Some young scholars at Hillcrest High School in Queens last Monday learned that one of their teachers had attended a pro-Israel rally shortly after the Oct. 7 atrocities – and, by God, they were having none of that.
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Jack Cable, a former commissioner, MLA and well-known lawyer, passed away Wednesday.
His daughter, Sue Edelman, spoke eloquently about him Thursday afternoon during an interview with the Star. She didn’t hesitate for an instant when asked to provide one word that described her father.
“Curious,” she said. “He was always curious, always interested in things.”
Cable, she added, liked to experiment as well.
At one point, he was trying to grow wheat in the front yard of their Riverdale home.
That experiment was a failure, she recalled wryly, but it made the family home an instant attraction.
At that time, she said, most of Whitehorse’s tourism was based on tour buses. Many of the tourists came from the Canadian and U.S. prairies, Edelman said.
Former Whitehorse mayor Bill Weigand died last Sunday at the age of 92.
The longtime Whitehorse resident is being remembered by friends and former colleagues as a gentleman’s gentleman with a kind heart.
Mayor Dan Curtis paid tribute to Weigand at the beginning of city council’s meeting on Monday.
Weigand, said Curtis, was a real legend in the Yukon.
“He was basically loved,” he said. “Everybody here is heartbroken.
“I have reached out on behalf of council and myself to the family.”
Weigand served one term, from 1991 to 1994. He was the first full-time mayor for the city.
Curtis recalls several years ago being at the Pioneer Cemetery in the downtown area to celebrate substantial improvements.
The owners of Whitehorse's Lumel Studios have hatched an ambitious plan to build a new four-storey building next door to provide low-cost office space to non-governmental organizations (NGOs).