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New Arrival

KARI LEHR ART BEAR SERIES

The following story was my submission for the 1994 Yukon Young Authors’ Conference.

There, I got to work with acclaimed Canadian playwright Guillermo Verdeccia, who first sparked my interest in dramatic writing. Happily, 21 years later, this important conference is still going strong. The 35th annual version is being held from April 23-24 at F.H. Collins. Some events are open to the public. Check out http://yukonyoungauthors.weebly.com/schedule.html for more information.

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his story is based on real events recorded on May 8, 1993.

The sun began to set a brilliant red on the night of May 7, 1993.

Tomorrow was the day. Both the boy and his dad knew it.

There was a certain level of excitement in the air and it was enhanced by the regular evening noises of hyena, jackal, bat eared fox, and elephant. But tonight a new noise entered the evening African symphony, and tonight that noise captured the boy’s heart. The boy knew it, tomorrow could be the day…the day when they could possibly spot “Beast”.

The day of May 8 got off to an early start.

The boy’s dad was up much earlier than the boy, eagerly looking at the Wildebeest and Impala frolicking carelessly in the background.

The boy remained in his sleeping bag, thinking and conserving his energy for the long foot trek ahead. Eventually, at 6:30 a.m. the boy decided to get up.

The morning was superb. The African symphony of the night before had again started this morning. Unlike the previous evening when the symphony had played deep, powerful and forbidding music, the tone today was that of a careless free-for-all, and the occasional owl sleepily hooting in the morning sun. It was a warm day in the Okavango Delta, which

made the boy feel uncomfortable about the long, hot trek ahead, but at the moment he decided to enjoy the warm climate.

The breakfast consisted of tea and some hard cracker/toast-like things called Rusks. Then they were off. Led by a guide named John, the boy and his dad set off on a hike that would eventually prove to be five hours long. The march dragged on and for the first hour the boy had doubts that anything would happen. Then the boy realized it’s amazing how quickly you can change your mind… the growling began.

Impala ran, absorbed with something behind the bush rather than with the humans walking towards them. Their guide, John, made sure he had his small hatchet ready in case “Beast” was hungry. By now the boy was confused.

Should he be excited or scared half to death? The three seekers advanced carefully until they

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could see that it was not “Beast” but a common impala. Now the sun was high in the sky. The perfect golden coin blazed through the African landscape like an eye through a clear glass window. The same African sun that gave the boy comfort and relaxation now seemed to be taunting the boy about this defeat. At the moment the boy hated the sun with passion. The three quickly headed for the trees where they would enjoy shade under the umbrellalike branches of the baobab tree.

Once inside the trees, they soon heard noises again and the three people settled on a big boulder to watch and listen. The boy began to watch intensely, for any moment “Beast” could appear.

A single beast track lay to the right of the boy. The paw marks were slightly blurred yet delicately positioned, indicating “Beast” was moving quickly but carefully, as if it did not want to make any extra noise.

The three people shuffled here and there, trying to get a look at what they knew was behind the bushes.

John, the guide, looked tense. The boy noticed this and also noticed the slightly dull hatchet John was carrying. This would serve as the only means of defense in case of an attack and it sent a shudder down the boy’s spine.

Then it happened!

The boy had seen beast.

It was nothing more than a tawny flame that flickered and died in just a split second as “Beast” burst through a small opening in the underbrush, but the boy had seen it. Then it was over.

The trek back to camp was a hard one but the boy was in good spirits, he had the right to be so.

Then, five hours and two blisters later, the boy returned to camp — happy, sunburnt, and exhausted.

That boy was myself and this is my account of the first time I had ever seen a lion in the wild, on May 8, 1993 in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

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“Look,” said the boy’s father and the boy took no hesitation in looking as his dad had requested.

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Formerly Tools, Now Artifacts on Display

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he Kwanlin Dün First Nation recorded elders’ stories in 1993. This produced about seven boxes of transcripts, which sat in an office. Then the First Nation hired Matrix Consulting, an archaeology and heritage consulting firm, to comb the documents.

Elders gathered several more times, and their stories of camp locations and trail locations were again recorded, transcribed, and combed.

Archaeologists compiled and compressed the information-asstories, and honed in on one geographic area: M’Clintock Lakes and Michie Creeks.

This is in the vicinity of Marsh Lake, and it’s where the archaeologists went to dig. They found scrapers, Chinese coins, swan bone tools, and old drying structures to hang fish on.

They found human-used things preserved below the ash line. Krista Reid says if anything is below the ash line it means it’s older than 1200 years, because that’s when a volcano erupted.

There were relics above the ash line; some relics are only a few years old.

Reid said the First Nation wanted to see if elders’ stories of land use were corroborated with physical debris.

They were. Reid said evidence of thousands of years of existence verified the stories recorded. Elders who told the stories

were presented with the tangible findings.

They dug up old photographs and moccasins and memories stimulated by the archeological finds.

Krista Reid isn’t an archaeologist. She’s the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre’s cultural programs coordinator, who apparently develops exhibits, as she says.

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decades worth of recordings and collected artifacts to turn into what she calls a visual story.

“It’s like putting together a display for the science fair.”

Reid says the physically-found evidence identifies the Tagish Khwáan people, who inhabited the M’Clintock Lake and Michie Creek area, as original people of this territory. She says the recovered scrapers, chert — chips from when stones were used to turn other stones into tools, and blades of obsidian that were traded from Alaska, verify that oral storytelling is scientific evidence of a way of life that, she says, is ongoing.

“People still go there to fish.”

Reid says the Tagish Khwáan are part of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and part of the Carcross Tagish First Nation.

She says the area was seasonally used; different harvests happened at different times of the year. It is the place the fish come.

To show this, fish nets and traps and pictures will be on display, like the picture of Tammy Joe, someone who Krista Reid knows, in a boat with her grandma.

There will be maps and photographs, of trails and old sites families would use. There will be quotes.

Elders advised which photos to use with which displays, and which quotes would best bolster the visuals.

The display will be in the cultural centre’s sparse, cool nook, the temporary collections display.

Replicas will be made of tools

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and other human-modified things, and these will be on display. There will also be bones and rocks found, neatly tagged with: “Ochre”, “Scraper” (found) “below White River”.

There will be a slide show of aerial shots of the land in question, and of photos of culturally modified trees, of which there are plenty documented.

“It’s like they took a picture of every culturally modified tree,” says Reid.

The bark of such trees has used to make tools and baskets, and also medicine.

She’s loved learning little tidbits, like that, and that gull eggs can be found there. She loves gull eggs, and wonders where exactly they’re harvested, and what time of year.

She loves learning the connections between elders, and learning things through them.

The exhibit opens on April 1 and runs until the end of September. The opening reception is on April 1, at 5:00 p.m. at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre.

Meagan Deuling is the assistant editor of What’s Up Yukon.

Contact her at meagan@whatsupyukon.com.

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“I think we just wanted to make cocktails that weren’t being done,” says Hardy.

“But the space is so important,” adds Maltby. “This is the perfect kind of cozy space. It’s one of the things I think this town is missing.”

Cocktails served in a converted log cabin. Strong drinks and strong character. It couldn’t be more Yukon.

In addition to cocktails they’ll have a few beers on tap, potentially from the new Mt. Sima-based Winterlong Brewery, as well as a small selection of quality wines.

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“It was a joke I had. It’s about fall and keeping warm in the winter. If you have the choice you can go cut wood — or fatten up.”

You can start to see why Woodcutter’s Blanket makes a good name for a bar.

It’s an idea two or three years in the making. Maltby had just moved back from Calgary and was living across the road from Hardy.

They started getting together and playing with cocktails. The name and concept arose naturally from this. Woodcutter’s Blanket would be a small, cozy bar, with a focus on well-made classic cocktails.

And then about a year ago, the perfect location became available.

The Moose Building.

I’m told this Second Ave. landmark is the most photographed building in Whitehorse more than once during my visit, a statement that proved itself before I even stepped inside.

When I pulled up, a man parked beside me, got out of his car, crossed the road, and pulled out his cellphone. He quickly took a few photos, smiled bashfully as he passed me on his way back to his car, and drove away.

The building is an old log cabin. It began as someone’s home and was later moved to its current location and has been passed through many hands for many uses. It is iconic due to the moose attached to the roof, antlers locked in battle.

Complimenting its famous exterior, Hardy and Maltby have put a lot of work into the interior.

“I don’t think there’s anything in here we haven’t touched,” says Maltby. “We built this bar by hand.”

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April 2, 2015

A Klondike Korner with Dan Davidson

The Seasonal Struggle With Time Pieces I believe I’ve finally reset the last of my electronic timetelling devices this evening. I know, it’s been two weeks since we went to daylight savings, and I should have finished with them all by now. But, when everything has a date/time function, it’s easy to miss one or two.

The clue this evening was when I downloaded an audio file from the town council meeting and my digital audio recorder timestamped it an hour earlier than it really was.

This is the older of my two recorders and the only way to reset the clock on it is to pull out the battery, wait ten minutes and reset the data.

Happily the other one had a menu-item to work with.

On the night of the great leap forward (apologies to Chairman Mao) I did not wait until the prescribed 2 a.m. to do the deed, but instead reset all the analog clocks in the house, the three digital time-displays on devices in the kitchen, and my several wristwatches before going to bed.

Sometime during the night all our computers, iPads, iPods, and iPhones looked after themselves.

Thank goodness for that.

Several days later, alerted once again by incorrect time-stamps, I realized I forgot my cameras.

Fortunately, the three point-andshoots and the larger Canon are

steady march toward the summer solstice in June. It’s like the old saying about taking coals to Newcastle (a coal mining town in England), or like those folks in Central Africa who keep sending me messages about all the lovely gold they’d like to sell me on the black market. I did once write back to ask if they knew what the Klondike was famous for, but they keep on trying.

There is, however, one clock that would be nice to change.

A town-centre clock was a major design feature of the plan to create our lovely Waterfront Park, just on the street side of the dyke and including the dyke path. The clock looks quite majestic there in the middle of the sculpted garden, but it only managed to keep the correct time for a very short period after its installation. Since PHOTO: Dan Davidson then it’s been off by hours on both its faces.

In fact, since even the two Dawson’s town-centre sides of the clock don’t agree with clock snapped at 3:15 each other, I guess you could say in the afternoon that the clock does manage to be right four times a day, whether it’s the amount of evening daylight we standard time or daylight savings. receive in Dawson. We’re on the seasonal upswing here. The sun After 32 years teaching in rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidson rose behind the hills to the east retired from that profession at 8:27 a.m. It set at 8:25 p.m. By but continues writing about the time you read this there will be more than 12 hours of daylight. life in Dawson City. Please send comments about his stories to Changing all the clocks in town dawson@whatsupyukon.com. won’t make any difference to our

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The most annoying part of this whole time changing deal is that now, a week-and-a-half later, it makes absolutely no difference to

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The best time to start investing is now. Don’t be intimidated by how little you might have to invest, because any amount is better than nothing. Make a plan to invest regularly, and stick to it.

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If she invests just $100 a month and her portfolio earns an average annual return of 7%, those investments will be worth more than $21,000 by the time her son enters a post-secondary institution. That won’t cover all his expenses, but it will be a big help.

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Whitehorse EVENTS Art Shows Thu, Apr 2 “Raven Rules” by Heidi Hehn Reception 5:00 PM Yukon Artists at Work Gallery Art Show Reception. Exhibition Closes April 26, 20 until Sat, May 23 Museum of Broken relationships & Ahlers Art Show Yukon Arts Centre until Tue, Jun 30 The Puckett Family 10:00 AM Arts Underground starts Wed, Apr 1 Gēs Tu’è - T’Ahéeni Gyò Chúa - M’Clintock River: Stories of Traditional Land Use. 5:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Opening reception Thu, Apr 2 - Sun, Apr 26 “Raven Rules” by Heidi Hehn Yukon Artists at Work Gallery Sat, Apr 11 - Sat, Apr 25 Walking with our Sisters Art Installation Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the USA Apr 4 - Apr 30 Catherine Deer “Elements” Northend Gallery

Wed, Apr 8 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon

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Wed, Apr 1 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges Café Wed, Apr 1 The Art of Chocolate Making 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre 668-8360 Spend a delicious evening just in time for Easter learning the basic principles of chocolate tempering and enrobing of artisanal chocolates. Instructor: Schuylah Hodgson, Master Chocolatier Thu, Apr 2 Teen Scene: Comics 3:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-8900 Learn the art of storytelling and make your own comics!

Thu, Apr 2 Walking with our Sisters Sewing Circle 4:30 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Free Admission Please come on out and get involved! Let’s unite as a community to start healing Thu, Apr 2 Festival of Fools 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Celebrate All Fool’s Day with the Lemon Bucket Orkestra!

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A Northern Diary

Carolyn Vincent taught in the Yukon in the ’70s and also cooked for an outfitter for a few months in 1976.

She recently found the diary she kept during that time. Here in an excerpt:

by Carolyn Vincent August 1, 1976

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horses across the Pelly River, they thought it was a dog howling, and were tied up and ready to go. I twice I came out of my tent to yell was pretty worried about Hansel, at him to shut up. I was amazed my Siberian Husky. I wasn’t sure to find out that it was wolves I’d he’d follow and I knew the noise, been shouting down. Poor Ormand dust, and confusion would scare didn’t have a tent the whole two weeks of trailing in, and he had to him.

We had 35 miles to go the first keep the horses from going back day in order to find enough feed to Ross most of the first nights. and water for the horses. Or- Wheee — the first day was over.

The next few days were not mand’s truck was loaded with the food and quite as long, but the mosquitos gear.

We continued to torment us, and it could take rained several times. However, my the truck soreness disappeared the fourth because the day, thank goodness. We passed Canol Road the landmarks of the North Canol is main- — which I’d heard my school chiltained in dren talking about — Dragon Lake, the summer Sheldon Mountain, and finally up to Mac- MacMillan Pass.

It rained in sheets as we went Millan Pass, which was through the passes. But that night we had blessed relief from 150 miles.

There were three Photos: courtesy of Carolyn Vincent p r o b l e m s that day.

Ormand, the horse wrangler, Number one — my dog was too and John, the guide, with me scared to follow, so Ormand stuck him in the back of the truck. Our I had been teaching school in the food was also back there, so guess small community of Ross River, in what happened? Number two — the Yukon Territory. Now I’m work- John wasn’t too eager to hit the ing for Perry, a big game outfitter bush this year, so he had downed from Norman Wells. He also has an some whisky, got lost, and had to be found. Number three — The air service based there.

Six weeks ago this morning, we mosquitos swarmed all over us were preparing ourselves for the and they made riding and camping long ride from Ross River up into that evening extremely miserable. the McKenzie Mountains of the I cooked and even had to eat with Northwest Territories. We were a net over my head. We had fried going to follow the North Canol mosquitos in everything.

Thirty-five miles later, my butt Road approximately 300 miles.

The road was built by the Amer- and legs and knees were sore, but Patches and I; ican Army in World War Two to en- not too badly. The water hole was sure a route to the oil field of Nor- not too good. The mosquitos were July, 1976 man Wells, in case the Russians dense, and the wolves howled tried to cut them off. They madly close to camp that night. In fact, I built it one winter, and then, just as madly, abandoned it as soon as it was completed. The army also left all of their equipment and dotted the road with camps. They had even built a telephone line.

The South Canol Road goes south of Ross River to connect with the Alaskan Highway.

On the morning of our departure (Wednesday), I met Ormand, John, Leon, and Andrew at the The 2015 Spring Sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly café for breakfast and then we will convene at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 2, 2015. went to catch and halter the horses. We had 53 to trail in. Ormand The Assembly sits Monday to Thursday is from Ross — a horse wrangler, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and the other three are from Fort Norman — a Slaivie community in the NWT. After we had ferried the

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have been in the wilderness of the Mackenzie Mountains for six weeks, and have decided to begin a diary. It’s maybe not the right time to start one, but now that I’m not quite as busy and not nearly as tired at the end of the day, I’ll begin one anyway so that I won’t forget the details of this adventure in the bush.

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Base camp at McClure Lake; July 1976 the mosquitos. We were camped close to a family (Johnsons) who maintains a weather station at the Pass. Leon and I tried fishing in the evening and then we visited the Johnsons.

Carolyn Vincent’s diary has many more pages.

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Edible Yukon with Kim Melton

Cheese and Kids I

n February I had the privilege of running a workshop on cheese-making for the Learning Lions, a homeschooling group that meets out at the Mt. Lorne Community Centre.

What a fun time.

A farmer friend generously donated the milk, and I delved into my cheese books to come up with a lesson that would pack as many different aspects of cheese-making as possible into two hours.

A bit of a feat, because anyone who has made cheese knows that a large part of the time is spent waiting: heat milk 10 degrees over 40 minutes.

Stir for 15 minutes. Let set two hours, etc. And of course there was the challenge of making it interesting for the kids, not knowing how many were going to show up or how old they would be.

I decided to make two different kinds, because I really wanted them to see curds separate out from whey, to cut curds, and also to have a taste of a finished cheese. We made a ricotta curdled with lemon juice that we produced from start to finish, and a lightly pressed cheese that I began in the morning and continued pressing, brining, and aging after the class. For a taste of what that one would be like, I made one earlier in the week — it was destined to be a stinker so it was just as well that the sampler only had a few days of aging.

It turns out kids have sensitive paletes.

The group that showed up ranged in age from four to 14, and was very keen, coming complete with personalized aprons and chef’s hats — you know, those poofy white ones?

Apparently the technical term is the french toque, and I admit I was a little jealous —Agnes,

our “chef de community centre” among other things, must have noticed, because before I knew it I had my very own.

Now we were ready.

Into the kitchen we went and though I did have to get a little authoritarian in order to get my first volunteer to stir a

of the ricotta — the moms sure did.

And the other, little cheese we made in the class? It’s developing a nice sticky, smelly rind that only a mother could love on its way to becoming a creamy gooey stinky delight. The only challenge is that I’m headed out of town and am in a novel bind: in need of a cheesesitter.

Photo: Kim Melton pot, after a little prodding everyone got involved in looking, smelling, tasting, and, well, prodding.

Perhaps my favorite moment was adding the lemon juice to the milk for the ricotta and seeing Chef Danielle’s eyes widen when she felt the spoon catch on the magically appearing curds. Or when the inventive but inaccurate guesses at what “pH” meant coaxed Chef Ensio out of his cool silence to enlighten the group.

All in all, a good day. Some of them even came back for seconds

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Appetizer

Cooking and Eating Ling Cod L

ing cod, or burbot, is very common in the Yukon’s southern lakes, and is quite easy to catch by jigging, bottom fishing, or using set-lines (which requires a free, separate fishing licence).

These fish are bottom-feeders and are attracted to bits of fish belly on a single hook. They usually swallow the baited hook, so it is nearly impossible to live-release them. The harvest limit is generous, at 10 per day, with a possession limit of twenty. These fish look different than other Yukon species with skin instead of scales, a round tail, wide flat head and a single barbel (thick whisker) under the lower jaw. Their muscle (meat) arrangement is also different, with a flat tail slab on each side behind a long round muscle that looks like a loin, which runs up to the back of the head.

Once you get past its odd appearance, eating ling cod will win you over for sure.

The easiest cooking method is “poor man’s lobster”, where the meat is cut into bite-sized pieces and put in a pot of heavily salted water at a rolling boil. After a couple of minutes, the pieces turn white and are cooked. This method causes the meat to take on the very slight chewiness of lobster or crab. These pieces are then dipped in butter containing enough garlic to suit your taste and eaten as a finger food.

at a higher temperature. The lard or oil used can be strained and kept for future fish cooking. This is an excellent choice of fish for old-style English fish and chips.

Burbot makes an excellent appetizer by taking 2-cm by 4-cm pieces, wrapping them in partslices of half cooked bacon, secured by a toothpick, and marinating them with zesty Italian salad dressing for a couple of hours. Other salad dressings will also work, depending on your preference.

These individually skewered taste treats are then barbequed or broiled for five to six minutes to finish the bacon and cook the fish.

On a barbeque these items can sometimes PHOTO: kozzi.com start to come apart because they need to be turned and rotated to be cooked thoroughly. I usually cook Ling cod is an excellent these in a vegetable stir-fry metal dish with a pattern of holes on the choice for old-style bottom and sloped sides.

English fish and chips.

The top-side, round muscles (loins) can be baked, grilled or poached using any recipe suitable for other white-meat fish.

Frying, in both shallow and Larry Leigh is an avid angler, deep oil, works well using any hunter and all-round outdoors commercial or home-made batperson who prefers to cook ters. Try dredging the pieces in what he harvests himself. flour, dipping them in an egg/ He is a past president of the milk mixture, then rolling them in Canadian Wildlife Federation flavoured or plain bread crumbs. and retired hunter education Boxed corn-flake crumbs are tasty and available, but you can also coordinator for the Government make your own with a rolling pin. of Yukon. Please send comments about his articles to For cooking fish, lard is actually wild@whatsupyukon.com. better than oil because it cooks

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April 2, 2015

Meds to Media Acclaimed documentary comes home to Dawson

by Gabriela Sgaga

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awson City has created a filmmaker out of a doctor. So says Suzanne Crocker, creator of All the Time in the World, a full-length feature film that is making waves around the country. It will be screened in Dawson City at the Odd Fellows Hall on Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m.

The film documents the nine months Crocker and her family spent alone in the Yukon bush.

Crocker never planned to be a filmmaker.

Even though she made Super 8 films as a kid and did a lot of creative writing, she wasn’t sure which direction to go as she grew up.

“It was a debate whether to go for arts or science after high school,” Crocker says.

She chose the scientific path.

The next 10 years of post-secondary education, along with 15 years as a family doctor, did not allow much time to be creative. However, after retiring from her medical practice to spend more time with her kids, the creativity came back.

It all started with Crocker’s oldest son, who, at the age of five, made an animation film that was screened at the Dawson City International Short Film Festival (DCISFF). Then Crocker’s younger daughter started to make films. In the end, Crocker was bitten by the film bug.

“My kids got me into it,” she says with a laugh. “I’m riding on their coat-tails.

Crocker started taking workshops, and entered some local competitions.

“It’s so easy to explore creativity here in Dawson,” Crocker says. “You just have to have an idea and it can happen.”

She credits such local film talent as Lulu Keating and Dan Sokolowski for inspiring and mentoring her.

The kids have since moved on from filmmaking, but Crocker is still passionate about it.

The idea to film the family’s adventure in the bush was not planned.

“There is a huge curiosity from people down south about our lifestyle up here,” she says.

“So I decided to document it for them; we took the camera at the last minute.”

After nine months, Crocker came out with 500 hours of footage. At first, she didn’t know if the film would sustain itself, but watching

the footage motivated her and she kept working at it.

A year into the project, she knew she had something when, while in Victoria, she was contacted by a local school who had heard of what she was doing and wanted to show some footage to the Grade 6 to 8 classes. Crocker put together a half hour segment and screened it for the students.

“You could hear a pin drop and afterwards there were so many questions,” she says.

She was told later that her film was the topic at dinner tables that night.

“There was obviously lots of interest.”

Altogether, it took Crocker three years to edit the film.

“Now I see the reasons for making a short film,” she says with a smile.

Speculating on why her film is so successful, Crocker feels that deep down, there is a longing for the simpler things and to have more undistracted time in our lives. She says the takehome message of her film is to try to remember we really don’t have all the time in the world and to make the most of what matters to us.

The film has played to packed houses and has won audience choice awards in several festivals. Crocker is surprised and honoured at the reaction.

“I’m proud that a film from Dawson can cause such a buzz,” she says. “People even stay for the credits.”

Despite all the attention, Crocker continues to remain humble about her family’s experience. In the end, she says, what she and her family did wasn’t that extraordinary.

“It’s not a film about bush living, it’s a film about time and choice,” she says.

“Going into the bush grounds you. It was the best year of our lives as a family.”

All the Time in the World helps kick-off DCIFF on Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. General admission is $10.

Gabriela Sgaga lives off the grid in her West Dawson cabin with her sled dogs. She enjoys mushing, skijoring and writing about everyday life in the Yukon. Please send comments about her articles to dawson@whatsupyukon.com

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hat does knitting have in common with writing poetry? Both must be done carefully. One mistake can ruin the whole image. Jamie Sharpe knitted a one meter wide and two storey long scarf and wrote a poem about it.

Sharpe’s second book of poetry is entitled Cut-up Apologetic (ECW Press).

His work has appeared in magazines like SubTerrain, Arc, Dreamland, and Vallum.

How did he get the idea for the title?

“When you spend your days shuffling language, specific phrases end up sticking to the brain,” he says.

“I find a useful tension between the different meanings of particular words: ‘Cut-up’ as both someone who is funny, and that which is torn apart; ‘apologetic’ as one who is sorry, but also as an explanation or treatise. I like writing that exists between these spheres: the comical yet sad and that which admits failure but illuminates a potential path out.”

Writing poems often takes more time than writing fiction.

Sharpe spends a lot of his time playing with words and images.

Some of the poems in the book are about six years old.

“Early in their careers writers enjoy the luxury of drawing from years of unpublished work,” says Sharpe. “I now have about a decade-and-a-half’s worth of scribbles from which to refine. You get to the point, however, where you’ve cannibalized every scrap worth using.”

He offers a broad variety of topics in his book, from the question of having a child in “Talking to my Wife about Having a Baby/ That Canyon’s my Son”, to the

tween poetry and visual art.

“The visual arts and poetry are more akin to me than poetry is to most prose. I’ve certainly been influenced by trips to the cinema or the gallery,” he says.

Sharpe doesn’t know what came first, the poetry or the art projects, but they influence each other throughout the book.

Where does he get his inspiration from?

“A hard question,” he says.

“If I knew, I’d be endlessly inspired. Although I’m moved by nature — the grandeur of a mountain or beauty of a sunset — I’m not inspired to write about it.

For me, inspiration is more inquisition than exhibition.”

Sharpe is influenced by Julio Cortázar, Rae ArmanPHOTO: courtesy of Jamie Sharpe trout, and Anne Carson´s work.

“There is endless writing to fall The poet and the scarf in love with,” he says.

Currently, he is working on another manuscript of poems called philosophy of Kierkegaard. His Dazzle Ships. poems are playful, even when “It touches on the visual arts, they’re about fear, discrimina- examining modes of authentic extion, or restlessness. pression in the increasingly autoSharpe loves reading fiction but mated world. It also asks how do finds it tedious to write. we hide the things that are too big “A novel is a connective tissue to hide? Hopefully it will be out in that establishes characters and a few years,” Sharpe says. scenes, or delineates the moveIn the poem “Lululemon Toque” ment of people. I can never im- he writes: “if only I could make a agine myself writing a line like, poem / that stretches the brain”.

‘When he awoke, Arnie was there But his poems are doing just again, sitting in a chair beside the that, they are stretching the brain bed and reading the Cleveland with unique and sharp imagery.

Post.’ (From the John Grisham Sharpe’s latest collection is novel, Playing for Pizza.) I’d available at Mac´s Fireweed Books rather knit a mile long scarf than for $18.95. stitch together lines like that.

Poetry’s economy appeals to me.”

Elke Reinauer is a German There are collages and pictures writer who’s based in between the poems in the book.

Whitehorse. Contact her via Sharpe sees a connection beeditor@whatsupyukon.com.

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Great Albums PHOTO: Album Cover of XO by Elliott Smith

The Beauty and Tragedy of Elliott Smith

by Ben Mahony

plode”, and waxes somnolence on ballads like “Oh Well Okay”.

I don’t claim to understand the nuance of every lyric. Some might even be a touch too clever or opaque. But there are others I’ve never been able to shake, like these from “Pitseleh”: “Say that God makes problems / Just to see what you can stand / Before you do as the devil pleases / Give up the thing you love.”

Smith´s anti-social depression has been well documented, and I can attest to his uneasiness in the spotlight in some small way. I saw the XO tour at a small club in London, Ontario. After the band’s deft, somewhat short, but immaculate set, there was a chance to mingle with Smith. These were the early days of indie rock, when there was supposed to be little to no line between performer and audience. After the show wellwishers lined up, including my band mate and I. I could see the look of consternation on Smith’s face as he grimaced, perhaps glad for the enthusiasms of his fans, but clearly distracted by deeper depressive conflicts — perhaps the desire for vodka on ice to calm the nerves, or maybe the thought, “If fans really understood the songs, they’d leave me the frig alone”.

We left the line up and went home to listen to the record.

In “Bottle Up and Explode”, Smith refers to being “in for a round of over-exposure”. Maybe the accolades that later accom-

panied his Grammy Award nomination and performance drove him over the edge by 2003. But surely his over-sensitivity, that of the aesthete, also underpinned his genius, and endeared a legion of the sad and black-clad to him.

Is there such a thing as too much perspective? The question must be asked of Smith and his introspection. It reminds me of the Captain Beefheart lyric, “Someone’s had too much to think”.

I used to embrace a theory whereby channeling negative emotions into song and art creates release and healing. For some this is true.

Regardless of whether this was true for Smith, he was unrelenting, and with his superior gift of song craft, he wrote classic after classic. XO sees him at the height of his powers. The swells and surges of “Every Body Cares Everybody Understands” make the end of side two worth waiting for.

Its piano flourishes and featherto-anvil arrangement dynamics provide moments that truly inspire.

This record not only benefits from the indie credo of artist-driven creative control, but also from the pristine production help of Rob Schnapt, who has also worked with Beck and Guided By Voices.

By this point in their careers, Schnapt and Smith had learned lessons from their collective fitsand-starts and trials-and-errors.

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“Maybe it’s time to lighten up,” I mused.

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This ilk dominated my collection of cassettes and CDs at the time, which were central mediums, not retro-novelties.

The album with which I was most familiar by Elliot Smith at the time of his death is a masterpiece called XO. To say it possesses a haunting quality would be an understatement.

It was released in 1998 and is marked by delicate beauty and moments of diamond-pure pop brilliance. Melodic gems like “Sweet Adeline” aren’t as simple as they seem.

The chord changes and metaphors come fast and furious on XO, but they’re in perfect balance in many ways — like the Beatles at full flight. Smith references the fab four directly in the “Baby Britain” lyric: “Revolver’s been turned over”, and its guitar riff is an obvious nod to Sgt. Pepper’s “Getter Better”.

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Sunday, April 19 at the Yukon Arts Centre

6pm Rich Hill Dir. T Tragos, A Palermo, USA, 2014, 91 min. This Grand Jury prize winner at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival is a beautifully lensed documentary on the challenges, hopes and dreams of three young boys in rural America. In the town of Rich Hill, Missouri, 14-year-old Andrew adapts the best he can to being constantly uprooted and moved around the state. Fifteen-year-old Harley lives with his grandmother, who tries to create a sense of stability for a boy dealing with issues far beyond his years. Thirteen-year-old Appachey is a smart old soul who can’t find a way to align himself to the world he lives in.

8pm What We Do in the Shadows Dir. J Clement, T Waititi, New Zealand, 2014, 86 min. A hilarious and smart comedy from the creators of Flight of the Conchords. Three Wellington housemates are vampires who are trying to get by in modern society; from paying rent and doing housework to trying to get invited into nightclubs, they’re just like anyone else—except they’re immortal and must feast on human blood. When their 8000 year-old roommate turns 20-something hipster into a vampire, the guys must guide him through his newfound eternal life. The Yukon-made horror short, Subject Six precedes this feature. yukontickets.com

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April 2 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

April 2 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Laser Cutter 101

MORNINgs: tuEsDAY 10:30-11:30

April 2, 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Parent Child Monther Goose (Pre-register)

Members Social

Message of the Month:

April 3 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

National Volunteer Week April 12-18

Weekly Open House

National Volunteer Week (NVW) is a time to recognize, celebrate and thank Yukon’s volunteers.

NVW 2015 takes place on April 12-18.

Silverware Wind Chimes

Come and celebrate the 13.3 million volunteers across Canada who generously donate their time and energy.

Yukoners have a rich history of volunteering and community involvement. Around 49% of Yukonners are volunteering in our territory.

tHuRsDAY & FRIDAY 10-12

Ball Pit Play - Family sAtuRDAY

10-4 Family Drop-In 10-3 Ball Pit Play AFtERNOONs 3:15-5:15: MONDAY

After School Art Exploration tuEsDAY

After School Sing Together WEDNEsDAY

After school Ball Pit 7 Games tHuRsDAY

After school Theatre FRIDAY

April 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

April 9 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

CNC Router 101

April 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Build a Farm-style Dining Room Table

April 11, 12 @ 10:00 am - 4 pm www.yukonstruct.com info@yukonstruct.com 135 Industrial Rd. Open : Tues-Sun 11am - 9pm

We encourage organizations to collaborate, plan and celebrate National Volunteer Week together.

Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon can help you celebrate in your community with the Volunteer Experience Recognition Program certificate and with the Volunteers Grow Community Thank you Card.

For more information, please contact Bruno at 456-4304 or executivedirector@volunteeryukon.ca.

After school Building and Sculpting EVENINgs: MONDAY 7:15 - 8:15

Learn to Sing Together Teen / Adult w/ Scott Maynard tuEsDAY

Knitting Circle 6:30-7:30 Kids 7:30-9 Adults Book Club - Adult (see website) WEDNEsDAY 5:30-6:30

Girls Group tHuRsDAY 6:30 - 7:30

Kids Choir - Ages 7-12 w/ Barbara Chamberlin FRIDAY 7-9

Teen Drop-In

Heart of Riverdale 38 A Lewes Blvd

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DOMINIQUE PETRIN

New Work In the Gallery

March 12 – April 18

April 2

Screening of “All the Time In the World” at 7:30pm

April 5

Concert “Lemon Bucket Orkestra” Check the website for more info: www.dawsonfilmfest.com

Tel: (867) 993-5005 Fax: (867) 993-5838 Website: www.kiac.ca

Volunteer Opportunity of the Month: Yukon Artists @ Work is seeking volunteers to help with shifts at their new gallery At the moment, we are open 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM, Tuesday through to Sunday.

Being downtown requires that there be two people during gallery hours. This doubling up of shifts is too much for the number of members we have.

We would like to pair volunteers with the YAAW member artists.

Our artist/members often work on projects while doing their shifts in the Gallery. This would be an excellent opportunity for art-loving volunteers to learn from our talented membership while contributing to Yukon Artists @ Work.

We are asking volunteers to work a minimum of three and one half hours per shift.

For more information, contact: Linda Leon, 4129 4th Avenue, 668-5028 lmleon@northwestel.net

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Community EVENTS Atlin Wednesdays Board Games 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Wednesdays Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre

Beaver Creek Thu, Apr 2 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Sat, Apr 4 Family Gym Night 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Sat, Apr 4 Family Gym 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Sat, Apr 4 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Apr 6 Youth Gym Drop In 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Apr 6 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Apr 6 Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tue, Apr 7 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Tue, Apr 7 Yoga 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Wed, Apr 8 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Wed, Apr 8 Open Gym 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Wed, Apr 8 Sports Night 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Thu, Apr 9 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

Carcross Thu, Apr 2 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Apr 2 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Sun, Apr 5 St. Saviours Church Service 11:00 AM St. Saviours Church 867-668-3129 Mon, Apr 6 C/TFN Carving Shed open 5:30 PM Carcross Carving Shed Keith Wolf Smarch will be in attendance to provide guidance/help with all manner of traditional artwork Tue, Apr 7 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM The Old Daycare Tue, Apr 7 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Apr 7 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, Apr 8 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ ctfn.ca Wed, Apr 8 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Apr 8 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Apr 9 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Apr 9 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator

Dawson City Thu, Apr 2 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@ me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Thu, Apr 2 DCISFF: All The Time in the World 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Thu, Apr 2 Dawson City International Short Film Festival KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Fri, Apr 3 DCISFF (workshop): DSLR Video for Filmmakers 1:00 PM SOVA School of Visual Arts Fri, Apr 3 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Apr 3 DCISFF: Beyond the Aurora 11:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Fri, Apr 3 Diamond Dempster Daze 12:00 AM Dawson City 993-7669 snowmobiles ride frozen Dempster Highway and Tombstone Territorial Park. Celebrations follow at Diamond Tooth Gerties Fri, Apr 3 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Apr 3 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Apr 3 Cold Cuts Video Festival: Faking It 4:00 PM SOVA School of Visual Arts Fri, Apr 3 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Fri, Apr 3 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Fri, Apr 3 DCISFF: Yukon And Beyond 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Fri, Apr 3 DCISFF: Up River 9:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 KIAC Drop-in Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. Fee $5 Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF: Strange Things Done 11:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF (panel): Future Post 12:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF: Yukon Youth 2:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF: First Eyes 4:00 PM Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF(Discussion): Moving Pictures and Arts Funding 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF: Confluence 7:00 PM KIAC

Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 9:00 AM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@ me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Sat, Apr 4 DCISFF: Down River 9:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Apr 4 Dawson’s Amazing Easter Egg Fight Dawson City Free-for-all egg fight on the frozen ice-bridge.

Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF: Out of the Cold: Yukon Emerging Artists 1:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sun, Apr 5 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF (Screening; Q&A): Artists In Residence 3:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Kle Whitehead and Matthew Rankin discuss practices, techniques, inspirations.

Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF: I Am Kuba 5:15 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF(music & food): Street Feast 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF: Break Up 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF(workshop): Unlocking FCP 9:30 AM SOVA School of Visual Arts Sun, Apr 5 DCISFF(music): Closing Concert: Lemon Bucket 9:30 PM Oddfellows Hall ELEVEN members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, live in concert!

Mon, Apr 6 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Apr 6 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Apr 6 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Mon, Apr 6 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 6:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@ me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Tue, Apr 7 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealfit(at)me.com Tue, Apr 7 Dawson City Burlesque Intensive 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5998 This class will teach you all of the knowledge and skills you need to get started as a beginner burlesque performer.

Wed, Apr 8 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, Apr 8 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture *paper available for purchase. For more information or to participate:please contact Rebekah at bekmiller1234@gmail.com Wed, Apr 8 Adult Tap: Intro Level 6:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back! Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. New tap shoes included in cost of Intro level course.

Wed, Apr 8 Adult Tap: Level 2 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back!

Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. Level 2 course for returning tappers.

Wed, Apr 8 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Thu, Apr 9 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confirm a scheduled class, email yogawithjoanne@ me.com, 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.

Thu, Apr 9 Animation Workshop 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Free workshop in the ballroom with Madi Piller and Michelle Latimer

Faro Thu, Apr 2 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 2 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud Arena Thu, Apr 2 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, Apr 2 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 2 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Fri, Apr 3 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Apr 3 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, Apr 3 Family Skate 3:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Fri, Apr 3 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Apr 3 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Apr 3 Public Skate 5:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Fri, Apr 3 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Apr 3 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, Apr 3 12+ Sticks and Pucks 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Sat, Apr 4 Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Sat, Apr 4 Public Skate 2:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Sat, Apr 4 Youth Skate 7:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Sun, Apr 5 Family Sticks and Pucks 1:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Sun, Apr 5 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Apr 5 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

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Sun, Apr 5 Public Skate 3:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Mon, Apr 6 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Mon, Apr 6 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud Arena Mon, Apr 6 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Tue, Apr 7 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Tue, Apr 7 Family Skate 3:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Tue, Apr 7 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Tue, Apr 7 Public Skate 5:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena Tue, Apr 7 Tai Chi Faro 6:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre With Lucy Moreira, Free Drop In Meet at the Youth Lounge Wed, Apr 8 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Apr 8 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4.

Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Apr 8 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, Apr 8 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Apr 8 Faro Youth Hockey Skate Lessons 4:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Wed, Apr 8 Kids Floor Hockey 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 11 and under, equipment provided if needed Wed, Apr 8 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Wed, Apr 8 Public Skate 5:00 PM Father Rigaud Arena Wed, Apr 8 Adults Floor Hockey 7:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 12+, equipment provided if needed Thu, Apr 9 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud Arena Thu, Apr 9 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, Apr 9 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena

Haines Junction Thu, Apr 2 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Apr 2 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Sun, Apr 5 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-6342360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, Apr 6 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Apr 7 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Apr 7 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, Apr 8 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.

Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, Apr 9 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Apr 9 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School

Marsh Lake Fri, Apr 3 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Fri, Apr 3 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Apr 4 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sun, Apr 5 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Association 660-4999 All welcome Tue, Apr 7 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Tue, Apr 7 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Tue, Apr 7 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Apr 8 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Apr 8 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Association 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Mayo Thu, Apr 2 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Apr 2 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Apr 2 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey Fri, Apr 3 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night Fri, Apr 3 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie night Fri, Apr 3 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kids Sun, Apr 5 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746 Mon, Apr 6 Yoga in Mayo 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre Yoga in the Mayo community hall, every Monday in the summer.

Tue, Apr 7 Boys’ basketball practice 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Come play basketball over lunch!

Tue, Apr 7 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Tue, Apr 7 Under 12 Kung Fu 6:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 junior martial arts

Tue, Apr 7 Drop in badminton 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 drop in badminton Tue, Apr 7 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey Tue, Apr 7 Kung Fu for teens and adults 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 martial arts for teens and adults Wed, Apr 8 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, Apr 8 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School Gym Wed, Apr 8 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyball Thu, Apr 9 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Apr 9 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Apr 9 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey Fri, Apr 10 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night Fri, Apr 10 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie night Fri, Apr 10 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kids

Mt. Lorne Fri, Apr 3 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Sat, Apr 4 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 10:30 AM Lorne Mountain Community Centre 456-2748 This seven week session is for anyone who wants to practice meditation in a guided setting.

Sun, Apr 5 Dog Powered Sports Association Race 12:00 AM Lorne Mountain Community Centre “The Watson Valley Grand Finale” Wed, Apr 8 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Apr 9 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 6677083

Old Crow Thu, Apr 2 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Apr 5 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Mon, Apr 6 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238 Thu, Apr 9 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish All events held at the Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 or 399-3407 Thu, Apr 2 Osteofit 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, Apr 2 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, Apr 2 Catch Kids Club 2:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Apr 4 Tagish Easter Scavenger Hunt 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 8673993407 Bring your family along to the Tagish Community Centre to celebrate Easter!

We will be having a scavenger hunt for the kids which will be followed with hot dogs, veggies, chips and fun crafts. All are welcome.

Sat, Apr 4 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sat, Apr 4 Music Jam 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome to come and play, or enjoy!

Mon, Apr 6 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Tue, Apr 7 Nordic Walking 1:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Apr 7 Carcross /Tagish Renewable Resources Council Meeting 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Apr 7 Stay Get Fit 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Wed, Apr 8 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Apr 8 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Apr 8 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Apr 9 Osteofit 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, Apr 9 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Thu, Apr 9 Catch Kids Club 2:30 PM Tagish Community Centre

Teslin Thu, Apr 2 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, Apr 5 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, Apr 6 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Tue, Apr 7 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Wed, Apr 8 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Apr 8 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, Apr 9 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, Apr 12 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Sun, Apr 12 St. Philip’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Philip’s Church (867) 667-7746

Watson Lake Thu, Apr 2 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Apr 2 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 2 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 2 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Apr 4 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Apr 4 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, Apr 5 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Mon, Apr 6 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Apr 9 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Apr 9 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Apr 11 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Apr 11 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, Apr 12 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932

Skagway Fri, Apr 3 Gentle Yoga w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Apr 3 Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Apr 3 SPIN/Yoga w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Apr 3 Spinning/Yoga Level 1 w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Apr 3 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Apr 4 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Apr 5 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!

Sun, Apr 5 TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 Restorative Yoga: All Level w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 TRX Suspension Training w/ Katherine 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 Vinyasa Yoga: Level 1 w/Courtney 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 Soccer for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Apr 6 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Spinning w/Tom & Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Dance Fusion w/Charity 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Baseball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Apr 7 Chair and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Back/Hip Yoga & Myofascial release 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/ Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 TRX Suspension Training w/ Katherine 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Apr 8 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Spinning with Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Zumba w/Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Apr 9 Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre

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For the many paths Debbie Nyberg-Welc h has led us on and th e many journeys ye t to come. We invite her many friends an d family near and far to join us in supporting her on he r road to recovery.

6:00 p.m. to closing

Saturday, April 4 6:00 p.m. to closing

TWO-DAY FUNDRAISER

for Debbie Nyberg-Welch Check out Facebook for Silent Auction Do https://www.facebook. nations com/Followinginherf ootstepsFundraiser

Cover charge by donation All funds support Debbie’s recovery

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DJ Ca rlo Ap ril 6 Ladies Night with ie 10 P M Ap ril 8 Ja ma ok e wi th Ja ck

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Calling All Nor thern Bards l e v a r T o T t n a W Who

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WINNING SELECTION: The judging criteria will be applied to each entry by the What’s Up Yukon judging team. The top five scored stories will be sent to Condor Airlines head office for final selection. Participants are limited to two entries.

RULES AND REQUIREMENTS: • All entries must have writers name accompany the submission.

• Poems are disqualified if they have been previously published

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• Poems submitted will be published on the What’s Up Yukon website and some stories will be selected for What’s Up Yukon’s printed issues. If you do not wish for your story to be published in either of these formats please do not enter the contest.

• Photo submissions must include a photo credit and the same rules apply on submission as poems.

• Part-time and full-time employees of What’s Up Yukon, Uniglobe Travel, and Condor Airlines are not permitted to submit entries. Freelance writers are not employees of What’s Up Yukon.

• What’s Up Yukon reserves the right to not publish submissions.

WIN A TRIP FOR TWO on Condor Airlines to Frankfurt, Germany And Uniglobe Specialty Travel will add TWO Room Nights

GRAND PRIZE DETAILS: CONDOR AIRLINES is offering a round-trip flight for one or two people, Whitehorse, Yukon to Frankfurt, Germany, taxes not included. The trip cannot be split into two separate flights. If the second ticket is not used it has no cash value. The offer is exclusively available to the winner of the contest which means only the author’s name on the submitted poem.

UNIGLOBE SPECIALTY TRAVEL is offering TWO ROOM NIGHTS Please book your hotel room nights directly through Uniglobe Speciality Travel. Gift Value is $300 CDN. ADDITIONAL PRIZE DETAILS: Travel needs to be completed by September 20, 2015.

The prizes are not transferable and have no cash value.

Room, food, and other travel expenses are the responsibility of the winner and guest.

CONTEST JUDGING CRITERIA: CREATIVITY: (1-30 Points)____ How well does the author utilize topic choice?

How well does writer demonstrate an effective command of vocabulary?

Communicated thoughts, expression and ideas.

WRITING, GRAMMAR & SPELLING: (1-20 Points)_____ Maximum 200 words SUBJECT: (1-20 Points)_____ Did the author keep to their subject?

Poems subject needs to show a relationship within these topics: Yukon, Europe, Condor, Travel SOCIAL MEDIA: (1-10 Points) ____ We can measure Sharing and likes if creator tags #WhatsUpYukon in: Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus or comments on our website. Measurement can be more easily calculated through shares from the Whatsupyukon. com website. A point will be allotted for every three shares GRAPHIC/PHOTO - TO ACCOMPANY POEM (1-10 Points) ____ Photos must have photographer credit. Photos need to be 5x7 at 300dpi and be no bigger than 2MB. It should have a long dimension of at least 1000 pixels and no more than 3000 pixels. Files must be saved as a JPEG or TIFF with maximum quality.

POEM IDENTITY: (5 Points) Correctly Identify the type of poetry chosen.

FOLLOWING SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: (5 Points) TOTAL SCORE: _______

All submissions must be received by April 27, 2015 Submit your entries by email to contest@whatsupyukon.com

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April 2, 2015

Making the most of your update $$$...

We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about your interior and exterior renovation options, but how do you make that money work for you?

Resale value - did you know?

• 75-100% of the cost to update and remodel kitchens and bathrooms is recovered upon resale • An average of 92% of the cost to replace siding is recovered upon resale • Updates should be consistent throughout a home. It is better to have smaller updates throughout the home then to have an expensive, modern kitchen but a barely functioning bathroom and leaking roof.

Curb Appeal Matters!

Many people take a drive past the listed homes when shopping for real estate. All the time, money and effort put into interior renovations can be lost if the exterior of your home is hard to fall in love with.

When asked what they’re looking for in their next home, many say storage.

Make your home more appealing to prospective buyers by making a dedicated storage space, or making your current space more organized with shelving units.

Mosaics are nice – but not when it’s your appliances!

Making sure all your appliance colours match (and are all Energy Star rated) goes a long way to improving the overall feel of a home.

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Small things make a big difference!

There are small, easy updates that can be done inside the home to give it’s appearance a quick boost. New toilet seats, door knobs, cabinet handles and a fresh coat of paint all give your home a quick facelift.

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