Whistler

By Joan Richoz, Whistler Public Library Do you get tired of listening to music on your trips to Squamish or Vancouver? Do you find you don’t have time to read but would like to? Well, the Whistler Public Library has something for you.

A monster-sized, weather-predicting computer could soon save lives and property.

Inside New York’s venerable Waldorf-Astoria last week King Abudullah II of Jordan called for the international community to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Outside, protesters called for Palestinian rights.

Last week’s headline "Four heli-skiers killed in avalanches in one week" was erroneous. Only one of the skiers killed in the avalanches was a heli-skier, while the others were killed backcountry skiing.

The World Economic Forum is returning to Davos for its annual meeting in 2003, but where it goes after that has yet to be decided.

Although it just over two years old, the Community Foundation of Whistler has already started to pay dividends to local groups and initiatives – $45,000 to date, according to Foundation chair Nancy Wilhelm-Morden.

Only half of the total solid waste generated in the Sea to Sky Corridor went into area landfills in 2001; the rest was reduced, reused and recycled.

SPECIAL EVENTS ALTITUDE X. The 10 th annual gay and lesbian ski week in Whistler runs from Feb. 3 to 10.

Many teachers in Whistler and throughout the corridor will not be resuming extra curricular activities any time soon. "That’s what they are telling me," said Howe Sound Teachers’ Association president Marjorie Reimer.

Romance of the mountains blooms on Valentine’s Day Whether it's on snowmobiles or skis, in swimming pools or atop high mountains next to glacial lakes, or even among the trees in Khyber's Pass, there is something about Whistler that gets people