Government of Yukon
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FOR RELEASE #05-043
March 1, 2005
Community Development Fund Awards Tier 1 Funding
WHITEHORSE - The Community Development Fund (CDF) is contributing $254,721 towards 18 approved projects under Tier 1 criteria. Tier 1 is for projects up to $20,000.
"This round of awards will generate an estimated 8,583 hours of work for Yukon residents," the minister responsible for the Community Development Fund, Jim Kenyon, said. "A wide range of projects include music festivals, trail system improvements and community garden projects."
The Yukon Quest International Association (YQIA) was awarded $17,150 to develop three promotional DVDs.
"By developing promotional DVDs, we will heighten awareness about the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, the Yukon and our unique culture," YQIA Manager Stephen Reynolds said. "This project will assist the Yukon Quest with future marketing efforts. Ultimately, we hope to attract both national and international media and sponsors to the Yukon Quest and the Yukon Territory."
"We will build two new spur lines to incorporate the picnic and mining display areas of the Copperbelt Railway," Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society president, Richard Jamieson, said. "We want more people to experience our Yukon culture by means of a mini-railway and mining park. Canyon Historic Railway Society envisions developing an extremely attractive tourist centre as well as a social venue for locals." The Railway Enhancement Project was awarded $20,000.
Learn more about the Community Development Fund and how it may benefit your community projects; visit the Yukon government web site: http://www.gov.yk.ca/.
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Attachment: List of Tier 1 projects funded.
| Contact: | |
| Peter Carr | Patch Groenewegen |
| Cabinet Communications Advisor | Communications Analyst |
| (867) 667-8688 | (867) 456-3913 |
| peter.carr@gov.yk.ca | patch.groenewegen@gov.yk.ca |
Tier 1 Projects Funded
Carcross/Tagish First Nation – Awarded $5,500 to promote awareness about drugs and drug use in the community. "I am Alcohol" by Don Burnstick uses a combination of entertainment, shock value and personal testimony. The project will create an estimated 8 hours of employment for 3 people. Contact: Mark Stevens (867-821-4296).
Girl Guides of Canada – Awarded $2,240 to provide Canoeing Skills Development, so the Girl Guides of Canada/Yukon Division has the capacity to offer canoe training. The development includes boat safety and canoeing courses for 14 Girl Guides and canoeing certification for 8 adult women volunteers. Contact: Jan Langford (667-2455).
Alsek Music Festival Society – Awarded $13,100 to help fund the Production of the Music Festival. The Alsek Music Fesitval Society applied for funding to complement Lotteries partial funding to purchase assets, a storage building for festival assets and for festival production. Contact: Louise Breneman (867-634-2753).
Yukon Volunteer Bureau – Awarded $18,350 to the Yukon Volunteer Bureau to develop and provide a volunteer and organizational leadership training service (VOLTS). An estimated 1000 hours of employment will be created for 1 person. Contact: Tracy Erman (456-4304).
Yukon College – Awarded $18,848 for a Teensafe Pilot Project, which involves several one-day courses, for girls aged 13 – 15, to learn self protection skills and verbal skills to de-escalate a situation and how to get to safety. An estimated 432 hours of employment will be created for 4 people. Contact: Jean Kapala (668-5260).
Freedom Trails Therapeutic Riding Association – Awarded $2,040 for Certified Horsemanship Certification that will provide two Yukon residents with an Instructor and/or Assistant Instructor certification. Contact: Judy Fortin (633-5911).
Yukon Transportation Museum – Awarded $11,840 to install a sprinkler system for artifact and building protection through the Collections Preservation project. An estimated 520 hours of employment will be created for 6 people. Contact: Jocelyn Laveck (668-4792).
Yukon Quest International Association – Awarded $17,150 to initiate a Promotional DVD Production Project, which includes three promotional DVDs that will durate 3 to 5 minutes. An estimated 400 hours of employment will be created for 5 people. Contact: Stephen Reynolds (668-4711).
Yukon Conservation Society – Awarded $19,760 for a Bird Banding Project that includes gathering biological data and providing public information at bird banding stations in Watson Lake and Teslin. An estimated 1448 hours of employment will be created for 3 people. Contact: Lisa Taylor (668-5678).
Recreation & Parks Association of Yukon and Yukon Wholistic Health Network – Awarded $20,000 to offer Option for Health, a series of public seminars to build awareness of personal health options in the Yukon. An estimated 480 hours of employment will be created for 2 people. Contact: Georgia Greetham (867-660-4140).
Watson Lake Music Festival Society – Awarded $20,000 for Musicfest 2005 to provide safety lighting, landscaping, public sanitation and a concert stage for the 2005 Youth Festival. An estimated 1400 hours of employment will be created for 35 people. Contact: Nancy Moore ( 867-537-7366).
Whitehorse Curling Club – Awarded $20,000 to purchase and install a Jet Ice System Replacement system so the curling club can make the best possible ice for the sport of curling. Contact: Suzanne Bertrand (667-2875).
Village of Teslin – Awarded $13,248 for Teslin Lake Clean-up along the shoreline during the low water season. An estimated 720 hours of employment will be created for 3 people. Contact: Wes Wirth (867-390-2530).
Village of Teslin – Awarded $10,944 for the construction of a Consession Facility and brush clearing at the Teslin ball diamond. An estimated 960 hours of employment will be created for 3 people. Contact: Wes Wirth ( 867-390-2530).
Teslin Tlingit Council – Awarded $19,905 to develop a Community Greenhouse & Garden for the citizens of Teslin. An estimated 1200 hours of employment will be created for 2 people. Contact: Kelly Morris (867-390-2532; ext. 330).
Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society – Awarded $20,000 to construct two new spur lines for the Railway Enhancement Project that will incorporate the picnic and mining display areas of the Copperbelt Railway. An estimated 640 hours of employment will be created for 4 people. Contact: Richard Jamieson (667-6355).
Riverdale Community Association – Awarded $3,850 to verify existing GPS mapping information of the Chadburn Lake Trail System, within the Chadburn Lake Reserve Park, which includes confirming the existing ski trail system to a map template, producing and distributing a new map. An estimated 375 hours of employment will be created for 1 person. Contact: David Roddick (668-3918).
Haines Junction Employment Development – Awarded $17,946 to provide eight participants, through the Greenhouse Project, with the opportunity to enter or re-enter the workforce through planting, growing and marketing annual bedding plants that will be sold in northern highway communities. An estimated 4800 hours of employment will create work for 8 people. Contact: Darlene Sillery (867-634-7127).