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y the North and for the North, the Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) is awarded each year to one innovative project from Canada’s territories.

With this year’s winners to be revealed in the spring, the slew of finalists has already been announced. A diverse array of projects, ideas and innovations have made the cut.

“If you have an idea and you think it can make a difference for a problem, an issue, or an opportunity that you see in the North, you should definitely look at how you can build that up and create something out of it,” said Davida Wood, the AIP’s Yukon region manager. “What might be in my mind, with my experience, could be totally different than somebody in a different community here in the Yukon, or a different territory altogether.”

Wood outlined climate change, food security, trauma and addictions as some major issues in the North that new innovations could be put towards helping. Past laureates have created projects to tackle areas and opportunities related to First Nations issues, youth issues and cultural engagement. Some of the 2021 finalists aim to support similar problems, with innovations related to mental health and Indigenous community safety also appearing on the list.

“There are so many things that would be amazing to see more prizes put forward for,” said Wood.

The process of a project making it to the final rounds for the AIP is a long one. Projects must first go through an application process, which includes a letter of interest as its first step. This gives potential candidates some time to add any adjustments or provide additional information as needed, according to Wood.

Projects must then be nominated by an official nominator, typically someone in a First Nations leadership or local government role. After that, the nominees are passed onto the regional selection com-

mittee, who make sure each project meets the qualifications. The committee then selects the ones that should go forward. The finalists go on to have their projects reviewed by the national selection committee, which ultimately decides on the laureates. It is important that the AIP candidates show representation from all across the North.

The AIP’s National Selection Committee has already met. This year’s prize winners will be announced at the awards ceremony this March. Because of the pandemic, this year’s ceremony will not be held in-person, but the AIP’s team is working to make sure viewers can watch the event on TV and online.

To read more about this year’s finalists and keep up with the AIP, visit www.arcticinspirationprize. ca.

“It really is about supporting ideas in the North, for the North and by the North,” said Wood.

“Oftentimes, we really talk about that as northerners. We don’t necessarily need other folks to solve our problems; we have the answers and we know the situations, so the AIP really looks to support and foster around that idea.” n

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ENVIRONMENTAL READING ISN’T ALL DOOM AND GLOOM

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t’s a new year. Many of us are gleefully planning must-read books for this year, even if every year our ambition leads to a stack of dusty books with plans to “get to.” Unfortunately this year when you turn on the news you won’t find familiar, joyful new year celebrations as the pandemic drags on and the severity of climate change continues to be revealed. To channel those fears into action, here are some environmental books that can’t be missed. They inspire us with hope and change the narrative from despair to optimism.

- The New Climate War Michael Mann Michael Mann has been an authority on climate science for the last 30 years. His most famous research result, the “hockey-stick graph,” was a cultural touchstone in the awakening of the public’s awareness to climate change. In his latest book, The New Climate War, Mann reveals that the days of industry simply denying climate change are over. They are now engaging in insidious campaigns worldwide to sow division and distraction to prevent any climate

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Scott Dudiak is a Whitehorse based biologist and sustainability advocate. Scott hopes to shift narratives away from environmental doom towards community agency for change. He is inordinately fond of beetles and other overlooked creatures that sustain our human communities.

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actions. Mann shows that “despair mongering” is a critical tool used by industry to divide us politically and prevent the most simple and straightforward policies from being implemented. This book has a powerful theme of empowerment as the author shows there are many ways to address climate change (many of which are already being done) and many reasons to hope.

- Finding the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree chronicles the life and discoveries of one of Canada’s preeminent biologists. Dr. Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia was the first Western science researcher to demonstrate that trees not only communicate with one another, they also share resources through vast webs of symbiotic fungi communities. When her research was first published, it was criticized for its willingness to apply language reserved for humans regarding care for each other. It was thought to be radical at best. However, her work has since been vindicated again and again as more research confirms her findings. This book is an amazing choice for building a sense of awe with nature that is rooted in a career of open-minded and dedicated research.

- A Good War Seth Klein This book typifies the goal of this list by channeling our environmental fears into concrete action.

Uniquely hopeful, A Good War details what a wartime approach to climate change in Canada would look like in real terms. Rather than vague assertions about what we should do, Klein delves into a detailed plan informed by the Canadian experience during the Second World War. The author reflects on Canada’s wartime history where, as a society, we mobilized across gender, race and class towards a common goal in a few short years. Klein frames this historical reflection as a hopeful model for how we could address the urgency and scale of climate change.

- Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron This book, released in the fall of 2021, has exploded in popularity and influence through more academic channels and should not be missed. The key narrative is that although research in environmental science has noble goals, it is premised on a colonial worldview and is not critical of that worldview’s role in continual modes of oppression of Indigen-

ous relationships with the land.

This is a great book for pushing an environmental understanding outside of the realm of mass media’s simplified narratives. It works toward a much more critical understanding that, although environmentalism may have benevolent goals, it is often a component of systems that make colonial assumptions about relationships with land, waste and resource use. Liboiron offers a toolkit of how to challenge and change these systems and assumptions.

- Paying the Land Joe Sacco This graphic novel chronicles the complex web of impacts of resource developments in the Mackenzie River to the Dene Communities in the region. This book has direct relevance in the Yukon as the story of resource development and the impacts to First Nations here is directly comparable.

Uniquely, if you have lived in the North long enough, you may even know some of the people featured in this book. Paying the Land visually details the stories of community members who have spoken out against the rhetoric of inevitable resource development and is a local example of the type of empowerment and change we can take into 2022. n

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What’s Inside AIP Winners.............................2 Community Ecologies.................3 Percy DeWolfe Race...................4 International Women’s Day..........5 Travel Light..............................7 Bison History and Recipe........... 11 Seasonal Recipes..................... 12 Gather.................................. 13 Travel to Tuk: Part 3................. 14 Tundra Twin........................... 17 Joe’s Wood Fired Pizza............. 20 Parks Canada: Gentle Touch....... 24 Dog Culture............................ 25

Events Whitehorse Listings................. 8 Active Listings..................... 18 Highlights........................... 21 Community Listings............... 22

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THE PERCY DEWOLFE MEMORIAL RACE KICKS OFF MARCH 3, 2022 He defied death. He raced against time. He conquered any challenge in his path.

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othing was going to stop him from completing his missions. Meet Percy DeWolfe— the Yukon’s most famous mail carrier. Originally from Nova Scotia, this young man came to the Yukon in 1898 in search of gold. However, DeWolfe was a bit late making it to the “gold rush.” When he arrived there was very little land left to claim. DeWolfe ended up finding work in the fishing industry in the summer and worked in the mines during the winter. In 1910, DeWolfe was awarded a contract to deliver mail from Dawson City all the way up to Eagle Ridge, Alaska.

Overcoming all sorts of nature and harsh obstacles (and even escaping death once when his horses fell through the ice and drowned) DeWolfe was determined to get Yukoners and Alaskans their mail. He even had a reputation for making the mail delivery a priority before his own safety. His achievements became so well-known that in 1935 he received a silver medal from King George in recognition for his public service. DeWolfe continued to deliver mail until 1949.

What better way to honour the “Iron Man of the North” than to host a memorial dog sled race every year with his name on it.

The Percy Memorial Race is an annual event. It first took place in 1977 and has been grow-

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Competitor Aiyana O’Shaughnessy makes mushing look easy with her sled team from last year’s race ing strong ever since. The race starts in Dawson City and goes all the way up the Yukon River and across to Eagle Ridge in Alaska, then makes its way back down the river to Dawson City.

This is the same mail route that DeWolfe himself took. The race always starts at 10 a.m. and, as a tribute to DeWolfe, the first race spot is reserved in his memory.

Each musher starts two minutes apart, with the first musher beginning at 10:02 a.m.

This year’s race will have a slight change to the route for reasons related to COVID-19. Brent McDonald is one of the race board members and also participated in the race in 1997. “We chatted with the officials in Alaska and decided that with the increase in the Omicron variant, it would be safer and less complicated to shorten the race and not cross over into the U.S.” Just because the distance has

been shortened does not not mean this race will be any less challenging. Nature is unpredictable, even more so up north. However, safety is a priority and steps are taken to make sure no one suffers any accidents. “We usually send a team out 10 days before to go over the race trail. And then a week before the start we send out a team on skidoos to start setting up markers. The day before the race we send the skidoo team back to double-check the weather conditions,” says McDonald.

Applications for the race closed Feb. 16, 2022. Two smaller races will also take place this year including the 100 mile Percy Jr. and the 100 mile Percy Skijor. The Percy Memorial Race goes Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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Heather LeDuc

Heather has been writing for What’s Up Yukon since the early days of the pandemic. She enjoys sharing stories about Yukoners with a passion for what they do, whether it’s making artwork, producing a play, or running a business.

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WOMEN INSPRING WOMEN

Veronica Verkley working on “Suspended Animation”

Two Yukon women share their inspirations

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nternational Women’s Day happens March 8 in countries around the world. Themes vary by country. For 2022, the Government of Canada chose “women inspiring women.” I caught up with two of the artists who were finalists for the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts—Krystle Silverfox and Veronica Verkley—to talk about who inspires them in art and in life.

Verkley makes animals who are remarkably lifelike even though they’re made out of unusual, often non-organic materials. The creatures inhabit spaces so convincingly, we immediately feel an empathy for them. Our fates seem profoundly intertwined with theirs. This is particularly true of “Suspended Animation,”

a life-sized horse made of steel, plastic, rubber and other industrial materials. Weighing roughly the same as a real horse, the prone animal requires 10 humans to hoist it to standing where its movements are uncannily horselike. At some point, those 10 humans realize that they’re going to have to let the horse go and watch it crumple to the floor.

It’s no surprise to learn that one of Verkley’s inspirations is French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Canadians would know her best as the artist who created the monumental spider, “Maman,” who stands outside of the National Gallery in Ottawa.

As terrifying as the giant arachnid seems, she is actually an ode to the artist’s mother. “Maman” even has a sac of eggs on her underbelly. She is therefore a sympathetic creature, just like Verkley’s horse.

Verkley admires Bourgeois’ in-

“Suspended Animation” at the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts exhibition at Yukon Arts Centre dependence and her ingenuity in the way she made her art.

“She was just a powerhouse in terms of doing her own thing and really expressing herself through her work and just so prolific and so amazing,” Verkley says. “Every time I see her pieces I think ‘Oh, I wish I’d thought of that.’ I just love everything about how she made things, the decisions she made in the way of making that I really, really love.”

The second artist that Verkley names as an inspiration is American sculptor, Chakaia Booker.

Booker uses old tires and stainless steel to make monumental nonrepresentational public sculptures as well as smaller studio pieces. Verkley says she thought a lot of Booker’s work while making “Suspended Animation.” The twisting and manipulation of industrial materials is characteristic of both artists’ work.

Verkley recently left the Yukon

to live in B.C., but she will always remember her long-time home in Dawson, where there are “so many strong, capable, no-bullshit, skookum women that were and are so inspiring.” Just a few of the folks Verkley mentions include visual artists Jackie Olson, Faye Chamberlain and Claire Falkenberg; Aubyn O’Grady, who runs the School for Visual Arts (SOVA); Wendy Cairns, who owns Bombay Peggy’s; and SOVA instructor Nicole Rayburn.

All of these women and many more are inspirational to Verkley.

Women in Dawson City, she says, “are living their best lives.”

Soon after Verkley left Dawson, another Yukon Prize finalist, Krystle Silverfox, moved to town.

She is teaching at SOVA, where Verkley was also an instructor for many years.

As a visual arts undergrad, Silverfox attended the University of British Columbia (UBC).

One of her instructors was Dana Claxton, an Indigenous artist who “has been a huge inspiration to my work,” Silverfox says.

She had just finished a bachelor’s degree in gender, race, sexuality and social justice, and appreciated Claxton’s incorporation of feminist theorists (like bell hooks and Simone de Beauvoir) into the class.

“She’s just so inspiring … Just talking to her for five minutes can be very uplifting. It feels like someone’s on your side and they’re very supportive and they want the best for you. That’s something I really appreciate and that’s something, as an art teacher, I want to do for my students as well.”

Silverfox says she “lucked out” having Claxton as an instructor in a male-dominated faculty.

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Krystle Silverfox with her work, “All That Glitters is Not Gold…”

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“Suspended Animation” being hoisted up at the Yukon Prize for Visual Arts exhibition opening at Yukon Arts Centre

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tified Indigenous artist working at UBC teaching theory—which, I love theory—was just, for me, was so inspiring. Someone I could look up to and be like ‘yeah, I want to be like her.’”

Claxton’s supportive, encouraging approach to teaching has also rubbed off on Silverfox.

“Instead of telling [my students] what I want to see, I want to encourage them to explore what they want to do. I’m just the facilitator kind of thing.”

The second person who Silverfox names as inspiration is Jeneen Frei Njootli, an interdisciplinary Vuntut Gwitchin artist currently living in Old Crow. They were a Sobey Art Award Finalist in 2018.

“All of Jeneen’s work is just gorgeous aesthetically,” Silverfox says. “Even if it’s sound work, it just has something beautiful about it. I’m very inspired by their work.”

Silverfox’s work is also beautiful. “All That Glitters is Not Gold…” features a Hudson’s Company Bay blanket (a nod to the HBC’s Fort Selkirk) hung in a frame, which mimics hide tanning. At the bottom of the piece, pennies are scattered on the floor, referencing copper mining. Silverfox, who is Northern Tutchone and a member of Selkirk First Nation, combines these materials to incorporate concepts of “identity, land and resource extraction” in a powerful piece with a quiet, balanced beauty.

I imagine that SOVA students who now attend Silverfox’s classes and who once attended Verkley’s,

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Women inspiring women ... cont’d from page 5

The work begins to take shape in Veronica’s Dawson studio early in the making of the skeletal framework for “Suspended Animation” have found inspiration in these artists. Verkley’s practice requires, among other things, knowledge of how to use power tools.

As an instructor, Verkley tried to

help students feel comfortable using them as well. Without making a big deal of it, Verkley aims to normalize experimenting with tools and industrial materials,

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“Ets’edegél’ (Spear Game)” by Krystle Silverfox. This work was part of the 2020 Arctic Winter Games exhibition Emerging North curated by Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé and making complex, large-scale sculptures.

Silverfox, too, has an inspiring approach to her practice. Part of that inspiration is the way she sees gender as a fluid concept, where artists can have whatever kind of practice they want.

“As an artist, as an Indigenous artist and as an Indigenous feminist, I think about gender as be-

ing very fluid and something that can, and for a lot of people does, change in different spaces and times of their lives … I realize a lot of my art is beading and textile work, but also I do carve so I I don’t feel like these preconceived notions of what a female or male Indigenous artist should do really affect me that much. I just do what feels good for me.” n

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HOMECOMING FOR THE HEART Late winter love advice Question: May we please have some late winter advice for love and romance?

The Card: Six of Wands, Minor Arcana Rulerships: Leo. Element: Fire.

Colours: Orange, Red. Time: Noon. Direction: South. Season: Summer.

The Deck: The Rider-Waite Coleman-Smith, first published in 1910. Card illustration here by Aimée.

Lunar Position: I cast the reading during the Waning Crescent in Aquarius, in a plume of white sage with curious intentions. May it harm none.

Description: In the Six of Wands, we see a group of people returning home after a successful battle, hunt/ harvest, contest and/or quest.

The horses are wearing formal tack and dress; the people are likewise wearing celebratory finery and crowns of laurel. Laurel is an ancient symbol of victory. Six wands are carried aloft as part of their celebratory parade homeward. The sky above is clear and blue.

Advice: The Wands is the suit of Fire in the Tarot—great for a love reading because passion is indicated!

In this reading, we are advised to march towards our passions and creative powers like we mean it.

Illustration by: Aimée Dawn Robinson

If you are having a hard time thinking of something you feel passionate about, identify what you are most proud of. This process will give you clues

Keep your head held high no matter your romantic circumstances!

Remember your deepest and oldest passions in life and return to these passions with a feeling of celebration and victory in your heart. Love will find you on this journey towards your passions. If

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you are having a hard time thinking of something you feel passionate about, identify what you are most proud of. This process will give you clues.

To help find and keep love in your life, The Six of Wands advises celebrating your home, being with loved ones, seeking what you love and increasing your confidence.

This late winter, blaze a trail with energy and summon a bit of gusto, even if it feels difficult.

Put on your finery and share your successes and joys. When you are g e t t i n g to know people, share stories from your adventure and travels—don’t be shy!

The Six of Wands is about homecomings of the heart. Wherever you feel spiritually and emotionally at home, go there with a happy heart and feel the love. If travel or adventure is not physically possible, find ways to travel in your heart (and through communication with loved ones!) and love will find you.

In the Tarot, Wands and Fire also indicate creativity! Whether you are partnered or flying solo, and whatever your desires and dreams of love include, remember that creativity is important.

Faith, intuition, desire, freedom, honesty, power and inspiration are also part of the Fire suit. Cultivating these parts of yourself will also fuel your late winter love life! n

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Until Feb 25 Collective Memory – Yukon Permanent Art Collection Yukon Arts Centre Held in the Main Gallery, retrospective exhibition of more than 75 works from different eras of the collection’s holdings. Gallery Hours Mon-Fri 10 - 5 Until Feb 25 Drawings & Paintings by Covelle Paterson Yukon Arts Centre Held in the Youth Gallery, sketches of people in masks, created during her first year at F. H. Collins as she adjusted to the much larger high school. Gallery Hours MonFri 10 - 5 Sat Feb 26 Jenni House Artist Talk with Natasha Henderson 2:00 PM Online Natasha Henderson is working on a series of medium to large-scale paintings in oil this month, based on observations during her daily walks. Email natashahendersonart@gmail.com to register.

Until Feb 26 Dreams and Roots by FrancoYukonnaise Association Arts Underground Held in the Focus Gallery, Discover the works of six FrancoYukonnaise artists. Gallery Hours Tue-Sat 12 - 5 Until Feb 26 Dreamland: Demystifying Digital Illustration by Yukon Illustration Coalition Arts Underground Held in the Edge Gallery, All the illustrations in this exhibition were created using digital tools. Gallery Hours Tue-Sat 12 - 5 Until Mar 26 Recent Paintings by Ramon Joseph Santos Arts Underground Held in the Focus Gallery, Recent works of the world around me, Dawson City, Yukon landscapes and picturesque scenes. Gallery Hours Tue-Sat 12 - 5 Until Mar 26 aefiwxyz by Carolyn Simmons Arts Underground Held in the Edge Gallery Records the recognized patterns found in the migration, captured by camera on the Yukon Central Plateau and in the traditional territory of Selkirk First Nation.

Gallery Hours Tue-Sat 12 - 5 Until Mar 31 Unceded Territories by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Paisley Smith A virtual interactive landscape grappling with colonialism, climate change and indigenous civil rights.

Feb 25 - 27 Yukon Rendezvous Weekend Whitehorse Various Locations - Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre - Shipyards Park Annual winter festival featuring various activities for the whole family, more info online. https://bit.ly/3rZiHs5 Until Feb 28 Available Light Film Festival - ALFF Industry 2022 Whitehorse Various Locations The Available Light Film Festival Industry Conference presented virtually, with limited in-person attendance available for a few sessions. Tickets online.https://bit.ly/3GksOLK Until Feb 28 Available Light Film Festival Whitehorse Various Locations - Online Includes 38 features, 60+ short films, artist talks, the ALFF Industry series and ALFF LIVE concerts and run for 18 whole days Tickets online.https://bit.ly/34CEj4D Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Community Kitchen 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Hot nutritious meals to-go, a free, low-barrier, program for women identifying individuals and children. Call 667-2693 for more info.

Wed Feb 23 Lunch and Learn: Taxes for Small Businesses 12:00 PM Yukonstruct Makerspace The founder of Tax Link Canada, will answer some of the most common questions for new and established Yukon businesses. Register online https://bit.ly/3gMfTb8 Wed Feb 23 Indigenous Shorts Program: Transformative Leadership 5:30 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Suitable for all ages and important viewing for everyone. Opening remarks provided by a short presentation by Shadelle Chambers, Executive Director of the Council of Yukon First Nations. RSVP online - https://bit.ly/3GScvWM Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Texas Hold’em for Members and Signed in Guests 6:30 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 Masks are mandatory and must be worn. To join in the fun, you must have a valid 2021 membership.

Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Make a Leather Pouch – Beginner Leather Work 6:30 PM Yukonstruct Makerspace A 2 day beginner leather work workshop you will learn basic leather tooling, dying, cutting, and lacing techniques. Register online https://bit.ly/3rQe4QF Wed Feb 23 Open Air Cinema 7:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre A screening of 3 films at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Fire Pit. Bannock and tea will be served.

Thu Mar 3 ASL Social 6:30 PM Inclusion Yukon For deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people who want to practice their ASL over a coffee or tea, and make new friends. An all ages, free event. To register email meriya@inclusionyukon.org.

Thu Feb 24 Sew Dog Booties – Beginner Sewing 6:00 PM Yukonstruct Makerspace Sew a set of 4 fleece dog booties in this 3 hour beginner sewing workshop. Register online - https://bit.ly/3gMgjOK Thu Mar 3 Sew a Pouch – Beginner Sewing 6:00 PM Yukonstruct Makerspace learn the anatomy of the domestic sewing machine and the basic stitches and settings. Register online - https://bit. ly/3gOSANZ Thu Mar 3 Sew Hand Warmers- Introduction To The Serger Sewing Machine 7:30 PM Yukonstruct Makerspace Learn the basics of a Serger Sewing Machine (Overlock Machine). Register online https://bit.ly/3gQZhPs Fri Feb 25 Yukon Rendezvous 2022 Cultural Craft Fair Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Open to public: Friday 10:00am-5:00pm , Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm & Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 Seniors Crib 1:00 PM Golden Age Society Fri Feb 25 Yukon Rendezvous - Abondance - A Burlesque Extravaganza! 9:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Get into the Rendezvous spirit with an old time style burlesque show, attend in person or virtually! Tickets available online.

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LIVE MUSIC Thu Feb 24 & Mar 3 Live Music Fiddle Night 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Thu Feb 24 & Mar 3 Karaoke Thursdays 8:00 PM The Local Bar Show your talent and enter some awesome draws.Lip Sync & air guitar optional.

Hosted by DJ Carlo Thu Feb 24 Rendezvous Fiddle Show featuring Kieran Poile 7:00 PM YAC Yukon Arts Centre The Local Headliner this year will be Whitehorse fiddler and composer Kieran Poile with the Fiddleheads also performing! Both in-person and virtual tickets available!

Fri Feb 25 The Elijah Bekk Band with Paris Pick and The Pricks 7:30 PM The Local Bar Doors at 7:30PM, Music begins at 8pm with The Elijah Bekk Band Paris Pick & The Pricks 9-10pm. Covid Protocols in place Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Music at The Breakfast Club 9:00 AM 98 Hotel Sat Feb 26 Garbageman featuring Mr.Bigly 7:30 PM The Local Bar a socially distanced & seated psychedelic experience like no other! Covid Protocols in place Please buy tickets ahead Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 98 Hotel Jam Session Open Mic Nite 8:00 PM 98 Hotel Wed Mar 2 An Evening with Alex Cuba 7:00 PM YAC Yukon Arts Centre Incorporates his roots and is a unique amalgam of styles, bringing together melodies, popsoul hooks and rock chords in his songs. Tickets online.

Wed Mar 2 Music from the Edges - Andrea Bettger + Digawolf Livestream 9:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre A national music series that showcases 22 Artists in 11 Live Streaming Concerts hosted in four Theatres from the edges of Canada. Tickets online.

Sat Mar 5 Les Voix Humaines with Métis Baritone Jonathon Adams 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre A refreshing look at the exquisite repertoire for viols. Our unique, controversial ideas offer a new profile to consort playing. Tickets online.

Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Yukon Amateur Radio Association Coffee Discussion Group 8:45 AM A&W Restaurant Hams from outside the Yukon and those are interested are welcome to join us in this casual event.

Sat Feb 26 Yukon Rendezvous 2022 Cultural Craft Fair Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Open to public: Friday 10:00am-5:00pm , Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm & Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm Sat Mar 5 Camino 101 12:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library Held in the Meeting Room A fun info session about the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route across Spain.To register email whitehorse@santiago.ca or call 335-4512.

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EYE ON THE OUTDOORS

Murray Martin

Murray Martin is a former Ontario conservation officer and a long-standing member of The Outdoor Writers of Canada.

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n the early 1500s, when the European settlers first set foot on North American shores, the bison (often wrongly referred to as buffalo) numbered in the tensof-millions. The herds roamed as far as the eye could see, from Mexico, northward to the Canadian border. The numbers of settlers steadily increased. By the turn of the 18th century, the bison’s number fell dramatically and the bison became extinct on the east side of the Mississippi river.

The meat of the Bison was a cherished treat to the European settlers, but often the bison was killed simply for its hide or even just its tongue. As the railroad kept venturing further west, the bison were often just shot for the sport of it and left to rot. In Canada, the wood bison’s numbers also fell dramatically. By 1900, less than 300 had survived the wave of new settler humans.

Only through the conscientious work of conservationists in Canada and the United States, and their effort to see laws put into place to save the bison from total annihilation, was the future of bison guaranteed.

The average weight for matured male bison would tip the scales at around 2,000 lbs. As with domestic cattle, the female bison is smaller. She weighs about 1,000 lbs. Bison are grazing animals and continue to take a bite of grass, take a few more steps and then another bite or two before moving on. It should be pointed out that the bison mating season takes place from July through to August. The bison can become very aggressive during this time and it is wise to take pictures at a safe distance between. In 2020, a 43-year-old hunter was killed by a charging male bison.

The introduction of Bison into the Yukon In 1928, Alaska was first to introduce the bison into the northern part of North America. In 1945, Dr. Doug Clark (who in later years would become Chief of On-

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Bull bison, Yukon tario’s fish and game department) undertook a study to establish if the environmental conditions of the Yukon would be suitable to introduce elk, bison and deer to the territory. In 1945, The Yukon Fish and Game Association picked up on the study. The territorial government of the day passed a vote to put $7,000 toward such a project, although there was no movement on the project until 1950. The Fish and Game Association put an additional $1,200 into the project, followed by Indian Affairs donating an additional $500 for the project.

Today, the bison herd is said to number 1,400+ and doing very well. Bison hunting has certainly attracted hunters from around the world, adding to tourism across the Yukon.

Personally, I never cook any wild meat in the same way or at the same temperatures as domestic animals. The key to this is the immediate way you dress up the animal as soon as it is down.

It should hang for a short period of time to tenderize the meat, in the same way a good butcher does with domestic meat. Next, get the meat in vacuum bags and into the freezer as soon as possible.

Some might think they would never eat a wild animal but personally I have eaten muskrat, beaver, bobcat, bear, moose, caribou, deer and even rattlesnake. Don’t condemn it until you have tried it.

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Instructions Mix meat with flour to coat.

Place in a pan on the stovetop and brown on all sides.

Put mushrooms, onions and garlic into a pan. Continue to heat until onions are crisp.

Remove meat and add in remaining 2 tbsp butter. Blend in 3 tbsp flour. Add tomato paste and consomme. Cook until it bubbles and thickens.

Put meat and back in the pan.

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Sydney [Oland] Keddy is a recipe developer who lives in Whitehorse. Her work can be found in The Boston Globe, Seriouseats.com as well as in other publications.

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Cover the eggs with cold water

INGREDIENTS ❑ 4 eggs ❑ 1 1/2 tbsp mayonnaise ❑ Salt and pepper to taste ❑ Pinch of garlic powder ❑ 1/2 tsp dijon mustard ❑ 2 tsp olive oil

Quartered salami

❑ 2 sliced salami, quartered

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Mash the yolks with mayonnaise, salt and pepper, garlic powder and mustard. Adjust seasoning if necessary.

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Heat the olive oil in a skillet over high heat until it shimmers. Add the sliced salami in a single layer (be careful, they will sputter and smoke) and cook until the button side is brown, about 1 minute. Slip and cook until both sides are brown, then remove and drain on paper towels.

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Stuff each white with the yolk mixture, then place one wedge of salami on each deviled egg.

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GATHER Michele Genest is a Whitehorse-based chef and writer. She is also somewhat of a gardener.

Michele has also written two books “The Boreal Feast - A Culinary Journey Through The North” and “The Boreal Gourmet - Adventures In Northern Cooking.”

WHEN GATHERERS BECOME GARDENERS Despite what my bio for this column says, I’m really not much of a gardener

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or me the Yukon summer has always been the time for travel, for river expeditions or multi-day alpine hikes, not for growing herbs or vegetables.

Whenever I stared guiltily at the weed-filled raised boxes in our yard my husband would say, “Don’t worry, we’re gatherers, not gardeners,” and I’d sigh with relief.

Another summer of adventure!

All of that changed in the summer of 2021. Battered and bewildered by the uncertainties of the pandemic, we didn’t have the energy to plan a long wilderness trip, and travel out of the territory was not appealing.

Our summer became one of car camping in Yukon campgrounds— revisiting old favourites, exploring new ones. We ran into friends, we took guided nature walks, we busted our butts on day hikes and paddled dreamily on small lakes and slow rivers. We were never away for more than five days at a time.

Suddenly, our schedule was such that we could garden. In late June, when we realized this, we scrambled to find seed potatoes and managed to scrounge a few from a friend. From the nearly empty greenhouses at Canadian Tire we bought two big pots of mixed kale and three bunches of celery. We planted it all in our newly weeded raised boxes. A neighbour helped with watering when we were away.

The garden was a revelation.

We enjoyed kale Caesar salad all summer long. Celery leaves flavoured soups, sauces and salads.

Now, the freezer is bursting with bags of kale, washed, chopped and frozen. And the greatest glory: in September we harvested 80 pounds of beautiful Yukon Gold potatoes.

It’s early February, and we’re still eating those potatoes--baked, fried, mashed, and boiled; we’re

eating kale in salads, stir-fries and casseroles. We are so pleased with ourselves!

Wild food gathering is still my number one passion; that won’t change. But I’m already getting excited about next summer. There will be adventures. And there will be gardening.

PHOTO: Michele Genest

A slice of mouth-watering Potato, Kale and Cheddar Pie MID-WINTER POTATO, KALE AND CHEDDAR PIE Adapted from Fine Cooking, October/November 2019 A hearty, cheesy, main course that only needs a side salad for a complete, satisfying mid-winter meal.

Ingredients: Filling • 1 Tbsp olive oil • 1 medium onion, finely chopped • 3 cloves garlic, minced • 6 oz kale (about 8 cups, packed) any variety, fresh or frozen (thawed if frozen), roughly chopped • 1/2 tsp salt • 1/2 tsp pepper • 8 oz old cheddar cheese, grated Potatoes and Topping • 2 1/2 lbs potatoes—russet or Yukon Gold • 1 Tbsp kosher salt (for cooking potatoes) • 4 Tbsp unsalted butter, divided • 1/2 cup 35% cream • 2 large eggs, beaten • 2 oz Parmesan cheese, grated • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt • 1/2 tsp pepper • 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg • 1/2 cup panko or coarse breadcrumbs, divided

Instructions: Make the filling: heat oil over medium heat in a medium frying pan. Add onion and cook until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes.

Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes, followed by chopped kale.

Cook until kale has wilted and moisture has evaporated, about 6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and remove from heat to cool.

Prepare the pie: Peel the potatoes and chop them into eighths, wash them, place in a large pot and cover with water. Add salt, bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are easily pierced with a fork, from 15 to 20 minutes.

Drain potatoes and return them to the heat for 2 minutes to dry out, shaking the pot periodically.

Turn off heat. Add 2 Tbsp butter to the pot and mash potatoes until no lumps remain. Stir in the cream, eggs, Parmesan, salt, pepper, and nutmeg and beat thoroughly with a fork.

Assembly: • Preheat oven to 400F. Grease a 9-inch spring form pan with 1 Tbsp butter, then sprinkle evenly with 1/4 cup breadcrumbs.

• Spread half the mashed potatoes evenly in the bottom of the pan. Top with half the grated cheddar, then the kale, then the remaining cheddar. Spread the remaining potatoes over top, and smooth with the back of a spoon.

• Sprinkle the remaining breadcrumbs over the surface and dot with the final 1 Tbsp of butter.

• Bake for about 45 minutes, until the top is golden brown and the centre is hot—test by inserting a knife in the centre and touching the knife to your finger.

• Cool for 5 minutes, then run a knife around the edge and remove the rim. Cut into wedges and serve.

Makes one 9-inch pie, enough for 8 to 10 people. n

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e woke up saying goodbye to Inuvik and headed south for the long journey home. We hoped for better weather along the Dempster Highway for the parts we missed on our determined journey to Tuk. As we went further south, we decided to explore parts we’d missed. We drove into Ft. McPherson. It was a very quiet, quaint little town. We didn’t find anything open so we decided to continue our journey back into the Yukon.

We had decided to bring guns and hunting equipment on our trip in the very unlikely event we happened upon some game.

With it being September, there were numerous hunters along the Dempster Highway. Once we passed the Northwest Territories border back into the Yukon, we started game spotting.

We saw some trucks pulled over on the highway and slowed down to see what they were looking at. It was a very large grizzly!

He blended in with the fall colours so strategically, it was rather impressive. Our guess was the hunters were contemplating whether to get the grizzly or try for something more bountiful, such as caribou.

We continued to drive and saw nothing. Zilch. Nada. Zero. Once we got to the Ogilvie section of the highway, we got to admire

the strange cliff-like rock formations. On our way north, the fog had hidden it from our view. The grey, jagged rocks certainly made it seem like another planet as the winding road tried to navigate through them.

By dusk, we had all but given up on spotting anything to shoot.

That’s when we came across the dumbest, prettiest bird you will ever see—the Grouse.

After spotting beyond the ditch we stopped the truck, collected our gear and got out and headed toward the woods. At this point, I’d never actually shot anything.

I’d just been at the firing range.

Part Three

I walked slowly with my Ruger .22 semi-automatic rifle and my heart was racing.

He was sitting there, the perfect shot. I shot and feathers went up in the air as he lifted into the trees.

“Bugger!” I said.

“You have to go get it, you definitely hit it,” Ryan said. I ran into the woods, keeping my eyes on the bird’s path. Searching and searching. My eyes played tricks as every rock appeared to be my grouse. After what felt like forever, I finally spotted him. He was sitting there staring at me. cont’d on page 15 ...

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Tuktoyaktuk ... cont’d “Sorry mate,” I said. “I’ll put you out of your misery.” I shot him.

It was basically dark and we were near Engineer Creek Campground, so we decided to camp there. The campground was a mudpit. We had a dinner of fat, beautiful grouse. As we set up camp, we cooked him with some mac and cheese and it was the most delicious thing I’ve ever had!

As we finished dinner, it started to trickle with rain. We got in the truck to have a glass of wine and the heavens opened, pouring rain.

“Ugh, I have to pee,” I said and I went outside in the pouring rain! p Grouse were a staple food for the trip back

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A heart from Campbell-Clarke’s first successful grouse hunt q

Engineer Creek Campground to Dawson City We woke before dawn to get ready. We were ready to hunt

more grouse and the best times are dawn and dusk, when they venture onto the gravel roads as part of their feeding routine.

We packed up and headed out as the sky started to glow from the rising sun.The skies slowly turned an incredible pink and orange as the sun peeked over the mountains. It was time to clean up the meat.

After a successful morning hunt, we enjoyed a hike up Goldensides mountain. It’s a relatively easy and short hike that overlooks the Klondike Valley and Tombstone Mountain, as well as the vast mountain ranges in Tombstone Territorial Park.

We decided we wanted to spend a day in Dawson City and explore together, so we drove south, back onto the North Klondike Highway.

Once in Dawson City, we headed to the Goldrush Campground for a

shower, then took the ferry across to the Yukon River Campground.

By then, it was just after lunch.

It was a perfect opportunity to capture another amazing moment in our relationship with a Peabody’s Photo Parlour shoot followed by a lovely afternoon exploring Dawson. Once back at camp we cooked some more mac and cheese (and grouse) and washed it down with a lot of booze. We tried to stay awake to catch the 8 p.m. Gerties show. We managed it even after a very long day!

DAY 7: Home After the 2,700 kilometre journey, we made it home. The truck was covered in so much mud, with six grouse in the freezer and a lot of fun memories of our Arctic Ocean roadtrip. n

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Carey Marshall Carey Marshall is from Whitehorse and has lived on both sides of the mountain North of 60 for almost 50 years.

A priest’s passion for sport and twin athletes’ championship pedigree made history in the Mackenzie Delta

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ne winter morning in the early 1970s, I picked up an airport-bound passenger with my taxi from the now-defunct Eskimo Inn in Inuvik. After a little small talk, he asked me why there were so many young foreigners in the hotel lobby. “Cross country skiers,” I replied. “Where are they from?” he asked. “Finland, Sweden, a whole bunch of countries,” I said. With a skeptical look, he asked, “what the hell are they doing here?”

“They’ve come to race the best skiers in North America,” I said.

With the airport only a few miles away, I had to give him a shortened version of how a group of northern cross country skiers from Inuvik (who were practically children) were dominating the skiing world in North America. At the time, it would have been nice to see into the future. I would have

told that fella that a couple of those scrawny kids would replace the queen on a postage stamp a few decades later. That would have blown his mind.

The genesis of the Arctic juggernaut began when the recreation coordinator of the N.W.T. heard about a successful cross country ski program, developed by Father Jean Mouchet in Old Crow, Yukon. After Father Mouchet was invited to come to Inuvik to run a few successful ski clinics, the territorial and federal governments funded the Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) program. Recruitment of top athletic talent, along with a transplanted Norwegian coach named Bjorger Petterson, fell into place in the 60s.

Father Mouchet recruited nearly 200 eager young students into the TEST program. It was still a time when the coaching staff didn’t have to worry about outside distractions from television and other electronic devices.

Inuvik already had a ton of addiction problems due to alcohol and drugs, but luckily for most of the young’uns of TEST, they were getting addicted to the ski trails.

Most of today’s teens would consider the daily training grind cruel and unusual punishment. There was regular weight training at the

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The twins were recognized with a stamp in 2018 for their contributions to the sport of competitive skiing and helping to break barriers for women in sport Canadian Forces gym a few times a week. Training on the ski trails was relentless for many hours, every day of the week. The young trainees had to ski 200 kilometres on army skis before they could graduate to racing skis. For many reasons, their enthusiasm never faltered.

Skiing was a much better alternative than the humdrum of regular Inuvik life. There were a few kids getting away from some deep, dark secrets of residential school. Many sat in their classrooms like excited children on

Christmas morning, daydreaming about what Coach had told them— if you practice hard, you might get good enough to travel to the outside world. As they got closer to traveling to their first competition in Anchorage, Alaska, the training intensified. It was becoming the norm to do 30-kilometre circuits in temperatures that dropped into the range of -30 degrees C. Coach Petterson was extremely happy with his young charges.

Maybe they wouldn’t look out of place in Anchorage, he thought.

He knew his kids had been only

skiing for a little over a year. They would be competing against skiers who had years of experience and many competitions under their belt. A team of 21 skiers would make the trip to Anchorage. Although only a few of the skiers had perfect technique with smooth, fluid strides, their training had turned them all into a mentally tough and gritty bunch.

The tough training produced two rising stars, the Firth sisters— Shirley and Sharon. The twins came into the program as an unintended package deal. When an excited, wide-eyed Shirley Firth asked her mother, Fanny, for permission to join the ski team, she approved with one caveat. Shirley had to take her sister with her.

Fanny never realized that her decision would change the course of women’s cross country skiing in North America for the next 15 years. The twins’ competitors would discover Fanny’s decision the hard way. The only thing they ever saw of the twins on the ski trails (please tolerate the pun) were their fannies.

For the kids of the far north, Anchorage seemed to be a huge city. The place had a smorgasbord of distractions to digest. They cont’d on page 19 ...

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Tundra Twins ... cont’d from page 17 were totally fascinated when they saw an escalator for the first time. However, these distractions never hindered their performance on the ski trails. Even though the trails were sheets of ice and the temperature was 25 degrees warmer than Inuvik, their training had taught them to fight through any obstacle that got in their way.

After the first day of racing, Anchorage thought they had been engulfed by an Arctic tornado.

On the first race of the day, Fred Kelly led the boys to victory.

He wasn’t lonely either. Three of his teammates made up the top five. The junior girls turned the place upside down. Shirley Firth won her first of many gold medals in her career. She and her teammates swept the first five places.

There were 15 possible medals up for grabs in Anchorage. Eleven found a new home in Inuvik. American champion, Barbara Britch, was one of few who could compete with the Arctic bandits. She had barely managed to squeeze out a victory. Her day of reckoning was coming. When the skiers returned to Inuvik, they began to prepare for the Western Division Championships in Prince George, B.C. Coach Petterson switched the training tempo from distance to speed.

On their first morning in Prince George, the young athletes discovered a new novelty. They were flabbergasted when they spotted images on a color TV screen in a department store. A bewildered sales clerk stared at them, unaware that it was the first time that they had seen a television.

The northern speedsters ran over the southern competition. They had to make do with competing with themselves. After Prince George, an intense short sprint training regime was put in place to increase heart and lung capacity. Their next big meet would be the Canadian Junior Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Ten Inuvik racers headed to Thunder Bay for their first test

against the nation’s best, who were older and more experienced.

One of Yogi Berra’s quotes is apt to describe the Thunder Bay race results—it’s like deja vu all over again. A shocked crowd watched Fred Kelly, just 16 at the time, snatch the Canadian Junior Championship out of the hands of Olympic prospect, 19-year-old Malcolm Hunter. The only difference from Anchorage was that the Tundra Twins had to settle for silver and bronze medals, and hold the spotlight for their teammate and new Canadian champion, 13-year-old Roseanne Allen. The young skier’s spectacular achievements started to ripple through the media.

After their stunning success, the Canadian Ski Association invited them to represent Canada at the U.S. Championships in Montana. Bridger Bowl, 6,000 feet above sea level, presented a new challenge for the young Arctic upstarts. They were used to skiing on the edge of the Mackenzie delta, which was barely above sea level.

Fortunately for the Americans, they didn’t have to tangle with Fred Kelly because of an injury.

For the girls, it would be a rematch with the American champion, Barbara Britch. The local’s first impressions exuded confidence that the pint-sized northerners were no match for their champion. The tension built when the girl’s junior event got started. It was the competition that most racing fans were waiting for. A stunned home crowd watched the northern girls claim three of the four top spots.

One skier towered above them all.

Standing four-feet-11-inches tall and tipping the scales at 94 lbs, 14-year-old Shirley Firth was the champion of North America.

None of their school daydreams had ever featured an interview with Time magazine. Inuvik greeted the team with a hero’s welcome and a noticeable change could be seen after their championship year. Confidence replaced shyness when they spoke. Young northerners, and especially Aboriginals,

WE WELCOME finally had someone to emulate.

From the beginning, Coach Petterson’s target was the 1976 Olympics. After their success, his new goal would be Sapporo, Japan, in 1972. Eight skiers would represent Canada in 1972 and five would be from Inuvik. Not too shabby for a town of 2,800 people.

Now that they were Canada’s team, the team moved south to train. The Olympics didn’t bode well for the northern skiers. Shirley Firth, weakened from a bout of hepatitis, managed to finish 34th.

The rest of the skiers had better results, but didn’t finish near the medals. They could have trained until they dropped dead and they still would have missed the mark.

Their opponents of the Eastern Bloc played by a different rulebook. By the mid 70s, TEST was on shaky ground. Government programs usually always followed the same pattern. They can’t stand prosperity and start to fiddle with the funding. One by one, the skiers started to leave the program until there were only two.

The twins had always been in a league of their own. Year after year, they kept vacuuming up the medals and awards. They would eventually represent Canada at four Olympics and despite never medalling at the games, being from the Gwich’in Nation, they were among Canada’s first Indigenous athletes on the Olympic stage.

After more than a decadeand-a-half, the sisters packed it in. Sharon was the last to retire, a few months after her sister. She finished her last race the same way she and her double had started—with a victory. They had paved the way for future Canadian Olympians Becky Scott and Chandra Crawford. As for some of the Canadian ski officials, I bet they dreaded hearing one of Joni Mitchell’s hit songs. Those lyrics probably just kept ricocheting and echoing inside their minds.

“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone!” n

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February 26-27, 2022

This is an event for younger men*(18 to 35) The Nelson Project (TNP) is a group of people in Yukon working to support men. We know that men need to feel respect, from themselves and others. We come to you with that respect. We need advice from men who have experience with significant risk factors.

You have the expertise we need. The purpose of this event is for men to help us design our approach. This event is not a healing circle where participants will be required to share intimate details of their lives or tell their “trauma stories”.

If you answer YES to questions #1, #2, and #3 below AND you answer YES to at least one of the other 8 questions, you are eligible to participate. Participants will be paid a $400 honorarium. Transportation, food and accommodation will also be provided.

QUESTIONS

Yes to ALL these questionsL 1. Are you a man between the ages of 18 and 35?

2. Are you willing to follow guidelines for a safe event?

3. Want to help us develop a support system for men?

Yes to AT LEAST ONE of these questions: 1. Long-term experience with deeply painful feelings? (i.e. shame; self-loathing; anxiety) 2. Repeated exposure to violence or threat from other people?

3. Unhealthy relationship with drugs and alcohol?

4. Difficulty maintaining strong and healthy relationships?

5. Mainstream education system did not work for you?

6. Extended periods of unemployment and dependence on SA? 7. Difficulty maintaining safe housing and transportation?

8. Unwanted involvement with the justice system? *Includes anyone who self-identifies as male

SPACE LIMITED: TO REGISTER CONTACT US AT:

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Robin Steudel

FEELING PECKISH WITH ROBIN

Robin is a media relations pro from “Outside” who moved North and found herself on the byline.

WARM UP WITH A SLICE OF JOE From thirty below to three hundred above: Joe’s Wood Fired Pizza

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ne minute you’re in Whitehorse, standing outside NVD Place (or, as it’s more commonly known, the Old Canadian Tire) and then you walk into Joe’s Wood Fired Pizza and wonder how on Earth you got to Dawson so quickly.

Joe Cooke cheerfully waves at us as we walk in as if we’re old friends. It turns out a lot of Joe’s guests are, in fact, old friends.

Many of the tables seated around us were visitors from Dawson, where Joe’s Wood Fired Pizza used to be before moving to Whitehorse last year.

The space is unrecognizable for those who remember its most recent tenants, North of Ordinary.

The first thing you see when you come in is the star of the whole operation. The wood fired oven reaches tall through the ceiling.

More on that beauty in a minute.

Joe’s is a warm and inviting space with several romantic twoperson booths and tables for up to six guests. The kitchen (including a nicely stocked bar) is open for all to see.

Visitors will be greeted by the same menu as was offered in Dawson. It was working, so Joe kept it.

On the advice of a friend, we

started with the focaccia. The bread is dotted with rosemary and served with a very generous portion of baked spinach and artichoke dip. The dip is cheesy, hot and satisfying.

While my partner opted for wine, I turned to the cocktail menu. The Aperol spritz caught my eye. For the uninitiated, Aperol is an Italian aperitif with a bright orange colour and a bitter herbal rhubarb flavour that is reminiscent of citrus. Prosecco is added to make a fizzy Aperol spritz.

We debated the pizza menu for some time. There are some “everyday favourites” (think Hawaiian, pepperoni and plain cheese), but we were really into the traditional Italian and house specialities. We ended up ordering the Bismark, with its prosciutto and fresh cracked eggs, and Autumn Pears, featuring blue cheese sauce, pears, caramelized onion, walnuts and parmesan.

I visited Joe’s when it was in Dawson a few years ago with some Swiss travelers I’d met near Chicken, Alaska. The transition of being grubby from camping, then eating hot food you didn’t cook yourself is powerful enough that it might make anything taste incredible.

But I’m happy to report that Joe’s Pizza is actually as incredible as I remembered it.

The intense wood fire heat makes the crust crispy but not overdone. This is a thin-crust pizza. The Autumn Pears in particular

has a lot of flavours, but they’re strategically placed and cut finely enough that you get the right amount in every bite.

My partner and I told ourselves we were going to leave room for dessert, but we couldn’t hold back from the pizzas in front of us. We ended up quite full. Fortunately, I convinced her that readers of this column would want me to tell them about dessert, so we forged ahead.

Dessert is a wood-fired pizza with bananas and Nutella on it.

We were surprised it came as a full-size pizza. I could imagine coming in just for dessert. We enjoyed a few pieces alongside an espresso and took the rest home.

Throughout the evening, Joe’s was visited by several people coming in to pick up take-out.

Joe does a bit of everything. He takes care of the cocktails, waits on the tables, handles the takeout orders and even answers the phone. His staff are mostly at work making dough and working in the kitchen.

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Congratulations to the Government of Yukon sport awards recipients!

Félicitations aux lauréats des prix d’excellence sportive gouvernement du Yukon pour 2021!

My heartfelt congratulations to these outstanding Yukon athletes! In

Mes plus sincères félicitations à des athlètes du Yukon exceptionnels!

2021, you showed Canada and the world how talented, accomplished and

En 2021, vous avez montré au Canada et au monde entier à quel point

resilient Yukoners are. Thank you for inspiring all Yukoners with your hard

les Yukonnais et les Yukonnaises font preuve de talent, de capacité et de

work and determination!

résilience. Merci d’avoir motivé toute la population du Yukon par votre

Richard Mostyn,

Minister of Community Services

Premier’s Award of Excellence Recognizing the achievements of outstanding Yukon athletes competing nationally and internationally.

Dahria Beatty, cross-country skiing Dylan Cozens, hockey Laura Eby, curling Jessica Frotten, para athletics Etienne Geoffroy-Gagnon, freestyle skiing Terry Miller, curling Nadia Moser, biathlon Graham Nishikawa, cross-country skiing Mara Roldan, mountain biking

travail acharné et votre détermination!

Richard Mostyn,

Ministre des services aux collectivités

Prix d’excellence du premier ministre En reconnaissance des réalisations d’athlètes yukonnais exceptionnels qui participent à des compétitions nationales et internationales.

Dahria Beatty, ski de fond Dylan Cozens, hockey Laura Eby, curling Jessica Frotten, athlétisme – fauteuil roulant Étienne Geoffroy-Gagnon, ski acrobatique Terry Miller, curling Nadia Moser, biathlon Graham Nishikawa, ski de fond Mara Roldan, vélo de montagne

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HIGHLIGHTS

WUY:Link+LogoKlondike Institute of Art and Culture Les 26 et 27 février

15-305 Main Street, Whitehorse (867) 667.4080 artsunderground.ca

The Best Things in Life are…

Rescued!

Meet Eowyn!

February 23 BEGINNER LEATHER WORK MAKE A LEATHER POUCH 6:30pm- 8:30pm ………………………..

February 24 BEGINNER SEWING SEW DOG BOOTIES 6:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

February 28 ADVANCED LASER CUTTINGCUSTOM ETCHED BEER MUG ………………………..

INTRODUCTION TO THE INDUCTION FORGE 6:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

WOODWORKING EXPERIENCE MAKE A MAPLE CUTTING BOARD 6:00pm - 7:00pm 7:00pm - 8:00pm 8:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

March 1 NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION 5:00pm - 6:00pm ………………………..

WOODSHOP ORIENTATION 6:30pm - 8:30pm ………………………..

PLASMA TABLE BASICS CREATE A CLOCK 6:00pjm - 9:00pm ………………………..

INTERMEDIATE SEWING SEW A ZIP UP WOOL SWEATER 6:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

March 3 BEGINNER SEWING SEW A POUCH 6:00pm - 7:00pm ………………………..

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERGER SEWING MACHINE -SEW HAND WARMERS 7:30pm - 8:30pm ………………………..

March 7 BEGINNER WELDING MAKE A STOOL 5:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

MAKE AN OAK CUTTING BOARD/CHEESE BOARD 5:30pm - 8:30pm ………………………..

March 8 METAL SHOP ORIENTATION 6:30pm - 8:30pm ………………………..

Open Hours: Wed-Sun 1pm-9pm

Hivernal

This lovely girl is energetic and loving. She can be a bit shy meeting new people at first, but once she is comfortable loves pets and play! She is medium-large but lightly built. She will need regular exercise, and a family with the time and patience for training and socializing. She would do well in a home with older children, and with proper introduction, other dogs. It is unknown how she is with cats however.

If you are interested in adopting Eowyn, please fill out an online application below.

Lucas Morneau Queer Newfoundland Hockey League

February 24 - April 8, 2022

Karaoke Game Show Extravaganza

If you already have a pre-approved application with us within the last year, call 633-6019 to put your application towards him.

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Shelter Hours: Tuesdays - Fridays 12pm-6pm Saturdays - 10am-6pm

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All programs are based on child-adult participation.

Yukon Animal Rescue Network

MORNINGS

Youth Drop-In Centre

Recreational program for teen-years youth When: Tuesday to Friday 3pm to 9 pm & Sat 1-9 pm Ages: 12-18 years old For more info: See Facebook page for schedule & activities, or email Oliver: obulpitt@bcgyukon.com

AllStars After School Program

An affordable, quality after school program When: Monday to Friday 3-5:00 pm following the school calendar.

Ages: Ages 6-11 years old Cost: Tuition fees as follows: $315/month allstars@bgcyukon.com for inquiries Location: Downtown/Takhini Elementary

Learning Tree Early Years Centre

An affordable, quality, licensed childcare program When: Monday to Friday 7:30am-5:15pm Ages: 18 months - 5 years of age Cost: Tuition fees as follows: Toddler: $160/month, Preschool: $150/month Emily Howard at 393-2824 ext 206 or eypd@bgcyukon.com Location: Riverdale

Got Puppies…?

Did you know that if you surrender all the pups to YARN, we’ll raise the pups, pay for all their care and veterinary costs, find them homes using a responsible adoption process – and spay your mama dog for free and give her back.

We are trying to reduce the future over’PUP’ulation in the North, by adopting to family’s that will spay & neuter. Each female dog that is not spayed could produce up to 67,000 descendants in her lifetime.

Unwanted dogs - suffer.

Monday (9am-noon) Drop-In & Free Play; plus Books with Baby: (10am - 11am) Read, Sing & Enjoy the world of board books.

Tuesday (9am - noon) Drop-In & Free Play Wednesday (9am-noon) Groove & Move!

Engage with Music! Have fun & dance.

Thursday Reserved for group use. Call 6688698 to reserve for your literacy-based group.

Friday (9am - noon) Drop-In & Free Play Saturday (10am - 2pm) Drop-In & Free Play

AFTERNOONS

Monday (1pm-3pm) Story Time & Drop-In Free Play Tuesday (1pm-5pm) Story Time & Drop-In Free Play Wednesday (1pm-5pm) Story Time & Drop-In Free Play plus Paint!! Paint!! (paint activities of all kinds) Thursday (1pm-5pm) Story Time & Drop-In Free Play Friday (1pm-5pm) Story Time & Drop-In Free Play plus Rock, Paper, Scissors! (Crafting with nature and simple tools) FOR MORE INFORMATION:

For more information or to send

688-8698 / 668-6535

us a message visit our

Yukon Family Literacy Centre

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YUKON THEATRE FEB. 23-28 2022 February 23 MASTERCLASS UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS TAXES 12:00pm - 1:00pm ………………………..

March 9 START A BUSINESS FROM SCRATCH 6:00pm - 9:00pm ………………………..

BE YOUR OWN BOSS PROGRAM 10:00pm ………………………..

Weekly 11am WELCOME WEDNESDAY NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION ………………………..

Open Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Please see Yukonstruct.com for more info!

NorthLight Innovation Building 2180 2nd Ave

PORCUPINE SQUAD

New Movies This Week

Sing 2

We are the Thousand

The Noise of Engines

Lunchtime Series

Feb. 21-25, 12- 2 p.m.

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A weekly, action-focused circle of fire + fellowship for those who identify as male. A safe + brave space for men to share their wins and challenges, dig deeper into what’s really holding you back, have honest conversations, set goals and be held accountable.

Porcupine contact info: Call/text Michael at 867-332-4722 or email mjvernon@gmail.com

Do you have a fear of PUBLIC SPEAKING? Would you like to improve your public speaking skills, build confidence and hone your listening skills?  Feel free to attend with no obligation, any Toastmaster (TM) meeting.  You can attend 3 meetings as a guest while deciding to join.  You can just show up at a meeting before we begin (11:55am).

Actually, great value for the benefit, private public speaking professionals charge hundreds of dollars for courses, TM is much more affordable.

When: Thursdays at noon till 1 pm Where: Sport Yukon, 4th Ave, Whitehorse Questions: herbeeking@hotmail.com

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

ENTER YOUR EVENTS ON-LINE

It’s Free. It’s Fast. It’s Easy. or email them to: events@whatsupyukon.com

Please visit whatsupyukon.com for up to date event details. Some events may be postponed or cancelled after we print.

ATLIN Fridays Atlin Community Library Atlin Community LIbrary 2:00 PM Open two days per week, Fridays and Saturdays, covid protocols apply.

Sundays St. Martins Anglican Church Sunday Service 10:00 AM St. Martins Anglican Church 10:00 AM Everyone is welcome.

Tuesdays Craft Dinner 5:00 PM Atlin Mountain Inn Craft and eat with good company, special meal discounts for crafters. Finish an old craft or start something new!

CARCROSS First Sunday of Every Month St. Saviours Church Services 2:00 pm St. Saviour Church 867-668-3129

DAWSON CITY Tue thru Thur St Paul’s Anglican Church Evening Prayer 4:00 PM St Paul’s Anglican Church Join us in person at the church, or online (Facebook Live) Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 4pm Yukon Time for Evening Prayer.

Tue thruThu Saint Mary’s Weekday Mass 5:00 PM Saint Mary’s Catholic Church Join Father Emanuel for weekday mass Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 55+ Virtual Fitness Class 2:00 PM Art & Margaret Fry Rec Centre A 6-week strength class for Dawsonites over Zoom Call 993-7400 ext 299 for Zoom link..

Thu Mar 3 Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race Dawson City, YT A 200 mile international dog sled race, running from Dawson City, Yukon to Eagle, Alaska and return. The race follows the Yukon River along the historic mail route of legendary mail carrier Percy DeWolfe.

Thur Feb 24 & Mar 3 AA Beginners Group 6:00 PM Dawson City Hospital In person or Video conference option available Call 993-5095 or 993-3734 for more information Thur Feb 24 & Mar 3 Zumba with Katie Pearse 6:00 PM Minto Park Drop-In Thur Feb 24 & Mar 3 Advanced Muay Thai 7:00 PM Minto Park Drop-In Thur Feb 24 & Mar 3Adult Soccer 7:15 PM Robert Service School Register Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 Cards & Conversation 12:30 PM Royal Canadian Legion Branch 1 Dawson City Free! Drop-In! No registration necessary. Proof of double vaccination required for anyone ages 12+. For more info email recreation@ cityofdawson.ca or call 993-7400 ext 299.

Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 Adult Pickleball 5:15 PM Robert Service School Register 16+ Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Drop-In Groove Dance w/ Natasha Henderson 10:00 AM KIAC Groove is for everyone. We all dance simple moves or rhythms... and you add your own creativity to them.

Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Under 5 Gym Drop-In 10:00 AM Robert Service School Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 AA North Star Group Dawson City 7:00 PM Dawson City Community Support Centre In person or Videoconference option available Call 867-993-5095 or 867-993-3734 for more information

Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 Under 5 Gym DropIn 10:00 AM Robert Service School Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 Saint Mary’s Sunday Service 10:30 AM Saint Mary’s Catholic Church Join Father Emanuel each Sunday for service. Everyone is always welcome.

Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 St Paul’s Anglican Church Sunday Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Anglican Church Join us in person at the church, or online (Facebook Live) Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 4pm Yukon Time for Evening Prayer.

Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 Adult Cricket 5:00 PM Robert Service School Register Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 Adult Co-Ed Volleyball 7:15 PM Robert Service School Register Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Open Gym 3:30 PM Robert Service School Supervised free play in the RSS gymnasium for 4 weeks.

Register online, or call 993-7400 ext 299 Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Adventures in Art & Stories 4:00 PM Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC) A fun program for kids 0-5, circle time, stories, art explorations, movement activities and more to help support your child’s development of creativity, speech language, socialemotional and motor skills.

Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Groove Dance with Natasha Henderson 4:30 PM Minto Park Drop-In Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Intermediate Tap Dance 5:30 PM KIAC To register call 9935005 Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Household Badminton 6:00 & 7:00 PM Robert Service School Pre-register with the Rec Dept to book your time slot for your household. Call us at 993-7400 ext 299 to register.

Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Beginner Muay Thai 7:00 PM Minto Park Drop-In Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Adult Basketball 7:30 PM Robert Service School Register online.

Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Young Peoples Talking Circle 7:00 PM Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre Tue Mar 1 & 8 Romp & Run 10:30 AM YOOP Hall Email Jen.Suttis@cdcyukon.ca for more info.

Tue Mar 1 & 8 Hand Building Pottery Drop-In 6:00 PM KIAC Space is limited to 6 participants, first come first served.

FARO Monday thru Friday Open Gym 1:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Unstructured activity time where the gymnasium is available to students, families, and/ or community members to play pick-up sports. Call 994-2375 or email recreation@ faroyukon.ca for more info.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Parent & Tots 10:00 AM Faro Recreation Centre Spend quality time with your child while you both have fun and learn and socialize. Call 9942375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca for more information.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Senior Yoga 1:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Carve out some time on the mat for this relaxing and gentle Yoga practice. Call 994-2375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca for more info.

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HAINES JUNCTION Daily Public Skate Bill Brewster Arena Mon 7:30-9:15, Tue, Thu & Fri 3:15-4:30 and 8:45-9:45, Wed 8:45-9:45 Sat 1:003:00 & 5:00-7:00, Sun 12:00-7:00 Tuesdays & Fridays Drop-in Hockey 7:30 Bill Brewster Arena Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Village Council meetings 7:00 PM St. Elias Convention Centre Village Council meetings are also held the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom.

[Remote attendance only] Thu Feb 24 & Mar 3 Vintage Hockey 7:30 PM Bill Brewster Arena Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 HJL Story Time 10:00AM Haines Junction Library Registration is required but the program is still run as a drop in. There is no commitment to come each week. https:// bit.ly/3KmBdBC. Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 REC Hockey 7:30 PM Bill Brewster Arena Sun Feb 26 & Mar 6 Curling 1:00 PM Bill Brewster Arena Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Smart Recovery Meetings 8:00 PM Munku Hall Everyone welcome, call 334-5688 for more info.

Tue Mar 1 & 8REC Hockey 7:30 PM Bill Brewster Arena

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Tuesdays & Thursdays Kids Club 3:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre For ages 6 to 13 - Registration required, stop in or call 994-2375 Wednesdays Faro Seniors - Games and Walks 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Wednesdays Basketball (Open Court) 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Shoot some hoops, practice your skills on the open court. Call 994-2375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca for more info.

Wednesdays Kids Indoor Soccer 3:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Individual soccer skills and drills that emphasize, trapping, passing, footwork, shooting, headers, throw-ins, trap/pull backs and goal tending. Call 994-2375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca Wednesdays Archery 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Wednesdays Female Hockey 7:00 PM Bill Brewster Arena Thursdays Archery 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fridays Family Crafts and Boardgames 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Saturdays Open Gym 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre Unstructured activity time where the gymnasium is available to students, families, and/or community members to play pick-up sports. Call 9942375 or email recreation@faroyukon.ca for more info Tuesdays Faro Cross Country Skiing 4:00 PM Del Van Gorder School No registration or experience required, snacks provided, enjoy the ski trails! For more info email gnstaveley@gmail.com.

Fri Mar 4 Ice Worm Squirm Faro Recreation Centre Fun. Games. Food.

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Thursdays Shuffleboard And Games Night 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Jackalope Members & guests Thursdays Jackalope Open for drinks and snacks 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fridays Jackalope Open for drinks and snacks 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays Knitting Circle 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Everyone wielding a hook, needle or pin is welcome.

Saturdays Family Playtime and Open Gym 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays Jackalope Open for Drinks and Snacks 3:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tuesdays North of 60 Seniors Coffee and Chat 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tuesdays Yoga With Richard 5:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre This is a New Horizons/Lotteries Yukon/Marsh Lake Community Society sponsored program which is being offered free of charge to participants. If you have a yoga mat, bring it. If not, no worries, we have some available

MAYO Weekdays Lunchtime Lengths 12:00 PM Mayo Recreation Centre Weekdays Mayo Mornings Parent and Tot Time 10:00 AM Mayo Recreation 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 Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Tuesdays Drop-in Art Night 7:00 PM Mayo Curling Lounge If you can bring a photo that you would like to work from that would be great. No experience necessary.

Sundays St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746 Until Mon Feb 28 Good Deeds Youth Contest Ages 5 - 18, Submit a photo of yourself showing kindness. Email youth@ nndfn.com for more info or to submit.

OLD CROW Sundays St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Luke’s Church 867-993-5381 Wednesdays Parent and Tots 4:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Call 9663015 for more info.

SKAGWAY Wednesdays Women’s Morning Worship 7:00 AM First Presbyterian Church of Skagway All are welcome. Part of the Alaska Presbytery and the PC U.S.A. Wednesdays Windy Valley Babies 10:30 AM Skagway Public Library Stories, Songs, and Fun with Ms. Anna! Designed for ages 0-3.

Fridays Skagway Teen Night 6:30 PM Skagway Public Library Sundays Sunday School 4:00 PM First Presbyterian Church of Skagway Sundays Sunday Worship 10:00 AM First Presbyterian Church of Skagway

Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Pickleball 12:00 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Community Art Program 6:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Meet in the Mezzanine Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Afterschool Winter Sport 3:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre A mix of outdoor games and activities, for ages 6+ Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Pickleball 7:00 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Thu Feb 24 & Mar 3 Cross Country Ski Club 3:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Meet at Rec Plex, for ages 5+ Thu Feb 24 & Mar 3 S.T.E.M Club 6:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Ages 6-12 Fri Feb 25 & Mar 4 Public Skating 3:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Drum Fit with Patti 10:00 AM Teslin Recreation Centre Do you have 50+ lbs to lose – this class is for you!

Sat Feb 26 & Mar 5 Parent & Tot Play 1:00 PM Teslin Recreation Centre For ages 5 and under with a parent Mon Feb 28 & Mar 7 Adult Fitness 5:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Tue Mar 1 & 8 Kids Archery & Arctic Sport with YASC 3:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre Tue Mar 1 & 8 Adult Archery & Arctic Sport with YASC 5:30 PM Teslin Recreation Centre

WATSON LAKE Mon & Thur Drop-in Pickleball & Badminton 7:00 PM Watson Lake Secondary School Come try out pickleball and badminton, ideal for ages 13+, more info at the rec centre.

Sundays St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Drop-In Beading Watson Lake Family Centre 9:30 AM Beading for everybody. Email watsonlakecpnp@gmail.com for more info.

Wed Feb 23 & Mar 2 Beading with Delores Watson Lake Family Centre 1:00 PM Learn beading from Delores from healthy families, this beading program will require participants to be double vaccinated. Email watsonlakecpnp@gmail. com for more info.

Fri Feb 24 & Mar 4 Watson Lake Bowling League 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre 4 players per team, teams must be pre-registered. To sign up, call Karalee at 335-7979.

Sat Feb 26 Watson Lake Shredders 11:00 AM Mt. Maichen Ages 11+ Open to intermediate and advanced riders (riders need to be able to get up the tow rope and maneuver most runs at Mt. Maichen.

Register online - https://bit.ly/3sLbOtu Sat Feb 25 & Mar 5 Baptiste Power Yoga 7:00 PM Fees apply. A muscle-shaping and mind-sculpting workout, work at your own level and ability, set to electronic music.

Sun Feb 27 & Mar 6 Sunday Nite Volleyball 11:00 AM Watson Lake Secondary School Tue Mar 1 & 8 Curling 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Open to everyone, pay at the front desk and register.

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Warm up with a slice of Joe ... cont’d from page 20

The Autumn Pear pizza in the foreground, The Bismark pizza in the back

Banana and Nutella dessert pizza at Joe’s Wood Fired Pizza

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In spite of being rather busy, Joe is a friendly and social guy. He still found time to chat with folks and tell us about his hydroponic set up in the front window. It’s undergoing repairs right now, but when it’s going, he’ll be growing rows of fresh herbs in the window.

Joe also told me all about that beautiful wood-fired oven. It’s a Forno Bravo oven. His is the only place in the Yukon you can buy wood-fired pizza. This oven is bigger than the one Joe had in Dawson and it’s quite efficient. A small stack of wood at its base lasts the whole day. It’s also well insulated.

The oven stays hot enough overnight that Joe comes in and bakes bread on the residual heat the next day. It takes 45 minutes for the fire to get the oven hot enough for pizza (90 minutes if they’ve been closed for a few days) and the cooking zone hits a blistering 350 to 400 degrees C. Don’t invite your gluten-free friend—this isn’t the outing for them. There’s only one oven surface and it’s full of delicious (gluten) pizza.

My partner was wondering aloud why we hadn’t come sooner. We’ll definitely be back soon.

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February 23, 2022

WHITE GLOVE ASSIGNMENT

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Kathy Burden

Kathy Burden is a Communications Officer for Parks Canada in Whitehorse.

Students Examine Local Artifacts With a Gentle Touch

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The KTM Co. building on Third Avenue in Dawson City PHOTOS: Parks Canada / J. Cliff

class of Grade 9 students files into the Klondike Thawing Machine Company (KTM Co.) building on Third Avenue in Dawson City. The place has the feel of an evidence room from a 1970s police television sitcom—overhead fluorescent bulbs, matte gray shelves stacked with bankers boxes, a long tabletop resting on a series of wide, shallow drawers, the lingering scent of old things.

Fittingly, the students are here to investigate the past. The 14and 15-year-olds from the local Robert Service School are part of a program about museum artifacts and exhibits developed by Jenna Roebuck, Parks Canada outreach and education officer. With a background in museum studies, Roebuck developed the program to encourage students to think more deeply about the way we choose to represent history.

“It’s important to think critically about the kinds of things we value and our attachment to objects,” says Roebuck. “It’s about introducing them to some bigger

picture ideas, but using their own home and their own space.”

Originally built in 1899 as a warehouse to supply the goldfields of the Klondike, the KTM Co. building now stores some of the artifact collection associated with Klondike National Historic Sites.

It is one of the largest collections in the Parks Canada system, with more than 250,000 objects housed in various spaces from Bear Creek to downtown Dawson.

The KTM Co. building is climatecontrolled to prevent artifact deterioration. It contains some of the smaller or more fragile items in the collection, resulting in an eclectic mix of objects.

There are newspapers and typesets from the Dawson Daily News, Martha Black’s engraved school pins (one for “Best Essayist”) and archived samples of wallpaper from the Commissioner’s Residence and Ruby’s Place.

There are business records from Billy Biggs’ Blacksmith Shop and a prosthetic leg from when the Courthouse served as a hospital.

From Lowe’s Mortuary, there are embalming fluids, tags that just read “head,” and an unnerving set of eyeball caps that would have been placed under a deceased’s eyelids to prevent them from popping open during viewings. There are also more ordinary objects, cont’d on page 26 ...

YukonU pre-apprenticeship program helping break down barriers for women in the trades.

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he road to a career in the trades can be a winding one for women. Rebecca World lives just outside of Whitehorse and says she followed a “silver thread” of opportunities to trades-related work. “I’ve always been a really creative person,” World says. “I built things—poorly!—on our rural property as a young girl. After working as a teacher for 10 years, then in climate change policy for another 10 years, I felt I’d lost the connection to the creative side of me. I wanted to use my hands and experience the satisfaction of creating ‘things.’ ” So when she heard about the Carpentry Pre-apprenticeship program for women at Yukon University (YukonU), she jumped at the chance. “I’ve thought about how to become more capable in trades-related work for many years,” she said. This program was the motivation she needed to make the leap. “The program was extraordinary. The women in the course were diverse, creative, hilarious and talented. I can’t say enough good things about [instructor] Meagan [Christie], who guided us through the academic and building side of it.”

“I wasn’t sure if I liked the idea of a women’sonly carpentry program. But after seeing how successful students were in the first program, I know this kind of opportunity is invaluable in creating pathways for women into the trades,” says Christie, Carpentry Instructor at

in the first program that ran May through October 2021, seven successfully challenged Government of Yukon’s level one carpentry apprentice exam and four were hired on with the company where they did their practicum placement.

“Everyone benefits when there are women on the job sites,” says Christie. “It opens up wellpaying and interesting careers for women— and companies benefit by having diversity on the crew. I’d like to see, in the future, that women who are suited to working in the trades realize the option is there for them. And that it’s a good, safe place for them to have a career.”

Rebecca World Student, Carpentry Pre-apprenticeship YukonU and a Red Seal Endorsed carpenter.

Christie explains that women don’t have the same natural pathways into the trades as men do. “A job offer out of high school to work on a construction site isn’t as common for women as it is for men. What we saw with the program was that women came in with uncertain thoughts about being a carpenter. The program created an appealing opportunity to give carpentry a try—to get a start in the trades—and that’s what really made the difference for these women,” said Christie. Of the nine students

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YukonU is offering another Carpentry Preapprenticeship program for women beginning in May and running through October. The program welcomes anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary—applications are now open.

The 2021 and 2022 programs have been offered with support from Ketza Construction, Colleges and Institutes Canada, Yukon Women in Trades and Technology (YWITT) and Queer Yukon.

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PHOTOS: Parks Canada / J. Roebuck

White glove assignment ... cont’d from page 24

Students compare Robert Service’s typewriter (right) with a similar one from that era to explore how cultural value is attached to objects like journals, letters and Christmas cards.

In a previous in-class session, the students learned about some of the world’s most famous museums and how artifacts are properly cared for and handled.

Donning white gloves, they now follow their interests in exploring the drawers and boxes before them, a treasure hunt through items that can be safely handled and connect directly with their community’s history.

“I was actually really surprised with what they were drawn to.

They blew me away with how willing they were to just get into

the details and sit there and like, read an old love letter and get excited about that,” Roebuck says.

Students discuss the value of artifacts as a way to inspire and share knowledge, but also about their limitations as a complete picture of history.

“We talk about when people are planning exhibits that they’re people too, so the exhibit is a reflection of their worldview,” says Roebuck. “And just because a culture doesn’t preserve their history in that way, doesn’t mean that it’s not important. Just because you don’t have something

A sign of their times—students documenting old advertising signs and posters with smartphones tangible doesn’t mean that that history is of any less value to study or to learn about.”

Teacher Angela Tremblay appreciates the hands-on nature of the program and how it engages her students in their local history beyond the typical gold rush storylines.

“They really got to just explore what they wanted to explore. And that’s kind of key with working with kids and history, being able to engage them by using their own interests,” says Tremblay. “I’m just grateful that they have all these neat connections to be able to do these kinds of

Getting into the details with ledgers from the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation things in even such a small community.”

The last part of the program involves having students pick an object that represents themselves and tells a story about their place in history. Tremblay sees that as an opportunity for “a bit deeper of a conversation about why certain artifacts are representative of certain groups and why they would choose certain things to represent themselves.”

For Roebuck, being able to engage with the artifacts is key, bringing them from storage into the (fluorescent) light. Parks Canada protects and presents nation-

ally-significant examples of Canada’s cultural heritage; the challenge with large collections is that only a small portion can be exhibited at any one time. Programs like this create new opportunities for sharing and examining history.

“For many people, I think it’s pretty thrilling to see something cool and old and get the chance to hold it in your hand … you can connect with something in front of you in a different way than seeing a picture of it,” says Roebuck. “We’re not trying to keep a time capsule, we want people to engage with things and learn from them.” n

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March 31 and April 1, 2022 (Thurs/Fri) 8:30am – 4:30pm CRN: 90265 COURSE CODE: ASIS 002 $200 + GST Instructors: Erin Legault, M.Ed, C.C.C. & Megan Grudeski, MACP Delivered-in person: Yukon University, Ayamdigut Campus, Room TBD Registration Deadline: Mar 24

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The Victoria Gold Yukon Student Encouragement Society’s Every Student, Every Day initiative has $300,000 in funding to help support increased student engagement and attendance in Yukon schools. The project application form is available at everystudenteveryday.ca. The submission deadline is Friday, March 4, 2022.

February 23, 2022

IMPROVED STUDENT ATTENDANCE PROJECT FUNDING Application Now Open The Victoria Gold Yukon Student Encouragement Society’s Every Student, Every Day initiative is pleased to announce $300,000 in funding is available for projects to help improve student attendance in Yukon classrooms in the 2022-2023 school year.

The funds are available to Yukon educators, schools, community organizations and First Nations throughout the territory for the development and implementation of grassroots projects, which help increase student engagement and attendance.

The application submission deadline is Friday, March 4, 2022. The application form is available at everystudenteveryday.ca

Shiloh H. from Hidden Valley Elementary School in Whitehorse, who participated in the Every Student, Every Day Water Break Photo Contest last year, with her Victoria Gold-donated water bottle, helping do a beehive inspection in the Takhini Valley area. Shiloh was really excited to see the honey being made, and even more excited when she spotted the Queen Bee.

Braelyn E. from Robert Service Elementary School in Dawson City, who also participated in the Every Student, Every Day Water Break Photo Contest, enjoying a day out blueberry picking last summer near the Top of the World Highway.

“We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has put further strain on regular school attendance in the Yukon, impacting the overall well-being of our school communities,” says Victoria Gold Yukon Student Encouragement Society President Tara Christie. “We want to acknowledge the challenges students are facing and support them to stay engaged in their learning and attend school each and every day.”

This year, Every Student, Every Day has increased its project funding to $250,000 and the Government of Yukon has increased its annual contribution to $50,000. With this year’s contribution, Every Student, Every Day will have raised and distributed $1.5 million to directly support more than 140 local projects designed to boost student attendance.

The application form is also distributed by the Department of Education to all Yukon school principals. A selection committee made up of Every Student, Every Day volunteers and departmental and school board representatives will evaluate and select the successful proposals this Spring.

The Eagle Gold Mine, now in production, is situated within Victoria Gold’s 100 per centowned Dublin Gulch Property located approximately 375 kilometres north of Whitehorse and 85 kilometres north, northeast of the Village of Mayo, within the traditional territory of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun (FNNND). The company employs over 500 workers and contractors; half of which are Yukoners At Work and many are FNNND citizens.

If you are a Yukoner with mining experience, Victoria Gold encourages you to become a Yukoner At Work. Visit the “Work For Us” page at vgcx.com/contact/work-for-us/ and send your resume to greatpeoplework@vgcx.com.