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Reunion 2000 events confirmed Subhead: Loverboy, Powder Blues scheduled for Base II A quick perusal of the e-mail messages on the Reunion 2000 web site is a good, early, indication of the world-wide interest in the week long event planned for anyone

Bear Update: Responding to Black Bear Encounters Michael Allen Black Bear Researcher Bears are out so now is the time for Whistler to enter its bear proof period.

Avalanche claims Whistler man On March 26, at approximately 2 p.m., an avalanche occurred in the back country of Powder Mountain in the Grizzly Lake area, trapping one male snowboarder and burying another.

Backcountry Advisory For the Whistler area as of March 29, 2000 Is the avalanche danger unusually high at this time? Should backcountry travellers be going out into the mountains? Do skiers and snowboarders who leave the controlled ski area have a de

By Loreth Beswetherick If all goes smoothly, the new daycare facility planned for Spring Creek could be up and running by September 2001, one year before the new elementary school is slated to open, and it should go a long way toward easing the dayca

Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) The annual arrival of one of Whistler's most beloved birds, the Rufous Hummingbird, signals the end of winter. The males start arriving in late March and early April, and females follow soon after.

Whistler is the only municipality in British Columbia to receive less than $10,000 in provincial grants to local governments this year. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs announced $23.

BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE ADVISORY As of Wednesday, March 22 We have received 13 cm. of new snow since Saturday morning. Mountaintop winds out of the SE gusted consistently to 85 km/h during most of the day Saturday.

Whistler realtor John Ryan has been picked by the Real Estate Board of Great Vancouver as this year’s Realtor of the Year for the Squamish-Whistler region.

AWARE to take public stand on Stoltmann While One Whistler reviews an economic study on the impact of creating a national park in the so-called Stoltmann Wilderness Area, the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment is putting toget