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| The Kingscotes moved to Whitehorse in the fall of 1981. Myrna became the secretary at Jeckell Jr. High School and worked there until her retirement in 1998.((“Myrna Kay Kingscote.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 December 2023.)) Their first Sourdough Rendezvous was in 1982 and they got to know some twelve pilots who had come up on their own for the event. They also entertained the fifteen Snowbird pilots. In 1982, Myrna started organizing the air show and the can-can dancers. Jack took over the air show in 1983 and Myrna stayed with the can-can line. Their continued efforts have made a success of these Rendezvous traditions. The show grew from six planes and twelve participants to thirty aircraft and 200 participants, and the Kingscotes continued to entertain them. They had to put a tent out for the smokers. They moved out their furniture and braced the floor for the crowd. In later years the Kingscote soiree moved to the Legion. The numbers at the air show were stable in 2006 at about 6,000 per year, even at minus 40. Jack and Myrna were granted honorary life membership of the Sourdough Rendezvous Board.((Rick Massie, "How the Rendezvous air show grew wings." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 20 February 2006.)) The Rendezvous Air Show is now named the Kingscote Air Display.((“Myrna Kay Kingscote.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 December 2023.)) | The Kingscotes moved to Whitehorse in the fall of 1981. Myrna became the secretary at Jeckell Jr. High School and worked there until her retirement in 1998.((“Myrna Kay Kingscote.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 December 2023.)) Their first Sourdough Rendezvous was in 1982 and they got to know some twelve pilots who had come up on their own for the event. They also entertained the fifteen Snowbird pilots. In 1982, Myrna started organizing the air show and the can-can dancers. Jack took over the air show in 1983 and Myrna stayed with the can-can line. Their continued efforts have made a success of these Rendezvous traditions. The show grew from six planes and twelve participants to thirty aircraft and 200 participants, and the Kingscotes continued to entertain them. They had to put a tent out for the smokers. They moved out their furniture and braced the floor for the crowd. In later years the Kingscote soiree moved to the Legion. The numbers at the air show were stable in 2006 at about 6,000 per year, even at minus 40. Jack and Myrna were granted honorary life membership of the Sourdough Rendezvous Board.((Rick Massie, "How the Rendezvous air show grew wings." //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 20 February 2006.)) The Rendezvous Air Show is now named the Kingscote Air Display.((“Myrna Kay Kingscote.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 6 December 2023.)) |
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| Myrna visited Rendezvous sponsors, managed the can-can dancers, sewed their costumes, and did a lot of the behind-scenes work. She also had a business in costume making and rental. She and long-time volunteer Lana Dowey retired from the Rendezvous organization in 2007.((Stephanie Waddell, "Rendezvous stalwarts to pass the torch." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 February 2007.)) | Myrna was a national trainer in sales and worked with many women going into the work force for the first time. She started her own business renting out men's costumes for Rendevous and the business grew. In 1990, she had a partner in Vancouver and they produced costumes for period weddings, the Commissioner's Ball and conventions as well as the Rendevous business [some of which was rentals].(("Myrna Kingscote." //Celebration 1991: A Woman's Daybook.// Yukon Advisory Council on Women's Issues and the Women's Directorate, Government of Yukon, 1990: 94.)) |
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| | As a volunteer, Myrna visited Rendezvous sponsors, managed the can-can dancers, sewed their costumes, and did a lot of the behind-scenes work.((Stephanie Waddell, "Rendezvous stalwarts to pass the torch." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 February 2007.)) She and long-time volunteer Lana Dowey retired from the Rendezvous organization in 2007.((Stephanie Waddell, "Rendezvous stalwarts to pass the torch." //Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 2 February 2007.)) |
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