleontologist Grant Zazula showed off some important pieces from Yukon’s impressive collection.

His favourite is a broken piece of 700,000-year-old horse bone, not much bigger than a fist, uncovered at Thistle Creek near Dawson City, he said.

“It probably is the most important specimen in our collection.”

Zazula published a paper earlier this year on the ancient horse, including DNA sequencing from the bone.

“It’s the most ancient genetic sequence ever produced in the world,” said Zazula.

“It’s pretty cool when little broken pieces of bone like this can lead to major scientific discoveries.”

Amateur collector Mary Whitley brought a few treasures for those gathered to look at and share.

One was a piece of baleen, maybe six inches long and one inch across, attached to a piece of string.

When you swing it around fast enough it makes a whirring sound, and children and adults alike took turns for their chance to try and make it sing.

“I bought it as a curiosity in Alaska probably in the 1980s, just because it’s neat,” said Whitley.

It still has the original price tag – $8.80.

The verdict’s still out on whether the trinket serves a purpose beyond entertainment, she said.

“I don’t know what the purpose of the noise is. I have no idea. It’s fun.”

Whitley also brought a tiny glass pitcher. With the light on it, the piece appears to have a purple hue.

She’s not sure where it came from, but it probably had been passed on through her family, she said.

Jesse Winter/Yukon News The archaeologist-on-duty was Top, Roman Zazula examines a prehistoric bear skull during an artifact-sharing event hosted able to tell her that the purple hue

by Long Ago Yukon at the Whitehorse Public Library on Saturday. Bottom, Paleontologist comes from mercury, and that glass Grant Zazula examines an antique skate blade. stopped being made that way after 1910.

“I didn’t know that,” said Whitley.

The experts also helped her identify a vertebra from a small whale, maybe a beluga.

Whitley’s not quite sure where she found it – probably on a beach on the north coast of Yukon, she said. She hadn’t been sure if it came from a walrus or a whale, she said.

Dougherty said he hopes events like these will spark more interest in Yukon’s old stuff.

“The reality is that many of the key discoveries have been made by laypeople, amateurs. And so, the more amateurs that know what they’re looking at and looking for, the greater likelihood of being able to feed into our small professional core material … helping them identify the heritage resources available in our communities.”

Given the success of Saturday’s artifact identification event, Long Ago Yukon will likely host similar events in the future, said Dougherty.

For more information about the society and its events, email Michael Dougherty at pazypan@yukon.net.

Contact Jacqueline Ronson at jronson@yukon-news.com

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Subway says ‘yoga mat chemical’ will be out of bread soon, after protest over common additive Candice Choi

flashpoint in part by noting that the chemical is also used to make yoga mats.

NEW YORK Tony Pace, Subway’s chief ubway says an ingredient marketing officer, told the AP dubbed the “yoga mat chemiin a phone interview that the cal” will be entirely phased out of chain had started phasing out the its bread by next week. ingredient late last year and that The disclosure comes as the process should be complete Subway has suffered from an within a week. Subway is privately onslaught of bad publicity since a held and doesn’t disclose its sales food blogger petitioned the chain figures. But it has apparently been to remove the ingredient. feeling pressure from the uproar.

The ingredient, azodicarbon“You see the social media amide, is approved by the Food traffic, and people are happy that and Drug Administration for we’re taking it out, but they want use in food as a bleaching agent to know when we’re taking it out,” and dough conditioner. It can Pace said. “If there are people who be found in a wide variety of have that hesitation, that hesitaproducts, including those served tion is going to be removed.” at McDonald’s, Burger King and The issue illustrates a split in Starbucks and breads sold in thought about what should go supermarkets. But its long, unfainto our food. One side says such miliar name has an unappetizing additives are used in hundreds of ring, and the petition became a food products and are safe to eat Associated Press

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in the quantities approved by the FDA. The other side asks why such ingredients need to be used at all.

John Coupland, a professor of food science at Penn State University, noted that people concerned about azodicarbonamide focus in part on a carcinogen called urethane it creates in the baking process. But he said some level of urethane is already present in bread and that even the simple act of toasting can increase its levels.

“Nobody worries about making toast,” Coupland said, adding that one could argue there’s some type of risk associated with any number of chemicals.

Coupland also questioned how Subway’s removal of the ingredient would address the bigger question of whether its food is actually healthy.

“Maybe there are some people who think Subway is healthy now

– that’s my concern,” he said.

Subway, which has about 26,600 U.S. locations, had said soon after the petition surfaced in February that it was in the process of removing the ingredient. But the company wouldn’t provide details on a timeline, prompting some to say that the chain didn’t really have a plan to remove the ingredient.

Pace stressed that the removal wasn’t a reaction to the petition.

The company also provided a statement saying it had tested the “Azo-free bread” in four markets this past fall.

The company did not immediately provide details on what changes it made to its bread to remove the ingredient.“ “We’re always trying to improve stuff,” Pace said. For instance, he noted that the chain has also reduced sodium levels over the years and removed of high-fructose corn syrup from its bread.

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The blogger who created the Subway petition, Vani Hari of FoodBabe.com, has said she targeted Subway because of its image of serving healthy food. Hari said she was happy to hear about Subway’s move but that the chain still had other questionable ingredients, such as caramel coloring and yeast extract.

“The entire point of the petition was that I wanted people to know that eating fresh is not really eating fresh,” she said.

Regardless of the safety of various ingredients, more people are looking to stick to diets they feel are natural. The trend has prompted numerous food makers to adjust their recipes, even as they stand by the safety of their products. Among the companies that have made changes are PepsiCo Inc., which removed a chemical from Gatorade, and ConAgra, which simplified the ingredients in its Healthy Choice frozen meals.

fresh food.

Subway isn’t the only company to make a change in response to consumer feedback. Here are some recent examples of recipe changes by major food makers: • Starbucks removed cochineal extract, a red dye made from crushed bugs, from its food and drinks after an online petition.

• PepsiCo removed brominated vegetable oil from Gatorade.

An online petition had noted the ingredient’s link to flame retardants.

• Kraft Foods says it will reformulate select varieties of its macaroni and cheese next year to use natural colours.

• Chick-fil-A has been removing artificial dyes and high-fructose corn syrup from dressings and sauces. The chain is also switching to chicken raised without antibiotics.

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New snowboard champs crowned at Simapalooza Tom Patrick News Reporter

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ukon’s competitive snowboard season drew to a close with new open division champions.

In fact, only one division saw a repeat winner from last year at the 2014 Yukon Snowboard Championships at Mount Sima over the weekend.

The championship, which coincided with Mount Sima’s endof-season celebration, Simapalooza, had only one boarder crowned champion both days.

Whitehorse’s Alexander Chisholme took first place in slopestyle on Saturday and first in snowboardcross on Sunday in open male.

“It was a phenomenal weekend with so many great events,” said Chisholme. “It was a pretty good turnout, lots of fun. It was great to be back in my home town, see everyone, and be part of it this year.”

It was Chisholme’s first time winning the open title at the championships and the first time he’s competed at it in a few years. The 22-year-old missed the last three while studying at school in Alberta.

A pair of head injuries also limited his riding the last couple of seasons.

“I didn’t get to do too much riding on my board until spring break because I was out of town,” said Chisholme. “Just to come back late in the season and have the conditions so optimal and have such an phenomenal park built by Tyler (Nichol) and have everything come together … it all paid off.”

Chisholme edged out second place’s Tim Schirmer by a whisker both days.

He finished the slopestyle competition with a combined score of 526 while Schirmer finished at 525.

Chisholme was third in the rail portion of the slopestyle competition in the “upper park” before making up for it in the jump portion of the comp in the “lower park.”

“The upper park was more of a rail focus and I’m not super strong at rails, but I’m good at the backside boardslide and I think I did a few nice ones,” said Chisholme. “On the one jump on the upper park I was able to do some really good switch tricks, which really helped my score.”

Chisholme snagged the top spot with a backside rodeo 540 and a frontside 900 on the jumps.

Nichol, who built the park at Sima this winter, placed third in open male slopestyle.

Chisholme, who won a bronze at the Western Snowboardcross Series in 2012, won three races for the open male snowboardcross title on Sunday.

“I took the lead right out of the gate and was able to stay on my

Tom Patrick/Yukon News

Top, Rachel McIntosh rides in the slopestyle competition at the Yukon Snowboard Championships on Saturday at Mount Sima. Bottom left, open male division champion Alexander Chisholme catches air. Bottom right, Nic MacDougall launches off an obstacle in the slopestyle competition.

feet right to the finish line,” said Chisholme of the final.

Schirmer took second, Nic MacDougall third and Nichol fourth in the open male out of nine riders.

Sally Skinner finished her first Yukon championship with a title.

Skinner, who moved to Whitehorse from Vancouver in December, took first in open female in slopestyle Saturday.

The 26-year-old was the only rider listed in open female but was added in with the 15-16 female division and topped the group.

“It was amazing,” said Skinner.

“Every girl was stoked, excited to be there, and everyone was learning. It was fun.”

“I just did some boardslides and some spins off the lower jumps, nothing too crazy,” she added.

Skinner, who is a coach with Snowboard Yukon, finished ahead of 15-16 female winner Mackenzie Davy. Reanna Newsome placed third for females and Rachel McIntosh fourth.

“Mackenzie is just thinking

about going on the team next year, so I think she’ll be on the team next year – she definitely should be,” said Skinner. “She got some amazing results.”

Crystal Legoffe took first in open female snowboardcross on Sunday in front of MacIntosh, the only other entry.

Schirmer, Newsome and McIntosh all represented Yukon in snowboarding at the Arctic Winter Games last month in Fairbanks, Alaska. Schirmer took three medals in juvenile male; Newsome won four medals, including a bronze overall, in juvenile female; Macintosh won two bronze in junior female.

The only boarder to defend a division title from last year was Aaron Frotten, who won snowboardcross in the masters (30-andover) division for a second straight year.

With the course all set, Snowboard Yukon also hosted a skicross event along side the snowboardcross event on Sunday.

See full results from both days,

including the skicross, at www. yukon-news.com.

“It’s amazing Snowboard Yukon gets to put on these events and has the funding to do it,” said Skinner.

“I think it really changes kids’ lives to be able to participate in it.

“And Mary Binsted and Sue (Deforest) and those guys (Norm Curzon, Aaron Frotten) put so much time in, so I think they should get a lot of credit.”

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Among the millions of yoga practitioners surveyed, roughly 82 per cent were women.

Many women turn to yoga because they recognize the value of strength training but are uncomfortable or nervous about lifting weights.

The various poses performed in yoga can increase muscle strength and tone, providing similar benefits to weightlifting without forcing women to spend time among men in the weight room.

But yoga does more than improve strength and muscle tone. The following are a few additional benefits of yoga, some of which may surprise even the most devoted of practitioners.

• Improved flexibility: Some people are intimidated by yoga because they feel their bodies simply aren’t flexible enough to perform many of the poses typical of the average yoga class. While beginners may find the poses difficult, they are designed to safely stretch muscles.

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Over time, the poses may release lactic acid that builds up in muscles, and that lactic acid often contributes to fatigue, pain, stiffness, and tension.

This release leads to improved flexibility, and like many physical activities, yoga poses become easier to perform as practitioners’ bodies become more accustomed to them.

• Increased range of motion: Joint pain does not discriminate based on age or gender. Yoga can improve lubrication in the joints, increasing one’s range of motion as a result.

That makes it easier for some people to live with joint pain, which may even subside among practitioners who fully commit to yoga.

• Improved posture: The stronger, more flexible body that yoga often creates also contributes to better posture. Many yoga poses rely on the deep abdominal muscles to help maintain each pose, and this strengthens the body’s core.

A stronger core increases the likelihood that a person will stand straight and tall, an improvement in posture that many non-practitioners would enthusiastically

embrace.

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Among the millions of yoga practitioners surveyed, roughly 82 per cent were women.

Many women turn to yoga because they recognize the value of strength training but are uncomfortable or nervous about lifting weights.

The various poses performed in yoga can increase muscle strength and tone, providing similar benefits to weightlifting without forcing women to spend time among men in the weight room.

But yoga does more than improve strength and muscle tone. The following are a few additional benefits of yoga, some of which may surprise even the most devoted of practitioners.

• Improved flexibility: Some people are intimidated by yoga because they feel their bodies simply aren’t flexible enough to perform many of the poses typical of the average yoga class. While beginners may find the poses difficult, they are designed to safely stretch muscles.

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This release leads to improved flexibility, and like many physical activities, yoga poses become easier to perform as practitioners’ bodies become more accustomed to them.

• Increased range of motion: Joint pain does not discriminate based on age or gender. Yoga can improve lubrication in the joints, increasing one’s range of motion as a result.

That makes it easier for some people to live with joint pain, which may even subside among practitioners who fully commit to yoga.

• Improved posture: The stronger, more flexible body that yoga often creates also contributes to better posture. Many yoga poses rely on the deep abdominal muscles to help maintain each pose, and this strengthens the body’s core.

A stronger core increases the likelihood that a person will stand straight and tall, an improvement in posture that many non-practitioners would enthusiastically

embrace.

• Reduced stress the effect that yoga styles of yoga emp force the mind to f has a calming effec Other yoga styl that aim to clear th ute to stress. Novic efficacy of such tec ers of yoga find its benefit of the prac gested that yoga m associated with rel • Heart health: P history of heart di yoga has been show dealing with heart the heart beats, wh sure and helps tho lowers their risk of lower cholesterol a

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Yukon wins consolation gold at broomball nationals Tom Patrick

Association’s league, kept cool heads and also walked away with the Most Sportsmanlike Team award. t took a little while for Yukon’s “It was on and off the ice that deCoates Lead Dawgs to find their termines that,” said Yukon coach and footing, but when they did they took a defenceman Milford Allain. “It’s an win and a medal. aspect of Yukon that we like to show The Lead Dawgs won their final off. We’re good sportsmen too, so it game to take “B side gold” at the 2014 was a nice ending to it.”

Mixed Broomball Nationals on Satur“The biggest problem we had to day in Calgary, Alta. overcome was not how rough the play They beat the Alberta Blazers 6-1 was, but it was a lot more physical in the consolation game between the than we anticipated,” added Allain, two teams that didn’t make the playoff who led the team in assists with three. round.

“The adjustment to that took about The Yukon team lost their first five three games, I would say.” games at the championships before The Lead Dawgs opened with a 2-1 the win on Saturday. loss to Manitoba’s Tenby, who went on “Like any typical Yukon team that to take the bronze. goes out to a tournament, it took us a Yukon then lost 3-1 to Blazers – few games to catch up to the pace of who they later beat on Saturday – and the competition and develop a bit of 3-1 to Saskatchewan’s Regina Trashers. chemistry,” said Yukon captain Chris Then there was a lopsided 8-0 loss Saunders. “Once we got caught up to to Quebec’s Broom-Shak Becancour, the speed, we were doing all right. It was a little chaotic the first few games who went on to win gold, and a fifth loss, 3-0 to Ontario’s Hillbillies, who but then we came around and the took silver. crew was playing together a little bit “In the round-robin it was very better … and we weren’t too far off close; we were in every game we the competition. played,” said Allain. “We played “I was hoping we’d do a little bit really well, but our adjustment to better. Given the experience that we the physical play at that level was our had, some of them were in their first biggest detriment. We didn’t adjust year of broomball, it went not too fast enough to that and by the time we badly.”

Though winless in the round-rob- did, it cost a couple goals, which cost us the games in those close matches.” in, the Yukon team, assembled with players from the Yukon Broomball Yukon forward Justin Saunders led News Reporter

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the team in points with five goals and an assist. Teammates Cody Claggett, Amber Saunders, Lawrence Ignace and Matt Mcdonald also logged goals for Yukon.

Terry Joss and Sandra Beitz had two assists each in the tournament.

Lead Dawgs goalie Sheena Laluk was named her team’s Most Valuable Player with a 3.33 goals against average.

“Sheena took over the role of goalie for us just a month before the tournament and she played outstanding,” said Allain. “Other teams commented on how well she played. Once we told them she was a new goalie, they couldn’t believe it. She stood on her head and we really have to thank her for some of those close games.”

Many of the players on the team will likely represent Yukon and Canada at the 2014 World Broomball Championships this November in Japan.

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Yukon Coates Lead Dawgs forward Justin Saunders competes in the Yukon league finals earlier this month. Saunders led his team with five goals at the Canadian Broomball Nationals last weekend in Calgary.

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Northern Novas swimmers qualify for nationals Tom Patrick

and I were practising the wrong figures and figured out the day of the competition that they were wrong. So ukon will be represented at the we didn’t do so great on those.”

Canadian Open Synchronized Duke and Vowk, who have been Swimming Championships at the competing together for about two end of the month in Saskatoon, Sask. years, missed the national qualifying Whitehorse’s Jamie Duke and event because Vowk was competing Katelyn Vowk qualified for the in alpine skiing at the Arctic Winter nationals at the Wildrose Classic in Games in Fairbanks, Alaska, last Lethbridge, Alta., over the weekend. month. They received permission The two members of the Northern from the governing body to qualify Novas – Yukon’s synchronized swim- through the Alberta provincials. ming team – placed fourth in the It’ll be the two’s first national duets competition for females 16-18. championship.

They missed the podium by just “I think we’re ready for it,” said 1.1 points in the competition. They Vowk. “Our routine is coming along might have medaled but were a little really good and now that we know unprepared for the “figures” competi- the real figures we can practise those. tion, which are specific positions There’ll be a lot of girls, but I think performed individually, separate we’ll place pretty good.” from the routines.

Vowk won gold in slalom and sil“Me and Jamie and our coach ver in giant slalom in juvenile female know we could have gotten third at the Arctic Games last month. or higher if we had done better on Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com our figures because they combined the marks from the routine and the Shannon Duke photo figures together,” said Vowk. “Jamie Northern Novas swimmers Jamie Duke and Katelyn Vowk compete at the WilNOTE PADS & PENS drose Classic in Lethbridge, Alta., over the weekend.

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Squash Yukon holds first tourney with doubles

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Tell the Kusawa Park Steering Committee what you think about key topics to be addressed in the Kusawa Territorial Park Management Plan.

Share your ideas at the following public meeting in McIntyre:

Nàkwät’à Kù Potlatch House Thursday, April 24th at 7:00p.m.

Be part of the process.

For more information, visit www.kusawapark.ca or call KDFN`s Senior Lands & Resources Planner at 633-7859.

Team Arctic Red’s Jodi Tuton winds up for a backhand during doubles play at the Kill Bill Team Tournament on Saturday at Better Bodies Whitehorse. The tournament was the first hosted by Squash Yukon to include doubles.

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Free Workshops for Separated Or Divorced Parents This 3 hour information session covers the following topics:

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this workshop is mandatory for parents in proceedings involving a claim for child custody, access or child support in Yukon supreme court. (some exceptions apply)

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certificates are issued upon completion of workshop and presentation of identification.

Currently accepting applications For more information, contact the Agriculture Branch Phone: 867-667-5838 Toll-free: 1-800-661-0408, ext. 5838 Email: agriculture@gov.yk.ca

SATURDAY MAY 10, 2014 from 1:00 – 4:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Hotel, 201 Wood Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Y1A 2E4 ATELIERS EN FRANÇAIS : les ateliers sont offerts en français sur demande. pour de plus amples renseignements au sujet de ces ateliers, veuillez vous adresser au centre d’information sur le droit de la famille.

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he squash courts at Better Bodies Whitehorse were a lot more crowded than usual on Friday and Saturday.

Squash Yukon decided to try something new and included doubles matches at the annual Kill Bill Team Tournament.

It was the first time doubles have been included in a Squash Yukon tournament.

“I think whoever played doubles enjoyed it,” said Squash Yukon instructor Khoon Chua.

“Some were playing it for the first time in a tournament.”

Though technically doubles, what took place at Better Bodies is often nicknamed “dingles,” as in doubles played on a singles-sized court. True squash doubles are played on larger size courts. International doubles are played on a wider court and American squash doubles are played on a wider and longer court with a harder ball.

The Kill Bill tournament, which consists of teams winning as many points as they can in 25-minute timed matches, also included singles.

Team Ice Fog, including Chua, Jen Muerer, Kyle Marchuk, Will Chetcuti, Micah Smith and Jada Smith-Kwok, took first with 1,760 points.

Team Yukon Gold – Adam Sippel, Shirley Chua, Sam Penner, Benjamin Gelinas, Tony Radford and Kennedy Cairns – claimed second with 1,741.

Team Chilkoot won 1,725 points for third. On board were Jim Gilpin, Stephen Bucklet, Dylan Letang, Matt Brown, Matt Johnson, Cathy MacDonald.

“For the next tournament we’ll probably put some dingles in and there should be more players playing then,” added Khoon.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Strikers host Juneau for weekend matches Tom Patrick News Reporter

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he Yukon Strikers and the Juneau Soccer Club wrapped up the indoor season with a weekend packed with soccer action.

The two rep soccer clubs went head-to-head in a series of exhibition matches over the weekend at the Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse.

The point wasn’t to see which was the stronger club, but to give the clubs some game time against other opponents, something both clubs need.

“Since both clubs are in the same position, neither of us have enough kids to have a league in each age group, we’re looking for games to play,” said Juneau U14 girls coach John Newell. “That’s the whole point of this trade off. We come up here with as many teams as we can and play as many games as we can. We’re not too concerned with results, just good soccer.

“In the summer time you’ll all come down and play us. We house each other, feed each other, try to keep the cost down for the parents, and try to keep it as fun as possible.”

About 150 players took part in the exhibition matches as eight Yukon Strikers teams welcomed 11 Juneau squads.

Scores from the matches were not recorded.

“We would send all our girls teams to Juneau and they would send all their boys teams here and the next year it would alternate,” said Strikers coach Tony Gaw. “It lasted for quite a while and then for some reason it stopped. So last year we got it going again.

“It’s excellent. The kids have lots of fun, they get games to play. We don’t get a lot of competition, so it’s really good.”

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Clockwise from top left: Yukon Striker Cole Wilkie-Hobus, left, chases down a Juneau player during exhibition play on Saturday at the Canada Games Centre. Yukon Striker Georgia Gaw, right, fights for the ball with Juneau’s Malia Miller. Kacie Hastings, left, chases after a Juneau player. Callum Weir checks a Juneau player.

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Klondike Business Solutions’ Robert Wangati Mbuto, left, and Quest Computers’ Guliano Rayo compete in the bronze medal match of the Whitehorse Rapids Over 35 Men’s Soccer League on Saturday at the Canada Games Centre. Pepsi took the gold, Pine Plumbing silver and Quest Computers bronze.

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for the win.

Maguire also scored in the final on Saturday and Jeremy Raymond scored epsi popped in goals as Pine for Pine Plumbing.

Plumbing plunged on Saturday.

Quest Computers went on to take Team Pepsi took first with a 4-1 bronze in a 6-1 win over Klondike win over Pine Plumbing in the final of Business Solutions on Saturday before the Whitehorse Rapids Over 35 Men’s the gold medal match.

Soccer League at the Canada Games “They were short a couple players, Centre. so that made it a little lopsided in our Pine Plumbing was the favourfavour,” said Quest goalkeeper Patrick ite going in, having placed first in Jackson. “We had a good year too. It’s the regular season ahead of Pepsi in been a good year all around for the second. over-35 league. Lots of camaraderie, “The season went pretty well. We even though there’s competition, and had a slow start and then mid-season it keeps getting stronger every year.” we started doing really well,” said Pepsi David Rayo scored twice for Quest captain Phil Jackson, who scored twice as teammates Mark O’Brien, Robert in the final. “We were a little short with Bousquet, Jim Connell and Guliano people being away and whatnot, and Rayo contributed individual goals. we had a few injuries, but overall we Dale Cheeseman scored for Klonjust got better and better as the season dike. went on.”

Yukon Brew defeated Assante Pepsi advanced to the final in a 3-2 Financial 4-3 in the fifth-place match semifinal win over Quest Computers on Saturday. with Keith Maguire scoring the gameContact Tom Patrick at winner in the last minute of the match tomp@yukon-news.com News Reporter

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Kakuro

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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To solve Kakuro, you must enter a number between 1 and 9 in the empty squares. The clues are the numbers in the white circles that give the sum of the solution numbers: above the line are across clues and below the line are down clues and below the line are down clues.

Thus, a clue of 3 will produce a solution of 2 and 1 and a 5 will produce 4 and 1, or 2 and 3, but of course, which squares they go in will depend on the solution of a clue in the other direction.

No difit can be repeated in a solution, so a 4 can only produce 1 and 3, never 2 and 2. © 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a sudden hostile incursion : raid.

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Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation : exodus

CLUES ACROSS 1. Femur head joint 4. Co. name prior to CCN & Experian 7. An encircling route 11. Actor Baldwin 13. Yeman monetary unit 15. Slightly curved blade sword 16. London Int’l. Advertising Award 17. Exchange premium 18. Am. artist Edwin Austin 19. Hyperopia 22. Purplish red color 23. Take in marriage

24. Promotional messages 25. Full of high-spirited delight 29. The study of plants 33. S. Am. camel relative 35. Amounts of time 36. Purplish brown 37. Treat with contempt 40. Set in advance 42. In a lucid way 44. Only laughed once 45. One point E of due N 46. Revolve

50. Harry Potter star 55. Olympic contests 56. A small lake 57. Arabian chieftain 58. Ribonuclease 59. Plants of the genus salvia 60. Small deer of Japan 61. Slang for “alright” 62. ___ student, learns healing 63. Spring ahead

CLUES DOWN 1. One of two equal parts 2. About ilium 3. June’s birthstone 4. Calamity 5. Jefferson named unalienable ones 6. Rest in expectation 7. Baseball’s ____ Ruth 8. Flows away 9. Belonging to Robert E. 10. Attempt 12. House in Spanish 14. Lerner and _____, wrote “My Fair Lady” 15. Summer shoe

20. Formerly Persia 21. A small wooded hollow 26. Duct or cellophane 27. Large flightless birds 28. Genus leuciscus fish 29. A place to sleep 30. Minerals 31. Scarlett’s home 32. 7th Hindu month 34. Poised to 38. Fitness guru Austin 39. Czech & German River 40. Slogged

41. College army 43. Short sharp barks 44. CA. citrus county 47. Brews 48. Fearful and cautious 49. The people of Chief Kooffreh 50. Euphemistic damn 51. Far East wet nurse 52. Where birds hatch their young 53. Wander 54. Male undergrad social club 55. Programming language

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WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: an emotional outburst : fit.

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Apply in person to Andrea: 6098 6th Avenue with references.

KAL TIRE is looking for full-time team members in Shipping & Receiving & the Front Shop Pay depends on experience Contact: Rick Copes 633-4482 rick_copes@kaltire.com

Come Join our team at Whitehorse Motors! We are currently seeking a

Journeyman Automotive Service Technician

We offer competitive wages, a great working atmosphere, an excellent benefit package and much more.

Forward resume to Nick Schonewille 4178-4th Ave, Whitehorse, Y1A 1J6 or email service@whitehorsemotors.com

Whitehorse Motors

4th Avenue and Wheeler, Whitehorse, Yukon

JOB OPPORTUNITY Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

Early Childhood Education Centre Manager Regular Full Time | Salary: $72,025.41 - $84,259.54 Location: Haines Junction

CAFN’s Human Resources Policy will apply. For complete job description please check the CAFN website at http://www.cafn.ca/jobs.html or contact below.

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. An eligibility list will be created from this competition.

Application deadline: 4:30 p.m. on April 29th, 2014 Send Applications and/or resumes to: Human Resource Officer Fax: (867) 667-6202 | Phone: (867) 456-6879 | Email: kbrown@cafn.ca

The duties of this position will be; • Assisting senior auditors with audit files, • Preparation of audit files including RAP, • Preparation of draft financial statements, including IFRS, for review by senior personnel, • Assistance with NTR files and review files, • An understanding of NPOs and their accounting processes, • Bookkeeping.

Qualifications • Course work in financial accounting and auditing usually gained from a post-secondary institution, • Working knowledge of Caseware, Connector, Smartsync, Excel and Word, • The ability to work in both official languages would be a benefit for the applicant.

MAKITA 12” planer, 6” joiner combination machine, 220 volt, 3 sets of blades, $700 obo. 633-2916

• • • • • •

Minimum 5-years construction and/or mining survey experience Project management experience Good communication and organizational skills Knowledge of survey plans, survey calculations and adjustments Experience in survey and/or engineering drafting Skills in AutoCAD Civil 3D

We offer a competitive wage and full benefits package.

Please forward your resume to: cfriesen@underhill.yk.ca, or drop by our office at 4081 Fourth Avenue, Whitehorse, YT

EmploymEnt opportunitiEs At Yukon Energy, we believe that we are the employer of choice in the Yukon. We foster a respectful and positive work environment making it a rewarding place to work. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and generous northern and travel allowances. So take the next step in your career path and join our team of skilled and dedicated employees.

Please reply to M. McKay & Associates, Certified General Accountants, 204-208A Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 2A9. Fax is 867-633-5440, email mm_assoc.office@northwestel.net.

Powerline Technician

CloSinG dAte iS MAY 2nd, 2014.

HOUSE HUNTERS HAINES JUNCTION HOUSE FOR SALE

Permanent Full Time Position

Mayo, Yukon Salary Range: $74,639 - $87,809 (plus $10,032 - $10,690 in annual northern benefits) This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled professional to join our Transmission and Distribution team. The primary focus of this position will be in the construction and maintenance of electrical transmission and distribution systems, including substations, and street light systems to maintain continuous and satisfactory service to customers.

Travel throughout the territory and periods of on-call coverage are required.

We are looking for someone with: Journey level Powerline Technician certification and several years of experience with overhead transmission and distribution systems.

Rigging and hoisting certification; minimum of two years experience operating equipment; and a class 3 driver’s license are also required.

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

BRAND NEW self contained, stand alone, odourless compost toilet. Evirolet brand.

Very efficient, low maintenance, Needs no water, c/w ducting, no tax and no shipping. $2,200 obo. 633-6502

Construction Surveyor

The candidate should have a minimum of 3 years experience as an accounting technician working with audit files. The starting rate of pay for this position is $18.86 per hour. The standard work week is 40 hours per week. The NOC for this position is 1311. This position is open to underrepresented groups in the work place.

Miscellaneous for Sale

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

Professional Land Surveyors and Geomatics Engineers

Accounting techniciAn

CONCRETE FINISHERS & Form Setters.

Edmonton based company seeks experienced concrete finishers and form setters for work in Edmonton and Northern Alberta.

Subsistence and accommodations provided for out of town work; Jobs@RaidersConcrete.com. Fax 780-444-9165.

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

underhill geomatics ltd.

POSTED APRIL 14, 2014

IT Helpdesk Support Casual On-Call

Whitehorse Salary Range $30.89/hr - $36.34/hr Working as part of the IT team this casual on-call position will support the IT group with computer software, hardware or systems problems and clean, install and modify existing operating systems.

LOT 3, BLOCK 45 HAINES JUNCTION BRAND NEW TWO BEDROOM HOME. 1216 square feet with attached single-car garage. Located on very quiet cul-de-sac in the newest serviced subdivision. Great south-facing exposure with full view of the front range of mountains. This home has been built to the latest energy standards and met the energy audit of the latest NBC. It features maple kitchen cabinets, AC4 laminate and ceramic flooring, as well as a gas fireplace. Asking $329,000.

For more information or to make a viewing appointment call: (867) 633-4275 Whitehorse or (867) 336-8850 Haines Junction

The successful applicant will have first or second year Computer studies or equivalent experience or certification. Knowledge of installation and configuration of Windows operating systems; and experience troubleshooting computers, laptops, servers, printers and LAN/WAN system components in a Windows Active Directory Domain. Knowledge of workstation security software, databases and data backup systems would be an asset.

To apply on either of these positions, submit a covering letter and resume by 5:00 pm April 25, 2014 to Human Resources via fax to (867) 393-5334 or email us at hr@yec.yk.ca.

We appreciate all responses; only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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Native Brain-Tanned

15 1000 watt HPS, high efficient light bulbs, $25 ea. 5 1000 watt IMH bulbs, $25 ea.

334-7535

MEC FULL side zip waterproof pants, womenʼs medium, new, $80. Large spider plant, $40. 1llB Hanson St.

AT REASONABLE PRICES

9 1000 watt ballasts dual 120/240 watt w dimmable & super lumens from 50%-110% operating output, super efficient, lightweight and cool, $150 ea. 336-4202

1 400L Tidy Tank with hand pump, L-shape, drywall taping Bazooka construction air nailer (assorted). 667-7413

Moose Hides CPAWS Yukon is currently recruiting a

part-time Admin/ProgrAm ASSiStAnt CPAWS Yukon is one of 13 Chapters of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS). The Yukon Chapter was founded in 1993 by a group of Yukon citizens committed to safeguarding Yukon’s wild lands, waters and wildlife. Currently our major focus is protection of the Peel River Watershed.

Reporting to the Admin/Finance Manager this position has two major focuses: office admin. functions (administer mail, membership, office supplies, maintain campaign activity log, digital photo files, Quickbooks data entry, petty cash & VISA reconciliations, deposits) and program support/outreach (run weekly Fireweed summer market booth, tabling at community events, organizing other CPAWS events) Qualifications & skills • Strong administrative skills (financial experience an asset) • Excellent communicator who enjoys working with the public • Experience organizing events • Proficient with Microsoft Office suite and social media platforms • Post secondary education in related field and/or relevant work experience • Ability to work evenings (Thursdays) and occasional weekends as required The ideal person has strong organizational, communication and computer skills; is a team player who is also effective working on projects alone; and has good time management skills with ability to meet deadlines.

Compensation: 25 hrs/wk at $18 to $22/hr This is a contract position to March 31, 2015 with the possibility of extension funding dependent Closing Date: tuesDay, april 22, 2014 4pM For full job description, visit cpawsyukon.org/about/jobs/ submit resumes by email to ltaylor@cpawsyukon.org or fax to 867-393-8081 We thank all applicants and advise that only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Tanned beaver & other furs also available.

18 240 watt electrical plug receptacles wired into elec boxes, offers. 4 Green Hornet LED lights for dark room, $5 ea. 334-7535

Ph (780) 355-3557 or (780) 461-9677

9 1000 watt ballasts Lumatek 240 power supply only, $100 ea. 3 Intermatic model T104 heavy duty timers, $35 ea. 334-7535

or write Lodge Fur and Hides, Box 87, Faust AB, T0G 0X0

HONEYWELL DIGITAL thermostat, model Focus Pro 5000, 5-yr warranty, new, $25.

Daytol cooling thermostat, $50. 336-4202

:) = full woodshed.

Super-dry straight-grained lodgepole pine, $190/cord delivered in Whitehorse. Text or call Doug Martens/Teslin @ 334-7364

8 1000 watt light reflector hoods w class bottom, enclosed w 6” air cooled ports, $75 ea.

7 1000 watt 6” ported” glass tube w batwing reflector, A$80 ea

ROYAL WEDDING Album, $20, King Tutankhamenʼs Treasures, $20, Mandrell family album, signatured, $20, assorted novels, $5. 633-3113

3 8” inline Hurricane fans, used, $100. 1 8” Hurricane fan, new, $150. 336-4202

JACQUES COUSTEAU Collection set of 4, #1 Life & Death in a Coral Sea, #2 Dolphins, #3 Sharks, #4 Whales, Collection of 4, $100.

633-3113

SHEET METAL air ducting adapters, 3 10”-8”, 3 8”-6”, 1 10”- 3 8”, thermo insulated ducting 6”, 8”, 10”, various lengths, offers.

334-7535

YAMAHA EF4600DX generator, both 120 & 240 volt, economy (auto) idle, low oil alert, 21lt fuel tank, good cond, $1,500 obo.

332-2113

2 HONEYWELL Air Genius air purifier, screens out microbials, mould, bacteria, new $225, asking $100. 336-4202

3 1000 sq.ft. rolls of Thermaflow poly sheeting, super white reflective, $25 per roll.

334-7535

GLASS ENTRANCE door, metal frame, used. Steel tracks for 5th wheel hitch. Basic cash register. 667-7144

INFRARED SAUNA, 3-person corner unit with built-in radio/CD player, lights, oxygen ionizer, used for 2 yrs, great health benefits, low energy consumption $1,700. 334-7507 DEEP FRYER, double basket, propane powered, new $1,800, asking $700. 456-4922 MASON INDUSTRIAL sewing machine, as is, needs a little TLC, $200 firm. 667-6760 60-INCH GASPARDO Sickle mower with hydraulic lift. Spare blade. Like new. $1500.

390-2507 30 CC, 8-inch ice auger. $275 obo. Like new. 633-6502 50-YEAR COLLECTION of National Geographic magazines in good quality slipcases [1961-2011), $100. 668-2877 HYDRAULIC WOOD splitter. Fits on three point hitch of tractor. $1500 obo. 633-6502 CORDLESS PASLODE Li-ion C325 nailer, new, with 6 cartridges, case, charger + 100lb nails, $475. 334-8335 2 LARGE house plants, 1-5ʼ tall palm tree, $75 obo, 1 bushy palm plant, $50 obo.

667-7107 GARAGE WORK table, 10ʼx8ʼ, $100 obo.

667-7107

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Regional Program Manager, Bridges – Whitehorse (Permanent) Department of Highways & Public Works Salary: $89,732 to $103,874 per annum

Closing Date: April 25, 2014 Requisition: #5048

Corrections Officer I - Casual Training (on-going) – Whitehorse (Term) Department of Justice Salary: $29.78 to $34.32 per hour

Closing Date: December 31, 2014 Requisition: #5186

For viewing all jobs, please go to

www.employment.gov.yk.ca “Committed to employment equity” Public Service Commission (867) 667-5834

IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR:

Accounting Assistant •

Applicant should have accounting/business courses along with a couple of years of accounting/bookkeeping experience.

•

Ability to take direction easily, work under pressure and deadlines, and communicate effectively with staff and lawyers is essential.

•

This position involves data entry, reconciling different accounts, paying invoices, recording of all monies and month end procedures.

•

Good working knowledge of office procedures and accounting software. An understanding of Word, Excel, and Outlook are essential to this position.

employment opportunities Yukon Hospital Corporation has the following openings:

Manager

– Therapy Services – Whitehorse General Hospital Competition #2014-044 – Regular Full Time

PrograMMer analYst – Information Systems - Whitehorse

•

Experience with Simply Accounting would be an asset.

General Hospital Competition #2014-061 – Regular Full Time

•

Experience working with trust accounting would be an asset, but we are willing to train the right person.

•

This position is permanent full time and salary will correspond with experience. We provide an attractive benefit package along with a progressive vacation plan.

Custodial Worker– Environmental Services – Watson Lake Hospital

•

Confidentiality and a police check will be required We invite interested candidates to apply with resume to our office by 5:00 p.m., Friday, April 18th to: 3081 ThIRd AvE WhITEhORSE, YukON Y1A 4Z7

Attention: Greg LeBlanc, Manager No phone calls please and only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition #2014-063 – Regular Part Time

registered nurse

– West Unit - Whitehorse General Hospital Competition #2014-065 – Regular Full Time

Visit our website at www.yukonhospitals.ca for more information on these and other job opportunities.

Please email your resume/application quoting the appropriate competition number to:

Human resources department Whitehorse general Hospital email: wghjobs@wgh.yk.ca

Yukon Hospital Corporation is committed to employment equity. We thank all those who apply and advise that only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.

HOMELITE 4300 watt generator, never used, $300 obo. 668-5882

Server

26” FRONT tine roto-tiller, works great, $275 obo. Call 335-7455 WALL TENT McPherson 16x14 with 4ʼ wall, used, no holes, chimney on wall side. $500 334-5491 CURTAINS, 54”X74”, cabbage rose pattern, Lancashire cotton, 4 for $100. Double duvet cover, multi burgundy with gold, orange, green, $30. 633-5009 CHAMPION GENERATOR, 3,000-4000 watts, new, $200 obo. Hilti DX 351 nailer, $650 obo. 334-9932 ANTIQUE TIBETAN prayer bell with Thunderbolt, $900. 334-4392

The Town and Mountain Hotel seeks an experienced Server for a busy, fast paced Lounge.

Please email or drop off résumé to Greg.

Town & MounTain HoTel 401 Main STreeT wHiTeHorSe, Yukon

20X64 CLEAR glass exterior door insert, new cond, $150. 393-8077

Part Time Office Assistant

WEDDING DRESS, beautiful with lots of embellishments, size 16-18, $250 obo.

334-9932 HEAVY DUTY med woodstove for shop or garage (2 flat surfaces), lined with brick, $400. 667-2940 OLD CRAFTSMAN Radial Armsaw. Will run on 220 or 110. Needs a little TLC but works, $50. 633-4505 HUSQVARNA CHAINSAW, 141 -16” bar, chain cover, $150. 668-4504 PROPANE TANK heating pad. Government approved, $200. 633-4505 MCCLURE WOOD cook stove, cream colour w/water reservoir, gd shape. Has been stored for 30 years, $1,000 firm. Stainless steel, clip together style, 6" stove pipe, in 3' lengths, $200. 633-4505 55-GALLON DRUMS, 9 in total, $50/ea.

456-4755 VERMONT CASTINGS red propane stove, lightly used, great cond, has a Sidrock granite floor pad, $2,700. 393-2125 CUSTOM MADE large steel job box. 4' wide x 30" deep x 2' high, gd cond & strong, $250.

633-4505 240ʼ OF 3.5” x 20ʼ Victaulic pipe w/clamps, $600. Also misc 2” to 4” valves, tees, unions.

Cost $1,100 new, asking $500. 332-6565 PROFESSIONALLY BUILT poker table, never been used, $500 firm. 336-1045

Electrical Appliances

Closing Date: April 23, 2014

We are seeking an energetic, motivated and outgoing office assistant to work part time and on call with the Dispute Resolution Board.

Salary: Hours per Week: Starting Date: Hours:

Beginning at $20/hr depending upon experience 18.5 flex hours per week May 12, 2014 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday

Submit resume to: Email: Phone: Fax: Address:

Dispute Resolution Board drb.ufa@northwestel.net 867.668.3562 867.668.4474 100 – 407 Ogilvie St Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2S

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 OPTIMUS MD-1200 electric keyboard w/stand. 25 black, 36 white keys. In perfect cond, $250 firm. 667-4526 WHITE OYSTER shell finish touring pro 5pcs. Taye Drum set excellent condition .

Pedal, stool, stands included, $800 obo.

332-6970

Firewood FIREWOOD FOR SALE Beetle killed Approximately 20-cord logging truck loads $150 per cord Delivered to Whitehorse Call Clayton @ 867-335-0894 DONʼS FIREWOOD 100+-cord bucked firewood always available No-charge emergency delivery Kwanlin Dun/Social Services Why wait? Prompt delivery $240/cord City limits No excuses 393-4397

Qualifications: Standard First Aid and CPR or the ability to obtain it within the first two months of employment, high school diploma or equivalent, ability to pass a criminal record check and vulnerable sector check, valid Class 5 drivers license (Class 4 would be an asset). Previous experience in recreation planning or programming would be an asset. The successful applicant must have a personal interest in recreation and community services as demonstrated by volunteer work, participation, or previous experience. This position is a seasonal term position.

Wage will be commensurate with experience.

Please contact Frank Thomas for a complete job description.

How to aPPly:

Applications may be submitted to Frank Thomas no later than April 17th, 2014.

Village of Teslin PO Box 130 Teslin, YT Y0A 1B0

Phone: (867) 390-2530 Fax: (867) 390-2104 Website: www.teslin.ca f.thomas@northwestel.net

ACTIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?

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

Homegrown Theatre Festival seeks Volunteer Coordinator Position: May 5-10

TVs & Stereos

Musical Instruments

Position summary: The Recreation Coordinator reports to the Chief Administrative Officer of the Village of Teslin. This position is responsible for summer recreation planning and implementation for the community of Teslin. Responsibilities will include organizing activities for residents of all ages, supervising the recreation centre, coordinating special events, and planning and delivering recreation and leisure activities including, but not limited to: arts, sports, educational, cultural and sporting events. This position is required to work flexible hours with some evening, weekend, and holiday work.

Knowledge of the Yukon First Nation land claims agreements, dispute resolution and mediation processes are an asset.

LARGE UPRIGHT freezer, white in colour, $200. 633-4505

SHAW DIGITAL Satellite Receiver HDPVR, 1-yr use, paid $400, asking $200, 633-6597 btwn 6:00pm & 8:30 pm

Summer Recreation Coordinator

Requirements: previous office experience, familiar with computer programs, word, excel, power point, ability to work independently when required, strong business writing skills, organizational skills. Willingness to learn sage accounting if required. Available to cover for staff annual leaves.

F R I D G E , 4.5 cu ft, $75.

Paying cash for good quality modern electronics.

G&R Pawnbrokers 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY • SELL • LOANS

Village of Teslin

Duties: Answering enquiries, typing, filing, office administration duties, may include some research, compiling results and organizing workshops

DISPLAY REFRIGERATOR, approx 4ʼ wide, curved glass front, sliding back doors, new $2,000, asking $1,000. 456-4922 COMPACT 336-4242

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YOU WANT TO WORK HERE! Be part of one of Canada’s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes; working with an energetic, progressive organization. We are committed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

Our commitment is to be an impartial, effective and efficient organization that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

Network Administrator Head Office, Whitehorse Full-time one-year term position

The Network Administrator position co-ordinates the implementation, management and technical support of YESABs IT network infrastructure.

The position handles the deployment and maintenance of YESABs software and hardware while providing user support services to YESAB staff and Board. This position performs systems and administration functions for YESAB and participates in the planning, development, analysis, evaluation, implementation and management of information systems and platforms such as SharePoint and Microsoft Server.

The annual salary range for this position is $68,252. – 78,749 based on 75 hours biweekly.

If you feel you have the qualifications and desire to meet the challenges of this position please forward a cover letter and resume outlining how your experience and qualifications relate directly to the position.

A job description is available at the YESAB Head Office, Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applications to: Finance and Administration Manager, YESAB Suite 200 – 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2J9 Ph: 867.668.6420 Fax: 867.668.6425 or email to yesab@yesab.ca Toll free: 1.866.322.4040

Spring is coming and... so is Homegrown Theatre Festival - the only fringe-style theatre festival in Northern Canada!

Nakai Theatre is seeking an energetic and super-organized Volunteer Coordinator to: • recruit, • schedule, and • support a team of stellar 15 - 20 enthusiastic, reliable volunteers for Homegrown Theatre Festival (May 6 10, at The Guild Hall) We’re seeking a Volunteer Coordinator who: • is excited about local theatre • is confident working independently, and with the Homegrown production team and Nakai staff

• enjoys being a leader and communicates well online, on the phone, and in person • can contribute three hours a week from Monday April 7th -- Monday May 5th (to gather, and schedule the volunteer team) • can contribute 15 evening hours the week of the festival, May 6 - 10 (to be on the festival site where the action is!)

• an easily get to and from The Guild Hall in Porter Creek In exchange for this work, Nakai offers the Volunteer Coordinator admission to the entire Homegrown Theatre Festival!

And our gratitude, and valuable work experience!

Contact: 393. 6040 gm@nakaitheatre.com

Homegrown Theatre Festival seeks Volunteers, May 6-10 @ The Guild Hall Got time? Want to be sociable?

Volunteer!

Nakai Theatre is looking for folks to help out with our legendary Homegrown Theatre Festival May 6-10 @ the Guild Hall.

This gig will surround you with laughter,

surprise, theatricality, visual art, dance, poetry, your friends, food and drink. Help host our festival by sharing your time, in exchange, gaining new experiences.

Contact: Hazel 393. 6040 pm@nakaitheatre.com

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

Resumes must be received by April 30, 2014.

MONDAY • WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

Community Services

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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 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

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Cars

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✔ 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

FIREWOOD 6-8 cords Stacked • Dry • Cut • Under Roof $100 per cord.

You come and get all.

633-4505 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

Guns & Bows 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 SPORTVIEW scope, 3x-9x cross-hair reticle with built-in range finder, good cond, $75. Bill @ 633-2443 VIVITAR (CAMERA lens company) scope, fixed 4-power scope with rings, duplex cross-hair reticle, exc cond, $75. 633-2443 WEAVER K-1 scope, post and cross-hair reticle, shotgun or short range scope, good cond, $150. Bill @ 633-2443

Wanted WANTED: SCAFFOLDING tower, 12ʼ. New or used. 867-863-5404 WANTED: DOG-SITTER in your home for 8 lb dog, no other pets, please, for June, July & Aug, Monday through Thursday overnight.

Will pay well. 633-6401 for info.

SPRING TIME MEANS CLEAN UP TIME! WILL PAY CASH FOR UNWANTED ITEMS: Downsizing, de-junking, moving, estate dispersals Call Brenda @ 993-3689 in the Dawson City area for a free no obligation assessment.

WANTED: GOOD wood stove for large cabin, $500-$700 range. 334-7387 WANTED: CANOPY to fit short-box on 1994 Ford F150 XLT 4x4 extended cab.

Stephanie at 335-3905

WHERE DO I GET THE NEWS? The Yukon News is available at these wonderful stores in Whitehorse ☛ THE YuKon nEws Is Also AVAIlABlE AT no CHARGE In All YuKon CoMMunITIEs AnD ATlIn, B.C.

2009 CHEVROLET Aveo 5, showroom cond, 74,000+ kms, aftermarket accessories, winter/summer tires, $8,000. 993-5000 2009 NISSAN Maxima Sport, 58,000 kms, exc cond, Bose, remote start, leather heated seats/steering and much more, $25,750.

335-9976 2009 NISSAN Versa SL, 1.8L, 5-dr hatchback, many options, sunroof, 2 sets tires/wheels, command start, original owner, only 46,000 kms, $12,000. 660-4220 2008 CHEV Cobalt automatic , air conditioner, new set of winter studded tires and new set of summer tires. Hood scoop and wing. Custom pink colour. 334-9385 2008 MAZDA 5, std trans, really gd tires, clean cond, 80,000 kms. Cool minivan w/sturdy roof rack, $7,500. 667-4463 or 334-9436 2007 DODGE Calliber, remote start, heated seats, 6 CD stereo system w/tailgate boombox, 128,000kms, 2 sets of near new tires/ new starter, $9,500. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2007 HONDA Civic, 4-dr, auto, new windshield, all power options, good tires, lots of service records, clean, runs great, 200,000km. 667-4463 2006 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta TDI, 130,000 kms, standard diesel, power locks/doors, heated leather seats, $11,000. 633-4531 2005 CHEVROLET Impala sedan, V6 auto, air, cruise, tilt, power windows, locks & seat, low kms, $5,900. 660-4220 2005 TOYOTA Camry sedan, 4-cyl auto, air, cruise, tilt, power windows/locks, $5,900.

660-4220 2005 TOYOTA Echo hatchback, exc cond, great on gas, 132,000 kms, standard, red, c/w summer & winter tires on rims, $7,250 obo. 335-0607 2004 MUSTANG, 3.8l, V6, drive train warranty until Nov. Good on fuel, posi track rear end, winter/summer tires, two 12'' kicker subs, well maintained, 120,000kms, $7,000 obo. 668-7212 2003 SUBARU Forester 2.5X Hatchback, gd cond, 177,000 kms, manual, auto-start/auto-lock, roof racks, summer & winter tires inclʼd, $6,150 obo. 335-3784 2002 FORD Escape, new tires, command start, new plugs, belts, fluids, block, pan, battery, interior heaters, sport rack, tow hitch, clean/well maintained, $6,000 obo.

668-6927 or 334-8347 1999 MERCURY Mystique, V6, 5-sp, 4-dr, new Sony stereo, runs good, trades considered, $1,300. 867-689-6025 1998 HONDA Accord, 2-dr, 4-cyl VTech, 5-sp, body has no rust/damage, clean interior, no rips/wear marks, new tires/rims, Sony CD player, 220,000kms, $4,500.

867-689-6025 WANTED: NEWER station wagon, reliable, automatic, good on gas. 334-5032

Airport Chalet Airport snacks & Gifts Bernie’s Race-Trac Gas Bigway Foods

DOWNTOWN:

Canadian Tire Cashplan The Deli Edgewater Hotel Extra Foods Fourth Avenue Petro Gold Rush Inn

1998 DODGE 3500 dually & 2008 F250 4x4.

335-3243

Dodge Ram 1 Ton Quad-Cab Dually Cummins Diesel, Auto Tran, Cruise A/c, Mechanic’s Deck, & Electric Crane, 227, 000km

HILLCREST GRANGER

2002 F250 Lariat, ext cab long box 4x4, 225,000km, new trans, tow package, camper package, leather, $7,900 obo. 668-5882

1999 GMC 3500HD 4x2 flat deck truck, 6.5L diesel, good shape, many new parts, new tires, must be seen. 633-5578

2010 CHEVROLET Impala, 90,000kms, new wheels/tires worth $2,300, exc cond, $9,500.

867-689-6025

S.A. vouchers accepted.

2002 CHEV Silverado 4x4 ext cab, 4-dr, V8 auto, cruise, new Wrangler tires, $5,999.

667-7777 or 336-2029

2001 TOYOTA Tacoma, user-friendly, likes fishing, bumps and bruises but burns no oil, dealer-serviced from birth, red, 2WD, extended cab, canopy, roof racks, 279,000km, $3,500 obo. 334-2457

FOR SALE

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1992 AWD Toyota Previa 7-passenger minivan still in good running condition. This is a great, roomy family van that is excellent in the snow. $950 obo. 668-2768

Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

RUGER .22 magnum rifle with scope, bolt action, older gun, exc cond, $500. 334-4392

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WANTED: BANDSAW mill. 668-6871

Store (867) 633-3276

WHITEHORSE RIFLE & Pistol Club is holding a non-restrictive firearms safety course, April 26 & 27. For info call 633-2488 or 333-5640

4WD, V6 automatic, windows, r package, tinted equipped powe try, 28,014km. en ss yle ke rs, heated mirro $30,995 obo.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

PORTER CREEK

Coyote Video Goody’s Gas Green Garden Restaurant Heather’s Haven super A Porter Creek Trails north Home Hardware Klondike Inn Mac’s Fireweed Books Ricky’s Restaurant Riverside Grocery Riverview Hotel shoppers on Main shoppers Qwanlin Mall

1998 GMC Sierra p/u, 1500 extʼd cab, 2WD. Good cond, $3,500. 332-8186

$22,000

1998 LINCOLN Navigator, loaded, 7-passenger full size sport utility, $3,400.

333-9899

2012 TOYOTA Tacoma 4X4 4-dr, trd auto black, 46,000kms, levelling kit w/rear air bags for camper, $33,900. 335-5428

1996 GMC 1500 ext. cab, short box 4X4, 5.7 litre. 340,000 km. Green and clean. Trans replaced, hvy dty rear shocks, v. good cond. $4,200. 633-2493

667-7777

2011 DODGE Grand Caravan, 130,000km, great cond, new all season tires, $11,500 obo. 333-0236 or 456-4112 2010 FORD Edge SEL, 37,000kms, exc shape, automatic transmission. Warranty still available, titan command start, new Toyo winter tires. Paid $35,000, selling for $22,900 obo. 633-6855 2010 SUBURBAN, black on black, heated leather, Bose sound, sunroof, air, power everything, tow pkg, additional 20" custom rims, $29,500. 334-2289

We Sell Trucks!

1995 FORD F250 Econoline van, engine good, needs windshield, body decent; 1995 Ford Aerostar, needs TLC, engine will run, $800 for both. 333-9358 1994 DODGE 2500 trades van, 318 V8, winter tires, works great, $1,800. 867-689-6025 1993 JEEP Grand Cherokee fully loaded AWD. Has a beefy bumper, new stereo. Nice treads. Many parts have been updated. $2,400. No reasonable offer refused.

335-0486 1993 JEEP Wrangler, lots of extras, located in Watson Lake, $5,000. 867-536-6576 1992 CHEV cargo van, 4.3L V6 auto, original kms, needs a muffler, $1,800 firm.

335-5428

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

1992 GMC 2500, ext cab 4X4, very powerful, new motor, transfer case, exh system, well maintained, low kms, $4,200. 336-3666

2009 DODGE Grand Caravan with Stow “n” Go seating, 130,000km, new all season tires, exc cond, $11,500 obo. 333-0236 or 456-4112

1990 NISSAN ext cab, 4-cyl auto, 2WD, trailer hitch & wiring, spray in box liner, great on gas, $1,700 obo. 335-1106

2009 FORD F-350, 4X4, comfortable, clean, great cond, tall canopy, lined box, full towing pkg, 4-dr diesel, fully loaded, travel trailer to sell as well. 334-6724 2008 FORD F150 XLT 4x4 crew cab short box, loaded w/options, in very clean cond, gd tires, 130,000 kms, $11,000. 667-4463 or 334-9436 2008 FORD Ranger, automatic 4x4 XLT. Runs on synthetic. Hitch, boxliner, 120,000 kms, $9,500. 335-5993 2007 DODGE 2500 4x4, 4-dr, long box, auto 5.7L Hemi, black. Truck has 300 hwy kms. runs great, looks good, $6,800. 335-5428 2007 DODGE 2500 power wagon, low kms, exc cond, loaded w/options, $25,000.

334-3009 2007 DODGE Laramie 3500 diesel. Low mileage, incls 2 sets of tires on rims, $38,000 obo. 336-1701 2007 FORD Ranger 4x4 extended cab, V6, manual trans, 140,000kms, no accidents, summer/winter tires on rims, tow package, will replace windshield for asking price. $12,000. 334-8851

1986 CHEVY flat deck 3/4 ton, new battery, tranny kit, power steering hose, alternator, new tires all around, exc cond, $2,800.

633-5130 1981 DODGE 1 ton Dually w/boxes & welding deck. Miller 400 amp air pack welder + 2 wire feeds. Approx 500 hrs on welder, $15,000. 633-4505

Auto Parts & Accessories NEW MULTI port fuel injected system for V8 engine. Convert carb or TBI to MPFI, c/w Intake fuel rails injectors and ecu. Easy to install and tune. $2,000 obo. 633-6502 VARIOUS DODGE Cummins parts. Turbo, intercooler, air intake. 633-6502 NEW 305 v-8 engine. $1,200 obo. 633-6502 TO GIVE away, bench seat (3rd) from 1999 Suburban, 667-7107 1988 BLACK Silverado parts vehicle, no motor, $400. For info call 689-1484

2005 F350 diesel Lariat, 4wd, long box, fully loaded, all engine updates, orig owner, exec cond, 160,000kms, $18,000. 334-9436 or 667-4463 2004 GMC Sierra 1/2 ton 4x4 + canopy & set of rims + tires, $6,500 obo. 393-3100 2003 DODGE Ram 2500, gas engine, 4x4, long box with canopy, crew cab, good cond but needs new engine, $3,000. 336-0595 2003 FORD F150 crew cab 4x4, $4,500 obo.

667-2820 2003 GMC 7-passenger Safari van, blue, 4X4, 170TKM, well maintained, $5,800 obo, call 334-5491

TRUCK CANOPIES - in stock * new Dodge long/short box * new GM long/short box * new Ford long/short box Hi-Rise & Cab Hi - several in stock View at centennialmotors.com 393-8100 TIRES! TIRES! TIRES! Seasonal Changeover Good used tires–15”,16”,17”,18”,19” and 20”–lots to choose from. $25 to $150 a tire. $25 to mount and balance per tire.

Mechanical Services Call Art 334-4608

RIVERDALE: 38 Famous Video super A Riverdale Tempo Gas Bar

superstore superstore Gas Bar Tags well-Read Books westmark whitehorse Yukon Inn Yukon news Yukon Tire

“YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTION” WEDNESDAY • FRIDAY

AND …

Kopper King Hi-Country RV Park McCrae Petro Takhini Gas Yukon College Bookstore

WANTED: SUZUKI Samurai/SJ410 parts. I need drive train, front quarter panels and engine parts. 332-1999

2010 XP RS 600 Ski-Doo race sled, lots of fun, good cond, call for details. $5,500 obo.

334-2347

2-POST CAR hoist, can be seen working, $1,750. 867-536-7206

1995 POLARIS 2 stroke 400 4x4 quad, hi/ low range, hitch ready, 2,000km, new parts including shoxs and mudding tires, drivetrain, sperokets, seat pullstart cooling fan. $2,600 obo. 335-0486

ALL SEASON BF Goodrich 205 50 R17, slightly used, still new, $350 set of 4. Message me 334-2472 LEER CANOPY for 2004-2008 Ford F150 6.5 foot bed, colour matched red, roof height, good cond, locking, high quality unit, $1,000.

Mark at 334-7335 ALL SEASON Hankook Pptimo 225 60 R17 80% tread life, $350 for set. Message me 334-2472 HEAVY DUTY aluminum truck topper w/4 locking cabinets, $600. 667-2940 TONNEAU COVER for GMC p/u, 5ʼ8” box, silver/grey, $1,000. 333-0914 5-SPEED STANDARD transmission to fit ʻ96-ʼ99 Volkswagen 1.8L engine. Make offer.

333-0788 CARGO BOX, Yakima Rocketbox 15, exc cond. Ideal for small SUV. I had it on my RAV4, $400 firm. 335-6817 2 SETS of 4 tires, Michelin LTX LT 265/75 R15 & General Grabber P265/65 R17. Approx 80% on each set, $300/set obo. Josh 335-1250

Pets IT'S A DOG'S LIFE BOARDING KENNEL New, clean, safe, family friendly.

Heated indoor kennels with covered outdoor runs.

Large play area in natural setting, daily walks.

131 Empress Rd, Golden Horn Subdivision 333-9841 CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Training Programs Puppy Fundamentals: Apr 15/June 17/Aug 12 Reactive Dog Class: June 23/Sept 01 Canine Good Neighbour: June 30 caninesandcompany@northwestel.net (867)333-0505 www.facebook.com/ caninesandcompany (867)668-4368 2 FEMALE Flemish Giant/Angora cross rabbits. $65 each. Large rabbits. Will reach 8 pounds. 333-0915 BIOLOGIST RELOCATING TO Whitehorse for summer work.

Wanted for monthly rental starting May 1st pet-friendly furnished cabin, apartment or basement suite.

Up to $900/month 334-7472 GERMAN SHEPHERD female Sch3, FH1, retired 7 years old, trained in Germany, needs good home with large fenced yard, new owner needs some training, $1,000 obo. 668-6118 GERMAN SHEPHERD working line, 6 month old sable male CKC Reg, hip guarantee, trained for 4 months, house broken, crate trained, raised with kids, proven pedigree, $4,000 firm. 668-6118

2008 8X12 double wide quad trailer, $2,800 obo. 336-1701 2009 DUCATI Monster 696, showroom condition, red color, 2,700 km, one owner, incl cover, battery charger and more. $8,750, serious inquiries only. 335-3349

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

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates 335-4181 2005 YAMAHA V Star 1100 cc, exc cond, c/w helmet, cover, Vance & Hines pipes, 13,000kms, $5,500 obo. 334-9098 2009 KLX 250 c/w cover, rear rack, runs great, perfect commuter, 1,700 kms. $3,750 obo. 334-9098 2004 YAMAHA Virago 250, 06725 kms, new condition, $3,600 obo. 667-6990

32' BAYLINER project boat w/4 axle trailer.

Front & rear thrusters, 3 levels, king-size bed in separate bedroom. More at whiskeypapamike.com, $12,000. 335-1395 16' VANGUARD Tri Hull open bow. Seats 6.

Evinrude 60HP + 9.9 Johnson on trailer, $5,000 obo. 393-3100 OUTBOARD MOTOR, Suzuki, 15hp, 4 stroke, short shaft. Less than 10 hrs use, $1,995. 668-4504

Heavy Equipment

2008 POLARIS Ranger. Full poly doors $500 obo. 633-6502

WANTED: CATERPILLAR 955 Traxcavator, or would be interested in a parts machine.

333-9536

2008 SUZUKI GSX-R 750, 5,000 kms, mint cond, well maintained, $7,500 obo or trade for quad or truck of equal value, 335-1106

MILLERMATIC 211 welder, auto set, new in box, $1,500, Watson Lake. 867-536-6576

WANTED: HARLEY Davidson Panhead motorcycle, 668-1315 1999 BMW RS 1200. Excellent touring machine, low kms, yellow/black checkers, new tires/oil change, touring bags (hard shell) and tank bag, $7,500. 332-1970 MOTORCYCLE LEATHERS, full jacket & pants, menʼs size 42, $300. 633-5009 DIRTBIKE, 110CC, runs great, c/w chest protector for 13-yr-old, $650 obo. 393-3638 2009 HONDA Recon 250 ATV 250, perfect working condition, low mileage. Call or text 334-6890 1983 HONDA 1100cc V65 Magna, exc shape, new tires, windshield. Must see, $2,500 obo. 633-5236 or 333-0437 2011 ARCTIC Cat Quad, 425 cc engine w/snow plow attachment, $6,000 obo.

336-1045 2001 HONDA Shadow (American Ace), 750cc, c/w windshield, 2 new tires, saddle bags, b/rack, low miles. 689-5968 or 336-0959 2012 POLARIS Ranger RZR Sport. Well Maintained, rarely used, like new cond, only 500kms, c/w winch & windshield, $10,500. ogrady@northwestel.net or 660-4407 2010 KAWASAKI KLX 140, 4 stroke, green dirt bike. Well maintained, 1,500 kms, gd cond & clean. A good starter bike. Son has outgrown it, $2,450. 333-0038 2008 YAMAHA Phazer, gd shape, 500 cc, 3,200 kms, reliable, 144" track, 2" paddles, gd beginner sled, $3,500 obo. 335-3784

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467 12X54ʼ HOUSEBOAT w trailer, 14ʼ extended deck, fully equipped, c/w depth sounder, fish finder, radio completely refurbished, engine tune-up, 1-yr moorage incl at Atlin Lake, $53,000. 250-651-7880

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

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For Sale

2009 Alumacraft Jet Boat & Mercury Optimax 115 hp jet leg. Power trim, less than 100 hours since new. EZ Loader trailer, kicker motor bracket, rod holders, spare impeller. Room in front to haul a quad. Needs just a few inches of water. $17,400.00 OBO Call 335-3656 after 5 pm.

16' JOHN boat, c/w 20 hp 4-stroke Yamaha, electric trim, 20 hrs on motor and boat, $5,000. 335-1666 ONAN MARINE generator, 3 KVA. Complete with water cooling. ULine marine ice maker.

336-8850

2008 KX161 Kubota excavator, 1,700 hrs, c/w 2 buckets, $45,000. 334-9867 2008 T-190 Skidsteer, 2,500 hrs, c/w 2 buckets and forks, $25,000. 334-8357 PLACER MINER with ZX 270 Hitachi excavator available for work for machine with operator.

Might consider leasing machine.

633-4309 LISTER GENSETS, various sizes. 633-4822

2005 VAN'S RV-6A, 160TT, 0-320 E2D 2200 SM running well, hangared since 2008, 406 ELT, IC-A200, GTX-320A, intercom, much more. $48,000, pics at www.yukonflying.com. 633-3126 tlaw@northwestel.net

CELEBRATE!

PROTAC BELLY boat, battle tested & approved, great for fishing or just being out on the lake, $100 obo. 336-1045

2009 27ʼ Jayco Bunkhouse, queen bed, bunk beds, full kitchen, indoor/outdoor shower, built in barbecue, TV, double batteries, exc cond, also awesome truck to sell, both for $50,000. 334-6724

1995 SLUMBER Queen import camper, exc cond, last used on Tacoma, $4,200. 335-5428 2007 GOOSENECK flat deck trailer. 20,000 GVR, 20ʼ long + 4ʼ w/ramps, triple axles, electric brakes. In great cond. Have installed an 8,500-pound winch, $8,000. 334-3393 2009 T@B trailer for sale in excellent condition. Comes with large attached tent and bike rack, fridge, stovetop, table, bed, sink, a/c. $11,750 obo. 335-0607 or 334-5190 1992 8.9ʼ Frontier camper. Very good condition, clean. Lots of storage. Many new/upgraded features. See ad on Kijiji/Craigslist.

Must be seen to be appreciated. $7750 obo.

633-4618 2000 24' Travelaire Rustler 5th wheel, sleeps 6, mint condition, hitch available, $12,000 obo. 668-5882

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

633-6019 weDneSDay, aPril 16

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

2014

have your pets spayed or neutered.

For inFormation call

633-6019

LOST/FOUND LOST

• Dawson, beardog X, neutered male, blonde, wearing a black collar answers to Hunter, contact Brittany @ 689-11744 (10/04/14) • Hillcrest area, pitbull, male, light brown with a white patch on his chest, no collar, answer to azim, contact Katilyn @ 335-0353,3340287 (12/04/14)

• Hamilton Blvd near Falcon drive, medium dog, long black curly hair, not wearing a collar, contact Kristen @ 3348622 (17/03/14) • Black street and 7th ave, small dog, black and white with a curly tail, female, no collar, contact alrs @ 604-347-7115 (25/03/14)

RUNNING AT LARGE...

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

FOUND

• 8th and Jarvis street, medium, brown and white chest, husky wearing a leather studded collar no tags, contact Joanne @3933573 (15/03/14)

Births!

Birthdays!

Weddings!

Graduations!

Anniversaries!

1 column x 3 inches

Wed - $34.02 • Fri - $35.10

Wed - $68.04 • Fri - $70.20

1997 GREEN 454 Arctic Cat ATV, full windshield, aluminum skid plate, winch, 4X4, great shape, $3,000. 456-7370 or 335-4754

2004 8ʼ Camperette, sleeps 2, very clean simple design, great for hunting. $1,700 obo or trade for quad/dirtbike of equal value, 335-1106

NEW 2013 Cargo-Mate enclosed 7ʼx14ʼ, tandem Dexter axles, 3,500 lbs, vent side door, barn doors, spare tire & rack, $5,200.

250-651-7880

Aircraft

2 columns x 3 inches

14ʼ ALUMINUM boat, 6hp 4-stroke Yamaha motor w 30 hrs, boat $1,200 obo, motor $1,700 obo or $2,500 for both. 334-9932

2000 COACHMEN Mirada 30ʼ motorhome, 66,122 kms. Triton V10, mechanical inspection in July/13. Onan 4000 gen, A/C, separate shower, walk-around queen bed. $23,500, phone 335-5506

1979 FORD 350 Econoline motorhome, 50,000 miles, sleeps 4, has great characteristics, a must see, very well maintained, $8,200 obo, serious inquiries, 336-1189

PORTABLE LINCOLN welder, Miller wire feed plus some supplies. Call 335-3243

Wed - $45.36 • Fri - $46.80

2009 POLARIS Assault SLP, pipe heads, reeds power commander, 1,700 miles $7,000. 334-7131

10ʼ CAMPER, Adventurer 2007, exc cond, north/south queen bed, bathroom w/shower, fridge, stove, oven & furnace, $10,000 obo.

633-4356

PORTABLE HOBART 225 amp welder/ genset powered by Kohler 17 hp engine, exc cond, on steel 4-wheeled wagon w hitch, $1,800 obo. 633-6502

2 columns x 2 inches

12x54' houseboat w trailer, 14' extended deck, fully equipped, c/w depth sounder, fish finder, radio completely refurbished, engine tune-up, 1-yr moorage incl at Atlin Lake, $53,000. 250-651-7880.

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

1998 SKYJACK articulated boom lift, 2080 hrs. In gd general cond. 4x4, gas/propane.

Can reach 40' high to platform. 334-3393

CATERPILLAR D9N, D10N, and D11N dozers (all with u-dozers and rippers), Cat 345C excavator, and Cat D400D Rock trucks for sale, rent, or rental purchase.

All sitting in Dawson City, YK. Phone A1 Cats for questions or details at 780-538-1599 or view www.a1-cats.com for photos

1980 20ʼ Holidaire travel trailer, good cond, new fridge, full bathrm, new grey/black water tanks, solar panel, 2 batteries, 2 30-lb propane tanks, $6,700. 867-689-7848

Campers & Trailers

2 columns x 4 inches

Wed - $90.72 • Fri - $93.60

Phone: 867-667-6285 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

www.yukon-news.com

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

IN FOSTER HOMES DOGS

• 4 yr old, neutered male, husky, black and white (rikki)

cATS

• none at this time.

AT THE SHELTER DOGS

• 3 yr old, neutered male, GSD/rottie, black and brown (tristan) • 3yr old, neutered male, akita, grey and white (a.J.) • 1 yr old, spayed female, chihuahua bear dogX, (Pipper)

• 1 yr old, male, GSD/Husky, brown and black (teddy)

cATS

• 3 yr old, DSH, white and black neutered male (Jax) • 2yr old, DSH, grey and white, neutered male (Sappy)

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.

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:

www.Humanesocietyyukon.ca

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2014 16ʼ car hauler trailer, w sidewalls, exc cond, GVW 7,000lbs, electric brakes, pullout ramps, flipjack, removable 4' high sidewalls w slide tailgate, $3,790 obo. Marc @ 336-0023 2004 PIONEER travel trailer, overall length 28ʼ, large bath, queen bed, full kitchen, stereo, large awning, $14,000. 633-2580 WANTED: USED ATCO type trailer, must be clean and have working power and plumbing. 336-3836 after 4:30pm 2005 9 1/2ʼ Northern Lite camper, north/south bed, washroom, fridge, stove, oven, furnace, hot water tank, CD player, exc cond, $15,000. 667-7649 UTILITY TRAILER, barely used, $500.

334-5268 2006 30ʼ Topaz trailer, oak cabinets, full winter pkg, huge slide outs, $28,000 obo.

334-9932 1978 TRAVELAIRE 13ʼ6”, single axle camping trailer, exc cond, $2,800. 334-3009 5TH WHEEL hitch. Slide style, $450.

633-4505

STARCRAFT TRAVEL trailer, 2003 model 25RKS. Great for camping, hunting or work camp. Nice interior, $10,400. 633-4796 9.5ʼ BIGFOOT camper. Older style, gd cond.

Furnace, fridge, toilet working, $3,500.

633-4505

Coming Events 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 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

John McNeil Graham John passed away peacefully with family beside him on Monday, April 7, 2014, at the age of 84. He was born November 6, 1929, in Des Plaines, Illinois, to James and Eva McNeil Graham.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

THE ALZHEIMER/DEMENTIA Family Caregiver Support Group meets monthly. A group for family/friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 633-7337 or Joanne 668-7713 CHILKOOT TRAIL/LOG Cabin: Non-Motorized Weekends: Feb 28-March 2 & 21-23.

Other weekends & weekdays: Multi-Use. For info: 867-667-3910 HORAIRE PISTE Chilkoot/Log Cabin: Multi-usage sauf du 28 fév au 2 mars et du 21 au 23 mars : activités non motorisées.

867-667-3910

TIA YUKON Annual General Meeting.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre. Visit tiayukon.com for more details

AGM FOR Climb Yukon at FH Collins on the gymnasium stage April 16, 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Use the front door to get access to the climbing wall

HOSPICE WALKING Group. Tuesdays 6-7:30pm May 6-June 10. Walk the Millennium trail as you receive and give healthy grief support. To register: 667-7429 or administrator@hospiceyukon.net

YUKON ORIENTEERING Association Learn to "O" Workshop Sat. May 3. Pre-register by April 28. Call Barbara 668-2306. Registration fee includes membership and coupon to one orienteering meet in 2014

WHITEHORSE SEARCH & Rescue AGM April 23 at 6:00 pm @ 60 Norseman Road. If interested in joining application forms will be available. For more information call 456-4981

FALUN GONG 9-day lecture, relieves stress, improves health, increases energy, promotes spiritual growth/enlightenment, Tuesday Apr 16-18 6:00pm-8:00pm everyday, Yukon College, Room A2206.

334-7030, kcflamand@gmail.com

HOSPICE WORKSHOP "LIVING with Loss" Thurs Feb 27, 6:30-8:30pm for anyone living with personal loss or supporting others who are grieving. Register: 667-7429, administrator@hospiceyukon.net

SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair, Wed April 23, 10:00am-5:00pm, Yukon Convention Centre. Everything from summer jobs to lifetime opportunities! www.yuwin.ca/jobs

THE WHITEHORSE Oldtimer Hockey League Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 7:00pm, Tetra Tech EBA, 61 Wasson Place

FROSTBITE MUSIC Society AGM, April 29, 7:00pm, Frostbite House, all welcome. Email hzimmering@gmail.com for more info, or 336-0551

THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering

YUKON PARTY, Whitehorse Centre meeting 7:00pm, April 17, Whitehorse Public Library. More information: Chris 668-2853

NORTHERN SAFETY Network Yukon (NSNY) announces the date of their AGM on April 24th 2014 at NSNY location, 478 Range Road from 12:00 to 1:00. All are welcome MAY MUSIC Magic, May 5th 7:00pm, tickets $7. allcityband.com

John left home as a teenager and purchased several hundred acres in Smithers, B.C. from a magazine ad - thus beginning a life of adventure. He continued his journey through B.C. and the Yukon as a prospector, diamond driller, placer miner, hunter (for food not sport), outdoors lover, photographer, artist, sculptor, and fan of Monty Python, jazz and opera music. Also, the best hotcake maker this world has known.

PORTER CREEK Community Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday, May 20th at 7:00 p.m., Guild Hall, Porter Creek. All Welcome. Come show and your support. Info 633-4829 ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association, Annual General Meeting, Tuesday May 13, at 7:00pm, Sport Yukon boardroom, all members welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org

Robert Wayne Curry June 30, 1954 – April 8, 2014

John entered the lives of his stepchildren Suzanne, Julie and Mitchell Drzymala, and provided a patient and loving father figure in their formative years. Summers as a family were spent camping and living in bush camps in the Yukon.

GOSPEL SERVICE April 20 and 27 at Carcross Community Centre 3:30-4:30pm. Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome YUKON TABLE Tennis championships, Saturday & Sunday, April 26 & 27, WES gym, Info: Dave 668-3358 or stockdale@yknet.ca THE WHITEHORSE Children's Wish Foundation is looking for volunteers for this year's walk being held in September. Please email whitehorsewishmakers@gmail.com if interested in volunteering WHITEHORSE COMMUNITY Choir presents Songs of Peace and Protest, Friday May 2nd & Saturday May 3rd, 8:00pm, Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets available at Yukon Arts Ctr and Arts Underground. Hippie attire encouraged YUKON CHURCH Heritage Society AGM, Wednesday, April 30, 7:00pm, Old Log Church Museum. 668-2555 for info GOSPEL SERVICE April 15, 22, 29 and May 6, Haines Junction School Library 7:308:30pm. Sharing the purpose of life from the scripture, quiet and reverent, no collection, everyone welcome YUKON COUNCIL on Aging AGM Friday, April 25, Golden Age Society. Registration at 9:00am, meeting at 9:30am YUKON PARTY Pelly/Nisutlin Association AGM Thursday April 24, 2014 8:00pm Teslin Mezzanine TAGISH EASTER Celebration, April 19th, 11:30am-3:00pm, Tagish Community Centre, a free, family fun event for Easter. Easter egg decorating and Easter egg hunt! Everyone welcome

His passion for art saw him taking classes in Vancouver, the Okanagan, New York and more. John’s humour and helpful nature touched many people who will remember him lovingly.

It is with great sadness the family of Robert Wayne Curry announces his passing in Whitehorse on April 8th at the age of 59 years.

For more about John and details regarding a Celebration of Life, visit http://memorial.yourtribute.com/ JOHNMCNEILGRAHAM/story.aspx

A funeral service for the late Wayne Curry will be held Thursday April, 17th at the Link Building in Pelly Crossing at 2:00 p.m.

Special thanks to Village by the Station in Penticton for their genuine personal care of John. As a friend of John’s said, “He has gone on his final artistic caper and is prospecting in his favourite mythical haunt somewhere.”

A supper will be held at 4:30 p.m. following the service.

A private burial will take place at a later date.

We love John very much.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Action Circle.

Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide. Tuesday, April 22 at Whitehorse United Church (upstairs) 7:00pm-9:00pm. www.amnesty.ca Info call 667-2389 HOSPICE OPEN House Wed, May 7 noon to 6pm, 409 Jarvis. Help celebrate 25 years of Hospice Care in Yukon. Refreshments will be served. 667-7429 MARSH LAKE Solid Waste Management Society AGM. Wed, May 7, 7:00pm, Marsh Lake Community Centre. Please come out and support your solid waste facility.

YUKON SCIENCE Institute presents DNA Detectives with Jennifer Gardy, Sunday, April 13, 7:30pm, Beringia Centre, Whitehorse. Free.

WRITERS ROUNDTABLE presents:Tips on Applying to the Advanced Artist Award & Touring Artist Fund for Yukon writers, Tues Apr. 15, 7:30pm. Whitehorse Public Library.

667-5239.

STORY TIME: Wed. Apr. 16, 10:30 – 11:30 am. A one time, drop in story time for 2 – 6 year olds (with adult), Whitehorse Public Library meeting room. 667-5239.

Père Pierre Rigaud, omi May 29, 1920 - March 9, 2014

Père Pierre Veyrat, omi July 4, 1923 - February 27, 2014

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ather Pierre Rigaud, OMI passed away on March 9, 2014 at Youville Home, St. Albert, AB at the age 93. Son of Auguste Rigaud and Eugénie Pinson, he was born in at Mauves-sur-Loire, France on May 29, 1920.

Father Pierre pronounced his First Vows with the Missionary Oblates in 1941 and was ordained a priest on June 7, 1946 at La Brosse, Montceaux, France. Fr. Rigaud received Obediences for Burwash Landing, Ross River, Whitehorse, Faro, Teslin and Haines Junction in the Yukon and Fort Nelson, BC. He retired at the Oblate Centre in Whitehorse on 2007 and eventually moved to Foyer Lacombe, then Youville Home in St. Albert, where he took his last breath.

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To Honour our dear friends and great missionary priests; Bishop Gary Gordon will officiate the 5:00pm Mass for the repose of the souls of Fr. Pierre Rigaud and Fr. Pierre Veryat,

Saturday, April 26th, at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Whitehorse.

After Mass, a reception and time to memorialize these great Yukoners will follow in the CYO hall.

ather Pierre Rigaud, OMI passed away on February 27, 2014 at Youville Home, St. Albert, AB at the age 90. Son of Albert Veyrat and Marcelle Fourreaux, he was born in at Nouart, Ardennes, France on July 4, 1923.

Father Pierre pronounced his First Vows with the Missionary Oblates in 1941 and was ordained a priest on July 6, 1947 at Solignac, France. Fr. Veyrat received Obediences for Whitehorse, Teslin and Ross River, Yukon; and Old Fort Nelson, British Columbia. He retired at the Oblate Centre in Whitehorse on 2008 and eventually moved to Foyer Lacombe, then Youville Home in St. Albert, where he took his last breath.

DAY OF MOURNING 2014 - Remembering Yukon workers injured or killed on the job.

Monday, April 28th, 12:30pm Main Foyer Yukon Government Administration Building.

BOOKS, BISCUITS and Tea – Hospice Library drop-in. April 14-17 from 11:30am-3pm. Browse our excellent library and enjoy a cookie and a cup of tea. www.hospiceyukon.net GEORGE KOLLER Jazz Reunion, Wed April 23, 7:30 pm, The Old Fire Hall, Tickets Available at Deanʼs Music, Sponsored by Jazz Yukon, Contact: Ken Searcy 667-6931 email: ken@discoverdrums.com SWAZILAND EDUCATIONAL Trust Society spaghetti dinner and loonie auction, Saturday April 12, Hellaby Hall, 4th & Elliott, dinner 5:00pm-7:00pm, auction at 7:00pm. $10 per person. Prizes African arts/crafts.

689-1501 WHITEHORSE CROSS Country Ski Club Open forum about Dogs On Leash rule, challenges and solutions, Thursday April 24 7:00pm, Grey Mountain Room Mt Mac. 668-4477 for more info SALSA AND Bachata beginner dance classes starting April 11th, Salsa 7:45pm, Bachata 8:50pm, Leaping Feats Studio, salsayukon@gmail.com for info LIVE WORDS: Readings & Music, Sat Apr 26 at 7 pm, St. Elias Convention Centre, Haines Junction, $10 adults, $5 youth

COLLECTABLES BAZAAR, May 3, 2014 10:00am - 4:00pm, Gold Rush Inn, rent a table for $30 and sell unwanted books, china or whatever. Contact Sally at YHMA, 633-3896 or srobinson@northwestel.net LIVE WORDS: Reading & Reception with writers Bruce Barwin, Alan Cumyn, Charles Demers, Lori Garrison & Charles Wilkins, Wed Apr 23, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, 7 pm, free LIVE WORDS: Young Authors Conference: Wed Apr 24 & Thurs Apr 25, 8:45 - 3:10, FH Collins AMNESTY MONTH: April is amnesty month at Whitehorse Public Library. No charges for overdue books returned late! For info call 667-5239 LIVE WORDS: Apr 26: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk 1:30 p.m. Tagish Library, free LIVE WORDS: Apr 25: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk, Faro Library, 7:00 p.m, free LIVE WORDS: Apr 24: Yukon Writersʼ Festival - Charles Demers, St. Elias Convention Centre (Council Chambers), Haines Junction, Reading & Talk, 7 pm, free LIVE WORDS: Yukon Writersʼ Festival, Charles Demers, Reading & Talk, Thurs, Apr 24, Whitehorse Library, 12 p.m, free YUKON AGRICULTURAL Association AGM. Sat. May 3rd @ Coast High Country Inn. Doors open at 9am, meeting 9:30-12:30.

RSVP 668-6864. All members welcome. www.yukonag.ca ACTIVE TRAILS Whitehorse Association Annual General Meeting Tuesday May 13, 7:00pm, Sport Yukon boardroom. All members welcome. Info: www.activetwa.org SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014, 7:30pm, Bethany Pentecostal Church, Matt Falk, comedian from Winnepeg. Funds raised for Sonora Evangelical Ministries. Tickets, $25.

393-3143 or 633-4995 for more info SOUTHERN LAKES Water Level Committee public meeting#5. What about the swans & all wildlife habitats? Roundtable Discussion with local experts April 24, 7.00pm, Carcross Community Centre. Sue Greetham 660-4106 DOG WASH every third Saturday of the month at the Feed Store Pet Junction from 10 - 2. Small and medium dogs $20, large dogs $25. Proceeds to the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter.

SPRING JOB & Volunteer Fair - April 23rd, Yukon Convention Centre. 10-5. Meet face-to-face with more than 40 different organizations. www.yuwin.ca SPRING FLING! at Whitehorse Flowers, 308 Wood St. April 26, 12pm - 4pm Door Prizes, Discounts, Special Offers, Cake Consultations & Samples Free Hand Massages Flower Demonstrations Photographer onsite Bridal • Grad • Motherʼs Day Everyone Welcome!

SATURDAY 26 April: Tagish – Early spring migrants along the 6-Mile River with Shyloh van Delft. Meet at the Tagish Bridge rest area at 1pm.

(2 hrs) yukonbirdcllub@gmaill.com BIRDING TRIPS - all welcome! Thursday 17 April: Whitehorse – Shrikes & Bluebirds on the North Klondike Hwy with Boris Dobrowolsky. Meet at Porter Creek Super A at 6:30pm. (3 hrs) FRIDAY 25 April: Carcross – Nares Mountain Dusky Grouse hike with Dan Kemble.

Meet at the gazebo across from Montana Services at 6:30pm. (3 hrs). All welcome.

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 BUSY BEAVERS Painting, Pruning Hauling, Chainsaw Work, Yard Cleaning and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755

TITAN DRYWALL Taping & Textured Ceilings 27 years experience Residential or Commercial No job too small Call Dave 336-3865 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 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

Narcotics

Anonymous MEETINGS:

Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. <BYTE> Fridays 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 4071 - 4th Ave. <Many Rivers>

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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LIVE WORDS: Yukon Writers Festival with writers Bruce Barwin, Alan Cumyn, Charles Demers, Lori Garrison & Charles Wilkins, Wed Apr 23 – Sat Apr 27

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

life been 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 )

LOG CABINS: Professional Scribe Fit log buildings at affordable rates.

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 6M9 668-3632 ELECTRICIAN FOR all your jobs Large or small Licensed Electrician Call MACK N MACK ELECTRIC for a competitive quote!

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do you have a problem with food? meetings

mondays 7:30 p.m.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Yukon Communities & Atlin, B.C.

Beaver Creek

Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

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 Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Haines Junction Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

Y.T.

Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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 NORTHRIDGE BOBCAT SERVICES • Snow Plowing • Site Prep & Backfills • Driveways • Post Hole Augering • Light Land Clearing • General Bobcat Work Fast, Friendly Service 867-335-1106 WHITE TORNADO CLEANING SERVICES Hiring seasonal, summer, part-time, casual employees.

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LOST: ON Air North Flight 507A Acer Tablet. Left in seat 6F on March 24 in Calgary.

Please return no questions asked. Return to Air North, RCMP or 334-3300

FOUND: WOMANʼS glasses with silver and brown frame, found on pavement at 3rd and Main. Call 633-4501

Old Crow

Y.T. Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre Y.T.

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

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

LOST: HEART shaped pendant circled with diamonds on white gold chain, reward offered for return, sentimental value. Phone 332- 5552 or 668- 2414

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Friday - 1:30 p.m.

Health Centre

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TENDER CALL FOR TESLIN TRANSFER WASTE HAULING

The Village of Teslin is seeking tenders For the Transfer of Waste from Teslin Transfer Station to Whitehorse landfill & Return.

For any clarification of the work to be completed the contact will be Frank Thomas, CAO, during the business hours of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday; Tender packages are available at the office or visit us online at www.teslin.ca.

The tender closes at 4:00 pm Thursday April 24, 2014. A public tender opening will be held at 4:15 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2014.

The Village of Teslin reserves the right to review the capabilities of bidders to complete the work efficiently and references. As such, the lowest of any tender is not necessarily accepted.

PuBLIC TENdER BEAVER CREEK LIBRARY REPLACEMENT Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 8, 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) 6675385. Technical questions may be directed to Rob Kelly at 667-8980.

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

YUKON BERINGIA INTERPRETIVE CENTRE PARKING LOT IMPROVEMENTS Project Description: The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre will undertake updates and improvements of the existing parking lot, based on a 2013-14 design concept. The project will improve vehicle and pedestrian flow within the parking lot and layout improved parking stall placement suitable for our current visitor traffic.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 8, 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 Tyler Kuhn at (867) 667-3516.

An optional site visit will be held on Friday May 2nd, 2014 at 10:00am.

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

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

GIRLʼS BICYCLES, 2 available, 16” & 14” wheels, gd cond, $40. 393-2125

Livestock

ROAD BIKE, Giant "Avail", fits women 5'7"-5'10", lightly used, fast, high-end bike, great components, perfect for Haines to Haines! 336-2108

QUALITY YUKON MEAT Dev & Louise Hurlburt Grain-finished Hereford beef Domestic wild boar Order now for guaranteed delivery Payment plan available Samples on request 668-7218 335-5192

TWO OSPREY packs for sale, womenʼs.

Never used Sirrus 36L daypack, green, size small. $120. Luna 75L backpack, purple, size small. Used, but excellent condition. $150. Email: greenkanoe@gmail.com ARCTERYX GEAR: Gamma AR jacket, women's small, green. $120. Rana pant, size 6, brown. $40. Alpha SV 3-ply Gore-tex bib rain pant. x-small women's. $250 (retails over $600). Email: greenkanoe@gmail.com 8-DOG DOG-BOX, needs TLC, but still functional as is, $100 obo. Stephanie at 335-3905 BURTON SPLITBOARD & bindings. Well used but functional. Better for a taller person, $200. 335-3784

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 LEIGHTON MACH 1 leather sewing machine. Will sew up to 3 layers of harness leather w/stand, 1/2 HP motor, foot treadle, spare bobbins & needles, $1,200. treebrand@gmail.com or 633-2398

pUBLIC TENDER CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BEAVER CREEK FIRE HALL, BEAVER CREEK FIRE HALL-BLDG #3137, BEAVER CREEK, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 24, 2013. 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, Second Floor, 9010 Quartz Road, P.O. Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385.

Technical questions may be directed to Rob Kelly at (867) 667-8980.

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

Community Services

THREE-MONTH-OLD 633-4249

GOATS for sale.

DEARBORN TWO bottom plow for three point hitch. $500 obo. 633-6502 CHICKENS FOR sale, 10 Brown Leghorns, 2 Red Sussex, 1 White Leghorn, 1 Red Rock Cross, $27 ea. 333-0915

Baby & Child Items BURLEY CHILD Trailer Encore, for 2 children, including ski, jogging and bike set, like new, paid $1,250, asking $900. 633-3399 2-SEATER BIKE trailer in new cond, $225.

393-2630

GRACO INFANT car seat, $25. Basic white crib, no mattress, $50. 334-7061 LARGE & XL Easter bunny stuffies in good cond, $10 ea. 633-4379

Request for Qualification (RFQ)

REqUEST FOR PROPOSAL

The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) conducts assessments of projects within Yukon, some of which may require technical assistance. YESAB is requesting qualifications from companies interested in providing technical assistance during our assessments. This RFQ will help us to develop our source list which is a compilation of qualified technical experts.

PROCESS AND MONITORING EVALUATION FOR SNAP

Please visit the Employment & Contracts page of our website (www.yesab.ca) for complete details on how to become part of our source list.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of

IN THE MATTER of the Estate of KENNETH RANDAL HERRMANN, deceased, late of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, who died January 9th, 2012, in Dawson City, Yukon Territory.

All persons having claims against the above-mentioned estate are requested to file the same, supported

by Statutory Declaration, with the undersigned on or before May 2nd, 2014, after which date the said estate will be distributed having reference only to claims which have been so filed.

KELLY ANNE PATRICK,

of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Deceased, who died on March 3, 2014, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executor at the address shown below, before the 18th day of April, 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.

All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Estate in care of the undersigned.

Christine M. Hakim Lamarche Pearson Barristers and Solicitors 505 Lambert Street, Whitehorse Yukon Y1A 1Z8

BY: Gerald A. Patrick c/o Lackowicz & Hoffman Suite 300, 204 Black Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2M9 Tel: (867) 668-5252 Fax: (867) 668-5251

Project Description: To evaluate the “Stop Now and Plan” program provided by the Youth Justice unit of Family and Children’s Services, Department of Health and Social Services.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 30, 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 Renee Mills - Acting Supervisor at (867) 667-3758.

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

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

Health and Social Services

Yukon Water Notice Yukon WaterBoard Board– –Application Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande

Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

PM11-065

MS13-042 PM14-009

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Assignment from Ken Mierke to Stephen Williscroft Wellgreen Platinum Wolf Head Discovery and Mining LLP

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

Vancouver Creek

Placer Mining

April 29, 2014

Quill Creek

Miscellaneous

April 28, 2014

Clear Creek

Placer Mining

May 13, 2014

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Tourism and Culture

Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Alfalfa mix 60-65lb $14.50 Timothy/grass mix 60-65 lb $14.50 Brome hay 50-55 lbs $12 Straw bales $7 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com

CAR SEAT, exc cond, holds 45-100 lbs. $100. 393-2630

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Highways and Public Works

PUBLIC TENDER

Sports Equipment

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

CHILDRENʼS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903

HAND-CRAFTED COFFEE table & 2 end tables, made from tree trunks, oak bases & glass tops, $1,200 or $500 apiece obo.

667-7107

CLOTH DIAPERS, organic cotton Bummis, 6-pack Bum-Genius quick-dry with inserts (hardly used), homemade varieties, lots of sizes/designs, Rubbermaid full for $200 obo.

335-3905

ANTIQUE DUNCAN Phyfe double drop-leaf table, $225. Maple rocking chair, $95. 311B Hanson St.

2 ELFE Supergate III baby gates, new cond, bought last November, can be pressure fit to opening/ fixed in place w/incl hardware as swing open gate, $25 ea/$45 both.

456-2946

Childcare BUSY BEE DAYHOME, Riverdale, has openings.

18 months - 5 years.

Hot lunch, snacks provided.

Learning through play, planned activities, caring environment.

20 yearsʼ experience.

References available. Kim 633-2177 kmbryer@gmail.com ROSIEʼS DAY HOME Opening May 1, 2014 Day/Night/Weekend Spots available Call 668-3448

ANTIQUE LIGHT oak hutch, newly refinished, new glass doors on upper half, 6ʼ length, $1,100 obo. 633-6244 RECLINING COUCH & love seat, beige w/abstract pattern, free. 633-6263 DECOR-REST DOUBLE bed chesterfield, like new, dark green, $600. 633-3113

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of Robert Arthur King (Robb), of Whitehorse, Yukon, Deceased, who died on June 15, 2007, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Administrator at the address shown below, before the 15th day of May 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.

Chris J. King, Administrator PO Box 4298 Spruce Grove, AB, T7X 3B5 Tel: (780) 960-3555 x1102 Fax: (780)960-3555

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SOLID WOOD half louvered bifold closet door 35 5/8x79 1/8 $75, Sslid wood half-louvered bifold closet door 25 5/8x79 1/8, $60.

633-2493 OLDER STYLE hide- a- bed, new double mattress. Makes a good bed, $125.

633-4505 WANTED: GOOD quality chest dresser (deep drawers), also metal adjustable queen frame to fit a double bed. 334-5189 KING MATTRESS & box spring, paid $2,300, asking $900 obo, 2 yrs old.

667-7107

PUbLIC TENDER PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTARY VEHICLE RENTALS FOR YUKON GOVERNMENT

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Personals 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 DRUG PROBLEM? Narcotics Anonymous meetings Wed. 7pm-8pm #2 - 407 Ogilvie St. BYTE Office FRI. 7pm-8:30pm 4071 - 4th Ave Many Rivers Office

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

Feel like a small fish in a big pond?

Stand out from the crowd and be seen!

Advertise your business in the Yukon News.

www.yukon-news.com

Phone: 867-667-6283

pUbLIC TENdER

PUbLIC TENDER

VEGETATION CONTROL ALASKA HIGHWAY HAINES JUNCTION AREA YUKON 2014-2015

VEGETATION CONTROL KLONDIKE HIGHWAY AND DEMPSTER HIGHWAY DAWSON AREA YUKON 2014-2015

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 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 David Knight at 867 667 3114.

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 May 6, 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 Mackenzie Ingram at 867 667-3697.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

PUbLIC TENDER

PUbLIC TENDER

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE WESTERN STAR PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE CUMMINS PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 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 Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387.

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

Highways and Public Works

Legals

LOST TICKET The Columbus Society is hereby advising the public that tickets

0051-0060

were lost under licence #2014-017 and therefore will not form part of the draw on May 3rd

pUBLIC TENDER YUKON COLLEGE MOULD REMEDIATION YUKON COLLEGE - BLDG. # 1227 WHITEHORSE YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 8, 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 Mackenzie Ingram at 867 667-3697.

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

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy will apply to this project.

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 April 29, 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 Nick Barnett at (867) 667-3588.

Site Visit April 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

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

Highways and Public Works

Highways and Public Works

PUbLIC TENDER

PUbLIC TENDER

SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF CAMPGROUND FIREWOOD

STANDING OFFER AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GENUINE VOLVO PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF YUKON

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is May 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 Jenny Richards at (867) 393-6387.

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

Project Description: Supply and delivery of round or split (spruce or pine) 16” (+ or - 1”) in length 12” in diameter of dry (seasoned minimum 2 years) beetle or fire killed wood to various campgrounds.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is April 30, 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 Gary Vantell at 867-667-5282.

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 May 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 Jenny Richards at 867-393-6387.

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

Highways and Public Works

Environment

Highways and Public Works

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Representative semi-monthly lease offer based on new 2014 Versa Note 1.6 S (B5RG54 AA00), manual transmission/2014 Sentra 1.8 S (C4LG54 AA00), manual transmission/2014 Rogue S FWD (Y6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission. 0%/0%/2.99% lease APR for a 39/39/60 month term equals 78/78/120 semi-monthly payments of $69/$79/$135 with $0/$0/$0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $5,356/$6,132/$16,042. $1,150/$870/$500 NF Lease Cash included in advertised price, applicable only on 2014 Versa Note 1.6 S (B5RG54 AA00), manual transmission/Sentra 1.8 S (C4LG54 AA00), manual transmission/2014 Rogue S FWD (Y6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission through subvented lease through Nissan Finance. This offer is only available on lease offers of an 39/39/60 month term only and cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply. s Models shown $20,685/$22,665/$34,928 Selling Price for a new 2014 Versa Note 1.6 SL Tech (B5TG14 NA00), Xtronic CVT® transmission/Sentra 1.8 SR (C4SG14 AA00), CVT/Rogue SL AWD Premium model (Y6DG14 BK00), CVT transmission. ≠s Freight and PDE charges ($1,567/$1,567/$1,630), certain fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Finance and lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. Offers, prices and features subject to change without notice. Offers valid between April 1-30th, 2014. ^Based on 2014 Canadian Residual Value Award in Subcompact Car/Compact Utility Vehicle segment. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. †Global Automakers of Canada Entry Level Segmentation. MY14 Versa Note v. MY13/14 competitors. *All information compiled from third-party sources including manufacturer websites. Not responsible for errors in data on third party websites. 12/17/2013. Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice. Offers have no cash alternative value. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©1998-2014 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

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