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On February 16 I picked up my roommate, Taylor Ti-efenbach, from the Erik

Nielsen International Airport. His fl ight was due to arrive at 3:05 p.m. and I was running late. Given this, I decided to park right in front of the terminal, in the area designated, “IMMEDIATE PICK UP AND DROP OFF ONLY”.

Taylor’s plane, it turns out, was also running late, and hadn’t landed yet. So my planned im-mediate pick-up took longer than expected, and when I re-turned to my car it had been slapped with a $50 ticket.

Thinking back to the Law 12 course I took about 16 years ago, I remembered that in criminal law two elements must be present for an act to be considered a crime: ac-tus reus, the committing of unlawful act, and mens rea, the intention to commit such an act. In this case, because I had only intended to use the spot for immediate pick up, mens rea was absent, so I went down to the courthouse and pled not guilty.

As it turns out, because my parking job was not a criminal offence, mens rea was irrelevant — which I sort of suspected all along.

There were two other reasons for my not guilty plea: fi rst, I thought perhaps my case would drift into some bureaucratic backwater and would never make it to trial, and second, I thought it might be interesting to go to court.

Within a week of entering my plea it became obvious that no one was going to forget about my case. Suddenly, I was standing on my front porch accepting regis-tered mail from the Yukon Depart-ment of Justice.

This mail contained evidence, including a picture of my empty car right beside the sign that read “IMMEDIATE PICK UP AND DROP OFF ONLY”.

I was also sent a transcript of a verdict that a judge had previ-ously rendered in a case similar to mine.

In the days leading up to my April 21 trial date I decided to pin

my hopes of an acquittal on a pedantic argument about the nature of the word “immediate”.

What counts as “im-mediate pick up” anyway?

And so, on the day of the trial I took the stand and spoke thusly:

The term “immedi-ate” has no proper use independent of its context. For example, though human beings have been on earth for 200,000 years, in the context of the 4.5 billion year history of Earth we can say that humans showed up in the “immediate” past.

A reasonable point, I thought. I continued:

I would suggest (in the context of my parking ticket) “immediate-ly” means “without unreasonable delay”. Given this defi nition, the context and thus the extension of the term “immediately” changed the moment I discovered Taylor’s plane was late. At this point, waiting for Taylor until the plane landed was not an unreasonable delay, and as soon as I could, I left my parking space.

Thus I argue that I did in fact use the parking spot for its stated purpose: immediate pick up.

With my argument complete, I walked back to the defendant’s chair and listened as the pros-ecuting attorney gave her fi nal argument. In it, she mentioned a precedent set by a previous deci-sion (the one I had received but did not read).

I knew I was hooped.The Justice of the Peace found

me guilty, but she smiled at me a bit as she did so.

I smiled back.After all, I got my day in court;

I got to feel like a lawyer. I still had to pay my $50 ticket, and a $7 surcharge, but at least I got my money’s worth.

Jickling’s Jabberingswith Peter Jickling

n February 16 I picked up my roommate, Taylor Ti-efenbach, from the Erik

Nielsen International Airport. His fl ight was due to arrive at 3:05 p.m. and I was running late. Given this, I decided to park right in front of the terminal, in the area designated, “IMMEDIATE

Taylor’s plane, it turns out, was also running late, and hadn’t landed yet. So my planned im-mediate pick-up took longer than expected, and when I re-turned to my car it had been

was absent, so I went down to the courthouse and pled

As it turns out, because my parking job was not a criminal

was irrelevant — which I sort of suspected all

word “immediate”.What counts as “im-

my hopes of an acquittal on a pedantic argument about the nature of the word “immediate”.

My Day in Court

PHOTO: Peter Jickling

This is a photo of the photo of the sign that I parked my car near

independent of its context. For Thus I argue that I did in fact

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The thermals above the town of Faro may account for the “tens of thousands” of sand

hill cranes that fl y above it each spring.

Or so Rose Fulton speculates. Fulton works for the town, and is the Faro Crane and Sheep View-ing Festival coordinator. She says she’d be the event coordinator, but there aren’t enough events to coordinate in the town per year to call herself that.

It’s April 23 today, and Fulton says there are reports coming in already — the cranes are in town.

They come in when the water is free of ice — “When the cranes

come, you know spring is here.“People get excited as soon

as they can see them and hear them.”

A National Geographic page on the Internet says the call of the crane is “ethereal”. Fulton can’t describe the sound, and she can’t replicate it; she advises checking out a recording of the migrating birds on Youtube.

In any case, Fulton says the in-describable sound heralds days of sun, “which feel great after a long winter.”

Lesser sand hill cranes, as the subspecies is properly called, win-ter in the southern United States.

They like marshy, swampy, water-scapes. They wade with long legs, scavenging for grasses, bugs, and even snakes to eat.

The birds fl y together, thou-sands per fl ock, squawking ether-eally as they catch warm thermals high in the sky. The birds barely fl ap their wings for hours at a time, which accounts for the long-distance wintering ground of the high Arctic, on the edge of Alaska, next to the ocean. The birds breed there. All of this information was found on the National Geographic page about sand hill cranes on the Internet.

Fulton says the cranes fi ll the sky above Faro for about three weeks each spring as they head north.

During this time, she says there are “baby sheep dancin’ around on the clay cliff around town as well.”

Fulton’s referring to the Fannin lambs born around Faro this time of year. This explains the crane and sheep festival, which will be 12 years old this year.

About 70 to 100 visitors from around the Yukon and northern

B.C. descend on the town of Faro for the weekend festival. This year it’s on May 1, 2 and 3. It features a welcome talk, which includes a history of the town, then there’s chili. That’s on Friday night.

On Saturday, experts will talk about cranes and sheep, and there will be guided viewing hikes. There will be a barbeque for din-ner, and music.

There are events on Sunday, but they end at 11 a.m. Fulton says this is to give people a chance to get home for Sunday evening.

For a detailed and accurate schedule of events, go the town of Faro’s Facebook page.

She says there aren’t many towns that have cranes fl ying over them while lambs are being born on the ground — “We may as well take advantage of it.”

Meagan Deuling is the assistant editor. Contact her at

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Cranes Fly High Up in the SkySigns of spring in the town of Faro

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Dawson has entered that phase of spring I call Pud-dletime. City workers have

been trying to keep up by open-ing storm drains. The rapidly ac-cumulating melt-water makes its way to the river, but it’s a losing battle. The darn streams freeze up again if the temperature drops signifi cantly at night.

It’s hard to think back just a few weeks to when the snowpack on the streets was high enough to make them level with the board-walks. It’s a local oddity that our streets are actually more user-friendly in the winter. There are no potholes then, and our board-walks are much more access-ible for those who have mobility issues.

Then the ploughs came by, making pass after pass to break up the hard packed snow cover. It’s graded into metre-high windrows that turn the streets into tempor-ary boulevards. Before the city workers scoop it all away with loaders and trucks, the ploughed snow makes getting around town a little like a game of Pacman.

You need to plan ahead.Look down the street to see if

the windrow blocks the intersec-tion, and plan alternate routes to your destination.

It’s a bit of a nuisance for about a week, but the muck that would develop if we didn’t take most of the snow away would be incred-ible. The ground is still frozen and the surface water has nowhere to go except to mingle with the top layer of dirt.

All over town snow clearance has been complicated by the city’s decision to have all the residen-tial garbage collection taken care of on the streets instead of in the laneways between the streets. This year there are large piles of snow between each collection bin so that the bin doors are not blocked for either the residents or the collection contractor.

One the ironies of springtime in Dawson is that most of the snow has been hauled away by the time we need to have a good layer of it on parts of King and Front Streets. After all, the dog teams in the Percy DeWolfe Memorial Mail Run need snow to run on before they hit the dyke trail and drop down to the Yukon River. So, early on the morning of the race, the city crew was out there with a truck full of snow and a loader, to drop snow and smooth it into a trail fi t for the mushers to guide their

teams on.The puddles I

name this part of spring after form mostly at the cor-ners of the inter-sections, generally around the storm drain grills, and this makes actual-ly crossing at the intersections a bit of a trial for ped-estrians.

You can’t tell how deep those puddles are.

Ah well, it’s snowing enthusi-astically as I write these words this morning, but I ex-pect most of it will be increasing the puddle sizes by the end of the day.

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Walt Disney’s magic touch on celluloid created in-delible memories for

many moviegoers, but it induced tears of rage in P.L. Travers (born Helen Goff) at the Hollywood pre-miere of Mary Poppins in 1964. At least that’s what she said.

Saving Mr. Banks, released in 2014 and available at the White-horse Public Library, revolves around the making of Mary Pop-pins and the tussle over the fi lm interpretation between Walt (Tom Hanks) and Mrs. Travers (Emma Thompson), who wrote the Mary Poppins series of children’s novels.

She wields a script approval clause for her iconic books, and that’s how she ends up in Holly-wood in one of Disney’s writing cottages, working with writer Don daGradi (Bradley Whitford) and composers Robert and Richard Sherman (B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman), to adapt the books into a musical.

Disney’s merry creative team is saddled with a fractious and very British collaborator, who fi nds fault with everything in Disney’s America from the air she breathes to the Mickey Mouse face that is shaped in Jell-O cubes and served in the writers’ room. But an un-

happiness deeper than petulance is triggered in Mrs. Travers when she realizes that the character of Mr. Banks is painted in a negative light.

Her unease is explained in fl ashbacks that form a fi lm inside the fi lm, showing her childhood in Edwardian Australia. The pastoral settings and attention to period detail in the fl ashback sequences are the trademark of a Disney family production, but underneath the nostalgic gloss is a family in deep distress.

Travers Goff (Colin Farrell) is a practically perfect father to little Helen (Annie Rose Buck-ley), nurturing her creativity with games and fairy stories. He’s less suited for the banking profession and loses his job, forcing him to move his family into isolated areas where he can fi nd work. Their position grows ever more precar-ious with his fragile wife Margaret (Ruth Wilson) bending under the pressure, until salvation arrives in the form of Margaret’s stern sister Ellie (Rachel Griffi ths).

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The anti-hero and the mel-ancholy tale at the center don’t prevent director John Lee Han-cock from fi nding an element of fun for Saving Mr. Banks, without making fun of the characters. En-ticing allusions to Mary Poppins are sprinkled throughout, includ-ing a ride on the carousel and a surreal scene with Travers Goff at a county fair.

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On the banks of Kwanlin, Raven lounged.“Oh, I am so weary after

Making the worldStealing the lightKilling the WhaleCreating the Bear.I would like to see my little cous-insBut it is too farFor a tired old raven like me.”

On the banks of Kwanlin, Raven looked up.“Oh, what was that shadowCovering the worldStealing my lightBigger than WhaleCreating that noise?I would like to follow that bird.It is not too farFor a tired old raven like me.”

At the Whitehorse Airport, Raven approached.“Oh, you are Condor!Traveling the world

Chasing the lightBigger than EagleStronger than Bear.I would like to see my little cous-ins.It is too far to fl yFor a tired old raven like me.”

At the Whitehorse Airport, Raven refl ected.“Oh, I’ve tried to ride EagleOver the worldChasing his backGrumpy that EagleStronger than Raven.I would like to ride in your bellyIf Condor would do thatFor a tired old raven like me.”

From the Whitehorse Airport, Condor fl ew north.“Oh, there goes the YukonTop of the WorldChasing the windFaster than EagleStronger than gravity.I would like to see it all.

The trip of a lifetimeFor a tired old raven like me!”

At the airport in Frankfurt, Raven cleared customs.“Oh, look at my cousins!Crows of the RhineRiding the windBolder than EagleFlirting with gravity.I would like to have them allCome to Kwanlin and visitA happy old raven like me.”

About this Poem (Poem Identity):“Raven Meets Condor” is an un-metered, non-rhyming narrative. While the poem might appear unstructured in the conventional sense, the stanzas follow a strict-ly structured pattern as follows:1st line: Location followed by Raven/Condor verb2nd line: “Oh!” followed by a declaration

3rd to 6th lines: Each line con-tains at least one word from the matching line in the preceding stanza.7th line: “I would like to” fol-lowed by a declaration8th line: “For a tired old raven like me.” (With the exception of

the fi nal verse.)

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I have lived so long in the in-betweens,Wanting to be somewhere else,Then wanting to return.

Like a condor, Wanting to be both unfettered at sea and safe on a ledge,I have been blown off course in to an unexpected land.

I have shied away from church; the catechism and dogmaSeem outdated,unwieldy in my world.

But I love the romanticism, the ancient hands that shaped the churches of Eur-ope.The devout and trusting souls who sweated over stones to create a holy and sacred space for me, the non-believer to stand in aweof the accomplishments of human-kind.

Humankind who could revere a loving god, build a monument of worship that stands hundreds of years,

a solid symbol of faith in something larger than their own souls; and burn neighbours at stakes for casting a few askance glances.

I love the dichotomy of consecrated ground tainted by the selfsame feet of worshippers and builderswho committed atrocious sins.Led astray by their shepherds.

I live in the in-betweens of what is, and was, and could be.

In my ancient cathedral the trees are the columns I wan-der through;the stained glass comes alive at both night and day.Light fi ltered through treetops dapples the mountain paths,and the clouds make massive man-dalas on the lakes. Grateful and privileged to be alive in this space; at this timeI can commune and be absolved for that which was or should have been.

Then the night sky comes alivewith stars and moon and shifting lights, white at the edge like a hot knife.Cutting away expectations and making humankind

Seem so small and fragile.Feel so far from the bastions built to belief that shape the European land-scape, and guard the forgotten souls of past days.

I love the chasm betweenblessed untouched Yukon moun-tainsides,paralleling the vaulted arches of gothic European churches.Pagan shepherds made stone-masons.I can rest in the in-betweens.

Like a condor, supported by air currentsthat push it home or carry it away. I am learning to be secure in the anticipation;Arriving at either and appreciating the fl ight.

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PHOTO: Jessica Pumphrey

CommontyA free verse poem

by Jessica Pumphrey

Northern Bard The following poem was an entrant in our Northern Bard poetry contest.


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Liv e Music Wed, Apr 29 Jazz on Wednesdays 6:00 PM Wheelhouse Restaurant 456-2982Wed, Apr 29 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!Wed, Apr 29 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to coversWed, Apr 29 Hump Day Trivia 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomWed, Apr 29 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonThu, Apr 30 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s PizzaThu, Apr 30 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, Apr 30 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, Apr 30 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonFri, May 1 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy ListeningFri, May 1 The Last Horizon 8:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre 668-7049 A musical tribute to the YukonFri, May 1 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomSat, May 2 Rise Up and Dance! 9:00 PM Club 867 Come and groove and have fun with us! Music played by Major Funk and the Employment.Sat, May 2 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomSat, May 2 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonSun, May 3 Music on a Sunday Afternoon 2:00 PM Christ Church Cathedral 393-2588 Listen to nice relaxing music on a Sunday!Mon, May 4 May Music Magic 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Join us for the Season fi nale concert. Performances will be by the All-City Grade 8 band, the Junior and Senior Concert bands and the All-City Jazz Band.Mon, May 4 Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonTue, May 5 Cinco De Mayo 11:30 AM Coast High Country Inn Celebrate the grand opening party with a one time day full of Mexican cuisine! Live music by Grant SimpsonTue, May 5 Open Mic Night With MC Turmoil 9:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonTue, May 5 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, May 6 Jazz on Wednesdays 6:00 PM Wheelhouse Restaurant 456-2982 Nicole Edwards & companyWed, May 6 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!Wed, May 6 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to coversWed, May 6 Hump Day Trivia 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler RoomWed, May 6 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street SaloonThu, May 7 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s PizzaThu, May 7 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, May 7 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, May 7 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon

Eve nts Wed, Apr 29 Senior’s Tea 11:00 AM Swan Haven Interpretive Centre Enjoy peaceful swan viewing.Wed, Apr 29 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges CaféWed, Apr 29 Running the ALSIB: DC-3 Landing in Whitehorse 4:00 PM Yukon transportation Museum 867-668-4792 The pilots and fl ight crew of DC-3 N400MF, who are fl ying from Montana to Russia, will be at the museum at just after 4pm to talk and answer questions about their fl ight and why they wanted to run the ALSIB (Alaska-Siberia) route.Wed, Apr 29 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!Wed, Apr 29 Gardening Workshop: Companion Planting 6:30 PM Yukon College 867) 668-8800 Learn which plants grow best together for faster growing and to repel insects.Wed, Apr 29 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Wed, Apr 29 National Canadian Film Day 2015 8:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Reel Canada presents Canadian Film Day 2015! In honour of the celebration of Canadian Film various fi lm associations, societies, and festivals will be programming screenings across the nation! Feature fi lm: Andrew Currie’s 2006 Fido The Film.Thu, Apr 30 Meet your Neighbour 5:30 PM Baked Cafe 867) 633-6291 Come and have some hot drinks and learn about what’s happening around downtown Whitehorse!Thu, Apr 30 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Fri, May 1 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, May 1 Law Day Charity Fun Run and Walk 25th Anniversary 12:00 PM Whitehorse Visitor Information Centre 867 393-4769 Run/walk for charity!Fri, May 1 Rotary ArtShare 5:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 633 5002 a great place to sell your artwork and pick up other art at great prices! wine and cheeseFri, May 1 Pine tree Quilters Quilting Retreat 5:45 PM Whitehorse United Church Love to quilt? Come to our in-town retreats! Friday evening from 5:45 - 10:00 pm and all day Saturday from 8:30 am to 10:00 pm. Bring your sewing machine and supplies and/or projects. Yummy snacks provided! Email ptqcathy@ gmail.com for more information. Held in the basement.Fri, May 1 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Sat, May 2 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, May 2 Whitehorse Bike Swap 11:00 AM Icycle Sports sell your bikes or biking equipment.Sat, May 2 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Sat, May 2 Whitehorse Used Sports Equipment Swap 8:00 AM Whitehorse Elementary Come here if you have some used sport equipment you would like to sell or are looking for equipment!Sat, May 2 Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks The Dance Gathering is a free dance for adults and mature teens. . No dance experience is necessarySat, May 2 Whitehorse Dance Gathering 8:00 PM Leaping Feats Creative Danceworks a 60-minute mix of great music - world beat, acid jazz, pop - you dance or stretch or move how you likeSat, May 2 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.Sun, May 3 Annie 2:00 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.

Sun, May 3 WRITING WORKSHOP (adults) 3:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-5239 Learn how to write stories for children with Roslyn Schwartz.Mon, May 4 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: [email protected], May 5 Cinco De Mayo 11:30 AM Coast High Country Inn Celebrate the grand opening party with a one time day full of Mexican cuisine! Live music by Grant SimpsonTue, May 5 International Day of the Midwife 4:00 PM LePage Park 8673221998 All are welcome! Show your support and meet Yukon’s midwives and the women who have used their invaluable services. Learn about the need for funding & regulation of midwiferyTue, May 5 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Wed, May 6 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges CaféWed, May 6 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!Wed, May 6 Annie 7:30 PM Wood Street School MAD brings you the beloved musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.Thu, May 7 Teen Scene: Comics 3:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-8900 Learn the art of storytelling and make your own comics!

Fami ly Monday - Thursday Math Tutoring! 11:45 AM F.H. Collins Secondary Free peer tutoring will be available at lunchtime. Please encourage your student to take advantage of this to help him/her to be successful this year.Wed, Apr 1 Celebration Of Swans Swan Haven Interpretive Centre 867-667-8291 Come to Marsh Lake and see the beautiful swans and learn more about their migration.Thu, Apr 23 Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library 456-5626 Discover the power and pleasure of rhymes, stories, and songs. This FREE program is available to caregivers and children under the age of 4.Wed, Apr 29 Family Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of RiverdaleWed, Apr 29 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, Apr 29 Ball Pit Play 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleWed, Apr 29 Running the ALSIB: DC-3 Landing in Whitehorse 4:00 PM Yukon transportation Museum 867-668-4792 The pilots and fl ight crew of DC-3 N400MF, who are fl ying from Montana to Russia, will be at the museum at just after 4pm to talk and answer questions about their fl ight and why they wanted to run the ALSIB (Alaska-Siberia) route.Wed, Apr 29 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!Wed, Apr 29 Free Glow Bowling for families 5:30 PM Mad Trapper’s Alley (867) 668-4277 Come and bring your family for some bowling fun!Come and bring your family for some bowling fun!Thu, Apr 30 Education Week Spring Story Time 1:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library For ages 2-6 (with Caregiver), have fun and read some stories!Thu, Apr 30 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, Apr 30 After school Theatre 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleThu, Apr 30 Catch Kids Club 4:00 PM Tagish Community CentreFri, May 1 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, May 1 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, May 1 Building and Sculpting 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleSat, May 2 Free Comic Book Day 2015 11:00 AM TItan Gaming & Collectibles Come and receive a free comic book!Sat, May 2 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.Mon, May 4 After school Art Exploration 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleMon, May 4 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00

PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: [email protected], May 5 Mother Goose 10:30 AM Heart Of RiverdaleTue, May 5 After school Sing Together 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleTue, May 5 International Day of the Midwife 4:00 PM LePage Park 8673221998 All are welcome! Show your support and meet Yukon’s midwives and the women who have used their invaluable services. Learn about the need for funding & regulation of midwiferyWed, May 6 Family Drop-In 10:00 AM Heart Of RiverdaleWed, May 6 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, May 6 Ball Pit Play 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleWed, May 6 FREE Activity Night 5:30 PM Whitehorse Elementary Bring your child and have fun with many different activities happening every week!Thu, May 7 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, May 7 After school Theatre 3:15 PM Heart Of RiverdaleThu, May 7 Teen Scene: Comics 3:30 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-8900 Learn the art of storytelling and make your own comics!

WorkshopsWed, Apr 29 Gardening Workshop: Companion Planting 6:30 PM Yukon College 867) 668-8800 Learn which plants grow best together for faster growing and to repel insects.Thu, Apr 30 Getting Faster Running Clinic 6:00 PM Frank Slim Building 333-9202 (Don White)Thu, Apr 30 Food & Sex: Girl’s Night Out 6:00 PM City Of Whitehorse Learn to cook great food and talk about healthy habits! Contact for location.Fri, May 1 2015 Yukon UpStarts Westmark Whitehorse (867) 667-7975 Yukon UpStarts is a three-day conference that will bring Yukon youth together to get involved, interested and educated in entrepreneurship!Sat, May 2 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, May 3 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.Sun, May 3 WRITING WORKSHOP (adults) 3:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library 667-5239 Learn how to write stories for children with Roslyn Schwartz.Tue, May 5 Zumba in the Park 12:05 PM Shipyards Park 668-8360 This energizing class is like no other, you will sweat and smile through salsa, merengue, samba, belly dance, reggae and hip hop.Tue, May 5 Getting Faster Running Clinic 6:00 PM Frank Slim Building 333-9202 (Don White)Tue, May 5 Brave New Words 7:00 PM Rah Rah Gallery On open mic for writers or storytellers. Usually there is a live musician hosting, too. Also espresso, wine and beer available to buy.Tue, May 5 YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makersTue, May 5 Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre 668-8360 Learn how to eat healthy while learning how to avoid unhealthy food. Principles of Mindful Eating for Optimizing Nutrition & WellbeingWed, May 6 Gardening Workshop: Container Gardening 6:30 PM Yukon College Learn how to grow vegetables in containers. Useful if you don’t have enough space for a full fl edged garden!Wed, May 6 Cramped Hand 7:00 PM 102 Gold Road, Suite 1 (upstairs) 633-3566 bring writing materials or work-in-progress for a couple of hours of free writing and/or writing from promptsWed, May 6 Painting Open Studio with Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts UndergroundThu, May 7 Whole Self Health 5:30 PM Canada Games Centre 668-8360 In this life-changing new program, you will address all areas of your well being including physical, mental and emotional wellness.Thu, May 7 Getting Faster Running Clinic 6:00 PM Frank Slim Building 333-9202 (Don White)Sun, May 10 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.

MeetingsWed, Apr 29 Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 867-334-8654 Come and build your leadership skills, polish your public speaking in a fun and supportive environment! Guests are welcome to come and drop into our meetings at any time.Fri, May 1 2015 Yukon UpStarts Westmark Whitehorse (867) 667-7975 Yukon UpStarts is a three-day conference that will bring Yukon youth together to get involved, interested and educated in entrepreneurship!Fri, May 1 36th Annual Yukon Trade Show 11:00 AM Canada Games Centre Come and see all the different Yukon businesses and what they have to offer!Wed, May 6 Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 867-334-8654 Come and build your leadership skills, polish your public speaking in a fun and supportive environment! Guests are welcome to come and drop into our meetings at any time.

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Compared to what I did last time (playing my banjo and singing in front of a rowdy

bar crowd) the prospect of read-ing poetry to a calm, literary audience does not feel very scary. And yet, though I’ve been writing poetry for most of my life and at-tending occasional reading events for years, I have never made it up on the stage myself. I’ve never participated in the sharing.

So when preparing to attend the monthly reading series Brave New Words, I wonder if it even counts anymore. Am I still afraid of this? Am I already getting so used to public humiliation?

But like many of the activities I am interested in, I need deadlines to complete them. And the dead-lines these articles provide are the very things that get me out of my cabin and trying the things I’ve been wanting to do/avoiding for years.

Sorting through my poems, de-ciding what to read, I come up with a way to up the ante: I have a collection of poems I wrote dur-ing a very potent and heartbroken time in my young womanhood. The subject matter is revealing and not very fl attering. They re-veal a self-deprecating mindset I would continually return to.

I’ve even been embarrassed to share the poems with partners — they seem so “then”, and I feel so beyond them that it is hard to offer them to the world as a rep-resentation of myself. It is hard to share that hurting side of me. Yet I think they are good poems. I’d love to somehow do them justice.

Perfect to bring to Brave New Words: my brave old words.

When I arrive the night of, I feel moderately silly about hav-ing never done this before. Its all just so casual, so unintimidating — I’m in a used bookstore among lit nerds. Some of us browse the bookshelves while we wait for the night to begin, others talk nerv-ously about their writing habits to the familiar tune of, “I’m fi nally making time for this”, or, “I wish I was making more time for this.”

These are my people.Still, as I scan the room, I won-

der what they will think of what I’ve written. Many of them are older than me; a few of them are

men. Some of them I know on much less intimate terms than my poetry betrays. I feel as if I am about to expose parts of myself to them. Private parts. Like wearing a tank top in public and revealing to everyone — friend and stranger alike — that I don’t shave my arm-pits. My personal preferences sud-denly exposed to public opinion.

As my turn nears, I feel the light fl utter of a few normal butterfl ies. But when I get up on stage, that spotlight thing happens. I enter the present moment so fully I am barely even conscious of it. While reading, every sense is heightened — I can feel the gaze of every eye, I watch the open faces for reac-tions, all while considering the speed at which I’m reading. I eas-ily offer casual banter between each piece.

Embarrassment never en-ters the experience, never even threatens to. It simply doesn’t occur as a possibility. If embar-

rassment exists in perceptions of the past or the future, the all-encompassing spotlight of the present leaves no room for fear.

Included is one of the poems I read that night.

Having it here makes it my fi rst published poem, outside of uni-versity. My family will read it — my grandma, my mom. Probably some of my uncles. Maybe my 17-year-old brother. And that is probably the scariest part of all of this. And also the best.

Because what I am already feel-ing in anticipation of this publica-tion is a renewed sense of owner-ship. I don’t feel like prefacing my words with assurances that this is the past, today I feel differently.

These are words that were

very powerful and releasing when I was able to pull them up from deep inside me.

After spending much of my life writing poems like these, I’m fi nally publishing one. That means people are going to read it.

Joslyn is slowly living out her dreams, and writing about it.

Contact her via [email protected].

Reading poetry

PHOTO: courtesy Joslyn Kilborn

Brave Old Words

Trying things That Scare Mewith Joslyn Kilborn

Good Artby Joslyn KilbornI often feel I ampretending to careabout things likeother people orwhat to read orhow to make goodart when really

all I want is a manto touch me and askhow do you likemy fi ngersandwhat sleeps in the roombeyond your fear?

Often there is no man.There is a strawdoll I can build

thin as thoughtwords for armseyes that lookto what I let them.

I can kiss himlike an animallearning to eatwhat it spits up.He is ugly buthis face is mine.I will not refuse it.


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Wednesday to Saturday, 3 to 9 pm.

Supper served daily at 6:00

HighlightsKlondike Institute of Art and Culture

Tel: (867) 993-5005Fax: (867) 993-5838

Website: www.kiac.ca

YUKON SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS

Year End Student ExhibitionsApril 25 - May 13, 2015

NATIONAL DRONE DAYPerformance to take place at KIAC

on Saturday, May 9 at 5:00pm

CAMERA OBSCURA FESTIVAL

If you wish to be informed about the upcoming Midnight Sun

Camera Obscura Festival, being held in Dawson June 17 to 22,

2015, the website is now on line.http://www.

midnightsuncameraobscura.com/

Exhibi� ons>> in the Yukon Art Society Gallery:

THE SEVEN TEXTILE ARTISTS“How Does it Felt”

Exhibi� on closes December 1st, 2012

>> in the Hougen Heritage Gallery:YUKON ARCHIVES

Archival Gold: Favourites from the VaultExhibi� on closes January 26, 2013

Open Studio Sessions>> Ceramic Open Studio Sessions <<

Sundays from 2:30 to 6pm$5 per hour

>> Acrylic Pain� ng Open Studio <<with Neil Graham

every fi rst and third Wednesday of each month 7 to 9pm

$10 per 2 hour session

To register call: 867-667-4080Email: recep� [email protected]

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867-667-4080 ext 22

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:FOCUS GALLERY

FIRE WIND WATER EARTH ARTMonika Kate Steputh and

Martha Jane RitchieMay 1-30

Opening reception: Friday May 1, 5-7 pm

HOUGEN HERITAGE GALLERY

THE PUCKETT FAMILY: LIFE IN WHITEHORSE C.1900-1930Images and stories from the

Puckett and Shadwell collections at MacBride MuseumRuns: March - June

OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS (14+)ENCAUSTIC OPEN STUDIO

Monday, May 4thFrom 7-9pm

$10 per sessionBoards available for purchase

at $2.50/board. Price includes the cost of paint

CERAMIC OPEN STUDIO Every Sunday except long weekends

From 2:30-6 pm$5/hr paid to Studio Tech

PAINTING OPEN STUDIOWith Neil Graham

1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month; From 7-9 pm

$10 per session

LIFE DRAWING OPEN STUDIO with Neil Graham

Monday, May 25From 7-9 pm

$10 per session

FAMILY CLAY OPEN STUDIO

Every Monday April 27th – May 25th10am-12pm

$5/hour for adults, $2/hour for children

Recycled clay available for purchase

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THURSDAY & FRIDAY 10-12Ball Pit Play - Family

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After School Art ExplorationTUESDAY

After School Sing TogetherWEDNESDAY

After school Ball Pit 7 GamesTHURSDAY

After school TheatreFRIDAY

After school Building and Sculpting

EVENINGS:MONDAY 7:15 - 8:15

Learn to Sing TogetherTeen / Adult

w/ Scott MaynardTUESDAY

Knitting Circle6:30-7:30 Kids7:30-9 Adults

Book Club - Adult(see website)

WEDNESDAY 5:30-6:30Girls Group

THURSDAY 6:30 - 7:30Kids Choir - Ages 7-12

w/ Barbara ChamberlinFRIDAY 7-9

Teen Drop-In

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Willard is a town lost in the idyllic world of the 1950s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour and rotting zombies carry the mail. Timmy Robinson’s best friend is a six-foot tall zombie. When ‘Fido’ eats the next-door neighbour, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. This technicolor send-up of suburban America stars Billy Connolly and Carrie-Anne Moss, and was filmed in Armstrong and Vernon, BC. Dir. Andrew Currie, BC, 2006, 93 min.

Yukon North of Ordinary editor, Tara McCarthy selected this cult classic for National Canadian Film Day and will intro the screening.

National Canadian Film Day

Wed, Apr 29, 8pmOld Fire Hall

Tickets: $10/$9 YFS Members at the door. Doors open at 7:30pm.

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Whitehorse locations: • 212 Main Street 867-393-5000 • 2190 2nd Ave. 867-668-6889• Canada Game Centre, 200 Hamilton Blvd. 867-456-7690

Micah Quinn likes a chal-lenge — whether it’s hik-ing the Pacifi c Crest Trail

from Mexico to Canada (4265 kilo-metres) alone, or re-imagining a local Whitehorse coffee shop as a dynamic new hub for the com-munity, he’s up for it.

Late last year Quinn was fi nish-ing a contract at Yukon College. He had spent the last 10 years as a teacher and was taking a moment to fi gure out his next step. He learned that Rah Rah Gallery was for sale, which gave him an idea.

“Before I started teaching I ran my own painting business in Smithers,” he explains.

“I’ve always really enjoyed working for myself and I love tak-ing on new projects and seeing them through to fruition. So once the idea of creating a new coffee shop and bar for the community came to me, I couldn’t let it go.”

By March, Quinn’s vision was well underway as he opened the doors to his café, The Watershed, on Sixth Avenue.

“I work really well under pres-sure — it brings out strong focus in me,” he says, “although it has been a huge learning curve in a really condensed period of time.”

He laughs, adding, “My coffee art is still pretty abstract, but I

can use it as a conversation piece — asking customers what they see in it.”

The Watershed was inspired by Quinn’s trek on the Pacifi c Crest Trail.

“Hiking through the States I was really struck by the level of customer service I encountered everywhere,” he explains.

“It really felt like everywhere I went the mentality was ‘What would you like and how would you like it and how can I best create that for you?’”

“It made me realise that the level of customer service in many establishments in Whitehorse is lower and I wanted to create a space that exceeded people’s ex-pectations.”

Quinn aims to exceed those ex-pectations both in the things he serves and the vibe he creates. By day, he dishes up coffees, teas, homemade soups, and baking. At night, it’s pizza and savoury pies, and craft beers, wines, and spir-its.

“In my twenties, my priorities were travelling and creating new experiences,” he says.

“Now that I’m lucky enough to have had that opportunity, my priorities have shifted to becom-ing a really positive force in the community — I want people to leave The Watershed in a happier place then when they entered.”

The setting is conducive to creating a happy atmosphere. There’s a cozy couch, along with the typical tables and chairs. A shelf is crammed with classic board games; there’s a coat rack, free wireless Internet, room to park out front, and the weekend Globe and Mail. He has plans for a patio.

“We already have a few regu-lars that come in to work and study,” says Quinn.

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He also wanted to create a space for a quiet late-night drink and snack.

“I wanted to offer people an alternative to a noisy bar,” he ex-plains.

Starting at 4:00 p.m. the even-ing menu kicks in. Doors will stay open until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 11 p.m. on other nights.

And for the sake of his patrons, Quinn will be burning the candle at both ends, opening all day on Sundays.

“There are not a lot of options

for good coffee on Sundays,” he says. “So I wanted to help fi ll that niche.”

When it came to naming his new community space, Quinn says he had a “watershed moment” during the recent Wild and Scenic Film Festival.

“A number of the fi lms in the festival dealt with watersheds and it hit me that ‘The Watershed’ was the perfect name. Water-sheds bring people together.”

The name is intended to rep-resent the ambience of the café. Walls are adorned with the work of Yukon photographers who capture water, including Peter Mather.

“It’s interesting that especially with Peter’s work from the Peel on the walls, some people assume that the campaign to protect the Peel inspired the name. It didn’t, I actually try to stay out of pol-itics — I believe in people rather than parties, but watersheds are topical in the territory right now and they do get people talking. I want to create a safe space for the community to engage in dia-logue and conversations.”

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The following excerpt is based on true events that took place around 1980. What’s Up Yukon’s editorial staff would like to re-mind you that there are laws in the Yukon against wasting meat.

Part One was published in the Jan. 29, 2015 issue; Part Two in Feb. 26, 2015. It left the three French guys heading back to Faro, their hunting trip a bust. Claude and Jacques want to bag a moose, while Marcel would rather not kill anything. Go to www.whatsupy-ukon.com to see the full story. Look for it in the “Literature” section.

As they approached Faro, the dismal little houses with their grey rooftops

and tiny square windows gradually came into view. Smoke billowed out of their chimneys and formed a thin veil across the darkening sky. Spires of spruce trees dot-ted the landscape all around and the mountaintops were fi lled with snow. The men went for a beer. There was a live band playing and the bar was fi lled with people, mostly miners. Claude, Jacques and Marcel took a table in the corner and ordered food along with three Labatt Blues. Somehow Claude became all charged up:

“In the morning,” he said, “we’ll try another spot, on the other end of town. The moose

are in rut and I heard some guys over at the gas station say there are a lot of good swamps and wal-lows out there. But this time we’ll bring the moose decoy and spray her with scent. If that doesn’t get our moose going I don’t know what will. Since we only have one more day left, what do you say, should we give it a try?”

Jacques raised his bottle; he could feel the booze already going to his head, “Here! Here! Let’s do it, let’s go get us that moose!”

A few tables away from the three French guys were a table with another three guys but they were Amer-ican. They had on plaid shirts and khaki pants and were wearing hunters’ caps. They were speaking very loudly and acting obnoxiously. This is what they were saying to one another:

“Well, fellows, we fi nally got ourselves that Yukon moose we came looking for. And what a su-perb beast he is! Did you see the size of those antlers — I measured sixty-three inches across. Not bad for a day’s work! That moose head is a true symbol of the wilder-ness. It’ll be perfect for my trophy room.”

One of the other guys objected and he even brought his fi st to the table, “Hey, what do you mean your trophy room? What about mytrophy room?”

The third then started up but

from a different angle and his tone was more practical, “When we get to Whitehorse we should ship our trophy out to an American taxider-mist, and fi rst thing; mounting an animal is an art form after all and we don’t want some rookie mess-ing it all up.”

Then the fi rst guy for some rea-son kept glancing over at the three French guys. He noticed they were sitting there eating, drinking beer, and looking kind of glum. Coming over to their table, he wanted to know, “Hey, are you guys hunters? Yes? I thought so. If you’re inter-ested up in the bush a couple of miles in there’s a moose carcass. It took a few shots but in the end we got him. We brought down the head but we have no use for all

that meat. It’s yours for the taking if you want to hike up there and get it. It’s going to start rotting soon anyway.”

He gave Claude detailed dir-ections of how to get to the slain animal.

Claude thanked the man. What

an incredible stroke of luck! Of course they would go and get that moose and fi rst thing in the mor-ning. At the crack of dawn, hiking a few hours, they found the animal easily enough. They approached it with caution making sure the way was clear of bears or wolves.

Claude couldn’t believe it, “Would you look at the size of him! What a beast! Too bad it wasn’t us that brought him down. What a rush that would have been!”

Taking the leaves and twigs out of the carcass, there was a lot of work to be done skinning and quar-tering the animal. The bones were massive. It was particularly hard to cut through the hide as it was so tough and thick, especially in the back. Finally they got it all done. They packed as much meat as they could and headed back to town. It took them four trips in total.

Early the next day the men headed back to Whitehorse. Driv-ing down the Mayo Road, there was something weighing heavily on Marcel’s mind. He began, “Trophy hunting is cruel and it’s wasteful; it’s just killing for the sake of kill-ing. And they simply left the car-cass there to rot.”

Claude cut him off and with a laugh, “Hey, Marcel, chill out, will you; don’t be such a mood-spoiler. Just look at it this way: our trip wasn’t a total loss -- now at least we have a truckload of meat. I say, God bless those Americans! God bless trophy hunters!”

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That’s an amazing story to any-one but Kyle and Tyler Doll, the father and son team who are the owner and operations manager, respectively, of G-P Distributing.

They run the food services wholesale company that grew and grew to include many distributor-ships.

“We do that for all of our cus-tomers,” says Tyler (the son and heir apparent).

He goes on to tell his own story of driving to Dawson City in a mad dash to catch a helicopter on its way to a mining camp. He got the food into the net just as it was leaving.

“We understand what it is like in the Yukon,” he says.

Kyle adds: “We don’t have the cheapest prices, but we employ 25 people. Our competitors have three employees, combined.

“They keep us on our toes.“It used to be that 20 years ago

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“Our territory is the entire Yukon, Inuvik, places in between, and down into Atlin, BC.”

“Which we consider the Yukon,” adds Tyler, earning him a nod and smile from his dad.

“I am really proud of the staff who have been here 15 years, 10, eight years,” says Kyle. “We have one guy with a couple of degrees, but he likes the family atmos-phere here.”

“A lot of people, in physical jobs, are just there from eight to four for the weekly pay cheque,” adds Tyler. “But any of these guys, if we say there is a truck coming in late, they say, ‘Yeah, I’ll come in’.

“We have guys with good work ethics and they want to be here for us because of what he (Kyle) does for them.”

There are a lot of moving parts in a food wholesale business. Its low profi t margin demands ef-fi ciency and attention to detail. But, after 20 years of success — when 14 other businesses have come and gone — it does require a pause to refl ect on what it has all meant.

It all started on May 28, 1995.

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Tyler and Kyle Doll are the operations manager and owner, respectively, of G-P Distributing. They are standing above the warehouse “where it all happens”. When the business opened, 20 years ago, the

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Yukon is a pretty organ-ized place if compared to the rest of Canada. With

almost 33 per cent of workers unionized, according to the Yukon Bureau of Statistics, we boast the highest union density per capita. That density has been maintained for over 50 years. In many ways, Yukon is a union territory.

There’s not a lot of history on trade union activity in the days following the gold rush. It’s known that individual members of the United Brotherhood of Carpen-ters worked in Dawson in the late 1890s. We also know that the Na-tional Union of Steam Engineers’ (NUSE) Local 360 was chartered in Dawson City around the turn of the century.

Industry associations and craftsman’s guilds formed around the same time, but details are hard to fi nd. The photo accom-panying this story shows the 1906 Labour Day Parade in Dawson City, indicating an active labour pres-ence.

In the middle of the last cen-tury, Yukon’s workers began or-ganizing in earnest. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters Lo-cal 2499 was chartered in 1947, while the Yukon Teacher’s Associa-tion formed in 1955. The UA, or United Association of Allied Work-ers representing plumbers, pipe-fi tters, and welders established a Yukon presence in 1958 and the Yukon Territorial Public Service As-sociation (YTPSA) formed in 1965. The YTPSA was the fi rst incarna-tion of what is now the Yukon Em-ployees’ Union, or YEU/PSAC.

Yukon workers are represented by the Yukon Employees’ Union, PSAC, the Carpenters, Internation-al Brotherhood of Electrical Work-ers, the Teamsters, Steelworkers, Unifor, Canadian Union of Postal

Workers, and the United Associa-tion of Plumbers, Pipefi tters and Sheet Metal Workers. There is also strong representation by the Yukon Teachers Association and

PIPSC, the union to which regis-tered nurses belong.

There are similar organizations that do not call themselves unions advocating on behalf of their members in many sectors of the work force.

The numbers are signifi cant, and they may suggest that despite Canada’s labour laws and despite health and safety legislations, workers still value the security of the collective bargaining process.

Union workers usually earn a higher wage than non-unionized workers. This is true here in the Yukon like it is across the coun-try. The higher rates of pay per-mit greater investment into local economies with improved pur-chasing power. Stable incomes also permit a balance of work and life, allowing for greater individ-ual contribution to the commun-ity. Yukon’s high rate of unionized workers may have something to do with the high rate of volunteerism in the territory. Workers needing to piece together income from several low wage part-time jobs have little time or energy left to volunteer.

The territory is a bustling place. Unionized workers main-tain roads, deliver heating fuel, stock groceries, and supervise swimming pools. Unionized work-ers ensure our boilers are safely installed, our planes stay in the air, and our federal documents are fi led. And since this is the Yukon, even our blackjack dealers and can-can dancers are card carrying union members.

We’re a union town.

Deborah Turner-Davis works in media relations and strategic communications for the Yukon Employees’ Union. Contact her via [email protected].

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Kyle had been the branch man-ager for The Grocery People when it was decided that their location in the Burns Building, which had been built for the U.S. Army’s con-struction of the Alaska Highway, was not worth fi xing anymore.

The wholesale business was sold to Charlie Grubisich, who al-ready had distributorships here.

But he didn’t want to leave his southern home. And Jim Craw-ford, the president of The Grocery People, didn’t want to leave Kyle on the street. So he encouraged them to have a chat.

“We met in his hotel room at the Edgewater Hotel for an hour and we left, shaking hands, as business partners,” says Kyle. “I was the working partner — the ex-perience — and he was he was the

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in.It could have been a chance

for him to get into a line of work that was less demanding and less stressful, but, “the food business is the business I want to be in,” he says today.

His son explains: “It’s a very reactionary business, fast-paced, we thrive off of that.”

“Yeah, it’s a challenge every-day,” says Kyle. “I come to work most days at two or three in the morning and I go home at fi ve to work out and then come back to work at 6:30.

“My wife just shakes her head; it is just a drive that I have.”

But the plan is for Kyle to re-tire — a bit — so that he can go someplace warm during the slow, winter season. And Tyler will take on even more responsibilities.

Meanwhile, there is a 20th an-niversary to celebrate: there will be an Open House and Customer Appreciation Day on May 14, from 1:30 to 5 p.m., to introduce a new kitchenware showroom. This takes place at their headquarters, 29 MacDonald Road in the Porter Creek industrial area.

Then, that night, there will be a Business After Hours at the same location.

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Curious Fact #1: stories about plucky orphan kids make wildly popular music-

al theatre fare. Witness Oliver!, Anne of Green Gables, and Annie.

Curious Fact #2: two out of three musicals about plucky or-phans involve adorable, authority-defying redheads who find love in less-than-conventional families.

“I don’t happen to be a tiny, adorable redhead, but I am dyeing my hair for the session,” laughs Tori Beemer, who plays the title role in the MAD (Music Arts and Drama) production of Annie, cur-rently running at the Wood Street Centre.

Beemer, who considers her-self “usually a pretty optimistic person” like Annie herself, says she jumped at the chance to play “such an iconic, loved character” onstage.

“This will be my first time ac-tually doing anything like this, singing a super-iconic song (“To-morrow”) in front of all these people. I’m definitely more excited than nervous, because I really want to be able to share that with everyone.”

The Strouse-Charnin-Meehan music-al is based on Harold Gray’s much-loved comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie”. Its opening in 1977 led to a Tony Award and a mammoth Broadway run of almost six years.

It’s the story of how young Annie escapes the clutches of a boozy, tyrannical orphanage dir-ector, Miss Hannigan, befriends a stray dog whom she names Sandy, and wends her way into the home and heart of billionaire tycoon Oli-ver “Daddy” Warbucks.

Director Mary Sloan can’t help sounding... well, big... when she describes what will be her last major production for MAD before she retires in June.

“It’s big, it’s fun, it’s a monster of a play. There are 50 characters, and we have 24 kids in the class, so we’ve got some kids playing four characters. The costumes are out of this world; the set is huge,” she says.

“We always choose a play from the kids that we have in the class, and this class just kind of shouted Annie at us.”

Sloan also has a personal con-nection to the show. She played Miss Hannigan in the last White-horse production of Annie, a quar-

ter-century ago.“I love the role. I think she’s

one of the most fun characters in musical theatre, and I really loved playing her.”

Sloan says Grade 12 student Selina Heyligers-Hare brings “a really marvelous, rocker voice” to the role of Miss Hannigan in the MAD production.

“What she’s doing is brilliant and wonderful, and it’s so great to watch that. Here’s Miss Hannigan living on, 25 years later. She’s as irascible and crabby and wonder-ful as ever.”

Besides Beemer and Heyligers-Hare, other principal players in Annie include Jacob Fitzsimmons as Daddy Warbucks and Kayleiggh Poelman as his assistant, Grace.

Loughran Thorson-Looysen and Ryann Anderson play Miss Hanni-gan’s scheming brother, Rooster, and his partner in would-be crime,

Lilly St. Regis.In addition to their MAD stu-

dents, Sloan and musical director Jeff Nordlund also have a contin-gent of much younger thespians in the cast — the children of Miss Hannigan’s orphanage.

“We have 23 little girls in the show, and every time those little girls come in, right before re-hearsal I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I hope this is going to be OK, I hope I can control these kids,’” Sloan admits.

“And every time, they just surprise and delight me. They re-member the direction they got be-fore, they’re enthusiastic, they’re adorable. In fact, when I retire, I’m probably going to work with

little kids for awhile.”As the show’s title performer,

Beemer says she has learned from the experience of singing publicly with others.

“I have a lot of support in my voice, so the ability to sing quite loudly. That’s been a challenge for me; dialling it back and just sing-ing with the group.”

But even at the advanced age of 17, the Grade 11 student says it hasn’t been difficult to play a much younger character.

“I’m kind of 11 at heart any-way, so I’ve had an easy time re-lating to the character, and kind of slipping into the role,” she laughs.

One challenge she did face, though, was how to make her sing-ing voice sound younger.

“The higher notes tend to get kind of like an opera-feel, and you want to make them more like a kid-feel,” she says.

“It’s not really like changing your voice. It’s more like a frame of mind going into it.”

Another frame-of-mind adjustment for both Beemer and theatregoers involves Annie’s beloved com-panion, Sandy.

Because Yukon Gov-ernment rules don’t allow dogs in school

buildings, Sandy will be played by a bipedal actor.

“I know the girl who’s play-ing Sandy really well, and it’s not weird at all,” Beemer reassures.

“She plays the role really well. She’s sort of cute and we’re really good friends in real life, so I think that shows, too.”

Annie’s run at the Wood Street Centre is from Tuesday, April 28 to Saturday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday, May 3, and two final evening performances, May 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18.

Freelance writer Ken Bolton is a former co-editor of

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A hike, on the other hand, often covers more distance. A hiker most often carries a loaded pack. A hike isn’t usually close to home, and is usually done at a pace to reach a distant destina-tion in the time available.

Hikes are often multi-day events with the total distance div-ided by the number of days avail-able. Some hikes go to and from a destination such as a campsite, viewing outlook, or fi shing spot. Others are multi-day circular tours back to your starting point.

If you aren’t as fi t as you thought you were, it is easy to overdo it on a hike in the fi rst day or so. It’s important to set a pace that you and others can maintain. Naturally, the weather and the terrain will affect the pace.

Establishing and maintaining a rhythm in your walk allows you to cover more distance comfortably,

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It’s important to get used to the load in the pack. If it’s not right, stop to load it differently. Most packs are adjustable to bet-ter fi t the size of the hiker, and straps on the pack allow hikers to adjust how the load feels and how it rides on their shoulders. On every hike you will thank yourself that you bought a quality pack and not a cheap one.

It is exactly the same situation with your boots, and to a some-what lesser degree, your clothing. Raingear should be top of the line.

Unfortunately most of us have never learned, or have forgotten the proper way to walk. If you check yourself or watch others, you’ll notice that we mostly walk with our toes pointed out to the sides. Our toes should be pointed straight ahead. More energy is used with the splayed-foot walk but we are all caught up in that habit. It will take a while, but concentrating on pointing one’s toes straight ahead can break the

habit. In a fairly short time we’d all be doing it properly.

Hiking staves/sticks have long been used in Europe and are be-coming more common on our side of the ocean. They take a little bit of getting used to but reading the instructions or learning from someone who uses one will help you adapt quickly.

They are adjustable for height and if you shop for quality, they are extremely durable. They all have adjustable wrist-straps; some have a choice of pointed tips for rocky/hard terrain or small baskets for softer ground. Some have a removable top knob creat-ing a camera monopod. They also make great replacements for tent poles and can aid in the construc-tion of emergency shelters.

Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors

person who prefers to cook what he harvests himself.

He is a past president of the Canadian Wildlife Federation and retired hunter education

coordinator for the Government of Yukon. Please send comments

about his articles to [email protected].

If you shop for quality, hiking sticks are extremely durable

A Hike or a Walk

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Beav er CreekWed, Apr 29 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Apr 29 Open Gym 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, Apr 29 Sports Night 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubThu, Apr 30 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 2 Family Gym Night 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 2 Family Gym 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 2 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 2 Women’s Yoga 9:00 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothingMon, May 4 Youth Gym Drop In 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubMon, May 4 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubMon, May 4 Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John SchoolTue, May 5 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubTue, May 5 Women’s Yoga 7:00 PM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothingWed, May 6 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, May 6 Open Gym 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubWed, May 6 Sports Night 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubThu, May 7 Toddler Gym 2:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 9 Family Gym Night 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 9 Family Gym 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 9 Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community ClubSat, May 9 Women’s Yoga 9:00 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Just yourself in comfortable clothing

Carc rossWed, Apr 29 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfi [email protected], Apr 29 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingWed, Apr 29 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031Thu, Apr 30 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, Apr 30 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfi eld, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinatorSun, May 3 St. Saviours Church Service 11:00 AM St. Saviours Church 867-668-3129Mon, May 4 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, May 5 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM The Old DaycareTue, May 5 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community SchoolTue, May 5 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251Wed, May 6 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen.cranfi [email protected], May 6 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031Wed, May 6 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, May 7 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity BuildingThu, May 7 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 Wed, Apr 29 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!

Wed, Apr 29 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], Apr 29 National Canadian Film Day: Dawson City 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Celebrate National Film Day by watching a Canadian movie named Rhymes for Young Ghouls!Wed, Apr 29 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.Thu, Apr 30 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, May 1 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, May 1 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, May 1 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreFri, May 1 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Sat, May 2 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreSat, May 2 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, May 3 Kids Dance!: Jazz 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to Jazz dance!Sun, May 3 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 5+6) 1:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!Sun, May 3 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381Sun, May 3 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 3+4) 2:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!Sun, May 3 Kids Dance!: Parent & Tot 3:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Dance with your toddler and have fun!Sun, May 3 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management buildingMon, May 4 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness CentreMon, May 4 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness CentreMon, May 4 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Mon, May 4 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, May 5 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 For more information email: getrealfi t(at)me.comTue, May 5 Dawson City Burlesque Intensive 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5998 This class will teach you all of the knowledge and skills you need to get started as a beginner burlesque performer.Wed, May 6 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Wed, May 6 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.Thu, May 7 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.Thu, May 7 Dawson City Burlesque Intensive 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5998 This class will teach you all of the knowledge and skills you need to get started as a beginner burlesque performer.

Fri, May 8 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, May 8 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness CentreFri, May 8 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreFri, May 8 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Join the Zumba craze with this Latin-inspired workout!Sat, May 9 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth CentreSat, May 9 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, May 10 Kids Dance!: Jazz 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to Jazz dance!Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 5+6) 1:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!Sun, May 10 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Creative Dance (Ages 3+4) 2:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Your child will learn how to creatively dance!Sun, May 10 Kids Dance!: Parent & Tot 3:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993 5005 Dance with your toddler and have fun!

Faro Wed, Apr 29 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be providedWed, Apr 29 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Apr 29 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], Apr 30 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.Thu, Apr 30 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 1 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.Fri, May 1 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 1 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 1 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.Fri, May 1 Faro’s Crane & Sheep Festival Town of Faro (867) 994 - 2728 Come see the thousands of Sandhill Cranes migrate north and also celebrate wildlife appreciation!Sat, May 2 Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.Sun, May 3 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of ApostlesSun, May 3 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442Tue, May 5 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.Tue, May 5 Tai Chi Faro 6:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre With Lucy Moreira, Free Drop In Meet at the Youth LoungeWed, May 6 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be providedWed, May 6 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected]

Wed, May 6 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 7 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Basketball 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre All ages and abilities welcome.Thu, May 7 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, May 8 Playgroup 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 8 Kids Games 3:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-11. Please register at the rec centre.Fri, May 8 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 8 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 [email protected], May 8 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation CentreFri, May 8 Youth Games 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Ages 12-18. Please register at the rec centre.Sat, May 9 Faro Kettle Cafe 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.Sun, May 10 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of ApostlesSun, May 10 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel 994-2442 with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442

Haines JunctionWed, Apr 29 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, Apr 30 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun KuThu, Apr 30 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community SchoolSun, May 3 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De BrabandereMon, May 4 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural CentreTue, May 5 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural CentreTue, May 5 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini HallWed, May 6 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, May 7 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun KuThu, May 7 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community SchoolSun, May 10 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere

Mars h LakeWed, Apr 29 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreWed, Apr 29 Beginner Belly Dance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.Fri, May 1 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each monthFri, May 1 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreSat, May 2 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community CentreSun, May 3 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 All welcomeTue, May 5 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreTue, May 5 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreTue, May 5 Yoga With Richard 5:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre (867) 660.4545 Richard is a certifi ed IYENGAR Yoga instructorWed, May 6 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreWed, May 6 Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreWed, May 6 Beginner Belly Dance lessons Marsh Lake Community Centre 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.Fri, May 8 Dinner at the Jackalope

6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each monthFri, May 8 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community CentreSat, May 9 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community CentreSun, May 10 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 All welcome

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Wed, Apr 29 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School GymWed, Apr 29 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School GymWed, Apr 29 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyballFri, May 1 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym nightFri, May 1 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317Fri, May 1 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kidsSun, May 3 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746Tue, May 5 Boys’ basketball practice 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Come play basketball over lunch!Tue, May 5 Under 12 Kung Fu 6:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 junior martial artsTue, May 5 Drop in badminton 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317Tue, May 5 Kung Fu for teens and adults 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 martial arts for teens and adultsWed, May 6 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School GymWed, May 6 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Mayo School GymWed, May 6 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Drop in volleyballFri, May 8 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym nightFri, May 8 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317Fri, May 8 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kidsSun, May 10 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746

Mt. LorneWed, Apr 29 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community CentreThu, Apr 30 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083Fri, May 1 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083Wed, May 6 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community CentreThu, May 7 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083Fri, May 8 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Old CrowThu, Apr 30 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community CenterSun, May 3 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381Mon, May 4 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238Thu, May 7 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community CenterSun, May 10 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381

Tagi shAll events held at the Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 or 399-3407 Wed, Apr 29 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre

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Wed, Apr 29 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Wed, Apr 29 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community CentreThu, Apr 30 Osteofi t 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Apr 30 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, Apr 30 Catch Kids Club 4:00 PM Tagish Community CentreSat, May 2 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Sat, May 2 Music Jam 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome to come and play, or enjoy!Mon, May 4 Carcross /Tagish Renewable Resources Council Meeting 10:00 AM Tagish Community CentreMon, May 4 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Tue, May 5 Stay Get Fit 6:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Wed, May 6 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community CentreWed, May 6 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Wed, May 6 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community CentreThu, May 7 Osteofi t 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Thu, May 7 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407Sat, May 9 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418Sat, May 9 Music Jam 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is welcome to come and play, or enjoy!

Tesl inWed, Apr 29 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors ComplexWed, Apr 29 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolThu, Apr 30 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolSun, May 3 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec CenterMon, May 4 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolTue, May 5 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolWed, May 6 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors ComplexWed, May 6 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolThu, May 7 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin SchoolSun, May 10 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec CenterSun, May 10 St. Philip’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Philip’s Church (867) 667-7746

Wats on LakeThu, Apr 30 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Thu, Apr 30 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Teen Dance! 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreSun, May 3 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932Mon, May 4 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Thu, May 7 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!Thu, May 7 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation CentreSun, May 10 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932

HainesFri, Apr 3 Spring: A Culture of Eagles Exhibit Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre A cultural exploration of eagles in the Chilkat Valley through history This strong icon permeates Tlingit legend, myth, art, ceremony and even social structure.Wed, Apr 29 Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural CentreWed, May 6 Tlingit Language Class 3:30 PM Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre

SkagwayWed, Apr 29 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Apr 29 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Apr 29 TRX Suspension Training 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Apr 29 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Apr 29 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, Apr 29 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 TRX Suspension Training w/Katherine 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Zumba w/Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, Apr 30 Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Spinning/Yoga Level 1 w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 1 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, May 2 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, May 2 Skagway Community Sale 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Garage sale fundraiser supports Skagway Recreation CentreSun, May 3 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, May 3 Skagway Community Sale 1:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Garage sale fundraiser supports Skagway Recreation CentreSun, May 3 TRX Suspension Training w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, May 4 Restorative Yoga: All Level w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, May 4 TRX Suspension Training 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, May 4 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, May 4 Soccer for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreMon, May 4 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 After School Rock Climbing & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Dance Fusion w/Charity 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Vinyasa Yoga: Level 1 w/Katherine 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Chair and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreTue, May 5 Skagway First Ship of Season Arrives! Skagway The season begins with the arrival of our fi rst cruise ship, the Celebrity Solstice

Wed, May 6 Back/Hip Yoga: Level 2 w/Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 After School Creativity & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 Stretch & Breathe: All Levels w/Jeanne 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 TRX Suspension Training 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 Stretch & Breathe with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 Spinning w/Cindy 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreWed, May 6 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Spinning Xpress w/Charity 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 After School Culinary Arts & Open Gym 3:15 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 TRX Suspension Training w/Katherine 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

Thu, May 7 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Zumba w/Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Basketball for Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation CentreThu, May 7 Stick and Mat Pilates w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 8 Gentle Yoga: All Levels w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 8 Spinning/Yoga Level 1 w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation CentreFri, May 8 Spinning w/Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, May 9 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation CentreSat, May 9 Sea Kayaking 101 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Full one day training program emphasizes safety, enjoyment and skill acquisition for entry level paddlers as well as those needing a refresher lesson.Sun, May 10 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!

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Whitehorse-based, Swed-ish-Canadian songwrit-er Sarah MacDougall

has a new album, Grand Canyon, with some dark, intense lyrics, mixed against pop-inspired folk music. It’s not a departure from her previous music, so much as a progression.

MacDougall says, “I think the last album [the West Coast Music Award-winning The Greatest Ones Alive] was on its way to that. I used strings, and there were songs that had more of a pop ar-rangement, although fi ve of the songs didn’t have drums. On this album, every song has drums.”

The arrangements may be pop, but the songs are still very per-sonal. Two of the songs were in-spired by Malmö, Sweden, where MacDougall was born and lived in until she was 19.

”I Want to See the Lights (Lost From Your Eyes)” was partially inspired by a series of anti-immi-grant shootings that occurred in Malmö between 2009 and 2010.

“It’s kind of what sparked the song,” MacDougall says.

“I think what made me write it was that there is a real extreme right-wing movement growing in mainstream Swedish Parliament right now, and in Europe in gen-eral. It’s kind of a scary time right now.”

In the song, she sings, “I take the long way home like I used to do before we started being scared... I pull my hoodie up over my hair and stay away from the streetlights.”

Her feelings towards her home-town are refi ned in “Malmö i mitt hjärta”, (Malmö in my heart).

“It’s kind of about coming to

peace about where I come from,” she explains.

“I kind of have a love-hate re-lationship with my home town. It’s not really hate, hate is a strong word, but I have always mixed feelings about it. The city has a lot of amazing things about it and a lot of darkness. A lot of resistance to art, to speaking up, all that kind of stuff.”

Accompanied by Jesse Zubat’s string arrangements, the song is haunting, but rises to a tri-umphant conclusion. The video, available on her website, focuses on the singer’s face and is both intense and cathartic.

Balancing out this darkness is “The Story of Pippi and Lion-heart”, a lighter, fun song, in-spired by the works of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, which MacDougall grew up on.

“It’s really a song about want-ing to be a superhero.”

The song makes reference to RoboCop and Avatar.

”Baby, It’s Only Rock n’ Roll”, ironically, is one of the least rock n’ roll songs on the album. The song features a string quartet, arranged by Matt Rogers, which beautifully takes over for a full minute after the other instru-ments fade out.

The title track, “Grand Can-yon”, was a late addition, re-corded in Whitehorse with Jordy Walker.

“I wasn’t sure I was going to include it, but it totally fi t. Some-times it happens that way.”

To support the album, Mac-Dougall has played throughout Canada with the East Coast Mu-sic Award-winning Newfoundland folk trio, The Once, and she’s

currently on tour through Europe. For some of those shows she’s ac-companied by a band recruited from the Netherlands, which she hasn’t heard yet.

“I have good references for them and they’ve been cool,” she says. “They’re basically learn-ing the parts from the albums. But I won’t know until the actual show.”

Grand Canyon is available on iTunes, through her website, Sar-ahMacDougall.com, and locally at Triple J’s Music.

Outstanding tracks: “Grand Canyon” and “Malmö i mitt hjär-ta”.

Barry “Jack” Jenkins keeps close tabs on the Yukon music

scene. Contact him via [email protected].

Grand Canyon

Sarah MacDougall’s new album mixes darkness and light

Grand Canyon is the new album from award winning singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall

PHOTO: courtesy of Sarah MacDougall

DISCoursewith Barry “Jack” Jenkins


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