The WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 • VOL. 26, NO. 16 $1.50 Raven says the ice bridge is safe and KLONDIKE the sun's returning. SUN Seasonal Roundup and News from the Ice Bridge Gathering to see the Baby Jesus, a photo from the Christmas Eve Pageant. Photo by Betty Davidson in this Issue Saturday Painting Club 6 May the Force be with Us 8 High Tea a Great Success 9 Magazines and Lindsey Tyne profiles the Painting Mayor Potoroka explains the new Thanks to all the folks who Club. Force Main. organized and attended our fund Books Galore! raising Tea. STORE HOURS: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday See and Do / Authors on 8th 2 Gordon Caley Obituary 6 Palace Grand to get upgrades 11 History Hunter: Klondike Christmases 18 Christmas Eve Pageant 3 Municipal Act amendments 8 TV Guide 12-16 Classifieds & Job Board 19 Noon to 5p.m. on Sunday Uffish Thoughts: Ice Bridge issues 4 Kim Fu's public reading 10 20 years ago 17 City Notices 20 P2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Authors on 8th What to Authors on 8th poetry entry A Tribute to the AND Poetry SEE DO (Extra)ordinary Submission in DAWSON now: Women of the North By Aileen Stalker 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 Meetingslisting contact the office at [email protected]. IODE DAWSON CITY: Meet first Wednesday of each month at When I walk through these mossy old gravestones Rhomeoya Lof C Joyceanadian Caley atLE 7:30GION p.m. BRANC For infoH #1 call: Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-October. The names that I read without sound. Meet first Thursday PeachIONEER month W atO MLegionEN O FHall TH (3rdE YUK andON King: St.) at 7:30 p.m. Contacts For Anna, Cara and Lillian Helen Bowie, 993-5526, Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each I wonder what life that you found? month at 7:30 p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993- 5353.Klondike Recess Institute for summer of June, Art July and and CultureAug. (KIAC) Your babies are buried beside you, Drop-in painting As is your man who you followed out west. : Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., $5 drop-in in the KIAC Classroom (enter through the back door). Inspire and be inspired Did you enjoy the place that you came to? Hatby otherHA Yartists.OGA WIT BringH Jyouroanne own V ideasAN N andostrand painting: surfaces. Paints, brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. Did you find any time for a rest? Mondays: 6:45-8 p.m., Thursdays: 5:45-7 p.m. & Saturdays 9-10:30 a.m. In the KIAC The poplars now sway all around you Ballroom. For more info or to register for classes, please contact DawsonJoanne Van CityNostrand Community at yogawithjoanne[at]me.com. Library Wild strawberries are fresh for the taste. REGULAR HOUrs Were your days filled with joy and some pleasures "Double bob potluck": Monday - to Friday, noon - 6:30 p.m. Or just thoughts of the work to be faced? , In celebration of the birthdays of Robert Burns and Robert Service Saturday, January 23rd at the Wild rivers swirl past the stone beaches, YukonLibrary at School 6:00 p.m. of Visual Arts Snowdrifts pile high to the door. Chamber of Commerce Did you enjoy the rough gifts of the landscape CHAMBER MeetinGS: Or despair at the mud on the floor? Regular meetings on the second Wednes- Townday of each Council month at the Downtown Hotel. For Edith, Mary and Emma, COUNCIL MeetinGS: Did you walk down the street with a smile? 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Council Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions Did you laugh at the many misfortunes CduringOMM ITTEEthe question OF TH Eperiod, WHO LwhichE MEETIN takesG placeS: towards the end of each meeting. Meetings are also aired on Channel 12. And develop a “try-again” style? Council will be holding Committee of the Whole meetings as posted at the posted office. Though Nellie, and Martha and Kate businesses: We'd like to get back to promoting your special events as well, but we really can't afford to do May have gained reputation and fame that for nothing. We will offer you space in these listings The housewives and mothers in Dawson City in return for some form of small advertising elsewhere in the paper to help defray the cost of this full page commu- Deserve to have equal acclaim. nity service. We would like to see sponsorships for the TV Guide pages in the available space, or business card sized They may not have had lives filled with glamour, ads. Please contact us to see what we can arrange. Been a woman prospector, musher or guide, But their strength built a town with a spirit Where extraordinary northern women reside. (Written after a visit to Dawson City Cemetery July 26, 2015) THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 P3 Christmas Eve in Dawson Story & Photo By Dan Davidson anthems since the Sunday after Remembrance Day, as well as leading the assembled Saint Paul’s is the gathering congregation in singing the place for all the church many other Christmas Carols congregations in Dawson that made up the service. on Christmas Eve. This Additional special music ecumenical service simply was provided by Saint takes place in the church Paul’s Youth Choir, led by with the largest sanctuary, Betty Davidson, also made with the clergy and members up of children from several from all four congregations congregations. participating in delivering By tradition, the newest the service. member of the local clergy The centerpiece of the is tasked with delivering evening is the retelling of the sermon for the pageant the Christmas Story, which service. This year it was is presented as a PowerPoint Father Emmanuel Obidile of slide show, the pictures St. Mary’s Catholic Church. having been taken sometime Prayers were led by Pastor during the fall and matched Ian Nyland, Pastor Chad to a narration read by two Schellenberg, with the lay members of the churches. service led by the Reverend The 20 member choir, Laurie Munroe The community’s largest Christmas Eve Service is held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, but made up of people from The individual churches it is organized by all the churches. all the churches, had been had their own services later practicing two special in the evening, closer to Parties Agreemidnight. on National Aboriginal Day Motion Press releases (December 9, 2015) public engagement, as it will And the Truth and THE Yukon MLAs urge affect all Yukoners.” Reconciliation Commission’s There are currently three calls to action include KLONDIKE SUN consultation on National pieces of legislation that the creation of a day for Aboriginal Day holiday couldCanada be used Labour to create Code a for paid reconciliation – a role for WHITEHORSE statutory holiday in Yukon: which National Aboriginal Day Employmentthe Standards Act for would be well suited. With the —A motion federal employees, Yukon’s implementation of National Sign up at urging the Government of Public Service Act Aboriginal Day as a statutory www.klondikesun.com Yukon to consult with Yukon private businesses, and Yukon’s holiday, Yukon would join First Nations, employers, for Yukon the Northwest Territories in employees, and the general Yukongovernment NDP employees. National formally recognizing the day. public about declaring National “The campaign to make Aboriginal Day a statutory Aboriginal Day motion National Aboriginal Day a holiday in Yukon received receives unanimous support Yukon statutory holiday has THE KLONDIKE SUN unanimous assent today in the WHITEHORSE had a positive and unifying Yukon Legislative Assembly. effect on people,” said Barr of Subscription & Renewal Form The motion, which was tabled —Yukon First Nations cultural recognition his efforts to gather support by the NDP, was unanimously for the motion. “Yukon’s First Name: passed following an amendment and reconciliation were granted a hopeful step forward today Nations have been celebrating Address: by Copperbelt North MLA National Aboriginal Day for Currie Dixon. with the passage of Yukon NDP MLA Kevin Barr’s motion to years – and it’s time we help the City: Province/ State: “We encourage Yukoners to rest of Yukon join them to mark celebrate the unique heritage, recognize National Aboriginal Postal/ Zip Code: Country: Day, celebrated on 21 June this special day.” rich culture and outstanding The motion was amended achievements of Aboriginal every year, as a Yukon statutory Email: holiday. With broad support in the legislature by Minister people in Canada,” Dixon said. of Community Services Currie “Following a constructive from the Yukon public and the leadership of Yukon’s First Dixon to add a consultative step Annual (25 Issue) Subscription Costs: discussion in the Legislature and remove the timeline for today, it was agreed that Nations governments, this step Canada $44.00 will set the gears in motion for declaring National Aboriginal U.S.A $75.00 consultation with the private Day’s statutory holiday status. sector, First Nations and other the Yukon government to add Overseas $125.00 (Airmail) National Aboriginal Day to the “We supported the stakeholders is needed to fully amendments in good faith so we understand the impacts that a territory’s statutory holiday list. can move forward,” added Barr Contact Information: new statutory holiday would in response to the government’s Mail: The Klondike Sun, Bag 6040, Dawson YT, Y0B 1G0 have on the territory.” Approximately one in four amendments.