The WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014 • VOL. 24, NO.17 $1.25 Wishing you all the best for KLONDIKE 2014, we're back! SUN Beginning Our Reflections on 2014 The Moosehide Slide begins the process of lighting up the town again. Photo by Dan Davidson in this Issue Max’s has a great selection WWTP woes continue 3 & 5 The Boat Parade 6 Hospital Opening 7 Many legal and technical Lighting up the Solstice streets. Presenting the Dawson City of puzzles to help you problems persist. Community Hospital and Health pass the time on a Services Facility. long, cold winter’s night. What to see and do in Dawson! 2 RSS Concert 8 What Disturbs Our Blood? 13 TH Christmas Dinner 20 Uffish Thoughts 4 What's Your Story? 10 Bookends 13 Business Directory & Job Board 23 World Heritage Update 5 Lead & Asbestos at Old CIBC 11 TV Guide 14-18 City Notices 24 P2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014 THE KLONDIKE SUN What to SEE AND DO in DAWSON now: Dawson City Community Library Library HOUrs This free public service helps our readers find their way through the many activities all over town. Any small happening may need : Monday to Friday, noon to 6:30 p.m. Closed Saturday preparation and planning, so let us know in good time! To join this andConservation Sunday. Klondike Society listing contact the office at [email protected]. Meetings Depot HOUrs IODE DAWSON CITY: : Sat, Sun, Mon: 1-5 p.m., Tues: 3-7 p.m. Donations of refundables Meet first Tuesday each month at home of Joyce Caley Dawsonmay be left on City the deck Recreation during off hours. Department Info: 993-6666. Ratoya 7:30L p.m.Canadian For info LE callG IONMyrna BRANC Butterworth,H #1: 993-5353, Joyce Caley, 993-5424. Recess for summer July-Oct. Meet second Thursday each month Get the Rec & Leisure Newsletter & stay up to date. Website: www.cityofdawson. PatIONEER Legion Hall WO M(3rdEN andOF TKingHE YUKSt.) atON 7:30: p.m. Contacts Helen Bowie, 993-5526, Theca. Facebook: Westminster "City of Dawson Hotel Recreation". Contact us at 993-2353. Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Friday HAPPY HOUR MUSIC SERIES: Meet third Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at YOOP Hall. Contact Myrna Butterworth, 993-5353. Recess for summer Fridays & SatUrdays: Friday, December 13th, 6-9 pm Against June,Klondike July and Aug.Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) the Grain take the stage. FILM SCREENING: SearcHING FOR SUGARMAN: KEEP ON MUSHING IN TPitHE House FREE BandWOR LlastD! nightA NEI DecemberL YOUNG 14th,TRIB UreturningTE FUND at- the end of January. January 19th. 7:00 pm in RAISER: the ODD Fellows Hall. $8 - General Public, $5 - Members, Students & Seniors. Saturday, January 18 at 9 p.m. B-Line Racing Kennels fundraiser to help SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN tells the true story of the greatest ‘70s US rock Chamber of Commerce & Town Council icon who never was, how he was rediscovered in a far off land and finally became get Brian to the Yukon Quest. Auction with great items up for bid. CHAMBER MEETINGS: YtheOU legendTH Art he E alwaysNRICHM deservedENT FU NDRAISERto be. It is :a story of hope, inspiration and the power of music. COUNCIL MEETINGS: Regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each KIAC's Ballroom on Friday, January month at the Downtown Hotel. 17th. Doors at 6:30 pm, Dinner at 7:00 pm. Tickets $20.00, on sale Thursday Jan- uary 2nd at KIAC & Maximilians. Four Course Mystery Dinner by Bonnie Barber. 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Council Chambers. Public invited to ask Council questions during the question period, SaturdayCome out and d rop-Insupport pthisaInt amazingIng: program for Youth in Dawson and through- out the territory! CwhichOMM takesITTEE place OF T towardsHE WHO theLE endMEETIN of eachGS :meeting. Meetings are also aired on Channel 12. 1-4p.m. in the KIAC Classroom.. $5. Inspire Council will be holding Committee FandILM be SE inspiredLECTIONS: by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered Tr'ondekof the Whole meetingsHwech'in on the Government 1st Monday and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Mondays and Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m., view and rate coMMUNITY CHristMas Feast: submissions for the 2014 Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Help us select the films for the festival. Best committee ever! Show up on evenings when- Yukon College December 21. GeverUitar you canLESSONS (no minimum WITH N orIJ ENmaximum),: watch movies, then leave!!!! No boring chit chat, no heavy lifting! Email filmfest[at]kiac.ca to get on the list. HOUrs: Intro to OIL PAINTING WITH FridaysRacHAE JanuaryL SIMINO 10thVitc - FebruaryH: 28th. 3:30 - DawsonOctober City to Mid-MayMuseum by appointment. 7:30 pm. $138. 8 Lessons. Saturday, January Dawson CITY MUSEUM Presents: FILIM SCREENINGS: 18th & Sunday January 19th. 11:00 am - 4:00 pm in KIAC's Classroom. $31.50 w/ supplies Or $21.00 bring your own (painting surfaces and paint). Through this HOUrs: Watch for posters of workshop, students will learn about the basics of colour theory, colour mixing, matenee and evening screenings on Saturdays and Sundays for what's coming up! AdifferentDULT I ntropainting to techniques TAP DANCIN andG the WIT toolsH T andERRIE materials TURAI used: in oil painting. No MiscellaneousOctober to Mid-May by appointment. experience necessary! ZUMba: Thursdays February 20th - April 3rd (no class March 13th). 7:30 - 8:30 pm, Ages:18+. $105.00 (in- Fun, Latin-inspired fitness program for all ages and abilities! All sum- cludes cost of a pair of new shoes per person). Terrie will be placing a bulk order mer long at the TH Hall. Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Drop in or Hatfor tapHA shoes yoG thereforeA WITH thoseJoanne interested VAN nostrand in participating: must register and pay at purchase a 10-pass punch card. KIAC no later than January 24th. Open to men and women! Dawson CITY internationaL FILM FestiVAL STuesdaysUBMISSIONS and OPENThursdays,: 5:30-7 p.m. E-mail [email protected] 24 hours in advance. Film in the can? Submit! Don't wait until the last minute. Check out dawsonfilmfest. SOVAcom for info. ADMIN OFFICE HOUrs Library HOUrs : Mon-Thurs, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Art SUPPLY Store HOUrs : Mon-Thurs, 4-7 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m. : Mon-Thurs, noon-1 p.m.; Thurs 4-5 p.m., Sun 1-3 p.m. THE KLONDIKE SUN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014 P3 Lawsuit added to wastewater treatment plant’s troubles Litigation story by Christopher Reynolds with background files & for lost profits” or, “In my view, the above photo from alternately, “compensation failures are attributed to the Dan Davidson from Corix on a quantum sewage strength changed as published in the meruit basis” — a legal from dilute winter strength Whitehorse Star term denoting reasonable and the plant’s inability to on December 31/13 payment for labour and adapt,” said Norm Carlson, materials furnished. the town’s superintendent of A representative for Corix Public Works. said the company could not The degree of non- Problems keep adding up offer comment. compliance with water for the operators of Dawson This is not Corix’s first standards did not pass City’s wastewater treatment plant-related difficulty. muster with Dawson’s plant. Mould issues at the mayor. Corix Water Systems is wastewater facility, which “Clearly, this plant’s not being sued for nearly $3 opened in August 2012, quite ready for prime time,” million by Han Construction, caused the territory’s Mayor Wayne Potoroka said. subcontracted in 2009 to occupational health and As far back as February, a wells, the prompt response — consistently failing water build the facility. safety branch to issue major incident at the plant of our staff maintained the quality assessments. The lawsuit comes on a remediation order in left officials concerned it wells’ safety,” he stated. Carlson’s concern, outlined the heels of multiple public September. wasn’t working properly. Beginning in 2012, in a Dec. 5 report and scoldings against Corix — “Our safety officers Carlson reported that Carlson’s reports have echoed in council members’ the general contractor and discovered significant the sanitary system stressed he feels his staff discussion on it, was that site runner — by municipal mould issues in Dawson’s malfunctioned Feb. 2. officials this year. have not been sufficiently success in January would not wastewater treatment plant “The entire process train trained on the workings of be a true test of the plant’s The chastisements note the during an occupational plugged up with sludge, the plant. operational readiness. secondary treatment facility health and safety inspection causing a significant amount Under the memorandum of Previous discussions at the allowed mould buildup in in August,” Richard Mostyn, of wastewater to flood the understanding, the plant was council table have expressed the plant, toxicity issues in the public affairs liaison degritting room and pour out to be in operation for a year the opinion that the real test its sewage discharge and at the Yukon Workers’ the doors into the adjacent while Corix trained locals to of the plant would be to have a major malfunction “with Compensation Health and parking lot,” he wrote in a run it and determined the it operate trouble-free for the potential to threaten the Safety Board, told the Star report to council that month. safety of our drinking wells,” actual operating costs, which a year, particularly during three months ago. “This blockage caused the according to Department of have risen substantially the more intense summer Also, effluent samples entire sanitary system in Public Works reports.