Whitehorse Daily Star from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada • 4

4 The Whitehorse Star Monday May 13 1985 Respite on TV radio Yukon residents will be able to get up to the minute election results tonight by tuning in to either CBC or CKRW radio or the CBC-TV Both radio stations plan to do live coverage of the election and will begin broadcasting results as soon as the polls close at 8:00 pm CBC coverage will be hosted by Mike Hornbrook and Peter Novak and reporters will be stationed at each of the party headquarters Live interviews will be held with various candidates throughout the evening depending on who wins and who CKRW will be joining forces with two reporters from CHON-FM who will be stationed at the government building Bert Lew Bill Swainson Bert Wybrew and Glen Darling of CKRW will provide background information and election analysis to listeners until the results of the election are known For the first time ever CBC will carry a live television broadcast from the Yukon Starting at 8 pm and going for at least 1M hours the coverage will be beamed up to the Anik satellite for broadcast on the full CBC northern service The on-air coverage will be hosted by Yellowknife-based Marie Wilson of Focus North and Whit Fraser the Ottawa-based national reporter with respon- CBC crews analysts result takers during a dry run yesterday sidered elected and to both radio and television Television results are punched into a character generating machine Besides personnel from CBC-TV in Yellowknife there are technical personnel from ITV in Edmonton CBC has rented ITV mobile equipment to produce the show FM-Northern Native Broadcasting director George Henry The production is being treated like full southern election coverage only on a smaller scale About 45 people are involved in the television production at a cost of roughly $145000 Included are a core of election specialists from Toronto who are overseeing compilation of results and calling of the election A group of CBC personnel and local business students will handle the numbers and act as runners They feed results to the desk" two local reporters who will decide when candidates can be safely con sibility for northern issues Bob Sudeyko of CBC radio in Whitehorse will keep viewers on top of the results while Bruce Dysart of Focus North will be doing interview segments for the show On-air commentators include former Whitehorse mayor and former cabinet minister Flo Whyard and CHON- Chambers seek co-ordination on roads Jan Harvey Associates of Whitehorse They were printed last week so the meeting got to look at the first copies of the brochure which will be distributed through normal tourist information outlets as well as Alaska state ferries up on a resolution from last year's meeting when the idea of more tourist promotion of the Whitehorse-Haines-Skagway highway loop was called for the production of a brochure by Bauer said a joint committee of the three chambers oversaw shut-down fate The problems of maintenance on the most northerly BC section of the Alaska section and the Top of World Highway also drew concerned comments at the meeting Bauer said The chambers resolved to contact the various governmental agencies responsible for the maintenance urging a better job this year There were also repeat discussions of continuing concerns the wish for direct postal ties between the Yukon and Alaska given the lengthy time mail routed via Seattle and Vancouver takes and continued support for the hoped-for Whitehorse-Juneau electrical Klondike Highway could see reduced maintenance and even winter closure of the Haines Highway despite a commitment from the Yukon government that the Haines Highway will not be affected A resolution of the chambers supported the proposed opening of the South Klondike only on the condition that the Haines Highway is not affected The continued hope in the Skagway area that the future holds some good news for the White Pass and Yukon Railway despite opening of the railway got a cold shower yet again Marvin Taylor executive vice-president of White Pass repeated the long-standing stand that opening of the South Klondike to trucks will seal the CINEMA CENTRE 5" CINE-INFO PHONEt 667-2462JB DOORS OPEN 6:30 PM 9:00 7:00 inter-tie and Juneau to Haines highway: The chambers also followed By MASSEY PADGHAM Staff Reporter Better co-ordination of transportation issues affecting the northwest is needed delegates to a weekend meeting of Yukon and southeast Alaskan Chambers of Commerce decided very disjointed now" said Gary Bauer president of the Whitehorse Chamber of Commerce after the two-day meeting in Haines Alaska have the Alaska government the Yukon government and the British Columbia government all with different For example both the Haines Highway and South Klondike Highway pass through all three jurisdictions and theoretically through three weight limits and three differing taxation schemes And with the Alaska Highway decisions made about the British Columbia portion affect transportation into the Yukon and Alaska issues should be looked at as a regional issue without Bauer said He said the delegates decided to send more of their transportation -issues to the annual meeting in late summer of the BC premier Yukon government leader and Alaskan governor The meeting also looked at a number of other transportation issues There is strong concern in Haines that the-pMposed year-g round opening of the South.