Whistler

Friends, family, fellow skiers and mountaineers were still in shock this week over the death of Trevor Petersen, one of Whistler’s true mountain sons, killed in an avalanche in Chamonix.

Blackcomb Ski Patrol members and volunteers continued to search for 21-year-old Clayton Demers Thursday but RCMP and Search and Rescue teams were pulled off the search Tuesday night, more than 48 hours after the Whistler man was last seen.

Shearing for Search and Rescue Razzmatazz’s half-price haircuts this Sunday may help find lost hikers and skiers. Proceeds from the Marketplace hairstylists’ third annual cut-a-thon will support Whistler’s overworked Search and Rescue team.

Last week’s lottery for the right to buy one of the 85 units in the Millar’s Pond affordable housing project drew 714 applications. Karen MacDonald’s was the first name drawn and as such she will get first choice of the units.

The municipality will attempt to take some of the pressure off RCMP members so they can spend more time in the community, rather than doing paperwork.

Ski champion has prime ministerial ideas Former Whistlerite Nancy Greene Raine may not be running for Prime Minister, but her ideas on what she would do if she was at 24 Sussex Drive have won her first prize in the Magna for Canada Scholarship Awards

Council moved to define the lines of communication within municipal hall this week, releasing policy statements on the council-staff relationship and council’s role in governing.

"If you save an acre of forest, what does it mean economically and socially?" Andy Fulton asks, posing one of the philosophical questions of the late 20th century. "It’s difficult to develop indicators, but they come from the community.

Whistler chairs back in service Whistler Mountain expects to have the Redline operating again today (March 1), five days after minute cracks were discovered on a grip mechanism on some chairs.

Municipal planner Caroline Hicks and cycling promoter Grant Lamont became parents last weekend. Mahon Gordon Thomas Lamont was born at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Lions Gate Hospital.