Beaver Creek is just a few kilometres from the Alaska border on the Alaska Highway. As the most westerly settlement in all of Canada, this picturesque little community is used primarily as a border post and a service centre for the Alaska Highway. With a population of between 85 to 90 people, it may also …
Shredded bits of a pair of my underwear are nailed to the wall inside a bar – the bar – in Chicken, Alaska. It always amazes me what northerners will do to prove they are unique and unlike people from Outside. We’d ridden our bikes down to Dawson City, on the Friday afternoon of the …
MAYO The Village of Mayo, named most astutely after a certain Alfred H. Mayo, one-time circus acrobat, is hosting, for the fifth year in a row, a back-bendingly large assortment of homegrown artistic and musical talent. Set this year on summer solstice, June 21, the Mayo Arts Festival, along the banks of the Stewart River …
At What’s Up Yukon, it’s as easy as one, two, three. That’s right, this one’s about numbers. And … it gets complicated. Again, this is where your publication’s House Style trumps everything else. Most Canadian newspapers and magazines follow The Canadian Press Stylebook (CP Style), and that includes What’s Up Yukon. Numbers one to nine …
I had a dream last night that I was at a Yakov Smirnoff show with my mother. I sure hope this wasn’t forecasting any kind of future. Not that I wouldn’t love to go to a show with my mother, I’ve evolved well past the point where I can now be comfortably seen in public …
With visions of Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry Milkshakes — in fact, with strawberries of any shape and size — I got bamboozled into our strawberry escapade on our greenhouse operation. I didn’t know much about growing strawberries, but my husband insisted that they could be grown here, so trustingly I went along with the concept. The …
I want to spend my life with you Don’t want to live all alone I can’t conceive of the years left in me Without you in our home —The Proclaimers, “Life with You” It is the Good Saturday, the one before the snow. You can call it summer. I go over to Mike Durham and …
SYANA’s first annual Yukon First Nations Arts Festival will have a strong visual arts and crafts focus. That’s what the society’s members asked for. Executive Director Sonny Voyageur had SYANA members fill out a questionnaire. Most said they would like to see the society’s activities focus on visual arts and crafts. Voyageur finds that arts …
