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Trip Winners Visit the Yukon

Posted on October 05, 2007 at 2:39 PM

Yukon Brewing Company was a sponsor of the Edmonton Cracker Cats this past summer, the semi-pro baseball team in Edmonton. As such, our beer was available all summer long at Telus Field in Edmonton. Part of our sponsorship was to provide a trip for two to the Yukon for two lucky winners.  This trip was made possible through the help of our partners Uncommon Journeys and Air North.

The winners were Jim and Elizabeth Findlay, who are originally from Scotland but living in Edmonton. Jim and Elizabeth arrived in Whitehorse late in the evening and were whisked off to the lodge at Uncommon Journeys. The next day, they were helicoptered up for two days of hiking, eating, and drinking. Not a bad way to spend a weekend.

Rod Taylor of Uncommon Journeys brought Jim and Elizabeth to the brewery for a tour and some samples prior to heading to the airport for their flight home. Unfortunately, we all managed to miss the fact that the Air North schedule changed to winter hours that very day, and the flight to Edmonton left at 2:55, not 4:00 pm. We got them to the airport just in time to watch the plane taxi away.

Deb Ryan at Air North jumped to the rescue, booking them onto a flight to Vancouver the next morning and home via Westjet later that day. Since Jim and Elizabeth had never been to Vancouver, they decided to take a late flight home so that they could spend the day in Vancouver. Talk about making lemonade from lemons.

We must say that Deb Ryan stepped up to the plate, big time. She was right on to Jim and Elizabeth’s problem, rebooking flights, finding them a hotel, and then touring them around town before dropping them off.  No wonder Air North keeps getting the compliments.

And, as Jim said after getting home, “Leave it to a Scotsman to miss his flight while standing in a brewery drinking samples”.