Whistler

AWARE will be hosting the leader of the British Columbia Green Party, Stuart Parker, at its next monthly meeting. Parker will make a presentation, which will be followed by a question and answer session. The B.C.

Garfinkel’s and Dark Star help RCMP subhead: Whistler businesses chip in services By Paul Andrew Twenty-four RCMP officers will launch a six-day, 600 km ride for cancer research from Myrtle Philip school on Sept. 27. Const.

Britannia reclamaition plan granted conditional approval By Amy Fendley The $800,000-a-year plan to clean-up the Britannia Mine, the largest point source polluter of heavy metals in North America since its close in 1974, has been given conditional ap

By Loreth Beswetherick The summer of 1999 has been tough on the Whistler RCMP and local conservation officers — not because of the problem bears they have had to deal with but because of a troubling public perception that has been dogging them when i

By Loreth Beswetherick Whistler’s 13 unionized firefighters were hoping to start negotiations with the municipality for a first collective agreement in September and have a contract in the bag by the year 2000 but, although the negotiation wheels are

By Loreth Beswetherick The summer of 2000 will not go down in the record books as having been a good year for the proliferous stickleback population of Alta Lake.

Conservation officers have had to destroy nine bears since July, bringing the total number put down this year to 15. A page out of the Whistler bear destruction files: o Female yearling destroyed at Lost Lake.

Copies of three important documents — the Environmental Strategy, the Comprehensive Transportation Strategy and the 1999 Community Monitoring results — will be available at municipal hall as of Sept. 20.

For the record In a story in the Sept. 10 issue of Pique regarding liquor licensing and the patron dispersal program it was stated: "Price wars last October saw two key establishments pull out of the program, Tommy Africa’s and the Savage Beagle.

By Bob Barnett The size and scope of Intrawest’s Whistler South plans are large enough they sparked a range of questions at Monday’s public hearing — from the value of public bed units vs.