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Wolf Pack Native Junior Hockey Team Maintains a Winning Spirit Submitted by Miriam Kaytor
Dawson Youth proudly displayed what team work and pride meant the weekend of April 2 during the First Nations Hockey Tournament held in Whitehorse. The team consisted of 16 youth ranging from 1st year players to those who are in their 5th year of hockey. Coaches during the tournament were Bruce Taylor and Robert Keaton. During the weekend of play the Wolf Pack was not successful in winning | |||||||||||||||||||
Coaches: Bruce Taylor, Robert Keaton Players: Austin Taylor, Tanner Sidney, Andrew Taylor, Matthew Keaton, Bradley Keaton, Kurtis Van Bibber, Kirsten Van Bibber, Daniel Naef, Selena Kaytor, Jasmine Kaytor, Steve Kocsis, Tamika Knutson, Aurora Knutson, Clinton Taylor, Tyler Taylor, Pait Johnson. Photo submitted.
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any of the 3 games played. However, this was no indication of the way they skated as a team. For parents who traveled last year to the event, it was obvious that the extra ice time and skill development from the coaches paid off. A total of four teams took part in the junior tournament: Dawson, Carmacks, Teslin and Whitehorse. Dawson however, was the only complete rural team and had the best representation of a mixed youth league. Both Carmacks and Teslin did not have enough players to field a team, so they picked up many Whitehorse players. As there were former NHL players who attended the event part of the weekend was dedicated to a Skills Clinic with two of the players. 6 youth players were drawn from each participating team and they had a skill development session skate with two of the NHL players, John Cabot & Victor Mercredi. Afterwards there was a meet and greet photo session with information about this summer’s Whitehorse Hockey camps. This year was the unveiling of new jerseys for the Dawson Wolf Pack Team. In partnership with the City of Dawson, Tr’ondek Hwech’in and fundraising by parents and players, the team has a set of home and away jerseys. At the end of the year all jerseys are handed in and will be reassigned to the next year’s players. During off ice time with the funds raised the youth were treated to a meal at Boston Pizza and a swim in the Lion’s pool. Dawson Youth may not have won a game this year, but they certainly showed maturity and great sportsmanship in their attitudes. After loosing the game on Saturday night the team along with some parents arrived at Fraser's and stayed until it closed at midnight. The camaraderie between players and younger siblings who came to watch demonstrated what great ambassadors they were for our community. The first game was held on Friday April 2. With 5 minutes to ice time the opposing team approached the Dawson coaches stating that their goalie was a no show and could they use our spare. Instead of forcing a forfeited game, the coaches kept the focus on the players and their desire to skate. Therefore, Dawson’s Daniel Naef played goal for the Carmacks team. Congratulations on a job well done Dawson Wolf Pack, and thank you to everyone who supported the team in reaching their goal of attending the tournament. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Uffish Thoughts: A Change of Pace - Dripping into spring By Dan Davidson
One of the nicest things about the arrival of spring is the opportunity it affords to get out of the house a bit. Not that I am one of those who tramps the woods and chews up the scenery with some manner of two or four wheeled noise maker, but I do like a change of venue for my favorite leisure pursuits from time to time. Simply put - and this will be no surprise to those who know me - I like to read and write, and both activities can as easily be pursued outdoors as in. The first good day for sitting outside in a deck chair was about three weeks ago now. What with cloud and rain there haven't been too many others since, but as the weather changes we get more and more, and the Davidson family gets to enjoy our three year old investment in a roofed front deck. It was noisy out here three weeks ago. The air was filled with the sounds of early spring, which had mostly to do with various forms of water finding their way to the street and into the storm drains, which had just recently been thawed out at that point. The gutters along the front of our deck were completely overwhelmed that day, and while it was not quite like sitting behind the curtain of a waterfall, that was the thought that came to mind as I listened to the constant platter-platter-plat of melting snow coming off our sheet metal roof. The sun was blazingly hot that day and tins roofs all over town were giving up the load that had not already sublimated right into the air, bypassing the liquid stage. Across the street a large mass of snow - ice at the bottom and crunchy on the top - had already eased over the top of the slide (or avalanche) protectors most of us have on our roofs, and down into the inner lip of one home’s gutter. As I sat there reading I heard it begin to slide, a noise somewhat akin to nails on a chalkboard, and down it came, about six square feet of it, bending the gutter near the downspout in its rush to get out of the sun. My next door neighbour was luckier. In his case the mass broke up into smaller islands, and eased off his roof in great clumps with a whoosh and a thlump, spread out over about half an hour. Just above my head to the left the snow on our roof had crept over the edge until it hung there like some dedicated smoker's cigarette ash, just waiting to be pulled down by gravity or a sudden movement. Gravity won. Several small bits fell away at the edges and then the entire overhang dropped off like a calving glacier. Twenty minutes later another one was forming. Curious about our roof, I went up to our bedroom and tried the door to the second floor deck. It had been frozen shut and wedged by the winter shifting of the building since November, but it opened on this day and revealed quite a sight. Lots of snow had come off the roof here and mingled with what had simply collected over the winter. The entire mass was fused together with our white, plastic deck furniture, and then rounded and smoothed by sun and melting until it resembled nothing so much as one of those abstract plaster maquettes of sculptures by Henry Moore, like those I had seen at the Art Gallery of Ontario three years ago. I tried to get pictures, but the angles and the light were all wrong., To get out onto the first floor roof on the other side of this piece of "found art" in order to get a good photo, I would have had to walk through it, and footprints would have spoiled the effect. Sometimes all you have is memory, and it has to be enough. This is the next really good day for being out here, about twenty days later. This essay seemed to want to be written outside and, after making a few notes and adding them to a "to do" list on my Palm handheld, I've been waiting. I hope the wait was worth it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yukon Order Of Pioneers Lodge #1 Box 131 Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0
The elections for the executive for the year 2003 were as follows:
Past President - James Archibald President- Rick Gillespie Vice President- Dale Layton from Jan. - May; Dave Miller from May - Dec. Secretary/Treasurer - Wayne Rachel Warden - Claude Meredith Guard - Jay Farr Chaplain - Lambert Curzon Historian - John Gould Trustees - 3rd year Bruce Taylor; 2nd year Lambert Curzon; 1st year James Archibald
March Loge members set up the tripod on the Yukon river for the IODE Ice Guessing Contest. Y.O.O.P put on the Tea boiling Contest for the Thaw-DI-Graw. There was a very good turnout.
April Grand Lodge meeting was held in Dawson City at the Downtown Hotel. Supper was at the Y.O.O.P hall
July On the July 1st weekend several members went to Mayo to march in their parade as it was their 100th anniversary.
August August 17th, YOOP members walked in the Dawson Parade. Afterwards the YOOP held games for the kids at Minto Park. This went well.
Donations IODE for the Christmas hamper sent to seniors Grad class for cap and gowns RSS School Yearbook Tatiana Fras for the Young Canadians Program Gold Poke Draw All tickets sold (8,000 total). the prizes went as follows - 5 oz Gold Wafer to Alberta; 2 oz and 1oz Gold Wafers stayed in Dawson City.
December Christmas Supper This was a full house. Catered by the Downtown Hotel. The evening included Bingo and door prizes supplied by the community
Eight new members joined the Lodge in 2003 Emile Levesque Henry Procyk Duncan Spriggs Sylvain Fleurant Cor Guimond Steven Rudniski Jeff Kalles Steven (Poncho) Rudniski
Two Life members Brother Joe Braga Brother Ken Tatlow
One member passed on - a service was held on August 17th for Brother Al Leary
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IODE Update By Jennifer Last (neé Keller)
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You, the community at large are responsible for helping so many through the fundraising efforts of your Dawson City Chapter IODE. For those of you who don't know, the IODE is a Canadian women's charitable organization. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children, youth, and those in need, through educational, social service and citizenship programs. Every so often people ask me where all this money goes, who exactly is receiving aid. Well when I first became a member of the IODE, I was stunned to hear the answer to this . I think | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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that some of you might be too. I'd like to take a moment to enlighten everyone. after all it's your money, your good deeds! Where does the money come from? You! As you know, every spring we sell "ice pool" tickets in order to raise money for the many local and national funds we give to each year. The "ice pool" raises a good portion of our General fund. The Christmas jars etc. that you drop your change in to are always full, they too are a good asset. Just as important are the many donations from individuals and local businesses. Just this year the IODE received a donation from the recently deceased James lynch. Jimmy was a long time supporter and the IODE is grateful for his very generous donation. The IODE is presently discussing how we can put his good name to a bursary, fund or award in the future. I'd like to state that every so often it becomes apparent that rising taxes and general inflation motivate an increase in our donation amount. a good example is that this year we were able to increase the amount of our donation to the victims of fire in time to help a local fire victim. After we increased the fire victim amount we decided to go through with our annual donations and ended up raising the amounts given to 9 other worthy causes. • How about a breakdown? here is a list of Donations made possible by your generosity in the year 2003. • Locally • Yukon consolidated rev • Community members in crisis • IODE ·scholarship bursary • RSS choir • RSS Band • RSS library • RSS Yearbook • RSS citizenship books • RSS Young Women Exploring Careers • Student Taking Educational Trip • Eliza Van Bibber School • Dawson daycare • Dawson Shelter Society • Food for Learning • Learning Disabilities Association Yukon • Primary Literacy • Dawson Senior Group • Dawson legion • Christmas Funds • Nationally • Canadian Disaster Fund • Snack pack fund • 100th Anniversary grant to Alleviate child abuse • Juno Beach fund The Christmas Fund covers the seniors gift/baking hampers, the Women's Shelter and many other various needs our community has over the holidays. The Snack Pack Fund helps provide daily nutritious snacks to over 2000+ school children in Labrador. The IODE 100th Anniversary Grant Program (capital fund) is an ongoing grant program open to an individual or group specializing in developing and implementing ways to prevent child abuse and neglect. What else do we do? every year we respond to many requests from student s who need monetary educational assistance. we write letters of support on behalf of local improvement projects like the Dawson City Masonic Hall so that they might better access grants. with pride, we sponsor the Canada Appreciation Assembly by purchasing chosen Canadian books for presentation to students or classes. This year the IODE donated to the International Juno Beach center which supports veterans who participated in D-Day. How about that Commissioner's Tea? Each spring, in cooperation with Parks Canada(KNHS), the IODE gals round up volunteers to act in many different roles. thanks to the time and effort of our great community, the Commissioners tea is an event we all look forward to. We at the IODE appreciate every penny that you, the citizens of Dawson have given over the years. Cut this article out and put it on your fridge for those time when you wonder how you can help, here at home and across our country. It will serve as a reminder that you already have! Thank-You.
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