Whistler

Whistler had the highest average hotel room rate in the country — $163.61 — for the first half of 1998, according to a Royal LePage report released Monday.

The new Function Junction compactor site, including eight recycling igloos and a re-use it centre, has ballooned from a $150,000 project to about $350,000.

The Whistler/Blackcomb Foundation has sold 40 of the 50 exclusive Founder’s Passes it offered for sale this year and is no longer accepting pass applications.

A two per cent Whistler Resort Association fee increase will likely be proposed as part of the WRA’s 1999 business plan.

Don’t go with the flu Vaccine available at Ski Swap It’s that time of year when virulent flu viruses like A Sydney, A Beijing and B Harbin are sweeping around the globe, gathering momentum and waiting to get into your system.

By Amy Fendley It’s time for new boots and a board, or is that skis and a new beard? Whatever the case, its time again for the annual Whistler Mountain Ski Club Ski and Snowboard Swap, which this year has been combined with Whistler/Blackcomb’s Turke

Exactly 96 young, Lego-crazed inventors, architects and engineers put their hands and imaginations to work at the Whistler Museum and Archives Society’s Lego Daze ’98 last weekend. The event, held Saturday, Sept.

By Amy Fendley Patricia Polacco, Dr. Seuss and Captain Underpants.

Intrawest announced its first real estate foray into Utah this week, with plans to develop a four-season destination resort village at the base of the Solitude ski area.

Hemp, hemp, hooray By Oona Woods A new store is rolling up to open in the village in mid-November stocking hemp products and items made from other renewable resources. But before the visions of Hemp B.C.