The WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014 • VOL. 24, NO.21 $1.25 "February cute" KLONDIKE is officially over. SUN Queen Liz takes her crown Dawson's Liz Foubister: Rendezvous Queen Candidate. Photo by Wayne Potoroka. Right: Mayor Wayne Potoroka, Queen Elizabeth Foubister and Mayor Dan Curtis of Whitehorse, just before the Rendezvous parade. Other photos from the Mayor's Facebook page. in this Issue Trek arrives tomorrow 3 Myth & Medium 6 & 7 Hammerstones 10 Only one weekend this year. A focus on art. Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in history up to 50% off date. all 2014 calendars! What to see and do in Dawson! 2 Intensive French renewed 7 Aedes: the post-doc interview 12 Thaw di Gras calendar 20 Uffish Thoughts 4 Brewery Creek announcement (ad) 8 TV Guide 14-18 Business Directory & Job Board 23 Letters: land use reactions 5 A fractured report 9 20 Years Ago 19 City Notices 24 P2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to SEE AND DO in DAWSON now: YOGA WITH ANNA CLAXTON: This free public service helps our readers find their way through the many Tuesday & Thursday mornings, 6:30-7:50 a.m. activities all over town. Any small happening may need preparation and H$10ATHA drop YOGA in or 10WITH class JOANNE prepaid VANcard NOfor S$80.TRAND: Wednesday lunch hour, 12:10 - 12:50 planning, so let us know in good time! To join this listing contact the office at p.m. $5, or 10 class prepaid card for $4. Held in the KIAC Ballroom. [email protected]. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30- SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM YUKON PARLE FRANÇAIS: SOVA7 p.m. E-mail [email protected] 24 hours in advance. ADMIN OFFICE HOURS LIBRARY HOURS March 7 at Café Alchemy. 8 p.m. Yukon parle français tells the story of : Mon-Thurs, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. TFrancophonesHAW DI GRA whoS SPRING fell in CloveARNIVAL: with the Yukon and decided to settle here. In ART SUPPLY STORE HOURS French. Free screening. : Mon-Thurs, 4-7 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m. March 14-16. The best weekend of the : Mon-Thurs, noon-1 p.m.; Thurs 4-5 p.m., Sun 1-3 year is back! Axe-tossing, tricycle racing, log sawing, chili eatin' and much Dawsonp.m. City Community Library AmuchLL A more!GES COMMUNITY Get ready for C springONCERT with & NtheOO mostSA CD jam R ELEApackedSE: event weekend ever! Remember: it's the most fun you can have with your snow pants on! READING: CLEM MARTINI: - At the Odd Berton House Writer-in-Residence. Monday, March Fellows' Ballroom. Saturday, March 15. 7 p.m. By donation. Various 10 at 7 p.m. at the Dawson City Community Library. Clem Martini is an award win performers whose skills have been honed at the monthly coffee house OLD MAN LUEDECKE & PAT LEPOIDEVIN: LIningBRARY playwright, HOUR Snovelist and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books concerts will perform followed by a feature set from Noosa. of fiction and nonfiction to his credit. Tuesday, March 18 at the Odd : Monday to Friday, noon to 6:30 p.m. Closed Saturday Fellows' Ballroom. Doors at 7:30. Ticket info TBA. Luedecke's narrative- andConservation Sunday. Klondike Society driven folk songs are playful, coy and soul warming. LePoidevin is a DEPOT HOURS songwriterMeetings strongly influenced by community. IODE DAWSON CITY: : Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundables Dawsonmay be left on City the deck Recreation during off hours. Department Info: 993-6666. Meet first Tuesday each month at home of Joyce Caley RatOYAL 7:30 p.m.CANADIAN For info LcallEGION Myrna BRANCH Butterworth, #1: 993-5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-Oct. Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www.cityofdawson. Meet first Thursday each month at Theca. Facebook: Westminster "City of Dawson Hotel Recreation". Contact us at 993-2353. PLegionIONEER Hall W (3rdOMEN and OF King THE St.) YUKON at 7:30: p.m. Contacts Helen Bowie, 993-5526, FRIDAYS IN THE LOUNGE: - Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Meet third Thursday each month at 7:30 BOTH SIDES: 6-9 p.m. our Friday Happy Hour Music Series, fea p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Recess for summer tures a variety of local musicians, changing every week. 11 p.m. Pit House Band. KlondikeJune, July and Aug.Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) Onesie Wednesday - happy hour all day, all night when you sport IN THE ODD GALLERY: LEAH BYRNE: - Chamberyour favourite unionof Commerce suit! Smallie Sunday - happy hour small drafts open to close. - CHAMBER MEETINGS: From February 28 - March 5, video in stallation of outdoor performance work will be on display in the gallery. A per Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each formance live to air on local radio station CFYT 106.9FM (cfyt.ca online) will take monthTown at Council the Downtown Hotel. NplaceEXT on IN Sunday,THE ODD: March ADRIAN 2 and NORVID16. These MR. radio FIZZ'S programs KNOCKING will explore SHOP: the notion of communicating movement, physicality, and choreography through sound. COUNCIL MEETINGS: March 13 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Council I- NTROApril 12.TO OpeningDRUMMING Thursday, WITH MarchLUKE H13.OLLAND: Artist Talk at 7:30 p.m. Reception to Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions during the question period, follow CwhichOMMITTEE takes place OF THE towards WHOLE the endMEETING of eachS :meeting. Meetings are also aired on Channel 12. DARKROOM CLUB WITH REBEKAH MILLER: Wednesdays, March 5 to April 23 in the KIAC classroom. 5:30-7:30 p.m. $138 for 8 half hour lessons. Council will be holding Committee Mondays, 6 - 9 p.m. $10 drop- Yukonof the Whole College meetings on the 1st Monday and 3rd Tuesday of each month. in. Upstairs in the back room at KIAC. Includes use of chemicals and equipment HOURS: Saturdayand assistance drop-In if required. paInt *PaperIng: available for purchase. For more info, contact Rebekah at [email protected]. DawsonOctober City to Mid-MayMuseum by appointment. 1-4 p.m. in the KIAC Classroom.. $5. Inspire DAWSON CITY MUSEUM PRESENTS: FILIM SCREENINGS: Makeand be ainspired FIlM dur by otherIng t artists.haw-dI Bring-gra yourS!: own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered HOURS: Watch for posters of Going out and about Thaw-di-Gras matenee and evening screenings on Saturdays and Sundays for what's coming up! weekend? Take your iPhone, iPad, dslr and capture some footage! Make a film MiscellaneousOctober to Mid-May by appointment. KIDaboutS DANCEit and we'll WITH screen KATIE it at PEAR our CasinoSE: event, March 29 at Gerties! Win prizes!- Don't have a camera? Talk to us, we have some equipment we can rent to you! ZUMBA: - Saturdays, Jan 18 to March 8. Mini Move ment/Pre-Ballet (ages 3-4) - 11:00-11:30, $62. Tiny Tutus and Tights/Pre-Ballet Fun, Latin-inspired fitness program for all ages and abilities! All sum (ages 5-6) 11:30-12:00, $62. Ballet/Jazz (ages 7-10) 12:00-12:45, $70. Jazz/ mer long at the TH Hall. Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Drop in or Funk One (ages 11-14) 1:00-1:45, $70. Jazz/Funk Two (ages 15-17) 1:45-2:30, purchase a 10-pass punch card. $70. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014 P3 The 21st Trek is arriving this week Story & photo by Dan Davidson event as it declines. Nothing could be farther st from the truth says KVA The 21 running of the Marketing and Events Trek Over the Top will be Manager Paul Robitaille. The either smaller or about the event attracted around 150 same as last year’s event, riders last year and it looks depending on how you look to have nearly that many on at it. just the one run this year. The big difference is that It’s simply better use of there will be only one trek volunteer time on both sides weekend this year. Riders of the border to do it in one will leave Tok, Alaska, run at this point. between 6 and 11 a.m. on Trek peaked in numbers Thursday, March 6 and just before 9/11. A lot of arrive in Dawson after their the staunch trekkers at 200 mile (382 km) trek later that time were American that afternoon. They will military personnel and return home on Sunday. US commitments in the There will be about the Middle East had an impact, same amount of trekkers as did complications with as last year, except that passports at the border after they won’t be divided over the creation of Homeland two runs. Traditionally the Security. In addition, the The Snowshoe Shufflers will be back again this year to help liven up the evening first run has been during strength of the Loonie dinners at Diamond Tooth Gerties. the last week in February. against Greenback in recent Last year the second run years has made the US$525 had about twice as many price tag for the basic trip The KVA is very happy to Fair. participants as the first one, less attractive. which will cover a lot of report that Tourism Yukon In Alaska the Trek is so the Klondike Visitors Robitaille is hoping the historic sites this year, events is finally, after two decades, organized by the Alaska Association, which is now in shift in dollar value will at the curling rink and tours showing some interest in Trailblazers.