Whitehorse-based photographer Cathie Archbould bagged the biggest moose of any Yukon Fish and Game Association
member in 2008. Her efforts were recognized at the Annual Wild Game Banquet, hosted by the association in January. Archbould received a handmade hunting knife to commemorate her memorable hunt.
Northerm Windows, in Whitehorse, unveiled its four-pane window, the Northerm 4000 Series, in January. The window was developed with the help of $30,000 received from the Yukon Cold Climate Innovation Centre Research and Development Fund. The groundbreaking window has an R-value (a measure of insulation capability) of 9.5, compared to 3.3 of an average threepane window.
Good news from the Yukon, North of Ordinary masthead:
our designer, Manu Keggenhoff, will have her photographs
featured in Gaby von Döllen’s upcoming book, Weisse Schweizer Schäferhunde (White Swiss Shepherd Dogs).
The photo-based book, to be released in late 2009 by German publisher Cadmos Verlag, will showcase two of Keggenhoff’s
passions. (She is a registered breeder of White Shepherds
and loves using them as subjects in her photography.) Weisse
Schweizer Schäferhunde will be the second major book release featuring Keggenhoff’s work. In 2007, another stunning dog snap was used on the cover of Dean Koontz’s thriller The Darkest
Evening of the Year.
Six Yukoners received a 2008 Heritage Award from the Yukon Historical & Museum Association, in June, for their contributions in preserving Yukon history: Gudrun Sparling and Babe Richards were joint recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award; Greg Skuce was awarded the Annual Heritage Award for “his years
of dedication in the fields of industrial conservation and digital preservation”; Con Lattin received the Helen Couch Volunteer
of the Year Award for his long-time service on the board of the MacBride Museum of Yukon History; and Matthias Bindig and Lauren Blackburn received the Historic Places Initiative Conservation Project of the Year Award for their work on the Wernecke Mine Manager’s House, in Keno City, Yukon. In February, winners of the 2009 Yukon Students’ Heritage Poster Contest were announced. Kierra Smeeton won first prize with
a drawing of the Widdershin House on Second Avenue in
Whitehorse, and Hanna Wirth won second prize with her depiction of the SS Klondike. The contest is sponsored by
the Historic Places Initiative, Yukon Historical & Museums Association, and Government of Yukon.
After having numerous poems published in literary journals,
Clea Roberts, a poet living in Whitehorse, secured a book deal
with Freehand Books, last January. Her manuscript includes poems about the Yukon and Northern British Columbia and will be published in fall 2010. “I’m interested in examining the bridges that exist between the natural world and the human-made world,” she says.