What's Up Yukon - September 19, 2013

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t’s happening. Right now.

I’m sitting on a high stool in my kitchen, propping my torso up with my elbows. The oven is humming away at 425°F, emitting the quenching aroma of melting cheese.

In mere minutes it will be sitting on a cutting board in front of me, cut into quarters — begging to be consumed. I will oblige it.

It is a Dr. Oetker thin crust Pizza Funghi. It will be the best thing I’ve eaten all day.

In a culture that has come to increasingly fetishize food, this is an uncomfortable confession: the frozen foods section of the Qwanlin “Mall” Shoppers Drug Mart remains a staple of my grocery shopping routine.

It’s the deals that keep me coming back.

Once, Lean Cuisine lasagna was on sale for approximately half price. I found a shopping basket and filled it to the brim. Yes, I did get sick of lasagna.

And while the half-price pasta was a score to be sure, nothing delight’s this frozen food connoisseur like seeing Dr. Oetker’s thin crust pizzas marked down from their usual $6.99 to a more reasonable $3.99.

In such a situation it is rare for me to buy less than four and it is not unheard of for me to wobble my way to the check out till with a dozen — stacked up like the Leaning Tower of Pizza (couldn’t resist).

Somehow Dr. Oetker — I don’t know who he is or where he is from, but I’m sure he got his PhD in Pizza Studies — has created a pie that transcends our expectations of what a frozen food product can be.

Cheese on the roof of the mouth is the first sensation — a warm wave of lactose.

The tongue sifts through the flotsam to locate the toppings (in this case mushrooms, but spinach is also very good) and press them together with the mozzarella and whatever shards of crust find themselves pulled by the tide.

Each bite is not so much a taste

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Dr. Oetker transcends our expectations of what a frozen food product can be. explosion as an engulfment — less of a firecracker, more of a warm bath on a winter’s night.

of these constituent parts illustrates that the mundane and the magical may be separated by a very thin line.

It was my folks that introduced me to Dr. Oetker, and that is perhaps the greatest compliment of all. My parents’ culinary sensibilities have evolved from the perogy-Mondays of my youth — a very beige plate, indeed — to feasts of risotto and juniperinfused salmon.

Wisely, they have all but forsaken pre-made, frozen foods.

There is only one exception to this regiment.

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The tongue sifts through the flotsam to locate the toppings...

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September 19, 2013

Seeing the Yukon Through Artists’ Eyes

John Boivin, Rosemary Piper and Sally Sheppard exhibit landscapes at Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery

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hen painters look at rocks, they see colours like purple, yellow, pink, and red. Colours that seem like not-rock-colours to the rest of us.

And when we check out their paintings on the wall, we still might only see “rocks” — we may not notice that the rocks are painted with purple, yellow, pink, and red in there.

Artists are on a different trip than us, connecting with rocks and leaves and dirt and sky in a different way.

There’s a new exhibition that shows us how Whitehorse artists John Boivin, Rosemary Piper and Sally Sheppard see the natural world around us.

From a close-up look at petals of lichen recreated with fab-

ric, to an study of beaver-gnawed stumps painted with acrylics, to a macro view of a mountainscape created with gem-tone drops of watercolour, the three artists offer artwork forged by connections with the Yukon landscape.

Aptly, the show is called Connections, and it is on right now at the Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery.

“By painting the world, it’s understanding the world,” Boivin says. “I came across a quote in a science fiction book by Randy Rucker three years ago. It said ‘Art is the way of knowing what you don’t.’

“It just struck me, because for me, it’s the way sand dunes curve, water will flow, leaves will grow in succession as the seasons progress, a river will wind, and light will play on the ground. So for me,

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Boivin’s collection in the show is a set of acrylic paintings on canvas and board that he began in April.

He sank into the beauty around the Millennium Trail and painted there on location day-after-day.

He’s set his sight on landscapes as close-up as the ground itself, as well as a foot above ground (beaver stumps), all the way up to the top of the tallest trees — an exercise in seeing.

“I spent most of the summer finding tiny little spots of beauty and painting them,” Boivin says.

“Sometimes I painted places that I had passed by 100 times before.”

Connections features approximately 40 pieces of art, and reveals the three artists’ ability to capture emotional depth. Lichen and mountainsides and stumps are not emotional things, normally.

But the way these artists recreate them — the colour choices, the textures, the details — it’s like the magnitude of nature is the real subject here.

Rosemary Piper is conscious of the power of nature as she chooses painting locations. And she finds that she brings a different perspective to what she sees around her. This became clear while hik-

ing along a riverbed near Kluane Lake this summer. In front of her was a 15-foot culvert, and behind here was a towering mountain.

“I became aware of the sound of rocks moving through the culvert and I realized that the mountain is becoming these rocks, and eventually they’ll become sand,” Piper says. “Having hiked with many people, they don’t see what I see. We (artists) take that in. It’s almost like a rapport with it.”

Piper has 20 pieces in the show, ranging from some 7 by 9 inch watercolour landscapes, to 3 by 2 foot acrylic landscapes on canvas — and one encaustic landscape too.

Sally Sheppard is showing five fibre artworks, including threedimensional images of lichen and several art pieces that look like paintings, but were actually created with thread sewed onto fabric. This may be one of the last chances to snap up a piece of art by Sheppard, as she has just moved out of the territory.

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The show is on exhibit at the Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery until Oct. 2. The gallery is located at 120 Industrial Rd. in Whitehorse, and is open every day from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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September 19, 2013

Conversation With Colleen Murphy

A Canadian playwright experiences the North while based at the Berton House

by Roslyn Woodcock Pickton murders and will soon be playing in Edmonton.

This summer Colleen Murphy, who lives in Toronto, was the writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City.

“Pierre Berton has left a fine legacy in Berton House which is very important to writers in Canada,” she says. “My time here has allowed me to get a huge chunk of work done on a couple of plays.

It breaks my heart to think I am leaving next week, but I have a feeling I will be back.”

Before she leaves, she’ll be reading from her work and discussing playwriting on Sept. 18 at the Dawson City Community Library and on Sept. 19 at the Whitehorse Public Library.

I sat down with her for a further discussion about her time in Dawson City.

PHOTO: courtesy of Colleen Murphy

This summer’s writer in residence in Dawson City, Colleen Murphy, will do a reading and discuss drama at the libraries in Dawson and Whitehorse, on Sept. 18 and 19.

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f you are susceptible to the perception that we are a country of people who play it safe; Colleen Murphy is the kind of person who reminds us that Canadian’s can be cool.

Her life is anything but normal and she’s artistic to boot. She has created films, written books and plays, and she even has an opera

under her belt.

She has two new plays that are premiering this year: Armstrong’s War and Pig Girl. Armstrong’s War is about an unlikely friendship that develops between an Afghanistan war vet and a 12-yearold Girl Guide. It will soon be in production in Vancouver. Pig Girl is loosely based on the Robert

RW: I’m surprised you got anything done – the weather this summer was amazing.

CM: It was an amazing summer, amazing weather. I did head up the Dempster. We camped at Rock River and went to the Arctic Circle. I also got a chance to travel the Top of the World Highway.

Being on the ground in the North is profound. It allows for a mindbody experience that has given me a much richer perspective of what the North means and this will affect my work.

RW: You must travel around a lot in your line of work. Was this your first time up North?

CM: Actually I grew up in a small northern town in Ontario and I have been to Whitehorse before.

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September 19, 2013

Syphilis Spreads like Wildfire

Peter Jickling’s Play Syphilis: A Love Story wins comedy award at fringe festival

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

PHOTO: courtesy of Justine Davidson

The Cast of Syphilis: A Love Story from left to right: George Maratos, Justine Davidson, Phillip Nugent and Mary Sloan

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t’s difficult to resist making puns about the title of the award-winning play Syphilis: A Love Story by Whitehorse playwright, and What’s Up Yukon assistant editor, Peter Jickling.

Jokes like, “I caught syphilis at the Guild Hall last week,” or, “I caught syphilis with your mom.”

Or how about, “I wanted to catch syphilis, but the line-up was too long.” Okay, I have the venereal disease out of my system now.

Ahem.

Seriously, Syphilis: A Love Story met with great success on tour this summer at the Fifth Annual Gabriola Theatre Festival and the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival.

Playing to sold-out audiences, the play won Best Comedy Award in Victoria.

Critics took notice of the allYukon cast: George Maratos, Justine Davidson, Mary Sloan, and Phillip Nugent (currently living in Edmonton). Theatre writer Erin Anderson wrote for the BC online publication CVV Magazine about the Victoria performances that, “Not every show with a great title and original premise delivers on its promise, but Syphilis: A Love Story definitely does. Sharply drawn characters, talented actors

What’s Up Yukon’s Assistant Editor Peter Jickling has achieved success with his first play, winning best comedy award at the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival.

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and a supremely polished script make an entertaining and intelligent piece of theatre.”

For those who haven’t yet caught the bug, here’s a brief synopsis of the play. The main character is Vaughn Fischer, described in the script as, “A struggling writer. Idealistic. Talented, but pretentious. Once well-adjusted, now anti-social.” Fischer is contracted to write a public health pamphlet about syphilis. Obsessed with turning the pamphlet into a masterpiece while slipping into misanthropic solitude, Fischer gets tough love from his friend, fellow writer Howard Gunn. Gunn encourages cunningly sweet Lynn Flynn to pretend to have syphilis to attract Fischer’s affections.

Through a series of unexpected plot twists, real romance ensues.

It takes an inventive mind to create a play such as Syphilis: A Love Story. A mind like Jickling’s.

I spoke with Jickling about his sharply funny play upon his return from the BC tour. Turns out he wrote the first draft during the 2009 Nakai Theatre’s 24-Hour Playwriting Competition.

“I took a playwriting class when I was at University of Lethbridge,” Jickling says. “I wrote a similar plotline about a struggling writer writing a health pamphlet and it was well received by my classmates. Five years later, I remembered that idea at the 24Hour Playwriting Competition.”

After the 24-Hour experience, and further developing the play in 2009, the play was given a staged reading at Nakai Theatre’s 2010 Homegrown festival. In the spring of 2011, Whitehorse audiences saw the first full-scale production at the Guild Hall, and a further edited version in the summer of 2012.

“There are moments when I pinch myself,” Jickling says. “In Victoria, from inside the dark tech booth, I saw 80 people who I don’t know filing into the theatre to see the show. I realized I’ve come a long way in the journey.”

A humble guy, Jickling is quick to give credit to the creative team who has been with Syphilis since the beginning. He worked with dramaturges, who are people

who foster play development by asking creative questions about the work, Nakai Theatre Artistic Director David Skelton, and Vancouver-based theatre artist DD Kugler. Jickling also spoke highly of the play’s original director, Whitehorse’s Ramshackle Theatre Artistic Director Brian Fidler, and praised each cast member for bringing “commitment, enthusiasm, and energy to the play”.

Surely these qualities and dedication are reflected by Jickling’s own approach to creating theatre.

“One of the things I have learned is that you don’t need anything special to write a play, you just have to keep working at it,” Jickling says. “There is not necessarily a trick to writing something. It’s a lot of grunt work, not just flashes of light and epiphanies. Woody Allen once said that 90 per cent of success is just showing up. I say just keep working at it and you will get where you need to go.”

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

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until Tue, Sep 24 LAFY Art Exhibition Centre De La Francophonie Genevieve Gagnon 668-2663, ext 850 Visit our Community Hall to discover the artworks which normally grace the walls and offices of the Centre. until Sat, Sep 28 Art Exhibition :Hybrid Arts Underground By Amber Walker, Ange Bonnici and Candice Ball. until Sat, Sep 28 Connecting Spaces

By Lawrie Crawford All Day Gallery 22 Connecting space is Lawrie?s most recent show with all new work. until Mon, Sep 30 The Social Life of the S.S. Klondike, 1938-40 MacBride Museum . until Mon, Sep 30 Facing North North End Gallery Artists: Manu Keggenhoff, Peter Mather, Peter Von Gaza, Robert Postma until Thu, Oct 31 The History Behind the Street Names in Downtown Whitehorse Arts Underground Paved with Stories.Current OffSite Exhibit of the MacBride Museum. until Sat, Nov 16 Gallery featuring Ken Anderson, James Nizam, & Yam Lauln All Day Yukon Arts Centre At the Public Art Gallery.

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Sun, Sep 22 Available Light Cinema: Terms and Conditions May Apply 6:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre This chilling doc investigates what governments and corporations are doing with your ‘personal’ information in your digital life.

Sun, Sep 22 Available Light Cinema: Upstream Colour 9:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre In this sci-fi thriller, a woman is drugged with a foreign body that renders her intensely sensitive to the rhythms of the natural world.

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at 6pm 2011 Juno award winning vocalist has a Underground, 667-2159. Clay is available for Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier Thu, Sep 19 A Conversation About Drama ‘stunning crystalline voice’ says Jazz Times. purchase. Equipment and tools are provided.

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15 Whitehorse Public Library Followed by Colleen Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ Ceramic Open-Studio 2:30 PM Arts Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat Murphy’s public reading at 7:30 p.m. country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western Underground 6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School Sat, Sep 21 Professional Development/ swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca

Glorious Birds 12:00 PM Arts Underground suits Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, The art of scientific illustration.Instructor: Thu, Sep 19 Yukon Jack - Premier Country School 867-668-4794 between the ages of 633-3729 Free Hot Lunch for Women (children Misha Donahue.

9:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon .

10 - 14 welcome) Sat, Sep 21 Wishmaker Walk For Wishes Fri, Sep 20 YWIM Concert 7:30 PM Centre 10:00 AM to register, 11:00 AM Start Rotary Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public De La Francophonie In French - Nicole Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray Edwards, Kim Beggs, Helene Beaulieu, Selina Peace Park Post Walk Celebration includes Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Rec Mtn Road Range officers on duty Heyligers-Hare, Kim Melton, Sylvie Painchaud BBQ, kids games, silent auction and more.

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Fri, Sep 20 Barb Chamberlin 8:00 PM Epic Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins Sun, Sep 22 Full Moon Festival 12:00 AM Free English Conversation Group 302 Pizza .

School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Strickland St., lower level. 668-5907. Bring Fri, Sep 20 The Derral Gleason Trio 9:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Presented by the Yukon BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Dance Festival Society. your own lunch Jarvis Street Saloon .

Sun, Sep 22 Autumn Moon Festival 4:00 PM Bingo (Regular Games) 5:00 PM at Elks Hall Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders Fri, Sep 20 Buster Dam 9:00 PM Gold Pan 5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Old Fire Hall For the whole family: a harvest Whitehorse Curling Club, 667-2875 Saloon .

Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ festival in the Asian tradition with lanterns, Potluck Food Co-op - Info-Market 4:00 PM Fri, Sep 20 CJUC 92.5 FM COMMUINTY snowboardyukon,com Registration required.

RADIO: new transmitter fundraiser 9:00 PM moon cakes, dance performances, and moon 5th Ave, between Wood St. and Jarvis St. Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games legends.

Paddy’s place Centre Sat, Sep 21 Musica Intima Classically Yours Tue, Sep 24 Brave New Words 7:00 PM Rah AfterShock Youth Group 7:00 PM Church of Rah Gallery Brave New Words Spoken word 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Musica Intima FREE DROP IN at Yukon Family Literacy the Nazarene 633-4903 Ages 12 to 18 and Freestyle Poetry is Canada’s most exciting vocal chamber Centre Mon-Fri Noon - 3:00 PM, Sat, Sep 28 Free Driver’s License Exam ensemble.

Mon-Wed 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sat 10:00 Preparation Course 9:00 AM Multicultural Sat, Sep 21 KellyLee Evans Trio : Jazz on AM - 3:00 PM (2nd Floor of Canada Games Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Youth Centre of the Yukon Janet Pauch / 667-4733 the Wing 8:00 PM Odd Fellows’ Ballroom Centre) Colleen/Stephanie 668-8698 Free Chef Night we teach recipes for healthy food Come see Juno award-winning artist KellyLee Call to register. family learning fun! from scratch. Ages 11-18. 6209 - 6th Avenue, Sat, Sep 28 Professional Development/ perform live.

393-2824 Thu, Sep 26 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Beautiful Insects 12:00 PM Arts Underground Fencing for Youth and Adults 10:00 AM at The art of scientific illustration.Instructor: Tony’s Pizza .

Learning Together Program 9:30 AM Takhini Elementary

Misha Donohue.

Thu, Sep 26 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old.

MonGirls Club 12:00 PM Victoria Faulkner Sun, Sep 29 Whitehorse Walk for ALS Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 open to Thurs 667-3006 Women’s Centre All ladies between the ages 12:00 PM Shipyards Park Walk Coordinator: anyone who wants to play or sing together of 12 and 18 are welcome to come.

Donald C Watt / Phone: 867-332-3669 / Email: Thu, Sep 26 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Yukon R/C 3:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary whitehorsewalk@alsbc.ca Join us as we Walk Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 School Bring your R/C and meet other hobby for ALS and raise funds for Patient Services country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. enthusiast and Research into the cause of and cure for swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games ALS. suits Tumble Time Playgroup 9:30 AM at Centre Fri, Sep 27 Sweatshop Union 8:00 PM Jarvis Riverdale Baptist Church Kathy 668-7273 or Street Saloon 668-4567 .

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Fri, Sep 27 Greame Peters 8:00 PM Epic Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins Pizza .

(Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Fri, Sep 27 Annie Avery and George Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Trampoline Training for Snowboarders McConkey 8:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon .

Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier Free Lunches 11:30 AM at Victoria Faulkner 7:00 PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head Sun, Sep 29 Kim Barlow Send Off Concert School 867-668-4794 between the ages of Women’s Centre Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 Improve 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Center 10 14 French : Zumba or / Zumba Gold 12:00 PM your snowboarding under the supervision Centre De La Francophonie 668-2663 of trained coaches. Two Levels available for Spanish Conversation 12:00 PM Golden Age snowboarders ages 10+ Young Explorers Preschool Program 10:00 Society. ¡Bienvenidos!

Trampoline for Snowboarders 7:00 AM at MacBride Museum Whitehorse String Ensemble rehearsal 6:15 PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head PM at Hellaby Hall, 668-5530. New members Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ welcome. Violin, viola, cello and bass snowboardyukon.com Registration Required Sunday School 10:00 AM at Christ Church Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza Texas Hold ‘em 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Cathedral, 668-5530

Royal Canadian Legion. Steven Grossinger Peggy 668-7448 goes till we are done!

Polarettes Family Drop-in 2:00 PM at Vanier School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 Royal Canadian Legion - Texas Hold ‘em Jamaoke with Ashley & Jackie 8:30 PM School, 867-668-4794. Enjoy a fun afternoon Tournament. free poker tournament, all skill Jarvis Street Saloon of gymnastics experience levels welcome. Training available from 6-6:30 Toddler Church Service 9:30 a.m.

Kids After-School Programs/Hand PM – Building with Clay 3:30 PM Arts Whitehorse United Church, 601 Main Street.

Open Studio for Adults/Acrylic Painting Underground Instructor: Marlene Collins. 6 Stories, songs, snacks provided and prayers Thursday Night Jam 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub sessions.

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Hiroshikai Judo Club 5:00 PM at Holy Family School, judoyukon@gmail.com Ages under 15 551 Whitehorse Air Cadets 6:30 PM Youth Shooting Program 7:00 PM Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Introductory Open House and sign-up for Youth ages 10-19 years. Parental permission required.

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

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Seniors Qigong and Yang Family Style 16 Movement Hand Form 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Jo-Ann Gates 667-4531 jowho2u@ gmail.com These qigong and tai chi exercises help with relaxation, flexibility, balance and strength.

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Meetings

Wed, Sep 18 Yukon Civil Liberties Society AGM 5:00 PM Salvation Army chapel building Guest speaker Donna Gilkes Vancouver Urban Farming project.

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

Wed, Sep 18 Big Brother Big Sister Of Yukon AGM 6:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library Harold Sher 668-7911 At the meeting room.

Thu, Sep 19 Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition’s Meeting 5:00 PM 7:00 PM CYO Hall Everyone welcome.

Sat, Sep 21 Special Olympics Yukon AGM 12:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School In the multi-purpose room.

Mon, Sep 23 Golden Age Society AG & SM 1:30 PM Golden Age Society For discussion constitution and bylaws, all members please attend.

Mon, Sep 23 Catholic Education Association Yukon and Catholic School Councils AGM 7:00 PM Vanier Catholic Secondary School, .

Tue, Sep 24 The Yukon Curling Association AGM 6:00 PM Yukon Curling Association .

Tue, Sep 24 Air Cadets Assembly 6:15 PM 9:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary School Capt.

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

Tue, Sep 24 Sportslife Last Gasp & AGM 7:00 PM Sport Yukon In the boardroom.

Tue, Sep 24 Amnesty International Action Circle, 7:00 PM 9:00 PM United Church Upstairs. Letter writing to protect and promote human rights worldwide.

Wed, Sep 25 Yukon Residential Landlords Association AGM 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library .

Wed, Sep 25 YEU Local Y017 (Yukon Government) monthly Executive meeting 7:30 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Thu, Sep 26 Living with Loss 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library This presentation explains the grief cycle that we go through with any kind of loss.

Fri, Sep 27 Yukon Women in Music’s AGM (YWIM) 5:30 PM 6:30 PM Westmark Whitehorse Call for board members, volunteer to help with a concert, or be involved with another of our projects. Snacks are provided.

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Seeking Beervana with Lara Lewis

How Pure is Your Beer?

T here are the purists who believe beer should be simple.

The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, the famous Reinheitsgebot, stated that beer could only be made with water, malt (malted barley or malted wheat) and hops.

Louis Pasteur wouldn’t discover yeast for a few hundred years.

Some suggest the Reinheitsgebot was just designed to ensure nobles, who owned the barley fields, had a dedicated market for their crops. The less jaded believe the law actually was decreed to keep questionable-but-readilyavailable ingredients like roots, berries and animal products out of beer.

German brewers still generally abide by the law for domestic lagers, though less so for exports.

But you can still see the phrase “brewed according to the Bavarian Purity Law” on some beers exported to North America.

Germany had a tightly controlled domestic market until 1987

when a court ruling decreed such control a trade barrier. This allowed nonReinheitsgebot foreign beers into the country.

Even today, there is passionate discourse arguing both for and against the Reinheitsgebot.

Many Canadian and American craft breweries have embraced the spirit of the Reinheitsgebot to honour brewing tradition and distinguish themselves from big brewing companies.

The macro-brewers have figured out how to make really cheap beer through extensive use of corn and rice. The problem with these adjuncts is that you lose all the beeriness of beer — which includes a nice foamy head, a beery mouth feel and colour, and the taste of malt.

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Becks is one German beer brewed under the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516.

mate these attributes.

They also severely reduce the hops and filter all the yeast out. Both hops and the presence of yeast in beer lead to a longer shelf life, forcing these macro-brewers to add preservatives.

The alcohol industry is a powerful lobbying force. In Canada, they have managed to avoid food labelling. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, alcoholic beverages with more than 0.5 percent alcohol-byvolume are exempt from showing a Nutrition Facts table, unless they make nutritional claims or contain artificial sweeteners.

This can be a nightmare for someone with an allergy to figure out that, say, it’s the propylene glycol alginate anti-foaming agent in beer that is causing their recurring rash.

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Even some traditional beers contain questionable additives.

Newcastle Brown from England uses caramel colouring in their beer to give it that lovely burnt orange-brown hue. The word caramel is deceiving because it refers to the colour, not the flavour. In this case the caramel colour is created by reacting sugars with ammonia or sulphites under high pressure and temperatures.

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This is one of the reasons I drink craft beers.

Many craftbrewers willingly list all the ingredients in their beers so I know that the most toxic ingredient in the beer is likely the alcohol itself.

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Art Community Government will display the eight new additions to the Permanent Art Collection on Sept. 27

by Roslyn Woodcock

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id you know that the funky little metal house in Shipyards Park, the black one with the raven that your kids are always playing in, is part of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection?

The collection, which now boasts over 350 pieces, has art in public places all over the Yukon, and like “Raven’s House” by Alyx Jones, many of them are kind of unexpected.

There are obvious pieces like Ted Harrison’s “My Yukon” at the Department of Education, but there is also unpredictable art like “The Conversation” (the big bodied lawyers in front of the law building) and the newly purchased “Han Singing Doll” by Dolores Scheffen, which you will be able to

see on Sept. 27.

Along with “Han Singing Doll,” seven other pieces were added to the collection this year through an annual contribution of $25,000 by the Yukon Government.

“Each year the chosen art reflects what is happening in the art community at the time,” says Garnet Muething, art curator for Yukon Government. Given that the new additions are in a variety of mediums from fibre and beads to painting and carving it seems that the community is thriving.

The vivid “Winter’s Beard” by Suzanne Paleczny is a familiar snapshot of snowy weekend adventures in the Yukon, but summer and fall are also beautifully expressed in “Ghosts of the Forest” by Simon Gilpin

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“Winter Beard” by Suzanne Paleczny.

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“Sea to Mountain Trade Route Travellers Robe and Woven Hat” by Heather Callaghan. and “Mt. McDonald, Snake River, Yukon” by Stephanie Ryan.

Heather Callaghan’s “Sea to Mountain Trade Route Traveler’s Robe and Woven Hat” provides a glimpse into the territory’s past while similarities to the East coast are explored in Joyce Majiski’s “The Lobster Trap.”

The Yukon Government’s contribution is managed by “Friends of the Gallery,” the non-profit organization that first created the collection in 1981.

Muething notes that, “submissions must have a tie to the North and a resonance for the Yukon but need not be created by a Yukoner to be considered.”

For her part, Muething, whose curiosity drew her to the Yukon nine years ago, is looking forward to installing the acquisitions for the upcoming exhibition of the new works.

“Installation is the best part of my job,” she says. “I love interacting with the public as they see the pieces.”

The exhibit to introduce

the new works opens on Friday, Sept. 27 in the lobby of the Main Administrative Building of the Yukon Government.

Some pieces in the collection are displayed permanently, but many pieces are rotated regularly around public places in the Yukon.

Next time you are in a government building take a minute to look at the art around you. And If you just can’t wait to see the new additions, you can get a sneak peek on the Yukon Government website, http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/arts and click on “Permanent Art Collection.”

Roslyn Woodcock would support the arts if she had any money, but she is open to trades and she makes a mean apple butter.

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A Klondike Korner with Dan Davidson

The Sourtoe Cocktail: A Popular Gag T

he Sourtoe Cocktail gets a mixed reception in the world abroad.

Thousands of people have touched their lips to Captain Dick Stevenson’s inventive libation and have swallowed the notion that it is part of Dawson’s quaint charm. A few have gone further and swallowed the toe itself, and that’s exactly what happened recently.

The news of the swallowing flooded Facebook, was shared from the CBC report (complete with video) and reached me on vacation in Terrace, BC. The Downtown Hotel couldn’t have asked for better free worldwide advertising.

I haven’t done the Toe, though Captain Dick did offer me a freebee when I interviewed him back in the spring of 1986.

I don’t drink alcohol and putting the desiccated digit in a shot glass of 7-UP just wasn’t kosher.

The rules have changed, but I’ve never had a desire to take up the glass, having looked at too many of the toes over the years.

Even in 1986, it wasn’t the original toe, which Dick found in an old miner’s cabin. The nasty looking things have been swallowed, stolen and accidentally thrown away during the clean-up shift in the bar – and replaced by donations from people who have lost toes to lawnmowers, axes, frostbite and other mishaps.

The Sourtoe has inspired art.

Last year a Dawson newbie, Adonika Clark, was so caught up with things Klondike that she made a casting of her own big toe and had a late December exhibition called “I Offer You My Toe” at the ODD Gallery. There were hundreds of toes covering the floor. Then she went door to door and gave toes to every resident in town. Three are sitting on a shelf at our house.

It has inspired literature.

American journalist Ron Franscell produced a memoir called The Sourtoe Cocktail Club, all about the journey he and his estranged son — from his broken marriage — took to Dawson City to seek out and taste the Toe. It was a life changing experience for both of them and gave Franscell the nerve to marry the woman he had been living with.

His wanderings during the research for his book about North America’s tectonic plates (called A Crack in the Edge of the World ) took him through the Yukon and up past Haines Junction, but he mentions the Toe as the biggest reason why he avoided Dawson. He couldn’t stomach a place where a blackened digit was a tourist attraction.

There are two books about the Sourtoe. One of them is Captain Dick’s A u ’t o e ’ b i o g r a p h y : One Toe of a Tale, and PHOTO: Dan Davidson the other is The Saga of the Sourtoe compiled from writings by Stevenson Captain Dick Stevenson has and others by Dieter Reinmuth. been trying for some years You can join the Sourtoe Cockto gain a toehold on a kind of tail Club at any time of the year.

After all, Dawson City doesn’t immortality. He intends that his even wait for the Midnight Sun to ashes should be placed in this do strange things.

oversized toe and mounted over the bar at the Downtown Hotel.

The opposite reaction is exemplified by journalist Simon Winchester.

After 32 years teaching in rural Yukon schools, Dan Davidson retired from that profession but continues writing about life in Dawson City.

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Hidden Treasure

in a

Plastic Container

by John Boivin

Geocaching in the Yukon, and around the world Sebastian Griffiths holds the prize: a geocache container filled with a log book and treasure for the next person who finds it.

He and his father, Shane, sister Sara, and mother Kristina are in a secret location around Whitehorse planting the new geocache.

“O

kay, it should be near… here… six metres… four metres…” Shane Griffiths says, reading from a display on his iPhone.

What we’re looking for, I’m not sure — just that someone has hidden a container somewhere behind Yukon College. Something meant to be found.

“Ah, here,” says Griffiths, turning over a log and finding a ragged zip-lock baggie.

Inside there’s a pill bottle. And inside that, a small panda charm, a quarter, and a log sheet.

“It’s just a small one,” says Griffiths. “You find them that are a lot more elaborate.”

We are geocaching, hunting for hidden objects using the Global Positioning System, (GPS). Think of treasure hunting with a modern-day twist.

“It has its roots in orienteering,” says Griffiths, who’s been geocaching for about three years, after being introduced to it by his brother-in-law. “When you add GPS and the Internet, it really became a community.”

On May 2, 2000, according to the Geocaching.com website, the GPS satellite system was upgraded

to allow much more precise location-finding.

It didn’t take long for people to figure out how to have fun with the new system: hide something in the woods, mark the co-ordinates, and send them out to other GPS enthusiasts. By the fall of that year, it was a full-fledged movement.

Today, more than six million people geocache, searching for 2.2 million caches around the world, including 250 in the Yukon.

“Sometimes the trails around town get boring,” says Griffiths.

“This is a great way to find new trails, explore new areas around town. We’ve walked some paths dozens of times, only to find out there’s a cache just a few metres off the trail.

“It’s good clean exercise, and gets the kids out with a goal. They really see it as a treasure hunt.”

There’s a spiritual aspect for others, connecting to the land, which makes geocaching a special activity.

“For me, first of all, it’s the journey that counts, hiking in a forest, in the mountains, or discovering a village or town,” says Michael de Jong, a 42-year-old accounting clerk living in the Neth-

erlands. “But it’s also the reward at the end, the geocache, the crown of the day. It’s the thrill of finding it and also of opening it and discovering what’s inside.

“It’s actually geocaching that has made me discover my own country.”

De Jong calls himself a dinosaur of geocaching, having started in 2001. He’s collected nearly 800 caches in more than a dozen European countries — but he considers that a low amount. He emphasizes unique geographic locations or special caches instead of sheer quantity.

The dropping cost of the technology and its ease of use has made geocaching a growing sport.

All you need is an app on your smartphone. Sign up on the Geocaching.com website, and you are set, Griffiths says.

Some geocachers have made a special trip to the Yukon.

“We have had guests who travel specifically to geocache,” says Nancy Tanner, the manager of Beez Kneez Bakpakers in downtown Whitehorse. One couple from Kelowna was so into it they convinced Tanner to help them set up a geocache near the hostel.

They sent her a rubber boot with a

picture of a bee on it. The cache is now tucked inside it, under a rock, hidden in the trees at the base of the clay cliffs. Tanner checks on it periodically.

“It was all new to me, I guess I got caught up in their enthusiasm,” she says.

The many variations of geocaching have made it more of a live-puzzle game than an exercise in reading co-ordinates from a cell phone. Some caches are in urban areas, hidden in plain sight.

Some are as big as water barrels, others as small as the pill bottle we found. There are varying levels of difficulty, from beginner to expert.

Many treasures are interactive.

Hunters are encouraged to leave a message or swap goodies in the cache. In some caches, speciallytagged coins can be taken from one box and put in another, a few miles or a continent away. Geocachers can follow the coin’s travels on the website.

Any member of Geocaching. com can create a cache and personalize it.

“We made one up with a backto-school theme, with my kids’ old lunch box and thermos,” says Griffiths. “And somewhere in Granger

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we put a cache with dinosaur toys.”

As with any activity, geocaching can bring out the competition in some people.

“I know of guys with thousands of cache finds,” says Griffiths.

“But for me, it’s just a great way to get out and do stuff outside with the kids.”

Still, he adds to his cache record whenever he can — and has found them in four provinces and territories so far.

And even the long Yukon winter doesn’t stop die-hards. Treasure can be found any time of year, thanks to the technology.

However, some old-school Yukon sensibilities still apply. Go with friends, tell people where you’re going, and when you expect to return. And every once in a while, look around as you wander.

“We’ve seen lots of wildlife,” says Griffiths. “So far, the worst has been when our dog chased after a porcupine. Still, you have to be careful.”

John Boivin is a writer and artist living at N60 43.33631 W135 3.18366.

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Community Happenings Atlin

Wednesdays

Board Games 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Teen Centre Bring games and snacks Everyone Welcome Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling Recreation Centre

Carcross

Wed Sept 18 Canning session 11:00 AM The old daycare. Open to moms and dads with kids from 0-3 years of age.

Wednesdays

Thrift Store 11:00 AM Carcross Thrift Store 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 Fridays Open Gym Night 7:00 PM

Tuesdays

Elders Breakfast 10:00 AM at the Old Daycare Pottery with Claudia McPhee 3:15 PM. Community Softball 7:00 PM Carcross Community School Bring a glove if you have 1 your own water and snacks. Everyone welcome Women’s Group Carcross Community Campus 7:00 PM Geraldine James 867-8214251

Carmacks

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

Thursdays

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 9942375 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.

Sundays

Faro Sunday Church Service 11:00 AM Faro Bible Chapel All are welcome.Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

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.

Coordinated by Jodi Boyd.

Tuesdays

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Primary Ball Skills 12:30 Del Van Gorder Indoor Soccer 6:00 PM School 994-2760 K – 3 Dawson City until Sun, Sep 20 Welcome Stranger 11:00 Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 9-12) AM ODD Gallery show by Paul Griffin until Sun, Sep 20 The Homecoming 11:00 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca AM ODD Gallery show by Sarah Fuller Tue, Sep 24 City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Badminton 7:00 PM Recreation Centre 9949:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron . 2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Wed, Sep 18 Colleen Murphy, Berton House Writer Presents 7:00 PM Dawson City Community Library.

Fridays Sat, Sep 21 Kellylee Evans Jazz Vocalist Golden Horn Judo Club 3:30 PM Golden performs 8:00 PM KIAC Toronto-born, Horn School judoyukon@gmail.com or Mike Ottawa-based JUNO Award winner, in the 668- 6952. Under 15 years ballroom.

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Golden Horn Sundays

On-Going Events

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

Daily

Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre SundayThursday 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Friday & Saturday 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM Beside the Bonanza Market

Wednesdays

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 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

Tuesdays

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

Tuesdays

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

Haines Junction

Sun, Sep 29 KellyLee Evans Trio : Jazz on the Wing 7:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre Hosted by JAM. Wednesdays

Mun Ku - Craft Afternoons 1:00 PM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Thursdays Toddler Painting 10:00 AM KIAC A parented Mun Ku - Games Nights 1:00 PM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca activity for kids aged 2-5.Fee required Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Crocus Bluff 6:45 PM Old Da Ku Thursdays Soccer Field Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:30 AM Mun Saturdays Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Hatha Yoga with Joanne 9:00 AM KIAC Southern Tutchone Classes 4:30 PM Da Drop In Painting 1:09 PM KIAC Classroom Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Youth Radio Broadcasting 12:00 PM Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Guitar with Nijen 03:30 PM KIAC Old Da Ku Sundays

Adult soccer 7:30 School Gym Yoga with Jo 5:00 PM Robert Service Mondays School Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Mondays

6:45 PM Old Da Ku Hӓn Language Bingo! 2:00 PM Learn a Tuesdays little of the language of our land *subject to Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da availability Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca Piano with Barnacle Bob 03:30 PM KIAC Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM - 9:00 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall PM Takhini Hall 993-5370 Sewing Circle 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Dä Ku Tuesdays Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC Takhini Hall Dawson City Minor Soccer 6:00 PM Crocus Bluff Soccer Field age 8 & under City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Council Sat Sept. 7th Volunteer work day 12:00 PM Chambers Heather Favron .

LMCC with volunteer appreciation dinner Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Crocus Bluff afterward- Mexican food for all helpers Soccer Field

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Wednesdays

Kids Craft time 3:00 PM HJ Public Library

Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided

Thursdays

Fridays

Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 1:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Questions contact Ruth Lera 668-5871 or email ruthlera@ northwestel.net

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

We, at the First Nations Health Programs, consider traditional foods an important part of well-being and healing. Our Traditional Diet Program allows patients to have traditional meals such as moose and caribou during their hospital stay. We cannot provide this service without donations of wild meat from the community.

If you are interested in donating some moose, caribou or other large game to the program, we would like to hear from you.

Please call the Traditional Diet Coordinator at 393-8758 or 393-8891.

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Stroller Mama’s 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings

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

Beaver Creek

Brownies and Girl Guides 5:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Crafts and games afternoons 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net

Carcross

Sundays

Mondays

Tuesdays

Parents & Tots playtime 10:00 AM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Stroller Mama’s 12:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net 5km Run/Walk/Nordic Walk 5:45 PM Teslin Rec Centre

Watson Lake Wednesdays

Senior Day (60+) 10:00 AM Drop in Board games, cards, bowling, curling, tea and Community Access Program 1:00 PM The coffee Drop In Centre Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Wednesdays Centre Kids Events Ages 12 Years & Under 4:00 Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM PM The Drop In Centre Thursdays Pajama Bingo 5:00 PM Drop in Center Best Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec dressed wins a radio bingo package, runner Centre up wins a prize!

Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Soccer - Elementary School ages 7:00 PM Centre School Gym Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM Soccer - High School/Adult 8:00 PM Fridays School Gym

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Thursdays Centre Traditional Lunch 12:00 PM The Drop In Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Centre

Saturdays Wii & Movie Night 4:00 PM The Drop In Weight Room 10:00 am - 6:00 PM WL Rec Centre Centre Fridays

Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM Movie & Games 4:00 PM The Drop In Watson Lake Farmer’s Market 3:00 PM Centre Wye Lake Cabin Produce, baking, cooking, Dinner & A Movie Night 5:30 PM crafts, eggs, etc - anything made or grown.

Community Hall Mondays Teen Drop in Gym 7:30 PM School Gym Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Saturdays

Centre Movie & Games 4:00 PM The Drop In Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Centre Centre Mondays

Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Wii & Movie Night 4:00 PM The Drop In Tuesdays Centre Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec

Weekdays

Tuesdays

Kids Events Ages 12 Years & Under 4:00 PM The Drop In Centre

Old Crow Thursdays

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

Centre Girl’s Night Out Ages 12+ meet at WL Rec Centre 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 7-9pm.

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

Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM

Tuesday & Thursday 11:30 AM - St. Anne Church - Yukon Unity group Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group Wednesdays 7:30 PM. Library - Lightwalkers group Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Carmacks

Fridays 1:30p PM Health Centre

Dawson City

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

Destruction Bay

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Faro

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Haines Junction

Wednesdays 8:00 PM Public Library Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Mayo

Wednesday 7:30 PM RRC Building 996-2825 Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Old Crow

Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre - Yukon Unity group

Pelly Crossing

Wednesday 7:00 PM Pelly Band Office 5373461 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

Mondays

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

Tagish

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

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

Teslin

Sun Sept. 22nd Tagish’s Pancake Breakfast 9:30 AM Tagish Community Centre. Everyone is welcome

Watson Lake

Thursdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church - Spirit of Fellowship Group Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre, downstairs Yukon Unity group Tuesdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church - Spirit of Fellowship Group

Wednesdays

Tagish Library and Tagish Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 NOON Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Community Centre 399-3407

Thursdays

Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Rec. Hall Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Community Centre Free. Just need an instrument or your voice or both!

Fridays

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

Saturdays

Tagish Library and Tagish Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 NOON

Sundays

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

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Wednesdays

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t’s easy to remember the three kinds of symbiosis if you apply them to your past relationships.

Parasitism is where one species benefits and the other is hurt.

Commensalism is where one species benefits and the other is neither hurt nor helped. Mutualism occurs when both species benefit.

In addition to human romance, symbiosis is applicable to agriculture. For example, properly grazed cattle aerate the soil with their hooves.

Grazing cattle also press grass seed into the soil, provide natural fertilizer through manure and shorten the grass as they graze, which helps reduce wildfire spread.

This is a natural, mutualistic relationship between the cattle and the land.

Chickens, like cattle, can be raised in mutually beneficial relationships with plants and people.

Dawsonites who are lucky enough to purchase local eggs from Willow Peerenboom, Nick Timms and Tanja Westland’s farm, Westland Willows, are part of this kind of happy plant/animal equation.

“I grew up in Dawson and my mom always kept gardens, and I learned about dog running, fishing, trapping. I’ve always been an outdoor person,” says farmer Willow Peerenboom.

She has been gardening and farming professionally in Dawson for roughly seven years. She and her husband Nick Timms started their enterprise after Peerenboom apprenticed in farming and herbology in Victoria, BC, for a year when she was 19 years old.

Peerenboom’s farming practice expanded to include poultry in 2010 when she “bought a few chickens on a whim.” Since then, she has kept up to 220 hens with five roosters.

Currently, Peerenboom raises Ameraucanas hens, known for

their blue-gray eggs.

“They winter well here because they don’t have a comb or a wattle,” says Peerenboom.

Wattles and combs circulate blood to cool chickens down, a feature they don’t need in the Yukon.

In addition to Ameraucanas, Peerenboom keeps Red Sussex hens (brown eggs), Red Rock hens, Brahmas hens, and meat turkeys.

She also rents space on her acreage to a co-operative raising meat birds (another mutually symbiotic relationship).

Mutually beneficial relationships abound between Peerenboom’s flock and the plants on her land. The hens feed on wild plants such as lambsquarters, fireweed, grasses, rosebushes and raspberry.

They also eat leaves Pereenboom trims from her market garden plants, including broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and kale.

“They have digestive systems of stone — they can eat things that would poison us,” says Pereenboom of her fowl that also eat small amounts of cracked corn, ground oyster shell beet greens, and plants leftover at the end of the growing season.

In addition to turning all this feed into eggs every day, the chickens provide fertilizer through their manure.

Pereenboom composts the chicken poop using a well-organized layering method, before using it in her garden. She also gives the compost away to lucky folks who can come and collect it. These hard working chickens also specialize in pest control.

“I have zero ants or spruce beetles on my farm,” she says.

Peerenboom works hard to keep

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mites off of her birds with natural remedies such as lavender and diatomaceous earth (a soft powder that kills pests by dehydrating them). She surmises that mites are a greater problem in the Yukon due to the dry climate.

The climate creates other difficulties too.

“Cold winters are also a challenge,” she says. “At –40°C, the coop has enough hens to inside to stay warm with one light bulb. The temperature never drops below –16°C in the coop. But, chickens drink more water per body weight than any other animal, and water definitely freezes at –16. In the winter, I change the chickens’ water four times a day.”

Egg-collecting is also a challenge because eggs can freeze, and then crack quickly. Peerenboom keeps frozen, cracked eggs for baking.

“Know what you are getting into, and be prepared for how much work it is to keep the coop clean,” she cautions would-be chicken farmers.

An animal lover at heart, Peerenboom treats her fowl well and In turn they are great pest controllers, wastes eaters, fertilizer providers, and oh yeah, they lay eggs too.

To learn more about purchasing eggs from Westland Willows, email GruntAction@gmail.com.

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There are two deadlines per year: 1st of April and October.

If you are preparing a proposal for this deadline or want to obtain the application package, please contact the Fund Administrator in advance.

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n 2010, I was privileged to hunt with my 12-year-old daughter on our second successful moose hunt.

We were able to get a shot at a large 64” Alaska/Yukon bull resting in the willows, but due to the hard walking, Hayley was unable to manoeuvre through the brush with our binoculars. We found a spot to put them on a tree to be found later. As it turns out every tree looks the same when you are trying to find a specific one. We packed the moose out and called it a good hunting season, but the binoculars remained.

When planning our third moose hunt I couldn’t decide where to go. I studied maps for days and replayed Yukon travels trying to decide where I had seen the most moose. In the end we decided to try the same general area.

Wait, we have to go back a bit.

Hayley and I had been river and ATV hunting the two previous years and got a moose. My 12-year-old daughter is not keen on diving into the gutting and field dressing of big game animals. She remained on the sidelines doing whatever she had to do to keep occupied, this included making statements like “Gross, what is that part?” or “Wow, that is a lot of blood.”

We decided that the 2011 season needed to be different; I needed help with the process. Cleaning a 1,200 to 1,500 pound moose alone is a chore for even the strongest hunter, so I brought my friend Chris who continues to hunt with me today.

Chris, Hayley and I arrived at our new spot, but were unable to find any sign of moose, so we headed back early to pack and move camp to the spot where we hunted the year prior. That evening we were in the same valley looking at a familiar countryside beautifully covered with the bright yellows and reds of fall. We decided to look for the binoculars we lost the previous year.

The brush and poor walking proved to be a problem again, and all the trees still looked the same. After an hour of walking through the rough terrain as Hayley scanned the valley we gave up and returned to the site we would call our lookout for the next few days.

But being stubborn, Hayley and I walked the area again the following day. Again, no binoculars. I was getting discouraged with the lack of moose and the missing binoculars that were under our feet somewhere.

Binoculars. Found.

To ease the pain of walking the horrible hillside again I decided to pick blueberries. After a few trips up and down the hillside I realized we were looking in the wrong spot. Looking up I saw a tree that did not look like every other tree on the hill. It looked like the tree we put the binoculars on as we stalked the moose. They were on the ground right beside it.

The binoculars had survived the winter, but there were teeth marks through the rubber, including one we think was made by a bear. I hurried to finish filling my berry container to get back and tell of my marvellous find. The glasses still worked great, except in temperature changes they fogged.

We managed to spot a cow and calf on the last evening before travelling home but our moose tag remained unfilled.

Bryce Bekar is a local outdoors man who believes in hunting with his family, not for them.

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ast year, on a hike up Vanier Mountain nearby Kusawa Lake, my friend spotted a black and white mountain across the lake. The north side of the pyramid-shaped mountain was black and the south side white.

It was mysterious to me. How could one side be black, and one side be white? I dug a little deeper.

Geologically, Kusawa Lake is in the middle of the Coast Plutonic Complex, which runs from Alaska into British Columbia. Through time magma cooled underneath the earth’s surface, and here at the Coast Plutonic Complex, that

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cooled magma is now the rocks we climb on. And in this area, the rocks we climb on are typically is made up from granite and diorite.

I see now that the black and white mountain we were climbing is indeed granite. The black side is solid granite, and it’s black because of a crust of lichen. The white part, which, when I got close-up turned out to be beige, is disaggregated granite (I got that word from my neighbour, a geologist). It is an amazing site. This whole mountainside is a sandy slope; a few plants hang on for dear life, no lichen grows here, the mountain eroding before our

eyes. It gives the impression of a vertical desert.

When my friend spotted the mountain a year ago, I was instantly interested, because I had made some futile attempts to climb the mountain in front of it.

Later at home, looking at satellite images, I saw that the mountain I had approached also had a white south slope. I resolved to climb that front mountain to the summit and follow the ridge to the south end. Many attempts later I have finally succeeded, thanks to a couple of friends who accompanied me on this attempt.

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We were early at our meeting point on the Kusawa Road and began hiking at 10 o’clock, starting at the far campground and following the beach due south.

We gained elevation quickly and I was exhausted as we reached the ridge at 1 o’clock. Glorious ridge-walking is easier than the steep climbing; it’s undulating, but still gaining height.

The top is around 4,700 feet (1,432 metres). We saw the black and white pyramid mountain to the west, coming out at the white side of this ridge, and we stood in awe. As we played in the sand, we decided this was far enough for today. Although we were tempted by the call of further summits, they will still be there for another day.

We went back through a crack in the mountain, due north towards the creek. We spotted a pika in the canyon, and the canyon soon brought us to alpine meadows. Heading back into the trees we got a little lost, but, miraculously, my friend lead us straight to the van: we came out of the thick forest right where we parked... now how’s that for serendipity?

Though we were back by 6 p.m., it was a very tough hike.

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