ONLY 147 SIGNATURES TO REACH 150,000 GOAL! Please SIGN SHARE & DONATE to this petition! Help put a
December 13 2023: ONLY 147 SIGNATURES TO REACH 150,000 GOAL! Please SIGN SHARE & DONATE to this petition! Help put a STOP to Government Funding of a race that’s killed over 40 sled dogs! Lets make it happen!
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UPDATE: The 150,000 signature goal was reached on december 22 2023. a letter was sent to the premier requesting a reply. as of march 12 2024 there has been no reply.
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A little gem I penned 35 years ago. "whither goes the winter rose"
June 21 2023: Happy Summer Solstice from the Yukon! On the longest day/night it doesn't get dark in the Yukon. The sun just circles the horizon. That's why they call us The Land of The Midnight Sun. These pics of my front door were taken at midnight in the Yukon on Solstice 2022 & 2023.
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In most parts of the Yukon it doesn't get dark in summer. The sun basically circles on the horizon. You can sit outside and read a book at midnight. We get the opposite in winter when we get a bit sun-hungry. Then there's cabin fever. Every positive has a negative.
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June 19 2023: Enjoying the summery beauty of the Yukon and the 24-hour Midnight Sun. We're only a day away from the longest day! Already? Doc and I had a lovely stroll through our self-perpetuating Yukon flower garden this aft. Very low maint. No watering. No weeding. And the Junipers are in full bloom! #YukonFact #YukonDoc #Flowers #Dogs
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“Long Live the Sourdough!” written in 1982 and published in my first book “I Sing Yukon” was dedicated to Anne, Princess Royal.
Whenever newcomers arrive in the Yukon we call them Cheechako. When they have survived an entire winter in the Yukon (and pist in the Yukon River) we call them a Sourdough.
We sometimes use the term ‘Outside’ to refer to anywhere that isn’t in the Yukon. *If you see a few words that aren’t in the dictionary it’s because I invented them. ©PJ Yukon
“Long Live the Sourdough!”
there’s frost upon the window
there blows a northern gale
and some say here comes winter
and some say here comes jail
for winter in the Yukon
continues all year round
save for two months of summer
so short as to astound
the north is full of wonder
and certainly extremes
with pageantry eccentric
she’s bursting at the seams
she never gives out samples
and seldom is she shy
with bold austere examples
she glares you in the eye
the twining birch is quaking
and sways as if to bow
leafless cold and shaking
the winter from her brow
do snow flakes fall from heaven
i see them drifting down
like grim eternal leaven
distorting summer ground
the mercury coerces
the sun to hibernation
it’s winter in the yukon
with little hesitation
a ghastly cloud of ice fog
obscures what precious view
of yukon sun allotted
as winter venoms spew
some huddle in their cabins
as other flee ‘outside’
while some don furry parkas
with relish undenied
and mock old mother nature
for many times they’ve faced
the war of wills she wages
upon the bitter waste
they go their way despite her
as sub-degrees impend
and yearn but to requite her
for northern lights she’ll send
with hearty jubilation
they welcome forth the snow
they are the salt of yukon
long live the sourdough!
©PJ Yukon 1982