Whistler

Needle exchange started, mental health programs improved with new health care funding The Coast Garibaldi Health will finally be implementing a needle exchange program in Sea to Sky country with additional funding announced last week.

The 23-year-old publisher and founder of 99 North Magazine has been named Business Person of the Year 2000 by Squamish Chamber of Commerce.

Representatives of B.C. Hydro Employees’ Community Service Fund have presented a specially commissioned artwork to the Disabled Skiing Association of B.C. The artwork, by renowned First Nation artist Art Thompson, was commissioned by B.C.

Although they are included in Terminal Forest Products’ five-year Pest Management Plan (PMP), the Whistler community watersheds of 19 Mile Creek and 21 Mile Creek won’t see an ounce of herbicides or pesticides, says forestry consultant Chri

SPECIAL EVENTS DUFFLEBAG THEATRE . This "nearly world-famous" troupe performs adaptations of fairy tales and Shakespearean classics – with members of the audience. March 17, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Mountains Community Centre.

The Corporate Play People, a Whistler-based event management company, has been nominated for a Canadian Event Industry Award for the second year in a row, this time in the category of Best Corporate Team Building.

Some native leaders say their fight is with government, rather than Sun Peaks Resort More than 200 native protestors marched through Sun Peaks village, near Kamloops, on Saturday to protest against MuchMusic’s SnowJob 2001 festival.

"Imagine biking from the top of Mount Blanc, down to sea level - that is what I am offering customers in terms of vertical descents.

A three-part development proposal working its way through municipal hall could see 150 employee housing units built at Cheakamus North, an 18 acre site between the Spring Creek subdivision and Highway 99, and straddling Spring Creek itself.

The annual Grade 7 and 8 Science Fair was particularly well attended this year. Students, working individually or in pairs, mounted 82 different projects for the judges to evaluate.