My experience in Dawson says that we generally get our first snow before Thanksgiving. But there are exceptions.One memorable year we had snow early in September and the leaves froze on the trees before they could change colour...
Read MoreWhen Anne-Louise Genest confessed to a slight hangover after an evening of gin and tonic, her sister asked, “Didn’t I tell you your grandmother’s rules for drinking?”After hearing such sage advice as...
Read MoreHere comes the Yuletide observing season, so get ready to tilt your neck up.There are plenty of cosmic events happening in those amazing Yukon night skies throughout the entire month of December.The month starts off with Jupiter...
Read MoreWe’re plunging into the winter and holiday season at full tilt and for me this is a season of getting together with friends for dinner and searching out new and more robust wines to bring to the table.The falling snow...
Read MoreThere is no surer sign of the holiday season than the annual staging of The Nutcracker.The Northern Lights School of Dance is presenting the traditional ballet on December 2, in Dawson City and on December 7 and 8, in...
Read MoreThe JobMy Santa adventures in the Yukon began when George Green needed a Santa for an Learning Disabilities Association of Yukon fundraiser at Hougen’s Department Store in Whitehorse. George asked me, as a white-bearded...
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