The WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 • VOL. 23, NO.11 $1.25 Welcome to "waiting KLONDIKE for winter" weather. SUN Allez Cuisine! Dawsonites put on their chef's hats and got out their spatulas to raise money for school children in Tanzania early in September. See Page 9 for story. Photo submitted by Maureen Abbott and Karen Dubois in this Issue Taking Education Outside 7 Authors on EIghth Fiction 10 Celebrating Elders 11 September saw the dedication of the Winner of the Prose section of the Palma Berger talks to Lorenzo New Toys!! new Outdoor classroom at RSS Authors on Eight contest Grimard, Dawson's oldest resident See & Do in Dawson 2 Letters to the Editor 5 Tanzanian Update 8 20 Years Ago in the Sun 19 Serious About Her Language 3 Candidates' Speak for Themselves 6 A Century of Extinct Animals 12 This is Just My Opinion 20 Uffish Thoughts 4 Humane Society Update 7 TV Guide 14 -18 Classifieds 23 P2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to The Westminster Hotel SEE AND DO Regular live entertainment in the lounge on Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. to close. More live entertainment in the Tavern on Fridays from in DAWSON now: 4:30The p.m.Downtown to 8:30 p.m. Hotel LIVE MUSIC : Barnacle Bob is in the Sourdough Saloon every Thursday, This free public service helps our readers find their way through FridayThe Eldorado and Saturday Hotel from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this listing contact the office at klondikesun@northwestel. Food Service Hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. Check out net.Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) our Daily Lunch Specials. In a rush at lunch? Call ahead and we'll have MATT ANDERSEN: your order ready when you arrive, 993-5451. Breakfast is served until 1:30Bombay p.m. on Peggy's weekends. Award winning Canadian blues musican. October 3 in the KIAC Ballroom. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. FAMILY COFFEE HOUSE AND OPEN MIC: $18 in advance, $20 at the door. Purchase Tickets from KIAC. Is now serving Sunday Night Dinners! Come in for the first serving - afterChamber 6 p.m. of Commerce & Town Council Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. Admission by donation with all proceeds contributing to a community group. Every ELECTION FORUM: KARL SCHWONIK QUARTET: - one is welcome to perform in any medium. Don't be shy! CHAMBER MEETINGS: - Oct.9, 7-9 p.m. at the Robert Service School. YAMAHA drum artist, legally blind drum Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of mer and Western Canadian Music Award nominee Karl Schwonik pre COUNCIL MEETINGS: forms Oct. 12, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Ballroom. Doors each month at the Downtown Hotel. open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 Adv/ $17 at door/ $12 senior and youth/ Regular meetings on the second and fourth THE MUSEUM OF LONGING AND FAILURE: $5 under 13. Wednesday of each month. Special Meeting times are posted at the Post The Museum of Longing and Failure DZ Cultural Centre KIAC artists in residence Office three business days in advance. Posted meetings are public. installment, (MOLAF), will occupy JUSTIC BY LEONARD LINKLATER: one window in the former Bank of British North America, located at Justice - BEGINNER GUITAR WITH NIJEN: Second Avenue and Queen Stree. September 14-28. When cultures clash and lives are lost, where does the healing begin? In , Leonard Linklater ex Fridays, Oct.5 to Dec.7 (no class Oct. LUNCH HOUR YOGA WITH JOANNA MCDONALD: amines the gold rush era case of the Nantuck brothers, the nature of 26 & Nov.9), 30 change and how it affects the people caught up in it. Presented by: Mondays, Tuesdays Gwaandak Theatre, Danöjà Zho Cultural Centre & KIAC. October 4th, and Thursdays from 12:05 to 12:50 p.m. $8 drop in/5 classes for $30/ 8 p.m. at the Danöjà Zho Cultural Centre. Adult $10, Elders & Youth $5. PIANO LESSONS WITH BARNACLE BOB: - full session (18 classes) for $100. Info: 867 393-2676. Until Oct 31. 8 half hour ses LIFE DRAWING AT KIAC: - FROM THE KLONDIKE SUN ARCHIVES sions, Wednesdays 3-5 p.m. $138. Oct. 16 from 16 from 7-9 p.m. in the Ball room. Basic drawing supplies will be provided, paper will be available Saturday drop-in painting: - for purchase. - Inspire and be inspired by other art ists. 1-4 p.m. in the KIAC Classroom. Bring your own ideas and paint ing surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered.SOVA ADMIN OFFICE HOURS LIBRARY HOURS : Mon-Thurs, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. - : Sunday noon-4p.m., Monday-Thursday 4-7p.m. Library materials are now available for check-out by the commu ART SUPPLY STORE NOW OPEN nity. Stop in for more details! : Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.Conservation Klondike Society DEPOT HOURS : Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundablesYukon College may be left on the deck during off hours. Info: 993-6666. TheDawson computer City lab Recreationis open to the public Department during business hours. Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www. cityofdawson.ca. Facebook: "City of Dawson Recreation". Contact us at 993-2353. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 P3 “I’m serious about my language,” says Award Winning Elder Story & Photo By Dan Davidson the dozen songs that had been Chooutla preserved there and brought them back to Dawson. After four years at the - residential school in Carcross After series of visits by Sandford (recognized at the (1946-49) Doris Roberts re- turned to Dawson to discover Moosehide Gathering in 2010) that she could no longer under the group now known as the stand her grandmother when Hän Singers began to perform the old woman spoke to her. them in public and they are now- “’Gramma’,” I said, “‘I don’t an increasingly lively portion of hear you’ and she said ‘What’s many public events in the com wrong? What happened to your munity. ear?’” For her work as a language “I said, ‘ I don’t know what teacher and rediscoverer of you’re talkin’ about.’” the ritual songs, Roberts has She as about ten years old been recognized by the both- then, but the damage to her the Council of the Federation- sense of the Hän language had Literacy Award recognizes out been done. Even down river at standing achievement, innova- Moosehide she found herself tive practice and excellence in unable to get a good grasp of literacy, including family, Ab what was being said to her. original, health, workplace and community literacy and is given She credits her uncles, Jimmy- Wood and Stanley Roberts, with to recognize the excellence of educators, volunteers, learners, having the patience and persis- tence to work with her. and community organizations “They talk away to me and fi - (including non-governmental nally it started to come back to By repetition they would get told her that one day she was alphabet, which leads to getting organizations) and businesses me.” to the point where they could going to teach. - both the writing and the speak in each province and territory. Thirteen awards are given out At first she could understand- write down the word they were “I said that was too crazy. I’m ing properly. what was being said to her but looking for. not gonna teach. I’m too mis Some of her students went on annually across the nation. was unable to speak the lan At various times, when money chievous. Yet here I was. I got the to become teachers of the Hän Roberts was nominated by both the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and guage. - as available, she’s been hired by patience. I got the time. I make language and Roberts says that- - “’Try’ they said to me, and the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in to teach time. So my uncle was right.” make her very proud. Yukon Learn. were laughing. Well, I’ve al language classes, but she says She finds it frustrating that One of Roberts major contri “I’m serious – I’m very seri ways said the Hän language is a it’s been sporadic and rather some of the older generation butions was taking her students- ous about my language, I always laughing language. That’s what I frustrating, with her program who could still speak Hän didn’t over to Tanacross in Alaska, the have been. I have great respect always told my students later. So sometimes been cancelled with seem to try very hard to pass it place where Chief Isaac had tak- for it. eventually it all came back – not just a few hours notice when the- on to their children, so that it en the songs and dances from “It’s surprising, that award, “ all of it, but some of it. It’s some funding ran out. skipped a generation. this community for safe keep she said. “It surprised me.” kind of frustrating that I really Much to her surprise, she en- “Now, this generation, they’re ing. She said she feels a bit like she didn’t do anything. have nobody to talk to. - joyed teaching. trying to get it back.” Roberts organized a group of- “My brother, Edward, he’s the “I never knew I’d have that pa She worries that some of the her language students to travel “Do I think I deserve it? Well, last fluent Hän language teach tience for teaching, because I’m Hän she is hearing nowadays is to Tanacross to meet with el people tell me that I do.