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Saturday’s Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike Race is considered the last big event of the mountain bike season.

The library offers a variety of programs for children throughout the year. Attending story time with your child is fun and educational for both of you.

SPECIAL EVENTS SEA TO SKY FILM FESTIVAL . The sixth annual festival rolls Sept. 21 at the Eagle Eye Theatre at Howe Sound secondary in Squamish. Tickets available from Mostly Books, Highlands Video and Howe Sound Inn.

More than 300 triathletes were in Whistler on Sept.

After its most successful summer of competitive swimming ever, the Whistler Swim Club dives into the new season on Monday, Sept. 24 at Meadow Park. Brandi Higgins, the current masters coach, was appointed Head Coach of the new club.

You didn’t have to be crazy to take part in the first annual Samurai of Singletrack last weekend, but it helped.

Canadian mountain bikers medal at World Championships, led by Roland Green Once again Roland Green made it look easy.

In last weeks’ coverage of the freestyle aerials World Cup at Mount Buller in Australia, it was reported that the women’s team had trouble on the first day of competition when in fact Pascale Gadbois of Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, a newcomer to

University hockey game dedicated to Tony Tyler Two of the top university hockey teams in Western Canada are set to face off in Whistler this weekend, the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and the University of Alberta Golden Bears.

Canadian second, third and fourth after first aerials event Canadian aerialists managed two medals and four top-four finishes on the first day of World Cup competition at Mount Buller in Australia, last weekend, but were shut out on day two as the we