Monthly Archives: November 2011

November is Volleyball Month

Grade 7 girls score silver at Yukon Volleyball Championships in Whitehorse on November 19. Photo by Vince Federoff.
by Liz Woods
Congratulations to the young athletes who brought home medals from the Grade 7 Yukon Volleyball Championships, held November 17 to 19 in Whitehorse.
Both the boys and girls teams were undefeated during the Friday’s round-robin play and [...]

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Korbo Bites the Dust

Photo by Dan Davidson
by Dan Davidson
The John Korbo Apartment Building, which served variously as staff and social housing from sometime in the late 1960s until the summer of 2011, is gone. The building came down on November 1. The demolition tender was awarded to Quantum Murray, a demolition/remediation specialist company out of Vancouver.  Subcontracting went [...]

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Ferry Makes Final Trip of the Year

Photo by Dan Davidson
By Dan Davidson
It seemed early to some, but the George Black Ferry actually came out of the river on October 27, two days later than last year, and around the same as it does most years. Casting back over the last few extractions, it’s been as late as November 2, but the [...]

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