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magine Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus was a person.

He was a young man — driven, entrepreneurial, and shaved clean.

He woke early, without setting an alarm clock. He ate quickly, dressed quickly, and always arrived at work on time.

His colleagues appreciated his punctuality and said positive things about him; some tried to imitate his behavior.

But those who only witnessed his arrival at work missed something important; those who watched Tractatus on his journey understood him better.

When the sidewalk was empty, he would glide over the pavement with long, elegant strides, covering much distance in little time; when the sidewalk became congested his strides would shorten; they became faster and impossibly precise. He wove in and out of the crowd rhythmically; side stepping a leashed dog to the left, lifting his briefcase over the head of an old woman to the right.

To some, Tractatus was not walking at all; rather he danced through pedestrians as if sliding.

If he were forced to wait at a crosswalk he would observe his environment and bring order to it by naming its constituent parts.

He saw a flock of birds in the sky: Branta canadensism; he saw a plucky weed bursting through a crack in the pavement: Taraxacum officinale.

When it was his turn to cross he strode confidently into the street.

Imagine that Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (Pi) was a person.

He was an old man with a bent back and a house that smelled of mildew. His living room was cluttered with things he found interesting — African woodcarvings, out-of-circulation currency, antique golf clubs.

He woke up slowly and stretched his tired body before

walking. Pi left his house with no purpose except to continue the task of exploring endless back alleys and nooks.

He avoided main streets; after all, the treasures he sought were usually in hidden boutiques — the types of places where old Chinese men sold mysterious curios from forgotten times.

there from a different direction.

He never failed to find things of interest. It was not unusual to find him looking at brickwork on a crumbling building, or reading a declaration of love etched into a bench.

He carried a magnifying glass in his coat pocket.

When he got tired he stopped at a pond to feed the Branta canadensis.

Pi did not know that Branta canadensis was the Latin term for the birds he was feeding (he called them honkers), but he had keenly observed how they were; how they existed in the world. He knew that they mated for life, for example.

It was inevitable that young Tractatus and old Pi would cross paths; all walkers eventually do. They approached each other on the sidewalk and between them lay a patch of glimmering ice. Pi recognized this as a hazard and stepped onto the dirty ground beside the pavement.

Tractatus thought he saw something else. To him the ice looked beautiful — perfect. Its smoothness and a grace intoxicated the young man; he had finally found a surface to match his style.

He strode onto the ice, and all his elegance could not save him.

He slipped and fell to the feet of the old man, who watched with amusement. Pi extended his arm and the young man took it.

They smiled, sensing that despite traveling in opposite directions, their similarities lay in a more meaningful place.

“Son, you can’t walk on ice.

You need friction, you need rough ground,” the old man said.

“Sorry, no time to chat,” the young man replied. “I’ve got places to be.”

Tractatus took off, walking even faster than he had been before (presumably to make up for lost time). Pi chuckled to himself, and then bent down to peer at a dandelion.

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Book Reading Season

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very season is book reading season, but the most exciting season to read books is in the fall.

The feeling of the change from summer to fall evokes a restlessness akin to spring fever, but it’s not that, it’s the opposite. Nobody ever says ‘fall fever’ because there isn’t a word that’s the same as ‘fever’ but means a subdued undercurrent.

The crisp air catches you by surprise; the sun glares on bright days — even at noon the fall sun slants; the hovering moon is covered and then uncovered with swift dark clouds — the wind is warm and against the coolness of dark evenings, it feels like change; mountain flanks turn yellow; mountain tops turn white; you stop smoking so you can smell the leaves, and you go to the library and sit in an aisle, jacket off, surrounded by stacks of books, without knowing how you got there.

It’s the season where book clubs are re-joined and book-trading-friendships rekindled.

My oldest book-trading-friendship is with my non-biological uncle, Ron. Ron is getting old but he still exudes a calm superhuman-ness.

He’s a mountain man with big hands and a nose that was made crooked in a skill-saw accident.

He builds lodges in remote mountain passes and knows by heart the glacier crevasses in the Blaeberry and Purcell mountain ranges. Ron used a flat knife with handles on each side to scrape the bark off all the beetle-infested pine trees on his property in Golden, B.C., thus killing the beetle larvae and saving the non-infested trees from the bug. Ron should have been born 200-years ago — he’s a cowboy, a loner, a grump. He’s a wit

and a sucker for a good story.

Ron introduced me to the cowboy lore of the Chilcotin country via the books of Paul St. Pierre.

Ron’s favorite book is Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion —the book is a staple in my slim collection. I didn’t know about the magic of science fiction or the connection between cowboys and cyberspace until I read Ron’s copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson. It led me to discover the softer parts of the vast science fiction genre, with books by Ursula Levine and Robert J. Sawyer, which I in turn earnestly recommended to Ron. The giving part of any friendship is the best part, especially when it’s a book-sharing friendship.

When I fall heavily in love with a book I often won’t recommend it to friends; it’s an awful feeling to have a book you’ve read six times be scornfully picked apart— or worse, lightly dismissed — by a respected friend.

That doesn’t happen with Ron. Ron loves every type of genre and writing type, as long as it’s good writing. Ron loves and respects a finely crafted book — it’s always safe to recommend a loved book to him. He’ll listen to my synopsis eagerly, then run and grab a pen and paper—“who wrote it again?”

I think of Ron this time of year.

He gets up early — he doesn’t use a clock, he pops awake at unholy hours of the day, mixes up a hot chocolate and works for a few hours, probably bucking birch logs into firewood this time of year.

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Events Photo: Erin Peacock He’ll take a break at around 11:00 to eat a big breakfast and read for a half hour or longer, depending on the book.

The change from summer to fall can be jarring in its subtleties — one day you realize it’s closer to snowing than to July. The change seems more bearable — safer — with a healthy stack of books on the floor next to the bed, some with “Ron Blaue” scrawled on the back of the front cover. They’re a form of protection against the darkness ahead.

It’s good to have a variety of books — some that won’t be put down, some heavy and hard to

chew, some that don’t mind being forgotten for months on end.

Some are compilations where any page can be flipped to, some that you read for the story, some for how it’s told, and some for both — those are the ones that get read six times. In some, the author’s use of second-person storytelling haunts, and inspires, and some that make a person stop reading for several months because that’s how long it takes for the impacts of the words to settle.

Ron loves them all.

Meagan Deuling is the assistant editor of What’s Up Yukon.

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At 7:00 p.m. you can catch the documentary Particle Fever, a film that, at its core, aims to humanize the colossal contrivance that is the Hadron Collider.

The collider is the world’s largest machine. It’s in Switzerland, and it was designed over decades of worldwide collaboration. Its aim is to re-enact the Big Bang.

Through several point-of-view stories, we gaze into the homes and workplaces of scientists who live and breathe to be a part of the discovery of the Higgs Boson: a particle that is theorized as being the key to understanding the existence of matter as we know it.

It’s science versus God. The science behind this monstrosity is made adequately accessible to John and Jane moviegoer. If it seems a little heavy, keep in mind the film’s director, Mark Levinson, is attempting to educate us on years of research, and some rather complex physics, in less than two hours. So if you’re not especially scientifically inclined, you might have to hit the rewind button a few times to

completely conceptualize the theories. That being said, the payoff is huge; it’s fascinating stuff.

The film certainly tries to be seductive and entertaining in its use of fantastic animations of sub-atomic particles bursting like fireworks, and images illustrating the staggering proportions of the grandiose Hadron device, accompanied by a mystical score.

The artistic bits stand in stark contrast to the mostly dry dialogue and footage of geeky scientists with greasy hair in their dayto-day lives.

The contrast, however, challenges us to look past the inaccessible exterior of the hypergeek (along with his or her lofty inventions) into the mystery and frantic beauty of the scientific mind.

A scientific beehive is cracked open before us; The Hadron Collider is its mechanical queen bee.

This particular academic ambition has gripped the worldwide physicist community in such a way that it has taken on a hive mentality. All differences of culture and creed have been cast aside to allow for the unadulterated pursuit of enlightenment. And wild-firing of synapses in thousands of brains are bent toward a common goal.

It’s a testament to the power of a united human race, when all bets are off.

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Still image of the Hadron Collider from Particle Fever Although most of us know the ending before we see it, this film invites us into the experience and excitement of a leap of faith. We share in the frightening prospect of the poignant disillusionment that is explicitly possible for a multitude of people whose lives have been spent trying to discover a single particle, which might not even exist. Stakes are high, and so is tension, as the world stands on its tiptoes and peeks over the precipice of unfathomable possibility.

Granted, the nerd-level is off the charts, but the film is mostly enlightening, schooling and dazzling with cutting-edge discovery.

It helps us understand the obsessive determination and fever that possesses these people and their desire to replace the creation gods of the world with science, and once and for all materialize the mystery of the universe.

Big questions, and big answers, sometimes come in particle-sized packages.

Heather Austin writes on behalf of the Yukon Film Society.

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A Klondike Korner with Dan Davidson

The Glory Days of Outhouse Races Past Brushmen

Crooks were banished by the chief ‘cause it was wrong to be a thief.

The tribe’s law was to banish an’ in the bush they vanish.

They lived in the age of stone an’ they were always alone.

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The Potty Mamas and the Safety Turds pick their way through the final gauntlet

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ccording to journalist Ken Spotswood, who prepared a media kit of short articles for the Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) to be used during our centennial years (1996-98), the Great Klondike International Outhouse Race had its first run in 1977, inspired by some chatter in a local bar.

The early editions, held then, as now, on Labour Day Sunday, resembled more of a pub crawl.

Four contestants would carry a fifth one around town in a wheeled conveyance which resembled a privy.

After a few years, the delays occasioned by the liquid interludes caused the organizers to impose a time limit. This sped up the race quite a bit. As Spotswood put it, the time limit and the addition of prize money caused “the barnstorming biffies (to) charge through the streets of Dawson like a dose of castor oil.”

These days the race, which once had anywhere from a dozen to 17 entries, is smaller than in days of yore. There used to be four or five serious teams who vied for annual glory, but the real athletes faded away shortly after the beginning of the Klondike Road Relay, apparently deciding

to save their legs for the bigger event.

The majority of the teams went for the punning potential of the race, with entry names like the Devouthouse (a group of Anglican ministers), the Elton John, the Royal Flush, the Whizzer of Oz, the Downtown Flaming Farts, and the Mad Crapper of Rat River.

For many years team White Lightning had the distinction of leading the race standings, with seven victory laps around what was then a three-kilometer race.

Once upon a time there were limericks associated with the race, but a crew from a radio station in Alberta put an end to that for many years when they ignored the fact that this was a family event on a Sunday afternoon.

The pub crawl metamorphosed into a scavenger hunt for many years.

The race is shorter these days, the most recent version being around one of our larger city blocks, but the KVA has added some new wrinkles to make it more of a spectator sport.

There was a trivia contest at the beginning of the race, with minor “humiliations” for the losers. The chants and cheers were

back, though no one actually seems to know how to write a five line limerick.

The race ran in three heats this year, with a series of small contests at the end that constituted an obstacle course, so just running well is no longer enough to guarantee a win.

The Potty Mamas were well ahead when they reached the final block, but the Safety Turds (with members from the UK and USA) negotiated the obstacles more quickly and burst through the toilet paper finish line well ahead of the crew from Diamond Tooth Gerties, whose various incarnations have owned the most recent versions of this race.

Ours is not the only such race.

There’s one in Nova Scotia that was inspired by this one, but there are many others. The one outside Fairbanks takes place in the late winter, and the buildings run on skis. Maybe it’s time to issue a cross-border challenge.

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

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Northwest Arts Underground Thu, Sep 25 Old School 8:30 PM Paddy’s until Sun, Sep 28 Don Weir Open Studio Place 333-9315 Every Thursday, classic rock 12:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre 393 - 7109 at its finest until Sat, Sep 27 Yukon Archives open Thu, Sep 25 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 house 1:00 PM Yukon Archives 667-8064 PM Jarvis Street Saloon until Tue, Sep 30 Heather Horton Sea Fri, Sep 26 Fishead Stew w/Roxx Hunter Change 9:00 AM North End Gallery on Bass 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub until Tue, Oct 7 Exhibition: La Caravane Always grooving, always swinging, always boréale des dix mots Centre De La entertaining...Fishead Stew w/Roxx laying it Francophonie 668-2663 down on the bass. Come one, come all!!! until Mon, Oct 13 Sonata 11:00 AM Yukon Sat, Sep 27 Embrace 7:00 PM Hazel Artists @ Work 867 393 4848 Venzon’s house This is an interactive event. until Thu, Oct 30 A Thrilling Narrative Arts Guests will be offered a chance to sing Underground karaoke and/or get a hands-on cooking until Sat, Nov 29 Ice Age Mammals & lesson. Come with a place setting (plate, Sandra Grace Story Yukon Arts Centre glass, cutlery), leave with another’s. Bring something to drink. Enter through the front door. Please arrive at 6:30pm Sat, Sep 27 Kim Beggs with Paul Bergman Wed, Sep 17 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 and Micah Smith 7:00 PM Dirty Northern PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

Pub A musical residency Wed, Sep 17 Johnny Rogers & the New Sat, Sep 27 Yukon Jack 9:30 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Music Jam 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 3339315 Every Wednesday come check out the Sun, Sep 28 Linnea Good In Concert 7:00 PM Whitehorse United Church 667-2989 new tunes.

Visiting Songwriter Linnea Good will perform Thu, Sep 18 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM at Whitehorse United Church Free Admission Tony’s Pizza Thu, Sep 18 Open mic with Marcus Steiner All are welcome!

Sun, Sep 28 Sunday Blues Night With 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867McNalley & Hamilton 7:30 PM Best Western 668-4500 Gold Rush Inn Thu, Sep 18 Old School 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 333-9315 Every Thursday, classic rock at its finest Thu, Sep 18 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 Wed, Aug 27 Northern Voices ToastmasPM Jarvis Street Saloon ters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 867-334-8654 Fri, Sep 19 Teegatha’Oh Zheh is Celebrating 25 years 4:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Come and build your leadership skills, polish you public speaking in a fun and supportive Cultural Centre 668-4471 Complimentary BBQ and Dance Live music by - Ben Mahony environment! Guests are welcome to come and drop into our meetings at any time.

- Shoo Fly - Canacks Presentations, Door Wed, Sep 17 Whitehorse United Church prizes, Dry Event Choir Practice 7:30 PM Whitehorse United Fri, Sep 19 Fishead Stew w/Roxx Hunter Church on Bass 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub Wed, Sep 17 Northern Voices Always grooving, always swinging, always Toastmasters Meeting 7:00 AM Sport Yukon entertaining...Fishead Stew w/Roxx laying it Guests are welcome! down on the bass. Come one, come all!!!

Wed, Sep 17 Whitehorse Community Sat, Sep 20 Kim Beggs with Paul Bergman Choir Practice 6:00 PM Whitehorse Baptist and Micah Smith 7:00 PM Dirty Northern Church (867) 667-4661 6pm Persephones Pub A musical residency Rehearsal, 7:45 Chamber Choir Sat, Sep 20 House Concert in Riverdale: Rehearsal. For more details email: info@ Jim Vautour & Olivier de Colombel 7:00 whitehorsechoir.org PM TBA reservations required: helene_ Thu, Sep 18 Handbell Choir Practice 6:30 saintonge@hotmail.com PM Whitehorse United Church Sat, Sep 20 Infinitus String Trio 8:00 PM Thu, Sep 18 Whitehorse Food Bank food Whitehorse Concerts a critically acclaimed pick-up 10:00 AM Whitehorse Food Bank beatboxing string trio known for their unique 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open sound and upbeat performance style certain hours.

Thu, Sep 18 Whitehorse Food Bank food Sat, Sep 20 Ramshackle Theatre In The pick-up 3:30 PM Whitehorse Food Bank Bush 8:00 PM TBA Super limited ticket 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open sales. If you want to come you have to act certain hours. fast. email ramshackletheatre@gmail.com.

Fri, Sep 19 swing dance 8:30 PM Casa Sat, Sep 20 Yukon Jack 9:30 PM Jarvis Loma 335-2300 Free swing dance lessons Street Saloon followed by dancing to a live band Please call Sun, Sep 21 Sunday Blues Night With McNalley & Hamilton 7:30 PM Best Western to confirm your attendance Fri, Sep 19 Teegatha’Oh Zheh is Gold Rush Inn Celebrating 25 years 4:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Tue, Sep 23 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn Cultural Centre 668-4471 Complimentary fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit BBQ and Dance Live music by - Ben Mahony and guitars provided, and encourages the - Shoo Fly - Canacks Presentations, Door wearing of silly hats prizes, Dry Event Wed, Sep 24 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 Sat, Sep 20 Dog Wash Fundraiser 10:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

AM The Feed Store Pet Junction All profit Wed, Sep 24 Johnny Rogers & the New goes to Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Music Jam 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 333Sat, Sep 20 swing dance 8:30 PM Jarvis 9315 Every Wednesday come check out the Street Saloon 335-2300 Free swing dance new tunes. lessons followed by dancing to a live band Wed, Sep 24 Jamaoke With Jackie 11:00 Please call to confirm your attendance PM Jarvis Street Saloon Sat, Sep 20 Ramshackle Theatre In The Thu, Sep 25 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Bush 8:00 PM TBA Super limited ticket sales. If you want to come you have to act Tony’s Pizza fast. email ramshackletheatre@gmail.com.

Thu, Sep 25 Big Mama Lele The Singles Tour: 25 Dates across North America! 7:30 Sun, Sep 21 YFS “Particle Fever” 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Directed by Mark Levinson PM Rah Rah Gallry Hear fresh new songs and David Kaplan, 99 minutes,2013 and some fabulous favourites at Big Mama Sun, Sep 21 YFS “Under the Skin” 9:00 Lele’s last Yukon show until 2015. Show PM Yukon Arts Centre Directed by Jonathan starts at 8 Thu, Sep 25 Open mic with Marcus Steiner Glazer, 2014, 108 minutes, Parental Guidance 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-

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Mon, Sep 22 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Mon, Sep 22 Whitehorse Community Choir Practice 6:00 PM Whitehorse United Church 6pm Neptunes Rehearsal, 7:15pm Big Choir Rehearsal Tue, Sep 23 Whitehorse Food Bank food pick-up 10:00 AM Whitehorse Food Bank 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open certain hours.

Tue, Sep 23 Whitehorse Food Bank food pick-up 3:30 PM Whitehorse Food Bank 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open certain hours.

Tue, Sep 23 Mixed Media 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Kathy Piwowar. Create unique, dynamic pieces by exploring and combining a wide variety of media, including encaustics, painting, ink, and collage. Students will have the opportunity to explore different textures, techniques, and colours as well.

Wed, Sep 24 Whitehorse United Church Choir Practice 7:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Wed, Sep 24 Northern Voices Toastmasters Meeting 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Guests are welcome!

Wed, Sep 24 Whitehorse Community Choir Practice 6:00 PM Whitehorse Baptist Church (867) 667-4661 6pm Persephones Rehearsal, 7:45 Chamber Choir Rehearsal. For more details email: info@ whitehorsechoir.org Wed, Sep 24 Beginner pottery/ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Patrick Royle. Learn the properties of clay, wheel throwing techniques, some hand-building and studio practice. After glazing and firing, participants will have beautiful functional pottery or one of a kind works of art. Registration required.

Thu, Sep 25 YG Project & Film: YG’s Climate Change Adaptation Project and Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change 7:30 PM Beringia Centre 867-667-8855 Directed

by Dr. Ian Mauro Director and associate professor Thu, Sep 25 Handbell Choir Practice 6:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Thu, Sep 25 Author Talk 7:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-5239 Berton House writer-in-residence Anik See gives a reading and talk.

Thu, Sep 25 Berton House Writer in Residence 7:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library Reading & Talk with Anik Thu, Sep 25 Whitehorse Food Bank food pick-up 10:00 AM Whitehorse Food Bank 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open certain hours.

Thu, Sep 25 Whitehorse Food Bank food pick-up 3:30 PM Whitehorse Food Bank 867-393-2265 The food bank is only open certain hours.

Fri, Sep 26 swing dance 8:30 PM Casa Loma 335-2300 Free swing dance lessons followed by dancing to a live band Please call to confirm your attendance Fri, Sep 26 Yukon Archives open house 1:00 PM Yukon Archives 667-8064 Various archival material will be avaialble for viewing in the research room.

Fri, Sep 26 Doors Open: Yukon Archaeology, Palaeontology & Conservation 1:00 PM Yukon Archaeology, Palaeontology and Conservation 667-5983 Tour the Yukon Government Archaeology and Palaeontology collections and go behind the scenes in the Conservation lab.

Fri, Sep 26 5th Annual Yukon Culture Days Multiple Locations Free public access to culturally and historically important buildings, and celebrates our local arts, heritage and culture with free events including a mystery tour, self-guided heritage and culture tours, artist demonstrations and much more.

Fri, Sep 26 YFS “Project Grizzly” 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Peter Lynch’s side-splitting documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a North Bay man who is obsessed with developing a suit of armor that can withstand an attack by a grizzly bear.

Fri, Sep 26 YFS “Goin’ Down the Road” 9:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre A landmark in English Canadian cinema and naturalistic drama follows the amusing but pathetic exploits of Pete and Joey, two unemployed Cape Bretoners on their way to Toronto to seek their fortune Sat, Sep 27 Yukon Archives open house 10:00 AM Yukon Archives 667-8064 Various archival material will be avaialble for viewing in the research room.

Sat, Sep 27 Yukon Archives open house 2:00 PM Yukon Archives 667-8064 Various archival material will be avaialble for viewing in the research room.

Sat, Sep 27 Community Chalk Drawing 12:00 PM Beside Old Fire Hall 667-5983 We invite you to contribute your creativity to this large-scale chalk drawing by tracing your entire body or body parts onto the ground. The only guideline is to connect your drawing to another drawing, mapping out the interrelationship of community.

Sat, Sep 27 Mystery Tour 12:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 667-5983 Jump on the YA@W Culture Cruiser van (it seats twelve people) and explore several secret arts and heritage locations! Leaves every 90 minutes, starts at noon!

Sat, Sep 27 swing dance 8:30 PM Jarvis Street Saloon 335-2300 Free swing dance lessons followed by dancing to a live band Please call to confirm your attendance Sat, Sep 27 Waterfront Trolley Rides 12:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 667-6355 Learn about the development of the city of Whitehorse and various sites along the route. This is an interpretive ride and will stop near many other Culture Days activities throughout the day. Riders can board and disembark from any of the platforms.

Sun, Sep 28 Whitehorse Walk for ALS 12:00 PM Shipyards Park We are walking in the Yukon to help find a cure and provide support for Yukon and BC people dealing with ALS

Wed, Sep 24 Golden Horn Elementary School Council AGM 7:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary All are invited to attend in the school library. Childcare is available.

Thu, Sep 25 Sqeak & Sqawk 6:45 PM Porter Creek Secondary School High school Band Intro Night for Parents and Students Thu, Sep 25 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.

Fri, Sep 26 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.

Fri, Sep 26 Elk Bugling 6:00 PM North Klondike Rest Stop Join us to view Elk in rut and hear them bugling. We’ll carpool up the highway to the Takhini Burn and try to spot the Elk on the slopes. Be sure to dress for falling temperatures and bring a warm drink for after the walk.

Sat, Sep 27 Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Sep 27 Children’s Drumming and Singing Workshop 10:00 AM Whitehorse United Church 667-2989 Visiting songwriter Linnea Good and her husband David Johnsson will work with youth ages 6-14.

They will offer both singing and drumming.

Please register at the Church Office 6672989 Sat, Sep 27 Community Chalk Drawing 12:00 PM Beside Old Fire Hall 667-5983 We invite you to contribute your creativity to this large-scale chalk drawing by tracing your entire body or body parts onto the ground. The only guideline is to connect your drawing to another drawing, mapping out the interrelationship of community.

Sat, Sep 27 Mystery Tour 12:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 667-5983 Jump on the YA@W Culture Cruiser van (it seats twelve people) and explore several secret arts and heritage locations! Leaves every 90 minutes, starts at noon!

Sat, Sep 27 Waterfront Trolley Rides 12:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 667-6355 Learn about the development of the city of Whitehorse Wed, Sep 17 Youth drop-in 5:30 PM Heart and various sites along the route. This is Of Riverdale Dinner provided by the Boys an interpretive ride and will stop near many and Girls Club. other Culture Days activities throughout the Wed, Sep 17 Boys and Girls Club Youth day. Riders can board and disembark from Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) any of the platforms.

393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Sat, Sep 27 Boys and Girls Club Youth Girls Club.

Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) Thu, Sep 18 Boys and Girls Club Youth 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) Girls Club.

393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Sat, Sep 27 Embrace 7:00 PM Hazel Girls Club.

Venzon’s house This is an interactive event.

Fri, Sep 19 Boys and Girls Club Youth Guests will be offered a chance to sing Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) karaoke and/or get a hands-on cooking 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and lesson. Come with a place setting (plate, Girls Club. glass, cutlery), leave with another’s. Bring Sat, Sep 20 Steve Nash Youth Basketball Jack Hulland Elementary 867-393-4390 Ages something to drink. Enter through the front door. Please arrive at 6:30pm 5-7 9:30am - 10:30am,Ages 8-10 10:30am Sun, Sep 28 Open pottery studio 2:30 PM - 11:30am Arts Underground 667-4080 A non-instruction Sat, Sep 20 Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of program for those experienced in the studio.

Riverdale Clay can be purchased at the studio; any Sat, Sep 20 Boys and Girls Club Youth clay that is used has to be compatible with Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) our glazes. Not on long weekends.

393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.

Sun, Sep 21 Birding the Whitehorse Sewage Ponds 10:00 AM S.S.Klondike Wed, Sep 17 Northern Voices ToastmasBirding the Whitehorse sewage ponds with ters Meeting 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Guests Devon Yacura. Meet at the SS. Klondike at are welcome!

10am. (2 hrs) Mon, Sep 22 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Wed, Sep 17 Beginner pottery/ceramics Welcome. For more information email: 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 tjbowlby@gmail.com Instructor: Patrick Royle. Learn the properties Tue, Sep 23 Fun Run/Walk 6:00 PM F.H. of clay, wheel throwing techniques, some Collins Secondary 633-5671 Run or walk a hand-building and studio practice. After 2.5 km route, or a 5 km route. glazing and firing, participants will have Wed, Sep 24 Youth drop-in 5:30 PM Heart beautiful functional pottery or one of a kind Of Riverdale Dinner provided by the Boys works of art. Registration required. and Girls Club.

Wed, Sep 17 Painting Open Studio Wed, Sep 24 All City Band Junior Band facilitated by Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts Parent Meeting 7:30 PM F.H. Collins Underground 667-4080 A non-instruction Secondary Meeting in the Band Room. program for those with experience painting.

Rehearsal from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Bring materials, but use studio easels. We Wed, Sep 24 Boys and Girls Club Youth regularly offer painting workshops so ask us Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) about upcoming classes if this is something 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and you want to try.

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Wed, Sep 17 Painting Open Studio with Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Sep 18 Young Masters 3:30 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Marlene Collins teaches ages 8-12 to to work within the specific style of a Master artist and experience working with a different medium each day. Mediums: watercolour, acrylic, encaustic, collage and pastel. Must register.

Thu, Sep 18 Beginner pottery/ ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Lynne Sofiak. Learn the properties of clay, wheel throwing techniques, some hand-building and studio practice. After glazing and firing, participants will have beautiful functional pottery or one of a kind works of art.

Registration required.

Sat, Sep 20 Being the Change in your Relationship Workshop 9:00 AM Sundog Retreat 633-6719 two-day fun and rejuvenating experiential workshop is designed to shine a light on the current state of your relationship while providing proven practical and heart opening tools and strategies for deepening your connection as a couple Sat, Sep 20 Intermediate Silversmithing: Stone Setting and Chain Making 10:00 AM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Shelley MacDonald Continue to develop the skills learned in the previous class and learn new skills that include bezel setting round cabochons and chain making. You will make two projects, depending on the complexity of design. Bring a notebook, pen and old clothing to wear. Please wear closed-toe shoes! Registration required.

Sun, Sep 21 Intermediate Silversmithing: Stone Setting and Chain Making 10:00 AM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Shelley MacDonald Continue to develop the skills learned in the previous class and learn new skills that include bezel setting round cabochons and chain making. You will make two projects, depending on the complexity of design. Bring a notebook, pen and old clothing to wear. Please wear closed-toe shoes! Registration required.

Sun, Sep 21 Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase.

Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/ hour.

Sun, Sep 21 Open pottery studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 A noninstruction program for those experienced in the studio. Clay can be purchased at the studio; any clay that is used has to be compatible with our glazes. Not on long weekends.

Mon, Sep 22 Handmade Prints 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Meshell Melvin. This class is a gallop through the basics of printmaking - from the quick impressions of the monoprint to the intricacies of the linocut, and all the rutabagas in between. Students will be encouraged to develop their image-making throughout their explorations with the different hand-printed techniques.

Tue, Sep 23 Mixed Media 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Kathy Piwowar. Create unique, dynamic pieces by exploring and combining a wide variety of media, including encaustics, painting, ink, and collage. Students will have the opportunity to explore different textures, techniques, and colours as well.

Wed, Sep 24 Beginner pottery/ ceramics 7:00 PM Arts Underground 667-4080 Instructor: Patrick Royle. Learn the properties of clay, wheel throwing techniques, some hand-building and studio practice. After glazing and firing, participants will have beautiful functional pottery or one of a kind works of art.

Registration required.

Friday

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Yukon Unity Group Meeting 1:30 PM #4 Hospital Road Whitehorse Group (CM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. 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

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The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Happy Destiny Young Peoples Group 6:00 PM B.Y.T.E. Polar Group (OM) 7:30 PM Seventh Day Adventists Church (PC)

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

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Porter Creek Step meeting (CM) 8:00 PM Our Lady of Victory No Puffin (CM, NS) 8:00 PM Big Book Study Maryhouse 504 Cook St.

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The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Ugly Duckling Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Maryhouse 504 Cook St. Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (OM, NS) 7:00 PM 4141B 4th Ave. Sunshine Group (OM, NS) 1:00 PM DETOX Bldg 6118-6th Marble Group (OM, NS) 7:00 PM Hospital boardroom

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The consultation period runs from September 15 to October 15, 2014. The committee will provide its recommendations to the Yukon government by the end of November, 2014.

Copies of the NBC’s energy-efficiency section can be downloaded at: www.community.gov.yk.ca/buildingsafety/bldgsafety_consultation.html Hard copies can be viewed at Yukon public libraries and at Building Safety offices.

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Exhibi� ons CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

>> in the Yukon Art Society Gallery: THE SEVEN TEXTILE ARTISTS “How Does it Felt”

FOCUS GALLERY “I TOO WILL SOMETHING MAKE” Exhibi�on closes December 1st, 2012

Haines Junction Artist Guild Archival Gold: Favourites from the Vault Runs: September 5-27th

>> in the Hougen Heritage Gallery: YUKON ARCHIVES

Riverdale EVENINGS

(by donation for supplies and coffee) Tues 7:30- 9:00 KNITTING CIRCLE

EDGE GALLERY Open Studio Sessions

Group may contract knitting teachers for projects - costs tbd 13 sessions (starts Sep 16) Tues 7:30 - 9pm

ALL OVER THE MAP - NORTH BY NORTHWEST >> Acrylic Pain�ng Open Studio <<

Second Tuesday of the Month, w/ Katie Sikkes - All welcome Fri 7pm - 10pm -

Exhibi�on closes January 26, 2013

>> Ceramic Open Studio Sessions << Sundays from 2:30 to 6pm $5 per hour

Blair Thorson Runs: September 5 - 27th

with Neil Graham every first and third Wednesday of each month 7 to 9pm $10 per 2 hour session

HOUGEN HERITAGE GALLERY A THRILLING NARRATIVE: DOCUMENTING THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH

To register call: 867-667-4080 Email: recep�on@artsunderground.ca

Reproductions of archival material from the holdings of the Yukon Archives Runs: July-October

OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS (14+) CERAMIC OPEN STUDIO

Every Sunday except long weekends From 2:30-6 pm $5/hr paid to Studio Tech

PAINTING OPEN STUDIO With Neil Graham 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month; From 7-9 pm $10 per two-hour session

LIFE DRAWING OPEN STUDIO

with Neil Graham Friday, September 26 (additional dates TBA) From 7-9 pm $10 per session Programs Arts Underground / Yukon Art Society 867-667-4080 ext 22

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7 pm Particle Fever

Dir Mark Levinson, USA, 2013, 99min. A documentary that gives us a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. The film follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation.

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Under the Skin

9 pm (Parental guidance advised: nudity and mature themes) Dir Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2014, 108min. Scarlett Johansson plays a woman of unknown origin who combs the streets of Glasgow and the Scottish countryside in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again. Stunning imagery and a mesmerizing performance from Johansson, makes this art-house science-fiction fable a haunting experience.

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Movies, Board Games, music and more.

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Volunteering makes a difference to those around you, helps you learn new skills and offers the opportunity to connect with new people.

The Yukon has over 600 active non-profit organizations. All of these organizations require volunteers to operate. In the Yukon, every year more than 18,000 volunteers donate their time. Thank you!

Teens and Adults all welcome By donation for supplies, coffee.

No experience required. (starts week of Sept 15) MON: MUSIC CIRCLE

Singing and Drumming Tues and Thurs: Cards/Games Drop in...bring a friend or two, enjoy a game of cards WED: KNITTING CIRCLE

Group may contract knitting teachers for projects - costs tbd 13 sessions (starts Sep 16) FRI: QUILT/NEEDLEWORK CIRCLE WEEKENDS ALL AGES ACTIVITIES

By donation for supplies, coffee Click here for more detail Saturdays 10 am - 4pm FAMILY DROP-IN

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SINGING, STORY-TELLING

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FAMILY GAMES

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Task description: Support staff during a weekly music evening event. Includes assisting in pushing wheelchairs and engaging with residents to enjoy the evening. Sitting and listening to music. Residents include seniors and elders as well as youth and adults.

INFINITUS STRING TRIO Tuesday, Sept 16th Doors: 7:00 pm at KIAC in the Ballroom $18 advance / $20 door COFFEEHOUSE AND OPEN MIC NIGHT Saturday October 11th 7:00 pm at KIAC in the Ballroom Admission by donation Tel: (867) 993-5005 Fax: (867) 993-5838 Website: www.kiac.ca

Skills needed: Ability to engage with others, friendly attitude, comfortable engaging with seniors and elders.

Criminal record check required.

Responsibilities: Pushing wheel chairs, assisting residents to walk from unit to main area of building, dialogue and talking.

Time commitment: 2 hours a week. Wednesday 5:30 to 7:30. Minimum 6-month commitment required.

Incentive for the volunteer: Increased knowledge of long-term care needs, dementia training opportunities, annual volunteer appreciation event, listening to music

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I’m not a Comedian, I’m Lenny Bruce

by Ryan Dorward

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f you have ever watched an the Lone Ranger. It concludes with HBO show, or have listened an unspeakable act that is not to an LP with a Parental Ad- performed, but suggested. Most of visory, it is your duty to tip your his famous bits were worked out hat to the man who made taboo on the stage, night after night. language not taboo. It’s your duty Booking agents grew weary of his to give thanks and praise to Lenny devoted following, which consistBruce — a man who died for our ed of police officers. With mountfreedom, and contextualized lan- ing legal bills and a profession guage. where the gigs came slowly, the Born in Mineola, only thing left was to New York in 1925, constantly party.

Bruce became a con”Lenny Bruce is troversial counterculdead but his ghost ture comedian. “The lives on and on’’ kind of comedy I do was echoed in a isn’t, like, going to Bob Dylan song from change the world; but his 1981 LP Shot of certain areas of sociLove. Dylan depicts ety make me unhappy, Bruce as a man who and satirizing them — “never robbed any aside from being luchurches or cut off crative — provides a any babies’ heads.” release for me,” He A man on the batsaid. tlefield where every ...Bob Dylan , Today it is hard Shot of Love victory hurt is a fair for a young person to summary of his tragreflect on the imporic last years.If you tance of a man like Bruce. They want to see what they did to Lenmight read The Essential Lenny ny Bruce I’m sure you can find it Bruce book and not understand on the Internet — a ravaged hero the reality of his words. They can on a bathroom floor with a needle watch the movie Lenny (1974), in his arm. If you are a fan, this starring Dustin Hoffman, but image will be haunting and sad. they’ll come out even more conHis drug-use is well known, but fused about the man.Some of his as John Cohen said, with biting “offensive” bits that are my per- anger, “Lenny Bruce did not die of sonal favourites include: Blah Blah an OD; he was murdered by “the Blah, Christ and Moses, Dirty Toi- establishment.”He was reduced let, Las Vegas T&A, and Thank You to scattered bookings and when Mask Man. The last is a satire on he was booked, he would be ar-

Dustin Hoffman played Bruce in the 1974 film, Lenny

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rested or would just break into reading transcripts from his trials.

One of these readings was later worked out by George Carlin into The Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television.In fact, Carlin was once arrested with Lenny for refusing to show his ID card to a policeman. While they were in a holding cell Bruce is believed to have said, “Why didn’t you show them your ID? What are you a schmuck?”

Carlin was the first one to admit that without the sacrifice Bruce made, there would be no comedians such as himself, Richard Pryor, Cheech and Chong, Louis CK, and countless others.But if Lenny Bruce were alive today I’m sure he would laugh off the accolades with some remark such as, “But I’m not original. The only way I could truly say I was original is if I created the English language. I did, man, but they don’t believe me.”

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Step Outside with Larry Leigh

Dumplings For Your Moose Stew I t’s an unfortunate household that doesn’t occasionally sit down to a simmering pot of delicious moose or other wildgame stew. It’s a meal that can be made easily in camp or at home and it’s guaranteed to satisfy even the biggest appetite.

There was a time when a stew wasn’t complete without including dumplings (bread-like balls) floating on the surface. An Internet search will probably reveal a complicated recipe but the ‘keep it simple, stupid’ (KISS) approach is the way to go.

When the stew has simmered, and is within a half-hour or so of serving, the dumpling dough is spooned onto the stew. A second spoon is used to empty the doughladen first spoon, while care is taken not to splash the hot stew on your hands.

The dough balls can be arranged around the inside of the pot and also the open space in the middle of the pot. The tight fitting lid is then replaced on the pot, and requires only minimal peeking during the 10 to 20 minutes for the dough to cook through. No turning of the dumpling is required, as the hot steam under the lid cooks the

top half while the simmering stew cooks the bottom half.

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Dumplings can be made with a packaged biscuit mix, but they are even better from scratch, using any bannock recipe.

Depending on your taste, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, parmesan, 1 tsp dried or 1 tbsp fresh parsley, and finely chopped red onion or onion powder can be added for flavour and colour.

Milk or water can be used for the liquid portion, and if water is the only choice, you can but don’t need to add skim or whole milk powder to make it richer.

Thoroughly mix all the dry ingredients before adding the liquid.

After mixing the batter, let it sit for 10 minutes before spooning it into the hot stew.

BASIC BANNOCK MIX INGREDIENTS 2 pounds caribou round steaks, about 1/2-inch thick and cut into four 2 cups all-purpose flour (or multiple of 2 cups) 4 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 1 cup milk or water (add or delete liquid to get the thick doughy consistency.)

Just the same as the stew itself, the dumplings are delicious reheated the next day and can also be frozen for another day right in the stew.

Dumplings are also a pleasant addition to home-made or even canned soup.

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Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors person who prefers to cook what he harvests himself. He is a past president of the Canadian Wildlife Federation and retired hunter education coordinator for the Government of Yukon.

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:00 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon in July.

There is a gentle breeze blowing. The sun casts a warm glow across the sky. The waves in Marsh Lake are bobbing along smoothly; it is a perfect summer day.

I sip my second cup of coffee while enjoying the view, and the not-too-distant crowing of a rooster startles me.

At first I have to rethink what I just heard. I do not live on a farm, but rather in a nice little neighbourhood nestled in Marsh Lake.

Then it happens again — repeatedly. Clearly, someone is eager to mark his territory. #MaleDominance.

Two weeks pass. I hear the rooster’s crow on a daily basis. The case of the mysterious bird begins to plague my curiosity. Where is it? Is it someone’s pet, or is it being used to mate with hens? Is someone selling fresh eggs in the neighbourhood? If so, this is something I need to know. On that note, I decide that it is time to do some sleuthing. #OperationCrow.

Before I start, I need to do some careful planning, since life in the boonies can be unpredictable. First of all, many properties are covered by evergreen trees. It

thought it would be fun to lead me through a ditch overflowing with fireweed, and get me tangled up in their leashes. #EpicFail.

I return home disappointed.

Sure enough, later that evening as I am barbequing, the rooster’s call returns. I immediately run to the garage and grab a hunting periscope, to see if I can somehow spot it.

“I spy with my little eye, a squirrel, a chipmunk, and a magpie.”

No rooster in sight. I think I went cross-eyed in the process. #SOL Some more days pass, and the rooster is still crowing away happily. I have come to accept that I may never know where the rooster is coming from. After all, how many people who live in Marsh Lake can say their neighbour is a rooster? #HappyEnding #OperationCrow #dismissed #TooMuchTimeOnYourHands.

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up the canines: one large black lab and one very noisy Chihuahua. I figured the combination of size plus shrill yapping would be enough to send any bear packing. #That’sWhatYouThink.

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So when the last market happens it is often a bittersweet time for us all. It is nice to look at an end to long workdays but it is also sad to say good-bye to people.

Even if it is only for the winter.

I have been asked what I do when the markets finish. I usually joke and say, “sleep” or something like that. But there is always something to do on a farm. But just because the markets have stopped doesn’t mean the work is at an end, at least not quite yet.

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and energy we will do extra work on the gardens in preparation for the next spring, like working up a new area to be gardened the following year or adding manure to an existing garden so it is ready to plant.

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But with the earlier than usual frosts we have had this year we may not get done in time. I don’t want to cover the plants too soon, which would kill them, but I also

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September 11 will be the last Thursday market and September 27 will be the last Saturday marPHOTO: Allan Norberg ket. So while the workload may lessen it won’t drop off completely like it has in previous years. We may see vendors and customers at Saturday markets when they normally would only be at the market on Thursdays.

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The program provides participants with free program materials that include a reading passport and twelve collectible stickers.

Each year, the program has a different theme. This year it was ‘Eureka’; we’d like to share highlights of some of our activities.

In Week 3, we read Roge’s French Fry King, which is about a dog that becomes more than just a dog by selling French fries.

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It’s Your Story

Open Pit is calling all Yukoners by: Angela Szymczuk

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he Open Pit theatre company is scouring the territory for stories.

Geneviève Doyon and Jessica Hickman are two playwrights, actors, and founders of Open Pit who are collecting yarns about what it means to call the Yukon home.

They want to talk to anyone.

Next spring, after transcribing and compiling the stories, Doyon and Hickman will present a play based on the stories they’ve gathered.

They will tour the play across the territory later in the year.

This type of theatre is called ‘verbatim’. It will be a play for Yukoners, as told by Yukoners.

Not a single word of stories gathered will be changed. Every breath, sigh, murmur, tone will be replicated to a tee by the actors.

“I thought that this would be a very artistic and creative way to showcase Yukon life,” Doyon says.

Doyon will conduct interviews until November. She plans to visit Ross River, Watson Lake, and Teslin over the next month. She has already spent much of the summer traveling around the territory with a little hand-held recorder, talking to strangers.

Doyon wants people to tell her about home, land, and living in the North.

“People generally live in the Yukon for a reason,? she says.

Either you were born here, or you chose to come here. It’s not often that you just end up here.”

Doyon is looking for the core of why do people live where they do?

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Geneviève Doyon wants your story share deep personal experiences, others are not, but Doyon has no expectations: “People are free to share how much or how little they would like.

I want to hear it all.”

So far, she has listened to more than 50 stories.

Verbatim theatre is a fairly new concept, but Doyon thinks people will find themselves enriched by the outcome.

“I think theater is a very sacred experience, she says. Most of the

time people are always focused on their media devices and are not fully paying attention to their surroundings. When you are at the theatre, all there is to focus on is the performer. It’s just you, and the story being told.

The number of characters in the play has not yet been decided.

“There could be two or there could be 12, she says. Once I go through all of the stories, I will have a better idea of the specific direction of where this play is

going.”

The as-yet untitled play will open in the spring to 2015. But in November, theatre lovers will get a special treat.

Doyon’s verbatim mentor, Joel Bernbaum, will be coming to give workshops. Also, come March, there will be a public open reading of the script.

For those who are shy, all names will be changed for the play. Whether your story about home in the Yukon is one sen-

tence, or takes five hours to tell, Doyon wants to hear from you.

Everyone is asked the same questions, and from there, it’s up to you. It’s your story, after all.

For more information contact Doyon at, genevieve@openp.it, or by phone at 336-0176.

Angela Szymczuk is a Whitehorse-based writer.

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Yukon Blue Bin Recycling Society expands throughout Whitehorse

by Carl Christensen

I

n the beginning it was available only to the people of Riverdale.

But now — two years later — the Yukon Blue Bin Recycling Society has grown large enough to offer recycling pickup to every major residential area in Whitehorse.

Their service is simple; every two weeks a Blue Bin representative comes by to pick up recycling from curbsides. This includes paper, plastics, glass, and metals.

None of it has to be sorted, and there is no maximum amount per household.

It’s $20 per month, which also includes the blue recycling bin and a continuous supply of biodegradable plastic bags.

Jonathan Gorton began utilizing the service soon after it was first offered in Riverdale, and has since enjoyed the extra space in his house, among other things.

“I used to have mountains of recycling,” he says. “It would pile up in my house, garage, everywhere. I had this giant pile in the back of my truck and ravens picked it apart. It was a disaster.

“I’ve always tried to recycle when possible. Sometimes I just can’t be bothered taking it down to the depot and sorting through it all myself.”

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Taylor Tiefenbach acts as the informal general manager for Blue Bin Recycling.

He says that while they are very happy to have expanded into new areas of town, they have their sights set on further horizons.

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Carl Christensen is a Whitehorse-based writer.

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September 18, 2014

We Are Golden

by Joslyn Kilborn

A

s I walk into the Yukon Arts In a calm voice she tells me the Centre early on a Tuesday story behind her work. morning I pass a woman “I started this before the snow holding some wild flowers in her left,” she begins. “And I finished hands. Our eyes meet in the way two weeks ago. I pressed flowers eyes seem to meet in the Yukon — and plants into the clay as the a second longer than normal, ac- seasons offered them. companied by a smile.

“I’ve always been amazed that I feel a trickle of warmth down the people before us had such my spine. hard, laborious lives, and still I’ve come to check out the made such beautiful things” she Beringia exhibit, with no more says, referring to the lace she idea what I’m walking into than a pressed into the tiles. “They have passing remark that it is “just like no value now, are ten cents at the walking into Beringia.”

Sally Ann. This is a way to preThe exhibit is educational, mu- serve their beauty.” seum style, mammoth skeletons There are also the imprints grinning down on me as I walk of various 21st century objects, through it. But I don’t get very far representing human impact on before I’m drawn into the smaller the environment in the relatively room on the right, where Sandra short time we’ve been a part of it.

Grace Storey’s show We Are Gold“You can’t go into the woods en is on display until the end of without finding a pile of tin cans, November. or even the remains of a fire pit.”

I’m immediately captivated.

Pulling back from the details of The room is a balance of light and her work, Storey touches on the shadow, casting a mood of solem- significance of the caribou, which nity. My voice unconsciously shifts she had long yearned to sculpt a to a whisper. herd of.

Across almost sixty feet of wall “Caribou are community, conhangs a tapestry of tile-work out nection, survivors, part of the of which life-size caribou rear landscape, and they give of themtheir heads or raise their hooves. selves, their bodies. In many ways As I move closer to the tiles, their they are very much like us.” richness of detail The caribou begins to reveal take up most of itself, an intricate the piece, yet it’s weave of the imalmost difficult to prints left behind make their features by lace and flowers out from the rest of and the occasional Storey’s sculpted poignant word. mural. Every eleIt’s beautiful. ment — human, On the other end animal, natural, of the room, two man-made — all clay children peer are woven togethup into the sky, er into something and in between the that hangs between two stands a large, landscape and folkominous raven. lore.

Another raven’s Even the mood shadow circles the I felt entering the room, the dark silroom has been houette of its wings sculpted by Storey’s moving across the hands. tile work, often “Everything is --Sandra Grace Storey, falling on me, delife-size so the Tagish sculptor pending on where I viewer is not in stand. control,” she tells I’ve entered another world, for me. “You participate in the story sure, but I don’t think it’s Berin- by entering the space.” gia.

The raven circling overhead When I ask if I’m allowed to makes sure of this, his shadow take photos, I’m told of my lucky falling on the viewer as much as fortune — the artist has just hap- on the art. pened to stop by. Would I like to “You are entering a moment of speak with her? an ongoing myth.”

A moment later I’m introduced to the woman who smiled at me in Joslyn Kilborn is a the hallway. Sandra Grace Storey, Whitehorse-based writer.

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Vancouver-based theatre artist, writer, yoga teacher, storyteller, and co-artistic director of The Chop, Emelia Symington Fedy asks, “what if the dark doesn’t go away?

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recently heard the term “supermarket spiritualism” to describe folks walking down the proverbial aisle picking and choosing bits and pieces from every spiritual practice imaginable. And then paying for it all at the checkout.

Emelia Symington Fedy, a Vancouver-based theatre artist, performer, writer and yoga teacher uses the term, “spiritual capitalism” in her lovingly honest and sharply funny online blog/advice column, Trying to be Good…entertainment for the places that hurt.

Fedy’s personal experiences with “spiritual capitalism” inspired Through the Gaze of the Navel by theatre group The Chop, coming to the Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, Wednesday September 17 – Saturday September 20.

Since she bought her first self-help book at age 12, Fedy has spent roughly $80,000 on her pursuit of obsessively finding “the answer”.

Lately, Fedy says, “I still enter the terrain of selfhelp but I’m discerning; I have an impulse to learn and there is an addictive quality to the search. It’s difficult to just sit without knowing the answers. I think we’re uncomfortable with sitting in the dark; we want someone to tell us it’s going to be okay.”

Through the Gaze of the Navel is a performance in the form of a yoga class taught by Fedy, who is certified to teach both Classical Astanga yoga and AcroYoga.

She says, “the show is a lot like how I teach normally, except more intense and with more jokes.

“Audiences often comment, ‘if this was a yoga class, I’d go everyday.’”

However, if you attend the show, participating in the class is not required.

“It’s a multi-layered event,” says Fedy, “and it’s interesting to watch from each sight: either chairs or yogapmats.

Youmarmot can donear thethe breathing exercises A baby Pika Camp. right in your chair.”

Marmots hibernate during the winter The theme of the class performed in Through do notisneed to cache food. the Gaze ofand a Navel darkness, also known as “the void”.

Fedy says, “Neo-spirituality emphasizes the light, it’s all about reaching for the light; but even in my regular yoga teaching I tend to focus on the questions.

“We’re often asked to leave our problems at the door of a yoga class, but is that really possible?”

This carefully scripted performance is darkly comic and slyly subversive, but it is also kind.

“Good satire is not making fun of anything,” says Fedy. “We’re not pointing and laughing, there’s no cruelty here, its not mean-spirited. Yoga teachers who attend the show tend to laugh the most.”

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Two weeks before opening night, Rochon suggested that Fedy perform the material as though she were teaching a yoga class. Until then the performance was, “basically a stand and deliver solo comedy routine”. At first, Fedy felt there wouldn’t be enough time to fully realize the yoga class element.

But ever self-aware, Fedy also realizes, “part of our creative process is that Rochon asks me to do something, and I say “no”. In the end, the yoga class is a perfect container for the show and it allows everyone to get involved.”

And Fedy knows a thing or two about getting everyone involved.

“I’m a small town girl, and this is show is a family affair. My husband, Christy Watson, is a musician; he created and performs the music in the show. We’re bringing our kid up too; and I’m six months pregnant.”

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Watch the dancers show off their skills, and listen as Gertie belts out some of her favourite tunes.

Please keep 2 swim events up top each Sat, Sep 20 KIAC Drop-in Painting 1:00 week PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Wed, Sep 17 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ brushes $ easels are supplied, no instruction ctfn.ca offered.

Wed, Sep 17 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Sat, Sep 20 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Wed, Sep 17 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Centre Capacity Building Sun, Sep 21 St. Paul’s Church Service Thu, Sep 18 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Capacity Building Mon, Sep 22 Super Seniors Weights 55+ Thu, Sep 18 Prenatal Classes for Mothers 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Mon, Sep 22 Women & Weights (Ladies Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Mon, Sep 22 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM Sun, Sep 21 St. Saviours Church Service KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 11:00 AM St. Saviours Church 867-668-3129 bekmiller1234@gmail.com please sign up in Mon, Sep 22 C/TFN Carving Shed open advance 5:30 PM Carcross Carving Shed Keith Wolf Mon, Sep 22 LIfe Drawing 7:00 PM KIAC Smarch will be in attendance to provide Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993guidance/help with all manner of traditional 5005 Drawing tools provided, and paper is artwork available for purchase.

Tue, Sep 23 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM If you’re interested in modeling contact Dana: The Old Daycare kiac@kiac.ca.

Tue, Sep 23 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Mon, Sep 22 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 Tlâ Community School PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Tue, Sep 23 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 workout!

Wed, Sep 24 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Tue, Sep 23 Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare Nostrand 5:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ of Art & Culture 867-993-5005 Classes ctfn.ca are cancelled on holidays and subject Wed, Sep 24 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM to cancellation for room bookings. Email Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 yogawithjoanne@me.com to confirm classes.

Wed, Sep 24 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Tue, Sep 23 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Capacity Building Service School 867-993-2520 For more Thu, Sep 25 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN information email: getrealfit(at)me.com Capacity Building Wed, Sep 24 Kundalini Yoga with Marielle Thu, Sep 25 Prenatal Classes for Mothers 6:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Culture 993-6347 In the ballroom Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Wed, Sep 24 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, Sep 24 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy until Fri, Sep 19 “Encounters with the Sublime” Photography Exhibit by Salgado Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Thu, Sep 25 Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van and Washburn 4:30 PM Palace Grand Nostrand 5:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute Theatre of Art & Culture 867-993-5005 Classes until Fri, Sep 19 The Natural and the Manufactured KIAC Klondike Institute of Art are cancelled on holidays and subject to cancellation for room bookings. Email & Culture 867-993-5005 This project seeks yogawithjoanne@me.com to confirm classes. to explore alternative political, social and Thu, Sep 25 Tr’ondek Hwech’in Traditional aesthetic agendas and strategies towards a Thursdays 9:30 AM Tr’ondek Hwech’in reinterpretation and new understanding of Community Support Centre 993-7100 ext. our relationship to the environment Wed, Sep 17 Kundalini Yoga with Marielle 150 Please PRE REGISTER! Please bring proper outdoor wear, your own full water 6:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & bottle & buckets! Lunch will be provided Culture 993-6347 In the ballroom Wed, Sep 17 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 Fri, Sep 26 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired Fri, Sep 26 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre workout!

Wed, Sep 17 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Fri, Sep 26 CFYT Talent Night 7:00 PM Diamond Tooth Gerties 867-993-5575 Show Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio. off your talents on the big stage at Diamond Thu, Sep 18 Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Tooth Gerties, or just come by and watch Nostrand 5:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute others as they demonstrate their unique of Art & Culture 867-993-5005 Classes skills! are cancelled on holidays and subject Fri, Sep 26 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 to cancellation for room bookings. Email yogawithjoanne@me.com to confirm classes. PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired Fri, Sep 19 Super Seniors Weights 55+ workout!

11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre

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Cowley Lake Farm Fair Sept 27 & Sept 28 1 to 4 pm MIDNIGHT SUN ALPACAS Come meet the animals that produce the soft fibre for the wonderful socks, scarves, blankets, hats, mitts and more.

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Fri, Sep 26 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Sep 27 KIAC Drop-in Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes $ easels are supplied, no instruction offered.

Sat, Sep 27 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sun, Sep 28 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381

Fri, Sep 26 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Sun, Sep 28 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Sep 28 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

Golden Horn

Fridays Golden Horn Judo Club 3:30 PM Golden Horn School judoyukon@gmail.com or Mike 668- 6952. Under 15 years Sundays Badminton 7:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary School Tracy 393-7641 Tuesdays Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary School Terice 668-6631 Wed, Sep 17 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 Tuesdays Badminton 7:30 PM Golden Horn AM Faro Community Library For Babies to Elementary School Tracy 393-7641 age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Sep 17 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Sep 17 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Wed, Sep 17 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult. faroyukon.ca Wed, Sep 17 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Del Van Gorder School Thu, Sep 18 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch Thu, Sep 18 Faro Farmer’s Market 10:00 11:00 AM Mun Ku AM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 18 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Thu, Sep 18 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 Community School PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 18 Infinitus String Trio 7:30 Thu, Sep 18 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro PM St Elias Convention Centre Come see Recreation Centre Infinitus, the Vancouver-based string trio Thu, Sep 18 Gospel Service 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre In the Sportsman Lounge who combines classical music with hip-hop Everyone Welcome. Bring your Bible. A hymn and jazz.

Sun, Sep 21 St Christopher’s Church book will be provided.

Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church Fri, Sep 19 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere faroyukon.ca Mon, Sep 22 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Fri, Sep 19 Archery 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Sep 23 Southern Tutchone Classes faroyukon.ca 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Fri, Sep 19 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Tue, Sep 23 Takhini Family Game Night Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 7:00 PM Takhini Hall 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep 19 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Wed, Sep 24 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards Faro Recreation Centre children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.

Sun, Sep 21 Faro Church of Apostles Any preschool child is welcome to attend Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles (0-5) Sun, Sep 21 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Thu, Sep 25 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel with 11:00 AM Mun Ku Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Thu, Sep 25 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Mon, Sep 22 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Community School Van Gorder School Sun, Sep 28 St Christopher’s Church Tue, Sep 23 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church PM Faro Recreation Centre 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Tue, Sep 23 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Brabandere Van Gorder School

Faro

Haines Junction

Tue, Sep 23 Archery 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Tue, Sep 23 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Wed, Sep 24 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Sep 24 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Sep 24 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Wed, Sep 24 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Thu, Sep 25 Faro Farmer’s Market 10:00 AM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 25 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 25 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Sep 26 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep 26 Archery 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep 26 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca

Hamlet of Mt. Lorne

Wed, Sep 17 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Sep 18 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Thu, Sep 18 Mt. Lorne Crafters 7:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Drop in , bring your current project ..And talk to Dawn Bouquot Check out everything from knitting , crochet, appliqué, quilting to more wool crafts and penny rugs…

Fri, Sep 19 Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Sat, Sep 20 Mount Lorne “The Ingestible Festival” 4:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Sat, Sep 20 Southern Lakes Harvest Fair 7:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Celebrate the harvest in the Pavilion! Barn Dance with Bob Kuiper and the Barndance Ban Wed, Sep 24 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Sep 25 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Daily Draw for 2 Pairs of Socks!

Hope to see you there!

Marsh Lake

Wed, Sep 17 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Fri, Sep 19 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights last Friday of each month Fri, Sep 19 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Sep 20 South of 6 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Sep 20 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sun, Sep 21 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Association 6604999 All welcome Tue, Sep 23 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Tue, Sep 23 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Sep 24 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Fri, Sep 26 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights last Friday of each month Fri, Sep 26 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Sep 27 South of 6 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Sep 27 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sun, Sep 28 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Association 6604999 All welcome

Mayo

Wed, Sep 17 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, Sep 17 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School Gym Thu, Sep 18 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Sep 18 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Sep 18 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey Fri, Sep 19 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie night Sun, Sep 21 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746 Mon, Sep 22 Yoga in Mayo 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre Yoga in the Mayo community hall, every Monday in the summer.

Tue, Sep 23 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Tue, Sep 23 Drop in badminton 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 drop in badminton Tue, Sep 23 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey Wed, Sep 24 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, Sep 24 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School Gym Thu, Sep 25 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Sep 25 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Sep 25 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo u Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey

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The 4H Spirit Rider kids have been training with a former RCMP who taught the musical ride.

Their performance will be on Sunday at 2:30pm

Fri, Sep 26 Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Sun, Sep 28 Musical Potluck for artists 5:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre 667-7083 Come out and meet and jam with other local musicians with the goal of creating some new collaborations to perform at the Mt Music night. Emerging artists are WELCOME. No performance experience necessary.Free for all artists—dinner provided !

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Fri, Sep 26 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie night Sun, Sep 28 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746

Old Crow

Thu, Sep 18 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Sep 21 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Mon, Sep 22 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238 Thu, Sep 25 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Sep 28 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381

Ross River

Sat, Sep 27 Antler Carving workshop with Dennis Shorty 10:00 AM Dennis Shorty Fine Art Gallery and Studio To register and for more info contact Jenny or Dennis 969-2296 335-3355 limited seats.

For ages 14 and over.

Tagish

Wed, Sep 17 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Sep 17 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Sep 17 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Sep 17 Tagish Community Association meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.ca Thu, Sep 18 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Sat, Sep 20 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sun, Sep 21 Pancake Breakfast! 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Once per month everyone welcome Tue, Sep 23 Stay Get Fit 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Wed, Sep 24 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Sep 24 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Sep 24 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

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September 18, 2014 Thu, Sep 25 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Sat, Sep 27 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418

Teslin

Wed, Sep 17 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Sep 17 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, Sep 18 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, Sep 21 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, Sep 22 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Tue, Sep 23 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Wed, Sep 24 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Sep 24 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, Sep 25 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, Sep 28 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center

Watson Lake

Wed, Sep 17 Ball Hockey 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Bring your stick, glove and road hockey goalie gear if you have it. None will be provided for you. there will be a small fee to play.

Thu, Sep 18 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Sep 18 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 18 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 18 Girls Youth Night 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 18 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 20 Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Andrea’s Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239 Sat, Sep 20 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 20 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, Sep 21 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Mon, Sep 22 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Mon, Sep 22 Ball Hockey 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Bring your stick, glove and road hockey goalie gear if you have it. None will be provided for you. there will be a small fee to play.

Wed, Sep 24 Ball Hockey 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Bring your stick, glove and road hockey goalie gear if you have it. None will be provided for you. there will be a small fee to play.

Thu, Sep 25 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Sep 25 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 25 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 25 Girls Youth Night 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Sep 25 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 27 Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Andrea’s Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239 Sat, Sep 27 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 27 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, Sep 28 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932

Skagway

Wed, Sep 17 Spinning Xpress with Emily 5:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Sep 17 Spinning Xpress with Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Sep 17 Rock Wall Belay Classes 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre 6-7:30 pm Belay Instruction,7:30-8 pm Belay Check Thu, Sep 18 Mat Pilates With Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Fri, Sep 19 Spinning Xpress with Jennifer 7:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 20 Rock Wall Belay Classes 11:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre 1112:30 pm Belay Instruction, 12:30-1 pm Belay Check Sun, Sep 21 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!

Mon, Sep 22 Spinning Xpress with Emily 5:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre

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Mon, Sep 22 Spinning Xpress with Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Sep 23 Mat Pilates With Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Tue, Sep 23 Spinning Xpress with Jennifer 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Sep 23 Beginner Friendly Climbing Night 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre This is for people that have been belay checked and want to practice their skills in a beginner environment! Gather your friends for a fun night out!

Wed, Sep 24 Spinning Xpress with Emily 5:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Sep 24 Spinning Xpress with Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Sep 24 Rock Wall Belay Classes 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre 6-7:30 pm Belay Instruction,7:30-8 pm Belay Check Thu, Sep 25 Mat Pilates With Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Fri, Sep 26 Spinning Xpress with Jennifer 7:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Sep 27 Rock Wall Belay Classes 11:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre 1112:30 pm Belay Instruction, 12:30-1 pm Belay Check Sun, Sep 28 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!

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

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 9962825 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 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

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

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

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Carcross

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

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Active Interest LISTINGS Mon, Sep 8 Trampoline Training for Snowboarders 7:00 PM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club 334-2944 Mon, Sep 15 Nordic Walking for Seniors 1:00 PM Mt McIntyre Rec Centre (Ski Chalet) 867-668-4477 Two programs - Intro to Nordic Walking and Nordic Walking for Fit Seniors - Learn the correct technique for using ski poles while walking or hiking and explore the Mt Mac trails Wed, Sep 17 Co-ed Fall Volleyball League 8:00 PM F.H. Collins Secondary Registration and Information: volleyballyukon..com Wed, Sep 17 Seniors +55 Tai Chi Chuan 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Class size is limited to a maximum of 10 participants. Contact: Jo-Ann Gates @ 667-4531 Wed, Sep 17 FREE Lunchtime Yoga 12:00 PM Shanti Yoga 867-456-7123 Learn to breathe, stretch and relax!

Donations Welcome. Use back entrance of Hawkins House No experience required all are welcome Wed, Sep 17 Hand to Hand - Level 2&3 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Sep 17 Staff/Jo with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Sep 17 Bhangra Dance Classes 7:00 PM Shipyards Park 867-336-3344 The objective of these free dance classes is to bring happiness and good health to life through dancing!

Wed, Sep 17 Yukon Roller Girls League Practice 8:30 PM Canada Games Centre Scrimmage Practice, all members welcome Thu, Sep 18 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Sep 18 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Hand Form 6:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School No previous tai chi experience is required. Contact: Helene Dobrowolsky @ 668-3814 Thu, Sep 18 Introductory Tai Chi Chuan 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School This class will focus on basic tai chi movements grounded in the 10 essential principles and 13 steps of tai chi chuan and prepares players for the traditional hand and weapon forms. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Thu, Sep 18 Fun With Forms 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School It is based on taiji hand, staff and spear, wushu and hockey movements. This class is for experienced taiji players only. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Fri, Sep 19 Hand to Hand - Level 1 (lunch class) with Gael 11:30 AM Aikido Yukon Dojo Fri, Sep 19 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Sat, Sep 20 Steve Nash Youth Basketball Jack Hulland Elementary 867-393-4390 Ages 5-7 9:30am 10:30am,Ages 8-10 10:30am - 11:30am Sat, Sep 20 Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Sep 20 Closing Scramble Golf Tournament Mountain View Golf Course 633-6020

Sun, Sep 21 Birding the Whitehorse Sewage Ponds 10:00 AM S.S.Klondike Birding the Whitehorse sewage ponds with Devon Yacura. Meet at the SS. Klondike at 10am. (2 hrs) Sun, Sep 21 Yukon Cross Country Running Championships 11:30 AM Mount MacIntyre Recreation Centre 6335671 Mt. McIntyre Ski Trails, start and finish at the wax room of the Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club Registration: 11:30 am Race Start: 12:00 pm Sun, Sep 21 Ultimate Frisbee 5:30 PM Canada Games Centre 668-6517 Come out and play some frisbee. All levels are welcome.

Sun, Sep 21 Badminton 7:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Tracy 393-7641 Mon, Sep 22 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 16 Movement Hand Form 7:00 PM Grey Mountain Primary School This introductory tai chi chuan (taijiquan) class will focus on the Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 16 Movement Hand Form.

Contact: Jo-Ann Gates 667-4531 Mon, Sep 22 Qigong and Tai Chi for Seniors 10:00 AM Golden Age Society This class involves flowing, gentle qigong exercises and Yang Style 16 Movement Tai Chi Chuan that help with relaxation, balance, strength and general well-being.

Contact: Jo-Ann Gates at 667-4531 Mon, Sep 22 Hand to Hand - Level 1&2 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Sep 22 Whitehorse Community Choir Practice 6:00 PM Whitehorse United Church 6pm Neptunes Rehearsal, 7:15pm Big Choir Rehearsal Mon, Sep 22 Sword/Bokken with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Sep 22 Yukon Roller Girls Team Practice 7:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School 30 minutes off skate work followed by Skills and Drills Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Form Refinements 6:00 PM Holy Family Elementary This term the refinement class will focus on fine tuning and improving our movements of the Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 103 Movement Hand Form.

Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034.

Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Partner Work 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Learn how to use the 8 energies against an opponent and how to neutralize them when used against you. This class is for experience tai chi players. Contact: Pam Boyde @ 633-6034 Tue, Sep 23 Fun Run/Walk 6:00 PM F.H. Collins Secondary 633-5671 Run or walk a 2.5 km route, or a 5 km route.

Tue, Sep 23 pick-up beach volleyball 12:00 AM Rotary Peace Park All are welcome with 3 courts, music playing and great nights of volleyball Tue, Sep 23 Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Tracy 393-7641 Tue, Sep 23 Badminton 7:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Tracy 393-7641 Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Beginners Yang Style 108 Form 8:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School Handed down by Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing (Zheng Manqing) and Dr. Chi Chian Tao. Contact: Laura Beattie 456-7609.

Wellness LISTINGS Wed, Sep 24 Seniors +55 Tai Chi Chuan 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Class size is limited to a maximum of 10 participants. Contact: Jo-Ann Gates @ 667-4531 Wed, Sep 24 FREE Lunchtime Yoga 12:00 PM Shanti Yoga 867-456-7123 Learn to breathe, stretch and relax!

Donations Welcome. Use back entrance of Hawkins House No experience required all are welcome Wed, Sep 24 Hand to Hand - Level 2&3 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Sep 24 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Hand Form 6:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School No previous tai chi experience is required. Contact: Helene Dobrowolsky @ 668-3814 Wed, Sep 24 Staff/Jo with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Sep 24 Bhangra Dance Classes 7:00 PM Shipyards Park 867-336-3344 The objective of these free dance classes is to bring happiness and good health to life through dancing!

Wed, Sep 24 Yukon Roller Girls “Fresh Meat” Drop In 8:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School Open to all who want to come out and try Roller Derby Wed, Sep 24 Yukon Roller Girls League Practice 8:30 PM Canada Games Centre Scrimmage Practice, all members welcome Thu, Sep 25 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Sep 25 Introductory Tai Chi Chuan 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School This class will focus on basic tai chi movements grounded in the 10 essential principles and 13 steps of tai chi chuan and prepares players for the traditional hand and weapon forms. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Thu, Sep 25 Fun With Forms 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School It is based on taiji hand, staff and spear, wushu and hockey movements. This class is for experienced taiji players only. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Fri, Sep 26 Hand to Hand - Level 1 (lunch class) with Gael 11:30 AM Aikido Yukon Dojo Fri, Sep 26 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Fri, Sep 26 Elk Bugling 6:00 PM North Klondike Rest Stop Join us to view Elk in rut and hear them bugling. We’ll carpool up the highway to the Takhini Burn and try to spot the Elk on the slopes. Be sure to dress for falling temperatures and bring a warm drink for after the walk.

Fri, Sep 26 Yukon Orienteering Association final event of the year.

8:00 PM Wolf Creek Campground 6682639 Register at Campground at 8:00pm.

Bring your headlamp. For info call Jim 668-2639 Sat, Sep 27 Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sun, Sep 28 Ultimate Frisbee 5:30 PM Canada Games Centre 668-6517 Come out and play some frisbee. All levels are welcome.

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Tue, Sep 2 Path To Wellness-Jackson Lake Land-Based Healing Program Womens Camp Kwanlin Dun First Nation 867-633-2629 Do you or someone you know ready to heal from the effects of violence or trauma, from addiction or impacts of residential school? Email: colleen.geddes@kwanlindun.com Cell: 867-334-4697. Everyone welcome over 19 only Tue, Sep 9 Ignite Your Light! New wellness program for abundant energy! 5:00 PM White Swan Sanctuary (867) 333-9001 discover the foods that make you thrive, deconstruct your cravings, develop healthy habits that last, uncover hidden energy zappers and experience the rejuvenating and restorative effects of yoga. Find your balance, feel your fog lift and your energy soar!

Wed, Sep 17 Seniors +55 Tai Chi Chuan 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Class size is limited to a maximum of 10 participants. Contact: Jo-Ann Gates @ 667-4531 Wed, Sep 17 Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Sep 17 Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 PM Whitehorse Food Bank 3349317 Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Sep 17 FREE Lunchtime Yoga 12:00 PM Shanti Yoga 867-456-7123 Learn to breathe, stretch and relax!

Donations Welcome. Use back entrance of Hawkins House No experience required all are welcome Wed, Sep 17 One On One Support 1:00 PM Second Opinions Society A support staff will be available for one on one sessions every Tuesday Wed, Sep 17 Whitehorse Weight Watchers 4:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Please arrive 30-minutes prior to the listed meeting time for weigh-in and registration.

Wed, Sep 17 Manage Your Osteoarthritis 7:30 PM Canada Games Centre Learn how to deal with osteoarthritis through proper exercise, correct posture, joining protection, nutrition and weight management, medications and supplements and pain and stress management techniques.

Thu, Sep 18 Second Opinion Society Community Lunch 12:00 PM Second Opinions Society Thu, Sep 18 Canadian Celiac Association Yukon Support Group Whitehorse 6:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Canadian Celiac Association for information, informal discussion and support Thu, Sep 18 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Hand Form 6:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School No previous tai chi experience is required. Contact: Helene Dobrowolsky @ 668-3814 Thu, Sep 18 Introductory Tai Chi Chuan 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School This class will focus on basic tai chi movements grounded in the 10 essential principles and 13 steps of tai chi chuan and prepares players for the traditional hand and weapon forms. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Thu, Sep 18 Fun With Forms 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School It is based on taiji hand, staff and spear, wushu and hockey movements. This class is for experienced taiji players only. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Fri, Sep 19 Yoga with Bonnie MacDonald 8:15 AM Vista Outdoor Learning Centre 668-2791 Ten class series. Call to register.

Fri, Sep 19 Yoga with Bonnie MacDonald 10:15 AM Vista Outdoor Learning Centre 668-2791 Ten class beginner series. Call to register.

Sat, Sep 20 Whitehorse Weight Watchers 8:30 AM Whitehorse United Church Please arrive 30-minutes prior to the listed meeting time for weigh-in and registration.

Sat, Sep 20 Being the Change in your Relationship Workshop 9:00 AM Sundog Retreat 633-6719 two-day fun and rejuvenating experiential workshop is designed to shine a light on the current state of your relationship while providing proven practical and heart opening tools and strategies for deepening your connection as a couple Sat, Sep 20 Prévention du suicide 12:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library (867)668-2663 ext 500 Animation par Jessica Nadon. Gratuit. Places limitées Sat, Sep 20 PFLAG Meeting 7:00 PM Yukon College Support for those struggling with sexual orientation and gender identity in themselves or someone they know. Everyone welcome Mon, Sep 22 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 16 Movement Hand Form 7:00 PM Grey Mountain Primary School This introductory tai chi chuan (taijiquan) class will focus on the Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 16 Movement Hand Form.

Contact: Jo-Ann Gates 667-4531

Mon, Sep 22 Qigong and Tai Chi for Seniors 10:00 AM Golden Age Society This class involves flowing, gentle qigong exercises and Yang Style 16 Movement Tai Chi Chuan that help with relaxation, balance, strength and general well-being.

Contact: Jo-Ann Gates at 667-4531 Mon, Sep 22 Practical Skills Class 2:00 PM Second Opinions Society 867-6672037 Join us for a class on a practical skill including resume building, budgeting, communication etc...

Mon, Sep 22 Hospice Fall Walking Group 6:00 PM Whitehorse Millennium Trail 667-7429 Participants walk in groups of twos and threes with trained Hospice volunteers around the 5k Millennium Trail and share a light refreshment afterwards.

The group meets at the Robert Service Campground.

Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Form Refinements 6:00 PM Holy Family Elementary This term the refinement class will focus on fine tuning and improving our movements of the Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan 103 Movement Hand Form.

Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034.

Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Partner Work 7:00 PM Holy Family Elementary Learn how to use the 8 energies against an opponent and how to neutralize them when used against you. This class is for experience tai chi players. Contact: Pam Boyde @ 633-6034 Tue, Sep 23 One On One Support 10:00 AM Second Opinions Society A support staff will be available for one on one sessions every Tuesday Tue, Sep 23 Wellness Support Group 2:00 PM Second Opinions Society Everyone is welcome to this afternoon support group for those looking for a place to share, learn and grow.

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Tue, Sep 23 Tai Chi Beginners Yang Style 108 Form 8:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School Handed down by Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing (Zheng Manqing) and Dr. Chi Chian Tao. Contact: Laura Beattie 456-7609.

Wed, Sep 24 Seniors +55 Tai Chi Chuan 10:00 AM Golden Age Society Class size is limited to a maximum of 10 participants. Contact: Jo-Ann Gates @ 667-4531 Wed, Sep 24 Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Sep 24 Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 PM Whitehorse Food Bank 3349317 Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Sep 24 FREE Lunchtime Yoga 12:00 PM Shanti Yoga 867-456-7123 Learn to breathe, stretch and relax!

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Wed, Sep 24 Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Hand Form 6:00 PM Elija Smith Elementary School No previous tai chi experience is required. Contact: Helene Dobrowolsky @ 668-3814 Thu, Sep 25 Second Opinion Society Community Lunch 12:00 PM Second Opinions Society Thu, Sep 25 Introductory Tai Chi Chuan 6:00 PM Hidden Valley School This class will focus on basic tai chi movements grounded in the 10 essential principles and 13 steps of tai chi chuan and prepares players for the traditional hand and weapon forms. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Thu, Sep 25 Fun With Forms 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School It is based on taiji hand, staff and spear, wushu and hockey movements. This class is for experienced taiji players only. Contact: Pam Boyde 633-6034 Fri, Sep 26 Yoga with Bonnie MacDonald 8:15 AM Vista Outdoor Learning Centre 668-2791 Ten class series. Call to register.

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Watson Lake Has a New Bowling Alley

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The bowling alley at the Morgan Chaddock Recreation Centre is now computerized, which means that lanes can be segregated, therefore more than one group can bowl at a time.

Also, it keeps score for you on big screens instead of requiring bowlers to manually do it themselves; this makes the game more appealing to those of us that don’t know how to score.

It also puts your names up on the screen, and if it is someone’s birthday you can personalize a message; it could be perfect place to hold your next birthday or event.

The bowling alley in Watson Lake is a place where people of all ages and skills levels can bowl — that’s the main reason the re-

creation centre is getting dinosaur bowling-aids for the children.

They can put their bowling balls in the dinosaurs, which help the kids bowl, and ensure the floor won’t be damaged, and the kids won’t get hurt.

You don’t have to wear a special bowling outfit, but bowling shoes are available at the front.

There are restrooms and lockers to change into comfortable clothing for the game.

Behind the lanes is a rest area; players can sit and keep score while observing their partner’s game.

Currently there is a group interested in doing league bowling, so if you are interested in this particular sport, come and play — it is a great way to meet new people, or to grow closer with your group of friends.

The total spent on the bowling

alley was just over $80,000, but it was worth it. And if you are still thinking of good reasons to take your kids or friends bowling to the Watson Lake bowling alley, there are some points that you should consider next time: Bowling can be played yearround, so you don’t have to worry about extreme heat or cold; bowling is great for birthdays at all ages; bowling is inexpensive; bowling is a social sport in which you can share good conversation; bowling teaches patience, sportsmanship, and how to work with a team.

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September 18, 2014

Dawson City: the Town that Killed my Viet Nam Blues

by Doug Sack

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ometimes, nostalgia sucks and takes you back to places you don’t need to be.

There was a time in this old drifter’s life, like 1972, when Dawson City, The Heart of the Klondike, had all the answers for a young man who had lost his bag of questions.

I’ve never written about it before; indeed, it took me over 20 years to talk about it.

When I got to Dawson I was still having trouble with PostTraumatic Stress Disorder, which, of course, wasn’t diagnosed until much later.

At the time I simply called it “the Viet Nam Blues.”

I was 18 when I joined the United States Marine Corps, 19 when we deployed to Chu Lai in June 1966, 20 when we came home in July 1967 to taunts of “baby killers” from hippies, and still 20 on August 31, 1967 when I was released from active duty. I wasn’t old enough to drink legally or vote, but I felt as if I was 35 and had somehow missed 15 years of formative, early manhood.

I was furious with my government and country for sending hundreds of thousands of kids from my generation to that godforsaken jungle to fight an insane war based on a misguided premise.

The years between 1968 and 1971 are a haze of drugs, booze, three failed attempts at getting a university education, and a failed attempt at writing for a big city daily as a crime reporter.

When my girlfriend in Grand Lake, Colorado turned down my mescaline-addled marriage proposal because “you’re easy to love but too crazy to marry,” I threw my hands up in surrender, packed up my car and headed for Alaska where I intended to live like Griz-

zly Adams in a remote bush cabin, panning for gold until the craziness went away.

I have no memory of my formal entry into Canada because I was wrecked on psilocybin and can only guess I crossed the border somewhere in Alberta because I sobered up in a campground in Banff and had to learn a new language to get my hands on a cold beer, which tasted like stale syrup watered down with vinegar.

Still does, had one last night.

I didn’t have much money in my pocket but beers in the King Eddie (or was it George?) were only 25 cents and kicked like a mule, so I was contentedly getting sloshed in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday when my newfound drinking amigos and all the rest of the young Canadian males in the pub rose and began scurrying for the exit signs like rats from a sinking ship. One got me up to speed as he gathered his loose change: “Forestry! There must be a fire somewhere but you don’t have to worry. They can only conscript Canadians.”

Then he was gone.

Because everyone else was running for their lives, I walked up to them and volunteered to fight the fire, using my best imitation of a Canadian accent: “Fire, eh? Goooood to go, lads.”

They sent me to Blue River, BC and a month later I had my first Canadian grubstake and a pocket full of “rainbow money” which I figured was enough to get me to Alaska.

Except it wasn’t.

By the time I got to Dawson Creek, BC, Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway, I was broke again, so I went into a federal Immigration office where I found a WWII vet

named Ed Drage and told him I had a problem.

“First off, I’m busy. Who are ya, what are ya, where ya goin’, and what’s your problem?”

I said I was a broke American heading for Alaska to look for gold and be a writer.

He raised his eyebrows, glared over the top of his bi-focals and said gruffly, “Who the hell do you think you are, Jack London?”

Turns out I was the first Viet Nam veteran he had ever met in his line of work because most of the Americans he processed into Canada at that time were draft dodgers. He gave me a test, made me a landed immigrant legal to work, and sent me out to drive a grain truck helping a local farmer get his harvest from the fields into the silos.

A couple weeks later, he sent me on my way with advice to spend the coming winter in Whitehorse. I did, and found a goodpaying job with Loiselle Transport unloading highway rigs into small trucks and delivering the goods around town.

The following spring I had the May long weekend off and “discovered” Dawson City, the town that killed my Viet Nam Blues.

When I arrived in Dawson, there was a sign posted on front of the old DCW grocery store (the empty lot between the Midnight Sun and the pink Pit) saying: “Blackjack dealers needed for the first season of Diamond Tooth Gerties gambling casino. See April Moi inside.”

That sounded like more fun than unloading trucks so I went in to see April and she hired me.

I joined the blackjack school that was taught by a professional pit boss from Lake Tahoe named Bob Bussey. His contract included

training dealers then running the pits for the first two weeks while he selected one of the dealers to officially become the first pit boss of Canada’s first legal gambling casino.

He selected a bullgoose loony Viet Nam veteran whose only real aspiration was to become a hermit.

Now, with memories like these running through my head while Klondike campgrounds and hotels were being gorged with Mongollike hordes, I read the 2014 Discovery Days itinerary and freaked out like it was the Tet Offensive all over again. Fear and loathing of crowds and noise is a definite Blues symptom.

I decided I’d rather be in Keno City having one of Mike Mancini’s world famous pizzas, and so I did.

Keno is like Atlin without the lake, and there are no little people in black pajamas trying to mess with my mind. In fact, I’m the only tourist here and the sound of silence is sweet.

I respect you, Dawson City, for

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Doug Sack, survivor saving my life 42 years ago, but some of your memories are too harsh to handle, and I’m dumping you for your kid sister, Keno City, where I’m celebrating Discovery Days listening to nothing but the sound of the wind blowing through the trees and U2 playing “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” in a place “Where The Streets Have No Names” because I can live “With or Without You” on any “Beautiful Day.” Doug Sack is a writer and Viet Nam vet. Please send comments to dawson@whatsupyukon.com.

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September 18, 2014

From the Back Country with Jozien Keijzer

Spellbound at Kelsall Lake, B.C. I t always seems that for other people things happen quite easily. They have an idea and voila — there it is.

I don’t know; maybe it’s true for some, with some things. Anyway, it took me 20 years after I first dreamed about it, to finally float on Kelsall Lake, B.C. It was better than I ever imagined.

One weekend in August, after buying a B.C. fishing license online, the blueberries certainly ripe in Rainy Hollow, we loaded up the old orange van; our canoe, our camping and fishing gear, the berry buckets, rain gear, and our new four-stroke engine.

Don had been up the Shakwak again during this summer, working on the Canadian segment of the Haines Road. He, in fact, has known of the trail to Kelsall Lake since working on the Shakwak when it was initially paved in 1977.

When we turn off the highway onto the winding trail he invariably says, “Somebody just put this road in, and I don’t know who or

why.”

I know a good reason, for me anyway. Kelsall Lake has always held me spellbound.

Coming from Haines Junction, the trailhead is on the left side of the road. This year there is a big highway camp there, as a stretch of highway is being resurfaced. It is just before what Don, who is a grader operator, calls the graderstation, which lies on the right side of the highway, just before the grass airstrip at Mule Creek.

The road to the lake is rough.

In the beginning, there is a creek flowing across it; later, there are creek crossings. There are also very slippery downward sections with big boulders. The road is all downhill, so when you drive down this road, make sure you can go back up; there is no other way out.

Skill and the right vehicle are both a must. The road is around five kilometres in distance. Luckily, Don is an amazing off-road driver.

The residents along it are always the same. Today, we flush

A crack in Mount Kelsall

PHOTO: Jozien Keijzer out a few ptarmigan families, their bodies: dark, their wings: white, changing colour for the season to come.

Before leaving, we agreed if the weather was good we would go to the lake on Saturday and pick berries at Rainy Hollow on Sunday. From home there are no guarantees regarding weather. We were extremely fortunate; it was warm with blue skies and puffy white clouds.

The clouds made breathtaking patterns on the already spectacular mountains. The mountain falling into the lake at the north has extensive ice fields on its backside. Straight east, an amazing, long tumbling waterfall cascades down, fed by yet more ice fields

from east and south.

After we got the new engine running on the boat, we aimed for a beach on a point halfway down the lake on the south side.

The beach is pristine.

Besides water patterns, there are only animal tracks in the sand.

Adding to my surprise, I found that large patches of moss campion — alpine flowers — are still in bloom.

I swam. Don fished.

From there, we canoed to the far end of the lake where the mountaintops, full of spikes, came into view. We rounded what turns out to be an island. Miraculously, we didn’t hit any sandbanks, as we did on the way back.

This was as far as we could go.

Tying our boat to the shore, I

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hike upward to what seems like a coarse talus, a vast deposit of enormous angular weathered bedrock fragments. These are usually found at the base of a cliff or steep slope, and are caused by landslides. The area is about a football field across and 50 feet high. It is hard to estimate size in the grandness of it all — like trying to gauge the size of a grizzly mom and her cub I suddenly see below scampering through blueberry fields. I holler to Don on the shore, to tell him I am coming back down, because...

And then… how big is that seemingly very large crack in the mountain top? Looking up, it might be smaller than it looks, but for sure it is ready to come down in the next....

Hmm… there is no calculation for time here, either.

We visited several more beaches on the way back. One was very peaceful with old lone firs and buckbean bogs. Another lay beside a brown, violently rushing creek. The last one — I walk it — leads me all the way back to our camp.

It is here the lake flows into Kelsall River. We, and the family of big, dark, young and fluffy seagulls, know there are fish here, though Don never catches one.

Don and I love the water. Besides playing in it, I lay back in the boat to enjoy the put-put motion as well as the paddling and crashing through waves.

We boat, but I sense I am not a true boater.

For me it’s all about the distant unexplored shores.

In the evening Don ferried me across the Kelsall where I walk towards the clay-cliff lakeshore with wide-open tundra on top. Wanting to keep going up, I still make it back by nightfall.

On Sunday, we picked berries at Rainy Hollow in the pouring rain.

Jozien Keijzer is a visual artist, writer and avid hiker who lives in the Mendenhall Subdivision.

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Sid’s Treasures with Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

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id van der Meer’s infamous Bordertown Garage and Museum is located in the most westerly community in Canada — Beaver Creek, Yukon.

In a past What’s Up Yukon article, van der Meer’s Bordertown Museum was deemed a “buried gem.” Van der Meer’s collection is extensive, particularly when it comes to his collection of Alaska Highway artefacts and memorabilia.

This week, van der Meer tells the story of his collection of White Pass and stagecoach foot warmers. As the winter months are fast approaching, he digs out his collection of three foot warmers.

Gold rush-era foot warmers

As seen in the image , the foot warmers are rectangularshaped objects that are covered in a felt-like material .

PHOTOS: Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

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Van der Meer says the “foot warmers were used in White Pass sleighs and stage coaches in the Yukon from 1898 to the early 1900s. They’re used on the trails to keep passengers’ feet warm in the winter months. Everybody who bought a ticket was able to use the foot warmers.”

Van der Meer continued, “People put hot coals in them;

some had bricks like this one.”

He grabs the foot warmer and reveals a compartment hidden inside. “There’s a brick in here that you warm up and put inside the container. This is how they heat up and keep people’s feet warm.”

Pointing at the foot warmer, he explains “The brick inside can become very hot, that’s why there’s vents on the back.”

Van der Meer discovers other foot warmers lying around. He makes a pile on a wooden table by his vintage stove.

“You would cover up yourself and the foot warmer with a robe, bison skin or whatever you had. It would keep you warm for 20 miles or so until you changed stations.

They helped people keep warm while they travelled from Whitehorse to Dawson during the gold rush days.”

Although he did not experience the gold rush himself, van der Meer has extensive knowledge on the subject and continues his story about the foot warmers in his collection.

“They were very popular at the time; you could find them at every stage coach stop… They were also used in old cars before there were heaters.”

The gold rush-era foot warmers can be seen in the “Living Quarters” themed room at Sid’s Bordertown Museum in Beaver Creek, Yukon.

Sid’s Bordertown Museum will be open until October 15, 2014, and will reopen April 1, 2015.

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