A couple months ago 19 year old Darryl Tait was in a serious snowmobiling accident, as you may know. Well he is now in Vancouver on the long road to recovery.

His friends here in Yellowknife will be putting on a fundraiser for him on Wednesday November 25. The event will be filled with awesome performances by Fish Be?, Priscilla’s Revenge, and The Skinnys! With special guest speakers Ross Mercer and Blake Wildfong.

For those in attendance there will be complementary pizza and refreshments. All the proceeds will go to retro fitting a Handi-van for Darryl.

Details:

• Where: NACC
• When: November 25, 7:30pm
• Price: $12 which can be purchased HERE.

Tomorrow is a day full of community events so I hope you can make it out to at least one.

Starting in the morning is the annual Elks Craft Show. The show starts at 10am and goes until 2pm, my suggestion would be to get just after 10am to see all the great stuff the people of Yellowknife has to offer. Lots of home made stuff, from clothing to preserves to northern art work. It is always neat to see what everyone has, even if you don’t buy anything.

After you got your fix at the craft sale head over to the Yk Co-op for CJCD’s annual Stuff the Bus fundraiser. They will attempt, with the support of Yellowknifers, to Stuff a Frontier Coach Line bus, literally with food donations. Although the aim is to stuff a bus with food donations, they will also be accepting cash donations. All food donations will be split 50/50 between the Yellowknife Food Bank and the Salvation Army. The day will be filled with fun and laughter as CJCD will be live on location in the bus from 9am to 5pm.

Ending off a busy day out and about Yellowknife can always be done with entertainment. That being said take the family to see the final performance of Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator put on by Sir John Franklin High School’s drama students. Every year the students work very hard to put on these performances and I’m sure this year will be no different. To top of there own performance they will be doing a tribute to Michael Jackson.

Have a fun day. I will be wandering around from event to event, I hope to see some of you. If there is something going on that I forgot to mention, please post it below in the comments.

It is the day before municipal election and I hope you know what you need to do. Vote! Tomorrow make sure you take the time and get out to your polling station and vote. If you didn’t get a chance to register for the voting list, make sure you bring your I.D. with you when you go to vote. For all the details on voting and where it can be done go to the City Voting Website Page.

If you want to a little more background information on the candidates you can also check out the Yellowknifer’s Yellowknife Votes Website.

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If you didn’t notice yet or you are reading this in a RSS reader, YkOnline now has a calendar page. The hope is that this calendar will display special/current events happening in Yellowknife. Fundraisers, music, festivals, etc. I will need your help though. If you scroll over the calendar tab at the top of the site, you will see a drop down menu with “Submit Event”. That is where you come in, if you know of an event or are hosting one, go to that page (Submit Event) and fill out the form. Once you fill it out and submit it, it will be sent to me and I will publish it to the calendar. Simple as that.

The idea is to create a central site for Yellowknifers and those visiting to find out what is happening, current issues, reviews & featured places/people and so much more.

Update: Due to some reasons I don’t know the Randy Bachman Concert has been canceled.

I don’t know what you’re doing Friday night but here’s something you might be interested in checking out.

A live concert with music legend Randy Bachman at the Multiplex July 10th starting at 7pm.

Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Randy Bachman has become a legendary figure in the rock and roll world through his talents as a guitarist, songwriter, performer and producer. He has earned over 120 Gold and Platinum album/singles awards around the world for performing and producing. His songwriting has garnered him the coveted #1 spot on radio play lists in over 20 countries and he has amassed over 40 million records sold.

The floor will be licensed so only 19+ but the bleachers will be open to all ages. Tickets are on sale now at Head Gear in the Center Square Mall for $60. This concert is being put on as a fundraiser for the Yk Ravens Broomball team.