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Yukon First Nations graduation regalia

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Closeup of Velma Olson’s beadwork on Sidney Anderson’s 2015 graduation dress

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o my mind, Honouring Our Future: Yukon First Nations Graduation Regalia is among the most important art exhibits to take place in the Yukon over the past 10 years. I invite you to consider the effects the art processes displayed have on the worlds we all inhabit here.

Honouring Our Future displays graduation regalia worn by high school graduates in the Yukon First Nations Graduation Ceremony. The Council of Yukon First Nations supports the Yukon First Nations Graduation Society in coordinating it.The ceremony has taken place since 1975. Mostly dresses, the exhibit includes slippers and other footwear, head dresses, vests and a drum. Outfits exhibited include those worn at graduations 20 years ago, but some of the garments were stitched as far back as 1987.

An abundance of outfits spills out of the gallery into the foyer at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.

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broidery, melton and appliqué, silver cones, abalone buttons, paint – the makers of these works made ingenious use of any artistic resources they felt suitable to celebrate their graduates.

Even among the beadwork, styles range widely. I was particularly taken with Na-Cho Nyak Dun graduate Sydney Anderson’s dress, sewn by her mother, Velma Olson. The beadwork on its yoke gives me a feeling of bright freshness. She has combined beading and appliqué to create dimension in her flowers.

The dresses range from more traditional shapes to one-shoulder constructions, two-part, and even sleeveless. Imagery includes fireweed, roses, wolf and crow, and abstract flowers. Twelve of the 14 Yukon First Nations, as well as the Tahltan Nation, are represented in the exhibit.

Autumn Jules (Skaydu.û, member of the Teslin Tlingit Council) says making her own dress in 2014 was a “three-month process that made me fall in love with designing and the world of fashion.” It

won the “best dress” award in Vancouver’s Indigenous Fashion Week in 2017.

It is also interesting to see artists exhibiting in other Yukon art contexts listed among the makers. Blake Lepine designed the crests on Teslin-Tlingit Council graduate Shania Hogan’s blanket and apron, sewn by Robin Smarch.

Teresa Vander-Meer Chassé, an Upper Tanana contemporary beadwork artist and member of the White River First Nation, contributed jewelry to Delilah Stephen-Bailey’s (Gah Gaay), and Samantha Stephen-Bailey’s – (Nelnah) outfits, both also from White River First Nation. Their dresses were designed by Autumn Jules – and the circle goes around.

The Stephen-Bailey graduates’ grandma, Doris John, did the beading. I loved seeing how Doris John took contemporary highheeled shoes and added beaded elements and fur trim to them.

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For our children tomorrow ... cont’d

On the Cover Daxton Molnar’s entry in the World Whale Day Art Contest in the ATCO Youth Gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre. Over 100 entries were submitted and will be on display for the next two months. Molnar shared first place with Corvus Johnstone in the ages 9-11 category.

PHOTO: Mike Thomas/Yukon Arts Centre

Robin Smarch sewed this design on Shania Hogan’s blanket, drawn by Blake Lepine

What’s Inside Doris John embellished these heels for her granddaughter Samantha StephenBailey - Nelnah’s outfit

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Jackie Olson’s crow beading and appliqué on her daughter Kalilah Olson’s graduation dress other delightful dimension to this show.

Jackie Olson of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation has exhibited many of her abstract paintings in Whitehorse over the years.

Her words on the information cards nearby speak of her pride in making two of these outfits, for Destiny Taylor and Kalilah Olson.

“All dresses are designed with the graduates’ vision of how they want their dress to be,” Olson writes.

I feel that this show inhabits a different relationship for art-

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works and artists than many others I have seen. The garments are identified by their graduates, first and foremost. The makers are listed, but not as the main focus.

While some garments are made by one person, often they are the work of several artists. This is an exhibit about relationships, about gifts and hope and encouragement, about working together, rather than about solitary genius, or personal expression.

This exhibit, and the years of First Nations Graduation ceremonies it springs from, arise from

the same spirit that exhorts us all to stand “Together Today for Our Children Tomorrow.” Native Grad started just two years after Elijah Smith and his allies brought this document to Ottawa to start our contemporary land claims process. This exhibit celebrates a beautiful part of how First Nations cultures in the Yukon have been building themselves, reclaiming education for Indigenous purposes.

Honouring Our Future was curated by Lisa Dewhurst, in a partnership between the Teslin Tlingit Council, the Kwanlin Dun

Cultural Centre, and the Yukon Arts Centre. Over the next twoand-a-half years it will travel to five other cultural centres around the Yukon.

You can see it in Whitehorse at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wear your mask.

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Robert Green (left) and Patrick Jackson (right) practice safe distancing while transitioning the business PHOTO: Heather LeDuc

Changing Gear changing hands Service is one thing that won’t change

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hitehorse’s one and only sports consignment store is getting a new owner. Changing Gear Sports Swap’s founder, Patrick Watson, is handing the reins over to Robert Green, who officially took posses-

sion on Feb. 1. When I meet with Jackson and Green at Changing Gear on the coldest day of the year, they are more than mid-way through the transition process.

As successful as Changing Gear is and continues to be, Jackson is ready to move on. He says that from the beginning, he had a five-year exit strategy. This is all going according to plan, though there are certain priorities that are driving Jackson’s decision to

leave.

“First and foremost, more time with my family,” he says. He’s looking forward to being there when his kids come home from school.

As for what he plans to do next, Jackson is noncommittal.

He says there are plenty of options but he’s in no rush right now.

When I ask Jackson what he’s most proud of in his years of running Changing Gear, he says the

sense of community. He speaks of the number of young kids who got into sports and activities, partly because the business provides affordable gear, and thereby removes barriers to participation.

“Without Changing Gear, a lot of these families wouldn’t be able to get their kids into certain sports, or be able to keep them going year after year,” Jackson says. “It’s really fundamental to any community that kids are able to participate.”

The store is kid-focused and kid-friendly. Jackson says he has seen the same children over and over as they grow up and grow out of gear, hence the name, Changing Gear. He gets to know most of them and their parents.

It’s kind of like the TV sitcom Cheers, Jackson says, where everybody knows your name.

“Patrick’s amazing at remembering people’s names,” Green says, admitting it’s a skill he is working on.

Green is one of the people who Jackson came to know over the years. An early consignor at the shop, Green is primed to step into Jackson’s shoes.

“I was looking for something I could develop,” Green says of his interest in the business. “My family is very sports-orientated.

It happened to be a fit into the kind of life I’ve had. I grew up playing hockey here.”

As well, like Jackson, Green is keen to contribute to the community.

“I think having this establishment is crucial for the community as well as the outlying communities. It was something I could see myself doing and something that needed to stay with the community.”

The new owner appreciates the work Jackson has put into the sports consignment to make it successful. For Green, Changing Gear ticks off several boxes: it’s well set up, it’s a great facility, it’s something he can grow with, and the location (on the Alaska Highway just north of Two Mile Hill) isn’t bad either.

But I had to ask if COVID-19 has thrown a bit of a wrench into the plans?

Initially, Jackson says, the pandemic brought the business to a grinding halt. Changing Gear abruptly closed on the third week of March. Jackson contemplated not opening again for the summer.

“It looked like the world was going to end,” he says. “It looked rather bleak to be honest.”

But Changing Gear re-opened in May, thanks in part to customer support. Jackson also credits the business community, which stepped up to inform the government of what was needed, and the government delivered.

“I felt as a business-owner, when Yukon government announced some of the support mechanisms available, that they were spot on, at least for this business,” Jackson says. “Without the government’s support, it would have been a much different situation. They kind of came through.”

Changing Gear also bounced back because, if Yukoners could do nothing else during the pandemic, they were encouraged to get outside.

“If it weren’t for the great support of the community members, if it weren’t for them coming in wanting to get out and enjoy our country, the rebound wouldn’t have been as good,” Green says.

Now that Green has taken over the business, can the Yukon expect to see a big change in how it’s run?

Not likely. Green says his approach will be similar to Jackson’s. Service the customers, service the community, and give back as much to them as they give to us. That philosophy, says Green, is built into the business.

And that’s one thing that won’t be changing.

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eiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ (We Extend the Rafters) is the latest exhibition at Dawson City’s ODD Gallery, located at the southwest corner of the KIAC Building (or Dënäkär Zho). Billed as an exhibit for children ages 5 to 11, the machina animation style movie is projected on the east wall at the far end of a metal frame structure which mimics the look of an Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) style longhouse.

The animation was produced by Montreal-based artist Skawennati, using the virtual reality platform Second Life, and is used to tell a story that reaches into the dim past and ends up in the year 3025.

The story is called The Peacemaker Returns. It begins with the legend of Tekanawí:ta, the man whose power to persuade others to find peace amongst themselves

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His message of peace emphasized the common culture of all the tribes. It suggested extending the rafters of the longhouse structure as a metaphor to embrace all the related peoples, including one led by a man who was a cannibal and another led by a ferocious warrior.

Tekanawí:ta travelled the length and breadth of the land in a magic flying stone canoe, taking his message that all can live in harmony by simply extending the longhouse and following his three tenets of respect, unity and peace.

Following the unification of the tribes, symbolized by the creation of a special wampum belt, the Peacemaker departed in his flying canoe, promising to return if ever

The longhouse frame leading to the video he was needed.

There followed two centuries of peace, which was disrupted by the arrival of Jacques Cartier and other Europeans who, by conquest and enforced assimilation, broke down the ways of the indigenous people, who fell on hard times.

When the Peacemaker did return, after a special summoning ceremony, several centuries later, it was in the form of a baby girl, Kahehtéhshon, whose gift of dreaming enabled her to reveal the past to others and show them a way to make things better again. cont’d on page 7 ...

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An indigenous fable for all ages ... cont’d

the Interstellar wampum belt

The 35th century narrator of the film Inspired by her message, the world slowly recovered.

It was not without a struggle.

She made extensive use of social media. There was a journalist who spread alternative facts, who had to be converted to her way of thinking. There was the orange-skinned man in the White House “who loved money and his own voice more than anything.”

Offering him her massive twitter following as an inducement, she persuaded him to behave properly

and lead reforms.

This is all history, for Iotetshèn:’en, speaking from the future, reveals the theme of her current quest in a shorter trilingual video at the entrance to the gallery: “Words before all else. We bring our minds together as one, as we give thanks for the people, Now our minds are one” The main animation sets the stage of the 20 minute presentation.

“My name is Iotetshèn:’en,

and I live on Earth—usually. Our planet is united under the Great Law of Peace. Each nation, large or small, uses the single form of government.”

It is based on the teachings of Tekanawí:ta, to which Iotetshèn:’en has added a fourth rule: love.

As the narrator continues her story, we are told what has led to this interstellar voyage of peace.

“Earth has been attacked by more than one visitor from outer

Kahehtéhshon visits the White House

space, and our harmonious way of life is being threatened. So for now, my home is this spaceship.

We are travelling to the first meeting of the five nearest, friendliest planets in our galaxy. The goal of our mission is to create a union that will protect us from attacks and also help us share our very different knowledges. I have been invited on this historic voyage because I have a special power.”

This is her version of the dreaming gift, which has made her even

more persuasive a diplomat than Tekanawí:ta had been centuries earlier.

Skawennati was born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory and belongs to the Turtle clan. She holds a BFA from Concordia University. Her work has been presented in New Zealand, Hawaii, Ireland and across North America in major exhibitions.

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ART SHOWS Wed Mar10 + 17 Artist in the Window - Jeanine Baker 11:00 AM Yukon Artists at Work Gallery Watch our Yukon artists as they provide demonstrations of their art practice in our front gallery window. 393-4848 Fri Mar 26 Art Exhibition: Dark Alice Yukon Arts Centre Yukon artists reveal their take on Alice in Wonderland, featuring Lyn Fabio, Rob Ingram, Maureen Morris, Lillian Loponen, Heather Hyatt, Neil Graham and Shiela Alexandrovich.

Fri Mar 26 Art Exhibition: Love In Its Seams Yukon Arts Centre Exhibition showcases recent acquisitions for the Yukon Permanent Art Collection.

Until Sat Mar 27 Walk With Me by Janet Patterson and Friends Yukon Artists at Work Gallery Featuring about 30 embellished shoes, and explores Janet conflicted relationship with fancy footwear.

Until Sat Mar 27 Between Now & Yesterday by Simon James Gilpin Arts Underground An exhibition of new work by Whitehorse-based painter Simon Gilpin.

Until Sat Mar 27 Strength & Sexuality: A Resurgence of Indigenous Self-Expression Arts Underground A group exhibition that combats society stigma against womxnhood, Indigenous female sexuality and self-expression through beaded contemporary artworks.

Until Fri Apr 30 Honouring Our Future: Yukon First Nations Graduation Regalia Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Celebrates the history, creation, and design of First Nations high school graduation regalia and will travel throughout the territory until the fall of 2023.

LIVE MUSIC Fri Mar 12 Soda Pony Live 9:00 PM The Local Bar Soda Pony will be playing two consecutive nights, tickets online.

Sun Mar 14 Paris Pick + Elijah Bekk Live 2:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre An intimate one hour performance, Pick will be sharing some of her newest songs and stories performing alongside Elijah Bekk. In person or online, email YPLevents@yukon.ca to secure your spot or get virtual link or call 6675239 for more info.

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Hint: Study up on world leaders Wed Mar 24 Spruce Bog Easter Boutique MacBride Museum Spring craft fair featuring local artists, crafts, homemade baked goods and much more. Door prizes to be won.

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KIDS & FAMILIES Daily Yukon Literacy Book Drive 8:00 AM Horwood’s Mall We are having a book drive to assist with our programs, drop books off at the Pioneer Hotel, or Horwoods Mall.

Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays LAB Drop-In 12:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale For grades 8+, make beats, write, eat food.

Mondays & Fridays Preschool Dropin Gymnastics 10:00 AM Polarettes Gymnastic Club Silly songs and preschool free play, call 668-4794 for more information Tuesdays Parent Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM The Guild Hall Learn the power of songs, rhymes and stories as a positive parenting tool call 322-5990 for more information Tuesdays Power UP! Winter Term 3:30 PM Yukonstruct Innovation Hub Power Up! is a program for Grade 8-12 girls to explore skilled trades sessions during 8 weeks of after school workshops. Register online.

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Know before you go

Nine pro tips for staying safe in the backcountry this winter

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f record-breaking snowfalls and COVID-19 cabin fever have you charging for the hills, come to a full-spray stop and make sure you know how to keep yourself, your friends and first responders safe in the backcountry this winter.

Getting into the backcountry is a great way for Yukoners to experience the physical and mental health benefits of being in nature while respecting public health guidelines. With increasing numbers of outdoor recreationalists converging on backcountry spaces in recent weeks, it is more crucial than ever to ensure you have the training, knowledge and equipment to match your adventure plans.

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James Minifie is an avalanche field technician with Avalanche Canada, the country’s national public avalanche safety organization. The Yukon field team ensures regular avalanche forecasts are available for the Yukon region, including the White Pass and Wheaton Valley. Minifie has the following advice: Get the training: if you’re going into the winter backcountry, you need the skills required to recognize and safely navigate avalanche terrain. An AST 1 (Avalanche Safety Training course, Level 1) is your first step. For a good introduction, check out the new online tutorial at avysavvy. avalanche.ca.

Get the gear: Everyone in your group needs an avalanche transceiver, probe and shovel. Each group member needs to be wellpracticed and familiar with these tools.

Get the forecast: Check avalanche.ca/forecasts/yukon to get the current danger rating and so much more, including the type of avalanche problems to expect and how to best avoid them.

Jeni Rudisill is Parks Canada’s visitor safety coordinator for Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site.

The Chilkoot Trail’s Log Cabin area is a destination and launching spot for winter enthusiasts in the White Pass region. These are Rudisill’s top tips: Do your pre-trip planning: Research your objective, route options, and current and forecasted conditions. Ask others who have recently been there and leave a trip plan with someone you trust.

Be ready for the unexpected: Think about what your group would need for an unexpected night out if something goes wrong.

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Danielle Nadine Daffe (right) practices for the unexpected in the backcountry and so should you!

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James Minifie maintains one of the Yukon region’s remote weather stations. The data provided by these units is used to help produce the avalanche forecast. layers, firestarter, first aid kit, whistle, emergency bivy and headlamps. Bring spare parts and tools for your skis/board/sled. A ski guide tarp comes in handy as an improvised rescue toboggan if you need to self-evacuate. Sledders should have sufficient fuel and a tow strap. Ride with a buddy with a reliable sled.

Make sure your group is aligned: After a backcountry incident, it is common to hear that, in retrospect, some members of the group had concerns, but felt uncomfortable speaking up. Make sure everyone in your group knows the game plan and is up for the adventure. Ensure your objective matches the ability and training of the group. Remember to communicate openly.

Danielle Nadine Daffe is the adventure smart coordinator for Yukon Search and Rescue (SAR).

Yukon SAR heads a team of trained volunteers that supports the RCMP during search and rescue operations and other emergencies.

Daffe has three recommendations: Carry navigation and communication aids and know how to use them: Don’t expect cell phone service in Yukon’s backcountry

areas. Maps, compass or GPS, and satellite phone or GPS messenger device with pre-programmed contacts will allow you to call for help in an emergency and accurately communicate your location.

Stay put: If you get lost, weathered in, or someone gets injured and you can’t self-evacuate, find a safe spot, build a shelter and stay put. Be prepared for delays in rescue response due to weather and/or availability of rescue personnel and aircraft.

Use signaling devices: Blowing a whistle, lighting a fire and staying visible will help searchers find you.

All three specialists recommend using AdventureSmart resources to get prepared. AdventureSmart is a national program aimed at providing Canadians with the information they need to enjoy the outdoors safely. Visit adventuresmart.ca and download the AdventureSmart app for a convenient way to log your trip plan.

Know before you go and adventure wisely.

Kathy Burden is a communications officer for Parks Canada in Whitehorse.

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Photo-bombed by a moose

Cotton candy clouds against a turquoise sky PHOTOS: Paul Rath

Ready for their close-up

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eople of the North often encounter wildlife against the backdrop of rugged mountains, beside pristine lakes, along roadsides and even in their own backyards. We often see moose, elk, grizzly bear and foxes as we

travel. We stop politely for a picture, or not, then quickly move along so as not to habituate the animals to the presence of humans.

We also pass by world-class scenery, including the stunning mountain peaks of Kluane, the beauty of turquoise-coloured lakes, or the splendour of a supermoon against the distant mountain peaks.

One December morning, a

couple of years ago, I left home around 11 a.m., travelling north on the Haines Highway. The sun was just coming up. The sky was ablaze with colour. Perhaps I was light-deprived. I was mesmerized and could not look away from the spectacle of colour and light. The clouds were cotton candy pink and contrasted with the sky, which displayed the exact shade of turquoise found in the inviting ocean water in the Caribbean. Under-

neath that canopy of dazzling colour lay the snow-capped peaks of the St. Elias range, which are the tallest coastal mountain range in the world. I took 25 pictures that morning. That sounds like a lot, but I can take 10 pictures be-

fore I leave my driveway. The sky was so beautiful. When I reached the treeline, I could see that the sun was just kissing the peaks of the Three Guardsmen mountain, cont’d on page 13 ...

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Photo-bombed by a moose ... cont’d which is often cloaked in cloud.

I took two pictures of the Three Guardsmen, then went back to taking pictures of the mountains and sky to the west.

It was at that point that my little dog began to bark. I asked him what the issue was. We were alone. There was no one around for miles, except for the two bull moose standing in the snow to my right. I hadn’t noticed them until just then. One had already lost one side of his antlers. I took pictures of the moose until they moved off.

Later, I downloaded my pictures and glanced through them.

The melange of colour was a beautiful reminder of that spell-

binding morning. It was a week or so later I was gushing about the spectacle and showing the pictures to a friend. I told the story about the blazing sunrise, the colour of the clouds, the turquoise of the sky and the sun kissing the peaks of the Three Guardsmen.

“Nice Moose,” my friend said.

“What?” I asked.

“There is a moose here beside the tree in the bottom right in this picture.”

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I did a double take. Sure enough, there was a moose standing beside a tree looking directly at me while I was looking at the mountain peaks. In the next picture, the moose is looking sideways to his left, perhaps to his partner as if to ask “what is with this guy?” I didn’t see the moose when I took the pictures, nor when I looked at the images the first time. I was too busy enjoying the shots of the sun-kissed Three Guardsmen peaks and the brilliant skyline.

What is with this guy!

Moose standing beside trees with Three Guardsmen mountain in the background I had been photo-bombed by a moose—twice! Imagine the story the moose had to tell back with his buddies. “There was this guy, taking pictures and didn’t even see me.” Photo-bombed by a moose, twice on the same day.

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It’s a small world

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“I was trying to walk at your pace!” he hollered back to me in a full sprint while swatting mosquitoes.

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on the Van Gorder Falls trail in Faro. Sweating in my rain coat and stinking of bug spray, I exited into the John Connolly RV Campground where we had “glamped” the night before. I stopped and snapped a photo of a cute, chunky mushroom on the edge of campsite #12 while Paul fanned the bugs around my hair with his hat.

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It’s a small world ... cont’d Coming from off-grid cabins in West Dawson (across the Yukon River in Dawson City), it was a pretty luxurious camping experience, being able to shower and wash our dishes with running water in the bathroom that the campground provided. It actually made us kind of uncomfortable how easy it was. We should have been grateful for these amenities after being hailed on and poured on and eaten alive by bugs.

While tourists worry about bears in the Yukon, I worry about the excess of mosquitoes we’ve had this summer. I am prone to bad bug bites. Welts the size of eggs cover my ankles. Broken blood vessels and bruises cover my thighs, along with scabs and scars from scratching until I bleed to feel some relief. Paul’s nerves were shot from the sound of my shrieking every few hours as bugs smashed into my head, flew in my shirt and got tangled fluttering around in my hair.

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“Go put on your bug head net,” he said when we made it to our second camping spot at Lapie Canyon Campground between Faro and Ross River. I did as he encouraged and immediately felt some sense of ease.

We were extremely aware of COVID-19 rules as we travelled from Dawson City down the North

Klondike Highway to Faro and Ross River by way of the Robert Campbell Highway.

Having an unusually light and flexible summer schedule due to pandemic restrictions, I decided to take the opportunity to camp, hike and discover places in Yukon I’ve never experienced before.

Faro was full of friendly folk, all of whom nodded when you passed them on the street, or waved when they passed you on the highways.

The morning of our hike to Van Gorder Falls, we headed into the Tourist Information Centre to pay for our campsite and buy a round of nine holes for the Faro Golf Course, which runs through the centre of town. The course’s short holes were relatively easy, according to Paul. For me, playing golf is more like playing croquet. I was

p Paul Stintzi starts off at hole 1 at the Faro Golf Course easily distracted by the abundance of strawberries on the roadside anytime I went to look for Paul’s lost golf ball.

Although it was tempting to linger longer in Faro while the sun shone down on us for the first time since we left Dawson, we decided to make our way to the Lapie Canyon Campground between Faro and Ross River.

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When she had enough music for an album, Ambrose decided to release an instrumental version of it before releasing the version with vocals. The music was still personal, but not as personal as the lyrical versions, which she wasn’t ready to put out into the world just yet. Last December, after intermittently putting out some singles, she released the instrumental version of Out of Nowhere as her first full-length release.

Ambrose has been collaborating for years with a producer in Ireland, whom she met online.

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“That was a big confidence booster for me,” she said. “It really was the start of lots of positive things.”

Ambrose was already known in the Yukon’s artistic community, mainly from her oil paintings, but her musical endeavours these past couple years have allowed the community to see her in a whole new light and get to know a different artistic side of her. Her songs are very personal and important to her. She hopes to be able to take some time to celebrate and it sink in that her music is getting out there.

Ambrose’s CDs are available in Whitehorse at Mac’s Fireweed.

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Manus Hopkins is a Whitehorseand Toronto-based journalism student, musician and lover of heavy metal and cats.

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Step Outside columnist Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors person who prefers to cook what he harvests himself. He is a past president of the Canadian Wildlife Federation and retired hunter-education coordinator for the Government of Yukon.

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he water is still hard and icefishing is good, but now is the time to take out all your open water gear and do some maintenance and organizing. You could get by without a gear inspection, but come July you’ll hate yourself for the condition of your tackle and its containers. IEventually, we all have to deal with tangled leaders, rusty spoons, broken hooks and some unidentifiable plastic goo that used to be jig bodies, but is now chemically attached to a number of your lure trays.

While snow is still on the ground, take out all your rods and inspect them for loose guides and plugged or rusty ferrules. Then put them away as the real mess is about to take place. Most of us have at least a few lure and miscellaneous containers. Often they are species-oriented, ie: “pike box”, “trout box,” etc. Unless you are super meticulous, there will be some confusion in these containers, with lures in the wrong box.

A good way to handle this situation is to find a large flat surface and empty the tackle containers.

This might have to be done in stages if you have a lot of equipment. This is very challenging in a household with young children as the gear may have to be laid out for a few days to complete the task. Typically one of your first thoughts will be, “why do I have so much stuff?” Now is your chance to pare down the total amount, though none of us are very good at that.

First of all, move anything that should be in one of the other containers, then inspect the remaining bits and pieces. This is when you cull the broken hooks, swivels, leaders and any rusty or melted (plastic) items. If you are really serious, now is when you discard any gear that you no longer have any faith in, or items that you now realize were poor choices to start with. None of this is easy and that’s why we usually put it off.

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While the tackle containers are empty, you can fill the laundry tub with warm soapy/detergent water and soak and wash all the containers until they look like new. The nylon shoulder bags that we fill with lure trays can also be washed or just soaked and rinsed to make them look better.

Repeat this procedure with each of your tackle/gear containers and then check/repair/clean your waders, fishing vest, rain suit and landing net. This is a very positive activity at this time of the year and you will be super-satisfied when the ice goes out and your gear is ready like it’s never been before.

We are all motivated to buy more gear, especially the latest “wonder-lure.” It’s tough, but important when you are in the fishing tackle aisles at the big box stores, to accept that all those lures and gizmos were created to catch you as well as the fish. ■

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The next deadline for Advanced Artist Award is:

March 10, 2021

TRAVELLING LIGHT

April 1, 2021

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n anonymous friend helped create the question/s for this collective Tarot reading. Thank-you!

Question: What kind of leaders do we need right now? What kind of leaders do we need to be?

The Deck: The Rider-Waite ColemanSmith, first published in 1910.

Astrological Circumstances: I cast the reading during the Waning Gibbous Moon in Libra, in a plume of white sage, with good intentions. May it harm none.

The Card: The King of Cups, Minor Arcana

Rulerships: Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio. Element: Water. Direction: West

Physical Description: We encounter the King of Cups amidst a fertile teeming sea. He is comfortable on his shell-throne, wearing fabulous blue robes with a gold cape edged in red. There is much gold in the card, on the

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The King of Cups leads with compassion, maturity and emotional depth sceptre, chalice, shoes rippled with gold, ribbons of gold in the waves. The King’s gold crown is ornamented with waves and red blooms. Sea creatures and a ship cavort in the waves around the throne.

Metaphysical Description and Advice in relation to our Question: Water is the element at play in the suit of Cups, making the King of Cups a complex character, who should never be underestimated.

Zodiac signs Pisces, Scorpio and Cancer will identify with this King’s ability to lead with love and compassion, while being a fierce opponent to anyone who dares

challenge the throne.

As Bruce Lee famously advised, “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless—like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

The King of Cups is a powerful leader with emotional depth, maturity and strong intuition. While we need to seek these kinds of leaders, we also are advised to adopt water-strategies within our own leadership roles. Lead with love, lead with sensitivity, lead with passion.

Water also reminds us of our deep interconnectivity. We need leaders who respect the power of the collective. And leaders who see and support the human reality of interconnectivity with the planet. ■

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March 10, 2021

Junk Food

by Doug Sack

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t’s another junk food season, especially for those suffering from cabin fever. This premise set your inquisitive reporter off on a research voyage to create a thumbnail sketch of how junk food became such a prominent foundation of our modern culture in the opening decades of the 21st century.

PRETZELS It all began in Italy in 620 C.E., when baker/monks created pretriolas (little rewards) to give to their students during Lent. The treats were shaped to resemble the arms of a young child praying.

In 1510, Ottoman Turks attempted to invade Vienna, Austria, by digging tunnels underneath the city’s walls. Monks baking pretzels in the basement of a monastery heard the enemy’s progress, alerted the rest of the city, then helped defeat the Turkish attack. As a reward, the Austrian emperor gave the pretzel bakers their own coat of arms.

In Bavaria, Germany, in the Middle Ages, it was common for children to hang bretzels around their necks on New Year’s Day as a good luck charm:

NACHOS & SALSA Even more venerable than pretzels in the historical world of snack food are any maize-based (corn) foods. These go back to the days of hunter-gatherers in ancient Mesoamerica, where the Earth’s earliest known corn remains have been excavated in Coxcatlán Cave in southeastern Puebla, Mexico.

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A twisted history of snacks and TV-food The ancient Maya considered corn sacred “food of the gods,” much like chocolate from cocoa beans.

Masa is the moist, cream-colored paste resulting from grinding nixtamal or corn meal. It is the foundation of all maize foods, including nachos which were invented by Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya García, who was either a waiter, a maître d’, or a chef (depending on the research narrator) at a restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico, in the 1940s.

The history of salsa originated with the Inca people. Salsa (combination of chilies, tomatoes and other spices) can be traced to the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas. The Spaniards first encountered tomatoes after their theft of Mexico from 1519 to 1521. This marked the beginning of the written history of salsa.

Salsa is the Spanish word for “sauce.” This translation was eventually made by Alonso de Molina, a Catholic missionary, in 1571.

The preferred salsa-shoveling vehicle was corn tortilla chips. According to Mayan legend, peasants used dried ground native corn kernels to feed their hungry kings, as reported in the Austin Chronicle.

tory, according to this popular poAccording to Enchanted Learn- tato chip myth. Unfortunately, it ing, a site that charts inventions, wasn’t accurate. Further research the potato chip was invented on uncovered more.

“The earliest known recipe for August 24, 1853 by George Crum, something similar to today’s poan indigenous Native/African American cook at Moon’s Lake tato chips is in William Kitchiner’s Lodge, a posh resort in Saratoga book The Cook’s Oracle, published in 1817 in England.”

Two other British books published recipes before Crum served Vanderbilt, so it’s safe to report potato chips were a UK invention, not American.

Nonetheless, Crum’s chips became popular, made him rich and subsequently became known as “Saratoga chips” and “potato crunches,” but were added to the menu as PHOTO: Pixabay “potato crisps.”

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Springs, New York, high in the Catskill mountains.

Robber baron and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was unhappy with the large, soggy french fries served to him for his dinner, so he sent them back to the kitchen with instructions to make them smaller and to dry out the moisture. This angered Crum, who cut a potato into the thinnest slices he could then covered them with salt. He dropped them in the deep fryer to soak and sent them back out to his unhappy diner. Vanderbilt loved them and the rest is his-

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CRACKER JACK Flour, corn and potato products possibly don’t qualify as hardcore junk foods, but our concluding snack certainly does and is generally considered by food scholars to be the first properly identified as junk or garbage food.

With Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo as their flag-bearers, the Rueckheim Brothers produced a new gooey recipe of popcorn, peanuts, sugar and molasses. They first presented it to the public at the World’s Columbian Expos-

ition, Chicago’s first World’s Fair, in 1893.

“The more you eat, the more you want” was their catchy advertising slogan, but their sales languished until 1907 and the release of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Written by lyricist Jack Norworth and composer Albert Von Tilzer, the song gave Cracker Jack free publicity with the line “buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack!”

In 2004, the New York Yankees home game concession stand replaced Cracker Jack with the milder, sweet-butter toffeeflavored Crunch ‘n Munch. After heated public outcries from their upset fans, the club switched back to Cracker Jack.

There was something about singing “Buy me some peanuts and Crunch ‘n Munch” during the 7th inning stretch that didn’t cut it with the pin-striped faithful fanatics of the Bronx Bombers.

Good news, bad news In conclusion, all of the above (with the possible exception of the latter, which your preteen reporter only purchased for the “free prize in every package”) tastes wonderful and keeps your hands busy while enjoying spring sports. The bad news, of course, is that junk food will kill you if you eat too much of it.

Life’s a gamble, then you die.

Doug Sack describes himself as a “pretzel man trapped on a potato chip planet.”

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Participants will understand the importance of having difficult conversations, leveraging their strengths, and developing their curiosity as a leader. Grow as a leader and learn how to leverage your curiosity, develop questions, and approach difficult conversations to help develop your customer service team.

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The course will be 5 x 1.5 hour sessions on strategy principals, additional information and implementation strategies. Each session will have time allocated at the end to work through that week’s worksheet, which can range from a business audit based on the topic of the week, or action plan.

For several years, the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce with funding from the Department of Economic Development, Government of Yukon and partnering with service providers in the SME community, provided training and development opportunities for businesses. Our goal in this is to increase the capacity of the Yukon SME community by offering training and development to build the private sector in the Yukon, such that Yukon businesses may be immersed in, and part of, a positive, forward-moving economy.

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Community EVENTS S e n d W h a t ’ s U p Yu k o n Yo u r C o m m u n i t y E v e n t s

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Email: events@whatsupyukon.com Sat Mar 20 Adult Learn to Skate 2.0 4:00 PM Dawson City Arena Helmets & skates provided, ages 18+, email recreation@ cityofdawson.ca or call 993-7400 Ext 299 for more information.

ATLIN Mondays Walking at the Rec Centre 11:00 AM Atlin Rec Centre Wednesdays Ladies’ Lunch 12:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Wednesdays Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Fridays and Saturdays Atlin Community Library 2:00 PM

FARO Wednesdays & Fridays Seniors Cards & Walk 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 9942728

Sundays St. Martins Anglican Church Service 11:00 AM St. Martin’s Anglican Church

Wednesdays Archery - Ages 6+ 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre No experience or equipment needed. 994-2728

Sundays Atlin Christian Centre 10:30 AM Atlin Christian Centre

Wednesdays Bootcamp 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728

Fridays Thrift Shop 2:00 PM St. Martin’s Anglican Church

Wednesdays, Fridays & Sunday Public Skate Father Rigaud Arena Wed 4-6 pm, Fri 7-9 pm, Sun 2-4 pm

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Thursdays Soccer Thursdays 1:00 pm Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6+, rain or shine.

Sundays St. Saviours Church Services 2:00 pm St. Saviour Church 867-6683129

Thursdays & Tuesdays Faro Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre All welcome.

DAWSON CITY Tuesdays Music & Me: Baby & Toddler Parented Program 10:00 AM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture A parented singing and dance program for babies and toddlers.

Registration must be done in advance, weekly, by emailing Jen.Suttis@cdcyukon.ca Sundays St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381

Thursdays & Tuesdays Faro Kids Club 3:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Registration is required, call 994-2728 for more info.

Thursdays Volleyball Night - Ages 15+ 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728 Faro Thursdays Archery 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre No experience or equipment needed.

994-2728 Faro Thursdays & Mondays Adult Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Monday & Thursdays

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Family Sticks & Skates Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Tues & Thurs 4-5:30 pm and Sat 3:30-5 pm. For more info email recmanager@cityofdawson.ca or phone 993-7400

Fridays Indoor Kids Soccer 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728 Fridays Adult Soccer 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays Sticks & Skates Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Wed & Fri 11:30-1 pm, Tues 6-7 pm, Sat 5:30 -7 pm. For more info email recmanager@cityofdawson.ca or phone 993-7400.

Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays, Saturdays Public Skate Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Tues & Thurs 11:30-1 pm, Wed,4-5 pm, Fri 4-5:30 pm Sat 2-3 pm. For more info email recmanager@cityofdawson.ca or phone 993-7400.

Fri Mar 12 Play Like a Girl 3:00 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre For girls grade 1 +, develop skills and have fun! To register email recreation@cityofdawson.ca Sat Mar 13 Open Studio/Saturday Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture All ages welcome- but youth under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Email programs@kiac.ca for more info.

Fri Mar 19 Play Like a Girl 3:00 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre For girls grade 1 +, develop skills and have fun! To register email recreation@cityofdawson.ca Sat Mar 20 Open Studio/Saturday Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture All ages welcome- but youth under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Email programs@kiac.ca for more info.

Saturdays Pickleball 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Call 994-2375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca Saturdays Basketball 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Call 994-2375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca Tuesdays Parent & Tot 10:00 AM Faro Community Library For babies to age 4.

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Weekdays - DVD Yoga 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Mondays Video Yoga Classes 5:15 PM Mayo Curling Arena Yoga Videos are used for leading each class. Bring your own Yoga mat or borrow ours. Drop-ins are welcome. For more info call 996-2043 8979962043

Mondays Teslin Adult Fitness 5:30 PM Teslin Rec Center

Mondays Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre

Tuesdays Kids in the Kitchen 3:00 PM Teslin Rec Center

Sundays St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746

Tuesdays Yoga in the Mezzanine 5:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Mats provided just bring your zen.

Tuesdays North of 60 Seniors Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tuesdays Yoga with Richard 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Thursdays Shuffleboard and Games NightJackalope(licensed) & Gym 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fridays Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Hall and Recreation Centre Saturdays Knitting Circle 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays Happy Hour in the Jackalope 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays & Sundays Pickleball, Please drop in! 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed Mar 10 Rehab Fitness Workshop with Danny 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed Mar 10 Local Advisory Council Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Thu Mar 11 Jackalope OPEN for drinks & snacks 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fri Mar 12 Jackalope Clubroom OPEN for drinks & snacks 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 13 Pickleball 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 13 Jackrabbits Kids ski-school 1:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 13 Rehab Fitness Workshop with Danny 1:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 13 Family play time/ open gym 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 13 Jackalope OPEN for drinks & snacks 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sun Mar 14 Pickleball, Please drop in!

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Tuesdays Adult Curling 7:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena

Wed Mar 17 Rehab Fitness Workshop with Danny 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

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Thu Mar 18 Jackalope OPEN for drinks & snacks 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Monday, Thursday, Friday Saturday & Sunday Public Skate Bill Brewster Arena Mon 7:308:30 pm, Tues, Thurs & Friday 3:15-5:30 pm, Sat 12:00-3 pm, Sun 5-7 pm. Call 634-7100, ext. 202, to confirm that the arena is open.

Saturdays Beginner Public Skate 10:30 AM Bill Brewster Arena No sticks, no pucks, bring your little ones or just come practice your skills Wed Mar 17 Village of Haines Junction Council Meeting 7:00 PM St Elias Convention Centre Sun Mar 21 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church Service - Info: Mark Ritchie 634-2943

Sat Mar 20 Pickleball 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 20 Rehab Fitness Workshop with Danny 1:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 20 Family play time/ open gym 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat Mar 20 Jackalope OPEN for drinks & snacks 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sun Mar 21 Pickleball, Please drop in!

11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed Mar 24 Rehab Fitness Workshop with Danny 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Yukon Historic Resources Fund

To learn more, visit: yukon.ca/historic-resources-fund Or contact Historic Sites at: heritage.grants@yukon.ca 867-667-5386 Toll free (in Yukon) 1-800-661-0408, ext. 5386

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Wed Mar 10+17 Parent and Tots 4:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Call 966-3015 for more info.

Tuesdays Teslin Dance Group Practice 7:00 PM Teslin Healing Centre, For more info contact Melaina at 867.390.2532 ext. 333 or Melaina.sheldon@ttc-teslin.com

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Tuesdays Adult Hockey 8:15 PM Teslin Rec Center

Mondays Nordic Walking 1:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone welcome, for more info contact Ursula for meeting place 399-3671.

Wednesdays Teslin PickleBall 12:00 PM Teslin Rec Center

Tuesdays Yoga 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Call 399-3407 or email recreation@ tagishyukon.org for more info.

Wednesdays & Mondays Adult Fitness 5:30 PM Teslin Rec Center

Tuesdays Get and Stay Fit Class 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone welcome, for more info call 399-3671.

Wednesdays Tagish Youth Night 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fun, games, snacks, for ages 10+, call 399-3407 for more info.

Wednesdays Seniors Outreach Computer Tutor 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Call 399-3407 or email recreation@tagishyukon. org for more info.

Thursdays Tagish Carpet Bowling 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is invited to come and learn the technical game of Carpet Bowling,

Wednesdays Seniors Social 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center

Wednesdays Community Art Program 6:30 PM Teslin Rec Center 390-2530 Wednesdays Public Skating 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre Thursdays Kids Club 3:30 PM Tesline Rec Centre Thursdays Boys Club 5:30 PM Tesline Rec Centre Thursdays Women’s Hockey 5:30 PM Tesline Rec Centre Thursdays Adult Hockey 7:30 PM Tesline Rec Centre Fridays Public Skating 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Centre

Wednesdays Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A great opportunity to get out of the house and catch up with other community members. A lunch program which will include such things as soup/stew/chili and homemade rolls/bread plus some tasty treats!

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Fridays Teslin Youth Club 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center For grades 10-12, come hang out, games, activities and snacks!

Saturdays Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Library Call 399-3418 or email tglib@klondiker.com for more info.

Daily Cross Country Ski & Snowshoe Rentals call 536-4820 for more info

Saturdays Youth Night 5:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Fun, games, snacks, for ages 10+, call 399-3407 for more info Sat Mar 13 Winter Festival 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Snacks, hot drinks and fires to warm up. Carnival, Costume Contest, Snowshoe Races, Door Prizes, Live Music Tagish Sun Mar 14 2021 Tagish Poker Run Tagish Community Centre Checkpoints with snacks, hot drinks and fires to warm up.

Saturdays Movie Night 7:00 pm Teslin Rec Center

WATSON LAKE Wednesdays Drop in Beading 1:00 PM Watson Lake Family Centre Thursdays Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Watson Lake Family Centre You and your little one will learn new songs and rhymes, revisit old favourites. Ages newborn - 1 year are welcome and a light snack is provided!

Thursdays Drop-in Curling 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sundays St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 5362932

Shallow Bay area residents, Ta’an Kwäch’än citizens and other interested parties are invited to review the draft zoning concepts and provide their feedback to the Shallow Bay Zoning Committee.

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Sundays St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Luke’s Church 867-993-5381

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Yukon yoga takes a hit

The pandemic has been hard on people’s practice

by Christine Spencer

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t the core of each person is a light of pure joy and innocence; an energy beyond

words.

Yoga is the journey of reconnecting with that light. Living Yoga is the practice of living each moment in harmony with your true self. In the Yukon, yoga has traditionally been offered via group classes facilitated by a trained yoga teacher who offers personal tips and hands-on assistance if requested. Individual contractors also conducted one-onone classes and group classes for organizations. However, in March of 2020, there was a lockdown on most personal services and public facilities, including yoga studios.

Unfortunately, like the rest of North America, this was a death sentence for some studios, such as Breath of Life. I had been a Karma Yogi at Breath of Life since its inception. I substitute-taught vinyasa classes and community yoga offerings the last two years. I spoke with Dani Kluane of Trauma Sensitive Yoga Yukon, and Sheila MacLean of Rooted Tree Massage and Yoga to see how COVID-19 has affected their business and was surprised to find that there were a lot of positives.

Kluane is an independent contractor who runs Trauma Sensitive Yoga Yukon. She works with Yukon Mental Health and Substance

Abuse Services, and Whitehorse Correctional Centre (WCC). Because of COVID-19 she was unable to conduct classes from March to July of 2020. She was able to resume classes in July with a few modifications. The effects on her classes were fairly neutral.

“Trauma sensitive yoga is very compatible with COVID protocols because there are no physical assists,” she says. “Generally, the facilitator stays on their own mat throughout the practice so you are really staying in your own bubble anyway.”

The main modifications that were implemented were the facilitator wearing a face mask, ensuring that yoga mats were spaced according to COVID-19 protocols, and assigning a set of props to each client. The only negative impact was that some of the new programming was starting to gain momentum and the temporary shut-down put a hold on that. The positive thing is that she was able to continue with important programming through the pandemic.

“People continue to need mental health supports, people continue to need treatment. People in WCC and in treatment continue to need additional programming that supports their healing and their wellness.”

Kluane is grateful that yoga facilitation was prioritized in the

Yukon, but sad that other studios have been shut down. She’s interested to see what the evolution of yoga will be post COVID-19.

Rooted Tree, for example, went online during the shutdown in March. MacLean’s love and passion for yoga has led her to continue to offer six morning classes a week. Profits from the online classes are donated to a different charity each month. You can drop in for $9 per class, or sign up for an unlimited monthly pass for $20.

MacLean decided to stick with her massage therapy and one-on-one yoga session for this time. She acknowledges that the yoga community has taken some blows but she’s excited to see where the Yukon ends up.

“I have learned so much about myself. To slow down. To soften.

To breathe,” she says. Perhaps lessons that many of have learned during the pandemic.

I have been teaching yoga since 2015 but, because of COVID-19, I was able to finally get my full yoga certification online this past summer. However, when I tried to find a place to teach in the fall, I found that in-person public yoga classes were almost non-existent. I’m currently facilitating a restorative vinyasa remix via Zoom every Thursday at 5:30 p.m. It’s been an amazing experience that has allowed me to connect with people

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Christine Spencer is the Boreal Monkey of Boreal Monkey Yoga from across the country, including my friends and family. Accessibility is the leading value in my yoga practice, so I offer a class using props and offering multiple modifications for each individual’s physicality. I also believe strongly in economic accessibility. Yoga can be expensive, but is so beneficial for physical, emotional and mental well-being. Everyone gets

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Overall, the pandemic has caused many changes to yoga in the Yukon, what it will be in the future still remains to be seen.

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Hobnobbing: Yukoners and their Eclectic Hobbies

with Glenda Koh Glenda Koh is a Whitehorse-based Writer.

Jan Ogilvy’s interest in a maligned monarch A

particular hobby has been occupying historians for hundreds of years, including long-time Yukoner and history enthusiast Jan Ogilvy. The pastime she shares with thousands of people around the world is unraveling the truth about Richard III, former King of England, now dead some 535 years.

William Shakespeare most famously told the story of Richard III in his play of that name around 1593. To the members of the Richard III Society, it was an unflattering and untruthful account.

Richard has since been viewed as a corrupt, murderous, power-hungry monarch.

Ogilvy is the Yukon’s only member of the global society, founded in 1924 to “secure a more balanced assessment of the king and support research into his life and times.”

What brought Ogilvy to be a card-carrying fan of a medieval king?

“When I was a child I read a lot. I used to read a lot of children’s historical novels. I became interested in English history by reading novels,” says Ogilvy, who went on to study medieval history

in university. Though she didn’t continue on academically, her interest in history persisted.

“I realized that none of this was going to prepare me for any kind of work except to be a high school

life are thus: As the younger brother to King Edwards IV, Richard was named the Duke of Gloucester in 1461 and put in charge of Northern England.

After Edward IV’s death, Ri-

invalid, making Ed Jr. and his brother illegitimate and no longer eligible to be king.

Richard III ascended the throne instead and the two nephews were never seen in public again,

PHOTO: Glenda Koh teacher, or an Anglican minister, neither of which I wanted to be.

“Nothing I was studying was going to prepare me for the workforce at the time. But I certainly carried on my interest in English history, well, really western European history.”

So back to Richard III, or R3, as Ogilvy refers to him.

The bare facts of Richard III’s

Jan Ogilvy’s lifelong love of history fuels her interest in Richard III and other monarchs chard’s 12-year old nephew, appropriately named Edward V, was due to ascend the throne.

Unfortunately, young Edward’s parents’ marriage was deemed

leading to rumours of murder.

Richard reigned for only two years before Henry Tudor led a rebellion and killed Richard III at Leicestershire in 1485.

This began the reign of the House of Tudor, a rival House to Richard’s House of York, of which he was the last heir. Under this Tudor era, Shakespeare’s account of Richard’s life was written.

Ogilvy believes this fact is

notable: “He [Shakespeare] was trying to please his Tudor sponsors.”

“He was blackened by Shakespeare’s play,” says Ogilvy. “In fact, he was a very good administrator. R3 was in charge of the north in Middleham in Yorkshire.

He is very well thought of to this day in Yorkshire.”

Shakespeare painted him as disfigured, but Ogilvy says that’s not true.

“He had a condition called scoliosis, so one shoulder was higher than the other and his spine was curved. When they found the body, that was one of the ways they identified him.”

Indeed, in 2012, thanks partly to the persistence of the Richard III Society, Richard’s remains were located in a present-day car park, the most likely location of Greyfriar’s Church where Richard was known to be buried. The Society was instrumental in locating and exhuming Richard’s body.

In 2015, Richard III was re-interred at Leicester Cathedral. It is a compelling story, and Ogilvy speculates that interest in R3 has increased since the discovery of the bones and reinterment.

After all these years, history continues to be Ogilvy’s travel guide. She has travelled to England 62 times, visiting and re-visiting areas rich in history.

As for made-up stories about actual people, she’s less interested in it now that she’s studied so much.

“I don’t read much historical fiction now. I don’t want to read fiction about real people because I already know what happens.” ■

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Interview with

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Sheet metal apprentice

PROFILES

by Sam Hand PHOTOS: Submitted by Skills Yukon

What motivated you to get into this career?

While doing the Work Experience Program at F.H.Collins High School, I was able to experience working at Hvactech Systems and found a lot of enjoyment in the work and with the people.

Was there someone who got you excited about this path?

I first became intrigued with sheet metal when I went to the Skills Canada National competition in Halifax in 2019. Seeing the amazing projects that were created at the competition was truly stunning and really caught my attention.

Was there a class in secondary school that helped you become more proficient at the work you do now?

I was always in the wood shop during school and that really helped me be prepared with a measuring tape and always double checking my measurements, then making my cuts.

What is the best part of being in your trade?

The best part about my job is the people I work with. They always help me with anything that I don’t fully understand and always take the extra minute to make sure everyone is working safely and efficiently.

What does a regular day look like for you in your job?

Most of my days at work are done at the shop, building pieces of duct or shop consumables for my colleagues to use onsite. Some days I’m onsite giving a hand and observing the work that’s being done and trying to learn as much as possible.

If you met someone who was looking at getting a job in the trades, what piece of advice would you give them?

The best advice I can give is understand that at the beginning you’re not going to know everything and that’s okay. Just do your best to make as few mistakes as possible and always try to learn.

Skills Canada Yukon promotes trades and technology careers as a top choice for Yukoners. If you are interested in learning more about the trades and technology sector, or want to connect with our community please call 867 332 7446; email yukonprograms@ skillscanada.com ; social media @skillscanadayukon

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VICTORIA AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION Victoria Gold is pleased to launch a proactive and innovative Virtual Open House Forum to ensure all interested Yukoners and communities can access and readily review the proposed Eagle Gold Mine Extension Project information, provide feedback and ask questions, while remaining safe, healthy and physically-distanced.

Victoria Gold is proposing to extend the life of the Eagle Gold Mine.

Everyone is encouraged to review the Eagle Gold Mine Extension Project information and contribute feedback to Victoria Gold at https://eaglegoldmine.ca/extensionproject/

“We continue to develop detailed information in support of the Project and Yukoners’ input will play a critical role in this process,” says Victoria Gold President & CEO John McConnell. “The information contained on this website, and the valuable feedback we’ll receive here, will be used to complete a formal Project Proposal that will, in due course, be submitted to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.”

The submission of the Project Proposal will be followed by a rigorous assessment and public review process to confirm the project is carried out in a responsible way.

“We cannot understate the importance of Yukoners’ and community involvement in the Consultation process,” continues McConnell.