RIVERS WITHOUT BORDERS

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Whitehorse office - upward and onward

Rivers Without Borders’ (RWB) Whitehorse office has changed locations… South-facing, Grey Mountain viewing, a skyscraping second storey location (two storeys short of the maximum in Whitehorse). After many years of being the fortunate tenants of the generous and loving Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) staffers, RWB has made a difficult decision to spread its wings, and put itself into position for some passive Vitamin D exposure.

Sun through Yukon River ice fog - view from office at 10 am, Jan 28 

RWB would like to pay tribute to all staff members at YCS who were such amazing organizational roommates over the last few years.  If cohabitation could always be this way, then wouldn’t life be much simpler, easier?  Georgia Greetham! Lewis Rifkind! Karen Baltgailis! Sue Kemmett! 

Perhaps it was partly my July arrival at RWB that prompted this shift into a slightly larger space… Things got a bit tight in the basement of the YCS blue house.  Karin Sparks so graciously allowed me to occupy a small desk in the corner of her basement office.  Although I liked the desk very much, I ended up occupying different terminals in the YCS ‘upstairs’ offices, on days there were vacant work spaces.  Depending on one’s perspective, my presence in the building was inconsistent or absent.  I don’t like to be easily situated anyway!

David MacKinnon may be surprised by the sheer brightness of the bright new locale.  He still hasn’t seen his new office, freshly painted white, and flooded with direct sunlight.  He’s been out of town for a while now but we expect him in today.  He may need to be eased into the new space, which bears no resemblance to the dark bunker-like space he was operating out of for many years.  He may also have some difficulty restraining himself from gazing at the lovely Grey Mountain from his executive director’s chair! RWB staff are preparing for his eventual appearance and have put into place mitigating strategies to smooth-over his adjustment…

As for Karin, who works half-time at RWB, she will need to walk about 50 feet down the hall from her other half time job.  Convenience.  Proximity.  This new office will be warm and she will not require a space heater to be running most of the year under her desk as she did in the old RWB office.  There will be a ceremonial smashing of this heater!  Wait, I mean, we will donate the space heater to a community free-store…