Klondike Sun ~ September 23, 2009

“Junior Rangers are our Future Leaders,” says General Millar

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Dawson’s Rangers pose with staff from “Headquarters” in Yellowknife after a dinner cruise on the Klondike Spirit. Photo - Dan Davidson

Story & Photos by Dan Davidson

“I wanted to come and visit you,” Brigadier General David Millar told the Dawson Junior Rangers, “because I have heard that you are one of the most enthusiastic, outgoing, energetic Junior Ranger Patrols in all of the North.”

This must have put the 17 youngsters in the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Community Hall into a state of shock, because when he continued by asking them “Is that true?” he had to get them to repeat themselves three times before they were loud enough to live up to his compliment.

Millar, the Commander of Joint Task Force North, was in Dawson City on September 11th to meet with both the Canadian Junior Rangers (CJR) and the Rangers, but he began his visit by focussing on the youngsters.

“Our Junior Rangers are our future leaders here in the Yukon and in Canada,” he said in a later interview, “and this is a great opportunity to show them that we appreciate all their efforts to be fine young citizens here in the community of Dawson.”

Millar sees the Junior Ranger program as being the youth program that is the most natural fit for places in the North like Dawson. The activities undertaken by the Junior Rangers are more relevant to the lifestyle of the North than those that are part of Army, Navy or Air Cadet groups.

“Talking to members of the Rangers here, they say that this is the case,” Millar said. “The life skills that are going to be most useful in your life here, the Ranger (program) does offer that.”

Earlier, talking to the group, Millar asked them about their

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In this Issue (28 pages):
1 – Junior Rangers
2 – Junior Rangers / Miner’s Death
3 – Front Street Paving
4 – Letter: About the Hospital
5 – Letter: Slo-Pitch Softball / Town Events Calendar
6 – International Outhouse Race
7 – Community Garden Caper
8 – KPMA AGM & Miner of the Year
9 – Twenty Years Ago in the Sun
10 – Police Blotter / Robert Service
11 – Tammy Salzl / Robert Service
12 – Midnight Sun #1 Boss / Press Releases
13 – Chamber of Commerce AGM & Business Awards / Rusty Blackbird
19 – Fort Selkirk
20 – World Con / Bookends
21 – Inspired by Sun , Part 2 / Dempster Trailer Fire
22 – Humane Soc. News / Artist Profile:
M. Dolman / Authors on 8th: Rauguth
23 – Authors on 8th (Cont’d)
24 – R. Service School Tery Fox Run
25 – Violence Prevention / Cartoons
26 – Max’s Colouring Page / Top 10 Fiction Paperbacks & Pop CD’s
27 – Classifieds, Business Directory & Outreach Jobs / Religions Conference
28 – City of Dawson News & Pre-Election Announcements

The contents pages numbers will not match with the contents as some items have been removed due to copyright reasons.

- The Klondike Sun