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The WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 • VOL. 23, NO.23 $1.25 Easter, Film Fest and the Percy in one weekend? What were KLONDIKE we thinking?. SUN The Percy Rebounds for this Year's Races Both the Percy DeWolfe Memorial mail Race and the Junior Percy had good numbers this year. See stories on pages 3 and 7. Photos by Dan Davidson in this Issue Mushers told to cool it 3 Thaw di Gras Report & Awards 5 & 6 Fur Show Numbers were Up 8 & 9 Max’s has The percy Race is hot this year - Thaw di Gras was busy again this The bi-annual fur show was a maybe too hot? year. success. phone cards! See & Do in Dawson 2 Roots Songwriters 7 Tourism Memoir 12 Kids' Page 22 Uffish Thoughts 4 Concert & Gallery reports 11 TV Guide 14 - 18 Classifieds 23 Fur Fashion Gallery 9 Blast from the Past 11 Authors on 8th 19 City Page 24 P2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to SEE AND DO in DAWSON now: Library HOUrs This free public service helps our readers find their way through : Monday-Thursday 4-7 p.m., Sunday 1-5 p.m. Library the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need materials are now available for check-out by the community. Stop in for Art SUPPLY Store HOUrs preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this more details! Eventslisting contact the office at [email protected]. : Tuesday-Friday, noon-1 p.m., Thursday 4-5 DIAMOND DEMPSTER DAZE: Conservationp.m., Sunday 1-3 p.m. Klondike Society . Depot HOUrs Saturday, April 6 Come ride with Dawson City Sled Dawgs up the Dempster! Might be your last chance of the season. : Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundables IODE ICE DRAW: Contact: Jeremy Lancaster, 993-6659. Dawsonmay be left on City the deck Recreation during off hours. Department Info: 993-6666. Meetings Tickets now available at various locations around town! IODE DAWSON CITY: Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www.cityofdawson. Meet first Tuesday each month at home of Joyce Caley Dawsonca. Facebook: City "City ofCommunity Dawson Recreation". Library Contact us at 993-2353. at 7:30 p.m. For info call Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. RoyaL Canadian LEGION BRANCH #1: AGM Recess for summer July-Oct. Meet second Thursday each month The: Wednesday,Downtown April Hotel 24 at 7 p.m. at the library. at Legion Hall (3rd and King St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts Helen Bowie, 993-5526, PIONEER WOMEN OF THE YUKON: SOUrdoUGH saLOON Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353 Meet third Thursday each month at 7:30 : 11:30 a.m. to midnight. Happy Hour every day 4:30 -7 p.m. Hockey Beers during NHL hockey games and served to local teams after p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Recess for summer WEEKLY SpeciaLS: June,Klondike July and Aug.Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) games. KIAC AGM: Mexican Mondays; Tuesdays Game Night and Scrabble Tourny at 7 p.m.; Wing Wednesdays; Thursdays Ladies' Night all night Happy Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. at KIAC Ballroom. Come down to the Hour for ladies; Fridays Rum & Reggae; Sunday - Caesar Sunday All Day & Open KIAC AGM to revisit some of the amazing programming from the last year and TheMic @ Westminster7 p.m. with Barnacle Hotel Bob. Youth Screenprinting with rian lougheed-Smith: discuss exciting upcoming projects. There will be treats! Fridays: JD MCCALLEN IN THE Tavern Ages 12-18. April 13 & 14, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $10. Contact the Youth Center at 7129 or KIAC at 5005 : Every Friday, 5:30-9:30 in the Tav- SENIOR'S mosaic worKSHOP WITH TISS CLARK: SUndays: SMALLIE SUnday AND SUSU ROBIN for info. ern. Country/bluegrass/folk/rockabilly. Special guests weekly. Saturday & Sunday, Apr.20 : Sundays starting at 4 p.m. in & 21, 12-4 p.m. FREE and open to those aged 55 and up. Pre-registration re- the Tavern. Listen the the musical talents of Susu Robin on the piano and uku- IN THE ODD GALLery: Under NEW manaGEMENT: Video store: quired, call KIAC at 5005 to reserve your spot! lele and enjoy happy hour small drafts! Video Store Mar.7- Regular live entertainment in the lounge on Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. to Apr.12. is a gallery exhibition that takes the form of a video rental Chamberclose. of Commerce & Town Council store. Under New Management is comprised of curatorial team Suzanne Carte BEGINNER GUITAR WITH NIJEN: CHAMBER MEETINGS: & Su-Ying Lee. Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Upcoming session: Apr.5-May 24, Fridays Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each LET'S SING AND PLay WITH ORFF!: COUNCIL MeetinGS: 3:30-7 p.m. $138 for 8 lessons. All ages. month at the Downtown Hotel. Kids learn about music by playing music 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Council with composer Carl Orff! Involving speech, singing, movement, instruments, Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions during the question period, listening and improvising. Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-noon, May 5 to June 23. $100. which takes place towards the end of each meeting. Meetings are also aired on HATHA YOGA WITH JoannE VAN nostrand: COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETINGS: Age: 5 years. Pre-register with Tiss Clark, 6154. Parents welcome to attend. Channel 12. Tues/Thurs, 5:30-7 p.m. Sat, Council will be holding Committee 9-10:30 a.m. To confirm e-mail [email protected]. Frequent students: THof the Whole meetings on the 1st Monday and 3rd Tuesday of each month. $60/10 classes. Prepaid cards: $80/10 classes, $50/5 classes. Drop in: $12. CONFLUENCE members' GaLLery CALL FOR proposaLS: ELDERS SPRING CAMP: Bring your own yoga mat, blanket and towel. Exhibition slots YOUTH CAMP: April 15-19. Contact: Georgette, 993-7153 offered to DCAS members: May 23-June 16, June 20-July 14, July 18-August 11 *Dates my be subject to change. For more info contact Ange at 5005 or pro- Klondike Visitor'sApril 18-21. Contact:Association Georgette, 993-7153. [email protected] COMEDIAN PETER KELAMIS @ DIAMOND TOOTH GERTIES: SoVa Year-end exhibitionS & celebration Saturday, April 6. Come support the Dawson City Sled Dawgs at Diamond Tooth Gerties : Thursday, April 25. 1st DIAMOND TootH Gerties WINTER OPENINGS: exhibition at SOVA at 6 p.m., 2nd exhibition at the ODD Gallery at 7 p.m., Gambling Hall. Bar profits all go to the Sled Dawgs! Doors open @ 7pm! celebration of achievement at the KIAC Ballroom at 8 p.m. Appetizers, ADMIN OFFICE HOUrs Friday and Saturday, April 5 cash bar, music. [email protected] or 6390 to confirm attendance. & 6, April 12 &13, 7-midnight. Open for summer May 10! : Mon-Thurs, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 P3 Mushers Advised to Keep Their Dogs Cool During the Percy Story & photo by Dan Davidson near the starting line for the Percy Junior Race at noon that same day, with It wasn’t standing room ten teams lined up for the only, but the Visitors mass start, race marshall Information Centre was Brent MacDonald having moderately crowded as informed them all that forty of so folk turned out this year there’d actually to the mushers’ meeting better be a mass start when the evening before the the flag dropped or else. 2013 running of the Percy MacDonald needn’t have DeWolfe Memorial Mail worried. The teams were off Race. They weren’t all quickly and there was even mushers, but 14 of them a bit of jostling for position were signed up to run the right at the beginning. main race, 8 more than last There were no skijor year; and 10 were signed entries this year. up for the Percy Junior, an Junior Percy mushers increase of 3. were Jason Biasetti The main race is a 210- (Dawson), Nathaniel mile (338 km) run, mostly Hamlyn (Yellowknife), following the Yukon River, Jacob Heigers to Eagle, Alaska, and back. (Whitehorse), Marcel Running times for the race Marin (Yellowknife), Nora are between 20 and 30 Vom Endt, Anne-Sophie hours. There’s a mandatory Strauss, Maren Bradley 6 hour layover in Eagle and Anna Claxton addresses the mushers’ meeting. The audience was attentive to the talks about the race, (Whitehorse), Jonathan a 2 hour break that must be dog care, the rules and the trail. Lucas (Whitehorse), Dany taken at either Fortymile Jette (Dawson). or Eagle. Last year Gerry The trail was reportedly Willomitzer took first place smooth as far as Fortymile, in 24 hours and 14 minutes. from a prepared site down on he was called the Iron Man of going over some of the rules of but the trail makers had It’s a timed start from between the ice bridge at noon. the North. In 1935 he received the race. trouble remaking the trail after the Palace Grand Theatre and Both sets of teams generally a silver medal from King George Claxton advised that some of the nightime blizzard early in the Old Post Office on King manage the return trip by in honour of his work. the trail markers might not all the week, so the second half was Street, with teams leaving at late Friday afternoon, and the Veterinarian John Overell be on the same side of the trail rough, and rougher still near three minute intervals, starting banquet is held on Saturday.