Opinion

Happy New Year. One countdown over, another one marches on. There’s always a lot of anticipation leading up to midnight on Dec. 31.

By Michel Beaudry “It takes a village to raise a child.” This old African dictum has been so oft-repeated in recent years that it’s become nearly meaningless. So let’s consider its apposite corollary: “It takes a child to raise a village.

I take exception to your article of Thursday Dec 14 th , “Bralorne’s gold mine is open but local motel is shut down”, by Cindy Filipenko. I think that Mr. Beaudoin shaded things to his liking.

“Whistler, huh? You guys have got a lot of strategies going on up there.

The Nintendo Wii was easily the most popular gaming system of the holiday shopping season, with stores struggling to keep up supply to meet the demand.

Super generous supermarket The Pemberton Secondary Grad 2007 Class would sincerely like to thank Mark and Carolyn Blundell and the Pemberton Valley Supermarket for so generously donating all of the fixings for our Breakfast with Santa.

By Michel Beaudry There’s nothing like taking a little work trip abroad to put things in perspective. Seriously.

About five years ago the Whistler Public Library and Whistler Museum and Archives announced that they had failed in their attempt to raise half the funds needed for a $9 million joint facility and were calling off the fundraising campaign.

With its future prospects tied to a gaming system few people can afford, and if you can afford it, even fewer people can find, you’d think Sony would be a little humble these days.

The kindness of strangers Last Thursday afternoon during the snowstorm, my car fishtailed and I ended up in the ditch near Green Lake. What followed will tell you everything you need to know about the wonderful people of Whistler.