The WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012 • VOL. 23, NO.6 $1.25 DCMF & Moosehide were great, but there's KLONDIKE more yet to come. SUN DCMF - from Start to Finish The TH Singers kick off the Festival and everyone chimes in for the Finale. Photos by Dan Davidson in this Issue Moosehide Gathering 3 & 21 DCMF Coverage 6 & 7 Art Gate at Bear Creek 8 Come check out our Wet weather fails to dampen spirits When the music's over - strike the Bear Creek inspires an art show at great selection of sale at Moosehide. tent. the Confluence. books $9.99 or less! Slinky to pay damages 3 Dawson Blooms 9 Bookends - Killer Aps 18 Kids' Corner 22 Uffish Thoughts 4 TV Guide 10 -14 My Yukon Story, Part 3 19 Classifieds 23 About those Pipelines 5 20 Years Ago 15 School Lunches for Tanzania 21 City of Dawson 24 P2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012 THE KLONDIKE SUN T What to The Midnight Sun Hotel LIVE MUSIC NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT: SEE AND DO : Sunday: Yukon Brewing Open Mic Night, 10 p.m. in DAWSON now: Tuesday: Toonie Tuesdays in the Tavern, 10 p.m. Wednesday: Ladies Night Karaoke Contest, 10 p.m. Thursday: Yukon Brewing Open Mic Night, 10 p.m. Friday: The Klondike Sons, live music in the Lounge 5 to 8 p.m. This free public service helps our readers find their way through Saturday: Karaoke Night in the Lounge, dj's and dancing in the pub the many activities all over town. Any small happening may Sunday:The Westminster Soul Sunday featuringHotel the Soul Sunday Band, 10 p.m. need preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this listing contact the office at klondikesun@northwestel. LIVE MUSIC net.Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) : FAMILY COFFEE HOUSE & OPEN MIC: Wednesdays in the Lounge: Amy Soloway Saturdays in the Tavern: George and His Friends Coming in September. Time and IN THE CONFLUENCE GALLERY: Tangled - Place to be announced. Regular live entertainment in the lounge on Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. to close. More live entertainment in the Tavern on Fridays from by Karen Thomas. Ends Au 4:30The p.m.Downtown to 8:30 p.m. Hotel gust 12. A collection of illustrations piecing together glimpses of people RAE SPOON LIVE IN CONCERT AT THE ODD FELLOWS BALLROOM: in time and place. LIVE MUSIC : Barnacle Bob is in the Sourdough Saloon every Thursday, Sunday, August 12 at 8 p.m. $10 in advance/$12 at the door. Rae Spoon The Eldorado Hotel DANCE FOR KIDS WITH MICHELLE OLSEN: - Friday and Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. is a transgenered musician and author who lives in Montreal. Kids' creative dance. Sat OPEN STUDIO: urdays 10-10:30 (Ages 3-4), 10:45-11:30 (Ages 4-7) until August 11. Food Service Hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. Check out our Daily Lunch Specials. In a rush at lunch? Call ahead and we'll have Saturdays, 1-4 p.m. FREE. Inspire and be inspired by your order ready when you arrive, 993-5451. Breakfast is served until other artists. Bring your own projects and supplies. Enter through the LIFE DRAWING AT SOVA: 1:30Klondike p.m. on Kate's weekends. ODD Gallery. No instruction offered. 7-9 p.m., Mondays (August 13, August 27). $5 drop in. Paper will be available for purchase and basic drawing tools ZUMBA WITH KATIE PEARSE: - Now open daily! Monday to Saturday, Lunch 11:30 to 3 p.m., and are provided. Dinner 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday Bruch 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dinner 5 p.m. Mondays 6:30-7:30 p.m., and Wednes toDawson 10 p.m. DailyCity HappyChamber Hour of 5 to Commerce 6 p.m.! & Town Council LUNCH HOUR YOGA WITH CARA CLARK: days 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Odd Fellows Ballroom. $10 drop in fee. CHAMBER MEETINGS: Fridays and Mondays, 12-1 CONFLUENCE GALLERY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : - Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of p.m. $8 drop in. All levels welcome. COUNCIL MEETINGS: each month at the Downtown Hotel. DCAS Member Ex Regular meetings on the second and fourth hibit. Works of art in all mediums by all ages and abilities. Participating Wednesday of each month. Special Meeting times are posted at the Post artists should be a member of the DCAS. Deadline: Friday, August 10 at THE SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT: ParksOffice three Canada business days in advance. Posted meetings are public. 8:30 p.m. For info contact Ange at [email protected]. - DREDGE NO.4: Become a DIY Recording Artist! Fee: by donation. August 11 @ KIAC from 2-4 p.m. August 16-19 @ Yukon Riv Hourly tours starting at 10 a.m., last tour at 3:30. French tour ersideSOVA Arts Festival Performace of Works. atGREATEST 2:30 p.m. KLONDIKE CONTEST: OFFICE HOURS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 2:30 S.S. KENO: LIBRARY HOURS p.m. at the Palace Grand - come vote for your favorite! : Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ROBERT SERVICE:Open daily, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. : Tues & Weds, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Sun, 1 p.m. to 5 ART SUPPLY STORE CLOSED - (Starting June 16th) daily at 1 p.m. and Tues, Thurs, Sat, p.m. SunCOMMISSIONER'S evenings at 7 p.m. RESIDENCE: : Art supplies may be purchased dur Conservation Klondike Society Open daily in the afternoons (2-5pm on ing office hours. Tues, Thurs, Sat & Sun, 4-5pm on Mon, Wed, Fri) Watch this year for Klondike DEPOT HOURS VisionariesSTRANGE TwhoHIN willGS beTOWN stopping TOUR: in to tell you about their cause! Tombstone Territorial Park Daily at 9:30am, 7pm on Mon, Wed. Fri. : Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundablesYukon College may be left on the deck during off hours. Info: 993-6666. A SEDIMENTAL JOURNEY: August 10-12. A Weekend celebrating geology The Fall 2012 Distance Learning calendar is available. Drop by the office to through science, art, nature and music. Dawsonpick up a copy City - the Recreation computer lab isDepartment open to the public during business hours. For a full listing of events and weekly interpretive programs, visit http://www. Miscellaneousenv.gov.yk.ca/parksconservation/tombstonepark.php CELEBRATION OF LIFE: Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www. cityofdawson.ca. Facebook: "City of Dawson Recreation". Contact us at Russ Richardson. August 19, 2-4 p.m. @ YOOP. 993-2353. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012 P3 Moosehide Gathering Drenched but Placer Miner Ordered to Pay Damages to Dawson Not Dispirited at Thursday Night By Ainslie Cruickshank, Whitehorse Star, July 23 - Opening lowance is imposed on them propriate and unfair. By Dan Davidson under the act. - “The fair and proper proce Carey’s defence was that his dure would have been to raise- by leading out the Tr’ondëk The Yukon Supreme Court has Yukon Water Board licence re the new issue of s. 18(1) or Hwëch’in Singers, who provided ordered a Dawson City miner to quired a leave strip of between the request to file a new argu Even the most careful several numbers to welcome pay the town between $28,222 only 10 and 15 metres from the ment at case management, so planning cannot dictate what the visitors and citizens to the and $46,890 in damages for a- centre of each road. that each party could prepare the weather will bring to the gathering. trespass claim filed in 2010. Veale found that “the miner arguments to address the new party, andth opening evening of As they concluded their set But Dawson will be respon cannot rely upon the Water Use issue,” he says in the decision the 11 Moosehide Gathering of tunes the rain let up and sible for its own legal fees. Licences and their leaves strip document. - may end up going down in ended, and the crowd was The town brought the action conditions to operate within Section 18(1) of the Placer- history as the wettest ever, as able to go outside for the flag against Darrel Carey, an area the 60-metre right-of-way of Act maintains that a miner can the sky opened up and delivered raising ceremony (with a 12 placer miner and owner of the- the roads.” - not enter on lands legally oc a wind driven downpour. gun salute from the Rangers) Slinky mine. Veale notes in his decision cupied by someone else “until Small tents were overturned and the lighting of the sacred Carey’s mine falls within mu that the Waters Act says “noth adequate security is given, to and large canopies rocked fire, which is intended to burn nicipal boundaries. It includes ing in this act, the regulations, the satisfaction of the mining with the wind, while a crew of through the weekend. portions of two highways, or a licence authorizes a person- recorder for any loss or damage drenched workers struggled in There followed a series of the Dome Road and the Mary to contravene or fail to comply that may be caused.” vain to erect a canvas tent for speeches by local and visiting McLeod Road. with any other act or any regu “There is little doubt here that the children to play in. dignitaries: Chief Taylor, According to the decision- lation or order made under it, the city is in lawful occupation Opening ceremonies intended Allison Kormendy & Kyrie document released last week except as provided in that other of the Dome Road and the Mary for the open space in front of the Nagano, Deputy Chief and Elder by Justice Ron Veale, Carey re- act, regulation, or order.” - McLeod Road,” Veale says in his Arbour were moved inside, and Clara (Sis) Van Bibber, Council moved trees and organics from Dawson was awarded $2,200- original decision document.