The Atlin Whisper, May 3, 2023

Wednesday May 3rd , 2023

The Atlin Whisper

“Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.”

Margaret Mead

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SPRING/SUMMER HOURS

*Effective – Saturday April 22nd, 2023*

SATURDAY-MONDAY

CLOSED ON ALL BC STATUTORY HOLIDAYS

Victoria Day - Closed Monday, May 22nd ….…. Open May 20, 21, 23

Canada Day - Closed Saturday, July 1st …… Open July 2, 3, 4

BC Day - Closed Monday, Aug 7th …...…. Open Aug 5, 6, 8

Labour Day - Closed Monday, Sept 4th ………... Open Sept 2, 3, 5

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation - Closed Saturday, Sept 30 … Open Oct 1, 2, 3

Thanksgiving Day - Closed Monday, Oct 9th ... Open Oct 7, 8, 10

HOURS

11 AM - 4 PM

Operated by the Atlin Community Improvement District

WANTED

Hi! I’m looking for antiques! Outdoor and indoor items/furniture.

If you think you have something interesting for sale or to give away,

please call me at 250-651-2111 or email me at: a.remon@me.com

Thank you!

Amélie Remon

The Atlin District Board of Trade

“Serving the Community of Atlin since 1904”

ADBoT is a vital and dynamic organization representing all Atlin businesses and industry sectors.

The Board is non-partisan multi sectoral organization.

We provide a unified voice on issues dealing with federal, provincial and First Nation Government.

The Board is an associate member of the Yukon Chamber of Commerce.

ADBoT is currently advocating for:

Cell Service, Senior’s housing and Health services, Roads, TRT/Atlin Joint ventures –Community Plan, Mining Activity, THELP Hydro Expansion project, increased Tourism and Hospitality, etc.

Membership in the Board gives access to affordable insurance: business and employee comprehensive plan.

No business too small or too big – one person or more.

We advocate to ensure that the whole community receives fair and equitable representation!

STRANGE ENCOUNTERS WITH MY GUITAR HEROES - Pt 2

Howard Roberts, Joe Pass, Ralph Towner, The ‘A’ team

HOWARD ROBERTS

Every musician seems to have a recording that, they say, changed their lives. Howard Roberts’ ‘Goodies‘ was that for me.

Our first band often rehearsed at Bruce Dawes’ house - yet another sacrifice made for the cause by our long suffering parents. Bruce was our keyboard player, and he had an unbelievable record collection. It included Jimmy Smith, Brasil 66 (which kick started my love of Samba/Bossa Nova), and Howard Roberts.

As soon as the needle hit the surface on ‘Goodies,’ my jaw dropped. I picked up the album cover and, lo’ and behold it was guitarist Howard Roberts. I was smitten - smitten as surely as if the Queen of Sheba had beckoned from across the room. I wanted to play this stuff and that was that.

So I put my head down and started to woodshed. But it wasn’t easy …

‘This thing can’t be in the key of Db can it? … how many flats is that? … how can anyone play in the key of Db? … and there’s four chords in one bar right here ... that can’t be right can it? ... what is wrong with these people?‘

Still, I kept at it and eventually reached the point where I didn’t get kicked off the bandstand. The following years were lean, but I found that if I played and taught a little on the side, I could actually stay alive as a musician. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Then one day fate stepped in, and I managed to lop off the end of one of my fingers playing silly bugger on my motorcycle - one of the fingers on my left hand - not a good thing.

The sheer stupidity required to ride up a scree slope in nothing but a pair of flip flops and cutoffs defeats the imagination. What was I thinking? Predictably, I ended up flipping out, landing on my side and sandwiching my middle finger between the clutch lever and a nasty sharp piece of scree. The severed tip dropped through a hole in the rocks, never be to seen again.

At the ‘Centre for Repairing Injuries Sustained by Idiots,’ the doc asked me what I did for a living.

“I’m a guitar player,” I grunted.

“You’re kidding me,” he said. “Well , I suggest you start looking for another line of work.”

Well, that wasn’t going to happen, so I decided to try and find a way to compensate. After all, if Django could play with two fingers, who am I to give up? Still, all of a sudden, I was sidelined for several months.

Not being able to play was discouraging, and I was at a loss for something to do; so I took all of the stuff I’d been teaching and assembled it with the intention of writing an instruction book.

Eventually, the book, ‘Jazz Improvising For the Rock/Blues Guitarist,’ got written and shopped around. I got an offer from Oak Publications, a rejection from Mel Bay, and a really nice hand written letter from Carole Kaye (Gwyn Publishing). The whole thing was encouraging, but mostly, I was excited about the manuscript I’d sent off to ‘Playback Publications’ - Howard Roberts’ new company.

I heard nothing for the longest time, then one afternoon the phone rang. It was some joker pretending to be Howard Roberts. I was pretty sure I was getting my chain yanked by one of my perverse pals, but the guy was doing such a good job that I thought I’d give him enough rope to hang himself.

“I’m interested in publishing your book ,” the impostor continued, “and I’m just wondering when you can come down to L.A.”

I took a breath.

“Oh ... so you want me to come down to L.A. do ya? Well you know what? ... I’ve got your publishing company right here in the crack o’ my ...“

The words were on the verge of tumbling out when it hit me that I might be talking to the man himself.

I don't recall anything of that conversation, but I can‘t have stepped in it too badly, because several weeks later I was climbing out of my car behind Donte's jazz club in North Hollywood, where I was to meet the man who recorded ‘Color Him Funky‘, ‘H.R. is a Dirty Guitar Player‘, ‘Goodies‘ etc, etc.

‘I remember the evening well. There was a chill in the air, and the russet leaves of early autumn were quaking in a light breeze. A dog barked in the distance ...’

There I was - a young guitar playing punk, sitting at the bar at Donte‘s with Howard Roberts, waiting for Joe Pass to start his set. I was vibrating.

Howard was excited. In retrospect, he always seemed excited about something or other. He was a brilliant man who was enthusiastic about everything he did, and tonight he was enthusiastic about his latest composition technique - using the guitar neck as a canvas, designing shapes on it, then sifting them for musical gems.

He was, at the moment, sketching excitedly in the dust on the top of the bar with the index finger of one hand, and ordering seafood with the other. Now, I love this stuff, and I guess he could see that. A couple of drinks down the pike and we were having a fine old time. Then Joe Pass climbed onto the stage and all conversation stopped.

Howard and Joe were huge in the guitar world at the time, both having series’ of hit Jazz albums. Joe started his set, played a few tunes, then took a break to introduce a special guest in the audience. I was expecting him to point out Howard but I was wrong. He asked, instead, someone right behind us to stand up. I turned and, lo and behold, there stood Les Paul!

It was a memorable night and one heady experience for an aspiring young guitar player. After it was all over, I walked back to the parking lot with Howard only to discover that the battery in his car was dead. We ended up having to jump start it. My last memory of the night was pushing that car down the alley behind Donte’s and thinking, ‘Man, it doesn’t get any better than this! ‘

Howard loved to share knowledge. He changed the way I approached technical writing, showing me exactly how to edit and lay out an instruction book in order to make it successful. You just can’t buy this stuff. Mentors. Bless their hearts.

A famous guitar graces the cover of ‘Goodies.’ It is an Epiphone, Howard Roberts model - an arch top with an oval sound hole - unusual to say the least. Howard used very heavy strings on that guitar, and the the sound just popped out of the instrument. It was big fat and juicy. Of course, a lot of it came down to the man himself.

During the period I was working out the details for the book, I was visiting Howard’s writing/publishing partner, Bob Grebb, a great jazz guitar player in his own right. In his office, leaning against the wall, was a guitar I recognized immediately.

“Is that it Bob?” I said, pointing at the guitar.

“That’s it,” he replied, knowing exactly what I was talking about.

“Can I?” I said.

“Of course.”

I picked it up and saw the neck was warped beyond repair. I looked back with raised eyebrows.

“14’s,” he laughed. “He used 14’s on that thing,” (an extremely heavy set of strings for any neck). “It just couldn’t take it anymore.”

Skagway,AK,1985-Lynn Canal. I chuckled as the Cessna bounced through an updraft.

“What are you laughing about back there?” the pilot squawked in my headphones.”

I jumped.

“Geez!” I said. “You scared the crap out of me.”

I guess I’d been toying with the mic button on my headset and the whole cabin had been listening in on my thoughts.

The wind dropped as we approached the entrance to Lutak inlet, and we saw Haines in the distance - a neighbouring Alaskan town with entirely its own identity, yet one still completely South-East Alaskan.

I sat back in my seat for the last part of the trip and my mind drifted to the headliner that night at Donte’s. As it turned out, it wasn’t the last time I was to see Joe Pass face to face.

SundayMay14

Mothers Day Matinee

May Summary

Musicians

SaturdayMay6

Whitehorse Community Choir “Stay With Me”

https://www.whitehorsechoir.org/

SaturdayMay26

The Ruby’s Trio Hayley Warden String Trio – Guitar, Fiddle, Bass Solo Piano

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Movies

Sunday May 7, 2023

Crush Doors Open 6:30 Runs 7:00 – 9:00

Starring: Andie Macdowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor

Directed by: Simon Curtis

Romantic Comedy: Kate is headmistress for a private school in a gorgeous village in rural England. Weekly, she gets together with her 2 best friends, all single & 40 something, for ritual gin drinking, cigarette smoking, chocolate eating, and dishing on their intimate adventures with opposite sex.

Sunday May 14, 2023

Mambo Italiano

Doors Open 6:30 Runs 7:00 – 8:30

Starring: Ginette Reno, Sophie Lorain, Paul Sorvino, Luke Kirby, Peter Miller, Mary Walsh

Directed by: Émile Gaudreault

Comedy: Gino & Maria emigrated from Italy to “the new world”, a world they still haven’t gotten used to…. That world is shattered when their son decides to get a place of his own

The Divide

Me versus you

The edge of a knife will split into two

The longer it goes

The wider it gets

Peel away equal are all

Unity as one strength will be found

Split into two

Grinding away at the hurt that is found

Like salt in a wound

As we lay on the ground

Hands out for all

Love we will feel

The slope might be slick

Struggle we may

Push to the crest

From hands of us all

Conqueror as one unity is found

Us versus them

Conqueror the divide

Dana Hammond

The old man

As he sits on the park bench

No one knows why

The Old Man

As he sits on the park bench

No one knows why

He sits with wool pants on Pipe in hand

Through rain and snow

Sun and moon

He sits

People come and people go

The stories what must he keep Tucked up in his head

Whom is this man

With scowl on face

And eyes so sharp

This man must be sought

If only one would sit

With ears perched open

The stories this man must begin

For if not they will forget

A day where he might not sit

Once it is done I frown to learn

This man was once a treasure for all

Gold will be found in the stories he tells

Once this man speaks with a sound

For this we must go and sit

To learn the history of one

To tell it to all

As I approach ears open and ready

Only to find what was there is now for not

Only to be history for all to remember

As our time comes we must fly

Soar with the eagles, ravens and others

Dana Hammond

Atlin Community Improvement District

2023 Atlin FireSmart Assessment & Education Project

A 2023 extension has been granted for the 2022 - Community Resiliency InvestmentFireSmart Community Funding & Supports Program

The program is intended to develop the Atlin FireSmart Assessment & Education Project

➢ Encourage citizens through education to adopt & conduct FireSmart practices to mitigate negative impacts of wildfire

➢ Help willing homeowners by conducting FireSmart home & property assessments

➢ Offer homeowners a local rebate program for eligible FireSmart activities

Registration: May 11 – 31, 2023

Local Rebate Eligibility Requirements

The FireSmart Team will meet with you on your property in June to discuss practices to mitigate negative impacts of wildfire.

Required FireSmarting must be completed by October 1, 2023.

The assessment team must be able to complete the 2nd assessment of your property between October 1-15, 2023.

Application forms will be available May 11th.

Look for them in your PO Box, at the post office, or contact the ACID by email for a form to be emailed to you.

Applicant numbers may be limited.

The Atlin Community Improvement District is beginning a process of community engagement to learn from Atlin residents about priorities and topics of interest.

This process will help to inform:

-representation of the Atlin community

-learnings for a future Atlin Official Community Plan update

Please watch for surveys and opportunities to share your voice, priorities, and dreams for the community.

If you are interested in contributing your skills and ideas to the engagement initiative, consider joining the working group! Details to come.

Contact: atlincommunityengagement@gmail.com

Pearl Street

NORTHERN HOMES REAL ESTATE

1700 sq.ft. historical building suited for combination comfortable living plus retail. Living room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms and 3rd huge room to adapt to your needs! Recent extensive foundation and roof restoration plus interior renovations utilizing the original wood and fixtures. This is original “Atlin” and your opportunity!

$395,000

4th Street

400 sq.ft., one bedroom cabin plus large workshop on two adjoining 50x100 lots. Quiet location with lots of room for expansion. Great potential for expansion.

$275,000

Warm Bay Road

This gem is off grid, well maintained and absolutely the perfect retreat. 2 bedrooms, large open dining/living room, galley kitchen and spacious pantry. Storage in walk out cellar plus numerous outbuildings. Bonus is a warm spring flowing through year around!

$239,000

43.6 Acres

Beautifully maintained, inside and out, this cozy 2 bedroom home is so private featuring a second cottage with sleeping loft (often used as B&B), a third cabin for guests, great garage/workshop, plus various other craft/work shops and much fencing. Mountain views in every direction plus short walk to Atlin Lake sandy beaches. Just waiting for you! Viewing by appointment ONLY!

$597,000

Lake View

A great daily view awaits in this well built, 2 level home with a fabulous open floorplan on the upper level with a master bedroom and so much storage! The lower level boasts 2 extra bedrooms or bedroom and games room. Almost 1700 sq.ft., lots of room for the entire family and guests to enjoy! Double garage on lower level plus another garage for all those extras like boats, quads, sleds

$535,000 SOLD

5 Acres

With power, small log cabin, tenant occupied near the upper end of the acreage, application for subdivision has been submitted/approved to create two 2.5 acre parcels. Slope facing Atlin Lake. Build your dream home to take advantage of the view and keep the tenant as caretaker! Or build a series of guest cabins! Your imagination is your only limitation!

$237,000

Fourth of July

Basic lake side cabin, 3 bedrooms, lots of big windows, hidden in the trees, on .544 acres, leased lot until 2042. Very private!

61,500 SOLD

4th of July

.78 acres of Crown Land lease, gated, partly cleared, the perfect spot to keep your RV and recreational necessities, there for year around enjoyment. Lease term to 2042.

$53,500

HIDDEN GEM

This stunning gem in an Enchanted Forest has been lovingly crafted by the hands of this talented owner – never to be duplicated! On 4 acres with guest cabins and a short walk to hidden lakes plus easy access to the highway,

$399,000 SOLD

STUNNING – Inside and Outside

Incredible views, quiet location and fabulous home. 1700 sq.ft. on main level, beautifully renovated with gyproc interior, lots of updated windows, open floor plan, kitchen, dining area, living room, bar/games room plus 2 bedrooms. Basement offers 3 more bedrooms, two baths, kitchenette and large living room with ground level access. One of a kind waiting for you.

$349,000 SOLD

Mi 43 Atlin Highway

34+ acres of land, surrounded by grazing lease, with 1700 sq.ft., 2 BR, full basement home, great well, septic field, solar and generator plus lots of extras. If you wish, will come with 2 loveable nags who consider this home. Quick possession is possible.

$535,000 SOLD

Call Myrna at (250) 775-1019 Leave message via text or email myrnablake1@gmail.com

While I am travelling Email above plus satellite at myrnablake1@zoleo.com Go to northernhomesbc.ca for more details.

FOR SALE – Atlin Property at corner of 3rd Street and Pearl Avenue

In the middle of the Atlin townsite but tucked away for tranquility and privacy.

Spacious backyard with greenhouse (6x12 feet) and three raised garden beds, various fruit trees and shrubs (cherry, apple, haskap, saskatoon, raspberries etc.) and an outhouse. Property right next to the Alkali slough with great accessibility to walking and cross-country ski trails and with a view of Atlin Mountain

General info:

• Total property size fully fenced: 3 lots (12,600 sqft, ~0.3 acres)

• Finished area: 1050 sqft – living space all on one floor

• Interiors extensively renovated in 2009

• Cistern with 2300 litres capacity

• Septic tank and field – redone in 2020

• Wood heat with Pioneer Princess wood cook stove hand-crafted by the Amish; back up oil and electrical heating

• R65 insulation in ceiling/attic

Features:

• 2 arctic entrances

• 2 bedrooms

• 1 full bathroom (and 1 outhouse)

• Open kitchen, dining and living area

• Storage room with cedar wood infra-red sauna

• Large root cellar below

• Oversized garage with ample parking and storage space

• Large woodshed with some wood

• 2 additional storage sheds

• Appliances: washing machine, stove, fridge

Price: $330,000

Serious inquiries at cziegler@unb.ca

Gratefulness

Thank-you for this world of beauty

Thank-you for this world of splendour

Thank-you for this world of plenty

Thank-you for this world of joy

Thank-you for this world of miracles

Thank-you for this world of wonder

Thank-you for this world of ours

Dear God,

Thank-you for this world

Definitions

God is God

And Man is man

Man is man And woman is woman

Day is day

And night is night

Right is right

And wrong is wrong

Human Intelligence

Innate

Organic

God-given

Artificial Intelligence

Wait a minute!!!

We haven’t figured out our own yet…

The Collective

We humans

We form a collective

Collectively, we form the human race

It is a collective endeavour

Together we rise; together we fall

So,

Do we heed those who tell us to fear each other?

Do we heed those who tell us to scorn each other?

Do we heed those who tell us to other each other?

Or,

Do we have a conversation?

Do we seek connection?

Do we listen attentively?

Do we look for commonality?

Do we attempt to understand?

The World

The world…

Is not crazy

It has not gone mad

It is not going down the drains

Thoughitmayseemso

The world is simply

The net result

Of countless years

Of decisions and choices

That we humans have made

To the best of our ability

To the best of our knowledge

And we now get to live with it

Work with it

And make better choices

- StephenBadhwar,April2023

BIG WATER SOCIETY COUNSELLING SERVICE

COUNSELLOR: Katie Israel, GN, MA, RCC

At Big Water Society we recognize the realities of human experiences, the diversity of innate worlds and states through these experiences, and we believe that we can, when we connect and share these experiences. Be it traumatic experiences, emotional turbulences, depressive and anxious states, we are here to join hands with you and work through your unique experience. You do not have to go it alone.

Phone: (250) 651-2189; (867)334-9524

Email: bwscounsellor@bigwatersociety.org

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality – Martin Luther King, J r

Please note that requests for same day water delivery must be received no later than 11 am of said day. Thank you!

Water delivery and Sewer Removal are available Monday through Friday

Did you know we sell and service Toyo Stoves? We offer competitive pricing on the latest models. Call the office for more information

Phone 250-651-7463

Email grizzlyhomeservices@gmail.com

Mailing address is Box 318, Atlin BC V0W 1A0

Office hours – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 8 am - noon

With thanks, Dana and Mary Hammond

Did you know that Big Water Society provides the community with FREE professional mental wellness counselling?

If you feel you would like to talk to Katie Israel, please call her at: 250-651-2189 or 867-334-9524

GARY HILL’S – CUSTOM, FISH REPRODUCTIONS

PHONE 250 651 7553

EMAIL – garyphill59@gmail.com

7 MONARCH Drive – ATLIN – BC. V0W 1A0

WEB SITE – http://gary-hill.com

Back in Atlin -hooray!

The Geological Survey is planning work out of Atlin this summer and is again looking to rent a house (for a fifth time) which we can care for from late June to early August. If you have a suitable place sitting vacant, please contact me.

Mitch.mihalynuk@gov.bc.ca or 778.698.7226. Thanks!

Custom Fish Art- Fiberglas and Wood

GARY HILL’S FISH ART

Spring hours effective April 1, 2023

Monday to Saturday 9am – 5pm Sunday 11am – 4pm

New bakery chef with take out options!

~Weekly freight truck run on Mondays and freight runs available upon request~

At a tender age

Walked out the door

A broken home

With fights all day

Bathtub gin at night. For years on end

I roamed the land

No plan in mind No goals were set. Yet, learned to bend So not to break.

Made friends out there

Who heard my music

Encouraged me To carry on. They liked my style

That grabbed and held. The words I wrote Brought feelings out Were true to life

Good stories all. Each town I’d stay

Played for meals and bed

Sometimes a nickel

Sometimes a dime.

After a time

After a time

Hope grew inside

To record music, Get an open door

To rest my hat.

Then, find someone

Begin a life

Where love would bloom

And children thrive…

A place to call home.

Atlin Pet Care

Hope grew inside

287 Tatlow Street

To record music, Get an open door

Yourpetshomeawayfromhome!

Indoor/Outdoor Runs

Heated Kennels

To rest my hat.

Boarding-Grooming-Pet Supplies

Then, find someone

Emergency Care-Veterinarian Referrals

Begin a life

SPCA AGENTS

Where love would bloom

George Holman 250-651-7717 or Marj Holman 250-651-7758

And children thrive…

A place to call home.

“A Place to Call Home” Jeff Salmon

Atlin Christian Centre

Affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada

Service and Sunday School Sunday

11 a.m.

Come join us!

250-691-0128

St. Martin’s Anglican Church

10 a.m. Sunday

Everyone welcome!

Mountain Shack Café Restaurant

Fast Fancy Food

Great Service

110 Discovery Avenue

In Atlin, B.C.

EAT IN OR TAKE OUT

Wednesday thru Monday

250-651-7789

MOBILE WELDING SERVICE

AVAILABLE

Contact: Alain Vanier

250-651-0037

Reasonable Rates!

Smallwood Enterprises Ltd

We provide Concrete, Drain Rock, Screed gravel, Sand, Topsoil and Septic systems. We also provide Equipment Rentals, Excavations, Covered Storage, Firewood and Snow Removal. Please call (250) 651-2488 or email bobscontracting2020 @gmail.com

The next Whisper is Wednesday May 17th

Submissions are due no later than Sunday 6pm May 14th

Sewing Machine

Cleaning, Repair, &Setup Terry 250651-7769

Community Library Open Every Friday and Saturday 2-4p.m. Everyone Welcome

The Purpose of the Atlin Whisper is to encourage, build-up and inform the people of Atlin concerning ongoing community events and happenings. The Whisper is not a political mouthpiece. Compiled and edited by Lynne Phipps. Paper for printing courtesy of Northern Homes Real Estate Printing courtesy of RCMP Atlin

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The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. John Greenleaf Whittier