Whistler

Whistler key place to hold cultural festivals The final farewell event in the 2010 Olympics is tentatively slated to take place in Whistler.

It may not look like much, but the Whistler Conference Centre has it where it counts. Successful Meetings Magazine has named the conference centre as a recipient of the Pinnacle Award for 2002.

Sex and the single plant By Bob Brett, Whistler Naturalists " I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of coition: it is th

Rainbow Rosenbloom, a familiar name in Waldorf education, will be speaking at Myrtle Philip Community Centre on Sunday, June 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. Rosenbloom’s resume attests to his 18 years experience teaching and advising Waldorf schools.

After several months of discussion and research, the Whistler Chamber of Commerce has decided to support the 2010 Olympic Bid. The board met last week to pass a resolution and now want to ensure their decision has a strategic impact.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham took every opportunity to give Whistler and Vancouver’s bid for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games a plug at last week’s meeting of G8 foreign ministers.

British Columbians donated the most money by far to the national Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign, which raised almost $1-million in just over a year.

Last weekend the RCMP received reports of five motor vehicle break-ins. These took place at the beach parking lots and in underground parking lots around Whistler.

Municipality supports the creation of a new accommodation class The municipality is recommending that all condo hotels be taxed equally by blending the commercial and residential tax rates and thereby ending discrepancies within the current legislati

Transit ridership holds steady Ridership numbers for the Whistler and Valley Express transit service were both up and down – mostly up – from May 25 to June 7.