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by Barry “Jack” Jenkins

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he Midnight Sons Band is fresh off a tour and ready to rock. On Saturday, October 3, the band is presenting – and performing at – Rock the North, which is an all-ages dance at the Yukon Convention Centre featuring the rockabilly/psychobilly band Ryan McNally and his Red Hot Ramblers, and Victoria bluesman Jesse Roper.

It’s an exciting time for The Midnight Sons singer/guitarist Alex Johnson, guitarist Daniel Stark and drummer Patrick Docherty.

The trio has played festivals like SunFest Country Music Festival in Cowichan Valley, BC, and last month’s BreakOut West showcase in Victoria, making an impression on everyone who sees them, including Western Canadian Music Award winning producer, David J. Taylor.

“At our last show, David Taylor said that he wanted to do an album with us next,” Alex Johnson says.

“He said that we sounded like the band of next year. He thinks it’s awesome that we don’t have a bass player. He says Don’t get a bass, don’t mess your sound up.” The band occasionally hire a bass, when playing larger venues in order to fill out the sound.

Along their tours, The Midnight Sons encountered Jesse Roper and immediately became fans.

“We saw him first play in Victoria when we went down for the Road to SunFest,” Johnson says. “We saw him play and were like, ‘What the hell?’ It was something that we hadn’t seen before, that’s why we wanted to get him up here so badly.”

Roper is a wild blues guitarist, his untamed mass of hair flying as he performs Hendrix-inspired riffs. It’s hard to believe that he

Yukon. He’s played Arts in the Park and the Sunstroke Music Festival, and more than that, he has a family connection.

“My aunt and cousins live up there. It’s nice to go up there and spend some time with them in their natural habitat, see what it’s all about,” he says. “I’d live up there. If I wasn’t doing music, I’d live up there, I love it.

“Hiking and biking. The first time I was up there, I borrowed my cousin’s bike. It was 24 hours of sun and I went mountain biking from 10 o’clock at night until 6 in the morning. It was one of the coolest experiences in my life.”

It was while looking forward to a visit to the Yukon that he wrote the song “Yukon Girl.”

“I had this song inside my head and I was thinking about going to the Yukon, and I thought, ‘I’ve got a lovely Yukon lady.’ I wasn’t sure where I was going to go with it. Just the idea of meeting a girl and having some fun together and she turns out to be a witch and tries to kill me. That’s the idea.”

The Midnight Sons Band are thrilled to be presenting him again to a Yukon audience. Says Johnson, “He’s definitely export-ready. It’s awesome we get to see him before he gets too big.”

Ryan McNally, PHOTO: courtesy of Jesse Roper Jesse Roper and The Midnight Sons Band perform at Rock the North on Oct. Jesse Roper plays 3 at the Yukon Convention CenRock the North with the tre. Tickets for Rock the North are available at Dean’s Strings and at Midnight Sons and the door.

Ryan McNally on Oct 3

only gained enough confidence to perform in his late 20s. Roper admits, “I still get nervous before every show, it’s something that I battle with myself a little bit.”

He’s the kind of artist that has to be seen live. While his skill shows on his songs and albums, it’s in live performances that he really comes alive.

“I get that a lot,” Roper says.

“It’s hard to simulate the same excitement as in the studio. It’s just different. I’m just so excited and happy when I’m playing on the stage.”

Roper is no stranger to the

Barry “Jack” Jenkins keeps close tabs on the Yukon music scene. Please send comments about his articles to music@whatsupyukon.com.

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October 1, 2015

The Circus is in Town - Permanently

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Yukon Circus Society will offer more stilt walking classes in the spring

by Angela Szymczuk

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irque du Soleil sets the bar high when it comes to circus-style performing arts. In the Yukon, there happens to be a society dedicated to performing and teaching circus performances.

At the head of things is Claire Ness. Having gathered circus experience in Toronto and Montreal for many years, she ventured home to the Yukon where there hadn’t been very much of a circus scene.

Ness sought to change that.

She founded the Yukon Circus Society in April 2011, and is also the artistic director.

“After being in Montreal, I decided I was going to move home and start a circus camp in the Yukon,” Ness says. “I figured I would need a bigger organization than just myself, so I could attract people and start building an army of clowns.”

Ness recruited similar minded circus lovers and began teaching the art of performing. She rented a space in the Riverdale area and held weekend and after-school classes and workshops. As her classes and the society itself became more popular, Ness began to hold the summer programs at the Yukon Arts Centre.

The summer classes are divided into different age groups, ranging from ages six to 14. A wide variety of circus activities are taught such as unicycling, juggling, pyramids, trapeze, and face painting. She

juggling, aerial hoop performances, acrobatics, ribbon dancing, unicycling – just about everything you would see at a circus in the big city, minus the wild African animals. Probably not a good idea to try and house elephants during a Yukon winter.

What the society does offer in the winter are more indoor classes. One class that’s particularly popular is stilt building. In the spring of 2016, another stilt workshop will be held featuring stilt walking pro Graham Rudge.

Autumn is a bit of a down season for the Circus Society.

During the fall, Ness and her team have special projects planned. They are going to be building a school bus that they will use to travel throughout the Yukon and across country.

“We are hoping to build a show that is compact and portable,” Ness says.

In addition, they will be teaming up with Nakai Theatre to co-produce, Dogtown: The Musical. This show was written

by Ness’s father Roy, and the music was written by fellow Yukoner Grant Simpson.

PHOTO: Christian Kuntz For more information contact the Yukon Circus Society Claire Ness plays the part of artistic director of the Yukon Circus Society. by email at YukonCircusSociety@ yahoo.ca. has also done March Break Camps, ents into gifts for the audience,” Angela Szymczuk is a and pop-up workshops in commun- she says.

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When Ness and other members ities such as Teslin, Marsh Lake Please send comments about of the society are not teaching, and Tagish. her articles to “I want Yukoners to have equal they are doing what they love – editor@whatsupyukon.com. opportunities to develop their tal- performing. Common acts include

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s the crew who came here to film an episode of the Canadian television series Murdoch Mysteries a few years ago told me, Dawson is a place that’s just a perfect backdrop for storytelling. The particular episode was a lot of fun to watch them film and then see it on TV later on.

It was the first episode of season five, the last season before the show migrated over to CBC. Lots of writers, from Jack London on, have used the town and its history. Some have done great work, others have not.

This week I want to highlight two writers who have done, in my opinion, quite good work.

In 1998, perhaps with the Centennials in mind, Robert Kroetsch released The Man from the Creeks.

I had tried a couple of books by Kroetsch previously, and hadn’t finished them, so I was leery of this one, but the setting persuaded me to give it a try, so I picked it up – and then let it sit on my shelf, unread, for nearly 10 years.

It’s a novelized version of Robert Service’s poem “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Since it’s not dealing with real history, but with a wild west sort of situation that never did occur in Dawson, handguns being banished from town, the liberties it takes with reality are more forgivable than those taken by Howard Blum a few years ago in his poorly researched novel The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush.

Kroetsch provides an engaging backstory for the Man from the Creeks,” as well as the “Lady known as Lou,” “McGrew” himself and the kid at the piano playin’ that jag time tune. The latter turns out to be the fellow who is telling us this story at the ripe old age of 114, and he tells it well.

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The titles are Gold Digger, Gold Fever, Gold Mountain and Gold Web. They are not heavy reading, but they are a lot of fun. The last one came out in 2013, and so far there’s no mention of a fifth on her website.

After 32 years teaching in rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidson retired from that profession but continues writing about life in Dawson City. Please send comments about his stories to dawson@whatsupyukon.com.

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In case you missed it, Game of Thrones seasons 1 to 4 are available on DVD at the library

by Marrianne Darragh

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inter is coming. You might say that’s our motto above the 60th parallel, but they’re also words to live by in Winterfell, the northernmost kingdom of imaginary Westeros. The Game of Thrones saga has unexpectedly surpassed cult status, but its mythology may have special appeal for northerners and not just for its keen sense of impending weather.

Based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the first four seasons of Game of Thrones, which airs on HBO, are available at Whitehorse Public Library.

Martin’s series is a hybrid of history and fantasy, taking place on the pre-Magna Carta continents of Westeros and Essos where almost everyone is seeking either power or justice and the turn each strategy takes is usually violent. The great achievement of creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is translating the novels to the small screen without sacrificing the sweep of the narrative or Martin’s rich detail.

Westeros is made up of seven kingdoms, ruled by whoever possesses the Iron Throne.

When the claim to the throne falls into dispute – and apparently it rarely doesn’t – the game is on. All kinds of ambitious characters enter the fray, ranging from glamourous royals to witty renegades to a princess-in-exile, but Martin’s story also includes the innocents who are swept up by the tides of war, such as the children of Ned Stark (Sean Bean), ruler of Winterfell, and or-

other inhabitants of the supernatural kind.

The White Walkers, who seem to be sentient zombies, present an apocalyptic threat to the world that only a few humans recognize and they’ll render moot any victory in the game of thrones.

It’s hard to get anyone’s attention, embattled as they are with other insurmountable obstacles. “He has more mammoths”, says Jon Snow (Kit Harington) of the Brotherhood of one foe, at the end of season four. “He has more giants. He has 1,000 times as many men.” Also, winter is coming.

Game of Thrones is huge in scope, PHOTO: hbocanada.com filmed in multiple locations around the world, notably in Northern Ireland, Croatia and Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) Norway, and brought to life by a nurtures grudges in Game of brilliant cast. This is the first role Thrones, available on DVD at for many of the younger actors and it’s exciting to see them inWhitehorse Public Library. habit Martin’s complicated characters, not to mention the excellent use they make of that swordplay training.

Benioff and Weiss have made some changes to the original, so surprises are in store even for people who have read the series. A Song of Ice and Fire is also available through the Yukon library system.

dinary people unlucky enough to be in the path of battle.

Then there’s the Sworn Brotherhood of the Night’s Watch, a motley crew of warriors stationed north of the north. They guard the Wall, a fortress of ice that’s 700 feet high – more than six times the height of the White-

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horse escarpment, just so you know – the last line of defence between Westeros and lands beyond the Wall. That territory, the size of Canada (according to Martin), is populated with wildlings, who refuse to bend to rule, and

Marianne Darragh is a regular visitor to the DVD shelf in the Whitehorse Public Library.

Please send comments about her articles to editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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Help Yourself Reduce Investment Stress We all know that stress can have many adverse affects on our lives and can affect the quality of our health. Cutting out stressors, including in your investment activities can have a positive affect.

But how can you cut down on the various stresses associated with investing?

Here are a few possible “stress-busters”: • Know your risk tolerance. If you’re constantly worrying about the value of your investments, your portfolio may simply be too volatile for your individual risk tolerance. Conversely, if you’re always feeling that your investments will never provide you with the growth you need to achieve your long-term goals, you might be investing too conservatively.

• Know what to expect from your investments. Uncertainty is often a leading cause of stress. So when you purchase investments that are mysterious to you, you shouldn’t be surprised if they perform in ways that raise your stress levels. Never invest in something unless you fully understand its characteristics and risk potential.

• Be prepared for market volatility. Historically, the financial markets have trended upward, though their past performance can’t guarantee future results. Yet for periods of months, and even years, these same markets can sputter and decline. So when you invest, be aware of this volatility; if you’re prepared for it, you won’t be shocked when it happens, and you should be able to better keep stress at bay.

• Maintain realistic expectations. If you think your investments are going to earn a very high rate of return, year after year, you are more than likely going to be disappointed — and you could easily get “stressed out.” You’re much better off, from a stress standpoint, not to expect eye-popping results.

• Diversify your portfolio. If you were only to own one asset class, such as growth stocks, and that particular segment took a big hit during a market drop, your whole portfolio could suffer, and it could take years to recover — causing you no end of stress. But if you spread your investment dollars among a range of vehicles — stocks, bonds, government securities and so on — your portfolio has a better chance of weathering the ups and downs of the market. (Keep in mind, though, that while diversification may help you reduce the effects of volatility, it can’t prevent losses or guarantee profits.)

• Think long term. If you only measure your investment success by short-term results, you can feel frustrated and stressed. But when you stop to consider your objectives, you may find that the most important ones, such as a comfortable retirement, are all long-term in nature. Consequently, it makes more sense to measure the progress you’re making with your investments in periods of years, or even decades, rather than days or months.

Instead of fretting over your monthly investment statements, compare where you are today versus where you were 10 or 15 years ago. The results may well surprise and help “de-stress” you.

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roud Yukoners want to shop Yukon – but sometimes it feels hard to do that. With so many of our goods and services being provided by companies on the Outside, it often feels like we’ve got no choice but to shell out to the big boys. For those who prefer to shop in their own backyard, however, here are four Whitehorse-based businesses owned by your friends and neighbours.

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Listen to the following sentence: You can have pumpkin cheesecake with caramel butter pecan streusel topping.

If for that reason, and no other, you should walk into Blackbird Bakery, you will be met with a literal smorgasbord of pies, cakes, cookies and other toothsome delights. Even if they should be out of that cheesecake – a real possibility, as it sells out fast, says owner Kayla Morrison – you wouldn’t leave disappointed.

The cakes and pastries at the bakery, Morrison says, are not made with any one European tradition in mind, but rather reflect a desire to use real, wholesome ingredients: butter, eggs, cream, high quality chocolate.

“We make old-fashioned (desserts, which) ideally reflect North American Canadian food – because we do have a food culture in Canada and... it has many things to offer,” says Morrison.

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What: Itsy Bitsy Yarn Store Where: Horwoods Mall Who: Sophie Jessome and Yann Le Roy Why: Fabulous fibres Itsy Bitsy actually used to occupy the same space in Horwoods Mall in which Cultured Fine Cheese now resides. At the time, it really lived up to its name – the shop was miniscule – but it has since grown both in popularity and size. Still at Horwoods but having expanded into a new and very attractive open concept store, Itsy Bitsy Yarn Store offers fibre fanatics a variety of specialty yarns and other knitting and crocheting equipment.

They specialize in “high quality, natural fibres,” says Jessome, such as wool, because acrylic fibres are “actually a type of plastic.” Itsy Bitsy also carries its own house-brand of hand-dyed fibres under the name Pseiso and has a selection of locally-sourced fibres, such as local alpaca wool and Yukon-dyed wools.

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Homegrown Business ... cont’d What: Cultured Fine Cheese Where: Horwoods Mall Who: Larra Daley Why: Cheese. Serious. Cheese.

Lori Garrison is the editor of What’s Up Yukon.

Questions and comments about her articles can be sent to lori@whatsupyukon.com.

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Do you crave camembert? Blush for brie?

Grin for gouda? Chime in for cheddar? Then you should walk on in to Cultured Fine Cheese and order yourself up a wedge of something delicious. Owned by local Yukoner Lara Daley and her husband, this quaint and neatly-arranged shop offers cheeses from British Columbia and Quebec as well as traditional cheese from Europe. The cheeses from Quebec are particularly interesting, Daley says, because they are often multi-generational enterprises producing unique craft products.

There are no local cheeses because the amount of locally produced cheese is so limited.

“We wanted to focus on local (cheese), but BC is as close as we can get,” she said.

For real cheese lovers, Daley recommends the cave-aged Gruyere.

Examples of some of the high-quality cheeses available at Cultured

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What: Feed ‘em Fish Where: 4194B 4th Avenue Who: Harry and Genny Rietze Why: Fresh seafood caught by friends Salmon is delicious; it’s a science fact. The fact that these local fish mongers are actually Alaskans – not Yukoners – doesn’t change the taste of their wares one bit.

Hailing from sea-kissed Haines, this sweet couple used to run their business out of a trailer, but have since expanded to a fixed location on at 4th Avenue and Oglivie Street. Their shop features halibut, salmon, shrimp and crab from Haines. The fish that comes from Haines is all sourced from seven commercial fisherman.

“It’s (bought) off the dock from the fisherman,” says Genny, adding, “my dad is one of them.”

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Whitehorse EVENTS Until Thu, Oct, 1, Spring: A Culture of Eagles Exhibit Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre A cultural exploration of eagles in the Chilkat Valley through history This strong icon permeates Tlingit legend, myth, art, ceremony and even social structure.

Until Oct, 2, Northern Front Studio presents A Journey... 12:00 AM Northern Front Studio Gallery Stop in to see works by Cori Giacomazzi.

Until Oct, 2, Opening Reception: The View From Here 5:00 PM Yukon Artists at Work Gallery By Artist Erin Dixon Sun, Oct 2-25, The View From Here Yukon Artists at Work Gallery By Artist Erin Dixon Sat, Oct, 3-4 Bridging the Gap: Digital Photography 10:30 AM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/ Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities.

Until Mon, Nov, 2, “Somewhere Here” Arts Underground What place names tell us about who we are and where we are. Presented by Friends of the Yukon Archives Society.

Until -Sat, Nov, 21 Graham + Dimensions: Yukon Arts Centre Yukon Arts Centre Neil Graham explores the rich beauty of Haida Gwaii with bold visual energy.

Along with DIMENSIONS, Saskatchewan Craft Council’s biennial, open, juried touring exhibition.

Until Sun, Dec, 13, Touch of Green “Enchanted Places” Hilltop Bistro Yukon College By Artist Lillian Loponen

Thu, Oct, 8, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Thu, Oct, 8, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon

General Events

Thu, Oct, 1, NIA Dance and Fitness 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks NIA is a choreographed combination of martial arts, dance, and healing, set to great music. first class is free! 335-3442 Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Reading & Talk: Whitehorse Public Library 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library With Berton writer Kim Fu. Free. Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Applying for an Exhibition at Arts Underground 7:00 PM Arts Underground Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Yukon Guild of Needlearts: Fall Session 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Meet friends & learn techniques of hand embroidery. Call Doris at 633-4026. Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Salsa Yukon: Intermediate Bachata 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its sessions for Fall 2015!

Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, The Guild Theatre presents Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead 8:00 PM The Guild Hall The Guild Society is excited to announce the first show of their ambitious new season! Get ready to see the Peanuts gang as never before in Bert V Royal’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Whitehorse Fri, Oct, 2, Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Cafe 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre We are pleased to announce that Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Café will be on their way to the Yukon Arts Centre in October 2015!

Thu, Oct, 1, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Oct, 1, Fiddler On The Loose Joe Loutchan live Whitehorse 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Fri, Oct, 2, Salsa Yukon: Beginner Salsa on 1 and Yukon - Traditional fiddle music and more - jigging is Beginner Bachata 7:45 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its encouraged and limericks are the norm. sessions for Fall 2015! Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Jazz in the Hall & Paul Lucas 7:00 PM Fri, Oct, 2, Salsa Yukon: Intermediate Salsa & The Old Fire Hall This is a ‘learn, listen and jam’ Rueda de Casino 8:50 PM Leaping Feats Creative event. Educational vignette by Steve Gedrose. 867Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its 334-2789 sessions for Fall 2015! Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 1, Jazz in the Hall & Paul Lucas 7:00 PM Sat, Oct, 3, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee The Old Fire Hall Listen, learn and jam. Educational Discussion Group 9:30 AM Emergency Measures vignette by Steve Gedrose 867-334-2789 Organization YARA’s breakfast at the A&W. Casual Thu, Oct, 1, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully event. Hams from outside the Yukon often join. electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars Whitehorse provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Sat, Oct, 3, CNIB Night Steps - Yukon 4:00 PM Thu, Oct, 1, Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Rotary Peace Park Night Steps is a fun and easy Pub Thu, Oct, 1, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street fundraising walk under the stars. This exciting, family friendly 5km walk raises funds to support CNIB’s vital Saloon services. 1-844-810-5408 Whitehorse Fri, Oct, 2, Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Sat, Oct, 3, CNIB Night Steps 4:00 PM Whitehorse Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Oct, 2, Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Cafe 7:30 PM Millennium Trail Join us for a fun, glow-in-the-dark Yukon Arts Centre We are pleased to announce that 5km fundraising walk under the stars to support community members who are blind/partially sighted.

Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Café will be on their way 1-844-810-5408 Whitehorse to the Yukon Arts Centre in October 2015!

Sat, Oct, 3, Rock The North: The Midnight Sons Fri, Oct, 2, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Band presents 7:30 PM Coast High Country Inn Room LOOK WHO THE SONS ARE BRINGING TO TOWN Sat, Oct, 3, Jam with Will at Angellina’s: Will Stroet !! Whitehorse 10:00 AM Angellina’s Toy Boutique Sat, Oct, 3, Whitehorse Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Sat, Oct, 3, Coffee House 7:30 PM Whitehorse Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks a 60-minute United Church Sat, Oct, 3, Rock The North: The Midnight Sons Band mix of great music - world beat, acid jazz, pop - you dance or stretch or move how you like Whitehorse presents 7:30 PM Coast High Country Inn LOOK Sun, Oct, 4, Expand Your Vision with Sherman Hines WHO THE SONS ARE BRINGING TO TOWN !!

12:00 AM Yukon College Whitehorse Sat, Oct, 3, live music 8:00 PM The Watershed, Sun, Oct, 4, YTEC Training Courses Fall 2015: Coffee shop & Bar Enjoy some fantastic live local FoodSafe Level 2 Yukon Tourism Education Council music!

Sat, Oct, 3, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler (YTEC) Whitehorse Sun, Oct, 4, Life Drawing Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Room Sat, Oct, 3, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Underground Whitehorse Sun, Oct, 4, Movie Night 6:30 PM The Watershed, Saloon Coffee shop & Bar Come and watch movies with Sun, Oct, 4, Will Stroet 11:00 AM The Old Fire Hall Will Stroet, the award-winning entertainer and star of friends and have some fun! Whitehorse Will’s Jams on Kids’ CBC television, performs a high- Sun, Oct, 4, Kidney Walk: The Kidney Foundation of Canada 12:00 PM Rotary Peace Park Welcome energy and educational show with fun actions and Brunch 10-11 am, Registration 11-12, Walk starts sing-a-long choruses in English and French. at noon. 2.5 km, Millennium Trail (walk past Mon, Oct, 5, Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM SS Klondike). The Kidney Walk is a signature Jarvis Street Saloon fundraiser. Participation is by donation. A step in Tue, Oct, 6, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully the right direction could save a life! Register online electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars kidneywalkbc.ca Whitehorse provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Sun, Oct, 4, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Wed, Oct, 7, Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants Pizza goes till we are done! are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; Wed, Oct, 7, Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every very wide variety and style of music from originals Sunday except long weekends. $5/hour. Whitehorse to covers Sun, Oct, 4, Saturday Salsa Dancing: Salsa Yukon Wed, Oct, 7, Hump Day Trivia 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in 9:15 PM Wheelhouse Restaurant Whitehorse the Boiler Room Mon, Oct, 5, Free Computer Drop-In Lab! 10:00 AM Wed, Oct, 7, Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Yukon Learn Society Self-Directed Computer studies.

Street Saloon Instructor on site 668.6280 x 223 Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Oct, 8, Fiddler On The Loose Joe Loutchan live Mon, Oct, 5, Baby Story Time: Whitehorse Public 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages Yukon - Traditional fiddle music and more - jigging is 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in.

Whitehorse encouraged and limericks are the norm.

Mon, Oct, 5, Free drop-in computer labs 10:00 AM Thu, Oct, 8, John McDermott 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Yukon Learn Free Drop-In Computer Lab for Self Centre World-renowned Scottish-Canadian tenor Directed Studies A tutor/Instructor will be available on John McDermott performs live on the YAC stage. site to assist you. 867-668-6280 or toll free: 888-668Thu, Oct, 8, Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern 6280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Whitehorse Pub

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Mon, Oct, 5, Euchre Night 6:00 PM Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 667-2802 Whitehorse Mon, Oct, 5, GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Whitehorse Mon, Oct, 5, Introduction to Beadwork: CGC 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre Meeting Room 2. 2 classes / $67 Whitehorse Mon, Oct, 5, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Meeting 7:00 PM Emergency Measures Organization Prospective hams are welcome. Whitehorse Tue, Oct, 6, How to Create a Parenting Plan: National Family Week 5:30 PM Yukon Inn Whitehorse Tue, Oct, 6, Whitehorse Scottish Country Dance Club 7:00 PM Jack Hulland Elementary Whitehorse Tue, Oct, 6, Family Potluck Supper: National Family Week 5:00 PM Selkirk Elementary School Join us for good food, company and family fun! Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, Introduction to Beadwork: CGC 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre Meeting Room 2. 2 classes / $67 Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, Toddler Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in.

Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, Family Literacy Centre: Little Chefs 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule.

Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, National Family Week Dinner - Whole Child Program 5:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary Happy National Family Week! Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week! Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building Join us inside the Bridges Café 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Whitehorse Wed, Oct, 7, Board Games and Karaoke 8:00 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Play some board games with friends or try your singing skills at karaoke! Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, Math Games: National Family Week 11:30 AM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your lunch and play math games. Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, Family Fun Fair: National Family Week 4:00 PM Canada Games Centre Hosted by YG Health and Social Services. Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, Raw Food Classes: MINT SAUCE 6:00 PM Alpine Ayurveda Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, NIA Dance and Fitness 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks NIA is a choreographed combination of martial arts, dance, and healing, set to great music. First class is free! 335-3442 Whitehorse Thu, Oct, 8, Yukon Guild of Needlearts: Fall Session 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Meet friends & learn techniques of hand embroidery. Call Doris at 633-4026. Whitehorse

Sat, Oct, 3, Free Family Drop In Upstairs 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Oct, 3, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play Drop-In 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule.

Sat, Oct, 3, Jam with Will at Angellina’s: Will Stroet 10:00 AM Angellina’s Toy Boutique Sat, Oct, 3, Saturday Ball Pit Family Drop In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Oct, 3, Kids Boreal Yoga with Sylvia Gibson 11:30 AM Breath of Life Collective Sun, Oct, 4, Will Stroet 11:00 AM The Old Fire Hall Will Stroet, the award-winning entertainer and star of Will’s Jams on Kids’ CBC television, performs a highenergy and educational show with fun actions and sing-a-long choruses in English and French.

Sun, Oct, 4, Building Intuition w/Tarot 1:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 5, Yukon Wildlife Preserve Family Bus Tour: National Family Week 9:00 AM Yukon Wildlife Preserve Mon, Oct, 5, Family on the Move: Nation Family Week 9:00 AM Canada Games Centre Balls, hoops, ,scooters and games. Sponsored by City of Whitehorse.

Mon, Oct, 5, Habitat for Humanity Yukon Open House: National Family Week 10:00 AM SuperGreen Build Celebrate World Habitat Day by checking out the ‘SuperGreen Build’. Hosted by Habitat for Humanity Yukon.

Mon, Oct, 5, Family Drop in at Polarettes Gymnastics Club: National Family Week 10:00 AM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Drop-in for families & caregivers’ children. Hosted by the Child Development Centre.

Mon, Oct, 5, L’heure du conte 10:30 AM Centre de la francophonie L’Association franco-yukonnaise invite les parents et leurs enfants de 18 mois à 4 ans à une heure de contes et comptines en français. Une collation sera servie.

Mon, Oct, 5, Baby Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in.

Mon, Oct, 5, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play Drop-In 12:30 PM Canada Games Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Art Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 5, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Mon, Oct, 5, The Sound Recording Club 6:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 5, GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Mon, Oct, 5, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Tue, Oct, 6, Family Literacy Centre: Leaping Literacy 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule.

Tue, Oct, 6, Family Literacy Centre: 1,2,3 Rhyme with Me 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule.

Tue, Oct, 6, Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Daily Animal Crackers 4:30 PM MacBride Museum Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track.8 classes/$89 Explore MacBride Museum’s animal gallery with one Tue, Oct, 6, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play of our knowledgeable interpreters and play Who Drop-In 12:30 PM Canada Games Centre Dung It? Tue, Oct, 6, Singing Together After School Program Daily Yukon Wildlife Preserve Interpreted Tour 4:00 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale PM Yukon Wildlife Preserve 5 Km Tour of Yukon Tue, Oct, 6, Girls Group 5:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Wildlife Preserve - 75-90 Minutes - A must see stop Tue, Oct, 6, How to Create a Parenting Plan: National while in Yukon Family Week 5:30 PM Yukon Inn Thu, Oct, 1, Practical Leadership for NGO’s 9:00 AM Tue, Oct, 6, Knitting Circle 7:00 PM Heart Of Heart Of Riverdale Riverdale Thu, Oct, 1, Family Literacy Centre: Père poule Tue, Oct, 6, Child/Family Safety Self Defence Class: Maman gâteau 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre National Family Week 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Fall Schedule.

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Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track. 8 classes / $89 Wed, Oct, 7, Toddler Story Time: Whitehorse Public Thu, Oct, 1, Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages Whitehorse Public Library 668-8794 Parent-Child 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in.

Mother Goose is about relationships and bonding with Wed, Oct, 7, Family Literacy Centre: Little Chefs rhymes, songs and stories. This FREE program is for 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. caregivers with infants ages 0-1 yr. To register call Wed, Oct, 7, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play 668-8794 or email jlukawitski@yukoncollege.yk.ca.

Drop-In 12:30 PM Canada Games Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Theatre Exploration After School Wed, Oct, 7, Ball Pit and Games After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 1, Singing For Kids-Beginner 5:00 PM Wed, Oct, 7, Many Rivers Family Dinner: National Heart Of Riverdale Family Week 5:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary Thu, Oct, 1, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise Entertainment and door prizes. Hosted by Many 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 Rivers and Whole Child Program.

- 11yrs Wed, Oct, 7, National Family Week Dinner - Whole Thu, Oct, 1, Singing For Kids Intermediate 6:30 PM Child Program 5:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary Heart Of Riverdale Happy National Family Week!

Thu, Oct, 1, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise Wed, Oct, 7, FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many Fri, Oct, 2, Young Explorer’s Preschool Program different activities happening every week!

10:00 AM MacBride Museum 667-2709, ext.3 parents Wed, Oct, 7, ‘ADD and Loving It?!’ Movie (starring and children explore the animal gallery together. Play comedian Patrick McKenna) and discussion: National Family Week 6:30 PM Learning Disabilities Association games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs. of Yukon (LDAY) Fri, Oct, 2, Family Literacy Centre: People in the Wed, Oct, 7, Pop Choir for Adults 7:00 PM Heart Of Neighbourhood 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Riverdale Fall Schedule.

Thu, Oct, 8, Practical Leadership for NGO’s 9:00 AM Fri, Oct, 2, Indoor/Outdoor Art Exploration After Heart Of Riverdale School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Fri, Oct, 2, Teen Drop In 6:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 8, Family on the Move & Choose a Sport: National Family Week 9:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Friday Ball Pit Family Drop In Heart Of Coca-Cola Fieldhouse. Sponsored by City of Whitehorse.

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Meetings & Workshops

Until Oct, 1 Yukon North Slope Conference Yukon Convention Bureau 100 Delegates Thu, Oct, 1, Applying for an Exhibition at Arts Underground 7:00 PM Arts Underground Fri, Oct, 2-3, Starting with Us Creation Workshop 10:00 AM The Old Fire Hall Gwaandak Theatre presents Starting with Us, a 2-day creation workshop with internationally acclaimed theatre artists James Long and Maiko Yamamoto of Vancouver’s Theatre Replacement. 393-2676 Fri, Oct, 2,3,4, Expand Your Vision with Sherman Hines 12:00 AM Yukon College Sat, Oct, 3-4, YTEC Training Courses Fall 2015: FoodSafe Level 2 Yukon Tourism Education Council (YTEC) Sat, Oct, 3, Bridging the Gap: Digital Photography 10:30 AM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/ Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities.

Sat, Oct, 3, Touring Workshop 6:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Gwaandak Theatre presents an evening Touring Workshop with internationally acclaimed theatre artists James Long and Maiko Yamamoto of Vancouver’s Theatre Replacement. 393-2676 Sun, Oct, 4, Bridging the Gap: Digital Photography 10:30 AM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/ Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities.

Sun, Oct, 4, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/hour.

Sun, Oct, 4, Life Drawing Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground Mon, Oct, 5, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Meeting 7:00 PM Emergency Measures Organization Prospective hams are welcome.

Tue, Oct, 6, YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makers Tue, Oct, 6, Athletics Yukon AGM 7:00 PM Sport Yukon All are welcome Tue, Oct, 6, Yukon Multiple Sclerosis Association AGM 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Annual General Meeting - All Welcome - Whitehorse Public Library. Registration for old and new members.

Applications for election or for more information please email jiroberts@gmail.com, all submissions for board election due Oct 2nd 2015.

Tue, Oct, 6, Town of Watson Lake Council Meeting 7:00 PM Town of Watson Lake Wed, Oct, 7, Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club AGM 7:00 PM Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club Wed, Oct, 7, Cramped Hand 7:00 PM bring writing materials or work-in-progress for a couple of hours of free writing and/or writing from prompts 633-3566 Thu, Oct, 8, Raw Food Classes: MINT SAUCE 6:00 PM Alpine Ayurveda

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Thu, Oct, 8, Family Literacy Centre: Père poule Maman gâteau 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule.

Thu, Oct, 8, Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library 668-8794 Parent-Child Mother Goose is about relationships and bonding with rhymes, songs and stories. This FREE program is for caregivers with infants ages 0-1 yr. To register call 668-8794 or email jlukawitski@yukoncollege.yk.ca.

Thu, Oct, 8, Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track. 8 classes / $89 Thu, Oct, 8, L’attachement pas à pas. Activité en français. 11:00 AM Centre de la francophonie Offert par Les Essentielles, “Mamans, papas et bébés en santé” Thu, Oct, 8, Math Games: National Family Week 11:30 AM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your lunch and play math games.

Thu, Oct, 8, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play Drop-In 12:30 PM Canada Games Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Theatre Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 8, Family Fun Fair: National Family Week 4:00 PM Canada Games Centre Hosted by YG Health and Social Services.

Thu, Oct, 8, Singing For Kids-Beginner 5:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 8, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 8, Family Swim & Snacks: National Family Week 6:30 PM Canada Games Centre Sponsored by Yukon Child & Youth Advocate Office.

Thu, Oct, 8, Singing For Kids Intermediate 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 8, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Thu, Oct, 8, Yoga and Yoghurt: National Family Week 7:30 PM Jack Hulland Elementary Until Sun, Oct, 11, Colouring Contest at Canada Games Centre: National Family Week 12:00 AM Canada Games Centre Colour a picture and enter a draw to win a free day pass! Sponsored by City of Whitehorse.

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The Librarian Recommends with Lori Garrison

Three Books for Adventurous Souls I

t’s the fall season, which means two things: the slowcreep of cold weather and a near-existential dread of the aforementioned.

It also means, for thousands of Yukoners, a frantic dash to enjoy those last, fleeting moments of

liveable outdoor weather in the form of fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking or whatever your outdoor poison is.

While we Yukoners tend to think of ourselves an outdoor breed, what are you supposed to do with this frenzy of woodsy activity if

you’re not so woodsy yourself?

This short selection of books is for those who enjoy a good book and a steaming (Irish) coffee in their favourite chair as much as a weekend in the bush.

A selection of staff picks at the Whitehorse Public Library PHOTO: Joslyn Kilborn

Fiction:

Nonfiction:

Poetry:

by Farley Mowat (McClelland & Stewart, 1963)

by Claire Caldwell (Wolsak and Wynn, 2014)

Never Cry Wolf

As much novel as work of nonfiction, Never Cry Wolf depicts Mowat’s early years as a wildlife biologist in the Far North of the Hudson’s Bay region. Featuring strangely human wolves and oddly wolfish humans, unlikely coincidences and the over-arching yet incompetent hand of the federal powers-that-be, you’ll be left charmed but somewhat incredulous at Mowat’s adventures. Even those who are typically not a fan of nonfiction will enjoy Mowat’s conversational, easy-reading style.

Best Part: Mowat’s description of the alcoholic beverage “Wolf Juice.” Bottoms up, boys!

Invasive Species

Escaped tigers, childhood memories, the slowly-sinking carcasses of blue whales and a world that feels simultaneously overand underwhelmed by life; Claire Caldwell’s sparse but gorgeous prose will guide you through it all. Though a resident of Toronto, Caldwell has spent time in the far north, giving her book an extra element of interest to the northern reader – you can be in Toronto one moment and Alaska the next, which is pretty much the dream come January, isn’t it?

Best Part: “If time were a bolt of cloth, cotton print flecked with pterodactyls I’d opt for leather.”

- from the poem A Seamstress Considers the Fourth Dimension

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What Not to Eat: Water Hemlock

Don’t eat – or even touch – this deadly plant found in the Yukon

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hen I first began eating wild mushrooms, I was studying squirrels.

I watched which mushrooms they picked to stash in trees, and figured that whichever ones they ate were probably not (or not very) poisonous. These days I know a little more and am glad I didn’t base my entire wild diet on this type of reasoning, or I might not be around to tell the tale. Muskrats for instance, have been observed to chow down on what the US Department of Agriculture calls “the most violently poisonous plant in North America.” Most people call it water hemlock, though another name is muskrat-weed.

Water hemlock is in the carrot family, Apiaceae (old Umbelliferae), and has the characteristic white umbels (umbrella-shaped clusters of flowers) you might recognise from yarrow, cow parsnip, and of course carrots. Plants of the carrot family often contain compounds that act strongly on the human system, making them the source of both powerful medicines and strong toxins – I once went on a daylong field trip around southwest Scotland with the sole purpose of finding all the different members of this family, edible and deadly.

Water hemlock is a tall plant that grows in marshes and on stream banks, and I have anec-

dotally found it to be more common in areas with a lot of beaver activity, though overall it is not a common plant in the Yukon.

Its alternate leaves are twice- or thrice-pinnate (divided in a fernlike fashion), contrasting to the once-pinnate leaves of water parsnip (Sium suave) whose roots are edible. A distinguishing feature is that the veins on the toothed leaflets end at the notches between the points, as opposed to running to the ends of the teeth. Take great care when identifying these plants, consult a good guidebook, and if there is any doubt, leave it out!

The root, or rhizome, in particular is extremely toxic, but no part of this plant should be touched – it is best to learn to identify it by looking at the leaf structure and the ribbed stems.

The stems and rhizome contain a noxious, oily yellow liquid rich in the poison cicutotoxin, named after the genus (which is simply the latin word for these plants).

It acts on the central nervous system, and in the convulsions that follow ingestion the heart muscle and those that control breathing are quickly compromised, leading to death. People are most often poisoned by this plant through mistaking it for an edible such as water-parsnip, or by using the hollow stems as straws. Anyone

Deadliness: A piece the size of a marble is sufficient to kill a person.

Symptoms: Stomach ache, weak pulse, salivation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, tremors and violent convulsions.

Onset: Within 15 minutes of ingestion.

Treatment: Induce vomiting and administer a strong laxative, get medical help immediately. who ever played around with reed straws as a child can attest to their attractiveness as a toy, so if you and your kids are playing around in a marsh do a scan for this plant before letting them off on their own.

A final note: that water hemlock is not the poison hemlock that was famously taken by Socrates to end his life in prison. That plant is unique among the carrot family for acting on the peripheral as opposed to the central nervous system, according to research by Enid Bloch, bringing about a much calmer kind of death – if death can be said to be kind.

Kim Melton is an enthusiastic forager and gardener, inspired by all things that make up good, local food. She doesn’t want to poison anyone.

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I didn’t believe it at first because Andrea’s Fresh Market looks very simple and small from the street. But once I went into the store and checked it out for myself, I was really impressed, not just because it is bigger than it appears, but it also has a lot of products. There are products you couldn’t even imagine, including Mexican, Asian and Korean.

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We walked a quarter of a mile to the highway to catch the bus to Ottawa. Auntie Kate would flag down the bus with her hankie.

The summer Marion turned 10 years old we visited Aunt Edna in Ottawa and Marion learned a craft that has coloured her hand work ever since.

The parlour in Aunt Edna’s home came directly out of Victorian times. A brick fireplace and heavy brocade furniture created a sense of past times.

Marion remembers a ferocious thunderstorm on the fateful craft evening.

Now Marion was a wild rose.

In fact the train man on our trip east that year had picked a rose while the train waited at a rail siding. He presented the wild rose to the “little wild rose” travelling with her mum and sister. So when Marion sat down to learn tatting, the patient, attention to detail work was out of character.

Tatting is an ancient form of lacemaking. Girls and handmaidens were taught the craft.

However, Queen Victoria from England and Archduchess Marie Theresa from Austria were also said to enjoy tatting. Originally fishermen used a large shuttle to weave heavy cord into fishing nets. They used the Bolin knot as the anchor – this is a slip knot. The idea was handed down to weavers who used finer thread and a smaller shuttle.

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Double Knots on a Thread ... cont’d This form of lace making became very popular in Europe and was used to add elegance and charm to bed linens, camisoles and tablecloths.

Tatting is known as knotting in England and frivolet in France.

When the craft came across the ocean, it was called tatting in early North American history.

Marion begins each lace work with the Bolin knot and winds the thread around her left hand.

Her right hand moves the shuttle under over and then over under the thread on her left hand. Her favourite weight of modern cotton thread is #30. I watch Marion’s hands – there is a calming rhythm to the work as the lace comes alive.

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Marion has taken tatting to a new level. At her home in Dawson City, she uses her elegant handcrafted lace on original dolls as well as on her own clothing. One of my favourite items is a vest – wearable art, to be sure.

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WITH BACK TO SCHOOL IN MIND… Here’s a partial list of awarded contracts for YG Department of Education:

Here’s a list of the TOP 50 expenses this year CONTRACT DESCRIPTION

VENDOR NAME

AMOUNT

COMMUNITY

TYPE

CONTRACT DESCRIPTION

VENDOR NAME

AMOUNT

COMMUNITY

TYPE

Building Replacement - Sarah Steele Building

WILDSTONE CONSTRUCTION &

$16,970,000

Whitehorse

P

Destination Yukon and Yukon Now components 2015-16

OUTSIDE THE CUBE MANAGEMENT

$1,205,900

Whitehorse

P

Whitehorse Student Transportation

STANDARD BUS CONTRACTING LTD

$7,064,679

Whitehorse

D

Provision of Services as Medical Officer of Health

BRENDAN E HANLEY PROFESSIONAL

$1,142,789

Whitehorse

D

Highway Construction km 87.8-96.9 Campbell Hwy#4 2015-16

COBALT CONSTRUCTION INC

$5,878,430

Watson Lake

P

Partridge Ck. Bridge Deck Replacement

SEISMIC 2000 CONSTRUCTION LTD

$1,140,197

Swift River

P

Produce and Stockpile Aggregate

NUWAY CRUSHING LTD

$1,099,850

Other

P

Medevacs for Yukon Government Emergency Medical Services

ALKAN AIR LTD

$5,463,229

Whitehorse

P

Environmental Services

CH2M HILL CANADA LTD

$1,026,806

Old Crow

P

#1 Hospital Road-Crocus Building

YUKON HOSPITAL CORPORATION

$5,225,000

Whitehorse

D

Repair of Clinton Creek Drop Structures

P. S. SIDHU TRUCKING LTD.

$998,719

Other

P

Construction of Watson Lake Water Treatment Facility

WILDSTONE CONSTRUCTION &

$5,099,758

Watson Lake

P

Installation of culverts - Dempster Hwy

P. S. SIDHU TRUCKING LTD.

$980,580

Other

P

KLUHINI BLDG - LEASE

BLACK STREET INVESTMENTS

$4,312,217

Whitehorse

D

Provision of Community Aerodrome Radio Staion Services

SHAUNA HEASLEY O/A

$920,640

Mayo

P

Highway Restoration

COBALT CONSTRUCTION INC

$3,645,050

Other

P

Dawson City Hospital

YUKON HOSPITAL CORPORATION

$912,389

Dawson City

D

Supply & delivery of Asphalt Emulsion

POUNDER EMULSIONS LTD

$3,630,861

Whitehorse

P

Mine Site Engineer

DST CONSULTING ENGINEERS INC

$900,000

Faro

P

ATLIN ROAD RECONSTRUCTION 2015-2016

P. S. SIDHU TRUCKING LTD.

$3,178,982

Whitehorse

P

Facility Consultant for Whistle Bend Continuing Care

DIALOG BC ARCHITECTURE

$871,330

Whitehorse

P

Highway Construction km 66.7-73.0 Campbell Highway #4

COBALT CONSTRUCTION INC

$2,696,420

Watson Lake

P

Roadway Restoration km 239.2- 247.7 & 345.3 - 350.3 Hwy #2

COBALT CONSTRUCTION INC

$869,900

Whitehorse

P

Roof Replacement

SUMMIT WATERPROOFING LTD

$2,688,410

Faro

P

Replacement of Alexander McDonald Lodge

NGC BUILDERS LTD

$853,763

Dawson City

P

Student Transportation - Rural Yukon Schools

STANDARD BUS CONTRACTING LTD

$2,459,204

Whitehorse

D

Summer TV Commercial Shoot Yukon Now

OUTSIDE THE CUBE MANAGEMENT

$835,000

Whitehorse

P

Bituminous Surface Treatment

P. S. SIDHU TRUCKING LTD.

$2,283,875

Other

P

Insurance policies and renewals

AON REED STENHOUSE INC O/A

$814,625

Whitehorse

D

P&SP Aggregates Hwy #1, 2 &7

NUWAY CRUSHING LTD

$2,206,280

Whitehorse

P

Phase II Environmental Assessment Work

BLUMETRIC ENVIRONMENTAL INC

$782,502

Ross River

P

Produce & Stockpile Aggregs.Various Locations N Yukon

NUWAY CRUSHING LTD

$2,188,250

Whitehorse

P

Boiler & Controls Upgrade Porter Creek School

BUDGET PLUMBING & HEATING INC

$764,000

Whitehorse

P

Construction of Mendenhall Water Treatment Plant

CARDINAL CONTRACTING LTD

$1,874,075

Other

P

Minto Bridge Rehabilitation

ONLINE CONSTRUCTORS LTD

$759,004

Mayo

P

Site Operations at abandoned mine site

DENISON MINES INC O/A

$1,850,000

Other

P

Maintenance and Support for Mobile Radio System

TOTAL NORTH COMMUNICATIONS LTD

$750,000

Whitehorse

P

Structural Remediation and Re-Leveling Ross River School

KETZA PACIFIC CONSTRUCTION

$1,799,187

Ross River

D

Mental Health Registerred Nurse for Psychiatric Practice

CELTIC HARP COUNSELLING

$725,050

Whitehorse

P

Design Build 6th Avenue Continuing Care Conversion

WILDSTONE CONSTRUCTION &

$1,631,081

Whitehorse

P

Consulting services for eHealth SOA HSS-eHealth-13-01

OROGROUP CONSULTING INC

$723,110

Whitehorse

P

Produce Aggregates along Klondike & Campbell

NUWAY CRUSHING LTD

$1,493,410

Other

P

Adult Day Care

SEYMOUR A LEWIS O/A HELPING

$687,473

Whitehorse

D

CARMACKS PAVEMENT OVERLAY KM 351.6 TO KM 359.1 HWY #2

SKOOKUM ASPHALT LTD

$1,473,811

Carmacks

P

Village of Mayo Infrastructure - Phase 2

NORCOPE ENTERPRISES LTD

$681,295

Mayo

P

Physician Services to Mayo and Pelly Crossing

DR MAJID BAKRI

$1,268,812

Whitehorse

D

Medical Officer of Health

CATHERINE TAMAR ELLIOTT

$659,868

Whitehorse

D

Warm Mix Asphalt Overlay, Watson Lake Airport

SKOOKUM ASPHALT LTD

$1,234,380

Watson Lake

P

24 hour residential support for 4 youth

34435 YUKON INC

$651,017

Whitehorse

P

P = Publically tendered, everyone has a chance to bid, I = Invitation to bid only, D= Directly offered, no other parties contacted

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Which is how my experience ever had his tarot read. A year ago do this. with tarot has been since I began “It’s a window,” Maynard says.

I might have said something simiAt our first meeting we take using it. When I deal for another lar. I wouldn’t have been telling the whole truth, though, because turns drawing single cards and person, the cards before us beat that point I had neither figured speaking about our resonance come a puzzle, a tapestry, and out how to be truthful about my with their images and symbols, the reading of them is a conversation between the spiritual beliefs, two of us, a picture nor was I very sure is formed based on what my blossoming what each of us sees. spiritual beliefs acIt seems to be, as tually were. It had Maynard says, a path always been easier to our higher selves: to feign skepticism the parts of us that than to expose the already know the earnest underbelly answers to the quesof my curiosity. tions we ask.

Then a week or But talking pubso after moving to licly about tarot can Whitehorse, Scott often be a source of Maynard read my uneasiness. I have tarot for me. More of a friend of a clear childhood friend at that point, memories of my we knew very little father pulling a deck about each other. of vividly painted At the moment cards from a little of the reading I was door on the top of an quite sad, disilluold book shelf when sioned with the nora friend of his came malcy of daily life over. They would sit after the adventure at the dining room of leaving behind table, spread the everything I knew to cards out, and talk escape to the Yukon. for a long time. At I was realizing that some point this deck PHOTO: Joslyn Kilborn even though I was disappeared, I asnow 6,000 km from sume after my father home, I was still the became a Christian. same person with all After that I learned the same problems. to feel suspicious of And Maynard’s tarot and anything reading spoke into claiming to predict this. It talked about the future. the pain of my But years later blindfolds being removed. It told when tarot comes in to my life on Hone your intuitive skills with me every wise person had been its own terms I discover it isn’t the help of the Tarot deck through what I was going through, about predicting the future. It’s many, many times. It comforted just another way to bring clarity me. It was exactly to the present. what I needed.

“It’s a useful After that I detool,” says Maynard.

More than a workshop on cided to start learnThe workshops ing tarot myself, will be ongoing on a slow and casual Sunday afternoons learning the tarot, journey that has in casual pass-themost recently led hat style. For more Maynard calls it a me to the first in a information, or to series of tarot workjoin, contact The Building Intuition workshop shops at The Heart Heart of Riverdale: of Riverdale, facili667-6700. tated by the same Scott Maynard.

More than a workshop on learn- how they make us feel, what they Joslyn Kilborn is a ing the tarot, Maynard calls it a make us think about. It quickly beWhitehorse-based writer.

Building Intuition workshop. It’s comes an intimate conversation, Contact her via editor@ meant to be a drop-in space for as we can’t seem to help discusswhatsupyukon.com.

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Community EVENTS Sat, Oct, 3, Women’s Yoga 9:00 AM Nelnah Bessie John School. Just yourself in comfortable clothing Sat, Oct, 3, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Oct, 5, Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tue, Oct, 6, Women’s Yoga 7:00 PM Nelnah Bessie John School. Just yourself in comfortable clothing Tue, Oct, 6, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Mon, Oct, 5, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Tue, Oct, 6, Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealfit(at) me.com Wed, Oct, 7, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, Oct, 7, CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Thu, Oct, 8, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com

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Atlin

Wednesday’s Board Games 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Wednesday’s Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre

Beaver Creek

Thu, Oct, 1, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 8673993321 Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door.

Everyone welcome! no fee for community members Thu, Oct, 1, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Oct, 1, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Sun, Oct, 4, St. Saviours Church Service 11:00 AM St. Saviours Church 867-668-3129 Tue, Oct, 6, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 8673993321 Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door.

Everyone welcome! no fee for community members Tue, Oct, 6, Tlingit Language classes 5:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Tue, Oct, 6, Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Oct, 6, Tlingit Design Course 6:00 PM Carcross Carving Shed Lead Carver Keith Wolfe-Smarch is giving a course in traditional Tlingit design for members of C/TFN. This will be held every Tuesday evening from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. See you at the Carving Shed!

Tue, Oct, 6, Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, Oct, 7, Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Oct, 7, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Wed, Oct, 7, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ ctfn.ca Thu, Oct, 8, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 8673993321 Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door.

Everyone welcome! no fee for community members Thu, Oct, 8, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Oct, 8, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator

Dawson City

Thu, Oct, 1, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Fri, Oct, 2, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Sat, Oct, 3, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Sat, Oct, 3, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Oct, 3, YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Sun, Oct, 4, St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Sun, Oct, 4, Sweet Nuggets 11:00 PM Westminster Hotel Lady M & her Mr. Men’s in the cocktail lounge Mon, Oct, 5, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Mon, Oct, 5, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Recreation board grants

Thu, Oct, 1, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Cranberry Fair 10:00 AM Faro Recreation Centre 867-994-2375 Sun, Oct, 4, Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Oct, 4, Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Tue, Oct, 6, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Oct, 7, Wednesday Evening Floor Hockey 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 867-994-2375 Thu, Oct, 8, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Environment Club 3:45 PM Del Van Gorder School

Haines Junction

Thu, Oct, 1, Learn to Play the Fiddle: Haines Junction 12:00 AM St Christopher’s Church In a 6 week workshop with Keitha Clark. Ages 7-12. $15 / Lesson.

Thu, Oct, 1, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Oct, 1, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Sun, Oct, 4, St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, Oct, 5, Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, Oct, 7, Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult. Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, Oct, 8, Learn to Play the Fiddle: Haines Junction 12:00 AM St Christopher’s Church In a 6 week workshop with Keitha Clark. Ages 7-12. $15 / Lesson.

Thu, Oct, 8, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Oct, 8, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School

Marsh Lake

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Wed, Oct, 7, Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Old Crow

Thu, Oct, 1, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Oct, 4, St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Thu, Oct, 8, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish

Thu, Oct, 1, Intermediate / Advanced Osteofit: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Carpet Bowling: Tagish Community Centre 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome!

Thu, Oct, 1, Catch Kids Club: Tagish 4:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Spaghetti Dinner: Tagish 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Beginners Yoga: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre With instructor Lee Randell.

Sat, Oct, 3, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sat, Oct, 3, Outdoor Sports Activities: Tagish 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Soccer, baseball, field hockey etc Tue, Oct, 6, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Nordic Walking: Tagish 1:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Call 399-3407 for more info.

Tue, Oct, 6, Beginner Osteofit: Tagish 4:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Stayfit: Tagish 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Oct, 7, Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fresh baked goods every Wednesday.

Wed, Oct, 7, Tagish Advisory Council meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.ca Thu, Oct, 8, Intermediate / Advanced Osteofit: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Carpet Bowling: Tagish Community Centre 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome!

Thu, Oct, 8, Catch Kids Club: Tagish 4:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

Teslin

DAILY Teslin Lake Bird Observatory 7:00 AM Teslin Campground Get up close and personal with a variety of migrating birds while watching the bird banders at work.

Teslin

Sun, Oct, 4, St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746

Thu, Oct, 1, After School Fitness: Teslin 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Grade K4-Grade 3. Free. Snacks will be provided.

Sun, Oct, 4, Catholic Mass/Communion Service at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission 10:30 AM Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission Sun, Oct, 4, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, Oct, 5, After School Fitness: Teslin 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Grade K4-Grade 3. Free. Snacks will be provided.

Tue, Oct, 6, After School Fitness: Teslin 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Grade K4-Grade 3. Free. Snacks will be provided.

Tue, Oct, 6, Yoga in the Mezzanine 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Yoga Sessions 7-8pm every Tuesday at the Teslin Mezzanine. Free to attend.

Wed, Oct, 7, Golden Age Social 10:00 AM Teslin Rec Center Teslin 55+ weekly gathering at the recplex for coffee, tea, snacks and various activities and games.

Wed, Oct, 7, After School Fitness: Teslin 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Grade K4-Grade 3. Free. Snacks will be provided.

Thu, Oct, 8, After School Fitness: Teslin 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Grade K4-Grade 3. Free. Snacks will be provided.

Mount Lorne

Watson Lake

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

Wed, Oct, 7, Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting.

Mayo

Thu, Oct, 1, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Fri, Oct, 2, Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

October 1, 2015

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

Thu, Oct, 1, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre

Sun, Oct, 4, St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Sun, Oct, 4, Liard Evangelical Free Church Service 10:00 AM The Little Brown Log Church Sunday morning services, then fellowship time with coffee after the service Very friendly!

Mon, Oct, 5, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Mon, Oct, 5, Sivananda Yoga: Hosted by Tracey West 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Town of Watson Lake Council Meeting 7:00 PM Town of Watson Lake Thu, Oct, 8, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Oct, 8, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre

Haines, Alaska

Until Thu, Oct, 1, Spring: A Culture of Eagles Exhibit Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre A cultural exploration of eagles in the Chilkat Valley through history This strong icon permeates Tlingit legend, myth, art, ceremony and even social structure DAILY Haines Public Library Open 10:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mondays - Saturdays Everyone Welcome Swim 11:00:00 AM & 5:00 PM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Men’s Bible Study 7:00 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Oct, 2, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Fri, Oct, 2, Women’s Bible Study 10:30 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Oct, 2, Story time 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Oct, 2, Yoga w/Mandy 12:00 PM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Zumba Toning 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Sun, Oct, 4, Ice cream social for seniors 2:00 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Mon, Oct, 5, Mother Goose Stories and Songs 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mon, Oct, 5, Senior Exercise Class 11:15 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Cardio/strength training circuit 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Senior Swim 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Haines Women’s Fellowship 3:00 PM Haines Senior Center Tue, Oct, 6, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Wed, Oct, 7, Senior Exercise Class 11:15 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Guys Yoga 5:00 PM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre

Skagway, Alaska

Thu, Oct, 1, Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time

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Thu, Oct, 1, Senior Weights w/Jennifer/Katherine/Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Thu, Oct, 1, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ AJ 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Restorative Yoga: w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Spinning w/ Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 1, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 2, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Fri, Oct, 2, Vinyasa Flow level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 2, SPOGA: 1/2 Spin - 1/2 Yoga w/ Courteny 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 2, Volleyball For Adults 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Spinning w/ Cindy 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 3, Senior Weights w/Jennifer/Katherine/Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Sun, Oct, 4, Spinning w/ Cindy 12:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 4, Spinning w/ Cindy 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 4, Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jeanne 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 4, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ AJ 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 5, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Mon, Oct, 5, Restorative Yoga: w/ Katherine AL 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Playgroup: Skagway 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour.

Mon, Oct, 5, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Mon, Oct, 5, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 5, Roller Hockey For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Chair and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Tue, Oct, 6, Senior Weights w/Jennifer/Katherine/Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Tue, Oct, 6, SpinXPRESS w/ Jennifer/Katherine 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre 30 minute high intensity lunchtime workout for those of you short on time. This class gets right down to it and energizes you physically and mental for the remainder of your work day.

Tue, Oct, 6, Spinning w/ Gillian/Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 6, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Wed, Oct, 7, Back/Hip Yoga: All Levels w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Playgroup: Skagway 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour.

Wed, Oct, 7, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Wed, Oct, 7, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Wed, Oct, 7, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Climbing Instruction For Belay Certification Class - Signup Required 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 7, Belay Check For Certification - Signup Required 7:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Thu, Oct, 8, Senior Weights w/Jennifer/Katherine/Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Thu, Oct, 8, Restorative Yoga: w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Spinning w/ Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 8, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

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Step Outside

Check Out

with Larry Leigh

Lists, Colour Coding and Labels

Our Website

A little colour coding and individual bags makes outdoor life a little easier

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NATIONAL MENTAL ILLNESS AWARENESS WEEK

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Confidential depression and anxiety screening When: Tuesday, October 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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eople new to outdoor activity such as hunting, hiking and camping are likely a bit more organized on the second or third trip than they were on the first one. At first the newbie often just stuffs the pack and gear boxes in no particular order and, unless they are lucky, has to go through all or most of them to find an item that they need. You won’t be looking for socks, rain-gear or toilet paper in a box marked KITCHEN. On fly-in, boat or truck trips where a backpack is simply used to pack gear in, a small storebought label attached with a ziptie can list all the contents of the pack. When camp is set up the pack is emptied and refilled with essentials for the hunt or hike.

This same labelling can be attached to the latch on any of the coolers and the weather-proof plastic tote-boxes so often used for outdoor adventures. It saves a lot of time (and wet gear if it’s raining) because you identify the proper container by reading the labels.

A system of colour coding saves time as well. The small to medium

size “stuff-bags” are available in a few different colours. Choose your own colour choices, but, as examples, socks can be in a small bag which is a different colour than the same sized bags containing personal medications, gloves, hats, headlamp, spare batteries, etc. Slightly larger bags in different colours can hold your long johns, rain-gear or wool shirt.

These various bags can be laid out inside the wall of the tent so you can just grab the bag you need for whatever gear you are looking for.

These bags can also be stuffed inside a shirt to make a pillow for the coming nights. A felt marker can permanently note what is usually carried in this particular bag.

The tarp and rope bag will be a little larger and can also be labelled with a marker.

Ropes are an essential part of any camp set-up and are available in the junk or good quality categories. You won’t keep junk rope for any length of time as it frays, has a knot memory, breaks easily or stretches excessively.

Rope can be stored in bags clearly identified as “Rope bags,” by col-

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our or type of bag. We don’t want to cut good rope so it should be carried in various lengths to suit needs around the campsite. It is easy to to pick out your 10’, 20’ or 30’ lengths simply by having them different colours. You choose the colour coding, but, as an example, 10’ blue ropes are easily selected from among the 20’ reds and the 30’ greens.

Of course all ropes should be coiled neatly to avoid tangles and have them immediately ready for use. Quickly available ropes in the right lengths can often save the tarp or the boat from the effects of sudden –or predicted – middle of the night wind extremes.

Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors person who prefers to cook what he harvests himself.

He is a past president of the Canadian Wildlife Federation and retired hunter education coordinator for the Government of Yukon. Please send comments about his articles to wild@whatsupyukon.com.

Confidential depression and anxiety screening and information sessions on mental health: • Recognizing and treating depression 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• Recognizing and treating eating disorders – 6:30 p.m.

• Mental health and the law – 8:00 p.m.

When: Thursday, October 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Where: Canada Games Centre Information: 1-867-667-8346 or 1-800-661-0408 extension 8346 in the communities

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The Pioneer Utility Grant is available to Yukon seniors who are 65 years of age or older, to assist with the cost of heating owned or rented accommodation.

If you have not already received an application, please call 393-6467 (1-800-661-0408, ext. 6467 in the communities) to have one sent to you.

For more information, visit www.hss.gov.yk.ca/pioneergrant

Northern Institute of Social Justice TRAINING PROGRAMS

Self-Regulation for Our Clients and Ourselves What is Self-Regulation, why is it important, and how is it applied? Self-Regulation is essential for managing energy, emotions, behaviours and attention, for working, learning and interacting with others. This new course is designed for frontline workers, and explores: ● self-regulation and co-regulation and their importance in working with clients and co-workers ● the relationship between trauma and self-regulation ● the five domains (biological, cognitive, emotional, social, and prosocial) in relation to working with clients and colleagues Participants will leave this course with multiple strategies and tools for their own practice and their work with clients. This course is designed to provide information and tools. It is not intended to provide counselling, therapy or treatment.

More Info: Call Joanne @ 456.8590

Thu, Oct, 1 Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 1 Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track. 8 classes / $89 Thu, Oct, 1 Velocity practice 4:30 PM Biathlon Range Thu, Oct, 1 Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practice 5:15 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Kids practice - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 1 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Oct, 1 Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practice 6:30 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Thu, Oct, 1 NIA Dance and Fitness 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks NIA is a choreographed combination of martial arts, dance, and healing, set to great music. first class is free! 335-3442 Fri, Oct, 2 Hand to Hand - Level 1 (lunch class) with Gael 11:30 AM Aikido Yukon Dojo Fri, Oct, 2 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Sat, Oct, 3 Firearms Safety Course 8:30 AM Whitehorse Rifle Pistol Club Sat, Oct, 3 CNIB Night Steps 4:00 PM Whitehorse Millennium Trail Join us for a fun, glow-in-the-dark 5km fundraising walk under the stars to support community members who are blind/partially sighted.

1-844-810-5408 Sat, Oct, 3 Whitehorse Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks a 60-minute mix of great music - world beat, acid jazz, pop - you dance or stretch or move how you like Sun, Oct, 4 Firearms Safety Course 8:30 AM Whitehorse Rifle Pistol Club

Sun, Oct, 4 Kidney Walk: The Kidney Foundation of Canada 12:00 PM Rotary Peace Park Welcome Brunch 10-11 am, Registration 11-12, Walk starts at noon.

2.5 km, Millennium Trail (walk past SS Klondike). The Kidney Walk is a signature fundraiser. Participation is by donation. A step in the right direction could save a life!

Register online kidneywalkbc.ca Mon, Oct, 5 Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Yang Family 16 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Mon, Oct, 5 Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practice 5:15 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Kids practice - 5 - 11yrs Mon, Oct, 5 Hand to Hand - Level 1&2 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Oct, 5 Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practice 6:30 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Mon, Oct, 5 Sword/Bokken with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Oct, 5 Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Yang Family 16 Movement Form 7:30 PM Grey Mountain Primary School Tue, Oct, 6 Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track.8 classes/$89 Tue, Oct, 6 Velocity practice 4:30 PM Biathlon Range Tue, Oct, 6 Last Gasp & AGM 6:00 PM F.H. Collins Secondary Run/walk 5 km or 2.5 km. AGM starts at 7pm 633-5671 Tue, Oct, 6 Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Terice 668-6631 Tue, Oct, 6 Tai Chi Yukon: Form refinements / push hands 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Tue, Oct, 6 Whitehorse Scottish Country Dance Club 7:00 PM Jack Hulland Elementary Tue, Oct, 6 Athletics Yukon AGM 7:00 PM Sport Yukon All are welcome

Wellness LISTINGS Thu, Oct, 1, Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 1, Tai Chi Yukon: Continuing Yang Family 103 Movement Form - Sections 2&3 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School Thu, Oct, 1, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Tai Chi 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School Fri, Oct, 2, Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 PM Whitehorse Food Bank Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children 334-9317 Sat, Oct, 3, Whitehorse Weight Watchers 8:30 AM Whitehorse United Church Please arrive 30-minutes prior to the listed meeting time for weigh-in and registration.

Sat, Oct, 3, Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 10:30 AM The Studio “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” - Sharon Salzberg Sat, Oct, 3, Kids Boreal Yoga with Sylvia Gibson 11:30 AM Breath of Life Collective Sat, Oct, 3, CNIB Night Steps - Yukon 4:00 PM Rotary Peace Park Night Steps is a fun and easy fundraising walk under the stars. This exciting, family friendly 5km walk raises funds to support CNIB’s vital services. 1-844-810-5408 Sun, Oct, 4, Tonglen 10:00 AM White Swan Sanctuary Sun, Oct, 4, Zen meditation and discussion 3:30 PM Alpine Bakery We will do a sitting meditation for 20 minutes, a walking meditation for 10 minutes and a second sitting meditation for 20 minutes. After that we recite a chant (in English), have tea and a snack, and present a short Zen reading for discussion.

Mon, Oct, 5, Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Yang Family 16 Movement Form 10:00 AM

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Golden Age Society Mon, Oct, 5, Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Qigong and Yang Style 10:00 AM Golden Age Society 16 movement form.

Mon, Oct, 5, Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 PM Whitehorse Food Bank Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children 334-9317 Mon, Oct, 5, Shamata Meditation 5:15 PM White Swan Sanctuary Group meditation all levels welcome Mon, Oct, 5, Buddhist Meditation Society 5:15 PM White Swan Sanctuary All are welcome!

Mon, Oct, 5, Tai Chi Yukon: Yang Family 103 Movement Form - Section 1 6:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School Mon, Oct, 5, Tai Chi Yukon: Continuing Yang Family 103 Movement Form - Part 3 6:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School Mon, Oct, 5, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Yang Family 16 Movement Form 7:30 PM Grey Mountain Primary School Tue, Oct, 6, Last Gasp & AGM 6:00 PM F.H. Collins Secondary Run/walk 5 km or 2.5 km. AGM Tue, Oct, 6, Tai Chi Yukon: Tai Chi Fan 6:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Some TC experience helpful.

Tue, Oct, 6, Tai Chi Yukon: Form refinements / push hands 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary starts at 7pm 633-5671 Tue, Oct, 6, Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Terice 668-6631 Tue, Oct, 6, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners 8:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School Continuing Yang style long form.

Wed, Oct, 7, Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children

Wed, Oct, 7, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ctfn.ca 821-4251 Wed, Oct, 7, Whitehorse Weight Watchers 4:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Please arrive 30-minutes prior to the listed meeting time for weigh-in and registration.

Wed, Oct, 7, Red Tara Meditation 6:00 PM White Swan Sanctuary Everyone welcome.

For more info contact Vicky 633-3715 Wed, Oct, 7, Hooray for Hooping 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Mount McIntyre - Grey Mountain Room. 5 classes / $59 Thu, Oct, 8, Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 8, Raw Food Classes: MINT SAUCE 6:00 PM Alpine Ayurveda Thu, Oct, 8, Tai Chi Yukon: Continuing Yang Family 103 Movement Form - Sections 2&3 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School Thu, Oct, 8, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Tai Chi 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School

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With Andrameda Hunter, this class includes techniques from yoga, ballet, modern and belly dance which will help develop body alignment, balance, strength, and spatial awareness.

Registration: Please call Admissions to register at 867.668.8710 and quote the Course Registration Number (CRN) listed above.

Withdrawal Policy: Please notify the Admissions Office, in person or by telephone, five business days prior to the course start date to allow for a refund. If you withdraw fewer than five business days before the start of a course, you will forfeit the course fee.

Thursday October 8 6-7:30pm Yukon Arts Centre’s Studio

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Wed, Oct, 7 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!

Wed, Oct, 7 Hand to Hand - Level 2&3 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Oct, 7 Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club AGM 7:00 PM Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club Wed, Oct, 7 Hooray for Hooping 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Mount McIntyre - Grey Mountain Room. 5 classes / $59 Wed, Oct, 7 Staff/Jo with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Thu, Oct, 8 Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 8 Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track. 8 classes / $89 Thu, Oct, 8 Velocity practice 4:30 PM Biathlon Range Thu, Oct, 8 Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practice 5:15 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Kids practice - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 8 Snowshoe Series 6:00 PM Mount MacIntyre Recreation Centre 6335671 Thu, Oct, 8 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Oct, 8 Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practice 6:30 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Thu, Oct, 8 NIA Dance and Fitness 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks NIA is a choreographed combination of martial arts, dance, and healing, set to great music. First class is free! 335-3442 Thu, Oct, 8 BY Board Meeting 7:00 PM Biathlon Range

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Bowling is Back How’sBUSINESS How’sBUSINESS

The Mad Trapper Bowling Alley in Riverdale is open once again - but just on weekends How’sBUSINESS

by George Maratos

PHOTO: Rick Massie

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n the popular bowling movie Kingpin the term “munsoned” is coined by the film’s writers Peter and Bobby Farrelly to describe being up a creek without a paddle, essentially being left for dead.

For the Mad Trapper Alleys in Riverdale that seemed to be its fate after closing its doors in May. But now the popular five-pin facility is munsoned no more as it recently reopened part-time for weekend play.

“Exciting,” said facility manager Steve Kwok when asked what it was like to hear the familiar sound of ball against pins again. “Feels like I’m honeymooning again.”

For 12 years Kwok and his wife Irene operated the popular facility.

When their son took up the sport and the opportunity to manage the lanes presented itself Kwok jumped on it.

It was a decision that would bring years of joy to his family and see his son go on to represent the territory at several national tournaments.

“With the bowling alley it’s like you’re married to it,” said Kwok.

“You have that love affair, that feeling all the time.”

When the lanes closed in May of this year it wasn’t because Kwok’s love for the sport had run out, but due to the facility’s aging equipment and the amount of time Kwok could commit.

In addition to running the bowling alley the Kwok’s operate two other businesses, both of which are located in the same complex as the lanes.

They are also grandparents now, something Kwok says has become a top priority in his life.

“When you become a grandparent you immediately fall in love with that child,” he says.

But not having the lanes open these past few months and knowing how important they were to the community has weighed heavily on Kwok.

Owners Steve and Irene Kwok with their grandson

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“As soon as the bowling alley closed people were asking me if it was going to re-open,” said Kwok.

The lanes are an important fixture to many in Whitehorse.

For years the Boys and Girls Club would host its largest annual fundraiser there.

The Special Olympics bowling team trained regularly at the lanes and without it the team’s future was put in doubt.

Prior to its closure there was even a Big Lebowski themed bowling party.

Knowing all this and the fact the lanes and equipment were just sitting dormant Kwok approached the building’s landlord Chris Sorg to see if the bowling alley could operate part time.

Sorg liked the idea and last month the lanes re-opened to a packed house.

Special Olympics Yukon are also set to begin practices again.

Right now the lanes will remain open on the weekends and for private functions until April, at which time a decision will be made on its future.

In the meantime Kwok says he has no regrets about his decision to re-open the Mad Trapper Alleys and return to a busy schedule.

“For it to just sit there and collect dust it is a shame,” said Kwok.

“The equipment is dying but it’s not dead yet, besides, for all 10 machines to break down at the same time it’s easier to win the 6/49.”

For many local bowlers having the lanes open again is just like winning the Lotto.

The Mad Trapper Bowling Alley is located at 95 Lewes Blvd. in Whitehorse. For more information call 668-4277.

George Maratos is a Whitehorsebased writer and comedian.

George is one of What’s Up Yukon’s original 12 writers!

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and enjoy a full season of six exciting and innovative performances – contemporary theatre, dance and circus – at an amazing price. For more information, call the YAC Box Office at 667-8574 or find details on www.yukonartscentre.com

BOOM • Rick Miller, Toronto October 15, 2015 EUNOIA • Denise Fujiwara Dance, Toronto, October 23, 2015 THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW • RKO Productions, Victoria, November 25, 2015 AINSI PARLAIT (Thus Spoke) • Frederick Gravel, Montreal, January 22, 2016 L’IMMÉDIAT • Camille Boitel, Paris, France, January 27, 2016 SAL CAPONE • THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF Urban Ink, Vancouver, March 18, 2015

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