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Jennifer Jones Whistler BearFoundation president Sylvia Dolson is off to Kamloops for a human-bear conflictworkshop slated for Jan. 23-24

The event is being hosted by the B.C. Conservation Foundation and Dolson has been invited to give a presentation and lead a discussion on Whistler’s “non-lethal” bear management program.

The new year has rolled in but Whistler is still weathering its employee housing crunch.

Both the mountains and the Whistler Housing Authority were hoping things would start easing up on the housing front from Jan.

A mountain haven

Snowboard camp teaches abused children to get back up By Andrew Mitchell When you're learning to snowboard, the ground is never very far away.

Warm weather brings out birds,bird-watchers

Skiers and snowboarders weren't the only Whistler residents to benefit from a two-week inversion that saw temperatures on the mountains climb as high as 14 degrees Celsius — birds of every feather also took advantage of the warm spell to catch a litt

Addition to the Best of Whistler 99

In Pique's Best of Whistler 99, published Dec. 30, the following categories were recognized by readers but overlooked by us.

backcountry Advice 701

Now that winter seems to have found its way back into our region, we must evaluate what effect the nearly two weeks of spring-like weather and temperatures have had on the snowpack.

more to a season than just one week

Six months ago it looked like it could be the holiday season to beat all seasons — one in a millennium — but, although most hotels finally did sell out for the historic New Year’s Eve and Whistler’s First Night event attracted a crowd of over 20,000,

Whistler RCMP estimated the Millennium First Night event in the village attracted between 21,000 and 25,000revellers — that’s significantly more than

The alcohol-free event also attracted lots and lots of booze. “The alcohol problem was extreme,” said Whistler RCMP community police officer Warren Tomalty. “There was a huge problem with liquor. You can’t get more of a problem with liquor,” he said.

retail down

High hopes for phenomenal business over the Christmas and New Year’s period did not materialize for many Whistler retailers who rely predominately on tourist trade.

A convicted pedophile who had beenliving and working in Whistler for more than a month left town around Dec. 30

Whistler RCMP said 35-year-old James Donald Russell left the community after his identity was released by the Attorney General’s office Dec. 20.