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October 22, 2015

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het your appetite for lunch on Lillian Loponen’s new canvases at the Yukon College Hilltop Bistro this fall. The show, called Touch of Green: Enchanted Places, explores the colour green in washes and gestural brushstrokes. The show will be on display at the College’s fine dining lunch restaurant until mid December. Jacqueline Bedard, the Director of College Relations, explained that Culinary Arts Students at the College make the menu and prep and cook the food. The servers are drawn from students in the College’s Food and Beverage Operations program. These programs attract many international students, as it’s a field in which they can get employment. Often this includes a post-graduate work permit for the same amount of time they spent studying at Yukon College. Certainly the menus often reflect international influences. Followers of Loponen’s work will be familiar with her winter watercolours dominated by blue and violet. Loponen has shifted to green and to acrylic for these works. While there is one 5 foot by 7 foot winter canvas called “Enchanted Woods,” most of the scenes show summer. Green, drooping spruce boughs

In “Morning Silence” Lillian Loponen uses the acrylics thinly, drawing on her years of watercolour painting. create depth in “Enchanted Woods,” the warmer colour moving forward, creating more mystery for the wolf silhouette among the tree trunks. Both the trees and the wolf seem to be created by applying an opaque whitish colour to the negative space around the darker forms, with the darkness stained deeply into the canvas. This work is flanked left and right by abstracts in green and blue. Here Loponen applies the paint thinly, like a watercolour wash. In one of these abstracts she creates leaf-like patterns by using Saran Wrap applied to the wet paint. This piece has figures in the foreground looking at a map. Like these figures, Loponen is exploring. On either side of these abstracts, a pair of 5 inch by 7 inch canvases rounds out the symmetry. The size range in this show makes part of its interest and variety, spanning the range from 5 by 7 feet to 5 by 7 inches. Loponen uses the acrylic more thickly in these smaller pieces. Dark green tree forms are again defined by the light between them in the negative space. You can see her gestures in the paint. Mountains and hills appear in the layers through a screen of trees. On the opposite wall, two landscapes, more photographic

Lillian Loponen’s painting “In Yukon Hills” exhibits a range of mark making, from impasto lines in the sky and trees to the delicate scratchings evoking grass. in quality, though still very loose, seem to be drawn from particular places rather than memory and imagination. In these Loponen uses a range from thick to thin paint. A thinned whitewash veils the background, imitating rain. In the same way as rain, it greys out the landscape, creating depth by using atmospheric perspective. To the right, “Silence of Green” uses the acrylic very thinly, its technique close to watercolour. It evokes a lake or pond. A bird flies through the upper part of the shoreline trees. The lighter area of the trees where the sun would hit is washed out, perhaps by taking paint away, to make their brightness. Many plant species appear in this show. Berries, cattails and dwarf fireweed make an appearance among the green. The Hilltop Bistro is open with seatings from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until mid-December. The Bistro serves a fixed menu with two main options, which change every two weeks. To make a reservation send an email to BistroReservations@YukonCollege.yk.ca. Nicole Bauberger is a painter, writer and performer living in Whitehorse.

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October 22, 2015

Dancing To All The Sounds

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Fujiwara Dance Inventions convert poet Christian Bök’s book Eunioa from written to physical poetry

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ent worlds. The whole piece, and each chapter, has a journey.” From first rehearsal to the premiere, it has taken five years to put Eunoia together. “The constraints seemed impossible,” says Fujiwara. “We had to experiment a lot to find out how to make it work.” The dancers also went through three years of voice training. Since there are times during the performance when they speak the words of the book, Fujiwara wanted their voices to sound strong, clear and have intention. “They were specifically trained for this to work,” she says. Fujiwara also mentions how proud she is that the team of six dancers, a choreographer, a videographer and the lighting director remained solid throughout those years. “They were really committed,” she says. “We were all hooked on the challenge.” The cast and crew had no idea what the response would be once the piece finally premiered in 2014. In fact, since PHOTO: Courtesy of Denise Fujiwara everything had been created in bits and pieces, no one inEunoia plays Oct. 23 at the Yukon Arts Centre volved had even seen the final product until that night. “It was very surprising and straints of the book were also in- restrain yourself,” says Fujiwara. cluded in the performance, which “It’s the mother of all invention.” pleasing to everyone,” she says. The composer also decided “And the audience got it – we had meant thinking outside the box to join in by putting limits on a standing ovation.” when translating each chapter. They have been playing to sold “The most important thing to his music. One example is using do for yourself in creativity is to only instruments spelled with O, out venues ever since. Eunoia plays Oct. 23 at the such as spoons and gongs, while performing Chapter O. Another Yukon Arts Centre. For more ininvolves the piano, which plays formation go to www.YukonArtsthroughout the piece. Only one Centre.com black key is allowed per chapter, Gabriela Sgaga lives off the while all the white keys can be grid in her West Dawson cabin played at all times. with her sled dogs. She enjoys “It makes for an interesting mushing, skijoring and writing relationship with all the elements Daily, weekly and monthly rates in the piece – choreography to about everyday life in the Yukon. Please send comments about words, dance to words and music her articles to Flat decks, cube vans, pick-ups, to words,” says Fujiwara. “It credawson@whatsupyukon.com ates layers of meaning and differ-

n Friday, October 23, the Yukon Arts Centre will be presenting a multimedia experience that weaves together dance, video, music and costume. It’s called Eunoia and is based on Canadian poet Christian Bök’s book of the same name. Denise Fujiwara, of Toronto-based Fujiwara Dance Inventions and a veteran of the Canadian contemporary dance scene, heard of the book after it won the Canadian Grifﬁn Poetry Prize in 2002. She decided to adapt it to dance, but soon realized that she couldn’t be director, choreographer and performer all at the same time. “The production was a big challenge. The piece is so complex, I couldn’t be inside and see the outside as well,” she says. Eunoia comes from a Greek word that means well mind or beautiful thinking. It is also the shortest English word containing all ﬁve vowels. In the book, each chapter is dedicated to a vowel and uses only words limited to that vowel. For example, Chapter A has words in it using only the vowel A. There are also thematic and other constraints in each chapter. In keeping with the spirit of the book, Fujiwara decided to incorporate dance constraints as well. While performing Chapter A, dancers could only move body parts spelled with A, such as arms, jaw, calf, etc. The thematic con-

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tudents in rural schools can miss out on a number of things in terms of course offerings and opportunities. There are specialty programs in the city that attract a number of rural students to spend time in Whitehorse. Our daughter, for instance, spent half of her Grade 11 year attending the Music Arts and Drama (MAD) program at the Wood Street Centre. Other Dawson students have done that, as well as taking in the Experiential Science program there. The sheer number of students and the availability of facilities in the capital make it easier and more cost-effective to run those kinds of programs there. But there are ways to overcome the rural deﬁcit. For the last 14 years, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture has been running its Youth Art Enrichment program in early November. This is a week-long program focussed on developing skills in a number of art-related areas: drama, animation, painting, collage, carving and printmaking. There are usually four intensive workshops, followed by a time to showcase all the work at the end of the week. Last year’s workshops involved 36 students from all over the territory. Following this example, but with lots more funding and a focus on rural high schools, is the Rural Experiential Model (REM), which wrapped up its third fall session in Dawson in late September. The plan is to bring rural high school students from Grades 10 through 12 together to participate in a range of activities that might not ﬁt into their regular curriculum offerings. The fall session is early enough

in the school year to include outdoor activities. A spring session happens late enough in May to offer the same possibilities. This year 22 session leaders offered 13 daytime workshops. These were Ancestral Technologies/On-the-Land; Archery & Coaching; Culinary Arts; Dance and Drama; First Nations Art (Design and Carving); Gold Rush (Past, Present, and Future); Hair and Esthetics; Mountain Biking: Riding and Repair; Robotics; Science: Let’s Do It!; Social Media; and Wood Shop (framing a building). Students signed up to spend the week in one of these sessions. The evenings were crammed with a combination of 26 different

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n 1943 Operation Husky was put into motion. Canadian Soldiers travelled deep into the Sicilian countryside to fight against the Nazi presence that had been established there. More than 500 Canadian Soldiers lost their lives during the campaign in Sicily. The cemetery in Agira, Sicily is not a well-known place to be visited in the remembrance of Canadian and Allied bravery, however, Yukon filmmaker Max Fraser is trying to change that with his new featurelength documentary film Bond of Strangers: The Operation Husky Story. On July 10, 1943 Fraser’s father landed in Sicily along with the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. Seventy years later, Fraser and group of 10 others decided to do the same journey. Thus, in July of 2013 this film project was launched. I had a chance to sit down with Fraser and ask him about this emotional journey and the film. Andrew Gilbutowicz: How did you first become interested in Operation Husky 1943 as a documentary subject? Max Fraser: When I was little I learned that my dad had been in World War II. He didn’t talk much about it with his family, however, like most veterans. As an adult, I came to appreciate the true horror of war. Fast forward to 2006 and I went with my daughter, then in Grade 11, on a Battlefield Tour put on by the local high schools. The first time I stepped into a Canadian War Cemetery in Europe, I was overwhelmed. It was a deeply emotional experience. Around that time I started making short films. My wife Arlin

heat and over such a long period of time? MF: Sicily is a lovely place, but this film shoot was quite grueling. Like for the soldiers of World War II, we were there in the hottest month of the year – July. We stayed in only two different places where communications were good, but it meant we were separated from our characters and their journey, so we’d have to drive long distances at the start and end of each day to do the filming. Despite that, I had a PHOTO: courtesy of Max Fraser good crew - five of us altogether - and we shot for 20 days. Yukoner Max Fraser’s new AG: What is it like for you as a documentary Bond of Strangers: filmmaker to be premiering your film here in the Yukon? The Operation Husky Story MF: The premiere of a film is premiers at the YAC on Oct. 27 always exciting, always a mix of emotions - joy, relief and apportant to Canadians and Yukon- prehension. One always wants to know how the audience will reers? MF: The film is important to act. I look forward to it. Then we Canadians because much of our take it on the road to Vancouver, history is forgotten, except to a Kingston, Belleville, Toronto and few. It’s our job to never forget. Montreal. And it will be broadcast My contribution is to make films so locally on Northwestel Community that others can understand what TV – I’m grateful for their support, went on. The invasion of Sicily too. The Yukon Film Society prein 1943 and the Italian Campaign of World War II involved almost sents Max Fraser’s new film Bond 100,000 Canadian soldiers, but of Strangers: The Operation Husky was overshadowed by the invasion Story Premieres Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. of France in 1944. Joining Fraser on his journey For Yukoners, I think they want to support Yukon filmmakers as was author Mark Zuehlke, who they explore various topics, Yukon will be presenting his latest book, ones and others that are broader Through Blood and Sweat: A Rein scope, like this one. I had a lot membrance Trek Across Sicily’s of support from local people who World War Two Battlegrounds were generous to my crowdfund- alongside the premiere of the ing campaign of last year. That film. made it possible to finish the film, Andrew is a professional so many local people have a vestoyster shucker and ed interest in this project. communications coordinator AG: What were some of the at the Yukon Film Society. hardships of filming during such McFarlane and I went to Europe a few times, discovering more about how much Canadian history is buried in the ground all over Europe. AG: What makes this film im-

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October 22, 2015

DISCourse with Barry “Jack” Jenkins

Riffs through the Wilderness

Brenda Berezan released her second album last week

renda Berezan was an aspiring songwriter when she moved to the Yukon wilderness. Having taken a break from music to run a business and raise her family, she has recently returned to performing and recording. She’s now releasing her second album, called Blue Through the Trees. It’s an indiefolk album that veers away from her debut with the her band Free Radicals. Berezan moved to the Yukon from Alberta in early 1999, drawn by its pristine environment. “It was just because of the wilderness that’s up here,” Berezan says. “That was the big attraction. I lived off the grid for about eight years.” While living in the bush, Berezan made a living publishing wilderness photography. That communion with the Yukon’s nature is evident on the

album. The song “Canoe” is a drift through lakes, rivers and skies, a song of peace, love and fishing. The title track, “Blue Through the Trees,” celebrates forests, clear skies and campfires. But along with that love of nature comes a warning. Her song “Oilfields,” shows what could happen with indiscriminate development. “That song was inspired by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the drilling,” she says. “It’s about contamination of the Northern environment. “In fact, Buffy Sainte-Marie has been one of my musical heroes forever. She’s never been afraid to sing what she feels in terms of issues or politics. So needless to say, my relatives in Alberta, I don’t know what they’ll think of that song.” Joining her on this album are the band The Free Radicals (Marc

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Brenda Berezan released her new album Blue Through the Trees on Oct. 15 Together” is singer-songwriter Emm Gryner. “She was kind of a gift to me from the Atlin Music Festival,” Berezan says. “The ﬁrst time we met was when we were on the songwriting stage together, but she had seen my band play the day before. We hit it off, talking about having kids, because she’s married with a couple of toddlers. I kept in touch with her.” Berezan met Gryner’s Trapper bandmate Sean Kelly in a similar way, meeting him through a music boot camp put on by Music Yukon and Coalition Music, who told her he’d be interested in playing guitar on her album. Kelly plays guitar on “Let’s Get Together.” Berezan appreciates the kind of connections that are available to Yukon musicians. “It’s neat living up here because sometimes you think you’re really isolated, then suddenly these gifts come to you – but they didn’t just come to me, I helped make them happen,” Berezan says. The song “Valentine’s Day” is a duet with The Midnight Sons Band vocalist Alex Johnston. His voice, deep and rumbling, contrasts with Berezan’s, much like Paul Stephens’ heavy bass notes of the coda mixing with the tinkling, higher notes of Jordy Walker’s

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Whitehorse EVENTS Arts Events Thu, Oct, 22, Bridging the Gap: The Artist’s Website 6:00 PM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities. Sun, Oct, 25, The View From Here Yukon Artists at Work Gallery By Artist Erin Dixon Mon, Oct, 26, Bridging the Gap: Social Media Strategies 6:00PM Arts Underground. The Yukon Art Society/Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities. Sat, Oct, 31, ATCO Electric Yukon Youth Gallery Exhibition: Katelynn’s Awesome Creations! Yukon Arts Centre Sat, Oct, 31, Angie, The Tundra Swan: Original Storybook Illustrations: Juliann Fraser Arts Underground Edge Gallery Sat, Oct, 31, Bells & Airplanes: Michel Gignac Arts Underground Focus Gallery Sat, Oct, 31, ‘Just Breathe’: Mental Illness Awareness Week Show North End Gallery Creative connections to mental health. 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

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Thu, Oct, 22, The Cookers Quintet Workshops Yukon Arts Centre After a Jazz on the Wing in Whitehorse, Jazz Yukon is hosting The Cookers Quintet for 4 days of workshops & more Mon, Oct 19 through Thurs, Oct 22. Thu, Oct, 22, 5 à 7 All in Music 5:00 PM Baked Cafe French-speaking musicians perform at Baked Cafe. This month: Danielle Bonneau and Renald Jauvin, Jazz. zik-o-baked.afy.yk.ca Thu, Oct, 22, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Oct, 22, Fiddler On The Loose Joe Loutchan live 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Yukon - Traditional ﬁddle music and more - jigging is encouraged and limericks are the norm. Thu, Oct, 22, Patrick Jacobson 7:00 PM Town & Mountain Hotel Local singer/songwriter performs a solo acoustic set. Thu, Oct, 22, 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, 22, Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub Thu, Oct, 22, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Fri, Oct, 23, Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Oct, 23, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Oct, 24, Saturday Celebration “Lianne Cranﬁeld & Chris Moir” 6:00 PM Antoinette’s Restaurant Sat, Oct, 24, live music 8:00 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Enjoy some fantastic live local music! Sat, Oct, 24, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Oct, 24, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Mon, Oct, 26, Music Mondays “Ryan McNally” 6:00 PM Antoinette’s Restaurant Mon, Oct, 26, Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Tue, Oct, 27, Open Mic with Patrick Jacobson 7:00 PM Town & Mountain Hotel Tue, Oct, 27, 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 Wed, Oct, 28, Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done! Wed, Oct, 28, Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to covers Wed, Oct, 28, Hump Day Trivia 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed, Oct, 28, Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Oct, 29, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza

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General Events

Thu, Oct, 22, Yukon Libraries Week 2015: Literacy Crawl and Scavenger Hunt 10:00 AM Yukon Public Law Library Visit all four participating libraries during the week of October 16-23 and you could win a Kobo GLO eReader. Lots of other prizes to be won. Pick up maps starting October 15 at either Yukon Public Law Library, EMR Library, Family Literacy Coalition, or Whitehorse Public Library. For more information, call 667-308 667-3086 Thu, Oct, 22, 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, 22, Strange Things Done... An evening of Yukon ghost stories. 7:30 PM MacBride Museum Thu, Oct, 22, Salsa Yukon: Intermediate Bachata 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its sessions for Fall 2015! Thu, Oct, 22, Yukon Guild of Needlearts: Fall Session 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Meet friends & learn techniques of hand embroidery. Call Doris at 633-4026. Fri, Oct, 23, Freeze Up Dance at the Ice Palace: Hands of Hope 7:00 PM Yukon Transportation Museum Music by Hank Karr, Red Lewis, Ray Park, Ed Isaak, Wayne Smyth. Fri, Oct, 23, Eunoia: Yukon Arts Centre 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Part of the Northwestel Art Lovers Series Fri, Oct, 23, Yukon Libraries Week 2015: Literacy Crawl and Scavenger Hunt 10:00 AM Yukon Public Law Library Visit all four participating libraries during the week of October 16-23 and you could win a Kobo GLO eReader. Lots of other prizes to be won. Pick up maps starting October 15 at either Yukon Public Law Library, EMR Library, Family Literacy Coalition, or Whitehorse Public Library. For more information, call 667-308 667-3086 Fri, Oct, 23, Raw Food Classes: VEGGIE WRAPS 6:00 PM Alpine Ayurveda Fri, Oct, 23, Salsa Yukon: Beginner Salsa on 1 and Beginner Bachata 7:45 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its sessions for Fall 2015! Fri, Oct, 23, Salsa Yukon: Intermediate Salsa & Rueda de Casino 8:50 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its sessions for Fall 2015! Sat, Oct, 24, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:30 AM Emergency Measures Organization YARA’s breakfast at the A&W. Casual event. Hams from outside the Yukon often join. Sat, Oct, 24, Intro to Essentials Oils for Dogs: Yukon Kennel Club 1:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library This short afternoon workshop/seminar will introduce you to the safe and effective use of essential oils on your dog. This will take place in the boardroom at the Public Library. Sat, Oct, 24, Yukon Care - Spaghetti Dinner Porter Creek Senior Secondary 5:30pm. Tickets $15 for adults, $10 for children, free for under 5, and are available at Dean’s Strings and Mac’s Fireweed. This event is to raise funds to bring a Syrian family to the Yukon. Sun, Oct, 25, Wild Tales: Yukon Film Society 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Sun, Oct, 25, Family Games Drop-In 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Sun, Oct, 25, Movie Night 6:30 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Come and watch movies with friends and have some fun! Sun, Oct, 25, 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. Mon, Oct, 26, Free Computer Drop-In Lab! 10:00 AM Yukon Learn Society Self-Directed Computer studies. Instructor on site 668.6280 x 223 Mon, Oct, 26, Baby Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in.

Mon, Oct, 26, Free drop-in computer labs 10:00 AM Yukon Learn Free Drop-In Computer Lab for Self Directed Studies A tutor/Instructor will be available on site to assist you. 668-6280 or toll free: 888-668-6280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Mon, Oct, 26, Euchre Night 6:00 PM Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 667-2802 Mon, Oct, 26, GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Tue, Oct, 27, Whitehorse Scottish Country Dance Club 7:00 PM Jack Hulland Elementary Tue, Oct, 27, Bond of Strangers / Op Husky Story Film and Book Event 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Join Whitehorse ﬁlmmaker Max Fraser and award-winning Victoria author Mark Zuehlke for a one-time-only event this fall to honour Canadian veterans of WW2 and help reclaim lost history. Wed, Oct, 28, Toddler Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in. Wed, Oct, 28, Autism Yukon Family Movie Night: Temple Grandin 7:00 PM Beringia Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Family Literacy Centre: Little Chefs 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Wed, Oct, 28, FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week! Wed, Oct, 28, Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building Join us inside the Bridges Café 6336081 Terry or Michèle Wed, Oct, 28, 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! Thu, Oct, 29, Education, Career and Volunteer Expo Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Registration now open for the Education, Career and Volunteer Fair! Thu, Oct, 29, 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, 29, Salsa Yukon: Intermediate Bachata 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks Salsa Yukon is very excited to start its sessions for Fall 2015! Thu, Oct, 29, Yukon Guild of Needlearts: Fall Session 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Meet friends & learn techniques of hand embroidery. Call Doris at 633-4026.

Kids & Family

Daily Animal Crackers 4:30 PM MacBride Museum Explore MacBride Museum’s animal gallery with one of our knowledgeable interpreters and play Who Dung It? Daily Yukon Wildlife Preserve Interpreted Tour 4:00 PM Yukon Wildlife Preserve 5 Km Tour of Yukon Wildlife Preserve - 75-90 Minutes - A must see stop while in Yukon Thu, Oct, 22, Practical Leadership for NGO’s 9:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 22, Family Literacy Centre: Père poule Maman gâteau 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Thu, Oct, 22, Stroller Mamas 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Dasani Indoor Track. 8 classes / $89 Thu, Oct, 22, Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library 668-8794 ParentChild 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, 22, Theatre Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 22, Singing For Kids-Beginner 5:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 22, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 22, Singing For Kids Intermediate 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 22, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Thu, Oct, 22, NIA Dance/Movement 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Fri, Oct, 23, Friday Ball Pit Family Drop In Heart Of Riverdale Fri, Oct, 23, Young Explorer’s Preschool Program 10:00 AM MacBride Museum 867667-2709, ext.3 parents and children explore the animal gallery together. Play games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs.

Fri, Oct, 23, Family Literacy Centre: People in the Neighbourhood 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Fri, Oct, 23, Indoor/Outdoor Art Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Fri, Oct, 23, Teen Drop In 6:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Oct, 24, Free Family Drop In Upstairs 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Oct, 24, Family Literacy Centre: Family Free Play Drop-In 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Sat, Oct, 24, Saturday Ball Pit Family Drop In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Oct, 24, Kids Boreal Yoga with Sylvia Gibson 11:30 AM Breath of Life Collective Sun, Oct, 25, Building Intuition w/Tarot 1:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Sun, Oct, 25, Family Games Drop-In 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 26, MUSICAL MINDS for Little Ones 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 26, Baby Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in. Mon, Oct, 26, Art Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 26, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Mon, Oct, 26, The Sound Recording Club 6:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Oct, 26, 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, 26, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Tue, Oct, 27, Family Literacy Centre: Leaping Literacy 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Tue, Oct, 27, Family Literacy Centre: 1,2,3 Rhyme with Me 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Tue, Oct, 27, Singing Together After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Oct, 27, Sibling Drop-in 4:00 PM Autism Yukon 667-6406 Any child with a special needs brother or sister is welcome!! hosted by Autism Yukon Tue, Oct, 27, Girls Group 5:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Oct, 27, Knitting Circle 7:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Wed, Oct, 28, Toddler Story Time: Whitehorse Public Library 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Ages 6-24 months and caregiver(s). Free, drop in. Wed, Oct, 28, Family Literacy Centre: Little Chefs 10:30 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Wed, Oct, 28, Ball Pit and Games After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Wed, Oct, 28, FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week! Wed, Oct, 28, Pop Choir for Adults 7:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, Practical Leadership for NGO’s 9:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, Family Literacy Centre: Père poule Maman gâteau 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Fall Schedule. Thu, Oct, 29, Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library 668-8794 ParentChild 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, 29, Theatre Exploration After School Program 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, Singing For Kids-Beginner 5:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École Émilie-Tremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 29, Singing For Kids Intermediate 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, NIA Dance/Movement 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Thu, Oct, 29, Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École Émilie-Tremblay

Meetings & Workshops

Thu, Oct, 22, Intro to Creating 3D Computer Models 6:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Thu, Oct, 22, Legion General Meetings 6:00 PM Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 6672802 Thu, Oct, 22, Bridging the Gap: The Artist’s Website 6:00 PM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities. Fri, Oct, 23, Raw Food Classes: VEGGIE WRAPS 6:00 PM Alpine Ayurveda Sat, Oct, 24, Weekend Prenatal Classes: Holistic Prenatal Education Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Intro to Essentials Oils for Dogs: Yukon Kennel Club 1:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library This short afternoon workshop/seminar will introduce you to the safe and effective use of essential oils on your dog. This will take place in the boardroom at the Public Library. Sun, Oct, 25, Ayurveda Foot Massage Course Alpine Ayurveda Sun, Oct, 25, 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. Mon, Oct, 26, Opportunities North ‘15 - Yukon Convention Centre Coast High Country Inn It promises to be an event which addresses current issues, hot topics, featuring knowledgable speakers and engaging discussion opportunities on doing business in Canada’s North. Mon, Oct, 26, Bridging the Gap: Social Media Strategies 6:00 PM Arts Underground The Yukon Art Society/Arts Underground are delighted to announce a new series of professional development opportunities. Tue, Oct, 27, Amnesty International Writing Circle 7:00 PM Whitehorse United Church Writing letters to support and protect human rights worldwide. 667-2389 Tue, Oct, 27, YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makers Thu, Oct, 29, Education, Career and Volunteer Expo Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Registration now open for the Education, Career and Volunteer Fair! Thu, Oct, 29, Busy 6:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace

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THIS IS NOT THE YUKON: Life in Southern Ontario with Joslyn Kilborn

Winter Is Not Coming

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’ve been online shopping. Speciﬁcally, I’ve been ﬁxated on merino wool base layers on Amazon. Researching sizes, the best weave weight, which tops will work both as under and outer wear, what brands won’t pill. I’ve found some that are half price! With free shipping! And in the seven days since I’ve been home I’ve already made four lengthy visits to Value Village, a.k.a. second-hand clothing paradise. I’ve also gone to Costco, to Chapters, to Sears, to the giant new Canadian Tire, to the outdoor gear store, back to the outdoor gear store, to the army surplus.

A week ago I was shacked up in a powerless, waterless cabin 45 minutes from Whitehorse, reading a paperback I picked up at the freestore, wearing whatever else I had found at the freestore, listening to CBC 2 on a battery-powered radio. Now I’m living in a house with unlimited internet access 10 minutes from a chain store mecca. Everything is suddenly everywhere – and everything is suddenly affordable. Things like: winter socks, thick wool jackets, brown wide-brim wool rain hats, merino pullovers, insulated neoprene boots, ﬁtted black jeans, most of these with price tags under $20.

I am surrounded by countless inexpensive versions of the exact material items that continually evaded my limited-income grasp in the Yukon. I’m overwhelmed. I’m reverting to a former version of myself, one who had to set strict rules for herself to overcome her inclination to buy everything she saw and wanted. But much as I’ve been totally taken by the land of plenty, there appears to be another force gripping my wallet and pulling everything out of it. Winter. I seem to have this idea that it is coming. Around the corner. I

mean, it snowed in the Yukon in August. The wood stove’s been running two months already. And I want to be warm this year. I want the expensive long johns that keep me toasty, I want a giant hood trimmed with fur. I might spend $50 on a merino tank top so that everything I wear can feel like a warm second skin made of wool. Except, wait, it was 19 degrees and sunny today. Most of the clothes I brought with me from the Yukon I can’t even wear without sweating. The seasonal Dairy Queen is still open. The leaves on the trees are still green. My mom picked me up from the airport in sandals. While trying

on a winter coat at Value Village the other day, a man walked past wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I wake in the morning and pull thick tights over my legs, choose a long sweater to wear over an undershirt, throw on a jacket at the door as I leash my dog. I return from our walk stripped to the essential layers, drenched and sticky. It’s like I just don’t get it. It’s kind of still summer here. Joslyn Kilborn is a writer who used to live in a motorhome named Bert. Comments about her stories can be sent to editor@gmail.com.

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Three Cheers for Enthusiasts W e are a territory of enthusiasts. We dive in with total commitment, whatever our passion is — First Nations governance, yoga, politics, skiing, sledding, social justice, mining, conservation or coffee — and once the bit is between our teeth we don’t let go. This makes for lively, often heated, sometimes acrimonious conversations — in the press, at General Assemblies, in cafes or the legislature or at the White Pass on a fine winter’s Saturday — but it also adds to the vitality and diversity that keeps us here, in this wild and crazy territory. Last weekend, as I roamed the city of Whitehorse provisioning the larder, I was lucky enough to encounter three enthusiasts who have changed my life in small but important ways. The first was James Maltby, coowner of The Woodcutters Blanket, the cocktail bar on Second Avenue where you know, with absolute certainty, that whatever you order will be superb. This is because Maltby won’t serve a cocktail until he’s sure he’s got the recipe exactly right. While my companion and I sipped a superb Martinez (me) and an Old Fashioned (companion) Maltby chatted about his revised cocktail menu, coming soon. We were delighted to hear it will include a Sazerac, the famous New Orleans combination of cognac, rye, simple syrup and Peychaud’s bitters, served in a glass rinsed with absinthe. It’s going to be very cool to sample Maltby’s measured, well-researched take on this classic. Somehow the conversation went from absinthe to aperitifs, and Maltby brought over two glasses, one filled with pale yellow, the other with deep caramelred liquid. This latter was Punt e Mes, an Italian bittersweet vermouth whose flavour starts off

two: the Felicidade, a blend of whites grown at Adega On 45th, a small vineyard near Osoyoos owned by a family with Portuguese roots; and a 2013 Sundial from Time Estate Winery near Oliver. The jury’s out on the Felicidade — maybe a bit too syrupy for my palate, but I loved the Sundial — a balanced blend of cold-fermented Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc grapes, a blend that cried out, “Charcuterie platter!” So I rode over to Cultured Fine Cheese in the Horwoods Mall, and there met the third enthusiast — well, third and fourth — who I know will change my life in small but important ways, the wife and husPHOTO: Miche Genest band team of Larra Daley and Stephan Biederman. Their love of cheese led them to Charcuterie + Aperitif open the territory’s latest cultural = Good company jewel, a small shop with a finely curated selection of cheeses from across Canada and around the up a bottle. And there I ran into the second world, and the mustards, crackenthusiast who’s changed my life ers, thin breads and olives to acin small but important ways: Mal- company them. I selected a fennel-pollen sauscolm Mills, the Yukon Liquor Corporation (YLC) employee recently age from Olli Salumeria and 200 charged with expanding their wine grams of Ossau Iraty Onetik Grand portfolio, together with his col- Cru, a semi-firm, mild, ewe’s milk cheese from the Basque Region of league, Lily Flavel. Mills is easy to find — he’s near- France. Both were destined for a ly always engaged in animated light, pre-Thanksgiving supper of conversation amongst the shelves, cheese, salami, olives and crunchy giving an impromptu history of a vegetables (a meal Daley and new product or telling the story of Biederman enjoy, they say, at least the first time he tried this wine or once a week). My dining partner and I started that bourbon. On the Thursday before Thanks- with a splash of Punt e Mes over giving Mills was at the front of the ice, then moved on to chilled Sunstore beside a stack of white boxes dial, a boon companion to both as high as his head, practically sausage and cheese, and we toastdancing with enthusiasm. “You are ed, with thanks, the fine enthusiasts who enrich our lives in all the going to love this,” he cried. One of the corporation’s newer important ways. vendors has a focus on Okanagan Miche Genest is a Whitehorsewines, opening up access to a based chef and writer. She much larger list of wines from that is somewhat of a gardener. region. A delivery had just arrived. Contact her via Mills gave me a quick run-down of editor@whatsupyukon.com. some of the new labels. I chose rich and fruity, but ends in notes of licorice, bitter orange and bitter herbs — almost like a sweet red vermouth and a Campari or Aperol combined in one glass. I enjoyed it so much I went to the Whitehorse Liquor Store the next day to pick

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Building a Better Life Through Gratitude Science is showing that the act of saying thanks can bring us happiness

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eeling dissatisﬁed with life? It turns out that the quickest way to make it better is to be grateful. Beyond being polite, researchers are ﬁnding that regularly saying thanks can improve optimism, life satisfaction, and overall well being. In one study, researchers Emmons and McCullough(University of California 2003) randomly assigned participants one of three tasks in which they were asked to record weekly: • things for which they were grateful or thankful, • things that annoyed or bothered them, or • neutral events that had impacted them in some way. Some were grateful for the Rolling Stones, while others were thankful for their friends. Hassles ranged from the poor driving skills of others to messy homes. Although what they listed varied greatly, the effects were the same. Ten weeks later, those that spent some time each day count-

ing their blessings had rated their lives as better overall compared to participants in the other two groups. Another study had more than 200 teenagers do a similar exercise and found similar results. Like the previous study, teens that had counted their blessings had greater life satisfaction and well being. If you’re looking to improve your life, you can’t go wrong with gratitude. It’s inexpensive, easy to do, and something that you can do entirely on your own without needing to depend on anyone else. If you’re looking to begin your own practice of giving thanks, you could try one of the exercises relied on by researchers over the years. Count your blessings This method was used extensively by Emmons and McCullough in their research. The premise is that in our lives, there are many things, both large and small, that we could feel thankful for. It could

Thank you notes Showing appreciation to others and their contributions to our lives is important both for our own happiness and for our relationships. In three studies out of Florida State University, researchers found that expressing gratitude to a friend or partner helped to strengthen the relationship and bond. Make it a habit to regularly write thank you notes to parents, siblings, friends, partners, and colleagues. Think about your thanks While all gratitude practices should be done mindfully with thought given to what it is you’re thankful for, another exercise remains entirely in the mind. On a daily or weekly basis, set some time aside to think about someone you are thankful for and why. Focus for at least a full minute on them and on the feeling of gratitude.

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October 22, 2015

Folk Art in the Forest with Nellie Dale

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awson City resident Debbie Winston has a love of making art with beads – including antique glass and china chickens. A child of the sixties, Debbie ﬁrst arrived in Whitehorse on July 1, 1967. She was traveling with her boyfriend. His father had paid her way – traveling in style on CP Air, Debbie remembers silverware and cloth napkins on the plane. She met Margaret Ludwig, who was enamoured with the hippie culture of Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, so she was thrilled to meet Debbie, a recent arrival from Berkeley, California. Debbie and Margaret became friends and Margaret introduced Debbie to beads. Debbie recalls spending hours beading with her

new friend. Biddin, the ancient Anglo Saxon verb, means to pray. Bede is a noun meaning prayer. Before glass was discovered, bead material included shells, pebbles, teeth and bone. Glass beads probably originated in Venice in the 14th century. Murano Island, Venice has a thriving glassblowing tradition to this day. The Czech Republic also produces beads today – long tubes of glass cut and tumbled to make the tiny beads. Beads are used in many cultures for spiritual practice as well as clothing decoration. Glass beads had an important role in the colonization of the world. Spanish and Portuguese explorers used trade beads when meeting First Nation peoples in the New World, and Christopher

Columbus brought red hats and string beads to North America. Couch thread embroidery is the European technique used to attach beads to clothing. It produces a ﬂat embroidery more practical for leather and outdoor living. Debbie’s beading technique is what I like to call free form. In the Chinese culture beading is more three-dimensional; Debbie is inspired by this Chinese technique. She is always looking for bead patterns – whatever appeals to her, really. Anything can be covered with beads. There are some interesting cultural connections found in Debbie’s bead research. Beading designs from South Africa and Greenland are similar, for example. Debbie’s beading kit includes

strings of beads, Aileen’s Tacky Glue, a food baster and tiny tweezers. After researching chicken breeds and plumage colour, she picks a chicken to cover in beads. She begins by placing outline beads. These beads have been strung onto a thread in the colour sequence needed for the pattern. Over the years she has discovered just how long a string of beads needs to be to cover an outline design. Using the food baster, she spreads the glue in the shape wants. She lets the glue sit for a bit – it gets tacky but not completely dry. She then presses the beads gently into the glue. Then she pulls the thread out from the string of beads. She is able to move the beads

at this stage to adjust the design. The tweezers come in handy for this part of the process. After the outline shape has dried, she ﬁlls in the design with more beads. The process takes days as she leaves a glued section to dry before adding more glue and beads. I had a lot of fun meeting Debbie. She is such a positive person. Her love of life is really mirrored in her love of colourful beads and what can be done with them. Nellie Dale is an artist/writer who lives in the northern forest. She recently met Debbie Winston recently.

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Frost to Frost... with Joan Norberg

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ver the past few years the gardens have been producing more and more vegetables. So, come fall we start to look for places to store the root crops for the winter. Our main root crops are potatoes and carrots, which need a dark, cool space with a bit of humidity. We have been storing them in our water storage building under the stairs next to the water tank. The building is only 12’x12’ and the water tank is about 8’ in diameter, so there really isn’t much room for storage. And it is a bit of a squeeze to even get under the stairs. But it is insulated and the water tank helps to keep humidity in the air so they store fairly well there. Last summer we had talked about extending the basement area of this building to allow for more root crop storage. But when the busy-ness of the summer eased off a bit we realized we could either finish harvesting the gardens or build the extended storage. We didn’t have time for both. So we harvested and stored things as best we could. This year we planned it a bit better. We were able to borrow a backhoe from a friend. And Allan was able to dig the basement a little bit each day after the main work of the farm was done. It probably took him two weeks to dig the hole, but once he was done so were the Thursday markets and we had time for some construction. The weather wasn’t all that cooperative, though, and so the pressure was still on to clear off the garden before everything froze. Thankfully, most of the potatoes had sold throughout the summer so we would only had to store seed potatoes and carrots. Finally we had a day that was clear and dry. We also had the materials and our son, Ben. With three of us we set up an assembly line. I was kept busy on the saw cutting materials to be used. Ben and Allan were in the hole constructing the walls. Because we were extending the basement we only had to build three walls and attach them to the existing basement. It sounds easier than it is. Each wall had to be built flat on the ground. So once one was done it had to be set aside while the others were built. Once all three were built they had to be attached first to the building and

Part of the construction process then to each other. And they are heavy. As we were attaching the last corner the sun was setting. The day was done and so were we. It had taken us about nine hours to

construct the ﬁrst part of the cold storage area. And we wouldn’t have been able to get that much done without Ben. We still have to ﬁnish the building, but because there are still vegetables out in

the garden it will have to wait. And as we all know, winter is coming. Joan Norberg and her husband, Allan, run Grizzly Valley Farms

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October 22, 2015

The Librarian Recommends with Lori Garrison

Three Books for a Haunted Hallowe’en I

don’t mean to alarm you, but it’s almost Hallowe’en, which, as all Yukoners know, means winter will soon descend upon us with the stumbling, frozen fury of

a zombie horde from The Walking Dead. If that’s not scary enough for you, here’s three creepy books you can read to get yourself in the mood for trick or treaters. For The Existentialist:

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1997 Vintage Books) Translated by Jay Rubin

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A good horror story doesn’t necessary need to be gory and hardcore horror fans probably wouldn’t classify Murakami’s masterpiece of magical realism as “scary.” Beginning with the disintegration of a marriage and a missing cat, at ﬁrst Wind-up Bird seems pretty cut and dried – until things start to get weird. And then weirder. And then just plain messed up. What makes the novel frightening, however, is not the faceless shadowmen, psychic powers and Boris the Manskinner, but rather the overarching suggestion that the characters – and, by extension, the reader – are being manipulated by forces much larger and greater than themselves. If the idea that your free will is either cursory or – worse yet – utterly imaginary terriﬁes you, then Murakami’s most famous novel should be on your Hallowe’en reading list.

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Destitute for most of his life and only recognized as a master of the genre after his death in 1937, Lovecraft wrote what has become known as cosmic horror. His work is populated by snakefaced monsters, demonic sexual liaisons and nameless, unimaginable terrors and deities such as his most famous creation, Cthulu. However, the real horror he shows us is the fragility of order and sanity in the face of a chaotic and unfathomable universe which probably does not love us. The story “The Colour from Outer Space” is a personal favourite; it is as uncanny and unsettling as it is badly named. Readers should be warned, however, that the works of H.P. Lovecraft sometimes contain extremely ethnophobic and racist sentiments and should be read as a product of their time.

Possibly one of the most disturbing works of ﬁction in the history of American literature, Ellis’ most famous novel depicts the macabre, cocaine-fuelled, gruesomely violent sexual escapades of Wall Street investment banker Patrick Bateman, who also just so happens to be a serial killer. On one hand a deeply horrifying portrait of the inner workings of a disturbed human being and on the other a stark and equally unsettling commentary on consumer culture, Psycho is an unstoppable ride into a slasher-ﬂick nightmare. Many people are sure to have seen the movie, but the book is even more surreal and horrible; there is a scene involving a rat and a paper towel tube which is so awful it cannot be described in print in this publication. Not for the faint of heart.

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Mon, Oct, 26 Sword/Bokken with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Oct, 26 Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Yang Family 16 Movement Form 7:30 PM Grey Mountain Primary School Tue, Oct, 27 1 CRPG Whitehorse Patrol 9:00 AM Whitehorse Riﬂe Pistol Club Tue, Oct, 27 WCC Practice Ice Times: Whitehorse Curling Club 11:30 AM Mount MacIntyre Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 27 Velocity practice 4:30 PM Biathlon Range Tue, Oct, 27 Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Terice 668-6631 Tue, Oct, 27 Whitehorse Scottish Country Dance Club 7:00 PM Jack Hulland Elementary Tue, Oct, 27 Tai Chi Yukon: Form reﬁnements / push hands 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Wed, Oct, 28 WCC Practice Ice Times: Whitehorse Curling Club 11:30 AM Mount MacIntyre Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week! Wed, Oct, 28 Hand to Hand - Level 2&3 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo

Mon, Oct, 26, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Yang Family 16 Movement Form 7:30 PM Grey Mountain Primary School Tue, Oct, 27, Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Terice 668-6631 Tue, Oct, 27, Tai Chi Yukon: Tai Chi Fan 6:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Some TC experience helpful. Tue, Oct, 27, Tai Chi Yukon: Form reﬁnements / push hands 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Tue, Oct, 27, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners 8:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School Continuing Yang style long form. Wed, Oct, 28, The Counselling Drop-In Clinic: Yukon Distress and Support Line 10:00 AM Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services Free Drop-In counselling is offered every Wednesday from 10am - 4pm. Wed, Oct, 28, Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Oct, 28, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM For more info:kathleen.cranﬁeld@ctfn.ca 821-4251 Wed, Oct, 28, 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, 28, Hooray for Hooping 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Mount McIntyre - Grey Mountain Room. 5 classes / $59 Thu, Oct, 29, Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 29, Tai Chi Yukon: Continuing Yang Family 103 Movement Form - Sections 2&3 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School Thu, Oct, 29, Tai Chi Yukon: Beginners Tai Chi 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School

Wed, Oct, 28 Adult biathlon 6:30 PM Biathlon Range Wed, Oct, 28 Hooray for Hooping 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Mount McIntyre - Grey Mountain Room. 5 classes / $59 Wed, Oct, 28 Staff/Jo with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Thu, Oct, 29 Tai Chi Yukon: Seniors 55+ Practice 103 Movement Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Thu, Oct, 29 WCC Practice Ice Times: Whitehorse Curling Club 11:30 AM Mount MacIntyre Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29 Velocity practice 4:30 PM Biathlon Range Thu, Oct, 29 Northern Lights Judo Club: Kids Practise 5:15 PM École ÉmilieTremblay Kids practise - 5 - 11yrs Thu, Oct, 29 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Oct, 29 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, 29 Northern Lights Judo Club: Adult Practise 6:30 PM École ÉmilieTremblay

Alcoholics Anonymous Wednesday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Porter Creek Step meeting (CM) 8:00 PM Our Lady of Victory No Pufﬁn (CM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St., Big Book Study Thursday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Polar Group (OM) 7:30 PM Seventh Day Adventists Church (PC) Friday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Yukon Unity Group Meeting 1:30 PM #4 Hospital Road Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Saturday Detox Meeting (OM, NS) 1:00 PM DETOX Bldg 6118-6th Women’s Meeting (CM, NS) 2:30 PM Whitehorse General Hospital (across from emergency) Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting (OM, NS) 7:00 PM Hospital boardroom Sunday Sunshine Group (OM, NS) 1:00 PM DETOX Bldg 6118-6th Light of Hope Meeting (OM) 4:00PM Salvation Army - side door Marble Group (OM, NS) 7:00 PM Hospital boardroom Monday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. New Beginnings Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Tuesday The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Ugly Duckling Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (OM, NS) 7:00 PM 4141B 4th Ave.

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October 22, 2015

Fine Wine Starts in the Garage Luigi Zanasi was taught how to make wine by his father and grandfather

by Glenda Koh

here’s at least one person for whom the drought in California has a silver lining. Luigi Zanasi is hoping for some magic to come out of his garage this year, thanks to the intense wine grapes he believes the California drought has produced. An economist by profession, and an enthusiastic gardener, Zanasi has been making wine nearly every fall here in Yukon for more than 20 years. He has actually been making wine his whole life with his grandfather and father growing up in Montreal. California grapes have been making their way to Italian centres around North America for generations. “That’s been going on since Prohibition,” he says. “We Italians cannot live without one of our basic food groups.” Zanasi’s wine starts in his garage, where the grapes are crushed and left to ferment in plastic barrels. After a few weeks of fermentation, the grapes are pressed and the liquid is transferred to glass bottles called carboys or demijohns, which are stored indoors. They sit for a few months before bottling. A batch of wine lasts about 10 years, and Zanasi makes wine nearly every year. He recalls 1996 as producing an exceptional wine. “That was my best year, but it was excellent for most of the 90s. Then the grapes – especially the Zinfandel – started going downhill.” He theorizes that the growth in popularity of old vine Zinfandels means the grapes previously shipped to Italians across North America were now being retained for commercial wine making. Make no mistake, Zanasi still drinks those commercially-produced wines. “It’s good to drink other wine because otherwise you get used to your own. In order to keep an objective view of wines you have to keep trying different types, otherwise yours ends up being the best in the world and nothing else compares.” This is apparently a common hazard among home winemakers. “If you ever going into an Italian household you better pretend their wine is the best, otherwise it’s insulting,” Zanasi cautions. Still, he laments that the variety that small scale winemaking represents is being lost.

“Because of worldwide commercialization, the taste of wines have been homogenized. A lot of really nice regional wines have disappeared and they all try to taste like Bordeaux or Cabernet Sauvignon.” The variety of grapes still exists, but many are not produced on a scale large enough for export, so one has to go to those regions of origin to taste them. Zanasi believes Canada might be affected by this increasing uniformity. “In my mind some really superb wines are the Rieslings from the Okanagan. But there’s not much of a demand for that because people want these big fruity reds.” At approximately three to four dollars a bottle, cost is one reason Zanasi enjoys making his own wine. He estimates making a minimum of 50 litres, or roughly six cases, of any kind of wine is cost effective over buying commercial wines. “Even with a small quantity it won’t cost you more than $10 a bottle.” Freight rates can vary, but comprise about a third of the cost. For Zanasi, the satisfaction is in the process as well. He shares and enjoys the labour and the fruits with two other households. “It’s a satisfying and a fun thing to get together and eat and drink while we’re doing it. It’s a harvest ritual. I ﬁgure it’s half a day crushing and another half day pressing and half day racking and half day bottling. After that, you have six or seven cases of wine.” Wine is not all Zanasi makes. He also maintains a balsamic vinegar that connects him directly to his heritage. “My grandfather had a barrel of wine go bad around 1918 or 1919 and we kept on adding wine to that barrel until 1972 or ‘73. Then, my father broke the barrel apart and kept the mother and my brother sent me a 5 litre carboy of it in the early ‘90s. “We’ve been continuing to add wine to it, so now I’ve got vinegar that my grandfather started in Montreal that’s almost 100 years old.” Between the balsamic vinegar and the Gold Rush sourdough starter, it sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship. Glenda Koh can also be found in her garage bemoaning the state of the wine.

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Community EVENTS

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

Sat, Oct, 24, Women’s Yoga 9:00 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothing Sat, Oct, 24, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Oct, 26, Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tue, Oct, 27, Women’s Yoga 7:00 PM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothing Tue, Oct, 27, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

Carcross

Thu, Oct, 22, 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, 22, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Oct, 22, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Tue, Oct, 27, 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, 27, Tlingit Language classes 5:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Tue, Oct, 27, Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Oct, 27, Tlingit Design Course 6:00 PM Carcross Carving Shed Lead Carver Keith WolfeSmarch 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, 27, Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, Oct, 28, Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Oct, 28, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Oct, 29, 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, 29, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Oct, 29, 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 Daily Gold Panning -- Free Claim Claim #6 Pan for gold on our free claim! Bring your own equipment and try your hand panning on a real claim, anytime. Daily (except Sat) Greatest Klondiker Contest 3:30 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Mon, Oct, 19-30, Digital Skills for the Work World 9:00 AM Yukon College Dawson Campus Toll free: 1.888.668.6280 ext. 223 Yukon Learn Society in partnership with Yukon Advanced Education is offering a two week Digital Skills for the Workworld Program. This program will assist people in gaining basic computer and workplace skills they can use to find and keep suitable employment. Thu, Oct, 22, 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, 23, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout! Sat, Oct, 24, 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, 24, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sun, Oct, 25, St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Sun, Oct, 25, Sweet Nuggets 11:00 PM Westminster Hotel Lady M & her Mr. Men’s in the cocktail lounge

Mon, Oct, 26, 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, 26, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout! Tue, Oct, 27, Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealﬁt(at)me.com Wed, Oct, 28, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout! Wed, Oct, 28, CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio. Thu, Oct, 29, 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

Faro

Thu, Oct, 22, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 25, Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Oct, 25, Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Tue, Oct, 27, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Oct, 28, Wednesday Evening Floor Hockey 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 Thu, Oct, 29, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre

Haines Junction

Thu, Oct, 22, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Oct, 22, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Sun, Oct, 25, St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, Oct, 26, Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, Oct, 28, 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, 29, 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, 29, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Oct, 29, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School

Marsh Lake

Fri, Oct, 23, Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Fri, Oct, 23, Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sun, Oct, 25, Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 All welcome Tue, Oct, 27, North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments. Wed, Oct, 28, Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting.

Mayo

Sat, Oct, 24, Community Garage Sale: Mayo 12:00 PM Mayo Community Centre Sun, Oct, 25, St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church 667-7746 Tue, Oct, 27, Mayo Sewing Nights 7:00 PM Yukon College Mayo Campus

Mount Lorne

Thu, Oct, 22, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

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Fri, Oct, 23, Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Wed, Oct, 28, Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Old Crow

Thu, Oct, 22, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Oct, 25, St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Thu, Oct, 29, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish

Thu, Oct, 22, Intermediate / Advanced Osteofit: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Catch Kids Club: Tagish 4:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Beginners Yoga: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre With instructor Lee Randell. Sat, Oct, 24, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sat, Oct, 24, Outdoor Sports Activities: Tagish 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Soccer, baseball, field hockey etc Tue, Oct, 27, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Nordic Walking: Tagish 1:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Call 399-3407 for more info. Tue, Oct, 27, Stayfit: Tagish 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Oct, 28, Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fresh baked goods every Wednesday. Thu, Oct, 29, Intermediate / Advanced Osteofit: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Tagish Treasures Thrift Store 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Catch Kids Club: Tagish 4:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

Teslin

Sun, Oct, 25, Catholic Mass/Communion Service at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission 10:30 AM Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission Sun, Oct, 25, Carpet Bowling (ages 55+) 2:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, Oct, 26, After school kids activities (K4Grade 3) 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Tue, Oct, 27, After school activities (Grades 4-9) 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Tue, Oct, 27, Yoga 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Wed, Oct, 28, Golden Age Social (Ages 55+) 10:00 AM Teslin Rec Center Wed, Oct, 28, After school kids activities (K4Grade 3) 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Thu, Oct, 29, Pumpkin Carving 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center

Watson Lake

Thu, Oct, 22, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together! Thu, Oct, 22, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Dragon’s Den Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239 Sun, Oct, 25, St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Sun, Oct, 25, 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, 26, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together! Thu, Oct, 29, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together! Thu, Oct, 29, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre

Haines, Alaska

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, 22, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre

Fri, Oct, 23, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Men’s Bible Study 7:00 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Oct, 23, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Fri, Oct, 23, Women’s Bible Study 10:30 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Oct, 23, Story time 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Oct, 23, Yoga w/Mandy 12:00 PM Haines Community Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Zumba Toning 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Mon, Oct, 26, Mother Goose Stories and Songs 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mon, Oct, 26, Senior Exercise Class 11:15 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Cardio/strength training circuit 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Senior Swim 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Haines Women’s Fellowship 3:00 PM Haines Senior Center Tue, Oct, 27, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Borough Assembly Meeting 6:30pm 7:30 PM Haines Borough Alaska Tue, Oct, 27, Borough Assembly Meeting 10/27 6:30pm 7:30 PM Haines Borough Alaska Wed, Oct, 28, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Wed, Oct, 28, Senior Exercise Class 11:15 AM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Guys Yoga 5:00 PM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Committee of the Whole Meeting6:30PM 7:30 PM Haines Borough Alaska Thu, Oct, 29, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre

Skagway, Alaska

Thu, Oct, 22, Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Thu, Oct, 22, 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, 22, Northern Lights On After School Program Day! Skagway 2:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Open House - Popcorn - Pizza - Door Prizes. Free admission for Non Members! Parents & Guardians Invited! Thu, Oct, 22, Culinary Fun: Skagway 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Playgroup: Skagway 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Thu, Oct, 22, Restorative Yoga: w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Spinning w/ Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 22, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 23, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Fri, Oct, 23, Vinyasa Flow level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Playgroup: Skagway 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Fri, Oct, 23, Rollerblading: Skagway 3:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

Fri, Oct, 23, Open Gym: Skagway 3:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 23, SPOGA: 1/2 Spin - 1/2 Yoga w/ Courteny 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Oct, 23, Volleyball For Adults 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Spinning w/ Cindy 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Oct, 24, Halloween Carnival: Skagway 1:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 25, Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jeanne 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Oct, 25, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Sun, Oct, 25, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ AJ 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 26, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Mon, Oct, 26, Restorative Yoga: w/ Katherine AL 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Playgroup: Skagway 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Mon, Oct, 26, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Mon, Oct, 26, Playgroup: Skagway 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Mon, Oct, 26, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Oct, 26, Roller Hockey For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Chair and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Tue, Oct, 27, 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, 27, Rock Climbing: Skagway 3:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Playgroup: Skagway 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Tue, Oct, 27, Spinning w/ Gillian/Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Oct, 27, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, SpinFLEX w/ Katherine AL 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Wed, Oct, 28, Back/Hip Yoga: All Levels w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Playgroup: Skagway 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Wed, Oct, 28, Open Gym: Skagway 3:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Creativity: Skagway 4:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Wed, Oct, 28, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Wed, Oct, 28, Playgroup: Skagway 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Wed, Oct, 28, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Climbing Instruction For Belay Certiﬁcation Class - Signup Required 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Oct, 28, Belay Check For Certiﬁcation Signup Required 7:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Mom/Dad & Me: Skagway 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Toddler Time Thu, Oct, 29, 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, 29, Culinary Fun: Skagway 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Open Gym: Skagway 3:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Playgroup: Skagway 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Onsite babysitting. $2 per hour (min. 1 hour) / $1.50 per half hour. Thu, Oct, 29, Restorative Yoga: w/ Jeanne 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Spinning w/ Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Oct, 29, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

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October 22, 2015

Not Your Usual Ghost

by Darrell Hookey

had never believed in ghosts, but after that hot summer’s day in 1987, I could never be certain again. The idea of a moaning, translucent, hovering ghost remains just the stuff of lazy Hollywood screenwriters. What I experienced was, well, I still don’t know. So I will let you, the reader, decide. My wife and I would spend a week each summer at a cabin north of Havelock in Ontario’s Northern Shield. It was nature in the raw that allowed us to dust off city life and renew our humanity.

This particular summer, our hearts were heavy with concern for a favourite aunt: Aunt Marnie. My mother ﬁrst met her future sister-in-law decades earlier at a volleyball tournament. She was sweaty and skinned and yet still maintained a spark that ﬁred her enthusiasm and passion for whatever adventure was at hand. We all witnessed that spark as she gripped my Uncle Earl’s waist as they zipped about town on their Harley-Davidson motorcycle, or as she exulted at their latest discovery of an antique that would be

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beautiful, once more, under her skilled hand. But Aunt Marnie saved her most profound passion for her three children, her husband, nieces, nephews, co-workers, friends and all of their friends. She always cooked more than enough for supper in case someone took advantage of the open invitation to dinner. No notice was necessary – not for family, or friends, or anybody. It was likely her passion for life that kept her alive for so long with that insidious disease: lung cancer. And yet… So, my story begins: my wife and I ﬁnished up our annual vacation on that lake north of Have-

lock. We headed south to Highway 7 and signaled left to return to our home in Ottawa. If we had headed straight, we would get to Trenton, where Aunt Marnie and Uncle Earl lived. But we didn’t have time. We had to join the rat race once again. As we approached Highway 7, a wind rushed up the highway toward us from the other side. Yet no dust was whipped up, no leaves rustled. It was a hot still day, there was no reason for a wind. It wasn’t a wind by any deﬁnition that makes sense. Indeed, none of our usual senses picked up on it. Yet my wife asked me, “What was that?” We both agreed that “wind”

was the closest explanation we could come up with. Three hours later, we were home and a message was waiting for me. My brother wanted me to phone him. Aunt Marnie had passed away. Three hours ago. Shock, grief, acceptance. But what about that wind? What did it mean? We decided not to tell anyone about it. This was not the time. After the funeral, as we helped put away chairs, Aunt Marnie’s son-in-law told me he was taking Uncle Earl in his bush plane to scatter her ashes. She had pre-arranged everything: she wanted her ashes to be scattered in the Canadian Shield, just north of Havelock. My kind reader, can you now see why a rational man, such as myself, could no longer scoff at the idea of ghosts? We all have energy. Just because we cannot see it or touch it or understand it in any way we currently have, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Aunt Marnie’s energy – or spirit, if you will – was rushing to the Canadian Shield ahead of her discarded body. Taking the thought process one step further, her ghost did not want to scare us or steal our attention. It just wanted the peace it deserved. And as loving as Aunt Marnie was, it was not out of the question that her spirit would ﬁrst wash over us ever so gently on its way home. Darrell Hookey is a freelance writer living in Whitehorse.

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