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The WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011 • VOL. 23, No. 13 $1.25 Hey Dawson, are you ready for hard water and KLONDIKE more of that white stuff? SUN Brazilian Jazz Heats Up Odd Fellows Hall On a tour of the Yukon, Fernanda Cunha sways her audience with smooth vocals in Dawson on October 14. See story on page 8. Photo by Alyssa Friesen in this Issue Come check out Korbo Apartment Demolition 2 TH Election Results 5 Eastcost Inspiration Up North 24 The aging building is shedding its A new chief and council have been Poet Jacob McArthur Mooney all of the NEW roof and siding. sworn in. reflects on his writer residency. toys at Max’s! City Council Brief 3 History's Shady Underbelly 8 Catch My Thrift? 15 Blast From the Past 16 Uffish Thoughts 4 Author's On Eighth 9 New Faces At SOVA 15 Kids' Page 19 Klondike Election Results 5 TV Guide 10 Stewed Prunes 16 Classifieds 19 P2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011 THE KLONDIKE SUN Conservation Klondike Society What to DEPOT HOURS : Sat, Sun, Mon, Wed: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundablesDawson City may Recreation be left on the deck Department during off hours. Info: 993-6666. SEE AND DO GYMNASTICS WITH TERRIE IS BACK! : A six week session will run Wednesdays, October 19 to November 23. $45 for the session. Instruction for in DAWSON now: ages 5+. Register through the Rec Office beginning October 3. Contact 993- Pre-school PlaygrouP: 2353. Indoor playgroup for parents and tots at Trinkle This free public service helps our readers find their way through WOMEN AND WEIGHTS: the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need Zho. Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this Exercise program for women only in the weight Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) BODY BLAST: listing contact the office at [email protected]. room. Mondays and Wednesdays from Noon to 1 p.m. THE NATURAL AND THE MANUFACTURED LECTURE: Group fitness class combining cardio, full-body strength and Landscapes and Dream- core. RSS ancillary room. $2 drop in. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. to scapes: Human Perspectives on Caribou Yukon and Western DROP IN BADMINTON: B Arctic historian for Parks Canada, David Neufeld, on 6:30 p.m. starting October 18. Saturday, October 29 at 4 p.m. at KIAC. adminton in the RSS gymnasium for all ages. CALL FOR ART AND CRAFT SUBMISSIONS: Free admission. Mondays, 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., starting October 17. Art and craft pieces are requested For more information on these and other available programs, please contact Westminster Hotel for display in the new Haines Junction Visitor Information Centre. Submission- the Recreation Department, 993-2353 deadline: November 4 at 4 p.m. Pick up your complete submission packages at the Department of Tourism and Culture in Whitehorse or to have a pack age emailed to you contact Garnet Muething at 667-5858 or 1-800-667-0408 Live music in the Tavern, Thursday through Saturday nights. In the lounge this KIAC CHRISTMAS ART FAIR: ext.5858, [email protected] month: Friday nights with the Greasy Band, Saturday nights featuring special 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 IN THE ODD GALLERY: MITCH MITCHELL: Community Library info. Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each month. BornCities out of of subconcious Prairies content and sensory memory resulting from time spent in and around the Tar Sands Oil Klondike Visitors Association Project in northern Alberta, Mitchell's print series, , possesses a Open Mon - Fri, noon to 6:30 p.m. FILM FESTIVAL: - threatening and poetic quality. September 22 to October 21. DIAMOND TOOTH GERTIES FALL OPENINGS: 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Submis We are open Fridays and sions are now open for film of any genre 30 minutes or less! Free for Yukon Saturdays this October! 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. (October 7 to 8, October 14 to 15, filmmakers. Deadline is December 19. Check out www.dawsonfilmfest.com for TREK OVER THE TOP: - October 21 to 22) details. North America's most northern international KIAC would like to welcome back our Film Festival Producer, Mr. Dan Sokolows snowmobile Poker Run! Registration opens around October 21. If you want to ki. be contacted by email once registation is ready, please contact kva@dawson. Visit www.kiac.ca for current exhibitions and programming information. net, 1-877-456-3006. Korbo Demolition Underway The roof and siding are coming off the decommissioned John Korbo apartments. There may be several layers to both as the building has been both retrofitted and given a new roof system within the last 20 years. Photo by Dan Davidson. Story by Dan Davidson Corporation determined restore the ailing forty year old Former Klondike MLA Steve housing erected on this site that the age and condition building to other uses now that Nordick, who was the minister through some undefined form Demolition work has begun of the building, coupled with its replacement across town in charge of the Yukon Housing of public-private partnership on the John Korbo Apartment contamination from a 22,000 has been finished and all the Corporation, indicated that within the next two years. Building on 6th Avenue in litre heating fuel leak during former tenants here have been it was YHC's intent to have Dawson. The Yukon Housing 2010, made it impossible to relocated to there. low cost (but not subsidized) THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011 P3 NEWS The Land of the Sun Closes Story by Lisa McKenna - - pulled the deadbolt on the "sum not unlikely, now-a-days, to mer" door and now it’s through- walk from one side of town to The annual closing of the Mid the lobby door all winter. the other and not see a single night Sun Hotel happened yet They’re not the only estab vehicle and as it gets colder one again. That’s when Dawsonites lishments to close their doors. would probably not even see a start to feel winter is coming. The Westmark is boarded up, single person ! There was free entertainment, the Triple J, Sourdough Sam’s, It’s life in the far north and it $1 pints of Yukon Gold, two for and of course the Goldrush R.V. is loved by those who live here.- one ciders, everything needed- park has been closed for awhile The challenge, the pitting of for a shut-down party. now. Klondike Kate’s has their oneself against the forces of na The Midnight Sun was estab plywood outside and ready, ture, the mere idea that human- lished in 1972 and the wings and Nora’s Kitchen has closed- race can survive at such extreme own three buildings full of lots as well. (Makes you want to cry, temperatures, well, it’s fascinat of different rooms to fit one’s they made great chicken burg ing, thrilling, and unbelievable. needs - there’s even FREE room- ers !) Yes, the North is closing down- service! Sadly, everything is If a person was to come up somewhat but there are always boarded up andst they don’t re here, for their first time, at this year-rounders and spring open open till May 1 . time of year they would think ings !! The Westminster Hotel has they were in a ghost town. It’s The Midnight Sun Hotel is boarded shut for the winter. Photo by Dan Davidson. City Concerned About Landfill Capacity THE KLONDIKE SUN Story by Alyssa Friesen Subscription & Renewal Form “There is some very Dawson Wastewater Treatment significant concern on the Facility, and a request from Name: As the demolition of the part of our superintendent (of the Dawson Firefighters Address: Korbo Apartments gets public works) that accepting Association (DCFFA) to donate underway, conversation at this waste will essentially the first fire chief’s vehicle City: Province/ State: the City Council meeting on fill what we have left of the to the new DCFFA extended October 12 turned to the construction demolition area,” facility. Postal/ Zip Code: Country: disposal of the construction said Renaud. The vagueness of the status Email: waste in Quigley Landfill. According to Renaud, if the report for the Wastewater The CAO’s Report, dated construction demolition area Treatment Facility, dated October 7, highlighted the was filled, it would force the September 30, was a topic Annual (25 Issue) Subscription Costs: Yukon Housing Corporation’s city to expand the site. of some concern. Council application and approval for “There is a reserve around questioned the brevity of Canada $44.00 the demolition, noting “the that we can expand to, but that the schedule and costs for U.S.A $75.00 report permission has not will have significant costs,” said operation provided by YTG’s Overseas $125.00 (Airmail) been provided by the CAO for Renaud. project manager, Catherine the demolition waste to be Other matters on the agenda Harwood. placed in the Quigley Landfill”, included the Community Finally, the DCFFA request Contact Information: in accordance with the Waste Development and Planning was met with enthusiasm. Mail: The Klondike Sun, Bag 6040, Dawson YT, Y0B 1G0 Management Bylaw. Report, the Fire Chief’s The historic vehicle will join Phone: (867)-993-6318 / Fax: (867)-993-6625 CAO Jeff Renaud said that Report, discussion of a the collection of apparatuses Email: [email protected] he planned to meet with Municipal Credit Card, Frank and equipment housed in the extended facility as a demolition contractor on the Narozny’s application for a GST #: 12531 0581 RT / Societies Registration #: 34600-20 following afternoon, October lot enlargement south of the community asset and tourist Print by THE YUKON NEWS, Whitehorse YT 13, to discuss a plan “for Klondike Highway in Callison, attraction.