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Bruce and Joyce Caley hold up the official IODE break-up clock while Doris Roberts (right) celebrates her shared win with Marc Richard in this year's Yukon River breakup pool. See story, page 3. (Photo by Glenda Bolt)
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Author Alanna Mitchell decodes the significance of the ocean in a talk at the community library.
Scott Stratten shows how social media can yield awesome results for businesses.
Letters to the Editor Relay for Life Saving the Korbo
DCMF Profiles Young Authors' Conference 20 Years Ago in Sun
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The KVA wins "Innovator of the Year" award at this year's TIAY Conference held in Dawson.
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Dawson protests changes to Border Crossing reductions by Dan Davidson Dawson’s Chamber of Commerce and town council are up in arms over recently announced decisions to shorten both the season and the hours at the border station on Top of the World/Taylor Highway route. It had been announced that the border station would open on May 15. Word has arrived here that this has been moved to May 22, a delay of seven days. Further, it has been announced that the daily hours of operation will be reduced from 12 hours to 10 hours. The issue was raised at the May
11 Chamber meeting. Members were urged to write letters to MP Ryan Leef and Senator Dan Lang to protest this development. Chamber president Helen Bowie recommended also contacting Klondike MLA Steve Nordick, who is now Minister of Economic Development in the Yukon government. Klondike Visitors Association executive director Gary Parker noted that since it was a federal matter there was probably not much YTG could do. The City of Dawson went to the next step at its meeting the same night, passing a resolution in favour of having both U.S. Customs and the Canada Border Services Agency re-
turn to the original opening date and the former hours of operation. The council resolution notes that the delay cuts the annual traffic potential by five percent. With the reduction in hours, the total loss of service is estimated to be 23% over the summer season. This, council noted, is a strange development after “Canada Border Service's recent increase in staff levels and significant capital investments in housing for this very same port of entry.” Council further resolved “that the Hon. Ryan Leef, M.P., and the Hon. Dan Lang, Senator, be requested to provide their vigorous support to this resolution.”
The border station known as Little Gold (Canada) and Poker Creek (USA) is a shared facility.
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Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) Odd Gallery: Mon. - Fri. 11 am - 5 pm Sat noon - 5pm. Joseph Tisiga, Indian Brand Corporation: artist talk and exhibition opening, Thursday, May 19th, 7 PM. Cover Me Badd: Friday, May 27th in the Odd Fellows Ballroom. Create a band, choose two songs and be assigned a third! Band sign-up deadline May 20th. Timber Timbre: Friday, June 3rd @ the Palace Grand. $20 in advance/$25 at the door. Tickets available at KIAC and Maximilian's. Confluence Member's Art Gallery: Angela Bonnici, Rosie Butler, and Rebecca Geddes. May 26-June 12: Opening May 26th, 7 PM. Visit www.kiac.ca for current exhibitions and programming information. Dawson City Recreation Department Drop-in Badminton, Mondays in the RSS Gymnasium - 6:15- 8 p.m. Kickboxing, Tues & Thurs, 5:30-7:30 PM in the Ancillary Room. For more information on these and other available programs, please contact the Rec Department, 993-2353.
Recreation Department After School Programming Mon: Supervised Playground Time (Grades 1+) 3:30-5 PM, Tues: Girl Power (Grades 6-9), 3:30-5 PM, Wed: Kids Open Gym (Grades 2-5), 2:30 - 5 PM, Youth Weights (Grades 8+), 3:30 - 5 PM, Fri: Youth Open Gym (Grades 5+), 6:15 - 8 PM. Meet at they playground for all events except Friday. Please call the Rec. Dept. for more details, 993-2353. Westminster Hotel In the lounge this month: Friday nights, the Greasy Band, Saturday nights featuring Harmonica George. Music starts at 10 p.m. Dawson City Chamber of Commerce Regular meetings 2nd Wed. of each month. Dawson City Community Library Open Mon - Fri, noon to 6:30.
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Dawson Humane Society Annual General Meeting: June 9th, 5:30 PM in the Dawson Community Library
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The Ice is Out in Dawson
Story and photos by Dan Davidson The ice began flowing in the Yukon River in front of Dawson at 4:21 on Saturday afternoon (May 7). Within minutes someone had raced to the fire department to sound the alarm and let the town know what was happening. By 4:30 a considerable crowd had gathered on the waterfront to watch the action. The crowd included the delegates to the Tourism Industry Association of Yukon AGM, who tabled the important matter of electing a new board to go spend half an hour watching the river flow. The IODE’s official time keeper, Joyce Caley, reports that the cable attached to the wooden tripod in the river tripped the clock mounted on the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre at 4:21. This year IODE members sold $6,526 worth of ice pool tickets. Half of the take goes to support the organization’s charitable works, while the other half goes to the person who picked the time closest to the time on the clock. This year it was a split win, with two people picking 4:20, one minute from the actual time. Locals Doris Roberts and Marc Richard will share the $3,263 prize. Caley said the IODE would probably bump it up a dollar to make it divide evenly. River watchers have been expecting the ice to move any time during the last week. The ice next to the east bank had either been gone or had sunk beneath the overflow for that long, leaving a 15 metre gap of open water between the shore and the ice in some places. People had been crossing the remaining ice while pushing canoes so they could paddle across the gap. Marc Johnson managed to move the Yukon Rose out of the way of the slowly rising river
West Dawsonites were watching the action from their side of the river.
Dawson R Regional Dawson egional Planning Planning Commission Commission “Issues & Interests in the Dawson Region” “Issues & Interests in the Dawson Region”
The Tripod heads down the river.
NOTICE OF NOTICE OF Community Meetings Community M eetings
The Dawson Regional Planning Commission willwill be conducting a series The Dawson Regional Planning Commission be conducting a ofseries community meetings to receive public input on social, cultural, of community meetings to receive public input on social, economic and environmental issues and interests within the Dawson cultural, economic and environmental issues and interests within Planning Region. the Dawson Planning Region.
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-Scott Casselman, Chair, Dawson Regional Planning Commission -‐Scott Casselman, Chair Dawson Regional Planning Commission
2. Commission Mandate 2. Commission Mandate -‐ Ron Cruikshank, Director Yukon Land Use Planning Council - 3. RonDCruikshank, Director, Yukon Land Use Planning Council awson Planning Process -‐ Jeff Hamm, Sr Planner, Dawson Regional Planning Commission 3. Dawson Planning Process 4. Open Discussion
- Jeff Hamm, Sr Planner, Dawson Regional Planning Commission -‐ The floor will be open for public comment (max 10 minutes/person)
4.Further Open workshops Discussion are to be held in September 2011. The
- Commission will publish a report summarizing all input received. The floor will be open for public comment (max 10 minutes/person) Further information may be obtained from the DRPC website http://www.dawson.planyukon.ca Further workshops are to be held in September 2011. The Commission
will publish a report summarizing all input received. information may be obtained from the DRPC website: http://www.dawson.planyukon.ca
Some folks on the east bank wanted a closer look. (Photo by Glenda Bolt) during the later part of the week. The Klondike River had flushed earlier in the week, leaving jumbled ice upstream, but a lot of that seemed to be kept from moving by the gravel bars and the generally low water levels in the river. The tripod itself was located closer to the east bank than
usual this year, and the ice had eroded from under part of one of its legs, leading some to speculate that it might just fall in the water rather than float away. In the end, however, most of it was well frozen into the remaining ice, and it was still upright as it sailed out of sight on the way to Moosehide.
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To view these plans, learn how to submit comments, or for a complete list of Timber Harvest Plans currently open for public review, please visit www.forestry.gov.yk.ca or phone 1-800-661-0408 ext. 3999.
Breakup brings a lot of trees and dirt along with the ice.
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opinions • uffish thoughts Breakup excites young and old By Dan Davidson More often than not the ice breaks up in the Yukon River when there aren’t a lot of people to see it. There’s nearly always someone, of course, because dyke walking gets to be a near obsession with people – especially those holding Ice Pool tickets – around the end of April and the early part of May. When I was teaching, there were a few times that the ice went out during the school day. At such times we would close our books, grab our coats, and take a half hour off to go watch, as it is one of those things that are worth storing in one’s memory. As an English teacher, I could count on the experience to provide sensory fodder for some kind of writing exercise. “Write about what you know” is good advice, but students often think that what they know is too boring, too ordinary, to be worth the effort. Exciting local events help to dispel that feeling. Young people aren’t the only ones who can be excited by something like the ice going out on the river. Last Saturday (May 7) provided a case in point. The annual general meeting of the Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon was deep into debate on the future of its board elections
process. An hour and forty minutes into that debate the fire siren sounded, and continued sounding. The room exploded into cheers and clapping that had nothing to do with the hard-fought motions that had just been passed. “I wanna go and see that!” rang out one strong female voice from somewhere behind me. There was lots of agreement. Knowing how long it takes to get a group back together in Dawson once it has dispersed for any kind of break (typically someone announces a 10 minute intermission and it takes half an hour to corral the crowd again), the nominations chair was reluctant to interrupt the meeting for this. “Go if you have to and we’ll carry on here,” he said. “We do have some nominations already and I think you have ballots in front of you.” But the siren kept wailing and the resolve in the room continued to crumble. “Okay, what do you want to do?” he asked, and people made it pretty clear by standing and heading for the door. “I think we’re going to have to pause,” said someone. “You want to pause?” the chair asked in a more resigned tone of
voice. “What do you want to do, folks?” They wanted to go. “Just come back so we can get a quorum and continue then. Let’s take 15 minutes and then come back.” “Half an hour! Thirty minutes!” someone called out as the Palace Grand emptied, and that’s about how long it took to get back to the meeting. The river was quite a sight. It may not have been raging, but it was still impressive, and even the mid-sized bergs eased past, slipping over and under each other with that slow implacable grace that makes you aware of the power of frozen water on the move. The water level was low and there was never any danger of the dyke being tested, as there has been some years since 1987 when it was first installed, eight years after the last major flood did damage to the town. Water and ice have been within a metre of the top of the dyke since then a few times, but not recently. The raging waters that devastated Eagle in 2009 did nothing more here than flatten all the willows on the river-bank side of the barrier. The damaged trees are still there, draped along the bank or, when the water rises, dangling in
Excitement at the river – Locals and TIAY delegates gathered to watch the ice flow north on the Yukon River. the river. I was told that the Dept. of Fisheries refused to let them be cleared away. Apparently they became fish habitat once they were in the water. Still, no matter how mild the event may be, it remains an impressive sight, and a clear sign of spring on the way. The other thing it heralds is an immediate drop in the daily temperature, as the cold air coming off the river generates chilly breezes. I had ditched both my hat and gloves in my car before going to the meeting, but I retrieved them on my way to the river and was glad of them. A week later, as I write this, the chill lingers on at times, and we actually had snow flurries this morning, the first we’ve seen in weeks, while we’ve been chuckling over
spring blizzards in Alberta. Later it rained, and it’s climbed from 0°C to +10 as the day has continued. Not everyone came back to the meeting. The crowd in the hall was conspicuously thinner when I returned, and I suspect no one actually dared to call for a quorum count before the voting continued. Not everyone had to come back any way, as this was a part of the meeting where only members could vote, so it all worked out fine in the end. Besides that, most of the delegates saw something they had never seen before and will probably talk about for years, and what could possibly be any more appropriate for an event at a tourism conference?
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Demolition would worsen our housing crunch Ed. note: this is a letter to Jim Kenyon, the minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corp. On behalf of the municipal Council for the Town of the City of Dawson, I write to you today to express our community’s concern over the proposed demolition of the Korbo Apartments (Star, April 27). The City of Dawson is currently experiencing a demand for housing which much exceeds the community’s current capacity. This demand is coming from all sectors of our community, including a need for student housing. After careful consideration of the situation, and having received word the Yukon Housing Corp. intends to demolish
the current Korbo Apartments, Council for the City of Dawson unanimously passed the following resolution: “The Preservation of Korbo Apartments for SOVA Housing: WHEREAS the Yukon Housing Corporation has indicated its intent to withdraw the Korbo Apartments in Dawson City from service and demolish the building; and WHEREAS the School of Visual Arts in Dawson City has for some time been experiencing a chronic shortage of housing for its students; and WHEREAS SOVA anticipates the current chronic student housing shortage to persist in the years ahead; and WHEREAS it is in the best interest of the community of Dawson, its educa-
tional, cultural, and business assets and infrastructure, that SOVA have the capacity to attract and retain students from throughout the Yukon and Canada; and WHEREAS Dawson’s private sector accommodation does not have the capacity to provide student housing within the economic capacity of SOVA students; and WHEREAS previously condemned Yukon government property (e.g. the former Yukon government liquor store) was rebuilt by a Dawson NGO and has proven to be successful in filling organization needs in our community, BE IT RESOLVED that the Hon. Jim Kenyon, in his capacity as minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corporation, be respectfully petitioned to authorize
and direct Yukon Housing Corporation to allow SOVA to use the Korbo Apartments at the same monthly rental rates as Yukon College charges their students for student accommodation in Whitehorse.” This motion was unanimously approved April 27, 2011. I trust that, as minister responsible for the Yukon Housing Corp. you will realize the benefits associated with re-purposing this facility over its demolition. I look forward to your favourable response.
comfort with the boat to begin with, before the physical effects are considered. Visitors from afar universally gasp when they first see the YQII flying by at full speed and ask how this can possibly be legal! (Strictly speaking, it is not.) So what are the physical effects and why are so many people so upset about them? The boat is able to travel so fast, despite its size, because it is driven by four giant engines, each the size of the engine in a D10 bulldozer, producing forty eight hundred horsepower in total. This is six times the power of the next biggest vessel on the river. The YQII is also far more active than any other boat; going back and forth to Eagle Alaska daily, for a total of 420 river miles a day. These engines drive four huge Hamilton jets that work by inhaling and then ejecting vast volumes of water, up to 20,000,000m3 a year. In the absence of a proper evaluation, it is unknown how many juvenile fish are mulched by going through the jets, but judging by the number of fry found to be in the river, one must conclude there are many killed. The sheer energy of driving one hundred tons of boat through the water at up to sixty kph produces an enormous shock wave and this is expressed as a wake, both a bow wave and multiple stern waves. It is this set of waves that is at the heart of the problems with the YQII. At first people were upset about having their boats swamped and damaged, at having their fishing gear disrupted and anything left on beach put at risk. Soon however, other more insidious effects were noticed: Juvenile fish were being washed up onto the beaches and left stranded to die. Shore birds and vegetation were disappearing. The river itself was changing as the wake eroded the beaches, turning sandy shores into lumpy cobble and softly sloping green banks into crumbling vertical barren walls. The people cast about for redress for these issues but found no defined venue to accept these concerns; HAL dismissed
them out of hand, the Coast Guard found the YQII to be compliant with shipping regulations, DFO seemed not to care about the fish. In 1999, there was no YESAB in Yukon. There was, however, one UFA mandated body that decided to act. The Dawson District RRC assembled the complaints and put together a working group to examine the problem and strive to find a solution. This group included people from fishing and FN backgrounds as well as from HAL. The RRC and the commercial fishers commissioned the first studies to attempt to verify the concerns. Thus far, every single adverse effect that has been properly investigated has been validated. Not a single one of the concerns raised has been found to be without foundation once properly investigated. Part of the problem is that Canada’s environmental protection laws are weak; the only regulations that had any real prospect of being enforced were in the Fisheries Act. Specifically, it is illegal to destroy fish or fish habitat without a permit. This is the same permit the Placer industry needs if it proposes to mine in a creek. Once it was proven that the YQII was indeed killing fish, DFO was forced to act. DFO required a mitigation plan before it could issue an authorization. This application for an authorization triggered an environmental assessment under YESAA. The Dawson office of YESAB did not have sufficient information to conclude their investigation. Not least because HAL chose to dismiss concerns rather than properly investigate them. So, the issue was referred to the Executive Committee of YESAB and there it languishes to this day. HAL were informed that their proposal was deficient in several aspects on December 2010. They have not responded to date- May 2011. There are other issues than just the destruction of fish. The fact that the investigations have focused on primarily on salmon is unfortunate; it has skewed the investigations and the mitigation plan. For example,
the erosion of river banks is examined through the lens of fish habitat rather than on its own merits. This less than holistic approach has done nobody any favours and it may explain why HAL treats the environmental issues so cavalierly. This is after all a world leading company that rightly prides itself on its environmental record. Finally, how has HAL managed to fail so miserably in defusing the opposition? From the very beginning, HAL was scornful of the concerns and dismissed the people who raised them as unreliable. This started things off on the wrong foot, but HAL has to this day failed to fully grasp how serious the concerns are and how seriously people take them. It beggars belief that a company as large and sophisticated as Holland America has elected to try to resolve this through spin and intimidation rather than a genuine effort to work with the community. Their advisors have failed them catastrophically. They have engaged their marketing department rather than environmental remediation; they appear to see this as a PR problem, not an environmental issue. They have put enormous effort into cultivating the territorial and federal governments and in threatening the tourism industry with dire consequences should anyone dare restrict their operations. They have neglected to engage the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and other environmentally concerned locals, but instead fighting every step of the way. So what is the solution? Like most complex problems, it is disingenuous to advocate a simple answer; there will be no clear winners here. Not only does every one need to compromise, but it will cost everyone too. It already has. There is simply no way to operate this boat while adhering to the mitigation plan as developed by all parties. At the risk of falling into the simplistic trap, there will have to be another boat or group of boats used. Eventually, this will happen. It only remains to be seen if this happens on HAL’s schedule or because of regulation.
Peter Jenkins Mayor Dawson City
What’s happening with the Yukon Queen II these days? By Sebastian Jones Peel Watershed Coordinator When the MV Yukon Queen II (YQII) started voyaging between Dawson City and Eagle Alaska back in 1999, people who live and work along the Yukon River began to raise concerns about the negative effects of this boat. It might seem strange that on a working river like the Yukon, a river that has hosted up to 200 sternwheelers, that has active barge traffic, a car ferry, numerous fishing boats and hundreds of pleasure craft plying its waters year in year out, not to mention other tour boats, there should be such a problem with another craft, especially one that is professionally crewed and equipped with the most up to date navigational aids. So why has this boat been so controversial? Why have local river users, particularly the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, been so consistently opposed to the operations of what is after all just another tour boat? Why has a company as large and sophisticated as Holland America Line (HAL) failed so miserably to gain acceptance? Initially, one could be forgiven for thinking that an innate conservatism, a reluctance to accept change was to blame. Why then, has the issue not gone away with time? It is operating in its second decade now and opposition to the YQII is as vociferous as ever. First let us consider the boat itself. How is it different from the other boats on the river? The scale of the boat is an order of magnitude larger than any other boatabout one hundred feet long- which ensures other boats, let alone canoes, feel tiny when encountering it. Similarly it is far noisier- one can feel the subsonic vibrations of its four Caterpillar diesels twenty minutes before it comes into view. It also travels considerably faster than all but a couple of other vessels, so it always overtakes other boats, thus they cannot avoid it. These combined produce a certain dis-
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in our community
Finding Hope in the Ocean Story and photos by Dan Davidson
Alanna Mitchell had no trouble deciding which community she would like to visit to deliver her lecture “An Ocean of Hope." “I’m absolutely thrilled to be here,” she told her audience of about 20 at the Dawson Community Library on May 3. “This truly is a life-long dream to be here. I’ve read about it since I was a little girl living on the prairies and just thinking about what it would be like to be up here.” She spent the morning of her visit in the Dawson City Museum and reported that she had a glorious time. Mitchell came to the study of the ocean almost by accident, though it also seems to have been inevitable. After 17 years as a working journalist her first book was Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots (2004), and it brought her into contact with Sylvia Earle, a deep ocean explorer. Trying to understand the woman, who was her cabin mate on an expedition to the Galapagos, she asked her why she studied the creatures of the ocean rather than those on land. “The ocean,” Earle shot back, “is where the life is.” In essence, if all the life on the land part of the planet were to die, the life in ocean would survive. The same is not true in the other direction. Without the ocean. Mitchell came to understand, life on earth would not exist. When she set out to write Sea Sick: the Global Ocean in Crisis, it was to be a book about how the ocean works within the planet’s eco-system. Instead it turned into a sort of forensic examination of what’s wrong with it. The first thing people need to realize, she says, is that there are not seven seas. There is just one, and it’s all connected. To get the big picture she made 13 field trips to various parts of the ocean, from
the Gulf of Mexico to Plymouth, England, Halifax, N.S.; Panama; Spain; Zanzibar; the Great Barrier Reef off Australia and other places. In each she found a problem that was particularly strong in that area, but which can also be found in other places. Where a lot of other books on climate change spend most of their time talking about the state of the air, and really only pay attention to the water when it’s flooding the land, Mitchell says there’s more to it than that. There’s the pH balance of the water. It’s becoming more acidic as it is forced to absorb more and more carbon dioxide from the air. If the pH drops too low then creatures that need to process calcium for bones and shells can no longer do so. Oxygen is another consideration. Dawsonites well know that if the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water is too low, fish essentially drown. That’s how we fail our effluent tests when we do. There are now 407 dead zones in the ocean, places where the amount of rotting organic matter in the water has used up all the oxygen and seas creatures can’t live there. Much of this is because of run-off chemicals from intensive farming, but some of it is because the ocean is getting warmer. This rise in temperature is a third major factor. There are places where the global ocean is up to six degrees warmer than previously recorded. These three factors – ocean acidity, lack of oxygen and increased temperature – are features that are common to periods in the planet’s history when there have been mass extinctions. Mitchell refers particularly to the Permian–Triassic extinction event, informally known as the Great Dying, when up to 96% of all marine life species and 70% of all land life species became extinct, according to the clues palaeontologists find in the fossil record. This was 251 million years ago.
“If you’re a palaeontologist looking at this stuff, you’re saying that we’re setting the table for a mass extinction. It’s really quite scary.” In spite of the gravity of her message, Mitchell tells a good story, and any good storyteller uses humour as well as terror. Her account of her trip in a deep sea submersible Johnson-Sea-Link II had the audience chuckling along with her as she described her misadventure with undersea plumbing arrangements. Mitchell was not all gloom and doom either. In the midst of the mass of data from various disciplines she found a spark of hope, one she says she had to choose to find to keep from becoming terminally depressed about the product of her research and her conclusions. We need, she said, to view the current situation as a problem to be overcome, and work at doing that. “Hope is a choice you make,” she said. “It’s quintessentially human. Without hope there is no possibility of transformation. “There’s a nobility in trying. There’s a window for change and we can simply choose to go forward.” The audience was lively and fully engaged by the lecture and had lots of comments and questions for Mitchell, but perhaps the most relevant in terms of her conclusion was whether the much-maligned Kyoto Accord had managed to accomplish anything. The United States rejected it, and a succession of Canadian governments have done their best to weasel around its commitments. What it did, Mitchell said, was raise the level of discussion about carbon emissions. Carbon now has a price, even though lots of nations don’t want to pay it. “We have this wonderful challenge ahead of us. That’s the story I tell myself. That’s the narrative that goes in my head.”
While she diagnoses the world ocean’s ills, Alanna Mitchell says we need to see it as a challenge.
"We’re all connected to the ocean,” sang Remy Rodden as the evening’s lecture began.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church Come and visit our table at the Gold Show for: • paperbacks (summer reading material) • cookies and baked goods • and much, much more.
Help us raise funds towards the: • restoration of the Thrift shop entrance • replacement of heating system in the big church • interior restoration of St. Paul’s Rectory (e.g. repair of water damage and pressure cracks; upgrade of boiler room)
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Dawson Welcomes Relay for Life by Tiss Clark The Canadian Cancer Society is counting down the days to its annual Relay for Life fundraiser taking place Saturday, May 28th in Dawson City. Now in its fifth year here, the Relay for Life is an inspiring event that brings together more than 200,000 people throughout Canada. The event provides an opportunity to celebrate the lives of those who have overcome cancer, remember loved ones lost, and empower individuals and communities to fight back against the disease. Last year, more than 16,500 participants were involved in 51 events throughout B.C. and the Yukon. “Relay for Life wouldn’t happen each year across Canada without the communities’ commitment to fight cancer,” says Lynn Rear, one of the organizers for the event. “We invite everyone in the community to support your friends and family.” Fun, inspirational, and noncompetitive, teams of up to 15 people take turns walking or running around a track over the 12-hr time period between 12 noon and 12 midnight. Pledges are collected by participants ahead of time, and they set the time for how long or far they want to walk. Money raised goes towards cancer research, advocacy, support programs to people living with cancer, and prevention strategies. In 2010, British Columbia and Yukon together raised over $5.4 million for the fight against cancer.
“We are encouraging past participants, new participants, cancer survivors, and everyone else in the community to get involved with the Canadian Cancer Relay For Life,” says Hannah Cheshire, another one of the organizers for the Relay. You can sign up as an individual, a team captain, or as a team member; everyone is welcome. Together we can make a difference.” The Dawson City Relay begins at 12 noon, with opening remarks by Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Chief Eddie Taylor, a spokesperson from the Canadian Cancer Society, and local speakers who will speak about their fight and survival against cancer. A contingent of cancer survivors will start off the relay with an inspirational Survivors’ Victory Lap, to send the message that there is always hope. Entertainment will follow throughout the day, along with a Silent Auction, BBQ, and concession stand. A special feature of the Relay will be the Luminary Ceremony at 10pm. This is a quiet time for reflection, at which point luminaries will be lit and placed all along the dike path as a tribute to loved ones who lost the battle, and honoring those who are fighting this terrible disease. The event will end at 11:45 pm with Geraldine Van Bibber, recent past Commissioner for the Yukon, who will be sending us off with her encouragement to continue the fight . To get your pledge sheets, come to the Gold Show. They can also be found at the Raven’s Nook, and
at the main desk of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in government building. Pledge sheets can be turned in at the Gold Show, and at the Westmark Dawson on Friday May 27th from 4-8 pm. An Air North ticket is the prize for the highest fundraising individual as of 8 pm. May 27th, the night before the event! We offer our support and encouragement to all cancer survivors to come out and attend! Walk the Victory Lap, and be on hand for gift bags, draws, and prizes, such as a special Air North ticket draw for survivors registered at the event. Perhaps the theme of 2011’s Relay For Life best sums it all up: “A personal fight against cancer takes courage. A community’s fight takes commitment. Be there.” Join us in this inspirational, non-competitive event, to celebrate, remember, and fight back! Sponsors for this event include: The Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, The Downtown Hotel, Aurora Office, Dawson City General Store, Westmark Dawson, Fountain Tire, Yukon News, Air North, Triple J, Robert Service School and the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre (We apologize for other names not included by press time). Supporters for this event include: Paul Derry of Bonanza Market, the Firefighters’ Association, Pioneer Women, Junior Rangers, TH Heritage, TH Maintenance, City of Dawson Rec. Dept., Chamber of Commerce, DCMF, Grenon Enterprises, Dawson Tire and Gas. We’d like to thank all the volunteers who are helping with this event! It couldn’t happen without you!
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to all who helped with the 2011 IODE ICE GUESSING CONTEST; the tripod guys, the ticket sellers, distributors, collectors, sorters and donators. Mike Perry Mark Castellarin Chris Mayes Doug Jackson Doug Fraser Sheldon Sollosy Dorothy McDiarmid Steve Watson Bob Blundin Gordie Ryder T.A. Firth Stan Fuller Moe Conway Murdoch’s Mac’s Fireweed Mary Ann Ferguson
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YESAB Water Guidance Document Public Review Do you have an interest in water resources and quartz mining in Yukon? YESAB is in the process of developing a guidance document for water information requirements for quartz mining proposals submitted for environmental and socio-economic assessment. We would like to improve this guidance document by gathering input from the public. We want to know:
• Is the level of detail and scope of the document sufficient for the quartz mining sector? • Is the readability and format of the document adequate? • Does the content meet the needs of the quartz mining sector and the public? Comments can be submitted to yesab.reception@yesab.ca or mailed to: YESAB Head Office Suite 200-309 Strickland Street Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2J9
Deadline to submit comments: June 6th, 2011 The Water Information Requirements for Quartz Mining Project Proposals Guidance Document will be available on our website at www.yesab.ca or by calling our Head Office at 668-6420. Make Your Voice Count! www.yesab.ca
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Un-Marketing for Fun and Profit with Scott Stratten By Dan Davidson Scott Stratten wants you to know he’s a “spaz,” that he is disorganized, has a short attention span and very little appetite for delayed gratification. If you were to suggest that these traits are why he is such a success on Twitter, where postings and conversations are limited to 140 characters at a time, he would no doubt agree with you, and would follow it up by saying that his tweets are awesome. There are some 90,000 people (known to the Twitter-verse as “followers”) who would agree with him. The number continues to grow so quickly that it has jumped by 10,000 since the press release that announced Stratten would be speaking at the spring annual general meeting of the Tourism Industry Association of Yukon in Dawson City. “I don’t do podiums,” he says, unhooking the microphone and striding across the stage at the Palace Grand Theatre, which he says is the most awesome venue he’s ever spoken in. He has the volume on the mic turned down because he tends to yell and he doesn’t want anyone crying. As a media consultant with a
focus on viral media, including blogs, Facebook and Twitter, it is fitting that his stage garb on this day echoes the colour scheme favored by Apple’s Steve Jobs: casual black t-shirt and blue jeans. Formerly a music industry marketer, national sales training manager and a professor at the Sheridan College School of Business, Stratten is most recently the author of Un-Marketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging, He is the president of his UnAgency, which specializes in viral, social and authentic marketing. That might be misleading, in that Stratten rails (with a great deal of humour) about many of the tropes of current marketing practice, much of which he typifies as “push and pray” (push out your message and pray for a response). He is death on the cold call, which he likens to a punch in the nose. (Sure, you connect, but does it help you sell anything?) Marketing, he says, is not a task, not a department, not a job. “Marketing happens every time you engage (or not) with your past, present and future customers.” Brands don’t matter as much as the human interactions that take place under the umbrella of those brands. “There is no such thing as
a neutral brand reaction.” Three key words should describe your business’ interactions with clientele: Know, Like, Trust. They should know about you, like you and trust you. In his talk he describes what could have been a disastrous breakfast at a Hilton, which was restored because the sous-chef cared enough to apologize. In his book, a Las Vegas hotel gets top marks because the fellow cleaning the carpets had a great attitude and a winning smile. In both cases, the establishment in question is forever linked in his mind with a person. In terms of selling a business, owners and managers need to realize that every single member of the organization has influence on the success of the business. The workers need to know that the managers and owners know this and appreciate it. “Marketing is people,” Stratten says, trotting out his main points like tweets. Much of the lecture (or standup routine, as many noted) was spent extolling the virtues of social media. Stratten likes them all, and uses them in different ways, at different times. His one firm rule is that the content you post
Marketing guru Scott Stratten reacts to a poor example of marketing technique. should be “awesome content.” People spread awesome content, pass it on, link it, comment on it. That’s how messages and videos go viral. Social media simply enhances whatever you do, he warns, so if you are mediocre, it will make you MEDIOCRE. If you are going to use it, you need to embrace it and take it seriously, but also have fun with it. If you can’t do those things, you probably shouldn’t use social media at all, though Stratten makes clear his opinion that those who
don’t will regret it and lose business because of it. Social media, he says, enable a business to move to a “pull and stay” mode of customer relations, where you pull people to you and them encourage them to stay with you. During his hour long talk the audience wasn’t exactly ROTFL (rolling on the floor and laughing) but there were times when it was a near thing.
Notice
Reduced hours of service at Little Gold Creek port of entry As of May 15, 2011, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will be modifying the hours of operation at its Little Gold Creek port of entry. The port of entry will now be operating from 9:00 to 19:00 (Pacific Time Zone). This change is being made to ensure that our operations are consistent with U.S. border operations at Poker Creek, with whom we share the facility. The CBSA would like travellers to take note of this information when planning travel to the border since travel across the border will not be possible during off hours. Hours of operation for all ports of entry are as follows: • Little Gold Creek — 9:00 to 19:00 (PDT) (effective May 15, 2011). • Beaver Creek — 24 hours a day. • Fraser — 24 hours a day (now until October 31, 2011). • Pleasant Camp — 8:00 to 24:00 (PDT). The complete list of Canada’s border crossings and their hours of service are available at www.cbsa.gc.ca/offices
May is sexual assault Prevention Month
Myth: Women bring sexual assault upon themselves. Myth: Women lie about being sexually assaulted.
Myth: There are always visible injuries when someone is sexually assaulted.
Myth: You can identify rapists upon appearance as they’re usually a certain race and come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Myth: Sexual assault is not a common problem.
Myth: Sexual assault is usually committed by strangers.
Myth: Avoiding being alone at night or in a deserted place is the best way to prevent sexual assault.
Myth: Unless physically harmed, a sexual assault victim will suffer no lasting effects.
Victims and survivors of sexual assault report a wide range of dress and actions at the time of the assault. Any woman of any age and physical type, in almost any situation, can be sexually assaulted. If a woman is sexually assaulted, it is not her fault. No woman ever “asks” or deserves to be sexually assaulted. Regardless of what a woman wears, where she goes, to whom she talks, “no” means “no”. It’s the law.
A Message from Marian C. Horne, Minister Responsible for the Women’s Directorate
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Dawson Council Joins the Chorus to Save the Korbo By Dan Davidson The campaign to save the Korbo Apartment Building owned by the Yukon Housing Corporation (YHC) took a giant step forward on April 27 when Dawson’s town council passed a resolution requesting that the Hon. Jim Kenyon, the minister in charge, review and reverse the decision to demolish the building as soon as its replacement was put into service later this year. Initial feelers about this option came from the Chamber of Commerce some months ago, and were reiterated in recent statements by chamber president Helen Bowie. When the subject came up at a couple of recent council meetings, Mayor Peter Jenkins sounded less than positive that there might be any hope of saving the building. He had, he said, heard from his sources that demolition was likely due to the building’s age, construction deficiencies, and the furnace oil leak that was discovered at the rear of the structure last year. Just what changed his mind is uncertain, but it was Jenkins himself who introduced the motion (see our letter page for the full wording) entitled “The Preservation of Korbo Apartments for SOVA Housing." This proposes that the building not be demolished, that YHC look into fixing whatever is wrong with it, and that it become, in part at least, a residence for the Yukon School of Visual Arts, which is suf-
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fering from a shortage of places for its students to live. The motion points out that two other formerly condemned buildings, one of which was owned by YTG, have been rehabilitated by local contractors and turned into
Yukon SOVA Administrator Eryn Foster such fine examples of the art as KIAC (Oddfellows Hall) and Yukon SOVA (YTG Admin., Liquor Store, Public Library, Social Services, etc.). Both of those buildings had been vacant for years and were in far worse shape than the Korbo. In debate on the motion, Mayor Jenkins also cited the former Seniors Club that used to be beside the McDonald Lodge. When it was declared condemned, it was broken into two separate buildings and both halves are, he said, still in use in town. Yukon SOVA Administrator Eryn Foster has definite feelings about the Korbo. It looks like the answer
to her most pressing problem: student housing. Failing that option, SOVA will try to do what it has been doing. “We try to get word out to the community so that if anyone has a room to rent, or even one of the local businesses which may not previously have been open in the winter time; we’re hoping to forge some connections so we can insure that we do have some housing available for our students next year.” Presently, options have included private rentals, the wintertime use of a building sometimes known as the “men’s shelter” and rooms in Juliet’s Manor (the former White Ram Manor), and a large apartment over a downtown business. It's not at all clear if any of these options will be available for the coming year, so Foster has listened with interest to talk about the Korbo, with its 14 units. “With the vacancy rate in town being very close to zero, it is making me feel a little bit nervous for our 20 students who will be coming, many of them from outside of the Yukon. “In the past students have always found housing; we help them with that process. We provide them with a housing list sometime in the summer that outlines the various places in town that might rent rooms.” A problem facing SOVA this year is that many of the available spaces may be rented in advance to peo-
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ple working for exploration crews and mining companies. With activity in this area extending further into the fall seasons than in recent years, those rooms would not be available when SOVA’s fall session began.
about the need for student accommodation. “The only way SOVA’s going to survive is if its students have a place to stay. It has to happen. All the money and volunteer time that’s been poured into this initia-
The Korbo Apartments. “We have to be careful not to scare people away,” Foster said, “but we have to be able to provide them with a realistic overview of what the situation is.” The lack of options is, she said, one of the main things keeping SOVA from expanding its program and considering adding a second year to its offerings. The future of the Korbo was raised at the most recent partnership forum of the Klondike Development Organization. Greg Hakonson, one of the founders of the Dawson City Arts Society, and the man who designed and supervised the restorations that produced KIAC and Yukon SOVA, was firm
tive is going to go right down the toilet if they (the government) doesn’t get in there and do what they should be doing.” Asked about the future of the Korbo, considering that it has been stated to be a condemned building, Hakonson shrugged and replied, “The liquor store was condemned, repeatedly, for 15 years, and being allowed to fall down, and now we have the Yukon School of Visual Arts.” Note: Since this article was first written our MLA, Steve Nordick, has assumed responsibility for Yukon Housing. See p. 11 for details.
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Over the coming months, the Klondike Sun will be featuring a number of artists appearing at the 2011 Dawson City Music Festival. To see this year’s complete line-up and buy your tickets, visit the festival’s new website: www.dcmf.com
Artist Profile: Rich Aucoin Artist Profile: Etran Finatawa Etran Finatawa’s musicians come from Niger, Africa,one of the three poorest countries in the world. It is a landlocked desert country in West Africa bordered by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad and Nigeria. The members of Etran Finatawa are members of two of Niger’s nomadic ethnicities: the Wodaabe and the Tuareg. The group was formed in an attempt to unite the songs and traditions of these two cultures as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The literal translation of the name Etran Finatawa speaks to the guiding force behind the band: “the star of tradition.” Etran Finatawa is the first touring group to use the songs and music of the Wodaabe in a contemporary context. Traditional Wodaabe chants are a blend of choral polyphony and high tenor solos, backed by calabasse (gourd) drums. This vocal tradition is joined with the guitar-based instrumental tradition of the Tuareg, a sound that is rapidly becoming known in world music circles, led by guitar-based touring musicians like Tinariwen. North Americans have described a “Tuareg sound” as “desert blues,” which, although perhaps an oversimplification, is a good way to begin thinking about the melodic style of Etran Finatawa. Their songs tell tales from nomadic life, of isolation and liberty, of extreme hardship and poverty, of a harsh climate, of beautiful women and happy days, of life giving animals and handsome beasts, of festivities and families, of stars and desert storms. The tour that brings them to Dawson will also take them across the breadth of Canada over a month and a half, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts; festival organizers have dubbed it the “Good Thing They’re Nomads” tour, as the routing takes them farther across Canada than most native Canadians will ever go. We’re excited to welcome them to Dawson City.
It isn’t every artist that can get an entire audience to bleat like a goat. But then Halifax, Nova Scotia’s Rich Aucoin isn’t just any artist. This is the man that wrote his first record to synch with Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the man who chose to undertake his first national tour of Canada by bicycle, running half marathons along the way to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Foundation. Rich Aucoin is special.
Public Publication, Aucoin’s latest album, was recorded to sync with a film Aucoin produced by editing together footage from over 40 sources. Travelling Canada once again, Aucoin collaborated with over 500 musicians before editing it together to form a euphoric electro-pop experience, melding vocoder disco, orchestral phases and children’s choirs and impeccable harmonies. Be warned: Aucoin’s enthusiasm for music and life in general is infectious, and his live show is no different. Less of a show than a collective experience, Aucoin plays the role of a ringmaster masterfully, melding his music with various projected images, edited videos, lots of audience participation and ensuring the whole room (and often the surrounding area) becomes one big inclusive party. Don’t miss your chance to be part of the action when Rich Aucoin plays the 2011 Dawson City Music Festival. Now bleat like a goat. - Ro Cemm
Ro Cemm is a freelance journalist and photographer whose work has appeared in the Toronto Star and the Guardian (London). He books the Unsigned stage at the End Of The Road Festival (the UK equivalent of DCMF – a “tiny, perfect” festival based in Brighton that that has helped launch the European careers of DCMF alums like Basia Bulat, Dan Mangan and the Acorn). He will be covering DCMF 2011 for his influential music website, The Line of Best Fit.
Another busy work seAson into help DAwson City YWCHSB wants make it a safe one. An OH&S Safety Officer is stationed in Dawson until September 30th. The Officer is available to deal with any safety concerns or inquiries and can be reached at 993-3560. In an emergency situation where the Officer cannot be contacted, call 1-800-661-0443.
DAWSON CITY WATERFRONT MAY 28TH, 2011: NOON UNTIL MIDNIGHT
AIR NORTH TICKETS TO BE WON!! Highest individual fundraiser as of 8 pm, May 27th. Draw from registered “survivors” at the event. Pledge sheets available at the Raven’s Nook and the main desk of the T.H. administration building. Pledge sheets and money can be turned into the “Relay for Life” table at the Gold Show or at the Westmark Dawson May 27th. 4-8 p.m. Pledge online at www.yukonrelay.ca and choose the Dawson event. one day....one night....one community....one fight
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Awards and readings end the Young Authors’ Conference By Dan Davidson The 31st Young Authors’ Conference concluded on Friday, April 29, with readings and awards. During the workshop sessions on Thursday and Friday the mentor authors - Richard Van Camp, Alanna Mitchell, Dorris Heffron, Claire Eamer and Brian Brett – assigned writing exercises, reviewed their students’ conference submissions, and prepared those who were brave enough to read their work before the entire group as part of the closing exercises. In order to allow as many as possible to read, MC Jerome Stueart and teacher Jennifer Heinbigner kept the individual reading times as close to two minutes as possible, with the result that there was actually some extra time left over after everything else was attended to. First came the awards, presented for the best writing at the conference. Retired teacher and YAC guru Joyce Sward was coaxed by this year’s coordinator, Sara Davidson, into handing out the writing awards. “I think the awards have been going on since 1985,” said Sward. “Each winner gets small award, while the big plaque with all the names goes to your school for a year.” Sward said that the judges had had a difficult time this year, particularly since the awards are only given out from grades 8 to 12 and the submissions from the Grade 7 students at Jack Hulland School
Award winners Victoria Holmes, Santana Berryman, Julia Hall and Mykaela Lemke. Missing are Ryan Wienberg and Richard Galloway. were so good. Ryan Wienberg from F.H. Collins won the Junior Poetry Award for “Time …,” a poem about a homeless man. Julia Hall from FHC won the Senior Poetry Award for her cycle of three short poems under the collective title “The Ignorance of Our Lives." Victoria Holmes from Robert Service School won the Junior Fiction Award for the first chapter of an untitled longer work about some teenagers who discover their town has been invaded by aliens. There was a tie for the Senior Fiction Award, with both students coming from F.H Collins. Both pieces appeared to be parts of longer works. Richard Galloway’s untitled story had an ecologically damaged setting which might be in the future, but the main point was a young
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man getting ready to leave home to see a special person. Mykaela Lemke’s “Eldenmihr” had a medieval fantasy setting full of action and battle as a group of warrior women set out on a quest. The Meg McCall Award for the best writing submission went to home-schooled student Santana Berryman. Her “Stirling Falcons and High Society” presented the prologue and first chapter of a longer work set in an alternate world full of horse-drawn carriages and airships, thieves and other rogues. This two day conference always produces a certain amount of bonding between students and guest authors, and this year students had the opportunity to express this by being the ones to give conference gifts to the writers. The day ended with group photographs.
Klondike MLA gets a Promotion
by Dan Davidson
It was all very low-key, and the first most people heard of it was when Klondike MLA Steve Nordick was introduced at the TIAY annual general meeting on May 6. But then Nordick’s promotion to ministerial status in the Yukon Party government had taken place just two days earlier, without any formal announcement of his change in status. The official Order in Council was signed by Commissioner Doug Phillips on May 4, 2011. It reads: ORDER-IN-COUNCIL 2011/49 GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION ACT Pursuant to section 2 of the Government Organization Act, the Commissioner in Executive Council orders that STEVE NORDICK is a member of the executive council to hold office during pleasure with responsibility as Minister of Economic Development and Minister responsible for Yukon Housing Corporation and Minister responsible for Yukon Liquor Corporation. Nordick replaces Jim Kenyon, who was removed from these duties by Order-in-Council 2011/48. Kenyon is running in the Yukon Party’s leadership race to replace Premier Dennis Fentie, and has recently been more critical of his boss than he has ever been in the past. He’s been even more critical since learning that he has been dumped from the cabinet.
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twenty years ago in the sun
The Sun celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2009 and we are re-printing our front pages from 20 years ago as a souvenir of our lively history. Back issues are being archived on our new website from 1989 to the present. Visit www.cityofdawson.com/category/klondike_sun for research. This is a great resource for students, writers and historians, and also for prospective tourists with an interest in Dawson City’s life. The Sun has obtained funding in late 2009 from the City of Dawson, YTG’s Heritage Branch and the Community Development Fund to conserve and archive the early issues and make them available once again in the public domain.
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Tara's Birds: the Green-Winged Teal by Tara Borin The past two weeks have brought back many of our resident summer birds: swallows, white-crowned sparrows, dark-eyed juncos and robins are most abundant and recognizable. From the sky, we hear the far-carrying, rattling call of the sandhill cranes and the honking of Canada geese. Now that both rivers are open and flowing and the ice on the ponds is melting, small flocks of ducks stop to rest and refuel on their journey to their summer breeding grounds. One duck I’ve seen often in the past week is the GreenWinged Teal. Anas crecca is our smallest dabbling duck,
measuring just 37 cm from beak to tail. Males are most colourfully marked, with a chestnutbrown head and an iridescent green ear patch outlined in white, that extends over the eye. The rest of the body is a mottled grey-brown, with the green wing patch that lends them their name only visible in flight. Females of the species are an overall mottled brown, also showing the green wing patch while in flight. These ducks migrate south in the winter months, but during the summer breeding season, the Green-Winged Teal is found all over Canada and
Alaska. They are noted as some of the earliest spring migrants, often appearing as soon as the snow begins to melt, and soon begin to construct their nests on the ground, well hidden and near water. They prefer lakes, marshes and shallow ponds rich in emergent vegetation; their primary food source is the seeds of aquatic plants.
CFYT 106.9 FM
CYFT 106.9 FM: Dawson City Community Radio
Program Profiles In each issue of The Klondike Sun, we’ll be profiling programs on CFYT 106.9FM, Dawson’s community radio station. You can listen to CFYT on your FM radio, the DC TV Channel 11 Rolling Ads, and online at http://cfyt.ca. This issue, get to know Scott Brown of Odds and Ends. Name of DJ: Scott Brown Name of Show: Odds and Ends Day and time the show airs: Sundays, 10-11 pm On CFYT since: 2 weeks ago Description of your show: Odds and Ends is a show that I started in Sackville, NB. I did 100 episodes of the show on the community station there. It's just a collection of music that I like. Sometimes there is an overall theme but usually there isn't.
Genres of music typically played on your show: The show is made up of a lot of indie/rock/folk tunes, but I also throw in some jazz, soul, and hip-hop, as those genres also mean a lot to me.
What are some of your current favourite albums: I'm really into the new Shotgun Jimmie and Timber Timbre albums. I've also been listening to the Jim Bryson discography a lot lately and I recently went through a month long phase where I listened to The Band all the time.
What are your top 5 “desert island” albums?: 1) John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan. 2) A Ghost Is Born by Wilco. 3) Actor by St. Vincent. 4) Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. 5) Dog Weather by Baby Eagle/The Band by The Band. What do you like best about being on CFYT?: I'm still new to CFYT so I'm sure this answer will change, but at the moment my favorite thing is the space itself. I like broadcasting out of a cute little cabin in the middle of town.
What has been your favourite on-air moment?: I can't really pick one moment and put it above the rest. In the past if I've been in a bad mood going into a show I'll walk away feeling much better by the end of it, so all on-air moments are my favourite. I just really like being on the radio. What do you do when you’re not on the air?: I was recently hired as the DCMF Production Assistant/Volunteer Co-ordinator, so a lot of my time will be devoted to the festival. I listen to a lot of podcasts and doing a lot of reading when not on air. I also try to keep it real as much as possible.
You can “Like” Odds and Ends on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/OddsEnds/122768827748917
“The Spirit of Dawson” Thursday, May 19th 6:00-7:00 7:00-8:00 8:00-10:00
Steve and Nathan - Sports Talk Radio Rosie and Capri - The Cat’s Meow Ben - Party Time Machine
Friday, May 20th 1:00-3:00 3:00-5:00 5:00-6:00 6:00-8:00 8:00-9:00 9:00-10:00
Jay - The Theme Scheme John - On the John Tara - Tara’s show Logan - Fill-In Show Sonny Boy Williams - Rockin’ Blues Show Jim - Psychedelic
Saturday, May 21th 10:00-12:00 12:00-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-3:00 3:00-4:00 4:00-5:00 5:00-7:00 7:00-9:00 9:00-10:00
Jason - Foxy’s Breakfast Georgia - Money Where My Mouth Is Simon - The Story Hour Jenna - Spires and Spindles Freddie - Howling Revivalists Hour Of Power Tim and Megan - Nuggets Chris - Southside City Swag Jen - The Cave of Spleen Scott - Odds and Ends
Sunday, May 22th 2:00-3:00 3:00-5:00 5:00-6:00 6:00-8:00 8:00-10:00
Julie - Francopen Kerry & Jackson - Yukon SOVA Radio Program Aubyn - Diff’rent Strokes Kit - Meat and Potatoes Ben and Brendan - The Kings of Dawson City
Tune your dial to 106.9 FM or Cable Channel 11 (Rolling Ads) in Dawson City, or listen live over the internet at www.cfyt.ca!
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Hunter Gatherer
Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence presented
By Allie Haydock
By Dan Davidson
Ginger-Miso Soup I have had a disgusting cold this week and this soup really did the trick. It is basically two soup recipes melded together to make one super awesome feel better potion. (I also suspect it would still taste good if you were in perfect health.) I realize that this makes back-to-back tofu recipes, but that’s not the point of this one - it’s more of a nod to Asian cooking, which,l let’s get serious, everyone likes. Eat this soup all on its own or serve with spring rolls or alongside sushi. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 cups water 2 sheets nori, ripped into thick strips 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced ¼ cup ginger, peeled and cut into matchsticks 1 tsp (or more) red pepper flakes 1 cup celery, thinly sliced 1 brick firm tofu 1 tbsp soy sauce 1/3 cup miso 1 cup bok choy, chopped 1 tsp sesame oil 1 cup cooked brown rice 4 green onions, sliced
- In a large pot, boil the water with the nori strips
- Add the onions, garlic, ginger, red pepper flakes, celery, tofu and soy sauce to the pot and simmer for about 15 minutes
- In a bowl combine the miso with a cup of the hot broth until smooth
- Remove the nori from the pot and stir in the bok choy and miso mixture (once you have added the miso, be sure not to let the soup boil as high temperatures ruin the health benefits of miso…something to do with breaking down enzymes) - Add the rice and sesame oil and serve topped with green onions
The Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence, sponsored by Outside the Cube, were presented on May 6, following the gala banquet held at the Palace Grand Theatre as part of the TIAY annual general meeting. Nearly 130 participants attended the three-day event in Dawson City from May 5 to 7. Most of the awards were presented by interim chair Dee Enright and Minister of Economic Development Steve Nordick. The Volunteer of the Year Award was presented to Anne Kennedy, who was described as a “generous and committed volunteer whose activities have helped to attract visitors to the Yukon as a destination and for events.” Kennedy was credited with being involved in almost every sports or arts related festival or event in the Yukon. The Marketing Innovation Award went to the Local Organizing Committee behind the Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada event, which excited everyone from the citizen on the street to the Governor General. Whitehorse city Councillor Dave Austin and John Robertson, Chair of the Yukon Convention Bureau, accepted the award on behalf of the organizing committee. The Creative Travel Media Award was presented to Teresa Earle, as one-half of the partnership that is Fritz Mueller Photography. “These two people have been promoting the Yukon through their work for almost ten years,” Enright said. Their work has been seen on the covers of national and international magazines as well as in tourism brochures and advertising campaigns. Innovator of the Year Award went to the Klondike Visitors Association for its recent developed pilot project of an On-
Brian Stethem, Rachel Wiegers and Gary Parker accepted the Innovator of the Year Award for the Klondike Visitors Association.
line Reservation System for the Klondike. Gary Parker, Executive Director of the KVA, Rachel Wiegers, Manager of Marketing and Events, and Brian Stethem, accepted the award. “Awards are very humbling. Thank you very much,” said Parker. “I’m not sure we’ve earned it yet. I think we’ve started something new and exciting. And what’s new about Dawson leading the way? Thank you.” The Sustainability Leadership in Tourism Award was presented to Nahanni River Adventures and Canadian River Expeditions and accepted by its owner, Neil Hartling. “Nahanni is an organization which has made an outstanding contribution to the practice and promotion of sustainable tourism in Yukon,” said Enright. “Nahanni is a champion in the protection of Yukon’s natural and cultural resources as well as economically sustainable tourism. They provide legendary experiences to visitors, assuring a sense of reverence
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and awe.” The Yukon Tourism Ambassador Award was presented by Neil Hartling, Sandy Hachey and Pierre Germaine, representing industry, TIA Yukon staff and the Yukon government. It was presented to Rod Taylor, Mary Ann Ferguson and Dee Enright, who have ended their terms as TIAY executive members. “They’ve served the industry as a powerhouse team,” said Hartling, “leading the way, taking the risks, facing hard issues and answering the tough questions that impact this industry on a daily basis.” Earlier in the evening Rich Thompson was presented with a special recognition award in honour of the time he has given to the Senior Marketing Committee. The SMC advises government and TIAY on marketing priorities and is made up of up to 15 industry representatives appointed by the Tourism Industry Association of the Yukon.
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Holland America will meet its YESAB Deadlines, say company officials By Dan Davidson Officials with Holland America indicate they are puzzled by the recent press release from the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, which infers that the company is dragging its feet in meeting its obligations for responding to requests for information on the operations of the Yukon Queen II on the Yukon River between Dawson City and Eagle. The press release from Chief Eddie Taylor says that June is a critical time for assessing what damage the boat may be doing to fish stocks and erosion of the river bank. Bill Fletcher, Holland America’s Director of Alaska and Yukon Marketing, says that the company fully expects to make the June 20 deadline for submission of reports and an update on the operation of the Yukon Queen II. He finds it hard to understand accusations that the company is stalling when it still has six weeks to comply with requests for more information. Steve Leonard, Vice President, Westmark Hotels, indicated that he was puzzled by the timing of the previous week’s press release from the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the comments reported by Stephen Mills, chair of the Yukon Environmental Socioeconomic Assessment Board (YESAB). Holland America is, he said, quite aware of its deadline for submission of comments and is not yet late. The current YESAB inquiry began after the company accepted the fact that its boat may be killing some fish. It was instructed by the Dept. of Fisheries to apply for a license to allow it to operate in spite of that fact, the same type of license that is routinely issued to other companies in many different kinds of industries for the same purpose. When the local Dawson branch of YESAB was unable to reach a clear decision on the matter, the issue was referred to the YESAB executive committee back in October 2008. The company has just completed two seasons that were far from normal. In 2009 the YQII began excursions between Eagle and Dawson City a month late due to the flood damage to both the town of Eagle and the boat. In 2010 the season began normally but came to an end in July when heavy rains and flooding washed out portions of the Taylor Highway to Eagle. After that HAL passengers travelled to and from Dawson by coach and Air
North. The YQII portion of the visitor experience was reduced to a cruise lasting just a few hours, north to the border and then back to town. Fletcher says that the current season will begin without the full Yukon Queen II tour, as it is not certain if the road to Eagle will be fit for bus traffic. The company has been leery of the road to Eagle since it lost a coach there a few years ago, said Steve Leonard, and will only use the road if it is sure it is safe. Passengers will travel to and from Dawson by motor coach as the season begins. At this time the Dawson Chamber of Commerce reports that the Top of the World Highway/Taylor Highway route will see the border crossing open on May 15 [delayed until May 22 see page 2] and the first HAL bus is due in Dawson on May 18. Leonard indicated that the
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Bill Fletcher, Holland America’s Director of Alaska and Yukon Marketing, says the company will provide the necessary material regarding the Yukon Queen II’s operations on time. season will begin with the same cruise down river and back from Dawson that it offered last year. After all, he said, passengers have paid for a tour boat experience and expect to spend some time on the boat.
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A product & services marketing event centered around the mining industry! 10 AM to 5 PM Friday and Saturday, May 20, 21 at the arena in Dawson City
25th
Dawson City Gold Show May 20 & 21
2011
Gold Bar Sponsors:
Their Honours Doug Phillips and Dale Stokes invite Yukoners to Dawson City to celebrate Yukon’s 113th birthday on Saturday, June 11, 2011
Commissioner’s Tea Commissioner’s Residence 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Public event — everyone welcome — no tickets required
Air North, Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Dawson City General Store, Kal Tire, Pacesetter Products, Westmark Inn Dawson Gold Nugget Sponsors: AFD Petroleum, Finning Canada, Harper Street Publishing, Latitude Wireless, Pacific Ridge Exploration, Small’s Expediting
Gold Flake Sponsors: AH MecElroy Sales & Service, A Ray of Sunshine Variety Store, Arctic Inland Resources, Bonanza Market, Dawson Hardware, Downtown Hotel, Eldorado Hotel, ESP Equipment Spare Parts, Grenon Enterprises, GP Distributing, Grunt Action, Klondike Kate’s Cabins & Restaurant, Parks Canada, The Raven’s Nook Gold Dust Sponsors: Aurora Inn, BHB Storage, Dawson City B & B, Bishop Plumbing, Gammie Trucking, Klondike Nugget & Ivory Shop, Klondike Spirit, North of 60 Mining & Exploration Review, Schmidt Mining, Technic Canada, Triple J Hotel
Performances by Gillian Campbell Band, presentations, silent auction! Exhibitors include:
Commissioner’s Klondike Ball Palace Grand Theatre Receiving line at 7:00 pm — Group photograph at 8:00 pm Tickets are $75 per person Call 867-993-5575 or email kva@dawson.net Dress: Period formal or formal
Air North, Best Western Gold Rush Inn, Pacesetter Products, Finning Canada, Latitude Wireless, Small’s Expediting, AH McElroy Sales & Service, Arctic Inland Resources, Dana Naye Ventures, Dawson Chip Repair, Dawson City Chamber of Commerce, Dawson City General Store, Ecofor, ESP Equipment Spare Parts, Global Gold Trader, Griffiths Heating & Sheet Metal, KPMA, Harper Street Publishing, Mackenzie Petroleum, Martin Contracting, Matrix Research, Meadia Solutions, Mid-Arctic Gold, Nordique Fire Protection, Northern Placer Technologies, Northwest Orthotics, Parks Canada, Rural Exhibits Canada, Seewolf Enterprises, Technic Canada, Transport Canada- Boating Safety, Victaulic, Vogt Enterprises, YESAB, YG- Energy, Mines & Resources, YG- Cultural Services, YG- Yukon Heritage Resources, Yukon College, Yukon Gardens, Yukon Heritage Resources Bd, Yukon Mine Training Assoc, Yukon Placer Secretariat, Yukon Surface Rights Board, Yukon Water Board
www.dawsoncitychamberofcommerce.ca
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News from the Dawson City Recreation Deparment: Minor Softball has started! If you haven’t already done so please come into the Rec Dept to fill out a waiver and pay for registration Bantam, Peewee, Squirt & Mites $30; Peanuts & Tee ball $20.
The Pool is now open and operating on its shoulder season schedule until June 5th. The first set of lesson registration, swim club and private lessons will start on May 30th and closes on June 3rd at noon.
As the snow melts away you will notice all the landscaping improvements made to the Waterfront last fall. Please respect the snow fencing and keep out of this area as we are waiting for the grass to grow. This includes dogs!
sun cartoons Tundra by Chad Carpenter
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Roache’s Corner by Mike Roache
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sun classifieds Churches ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Corner of 5th and King Services: Sunday mornings at 10:30 am, Sat. 5 pm, Tues. 7 pm, Wed. to Fri. 9:30 am. All are welcome. Contact Father Ernest Emeka Emeodi for assistance: 993-5361
DAWSON COMMUNITY CHAPEL
Located on 5th Ave across from Gold Rush Campground. Sunday worship at 11 am. Everyone is welcome. Pastor Ian Nyland 993-5507
ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Sunday Services 1st and 3rd Sundays, 10:30 am. Morning Prayer 2nd and 4th Sundays, 10:30 am. Holy Eucharist 5th Sundays - 10:30 am. Special service.
VEHICLES FOR SALE 2008 Toyota Tacoma, 4x4, access cab, canoe rack. Only 27,000 kms! Asking $27,500. 2002 Toyota Corolla, automatic, well-maintained, AC, remote entry, new windshield. Only 72,000 kms. Dark green, great on gas and fun to drive! $8,900 Call 993-5759 to view or for more information
Real Estate
FOR SALE BY OWNER 1 1/2 COMMERCIAL LOTS On 3rd Ave next to the Westminster Hotel. Call 993-5346
“It ain’t gold but it’s close!” To find out how you can contribute to the Klondike Sun , just email klondikesun@northwestel.net!
Klondike Outreach Job Board
Support
Open Positions:
Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services Individual, couple, family, or group counselling. A highly confidential service located in the Waterfront Building. We are a non-profit organization with a sliding fee scale. To make an appointment call 9936455 or email dawson@ manyrivers.yk.ca. See our website at www.manyrivers. yk.ca/.
Dear Dawson City
Alcoholics Anonymous
Get your message out there!
New Beginnings Group meets Thursdays 8 pm, St. Paul’s R. Martin Chapel kitchen, Church St. North Star Group meets Saturdays 7 pm at the Community Support Centre, 1233-2nd Ave, call 993-3734 or 5095 for info.
business directory
This space could become your classified ad - only $6 per placement!
Advertise your business and services with The Klondike Sun! Submit your business card at a normal size of 2” x 3.5” - $25.00 per issue and yearly billings can be arranged.
Automotive Mechanic Bakery Assistant Chef Barista/Front Counter Person Bartenders Carpenter Childcare Workers Clerk / Cashier Commercial Sewing Machine Operator Cooks / Line Cooks Counterpersons/Cashiers Custodian / Guide Deli Person / Cashier Dishwashers Door Staff Front Desk / Admin Front Desk Clerks Housekeepers/Room Attendants Housekeeper/Desk Clerk Housekeeping Manager HVAC Technician (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) Journeyman Ice Cream Cone Maker Labourer Maintenance Assistant Maintenance Person Multi-Operator Night Auditor Oil Burner Technician Partsman Servers Sessional Instructors Stock Clerks Summer Camp Coordinator Tour Guide
Positions w/ Closing Dates:
Gallery & Residency Director: June 17 @ 4:30
Student/Youth Positions:
Summer Programming Assistant (anticipatory): May 31 @ 4:30 Tour Guide
Positions Out of Town:
Enumerators Various Mining Positions
For more information on these and other positions, come into the Klondike Outreach office next to the Territorial Agent/Liquor Store. (853-Third Street).
Hours
Monday-Friday: 9-noon and 1-5 pm Closed weekends and Stat Holidays
Contact Info
Phone: 993-5176 ~ Fax: 993-6947 Website: www.klondikeoutreach.com E-mail: info@klondikeoutreach.com
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P.O. Box 308 (1336 Front Street), Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 Tel: (867) 993-7400 ~ Fax: (867) 993-7434 NEW WEBSITE: www.cityofdawson.ca (updated regularly)
Council Meeting Schedule Regular Council Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month in Council Chambers, beginning at 7 PM. Council Meetings are open to the public and we encourage you to attend.
Parvovirus in Dogs: What you need to know HOW DOES A DOG BECOME INFECTED WITH THE PARVOVIRUS? The main source of the virus is from the feces of infected dogs. Susceptible dogs become infected by ingesting the virus. After ingestion, the virus is carried to the intestine where it invades the intestinal wall and causes inflammation. Parvovirus is very stable in the environment and is resistant to the effects of heat, detergents, alcohol, and many disinfectants. A 1:30 bleach solution will destroy the infective virus. Use a ½ cup of chlorine bleach in one gallon of water to disinfect food and water bowls and other contaminated items. Due to its environmental stability, the virus is easily transmitted via hair or feet of infected dogs, or on shoes, clothes, and other objects contaminated by infected feces. Direct contact between dogs is not required to spread the virus. Dogs that become infected with the virus will show clinical signs and will usually become ill within six (6) to ten (10) days after exposure. CLINICAL SIGNS OF PARVOVIRUS
Public Works Notice Water Bleeders: Spring is here. It's time to ensure the water bleeders are turned OFF.
Signs generally include severe vomiting and diarrhea with vomiting beginning first. The diarrhea often has a very strong smell, and may contain lots of mucus and may or may not contain blood. Affected dogs often exhibit a lack of appetite, marked listlessness and depression, and fever. Dogs most affected are unvaccinated or under the age of one year. CAN PARVO BE TREATED?
There is no treatment to kill the virus once it infects the dog, however the illness can be cured if caught in time and proper steps are taken. The virus itself does not directly cause death; it causes loss of the lining of the intestinal tract, and destroys some blood cell elements. If you suspect that your dog has Parvo call you local veterinary immediately. CAN PARVO BE PREVENTED?
Re: Application #11-025 for a Heliport at Lot 13, Callison Subdivision, Phase II
The best method of protecting your dog is PROPER VACCINATION. It is recommended for puppies to be done at 8, 12 and 16 weeks of age and for adults yearly.
Application was approved.
Business License Renewal Notice
Please note that use as a Heliport is a discretionary use of land in this Zone. This message is in accordance with the Zoning and Heritage Management Bylaw, public notice of approvals of discretionary land uses must be run in a local newspaper along with the information that any person affected by a decision may appeal a decision to Council by serving written notice of appeal on Council within 14 days after notice of the decision was given. The 14 day appeal period shall commence from the 11th of May, 2011 and end on the 25th of May, 2011.
Please remember that Dawson City Business Licenses expired March 31, 2011. If you have not renewed your license as of yet please do so immediately.
A business license is needed if you do any form of business within the City Limits of Dawson City.