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Preamble: The Flames played three games between the time this column was written and the time this issue of What’s Up Yukon hit the streets.
The last time the Calgary Flames made the Stanley Cup Playoffs was in the
2008-2009 season when they lost in the opening round to the Chica-go Blackhawks. Between 2009 and the end of the 2013-2014 season the Flames followed an uninspir-ing downward trajectory.
I’ve been a Flames fan since Grade 2, and in a year when Cal-gary has little chance of making the playoffs my entire demeanor relaxes re: hockey. I still check the scores and stats after every game, but my heart rate doesn’t increase much. I thought 2014-2015 was going to be an easy year on the old ticker. Happily, I was wrong.
With only 15 games left in the season the Heart Attack kids are fi ghting tooth-and-nail for a play-off spot in the tough Western Con-ference. And they are kids, lots of them anyway.
Nine of their players were born in the ‘90s, including 20-year-old Sean Monahan, who has already scored 25 goals this season and is the type of player teams build franchises around.
But the play of 21-year-old Rookie-of-the-Year candidate Johnny Gaudreau has been this year’s sweetest surprise. In his
last year at Boston College, Gau-dreau racked up a stupendous 36 goals and 44 assists in 40 games — winning the Hobey Baker Award as NCAA hockey MVP.
But at 5’9”, 150 lbs. conven-tional wisdom dictated he was too small to make it in the NHL.
In the game against the Ana-heim Ducks on March 11, Gaud-reau scored two goals, recording his 50th point of the season. He’s the fi rst Flames rookie to do that since the beloved Jarome Iginla in 1996-1997.
As a result, Gaudreau’s season in particular is a good metaphor for the Flames’ season as a whole; both Gaudreau and the Flames were massively underestimated; both surpassed expectations ex-ponentially.
There’s another thing that Gau-dreau — as an individual — and the Flames — as a team — have in com-mon; after the aforementioned game against the Ducks, Calgary’s
coach, Bob Hartley — himself, no small piece of the Flames’ puzzle — said this about Gaudreau:
“This kid loves to play. Just look at his face when he scores or when somebody else scores. It’s priceless.
“He loves to be around the rink. He would play all day.”
Similarly, when watching the Flames’ post-game interviews, one gets the distinct impression that the Flames’ players are play-ing their balls off, and having a good time doing so.
Brandon Bollig, for example, defl ects any compliments he re-ceives from reporters by men-tioning that everyone else on the team is deserving of similar praise.
Is all this youthful enthusiasm enough to get the Flames into the playoffs? Maybe, but if you like good stories to have good endings you can’t help but root for them.
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A friend of Jeanie Dendys’s 15-year-old son told Dendys he gets more excited for the
native hockey tournament than he does for the Canada Games.
Dendys fi gures it’s because of the exposure and the level of competition — and the commun-ity.
A nation-wide community forms during the Yukon Native Hockey Tournament; teams come from all over the Yukon, North-west Territories, and northern B.C., and individuals come from all over Canada to play in it. People hug when they see each other. Forty-two teams compete.
Tournament coordinator Karee Vallevand has been to other na-tive hockey tournaments but she’s never felt the same spirit.
And, of course, the 38-year old tournament is bigger than the hockey.
Vallevand laughs when she says, “People ask us how we do it.
“It’s more than booking the ice.”
It starts in January. For three months it’s constant, and “it’s al-ways in the back of your mind.”
This year has gone smoothly; they’re ready.
Dendys and Vallevand glance at each other, as if worried they shouldn’t say it out loud.
But then Dendys says, “The spirit of Sandi is with us, guiding us.”
Sandi Gleason was treasurer of the association and someone Dendys and Vallevand always saw around when they were teen-agers, organizing the tournament.
“Now I’m that person kids see around, organizing,” says Dendys.
Gleason subtly provided men-torship and leadership. Dendys says, “Sandi’s always kind of been there in some respects.”
Gleason passed away from cancer on December 24, 2013. Last year’s tournament was the fi rst one her grandson, Breyden, played in. Gleason missed it.
As is the tradition of their cul-ture, Vallevand and Dendys gave
people a year to grieve, to hon-our the family. This year they’re acknowledging how much Gleason meant.
For the fi rst time the hockey tournament is being dedicated to someone — to Sandi.
Vallevand and Dendys laugh when they imagine how she’d re-act to the dedication.
Dendys: “It was a hard decision because she was so much about fairness and equality.
“She’d be like, ‘Are you going to do that for everyone?’”
And, no, “We wouldn’t do that again. It’s probably a one-time thing.”
The tournament poster, de-signed by Lance Burton, features a puck in the centre with “#22” on it, Gleason’s number. Not her hockey number. She was a ball player. Under that is her signa-ture. It’s artful.
“Don’t ask us how we got that.” The nods to Gleason are small,
personal, and in the centre of the poster. Fitting, as she is described as modest and fair, but always there. The heart of the tourna-ment. Dendys says, “She was the glue.”
Vallevand says Gleason was all, “These are the rules, and that’s why they’re there.” She wouldn’t change them for one team. It was all about fairness.
The tournament was started in 1977 because natives weren’t al-lowed to play on regular teams, they didn’t have a venue.
Vallevand says Gleason main-tained that vision; she made the tournament sail.
Dedicating this year’s tourna-ment is a way to hold her up.
“This is her legacy.”An offi cial dedication will hap-
pen at the Opening Ceremony, on Friday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Takhini Arena. Diyet and the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers will col-laborate on a song.
Vallevand and Dendys are ex-cited for the closing ceremony, too, where Sharon Shorty and Du-ane Aucoin will assume the roles of Gramma Susie and Cache Creek Charlie. This happens on Sunday, March 22 at around 8:00 p.m.
Meagan Deuling is the assistant editor of What’s Up Yukon.
Contact her at [email protected].
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Sandi Gleason with her grandson, Breyden, at the rink. The 38th Yukon Native Hockey Tournament is dedicated to Gleason; she was the heart of the tournament.
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Dawson City has a fondness for parades. Canada Day and Discovery Day are the
annual events with the longest history, but there have been Pride Parades, parades in support of the mining industry, and parades in support of Idle No More.
This year, however, Front Street and the Yukon River saw something new: a parade to help launch the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Goat.
The start of the year was offi cially February 19, but Dawson started a couple of days early so that a Chinese dragon could wander the streets in cele-bration, and visit city council.
This event was the brainchild of Bo Yeung, who arrived here in the summer of 2011 and decided she would stay just long enough to see the winter.
“I was curious about what it would be like to stay the winter,” she says. “I stayed till Christ-mas, and lo and behold I stayed the rest of the year, and then the next year came — and here I am in Dawson.”
This is a familiar story. The dragon project started
with a conversation about China-town and the festivities of New Year’s in British Columbia, where she grew up after her family im-migrated from Taiping, China, when she was a child.
“I just said, ‘I’m going to make a dragon for Dawson.’ I started collecting fabrics from the thrift store.”
She sewed for two weeks,
creating a 38-foot dragon body which was eventually held aloft by 11 people with hockey sticks, brooms, and other poles.
“I was gonna go for 50 feet, but I ran out of fabric, so I fi gure that next year I can add on to it. This year’s the fi rst one and next year it’ll just get longer and longer.
“I wanted to be able to say
it’s the world’s longest dragon, but someone in Ottawa made one 3000 feet long. I think we don’t even have that kind of popula-tion. So I fi gure I’ll make the most northern Arctic dragon.”
She’s going to see if we can make it into Guinness World Re-cords.
The 11 dragon-carriers and the 40 people who followed were for-
tunate for the warm spell after the ex-treme cold earlier in the month.
The dragon went to city council be-cause Mayor Wayne Potoroka wanted to be in the parade but had a council meet-ing that night. Yeung says the stairs were a bit tricky in both dir-ections.
She has a back-ground in dragon dancing and line dancing, gained while participating in events such as the
Chinese Freemasons’ celebrations in Kamloops and Vancouver.
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Katie Avery is a classic-ally trained violinist, but folk and traditional fi ddle
music is in her blood. She’s just recorded her fi rst solo album, which she describes as being, “in-spired by all the beautiful people I have known in my life.”
Avery grew up in Guelph, On-tario, surrounded by traditional and folk music. She’s performed and recorded with her family band, Relative Harmony, on their album, Rolling Home. Her par-ents, Rick and Judy, have also re-corded children’s music and have been featured on The Vinyl Café.
“My parents were deeply embedding in the folk music scene in To-ronto, so all through my childhood, I would go to parties where the main form of entertainment, other than chatting to people, was to make our own music,” she says. “People were either play-ing fi ddle tunes or they were standing mashed together in a tiny room singing a cappella songs in harmony.”
Avery took Suzuki method violin lessons as a
child and eventually studied music at the University of Toronto.
“Violin was my main instru-ment, but because I took music education I got to learn to play trumpet, clarinet, trombone, cel-lo, and guitar. You kind of get a taste for a bunch of different in-struments.”
She’s also played with Beneath the Ice, an innovative, Toronto-based trio described as “folk mu-sic from the future”.
“I was living the starving art-ist life in Toronto and I got tired of starving, so I came up here to have more of a full-time teaching gig,” she says.
Avery moved to Whitehorse in 2012 to work as a Suzuki violin teacher.
Here, she’s continued to play folk music with The Fiddleheads, and has been an accompanying folk-country singer with Fraser Canyon, including his shows last Rendezvous. She’s also performed solo at open mics, accompanying her own electric fi ddle using a looper.
“I’ve been trying to recreate that jamming atmosphere by my-self, hence the looper,” she says. “
The looper allows Avery to temporarily record a fi ddle line and play over it, effectively allow-ing her to be her own live band.
Avery’s fi rst solo album, Lake Annie, is named for the train car at the Yukon Transportation Mu-seum where the CD cover shoot took place.
“We were trying to decide whether to do the cover inside or outside, and my graphic designer said, ‘Well if we do it outside the train, then the title of the album is Lake Annie.’ Perfect. I was hav-ing trouble coming up with a name for the album anyway.”
To help fund the album, she received funding from the Yukon Film & Sound Commission and a crowdfunding campaign, offering a house concert as one of the re-wards.
She says, “I really like house concerts because you get really close to your audience and you get
that party jamming atmosphere like I was talking about earlier. And you can interact with people. It’s really nice.”
The album’s release date has not yet been set, but Avery main-tains it will be soon. Lake Annie will be available through CD Baby
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When I fi rst meet Tina, during this year’s Ren-dezvous, she introduces
herself as Misha.After waiting for one Jarvis
Street Saloon manager to talk to another Jarvis Street Saloon man-ager, who relays messages from the front of the bar where I am, to the back of the bar, where Tina is, I’m fi nally lead around a cor-ner to where Tina stands fl ocked by two Jarvis Street Saloon security guards. A thin silk night-gown is wrapped loosely around her otherwise naked body, and she’s wearing glasses.
She’s stunningly beautiful and immediate-ly captivating — her warmth greeting me at pace with her beauty. She shakes my hand, tells me her name is Misha Elle — or Tina Marie — depending on wheth-er I’m talking to her as a stripper or a person. We arrange to meet during one of her noon-to-9 p.m. dancing shifts over the next few days she’s in Whitehorse.
For half-an-hour on a Satur-day afternoon, Tina and I gather around a little table in the cof-fee shop next to the saloon. She’s in between dances, and only has a little time before she has to go back to her room to curl her hair. But we quickly discover we have a lot in common, not only in our life-style choices but also in our con-cept of what constitutes a good life.
It’s one of the loveliest half hours I’ve spent.
Largely because Tina is one of those souls whose loveliness echoes the beauty of life. But even more so because of the situation — I’m not sure how many of us who are not adult entertainers expect to sit
down with someone who is and ex-perience a kinship. Tina’s graceful way of being ever-so-gentle con-fronted the edges of a prejudice I wasn’t even aware I had.
“The rat race got to me and I had to move to the country,” she says, of her progression from a penthouse in downtown Vancou-v e r to the 320-acres she now
owns in the middle of Okanagan Crown land.
She and her very supportive partner of 22 years have a small one-room cabin they built them-selves, completely off-grid, solar powered, outhouse. They lived in a tent for eight months while build-ing.
“This feels like home,” she says of the Yukon, unsurprisingly. “I fi t right in.”
Tina also runs a dog sanctuary, though it isn’t exactly right to say she “runs” something that is so fl uidly the major purpose of her life.
“I dance to support my babies,” she says more than once, referring
to the growing number of dogs she’s rescued. Her pack travels with her most places, and always between the fi ve acres she owns near Vancouver and the Okanagan cabin. She’s even trained them as a sled team, using a sled she had shipped from the Yukon fi ve years ago.
But her sanctuary isn’t just for animals.
She’s more-or-less adopted a 24-year old “lost soul” and given him a place to live and eat in exchange for help with the dogs. She also hosts a small but wel-coming music festival on her Okanagan property each year.
And she loves her job.
Now a very youth-
ful 45, Tina began stripping
at 18, travelling to places like Ice-
land and Japan, always bringing her dog.
“I got on stage and I loved it and never got off,” she says, laughing at the fi rst time she tried stripping after a bottle of cham-pagne in a club in Quebec.
“There’s nothing more fulfi lling than going to your job and loving it.”
Tina plans to retire from dan-cing in two years, to continue pur-suing her dreams of living humbly in the mountains.
“I’ve lived it all, I’ve been everywhere, and I’m happy where I am,” she says.
“My dogs have taught me to live in the moment.”
Joslyn Kilborn is a Whitehorse-based writer. Contact her via [email protected].
Strippers Who Live In CabinsConfronting stereotypes and revealing humanity
She’s stunningly beautiful and immediate-ly captivating — her warmth greeting me at pace with her beauty. She shakes my hand, tells me her name is Misha Elle — or Tina Marie — depending on wheth-
She’s more-or-less adopted a 24-year old “lost soul” and given him a place to live and eat in exchange for help with the dogs. She also hosts a small but wel-coming music festival on her Okanagan property each year.
ful 45, Tina began stripping
at 18, travelling
She’s stunningly beautiful and immediate-ly captivating — her warmth greeting me at pace with her beauty. She shakes my hand, tells
adopted a 24-year old “lost soul” and given him a place to live and eat in exchange for help with the dogs. She also hosts a
“I’ve been everywhere, and I’m happy where I am”
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Am I excited. In April I’ll be acting in the Guild So-ciety’s newest play, Can-
nibal the Musical written by Trey Parker of South Park fame. The show is based on the true story of American prospector, Alferd Pack-er and his ill-fated expedition into the Colorado mountains in 1873. I recommend it to anyone who wants a good laugh.
Though I’ve acted virtually my entire adult life, Cannibal the Musical will mark my fi rst show in over two years. In retrospect, I admit that I was having trouble maintaining a love for the stage. It takes a lot of time and effort from many people, cast and crew, to put on something that’s show-worthy. I started to wonder if it
was worth the effort.I was also dealing with a new-
born baby and a job that was ex-hausting. My creative juices were at an all-time low, yet internally, I still wanted involvement in the performing arts because that’s what I do. It was a frustrating time.
But a great thing happened — in early 2014 I moved to Old Crow with my wife for a year. It gave me the opportunity to take a step back, breath, and re-evaluate my life. My batteries started to charge, and I slowly got that cre-ative urge to do what I love to do.
Today I’ve never felt better. I’m also reminded how the Guild and all the people involved have enriched my life through the
power of theatre.When I arrived in Whitehorse in
2009, my wife and I were virtually alone. I saw an announcement for Guild Hall volunteers in the Yukon News. I called and ended up be-ing an assistant stage manager for their production of The Soul Menders. Working backstage gave me a real opportunity to make new friends and be part of a cre-ative team; it gave me a social structure that helped me acclima-tize to my new surroundings.
Now I am part of the tapestry of Whitehorse and its arts scene. When I walked into Cannibal’s fi rst cast read-through, I met a pleth-ora of old friends and new ones, yet to be discovered. I had forgot-ten how comforting the camarad-
erie of a cast could be. In community theatre people
have different degrees of talent and experience. Some are more seasoned, while others are new, trying it out for the fi rst time. This creates a cool relationship-dy-namic and an environment where we can forget about real life for a while, loosen up, and play around.
As days went on, little things I used to enjoy about theatre start-ed coming back, like sitting in bed working on my lines, or thinking about my character’s goals, creat-ing his intentions, and focusing on personality nuance.
So far our rehearsals have been light and fun — a little bit serious and a little bit goofy. But we just started, and as time rolls on, re-
hearsals will get more focused. But intensity is gratifying too; as we get closer to opening night we get butterfl ies in our gut that tell us to put on the best show pos-sible, and attain that special feel-ing of accomplishment.
Is it worth the time and effort? Hell yeah.
Cannibal the musical runs from April 9-25. For more information on how you can be a part of the Guild Society’s productions go to www.guildhall.ca.
Jason Westover lives in Whitehorse. He acts, writes, and is a father and husband.
Contact him via [email protected].
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Liesel and Rosemarie Briggs are a mother/daughter team. They do more than act locally and think globally; they act globally with the help of locals.
They are the founders of Hands of Hope, a non-profi t organization that assists underprivileged chil-dren and adults in India and Nepal.
Hands of Hope recognizes edu-cation as central in helping in-dividuals and communities rise above poverty. Therefore, they create libraries, build class-rooms, fund post-secondary edu-cation for orphans, and sponsor refugee families.
While travelling between Delhi, India and Kathmandu, Nepal less than a decade ago, Liesel and Rosemarie saw chil-dren unable to get an education, and too poor for enough food.
They were told of countless school children crammed togeth-er trying to diligently learn, but without the resources we take for granted.
Liesel and Rosemarie, both educators themselves, wondered what they could do to help the children and teachers in Nepal and India.
What they’ve done is diligently fundraise money in their own com-munity.
Rosemarie and Liesel go on the radio, write articles, and have articles written about their organ-ization in the local press, and they host fundraising events to buy books, build libraries, and fi nan-cially support orphans.
They take none themselves, even paying their own airfare and accommodations on their yearly trips to Nepal and India.
And they have been very suc-cessful — building four classrooms and ten libraries.
Much of their dedication comes from their ability to form relation-ships that support and encourage the children they connect with.
I went over to the Briggs house recently to see photos of their re-cent trip to Nepal and India. Liesel was home, but Rosemarie stayed behind in Nepal, as she does every year, to meditate at an Ashram for four months.
Liesel told me about Rohit Malla, a 20-year-old young man from the village of Rudrapur, in the south of Nepal.
“At the age of seven or eight years old Rohit’s father died,” Liesel told me. “Rohit described it as his father just never woke up.”
The family was already poor and was now without a father.
“No longer could the mother feed her sons and Rohit and his two brothers became orphans,” she says. “And it was a dangerous time to be in the villages, Rohit told me how the Maoists would slit people’s throats and throw the dead bodies on the side of the road.”
Luckily, Rohit and his brothers were taken to an orphanage that
Hands of Hope supports, assisting all the orphans with living expens-es and helping some with post-sec-ondary education costs.
“Rohit ended up being a shin-ing student,” Liesel told me, her eyes glowing like a proud Grandma (which is what the orphans call her).
“In high school he studied hard, made good marks and earned a little extra money tutoring other students in math. People also told
us about his sketches. He is also an exceptional artist — self taught.”
Liesel and Rosemarie have been supporting Rohit for the last two years as he attends a special prep-aration academy in Kathmandhu.
But unfortunately, due to a bureaucratic error, Rohit is at a disadvantage.
“Rohit is from a very poor back-ground and lowest caste,” Liesel explains.
“But a mistake in paperwork registered him as a higher caste. It was good fortune to go to an or-phanage and be sent to a private school, but bad fortune because
now he is ineligible for receiving government preference.
“He can’t receive govern-ment assistance for exceptional low caste students. And Rohit so badly wants to be a doctor.”
To become a doctor Rohit needs about $50,000, Liesel told me, but she is worried that Hands of Hope won’t be able to pull together that kind of money.
“But we have to fi nd a way,” she says.
“We can’t let the dreams of such a motivated and bright boy crumble and come to nothing.
Somehow, some way this money has to come together because we know he will become a doctor and help so many people, because that’s his aspiration. He’s seen suffering and wants to alleviate pain.”
Somehow I just know that this mother-daughter team will meet this challenge. Visit their website www.hands-of-hope.ca , facebook page www.facebook.com/book-sandbasics, and gofundme cam-paign www.gofundme.com/rohit for Rohit Malla to learn more.
Ruth Lera writes on behalf of Hands of Hope. Contact her via
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Whitehorse EVENTSArt Shows until Mon, Mar 23 Museum of Broken Relationships Yukon Arts Centre a chance for every broken-hearted person to deal with a relationship ending in a creative way — by making a contribution to the museum and sharing it with the community.until Mon, Mar 23 Sonja Ahlers: War in Peace Yukon Arts Centre also be the launch of her upcoming book entitled War In Peaceuntil Sat, Mar 28 Picture This 10:00 AM Arts Undergrounduntil Tue, Mar 31 Simon James Gilpin “Mother Earth” North End Gallery (867) 393-3590until Tue, Mar 31 FÉMINISME(S) 6:00 PM The Old Fire Halluntil Tue, Jun 30 The Puckett Family 10:00 AM Arts Underground
Live MusicWed, Mar 18 Jazz on Wednesdays 6:00 PM Wheelhouse Restaurant 867-456-2982 Join us for a night of jazz featuring Ray Tucker - Guitar, Steve Gedrose - Upright Base, Duncan Sin-clair - Tenor SaxophoneWed, Mar 18 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!Wed, Mar 18 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to coversWed, Mar 18 BRU Night 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomWed, Mar 18 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonThu, Mar 19 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s PizzaThu, Mar 19 Joe Loutchen & Friends 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Yukon - Traditional fi ddle music and more - jigging is encouraged and limericks are the norm.Thu, Mar 19 Open mic with Scott Maynard 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500Thu, Mar 19 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hatsThu, Mar 19 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonFri, Mar 20 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy ListeningFri, Mar 20 Brave New Works: Nostalgia 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall BNW is a multidisciplinary performing arts show. 10 different local professional artists, from bagpipes to dance!Fri, Mar 20 Midnight Sons 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush InnFri, Mar 20 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomFri, Mar 20 Live: Mc TurMoil ,Ridz and Kelvin 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonSat, Mar 21 Brave New Works: Nostalgia 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall BNW is a multidisciplinary performing arts show. 10 different local professional artists, from bagpipes to dance!Sat, Mar 21 Midnight Sons 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush InnSat, Mar 21 Concert 8:00 PM Centre De La FrancophonieSat, Mar 21 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomSat, Mar 21 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonSun, Mar 22 Anger Management 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush InnMon, Mar 23 Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonTue, Mar 24 Open Mic Night With MC
Turmoil 9:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonTue, Mar 24 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hatsWed, Mar 25 Jazz on Wednesdays 6:00 PM Wheelhouse Restaurant 867-456-2982 Join us for a night of great music with Ryan McNally & companyWed, Mar 25 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!Wed, Mar 25 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to coversWed, Mar 25 BRU Night 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomWed, Mar 25 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonThu, Mar 26 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s PizzaThu, Mar 26 Joe Loutchen & Friends 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Yukon - Traditional fi ddle music and more - jigging is encouraged and limericks are the norm.Thu, Mar 26 Open mic with Scott Maynard 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500Thu, Mar 26 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hatsThu, Mar 26 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonFri, Mar 27 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy ListeningFri, Mar 27 Black Iron Blossom 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush InnFri, Mar 27 DJKJ 9:00 PM Club 867 DjKj will be rocking CLUB 867 every second FridayFri, Mar 27 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomSat, Mar 28 Black Iron Blossom 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush InnSat, Mar 28 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomSat, Mar 28 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon
Even ts Fri, Mar 6 Rendez-vous de la Francophonie Multiple LocationsWed, Mar 18 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges CaféWed, Mar 18 NDP Sustainable and Prosperous Communities Tour 7:00 PM Carmacks Rec CentreFri, Mar 20 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Community Luncheon 11:45 AM Health and Social Building Join us for lunch every Friday, from 11:45 am until 1 pm, at the Health and Social Building.Fri, Mar 20 Brave New Works: Nostalgia 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall BNW is a multidisciplinary performing arts show. 10 different local professional artists, from bagpipes to dance!Sat, Mar 21 Advanced Bridge Lessons 1:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary 633-5352 Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club offers lessons for experienced players who want to improve their game.Sat, Mar 21 Dog Wash Fundraiser 10:00 AM The Feed Store Pet Junction All profi t goes to Mae Bachur Animal ShelterSat, Mar 21 Spring Spruce Bog 11:00 AM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Open at 10:15 for Seniors (60+) and persons requiring assistance with one aide only please.Sat, Mar 21 Brave New Works: Nostalgia 7:00 PM The Old Fire
Hall BNW is a multidisciplinary performing arts show. 10 different local professional artists, from bagpipes to dance!Sat, Mar 21 Burning Away the Winter Blues 8:30 PM Robert Service Campground The 17th edition of Burning Away the Winter Blues, an event that has become a tradition for the Whitehorse community and beyond.Sat, Mar 21 Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:30 AM Emergency Measures Organization YARA’s breakfast at the A&W. Casual event. Hams from outside the Yukon often join.Mon, Mar 23 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: [email protected], Mar 24 Paradise 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre An unemployed logger, an accused terrorist, a family doctor and his daughter.Wed, Mar 25 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges CaféThu, Mar 26 Nicole Dixon, Reading & Talk 7:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Berton House Writer in Residence Nicole DixonFri, Mar 27 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Community Luncheon 11:45 AM Health and Social Building Join us for lunch every Friday, from 11:45 am until 1 pm, at the Health and Social Building.Sat, Mar 28 Habitat for Humanity Yukon AGM 1:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library 456-4349 Habitat-for-Humanity Yukon Annual General Meeting is Saturday, March 28th, from 1pm to 3pm at the Whitehorse Public Library. All are welcome.Sat, Mar 28 Advanced Bridge Lessons 1:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary 633-5352 Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club offers lessons for experienced players who want to improve their game.
Fami ly Monday - Friday Math Tutoring! 11:45 AM F.H. Collins Secondary Free peer tutoring will be available at lunchtime. It will be Monday to Thursday from 11:45-12:15 . Please encourage your student to take advantage of this to help him/her to be successful this year.Wed, Mar 18 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Wed, Mar 18 Spring Break Camp 1 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleThu, Mar 19 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Thu, Mar 19 Teen Scene: Dungeons and Dragons 3:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-8900 Role-play and craft a fantasy adventure! Every Third Thursday until May. Free drop in!Thu, Mar 19 Spring Break Camp 1 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleFri, Mar 20 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Multi Age/Preschool Group 1:45 PM Whitehorse Elementary Barbara 335-2283 Multi-age/Preschool Group (3 years+) Free program; pre-registration required. Healthy snacks provided!Fri, Mar 20 Young Explorer’s Preschool Program 10:00 AM MacBride Museum 867-667-2709, ext.3 parents and children explore the animal gallery together. Play games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs.Fri, Mar 20 Parent-Child Mother
Goose: Toddler Group 10:00 AM The Child Development Centre Barbara 335-2283 Toddlers 18 months to 3 years Free program; pre-registration required. Healthy snacks provided!Fri, Mar 20 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Fri, Mar 20 Spring Break Camp 1 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleSat, Mar 21 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Multi Age Group 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Lisa 668-8535 Free program; pre-registration required.Healthy snacks provided!Sat, Mar 21 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Sat, Mar 21 Family Drop In & Ball Pit Closed 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleMon, Mar 23 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: [email protected], Mar 23 Spring Break Camp 2 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleTue, Mar 24 Spring Break Camp 2 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleWed, Mar 25 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Wed, Mar 25 FH Collins Parent Circle 7:00 PM F.H. Collins Secondary This is a safe place to come and chat about that amazing job we were handed without an instruction model: parenting teenagers. Our focus for this meeting is Mindful Parenting. Please join usWed, Mar 25 Spring Break Camp 2 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleThu, Mar 26 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Thu, Mar 26 Spring Break Camp 2 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleFri, Mar 27 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Multi Age/Preschool Group 1:45 PM Whitehorse Elementary Barbara 335-2283 Multi-age/Preschool Group (3 years+) Free program; pre-registration required. Healthy snacks provided!Fri, Mar 27 Young Explorer’s Preschool Program 10:00 AM MacBride Museum 867-667-2709, ext.3 parents and children explore the animal gallery together. Play games, create crafts, read stories and sing songs.Fri, Mar 27 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Toddler Group 10:00 AM The Child Development Centre Barbara 335-2283 Toddlers 18 months to 3 years Free program; pre-registration required. Healthy snacks provided!Fri, Mar 27 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Fri, Mar 27 Spring Break Camp 2 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleSat, Mar 28 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Multi Age Group 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Lisa 668-8535 Free program; pre-registration required.Healthy snacks provided!Sat, Mar 28 Boys and Girls Club Youth Drop In 3:00 PM Boys and Girls Club (867) 393-2824 Dinner provided by the Boys and Girls Club.Sat, Mar 28 Family Drop In & Ball Pit Closed 8:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleSun, Mar 29 Singing, story-telling 3:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale
WorkshopsTue, Mar 17 Musical creation space: open house 7:00 PM Centre De La Francophonie
Wed, Mar 18 SPRING BREAK WORKSHOP – Laser Cut 3D Models (Youth 11-16 yrs) 1:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceWed, Mar 18 Intro to Javascript (and programming) 6:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceWed, Mar 18 Painting Open Studio with Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts UndergroundThu, Mar 19 Film Screening: Lemonade 7:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceThu, Mar 19 Induction Forge 101 7:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceFri, Mar 20 Artist in the School Learning Lab for Instructors 9:00 AM Westmark Whitehorse 332-1904 Artist in the School Learning Lab is a free 3-day learning event for arts instructors.Fri, Mar 20 Build Your Own Quadcopter!6:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceSat, Mar 21 Artist in the School Learning Lab for Instructors 9:00 AM Westmark Whitehorse 332-1904 Artist in the School Learning Lab is a free 3-day learning event for arts instructors.Sat, Mar 21 Build Your Own Quadcopter! 1:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceSat, Mar 21 Advanced Bridge Lessons 1:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary 633-5352 Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club offers lessons for experienced players who want to improve their game.Sun, Mar 22 Artist in the School Learning Lab for Instructors 9:00 AM Westmark Whitehorse 332-1904 Artist in the School Learning Lab is a free 3-day learning event for arts instructors.Sun, Mar 22 Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase. Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/hour.Tue, Mar 24 YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makersWed, Mar 25 SPRING BREAK WORKSHOP – Fun with Electronics (Youth 8-14 yrs) 1:00 PM YuKonstruct MakerspaceFri, Mar 27 Life Drawing Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts UndergroundSat, Mar 28 Advanced Bridge Lessons 1:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary 633-5352 Whitehorse Duplicate Bridge Club offers lessons for experienced players who want to improve their game.
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A Trumpeter’s Perspective
Hiya, my name is Ed, and I am a proud trumpeter swan. I’m eight-years-old
and grew up in the Red Rock Lakes area of Montana, USA.
Although I am American, I con-sider Canada to be a second home since my family and I migrate through there every year.
My wife is Lily. We have four kids. Unlike many animal species, swans mate for life. I ain’t going nowhere. I got a wonderful family and great nesting spots. What else could a guy need?
However, there a few of the guys who think married life isn’t for them. It’s not common amongst swans, but there are a few swinging bachelors. And then there are others, who, after losing a mate, never look for love again. Poor souls. What can I say, we are a loyal breed — it’s in our blood.
Spring is just around the cor-ner, and we are all getting ready to travel up the west coast of Canada. It seems I am really good at this traveling thing. In the past, scientists have come around and put little tracking tags on me. They must be really impressed by my fl ying skills. Did you know my wings span is eight feet? Pretty impressive, huh.
The researchers even take my photo. My wife brags to all her friends about what a handsome swan I am, and smart too. I never get lost, and never have to stop and ask for directions.
I’ve often wondered why hu-mans are so interested in us. So one day I had a very deep philo-sophical discussion about it with my sister. We came to the con-clusion that the scientists like to observe us because we are one of the few waterfowl species that’s extant. What is extant? It means we are survivors. We have come close to extinction in the past, but we always managed to breed again. Another reason why family is so important to us.
We begin our journey towards Alaska. Before we get there we stop over is a nice territory called the Yukon. Some of extended fam-ily, the tundra swans, come too. Most people have a hard time telling us apart. I think it’s easy, they got a yellow patch on their eye, we don’t. The tundra swans say the yellow gives them ‘char-acter’. I say who needs character when your swan calls sounds like heavenly trumpets.
When we arrive, we stay at a place called M’Clintock Bay. The weather up there is just perfect
in April. Not too cold, not too hot, great vegetarian eats, clear skies, clear water. Sometime I wish I could live here.
Even the people up there are great. They go all out and make a huge fuss when we roll into town. They got this huge wood building with lookout points. In April, lots of people come out to watch us. Throughout the month of April, over 2000 of us will pass through the bay. I love the atten-tion. Sometimes I like to show off
by puffi ng my chest and swimming smoothly in nice patterns. I could do it all day. But then my wife calls, and I got to stop showboat-ing and help her with the kids.
Toward the end of April we continue to migrate to Alaska for breeding season. Some of our cousins venture to the Northwest Territories, while others go to the more northern parts of the Yukon.
Lily loves the pondweed in Alaska. She fi rst became addicted to it during our honeymoon, so
that’s where we always go. You know how the saying goes, happy wife, happy life.
Well, that about sums up our adventure. If you’re around in April, come to M’Clintock Bay and say hello. Just look for the most handsome swan paddling in the lake.
Angela Szymczuk is a Whitehorse-based writer.
Contact her via [email protected].
Ed, the handsomest swan
PHOTO: Rick Massie
Swan Haven prepares for the migration
by Angela Szymczuk
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Free Drop-InYouth Centre
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Wednesday to Saturday, 3 to 9 pm.
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In the GalleryMarch 12 – April 18
THAW-DI-GRAW FILM COMPETITION
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Exhibi� ons>> in the Yukon Art Society Gallery:
THE SEVEN TEXTILE ARTISTS“How Does it Felt”
Exhibi� on closes December 1st, 2012
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Unfailingly, I spend each spring refl ecting on the past winter months. I decide what I will hold dear to my heart from this season and what is best left in the past.
Yukon Educational Theatre and Icycle Sport will be presenting the 17th annual Burning Away the Winter Blues on Saturday, March 21.
This event acknowledges the end of winter and the beginning of spring, allowing participants to shed winter hardships with the burning of an effi gy. This ritual was created by Arlin McFarlane in 1999, and has offered a cathartic transition from winter to spring ever since.
The festival will kick off at the SS Klondike parking lot, where participants will assemble from 8:30 – 9 p.m. They can also park at the Robert Service Campground and board a free shuttle to the muster point.
At 9 p.m., the procession will walk to the Robert Service Campground, where the build-up continues. Attendees should con-
sider themselves participants, not audience members. As such, the public is encouraged to bring in-struments, lanterns, and effi gies. Paper and pens will be distributed so that individual winter blues can be collected in paper bags and burned. John Phelan will lead the drumming for the crowd.
The event unfolds “organic-ally” says Geneviève Gagnon, art-istic director and general manager of Yukon Educational Theatre. At the crux of the evening, the eight-foot graffi ti yeti effi gy will burn along with the rest of White-horse’s blues.
Yukon Educational Theatre has worked to make this a commun-ity event. Several youth-targeted effi gy-building workshops were facilitated in partnership with the Yukon Arts Centre, Yukonstruct, and Splintered Craft. The graffi ti yeti effi gy, itself, is also a product of partnerships with Yukonstruct and Splintered Craft.
Allison Button and Chris Lloyd, volunteers at the “maker-space” Yukonstruct, used 3D modelling software to develop the concept, and laser cutters to build the ef-fi gy.
“We built the concept on the idea of a snow and ice monster, which we felt was representative of the festival”, said Lloyd.
The construction required 30 bicycle boxes (donated by Icycle Sport), 15 volunteers, and 27 hours.
“There were 292 pieces that had to be wired together, this was a true community project,” said Button.
But according to both Lloyd and Button, once you have the 3D model, the task of building is pretty easy if you have the drive and the time.
Splintered Craft, a cost-free, drop-in arts studio focused on youth ages 14-29, will have the ef-fi gy at their location in the Yukon Inn Plaza up until the event. Mem-bers of the public have been wel-come to decorate the effi gy with their own blues since last week.
Aimée Dawn Robinson, facilita-tor at Splintered Craft, is looking forward to “physically celebrating the closing of winter”, with the decoration and subsequent burn-ing of the yeti.
Geneviève Gagnon notes, “There are several points of entry individuals can use to explore the concept of shedding their winter blues.”
Even those unable to make it in person can connect via a live-web-cast by going to www.livestream.com and searching for “Burning Away the Winter Blues 2015”.
The festivities start at the SS Klondike parking lot at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 21.
Amy O’Rourke is a Whitehorse-based writer. Contact her via [email protected].
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A voice in her periphery, one that was indelibly twisted into her memories, rose
above the unfolding dialogue in her mind and, like the instinct to swat away a buzzing fl y, she had to look. She’d been occupying a tucked-away booth — her books and writing utensils strewn about the table in an organized mess. To her surprise, she discovered that Austin, her Austin, had walked into the café and was about to sit at an adjacent table in a chair that would place him slightly behind her left shoulder and out of view. What was worse, he’d seen her turn around. As if the lights to the cell in which she was being held captive had suddenly shot on, her veil of privacy was revoked, re-vealing a disheartening but all too familiar reality: there was no door on her lonely enclosure. It had been unhinged long ago, leaving the gateway to her freedom un-obstructed. She remained a pris-oner of her own accord, awaiting her captor who, upon occasion, provided sustenance — the bare minimum for survival. A grimace, a nod, a vibe, just crumbs real-ly, and still she stayed. What he might provide today remained to be seen.
Vienna sat there fi zzing with adrenaline, her paralyzed fi ngers hovering above the keys on her laptop. She’d managed to avoid being near him when their paths had intersected in the past year (parties, the grocery store, fes-tivals, walking down the street), especially since the letter, but he was so close now and the room was lit and yes, she could leave, but that might be worse. But if the aim was to escape the past, then Austin fi nding her there writ-ing shouldn’t have felt so shame-ful. No, this was triumphant. She was creating. Forging ahead. And besides, this was her café — more than it was his anyway. So, why did it feel like she’d been caught red-handed?
In part it was her wooden de-
meanor. As usual, she couldn’t bring herself to acknowledge him. What must have been apparent was that she was pretending he didn’t exist, and the obvious ef-fort it took to do so would have been wasted on someone of less personal importance. But the es-sence of the pants-down feeling resided in the moment before she’d turned around to see who belonged to such a voice — a voice that had the power to override her freewill. She’d spent this mo-ment writing out the words he had spoken to her over a year before, the night they’d met. Now, from his viewpoint he could make out her every movement, even the words on her screen if he so de-sired. At least she’d had the sense to assign his char-acter a fake name. This was odd. Odd to see him at a time like that. Hard not to fi nd meaning in it.
Ye l l o w k n i f e was, of course, a very small town.
She fl ipped over the paper-back resting on the vinyl-covered bench next to her right thigh, a novel he’d loaned her to read. She remembered it clearly — the neural pathway cemented into place from frequent revisiting. They’d been standing in the nar-row hallway between their bed-rooms. He’d said “You should read this,” like a fed-up shrink pre-scribing meds to a stubborn men-tal patient. Upon the dawn of the demise of their short-lived affair, or whatever it was, she’d deposit-ed his copy on the crunchy pink carpet outside his bedroom door. Her sentiments at the time: “You loaned this to me when we were still cool, but now we’re not, so it’s weird that I still have it. P.S I trust your taste in literature so I’m probably going to go buy it later and read it and think about
you while I’m reading it.” Based on their interactions before and after she’d returned the book, she guessed his interpretation of the gesture amounted to: “You think I loaned you this because I have feelings for you or whatever, but I don’t. How many times do I have to say it? Sometimes a book is just a book.”
The novel was a bit too obscure to appear on the shelves of the Yellowknife bookstore, but main-stream enough to special-order in. She’d planned to devour it as soon as it arrived, but instead, it had sat on her shelf for a year. The timing had never felt right. It hadn’t been until the week before this peculiar day that she’d dared to commence the literary and
emotional adventure contained within its pages. It turned out to be terrifi c, which came as no surprise, but despite all its teach-ings, it wasn’t helping. The novel had happened to be sitting next to her, cover-side up, clearly visible in the refl ection of the wall-to-ceiling window beside her when Austin had walked in. How much worse could things get?
She gathered he was there to meet a recent hire at the paper to do the old Good Samaritan Wel-come Wagon. He spoke in a loud and forceful voice to the young man seated across from him, and to Vienna, it seemed he empha-sized things she thought he’d think she’d fi nd interesting, or funny, or endearing, though it’s hard to im-agine a context in which Vienna
wouldn’t fi nd what Austin said to be interesting, funny, or endear-ing. And the volume of his voice — hardly proof that her presence had an impact on him, any more than if the aforementioned psych-iatrist had run into his old patient and was fi nding it diffi cult to ig-nore the abundant evidence that her illness was still going untreat-ed.
But these things only occurred to Vienna in retrospect. In the mo-ment, Austin seemed to be throw-ing paper airplane love letters in her direction.
“The boss can be a bit of a dick at fi rst.” He leaned back in his chair. “But he cools down after a while.”
His presence affected all of her senses and though he spoke as if he were addressing the room, only fragments made their way to her c o t t on - s t u f f ed ears. She thought she heard some-thing about a job offer. A possible new position start-ing in the summer? That caused more
panic. Was he leaving town? Noooooo! Then, as if he sensed her con-
cern, he added that he could never see himself leaving this place. That was a relief, for at that mo-ment Vienna was holding strong to the same resolution. Leaving her hometown seemed impossible. He must have suspected she was sitting there writing about him. Had he been fl attered by the re-cent Artist of the Week write-up done by one of his colleagues that mentioned she was writing a novel about “unrequited love”, or did it drive him insane knowing she was the type to be incredibly candid about everything?
“And it’s not always scintillat-ing being a reporter in this town,” Austin confi ded.
“Oh, really?” Undue consternation appeared
on the new reporter’s face. If Vienna had had any desire to fl irt with this fellow upon Aus-tin’s departure —as part of some poorly thought out and inevitably self-destructive revenge plot — it vanished upon witnessing this un-becoming facial expression. In-digestion? Social anxiety?
“After this I’m heading back to the shop to write up a story about a dog.”
“Hmm,” replied the new writ-er.
Perhaps this gentleman didn’t have the word scintillating in his vocabulary, or maybe he lacked a sense of humour. Neither would come as a surprise as the news-paper had a reputation for taking whoever they could get. Austin was good, but he was an excep-tion.
“I mean, I guess it’s a rescue dog,” said Austin, trying his best to make something of the conver-sation. “I’m sure it’ll be fun to hang out with him.”
But the new hire had gone mute.
“Never mind,” barked Austin, clearing his throat. “You’ll be fi ne.” Swallow. “You start Mon-day?”
“Yes, Monday,” the young re-porter mustered.
There was the sound of a chair being pulled out, hands going into sleeves, and then nothing but a faint aroma.
When an appropriate amount of time had passed, Vienna shook out the tightness that had formed in various joints and limbs. In the midst of an exaggerated neck stretch, she took a good long look at the reporter Austin had left be-hind and confi rmed something for herself. It wasn’t all writers. Just some writers.
Miranda Booth is a White-horse-based writer. Contact her via [email protected].
Some Writersby Miranda Booth
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Why should a person support a local farmer when the food they sell is often more expensive than what can be found in the grocery store? Such a question could be asked about supporting any local business, and farming is a busi-ness. Sure there is the wonderful lifestyle of living close to nature and the satisfaction of a job well done at the end of the day. But we wouldn’t expect a lawyer to take as compensation the satisfaction of a wrong being made right. Why then would we expect someone who provides something everyone is in need of to work for a minimal wage?
Recently I read an article writ-ten by an organic farmer in the U.S. Her article talked about how small farms are unsustainable eco-nomically, even though they are
sustainable ecologically. However, most of the “food movement” will agree that large, corporate farms are ecologically unsustainable, with the combined use of mono-croping and chemicals.
The workers are usually interns who receive room and board along with their low weekly pay. Often there are unpaid workers known as “wwoofers” (willing workers on organic farms) who also work for room and board and the experience of learning to farm organically.
And then there are the farmers themselves.
The author went on to say that in addition to working on their farms, farmers often seek addi-tional income by working off the farm, too. She concludes it should be possible for farmers to make their livings on the farm.
I agree.Both Al and I work off the farm,
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about $8.90/hour last year, based on a forty hour week, including our off-farm income. But I also know there were many weeks in the sum-mer where we work longer than forty hours a week — more like 60. And we aren’t alone. Most farm-ers I know tend to work those long hours, especially during the sum-mer. While the payback fi nancially seems to be very small, there are some benefi ts. It’s a wonderful way of life, and growing food is a neces-sity for existence on this planet, so our job is indispensible.
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Then, store-rooms are still stocked with plump sacks of potatoes resting contented-ly beneath jars of pickled beets that glow like rubies in the dusty shine of the single bare light bulb. Then, it’s still hard to get below the top layer in the freezer, and rearrange it so the lid closes tightly on bags of kale and moose wrapped in butcher paper. But as we move toward spring, things start to run out.
One after another I discover that I am enjoying the bittersweet delight of the last of something — the fi nal jar of bok choi kraut-chi; the last crunchy carrot; the one re-maining chunk of bacon. I try to use them to their full potential, to avoid the mindless con-sumption of nutri-ents that every t ime-consuming meal is in danger of becoming. And at the same time, I re-discover the tricks of livening-up non-seasonal foods — the dry goods that are always in reserve, which so often act merely as background to the harvested features. Sometimes by accident.
I set a jar of buckwheat to soak last week with the inten-tion of sprouting it. As per usual, I drained and rinsed it once the groats had swollen. Each day
thereafter I rinsed the grain and waited for the little white roots to appear. And waited. And waited. Eventually, I decided something must be amiss.
On any given day there might be half a dozen jars in the warmth above the woodstove, containing things in various stages of soaking, souring, or growing. There is no calendar, no schedule. I set things when it occurs to me, and most
often remember to use them before they go from fresh-to-fuzzy, or sour-to-corrosive.
I fi nally decided that this buck-wheat was not going to sprout. I smelled it and remembered the dosa. Every winter I enjoy these de-lightful, versatile fermented pan-cakes — and then I forget about them.
The concept is to pair a grain with a legume (eg: chickpea and brown rice), soak and allow to fer-
ment, then grind into a thin batter and make delicate crisp crepes.
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COMFORT COMES TOGETHER
It started many years ago. My guy saw it in a movie — a fl eet-ing scene. It was a manly glass,
big, and heavy; it said, “I take my scotch seriously.”
The movie, Blade Runner, came out in 1982. Rick Deckard, arriving home after a hard day of “retiring” replicants, enters the grey chaos of his apartment and pours himself a drink. He’s tired. The drink is his refuge, his solace.
And the glass is perfect.It’s square, with a heavy bot-
tom and diagonal cuts at the points of the sipping edge. My guy Googled “scotch glasses” and “square scotch glasses”, “the per-fect scotch glass” and “square glasses”.
Nothing.Recently, after perhaps the
27th viewing of the sci-fi clas-sic, he tried something new. He typed “Blade Runner scotch glass” in the search engine and there it was. At fi rst he thought it was just pictures, then he found it at a prop-sales site: http://props.
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By this time the cost was irrel-evant. The description surpassed any concerns over the glass’s sub-stantial price tag — an almost four inch cube, weighing 20 oz. and holding over twelve ounces, it is a heavy work of hand-blown, Italian art crystal.
An order was placed for two of the precious items, and with that the event horizon had been achieved. The joining of the man and his perfect scotch glass was now inevitable.
UPS has an Internet package tracking service that allows you to see where your parcel is as it travels to you. It is agonizing to watch. At least twice everyday we checked on the progress. Three agonizing days to clear customs in an undisclosed location, then silence, then a delivery to again, an undisclosed post offi ce some-where in Canada. Is it Toronto, Vancouver, perhaps even White-horse?
Finally, the packaged arrived and was opened with some cere-mony on a sunny Saturday after-noon when no obligations would threaten the moment. The glasses came in their own box labeled dramatically with “d Arolfo di Cambio design”, the stamp of the European manufacturer.
We opened a very special bot-tle of 18-year-old and the art-of-the-distiller kissed the art-of-the-glassblower as the golden liquid poured-into and covered the bot-toms of the glasses.
Unlike Blade Runner, there was no fl ashing neon to be refl ected in the myriad planes of crystal, just beams of welcome winter sun — beauty in a glass and of a glass.
The scotch in our house will now be treated only with the greatest of respect.
Denise L. Norman is a Yukon based writer and adventurer.
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Stirring Up the Salsa
Becoming a Latin dance instructor wasn’t part of the original plan when Lu-
cie Desaulniers moved from the Yukon to the Maritimes several years back.
A classically-trained singer and songwriter, Desaulniers was a fix-ture on the local music scene in the early 1990s as lead vocalist of the energetic folk/rock/pop group, Inconnu. She had also de-veloped a name for herself on the festival circuit and on CBC Radio.
After a medical condition forced her to take time off from performing, Desaulniers moved to Fredericton to pursue a post-secondary education, supporting herself by playing in a local night-spot.
That’s when the Latin dancing bug struck.
“I was doing a minor in Spanish and I really wanted to learn the culture,” she says. “I had a new boyfriend, so I said, ‘I’m taking classes, are you coming?’”
That boyfriend was Michel Mor-ris, an Acadian from northern New Brunswick, who was not very keen on the idea at first.
“He forced himself to put up with it. Then once he got it, he loved it,” Desaulniers says of the man who is now her husband.
“We started doing dancing courses and stuff through the years, and we danced in a troupe. And then we started teaching in New Brunswick.”
When the couple moved to Whitehorse, Desaulniers says, there wasn’t really a Latin dance scene, apart from the occasional underground party at PickaPeppa Restaurant on 2nd Avenue.
“So I said to Michel, ‘We’re go-ing to have to teach again if we
want something to happen.’ So we started teaching.”
That was in 2010. Since then, the couple has helped nearly 400 people get their groove on to such dances as Cuban-style salsa, mer-engue, and the Bachata (originally from the Dominican Republic), not to mention the Rueda de Casino, a Spanish round dance from Cuba where couples change partners.
Operating as Salsa Yukon, De-saulniers and Morris offer fall, winter, and spring sessions in Rueda de Casino (Thursdays) and both beginner and intermediate courses in salsa and “sexy Bacha-ta” (Fridays) at the Leaping Feats studio in Riverdale.
The courses run for 6-7 weeks, with a monthly dance party at the Wheelhouse Restaurant for both students and guests (with DJ hon-ours performed by ‘Miguel y Lu-cia’).
“We’ve also had a huge Latin party, where I put together a Latin band (El Fuego del Norte - literal-ly, ‘Fire of the North’). That went really well, so we’ll be doing that again.”
So, what’s behind the apparent up-tick in social dancing?
“Because of the TV shows and the contests and stuff like that, people are dancing again. And it’s not only in Whitehorse, it’s every-where. It’s becoming a thing to
do,” Desaulniers says.But why does a style of dance
so closely linked to tropical and subtropical climates appeal to people who live closer to the Arc-tic Circle than the Equator?
“Most of the people who live up here have travelled before,” Morris says.
“They’ve been to Cuba, they’ve been to places where they saw people salsa-dancing, and they think it’s cool. You listen to the music and you want to dance.”
Desaulniers and Morris, who both hold Masters degrees in edu-cation and are partners in a coun-selling service, say their dance students have ranged in age from 13 to more than 80, but are gen-erally from their early 20s to late 50s.
“We have couples that come, and singles that come, and the singles meet other singles. We make a little family, and we dance together and have a great time,” Desaulniers says.
“It’s fun to do on a Friday night, to let your hair down.”
The next round of classes starts April 9 and 10. For more informa-tion, visit Salsa Yukon’s Facebook page.
Freelance writer Ken Bolton telecommutes to work from his home southeast of Whitehorse.
The growing popularity of Latin dancing in Whitehorse was on display at a Salsa Yukon event last year
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YUKONCOLLEGE.YK.CA 2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
Report to the Community2015
Inspiring dreams. Revealing passion. Changing lives.
PRESIDENT’S UPDATEIn the months since my most recent update to the community on Yukon College’s activities and achievements, I’m pleased to say we’ve moved rapidly ahead with two of our most exciting initiatives: the creation of a land-use plan for the area surrounding Ayamdigut Campus, and the evolution of the College into a university.
In the fall of 2014 we asked you to dream big and help us envision what the new campus could look like. Your response during the Ideas Competition and at our Big Ideas public event in November, proved you are as excited as we are about the potential for innovative use of the reserve lands and intentional, planned growth of the campus. Thank you for your enthusiasm and your innovative ideas. The College has embarked on Phase 3 of the project, developing concepts that we’ll bring back to back to you for review and refinement by the end of March. To stay involved, please check in regularly at yukoncollege.yk.ca/DYC.
In 2013 the College celebrated its 50th anniversary as a post-secondary institution, delivering education with a northern perspective. That same year the Government of Yukon asked us to take the first steps toward eventually becoming a university. Almost immediately, the College began the careful planning it will take to ensure success. College staff and directors interviewed leaders, educators and students from 60 national and international universities, particularly in the North, gathering advice and best practices.
One of the most important things we learned was that universities can no longer be all things to all people;
they must concentrate on a few areas of expertise and develop excellence within them. The College will focus on developing our expertise in the places we already excel, and where we’re recognized as among the vanguard in Canadian colleges: First Nations governance; climate change research and policy; and resource development. At the same time, job-ready diploma and certificate programs like the trades, business, health, and hospitality programming, to name a few, will continue to be an important part of the new university. We’re committed to providing a place and pathway for every learner, including those requiring college preparation, and those on community campuses, all of whom will have even better access to programs and research activities.
It took 50 years for the College to evolve from its beginnings in 1963 to the internationally recognized institution of today, and our evolution into a university won’t happen overnight.
Our implementation plan is in its early stages, but we’ve identified important milestones along the way. In 2017 we’ll launch our first made-in-the Yukon post-graduate certificate and degree—a one-year program in Climate Change and Public Policy and a three-year Bachelor of Policy Studies in Indigenous Governance.
Stay posted on these and other developments by visiting yukoncollege.yk.ca/universityplanning. There’s no doubt these are remarkable times at the College, and we hope you continue on this journey with us, every step of the way.
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STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES AND SUCCESSESYUKON COLLEGE’S FIRST MADE-IN-YUKON DEGREE
In 2014, Yukon College announced a significant step in our evolution toward becoming a university: our first, made-in-Yukon degree. In the fall of 2017, the College will launch a three-year, Bachelor of Policy Studies in Indigenous Governance program. In addition, the College will offer a one-year, post-graduate certificate in Climate Change and Public Policy.
Degree programs are not new to the College. We currently co-deliver three degrees through partnerships with the University of Regina and the University of Alberta. They are Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Education. In 2014, 22 students graduated with these partner degrees.
The difference is, the new degree program and post-graduate certificate will be entirely developed in Yukon, building on expertise the College has solidified over several decades in First Nations governance and climate change research and policy. Together with resource development, these subject areas have been identified as part of the unique niche programming the College will focus on as a university.
The new programs will enable more Yukon students to stay at home while pursuing post-secondary studies with a uniquely northern perspective. At the same time, they will help attract national and international students with an interest in an education relevant not only to the Canadian North, but to the whole world in this time of rapid change.
GENEROUS DONORS SUPPORT STUDENT SUCCESS
For 44 students at Yukon College, the financial burden is a little lighter thanks to the generosity of donors from across Yukon and beyond. Individual donors, community groups and businesses provided awards totaling $52,000 to students who exhibited commitment to their studies and academic success. At an awards dinner hosted by the College in October 2014, students had the chance to thank their donors in person, and donors were able to see firsthand the powerful impact their contribution is having. The evening was immensely rewarding for everyone who attended.
For students, the award application process has been streamlined, making it easier and less time-consuming to apply. To learn more, visit yukoncollege.yk.ca/freemoney
To learn about how you can donate to the success of students at Yukon College, contact Jacqueline Bedard, Director, College Relations at 867.668.8806 or [email protected].
FAST FACTS 2013-20141,223 students in credit programming
8,302 registrations in continuing education and non-credit programming
350 First Nation students enrolled in credited programs
55 full-time international students
40 international students on study tours
1,505 students on community campuses
490 enrolled in courses delivered at a distance
22 degrees awarded
173 certificates, completion certificates and diplomas awarded
STUDENT SATISFACTION
91% of students were satisfied with the quality
of instruction, 92% with course content, and
86% with support services at Yukon College
97% of students agreed that “Yukon College
is a good learning environment”
86% percent of former students/graduates
surveyed in 2013 were satisfied with the
education they received at Yukon College.
Yukon College would like to thank the following donors for establishing student awards
Alice Donald
ATCO Group
Bennett Family Foundation
Board of Governors, Yukon College
Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health
Dudley Morgan
First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun
Florence Whyard
Glaicar Sanford Wealth Partners
Hazel Fekete
Kaminak Gold Corporation
Lake Laberge Lion’s Club
Martha Many Grey Horses
Northwestel
Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
Rendezvous Rotary Club
Rotary Club of Whitehorse
Royal Canadian Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary
Ruth McIntyre
Sally Webber
Senkpiel Family
Student Union, Yukon College
Sysco Edmonton
Terry Weninger
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Government
Yukon Outfitter’s Association
The new programs will enable more
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PARTNER PROJECTSA TEACHING AND WORKING FARM ON TR’ÖNDEK HWËCH’IN TRADITIONAL TERRITORY
Yukon College and Tr’öndek Hwëch’in in have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for the creation of a teaching and working farm on different sites in Tr’öndek Hwëch’in traditional territory. The work will begin on a site that was a working farm in the early 1900s, known as Strachan’s Farm, located opposite the airport on the North Klondike Highway. The site’s name in the Hän language is Nänkäk nishi tr’ënòshe gha hëtr’ohoh’ay, or “land where we learn to grow our food”.
The land has reverted to its natural state, providing a clean slate for a newly designed farm that will incorporate indigenous plants and shrubs important to Tr’öndek Hwëch’in healing traditions, as well as fresh produce and other food staples grown in fields and greenhouses.
Tr’öndek Hwëch’in hopes the project will create a healthy, healing, safe and rewarding “on-the-land” environment for its citizens, and preserve a way of life that is based upon an economic and spiritual relationship with the land. “Using our settlement land for the production of food has long been an objective of the First Nation,” said former Chief Eddie Taylor.
“Yukon College welcomes this opportunity to strengthen our relationship with Tr’öndek Hwëch’in and enhance their capacity to provide learning and training possibilities for their citizens,” said Dr. Karen Barnes, Yukon College President.
In addition to supporting Tr’öndek Hwëch’in goals, Yukon College hopes the project will assist in the research and development of innovative approaches to northern Yukon farming, and provide work experience for College students who might assist with operating the farm.
This spring, Tr’öndek Hwëch’in hopes to test the soil, prepare the land and plant root vegetables. It’s possible there will be a greenhouse on-site by the summer of 2016.
In the meantime, there’s much to be done: striking a steering committee, devising an operational plan, consulting with local farmers, Tr’öndek Hwëch’in citizens and other experts to ensure a sustainable operation. There are many hands to share the work. As former Chief Eddy Taylor noted when the MOU was announced, “A huge mähsi cho to everyone involved in making this dream a reality.”
YUKON SOURDOUGH RENDEZVOUS COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Yukon College hosted the Community Challenge event again this year at Yukon
Sourdough Rendezvous. It was a fabulous success, due in part to the warm temperatures and of course, team enthusiasm. Eleven teams of six people tested their mettle in such challenging events as smoosh-boarding, leg wrestling, tug-of-war and a breathtaking relay race.
And the results are in! Air North flew past all contenders to first place, the Student Union rallied for second, and the Yukon College First Nations Initiatives team snared third. The ebullient Many Rivers squad was deemed Most Enthusiastic, the toothsome Pine Dental gang snapped up Best Dressed, and the City of Whitehorse crew, stalwart to the end, straggled in with the Red Lantern. Well done, teams!
CAREER TRAINING PROGRAM IN ROSS RIVER
An innovative partnership between Yukon College, Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd., the Yukon Mine Training Association (YMTA) and Ross River Dena Council resulted in the delivery of an eight-week life and career-coaching program to 12 students in Ross River in the fall of 2014.
Staff at Yukon College’s Ross River campus spearheaded the project, with support from the Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining. Selwyn Chihong sponsored the $55,488 cost of the program, while Ross River Dena Council and Yukon College provided in-kind support.
“Selwyn Chihong is committed to local education and training, to helping our current employees advance in their careers, and to working with community residents to explore their career options,” said Richard Li, CEO at Selwyn Chihong Mining Ltd.
The course, led by Yukon College instructor and YMTA careers coach Margot Neely, covered topics such as communications skills, computer literacy, professionalism and ethics, team work, problem solving, decision making, and worker rights and responsibilities. YMTA coaches worked with each participant to develop a training plan and explore career options in mining and related industries.
“The students are seen as very strong role models of the community and we wish them nothing but success,” said Verna Nukon, Ross River Dena Council Deputy Chief.
FULL-TIME CREDIT STUDENTS GET A FREE RIDE
Once again in 2014-2105, full-time students enrolled in credit courses are getting a free ride on City of
Whitehorse buses. After a hugely successful pilot project, the City of Whitehorse, Yukon College and the Student Union renewed a partnership that allows full-time student I.D. cards to be used as a bus pass for the academic year.
In the 2013-2014 academic year, more than 700 students participated in the program. The College, the Student Union and the City of Whitehorse contributed to covering the cost of the bus passes. The City extended transit service on the Takhini-Yukon College route to 10 pm, and found that overall, ridership increased over the previous year by 850 people.
Former Yukon College Student Union President Matt Landry said the union received considerable feedback from students about how important the transit initiative is to them. He affirmed the Student Union is committed to ensuring the initiative is sustainable in the long term.
Yukon College Student Union’s smallest team member takes the lead.
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2015 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY YUKONCOLLEGE.YK.CA
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Patti Balsillie (Vice-Chair) Paul Flaherty (Chair) Carol Geddes Julia Salo Justin Ferbey Karen Barnes (non-voting member)
Kate Swales Kluane Adamek Matthew Landry Mike Burke Shawn AllenVacant–community rep.
YUKON COLLEGE SENIOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (February 2015)
Dr. Karen Barnes President Dr. Deborah Bartlette Vice President, Academic and Students Dr. Christopher Hawkins Vice President, Research and Community Engagement Gayle Corry Director, Finance and Administrative Services Colleen Wirth Director, Student Infrastructure Support Brian Bonia Director, Human Resources Tosh Southwick Director, First Nation Initiatives and Academic and Skill Development Jacqueline Bedard Director, College Relations Dr. Andrew Richardson Dean, Applied Arts Division Shelagh Rowles Executive Director, Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining Jennifer Moorlag Registrar Margaret Dumkee Dean, Applied Science & Management Clint Sawicki Director, Office of Research Services Stephen Mooney Director, Cold Climate Innovation
RESEARCH ACTIVITY MINING INDUSTRY AND YUKON RESEARCH CENTRE COLLABORATE ON CONSTRUCTED WETLAND STUDY, AND THE NEWS IS GOOD
This past summer the Yukon Research Centre (YRC) and Casino Mining Corporation collaborated on a promising applied research project that could result in effective removal of contaminants in mine effluent. Soil scientist Dr. Katherine Stewart and chemist Dr. Amelie Janin worked together on the project, which evaluated the ability of constructed wetlands to treat metal-contaminated mine drainage in a northern environment.
Constructed wetlands are complex, human-made wetlands where an effluent flows through a plant-soil matrix, and natural processes remove heavy metals
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Researchers establish temporary wetlands in the YRC 4-season greenhouse
Yukon College takes student
participation in research seriously.
In 2013-2014 there were 59
registrations in courses with a
significant research component,
and 322 registrations in courses
incorporating some aspects of
research.
EVERYBODY’S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER…
…And Yukon College students from the MATH 105 (Introduction to Statistics) class are doing something about it. The class has partnered with the Yukon Research Centre to analyze the oldest weather data in Yukon history, collected from the White Pass and Yukon Route logbooks of 1902 to 1957. The historical data is being compared with more recent records kept by Environment Canada.
The results suggest that temperatures in some Yukon communities have either increased significantly or
have become more extreme in their variation over the last century. This is vital information for Yukon communities, and College Math Instructor Mark Shumelda is already thinking about how to build on this year’s work. It’s possible next year’s students will work on future temperature predictions for Yukon communities, in collaboration with the Northern Climate ExChange at YRC.
The weather analysts in MATH 105 are an excellent example of student involvement in key research.
THE AGRIDOME: ONE SOLUTION TO NORTHERN FOOD SECURITY?
Cold Climate Innovation at Yukon College is partnering with AgriArctic Yukon Inc.
to develop and test the Agridome, a partially automated aeroponics greenhouse, designed to be compatible with renewable energy. If the Agridome is able to meet specific benchmarks, Agridome production centres could help northern communities grow fresh vegetables at an affordable cost, reducing reliance on food transported from the south.
Benchmarks identified by the research team:
1. Monthly power usage of less than 1,800 kwhr
2. Monthly water consumption of less than 5,000 L
3. Production of at least 9.0 kg of edible plant material a day
4. Less than 30 hours of labour per month to operate
In a few years, Yukoners could be eating homegrown, affordable greens, beans, zucchini —all kinds of vegetables—all year round.
from water and reduce uptake in plant species. This, in turn, reduces risk to wildlife that live and feed in the area.
In other parts of Canada, constructed wetlands have proven to be low-maintenance, low-cost and to have high removal capacity. But very few have been tested and documented in northern environments, where conditions are cold and growing seasons short.
Drs. Stewart and Janin constructed eight laboratory-scale wetlands using locally harvested plant species and wetland substrate, and operated them under northern summer conditions for 14 weeks. Four wetlands were fed continuously with synthetic effluent containing levels of heavy metals consistent with predicted levels at mine closure. As a control, two wetlands were fed methanol as well as effluent, and two others, each containing a different northern plant species, were fed tap water.
Results indicate that the constructed wetlands were highly effective at removing heavy metals from the water, and uptake into plants was minimal, suggesting constructed wetlands could provide an effective solution for treating contaminated water in the North.
For Casino Mining, this is good news. The research will inform the Reclamation Plan of the proposed Casino Mine’s Tailings Management Facility, which aims to use constructed wetlands as a passive, long-term care solution for the treatment of open pit water overflow and tailings effluent.
“This project further reflects our commitment to using the highest possible standards and supporting innovation in mine remediation technologies in the North,” said Casino President Paul West-Sells.
Casino Mining Corporation and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada contributed funding to the project.
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Glenn Scott of AgriArctic preparesthe Agridome for planting
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If you peruse the 365 poems that make up the Tumblr feed from Lori Garrison’s latest
poetry project, Today, In the News, you won’t fi nd much in the way of introspection or outpourings of feeling from individual experi-ences. But you may fi nd lines that resonate, even if you aren’t really into poetry.
That was Garrison’s main goal — to write poetry that is accessible to a wide audience. She likens modern poetry to country music:
much of it is personal and emo-tional, in the vein of my-dog-died-my-girl-left-and-I’m-sad. Knowing that readers need relevance, and knowing that thankfully not all of them fi nd themselves in such an unfortunate position, she turned instead to the daily news for inspi-ration — an obvious choice given her background in journalism.
Oh, and she committed to writ-ing and sharing publicly one poem a day for a whole year.
Yet, anyone involved in a cre-ative fi eld knows that inspiration doesn’t show up on a schedule. This, it turns out, is the point — because deadlines do.
“I tried to start this project a couple times in 2013 and it never got off the ground, but by posting online, I couldn’t cheat,” explains Garrison.
“It didn’t matter how tired, hungover, or otherwise incapaci-tated I was, I had to write a poem.”
That practice is paying off. Thanks to an Advanced Artist Award funded by Lotteries Yukon, she is now able to devote a consid-erable amount of time to the fairly imposing project of editing her poems into a collection, methodi-cally working through last year’s creations one by one.
Do they change much in the ed-iting process?
“Yes, defi nitely. My style changed quite a bit over the course of the year, and anyways, the origi-nal ones are all published on the web already. So the collection will include quite a bit of new mate-rial.”
She also printed some originals on canvas scrolls and sold them at a Christmas fair, ensuring their posterity.
Garrison says it was also a les-son in social media and marketing, and a reminder that “someone will always hate your work”.
She got mainly positive feed-back though, gaining followings in her native Ontario as well as the Yukon and some surprising pockets in Germany, France, and China.
In addition to the poetry, Gar-rison is working on a collection of short fi ction, a medium that
has been successful for her in the past, including a piece last year in Northern Public Affairs Magazine that won her an Emerging Northern Writer’s Grant.
I recommend looking up the Newer York online for one of her more hilarious pieces, entitled “SHT401: Course Syllabus for the First Ten Years of Your Adult Life”.
The fi nal poem of Today, In the News found its way online on De-cember 31, 2014.
Her fi rst poem-free morning?“I woke up, poured a double
scotch, drank it, poured a black coffee, drank that, and went back to bed.”
Not surprisingly, Garrison’s new website can be found at beerswith-hemingway.com.
Kim Melton is into poetry as well as food. Contact her via [email protected].
A Poem a DayLori Garrison’s latest project wrings poetry out of the daily news
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~ Make the Bard Proud ~We all know Robert Service as the Bard of the Yukon, but did
you know he was born in England and passed away in France? With Service as your inspiration, we want you to send us best European-themed poem. Grand prize will get you and a friend to Frankfurt via Condor Air. Stay tuned for more details.
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Yukon College is committed to our founding principle
of improving educational opportunities in the Yukon.
By providing unique Northern programs and more choices
in education and training, we’re connecting students with
more opportunities for success, close to home.
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O U R H E A R T I S R O O T E D I N O U R H I S T O R Y.
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From the Back Countrywith Jozien Keijzer
For three consecutive Sun-days, my husband and I have been going to a place we
both fell in love with. He found it when hunting for bison, and I knew the spot from hiking up to the tors along the Aishihik Road. We dis-covered the rockslide while being there.
Initially we liked the spot be-cause if you have a vehicle that can handle a bit of off-road driv-
ing, you can drive right up to the foot of the mountain.
On the Alaska Highway coming from Whitehorse, before the Aishi-hik Road at the Otter Falls cutoff, look for kilometer 1542. Some-where past that post, turn right, into a bush road going north, per-pendicular to the highway. At the power line, turn left, and proceed west. Not far from here is an over-grown fi rebreak. This has a bush road at the west side going north again (another right turn). Fol-low that to the end and voila: the mountain.
First Sunday.As snow is still sparse, I hike
straight up, following tracks, fol-lowing stories. I come by a kill site with bits of rabbit fur, drops of blood and this “fi st-sized” thing.
It is bloody and smells awful. I slide it in my pocket. Yes, I do things like that. At home I will look at it to fi nd out what it is.
Higher up, I see sheep and signs of sheep. The hillside has been grazed and there are lots of drop-pings. There are intriguing rock outcrops for them to hide in-be-tween. The brown gneiss is full of weathered holes and little caves. The sheep move away before I can get close to them. It is here I look down and see a story on a bigger scale — a rockslide to the west.
The Aishihik rockslide, I sub-sequently learn, is an old one, an early Holocene event that occurred after the end of the last period of glaciation. As thin lake sediments and shorelines overlie parts of the landslide, we know it happened approximately 30,000 and 10,000 years ago.
This is according to Yukon Geo-logical Survey geologists, who in-vestigated the site in 2004 — fresh-ly disturbed soil and vegetation
suggest continued instability.
Second Sunday.Still with little snow, I set off to
explore the rockslide itself. Soon, I am among a jumble of house-sized boulders, which I learn later, are composed of gneissic rocks — a magical world of snow, ice, and rock. In the snow-free crevasses, I fi nd dry, fragrant ferns and prickly saxifrage.
I spot a perfect vantage point higher up. No matter what line I pick to reach that spot, I either slide down in crevasses where it would be impossible to climb back up, or I pull myself up out of a place where it would be impossible to go back down. I decide to let go of my goal and turn towards the hillside I was on last week. Even that seems impossible at fi rst, but soon every-thing becomes friendlier. I pass a rabbit trail, a lovely poplar grows out of a crack, and only too soon, I am again on grassy, snowy slopes.
Third Sunday.Exploring the rockslide itself
proves a little tricky in winter, and this week, with a lot more snow, I walk along the bottom of the slide on snowshoes. The bottom lies in a spruce forest of large trees. Plan-ning to circumvent it, of course, I fi nd myself climbing up the rocks again; the rocks at the bottom are overgrown with vegetation, crook-ed poplars, and lone spruces. My old metal army snowshoes prove handy to bridge the sub-angular boulders. Now, I fi nd myself in the middle of the slide. It is laid out like the fi ngers of a spread-open hand reaching down into the for-est.
The thing in my pocket? Yes, it was rabbit guts.
I thank Panya Lipovsky, a sur-fi cial geologist at Yukon Geological
Survey for suggesting two docu-ments that helped in the writing of this piece.
Jozien Keijzer is a visual artist, writer and avid hiker who lives in the Mendenhall Subdivision.
p A larger subangular gneiss boulder in the rockslide
PHOTOS: Jozien Keijzer
The Aishihik Rock Slide
p The gneissic rocks creates good places for the sheep to hide
p This is the view from the looking over the slide to the
sidescarp on the west
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Nostalgia: sometimes it’s bitter, sometimes it’s sweet, and sometimes…
it’s bagpipes. Brave New Works (BNW), the annual Whitehorse-based multidisciplinary per-forming arts collective, is back with a new theme. This year, the variety show is wistfully looking to the past with dance, photography, spoken word & mixed media, rap, poi, ukulele, and — you guessed it — bagpipes.
Co-artistic directors Zoe Ver-hees and Mellisa Murray bring you Brave New Works: Nostalgia on Friday and Saturday nights, March 20 and the 21 at the Old Fire Hall. And not to worry, they will provide earplugs.
Verhees and Murray studied dance together at York University in Toronto, but the roots of their long-term friendship and creative partnership go much deeper. Both born-and-raised in Whitehorse, the pair met while attending Leaping Feats dance studio as pre-teens. They first took advantage of BNW’s performance opportu-nity during high school and went on to participate in the show for over 10 years. Last season, the chance to dive into some produc-tion work piqued their interests when the former artistic director, Lauren Tuck, was looking to pass BNW into new hands.
With last year’s show under their belts, the co-artistic direc-tors are confident in their roles, which involve grant writing, car-rying out the submission process, coordinating, stage managing, and performing — all of which they fit around their day jobs.
Verhees is a child and youth support worker. One day, she hopes to incorporate dance ther-apy into her career.
Murray teaches dance and is a bookkeeper and administrator at Leaping Feats. She’s also a new mom and brings her baby, Tatum, with her everywhere — even to in-terviews.
Despite all the hard work,
Verhees and Murray say they are lucky to be doing what they love. They are well aware that the funding and support avail-able to Yukon artists, along with the close-knit artistic community, make their home territory a very special place.
“If we had stayed in Toronto and tried to do this, there’s no way it would be possible,” says Verhees.
To Verhees and Murray, the need for a show like BNW is ob-vious. For one thing, their own local performance opportunities petered off after they graduated.
“There are a couple of dance studios, but they’re mostly youth-based,” says Murray. The pair also sees the need to provide a plat-form for local professional artists to experiment.
“Because it’s all new work that’s being shown, it’s a chance for artists to play and to create stuff that maybe they wouldn’t normally create if they had the pressure of doing a full show,” says Verhees.
The show will be broken into three parts allowing time for audi-ence feedback after each section. Come prepared to provide con-structive criticism, and of course, compliments galore.
This season’s call for submis-sions was held before Christmas and produced a large number of responses. Verhees’s and Murray’s own pieces bring the total number of performers to 12, five returning and seven new.
“Last year the theme was “Red” and people had to think harder,” says Murray. “But this year, just saying “Nostalgia” ev-eryone was like ‘Bing bing bing! I have so many ideas.’”
“Everyone feels nostalgic about something, whether good or bad,” adds Verhees.
Brave New Works: Nostalgia is playing Friday, March 20 and Sat-urday, March 21 at 7:00 at the Old Fire Hall (1105 Front St.) Tickets are $15 in advance, available for
purchase at 38 Famous Video in Riverdale, from any of the art-ists participating in the show, or by emailing [email protected]. Tickets are also avail-able at the door for $20.
Doors open at 6:30. Arrive early to take in the pre-show dance-in-stallation and hit the bar (spon-sored by Yukon Circus Society).
Miranda Booth is a life-long northerner and writer,
currently selling out her hometown of Yellowknife for all the glitz and glamour of Whitehorse. Happy to have
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Zoe Verhees (left) and Mellisa Murray
are co-artistic directors of
Brave New Works; the little fella
is photo-bombing
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Brave New Worksby Miranda Booth
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Over the spring break for Whitehorse schools, the open art studio, Splin-
tered Craft, will be fi lming a music video.
By no means a small undertak-ing, the community studio — a Skookum Jim Friendship Centre program — is pulling in all the help it can get, which means everyone is welcome to pitch in.
They began with an open call for aspiring fi lmmakers to join them in a brainstorming session.
I sat in, and got to be in on the ground fl oor as the music video took shape through our ideas. I even got to offer one: the robots should look like they’re fi ghting, but really they’re dancing…
The end result is going to be an original music video; Yukon fa-vourites Old Cabin are generously donating one of their songs for the project.
Every part of the music video will be conceptualized, designed, built, performed, and fi lmed by artists in the community, utilizing their diverse skill-sets.
The music video that White-horse built.
The brainstorming session was
energetic and inclusive; almost everyone’s ideas were somehow woven in. After two hours, with a short juice-box break, we had our concept.
Here it is:Two young artists will walk into
Splintered Craft where Jona Barr from Old Cabin (who helps run Splintered Craft in real life) will be some sort of evil villain. He’ll show the artists the back room, which — surprise — is actually a wormhole. The artists will fi nd themselves sucked through a se-ries of various other worlds in a spaceship that is being built out of cardboard at Splintered Craft right now.
These artists-turned-pilots will be sucked into a robot world, a cartoon world, and a reverse world, before they have learned what they need to make it back to Earth.
Each dimension will allow for plenty of inventive set-and-cos-tume design.
The music video will also fea-ture Yukon Educational Theatre’s Yeti effi gy — before it’s scorched at Burning Away the Winter Blues on March 21.
We’re still unsure which world the Yeti will show up in.
Set-up will be the priority until March 20. Drop by to help with set or costume design.
Filming will take place the sec-ond week, from March 23 to 27, with Splintered Craft dedicating all of their open hours (noon – 8 p.m. each weekday) to the music video.
Friday, April 3 will be the big reveal.
Splintered Craft will host a show, screening the new music video in all its glory. Old Cabin and Sarah MacDougall will perform. There will also be a cake contest.
This event will have a by-dona-tion admission fee and will double as a fundraiser for Skookum Jim’s teen parent centre, to give six girls grad dresses — a program that recently saw its funding cut.Help and participation are wel-come at all stages of production — if you show up during fi lming you might just get cast as a robot.
Joslyn Kilborn is a Whitehorse-based writer. Contact her via [email protected].
Old Cabin in Spaceby Joslyn Kilborn
PHOTO: Joslyn Kilborn
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Beav er CreekWed, Mar 18 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Mar 18 Open Gym 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Mar 18 Sports Night 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubThu, Mar 19 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 21 Family Gym Night 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 21 Family Gym 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 21 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubMon, Mar 23 Youth Gym Drop In 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubMon, Mar 23 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubMon, Mar 23 Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John SchoolTue, Mar 24 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubTue, Mar 24 Yoga 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Mar 25 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Mar 25 Open Gym 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Mar 25 Sports Night 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubThu, Mar 26 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 28 Family Gym Night 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 28 Family Gym 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, Mar 28 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Carc rossWed, Mar 18 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfi [email protected], Mar 18 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingWed, Mar 18 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031Thu, Mar 19 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, Mar 19 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfi eld, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinatorMon, Mar 23 C/TFN Carving Shed open 5:30 PM Carcross Carving Shed Keith Wolf Smarch will be in attendance to provide guidance/help with all manner of traditional artworkTue, Mar 24 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM The Old DaycareTue, Mar 24 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community SchoolTue, Mar 24 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251Wed, Mar 25 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfi [email protected], Mar 25 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031Wed, Mar 25 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, Mar 26 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, Mar 26 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfi eld, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator
Daws on City Art Show:March 12-18 Dominique Pétrin ”Pimping Up” at the Odd Gallery
Wed, Mar 18 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-
5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Wed, Mar 18 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture *paper available for purchase. For more information or to participate:please contact Rebekah at [email protected], Mar 18 Adult Tap: Intro Level 6:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back! Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. New tap shoes included in cost of Intro level course.Wed, Mar 18 Adult Tap: Level 2 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back! Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. Level 2 course for returning tappers.Wed, Mar 18 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.Thu, Mar 19 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confi rm a scheduled class, email [email protected], 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.Fri, Mar 20 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, Mar 20 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, Mar 20 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreFri, Mar 20 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Sat, Mar 21 KIAC Drop-in Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Brushes & easels are supplied, no instruction offered. Fee $5Sat, Mar 21 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreSat, Mar 21 Thaw-Di-Gras Film Festival 8:00 PM Diamond Tooth GertiesSat, Mar 21 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 9:00 AM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confi rm a scheduled class, email [email protected], 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.Sun, Mar 22 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381Mon, Mar 23 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness CentreMon, Mar 23 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness CentreMon, Mar 23 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Mon, Mar 23 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 6:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confi rm a scheduled class, email [email protected], 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.Tue, Mar 24 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealfi t(at)me.comWed, Mar 25 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Wed, Mar 25 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture *paper available for purchase. For more information or to participate:please contact Rebekah at [email protected], Mar 25 Adult Tap: Intro Level 6:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back! Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. New tap shoes included in cost of Intro level course.Wed, Mar 25 Adult Tap: Level 2 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture It’s Back! Adult Tap! With Terrie Turai. Level 2 course for returning tappers.Wed, Mar 25 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.
Thu, Mar 26 Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race 12:00 AM Dawson City Visitor Information Centre 993-3470 The Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Race began in 1977 to honour Percy DeWolfe, who courageously carried mail by dog team, horse and boat between Dawson City, YT and Eagle, AK, from 1910 and 1949Thu, Mar 26 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 To confi rm a scheduled class, email [email protected], 24 hours in advance. Cancellations will be emailed to registered students in advance.
FaroWed, Mar 18 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder SchoolWed, Mar 18 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be providedWed, Mar 18 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 18 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder SchoolWed, Mar 18 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 18 Kids Floor Hockey 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 11 and under, equipment provided if neededWed, Mar 18 Faro Youth Hockey Skate Lessons 4:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaWed, Mar 18 Public Skate 5:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaWed, Mar 18 Adults Floor Hockey 7:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 12+, equipment provided if neededThu, Mar 19 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud ArenaThu, Mar 19 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.Thu, Mar 19 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaThu, Mar 19 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 20 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre. Fri, Mar 20 Family Skate 3:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaFri, Mar 20 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 20 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 20 Public Skate 5:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaFri, Mar 20 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre. Fri, Mar 20 12+ Sticks and Pucks 7:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaSat, Mar 21 Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group. Sat, Mar 21 Public Skate 2:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaSat, Mar 21 Youth Skate 7:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaSun, Mar 22 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of ApostlesSun, Mar 22 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Sun, Mar 22 Family Sticks and Pucks 1:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaSun, Mar 22 Public Skate 3:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaMon, Mar 23 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Mon, Mar 23 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud ArenaMon, Mar 23 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud Arena
Tue, Mar 24 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Tue, Mar 24 Family Skate 3:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaTue, Mar 24 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.Tue, Mar 24 Badminton 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre For more information: [email protected], Mar 24 Public Skate 5:30 PM Father Rigaud ArenaTue, Mar 24 Tai Chi Faro 6:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre With Lucy Moreira, Free Drop In Meet at the Youth LoungeWed, Mar 25 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder SchoolWed, Mar 25 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be providedWed, Mar 25 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 25 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Mar 25 Faro Youth Hockey Skate Lessons 4:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaWed, Mar 25 Kids Floor Hockey 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 11 and under, equipment provided if neededWed, Mar 25 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Mar 25 Public Skate 5:00 PM Father Rigaud ArenaWed, Mar 25 Adults Floor Hockey 7:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 12+, equipment provided if neededThu, Mar 26 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Mar 26 Faro Youth Hockey 3:15 PM Father Rigaud ArenaThu, Mar 26 Environment Club 3:45 PM Del Van Gorder SchoolThu, Mar 26 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.Thu, Mar 26 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Mar 26 Old-Timers Hockey 7:30 PM Father Rigaud [email protected]
Haines JunctionWed, Mar 18 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5)Thu, Mar 19 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun KuThu, Mar 19 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community SchoolSun, Mar 22 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De BrabandereMon, Mar 23 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural CentreTue, Mar 24 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural CentreTue, Mar 24 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini HallWed, Mar 25 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5)Wed, Mar 25 Open Mic Night 7:00 PM St Elias Convention CentreThu, Mar 26 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun KuThu, Mar 26 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School
Marsh LakeWed, Mar 18 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationWed, Mar 18 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Association 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.Fri, Mar 20 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00
PM Marsh Lake Community Association Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each monthFri, Mar 20 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationSat, Mar 21 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community AssociationSun, Mar 22 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Association 660-4999 All welcomeTue, Mar 24 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationTue, Mar 24 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationTue, Mar 24 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationWed, Mar 25 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community AssociationWed, Mar 25 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Association 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.
Mayo Wed, Mar 18 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School GymWed, Mar 18 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School GymWed, Mar 18 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyballThu, Mar 19 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockeyThu, Mar 19 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curlingThu, Mar 19 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockeyFri, Mar 20 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym nightFri, Mar 20 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie nightFri, Mar 20 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kidsSun, Mar 22 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746Mon, Mar 23 Yoga in Mayo 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre Yoga in the Mayo community hall, every Monday in the summer.Tue, Mar 24 Boys’ basketball practice 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Come play basketball over lunch!Tue, Mar 24 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockeyTue, Mar 24 Under 12 Kung Fu 6:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 junior martial artsTue, Mar 24 Drop in badminton 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 drop in badmintonTue, Mar 24 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockeyTue, Mar 24 Kung Fu for teens and adults 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 martial arts for teens and adultsWed, Mar 25 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School GymWed, Mar 25 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School GymWed, Mar 25 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyballThu, Mar 26 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockeyThu, Mar 26 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curlingThu, Mar 26 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 hockey
Mt. Lo rneWed, Mar 18 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community CentreThu, Mar 19 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083
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Project Management Essentials: Part 1This course is specifically designed for new project managers or those without previous formal project management training. April 20–22 | Mon–Wed | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20582 | $950 + GST
Project Management Essentials: Part 2 This course is a continuation of Part 1. You receive more advanced project management skill development based onthe theory and fundamentals of the PMI framework.May 11–12 | Mon–Tues | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20584 | $950 + GST
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam Preparation This workshop prepares you to write the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam and provides the required educational credits for new applications. May 25–29 | Mon–Fri | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20585 | $1899 + GST
Managing Project Teams and Stakeholders Learn how to motivate teams, delegate, organize, problem solve, sell ideas, obtain information, report on performance, manage organizational transition, and implement ideas. Apr 23–24 | Thur–Fri | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20586 | $950 + GST
Project Risk Management Learn how to identifying risks, analyze their potential impact to the organization or project, and establish procedures for monitoring, controlling, and reporting on risks. May 13–14 | Wed–Thur | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20587 | $950 + GST
HUMAN RESOURCES
Strategic HR Management Fundamentals Learn strategic HR planning techniques, the roles and functions of an HR department, and how organizational structures and position descriptions will boost the effectiveness of every workplace.Apr 10 & 17 | Fri | 9am–4pm | CRN 20537 | $395 + GST
Employee Recruitment and Selection Learn how to select new employees, develop position descriptions, screen applications, generate questions and interview candidates, use grading/rating systems and check references.Apr 24 & May 1 | Fri | 9am–4pm | CRN 20539 | $395 + GST
BOOKKEEPING
Bookkeeping Fundamentals Level 1 Designed specifically for those with little or no bookkeeping experience: how to set up journals, ledgers, credit/debit notes, prepare a trial balance, income statement and balance sheet, fiscal period-end, bank reconciliation and closing adjustments. Apr 7–28 | Tues & Thur | 6:30pm–9:30pm | CRN 20403 | $299 + GST
Sage 50 Level 2Topics include: project allocation and budget designing, building and entering opening balances into a Chart of Accounts, bank and credit card set up and reconciliation, and advanced payroll including deductions and adjusting entries. Apr 10–12 | Fri–Sun | Fri 6:30pm–9:30pm / Sat & Sun 9am–4pmCRN 20402 | $259 + GST
Excel 2010 Level 2Technical topics include: how to print and preview the workbook, move and resize charts, insert screenshots, sort by single-level and multi-level data, and modify and delete named ranges. Apr 13–22 | Mon & Wed | 6:30pm–9:30pm | CRN 20536 | $229 + GST
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Effective Resume Building and Interview SkillsTransform your resume into a powerful marketing tool and learn effective job interview tips and strategies under the guidance of HR expert Rita Koeller. Apr 13 & 15 | Mon & Wed | 6:30pm–9pm | CRN 20554 | $125 + GST
Professional Minute-TakingEstablish yourself as the minute-taking expert in your organization and learn how to take this in-demand expertise to a professional level.Apr 24 | Fri | 9am–4pm | CRN 20555 | $195 + GST
Lead Successful Meetings Topics include: pre-planning, agendas, facilitation, managing the differences and decisions, conflict and action planning. This course is a must for any manager or supervisor.Apr 13–16 | Mon–Thur | 6pm–9pm | CRN 20498 | $379 + GST
Tools for Navigating Difficult Conversation Differences in opinion, needs and perspectives happen every day. Learn simple and achievable tools to support making a difficult conversation into a constructive conversation.Mar 26 | Thur | 9am–4pm | CRN 20578 | $225 + GST
Setting Boundaries Learn to define your own physical, emotional, mental and spiritual boundaries. Develop an easy-to-use tool to communi-cate assertive and appropriate limits, needs and consequences.Apr 9 | Thur | 9am–4pm | CRN 20579 | $225 + GST
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Mediation Skills Level 1 Prerequisite: Foundations of Collaborative Conflict ResolutionThis course introduces you to the concepts, skills and techniques needed to mediate disputes. The emphasis is on skill development through simulated mediations assisted by trained coaches. Mar 23–25 | Mon–Wed | 8:30am–4:30pm | CRN 20200 | $600 + GST
Dealing with Anger Prerequisite: Foundations of Collaborative Conflict ResolutionThis course presents theory, skills and approaches for managing your own angry feelings and responding to anger in others. Apr 27–29 | Mon–Wed | 8:30am–4:30pm | CRN 20202 | $600 + GST
Resolving Conflict on the Frontline:Demonstrating Leadership at Work Prerequisite: Foundations of Collaborative Conflict Resolution, and Negotiations Skills Level 1Gain knowledge and skills for assessing workplace conflict, determ-ining whether a collaborative process or a more formal interven-tion process is needed and choosing the best intervention approach.Apr 14–16 | Tues–Thur | 8:30am–4:30pm | CRN 20201 | $600 + GST
Lead Yourself First: Demonstrating Leadership at Work In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of your personal leadership style and its impact on others to lead more effectively in your organization.May 11–13 | Mon–Wed | 9am–4:30pm | CRN 20203 | $600 + GST
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Fri, Mar 20 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083Tue, Mar 24 Taking Care of Our Energy Fields and Chakras Course 6:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre 667-7083 Ruth Lera, Certifi ed Quantum Touch Practitioner, Healing Touch Practitioner and Certifi ed Meditation Instructor will guide participants.Wed, Mar 25 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community CentreThu, Mar 26 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083
Old Cr owThu, Mar 19 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community CenterSun, Mar 22 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381Mon, Mar 23 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238Thu, Mar 26 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center
Tagish All events held at the Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 or 399-3407Wed, Mar 18 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, Mar 18 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Wed, Mar 18 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, Mar 18 Foot and Wellness Clinic 2:00 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, Mar 18 Tagish Community Association meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.caThu, Mar 19 Osteofi t 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Mar 19 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Mar 19 Catch Kids Club 2:30 PM Tagish Community CentreThu, Mar 19 Beer Wings Games 7:00 PM Tagish Community CentreSat, Mar 21 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Sat, Mar 21 Music Jam 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome to come and play, or enjoy!Tue, Mar 24 Nordic Walking 1:30 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, Mar 25 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, Mar 25 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Thu, Mar 26 Osteofi t 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Mar 26 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Mar 26 Catch Kids Club 2:30 PM Tagish Community CentreThu, Mar 26 Drop In Badminton 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre
Teslin Wed, Mar 18 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors ComplexWed, Mar 18 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolThu, Mar 19 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolSun, Mar 22 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec CenterMon, Mar 23 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolTue, Mar 24 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolWed, Mar 25 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors ComplexWed, Mar 25 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolThu, Mar 26 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School
Watson LakeThu, Mar 19 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Thu, Mar 19 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreSat, Mar 21 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreSat, Mar 21 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreSun, Mar 22 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932Mon, Mar 23 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Tue, Mar 24 Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Dragon’s Den Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239Thu, Mar 26 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Thu, Mar 26 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre
SkagwayWed, Mar 18 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Back/Hip Yoga & Myofascial release 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 TRX Suspension Training w/Katherine 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 18 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Spinning with Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 19 Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Gentle Yoga w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 SPIN/Yoga w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Spinning/Yoga Level 1 w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, Mar 20 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, Mar 21 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, Mar 21 Skagway Ski Club Saturdays 11:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Meet at the Skagway Rec. Center by 11 a.m. and car pool up to Log Cabin. Local instructor Leslie Martin will be providing lessons for kids starting about 11:45 a.mSun, Mar 22 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the
library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!Sun, Mar 22 TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, Mar 23 Restorative Yoga: All Level w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, Mar 23 Vinyasa Yoga: Level 1 w/Courtney 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, Mar 23 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, Mar 23 Soccer for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, Mar 23 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Spinning w/Tom & Courtney 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Dance Fusion w/Charity 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Baseball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Basketball for Adults 7:00
PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, Mar 24 Chair and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Back/Hip Yoga & Myofascial release 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 TRX Suspension Training w/Katherine 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Mar 25 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Mar 26 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre
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What’s my Retirement “Number”?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how everyone
needs to hit a certain “number” before they can retire
comfortably — a number that is, frankly, intimidating to
many Canadians. Is it true?
First of all, your so-called “number” or retirement savings threshold won’t come from a simple formula. Contrary to what some may think, the same number doesn’t apply to everyone and will likely change as our lives evolve. Also, we all have different lifestyle goals for our retirement years.
Some want to spend their later years travelling the world, others want to stay at home and tend the garden, and yet others plan to work at a job they love indefinitely. In each case, different savings are required and a number of variables, ranging from spousal contributions to your health status, can impact the amounts needed.
Advocates of the “number” often refer to a 2010 C.D. Howe study that suggested most Canadians who want to retire at age 65 and replace 70% of their working incomes, must save 10%-21% of pre-tax earnings every year for 35 years. That can be a daunting goal for many people who find it challenging to save even 10% of their paycheque each year. As others have since pointed out, a 70% income replacement goal is a “gold standard” and many can be quite comfortable having 50%-60% of their income in retirement.
That said, smart savings and investment choices today are critical to ensuring you have access to a secure post-retirement income. It is also true the longer you delay saving for retirement, the more money you will need to set aside in later years. So, how do you take the first step toward figuring out what your retirement savings goal should be?
Working with an advisor can help. Rather than worry about achieving a single large number, an advisor will take a structured approach to figuring out what you need to be comfortable at various points in your life. His or her questions will range from “How will I generate income in retirement?” to “How will inflation and taxes affect my lifestyle?”
To figure out what you need to save now, an advisor will help create a customized plan to reduce your risk for the years to come. For many, the simplest step is to open an RRSP or TFSA, and apply a structured approach saving a little each month.
Your advisor should also help educate you on managing money after or as you near retirement. It is important, for example, to un-derstand the impact of inflation and identify safe withdrawal rates that account for today’s longer life-spans. As you age, your advisor should also help you avoid high risks, and keep investment costs and taxes low.
To create your own investment strategy, speak with an advisor to begin taking small steps toward your future retirement or other life goals.
Dodge, David A., Alexandre Laurin, and Colin Busby. “The Piggy Bank Index: Matching Canadians’ Saving Rates to Their Retirement Dreams.” C.D. Howe Institute e-brief No. 95. March 2010.
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Are you a Dawsonite who enjoys following main-tained trails for hiking,
biking, and skiing? Then you have KATTS to thank for giving you what you enjoy.
The Klondike Active Transport and Trails Society is a Dawson City-based, not for profit organ-ization whose mandate includes “the development and promotion of a network of non-motorized recreational trails in the Klondike in order to promote healthy, safe and spiritually rewarding outdoor activities.”
The idea for KATTS arose in 2006 after the Yukon Government cut a fireguard above the last residential street, 8th Avenue, in Dawson City.
A group of locals saw the po-tential for part of the fireguard to become a formalized hiking trail.
“Even though there were some trails around, and some people were using them, there were no formal trails in the Dawson area,” says Cathie Findlay-Brook, one of the founding members and president of KATTS.
She says the group felt that more of the community would get outside and be active if they were provided with safe and organized trails.
And so, in 2006, KATTS, a tongue-in-cheek acronym to counter all the sled dogs in the area, was formed.
“The people involved in KATTS want to spend time doing outdoor activities they are passionate about,” says Findlay-Brook, an avid cross country skier.
“They put their energies into that passion” in order to provide opportunity for others to do the same, she says.
With Community Develop-ment and National Trails Coali-tion funding and various partner-ships throughout the community, the Ninth Avenue Trail, stretching from the south to the north end of town, was completed in three years.
Throughout, KATTS provided employment and skills training to youth. Alex Brook, Findlay-Brook’s partner and project manager for KATTS, oversaw the building of the Ninth Avenue Trail and men-tored 64 youth, ranging from 12 to 29 years old, during its construc-tion.
Once the trail was finished, yearly maintenance was awarded to KATTS by the City of Dawson, allowing summer employment on an annual basis for two to three Dawson youth.
“We want to instill pride in young people and the community in the trails across the commun-ity,” says Alex Brooks.
“(The kids) get out, do healthy work and get paid for it.”
KATTS has also been involved in other trail work. Summer projects
involving youth and volunteers were done in Tombstone Park, both on the Goldensides Trail and the North Klondike Trail.
They have also worked on the Discovery Claim Trail, a few kilo-metres outside of town, built part of the Trans Canada Trail from Hunker Summit to Flat Creek, and added a trail by the new dog park in the north end of Dawson.
For the most part, KATTS has done summer and fall work. But recently, the group decided that they needed to do winter work as well.
“The darkness of winter causes depression,” says Findlay-Brook. “I love getting people outside be-cause I believe it will help.”
Looking around, the society saw the potential to make for-mal ski trails out of some existing trails on Moose Mountain, Daw-son’s local ski hill.
“Before it was just a bunch of trails, and people would be con-fused and get lost,” says Alex Brook.
“Formalizing with signage and grooming and making it safer means people will be more com-fortable and will hopefully get out more.”
Findlay-Brook applied to Moun-tain Equipment Coop for trail signage funding, brushing out the trails, and a warming hut. Once they got the money, KATTS partnered with the shop class at
Robert Service School to build the hut. Students pre-fabbed the walls in winter, while the rest was finished by the Tr’ondek Hwech’in summer youth program, led by Alex Brook. During the winter, vol-unteers groom and brush out the trails.
With many projects behind them, the society must now de-cide where to go. Future ideas include clearing some trails on the benches and in the gullies of the North Klondike River to create hiking/biking trails in summer and skiing/mushing trails in winter, and to open up the old Percy De-Wolfe mail route along the Yukon
River, building huts every 20 miles.“The First Nations are very in-
terested in the historical aspect of the Percy DeWolfe idea,” says Findlay-Brook.
“KATTS will meet soon to de-cide where to put our energies next.”
Gabriela Sgaga lives off the grid in her West Dawson cabin with her sled dogs. She enjoys mushing, skijoring and writing
about everyday life in the Yukon. Please send comments
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p The KATTS Youth Crew works on Goldensides Trail
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Falling through the ice is less life-threatening if you are with others, especially
if they’re prepared for such an event.
Some very experienced Yukon-ers have put planes, trucks, four-wheelers, and snowmobiles through the ice. A greater num-ber have gone through on foot. It usually happens quickly with little chance to take preventative ac-tion. If your vehicle goes through, it’s always better if you aren’t in it.
So, you broke through the ice, and are in icy water. Hopefully, people nearby will jump into res-cue-mode very quickly, but it will still seem like a long time to you. Prior preparation by your rescuers will increase effi ciency.
They should toss you a set of ice-picks, to start with. Someone should have a coiled rope access-ible. If the rope reaches you be-fore you’re incapacitated by the cold, a knot can be tied around an arm or chest.
The rescuer should never put
himself into a situation where he needs to be rescued, too; two or more rescues are much more dif-fi cult than one.
With that in mind, rescuers should not crowd together, or get close to the edge of the hole. If using a rope, rescuers should be spread out along its length, and those closest to the hole should be seated to spread their weight. Someone should go to shore and get a couple of long poles for use in getting you up and over the edge of the ice.
A quickly emptied skimmer or sled can be pushed to the edge of the hole and then pulled back by a rope on the front, hauling you with it. You should roll away from the hole because this spreads body weight, lessening the chance of going through again.
If you’re hypothermic and un-able to help with the rescue, it may be necessary for someone to crawl (using the poles or skimmer) to the edge of the hole to put a rope around you. The rescuer may have to stay in that position to as-
sist you onto the ice. You should be dragged some distance away from the hole, because the rescu-er will need help to get you on a snow machine, or into a skimmer.
A huge fi re should be lit on-shore, to warm you. You should get in dry clothes. You need to be warmed up before travelling fur-ther.
For snowmobile ice travel, in addition to ice picks, I have a 50’ rope with a carabineer on one end and a fl oat on the other (so it stays high and visible in the water). The fl oat end also has a loop to make a quick slip-knot around the your arm or chest.
Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors
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I have lived in Whitehorse for a little over a year now. I am part of the Ontario diaspora,
most recently having lived in Ham-ilton where I did my PhD. One of my main passions is rock climbing. I love climbing indoors, outdoors, really high mountain routes, or really short “boulder” problems. I love it all.
I have even recently jumped into the terrifying sport of ice climbing.
In Hamilton, I lived near a big, well-built climbing gym. I spent three to four hours a day, three days a week honing my skills and training for the tough-stuff, out-side.
In Whitehorse, there aren’t many options for climbing indoors: F.H. Collins has a fun little boulder area; the Yukon College also has some bouldering; and Carcross, I hear, has an indoor wall. I arrived in November, and I wasn’t willing to brave the -30˚C weather to get my hands on the limestone/gran-ite/basalt rock we have outside.
So what is a rock climbing ob-sessed man to do?
Mostly I just got fat, went to
the F.H. Collins gym when it was open to the public, and booked myself a ticket to Mexico to climb somewhere warm. I could feel my muscles and skills withering away.
The trip to Mexico was sched-uled for ten days before and after New Year’s 2014. The extent of my knowledge of the country came mostly from two sources: what I gleamed from Malcolm Lowry’s extremely depressing, alcoholic, day-in-the-life odyssey, Under the Volcano; and what I knew about the Mexican drug war. If you’ve never read the Wikipedia article on this subject, boy howdy, there are some hours of terrifying enter-tainment to be had.
The short version: the drug war in Mexico is eight years old, and includes over 150,000 deaths.
So when my friends suggested the trip, I wasn’t thrilled.
Eventually the idea of 450-metre rock climbs in sunny Mexico won over my fear of being gunned down mercilessly by a rov-ing band of drug cartel thugs. It helped that we were going to El Potrero Chico, or The Little Coral. How innocent.
I later learned a mariachi band was gunned down during a drive-by shooting in the same area, not two years prior.
When I arrived in Mexico, a friendly older gentleman named Magic Mike welcomed me and es-corted me into his van. This had all been arranged before I left. Mike is a local legend, as he helped de-velop, and was the fi rst to climb, a lot of the nearby routes. He may also have been going blind in his old age and his driving skills leave much to be desired.
Mike took me to my casita.My friend Dan met me, and we
went climbing. I had been awake for 23 hours and hadn’t really ad-justed to the reality of the situa-tion, but those gorgeous limestone mountains, all green and gray and spiky — some reaching up to 700 metres — beckoned me. Imagine yourself surrounded by steep giant spires jutting out of the ground in every direction, every now-and-then splotched with beautiful lush green vegetation — like my per-ception of Earth when dinosaurs roamed.
The temperature wasn’t as
hot as I had hoped, but it wasn’t -30°C.
We spent our fi rst day climbing single-pitch routes, which means routes equal-to-or-less-than 60 meters — the length of most climbing ropes.
I cut the pad of one of my fi n-gers on the sharp granite — not a good thing to do on a 10-day climbing trip.
The wall we climbed was a short, steep hike from a road that split the mountains through a thin valley. It rose about 200 metres, but was connected to an even higher peak further on. It was almost completely vertical and faced south, getting the sun most of the day.
We climbed fi ve to six routes each, and then headed to a res-taurant for dinner. Judging by how many other climbers showed up, I’d guess it was one of the only places to eat that didn’t require heading into town. Afterwards, we walked back to our casita, with stray dogs lingering, and I passed out.
The next day myself and an-other friend, Andrew, attempted
a famous climb named Estrallita, which is a moderately diffi cult route involving 12 single-pitch climbs stacked one on top of each other. A multi-pitch climb.
This 350-metre route took us a good part of the day.
After waking up without an alarm clock, and meandering over to Andrew’s casita where he wel-comed me with tortilla fl ats and peanut butter, we headed out and arrived at the base of the climb around noon.
Once there, we discovered a queue of eager climbers wait-ing: a party of two were waiting their turn as a second party of two began their ascent.
Andrew and I sat on our packs and looked over the valley to the other cliff faces, where we spot-ted climbing parties at various stages — some just starting, and others hundreds of metres up al-ready.
Eventually it was our turn to go and we wasted no time. Andrew and I made good climbing part-ners and good time, alternating
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the lead position after each pitch.
We even had to stop and wait for slower parties ahead.
While climbing, I re-minded myself to look be-hind me at the ever-impres-sive view. Behind us were more lush green mountains that seemed to go on for-ever, with the sun slowly moving over them and finally behind the one giant lime-stone mountain on the other side of the valley.
We topped out at 365 metres from the base, strad-dling the peak. The descent included several rappels — where you slowly lower yourself on a rope — down the other side.
This was horrifying.I had never climbed this
high, nor had I ever had to rappel several times to get to the base of something I had just climbed. With wind, exposure, fear of our rope getting stuck, fear of dislodging rocks on climb-ers below, and the added pressure of impatient climbers higher than us wanting to skip ahead, I felt mortal terror.
Because I was with another male, I couldn’t possibly let on that I was scared, so I pretended everything was cool, though I’m sure my shaking limbs and goose-bumps gave it away.
No matter: we got down to the “bottom” of the cliff, and then hiked down some sketchy, steep scree back to the road.
It was a huge highlight in my climbing career. Beers and food were had in copious amounts at the only restaurant to speak of.
The next morning the forecast called for rain throughout the day, and we needed supplies and wanted to do some touristy stuff in town (Hidalgo). As we walked into town, a lady in a pickup truck offered us a lift. She was a tourist to this area several years earlier, when she fell in love with the city and felt called to do something about their stray dog problem. This middle aged lady from some-where in the U.S. immigrated to Mexico and set up an animal shelter in Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon,
Mexico. She was officially my new hero.
She took us to the shelter and we played with puppies and had our hearts turn to mush as we saw what great work this lady was do-ing for these animals. She told us about her New Year’s Eve fund-raiser, and promised us a bonfire and alcohol if we showed up.
Once in town, we got money out of the bank and did tricky mental arithmetic converting dollars to pesos; we made fools of ourselves ordering food from someone that didn’t share a single word of our language, and vice versa; we got groceries, and walked around aimlessly trying not to look lost, which we invariably were.
To my surprise, we made it back to our casitas without hav-ing our heads cut off and our bod-ies wrapped-up and hung from an overpass.
That night, back at the res-taurant, I met my current part-ner, who was working as a nurse in Ontario. She was sitting with some friends at a table, playing Scrabble. I cursed myself that I should come upon such a beauty — one who climbs and plays Scrab-ble, no-less — in faraway Mexico. I basically ignored her that night.
The next day the rain clouds once again opened up and soaked all of the beautiful granite cliffs. All except one, actually. There was an area that sported some of the more difficult climbs and would still be dry because it was a large over-hanging face, meaning it was steeper than 90˚.
Off we went to discover this holy land. This area was relatively deserted, at least until some-time in the later afternoon, when others caught wind. My friends and I climbed some really good, but difficult, single-pitch routes, where I once again managed to mangle my fingers on the razor-sharp limestone.
Throughout that day I tried to put the girl from the restau-rant out of my mind. I kept go-ing through all the reasons why it would be a bad idea for me to go to the New Year’s Eve party:
“She lives in Ontario.”“She’s probably crazy.”“It won’t last, you fool.”“She probably wouldn’t even
like you.”But there was that confident,
little voice in me that kept coun-tering with:
“She’s so cute.”“She climbs.”
“She. Plays. Scrabble.”That night my friends
went to bed early, because we planned on tackling a massive 450-metre, 15-pitch climb the next day.
I fooled them, and my-self, into thinking I would only go check out the party and come back sober, be-fore midnight. That night I found the girl of my dreams, chatted-up her friends — I couldn’t let her know I was interested, after all — and got some drinks in me after an entire year of sobriety. Sure I had had my first beer several days before, but that was only one beer. This was the night I was to meet the future love of my life; I needed some liquid courage.
I mustered up the strength to woo this climb-ing goddess. And woo I did.
I kept an engaging conversation going with her all night, at least. Stupidly I went to get our drinks refilled minutes before midnight, and missed my opportunity to cap-italize on that magical moment where people kiss each other as the clock strikes twelve.
We hung out afterwards and made friends with a stray dog named Bingo outside of her casita. I also planted my entire contact
information, from phone to e-mail to mailing address, and a picture of myself, onto her phone. I can’t tell you what time I got home that night, nor how drunk I was, but judging by how I felt the next morning, it was late and it was a lot, respectively.
I felt like crap but didn’t want to admit it to my friends. As we approached the base of the climb, we discovered the first three pitches were soaking wet, which I secretly hoped would cause us to abandon our goal. Unfortu-nately, my friends have massive cajones, and decided to attempt these pitches anyways, which also meant I would have to do my share of leading on those wet climbs.
Thankfully, it was easier than I thought, and there is nothing like scaling a sheer cliff-face to cure the common hangover.
We were two teams of two climbing this route, named Yan-kee Clipper, with Andrew and his girlfriend climbing ahead, and Dan and I following close behind. It’s surreal to find yourself wait-ing 300 metres up, clipped dir-ectly into some seven-millimetre rope you’ve tied and clipped to a couple bolts, somewhere in Mex-ico, half-hungover, on New Year’s Day.
400 metres up Yankee Clipper
cont’d on page 38 ...
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Hi, I’m Joslyn, and I’m afraid of…painting.
More specifi cally, I’m afraid of looking silly because I’m bad at painting in front of those who are good at it. And so, though I have long longed to walk up to an easel and express myself all over it, I have shyly avoided every opportunity to do so. I’ve barely held a paintbrush since Grade 8 art class.
I’ve lingered on countless art school web pages offering begin-ner’s classes, I’ve had painter-friends with studios and materials they would gladly share — and I have always hesitated, sometimes in the very room, with all the paints and brushes in reach.
When the open art studio Splin-tered Craft launched I thought: perfect opportunity. They have space and materials and actively welcome everyone; all I have to do is show up some afternoon. But when the afternoon arrives, I sim-ply decide not to go. There was no great turmoil around the decision — just a discomfort I was happy to avoid.
Instead of visiting the studio I would visit their Facebook page, returning to a photo of an attract-ive boy I knew who was brazenly covering an easel with an image he had pulled up out of himself.
It triggered my deep longing to do the same thing. Something about the experience seemed so mysterious to me, as if it would
tap into some part of myself I can’t otherwise get to.
However, the longing was al-ways mixed with the fear of em-barrassment at my hypothetical failure.
But worse, that moment of approaching the easel, that fi rst brush stroke. The untraversable “How to begin?”
Yet rising above all of that is the question: How often do I pre-vent myself from doing the very things I would most love to do, out of a fear of looking silly while doing them?
That is not how I want to live my life.
So there is only one option. Write a column for What’s Up Yukon exploring the things that scare me.
First up: painting at Splintered Craft.
I pull up to the studio on a sunny Monday afternoon with lit-tle clue what to expect. I picture myself somehow on display — the space will be full of people, paint-ing everywhere, I’ll be placed in front of a giant easel that faces the room, everyone will be able to see what I’m doing.
I walk in to fi nd the place empty save Aimée Dawn Robin-son and Jona Barr, who help run Splintered Craft. They set me up at a table near the window with some watercolours and a modest little sketchbook. Aimée gently suggests I start w ith painting what
I see around me. I spend quite a while selecting my colours, exam-ining the various brushes, staring out the window at Tags, and look-ing down at my blank page.
I take a bathroom break.The coordinator from the Skoo-
kum Jim Friendship Centre drops in and names a painter I might be inspired by. We Google him and fi nd little drawing-type water-colours fl oating on white back-grounds. I learn I don’t need to cover the entire page.
After a while everyone leaves me alone and with nothing left to distract me I dip my brush into the yellow paint and hurriedly trace the outline of a car I can see out the window. It doesn’t look very good. I giggle. I give myself permission to create a fi rst painting that is entirely ex-perimental, and it is allowed to entirely suck.
And it does.I create a brownish mud
puddle with the outline of a car fl oating in it.
But the sun is shining, and I’m painting. The people around me are kind and supportive. I don’t even mind when someone comes over to glance at my puddle.
I feel great. I feel ready to try something new on the next page.
Joslyn Kilborn is a Whitehorse-based writer. Contact her via [email protected].
The artist at work
PHOTO: Joslyn Kilborn
The Brush Stroke
Romance and Rock Climbing ... cont’d from p37
At one of only two large ledges that are on the route, the other two let Dan and I go ahead. We still had fi ve to six pitches ahead of us, and the sun would be going down in several hours.
When we reached that second good ledge, we only had two pitches left. The fi rst of the two was well within my grade, but the last climb was a grade harder than anything I had successfully done before.
Dan, being the better climber, was chosen to tackle that one, so I had the privilege of lead-ing the second-last pitch. Little did I know it began with a short traverse with, I kid you not, 400 metres of empty space below it.
The thing is, climbing a long route typically isn’t as scary as it sounds because you can just concentrate on the rock in front of you, and it becomes, visually, very similar to climbing any old route. In both instances, you real-ly just see rock in front, below, side to side, and above you. In this instance, the second-last pitch goes through a pillar sec-tion with a sheer drop below it. I was looking at a pure void below me. All of Hidalgo appeared to be directly under my feet, far, far down. I took a moment to gather my senses, as I was possibly more scared than I had ever been in my life. Despite what I might think about myself and how brave I can be at any height — I mean, heck, I’ve gone sky diving, I’ve done a PhD — I’ve faced my fears and come out alright in the end. But it also turns out our minds are wired to resist dying a terrible death by falling from the top of a mountain.
Somehow I turned that fear into excitement and adrenaline, and I hooted and hollered my way up the face, shouting, “This is the greatest climb of my life! You’re going to love this! Woo hoo!”
Dan also overcame his fear, and climbed the extremely dif-fi cult fi nal pitch. And there we found ourselves at the top of the climb, straddling a spire, 450 metres up. We were rewarded with a breathtaking view of Hi-dalgo and the surrounding area.
Our descent was along the same route we took up, and ended up being mostly in the dark. I had forgotten to pack my headlamp that morning, probably due to my post-alcohol, no-sleep state. Sheepishly I admitted my mistake, and Dan and I descended simultaneously, one on either end of the rope, another truly terrify-ing and exhilarating experience.
Once again, that night we celebrated at the restaurant of choice with beers and some kind of tortilla or wrap or burrito or whatever. That night I slept a glorious sleep with visions of my future lover dancing in my head.
We had several more days of climbing, although nothing as epic as our climb on New Year’s Day. On the very last day, we de-cided to sleep in and just hang around at one of our casitas, tak-ing it easy out on the roof, bask-ing in the Mexican sun.
As for my Mexico dream girl, she wrote me an e-mail the day she left, which began a long cor-respondence.
I must have done something right, because in March, she came up to Whitehorse for a two-week visit.
But that’s another story.
Alexander Weber is usually too busy adventuring to think
seriously about his life or where he is heading. When he isn’t outside risking his life, he can often be found inside
reading a good book. Contact him via
At the animal shelter
Trying things That Scare Mewith Joslyn Kilborn
The artist’s creations
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