Whistler

By Loreth Beswetherick It was supposed to be wrapped up last month but the Howe Sound School district should have the written results of a Myrtle Philip community school funding audit in hand within the next few weeks.

An 'accident waiting to happen' When the hill closes, the danger begins for backcountry users By Andrew Mitchell When the last stragglers are kicked off the halfpipe and herded down the green runs by the patrol sweeps, the mountains are finally free

Like Myrtle Philip has come to personify the Alta Lake community, Seppo Makinen symbolizes the beginning of the second chapter in the valley’s young history – the birth of skiing at Whistler.

By Loreth Beswetherick A vision for health service delivery in the Sea to Sky Corridor for the next three to 10 years was unveiled to doctors and staff in both Whistler and Pemberton last week but the public will have to wait until March for a glimps

Millennium Place update The Maurice Young Millennium Place team is getting even stronger.

By Loreth Beswetherick It’s by no means scientific but it did help the Whistler Chamber of Commerce take an immediate temperature reading on the extent of the employee shortage in the valley this season. And the mercury was rising.

Arthur Griffiths, who has led the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympic bid for the past two years, announced Feb. 4 he was stepping down as chair of the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Bid Corporation.

The Emerald Forest lands, which the municipality took ownership of on Jan. 27, will be rezoned to a new Protected Area Network One zoning as part of a plan to prevent further development on the site.

For the first time the board of directors from the Whistler, Pemberton and Squamish chambers of commerce met to discuss common concerns in the Sea to Sky corridor. The meeting, held in Whistler Feb.

BACKCOUNTRY AVALANCHE ADVISORY As of Feb. 9, 2000 We have received 26 cm. of snow since Monday afternoon. Monday’s weather brought mtntop winds from the South-S-Easterly direction, gusting to 80km/h.