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The WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 • VOL. 26, NO. 21 $1.50 Raven says, Happy Easter and enjoy KLONDIKE the Film Fest. SUN change this The KATTS Loppett was an event for the whole family. Photo by KATTS in this Issue From chocolate bunnies to plastic eggs Front Street space crunch p. 6 Yearning for the iconic North p. 6 Winning the Akio Saito Cup p. 7 Max's has every thing you need How to get more vendor spaces Shelagh Plunkett reads at the The Ham Dogs make it three out without ruining the paraglider Library on March 29. of four in curling. for for a happy Easter. landing strip. STORE HOURS: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday See and Do 2 Uffish Thoughts: Daylight Daze 4 Arctic Winter Games spotlight 9 History Hunter: Quilted Names 18 Authors on 8th 2 & 5 A new Lodge opens 7 READI is Launched 10 Classifieds & Job Board 19 Noon to 5p.m. on Sunday Loppet report 3 KVA & the Big Cheque 8 TV Guide 12-16 City Notices 20 P2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Authors on 8th What to Authors on 8th contest entry The Moccasins Prose SEE AND DO By Erika Rauguth Submission in DAWSON now: The Moccasins Native woman. Her raven By Erika Rauguth black hair was pulled back This free public service helps our readers find their way through in a long thick braid and the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need “Smile girls.” Mariana and her dark skin was clear and preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this Rosie smiled, looking like little flawless. She had brown Meetingslisting contact the office at [email protected]. twin “cupie” dolls, posing beside laughing eyes, and a wide, one corner of the steam ship’s welcoming smile. She held IODE DAWSON CITY: enormous wheel. a plate of what looked like a Bob snapped the photo and scones or biscuits. Peeking Meet first Wednesday of each month at looked over at me with a grin, out from behind her were two workin’ as an Engineer on the Rhomeoya Lof C Joyceanadian Caley atLE 7:30GION p.m. BRANC For infoH #1 call: Myrna Butterworth, and then his face turned to little girls, with long, glossy road project, eh. Well, I was 993-5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-October. concern. “Maggie, you look braids like their mother’s. workin’, selling jams and jellies Meet first Thursday absolutely green. Maybe you’d “Hello, you must be Maggie,” and bannock to the White Pass better go lie down in the cabin.” she said. “I’m Annie Ellis. My guys, and he bought a jar of PeachIONEER month W atO MLegionEN O FHall TH (3rdE YUK andON King: St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts Helen Bowie, 993-5526, Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. I nodded mutely. Watching husband George is workin’ with cranberry jelly from me every week, ‘til he asked me to marry Meet third Thursday each the swirling white waves just your hubby, eh? We’re just a seemed to mirror my churning few houses over.” She pointed him. Always said he fell in month at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, love at first sight, but I think 993-5353. Recess for summer June, July and Aug. insides. I headed towards our behind her to a brightly painted, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) little room. On the last leg of tidy shanty house with bright he just wanted all the cooking Drop-in painting our trip down the Stewart River white wood siding. to himself,” she laughed and I and dry land couldn’t come soon I looked self-consciously couldn’t help but join her. “How : Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., $5 drop-in in the KIAC enough for me. around my little home, barely ‘bout you. How’d you meet your Classroom (enter through the back door). Inspire and be inspired As I closed my eyes, I unpacked. “My house isn’t really Bob?” I told her about meeting Bob Hatby otherHA Yartists.OGA WIT BringH Jyouroanne own V ideasAN N andostrand painting: surfaces. Paints, remembered my mother’s up for company…,” I stuttered. brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. dismay at our announced My mother would die if she had and then our quick marriage intentions. “Mayo, Maggie? But seen me entertain a neighbour before he left for France and Mondays: 6:45-8 the war. How he didn’t meet p.m., Thursdays: 5:45-7 p.m. & Saturdays 9-10:30 a.m. In the KIAC where is that?” My mother had without having the Good asked, tears in her eyes. Housekeeping seal of approval. our twin girls until the war was Ballroom. For more info or to register for classes, please contact over, and how unhappy he had Joanne Van Nostrand at yogawithjoanne[at]me.com. “It’s south of Dawson,” I had I was tired of my own company, Dawson City Community Library tried to explain, pointing to the though, so I took a chance. been in the city. “He missed REGULAR HOUrs little map that I found in the “Would you like to come in?” I it here,”I said, but perhaps encyclopedia. asked. somehow my voice betrayed my : Monday to Friday, noon - 6:30 p.m. “How will you manage the She stepped inside, the two misgivings. Reading/Presentation by Berton House Writer-in-Residence girls by yourself? Will you have little figures following close “It gets in your blood...that SHELAGH PLUNKETT - Tuesday, March 29 at 7:00 PM electricity in your house or behind. Taking off her heavy what my George says,” Annie replied. “’Course, I wouldn’t YukonANNUAL SchoolGENERAL of MEETING Visual Thursday, Arts April 28 at 7:00 PM water? Are there any decent boots she pulled a pair of people there?” leather slippers rimmed with know, havin’ been here my “Mother, Bob grew up there. It rabbit fur and slipped them whole life, but George swears by it. The North just gets in your Chamber of Commerce is hardly the ends of the earth.” on. Her little girls did the I found my consolation edged same. I had no place for them blood and you can’t stay away. CHAMBER MeetinGS: with irritation. “You didn’t to lay their coats, but directed You’re just******** not happy anywhere grill Harry this hard when he them to be placed over a large else.” Regular meetings on the second Wednes- went to work on the Alaska armchair. Mariana and Rosie, Townday of each Council month at the Downtown Hotel. Highway!” I reminded her, so happy to see other children, “Don’t worry, Mrs. Mather. The doctor will be back in no COUNCIL MeetinGS: wishing my older brother was excitedly invited the other girls here now to back me up. “You to see their new room with the time.” showed his letters to everyone wooden bunks that Bob had I woke up early one January 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 morning to find that I was p.m. at Council Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions who came through the door, like constructed. it was some great adventure!” I directed my guest to the finally in labour. The doctor, CduringOMM ITTEEthe question OF TH Eperiod, WHO LwhichE MEETIN takesG placeS: towards the end of however, had been called to each meeting. Meetings are also aired on Channel 12. Her face held a wordless small kitchen table. “I’m sorry expression that conveyed how that my house isn’t set up quite Pelly Crossing to set a broken Council will be holding much she disputed my logic. yet,” I confessed. leg. The nurses sent me home to Committee of the Whole meetings as posted at the posted office. “It is no place for a young “It’s a big job, setting up a rest, assuring me that he was on businesses: We'd like to get back to promoting woman, Maggie, let alone a new home,” she agreed. “Where his way. your special events as well, but we really can't afford to do young mother with children. were you before this?” I heard a knock at the door and then Annie let herself in. that for nothing. We will offer you space in these listings What kind of neighbours will “North Vancouver”, I replied. you have in this place,” She “And you? Where are you “Don’t get up. You’re supposed in return for some form of small advertising elsewhere in sniffed. “No doubt you’ll be left from?” to be restin’," she said. She went the paper to help defray the cost of this full page commu- to borrow your cup of sugar Annie sipped her tea and then straight into the kitchen and from drunken road builders and motioned in the direction of the put my kettle on the stove. Then nity service. We would like to see sponsorships for the TV she came back into the little Guide pages in the available space, or business card sized Natives!” river. “Right here. My people At that point, I realized that have been in this area for as sitting room and handed me ads. Please contact us to see what we can arrange. it was best********* that I leave before long back as we can remember. a little package that had been letting her see my own tears.