Whistler

Intrawest Corp. announced last week it recorded $233-million US in real estate sales during the preceding three-month period. According to a company press release, it is Intrawest’s best-ever sales performance.

Friday, July 20 LIVE PERFORMANCES Who : Slow Nerve Action Where : Garfinkel’s Get funked this weekend with these sexed-up Whistler musicians.

Below-average snowpack and precipitation totals the cause The Whistler area’s forest fire hazard is still high despite a recent smattering of showers and cool, cloudy conditions.

It’s a quiet weekday evening and a steady drizzle falls from the sky. Dark-green cedar trees reflect in a slow-flowing stream.

Bob Calladine was named the Whistler Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year at a July 18 luncheon at Garibaldi Lift Co. The Vancouver-born Calladine moved to Whistler in 1995 and has been the personification of community spirit.

Vancouver-Whistler bid corporation taking next steps after Toronto loses bid to host 2008 Although you would expect champagne corks to be flying at the Vancouver Whistler 2010 Bid Corporation headquarters when the International Olympic Committee anno

Junior golfers teed off at the Whistler Golf Club on July 10 and at Squamish Valley on July 17, the second and third stop on the Sea to Sky Junior Tour.

Over the years, I have read many good letters sent to the Editor and thought it was time to write one myself. Recently there have been issues that have come to the fore and it is evident there are many concerns regarding our "best friends.

SPECIAL EVENTS WAX ON-WAX OFF CAR WASH. Whistler Kicks for Kids is holding this car wash Saturday, July 21, noon-3 p.m. in the Marketplace parking lot. Proceeds go to help protect Whistler’s bears through the J.J. Whistler Bear Society.

Whistler council has adopted a set of principles to guide the municipality through the 2010 Olympic bid process. In July of 2000 council introduced a draft set of guiding principles for consideration by the community.