Alpaca Fun Facts
Alpacas See them in yarn-form at this year’s Fireweed Community Market
Issue: 2014-05-15
What’s Up Yukon May 15, 2014 Issue
Springing into Spring
In the Yukon there isn’t really a spring; rather, it’s an early summer. What I, as a Yukoner, refer to as “spring” is actually the
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Didee & Didoo – Poem “Mary Tizya”
Mary Tizya I REALLY LOVE THIS PERSON SHE CAME FROM FT McPHERSON. THEN SHE BECAME ROSS’S WIFE AN’ LIVED IN OLD CROW MOST OF HER
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I Didn’t Know, Did You?
On my drive to work most mornings I laugh at the guys on the radio playing a game called, You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know.
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One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four…
It’s planting time and one of the last things we plant are potatoes. We put in all of our cold crops first because if there
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Open-fire Cooking with a Dingle Bom
When my Swiss friend showed me how to use a “dingle bom”, he neglected to tell me how to spell it. I did, however, quickly
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Living With Wildlife: Reni Lendvai
I ’m from Hungary and have been living in the Yukon for three years. I has never seen a caribou before. Even when I was at
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Say Aloha to Dawson’s New Taco Cart
Dawson City’s blend of old-time charm and contemporary conveniences gives it a rare appeal, so it’s fitting that a taco cart will soon grace this
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Kramer of the North
Robert Postma knocks on our door, comes in, and asks me if I have any butter. I say, “Careful with it, it’s like gold to
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Shipyards Park Transforms for Market Season
The Fireweed Community Market is returning for its 15th year. The market takes place at Shipyards Park on Thursdays starting May 15, and will be
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Love is Easy
If she were to write a love letter to Whitehorse, Lindsay Zier-Vogel says it would be to the Yukon River early in the morning. And
A Book is an Actual Thing
Collecting material possessions fills me with ambivalence. If anything, the accumulation of objects causes stress, and the old adage “the things you own end up
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When I grow up…
What did you want to be when you were a kid? Have the career aspirations of children changed with the times? Thanks to the time