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All Northern. All Fun.

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Gazillions of Family Week events in the Yukon

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Jickling’s Jabberings

Wishing all Yukoners a wonderful Family Week!

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he film Adaptation (2002) was directed by Spike Jonze, but it’s really screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s movie. Kaufman, who is also responsible for such mind-bending classics as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, writes himself into his own script and sets the stage for one of the most literary flicks of our time.

Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage in an un-Nick-Cage-like performance) is a flannel-clad screenwriter trying to write a follow up to his acclaimed Being John Malkovich. He is hired to write an adaptation of Susan Orlean’s book The Orchid Thief, about an eccentric man named John Laroche who is passionate about collecting rare orchids from the swamps of Florida.

“I don’t want to cram in sex, and guns, and car chases,” he says to a movie executive. Charlie wants to present his story about flowers as simply as possible — no contrived story arcs, no character development, just the beauty of nature.

“I guess we thought Susan Orlean and John Laroche could fall in love,” says the bewildered exec.

Meanwhile, Charlie’s (fictional) brother Donald (also played by Cage), a goofy lay-about, decides to try his hand at screenwriting.

Unburdened by Charlie’s intellectual heft, Donald signs up for a screenwriting seminar and buys into the instructor’s axiomatic dictums hook, line and sinker.

The movie goes on to track the progress of Charlie as he tries to write a script for the very film that we, the audience, are watching.

Meta.

In an early scene, the entire four billion year history of the Earth is captured in a montage, later in the film we actually see Charlie writing the earlier scene.

The Russian Doll structure of Adaptation allows for plot strands to hook and dive around each other, becoming both part of the movie and a commentary on the movie itself.

Charlie’s script is not going well.

He tries to capture the wistfulness of Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) as Orlean tries to capture the passion of Laroche (Chris Cooper). But without guns and sex and car chases there isn’t much of a story.

While Charlie mires himself in miserable solipsism, Donald finishes his by-the-numbers serial killer script and it catches the attention of Charlie’s agent, who sells it for a lot of money.

In his haggard despair Charlie solicits Donald to help him finish

his orchid script. Suddenly the movie becomes a thriller. The brothers tail Orlean and Laroche, who catch the pair of screenwriters and decide to kill them. A manhunt through the everglades ensues. As Donald and Charlie hide from their would-be killers, they exchange revelatory confessions and come to a deeper understanding of each other. Mild spoiler alert: the film ends on an optimistic note, with Charlie figuring out how to finish the script.

So it’s a happy ending. But is it? After all, Charlie’s goal was to write a movie free of Hollywood claptrap, but under his brother’s guidance his film ends up gleefully employing the standard plot devices of the thriller; he failed to simply capture the beauty of flowers.

Round and Round, Adaptation loops in the mind, simultaneously forsaking and embracing the rituals of plot-driven filmmaking. It manages to be postmodern yet traditional, ironic yet touching, derivative yet completely original. If nothing else it is a masterpiece of storytelling acrobatics.

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A Family Who Plays Together, Stays Together

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Family Week features plenty of free events for all ages, Oct. 7 to 13

See Schedule Page 14 & 15

by Tamara Neely

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at the Family Dance on Friday, too.

“The dance can get pretty chaotic with the younger kids — we’ll have two-year-olds flying around the building for five hours with multitudes of parents and adults following around behind them,” Wiseman says.

Here’s the pattern: teens get the music and dancing going; little kids follow them; then the seniors duck out into the hallway for a peaceful game of crib while parents follow their kids onto the dance floor.

The teens keep the energy going because they do the DJing.

“We often let the kids pick the music — they all show up with their iPods and our only rule is the language has to be clean,” Wiseman says. “We’ve got DJ PHOTO: stockXchng equipment set up and it’s a matter of popping in the different iPods.”

Yukon’s Family Week events will bring different generations together.

At the last Family Dance, the teens couldn’t get enough up. So crib will be one of the is the scavenger hunt in Teslin on of Korean artist Psy’s hit song many games available to play at Wednesday, Oct. 9. For two years “Gangnam Style.”

“They played it over and over the Family Games Night on Tues- Wiseman has been developing a day, Oct. 8 at the Teslin Recre- weeklong super-scavenger hunt — and over again,” Wiseman says.

After three or four times in a but she is only using a fraction of ation Complex.

“Some of the younger people her master plan for the Wednes- row Wiseman came to the rescue wanted to learn, so they were day event. It will only take a of the adults in the room, and playing with the seniors,” Wise- couple of hours, will start after made the teens played something man says. “So it’s bridging that dinner and end in time to get the different. Which they did. But a kids in their jammies and off to few songs later they came back to “Gangnam Style.” Just like a bed.

“The scavenger hunt takes a billion people watching it on YouCanadian loop through town, and you have Tube. owned and Anyway, it made memories to find something, do something, operated since for the whole family. This year and find somebody — sometimes 1978 all at the same time,” Wiseman the Family Week organizers, led

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ack up the seniors, the toddlers and the teens because there are lots of free, Family Week events.

A nation-wide celebration, Family Week runs Monday, Oct. 7 to Sunday, Oct. 13, and in the Yukon there are events taking place in five communities: Carmacks, Destruction Bay, Teslin, Watson Lake and Whitehorse.

A schedule on page 6 of this very paper lays out all the free fun and free dinners to be had.

There are even prizes. So, in addition to a dinner and games night (Watson Lake, Oct. 9), a carnival (Carmacks, Oct. 10), and a celebration of our ancestors and family tree (Destruction Bay, Oct. 11), those who attend events in any of the communities can add their name to a draw to win a mini vacation.

First prize is a free RV weekend vacation from Fraserway RV, and second prize is a night of viewing the northern lights from Northern Tales.

In Whitehorse and Teslin there is stuff to do every single day of the Family Week.

In Teslin, Patty Wiseman has organized a bunch of fun activities to catch the interest of all ages, including the teenagers and

the seniors. She is the manager of the Teslin Tlingit Council Early Learning and Child Care Centre, and at the last crib tournament she discovered that crib could get the teens and the seniors wound

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On the same evening, there will be a Family Games Night taking place at Takhini Elementary School in Whitehorse.

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Jickling’s Jabberings................ 2 Family Week Events................. 3 Wild Pursuits.......................... 4 Didee & Didoo........................ 5 Stick Families?........................ 5 4H Club................................. 9 Yukon Girl............................10 Living with Wildlife.................12 Vino Borealis.........................13 Kim Barlow’s Farewell Concert..16 Declan O’Donovan’s Tour.........17 Edible Yukon.........................18 Back to School in Haiti.............19 French Toast.........................22 Summer in the Arctic..............24 Frost to Frost........................26 Step Outside.........................27

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Wild Pursuits with Bryce Bekar

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Family — More Than Just a Word

The great bonding effect of dinners together

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was born in Yellowknife and raised in Churchill, Manitoba, the same town my mother was raised in. One by one her siblings moved away as they got older, including her. This is common in small towns; a lot of people move on to experience different places with new opportunities.

Sunday evenings are the most memorable from my childhood.

Everyone would get together for dinner at my grandmother’s house at around four o’clock. Every Sunday I was tasked with the gravy and my girls still say I make the best gravy they’ve ever had. Uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, parents and sometimes a friend would congregate for this weekly gathering.

My grandmother would have different dishes every week, but being Ukrainian, homemade perogies were always on the menu.

When I had a family of my own, we carried on this tradition. Dinner at my mother’s or grandmother’s every other Sunday. At my mother’s house we would have large gettogethers like the ones I remember when I was young, but now there was a different side of the family, my father’s. His sister was the only one who remained in Churchill, but we would have random friends show up at four o’clock as if they could smell the food being cooked.

Moving from Churchill to the Yukon challenged us to keep this tradition alive. My brother Gunnar and a few good friends came on our Yukon journey, and participated in our Sunday tradition.

They all moved away, though, to pursue other ventures in different cities. So being the only ones left in the Yukon we have found a new way to bring our family together.

We regularly entertain several of our friends and their families; this sometimes consists of up to 20 people.

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A little quality time with family and friends.

Sunday evenings are the most memorable from my childhood .

Our fast paced lives make it tough to spend time together.

Work, homework, volunteer commitments, sports, and meetings leave little left for family time. We

struggle balancing so many obligations in modern society that we sometimes forget about the ones that mean the most to us.

Every night we sit together as a

family and talk of our day: Janessa tells about her new school; Hayley laughs to herself as she tries to tell a funny story about her goofy friends’ ordeal; or they ask how our workday went.

I have visited friends for dinner who eat in the living room so they can watch TV and others who have a TV in their dining room; there is no dinner conversation in these homes.

With so many distractions already, turn the world off; don’t answer your cell phone during dinner.

Enjoy time with your family. You never know, one family member might not be there tomorrow.

Bryce Bekar is a Whitehorse-based writer.

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A Sticky Family Issue

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by Glenda Koh

PHOTO: Tamara Neely

Stick-figure family stickers are important to some, annoying to others.

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n honour of National Family Week, let’s unpack a controversial issue: stick-figure family stickers.

If it sounds like I just invented a poor tongue twister, you can’t be blamed. There are relatively few in the Yukon. As with many trends, Whitehorse is late (see also: bubble tea).

I’m referring to the white stick figure decals placed on the back windshield of cars, each figure representing a member of the family who ostensibly rides inside.

Stick-figure stickers engage in a variety of activities — stick barbecuing, stick shopping, stick soccer. They can be customized with names, and come in a wide array of identities, such as Star Wars characters and fuzzy animals.

Disturbingly, there are even stickfigure families of assault rifles to be found on the Internet.

The stick-figure trend has been strong for at least five years.

They’ve been around long enough that a contemptuous backlash industry has sprung up, which in-

cludes decals of a zombie eating a stick family and a car running into a pile of stick-figures with the caption, “Nobody cares about your stick family.”

Presumably Yukoners eschew this sticky trend because in small towns such as ours, everyone already knows how many family members, dogs, cats, and exspouses you have. However, for those in the know, local opinion remains firmly divided on the merit of stick figure families.

To the “in favour” camp, stick figures are cute decals that celebrate one’s family, pets, and hobbies. They’re a bit like Smurf figurines, but way better because there’s more than one female.

In the “against” camp, well, pull up a chair and get comfortable.

The main reason people object to stick family stickers is that they broadcast a certain smugness. It’s one thing to do a family portrait and send it out at Christmas, but you would never tape it to the inside of your windshield (see also:

Close to Whitehorse but a world away from your everyday...

Baby on Board, circa 1984).

I know, I know, you’re thinking, “They’re just stick figures.” But therein lies the second issue. They reduce a family’s identity down to a dad playing golf, a mom cooking, and two kids holding hockey sticks.

A few parents I talked to said they don’t encourage their kids to pin their identity on one activity at a young age. One mom would not consider the stickers because they can never reflect the range of experiences that make up a family.

Furthermore, in five years when the hockey-playing kids become pot-smoking teens, they won’t even be accurate, except for maybe the ironic mullets.

The third main complaint is that this sticker phenomenon is not particularly inclusive of a variety of family types. The stickers are sold individually, so yes, a solo mom can put a sticker of herself with her kids on her car, but would she? Would an infertile couple? A divorced dad with shared custody? Finally — thank you Brigitte Jones — what about single people?

Though technically not excluded from the stick figure phenomenon, these population swaths might find the “family-value” judgements of passing motorists too much to bare.

Aside from these major philosophical objections, there is also a general objection to any kind of decal on vehicles (see also: Protect the Peel, circa 2001).

This is all food for thought on the eve of the winter season, when there will be so much ice fog in the air we won’t be able to see the decals on the car in front of us.

My prediction? Until a local store starts selling stick figures wearing Bogs, attending city

council meetings, and selling raffle tickets, the stick family trend will eventually flat-line in Yukon.

Glenda Koh is considering sticking to figures.

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Schedule

FREE WHITEHORSE EVENTS Family Day @ Whitehorse Motors Saturday, Oct 5 11 am - 4:00 pm

Whitehorse Motors 4178-4th Ave Start Family week early!

Face painting, clowns, balloons, Prizes! Claire Ness & Friends perform 11 – 3:30 pm Hot dogs served 11:30 – 1 pm

October 7 - 11 Family Story Time 12 - 1 pm daily

Family Literacy Centre 2nd floor, Canada Games Centre

Tuesday, October 8

FREE Family Dinner 5 - 6:30 pm

Family Gallery Tour 1 - 2 pm

École Whitehorse Elementary Gym 4181 4th Ave Hosted by Many Rivers and Whole Child Program and Partners for Children.

Entertainment and Door Prizes

Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery 300 College Drive Community Gallery, Youth Gallery, and Public Gallery exhibitions.

Interactive Family Yoga 3:15 - 4:15 pm

École Whitehorse Elementary Gym 4181 4th Ave Guardian must accompany children. Facilitated by Lillian Strauss, experienced yoga practitioner.

Sponsored by RPAY.

Yoga at Whole Child Family Time Activities & Program 5:30 - 7:00 pm Crafts 1 - 3 pm daily

Family Literacy Centre 2nd floor of Canada Games Centre

International Walk to School Week

Guardians walk to school with your children.

October 7 - 13

Selkirk Elementary School 5 Selkirk St Hosted by Whole Child Program. Guardian must accompany children.

Facilitated by Lillian Strauss, experienced yoga practitioner. Sponsored by RPAY.

Family Games Fun Night 6:30 - 8 pm

Colouring Contest Takhini Elementary School @ Canada Games Centre 526 Range Rd

Monday, October 7 Family Drop-in Polarettes Gymnastics Club 10 am -12 pm 16 Duke St (attached to Vanier High School) Family drop-in with preschool children, staff demonstration. Hosted by the Child Development Centre.

Family Interactive Yoga 3:30 - 4:30 pm

École Whitehorse Elementary 4181-4th Ave Guardian must accompany children. Facilitated by Lillian Strauss, experienced yoga practitioner. Hosted

by Boys & Girls Club, Weekday Warriors program Sponsored by RPAY.

Hand games, balloon races, board games, card games, bean/ring toss and yard games.

Wednesday, October 9

École Whitehorse Elementary Foyer

Duska Family Board Game, Story & Sewing Night 5:30 -7 pm Duska Head Start and Family Learning Center 35 McIntyre Dr Indian tacos and juice served.

LDAY Parent Network 7:30 - 9 pm Family Literacy Center 2nd Floor, Canada Games Centre Parents meet and discuss issues relating to education. Check our website for details: www.ldayukon.com

Thursday, October 10 Family Week Breakfast Snack and Yoga 7:45 - 8:30 am Jack Hulland Elementary School Gym 1304 Fir St.

Yukon Wildlife Preserve 9:00 - 11:30 am Bus Transportation sponsored by Takhini Transport.

Pick-up @ these City Bus stops: Super A in Riverdale: 9:00 am Across from Qwanlin Mall: 9:10 am Super A in Porter Creek: 9:25 am Explore Yukon’s diverse wildlife.

Children must be accompanied by guardian.

Participation is on a first come first served basis.

Bring your own beverage/ snack.

Celebrating Families Dinner 5 - 8 pm

United Church, Basement 601 Main St Hosted by Ta’an Kwach’an Council Includes stick gambling, elder and children games.

Friday, October 11 Yukon Wildlife Preserve 9:00 - 11:30 am SEE WEDNESDAY LISTING FOR BUS SCHEDULE

Family on the Move 9 - 11:45 am

Flexihall, Canada Games Centre Balls, hoops, cars, scooters and more for families with small children!

Reading Buddies Lunch 11:50 am - 12:40 pm

100 years of Girl Guiding in Yukon Poster Launch 5 - 7 pm

YG Main Admin Building Foyer October 11, 2013 is the International Day of the Girl. Yukon Girl Guides in partnership with the Women’s Directorate is launching its poster celebrating 100 years of Girl Guiding in Yukon.

FREE Family Swim 6 - 8 pm

Canada Games Centre Sponsored by RPAY.

Saturday, October 12 Family “Make it Kids” Karaoke 11 am - 1 pm

The Juniper Room Skky Hotel 91622 Alaska Hwy. (Across from Airport) Hosted by Gray Fox Karaoke. Karaoke for Ages: 6 – 12 *Children must be accompanied by a guardian.

K-7 Classrooms École Whitehorse Elementary 4181-4th Ave Parents, bring your lunch and read with your child.

FREE Family Fun Soccer 5 - 6:30 pm

Elders Tea 1:45 - 2:45 pm

FREE Family Skate 12:30 - 2:30 pm

Elijah Smith Elementary School 1399 Hamilton Blvd Elders come share snacks, tea, and fun activities with students.

Fieldhouse, Canada Games Centre

Sunday, October 13 Canada Games Centre, Atco Ice Sponsored by Yukon Electrical Co.

Attend National Family Week events and win a PRIZE 1st Prize

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2nd Prize

Attend 1 family event in any Yukon Community and enter the draw for One Night Aurora Viewing Tour for a family of four (children must be 12 years of age or older), before April 15th 2014 (based on availability at time of reservation) Sponsored by:

Note: In Smaller communities where only one event is being hosted, Families can qualify for the 1st Prize draw with attendance at one event.

To enter the draw – List name of event on this form, have event host sign this form. Drop off or mail the entry form no later than October 23, 2013 to Leaf Solutions #5-1114-1st Ave Whse Y1A 1A3. You can also fax your entry to 867-668-6489 or scan and email your entry to conference@leafsolutions.ca.

Route prize draw questions via Leaf Solutions to 867-633-5692 or email conference@leafsolutions.ca

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Colour a picture and enter a draw to win a free day pass!

Host: City of Whitehorse (CGC)

Grandparents Rights Association/Family Law Display 5 - 6:30 pm

Jack Hulland families join in a fun morning yoga activity. Muffins, juice, yogurt, fruit and hot beverages.

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Celebrate Strong Families, Strong Communities

Schedule

FREE COMMUNITY EVENTS Carmacks

October 7 - 13

Celebrating Children Today - Supper and Carnival Thursday, Oct 10 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Rec Center Prizes, cotton candy and candy apples.

Destruction Bay Genealogy Project/ Community Tea Friday, Oct 11 1 - 2:30 pm YUKON CANADA GREETINGS A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the family is the single most important factor in maintaining social and economic stability in our society; and WHEREAS, Yukon is proud of its strong family traditions and of its commitment to their continued strength; and WHEREAS, the family, whether traditional or challenged by special circumstances, provides the foundation for a positive future for parents, children and community; and WHEREAS, society and all social institutions have a direct or indirect impact on the unity, well-being, health and stability of the family; and

Kluane Lake School Children will present essays about a family member at a Community Tea.

Yukon Motel & Restaurant Find out about our community and learn more about your family.

Thanks Giving Dinner Thursday, Oct 10 5:30 - 9 pm

Teslin School Hosted by Teslin School.

FREE meals for pre-school children. Dinner prepared by students, staff and volunteers.

Family Dance Friday, Oct 11 6:30 - 10:30

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Teslin Recreation Complex All ages welcome.

Family Teddy Bear Reading Time Monday, Oct 7 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Family Wiener Roast, Storytelling & Fire Works Saturday, Oct 12 6:30 - 9 pm

Teslin Public Library 1 McCleary St Family read and enjoy an hour of literacy fun

Family Game Night Tuesday, Oct 8 6:30 - 8 pm Teslin Recreation Complex

WHEREAS, through the resources and efforts of its agencies and organizations the community can provide a family-friendly environment; and

Teslin Recreation Complex

Teslin Community Movie Night Sunday, Oct 13 6 - 10 pm

Teslin Recreation Complex Family movie, pizza, and popcorn.

Watson Lake Dinner & Games Night Wednesday, Oct 9 5:30 - 8 pm

Watson Lake Community Hall, Lakeview Ave Hosted by Many Rivers Fall group registration event.

“Relationship Matters” Professional Recording of a Presentation by Dr. Gordon Neufeld Thursday, Oct 10 6:30 - 9 pm

Northern Light Center Hosted by Gentle Steps Family Support Centre.

Watch a recording of a presentation by renown Dr. Gordon Neufeld “Relationship Matters”.

Dr. Gordon will address the challenges of parenting today. Refreshments and door prizes.

Children’s Matinee Saturday, Oct 12 2:30 - 4 pm

Northern Lights Centre FREE admissions for Grandparents and Parents who accompany children to the matinee.

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WHEREAS, the foundation of the family is strengthened when family members share time together; and

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Attend 1 family event in any Yukon Community and enter the draw for One Night Aurora Viewing Tour for a family of four (children must be 12 years of age or older), before April 15th 2014 (based on availability at time of reservation) Sponsored by:

Family fun weekend in RV - 3 night rental (includes prep fee, kitting, basic insurance and 700 free km) Sponsored by:

THEREFORE, I Doug Phillips, Commissioner of Yukon, do hereby proclaim the period of October 7, 2013 to October 13, 2013 to be “NATIONAL FAMILY WEEK” in Yukon.

Note: In Smaller communities where only one event is being hosted, Families can qualify for the 1st Prize draw with attendance at one event.

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GIVEN UNDER my hand and seal at Whitehorse, Yukon on August 12, 2013.

Family Community Scavenger Hunt Wednesday, Oct 9 6 - 8 pm

To enter the draw – List name of event on this form, have event host sign this form. Drop off or mail the entry form no later than October 23, 2013 to Leaf Solutions #5-1114-1st Ave Whse Y1A 1A3. You can also fax your entry to 867-668-6489 or scan and email your entry to conference@leafsolutions.ca.

Route prize draw questions via Leaf Solutions to 867-633-5692 or email conference@leafsolutions.ca

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Whitehorse Happenings Art Shows

until Sat, Nov 16 Ken Anderson, James Nizam, & Yam Lauln All Day Yukon Arts Centre At the Public Art Gallery. until Mon, Mar 31 Dà Ze Tsàn - From our hearts 9:00 AM Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Patti Balsillie 633-7805 Perspectives on Yukon First Nations Sewing and Weaving Traditions Wed, Sep 25 - Sun, Sep 29 Art Under Pressure: The Prints 10:00 AM Yukon Arts Centre In the Studio Theatre.

Fri, Sep 27 & Sat, Sep 28 Culture Days 2013 Doors Open 9:00 AM Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Derek Cooke 633- 7807 An exhibition on Yukon First Nations sewing and weaving.

Wed, Oct 2 An Evening of Paleoart 5:00 PM Beringia Centre Tyler.Kuhn@gov.yk.ca learn about the amazing world of paleoart--the art of recreating extinct animals. Talks at 7pm.

Sat, Oct 5 - Sat, Oct 26 Exhibit by Joseph Tisiga 10:00 AM Arts Underground In the Edge Gallery.

Sat, Oct 5 - Sat, Oct 26 Enclosed - Exhibit

by Marlene and Cathleen Collins 10:00 PM Arts Underground In the Focus Gallery.

Live Music

Wed, Sep 25 Jamaoke with Jackie 8:30 PM Jarvis Street Saloon .

Thu, Sep 26 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza .

Thu, Sep 26 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone who wants to play or sing together Thu, Sep 26 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else suits Fri, Sep 27 Sweatshop Union 8:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon 668-4567 .

Fri, Sep 27 Greame Peters 8:00 PM Epic Pizza .

Fri, Sep 27 Annie Avery and George McConkey 8:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon .

Sun, Sep 29 Kim Barlow Send-Off Concert 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Send her off with a smile on her face by showing up.

Tue, Oct 1 Speed Control Tour Kickoff 6:00 PM Epic Pizza .

Tue, Oct 1 Speed Control sendoff 8:00 PM Epic Pizza .

Thu, Oct 3 An Evening with Roxx 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza .

Thu, Oct 3 Tagish Music Jam 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 open to anyone who wants to play or sing together Thu, Oct 3 Jazz in the Hall feat: Nicole Edwards y Los Osos 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Duncan Sinclair / Email: duncan. sinclair@jazzyukon.ca / Phone: 867-3342789 Learn, listen, jam. Features education vignette w/ Steve Gedrose. Vocalist Nicole Edwards latin y Los Osos. Community jazz jam. $5 at door.

Thu, Oct 3 Fishead Stew 8:30 PM Dirty Northern Pub high energy blend of swingin’ country blues, bluegrass, celtic, western swing, gypsy, oldtimey, ....and whatever else suits Fri, Oct 4 Jona Barr Old Cabin CD Release 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Releasing his first self titled LP. Sat, Oct 5 Coffee House Featuring: Second Cousins & The Open Stage 7:30 PM United Church In the Basement.

WEEKLY Live Music Jam Nights Wednesdays

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

Jamaoke with Ashley & Jackie 8:30 PM Jarvis Street Saloon

Thursdays

Thursday Night Jam 7:00 PM Bailey’s Pub 456-4742 open-mike night with Steve Slade 7:30 PM Gold Pan Saloon Bring your voice or an instrument and perform a few song

Fridays

Friday Fandango at the Airport Chalet 7:00 PM Airport Chalet. Jam night with Peggy Hanifan

Tuesdays

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

Film Fri, Sep 27 Free Outdoor Screenings at Shipyards Park 6:00 PM Shipyards Park Yukon Film Society, Yukon Arts Centre and Yukon Cultures Connect present counter-culture films as part of culture days (culturedays.ca).

Fri, Sep 27 Radical Reels Tour Action Sports - Films 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre .

Fri, Sep 27 Radical Reels Tour Action Sports - Films 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre .

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Feminist Book Club 5:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre a book club for feminists

Fridays

Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women (children welcome) ESL Conversation Club - 5:30 PM MultiCultural Centre on a drop in basis TGIF - Dinner 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Royal Canadian Legion Steven Grossinger. Dinner and entertainment on Friday nights, with a variety of menu and entertainment formats.

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

Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Art Smarts Kids After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts Underground Marlene Collins (mcollins@northwestel.net) 667-4080 Ages 7-9

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

Family Week October 7-11 check out schedule on pages 6 & 7

Mondays

Youth

Wednesdays

Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM 6209 – 6th Avenue, 393-2824 BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM Thu, Sep 26 - Sat, Oct 12 Freak Winds Yukon Amateur Radio Association 9:30 PM Yoga In The Alpine “Teen Yoga” 5:30 PM at 8:00 PM Wed-Sat The Guild Hall Written by A&W Informal breakfast with YARA members, Alpine Bakery. wallymaltz@northwestel.net Marshal Napier & Directed by Sarah Rodgers Hams from outside the Yukon often join Instructor Tammy Biathlon Junior Team Training 5:30 PM at

Grey Mountain Road. Keith Clarke, ktclarke@ Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 PM Gold northwestel.net Fri, Sep 27 13th Annual Sister City Rush Inn Micah 336-4643 Celebration Whitehorse-Lancieux 5:00 PM Adult Pottery Drop-in 2:30 PM at Arts City Hall Lucie Creiser / email: relations@ Underground, 667-2159. Clay is available for Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM at 6209 afy.yk.ca Come celebrate the Sister City purchase. Equipment and tools are provided. 6th Avenue, 393-2824 relationship between Whitehorse and the City Closed Holidays.

Kid’s After School Art Club 3:30 PM Arts of Lancieux, France, adoptive homes of poet Ceramic Open-Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Yukon Art Society reception@ Robert W. Service.

Underground artsunderground.ca 667-4080 Ages 10-14 Sat, Sep 28 The art of scientific SingAlongMessiah Collective Auditions until October 25 illustration: Beautiful Insects 12:00 PM Arts and Rehearsals 4:00 PM United Church Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up Underground Instructor: Misha Donohue.

Rachel 668-7502 To perform a sing-along (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground Sun, Sep 29 Whitehorse Walk for ALS performance of Handel’s Messiah on Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

12:00 PM Shipyards Park Walk Coordinator: December 20th and 21st, 2013. Come try out. Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 Donald C Watt / Phone: 867-332-3669 / PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym.

Email: whitehorsewalk@alsbc.ca Join us as

Please register before course starts we Walk for ALS and raise funds for Patient Sally & Sisters Lunch Noon at Food Bank, Northern Lights Judo Club 5:00 PM at Services and Research into the cause of and 334-9317 Free Hot Lunch for Women (chilEcole Emilie Tremblay School, judoyukon@ cure for ALS. dren welcome) gmail.com. Under 15 years

Mon, Sep 30 The Whitehorse Poetry Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier Society Presents: Michael Lista 7:00 PM Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 Whitehorse Public Library Featuring Michael Mtn Road Range officers on duty Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat Lista and Yukon’s own Jamie Sharpe.

6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School Mon, Sep 30 The Whitehorse Poetry

juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca Society Presents: Michael Lista 7:00 PM Free English Conversation Group 302 Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier Whitehorse Public Library Featuring Michael Strickland St., lower level. 668-5907. Bring School 867-668-4794 between the ages of Lista and Yukon’s own Jamie Sharpe. your own lunch 10 - 14 Tue, Oct 1 Craft Talk - “Style vs.Substance: Bingo (Regular Games) 5:00 PM at Elks Hall Journalism Today” 5:00 PM Whitehorse Whitehorse Curling Club, 667-2875 Public Library Refreshments served.

Wed, Oct 2 An Evening of Paleoart 5:00 PM Potluck Food Co-op - Info-Market 4:00 PM Boy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Rec Night: manhunt, floor hockey, dodgeball and Beringia Centre Tyler.Kuhn@gov.yk.ca invites 5th Ave, between Wood St. and Jarvis St. more. 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 you to come and learn about the amazing world of paleoart--the art of recreating extinct Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins animals. Open house at 5pm; talks at 7pm.

School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Family Week October 7-11 check out Wed, Oct 2 Acrylic Painting Open-Studio BYTE radio 4:00PM CJUC 92.5FM schedule on pages 6 & 7 with Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts Underground Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders FREE DROP IN at Yukon Family Literacy .

5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Centre Mon-Fri Noon - 3:00 PM, Wed, Oct 2 Comedy Night Live 9:00 PM Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ Mon-Wed 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sat 10:00 Jarvis Street Saloon open mic stand-up snowboardyukon,com Registration required.

AM - 3:00 PM (2nd Floor of Canada Games Fri, Oct 4 Enclosed -Marlene and Cathleen Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games Centre) Colleen/Stephanie 668-8698 Free Collins Opening 5:00 PM Arts Underground Centre family learning fun!

Opening in the Focus Gallery.

AfterShock Youth Group 7:00 PM Church of Fri, Oct 4 Joseph Tisiga Exhibit Opening the Nazarene 633-4903 Ages 12 to 18 5:00 PM Arts Underground Opening in the Learning Together Program 9:30 AM Edge Gallery.

Caregivers and children 3-4 years old. MonBoy’s & Girl’s Club 3:00 - 9:00 PM Youth Thurs 667-3006 Chef Night we teach recipes for healthy food from scratch. Ages 11-18. 6209 - 6th Avenue, 393-2824 Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 Fencing for Youth and Adults 10:00 AM at Free Lunches 11:30 AM at Victoria Faulkner AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old.

Takhini Elementary

Women’s Centre Mon-Thurs 667-3006 Girls Club 12:00 PM Victoria Faulkner French : Zumba or / Zumba Gold 12:00 PM Tumble Time Playgroup 9:30 AM at Women’s Centre All ladies between the ages Centre De La Francophonie 668-2663 Riverdale Baptist Church Kathy 668-7273 or of 12 and 18 are welcome to come.

Spanish Conversation 12:00 PM Golden 667-6620 (aged birth to 5).

Yukon R/C 3:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary Age Society. ¡Bienvenidos!

Kids After School Programs/Mix It Up School Bring your R/C and meet other hobby Whitehorse String Ensemble rehearsal (Mixed Media) 3:30 PM Arts Underground enthusiast 6:15 PM at Hellaby Hall, 668-5530. New Instructor:Karen Rhebergen. 6 sessions.

Youth Lounge 6:00 PM Canada Games members welcome. Violin, viola, cello and Kids Pop Choir 6:30 PM Leaping Feats Centre bass Dance Studio Grades 3-6. With Barbara Texas Hold ‘em 6:30 PM at 503 Steele, Chamberlin.

Royal Canadian Legion. Steven Grossinger Polarettes Youth Drop-in 7:30 PM Vanier Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins Royal Canadian Legion - Texas Hold ‘em School 867-668-4794 between the ages of School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8 - 12 Tournament. free poker tournament, all skill 10 - 14 Trampoline Training for Snowboarders levels welcome. Training available from 7:00 PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head 6-6:30 PM Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 Improve Open Studio for Adults/Acrylic Painting Young Explorers Preschool Program 10:00 your snowboarding under the supervision Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground With AM at MacBride Museum of trained coaches. Two Levels available for Neil Graham. snowboarders ages 10+ Free English Classes 7:30 PM 108 Trampoline for Snowboarders 7:00 Wickstorm Road in Whitehorse. For more Sunday School 10:00 AM at Christ Church PM Polarettes Gymnastics Club Head information call:335-5443.

Cathedral, 668-5530

Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@ Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Polarettes Family Drop-in 2:00 PM at Vanier snowboardyukon.com Registration Required Access 7:00 PM 633-4003 Located on Gray School, 867-668-4794. Enjoy a fun afternoon Shiroumakai Judo Club 6:30 PM at Vanier Mtn Road Range officers on duty of gymnastics experience School, judoyukon@gmail.com. Ages under 15 Acrylic Painting Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Toddler Church Service 9:30 a.m.

Underground easels and water containers Whitehorse United Church, 601 Main Street. on site. Please bring your paints, brushes, Stories, songs, snacks provided and prayers Kids After-School Programs/Hand supports and rags. Contact: 667-4080 20 minutes Info: 667-2989 – Building with Clay 3:30 PM Arts Yukon R/C 7:00 PM Mud Bog Motor-Cross Underground Instructor: Marlene Collins. 6 Track Bring your R/C and meet other hobby

sessions. enthusiast Learning Together Program 9:30 AM - 11:30 Hiroshikai Judo Club 5:00 PM at Holy Voice/Movement Group For Adults 7:30 PM AM Caregivers and children 3-4 years old.

Family School, judoyukon@gmail.com Ages United Church Downstair Mon-Thurs 667-3006 under 15 551 Whitehorse Air Cadets 6:30 PM Youth Shooting Program 7:00 PM Farmer’s Market 3:00 PM Shipyards Park Romp & Run Playgroup 9:30 AM at Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Introductory local produce and arts & crafts (starts May Whitehorse United Church.

Open House and sign-up for Youth ages 1016th) 19 years. Parental permission required.

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

Tuesdays

Blood Pressure Clinic 10:30 AM at Greenwood Place. Lois at 667-6149 Elder/Active Bingo 6:00 PM at Elk’s Hall

Meetings

Wed, Sep 25 WildWise Yukon Annual General Meeting 5:30 PM Percy Andrews Training Room Suite 104 - 106 Strickland Street info@wildwise.ca Interested in finding out more about WildWise Yukon? Want to volunteer on our board? Join us for our first AGM! email info@wildwise.ca Wed, Sep 25 Yukon Residential Landlords Association AGM 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library .

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

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

Thu, Sep 26 Selkirk Elementary School AGM 6:30 PM Selkirk Elementary School Library Everyone is welcome and babysitting services could be arranged. Please contact Cheryl Horoscoe, Chair at 668-3777 for further information.

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

Come try out.

Mon, Sep 30 Nakai Theatre AGM 5:30 PM In the White Pass Building Boardroom on the 2nd Floor (1st Avenue and Main Street) You are welcome to attend the Nakai Theatre AGM - Snacks will be provided Tue, Oct 1 PSAC Aboriginal Peoples Committee monthly meeting 5:15 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Tue, Oct 1 Air Cadets Assembly 6:15 PM Whitehorse Elementary School Capt. Jennifer Lafreniere 668-7688 For youths 12 - 18 years old.

Tue, Oct 1 Squash Yukon AGM 7:00 PM Sport Yukon .

Wed, Oct 2 PSAC Racially Visible Committee monthly meeting 5:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Wed, Oct 2 Women’s Support Group Meeting 6:30 PM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Run by women for women who have experienced violence.

Wed, Oct 2 Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club AGM 7:00 PM Mount McIntyre In the Curling Club lounge.

Thu, Oct 3 YEU Local Y023 (City of Whitehorse) monthly meeting 12:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Thu, Oct 3 PSAC Health & Safety Committee monthly meeting 6:00 PM YEU Hall 667-2331 .

Thu, Oct 3 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Dawson City 667-2331

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Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 456-4752 Open to all Whitehorse Midnight Sun Rotary 12:10 PM Yukon Inn Whitehorse Lions Club [2nd Wed each month 6:30 PM Yukon Inn] & [4th Wed each month Captain Martin House]

Thursdays

Sundogs Toastmasters 12:00 PM Sport Yukon 633-6228 Open to all

Fridays

Whitehorse Rotary 12:10 PM Westmark Whitehorse

Tuesdays

Lake Laberge Lion’s Club [2nd & 4th Tues each month 7:00] Captain Martin House 668-7979 president@lakelabergelions. comendezvous Rotary 7:00 PM Yukon Inn

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Whitehorse 4H Club struts their stuff at the Cowley Lake Farm Fair Sept. 29

- Beginners to Advanced, private & class lessons.

- RCM exam & Rotary Music Festival preparation.

- Theory (RCM & Popular Chording)

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by Sarah Diment

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Yukon 4H members learn vaulting at a camp hosted in Watson Lake in August, which drew members from all three Yukon 4H clubs. The Whitehorse Spirit Riders 4H Club will perform with their horses at the Cowley Lake Farm Fair on Sept. 29.

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his year was the 100th anniversary of 4H Canada and the Whitehorse Spirit Riders 4H Club have come to the end of another fantastic year of horse fun.

There are many 4H clubs across Canada, and in the Yukon there are three: in Whitehorse, Watson Lake, and Haines Junction – and 4H is growing.

Each different club focuses on how to raise a certain animal or takes on a certain project. Our 4H club in Whitehorse is a horse club.

We’re called the Whitehorse Spirit Riders 4H Club.

Whitehorse 4H members will be performing with their horses for the crowd at the annual Cowley Lake Farm Fair On Sept. 29. At the fair, the 4H members will demonstrate their drill team exercises and do bareback jumping, tricks, driving, liberty training and many other things the members have accomplished with their horses using determination, leadership and trust.

Across Canada, 4H is an agriculture group that teaches kids from age nine to 21 about agriculture in their community, how to speak comfortably in public, and how to run a business meeting.

With 4H, kids can achieve their

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goals; learn team-building skills; and most of all experience the amazing connection between human and horse.

Other factors of 4H are leadership and team building. The club members work as a team to accomplish goals, instruct each other and run the club with confidence. Each club has adult leaders to help guide and support the club.

Our Whitehorse leaders are Joie McBryan, Carolyn Campbell, and Judy Linton.

As a club we learn and develop skills with, and about, our horses.

During the summer we have meetings with our horses and we learn and practice skills as a team. In the winter we focus on theory about horses and agriculture.

In August the 4H clubs from Whitehorse, Watson Lake, and Haines Junction all got together and had a 4H Yukon camp in Watson Lake. We had instructors teaching us barrel racing, vaulting and canoeing. We learned and practiced so much during our fourday camp and then hosted a dinner and performance for the town of Watson Lake to celebrate the 100th anniversary of 4H. At the end of each 4H year each member is evaluated at the

clubs achievement day. Each year you must be able to present your horse to the leaders to ensure the horse is in good health and that you have succeeded in caring for your horse during the 4H year. You also have to hand in your record book that includes your progress and management of your horse.

Also on achievement day members can chose to challenge their rider level. There are seven rider levels that you must complete, a ridden and in-hand pattern – each pattern includes different manoeuvres and skills that members try to accomplish during the 4H year.

I have now been in 4H for five years and passed my level-four rider this year.

The Whitehorse Spirit Riders 4H Club will be performing at the Cowley Lake Farm Fair on Sunday, Sept. 29 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The farm is located at kilometre 11 on the Carcross Road.

For more information about the 4H Clubs in Whitehorse, Watson Lake, and Haines Junction contact by email at MidSunAlpacas@northwestel.net.

Sarah Diment is 14 years old and is the 4H Spirit Riders Club reporter.

Visit our home store by appointment

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

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

Thank you very much! Mussi cho!

335-6242

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Cowley Lake Farm Fair SEPTEMBER 28 & 29 1 to 4 pm

MIDNIGHT SUN ALPACAS Come meet the animals that produce the soft fibre for the wonderful socks, scarves, it 4H Spirr blankets, hats, mitts and ide R n more. stratio Demon the n o Enjoy an afternoon of 29th! farm life.

We’ll have a bonfire coffee, tea, hot chocolate and treats Daily Draw for 2 Pairs of Socks!

We are located km 11 Carcross Rd. Look for the signs.

Hope to see you there!

Yukon Beringia interpretive Centre presents

Ad Fre mis e sio n

An Evening of

Paleoart

with Julius Csotonyi Join awardwinning artist Julius Csotonyi as he talks about the world of recreating extinct animals.

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

Give Gift Certificates!

Pre-Loved Clothing We have a large Brand representation Tips on Babywearing, Cloth Diapering and more!

Wednesday, October 2nd 2013

Open House with family-friendly activities 5-7pm Presentations start at 7pm

For further information: Tel: (867) 667 - 8855 http://www.beringia.com/

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Life of a Yukon Girl with Emma Kaiser

Harvest Time with My Family A

FamilyWeek

lot of things happen in the fall: grass and leaves turn yellow, nights get colder and longer, and the time comes to harvest.

We have a lot of work to do now — we have to help our mom harvest peas, beets, carrots, potatoes and other things that grow in my mom’s garden. It can be boring, since you don’t move around a lot and you get cold, but it can also be fun at times and it makes great memories.

One such memory happened last fall while we were digging up carrots and discovered a mouse.

Since it was only one mouse my mom just chased it off into the woods, but then we found a whole nest of mice so we tried to scare some off and kill them with anything in our reach. My mom killed a mouse with a pitchfork and my brother killed a mouse by throwing a rock on it. But most of them ran off into the woods.

It takes a long time to harvest my mom’s entire garden since it is a big garden that supplies our family of eight for one year. Us kids also learn a little bit of gardening on our own since our mom and dad gave us each our own little garden that we can plant and grow whatever we want.

PHOTO: courtesy of Emma Kaiser

Bountiful and beautiful produce harvested from our garden.

Family Entertaining with

ROLLBACK FALL SAVINGS

There isn’t much harvesting to do on my garden because it is so small, but I had enough salad this year to sell some at the farmers’ market.

Deer in the winter eat the leftovers.

My mom’s garden also feeds animals, domestic and wild. We give the weeds and stalks to our rabbits and chickens and if we find some bugs in the garden that my mom doesn’t want we give them to our chickens, although I don’t know whether they eat them or not.

We even found out that we can use sugar snap peas as doggie treats, so that’s what we use to train our puppy, who loves them.

Deer in the winter eat the leftovers.

I enjoy harvesting sometimes, but I will still be glad when harvest time is over!

Emma Kaiser is 12 years old and lives with her mom and dad, four sisters and one brother on a hobby farm north of Whitehorse.

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An Active Family is a Happy Family Studies indicate that spending recreation time together fosters a healthy family environment.

Here are some family fun ideas to stay activity together!

• Go out and PLAY – play tag or catch or even build a fort • Enjoy Active Transportation - walk or bike your kid’s to school • Play Cards or a Board Game– try games that get your brain and body moving • Take a Day Trip – do something active as a family • Plan for Family Outings – to the swimming pool or bowling alley • Cook Together – kids love to help out in the kitchen!

• Create Fall Crafts - such as leaf art or crafts for Halloween.

• Make Dinner Family Time – sit down as a family and socialize.

• Get involved in Community Events/Activities – such as National Family Week October 7 -11 Download ParticipACTION’s “Bring Back Play” App for more tips and ideas on how to get active with your family. www.participaction.com

National Family Week RPAY sponsored events: RPAY’s Free Swim– Friday, October 11, 2013 6- 8 pm CGC Family Interactive Yoga with Lillian Strauss Monday, October 7 –Ecole Whitehorse 3:30 -4:30 pm, Selkirk Elementary School 5:30 -7:00 pm Tuesday, October 8 – Ecole Whitehorse 3:30-4:30 pm

RPAY’s 22 for 22 Activity Challenge!

October 10 Need some motivation to get active this fall?

RPAY is here to help with our Free 22 for 22 Activity Challenge!

Track your daily physical activity and challenge your family, friends and co-workers to get active for 22 minutes each day for 22 consecutive days starting on October 10th 2013 Register now at: www.rpaychallenge.org

October is Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month – for ideas to get your workplace active go to www. healthyworkplacemonth.ca

All participants who complete the challenge will be entered into a draw to WIN a Fit Bit and much more!!

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September 26, 2013 Hello Everybody,

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We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what camera equipment you used to Editor@WhatsUpYukon.com

PHOTO: Robbie MacKay

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n a very hot summer day, after I filled the birdbath with cold

water, this robin took advantage and had itself a very cool refreshing bath.

This photo was taken with a Canon

Rebel XSi, with a 18 to 200 mm lens.

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Night owls, insomniacs and midnight snackers, unite!

Rib Wednesday • 5-9 PM

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Vino Borealis with Peter Turner

Autumn Brings Renewed Interest in Chiantis W hile we had an exceptional summer, part of me welcomes the changing leaves, grey cool days, slower pace, stars, and northern lights.

This change of season has brought me back to our kitchen, making pasta, pizza and roast meats. And my partner and I have rediscovered the pleasure of Italian Chianti wines from Tuscany.

We loaned our canoe to a friend for a trip from Carmacks to Dawson City, and when she brought it back she came with a Melini Chianti ($16.40 at the YLC), which led to a spur of the moment dinner party with homemade pizza — a perfect accompaniment.

When we opened the bottle, I poured it through a wine aerator to let it react with air, and open up faster.

When a wine interacts with air, the scent becomes more pronounced, and the taste less astringent and fruitier. As soon as it hit

the glass, I could smell hints of red cherry in the bouquet, and a soft, not-too-tannic fruitiness that works so well with a wide variety of foods.

Melini has been making wines since 1705, and was one of the first wine makers in Tuscany to make Chiantis using a blend of local grapes, beginning in around 1800. The classic Chianti blend was roughly 70 per cent Sangiovese, 15 per cent Canaiolo and 15 per cent Malvasia Bianca, which is a white wine grape.

This recipe changed over time, and in 1996 it was decreed that to be called a Chianti, the wine was required to have 75 to 100 per cent Sangiovese grape juice, and could be blended with up to 10 per cent Canaiolo, and up to 20 per cent of another red wine grape such as cabernet sauvignon, merlot or syrah.

In 2006, white wine grapes were prohibited from Chianti Classico wines.

The word Chianti refers to a region of Tuscany between Florence to the north, and Sienna to the south. Regular Chiantis must be aged for at least six months, while a Chianti Classico must be aged for a least a year in order to be called such.

This reminder of Chianti wines put us on a mission to compare several of the other Chiantis offered at the local liquor store.

We bought two related wines to compare: the Cecchi Chianti ($16.30) and its big brother, the Cecchi Chianti Classico ($20.35).

The first Chianti tasted a little thin, as if it had been watered down, or made with not-quiteripe grapes.

By comparison, the Cecchi Classico, for only $4.05 more, was lovely — a clear and rich cherry scent on the nose.

There is also a lovely earthy taste and smell to the wine, something I always associate with Tuscany. This one also had hints of

leather in both the smell and the taste.

Key to enjoying Italian reds is letting them breathe, so either open them up one to one– and-a-half hours before consumption, or pick up a wine aerator.

If you get one, try the first mouthful poured straight from the bottle into a glass.

Taste it, then pour a bit through the aerator, and taste that.

It’s like night and day, and you don’t have to be a wine expert to taste the difference.

The Cecchi Chianti Classico is lovely.

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Culture Days / Doors Open is a weekend of hundreds of free arts, culture, and heritage activities taking place all across Canada on September 27, 28, 29.

To find events near you, visit: yt.culturedays.ca Bonfire Cinema Social and YFS/YAC Outdoor Film Screenings - Friday, September 27, 5:30-11 pm at Shipyards Park Opening the evening is a Bonfire Cinema Social featuring a live performance by Sauna music in the Gazebo, and an open house offering free food from around the world and a chance to connect with Whitehorse’s diverse multicultural community in the Frank Slim Building, courtesy of Yukon Cultures Connect. Following the Social, enjoy two counterculture films in the Gazebo: 8 pm screening - Shipyards Lament; 9 pm screening - Highway 61.

Cultural Expo - Saturday, September 28, 12-4 pm at the Old Fire Hall Kick off your weekend by stopping by the Old Fire Hall to pick up a map and meet the cultural community of Whitehorse. Great activities for the whole family including: great cake, live music, dance performances, face painting, our famous ‘Mystery Tour', a Kids Kreate activity table, artist demonstrations and live music at the Wharf, and lots more! Parking metres outside the Old Fire Hall will be free for the afternoon.

Mystery Tour - Saturday, September 28, 12-4 pm, leaving from the Old Fire Hall approx. every 1 hr 45 mins Jump on the Culture Cruiser van (it seats ten people) and explore behind-the-scenes at several secret venues through special guided tours! Register at the Old Fire Hall.

Self Guided Cultural & Heritage Tours - Friday, Saturday, Sunday Ever wanted to learn more about the Log Cabin Skyscrapers, or the story behind some of the murals around town? Explore Whitehorse's history and art at your own pace with free self-guided audio walking tours. Choose from three tours: the Memory, Art, or Building Walk. Visit www.heritageyukon.ca for more information and to download maps and podcasts.

White Rabbit Red Rabbit - Friday, Saturday, Sunday at the Old Fire Hall No rehearsals. No director. No set. A different actor reads the script cold for the first time at each performance. Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? Friday, September 27, 7:30 pm with Moira Sauer; Saturday, September 28, 7:30 pm with Dave Haddock; Sunday, September 29, 2:00 pm with Grant Hartwick.

In the Communities Carmacks - Friday and Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm: Enjoy a free visit to the Tagé Cho Hudän Interpretive Centre Faro - Saturday, 1-2 pm: Storytelling, crafts, and refreshments at the Faro Community Library Watson Lake - Friday, 2-3 pm: Free screenings at the Northern Lights Centre of "BIG" How big is our Universe? and Experience the Aurora Picture Culture Contest! What does 'culture' mean to you?

Take a picture or shoot a video that describes what you mean when you say 'culture.' Join the event on the Culture Days / Doors Open Yukon Facebook page, then add your photo or video and get your friends to 'like' it. The top twenty posts by September 27 will be entered in a draw to win fabulous prizes! Winners will be announced on September 30.

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Kim

d a o R Barlow Hits the Goodbye concert on Saturday will be full of memories

by Roslyn Woodcock

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running into 19 year olds who say their parents played me as they grew up. That’s fun.

inger-songwriter Kim Barlow hasn’t accumulated much worth selling in her 20 years in the Yukon, but she has amassed enough friends and fans to warrant a goodbye concert.

Kim Barlow’s Send-Off Concert will feature Barlow playing with Helene Beaulieu, Dave Haddock, Andrea McColeman, Lonnie Powell and Micah Smith, as well as special guests Kim Beggs, Natalie Edelson Bob Hamilton and Daniel Janke. In addition, Besty Sims and Martha Scott Stey are heading into town from Juneau, Alaska to join in on some Glacial Erratics hits.

While in the midst of parenting, packing, selling her Whitehorse house and searching for a new one on the east coast last week, Barlow found time for a conversation.

RW: Since you are leaving and won’t have to worry about paparazzi anymore, its time to share your favourite Yukon haunts.

KB: Keno City is the top of the list for locations. The landscape is spectacular and the people have amazingly strong personalities.

The Keno City Snack Bar has to be mentioned. In Whitehorse, Midnight Sun Coffee and the good ole CBC have both been favourites.

RW: I couldn’t live without the Riverside Grocery.

KB: I worked there for a month when I first came to Whitehorse.

RW: Is that a good memory? What is your best?

KB: The first summer I spent here is forever imprinted on my mind.

Everything after is wonderful, but not as clear. That summer was warm just like this summer and there were many naked midnight swims in Long Lake.

RW: Everyone seems to know you, so I need to ask the question that is on the whole community’s mind. When is the garage sale and is there anything good?

KB: Actually we don’t even really have time for a garage sale. It’s all going on the buy and sell — so keep your eyes open there. But, if you are looking for a bargain we are going to be having a fire sale on CDs and T-shirts. We don’t want to ship them so they will be going cheap at the concert.

RW: You heard it here first Whitehorse: forget the music, come for the schwag! Just in case that isn’t enough to get people in the door, tell me about the concert.

Is it just for old fans, a trip down memory lane?

KB: We will be playing lots of new music but it will definitely also be a walk through the phases of my career since I’ve been here. The Glacial Erratics will be there, I will play a few songs from Spring Break Up (sans Mathias Kom of Burning Hell), Blue Hibou are coming…

I think there will be something for old and new fans. Or maybe they’re both, lately I have been

RW: What are you looking forward to down south?

KB: Being near family, growing things: apples, corn, peaches. I plan to have a big garden. I am excited about being close to Halifax, Toronto and Montreal and playing with my musician friends from there too.

RW: Will you be back?

KB: I sure hope so.

Kim Barlow’s Send Off Concert takes place at the Yukon Arts Centre on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m.

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Having spent 20 years in the Yukon, Kim Barlow is packing up the family and moving to the east coast. Her Send Off Concert takes place Sept. 29 at the Yukon Arts Centre.

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Declan O’Donovan Spreads his Wings

Whitehorse-based musician tours Western Canada

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“There were really great crowds,” says O’Donovan. “I did a solo act on the main stage opening for Serena Ryder, in front of around 10,000 people.”

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elebrated Yukon musician Declan O’Donovan is on the road again.

The piano-playing troubadour began his fall tour at the Hamilton Music and Film Festival on September 20, and will continue westward, spreading his brand of alternative-roots-blues throughout Alberta and British Columbia, before finishing his tour on October 13 in Vancouver.

For O’Donovan, the traveling is an important part of his vocation.

“A lot of people don’t like (touring) and consider it part of the grind,” he says. “But that’s part of the reason I wanted to be a musician, meeting new people, going to new places.”

And since the release of his selftitled, solo debut album in August 2012, the 29-year-old O’Donovan has hit the road on four different occasions, playing as far east as Montreal, and including a stop at the legendary Rockwood Music Hall in New York.

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indulging in a few rock n’ roll clichés on his initial tour, those sorts of antics are now largely out of his system.

“When the gigs are over I go to bed,” he confesses. “It’s great to have Lonnie and Keith along because they are older and they keep their eyes on the prize.”

And for O’Donovan there is a special incentive to keep his eye on the prize.

From October 4 to 6 he will be lighting up the stage in Calgary, first as part of the Breakout West Festival and then at the Western Canadian Music Awards Gala. For an up-and-comer like O’Donovan it’s a chance to perform in front of people who can make things happen in the Canadian music industry.

He’s particularly excited by the prospect of meeting booking agents.

“I would like to be able to book about twice as many shows next year as I did this year.”

In the meantime his current schedule provides him with plenty of little joys.

“There always seems to be Yukoners or family members that find their way to the shows, and it’s surprising and encouraging to meet people who know me exclusively through my music,” he says.

Due to increased national radio exposure, the above-mentioned scenario is becoming more common for O’Donovan.

It’s all enough to put him in a positive frame of mind as he falls into the routine of life on the road. In fact, instead of becoming worn out, O’Donovan finds himself more invigorated as the tour dates progress.

“The longer you’re out there the tighter the band gets and the day-to-day logistics get easier.

When it’s time to head home, I want to keep going.”

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Edible Yukon with Kim Melton

To Frost or Not To Frost The Secret to Drying Cranberries

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ith the beauty of the fall colours comes an increase in the everpresent danger of frost.

For some, this is evidence of a balance between good and bad, for others it is proof that we can have our cake and eat it too. Ice on the puddles is an indication that a transformation is taking place inside one of the Yukon’s favourite wild foods: cranberries.

Also called lingonberries, we’re talking about Vaccinium vitisidaea, literally the vine of Mt Ida. The low-growing, creeping shrub has gorgeous, sweet-tart berries that are famous for warding off scurvy, treating urinary tract infections, and more recently, keeping turkeys company.

While some patiently wait for the frost to deepen the berries to an inviting burgundy-purple, I have been surprised at how many folks are out avidly picking already. I have been known to munch on the odd not-yet-frosted fruit, but I am invariably dissuaded from picking any quantity until they have developed the sweetness that comes with a good hard freeze. In fact, springtime often finds me grazing on newly uncovered berries — that’s when I find them most irresistible.

As the water in berries freezes, the solutes – particularly the sugars – concentrate in the unfrozen water, which causes increased sweetness. The ice crystals also break open cell walls, making for messier picking and berries that don’t hold up quite as well if not processed quickly.

The benefits of early picking are that the berries are brighter

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Cranberries turn almost purple after a frost. and easier to see, they are more solid and are less likely to squish as they are picked, and the odds of picking with warm hands are certainly higher before frost.

For some, an added advantage for early season picking is that the berries are not as tempting, and fewer find their way into the mouths of harvesters.

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Back to School in Haiti

Haitian kids offer their perspectives on starting the school year

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s September chills the air, whether with excitement or dismay, kids in Whitehorse turn their attention towards the new school year. Half way across the world, and minus the frost, Haitian youth are thinking about heading to school, as well. Their first day back is Oct. 2.

With the help of Yukoner Morgan Wienberg, who is based in Haiti, I was able to connect with some of these scholars and learn a little bit about what it is like to head back to school in that Caribbean country.

Ernso Fifi, 15 years old, has a hard time with Lecture, which is a subject that requires children to memorize paragraphs and recite them for the class. It’s difficult, especially when the penalty for not doing your homework is often a beating.

“Still,” he says, “School isn’t hard, as long as you are motivated and willing to study.”

His father advised him to take school seriously, be respectful and never steal. “My father loved me a lot,” Ernso says. “He would always sit with me and explain to me how I should live. I’m proud because I’ve never forgotten that. Not everyone is raised with someone to give them advice.”

Ernso took this to heart, even while he was living on the streets after his father died

walk by foot to arrive at hover around 50 per cent, while school by eight – but I’m 70 per cent is considered high. never discouraged.”

In Odyanne Loradine, 19 years old, the future, he hopes to be acquired some seemingly unsomeone influential, like a likely skills at school. In Grade judge, so that he can help 8, she learned to sew, crochet other street children. His and knit. These skills have been grades sometimes suffer a great help and have increased because he finds it hard to her self-sufficiency, which makes read in school and he can’t her proud. Now she spends whatalways keep up with the ever free time she has making speed of the classes, which socks, hats and skirts. She dreams are typically 30 to 50 stu- of one day becoming a doctor so dents. He wishes he had that she can support her family. help with his homework, but As an educational opportunity, he is proud to say he never many classes/schools in the Yukon gets discouraged, acts dis- support a child in Haiti through respectful or fights. He is Little Footprints Big Steps. If you pretty excited to have just want to get involved or learn passed his driving course. more about it, go to www.LittleChildren in Haiti learn nu- FootprintsBigSteps.com. merous languages at school.

English, French, Spanish and Yukoner Morgan Wienberg is PHOTO: courtesy of Morgan Wienberg Creole are all part of the the founder of the charity curriculum. School grades Little Footprints Big Steps and are based 100 per cent on Fedner Mathurin teaches children from the Little is living in Haiti. exams which students take four Footprints, Big Steps safe house in Haiti. times per year, so it is no surprise Roslyn Woodcock is a writer that children’s marks are low from cholera three years ago. self-conscious, given the dispar- compared to here. Most children based in Whitehorse.

His hard work is paying off as ity in the country. Even children last year he was selected to in the direst circumstances will be part of the school council. do their best to iron their uniErnso hopes to become a pastor form and look correct so that or a doctor when he grows up. they are not singled out in front Conformity and appearance are of the class. Like Ernso says, one important in the Haitian school has to be motivated to succeed. system and children must wear Wathson Dena, 17 years old, unS ta r t y o u r Fa l l S h o p p i n g at a n d - a g a i n uniforms to attend. This can be derstands this well. a significant barrier to educaB r a n d n a m e S at r e a S o n a B l e p r i c e S “School is important,” he tion, because the cost must be says. “I wasn’t always like this, covered by the child’s family. It school changed me. I rise at six also tends to make the children in the morning every day and

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Community Happenings Atlin

Wednesdays

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

Beaver Creek Wednesdays

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

Carcross

Wednesdays

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

Thursdays

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

Fridays

City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron .

Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Robert Service School

Faro

Tue, Oct 1 New Issue of The Frozen MukLuk Town of Faro Website Wednesdays

Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Seniors Painting Workshop 1:00 PM CRIC with Jackie Irvine Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 1-8) Kids After-School Crafts 3:00 PM Recreation Centre Youth Lounge 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Co-ed Basketball: 4:00 PM Recreation Centre Gymnasium 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM DVG School 994-2760 Adult Floor Hockey: 7:00 PM 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca equipment provided if needed Recreation Centre Gymnasium

Thursdays

Open Gym Night 7:00 PM

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Environment Club DVG School 3:45 PM Alternating Thursdays Crafting Club 12:30 PM Alternating Thursdays Youth Group Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca

Tuesdays

Elders Breakfast 10:00 AM at the Old Daycare Pottery with Claudia McPhee 3:15 PM. Community Softball 7:00 PM Carcross Community School Bring a glove if you have 1 your own water and snacks. Everyone welcome Women’s Group Carcross Community Campus 7:00 PM Geraldine James 867-821- Sundays 4251 Faro Sunday Church Service 11:00 AM Faro Bible Chapel All are welcome.Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

Carmacks

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Mondays

Indoor Soccer 6:00 PM

Dawson City

Glee Club 1:00 PM DVG School (All grades) 994-2760

until Fri, Nov 1 Unearthly, Uprising by Marigold Santos 11:00 AM ODD Gallery Sat, Sep 28 - Sun, Sep 29 Tr’ondek Hwech’in General Assembly 8:30 AM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Community Hall Tue, Oct 1 City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Council Chambers Heather Favron Thu, Oct 3 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Dawson City 667-2331 Thu, Oct 3 Artist talk and Gallery Opening: Unearthly, Uprising by Marigold Santos 7:00 PM KIAC

Tuesdays

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

Old Crow

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

Mondays

Thursdays

Mondays

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

Mondays

Thursdays

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

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

Wednesdays

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

Tuesdays

Thursdays

Hamlet of Mt. Lorne

Saturdays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Tuesdays Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre Girl’s Night Out Ages 12+ meet at WL Rec Centre 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 7-9pm.

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

Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings

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

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

Beaver Creek Fridays

Tuesday & Thursday 11:30 AM - St. Anne Pre-school Playdays 10:30 AM Tagish Church Community Centre 399-3407 Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Wednesdays

Tagish Library and Tagish Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 NOON

Kids Craft time 3:00 PM HJ Public Library

Thursdays

Sundays

Carcross

Wednesdays 7:30 PM. Library Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre

Tagish Community Church 7:00 PM Tagish Carmacks Estates Road. tagishcc@gmail.com first and Fridays 1:30p PM Health Centre Playgroup for parents & tots 10:00 AM Noon Lorne Mountain Community Centre call third Sunday every month community church Dawson City service in Tagish Agnes 667-7083 for more information Thursday 8:00 PM New Beginnings Group Fridays Richard Martin Chapel Church St. Learning Lions Homeschoolers Get Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Wednesdays Together 1:30 PM Lorne Mountain Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM. Seniors Saturdays 7:00 PM Community Support Community Centre Questions contact Centre 993-5095 Complex Ruth Lera 668-5871 or email ruthlera@ After school sports 3:30 PM Teslin School Destruction Bay northwestel.net gym Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Iyengar Yoga 5:30 PM Teslin School Gym Faro richard@yogawhitehorse.ca ends May 1st Fridays Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Thursdays Dinner at the Jackalope Marsh Lake Stroller Mama’s 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre Haines Junction Community Centre every Fri, Steak/ teslinrec@northwestel.net Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Wednesdays 8:00 PM Public Library Reservations welcome: 660-4999 Saturday Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Stroller Mama’s 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre Mayo Tuesdays

South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community teslinrec@northwestel.net Wednesday 7:30 PM RRC Building 996-2825 Centre 660-4999 Parents and Preschoolers Sundays Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre social time.

Seniors Carpet Bowling 2:00 PM Teslin Old Crow North of 60 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Centre 660-4999 North of 60 - Socialize, play Mondays games, meet neighbours!

Pelly Crossing Brownies and Girl Guides 5:00 PM Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Wednesday 7:00 PM Pelly Band Office 537Crafts and games afternoons 1:00 PM 3461 Weekdays Teslin Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Community Access Program 1:00 PM The Tuesdays Ross River Drop In Centre Parents & Tots playtime 10:00 AM Teslin Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Wednesdays Rec Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Kids Events Ages 12 Years & Under 4:00 Tagish Stroller Mama’s 12:00 PM Teslin Rec PM The Drop In Centre Centre teslinrec@northwestel.net Mondays 7:30 PM Bishop’s Cabin, end of Pajama Bingo 5:00 PM Drop in Center Best 5km Run/Walk/Nordic Walk 5:45 PM Teslin road along California Beach dressed wins a radio bingo package, runner Rec Centre Telegraph Creek up wins a prize!

Tuesdays 8:00 PM Sewing Centre, Soaring Soccer - Elementary School ages 7:00 PM Eagles Group 235-3350 School Gym Wednesdays Soccer - High School/Adult 8:00 PM Teslin Senior Day (60+) 10:00 AM Drop in Board School Gym

Wednesdays 7:00 PM G Building, 4 McLeary games, cards, bowling, curling, tea and Thursdays Street coffee Traditional Lunch 12:00 PM The Drop In Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Centre

Centre Watson Lake Wii & Movie Night 4:00 PM The Drop In Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Thursdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church Centre Thursdays Fridays 1:30 PM Health Centre, downstairs Fridays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec Tuesdays 12:30 PM St. Anne Church Movie & Games 4:00 PM The Drop In Centre Centre Squash Club 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM WL Rec Free On-line Dinner & A Movie Night 5:30 PM Centre Event Listing Entry Community Hall Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM www.whatsupyukon.com Teen Drop in Gym 7:30 PM School Gym Fridays Saturdays

Weight Room 8:00 am - 11:30 PM WL Rec It’s Easy: Movie & Games 4:00 PM The Drop In Centre 1) Create your account Centre Greyhound Southbound 11:40 PM Mondays

2) Enter your event Saturdays Wii & Movie Night 4:00 PM The Drop In 3) Appears in both web & print Weight Room 10:00 am - 6:00 PM WL Rec Centre Centre

Teslin

Marsh Lake

Playgroup 10:30 AM Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Primary Ball Skills 12:30 Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 K – 3 Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School 994-2760 (Grades 9-12) Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Rec Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Faro Kettle Café: 4:00 PM Recreation Centre Concession 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Hosted by the Faro Youth Group Giant Board Games! 3:45 PM Rec Centre Youth Lounge Tina Freake 994-2375 Join us for Giant Jenga, Giant Connect-4, and Giant Daily Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre Sunday-Thursday 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Friday Checkers! We will also have some other board and card games available for your & Saturday 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM Beside the enjoyment!

Bonanza Market Badminton 7:00 PM Recreation Centre 994Wednesdays 2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall 993-5370 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat a Fridays fundraiser for CFYT local radio Golden Horn Judo Club 3:30 PM Golden Thursdays Horn School judoyukon@gmail.com or Mike Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC 668- 6952. Under 15 years Adult drop in soccer 7:45 PM Robert Sundays Servie School Badminton 7:00 PM Golden Horn Saturdays Elementary School Tracy 393-7641 Hatha Yoga with Joanne 9:00 AM KIAC Tuesdays Youth Radio Broadcasting 12:00 PM Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Sundays

School Terice 668-6631 Yoga with Jo 5:00 PM Robert Service Tuesdays School Badminton 7:30 PM Golden Horn Mondays

Elementary School Tracy 393-7641 Hӓn Language Bingo! 2:00 PM Learn a little of the language of our land *subject to availability Sun, Sep 29 KellyLee Evans Trio : Jazz Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM TH Hall on the Wing 7:30 PM St Elias Convention Tuesdays 993-5370 Centre Hosted by JAM. Kids Events Ages 12 Years & Under 4:00 Tuesdays Wednesdays

PM The Drop In Centre Hatha Yoga with Joanne 5:45 PM KIAC Mun Ku - Craft Afternoons 1:00 PM Mun Ku 634-4018 or dblair@cafn.ca

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Greyhound Northbound 11:20 PM Watson Lake Farmer’s Market 3:00 PM Wye Lake Cabin Produce, baking, cooking, crafts, eggs, etc - anything made or grown.

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The winner will be chosen by draw and announced November 1st on Facebook.Selected Stories and Photos will be published in What’s Up Yukon’s Halloween Issue

September 27,28 & 29 are CULTURE DAYS

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Upcoming Exhibi�ons Exhibition: >> in the Yukon Art Society Gallery: THEInSEVEN TEXTILE ARTISTS the Focus Gallery: “How Does it Felt”

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Exhibi�on closes December 1st, 2012

Exhibit by Marlene and >> in theCathleen Hougen Heritage Collins Gallery: YUKON ARCHIVES Opening Oct. 4th from 5-7 p.m.

Archival Gold: Favourites from the Vault Closes: Oct. 26th Exhibi�on closes January 26, 2013

UNEARTHLY, UPRISING – Marigold Santos – Oct3th – Nov1st, 2013 Artist Talk & Reception: October 3rd at 7pm

Gallery Hours: Tues– Sat 11:00 – 5:00 pm Location: Located on the corner of 2nd and Princess

In the Edge Gallery:

Open Studio Sessions Exhibit

by Joseph Tisiga Opening 4th fromSessions 5-7 p.m. >> CeramicOct. Open Studio << Closes: Oct. 26th Sundays from 2:30 to 6pm $5 per hour

Current Exhibition: >> Acrylic Pain�ng Open Studio << with Hybrid Neil Graham Exhibit byand Amber Ange every first thirdWalker, Wednesday of Bonnici and Candice Ball each month 7 to 9pm $10 per 2 hour Closes: Sept session 28th

To register 867-667-4080 In the Hougencall: Heritage Gallery: Email: recep�on@artsunderground.ca Paved with Stories:

The history of the street names in downtown Whitehorse.

MacBride Museum Showing Aug-Oct

Open Studio Sessions: Ceramic Open-Studio Every Sunday from 2:30-6:00p.m. $5 per hour paid to Studio Tech

Acrylic Painting Open-Studio with Neil Graham

Starting in September 2013 Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7-9p.m. $10 per 2hr session paid to Studio Tech

For more information please contact Arts Underground at 667-4080 orreception@artsunderground.ca

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! April 17-20, 2014 Early Bird Deadline: November 15 Final Deadline: December 20 www.dawsonfilmfest.com

Coming up! YUKON 48!

th Annual

Sister City Celebration

WhitehorseLancieux Vendredi Friday 27 sept. Sept. 27 17 h 5 pm Hôtel de Ville

City Hall

Create a film in 48 Hours! In partnership with the Yukon Film Society our annual Yukon-wide 48 hour film challenge is back!

November 15th - 17th: Screening on November 20th.

Stay tuned for details.

Tel:(867) 993-5005 Fax: (867) 993-5838 Website: www.kiac.ca

YUKON MADE STORE

YUKON SENIORS

STORE & OFFICE HOURS:

TUES & WED, 11 A.M. - 5 P.M. THURS & FRI, 11 A.M. - 6 P.M. SAT, 11 A.M. - 4 P.M.

Thursday October 17, 2013

Featured this week,

ART CARDS

by Cass Collins

October 2 Annual General Meeting 7pm in the Curling Club lounge

Do you love the Arts?

We’re looking for writers to cover Theatre, Art Shows, & Music!

Email: editor@whatsupyukon.com

SNOW ON THE HILLS - TIME TO THINK SKIING!

October 7, 11, 18, 21 Elderactive Nordic Walking Register at Sport Yukon

by October 4

393-2255 yukonmadestore@yukonfood.com www.fireweedmarket.yukonfood.com

Selkirk

Free Drop-In Youth Centre for kids ages 11 to 18 Wednesday to Saturday, 3 to 9 pm.

Supper served daily at 6:00

Everyone is welcome and babysitting services could be arranged.

Please contact Cheryl Horoscoe, Chair at 668-3777 for further information.

an inspiration in our community!

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Volunteers needed for: Ski Swap Jackrabbit Leaders Trail Grooming

Seniors Issue Ad Booking Deadline: Tuesday October 8, 2013

Tammy Beese tammy@whatsupyukon.com Mark Beese mark@whatsupyukon.com

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Council AGM September 26, 2013 6:30 pm in Selkirk Elementary School Library

With stories that highlight folks who are

Oct 26 Ski Swap 9am to noon

Elementary School Boys and Girls Club of Whitehorse

Let’s celebrate the fastest-growing segment of our population

For season passes or more information www.xcskiwhitehorse.ca

Tamara Neely tamara@whatsupyukon.com Peter Jickling peter@whatsupyukon.com

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G ir l G re a t n e s s S t a r t s H e re !

Join Yukon Area Girl Guides of Canada as we celebrate 100 years of Guiding in Yukon!

2014 marks our 100th Anniversary.

Be a part of a unit by registering as a girl member or an adult leader.

Find out why we have been here for 100 years!

WE WE LC OM E AL L GIR LS to be par t of the follo win g gro ups :

• Spa rks — 5 & 6 yea r old s • Bro wn ies — 7 & 8 yea r old s • Gui des — 9-1 1 yea r old s • Pat hfin der s — 12- 14 yea r old s

Sign up today: Register online at www.girlguides.ca Or stop in at the Guide Office Call 667-2455 Suite 102, 302 Steele Street/TC Richards Bldg

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French Toast with Geneviève Doyon

Taking the Blame Off the Victim

Men join forces to end violence against women

L

es Essentielles, the Yukon’s Francophone women’s organization, is proud to have a new male asset on their team.

Scott Carlson is the project coordinator for Men Engaging Men, a program to encourage men to work towards ending violence against women.

“Over the past few years, a shift has been happening nationally in conversations about violence against women,” says Carlson. “The responsibility isn’t put on victims to prevent being assaulted anymore, but on men to take actions and help end violence against women.”

Status of Women Canada granted Les Essentielles $182,354 to deliver this project over two years in the Yukon to both French and English speaking communities.

During its first year, the Men Engaging Men project will be primarily dedicated to research. They plan to identify the problems, explore different methods to address these issues and then select effective strategies to work towards ending violence

against women. Focus groups will help Carlson through these three steps.

“We want to engage men and boys where they are,” explains

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Carlson. “We want to make sure our focus group reflects all the demographics of Yukon men, including men involved in maledominated work places.”

The goal is to understand culture-based differences regarding violence against women in order to reach people in all of the Yukon’s cultural settings with their messages, training, and outreach activities.

The second year of this project will focus on expanding bilingual programs and events based on the most effective strategies identified through the research.

In addition, the program will

project will only be funded over two years, community building and capacity building are part of Les Essentielles’ priorities.

“We want to train youth services providers and ensure that the community is equipped to keep working towards engaging men to end violence against women once this project comes to an end,” says Carlson.

A leader in addressing gender-based violence is the White Ribbon group. Created in 1991, White Ribbon is the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equity, healthy relationships and a new vision of masculinity.

The Yukon has become a part of this worldwide movement through White Ribbon Yukon, co-founded by Carlson PHOTO: Tamara Neely and Steve Roddick in 2011.

“The community’s reScott Carlson, centre, leads a sponse to men being leaders of movements to end violence new initiative encouraging men to against women has been extremetake a leadership role in stopping ly positive,” Carlson says. violence against women.

He added that people’s first reaction when he presents the Men He is joined by White Ribbon Engaging Men Project is usually, Yukon volunteers Ted Tucker, “Finally.” left, Steve Roddick, Jesse I don’t know about you, but Whitehead, and Josh Regnier. that’s my response, too.

To get involved, contact Scott include developing healthy-rela- Carlson at wryukon@gmail.com or tionship training for boys in part- 867-668-2663 ext 830. nership with Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre and White Ribbon Yukon.

Because the Men Engaging Men

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

The Association for Helping Yukon Youth in Need would love to thank all the sponsors and volunteers for their invaluable contributions.

It is thanks to you that we successfully raised over $9,000 at our Latin Dance Party fundraiser in April 2013. We could not have done it without you! The funds are being used to offer financial support to youth facing crisis situations and unexpected financial challenges. Our local heroes include: Access Consulting Hendrik’s Barber Shop Icycle Sport Air North Integra Tire Alcan Air Antoinette’s Joanne Maisonneuve Kathy Heinbigner Aroma Borealis Bailey’s Pub Kopper King Mini Mart Lauri Hill Bella Home Decor Louise Hardy Brigitte Parker Calvin Morberg Marlon Davis Mary Armstrong Charmaine Klippert Chez ML Life Services Counselling and Coaching Melanie Bennett City of Whitehorse Mid Arctic Technology Services Murdoch’s Gem Shop Climate Clothing Deborah and Tim Turner-Davis Northland Beverages Om Sweet Om (Meera Sarin) Extra Foods Peak Fitness France Robert Georgianna (Georgi Pearson) Performance Cross Country Ski School (Dan Reimer) GP Distributors Heather Wanamaker Regis & Christine Klaassen-St.Pierre Robert Postma Photography

Salsa Yukon Sam N Andy’s Restaurant Sequels Consignment Boutique Shay Per Esthetics Shoppers Drug Mart - Qwanlin Mall Solid Sound, City of Whitehorse Spa Zen Sportslife Staples Tennis Yukon The Chocolate Claim Tim Hortons UNITECH Vanier Social Justice Committee Well-Read Books What’s Up Yukon Whitehorse Curling Club Yucan Canoe Yukon Brewery

Are you mulling over job market ideas?

Interested in furthering your education?

Looking for volunteer work experience?

Find out about opportunities that will build the skills and knowledge you need to land in the career that you want! Come meet educational institutions, employers, and non-profit organizations who can inform you about your future prospects and plans!

2013 Education, Career and Volunteer Expo Yukon College Gym October 10 10:30 am to 5:00pm No entrance fee Take the bus!

Available hourly from downtown to the College.

Presented by YuWIN, Yukon College and Volunteer Bénévoles Yukon Diamond and Silver sponsor

Gratitude and thanks to our devoted team of volunteers: Bill Bennett, Brigitte Parker, Catherine Faye Poole, Charmaine Klippert, Chrissy McConnell, Christine Klaassen-St.Pierre, Corina Zumer, Cynthia Corriveau, Deborah & Tim Turner-Davis, Louise Hardy, Lucie Desaulniers & Michel Morris and all those who gave their time to make this event a success!

Thank you & keep an eye out for our next Latin Dance Party fundraiser in the coming months!

If you know of a youth who needs one-time financial assistance and cannot access help through other resources in the community, please contact yyneed@gmail.com today!

For more information, contact Bruno Bourdache at executivedirector@yuwin.ca, 867 393-3874

Sunday September 29 is Coffee Day

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Active Interest Listings Fri, Sep 27 Elk Bugling 6:00 PM Meet at North Klondike Rest stop. Join us to view Elk in rut and hear them bugling. Dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear. Carpooling is encouraged.

Sat, Sep 28 Whitehorse Curling Club Registration 1:00 PM Mount McIntyre Register for this coming season.

Registrations in the Curling Club Lounge.

Sun, Sep 29 Whitehorse Walk for ALS 12:00 PM Shipyards Park Donald Watt 332-3669 .

Sun, Sep 29 Whitehorse Curling Club Registration 1:00 PM Mount McIntyre in the Curling Club Lounge Wed, Oct 2 Whitehorse Cross Country Ski Club AGM 7:00 PM Curling Club Lounge Sat, Oct 5 Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Alpine Bakery Upstairs. Scent-free event please.

Wednesdays

Yoga with Sabu 12:15 PM Shanti Yoga Studio 303 Hawkins St 456-7123 or email chaitanyayoga@gmail.com Hatha Yoga.

Lunch Drop-In. Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8-12.

Box Lacrosse Drop-in 4:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary School 668-2840 Traditional Yang Family Style Hand Form, Part 1 6:00 PM Elijah Smith Elementary Activity Room Helen Dobrowolsky 668-3814 midnight@ northwestel.net A beginners tai chi chuan class focussing on the first section of the traditional Yang family 103 movement hand form Adult Biathlon Program 6:30 PM Biathalon Range Judy: 334-6726 or Vern 633-2297 Polarettes Adult/Teen Drop-in 7:00 PM Vanier School 867-668-4794 Whitehorse Badminton Club Adults 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary Yeu Fang Sharma 667-4219 Yukon Amateur Boxing Association Training Sessions 7:00 PM Avalanche Combat Arts Centre. Jess 335-3831 Table Tennis Drop in 7:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary School. Dave 668-3358

Thursdays

Archery For Youth: Ages 12 -18 Years 4:30 PM Takhini Elementary School At the gym. Please register before course starts Traditional Yang Family Style Hand Form, Part 2 6:00 PM Hidden Valley Elementary Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde.ca This class focuses on the 2nd section of the Traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan hand form. Students should already know the first section Athletics Yukon Trail Run 6:30 PM Location varies Nancy 334-6576 Roller Girls Free Skate and Fresh Meat 6:30 PM Christ the King Elementary School juniorderby@yukonrollergirls.ca

Co-Ed Drop-in Ultimate Frisbee 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary Soccer field Everybody is welcomed 336-0255 morrmic@hotmail. com Archery 7:00 PM Christ the King Elementary School. Les Johns, 667-7349.

New members welcome.

Whitehorse Rifle & Pistol Club Public Access 7:00 PM on Gray Mountain Road range; officers on duty.

Traditional Yang Style Sabre Form 7:00 PM Hidden Valley School Gymnasium Pam Boyde 633-6034 ttntaiji@pamboyde. ca An introductory tai chi weapon form that combines the smooth, easy movements of Tai Chi with the use of a sabre. Can be aerobic.

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

Ultimate Frisbee 9:00 PM Takhini Elementary Kris 333-9393

Fridays

Yoga with Sabu 12:15 PM Shanti Yoga Studio 303 Hawkins St 456-7123 or email chaitanyayoga@gmail.com. Hatha Yoga Lunch Drop-In. Jr. Youth Climbing Club 3:30 PM F.H.Collins School Alain 668-4042 for Gr.8-12 Strength & Conditioning for Snowboarders 5:30 PM Elijah Smith Gymnasium Head Coach, Mary Binsted 334-2944 mary@snowboardyukon,com Registration required.

Punjabi Bhangra Dance 7:00 PM Family Literacy Centre Gurdeep 336-3344 a natural alternative to Cardio exercises, it requires energetic, rhythmic movements Salsa Yukon’s Latin Dance Classes Beginner 1 & 2 7:30 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio No Classes on Oct. 11th.

335-0909 salsayukon@gmail.com Salsa Yukon’s Latin Dance Classes - Intermediate 1 & 2 8:45 PM Leaping Feats Dance Studio No classes on Oct. 11th. 335-0909 salsayukon@gmail.com

Saturdays

Fencing for Youth and Adults 10:00 AM Takhini Elementary Tai Chi Practise 10:00 AM Takhini Elementary School Janet Maclachlan 633-5287 An open session to practise tai chi quan with other enthusiastic players.

Everyone is welcome.

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Hard Work, Long Days and Satisfaction in the Arctic Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant gives a talk about her experience at an arctic research camp

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

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n a memorable scene in the 1983 movie Never Cry Wolf (adapted from Farley Mowat’s 1963 book), a biologist is dropped by floatplane in the middle of the high arctic tundra. He is completely alone, except for a small collection of wooden crates packed with his research and living supplies. The camera pans out until the biologist is a speck in a vast sea of snow and sky.

Thanks to the efforts of the Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) in Resolute, Nunavut, researchers do not have to fear desolate isolation or lack of supplies depicted in movies. Each year, adventurous folks like Whitehorse resident Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant bring supplies to researchers. If you have ever wondered what it is like to work in the high arctic, you now have a chance to hear about it first hand. Hopkins-Lecheminant will be

speaking about her arctic experience on Oct.1 at noon at the Yukon College.

Hopkins-Lecheminant was employed

by PCSP, a national service delivery organization that aides in the complex logistics of conducting research in the high arctic. They coordinate charter air transportation to remote field camps, and loan communication, field and transportation equipment, fuel, accommodations, and lab/research space at their facility.

Through this work the PCSP touts its role in the implementation of Canadian arctic sovereignty.

PCSP is also the heart of a communications network that links the scientific teams in field camps dispersed throughout the Arctic.

This summer, 10 PCSP workers provided deliveries and support for 1,100 scientists conducting more than 165 projects across

60 field camps in the arctic.

Hopkins-Lecheminant, was one of the 10 employees. She spent six weeks this summer working with PCSP during the anchor leg of the season, mid-July to near the end of August.

Hopkins-Lecheminant grew up in Whitehorse and is currently studying in the mineral resource department at Yukon College. When she heard that PCSP was seeking one student from each northern territory for work this summer, she thought the job was an adventure she could do.

Her daily tasks supported many different types of researchers who were stationed in the arctic.

“All sorts,” Hopkins-Lecheminant says. “A biologist, geologist, climatologist, glaciologist, and every other kind of ologist that wants to study the arctic.

I talked to all sorts of scientists while I was there, but I admit, I did get excited when a geologist was there. I did my best to have a quick chat and if they had time, ask all sorts of questions.”

I imagine these isolated researchers enjoyed the chance to answer questions and chat with a friendly face – way, way out there in the ice and snow. Visitors to field camps are not common and long-distance travel in the arctic requires a dog team or specialized vehicles. PCSP workers make deliveries by land on ATVs, and through the air by helicopter, and Twin Otter plane. Although a regular part of the job, Hopkins-Lecheminant says that the flying scares her.

“Mostly because I am not in control and I don’t completely understand what keeps a tin can with wings or rudders in the air,” she says. “However, I did not let that cont’d on page 25...

Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant spent six weeks working at a research camp in Resolute, Nunavut. She will be speaking about her experience at the free Brown Bag Speaker Series at the Yukon College on Oct. 1.

PHOTOS: courtesy of Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant

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Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant visits an archaeological site known to be a former dwelling for the Thule, who are ancestors to the Inuit. fear get in the way of enjoying the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that I was given. I went for my first helicopter ride and it was nothing close to what I expected, it is like floating.”

These once in a lifetime opportunities: helicopter trips, seeing endangered wildlife, and experiencing the vast spaces of the changing arctic are part of working with PCSP.

“I would do this job again in a heart beat,” Hopkins-Lecheminant says. “And I would recommend that students apply for this job if they like hard work, new experiences, science, cold places, long days and the feeling of happiness and satisfaction that you feel after you know that you have worked hard and made a difference.”

Hopkins-Lecheminant hopes to make a difference in the arc-

tic again next year. While she is happy to share her experience with others, Hopkins-Lecheminant jokes that her work stories may lead to an increase in PSCP hopefuls.

“I’m excited to share my pictures, rocks and stories from the time I spent in Resolute – but I’m also a little apprehensive,” she says. “What if I do a good job and way more students apply for the job next year?”

Jutta Hopkins-Lecheminant’s talk takes place on Tuesday, Oct.1 from noon to 1 p.m. in room A2103 of the Yukon College – bring your lunch. This talk is part of the Brown Bag Lunch free speaker series, which began in 2011 to highlight the work and ideas of the college’s researchers.

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Frost to Frost... with Joan Norberg

Harvest Time I can’t believe it’s almost over

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his summer was one of the best on record as far as gardening goes. We always had lots of produce to harvest and a sell at the markets. But the garden doesn’t stop producing just because the Fireweed Community Market is done for the season. In fact, there are still a lot of vegetables growing out here.

Some of them will be stored up for us this winter — there is nothing sadder than selling vegetables all summer only to buy them all winter. Some of the vegetables, like potatoes, will be saved for next year’s seed. Others will be stored to sell gradually throughout the winter and some of them will be set aside to feed the animals.

Chickens will eat some vegetables but the pigs will receive most of them, mainly turnips and kohlrabi.

This year, pests overran our turnips. Some had turnip beetles and others had worms. There weren’t many that were good for human consumption, but pigs don’t seem to mind the extra protein that accompanies the turnip.

So they won’t be a total loss.

The kohlrabi was actually grown for them on purpose.

While perusing the seed catalogue this spring I noticed a variety of kohlrabi that grew to be the size of a volleyball called Superschmeltz. I am always interested in the kinds of crops we can

PHOTO: Joan Norberg grow for our animals and this particular variety of kohlrabi seemed promising.

Kohlrabi is one of the more unusual cabbage family crops. It creates a bulb above ground with leaves growing off of the bulb.

It almost looks like a vegetable from science fiction. The cabbage family tends to spread out with large leaves first and then use the stored energy in the leaves to make the large heads of cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower. Because of this, kohlrabi, like other cabbage family crops, need to be spaced out at least a foot apart.

This spring I planted the very tiny seeds about a foot apart. It seemed to be endless. But everything germinated and grew well until the geese found them. It took about a day for every one of the plants to be nipped off with nothing to show they were even there. To protect the rest of the new plants we quickly constructed a fence between the geese and the garden.

The kohlrabi weren’t finished

The Superschmeltz kohlrabi looks like a vegetable from science fiction.

though, they came back up and now the Superschmeltz plants are huge, with bulbs as large as the catalogue claimed they would be.

Some might even be bigger.

Kohlrabi may be just as hardy to the fall frosts as broccoli, which means I won’t have to dig them out quite yet – leaving me time to focus on other vegetables first.

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Just a few strokes on each side with a file will make it as good as it was or better than ever. But still, you’ll never be able to shave with your filesharpened axe.

Axes stay in better shape and last longer if the head is occasionally oiled or greased to prevent rust and the axe is brought inside when not in use.

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I now wrap a double layer of 3” wide leather or Ensolite foam sleeping pad with duct tape around the handle at the head, which acts as a shock absorber and keeps the handle in better shape.

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es (either wooden or metal) and soak the axe to make a tight fit.

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Axes come in different sizes and headweights. An axe with a head of 2 to 2.5 pounds and a handle as long as the inside of your arm will probably fill all your chopping needs around camp. Mauls and wedges are good for the winter woodpile, but are overkill for most camping situations.

Axes usually have straight-grained wooden handles, but if you can afford it, a steel handled axe, such as the American-made Estwing, removes any broken handle problems. They are also light enough to use one handed in appropriate situations.

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