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‘I already saw me dying’ Couple recounts dramatic rescue near Haines Junction

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Meanwhile Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine is about ready for construction.

The company’s permits are in place and it has secured a $220 million loan to cover the majority of its construction.

“The Eagle mine contains 2.7 million ounces of proven and probable reserves of gold. It will employ 600 people during construction, which is anticipated to begin in 2018 and last two years.

Construction of the mine is expected to cost $340 million,” the report says.

“Production is forecast to begin in 2019 at an average output of 127,000 ounces of gold per year, while providing 400 permanent jobs.”

Meanwhile signs are also looking up for the territory’s exploration industry.

Exploration spending in the Yukon has more than doubled over last year, according to the Yukon Geological Survey.

Officials with the survey are predicting more than

$120 million in spending over this year, more than double last year.

Scott Casselman, the head of mineral services, said his office is expecting more than $100 million in exploration expenditures in 2017 and around $20 million in development expenditures.

Since the boom years of 2011 and 2012, the territory normally sees about $50 million in spending.

Casselman credits past work done by junior explorers with convincing larger mining companies to invest in the Yukon.

“We have, I think five of the top 10 gold mining companies in the world that have within the last year signed deals with properties in the Yukon. They’re bringing a lot of money with them.”

Interest by the big companies spurs interest from others, he said.

“Other companies take note and say ‘what is it that’s there that maybe we can get in on.’”

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he Yukon continues to be on pace to blow past the record for the number of bears killed in a season.

Eight bears were killed since Saturday, two on August 2 alone, bringing the year’s total to an estimated 48, said conservation officer Ken Knutson.

The territory’s record for a single year is 61.

On August 2 officers shot two black bears, one in Dawson and one near Mayo.

Officers shot the Mayo bear at a mining camp north of the community.

“That one there had actually damaged, as I understand it, four vehicles, trying to break into them,” he said.

The bear also broke into a shed on the property.

“It was definitely one that was considered a danger to

public safety.”

Knutson didn’t have specifics about the bear killed

by COs in Dawson that day.

But he said the community is one of the Yukon’s “hot spots” right now for bear activity along with Mayo and Faro.

“They’ve been going flat out in Dawson, probably our busiest district,” he said.

A spokesperson for Environment Yukon said 13 bears have been killed in Dawson this year, 11 by conservation officers.

As the number of bears killed in the Yukon continues to climb, Knutson continues to repeat what has become a common refrain for conservation officers this season: humans need to keep attractants away from wild animals. “(Killing bears) is a horrible thing to do, because I know a lot of times it’s preventable,” he said.

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Conservation officers across the territory have kept busy at all hours of the night responding to calls about bears.

“This sometimes goes on until midnight. It becomes a point where you’re never really relaxed,” Knutson said.

“That’s a bit fatiguing for sure.”

Conservation officers hate the idea of having to kill an animal, and will only make that choice if the bear is considered a high risk to humans, he said.

That risk goes up whenever a bear is used to getting food from humans.

“We give each one consideration, we just know that some bears that have already gotten into human food sources, such as garbage, such as poultry, those bears tend to be the ones that

reoffend.”

Conservation officers have also spent much of the summer trapping and moving bears to try and keep both the bears and humans safe.

Bears can be moved between 100 and 150 kilometres away and will still often find their way back to a source of easily-accessable food. “(They) get such a big energy kick out of it, they key in on that and will keep going back to those sites to see if they can get food there.”

Bears that are moved “almost always end up back in trouble,” he said.

Knutson said he’d like the community to get more involved in keeping the bears safe.

“Everyone thinking about ‘what could be an attractant in my yard, how can I manage it so a bear can’t get it.’”

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ix months of good news in the mining sector was enough for the Conference Board of Canada to brighten its outlook on the Yukon’s economic future for the next few years.

Meanwhile, exploration spending in the Yukon is expected to more than double this year compared to last year.

The conference board released its economic conditions report for the North August 1. The forecast predicts the Yukon’s GDP will shrink 0.7 per cent this year but that will be followed by a few years of strong growth, averaging 6.6 per cent from 2018 to 2020.

The improvement is thanks to positive signs in the territory’s mining sector, said Marie-Christine Bernard, associate director of the provincial and territorial forecast service.

“I think just six months ago it would have been hard to say (that) there would

have been some mines under development in the next few years but now it looks like the environment is better.”

The outlook for 2017 improved when Capstone, the owner of the Minto mine, announced it planned to keep production there going now that commodities prices have improved, according to the report.

“That will be enough to tide the territory’s economy over before construction begins on two new mines that will open before 2020,” it says.

“Mineral production at the Minto mine is expected to drop this year, but Capstone wants to ramp up production again in 2018.”

The fact that Minto won’t be at full production until 2018 is why the 2017 prediction still shows a small decline in the predicted GDP this year year.

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Couple rescued by RCMP at Haines Junction: ‘We’re very lucky’ Jackie Hong News Reporter

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t was when the river level hadn’t dropped in three weeks and they were running low on medication that Reinhard Bruengger realized that he and his wife Christin might be in trouble soon.

The Marsh Lake couple, along with their dog, Yuk, had gone out to their mining site just outside of Haines Junction, where the Jarvis and Telluride rivers meet, at the end of June, a trip they’d made over a dozen times with no issues since Bruennger bought the site in 2013.

But this time was different, and a series of unfortunate events ended with the couple stranded at their cabin, eventually getting rescued by the RCMP via helicopter.

The original plan, Bruengger said, was to cross the river and get to the cabin in one of his pickup trucks, but it got stuck on the muddy road about four kilometres away.

The couple didn’t have a shovel in the truck — a mistake Bruengger said he won’t be repeating — and the winch they had wasn’t enough to pull it out, so Bruengger decided to walk to the cabin and return with a quad and trailer to pick up his wife, dog and supplies.

Crossing the Jarvis River by foot was doable, Bruengger recalled, but was “not that easy” when he came back with the quad and empty trailer.

After packing the trailer with a few weeks’ worth of food and securing Yuk to a front basket on the quad, the couple started back to their cabin, crossing a small creek along the way with no problems.

But then came the Jarvis, and as soon as both the quad and trailer were in the water, chaos took over. “(We) got washed down and the trailer unhooked…. My wife tried to grab it and she had it for a short while but then it was going crazy in the current and she had to let it go,” Bruengger said.

At the same moment, the quad hit a rock on the riverbed. Bruengger said his wife was “catapulted” into the water and started tumbling downstream as he tried to keep the quad from tipping over.

He managed to get the quad on to a small gravel

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Reinhard Bruengger and his dog Yuk at his Marsh Lake home. Bruengger and his wife, Christin, were stranded for three weeks at their cabin when river levels were too high to safely cross. bank and looked up to see Christin kneeling in the water, holding on to some rocks to keep herself from being swept down even farther.

Christin had hit her head several times as she tumbled and was disoriented. When he told her to swim to shore, she began heading the wrong way, so he swam down to her and brought her back to the gravel bank.

“At this moment, when she was in a safe place, I saw that trailer coming down (the river) again,” Bruengger said, “so I jumped out, grabbed the trailer by the tongue, and then I got caught by the current.”

Bruengger was swept downstream again and was almost crushed by the trailer as he tried to get it back to the riverbank.

Eventually, he gave up and headed back to the quad, then rode back to the cabin.

“We were soaking wet and the water was not that warm in the Jarvis River, so I unload my wife and the dog,” he said. Their backpacks holding their satellite phone, cameras, binoculars and Christin’s

medication had been swept down the Jarvis along with the trailer. The only valuable thing that wasn’t swept away was Bruengger’s wallet, which had happened to be in Christin’s coat pocket.

After warming up for a bit inside the cabin, Bruengger went back out on the quad, this time to the Telluride, to see if he could salvage anything. After a few minutes, he saw his trailer, upside down on the opposite side of the river. “(I thought), ‘Okay, I need that trailer,’ then got in the water again,” he said. “Just crazy, just crazy.”

Bruengger made his way across and flipped the trailer over, losing a cooler full of bread in the process, but got the trailer hooked up to his quad. It was when he tried to cross back to the cabin side that chaos took over again.

“Probably my brain was only halfway working or so, I just ran into the water where I used to go when the water was low last year and the year before,” Bruengger said. “And I got in there, that’s an ATV… not a submarine. I got in there, the water got over

the fuel tanks and boom, it quit on me in the middle of the current again.”

Somehow, Bruengger said he managed to get the quad and trailer on to the same gravel bank as before, parked them there, and finally went back to the cabin.

“My wife, she was pretty confused,” he recalled.

“She said, ‘I already saw me dying.’ She said, ‘That was the last waltz I’ve been dancing, down that river, rolling down.’”

The next day, Bruengger said he managed to find another cooler in the river — one full of frozen meat — and the water level was low enough that he crossed over and drove to Haines Junction to get more groceries.

He returned to the cabin without trouble, and he and Christin began doing work around the site. They had enough food to last weeks and there was plenty of water around.

And then it started raining, and it didn’t stop.

The Jarvis River swelled even higher, making crossing safely impossible.

Bruengger said it was around July 16 that he started thinking about

finding a way out. He’d been sharing his medication with his wife but didn’t know how sustainable that was, and the supply was running low.

He’d heard from locals that there was some kind of road north of their site that led back to the Alaska Highway, so he went out on his quad to scout.

According to his GPS, Bruengger said he made it exactly three miles before hitting a dead end.

Bruengger went back to the cabin and checked the height of the river. It needed to drop about 30 centimetres before they could cross back safely — in 24 hours, it had dropped about one.

“I knew we didn’t have enough food and we didn’t have enough medications for that long,” Bruengger said. And so, around noon on July 21, Bruengger used a can of bright orange spray paint to scrawl a giant “SOS” in the bank of the Telluride.

Five hours later, a large helicopter flew over but showed no signs of having seen the SOS, Bruengger said. He would later learn that it was an American aircraft that didn’t have

clearance to land in Canada, but the pilot had seen the message and reported it to Whitehorse Flight Services. Three hours after that, Bruengger said, another helicopter passed over — this time, it circled back, landed in front of the cabin and two RCMP officers and a pilot got out.

After making sure they were okay, the officers arranged to come pick up the couple the next day.

The rescue went smoothly, Bruengger said, except for one thing — Yuk, scared by the sound of the helicopter blades spinning, took off just as they were about to board.

The couple spent half an hour trying to find him before giving up.

“I said, ‘No, we better go. The pilot is not here to wait, to see how we play around with that dog until we catch him,’” Bruengger said. He dumped a bag of dog food under the porch for Yuk, and then got into the helicopter with Christin. It dropped them back at the highway where their truck was, and after checking in with the RCMP, the couple drove back home to Marsh Lake.

Four days later, Bruengger paid for a helicopter to fly him back to the cabin to search for Yuk, who had a face full of porcupine quills but was otherwise okay.

Bruengger said he and his wife, who declined to speak directly to the News, are thankful that in the end, they came out not just alive, but mostly unharmed, save a few bruises and bumps from the first tumble down the river.

“I would say, four, five thousand dollars went down the river. But that’s nothing compared to life….”

Since then, Bruengger said, he’s been keeping a close eye on Environment Canada reports coming out of Haines Junction, which have been showing relatively dry weather. If it keeps up, he plans to return to his mine site next week — but this time, more prepared and with more respect for the land.

“If the water’s too high, I’ll turn around and come back, I don’t want to risk my life anymore,” he said.

“I think no ground is that rich that it’s worth to risk your life to go there …

It’s beautiful country, but sometimes it’s rough.”

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hitehorse city staff have recommended council move ahead with the next phase of public consultation for a proposed infill plan.

The results from the initial survey and consultation are in. Staff received 462 survey responses from eight areas of the city, plus 60 emails on the subject, planning and sustainability manager Mike Ellis told city council at the July 31 standing committee meeting.

Concerns included the view that there was too little consultation with residents, concerns over the potential impact on the quality of life for existing residents and worries about green space and the effects of increased density, he said. Sixty per cent of respondents expressed concern about the viability of wells and septic systems in the area and impacts to wildlife and trail systems.

If the developments were approved, he said, residents stated they want existing trails maintained and for building regulation to be the same as other neighbourhoods. They also want country residential lot sizes to be in line with what well and septic systems can support.

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The complete results of the survey are available online.

“As I predicted, nothing drives people crazier than infill…. It’s a good process but I don’t think people understand it,” said Coun.

Rob Fendrick.

Ellis said three of the possible 13 infill lots were eliminated from the list as a result of consultations and physical assessments of the sites.

Two of the three eliminated lots were in Whitehorse Copper, said Kinden Kosick, project manager and planner for the city, in an interview. One was eliminated because positioning and drainage issues created the potential for permafrost, he said, and the other because it was found to be sitting on bedrock, making installing proper septic systems impossible.

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septic system in bedrock,” he said. “You really can’t do much of anything on bedrock.”

The third eliminated site was in Mary Lake and was removed from possible development because of drainage and poor access issues, he said.

“So every other lot… is determined to be fine?” asked Coun. Roslyn Woodcock.

“No… (staff) would like to see more testing done,” said Ellis.

“We don’t see any technical reasons right now why (the remaining sites) can’t be developed,” Kosick said. He added city staff would conduct more soil testing to ensure sites can support septic drainage systems, but that his current results suggest they will.

One of the criteria for site selection was the “significance” of the green space to be turned over to development. Coun. Rob Fendrick questioned what the definition of “significant” was.

This was a difficult question to answer, said Ellis, but noted that all the existing residences still had access to “alternative” green spaces.

“Certainly, we don’t want to state any of these areas are not important green space… they are all are important to local residents,” Ellis said. “There isn’t an intent there to signify this isn’t significant green space to people….

It’s simply to say that in the opinion of staff, there is still significant green space nearby.”

The next step in this process is to release a more detailed report about what kind of housing could be built and giving the public time to “really chew on” the proposals, Kosik said.

In the survey, Hidden Valley, Cowley Creek and Mary Lake residents said they would favour single family developments with suites. Sandpiper Drive and Magpie Road surveyed residents said they would prefer single resident homes without suites. Wann Road and Wilson Drive residents didn’t strongly prefer either option. Wilson Drive and Sandpiper Drive were the areas most open to having duplexes and townhouses.

Council will vote at the August 7 regular council meeting on whether to move to the next step.

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Council will vote on the staff’s recommendation at the August 7 council meeting.

Nunavut was initially supposed to host the 2020 Games, but was unable to.

The city stepped in at the request of the territorial government, which will cover most of the costs.

The creation of a host society for the Games is the first step in the process of organizing the games.

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Staff recommended city council appoint George Arcand as the 2020 Arctic Winter Games host society president at the July 31 standing committee meeting.

“I’ve worked with George in this capacity — leading large teams — and he has done an excellent job in the past,” said Coun.

Robert Fendrick.

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School to start on schedule for kids in Ross River Ashley Joannou News Reporter

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ukon’s public works minister says it’s safe for students to go back to school in Ross River when the bell rings to start classes August 29.

Plans to re-level the building, which has been riddled with problems thanks to melting permafrost, could be a couple of years out. But Richard Mostyn said multiple engineering reports have confirmed that the school is safe to occupy.

“It poses no risk to children and staff so classes will resume there in the building this fall,” he said at a press conference August 3.

A structural engineer’s report from May confirmed that the school is safe to occupy and recommended that it be re-leveled this summer.

Instead Mostyn says the government plans to focus on stabilizing the ground underneath the school before trying to fix the structure itself.

“It doesn’t make sense to re-level and then deal with the ground because as you deal with the ground you change the conditions and the school has to be re-levelled again.”

The minister said both the structural engineer who wrote the report in May and a geotechnical engineer hired by the government agree with

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In the short term, the government plans to install more sensors to monitor temperatures under the school. There’s also talk of installing monitors that would track the school’s shifting but installing those will depend on how much they cost, Mostyn said.

As it stands the Ross River school is inspected twice a year to confirm it is still safe.

Mostyn said the school is moving less now than it has in the past. A memo from the geotechnical engineer dated August 2 confirms settlement has been “significantly reduced” but doesn’t provide any specifics.

Movement has caused superficial cracks in the school. Some doors don’t close. Mostyn said work has already started on some cosmetic repairs.

This fall, technical experts will look at how to restore the ground to its previous frozen condition.

Experts are going to review the performance and installation of the school’s thermosyphon system, Mostyn said.

That’s the equipment that’s supposed to pull heat away from the ground and prevent permafrost from melting.

When problems with the school were first revealed Mostyn seemed certain that the system

was not working. Now it appears he is open to a different answer.

“It is working. Whether or not it’s working to its maximum capacity or to its full effectiveness or doing the job that it’s supposed to be doing, these are questions we’ve got to evaluate,” he said.

“Clearly more has to be done and I am looking at how to get that more done.”

What that solution could look like is still unclear. Multiple reports, including the most recent one from the geotechnical engineer, mention adding refrigeration units to the thermosyphon system to restore the permafrost.

One report pegged that cost at $500,000.

Mostyn said he hasn’t seen a detailed breakdown of that proposal.

“Frankly, the $500,000 number is a great starting point but I want to see an actual detailed cost accounting of what it is going to cost to put this thing in before I go forward and say yeah, this is what we’re doing.”

Other suggestions include cooling the crawlspace or replacing the foundation.

Whatever solution officials come up with for the ground, it will take a few seasons to figure out whether it’s working, Mostyn said.

“It will have to operate through the heat

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Highways and Public Works Minister Richard Mostyn said during a press conference on Thursday that the Ross River School is structurally safe and that classes will start on time. of a summer then we’ll have to take it through a winter then we’ll have to take it through (another) summer so it could be a couple of seasons before we actually find out if this works.”

Only after the ground

is restored to an appropriate temperature would the building be re-levelled, he said.

There’s also the possibility that experts won’t be able to come up with a financially viable solution for the ground.

Yukon Energy said a speed signal to Whitehorse Hydro Unit #4 governor failed, causing it to shut down as a safeguard. The

speed signal failure, in turn, was caused by a control board failure. Whitehorse Hydro Unit #4 is the largest hydro unit on the grid.

That could mean looking at building a new school, he said.

“But we’re not there yet.”

Stacey Hassard, interim Yukon Party leader and the MLA for the region, criticized the government for waiting so long to tell the community and the Ross River Dena Council about the future of the school.

“I spoke to one of the councillors this afternoon after I heard this news, they had not been notified that the government was taking this route. It doesn’t appear that this is something that has been discussed with the community.”

The government should have made the decision more quickly, Hassard said.

“And if they were making the decision to do nothing I think should have been relayed to the community.”

Both Mostyn and Education Minister Tracey-Anne McPhee said letters were sent to the community letting people know what is going on.

Mostyn said he plans to meet with residents and has called the First Nation.

Chief Jack Caesar could not be reached in time for today’s deadline.

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f there’s a weird beating heart of the Yukon, it’s Dawson City.

The Klondike’s status as an arts hub has been a long time in the making. There is, in the view of this former resident, no better place to put the Yukon School of Visual Arts than a town where the rough-edged history of the Gold Rush combines with the revival of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in culture and a rag-tag band of Outside misfits.

This why SOVA’s free-falling enrolment figures are such a shame. (Full disclosure: My wife is a SOVA alum, having completed the program in 2014-15.) The school’s ideal size of 15 to 20 students would be, with a little planning, both attainable and sustainable.

But it’s not exactly clear that Yukon College, which manages SOVA, knows what it’s doing or is even interested in saving the school.

When enrolment began sliding, the college did very little to reverse the trend. Recruitment drives were ineffective and poorly funded, according to multiple sources. Perhaps a good way to boost enrolment would be to actually try looking for students.

The lion’s share of SOVA students come from outside the territory. That’s not necessarily a bad thing and more than a few have stayed in the Yukon. But the prime target for recruitment should be northern students who are considering art school. SOVA’s aim should be to recruit students from the Yukon, N.W.T., and Nunavut, plus Alaska and northern B.C. who could use a foundation year closer to home before taking the plunge at a southern art school.

Premier Sandy Silver — the Klondike’s MLA, lest we forget — made the establishment of a SOVA stream for Indigenous artists part of culture minister Jeannie Dendys’s mandate.

This would be a great way to boost enrolment and help develop homegrown artists at the same time.

A third possibility is to make SOVA a place for Outside students pursuing master’s degrees in fine art to complete their final year of study.

Students finishing their degrees could mentor first-year students and would be more likely to stay in Dawson and further build the town’s thriving cultural scene.

The matter of housing remains a serious concern, although some new housing stock has come on the market and more is planned.

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Stephanie Newsome There are signs that the Yukon government is hitting the brakes on the demolition of McDonald Lodge, which several Dawson residents have suggested would make a good residence for SOVA students.

Of course, there’s not much point in putting students in an uninhabitable building. It may make more sense for YG to investigate other options, but it should definitely pursue the creation of dedicated student housing to help draw students to SOVA. Unfortunately, it is not clear what the college plans to do to help boost enrolment. The college has refused to answer questions about SOVA’s future in any meaningful way. When our reporter attempted to seek comment for last week’s story, a spokesperson responded with the same information-free boilerplate statement over and over again.

If Yukon College has plans for SOVA, it seems at this point that college officials have no interest in informing the public what they are until after the fact.

To her credit, Education Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee, who was involved in crafting the initial response to our reporting, has since made herself available to answer questions about this story. She has, crucially, stated flat-out that the Yukon government is not considering moving SOVA from Dawson to

Whitehorse.

But it’s still not clear if there will be a school year for SOVA this fall. There are apparently six students enrolled for September. Other media have interpreted this as meeting the threshold to run the program, but it’s important to note that McPhee has never actually said that.

What this means is that there are students planning to move to Dawson City who don’t know there will be a school to go to. SOVA has extended its registration deadline to August 22, which seems extremely late for an academic year that is scheduled to start on Sept. 5. It’s unfair to leave students in the lurch and they should be informed as soon as possible whether they have a school to go to.

The college is said to want to conduct a program review of SOVA. At this point, it’s clear that is badly needed, but it cannot take place behind closed doors. The college needs to be frank with students, staff and Dawson residents about SOVA’s challenges. It needs to consult — in public — with the community about ways to make the school better.

SOVA is a unique institution that’s part of what makes Dawson great. It deserves more than the college’s preferred approach of secrecy. Most importantly, SOVA deserves a future.

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During my disability and recovery I have become fully aware of the services available to me through the Department of Health and Social Services to improve my mobility within the city and in my home. Over these 10 years, all at little

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or those who don’t know it, the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson is a very cool program. It offers a “foundation year” program where students do the first year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree before transferring to one of SOVA’s famous Canadian partner schools such as the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.

There is a 7,800-squarefoot facility in Dawson with studio equipment, individual student spaces and a laptop and digital camera for each student for multimedia projects. In addition to the school’s staff, two accomplished artists-in-residence provide inspiration, technical teaching and mentorship for students.

Throw in its location in Dawson, and you’ve got the ingredients for a year of

learning that any artist will look back on as a rich and life-changing experience.

However, SOVA is in trouble. As reported in the Yukon News last week, SOVA’s enrollment has dwindled in recent years to dangerously low levels. In 2007, there were 19 full-time students.

Last school year there were only seven full-time and four part-time. As of a few days ago, six were registered for the coming year.

Meanwhile, last year’s budget for the school was about $550,000. Just $22,000, or four per cent, came from tuition. The bulk of SOVA’s funding comes from the Yukon government, with additional support both in cash and in kind from Yukon College and other organizations.

This is the crux of the problem. Government funding from various sources of approximately $530,000 in 2016 supported the education of 11 students. If you count each part-time student as 50 per cent of a full-time student, that works out to $59,000 per full-time student.

Some cranky taxpayer lobby group is probably preparing a snarky press release pointing out that the government would have

saved money if it just gave the students $50,000 each and sent them to Emily Carr (although that wouldn’t have any of SOVA’s other benefits such as job creation or supporting the arts in Dawson).

In media interviews this week, SOVA supporters identified housing as a major challenge. A significant number of students are interested in the program, but the cost and limited availability of housing are deterrents.

SOVA can’t offer a university residence room, for example, a popular housing choice for first-year students at other universities.

SOVA’s second challenge is competition. Student numbers are not growing as fast as they used to in Canada, and applicants have lots of programs and schools to choose among.

Last November, Statistics Canada reported post-secondary enrollments nationally were up a modest 0.3 per cent over the previous year.

While there was growth of 4.1 per cent in the territories, enrollments were actually down slightly in neighbouring B.C. and Alberta. In the category of “Visual and performing arts and communications technologies,” national enrollment was down too.

Meanwhile, students have more choices than ever. Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, UBC Okanagan, and Kwantlen in Vancouver offer visual arts programs, for example. The young Yukoners I know who are interested in visual arts are also well aware of what more longstanding programs at Emily Carr or Humber can offer.

The third and perhaps biggest worry for SOVA is the Yukon Government’s fiscal position. SOVA is not the only government program with a high cost per beneficiary. Such programs were easier to afford when the Yukon had literally hundreds of millions of dollars in its cash surplus account.

However, the Yukon’s cash surplus dwindled rapidly in the last few budgets of the Yukon Party, and this trend continued in the first budget of the new Yukon Liberal government. On March 31 of this year, the Yukon Government’s net financial assets were $93 million. After the planned $83 million cash deficit for this year, that figure will be down to $10 million by next March 31.

Unless either spending is restrained or some wonderful new revenues come

from somewhere, the Yukon government will go into debt next year.

To put it another way, spending $59,000 per student was easier when the government had lots of money in the bank. It is another question to borrow from the bond market or pre-spend future generations’ transfer payments to pay for programs like this.

To top it all off, the pressure on Yukon government budgets will have other educational programs clamouring for funds. SOVA will have to compete with programs such as expanded head start kindergarten for high-risk pre-schoolers, learning assistants in the classroom, training more nurses for our aging population or the expenses related to turning Yukon College into a university.

I spoke to someone who runs a program with a similar budget at a major Canadian university. Administrators there expect programs to generate up to half of their funding from tuition, as well as from high-fee professional or executive programs plus other grants and philanthropists.

The professional or executive-style programs

could be a sizeable new revenue source for SOVA. If there was some sort of student residence in Dawson, not only could it be used

by SOVA students during the school year, but also potentially for fee-paying artist retreats, workshops and similar programs from May to September. SOVA could position Dawson as a “summer destination for cultural education” that attracts mid-career people with deeper wallets or funding for some truly unique programs across artistic, Indigenous and Northern themes.

SOVA’s leaders are undoubtedly working on a program to boost enrollment by marketing the program more effectively to Canadian and international students, cut costs and raise more revenue through new grant applications, tuition fees and corporate and public fundraising.

We should wish them luck.

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 is a Ma Murray award-winner for best columnist.

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OTTAWA he Liberal government’s plan to allow judges to excuse impoverished offenders from paying a federal victim surcharge could end up shrinking provincial budgets, so Ottawa is prepared to shell out some extra cash — for a time.

“Provinces that demonstrate losses or that anticipate losses in revenue as a result of the proposed amendments may apply for transitional funding to offset these costs,” David Taylor, a spokesman for Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, wrote in an email statement.

Taylor added the funding could be made available for three years, beginning this year.

The Liberal government introduced legislation last October aimed at partly overturning a controversial change the previous Conservative government had made to the federal victim surcharges that judges impose on offenders at sentencing.

The surcharge came into effect in 1989 as a way to make offenders cover at least some of the costs associated with the impact of crime, by having the provinces and territories collect the money and use it to help fund programs and services for victims.

Judges had the discretion to waive the levy if they believed it would cause “undue hardship” to offenders or their dependents.

That changed in 2013, when the Conservative government doubled the amount and made it mandatory, even if the offender could not afford to pay.

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The legislation the Liberal government tabled last fall, Bill C-28, would restore limited discretion to judges.

That could mean reduced revenues for provincial and territorial governments, says a memo prepared for Wilson-Raybould last September.

The Canadian Press obtained the memo through the Access to Information Act. The majority of the document was redacted, but the title suggests officials were exploring the possibility of dipping into the federal Victims Fund, which has a $27.8 million budget this year, to make up for the potential shortfall. The memo includes figures showing lapsed funding that would provide some room to do so.

The memo also shows how much money the federal victim surcharge had provided to provinces and Yukon territory annually over five years ending in 2015, a period that includes before and after the Conservatives made it mandatory.

In 2014-15, the provinces and the territory collected nearly $15.4 million.

The Justice Department said more recent statistics are not yet available.

It is difficult to predict the fiscal impact of Bill C-28, which has yet to be debated in the House of Commons.

On the one hand, the numbers in the memo do show that, with the exception of Prince Edward Island, revenue from the federal surcharge increased after the Conservatives made it mandatory.

On the other hand, the numbers in some cases reveal a growing

funding to the provinces and territories, because this money goes to these programs that are essential to support victims in the aftermath of a crime,” she said last October.

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new deal.

The reality entering trade talks is a bit more mundane.

The U.S. has posted its priorities for the NAFTA negotiations starting Aug. 16, and they lie somewhere between the two extremes of the everything-is-fine attitude in that January phone call and the more aggressive talk favoured by some Trump advisers and occasionally the president himself.

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about them. That is a separate thing and they are fine and we have had a very fair relationship with Canada.

It has been much more balanced and much more fair.

So we do not have to worry about Canada, we do not even think about them.�

Those remarks echo public comments he made a few days later at a news conference with Trudeau.

His rhetoric has ebbed and flowed since then. Trump has complained about Canadian dairy and lumber policies, and often threatens to scrap NAFTA barring a

president that he got huge crowds during the campaign, promising throngs of 25,000 to 50,000 people that Mexico would pay for the wall.

Pena Nieto supposedly encouraged a more positive discussion: He urged Trump to focus on the fact that the three NAFTA countries could negotiate a new trade framework. That prompted a rejoinder from Trump. “Canada is no problem,�

Trump replied, according to the leaked transcript. “Do not worry about Canada, do not even think

Justin Trudeau visited the White House.

They came in a call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and were part of a leaked transcript that was published today by the Washington Post. The context for the exchange was Trump’s bitter and escalating feud with Mexico at the time.

U.S.-Mexico had just reached their nadir over the proposed border wall, and who would pay for it.

Pena Nieto cancelled a trip to Washington. In the call, Trump told the Mexican

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Paddling for the Peel

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he short film opens with a sweeping bird’s-eye view of tree-covered mountains, peak after peak stretching far into the distance. The camera glides into a valley and reveals an impossibly blue river carving its way through the rugged landscape, untouched wilderness, with not a single road, cabin or telephone pole in sight.

The breathtaking video is part of the latest project aiming to raise awareness about the Peel watershed and the importance of preserving it. A collaboration between conservation group Wilderness International with Tetlit Gwich’in of Fort McPherson, N.W.T., the as-of-yet unnamed project saw 11 German members of Wilderness International, a Tetlit Gwich’in elder and five Tetlit Gwich’in youth paddle down the Snake River for 11 days, documenting the landscape as well as Tetlit Gwich’in stories and traditions with photos, videos and a blog that will be published online.

“This one is the largest mountain wilderness that we have left on this earth,” Wilderness International western arctic project coordinator Henriette Wessel told the News after returning from the trip.

“As wilderness areas are vanishing all over the planet, I wouldn’t see it as a national issue, it’s rather an international issue we all need to worry about.”

The fate of the Peel watershed — a roughly 68,000-square-kilometre area in northern Yukon — has been the subject of numerous legal battles for more than half a decade now. The controversy started in 2011 when, following a seven-year planning process, the Peel Watershed Planning Committee delivered a report to the Yukon government recommending 80 per cent of the watershed be protected. However, the then-ruling Yukon Party ignored the recommendation, instead releasing its own plan that would open almost the same amount of land to development.

The move angered First Nations, as well as conservationists, who brought the issue to territorial court. Both the Yukon

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Duo Lakes near the Snake River in the Peel watershed. A new video is the latest project to raise awareness on the importance of the watershed.

Supreme Court and Yukon Court of Appeal ruled the Yukon government broke rules by releasing a dramatically different plan than the one recommended by the committee.

However, while the Yukon Supreme Court ruled the government could not change the amount of protected land nor build new roads or access ways because they hadn’t been discussed in enough detail at an earlier stage, the court of appeal later ruled the territorial government could make those changes as long as everyone was properly consulted with.

First Nations and conservationists disagreed with the appeal court ruling and brought the issue to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the case was heard March 22. A ruling is expected sometime in the three to six months following the hearing.

For Tetlit Gwich’in Chief Wanda Pascal, a way of life, and a lifeline, hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court of Canada ruling.

“The Peel River Watershed is so important to our community and surrounding communities.…

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A grizzly in search of food.

Most of us still live off the land, on fish and wildlife, berries, traditional medicine, water,” Pascal said in a phone interview.

“A lot of our people are buried up all through that watershed, there’s lots of unmarked graves all the way up, so we always be careful when we travel out on that land, we be careful where we set camp, where we have fires or anything. It’s really important.”

Pascal said she was contacted by Wilderness International in early January, and with the Supreme Court case looming, thought the collaboration and raising awareness in the North and beyond about the issue was a good idea.

The trip was also immensely inspiring for the five youth who went, she added.

“They want to do more training and guiding so

they can do more trips there to educate our young people…. They were saying it’s so nice up there, so clear, the water’s so clear, it’s just so calm and peaceful, they just totally enjoyed it,” Pascal said. “And I told them to get out there and start talking about it, start educating people out what you saw out there and how important it is to you.”

Discussions between

Tetlit Gwich’in and Wilderness International for another trip next summer are already underway, Pascal said.

Even though July’s trip was his third time paddling the Snake River, Wilderness International CEO Kai Andersch said he wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. On top of environmental and conservation concerns, Andersch said he’s a prime example of what the Yukon, and the world, has to lose if the Peel watershed isn’t protected — European tourism.

“Europeans love travelling, we love the Yukon … and the one reason we come, quite honestly, is nature,” he said. “Like of course, it’s the people and these couple of historic sites, but no German comes to look at old gold-digging machines.

We’ve got enough culture at home, so what we come for is unspoiled nature … and once this resource is damaged, people just won’t come for it anymore, it’s quite simple.”

With files from Ashley Joannou Contact Jackie Hong at jackie.hong@yukon-news.com

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No B.C. charges in Mount Polley dam collapse as federal investigations continue Camille Bains Canadian Press

VANCOUVER here will be no provincial charges for a tailings dam collapse in British Columbia but the province’s new environment minister says a mining company may still be held responsible through federal laws.

George Heyman said Wednesday the August 2014 disaster has had tremendous economic and environmental consequences and British Columbians deserve to know what went wrong at the Mount Polley mine located in the province’s Interior.

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“A disaster like this should never have happened in B.C., and it must never happen again,” Heyman said in a statement, adding that charges under the federal Fisheries Act” remain very much in play and, in fact, potential penalties are more significant.”

A three-year deadline on charges will pass Friday in the midst of an ongoing investigation

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A scathing report in May 2016 by auditor general Carol Bellringer concluded that almost all expectations for government compliance and enforcement in both the Mines and Environment ministries were inadequate and “not set up to protect the province from environmental risks.”

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The mine located near Quesnel Lake, about 400 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, resumed full operations last July with a repaired and reinforced tailings dam amid assurances by then-mining minister Bill Bennett that mining code revisions would ensure a similar disaster couldn’t happen again.

MiningWatch Canada launched a private prosecution of Mount Polley last fall for alleged violations of the Fisheries Act, but a B.C. provincial court shelved that bid earlier this year.

Ugo Lapointe, spokesman for the advocacy group, said Wednesday that British Columbians should be concerned about whether the province’s Emergency Management Act has enough teeth to lay charges in any future mining disasters or oil spills.

“If it is true that when you have such a big mining spill you can’t lay charges then what kind of an environmental disaster can bring any charges in British Columbia?” he said in a telephone interview from Ottawa.

Lapointe said the group is considering again whether to file private charges in the case.

“We’re looking at our options now, if there is a possibility to lay private charges under provincial laws. If that’s the only option left to do then that’s what we might do. But we have until Friday, and that’s coming very fast.”

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e discussed ways help avoid dead batteries in a recent article. If you do need to boost your vehicle however, it’s important to do it in a safe manner.

People tend to think of boosting as primarily as a winter thing. However, it’s also common in summer months when people leave stereos on at the lake with coolers plugged in.

Your first step would be finding out if you currently have some form of roadside assistance coverage on your vehicle.

You likely do, in addition to the factory warranty, with a newer vehicle. You may also have coverage through Associations like Canadian Automotive Association or BCAA. One of your credit cards may offer the coverage as well.

Take the time right now to find out if you do, and put the phone number in your phone, or write it down on the inside flap of your owner’s manual. That way if the need ever does come up, you can just call and someone will come and boost your vehicle for you.

This would also help if you ever needed the vehicle towed.

To be prepared in event that you don’t have roadside assistance coverage or may be out of cell range, make sure you have a set of booster cables in your car. They should be in good condition and free of rust and corrosion with no exposed wires. Don’t use electrical tape or duct tape to cover exposed wires. Replace the cables if the wires are exposed. I would also recommend you buy quality booster cables under 3.5

metres long.

It can be dangerous when boosting a vehicle.

Keep a pair of protective googles and some gloves in your vehicle. Car batteries contain lead and sulfuric acid. A battery leak or explosion can cause serious acid burns. Your eyes are particularly vulnerable if a battery explosion happens.

It’s one of the reasons that repair shops have eye-wash stations in their shops.

Here are the steps to follow to safely jump-start a vehicle: First, check the battery for corrosion, cracks or loose terminal connections.

Check that neither the battery nor the engine coolant is frozen. Never try to boost a vehicle in either case.

Don’t smoke or use

anything that may cause a spark when under the hood or boosting your battery.

Have the vehicle that will be boosting you pull in from the front or side as close as possible. Never stand in between the two vehicles, especially if one is in gear. There have been instances here in the Yukon where a car was rear-ended while boosting another vehicle and the person standing between them had their legs crushed.

Be careful to hook the cable clamps up properly and in the right order. Red always goes to positive which is usually identified as + or POS. Black always goes to negative which is usually identified as – or NEG. Have both vehicles shut off and start by connecting the red clamp to the posi-

tive terminal on the vehicle needing a boost. Then connect the other red clamp to the positive terminal on the other vehicle. Next connect the black clamp to the negative terminal on the other car, then the other black clamp to the negative terminal on the vehicle needing the boost.

Sometimes batteries are in tight spots or not even in the engine compartment.

Check the owner’s manual.

There may be locations under the hood other than on the battery specifically for boosting or charging.

They will still be labeled as positive and negative.

Once the cables are safely and securely

connected, start up the booster vehicle doing and let it run for a few minutes before trying to start the dead vehicle. Revving the boosting engine a bit may help if the battery is really dead.

If the cables get hot or you see smoke or sparks, something is wrong. Stop immediately and seek professional help.

Once the vehicle that needed boosting is running, remove the cables in the reverse order you used to hook them up. Don’t let the disconnected ends to touch each other while the clamps on the other end of the cable are hooked up to the other vehicle.

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Remember that boosting a battery and letting the engine run will not fully charge the battery.

Even going on a long drive will not do it. You must get the battery on a battery charger and fully charge it. If you can’t identify why your battery went dead (say, you left the lights on), have the battery and charging system checked by a shop.

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overnments change — along with laws, regulations and priorities. It’s the nature of democracies. In Canada, we’ve seen environmental laws implemented, then weakened or overturned, then strengthened and re-instated. But the basic necessities of health, well-being and life shouldn’t be subject to the shifting agendas of

political parties. That’s why Canada should recognize the right to a healthy environment in its Constitution — something 110 countries already do.

We’re a ways from that, but some promising developments give hope for the possibility that all people in Canada may soon enjoy the right to breathe fresh air, drink clean water, eat healthy foods and take part in decisions that affect their lives. In June, the federal Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development — made up of Liberal, Conservative and NDP members of Parliament — released a report recommending, among other things, that govern-

ment legally recognize the right to a healthy environment in the Environmental Protection Act. If government implements the recommendations, it would be the first time the right to a healthy environment has been recognized in Canadian federal law.

The report, based on a year-long review of the act, includes 87 recommendations regarding air- and water-quality standards, toxins in consumer products, protection for vulnerable populations and communities, environmental justice and the right to a healthy environment. If implemented, these recommendations would deliver far-reaching

health benefits, so it’s no surprise that many people and organizations from the health and medical sectors, academia and beyond have endorsed them.

Federal environment and health departments and ministers have until October 15 to review and respond to the report.

The government renewed the Environmental Protection Act in 1999 as the primary law governing toxins and pollution. But it needs further updating and strengthening. Changing conditions, a lack of resources and poor enforcement have limited its effectiveness. The Toronto Public Library collected more late-book fines in one year than the govern-

ment has collected from fines imposed through the act in 20 years!

Considering that an estimated 7,700 people in Canada die prematurely from causes related to poor air quality and Canada ranks 25th among rich countries on children’s well-being, in part because of a failure to improve air quality, improving the act is critical. A study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development shows pollution alone costs Canada more than $39 billion a year.

Acting quickly to implement the recommendations will save lives, prevent illnesses and reduce associated costs.

By requiring safe replacements for toxic substances, it will also bolster the green chemistry industry, one of the world’s fastest-growing economic sectors.

It could also set a precedent for including environmental rights in other laws, such as the Canadian Environmental Assessment, Fisheries, Navigable Waters and National Energy Board acts, which are also under review. This would help ensure higher standards for air, soil and water quality.

And it could help drive the impetus for a standalone environmental bill of rights. In recognizing environmental rights as human rights, the committee’s recommendations mark a shift in the way we discuss environmental protection.

A stand-alone bill would take the concept further. It would put human and environmental health at the centre of decision-making, and ensure consistency and coherence between different environmental laws. It would help institutionalize environmental rights protection within

governing bodies, make the process of implementing environmental rights more transparent and assist judges in making informed and consistent decisions in cases when those rights are violated.

Ultimately, the right to a healthy environment should be included in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to ensure consistency in environmental and health protection between provinces and territories and to make it easier to uphold citizens’ rights regardless of which federal political party is governing.

The recommendations for improving the Environmental Protection Act are an important stepping stone. They would quickly improve environmental protection in Canada and pave the way for a standalone environmental bill of rights. Our political representatives face many competing interests and priorities, so it’s critical for us all to let them know we want them to carefully consider and implement the committee’s recommendations.

You can write your member of Parliament, the prime minister and environment and health ministers, using the David Suzuki Foundation’s letter-writing platform at action2.davidsuzuki. org/FEBR. Environmental rights are human rights!

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. David Suzuki’s latest book is Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do (Greystone Books), co-written with Ian Hanington.

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Crossing the divide into a new world

ATIGUN RIVER oodbye, red squirrels.

On our summer-long hike along the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, this morning my dog Cora and I left the last tangle of boreal forest along America’s highway system. We walked away from a campsite of white spruce and balsam poplar that shielded us during a rain and wind storm the day before.

The squeak we heard from a red squirrel, whose diet is mostly spruce seeds (but occasionally fledgling birds and baby snowshoe hares), was the last we’ll hear until we return home to Fairbanks when this adventure is complete.

Following the Dalton Highway and heading north, we walked up a few thousand feet to Chandalar Shelf. Willow shrubs and alder, yes. But the large trees were no more.

It took a long time to out-walk the boreal forest.

Since we first saw aspen trees along our route just south of Copper Center, Cora and I have been moving for two months to transit that band of large plants. On this continent, the boreal forest extends from western Alaska all the way east to the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

As we followed the pipeline’s path through Atigun Pass and crossed the Continental Divide at about 4,500 feet, we stepped into a new world.

Here on the north side of the Brooks Range, the misty mountains spill clear-running creeks.

From where I sit with my back against an industrial metal shed related to

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The last forested valley on North America’s road system, at the base of Chandalar Shelf on the Dalton Highway. a pipeline valve, I hear the worried shriek of a peregrine falcon. It is a greeting to a land with yearly temperatures cold enough to prevent the invasion of trees, a place where winter is the norm and summer visits for just a few months.

I live in the boreal forest and am comfortable in the poplars, aspen and spruce and on the rivers that wind through them.

Crossing the pass, which is the highest point on the pipeline’s route but far from the steepest climb or descent, I entered a rainy, cloudy, treeless world.

Mystical is a word that keeps coming to mind.

It is the same sensation I remember from 20 years ago, when I crossed over with my brother-in-law James Hopkins.

On the other side, in that Iowa-sized part of central Alaska known as the Interior, I leave the 27C days we experienced from the Yukon River all the way to the base of Atigun Pass. Goodbye moose flies, dunks in clear rivers, hot nights in the tent and tanned kids and their parents arriving by

riverboat from fish camps on the Yukon.

And goodbye thunderstorms. A few days ago, near the site of the old Dietrich pipeline construction camp, lightning struck so close to my wife Kristen, daughter Anna, cousin Heather Liston and me that we heard the crackle of static and instantaneous thunder.

We took cover under two U-shaped forms of concrete sometimes used to weight the pipeline as it goes under rivers. Lightning happens here on the North Slope side of the mountains, too, but it’s rare compared with the heat-driven convection cells of the Interior.

What to expect here, where the Atigun River

flows northward, joins the Sagavanirktok and heads to gray saltwater through the bumpy flats of the North Slope? Stunning mountains, for a bit.

Cold feet, because I’m still wearing wet running shoes. Caribou chewing lichen. Wind. A visit to Toolik Field Station, where my neighbor and UAF grad student Jason Clark will warm the sauna.

And of course, more mosquitoes. Though the wetlands of the Interior were impressive when traversed with improper timing, the North Slope mosquito is the queen of them all. She is the type that inspires competition.

How many can you kill with one slap?

Out of respect for her, I did not rush to the north side of the divide. With my family and cousin from San Francisco, I walked slowly through the spearlike spruce, sculpted white mountains and aquamarine water of the Dietrich/ Koyukuk river country. I wanted them to see what I considered the nicest part of the trek 20 years ago (Coldfoot to Atigun Pass).

And I wanted the North Slope mosquito to be on the waning end of its few-

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Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute. This summer, he is hiking the path of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline from Valdez to Prudhoe Bay. He also did the trip 20 years ago.

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his week, I was invited to participate in the Packing Our Stories Over New Trails series at the Yukon Transportation Museum. The topic was “On Foot.” This program, which has been hosted by Arlin McFarlane and Susi Anne Bartsch, and is targeted primarily, but not exclusively, at seniors, has been ongoing all summer.

On Tuesday afternoons at 2 p.m., two guest storytellers are invited to share their personal experiences in a particular area of transportation. Topics that have already been covered include the Alaska Highway, airplanes, motorcycle travel and travel by boat. The talks have been very popular and for the last few weeks that I have attended, extra chairs had to be brought out to accommodate the overflow crowds.

I spoke about my experiences backpacking in the Yukon. My knees aren’t up to it any more, but when I was younger, I was obsessed with hiking the Yukon trails searching for the history. After my first visit to the Yukon in 1971, I was hooked, and while I couldn’t immediately find a job appropriate to my interests and skill set, I contrived various excuses to return until I could move here for good.

I have hiked the Ridge Road outside of Dawson (a two-day camping trip).

I hiked to Tutshi Lake, and up to the White Pass summit, from the Yukon side, before there was a road to Skagway. In 1973, I hiked the Dalton Trail with friends Steve Cassidy and Alice Legat. We planned to explore the abandoned First Nation village of Hutchi — a distance of nearly 60 kilometres, but lost the trail.

The following year, I hiked the trail again — on my own, and made it to Hutchi. I did it once more in 1979 for good measure, with my good friend Les Stephen, carrying with me the engagement ring I had just purchased. I planned to propose to my future wife after I returned to Dawson City.

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History hunting isn’t about the destination, but about the journey. Here I stopped to look around and enjoy the view.

I hiked to various places in Kluane before it became a national park. The most memorable of these might have been the trek up Sheep Creek the day after I had climbed to the top of Tachal Dhal (Sheep Mountain). My muscles were so stiff from the ascent that I could only walk by locking my knees, tilting my body slightly and swinging my legs forward like a pendulum.

During my first summer in the Yukon, I learned the ins and outs of backpacking from Jim Bennett, an archaeology graduate student, who had hired me as his assistant for a research project.

From him, I learned how to prepare bannock, and what items to include in my backpack. I took notes and developed a checklist that I referred to each time I was preparing for another outing. The list never failed me.

I pared down my kit to the bare essentials, including tent, sleeping bag, food and a lengthy list of sundries essential to comfort and success in the outdoors. Sometimes, I carried a rifle, but that added an additional four or five kilograms to the load I had to carry, so I didn’t always bring one with me.

My Camp Trails backpack, fully loaded, weighed in at 35 kg, but it got lighter as I consumed the edibles — mostly canned, dehydrated and powdered items — as the trip progressed. I always took my fishing rod to supplement my diet, and was never disappointed.

When I carried a rifle, I could supplement my diet with small game, like

squirrels and grouse.

I never had to use my rifle as a defensive weapon against bears, although one morning I woke up to the sound of a bear sniffing outside my tent, only inches from my head. I remember lying in my sleeping bag as still as the dead for about 45 minutes, until I was certain that the bear had moved along. One of my rules was never to have any food in my tent. I always hung my food-filled backpack from the branch of a tree 20 or 30 metres from my camp for safety.

The other essential item I always carried with me was a camera, although in those pre-digital days, 45 years ago, I had to carefully plan my use of photographic film so that I didn’t run out before the end of my trip.

There was also an objective to each trip, usually to hike to some historic place to take photographs and record my observations; thus was born the history hunter.

But the most important lesson that I learned from Jim Bennett was that there was no backup if anything went wrong.

There were no satellite phones with which to place emergency calls, and there was no one to come looking for me should I fall and injure myself. Personal safety trumped any consideration of historical inquiry.

I hiked into places where few people had ventured. I learned to be independent, self-sufficient and confident in my own capabilities. For years, I held the notion that hiking the Chilkoot Trail was too tame with all

those hikers on the trail.

While working for Parks Canada, I experienced bits and pieces of the trail, depending on the project (I once carried a fence up the trail from Lindeman, then cross country to an old grave site), but never the trail in its entirety. I finally made the trip in 2001 with my friend Bruce Dunn from Vancouver. It was a world-class hike I should have taken much sooner than I did.

Over the years, I have had many interesting experiences along the trail – fishing in the crystal clear waters of Tutshi Lake was exceptional, but the Gladstone Lakes produced lake trout the size of whales. I admired the scenic vistas along the Dalton Trail, discovered relics long abandoned in the wilderness, suffered the pain of blistered feet and learned how to skin a beaver. I got to know the Yukon landscape on an intimate level that was impossible in an automobile.

I learned that if I could hike in the wilds of the Yukon, I could do just about anything. I came to understand the Yukon and its history at an intimate physical level, and most of all, I came to love the Yukon as an enthralling place, filled with fascinating people. Talking about it at the Yukon Transportation Museum refreshed my memories and I’m grateful.

Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His new book, From the Klondike to Berlin, is now available in stores everywhere.

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Yukon soccer team cracks top 10 for historic Canada Games finish

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Yukon’s Malorie Hanson winds up a kick during play at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on July 30. Yukon’s female soccer team finished 10th with a loss to Newfoundland on Aug. 2.

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ven before the first whistle blew, Yukon soccer players knew history would be made on the pitch that day.

Yukon’s female soccer team placed 10th with a 4-0 loss to Team Newfoundland and Labrador at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on August 2.

Even with the loss, placing 10th instead of ninth had they won, Team Yukon posted its highest-ever finish in soccer — male or female — at the Games. It also marks the first time Yukon finished ahead of a province, placing a spot ahead of New Brunswick.

“It was neat to be in that game and they actually played their best game of the tournament, so it was a really nice way to finish,” said Yukon head coach Jake Hanson. “I

think we had the confidence to compete in a way we hadn’t earlier in the tournament. We were a little more aggressive in our challenging, defending and determination to win the ball back when we didn’t have it. At the same time we were able to build on the offensive success in the combination play we had in the game with N.W.T.” Yukon took a 1-0 win over rival territory N.W.T. the previous day to reach the ninth/10th match. It was Yukon’s first win in female soccer at the Canada Games since beating N.W.T. in 2005. Yukon scored the game-winner late in the first half on a corner kick from Yukon attacking midfielder Malorie Hanson that went off an N.W.T. player and in.

Malorie, who is a co-captain of the team, had a goal called back in the loss to Newfound-

land in the second half. A teammate took a shot that deflected off a Newfoundland defender to Malorie, who put it in. But Hanson was called offside on the play.

“I believe she was in an onside position before we took the shot,” said Jake Hanson. “It was a tough one for the linesman to call…. It could have been an allowable goal because it came off a defender.

“It felt good to see the ball hit the back of the net.

(Player) Kamryn (Williamson), when it happened, looked at me and said, ‘That looked like at least half a goal.’”

Newfoundland had some close matches in their pool, losing 1-0 to B.C. and taking a 1-1 tie against Alberta, who played in the bronze medal match. (Medal results were unavailable at press time.) Newfoundland then beat New Brunswick 3-0

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Yukon goalkeeper Jayden Demchuk passes out to a teammate at the start of the tournament. to reach the match against Yukon.

Yukon opened the Games with a 9-0 loss to Quebec on Saturday and a 6-0 loss to Saskatchewan Sunday.

Being a part of the first win in 12 years and a record finish feels great, said a pair of 13-year-olds on the Yukon squad.

“I feel very proud, “ said midfielder Abby Rich. “I think we pushed ourselves and worked really hard, as hard as we can. I’m just proud of us because we pushed our way through.”

“It’s pretty exciting,” said right back Taliya Lindley. “I’m pretty young on the team, so it’s a big experience for me. It just makes me feel so happy that a bunch of people are going to be watching and supporting me throughout the whole thing. (The crowd) has been pretty big. Everyone has been

cheering us on through each game.”

Malorie Hanson was named Yukon’s player of the game in the match against Newfoundland and goalkeeper Jayden Demchuk got a special shout-out from her coach.

“Jayden Demchuk was probably for me the most outstanding female keeper I’ve seen from the Yukon,” said Jake Hanson. “She was so solid for us all tournament that it really helped stabilize our team from the back going forward.

“I’d also have to comment on the performance of three of our youngest players in the tournament — Jasmine Sealy, Taliya Lindley and Abby Rich.

They all played huge minutes, started every game for us, and they’re young enough to play at the next Canada Games for us, so that’s a pretty remarkable

feat.”

Yukon’s female team went winless in 2013, a Games in which N.W.T. didn’t field a female team.

The 2009 Yukon team also went winless and lost their final match to N.W.T. to place last (12th).

“I feel like we made some ground in our ability to be competitive with the middle-of-the-pack teams here,” said Jake Hanson. “If we can continue to build the foundation of our present soccer program and its structure, it’s exciting to think we could continue to compete like this and maybe even get better results in the future.”

New Brunswick defeated N.W.T. 7-0 in the 11th/12th place match on Wednesday.

The male soccer competition will take place in week two of the Games.

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he territory’s return to the hardwood didn’t come with wins this week in Winnipeg.

Yukon, which didn’t enter a basketball team in the 2013 Games, went winless in the male and female divisions at the Canada Summer Games.

“I’m very happy for the way these young men conducted themselves all week,” said Yukon male team head coach Tim Brady.

“They received a lot of positive comments and feedback from folks who watched them play, given that pretty much every single game they had they were disadvantaged in multiple ways through their size and their age mainly. Through all of that they maintained a very high competitive spirit and approach to their play, and worked really hard, and demonstrated a great deal of resiliency every day against really challenging odds.”

Yukon’s male team finished the tournament with an 84-68 loss to N.W.T. in a back-and-forth battle on Aug. 3.

Yukon outscored their neighbours to the east in the second and fourth quarters but couldn’t overcome a 12-point deficit at the end of first quarter. They did manage to finish the first half down by just four points at 41-37.

“We picked up our intensity on our defence and pressed and turned them over quite a few times, got

some steals and were able to score some easy baskets at the rim (in the second quarter),” said Brady.

“We came out in the third — I haven’t been able to watch the tape yet — I think we turned it over (to N.W.T.) a few times right off the bat. We took some shots that probably weren’t the best shots we could take to start the second half. They were contested, mostly guarded shots, and came out a little bit cold. They got those rebounds and went down and scored on us, so all of a sudden we’re down by 10 or 12 again and had to fight our way back.

“It was an uphill climb for us this game and it’s been an uphill climb for us all week.”

Yukon also lost 107-45 to Saskatchewan, 122-45 to New Brunswick, 131-41 to Quebec and 88-63 P.E.I. leading up to the game against N.W.T. Ryan Hindson, who has played for Yukon at the Arctic Winter Games, the Western Canada Summer Games and national championships, led the team with 109 points over five games.

Teammate Ian New, who logged 20 points against N.W.T., finished the tournament with 49. Yukon’s Dave Mindinao was third on the team with 33 points. “(Hindson) had a good week here,” said Brady. “He and Ian New, who were our two veteran players, this was the last time they’re going to play for us in this capacity. It was great to have them on this team and see

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Female team loses rough game to P.E.I. P.E.I. finished the Games with a win over Yukon in the female basketball tournament. They also got a lesson in true grit from the Yukon team.

“We were kind of ravaged with injuries that last game,” said Yukon head coach Tyler Bradford. “A couple players went out with concussions and a shoulder injury. But the girls continued to play hard with a lot of heart and tenacity, and they left all of it on the court today.”

“It was a tough game,” said Yukon player Jetta Bilsky. “There was a lot of fouling.”

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Above: Yukon’s Josh Rumba looks to make a pass in a game against N.W.T. on Aug. 3. Right: Yukon’s Emily Johnson brings the ball up court against Nova Scotia on July 29.

80-20 to P.E.I. on Aug. 3 to end the Games.

Dylan Massie led Yukon in scoring with six points.

Bilsky led the team in rebounds with six and in court time with over 29 minutes.

“We’re feeling pretty good. We feel like we really competed and worked on our personal goals,” said Bilsky. “We might not have come out with a win but we tried our best and we kept going even though the score might not have reflected that.”

Yukon opened the Games with a 98-14 loss to Nova Scotia before a devastating 126-2 loss to Alberta.

They bounced back with a 67-23 loss to New Brunswick for their closest of the tournament.

“That game against New Brunswick, which was our first game back after that big loss, our girls really showed

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enjamin Grundmanis describes what he and teammate Max Clarke did this week as “trailblazing to the beach.”

Clarke and Grundmanis became the first-ever Yukoners to compete in beach volleyball at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg.

Pulling together two skilled players, instead of six or more for indoor volleyball, is a good fit for territories and small provinces, said Grundmanis.

“Nova Scotia said they did the same thing. They realized that indoor teams had a harder time against the big monster provinces.

So beach would be a great start for the territories, to actually see Canada Games success … down the road in the future.

“We won’t be able to compete anymore (because of age restrictions), but we’d definitely be interested in helping down the line and making this a Yukon sport.

Beach volleyball, look out for it.”

Clarke and Grundmanis went winless with six

straight losses and placed 11th. But they went out with their closest game of the week, losing 21-18, 13-21, 15-9 to P.E.I. on August 2.

“They definitely matched up very well against them and had their best game of the tournament,” said Yukon coach Matt Taylor.

“They came close in the end, but at least they got a set win.”

“The last one was pretty memorable,” said Grundmanis. “It was a longer game but we were like, let’s push, let’s do this. It was a winnable game and we were both hungry for it. Along with being our most competitive match, it was one of our most fun matches as well.”

The Yukon duo lost 21-8, 21-12 to Ontario and 21-9, 21-9 to Saskatchewan in their first day of play on July 30. Both matches stand out for Clarke and Grundmanis — and not just because it was the hottest day with temperatures in the mid30s and sand that burned everyone’s feet.

“That was one of our stronger games (against Ontario),” said Grundmanis. “We had our passes down and we were feeling pretty confident in ourselves.”

“I think our worst was the Saskatchewan game, which was the second game we had,” said Clarke. “That was probably the team we had the best chance at taking a set off of, maybe even a match win. It was just unfortunate timing. That was the hottest day and we also had to play Ontario in the morning, and (Saskatchewan) came out with that being their first game.

So from the beginning we were really disadvantaged and really didn’t have a great game.

“I wish we could get that one back because that could have changed the complexion of the rest of the pool.”

Yukon also dropped matches to Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.

The two 19-year-olds were pioneers for the sport two years ago as the first from Yukon to compete in beach volleyball at the 2015 Western Canada Summer Games.

“The boys were really serious about it and took a lot of pride in representing the territory and set the bar high as the first guys to go,” said Taylor of this week’s Games. “They competed really well against some

really big provinces and had a really good attitude the whole time.”

Clarke and Grundmanis both played regular indoor volleyball at the 2014 Arctic Winter Games. Clarke also played indoor for Yukon at the 2013 Canada Summer Games in Quebec.

“It’s a hard transition from indoor volleyball to outdoor,” said Grundmanis.

“You have to break down all your old habits and create new ones — passing, setting, hitting, everything.

And the sand is a huge determining factor. So putting it all together makes for some difficult playing time, but I feel in the last three months we’ve improved immensely, so I’m feeling pretty awesome.”

As far as being at the Games in Winnipeg, both agreed the breakfasts, chock full of sausages and eggs, were a highlight. The opening ceremony, which included a speech from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was another.

“Seeing Trudeau was pretty cool,” said Grundmanis.

“He’s even hotter in person,” added Clarke.

Contact Tom Patrick at tomp@yukon-news.com

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Yukon’s Max Clarke bumps the ball during the male beach volleyball competition at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on July 30. Clarke and teammate Benjamin Grundmanis were the first-ever Yukoners to compete in the sport at the Games.

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LIBRA

You have something to discuss that others may find uncomfortable, Libra. Get it out in the open, and in so doing you will remove the mystique of the situation.

Oct 24/Nov 22

SCORPIO

Scorpio, you can lay the foundation for a deep, intimate friendship if you want to. Revealing your own vulnerability can inspire others to trust you.

Nov 23/Dec 21

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Virgo, a busy time is ahead and it’s easy to get overwhelmed when you look at the bigger picture. Instead, focus on one detail at a time until you get through your tasks.

SAGITTARIUS

Sagittarius, if money is on your mind, speak with a financial advisor, accountant or knowledgeable friend. Setting new goals may be the answer.

Dec 22/Jan 20

CAPRICORN

Do you find you are constantly reinventing yourself, Capricorn? If so, you may not be comfortable in your own skin. Learn to see what others find so appealing about you.

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KITCHEN HELPER (NOC 6711) Full time permanent $15.00/hour Please apply by email: takhinigas@gmail.com

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WORSLEY GATEWAY YELLOW CABSHOTEL Experienced cooks, is looking torestaurant hire a full-time shift work, newer hotel in AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC/ Worsley, Alberta.

TECHNICIAN Shared staff$26/hour accommodation or rental homes available.

10-15 years experience Starting wage $15/hr.

867-689-9694 Salary evaluated after training.

Starting immediately.

Email Dawn info@worsleygateway.ca

YELLOW CABSHOTEL WORSLEY GATEWAY is looking to hire a full-time Experienced restaurant cooks, AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC/ shift work, newer hotel in TECHNICIAN Worsley, Alberta.

Shared staff$26/hour accommodation or 10-15 years rental homesexperience available.

867-689-9694 Starting wage $15/hr.

Salary evaluated after training.

Starting immediately.

Email Dawn info@worsleygateway.ca

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THEN WE HAVE THE JOB FOR YOU! Raven is looking for a PaperSave Driver Raven Recycling Society is looking for a responsible individual for our PaperSave program. The driver will collect office paper from local businesses and educate customers on how to reduce, reuse and recycle their office paper.

Job Title: Rate of pay: Duration: Days: Hours:

PaperSave Driver $22 to start permanent part-time Monday to Thursday 8 AM to 4 PM (36 hrs/ wk)

Duties: â&#x20AC;˘ Collect paper from Whitehorse business and government offices. â&#x20AC;˘ Follow routes and time schedules. â&#x20AC;˘ Load, sort, unload and operate a delivery vehicle. â&#x20AC;˘ Maneuver trucks into loading and unloading positions â&#x20AC;˘ Enter data for invoicing and generate schedules â&#x20AC;˘ Comply with all regulations, company policies and safety standards Requirements: â&#x20AC;˘ A valid Yukon Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License with a safe driving record. â&#x20AC;˘ Good interpersonal skills, with a desire and ability to work with the public. â&#x20AC;˘ Experience working in a physically demanding job (able to lift 75lbs) â&#x20AC;˘ Experience inspecting vehicle for mechanical items and safety issues â&#x20AC;˘ Demonstrated environmental commitment.

Drop off resume in person at 100 Galena Rd. Ask to see Joy

Skookum Jim Friendship Centre EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, PERMANENT FULL-TIME FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER (FSW) Starting rate: $24.44/hr, plus extended benefits Hours: Monday (12-8), Tuesday-Friday (8:30-4:30). Every second Tuesday is 1-9 Under the direction of the Diversion Coordinator, the Family Support Worker position works to optimize the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of Aboriginal women, youth, and children. The position assists in strengthening familial and community supports for its participants. The position works closely with government and non-government resources in the provision and coordination of services to children and families.

The FSW has three central functions: t UIF '48 JT SFRVJSFE UP QSPWJEF JOUFSWFOUJPOT GPS ZPVUI XIP BSF JEFOUJĂ˝ FE BT iBU SJTLw and who are, or may be, involved in the justice system. These interventions are holistic and based in Aboriginal traditional teachings. t 5IF '48 JT SFRVJSFE UP QSPWJEF PWFSTJHIU PG UIF 8PNFO PG 8JTEPN QSPHSBN 5IJT program is a strong support system for Aboriginal women, and the central focus is on the sharing and strengthening of traditional Aboriginal teachings. This program JT GSFRVFOUMZ SVO BT B MBOET CBTFE MFBSOJOH QSPHSBN t 5IF '48 JT SFRVJSFE UP GBDJMJUBUF BOE DP GBDJMJUBUF UIF XFFLMZ :PVOH 8PNFO PG 8JTEPN program. This program provides supports for Aboriginal girls ages 9-12 and it is a SFRVJSFNFOU UIBU UIF '48 CF BCMF UP QSPWJEF EJSFDU HVJEBODF BOE TVQQPSUT UIBU BSF rooted in Aboriginal value systems.

Essential qualifications: t &WJEFODF PG GBDJMJUBUJOH HSPVQT BOE JO QBSUJDVMBS ESBXJOH VQPO "CPSJHJOBM LOPXMFEHF in facilitation t 1SPWFO IJTUPSZ PG XPSLJOH JO POF PO POF TFUUJOHT t $PNNJUNFOU UP MPOH UFSN FOHBHFNFOU XJUI UIF QSPHSBN BT USVTU CVJMEJOH JT FTTFOUJBM t 4USPOH VOEFSTUBOEJOH PG "CPSJHJOBM WBMVFT t "CJMJUZ UP SFDPSE CBTJD TUBUJTUJDT BOE XSJUF SFQPSUT t 6OEFSTUBOEJOH PG SJTL NBOBHFNFOU PS XJMMJOHOFTT UP MFBSO Desired qualifications: t &YQFSJFODF JO PVUEPPS TFUUJOHT JODMVEJOH QBEEMJOH IJLJOH BOE DBNQJOH t 1PTU TFDPOEBSZ FEVDBUJPO JO SFMFWBOU Ă˝ FME XPNFO T TUVEJFT TPDJBM XPSL DIJME BOE youth care) t 6OEFSTUBOEJOH PG DVMUVSBM JOTUSVDUJPO BT XFMM BT PVUEPPS QMBZ Condition of employment: 4FDVSJUZ DMFBSBODF XJUI WVMOFSBCMF TFDUPS TFBSDI WBMJE DMBTT :VLPO ESJWFS T MJDFOTF BHSFFNFOU GPS BWFSBHFE XPSL IPVST XL

1SFGFSFODF XJMM CF HJWFO UP "CPSJHJOBM BQQMJDBOUT *G BO "CPSJHJOBM BQQMJDBOU EPFT OPU RVBMJGZ UIF QPTJUJPO NBZ CF PGGFSFE UP BOPUIFS RVBMJĂ˝ FE BQQMJDBOU Please submit your rĂŠsumĂŠ to Jayme Henderson, Diversion Coordinator, at: sjfcdiversion@northwestel.net Applicants will be screened based on what they provide in their rĂŠsumĂŠ.

We thank all of those who apply but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

This posting closes August 11.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday, August 16.

WHITEHORSE

SUMMARY: This individual will aid in and oversee the daily operaĆ&#x;ons of the business in regards to Inventory, accounts payable, invoicing, reconciling, payroll, and other duĆ&#x;es as assigned by the General Manager. This posiĆ&#x;on has three direct reports. May be required to perform other duĆ&#x;es as directed.

UNDERHILL GEOMATICS LTD. Professional Land Surveyors and Geomatics Engineers

Engineering / Legal Survey Party Chief Applicants must have experience in performing engineering and legal surveys. Good communication and organizational skills are considered an asset.

We offer a full wage and benfits package.

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

SALARY: DOE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Ensure accurate and Ć&#x;mely monthly and year end reporĆ&#x;ng, prepare and issue documents related to accounts such as bills, invoices, inventory reports, account statements and other ÄŽnancial statements using computerized and manual systems and other duĆ&#x;es as directed.

QUALIFICATIONS: CompleĆ&#x;on of College or other courses cerĆ&#x;ÄŽed by the CerĆ&#x;ÄŽed General Accountants AssociaĆ&#x;on of Canada or Canadian Bookkeepers AssociaĆ&#x;on or relatable work experience. Flexible, adaptable and willing to accept new challenges.

For further informaĆ&#x;on on this posĆ&#x;ng please see out posĆ&#x;ng at www.yuwin.ca or indeed.ca Submit resumes by September 1, 2017 to: Tallulah Lamerton-McCullough HR Manager, North 60 Petro Email: tmccullough@north60petro.com Fax: 867-633-8841

Job Opportunity Daylu Dena Council is seeking applications for the position of

CAPITAL WORKS MANAGER. The Capital works Manager is responsible for all capital works, operations and maintenance activities of Daylu Dena Council, including project and contract management, budget administration and planning.

Knowledge & Skills Required: â&#x20AC;˘ At least 3 years experience in capital administration including planning, budgeting, operation & maintenance, monitoring projects, contracts and reports â&#x20AC;˘ Experience in developing capital programs and policies based on need â&#x20AC;˘ Knowledge of asset management â&#x20AC;˘ Development of proposals â&#x20AC;˘ Supervision of staff â&#x20AC;˘ Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards Salary is dependent upon education and experience. Preference will be given to qualified Kaska First Nation members. A job description is available upon request. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Does being a part of one of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dynamic environmental and socio-economic assessment processes interest you?

YESAB is an independent, arms-length body responsible for carrying out the assessment responsibiliĆ&#x;es under the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESAA).

Our commitment is to be an imparĆ&#x;al, eÄŤecĆ&#x;ve and eĸcient organizaĆ&#x;on that provides assistance to all involved in the assessment process.

LEGAL COUNSEL Head Oĸce - Whitehorse Full-Ć&#x;me - Permanent

The Legal Counsel is responsible for providing a full range of legal services to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board. This posiĆ&#x;on provides legal advice and counsel on maĆŠers such as corporate issues, aboriginal law, environmental and socio-economic assessment law, resource management law, contract law, access to informaĆ&#x;on and privacy law, conĹ&#x2021;ict of interest, and administraĆ&#x;ve law. This posiĆ&#x;on also aĆŠends Board and assessment team meeĆ&#x;ngs as requested to provide advice.

The annual salary range for this posiĆ&#x;on is $110,231 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $147,449 If you have the qualiÄŽcaĆ&#x;ons and desire to meet the challenges of this exciĆ&#x;ng opportunity, please apply by forwarding a cover leĆŠer and rĂŠsumĂŠ which clearly demonstrate how your background and experience make you the ideal candidate for this posiĆ&#x;on.

A comprehensive job descripĆ&#x;on is available at: YESAB Head Oĸce, Suite 200 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 309 Strickland Street, Whitehorse or on our website at www.yesab.ca.

Please submit applicaĆ&#x;ons to: Finance and AdministraĆ&#x;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

Submit resume and cover letter to: Executive Director, aylu Dena Council Box 10, Lower Post, BC V0C 1W0 Ph: 250-779-3161 | Fax: 250-779-3371 E-mail: executivedirector@dayludenacouncil.com

ApplicaĆ&#x;ons must be received by end of day August 13, 2017.

Closing Date: August 11, 2017 at 3:30 pm

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Computer Equipment

COYOTE ENTERTAINMENT Full-time Sales Clerk Wages $15.70/hr High School Graduate Operate computerized inventory system; Provide product advice; Prepare product sales; Process payments.

Effective interpersonal skills & team player Resumes: coyotevideo007@gmail.com

Your Community Connection

Early Childhood Educator (NOC4214) Develop and implement child-care programs that support and promote the physical, cognitive and emotional and social development of children.

The successful candidate must possess a diploma in early childhood education or equivalent education to qualify for a level three childhood education certificate in the Yukon.

Full Time/ 40 hours per week.

Wage $20.00/hour.

Email resume: dreamersdaycare@gmail.com

Merchandise for Sale

Budget gaming computer, 8GB Ram, GTX quad core CPU, 2x 250GB hard drives, currently runs Linux but can Windows, $250 obo.

867-689-5879 Older refurbished office computer, 4GB Ram, 160GB hard drive, Windows 10 Pro, slight cosmetic damage to top front of case, everything runs fine, $80. 867-689-5879

Firearms Browning 300 wsm Eclipse Hunter with Bushnell scope, 3-9 x 40.

Bought new 5 yrs ago. Used 3 times at gun range, c/w hard case & ammunition, $1300. PAL req’d. 3356452

Merchandise for Sale

Merchandise for Sale

Firearms

Firewood/Fuel

Parker Hale Mauser in 30-06, butler creek composite stock, glass bedded, Vortex scope, has original open sights, some character scratches, but shoots well, $550 obo. 334-7335

DON’S FIREWOOD * Year round harvest/supply * Beetlekill stockpiled in Whitehorse “Firewood When You Want It!” New Phone #: 333-1508

Heavy Duty Machinery

SVT 40, $600 obo; .45 ACP Kimber Raptor 2, $2,000 obo; Tokarev 7.6225, $300 obo; Norinco 1911 .45, $400 obo; must have PAL. 4564766 Wanted: 8mm Mauser 98 stripper clips. James 867-336-1292 Wanted: M1 Garand rifle. James @ 867-336-1292 Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club nonrestricted firearms safety course August 12 & 13. Info: 633-2488

Firewood/Fuel

HURLBURT ENTERPRISES INC.

LICENSED TO BUY, SELL & CONSIGN rifles & ammo at G&R NEW & USED 1612-D Centennial St. 393-2274 BUY * SELL

Matching washer/dryer, good working order, $200 for both; chest freezer, 9 cu ft, $125; 18 cu ft refrigerator, 2 door up & down, $125. 633-2837

Store (867) 633-3276 Dev (867) 335-5192 Carl (867) 334-3782

Savage 30-06, new, never fired, c/w 3X9 Bushnell scope, lens covers, sling, few shells, $500. 668-4945

AGENCY MANAGER

Beetle-killed spruce from Haines Junction, quality guaranteed Everything over 8" split Prices as low as $245 per cord Single and emergency half cord deliveries Scheduled or next day delivery

Cars - Domestic 8287682

DAWSON

SUMMARY: The Agency Manager directs and oversees general operaƟonal and administraƟve acƟviƟes of the agency ensuring a safe, eĸcient and producƟve operaƟon. The successful incumbent takes all necessary steps to ensure the agency remains proĮtable and operaƟonal to the standards of North 60 Petro Company management. May be required to perform other duƟes as directed.

SALARY: DOE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Agency management, operaƟons, maintenance, inspecƟons, inventory, oversee personnel, customer service, safety, environmental and other duƟes as directed.

QUALIFICATIONS: CompleƟon of Secondary School as well as a Class 1 Driver’s License is required. Several years of experience in transportaƟon operaƟons, including supervisory experience is an asset A college diploma or university degree in business or transportaƟon administraƟon is an asset. Several years of clerical, operaƟonal or administraƟve experience related to freight traĸc is an asset For further informaƟon on this posƟng please see out posƟng at www.yuwin.ca or indeed.ca Submit resumes by September 1, 2017 to: Tallulah Lamerton-McCullough HR Manager, North 60 Petro Email: tmccullough@north60petro.com Fax: 867-633-8841

SALES • BODY SHOP • PARTS • SERVICE AWD Silver, 2K, SUV

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SLT Cargo Van, Auto, command start, white, shelved

Heavy Duty Machinery

$22,900 2010 Ford Mustang GT Convertible, V8, Charcoal with Black Top

20,995

USED VEHICLE HICLE CLEARANCE! $ 2008 Toyota Tacoma X RUNNER S/C, 4X4, BLACK 2014 Ram 1500 Crew 4X4 SLT, WHITE 2012 Jeep Liberty 4X4, RED 2012 Honda CBR 125cc Bike 1999 Buick Century 4-DOOR 2012 Ram 1500 QUAD, 4X4, OUTDOORSMAN LD! SOAUTO 2012 Hyundai Veloster, BLUE, 2015 Chev Equinox LS WHITE 2017 Chev Cruze Premier LOADED, BLACK 2013 Ford F150 S/C 4X4 XLT WHITE 2013 GMC Terrain SLE2 AWD, RED

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Department of Highways and Public Works Annual Salary: $55,701-$64,006

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1 set pine bunk beds w/mattresses, $100. 867-821-4521 Elegant home/office desk, 60L”x28D”x30”H, with matching wooden office chair, purchased at Ashley’s less than 2 years ago, too large for condo, $400.

Reply to nnigel34@yahoo.ca Single mattress in good condition, $45. 668-1944 Table set, 4 chairs, mechanical leaf, bar height, exc cond, $1,400 new, asking $425. 335-2038 or 336-0995

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Other Older Models going for between

$199.00 to $399.00!!!!!

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

CATERPILLAR D-8K (1978)

c/w ripper, two blades, angle + “c” frame & straight with hardware

Tel: (867) 667-7777

Misc Services

Affordable, Prompt Service Affor Aff rvice i SPECIALIZING IN SMALL JOBS MARILYN ASTON 867 . 333 . 5786

Misc Services

EMAIL: woloshyn@northwestel.net

For viewing all jobs and to apply, please go to

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

Canvas Tents & Wood Stoves Lowest Prices in Canada Tents will ship by Greyhound from Castlegar, BC Canvas Tent Shop www.canvastentshop.ca 1-800-234-1150 Call for Prices Chainsaw parts, carburetor for Husqvarna, can be Walbro W239 or 2AMA to fit a 36 or 141 Husqvarna.

Norm 456-7868 Coffee table; steel bathtub; 2 45-gal steel drums. 667-6649

The Handy Woman

For Quick Approval call: 668-5559

ACCREDITED BUSINESS

Closing Date: August 18, 2017 RequisiƟon: #6311

Blue cowboy boots, size 7.5, made in US. 867-634-2880

Da-Lite heavy duty fast fold deluxe projection screen, 11’ wide x 7’ 6” high, exc cond, transport case included, $800. Call 668-5014

#4 Fraser Road, McCrae, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 5S8

Help Wanted

Arctic Spa hot tub cover, 8’X8’, grey, $280 obo. Call for pick-up 668-6806

Collection (55) various music CDs, folk, rock, guitar, Latin, $50. 6333154

In-House Financing Available

A Rating

Acetylene torch, c/w tanks, hose, tips, etc; acetylene & oxygen cylinders, both full. 456-4927

Carpentry/ Woodwork

DRYWALL • WEATHERSTRIPPING CARPENTRY • BATHROOMS CARP

79,650.00

Pump + motor 649 turbocharged Diesel Allison Chalmers paco water pump 2000gpm@100psi on wheels all safety gauges. Dennis, Taber, Alberta 403-308-1400

Misc. for Sale

HOME REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS

$

6-cyl Deutz diesel, 6,500hrs, c/w 65kw Stamford generator 600V, 2 6” submersible Flygt pumps, HD suspension cage for 8” discharge, auto switch gear engine on float system, in Mayo as package, $31,000. 867335-6649

4-person Arctic Spa hot tub, exc cond, c/w lid & chemicals, will assist in transport if necessary, $3,500.

667-7236

Mahindra 4X4 tractor, front-end loader, new, diesel engine, 8-sp shovel, 4WD, box for hydraulics, lifts or rises, $12,000 firm. 456-8910

2015 Ram ProMaster City

2013 Toolcat by Bobcat, a/c, aux hydraulics, heavy duty battery, c/w forks, general bucket, snow bucket, V plow, 1500 lb lift, 2000 dump box, 550 hrs, exc cond, $45,000. 3347635

Furniture

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S.A. vouchers accepted.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Travel Consultant

MasterCard

Cheque, Cash

29,995

EVF FUELWOOD ENT Year Round Delivery * Dry accurate cords *1/2 Cord Orders Accepted *Clean shavings available *VISA/MC accepted Member of Yukon Wood Producers Assoc Costs will rise ORDER NOW 456-7432

Heavy Duty Machinery

2017 GMC Terrain SLE $

27

Merchandise for Sale

Collection of 13 guns, good shape.

456-8910

Appliances

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Custom-cut Stone Products

HEADSTONES • KITCHENS • BUILDING STONE • AND MORE...

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TOPSOIL Call Dirtball

668-2963 Bobcat Services Now Available Excavating • Trucking Septic System • Driveways

Folding camp cots & chairs, $10 to $50. 332-6565 FOR YOUR CANOE TRIP shuttles and fishing trip requirements give www.nisutlinoutfitting.com in Teslin a call this summer at 1-867-334-7364 Fishermen are the best people!

Greenworks 40V battery & charger for chainsaw, $50. 393-3097 Men’s & women’s Vasque hiking boots, floater jacket, hip waders.

Call 667-7144 Moving out sale, apartment-size deep freezers, furniture, many household items, everything must go. 336-0908 Ron’s Small Engine Services Repairs to Snowmobiles, Chainsaws, Lawnmowers, ATV’s, Small industrial equipment.

Light automotive & welding repairs available 867-332-2333 lv msg Small collection (15) of various classical music CDs, $25. 633-3154 Small Olympus FE-210 digital camera, c/w case & manual, $25. 6333154 To give away: corner TV stand w/glass door & one wood frame stand up speaker. 334-3886 Tool chest, electrician working tools, testers, etc, belonged to working mine electrician, $200. 668-2772 ToyoStove Laser 73 oil heater, well maintained, $1,000 obo. 334-2197 Various hockey cards, complete sets, OPC, McDonalds. 633-3154 for details.

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 * SELL Yukon Wildlife Conservation stamps, set of 13 annual stamps 1996-2008, beautiful Yukon wildlife artwork, great Christmas gift, $150.

633-3154

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Transportation

Transportation

Transportation

Misc. Wanted

Cars - Domestic

Sport Utility Vehicle

Trucks & Vans

Trucks & Vans

Trucks & Vans

Wanted: approx. 150 sq feet of tongue and groove interior siding, cedar/spruce/pine/other, can be in shortish (4’) pieces, willing to buy for reasonable price. Call/text 335-3514 Wanted: Boy’s clothing for school, size 8-10 and size 6, also size 6 girl’s clothing for school, mainly dresses, in good shape, willing to pay reasonable price. 667-2440 or lv msg Wanted: Hobby drone pilots to get a group together. 335-5442 Wanted: Lumber, 2X6 & 2X4 plywood. 86-399-3031 Wanted: Smaller size woodworking tools for younger boy, 10 oz hammer, small handsaw & drill. 6681944 Wanted: Someone to install outdoor carpet on concrete steps. Please call 335-2045.

Buick Park Avenue, like new, runs very well, $1,300 in recent parts, asking $1,100. 456-8910

2000 Jeep Cherokee, Special Edition, complete power, infinity sound system, heated leather seats, sunroof, remote start, new tires, 216,000kms, $5,500. 667-7777

1995 F-150 1/2-ton, 163,064 miles, 300, 6-cyl, 5-spd trans, canopy, new battery, front brakes & alternator, tires 80%, spare 80%, good on gas, minor body damage, $2,000. 3350242

2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport, 4L, auto, 4X4, 242,000kms, daily driver exc YTG Jeep, $2,750. 667-4563

2000 Mazda MPV van, great shape, must see, reduced to $3,300. 3343456

In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Musical Instruments 2 Hohner accordions, one 2-row, one 3-row, great condition. 4568910 Castiglione full-size piano accordion, excellent shape. 867-634-2880 PIANO TUNING & REPAIR by certified piano technician Call Barry Kitchen @ 633-5191 Email: bfkitchen@hotmail.com

Sporting Goods 120 lb cast iron weights, includes barbell, dumbbell, EZ curl bar. 4564927 btwn 10am & Noon Invertrac exercise machine for sore back, $100. 333-3369 Speed bag, gloves & hanger; Everlast heavy bag. 456-4927 btwn 10am & Noon Total Gym 1,000 exercise unit, $75.

633-3113

Transportation

Auto Accessories/Parts Sliding bed-extender for Nissan Frontier, $150. 668-5014 Tidy Tank with manual transfer pump, 320L/70 gal, $200 obo. 4562986 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 Wanted: 4 x 16” 6-hole rims for GMC Canyon. 667-6649

Cars - Domestic 1976 Impala, 4-dr, 305 auto, gray/red interior, runs/drives, cool car, $500. 633-3819 1980 Pontiac Formula Firebird, auto V8, rebuilt engine, red interior, black exterior, 62,000kms, $11,000 obo.

456-4766 1998 7-seat Dodge Caravan minivan, runs great, looks good, well maintained, 258,338kms, all maintenance receipts for last 5 yrs, $2,400.

Barb 334-6433 2001 Chevrolet Impala, recent inspection, 4-dr, auto, $2,500. 3351681 2001 Toyota Corolla, runs well, needs new brakes/rotors but otherwise road ready, summer/winter tires w/some life, some issues but ok in town, A to B, $350. 334-9596.

2005 Ford Taurus, 4 door, power equipped, 83,000kms. $5,500. 6677777 2007 Chevy Cobalt LTE, 170,000kms, 4-dr, 5-spd, power locks & windows, cruise, remote start, good tires, $4,500 firm. 6686911 2008 Toyota Yaris, 167,000 mi, new tires, snow tires, vg cond, upgraded stereo, fresh battery, $4,900. 3320067 2010 Dodge Charger, great shape, heavy duty vehicle, excellent on gas, good tires, nice ride, $7,900 obo. 334-3456 2011 Camaro SS convertible, V8 400 hp, RS pkg, victory red with cream leather interior, heads up display. This car is as it came from showroom floor, 11,948 kms, $31,500 obo. Paul 668-1990 2015 Dodge Journey SXT V6, 13,000kms, loaded, exc cond, still on warranty, reduced to $25,900 obo. 456-3373

Motorcycles 2006 Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster, only 112 kms, incls two new Harley-Davidson crash helmets, $9,500 obo. 668-1990 2012 CRF250X, one owner, low hours, well maintained. New Maxxis tires, Trailtech computer, rad guards, skid plate, new levers and rear fender, forks just serviced. Nathan 335-3935 Honda Rebel, 300 cc, new, full warranty, at Honda dealer, $4,700 obo.

867-390-2244

Recreational/Sale 1991 Ford F-250 4X4, 190,000kms, 1981 Okanagan Camper, sleeps 4 comfortably, propane 3 burner cooktop, furnace and fridge, c/w extra jacks, great hunting or wood hauling truck. 335-1349

Trucks & Vans 1973 Ford 1/2 ton pick-up, strong mechanical, body rough, in May, $700; 1973 Ford 3-ton, good body, motor runs, needs brake work, in Mayo, $2,200. 335-6649 1993 Chevy Suburban, $2,500 obo.

633-2218 1993 Chevy Suburban, $2,500 obo.

633-2218

1997 Chev Signature conversion van, exc cond, mechanically certified, must sell, $7,000 obo. 6332997 for more info

Graveside Service for the late

JP (Jean Paul) Goulet

1994 Ford F250, 4WD, Turbo diesel, runs well, great work or wood truck, $1,850 obo. 633-2218

1998 Dodge XLT Laramie 4X4 V10, runs excellent, roll-over, engine drive trail excellent, $1,200 obo; 1966 Fargo power wagon short box Fleetside 4X4, $800 obo. 336-0908

August 10th, 7:00pm at the Faro Cemetery.

1999 Ford Explorer, $2,900 obo. 333-3457

2009 Chev 2500, 3/4 ton, 4x4, extended cab, $9,200. 667-7777

We will meet back at Faro Bible Chapel following the service.

In Memoriam

For information, contact Ted Baker 944-2442

runs

great,

In Memoriam

2000 National Dolphin Class A, 26’, 2 slides. V-10 Triton engine (Ford), 77,342 miles, sleeps 6, incl’s car dolly, $25,000. 250-869-7110

In memory of our father

2002, 25.5’ Westwind 5th wheel, 1 slide, well maintained, 1/2-ton towable, sleeps 4-6, tub, shower, good appliances, good tires/spare, $9,500. 334-7709 2008 Northern Lights Special Edition, 10’2” long, exc cond, $24,000.

393-3630 2009 Pleasure-Way 20’ class B RV, generator, TV, microwave, rear, air ride, w/compressor, fridge, furnace, onboard toilet, new windshield, clean, well maintained, 74,000 mi, Ford chassis w/V10, $58,000. 4562055

Frank Sias

8287696

We’re not having a celebration of life for

Brian Hannah

at the Jarvis Street Saloon Saturday, August 5th at 4:30 since he didn’t want that.

However, there is going to be a ‘thing’ for him at that time & place since we all had a thing for Brian.

Please join us at his home in Silver City to honour and share his life story.

2013 Ever Light 26’ trailer, fridge, stove, freezer, shower, queen bed, TV, leather seats, pull-out couch, A/C, can send pics, $27,000. 6333113 2013 Whitehawk TravelTrailer-28BHS. Immaculate shape, 5290 pounds, 1/2 ton towable, barely used. Loaded, electronic awning & hitch. Double bunk beds fit 600 pound each bunk, queen bed in front, $27,000. 335-9140

1996 Chev Astrovan, good condition, some rust, technically sound, new tires, located in Tagish, can send pics, $1,800 firm. 332-6025

Come raise a glass and remember one of our most beloved “Colourful Five Percent”, please bring your stories to share.

Friday, August 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Obituaries 8275240

Donald Duncan McIntyre

Hijacker 5th wheel trailer hitch, upper, no rails, $110. 456-4927 btwn 10am & 12noon.

Truck & 5th wheel, $12,500, or $6,000 for 2002 Silverado 2500 4X4 crew cab, 246,000kms, $7,500 for 1993 Triple E BB 26’ model, good shape. 335-6551

Sport Utility Vehicle 1996 Grand Cherokee, V8. Runs, but needs work. Great project car.

Remote start & door locks, 287,500kms, $1500. Call/text 3351608 1999 Subaru Outback, AWD, c/w 2 sets of tires on rims & roof sport box. Heated seats, electric windows.

Winter carpets and rubber liner.

116k, two-tone silver $4,400. 6685701

In Memoriam

Obituaries

Headstone Potlatch for

July 30, 1942 - July 7, 2017 Don, “Shakey” as he was known to his friends, was a long time Yukoner. Throughout his life, he did dip in and out of the Yukon to other western Provinces for short periods of time, to work in various interesting workplaces.

He experienced jobs as a ranch hand in Alberta; and as a gas jockey, tire wrangler and the chief cook and bottle washer, at many lodges along the Alaska highway. He even did a stint as a diver off the BC coast.

Life seemed to throw some curves at Shakey, but he never let those challenges get him down. He faced every day with a “whatever” attitude and a wonderful sense of humor.

He lived the last many years of his life in Teslin, Yukon, and told many hilarious tales about his job as the barman at the Full Moon Saloon in Teslin.

Left to mourn him are his brothers, Ken of Teslin, Bill of the United Kingdom, Howard of Calgary, Alberta; and his many friends.

To Honor his life and share our memories of him; family and friends will gather at the RecPlex in Teslin, Saturday, August 12, at 4:00 PM. We ask his friends to join us there.

IN LOVING MEMORY

Anne Spinks (Nannie) D C Ã Ù 4, 1938 – AU¦UST 5, 2007

“Her ^pirit Brighter dhan Northern Northern Lights” dhose we LOVE don’t go away dhey walk beside us every day hnseen, unheard, but always near ^dILL LOVED, ^dILL MI^^ED and very dear.

Author hnknown

Love, YYour our Family: Husband Cecil; Children Connie (Jerry), Tony (Phyllis), Brenda, Heidi, Cyndi (Gerry), Randy (Kim), Grandchildren: Steven (Nadia), Lora-Lea (Rob), Tabitha (Dona), Crystal, Kevin (Krissy), Tamara (Greg), Thomas (Florissa), Jeīrey, Keighlan.

My Nannie was special in every way Her smile was like the Northern Lights that shine upon the way My Nannie was someone special who played a special part In all the treasured memories we hold within our hearts.

Nannie held our Ɵny hands for just a liƩle while, But in our hearts forever.

Great Grandchildren: Kyle, James, Liana, Mason, GarreƩ, Abigail, Nathan, TrusƟn, Harmony, Haydn, Kaleb, and Callum.

Frances Joe Kusxkatin - Agunda (Wolf)

Saturday, August 5, 2017 | 1:00 pm Klukshu Community Hall, Klukshu, YT Please Bring Your Potlatch Dishes

8272204

James (Jim) Ernest Tedesco May 6, 1950 - July 23, 2017 With heavy hearts we announce the passing of our cherished husband, son, Pop, brother, uncle and friend.

Jim was born in Nelson B.C., moved to Vancouver in 1965, then to Whitehorse in 1986. He spent his entire career driving truck and operating heavy equipment in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.

Jim loved camping (the bigger the bonfire the better), spending time with family and friends and motorcycle riding.

Jim was a very kind, considerate and caring man. He made a real difference in the lives of many.

He leaves behind his adoring wife Joani, loving son Tyler, stepson Cort, Mom Jean Champion, devoted sisters Sandie, Terri & Linda (David), nephew Jamie (Marlo, Miller) niece Traci, and many relatives and friends who treasured and loved him.

At Jim’s request there will be no funeral service.

Donations to the BC/Yukon Cancer Society in his memory would be welcomed.

Ride Like the Wind Jim! Forever in Our Hearts!

Friday, August 4, 2017

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Transportation

Transportation

Services

Trucks & Vans

Boats

Cleaning Services

2000 MPV Mazda 7 passenger, 2.5L V6 engine, runs great, power windows/locks/mirrors, cruise control, AC, CD player, $2,900. 333-3457

Esquif Rangeley 17-foot square stern royalex recreation/fishing boat in olive by Esquif. 51” beam, 3 seats, comes with oars, rated for 8hp short shaft, excellent condition, $2,600. 668-5014

Cleaning Lady and Car for Hire with Driver to help with daily chores. $20 per hour.

References available upon request.

Call 335-1088

2002 Chev 3/4 ton, x-cab, 4x4, headache racks, bush bumper winch, 219,000kms, $8,200. 6677777 2002 Ford ambulance, 82,000kms, 7.3L diesel, all emergency equip, sirens, lights etc work, $7,700. 667777 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, 4-dr, removable hard top, A/C, cruise, very reliable, runs smoothly, 175,000kms, $17,500 obo. 6334131 2010 Ford Ranger, 4-dr, 92,500kms, V6 auto, vg condition, 2WD, A/C, $7,900. 668-4082 2011 BMW X5 turbocharged Diesel AWD SUV, full options incl. command start, 360d camera, panoramic sunroof, navigation, dual dvd players, too much to list. 333-9020 2013 F150 XLT, crew cab, 4x4, 6’6” box, 5.0L, command start, tonneau cover, $26,000. Mike 335-1536

Utility Trailers 16’ heavy duty flat deck trailer, 7,000lb tandem axles, slide-in ramps, headache rack, new spare tire, like new condition, $5,500. 6334656 Heavy duty utility $2,150. 334-4209

trailer,

4’x8’,

TAIT’S 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

Boats 2015 16’ Ocean Pro inflatable commercial grade with trailer, $4,800 obo. 867-390-2244

Honda 20 HP 4 stroke, very reliable and quiet, approximately 100 hours use, well maintained, $2,400 obo.

Dave 390-2244 PROFESSIONAL BOAT REPAIR Fiberglass Supplies Marine Accessories FAR NORTH FIBERGLASS 49 MacDonald Rd Whitehorse, Yukon 393-2467

Services Carpentry/ Woodwork MC RENOVATION Construction & Renovations Laminated floor, siding, decks, tiles.

Kitchen, bathroom, doors, cabinets, windows, framing, board, painting.

Drop ceiling, fences No job too small Free estimates Michael 336-0468 yt.mcr@hotmail.com

Home Repairs HANDYMAN SERVICES 24-7 *Renovations * Repairs *Restorations * Maintenance

*Furniture Repair *Small Appliance Repair *Interior/Exterior Painting *Gutter Cleaning *Pressure Washing *Window Washing

393-2275

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Seeking Public Input on Pounds Act Amendments (Livestock Control) Yukon’s Agriculture branch is seeking input on proposed amendments to the Yukon Pounds Act for livestock control. This act does not include the care of domestic animals such as cats and dogs.

The proposed changes will ensure consistency between the Pounds Act, the Highways Act and the Animal Protection Act. Changes proposed to the act are intended to contribute to improved safety for motorists by making all areas of Yukon subject to livestock control activities, making all species of livestock subject to livestock control activities, and improving accountability of livestock owners for stray livestock.

The deadline for comments is August 11, 2017.

Misc Services FOR SALE NATIVE BRAIN-TANNED HIDES and Tanned Beaver Pelts at reasonable prices.

Phone (780)355-3557 If no one available please leave message or call (780)461-9677

SMITH’S CONTRACTING RENOVATIONS *New building renovation. *Windows, doors, siding, decks & fences. *All home repairs from footings to roof. *Over 30 years experience.

Phone 867-689-2899

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

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

Comments received during this period will be compiled and considered in the amendments.

Learn more about the regulation amendment process and view a discussion paper online at

www.agriculture.gov.yk.ca.

Please contact the Agriculture branch in Whitehorse for more information or to get a copy of the discussion paper.

Phone: 867-667-5838, E-mail: agriculture@gov.yk.ca Mail: Agriculture branch regulation amendments, Government of Yukon, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6

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PUBLIC TENDER WHISTLE BEND BIOSWALE LANDSCAPING AND REPAIR Project Description: Landscaping of newly constructed Bio-swale and repair of existing Bio-swale.

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 29, 2017.

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 Ron Bramadat at ron.bramadat@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

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

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

Community Services

9.9 hp Johnson, long shaft in exc shape, $1,275. 667-6525 Mercury 7.5hp outboard motor, can be seen running, $375. 334-6087

REACH MORE BUYERS with the Classifieds.

PUBLIC TENDER

Box 130, Carcross, Yukon Y0B 1B0 P (867) 821-4251 F (867) 821-4802 www.ctfn.ca Dear Carcross/Tagish First Nation Citizens,

With our extensive, organized listings, readers will find your ad easily, so you won’t be climbing the walls looking for buyers.

we are pleased to inform you that the Government of Carcross / Tagish First Nation is in a position to offer its Citizens residential lease parcels in the Watson River Subdivision. There are 10 lots. The application deadline is September 4, 2017.

Photo Ads 2 weeks! 4 issues! $ 40

If you are interested in building your own home in the Watson River Subdivision, please contact Doris Dreyer at 336-1049 or doris.dreyer@ctfn.ca for more information. She can assist you with questions about the lease application process, how to obtain a mortgage, the permits required and what you can build.

Photo + 30 words

+ gst

Information packages and lease applications will be mailed out to all C/TFN Citizens households. Should you be interest in obtaining the mailout, but are uncertain if we have your up-to-date address, please contact Marie Helm at (867) 821-4251 or reception@ctfn.ca

1979 Peterbor

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18’ Boat Fibreglass. 1985 70HP Evinrude boat motor (recent ma intenance) worki ng like a charm. Boat in good shape rea dy to go.

Trailer included.

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Watson River Subdivision

SHAKWAK HIGHWAY PROJECT PRODUCE AND STOCKPILE AGGREGATE KM 1815.9, KM 1832.2 AND KM 1877.9 ALASKA HIGHWAY YUKON 2017-2018 Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 29, 2017.

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 Bill Stanley at bill.stanley@gov.yk.ca.

Funding is provided by the United States Government through the Shakwak Agreement.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

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

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

867.667.6285 211 Wood Street, Whitehorse

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Services

Services

Pets & Livestock

Pets & Livestock

Announcements

Announcements

Misc Services

Roofing & Skylights

Livestock

Livestock

Tenders

Tenders

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

Contact: PF Watson, Box 40187 Whitehorse, YT Y1A 6M9 668-3632

Need A Roof?

ALPHA ROOFING CONTRACTOR Residential * Commercial New Roof * Shingles Roof Inspection Re-roof * Leak Repair Torch-on * Tin Roof Journeyman High Quality Workmanship 332-4076

5 chickens, Sussex Red layers, 2 months old, eggs by fall, half bag of feed, will deliver, $50. Jim @ 3334094

HORSE HAVEN HAY RANCH Irrigated Timothy/Brome mix No weeds or sticks Small squares 60 lbs plus 4 ft x 5 ft rounds 800 lbs Free delivery for larger orders Straw square bales available 335-5192 * 668-7218

Painting & Decorating PASCAL REGINE PAINTING 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

THOMAS’S ROOFING SERVICE *Shingle Replacement *Metal Roofs *Tile Installation *Repairs (867) 334-8263

to your customers by advertising online at

GEOTECHNICAL DRILLING SERVICES AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS ON THE NORTH KLONDIKE HIGHWAY #2, YUKON 2017-2018

Call the advertising team at 667-6285.

Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER ELEVATOR 1 (OTIS) UPGRADE ENWIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHITEHORSE,YUKON Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 22, 2017.

Please refer to the procurement documents for the closing time and location.

Documents may be obtained from the Procurement Support Centre, Department of Highways and Public Works, Suite 101 104 Elliott Street, Whitehorse, Yukon (867) 667-5385. Technical questions may be directed to David Greer at David.Greer@gov.yk.ca.

Site Visit: Tuesday, August 8th at 9:30AM. See Tender Document : Part E - Supplementary instructions Site visit requirements for speciÀc instructions on site visit.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

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

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

Highways and Public Works

It’s good for you.

Tenders

Tenders

The Kwanlin Dun Judicial Council is accepting quotes for the

DESIGN AND SEWING OF 5 MELTON CLOTH VESTS for their Judicial Council members.

For further details on the quote submission please email kdfnjudicialcouncil@gmail.com or call (867)335-6726.

The deadline for submission of quotes is August 23, 2017.

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Tenders

PUBLIC TENDER

INCREASE YOUR REACH

Hay & Straw For Sale Excellent quality hay Timothy/grass mix 60+lb $14.50 Alfalfa/grass mix 60+lb $15.50 Straw bales (baled in springnot prime) $5 Nielsen Farms Maureen 333-0615

REQUEST FOR QUOTES

Submissions must be clearly marked with the above project title. The closing date for submissions is August 29, 2017.

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 Kisa Elmer at kisa.elmer@gov.yk.ca.

All tenders and proposals are subject to a Compliance Review performed by the Procurement Support Centre.

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

This tender is subject to Chapter Five of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

The Yukon Business Incentive Policy may apply to this project.

Bidders and/or Proponents are advised to review documents to determine CertiÀcate of Recognition (COR) requirements for this project.

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

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Earth Works and Site Clean-up

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

For a full project description and site details please contact Phil Emerson at PEmerson@taan.ca or (867) 668-3613 or visit Employment on our website at Taan.ca

COMMUNITY TRAILS MAP AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Ta’an Kwäch’än Council (TKC) invites proposals for earth works and site clean-up on Ta’an Kwäch’än Council Settlement Lands, parcel C-10B, located within City of Whitehorse, Yukon.

RESPONSIBILITY: • The contractor will be responsible for all equipment required to safely complete this project • The contractor is responsible for all staff required for the project. Priority will be given to contractors which hire TKC citizens • The contractor is responsible for transportation to and from the site • The contractor is responsible for any additional material to fill the depressions

THE WORK COMPRISES: • Vegetation removal • Filling of open pits • Removing debris from berms • Deactivating any roads created during the project Work to be completed prior to September 15, 2017.

RFP must be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFP for Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, Earth Works Site Clean-up” and addressed to: Ta’an Kwäch’än Council 117 Industrial Road Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2T8 Attention: Phil Emerson

Yukon Water Board – Application Notice Office des eaux du Yukon – Avis de demande Application Number Numéro de la demande

Applicant/Licensee Demandeur/Titulaire

Water Source Location Point d’eau/Lieu

Type of Undertaking Type d’entreprise

Deadline for Comments 4:00pm Date limite pour commentaires, avant 16 h

PM07-549-1

Assignment from Art Sailer dba Ace Placer Mines to Ace Placer Mining Ltd.

Rogers Gulch & Hunker Creek Tributary of Klondike River

Placer

August 18, 2017

Any person may submit comments or recommendations, in writing, by the deadline for notice.

Applications are available for viewing on the Yukon Water Board’s online registry, WATERLINE at http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca or in person at the Yukon Water Board office. For more information, contact the Yukon Water Board Secretariat at 867-456-3980.

The Village of Haines Junction proposes to create a community trail map and implementation plan for the municipality. This project consists of two distinct rounds of work, including conducting a public consultation process to help establish appropriate recommendations to be made to Council, and the creation of an implementation plan along with a cost-beneƤt analysis.

Request for Proposals packages may be picked up in person at: Village of Haines Junction 178 Backe Street, Box 5339, Haines Junction, YT Y0B 1L0 867-634-7100 or online at: http://www.hainesjunctionyukon.com/ Deadline for proposals will be 4:00 p.m. PST August 31, 2017

REQUEST FOR TENDER RFT 2017-015 JANITORIAL SERVICES

RFP SUBMISSIONS CLOSE Monday, August 7, 2017 AT NOON

Highways and Public Works

Village of Haines Junction

Toute personne peut soumettre ses commentaires ou ses recommandations à l’Office avant la date limite indiquée sur le présent avis.

Pour voir les demandes, consultez le registre en ligne WATERLINE au http://www.yukonwaterboard.ca ou rendez-vous au bureau de l’Office des eaux du Yukon. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec le secrétariat de l’Office au 867-456-3980.

Yukon Energy Corporation is inviting tender responses from qualified proponents to provide janitorial services to the Corporation Offices located at #2 Miles Canyon Road. There are seven buildings at the corporate headquarters and one building located in the Kulan subdivision requiring services. The Corporation anticipates a two year contract with the option to extend for three additional one year terms. A mandatory site visit is scheduled for August 3rd, 2017 between 2:00 4:00 p.m. with an alternate date available August 8th, 2017 between 10:00 AM - 12:00 p.m.

Proposals, clearly marked “RFT# 2017-015 Janitorial Services” will be received up to 2:00:00 PM PDT, Tuesday August 15th, 2017, at Corporation offices at #2 Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y1A 6S7 or via e-mail.

To obtain a Request for Tender package contact the Corporation at: procurement@yec.yk.ca.

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Announcements

Livestock

Coming Events

QUALITY YUKON MEAT No hormones, steroids or additives Grass raised grain finished.

Hereford beef - $5.50/lb Domestic pork - $5/lb Domestic wild boar - $6/lb Order now for guaranteed spring or fall delivery.

Whole, half or custom order.

Samples available 668-7218 * 335-5192

Packing our stories over new trails, Whitehorse 911 with Max Fraser, Sept 11, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Pets Looking for a new home for my two bonded cats, very well behaved and well trained, they hate my toddler, inside only, must stay together. 3330260 LOST: Black cat with white chest, chin & upper lips, more white on right upper lip, 4 white paws, medium/long hair, possibly downtown, pics on Kijiji. 456-7890 Purebred Siberian Husky, 11 months, purchased from Edmonton breeder, located in Pelly, will send pics, $800. 867-332-8945

Announcements

Coming Events Al-Anon Meetings, 667-7142. Has your life been affected by someone’s drinking? Wednesday 12Noon @ new Sara Steele Bldg, main entrance. Friday beginner’s meeting, 7pm, regular meeting 8pm at Lutheran Church, 4th and Strickland.

Annual General Meeting for the Shuwateen Ancestral Group Events (SAGE), Whitehorse Public Library Meeting Room Sept 2/17 at 11:30 am shuwateenancestralgroupevents@gmail.com for info Augusto! Children’s Festival, Haines Junction, August 11-13, 2017, Fun for ages 12 and under. Check out the website at www.augustokids.ca A Yukon Camino to celebrate St James Day, walk/hike 1 of 3 minicaminos around downtown Whitehorse on Monday July 24, 5 pm at Waterfront Wharf. We’re on Facebook at Canadian Company of Pilgrims -Whitehorse Chapter.

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS Sunday, August 6, 10:30 am Whitehorse United Church 601 Main Street (downtown) Elevator access available Welcome all 2, 4, (6 & 8?) legged guests & their humans, or bring a photo or ashes.

Well behaved stuffies can come too.

Please ensure that pets are on leads or in carriers for their comfort & safety.

Water & treats provided.

Join us for coffee after the service.

All are welcome!

867-667-2989 Broaden Your Spiritual Perspective.

Abraham: 1 God, 3 wives, 5 religions Writer Angela Brewster presents fascinating excerpts from Frances Worthington’s book Thursday, August 10 7pm, Library Meeting Room.

Come celebrate Discovery Day at the Old Log Church Museum on Monday, Aug 21, 10am-5pm. Kids’ crafts and guided tours all day, free refreshments. Corner of 3rd and Elliott.

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Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Bring your bike & learn all about the rules of the road! Sept 10, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Launch straw rockets to the Moon!

Aug 13, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

Wee Moves - Kid-Friendly Sundays.

Make your own Hobby Horse OR your own Musical! Aug 6, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. $5 for members, $10 for non-members.

633-6019 HOURS OF OPERATION FOR THE SHELTER:

2017

Tues - Fri: 12:00pm-7:00pm Sat 10:00am-6:00pm CLOSED Sundays & Mondays

Help control the pet overpopulation problem have your pets SPAYED OR NEUTERED. FOR INFORMATION CALL

633-6019

IN THE RUFF 2017

Humane Society Yukon

GOLF TOURNAMENT August 26th

Mountain View Golf Club

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM REGISTRATION Packages at Humane Society Yukon or Mountain View Golf Club

AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

Lost & Found

Noele

Gracie

T 22 NORTHLAND TRAILER COURT, 986 Range Road, Saturday August 5, 9am start, multi-family moving out sale, something for everyone T 122 NORTHLAND TRAILER COURT, 986 Range Road, Saturday August 5, 8:30am-2:30pm, everything goes, tools, furniture, firewood etc, proceeds to senior causes

TAKHINI - TAKHINI MHP

T 147 TAKHINI TRAILER COURT, 833 Range Road, Saturday August 5, 8am-1pm, furniture, electronics, clothing, household items, rain or shine

TAKHINI

T 44 DIEPPE DRIVE, Takhini, Saturday August 5, 9am-1pm, art & supplies, stained glass scraps, tools, CDs, tapes, books, household items, raspberry canes T 15 FIRTH ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday August 5, 8am start T 31 ALSEK ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday August 5, 9am-12Noon, household items, clothing, jewelry T 38 KLONDIKE ROAD, Riverdale, Saturday August 5, 9am start, plants, sink, small tools etc T 20 TAY STREET, Riverdale, Saturday August 5, 8:30am-12:30pm, no early birds, household items, table, chairs, lamps, books, kitchen items, too much to list

PORTER CREEK

T 27 OAK STREET, Porter Creek, Saturday August 5, 8:30am-2pm, something for everyone T 25 WANN ROAD, Porter Creek, Saturday August 5, 9am-12Noon, kid’s toys & clothes, adult clothes, kitchen stuff, frames, rain or shine T 31 EVERGREEN CRESCENT, Porter Creek, Saturday August 5, 9am12:30pm, something for everyone

T 40 LOGAN ROAD, Pineridge, Saturday August 5, 10am-1pm, kid’s toys, vehicle accessories incl. roof rack, trailer mirrors, hitch, good quality clothing, household items

COPPER RIDGE

T 118 NORTH STAR DRIVE, Copper Ridge, Saturday August 5, 8:30am1pm, multi-family, wicker baskets, plastic storage boxes, glass & kitchen ware, wine holders, bedding, clothing, etc

WHISTLEBEND L.J.

Bindi

T 8 ATLIN PLACE, Whistlebend, Saturday August 5, 8am-1pm, baby items, women’s clothing, jewelry, lawn mower, household items

HIDDEN VALLEY/MACPHERSON

T 11 2-MILE ROAD, across from Couch Road, Saturday August 5, 9am2pm, rain or shine T 15 MACPHERSON ROAD, Saturday August 5, 10am-4pm

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T 15 DENVER ROAD, McCrae, Saturday August 5, 10am-2pm, huge estate sale, tools, vehicles, boats, plumbing supplies, 100s of tires, trailers, industrial shelving, outboard motors, etc. Watch for signs.

MARSH LAKE

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T #1 DUKES ARM NEW CONSTABULARY, Saturday August 5, lots of stuff by donation to support summer youth Living History camp in Dawson City, 2 houses for sale too T 61 BEACH ROAD, Army Beach, Marsh Lake, Saturday August 5, 11am5pm, something for everyone

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 6TH DOWNTOWN

T LEPAGE PARK FLEA MARKET, downtown, Sunday August 6, 10am2pm, vintage & collectibles, books, furniture, unique items & more, fundraiser for Yukon Historical & Museums Association

TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP Chase

Casper

Guild AGM/BBQ is Saturday, August 12 at Noon, meeting at 1pm. Come find out what we are doing next season. All are welcome.

Wallie

And more...

Crossword: Falcor

Lilly

Come for a visit and meet your next furry family member!

RUNNING RUNN NING AT LAR N LARGE RGE...

Packing our stories over new trails Future travel with Rick Steele Aug 15, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Packing our stories over new trails.

Horses with Chuck Hume & Roy Ness, Aug 8, 2-4pm, Yukon Transportation Museum. Storytelling, live music, bannock and tea.

Ms. Finister

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Advertise for 5 Months and

FH Collins 1997 Grad 20-year reunion, let’s get together and catch up, August 13, 2017. Picnic, potluck, family friendly fun. Elizabeth @ 250505-4103

Hospice Yukon: Free, confidential services offering compassionate support to all those facing advanced illness, death and bereavement.

Visit our lending library @ 409 Jarvis, M-F, 11:30-3.

667-7429, www.hospiceyukon.net

TAKHINI - NORTHLAND MHP

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5TH

T 96 PARKLANE, Hillcrest, Saturday August 5, 9:30am start time, multifamily, furniture, kayak, dirt bike, clothes etc

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Sale

HILLCREST

FOUND: Kid’s glasses - call 3934555 to identify

Looking for NEW Business / Clients?

GARAGEs

RIVERDALE

Personals Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club August 1, 2017 1st - Bruce Beaton & Lynn Daffe 2nd - Diane and Don Emond 3rd - Mark Davey & Paula Pasquali 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

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 Weaving Voices, a C150+ community art project, audio installation located at rear of the Commissioner’s Residence and Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre in Dawson City is open for the season

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

Check out our website at: 04.08.2017

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T 122 NORTHLAND TRAILER COURT, 986 Range Road, Sunday August 6, 11am-4pm, everything goes, leftovers from Saturday sale, ready to deal

HIDDEN VALLEY/MACPHERSON

T 15 MACPHERSON ROAD, Sunday August 6, 10am-4pm

MARSH LAKE

T 61 BEACH ROAD, Army Beach, Marsh Lake, Sunday August 6, 11am5pm, something for everyone

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