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A Little Off the Top with Ken Bolton

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Truth is, I don’t believe in the Zombie Apocalypse.

Or the Four Horsemen variety, for that matter.

It’s not that I harbour illusions about mankind’s lease on this planet having no expiry date, or renewal not being an option.

I’m not one of those - their official title is The Silly People - who refuse to accept that our climate is changing in ways that suggest we’re living on borrowed time, or that our profligate ways are part of the reason.

The laws of physics (about which I know practically nothing) dictate that the party will come to an end - not just for our species, but for all others, with the possible exception of mosquitoes and some rather nasty viruses.

Indeed, one of the laws of thermodynamics makes it perfectly clear that the cosmic Energizer Bunny we call the Sun will eventually run out of gas, and things will get a mite chilly in these here parts.

No, I readily acknowledge that we are all doomed. Doomed, I tell you!

But being of a somewhat literary bent, I incline to T.S. Eliot’s view that humanity’s run on the 3rd rock from the Sun will end with a whimper, rather than a bang.

Many wise heads, in the Yukon and elsewhere, can and will postulate about how it will all go down.

Glaciers will melt. Oceans will rise. Climatic zones will drift.

Species will migrate, mutate, or simply disappear. The wise heads have done the math, compiled the evidence, modeled the models,

projected the projections.

What do I know? My real-time interest in science reached its zenith the day Mr. Ferguson demonstrated to our Grade 11 biology class how to dissect a pigeon.

To paraphrase what John Keats found scribbled on a Grecian urn, that’s all a fellow knows, or needs to know, on this imperilled 3rd rock.

The world actually ended in 2012 while we were sleeping

Armed with the wisdom Mr. Ferguson imparted, I can fillet a spruce grouse with the best of them. I could de-bone a backyard chicken with alacrity and apply the same anatomical principles to a mouse, a moose, even a monster trout from Teslin Lake.

Which leads, finally, to the main hypothesis of this article: When the end times come, either through cosmic catastrophe, or creeping in a petty pace from day to day (as the Bard and Mr. Eliot would have it), the best place on Earth to be is probably the Yukon.

Fact: survival is encoded in every Yukoner’s DNA. Ask yourself: does your condo on the 32nd floor in Downtown Urbanville have a wood stove? Even if the elevator is working, will

the deli on the main floor still be open? Do groceries roam freely on the streets around you?

If you even know your neighbours, would any of them go to the mat for you?

I thought not. You’re doomed.

Doomed, I tell you.

By contrast, every single Yukoner has access to a chainsaw, a firearm, a coil of snare wire, a clutch of fishing tackle, a berry basket and a motley assortment of neighbours eager to barter, or otherwise assist in your apocalyptic adventure.

Yukoners know a moose can acquire 1,500 pounds of avoirdupois at the salad bar alone, while a 600-pound grizzly gains its girth on a diet of herbs and PHOTO: kozzi.com berries.

Yukoners have mentors like Larry Leigh, who can explain in 500 words how to jerryrig a shelter, or keep your knickers dry in a blizzard.

They have clever folks like Bev Gray or Miche Genest to tell them how to forage for organic goodness, or convert a dandelion leaf into a gourmet delight.

They have mycologists to explain which wild mushrooms will enhance that succulent caribou steak without killing you.

Most important, they have ready access to the wisdom of those whose ancestors thrived for centuries in the pre-urban rigours of what we call the Yukon Territory.

Bring on the zombies, I say.

We’ll recruit them into the Colourful Five Percent.

And those four horsemen?

Legend has it the last to arrive will be astride a pale pony. Hmmm...

Pale pony. White horse. Need I say more?

Ken Bolton is a freelance writer currently bunkered southeast of Whitehorse.

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The Magic of Mushrooms

On the Cover Low-bush cranberries hold a close-to-the-ground fascination for young hands.

PHOTO: Rick Massie

by Meagan Deuling

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ean Francois is a chef. I met him at a B.C. heli-ski lodge on Highway 5 — The Yellowhead — in the early 2000s. He cooked pastries and cakes and cookies and yelled at the breakfast servers at six in the morning.

I was a person cleaning rooms, chopping wood, listlessly dusting big stone walls, there for the heliski days. We were roommates and had the same days off, and we became friends.

Back then, he was my wisest friend. He told me lots of things that I remember, but one that pertains to this story has to do with the time he bought a van and followed the mushroom harvest from B.C. north, into the Yukon.

He went with a Japanese girl who didn’t speak English and JF, a francophone who barely spoke English himself, didn’t speak Japanese.

The thought of the vast tracts of nearly people-less land between central B.C. and the Yukon border have always evoked in me a sense of mystical loneliness, but picturing JF’s journey with his friend, full of silent communication, is a particularly melancholic mind game I still like to play.

That’s the first time I associated mushrooms with the Yukon.

I had lived in the Yukon before, but I didn’t think of fungi when I was here.

The second time I associated fungi with this territory was last year, and several things I already knew pieced themselves together in a beautifully satisfying way.

That’s when Joslyn Kilborn pitched Peter Jickling and me a

PHOTO: Ron Patrick

This mushroom is called Fly Algaric, and it’s poisonous. It’s found in the central Yukon and near Dawson City. Ron Patrick found it while berry picking with his family and sent the photo in. story about her time harvesting morel mushrooms near Carmacks.

A little-disclosed fact about writing for What’s Up Yukon in that era is that the editors took nearly any story, and Kilborn’s pitch was a boon for Jickling and me. Subsequently she became our favourite go-to writer.

In reading Kilborn’s article, and one that Cheryl Kawaja did for the

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CBC, I learned that morels flourish the year after a big forest fire.

The summer I moved here was 2013, and it was a gloriously sunny summer. I became friends with my sister-in-law’s sister, and she told me the summer was so nice because I was meant to stay here.

I’m not saying it worked.

A glorious summer in tinder-dry Yukon means the territory burns.

In 2014, mushroom pickers made a killing.

That’s why the fireweed is Yukon’s territorial flower, I thought to myself after reading Kilborn’s article.

A disjointed connection: the Yukon is dry; it burns; fireweed is one of the first things to grow in burned forests (it grows in lots of other places in the Yukon, too); mushrooms draw starry-eyed chefs like JF and his Japanese

lover, now wife (surprise!), to the Yukon.

The other day I came home to my new roommate speaking rapidfire French to a tall woman in the kitchen. The woman was drinking from my plastic blue camping mug, but I didn’t mind (in exchange I’m writing her into this story, and the earth keeps on turning).

She gave me a muffin and she and my roommate showed me their haul: two green plastic recycling boxes full of mushrooms.

Big-capped brown mushrooms with many tiny tendrils hanging down from the underside, they said the name but too fast, I couldn’t catch it and wasn’t in the mood to ask them to say it again.

Besides, their French accents.

Little orange mushrooms that looked poisonous but again, I didn’t say that. I trusted that they knew the obvious, mushrooms are poisonous, and checked their facts before picking.

They said the big ones had to be boiled before being eaten, and that they may not have the best flavour but had the texture of steak. A good steak, I’m guessing, a creamy, medium-rare tenderloin.

The next three or four days our house was ripe with the earthy smell of mushrooms as my roommate dried his harvest, and bagged the then-dry mushrooms, for a memory of fall in darkest February. That’s what I imagine, anyway.

The day after I ate the muffin from the stranger drinking from my mug I walked in the forest along Nares Lake to a cabin.

Everywhere I stepped were mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms.

I told my friends I wanted to go mushroom picking the next day.

But I didn’t.

It’s not surprising that this is what I wrote about.

Meagan Deuling was the assistant editor. She now bids you adieu. To contact the new editors, email either lori or tamara@whatsupyukon.com.

What’s Inside A Little Off the Top ................. 2 The Magic of Mushrooms .......... 3 Klondike Korner ..................... 4 Didee & Didoo ....................... 4 DVD Review .......................... 5 A Berrylicious Season .............. 7 Edible Yukon ......................... 8 Ramble in TO .......................10 World Famous in the Yukon......11 The Chicken Resort ...............13 ‘Kon Lit...............................17 Submit to Me ........................18 Queen’s Corner.....................19

Events Whitehorse Listings ................ 6 Highlights ............................14 Community Listings ...............15 Active Interests ....................16

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selves, he has created tiny paper sculptures, using them to build tiny homesteads, claims and other buildings and objects that might be associated with a tiny mine.

He has placed these creations on their respective lots and photographed them there, creating a series of amusPHOTO: Dan Davidson ing and evocative landscapes.

The exhibit notes suggest that “the scale of the resulting landThis tiny paper sculpture of scapes is confused, allowing the a mining town street is made sculptures to become models for from Klondike Big Inch deeds larger potential sites.

“The exhibited project is a complementary paradox: the imthe land to revert to the Canadian agined space of the deed finally government in 1965 and the Great made real by its location and Klondike Big Inch Land Company documentation, and the real space of the land made imaginarydissolved in 1966.

If you want to see where all transformed into model, picture, this action took place, go play a and landscape.”

The tiny sculptures are disround of golf on the Dawson City Golf Course, which is where the played in a pile near the entrance to the gallery. The pictures are a land was located.

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Kevin Murphy’s exhibit is called One Square Inch More or Less, and is based on the mid-1950s promotion by the Quaker Oats Company.

As Murphy notes in his introduction, “in 1955 (the company) launched the Klondike Big Inch Land Co. promotion. Accompanying boxes of puffed cereal, consumers received elaborate and apparently official deeds to one square inch of land subdivided from a plot outside of Dawson City.”

The scheme was associated with a radio show originally called Challenge of the Yukon, which was later re-titled to its better known name, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

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“From the first note, the vibrations from the loudspeaker made my hair stand up. The stabbing sounds from the guitar could almost break a window. When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armour… Johnson’s words made my nerves quiver like piano wires.”

Robert Johnson died in 1938 at the age of 27, soon after recording 29 songs. He remains an object of fascination due to those recordings and to the influence they had on rock musicians like Dylan, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Johnny Winter.

But Johnson was an elusive figure even when he was alive, and it’s mainly through the memories of other blues musicians and family and friends that any sense of the person has emerged.

The Search for Robert Johnson, produced in the UK and broadcast on Channel 4 in 1991 and now available on DVD at the Whitehorse Public Library, traces the short, uncompromising life of Robert Johnson through the eyes of some of those people, interviewed in the rural South that Johnson roamed as an itinerant musician.

Produced and directed by Chris Hunt, the documentary follows John Hammond Jr. – an accomplished musician himself - as he plays with Johnson’s peers and unearths some clues to Johnson’s psyche in interviews with those bluesmen, as well as Johnson’s girlfriends and his illegitimate son, Claude.

Claude was legally recognized as Johnson’s heir several years after the documentary was released.

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But Johnson is still an enigma at the end of the film, and remains so. McCormick recently told writer John Jeremiah Sullivan, in an article published in the New York Times, that he’s come to have doubts about some of the evidence he uncovered – that it might be “unstable”.

Still, the facts of Johnson’s life, though gripping, PHOTO: wikipedia commons.com are less important than that people like Dylan felt the earth shift when they heard his music.

The Search for Robert Johnson The Search for Robert John(“the most important blues singer son lets that music dominate that ever lived,” according to the screen, with Johnson’s oriEric Clapton), is available on DVD ginal recordings, Hammond’s interpretations and Edwards’ and at Whitehorse Public Library Shines’ performances interwoven throughout. most prominent myth about him, that he’d sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his musical gift.

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Avoid these Mistakes when Evaluating Your Portfolio’s Performance When it comes to evaluating your portfolio’s performance, many people think “gains are good and losses are bad,” which is generally true, but you could find that making investment decisions on that basis may lead to some problems. Here are seven of the most common mistakes you can try to avoid when analyzing your investments’ performance.

1. Evaluating performance over a short period of time: People tend to buy investments that have performed well and sell those that have performed poorly over the short term. This habit of “buying when you feel good and selling when you feel bad” can be the equivalent of buying when prices are high and selling when prices are low.

2. Blaming the manager/financial advisor for factors beyond his or her control.

3. Has the value of your investment fallen because it’s a bad investment or because the overall stock or bond market fell? Market declines are an inevitable part of the investing process and not a reason to sell quality investments. Assuming poor management or bad advice is the reason for your investment’s decline can be a mistake.

4. Failing to consider the impact of money moving into and out of the account.

5. A proper assessment of your portfolio’s performance will factor in the amount of money being invested and withdrawn. If you don’t do this, you could come to the wrong conclusions about an investment’s performance. So before you judge your account’s value, be sure to consider its cash flow.

6. Looking backward instead of forward: The legal disclaimer appearing on nearly all investment literature states that “past performance may not be an indication of future results.” This statement should be permanently etched on the minds of every investor. When recent performance is strong, investors think it will last forever. However, after long periods of underperformance, people tend to abandon investments, instead of holding for the long-term, only to miss out on potential opportunity.

7. Failing to account for income: The primary investment goal for most people is to have enough money to live comfortably in retirement.

To meet that goal, you should own investments that generate enough income to cover your bills and any extra activities you want to pursue. You’ll likely own fixed-income investments and equities, both of which can pay income. Equities tend to pay a lower rate of income but offer the potential to grow that income over time through dividend increases. Remember that dividends can be increased, decreased or totally eliminated at any point with or without notice.

Investors who understand this should realize performance comes from not only growth, but also income.

8. Having unrealistic expectations: Wide price swings in the stock market can be difficult to stomach. Equities can be particularly uncomfortable to own when the news is bad and the market is down. However, owning quality equities can provide the potential for growth. The key is to make sure you have a long-term perspective.

The Department of Energy, Mines and Resources invites Yukoners to provide their feedback on proposed amendments to Oil and Gas legislation.

The amendments the Yukon Oil and Gas Act extend the term of a permit, improve the dispute resolution process for the negotiation of benefits agreements, and clarify well abandonment requirements and procedures.

Yukoners are also invited to provide comments on proposed amendments to the Oil and Gas Disposition Regulations that include changes to the rent regime and to the work deposit refund process.

A consultation document outlining all of the amendments is available for review at: www.yukonoilandgas.com

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For further information, please contact the Oil and Gas Branch at: Phone: 867-393-7042 or 1-800-661-0408, ext. 7042 E-mail: oilandgasact@gov.yk.ca Deadline for providing input is Monday, September 14, 2015 at 5 p.m.

9. Failing to take risk into account: Some people buy riskier investments after the market has risen and safer investments after the market has dropped. This approach can significantly reduce long-term investment returns. Riskier investments will likely experience wider price swings. The opposite is true for more conservative investments.

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Whitehorse EVENTS Arts Events Until Thu, Sep, 3, Arts Underground: Edge of Reality Arts Underground At the Edge Gallery.

Presented by the Yukon Comic Culture Society.

Fri, Sep. 4 - Sat, Sep, 26, Community Gallery Exhibition: Suzanne Picot Yukon Arts Centre Solo exhibition by local artist Suzanne Picot 393 7109 Until Wed, Sep, 30, Stories of Traditional Land Use Cultural Exhibit Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Through ancient artifacts, we can learn how the First Nations lived thousands of years ago. Come and learn their story!

Until Mon, Nov, 2, “Somewhere Here” Arts Underground What place names tell us about who we are and where we are. Presented by Friends of the Yukon Archives Society.

LIVE MUSIC

Thu, Sep, 3, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Sep, 3, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Thu, Sep, 3, Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub Thu, Sep, 3, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Fri, Sep, 4, Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Sep, 4, RETRO Dance Party With CKRW 8:00 PM CKRW Tune into 96.1FM with Bobby & Amy 867668-8100 Fri, Sep, 4, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Sep, 5, live music 8:00 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Enjoy some fantastic live local music!

Sat, Sep, 5, Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Sep, 5, Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Mon, Sep, 7, Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Tue, Sep, 8, Open Mic 8:00 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Come and play your music!

Tue, Sep, 8, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Wed, Sep, 9, Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

Wed, Sep, 9, Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to covers Wed, Sep, 9, Hump Day Trivia 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed, Sep, 9, Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Sep, 10, Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Sep, 10, Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub Thu, Sep, 10, Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Thu, Sep, 10, Yukon Jack Live!

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General Events

Until Mon, Sep, 14, From the Ground Up Fundraiser: Yukon Healthy Choice Fundraiser Whitehorse

Support students and schools. Order fresh veggies - 35 dollars for 20 lbs - between August 27 and September 14, 2015 Thu, Sep, 3, Whitehorse: Fireweed community Market 3:00 PM Shipyards Park From stunning jewellery, fine art, and unique crafts to fresh produce, quality prepared foods and personal care products. All handmade, grown or produced by Yukon artisans. 393-2255 Thu, Sep, 3, Team trivia 8:00 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Test your trivia skills!

Fri, Sep, 4, Young Explorer’s Preschool Program 10:00 AM MacBride Museum parents and children explore the animal gallery together. Play games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs. 867667-2709, ext.3 Sat. Sep.5 Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Dance like nobody’s watching because... nobody’s watching.

Adults and mature teens welcome.

Entrance by donation. Centre de la francophonie Sat, Sep, 5, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:30 AM Emergency Measures Organization YARA’s breakfast at the A&W. Casual event.

Hams from outside the Yukon often join.

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Sun, Sep, 6, Movie Night 6:30 PM The Watershed, Coffee shop & Bar Come and watch movies with friends and have some fun!

Sun, Sep, 6, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Noninstructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/ hour.

Mon, Sep, 7, Feed the People BBQ - Labour Day 2015 11:00 AM Shipyards Park Bring your family, enjoy the fun. Hot dogs, burgers & corn on the cob with cake for dessert.

Mon, Sep, 7, Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Meeting 7:00 PM Emergency Measures Organization Prospective hams are welcome.

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Daily Animal Crackers 4:30 PM MacBride Museum Explore MacBride Museum’s animal gallery with one of our knowledgeable interpreters and play Who Dung It? Daily Yukon Wildlife Preserve Interpreted Tour 4:00 PM Yukon Wildlife Preserve 5 Km Tour of Yukon Wildlife Preserve - 75-90 Minutes - A must see stop while in Yukon Fri, Sep, 4, Young Explorer’s Preschool Program 10:00 AM MacBride Museum 867-667-2709, ext.3 parents and children explore the animal gallery together. Play games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs.

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Meetings & Workshops Sun, Sep, 6, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Noninstructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/ hour.

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September 3, 2015

A Berrylicious Season

The blissful bonus of buckshee berries

by Selene Vakharia

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INGREDIENTS Crust 1 cup almonds 1/3 cup Medjool dates (about five large dates) 1/2 tsp cinnamon Pinch of salt

Filling 1 can full-fat coconut milk, refrigerated 1/2 cup berries (a blend of Saskatoons and raspberries, or just one of the two)

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Pulse the almonds in a food processor with the cinnamon and salt until it forms small, crumbly pieces.

2. Add the dates and run until the dough holds together when pinched. If your dates are dry, you may need to add an extra one or two.

3. Separate between four mini tart forms or 125 L jars and press down firmly.

4. Spoon out just the creamy part of the coconut milk and put in a bowl.

5. Beat until it looks like whipped cream. It will be much denser than cream but the appearance will be similar.

6. Add in the berries and continue to beat until well mixed. You will likely have a couple of whole berries still, but most will be blended in.

7. Spoon the filling into the base. Chill until ready to serve.

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hat are you doing?

Are you sure you can eat that??!!”

We were looking for my friend’s runaway cat in Riverdale’s green belt when I stopped to eat some berries. Having skipped breakfast to join the search party, I was thankful for a snack.

Freija’s surprise was not without basis. While berries in the Yukon are prolific, I’ve met many a confused stare when I speak about finding so many.

Possibly it’s because the idea that organic berries, which many of us will buy for a pretty penny at the store, are all around us for free can be a hard one to grasp.

My family has always been proponents of urban berry foraging from the many visits to a solo mulberry bush that grew in a neighbourhood ravine in my hometown to the packaged blueberry pie my dad once found on the sidewalk, ate, and lived to e-mail the tale about.

Our love for berries is surpassed only by our worship of the free berry.

This summer was a bountiful one for the berry hunter in me. I munched endlessly on ripe raspberries and plump Saskatoon berries picked from around my community garden plot and from stray bushes in dirt road alleys downtown.

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from the computer screen, I would go for a lunchtime walk and return with a mason jar overflowing with the sweet taste of summer.

On hikes, I’d happen upon juniper bushes and happily fill my pockets on my many uphill breaks.

My clumsy fingers made for a slow picking pace, but the methodical motions became almost a type of meditation.

It’s difficult to become impatient when picking berries.

Even when the often-prickly branches scratch your hand, or embed a thorn into your finger, the sight and smell of your harvest is instant Zen. There is no shortage of spots in the Yukon to pick and pluck to your heart’s content. For novice pickers, the Millennium Trail is a great place to start. On the island, there is a sign with identification notes of the berries growing along the trail.

With a great variety available, you can try a number of different flavours while enjoying an easy walk. Of course, pick with caution – if you aren’t sure, don’t eat it!

As the light fades sooner and the weather turns colder, I have been searching for ways to preserve my harvest.

The best option I have found is to freeze them – spread out on a lined baking sheet to prevent clumping, then stored in a bag once they are frozen.

While you lose the lovely softness of the berry, you retain the flavour and nutrients, and also avoid sullying their natural sweetness with cups of refined sugar.

I plan to add them to smoothies, oatmeal and muffins in the winter when I need a taste of warmer days.

I have also, for the most part, decided just to enjoy the bounty in the moment, eating handfuls at a time.

Selene Vakharia is a holistic nutritionist, freelance writer and whole foods cook who loves showing people how easy and how much fun being healthy can be. You can contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

Edible Yukon with Kim Melton

Looking high and low for cranberries

Highbush cranberries are a worthwhile addition to the fall repertoire

PHOTO: Kim Melton

Can’t find these berries? Just follow your nose...

B

efore I get into to the juicy details, a little dry semantics: high bush vs low bush.

And I love that I live in a place where no one need make any lewd jokes.

Cranberries, of course, are the subject.

Growing up, I only knew of one kind, harvested from low-lying bushes creeping along the ground, dark purple clusters lodged between glossy green leaves. They were a delight to pick, giving a good solid thock as they hit the bottom of the bucket.

They led me to look down my nose whenever I was South of 60 for a turkey dinner garnished with sauce wrung from grotesquely huge grocery store cranberries.

Now I know of a second kind, that grows on a bush that looks more like a currant, and assails the forager and the cook with wafts of what I can only describe as ‘stinky socks’ when ripe.

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ption one is to toss the berries in a pot on the stove over low heat, with a little bit of water to prevent scorching.

Mash the berries a bit to help break the skins, and simmer 10 minutes or so, just until all the skins burst.

Option two, for raw juice, is simply to buzz up your berries in a blender.

Whichever method you use, strain the resulting mess through a muslin bag and hold the jar up to the light – a ruby red magnificence should greet your eye.

It can be cooked down further to yield even more of a concentrate that can be

socks for a week, not to mention a room-mate who was less than impressed.

It is worth getting over the smell, though, not only for the taste but also for the health benefits.

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Scandanavian types) and highbush, the ones that actually grow on a bush.

I go into this digression for the benefit of those who come from somewhere that has two varieties of these more currant types, because there can be both low- and high- bush cranberries!

Can you get more confusing? At any rate, the smelly feet is definitely a good way to quickly discern what is being talked about.

On to the nectar.

The lingonberries (to avoid confusion) need a touch more frost to sweeten up, in this forager’s opinion; but the high-bush crans are just perfect.

They are a treat to pick because you can literally grab handfuls at a time and fill buckets with surprising swiftness.

They don’t transport as well as their low-lying cousins, with more of a tendency to mush, but lend themselves very well to juice because of this and the well-developed pit at the centre of each berry.

I remember my first experience with these berries, about 10 years ago in Watson Lake. I was so excited to make my first batch of jelly and was anxious it wouldn’t gel, and so overcooked the poor things by a long shot.

High in pectin, they are forgiving, so I did end up with jelly – also an apartment that smelled like old

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canned in smaller jars.

Either way, it’s fabulous as a base for cocktails (and mocktails), or cut with another juice, such as rhubarb, or simply water (although a little fizz is certainly nice).

If you do need a sweetener, I recommend good ol’ birch syrup – though local honey would be mighty fine as well. versity of Alaska publication.

Raw fruits that are eaten fresh or dried, as opposed to any kind of processing involving cooking, will retain more of these nutrients.

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September 3, 2015

Ramble in TO

by Aimée Dawn Robinson

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y dance practice is rooted in uncultivated, wild, outdoor spaces.

I often perform site-specific dances outdoors for audiences and/or camera.

However, my latest collaborative project, Ramble (45 min), was performed last month inside a black box theatre in a busy city (Toronto), within a busy theatre and dance festival (the 25th edition of SummerWorks).

I decided to create an outdoor dance for the indoors. I also wanted to create a work that reflected my relationship to the North and the South in a shared (and possibly uncomfortable) space within the body, within memory, onstage and onscreen.

I wanted to bring “foreign” elements to the intentionally artificial black box theatre space – the waters of the Yukon River, the surprising wild things that thrive in and around Toronto, the stones of Miles Canyon, the boreal forest.

Bringing images of wild landscapes into the theatre, I felt,

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would give audiences a moment to reflect upon their own relationship to the land, in juxtaposition to the heavily concreteized world of Toronto, where I had lived for 17 years, creating and witnessing tons of artwork.

Soon after Amelia Erhardt, SummerWorks’ dance curator, called to ask me for a new work, I invited my long-time friend and collaborator Renée Lear, from Toronto, to create a “video set” that would explore these themes, giving her carteblanche over the video material.

Lear has a longstanding practice of combining and manipulating video imagery live, in realtime. Her approach shares elements with my dancing (which is typically improvised) Lear’s work also delves into the material and “matter” of video. For example, she sometimes degrades video footage beyond pixels to reveal the surprising moving shapes deep inside the image. She also applies analog processes to digital footage, and works with video created

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Aimée-Dawn Robinson and musician/ composer K Scott Maynard onstage in Ramble at SummerWorks 25 in Toronto last month Still photos from archive video footage shot by Eric Cazdyn, prepared for print by Renée Lear

through camera malfunction/s.

From early spring until early July, I shot and sent video footage of Whitehorse and surrounding areas to her, while she collected footage of wild areas in Ontario and Toronto. Lear also added footage of icy Lake Ontario and the Toronto Islands to the mix.

This winter footage was taken by Whitehorse’s K Scott Maynard, in bursts hundreds of photographs, which he later reassembled using stop-motion software.

Maynard also contributed live and recorded musical score to the piece.

As he puts it, Maynard is drawn to the sounds of both technology and nature.

“Often have I found myself singing songs over the drone of a boat engine, or brought to silence by, for example, the complex tapestry of voices in the wetlands of Ontario.”

For Ramble, Maynard recorded drones from his daily life in Whitehorse: from the Kwanlin

Dün Cultural Centre (where he works), the Yukon River, a dishwasher at home In some sections of the performance, he sings overtones with these drones to haunting effect, as well as covering the song, “Downhill is Downtown” by Toronto musician Alex Lukashevsky (and his band Deep Dark United) on guitar and voice.

Another layer of Ramble is my relationship to my heritage on my mother’s side, from the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén region in northern Hungary.

This area is home to both nomadic and sedentary Hungarianspeaking gypsies, and is where my grandfather, a cobbler, crafted beautiful traditional boots for dancing and horse riding.

The complicated politics of ancestral memory and forgetting inspired my improvised dances at each of our seven performances in the festival. While dancing, I sang part of an old Hungarian love song as a call to my ancestors to dance with me.

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pointed out to me, though, the ancestors were there with me right from the beginning.

The costume also supported these themes of ancestry and nature.

Combined with clothing my sister, Gretchen Robinson, helped me select, I danced in a fringed apron of turquoise deer hide embellished with jingledress cones, silver beads, moose hide, rabbit fur, goose and other feathers, abalone shell, beads, and lace.

I’m honoured that multi-talented artist Heather Bell Callahan, from Whitehorse and Haines Junction, contributed this costume element to Ramble.

Callahan was inspired by the Yukon River while creating the garment, and I felt I was wearing a bit of the North each and every show.

Aimée Dawn Robinson is a dancer, writer/researcher, visual artist and musician who usually lives in Whitehorse.

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World Famous in the Yukon with Fibi Zonnet

That Guy with the Sax

Busker Howard Chymy has been a familiar sight on Whitehorse streets for years

PHOTO: Mike Thomas/Yukon News

Howard Chymy playing in front of the Elijah Smith Building in May, 1997

H

oward Chymyshyn (aka Chymy) was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1946 (my mom was born in the very same town 10 years later).

His parents were both in the Army, and when Howard was young, the family moved to rural Manitoba. At that time, everyone was afraid of the atom bomb so they kept their family a safe 30km distance from the “potential bomb zone” of Winnipeg.

I ask Howard about primary school, and he spins me a yarn about how he got his first afterschool job.

His brother had caused a ruckus on the school bus one day and Howard got blamed for it. As there was no substantiating evidence against either one of them, they were both kicked off the bus for good.

That’s when Howard started hitchhiking the 11km to school.

One day, a dairy farmer from down the way was falling asleep at the wheel and picked Howard up so that he could drive and the farmer could nap. Not long after that, the farmer hired him to drive his milk truck.

My favourite story about this job was about the day the farmer sent him 40 kms away to “get the brakes fixed on the truck”.

I ask Howard about high school.

This was the turning point for him musically.

The story of how a saxophone ended up in his hands is an emotional one, and one that so many youth have had to - and continue having to - to deal with now: bullying.

There were four bullies in Howard’s life in Grade 9. He was at the

end of his rope with their treatment and had made a decision to do something about it.

Mere hours before he did anything, though, his father sat him down and told him that he and Howard’s uncle Roy wanted to fund music lessons for him.

Howard agreed, on the condition that he would be able to take the bus to and from the lessons on his own. When his father agreed, Howard realized that he had unknowingly requested respect, independence, and trust without having to spell it out.

His father asked him what instrument he’d like. Howard said drums. Dad said, “What about saxophone?” And that was that.

Howard didn’t even think about those bullies again. He’d overcome them.

After high school, Howard joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa. He met his wife there while holding the rank of Leading Air Craftsman 1.

After two and a half years there, they moved to Winnipeg so Howard could play more music (he’d like to tell me tales of his time with the RCAF, but he signed an Official Secrets Act document, so he can’t).

There he got a long-standing gig at a strip club called the Constellation Room; the band was known as The Saints.

A couple of years, a daughter and a divorce later, Howard moved to Victoria and spent the next 16 years blowing his horn around the B.C. capital.

He house-sat, boat-sat, and even tree-sat, sometimes busking five sets of music in a 14-hour day to stave off having to access

welfare.

While on a 10-month tree-sitting stint, a mean old lady ratted him out and actually got the tree cut down, just so he couldn’t sleep under it any more. Some people are so boring.

Two of Howard’s good friends flew him up to visit Whitehorse during the Christmas holidays of 1996. Those first months that he was here, he was looking for the perfect busking spot.

One spring day in 1997, he was standing outside of the travel agency on 3rd Avenue, when a senior citizen with a European accent walked by and asked him what he was going to do.

They spoke briefly and the man took him to a bench in front of the Elijah Smith building. The picture accompanying this article was taken that very day and was featured on the cover of the Yukon News the next day.

Howard has lived here since.

His ever-growing admiration of the musicians and support groups for the arts is a testament to his character and lovely personality; the ever-charismatic Howard Chymy truly is World Famous in the Yukon.

His record for playing in freezing temperatures was -8C with a -12C wind chill. That day, he played for 35 minutes outside of

the Whitehorse Liquor Store.

Howard’s most memorable musical experience was accidentally sitting in on a “fast shuffle in A” with Paul Butterfield’s band at a coffee house called Hibou on Dalhousie Street in Ottawa in 1969.

Howard is so animated while telling me about this that as soon as I get home, I get on the YouTube and quickly realize that these guys

were epic. Seriously, they played Woodstock the same year that Howard jammed with them!

He recommends that you listen to the Butterfield Blues Band album titled Live.

Fiona Solon (aka Fibi Zonnet) is a bean counter, singer and producer. She insists she is not a writer. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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The Chicken Resort

A Whitehorse family discovers that homegrown food tastes best

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by Megan Skarnulis

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ave you ever made the kind of phone call that makes you feel you deserve to be reprimanded by your spouse?

You sheepishly dial the number and deliver the news. In my case, I was relaying news of the imminent delivery of the 16 chicks I had ordered against my husband’s wishes.

Surprise! They were due to arrive this afternoon 10 days early.

By 4 p.m., I needed a heat lamp, food, a water dish, a crash course on raising poultry and, of course, a place for the tiny birds to live. Our living room?

My poor husband. I don’t know how I managed to find such an understanding man. After a heavy sigh or two, he committed to assisting me with the first poultry adventure of my adulthood.

He knew my motives were pure: I wanted our two-year-old son to eat the highest quality food, and it is important to me that he will always know where his food comes from.

My husband and I are quite different. He is always hyperprepared, while I swing from one whimsical adventure to the next.

We do, however, share some core values. A notable one is that we value good food. We consider moose hunting grocery shopping, we catch fish, pick berries and mushrooms, grow an ambitiouslysized garden... and now we were delving into small-scale farming.

The chickens arrived. I brought home 16 small fluffy chicks, and my husband transformed his perspective. Much to my delight, he became very engaged in this new venture and didn’t complain about farming in our living room.

Did I mention I love him?

After surviving three weeks of incessant chirping and a few escape attempts, we moved our growing flock to the beautiful chicken tractor my husband had researched and built.

A chicken tractor, for those who don’t know, is a chicken coop that can be moved. This contraption was so well-constructed that some people referred to it as a chicken resort.

Each week, we moved the chicken resort from place to place so the birds would have fresh ter-

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The growing birds thrived in their safe and colourful backyard resort ritory to explore and peck at.

Chickens, we learned will eat almost anything – even bugs. You just shouldn’t give them things like rice, citrus, salty foods, candy, onions and a few other foods.

Our toddler was enthralled with the birds and called them Dee Dees. Our dog was surprisingly accepting. In fact, from day one she became their fierce defender.

For 12 weeks, we teamed up to water them, feed them and watch them grow into beautiful birds.

After three months, accompanied by a good friend, I joined a wonderful, community-oriented group of people who know far more about chickens than I likely ever will.

Together, we processed the chickens into food. It was remark-

able how quickly they were transformed.

The next day, my family prepared a meal together. We covered a chicken in a few spices and roasted it in our oven.

Besides the remarkable smell, there was an air of excitement; we were connected to the food we were consuming, because we had raised it from its first days.

From my toddler’s first bite to his last, I smiled and was thankful - thankful to know that he was eating the highest quality food, and thankful that we knew exactly where it had come from: our backyard!

Megan Skarnulis and her husband, Shane, live in a country residential part of Whitehorse with their two-year-old son.

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August 13 – September 18, 2015 Kevin Murphy One inch more or less (gallery installation)

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Sat, Sep, 5, Women’s Yoga 9:00 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothing Sat, Sep, 5, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Sep, 7, Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tue, Sep, 8, Women’s Yoga 7:00 PM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothing Tue, Sep, 8, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

Carcross Thu, Sep, 3, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 8673993321 Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door.

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Tue, Sep, 8, Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, Sep, 9, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfield@ctfn.ca Wed, Sep, 9, Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Sep, 9, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Sep, 10, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 8673993321 Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door.

Everyone welcome! no fee for community members Thu, Sep, 10, Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Sep, 10, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator

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Daily Guided Hike with the Poetry of Robert Service 9:30 AM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Daily Gold Panning -- Free Claim Anytime Claim #6 Pan for gold on our free claim! Bring your own equipment and try your hand panning on a real claim, anytime.

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Daily What a RUSH! Walking Tour 1:00 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Daily The Life and Poetry of Robert Service 1:00 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Daily Gold Bottom Mine Tours 1:15 PM Gold Bottom Tour a working mine, try your luck at gold panning. 3 hour tours.

Daily Commissioner’s Residence Tour 2:30 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Daily Greatest Klondiker Contest 3:30 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre Daily “Strange Things Done” Walking Tour 7:00 PM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre

General Dawson City Events

Thu, Sep, 3, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Thu, Sep, 3, Critter Talk 10:30 AM Tombstone Territorial Park Thu, Sep, 3, Bannock Making 3:00 PM Tombstone Territorial Park Thu, Sep, 3, YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Thu, Sep, 3, Author Presentation 7:00 PM Dawson City Community Library 993-5571 Presentation by Berton House Writer-in-Residence, EMILY POHL-WEARY. Refreshments provided, all welcome.

Fri, Sep, 4, Labour Day Slo-Pitch Classic Minto Park 993-5575 This annual slo-pitch tournament attracts quality teams from all over the North. Stop by Minto Park to watch some great slo-pitch, cheer for your favourite team, or to get a something tasty from the concession.

Fri, Sep, 4, Critter Talk 10:30 AM Tombstone Territorial Park

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Fri, Sep, 4, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Fri, Sep, 4, Guided Hike on Goldensides 7:00 PM Tombstone Territorial Park Sat, Sep, 5, Club Championships Dawson City Golf Course Sat, Sep, 5, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Sat, Sep, 5, Labour Day Slo-Pitch Classic Minto Park 993-5575 This annual slo-pitch tournament attracts quality teams from all over the North. Stop by Minto Park to watch some great slo-pitch, cheer for your favourite team, or to get a something tasty from the concession.

Sat, Sep, 5, Critter Talk 10:30 AM Tombstone Territorial Park Sat, Sep, 5, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sun, Sep, 6, Farm to Table Feast-Community Pig Roast Dawson City Golf Course Sun, Sep, 6, Labour Day Slo-Pitch Classic Minto Park 993-5575 This annual slo-pitch tournament attracts quality teams from all over the North. Stop by Minto Park to watch some great slo-pitch, cheer for your favourite team, or to get a something tasty from the concession.

Sun, Sep, 6, Guided Hike on Grizzly Trail 10:00 AM Tombstone Territorial Park Sun, Sep, 6, St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 993-5381 Sun, Sep, 6, Critter Talk 10:30 AM Tombstone Territorial Park Sun, Sep, 6, Sweet Nuggets 11:00 PM Westminster Hotel Lady M & her Mr. Men’s in the cocktail lounge Mon, Sep, 7, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Mon, Sep, 7, Labour Day Slo-Pitch Classic Minto Park 993-5575 This annual slo-pitch tournament attracts quality teams from all over the North. Stop by Minto Park to watch some great slo-pitch, cheer for your favourite team, or to get a something tasty from the concession.

Mon, Sep, 7, Critter Talk 10:30 AM Tombstone Territorial Park Mon, Sep, 7, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Recreation board grants are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Mon, Sep, 7, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Mon, Sep, 7, Guided Hike on Goldensides 7:00 PM Tombstone Territorial Park Tue, Sep, 8, White Ram Poker Tournaments Diamond Tooth Gerties 993-5525 The White Ram Poker Tournament is the largest poker weekend in the North!

Over $150,000 is handed out in multiple tournaments over a whole week!

Tue, Sep, 8, Piano Lessons with Barnacle Bob: KIAC 3:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Tue, Sep, 8, Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 993-2520 For more information email: getrealfit(at) me.com Tue, Sep, 8, Dawson City Council Meeting 7:00 PM Dawson City Town Hall 993-7400 The meetings are aired live on Dawson City TV Channel 12. Council holds a Question Period at each meeting that takes place towards the end of the meeting. This provides the public an opportunity to ask Council questions.

Wed, Sep, 9, White Ram Poker Tournaments Diamond Tooth Gerties 993-5525 The White Ram Poker Tournament is the largest poker weekend in the North!

Over $150,000 is handed out in multiple tournaments over a whole week!

Wed, Sep, 9, Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, Sep, 9, CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Thu, Sep, 10, Hatha Yoga with Joanne Van Nostrand KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the KIAC Ballroom Mondays: 6:45-8pm , Thursdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm , Saturdays, 9-10:30am. For more info or to register for classes, please contact Joanne Van Nostrand yogawithjoanne@me.com Thu, Sep, 10, White Ram Poker Tournaments Diamond Tooth Gerties 993-5525 The White Ram Poker Tournament is the largest poker weekend in the North!

Over $150,000 is handed out in multiple tournaments over a whole week!

Faro Thu, Sep, 3, Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, Sep, 3, Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep, 4, Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, Sep, 4, Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@ faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep, 4, Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Sep, 4, Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.

Fri, Sep, 4, Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Sat, Sep, 5, Faro Farmer’s & Flea Market 10:00 AM Campbell Region Interpretive Center Sat, Sep, 5, Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Sun, Sep, 6, Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Sep, 6, Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

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Tue, Sep, 8, Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Wed, Sep, 9, Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Sep, 9, Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Wed, Sep, 9, Faro Market 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728 Ext 5 Handmade crafts and art, garden grown produce, and homemade baked products Wed, Sep, 9, Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Thu, Sep, 10, Environment Club 3:45 PM Del Van Gorder School Thu, Sep, 10, Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.

Thu, Sep, 10, Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre

Haines Junction Thu, Sep, 3, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Sep, 3, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Thu, Sep, 3, Campfire Talks 8:00 PM Kathleen Lake Campground 634-7207 Here we will talk about the park and the animals in it!

Fri, Sep, 4, Campfire Talks 8:00 PM Kathleen Lake Campground 634-7207 Here we will talk about the park and the animals in it!

Sat, Sep, 5, Campfire Talks 8:00 PM Kathleen Lake Campground 634-7207 Here we will talk about the park and the animals in it!

Sun, Sep, 6, St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, Sep, 7, Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Tue, Sep, 8, Campfire Talks 8:00 PM Kathleen Lake Campground 634-7207 Here we will talk about the park and the animals in it!

Wed, Sep, 9, Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, Sep, 10, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Sep, 10, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Thu, Sep, 10, Campfire Talks 8:00 PM Kathleen Lake Campground 634-7207 Here we will talk about the park and the animals in it!

Marsh Lake Fri, Sep, 4, Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/ Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Fri, Sep, 4, Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Sep, 5, Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sun, Sep, 6, Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 All welcome Tue, Sep, 8, North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Yoga With Richard 5:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4545 Richard is a certified IYENGAR Yoga instructor Tue, Sep, 8, Local Advisory Council 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Wed, Sep, 9, Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Wed, Sep, 9, Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wed, Sep, 9, Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting

Mayo Sun, Sep. 6, St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church 667-7746

Mount Lorne Thu, Sep, 3, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Fri, Sep, 4, Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Wed, Sep, 9, Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Sep, 10, Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Old Crow Thu, Sep, 3, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Sep, 6, St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Luke’s Church 993-5381 Thu, Sep, 10, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish Thu, Sep, 3, Carpet Bowling: Tagish Community Centre 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Outdoor Youth Activities: Tagish Community Centre 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A different activity every day.

Sat, Sep, 5, Beginners Yoga: Tagish 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre With instructor Lee Randell.

Sat, Sep, 5, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Sat, Sep, 5, Southern Lakes Harvest Dinner and Dance: Tagish Community Centre 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 393-3407 Join Yukon’s very own Boreal Gourmet chef, Michele Genest, for a Harvest Feast of local fare in Tagish, the heart of the beautiful Southern Lakes district!

Mon, Sep, 7, Carcross /Tagish Renewable Resources Council Meeting 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Outdoor Youth Activities: Tagish Community Centre 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A different activity every day.

Wed, Sep, 9, Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

Wed, Sep, 9, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Sep, 9, Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fresh baked goods every Wednesday.

Wed, Sep, 9, Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Sep, 10, Carpet Bowling: Tagish Community Centre 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Sep, 10, Outdoor Youth Activities: Tagish Community Centre 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A different activity every day.

Teslin DAILY Teslin Lake Bird Observatory 7:00 AM Teslin Campground Get up close and personal with a variety of migrating birds while watching the bird banders at work.

Sun, Sep, 6, Catholic Mass/Communion Service at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission 10:30 AM Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission Catholic Mass/ Communion Service at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Mission Sun, Sep, 6, Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Sun, Sep, 6, Carpet Bowling with the Seniors 2:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Tue, Sep, 8, Yoga in the Mezzanine 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Yoga Sessions 7-8pm every Tuesday at the Teslin Mezzanine Wed, Sep, 9, Seniors Social 10:00 AM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Sep, 9, Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center

Watson Lake Thu, Sep, 3, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Sep, 3, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sun, Sep, 6, St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service 536-2932 Sun, Sep, 6, Liard Evangelical Free Church Service 10:00 AM The Little Brown Log Church Sunday morning services, then fellowship time with coffee after the service Very friendly!

Mon, Sep, 7, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Sep, 10, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Sep, 10, Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre

Haines, Alaska Until Thu, Oct, 1, Spring: A Culture of Eagles Exhibit Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre A cultural exploration of eagles in the Chilkat Valley through history This strong icon permeates Tlingit legend, myth, art, ceremony and even social structure DAILY Haines Public Library Open 10:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mondays - Saturdays Everyone Welcome Swim 11:00:00 AM & 5:00 PM Haines Community Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Haines Public Library Open 10:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Thu, Sep, 3, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Men’s Bible Study 7:00 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Sep, 4, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Fri, Sep, 4, Women’s Bible Study 10:30 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri, Sep, 4, Story time 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Sep, 4, Story time 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Sep, 4, Yoga w/Mandy 12:00 PM Haines Community Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Sat, Sep, 5, Zumba Toning 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Sat, Sep, 5, Haines Farmers Market 10:00 AM Southeast Alaska State Fair Grounds (Harriett Hall) a place for growers, chefs, and artisans to sell locally grown produce, homemade cuisine, and locally made products to the Southeast Alaska Community Sat, Sep, 5, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Sun, Sep, 6, Ice cream social for seniors 2:00 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Earlybird Lap Swim 6:30 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Water Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Haines Public Library Open 10:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mon, Sep, 7, Totem Pole Carving 10:00 AM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre with Master Carver, Jim Heaton Mon, Sep, 7, Mother Goose Stories and Songs 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Mon, Sep, 7, Senior Exercise Class 11:15 AM Haines Community Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Cardio/strength training circuit 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 6:00 PM Haines Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Morning Muscles 6:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Senior Swim 10:00 AM Haines Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Haines Public Library Open 10:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library Tue, Sep, 8, Haines Women’s Fellowship 3:00 PM Haines Senior Center Tue, Sep, 8, Vinyasa Yoga 5:30 PM Haines Community Centre Tue, Sep, 8, Borough Assembly Meeting 6:30pm 7:30 PM Haines Borough Alaska

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Thu, Sep, 3, Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Sep, 3, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 9:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Sep, 3, SR weights with Katherine 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Senior Weights w/Jennifer 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Thu, Sep, 3, Spinning w/ Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Restorative Yoga: w/ Gillian 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Sep, 3, Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Spinning w/ Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Gentle Yoga: W/Jasmine/Eileen 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, SPOGA: 1/2 Spin - 1/2 Yoga w/ Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Volleyball For Adults 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Sep, 4, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Gillian 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Sep, 5, Acro Yoga All Levels W/Alexis 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Sep, 6, Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jeanne 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Sep, 6, TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Sun, Sep, 6, Vinyasa Flow level 2 w/Alexis 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Sep, 6, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Mon, Sep, 7, Spinning w/Cindy 5:45 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Spinning w/ Katherine 7:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Restorative Yoga: w/ Katherine AL 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Hatha Flow: Level 1 & 2 w/ Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Roller Hockey For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Sep, 7, Windy Valley Boys 7:30 PM Red Onion Saloon Come and listen to some awesome live music!

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Contact Captain Jennifer Lafreniere at 335-3060

The next deadline for Advanced Artist Award Award is: is: Advanced Artist

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Thu, Sep, 3 Savaté (French Kick Boxing) 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo 335-4500 Thu, Sep, 3 Public Access – Outdoor Range 7:00 PM Whitehorse Rifle Pistol Club Fri, Sep, 4 Hand to Hand - Level 1 (lunch class) with Gael 11:30 AM Aikido Yukon Dojo Fri, Sep, 4 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Sun, Sep, 6 Kona’s Second Annual Dog Jog: Canine Social Event of the Year! 11:00 AM Rotary Peace Park Calling all animal lovers and their four-legged friends! Kona’s Coalition is very excited to announce their Second Annual Dog Jog/Walk on Sunday, September 6, 2015 at Rotary Park.

Sun, Sep, 6 Ultimate Frisbee 5:00 PM Canada Games Centre Come out and play some frisbee. All levels are welcome. 668-6517 Mon, Sep, 7 Hand to Hand - Level 1&2 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Mon, Sep, 7 Sword/Bokken with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo

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

Application form and guidelines are available on our website.

Applicants are encouraged to consult a Fund Administrator before applying.

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Sun, Sep, 6, Tonglen 10:00 AM White Swan Sanctuary Sun, Sep, 6, Zen meditation and discussion 3:30 PM Alpine Bakery We will do a sitting meditation for 20 minutes, a walking meditation for 10 minutes and a second sitting meditation for 20 minutes. After that we recite a chant (in English), have tea and a snack, and present a short Zen reading for discussion.

Mon, Sep, 7, Sally & Sisters Lunch 12:00 PM Whitehorse Food Bank Free Hot Lunch for Women & Children 334-9317 Mon, Sep, 7, Shamata Meditation 5:15 PM White Swan Sanctuary Group meditation all levels welcome Mon, Sep, 7, Buddhist Meditation Society 5:15 PM White Swan Sanctuary All are welcome!

Tue, Sep, 8, Golden Horn Yoga 6:00 PM Golden Horn Elementary Terice 668-6631 Wed, Sep, 9, Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 AM Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wed, Sep, 9, Lunchtime Yoga 12:10 PM Shanti Yoga Learn to breathe, stretch and relax! Use back entrance

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Wed, Sep, 9, Red Tara Meditation 6:00 PM White Swan Sanctuary Everyone welcome. For more info contact Vicky 633-3715 Wed, Sep, 9, The Alzheimer/ Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group 7:00 PM Copper Ridge Place A group for family or friends caring for someone with Dementia. Info and register call Cathy 334-1548 or Joanne 668-7713.

Thu, Sep, 10, FASD Parent Support Group 6:30pm FASSY Office Whitehorse. If you are parenting or caring for a child, youth or adult with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, please cotjbowlby@gmail.comme and share your experiences, wisdom and knowledge. This is an opportunity for all of us to learn from one another.

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‘KonLit with Elke Reinauer

The Hoge Pass in Kluane National Park Reserve, was the study site for some of Frid’s research on Dall sheep

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A scientistʼs letters to the future trace a journey to find optimism Alejandro Frid’s daughter Twyla Bella, age two and a half (June, 2006), being helped into a canoe on Annie Lake by her friend, Ensio

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hat kind of world will be handed down to my

by Barry “Jack” Jenkins daughter’s generation?

That question led conservation ecologist Alejandro Frid to write A World for My Daughter: an Ecologist’s Search for Optimism, which is scheduled for publication by British Columbia’s Caitlin Press later this month.

Alejandro Frid is an assistant professor in environmental studies at the University of Victoria and a science coordinator for the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance.

When his daughter, Twyla Bella, was born, Dr. Frid began to pursue a question that is not easy to answer in a series of letters. These letters to his young daughter are also reflections on the world we live in, and the effect we have on the environment.

At the beginning of the book, he tells his daughter about his time in Southern Chile, where he did research on huemul (South Andean deer) and cattle.

Fording the Watson Lake River with eight-month-old Twyla Bella (October, 2004) en route to the boreal forest to pick cranberries, collect meadow mushrooms and hunt grouse

Frid writes that he is part of a generation that is both privileged - because “we still have the option of experiencing large ecosystems that maintain their vibrancy” and cursed - “because we know those ecosystems and the myriad species they support are vanishing at dizzying rates.”

An overreaching theme of his research is how predators affect multi-species interactions and influence the structure of biological communities.

“Humans are stripping ecosystems of their vibrancy by diminishing top predators. And the oceans are no exception,” he writes.

In the Yukon, Frid found one of these ecosystems that maintain their vibrancy. He spent 11 years in the territory, where he did research on Dall sheep.

It was in the Yukon that he shifted his perspective on mountaineering and hunting. In 1987, he was on his way to the Richardson Mountains on the border

between the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

After spending two months working with the Canadian Wildlife Service, studying birds on the Arctic tundra, he was hungry for human contact. Then he met Jim, an Inuvialuit who worked on a ferry on the Peel River.

They talked about hunting and Frid told him that hunting was meaningless in his upbringing.

“I liked to think that, when basic survival needs had been met, sheer mystery and adventure were reasons enough for animals and native people to explore the mountains and tundra.”

Not long ago, survival depended almost completely on hunting, Frid writes. Jim explained to him that the hunt is identity and that hunting defines culture and the relationship between people and the land.

“I began to see mountaineering as the product of industrialized society and not something that subsistence hunters or mountain

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The letters to his daughter contain a broad variety of topics, from the problems of climate change to his own family history.

He tells his daughter that his descendants were Jewish and barely missed the Holocaust.

“But in the longer term, and at a deeper level, all humans descend from hunter-gatherers. This way of life dominates our evolutionary history. Our deepest psyche.

“We need to be nourished by wild plants and wild animals. I, in particular, need the exchange with our non-human relatives that hunting, fishing and gathering facilitate. Without it, my world view is much diminished.”

We now live in what has been called the Anthropocene - an epoch in which human activities have a global impact on Earth’s ecosystem, Frid writes.

He himself has been arrested twice for civil disobedience, for opposing fossil fuel projects such as Kinder Morgan’s plan to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

Still, he believes resilience is possible in the Anthropocene epoch.

The book is a search for answers, a journey to find optimism.

In the end, though, Frid says he has found something “that I did not even know I was looking for: a way to look at my daughter and imagine her many possible futures.”

A World for My Daughter will be available in paperback as of September 15 for $24.95. Its 224 pages include 50 monochrome and colour photographs.

Elke Reinauer is a German writer with strong ties to the Yukon. Please email comments about her articles to editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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September 15, 2015

September 3, 2015

Submit to Me

Artists wanted for ‘90s movie-themed exhibit in Whitehorse

by Darren Susin

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T

hemed-art shows are popping up in galleries these

days.

Gallery 1988, in Los supports professional artists, ensembles Angeles, just wrapped a and companies to present their work show dedicated to the 1985 movie classic, Clue, outside Yukon. and Vancouver’s Hot Art Wet City gallery recently There are four deadlines per year: held We’re All Pretty Bizarre, dedicated to the 15th March, June, September and December. work of John Hughes, complete with paintings of a young Macaulay Application form and guidelines are available Culkin and an old John on our website.

Candy.

The Echo Park galApplicants are encouraged to consult a lery iam8bit held It’s Fund Administrator before applying. the shizNICK in 2013, a show paying homage to the Nickelodeon network and shows like The Ren phone: 867-667-8789 and Stimpy Show, Real Monsters, and Hey Dude. toll free: 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8789 Perhaps most amazing is New artsfund@gov.yk.ca York-based gallery Marlborough www.tc.gov.yk.ca/taf Chelsea, which recently held @insideyukon an art show dedicated entirely to Space Jam, complete with a basketball court painted on the gallery floor and hoops mounted throughout the exhibit.

These shows remind us of the days when Siskel and Ebert were the authority on movies, and we Kill reports and compulsory submissions didn’t have to endlessly discuss for most species are due no later than and debate best or worst.

They’re reminders of what 15 days after the end of the month in life was like before we had the which you successfully hunted. The only Internet to argue about whether exception is Faro-area moose hunters Bill was cooler than Ted, or how who must report within 72 hours. See page stupid people were that they 38 of this year’s Hunting Regulations Summary for details. couldn’t realize Bernie was dead that entire weekend.

When I watched Clue obsesIf you were successful in August, your Ad for FOYAS sively, it wasn’t so that I could deadline is September 15th. tweet out scenes when Tim Curry Please bill to Patricia Halladay Graphic Designwas at his best (this would be near the end of the movie, when he 2 columns by 6 inches solves the crime).

For more information visit: I didn’t watch it to tweet about www.env.gov.yk.ca how Lee Ving is a better singer than he is actor and then link to a YouTube video of Fear playing SNL and hashtag #MinorThreat or #Flea.

It was merely to enjoy the ridiculousness of a dinner partyturned-murder-investigation and watch Christopher Lloyd perfectly recreate Professor Plum.

Old movies, like so many other things, are wonderful reminders of the past. So much of what is celebrated today is rehashed from previous eras.

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the bright lights of Las Vegas burn in the background.

Perhaps a portrait of Winona Ryder as she appears in Reality Bites, which was surprisingly directed by Ben Stiller.

You can paint the kid from Richard Linklater’s classic Slacker, as he leaps at the Coke machine and kicks it to get a can of pop, all the while sporting his B COOL shirt.

Better yet, one could paint our good friends Andy Dufresne (played

by Tim Robbins) and Red (played by Morgan Freeman) as they create a lifelong friendship at the PHOTO: Andrea Hooge Shawshank Redemption Center in rural Maine.

As Baked is a location that attracts families, tourists, and Vancouver artist Andrea Hooge’s more, painting your favourite painting, “Sheesh”, captures Steve scene from Kids or any number of Buscemi’s unforgettable role as the blood-soaked shots from any Tarantino movie probably isn’t the ‘Donny” in The Big Lebowski best idea.

Also, please don’t paint something from some obscure ‘90s limited-release German movie Once in a while, it’s nice to that you watched while studying celebrate the original product philosophy in southern Ontario. in its original era. Forget what Nobody wants that.

Just think about what the winmetecritic or imdb have to say ter tourists will say when they about it.

Rather than tweet about the walk into Baked and see a mesnew Jurassic Park, why not cele- merizing portrait of Keyser Söze. brate Jeff Goldblum in the ‘90s, They’ll wonder what kind of mea decade in which he was in over tropolis Whitehorse has become, 20 films? Why not just enjoy Keanu and be struck with the endless talent of such a small place.

Reeves in Speed and call it a day?

Perhaps a husband and wife To celebrate all things ‘90s, I’m organizing a ‘90s Movies art from California will talk to a show at Baked Café, set to take couple from North Carolina about how Nicolas Cage filmed Raising place in January, 2016.

The show will be called Fargo Arizona in their town, and they’ll F*ck Yourself or The Baked Lebow- sit down and share their favourski or Point Baked or Half Baked ite Coen brothers films with each (actual movie name!) or Might other.

They’ll talk about seeing The Club (an ode to plan shopping and the all-too-commonly-heard, “I Big Lebowski at a drive-in for the first time, and being amazed. might go”).

Submissions are now being ac- Finally, after all that, they’ll cepted. Sales from the show will tweet about it.

Anyone interested in submitgo directly to the artists, so I encourage anyone with an interest ting work for the show can contact me at darrensusin@gmail. in art to submit something.

Perhaps a remake of Jacques- com.

Louis David’s famous painting Darren Susin is a visual Napoleon Crossing the Alps, but arts supporter who lives in with Vince Vaughn’s character Whitehorse. from Swingers riding the horse as

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ver the last few months, I have been sharing how I became involved in this queen title and what I have been doing. And while doing more research to better educate myself on the Yukon and its history, I have found some great information that I hope will also interest and educate you!

During my Queen campaign, one of the requirements was to write a speech. I wrote mine about something I know, which is Chinese history. I reviewed what was happening in China at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, and I tied it into Western history.

In 1898, many developments were taking place around the world. Two famous Queens existed at the same time. Both were queens of great nations and great continents, but both had different fates and destinies.

During this era, while the Yukon gold rush was in full swing, Empress Dowager became the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for 47 years.

Selected as a concubine for the Emperor, she gave birth to the Emperor’s only son. After the Emperor’s death, she seized power in a coup, proclaimed her infant son as the Emperor, and made herself the Empress Dowager.

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She ruled China even though she remained behind a silk screen separating herself from her officials who were all male. Dynastic rule collapsed three years after her death and the chaotic Republican era started.

In Great Britain, Queen Victoria was ruling. As I have mentioned before, she had such a great impact on style, fashion and manners. These are the traditions that we carry through with us today as the Rendezvous Queen’s Court.

Victoria was the longest-ruling British monarch in history, with a 63-year reign. Her time on the throne reign saw great cultural expansion and advances in industry, science, literacy, construction of railways, and the London Underground transit.

She expanded her empire by increasing urban populations, was recognized as the Empress of India, celebrated both a golden (1887) and diamond jubilee (1897), and the sheer prominence of Great Britain on the world stage under her rule helped define the age that bears her name.

Now, why is this article titled, “History is being re-written”?

My friends, we are living through a very historical event.

On September 9, our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, will sur-

pass her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the longest-ruling British monarch in history.

What an achievement - to reign longer than the 41 Kings and Queens that have gone before her! What a legacy she will leave, and we are here to witness it.

I will make some time to ponder what my own legacy will be.

I know that mine is now linked with Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous and I am more knowledgeable and informed than I was before accepting this role.

At the risk of repeating myself, I highly recommend this to others who wish to enhance and explore new opportunities for themselves.

We don’t always know what fate has in store for us and what our destinies will be. But I can assure you that if you step out and try new things, just as I did with Rendezvous, a new and exciting world can open up for you and will make your journey very interesting and worthwhile.

Until next month, my dear friends...

Shirley Chua-Tan is the 2015 Yukon Sourdough Rendezous Queen. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com

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