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Alberta bound A total of 119 athletes will represent Yukon in August at the Western Canada Summer Games

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Eric Watt climbs the Crucifix at the Rock Gardens in Whitehorse on Saturday.

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Porter Creek homeowner wants city to pay for sinkhole damage Pierre Chauvin News Reporter

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he owner of a house in Porter Creek claims he isn’t being treated fairly after the city refused to pay to fix a sinkhole that appeared under his driveway.

At the centre of the dispute is whether or not retaining walls built outside the property required prior authorization by the city, and how that affects who’s responsible to foot the repair bill.

David Hedmann said he noticed a sinkhole underneath his driveway on May 24.

Several depressions within nine metres of the sinkhole affected the retaining walls, he said.

The sinkhole is a square about 2.5 metres long, underneath half the driveway. When the News came by it was approximately 20 to 30 centimetres deep.

Several bricks on retaining walls a few metres from the sinkhole were spread apart. “The walls are no longer vertical, they’re falling forward into the street,� he said.

Both the sinkhole and depressions are on city property.

Hedmann is using saw horses to prevent people from driving there–he fears the driveway might collapse.

The city dispatched a crew to verify whether a leak was causing the sinkhole, but as they didn’t find any, they packed up and left, he said.

Now he has taken the city to court.

On June 18, Hedmann filed an affidavit to Yukon small claims court, claiming that because the sinkhole and depressions were on “the city right of way�, they were responsible for it.

In an interview, Hedmann said the sinkhole impacted his business – he runs a bed and breakfast. People can’t drive on the driveway because it would collapse, he said.

The city filed a reply on July 7, refuting much of Hedmann’s claim.

It says the retaining walls were on the boulevard, out-

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A sinkhole is seen underneath the driveway of Porter Creek resident David Hedmann. side his property. “Later investigation revealed that no permit had been obtained for construction of the retaining wall,� the reply read.

The city is not responsible for the damages as there was no leak, the city said in the filing. “If you’re going to put something significant like the retaining wall at Mr Hedmann’s, you would require something in terms of written permission,� Pat Ross, the city’s manager of planning services, told the News.

Typically, properties stop up to six metres back from the actual sidewalk, he said. “As a city we’re saying that’s his responsibility, we’re not taking any responsibility for why the hole is there,� he said.

Hedmann denies this, claiming that at the time his walls were built, the city didn’t require a permit. He claims that was confirmed by two city staffers he talked to.

City officials couldn’t confirm this by deadline, but expressed surprise.

The city paid for repair costs of other homes in Porter Creek with similar issues, Hedmann said.

Jerry Bradford, who lives on the same street as Hedmann, confirmed city crews carried out work on and around his property on two separate occasions.

In 2010, the city paid for the repairs of a hole, by the curb, which is on city property.

Early this June, Bradford noticed his lawn “started dropping,� he said.

The city found out there was a leak from water infrastructure the city is responsible for, and fixed it, he said.

This involved digging up part of his lawn and driveway, and filling it back. “I have nothing but praise for the city guys, they kept me informed and did good work,� he said.

Asked to comment, city staff said they had to look at cases individually.

A case management conference call is scheduled for Sept. 30 between Hedmann and the city lawyer.

In the meantime, Hedmann said he is considering ways to force the city to hand over all the records about the properties in his neighbourhood that had similar issues. “I’ll try to keep public pressure on the city,� he said. “I may go and make a presentation to council because it’s ridiculous.�

He said an engineer who looked at the sinkhole and depressions estimated it would cost about $25,000 in repairs, but the situation is getting worse by the day, he said.

Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com

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Yukon government mum about lost child tax credit Pierre Chauvin News Reporter

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ukon’s own child tax credit disappeared as a result of the federal government’s overhaul of the Universal Child Care Benefit, and the Yukon government won’t speak about it.

The Yukon Income Tax Act is set up to mirror a number of tax credits enacted by the federal government. When Ottawa removed it’s old child tax credit to make way for the Universal Child Care Benefit, it automatically removed the Yukon’s own credit.

As pointed out by Yukon News columnist Kyle Carruthers, that means in practice that of the $720 the federal government trumpeted parents would get this year, Yukoners are only up $14.23.

That’s the math after you consider the loss of the original federal child tax credit, its Yukon equivalent and the taxes parents have to pay on the new benefit.

The Yukon Finance Department confirmed those numbers.

Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, who is also the finance minister, refused multiple interview requests.

An interview with the finance minister wasn’t necessary, his cabinet officials told the Yukon News, because finance department officials would answer all our questions.

They did not.

Specifically, when asked about why the government didn’t let Yukoners know about the disappearance of Yukon’s tax credit, and how it would impact their $720 cheques, finance department officials ignored the question and kept boasting about measures the government put in place.

Asked again, they said the Yukon government didn’t comment on every single federal initiative.

Director of taxation, Gerald Gagnon, said the Yukon government both reduced the tax burden on Yukoners and increased child tax benefits - a different program than the one that disappeared.

The Yukon child tax benefit gives qualified Yukoners monthly payments.

Child tax benefit programs are better suited for the territory than child tax credit, Gagnon said.

“When you think about people who need money, they need it right now, not at the end of the year,” Gagnon said.

In April territorial child tax benefits went up from $698 to $820 annually per child, which will result in the Yukon doling out an extra half a million dollars this year, he said. The threshold of eligible income was also moved from $30,000 to $35,000.

When amending the Yukon Income Tax, the government also reduced personal income tax, re-

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Federal Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre and Yukon MP Ryan Leef urge families to sign up for the newly expanded universal child care benefit on June 26 in Whitehorse. sulting in $5.3 million less Yukoners will have to pay this year.

Department official refused to provide a breakdown of how

each tax bracket is affected by that change, saying it could allow people to deduce personal tax information.

“Everybody is better off because of our initiatives,” Gagnon said.

Last October the federal government increased the Universal Child Care Benefit coverage.

It used to be for families with children under six, who received a $100 monthly payment.

Now for every child under six, a family will receive a $160 monthlypayment, and for every child between six and 17, a $60 payment.

On June 26 Minister of Employment Pierre Poilievre flew to Whitehorse to encourage people to sign up for the newly expanded program.

During a press conference that day Poilievre talked about 800 families in the territory who were eligible but hadn’t signed up yet.

Last March, Canada’s parliamentary budget officer, JeanDenis Frechette, criticized the government’s measure, noting the program expansion would benefit families with little to no child care costs.

“Many of the families that benefit from federal child-care initiatives do not incur child-care expenses,” Frechette told the Toronto Star.

He also noted the cost of the program would go from $3.3 billion in 2013-2014 to $7.9 billion in 2017-2018.

Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com

Old Crow to get high-speed Internet minimum rate.

“It’s not something that’s been prioritized by the current government,” he said. “Canada shows a really appalling lack of ambition.”

Tabish said 10 per cent of Canadian households still don’t have Internet speeds of 5 megabits per second, though most people in urban centres have access to much higher speeds.

And he warned that the upgrade planned for Old Crow still likely won’t be enough for video conferencing or high-definition video streaming.

Tabish said Internet speed in rural and remote areas is really an issue of equal access to opportunities.

“We don’t think every Canadian needs a Lamborghini in terms of Internet access,” he said.

“But they do all need access to the same highway.”

technology director for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in Old Crow, said he’s “looking forward” to the upgrade.

At current Internet speeds, Doehle said it takes several seconds to open a webpage, and streaming audio or video is difficult.

“Rarely can you get through a whole video without it stopping at some point,” he said. “It’ll be interesting to see what they give us now.”

Doehle said the First Nation might be interested in using cloud computing to manage administrative affairs, if the Internet connection can support it.

He also said more community members, especially young people, might sign up for services like Netflix.

But he also worried about the cost that might accompany a faster connection.

Northwestel did not comment

on how service fees for Old Crow residents might be affected in an email response to questions from the News.

The Harper government has committed $929,384 to Northwestel to complete the project.

“As part of the agreement, Northwestel will also be making its own contribution to upgrade services in Old Crow,” according to the email from Northwestel.

Old Crow is the only Yukon community whose Internet is provided by satellite. Northwestel said it will “invest in additional satellite bandwidth” to improve Internet speeds.

The upgrade in Old Crow is the only project proposed for the Yukon under the Connecting Canadians program, though several communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut will also be receiving upgrades.

“It’s really something that we acknowledge absolutely has to be

done in the North. They deserve as much access to it as possible and as quickly as possible,” said Yukon MP Ryan Leef.

Leef said most Yukon communities already have Internet speeds of at least 5 megabits per second.

So far, the government has received proposals for projects that would bring high-speed Internet to 356,000 homes across the country. It plans to make highspeed Internet available to 98 per cent of Canadian households by 2017.

But Josh Tabish, campaign manager with Vancouver-based Open Media, said Canada is still far behind other developed countries when it comes to Internet speeds. He said minimum target speeds in the U.S. are five times what they are in Canada, and that most rural regions of the Australian Outback have speeds 20 times faster than Canada’s

gency Medical Services before being left with a parent.

The first suspect was described Whitehorse RCMP is investigating as a tall First Nations male dressed in another rash of thefts that took place black, with red and black shoes and a in Whitehorse over the last two weeks. red hat.

On July 28, a 15-year-old boy The second suspect was described was allegedly assaulted by two male as a short Caucasian male, approxisuspects in the middle of the day on mately 5’5”, with black hair, wearing Third Avenue, police say. a black hoodie with a yellow symbol When a passerby intervened, the on it. two suspects allegedly made off with The bike is described as a bright the victim’s BMX bike, heading toward orange BMX bicycle with “BMX Sunthe Skookum Jim Friendship Centre. day” displayed on the frame.

No weapons were used, and the On the same day, RCMP received victim was assessed by Yukon Emera report of a break-in the night before

at Sweetness Bakery.

The glass of one of the doors was broken, and an undisclosed amount of cash was stolen, a RCMP statement says.

The RCMP has also learned of multiple thefts from customers at Walmart on July 20 and 21.

Victims typically had their wallets stolen from purses left unattended in shopping carts. The wallets were mostly recovered, but were missing cash and credit cards.

Police are reminding shoppers not to leave their possessions unattended.

All of the incidents are still under

the fact the matter was under investigation.

The man succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Dawson City RCMP won’t release his name until the next (Maura Forrest) of kin is notified.

They’re asking for the public’s help, as they’re trying to get in touch American motorcyclist with the male driver of a brown dies south of Dawson City pickup truck who may have assisted A 69-year old American man died on at the scene.

Monday morning after he crashed his To contact Const. Katrina Harnett, motorcycle one kilometre south of the the agent in charge of the file, call Tintina Trench viewpoint.

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Dawson RCMP wouldn’t say what the motorcycle crashed into, citing (Pierre Chauvin)

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esidents of Old Crow will have faster Internet as early as 2018, thanks to nearly one million dollars in federal funding.

The upgrade will bring highspeed Internet to 109 homes in Old Crow. It will boost the download speed to five megabits per second, up from a current speed of about two megabits per second.

Five megabits per second is the minimum speed target set out by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 2011.

The project is part of the government’s Connecting Canadians program, which committed $305 million in 2014 to providing faster Internet in rural and remote communities.

Paul Doehle, information

New wave of theft in Whitehorse

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Whitehorse RCMP is asking anyone with information to contact them at 867-667-5555.

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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Watson Lake man avoids federal penitentiary for the second time In the early morning of Jan. 1, 2015, Charlie was drinking at her father’s home.

Around 6 a.m. Lutz arrived 30-year-old Watson and asked her to go drink at Lake man, convicted his father’s place. of assault, avoided When she refused he “went federal penitentiary psycho,” according to a statefor the second time. ment of facts read by the Yukon territorial court prosecutor. judge Michael Block sentenced He pulled her from the Randy Lutz to 30 months in house, kicking her. She ran jail Wednesday for assaulttoward Lutz’s aunt’s house, ing his former partner, Tanya banging on the window.

Charlie, and his aunt. He was When Lutz’s aunt came out, also convicted of breaching his Lutz punched his aunt and probation terms. threatened to get his gun.

A kidnapping charge was While he said he doesn’t dropped by the Crown. remember the night of the asWith time served, Lutz will saults because of how intoxihave 19 and a half months left cated he was, he recognized it at the Whitehorse Correctional was his doing, the court heard.

Centre, followed by three years In 2013 Lutz, was sentenced of probation. to 32 months for kidnapping Sentences longer than two Charlie. years are automatically served At the time, judge Donald in federal penitentiaries.

Luther decided against sendCrown prosecutor Eric Mar- ing him to a federal penitencoux told the judge he was first tiary, explaining that staying looking at a three- to four-year at WCC would allow Lutz to sentence, given the severity follow programming and deal of the crime, but decided for with his substance abuse and a lesser sentence that allows violence issues. Again, the longer probation. Federal sentence minus time served sentences do not come with worked out to less than two probation. years.

“It’s in the best interest of Defence lawyer Melissa the public and Mrs. Charlie,” Atkinson noted Wednesday that despite Lutz’s important he said.

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probation.

He has an extensive criminal record, with more than 22 convictions, including six assaults since 2008.

In 2009, he was sentenced for a 2007 assault on Charlie, among other charges. Justice of the peace Dean Cameron told Lutz at the time he was at a turning point in his life.

“There are a lot of things that seem to be lining up for you which, if you can take advantage of them, may ultimately be able to turn your life Joel Krahn/Yukon News around,” he said at the time.

The law courts in Whitehorse. Randy Lutz was convicted in “Should you fail to follow Whitehorse territorial court on Wednesday of assaulting his former through on your commitment to do so, then you find it more partner, his aunt, and breaching his probation terms. and more difficult to convince cognitive deficit, he was “doing during his probation Lutz not the Court further down the come in contact with either very well at WCC.” road that you are now ready Charlie or his aunt.

She said Lutz suffered from for change.”

When the Crown asked that family violence, part of the In 2013, Luther made a Lutz be ordered to abstain colonial legacy. similar plea to him. from alcohol when released, “Further displacing him “You have some really good from the Yukon won’t help,” the judge expressed concerns people who are helping you, she said. this might land him back in jail and I want you to do your The judge noted Lutz also rapidly. Lutz said he started utmost to turn things around; had severe alcohol abuse isdrinking as a teenager and that otherwise, it is just going to be sues. he is often around people who a wasted life for you, coming “Alcohol makes you very drink in Watson Lake. in and out of jail,” he said. impulsive,” Block said.

Block reduced the alcohol “You have an excellent op“You’re still a young man, abstinence requirement to the portunity now to reverse that, you have room to grow, (but) first four months of his proba- and I truly hope that you do you need to take a different tion. that.” way,” he said.

Lutz will also be under a Contact Pierre Chauvin at The judge also ordered that curfew during his first year of pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com

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Yukon Zinc’s creditors seek security for “devastating” debt

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wo trucking companies from Yukon and B.C. are arguing they’re entitled to be repaid the full amount Yukon Zinc owes them.

Lawyers for Sidhu Trucking Ltd. and Hy’s North Transportation appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday to argue liens the two companies filed against Yukon Zinc should be reviewed in the Yukon, not in B.C. They said because the liens were filed under Yukon’s Miners Lien Act, they should be evaluated in the Yukon.

But a B.C. Supreme Court judge decided to give Yukon Zinc more time to choose whether it plans to dispute the liens before ruling on which jurisdiction will hear the case.

Currently, Sidhu Trucking and Hy’s North Transportation claim that Yukon Zinc owes them about $866,000 and $551,000, respectively. Yukon Zinc argues its debt to Sidhu Trucking is just $688,000.

Between March and April 2015, both companies filed claims of lien against Yukon Zinc.

If valid, those liens would be secured debt and give the companies rights to the Wolverine Mine and minerals until the debt is repaid in full.

That would put them in a very different position from Yukon Zinc’s many unsecured creditors, who will likely receive a small percentage, if any, of the money they’re owed.

And it would put them on equal footing with JinDui Cheng Canada Resources Corporation Limited, Yukon Zinc’s parent company. JDC Canada is owed the vast majority - $600 million – of the $646 million of debt for which Yukon Zinc received creditor protection in March. And JDC Canada has the right to be repaid before any unsecured creditors.

Yukon Zinc will announce to the court whether it plans to file a restructuring plan by August 14. If it does, that plan will likely include “very small” dividends to its unsecured creditors, according to David Gruber, a lawyer for Hy’s North Transportation.

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Two trucking companies claim Yukon Zinc owes them more than $1.4 million collectively. will be sold off. But the value of the mine, said Gruber, is probably less than the amount owed to JDC Canada.

“If the mine was sold, the unsecured creditors would likely get nothing,” he explained.

Gruber said Hy’s North Transportation and Sidhu Trucking were trying to have their liens evaluated before Yukon Zinc submits its plan. That way, the companies would “know where [they] stand,” he said.

But now that won’t happen.

Gruber said the liens won’t be dealt with at least until the end of August. He suspects that decision was made to give the companies a chance to settle with Yukon Zinc in the interim. If Yukon Zinc offers a dividend to unsecured creditors in mid-August, Sidhu Trucking and Hy’s North Transportation would have the option of negotiating that amount rather than pursuing the lien claims.

In court documents, Yukon Zinc has cast doubt on whether the claims are valid under Yukon’s Miners Lien Act, stating that “amounts owing for hauling services are not lienable under that act.” Kibben Jackson, the lawyer for Yukon Zinc, said the act isn’t clear about what services are eligible for a lien. That could make all the difference for the claim filed by the two trucking companies.

“If it’s not valid, then those guys get lumped in with unsecured creditors,” he said.

Don Halliday, president of Hy’s North Transportation, said he doesn’t know what will happen to his company if Yukon Zinc’s debt isn’t repaid.

“Financially, it’s been pretty much devastating,” he said. “If we don’t get the money, I don’t know what we’ll do. For anyone to take a $500,000 hit is huge.”

Halliday said he currently has about 25 employees in B.C. and Yukon. He’s had to lay off five or six since Yukon Zinc stopped paying their bills in January. He’s also shut down operations in Watson Lake.

He added that he currently owes about $400,000 to suppliers and other creditors in the Yukon.

He’s been counting on money from Yukon Zinc to pay off his own debts.

While Halliday and other creditors wait for Yukon Zinc’s next move, there is now some news about what might happen to the Wolverine Mine if Yukon Zinc does choose to sell it.

Australian company MinQuest announced late last week that it has put in a bid for the mine.

MinQuest’s Fyre Lake copper project is 28 kilometres southwest of the Wolverine Mine, and the company is interested in using the mill and tailings facilities at

Wolverine to produce a coppercobalt-gold concentrate.

Jeremy Read, managing director for MinQuest, said the company estimates it would cost just $50 to $60 million to put the Fyre Lake project into production using existing facilities at Wolverine, whereas it would cost $250 to $300 million to build facilities at Fyre Lake from scratch.

If MinQuest’s bid is successful, Read said Fyre Lake could go into production in early 2018.

Read said MinQuest doesn’t have plans to do anything with the mine itself, which is currently filling with water. The water is estimated to reach the mine entrance within 30 months, which Read said would give MinQuest enough time to figure out how to deal with it.

Even with the flooding, Read explained, the cost of reclaiming the mine isn’t a major consideration for his company.

“That’s not the biggest cost by a long way.” Read said decommissioning the above ground facilities and reclaiming the land around a mine are much more onerous responsibilities than dealing with the mine itself.

MinQuest plans to provide a further update on its bid on or before August 10.

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or all its self-laudatory advertising inviting people from around the world to visit the magnificent sights, scenery and serenity of the Yukon’s thriving capital city, it is, in fact, a nightmare place to visit if you’re travelling in an RV, and there’s no one else to blame but the short-sighted politicians and bureaucrats who run the city and write its bylaws.

There should be yet another sign on the Alaska Highway reading: “Welcome to Whitehorse, the town that hates RVs!�

No, I am not a tourist with a bone to pick. This is a local whine chilled nicely by many winters in the territory but only two summers as a semi-retiree in a travel trailer inadvertently at the mercy of the baboons who write the bylaws of Whitehorse. You could call me a local undercover investigative reporter posing as a visiting tourist without stretching the boundaries of accuracy too much.

And here is the incident which caused my state of furious outrage and disgust with the administrators of Onehorse, er Whitehorse, which motivated this column: My grandchildren, ages eight, six and four, live in the walled enclave with a drawbridge called Riverdale, which is off-limits to RVs via bylaws which forbid camping on city streets under penalty of death or at least forfeiture of your RV and a $1,000 fine for your second offense. As far as I know, their driveway is legal but completely impractical because it’s tiny and they have a tendency, with three vehicles of their own, to use it in the daily conduct of their busy lives.

I tried Grey Mountain road, completely illegal, and even gave some thought to a premature visit to Grey Mountain Cemetery to be close to old friends with the perfect excuse for bylaw officers: “I won’t be here long, officer, I’m just waiting to croak.� But there was no outhouse at that permanent campsite, another municipal oversight if someone elects to resurrect, so I tried the road past Schwatka Lake and Three Hidden Lakes to Chadburn Lake, a wonderful municipal recreation area with many beautiful level spots to camp, some with outhouses, picnic tables and firepits but eliminated by a redwood forest of “No Camping� signs.

Finally, I found the perfect spot to be a grandfather in an RV with nearby grandchildren in Whitehorse and it was only 3.2 kilometres down Wickstrom Road, behind the hospital, a quick drive to Riverdale for those manic moments when a child needs a quick ride to soccer practice, gymnastics, ballet, basketball or a Timbit fix.

So there I happily camped on a high

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Kathleen Knight cliff or bluff overlooking the gorgeous length of Long Lake with a panorama of snow-capped peaks in the distance with a view of city lights the other direction and nary so much as a “No Camping� sign anywhere and even a nearby outhouse, but no picnic table, Sure it was busy during the days with kids swimming in the lake and city dump trucks hauling gravel, but it was serene and perfect in the evenings, nights and mornings, until some pothead reported me after my fifth night on the bluff. Or it could have been a half-grown beer drinker, judging by the nearby empties, or even a law-and-order off-duty bureaucrat upset by someone camping in his favourite spot to dip snuff.

At any rate, I was startled early the next morning while writing an awardwinning piece of travel journalism by a loud and rude hammering on my door.

When I looked out the window, there was a huge, bald, heavily tattooed man who looked like a Hell’s Angel dressed in a bylaw uniform on Halloween and he gruffly read me the riot act like a bully in a daycare centre for being a lawbreaking miscreant, concluding with, “You can’t just camp anywhere you want,� in a mean, nasty voice which he likely learned from a training video after his last job fizzled as a pro wrestler named “Killer Gorilla.�

Now, one enforcement technique that doesn’t work well with combatdecorated veterans of foreign wars (USMC, Vietnam) especially one who has just been interrupted in the middle of writing a cute poem about the beauty of fireweed for his granddaughter, is in-

your-face bully braggadocio by a beefy biker. We were trained to attack when threatened so, without even thinking about it, I attacked verbally with, “WHY THE HELL NOT? I’M SURROUNDED BY 207,000 SQUARE MILES OF YUKON WILDERNESS AND YOU’RE BUSTING MY CHOPS FOR USING 16 FEET OF IT?�

Then I looked at his flat deck pickup which had a four-box dog jail on it and realized he was either the world’s least ambitious dog musher or, worse, the municipal dogcatcher and added, “You have nothing better to do with my son’s tax dollars than aggressively bust a 68-year-old veteran/grandfather who is only guilty of trying to camp somewhere close to his grandchildren?�

If he had laid a hand on me, there would have been a rumble on Long Lake Bluff between a Hell’s Angel and a Marine. I completely lost it, after the two -year frustration of trying to find a place to park in Whitehorse, like I’ve never lost it since the PTSD days in Dawson City after Vietnam. I was spitting and nearly foaming at the mouth. I was so furious, even though it never got physical, just loud. (He could have cleaned my old cuckoo clock in 20 seconds‌ maybe.)

I could see his ears lay back when I started in on the imbecile who signs his pay cheques and knew he was reviewing in his mind his last anger management seminar on how to properly handle a berserk wildman in the middle of a bust. My goal was to show him more disrespect than he was showing me. A Mountie probably would have conked me over the head and put me in cuffs. ‌ continued on page 7

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ou have to have a grudging respect for the relentless scheming of the Conservative Party in Ottawa.

The Prime Minister’s Office must be like the set of Rowan Atkinson’s classic Blackadder series, where a character says “I have a cunning plan!” every five minutes.

With less than 90 days before the next election, the federal government has sent families cheques that in many cases are well over $1,000.

And in a move that fans of Blackadder’s Dunny-onthe-Wold by-election episode will admire, the minister responsible happened to have forgotten his suit that day.

He made the television announcement in a bright blue Conservative polo shirt with a prominent Conservative Party logo.

All the opposition could do was sputter about federal government guidelines that are supposed to keep the maple leaf unsullied by crass partisan brand attacks.

Blackadder’s dim sidekick Baldrick could have thought that up. However, the real Blackadderesque cunning comes from how the new Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) cleverly plays with the numbers to make you think you are a big winner when, really, you’re probably not.

You see, the new UCCB gives you $60 a month for every child aged six to 17, plus $160 for each child under six.

Since the program started in January but took awhile to set up, parents are now

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Saskatchewan Legislative Building in Regina on July 24. getting big cheques to catch up. If, for example, you have three children in the six-to-17 age bracket, and one child who annoyingly was born in 1996 and is too old, you got a cheque for $1,260.

I wonder how Blackadder got the federal computer programmers to be slow enough that people got cheques over $1,000, and fast enough that the cheques arrived just in time for the election.

Unfortunately for you, the cheques are taxable at both the federal and territorial level. Furthermore, they replace the previous child tax credit, which you may remember fondly from your old tax returns.

The man in the Conservative polo shirt said that every

family in Canada would be better off under the new scheme.

However, the Globe and Mail, an Outside newspaper, interviewed a tax expert with Ernst & Young. He said that when you added up all the gains and losses, parents in the “middle to high tax brackets” would keep about $15 per month.

CBC calculated that an Ontario parent earning $50,000 per year would be better off to the tune of $13.18 per month per child.

Accusations of vote buying are as old as Parliament itself.

Sir Robert Walpole, speaking of the House of Commons, is said to have remarked that “I know the price of every man in this house, except three.”

The man in the Conservative polo shirt thinks your number is around $15 per month.

He might be right. Mainstreet, a research firm, released a telephone poll last week reporting that parents who followed the UCCB news were 15 points more likely to vote Conservative than those who didn’t know about them.

All polls must be taken with caution these days, but the Mainstreet poll did have a relatively large sample size of over 5,000 respondents.

So, what should you do with the money?

People who go out and blow the whole cheque like some kind of windfall will be in for surprise next April when they do their taxes.

… continued from page 6 in Victoria so I happily put Whitehorse in the rearview As he drove away after mirror and went back to the writing me a warning ticket real Yukon, which is in northfor “illegal camping,” I was ern B.C. bellowing about telling his That was about a month boss to get off his lazy butt ago, the non-Whitehorse downtown and get back out Yukon and Atlin again calmed here with garbage bags to my distemper, and I’m back clean up all the beer bottles because the kids are comand broken glass lying around ing home. When I got to what is supposed to be the the Whitehorse city limits, most popular kids’ swimming I pulled over for a contemhole in Whitehorse. plative moment and said to So I broke camp immedimyself: “Now what?” ately, drove to Riverdale and Think about it. There’s notold my cool, calm, collected where to even legally park an daughter-in-law, who never RV in downtown Whitehorse gets rattled about anything, except those eight to 10 spots about my run-in with the next to the visitor informadogcatcher, and she said: tion centre, which are always “Maybe you should get out full. There are no campof Dodge City for a while grounds for people who want if Wyatt Earp is after you.” to walk around and spend They were all leaving the next money, the closest being Hi Valley on the highway across day for three weeks holiday

from the top of the South Access, which happens to be where I’m writing this paying $30.55 a night even though I’m rigged out to dry-camp in the bush with a generator for next to nothing.

Camping for free at Walmart never even occurred to me because all my socks were clean, I didn’t need new underwear, don’t eat at McDeath’s, hate crowds, am not afraid of bears or locals, and parking lots are dangerous places for children to play.

Yes, Whitehorse is the most inhospitable “city” I’ve yet encountered for RV travellers, and while this makes it inconvenient to be a doting grandfather, the true stupidity of the whole unnecessary situation is the bottom line: How many thousands of retail

dollars are bypassing Whitehorse every day because of the city’s bad attitude and indifference towards RVs? Maybe I should run for mayor, fire all the dogcatchers and bylaw officers, then tear down all the “No Camping” and “No Parking” signs.

“No Camping” signs in the Yukon always make me think of “No Gambling” signs in Las Vegas.

With a higher income thanks to the cheques, and lower tax deductions because they replace the old child tax credit, many people will face a higher tax bill.

So before your spouse takes the whole cheque to go put a deposit on a new snowmobile, tell her to stop.

What might be a more fitting way to spend the cash?

Fifteen bucks will get you five kilograms of potatoes to feed the kids. Or a dozen litres of gasoline to get to work.

Or you could take the kids to Riverside for a malt, and then tell them they’re celebrating the fact that in the future you’ll be putting each month’s money into their Registered Education Savings Plan instead of buying them malts.

If you start doing that when a child is born, and you manage to achieve a five per cent tax-free return annually, he will have about $37,000 when he’s 17. That assumes you pay the extra income tax each year, and max out the government RESP grant.

However, as you may have seen in Kyle Carruthers’ column earlier this week, Yukoners may end up with even lower benefits than other Canadians. That’s because we had a matching Yukon child tax credit that is now also going the way of the Beringian Yukon Camel. Depending on how your taxes work out, your net benefit may be an extra bag of potatoes a year, rather than per month.

Of course, that also assumes the man in the Conservative polo shirt wins the next election.

Keith Halliday is a Yukon economist and author of the MacBride Museum’s Aurore of the Yukon series of historical children’s adventure novels. He won this year’s Ma Murray award for best columnist.

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

Better yet would be for the voters of Whitehorse to elect smarter people to run their city and rewrite the bylaws.

Fat chance of selling that to the dogcatcher who busted Grandpa.

Doug Sack was the first sports editor of the Yukon News and later a longtime sports editor of the Whistler Question and a columnist and features writer for Ski Canada magazine. He is currently semi-retired in Whitehorse.

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Harper government hopes TPP deal is signed before election campaign kickoff economy.

Just as a deal could be a boon to Canadian Press Conservative campaign fortunes, OTTAWA however, a delay could cause them headaches. If talks stretch past he Conservatives are the start of the campaign, experts anxiously hoping to sign say they could prove politically off on a massive free-trade delicate. deal before kicking off an election In particular, Canada is under campaign that’s expected to start as pressure from other countries to early as Sunday.

The federal government is at the lower the high tariffs that currently protect domestic producers of negotiating table in Hawaii, where eggs, milk, cheese and poultry from Trans-Pacific Partnership talks are foreign competition under a system reportedly in their final stages for known as supply management. a deal that could have political In an interview Wednesday implications during the election with Bloomberg, Prime Minister campaign.

Stephen Harper insisted the govWith voting day set for Oct. 19, the governing Tories want to launch ernment will defend the interests the campaign with the deal in hand of every Canadian industry “as best we can.”

– an agreement they could branHarper also said the negotiadish as evidence of their economic tions were “well advanced” and stewardship.

The partnership, a pact between that Canada “cannot be left out of 12 countries including Canada, the this kind of trade arrangement.”

If Trans-Pacific Partnership talks U.S., Mexico and Japan, is poised to become the biggest trade deal in do spill into the campaign window, officially known as the writ period, history once ratified. The governthorny political issues would ment says the countries represent become that much more sensitive, some 800 million people with a said Ottawa trade consultant Adam combined gross domestic product of roughly 40 per cent of the world’s Taylor.

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“I don’t think Canada will walk away from the TPP table to save its furniture and bacon on the election hustings,” said Taylor, a former senior adviser to Trade Minister Ed Fast and now a director at a firm called Ensight.

“But I think the politics of it is much more in your face.”

Once the campaign begins, the government will shift into caretaking mode. That would allow it to continue negotiations, but likely prevent it from binding a future government or signing a new international commitment, said a former high-ranking civil servant who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Robert Wolfe, a Queen’s University professor and former government trade negotiator, said representatives from the other countries at the bargaining table are aware of Canada’s election schedule.

“So, most of them are of the view that they’d better wrap stuff up this week because after that they may simply not be able to get a decision out of Canada,” said Wolfe.

“During an election campaign, there is no way that a government is going to announce something

that would be seen as politically harmful unless it absolutely has to.”

The prospect Canada could make a concession by loosening supply management has whipped up concerns among Canada’s dairy farmers, particularly in Ontario and Quebec. Earlier this week in Roberval, Que., about 300 protesters held a rally outside the riding office of Harper cabinet minister Denis Lebel.

With this kind of opposition, trade expert Laura Dawson said she thinks Harper might even prefer to see the deal signed after the election.

On top of that, she said while Canada would benefit from new market opportunities under the partnership, it offers no “real barnburner issue” for the country.

“Because there are no really strong benefits emerging, because there are no other really contentious issues emerging – the TPP has become synonymous with supply management in Canada,” said Dawson, president of Ottawabased Dawson Strategic.

“And so (Harper) will have to sacrifice a certain percentage of his

potential voting base if he comes out against supply management during the campaign.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair urged Harper to protect supply management “in its entirety.”

“We simply don’t trust Mr. Harper to protect Canada’s vital interests like supply management,” said Mulcair, whose party holds dozens of seats in Quebec.

Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland called the deal essential for Canada, but echoed the call to protect supply management.

“Being inside will provide tremendous opportunities and open up some new markets,” Freeland said. “Being outside would put us at a grave disadvantage compared to our competitors.”

Observers, meanwhile, believe a deal could be very close.

“The fact that the chief negotiators called in the ministers tells me that certainly a critical mass of countries sees a landing zone,” said Ailish Campbell, a vice-president of policy, international and fiscal issues for the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

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Wildlife includes moose, muskoxen, wolves, bears, wolverines, many species of birds and fish and the Beverly-Ahiak barren-ground caribou herd.

Thaidene Nene is a Dene homeland, said Nitah. “Our whole memory and understanding of who we are comes from there. Our culture and language is pretty tied to the land.�

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They are guaranteed a role with federal staff in planning, managing and operating all aspects of the park, said Nitah. They will be able to continue to hunt, fish and use the land in all the traditional ways they have for centuries. “They’re going to be involved – very involved – in many aspects of the park management,� said Kevin McNamee, director of protected areas establishment for Parks Canada.

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CAMBRIDGE BAY, NUNAVUT he tough oaken vessel that took famed explorer Roald Amundsen on his second Arctic voyage is about to rise again.

After four years of negotiation and preparation, a Norwegian team expects to refloat the Maud this week, 85 years after she was scuttled in shallow waters off the coast of Nunavut.

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An overhead view of Roald Amundsen’s last ship, the Maud, is shown in a handout photo. The ship will be lifted off the seabed in preparation for her final voyage to Norway. above the waves.

Since June, Wanggaard and his colleagues have been slipping ropes and straps under the Maud’s 40-metre hull. Sometime this week, they’ll attach flotation balloons to the ropes and gently ease the vessel off the seafloor.

The Maud can take it, said Wanggaard.

“This boat was built as one of the strongest ships ever of wooden construction,” he said.

“It was made to take the pressure from the ice.”

Once the Maud is afloat, the team will sink a barge it has brought from Norway and position it beneath the hull. Flotation tanks in the barge will be reinflated, and the barge will hoist the old vessel right out of the water.

There’s little left to her. Although she originally sported both sails and a then-innovative diesel engine, she was stripped long ago.

The barge, with the Maud strapped on top, will probably spend one more winter in

Cambridge Bay, drying out and solidifying for the long journey back to Norway.

“On the technical side, it’s quite basic,” Wanggaard said.

The politics, however, have been anything but.

The Norwegian efforts initially met resistance from the people of Cambridge Bay, who thought the ship should stay where she was. Then the Canadian government would not give the group’s members an export permit, even though they have legal title to the

hulk.

They finally got the permit by default when no Canadians presented a salvage plan.

And there’s nothing simple about Amundsen’s stature back home. Norway had just split from Sweden in 1905 and the explorer’s exploits in harsh polar seas gave his countrymen a hero just when they needed one, said Wanggaard.

“Amundsen was a special man. We were a completely new nation and he was one of the key figures building the national identity or the pride of being a nation.”

Two of Amundsen’s other ships are already in Norwegian museums.

Although Maud is about to leave Canada forever, something of her will remain behind. She was the model for one of Canada’s most famous Arctic ships, the fabled RCMP schooner the St. Roch.

Using the Maud’s innovations, the St. Roch became the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America. She was the second sailing vessel to sail the Northwest Passage and the first ship to complete the passage west to east.

The St. Roch now sits in drydock at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

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‘They were dishonest and they were greedy;’ Calgary men jailed in Ponzi scheme Brost was also found guilty of money laundering and received a Canadian Press separate, but concurrent, sentence.

“The crimes committed by these CALGARY two offenders are two of the biggest judge who sentenced two men in frauds in Canadian history,” Queen’s one of the largest Ponzi schemes Bench Justice Robert Hall said in a in Canadian history on Tuesday said Calgary courtroom. they were motivated by pure greed “They were motivated in my with little thought to their thousands mind by greed with no regard to the of victims. effect on the many, many investors Gary Sorenson, 71, and Milowe they defrauded,” he added.

Brost, 61, were given 12 years in “The loss of these large sums of prison for an elaborate, multimillion- money has had a devastating impact dollar fraud in which investors were on the victims.” promised unrealistic returns. The The court said more than 2,400 two received eight months of credit investors from around the world lost up to $200 million. Police have estifor time spent in custody.

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Court received 600 victim impact statements before a sentencing hearing last month.

Hall said some of the victims were left homeless, contemplated suicide and “suffered shame, embarrassment and rejection by friends and family.

“Some now view the world through a lens of suspicion and mistrust.”

Aggravating factors included the length and complexity of the fraud, the impact on the victims, the amount of money involved and what Hall called pure greed.

Hall did not order any restitution.

He said victims could make claims in civil court.

Ponzi schemes involve taking funds from new investors and using them to pay old ones.

Carole Knopp, 69, of Enderby, B.C., lost about $130,000 and was in court for the sentencing.

“I was a little disappointed because I was hoping it would be at least 14 (years) and maybe more,” she said.

“I don’t feel so much anger. They look like hollow, empty people and they are sociopaths or psychopaths, obviously, to be able to not have any emotional response.”

Neither man addressed the court.

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Crown prosecutor Brian Holtby had requested a 14-year sentence but was happy with the judge’s decision.

“It was pure greed. There was really no legitimate business purpose behind this. Everything was a sham virtually from Day 1,” said Holtby.

“To find their moral culpability was this high was satisfying.

They were dishonest and they were greedy.”

Both men are prohibited for the next 20 years from working or volunteering in any capacity that involves real property, money or valuable security of another person.

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Defence lawyers Cory Wilson, left, and Shamsher Kothari, enter the Calgary Court Complex for the sentencing of Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost. Sorenson and Brost were found guilty Tuesday of bilking more than 2,000 investors out of between $100 million and $200 million.

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Investors were promised a 34 per cent annual return on a “low-risk” investment of $99,000, which was supposed to grow to just over $1 million within eight years. They were told the business involved selling gold for refining.

One set of fraud and theft offences took place between 1999 and 2008. They involved companies named Syndicated Gold Depository SA, Base Metals Corp. LLC, Bahama Resource Alliance Ltd. and Merendon Mining Corp. Ltd. More wrongdoing took place between 2004 and 2005 with a company called Strategic Metals Corp.

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White House: Keystone XL decision will come before Obama goes treating its neighbour, Canada, When pressed whether a compared with its handling of decision will be come during Canadian Press long-standing rival Iran.

Obama’s remaining year-and-aThe White House has given half in office, however, he replied: WASHINGTON lawmakers 60 days to decide on “Yes.� he White House says a dea nuclear deal that would allow Any imminent pipeline decicision will be made on the Iran to boost oil exports, while sion could become an issue in Keystone XL pipeline while national elections in Canada and it’s taken years to decide on an oil President Barack Obama is still the U.S., as different parties point export pipeline for Canada. in office, as rumours swirl that Schultz said the two files can’t fingers over how the file was the long-delayed project is on the be compared: “For us those are handled. verge of rejection. entirely separate and unrelated In the U.S., the administraIt’s not saying when the deciissues.� tion got a preview Wednesday sion will come or what it will be.

As for the Canadian governof one possible line of questionA spokesman for the president ing Democrats could face in the ment, it’s taken the position that was asked Wednesday about the Keystone will be built eventually run-up to the 2016 presidential issue after a Republican lawmak- election. – with or without Obama. er declared that he’d heard from Prime Minister Stephen A White House reporter asked his sources that the Canada-U.S. about whether there’s a disparity Harper once called it a “no-brainpipeline will be rejected in an an- in the way the administration is er,� and he’s again described it nouncement next month.

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Dawn of deep sea mining alarms conservationists as UN body issues exploration contracts of the obscure U.N. body in Kingston that acts as a global Associated Press steward of the deep seafloor and KINGSTON, JAMAICA is tasked with regulating this he deep oceans span more new mining frontier. “We’re seeing the private sector invest in a than half the globe and big way.” their frigid depths have The U.N. agency, known by its long been known to contain vast, initials ISA, presides over seabed untapped deposits of prized outside the exclusive territorial minerals. These treasures of the waters of individual countries. abyss, however, have always So far, it has issued 27 explorabeen out of reach to miners. tion contracts, the large majority But now, the era of deep of them since 2011. The 15-year seabed mining appears to be dawning fueled by technological contracts allow for mineral prospecting on over 1 million square advances in robotics and dwindling land-based deposits. Rising kilometres (over 390,000 sq. demand for copper, cobalt, gold miles) of seabed in the Pacific, and the rare-earth elements vital Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Governments and private in manufacturing smartphones companies have been moving and other high-tech products so rapidly to stake claims and is causing a prospecting rush assess deposits that insiders to the dark seafloor thousands forecast that commercial deepof meters (yards) beneath the sea mining could start within the waves.

With authorities at the Jamai- next five years using robotic collectors equipped with cameras ca-based International Seabed and sonar sensors along with Authority issuing exploration pipe systems that can siphon contracts, alarmed conservacrushed minerals to ships. tionists are warning that the During a gathering this deep ocean’s fragile biodivermonth in Jamaica of representasity must be protected and not tives from nearly 170 member nearly enough is known about states, ISA has started drafting the risks of extracting minerals a framework to regulate comfrom seabeds. mercial exploitation of seafloor “The pace of activity has metals and minerals. The session increased dramatically over the ended Friday. last five years,” said Michael A group of international Lodge, deputy secretary-general David McFadden

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Coral reefs grow in the waters of Indonesia in 2009. scientists, in a July 9 article in the journal Science, urged ISA to temporarily halt authorization of new mining contracts until networks of “marine protected areas” are established around areas targeted for mining.

“We owe it to future generations to ensure that we think before we act and gain a thorough understanding of the potential impacts of mining in the deep sea before any mining is permitted,” said Matthew Gianni, co-founder of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, which sent observers to ISA’s 21st session in Kingston.

But despite the warnings, in recent days ISA authorized its latest exploration contract, a 72,745 square kilometre (28,087 sq. mile) permit in the Pacific to China Minmetals Corp., sponsored by Beijing. China now has the most permits from the U.N. body with four.

ISA was launched in 1994 and operates under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. The only major maritime power that has not ratified the

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seamounts and volcanic mountain ranges. These biologically complex areas are found in the Western Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. ISA literature estimates that one site could provide up to 25 per cent of the annual global market for cobalt.

“The concentrations of minerals that you find in the seabed are very much richer than what’s left on land. So demand is only going to increase,” Lodge said.

Douglas McCauley, an ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said seabed minDita Alangkara, File/AP ing and other industrial activities Tatawa Besar, Komodo islands, like ocean-based power generation and farming indicates that mankind is on the cusp of convention is the United States, launching a “marine industrial where lawmakers have argued it revolution.” could impinge on U.S. economic Current proposals for the and military sovereignty. The oceans over the next several Department of the Interior has decades “look uncomfortably granted exploration licenses in similar to what we did to land the Pacific to Lockheed Martin in the 1700s and 1800s,” he said, Corp., a U.S. company that has adding that the onset of the also partnered with the United land-based industrialization was Kingdom, an ISA member, by associated with a spike in animal setting up a deep-sea mining extinction rates. subsidiary there.

But there are basic things So far, most of ISA’s contracts humanity can do to approach have been issued for the deep seabed mining intelligently, abyssal plains of the Clarionhe said. First, learn what bioClipperton Fracture Zone, a diversity is down there before sprawling area of the Pacific we mine. Second, go slowly on Ocean off Mexico and the U.S. At exploitation contracts and study depths of 4,000 to 6,000 metres, the impacts of this mining as it is it is known to be rich in nodules happening. Third, set up systems containing copper, cobalt, man- of protected areas before, not ganese and significant concenafter, mining starts. trations of rare-earth elements.

“The terrestrial industrial As part of an environmental revolution happened before we plan, ISA has set aside nine areas had the tools to manage goals in this zone, prohibiting them to for development and goals for sustaining biodiversity. You can’t contractors. really blame people in the 1700s Other coveted exploration for the damage they did to the areas contain copper-rich sulenvironment…” he said. “But we phides formed around hydrocertainly are to blame if we don’t thermal vents and black cobalt crusts created along the slopes of do seabed mining properly.”

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Protesters dangle off Portland bridge to stop Shell icebreaker from leaving Steven Dubois Associated Press

PORTLAND, ORE. nvironmental activists rappelled off Portland’s tallest bridge early Wednesday in an effort to stop a Shell Oil Arctic icebreaker from leaving the city.

Thirteen protesters dangled from the St. Johns Bridge while another 13 remained on the bridge as lookouts. Greenpeace USA executive director Annie Leonard said the activists have enough water and food to last for days, and can hoist themselves to allow other marine traffic to pass.

The Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica arrived in Portland for repairs last week.

The vessel was damaged earlier this month in the Aleutian Islands when it struck an underwater obstruction, tearing a gash in its hull.

The icebreaker is a vital part of Shell’s exploration and spill-response plan off Alaska’s northwest coast. It protects Shell’s fleet from ice and carries equipment that can stop gushing oil.

Opponents of Arctic drilling worry that the area’s remoteness and rough conditions will hamper cleanup efforts should a spill occur.

“These climbers hanging on the bridge really are at this point the last thing standing between Shell’s plan to drill in the Arctic and the Arctic,” Leonard said.

Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said in an email the Fennica will return to Alaska once final preparations are complete.

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Activists unfurl colored banners while hanging from the St. Johns bridge in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday to protest the departure of Royal Dutch Shell PLC icebreaker Fennica, which is in Portland for repairs. day, we respect the choice that anyone might make to protest based on Shell’s Arctic aspirations; we just ask that they do so safely and within the boundaries of the law,” Smith wrote.

Environmental groups had wanted the Obama administration to reject permits sought by Shell to drill in the Chukchi Sea because of the absence of the icebreaker.

The government, however, gave Shell approval to begin limited exploratory oil drilling, with conditions. Shell can only drill the top sections of wells because the company doesn’t have critical emergency response equipment on site to cap a well in case of a leak. That equipment is aboard the Fennica.

Activists hope any delay will give the Obama administration time to reconsider granting the

final permit. They also want to use up days in the short window for summer drilling.

“Shell’s under enormous pressure to get this thing back up there,” Leonard said.

Supporters of arctic drilling say it can be conducted safely with existing technologies and that future production will help sustain the country’s energy needs and limit reliance on imports.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Arctic offshore reserves in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas at 26 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Sgt. Pete Simpson, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman, said officers were monitoring the protest and no arrests had been made. The bridge remained open to vehicles, but pedestrians were told to stay off.

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And on a smallish table in the back corner, a very imposing warthog head glared up at the ceiling in hairy indignation.

Beside it lay a full black bear pelt, its jaws open wide in a snarl. Two small piles of elephant dung, encased in plastic, sat on either end of the table for no apparent reason.

“I’m the only person in the Yukon territory with elephant dung,” said Neil Cross, by way of explanation.

“I’m an unusual person,” he added.

These treasures are mementos from a safari Cross went on in Zambia in 1986, where he hunted lion, leopard, buffalo... and warthog. He said he’d left his other trophies at home, including the full leopard mount in his garage.

“I don’t know what to do with them anymore,” he said.

Despite appearances, Cross doesn’t consider himself a trophy hunter. He’s been hunting since the age of 15 - as a boy growing up in England, he used to shoot rabbits with a pellet gun for a bit of extra meat.

He’s hunted bear and sheep since he moved to the Yukon 30 years ago, but these days, he’s partial to moose. He said hunting, for him, is as much about the meat as the trophy.

“The easiest thing is to pull the trigger,” he said. “The hardest thing is when you put the gun down and you have to take your knife out and clean everything up and pack it out wherever you have to go. That’s a hard job.”

For Cross, hunting is only half the equation. For as long as he’s been hunting, he’s been collecting guns, too. At Saturday’s show, he had about a dozen rifles on display, several of them made by British manufacturer Westley Richards in the early 1900s.

He also had a few Winchesters, “all over 100, 110 years old,” he said.

His prized piece, a new custom-made Westley Richards rifle worth $120,000, sat gleaming in its oaken leather case beside the warthog.

These are not guns to be used for hunting, though Cross insisted they would all work

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It was a packed house at the annual Summer Gun and Hobby Show at the Gold Rush Inn on Saturday. well. These are collectors’ items, the product of a lifetime of buying, trading, and selling.

And Cross wasn’t the only person at the show who’d come to show off an impressive collection.

In a back room, Len Andre’s collection of historical weaponry stretched the full length of one wall. He’d used small swastikas to label German pistols from the Second World War, and a hammer and sickle to mark hefty Red Army rifles.

He had a number of World War I weapons, too, including a ceremonial sword - not to mention row upon row of sharp bayonets.

The display represents 20 years of collecting, Andre said.

“And I don’t want to say how much money, because my wife might find out,” he added. “I always say it’s a disease, it’s not really a hobby. Because you can’t seem to stop once you get into it.”

Andre gets most of his pieces in Whitehorse, by word of mouth. To maintain them, he said, he just sprays them with WD-40 a couple of times a year to keep the rust off.

“The biggest enemy of guns is rust and politicians,” he joked.

Andre’s not a hunter. He does shoot his guns during historic military rifle shoots at the gun range, where every participant has to use a gun made before 1957. But that’s just for fun “none of these things will shoot worth a damn as far as accuracy is concerned,” he said.

More than anything, it’s the

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history of the guns that appeals to him.

“My dad was in the Second World War,” he explained. “This is all a walk through history.”

But not everyone who came to the show was interested in the collector items. Bastien Ipas came to the show for a replacement barrel for his hunting rifle.

“I’m looking for something for everyday use, to go outside, something that can be weatherresistant,” he said. “I’m not looking for something nice or fancy.”

Organizer Donovan Dewis

said most people who come to the show, like Ipas, are looking to buy something they can use.

“There’s not a lot of choices in the stores in Whitehorse,” he said. “When you come here, those guys probably look at guns that they see only once a year.”

Dewis said this year’s displays came from as far afield as Vancouver and Calgary, and sales seemed to be going well.

“From what I understand, anybody who’s selling has sold at least something off their table today,” he said.

Back by the warthog, Cross said he wasn’t expecting to sell much. When you’re asking for many thousands of dollars for a rifle, Whitehorse isn’t the best place to be.

But he seemed to enjoy the slightly awed expressions on the faces of people passing by his table. For him, guns are more than just tools - they’re things of beauty, too.

“If you’re a true gun collector... it’s like a Picasso painting,” he said. “They’re a work of art.”

Contact Maura Forrest at maura.forrest@yukon-news.com

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Batman says he has Batmobile trouble, leaves traffic chaos on Ontario highway Liam Casey Canadian Press

TORONTO hen the Dark Knight has car trouble it’s a recipe for traffic chaos.

Drivers returning from Ontario’s cottage country clogged Highway 401 near Napanee on Sunday evening as they watched Batman, in his Batsuit, working on his Batmobile.

Julie Toole said she watched Batman “in full garb standing at the back (of the car). We only saw it for a few seconds as we were driving. It was cool. And confusing.”

Stephen Lawrence – who prefers to be called the Brampton Batman – was returning from a charity gig at a Kingston, Ont., mall when he heard a disconcerting noise in his car.

So he pulled off to the side of the road to inspect the problem, which turned out to be a loose hatch.

But by then, traffic had nearly stopped to get a glimpse of the caped crusader with car troubles.

“I try my best to baby that car as best as I can,” Lawrence said.

“It was fine, but it didn’t take long for traffic to build up, as it always does when Batman is around.”

The 39-year-old Lawrence has been portraying Batman in one way or another since he was 14. He said it started when he was in high school in Markham, Ont., where he wore a black trench coat to class over his school-issued uniform.

“I started wearing that and it looks like a big, black cape,” he said.

“So my friends started calling me Batman.”

That’s when, he said, he started practising the art of ninjutsu.

When his dad died a few years later, he began wearing a homemade Batsuit and lurking around in the shadows at night.

“When your father passes away and, obviously, you’re looking at Bruce Wayne’s life and looking at your life and you’re saying, ‘they kind of match, don’t they?”’

So he went with it and spent years doing it, his own personal thing.

“You don’t want people to think you’re just nuts,” Lawrence said.

“It was private. There are nights that I have gone out in my early, put-together homemade suit and literally be Batman and be by yourself – you can help kind of cope with your changing life.”

Then he decided to “follow his dream” to drive a Batmobile.

His friend saw one roaming the streets outside Toronto and Lawrence eventually met the

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Lawrence said it’s made from an old cop car, a Chevrolet Caprice, with a 1989 Batmobile replica body made by McCullagh.

He still gets pulled over periodically, mostly by curious officers. He said the car is street legal, has insurance and Ontario plates.

He said the car has broken down on him a few times, which wasn’t a big deal when he was still talking to McCullagh – they aren’t speaking because of a spat over comments made on Reddit.

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“I told them I was getting a Batmobile and would appreciate it if they didn’t pull me over every two minutes,” he said.

Through an unfortunate turn of events – someone broke into Brampton Batman’s home and made off with a bunch of stuff – he stashed the insurance money as part of what he needed for the car.

“The rest of it I worked my cape off for,” said Lawrence, who bought a Batmobile from Glenn McCullagh about two

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Canadian math whiz wins math Olympiad for high school students happened.”

Song just graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite academic boarding school in TORONTO New Hampshire. He is modest he name Alex Song is spoabout his achievement. ken in reverential tones in “I felt like I was very lucky to Canadian mathematical solve all the problems, but at circles. the same I’m not sure if any of The 18-year-old won the the problems gave me trouble,” International Mathematical he said from his parents’ home Olympiad in Thailand in midin San Jose, Calif. He grew up July, achieving the rare perfect in Waterloo, Ont., until moving score in the two-day competito New Hampshire to start high tion against more than 600 high school in 2011. school competitors from 104 His coach, leader of Math countries.

Team Canada, made up for Song has had an incredible Song’s nonchalance. run over the past six years, fin“The results are fantastic,” ishing with five gold medals and said a jubilant Jacob Tsimone bronze against the best in erman, a math professor at the the world. Now he sits atop the University of Toronto. “Alex is all-time leaderboard, ranking unique and destined for greatfirst on the Olympiad’s Hall of ness.”

Fame.

The United States took first The Olympiad is a big deal overall in the team competition, in math. Previous participants which was established in 1959. have gone on to win prestigious Canada finished ninth overinternational awards such as the all, ending up in the Top 10 for Fields Medal, given out to a few the third time in the past four mathematicians under 40 years years. It’s a big change from the old, every four years. It’s conprevious 30 years when Canada sidered by many as the highest regularly found itself finishing honour in mathematics. among the top 20 or 30 counFor Song, the Olympiad win tries. wasn’t that big of a deal.

Tsimerman said the team “I was definitely very happy decided to change the way it at the same time,” he says. “But, coached its “mathletes.”

Rather than use older profesI mean, it was just whatever Liam Casey

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are three questions on the first day for more than four hours of competition, then the same on the second day.

“The middle questions on each day were very difficult,” Tsimerman said.

“This year, even if you did solve them both, there wasn’t much time left over to solve the final questions on each day, so you saw much fewer people solving those because they didn’t have the time.”

But Song was in the zone, cruising on both days, finishing with an hour to spare on Day 1 and 30 minutes the next.

He kept celebrations to a minimum.

“I didn’t do too much – it was Thailand. We mostly just stayed HO-Canadian Mathematical Society/CP in the hotel, talked to the other Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song, centre, is seen at the International teams, played some games with them and went on some excurMathematical Olympiad in Thailand on July 16, 2015. sions.” sors removed from the math and is now a student at CamThe champ will start his Olympiad scene, the Canadian bridge University, Tsimerman collegiate career at Princeton Mathematical Society chose to said.

University next month. He use more recent graduates of Before the competition, the said he hopes to focus on pure the program, Tsimerman said. six-member team assembled at mathematics and “needs to Some of the country’s heavy hit- the Banff International Research get prepared for mathematical ters in the Olympiad returned to Station for two weeks of intenresearch.” coach. sive training. The team buckled Tsimerman said Canadians Tsimerman is one of those down with a mock exam, lecshould remember Song’s name. heavy hitters, finishing first tures and lots of practice.

“He is destined for greatin the competition in 2004.

The International Mathness,” Tsimerman said. “But let’s Another coach, James Rickards, ematical Olympiad features six not forget he’s already achieved competed just two years ago questions over two days. There greatness in his short career.”

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THE ARTS Dawson City Music Festival a soulful success Pierre Chauvin News Reporter

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nder stunning weather, over a thousand festival-goers took part in the 37th Dawson City music festival last weekend.

The festival main stage was an onslaught of intense musical experience. From brass bands to Chicago soul, there was a bit of everything for everyone.

New Brunswick artist Lisa Leblanc, accompanied by Maxime Gosselin on drums and Jean-Philippe Hebert at the guitar, set the stage on fire two nights in a row.

The 24-year-old bilingual singer was completely in her element, dancing on stage and swinging her head back and forth, a la Twisted Sister, with the crowd singing along.

She played some songs from her latest album, “Highway, Heartaches and Time Well-Wasted,” before joining the crowd to enjoy the other bands.

The strength of the festival lies in its variety, said executive director Emily Farrell.

On top of the musicians Yukoners have seen at festivals around the territory before – including Ryan McNally, Sarah MacDougall and Soda Pony – festival-goers got a chance to experience a band coming all the way from Chicago, The Renaldo Domino Experience.

The lead singer Renaldo Domino, described as the “unsung hero of Chicago soul” by the festival, took the stage surrounded by seven musicians, all dressed with white shirts and red ties.

Dancing and at times throwing the mic above his head, the middle-aged Chicagoan gave a vivid and energetic performance for his first tour north of 60.

Every year at this time, the entire town celebrates. As bars across town shut down, people danced outside the famously grungy-looking Pit, as nearby RCMP kept an eye on the crowd.

The iconic theatre Palace Grand was busy all weekend, added Farrell.

For the first time, the festival had a hands-on workshop: yukulele 101, with Ralph Shaw and James Hill.

Workshops usually held on the last day of the festival are jam sessions with different artists who usually haven’t met before.

“They were teaching the basics, rudimentary beginnings of playing yukulele, and we had a huge response,” said Farrell, who said the small venue was packed with over 80 people.

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Lonnie Powell, drummer for Declan O’Donovan, performs Saturday on the main stage at the Dawson City Music Festival.

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The guitarist for the Renaldo Domino Experience plays Sunday afternoon.

Farrell and the rest of the organizing committee are about ready for a couple days of rest before going back to the drawing board to prepare

next year’s festival.

“We start working for next year’s in September,” she said.

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Ryan McNally performs Saturday night on the main stage.

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Rouge Park deserves the same protection as other Canadian parks

by David Suzuki

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n fall 2011, politicians, farmers, environmentalists and local advocates met in Toronto to get the ball rolling for Canada’s first urban national park, in the Rouge watershed on the city’s east side.

It was a remarkably diverse gathering. Senior federal government members, including then Environment Minister Peter Kent, and provincial and municipal politicians from across party lines sat with representatives of farming and environmental groups, and local advocates who have fought for

more than 30 years to protect wetlands, farms and forests stretching from the greenbelt to Lake Ontario.

The Rouge, home to more than 1,000 plant and animal species, has a rich Aboriginal, agricultural and ecological history. But proposed and existing urban encroachment, oil pipelines, highways, railways and other infrastructure threaten the park. In some places, pesticides and fertilizers from intensive farming could be adversely affecting biodiversity.

Those attending the inaugural meeting to create Rouge National Urban Park rolled up their sleeves and sharpened their pencils, and by the end of the day had banged out 10 consensus principles to guide its establishment and management. These principles addressed a range of issues, including ensuring progressive governance led by Parks Canada and fostering sustainable farming in the park.

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Red-backed voles climb into scientiďŹ c literature

by Ned Rozell

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few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. He baited a few live traps with peanut butter rolled in oats and placed them in spruce trees.

When he returned the next day, he found no flying squirrels. Instead, peering back at him were the beady eyes of the mice of the north, red-backed voles.

The curator of mammals at the University of Alaska Museum, Olson knew a bit about northern red-backed voles. He thought back to the few vole papers he had read and did not remember a sentence about their ability to climb.

A search led to just two references. One is a mention from author and biologist Ron Smith in his book about Alaska natural history: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This vole has been seen in trees.â&#x20AC;? The other was from me, in a column I wrote about a vole I saw in a spruce tree at 40 below.

Olson wanted to document the northern red-backed voleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climbing in a science journal.

For help, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to look far. Working with him in the mammalogy lab was a guy quite enthusiastic about voles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was immediately intrigued,â&#x20AC;? said Jon Nations, who will soon move to Baton Rouge to pursue a Ph.D. in mammalogy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Despite these animals being found from Hudson Bay to Scandinavia, nobody had studied or written about them climbing trees. It seemed like it would be fun.â&#x20AC;?

Nations applied for grants.

He raised enough money to design and execute a study.

Near Fairbanks, he attached traps to the limbs of spruce trees, again baiting them with peanut butter and oats. He also set up motion-sensor cameras across from trees smudged with peanut butter.

It did not take long for the most common small mammal in Interior Alaska to appear.

Nations captured voles more than six feet up in trees.

His camera documented voles climbing up and down trees.

One executed a pull-up on a branch to climb when it could have scampered up the trunk. A video shows another zipping up a non-baited tree in the background.

Nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; electric eye also recorded voles climbing down trees head-first, showing an

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A northern red-backed vole climbs down a tree. ability to pivot at the ankle just like red squirrels. Very few creatures can pull this off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most mammals can probably get up a tree, but head-first descent is another thing,â&#x20AC;? Na-

tion said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats are an excellent example of that,â&#x20AC;? Olson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They climb up just fine. But then we have a problem, Houston.â&#x20AC;?

The red-backed voleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abil-

ity to climb is apparent to any Alaskan who has seen them on a birdfeeder or inside the house. Nations and Olson saw value in documenting the behavior in the Journal of Mammalogy because it may change what researchers think about climbers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The voleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is not a body plan people associate with climbing,â&#x20AC;? said Nations, referring to its stubby legs and a tail that looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been chopped in half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No red-backed vole fossil would be associated with climbing. It shows you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t judge an animalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behavior by looking at it physically.â&#x20AC;?

In the column I wrote in 2006, biologist Ian van Tets offered a few reasons why a vole might climb a tree in midwinter (they spend most of their time active beneath the snow).

It might be escaping a weasel hunting its tunnels, other voles might have kicked it out, or it might be looking for food.

Nations got evidence for the latter when one of his cameras captured a vole reaching up with its front paws from where it perched on a limb. The vole snatched a beard of lichen from another branch and started munching it.

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.

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One returning alumni has roots that go back much farther into Yukon history than that; in fact, they extend back four generations to the Klondike Gold Rush.

I visited with Harry Miller and his wife, Elaine, at their campsite.

The reunion was over and they had just returned from an emotional day trip to Braeburn, where they visited his old family cottage, and to Carmacks, where he met an elder who knew his father back in 1952.

Let’s follow Harry’s sentimental journey back to the beginning nearly 120 years ago: In July of 1898, Harry Breaden went to the Klondike by the long route – to the Bering Sea and up the Yukon River, from its mouth, on a flotilla of paddle wheel ships intended for the Yukon River trade. The following year, Breaden joined his wife Elizabeth and two year old son James at Bennett and they floated down to Fort Selkirk in a boat that had been assigned the number 507 by the North West Mounted Police.

At Selkirk, they went up the Pelly River to a cabin he had built

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James ‘Spot Cash’ Breaden came to the Klondike as a child. With an interruption for the First World War, he spent most of his career operating or repairing trucks and caterpillars in the Yukon. for them at a place later named (and spelled incorrectly) Braden’s Canyon. For the next dozen years or so, they alternated between living there and at Fort Selkirk. I checked the 1909 Polk’s Directory and found that an H. Braden was listed at Fort Selkirk as running a bakery and laundry.

Between 1900 and 1912, young James was joined by two brothers and four sisters. Sadly, the brothers, Ernest and Harold, both died in a diphtheria epidemic at Fort Selkirk in 1907. Harry and Elizabeth Breaden split up after their last daughter was born. Harry left the Yukon, remarried some years later and disassociated himself from his first family.

By 1911, at age 14, James had

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moved to Dawson City. He ran a jitney, or taxi service, with a model T. I note that in the Yukon directory for 1915, he is listed as a driver for D.W. Ballentine, who operated a garage and auto stage service from Dawson to Hunker Creek. After having been stiffed a few times, he established a rule that his passengers pay up front for their trip to the goldfields.

This earned him the lifelong nickname of “Spot Cash” Breaden. His transportation career continued after the Great War; he ran trucks and cats over the trail from Dawson to Whitehorse for Greenfield and Pickering.

James enlisted in the Yukon Infantry Company with George Black and 224 other Yukoners.

In his enlistment papers, signed September 26 of 1916, he added a couple of years to his age, making him 21 rather than 19 years of age. He described himself as “automobile driver and mechanic.” After spending a few months

at Willows Camp in Victoria, B.C., the Yukon contingent was shipped overseas in early February of 1917.

A few months later, in November, James married Bertha Kate Harding of Godalming, Surrey.

There is a photograph in the family album of the newlyweds sharing a Christmas dinner with George and Martha Black and other Yukon volunteers in the mess hall at Whitley Camp, south of London, in December of 1917.

After the war, James and Kate returned to Canada where daughter Audrey was born in 1919. Vera followed in 1923, and Henry in 1927. James spent his career in the transportation field, as a mechanic, or driving horses, trucks and caterpillars. He passed away in Vancouver in 1971.

James’s son Henry worked summers on the Steamer Keno between 1942 and 1950. Ten years later, he served as the first mate on the Keno for her last voyage

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down the Yukon River to Dawson City. Henry worked for the Northern Canada Power Commission for many years until he retired. James’s daughter Vera was living in Mayo when she met and eventually married Carl Miller in December of 1941.

Carl Chase Miller, was born in Bridgetown Nova Scotia in 1904. In 1926, when he was 22 years old, he left Nova Scotia and moved to Alberta, where, a year later, he, his brother Max and a man named Bill Teare filed for homesteads near a place called Rat River. In 1934, Carl, Bill and a third man named Carl White, came over the Dalton Trail to prospect and mine on Squaw Creek, in the very southwest corner of the Yukon, south of Dalton Post.

After a couple of fruitless years at Squaw Creek, they tried mining and trapping in the Mount Freegold area. Carl then moved to Mayo and secured work for the territorial government building and maintaining roads and the Mayo airstrip. Carl was denied military service during World War II because of a heart condition, but the condition did not prevent him from living an active life. In August of 1943, Carl secured a job as fire chief in Whitehorse, just at the time when the sleepy little town had come to life because of the war.

Carl and Vera moved to Vancouver, Dawson City, Mayo and Carmacks before settling in Whitehorse in 1953. Carl was hired by the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, located near the bottom of the Two Mile Hill. In 1962, he purchased land near Braeburn and began to open it up for agriculture, but died in 1964, just 60 years old. Harry Miller can’t remember if he ever told his father he loved him, but it’s obvious he did.

Harry said growing up in Whitehorse was one of the best experiences that a young person could have had. He played Fender bass in a number of teen and adult bands which, he said, probably kept him out of trouble when he was growing up. There were teen dances two or three times a month, plus adult affairs where he played with an adult band called the Honky Tonks at places like the Elks Club, the army mess and the air force mess.

When he reunited with some of his old band members to perform on Friday night of the reunion, it was like the 60s all over again, except he said that this time, instead of dancing, everybody stood and watched the band.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His latest book, Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail, is available in Yukon stores. You can contact him at msgates@northwestel.net

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Environmental DNA: Promising new tool is easier on scientists and their subjects 10, Bennett was part of a team, including Hobbs, that employed eDNA methods in a Yukon biology study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was the first time eDNA has been used in the

by Erling Yukon,â&#x20AC;? Bennett says.

The pilot project targeted the Friis-Baastad Western Toad (Species at Risk status: special concern) and the OUR UKON Columbia Spotted Frog (Yukon status: imperilled), as well as overall habitat health. rime fighters have been The survey ran from the Annie using environmental Lake Road near Carcross to Teslin DNA analysis for many years, says Yukon biologist Bruce and Watson Lake, all the way up the South Canol Road to the NaBennett. Today, eDNA sampling hanni Range Road. The researchtechniques, like those that serve ers sampled ponds where frogs police in gumshoes, are helping biologists in gumboots keep tabs and toads were already known on the distribution of species and to exist as well as similar water bodies where they might yet be on habitat health. found.

Bennett is among the northThe Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eDNA research ern eDNA pioneers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I first heard pioneers were heartened by how about it as a member of COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of non-invasive the procedure was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually handle frogs or Endangered Wildlife in Canada) because it had been used to help toads; we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to clip their expand the known distribution of toes or anything else to get their a species known as Rocky Moun- DNA,â&#x20AC;? Bennett says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frogs and toads are just naturally sloughing tain Tailed Frogs,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rocky Mountain Tailed Frogs off cells. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to trample through a whole bunch of habitat live in streams in the mounto make sure that there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a tains of the Flathead drainage in toad there.â&#x20AC;? southeastern B.C. They are hard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theoretically, you can take a to detect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you have to walk in water sample and just say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;These high-energy streams up in the are the species that are in this mountains.â&#x20AC;?

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The researchers also recogof Yukon Conservation Data nized the importance of specific Centre, attended a presentation cautions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to be very in Whitehorse on eDNA by Jared careful that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cross-conHobbs. Hobbs is a biologist with Hemmera, a B.C.-based environ- taminate one site onto the next,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So if we actually step mental consultant firm. In that in a pond we have to bleach our talk Bennett learned that eDNA boots afterwards.â&#x20AC;? This also enwas recently used to expand the sures scientists avoid transferring known distribution of the Rocky pathogens like viruses and fungi.

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The steps taken by eDNA researchers are pretty straight forward. They begin by preparing a habitat-suitability model. These are built on â&#x20AC;&#x153;pointsâ&#x20AC;? such as elevation, climate and types local vegetation, says Bennett. With those points scientists can determine which areas are similar to others where the target species â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Western Toad, for instance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is known to breed.

The next step is to â&#x20AC;&#x153;groundtruthâ&#x20AC;? the sites, to see which promising ones actually keep their promises and which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

A pond may show up as looking good for all points so far considered, but when scientists arrive, they discover that the water has disappeared or is too cold. Or that a pond bottom is covered by large impenetrable cobbles rather than mud.

Or is there something else in a system beyond the variables the scientists have been using? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to be a problem in the initial stages of eDNA research here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to make a good habitat suitability model with very few points,â&#x20AC;? says Bennett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We only have about eight sites

in Yukon for the Western Toad at the moment. Hopefully, we can add a few more points with this technique, and then use that for improving habitat suitability.â&#x20AC;?

If a pond looks likely, the scientists will dip a one-litre Nalgene bottle in, fill it and then pour the water out on the shore â&#x20AC;&#x201C; three times to make sure thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no bleach or any other contaminant in the bottle. After the fourth full dip, the bottles are placed on ice, but not frozen, and driven back to a lab. There the contents are pumped through

paper filters.

Once a filter is sucked dry, it is slipped into a vial and fixed with an alcohol solution. Then it is shipped to a genetics lab at Washington State University for further processing.

The eDNA researchers are tackling the initial learning curve now â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a stage at which any result is a worthwhile learning experience. The hunt is on for false positives and false negatives, and the results of this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pilot project are eagerly awaited. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see if this works, and if it works well weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll either expand the project or use it for other species,â&#x20AC;? says Bennett. At a time of climate modification, habitat change and seemingly endless ecosystem cautions, eDNA may help us determine just what is going on among Yukonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fauna and flora.

And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole lot cheaper and efficient than trying to radiocollar tadpoles.

For information on Yukon Species at Risk go to www.env.gov.yk.ca/sar This column is co-ordinated by the Yukon Research Centre at Yukon College with major financial support from Environment Yukon and Yukon College. The articles are archived at www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ research/publications/yourâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;yukon

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WHERE: Gunnar Nilsson and Mickey Lammers Research Forest, located on the North Klondike Highway, 1 km north of the Takhini River Bridge, just north of Whitehorse.

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Say hello to friends and neighbours. Sample Yukon-grown food, and hear a talk about how to grow fruit in the Yukon.

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Atelier de cuisine cajun L’Association franco-yukonnaise vous propose un duo cuisine et musique cajun pour célébrer la fête nationale de l’Acadie le samedi 15 août. Venez préparer le repas cajun qui sera servi de midi à 13 h au Fireweed Market. L’atelier, animé par Nadine Landry, se tiendra de 9 h 30 à 11 h 30 au Centre de la francophonie.

Réservez votre place dès maintenant.

867-668-2663, poste 221

Whitehorse est à l’étude La Fédération culturelle canadienne-française (FCCF) et des chercheurs de l’Université Laurentienne mènent une enquête sur le dynamisme des arts et de la culture à Whitehorse en tant que pôle culturel de la francophonie canadienne. Que vous soyez un grand consommateur des arts et de la culture ou que vous fréquentez très peu ces milieux, que vous soyez un artiste ou un autre travailleur du secteur, vous êtes invité à remplir le questionnaire en ligne. Votre participation contribuera à faire rayonner les arts et la culture du Yukon partout au pays. Prix à gagner. poleculturel.afy.yk.ca

Bénévoles recherchés L’Association franco-yukonnaise est à la recherche de bénévoles pour l’épluchette de blé d’Inde qui se tiendra le vendredi 28 août au musée MacBride. Venez profiter de l’événement tout en aidant votre communauté!

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Radio en français Émission Rencontres Le samedi, à 17 h Sur les ondes de CBC North 94,5 FM et de Radio-Canada 102,1 FM

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Let’s Create a Timeline of Yukon Equality!

The Women’s Directorate is creating a timeline of equality milestones and issues over the last 30 years and wants your help. The timeline will be part of a new, interactive web-based resource to allow access to data on women’s equality in the Yukon.

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Guide jouets santé Cette ressource, produite par le Partenariat communauté en santé, vous propose différentes alternatives aux jouets commerciaux. Vous y trouverez notamment des idées et des conseils pour créer vos propres jeux et jouets avec des enfants.

Une version PDF de ce guide est accessible gratuitement. francosante.ca

The interactive timeline will allow viewers to explore stories, events, and key turning points for Yukon women and all Yukon people who work towards equality.

How can you help?

We are calling on individuals to contribute their memories, milestones, initiatives, and significant achievements to become part of the Shifting Territory timeline.

The deadline to contribute is Friday, August 14, 2015.

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For more information or to contribute your story, please contact STEP researcher Sean LaPrairie at Sean.LaPrairie@gov.yk.ca or at (867) 456-5509.

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Engagement ring is for future bride, not for her friends

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MANNERS DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a young woman in her early 20s whose friends are being proposed to and becoming engaged. I have noticed that when these young ladies present their happy news in social settings, the other women ask to see the ring. When the ring is obligingly passed around, many women try it on.

I seem to be the only one who doesn’t do so. I have always assumed that the engagement ring was something that a woman other than

whom it was presented to was not to try on, since it is ostensibly a symbol of the promise between the happy couple to be wed.

My friends say it doesn’t matter as long as the lady who owns it has passed it around, since that signals that the other ladies may try it on their hands, but I am not quite so certain. Am I wrong to simply admire the ring in my hand (rested on the palm) rather than on it?

GENTLE READER: Ladies old enough to wed should have emerged from the Show and Tell Years, but apparently many have not. Passing

around the engagement ring is only slightly more decorous than passing around the bridegroom.

When it gets to you, Miss Manners encourages you to express admiration, but you are under no obligation to bite it, try it on or ask the price.

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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SPORTS AND RECREATION Yukon sending 119 athletes to westerns Manager – Elyn Jones Badminton Lukas Kobler Mannie Sharma Ritik Sharma Coach – Kathie Harrop Manager – Brian Wilson

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eam Yukon is ready to roll.

The team that will represent the territory at the Western Canada Summer Games August 7-16 in Wood Buffalo, Alta., has been selected.

A total of 119 athletes, 25 coaches, eight managers plus mission staff, making a total of 165, will be waving Yukon flags at the opening ceremony.

“In talking to many of the teams, they’re super excited,” said Yukon Chef de Mission Trevor Twardochleb. “I know the region of Wood Buffalo is jacked up to have everybody there. They have jaw-dropping facilities, their cultural program mixed with the athletic competition is going to be out of this world – it’s going to be one big show. And, I tell you, the athletes are going to be treated exceptionally well.”

It’s the biggest team Yukon has sent to a summer Games for some time. It’s up from 102 athletes at the 2011 westerns in Kamloops and 99 athletes at the 2013 Canada Summer Games.

Some gaps from Yukon’s 2011 westerns roster have been filled.

Unlike in Kamloops, Yukon will have representation in gymnastics, canoe/kayak, judo and female basketball.

Also, Yukon’s athletics team is much larger. Only four competed at the 2011 westerns and 20 are on the roster this time around.

One area on the roster that saw a decrease is in swimming.

Only two swimmers – Cassis Lindsay and Luke Bakica – will hit the pool these westerns, down from 14 in 2011.

For the first time Yukon will be kicking up sand with a beach volleyball team. Max Clarke and Benjamin Grundmanis will compete in beach volleyball and will also be on Yukon’s male indoor volleyball team.

“This is the first time ever we’re competing in beach volleyball and I hope it’s the start of good things to come,” said Twardochleb.

Clarke and Grundmanis aren’t the only athletes on more than one squad. Ewan Halliday and Matthias Hoenisch are slated to compete in both tennis and soccer, Kate Londero in athletics and female volleyball, and Justin Wishart-MacDougall in athletics and soccer.

Team Yukon will hold a pep rally at Shipyards Park on Monday at 6 p.m.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Roster Artistic Gymnastics Reena Coyne Coach – Catherine O’Donovan

Basketball (female) Jetta Bilsky Hannah Bjork-Andison Landyn Blisner Maggie Brook Sheridan Curteanu Dylan Massie Katelyn Holway Emily Johnson Ebony Leamon Isabel Magsucang Danni Nelson Sigourny Whipple-Grantham Coach – Jamie Shaw Coach – Nicole Schroeder Basketball (male) Ralph Hermosa Ryan Hindson Cameron Kasook Darcy LaRochelle Akshay Malhotra Dave Mindanao Christopher Nerysoo Ian New Christian Ouimet Josh Rumbaoa Grayson Turner Coach – Mark Hureau Coach – Chris Carino Manager – Scott Hindson Canoe/kayak Julianne Girouard Pelly Vincent-Braun Andrew Crist Emily Crist Coach – Dan Girouard Manager – Jane Vincent Cycling Sara Burke-Forsyth Ian Hansen Shea Hoffman Coach – Trena Irving Manager – Phil Hoffman Tech. support – Marc LaPointe Judo Hannah King Brandon Butler Jacob Melanson Shayne Melanson Coach – Peter Melanson Coach – Penny Prysnuk

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Gymnast Reena Coyne tucks onto the beam at the Canada Winter Games in February. Coyne will represent Yukon at the Western Canada Summer Games in Wood Buffalo, Alta.

Athletics Sophie Janke Kate Londero Katie Vowk Shailyn Moore Alysha Gullison Jennifer Mendelsohn Kestrel Martin Kieran Halliday Jared Leary

Malcolm Muir Eric Porter James Russel Kuduat Shorty-Henyu Brody Smith Cassel Scholz Aidan Bradley Caleb Charlie Brahm Hyde Levi Johnson

Jack Amos Darby McIntyre Justin Wishart-MacDougall Coach – Kristen Johnston Coach – Lisa-Marie Vowk Coach – Chris Kirk Coach – Rodney Hulstein Coach – Don White

Soccer (female) Ava Cairns-Locke Jewel Davies Jayden Demchuk Maggie Fekete Alice Frost-Hanberg Georgia Gaw Malorie Hanson Lara Herry-Saint Onge Line Jensen Tyra Jones Kathleen Lanigan Samantha Ng Sarah Nyland Bryn Peterson Alizee Salesse Dana Sellars Charlotte van Randen Coach – Ashley Hill Coach – Tony Gaw

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Manager – Jennifer Pope Soccer (male) Cody Amaral Marek Boulerice Skyler Bryant Ewan Campbell Seth Carey Sam Crocker Ethan Gaw Ewan Halliday Matthias Hoenisch Simon Kishchuk Carl Knickle Nicky Koe Felix Maltais Tyler Milton Ethan Vanderkley Dawson Weir Justin Wishart-MacDougall Max Zaparinuk Coach – Edwin Vanderkley Coach – Edgar Musonda Manager – Paul Kishchuk Swimming Cassis Lindsay Luke Bakica Coach – Malwina Bukszowana Manager – Kathy Zrum Tennis Alex Roberts Ewan Halliday Matthias Hoenisch Coach – Jan Polivka Manager – Stacy Lewis Beach Volleyball Max Clarke Benjamin Grundmanis Coach – Bryce Voogd Volleyball (female) Paige Bevilacqua Avery Bramadat Thea Carey Abby Hawes Emma Hoogland Ashley Lai Kate Londero Tayla McNally Mel Moya Jiela Tobias Chloe Turner-Davis Aly Wiens Coach – D’Arcy Hill Coach – Justine MacKay Manager – Janet Clarke

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Dawson’s Jack Amos, seen here in Saturday’s Midnight Dome Race, will compete in athletics.

Volleyball (male) Mark Allen Zack Bartholomeus Max Clarke Benjamin Grundmanis Peter Jacob Anshil Kumar Adrian Robinson Morgan Schmidt Kieran Stacey Luka Van Randen Kyle Wallace Coach – Denis Boyd Mission Staff Trevor Twardochleb – Chef de Mission/beach volleyball Tracey Bilsky – asst. Chef de Mission/basketball Adrian Hawkings – badminton/ canoe-kayak Sarah Lewis – photographer Paolo Gallina – communications Catherine O’Donovan – gymnastics Marg White – athletics Allan Lucier – cycling Tara Leenders – judo Stacy Lewis – tennis Cali Battersby – soccer Kathy Zrum – swimming Janet Clarke – volleyball

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Left: Whitehorse’s Ewan Halliday will compete for Yukon in tennis and soccer. Right: Whitehorse Glacier Bear Cassis Lindsay is set to swim for Yukon.

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Waterreus back on top in Dome race

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A runner reaches the finish line at the top of the Midnight Dome.

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Whitehorse’s Stephen Waterreus races in the Midnight Dome Race in Dawson City on Saturday. Sixty-eight runners and walkers took part in the annual race.

Tom Patrick News Reporter

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tephen Waterreus says he’s done with the Midnight Dome Race, but don’t count on it. He’s said that before.

The Whitehorse runner reclaimed the overall title at the 38th annual

event in Dawson City on Saturday.

“I came out of retirement, but I’m back in retirement once again,” said Waterreus. “It was the same as every year, as far as pain goes. It hurt just as much as previous years.

“There was nice weather, a good crowd – I would say not as many people as there was in the past. But

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still a pretty enthusiastic crowd.”

Waterreus won the race four consecutive times from 2008 to 2011.

After taking first in 2010 and 2011 he said he was retiring from the event.

Saturday’s win was at least his seventh – a few years are missing from the records – having also won in 2006 and 1999.

The 50-year-old also placed second in 1988 and third in ‘84, ‘85 and ’86.

Waterreus completed the 7.2-kilometre run up the Dome Road, climbing 564 metres in elevation, in 38 minutes and five seconds.

Jeff Irwin of Orilla, Ont., placed second at 38:46. Dawson’s Jack Amos, who is just 14 years old, took third at 39:29.

“We made it to The Pit (tavern) before noon, as always,” said Waterreus, who, like in previous years, did the race wearing a kilt. “That’s part of our goal every time we run this, myself and my friends … (And) the music fest was excellent.”

After twice taking second, Dawson’s Catherine Lamarche captured her first female title in the Dome race.

The 28-year-old came in with a time of 43:31 and placed 10th overall.

Fellow Dawsonite Valerie Dube came second at 48:26 and Jessie Gladish of Kamloops third at 49:03.

“I was totally not expecting it,” said Lamarche. “I think people train for this. For me, one thing I’ve realized about my training, it’s all about being efficient and enjoying the process. I’ve been doing a lot of meditation and yoga and cross-training – playing basketball, not only running.

Ever since I’ve been doing that I’ve

been improving so much.”

Lamarche credits ChiRunning, a form of running influenced by tai chi, for her speed and staying injury free for years now.

“ChiRunning is an effortless way of running. It’s a technique in which it looks like flying, it doesn’t look like you’re running,” said Lamarche. “It’s about using the gravity with you, not against you. It’s about body sensing, so any time you have discomfort while you’re running, instead of continuing the way you’re running and end up getting an injury, you can fix it right away with your posture. I started that eight years ago and ever since I’ve never had an injury.”

Olympian Jane Vincent of Whitehorse was the top walker on the day, reaching the summit in 1:00:27.

Dawson’s Isaak Dube came in with a time of 1:07:21 to take first for male walkers and a ticket on an Air North flight.

“We’re really happy to have rekindled the partnership, the sponsorship, with Air North,” said Marta Selassie, a race organizer with Run Dawson. “This year they sponsored the top male and female, runner and walker – they all got free flights on Air North.”

A total of 68 runners and walkers, ranging from ages 11 to 71, took part in the race held during the Dawson City Music Festival.

2nd Jeff Irwin (Orilla, Ont.) – 38:46 3rd Jack Amos (Dawson) – 39:29 4th Cam Elgie (n/a) – 40:03 5th Ray Sabo (Whitehorse) – 41:19 6th Stephen Roddick (Whitehorse) – 42:03 7th Nanson Murray (Whitehorse) – 42:06 8th Logan Potter (Whitehorse) – 42:27 9th Keith Walsh (Ottawa) – 43:23 10th Patrick Hutton (England) – 43:39

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

Female walkers 1st Jane Vincent (Whitehorse) – 1:00:27 2nd Teresa Procee (Dawson) – 1:05:41 3rd Julie Jai (Toronto) – 1:08:33 4th Sharlaina Bain (Dawson) – 1:13:15 5th Mary Walden (Whitehorse) – 1:14:00 6th Meghan Holmes (England) – 1:14:09 7th Diane Siegriest (Vermont) – 1:26:07 8th Christine Harrower (Lakeside, Ont.) – 1:31:26 9th Amanda Bragg (Woodstock, Ont.) – 2:09:19

Results Top 10 males 1st Stephen Waterreus (Whitehorse) – 38:04

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AUGUST 23, 24 & 25, 2015 SFN Minto Landing, Pelly Crossing, Y.T. All SFN Citizens are encouraged to attend.

For further information, please contact (867) 537-3331.

Top 10 females 1st Catherine Lamarche (Dawson) – 43:31 2nd Valerie Dube (Dawson) – 48:26 3rd Jessie Gladish (Kamloops) – 49:03 4th Eleanor Parker (Whitehorse) – 51:55 5th Andrea Walsh (Calgary) – 53:55 6th Clare Miller (Calgary) – 53:55 7th Erin Trochim (Fairbanks) – 55:24 8th Nicola Nemy (Toronto) – 55:28 9th Laella Hartling-Sappel (Whitehorse) – 56:40 10th Sophia Zubrycky (Vancouver) – 57:08

Male walkers 1st Isaak Dube (Dawson) – 1:07:21 2nd Brock Morford (Vancouver) – 1:13:55 3rd Dave Samis (Dawson) – 1:14:03

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By The Mepham Group

Sudoku Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

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

FRIDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

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

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

WORD SCRAMBLE

Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: abnormal lack of ability to act or to make decisions.

Puzzle A

B L A I UA

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: of doubtful promise or outcome.

Puzzle B CLUES ACROSS 1. Deal a blow to 4. Group of vineyards in France 7. Doctors’ group 8. River of the Argonne 10. 33 1/3 records 11. Incombustible fire residue 12. Hops drying kiln 14. Light in a protective case 15. Canarium luzonicum 17. Concluding state of pregnancy 19. Holiday bells organization 21. General’s assistant, abbr.

22. Side sheltered from the wind 23. Cook in hot oil 24. Deep hole in the ground 25. Actress Ryan 26. Brew 27. 20th US President 34. Speech 35. Genuinely 36. Thrashed 38. Read superficially 39. Reviewed harshly 40. Leave me alone (text)

41. Thin continuous marks 42. Romanian airport code 43. Auto 44. Spring ahead time

16. Farm state 17. Orderly and neat 18. Mythological bird 20. Aimed at object 23. Those bearing young 24. A course of action 25. Navigator of a ship 26. Gone by or past 27. One of Regis’ daughters 28. Comedian Ceasar 29. 12 inches (abbr.)

30. Tax collector 31. Greek mathematician 32. Artiodactyl mammals 33. A hereditary ruler 36. Burns gas or wood (abbr.)

37. Of a layperson

WORD SCRAMBLE Rearrange the letters to spell a word Hint: a dish of many ingredients.

CLUES DOWN 1. Auras 2. Antelope with ridged curved horns 3. Mortarboard adornment 4. 1/100 Senegal franc 5. Impolitely 6. Consumer 8. A mosque tower 9. Sea eagle 11. ___ King Charles spaniel 13. Tobacco mosaic virus 14. Local area network (abbr.)

UIUSOBD

Puzzle C

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1-BDRM APT, downtown, $950/mon 1 person, $1,000 2 people, heat, light, cable incl, avail immed, N/P. 668-5558 1-BDRM LUXURY suite, 1,200 sq ft, wheelchair accessible, fantastic view, N/S, N/P, refs reqĘźd, $1,500/mon, heat incl. 667-6579 3-BDRM DUPLEX in Hillcrest, wood/oil heat, w/d, avail immed, responsible tenant, avail immed, $1,150/mon + utils. 668-5558 STORAGE/WORKSHOP, APPROX 14ĘźX20Ęź, downtown Whitehorse, Strickland & 2nd Ave. Contact Stephan (867) 332-4082 or stephane@asprinting.ca 2-ROOM BACHELOR suite, Granger, large yard, private ent, storage room, laundry, parking, Internet, HDTV, N/S, avail immed, $800/mon + utils. 322-0181 OFFICE SPACE for rent, approx 1,000 sq ft, street level, Yukon News building (former YCOD/Cancer Society space), heat & electricity included, $3,400/mon + GST. Stephen @ 334-9745

2,628 SQUARE FEET OF PRIME OFFICE SPACE Available for Lease NOW! Two Suites available for lease. Suites can be leased separately or combined as one.

One suite is 1,248 square feet. The second suite is 1,380 square feet.

Located in a professional building downtown Whitehorse, this space is ideal for accounting, legal or other professionals.

MOVE-IN READY.

For more information, please contact: 336-0028

CHILDCARE SPACE FOR RENT 3,000 sq ft in Rendezvous Plaza, Riverdale, Lewes Blvd entrance Lots of parking Also available 1,100 sq ft space (Flower Shop Studio) Call 667-7370 or 1-778-228-8679 1-BDRM SUITE, Copper Ridge, bright, utils incl, furnished, Wifi & cable extra, laundry, N/S, avail Aug 1, $850/mon. 335-2482 PRIME RETAIL/OFFICE/COMMERCIAL SPACE on Second Avenue & Alexander St. 1,145 sq ft, ground level Call 334-5038 for more information & to view 2-BDRM 2-BATH, downtown, new construction, balcony, 5 appliances, parking, N/P, N/S, avail end of June/beginning July, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,750/mon. 334-5038 for info/view 2-BDRM 1-BATH bsmt suite, Riverdale, sep ent & laundry, close to bus stop, avail immed, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd. $1,375/mon + utils. 334-3878 1-BDRM LEGAL bachelor suite, Riverdale, avail Sept 1, N/S, N/P, no parties, refs reqĘźd, $975/mon. 668-6911 lv msg

Ground Floor OfďŹ ce Available ONE BLOCK FROM MAIN STREET Utilities & Parking Stall included, separate Entrance, Bathroom & Kitchenette, ideal for individual Professional.

PH.

667-4759

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3-BDRM 1.5-BATH condo, Riverdale, end unit, near walking trails, schools, shopping, & parks. Great place to raise children. N/S, N/P, avail Aug 1. DD & refs reqĘźd, $1450/mon + utils. 333-9366 3-BDRM 1.5-BATH duplex, Hillcrest, on green belt, schools nearby, shopping & parks, N/S, N/P. DD & refs reqĘźd, avail Aug 15, $1,600/mon + utils. 393- 2828 3-BDRM 3-BATH townhome, Whistlebend, new, super green, fenced yard, attached garage, lots of parking, avail Aug 15, $2,000/mon + utils.

Email: bechopand@live.com or 332-5323 2-BDRM LEGAL bsmt suite, Riverdale, open concept, N/S, N/P, laundry facility, shed, $1,050/mon + utils + dd, close to schools & h o s p i t a l , p h o t o : madidi-amazon.com/38_suiteb_photo.htm.

322-1476 1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, PC, avail Sept 1, oil, hot water, laundry incl, $1,200/mon. 335-5352 OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Approximately 1,200 square feet on two levels, 3 offices upstairs, reception and main office downstairs.

Located in the Calcite Center at 151 Industrial Road.

2 dedicated parking stalls.

Rent and terms negotiable.

For more information, please call 393-2181 3-BDRM UPPER level suite, Crestview, beautiful view, laundry, parking, oil heat, avail Aug 1, dd&refs reqĘźd, N/S, no dogs, $1,550/mon + utils. 667-4858

Horwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mall Main & Front Street Available Now!

Office/Retail & Locker Space

For more information call Greg

334-5553

2 LARGE bdrm house, Boreal Rd, 20 minutes to downtown. Available mid-Aug, $1,270/mon + utils. Text/call 867-335-0206 1-BDRM APT, Riverdale, bright, clean, spacious, partially furnished, incl elec, oil & Internet, avail mid-August, N/s, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,000/mon single, $1,100/mon couple. 332-0568 ROOM IN quiet condo, pet & smoke free.

Large bdrm w/large closets & own separate washroom. Heat, electric & highest speed internet inclĘźd. Shared laundry, kitchen, close to bus. 335-7777 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 4 connected offices (approx 940 sq ft) Partially furnished Central downtown location All operational costs included (tax, heat, air conditioning, power, & janitorial). $1,900 per month 335-3123 3-BDRM MAIN part of house in Riverdale.

Incls heat & electricity. N/S, N/P. Available Aug 1st. Refs & DD reqĘźd, $1,650/mon.

Call/text 334-9087 3-BDRM DUPLEX, Granger, furnished, fenced yard, avail Aug 1. N/S, N/P. Refs & DD reqĘźd, $1,700/mon + utils. 334-8490 BRIGHT OFFICE/STUDIO Space Available Up to 2000 sq. ft.

129 Copper Road.

Space includes Kitchen area with stove & fridge.

667-2614 Ask for Brenda or Michelle totalfire@northwestel.net

OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Above Starbuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main St. Nice clean, professional building, good natural light. 536' ft. office space on Main St c/w kitchette.

Competitive lease rates offered.

Sandor@yukon.net or C: 333.9966

Office/Commercial Space for Rent

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WHITEHORSE MONEY MART 2190 Second Avenue 867-668-6930 Open 7 Days A Week

2-BDRM LOWER level suite, Copper Ridge, parking, laundry, dishwasher, oil heat, N/S, no dogs, dd&refs reqĘźd, $1,200/mon + utils.

667-4858

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Friday, July 31, 2015 APPROX 1500 sq ft store front commercial space on Wood Street. 668-4908 Mon-Friday 9:30am-5:30pm 2-BDRM BSMT suite, Wolf Creek. Bright, clean, available immediately. Large fenced yard w/private entrance. One dog negotiable.

(780) 624-4484 FURNISHED ROOM in comfortable large home. TV in room w/cable, wifi. Parking, kitchen facilities, laundry facilities, $600/mon.

334-3456 1-BDRM FURNISHED bsmt suite, Riverdale, well kept, sep ent, N/P, responsible tenants, avail immed, incl lights, heat & laundry.

667-2808 SHORT TERM rental, Riverdale, 2-bdrm 2-bath furnished duplex, family room, $1,500/mon from September 2015 to January 2016. 336-1538 3-BDRM 1.5 bath, Porter Creek, quiet, close to bus, W/D, no dogs, 1 cat considered, N/S, N/P, avail Sept 1, refs reqĘźd, $1,300/mon + utils & $1,300 dd. 333-0866 ROOMMATE WANTED to share Marsh Lake waterfront home, animals welcome, N/S, $500. 660-4321 2-BDRM NEWLY renovated condo w/attached garage, Porter Creek, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, 6 appliances, $1,590/mon, avail Aug 1. 334-5045 1 & 2 bdrm apts, avail immediately, 91301 Alaska Hwy, 1 km south of Robert Service, furnished, dd reqĘźd. Diane 668-2486 3-BDRM 2-BATH townhouse, Porter Creek, new, modern, beautiful upgrades, N/S, pets negotiable, dd & refs reqĘźd, avail Sept 1, $1,700/mon + some utils. 336-3397 FURNISHED ROOM in condo, Riverdale, share with 2 others and small dog, avail immed, N/S, N/P, refs & dd reqĘźd, $550/mon all incl. 333-9492 1-BDRM 2ND floor downtown condo, secure underground parking, deck, $1850/mon.

668-4729

YUKON NEWS PRIVATE SALE, 5 acres lot in Grizzly Valley, 30 min from town, no building restriction, power + phone at property line, south exposure, $149,000, serious inquiries only.

667-4910 3-BDRM 1.5-BATH condo, Riverdale, end unit, landscaped. Near walking trails, schools, shopping and parks. Great place to raise children. $228,000. 333-9366 3-BDRM, 2-BATH end unit townhouse, Takhini, $419,500, quality workmanship, energy efficient, 1600 sq ft, many upgrades, single car garage. 393-3993 FOR LEASE: 401 WATERFRONT STATION This exceptional office space is available for long term lease.

2,143 sq ft with balcony overlooking the Yukon River.

Currently undeveloped but awaiting your plan for finishing.

Contact ceo@selkirkdevcorp.com or at 393-2181 to view and discuss terms and opportunity.

INCOME PROPERTY, 2-bdrm & 3-bdrm house, Echo Valley Rd, 4 appliances, large decks, laundry rooms, large shop/office w/4-pc bath in office, fenced acre lot, currently rented at $4,000/mon. 780-351-2677 4-BDRM 2-BATH log home on 16 subdividable acres, 2,600 sq ft, 44 km from Whitehorse on Carcross Rd. 335-8959 3-BDRM 2-BATH single level home , large ensuite & walk-in closet, open kitchen, LR & dining, 1,450 sq ft, electric heat, pick colours/flooring, under construction.

334-2802 2-BDRM 2-BATH single level home, ensuite, walk-in closet , hardwood in large open living, dining, kitchen, 1,250 sq ft , double garage, concrete driveway, 6 appliances.

334-2802

SMALL BACHELOR suite downtown, utilities, cable & internet incl, private parking, newly rebuilt, all amenities provided, linen, utensils, etc, N/P, refs reqĘźd, $900/mon + $450 dd. 668-4321

Help Wanted

2-BDRM CABIN, 24Ęźx24Ęź, no running water, wood heat, 30 mins west on Alaska Highway, avail Aug 1, $700/mon. 335-6885

Wanted to Rent HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE Mature, responsible person Call Suat at 668-6871 34 YEARS, Yukon resident, rental property owner looking to housesit for summer 2015, extremely clean, I mow lawns, take care of pets, vacuum, elite references. MarcelGareau@hotmail.com HOUSE SITTERS available year round from August 2015. Reliable couple, Yukon residents. Call Kenny 333-1478 WANTED: CLEAN, safe room for mature female student, prefer Riverdale, will do household chores for reduced rent. Jean @ 689-0253

Real Estate CONDO STUDIO in Nanaimo, B.C. Quality construction+materials, partially furnished w/kitchen appliances Well organized 300 sqft space in quiet residential neighbourhood.

Perfect for student or for downsizing.

Low condo fees+utilities.

Reduced to $82,000.

867-660-4516.

FOX LAKE water front cabin on .144 ha lot, wind/solar power, propane appliances/lights, 5 rooms with large sleeping loft, partly furnished, $239,500. 867-633-5540

FULL-TIME DENTAL ASSISTANT REQUIRED for busy dental practice.

Experience an asset (CDA I/II), but would train the right applicant.

Please apply with resume to Whitehorse Dental Clinic, 406 Lambert Street (behind Medicine Chest pharmacy), Attn: Dr. Colin Nash.

Email questions to whitehorsedental@northwestel.net.

Miscellaneous for Sale COCA COLA sign, 4x4, 393-2545

HELP WANTED Housekeeping Room Attendant Qualifications: Relevant hotel certification preferred.

Applicants with relevant experience preferred Hours: 40 hours/week Wage: $14.25/hr Duties: Make beds, change sheets, distribute clean towels & toiletries Dust furniture, vacuum carpeting & area rugs Clean hotel rooms/public areas Attend to guest requests for extra supplies Contact: HR Manager hr@elitehotel.ca Elite Hotel & Travel Ltd. 206 Jarvis St Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2H1 THE MAINTENANCE Team Leader performs and oversees a team of Technicians in the delivery of preventative and corrective maintenance for assigned facilities.

Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions is a leading provider of integrated real estate management services, including facilities management, project management, energy & sustainability services, real estate services and capital planning.

Please apply to file # 151179 at https://www.brookfieldgis.com/ TRI OMNI PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Requires Light Duty Cleaner NOC #6661 Minimum 6 months experience Own transportation required Contact: Dean Philpott Box 31386, Whitehorse, YT Y1A-6K8 email: admin@triomni.ca 867-668-6900 Fax: 867-456-4847 LOOKING FOR an in-home caregiver Permanent, full time (40hrs/week), In Whitehorse.

Job details: Child care, meal preparation, kidsĘź laundry, housekeeping.

Wage $10.86/hr.

Apply through: guanzhu.w@gmail.com.

www.stratafunds.ca designated, insured, cer tified reserv e fund planning + 1 (604) 873 9609

WINDOOR RECYCLER We buy & sell: â&#x20AC;˘ Brand new/used double/triple pane vinyl/wood windows. â&#x20AC;˘Brand new steel/vinyl exterior doors with frames.

Now selling: â&#x20AC;˘Brand new unfinished oak kitchen cabinets.

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We will pay CASH for anything of value Tools, electronics, gold & jewelry, chainsaws, camping & outdoor gear, hunting & fishing supplies, rifles & ammo.

G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL

MCDONALDS H O C K E Y cards from 1991-92 to 2009/10, almost every card issued incl. 27 unopened paks from each year, over 1,200 cards, $1,000 firm. Ross 633-3154

PERSIAN NAIN carpet, beige with blue trim, bought in Middle East, $1,900, appraised much higher.

204-880-7245 herbeeking@hotmail.com

20 KW Isuzu generator, 393-2545

KITCHENAID MANDOLINE slicer, never used, $50. 668-2387

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TAKHINI NORTH DUPLEX!

2-BDRM 2-BATH single-level home, new, ensuite, walk-in closet, large kitchen open to dining & living room, walnut flooring, tile entrance, 6 appliances, concrete driveway, electric heat, double attached garage.

334-2802

3-BDRM 2-BATH townhouse, Porter Creek, 1,744 sq ft, close to schools & bus route, 5 appliances, balcony, N/P, N/S, refs & dd reqĘźd, $1,700/mon + utils. 633-5129

1 BEDROOM w/adjoining sitting room, $750, and separate bedroom, $500, in basement of 4-bdrm house, includes laundry & separate bathroom, Internet, cable not incl, N/P, N/S, avail Aug 1st. 335-6885

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USED TIN, beige & white from 60ĘźX70Ęź shop 20Ęź wall, wall & roof tin, exc cond, value $18,300 new, asking $7,500. 335-5192

Kluane Dana Shäw Corporation

WORLD HOCKEY Association, 5 complete hockey card sets from the 1970s. Exc cond. $750. Ross 633-3154

Call For Board Of Directors The Kluane Dana ShäĚ&#x20AC;w Corporation (KDSC) is the wealth generating corporation for the Kluane First Nation (KFN). The Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the creation of new businesses, for investments in sound opportunities and for the growth of current investments for the shareholder, KFN. The Board is also responsible to provide advice, strategic direction, approval of activities, and to monitor and evaluate the corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance and plans. The KDSC is seeking three (3) individuals to serve on the Board for a three-year term. Interested individuals with at least 5 years of experience and developed skills in any of the following areas of: â&#x20AC;˘ Sales, Marketing and Advertising â&#x20AC;˘ Finance and Investment â&#x20AC;˘ Business Development Officers & Consultants â&#x20AC;˘ Banking, Credit and Other Investment Managers â&#x20AC;˘ Securities Agents, Investment Dealers and Brokers â&#x20AC;˘ Financial Auditors and Accountants â&#x20AC;˘ Professional Occupations in Business Services â&#x20AC;˘ Diploma, bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree, or masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree, or equivalent working experience â&#x20AC;˘ Experience, history, and understanding of working with First Nations Interested individuals may submit a cover letter along with resume, stating how their abilities match the roles and responsibilities of the Kluane Corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Directors. All completed applications can be sent by regular mail or email to the following:

Champagne and Aishihik First Nations

JOB OPPORTUNITIES Director Of Community Wellness

Community Trapper Coordinator

REGULAR FULL-TIME SALARY: $81,028.00-$94,791.00 LOCATION: HAINES JUNCTION, YUKON CLOSING DATE: AUGUST 10, 2015

Regular Full-Time Salary: $48,617.15-$56,875.19 Location: Haines Junction, Yukon Closing Date: August 12, 2015

Conditions of Employment: A valid Yukon class 5 driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence with satisfactory driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abstract Able to travel when required Criminal Records Check CAFN Human Resource Policy will apply. Please contact for further information on these postings and a job description: Champagne & Aishihik First Nations Fax (867) 667-6202 Attn: Ashley or Email Aboss@cafn.ca

Kluane Corporation Attention: Diyet van Lieshout (Chair) #101 - 1191 Front Street Whitehorse,Yukon Y1A 0K5 Phone: (867) 332-2900 Email: diyet@me.com

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION MUST BE RECEIVED BY 5 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 2015

CFL FOOTBALL cards, 17 different complete sets of cards, including early OPC. Almost 2,600 cards. $1,400. Ross 633-3154 TRADING CARDS, binder full of non-sport trading cards (James Bond, X-men, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom). About 500 cards. $50. Ross 633-3154 WORLD HOCKEY Association, remember it? Two rare books, (history, statistics, photos). Exc. shape, $50. 633-3154 THREE COMPLETE OPC hockey card sets (1999-00 to 2001-02 period) plus some short prints. Over 900 cards. $150. Ross 633-3154 MANĘźS 10K gold ring with 3 diamonds, appraised at $875, replacement cost at $1,400, offers. 332-6565 YUKON WILDLIFE Conservation stamps, rare and unique collection of 13 stamps, from 1996-2008, beautiful artwork depicting Yukon birds and wildlife, $150. 633-3154 INVERT RAC, as new, good to relieve head $200. 250-566-1346 POWER JUICER, Jack Lalanne, new, $45; new P.C. 1.4L ice cream/dessert maker, $18. 660-4321 BRASS WALKER, no wheels, $25; oil-filled heater, $35. 334-8318 ARE RENTAL COSTS MAKING IT HARD for ends to meet?

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Visit www.housing.yk.ca to learn more SPILSBURY & Tindall 5BX-11 2-way radio w/antenna, exc shape, $395. 332-6565 4-DRAWER METAL filing cabinet, exc shape, $350. 332-6565 250 GAL fuel tank, 500 gal fuel tank, no leaks, $300 for both. 332-6565 LINCOLN INVERTEC welder V311-T, paid $11,000, new last year, asking $7,000 obo, has 2 years left on warranty. 668-5085

First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun

MAYO, YUKON JOB OPPORTUNITY

Be part of one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes and work with an energe c, progressive organiza on. We are commi ed to the well-being of our employees and encourage their personal and professional development.

We are an impar al, eďŹ&#x20AC;ec ve and eďŹ&#x192;cient organiza on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICER Department: Lands and Resources Salary Range: Level 6 Term: Full-time Term Position, August 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Decemer 18, 2015 (possible extension) Hours: 7.5 hrs/daily (75 hrs bi-weekly) Closing date: August 12, 2015

JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Manager of Lands and Resources, the Fish and Wildlife OfďŹ cer is responsible for the proper management and protection of ďŹ sh and wildlife populations and their habitats within the Traditional Territory.

MAIN DUTIES:

ASSESSMENT OFFICER Dawson Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce Full-Ć&#x;me, 6-month Term

Located in Dawson, this posi on reports to the Manager, Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce and is responsible for assis ng in conduc ng environmental and socio-economic assessment of projects. This includes iden fying project eďŹ&#x20AC;ects and mi ga on measures for adverse eďŹ&#x20AC;ects, determining the significance of any residual eďŹ&#x20AC;ects and developing recommenda ons.

The annual salary range for this posi on is $66,818 - $77,037 based on 75 hours biweekly.

If you feel you have the qualifica ons and desire to meet the challenges of this posi on please forward a cover le er and resume outlining how your experience and qualifica ons relate directly to the posi on.

A job descrip on is available at the Dawson Designated OďŹ&#x192;ce, 705 Church Street in Dawson YESAB Head OďŹ&#x192;ce, Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street in Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applica ons to: Finance and Administra on Manager, YESAB Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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 Resumes must be received by August 2, 2015.

s 7ORK CO OPERATIVELY WITH OTHER &IRST .ATION 'OVERNMENTS AS WELL AS FEDERAL AND TERRITORIAL wildlife agencies to implement sustainable management programs; s $EVELOP A lSH WILDLIFE COMPONENT FOR THE &...$ 4RADITIONAL 4ERRITORY S ,AND 5SE 0LANNING INITIATIVES s -ONITOR COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL HARVEST OF lSH AND WILDLIFE POPULATIONS WITHIN THE 4RADITIONAL 4ERRITORY AND PARTICIPATE IN CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING and s !SSIST IN THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC INFORMATION AND EDUCATION VIA PRESENTATIONS AND pamphlets.

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: s 0OSITION DUTIES REQUIRE A COMBINATION OF EDUCATION TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE IN lSH AND wildlife management; s $IPLOMA OR DEGREE IN THE AREA OF BIOLOGY OR ECOLOGY OR lSH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT s n YEARS OF HANDS ON EXPERIENCE s )NCUMBENT SHOULD HAVE GOOD WRITTEN AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND s 0ROVEN TECHNICAL WRITING SKILLS

WHITE GOLD/DIAMOND tennis bracelet from People's. New in box, never worn. Receipt/warranty in box. Valued at $1200. Asking $800 obo. 334-1195 FREE, LARGE BBQ & propane tank. You must arrange to take it away by yourself, down one flight of steps. 633-4139 WANTED: LANGUAGE tutor to teach beginner level, conversational Korean, 2 hours per week, $15/hr.

Email: catherine.newsome1@gmail.com ALL PURPOSE canopy, 20x10, never used. $120 firm. 668-2387 WANTED: WOOD stove for very small (350 sq ft) cabin for occasional use. 334-3555 ELECTRIC SAW, used once, $30 obo; bolt door lock w/5 keys, $20 obo; light fixtures for bathroom, $20 obo. 668-5185 days or 667-7840 eves

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Fishermen!

If you are searching for ďŹ&#x201A;y-ďŹ shing equipment of better quality than in town, at a very good price, come to see me at flyfishingyukon689.com

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OFFICE EQUIPMENT SKILLS: s #OMPUTER SKILLS -ICROSOFT /FlCE s 0HONE FAX COPIER

SPECIFIC SKILLS: s 4HE INCUMBENT MUST HAVE GOOD WILDERNESS TRAVEL SKILLS AND A WILLINGNESS TO BE IN THE lELD in all seasons.

REQUIREMENTS: s s s s s

6ALID #LASS $RIVER S ,ICENSE !BSTRACT 3ECURITY #LEARANCE &!# #ERTIlCATION OR WILLING TO OBTAIN 7ILDERNESS &IRST !ID "OAT /PERATOR #ERTIlCATE

FOR A COPY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION OR TO SUBMIT YOUR COVER LETTER AND RESUME PLEASE CONTACT: Ronalda Moses, Manager, Human Resources &IRST .ATION OF .A #HO .YĂ&#x2039;K $UN 0 / "OX -AYO 9 4 9 " - 0HONE %XT &AX %MAIL TO HUMANRESOURCES NNDFN COM *Preference will be given to First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Citizens*

HONDA GENERATOR, EB5000X, very low hrs, used only in summer, $1,400 obo.

393-3528 DIRT DEVIL vacuum, new, $200 new, asking $70 obo. Daryl @ 668-6911 SOUTH COL bivy sack made by Integral Designs, large size, weatherproof, breathable, used twice, $280 US new, asking $180.

667-4523 DVD MOVIES, XBox games, PlayStation games. PlayStation Solo game machine, $150. 334-7393 RIGID 600 power handle & dies, includes pipe cutter & spiral reamer $1,113, Rigid 300 compact pipe vise, includes 2nd die head, $3,440, Rigid electric torch, $450.

867-993-5423 RIGID 122 Copper cutting & prep tool, $1,050. Ralph @ 867-993-5423, lv msg

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TREADMILL, WORKS great, paid $400, asking $50. 334-6484

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Firewood

CANADIAN WILDERNESS statue of 3 wolves, $100. 667-7467

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

WOLVERINE RUG, exc cond, all claws & teeth intact, appraised at $1,150. 667-7467 FUTON, LIKE new, $350; trampoline, $400; Marshall amp, $425; 24 bit Sony recorder, $350, indoor house plants. 668-4186

Store (867) 633-3276

MUSKOX HORNS from Inuvik, NT, exc cond, appraised value $500. 667-7467

â&#x153;&#x201D; Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed â&#x153;&#x201D; Everything over 8" split â&#x153;&#x201D; $250 per cord (6 cords or more) â&#x153;&#x201D; Single and emergency half cord deliveries â&#x153;&#x201D; Scheduled or next day delivery

GRAYLING MOUNTED on wooden plaque, exc cond, done by Gary Hill, taxidermist from Atlin, appraised at $500. 667-7467 WOOD STOVE, medium size, $400.

660-5545

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

WALRUS, MUSKOX & Narwhal all combined into a one-of-a-kind creature topped off with RCMP hat. Offers. 667-7467

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ Dry accurate cords â&#x20AC;˘ Clean shavings available â&#x20AC;˘ VISA/M.C. accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Association Costs will rise.

ORDER NOW 456-7432

LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R New & Used 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY â&#x20AC;˘ SELL SAVAGE 30-06, stainless w/synthetic stalk, soft Levy case, 3x9 Fulfield scope and extras, mint, $800, PAL required. 333-9366

Cheque, Cash

BROWNING X Bolt Stainless Stalker, carbon fibre finish, fluted barrel. Extra mag, talley light weight rings & bases. Shot twenty times. Paid $1600 last year, asking $875 obo. 633-4322

S.A. vouchers accepted.

FUTURE STEEL garage, 30Ęźx40Ęź, $17,000 obo. 335-9272 CRAFTSMAN RIDING lawn tractor w/42â&#x20AC;? mower deck, $950. 667-6837 OLDER, GOOD condition farm tractors.

668-2332 CANADA GOOSE expedition parka, men's, black, size M, as new condition, $750; Canada Goose mitts, menĘźs, black, size M, as new condition, $75. 334-5134 PRINCESS AUTO hand winch, 1600-lb, new in box, has cable, $40. 633-2981

FRANKĘźS FIREWOOD â&#x20AC;˘Top quality, stacked cords for best value â&#x20AC;˘8 foot & stove length â&#x20AC;˘Single cord & multiple cords Phone 334-8960

FIREWOOD $175/cord 20-foot lengths, 5-cord loads Small delivery charge 668-6564 Leave message

Electrical Appliances

KENMORE ELECTRIC range, almond, $30.

633-2837 MAYTAG WASHER & Hot Point dryer, $50 for both, Kenmore deep freeze, 27â&#x20AC;?D x 46â&#x20AC;?W x 32â&#x20AC;?H, 60. 393-3662

TVs & Stereos FLAT SCREEN TV, 42â&#x20AC;?, $800 new, asking $150, 336-2866, lv msg

Computers & Accessories GARMIN MONTANA 600 waterproof GPS. Paid $600. Barely used. Asking $300.

867-333-9366

Musical Instruments PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 email:bfkitchen@hotmail.com YOUNG CHANG upright piano, appraised at $2,500, exc cond. Moving, priced reduced to $2,000. 667-4358 CBC HAS A DECOMMISSIONED Studer 963 console (8 mono mic/line & 12 stereo line input channels, 4 groups, 2 masters & 4 Aux outputs).

Sealed bids will be accepted at CBC Whitehorse at 3103 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3rd Ave, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 1E5.

Closing date for the bids will be 17:00 on Aug 14, 2015.

Highest bid will win and arrange pickup.

IBANEZ HOLLOW body electric guitar.

Quilted maple body , c/w hard case shell, $700. Bodine electric plus acoustic guitar, built in one, c/w hard case shell, $1,000.

332-1360 FENDER COMBO amp, Blues Deville 212, 60 watts, tweed, exc, $800. Thomas 660-4826 MUSIC MAN 2012 HD, 150 combo amp, like the one Mark Knopfler and Johnny Winter used, serviced, exc, $1,250. 660-4826 MARSHALL AMP JTM60 combo, 60 watts, exc, $800. 660-4826 YAMAHA RGX A2 Guitar & Roland Cube X20 amp, humbucking neck, bridge pickups, amp-clean & overdrive channels, great shape, $300 for guitar, $150 for amp, $400 for both. 334-1718

WANTED: RUGER Mini-14 in good shape.

334-3555 CUSTOMIZED REMINGTON 700 30.06, accepts 4-round magazines, Bushnell 3 + 9 sight, some ammo & accessories, must have PAL, $700 obo. 334-7019

MAYO, YUKON

SLIDE-IN RANGE, electrical, GE 30â&#x20AC;? white, self-cleaning, 4.1 cu ft oven, never used, black glass cooktop with bridge & warming elements, mint cond, $990 obo. 660-4321 30â&#x20AC;? PROPANE range, white, self cleaning oven, sealed burners, electronic ignition, 2 high-output burners, 1 low output, 1 all purpose, electronic oven controls, new cond, $500 obo. Tagish. 867-399-3191

REMINGTON MODEL 700/ 30 06, $500.

Remington 1187, shotgun rifled barrel, $600 S&W .357 also shoots .38 special, $700. All well looked after & shoot beautifully.

336-3865

First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun

SMALL DEEP freeze, apt size, about 7 cu ft.

633-2719

#105-2131 2 Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1C3

We are currently recruiting for the following full-time position

Surveyors (Party Chiefs) For engineering projects in Yukon and Alberta Offering competitive wage and benefits Minimum of 2 years of experience with GPS RTK and Total Station If interested, please send resume to LLoos@capms.ca or drop it off at our office

Guns & Bows

MasterCard

WORKING, DISPLAYABLE hydraulic monitor c/w gate, nozzle & skid frame, $1,000.

Pick up in Mayo. 867-996-2051

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Department: Lands and Resources Salary Range: Level 7 Term: Full-time Term Position Hours: 7.5 hrs/daily (75 hrs bi-weekly) Closing date: August 12, 2015

Job Summary: Reporting to the Manager of Lands and Resources, the incumbent is responsible for the research and analysis of information, consulting with stakeholders, government ofďŹ cials, internal staff and technical experts, the development of options and preparation of recommendations on a wide range of policy projects. Responsibilities will include the coordination and implementation of operational policies, programs and strategies necessary to support the organizations overall plans and objectives.

MAIN DUTIES: s #ONSULT WITH INTEREST GROUPS INCLUDING BUSINESSES GOVERNMENTS AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS #OORDINATE PUBLIC REVIEWS AND PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC HEARINGS ON MAJOR PROJECTS s 2ESEARCH MARKET TRENDS AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE ENVIRONMENT s 2EVIEW DEVELOP LEGISLATION REGULATIONS AND POLICIES TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS IDENTIlED IN THE Umbrella Final Agreement and other relevant treaties for FNNND; s 0REPARE REPORTS AND MAKE PRESENTATIONS TO ,ANDS 2ESOURCES $EPT AND #OUNCIL s )DENTIFY PROBLEMS POSED BY PROJECTS AND PRACTICES AND PROPOSE OPTIONS FOR MITIGATING environmental and socio-economic impacts; s -AKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO DECISION MAKERS THAT BALANCE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION WITH social and economic considerations; and s $EVELOP REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LANDS RESOURCES department laws and policies.

QUALIFICATIONS: s $EGREE OR DIPLOMA IN &IRST .ATION 'OVERNANCE 0UBLIC !DMINISTRATION 0OLITICAL 3CIENCE ,ANDS 2ESOURCES OR A RELATED lELD WITH EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH &IRST .ATION 'OVERNMENTS s -INIMUM OF YEARS EXPERIENCE IN POLICY ANALYSIS s "ROAD KNOWLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT POLICY PROCESS AND EXPERIENCE DEALING WITH government ofďŹ cials; s (IGH LEVEL OF CAPABILITY IN THE AREAS OF ANALYTICAL RESEARCH AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS s (IGH DEGREE OF PROFESSIONALISM FOR REPRESENTING THE ORGANIZATION AT MEETINGS OF government ofďŹ cials, afďŹ liated organizations, and the public; s !BILITY TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH INTERNAL STAFF AND AFlLIATED ORGANIZATIONS s 3TRONG ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SKILLS ABILITY TO WORK ON A WIDE range of issues simultaneously; s 7ILLINGNESS TO WORK ON TEAMS AND GOOD CONmICT RESOLUTION SKILLS s #AN WORK INDEPENDENTLY AND IN A TEAM ENVIRONMENT s %XPERIENCE IN CONDUCTING LEGAL AND REGULATORY RESEARCH REGARDING ALL APPLICABLE domestic laws; s 0ASSION PERSONAL ALIGNMENT AND COMMITMENT TO THE MISSION OF &IRST .ATION OF Na-cho Nyäk Dun; s (IGH LEVEL OF INTEGRITY CONlDENTIALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY s !BILITY TO RESPOND APPROPRIATELY IN PRESSURE SITUATIONS WITH A CALM AND STEADY DEMEANOR and s ! WELL DElNED SENSE OF DIPLOMACY INCLUDING SOLID NEGOTIATION CONmICT RESOLUTION AND people management skills.

REQUIREMENTS: s 6ALID #LASS $RIVER S ,ICENCE !BSTRACT s #RIMINAL 2ECORD #HECK

FOR A COPY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION OR TO SUBMIT YOUR COVER LETTER AND RESUME PLEASE CONTACT: 2ONALDA -OSES -ANAGER (UMAN 2ESOURCES &IRST .ATION OF .A #HO .YĂ&#x2039;K $UN 0HONE %XT %MAIL TO HUMANRESOURCES NNDFN COM

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REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST NEEDED Please send resume and cover letter to kalasmithrmt@hotmail.com or call 867-332-3258

VUNTUT GWITCHIN FIRST NATION Old Crow, Yukon FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEPT

JOB OPPORTUNITY POLICY ANALYST

www.capms.ca

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER THE JOB Under the general supervision of the Manager of Mental Health and Support Programs this position is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating the delivery of Family Support Services to children, families and caregivers who may be or are at risk of neglect and/or abuse.

The incumbent provides information in the Family Case conferencing process.

The incumbent is also responsible for the provision of specialized home and community based support and prevention services to children and their families and the community at large. In addition the incumbent is responsible for the successful delivery of programs that promote mental and emotional wellness and positive relationships for children and families. In consultation with the Director of Health, Social and Recreation and the Manager of Mental Health and Support Programs, select community education programs and client services models to meet the needs of the community.

QUALIFICATIONS The ideal candidate will have a degree or diploma in social work, psychology, psychotherapy, or a related ďŹ eld, or the equivalent in training and experience; Direct and successful counseling experience; Broad knowledge of Government legislation regarding Social services; Knowledge of Social issues affecting First Nation peoples both locally and nationally; Knowledge of federal and territorial funding programs for First Nations and for organizations; Knowledge of public and private agencies dealing with alcohol and drug abuse programs; and previous experience in a First Nation community is an asset. Successful applicant must complete a criminal records check.

CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK s Pre employment medical and TB screening s First Aid/CPR CertiďŹ cate or willingness to obtain one s Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class 5 license would be an asset PAY RANGE: $63,256 - $75,908 PER ANNUM PLUS AN EXCELLENT BENEFIT PACKAGE This is a full-time term position based on 65hrs bi-weekly (6.5-hour workday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.)

A detailed job description is available at: http://www.vgfn.ca/employment MINIMUM ONE YEAR TERM COMMITMENT IS REQUIRED. CLOSING DATE: August 12, 2015 @ 4:00 p.m. We thank all applicants but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Preference will be given to Vuntut Gwitchin beneďŹ ciary.

Please submit resumes that include job experience related to position to: Manager, Finance and Human Resources Vuntut Gwitchin Government Box 94, Old Crow, YT Y0B 1N0 Phone: (867)966-3261, ext.256 Fax: (867)966-3800 Email: hrd@vgfn.net

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375 HH Ruger #1, stainless laminate stock w/ammo, Sandy @ 867-390-2401

WANTED: RECLINING leather love seat in good condition. 393-3777

WANTED: CORNER shelving, wood or metal. 633-2837

LEE ENFIELD .303 Sporterized Mark 4, Leupold 3 + 6 scope, must have PAL, $300 obo. 334-7019

WANTED: CHEAP BBQ & cheap push gas mower. 335-1515

WANTED: HOUSE plants of all types and sizes, looking for extra large plants/vines in particular. 333-2980

NEW REMINGTON 300 RUM, left hand, model 700 adl, $700.667-2428 WINCHESTER 30-30, Klondike Gold Rush commemorative, mint, never fired, original box & ammo, $1,000; Ruger M77 30-06 w/Redfield scope 2x7, good cond, $500 obo, PAL reqĘźd. 660-5769

Wanted WERE YOU a squatter in Whiskey, Moccasin Flats, Sleepy Hollow or the Wye area?

Need your story. squatterstory@gmail.com or Pat 667-4141 WANTED: HOCKEY & baseball cards, honest and fair in my dealings. If you have cards email me at bugolini@shaw.ca or text 250-210-1970. I'm in the Whitehorse area

WANTED: WOODEN crates/boxes, matching preferred, as many as you have available. 333-2980 WANTED: LOCAL photographer looking for models for outdoor shoots. No experience necessary, 18+. Email recent photo to north.60@hotmail.com WANTED: NEED to take a queen size mattress from WH to Van. Anyone has a U-Haul going down? Will help with gas. 335-9412 WANTED: LANGUAGE tutor to teach beginner level, conversational Korean, 2 hours per week, $15/hr.

Email: catherine.newsome1@gmail.com WANTED: WRECKED Sea-doos or Jet Skis.

332-6570 WANTED: PEOPLE interested in helping organize a flying club in Whitehorse. Contact Melissa 667-7248

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SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE LISTINGS: Northern Vision Development LP

â&#x17E;Ľ JANITOR FOR VARIOUS NVD HOTEL DIVISIONS Nugget City

â&#x17E;Ľ WAITER/WAITRESS, FINISH CARPENTER The Claim Cafe & Food Co.

â&#x17E;Ľ JUNIOR BAKER/KITCHEN PERSON, SERVER/ BARISTA Paradise Alley

â&#x17E;Ľ RETAIL SALES ASSOCIATE Java Connection

Alexco Resource Corp.

â&#x17E;Ľ CARE & MAINTENANCE OPERATOR J Walker Carpentry

â&#x17E;Ľ CARPENTERS CanaDream Inc.

â&#x17E;Ľ GUEST SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Gray Management Services

WANTED: CHEAP running push gas mower. 335-1515

2009 NISSAN Rogue SL, 3-spd auto, new tires, 131,000km, great gas mileage, $12,750 obo. 633-5155

1986 TOYOTA Celica, less than 180,000km, runs great, body in good cond, awsome on fuel, needs minimal work, $650 obo.

335-0933 or 393-2421

2007 CADILLAC CTS Sport, fully loaded leather interior, heated seats, Bose sound system, 6-spd manual, 115,000kms, very clean, good cond, $13,000. 333-9100

1978 MERCURY Cougar XR7, exc cond, 91,000 kms, one owner, $6,000. 667-2922

2006 HONDA CR-V, 118,000 kms, great condition, must sell as leaving town, valued at $13,500, selling for $12,000. 393-2125

Cars 2004 F O R D Taurus Wagon SE, 120,000kms, roof rack, power windows, doors, mirrors, rear wiper and defrost, cruise control, air conditioning, front air dam, fully maintained, great condition, $4,400 obo.

334-3456

2004 HONDA CRV, 205,000kms, manual, 2 sets tires rims, $4,000 obo. 456-4926

2009 MINI Cooper, loaded, 6-spd, power everything, sun roof, heated seats, Bluetooth, 48,000 kms, gets 800 kms to a tank of gas, like new. $16,500. morrison@northwestel.net or 335-1410

2001 LEXUS LS 430, pearl white, auto, 4-dr, heated cream leather seats, sunroof, 75,000 miles, exc cond, clean, hidden headlights, new battery. 334-4048

2008 DODGE Avenger RT, great cond, AWD, 3.5L V6, 2 sets tires incl lo pro summers on 22" rims, 148,000kms, leather, heated seats, command start, tinted windows, $10,000 obo. 536-2206 2008 NISSAN Altima, moonroof, leather, P/S, P/W, A/C, low mileage, 1 owner, fog lights, Bose speakers, CD, Blue Tooth, summer & winter tires on rims, $12,900.

334-5510 2007 TOYOTA Avalon, fully loaded, black w/grey leather interior; navigation, premium stereo, dual automatic temperature controls, command start, new tires, full-size luxury car, exc cond, $9,500. 867-660-4311 1990 HONDA Civic, 4-dr wagon, white, 234,000km, safety inspection cert, standard, 2WD, gas, easy winter start, non-smoking owner, no pets, no kids, $4,000 obo.

668-7239 2011 CAMARO SS, V8, red convertible in mint/showroom condition, 11,800 kms.

Trade or trade up with cash for a 24-26Ęź newer motorhome with low miles. 668-1990 2009 HONDA CRV LX 4WD, light blue, 60,500 kms In pristine condition, no accidents. Fully winterized, $17,900 obo.

335-9412

2003 TOYOTA Matrix hatchback, FWD, exc cond, mechanically sound, very clean, 298,000 kms, reliable, lots of cargo space, $3,900. 456-4153

2000 FORD Taurus wagon, V6 auto, 216,000kms, summer & new winter tires, recent safety, good cond, $3,000 obo.

333-0380 1999 SATURN 3-dr sports coupe, air, cruise, sunroof. Need to sell, leaving the Yukon, $1000 obo. 335-6861 1998 SUBARU Forester 4X4, 240,000kms, exc cond, great quality 4 seasons tires, almost new, c/w 4 extra spare rims, needs mechanical work w/shock absorber. 633-4308 1997 FORD Escort wagon. Body looks great, needs some mechanical work, great little beater or good for parts, $900 obo. 334-9903 1993 CHRYSLER Concord, 2 new tires, runs well, $1,000. 393-3662 1992 HONDA Civic, white, automatic, runs good, exc gas mileage, radio/CD, good shape, $1,000 obo. 399-3226 1989 CHRYSLER New Yorker, command start, V6, 3L, good tires & battery, everything works, can be driven away, $500 obo.

633-3011 or 334-9705 1988 CADILLAC 4-dr sedan, exc cond.

668-2332 1980 FORMULA Firebird w/ ws suspension pkg, all original, # matching car, vg cond, 60,000 orig kms, $12,000. 334-4800

â&#x17E;Ľ MAINTENANCE PERSON Kluane First Nation

â&#x17E;Ľ LEGISLATION AND POLICY ANALYST

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Kluane Dana Shäw Corporation

Corporate Service Officer JOB DESCRIPTION Company: Kluane Dana Shäw Corporation (formerly 19145 Yukon Inc.) Job Title: Corporate Services Officer Supervisor: Executive Director Opening Date: July 9, 2015 Closing Date: August 10, 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:00 pm PST Interview Dates: August 11-14, 2015 Hiring Date: August 14, 2015 Status: 1 Year Term, 6 month probation period, Full-Time, 35 hrs/wk.

Wage: TBD - Negotiated JOB SUMMARY: Under the guidance of the Executive Director and in a manner that respects the culture and traditions of the Kluane First Nation citizens, the Corporate Services Officer will handle bookkeeping, communications, corporate planning and act as secretary to the Board. The Corporate Service Officer will be responsible for the finances including completion of Payroll, GST/Income Tax Returns, A/R and accurate financial reporting. Supporting the Executive Director, the position will also be required to research, draft proposals, assist with project management and manage initiatives. The ability to prioritize and work independently with minimal supervision are essential to be successful in this role.

This position will assist in fostering good public relations with citizens, staff and other governments, industries and organizations with whom KDSC conducts business.

QUALIFICATIONS â&#x20AC;˘ Minimum 3 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience with accounting systems, budgets, internal controls, and asset management â&#x20AC;˘ University Degree or College Diploma in business related field is preferred â&#x20AC;˘ An equivalent combination of education and experience that would provide the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience may be considered â&#x20AC;˘ Experience implementing business plans would be considered an asset â&#x20AC;˘ Experience working in a First Nation government or business setting would be considered an asset For questions regarding the Job Posting or to receive a complete copy of the Job Description, please contact: Kluane Dana Shäw Corporation Office: (867) 322-1222 ext.101 Cell: (867) 335-3693 Email: gclark@kluanecorp.ca

CARCROSS/TAGISH FIRST NATION

Attention Carcross/Tagish First Nation Citizens The Carcross/Tagish First Nation

Lands Interest Act

is ready for your review and consideration.

This act will establish rules for how the Government of Carcross/Tagish First Nation will lease or grant Settlement Land to Citizens and non-Citizens.

CARCROSS: Carcross/Tagish Government Offices CARCROSS/TAGISH GOVERNMENT OFFICES June 24th, 2015 from 3:30 to 8:00 pm August 4th, 2015 from 3:00 to 8:00 pm WHITEHORSE: Days Inn (former Ramada) June 25th, 2015 from 3:00 to 8:00 pm

Contracts Opportunity Rotary Music & Dance Festival Coordinator Part-time contract position until June 30, 2016 with the possibility of renewal For detailed terms and conditions of the contract please visit our web site at www.rmfestival.ca Deadline for submissions is Monday, August 24 at 5:00 PM

1976 TRANS Am, black on black, 400 4-spd, good shape, serious enquiries only, $22,500 obo. 334-8560 1969 2-DR Plymoth Valiant, rebuilt 383 big block, hooker headers, body in great shape, still needs some restoration, I have no time for it, $4,000 obo. 393-2421

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2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser 6-spd #7366A............................. $20,688 2014 Toyota Camry #1512................................................. ........................ $ $26,499 SOLD! 2012 Toyota Venza Touring V-6 AWD #1511 11...................... ...................... $$27,495 2011 Toyota RAV4 #7730A................................................ $$18,855 2008 Toyota Avalon XLS #7720A .......................................$15,499 2012 Dodge Journey R/T AWD STOCK #7622A

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2011 Kia Sorento LX V6 STOCK #7596A

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2013 F-150, Limited Edition, 4x4, red, chrome, 21,700 kms, sun roof, loaded, leather heated seats, sat radio, command start, extĘźd warranty, $45,000. 867-393- 2828 2010 JEEP Compass 4x2, auto, 2.4L dual VVT, great cond, fully maintained, under 51,000 kms, remote start, separate mint winters on rims, $11,500, 667-2276 2008 GMC Sierra 1500 4X4, longbox, regular cab, white, 176,000 km, $13,500 obo.

604-754-7924 2007 CHEV 2500HD crew cab 4X4, great unit, many options, trailer tow, fully serviced, new brakes & battery. 633-4311 2007 FORD Explorer XLT SUV, 218,000 km, needs bearings and brakes, $3,000 obo.

334-8413 2007 FORD Explorer, Eddie Bauer black w/tan trim, well maintained, regular oil change, new tires in Nov, new brakes & roters in Feb, low kms, $11,500. 334-7028 2006 TOYOTA Tacoma access cab, manual, 132,500kms, very clean, exc cond. Selling because we need more space, $12,000 obo.

668-3335 2004 GMC 2500 HD 4x4 X-cab, long box, great unit, remote start; trailer tow; checker plate liner & toolbox, fully serviced, new battery & tires. 633-4311 2003 ACURA MDX SUV, approx.

200,000kms, V6 auto, trans, airbag on recall, tires, front bumper damage, runs good, $2,300 obo. 633-2181 2003 FORD Ranger 4X2 pick-up, Supercab, 1 cylinder cracked, good winter tires incl, $1,250. 334-6092 2002 C H E V Y express cargo van, 223,000km, great service van with built-in shelving, aftermarket stereo with Bluetooth, $6,500.00 obo. Steve @ 332-2929 2002 GMC 1500 2WD, single cab, long box, V6, 5 speed, 198,000 kms, $3,500 obo.

332-9002 2001 DODGE 1500 4x4 Laramie SLT extended cab, trailer package, tonneau cover, 85,000 original km, $9,000 obo. 456-4926 1999 CHEVY Tahoe, 4x4, V8, auto, tow pkg, $5,500. 334-7393

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1999 DODGE 350 dually, 24 valve Cummins, 224,000km, auto, club cab, loaded, new rubber, c/w 6 studded winter tires, rigged for 5th wheel, nice condition, $10,000.

334-2150 1997 DODGE Ram 1500, wish to trade for smaller car, valued @ $1,000. Serious inquiries only. 633-6155

Motorcycles & Snowmobiles 4"-&4 t #0%: 4)01 t 1"354 t 4&37*$&

HUGE SALE!!!

Clearing out all OLDER VEHICLES! 1997 TOYOTA 4Runner Limited, great cond, no leaks, leather seats, all power options.

Twin 12 in subwoofer. Rear diff lock. Brought up from the States, 218,000 kms, $9,700 obo. 335-1571 1995 GMC 1500 reg cab long box p/u. Blue 4.3L V6 w/4-spd automatic transmission.

Checker plate tool box & box liner. only 144,000 kms. Runs great, $2,850 firm.

335-5428 1995 GRAND Cherokee, exc motor, almost new tires, 6-cyl, some damage to passenger door, maybe transmission problem, fix or use for parts, $800. 390-2773 1993 DODGE 3/4 ton, extĘźd cab, Cummins diesel, 253,000kms, orig owner, 7ĘźX10Ęź deck & original box. 668-7691 1993 GMC Sierra 2500, 6.5L turbo-diesel, blue 4x4, 138,000 km highway, extra cab, long box w/canopy, thorough mechanical, new fuel injector pump & brakes, no accidents, clear windshield, $6,750. 335-4393

As Low As $199.00 Come Early!!

IN-HOUSE FINANCING AVAILABLE!

2008 Hummer H2, SUT Loaded! Leather, Skylight Roof, Blue

$

31,000

2015 Chev Cruze 4 Door, Black

$

18,900

2014 Dodge Grande Caravan $

25,295

2004 ARCTIC Cat quad, 4,200 mi, in top condition, ride trouble free, located in Haines Junction, text for pics. 250-566-1346

2015 Chev Silverado 1500 Crew 4x4 4.3 Litre V6, Silver

36,995

*VEHICLES MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN

01&/ %":4 " 8&&, For Quick Approval call: 668-5559 #4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8 EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

1990 FORD Econoline E250 Super Cargo van, good tires, regular maintenance, $1,500. 333-0317 1989 CHEV Silverado p/u, hwy driven, $1,600 obo. 335-1964 or 633-4991 1985 FORD F250, 6.9L diesel, new tires & fuel system, c/w canopy & small utility trailer, $4,000 obo. 667-2707 1965 FLEETSIDE pick-up 283 V8, restoration project, good body, glass & chrome, $3,000. 867-536-7206 FORD 350 ambulance, 6000 miles, 7.3 diesel engine. 5 Fraser Rd. 633-6651 or 689-6388 10-6pm MODEL #200 Dodge Mud Bogger, ready to go. 668-2332

Auto Parts & Accessories 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 HEAVY-DUTY HEADACHE rack for Dodge pick-up, like new, black, $300 obo. 660-4516 3 TIRES, Michelin LT265/70 R17, good tread. 633-4311 4 TIRES for small car. Used 1 season (summer) on Toyota Camry. $300 for all. whseinc@gmail.com or 334-4811 TONNEAU COVER for Chev 1/2 ton regular box, 1999 to 2006 models, $500. 335-0281 4 PAIRS 285/75R15, $100. 4 summer & 4 studded winter tires 215/60R15, $400. New 215/60R16, $300. 334-7393 2002 DODGE Caravan for parts. 334-7393 1982 SCOTTSDALE 20 Suburban, 350 auto 4x4; 1987 Silverado 10 Suburban auto 4x4; 1991 SLE Suburban, a/c, 350od auto 4x4, 1996 Suburban, 350 Vortec, 1976 Suburban 20 4x4 winch. 250-651-7773

4 OLDER Aerostar & Windstar vans, various 2 & 4wd for parts or restoration, AMC Eagle SRX 302, 390, 400, 460 Ford engines, 350, 400 & 454 Chev engines. 250-651-7773 HARMONIC BALANCE puller set, new in box, $20; 15â&#x20AC;? tire chains, $25. 334-5408

Pets Has your fur buddy slowed down?

Return 'spring' to your dogĘźs step.

Older or injured dogs benefit from Glucosamine and MSM. Tasty pharmaceutical grade powder.

Dosage based on weight.

332-7828

ARGO 8X8 Conquest, exc cond, like new, only used 16 hrs, c/w winch, $9,800.

250-651-7650 2001 YAMAHA V- star classic, 9,800 kms, new tires, oil, air filter, plugs, windshield, $4,000 obo, cash talks. 336-0995 2003 HARLEY Davidson Electra Glide, ultra classic, very good condition, lots of extras, $15,000. 668-1315 QUAD TRAILER, 8x12 deck, 3500 lb axle, $1000. 334-1688

633-6019 FRIDAY, JULY 31

2015 LOST/FOUND

Help control the pet overpopulation problem

have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

LOST t BOSWELL CRESCENT, BLACK AND TAN MINIATURE DACHSHUND. 1 year old, not wearing collar. If found please call Natalie @334-7054 t COPPER RIDGE, GOLDEN RETRIEVER, FEMALE, 2 YO, wearing brown leather collar. Name is Lucy, please call Andrea if found @335-7704 t MARSH LAKE, BLACK AND WHITE BORDER COLLIE, wearing collar with tag, name is Twice. Please call Travis @660-5565 t GROVE STREET IN PORTER CREEK. CAT, SOLID BLACK, SHORT-HAIRED, with notch out of one ear. Call Alex at 336-3341. t PINE RIDGE, GREY TABBY CAT. Call Jen Williams at 334-9534. t 5TH AND WHEELER. BLACK, SHORTHAIRED CAT, neutered male. No collar.

Answers to McGoo. Call Kelly at 667-6664.

633-6019

t DOWNTOWN, SMALL GREY TABBY at 6th street and Jarvis downtown. Her name is Tia. She was not wearing her collar. Please call 867-334-6809 if seen! t TURNER CRESCENT, SMALL GREY TABBY CAT. Call Kerri at 456-2505. t BLACK AND WHITE MALE CAT. 2 years old, he has a very wonky tail. His name is Cat. If found please contact the shelter @633-6019 FOUND t CRONKHITE ROAD, WOLF CREEK , LARGE MALE, BLUE-COLOURED CAT with four white paws and white chest. Call Pam at 633-2677. t SMALL, BLACK FEMALE DOG AT THE CORNER OF 4TH AND HANSON. Please call 633-5788

RUNNING AT LARGE...

If you have lost a pet, remember to check with City Bylaw: 668-8382

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

1994 YAMAHA Blaster 200 sport quad.

Runs great, recently redone, $1,500.

334-3049

POLARIS RZR 800 side by side, 700 kms, c/w many options inclĘźg snowplow, exc, $8000. 333-9056 SUZUKI BOULEVARDS (2), 800cc, 2005 & 2009. Both with low mileage, great cond, saddle bags, windshields. $5,000 & $7,500.

393-2926

Free to a good

KITTENS AND a Husky/Collie/Lab cross puppy for sale. 667-2390 SOFT-SIDED PET carrier, never used, for cats & small dogs up to 15 lbs & 7" shoulder height, meets international/domestic in-cabin travel requirements for airlines, shoulder strap/fleece interior, $50. 633-2121 FOUND: BLACK cat, small, long-haired young female, Northland Trailer Park.

633-5009 PREDATORS DOG Puller Sport Athletic League is holding CanadaĘźs first dog puller championship in Whitehorse, August 29, 9am, Ecole Emilie Tremblay soccer field.

Info @ caninesyukon@hotmail.com. All spectators welcome.

Athena

Checkers

2007 HARLEY-DAVIDSON Ultra Classic, black cherry & silver, 96 cu in w/6 spd transmission, stereo, CB, intercom, incls helmet w/headset & mic, fewer than 26,000 miles, $16,500. 867-660-4311 1982 YAMAHA SS440, exc cond, $1,500; 1994 Mountain Cat 440 w/new ripsaw track, $1,500; some classic sled engines & parts.

250-651-7773 2006 VTX Honda 1300 street bike, low mileage, windshield, saddle bags, back seat rest, new tires, exc cond, $4,000 firm, consider trade for quad of equal value. 633-4149 ARGO 05 Avenger, exc running condition, well maintained, approx 600 hrs, $6,500 obo.

333-2411 2009 YAMAHA Venture MP 4-stroke, exc cond, rear seat, cargo box, block heater, extra-wide skis, spare carbide runners, scratchers, belts, mirrors, Yamaha cover, reduced to $5,500. Mike@ 333-6392

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2008 SUZUKI DR200SE dual sport. One owner bike, well maintained. $3,000.

334-3049

CANINES & COMPANY Dog Obedience School Puppy obedience classes starting August 20 Recall classes, August 20 For full schedule visit caninesandcompany.ca Full service training school, certified trainers 333-0505 3 RETIRED sled dogs. home. 667-2390

2004 YAMAHA V-Star 1100, no damages, 8000km, saddlebags, windshield, $5,000.

336-4887

Maxine

Mingus

Kitty

ENNY Maxine

Come on down & visit with ALL OF US at the shelter.

AND MORE....

ALSO...

COME FOR A VISIT AND MEET YOUR NEXT FURRY FAMILY MEMBER!

If you could bring down some much needed items. It would be greatly appreciated! Ă?Ă&#x203A;9d]Y[`Ă&#x203A;Ă?Ă&#x203A;:YlĂ&#x203A;Call]jĂ&#x203A;Ă?Ă&#x203A;GYh]jĂ&#x203A; Kgo]dkĂ&#x203A;Ă?Ă&#x203A;Kgad]lĂ&#x203A;GYh]jÂ&#x2022;Ă&#x203A;;ak`Ă&#x203A; JgYhĂ&#x203A;Ă?Ă&#x203A;Kgo]dk Ă?Ă&#x203A;GjgĂ&#x203A;G]lĂ&#x203A;8\mdlĂ&#x203A;;g_Ă&#x203A;=gg\ Ă?Ă&#x203A;JmeealĂ&#x203A;GmhhqĂ&#x203A;=gg\

Items can be dropped off at the Shelter during operating hours.

633-6019 126 Tlingit Street

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Portraits by Gerry Steers, courtesy of Gerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Computer Magic

3 TOYOTA Camrys, retired, 1991 auto, engine runs, rear brakes gone, 1989 auto, engine runs, transmission gone, 1987 5-spd, parts only, make offer on all 3. Catherine @ 668-5115.

TAITĘźS 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

2007 ARCTIC Cat 65H1 4-wheeler w/snow blade, new tires, new battery, low kms, $5,000 obo. 689-9715

Stow & Go! Loaded!!

$

Recreational Powersports and Marine (RPM) Repairs Service, repair and installations for snowmobiles, ATVs, motorcycles, chainsaws, marine and more Qualified and experienced mechanic Great rates!

Call Patrick at 335-4181

RONĘźS SMALL ENGINE SERVICES Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATVĘźs, Small industrial equipment.

Light welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg

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1992 CHEVY S-10 extĘźd cab p/u, new battery, one owner, fully maintained, good working order, $1,700 obo. 334-3456

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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:

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2011 HARLEY Davidson, 1200cc, black, motivated to sell, leaving the territory, $8,500 obo. 336-0995

Marine PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49D MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

1996 POLARIS 425 Magnum, extended front & rear racks, 2 winches, new front tires, repair manuals, c/w 6Ęźx10Ęź trailer, $2,200.

334-5408

2012 HONDA CBR 250R, under 2,500km, $2,800 obo. 333-0115

TWO 2013 Vespa-type electric motor scooters, his & hers, 500W 60V/20Ah Lithium 60km/charge, less than 200km since new, $2,000 new, asking $1,650 ea or $3,000 for pair. 667-4794

BRAND NEW salmon & halibut rods/reels, used shrimp pots & gear, Garmin 4208 GPS Chart Plotter, Data Card with Alaska Maps, hand held GPS, VHF marine radio, Scotty Electric downriggers and more. 332-1374 17Ęź CLIPPER Ranger, green Fibreglass canoe w/paddles & PDFs, great condition, $1,000. 633-3039

1984 ZETA 24' Hard Top, 350/260 leg, 15hp kicker, dingy, barbecue, galley, head, canvas enclosure, fishfinder, radio, sleeps 5, tandem trailer, rough water boat, bottom paint, many extras, reasonable offers. 332-1374 23Ęź FIBRE boat, 6-cyl turbo diesel. Sell or trade. 332-8393 115-HORSE JOHNSON, short shaft, 85 Merc short shaft, Seagull, 460 Mercruiser 4-cyl drop in OMC Sterndriver V6 w/leg & controls, misc older outboards & parts.

250-651-7773 14Ęź ALUMINUM MirroCraft boat, 9.8 outboard, 35lb thrust electric motor w/new battery, rod holders, driverĘźs seat, galvanized trailer, does not leak a drop, $2,700.

336-3865 BOAT AT McCrae, #5 Fraser Rd. 633-6651 or 689-6388 OLD TOWN Guide 147 canoe, 14.5Ęź. New cond, c/w back rests, $750 obo. Brian 335-0330

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Stephen Charles Taylor Friday, August 14, 2015 at 2:00 pm Dawson City Cemetery Dawson City, Yukon

George Edward

Howell August 3, 1936 - July 30, 2005

Forever Loved and Remembered Tim, Pat, Scott, Leisa, loving wife Mary-Lou, friends and family

Headstone Potlatch for

Sandra Carol Gleason NOV 9/64 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;DEC 24/13

Sandiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family invite you to celebrate her life Saturday, August 8th, 2015 at 12 Noon

Potlatch to follow the viewing se at NĂ kwätâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ă KĂš Potlatch House at 2:00 PM.

CANOE PADDLE, wooden, Grey Owl, new, $40. 660-4321 1979 STARCRAFT 18Ęź aluminum boat w/trailer, 140hp inboard Mercruiser, many new parts & accessories, stereo, Sat radio, VHF radio, fish finder, works great, $3,000 obo. 333-0564

WATER TRUCK, 1984 W900 and 4000 gal tank Bowie pump, fire hose manifold, new tires, certified, $27,500. 335-5192 2009 BOBCAT CT 440, 44hp tractor w/backhoe & many other attachments. 335-5192

Margaret Lavina

HEATH

ALL WELCOME

Headstone viewing at d Takhini River Gravesite, located across from the subdivision.

17Ęź HURSTON lake boat, 90hp ob, new canopy, c/w kicker, sounder, down riggers. Fun & safe on big lakes, $7900 obo. Brian 335-0330

Heavy Equipment

H E A D S T O N E L AY I N G F O R

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Friday, July 31, 2015

YUKON NEWS

The family of Margaret L. Heath is saddened to share the passing of their much loved great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, sister, aunt and friend. After a brief but hard fought illness, Mom passed away in Grande Prairie, Alberta on July 26, 2015.

Margaret was born in Grande Prairie on December 18, 1930 to Lorne and Janet McLaughlin and spent most of her childhood in Valleyview, AB. In September 1944, the McLaughlin family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon. Margaret loved Yukon and it was there she married her ďŹ rst husband, raised a family and became involved in politics. After the death of her ďŹ rst husband, (Robert Frigon) she married again, (George Heath). In 1978 the couple decided to move to Grande Prairie. Here, Margaret created a life for her family and again became actively involved in politics as well as serving on many committees.

Margaret was happy in Grande Prairie as she was closer to the family property at Sturgeon Lake and her large extended family. It was at the lake that Mom dearly loved to be. She couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for winter to be over and get to the lake. She loved watching the children play and visiting with her brothers/sisters, nieces/nephews and large extended family of cousins and friends.

Margaret was pre-deceased by her parents, Lorne and Janet McLaughlin, her brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Fred and Leslie, her daughter, Patricia Frigon, her son, Robert Frigon as well as 2 grandchildren.

Mom will be so terribly missed by her daughter, Margie (Russ), her grandchildren, Erin (Trevor), Andrew (Simone), Aslinn (Nick) and recently born great-grandson, Barrett. She will also be greatly missed by her brother, Tom; and her sisters, Irene and Jean; their families; and her large extended family and many friends. The lake will never be the same.

The Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 7, 2015 at 1:30pm at Oliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Funeral Home (10005 107 Ave) in Grande Prairie.

Memorial donations may be made to the Grande Prairie Association for Army Cadets (9003 101 St., Grande Prairie, AB T8V 3C5).

Condolences may be sent by visiting www.oliversfuneralhome.com

SKIDDER 550 Timberjack, fresh motor, has 4000L water tank, large winch, full blade, $20,000. 335-5192 GOLD PLANT Trommel, 36Ęź long, 48â&#x20AC;? diameter, is on a 53Ęź triaxle high-boy, c/w extras, $110,000 + applicable taxes.

250-992-6749, lv msg if no answer 8V71 DETROIT engines w/clutches, pump drives & hydraulic pumps, parting out Terex 7G track loader & Terex rock truck, assorted highway truck tires & rims. 250-651-7773 5-COMPARTMENT 2,100 fuel tank w/pump, hose & reel, $2,500; 29.5x29 tires, 40% & 80%, 14:00x24 tires on Cat 14 rims, 18:00x25 tires on Terex rims. 250-651-7773 WATER PUMPS FOR SALE OR RENT â&#x20AC;˘12â&#x20AC;? x 10â&#x20AC;?, 2004 Power Prime DV300, Self-Priming Global Pump â&#x20AC;˘10â&#x20AC;? x 6â&#x20AC;?, 2012 with 6 CYL JD Engine Cornell Pump â&#x20AC;˘8â&#x20AC;? x 6â&#x20AC;?, with 6 CYL JD Engine, Self-Priming Cornell Pump A1 CATS, Grande Prairie, AB. 1-780-538-1599 Website: www.a1-cats.com for pictures

2009 WILDWOOD travel trailer, lg slide, queen walk-around bed, maple cabinets, outside shower, dining table & chairs, equalizer hitch, smoke-free, exc cond, new $34,000, asking $19,900. 334-6652 eves 2008 PALOMINO popâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;up truck camper, dry weight 1450 lbs, fridge, three burners, furnace, hot water tank, 16 gal water tank, c/w truck mounts, propane tank, auxiliary battery, $9,500 obo. 456-7758 1995 32Ęź Fleetwood Bounder, exc cond, new 4kw gen, 460 cid, roof air, full galley, arctic pkg, heated bsmnt, many amenities, $22,500 obo. 250-651-7877 or rpj@atlin.net 1986 KOMFORT motor home, Class A, 27Ęź, awesome floor plan, many features, 454 chev chassis, 100,000 kms, $13,500.

633-4796 WANTED: TRAVEL trailer about 18' long in good condition, ideally with 3 way fridge & stove, washroom, able to sleep 4. Stella 668-4629

345CL EXCAVATOR, c/w 58â&#x20AC;? digging bucket (3) 400D Rock Trucks D9N u-Dozer, Multi shank ripper c/w 2 shanks FOR SALE, RENTAL OR RENTAL PURCHASE All have recent rebuilds, please see our website for pictures, www.a1-cats.com for pictures All are sitting in Dawson City, Yukon 1-780-538-1599 Grande Prairie, AB.

2007 ADVENTURER 76R camper, fits import trucks, 3-way fridge, roof racks, sleeps 4, exc cond, $10,500. 633-4256 2011 STARCRAFT 1019 tent trailer, sleeps 8, like new, 2 dining tables, fridge, stove, propane furnace, hot/cold running water, indoor/outdoor stereo system, barbecue, ceiling fans, awning, $8,000 obo. 633-2121 1997 GEORGIE Boy Pursuit motorhome, 32Ęź, loaded. 393-2545 1991 ROYAL 16Ęź horse trailer, good shape, has divider etc, $2,500 obo. 333-0564 FLAT DECK trailer, double axle, $3,500.

335-9272

â&#x20AC;˘2008 CAT 740 Rock Truck SN CAT00740PB1P03886 â&#x20AC;˘2010 Bucyrus R30C Hydra-Trac Rock Drill SN TRX33H30DNAE0030 â&#x20AC;˘1989 Cat D10N Crawler Tractor SN2YD01092 â&#x20AC;˘2008 Volvo EC460CL Hyd Exc SNVCEC460CL00110148 All Excellent Condition Ready to work Located in Watson Lake Call for Pricing: 604-541-1362 ext 102

2005 GULFSTREAM 21Ęź travel trailer, was mobile office so no beds, tables, or bathroom, $3,600. 333-0564 1978 9.5Ęź camper, rebuilt in 2005, new upholstery, furnace, fridge & jacks, view at Fireweed RV, $1,500. 668-5082

KLUANE PLACER property, small scale miner contemplating JV with compatible party, steady pay, large material volume on historic creek, in alternative sell some claims for $30,000 ea. 867-634-2629

2004 OKANAGAN 24Ęź 5th wheel w/slide, exxceptionally clean, solar panel, fantastic fan, storage box, view at FIreweed RV, $15,000. 668-5082 1999 FORD 4x4 diesel dually w/2001 4-season Arctic Fox camper, both in exct shape, will sell separately, camper is fully loaded, $25,000 obo. 667-2005, cell 334-5778

Aircraft

Coming Events

CESSNA 150/150, low hours, exc cond, with mods. 332-8393

ATLIN - GLACIER VIEW CABINS â&#x20AC;&#x153;your quiet get awayâ&#x20AC;?

Cozy self contained log cabins canoes, kayaks for rent Fax/Phone 250-651-7691 e-mail sidkatours@ atlin.net www.glacierviewcabins.ca

Campers & Trailers TAITĘźS 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

AL-ANON MEETINGS, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someoneĘźs drinking?

Wednesday 12Noon @ Anglican Church, 4th & Elliott, back door, Friday 7pm Lutheran Church, 4th & Strickland, beginnerĘźs meeting, Friday 8pm Lutheran Church regular meeting

2004 PIONEER travel trailer, 23T6 model, large bath, queen size bed, large awning, great condition, $9,500. 633-2580

HISTORICAL EVENING prayer services held in the Old Log Church, 3rd & Elliot, 7pm, Wednesdays & Sundays, June 17 to August 30. 668-5530 for info

BUILDING, 10ĘźWX10ĘźHX50ĘźL, moveable on steel skids for loading. 668-2332

AYFC AGM August 21, 1pm, Whitehorse Public Safety Building

LOW COST MINI STORAGE â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

Now 2 locations: Porter Creek & Kulan.

Onsite & offsite steel containers available for rent or sale.

Phone 633-2594 Fax 633-3915

OFFICE LOCATED BESIDE KLONDIKE WELDING, 15 MacDONALD RD., PORTER CREEK, info@lowcostministorage.ca

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Friday, July 31, 2015

YUKON NEWS

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Meetings, Dawson City, Thursday New Beginings Group 6-7pm, Rm 2160, hospital, Friday Telehealth Unity Group 1:30-2:30pm, Rm 2160, hospital, Saturday North Star Group 7-8pm, 1233-2nd Ave OLD TIME Photo Parlour, Tuesday to Friday 11am-3pm & Saturday 10am-5pm, $10 per person. Days Inn, Whitehorse. Stop by or call 867-689-6229 to book an appointment. Fundraiser for Yukon Literacy Coalition GUILD HALL AGM, Volunteer BBQ & Costume Garage sale. Costume sale starts at 9am-1pm, BBQ at noon, AGM at 2pm August 8th at the Guild Hall.

2015 CRANBERRY Fair Application Deadline: July 31st. Information/Application: 335-0461, cranberryfair@live.com. Drop off: Itsy Bitsy Yarn @ 120-1116 Fronts Street.

Fair Date: November 22 @ Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.

SCREENING: ALL the Time in the World, Monday, Aug. 10, see Screenings tab at AlltheTimeintheWorld.ca/. Advance ticket purchase only, by credit card at EventBrite.caor phone Gregory Bryce at 667-2161

TAIGA HANDYMAN SERVICES a division of Happy Daze RV Center Ltd. •Painting and staining •Light carpentry •Mobile RV and trailer repairs •Yard cleanup and maintenance Brian Charles Call/text 332-1933 PASCAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR PASCAL AND REGINE Residential - Commercial Interior-Exterior Ceilings, Walls Textures, Floors Spray work Small drywall repair Excellent quality workmanship Free estimates pascalreginepainting@northwestel.net 633-6368

ELECTRICIAN •Licensed •General Handyman Services •Light Carpentry, Drywall, etc •Free Estimates •10% Seniorʼs Discount 332-7879

BEAR HAZARD Assessment Open House.

Come and learn about this import study currently underway, July 30-31 at the library.

Hosted by WildWise Yukon. Visit wildwise.ca for more info CHILI & Bean downriver canoe & kayak race, Wednesday Aug. 12, register Rotary Park 5:30pm, race start 6pm, 18.5 km to Takhini River Bridge, chili & beans after race. Info 668-5298 2015 SOUTHERN Lakes Harvest Dinner & Dance, Saturday September 5th, 6pm, Tagish Community Centre, Chef, Michele Genest, music, Miles Canyon Band, featuring Kevin Barr, $35/person. 399-3407 for tickets YUKON SPOTTERʼS Network Workshop, Whitehorse, August 6, 6pm, Shipyards Park, Frank Slim Building. Join Yukon Invasive Species Council for free 2 hour invasive plant identification workshop. info@yukoninvasives.com PREDATORS DOG Puller Sport Athletic League is holding Canadaʼs first dog puller championship in Whitehorse, August 29, 9am, Ecole Emilie Tremblay soccer field.

Info @ caninesyukon@hotmail.com. All spectators welcome.

HAMLET OF Mount Local Advisory Council meeting to be held Aug 03, 2015 at Mount Lorne Community Center at 7pm. Agenda on web site.

RIVERDALE FLEA Market & Community Party Saturday August 8, 9am-1pm, at Lewes & Klondike, rain or shine. Call 667-6700 for a $12 space.

Services 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 Pruning, Hauling, Chainsaw Work, and General Labour Call Francois & Katherine 456-4755 SUBARU GURU Fix•Buy•Sell Used Subarus 30 year Journeyman Mechanic Towing available Mario 333-4585 PAINTING Williamson Yukon Services offers int/exterior, redo decks, fences, sheds etc.

Reputable, reliable, reasonable.

18 years in Yukon Ph. 333-0403 FROGGY SERVICES PEST CONTROL For all kinds of work around the house Windows & Wall Cleaning & Painting Clean Eavestroughs Carpentry Yard Work etc.

References available 867-335-9272

LAND LOTTERY Remote Recreation Lots Energy, Mines and Resources, Land Management Branch is holding a lottery for 6 remote recreational lots in the Carcross area. 4 lots are located on Bennett Lake and 2 are on Tagish Lake.

Information packages and application forms are available from: Land Management Branch 3rd Floor, Room 320 Elijah Smith Building 300 Main Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Or online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands/upcoming_lotteries_tender.html Deadline: Lottery applications must be received before 4:30 p.m., August 11, 2015.

Lottery Draws: The lottery will take place in Whitehorse at 1:00 p.m., August 12, 2015 in Room 1A, Elijah Smith Building, 300 Main Street.

Applicants and the general public are welcome to attend the draw. All successful applicants will be noti¿ed the next day.

For more information contact Land Management Branch at (867) 667-5215 or Toll-free 1-800-661-0408 local 5215 or visit online at: www.emr.gov.yk.ca/lands.

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RFP2015511 Socioeconomic Profile Project - Yukon College Closes: NOON PST, August 28, 2015 The College requires a consultant to complete a study and prepare a report that will cover: - a standard economic analysis of the impacts of the College in the Yukon - the broader socioeconomic outcomes of the College, and - the potential impact of the College moving to University status It is expected that the consultant will subcontract the resources necessary to complete the project which is due by February 29, 2016.

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SHERIFFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALE

BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the SUPREME COURT OF YUKON against the GOODS, LANDS AND CHATTELS of JAMES MOREHOUSE. A) 2013 FORD ESCAPE, BLUE IN COLOR, VIN #1FMCU9H99DUA31282 Sealed bids will be received by the Sheriff of the Yukon Territory up to and including August 12th, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon. The sale is, as is, where is, without warranty to title. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted.

Payment by successful bidder will be required within ďŹ ve working days from acceptance of bid.

Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OfďŹ ce 867-667-5867 Law Court Building 2134-2nd Avenue Whitehorse YT Y1A 5H6

KLONDIKE WOODWORK Finishing Carpentry & Renovations For Clean, Meticulous & Tasteful Quality Work INTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘Kitchen & Bathrooms, Flooring, â&#x20AC;˘Design & organization of walk-in closets, laundry & storage room, garage â&#x20AC;˘Wood & Laminate, Stairs.

EXTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘Decks, Fences, Insulation, Siding, Storage Shed 633-2156 or cell 334-2156 BOBCAT SERVICE with high-sided dump trailer available for Whitehorse South.

Driveways, tree & brush removal, debris clean-up.

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KUMON MATH AND READING CENTRE Individual programs for all grades Enrol early for the 2015/2016 school year Affordable Free diagnostic check Above Starbucks on Main 393-3151

FOUND: SET of keys on the steps of Yukon News on Wood Street. Claim at 211 Wood Street between 8am and 5pm. 667-6285 FOUND: 2 hiking poles in the parking lot at the Grizzly Lake trailhead Thursday, July 16. Left them on the Park Ranger's white truck hood. Please contact them to claim.

FOUND: SMALL yellow Dri-bag on the Kusawa Lake road. Call and describe contents to claim. 334-6657 FOUND: TRAVEL guitar w/case on Kusawa Lake Rd. 334-5715 FOUND: JULY 25, tall varnished walking stick on East Point Road, Jackfish Bay, Laberge. Call 633-2118

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION WORKING GROUP COMMUNICATIONS INITIATIVES

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LOST: GREY & black small menĘźs wallet in downtown area. 333-0905

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FOUND: BLACK cat, small, long-haired young female, Northland Trailer Park.

633-5009

Sports Equipment LADIES CLEVELAND chipping wedge. Ladies TaylorMade putter. 668-5786 NECKY CHATHAM 17 sea kayak, great kayak, many extras incuding lifejacket, paddle and spray skirt, $2,000. 334-5134

Livestock HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lb Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 â&#x20AC;˘ 668-7218 RED DUN quarterhorse TW cross, 15 hands, has had some training, $1,500 obo.

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QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished.

Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic wild boar - $7/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 â&#x20AC;˘ 335-5192 HAY & STRAW FOR SALE Excellent quality hay â&#x20AC;˘Timothy/grass mix, 60 lb $14.50 â&#x20AC;˘Timothy/Brome hay, 60 lb $14.50 â&#x20AC;˘Straw bales (baled in spring) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615 or yukonfarm@gmail.com PONY GELDING, WELSH/ARAB. 12 yrs, 12.2h, palomino, great for small adult or confident child rider. Please call for more info.

867-334-4066 9 YEAR old mare, broke but not ridden in 1.5 years. Appaloosa, $500. 250-651-7676 days 250-651-2165 eves SURPLUS 2015 mated queen bees, 10 available at $20 each. 668-4613 8 PORTABLE folding trailer panels, exc cond, $1,300 obo; tombstone-style round bale feeder for horses or livestock, $250.

456-2249 12 REINDEER, certified disease free, needed for purchase for a 4H breeding program in Alaska. www.alaskawildlife.org MOWER FOR 3 point hitch on tractor, 48â&#x20AC;? finishing mower with extra set of blades, recent bearing replacements, works well, $900. 331-3221

Baby & Child Items CHILDRENĘźS CLOTHING in excellent condition, given freely the first & third Saturday monthly at the Church of the Nazarene, 2111 Centennial. 633-4903 TODDLER BED, great cond, plastic covered mattress, $75. Will consider delivering.

393-2926 HIGH CHAIR, pine bunk beds c/w mattresses, bottom bunk has drawers, exc cond.

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Project Description: Review and assess the work to date of the Implementation Working Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (IWG) Communications Sub-Group, including the Mapping the Way campaign, and to present results in a report that summarizes this work, identifies strengths, weaknesses and progress made in relation to the mandate of the group, and makes recommendations for future communications work and related evaluation.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 21, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Shari-Lynn MacLellan at (867) 667-8724.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

DESIGN BUILD REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF BUNKHOUSES DEMPSTER HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE CAMPS YUKON 2015/2016

NEW ASPHALT PLAY AREA TANTALUS SCHOOL - BLDG. #6546 CARMACKS, YUKON 2015/2016

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 25, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Mike Otto at (867) 667-3004.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 18, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Anton Pertschy at (867) 6673651.

Site Visit Scheduled for August 6, 2015 at 10:30 AM The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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Project Description: To provide attendant services at the Champagne Solid Waste Disposal Facility. This includes having an attendant on site during all hours of operation, promoting waste diversion, and other activities Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 20, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Darrin Fredrickson at 867-6675195.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

STOKKE C O N V E R T I B L E baby bassinet/crib/bed, solid beechwood, c/w all parts, mattresses, mattress protectors, 2 fitted sheets for each of 3 sizes, ages 0-10 years old, $2,400 retail, $1,200 obo.

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PUBLIC TENDER INTERIOR RETROFIT UNIT 084000 – 4B - 2004 CENTENNIAL STREET WHITEHORSE, YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 20, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

If documents are available they may be obtained from Yukon Housing Corporation, 410 Jarvis Street, Whitehorse, Yukon. Technical questions may be directed to Robert Kostelnik at 867-667-5795.

Site Visit: August 10, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

Childcare DRUPAL STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION CONSULTING Project Description: Drupal strategy and implementation services in order to support eServices for Citizens’ platform delivery vision Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is September 3, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Geof Harries at (867) 456-5501.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

WANTED: LIVE-IN CAREGIVER for toddler, to supervise, care for, prepare meals & bathe.

40-hr work week (full time). Salary, $11/hr.

Reside in private Whitehorse residence.

Completion of Secondary school and minimum of 1 year full time caregiving work experience required.

First Aid/CPR training and criminal record check is required.

Apply by phone: (867) 334-5351, (867) 456-2081, or email karen.minguito@yahoo.ca

Furniture LEATHER BURGUNDY swivel chair, good cond, $30. 334-8318 LOUNGE CHAIR & ottoman, beige, black wooden frame, $90 obo. 660-4321 STORAGE CABINET, cedar, 4-dr, 32.5”L x 11.5”D x93”H, $75. 660-4321 L-SHAPED SECTIONAL micro-suede sofa.

Excellent, like new condition. Light beige, $800 obo. 334-1195 SOLID WOOD table with 4 wooden chairs. $125. 633-4139

ROAD CONSTRUCTION, AZURE FRONTAGE ROAD KM 1432.5, ALASKA HWY #1

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL KENO CITY WATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES Project Description: Design Services to upgrade existing infrastructure.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 14, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Michael Fuder at (867) 456-6108.

Funded by Gas Tax The highest ranked or lowest priced submission may not necessarily be accepted.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

Community Services

Project Description: The project includes construction and extension of approximately 325 metres of Azure Road in the vicinity of km 1432.5 Alaska Highway.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title.

The closing date for submissions is August 11, 2015. Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

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

Technical questions may be directed to Sandra Orban at (867) 332-7935.

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

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre. The information displayed is as of date and time of opening and is not modified based on the results of the Compliance Review.

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

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.hpw.gov.yk.ca/tenders/

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Sudoku:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST

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Word Scramble A: Abulia B: Dubious C: Olio

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WOODEN/GLASS DISPLAY cabinet, $600 obo. 633-4139 LOG PICNIC table, new, $550, very well made. 399-3904 SOFA & loveseat, blue material, $200 obo; Wood antique desk, $500 firm. 335-9272

Personals 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 WHITEHORSE DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB July 28, 2015 1st - Jan Ogilvy & Darwin Wreggitt 2nd - Mark Davey & Chris Bookless 3rd - Bruce Beaton & Lynn Daffe We play every Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Golden Age Society.

New players are welcome.

For more information call 633-5352 or email nmcgowan@klondiker.com

Garage SALES

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ARKELL M 28 GROUSE CRES, Arkell, Saturday August 1, 9am-3pm, Sunday August 2, 5pm-9pm, moving sale, furniture , kitchen appliances, fish & tank etc DOWNTOWN M 709 OGILVIE ST, downtown, Saturday August 1, 8am-12noon, decades of accumulation, tools, housewares, camping, vinyl including 78s etc M 506 TAYLOR ST, downtown, Saturday August 1, 10am start, household items, toys, sports equipment M 404 HOGE ST, downtown, Saturday August 1, 9am-2pm, household items, fabric, craft supplies, patterns, book, light fixtures, dishes, clothing M NEW FLEA MARKET YARD, fenced lot next to Pizza Hut, Saturday August 1, 10am-3pm, quads, boats, tools, vehicles, household, tiles, construction, trailers. Come rent a spot for $25. 333-0717 HIDDEN VALLEY M 9 SOAPBERRY LANE, Hidden Valley, Saturday August 1, 8am1pm, moving sale, leather & custom furniture, exercise equipment, kids toys, clothing, household items, rain or shine HILLCREST M 158 DALTON TRAIL, Hillcrest, Saturday August 1, 8am-12noon, moving sale, furniture, shelves, desk, dresser, tables, chairs, clothing, kitchen stuff, electronics, books, kids stuff DIGGER’S DRIVE,

Judas Creek, Saturday August 1, 12noon-4pm, cedar cabinet, dresser, chairs, table tennis, outdoor items, rain or shine KOPPER KING M 8 PROSPECT RD, Kopper King, Saturday August 1, 9am-3pm, microwave, pool table, household items PORTER CREEK M 12-12TH AVE, Porter Creek, Saturday August 1, 9am-1pm RIVERDALE M 53 ALSEK RD, Riverdale, Saturday August 1, 9am starting time, clothes, kitchen supplies, movies, books, games, home decor, outdoor gear etc TAKHINI M 48 RHINE WAY, Takhini, Saturday August 1, 9am-2pm, serious downsizing, small furniture, housewares, tools, toys M 30 NORMANDY RD, Takhini North near Takhini Elementary School, Saturday August 1, 9am-1pm, multifamily, rain or shine VALLEYVIEW M 349 VALLEYVIEW CRES, Valleyview, Saturday August 1, 9am-1pm, bikes, household appliance, jewelry

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