What's Up Yukon, July 8, 2005

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July 8th, 2005 Issue #12

All Northern. All Fun.

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Patti Flather................2 The Editor’s Page..........3 Dining Fine.................4 Recipe.......................5 Department of Youth.....5 Attention Span.............6 Destinations................6 Beer Buzz...................7 Trolley.......................7 What’s Happening.........8 Caribouisms................9 Yukon Rainbow............9

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Writer Becomes the Performer for a Day W

BY JUDE WONG hat is it about the Yukon that makes it so inspiring to artists? Opportunities?

People? Space?

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer Patti Flather came to the North to write for the Whitehorse Star 17 years ago. She’d studied political science at the University of British Columbia, but it wasn’t long up here before she was back at UBC working toward her masters ... this time, in creative writing.

Since then, she has been published in several publications. Her film, Kiss That Alaska Highway Before I Die, set on the Alaska Highway, won the Calypso Award for Original Screen Play at the Moondance Film Festival in Colorado. She has recently been awarded a Yukon Advanced Artist Award and is currently working on a collection of short fiction.

While Flather confesses that writing is often solitary, her dabblings in local theatre have influenced the way she shares her work.

Patti Flather leaves behind the solitary work of a writer for one day to read samples of her work aloud at the Visitor Reception Centre July 8. It is part of the Longest Days Street Fair.

PHOTO: SAM CASHIN

On July 8, at the Visitor Reception Centre, as part of the Longest Days Street Fair, she will be reading her work aloud.

“I love sharing my writing with other people,” says Flather. “(Live readings are) a very immediate way to do that ... you can hear their responses right away.

“It’s one of the perks that makes it all worth it.”

Flather will be reading a number of excerpts on the 8th. Though she was still pondering which ones when I spoke to her, she did mention reading a section from her play, West Edmonton Mall.

The play was presented at the Guild Hall last season, starring Moira Sauer. If funding comes through, it will be toured in October/November this fall to the communities, the Edmonton festival Hysteria, and on to Toronto; with funding from Telefilm, it is also being adapted for the screen.

As another option for her readings, Flather mentioned her new play, Where the River Meets the Sea. “It’s a mother/daughter/sister/new boyfriend story,” said Flather, “set in the area where my own parents grew up; involving a

Scottish-Canadian boyfriend, who is a developer and a grandmother who sings to teenager Jade.”

Having just finished work shopping Where the River Meets the Sea — her thesis play — in Toronto, Flather is aiming to have it produced in March of 2006, funded by

the Yukon Artsfund and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Typhoon is another play she is considering for the reading. Published last year in Room of One Zone of Vancouver, Typhoon follows a young Canadian couple in Hong Kong making life decisions and trying to figure out where they fit in.

To hear these stories and maybe more, come to the Visitor Reception Centre on July 8 at 11:15, 1:15 or 4:15.

Contact Jude with your stories at modmoves@yahoo.com.

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EDITOR’S PAGE What’s Up, YUKON!

July 8, 2005

I’m Just Saying...

Reporting on the FUN SIDE from the INSIDE

An editorial by Darrell Hookey

All Northern. All Fun.

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would like to take this opportunity to thank Wal-Mart for moving to Whitehorse.

If it weren’t for Wal-Mart and the other national chains moving to the Argus site, we wouldn’t have the Longest Days Street Fair.

Sure, we cringed at the prospect of the big-box stores shutting down our funky downtown core. After all, we had seen similar scenarios play out across North America.

But with the entrenchment of these national chains at the entrance to the city proper, these downtown businesses are now motivated enough to carve itself a new niche in the Yukon marketplace.

“What are our strengths?” they asked themselves and “How can we build on those strengths?”

Alas, the decision was made to attract artists and performers to the Main Street area. And it has proven to be a much more comfortable fit than anyone would have guessed five years ago.

It was five years ago that skittish downtown merchants complained about traffic being blocked off in front of their businesses for a street festival. At that time, they were still jutting out their jaws and declaring their prices would be as good as Wal-Mart’s and the service would be ten times better.

Well, the prices often can’t be better because Wal-Mart Canada orders 12,000,000 units whereas a Whitehorse independent orders 12. And, sorry, when it comes to buying socks and peanut butter, hundreds of us prove everyday we don’t mind standing in line for 10 minutes to pay for the purchases we had no help in selecting.

“If it weren’t for Wal-Mart ... we wouldn’t have the Longest Days Street Fair.”

But there are some shoes you can only get at Shoes R Us, downtown. And you will get a better answer on digital cameras from a Photo Vision staffer than the highschooler on the 4 to 9 shift at WalMart. And Wal-Mart doesn’t sell local artwork like Yukon Gallery.

And, really, where would you rather browse for a good book, Wal-Mart or Mac’s Fireweed Books?

Our downtown has a lot going for it: It is a people place. And bringing artists and performers to the downtown core will make it even more of a people place.

Artists define us as a people and they entertain us at a base level in a way that would never be satisfied with an inspirational slogan superimposed over a photo of a palm tree.

And perhaps there will be an additional benefit here, too. As downtown businesses realize the real value of our artists, perhaps many of them will be able to start earning a fair wage.

I’ve heard so many artists admit they sell their art for $25 because that is what the market will bear. But it took them five hours to make it.

Who works for $5 an hour? An unguaranteed $5 an hour with no benefits?

Well, I say to our artists and craftspeople and performers, “We appreciate you ... you will help save our downtown.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Gold Mining is Important, Too

our article of June 3 concerning the Atlin Arts & Music Festival has raised some questions in our community.

Though we appreciate the attention that What’s Up Yukon has given to our community, I wish to clarify some points regarding Atlin and the origins of the festival.

Atlin town was founded by gold miners and gold miners remain at the core of our community and our economy. Artists have come to the community attracted by the simple and quiet lifestyle that the town offers. As a result, Atlin has become a culturally and socially diverse community with people from all walks of life sharing a common love for our small town and its gorgeous valley.

The idea to start an arts and music festival here in Atlin came from a number of sources. Atlin had its first music festival back in 1980 at Five Mile Point. It was a big success.

Good memories of that event still lingered in our community when a handful of people got together in 1995 and began organizing Solfest, a music festival to be held on Summer Solstice at the Atlin Warmsprings. That project never saw its way through to fruition but the organizers kept the idea on the backburner until there was sufficient people to make it happen.

That critical mass of people was reached in 2002 when a local environmental/economic development group took on the project as a way of promoting the local arts industry and creating some employment.

In November of 2002 the Society for Atlin’s Sustainable Economic Initiatives held a public meeting where it called for support for four new community projects: the festival, a ski club, a hiking booklet, and an English as a Second Language program for our community college.

To SASEI’s credit, and to the credit of the community who supported these projects, most of these ideas are now reality. People came together

and supported these projects that they saw as being beneficial to the town as a whole.

The festival came about because a bunch of different people had the same idea at the same time. SASEI was just one of those parties but a crucial party. It had the legal status as a society and it fostered the festival through its infancy. It acted as key organizer, fiscal agent, and ultimately, it held the legal liability through our second year.

As of June 13, 2005 the festival is a stand-alone society with its own bank account and board of directors. Its first AGM will take place following this year’s festival.

The festival from its very inception strove to rise above politics. The festival was to be an event where people could set their differences aside and work for a common goal of bringing new people and new money to our community.

In your article, the manner in which you quoted me made it sound like I was referring to the festival as an environmental group. SASEI is the environmental group; the festival is just a festival. It’s property of the community that made it.

The festival strives to be inclusive of all people no matter what their field of work or their persuasion. That’s the beauty of the festival: everybody is welcome, everybody helps out, and everybody benefits.

Yours Sincerely, Stephen Badhwar Atlin Arts & Music Festival Producer

Leaving out the importance of gold mining and the nutand-bolt details of your organization was a judgment call. I needed room on that page to cover the Alsek Music Festival, Kluane Bluegrass Festival and the Yuk Yuk’s visit. – Ed. Letters to the editor are welcome in this space. We reserve the right to edit for length, libel issues, grammar and spelling. We do not accept letters that do not concern the mandate of this magazine — arts, culture, entertainment, sports and recreation — and we will not accept a letter in lieu of a scrutinized press release. Please send your letters to editor@whatsupyukon.com or mail them to the address in our Masthead.

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Dining at Sam N’ Andy’s is Fun with Darrell Hookey

Siana Mills is a server in a fun restaurant, Sam N’ Andy’s.

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have a weakness for meals that make a sound.

It is a dynamic component of the intake of sustenance that makes the experience fun.

So, imagine my delight when I heard a ferocious sizzling sound from behind me and to find that it was headed for our table.

This was the beginning of something fun.

The skillet was filled with meat and green peppers and onion.

Another plate had a large salad and Mexican rice with two flour tortillas on it.

Our server, Grethal Pater, explained that Tex Mex cooking is Mexican cooking to a more American taste. It is not as spicy and has more cheese.

And she said we shouldn’t be worried if we didn’t know the difference between a Burrito and Tostada or Quesadilla or Enchilada. The ingredients for each were listed.

What made our Fajitas different is that we could make our own from all of the ingredients laid before us. This was fun.

And we got the impression that Pater was just as concerned that we enjoy our meal just as much as have fun.

So she was fearful when I asked for a sample of the sauce they use on the Cook’s Challenge Wings ... the one that prompts each server to ask if the customer has a heart condition before trying.

She brought barely enough to pool in the bottom of the plastic cup, I mixed some Mexican rice in it — “Darrell, don’t complain to me tomorrow,” my LDC admonished — and ate it effortlessly.

Pater was impressed, but she didn’t see my growing discomfort

as air, passing over my tongue, fanned the flames and I could feel the heat escape through my ear canals. “Yup,” my LDC confirmed, “Your ears are turning red.”

And sweat beaded on my forehead and bald spot, my eyes watered, my nose ran and I had to concentrate not to drool.

My LDC must have had more dignified dinner companions before, but this was my idea of fun.

I am so coming back for Wing Night on Wednesday.

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Keeping It Unreal Marina Stevenson draws inspiration from her friends.

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rching elegantly off the page, the sleek and rather buxom water nymph pouts, looking dreamily back at the penciled lines that spawned her.

Beaming proudly over this drawing is Marina Stevenson, an 18 year old of medium height, slim build and an infectious grin.

She drew this fantastical creature in the time it took her old biology teacher to explain how the different elements are classified.

Stevenson is a sketch artist with an eye for the dramatic and bazaar. While she will admit she’s just a farm girl living in the city and would be wonderfully content laying in haystacks, she has made a very nice life for herself here.

Proudly sporting her Hen ‘05 hoodie, Stevenson spoke of her graduating year when she attempted to break into the field of computer graphics with marked

RECIPE From the kitchen of Sam N’ Andy’s

FAJITAS 1 serving INGREDIENTS

1⁄2 onion, sliced 1⁄2 green pepper, sliced 1 tablespoon garlic butter 1 chicken breast or 1 steak 1⁄2 teaspoon Cajun spice 1⁄2 cup shredded mozza and cheddar cheese 2 flour tortilla shells 1 cup mixed salad 1 cup Mexican rice 2 ounces salsa 2 ounces sour cream

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Heat up cast iron skillet.

In frying pan, cook up garlic butter with green pepper, onion and meat.

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Cook until veggies are soft and meat is cooked.

Transfer on to cast iron skillet.

Top with cheese and warm flour tortillas.

Serve with Mexican rice, salad and side dishes of salsa and sour cream.

success but a deeper respect for her pencil and paper.

Inspiration comes from old westerns and B-movies rip offs, too. She feels something strange in the spectacular and that regular people will be more interested if someone is willing to go farther with their art.

That’s why Stevenson draws the creatures that she does, like the

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water nymph or the rowdy looking pirate wench who’s based loosely on one of her older sisters.

They speak of dreams.

“It’s kind of cheesy to hear, but it’s true,” she says. “Art comes from the inside. Somewhere in there we’re all crazy characters.”

To illustrate this last point, let us look at Stevenson’s friends — those people she willingly sur-

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rounds herself with: They are flamboyant actors, obsessive writers, fellow artists and extravagant musicians.

The strange and outcast of high school society.

Stevenson will concede that a lot of her weirder drawings take their qualities from her friends.

Inspiration and emotion are everything to Stevenson in her chosen trade. One smile from a caring friend could fuel a handful of sketches.

So, what’s next for the young artist? Stevenson plans to work over the summer and do some traveling. Simple, but the latter prospect has Stevenson salivating. She said she’s been a Yukoner her whole life — “That’s a long time.”

In later years she does hope to return North and settle down, but with her recent liberation from high school, she’s itching to see the world and draw it.

Like abstract art caught in an updraft, Stevenson wishes to travel and explore the world. If she passes your way do spare a smile. Who knows, you could be her next creation.

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Sunshine, On My Shoulders, Makes Me Grumpy with Chris McNutt

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K, now I’m getting tired of the light. I know that the Land of the Midnight Sun schtick is what makes the Yukon unique and all that and I admit, at first, it’s kind of cool. The perpetual daylight of the northland almost makes you forget that winter is either a constant presence or a threat the other eight months of the year.

But now is the time of year where all this great sunlight starts to get on a guy’s nerves, if you know what I mean. Yes, I already know that I’m totally whiny and cranky from not getting enough sleep. I did put tinfoil on all the windows but now the cops keep showing up in the night thinking our house is a marijuana grow-op.

I wake up thinking I’m late for work at 4:30 a.m. Before I can get back to sleep I hear my kids in the living room complaining that there is nothing good on TV. I explain that 5 a.m. is not the best time-slot for decent network programming and if you didn’t grow up on it, Happy Days reruns totally suck.

I tell them to go back to sleep, but by then we are all awake and M*A*S*H isn’t so bad if nothing else is on, so we all eat cereal and curse the fact that the earth is titled 23.5 degrees in it axis of rotation and we live 60 degrees from the equator. You’re probably reading this right now at some weird hour of the day because you can’t sleep either and if you remember calculus, do the math.

The result is too much freaking sunshine in the summer, not enough in the winter and a culture consisting of weirdoes who fluctuate between the extremes.

If you live near the equator, night and day is equal length all year long and besides the malaria and insects as big as your head, life is fairly easy-going. As you begin to migrate outward toward the poles, there is a mild fluctuation in the day/night ratio throughout the year. Most of humanity resides in this latitude band allowing the harmonious perpetuation of our culture and species. After that, things get weird.

Farther north (and south in the other hemisphere), humans of the circumpolar region are fairly bent.

In the north you have the Finns (morose), Swedes (porn freaks), Inuit (hard to understand) and Greenlanders, who still haven’t renamed their country after falling for a Danish marketing gimmick nine centuries ago.

Around here, Alaskans in general are a piece of work and if it wasn’t for Sony Playstation and the Xbox, Canada’s north would have long ago been abandoned to the caribou.

The South Pole and the continent of Antarctica is the domain of the penguin, the

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ast month, we celebrated National Tourism Awareness Week across Canada.

On the surface, the work to establish this celebration by tourism industry lobbyists and a group of politicians years ago in Ottawa might appear inconsequential. But the reason behind the celebration remains critically important to all Canadians. Tourism is one of Canada’s top 10 largest industries and, closer to home, the industry is the Yukon’s largest private sector employer.

National Tourism Awareness Week is a time to recognize the significance of the industry and the contribution made by people working in tourism across Canada and around the Yukon. It is a time for us to say a huge THANK YOU to all the front-line folks at the hotel front desks, the restaurants, at the museums and attractions, the fishing guides and the cab drivers who spend more time with our

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visitors than anyone else. Their efforts usually go un-noticed and they rarely receive an award, though it’s much deserved. These folks are often the difference between someone having an OK time on their holiday and someone having a great time.

Also deserving of praise are the dozens of smaller enterprises like Nahanni River Adventures, Uncommon Journey’s, Dalton Trail Lodge, the Downtown Hotel and Ruby Range Adventures who make tourism a family affair. With these companies, Mom, Dad and often the kids pitch in from dawn until dusk in order to provide their clients with the holiday of a lifetime and make a bit of a living in the process. They are also often the ones who spend literally hundreds of hours on the many boards and committees dedicated to improving tourism and the visitor experience in the Yukon. Rarely is their contribution properly recognized.

Finally, we should recognize the impact of the larger tourism based companies in our community like Air North, High Country Inn and Holland America/Grayline who invest millions in tourism infrastructure and marketing of the territory. These companies assist to get the word out by augmenting meagre government tourism marketing dollars and they have also set the bar in terms of the training their teams receive.

Their efforts have helped to significantly raise the level of service that is felt by a vast number of the Yukon’s visitors.

The Yukon doesn’t need tourism, but take away the 300,000plus visitors who spend $160 million dollars in the Yukon every year, and the 1,200 people working for 890 businesses who make their living through tourism, and you’ve got a much poorer place.

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The Colder, The Blander ... The Better?

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t’s raining out today. Maybe not the day that you are reading this, but as we write it is grey, cloudy and cool.

In other words, it is the perfect kind of a day to contemplate some of the bigger questions in life. We quickly came to the conclusion that we simply don’t have enough beer in the joint to answer the tough ones, like what do women want? ... should there be bike lanes on Fourth Avenue? ... or (really now) what do women want?

But we figured there was one we could take on: What is the best temperature to serve beer at?

Brave of us, we know, but the answer to that one is actually pretty easy: It depends. It depends on the beer and it depends on you.

First, though, let’s get one thing straight. Beer is meant to be served as cold as possible, in a frosted mug if available.

Bzzzz — wrong!

The sensation of coldness inhibits the tongue’s taste receptors. So, the colder the beer the less you can taste its flavours. This is where it depends on you, if beer is nothing but an alcohol delivery system, you don’t need taste. In fact, taste usually just gets in the way. So numbing those taste buds is important.

So, here’s the deal: The majors are now competing for who has the dubious honour of producing the “coldest beer”. No, we’re not kidding, this is true. Molson has come out with a new Sub Zero draught brand that pours beer below 0C. And Labatt has teamed up with DuPont Canada to produce a beer can with a sheath of polymer insulation inside it, keeping the beer in the can colder longer.

Canadian beer writer Stephen Beaumont tried the new Molson Sub Zero draught beer. He says “it was so cold that it hurt ... there was a feeling in my chest like I just swallowed an ice cube”. So, now there are two ways for beer to give you a headache.

Now, in terms of the Labatt can, spokesman for Labatt Bob Chant says, “One of the biggest complaints people have is about the temperature of the beer.

People don’t like to drink warm beer.”

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Our point of view is, pour it into a glass. It will help keep it cold, and allows you to see what you are drinking. Plus, can tops are pretty much perfectly shaped to collect gunk as beer is warehoused, distributed, and retailed, not to mention dragged home in the back of your truck or the trunk of your car.

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BY MATTHEW CAMERON he Waterfront Trolley tracks have been extended, connecting Rotary Peace Park to Spook Creek.

The tracks, which stopped previously at Kanoe People, at the corner of Strickland Street and First Avenue, now extend all the way to the intersection across from the Chilkoot Centre. The 1.5kilometre expansion increases the trolley’s length to 2.5 kilometres and marks the completion of the waterfront rail trail after a decade of development.

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Mr. Creighton speaks of all the marketing around the word cold, like “ice-cold taste” (we are guilty as charged, by the way ... our Chilkoot boasts “cold and clear, pure and natural”). Mr. Creighton asks, “What the hell is ice-cold taste ... it’s beyond comprehension to me that they think we’re that stupid. I look at it as taking the customer for granted, for being idiots. Sure enough, though, some of it sells.

So I guess we are.” ...to be continued.

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tage in the Yukon,” said President Richard Jamieson.

That vision was partly realized in 1999 when the trolley began its run, linking downtown to the Robert Campbell Bridge.

The new extension is another part of that vision, preserving a piece of history as the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway used to run past Spook Creek after arriving from Skagway.

Though the railway society is under contract to manage and operate the trolley and tracks, the Yukon Territorial Government owns the property. It provided the majority of the funding for the extension, which cost nearly $400,000.

While the trolley continues to grow as a tourist attraction, it is also emerging as an alternate mode of transportation for the downtown area. In addition to the current route, the Railway Society envisions a further extension, beyond Fourth Avenue, so that the trolley may service the S.S. Klondike and the Robert Service Campground.

In honour of the Waterfront Trolley line extension, a celebration was held on June 30 at Shipyards Park. Plenty of live entertainment took place while government officials and Railway Society members made speeches.

A golden spike ceremony was also part of the festivities that saw dignitaries and the public drive golden spikes into the tracks.

Finally, the City of Whitehorse unveiled a new statue on the site while all enjoyed cake.

On Canada Day, Waterfront Trolley rides were provided free of charge.

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? What ’s HAPPENING WHITEHORSE July 7 Rotary Centennial Bridge Grand Opening has been postponed to a later date.

July 8 Battle of the MCs from 6 to 9 pm at Triple Js Music Café.

July 11 Artist Talk and Try with Ken Anderson on Tlingit Style.

Bingo Mondays at Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre. Cards on sale at 5 pm and games begin at 6 pm. Info: 667-2500.

The Art of Change until Aug. 28 at the Yukon Art Centre Gallery. Works from the permanent collection will be on display.

Wednesdays Coffee and Chat from 2 to 4 pm.

July 12 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 7 pm at the Dawson City Museum.

Info: 993-5007.

Hidden Lakes Hike Mondays from 1 to 3 pm starting from the Yukon Conservation Society office.

Spirit Lake Wilderness Resort A convenient spot for lunch or dinner. Canoe rentals, horseback rides and lakeside cabins great for weekend get aways! Our campground offers a quiet alternative to the crowded Wolf Creek campground for locals. We look forward to seeing you!

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July 22 to 24 Dawson City Music Festival.

Info: Dylan at 993 5584 or info@dcmf. com.

Pinetree Quilters meet first and third Monday evenings at 6:30 pm at United Church basement.

July 11 to 15 Inks Incredible Art Camp from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Arts Underground at the Hougen Centre. Ages 7 to 14. Registration: 667-8574.

Lakes Trail Tuesdays from 1 to 4 pm.

July 12 Ed-Ventures: The Web of Life for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

Northern Fibres Guild meets second Tuesday of each month between September and June at 7:30 pm at TC Richards Building.

July 13 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 6:30 pm at the Visitor Reception Centre.

Info: 393-3456.

July 14 Ed-Ventures: The Web of Life for children aged 7 to 10. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

July 14, 15 and 21 Pottery Camp 1 to 4:30 pm at the Guild Hall. Ages 8 to 12. Registration: 667-8574.

July 15 Showcase of four bands, four DJs and four hip hop acts from 2 to 10 pm at LePage Park. Free.

July 19 Ed-Ventures: Home Sweet Habitat for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

July 21 Ed-Ventures: Home Sweet Habitat for children aged 7 to 10. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

July 26 to 29 Youth Art Intensive: Capturing Emotion from 1 to 4:30 pm at Arts Underground at the Hougen Centre. Ages 11 to 15. Registration: 667-8574.

Bridge Tuesdays at 7 pm at Golden Age Centre, Sport Yukon Complex.

Fish Lake Hike Wednesdays from 10 am to 4 pm starting at the Yukon Conservation Society. Bring a lunch.

Weed Walk Wednesdays from noon to 1 pm at Aroma Borealis. Join herbalist Bev Gray. Info: 667-4372.

Scottish Country Dancing Wednesdays from 7 to 9:30 pm at Elijah Smith School gymnasium. No experience or partner necessary. Info: Michele at 633-6081.

MEETINGS: La Leche League Canada meets every second Saturday of the month at 11 am at Yukon Family Services to offer breastfeeding information and support. Info: Suzanne at 668-5949 or Angela at 6682262.

July 11 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 7 pm at the St. Elias Convention Centre.

Info: 634-2726.

Cliff Walk to Long Lake Thursdays from 1 to 5 pm starting at the Yukon Conservation Society.

July 15 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 7:30 pm at Faro Recreation Centre. Info: 994-2375.

Café Rencontres Fridays at Association Franco-Yukonnaise at 5 pm. Info: 6682663.

TAGISH Wednesdays and Fridays Tagish Treasures from 2 to 4:30 pm.

Thursdays Seniors Stay Fit Classes from 11 am to noon.

Thursdays Stay Fit at 7 pm.

July 28 Ed-Ventures: Nature In Your Own Backyard for children aged 7 to 10. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

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Info: klondikerun@hotmail.com.

August 11 Ed-Ventures: Chinook Adventure for children aged 7 to 10 at 10 a.m.

Call 668-5678 for location.

August 16 Ed-Ventures: Season of Change for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

August 18 Ed-Ventures: Season of Change for children aged 7 to 10. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

ONGOING EVENTS Canyon City Hikes seven days a week at 10 am and 2 pm at the Miles Canyon Bridge.

Yukon Brewing Company offers free virtual brewery tour daily at 11:30 am and 4:30 pm. Free samples. “See why our beer wins so many awards.” Info: 6684183.

July 8 to 10 Atlin Arts & Music Festival.

Info: www.atlinfestival.ca.

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August 2 Ed-Ventures: Survival In The Yukon for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

August 9 Ed-Ventures: Nature Art Holiday for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Sculpture Garden at the Yukon Arts Centre at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

July 15 to 24 Great Northern Arts Festival.

Tuesdays Youth Weight Room Sessions from 3:30 to 4:30 pm at Rec Centre. Staff will assist with stretching and scheduling.

July 26 Ed-Ventures: Nature In Your Own Backyard for children aged 4 to 6 and accompanied by adult. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

August 4 Ed-Ventures: Survival In The Yukon for children aged 7 to 10. Meet at the Yukon Conservation Society at 10 a.m. for this two-hour event.

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July 8 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 7:30 pm at Faro Recreation Centre. Info: 994-2375.

Bingo Saturdays starting at 9 am at the Elk’s Hall.

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July 29 Miner’s BBQ at the arena hosted

by KPMA. Info: Julia at 993-5888.

Healing Circle Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 pm at Sport Yukon. Info: 393-2750.

Fireweed Community Markets Thursdays from 3 to 9 pm at Shipyards Park.

Grey Mountain Hike Fridays from 10 am to 4 pm starting at the Yukon Conservation Society. Bring a lunch.

June 13 Picturing the Yukon Film Series at 6:30 pm at the Visitor Reception Centre. Info: 536-7469.

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Together In Our Diversity with Johnny Caribou

DAWSON CITY round Canada Day in the Yukon, you can daydream at midnight. With the sun setting about 1:00 a.m. and rising about three hours later, it’s easy to sit back and let time slip away.

But here’s the thing: I was on my deck the other day — other morning, that is — daydreaming about this country I know. I’ve been reading a lot on it lately because, recently, strange things have been happening to it and there are parallel strange things happening in Dawson City.

Canada had this massive government scandal where the general population was defrauded of millions. Its national newspapers screamed of a corrupt regime and called for the ruling incumbent’s head. But the ruling party persevered and remained in power without any blood being spilled by its people.

“Hmm, not much of a parallel here, in Dawson City,” I thought.

This type of corruption can be quite damaging for a little nation as it would be for a little city.

The country I was daydreaming about, of course, is Canada.

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Dawson, meanwhile, has seen the same headlines on controversial issues plaguing it over the last year as the ones plaguing the nation. With a recent article in the New York Times on Dawson’s political con men, the CBC’s The Current raving on about misman-

aged taxpayers money which drove the town into bankruptcy, and a Yukon News story about a murder suspect who begged the police to speak to his lawyer 80 times while in custody, one wonders at the things that go on here and how we manage to get along.

But we do because Dawson is rooted in its difference just as Canada is. The people in this little town openly admit to embracing diversity just as Canada loves its multiplicity. Inter-

estingly, these two ideas are key in what makes up Dawson’s claim to having a northern identity.

And that’s important because identity forges special bonds between people.

But we celebrated Canada Day last week as a national day. It was a day to go out there and enjoy the struggles that plague our land, discuss our diversities and relish in our adaptability that helps define us as being one of the best nations to live on the planet.

Canada Day is a time to see beyond the trees and take a good look at the forest. It’s a day to look at ourselves nationally, at our sometimes illusive identity and ask, “How are we doing in the world?”

And if you’re like me, you’ll crack open a cold one on your deck and say we’re doing pretty good, eh, because what works in Dawson City will work in the rest of Canada.

Same-Sex Marriage Under the Lights

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eality shows have taken over television with a fury. They are one of those things that people will never admit to watching yet, based on their success, they have a wide audience. They are like a car accident: You really don’t want to watch but it is hard to avert your eyes.

Canadian television is not immune to this entertainment phenomenon. A new show has just recently aired called, My Fabulous Gay Wedding. It is hosted by Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall fame. The premise is simple as the cameras go behind the scenes and film real weddings from the planning stages, through all the angst and madness, to the actual wed-

ding day. The catch of course, is that the couples are all same-sex couples.

In an interview, Thompson claimed the show was not political ... it was merely entertainment. I don’t think you can present a show involving gay marriage and not expect it to be political. He did go on to say that, “Deep down, these people who are so against this notion really don’t believe that gay people can love with the same intensity and they don’t believe that gay relationships have the same depth.”

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with Vanessa Willett to many gay relationships then it has done some good in enlightening people.

The episodes that have been filmed already show the same problems arising as would occur in any wedding as well as some unique to same-sex unions.

In one episode an ex-husband refuses to allow the children to attend the lesbian wedding of their mother. So, the potential for drama is great, which is what

these shows rely on for their ratings.

The idea of this show is undeniably inspired with the passing of same-sex marriage legislation in so many provinces and our territory. It does have the power to change the minds of people who don’t understand that relationships are complex and that gender has very little to do with love. Hatred comes from fear and fear comes from a lack of understanding. Perhaps when people see just how normal same-sex couples are and how committed and in love they are it will go a long way in dispelling their prejudice.

Since the same-sex marriage legislation passed in Yukon this past summer there have been eight marriages; six female couples and two male couples have now tied the knot.

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ince she can remember, green gardener Nadia Petriw has been surrounded with plants and flowers.

As she picks a posy from her very own garden — a willy nilly collection of plants of all shapes, sizes and colours — her bouquet threatens to burst from the palm of her hand. With her fingers curled tightly around the bouquet, she slips the stems into a jar full of water. “I like gardening a lot,” she tells me. “It’s fun to see all the pretty plants one day all closed and the next day blooming like crazy!”

When asked to pick her favourite, she smiles, and pauses for a long moment. “It would have to be pansies because they have so many designs and colours and none of the faces ever look the same.”

I have never thought that way about a pansy, and clearly this 10year-old is an enthusiastic young gardener.

From pansies and fuchsias to marigolds and daisies, Petriw “chooses flowers that look happy and are colourful. I like flowers which are sunny and bright which fit with all the days you can garden.”

Both Petriw and her novice brother, Alexander, are learning tips of the trade from master gardener and Mom, Brenda. She agrees that it ‘s never too early to start the younger ones on gardening.

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“Children love to dig and really want to help, so why not give them their own little piece of the garden, some vegetable or flower seeds and let them nurture it themselves?”

Both children enjoy caring for the little seedlings and even start some of their own favoured plants indoors.

Looking for ways to get your green sprout started? In Green Thumbs: A Kid’s Activity Guide To Indoor and Outdoor Gardening, author Laurie Carlson presents more than 80 well-described activities. Ranging from building a miniature greenhouse to making

leaf lettuce, radishes and carrots.

The lettuce will be ready in days and your family will be munching on your child’s first harvest. Alternatively, you can start a pumpkin patch so they can see that with a little care, and lots and lots of water, a small seed will turn into an enormous jack-o-lantern.

Be a forest detective with your child. Collect flowers, berries, leaves and insects. Pre-schoolers can enjoy accompanied exploration and you can enjoy precious time together explaining the life cycle of the seed. Don’t worry if you don’t know all the answers.

No one does.

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herbal soap, Green Thumbs uses gardening to help children learn about nature.

Another favourite, Beyond the Bean Seed by Nancy Jurenka and Rosanne Blass, describes activities for integrating gardening, children’s literature and language arts for ages Kindergarten to Grade 6.

There are plenty of websites, too, including www.kidsgardening.com. It’s brimming with ideas for getting kids out of the sandbox and into the dirt.

Get your wee one rooted in gardening by starting small. Plant a salad garden with a cool crop of red

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Whether your child’s interest is in digging large holes, learning about roots and shoots, or just admiring the faces of the pretty pansy, let them help whenever possible and involve them in your family garden.

Helping young minds grow, gardening can be about a lot more than plants and dirt. With a little TLC your little green gem, like Nadia, will be weeding right along side of you.

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Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Peter Snow • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 5:30, 9 p.m.

Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

HeART OF DOWNTOWN Visual artists Carolyn Campbell, Spinner • Bank of Montreal • noon to 3 p.m.

Nicole Bauberger, Painter • Coast Mountain Sports • noon to 3 p.m.

Ann MacKenzie, Felter • Hougen Centre • 1 to 4 p.m.

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Performing artists Patti Flather, Spoken word • Visitor Reception Centre • 11:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:15 p.m.

The Giant Owl Story, SYANA • Teegatha Oh’ Zheh Park • 7 p.m.

STREET BUSKERS Peter Snow • Elijah Smith Plaza • noon, 4:30, 8 p.m.

Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 5:30, 9 p.m.

PERFORMANCE ART SPACES Camera Obscura • Studio 204 • 3 to 7 p.m.

HeART OF DOWNTOWN Visual artists Mark Prins, Photographer • Hougen Centre • noon to 3 p.m.

Bev Wood, Basket maker • Coast Mountain Sports • noon to 3 p.m.

George Roberts, Knife maker • Coast Mountain Sports • 2 to 5 p.m.

Friday Follies for July, with Marie-Pierre Villeneuve on piano • Centre de la francophonie • 5 to 7 p.m. ($)

ARTS IN THE PARK

Performing artists Nathan Tinkham & Keith Picot, Rock-a-billy • Longest Days Marketplace • 3, 5 p.m.

Meshell Melvin, Textile artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Annie Avery Trio, Jazz and swing • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

DANCE, by LINK Dance Foundation Contact dance instruction • Rotary Peace Park • 5:15 p.m.

PERFORMANCE ART SPACES Camera Obscura • Studio 204 • 1 to 5 p.m.

THEATRE

Loonie Puppets, Children’s Museum of the North Society • Arts Underground • 12:30 to 1:00 p.m.

Tribal Style Belly Dancers (dinner theatre), LINK Dance Foundation • Zola’s Café Doré • 6 p.m.

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($)

THEATRE

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($)

MacBride Museum Located on Whitehorse’s scenic waterfront, at the corner of Wood Street and First Avenue, MacBride Museum is an interactive museum with exhibits on early Whitehorse, Natural history, the Klondike Gold Rush, First Nations and North West Mounted Police.

WALKING TOURS

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Grey Mountain • Yukon Conservation Society • 10 to 4 p.m.

River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($) Yukon government photo

Look for historic movies and slide shows, Sam McGee: fact or fiction, tours of the galleries and the yard, gold panning, music@MacBride, heritage talks and daily river walks. Call (867) 667-2709, extension 5, for more information and admission rates.

See next page for a map. ($) indicates a charge at the door.

Longest Days Street Fair, (867) 668-5595, longestdays@yukonbooks.com. For performers biographies and last minute changes, go to www.longestdays.com.

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Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Elijah Smith Plaza • noon, 4:30, 8 p.m.

Peter Snow • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 5:30, 9 p.m.

HeART OF DOWNTOWN Visual artists Mark Prins, Photographer • Hougen Centre • noon to 3 p.m.

Bev Wood, Basket maker • Coast Mountain Sports • noon to 3 p.m.

Harreson Tanner, Carver • Barbers II • 2 to 5 p.m.

THEATRE

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($)

Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Peter Snow • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 6, 9 p.m.

Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

HeART OF DOWNTOWN Visual artists Janet Moore, Painter • Hougen’s Centre • 1 to 4 p.m.

Mary Hudgin, Bookbinder • Bank of Montreal • 3 to 6 p.m.

Nancy Mercier, Fibre artist • Coast Mountain Sports • 3 to 6 p.m.

Performing artists Paul Lucas Trio, Jazz and Latin • Longest Days Marketplace • 3, 5 p.m.

SUMMER ARTS CAMP (ages 7 to 14) Inks Incredible, with Meshell Melvin • Arts Underground • 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ($) ARTS IN THE PARK

Longest Days Marketplace Each day in July, under the tents at Third Avenue and Main Street, the Longest Days Marketplace offers Yukon-made products along with merchandise from importers and entrepreneurs. The marketplace is open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Become part of the lively atmosphere of our gathering and bustling community. Come down and meet our Yukon artists and artisans at the Fair!

Lara Melnik, Polymer clay artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Inconnu reunion • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

THEATRE

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) PIPE Theatre • Zola’s Café Doré • 8:30 p.m. ($)

WALKING TOURS

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Hidden Lakes • Yukon Conservation Society • 1 to 3 p.m.

River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($)

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The Fireweed Community Market Society provides local products at Shipyards Park, every Thursday from 3 to 9 p.m.

There are booths selling food and crafts, with something to delight the eye for everyone.

STREET BUSKERS Peter Snow • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Eric Girard & his famous “ladder of swords” • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 6, 9 p.m.

Peter Snow • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

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STREET BUSKERS Mr. Bunk • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Aytahn • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 6, 9 p.m.

Mr. Bunk • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

Visual artists Claire Strauss, Textile artist • Hougen Centre • 2 to 5 p.m.

Nancy Mercier, Fibre artist • Murdoch’s Gem Shop • 3 to 6 p.m.

Cornelia Taggart, Knitter • Murdoch’s Gem Shop • 3 to 6 p.m.

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Performing artists The Silver Ravens, Country and pop • Longest Days Marketplace • 3, 5 p.m.

Visual artists Lynn Blaikie, Batik artist • Murdoch’s Gem Shop • noon to 3 p.m.

Bev Wood, Basket maker • Hougen’s Centre • noon to 3 p.m.

Peter Kazda, Carver • Barbers II • 2 to 5 p.m.

SUMMER ARTS CAMP (ages 7 to 14) Inks Incredible, with Meshell Melvin • Arts Underground • 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ($)

Performing artists Sophisticated Cave Men, Swing • Longest Days Marketplace • 3 and 5 p.m.

ARTS IN THE PARK

Lara Melnik, Polymer clay artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

BJ McLean & Brenda Berezan, Duo • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

SUMMER ARTS CAMP (ages 7 to 14) Inks Incredible, with Meshell Melvin • Arts Underground • 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ($)

DANCE, by LINK Dance Foundation Classical Indian dance • Yukon Travel (window) • noon Salsa demonstration and instruction • Sportees (deck) • 1 p.m.

Classical Indian dance • Elijah Smith Plaza • 2:15 p.m.

ARTS IN THE PARK

Lara Melnik, Polymer clay artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Perewinkle the Clown • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

THEATRE

DANCE, by LINK Dance Foundation Modern improvisation • Whitehorse Public Library (window) • 1 p.m.

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) PIPE Theatre • Zola’s Café Doré • 8:30 p.m. ($)

THEATRE

WALKING TOURS

Physical comedy dinner theatre, LINK Dance Foundation • Zola’s Café Doré • 6 p.m.

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($) PIPE Theatre • Zola’s Café Doré • 8:30 p.m. ($)

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Ed-Venture for Kids (ages 4 to 6) • Yukon Conservation Society • 10 to noon River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($) Yukon government photo

WALKING TOURS

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Fish Lake • Yukon Conservation Society • 10 to 4 p.m.

River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($)

FILM & TALK

On-going exhibitions Arts Underground Hougen Heritage Gallery: E.J. Hamacher photographs Yukon Art Society Gallery: Retrospective of contemporary Yukon artists Bank of Montreal Yukon painters and textile artists with music by Yukon musicians Centre de la francophonie (AFY) Displays by local francophone and francophile artists.

Fitness and the Father, Yukon film series • Visitor Reception Centre • 6:30 p.m.

Natural history lecture • MacBride Museum • 7 p.m.

Gallery tour Guided visits of Yukon Arts Centre gallery and Yukon Artists at Work studio. Van leaves White Pass building at 11 a.m. sharp; returns between 12:45 and 1 p.m. Daily, starting July 11 ($) MacBride Museum Photograph display, “Centre of the City: Front and Main” Old Log Church Museum Photographs and artifacts Yukon Art Society Gallery, Captain Martin House Eve Chapple, “Found in the Yukon”

Yukon government photo

Children’s Museum of the North Society Weekly display of different puppets illustrating a story or poem; in the window at the Hougen Centre

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STREET BUSKERS Aytan • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Mr. Bunk • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 5:30, 9 p.m.

Aytahn • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

STREET BUSKERS Mr. Bunk • Visitor Reception Centre • noon Aytahn • Elijah Smith Plaza • 1, 5:30, 9 p.m.

Mr. Bunk • Elijah Smith Plaza • 4:30, 8 p.m.

HeART OF DOWNTOWN

HeART OF DOWNTOWN

Visual artists Lynn Blaikie, Batik artist • Murdoch’s Gem Shop • noon to 3 p.m.

Harold Harry, Carver • Barbers II • noon to 3 p.m.

Peter Kazda, Carver • Coast Mountain Sports • 1 to 4 p.m.

Visual artists Harold Harry, Carver • Barbers II • noon to 3 p.m.

Valerie Hodgson, Painter • Bank of Montreal • 1 to 4 p.m.

Mary Armstrong, Spinner • Hougen’s Centre • 1 to 4 p.m.

Performing artists Wilbert Kendi & Boyd Benjamin, Stories and songs • Teegatha Oh’ Zheh Park • 7 p.m.

Performing artists Dave Stone, From the classics to Ray Charles • Arts Underground • noon, 2 p.m.

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ($)

ARTS IN THE PARK

Lara Melnik, Polymer clay artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Kim Barlow, Singer-songwriter • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

Yukon government photo

SUMMER ARTS CAMP (ages 7 to 14) Inks Incredible, with Meshell Melvin • Arts Underground •

PERFORMANCE ART SPACES

Solstice Music Society dance, local DJs and bands • LePage Park • 2 to 10 p.m.

Friday Follies for July, Music • Centre de la francophonie • 5 to 7 p.m. ($)

SUMMER ARTS CAMP (ages 7 to 14) Inks Incredible, with Meshell Melvin • Arts Underground • 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ($) ARTS IN THE PARK

Lara Melnik, Polymer clay artist • LePage Park • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wilbert Kendi & Boyd Benjamin, Duo • LePage Park • noon to 1 p.m.

DANCE, by LINK Dance Foundation Contemporary dance • Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters (deck) • 1 p.m.

Contemporary dance • Fireweed Market • 4:30 p.m.

DANCE, by LINK Dance Foundation Contact dance instruction • Rotary Peace Park • 5:15 p.m.

THEATRE

THEATRE

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($) PIPE Theatre • Zola’s Café Doré • 8:30 p.m. ($)

WALKING TOURS

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Ed-Venture for Kids (ages 7 to 10) • Yukon Conservation Society • 10 a.m. to noon River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($)

Contemporary dance (dinner theatre), LINK Dance Foundation • Zola’s Café Doré • 6 p.m.

Frantic Follies Vaudeville Revue • Westmark Whitehorse • 7, 9:15 p.m. ($) Matt & Ben, Sour Brides Theatre • Arts Underground • 8 p.m. ($) PIPE Theatre • Zola’s Café Doré • 8:30 p.m. ($)

WALKING TOURS

Historical walking tours • LePage Park (YHMA office) • 9, 11 a.m., 1, 3 p.m. ($) Grey Mountain • Yukon Conservation Society • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

River walk, Explosions on the Yukon River • MacBride • 2 p.m. ($) River walk, Murder under the Midnight Sun • MacBride • 8 to 8:30 p.m. ($)

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July 8, 2005

Building a Lawn

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n the Yukon, the best time for seeding lawns is June and July.

This is the most likely time for warm soils that promote optimum seed germination when properly watered. If it is not possible to sow in June, you can still seed a new lawn at any other time before August 15.

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with John Vander Kley

If the seed bed is too shallow or the soil too heavy (i.e. clay) it will be difficult to produce a deeprooted turf that that will stand up to hard wear and extreme winter temperatures.

A good seedbed must be at least 10 to 15 cm deep. The topsoil must be of good quality and free from sticks and lumps. If the sub-soil material is granular and porous, the depth of the soil should be deeper or else the lawn will tend to dry out very rapidly and will be difficult to maintain.

If the topsoil is very expensive, a compacted layer of five centimetres of clay or silt on top of the subsoil will permit the use of 10 cm of regular topsoil for the seedbed.

Spread the soil evenly over the area that is to become your lawn.

Once it is all spread out, do a rain dance on the soil and invite the whole family to walk foot to foot clockwise over the lawn to compact the soil. This leaves enough loose soil to fine rake afterwards. Don’t use a heavy lawn roller because it just rolls over the low spots.

Before you fine rake your lawn, broadcast a high phosphate fertilizer, such as 16-20-0 or 8-2424, over your seedbed and work the fertilizer several centimetres deep. Make sure you rake it as level as you possibly can; you want it to be the showcase of the neighbourhood.

Now you are ready to seed your lawn. Buy a good grass seed mix-

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ture of Kentucky Bluegrass and Creeping Red Fescue.

For uniform coverage, divide the seed into two equal parts, sow one part across the entire seedbed back and forth in parallel paths. Then sow the second part in the same manner but at right angles to the fist application.

Rake lightly by drawing the rake in one direction only (if there are slopes draw across them). This is all that is required to cover the seed. Rolling is not essential but the use of a light roller after seeding may cause a more uniform and rapid germination.

A newly seeded lawn must be watered carefully until moisture has penetrated the soil to a depth of at least 5 cm. Try to avoid puddling the soil and washing out the seed. This can be accomplished by moving the sprinkler at frequent intervals. If the weather is hot and dry, or if a situation should call for establishing grass on a south-facing slope, landscape fabric laid over the newly seeded lawn will ensure better germination. The landscape fabric must be removed before the seedlings are too far

advanced otherwise they will be uprooted when the fabric is taken up.

Commercial sod is available to people looking for an instant lawn. Even if you are planning to sod rather than seed, the aforementioned remarks concerning seedbed preparation and fertilizing still apply.

Good sod should be no more than 1.5 cm thick. Thicker sods will not establish quickly, roots will tend to grow in the sod soil rather than rapidly knitting into the seedbed soil.

Most annual weeds, which appear in newly seeded or sodded lawns, will be controlled by mowing. Weeds not so controlled may be sprayed with herbicides after the third or the fourth mowing. 2,4-D controls dandelions and many other broadleaved weeds.

And, just a note to those of you who have established lawns: Now is the time for a second application of fertilizer. A 19-19-19 or 1310-4 will keep those lawns looking beautifully green.

This column is courtesy of Adorna Flowers and Landscaping.

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July 8, 2005

Riding on One Wheel is a Lurching Process Life on

THE FARM

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Graham Rudge

ello, life has been pretty good on the farm this past week; the market is getting better every week and we have moved the little broiler (meat) chicks out of the garage and into a large, outdoor pen.

But after a while you kind of get bored with non-stop ... well, I guess you could call it work.

Which is where the extraordinary gift that I received from a friend of ours, Kathy Spalding, comes in.

I am staring at the unicycle held between my hands and imagine myself riding around the front yard, five juggling clubs twirling above my head as I go. Unfortunately, I only have three clubs and am just learning how to use them.

(Some people may think that learning to ride the unicycle is a smooth, easy process. As you read this story, you’ll know otherwise.)

I clamber onto the unicycle, leaning heavily on a nearby tree for support. When my feet are firmly planted on the pedals, I let go of the tree, lean forward and move my legs in a curricular motion.

I probably don’t need to tell you what happened next, but I will anyway: I only went forward about one foot when I tilted at a crazy angle and, before I knew what was happening I was laying on the ground with the unicycle laying several metres off. Thanks to the padding that my mother

bought for me in exchange for helping her make jelly, I received minimal damage.

It took me the rest of the day to learn that you must keep your centre of gravity directly on top of the seat and not be totally rigid. The next day, after about my tenth fall, I decided to use a pair of ski poles. Surprisingly, they allowed me to move greater

distances with less falling.

I’m OK at juggling beanie-bags Still, once the technique is Eventually I got to the point but I still can’t juggle and unicycle learned, it is a gratifying experience where I could grab onto the side of at the same time (I need my arms to cruise around on one wheel. my Dad’s truck and go forward at to keep my balance).

Until the next time. least two metres before I fell.

As I’ve said, it took me a while before I could go any distance without falling and even then it was a lurching process.

Over time, I’ve been getting better at going forward but, for some reason, I cannot go backwards.

Curious, isn’t it?

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5:00 to 7:00 pm At Grey Mountain School

For more information call: 667-8661

ARTS & Adds CULTURE Zola’s Doré Café to the Nightlife What’s Up, YUKON!

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ipping coffee, listening to folk tunes, reflecting on the day, reading the paper, or people watching — these are things many locals here may be used to associating with a trip to the city.

The funny thing is that, sitting in Zola’s (new) Doré Café on Main Street, you might feel that you could really be anywhere.

It’s chic, stylin’, comfortable and politically correct (support local businesses that sell better coffee anyway); it’s open ‘till midnight and it’s changing the downtown core nightlife in a very classy way.

“July is going to be so much fun downtown,” says Zola Doré, owner of Zola’s Doré Café.

While envisioning her new endeavour, Doré says she wanted to create something that fits the downtown environment and clien-

tele, gives tourists a comfort zone and makes the locals feel like they could be anywhere in North America.

“Over the years, people kept asking me to stay open later at the shop on 4th, but it wasn’t the right location for it,” said Doré. “The new shop on Main gives people somewhere to go before they go to the bar or the theatre, somewhere they can unwind and forget about work, without having to go all the way home if they live out of town.”

Live entertainment at Zola’s Doré Café has already begun, and will continue nightly throughout

the month of July and the Longest Days Street Fair.

Performers will include Daniel Adam, swingin’ on his horns; saxophone player Howard Chymey; Link Dance Foundation; the Annie Avery Trio; Jim Vautour with his “dinner-time music” (that’s what he said); and others.

New Music Night on Wednesday evenings will also continue throughout the month of the Longest Days Street Fair, featuring a line up of artists from Bringing Youth Towards Equality (BYTE)’s new compilation CD. When asked about plans for the future in the new shop, Doré says she hopes to continue these evenings throughout the winter,

exposing new talent and bringing new artists out of the woodwork. She also sees more dinner specials and ethnic theme nights — an awfully classy place to sip a glass of wine, people-watch of course and take in the evening’s live entertainment.

Also on the side of being politically correct, proceeds from the

sales of (gorgeous and elegant) hand-crafted elephant furniture will be donated to recovery efforts in Thailand.

Live entertainment will be Tuesday to Friday evenings from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

BY NICOLE BAUBERGER rts Underground has some wonderful work on the walls.

A juried exhibition of larger works by Yukon artists hangs with Hamacher Photography, a wonderful show of photographs from the Hougen, Horback and MacBride Museum Collections.

You’ll have to go see it because Arts Underground is a hotbed of activities during Longest Days Street Festival.

The Sour Brides are using the space as a theatre. Moira Sauer and Celia McBride will perform the “scathing satire” Matt & Ben

by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers Wednesday through Sunday for the month of July.

McBride observes that despite the challenges of dealing with the low ceiling, narrow playing space and lack of structure to hang lights, she and Sauer are embracing the challenge of making a non-theatrical space theatrical. The arts community has been supportive and they enjoy the energy of working in a room surrounded by other people’s creations.

McBride says you should go see this show because “you’ve never

seen anything like this in Whitehorse before. You’ll get to bellylaugh for most of the hour. The Sour Brides are the hottest thing in the North.” Tickets are $15 and available at the door. For more information call 667-4725 or 4567830 or email moira@sourbrides. com or celia@sourbrides.com.

The theatre continues with drop-in puppet-making workshops coordinated by Diane Holman July 6 and 8 from 12:30-3 pm. The workshop costs $1 per puppet made. (That’s not a typo.) The workshops are geared towards parents and kids and the facilitators will show folks how to set up at home to make and play with puppets.

The workshop will begin with three 10-minute puppet shows, 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. each day. It will feature a range of puppets.

Educator Michelle Grattan will perform with shadow puppets.

Waldorf educator Chalya Tuzlak will do a piece with tabletop puppets. As for the third performer, you’ll have to go to find out.

For free, the Arts Centre has Janet Moore presenting mixed media family drop-in mornings at Arts Underground Saturdays,

July 9, 16 and 23 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

A few years ago, Moore hosted a family workshop through the arts centre with toddlers and parents teaching them how to set up at home to do messy work with children in practical ways.

With younger children, she creates a workspace with an old cake pan.

That way the artwork and paint are contained and the child is free to create.

Each of her Saturdays will be slightly different, though all will likely involve collage and acrylic on top of collage. Her free-flowing format will allow her to adapt to the ages of the folks who show up.

The Yukon Arts Centre is offering two Kids Arts Camps at Arts Underground during the month of July.

Whitehorse artist and art instructor Meshell Melvin has dreamed up the Inks Incredible Art Camp, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., July 11 to 15, for young artists aged 7 to 14.

Most people think of black ink in a little black bottle, but this week’s program is alive with colour and many different media. Participants will explore colour through pen and ink drawing, block printing, screen printing and monoprints.

Melvin “love[s] the way coloured ink sits on the page.” Then, “printmaking is so much fun. Kids love cutting (their images into) easy-cut linoleum. Printing ink makes a great sound when it rolls. With the colour, something you’ve been carving comes alive. Then rubbing the print onto the paper, pulling it off. The process is intensive, but each step is fun to do.”

Then July 26 to 29, 11 to 15 year olds can sign up for a Youth Art Intensive: Capturing Emotion, 1 to 4:30 p.m. each day.

Participants will explore colour, line and expressions to “let the artwork speak its own emotion.”

Using mixed media, Melvin will encourage the young artists’ spontaneity, pouring, spattering and scratching paint in an

expressionist frenzy.

Participants will learn to trust their aesthetic instincts as they explore.

Melvin, who teaches art in many venues over the year, likes camps.

She finds they are an “intense experience, (in which she) gets to know and like” the participants.

She loves to “transmit her love and joy in making art,” and “one artist to another artist, enjoys the work they’re making.”

These activities will take place in Phase 2 of Arts Underground, once the basic renovation of the large workshop space is finished.

In the fall it will enter Phase 3 with a kiln for jewelry and fused glass, another for pottery, an oven for polymer clay, a darkroom and a print room with silkscreen facilities and printing press. For now, before it has all these things, it is available rent free for workshops till the end of August. (Yes, that’s right, I said free.)

Call Marlene Collins for details at 667-6058. There may well be more events than I can report here as artists set up workshops during Longest Days. Drop by or call Arts Underground for up-tothe-minute details.

with Jude Wong

Performing from the new stage at Zola’s Doré Café is Dan Ashley and Charles Hegsted (aka Raw Element). Their new CD, We Are Live, is available at Triple J Music Café.

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hen Whitehorse filmmaker Andrew Connors started running an art film series in Whitehorse in the summer of 2003, he included movies from the Yukon and around the world.

The public response to most of the series was underwhelming.

But the exception — and this is what really struck Connors — was the response to the local films: “When we screened Yukon films at the Beringia Centre, more than 100 people showed up,” he said.

“It occurred to me that although there was really interesting work being done, that other than the festivals, there weren’t a lot of ways for people to see these Yukon-made films.”

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Until August 28 The Art of Change: Works from the Yukon Permanent Art Collection Nearly 200 recent aquistions from our Territory’s ever-growing collection.

Until July 10 Pablo Series Woodworks David Conley 14 pictures carved into slabs of willow and spruce. This work made in partnership with the forest and features the most precious pieces the artist has found since the turn of the century

July 15 – 28 Drawings Heather Hyatt July 7&8 Art Safari Hence Picturing the Yukon, which owes its name, by the way, to the documentary Picturing a People, by Yukon filmmaker Carol Geddes.

The demand for local films was like a seed that planted itself in Connors’ brain. And that seed has sprouted into the Picturing the Yukon film series, now in its second season in Whitehorse and in four other Yukon communities: Haines Junction, Dawson City, Watson Lake and Faro.

“Filmmaking and media art production has taken off in the Yukon in recent years,” said Connors. “Of the 27 films in this year’s Picturing the Yukon series, 23 were produced or directed by Yukon filmmakers.”

The cost of running the series is underwritten with funding from the Yukon’s Tourism Branch and five other private sponsors and public agencies.

And from the perspective of Yukon’s filmmakers and film lovers, the series is worthwhile on two counts, among others: First, it provides venues for Yukon-made films to be seen by Yukoners and by people from around the world; and second, by presenting Yukon productions to a wider audience, it gives the budding art of film in the Yukon a boost by increasing the profile of the films and the filmmakers.

July 8, 2005

2 day Create-A-Play@Yukon Arts Centre 8:30-4:30 ages 9-12 cost $50 Register with City of whse

July 11-15 15 Ink Credible Art camp 8:30 to 4:30 Ages 7-14 $210 with Meshell Melvin

Arts in the Park 2005!

Join us in a celebration of Yukon Visual & Performing Arts Beginning May 24 - July 29

Monday thru Friday LePage Park, 3rd Ave & Wood St.

Performing Arts: Noon to 1:00

Jazz, folk, blues, dance, and country from local and visiting entertainers.

Visual Arts: 11:00 am - 2pm

Take in the artists creating in the tent - a new artist each week.

Family Day Every Wednesday!

Special performances and activities.

NOW OPEN Arts Underground Lower Level The Hougen Centre

An artist run gallery featuring original works of over 40 Yukon artists Sunday Jazz Brunch Noon to 2pm with food from the Chocolate Claim Reasonably priced refreshments Open 7 Days a week 393-4848

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Dawson City Museum: Book Launch on July 9th at 3pm.

Call 993-5291 for more information.

Beringia Interpretive Centre: Predator & Prey Camp for ages 7-9 July 14th. For more information call 667-8855.

MacBride Museum: Music @ MacBride July 10th, 12th and 14th.

Call 667-2709 for more information.

Campbell Region Interpretive Centre: Fire Side Chat July 8th, 7pm and Arts Festival July 10th.

Call 994-2288 for more information.

Old Log Church Museum: Month of July Sadie Stringer performances, Mon, Wed, Fri @ 2pm.

For more information call 668 – 2555.

For more information please call 667-4704 or email yhma@northwestel.net

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Klondike Institute of Art & Culture

Odd Gallery: June 23 - July 31

Pierre Dalpé: Personae Lucky Burden:Songs & Film Featuring Kim Barlow July 19, 8 pm Art Camp for Kids

The fun continues into July for kids ages 6-12 exploring visual & performings arts.

Breakdance Camp With Leaping Feats July 25-29

Faro Fridays at 7:30pm Faro Recreation Centre July 8 Yukon Shorts #3 July 15 Fitness & The Father

Tel: 867.993.5005 Fax: 867.993.5838 www.kiac.org

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Thinking Art Outside the Horse: Dawson DAWSON CITY ome of the places for artists to sell work to Dawson’s summer hordes are the No Gold Gallery on Front Street, the 40 Mile Gold Workshop/Studio at 3rd and York between Klondike Kate’s and the Palace Grand, and on 2nd Avenue between Queen and King, Dancing Moose Gifts .... The No Gold Gallery is the only commercial art gallery I’ve ever encountered that buys work from artists outright. Tammi Wallace also runs Maximillian’s Gold Rush Emporium next door. She’s not buying new artwork right now. Her original concept was to have only original art by Yukon artists, but she’s had to branch out into more reproductions and lower priced items that will move quickly .....

Leslie Chapman, goldsmith and

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owner of 40 Mile Gold, has chosen to carry only original art by Yukon artists. She used to stock reproductions as well, but no longer. She finds original artwork ties in better with her original, handcrafted jewelry, which she creates and sells on the premises.

She’s redesigned her interior to make it more spacious, better to host the wine and smoked salmon receptions she throws for conventions. She will be using the track from a D-6 dozer to frame a new flower garden outside the gallery.

She will fill it with exotic flowers grown for her by a local horticulturalist, Andrew McDonald, and her guests will be able to spill out into the Dawson evening by her garden ..... Chapman’s small, highceilinged log building houses a wide span of Yukon artwork. Daw-

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son artists include Michael Mason of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, who makes antler carvings and paintings. His paintings are based on “one line design” - he draws them without lifting the pencil off the paper, then fills the shapes with colour. Another TH citizen, Mary Ann Knutson carries first nations’ influences into her delicate and original gold jewelry. She works carved mammoth ivory feathers and gold from her family mine on Last Chance Creek into her bracelets and necklaces. Sharon Edmunds’ immaculate mammoth ivory carvings add a finely worked quality to her jewelry. Carole Lagace, also of Dawson, creates stained glass — one simple yet

powerful piece depicting mountain and sky sticks with me. Faye Chamberlain’s caribou tufting on caribou antlers hang near Barbara Jeanne Smith’s abstracted and expressive landscapes in charcoal and pastels. Smith taught a course in Watercolours and Drawing at the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture in mid June. And of course she has a couple of oil paintings

by Halin de Repentigny ..... From outside Dawson, Chapman shows Alice Park-Spurr, and has a new selection of her intricate, intimate miniatures. She also carries inlaid mammoth ivory jewelry by Yukon Artists @ Work member James Kirby, and some of his stones and ivory mask series of sculptures.

Roxanne Kennedy and Amber Bernard-Althouse learn to play guitar at Play It Loud, Play It Proud.

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Fellow co-op member and Crag Lake glass artist Jeanine Baker shows her fused and foiled glass confections there as well. She has some of my Dawson and Tombstones landscapes on the wall as well. (I may have missed somebody — there’s so much there) ..... Aside from the art, one of the chief attractions to the 40 Mile Gold Gallery is Chapman’s collection of naturally occurring gold nuggets from the various creeks in the Dawson area. Visitors can buy a nugget and commission Chapman to make them a custom pendant or earrings from their chosen treasure. She enjoys commissions, often making jewelry for miners using their own gold. One of her favourite commissions was for a woman from Yellowknife. She had baroque black pearls from the Cook Islands and commissioned Chapman to make a pendant with gold from Chapman’s family mine.

I overheard her developing an idea for a pendant with a woman wanting a pendant to go with her dress for the Commissioner’s Ball, fine tuning the shape to the neckline of the woman’s gown as well as the colours in the dress. Chapman figures that jewelry as wearable art runs risks, and all her work comes with a lifetime warranty — she will repair anything she’s made. The gallery’s open every day during the summer from 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. ..... Dancing Moose Gifts carries digital photos by Igor Plenicar, art prints

by Alaskan Dot Bardarson, prints of Jim Robb’s paintings, Patrick Royle’s pottery and fabric art wall hangings by Margaret Nazon.

If you’re interested in showing there, owner Diana Andrew is interested in looking at your portfolio ..... Looking for a way to get up to Dawson? For artists, applications to the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival are due July 15, and you can get the forms off their website at www.kiac.org. The festival will take place August 12, 13 and 14 this year. Munch popcorn as you watch 16 mm films in a tent in the first real dark of the year. Enjoy outdoor performances on the dike

by Amsterdam’s Helsdingen Jazz Quartet — they’re touring Canada with a grand piano in their sideopening bus. The Odd Gallery will be facilitating a thematic residency and exhibition project on The Natural and the Manufactured. Artists Peter von Tiesenhausen and Shirley Weibe will be creating site-specific installations, and art historian Dr. Gerard Curtis (David Curtis’ brother) will give a lecture exploring land-based, site-specific and environmental art practices. In other words, you’ve got to be there .....

That’s all for me for now. Send me your news at nbauberger@yahoo. com. Till soon, Nicole.

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Up Close and Personal at the Kluane Chilkat

George Maratos enjoyed the scenery of the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay for 44 minutes and 34 seconds.

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BY GEORGE MARATOS ace Day, Saturday, June 25, 8:56 a.m.

As I stood over my bike, minutes before the start of the 13th Annual Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay, I began to ponder what exactly I had got myself into.

Here I was surrounded by cyclists of all ages who, so it seemed, were all decked out in a rainbow of lycra and equipped with high-end racing bikes.

Both sides of the highway were lined with spectators and fans holding cameras, waiting in anticipation for the official race starter’s signal to send myself and 60 others riding on our way.

Months earlier, agreeing to be a member of “The TYPOS”, an eightperson mixed team of Whitehorse media types, it seemed like a good

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idea ... something that might even be fun.

But now, just moments before the race start and ensuing sprint across the Dezdeash River Bridge, I admit I was second-guessing my decision.

“How serious was this race?” was the question that kept pinballing through my head.

That and the regret that I didn’t purchase some padded spandex bike shorts, which, although uncomfortably constrictive, were obviously the thing to do.

Fortunately, just as my anxiety was coming to a boiling point, the sea of spandex parted and I noticed a t-shirt and nine wonderful words of comfort.

“THE BIKE IS JUST THE VEHICLE TO THE PARTY.” Minutes later, the horn sounded

and we were off.

“This wasn’t so bad,” I thought to myself.

Then, just minutes into the race, the first mishap occurred.

A friend I had planned to race with began to slow down.

“I can’t go on,” he shouted, as the sound of metal rubbing against tire filled the air.

“I can’t go on!” I thought.

What about the drafting we had planned? The slow start we had talked about, the late surge to the finish line.

What now?

Turns out the bike he had borrowed was a dud.

Although initially envious that he didn’t have to peddle the 19 kilometres, I soon realized how fortunate I was to be taking part in the race.

I was using terms like “head wind” and “camelback” and “drafting” with complete strangers, I was a cyclist, at least for 44 minutes and 34 seconds that Saturday morning.

By the time my teammates and I arrived in Haines, just over 10 hours later, I had developed a new appreciation for the Kluane Chilkat Bike Relay and all that goes along with participating in it.

It is a remarkable feeling to hear fellow teammates and racers scream your name, wave pompoms and honk their car horns as you cycle by them and attempt to put on your best I-am-Lance-Armstrong-and-this-is-easy face.

And cycling into each checkpoint and seeing what seemed like dozens of volunteers, reflective vests in hand, shouting out bib numbers or controlling traffic.

And realizing that spandex really does help and that the St. Elias Mountain Range is one of the most beautiful sights you will ever see, let alone cycle through.

And gaining new admiration for cyclist Jonah Clarke and the 20 other competitors who completed the entire 260-kilometre race by themselves.

But most of all, for the rewarding feeling of conquering some-

Running Fast, Thinking Faster

ure, you have to run fast; but three Yukoners will have to think fast as well when they go up against the world’s best in Japan next month.

The World Orienteering Championship, Aug. 7 to 14, tests the speed of runners as they navigate a forest with the use of a map.

“You have to think quickly,” says Pam James, one of the runners. “You have to visualize the terrain and you do all of this while you are running.

“You do it all on the fly.”

She will be joining Pippa McNeil and Brent Langbakk at the competition in a land much closer to the equator than the Yukon. It is expected to be hot and humid.

To prepare, some of them have been wearing extra clothes

A fund-raising event will help (from left) Pippa McNeil, Brent Langbakk and Pam James attend the World Orienteering Championship to be held in Japan in early August. Registration for the Whitehorse Adventure Run begins at 9:00 a.m. on July 9 at the Chadburn Lake Ski Trails.

while running, says James. And McNeil and Langbakk will go to Japan a couple of weeks early to acclimatize.

Langbakk competed at the world championship in Switzerland two years ago and McNeil has competed four times before.

James has competed at the world level eight times and her best performance was 20th in 1999 in Scotland.

She isn’t concerned about getting older — “One medal winner last year was 43,” she says happily — it just means she is gaining more experience. And experience is very important when so many decisions have to be made while running.

It is a dynamic sport when shorter distances require the competitors to run quicker and think quicker, too.

Even so, James refuses to trash talk runners who only need

to find their way around an oval track. All she will say is, “Running on a trail is so much more interesting.”

July 9 would actually be a good time to prove this point. That is the date of the Whitehorse Adventure Run which is being held to help raise money for the three Yukoners to compete in the championship in Japan.

Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. at the Chadburn Lake Ski Trails.

Although the three have purchased their plane tickets already, they still have to pay the approximate $600 registration fee and meals and accommodation while they are over there.

Information is available at www.yukonorienteering.ca or by phoning Langbakk at 668-7767.

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It was great to see my teammates grind their way through each kilometre of their leg, their eyes wincing as they attempted to climb another hill, all without complaining.

Congratulations to Team TYPO - Tim, Sue, Leighann, Kelly, Danny, Graeme and Trish -- and our 181st placing.

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Horse Show is Fun and Friendly

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he Summer Horse Show is gaining a reputation for being a fun and friendly event.

One Outside judge from last year, a seasoned judge with lots of events to compare with, says it was the most fun he’s had at an event.

Vibeke Coates, the president of the Yukon Horse and Rider Association, has a theory about that: “Yukon horse people are so enthusiastic and they love to learn things.”

This year’s horse show will be the association’s 26th and will be four days of events beginning the evening of July 14 at the Horse Show Grounds near Porter Creek on the road leading to Mountain View Golf Course.

Coates says the show begins with the Halter Classes that are more than just a beauty contest for horses. It looks more at “how they are put together for the job they are asked to do.”

Saturday will be English riding and Sunday it will be Western.

The most fun for the spectators will be Friday evening’s games of barrel races and pole bending.

Saturday afternoon will see jumping events. But Coates says Saturday morning is exciting, too, as the riders and horses are all cleaned up and dressed nicely to show off for the judges.

Coates says there are already 19 riders registered from Juneau – “They are very keen” – and will be taking the ferry to get here.

Others are expected from most of the Yukon communities and Atlin and Alaska.

All of the events are free for spectators.

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Summer Hockey to Give Players an Edge

What’s UP in SPORTS & FITNESS WHITEHORSE VeloNorth Cycling Club www.velonorth.ca July 7 Rec Event at 7 pm. at bottom of Grey Mountain.

July 13 Road Event at 7 pm at Takhini Gas at Hotsprings Road and Mayo Road.

July 14 Rec Event at 7 pm at bottom of Grey Mountain.

July 16 and 17 Extreme Downhill Event at 10 am for expert riders only.

July 17 Road Event at 10 am at the top of Robert Service Way. Route to follow Tour de Whitehorse.

July 21 Rec Event at 7 pm at bottom of Grey Mountain.

July 29 Road Event at 7 pm at go kart track at bottom of the South Access.

Tour de Whitehorse hill climb.

July 30 Tour De Whitehorse Time Trials at 10 am starting on Alaska Highway at junction of Carcross Road.

July 31 Tour De Whitehorse Road Race at 10 am starting at the Rest Area at the top of the South Access.

July 10 Whitehorse Adventure Race starting at 9 am at Chadburn Lake Ski Trails. Info: www. yukonorienteering.ca.

July 14 to 18 Canadian Orienteering Championships.

July 14 to 17 Dustball International Slo-Pitch Tournament. Info: 667-4487.

July 14 to 17 Annual Horse Show at Horse Show Grounds.

July 16 10 km Road Race Championships at 8:30 am behind Tourism Information Centre.

Info: Don White at 633-5671.

July 24 Mt. Lorne Mis-Adventure Cross Country Run at 10 am. Info: Sue MacKinnon Dunn at 668-7814.

July 30 2005 Coca-Cola

Championship Golf Tournament at Mountain View Golf Course. Info: 633-6020 or mvgc@yknet.yk.ca.

August 7 Yukon River Trail Marathon at Rotary Peace Park. Info: 668-4091.

August 13 to 15 14th Annual Yukon River Bathtub Race. Info: 667-2148.

August 21 Long Lake Trail Triathlon at Long Lake. Info: Rick Janowicz 668-2858.

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Tuesday Night 5 km Fun Run/Walk Event every Tuesday at 6:30 pm at FH Collins Secondary School.

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Judo Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:10 to 7:30 pm at Wood Street Annex. Info: Vic at 633-5814.

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BY GEORGE MARATOS ummer is only a few weeks old and already the focus for some has turned to ice hockey.

Three certified Whitehorse hockey coaches are hoping to get a jump start on the upcoming season.

Duane Shewfelt, along with Canada and Arctic Winter Games Coaches Mike Young and Joe Martin, are running a summer-long hockey camp aimed at improving players’ dry-land skills.

In short, they want to make young Yukon hockey players stronger, quicker and more agile.

“We want to develop their reflexes, cardio-vascular and core,” said Young. “In hockey you don’t necessarily need to have great cardio, but the better shape you are in, the better the player you’ll be.”

The camp is unique in that there is more time spent off the ice then on.

Instructors say camp attendees can expect a lot of work on fitness with long distance running, sprints, push-ups and sit-ups.

Players will also develop their anaerobic skills.

Ice lovers not to worry, there will be on-ice sessions as well near the tail end of the camp.

In total, there will be 12 hours of dry-land sessions and 9 hours of on-ice training.

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Shewfelt says a camp of this kind is long overdue in the Yukon and is necessary in order to ensure players from the territory remain competitive with players down south.

“There’s a definite lack of something like this in the Yukon for kids,” explains Shewfelt. “When Yukon players go out to a junior camp they’re competing against other youth who have played summer hockey who really haven’t stopped playing all year.

“Here our ice is taken out right at the end of the season. This camp is to give the kids that edge back.”

Shewfelt says due to the times the training sessions will be running, Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., the camp is mainly geared towards Whitehorse youth.

The coach says all bantam and midget level players are welcome though.

“If kids from the communities want to come in too, that’d be great,” said Shewfelt.

Camp organizers are offering a drop-in fee of $10 if players from outside Whitehorse can only make a few sessions and don’t want to pay the whole fee.

Shewfelt feels the camp is an excellent opportunity for young players to develop their game and, because it’s being held locally, it

does not involve the high travel costs.

“We’re going to teach the players all the expertise and personal training we’ve picked up during our hockey careers and through school,” said Shewfelt. “We just really want to help these kids out.”

Training sessions are Tuesday and Thursdays from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Takhini Arena.

For more information call 668-4192 or 668-2232.

My greatest sports moment ...

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From the cycling of Leg 4, to the incredible scenery, it was an amazing event.

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Take a Ride Up Memory Lane with Chris Wheeler

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he last few columns I’ve written have all been about hikes close to each other.

This is no coincidence as one good hike — or bike — often leads to another.

Our last bike trip took us down the quarry road near Lobird and as we rode along we passed the track to McLean Lake. I remember saying to my wife, “That’s a place I haven’t been in years. Maybe we should do that trail next weekend.” As it turned out she agreed and that brings us to this week’s outing.

Beginning at the airport parking lot, getting to McLean Lake really isn’t that far, but it makes a refreshing outing. The ride along the highway is so straight forward that you’ll likely want to turn onto the Lobird road just south of Hillcrest; it’s a calorie burner that can be taken as slow or as fast as you want without the bother of highway traffic. Eventually you pass Lobird and head back down towards the highway before turning right onto the quarry road and then left onto the McLean Lake track. That’s where, for me, the fun begins.

We didn’t bring the kids this week. I asked but they weren’t eager and, for a change, I thought,

“What the heck.”

As it turned out this was probably a good idea as it gave my wife and I some time to reminisce.

The McLean Lake Road, like a forgotten smell newly encountered, brought back lots of memories. Although we live quite close by, the last time I’d ventured here was back in ‘84 or ‘85 on my way to an art event featuring a manned swan navigating the lake — and the mosquitoes — while live music played until after dark. Does anyone else remember that?

Anyway, on this day, we were riding our bikes and enjoying the sunshine. Seeing a new sign about a future batch plant on an otherwise largely unchanged trail reminded me about how I explored all these back roads as a teenager. In those days (the late ‘70’s), I was much more likely to be driving my go-anywhere original VW Bug than a quiet envirovehicle like my bicycle. I’m happy to say, and so is my wife, that I’m much more responsible and less prone to excursions with internal combustion than I once was.

Now, our quiet ride took us to the edge of McLean Lake. Except for the sound of water pouring into the lake from a nearby stream, it was absolutely serene.

We stood there with our bikes for a few minutes talking about old times, mine and hers, and listening to nature’s voice. After a while I said, “You know, we should bring the kids here sometime and have a picnic.”

“That’s a great idea!” she replied. “Maybe we could bring the canoe and paddle around the lake as well.” In the back of my

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mind, I was thinking how great it was to rediscover such a beautiful place so close to my back door.

I was also thinking about that

future batch plant and how important it is to share these places with others before they disappear or change forever.

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Dust Set to Fly for 22nd Year

BY GEORGE MARATOS sk any slo-pitch player in the Yukon what their favourite part of the summer is and you will likely hear the same answer: Dustball.

In fact, the same can probably be said for many Alaskans.

Held annually in the Yukon capital city for over 20 years, the

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tournament sees teams from all over the Yukon and Alaska take part.

Umpires from Victoria and Vancouver even flock north for the popular weekend, set to begin July 14.

“It started 22 years ago as just an invitational tournament with four or five teams and that lasted a couple of years,” said Softball Yukon Executive Director George Arcand. “Then it just seemed to get bigger and bigger and bigger.”

These days the four-day tournament attracts close to 70 teams.

“It’s become the big trip to come to in Juneau,” explains Arcand. “They come not just for the ball, but the barbecue and dance.”

Arcand says the American teams are good for the tournament and the City of Whitehorse itself.

It is estimated Dustball generates close to $300,000 in revenue for the city.

“It’s a social thing,” said Arcand. “When they come to the city they’re going to golf, they’re going to shop and they’re going to take part in the tournament and the dance.”

Dustball has gained such a strong reputation that other popular events held in the territory have catered their schedule around it.

The Dawson City Music Festival is now held a week after the tournament and the now defunct rodeo also used to adjust its days.

While Dustball is a great social event, it is also arguably the north’s most competitive.

For some Juneau teams how they place in the Dustball tournament is used in the ranking of their teams going to the National Championships.

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For 64-year old Dustball veteran Norman Blanchard, who has played in all 22 Dustballs, it is all about the competition.

“Beating the Americans,” a smiling Blanchard puts simply, when asked why he plays each year.

As for Arcand, seeing all the hard work and the almost 1,000 players on the diamond is his icing on the cake.

“Just to see it happen,” Arcand said. “All the work we put into it is sometimes frustrating, but to see it unfold and teams vying for the championships on Sunday is awesome.”

Magic From the Hands of a Clock

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very common problem I deal with is that golfers have difficulty with less than full

shots.

Most of these problems arise in the 50 to 100-yard range and are caused by trying to hit the shot softly. This usually causes deceleration of the club head.

In order to hit any shot crisply, the opposite is true. The club head needs to accelerate or speed up through impact. This is

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very difficult if we are trying to hit the ball less than our normal distance.

There are two easy ways to hit it crisp but shorter. The first is to simply take a shorter grip on the club and swing normally. By making the club smaller, or, more correctly, reducing the amount of leverage, we cannot hit the ball as far with our normal swing.

The second, a touch of magic, is a little more difficult and requires considerably more practice.

Think of controlling these shots by working the hands of a clock. The hour hand is the centre of your swing and is fixed at 6 o’clock. In other words, the centre of your swing remains constant.

The range of your hands will now

control the distance based on the size of your backswing and follow through.

For example a backswing to 9 o’clock with a follow through to 3 o’clock will produce a carry distance of X yards.

The 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock will produce a carry of a little farther.

All of you southpaws just reverse the numbers.

Believe me, if you can control the hands of the clock it can be magic.

Have fun, and until next time, keep it on the short stuff.

Greg Wagstaff is a C.P.G.A. professional at Mountain View Golf Course. For more information and a list of events, please visit www.mountainviewgolf.ca

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