Whistler

Students, parents, teachers anticipating second elementary school The Howe Sound school district will start discussions this month on where to draw the line for enrolment for the new Spring Creek elementary school.

Black Bear Researcher CLASSROOM BEAR AWARENESS From Sept. 17 to 21, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (Brian Barnett) sponsored, the sixth seasonal (spring and fall) children?s classroom bear awareness program at Myrtle Phillip Community School.

The rally racing team of driver Patrick Richard, formerly of Whistler, and navigator Ian McCurdy, currently of Whistler, are now three for three in the Subaru Canadian Rally Championships.

EVENTS WHAT: Whistler-Blackcomb Harvest Huckfest WHERE: Whistler Mountain WHEN: Oct. 5 to 7 Events include a cruiser bike ride on Friday at 7 p.m.; "Ride with the Stars" on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Whistler is not alone as it struggles with the effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in America. "There isn?t a community that hasn?t been affected," Prince George Coun.

Austria has joined the race to host the winter Olympics in 2010. The small European nation announced this past summer it was interested in hosting the Games, which they have held twice before, in 1964 and 1976.

Squamish is bracing for more economic misfortune following the announcement this week that Interfor will close its local lumber division for at least two weeks. The move will throw as many as 175 employees out of work.

Judging by the number of people stumbling around the woods and brush in the hills above Spruce Grove on any given afternoon, there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of disc golfers in Whistler.

Any new financial tools the Liberal government?s community charter provides to municipalities aren?t likely to be available when Whistler drafts its budget for 2003.

Whistler RCMP discover sawed-off shotgun, rifle, and marijuana An anonymous tip-off from "a concerned citizen" led the Whistler RCMP detachment to 15 pounds of processed marijuana, and, more importantly, an illegal sawed-off double barrel shotgun and