Whistler

Plotting the future of the 2010 bid after the Toronto is decided Don Calder, chief executive officer for the Vancouver Whistler 2010 Bid Corporation, will be in Whistler on July 17 to discuss the future of the Winter Games bid at a fireside chat.

Tides and turtles The Queen Charlotte-Galapagos connection By Jack Souther, Whistler Naturalists To the Natives they are Haida Gwaii, Islands-of-the-people. In 1774 Captain George Dixon named them after his ship the S.S. Queen Charlotte.

The campaigning is officially over.

The price of gates may be too much for Whistler.

Refried Reform

The Squamish-Lilllooet Rivers Watershed Partnership Group will receive $290,000 from Fisheries Renewal B.C. this year that will help spawn 15 fish improvement projects in the Sea-to-Sky region.

The tale of two ski resorts, roadblocks, protests and camouflage battle fatigues intertwines with B.C.’s sad history of treaty negotiations Two B.C.

The Whistler RCMP were forced to kill a male black bear after it had been struck by a car and injured in the Emerald area on the morning of July 8.

The RCMP are still looking for witnesses to a severe beating in the Alpine Meadows area in the early hours of July 3.

The fate of the Alpha Creek wetlands is expected to be a topic at Monday’s council meeting, where council will likely consider third reading of a bylaw to downzone a portion of the wetlands owned by John Zen.