Whistler

WHISTLER DISCOVERY DAY. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 2, Whistler businesses throughout the valley invite the community to come visit and participate in some great special events. FROM THE KNEE UP.

Five local men who bike-toured through Italy on the From the Knee Up Whistler Friendship Tour are back from their three-week fundraising trip and will be sharing their experiences this weekend during a slide show.

Five youths from Surrey aged 17 and 18 were in Squamish Provincial Court on May 30 to be formally charged in connection with a May 28 incident on Main Street in Whistler where two youths were assaulted at knifepoint and a third was robbed.

Elementary PAC wants to canvass opinions before summer holidays It looked like it was going to be an orderly and somewhat uneventful annual general meeting of the Whistler secondary Parent Advisory Council, until the topic of police in schools was in

Utah's 14 ski and snowboard resorts announced last week they broke their all-time record for skier visits this past season with 3,349,498, an increase of 11 percent from the 199-2000 season total of 2,976,796.

It has to be the lowliest of volunteer jobs but, in the name of going green, 15 intrepid vollies donned coveralls, masks and gloves and dug into a mountain of trash generated by the Chateau Whistler in a 24 hour period.

Are you in a fog? Then hop on the bus, Gus. Or get on your bike, Mike. That’s what the Resort Municipality of Whistler would like visitors and locals to do during this year’s Clean Air Week.

Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which filed for protection on March 9, is offering money-back guarantees on next winter’s season passes while the company sorts out its finances.

As we were reminded so recently, automobile crashes happen, and people get hurt.

The latest proposed rate increase by Whistler’s only piped-propane provider is inevitable, says a local resident who has been closely following the energy issue. "It’s like a loan," Tim Wake told Pique Newsmagazine .