The WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 • VOL. 26, NO. 9 $1.50 Raven says KLONDIKE WE'RE BAAACK! SUN Are You Ready for a month of Elections? The Klondike Spirit, owned and operated by the Triple J Hotel, is out of the water and resting for the winter, a sure sign that the tourist season in Dawson is mainly over at this point in September. Photo by Dan Davidson in this Issue Keno Fest 6 Intergovernmental accord 7 Farewell to Vi Campbell 19 From good books and challenging puzzles to Mark October 15th Dawson City musicians invade North Yukon First Nations decide A former mayor passes on. Keno City. to work together. cozy socks and warm mittens, and 19th on your Max's has everything you need for a fantastic fall! calendars. 9am to 6pm What to see and do in Dawson! 2 TH & Kaminak agree on road 7 Soccer News 9 The Sun's future considered 18 Monday to Saturday Uffish Thoughts: Thanks to everyone 4 Holly's CD Launch 8 TV Guide 12-16 Classifieds & Job Board 19 Noon to 5pm YTG Press releases 5 Ball Tourney & Fall Colours 9 20 Years Ago in the Sun 17 City Notices 20 Sunday P2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to SEE AND DO in DAWSON now: This free public service helps our readers find their way through the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this Eventslisting contact the office at [email protected]. AUTHORS ON 8TH: Meet at Jack London Square at 2 p.m for the beginningMeetings of this three stop event on the Writers' Block. Congratulations to Mary Alice Fraughton for her winning IODE DAWSON CITY: entry in the Dawson Daily News Postcard Story Competition, Meet first Tuesday each month at home as part of the Print and Publishing Symposium. RofO JoyceyaL CCaleyANadia at 7:30N LE p.m.GION For BR infoAN callCH Myrna#1: Butterworth, 993- 5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-October. Honourable Mentions go to Joyce Majiski, Dawne Mitchell, Meet first Thursday PeachION monthEER WOM at LegionEN OF Hall TH (3rdE YUKON and King: St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts and Chris Scott and in the youth category, Ivan Treleaven. Helen Bowie, 993-5526, Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each We'll print the rest of them next issue. month at 7:30 p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, Klondike993-5353. Recess Institute for summer of Art June, and July Culture and Aug. (KIAC) Winner Drop-in painting : Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., $5 drop-in in the KIAC Gone Wild Classroom (enter through the back door). Inspire and be inspired by Mary Alice Fraughton by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. You were going to the Bering Sea, you said, building a raft out of the backbones of broken-down HATHA YOGA WITH JOANNE VAN NOSTRAND: schemes, the work pooling in your palms like a balm. You picked bits of poetry from the banks of the Klondike, polished them on your shirt, smiled like strawberry season (sweet, fleeting). Mondays: 6:45-8 But in September the moon is hungry-hollow. Raven takes the bones of summer in his black beak, cracks p.m., Thursdays: 5:45-7 p.m. & Saturdays 9-10:30 a.m. In the KIAC them for the marrow as the mercury drops. And you leave. Ballroom. For more info or to register for classes, please contact And I stay, learn to saw wood, cultivate callouses, ski at midnight. Winter sprawls beneath me like a DawsonJoanne Van CityNostrand Community at yogawithjoanne[at]me.com. Library lover under shameless stars. Freedom clings dirt-firm to my skin. Spring comes. Raven’s laugh is brittle beneath blue sky, bright as penny-penance bouncing on the ice. REGULAR HOURS The river shrugs its shoulders, creaks and groans like tired bones, but it’s going to the Bering Sea, it says, : Monday, noon – 6:30 p.m. Tuesday – Friday, 9 and I believe it. a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Last Saturday, noon – 4 p.m slot will be on August 15.BERTON HOUSE READING Honourable Mention : Emily Pohl-Weary’s author reading Dänojàwill be on ZhoThursday Cultural 3 September Centre at 7 p.m. Gone Wild DAILY PROGRAMS: by Joyce Majiski SpeciaL PROGRAMS 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Saturday I dreamt I was an explorer in a faraway land : Including Bannock Attack on Tuesdays, wearing the skin of a polar bear 10:30-12 p.m., Of Land and Sky Tea Program on Wednesdays at 2 feeling the deep bite of cold in my bones, p.m., Wild and Rosie Apothecary on Thursdays at 2 p.m., and Ra- wind clawing my cheeks dio Zho at 11:30 on Fridays and live on 106.9 FM. Come early for alone special programs to secure a seat! The Alchemy Cafe Stories are only stories until they are lived CHESS CLUB: until you can get some sense of what it might have been like for yourself HOURS: here at the edge of north Sundays at 2 p.m. Bring a board if you have one! frozen fingers clutching at survival Tuesday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday/Sunday 9:30 wrapped in thin cloth, desperate Chambera.m.-5 p.m. of Commerce fearful of death in someone else’s war I love this thought CHAMBER MEETINGS: when you are missing someone from far away in another place and time Regular meetings on the second Wednes- perhaps at the instant of their sleeping and your waking day of each month at the Downtown Hotel. Town Council your eyelashes may brush softly COUNCIL MEETINGS: at the intersection where magic lives 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 A fragile memory p.m. at Council Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions pressed into stone, moulded by elements, gripped by frozen earth during the question period, which takes place towards the end of COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETINGS: waits to be unearthed each meeting. Meetings are also aired on Channel 12. perhaps some adventurous soul Council will be hold- will push ing Committee of the Whole meetings as posted at the posted of- at the edges of eternity. fice. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 P3 2015 edition of REM comes to Dawson Story & Photo by Dan Davidson • Create sense of community and opportunity for students to build relationships across rural Ninety-five students, and 13 schools. visiting teachers descended on Two sessions are held each Dawson City’s Robert Service year, one in the fall and the School on Monday afternoon, second in the spring. This will Sept. 21, for this year’s edition be the third time the fall REM of the Rural Experiential Model has been held in Dawson. (REM). There will be 14 workshops During Monday afternoon, offered in the following areas: and running through the rest of Ancestral Technologies/ On- the week until they depart from the-Land; Archery; Culinary Dawson on Saturday afternoon, Arts; Dance and Drama; First the students and their teachers Nations Art (Design and will engaged in one of 14 Carving); Gold Rush (Past, different multi-day workshops Present, and Future); Hair and that fall somewhat outside the Esthetics; Mountain Biking: usual curriculum offerings Riding and Repair; Music available in the smaller rural (Fiddling); Robotics; Science: schools. Let’s DO It!; Social Media; Wood In the departmental briefing Shop (Framing). note, the REM concept is These workshops will be led intended to: by 22 day session leaders. • Support building capacity While there will be some and collaboration among rural free time in the schedule, the During REM 2014, a group of students practiced working on percussion beats, while a student from teachers; evenings are also programmed the reporting group recorded some video and audio for part of her project. • Increase course options with 26 different activities, available to rural students; some fun, some instructional, • Support multiple pathways some both. for student success; Mayor Potoroka Runs for Re-Election Dawson City – Mayor Communications and Policy Municipalities Board of and people, maintaining “I’ve been humbled by Wayne Potoroka is seeking Director for the Tr’ondëk Directors. respectful relationships with the trust shown by this re-election in the Oct. 15, Hwëch’in; freelance writer “Local government is a local groups and other levels community and would be 2015, municipal election. and editor; husband; and rewarding way of building of government, and leading honoured to serve again as “I’m proud of the direction father of two children, aged one’s community,” said effective, efficient meetings Mayor of the greatest town this town is heading and five and seven. Potoroka. “Decisions made of Council. on earth,” he added. what’s been achieved these He is also President of on Council affect everyone, He feels privileged to have For more information past three years,” said the Association of Yukon and there is no better feeling been Chair on a Council on Potoroka, search Potoroka, “but there is more Communities and the than improving the lives of that has tackled big issues Facebook for “Mayor Wayne work to be done.” Yukon’s representative on your neighbours.” and made progressive Potoroka,” email potoroka@ As well as being Dawson’s the Federation of Canadian Potoroka is passionate and fiscally responsible northwestel.net, or call 867- Mayor, Potoroka is a about the Klondike’s history decisions.