The WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016 • VOL. 27, NO. 12 $1.50 Raven asks: Are you ready for KLONDIKE Thanksgiving? SUN As the Days Get Shorter We Seem to Get Busier While it seems early to be thinking about that season, October 2 was a great day to get the kids, parents and volunteers out to shoot the pictures for the annual Christmas Eve Pageant slide show. Thanks to Sylvia Burkhard for the use of Claim 33, and just wait till you see what was done at the Discovery Claim and Dredge no. 4. Photo by Dan Davidson in this This space for Issue rent! Dawson City hosts REM p. 3 TH Teaching Farm Graduation p. 6 Apartment Project Breaks Ground p. 10 Contact us at 105 students and teachers from 18 farm students graduated dur- The Klondike Development Orga- the Yukon's rural communities ing the TH Farm's second annual nization's newly announced eight 868-993-6318 or worked hard to explore their Harvest Ceremony unit housing development broke passions ground on September 19 Klondikesun@ Northwestel.net for See and Do 2 Tourism Roundup 2016 5 Pictures Don't Lie Debuts in Dawson 8 TV Guide 12-16 Salt Baby 2 TH Teaching Farm Harvest and Graduation 6 Unexpected Dangers of Fracking 8 20 years Ago In the Sun 17 more information Dawson's Fourth REM 3 Caldwell Reflects on Environment 7 KDO Apartment Project Breaks Ground 10 Authors on Eighth 18 Uffish Thoughts: Fry Arena Budget 4 Stacked 7 Horticultural Show Candids 11 City of Dawson 20 P2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN Community Salt Baby investigates the question of Identity Calendar Meetings IODE DAWSON CITY: Meet first Wednesday of each month at home of Janice Cliff at 7:30 p.m. For info call Janice Cliff, 993- RoyaL Canadian LEGION BRANCH #1: 2908. Recess for summer July-October. Meet first Thursday each month at Legion Hall (3rd and King St.) at 7:30 p.m. PIONEER WOMEN OF THE YUKON: Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353.CHAMBER Recess OF CO MMfor summererce: June, July and Aug. Regular meetings on the second AWednesdayLL CANDIDATES' of each monthFORUM at the Downtown Hotel. for Klondike Riding Wednesday October 12, 2016 6:30pm-9pm KIACRobert Service School Coffeehouse Open Mic - KIAC at 7pm The next Coffee House will be on November 5th. Hope to see you at . All perform- Basia Bulat in Concert Rear: Falen Johnson (playwright) , Colin Dingwall, Nathan Howe, Marcel Petit, Dave Degrow ers are welcome. Front: Dakota Hebert, Danielle Spilchen on October 15. A Return engagement ODD GALLERY (DCMF 2008) Story and photo By Dan Davidson - Shelly Hakonson's Perpetual Curiosities - a who have been chosen to play to participating in a DNA test so 30 Year Retrospective. Town Council this role. she can be settled in her heart Philip tries hard, but his own and mind. The audience is left COUNCIL MEETINGS: Falen Johnson’s thoughtful family is a bigoted mess and with the feeling that the results play, “Salt Baby”, raised a lot eventually his inability to under- might ruffle his equanimity, There is no longer a fixed routine of important questions on the stand just why her First Nations but in the end it doesn’t matter, schedule of Council and Committee of the Whole (COW) meet- evening of September 24. identity is so important to Salt since she decides not to pursue ings. Check the Post Office or the City of Dawson website for The main plot thread in the Baby combines with her obses- the testing. long range planning. 95 minute production was the sive searching to put a wedge The play was well acted by Next Council Meeting is October 18. eponymous central character’s between them and drive them all concerned. Dingwall had to Next COW meetings are October 11 and 25. (Dakota Hebert) search for her apart. play several different characters, identity, a search which trips up She tries everything she can male and female, and some of her own personal development think of, some of it with humor- these were clearly caricatures, and scuppers her relationship ous results. She consults with but half of them were supposed with Philip (Nathan Howe). members of her family to try and to be comical, so the imposture The problem is that although find out at what point the DNA was appropriate to the story. Salt Baby (if she has another that obviously blossomed in her The set – a back wall on which name I didn’t catch it) is a full- might have entered the racial various items were hung to blood aboriginal person from mix. change the scenes, as well as two different bloodlines, with a No one seems to know, though four very useful boxes – was status card (do they really have the ghostly presence of her minimal but served the purpose, expiry dates?) and everything, grandfather (Colin Dingwall), and the actors being their own she doesn’t fit the physical ste- who wanders in and out of the stage hands served to mark the reotype. She looks white. scenes dressed as a cowboy, changing scenes. Much of the play is about her offering sage advice and some- “Salt Baby” was staged at the search to resolve this ambiguity, times ironic commentary, sug- Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre’s some of which is autobiographi- gests that it must be so. theatre on a night when it had to cal from the life of playwright Other advice comes from her compete with two other major Falen Johnson, as well as, ac- father, Al (Marcel Petit), who events in town, but this sensitive cording to various reviews and seems quite sure about who and funny play drew a decent interviews, also reflected in the he is, and loves her enough to audience in spite of that handi- lives of Hebert and other actors finally agree,Open albeit daily reluctantly, cap, and was available to play to for Breakfast and Dinner a large group of students from many other communities later Continental Breakfast Buffet in the week during the Rural 7.00 am – 10.00 am Experiential Model, so it had a Dinner 5.00pm – 10.00 pm good run in Dawson. Many Thanks! (867) 993-6860 MIDNIGHT SUN OUTFITTERS from all the happy recipients of [email protected] the game meat you so kindly shared! September 2016 THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016 P3 Dawson hosted its fourth rural experiential model week Program participants spent the week (clockwise from top left): designing longboards, learning about hair dressing and aesthetics, developing their culinary arts skills, and practicing trapping Story and Photos By Dan Davidson can gain two Applied Skills or looking at the REM model for kitchen, but planned and provid- cars, created computer assisted Fine Arts High School credits other places: Northern Saskatch- ed the meals for the participants designs and printed them on one by attending all 28 hours of the ewan, the NWT and Nunavut. during the week. of the four 3-D printers in the From the formal opening on workshops in which they are They’re asking us for our re- Dance and Drama, was taught room. Monday, September 19, to the enrolled, along with an additional sources. We’ve spearheaded it by the team of Dale Cooper and Down in the RSS shop, a ninth finale on the afternoon of Friday, 15 hours of evening enrichment here.” Grant Hartwick. Base in the group was working with Gerry September 23, the fourth Rural activities. Students were also greeted by Robert Service School Ancillary Quarton and Vernon Asp in the Experiential Model (REM) week It makes for a long and very Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Chief Ro- Room, students workedThe towards Lorax Longboard Design Factory, mak- in Dawson City was a busy time intense school week, but students berta Joseph and Dawson’s Mayor the creation of a play, based on ing both snowboards and skate- for the 105 students and teachers speaking at the finale exercises Wayne Potoroka. the Doctor Seuss book, , boards, which were decorated who travelled to Dawson from on Friday were heard to say that The ten week-long workshops for presentation during the with First Nations’ designs. every rural school that has a high this was the most fun they’ve had were as follows: finale. Assisting several of the other school (grades 10 to 12). so far this year. Students who Apple Academy, led by Mike Games On, 2017! with Gael groups with their presentations This year the schools attending have attended REMs since grade Snider and Nikki Krocker, intro- Marchand, Colin Hickman, Steve and making sure the finale event were Watson Lake, Carmacks, 10 say that this is something they duced the participants to a whole Laszlo, Jeremy McCulloch and ran smoothly were the members Haines Junction, Faro, Ross River, look forward to each year. range of activities they could Tara Wardle, took place in a of Peter Menzies’ Tech Crew, who Pelly Crossing and Mayo. Attend- Speaking at the opening engage in using a combination number of different venues and spent the week finding out what ees were encouraged to “Find ceremonies, Area Three Super- of iBook laptops, iPhones and worked on a variety of sports they needed to do and figuring Your Passion” (`Nk’e Näwdä-a) intendent Bill Bennett reminded iPads. Full participation in this related training exercises, cul- out how to do it. The generally during the week.