Whistler

I have recently finished a snowboard holiday in your beautiful resort. This was my third such holiday to Whistler. On this occasion I felt that my snowboarding skills had improved enough to venture into the Terrain Park.

Some members of the Interior Alliance are fighting Sun Peaks Resort’s expansion plans by targetting German visitors and bands playing at next month’s SnowJob music festival.

Contrary to rumours going around town, no decisions have been made regarding an athletes’ village or transportation systems for the 2010 Olympic bid. "All options are still open.

After four years of debate and discussion the Lillooet Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) process is finally wrapping up. Judging by the wildly opposing viewpoints expressed at a Feb.

By Jack Souther, Whistler Naturalists Working as a Mountain Host/Naturalist on Blackcomb Mountain during the summer of 1995 I was often asked about the clusters of plump, purple cones standing erect on the upper branches of trees beside the lift.

With a long-anticipated new building in the planning stages the Whistler Museum and Archives Society and the Whistler Public Library are inviting members of the public to an open house to discuss what should be in the building.

The long-awaited redevelopment of Lake Placid Road, on the west side of Highway 99, is expected to start this spring, but the scope of redevelopment still has to be determined.

People in the Sea to Sky area are either saying "no" or are taking precautions according to Coast Garibaldi Health. According to their annual baby count, the year 2000 saw a significant decrease in births when compared to the previous year.

Take a visit to Alta or Green Lakes this winter and the sight of fluttering sails could convince you you’d stumbled upon a summer aquatic scene. Except of course the water is frozen and the sails can fly as high as 30 metres in the air.

It was brought to our attention that certain comments in Max Gotz's letter to the editor last week regarding Councillor Stephanie Sloan may have been defamatory.