The WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 • VOL. 23, NO. 2 $1.25 Congratulations to Ice Pool Winner KLONDIKE Mandy Johnson. SUN Breakup Comes Early this Year Joyce Caley and Glenda Bolt hold up the Ice Pool Clock for everyone to see. See story on page 3. Photo by Dan Davidson in this Issue SOVA Graduation 18 Andy Plays the Blues 21 The Happy Wanderer 22 Summer 2012 Year Five had a very close group of The autoharp is just one of Andy Paul Marcotte takes a tumble. students. Cohen's many instruments. Store Hours See & Do in Dawson 2 AYC Coverage 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 DCMF Profile 19 Kids' Corner 26 Uffish Thoughts 4 TV Guide 12-16 Just Al's Opinion 20 Classifieds 27 Problems at Parks 5 RSS Student Awards 17 Highland Games Profiles 24 City of Dawson 28 P2 WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2012 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to The Westminster Hotel Live entertainment in the lounge on Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. to close. More live entertainment in the Tavern on Fridays from 4:30 SEE AND DO p.m.The toDowntown 8:30 p.m. Hotel LIVE MUSIC: - in DAWSON now: Barnacle Bob is now playing in the Sourdough Saloon ev eryThe Thursday, Eldorado Friday Hotel and Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. This free public service helps our readers find their way through the many activities all over town. Any small happening may Food Service Hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. Check out need preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To our Daily Lunch Specials. In a rush at lunch? Call ahead and we'll have join this listing contact the office at klondikesun@northwestel. your order ready when you arrive, 993-5451. Breakfast is served until Dawson City Chamber of Commerce net.Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) 1:30 p.m. on weekends. INTRODUCTION TO MONOTYPE & IMAGE TRANSFER: COUNCIL MEETINGS: - Wednesday Regular meetings on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Special Meeting times are posted at the May 16 and 23. 7 to 9 p.m. in the KIAC classroom. $35 *supplies includ CONVERSATION ON OPPORTUNITIES: ed. Two-part workshop offered by visiting Artist in Residence Charley Post Office three business days in advance. ZUMBA WITH KATIE PEARSE: Young. On Thursday, May 17, the KDO,- PIANO WITH BARNACLE BOB: Resumes Wednesday, May 16. in partnership with the Dawson City Chamber of Commerce, is hosting a “Conversation on Opportunities”. Join us at 7 p.m. for a panel dis Sign up for piano with Barnacle Bob on LIFE DRAWING: - cussion involving participants from the mining and exploration sector, Saturday afternoons. Spaces still available! Contact KIAC to register. DawsonWEBINAR business SERIES: sector and general public. 7 to 9 p.m. in the 2D Studio at SOVA. 1st and 3rd Mon - day of every month. $5 Drop in fee covers drdawing board and some The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is pleased to Drop-in painting: drawing tools; paper for purchase. present the third of several webinars that will focus on the human re source challenges that chambers and their members face today. This 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. $5 drop-in fee for COVER ME BADD: webinar will focus on Connecting Education and Employment. May materials. - Community30th from 1 to Library2 p.m. EDT. It's happening again! DCMF and KIAC present the STORYTIME AT THE LIBRARY: fourth edition of Cover Me Badd. Friday, May 25 at 7 p.m. Local musi . YUKON RIVERSIDE ARTS FESTIVAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: - cans gather in impromptu bands. Contact KIAC at 5005 to register. READING/PRESENTATION BYWith TIM Tina Braga.FALCONER: Drop in Monday from Dead 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. lineSOVA is June 1. See www.kiac.ca/artsfestival for information. A reading/ LIBRARY HOURS presentation by the Berton House Writer-in-Residence will be held at theKlondike Dawson Visitors City Community Association Library on Monday, June 11 at 7 p.m. : Mon/Weds/Thurs 4 to 7 p.m., Tues 5:30 to 8:30 RON JAMES: ART SUPPLY STORE HOURS p.m., Sun 12 to 4 p.m. The Dawson CIty Museum is proud to present Ron James : Mon/Tues/Weds/Thurs 12 to 1 p.m., Live for a special night at The Palace Grand on Friday, May 18 at 8 p.m. ThursConservation 4 p.m. to 5Klondike p.m., Sun 1Society p.m. to 4 p.m. For tickets and information call the Dawson City Museum at 993-5291 HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DAY: x.DAWSON 21. CITY GOLD SHOW: June 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Celebrating Dawson's gold rush heritage DropDEPOT your HOURS household: hazardous waste at the Quigley Landfill. and contemporary mining in the Klondike. Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19th. If you would like to participate contact 867-993-5274 or Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of [email protected] Canada refundablesDawson City may Recreation be left on the deck Department during off hours. Info: 993-6666. DOORS OPEN EVENT: ROAD HOCKEY: KIDS' HIKING CLUB: May 19, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit the inside of iconic At the Rec. Dept. Mondays 3:20 to 5 p.m. Parks' properties normally not open: Old Post Office, Red Feather YOUTH WEIGHTS: Tuesdays, 3:20 to 5 p.m. Saloon, Lowe's Mortuary, Dawson Daily News, Bigg's Blacksmith Shop INTRO TO NORDIC WALKING: Miscellaneous Thursdays at the Fitness Centre, 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. and Commissioner's Residence. CIRCCUIT TRAINING: YUKON ARTIST RELIEF FUND: Tuesday, May 1, 8, and 15. Cost: $25 LEARN TO RUN: Tuesdays and Fridays, May 1 to 24. Cost: $30 Yukon Artist Relief provides short-term financial assistance to professional visual artists living in the Yukon. May 22 to June 14, Tuesdays nad Thursdays. Cost: GOOD FRIDAY CHOIR: AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS: Visit www.facebook.com/Yukon Artist Relief $35 MINOR SOFTBALL HAS STARTED: Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 12:14 Finish May 25 RADIO YOUTH BROADCASTING: THE POOL IS OPEN: p.m. at the Richard Martin Chapel. Please register at the Rec. Dept. Saturdays from noon to 1 p.m. Local- Please register at the Rec. Dept. youth have the chance to try out being a local radio DJ. Contact Damien Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www. at [email protected], or Andrew at ax_laviolette@lau cityofdawson.ca. Facebook: "City of Dawson Recreation". Contact us at rentian.ca. 993-2353. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2012 P3 Dawson Celebrates May Day With a Breakup Story & Photos by Dan Davidson tripod tripping the wire that led to the clock mounted on the building where they were Break-up on the Yukon River standing. in front of Dawson occurred as Bolt quickly phoned Caley and 9:42 on a misty May 1 Tuesday then Fire Chief Jim Regimbal, morning. This is six days earlier who triggered the fire alarm than last year, but well within from city hall. the range of normal breakup “We all went out there and times and about five days we had a good old time calling from when the Klondike River people and hollering out.” cleared out at the confluence. Bolt said she noticed quite Workers in the Dänojà Zho a few people either calling or Cultural Centre were alerted texting on cell phones this year, by Victor Henry when they getting the word around town arrived that he was certain the even before the siren sounded. ice would soon go. Within minutes there were “The first thing I saw,” said crowds lining the dike from Glenda Bolt, “was Victor Henry’s the old CIBC building and down face in the window with a big towards the ferry landing. smile on his face, saying, ‘It’s The excitement lasted for gonna go!’” the better part of an hour, and He has been walking up and there was some slight concern down the dike for hours, and when it was clear that there he was sure. Bolt and her co- was a bit of a jam down towards worker, Kylie Van Every, made Moosehide, but the water in the tea for few people and then river is low for this time of year stood on the deck and watched and any backwash from a jam the river. seemed unlikely. Bolt phone the IODE’s Joyce Caley arrived and Bolt helped Caley and told her to be ready her take down the clock, for a second call. verifying the time from its She also told her not to bring stopped hands. her ladder, because there was Caley had to wait until she one at the centre. collected the day’s mail before The octogenarian official making any announcements. timekeeper for the ice pool has The tickets that had been been known to cycle down to sold in Carmacks had not yet the centre from her Fifth Avenue arrived and they needed to be home with a ladder strapped to tabulated to see if any one had the carrier of her bike. picked a time closer to the one About a half hour later Victor she already knew about. called out that it as moving. It turned out they had not, “It was. It was the whole giant and so Dawson’s Mandy Johnson sheet (that the tripod was on). was the declared the winner of That giant sheet was braking approximately $3700.00 later up right to the very foot of the in the afternoon.