Klondike Sun ~ November 18, 2009
The Spirit of the Flame Visits Dawson
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The torchbearers: Alisa Camplin, Suzanne Crocker, Marge Kormendy, Peter Menzies and Kevin Mendelsohn pose for pictures with excited students.
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Dan Davidson “I almost cried when I saw Kevin (Mendelsohn) coming up the street with the torch,” said local relay organizer Jody Beaumont (Cirque Consulting & Communications).
Th e r e wa s a l o t o f excitement all through the streets of Dawson on the morning of Nov. 4, tempered with a bit of disappointment that the promised Air North jet was unable to land at the airport, and that the torch party arriving here had to be a bit smaller than planned.
The event ran about half an hour behind schedule, but that just meant that all the students and staff at the Robert Service School were nicely warmed up from chanting in the brisk morning air.
It also meant there was better light for taking pictures, though it might have been neat to see the Olympic Torch coming through the 9 a.m. dimness.
By the time the convoy of vehicles pulled up with the torch bearers, flags whistles and glow sticks shaped like bottles of Coca- Cola had been distributed and people were primed to cheer.
Local Marge Kormendy was the number one torch bearer. She paraded the 94 cm symbol, designed to bring to mind Canada’s open land, vast potential and the smooth fluid lines left in the snow and ice from winter sports, back and forth on 5th Avenue, while handlers staged photo opportunities, media people with video cameras got in everyone’s way and and the noise of the cheering, whistling crowd… Cont’d on p. 6
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IN THIS ISSUE (28 pages):
1 – Spirit of the Flame in Dawson
2 – Hospital Site / Council turnsdown pay raise
3 – Museum Auction a Success
4 – Uffish: Some Time in the Trenches of World War I5 – Heaven at Berton House /Town Calendar of Events
6-7 – Spirit of the Flame Cont./ Geoff Berner’s Klezmer
8 – Police Blotter / Winter Dog Care / Women’s Shelter News
9 – IODE Connection
10 – Remembering the Dead of Many Wars at RSS
11 – Ad: Mike’s Story #2 TV Guide Pages Removed so pages numbers won’t match after p. 11.
17 – Remembering War Vets
18 – Youth Art Enrichment /Alisa Camplin in Torch Run
19 – SOVA Words / CBC Song Quest / Births & Obituary
20 – Italian Connection: A. Senter & P. RosĂ , Filmmakers
21 – Joanne Bell / Wednesday Lupypciw (Artist in Residence)
22 – Fr .Ernest keeps the Faith, Nigeria to Dawson / Bookends
23 – 20 Years Ago in the Sun
24 – Dawson’s Olympic Mail / RSS Astronmers in Ottawa
25 – Mom’s Photo Album / The Ptarmigan / Comics
26 – Kids Art Page / Top 10
27 – Classified/Business Dir./Jobs
28 – City of Dawson News
