Whistler

The Masters Group and the Canadian Snowboard Federation have hammered out a new agreement that will keep FIS World Cup snowboard events in Whistler for the next five years.

Intrawest has asked a court to decide what portion of an insurance policy held by Lift Engineering & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. it may be entitled to. The $1 million policy, issued by Commercial Underwriters Insurance Co.

By Amy Fendley The Resort Municipality of Whistler has already spent more money on snow removal this year than it did all of last year. No surprise, considering that Jan. 24 was the last time the resort had no recordable snow.

The International Police Winter Games were started in 1986, when a couple of cops thought they could find gold, sliver and bronze in the snows of the High Sierra mountains of California.

Sibling city signing ceremony Mayor Masayoshi Sato and eight other delegates from Karuizawa, Japan will be coming to Whistler early next week for the official sister city signing ceremony, on March 3.

A number of Whistler Millennium Place donor recognition opportunities exist. Named Dedication Opportunities: Major benefactors can be recognised through a naming of a room or space in honour of a person or a company of the donor’s choice.

A poor snow year in Colorado and unseasonably warm temperatures in the East are being blamed for a drop in Intrawest’s earnings for the September-December period.

Local health services looking for fair funding By Oona Woods The Sea to Sky Community Health Council and the Coast Garibaldi Health Services estimate that an increase in funding of between $375,000 and $0.

Backcountry Advisory As of Feb. 24 The vicious storm cycles have continued to batter us this week. The pattern persists — maybe one day in the week when the sun threatens, and then the next onslaught sets in.

Francophone students to ‘move’ into own school district By Amy Fendley Come July, francophone students in Myrtle Philip’s Programme Cadre will move into their own school district.