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bout a month ago my friend Dylan Letang finally got his wish.

Last year he moved back to Whitehorse after spending a decade in Vancouver. As a single man with intelligence, steady employment, and racially ambiguous good looks he had designs on making a dent in the local scene.

Unfortunately, he lived in country residential limbo on the south side of town, which hindered his ability to take full advantage of Saturday night shenanigans in Whitehorse. Then, when that living situation fell through, he was forced to move into his parent’s basement.

At first he was able to enjoy the situation on an ironic level, but irony can only buffer you from parental idiosyncrasies for a limited duration. Soon irritation and self-doubt crept in.

So Dylan put on his grown-up pants and bought a house — a quaint little half-duplex in the conveniently located subdivision of Takhini. Finally, he was close to the action, and to celebrate, he hosted a house warming party last Friday night.

Perhaps it’s the influence of Vancouver, but Dylan is more of a sips-n-nibbles kind of guy than a beer bong guzzling animal. So,

true to his nature, his house was warmed with wine and cheese.

Holding a glass of Pinot noir in my clutches, I set up camp in the kitchen, casually leaning against the wall as human traffic came and went.

On one of the counters there were seven or eight opened bottles of wine, which guests dipped into with gusto, and beside the wine was the biggest round of brie

“I cut off a

generous wedge , applied it to an

adjacent cracker

and sent it down the hatch .”

cheese I have ever seen.

I have a long history with brie.

During my youth, my parents made a point of having interesting cheeses on hand. From gorgonzola to gjetost (a Norwegian cheese that resembles caramel in both appearance and flavour) it was always an adventure to pull open the cheese drawer. But brie was the be-all and end-all.

Occasionally I would get to take a brie sandwich to school and because cheese was never high on the list of lunch items to be traded for, I was allowed to luxuriate in my meal without hassle.

But now my specialty-dairyproduct budget is non-existent, so when I noticed the huge cheese wheel on the counter I bolted upright from my buttressed position against the wall and, much in the same way Dylan relocated to Takhini to be closer to the action, I relocated to be closer to the brie.

I cut of a generous wedge, applied it to an adjacent cracker, and sent it down the hatch. I repeated this action a dozen times throughout the night.

When I left the party the brie wheel had become more of a brie crescent moon, Dylan was happily tipsy and empty bottles of wine were piling up. A house had been properly warmed and I had been properly stuffed.

Later that night I had a terrible stomach ache, I rolled and groaned and farted in bed, but nothing alleviated the discomfort. I reluctantly blamed the brie for my unfortunate condition.

One more platitude proved true: Sometimes the ones you love end up hurting you the most.

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Spooky Noises are Okay, but No More Showing Up in the Flesh

Dining Fine

The Guild Hall’s general manager makes a pact with the resident ghosts

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by Tamara Neely

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magine working alone in an older building where, on occasion, people have seen ghosts, heard them walking around, and had them messing with their stuff.

It’s not that freaky as long as you don’t believe in ghosts.

Jenny Hamilton is the Guild’s general manager, and she’s a general skeptic. However, when she saw a ghost in the flesh, it shook her foundation.

“December of 2006 was the first time he and I crossed paths,” Hamilton says. “I had heard about the Guild ghost, and I thought, ‘Yeah, yeah, whatever. I believe in science, facts. Things that I can see.’ But that’s not my motto anymore.”

In December of 2006, on a Thursday evening at 7 p.m., she was alone in the theatre, repairing a patch on the floor. No one was around.

“I heard somebody come in through the front doors, and when they came in, they stomped their feet to get the snow off,” she says. “So I turned around, and I saw this guy standing at the front doors in military gear, all done up in a dress uniform. He was fairly young. And my thought was he’s got to be one of the actor’s friends looking for them. So I called out to him and said, ‘I’ll be there in just a sec.’

“I dropped all of my tools, pulled myself up off the floor, and turned around – and he’s gone. I check out the dance studio, the

lights are all off. I check the men’s room and the women’s room and the kitchen – the lights are all off.

Nobody.

“So then I walk to the front door and open it up, and there is fresh snow there. Not a single foot print. So I grabbed my coat and turned off the lights and didn’t come back for two days. It just freaked me out. He looked like a solid person.”

She was now a skeptic who thinks she has seen a ghost.

“It broke all of my boundaries,” Hamilton says. “I’m a skeptic for 99 per cent of things that are supernatural. It’s just brain chemistry. If you truly believe it, there’s something wrong with you. Which is why I was so glad to hear that other people had seen and heard the ghosts, too – because it was like, ‘Do I have a brain tumour?’”

Turns out a variety of other sane people have had encounters with the military man. Hamilton recounts that in 2008, for example, choreographer Lisa Stevens was delaying a meeting in the lobby because she saw the military man walk into the men’s washroom. Stevens figured he was one of the actors and they’d better wait for him – and some of the actors sitting there had seen him, too. But only some.

But the military man is not the only ghost there. In 2009 Hamilton heard two kids chasing each other upstairs, above the old kitchen.

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The Guild Hall General Manager Jenny Hamilton doesn’t believe in ghosts – except for the ones she has encountered.

Then she heard the kids’ mom clapping her hands and calling to them as if to wrangle them under control. It didn’t seem like too big of a deal.

“They’re not grumpy, there’s no malice – they were just playing,” Hamilton says. “My brain goes, ‘They’re playing upstairs.’

Then my brain goes, “There is no upstairs.’”

The mom and kids have a more pleasant presence in the place than the military man. With them it’s about playing.

“They don’t have the feel like, ‘You’re taking over my space, so I’m going to take over yours,’” Hamilton says. “The military guy is like that. He’ll mess with some of the actors.”

Actors’ will lose their lipstick, and it shows up at another actor’s makeup station. Lights will get turned off; the sound system will go on the fritz. Hamilton says the ghost was blamed for former artistic director Eric Epstein’s hair-

brush continually going missing.

Maybe the actors are a bunch of hairbrush-borrowing-pranksters. Or maybe the absent-minded actors are always misplacing the tools of their trade.

Or maybe it’s the ghosts.

Whatever’s going on over there, Hamilton has got an understanding with the ghosts: they are forbidden from walking around in the flesh while she’s there.

“I’ve been clear with whatever’s here, that, ‘I never want to see you again and if you have to show yourself, I won’t work here anymore,’” Hamilton says.

For some reason, the ghosts have been abiding by that.

“I think they got the message,” she says. “They make noise and all that, but don’t physically walk through the building.”

Or, they don’t exist. Except that something is making an assortment of knocking, stomping and running sounds and interfering with the electrical systems.

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Will the Guild’s Ghosts Show Up at Their Haunted House?

t’s a rare treat to be able to go to a haunted house in a place known for actually having ghosts lurking around.

Creative folks involved with the Guild Hall are transforming the theatre into a haunted house for visitors to drop in and freak out.

“Because they’re actors and creative people, they play on your psychology,” Jenny Hamilton says. “Let’s just say that if you don’t pee yourself, we’ve failed.”

Adults and kids over 16 years old are invited to meander through from 8 p.m. on – if they dare – Oct. 30 and 31 at the Guild Hall, located at 27 – 14th Ave. in Porter Creek.

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Fri, Nov 1 First Friday Art Crawl Openings 5:00 PM YAAW 10th Anniversary Celebration Co-Op Gallery 120 Industrial Rd. Paper Guns by 13 year old Ben Beese, Paper Arms Manufacturer Northern Front Studio Planted - by Sheila Alexandrovich & Lynn Fabio fibreworks & explorations in plant based colourings Arts Underground Flight -Flying, Fleeing & Fancy in watercolours Arts Underground until Thu, Oct 31 The History Behind the Street Names in Downtown Whitehorse Arts Underground Paved with Stories.Current Off-Site Exhibit of the MacBride Museum. until Sat, Nov 16 Ken Anderson, James Nizam, & Yam Lauln All Day Yukon Arts Centre At the Public Art Gallery. until Mon, Nov 4 Travelling Cloth Letter Exhibition This is dedicated to the KIDS in JAPAN from the KIDS in CANADA in response to the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami disaster in 2011.

Yukon Art Centre and Canada Games Centre until Mon, Mar 31 Dà Ze Tsàn - From our hearts 9:00 AM Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Patti Balsillie 633-7805 Perspectives on Yukon First Nations Sewing and Weaving Traditions Fri, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 30 Paper Guns Northern Front Studio by 13 year old Ben Beese, Paper Arms Manufacturer Fri, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 30 Flight Arts Underground Flying, Fleeing & Fancy in watercolours Fri, Nov 1 - Sat, Nov 30 Planted Arts Underground

by Shiela Alexandrovich & Lynn Fabio fibreworks & explorations in plant based colourings Thu, Nov 7 - Mon, Dec 2 Sculptures by Sandra Story Arts Underground Sat, Nov 2 - Wed, Nov 20 YAAW 10th Anniversary Celebration With Art Display Co-Op Gallery Artist: Lilian Loponen “Timeline” Fri, Nov 8 - Sat, Nov 30 In the Open Air North End Gallery By artist Halin de Repentigny

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Fri, Nov 1 - Sat, Jan 25 YT in 3D: Stereo Photos From Yukon 5:00 PM Arts Underground In the Hougen Heritage Gallery.

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Ongoing Events Wednesdays

Wednesdays

Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza Peggy 668-7448 goes till we are done!

Thursdays

Thursday Night Jam 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub 4564742

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Tuesdays

Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats

Thursdays

Farmer’s Market 3:00 PM Shipyards Park local produce and arts & crafts (starts May 16th) Feminist Book Club 5:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre a book club for feminists

Fridays

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

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Mon, Oct 28 - Thu, Oct 31 The Doom That Came To The Guild 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Wed, Oct 30 Mad’s Haunted Mansion 6:30 PM Wood Street School Wed, Oct 30 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner Pottery/Ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground Wed, Oct 30 Mad’s Haunted Mansion 8:00 PM Wood Street School Wed, Oct 30 Comedy Night Live 9:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Oct 31 The Skeleton Parade 7:00 PM Pioneer Cemetary See Facebook page Thu, Oct 31 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner Drawing 7:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Oct 31 2013 Space Odyssey Halloween Show 8:00 PM Paddy’s Place Sat, Nov 2 *Music Pedagogy Workshop: “Is There a Doctor in the House? 10:00 AM Riverdale Baptist church Henry Klassen / 6677294 Sat, Nov 2 Christmas Bazaar 10:00 AM Gold Rush Inn Shelly 667-7629 Sat, Nov 2 *Music Pedagogy Workshop: Wed, Oct 30 YAC Presents David Myles 8:00 PM Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen 1:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre At the theatre.

Riverdale Baptist church Thu, Oct 31 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Sat, Nov 2 Basic Car Maintenance workshop, Tony’s Pizza .

1:00 PM Yukon College Hillary 667-2693 Thu, Oct 31 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Mon, Nov 4 Adult Art Classes (14+) Color Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone who Theory 7:00 PM Arts Underground wants to play or sing together Tue, Nov 5 Brave New WORDS 7:00 PM Rah Thu, Oct 31 Halloween Show 8:00 PM Paddy’s Rah Gallery Susan: susannehingley@hotmail.com Place Etienne Girard / etiennegirard7@gmail.

Wed, Nov 6 Acrylic Painting Open-Studio with com / 660-5906, Glen Emond / glen.emond@ Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts Underground gmail.com / 668-7009 Come on down to Paddy’s Wed, Nov 6 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner Place Halloween night for some good old masked Pottery/Ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground madness. Soda Pony, Death in Venice and the Thu, Nov 7 Adult Art Classes (14+) Beginner mysterious Space Canoe.

Drawing 7:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Oct 31 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Sat, Nov 9 CKES Christmas Craft Fair 10:00 AM Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, Christ The King Elementary Paula 633-2724 bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else suits Thu, Oct 31 Yukon Jack 8:30 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Oct 31 Meat The Vegens Halloween Free Lunches 11:30 AM at Victoria Faulkner Maddness 9:00 PM Kopper King Lounge Women’s Centre Fri, Nov 1 Corey Isenor, Ryan McNally & Old French : Zumba or Zumba Gold 12:00 PM Cabin 8:30 PM GoldPan Saloon Centre De La Francophonie 668-2663 Fri, Nov 1 Hip Hop Halloween 8:30 PM Jarvis Spanish Conversation 12:00 PM Golden Age Street Saloon Society. ¡Bienvenidos!

Sat, Nov 2 The Canucks 8:30 PM GoldPan Whitehorse String Ensemble rehearsal 6:15 Saloon PM at Hellaby Hall, 668-5530. New members Mon, Nov 4 YAC Presents: Martha Wainwright welcome. Violin, viola, cello and bass 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre At the theatre.

Texas Hold ‘em 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Royal Thu, Nov 7 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Canadian Legion. Steven Grossinger Royal Tony’s Pizza .

Canadian Legion - Texas Hold ‘em Tournament.

Thu, Nov 7 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone who free poker tournament, all skill levels welcome.

Training available from 6-6:30 PM wants to play or sing together Open Studio for Adults/Acrylic Painting Open Thu, Nov 7 Jazz in the Hall feat: David Bruce Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground With Neil Haddock 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Duncan Graham.

Sinclair / Email: duncan.sinclair@jazzyukon.ca / Phone: 867-334-2789 Learn, listen, jam. Features Free English Classes 7:30 PM 108 Wickstorm Road in Whitehorse. For more information education vignette w/ Steve Gedrose. Vocalist/ call:335-5443. guitarist David Bruce Haddock. Community jazz Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access jam. $5 at door.

Thu, Nov 7 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray Mtn Road Range officers on duty Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, Acrylic Painting Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, Underground easels and water containers on site. ....and whatever else suits Please bring your paints, brushes, supports and Fri, Nov 8 The Ryan MacNally Band 8:30 PM rags. Contact: 667-4080 GoldPan Saloon Yukon R/C 7:00 PM Mud Bog Motor-Cross Track Sat, Nov 9 The Ryan MacNally Band 8:30 PM Bring your R/C and meet other hobby enthusiast GoldPan Saloon Voice/Movement Group For Adults 7:30 PM United Church Downstair

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open-mike night with Steve Slade 7:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon Bring your voice or an instrument and perform a few song Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn 667-2527 fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats

October 31, 2013

Yukon Amateur Radio Association 9:30 PM A&W Informal breakfast with YARA members, Hams from outside the Yukon often join

Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 PM Gold Rush Inn Micah 336-4643 Adult Pottery Drop-in 2:30 PM at Arts Underground, 667-2159. Clay is available for purchase. Equipment and tools are provided.

Closed Holidays.

Ceramic Open-Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground SingAlongMessiah Collective Auditions and Rehearsals 4:00 PM United Church Rachel 6687502 To perform a sing-along performance of Handel’s Messiah on December 20th and 21st, 2013. Come try out.

Mondays

Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome) Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray Mtn Road Range officers on duty

Tuesdays

Free English Conversation Group 302 Strickland St., lower level. 668-5907. Bring your own lunch Bingo (Regular Games) 5:00 PM at Elks Hall Whitehorse Curling Club, 667-2875 Potluck Food Co-op - Info-Market 4:00 PM 5th Ave, between Wood St. and Jarvis St.

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Wed, Oct 30 Mad’s Haunted Mansion 6:30 PM & 8:00 PM Wood Street School MAD made videos will be shown in the gym while audience waits their turns to go through the house in small groups Thu, Oct 31 The Skeleton Parade 7:00 PM Pioneer Cemetary See Facebook page Bring your best skeleton swag, flashlights & lanterns.

Parade Seventh,Cook, Fourth & wood, roads are not closed.

FREE DROP IN at Yukon Family Literacy Centre Mon-Fri Noon - 3:00 PM, Mon-Wed 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sat 10:00 AM 3:00 PM (2nd Floor of Canada Games Centre) Colleen/Stephanie 668-8698 Free family learning fun!

Wednesdays

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 6673006

Thursdays

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Tumble Time Playgroup 9:30 AM at Riverdale Baptist Church Kathy 668-7273 or 667-6620 (aged birth to 5).

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

Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Kids Pop Choir 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio Grades 3-6. With Barbara Chamberlin.

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

Fridays

Young Explorers Preschool Program 10:00 AM at MacBride Museum Family Story Time 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library For children ages 3 – 6 who are accompanied by an adult.

Family Health and Recreation Program 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Erica 6672693 All kids under 8, moms, and grandmas are welcome.

Sundays

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

Mondays

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs 667-3006

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

Tuesdays

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

Hiroshikai Judo Club 5:00 PM at Holy Family Romp & Run Playgroup 9:30 AM at Whitehorse School, judoyukon@gmail.com Ages under 15 United Church.

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 551 Whitehorse Air Cadets 6:30 PM Whitehorse Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. Mon-Thurs Elementary School CaptainJennifer Lafreniere 668-7688 667-3006 Art Smarts Kids After School Art Club 3:30 PM Youth Shooting Program 7:00 PM Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Introductory Open House and Arts Underground Marlene Collins (mcollins@ sign-up for Youth ages 10-19 years. Parental northwestel.net) 667-4080 Ages 7-9 permission required.

Twoonie Race 7:00 PM alternating Mt Mac or Chadburn with Contagious Mountain Bike Club Wed, Oct 30 Mad’s Haunted Mansion 6:30 PM & YFC/Youth Unlimited 7:30 PM LePage Park 8:00 PM Wood Street School MAD made videos Melissa Teeuwsen 335-8809 Hang out in the park will be shown in the gym while audience waits their every Tuesday night, rain or shine. All youth are turns to go through the house in small groups welcome.

Thu, Oct 31 The Skeleton Parade 7:00 PM Pioneer Cemetary See Facebook page Bring your best skeleton swag, flashlights & lanterns.

Parade Seventh,Cook, Fourth & wood, roads are not closed.

Mon, Nov 4 Youth Drop in Kayak Sessions 4:00 Seniors Qigong and Yang Family Style 16 Movement Hand Form 10:00 AM Golden Age PM Canada Games Centre Society Jo-Ann Gates 667-4531 These qigong and tai chi exercises help with relaxation, flexibility, balance and strength.

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM 6209 – 6th Avenue, 393-2824 BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Blood Pressure Clinic 10:30 AM at Greenwood Yoga In The Alpine “Teen Yoga” 5:30 PM at Place. Lois at 667-6149 Alpine Bakery. wallymaltz@northwestel.net Elder/Active Bingo 6:00 PM at Elk’s Hall Instructor Tammy Biathlon Junior Team Training 5:30 PM at Grey Mountain Road. Keith Clarke, ktclarke@

northwestel.net Wed, Oct 30 Yukon Chamber of Commerce Lunch Lecture 11:45 AM High Country Inn “Hydraulic Fracturing: Oil & Gas Development” Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM at 6209 - 6th with The Canadian Society for Unconventional Avenue, 393-2824 Resources President.

Kid’s After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Wed, Oct 30 Women’s Support Group Meeting Underground Yukon Art Society reception@ 6:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Run artsunderground.ca 667-4080 Ages 10-14 until by women for women who have experienced October 25 violence.

Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up Thu, Oct 31 Yukon African Caribbean (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground Association AGM 6:00 PM Whitehorse Public Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Library .

Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Fri, Nov 1 Family Health and Recreation Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please Program 11:00 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s register before course starts Centre Erica 667-2693 All kids under 8, moms, Northern Lights Judo Club 5:00 PM at and grandmas are welcome.

Ecole Emilie Tremblay School, judoyukon@ Sat, Nov 2 Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal gmail.com. Under 15 years

Canadian Legion Christmas Craft Fair 9:00 AM Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier Yukon Inn First Nations and Yukon made arts, School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 crafts.

Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Mon, Nov 4 Yukon Amateur Radio Association Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@ Monthly Meeting 7:00 PM EMO Building 60 yukonrollergirls.ca Norseman rd. denaliort@yahoo.com Prospective Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier School hams are welcome.

867-668-4794 between the ages of 10 - 14 Mon, Nov 4 Hillcrest Community Association AGM 7:00 PM Yukon Transportation Museum Kat Secord 668-2233 .

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Rec Night: Tue, Nov 5 Rotary Club of Whitehorse Midnight manhunt, floor hockey, dodgeball and more. 6209 Sun Meeting 12:10 PM Yukon Inn .

- 6th Avenue, 393-2824 Tue, Nov 5 PSAC Aboriginal Peoples Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins Committee monthly meeting 5:15 PM YEU Hall School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 667-2331 .

BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Tue, Nov 5 Air Cadets Assembly 6:15 PM Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders Whitehorse Elementary School Capt. Jennifer 5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Lafreniere 668-7688 For youths 12 - 18 years old.

Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ Wed, Nov 6 PSAC Racially Visible Committee snowboardyukon,com Registration required. monthly meeting 5:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre Wed, Nov 6 Women’s Support Group Meeting AfterShock Youth Group 7:00 PM Church of the 6:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Run Nazarene 633-4903 Ages 12 to 18 by women for women who have experienced violence.

Thu, Nov 7 YEU Local Y023 (City of Whitehorse) Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Youth Chef monthly meeting 12:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Night we teach recipes for healthy food from Thu, Nov 7 PSAC Health & Safety Committee scratch. Ages 11-18. 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 monthly meeting 6:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Fencing for Youth and Adults 10:00 AM at Thu, Nov 7 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly Takhini Elementary

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50 Ways to Leave Your Sugar

Health coach offers free workshop on having a better relationship with sugar

by Chelsea McCormack

Holistic health coach Linda Lamers is presenting a free workshop called The Sugar Blues at the Canada Games Centre on Nov. 5.

Photo: courtesy of Linda Lamers

W

e have all been struck with a case of the sugar blues — nagged by those treats hiding in the kitchen or next to the check out counter as we pay for our groceries.

Our relationship to sugar can be a balancing act. Sweets are both a treat and a coping mechanism; in our busy lives it’s often a cookie, chocolate bar or coffee loaded with sugar that gets us through our day. What starts as a pick-meup and a quick burst of energy is often followed by a crash, keeping us riding the sugar roller coaster.

Holistic health coach Linda Lamers wants to help us beat the sugar blues. She is offering a free workshop on Nov. 5 at the Canada Games Centre with all kinds of tips to gain control without deprivation, deal with that Thanksgiving-dessert-guilt, and those Halloween candies calling you from the cupboards.

This workshop will help participants understand why we

crave sweet things so much.

The session will also provide a lot of nutritional information with plenty of discussion, breaking down sugar, its sources and what our bodies are really craving.

“It’s not about being on a diet,” Lamers says.

According to Lamers, dieting becomes an all or nothing battle; we use our will power to deprive ourselves of something and this most commonly ends in a binge.

Lamers’ approach is to provide the tools to begin to change our relationship to sugar and to be able to look at it in a totally new way, understanding why we crave it and how it makes us feel both physically and emotionally.

“As we change this relationship we can begin to recognize that we can be bad and have permission to indulge at times, but find ways to meet the next sugar need differently, sometimes with a different sweetener, sometimes in other ways,” she says.

It’s about changing our habits to reflect what it is that we want, whether that is more energy, less stress or weight loss.

As a holistic health coach with a Masters degree in Education, Lamers also uses her expertise as a registered yoga teacher and reiki practitioner. She works with clients individually and also offers group workshops and retreats for private and corporate groups that include all kinds of wellness information, activities and the cultivation of mindfulness.

“I want people to be able to fully enjoy their lives in the healthiest and best way they can,” she says.

Linda Lamers’ free workshop takes place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Canada Games Centre.

Chelsea McCormack is a yoga teacher and all-around wellness and outdoor enthusiast who now calls Whitehorse home.

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HIS NAME IS BILL SMITH, AND TABITH HE STAY WITH. SHE WAS HIS GWITCH’IN WIFE, AND THEY LIKE THE BUSH LIFE. BILL WAS A WHITE MAN, AND HE LIKED OUR LAND. THEY HARDLY STAY IN TOWN, IN THE BUSH THEY’LL BE FOUND. WHEREVER THE WENT, THEY STAY IN A TENT. BILL HAD A ROUGH DOG TEAM, AND THEY ALWAYS SCRAM. IN THE TOBOGGAN TABITHA SIT INSIDE AND THEY GO FOR A SLOW RIDE. HIS DOGS ARE NOT REALLY FAST,

IN DOG RACES HE COME LAST. BILL USED TO BE OUR SANTA CLAUS, BUT HIS REINDEER HAD PAWS. BUT HER DIDN’T GIVE US TOYS, ONLY CLOTHES FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. WITH THE U.S. ARMY HE FOUGHT, ON HIS ARM HE SHOWED A GUN SHOT. BILL LIKES TO READ, AN’ TABITHA LIKES TO BEAD. WE LIKE TO SIT WITH, AN’ LISTEN TO BILL SMITH.

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Virtual Village with Doug Rutherford

Buying and Selling Online I ’m back after a bit of a vacation and a bout of pneumonia, but I’m ready to sell you on some safety tips for online classified ads.

One of the earliest features of the web was the introduction of classified ad services, such as eBay, CraigsList, and local services such as Borealist. These offer a larger platform to buy and sell goods and services.

The anonymous nature of the Internet leads to many horror stories, ranging from scams to a recent murder in Ontario. But the vast majority of transactions end with both buyer and seller happy. Here are a few guidelines to ensure you end up satisfied.

Always see what you’re buying before you pay.

Many scams call for you to pre-pay for a specific product, often requesting you send the money overseas. This usually involves a money back guarantee through a third party such as PayPal — although your payment is required in a money order or certified cheque.

If this is the requirement of a sale, save your money, you will probably not receive what you are buying.

When selling, avoid receiving a payment that includes more than you requested. Such transactions often use counterfeit money orders and the extra money is used to cover the costs of shipping the product to an offshore location

When advertising goods, be careful with any pictures you post. Try to ensure that the photo only shows the items and not any surrounding items that may entice someone to break into your house.

If you are allowing someone to test drive a vehicle, get identification and photograph his or her ID. Also, it’s a good idea to take pictures of the vehicle right before the test drive to ensure no damage is incurred while the automobile is out of sight.

Again, having a witness present for this adds to your level of protection.

Finally, remember the old adage of caveat emptor: buyer beware. Know what you’re buying and for how much.

There are bargains out there, but most times, a deal that’s too good to be true is just that.

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Doug Rutherford teaches computer networking and security for Yukon College and three post-secondary educational institutions in British Columbia.

When selling a big-ticket item, beware of counterfeit money orders. You can end up with no boat and no payment. with lax consumer rules. The Marshall Islands in the North Pacific Ocean is a favourite of criminals.

By the time the money order is refused, you will have lost your payment, shipping costs, and the item you were selling. This particular fraud is usually reserved for larger items, such as boats or vehicles.

Always arrange, when possible, to view or show the items in a neutral, public location. This means that you are not inviting anyone nefarious into your home. Take someone else with you when you go to sell or buy an item. This provides you with a witness and acts as a deterrent to anyone who is planning to rob you.

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Seeking Beervana with Lara Lewis

Thanksgiving in Haines

Expanding the mind of a Bud drinker

M

y friends and I spent Thanksgiving in Haines this year. We thought we would catch some fish, drink some beers and see some bears.

Only one of those missions panned out. The fish weren’t jumping, or running, or whatever fish do. We saw a few dead coho on shore, but that was it.

And we weren’t the only ones snookered. One dude had been in Haines for a month, but had only caught four fish. So, the fishing rods remained in the back of the truck. No fish means no bears, so we didn’t see any of those.

Luckily, Haines is rich in beer.

One of my missions was to find a decent beer my friend Diedre Davidson could drink. Her beer as a teenager was Budweiser and she hadn’t strayed too far in adulthood. Lagers and hefeweizens are her standards.

So, as we watched football and

played Boggle at the Fogcutter on Sunday afternoon, she was rehydrating with Rolling Rock. This beer is ubiquitous. The guy in the liquor store said it is a favourite of Canadians, but apparently none of the Americans drink it. It mostly tastes like wet air to me.

Rolling Rock is brewed in New Jersey, but that’s all you’re going to figure out by looking at the label. It has been brewed since 1939 and is now made by Anheuser Busch-Inbev. It weighs in at 4.6 per cent alcohol by volume and calls itself a pale lager. I can only recommend it as a slightly beery club soda substitute.

I tried to tempt Diedre with a Wailua, the Kona Brewing passion fruit beer from Hawaii. It has a very interesting exotic fruit character with a slight twang from the addition of wheat. Even if you don’t specifically like passion fruit, you might like it. It is subtle,

low in bitterness and highly drinkable.

It failed to impress Diedre.

On Sunday, we ate lasagna and drank wine for Thanksgiving, so I wasn’t able to pass on any more beer suggestions. Besides, by that point, karaoke at the Fogcutter and beer pong at the Harbour Bar on Saturday night had done us in.

The day was a sleepy one full of reading and napping before we got on to the business of giving thanks.

I failed to find a new beer to excite my friend, but we found other ways to enjoy Haines.

The Mount Riley hike is a lovely tromp through the forest. The Chilkoot River, while devoid of bears, was a peaceful hangout.

On Monday morning, we all filled our beer quota to take back to Canada. The great thing about Diedre is that she is happy to take back all the orphaned beer left

PHOTO: Lara Lewis

My friend Diedre Davisdon contemplates life after consuming a Rolling Rock at the Fogcutter bar in Haines. in our fridge over the weekend.

There’s no way I was going to use up my beer allowance to haul back an insipid lager, so, it made me appreciate my friend’s taste in beer.

Plus, she drove, arranged the ferry, supplied the hip-hop and was just a cool travelling companion.

Thanks Diedre. I’ll try again next time.

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An Unsual Point Where

by Angela Szymczuk

Art&Guns Collide Thirteen-year-old’s first art show features hand-made paper firearms

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Like most artistic projects, t seems Whitehorse has an artistic genius in the mak- practice makes perfect.

In addition to creating base ing. Thirteen-year-old Ben Beese has turned paper into models, Beese has engineered realistic replica gun models. For them to fire paper bullets. With the whole month of November the addition of sliding mechanNorthern Front Studio at Water- isms, also made with paper, the front Station in Whitehorse will bullets shoot straight through pay tribute to the teenager’s the air.

Beese has further enhanced collection.

Beese’s reason for creating his guns by adding accessories to some of the models. He guns is simple.

“I wanted to own a gun,” he has designed scopes and stands to make his machine guns look says with a grin.

For the past two years, Beese more realistic.

When Beese’s exhibition has been making perfectly-toscale firearms out of regular opens on Nov. 1, visitors to printing paper. His collection Northern Front Studio will have includes a revolver pistol, rifles, the opportunity to fire paper semi automatic machine guns, bullets from the guns for $1 per a shotgun, and fantasy guns in- shot. He will donate the money to the Boys and Girls Club of spired by the video game Halo.

Beese’s interest in paper art Whitehorse.

“I enjoy hanging out there began a few years ago when he and when I first started making discovered origami.

“I think origami is super guns, they were very encouraging, so I would like to give cool,” Beese says.

He has made several origami something back to them,” he objects, including a collection says.

Beese is also accepting comof cubes that transform into a missions for cusrose. “I am also tom-made guns, hoping to make a starting at $20. spiky ball which Principal of the uses 96 pieces of gallery, Mary Ellen paper.”

Read, is excited From origami, to be introducing he began to exBeese’s work. pand his paper “Ben’s paper creations. At one guns are amazing point the inventscale models,” she ive teen created says. “For us, it is a life size warrior really inspiring to made entirely out see someone who of paper. Then is interested in he came across a constructing out of video about makpaper something ing guns out of mechanical.” paper on YouTube The exhibit and was hooked. promises to be a Using a book visual treat. The called Gun Recopening reception ognition Guide -- Mary Ellen Read, for Ben Beese’s art

by Ian Hogg as Northern Front Studio show takes place a guideline, the on Friday, Nov. 1 young artist began from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the to create his masterpieces.

On average, Beese spends Northern Front Studio, which is one or two hours making a located at 2237 - 2nd Ave, Suite paper gun. He typically finds 110.

For more information about the guns easy to make, however, he’s been frustrated with the event, go to www.NorthernFront.ca the AK-47. “(The model) has been very challenging, and I have had to re-build it a few times,” Angela Szymczuk is a he says. “It’s still a work in progress, but I am determined Whitehorse based writer, who is determined to become a to get it right, in time for the shotgun master. exhibit.”

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French Toast with Geneviève Doyon

A French Feast for the Senses

Experience the depth of francophone artistry at Onde de choc on Nov. 1

O

nde de choc is a new event that will bring together over 25 Francophone artists from a variety of disciplines.

Through culinary art, video, interactive installation, music, dance, storytelling, visual art, theatre and poetry, everyone is invited to discover an eclectic glimpse of the Francophone community’s talent at the Yukon Arts Centre on Friday, Nov. 1.

The evening will start with a performance arts show. Established Francophone performers such as Hélène Beaulieu, Pascal St-Laurent and Sylvie Painchaud will share the stage with emerging artists around the theme of onde de choc, which means shock wave.

As the audience leave the theatre, they will be greeted with culinary delights by Karina Lapointe, Jessica Nadon, and Françoise Laroche – delectables that they can nibble on while browsing through the next phase of the event: a visual art show. The art will include paintings and drawings, as well as a video by Arlin McFarlin and an interactive installation by Baptiste Bohelay.

Virginie Hamel, Onde de choc’s artistic director, took on the challenge of making all these artistic pieces work together in one event.

“It was a bit nerve racking at first, but once all the artists started coming forward with their great ideas and original suggestions, everything fell into place,” Hamel says.

Hamel and her team want to offer a fresh look at the Francophone artistic community.

All artists were asked to bring forward new pieces of work or to re-visit something of their own.

Hamel encouraged artists to get out of their comfort zone, pick up a new instrument or collaborate

with someone they had not worked with before.

Hamel herself is trying new things, too.

“For the performance aspect of the event, I decided to step away from the traditional variety show hosted by an MC,” Hamel says. “The whole evening will flow lyrically, transitions will be in music with Brass Knuckle Society and with poetry performed by actors.”

The desire to create a new space of expression for local artists encouraged the Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) to let go of old traditions.

Some might remember the annual Gala de la francophonie that used to combine performances from local artists with an award ceremony to underline the work of outstanding community members. After consulting the community, the AFY realised the Gala no longer satisfied people’s needs.

“Even though we all recognize the importance of rewarding dedicated members of the community, the desire for an event fully focused on the artists was made very clear,” Hamel says.

“To mix community events with a performance sometimes takes the focus off the artist,” Hamel says.

“With Onde de choc, the spotlight will shine only on the local artists and their talent.”

Onde de choc takes place at the Yukon Arts Centre on Nov. 1.

Go to www.afy.yk.ca for more information.

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

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Thibaut Rondel and Pascale Geoffroy will perform at the new francophone show, Onde de choc, on Nov. 1 at the Yukon Arts Centre.

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Dawson City: A Living Ghost Town I

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awson City has often been described as a living ghost town.

Which means, of course, along with the living, come the ghosts.

Ask Dawsonites about ghosts and the stories start to flow.

Karen Dubois, born and raised in Dawson, has several tales to tell.

She remembers during her childhood, one of her friends claimed to have seen the ghostly, white shadow of a woman walking around the house where he lived. Dubois, herself, felt a presence inside the house, too.

“There was also a cold feeling once in a while that made you want to get up if you sat in the chair opposite the bottom of the stairs,” says Dubois. “Oftentimes, the cat would jump up and leave.”

Dubois also remembers another house where light bulbs would go on and off on their own, the kettle would boil and things would end up under the bed without anyone knowing how they got there.

Years later, while working at the Dawson Campus of Yukon College, which was then located in the old courthouse, she heard noises in the attic. She went upstairs to investigate, but found nothing.

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by Gabriela Sgaga run and saved me if need be,” she laughs.

John Steins, a long-time resident of Dawson, also has a story to tell.

He and his wife moved into their partially completed home during the winter of 1981.

A few days later at 2 a.m., there was a rap on the door.

A man was peering in through the window. Steins opened the door and noticed that the man had only one arm and was wearing a thin, plaid jacket in the fortybelow temperature.

“He wasn’t cold,” says Steins.

“That was the weird part.”

The man said he was from the creeks and was looking for someone.

“After we both stood there in the dark empty room for a while, I reluctantly let him go back out into the cold,” Steins says. “After I closed the door, I looked out the window to watch him, but he had disappeared. There was only one trail, and I should have seen him walking away.”

Despite repeated enquiries around town during the following years, Steins didn’t find anyone who had heard of a one-armed man from the creeks.

“In a small town like this, someone should have known him,”

PHOTO: Dan Dowhal

The Commissioner’s Residence in Dawson City is notorious for ghosts. It was the home of Yukon Commissioners until 1916, and a nursing home run by nuns from the early 1950s to the ‘60s. says Steins.

Local resident Theresa Conkin says she was on a tour of the town when she went into Ruby’s Place, an old boarding house/brothel that closed in 1961. Conkin doesn’t really believe in ghosts, but as soon as she went upstairs she experienced heart palpitations, felt oppressed, and was frightened. After two minutes, she left the building.

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Footsteps have also been heard and every once in a while, the cutlery on the dining room table display gets rearranged.

There are many more to tell.

Why are there so many ghosts in Dawson?

“The history here was intense,” Steins says. “With all the suffering and angst, there just have to be ghosts.”

Gabriela Sgaga lives off the grid in her West Dawson cabin with her eight sled dogs. She enjoys mushing, skijoring and writing about everyday life in the Yukon.

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...Dawson City

Evidence Inconclusive, But the Place is Still Freaky Vancouver-based artist explores stories of ghosts in the Macaulay House

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J

ude Griebel’s first book, Footsteps in The Macaulay House, deals with a favourite Dawson City topic — ghosts.

The Vancouver-based painter and sculptor first heard spooky stories about the house, located on Princess and 7th Avenue, in 2003 from a former resident who had stayed at The Macaulay House as part of the artist residency program of the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC).

Griebel, who was raised on ghost tales by his grandfather and uncles, took immediate interest.

“At the time, I was exploring ways to incorporate imagery and motifs from these tales into my work,” says Griebel. “My work has continually focused on the interplay between the imagination and the physical world, and depicted instances in which these two spaces overlap.”

“I became interested in the mythology of the Macaulay House and wanted to combine the his-

by Gabriela Sgaga tory of the house, the stories of the past residents, and my own visual images, in the format of a book,” he says.

The Macaulay residence has a long history of transience, says Griebel. Henry C. Macaulay, the first mayor of Dawson City, had the structure built in Victoria, disassembled, and shipped to the Yukon by boat as a home for his family.

After several private ownerships, the house became the property of the Yukon government, which used the building as a home for troubled youth. One of its inmates was the young Daniel Hummel, later convicted for murder.

Parks Canada purchased the house from the territorial government, and now leases it to KIAC. After Griebel’s proposal for a book was accepted by KIAC, he came to Dawson in 2007 to live in the house and started corresponding with past residency artists.

Some were still too disturbed to

share their stories, but many artists wrote back. Griebel includes these letters in his book.

Two commonly referenced sites of supernatural presence in the house are the staircase and the larger of the two upstairs bedrooms.

The artists told Griebel of figures passing through them while they stood on the stairs and figures that would come into the large bedroom at night and hover or crouch by the bed.

One artist saw “shadow-like things” outside the corner of her eyes and felt an incredible sense of melancholy while there.

Some artists said they didn’t see any ghosts but felt observed, or uneasy about the place.

Another wrote that the house was not for sleeping, as there was “definitely an anxiety about the place.”

Current artist-in-residence Justin Apperley has heard the stories, but still isn’t sure he believes in

PHOTO: courtesy of KIAC

The Macaulay House in Dawson City ghosts. He did choose the smaller bedroom though, “just in case.”

He has been in the house alone for more than a month and hasn’t seen anything, but he says he does feel a presence when it’s dark.

“It’s kind of freaky,” he says. “I have to turn on the lights to feel comfortable.”

Griebel didn’t see anything either, but he does have a story to tell.

While working upstairs one evening, headphones on, he looked up to see the doorknob of the studio door slowly turning.

“The door opened and an elderly lady was standing there, speaking, but I couldn’t hear her,” he says. “I took the headphones off and turns out it was a local woman who I didn’t hear knocking, so she walked right into the

house to remind me that I had forgotten about the senior’s painting class that I was supposed to teach that night.”

Not quite a ghost story, laughs Griebel, but startling enough to have scared him at the time.

In the end, Footsteps in The Macaulay House, which was published in 2008, is not sensational or conclusive about ghosts, says Griebel.

“I just wanted to bridge personal imagination and local history and visualize what was sensed and what was invisible.”

Gabriela Sgaga lives off the grid in her West Dawson cabin with her eight sled dogs.

She enjoys mushing, skijoring and writing about everyday life in the Yukon.

Things that go Bump in the Night

Ghost stories from Dawson City’s Westminster Hotel

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

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Bliedung has worked at West’ve got the creeps, the willies, It’s said that a sudden change in and the jim-jams. I’ve just minster for 15 years and does not temperature, or recurring temperheard ghost stories from Heidi believe in ghosts. However, she ature patches in a room can indiBliedung and Aaron Burnie from isn’t always comfy-cozy all by her- cate a ghost. the love-worn, historic Westmin- self in there.

“I’ve had some weird experi“I get a creepy feeling some- ences,” says Aaron Burnie, who ster Hotel in Dawson City. I’m also relieved that Bliedung and Burnie, times when I’m locking up at night has lived at the Westminster for 11 who both work at the Westmin- and the lights are all out,” she years. “One night, I got up to use ster, were willing to talk to me says. the washroom. The hallway was She’s got some stories to tell. about ghosts. substantially colder when I crossed “A woman was meeting her son through it again on the way back to Recently, another fellow told me he saw a ghost at the Snake in the morning, he worked here at my room. It gave me the creeps.” cleaning,” says Bliedung, Pit — the Westminster’s legendary night, ad On another occasion, Burnie was 1 for What’s Up Yukon 3 columns (6 inches) by 3 for inches went inside to look him washing his hands in the north side beer tavern. But he did not wish “She in the following two issues: Thursday, October 24 and 31 in the lounge. He wasn’t there, bathroom of the hotel’s second to be interviewed and go to onrun recshe heard something from Society the floor. ord as believing in ghosts. Please billbut The door handles jiggled. He to: Friends of the Yukon Archives (FOYAS) other 308 room.

She crossed through Yukon Having been to The Pit called out, c/obefore, Patricia Halladay, Hawkins Street, Whitehorse, Y1A IX6“I’ll just be a sec,” and I can see how he got the spooks the back way, through a maze of opened the door still holding the in there. I’ve seen unexplained boilers, and clearly heard voices paper towel. shadows there. And it wasn’t just and the sound of gambling chips.

“It was only three seconds later, But when she arrived in the next but no one was there,” says Burnie. the beer.

The Westminster Hotel was es- room, no one was there.”

Scents may also indicate ghosts.

Shivers. tablished in 1898 – imagine all the At the Westminster, guests have things that have happened in 115 All the senses come into play reported the scent of women’s years. perfume appearing from nowhere. with ghost experiences.

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At the Westminster Hotel in Dawson, there are rumoured to be things other than guests roaming the hallways at night.

Then there are some who have seen ghosts.

“Out of the periphery of my eye I’ve seen a man wearing a fedora walk by in the upstairs hallway,” Burnie says. “Others have seen him too.”

Burnie recently saw a cell phone at the lounge fly “a good eight feet from where it was sitting on top of the piano.”At this point in our conversation, Bliedung chimed in, “I tested that out later and proved it

to be caused by the phone vibrating and moving off the piano.”

Still, some people’s senses are telling us that things go bump in the night at the Westminster.

“They aren’t up to trouble, but there is definitely something here,” Burnie says.

Aimée Dawn Robinson is a writer, dancer and visual artist.

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

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Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please register before course starts Traditional Yang Family Style Hand Form, Part 2 6:00 PM Hidden Valley Elementary Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde.ca This class focuses on the 2nd section of the Traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan hand form. Students should already know the first section Athletics Yukon Trail Run 6:30 PM Location varies Nancy 334-6576 Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca Co-Ed Drop-in Ultimate Frisbee 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary Soccer field Everybody is welcomed 336-0255 morrmic@hotmail. com Archery 7:00 PM Christ the King Elementary School. Les Johns, 667-7349.

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Traditional Yang Style Sabre Form 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde.

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

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

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

Saturday

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

Sunday

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

Monday

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

Tuesday

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BCCC Exercise Group 7:00 AM Beaver Creek Community Center

Wednesdays

Tot Time 9:30 AM School basement Open to all families with toddlers to come socialize and play games

Carcross Wednesdays

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

Thursdays

Pottery with Claudia McPhee 3:15 PM. Sewing group 6:00 PM Capacity Building

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Dawson City

Tue, Oct 29 City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron .

Thu, Oct 31 Halloween At The Pit 10:00 PM The Westminster Hotel Music by Ben Mahoney and Uncle Touchy Fri, Nov 1 Second Annual Winetasting Evening 7:30 PM KIAC A Fundraiser for the Dawson City Arts Society Mon, Nov 4 Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Dawson Rec Centre 993-2350 Recreation board grants are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Thu, Nov 7 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Dawson City 6672331 until Fri, Nov 1 Unearthly, Uprising by Marigold Santos 11:00 AM Tuesday to Saturday ODD Gallery

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Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall 993-5370 Dawson City Film Festival Selection Screenings 7:00 PM KIAC Classroom

Tuesdays

Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC Dawson City Minor Soccer 6:00 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field age 8 & under City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron .

Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field

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Wednesdays

Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Seniors Painting Workshop 1:00 PM CRIC with Jackie Irvine Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 1-8) Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM DVG School 994-2760 Kids After-School Crafts 3:00 PM Recreation Centre Youth Lounge Giant Board Games 3:45 PM Rec Centre Youth Lounge Tina Freake 994-2375 Join us for active, board & card games.

Tue, Oct 8 Faro Kettle Café 4:00 PM Recreation Centre Concession Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

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

Adult Floor Hockey: 7:00 PM Recreation Centre Gymnasium Equipment provided if needed.

Thursdays

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Environment Club DVG School 3:45 PM Alternating Thursdays Crafting Club 12:30 PM Alternating Thursdays Co-ed Softball 6:15 PM Recreation Centre Tina Freake -994-2375 Pop by the ball field for a friendly game of ball. Coordinated by Jodi Boyd.

Youth Group Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca

Saturdays

Co-ed Softball 2:00 PM Recreation Centre Pop by the ball field for a friendly game of ball. Coordinated by Jodi Boyd.

Mondays

Glee Club 1:00 PM DVG School (All grades) 994-2760 Youth T-Ball: 6:15 PM 7:30 PM Recreation Centre Youth ages 4 to 8 are welcome to pop by the ball field for a friendly game.

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Tuesdays

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Primary Ball Skills 12:30 Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 K – 3 Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 9-12) Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Badminton 7:00 PM Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca

Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall 993-5370 Dawson City Minor Soccer 6:00 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field age 11 & under Dawson City Film Festival Selection Screenings 7:00 PM KIAC Classroom Dawson City Minor Soccer 7:30 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field age 14 & under CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat a fundraiser for CFYT local radio

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Thursdays

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

Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field

Saturdays

Hatha Yoga with Joanne 9:00 AM KIAC Youth Radio Broadcasting 12:00 PM

Sundays

Yoga with Jo 5:00 PM Robert Service School

Mondays

Hӓn Language Bingo! 2:00 PM Learn a little of the language of our land *subject to availability

Thursdays

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

Mondays

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

Tuesdays

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

Hamlet of Mt. Lorne Wednesdays

Kids Craft time 3:00 PM HJ Public Library

Thursdays

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

Fridays

Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 1:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Questions contact Ruth Lera 668-5871 or email ruthlera@ northwestel.net Mt Lorne Ski club 4:00 PM for kids age 10 and up

Marsh Lake Fridays

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

Tuesdays

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

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

Mayo Weekdays

Community Access Program 1:00 The Drop In Centre

Wednesdays

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

Thursdays

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

Fridays

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

Saturdays

Movie & Games 1:30 PM The Drop In Centre

Mondays

Wii & Movie Night 3:30 PM The Drop In Centre

Tuesdays

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

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

Sundays

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

Old Crow Thursdays

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

Tuesdays

Mondays

Tuesdays

Tagish

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

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

Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Saniz at 966-3238 Wed Oct. 30 Pumpkin Carving 2:00 PM at Coffee and Chat Thur Oct. 31 Halloween Party 6:00 PM Community Centre. Pumpkin Carving at 6 7 PM followed by a Laser Show and Music

by DJ Robert Vallee at 7 PM. Thu, Nov 7 Southern Lakes EROSION Open Public Meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Sue Greetham. 6604106 Gathering evidence of erosion, local discussion steps forward.

Wednesdays Tagish Library and Tagish Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 NOON Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Community Centre 399-3407 calling for Christmas vendors for November

Thursdays

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

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

Fridays

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

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Beaver Creek

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

Carcross

Wednesdays 7:30 PM. Library Lightwalkers group Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Carmacks

Saturdays

Fridays 1:30p PM Health Centre

Sundays

Thursday 8:00 PM New Beginnings Group Richard Martin Chapel - New Beginnings Group Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group Saturdays 7:00 PM Community Support Centre - North Star group 993-5095

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

Mondays

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

Teslin

Dawson City

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Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Faro

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Haines Junction

Thurs. Oct 24 Fitness Workshop and Nutrition Talk 7:00 PM Gym Wed. Oct 30 Youth Halloween Movie 7:00 PM School Gym Thurs. Oct 31 Youth Halloween Dance 6:30 at Rec Plex Sat. Nov 2 Adult Halloween Dance 9:00 at Rec Plex

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Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM. Seniors Complex After school sports 3:30 PM Teslin School gym

Friday

After school archery 3:30 PM Teslin School gym

Sundays

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

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Fridays

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

Saturdays

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

Mondays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM

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

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Old Crow

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Pelly Crossing

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

Ross River

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Tagish

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

Telegraph Creek

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

Teslin

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Watson Lake

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Halloween: A Call for Inaction

A cranky introvert expounds on the drunken uncle of holidays

by Glenda Koh

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Typical introvert?

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But for many adults — and I speak for myself, my alter ego, and my secret identity —Halloween is just the drunk uncle of the holiday family, smacking its backside at its earnest kid sister, Thanksgiving, and thumbing its nose at everybody’s favourite

child, Christmas.

There are as many reasons to dislike Halloween as there are plastic lawn ornaments in WalMart — the obesity epidemic, the preschool princess obsession, the door-to-door begging. But those are all garden-variety complaints that dissolve once your children turn nine or 10 years old.

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veuillez prendre note que, conformément à l’article 73 du Règlement de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon et étant convaincu que, conformément au Règlement, l’intérêt public commande que la chambre se réunisse, je désigne la journée du jeudi 31 octobre 2013, à 13 h 00, dans la chambre de l’Assemblée législative du Yukon, à Whitehorse, au Yukon, pour la tenue d’une telle réunion, afin que celle-ci poursuive ses travaux comme si elle avait été dûment ajournée à ce moment.

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Halloween’s real problem is that it’s a holiday that appeals solely to extroverts. Resolute extroverts.

If you’re even on the border of introversion, the extra effort required by Halloween puts you solidly over the line into gee-I-feel-a sore-throat-coming-on-let’s-seewhat’s-on-Netflix territory.

Do introverts like to drink too much and act silly? Absolutely. Do they want to do it while dressed like a French maid? No. Do they want to get off the sofa 30 times in one night to open the door and tell someone else’s kid how cute they look? No. Do they want to be the only person at their office meeting dressed in a full clown costume while everyone else is wearing corporate grey (not that I’m speaking from personal experience)?

No! Halloween parties become a self-perpetuating myth. Because they attract extroverts behaving outrageously, they become legendary shindigs that people talk about for years.

The poor introverts then think they’d better not miss out on the party of the year and delude themselves into thinking it would be a grand idea to dress like a minor character from a Shakespearean

play and spend their entire evening trying to explain why they’re carrying a coconut and an empty bottle around.

So here is my call for inaction to the introverts of the world: Let those outgoing vampire-lovers have their fun. On October 31, you sit down with your door locked, lights off, and a bowl full of mini Coffee Crisps.

Ridding the world of Honey Boo Boo costumes is a responsibility we must all share, but we don’t have to do it together.

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egular readers might know me as a generally cranky person, not likely to give out candy freely at any time of year. Today, I will not prove you wrong.

The percentage of adults that enjoy Halloween is roughly equivalent to that of co-workers who enjoy staff meetings; there’s the one eager person who likes to hear himself talk and then there’s everyone else, who show up to take a break from playing Candy Crush and to be on hand in case anyone snaps and tells Mr. TalkyPants to shut up.

Granted, Halloween is widely loved by most children. Small children are awed that, for the mere effort of putting on a cape and mumbling “trick or treat,” candy will rain down upon them like manna from heaven.

Candy is not such a thrill for older kids, but Halloween is still a welcome break from the monotony of high school. If appearing in the cafeteria dressed as a zombie isn’t your cup of tea, there’s always the chance that, as with staff meetings, someone else will say or do something outrageous that you can talk about later.

So, Halloween does have its virtues.

My friend Jill likes going to the parties and seeing which grown woman is dressed like Tinkerbell, and which guy is getting a little too serious about his sexy librarian costume. There are so few publicly endorsed opportunities to channel one’s secret identity.

The jack o’ lanterns can be awesome too. Who could fail to be impressed by a lifelike Steve Jobs carved into a pumpkin?

Still, every time I see two triangle eyes and a circle nose, the environmentalist in me mourns

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Hands: A Short Story Designed to Creep You Out

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was in the shower right before the first incident occurred.

I stood beneath the warm stream of water, allowing it to rinse away the unpleasant memories of another terrible day when the bathroom lights began to flicker on and off, threatening to burn out for good.

I briefly remembered the last time I had been stuck in the shower during a power outage. Temporarily struck blind by the sudden lack of fluorescent lighting, I slipped

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while getting out of the shower stall and struck my head against the toilet with a magnificent thud.

It wasn’t a pleasant experience.

Hoping to avoid a reenactment of that dire scenario, I quickly stepped out of the shower and toweled myself off. Once dry, I left the small confines of the bathroom and entered the adjacent bedroom where a clean set of clothes was waiting on the bed for me. I donned the apparel and went out to the living room.

It was then that the lights flickered once more before finally giving in and going out, plunging the entire apartment into sightless black.

Momentarily disoriented, I stood in one spot like a moron, desperately trying to adjust my eyesight to the lack of light in order to keep the darkness from

completely swallowing up my vision. It took about a minute for my eyes to adjust to the dark.

In those moments, I was far more frightened than I’d care to admit. An irrational fear of the dark had always plagued me, but it was something I had forced myself to overcome on many previous occasions. This was not one of them.

But in this instance, it would appear that for the first time in my life, the fear was entirely justified. For it was then, in that brief moment of relief after managing to adjust my sight to that of my darkened environment, that I felt the grim grasp of a cold, clammy hand clamping down on my right shoulder.

If I was afraid before, I was tenfold now, ... To find out what happens next, go to www.WhatsUpYukon.com

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Ace snow sculptor and Hallowe’en enthusiast Don Watt submitted this still life.

Do It Again

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his story may not be outright terrifying or jump-outof-your-seat scary, but it is true and it’s something I have never been able to properly explain. Whenever I think of that night, my chest tightens a bit and I’m vaguely grateful that I no longer live in that house.

The house is the left unit in a side-by-side duplex. One door functions as entrance and exit. A keyed deadbolt means that you have to have a house key to open or lock the door. We lived there for about three years, with minimal trouble. We would explain away the occasional knocks and noises as the neighbours on the other side of the shared wall. The train track close by also acted as scapegoat in a pinch for some of the stranger noises. However, neither excuse could acceptably account for what happened on the night in question.

One evening shortly after Christmas, I am alone in the house, the family having gone out post-holiday shopping for a few hours. It’s been a day of taking down decorations and inspecting the new gifts, and I decide to enjoy a can of imported beer that I received as a gift a few days before (just let me say here that this was going to be my first drink of the evening, so my mind was

clear). I pour the beer into a glass and let it settle. As I wait, I’m standing in the living room, and as such, am in between the kitchen and the front door, which again, is the only access to the house.

After a few minutes, I return to the kitchen to pick up the beer and stop in my tracks. Sticking out of the dark black ale is a brightly coloured red and white candy cane. I look around, already knowing that no one else is here. Slowly, I take out the candy cane and set it on the counter.

“Do it again,” I challenge.

Nothing. Wait. Nothing. Slowly I leave the room, and return to the living room. Wait. Return to the kitchen. Candy cane…is… back…in...the…glass.

I search the house, going from room to room. I know no one is there, at least no one I can see.

Door is locked, key is in its usual spot. I am, for all intents and purposes, alone. Unnerved, I return to the kitchen and again remove the candy cane. Tasting the beer, there is a slight peppermint taste.

Not entirely unpleasant, but enough of a presence that every sip reminds me why it tastes that way. The beer goes down the sink. I go into the living room and wait for my family to come home.

For the rest of the time we lived in that house, the noises continued. Nothing so mysterious as the candy cane ever happened again, but I was never so quick to blame the knocks and bumps on the neighbours or trains.

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t’s easy to think of a spooky story when the Yukon is full of ghosts. I’ve experienced many, and this is a true story.

For three and a half years I lived in an old cabin on one of the oldest placer mines in the Yukon, located at the headwaters of the Yukon River. I moved in there with a roommate but he only ended up staying for a week, as it was not long before our home became eerily uncomfortable. It was clear that we were not the only residents.

Soon after we settled in, my brother, who also lived on the mine, had a bonfire with a party of friends.

At one point a group of us went off to explore the abandoned mine site. Hidden in a thicket of willow we discovered an old vertical mineshaft. We each took turns

climbing up a rickety old ladder to get a glimpse down the creepy shaft that descended into darkness. It was so spooky we even joked about what dark events might have happened there in the past.

As we turned away from the shaft to carry on our hike, a warm, clammy breeze blew up from out of the mineshaft. It turned into a mini-tornado and spun between the group of us, lifting leaves off the ground and whirling dust about. All of us felt the hairs rise up on our skin, and goose bumps.

Frightfully, we quickly ended our tour and hurried back to join the rest of the party.

On our way back, down the same trail we came, we somehow got lost. We became confused and started to panic.

“How can we be lost?” one of us asked.

“I can’t hear the party anymore” said another. “Oh my god, let’s turn around!”

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Celebrating Death

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by Aimée Dawn Robinson roots as far back as the ancient Egypt. The sixday Egyptian festival Isia honoured the death and rebirth of the corn god Osiris. Features of Samhain such as ghosts, masks, bonfires, and sweets, all have roots in the festival of Isia, and continue to this day in Hallowe’en.

“Here it is, the tobacco. I am certain that you, O ghost, are not very far away, that you are in fact, standing right in back of me, waiting to reach for the pipe and tobacco, that you might take it along with you, that you are likewise waiting for your food to take on your journey.”

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t’s that time of year again. The nights are getting longer; darkness is gathering momentum. Harvest has just passed and the berry pickings are slim. Another cycle is coming to an end.

In the Tlingit language Dís Tlein (Big Moon) is similar to October in the Gregorian calendar, according to the book Tlingit Moon and Tide Teaching Resource

by Dolly A. Garza.

The moon is “big” because it’s the time when people with abundant supplies return to the village, and animals are fat. November, in the Gregorian calendar, is Kukahaa Dís in Tlingit (Scraping Moon), because animals are preparing their winter dens by scraping and digging.

In Western astrology, at this time of year, the Sun enters the zodiac sign Scorpio. Scorpio rules death, secrets, intimacy, and transformation: symbols that also relate to digging into the earth, into the dark, into shadow.

During this shadowy time at the end of October and early November, death is celebrated and contemplated in cultures worldwide.

To appease spirits and ancestors, feasts and parades are prepared for the dead.

In Mexico, during Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) candy skulls, marigolds, and sweets are offered to the spirits of the dead.

Picnics featuring cookies shaped like skeletons are hosted in graveyards.

In Japan, I celebrated the Bon festival in a mountain hamlet. Children made offerings to the spirits of the ancestors out of vegetables, and placed their veggie-and-toothpick creations on the family altar for three days.

This allowed the spirits of ancestors to occupy the offerings. Then the children released the animalshaped vegetable into the river.

They floated down river, taking the sprits with them.

During Bon, the spirits are asked to visit, then sent away with purpose. Likewise, the prayer quoted above can be paraphrased as “please scary beings, kindly take the booty and leave us unharmed.”

Hallowe’en originally shared this purpose. Hallowe’en symbols and traditions have roots in Samhain (pronounced sah-win), the most significant holiday of the Celtic calendar, which revolves around eight major seasonal festivals corresponding to the solstices

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Pumpkins have replaced turnips as the vegetable of choice for making a good lantern to keep spirits away.

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For example, Yule influenced Christmas, and Easter has roots in Ostara.

The Celts counted days differently than farmers, because they herded sheep and cattle. Samhain was the day when pastured livestock came home. It was also the first day of winter and the first day of the new year. At this point of annual transition, Lord Samhain, Lord of Death, was believed to release ghosts, ghouls, fairies, goblins, and evil spirits into the world. The safer, beloved spirits of ancestors were also present.

Appeasing the spirits and Lord Samhain was an elaborate process.

During Samhain, stone tombs were opened to release spirits.

Animal sacrifices, sweet foods (Hallowe’en toffee, anyone?), feasts, parades, and gifts were offered to the spirits.

Fire was key in Samhain ceremonies. Blazing bonfires kept away ghosts. Today’s jack-o’-lanterns come from the practice of making lanterns from turnips to light and guide the deceased back to the other world.

Disguise is also a good way to fool ghosts. The Celts wore masks and costumes imitating the appearance of the spirits. The theory was that by flattering the ghouls with imitation they’d leave the living alone.

This kind of artful foolery is ancient. Celtic Samhain rituals have

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