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November 14, 2013 Issue #352

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Curator Garnet Muething want’s you to explore the Yukon Permanent Art Collection Reinvent yourself at the TEDx conference

Brian Fidler’s Broken plays in Teslin and Haines Junction

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Poignant Labour Docs Screen in Whitehorse

The Canadian Labour International Film Festival comes to town on Nov. 20

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he Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF) celebrates its fifth anniversary in the Yukon on Wednesday, November 20.

CLIFF is an initiative of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), presented locally by the Yukon Employees Union (YEU).

Designed to showcase the realities of working life in Canada and around the world, CLIFF will present eight films in three screening rooms, giving viewers a choice of films from Britain, France, Haiti, Mozambique and Canada. And it’s free.

Two films from Canada are represented. One of them, The Ukrainian Labour Temple chronicles the history of Winnipeg’s historic landmark of the same name.

Opening in 1918 in Winnipeg’s multicultural North End, it has long served as a social, cultural and political nexus in the city.

Here, workers, farmers and union activists have long gathered to observe the victories and setbacks of Manitoba’s labour movement. It served as a rallying point during 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and hosted many a firebrand speech during that tumultuous era.

The other Canadian entry is Last Shift: The Story of a Mill

Town. Employing interviews and archival footage, this 45-minute film documents the shutdown of a paper mill in Dalhousie, New Brunswick.

Last Shift follows the history of the town, the mill and its workers, from its opening in 1929 to its ultimate closing in 2008. Directors Tony Tremblay and Ellen Rose poignantly portray Hope, hardship, labour struggles, and the mill’s eventual collapse.

The plight of undocumented immigrant workers throughout much of Europe is vividly illustrated in On Vient Pour La Visite (Coming For A Visit). A new feature documentary from France, the film portrays developments in Paris in 2009, when more than 6,000 immigrant workers went on strike to demand improvements in their treatment.

Long victimized by employers and temporary work agencies as a cheap labour source, undocumented immigrants (“sanspapiers”) were subject to arrest at any time. Yet as workers, they have the right under French law to strike and occupy their work site. Assisted by unionists, they gradually learned how to negotiate with employers and cope with police.

With first-time unrestricted

camera access to the strikers’ daily lives, the director follows the courage, occasional hopelessness, conflicts and camaraderie of the workers, who learned how to strike by doing it.

Il Tesoro Sotto I Piedi (The Treasure Beneath Your Feet) is a 2013 film from Mozambique.

In a region rich in coal deposits, life has been disrupted by the changes wrought by foreign interests and their zeal to exploit the resource. Mines have replaced fields and farms, and rural villages have been destroyed and whole communities struggle to survive.

In the midst of environmental destruction, the population must measure the benefits of foreign investment, against the ruin of a way of life.

Ukrainian Labour Temple, Last Shift: The Story Of A Mill, Coming For A Visit and The Treasure Beneath Your Feet will play in Whitehorse at the Yukon Employees’ Union Hall, 2285 2nd Avenue on Wednesday, November 20, as part of the free CLIFF showings.

Films start at 7:00 p.m.

Brian Eaton is a cinema buff writes about film-related topics on a regular basis.

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TEDx Comes to Whitehorse

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Conference promotes “Ideas Worth Spreading”

by Glenda Koh

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t is often noted that Whitehorse is a place where people can reinvent themselves periodically without anyone blinking an eye. And in the midst of our current technological society that seems to undergo a complete overhaul every decade, it seems appropriate to take a day to ponder the theme of reinvention.

This is what the organizers of Whitehorse’s second TEDx conference are proposing you do on November 23, when 13 speakers will offer their thoughts and experience on “The Power of ReInvention.”

TED is a non-profit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” The annual global TED conference features leading thinkers and innovators speaking for 18 minutes each. Their talks are then made available for free viewing at TED.com.

Local TEDx events are independently organized and curated conferences that give a TEDlike experience. Whitehorse’s day-long event will not only feature a range of speakers, but also music, lunch, and opportunities for discussion and socializing.

Co-organizer Nigel Allan explains that re-invention is a theme that on one hand is broad, but on the other hand requires us to stretch our minds.

“Talking about reinvention is a way for us to explore creative solutions that require us to think outside the box in some way,” says Allan. “As a theme, it is also general enough to encompass a lot of different ideas so we could have a really interesting day that covers many topics and issues.”

Speakers will be grouped into

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Fiddler and pilot Boyd Benjamin will be drawing from his own experience as he talks about reinvention at Whitehorse’s TEDx event. four main sub-themes: the reinvention of self and family, redesign of the arts, entertainment, and design; rethinking of technology; and re-envisioning society.

Two professionals from outside the Yukon will be speaking at this year’s conference.

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Dr. Nicole Letourneau is a Calgary-based professor and researcher in the field of nursing who conducts community-based research focusing on parenting and child development. Her talk is titled “Re-inventing the Family.”

The list of Yukon-based presenters runs the gamut from environmentalists to educators, politicians to prospectors.

Among the speakers will be musician Boyd Benjamin, a fiddler and pilot from Old Crow whose tag line is “The Flying Gwitch’in Fiddler.” Benjamin released an album with the same name early in

2013, and has previously recorded and performed with the group Home Sweet Home.

Benjamin explains there are elements of reinvention in his own life. His grandfather Peter Benjamin was a fiddler. His uncle Allan Benjamin is also a fiddler.

“I’m the next generation,” says Boyd Benjamin. “I’m a fiddler but with my formal training and travelling and performing, I’m doing it differently than we used to. I still keep those Old Crow traditions in me and play the dances that are unique to Old Crow, but I also do music in a different way now.”

As a pilot, he serves his community in ways that are familiar, but new. His grandfather was an RCMP officer who patrolled using a dog sled.

“He provided an essential service to his community by dog team,” explains Benjamin. “Now, I provide an essential service to the same community as an air ambulance medevac pilot. That contrast is a reinvention in its own way.”

True to its original namesake, TEDx aims to be a day filled with ideas on technology, entertainment and design worth spreading.

A full list of speakers is available at www.tedxwhitehorse. com. The event takes place on November 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. Tickets are $35 for adults and $25 for students and seniors. They are available the Yukon Arts Centre and Arts Underground.

Glenda Koh reinvents herself in Whitehorse.

~ Correction ~ In the article titled “Dawson City: A Living Ghost Town” in the issue of October 31, 2013 we ran an incorrect photo caption, which indicated that the accompanying picture featured the old Commissioner’s Residence. In fact, it was a photo of ex-mayor John Steins’ house.

See Page 19 On the Cover Curator Garnet Muething handles “Winter Camp” by Halin de Repentigny (1990) with care.

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Middle Row, Centre.................. 2 TEDx.................................... 3 A Klondike Korner................... 5 Didee & Didoo........................ 5 Yukon Love............................ 8 Seeking Beervana...................12 Living with Wildlife.................13 Yukon Permanent Art Collection.. 14 Broken................................16 Brown Bag Lunch...................18 Riverdale Community Centre.....19 Wild Places...........................20 Frost to Frost........................21 Edible Yukon.........................25 Marathon in Vegas..................26

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Whitehorse Happenings............ 7 Highlights.............................10 Community Happenings...........22 Active Interests.....................24

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A Klondike Korner with Dan Davidson

What is the Tr’ondëk-Klondike Project?

Tourists already come to Dawson by the thousands. Would World Heritage Status bring more of them? This group of Europeans viewed the vista from the Midnight Dome in mid September.

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n two pervious columns I have given some background behind Dawson City’s interest in UNESCO’s World Heritage Status designation. The Klondike region was placed on the national short list for this status in 2004, and I have outlined some of the earlier attempts to realize this goal.

The latest project is called Tr’ondëk-Klondike: Future World Heritage Status? It is being led by TH who are “managing the process of exploring the cultural, social and economic impacts of possible World Heritage status on behalf of community partners.”

The process also includes an advisory committee with input from the Klondike Visitors Association, the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Parks Canada, and the Government of the Yukon. It also includes four residents.

I am one of the chamber reps on this committee and, as a journalist, I have been writing about this subject on and off since Pierre Berton first brought the possibility to my attention in 1997.

Since much of the Dawson City area is already comprised of several overlapping National Historic

on some of the Parks Canada cutbacks that have had such a negative impact here.

The nomination process, which PHOTO: Dan Davidson would take a number of years to Sites, and the town already has a complete, would promote better Historic Management Bylaw, add- relations between governments, ing World Heritage Status to the businesses and community groups.

Specialists have been recruited local mix would only make very minor changes in how people live to work on various aspects of the study, which is beginning by athere now.

No hunting, fishing, mining or tempting to define the outstanding trapping rights would be affected, universal value (OUV) statement, nor would local taxes and util- which is an essential part of the ity rates. Construction guidelines nomination.

This is an exploratory study at in the downtown core area have been in place for decades, so no present, seeking to determine the degree of local support for this change would occur there either.

However, there is a tourism designation and the feasibility of a draw associated with World Herit- successful submission to the Interage Status, so we could expect to national Council on Monuments see visitors who have an interest in and Sites.

Details, and a survey for anyone indigenous, cultural, industrial and natural sites. There would likely wishing to comment on this topic, can be found at the project’s webbe more international visitors.

There would also be more lo- site (http://tkwhstatus.ca/) and cal interest in learning about and also on its Facebook site.

I’ll return to this topic once celebrating what makes this area so special, and a commensurate that OUV statement has been reincrease in community pride con- leased. The next set of workshops nected with living in, hosting and on this project will take place in a safeguarding one of the world’s few weeks time. most precious places.

After 32 years teaching in We could expect greater ability rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidto leverage funds and attract partnerships for research, protection, son retired from that profession but continues writing about life and interpretation of heritage, in Dawson City. and perhaps turn back the clock

Cold Rush

IN THE SUMMER THE MOSQUITOS WILL BITE IN THE WINTER THE FROST WILL BITE. WHEN YOU GO TO THE OUTHOUSE YOU WEAR YOUR PARKA OVER YOUR BLOUSE. YOUR PANYS WILL BE DOWN TO YOUR KNEES SO IT WON’T TAKE LONG TO FREEZE. YOU HAVE TO BE IN A BIG RUSH BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO FLUSH. WHEN IT’S DOWN TO 40 BELOW I DON’T THINK YOU’LL BE SLOW.

YOU JUST HAVE TO BE BOLD TO GO TO POTTY IN THE COLD. WHEN IT’S 40 BELOW OUTSIDE AT LEAST YOU WON’T GET FRIED. I DON’T THINK IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAVE TO GO TWICE. IF YOU EVER FREEZE YOUR BUM IT WILL BECOME NUMB. IF YOU DON’T FREEZE YOUR BUNS YOU’RE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES. I THINK YOUR POOR SEAT WOULD PREFER THE HEAT.

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Whitehorse Happenings Art Shows until - Sat, Nov 16 Ken Anderson, James Nizam, & Yam Lauln All Day Yukon Arts Centre At the Public Art Gallery. until - Wed, Nov 20 YAAW 10th Anniversary Celebration With Art Display Co-Op Gallery until - Sat, Nov 30 Paper Guns Northern Front Studio by 13 year old Ben Beese, Paper Arms Manufacturer until - Sat, Nov 30 Flight Arts Underground Flying, Fleeing & Fancy in watercolours until - Sat, Nov 30 Planted Arts Underground by Shiela Alexandrovich & Lynn Fabio fibreworks & explorations in plant based colourings until - Sat, Nov 30 In the Open Air North End Gallery By artist Halin de Repentigny until - Mon, Dec 2 Sculptures by Sandra Story Arts Underground until Mon, Mar 31 Dà Ze Tsàn - From our hearts 9:00 AM Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Patti Balsillie 6337805 Perspectives on Yukon First Nations Sewing and Weaving Traditions

Live Music

Thu, Nov 14 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza .

Thu, Nov 14 HOT FLASH!! 8:00 PM Rah Rah Gallery Peggy Hanifan and Cate Innish will folk rock your world! an intimate evening of music and friends and goodies!

Thu, Nov 14 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else suits Fri, Nov 15 HOT FLASH!! 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub Come party and with friends and enjoy good food too!

Fri, Nov 15 Isaak, Haddock & White 9:00 PM Gold Pan Saloon .

Sat, Nov 16 Yadong Guan Trio: Pipa, Guitar, and Cello 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre .

Sat, Nov 16 HOT FLASH!! 8:00 PM Epic Pizza Peggy and Cate playing your favorites with new tunes too! HOT FLASH welcomes all jammers to join in for this show!

Wed, Nov 20 Louis-Jean Cormier Concert 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre presented by AFY Thu, Nov 21 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza .

Thu, Nov 21 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else suits Fri, Nov 22 Blues Cargo 9:00 PM Gold Pan Saloon .

Sun, Nov 24 Jazz on the Wing, Cory Weeds Quartet w/ New York Trombonist 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Duncan Sinclair duncan.sinclair@jazzyukon.ca 3342789 West Coast saxophonist Cory Weeds brings his working quartet and world class New York jazz trombonist Steve Davis. The jazz will be smokin’.

WEEKLY Live Music Jam Nights Wednesdays

Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza Peggy 668-7448 goes till we are done! features BIG MAMA LELE at EPIC Wed Nov 13 th

Thursdays

Thursday Night Jam 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub 456-4742 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone who wants to play or sing together open-mike night with Steve Slade 7:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon Bring your voice or an instrument and perform a few song Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats

Saturdays

Roadhouse Jam with Ben Mahoney 7:30 PM Roadhouse Bar and Grill Ben Mahony opens with a set of original songs and classic favourites and hosts an open stage where local musicians perform Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats

Tuesdays

Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Jam Night with Ben Mahony 9:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Bring an instrument or play his or play along.

First timers folkies and rockers and everyone else is welcome.

Film

Sun, Nov 17 Available Light Cinema: A Cat in Paris 3:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre A cat leads a secret double life: his days as a family pet in a police officer’s home, his nights with a thief on the rooftops of Paris.

Sun, Nov 17 Available Light Cinema: Status Quo? 6:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre This doc zeroes asks how much progress we have truly made since the 1967 Commission on the Status of Canadian Women.

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Sun, Nov 17 Available Light Cinema: Renoir 8:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Set in summer 1915, the Impressionist painter is 74 and can’t hold a brush, but his eye remains sharp and his appetite for life is undulled.

Wed, Nov 20 Canadian Labour International Film Festival 7:00 PM YEU Hall Includes films from all over the world showcasing the realities of workers and families everywhere Fri, Nov 1 - Sat, Jan 25 YT in 3D: Stereo Photos From Yukon 5:00 PM Arts Underground In the Hougen Heritage Gallery.

Theatre

Thu, Nov 21 - Sat, Dec 7 The Cripple of Inishmaan 8:00 PM The Guild Hall A play of delightfully devilish Irish insanity.

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Open Studio for Adults/Acrylic Painting Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground With Neil Graham.

Free English Classes 7:00 PM 108 Wickstorm Road in Whitehorse. For more information call:335-5443.

Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray Mtn Road Range officers on duty Acrylic Painting Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground easels and water containers on site.

Please bring your paints, brushes, supports and rags.

Contact: 667-4080 Yukon R/C 7:00 PM Mud Bog Motor-Cross Track Bring your R/C and meet other hobby enthusiast Voice/Movement Group For Adults 7:30 PM United Church Downstair

Thursdays

Feminist Book Club 5:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre a book club for feminists Merengue and Salsa lessons 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Sun, Nov 17 - Wed, Nov 20 Yukon Geoscience Forum Dance Studio Show up 10 to 15 minutes in advance to & Tradeshow High Country Inn Tradeshow is open to register and pay. the public.

Conventions & Conferences Craft Fairs

Thu, Nov 14 Haines Junction Christmas Craft Fair 7:00 PM In the Grand Hall and Atrium at the St. Elias Centre Sat, Nov 16 Old Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM Old Log Church logchurch@klondiker.com / 668-2555 Heritage inspired Christmas ornaments and more Sat, Nov 16 Christmas Spruce Bog 11:00 AM Canada Games Centre Open at 10:15 for Seniors (60+) and person with mobility difficulties.

Sun, Nov 17 Tagish Christmas Craft Sale 9:30 AM Tagish Community Centre, pancake breakfast, for more info call 399-3407 Sat, Nov 23 Old Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM Old Log Church logchurch@klondiker.com / 668-2555 Heritage inspired Christmas ornaments and more Sun, Nov 24 Lingonberry at Rah Rah 11:00 AM Rah Rah Gallery Original work by Yukon and Alaskan artists.

Sun, Nov 24 Cranberry Fair 11:00 AM Westmark Whitehorse Starting at 10:15 am for those with reduced mobility.

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Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome) ESL Conversation Club - 5:30 PM Multi-Cultural Centre on a drop in basis 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.

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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.

Sundays

Sunday School 10:00 AM at Christ Church Cathedral, 668-5530 Polarettes Family Drop-in 2:00 PM at Vanier School, 867-668-4794. Enjoy a fun afternoon of gymnastics experience Toddler Church Service 9:30 a.m. Whitehorse United Church, 601 Main Street. Stories, songs, snacks provided and prayers 20 minutes Info: 667-2989

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 Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Youth Shooting Program 7:00 PM Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Introductory Open House and sign-up for Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies 11:00 AM Victoria Youth ages 10-19 years. Parental permission required.

Faulkner Women’s Centre Pregnant women welcome!

Twoonie Race 7:00 PM alternating Mt Mac or Chadburn with Contagious Mountain Bike Club Romp & Run Playgroup 9:30 AM at Whitehorse United YFC/Youth Unlimited 7:30 PM LePage Park Melissa Teeuwsen 335-8809 Hang out in the park every Tuesday Church.

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM night, rain or shine. All youth are welcome.

Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 6673006 Art Smarts Kids After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Underground Marlene Collins (mcollins@northwestel. net) 667-4080 Ages 7-9 Seniors Qigong and Yang Family Style 16 Movement

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Thu, Nov 14 MOVE! Training In Multimedia and Violence Prevention Workshop 4:00 PM BYTE Allison Furniss 667-7975

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 Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM 6209 – 6th Avenue, Elder/Active Bingo 6:00 PM at Elk’s Hall 393-2824

BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Free Citizenship Exam Preparation Course for ESL Yoga In The Alpine “Teen Yoga” 5:30 PM at Alpine Wed, Nov 13 Friends of the Gallery Society - AGM learners 9:00 AM Multicultural Centre of the Yukon Bakery. wallymaltz@northwestel.net Instructor Tammy Janet Pauch 667-4733 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library The Friends of the Biathlon Junior Team Training 5:30 PM at Grey Yukon Amateur Radio Association 9:30 PM A&W Mountain Road. Keith Clarke, ktclarke@northwestel.net Gallery Society is responsible for developing the Yukon Informal breakfast with YARA members, Hams from Permanent Art Collection. Everyone welcome. outside the Yukon often join Thu, Nov 14 Yukon College Brown Bag Lunch Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM at 6209 - 6th AvSpeaker Series: Dr. Fiona Schmiegelow 12:00

enue, 393-2824 PM Yukon College Room A2103. Bring your lunch.

Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 PM Gold Rush Inn Wed, Nov 13 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner Kid’s After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Underground Conservation By Design “Advancing the Science of Micah 336-4643 Pottery/Ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground .

Yukon Art Society reception@artsunderground.ca 667- Sustainability in Canada’s North” Adult Pottery Drop-in 2:30 PM at Arts Underground, Wed, Nov 13 Comedy Night Live 9:00 PM Jarvis Street 667-2159. Clay is available for purchase. Equipment 4080 Ages 10-14 until October 25 Thu, Nov 14 YEU Executive meeting 6:30 PM YEU Saloon open mic stand-up Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up (Mixed Media) and tools are provided. Closed Holidays.

Hall 667-2331 .

Thu, Nov 14 Pivot Festival Launch 6:00 PM Epic Pizza Ceramic Open-Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor:Karen Rhebergen.

Thu, Nov 14 Velonorth Cycling Club’s AGM 6:30 PM hear about what’s new at the festival, and watch the 6 sessions.

SingAlongMessiah Collective Auditions and Sport Yukon . trailers for our upcoming acts at Pivot Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Rehearsals 4:00 PM United Church Rachel 668-7502 Thu, Nov 14 Uke On Ukulele Club 7:00 PM Dean’s Thu, Nov 14 Snowboard Yukon AGM 7:00 PM Sport Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please register To perform a sing-along performance of Handel’s Strings Learn the ukulele or enjoy the co. of other before course starts Yukon .

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Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier School, Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, 334-9317 welcome.

Fri, Nov 15 Book Launch: The Fire Reapers 5:00 PM Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome) judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 Sat, Nov 16 - Sun, Nov 17 Wilderness Tourism The Old Fire Hall The new juvenile fantasy novel by Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 Workshop 8:30 AM Vista Outdoor Learning Centre Patricia Robertson. Reading from the book at 5:45 PM. Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@ PM 633-4003 Located on Gray Mtn Road Range officers Sat, Nov 16 Big Bull Night 5:00 PM Yukon Inn In the Wilderness Tourism Business Interest? Expand your yukonrollergirls.ca on duty Fireside Room. So drop by with your hunting trophy so Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier School 867- economic opportunities? Register by Nov. 8 Space it can be scored.

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Sun, Nov 17 Community Dance Gathering 10:30 Tue, Nov 19 Rotary Club of Whitehorse Midnight Sun Free English Conversation Group 302 Strickland St., AM Centre De La Francophonie The dance is open to Meeting 12:10 PM Yukon Inn . people of all ages, and ALL levels of dance experience lower level. 668-5907. Bring your own lunch Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 9:00 PM Rec Night: Tue, Nov 19 Green Drinks - Whitehorse Monthly Bingo (Regular Games) 5:00 PM at Elks Hall Mon, Nov 18 Adult Art Classes (14+) Color Theory manhunt, floor hockey, dodgeball and more.

6209 6th Networking Event 5:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub alex@ 7:00 PM Arts Underground Explore a variety of mediums Whitehorse Curling Club, 667-2875 Avenue, 393-2824 elr.ca People who work in the environmental field (or Potluck Food Co-op - Info-Market 4:00 PM 5th Ave, with Suzanne Paleczny.

Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School want to!), or have an interest in the environment, meet between Wood St. and Jarvis St. Tue, Nov 19 Brave New Writing 7:00 PM Rah Rah Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 up to discuss news and network.

Gallery Susan: susannehingley@hotmail.com This is BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Tue, Nov 19 Air Cadets Assembly 6:15 PM Whitehorse a creative writing workshop that takes place on the 3rd Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders 5:30 PM Elementary School Capt. Jennifer Lafreniere 668-7688 Tuesday of each month FREE DROP IN at Yukon Family Literacy Centre Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Coach, Mary Binsted For youths 12 - 18 years old.

Tue, Nov 19 Talks: Character Comedy 5:30 PM at the Mon-Fri Noon - 3:00 PM, 334-2944 mary@snowboardyukon,com Registration Wed, Nov 20 YEU Local Y025 (Whitehorse Hospital Old Firehall featuring Claire Ness & Sharon Shorty Mon-Wed 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sat 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM required.

Workers) monthly meeting 5:30 PM YEU Hall 667Wed, Nov 20 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner (2nd Floor of Canada Games Centre) Colleen/Stephanie Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre Pottery/Ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground 2331 .Thu, Nov 21 The All-City Band Society AGM 668-8698 Free family learning fun!

AfterShock Youth Group 7:00 PM Church of the Wed, Nov 20 Sursaut Danse’s Boo! 7:00 PM Yukon 8:30 PM F.H.Collins School Jennifer Ondrack 667-8044 Nazarene 633-4903 Ages 12 to 18 Arts Centre (ext. 251) In the Secondary Library.

Thu, Nov 21 Christmas Craft Club 3:00 PM Arts Fri, Nov 22 Family Health and Recreation Program

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM Caregivers Underground Ages: 7-12.Kids will work with a variety 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Erica and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Youth Chef Night of materials and techniques to create a new seasonally 3006 we teach recipes for healthy food from scratch. Ages 11- 667-2693 All kids under 8, moms, and grandmas are inspired project every week. welcome.

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Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs Yukon R/C 3:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary School Sat, Nov 23 TEDxWhitehorse Speaker Series 9:00 456-4752 Open to all 667-3006 Bring your R/C and meet other hobby enthusiast AM Yukon Arts Centre The theme is “the power of Tumble Time Playgroup 9:30 AM at Riverdale Baptist Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre Whitehorse Lions Club [2nd Wed each month 6:30 reinvention” Church Kathy 668-7273 or 667-6620 (aged birth to 5).

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Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Girl’s Club 12:00 Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up (Mixed Media) PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Anna / 667-2693 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor:Karen Rhebergen.

Sundogs Toastmasters 12:00 PM Sport Yukon 633All girls aged 11-19 are welcome to attend.

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6228 Open to all Kids Pop Choir 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School La Francophonie 668-2663 Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Spanish Conversation 12:00 PM Golden Age Society. Grades 3-6. With Barbara Chamberlin.

Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier School 867- Dance-Based Leadership Group For Girls 15+ 4:30 ¡Bienvenidos!

Whitehorse Rotary 12:10 PM Westmark Whitehorse 668-4794 between the ages of 10 - 14 PM Centre De La Francophonie Madelanne Astrie / 336Whitehorse String Ensemble rehearsal 6:15 PM at Hellaby Hall, 668-5530. New members welcome. Violin, 4168 No class on the 14th Oct. viola, cello and bass Trampoline Training for Snowboarders 7:00 PM Lake Laberge Lion’s Club [2nd & 4th Tues each month Young Explorers Preschool Program 10:00 AM at Texas Hold ‘em 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Royal Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head Coach, Mary Binsted 7:00] Captain Martin House 668-7979 president@ MacBride Museum Canadian Legion. Steven Grossinger Royal Canadian 334-2944 Improve your snowboarding under the lakelabergelions.com Family Story Time 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Legion - Texas Hold ‘em Tournament. free poker supervision of trained coaches. Two Levels available for Whitehorse Midnight Sun Rotary 12:10 PM Yukon Inn For children ages 3 – 6 who are accompanied by an tournament, all skill levels welcome. Training available Rendezvous Rotary 7:00 PM Yukon Inn snowboarders ages 10+ adult. from 6-6:30 PM

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Sunday, November 24th Westmark Whitehorse Doors open at 10:15 am for those with mobility difficulties.

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November 14, 2013

with Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

The Yukon Romance of Claude and Mary Tidd The following story is from an online exhibit

by Yukon Archives that features letters, diaries, manuscripts, newspaper articles, photos, home movies and sound recordings collected and saved

by Mary’s family in Pennsylvania.

H

e was a British teacher who came to Canada in 1910 and became a Mountie.

She was an American farm girl-turned-nurse on the lookout for far-flung adventure. In the Yukon she would find her adventure — and the love of her life.

In August 1924, Claude Tidd and Mary Ryder met while she was heading to fill a nursing position in Fort Yukon. When her steamer, the S.S. Casca, made a stop at Dawson City, where Claude was posted, the two met and Mary was smitten.

“I met a wonderful specimen of manhood — one of the Royal Northwest Police who wore a gorgeous uniform with a coat of scarlet,” she wrote. “We went to a ball on Pioneer Day...and this particular corporal danced with me so often that ever since they tell me what a grave oversight it was to be inoculated against everything almost and then succumb to ‘scarlet fever’.”

They spent her short stay in Dawson together, driving around town and

Photos: courtesy of Yukon Archives

Claude and Mary Tidd enjoyed a quiet life in the Yukon, and liked to be close to the land.

hiking the Midnight Dome.

Then Mary left for a tough winter at Fort Yukon where she dealt with a mission fire, flood, and severe cold. She even helped amputate the mailman Mr. Bredermian’s frozen feet.

Through it all, she kept up a correspondence with her handsome Mountie.

In April 1925, Claude wrote her mother saying “I have fallen in love with Mary,” and petitioned his RCMP commander for permission to marry. He received it, and on August 2, 1925, the whole town of Fort Yukon came out for the nuptials.

Bishop Rowe, who performed the ceremony, remarked to friends he had never seen “a prettier wedding or a more impressive ceremony than ours in the little church within the Arctic Circle.”

Claude gave Mary a bouquet of “mixed white flowers, roses, flox, [and] sweet peas,” and they decorated half a dozen dogs with bells and red ribbons for the occasion.

Then everyone boarded the S.S. Yukon — which Claude had arranged to take north — for a grand reception.

Over the next decades, the couple lived in towns such as Old Crow, Mayo, Forty Mile, Whitehorse and Dawson City. They even lived in Vancouver for a few short stints, but as cont’d on page 9...

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Whe Yukon Romance of Claude and Mary Tidd ... cont’d.

The Tidds returned to Claude’s hometown of Norfolk, England in the mid ‘40s, but they found life in postwar Britain to be very hard.

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Claude wrote, “the ‘Spell of the Yukon’ proved too strong and we returned north.”

After he retired from the RCMP in 1935, Claude tried different things. He was a purser on the White Pass and Yukon Route Company’s steamboats during the Second World War, and ran the Northern Commercial Company store.

His real passion, though, was photography, and his

images document different corners of the territory during a period of tremendous change.

In the mid-1940s, the couple left the Yukon forever. They crossed the Atlantic, bound for Claude’s hometown of Norfolk, England, but they found the deprivation of post-war Great Britain very hard.

Claude became seriously ill and passed away in 1949. Mary returned to her family home in Pennsylvania and died a few years later.

They had their ups and downs; Mary was prone to depression and Claude sometimes struggled to find work, but their love never wavered.

They spent many happy days in remote outposts, getting out on the trail with their dogs, and living a quiet life close to the land.

To learn more about the Tidds, please visit the Yukon Archives online exhibit at www. yukonromance.ca.

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The Tidds had their ups and downs, but their love never wavered.

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Highlights Prends ta place!

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Pivot Theatre Festival: You’re invited to the Pivot Theatre Festival Launch at Epic Pizza!

November 14th 6:00PM-7:00PM Enjoy some amazing deals on pizza, hear about what’s new at the festival, and watch the trailers for our upcoming acts at Pivot!

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In the Edge Gallery: Flight

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Open Studio Sessions: Ceramic Open-Studio Every Sunday from 2:30-6:00p.m. $5 per hour paid to Studio Tech

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Acrylic Painting Open-Studio with Neil Graham

Starting in September 2013 Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7-9p.m. $10 per 2hr session paid to Studio Tech For more information please contact Arts Underground at 667-4080 orreception@artsunderground.ca

Sunday, November 24th Westmark Whitehorse Doors open at 10:15 am for those with mobility difficulties.

Open to all from 11am to 4pm.

Hosted by the Northern Fibres Guild

Funding through Arts Operating Funds and Yukon Lottery Commission

Info: 335-6987 / cranberryfair@live.com

Craft Fairs Beaver Creek Thu, Nov 14 NBJS Christmas Auction 7:00 PM Community Centre

Dawson City Sat, Nov 30 Christmas Art & Crafts Sale Kiac Building For info call 993-5005

Haines Junction Thu, Nov 14 Christmas Craft Fair 7:00 Pm - 9:00 pm In the Grand Hall and Atrium at the St. Elias Centre

Mount Lorne Sun, Dec 8 Lorne Mountain Country Christmas Craft Fair Mt Lorne Community Centre For more info call 6677083

Tagish Sun, Nov 17 Tagish Christmas Craft Sale 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Pancake breakfast, for more info call 399-3407

Whitehorse Sat, Nov 16 Old Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM- 3:00 PM Old Log Church Heritage inspired Christmas ornaments and more For info call: 668-2555

Sat, Nov 16 Christmas Spruce Bog 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Canada Games Centre Open at 10:15 for Seniors (60+) and person with mobility difficulties.

Sat, Nov 23 Old Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Old Log Church Heritage inspired Christmas ornaments and more For info call: 668-2555

Sun, Nov 24 Cranberry Fair 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Starting at 10:15 am for those with reduced mobility

Sun, Nov 24 Lingonberry at Rah Rah 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Rah Rah Gallery 6156, 6th Avenue Original work by Yukon and Alaskan artists.

Sat, Nov 30 First Nations Christmas Fair 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School Carving, Traditional Beadwork, Tlingit Weaving, Concession, Bannock & Tea, Silent Auction, Raffle Baskets

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Residents of Riverdale, We are looking forward to meeting you! at the NEW COMMUNITY CENTRE located in the heart of your neighbourhood!

Everyone is Invited to

HEART OF RIVERDALE COMMUNITY CENTRE OPEN HOUSE Sunday, November 17, 2013 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Bring your kids and teens!

There will be arts, crafts and other activities to do.

A performance showcasing local talents including a pop choir and theatre improv demos will be held around 3:00 pm.

Refreshments will be served Come see the new facilities and give us your ideas on what kind of activities you want to see offered in your community.

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Seeking Beervana

Scottish Beer? Ay, Laddie.

T

he problem with being a great whiskey-producing nation like Scotland is that it becomes all you’re known for, Okay, there’s also bagpipes, haggis and Caber tossing. But Scottish beer?

Do they even make beer in Scotland?

Yes. McEwan’s Scotch Ale was the only Scottish beer I heard of growing up. It could be seen gathering dust between the six packs of Steinlager and Louwenbrau on the export shelf.

Recently, McEwan’s was lost to us for a while. After Heineken acquired the Scottish & Newcastle brewing company in 2008, they discontinued the export of McEwan’s to Canada. But, if you have been missing this malty Wee Heavy, you can rest easy because they resumed exports to Canada this year.

Scottish beers tend to be malt-

focussed and sweet, with caramel richness and low hop character. A few have poked their heads up at our local Whitehorse liquor store.

If you are in the mood for something different, pick up a single, small bottle of Innis & Gunn OakAged Ale (I & G) for $3.80.

The aroma is a mix of sweet malt, caramel, oak, candy, sherry, and subtle European hops. The flavour is malty sweet (but not cloyingly so) with low bitterness. Imagine ovaltine, plus whiskey, plus club soda, plus Madeira sherry.

Now, imagine that combination actually tastes good and that it pours into your glass as a glorious golden amber beer.

I & G is aged in bourbon oak barrels. In the bourbon industry there are strict rules for production. Producers have to use a fresh bourbon barrel for every batch they make. So, if you are a beer brewer, you have a ready supply of slightly used oak barrels. In the

case of I & G these barrels imparts flavours like furfural (caramel notes) and vanillin (vanilla-like aroma & flavour).

It has a hint of smoke in the flavour too.

This is no “mash and dash” beer. I & G matures for 77 days before release, which is the sign of a highend, value-added product.

Many types of ale go from malt to market in just three weeks.

I can’t drink a lot of I & G, except for one time in France where they had it on tap and it was St. Paddy’s day (It’s not Irish, but it did the trick). But the brewery says it is excellent with seafood, juicy steaks and mature cheese. I’ve paired it with roasted chicken and it was delightful.

At 6.6% abv, you can cozy up

Photo: Lara Lewis

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Innis & Gunn nestled in a poor facsimile of a tartan. to it on a blustery winter evening and even feel a wee bit of a Scot-

tish Brogue coming on, a sign of a true “usquebaugh” (water of life).

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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Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what camera equipment you used to Editor@WhatsUpYukon.com

PHOTO: KIm Melton

T

his gorgeous caterpillar was enjoying the fireweed growing out of the deck

in August. I saw one more like it in October while cleaning up the garden, but otherwise have never seen its match in size or color north of 60. I would love to know what it has become, if there are any larvae experts in the neighbourhood.

This photo was taken with a Canon Powershot G12, with an earbud placed next to it for scale.

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Scavenger Hunt Art Gallery Do you know where your art is?

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by Nicole Bauberger

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Curator Garnet Muething looks into a storage container for one of the 3D works of art in the collection.

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ukoners, you are the proud (or perhaps unaware) owners of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection (YPAC). The collection holds over 350 artworks in trust for you. The collection includes paintings, beadwork, weaving, textiles, sculptures and carvings. Some of them are in storage, but about half the collection is always on display in public offices, for your viewing pleasure.

Curator Garnet Meuthing rotates artwork in this “gallery” about once a year, in the springtime when weather is more amenable to moving artwork.

But unless you have business in those buildings, you might not see the artwork on display. That’s why I’ve undertaken to write a series of articles about these artworks and their impact.

Hopefully they will inspire you to make short detours in order to see your artwork with your own eyes.

Many works are displayed in the Yukon Government Main Administration Building on 2nd Avenue. Ask the receptionist at the end of the main lobby (toward the glass doors) to let you into the cabinet and caucus area to view the pieces from the YPAC. Other locations include the City of Whitehorse offices, Copper Ridge Place, the Yukon Liquor Corporation. Altogether there are about 20 locations around Whitehorse.

McDonald Lodge in Dawson City, J. V. Clark School in Mayo, the Haines Junction Visitor Information Centre (summer), the Municipal Building in Faro, as well as the Yukon Senator’s Office in Ottawa, all contribute wall space to our territorial “gallery.” Whitehorse locations often change, as offices move and word about the collection circulates.

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The storage vault in the Yukon Arts Centre hold approximately 250 works of art that belong to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection, which are rotated every year.

adequate security for the artwork (like a reception desk), a wall free of visual clutter, and reasonable environmental controls for the artwork’s preservation. For example, in the winter it would be to stressful on a painting to hang it next to an exterior door.

Workers in the selected offices don’t themselves get to select which artwork they display. The intent is to rotate the collection fairly and evenly. That being said, Meuthing “makes certain allowances.”

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Centre, much of the public traffic has First Nations connections, so she often features First Nations artwork there.

In the Respectful Workplace Office, she prefers to hang work that’s “not too heavy.”

She finds that vivid, larger works are welcomed in the seniors’ Residences, and if she can find something that has a personal relationship to one of the residents, she tries to hang it there.

The hallway at Copper Ridge Place has room for about twelve pieces. If residents have their own stories to tell about a given artwork it is a benefit both to themselves and to the community.

Works from our collection are also lent out for special exhibits.

A selection hung in the Yukon

Arts Centre foyer for an evening arts presentation was offered to visiting delegates at the Arctic Council in October. Fifteen pieces were also loaned to the “Dà Ze Tsàn – From our hearts” exhibition at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre.

This exhibit offers viewers a deeper understanding of the Yukon First Nations sewing and weaving traditions and features Kitty Smith’s doll, Gertie Tom’s fire bag, and many other finely worked pieces from the YPAC. It runs until March 31, 2014.

Nicole Bauberger is a painter, writer and performer living in Whitehorse. Find out where you can see her work at www.nicolebauberger.com

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Broken Heads Down the Road

Brian Fidler’s one-person show travels to Carmacks, Dawson City, Teslin and Haines Junction

by Peter Jickling

B

rian Fidler’s latest oneperson show, which he wrote and stars in, has an inclusive quality about it.

Broken, which premiered in Whitehorse in the fall of 2012, deals with Alzheimer’s disease and the way it affects family relationships.

“The story is universal,” says Fidler. “Nearly everyone will have experiences with aging and dementia at some point.”

The play, which is inspired by Fidler’s own childhood memories of an aging grandparent, is about a year in the life of a grandson who progressively loses his grandfather to the disease. Fidler makes use of slides, puppetry and direct monologue to tell his story, which has already received acclaim for productions in Victoria and Toronto.

Now Ramshackle Theatre and Nakai Theatre are taking Broken around the territory. It has already played in Carmacks and Dawson City earlier this month, and will play in Teslin on November 14 and Haines Junction on November 28.

For Fidler, taking Broken on the road is a natural move.

“Part of Ramshackle Theatre’s mandate is to anchor its shows in the territory,” he says. “The

Yukon is our home base.”

Fidler has previously traveled around the territory with his puppet show, Cam and Legs, in 200910. He found his performance in Beaver Creek to be particularly memorable.

“I was in front of an audience of seven kids, and for a lot of them it was their very first show,” says Fidler.

It’s special connections like this that makes performing in the less populated communities of the Yukon worthwhile, he says.

“Sometimes you get to meet more of your audience,” says Fidler. “In Whitehorse you might go out with some friends for a beer after the show, but in one of the smaller communities you might end up at someone’s house for Shepard’s pie.”

Not that performing outside of Whitehorse doesn’t have its unique challenges. Venues, for one thing, can be an eclectic mix.

“I’ve found myself performing in some unconventional settings — like rec centres, or libraries or gyms.”

But for a veteran theatre artist like Fidler, such challenges are to be embraced rather than shunned.

“It puts me in the right head

space,” he says. “It keeps me on my toes and I can’t phone it in.”

And when you are the only performer on stage, like Fidler is in Broken, being on top of your game is important.

“If you forget your lines you’re kind of screwed,” he says.

Sometimes other things go wrong too, and when they do a solo performer has to have his wits about him. Fidler recalls one performance of Broken where a crucial light bulb burnt out.

“I had to stop the show and tell the audience ‘I’ll be right back.’”

It’s the type of situation that plays to the strengths of more confident actors, and Fidler acknowledges there is something egotistical about starring in a oneperson show. But he’s also quick to spread the credit around.

“Jordy Walker’s sound design is a huge part of the show, and David Skelton (the artistic director of Nakai) has been supportive all the way through,” he says. “There are so many people who helped to make it all happen.”

Perhaps he saves his biggest thank-you for the director, Maiko Bae Yamamoto.

“She was really tough,” says Fidler. “I have kind of a mushy

personality, but she really pushed me hard and forced me to be tough, too. I needed that.”

Will all the hard work pay off on his latest tour?

Given the subject matter, Fidler’s answer is suitably inclusive.

“People are people,” he says.

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Brian Fidler uses puppetry, slides and monologues to tell his story about Alzheimer’s disease.

“If they liked it in one place chances are they will like it in another.”

Broken plays in Teslin at the Heritage Centre on November 14 and Haines Junction at the St. Elias Convention Centre on November 28. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m.

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The Cut-Throat World of Forest Real Estate

Dr. Kathryn Aitken discusses Animals Competing for Space at Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

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ometimes it’s tough to find the perfect place to live, or even a place to live at all.

During these times of scant housing, have you ever considered moving into an occupied house?

Why not just set up camp in the third floor of someone else’s nice home?

Whitehorse’s Dr. Kathryn Aitken, instructor/coordinator of the BSc in Northern Environmental & Conservation Sciences Program at Yukon College tells me that in the cut-throat world of forest real estate some birds do just that.

“Starlings are not native to Canada but were introduced by Europeans 120 years ago,” says Aitken, “They will build a nest right on top of other birds’ nestlings. Starlings aggressively use pre-existing cavities for nesting.”

Oh, like one of those preexisting cavities I’ve been looking at on Kijiji? Not exactly. Aitken, who is giving a free talk on November 26 as part of Yukon College’s Brown Bag Lunch Speaker series, explains how cavity houses

are created, passed along, and competed for, in the forest.

“Woodpeckers excavate cavities in trees by working at the softer, decaying patches of the tree,” says Aitken. “After the woodpeckers leave their nest in that cavity, other birds and animals nest there or use it for shelter, because they can’t make their own.”

Aitken became “hooked on birds” while studying for her Bachelor of Science at Simon Fraser University. Aitken has also worked for Canadian Wildlife Service (part of Environment Canada) in the Yukon, and holds her Master’s and PhD from University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry.

Among other things, she studies the nest-web.

“The nest web,” says Aitken, “is a complex set of interactions like a food chain or food web, but is instead centered on nest sites.”

A Yukoner since 2007, Aitken’s Brown Bag Lunch talk will explore the nest-web of cavity-nesting birds such as owls, starlings,

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Dr. Kathryn Aitken studies cavity nesters such as this mountain chickadee, which is bringing home the bacon at Aitken’s study site near Williams Lake, B.C. woodpeckers, bluebirds, swallows, kestrels, and ducks. Small mammals such as red squirrels, northern flying squirrels, bushytailed woodrats, deer mice, and bats also nest in cavities and will be discussed.

“Birds are small and around us all time, which makes them

easy to study,” says Aitken, who worked extensively on a survey project near Williams Lake and Riske Creek, B.C. “They are so different from mammals, yet birds have parallels with mammals’ behaviour and evolution. Things like language, dietary behaviours, and hunting [in the bird kingdom] are

similar to human behaviour, but were arrived upon through different, but equally complex, evolutionary paths.”

Take for example, the features of a good nesting cavity or house.

Aitken has observed that the keys to cavity popularity are similar to things people look for in homes.

“It boils down to how many babies can be produced there,” says Aitken, “At the Williams Lake study site, I wondered why some cavities were used over and over again year after year, and others were not used. The most popular cavities were close to food, were more protected from the elements, and safer from predators.”

The neighbourhood counts too.

Aitken is currently studying cavities in the Fox Lake burn.

“Burned areas in the Yukon provide habitat similar to the grassland area I studied in B.C. The stressed and dead trees provides habitat for many species to use like kestrels and mountain tree swallows,” says Aitken.

And speaking of burnt wood, Aitken suggests, “when you are cutting firewood, it’s a good idea to leave trees with pre-exiting cavities uncut.”

Aitken’s Brown Bag Lunch Speaker series talk is entitled, “Cut-throat Competition: How birds and small mammals in our forests manage a real estate crunch” and is on Tuesday November 26 from 12:00 p.m. — 1:00 p.m. in room A2103 at Yukon College, Ayamdigut campus.

For more information about the Brown Bag Lunch Series visit: www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/hub/ brownbag.

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Opening the Heart of Riverdale

New community centre offers programming options for the young and young-at-heart

by Susan Starr

“L

ead with your knees… lead with your eyebrows! How does your ‘status’ change when you lead with another body part?”

George Maratos guides a group of kids through a theatre improvisation class. There’s lots of laughter and there are frequent excited screams as the kids challenge each other through the series of creative exercises.

Later adults get a chance to have fun too in their own class.

There’s just as much laughter in the adult version, as brains and bodies are moved to create, to be spontaneous and to play.

For a couple of years there have been murmurings about activities in the space next to the Leaping Feats Dance Studio at 38 Lewes Blvd.

Now, the walls have some exciting new murals and equipment has been appearing — video cameras, computers, turntables, speakers and a piano. There’s also a huge worktable that’s perfect for art projects.

This fall both adults and kids have been playing at theatre sport and practicing improv in the 1500 sq feet of play/art/ meeting/music/ conversation space. Junior and senior kids’ pop choirs have been showing up, tuning in and singing out. Volunteers have been cleaning and painting and organizing.

The Heart of Riverdale Community Centre is ready to open the doors and invite folks in.

There’s a curiousity about what might be possible — parent and child morning music classes?

A noon-hour international knitting circle? Friday movie nights? Afterschool programs?

Andrea Simpson-Fowler, owner of Leaping Feats, has dreamed of

creating a place “where people of all ages come together to participate in programming and to nurture children and youth to grow and develop in positive

PHOTO: Susan Starr

“Lead with your knees.” A group of kids take part in an improv class led by George Maratos and healthy ways and experience a sense of belonging by participating in activities that promote healthy lifestyles.”

With the help of some funding from the Yukon Government, through Breakdancing Yukon Society, her vision has become a reality; here is a space for performing arts of all styles as well as visual arts and myriad other endeavors.

The board of directors and supporters of the Heart of Riverdale Community Centre are inviting Riverdale residents and all other interested friends to an open house, on Sunday afternoon, November 17 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. There’ll be demos of some of the activities, some art supplies and games to play with, books to browse, puzzles to build.

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Wild Places with Bryce Bekar

A family affair: Dennis Zimmerman and his wife Hillarie, sons Max and Zachary and mother-in-law Suzanne, seen here halibut fishing in Ninilchick, Alaska.

PHOTO: courtesy of Dennis Zimmerman

Local Angler Receives National Recognition Dennis Zimmerman wins the 2013 Recreational Fishing Award

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n October 9, 2013 Dennis Zimmerman was awarded the 2013 Recreational Fishing Award.

This award, which is only handed out to a handful of Canadians or Canadian organizations each year, recognizes the dedication he has shown in the conservation, restoration and enhancement of Canada’s recreational fisheries.

In the Yukon, Zimmerman is the executive director of the Yukon Salmon sub-committee, which provides recommendations to the First Nations and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on how to maintain and sustain salmon popu-

lations. They also work with Canadian and Alaskan game branches to help gather information that benefits all parties involved.

Zimmerman created fishonyukon.com about five years ago, which gave Yukoners a place to go and talk about fishing. The site had a blog that he wrote, plus a section where individuals could post updates on Yukon fishing.

It also contained lake information, such as hot and cold spots, and which lakes were frozen and which were opening up. It also allowed people to show off their trophies.

Over the years of working with

anglers of all ages Zimmerman has moved his focus to the national stage. Fishing is the fastest growing sport in North America, but mainly on an individual basis.

However, he is working on Family Fishing Canada, which will be a place for families to gather information on how to get out and enjoy the sport of fishing. There is a lack of family involvement in the industry, but with people like Zimmerman it won’t be long until all the info people need, from professional fishermen to the mom and pop who are going out to buy their first rods, will be easily available.

Zimmerman has decided to

pursue family fishing on a national level because knowledge is not being passed from generation to generation. In fact, most people don’t have the knowledge to pass.

If an individual’s parents didn’t fish, it’s unlikely that their son or daughter will pick it up. Zimmerman aims to inform people who didn’t fish during their childhood how to pick up the sport.

With so many lakes across the country and some amazing fishing that is not being utilized, we run the risk of losing this resource that many take for granted.

With an increase in people who fish comes increased knowledge

of our precious ecosystem. When fishing, you bring all the elements of the lake or river together.

An experienced fisher will know where to fish during what times of year, and what type of fish reside in a lake or river.

Zimmerman has done a great job helping the recreational anglers of the Yukon and I’m sure he will continue to do so on a national level.

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Frost to Frost... with Joan Norberg

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ears ago I was asked by a Japanese helper what kinds of plants grew here in the winter. I laughed and said nothing grows, it is all frozen solid. She was amazed.

In many places they rotate their crops based on the season.

Heat-loving plants like tomatoes and peppers can be followed by crops that do better in cooler weather like lettuce and peas.

Thus it is possible to get two or three crops off the same piece of land each year. Even in most of Canada it is possible to plant shorter season crops one after the other in the same garden row.

One of my seed catalogues from the west coast actually has a planting chart for direct seeding of some vegetables as early as February and as late in the year as November.

With this in mind, I decided to experiment with some of the more hardy plants in my garden.

I thought, if they can handle some below zero temperatures and snow on the west coast, maybe they could handle some of our late fall/early winter temperatures.

I tried broccoli first.

It didn’t take much work at all. I just didn’t pull the plants out of the garden before freezeup. But I did keep checking on them, and to my surprise I was able to harvest a small amount of broccoli florets (one cup) on a weekly basis. The last harvest was the first week of December. I was chatting with a fellow farmer a month or so after this and discovered he was also able to harvest kale until early December.

Of course everything depends on the weather of the particular year. If we get an early snowfall before the ground freezes, the plants will continue longer into the winter. It is possible to insulate the ground before it freezes by piling deep mulch over plants.

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Thursdays

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

Mondays

Glee Club 1:00 PM DVG School (All grades) 994-2760

Tuesdays

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 Faro Kettle Café 4:00 PM Recreation Centre Concession Hosted by the Faro Youth Group Badminton 7:00 PM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca

Golden Horn

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

Mondays

Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM 6:45 PM Old Da Ku

Tuesdays

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

Hamlet of Mt. Lorne Wednesdays

Kids Craft time 3:00 PM HJ Public Library

Thursdays

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

Fridays

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

Marsh Lake

Fri Nov 15th Open Mic Night Marsh Lake Community Centre 8:00 PM 660-4999 Sun Nov 17th Foodsafe Level 1 Course 9:00 AM 660-4999

Saturdays

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

Fridays

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

Saturdays

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

Tuesdays

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

North of 60 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 North of 60 Socialize, play games, meet neighbours!

Mayo Weekdays

Community Access Program 1:00 The Drop In Centre

Fridays

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

Sundays

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

Tuesdays

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

Wednesdays

Kids Events 3:30 PM The Drop In Centre Bingo 5:00 PM Drop in Center

Thursdays

After School Tutoring 3:30 PM The Drop In Center Wii & Movie Night 3:30 PM The Drop In Centre Kids in the Kitchen 3:30 PM JV Clark School

Mondays

Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Saniz at 966-3238

Tagish

Sun, Nov 17 Tagish Community Church 7:00 PM Tagish Community Church Tagish meets the first and third Sunday night each month, 7 pm, at the home of Myron & Shelley Penner.

Sun, Nov 17 Pancake Breakfast 9:30 AM Tagish Community Centre, for more info call 399-3407 Sun, Nov 17 Tagish Christmas Craft Sale 9:30 AM Tagish Community Centre , for more info call 399-3407

Wednesdays

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 for November

Thursdays

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

Saturdays

Tagish Library 12:00 NOON

Sundays

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

Mondays

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 Teslin

Wednesdays

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)

Thursday

Youth Hockey 6:30 PM (Junior Group)

Friday

After school archery 3:30 PM Teslin School gym

Sundays

Seniors Carpet Bowling 2:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net

Mondays

After school sports 3:30 PM Teslin School gym Circuit Training 7:00 PM Recreation gym

Tuesdays

Youth Hockey 6:30 PM (Junior Group)

Watson Lake Wednesdays

Fridays

Movie Night 5:00 PM Community Hall Teen Drop in Gym 7:30 PM School Gym

Senior Day (60+) 10:00 AM Drop in Board games, cards, bowling, curling, tea and coffee Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM

Thu, Nov 14 Haines Junction Christmas Craft Fair 7:00 PM In the Grand Hall and Atrium at the St. Elias Centre Fri, Nov 15 Yadong Guan Trio 7:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre “East meets West” features the Pipa (an ancient Chinese instrument) with a guitar and a cello Tue, Nov 19 Yukoners Concerned About Oil & Gas Exploration/Development 7:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Video & Open Discussion about the Consequences of Fracking, how can we protect our fresh water, caribou herd and more.

Saturdays

Thursdays

Wednesdays

Old Crow

Tuesdays

Badminton 7:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary School Tracy 393-7641

Haines Junction

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

Movie & Games 1:30 PM The Drop In Centre

Mondays

After School Tutoring 3:30 PM The Drop In Center Wii & Movie Night 3:30 PM The Drop In Centre

Tuesdays

Kids Events 3:30 PM The Drop In Centre Sewing 7:00 PM NND Drop In Center

Thursdays

Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Youth Centre

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM

Fridays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM

Saturdays

Weight Room 10:00 am - 6:00 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM Watson Lake Farmer’s Market 3:00 PM Wye Lake Cabin Produce, baking, cooking, crafts, eggs, etc - anything made or grown.

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Mondays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Tuesdays Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Girl’s Night Out Ages 12+ meet at WL Rec Centre 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 7-9pm.

Teen Night Ages 12+ meet at WL Rec Centre 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month 7-9pm.

Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Beaver Creek

Tuesday & Thursday 11:30 AM - St. Anne Church Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Carcross

Wednesdays 7:30 PM. Library Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Carmacks Fridays 1:30p PM Health Centre

Dawson City

Thursday 8:00 PM New Beginnings Group Richard Martin Chapel Church St. Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Saturdays 7:00 PM Community Support Centre 993-5095

Destruction Bay

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Faro

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Haines Junction

Wednesdays 8:00 PM Public Library Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Mayo

Wednesday 7:30 PM RRC Building 9962825 Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Old Crow

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Pelly Crossing

Wednesday 7:00 PM Pelly Band Office 537-3461 Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Ross River

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Tagish

Mondays 7:30 PM Bishop’s Cabin, end of road along California Beach

Telegraph Creek

Tuesdays 8:00 PM Sewing Centre, Soaring Eagles Group 235-3350

Teslin

Wednesdays 7:00 PM G Building, 4 McLeary Street Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Watson Lake

Thursdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre, downstairs Tuesdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church

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Magical events to remember Public Tree Viewing & Silent Auction

Main Yukon Government Building Thursday, November 21 – Wednesday, November 27

Capstone BAH Humbug Cocktail Party Main Yukon Government Building Thursday, November 21, 5:30 pm

Skookum Asphalt Santa Breakfast Main Yukon Government Building Saturday, November 23, 10 am

Outside the Cube Season’s Eatings

Breakfast, Your Office Monday, November 25 & Tuesday, November 26

Community Open House

Yukon Convention Centre Thursday, November 28, 5 pm

Soirée Preview Lunch

Yukon Convention Centre Friday, November 29, 11 am

Seniors’ Soirée

Yukon Convention Centre Friday, November 29, 6 pm

Alkan Air Grand Ball

Yukon Convention Centre Saturday, November 30, 6 pm

Watson Lake Tree Decorating Johnson Elementary School Thursday, December 5, 2 pm

Dawson City Tree Decorating Robert Service School Friday, December 6, 2:20 pm

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Active Interest Listings 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

Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please register before course starts 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 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

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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

Sundays

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

Mondays

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

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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.

Mon, Nov 18 The Bowel Movement 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library .Relaxed Monthly Meetings run by and for people living with Crohn’s Disease,Colitis,IBS or any gastro disorder. Email yukon.digest@ yahoo.com

Weekdays

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

Wednesdays

Free Nutritious Lunches 12:00 noon Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre. For moms and kids up to age 8.

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.

Thursdays

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

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Wellness Listings

women welcome!

Nia Technique 6:15 PM Yukon Arts Centre Susie Anne Bartsch 335-3442 In the studio(enter at back of the building).A combination of martial arts, dance arts and healing arts set to music.

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

Fridays

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

Saturdays

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 3344706. 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 Nia Technique 6:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Susie Anne Bartsch / 335-3442 In the studio(enter at back of the building).A combination of martial arts, dance arts and healing arts set to music.

Gam-Anon 7:30 PM Many Rivers Counselling & Support Services. 668-6466.

Support for families of compulsive gamblers.

Alcoholics Anonymous Wednesday

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.

Thursday

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

Sunday

Sunshine Group (OM, NS) 1:00 PM DETOX Bldg 6118-6th Marble Group (OM, NS) 7:00 PM Hospital boardroom

Monday

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. New Beginnings Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St.

Tuesday

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Ugly Duckling Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (OM, NS) 7:00 PM 4141B 4th Ave.

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Edible Yukon with Kim Melton

Fish Heads, Fish Heads…

With a few tricks, fish carcasses become excellent stock

A

s I walked about the property over the last few weeks, I found myself on the lookout for things that I don’t want to find melting on a snowbank in the spring. I did this in spite of the warm weather, and perhaps because of my steadfast refusal to listen to weather reports.

Anyway, whether it’s hanging tools in the shed, lining up jars of jam, bags of beets, and crocks of cranberries in the root cellar, this is certainly a time of year for tidying. A lot of food both wild and grown has made its way into the freezer as well. Real estate becomes scarce as the weeks go by without any below zero temperatures, which will relieve the pressure a bit when they come.

As I was engaged in the chilly, three-dimensional Tetris that is rearranging a chest freezer, I discovered a motley-looking assortment of Ziploc bags of odd sizes and shapes containing the remains of spring and summer-caught fish.

In the spirit of thinking ahead (or putting it off ‘til later), a number of spines, some from rather large pike, had been carelessly allowed to freeze in contortions worthy of Cirque du Soleil performers. In addition to taking up more freezer space than necessary, this also made them challenging to fit into all but the largest of stock pots.

However, fit them into a pot I did, on a day that was chill enough to warrant a fire in the woodstove. I left the bones to simmer along with an onion, carrot, celery and fennel stalks (all left in large pieces to facilitate straining) while I continued puttering and tidying.

Many cookbooks suggest no more than an hour of simmering for fish stock because the flavours and oils are more delicate than in meat – personally I have enjoyed two or three hour stock as long as it isn’t boiled, and I have read traditional recipes in the Northwest Territories that call for 12 or 18 hours.

When as much of the good stuff as possible had made it into the broth, I fished out the spines (sorry) and picked off the remaining meat, doing my best to remove any tenacious bones. This is especially important for the pike spines, which retain a strip of flesh containing the y-bones (floating bones that run either side of the

finely chopped my last bunch of fresh parsley and sprinkled it on top – voilà! It doesn’t get much better than this. Plus, I got to check “make space in freezer” off my list. Does the satisfaction ever end?

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

Fish Stock ~ Tips ~

PHOTO: Kim Melton spine and give pike its reputation for being so darn bony).

I did the same with the heads, amazed as always at the texture of the cheeks — like miniature scallops.

While my dog relished the crunch and whatever flavour remained, I turned back to the broth itself. I strained it through a colander lined with cheesecloth to catch scales and any small bones as well as bits of herb stalk, and

added in a fresh diced carrot, thinly sliced turnip, and a couple of cubes of green curry paste, made when cilantro and basil were bountiful in the greenhouse.

When the veggies were soft, I tossed in the retained fish meat,

This Arctic char will serve twice over, the fillets for gravlax, and the rest for the soup pot.

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November 14, 2013

Las Vegas, Here We Come

Lara-Rae Grant & Adrienne Marsh train for their first marathon

by Stacie Zaychuk

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unners are fascinating.

Non-runners question their sanity for participating in a seemingly monotonous, exhausting sport, but talk to a runner and their passion comes through immediately. It’s inspiring.

Lara-Rae Grant and Adrienne Marsh are anything but monotonous. They have been training since July for their first marathon, the 42 km Rock n’ Roll Marathon held in Las Vegas on November 17, where they will run along the Vegas strip with 38,000 other athletes —more than the population

of the Yukon.

As far as marathons go, this is a wise choice for a rookie effort.

One perk is that there will be a live band every mile of the race.

“The entertainment value is there, and it’s a distraction from the pain,” says Marsh Pain aside, these ladies enjoy seeking new challenges, as you can tell by their recent list of athletic accomplishments: the Ultimate Warrior Challenge (Whitehorse), the Tough Mudder (Whistler) and the Klondike Road Relay to name a few.

They also started cross-country skiing last winter and shortly after they dove in, they competed in the 25 km Buckwheat Ski Loppet.

“Our technique could have probably used some work,” laughs Grant.

“Jumping into things is our thing,” says Marsh. “I also like to test my limits.”

It’s a good thing they have a positive attitude and lots of energy because their current training schedule keeps them busy.

On average, they run 3-4 times per week and put in a long run

PHOTO: courtesy Lara-Rae Grant

Adrienne Marsh, left, and Lara-Rae Grant are training for their first marathon, in Las Vegas on November 17.

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every weekend. Their “short” runs are a minimum of 10 km and their long runs average around 30 km and take three hours to complete.

Running for that length of times begs some questions — what do marathoners do when they need to “relieve” themselves? Are there bathrooms along the way?

Do they resort to diapers?

“We’re not that competitive,” laughs Marsh. “We’ll stop for that and we’re always sure to have tissue close by.”

Fuelling their bodies to last for a full marathon has been a trial and error process. During training, each was able to figure out what they did wrong on a bad run and re-adjust for the next jaunt.

“The bad runs have actually been key to learning,” says Grant.

Shelley Gellatly, a local athletic therapist who also coaches and provides consultations for endurance athletes, is a staple on the local racing circuit, most notably on the Yukon Arctic Ultra — a tough endurance race held in the heart of the Yukon winter.

Her advice for new runners is simple: “have fun and don’t compare yourself to others. When you start running, your first goal should be to finish healthy and happy, wanting to do more.

“There is no right or wrong or perfect formula. Training will be based on your goals, time availability and what your body can tolerate.”

How do Marsh and Grant balance their lives and their training schedules?

“You just have to buckle down and find the time, make it part of your day,” explains Marsh. “We have been kind of selfish through this and couldn’t do it without the support of family, friends and our work places.”

“So many people doubt themselves and say ‘I can’t,’ but you really can do anything you put your mind to,” says Grant.

“That’s something both of us have realized. We both have so many things going on, families and work and all these things going on but still we manage to get up at 5:00 a.m. and run 10 km. One week we

ran 61 km.”

One might think continually finding the motivation would be a problem.

“There has been many days where we’ve both shown up, hoping the other would cancel but we just fight through it,” says Marsh. “We know that we have to run and that we are also going to feel great after it.”

They are now addicted to their training runs, which help them destress, as does the peacefulness of being “disconnected” from our increasingly connected world.

“It’s a good chance to totally check out, notes Grant. “There’s no answering of phones, just Zen moments of quiet.”

What advice would they give those new to running?

“When you think you can’t, you can,” says Grant. “You can get support anywhere in this town, just challenge yourself. Plus the health and mental benefits are awesome.”

“Start slowly, set a goal.

Whether it’s a 5 km or more, start small and work your way up,” Marsh adds. “(And) get a buddy if you can, it really helps to keep motivated.”

Gellatly notes that “it’s important to learn to pay attention to your body so you can make the call whether you should not be running that day or if you are just not motivated.

“You need to rest, maybe go for a walk instead. Or go to a zumba class, or even go home and lie on the couch with a beer and some chips.”

With the date of the marathon creeping up fast, they both say they just want to finish the race and they hope their competitive spirit doesn’t get the best of them at the beginning of the race.

And after the race, what’s next?

“We’re not sure, it’s tough to keep up training — but who knows, maybe we’ll end up doing an ultra marathon,” says Grant.

Stacie Zaychuk is a writer, musher and admirer of marathon runners.

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