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See you in few weeks, West KLONDIKE Dawson! SUN Ferry Makes Final Trip of the Year
Workers grease the rails (left) and people gather (right) to watch the George Black Ferrry get hauled from the Yukon River (top). Story on page 2. Photos by Dan Davidson. in this Issue SOVA on Local Art 10 Wasting Time with Tom King 20 New Hospital Design 24 Blooming Tea is SOVA students reflect on Dawson's Tom King goes toe to toe with What will our new hospital look public art. Gramma Susie. like? back at Max’s!
The Ferry is Out 2 The Summer Reviewed 6 TV Guide 14 History's Shady Underbelly 22 Hospital Updates 3, 5 Hoy on FASD 7 Authors on 8th 20 Blast From the Past 23 Uffish Thoughts 4 Sewer Plant Update 8 Stewed Prunes 16 Kids' Page 26 P2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN
What to Dawson City Recreation Department Gymnastics with terrie is back! : SEE a n d DO A six week session will run Wednesdays, October 19 to November 23. $45 for the session. Instruction for ages 5+. Register through the Rec Office beginning October 3. Contact 993- Pre-school Playgroup: in d a w s o n now: 2353. Indoor playgroup for parents and tots at Trinkle women and weights: This free public service helps our readers find their way through Zho. Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need Exercise program for women only in the weight Body blast: preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this room. Mondays and Wednesdays from Noon to 1 p.m. listingKlondike contact Institute the office of Artat [email protected]. and Culture (KIAC) Group fitness class combining cardio, full-body strength and november coffee house: core. RSS ancillary room. $2 drop in. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. to - Westminster Hotel Coffee House and Open Mike evenings are held 6:30 p.m. in the Oddfellows Ballroom on the first Saturday of each month from Septem ber to May. Next one is on Nov. 12. Proceeds go to a variety of worthy causes. Live music in the Tavern, Thursday through Saturday nights. In the lounge this Music and poetry both welcome. Contact Clive Betts for details or to get on the Kiac Christmas art fair: month: Friday nights with the Greasy Band, Saturday nights featuring special set list. guests.Dawson Music City starts Chamber at 10 p.m. of Commerce Save the date: Saturday, November 26. Tables will be available for artists and crafters to sell their wares. Stay tuned for more Community Library info.In the odd gallery: Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each month. CAITLIN ERSKINE-SMITH - Missives. Erskine- Klondike Visitors Association Smith's work examines the process of communication through woven Open Mon - Fri, noon to 6:30 p.m. pieces that play with language, filters, understanding, expression, and Trek over the Top: cloth. Many pieces incorporate texts painted directly on the warp and North America's most northern international thenConservation woven to create Klondike blurred Society messages. snowmobile Poker Run! Registration opens around October 21. If you want to Depot Hours be contacted by email once registation is ready, please contact kva@dawson. net, 1-877-456-3006. : Sat, Sun, Mon, Wed: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundables may be left on the deck during off hours. Info: 993-6666. The George Black Ferry Ends its Season Story and photo by Dan Davidson right around Remembrance Day that the first walkers made the crossing, and some time later It seemed early to some, but before skijorers, dog teams, the George Black Ferry came snow machines and finally light out of the river on October 27, trucks with ploughs were able two days later than last year, to get across. and around the same as it does It has not been really cold most years. Casting back over here yet, and that’s not a good the last few extractions, it’s sign for a fast freeze. It was been as late as November 2, but between -2 and -4 during the the timing is fairly normal. ferry extraction, and it only The projected layoff date for got slightly uncomfortable for the crew, hence the pullout date a short period when a breeze as well, was November 2. The made it seem colder. previously clear Yukon River The ferry made its last trip began to show floating panes of at noon on Thursday, and was fragile frazil ice on October 21 back on the Dawson side by and by the end of the weekend 12:15 p.m. It took some time to the growing number of cakes clear the decks of all the stuff were substantially thicker and that is best stored elsewhere for The boat spends the winter on this special pad, with cramped space underneath for workers to do hull maintenance in the spring. frosted icy white. the winter. Some early watchers The highways department went off to Riverwest to enjoy put people in West Dawson lunch on that establishment’s main purpose seemed to be crew in charge of the operation. their beaks. Now canola oil is and Sunnydale on a 24-hour next to last day for this season, to stabilize the boat while the Dozens of people come to quickly splashed on the rails alert notice, a sign to gather up and when they returned, the graders headed off down the watch the launch in the spring, and there’s not much more than supplies for an extended cut-off ferry had moved to its extraction dyke in opposite directions. but the extraction is a more a taste in that for the birds. from Dawson itself, or to finalize point and the cables and pulleys It takes two pulls to get the somber affair, marking the end The whole operation was arrangements for moving into were being sorted out. boat completely onto its winter of a season rather than the over slightly after 3 p.m. Now their temporary quarters on The big pull to get the ferry berth, and the cats anchored the beginning of summer. comes the wait for weather cold this side of the river. up onto the wooden rails George Black while the pulleys The most dispirited watchers enough to finish the job. It’s not After all, if you have a job in was accomplished by the two are reorganized for the second were probably the scattering certain how desperate the food Dawson, telling your employer graders, their power multiplied pull and the graders moved of ravens, which used to enjoy supply became on the west side you’re gong to take two or three many-fold by a complex block back into position. this day immensely when lard last winter, but it is known that weeks off while you wait for the and tackle system. Two heavy The operation was watched was used to grease the wooden there was at least one helicopter river to freeze solid so you can cats were used to provide by a shifting group of perhaps rails. They would swarm the delivery of additional beer. walk across doesn’t go over some extra power for the initial a dozen people, spectators operation in great numbers and well. Last year it wasn’t until pull out of the water, but their outnumbered by the highways fly off with lumps of the stuff in THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P3 NEWS Hospital Update Meeting Draws a Curious Crowd Story and photo by Dan Davidson Turner, MacGillivray and YHC aging spaces. chair Craig Tuton stick-handled The doctor’s clinic will be around this question. Even the in the hospital, along with an One of the purposes of PowerPoint slide simply stated in-patient and out-patient (or the recent visit of the Yukon the “Model of Nursing Care not retail) pharmacy, Again, this Hospital Corporation Board yet finalized”. happens now but in cramped meeting in Dawson was to bring As for the perennial question spaces. the community up to date on the about birthing in Dawson, the A dentist’s office will be progress and future plans for standard answer of “not at this included in the new centre. the new hospital building. time” was heard in a variety of There used to be one in the Most of this presentation was phrasings. It’s not impossible, current centre, but the space made by Maureen Turner, YHC’s and it could happen, but was taken over by nursing Director of Policy & Planning wouldn’t be intentional right services some years ago, and it and Joe MacGillivray, YHC’s now and it’s not likely seemed was relocated to the Old Court Chief Executive Officer, with to summarize the responses. House on Front Street. Dental highway. Asked about this, and essentially replaces, with the assistance of a PowerPoint The new hospital will provide services from a visiting dentist MacGillivray indicated that some additional units, the John presentation. 24/7 emergency services, out- are currently located in the hospital laundries have a very Korbo Apartment building on The new hospital will be patient services and will have purpose-renovated space in the exacting standard and that this Sixth Avenue, which is currently under the control of the six in-patient beds allowing south end of ndthe Dawson Plaza would be cheaper and more being demolished. hospital corporation, along for stabilization, observation complex on 2 Avenue. effective than building laundries Locals were interested in with Whitehorse General and and monitoring, as well as Other visiting specialists, of for the two satellite hospitals. having a Dawson member the facility in Watson Lake. The convalescent, respite, and whom the YHC intends there Supplies would be kept on appointed to the hospital Yukon government bears the palliative care; as well as acute should be a number annually, hand to allow for road closures corporation now that it was responsibility for recruiting detoxification, mental health will find they have spaces to due to cold weather, fires, and going to be managing health and paying doctors for all of intervention capability and work in at the hospital. washouts, all of which are known care in Dawson. these places. Other staff, some “other care as required”. Another addition to the to happen with regularity. At some distance down the of whom may be local hires, will The main difference between hospital will be an ambulance Just where all the new line the current Macdonald be handled by the YHC. this description and the present bay for one of the two units medical staff are supposed to Lodge seniors’ residence will There may be as many as Health Care Centre would be the based in town. Asked how it live remains a question that’s be replaced by a new building 40 staff associated with the in-patient beds and the 24/7 would be possible for nurse up in the air and one that the located on the site of the current Dawson facility, which is staff on duty. It is possible now practitioners to accompany hospital corporation leaves to health centre, At that point the to be open on a 24/7 basis to reach medical help at any the EMS volunteers on call the Yukon Housing Corporation buildings will be joined and with some staff on duty at all hour of the day, but it involves where there was a need, as to solve. The nurses’ quarters at be able to share a number of times. There will be an as yet contacting the Primary Health does happen now, questioners Fifth Avenue and Turner Street facilities and capabilities. undetermined number of nurses Care Nurse on-call, who will were disturbed to hear that is full and in need of repairs At the present time it is in addition to housekeepers and meet the patient at the centre. Watson lake currently handles and renovation. Four former anticipated that the new building administration staff. Overnight stays at the centre this important task by having social housing units on Seventh will be completed in September While the presentation spoke were possible 25 years ago, but some nursing staff act as EMS Avenue, which had been going 2012 and ready for occupancy mostly of Registered Nurses there have not been enough staff volunteers for this purpose. to be decommissioned, are now in November. The outside and Licenced Practical Nurses, to allow for this for many years. Both Dawson and Watson being renovated with an eye to estimate sees this happening by questions from a number of The new hospital will also Lake are expected to run on a becoming staff accommodation the late winter and early spring people among the 45 citizens feature a First Nations Health budget of around $4 million according to the former Minister of 2013. present made it clear that there Care Program, a laboratory, annually. for Yukon Housing, Steve Tuton and MacGillivray was an expectation that some limited medical imaging (x-rays), Laundry in both facilities will Nordick. Yukon Housing has assured the audience that they Primary Care Health Nurses (or dietetic services and therapies. be handled out of the specialty just opened a new apartment would be back to give another Nurse Practitioners) should still Many of these features are on- laundry at Whitehorse General, building on Turner Street, but progress report sometime early be on the staff roster. site now, but in limited and collected and delivered by it is for social housing needs in the New Year. THE KLONDIKE SUN In-Store Tel: Specials & 993-6567 Subscription & Renewal Form Fresh Coffee Fax: Name: every day! 993-5973 Address: European cheeses and Organic foods City: Province/ State: “It ain’t gold Our Specialties Postal/ Zip Code: Country: IN A RUSH? IN A HURRY? Email: but it’s close!” Check out our Deli with ALL KINDS of great snacks! 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my impressions of Mr. Silver’s as if the writers felt slightly won so convincingly in 2006. new faces in the Leg. that things campaign group (and I should desperate. The new Yukon Party are likely to be quite confused There were many things add that Sandy was a teaching Silver, on the other hand, has Government really is quite there for the time it takes them that were surprising about colleague until I retired three not been a major presence on new, with only Elaine Taylor to sort it all out. Maybe they’ll the recent territorial election, and a half years ago), a bunch of the local political scene in the remaining of the familiar faces play nice with each other for a which I watched fitfully from high energy, young talent, gave time he has lived here, being that used to flank Dennis Fentie. change. Ireland on day-old CBC and him good odds. better known as a teacher and Brad Cathers has been there I was not surprised by the Whitehorse Star items over the Bearing in mind that Mayor a musician (drummer, singer/ before, of course, but he’d been poor showing of the Yukon Internet. I haven’t been that Jenkins’ margin of victory in songwriter). His new career shut out of effective power since First Nations Party. It was disconnected from a territorial the last municipal election was will put a serious dent in his his flare-up with Fentie over a supremely bad idea that election since I first started a mere eight votes, I’m not sure musical aspirations. Perhaps he Yukon Energy, so he’s almost deserved not to gain a seat. writing about politics and it how much good it did the Yukon and Kevin Barr can jam together new. The Premier himself has There may be some outcry was an odd experience. Party to have him embrace Mr. when they’re not sparring in been doing what a lot of non- when people read that sentence, The Klondike’s outcome Nordick at quite so many public the Legislature. elected premiers have been but imagine the uproar if there did not entirely surprise me, events by sharing the stage For Arthur Mitchell to lose doing across the nation over were a Yukon Women’s Party or though it would have been less with him at every significant his seat to a Yukon Party novice the last six months, learning a Yukon Non-Natives Party? of a surprise a year earlier when opportunity and ribbon cutting was a surprise when I read of it the ropes and establishing When it comes to territorial I had members of the Yukon during the last six months. in Calgary on my way back home his presence. It seems to have politics it has to be everyone’s Party telling me, in confidence, Certainly the local party on the day after the election. worked. game and let the chips fall how entirely dissatisfied they faithful were concerned. Going It’s happened before, of course. It certainly appears that where they may. There are were with the incumbent. through my mail after getting The many-partied John Edzerza Liz Hanson was just what the enough First Nations voters to It had seemed likely to me that home, I found a couple of last upset NDP fortunes when he doctor ordered for the nearly assure that their candidates the massive influx of capital minute mass mailing letters ousted Piers MacDonald all moribund NDP, but she does could be elected (and a number projects and his final elevation signed by local Yukon Party those years ago. Redistribution have a lot of new people to work of them have been in most to a ministerial post might supporters attempting to stave was probably a factor there, with as well, Lois Moorcroft recent elections) but race is a have improved Mr. Nordick’s off defeat here. They read since Mitchell wasn’t running in being her most experienced poor criterion for deciding how Lchancesetter of holdingto the the seat,Editor: but exactly the same riding he had member. There are so many to cast a ballot. Dear Editor:
community and someone in Dawson would be interested in contributing? I also look I'm starting up an online magazine called "Yukon Adventure Magazine" and at this site as a way for communities to come together and share what is happening I'm looking for contributors from all over the Yukon. I'm based just outside of throughout the year. I hope to eventually be able to pay writers for their contributions. Whitehorse (halfway to Haines Junction). Stacie Zaychuk I've always thought we've lacked a venue to share the many adventures Yukoners Thanks for your time! (and others) go on - from hiking, to paddling, to dog mushing, to fishing, exploring, etc, I want to cover it all. I would LOVE to have representation from every [email protected] or [email protected]. Editor's Note:
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THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P5 NEWS The Yukon Hospital Corporation Touts its Achievements Story and photo by Dan Davidson line with the corporation’s goals of locating services as close to source of patients as possible Following what Yukon Hospital and making it possible for more Chair Craig Tuton said was a patients to spend their hospital board policy, the YHC brought time closer to home. it’s annual general meeting to Of the project in Watson Dawson City on October 19, Lake he said that some savings filling the Downtown Hotel had been realized by reusing conference room with about 45 the metal frame left from the locals who came to hear what government’s abortive hospital the corporation, which will project there. Dawson, with its begin running medical services Historic Advisory Committee, in town when the new hospital presented the corporation with is finished in late 2012 or early some difficult challenges in terns 2013, had to say for itself. of design and construction. The meeting broke neatly into Crocus Ridge, the new visiting for the purchase of an MRI Both Tuton and MacGillivray the latter three areas as being two sections, the first dealing fourphysicians’ residence, was - (Magnetic resonance imaging) highlighted the corporation’s useful in meeting the challenge with the overall business of the opened during the year. This machine for the hospital is so status as one of the Top 100 in this competitive area. corporation and the second with story facility provided 34 far ahead in its progress that it Employers in Canada, selected Adeline Webber, the chair local issues. This article deals units for staff and physician may be possible to purchase the from a possible list of 2.750 of the First Nations Health with the first part. accommodation and also machine in two years instead of organizations across the Committee, presented a brief Tuton dominated the first provided a new home for the three. country. overview of that program, noting half of the meeting with his Yukon’s Dept. of Health and In that case, Tuton said, the Last August the YHC finalized that it was one of the areas overview of the corporation’s Social Services on the first and YHC would have to make sure a new four-year collective that had received honourable year. Many of the points on second floors. there was a proper space in agreement with its staff that mention by Accreditation which he touched were also The corporation also worked which to use the machine, and will run until 2014. Whitehorse Canada. part of the CEO’s report from with government departments YTG has agreed to assist with General Hospital’s successful “We continue to offer Joe MacGillivray, which left the over the last year to restore that cost. accreditation review was Traditional Medicine latter with very little to say the Thomson Centre to its Meanwhile, x-rays taken completed in May and will also awareness for patients; Cross when it came his turn. originally intended function as a in Watson Lake can now be be in force until 2014. Cultural workshops for Board Tuton began with the continuing care facility. sent out digitally to be read in MacGillivray acknowledged members, staff and physicians; corporation’s expansion into The corporation and its Whitehorse, while really crucial that recruiting and retention and traditional meals for in- Watson Lake and Dawson City, support group, the Yukon images can be assessed by of medical professionals patients.” noting that this report marks Hospital Foundation, have radiologists in Edmonton using remain challenges for the The program is offered in the first full year of the YHC’s worked hard to improve medical the same system. In some cases corporation, as they have been both Whitehorse and Watson running of the Watson Lake imaging facilities at Whitehorse this could mean a turn around for the government. He sees the Lake and will be part of the new facility. New buildings are under General, and a proposed three time of 15-20 minutes. corporation’s achievements in offerings in Dawson. construction in both towns, in year campaign to raise money The Wall Thank you Klondike! Thanks to the residents of the Klondike Speaks for their support and for sharing their Photos by visions for our community with me. Dan Davidson Thanks to all the dedicated campaign volunteers for an amazing team e ort. I look forward to working with you!
Sandy Silver Contact numbers: Dawson: 993- 5318 Whitehorse: 336-4367 P6 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN Staffing and Transporation Stand Out as Summer Requirements
Story and photos by Dan Davidson many people are on more than spaces at the Dawson City River area was out there and people Weigers says one of the new one volunteer board, putting in Hostel and, at once point there had already made their travel tag lines for KVA advertising is their time there as well as their was a substantial tent city full of plans based on the earlier “ More to see and do than any An assessment of last summer regular jobs. mining exploration workers out information. Northern town.” This is not to in Dawson probably depended a In terms of tourism, the at the Bonanza Gold Hotel and There are places to stay in say there more here than in a lot on what sort of business you KVA’s corporate members and RV Park. Chicken if you are camping or bigger city, but just to emphasize were in, and whether you could chamber members described a That said, there are still tenting, and there are a limited the positive. find the staff you needed to run bit of a roller coaster, depending people living in some very number of non-camping options The Top of the World/Taylor it. on the business. Tourism low rent conditions around there as well, so the KVA has Highway has a mixed reputation. Staffing shortages were a seemed to have been flat for town and this fall has seen the plans to include mention of Some are attracted by the idea widespread problem during some businesses, but up for departure of a number of valued those options in its advertising of its ruggedness and others are the summer, causing some others. Goldbottom Tours contributors to the community for next year, just to help scared off. businesses to go on reduced reported a good summer. The who were leaving town after a travellers plan. “Adventure motorcycle riders hours or take days off when their Klondike Spirit portion of the couple of years worth of house The better solution, however, are like ‘I’m doin’ the Top of the overworked owners burned out Triple J Hotel business reported sitting assignments. and one supported at chamber World!’, “ said Weigers,” but from the stress and needed a low numbers. Ground transportation meetings throughout the your … traveller in an RV is more break. On the other hand, several between Dawson and summer, is to lobby the federal like ‘ahhh . … I dunno if I wanna General weariness may also hotels, including the Triple J, Whitehorse, or even between government to persuade the do this road’.” been behind the cancellation of were well booked with television Dawson and the airport, USA to reconsider its border If they’re not doing the Top of this year’s fall tourism roundup crews, mining exploration crews continues to be a major issue. hours. the World, she says, then they’re as a separate focussed meeting and construction crews, and so Guests at the hotels can count The discussion also revealed not coming to Dawson, so the of involved businesses, Instead, had a pretty decent season. The on a van ride to the airport, the fact that Dawson’s KVA is trying to do a better the discussion was rolled Aurora Inn, which just catered but there hasn’t been a regular advertising doesn’t promote job of describing exactly what into the monthly chamber of to visitors, reported a better shuttle service since Gold City the town as a place where there awaits the traveller there. It can commerce meeting on October year than the last two had been. Tours closed down, As for are things for kids to do, which be exciting, but it doesn’t have 12. Diamond Tooth Gerties seemed buses, the only ones travelling may have an impact on families to be scary. Both Rachel Weigers (Klon- to have been about the same as the Klondike Highway are tour planning vacations. There "Take your time. Slow down. dike Visitors Assoc.) and Evelyn last year. coaches and that does nothing are hikes, gold panning trips, Relax. Also, that’s another Pollock (Chamber) felt that Tourism, said Weigers, seems for other types of travellers. summer recreation programs reason to push Chicken as a this might have been a useful to be flat, and has been for The Klondike Development and the pool, as well as spaces in quirky little place to visit along change, since the 27 businesses a couple of years, no doubt Organization is looking into the arts programming provided the way.” that were represented at this influenced by the sluggish options to solve this problem, by the Klondike Institute of Art meeting gave more than just a economy since 2008. but this is still in the investigative and Culture. tourism perspective. Pollock said that the stages. Comments from the Visitors’ “You heard from not only consensus seemed to be that it Chamber and KVA members Information Centre revealed hoteliers and restaurant was a good summer when you reported that reduced hours of that many people get here owners,” said Pollock. “You put everything together. Parks service at the Top of the World/ without realizing how much heard from construction Canada reported an increase in Taylor Highway crossing had a there is to see and do, and that workers, Chief Isaac and mining its numbers. Both grocery stores definite effect on Dawson. The many of then say they would exploration.” spent a busy summer supplying 6 p.m. closing on the Alaska side have planned a longer stay had That staffing was a major issue mining camps. caused a fair number of hotel they known. The owners at the was true across the board, no Staff housing continues to cancellations here in town when Goldrush Campground have matter what the business was. be an issue to go along with travellers found that they would reported the same comment Weigers said that a lot of KVA staffing. The Bunkhouse, be stranded at customs. over the summer. meetings over the summer had originally built as a hostel, This year, the announcement Weigers and Pollock agreed Assisting Yukon film and video to be done by phone or email seems to have taken up some of of border hour reductions only that it is a challenge for their professionals in developing because the members were just the slack as a place for summer came from the two federal two organizations to figure out careers and businesses. too busy to get away. workers to live, but they were governments in May, long after how to get that message out Next application deadline: The nature of the town is that also filling up tenting and other the print advertising for the there even more than they do. December 1, 4:00 p.m.
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Story and photo by Dan Davidson lives, creating dysfunctional Many of the symptoms of to be looked at carefully. The with another literary analysis families and communities where FASD are similar to those that diagnosis has political and in 2010 when she dared to the damage spans generations. may be found in people with social implications as well as suggest that AnneAnne Shirley, of Green the Until fairly recently it was FASD is one of the legacies of attention deficit hyperactivity implications for treatment. Gablesbeloved redheaded orphan from considered politically correct this system, but Hoy says the disorder (ADHD) or some forms Looking at Alexie’s novel, she the 1908 novel not to talk too much about prevalence of the syndrome of autism. says he describes communities , showed the same sort fetal alcohol spectrum disorder amongst natives is where inebriation to of symptoms of hyperactivity, (FASD), but Helen Hoy, a perhaps not so great the point of rational fearlessness (often a result of professor of English at Guelph as it is stereotypically incapacity is routine. At an inability to connect cause University, feels it needs to be thought to be. There are one point a character and effect), flashes of anger discussed in a larger context, other conditions, some says his group is “out of and tangential behavior as do and not simply as it might apply of them psychological beer and out of common FASD victims. Online reactions to First Nations people. and some social that sense” which he identifies to published stories about this In her lecture at the Dänojà can lead to the same as “normal” for his town. theory on CBC.ca and MacLean’s PorcupinesZho Cultural and Centre China on DollsOctober sort of bizarre and self- Hoy says she has seen online were extreme, to say the 18, Hoy used the 2002 novel defeating behavior. statistics that indicate least. , by Hoy’s interest in this drinking is less prevalent As with the Alexie novel, she Robert Arthur Alexie, to address condition was sparked among natives than it is was quick to point out that she the topic of dysfunctional lives by the daughter that she generally thought to be advances these theories simply and communities. and her spouse, Thomas and at least one study to get people to think in a more Alexie’s novel takes its title King, adopted and showed that educated, focussed and less reflexive way from the experiences of children discovered, after many employed white women about the issue if FASD. who went to residential schools, years of wondering were more likely to be Hoy’s appearance in Dawson where they had their heads what was wrong, had drinkers. On the other was part of the 2011-12 shaved and were subjected to a this condition, The girl hand, natives who do Visiting Aboriginal Artist Series white dress code. It is said the does not have the FASD drink were likely to drink organized and hosted by the girls looked like china dolls and features that can lead more. Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre and the boys like porcupines when to a diagnosis, is highly verbal, Hoy suggests that it is Some of her assertions will the Yukon School of Visual Arts. the process was complete. intelligent and charming, but is currently more likely that native be seen as controversial when Much has been written about afflicted with what Hoy terms children will be diagnosed as the full Mosaic text of her lecture (in the trauma that resulted from an “executive function deficit” having FASD and non-natives article form) is published next this system and how it drove which makes her impulsive and as having one of the other year in , but Hoy is used participants to silence and often unable to relate actions to disorders. She says that this to controversy. substance abuse in their adult consequences. stereotypical diagnosis needs She stirred up a hornet’s nest SMS Equipment is Hiring in Dawson City! 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SM42-1 Klondike Sun November 2, 2011 Classified Display Quarter Page (5" x 7") P8 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN Grade 4 Gets A Sewer Plant Tour
By Dan Davidson
preparing since the spring. not show that every part of the concrete tanks, and will be one behind schedule due to a late Progress during the summer process is being constructed in storey.)” spring start caused by cold In her most recent progress was slower than anticipated in duplicate in case of equipment Next steps in the construction weather that was not suitable report to the City of Dawson, the work plan, largely due to or systems failures. There are are listed as: for concrete pouring. Other Catherine Harwood, YTG’s the amount of rainy days and two aerated shafts, two holding 1. Finish the remaining delays have been noted above. Project Manager for the problems that occurred while tanks, two flotation clarifier concrete work. In addition, the shipments new Wastewater Treatment connecting the new pipes to chambers, and so on. 2. Erect the steel building and of structural steel for the Plant, indicated that “More the existing grid system. The last report to the council install the metal panels. framework have been late in communication with Dawson Students had to climb down a indicated the “Concrete slab- 3. Fit out the building arriving. residents is being planned. somewhat intimidating ladder on-grade for north end of with process, electrical and Though it was originally This includes possible school scheduled to be completed by visits to the site, meetings with December 31, 2011, the court stakeholder groups and public and the federal authorities information sessions.” had no problems discussing a Accordingly, it was no further extension to the original surprise to find her, on October date, which has been extended 20, leading Robert Service twice before. In August Corix School’s Gr. 4 class, along with indicated that the plant could Mr. Betts and a substantial be finished and ready to put number of chaperones, up Fifth into service by mid-March Avenue to the site of the plant, 2012, but the Crown council where they donned hardhats proposed going to the end of and colourful vests and were the year. At this writing, a firm taken on a tour of the facility by date has not been set. site manager Stephen Johnson, The students indicated that assisted by some of the other they enjoyed the field trip, people working on the project. which took about 80 minutes, The tour began with a quick a great deal, and gave Harwood peek and smell at the current to walk around the lower parts building is complete. (North mechanical equipment. and the other workers a big sewage screening plant, where of the structure and enter one end of building will include 4. Clad the exterior. Finish thank you. They hope to visit primary treatment has been of the head tanks, which is the mechanical room, control the interior. again in the spring, by which carried out for many years. where the actual treatment room, screening and degritting 5. Commission the plant. time there should be a building Then the students were led shafts (which act like vertical room, dewatering area and 6. Corix to run the plant for to walk around in. up onto the complex concrete lagoons) are located. laboratory and will be two one year and train Dawson staff foundations and workings, Side-view diagrams of the storeys. The south end of the in its operation. which Corix systems and its treatment facility tend to be a building houses the process As noted during the sub-contractors have been bit misleading since they do equipment, including all the previous report, the plant is Yukon Arts Advisory Council Meets in Dawson Story and photo by Dan Davidson Council members had a pretty full tour laid on by Dawson member Glenda Bolt, including The Yukon Arts Advisory the Klondike Institute of Art Council met in Dawson on and Culture in the Oddfellows October 15 to assess a number Hall, the ODD Gallery, the Yukon of applications for the three School of Visual Arts, and even funding sources that the Arts an office warming for the new Dept. distributes. Arts Fund and manager of the Dawson City Touring Artist Fund projects are Music Festival. looked at four times annually “We’ve hit the social scene in and Arts Operating Funds are Dawson. looked at once a year. “We aren’t here to inspect any Vice-chair Mike Ivens said particular project, but it’s good the group makes an effort to to see things and put faces to get out of capital from time to names and things like that.” time and touch base with the The assessment process other communities. involves looking at proposals, “You can get pretty insular in looking at their artistic merit, Members of the Yukon Arts Advisory Council (L-R): Ross Burnet (staff), Laurel Parry (manager), Stephen Dunbar-Edge, Stéphanie Chevalier, Annie Avery, Sharon Shorty, Glenda Whitehorse,” he said, standing judging if the proponents have Bolt, Andrea Burgoyne, Mike Ivens (vice-chair), Rachel Grantham (staff). Absent: Tina Woodland (chair). outside the Dänojà Zho Cultural tube skill and wherewithal to Centre where the meeting was do what they are proposing, taking place. “We try to get out and whether the funding every three or four years just to request makes sense in terms Whitehorse as well as First the annual support for such Burnet, a funds manager for make that connection. of the project. Nations representation. events as the Dawson City the council, put on a workshop “Besides, Dawson is just an “It’s a really interesting “It’s quite a diverse board, Music Festival or as small as on the theory and practice of amazing place for art, with process, because we have but the common focus is that helping a community group buy writing grant applications. He KIAC, SOVA – it’s gone through people from various parts of they’re active in the arts, and a digital camera for a specific said to keep it simple; keep it a real explosion of art. So many the arts community sit on the have some familiarity with the local project. short, keep it honest, answer of the projects we get come board. If there’s a film project, proponents, with the projects, The council makes all the questions and give the from Dawson that it’s nice to we have filmmakers; if it’s a with what’s possible up here. recommendations to the funders the information they actually meet the people who theatre thing, we have theatre. Sometimes it’s really quire government, which then need. Funders really do want to are being named as resources We always try to have at least exciting to consider what can announces the grants in a series give you their money, but they and see the projects that are one or two members from be done.” of press releases. have to be able to justify their happening.” the communities outside of Projects may be as large as On Sunday afternoon Ross decisions. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P9 A Canine Conundrum on the Irish Coast
Story and photos by Dan Davidson
Strolling out to the viewing platform that surrounds the stone tower at the Cliffs of Moher on Ireland’s Ring of Kerry, I find myself walking up yet another set of broad stone steps as we approach the well enclosed viewing point. The woman coming towards The Cliffs of Moher are impressive, even partially shrouded by mist. me has a mid-sized dog on a O’Brien’s Tower would command a splendid view of the coastline – but it’s locked up tight. leash. It’s the only dog I’ve seen at one of these sites in several days of traveling, and I am moved once again to wonder why people bring their pets to places like this. machine Use Advis The interpretive center Snow ory here (the “Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience”) has been cleverly blended with the landscape, having been built into the grassy bluffs that hide the Atlantic Ocean from the parking area. From this side The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience centre is built right into the hillside. of the hill the only sign of the structure is the exit and the window of the cafe where we had lunched on Irish stew. We’re feeling fortunate that the heavy morning mist that had plagued us all the way out here has lifted. While the sparkle of the mist that had settled on the spider webs which festooned the hedges and other bushes along the drive has been very pretty, From the seaside little can be seen of the interpretive centre. Here we see the exit to the viewing area, and a window this was not what we had come from the café. to see. Nor did we pause for photos. Our driver guide had done his best to lighten the mood, (or more likely Skookum I have seen in a number of the but “you’ll have to take my or Klondike) what band is parks we’ve walked through word for it” as he described performing in the main stage during our time free from the some local vista we were tent. Festival organizers have tour schedule. passing had grown a bit thin long since realized that having While I am quietly pondering after an hour. a herd of curious canines in the that line of thought, the thing We had seen the clever almost festival enclosure is bad idea, she is holding in her other iMax video presentation about and so they don’t allow it. hand finally registers on my the rocks, birds and fish that People still turn up at the consciousness. It’s a muzzle. It’s live along the cliffs and nearby Front Street Gazebo with not a gentle leader headpiece islands, and had toured the their pets during musical like we use at home and which cleverly constructed interior performances for the DCMF, as people often confuse for a museum before lunch, but well as for the summer “coffee muzzle when they see us with were pleased to be able to get house” series, but most, though our dog. No, it’s a real, bona out into the fresh sea air, see not all, have the wit to keep fide, sturdy looking muzzle the massive cliffs stretching them leashed. – like for problem dogs that away to left and right for So I am left to wonder why just might decide their space eight kilometres, and walk up it matters at all to the pooch has been violated and might to O’Brien’s Tower, a rather (perhaps Finn, Cuchulain or have problems with impulse phallic folly (any building Paddy?) where his mistress control. that is constructed mainly for has decided to take her walk Right about then I decide decorative rather than useful on this misty day. Tangentially, to abandon any thoughts of purposes) that is said to have I wonder if I need to watch the asking the woman anything been built to impress female stone walkway more carefully about her dog and move on to visitors. for some sign that the pooch look at the cliffs. Maybe that’s The dog just seemed out of may have needed to do what why she carries the muzzle? place. comes naturally to most dogs Not that it’s completely that are out walking with their unusual. People still turn up owners. There aren’t even a lot with their dogs at the gate to of garbage cans along this route, the Dawson City Music Festival, let alone those handy canine as if it really matters to Rover waste disposal canisters that P10 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN SOVA SPECIAL The Klondike Sun has collaborated with english class at SOVA and the past artist-in-residence, JP King, to create a two-part, interpretative look at local artwork. The students have scoured the town for a piece of artwork, re- ported on where it is, who created it, the mediums used, and created an image in response to an element in the original piece that intrigued them. See the second part of this project in the upcoming November 16 issue.
Northern Lights Dawson Street Art By Alexandra Macdonald By Cole Pauls
Dawson inundates me with artwork on a daily basis. Some of my favourite This street art can be found art, though, I find in the homes of the residents. Art made personally or by on the side of a shed beside the family, which is the case of my chosen parking lot of Diamond Tooth piece. It’s a depiction of the northern Gerties. The unknown artist lights as seen from the edge of town. painted a sitting man wearing They tower, shooting from the crests a top hat, releasing two doves of the mountains to the far reaches from his hand. The white paint on of the sky. The real aurora is never the weathered woodshed gives so large, but when you see them you a bold colour contrast that I feel feel as if they’re your whole world, the artist purposefully did so it and the artist has re-created that immediately catches your eye. emotion through their exaggeration. The technique is done by brush, The heavy, vertical brush strokes the use of a lot of paint allowed and generous use of green paint on for drips to run down the design. everything from the snow to the houses, only serves to aid the feeling My interpretation of this piece that you are sitting in a moment, is a stencil of the design itself. I amongst the northern lights. The decided to make a stencil so you grandmother of a woman that lives could tag the design yourself. in Dawson did this painting; sadly it’s Part of the street art culture is in a private home and not available to to spread your work and make a the public. following and create a sense of community. Tagging the design, I don’t believe I can capture the or a design you created yourself depth of the moment the way the is highly recommended. I don't artist did. Instead I tried to capture recommend just tagging your the lights and their encapsulation nickname, or something vulgar, of the mountains and our emotions that is vandalism. If you’re going through a panorama of blue and to risk getting caught, you might green inks. I put the painting on an as well make something beautiful that is street art, and not just vandalism or old record with the idea that when stereotypical graffiti. mounted and spun it would emulate the movement of the Aurora Borealis. Bear Claw Cosby Neilsen By Daniel Brown Hozjan By Emily Prospero
This painting can be found in The This bear claw necklace was Westminster Hotel in Dawson City. It is created by a local individual, hung to the right of the stage and is a following his being attacked by series of many portraits of untitled men a grizzly bear. He was the victor. by an artist by the name of Fabien. The The piece is very simple in design; person portrayed is an older gentleman the claws are attached to a piece with black glasses, a plaid jacket and of plain, black string, with pieces cobalt blue dress shirt. He is painted of ivory-colored plastic separating from the shoulders up and is framed each claw from the next. The claws with a muslin matte and gold frame on the necklace are in keeping roughly 12 inches by 14 inches. At the with the general physiology of the time of my first viewing, I was with bear, which has five long claws. The some friends. We noticed it resembled simplicity of the piece alludes to the idea that the maker of this piece of jewelry two actors, Bill Cosby or Leslie Neilsen. I has created it as a memento, an object that he can draw memories from. found it interesting that both celebrities Art is often the expression could be found in one face without of a narrative, or a portion recognition of race. You’re Not the of the narrative. When Indian I Had In Mind After reading Thomas King’s human beings create art, , and after attending it is very natural to imbue the author/photographer’s talk last week these narratives with at Tr’ondek Hwech’in Cultural Centre, emotion. Art created as I had a new perspective on conscious/ a response to emotional unconscious visual associations one can turmoil often ends up make. In my response to this painting, I being the most potent merged photographs of Leslie and Bill in kind of artwork. Art is a hopes of capturing the same spirit of the dialogue between an artist painting. These men have complex faces and their audience, and the and, more importantly, complex identities. best way to communicate By combining the two faces, I not only with people is to speak with emotion. Empathy is the machine that allows us wanted to emulate the portrait that had to build the emotion resonance of others’ lives into a bridge that binds us all captured our attention, but to also remove together. For my piece, I have attempted to capture the bear as it was described racial association. to me by the artist; not as an animal, but as a life changing force, as a figure charged with emotion. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P11 Metal Miner Beast By Kristen Poenn By Matt Smith
This piece caught my eye on a visit to This untitled painting was found hanging in the local liquor store about three weeks a private residence, where it was painted and into living in Dawson. I noticed what at displayed by a SOVA student from last year by first looked like a pile of scrap metal, but the name of Sovay. The subject of the painting is upon further inspection turned out to be a fantastical beast, lamenting alone in a desert. an intricate sculpture of a robot-miner. The faunlike character of the piece is a fusion The sculpture is approximately five feet of goat, lion and leopard, with a human’s face. high, constructed of various metal parts, The whole thing is painted with an uneasy air of and depicts a miner panning for gold. I surrealism, as rainbow-coloured tears stream enjoy that not only does it camouflage down the creature’s face and body, gathering in a itself well, it seems to me to be very psychedelic pool at its feet. Settling into the crouch “Dawson”. It depicts a historical scene the creature emanates an aura of deep personal and is composed of found materials (I sorrow. have noticed Dawsonites to be extremely resourceful with their trash). I am a fan of art installed in public areas – I think it’s fun and I appreciate the accessibility – which is why I chose to report on this piece. Regretfully, I was unable to find the As a response, I shot a identity of the artist, but I would like to series of photos with thank him/her for their great contribution to the Dawson City streets! fellow SOVA student Alexandra MacDonald as a I chose painting in response to the model. I wanted to capture robot-miner, because I wanted to use a the sorrow and the contrasting medium. My painting depicts vulnerability felt by the the same robot-miner, but rather than character in the painting, existing in the days of the gold rush, he with Alex’s posing and has become the modern Dawsonite. It costume. Found objects was done using acrylic paint on paper. compose her horn and mane, and tears of acrylic ink stream down her face. Colour was integral to the composition of my images, I hope that the vibrancy of the ink-tears and the minimalism of the background will echo the emotion of the original painting
Kathleen Before Kate Miner on Front By Victoria Ponce By Mike Luxton
The Front Street miner monument was designed for the Klondyke Contennial I chose the mural painting of the famous Society by Halin de Repentigny. It sits gazing at the sight of Dawson whose Klondike Kate by Halin De Repentigny, miners its dedicated to built this city. The plaque,Tribute which to sitsthe embeddedminer in its produced in 2010. The mural, situated rock base, reads: Dedicated to the Klondike gold miners past, looking east from the Palace Grand present and future in recognition of their Theatre, located between King Street contributions to Dawson City and the Klondike and Second Avenue. What caught my eye Region. about such mural is the way it’s placed – it In 1896, gold was discovered on Rabbit Creek is not facing the street, rather it is placed (later known as Bonanza Creek) by Skookum facing a parking lot area. The manner Jim, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie, in which Kate is depicted also grabbed on the advice of fellow prospector Robert my attention; she is not seen in wearing Henderson. dancing attire, or on stage, or smiling; This event sparked the Great Klondike Gold she is portrayed straight-faced, standing Rush of 1898, and Dawson City and the Yukon casually in a kitchen, in a Victorian outfit, Territory were born. stirring what I assume to be soup in a pot. The shades of the mural are also intriguing
– De Repentigny depicted Kate in rather In my rendition of this artistic strong brush-strokes, using oil hues of creation I decided to go with crimson, violet, black, white, and burgundy a two dimensional version of in a rather shady manner. De Repentigny things. I also decided to play on seemed to want to depict Klondike Kate as the romantic vision that goes an everyday woman, straight-faced, making along with many people’s views her look serious, not as the flamboyant of the Great White North. While smiling dancer we all relate to when we the statue is to commemorate the hear Klondike Kate. The mural depicts sacrifice of those who worked so Kathleen Rockwell. hard to make Dawson what it is By using mediums of charcoal and oil today, I decided to show the true pastels, I tried to interpret Kate’s pose in beauty of this land. Having the the mural, via a drawing piece, illustrating a iconic mountains with the moon faceless silhouette using blacks and whites, hanging over top in a starry night with a background similarly shaded to the sky. Looking down at the first signs of what was to become the small city we hues found in the mural. know and love today. P12 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN
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THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P17 TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THE SUN
The Sun obtained funding in late 2009 from the City of Dawson, YTG’s Heritage Branch and the Community Development Fund to conserve and archive early issues and make them available once again in the public domain. This is a great resource for students, writers and historians, and also for prospective tourists with an interest in Dawson City’s life. Each month, we are re-printing our front pages from 20 years ago (seen above) as a souvenir of our lively history. Past issues are available for download on our website, http://klondikesun.com. More will be added periodically throughout the year! P18 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN
Call Of The Wind: A Fictional Tribute To Douglas Mawson (Antarctic Explorer And Geologist, 1882 – 1958) By Joanne Bell skin. “God,” I murmur, God passes me over pain for days; he hadn’t I switch off the “Would you like some the pot. He holds the slept. We were over primus, and the silence 3rd tea?” hot metal with his three-hundred and fifty is enormous after its Place “Love some,” he shirtsleeve, just like miles from the coast; we bellow. I can’t afford Prose says. “I’ve had a long we do. Can God feel could relax.” the extra heat when the journey.” heat, I marvel? “Your I sip my tea and look sun is shining. My fuel Without leaving comrades?” he reminds God in the eye. “He was is running low. “Where my bag I hold a match me. a boy,” I say. “He should were you?” I ask. to the primus and its “Dead,” I manage. be going home.” God shakes his roar fills the Antarctic “West fell down a God opens his furs head. barrier silence. The pot crevasse and Michael revealing a shabby “We started back to I’ve already filled with got very sick. I don’t sweater underneath. the coast that evening. snow. When it melts know why.” He’s growing warm. The food was on West’s down and boils, I add a “I was close by,” says “Were they frightened? sled, except a week’s The wind sings generous dollop of used God. “Didn’t you see Did they fold their arms rations. We had no dog like a whip through tea leaves and a pinch me?” and feel at peace? Did food, no poles for the thousands of miles of of fresh and leave them I think back how, Michael die in harness, tent. We ate the dogs empty ice. White canvas to steep. I look over at over the weeks, I’ve heels dug in, straining one by one and Michael tent walls billow in and my new companion. inched my path over forward into the grew sick. We ate every out. My reindeer bag is It’s been weeks since I the empty ice with a wind?” scrap and scooped their shedding hair, frozen so heard another human, shrunken stomach. “I You’re God, I think; frozen blood from the hard from condensation I mean, any voice at all. was first,” I say. “My you ought to know. snow. I gave Michael that I can’t fold it for the “Where are your sled should have gone Suddenly, I’m most of the organ meat; sledge in the mornings comrades?” asks God. in, not his. It was a angry. “I skied over the I wanted him to live. now. I just lift it out the He looks exactly like beautiful day and the crevasse with my sledge I boiled the heart and tent flap like a stretcher we did when we started wind was hurling off the and dogs. Michael skied the liver and kidneys and lay it over the load. out. He’s dressed in mountains on both sides behind. When I turned, and made him drink Not much of a load left furs and finnescoes like a river current. Michael was staring the broth. He grew either: a dog skull – with ruddy cheeks and Wind streamed from the back. There was just weak, and no longer Ginger’s – to nibble, four a scruffy beard like rocks and castellations the enormous empty knew where he was. biscuits and a cup of someone who’s been above, but in the valley plain. West, dogs and He shouted at people pemmican. Also there running dogs in a fresh of crevasses where we sled were gone. West who weren’t there and are several spoonfuls of wind. His shoulders walked, the sun shone had jumped off, Michael vomited in the tent. loose tea, the skis I use are huge, and I get the and the air was still.” said; his boots entered He thought I was his to prop up the ‘tent’ at immediate sense that Sweat prickles the crust at an angle mother, and asked me night, a stove, pot and a he’d be useful buckled the back of my neck. and down he plunged.” to hold his hand. few litres of fuel. into harness. A wild West was just a boy. No icicles drip from He was not serene. The wind screams hope fills me; is that His finger had been God’s beard; that’s the He bit off his thumb again. Sunlight presses what he intends to do? infected. That’s it. Now difference. When one and howled. I couldn’t through the walls, I hate to ask though, I remember. of us comes in the tent leave him, could I? bathing the skin I mean, not even God “He hurt his finger, when the primus’s There was a storm stretched tight over my signs on for a trip like God,” I continue, “and roaring, we puddle the and when it calmed, skull. I open my eyes. this. I lanced it for him the ground. Michael was stiff in his God is sitting at the I pass him the tea night before he died. “We lay on our bag. I collapsed the tent end of my sleeping bag. pot. I drink in the sight He was very brave, but stomachs; we called around him and hauled “Good morning,” says of him so close and so what was the point? He over the crevasse. it off. I prayed while God. massive, filling my lay in the tent with his There were blue layers the wind sang, and left I’m so overwhelmed tent. arm out, while I held the of empty ice. There was him curled on his side. to see him, to see “Thanks,” says God, knife over the primus no reply.” I should have taken anyone actually, that and he sips. and cut into his finger. I pass the tea back the bag. Where were for a moment I can’t The wind has I hated to hurt him. to God. you?” I ask God. “Where reply. I just reach over, stopped. Through the The tent was where I shivered in the exactly were you?” half out of my rotting walls flows pure calm we went for comfort. empty landscape, bag, and grasp his sunshine, like a day But then the pus burst stamping my finnescoes hand. I rub my fingers back home in Australia out, and I knew he’d and clapping my over its back. The flesh perhaps: barren desert heal. “Stay on the dog mittens to keep warm. feels warm and smooth: and white heat and sledge tomorrow, West,” We ran along the abyss no frostbite lesions, no the feel of unfettered I advised. Our mileage shouting his name. Not peeling sores, just the space, uncharted miles was good. “Have a even a dog howled from elastic spring of healthy around me. holiday.” He’d been in the depths. Continued on next page... THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P19 Continued from previous page... rope, tied to my waist at the sledge. Her bones month ago; they might beautiful, and the wind all times, into a ladder are picked clean and have all gone. They is a breeze only blowing from which I can pluck I no longer feel guilty. must think we’re dead. from the south, from the My voice is growing myself, climbing from Wherever Ginger is, it’s There’s no sign of life barrens barely entered louder in the white the deep. I take a few better than here. from the cliff-top. Food, by the tread of man. sun-washed tent. God steps on my rope ladder “You were such a I worry, have they left The ice-fields stretch doesn’t smell. I haven’t and pause. I hear God good dog,” I tell her, food? No matter; seals back to the ends of the washed for over two speaking. Falling “wagging your tail are sunning themselves earth, to the pole, the months nor changed down crevasses has when I harnessed you. on the gravel beach. My axis on which the world my clothes. My skin its comforts. The wind I remember how you mouth waters at the revolves, the invisible is peeling in patches; is stilled and for those leaned against me thought of blubber. point my comrades died my hair is falling out, minutes I’m alone in the when I fed you, and I start carefully trying to reach. mingling with the hair peace of a blue world. how you howled in the down the cliff. The “God,” I whisper, of the reindeer bag and “Do you really want night with your team.” footing is treacherous placing my frost-nipped my furs when I drink. to live?” asks God, I pat the smooth dome and I have no wish to fall feet slightly lower on “Pick the hairs from peering over the lip of of skull for the last time to my death this close the cliff, “Goodbye. I’ll the tea,” I tell God, the fault. His face is so and chuck it across the to warmth and food and miss you.” Only God has “when you drink.” I feel beautiful, framed by snow. perhaps companions seen me cry. rude to mention it. azure sky and a few There are no who don’t disappear Far below, two “I was close by,” says wisps of white cloud. predators here; no when questioned. My specks come out of the God. “But now I have to His beard is tangled bears or wolves come sledge nudges my hut. They shade their go.” and filled with frost but wandering out from heels. eyes with their hands “No.” his eyes are kind. the coast. Her bones “Goodbye,” yells a and stare up at me, Though angry, I “Yes,” I decide, and will sink slowly in the familiar voice from dangling on the rocks. don’t want him gone. he offers a hand. I take moving river of ice on high. There he is, They begin to wave. The silence of the God’s hand for the and be carried one day, bearded and dressed in More specks spill out barrier will ring forever second time and this buried, out to sea. furs, very still on top of and stand in a line, when he leaves. Wind is time I feel the lesions Most mornings the cliff. I wave. hands clasped over their blasting again from the where frostbite has now, God comes for tea “Just push the sledge heads. I cannot watch mountain ridges, the bitten. His hand is old and then moves on. I down,” says God. “So them. My eyes aren’t only places the snow and gnarled and I look suppose he has a lot of what if it smashes at used to movement and can’t take root. into his face and find ground to cover. I long the base. Your camp’s colour after the months “Don’t leave me here he doesn’t look like my for these visits; they right there.” of empty ice. alone. Take me if you comrades anymore. break the horror of the “Good idea,” I say. Slowly, slowly I go have to go.” God’s so very sad that day. Funny I don’t want I shove the sledge out down. I have news of Where God was I want to let go, to not to ask him for anything; into space and it hovers deaths to bring them sitting, the reindeer be a burden. He’s had not even hot meat or a there a moment before and a journey that bag is dry and warm. enough, I understand, heel of bread. His hands plunging to smash on couldn’t be finished. The molten patches but he himself is holding grow more scarred, his the rocks below. At once My eyes are sensitive; where the hair had far too tight and hauls eyes sadder and his I feel lighter: free. they cannot take the fallen out are filled in me up. face gaunter, but his I don’t want to leave stimulation. From the again. I crouch on my I scramble over the presence warms me; God. He remembers beach comes a cheer, knees. I press the dry edge; the thin clouds my heart sings when I West; he remembers swelling like a wave it bag against my cheek. have rolled back and sense him near. Michael. He knows reaches up to me, and Strangely, it too smells the wind has stilled “Can I ask you how they died and how I know that God won’t of sweat and fear. during my time in the questions?” I say one. the hair fell from my come here. Though It’s time to move. I depths. God is gone, but “Ask,” says God. reindeer bag and floated I lived a thousand can’t stay alone without I make out his tracks I look at the white in our tea. He knows lifetimes, I’d have to company. I can’t stay through the sun’s glare. wall bright in the the blue-green layers settle for my memories. alone. I jerk out the sledge and sunlight to fashion of ice down a crevasse I wonder, climbing The tea is gone. God follow them through the my thoughts. Has ever and how my rope ladder down to the arms of my has drained the last crevasse field until they man had the chance to swung over the abyss. waiting men, to the huts drop. too peter out and I’m question God? But when I touched his hands in with stoves belching “Ginger,” I say, standing alone on solid I’ve decided what to ask, the Barrier cold and heat, the smells of nibbling at the shiny ice, looking towards the there’s only empty air. found them warm. cooking bread, if I can dog skull, my meal as coast. I can’t leave him. I really do it - let the sad I pack, “God couldn’t I’ll make it now, I stare down the cliff know he’ll never come kind eyes of God at the wait.” It’s meant for I realize, but it’s not to the camp at the bay into camp and if my lip of the crevasse fade bravado, but it’s just so important. In this below. It’s been three comrades have gone on into the past and grow sad, like wind plucking expanse of ice, there months since I left with the ship there’ll be no cold. at the surface of the is no sign of anything my comrades, the dogs one - perhaps for many A wind blasts from snow. alive, neither in land rearing up, eager to years. behind me, from the nor sky. My tracks are break out the loads, the “Sorry. I just don’t thousands of miles of Days later, I’m gone, blown away on men drawing on their belong there,” says empty snow, the burial dangling down a this windless day. I’m pipes and waving as we God. site of my comrades, crevasse. I’m suspended not thinking straight, disappear. I don’t know When I look up again the home of my God. by rope knotted to my I tell myself. I untie if anyone’s left at base. he’s gone. The sky is I walk on. sledge. I fashioned the Ginger’s skull from The ship was due a enormous and very P20 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN ARTS AND CULTURE An Evening With Tom King is Not Wasted Time Story and photos by Dan Davidson That said, it was not a Wasted Evening with Thomas surprise to see him inhabit King: Fiction, Photography and a similar persona when he the Art of Storytelling" and King Thomas King likes to run sat down to chat with Sharon spent the next 50 minutes or himself down a bit. The naïve Shorty’s "Gramma Susie" before so addressing the topic in the academic that he played on the a standing room only house at second half of the title, covering Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre. ground that might have been was a foil against which Jasper Their 15-minute collaboration familiar to anyone who hadThe Friendly Bear and Gracie Heavy had King tying a $20 bill into her Truthread or About listened Stories: to his A Native 2003 Hand could sharpen their garter and reacting in horror at Narrative.Massey Lectures series, retorts, while Thomas played the thought of donating his big a role not unlike the one Bob toe to the Sourtoe Cocktail. Of Newhart usually plays: a sane course, it had the audience in As a writer of serious novels, and somewhat befuddled man stitches. essays, short stories and surrounded by chaos. The evening was titled "A mystery novels, King has a vested interest in stories. In the Massey series he repeatedly made the point that we are made up of stories, so it came as no surprise that his talk was the story of his own life, some Thomas King ties some money in Gramma Susie’s garter. of which, as he noted, was actuºally true. King is of Cherokee/Greek parentage and grew up in the United States. He related the story of how he came to be a writer/photographer, a roundabout journey that began while he was driving an ambulance in San Francisco. An experience with one patient there led to him getting a job in a bank which, in turn, led him to sign on for a boat trip to New Zealand. Once there, he finagled (lied) his way into a job at a photography store (after all, he did own a camera and two rolls of film – remember film?). An expired visitor’s permit sent him to Australia some months later, where he took on a job as a photojournalist (well, he knew about cameras ATTENTION LICENCED HUNTERS and the whoppers he’d told King recoils in horror as Susie describes the Sourtoe Cocktail. so far qualified him as a story teller) until he left there a few years later and came back to November 15 the USA. may never get completed. These King is an excellent storyteller, While there he got his degrees were part of the presentation providing his audience with Deadline Reminder and did his best to look the part as a slide show to accompany insights neatly sandwiched of Hollywood’s idea of an Indian his talk. between an engaging narrative Do your part to help manage Yukon’s wildlife. Kill (“because I was afraid everyone He takes pictures of native and self-deprecating humour. reports and compulsory submissions for most would think I was Mexican”). artists wherever he goes and Following his talk he spent species are due no later than 15 days after the end In 1980 he moved to Canada has amassed a considerable nearly half an hour dealing with of the month in which you successfully hunted. If and started writing stories collection. At some point he a variety of questions from his you were successful in October, your deadline in order to impress a young noticed that there were bits fully engaged audience. It was is November 15th. woman he wanted to get to of pseudo-Native American certainly not a wasted evening. know better. He and Helen Hoy nomenclature and iconography King’s appearance in Find out more about compulsory submissions, are still together after all these all over the continent, and he Dawson was part of the 2011- biological samples and kill reports in this year’s years and he found that the created a series in which his 12 Visiting Aboriginal Artist Hunting Regulations Summary. Pick up a copy writing was something he could children wore sports jerseys Series organized and hosted by wherever hunting licences are sold or visit the do. He says you either can or with Indian references on them the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre Environment Yukon website. you can’t. In his creative writing and stood in front of native and the Yukon School of Visual classes he tells his students that themed pictures and logos. Arts. he can show them what to do, That didn’t last long (his kids but he can’t necessarily teach made him stop), but one in them to be storytellers. which Native artists wear the The photography has Lone Ranger’s mask turned continued through his life, and out to be very popular with his he’s had several projects that subjects. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P21 Mooney Makes the Thomas Prize Shortlist
Story and photo by Dan Davidson Folk served as writer-in-residence communal realities,’ the prize at the Pierre Berton House in juryThe said Tiger's of Wife),.” Dawson City,The Yukon. New He Layman'smade his Other The finalists Evolution are Téa of Bruno Obreht CBC.ca reports that our debutAlmanac in 2008 with his poetry ( My SisterBenjamin Lives recent Berton House resident, collection Haleon the ( Mantelpiece ), Jacob McArthur Mooney, is on and is working on his Annabel PitcherThe Meeting ( Point). the shortlist of five emerging first novel. ), and Lucy authors for the £30,000 “MooneyFolk made the list of Thomas Caldwell ( (about $48,000 Cdn) 2011 Prize finalists for his latest book The winner will be announced in Dylan Thomas Prize. This is , which features poems Thomas’ hometown of Swansea, an international competition tackling the 1998 Swissair crash Wales, on November 9. celebrating young writers. as well as life next to Toronto's Thanks to current Berton The story reports: Pearson International Airport. House Writer-in-Residence, “Nova Scotia-born, Toronto- “’Throughout the book, short Manjushree Thapa, for drawing based Mooney is a poet, blogger terse poems full of memorable this to our attention. and literary critic, who recently phrases capture a sense of place received the Banff Centre Bliss and the lives of people coming Carman Poetry Award and to terms with their identity and Thank You One and All... Chatelaine’s "Maverick On August 17, 2011 Discovery Claim Trail was o cially opened! Project partners Klondyke Centennial Society, Yukon Government and Parks Canada wish to express of the Year" has a their appreciation to the many contributors who supported development of this site, connection to Dawson and the grand opening event: Yukon Community Development Fund, National Trails Infrastructure program (Canada’s Economic Action Plan) PRESS RELEASE and the City of Dawson. Special recognition goes to Sally Robinson (Yukon Historic Sites) for her signi cant contribution in design, research and writing ,and the family of Art Fry, especially Sheryl Law, Derrick Law, and Dal Fry. Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, an Many individuals and organizations generously contributed to the development of the Edmonton author and Berton Discovery Claim NHS Trail by sharing their expertise, stories, and donating artifacts: House writer’s retreat resident, has been named Chatelaine Klondike Placer Miners Association - Stuart Schmidt Lee Olynyk Sylvia Burkhard Magazine’s 2011 Maverick of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in – Michael Edwards, Jackie Olson Henry Rennick Drew Ball the Year. National Trails Coalition - Alex Brook Roland Berglund John & Sylvia Alton The 29-year-old had her first Association Franco-Yukonnaise – Yann Henry Marty & Maryann Knutson book, For the Love of Flying: Carcross-Tagish First Nation-Heather Jones & Sascha Weber The Story of Laurentian Air Our appreciation to the contractors for your craftsmanship, attention to detail,and enthusiasm: Services, published in 2009. CnD Landscaping: Mike Crelli Williams Construction: Jim Williams John Steins She is the first female president Gammie Trucking Duncan’s Limited - Jim Duncan Sandy Silver of the Canadian Aviation Trans North Helicopter Grenon Enterprises Lorne Carnes Historical Society, which boasts Bonanza Sales: Roland Berglund & Ian Nyland Catalyst Communications – Paul Gowdie 1,000 members worldwide and Inkspirationz Graphix - Stephanie Churchill Integraphics Ltd hosted its annual conference in Edmonton this past summer. Klondike Active Transport & Trails Society - Alex Brook, John Bryant and their crews: Metcalfe-Chenail was Dallas-rae Gaven Francis Bou ard Tanner Sidney Alastair Findlay-Brook also recently named one of Seamus Power Xander Mann Pait Johnson Clinton Taylor Edmontonian Magazine’s Spruce Gerberding Victoria Mcleod Sonny Parker Hannah Findlay-Brook “Sizzling 20 Under 30” for Jared Stephenson Jamie Favron Nick Ball Julia Spriggs 2011. The following Parks Canada sta whose project support ranged from concept and theme Last year, she spent three development, to the production of a site brochure, to photography, plaque conservation, months as writer-in-residence boiler relocation, to providing audio voices and silhouette models: sBerton’s childhood home, in David Neufeld Rob Watt Dan Pach Liz Baker Rob Storeshaw Dawson City. Rose Margeson Carrie Docken Leslie Piercy Annie Granger Mark Castellarin While there, she researched Janice Cli Reggie Audet Nicola Walch Gabriela Sgaga Johnny Nunan a book on northern aviation Nancy McCarthy Fred Osson Sam Coxwell Faye Chamberlain Trina Buhler history. She travelled throughout the Western To everyone who made the Grand Opening Celebration such a huge success: Arctic, and since then, has Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in -Elder Percy Henry The Honourable Steve Nordick Mayor Peter Jenkins been to Yellowknife to conduct Sincerely from the Rev Ken Snider RCMP Honour Guard Tracy Nordick ( soloist) interviews and research. The Klondyke Centennial Society Carcross-Tagish First Nation Elders - Kitty Grant (Great Great Niece of Skookum Jim) book will be published by Board of Board of Directors- and Doris McLean ( 4th cousin of Patsy Henderson) Frontenac House in 2013. Jon Magnusson To the entire Parks Canada Team; your contribution to the project development ,and to the Metcalfe-Chenail grew up in John Gould Grand Opening event was instrumental in the success of this project. Ottawa and lived across North Peter Jenkins America and England, before Shirley Pennell Valuable services and support were provided by: moving to Edmonton. Bill Bowie, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in tent set up crew, the fabulous Musicians, Dawson Fire ghters, City of Dawson, The She has an M.A. in Canadian Ken Snider, Eldorado Hotel , McDonald Lodge, Peggy Amendola and the Dawson City Visitor Centre sta , the history from the University of Klondike SUN, and all of our local suppliers. British Columbia but writes Boyd Gillis across a number of genres. Akio Saito; Finally, a special thank you to the 200 locals and visitors who participated in the Grand The author is an active Parks Canada Opening Celebration, including Tarie Castellarin’s grade 3 class from Robert Service School. member of the Writers’ Guild Represenatives- of Alberta, Edmonton Heritage David Rohatensky & If we have inadvertently missed anyone, please forgive us and let us know! Council, and Creative Nonfiction Paula Hassard Collective. ENVIRONMENT
P22 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN
BOOKENDS HISTORY'S SHADY UNDERBELLY With Dan Davidson With Phil Wolters When Stories Shape the World
Wilson’s disappearance, and from the books. we meet the man, who seems to The story is told in many be an unpleasant sort, only in ways, from straight comic Tom’s flashback memories. book panels to news reports, We also get snippets of the pages from magazines and tales from the books, either as websites, exchanges from chat they were published, or in the rooms, present day narrative form of the successful films and flashbacks into Tom’s they have spawned. Tommy, memories. who wears rimless glasses, As the story progresses it shares his adventures with his becomes clear that there are at two friends, Peter and Sally. least two forces manipulating Any resemblance to Harry Tom’s life. One is apparently Potter and his chums is entirely intent on pushing him to The Major sips in the 1977 Frantic Follies "The Ice Worm Cocktail" deliberate, but Carey and Gross realize his potential, while the do this to ask us if a real Harold other goes so far as to stage a The Unwritten: Tommy Potter would have had much of massacre at a fantasy/horror Taylor and the Bogus a life. writers’ seminar in order to Ice Worms: Totally a Real Thing Tom Taylor doesn’t. The books cause Tom to be arrested. Identity made tonnes of money and it’s The seminar takes place at “Yet all is clear as your draw near- for coyly peering out all tied up in a complicated trust. the Villa Diodati, in Switzerland, Are hosts and hosts of tiny worms, each indigo of snout. Gross Tom makes a meager living on where Mary Shelly thought up And as no nourishment they find, to keep themselves alive By Mike Carey and Peter the convention circuit, signing the plot of Frankenstein, and They masticate each other’s tails, till just the Tough cheery autographs in the books where a number of other writers survive. Yet on this stern and Spartan fare so rapidly they grow, he hates so much, and failing from that era once visited. Vertigo / DC Comics That some attain six inches by the melting of the snow. at just about everything he’s Tom and his father lived there, 144 pages ever tried to do. At one point, and Tom recalls some strange ” $14.99 rather like Robert Service, he events that took place in those auditioned to play the Tommy years. His memories might even It is well known that that This description comes the ice, only coming to the role in a movie and didn’t get explain his father’s strange lovable little boy, Christopher from the Robert Service surface on cold nights. Robin, who had such fun the part. obsession with the literary map poem "The Ballad of the Ice- Sadly, some of the more with his toys in the Hundred When Lizzie Hexam turns up of the world, an association of Worm Cocktail". Service colourful characteristics Acre Wood, grew up to be in the audience at a convention places and stories which Tom provides a vivid description attributed to the ice worms Christopher Milne, who came panel and essentially accuses had to memorize as a boy, for of the creatures, which aren’t actually true. They to hate his literary alter ego. In Tom of being an imposter son reasons he never understood. are then used to torment don’t chirp, no matter what Percy Brown, an arrogant Stroller White would have his autobiographical writings that Wilson adopted at an early Toms’ trail is dogged by man cheechako in need of being you believe. And while it’s he claimed that his father had age in order to promote the named Pullman, who is the hit series, Tom’s life, such as it is, man for the forces that wish taken down a peg. The fun to imagine the worms exploited his childhood and creature in the poem turns surviving by eating their wrote of the bullying he had begins to fall apart. him ill. In a strange background Not long after this he is story in chapter five we learn out to be “a stick of stained own tails, it turns out that had to endure in the name of spaghetti with two red ink they actually eat something kidnapped by a deranged fan of that Pullman has been serving Pooh Corner. spots for eyes.” called snow algae, which is Tom Taylor has much the same the books, who identifies with his masters as early as the late The implication, of course, a rare cold-loving algae that problem. His father, Wilson Count Anbrosio, the vampire 19th century, though he looks is that this is a made-up lives on glaciers and which Taylor, penned 13 bestselling villain of the series, and seeks no older now. The group he creature. Certainly this was has a characteristic red adventures in the tales of revenge for the many times works for likes to advance the the impression that most colour that stands out on the Tommy Taylor, the boy wizard. he has been defeated in the careers of writers who can help people had, and continue to ice and snow. have. In 1898, journalist E.J. Ice worms are the subject The books were a worldwide books. Mysteriously, the badly them by creating the stories “Stroller” White wasKlondike the first of one of the Whitehorsestrangest Star phenomenon, having been read made-up fan seems to actually that shape the history of the become the Count, and it is only world. Rudyard Kipling was toNugget describe the ice worm, stories in northern navel by an estimated 40% of the when he wrote a Clara-Monarchhistory. The literate planet. It seems quite by the intervention of Lizzie one such writer, and his tale in that Tom escapes death by an unfolded for us in this chapter. article describing reports that the steamer likely that they achieved greater the worms and attributing was found IED nail bomb. Lizzie contrives Just how all this works, and fame due to the mysterious a characteristic chirping one day in the spring of 1907 circumstances under which the rescue so that Tom is found what it will mean for Tom, who to the creatures. The ice “floating in a combination their author disappeared. in shredded clothes with not a is beginning to wonder just who worm became a Dawson City of water and ice worm goo.” Tom refers to the event as his scratch on him, giving rise to he is as the police carry him off, novelty, which was widely This strange event became "abandonment". In this volume, the viral rumour that, like that is a tale for future volumes. I’m believed to be mythical. How stranger still when it was which contains the first five other Tommy from the rock looking forward to them. shocking is the news, then, discovered that the ice that the ice worm is a real worms were so numerous issues of the ongoing series, opera, he is some sort of new messiah, the real boy wizard creature? and so entwined that they we do not learn the details of Ice worms, it turns out, formed a barrier between have been extensively the boat and the open water studied by scientists. They that needed to be broken “It ain’t gold make their homes in glaciers, through. where they burrow under Is this story true? Or is it the ice. The enzymes in an a legend passed down from but it’s close!” ice worm’s body have very the crew of a ship looking to low optimal temperatures, make a name for themselves? which means that in warmer With a creature as bizarre as temperatures the worm will the ice worm, it’s hard to tell To find out how you can liquify, or melt. This is why where the fact ends and the contribute , just email the ice worm spends so much fiction begins. klondikesun@ of its time buried under northwestel.net! THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P23 The Birds of the Sun STEWED PRUNES by Lisa McKenna With Rebecca Williams A fully grown tern only weighs life over the oceans. 95 to 125 grams (that’s 3.3 to Their migration route has Did you know that the Arctic 4.4 oz. for us old folks). Their several stop-overs on the way Tern sees more daylight than wing span is 75 to 85 cm (30 to to and from the poles. They any creature on earth? 40 inches)! have been known to stop in They migrate each year from They nest wherever is handy, Western Europe and West pole to pole - that’s like a 71,000 it could be on sand, or gravel, Africa, reaching Southern km trip each year. As Arctic or vegetation, or even on the Africa some time in November. Terns can live over 30 years, “heath” (heath is a low woody From there they spend the rest that adds up to a whopping 2.4 shrub environment). They lay of “winter” in Antarctica. MILLION km - that’s close to one or two eggs, rarely three. Arctic Terns remind me of the three round trips to the moon! They are born brown or gray people of the North. Though Needless to say, the Arctic and this helps them hide from we are a small representative Tern has the longest migration predators, like the arctic fox. of the earth we show more Danish-Style Crepes route of any avian alive today. Adult terns frequently chase spirit/gumption/bravery than off much bigger birds, most others (in this reporter's like gulls (who are their humble opinion ) and we are worst enemies) from not afraid of travel. Crepes are one of my all-time favourite foods. When I was a their young I have a friend in Germany kid, I rolled my mom’s homemade strawberry jam inside and Their chicks can fly who lives 70 km out of Munich covered them with icing sugar - my mom actually let me eat within about 20 days, (for the last 52 years) and he this for dinner. and then they join their has never been there! This as Crepes are a little tricky to master. Once you get the hang of parents in the sky. With opposed to a Northerner who the method, they are so easy, delicious and impressive. I love their long wing spans will hook up the dogs and mush making them for a late breakfast with friends, or for dinner and short legs they are 160 km just to have tea with a - I’m big on breakfast for dinner. I prefer sweet crepes - for more at home in the sky friend! instance, with cinnamon and sugar, or fruit sauteed with a than on land. So two-thumbs-up to the Arctic bit of butter and brown sugar. However, you can wrap eggs As a matter of fact, the Tern, the “Bird of the Sun”. or sauteed veggies inside to make them savoury. tern spends most of its Ingredients: Blast from 5 to 6 eggs 1/4 cup sugar 1 cup flour 2/3 cup milk the Past 1/4 cup butter By Lisa McKenna To Make: Beat the eggs and sugar, then incorporate the flour. Whisk the milk in. Melt the butter in the same skillet you will use to make the crepes in, then add the melted butter to the rest Their career has spanned of the mixture. The measurements are approximate, so add over 5 decades (50 years) and more milk or flour if you find your batter is too thick or thin they have gone through over 20 (it should be quite runny). different members in this time, Crepes cook fast, so make sure your heat is on the low side but they still stick to an original and move quickly. Pour about a quarter of a cup of batter into mix of five at a time. the centre of the pan. Lift the pan from the heat and use your A first tenor, a second tenor, wrist to swirl the batter out to the edges of the pan, forming a first tenor/falsetto, a second an extremely thin pancake. Use a spatula, and check under tenor/baritone, and a bass were the pancake for a golden brown colour before flipping. This all that was required. is going to take a few tries to master, but it just takes a little They have sold millions and practice and then it’s a piece of cake. Let the other side get golden brown as well, then throw it on millions of albums, earned 3 a plate. I leave the completed ones in the oven on a low heat Grammy awards, were inducted until they’re all made to keep them warm. into the Hall of Fame in 1989, To serve, put whatever you want in the middle and roll them and three of their songs have up like a burrito. Or just eat them on their own. I love eating been chosen to enter the Rock the cold leftovers too, they still taste great. and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll. Thirty-one of their albums entered the Top Ten in the U.S. or the United Kingdom, as well NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS as having 15 of their singles reach international fame. THE KLONDIKE SUN In 1968 they joined Dianna Re: The estate of Michael Stephen Piper, deceased, formerly Ross and the Supremes in thanks our volunteers! of RR2, Burns Lake, B.C., V0J 1E0 chief writer & editor - Dan Davidson creating two albums of wonder. Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Michael It was classic Motown!! webmaster/online assistance - John Steins There is only one original proofreading - Betty Davidson, Lisa McKenna, Colleen Smith, under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their member still with them, (you claimsStephen should Piper beare sent hereby to the notified administrator at have to remember they first Alyssa Friesen Gerald and Colleen Piper, PO Box 1393, Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0, formed in 1960). BUT they still layout - Dan & Alyssa (or call 250-692-4848) on or before December 10, 2011, "let their hair down". after which date the administrators will distribute the estate With such hits as “Ain’t to Proud subscription mailing/retailer deliveries - among the parties entitled to it, having to Beg” and “Ball of Confusion” Karen MacKay, Palma Berger, Colleen Smith, regard to the claims of which the administrators then have I’m tempted not to tell you who I Judith Blackburn-Johnson, the bandit and Jan Couture notice. am writing about, but, honestly, “THE TEMPTATIONS” are too great to keep to myself! P24 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN ROBERT SERVICE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT On October 28, the Grade 3 class at Robert Service School sent the Klondike Sun thier Halloween poems. The 5W format is a five-line poem that answers: who, what, where, when, why, in response to a common theme.
A girl pirate An awesome Japanese fighter Scream 4 with the cop’s gun Gets some treasure Scaring people so they cry Scaring my friends From the sea On dark empty streets At Tr’inke Zho Day Camp At night On a spooky Halloween night Every night For hidden candy! Because it is fun! It is fun looking at their faces.
ByA Tenesha, girl vampire Grade 3 ABy little Jesica, fuzzy Grade Ewok 3 ABy scary, Cole, evil Grade witch 3 Sees through walls Fighting Star Wars clones Scaring kids that do not have costumes At midnight In Whitehorse Walmart on When the moon is out Midnight on halloween All over the dingy old town She is hungry. Because it is awesome! On a spooky Halloween night! Because I just cannot resist candy!
By By Trystan,Rapunzel Grade 3 StrawberryAzalea, Grade Shortcake 3 Runs around and lets her hair fly A girl vampireBy Rory, Gradethat is 3 pretty She wants to go trick or treating In her Grandma’s yard Spies through walls, A haunted house on Halloween night At midnight on the full moon. On Halloween night So she gets air on her cheeks and ears! At the Flora Dora hotel, For candy. Because it is fun.
ByThe Morgan, creepy Grade clown 3 ABy blue Jadaka, haired Grade witch 3 Making kids scream DarthBy M Joanna,all from Grade Star 3Wars Scaring little kids and making them run In the town of Dawson at people’s houses Fighting Yoda and Obi – One, On the streets of Dawson City Halloween night On a late Halloween night Early Halloween night Because it is fun! So the Dark side wins the war She wants to be a good witch. At the old church.
StarBy W Johnathon,ars Storm Grade Trooper 3 A ninjaBy Annie, that fights Grade crime 3 Shooting Star Wars blasters Death,By withJamal, glowing Grade 3 eyes. Scaring little kids and making them In the Jedi temple A team of boys going around saying behave Late at night “Trick or Treat” In Dawson City Because it is fun! A haunted house. Late Halloween night Do I go, Because he just likes it! For candy? ABy creepy Xen, Grade ghost 3 Scaring trick-or-treaters By Christopher,A scary clown Grade 3 At the houses they visit By Jack, Grade 3 Scaring little kids Late on Halloween night At the old church She is trying to be spooky! In the middle of the night Because it can! By Austyn, Grade 3
By Devin, Grade 3 Dawson's Hospital Design
As the new hospital construction progresses (refer to the photo on page 3) it begins to look more and more like this design drawing, as prepared by Kobayashi & Zedda, Architects. The front entrance of the building actually faces Victory Gardens across the lane behind the Museum. Parking will be at the south end of the building and around the south corner. The EMS ambulance bay will be at the rear of the building, with access from Sixth Avenue. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P25 COMICS Roache's Corner by Mike Roache The Lighter Side
Tundra by Chad Carpenter
CYFT 106.9 FM: Dawson City Community Radio
“The Spirit of Dawson”
Friday, November 4
3:00-5:00 John - On The John 5:00-6:00 Georgia - The High Cost of Low Living 6:00-7:00 Nathan and Steve - Sports Talk Radio 7:00-8:00 Fill In Needed 8:00-9:00 Sonny Boy Williams - Rockin’ Blues Show 9:00-10:00 Jim - Psychedelic
Saturday, November 5
1:00-2:00 Rosie and Capri - The Cat’s Meow Nemo's Notions 2:00-3:00 Andrew - New Show 3:00-4:00 Jenna - Spires and Spindles 4:00-5:00 Connor - Sounds of Freedom 5:00-7:00 Aaron - Old Fashioned Gumption
Sunday, November 6
2:00-3:00 Julie - Francopen 3:00-4:00 Ryan - North By Ryan West 4:00-6:00 Aubyn and Matt - Diff’rent Strokes 6:00-8:00 Kit - Meat and Potatoes 8:00-10:00 Ben and Brendan- The Kings of Dawson City 10:00-11:00 Molly - Shore Nuff
Tune your dial to 106.9 FM or Cable Channel 11 (Rolling Ads) in Dawson City, or listen live over the internet at www.cfyt.ca! P26 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN KIDS' CORNER Stories and illustrations by Lisa Michelle K Knowledge is what you are gaining by reading this page.
Knowledge consists of information, facts, descriptions, and skills that are found Now wisdom is different. Wisdom is when you use your knowledge to improve yourself. through experience or education. Elders have wisdom, they have earned it through their travels in the world. It’s wise Knowledge can be learned through trial and error. It can be innate (you don’t have to learn it because your body to listen to them. already knows what to do), or you can use a scientific method (gathering evidence or data, observing things over time, and applying reason to reach an answer.)
Kelp is a name Koalas live in for certain the coastal seaweeds. regions of eastern There are over and southern 30 different Australia, they types. are never seen in Tasmania or western Australia.
Kelp forests are found in shallow waters that range between six and 14 degrees celsius. They are fed by the rich Koalas are arboreal (they live in trees) and herbivorous (they only eat leaves). nutrients of the sea water. Their favorite and best loved food is the Eucalyptus tree. Some kelp forests can grow up to 80 meters high! With their fast growth and decay rate, a kelp forest could be farmed to produce an alternate fuel source. They give off high amounts of methanol and ethanol. Koala fossils have been found that are 20, 000, 000 years old! Some kelp are eaten regularly and they are an important part in the Japanese diet. It can be used to flavour Their hands have two thumbs and they have actual fingerprints! stews, for a garnish on rice, as a vegetable or just a snack. A baby Koala, like a baby kangaroo, is called a joey. The coolest thing about being a joey is you get piggy- backed everywhere! And, you get to sleep up to 18 hours a day. Ashes from burnt kelp are used to make glass and soap! They are also used to thicken ice cream, jelly, salad dressing and even toothpaste!
HEY KIDS! Wh a t is y o u r f a v o r i t e JUST FOR FUN: t hi n g y o u l e a r n ed a b o u t t his Look at www.knowlegeadventure.com to find tons of free m o n t h ? Ha v e y o u e a t e n se a weed ? games! Some of them are really fun. If you have a little brother or sister, show it to them (just don't tell them they We w a n t t o he a r a b o u t i t! are actually learning something). Email your pictures, stories and poems to Lisa at klondikesun@ northwestel.net before Friday, November 11 at noon! THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 P27 CLASSIFIEDS Kl o n d i k e Churches Support Mining Ou t r e a c h Hey Dawson, Jo b Bo a r d ST. MARY’S Many Rivers: Water license and land use CATHOLIC CHURCH services for permit applications for placer Classified ads Corner of 5th and King Counselling and support miners. Call Josée (5 a.m. to Services: individuals, 6 p.m.) at 819-663-6754. or Sundays at 10:30 a.m., Cashiers couples, families or group email [email protected] only cost $6! Sat. 5 p.m., Tues. 7 p.m., Open Positions: counselling. A highly Wed. to Fri. 9:30 a. m. MISSING confidential service All are welcome. Chef/Kitchen Supervisor located in the Waterfront Contact Father Ernest Relative Cook-Line Building. We are a non- Emeka Emeodi for Construction Labourer assistance: profit organization with a sliding fee scale. To make Door Staff 993-5361 George Poulin, I am a blood an appointment call 993- Early Childhood Educators relative, a 2nd cousin to 6455 or email dawson@ Front Desk Agent you through your mom's DAWSON COMMUNITY manyrivers.yk.ca. See our Housekeepers mom. I searched for you CHAPEL website at www.manyrivers. Janitorial Services in Whitehorse, Dawson, Located on 5th Ave yk.ca/. Labourers across from Gold Rush Moosehide. Please email me Maintenance Assistant Joyce Derenas, jderenas@ Campground. Alcoholics Anonymous: Nanny gmail.com Sunday worship at 11 Secretary/Treasurer am. Videoconference meeting at Subsitute Teachers the Dawson Health Centre Everyone is welcome. Tutors Pastor Ian Nyland on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. North Star Group meets at the 993-5507 Comm. Support Centre at Positions w/ Closing Dates: 1233 2nd Ave. on Saturdays Language Mentors: November 14 at 7 p.m. Call 993-3734 or ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN 993-5095. CHURCH Positions Out of Town: Corner of Front & Church Various Mining Positions Streets Sunday Services: at 10:30 EMPLOYERS: STEP applications are now 1st and 3rd Sundays: Holy available. Deadline: November 18. Eucharist 2nd and 4th Sundays: Morning Prayer For more information on these and 5th Sunday: Informal other positions, come into the Klondike Contact Rev. Laurie Munroe Outreach office next to the Territorial at the Richard Martin Agent/Liquor Store. (853-Third Street). Chapel, Tues - Thurs. 8:30 - noon
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Illustration by Aubyn O'Grady P28 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN
P.O. Box 308 (1336 Front Street), Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 Tel: (867) 993-7400 ~ Fax: (867) 993-7434 NEW WEBSITE: www.cityofdawson.ca (updated regularly)
P.O BOX 308, DAWSON CITY, YUKON Y0B 1G0 PH: (867) 993-7400, FAX: (867) 993-7434
NOTICE OF TENDER
Dawson City Valve Chamber Upgrade
Sealed Tenders plainly marked on the envelope "Tender for Dawson City Valve Chamber Upgrade”, will be received by the City of Dawson, PO Box 308, Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0, or AECOM, 2251 Second Avenue, Whitehorse, YT or AECOM, 17203 103rd Ave., Edmonton, AB until 4 pm Pacific Standard Time, Friday , November 18, 2011.
The project is located in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. This project involves the complete replacement of internal piping, valves and appurtenances at the valve chamber (corner of 5th Ave and Princess St) , replacement of insulated piping exiting the valve chamber (1 to 2.5 metres from building), and improvements to the heating and ventilation within the valve chamber. The contractor shall consult, advise, and coordinate with the City of Dawson on the temporary disconnection of the recirculating function, and any interruption in the water supply.
Hard-copy Project Documents may be obtained from AECOM, or the City of Dawson after October 3, 2011, on payment of a non-refundable fee of $50, payable to the City of Dawson. An electronic copy of the Project Documents may be obtained free of charge from AECOM.
Each Tender must be accompanied by the specified bid security made payable to the City of Dawson.
The right is reserved to reject any or all Tenders or to accept any Tender that may be considered in the best interest of the City of Dawson.
Further inquiries may be addressed to Kenneth Johnson, P.Eng. at AECOM at 780 453 0910 (Fax: 780 488 2121; Email [email protected].
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