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Have you noticed that bright sun reflecting off the KLONDIKE Moosehide Slide? SUN Joining a National Debate
Dawsonites joined the Idle No More Movement on New Year's Day Story on page 3. Photo by Dan Davidson
in this Issue X-mas at RSS 7 Another One Bites the Dust 9 John Flynn Day Proclaimed 13 2013 Calendars RSS closed out the term with The Klondike River Lodge is gone. John Flynn honoured witha special seasonal celebration. day. are here!
See & Do in Dawson 2 Toeing the Line 8 Quilting in Columbia 13 Berton House Thoughts 23 Uffish Thoughts 4 TH Christmas Feast 10 TV Guide 14-18 Kids' Page 26 Lots of Letters 5 & 6 Dawson CD Sampler 11 X-Mas Extravaganza Raises $29,000 20 City Notices 28 P2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN
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Meet first Tuesday each month at home of Joyce : Saturday, January 19 at 10 p.m. Caley at 7:30 p.m. For info call Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353, Joyce Help Brian Wilmshurst and his dogs get to the Yukon Quest start line! Royal Canadian Legion Branch #1: Fridays: Jd McCallen in the Tavern Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-Oct. Local musicans, a Silent Auction, Special Shots and more. Meet second Thursday each : Every Friday, 5:30-9:30 in the Sundays: Smallie Sunday and susu Robin month at Legion Hall (3rd and King St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts Helen Tavern. Country, Bluegrass/Folk/Rockabilly. Special guests weekly. Pioneer Women of the Yukon: Bowie, 993-5526, Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. : Sundays starting at 4 Meet third Thursday each month p.m. in the Tavern. Listen the the musical talents of Susu Robin on the at 7:30 p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. piano and ukulele and enjoy happy hour small drafts! RecessKlondike for summer Institute June, Julyof Artand Aug.and Culture (KIAC) Regular live entertainment in the lounge on Friday and Saturday, 10 youth art enrichment at rss: Thep.m. to Downtown close. Hotel Live Music Jan.7-31. The ODD Gallery has partnered with RSS to present artwork from the 2012 Youth Art Enrich- : Barnacle Bob is in the Sourdough Saloon every Thursday, in the odd gallery: Visuel'Art Nord-ouest: ment Program. (Check in with the front office upon entering school.) FridayChamber and Saturday of Commerce from 4 p.m. &to 7Town p.m. Council Jan.10-Jan.18. Chamber Meetings: Opening reception Jan.10 at 7 p.m. A collective exhibition of nine fran- Film Screening: Calypso ROse: Lioness of the JUngle: Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of cophone artists from western and northern Canada. Council Meetings: each month at the Downtown Hotel. Friday, January 11, 7 p.m. at the DZ Cultural Centre. $5 at the door. An intimate Regular meetings on the second and fourth In concert: Calypso Rose: portrait of the Queen of Calypso, her career, love of life and people. Wednesday of each month. Special Meeting times are posted at the Post Office three business days in advance. Posted meetings are public. Monday, January 14 in the KIAC Ball- Northern Wildlife room. Tickets $25 at KIAC and Max's. Doors open at 7:30. Presented by by Jeff hollett & Lori-lee Thomas Guitar Lessons: KIAC and DCMF, the undisputed Queen of Calypso is live in concert. New Session starts this Friday, Jan.11-Mar.8 (no class Yoga with Joanna McDonald: on Feb.22), 3:30-7 p.m. 8 lessons for $138. Space is limited! Wednesdays 7-8 p.m., Thursdays intro to silkscreening with rian lougheed-smith: 12:05-12:50 p.m. $8 drop-in/5 classes for $30. Saturday, Jan.26, Sunday, Jan.27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in the KIAC Classroom. $42 (GST Yukon 48: A 48 hour film challenge: and supplies included). Explore stencils and printing materials. January 18-20, $15 per team entry. Winning film will be screened at the 2013 Dawson City In- Film selection committee: ternational Short Film Festival. www.dawsonfilmfest.com/48hour. Just watch movies and tell us what you think! Film selections are for the 14th annual Dawson City Internation- al Short Film Festival. Screenings Mondays and Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. at theSOVA KIAC Classroom. Contact Dan at [email protected]. ADMin Office Hours
: Mon-Thurs, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P3 Dawson Joins Idle No More Story & Photo by Dan Davidson legislation. Morberg-Green emphasized that gatherings such as The Idle No More movement this are intended to be a came to Dawson City on January positive alternative to simply 1, with a gathering held outside complaining about injustices, the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre and that they were a way of at 2 p.m. making public opinion known Organizer Fran Morberg- to the larger community. Green addressed the crowd of Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in concerns some 50 folk, both Tr'ondëk about possible developments Hwëch'in citizens and others, in the Peel Watershed are around the fire at the beginning connected, she said, to the of the demonstration. larger issue, as is the hunger She outlined the origins of the strike currently being carried Idle No More movement, which on in Ottawa by Chief Theresa began with four women both Spence of the Attawapiskat aboriginal and non-aboriginal, First Nation. from Saskatoon. Sylvia Signs carried by the McAdam. Jess Gordon, Nina demonstrators included Wilson and Sheelah McLean mention of Idle No More, support were moved by the contents of for Spence as well as slogans Bill C45, the latest omnibus bill such as “Save Grandmother proposed by the Conservative Earth. She’s Counting on Us!” dominated federal government and “No Water, No Life!” TH Housing Program Gains National Recognition of Canada. Morberg told the group to They saw the changes to the focus their attention on the Navigable Waters Protection positive outcome they hoped to Act as another step in the achieve. Press release “I would like to thank Harper,” devaluing of environmental DAWSON CITY – The Tr’ond‘k Hw‘ch’in (TH) are pleased their housing initiatives gained positive she said, adding that it was the regulation already begun in attention in the Conference Board of Canada’s December 2012 report, “Framing Sustainable Options other actions taken by Prime Prime Minister’s actions on for Housing in Canada’s North.” Minister Harper’s government. this issue that had stimulated First Nations people have people to take up a protest that Unfortunately, many of the innovations resulting from the collaboration between CMHC, Yukon a particular interest in the seems to be sweeping across Housing Corporation, and HŠn Construction Ltd. are no longer possible due to changes in policy outcomes of such legislative the country and even occurring interpretations by the federal government. changes, as they believe they in foreign lands. “Our solid and well-managed program is the envy of the North,” said Chief Eddie Taylor. “But our violate specific portions of Following her remarks the waiting list continues to grow.” their treaty rights under the entire group formed a couple TH has utilized CHMC support to build homes for many years—a relationship that has yielded Canadian constitution. of circles with the drummers quality homes for TH citizens. Utilizing their assistance, however, was made impossible in 2010, when The changes in Bill C-45 strip inside next to the fire, and the federal government advised they would no longer provide Ministerial Loan Guarantees (MLG) to joined in several traditional Han protections from 99% of lakes First Nations building on land that wasn’t once Land Set Aside or Reserve land. The MLG is required songs, as well as a chorus or two and rivers in Canada, leaving to obtain CMHC assistance. only 3 oceans, 97 lakes and 62 of "This Land is Your Land" and TH subdivisions, like C-4 (the neighbourhood in which the sustainable homes project took place), rivers under the purview of the one from the Shuswap nation. law. This is a reduction from Then the group was invited to were never Land Set Aside or Reserve land. the old figure of 2.5 million. dance around the circle, both to “We are very proud of what our housing program has achieved,” said Chief Taylor. “The consultation The act itself is replaced with warm up (it was -16° C) and to and cultural elements that went into our homes resulted in homes that met the needs of our people. the Navigation Protection Act, celebrate the gathering. “It is unfortunate groundbreaking projects like those described in the Conference Board of Canada’s which title certainly suggests Hot coffee, tea, hot chocolate report are no longer possible, but we are hopeful the positive attention this project is receiving will an entirely different emphasis and bannock were waiting lead to the overturn of the rules that undermine our ability to provide housing to our people.” from the original 1882 inside afterwards. 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It’s true sun didn’t really rise where the hill and that sun didn’t rise today I could see it today. reflecting back until 11:03 and that it will Downtown Dawson is down onto have set again by 3:44 kind of in a bowl, with Front Street (according to Environment hills all around that cut off and the north Canada’s website), and it’s what direct sunlight there end of town. also true that we keep track is. Those who live up on Not today of things like that, giving it the hills don’t completely though. Today the kind of attention that I lose direct sunlight, even it’s overcast, don’t recall from my Nova on the Solstice, but for the hoursso what or we’re so of Scotia boyhood. rest of us, Ol’ Sol kind of getting is five We take pictures of creeps around the hills and various degrees of daylight glimmers at the south end that indirect and post them on FaceBook. of town for a bit, passing lighting so When a friend posted a 5:30 behind another hill before it beloved by yet before the sun actually in staying outdoors for shot with the moon in the can actually hit the streets. those architects who design illumines the streets of longer stretches of time, background and headlights It’s there. From the ferry large public buildings. town again. It will start even when it’s still cold, coming up the street, I landing you can see that a This kind of light, filtered with Front Street and and will prefer the back kidded him that he really hill farther down the river is through the clouds, does work its way back toward doorstep in the morning needed to be a little more nicely lit for a couple of hours tend to wash out certain Eighth Ave., adding a few and the front porch in the patient, but I understood and, as I write this column, parts of the colour spectrum minutes and a few inches of evening. the urge. The photo that the sun would normally be and give the world a ghostly downtown real estate each It’s no lighter now than goes with this essay was lighting up the east bank of look. On the other hand, day. it was in early December, a taken for the same reason. the river. That golden glow there’s a lot of snow around Suddenly our dog will month ago, but it’s different It’s also true that those used to brighten up my here and numerous Berton notice that there’s a now. Then, every day shaved stark numbers don’t quite classroom on the west side House writers who hail sunbeam coming in through a little more daylight from give a real picture of light of the school and these days from Outside have told me our kitchen window, and she our world. Now, every day and dark at this latitude. A shines in my living room that they are constantly will follow it across the floor, adds just a sliver, and while lot depends on elevation, window at home or the rear surprised by how much light stretching out and basking the world is still somewhat for instance. Driving to window at the Sun office. there is due to reflection. in its rays until it vanishes. twilit, it just seems more Whitehorse on December From there it slips around It’s going to be a while She will become interested optimistic. We20 I was want constantly to hear blinded from you!
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THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P5 LETTERS A Response to Some Uffish Thoughts Dear Editor: here! I’ve listened to the “Save the planet” speech from a few organizations. I feel some are jumping on board with it and are misinformed on many environmental issues. I always read Dan Davidson’s long running Uffish Thoughts column; he is generally Today’s mining and oil drilling are not as harmful to the watershed (this is a scare entertaining, usually informative and, as befits an opinion piece, always has his own tactic of environmental groups to get people on board) of the Peel or anywhere else, perspective. for that matter! I had a particular interest inth his recent column on the Peel consultation that took With the advances in technology and the regulations we have in place, these indus- place in Dawson December 4 : I look after the Peel file for the Yukon Conservation tries are not as destructive as they are projecting it to be. Society (YCS). I have a couple of comments on the column that I think are needed to We are finally getting some industry coming to the Yukon and a few people want to add clarity to the issues it addressed. chase them out. (I have seen the same thing happen with Tombstone Park, but this is The North Yukon Plan was not free from controversy as the column suggests; while just on a larger scale.) it did indeed have considerable swathes of protected areas already, there were and I was asked if I am concerned about global warming (and the answer is yes). are serious mineral interests including oil and gas in the Eagle Plains area and, some My thought is we should keep industry here where we have control on how it oper- might recall, a major controversy over an iron ore deposit at a place called Rusty ates, as we have strict operating guidelines. Springs to the west of what was then a still contemplated Fishing Branch protected If we stop them from coming here, it will not stop the world demand for what we area. The pro-development forces advocated a road allowance through the heart of have to offer for minerals, oil and gas. Fishing Branch Park, an idea that seems quite startling in this day but was nonethe- These companies will go to other countries that don’t care about the environment, less a serious bone of contention at the time. The North Yukon planning process also and so, by doing this on a global scale, it will be worse. overshot its allotted time frame and budget and almost collapsed twice. Every industry we keep out of the Yukon hurts directly and indirectly most of the Land use planning would be simple if there were no demands on the land by hu- businesses of the Yukon. mans; we could just let it manage itself. It is the number and nature of human activities All Yukon businesses, people employed and seeking employment should say no to that need to be managed that makes land use planning so complex and the Dawson the Peel plan all together. They are trying to steal your livelihood from you! region has far more activity than either North Yukon or the Peel, thus I should think Most of the people pushing the plan drive cars, live in houses, eat with silverware that land use planning in the Dawson region would be more difficult than in the Peel, and wear jewellery. (Where do they think this stuff comes from…thin air?) not easier as Uffish Thoughts suggests. Perhaps the appearance of serenity is due Most of their food and supplies get hauled in by trucks, which all involves the min- to our being two thirds of the way through the timeline established for the Dawson ing and/or oil industry. planning process and we have had little in the way of community and Commission So is it better to get it here, or is it all supposed to get shipped in from some other engagement, most recently a fairly technical meeting about a year ago. Two years country? Is that more environmentally friendly? into the Peel process, things were similarly quiet as information was also still being The Yukon already has approximately 12 per cent of its total mass in protected ar- gathered. The Teslin region was the first area where regional land use planning was eas and about another eight per cent in First Nation class A and B lands. attempted and it fell apart after several years and considerable expense. It has faded As for the Yukon – I love it! That’s why I moved here 24 years ago, and I think it is all from the recollection of most people who are not land use planning nerds. Oh, and it beautiful, but we don’t need to turn everything into a park to keep it that way! is the Dawson Regional Land Use Plan not the Klondike plan- just saying…. We all need to make a living, and we can do that! And we can keep the Yukon beauti- Unsurprisingly, I am uncomfortable with Dan’s characterisation of the roles of YCS ful! and CPAWS in the Peel consultation. We are not one of the sides of the debate; rather We all have a voice, so please use it (the environmentalists are). A concerned taxpayer, we are supporting the 80% of Yukoners and the four affected First Nations and the Say no to the Peel project! Peel Watershed Regional Planning Commission who endorse the Final Recommend- Joe McIntyre, Dawson City ed Plan. Having said that, we do indeed oppose the direction the Yukon Government is tak- Wonderful Nutcracker / Poor Gov’t Decisions ing: one of the biggest problems we see is their dismissive stance towards the UFA. Dear Editor: It is unfortunate that the central role of the UFA to this issue is so often ignored; to begin with there would be no land use planning had we not signed onto the UFA. It must be recalled that when the First Nations signed their individual final agree- How delightful to see the pictures of Nutcracker Lite! It means a lot that the parents ments, they relinquished aboriginal title to their traditional territories. They did so pulled together to make this happen. I cannot imagine the weather you live in during in exchange for a leading role in subsequent land use planning. This is not merely a the winter. Your summer was lovely when we visited though. legal conceit, but a provision of our constitution. If the Yukon government forgets Were it not for the parks system in town and along the highways, there would be no Lauren Breckon, commenting on our online postings this, the First Nations will remind them at every juncture, all the way to the Supreme tourism. The government certainly needs to revisit their decision. Court of Canada. We in Yukon have become so accustomed to our post UFA world Looking for Clippings from a Trip Down Thistle Creek that we collectively forget how big a role it plays in our day to day lives, whether Dear Editor, we are First Nation citizens or not. The UFA has transformed Yukon in very positive ways and the vast majority of us would be horrified to find ourselves back in the bad old days, even if issues such as consultations with all and sundry did not get in the way of “progress”. My name is Joe Keenan and in July 1948 I was working on Thistle Creek with Bud Perhaps YCS has not been clear regarding our perspective on the revision proto- Harbottle. cols for the Final Recommended Plan: we always realised that the use of periodic I was working out on the creek one day but I don't remember the exact day. revisions is critical to the functioning of any plan; we also say that we can always However when I came back to camp that evening, Bud took me aside and said he decide to drive a road through wilderness and to build a mine, but we have a terrible had just received word that my sister had past away during chid birth. She was twenty track record of removing impacts of development afterwards- look around as you four years old. approach Dawson by road. The attitude of the Yukon Government towards the UFA There was no boat due till a week later, which would have been too late for me to will however have Armageddon like features should it come to pass, certainly those be at her funeral. Yukoners who realise how their lives now depend on the UFA see it that way. With help of Bud and my brother in-law Gordon McIntyre we built a raft four feet YCS takes exception to our characterisation as to our ilk being to blame for Daw- wide and eight feet long. son’s sewage woes. We have indeed taken the position that piping screened but oth- I started out from Thistle Creek some time about five o-clock that evening and erwise untreated sewage into the Yukon River was wrong in Dawson, just as it has stopped once at a prospectors cabin on the mouth of Stewart Creek. He gave me toast been found to be wrong in every other community in Yukon, but we never advocated and tea and a small bottle of Drambuie to take with me. the current insanely expensive and thus far non-functioning system the courts have I started down the river again and later got to Dawson,pulled my raft onto the beach saddled us with. The impetus to move from a lagoon to the VERTREAT was a purely and headed for the C.P.A. office. local movement, driven by the courts and unsupported by any organisation, certain- When I went in the office I was told all the seats were taken. That`s when I broke ly Sincerely,not by YCS. down and cried. Sebastian Jones, Dawson City Johnny Hogan and his wife were in the office also waiting to go to Whitehorse. I knew Johnny he worked for the same Co. as I did, Yukon Gold Placers, he said Joe Preservationists are Out to Steal your Livelihood you can have our seats. Dear Editor: So I did get on the flight out that day and made it home in time for my sister's fu- neral. I have written this all down, because I was wondering if you would have a copy of I send you this letter as an extremely concerned Yukon resident. Lettermy trip continued in your archives. on next page... I find all this Peel River protection plan very offensive. It is threatening to steal an estimated 10 per cent of the Yukon from everyone who lives here and will ever live P6 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN LETTERS "Looking for Clippings" continued from previous page...
desires. There was a reporter came down that morning and took a picture of my raft and I cannot understand why you would feel that a request of 100 per cent protection me. is “unrealistic.” I am now 86 years old and writing my memoirs and it would be really nice to have Many places, such as Kluane Park and the Tatshenshini wilderness here in the that clipping . north, have been deemed worthy of 100 per cent protection. Thank you so much for your time and any effort you have while looking for the Yes, all of these areas have mineralization, which leads me to my main point. story. You say that whatever decision we make on the Peel today will likely change in the My mailing address is: Joe Keenan, 2350 Casey Place, Nanoose Bay, B.C. V9P 9G5 future, is a reality that you “never hear from either side.” Yours truly, Phone # 250-468-7235 Dan, with due respect, I have to say you haven’t been listening. Joe Keenan I am not the only one to have stated in the media that the Peel should be looked at as an investment for the future, not unlike an RRSP. This Regime has Usurped the Democratic Process When one considers the wealth of our resources and our vast, unspoiled wilder- Dear Editor: ness, it’s easy to see we are wealthy beyond words. And to not put some of our good fortune away for a future generation is like squan- dering a tremendous inheritance, instead of living comfortably (and sustainably) off This is a response to the Uffish Thoughts column by Dan Davidson, “The divisive the interest. Peel debate….” Yes, you are right. Any human-made legislation can change in time. I was delighted to read in your column, Mr. Davidson, that you can see there are And 100 per cent protection for the Peel now guarantees a future generation, per- “flaws in the Yukon government’s handling of the Peel issue.” haps a few centuries hence. I’m sorry to hear your expression of ambivalence about the work of the Yukon Con- The option to extract resources, if they so choose, would undoubtedly be done servation Society and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. with environmentally sensitive methods far beyond our imagination. In my experience, both societies work hard to not only preserve and facilitate ap- However, with the unbridled speed at which unbroken wild places are disappear- preciation of special places, but promote wise and respectful use of this beautiful en- ing around the entire planet, the value of a piece of unparalleled wilderness that is vironment we live in. the Peel will, hundreds of years from now, weigh heavily into their equation. In fact, I would say they can take a lot of the credit that the public is as informed on Perhaps they will see that wilderness value as priceless, as many of us already do. the Peel issue as it is. They are conscientious, ethical people who give a damn. And in the meantime, while this tremendous investment grows exponentially in Your column exposed a few inaccuracies that I feel deserve clarification. value, this gem of wilderness remains, not only for us, but the entire planet. First of all, it was not just the First Nations that requested 100 per cent protection The other option, however, of the Yukon Party’s plan to mine the Peel (let’s call for the Peel. it what it is), with roads and mines (for all intents and purposes) throughout, The planning commission’s initial results showed 87 per cent of Yukoners, from all viewscapes spoiled and the likelihood of toxic waters for wildlife and communities walks of life, wanted 100 per cent protection. downstream to deal with, counters your view that First Nations and environmental You can thank the societies of whom you are so ambivalent for that bit of informa- groups wrongly see the “battle” for the Peel as “some sort of Armageddon with re- tion. sults that will last forever.”. They had to use an access to information application to retrieve that data as the Sorry, but that scenario is forever. There is no going back from that one. previous Yukon Party government didn’t want us to know how unified we were in our In conclusion, Dan, I am most reassured that we can agree that the government’s approach on this issue is flawed, although I would have to say it goes well beyond a “tremendous tactical error.” I would say that, because they intentionally withheld their true plan for the Peel in order to get elected, and are now knowingly working against the wishes of a vast majority of us, they have usurped the democratic process. And that is a very serious breach of trust that they should not be allowed to get away with. I am most sincerely interested in your opinion on this last point, and would greatly The Yukon Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees is seeking your Thank you, appreciate a response. input into the development of our five year Strategic Plan for 2013 J. Borisenko, Tagish Lake to 2018. Safe quality patient care closer to home is our number one priority. Does He Oppose Regional Land Use Planning? Your comments will help shape our direction for the next five years Dear Editor: and in turn, help determine the care available to Yukoners.
The Yukon Hospital Corporation is responsible for the care provided at I feel compelled to respond to Joe McIntyre’s letter, “Preservationists are out to three acute care hospitals in the Yukon: steal your livelihood!” • Whitehorse General Hospital In it, he characterizes the Peel Watershed Regional Planning Commission’s Final • Watson Lake Community Hospital Recommended Plan as a theft of 10 per cent of Yukon. • Dawson City Community Hospital (opening May 27, 2013) This is a puzzling accusation. For one thing, the land will continue to be there, we shall all remain able to go We invite the public to visit our website at www.yukonhospitals.ca and there and even make a living there (in some parts, it will be very difficult to make a follow the Strategic Plan Survey link under Hospital News to answer the living from mining),. following three questions: As well, it will continue to belong to all Yukoners. Some of it would be protected 1. In your view, what will be the future challenges for hospital care in the from being bought by foreign multinationals. Yukon? As a member of the Dawson District Renewable Resource Council, with a mandate 2. In your view, what do you think will be the future challenges for the from the Umbrella Final Agreement (UFA) to be the “primary instrument of fish and Yukon Hospital Corporation? wildlife management in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory”, Joe has to be con- 3. Where do you think the Yukon Hospital Corporation should place its cerned by the way the Yukon government is setting aside the work of the commis- emphasis in the next five years? sion after so much work. The link will be open January 4 - February 1, 2013. It is the equivalent of his council working on a recommendation on, for example, how domestic sheep should be regulated, for several years, with multiple consulta- You may also submit your responses by mail to: tions with the affected First Nations, other councils, the public, all stakeholders and various government departments. Yukon Hospital Corporation 5 Hospital Road It’s equivalent to, at the very end, to have the recommendation distorted beyond Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 3H7 recognition with no equivalent work or consultation behind it, all because some peo- Attention: Craig Tuton ple in the present government had a philosophical concern with regulating domestic sheep. Please help us shape the future Perhaps Joe wants to reconsider lumping category A and B land in with protected areas. of hospital care in the Yukon. As a member of a UFA-mandated body, as is the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Planning Commission, Joe should be aware that Category A and B First Nation settlementLetter continued land is on not page protected 8 for or against anything, but it does belong to the THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P7 Christmas Music Closes out the Term at Robert Service School Story & Photos By Dan Davidson low minus 40s. Band in a rendition of “Santa Grade 2 student were well version of “Ode To Joy.” The evening began beginning Claus is Coming to Town.” packaged for the holidays as in Grade 4 continued the rock with some not so Christmassy The RSS Junior Choir chimed the poem “Christmas Boxes”. spirit with “Jingle Bell Rock”. tunes by the Senior Rock Band, in with three seasonal tunes. Kindergarten appeared in Grade 5 performed two The gym at the Robert who entertained while the rest Grade 1 presented a video their antlers to tell the story ukulele tunes. Some fiddlers for Service School resounded to of the school got ready for the production of the Holiday of “Rudolph the Red Nosed a rousing rendition of “Patrick’s music on December 19, with a season. Cookbook and then took to the Reindeer,” with a little help Reel” joined them. packed audience in attendance The Grade 7s were stage in chef’s hats to whip up a from members of the RSS Senior The senior choir, otherwise in spite of temperatures in the accompanied by the Junior Rock “Christmas Soup Figaro”.! Choir. know as the Soul Birds, offered The Intensive French class “All I Want for Christmas” and presented a video fashion show “Mistletoe”. staged at the Dancing Moose The grand finale was a tri- and the Raven’s Nook. lingual singing of “Jingle Bells” Grade 3 tore up the stage with the audience asked to with the ‘Santa Claus Rock” and contribute in English, French then settled down to a recorder and Han. !"#$%&'()*+%&",'-"&.'/$)'0,"&' 012,+3'4%&$1,5"5+%&'6'7%89$:%;' !"#$#%&'()#%*#+,-.'/'(,0%%#%&'1*-%0)#2.' ' <)281"8='>?'6'>@A'BC>?' D..E),,%#$'F",,8%%G' !"#$%&'4+5=A'H19%&'
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First Nation. Story & Photos I am sure he is aware that the By Dan Davidson Minto mine is on Selkirk First Nation Category A land. The Sourtoe Cocktail gets a mixed reception in the world As a miner, I am sure he is abroad. Thousands of people have touched their lips to Captain aware that with suitable per- Dick Stevenson’s inventive libation and have swallowed the mits, he can explore on First Na- tion settlement land. Upon the notion that this is part of Dawson’s quaint charm. A few have satisfactory conclusion of nego- gone further and swallowed the toe itself, but that’s another long tiations, he can even mine on it. story. Joe correctly points out that The other side of the reaction could be exemplified by the recent innovations in mining and oil and gas regulations have resulted in lower environmental impacts. It is not so much the mines and exploration that the Fi- nal Recommended Plan makes problematic, but the roads, the surface access, which everyone agrees have the really big long- A Crack in the term impact. authorEdge of Simonthe World: Winchester. America His and wanderings the Great California during the Earthquake research of It is the restrictions on new for his book about North America’s tectonic plates ( roads that are the starkest dif- ferences between the Final Rec- ommended Plan and the new concepts of the Yukon govern- ment. One does indeed hope the government has learned from the past and the mines that have come or are coming into pro- duction in the last few years will not leave massive cleanup costs for taxpayers to cover as all the previous ones did. Joe asks us to say “no” to the Peel project. By this, does he 1906 mean we should say “no” to re- gional land use planning? ) took him through the Yukon and up past Haines Junction, Finally, I find fascinating his but he mentions the Toe as the biggest reason why he avoided argument that we should trash Dawson. He couldn’t stomach the idea of visiting a place where a the Peel so the evil mining companies do not go elsewhere blackened digit was a tourist attraction. to trash unsophisticated places Adonika Jayne, a fairly recent arrival in Dawson, doesn’t evenSebastian worse! Jones, (A Yukon specifically reference the Sourtoe in her brief exhibition in the taxpayer), Dawson City ODD Gallery, but the connection seems to be inevitable. Titled “I offer you my toe”, the exhibition, which was up (or down) from December 18 to 22 filled the floor of the gallery with hundreds and hundreds of toes. There were so many, and so closely spaced together that it would not have been possible to walk through the exhibit. It could only be viewed from the entrance to the gallery. Jayne had this to say about her project. HUMANE SOCIETY DAWSON UPDATE “Wherever I find myself, with Katie Pearse, Humane Society Dawson I develop a strong desire to create and foster community Open House at the Humane Society Dawson around me. The community of Dawson is very strong, which I know is one of the reasons the city captured me so quickly. The Humane Society Dawson is holding an Open House Since I moved here in May I’ve to celebrate the completion of our new building extension! found myself creating work Thanks to a grant from the Community Development Fund, based around the individuals fundraising, and countless donations, the Humane Society who fill the homes, the streets, Dawson now has a new, multipurpose room. Come out to the bars, and the hotels. view our new space, learn about upcoming projects, meet "For my current project, 'I the animals, and see how your donations have helped. offer you my toe', I've made a Everyone is welcome so feel free to invite your kids, parents, mold of my big toe and cast one grandparents, or friends. Pop in for just a minute or stay for in plaster for each person who an hour. is currently living in Dawson, th from Henderson all the way When: Fridayth January 18 from 1:30-5:30pm, Saturday through to West Dawson. January 19 from 12:00 -4:00pm “The project is a gift to this Where: The Humane Society Dawson located in Callison community which I love so What: There will be snacks, drinks, and door prizes! dearly; I will be delivering a toe to every person in Dawson after This column is provided by the Humane Dawson Society. We hope to see you there. they are displayed all together Hours of operation: Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. for short period in the ODD Phone number: 993-6900 Gallery.” THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P9 Klondike River Lodge Destroyed by Fire
Story & Photos By Dan Davidson the south of the compound was not The Klondike River Lodge, d a m a g e d , located at the Dempster Corner nor were on the Klondike Highway, has the various burned to the ground. outbuildings Dawson Fire Chief Jim on the Regimbal says his department p r o p e r t y , got a call from members of including the the territorial Highways Dept. staff housing shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday trailers, both morning. single and While in transit to the lodge, double-wideThe above which is 40 kilometres from structures. Dawson, Regimbal says he raised the Klondike Valley ground fuel tanks, on the far Fire Dept., which had half the side of the tire shed, were not distance to travel and got there touched and had been drained. before Dawson’s crew. The lodge had closed for the By the time both departments winter back in September, as it reached the scene the main has for the last several years. building was beyond saving. The Lodge has been in “It was down to the ground operation since the early when we got there,” Regimbal 1970s. Filling up at its station said. before beginning a trip on the Indeed, by just after noon Dempster Highway was advised there was nothing left of the on most travel websites, as the main structure, which had next gas station was at Eagle contained the convenience Plains, 360 km up the road. store, restaurant and motel The scene attracted visitors “We’ve turned it over to the which has been through a Klondike River Lodge has complex, other than the tin from town and the surrounding RCMP,” Regimbal said, “and number of owners during its been ruled notYukon suspicious. News roofing sitting on top of the area during the day and the we’ll have to wait on their history, is currently owned by According to Regimbal, quoted rubble, with faint smoke still compound remained closed off investigation to determine the Brian MacCarthy, of Inuvik, in the January 4 , the rising. to anyone not involved in the origin and cause.” who is presently on holidays, investigation has determined it The tire shed and garage to investigation. Regimbal said the lodge, but has been contacted. was possibly an electrical fire. The fire that destroyed the P10 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN Community Awards Given at TH Christmas Feast
Story & photos By Dan Davidson been welcoming people to our Yukon Sports Hall of Fame and Yukon Sports Hall of Fame and and Georgette McLeod. traditional territory,” Taylor the proclamation of John Flynn for your contributions to our * Volunteer of the Year: Kylie said. th Day by the City of Dawson. community." Van Every With the roof envelope of the “2013 marks the 20 “John was always somebody Mayor Potoroka read the * Elder of the Year: Victor Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Community anniversary of our Umbrellath who made us young kids proud,” proclamation that had been Henry Hall still undergoing repairs, Final Agreement and the 40 Taylor said. “He was truly one announced the previous week. * Youth of the Year: Sammy the First Nation was once again anniversary of the document of our leaders. He has always “We didn’t have it ready Taylor happy to be holding a major feast Together Today for our Children been more than a great athlete for you then, John, but we do * Employee of the Year: Sue in the Robert Service School Tomorrow.” to this community. He is a role tonight.” Parsons gymnasium. After an opening He invited everyone to attend model. While he has shown On John Flynn Day, December * Citizen of the year: Daryn prayer by elder Doris Roberts, the February celebration with leadership on the sports field 28, there was free skating at the Leas Chief Eddie Taylor addressed CYFN in Whitehorse. he has also shown leadership arena for all young people. The evening continued with the hall briefly and welcomed Taylor joined with Mayor on the streets, on how to live a As the evening continued, performances by the Hän everyone, TH members and Wayne Potoroka in bringing decent life, work hard, be your people feasted on turkey, ham, Singers, the Robert Service others, to the Christmas Feast. John Flynn forward for a special neighbour as well as love your roast beef and a variety of School Elementary Choir “This tradition stretches award from the First Nation to family. vegetables and salads, and in the and the Little Jiggers. The back as far as our people have mark his recent honours at the "John, you have made all pause between the main meal latter concluded their dance of Dawson City proud. On and desert, the TH Community demonstration by rounding up behalf of Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Awards were announced as members of the audience to join I'd like to congratulate you follows and presented by them in the dancing. for your induction into the Deputy Chief Clara Van Bibber
Photos: clockwise from the top left: * Georgette, Victor and Clara * Kylie Van Every * Jigging * full house * Sammy Taylor * Santa and the kids THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P11 A Dawson CD Sampler
By Connor Matak
29th, Tinkham recorded “I feel so lucky we got cord the Hän Singers, a first in 11 different songwriters to have it here in Dawson Dawson. Though it may have dipped with varying levels of re- ... I think that people were “That was a big thing,” below -40 several times over cording experience. Some so ready and rehearsed,” Tinkham said with calm excite- the last two weeks of Novem- had released numerous Nasager speaks on the ment. ber, the songwriters of Dawson albums, while others project, Back on Gabriola Island he'll City braved the temperatures to hadn't ever stepped foot "Nathan pointed out be at the mixing board and en- record their art in the theatre of into a studio before. He to me how prepared ev- listing a few friends to help with the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre. was set-up permanently eryone was . That's the the project. This will include “The Dawson CD Sampler in the generously-donat- undercurrent of why this adding additional instruments project is a collaboration be- ed theatre space of the will be successful long- to the tracks, and mastering the tween Jazz Yukon, Music Yukon Cultural Centre during term. People saw this is final mix. and the N. Klondyke Highway Dawson's Drea Naesager (above), Nathan the span of the sessions. Tinkham (below). Photos courtesy Nathan an opportunity and took The next step is to press the Music Society. The Yukon Arts “"It was the dream Tinkham full advantage of it.” album, and to make it available Fund provided the majority of thing... As soon as I got up McCallen also com- for purchase in local stores. But funding,” says Peter Menzies, here, within a day or two mented about the need Tinkham alludes to something who helped facilitate the project everything was settled to for a project like this in bigger: in the community. work in this place where I Dawson. “Recording has become a “The intent is to kick-start could leave everything set- “I think there a lot of ar- grassroots thing again and we some recording with the goal up," elaborates Tinkham, tistically inclined people up have the power. Everybody that of establishing a bi-annual CD “I've got some music here here, and there really isn't has a computer has worldwide Sampler project produced in that I really enjoy listening an outlet for recording." distribution," he says, “The im- Dawson City using local talent.” to it. It's better to have that "I think it's a great idea mediacy of it is really neat. I The three societies enlisted than to not have something for this town, and will work could have this stuff flooding Nathan Tinkham, a musician because you may say "I out pretty well in the long down south by the end of the well-known in the community won't do something until I run." day ... It's not only something and nationally for his work can get into a real studio". Nasager and McCallen that people in New York, L.A., alongside the likes of Ian Tyson, This is real music. And the both experienced how and Nashville can do.” Cindy Church, and Diamond Joe people who enjoy it will en- quickly the process can be Menzies and the three societ- White. joy it." completed. ies involved hope that this is a Tinkham, who resides on One aspect of the project “"It was cool. Two songs, jump-off point: Gabriola Island, BC, had noticed ended up showing partici- Half-an-hour, Done. One “We hope that other commu- that it was a problem for artists pants just that, how easy it take, One take, outta there,” nities will be interested in the to record in the territory is now-a-days to produce mentions McCallen , “which project -- the three organiza- “I come up here all the time, music in nearly any kind is how I like to do it.” tions may be able to help other and I saw a need,” Tinkham of room, and with minimal Nasager finished 4 songs communities produce their own mentions, “artists in the com- equipment. in an hour-and-a-half, and CD samplers.” munities don't have access to “People have not record- is positive about the re- All involved seem to agree it studio space ... only those in ed because they think 'Well ticipants in the project who sults. is a needed project in the Terri- Whitehorse can access it easily.” I don't have the money to go to have lived in Dawson City per- “If anything it's an exercise in tory, and can spread into other And Tinkham feels right at Whitehorse'. I think this project manently since 2011. Originally patience, in finishing what I've regions. home in Dawson City. He has showed them that you can get from Peterborough, ON, these started,” she noted. “I'm excited Tinkham states it simply: played around the bars and enough quality here,” he states, solo artists wasted no time in to hear what they do with the "I think it's very viable and I at the festivals for years, and “You don't have to give up your making their musical presence mixing and mastering and how hope the project has legs, cause has already recorded a few re- job, or book a hotel room for a known in the community, and everything turns out.” that means I get to come up here cords in town– namely George week.” both had the chance to record a One highlight of the proj- again.” McConkey's “Tin & Bone” . Drea Nasager and J.D. few songs with Tinkham. ect was the opportunity to re- From November 19th to the McCallen were two of the par- Do you have a home safety plan?
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Community Services For more information, visit www.community.gov.yk.ca Protective Services www.hss.gov.yk.ca/pioneergrant P12 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN Storytelling With Cloth and Thread
learning to piece their bian. The ancestors of my neighbours were lives back together brought over from Africa as slaves to work through a process of in mines, large plantations and to build mili- sharing their stories. tary defences in coastal cities against pirates Now, when they such as Francis Drake. While they remain a meet together, they very marginalized group within Colombia, laugh, gossip and joke they have a powerful story of resistance and with one another and rebelling from slavery to form the first free talk about how they communities within Latin America. want to see the com- Therefore, besides just documenting munity move forward, their own personal stories, the women of as they engage in ac- Mampuján have also quilted the story of tivities as a community what it means to be an Afro-Colombian of women, in the same community, first learning their own history way as the women in from Africa to today, and then putting it all Dawson have formed on fabric, developing pride in their heritage quilting communities. and their unique status as Afro-Colombians I love sitting and talk- at the same time. ing with them, hearing Before, being Afro was considered shame- their stories of healing ful even within Mampuján, but things are and the adventures slowly changing. In fact, the greatest compli- they have had as a ment I have received so far is the following group. The women “Anna, you are like a tunnel, white on the have travelled to other outside but black on the inside.” Many peo- displaced communi- ple are now proud of who they are and their ties to share their heal- identity as Afro. ing techniques with Currently, we are trying to turn this art other women, going form into an income generating project, as Story & Photos to places in Colombia well as start a museum where the quilts can by Anna Vogt they had never even be displayed. It can be challenging starting a over the community’s land. Some of the dreamed of visiting before and teach- new project and we have had lots of bumps men were kidnapped, and in what many ing them how to quilt their trauma as in the journey, but the group is committed to consider a miracle, were later returned to well. moving forward and learning together. And Quilting is a popular Dawson activity, the community. Like many of the towns in this re- maybe I will even eventually, finally, learn but not something I really ever engaged Although no one was killed and gion, my community is Afro-Colom- how to quilt! in. That is, until I arrived in Colombia. Mampuján managed to stay together as About six years ago, a Mennonite Cen- a community, its social fabric was devas- tral Committee worker arrived in my tated. People lived in fear and no longer community of Mampuján and taught trusted those around them and clung the women how to quilt and changed tightly to everything that they had left, as life forever here. However, quilting they had no idea when the rest could be here is different than simply squares of taken away. Everything had changed and Dawson City Hospital has the following openings: colorful fabric arranged geometrically. many people suffered emotional trauma, Instead, the women have learnt how to along with a complete change in status RegisteReD NuRse tell the community’s story using cloth and lifestyle. and thread. Therefore, when the women first start- Regular Full Time (6 positions): Competition # 2012-256 ed gathering and stitching what had hap- Regular Part Time (2 positions): Competition # 2012-262 Like many Colombian communi- pened to them, the displacement was ties, Mampuján was displaced in 2000 very painful and something they had sel- MaiNteNaNCe eNgiNeeR - FaCility MaNageMeNt by a paramilitary group as part of Co- dom talked about as a group. They cried Regular Full Time (1 position): Competition #2013-001 lombia’s armed conflict. The entire and haltingly shared their stories as they community was rounded up, gathered cut out cloth figures of themselves during in the plaza, and told that they had Visit our website at www.yukonhospitals.ca for more information the violence. They were learning to put twenty-fours to leave their land or they on these and other job opportunities. colours together, but more importantly, would be killed, in a manoeuvre to take Please send your resume/application quoting the appropriate competition number to: Human Resources Department Whitehorse general Hospital #5 Hospital Road Whitehorse, yt, y1a 3H7 email: [email protected]
Yukon Hospital Corporation is committed to employment equity. We thank all those who apply and advise that only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P13 John Flynn Day Proclaimed Calypso Rose is Coming Story & Photo by Dan Davidson By Dan Davidson Following his induction into the Yukon Sports Hall of Fame, It’s thanks to a working Dawson’s municipal council has decided to designate December partnership with the Yukon 28, 2012 as John Flynn Day. Arts Centre that the Klondike The proclamation, issued Institute of Arts and Culture at the December 11 council will be able to bring Calypso meeting, reads: Rose to the Oddfellows Hall “Whereas, Council wishes ballroom on January 14. to recognize the incredible Matt Sarty, KIAC’s Events achievement of John Flynn, John Flynn (far right) with Jack, Coordinator, says this is an resident of Dawson City, being Jennifer and Melissa arrangement that has brought inducted into the Yukon Sports a good many acts to Dawson, Hall of fame, and both for KIAC and for the “Whereas, Council desires to recognize John Flynn for his Dawson City Music Festival sporting successes as an athlete and coach, and organization. “Whereas Council is pleased to recognize John Flynn for being McArtha Linda Sandy- an amazing role model for our community; now Lewis (aka Calypso Rose) has of the international anthems of Rose: Lioness of the Jungle”, “Therefore, I, Wayne Potoroka, as Mayor of the City of Dawson, been performing for over five Calypso, translated into eight which will be shown at the Yukon Territory, do hereby proclaim December 28, 2012 to be decades. She has received more languages. She was the first Oddfellows Hall on January JOHN FLYNN DAY.” honours and medals than any woman to win the crown of 11 to get people ready to meet The proclamation was announced in delegations at that meeting other living Calypsonian and Calypso Monarch in 1977. The her. The film follows the singer with Flynn and members of his family present. built an exhaustive musical yearly competition originally as she travels from Trinidad “John, it’s a pleasure to pay tribute to you,” Potoroka said, “on catalogue that runs the gamut called Calypso King was re- and Tobago to New York, and your achievement in being inducted into the Yukon Sports Hall from social and political baptised Calypso Monarch after Africa. She reveals her personal of Fame. You are a rare individual, a man with that uncommon mixture of talent and humility. Your incredible accomplishments commentary to party music, Calypso Rose triumphed in this story, reflects upon her as a hockey player, coach and biathlete, are eclipsed by the modesty inspirational hymns and gospel tradtionallu male-dominated groundbreaking achievements, you have shown throughout the time I’ve known you.” music, and of course, a myriad musical contest. her musical career, her The mayor said that Flynn’s accomplishments put him alongside of calypso hits. Calypso Rose was born in the commitment to women’s rights, such notable locals as the late Art Fry and the Dawson City She has shared stages with small island of Tobago in the and her love of life and people. Nuggets hockey team of 1905. This was fitting since Flynn was the likes of Bob Marley, Tito West Indies. She started singing Sarty says she travels with a one of the key players in the 1997 reenactment of that Stanley Cup Puente, Roberta Flack, Mahalia at the age of 15 and has been at seven or eight piece band. Challenge. Jackson, Roberta Flack and it ever since. “The idea is that it’s a tropical “You are certainly a role model for youth andCont'd adults,” on Potoroka p. 20 Michael Jackson. She is the subject of a vacation in the middle of continued. “You are quite obviously a dedicated and loving family In 1966, she wrote, “Fire in documentary film directed January for us Dawsonites who Meh Wire”, which has begun one by Pascale Obolo. ”Calypso decide to stick it out. I’m not slowing down
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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. If you want to see page 2 and beyond, check out our website. Past issues are available there for download. Go to http://klondikesun.com. More will be added periodically (heh) when we have time! P20 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN Christmas Music Extravaganza was a Great Success
By Betty Davidson Photos by Dan Davidson
BIG Thank You
A to everyone who donated to our Silent Auction, performed in our musical program, baked for our concession, volunteered for everything from moving tables to selling tickets and most importantly, everyone who came and supported our efforts. Because of you, and your donations, we have raised $2900.00 for music programs and instruments for the children of Belize. You all have such big hearts and everything you did was appreciated. Thank you to: Aurora Office, Klondike Nugget and Ivory, Eldorado Hotel, Pampered Chef, General Store, Hair Cabaret, Maximilian's, Sign of the Raven, Bonanza Market, Dawson Hardware, Raven’s Nook, Downtown Hotel, Miller Creek Mining Co., St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Audrey Vigneau, Michael Mason, Katie English and Derrick Hastings, Riley Brennan, Lynne Fezatte, Nora Van Bibber, Shirley Pennell, Ken Snider, Brenda Caley, Joyce Caley, Marion Dale, Ian MacDonald for donating items to our Silent Auction and our Loonie Table. Thank you to: The Hän Singers, RSS, Jr. Choir (Jesica, AJ, Noah, Phoenix, Alysha, Oliver, Jamal, Tommie and Emily - co-directed by Ann Moore & Tim Taylor); River Bends, St. Paul’s Singing Group (Sasha, Jania, AJ, Nico, Elizabeth, Kaitlin, Morgan, Paige and Devin), Quartet - Ian & Ellen MacDonald, Christopher Tessier, and Betty Davidson, accompanied by Ann Moore; the Community Christmas Choir, accompanied by Brenda Caley; Peter Menzies; Jack Amos; Noosa; Tracy Nordick; Dan Davidson; Florian; Clive Betts; Betty BelizeDavidson; Volunteers and Dwayne and Kelly. Bakers
Evelyn Mcdonald, Ellen MacDonald, Shirley Pennell, Brenda Caley, Christopher Tessier, Dan Davidson, Ian MacDonald, Clive Betts, Nijen Holland, Andrea Magee, Mark Moore, Chris Collin, MyrnaThank Butterworth you KIAC, and and Vicki the KlondikeRoberts. Sun for sponsoring this event. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P21 Dawson Council Expressed Airport Concerns
Story & Photo By Dan Davidson relocating either the whatever they had gleaned terminal or the complete from this consultation airport was discussed, but phase. While the Yukon council was left with the “We recommended to government’s consultation impression that moving them that it would be in panel on the issue the airport, for all its their best interest if they surrounding the Dawson shortcomings of length let us know what they Airport had what its and location, was really think they heard from us,” members termed a cordial something that was not said Potoroka, “because Sitting Highlighted the and productive meeting likely, even though it has this issue has definitely Economy, First Nations with municipal council been investigated in the created a lot of interest on December 11, the trio past. in the community, which By Sandy Silver did not escape without “That was because of all apparently is kind of unique Klondike MLA hearing about a long list of the money that’s been put to our community.” Access to Information Act that issues. into the current facility,” “We talked about paving,” will restrict public access to more government documents. “It was largely the list Potoroka said. said councillor Stephen During the recent fall sitting I also voted against of concerns,” said Mayor “I believe the concept Johnson. “Right now the of the legislature, I used my legislation that would strip the Wayne Potoroka, “that now is to assess the needs only 737 that can land time to press the government Kaska of a veto over oil and gas on a number of issues that are development in their traditional we’ve been hearing from from that location,” said here is one with a gravel important to Yukoners. people for some time: an councillor Bill Kendrick, kit, which is just a big fuel territory. I also held meetings with The premier’s fight with overcrowded terminal; “whether or not it’s an waster. The other thing to constituents, industry groups, the Kaska highlights this safety issues for expediters appropriate location. consider is the damage to youth interested in climate government’s combative, poor and miners who use the “They’re also looking the propellers and skin of change and attended the annual relationship with First Nations. Yukon Geoscience Forum. aprons on the north side into what screening other aircraft. I also asked It’s a ham-fisted, In question period, my of the runway; access to needs there would be for about the possibility of a confrontational approach that focus was mainly economic has set back relations with the planes to load and security.” GPS approach.” development and First Nation First Nations across the Yukon unload material onto the Presently Canada Aircraft larger than relations. and will not result in economic airplane. Customs operates out Air North’s big plane The two issues are tied development in the southeast. “There was also the issue a small room that used would require a longer together, obviously, and I did support legislation to I’m concerned the current of refueling. to be used by Alcan Air. runway and the airport introduce a new tax credit government isn’t doing enough that will assist families with “We talked about the Should someone need to is hemmed in by hills on to plan for the future of our children involved in music, arts future of air traffic in be detained, there really both approaches. economy or to build a long-term and tutoring. Dawson City and possible isn’t any place for that. “I’m not sure we have economic relationship with I also supported changes to flow patterns and the Potoroka said council the real estate for that,” First Nation governments. the Residential Landlord and I also raised concerns about Tenant Act. numbers that we could had made it very clear that Johnson continued. increasing electrical rates, cost expect to see here.” the community expected On Dec. 5, I brought forward overruns at new hospitals, the a motion urging the minister The possibility of to hear back from the panel future of F.H. Collins School, of Education to adopt the JJ An Elemental Blast from the Past Internet connectivity, the Peel Van Bibber memoir, I was born Land Use Plan and the new by Lisa McKenna under a spruce tree, as part of Whistle Bend subdivision. Yukon’s education curriculum. On behalf of my constituents After a friendly amendment in Dawson City, I spoke to the from the government side, “Huddie” born in 1888 in need for more housing and lot the motion was unanimously Louisiana, U.S.A. died in New development, staffing issues at supported in the legislature. York, New York, U.S.A. He was the new hospital, the need for a The book should be part of the famous for his talent on the new recreation centre and the curriculum for the 2013-2014 twelve-string guitar but he future of the Top of the World school year. also excelled on the piano, Golf Course. This is a great book, a gift to mandolin, harmonica, violin, Another issue that impacts all Yukoners that deserves a and the accordion. As a matter Dawson, and indeed the entire wide audience. I’m optimistic of fact his very first instrument Yukon, is the cuts made by we’ll see it in all our schools was the accordion. Parks Canada. starting next year. He sang the blues, gospel It was painfully obvious, Looking ahead to the spring blues, and songs about after listening to the minister of sitting, there is no reason women, liquor, prison life, and Tourism, that the Government whistle-blower legislation racism. He wrote folk songs of Yukon has done very little should not be on the agenda. about cowboys, prison, work, to try to have this decision The whistle-blower sailors, cattle, and dancing. He reversed. committee I was a member would write songs about the Their entire lobby campaign of has delivered its report has consisted of two letters, ‘newsmakers’ of the times like recommending the one of which said helping the Franklin D. Roosevelt. Adolph convict’ as he could, literally, have recorded his music. From government move ahead on Hitler, Jean Harlow, Howard federal government address this legislation, and there is no sing his way out of the bars that the likes of The Beach Boys, C. its financial situation was a top Hughes. He even wrote a song surrounded him. C. R., Elvis, The Animals, Frank reason to delay it. about the Titanic! priority. It is now a political decision, He recorded over 30 albums Sinatra, Johnny Cash, and the The tourism industry In and out of prison 5 or 6 andThe we’ll writer see if isthe the Yukon MLA Party for including some for children. In Grateful Dead! has expressed the same times he was always released Klondikelives up to and its theword interim or not. leader 2008 he was inducted into the But "Black Girl tell me where frustrations. early for ‘good behavior’ but Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. you slept last night" … "in the of the Yukon Liberal Party. between you and me I just With regard to legislation He sang with the likes of Woody pines?", with Leadbelly!! that was brought forward, I did think they liked the music! He Guthrie, such diverse people gained the name of the ‘singing not support amendments to the P22 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN Klondike Development Organization both the organizations hosting a joint venture between the Studies Dawson Events them, and the community in City of Dawson and the KVA Story & Photo general.” could have a paid staff position By Dan Davidson The focus of the afternoon’s that provides support for issues. Dawson its mid-point, the Trek discussions, in both small grant application writing, etc., Dawson’s diverse offerings Over the Top has continued groups and plenary sessions, since the people who want to of events, from big ones in spite of international The Klondike Development was to develop events often have not like the Dawson City Music economic turmoil and border * Broaden the general the skill or experience to do Organization (KDO) held Festival and the Gold Show, issues. Smaller events like the another of its continuing awareness and understanding that kind of paperwork. to smaller things like the summertime Dust to Dawson of the diverse groups & events The Klondike needs to work series of issues forums late annual Outhouse Race and the Motorcycle gathering (they in December to focus on the across our community. more on promoting the venues Goldpanning Championships, don’t like to call it a rally) and * Provide resources and we do have and the event subject of events. help to build community as the wintertime Fulda Extreme The KDO is a partnership information on anticipated support equipment we do well as attract much needed Sports Competition also help key topics/challenges. have. * Stimulate reflection among Insurance for events is often participating groups upon an issue for small groups. their own events, facilitate the Someone should investigate exchange of ideas, and consider options that might produce the potential for collaboration some sort of blanket insurance among groups. policy every group could buy After three hours of into. discussion, brainstorming Some of these ideas have and griping, a number of been tried before. Others, such suggestions were listed by the as encouraging the City of focus groups. Dawson to be more proactive It would be useful to have in event recruitment, were a community calendar, aside tried in the late 1990s and just from the event calendar over the turn of the century already published by the and were slammed as being Klondike Visitors Association. outside the town council’s This would facilitate mandate and authority during communications that are the territorial government important to collaboration in reports and the forensic The forum attracted about two dozen people to the Downtown Hotel conference room events, for example. avoiding audit that led to the two year over the three hours. or coordinating overlapping trusteeship. dates. Still, there are some strong The creation of a funding possibilities on the list of resource document, and suggestions and previous volunteer bank resource could forums have produced some of City of Dawson, Dawson visitors to the town in season. bring visitors to the region. City Chamber of Commerce, prove valuable. partial solutions to issues “Events,” said the KDO’ Last summer an active Some organization – perhaps raised at them Klondike Visitors Association, issues paper, “add vibrant group of volunteers added a bi- Roache's Corner Dawson City Arts Society and points of interest into the annual Highland Games event Chief Isaac Incorporated, the Dawson calendar in a way that to the roster. by Mike Roache development corporation of distinguishes us from other The forum was called to deal the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in. Yukon communities as a fun with the fact that while “events Generating ideas to help build and lively destination.” are significant contributors a more sustainable economy in It is generally accepted that to our economy, and to the the Klondike is high on its list of Dawson does a pretty good character and appeal of Dawson priorities and these meetings job of organizing events and City for visitors and locals have previously focussed on finding new ones. Over the alike, it is also true that events housingWombania and transportation by years Peter the Yukon Marinacci Quest has made can be highly demanding of THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P23 A Hunting Trip Becomes a Rescue Mission Rutting Season BOOKENDS by Dan Davidson and keeping track turns out not shot by some very sloppy { } By Roy Ness to be a problem. hunters and will turn up later CreateSpace We begin with Hannah, in the story. Some of the chapter 360 pages an eco-warrior who is out to sections are from his point of With some help $20.00 prove that grizzly bear trophy view. Others feature a curious from Owen Orser, her hunters are evil. She’s out with and hungry raven, whose former law partner, While the title of Roy Ness’ a two-person film crew in the comments on the activities of who now works for novel is suggestive of a number wilderness of the Macmilllan the “bobbleheads” are among the government, of things, it’s really not THAT River, north of Ross River. the most amusing sections of Susan confirms her kind of a story. Not that there When she gets separated from the book. suspicions and tries her aren’t couples and there isn’t them in a storm at night she Hannah’s husband, the best to do something coupling but with the exception expects to be able to cope, but aforementioned David, gets his about them, but the of David Hellman, most of the the wind, water and cold wear act together when he realizes dénouement for this people in the book are quite her down quickly and she is his wife is missing, and comes particular plot thread a bit more serious about their pretty much done in by the north to find her, hiring the is not like anything liaisons. time Dan MacKay, a half-breed services of Jim Giller and his she was expecting. There are several plot threads hunter from Ross River, finds daughter, Jessica, as guides to We rotate through that weave their way through her, naked and delirious, two get him to the bush. Father and these groups many this book, and most of them days later. daughter haven’t been getting times in the 13 do involve couples in some MacKay is on a hunting trip, along well since Jim opted for a days covered by the way. Three of them intersect but he’s also avoiding a custody trophy wife over her mother a book, leaving us directly, while two others are hearing in Whitehorse because while back, but this trip seems with a succession connected, but play out at a he honestly doesn’t know if he’s to be good for them. of cliffhangers and distance. up to winning the battle for The mother is Susan Field, several different Ness doesn’t start out with his preteen daughter, Starla, who happens to be Dan’s lawyer climactic events along couples though. He starts out who is currently living with in the custody case, and she the journey. While with apparently disconnected her mother, Tara. He rescues is deeply suspicious of Tara’s the endings provided vignettes about people who Hannah and they carry on down latest flame, Gary, who she here are perfectly seem to have nothing to do the river, having a variety of suspects has a possible history satisfactory within with each other, so many of adventures with wildlife along of pedophilia, and may only be the framework of this book, received a starred review from them on September 13 (the the way, during which Hannah hanging out with Tara in order there are lots of loose ends and the Kirkus Reviews Best of chapters have dates) that I has to reevaluate her dedication to get close to Dan’s daughter. it would be entirely possible to 2012 in the Indie Book category, was initially afraid I was going to a vegetarian diet, along with We also spend some time with carryRutting on the Season stories of most of which should encourage a lot of to have to make a list. Not to some other things. Starla, Tara and Gary, and we these people in a sequel. libraries to pick up a copy. worry. They sort themselves Among the wildlife we can know there’s a problem well has recently Herout into several Berton distinct clumps Housecount a bear, which Experience has been before Susan is ableWas to prove it.Encouraging Story & Photo By Dan Davidson th Frankenstein fiction,” she says, “but I didn’t 19 century feminist and also come here specifically to write author of ) follows something about the North, that pattern. Sherry MacDonald had had though I do find that location She is also working on a Berton House on her mind as a informs my work. It makes its contemporary play about life in residency to apply to for a few way in and then it makes its way the foothills of Alberta, where years before her children finally out again, and you never know she lived for a time and where grew up and left the nest. As a just when it’s going to show up. her children were born. She says single mother the playwright “I wanted to get a feeling of the she hasn’t done a lot of work had seldom been able to take community here and experience previously that directly related advantage of any residencies the landscape. The freezing of to her own life’s experiences. of this type. However, she is the river was interesting.” This seems to have opened acquainted with a number of The play of light, even as it up a new form of creative writers who have been here and diminished during her three- expression for her, and she has both the house and the town month stay, was also interesting, found herself writing chapters have been a subject of writers’ and she rearranged the study of a prose memoir about her conversations over the years. so as to face the window there early adult life, finding a sort “It’s quite a well advertised and take advantage of the view of wry humour and whimsy in Sherry MacDonald chose to do her writing while enjoying the opportunity.” while working on her laptop events that seemed very trying view from Berton House’s west facing study window. Berton House hasn’t drawn a computer. at the time she was in the middle lot of playwrights in its 16 years From tha room, as well as from of them. of operation, perhaps because the kitchen of Berton House, “I guess I needed to get that one of the prerequisites for there is a good view across the distance from them. At the now teaches Creative Writing. be quite fun to write. I’ll be acceptance is having a book in top of the town to the west bank time I was too busy living those She has concentrated her spending a bit more time on print. of the Yukon River, which lights events.“ writing efforts on drama over those, I think, not as a diversion “The main focus for a up golden at certain times of day Her writing life has had a the years. Only recently has she exactly, but it’s just another way playwright,” MacDonald says, as the low arcing sun touches it number of interruptions. attempted prose fiction and of writing. I feel it’s a bit of a “is production rather than a few weeks before and after “For about five years I had two memoir. different process, so it’s nice to publication.” , The Stone Face Solstice. out of three kids in diapers and “I wanted to see what that switch it up and try something She has one book, the script Just two days before leaving was busy being mom.” would feel like.” new.” for her The play Duchess of Alba , town on December 21, she Subsequent to that she She’s finding narrative/ Since her ability to write about from Anvil Press.Blindspot, She has also expressed regret at not getting returned to working at her reflective prose both interesting places she’s lived in seems to written and to see the days begin to get parents’ insurance company and challenging, and having the take time to mature, it may be a a short film, has been longer again. and ended up taking on more opportunity to try that work out while before anything related to screened at festivals in Iran, “Just yesterday I was saying and more of the business when in readings with audiences in Dawson City bubbles to the top Italy, the US and Canada, and is to Jim (her partner), oh look, her father became ill. both Whitehorse and Dawson of her mind. distributedIraqi Karaoke by Moving Images. there’s a strip of light. Come and After a few years of that was extremely valuable to her. In “It’s interesting that both of In addition, her short play, watch it.” she decided to continue addition to working on her plays the pieces I’ve been working on , was made into a Her drama project in Dawson her interrupted education, she revised two chapters of her here go back 20 years, so it may film and is published as part of was to work on couple of plays. eventually scoring a full memoir, (working title: “We be a while before Dawson comes an anthology by Anvil Press. Much of her work so far has scholarship to work on her Don’t Even Have Any Pickles”) up. If an idea occurs to me after “I think this place is a great been historical in nature, and Masters of Fine Arts in Creative and finished a third while she I leave here I would definitely opportunity for anyone wanting her one-woman project on Writing from the University of was here. come back – provided I could to write historical fiction or non- the life of Mary Shelley (noted British Columbia, where she “Those are turning out to find a place to stay.” P24 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN
Poems John Flynn Authors on Eighth Day "Yukon Wildlife" by Debra Kennedy, "Fleeting from p. 12 Glimpses" by Randene Shiplett & "Nature" by Kate Crocker man and all around decent human being.” Three Poetry submissions to the 2012 Authors on Eighth Contest. When asked earlier about his The contest submissions had to include Yukon animals. choice of day, Flynn selected his grandson Jack’s birthday as the day to be proclaimed. “In the time that he skated By Debra Kennedy circles around me when I was playing Old Timer’s willow, hockey,” said councillor Bill Yukon Wildlife While the air thumped with the beat of an eagle’s wings. Kendrick, “he certainly showed In the Yukon, the animals were shy, great sportsmanship and is Unlike the brazen bison and bears They would not stand still, nervous at our humanness. certainly a great Dawson City Posing by the rocky roadside in northern BC, We did not know why until we came to the Klondike ambassador.” And the black-tipped fox trotting beside our truck And learned of the characters, larger than life, “I was born and raised in this Carefully carrying its rodent prize between its teeth That came like mosquitoes and felled all the trees community,” said councillor Darren Taylor, “and idolized On the dusty North West Territory road. To fuel the machines that chewed up the creeks John when I was a boy skating In the Yukon, the brush and stunted trees teemed And spewed out boulders in rocky waves; around and admired his hockey With reticent, elusive wildlife, Their eyes glazed over with gold fever, talent, obviously. Locals used to call John ‘the Ace’. I’ve always Caught in fleeting, enticing glimpses: They bulldozed through the landscape, ! Spitting, fighting, digging, singing, swatting, freezing, looked up to John. He’s a role Caribou, antlers like tundra trees,! moving east then west model to all of us. It’s great to see In unison away from our approach, Making history and telling tales, leaving both behind: one of our own recognized.” Speckled ptarmigan and ground squirrels Scars and tracks for us to find on the trail. Flynn, generally a man of few Flitting over the crunchy brown gravel and slippery mud, The animals of the Yukon were audience to all this, public words, did have a few on this occasion. The copper flash of a fox leaping through the low shrubs, Like the Northern Lights, they’ve seen queer sights. “I would like to thank you. It’s Even the enigmatic hoary-tipped grizzly Is this why they are now so wary of us? been quite a two weeks for me. Slipping silently, furtively into the profusion of arctic The wildest beasts of the Yukon, I’m not one to boast about my The two-legged kind like us. achievements and have quietly put them aside, but they’ve all come back, which is kind of nice. I appreciate this honour. “I’ve talked it over with my By Randene Shiplett family about it and I onlyth have "#$%&'#"()!&$$&*)+(,)'! one request. On the 28 , could Position: Part-time Bookkeeper (10 hrs/week) ! Fleeting Glimpses there be free skating at the Term: February, 2013 – December, 2013 skating rink for the kids on John The porcupine and the bear are nothing but bums as they Flynn Day.” Salary: $30/hr Council agreed to this. Closing Date: 5:00 PM January 25, 2013 waddle away from the highway. A butterfly brings a mad scramble for the booklet to The Dawson Regional Planning Commission is a public identify. board, mandated by Chapter 11 of the Yukon Umbrella Startled, the arctic ground squirrel shouts as it vanishes Final Agreements, responsible for producing a regional into the dirt. Subscribe to The land use plan for the Dawson Planning Region. The Over it all, a raven shrieks and warbles hidden in the trees. Commission is currently seeking a part-time Bookkeeper Klondike Sun! in Dawson City, Yukon. Only $44 per year! The successful applicant will have completed post- (visit klondikesun.com for details) secondary coursework in accounting, with a minimum of 5 years experience. An equivalent combination of By Kate Crocker education and experience may be considered. Knowledge of financial administration and general accounting Nature standards and practices is required. Proficiency in the use From the Sun Archives of Simply Accounting must be demonstrated. The tap of the woodpecker, the beat of the wing. A Job Description and Statement of Qualifications are That is what the forest does sing. available from the DRPC Office in Dawson City, on 2nd Ave near King St., or may be downloaded from the Commission’s website: http://dawson.planyukon.ca. You talk about cities, the tick-tock all day. Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter, That is what cities do say. a current resume and references, to the address noted below on or before the Closing Date. All responses will You must admit, be acknowledged and kept strictly confidential, but only the forest is smart. those selected for further consideration will be contacted. But cities don’t take it to their heart. For more information, contact: Jeff Hamm, Senior Planner Nature doesn’t need us Dawson Regional Planning Commission to stay alive. Phone: (867) 993-4400 But we need nature to survive. Mail: Box 8010, Dawson City, Yukon, Y0B 1G0 email: [email protected] THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P25 What is Your Threshold? CYFT 106.9 FM: Dawson City Community Radio
Friday March 30th
9am-11am – Live conversation between RSS students and students in Sierra Leone – Hosted by Peter Menzies 2:15-2:45pm – Tr’inke Zho Daycare 2:45-3:20pm – Georgette and Erica’s Han Rap and dis- “The Spirit of Dawson” cussion 3:20 – ? – Robert Service School Han Language Class 5-6pm – The High Cost of Low Living – Georgia Ham- mond 6-7pm – Sports Talk Radio – Steve Laszlo and Nathan THURSDAY, January 10 Dewell 5 to 7 p.m. Alphabet Soup - Adonika 7-8pm – This n That – Robyn Olson 8-9pm – Rockin’ Blues Show – Sunnyboy Williams 7 to 8 p.m. Real Deal Robitaille Radio - Paul 9-10pm – Psychedelic – Jim 8 to 9 p.m. The Classic Rock Showcase Hour Story andSaturday Graphic March 31st by Florian Boulais FRIDAY, January 11 too. Some times, when we are power was illegally put in place? 12-1pm – Youth Broadcast relaxed enough, when our mind What if that government had 3 to 5 p.m. On the John - John 1-3pm – The Foxy and Folksy Hour with Andy Ladeau has room to wander instead of a marketing machine that was 3-4pm Fill in Needed 5 to 6 p.m. Dan Degroot As we were conceived in the being distracted by moving pic- brainwashing people into be- 4-5pm – Sounds of Freedom – Connor Jerzy womb of our mother, the sperm tures or stimulated by crowds lieving that the natural world is 6 to 7 p.m. Rock of Ages - Spruce 8-10pm – True North Trance – Robb Beggs met the egg. We start up as a or dazed by substances, we can only there to be used up to make mono cellular organism. We experience the age old lineage; the rich ones even richer? What 7 to 8 p.m. This ‘n’ That - Robyn start up in lifeSunday the same April way 1st life some might call it our ances- if any action against that gov- 8 to 9 p.m. Rockin’ Blues Show - Sonny Boy Williams started up 3.5 billion years a go: tors, others the collective un- ernment was met with violent as a mono1-2pm cellular – The organism. Cat’s Meowconscious – Rosie or others and Caprigod. It is all repression such as sometimes 9 to 10 p.m. Psychedelic - Jim Then, within2-4pm 9 months, – Golden we goAge aboutof Radio language – Kim at that point. lethal tasers and tear gas, would through 3.54-5pm billions – years Jaimee of evo –- All ThingsLanguage Considered and culture shape you fight back? SATURDAY, January 12 lution: after5-6pm one cell, – weTreasure become Time our – worldview. Elizabeth We are not pris- Would you fight back if the multi-cellular,6-8pm then – weMeat start and to Potatoesoners of –the Kit worldview that we new government poisoned food 12 to 3 p.m. Youth Broadcast - Adonika and Friends look like a fish,8-9pm then – we The look Spoon like with Murphy Douglas -Ben have had handed down by our supplies, made rivers unfit for 3 to 5 p.m. The Sounds of Freedom - Connor ina mammal,utero 9-10pm then we – look Hard like Core a culture,Troubadour even thoughRadio it– isJosh some- swimming, made them so filthy monkey. Then, once we shed our times hard to see through. that you would not even dream 5 to 6 p.m. The City Mic - Mike & Steph fur, we start to look like The corporate culture is about drinking from them any a human. something that has been hand- more? If that new government 6 to 7 p.m. David’s Saturday Show We are not born naked. We ed down to us and we are told, did systemically deforest and are not just a person; we are every minute of our life that it leave behind only sterile land SUNDAY, January 13 the final link of a multitude of is the way to go: the economy would you fight back? Give me 1 to 2 p.m. The Mix - Jonna women and men that loved each needs to keep on growing. a threshold; give me a specific other, an unbroken chain of life What would you say if a new point at which you would finally 2 to 3 p.m. No Rhyme No Reason - Joanna that led us to us: a fully grown government that is a merger take a stand. If you can’t give me modern human being. We know between political and corporate that threshold, why not? 3 to 5 p.m. Kerry’s Movie Show this. Sometimes, we can feel it I'm Getting Old and I Don't Like It! (Or Maybe I Do) 5 tp 6 p.m. Call of the Mild - Matt
in percentage compared to the rest of the population. Aging has been discussed since 1582 when Muhammud Tune your dial to 106.9 FM or ibn Yusaf al-Harawi wrote a Cable Channel 11 (Rolling Ads) in Dawson City, book about aging. Within it he or listen live over the internet at www.cfyt.ca! discusses the effects of diet, housing conditions, environ- by Lisa McKenna ment, and some drugs that in- crease, or decrease, life expec- crease in cultural knowledge tancy. but it can also bring about a My breasts droop and I can’t BUT humans are not the decrease in reaction times and THE KLONDIKE SUN poop! BUT as my body fails … only things that age. Our earth memory recall. my mind grows, and grows, and has gone through ages, as in the Aging has been a natural phe- thanks our volunteers! grows. It’s quite a wonderful ex- Bronze Age and the Iron Age nomenon forever and I suppose chief writer & editor - Dan Davidson perience to age. and the Industrial Age. Our So- it will continue! There are differ- My Grandma told me when I lar System is aging. Our Sun is webmaster/online assistance - John Steins ent sorts of aging. There is indi- was only 20 that I had to learn aging. My cat is aging. The meat vidual, chronological age, which proofreading - Betty Davidson, Lisa McKenna to ‘grow old gracefully’. This hanging in my garage is aging. is tallied by the number of days Alyssa Friesen, Tara Borin meant, to her, to never dye your Even a good whiskey needs time you have been alive. hair because you earned every to age! Age … what a funny word. layout - Dan & Alyssa There is Universal aging, which one of those white ones! You In the dictionary it is said to be all people share, as our earth subscription mailing/retailer deliveries - could NOT get a ‘tummy-tuck’ or "a length of time that a person grows older. There is population Karen MacKay, Palma Berger, Colleen Smith, new bosoms. You weren’t even or thing has existed or is likely aging when the older members allowed a perm. I love her. to exist". Judith Blackburn-Johnson, and Jan Couture of our society, due to migration, Human beings age physically, This brings us in to the con- longer life expectancy (because psychologically, and socially. cept of time but that is a very of better medical knowledge), Some aging brings about an in- controversial subject and it will and a lower birth rate, increase have to wait till the next issue! SPORTS
P26 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 THE KLONDIKE SUN KIDS' CORNER Stories and illustrations by Lisa Michelle CIRCLES There are circles all through nature. A flower has a circle in the middle, our eyes are circular, our hair can grow in circles, WE have done the alphabet from A to Z; WE have done tree trunks are circular, (most of the time), and jellyfish look our numbers from 1 to 13! NOW, in the New Year WE are like circles. Circles are everywhere! going to start on shapes! Pretty cool, eh?
I think we’ll start with a circle. The word ‘circle’ comes from the Greek word ‘kirkos’, where the ‘ker’ part means to turn or to bend.
“The world is a circle without no beginning and nobody knows where it really ends.” (The Pajama Game, 1954)
Circles helped mankind to event the WHEEL! And GEARS! Actually the World looks like a circle but it’s a little wider around the middle. The Moon is also seen as a circle, as Medieval scholars thought that the circle represented per- well as the Sun. fection. They also discovered that a triangle could make a perfect circle! (But that’s for the next issue!) See you Did you know that the Sun burns at 5,530 C°!!! AND it then… is also 109 times bigger than Earth. AND it was formed about 4.6 Billion years ago. AND it takes 8 minutes and 16 seconds for it’s light to hit the Earth!
+ HEY KIDS! Can you find circles in Dawson? E-mail Lisa at klondikesun@ northwestel.net with your stories and pictures and you could be in the next Klondike Sun! THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 P27 CLASSIFIEDS Kl o n d i k e Churches Support Mining For Sale Ou t r e a c h ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Alcoholics WATER LICENCES/ LAND DAWSON CITY PROPERTY CHURCH: Anonymous: USE PERMITS/ ALL PLANS FOR SALE: REQUIRED FOR PLACER Jo b Bo a r d Corner of MINERS: Call Josée, Fast- Secluded, south- 5th and King. Services: Meetings Thursdays, 8 p.m. Track Land Management at east facing 4.9 acre wooded, Open Positions: Sundays at 10:30 a.m., Sat. at Richard Martin Chapel (819) 663-6754, (819) 661- titled lot with 3 room cabin 5 p.m., Tues. 7 p.m., Wed. 104 Church St.; Fridays 1427 cell, e-mail joseeb@bell. and shed on west side of Yu- to Fri. 9:30 a. m. All are at 1:30 p.m. at Telehealth net or [email protected]. See kon River overlooking river Accounting & Office Administrators welcome. Contact Father Dawson Health Centre; you in May! valley and Dawson City. Road Day-care Worker Ernest Emeka Emeodi for Saturdays at 7 p.m. at the DAWSON COMMUNITY and trail access from Top of Day-care Floor Supervisor assistance, 993-5361. TH Community Support Drivers: Class 1 & 3 CHAPEL Centre 1233 2nd Ave; info the World highway. Asking Driver/Swamper M993-3734any Ri vorers 5095.: $155,000. 867-332-9975 : Located on HVAC Technician 5th Ave across from Counselling Manager: Guest Services Gold Rush Campground. and support services for Manager: Operations Sunday School at 10 a.m. individuals, couples, families Nanny Sunday worship at 11 a.m. or group counselling. A highlyWe Plumber All welcome. Pastor Ian confidential service located in Senior Accounting Clerk Nyland,ST. PAUL’S 993-5507. ANGLICAN the Waterfront Building. Shop & General Labourers CHURCH: are a non-profit organization PositionsTutors with Closing Dates: with a sliding fee scale. To Corner of Front make an appointment call & Church St. Sunday 993-6455 or email dawson@ Diamond Tooth Gertie’s: KVA employees Services at 10:30. 1st and manyrivers.yk.ca. See our given preference: Jan 7 3rd Sundays: Morning website at www.manyrivers. Parts Counterperson: Jan 9, 2013 Prayer. 2nd and 4th yk.ca/. Administrative Assistant: Jan 13, 2013 Sundays: Holy Eucharist. Administrative Assistant: TH Citizens 5th Sunday: Informal. Rev. Only: Jan 16 @ 4 Laurie Munro, 993-5381 Utility/Public Works Maintenance: Jan , at the Richard Martin 21 @4 Chapel, Tues - Thurs, 8:30 Community Mental Health Nurse: March - noon. Positions28, 2013 Out of Town:
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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
COMMUNITY GRANTS FUND
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
A total of $10,000 is available for the January 15th application intake deadline.
For further information on funding assistance available through the City of Dawson Community Grants Fund and application criteria or to receive a hard copy of the application form, please stop by the City office, or call us at:
City of Dawson Community Grants Fund P.O BOX 308, DAWSON CITY, YUKON Y0B 1G0 PH: (867) 993-7400, FAX: (867) 993-7434 1336 Front St, P.O.Box 308 Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0
(867-993-7400) EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Utility/Public Works Maintenance (Temporary, Or get the information on-line: Sixth Month Term) http://www.cityofdawson.ca/
The City of Dawson is seeking a qualified applicant to fill the position of Utility/Public Works Recreation Department News Maintenance Worker for a period commencing February 4, 2013 to August 4, 2013.
Reporting to the Superintendent of Works, this position is responsible for maintenance on all Winter programming is underway. For more info: City infrastructure. These duties include maintenance on the water and sewer system, City Phone: 993dawson-2353 city – heart web: of the www.cityofdawson.ca klondike buildings and other City infrastructure. Facebook: “city of dawson recreation”
Qualifications: • High School graduation and post-secondary, education or experience in the trades sector • Knowledge and experience in water and sewer pipe maintenance and installation, heating After School Programs systems, carpentry *Pre-register at the Rec Dept.* • Class 5 drivers licence and ability to operate a backhoe/loader preferred Confined Spaces Training All programs 3:20-5:00, unless noted. • • Current First Aid and CPR Tickets or willingness to obtain Monday - Ping Pong
If you wish to speak with someone about this opportunity, please contact Norm Carlson, Tuesday - Jigging Club in conjunction with TH & RSS FULL Superintendent of Works at (867) 993-7400 Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday FULL Thursday - Girl Power A job description is available upon request. Friday - Hiking Club - Youth Open Gym (6:15-8:00 pm) Please Note: This position is a unionized position and subject to a collective bargaining agreement
Salary: Drop In & Registered Programs Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Kickboxing - Mon/Wed @ 6:30 at RSS Closing Date: Boxing - Mon/Wed/Fri @ 6:30 at RSS A current resume and covering letter must be received at the City of Dawson Administration Women & Weights - Mon/Wed @ noon at Waterfront Building Building by 4:00 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013. Parent & Tot Playgroup - Wed @ 10 -11:30 am at TZ Daycare City of Dawson Office Adult Soccer - Tue/Thur @ 7:45 at RSS 1336 Front Street Kids Soccer - Saturdays @ 10:30-12:30 at RSS Box 308, Dawson City, YT Y0B 1G0 Attn: Norm Carlson Minor Soccer - Starting November 13 Family Badminton - Mondays @ 6:45-7:30 pm at RSS We thank all applicants, but only those selected for further consideration will be Adult Badminton - Mondays @ 7:30-8:30 pm at RSS contacted. Zumba - Mon/Wed/Fri @ 5:30-6:30 pm at RSS dawson city – heart of the klondike DAWSON CITY – HEART OF THE KLONDIKE