Whistler

By Kara-Leah Grant Local athlete Leah Powell is one of 16 women competing on OLN’s upcoming reality television show, The Women’s Power Challenge.

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid team was in Toronto this week drumming up money and support for the fight to host the Winter Games.

Summer resident birds and other unusual passersby By Karl Ricker and Heather Baines, Whistler Naturalists This is the third in a four-part series on Whistler’s birds. In the first article the meagre list of winter residents was noted.

A lot has changed for Tyler Mosher since he made his first run for Whistler council back in 1999. He was married to Tonya Raworth.

Concerns voiced at last weekend’s first stakeholder meeting The Environmental-Conservation group in the Sea to Sky Land and Resource Management Plan has decided to stick with the year-long process despite earlier concerns.

Attention young writers.

Municipality signs up Spring Creek fire hall for B.C. Hydro’s Green Power Certificates The municipality will spend more on their hydro bills at the new Spring Creek fire hall to ensure the power is coming from environmentally friendly sources.

But businesses still concerned about impacts form closures The Sea to Sky highway will not be re-built to a four-lane freeway all the way to Whistler.

Marianne Wade has been considering running for council for about 18 months, ever since the Zen development proposal was rejected by the current council. Last week she decided to throw her hat into the ring.

Plans for upgrading the Sea to Sky highway are continuing to evolve.