What's Up Yukon - December 12, 2013

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December 12, 2013 Issue #359

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All Northern. All Fun.

Underneath the Uniform

Parking meter attendants have feelings, too

Kinette Club seeking donations for Christmas hampers

Dust off your cowboy hat for the Northern Opry

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Jickling’s Jabberings with Peter Jickling

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was just wondering whatever In-store specials happened to Donovan Bailey, Plenty of samplers and of course and then there he was — all Oma’s Cheeseballs over my Internet.

As a guy who tries to keep his Thank you Yukoners for your toe wet in the world of literapatronage over these past years ture I have come to enjoy Canada Reads, CBC’s odd combination of high-brow book culture and lowbrow reality show banter.

The multimedia show — it can be listened to on the radio 203 Hanson Street, Whitehorse or watched on your computer — 667-7583 Hours Tuesday to Saturday, 9-5:30 works like this: Jian Ghomeshi hosts five different Canadian celebrities, each of whom defends a book in ongoing debates with the other four ceSaturday December 7th 2pm-5pm lebrities. After each episode, one Sunday December 15th 11am-3pm book is voted of the island — whitFriday December 20 5-8pm tling the competition down to a champion.

Lots of In 2011 Best Laid Plans by Terry Christmas Support the Fallis won, and both my parents Gifts really liked it. In 2012 Something Philippines arriving Fierce by Carmen Aguirre won, and Everyone who brings toys Up Yukon daily!

I gave it to my mom for Christmas. & clothing donations ad 2 for What’s 4 inches by 5 inches She loved that book, too. Canada 10%adOFF pricereceive for four-colour confirmed by Mark Beese by e-mail October 2013: $180.40 each Reads, it seems, has the force of to run Thursday, December 12 parental credibility behind it.

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In 2014, the show’s guest ce334-3087 1612B Centennial St. contact and bill to: Patricia Halladay, phone 667-6089, 308 Hawkins Street, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A IX6 lebrities will be anti-poverty acSomething for everyone from babies to teens and kids in bet ween! tivist Stephen Lewis, journalist Wab Kinew, comedian Samantha Bee, actress Sarah Gadon, and, of course, former world record holdKwanlin Dün Cultural SoCiety er Donavon Bailey.

Before Canada Reads, Bailey became a hero of mine in Car-

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mack’s dusty gas station parking lot in July 1996.

My dad and I had been camping in the Tombstones and were driving back to Whitehorse to watch the men’s 100m final in the Atlanta Olympics. When it became clear we were not going to make it, we pulled over in Carmacks.

CBC radio interrupted regularly scheduled programming to bring us the race and I listened to, rather than watched, Donovan Bailey win the gold medal.

The following week he won another gold in the 4x100m relay.

After enjoying a few years as a Canadian prince, he was overtaken by injuries and younger runners. He disappeared from my cultural ether.

That is, until I saw him on the Internet sitting at Ghomeshi’s table, hawking Half-Blood Blues

by Esi Edugyan.

Though the Canada Reads debates will not air until March, each of the five contestants were given 30 seconds to introduce their chosen books on November 27. Bailey was evidently the least prepared.

After brashly declaring he was going to win, he sputtered out of the gates with a stream-of-consciousness introduction that drew more dots than it connected. He continued to mention his poor performance throughout the show

In the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Donovan Bailey owned the track. and before broadcast’s end, his lack of preparation was a running joke amongst the other panelists.

But Donovan, it really wasn’t that bad.

You didn’t get caught mid-sentence when your time was up, and if you hadn’t confessed to your own ill preparedness, I doubt anyone would have mentioned it. Are you trying to sabotage yourself?

Or, after years of racing in the shadow of American dominance and Ben Johnson’s disgrace, do you prefer the role of the underdog? Did you deliberately start slowly, so you could power past the competition in the home stretch, much like you powered past Frankie Fredericks and Ato Boldon in 1996?

Whatever the case, if that 15-year-old kid in Carmacks was still around, I’m sure he’d be rooting for you.

In fact, in honour of both you and my teenage self, when Canada Reads hits the nation in the spring I will forsake the Internet and listen to you on the radio instead.

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A Turkey and Some Gifts Can Make a Big Difference Share the Spirit volunteers seeking last-minute donations

by Tamara Neely

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or more than a decade volunteers have been bringing bundles of stuff to hundreds of families in need around Whitehorse at Christmas — and making a second trip back to the car to get the rest.

The children who receive those gifts don’t know their parents’ full situation, nor the care and generosity of hundreds of sponsors donating funds and gifts for unknown families.

But when those kids grow up, they sense what went down.

For the past 11 years The Kinette Club of Whitehorse has organized donations for families struggling with poverty. That’s long enough for a child to become an adult and communicate how much it meant to them, as a child, to receive such generosity.

Karen Shannon, president of the Kinette Club, says she has had people come up to her and introduce themselves that way. It’s the kind of thing that fuels Christmas dinners and gifts for more than 200 families, year after year.

“I’ve been in the situation where I’ve been purchasing toys for Share the Spirit and I’ve had store clerks tell me that they were a child who received Share the Spirit and how much it means to them,” Shannon says. “And we’ve received emails from people who used to receive, and said they’re doing much better now and that they’d like to sponsor a couple of children. Usually by this time we’re all totally exhausted and when I get that kind of email I send it to all of the members, saying, ‘This is why we do it, so let’s keep going.’”

It has taken a lot of work to get to this point in the season. They

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EVENTS

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Jickling’s Jabberings................ 2 Share the Spirit...................... 3 A Klondike Korner................... 5 Didee & Didoo........................ 5 Pet Portraits.......................... 6 Nowhere Boy Review............... 8 Parking Meter Guy................... 9 Northern Romance.................10 An African’s Winter.................11 Edible Yukon.........................12 Seeking Beervana...................13 Northern Opry.......................16 Scavenger Hunt Art.................17 French Toast.........................20 Meeting Sherry......................21 Foot for Thought....................22 Frost to Frost........................24 Wild Places...........................26

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Whitehorse Events Art Shows until - Sat, Jan 25 YT in 3D: Stereo Photos From Yukon 5:00 PM Arts Underground In the Hougen Heritage Gallery. until Fri, Feb 28 Land at the end of the sticks 10:00 AM Yukon Arts Centre In the Art Gallery. by Jennifer Walden until Fri, Feb 28 From the Outer Edges 10:00 AM Yukon Arts Centre In the Art Gallery by Jane Isakson until Mon, Mar 31 Dà Ze Tsàn - From our hearts 9:00 AM Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Patti Balsillie 633-7805 Perspectives on Yukon First Nations Sewing and Weaving Traditions

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TGIF - Dinner 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Royal Canadian Legion Steven Grossinger. Dinner and entertainment on Friday nights, with a variety of menu and entertainment formats.

Salsa Yukon’s Latin Dance Classes 7:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio 335-0909 / salsayukon@gmail.com Beginners class.

Salsa Yukon’s Latin Classes 8:45 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio 335-0909 / salsayukon@gmail.com Intermediate class.

Fri, Dec 13 The Nutcracker 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre full-length version of The Nutcracker Sat, Dec 14 The Nutcracker 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre full-length version of Free Citizenship Exam Preparation The Nutcracker Course for ESL learners 9:00 AM Multicultural Centre of the Yukon Janet Pauch 667-4733 Yukon Amateur Radio Association 9:30 PM A&W Informal breakfast with YARA Sat, Nov 23 - Tue, Dec 31 Yukon Artists at members, Hams from outside the Yukon often join Work 10th Anniversary Christmas Sale 11:00 AM Yukon Artists at Work

Wed, Dec 11 - Sun, Dec 22 12 Days of Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 PM Gold Christmas Sale 11:00 AM The Old Fire Hall Wed, Dec 11 The Midnight Sons at The Rush Inn Micah 336-4643 Dirty Northern Pub 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Choose from 20 Artisans This year.

Open Studio for Adults/Ceramics Open Pub alex.johnston44@hotmail.com 334-5445 Sat, Dec 14 Artful Things Christmas Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground For those Market 10:00 AM Westmark Whitehorse Come watch the Midnight Sons play their with experience in the studio. original music every Wednesday night! Their Christmas Market featuring local bakers, artists & craftspeople. Pick up artwork, gifts, SingAlongMessiah Collective Auditions sound is a mix of rock, blues and folk. and Rehearsals 4:00 PM United Church Wed, Dec 11 Jamaoke with Jackie 9:00 PM stocking stuffers & treats for the holidays!

Rachel 668-7502 To perform a sing-along Jarvis Street Saloon . performance of Handel’s Messiah on Thu, Dec 12 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 December 20th and 21st, 2013. Come try PM Tony’s Pizza .

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Thu, Dec 12 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ Wed, Dec 11 Fused Glass:Christmas Tree

country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western Ornaments 5:30 PM Arts Underground Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else Instructor: Jeanine Baker. Students will learn 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women (chilsuits different methods of decorating glass that will dren welcome) Fri, Dec 13 Baker’s Dozen Christmas be fused in a kiln.

Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Concert 7:00 PM United Church Featuring Wed, Dec 11 Comedy Night Live 9:00 PM Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray songs of winter and Christmas Tickets Jarvis Street Saloon open mic stand-up Mtn Road Range officers on duty discounted with donation for the food bank Thu, Dec 12 Uke On Ukulele Club 7:00 PM Fri, Dec 13 Blue Creek 8:30 PM Gold Pan Dean’s Strings Learn the ukulele or enjoy the

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Free English Conversation Group 302 Fri, Dec 13 Dennis Allen 9:00 PM Jarvis Tue, Dec 17 Brave New Writing 7:00 PM Strickland St., lower level. 668-5907. Bring Street Saloon Rah Rah Gallery Susan: susannehingley@ your own lunch Sat, Dec 14 Junkyard Jude & the House hotmail.com This is a creative writing Bingo (Regular Games) 5:00 PM at Elks Cat’s 8:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon . workshop that takes place on the 3rd Hall Whitehorse Curling Club, 667-2875 Mon, Dec 16 Tue, Dec 17 Music For A Tuesday of each month Potluck Food Co-op - Info-Market 4:00 PM Winter’s Eve 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Sun, Dec 22 Watercolour Christmas Card 5th Ave, between Wood St. and Jarvis St. All-City Jazz and Concert Bands open the Workshop 1:00 PM Yukon Artists at Work season with 2 nights of musical selections.

Come and make your own cards Other Stuff Wed, Dec 18 The Midnight Sons at The Dirty Northern Pub 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub alex.johnston44@hotmail.com 334-5445 Come watch the Midnight Sons play their FREE DROP IN at Yukon Family Literacy original music every Wednesday night! Their Centre Mon-Fri Noon - 3:00 PM, sound is a mix of rock, blues and folk.

Mon-Wed 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sat 10:00 Wed, Dec 18 Jamaoke with Jackie 9:00 PM AM - 3:00 PM (2nd Floor of Canada Games Jarvis Street Saloon .

French : Zumba or Zumba Gold 12:00 PM Centre) Colleen/Stephanie 668-8698 Free Thu, Dec 19 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 Centre De La Francophonie 668-2663 family learning fun!

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Spanish Conversation 12:00 PM Golden Thu, Dec 19 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Age Society. ¡Bienvenidos!

Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ Whitehorse String Ensemble rehearsal Learning Together Program 9:30 AM country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western 6:15 PM at Hellaby Hall, 668-5530. New Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Monswing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else members welcome. Violin, viola, cello and Thurs 667-3006 suits bass Fri, Dec 20 Sat, Dec 21 2nd Annual Grand Texas Hold ‘em 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Olde Northern Opry 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Royal Canadian Legion. Steven Grossinger Learning Together Program 9:30 AM Centre In the theatre, Features over a dozen Royal Canadian Legion - Texas Hold ‘em 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years artists from the North.

Tournament. free poker tournament, all skill old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Fri, Dec 20 Moonstroke Music Festival levels welcome. Training available from Tumble Time Playgroup 9:30 AM at 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre SEVEN rockin’ acts 6-6:30 PM Riverdale Baptist Church Kathy 668-7273 or Fri, Dec 20 Isaak, Haddock & Powell 9:00 Open Studio for Adults/Acrylic Painting 667-6620 (aged birth to 5).

PM Gold Pan Saloon .

Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies 11:00 AM With Neil Graham.

Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Pregnant Free English Classes 7:00 PM 108 women welcome!

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Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Mtn Road Range officers on duty Acrylic Painting Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Kids Pop Choir 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio Grades 3-6. With Barbara Underground easels and water containers Chamberlin. on site. Please bring your paints, brushes, Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier Pizza Peggy 668-7448 goes till we are done! supports and rags. Contact: 667-4080 School 867-668-4794 between the ages of features BIG MAMA LELE at EPIC Wed Nov Yukon R/C 7:00 PM Mud Bog Motor-Cross Track Bring your R/C and meet other hobby 10 - 14 13 th enthusiast Voice/Movement Group For Adults 7:30 Young Explorers Preschool Program Thursday Night Jam 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub PM United Church Downstair 10:00 AM at MacBride Museum 456-4742 Family Story Time 10:30 AM Whitehorse Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Public Library For children ages 3 – 6 who Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone Feminist Book Club 5:30 PM Victoria are accompanied by an adult.

Faulkner Women’s Centre a book club for who wants to play or sing together Family Health and Recreation Program open-mike night with David Haddock 7:30 feminists 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre PM Gold Pan Saloon Bring your voice or an Whitehorse String Ensemble Rehearsals 6:30 PM Hellaby Hall New members always Erica 667-2693 All kids under 8, moms, and instrument and perform a few song welcome For info call Pam 667-4630 or Fumi grandmas are welcome.

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Polarettes Family Drop-in 2:00 PM at favourites and hosts an open stage where Vanier School, 867-668-4794. Enjoy a fun local musicians perform afternoon of gymnastics experience Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women Toddler Church Service 9:30 a.m.

Whitehorse United Church, 601 Main Street. (children welcome) Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 Stories, songs, snacks provided and prayers ESL Conversation Club - 5:30 PM Multifully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit 20 minutes Info: 667-2989 Cultural Centre on a drop in basis and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats

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Learning Together Program 9:30 AM 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Pregnant women welcome!

Tuesdays

Romp & Run Playgroup 9:30 AM at Whitehorse United Church.

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Art Smarts Kids After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Underground Marlene Collins (mcollins@northwestel.net) 667-4080 Ages 7-9

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Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM 6209 – 6th Avenue, 393-2824 BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Yoga In The Alpine “Teen Yoga” 5:30 PM at Alpine Bakery. wallymaltz@northwestel. net Instructor Tammy Biathlon Junior Team Training 5:30 PM at Grey Mountain Road. Keith Clarke, ktclarke@northwestel.net

Thursdays

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM at 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 Kid’s After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Underground Yukon Art Society reception@ artsunderground.ca 667-4080 Ages 10-14 until October 25 Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym.

Please register before course starts Northern Lights Judo Club 5:00 PM at Ecole Emilie Tremblay School, judoyukon@ gmail.com. Under 15 years

Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier School 867-668-4794 between the ages of 10 - 14

Fridays

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Rec Night: manhunt, floor hockey, dodgeball and more. 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders 5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@snowboardyukon,com Registration required.

Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre AfterShock Youth Group 7:00 PM Church of the Nazarene 633-4903 Ages 12 to 18

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Trampoline for Snowboarders 7:00 PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ snowboardyukon.com Registration Required Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15

Tuesdays

Kids After-School Programs/Hand– Building with Clay 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor: Marlene Collins. 6 sessions.

Hiroshikai Judo Club 5:00 PM at Holy Family School, judoyukon@gmail.com Ages under 15 551 Whitehorse Air Cadets 6:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary School CaptainJennifer Lafreniere 668-7688 Youth Shooting Program 7:00 PM Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Introductory Open House and sign-up for Youth ages 1019 years. Parental permission required.

Twoonie Race 7:00 PM alternating Mt Mac or Chadburn with Contagious Mountain Bike Club YFC/Youth Unlimited 7:30 PM LePage Park Melissa Teeuwsen 335-8809 Hang out in the park every Tuesday night, rain or shine. All youth are welcome.

Seniors Mondays

Seniors Qigong and Yang Family Style 16 Movement Hand Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Jo-Ann Gates 667-4531 These qigong and tai chi exercises help with relaxation, flexibility, balance and strength.

Tuesdays

Blood Pressure Clinic 10:30 AM at Greenwood Place. Lois at 667-6149 Elder/Active Bingo 6:00 PM at Elk’s Hall

Meetings

Wed, Dec 11 Food Bank Society of Whitehorse AGM 6:00 PM 306 Alexander Street. .

Wed, Dec 11 Women of Wisdom Workshop - Health of Mind, Heart, Body, and Spirit 6:30 PM Skookum Jim Friendship Centre Marney 633-7683 These workshops are free, and a healthy meal will be served.

Limited transportation available Thu, Dec 12 YEU Executive meeting 6:30 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Tue, Dec 17 Green Drinks - Whitehorse Monthly Networking Event 5:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub alex@elr.ca People who work in the environmental field (or want to!), or have an interest in the environment, meet up to discuss news and network.

Tue, Dec 17 Air Cadets Assembly 6:15 PM Whitehorse Elementary School Capt.

Jennifer Lafreniere 668-7688 For youths 12 - 18 years old.

Wed, Dec 18 YEU Local Y025 (Whitehorse Hospital Workers) monthly meeting 5:30 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Wednesdays

Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 456-4752 Open to all Whitehorse Lions Club [2nd Wed each month 6:30 PM Yukon Inn] & [4th Wed each month Captain Martin House]

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Youth Chef Night we teach recipes for healthy food from scratch. Ages 11-18. 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 Fencing for Youth and Adults 10:00 AM at Takhini Elementary

Yukon R/C 3:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary School Bring your R/C and meet other hobby enthusiast Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre

Sundogs Toastmasters 12:00 PM Sport Yukon 633-6228 Open to all Fridays Whitehorse Rotary 12:10 PM Westmark Whitehorse

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Staging the Nativity in the Museum

PHOTO: Dan Davidson

This year’s pageant actors assemble at the Dawson City Museum.

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hristmas Eve is a busy night in Dawson City, with all four of the churches holding their own late evening services in honour of the coming holy day. However, they get together for the Christmas Pageant service, which is held in St. Paul’s Anglican Church, because it can hold the largest number of people.

There is much singing, led by the community choir, and a sermon delivered by one of the members of the clergy, while the others participate in readings and prayers. But the pageant, or Nativity Play, is the centrepiece of the service.

Telling the story of the birth of Jesus Christ in play form is an idea that dates from antiquity. Eastern Orthodox churches record such events in the seventh century. St. Francis of Assisi is sometimes credited as putting on the first Nativity Play (with live animals for the

manger scene, no less) in 1223.

The York Mystery Plays in England has had Nativity Plays as part of their 48-play cycle from about the fourteenth century onwards.

Readers of a certain age will no doubt recall dressing up in bathrobes and arranging tea towels as headgear when they were younger. They may also recall the backstage madness of trying to get the correct group of young actors to the right part of the stage-like area at the front of the sanctuary.

Until the mid-1990s St. Paul’s had a serious heating problem. It had to be warmed up for the service by noisy industrial heaters that had to be turned off for the service itself. It would be about 45 minutes before people (dressed in outdoor clothing) began to see their breath.

The live pageants were cumbersome, so the clergy and pageant organizers decided on slide

shows instead.

The pictures were taken well in advance, and the pageant shoot became a bit of an event in itself, with imaginative reinterpretations of the Biblical story.

Some years the shepherds became miners; other years they were tourists.

Settings varied, making good use of the historic buildings around the town. The Robert Service and Jack London cabins and grounds were pressed into use, as were actual hotels and businesses.

This year the photo shoot took place inside the Dawson City Museum, where wise men could be seen travelling to Bethlehem by dog sled, while shepherds and angels crowded the ornate staircase leading to the court room, and Mary and Joseph and the Babe posed outside the miner’s cabin display in the North Gallery.

Sixteen children from the various congregations met on the afternoon of November 24, along with half a dozen adults, to spend a couple of hours taking dozens of photos from various angles. The script will be read at the service, while the photos will become part of a PowerPoint presentation projected at the front of the church.

With a new woodstove and two auxiliary monitor heaters, St. Paul’s is a lot more comfortable than it used to be, but the warmth of the Pageant Slide Show still warms hearts the most on Christmas Eve. After 32 years teaching in rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidson retired from that profession but continues writing about life in Dawson City.

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The Purrrrfect Portrait

Gerry Steers’ love of animals translates into portraits with heart

by Gabriela Sgaga

G

erry Steers has the patience of a saint.

The owner of Gerry’s Computer Magic spends her days doing what she loves best – photographing animals.

But it’s not easy.

“It’s a gift from God if they all stay still,” she says. “In fact, it’s almost impossible.

You need a lot of patience.

You have to work much harder at getting good photos when you’re photographing animals.”

She tells the story of a woman who wanted a Christmas portrait of herself and her two cats. One cat was cooperating, but the other wasn’t.

“His eyes went blacker the madder he got,” Steers laughs.

The shoot ended up taking two hours with Steers crawling under tables and chairs in order to get the perfect shot.

After graduating from the New York Institute of Photography in 2007, the former government computer technician decided to turn her part-time business of photography into a full-time venture. Four years ago, Steers started to concentrate exclusively on animals.

Steers feels her patience and sensitivity to animals makes her a better photographer. She says she can handle and touch them even if their owners say they are difficult to deal with.

“I feel I have more intuition

time and finally decided to come in,” she says.

The dog died two days later.

“People leave things to the last minute,” says Steers.

“Life is too short – do it now, not when it’s too late.”

Steers’ skill in animal portraiture has recently led her to the Mae Bachur Animal Shelter.

She had some ideas on how to improve the photos that the shelter was using to advertise animals up for adoption.

“I wanted to show them at their best,” Steers says.

She now volunteers her time every Monday to take creative photos of animals looking for a home.

“I gussy some of them up, but only those that allow it,” she says.

Steers plans to carry on taking pictures of animals well into the future.

“I’ll continue as long as PHOTO: Gerry’s Computer Magic I can see, am mobile, and people want it,” she says.

Brandy, a Saluki, and Xena, a Rottweiler, had their portrait taken in their living room in 2006.

Gerry’s Computer Magic is located in Whitehorse. with animals than with people,” she is even willing to go for a hike wearing a top hat and vest. She For more information e-mail has even taken a portrait of a gerryscomputermagic@gmail. she says. “Animals are honest. with the client and pet.

“Generally it’s hard for people chicken, along with its family and com.

How they perceive me not only makes me a better photographer, to get good pictures of their pets, Santa Claus.

Steers cautions not to wait too especially with them in it as well,” but a better person.”

Steers enjoys capturing ani- she says. “I’m happy to do what- long if you would like a portrait Gabriela Sgaga lives off with your pet. She remembers the mals’ personalities. She takes ever works for the client.” the grid in her West Dawson Steers finds most of her photo- story of a couple whose dog was posed or spontaneous pictures cabin with her sled dogs. She of people’s pets either in her graphs are of dogs, but she has ill. enjoys mushing, skijoring and “They had been wanting to do own studio, or the client’s home. also taken photos of birds, guinea writing about everyday life Photos can be indoors or out, and pigs, and an African grey parrot a portrait with their pet for a long in the Yukon.

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Life Before Fame

In Nowhere Boy a young John Lennon struggles with the ties that bind him

by Marianne Darragh

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here’s an emotional charge watching a biographical drama and knowing where the road a character is on will take him. But the triangle at the heart of the 2009 film Nowhere Boy – with a young John Lennon, his mother Julia, and his Aunt Mimi – doesn’t need to rely on Lennon’s future fame as a member of the Beatles for its drama.

The British biopic is one of the many DVDs available at the Whitehorse Library.

John is 15 years old when Nowhere Boy begins. He’s rebellious at school and shares an affectionate bond with his uncle and an uneasy one with his critical Aunt Mimi (Kristen Scott Thomas), who have raised him in the absence of his parents.

When kind Uncle George dies suddenly, John becomes more openly curious about his missing mother and tracks Julia down to a house within walking distance of Mimi’s, where Julia lives with her common-law partner and their two daughters.

John is smitten with his unconventional mother (Anne Marie Duff), whose expressive nature contrasts sharply with her more reserved sister. Julia teaches him to play the banjo and nurtures his

growing passion for rock ‘n’ roll.

But the reunion between mother and son is ultimately less than idyllic and John turns to music with more intensity. He starts The Quarrymen with a few schoolmates, and soon Paul and George enter his orbit.

Challenged with telling a story about characters deeply entrenched in popular consciousness, screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh avoids easy references that pander to a Beatles fan.

“You don’t need to know everything to understand everything,” director Sam Taylor-Wood said in a 2010 interview in Vanity Fair, and accordingly there’s no big yeah, yeah, yeah moments.

Still, iconic images are meticulously recreated, such as The Quarrymen performing at a local fete the day Lennon met McCartney, where they hunched over their guitars and begin their musical partnership. The Quarrymen’s stage performances are especially enthralling.

Except for Anne-Marie Duff as Julia, none of the lead actors bear a striking resemblance to the reallife characters they portray, but that doesn’t hinder the authenticity of the performances.

As Aunt Mimi, Kristen Scott

Thomas is appropriately imperious and sardonic, but manages to imply the intense affection she feels for John.

A favourite scene for me has John and Mimi joining forces in a local music store to negotiate the price of his first guitar.

Duff’s Julia is both charismatic and fragile, and Thomas Sangster as Paul McCartney is a wise, perceptive figure.

Aaron Johnson, who was only 18 years old at the time, anchors the film with a moving, confident portrayal of John Lennon, a young artist discovering he can channel emotional confusion into creative expression, as his world is rocked by events beyond his control.

The 2009 film Nowhere Boy, featuring the story of John Lennon’s life as a young man, is available on the DVD shelf at the Whitehorse Library.

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Music is integrated well in Nowhere Boy, mostly consisting of the rock ‘n’ roll that captivated Lennon, and an instrumental score that alludes to its influence on the signature sound of the early Beatles. Both Johnson and Sangster played their own instruments.

Another reason to check out this film is that it was directed

by Sam Taylor-Johnson. She is

the director that was chosen to bring the film-version of the international best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey onto the big screen.

Nowhere Boy is available at the Whitehorse Public Library.

Marianne Darragh is a Whitehorse-based DVD aficionado.

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December 12, 2013

Parking Meter Attendants Have Feelings too

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

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here are some jobs that appear thankless. To name a few, collection agents, nurses who take blood samples, and dentists. Parking meter attendants surely get their fair share of grief from the public, as they walk the streets in all weather, five days a week, issuing tickets that make people angry, day in and day out. But beneath the balaclavas are real people with feelings.

Jason Westover, one of the two parking meter attendants in Whitehorse, emphasizes that the public is actually pretty kind to him. But there are times when folks get hot under the collar.

Westover has a few stories about on the job confrontations.

“Once a senior citizen, an old lady, was really sweet at first, then she unexpectedly cuss-talked at me,” he says.

Another time, a tourist who had overslept seemed surprised that Westover “didn’t give him a wake-up call to get up to move his vehicle.”

He deals with confrontations by keeping a cool head.

“It’s important to listen to what people say first,” he says. “People have bad days and they need to vent. Not everyone dumps on us though, it’s not all a dark cloud.”

Good to hear, as the job has its own demands.

Westover, who refers to his parka as “his office,” typically works from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m attending to the 500 parking meters in the city.

“In the summer, I probably walk between 12 and 15 kilometres a day,” says Westover, who has lived in the Yukon for almost six years.

He has been a parking attendant in Whitehorse for 18 months, or as he counts it, “nine dog years.”

Before working with Bylaw Services, Westover worked as a hospital custodian.

“I saw the posting looking for parking meter attendants, and thought what everyone thinks, ‘Sure, that sounds like a great job; you get to walk all day.’”

But what does it really take to be a parking attendant?

“Patience and conditioning,” says Westover, “You have to take care of your body, have a hard-

working spirit, people skills, and navigate different personalities.”

I think Westover is politely saying that some people freak out when they get a ticket.

For would-be parking meter attendants, Westover has this advice: “Be nice to pregnant ladies.

Sure, they’re glowing, but they can turn on you fast.”

That explains why grocery stores really invented priority parking spots for pregnant women.

But the person who knows the most about parking culture and infractions in Whitehorse must be David Pruden, a manager with the City of Whitehorse Bylaw Services.

He has worked in the department for 19 years. According to Pruden, the highest volume of tickets is issued on Main Street, due to the number of meters and volume of traffic. But Pruden says there are no hot spots for ticketing.

“Officers aren’t walking in circles, they cover all the meters equally in the downtown area between four and eight times a day,” he says.

A Parking Ticket is a Gift to Charity at Christmastime

If you get angry with your local parking meter attendant remember this: for a week at Christmas – December 6 to 13 – the City of Whitehorse Bylaw Services invites people who forgot to drop a quarter in the meter to pay their fine with a donation of food. Or, if you pay cash, you can request your fine payment to be donated to local charities.

It’s a program called Food for Fines.

The parking ticket must be issued between the 6th and the 13th, so don’t go trying to bring in your old parking tickets to pay with a donation.

The six-year-old program has been well received.

“The public has been very supportive of Food for Fines, and the organizations receiving the donations are very appreciative,” says Dave Pruden, a manager with the City of Whitehorse Bylaw Services who costarted Food for Fines.

“We saw happening it in another jurisdiction and wanted to start a program here,” he says.

Proceeds from Food for Fines go to the Whitehorse Foodbank and to Kaushee’s Place, a transition house for women. But when not being given to local charities, where does the income from parking tickets usually go?

Pruden says, “The money from parking tickets goes into the parking meter reserve and some goes into the general revenues. We issue between 15,000 and 20,000 parking tickets annually in Whitehorse.”

To learn more about the Bylaw Services program Food for Fines call (867) 668-8317.

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Whitehorse parking meter attendant Jason Westover doesn’t mind that catchy Beatles song “Lovely Rita, meter maid.” Says Westover, “I think any positive message about parking meter attendants is great.”

That’s a lot of walking in all two of the Yukon seasons – and a lot of tickets for a lot of people. At Christmastime, however, all those tickets translate into donations to the food bank. Just a little more proof that those parking meter attendants really do have a heart.

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December 12, 2013

A Baptism of Winter

A Nigerian tells us about his first winter in the Yukon

by Muhammad Bello Yakubu

M

ay of 2010 was when I landed in Canada. I came to the Yukon, directly from Nigeria. I was greeted by changes in the length of the day, a different array of animals in the woods, and some of the nicest people on the continent.

I was born in the northern most part of Nigeria – in the desert – in a town called Gusau, in Zamfara State. This town is known for its heat and temperatures can get up to 40-50ºC. The desert fauna includes the camel, chameleon, and some lethal snakes, and the flora mostly consists of thorny shrubs, which is what the camel feeds on.

season, and in the north we have the windy-cold-dry season, called harmattan. During harmattan, the temperature drops to about 30ºC. What makes that temperature cold to us is the wind. But when it is cold, nobody cares.

Here in the Yukon, when the weather gets very cold, that’s when it’s dangerous. In Nigeria, when it gets very hot, that’s when it’s dangerous. That’s when the mosquitoes come out and carry the malaria parasite. And that is when people can get cerebrospinal meningitis.

Here, I noticed that the fall gives way to the decrease in the length of daylight, which I learned

why it’s amazing to me.

This thing just comes down from the sky, why will it have a pattern, and not just any pattern?

If you were to draw the pattern of one snowflake, over and over, it’s as though an artist made it. It’s beautiful.

And snow is white and the clouds are white, so when it snows, it makes me think that the sky is shedding – trying to create a new cloud.

After a few days of my first winter, it got colder and the temperature plunged to -30ºC, but then it dawned on me that living in the Yukon is not child’s play – you must be ready for it.

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I have come to the realisation that, almost inevitably, Yukon locals will ask a new immigrant if he has experienced the winter in the Great White North – rather than questions relating to the marvellous beauty of the summer.

I began to hear stories about conditions below -40ºC. The story that excites me the most was how, at the height of winter, boiling water thrown into the air will turn to ice before landing on the ground. While I believe that may be true I have not tried it. With many of the stories, I have just been thinking that time will tell whether one day I’ll be telling the same story to newcomers.

Little by little, from the moment of my arrival, the days of summer crept into the early days of fall and my amazement increased with the experience of each season that I had only read about in books.

In Nigeria, we don’t have spring, summer, fall and winter.

We have the rainy season, the dry

is a harbinger of the winter – and then my long awaited season was finally here.

When my siblings in Africa told me they saw the weather forecast in Whitehorse drop below -10ºC, they said, “That’s too low. How are you coping?” But I realised that this is the time that Yukoners are celebrating because it’s still “warm.”

The first day of snow for me was like a child wanting to go and play in the rain and sing the song of the rain, but replacing the word “rain” with “snow.”

Snow, Snow, go away, Come again another day, Little Tommy wants to play.

What was surprising to me about the snow was how a single drop of snow has a certain pattern. What is behind that? I am now in my fourth winter here, and it’s still surprising to me. A drop of rain just falls, it has surface tension. But snowflakes have a certain pattern. I was expecting snow to have an irregular shape. That’s

My first big feat was to fully dress for the winter, and though I got lessons from people, I ultimately had to design my own dress code as it seems human beings experience cold differently.

The areas most important for me to cover are my lower limbs and my hands, but my trunk is not an issue.

In the house I prefer a wood stove because it replicates the temperature in Nigeria, and so I often say that in the house I am in Nigeria, and outside I am in Canada.

One fact remains undisputable: every day of the winter is a different story and experience in its entirety.

In my view, winter in the Yukon spells itself: W= wood for stove I= ice N= night all the time T= tyres for winter E= electric bills increase R= risk of frost bite Muhammad Bello Yakubu is a family physician completing certification to practice in the Yukon.

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December 12, 2013

Slow-cooked Cranberry Moose Ribs

Edible Yukon with Kim Melton

The Other Half of Foraging

How to use the food I’ve gathered: Step 1, open the freezer.

Making good use what you’ve gathered

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am always amazed at the prevalence of advertising in town. Traveling to a larger city I notice it even more — posters and billboards everywhere, even sounds and smells that are geared to entice consumption.

I wander about, following tantalizing aromas, becoming less and less interested in the lunch I’ve brought with me, and if I wander into a grocery store there are good odds I’ll come out with something I already have at home.

I know I’m not the only one who has been in the embarrassing situation of filling the freezer in the fall only to find an identical package from the previous year, untouched. I started to wonder about why that is, especially since I put so much energy into harvesting and preserving food.

To be sure, there is a learning curve associated with local cuisine; I may not be used to cooking

my freezer and root cellar.

So I turn conscious cooking into a practice.

By living out of town, away from a store, I become more inventive — for example using sauerkraut or cranberries to provide tartness in a dish calling for lemons.

I look for occasions to cook for friends and share the stories of the food with the meal. Eating local could be limiting, but it’s a blessing to cook with ingredients that are not only good to eat, but, as Michael Pollan puts it, “good to think.”

I am proud of the energy I put into my relationship with local food, and it makes sense to give it the attention it deserves.

with what grows here. However, humans are adaptable. Just look to the ethnic regions in any large city – the little Italys and Chinatowns, with their requisite restaurants, which came into being before the current era in which foods are widely available without regard for region or season.

Anyone with a taste for global cuisine learns the art of substitution.

Time is perhaps more of a challenge — foraged foods are by nature whole, and so time must be invested either at the processing stage or at the cooking stage, but I’ve bought whole foods for years so this isn’t a good excuse.

When I don’t use the food I’ve gathered and grown, the reason is actually quite mundane: habit.

After years of buying food from the store or market, I need to remind myself that I already have greens, fish, meat, and berries, in

Kim Melton is an enthusiastic forager and gardener, inspired by all things that make up good, local food.

PHOTO: Kim Melton

INGREDIENTS

3-4 lbs moose ribs 2 Tbs 5 Spice powder 2 tsp ancho chili powder 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp sea salt 2c rhubarb wine (or other white wine, or vegetable stock in a pinch) 1c cranberries 1c grated carrots

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Mix spices together, and rub over ribs. Place ribs in the slow cooker. Heat wine, carrots and cranberries until just below boiling, and pour over ribs. Cook on high for 6 hours or so – if you want a crispy finish, remove ribs just before the meat is falling off the bone and toss on a hot grill for a few minutes. Otherwise let it continue to the falling apart stage, pull apart and serve over garlicky mashed potatoes, making a gravy out of the reserved liquid. Leftovers make a great taco filling.

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Seeking Beervana with Lara Lewis

A Beeline for the Honey Brew D uring my frequent beelines to the Fat Tug IPA and other craft beers at the Whitehorse Liquor Store, my eyes catch a glimpse of the solitary bottles of Fuller’s Organic Honey Dew beer, but then they move on.

I’m not against honey or Fuller’s, but I do remember trying this beer years ago and deciding it wasn’t worth wasting my allotted beer calories on, especially for a hophead like myself. But that was years ago and I’m willing to give it another chance.

The beer comes in a sexy bottle with a big fat bee on the label. It is embossed with the words “est.

1845, Independent Family Brewers.”

Yes. Yes. Fuller’s Brewery avoided the temptation of getting sucked up by a mega-brewing company, and continues to independently brew a full suite of beers in West London.

The brewery’s Honey Dew is the best selling organic beer in

the United Kingdom. The taste is mildly sweet with a sumptuous mouthfeel and a slightly bitter bite I didn’t expect. It has a sweet aroma, with light hopping and sulphur notes, often caused by lager yeast. This makes it is reminiscent of a sweet honey European pilsner rather than ale.

And it is actually quite pleasant. I would drink it over a wide selection of macro-brewed swill any day.

Honey Dew is brewed with malt, hops, water and yeast. I’m not sure if it’s just a label misprint, but nowhere on the bottle does it say it actually contains honey.

It tastes like it’s brewed with honey, and on their website, Fuller’s tells me the non-export version is brewed with honey. It also claims to be organic, easy enough to believe for the barley, but how do you keep those bees reined in so they don’t go pollen-scavenging a Monsanto field of canola?

I’m sceptical.

Fuller’s (also known as the Griffin Brewery) has expanded over time, acquiring a couple of breweries along the way and almost 400 pubs in South England to dispense their beers.

If you are looking for a life change, you can go on their website and check out the “pub tenancies” or “pub vacancies.” These are essentially pub franchises.

Entering into one of these agreements makes you part of Fuller’s system. In England, they refer to this as a “tied house” whereby you have to buy a good portion of your beer from whichever brewery you are tied to.

Interestingly, the craft beer movement in parts of the United States has thumbed its nose at the idea of tied beer.

Stone Brewing out of San Diego was only serving up 20 per cent of their own delicious beer at their restaurant/sampling house when I visited a few years ago. The rest

PHOTO: Lara Lewis

Fuller’s Organic Honey Dew is the best selling organic beer in the United Kingdom. of the beers were made by other microbreweries.

This is a brave move in a competitive market, but it’s in keeping with the spirit of microbreweries who sometimes just have to let their beer do the talking.

Lara Lewis has been a homebrewer for years and is a certified beer judge through the American Homebrew Association’s Beer Judge Certification Program.

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Northern Opry Pairs

Budding Musicians and Seasoned Pros Country festival features acts from around home and as far as Texas, Dec. 20 and 21

by Angela Szymczuk

Natalie Edelson, left, Kim Beggs, Kim Barlow, and Helene Beaulieu perform a festive Air North Jingle at the event last year.

PHOTO: Rick Massie

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et your cowboy hats and boots ready: this year’s Northern Opry Project is fast approaching.

The concert first arrived on the Yukon scene last year, causing a stir among country music fans.

This year, the Opry, which takes place on Dec. 20 and 21, promises to be bigger, showcasing the talents of more than 40 singers and songwriters from the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Texas and Oregon.

This year, much-loved Yukon country musician Hank Karr will be headlining the Opry for both nights. Other acts include Nadine Landry and Sammy Lind from Oregon, Miranda Currie from Yellowknife, Gordie Tentrees from Whitehorse, and Jerome Stueart will be back from Texas to emcee the shows.

Part of the Opry’s mandate is to shed light on emerging country music artists. Budding artists each have a pair of songwriters who will write a song tailored to their musical range. The emerging troubadours will take part in music workshops one week prior to the concert with the hope of putting the country music hopefuls on track to a career in music.

Music veteran Dave Haddock

Local Bob Hamilton, left, Dave Haddock, Ed White, Robert Bergman, Annie Avery, and Amelia Rose comprise the Northern Opry band ensemble backing various acts last year.

will be joining the team of mentors leading the workshops. Based in Whitehorse, Haddock has been creating music for the past 15 years, and plays regularly at the Gold Pan Saloon. In September, Haddock released his new CD Talk to Me. “I’ve got the experience that gives me a good perspective on music and performance,” he says.

“It’s a joy to play music, and if I can serve someone’s musical journey in a way that helps them find the joy in music and performance, then I’m very happy.”

Some of the up-and-coming artists attending the music camp have been singing for years, while others are just starting to discover their talents.

Haddock has some words of advice for all of them.

“Mostly I find myself concerned with honest presence,” Haddock says. “Just learning how to be yourself on stage. Present. Available. Know the music and the arrangement really well – know your part and how it relates to the other parts, other voices and instruments.”

Producing the Northern Opry is singer-songwriter Kim Beggs. She is pleased to be presenting the project again this year – the project has gained momentum since starting as just an idea.

“It started over a conversation of me and a friend just having coffee,” she says. “I am super excited to be able to do this second time around,” she says.

That conversation has led to a unique country music experience in the Yukon.

The Northern Opry takes place on Friday, December 20 and Saturday, December 21 at the Yukon Arts Centre. Friday night’s performance will be signed for the hearing impaired.

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Scavenger Hunt Art with Nicole Bauberger

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Government admin building houses 22 pieces of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection

Photo: Tamara Neely

These lovers are hanging out at the Yukon Government Administration Building in Whitehorse. The sculpture by Bela Simo is called “Couple 1.

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dministrative building is chock full of art. Located on 2nd Avenue at Hanson Street, the site boasts 22 works from the Yukon Permanent Art Collection – the most of any of the locations featuring the public collection.

I felt like an intrepid explorer, going there with my list of works to track down. It’s an adventure to treat this building as a museum when it also serves many other purposes. It occurred to me that one could meet a friend for lunch at one of the establishments in the area, and then make an artviewing excursion. Let’s make this a well-trodden path.

Work that was purchased this year is easiest to find.

An exhibit of these new acquisitions animates the front foyer, including the swoop of Joyce Majiski’s “The Lobster Trap,” and Suzanne Paleczny’s larger than life “Winter Beard,” with ice crystals you can almost feel.

Short statements from each artist add to their meaning.

On the way into the legislature, glass cases display 3D work.

Here I find sculptures by Mrs. Kitty Smith and Chief Billy Smith. I have long been intrigued by their “Totem,” a stack of four animal heads carved from one piece of poplar.

The smooth forms don’t look like Northwest Coast style art; they offer something different.

Also on display, Mrs. Smith’s bear, with “YUKON” burned into the base, suggests to me an ambiguous story. The bear hunches

uncomfortably in its standing posture, carrying out, and at the same time resisting, its role. Mrs. Kitty Smith left a legacy of stories in written form by means of her collaborations with anthropologist Julie Cruikshank. I’m grateful for the chance to see her work.

Accompanying Smith’s sculptures are Kenneth Coyne’s “Sixth Shaman” made of radiating flattened metal flakes, Dolores Scheffen’s “Han Singing Doll,” Dennis Shorty’s “Knowledge Keeper,” and William Atkinson’s “Wolverine Mask,” asking the viewer to think about First Nations culture from many different angles.

Walk over to the Cabinet and Caucus desk across the stairway and look back to see the other side of Shorty’s “Knowledge Keeper.”

An old face balances the younger one.

While there, you can view Bela Simo’s “Couple 1” carved in basswood with a luminous green finish made of green pigment and beeswax.

Jessica Hall, the receptionist, observes that this sculpture stops visitors in their tracks.

To see the works in the Cabinet and Caucus offices, ask permission at the front desk beside the main art exhibit. It’s best to do so after 1 p.m.

It’s also worth asking to see the imposing Fireweed tapestry by Vancouver artist Joanne Staniszkis hanging in the legislative assembly hall. It hangs behind the Speaker’s chair. The richness of colour in its fibres glows with a presence no re-

production can match.

Don’t miss the artwork downstairs in the Opposition offices.

Monti Patterson of Community Services enjoys the rotation of artwork very much. She finds the work welcoming and inspiring. She says it reminds her of the “creative energy flowing” through the Yukon society.

These are only a few of the works you can see in the Yukon Government Main Administrative Building. Across the street at the Tourist Information Centre you can pick up a copy of “Art Adventures on Yukon Time” for more information about the permanent artworks installed in the building, including more tapestries and stained glass. It’s in the Whitehorse section under “Where to see and buy arts and crafts.”

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Kids in the Kitchen 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community Center for ages 6-13 Students will learn aspects of healthy food Exercise Group 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Center

Tuesdays

Floor Hockey 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Center

Carcross Wednesdays

Healthy Lunches cooking class 11:00 AM Old Daycare across the bridge open to pregnant moms and parents with children from 0-3 years old Sewing group 6:00 PM Capacity Building

Thursdays

Sewing group 6:00 PM Capacity Building

Fridays

Open Gym Night 7:00 PM

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Kids in the Kitchen 3:20 PM (starts Nov 4th) FREE for all kids 6-11 years of age.

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Tuesdays

Elders Breakfast 10:00 AM at the Old Daycare Reading Group 1:30PM Carcross library.

Free snacks provided.

Women’s Group Carcross Community Campus 7:00 PM Geraldine James 867821-4251

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Tuesdays & Thursdays Indoor Soccer 6:00 PM

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until Fri, Dec 13 Frontiers in Real Estate KIAC Works by Chris Foster Thu, Dec 12 SOVA Christmas Open House & Student Exhibition 5:00 PM Yukon School of Visual Arts Join us for fun and refreshments.

Sat, Dec 21 The Shortest Day Film Screening 7:00 PM KIAC A selection of Canadian Short Films Mon, Dec 16 Piano Lessons with Barnacle Bob 3:30 PM KIAC .

Mon, Dec 16 Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Dawson Rec Centre Recreation board grants are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Tue, Dec 17 Committee of the Whole Meeting - City Council 7:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron .

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Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre Sunday-

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Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC

Saturdays

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Sundays

Yoga with Jo 5:00 PM Robert Service School

Mondays

Hӓn Language Bingo! 2:00 PM Learn a little of the language of our land *subject to availability Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall 993-5370 Dawson City Film Festival Selection Screenings 7:00 PM KIAC Classroom

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Co-ed Basketball 4:00 PM Recreation Centre Gymnasium .

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Golden Horn Judo Club 3:30 PM Golden Horn School judoyukon@gmail.com or Mike 668- 6952. Under 15 years

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 9-12) Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Giant Board Games 3:45 PM Rec Centre Youth Lounge Tina Freake / 994-2375 Join us for active, board & card games

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South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 Parents and Preschoolers social time.

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Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary School Terice 668-6631

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Sat, Dec 14 Second Cousins 7:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre

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Mun Ku - Craft Afternoons 1:00 PM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Mun Ku - Games Nights 1:00 PM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM 6:45 PM Old Da Ku

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Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:30 AM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Southern Tutchone Classes 4:30 PM Da Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Old Da Ku Adult soccer 7:30 School Gym

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Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Takhini Hall Sewing Circle 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Dä Ku Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall

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Kids Craft time 3:00 PM HJ Public Library

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Badminton 7:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary School Tracy 393-7641

Thursdays

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Community Centre 660-4999 Parents and Preschoolers social time

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Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Environment Club DVG School 3:45 PM Alternating Thursdays Crafting Club 12:30 PM Alternating Thursdays Youth Group Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca After School Tutoring 7:00 PM The Drop In Center

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Playgroup for parents & tots 10:00 AM Noon Lorne Mountain Community Centre call Agnes 667-7083 for more information

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Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 1:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Questions contact Ruth Lera 668-5871 or email ruthlera@ northwestel.net Mt Lorne Ski club 4:00 PM for kids age 10 and up Sat, Dec 7 Snowball Dinner & Dance Marsh Lake Community Center 660-4999 with Auctions

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South of 6 10:00AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 Parents and Preschoolers social time

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Dinner at the Jackalope Marsh Lake Community Centre every Fri, Steak/ Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Reservations welcome: 660-4999

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Community Access Program 1:00 The Drop In Centre

Tagish Library 12:00 NOON Tagish Community Church 7:00 PM Tagish Estates Road. tagishcc@gmail.com first and third Sunday every month community church service in Tagish

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Home School Social 1:30 PM Rec Centre Beginner OsteoFit class 4:30 pm Rec Centre Stay-fit for Everyone 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407

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Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM. Seniors Complex After school sports 3:30 PM Teslin School gym Youth Hockey 6:30 PM (Senior Group)

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Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Club 3:30 PM Teslin School kitchen Youth Hockey 6:30 PM (Senior Group) Circuit Training 7:00 PM Recreation gym

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Watson Lake

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Thu, Dec 12 Fraser Canyon performance and jam 7:00 PM A coffee house style event for BOTH musicians and non-musicians!

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Sat, Dec 14 Senior’s Christmas Party 6:00 PM A community event for anyone 50 or over in Tagish and the surrounding area (Carcross, Marsh Lake, etc). Also for any members of the TCA in Whitehorse or anywhere else!

Sat, Dec 21 Family Christmas Potluck 5:00 PM A community event for families with children in Tagish and the surrounding area (Cacross, Marsh Lake, etc). Also for any members of the TCA in Whitehorse or anywhere else!

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Thu, Dec 12 Watson Lake School Council Meeting 7:00 PM Watson Lake Secondary School Library Open to the Public Sat, Dec 21 Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Andrea’s Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239 .

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Fridays

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Tagish Library and Tagish Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 NOON Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Community Centre 399-3407 calling for Christmas vendors up until December 18th

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Thursdays

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Advanced Osteofit Class 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Rec. Hall CATCH Kids Club 3:45 PM at the Centre encourages physical activity and a healthy diet. Parents are encouraged to participate.

Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Community Centre Free. Just need an instrument or your voice or both!

Fridays

Pre-school Playdays 10:30 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407

South of 6 10:00 AM Marsh Lake

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New Yukon Interactions

Parisian artist Baptise Bohelay brings his unique artistic vision North

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Baptiste Bohelay, left, uses a computer program to create an interactive performance with dancer Shayla Oxley’s movement at the Onde de Choc event Nov. 1 at the Yukon Arts Centre.

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aptiste Bohelay is an interactive and digital artist. He is also a developer, a designer and a programmer. But really, he prefers to refer to his art form as experimenting.

“You can find a definition on Wikipedia if you want a solid answer, but the truth is there is no set way to sum up what interactive art is,” he says. “It’s constantly changing and can take an infinite number of forms and shapes depending on the project and the artist.”

In Bohelay’s practice he creates a numeric language, a system that is then applied to human interaction.

“I like to see interactive art as a form of communication; the creation has to evolve, and react to the audience’s behaviour. ” An example of this is Bohelay’s recent collaborative performance in the multidisciplinary show Onde de choc at the Yukon Arts Centre on November 1. He created a computer program that translates human movement into a digital visual.

Every movement dancer Shayla Oxley made on stage was captured by Baptiste on his computer, which was instantly transformed into a moving visual piece projected on a backdrop.

“You can never get the same effect twice,” says Bohelay.

“The dancer’s movements were translated into a shape, colour and rhythm that was projected onto the backdrop. Simultaneously, I was on stage with my computer to add a human touch to the images, without ever dictating an effect. It’s all improvisation and no one has control over the result.”

Where did this new Yukon talent come from?

Bohelay is from Paris, where he obtained a degree in musical science. He then worked at IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique), an internationally renowned research institute that coordinates a variety of scientific points of view – from music creation, physics, signal processing, computer science, cognitive psychology, and musicology – to conduct research.

Bohelay was part of the 100 researchers, engineers, doctoral students, technicians, and administrative personnel who work in the Research and Development department at IRCAM. Bohelay eventually left the city of lights for Canada in 2011.

After a year of working as developer and designer in Vancouver, he made his way up to Whitehorse.

“I came up to the Yukon for the adventure,” he says.

And adventure he got. The Parisian lab-music-scientist and his just-as-Parisian girlfriend spent their first winter in the Yukon taking care of a dog team and living in a cabin with no running water or electricity. But he was still busy creating new interactive artistic projects.

“All I need to create is a computer and my ideas – I can do it from anywhere,” Bohelay says.

However, in the Yukon Bohelay encounters some misconceptions about his discipline. Interactive art can seem over technological, disconnected from people, and showy.

“It’s far more than a computer program generating puzzling sounds or images,” he says. “It’s very poetic, because it’s so human.”

And Bohelay maintains that an art form that is completely dependent on contact with people is, in fact, just as alive and unpredictable as we are. “Interaction is everywhere in nature and people,” he says. “Everything in this world is interdependent and moving, why should art be fixed?”

Considering Yukon’s considerable artistic talent, it’s very exciting when an artist brings a new art form to the territory.

What’s next for Baptiste Bohelay?

“When I moved to the Yukon, I set myself two goals: work with a dancer, and work with kids.”

One down, one to go.

Genevieve Doyon is a Whitehorse-based writer and theatre artist.

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December 12, 2013

The Christmas That I Met Lady Sherry

by Doug Bell

“Delivering on a Promise”

M

y new job at a remote bush camp kept my wife Pearl and I apart for our first Christmas in 1946. When the spring rolled in, she joined me in the thick bush. I thought the bush was claustrophobic, but it didn’t bother her.

She just said, “It’s as flat as the prairies, it’s just dressed differently.”

When Christmas rolled around again, Pearl and I had an invitation to a party at Tom and Paula Foley’s place.

Tom was a fellow radio operator, and a man to learn from at this wireless air navigation radio station. I had to work the midnight shift, so I said no to the whiskey he offered this greenhorn.

Tom suggested sherry and my sweet tooth twisted my arm.

My total booze experience up to that point was a couple of 10 cent beers at a sitting, easily explained by a $30 per month salary in the Air Force, and my current radio operator salary at $100 per month, which kept the wallet empty buying groceries. Tom tempted me with more, telling me how innocent it was and I liked it too much.

I thought sherry and I got along fine, but two hours later I walked through a light snowfall, got a briefing from Doc, the eveningshift man, and off he went to the party while I tried reading the official barometer to begin the weather observation, wondering why in heck it was so blurry tonight. When I’d finished taking the weather reading, it was time to broadcast it to aircraft pilots in our neighbourhood, part of the Northwest Staging Route.

Doc, on arrival at the party had Tom tune in to my broadcast, which I began with the usual, “This is Beatton River radio the

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Me, in the Radio Room sending Morse code without sherry’s help. time is… ” a long pause, then, “What the hell is the time?”

I recovered and finished, but the damage was done.

Our boss Bill, at the party, joined in the laughter, while I woke up to the fact that sherry was just a little more innocent than whisky. It was an “I might get canned” worrisome night.

Doc told the party, and Boss Bill, “There’s no aircraft around, we’re the only one’s who heard him.” But he’d told me there were three planes in our sky neighbourhood, the son of a gun.

Walking home in the morning my footprints in the fresh snow were straight down the centre of the road until close to the workstation, when I began zigzagging only kept on the road by the snow banks. I knew exactly where Lady

Sherry, as the camp scuttlebutt called it, got me.

One saving grace, Lady Sherry’s influence wore off enough for me to keep Wally Collier happy. We often tuned in to San Francisco’s Associated Press Morse code news transmissions to Honolulu and posted the latest news at breakfast. Wally loved teasing his newsjunkie Dad in Toronto that he read the news of the day before him.

Practical jokes kept cabin fever at bay, I was told later, and Pearl told me I was the “Star” of this one. Boss Bill offered me a sherry at the next party, saying nary a word otherwise: a management lesson without words.

Doug Bell is a writer, a gentleman, and a longtime Yukoner.

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Food for Thought with Katherine Belisle

Digesting the Facts

December 12, 2013

Part 4 of 4

Series: How to spend less on pills and get more from food

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his is the last article of the series.

We’ve looked at the ineffectiveness of synthetic nutrients, benefits of nutrient-dense foods, and explored how to improve digestion to make the most of what we eat.

Still, many people also choose to support their health with supplements. Here are some tips to consider when selecting a product.

Most tablets contain artificial fillers, glazes and binders. Due to their compressed form, they are difficult for compromised digestive systems to utilize – which includes most of us. The larger and cheaper the supplement, the more filler it likely contains. Time-release tablets have even more filler — generally hydrogenated oils — in order to prolong release.

Common additives to research or just avoid are: propylene glycol (anti-freeze), sodium lauryl sulfate (a carcinogen), sodium benzoate, BHT, BHA, tartrazine, titanium dioxide, polysorbate 80, microcrystalline cellulose, hydrogenated anything, and dyes. Many practitioners also caution against magnesium stearate, however, there is insufficient scientific research to support this recommendation as of yet.

Some people argue that the amount of additives is too small to worry about, but these chemicals are also found in our food, environment, and cosmetics, so it adds up.

Also, many people have allergic reactions to additives and may not even realize it.

If you are prone to allergies, or just want a higher quality product, choose products that are gluten, dairy, yeast, corn, and soy free.

By contrast, vegetable-based capsules, powders, or liquid formats are far less likely to contain toxic additives. If you are vegetarian, avoid gelatine capsules as

they are derived from beef or pork.

Whole-food products like fish and seed oils, or concentrated plant and herb products are better utilized because they come in natural forms that the body can recognize — because it’s food.

Products that come in synergetic formulas are more useful and less dangerous than those with isolated nutrients. Also, higher dosages do not necessarily yield better results.

As an example, B-vitamins are not stored in the body, so any unused portion is literally flushed down the toilet.

Instead, opt for lower doses to be taken throughout the day.

Choose supplements made of natural foods, herbs, or plant sources in vegetablebased capsules, liquids or powders (try the brands MegaFood or Vitamin Code). And, if you have particular health issues, save yourself time and money by consulting with qualified health practitioners that can coordinate the best foods, supplements, therapies and lifestyle choices to serve your specific needs.

The old adage, you are what you eat is wrong. More accurately, you are what you can digest.

And that goes for supplements as well.

Katherine Belisle is a registered holistic nutritionist and medical intuitive. She has a private practice and enjoys writing and teaching on a variety of topics related to natural health and healing. Contact her at info@wise-bodies.com

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Frost to Frost... with Joan Norberg

A Chicken and Egg Story L

ast year our chickens stopped laying eggs. For the first time in a decade we had to buy eggs instead of selling them. The egg strike, as one of our customers called it, lasted five months. But by the time they started laying again, their replacements were already in the barn.

The life of a laying hen starts like all other birds, by hatching out of an egg. The first few weeks can be spent with other poultry as well, although keeping them with meat chickens endangers their lives after a few weeks, especially if they decide to pile on top of each other.

Meat chickens tend to double their weight very quickly. The laying hens grow much slower.

When people asked when we

would have eggs again, I told them the chickens wouldn’t start laying until October. It takes five months for them to start laying eggs and we got the chicks in late May, so that seemed reasonable.

Sure enough they started laying eggs in late October, but we were out of town. So I was told they had started with only a few. By the time we returned there were two-dozen waiting for us, already collected with more to be picked in the barn.

The following week we had another five-dozen, then 11 and then 24.

In my experience, it takes some time for all of the hens to reach maturity and start producing. In that time the eggs aren’t all exactly as they should be.

Some end up with double yolks

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and others are too small to contain any yolk at all. We will also get eggs without shells. When picked up they resemble a fragile water balloon.

A few weeks ago, while checking for eggs one morning, I came across four of these. We can’t use them so Schwartz got them with his breakfast.

The chickens are also learning where to lay their eggs.

At first they lay where ever they happen to be but after a while they start using the nests provided.

A few years ago, Al went into the barn in the morning and had to really watch his step. The floor was covered with eggs. He counted 52 when he finally got them all picked up.

It was the first time that happened, and it hasn’t happened since.

A hen can produce up to 300 eggs in their first year of laying. As

a chicken ages, two things happen to them: the eggs become larger and they produce fewer of them until they stop completely.

This is what happened almost a year ago with our old hens.

At this point they make very good soup or they can be allowed to live out their days doing whatever they like.

Because we only had 10 of the old hens left we decided to just let them live.

The life of a laying hen

starts like all

other birds, by hatching out of an egg.

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Sat, Dec 21 Winter Solstice Run 10:00 AM Grey Mountain Road Meet at the parking lot.

Wednesdays

Lunch Hour Yoga 12:00 PM Shanti Yoga Studio with Sabu. all Levels welcome Ultimate Frisbee 12:00 PM Canada Games Center Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8-12.

Box Lacrosse Drop-in 4:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School 668-2840 Traditional Yang Family Style Hand Form, Part 1 6:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary Activity Room Helen Dobrowolsky 668-3814 midnight@ northwestel.net A beginners tai chi chuan class focussing on the first section of the traditional Yang family 103 movement hand form Adult Biathlon Program 6:30 PM Biathalon Range Judy: 334-6726 or Vern 633-2297 Bhangra dance with Gurdeep 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre In the Wellness Studio.

Polarettes Adult/Teen Drop-in 7:00 PM Vanier School 867-668-4794 Whitehorse Badminton Club Adults 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary School birdiebash@gmail.com Ring The Bell at front doors to join Yukon Amateur Boxing Association Training Sessions 7:00 PM Avalanche Combat Arts Centre. Jess 335-3831 Table Tennis Drop in 7:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary School. Dave 668-3358

Thursdays

Traditional Yang Family Style Hand Form, Part 2 6:00 PM Hidden Valley Elementary Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde.ca This class focuses on the 2nd section of the Traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan hand form. Students should already know the first section Nia Technique 7:15 PM Leaping Feats Susie Anne Bartsch 335-3442 In the studio. A combination of martial arts, dance arts and healing arts set to music.

Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca Co-Ed Drop-in Ultimate Frisbee 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary Soccer field Everybody is welcomed 336-0255 morrmic@hotmail. com Archery 7:00 PM Christ the King Elementary School. Les Johns, 667-7349.

New members welcome.

Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 PM on Gray Mountain Road range; officers on duty.

Traditional Yang Style Sabre Form 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde. ca An introductory tai chi weapon form that combines the smooth, easy movements of Tai Chi with the use of a sabre. Can be aerobic.

Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier School 867-668-4794 between the ages of 10-14.

Fridays

Moms and Kids Family Health and Recreation Program 10:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Erica 667-2693 All moms, grandmas, and kids under 8 are welcome to join us.

Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8-12 Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders 5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@snowboardyukon,com Registration required.

Cardio Tennis Beginners 6:45 PM Canada Games Centre In the Flexihall. No class November 15 Punjabi Bhangra Dance 7:00 PM Family Literacy Centre Gurdeep 336-3344 a natural alternative to Cardio exercises, it requires energetic, rhythmic movements Whitehorse Badminton Club Adults 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary School birdiebash@gmail.com Ring The Bell at front doors to join Salsa Yukon’s Latin Dance Classes Beginner 1 & 2 7:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio 335-0909 salsayukon@ gmail.com Salsa Yukon’s Latin Dance Classes - Intermediate 1 & 2 8:45 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio 335-0909 salsayukon@gmail.com

Saturdays

Tai Chi Practise 10:00 AM Takhini Elementary School Janet Maclachlan 633-5287 An open session to practise tai chi quan with other enthusiastic players.

Everyone is welcome.

Drop-in Yoga Class 10:00 AM 303 Hawkins Street 456-7123 All Levels welcome Ultimate Frisbee 6:00 PM Canada Games Center Kris 333-9393 Scottish Country Dance Club 7:00 PM Pat 668-4976. No experience needed.

Drop-in Salsa and Merengue lessons 8:00 PM Leaping Feats 668-6517

Wellness Listings Thu, Dec 12 Lights of Life Opening Ceremony 12:15 PM Elijah Smith Building - Atrium Deb Higgins, Project Coordinator 633-8990 project@hospiceyukon.net A holiday tradition to remember the life of a loved one. This is a simple ritual that the whole family can take part in.

Wed, Dec 18 Holistic Health Practitioners Reconnection Open House 5:30 PM Rah Rah Gallery Tegan 668-5180 ywhn99@ yahoo.ca, Kim 333-9001 All Holistic Health Practitioners welcome! Hosted by Yukon Wholistic Health Network(YWHN).

Refreshments provided. RSVP to ywhn99@ yahoo.ca

Weekdays

Second Opinion Society Drop-in Resource Centre 11:00 AM 304 Hawkins St 667-2037

Wednesdays

Yin/Yang Flow Yoga 9:30 AM #150 2237 2nd Ave Free Nutritious Lunches 12:00 noon Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre. For moms and kids up to age 8.

Sally & Sisters lunch 12:00 PM Food Bank 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women Wellness Wednesday 1:30 PM Second Opinion Society 667-2037. Learn practical skills for Mental Wellness.

Traditional Parenting Program: “Unfinished Projects Workshop” 6:00 PM Skookum Jim Friendship Centre Women’s Support Group Meeting 6:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Run by women for women who have experienced violence.

Connecting to Self through Sound and Movement 7:30 PM Centre De La Francophonie Madelanne 336-4168 To connect with and explore their inner world through sound and movement.

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Pregnant women welcome!

Triggers: What or Why 6:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Co-dependents Anonymous 7:00 PM Whitehorse United Church Calvin 334-5863 Spiritual science/Waldorf/Anthropop group 7:30 PM Hillcrest Josef 335-2300 Weekly study group exploring Waldorf/ anthroposophy/spiritual science of R. Steiner, various topics. Free

Sundays

Drop-in Yoga Class 10:00 AM 303 Hawkins Street 456-7123 All Levels welcome Crestview Ski Group 11:00 AM free Pine Forest Loop 633-2455 Table Tennis Club 1:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary School. Dave, 668-3358 Polarettes Family Drop-in 2:00 PM Vanier School 867-668-4794. Enjoy a fun afternoon of gymnastics experience.

Paddlers Abreast recreational paddling 2:00 PM Canada Games Centre Zoomer’s Wellness 55+ 7:00 PM 10 Hyland Crescent, Riverdale Susana 633-6821 or Rob 668-7239. Two left feet welcome!

Whitehorse Badminton Club Adults 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary School birdiebash@gmail.com Ring The Bell at front doors to join Ultimate Frisbee 12:00 PM Canada Games Center Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Yoga In The Alpine “Absolute Beginner” 5:30 PM Alpine Bakery wallymaltz@northwestel.net. Instructor Erica. For beginners and those blessed with stiffness.

Yukon Amateur Boxing Association Training Sessions 7:00 PM Avalanche Combat Arts Centre. Jeff, 335-3831 Trampoline for Snowboarders 7:00 PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ snowboardyukon.com Registration Required

Tuesdays

Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please register before course starts Yoga In The Alpine “Level 2” 5:30 PM Alpine Bakery wallymaltz@northwestel. net. Instructor Erica.

Yang Family Tai Chi Sword 6:00 PM Holy Family School Gymnasium Continued study of Traditional Yang Style Taijiquan 67 movement sword form from movement 39 Yang-style Tai Chi 7:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School Multi-Purpose Room Laura Beattie 456-7609 A tai chi chuan class introducing the Yang-style form, suitable for beginners and for those who’d like to go back to beginner’s mind.

Yang Family Tai Chi Push Hands 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Gymnasium Tai chi partner work to gain an understanding of the martial aspects of taijiquan & develop ting jing, listening skill Archery 7:00 PM Christ the King Elementary School. Ron 456-2009. New members welcome.

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Family Health and Recreation Program 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Erica 667-2693 All kids under 8, moms, and grandmas are welcome.

Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 noon Food Bank 334-9317. Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome).

Narcotics Anonymous 7:00 PM Many Rivers Counselling & Support Services Sat, Nov 9 Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Girl’s Club 12:00 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Anna 667-2693 All girls aged 11-19 are welcome to attend.

Sundays

Zoomer’s Wellness 55+ 4:00 PM 10 Hyland Crescent, Riverdale Susana 633-6821 or Rob 668-7239. Two left feet welcome!

Mondays

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Pregnant women welcome!

Sally & Sisters lunch Noon Food Bank 334-9317. Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome).

Support Circle 4:30 PM Contact Heather 667-5724 or Joanne 667-8798 for details.

Support Circle for family and friends concerned about someone else’s drinking or drug use.

SMART Recovery Meetings 7:00 PM Many Rivers Fireweed Family Room Larry 334-4706. Self-empowering addiction recovery support group.

Overeaters Anonymous 7:30 PM 4071 4th ave. oayukon@gmail.com. Do you have a problem with food?

Tuesdays

Support Group: Coping with Cancer Stress 12:00 PM Thomson CentreRiverside Room Join to learn and share ways of coping and reducing cancer related stress Gam-Anon 7:30 PM Many Rivers Counselling & Support Services. 6686466. Support for families of compulsive gamblers.

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The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Porter Creek Step meeting (CM) 8:00 PM Our Lady of Victory No Puffin (CM, NS) 8:00 PM Big Book Study Maryhouse 504 Cook St.

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The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Happy Destiny Young Peoples Group 6:00 PM B.Y.T.E. Polar Group (OM) 7:30 PM Seventh Day Adventists Church (PC)

Friday

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Yukon Unity Group Meeting 1:30 PM #4 Hospital Road Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) 9:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St.

Saturday

Detox Meeting (OM, NS) 1:00 PM DETOX Bldg 6118-6th Women’s Meeting (CM, NS) 2:30 PM Whitehorse General Hospital (across from emergency) Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting (OM, NS) 7:00 PM Hospital boardroom

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Tuesday

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Wild Places with Bryce Bekar

We’re Not Out Here Shopping Lessons learned and good times had in the backcountry

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Autumn arrives in the alpine.

Our inner desire to provide for our families outweighs the cold nights, rainy days and scorching heat climbing no-sheep mountain.

It took four years of living in the Yukon before I could come up with the knowledge and equipment to get out hunting.

I spent 20 years living in Churchill, Manitoba hunting.

Starting with a pellet gun when I

was four, then a .22 at five, and when I was nine, a savage overunder 22/20 gauge.

Alone at a young age, I would patrol the willows for well-hidden ptarmigan, sharpening my senses and moving silently through the sometimes-polar-bear-inhabited area.

Wearing snowshoes and a modified steel frame pack to pull

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my sleigh, I could regularly bring home dinner while we were at the cabin. There is no TV show or computer that can teach lessons like these.

I got a Remington model 870, 20-gauge for my 12th birthday, and I consider that fall the start of my true passion. From a young age I knew that limiting-out on ducks and geese was the desired outcome for many people. But I was – and still am – there for the hunt.

Over the past five years I have spent endless hours in the pursuit of moose, caribou, bison, sheep and geese.

We have managed to sit in blinds for hours waiting for geese to come by with no avail; spent weeks on mountaintops and valley bottoms in search of caribou; crossed lakes and rivers from one side of the territory and back to find moose.

We have looked high and low to find these animals I once took for granted.

In 2009, our oldest daughter Hayley and I headed up-river on our first Yukon moose hunt. Hayley was a seasoned hunter; even at the age of 12 she had been bird hunting with me since for nine years. Four hours in, we saw a young bull with two cows; we tracked them till dusk then remembered we still had to set up camp.

Early the next morning while the bacon was sizzling on the grill for breakfast, Hayley could hear an unfamiliar noise over the rushing current of the river. A bull was watching us through the trees on the other side of the river. Unable to get a shot, we ate breakfast and proceeded in the opposite direction in search of more adventures.

We returned to camp for dinner early. Seeing another three bulls and hearing a cow bellow through the valley and then appear out of the thicket was amaz-

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We’re Not Out Here Shopping ... cont’d. stalk. They became too cumbersome for her and putting them on a “special tree” for safe keeping turned out to be a mistake. Turns out we got a 64” moose and that special tree looked like every other tree on the way back.

So here I am, three years since the last successful moose hunt — planning for my moose, caribou and sheep hunts of 2014.

Will I fill any of those seals? I sure hope so; but like all the trips before, the likelihood of travelling thousands of kilometres is a guarantee.

The thrill of the chase and the desire to succeed overpowers nearly ever ambition we have.

Some of us move from job to job, or town to town, but we still find a way to hunt. Often we find ourselves at work thinking of where to go and all the scenarios that

The writer and his daughter Janessa check out a swamp for moose. ing enough for one day.

After dinner, we took the boat out to explore, and stumbled across the bull from earlier. Sealing our tag, we worked till every flashlight and headlight died. The trip back to camp in the moonless night, with only the aid of the

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In 2010, we decided to see if there were moose in the mountains. Hearing lots of stories about how they come down for the rut, we figured we would meet them on their travels.

The grown-in willows hid the old mining trail up the mountain.

There we were able to spot a set of antlers from a distance and get closer. A cow, young bull, and large mature male inhabited the valley.

Hayley carried the binos on our

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So, if, like me, you have a few unlucky years, remember that it is not called shopping. We are hunters.

Be safe, hunt smart, and don’t forget: when you can, hunt with your kids — not for them.

Bryce Bekar is member of the Outdoor Writers of Canada and America, and the Yukon Fish and Game Association. He believes that hunters, anglers, and outdoorsmen are the key to keeping our environment safe and enjoyable for generations to come.

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