It may be mid-June but Yukon Quest officials are already busily preparing for next year’s running of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.Both the Whitehorse and Fairbanks offices have added three newly elected board members to their organizations.Mieke Evers, Georgina Leslie and Rolf Schmitt will join the Whitehorse board while Lisa Baraff, Kerynn Fisher and Susan McDonald are new additions to the Fairbanks office.Leslie, born and raised in the Yukon, brings years of experience to the board, having served as a volunteer in last year’s race and as an executive director in 2010-2011, when she took over for Wendy Morrison.Read more here: http://www.whitehorsestar.com/archive/print/49867/
