Whistler

Construction is scheduled to start this spring on the three level, 15,000 square foot Maurice Young Millennium Place, Whistler’s community gathering place.

By Loreth Beswetherick The original 18-month deadline for a deal to save an environmentally-sensitive stand of alluvial spruce from becoming the Park Georgia golf driving range is up, but no one is going to pull the plug yet.

A very sincere thank you to the Association of Whistler Realtors for their cheque to Maurice Young Millennium Place for $26,500. This gift resulted from proceeds generated at their 1999 Festival of Lights event.

Loggers charged in Elaho assaults After a six-month investigation, Squamish RCMP have formally charged three men in connection with the Sept. 15 assault on a protest camp in the Upper Elaho Valley.

Lillooet meeting is key to future of back country access By Andrew Mitchell Horses, bicycles, bears, chairlifts, helicopters and chainsaws are set to battle it out in the Lillooet Community Centre on Feb.

Kyber house wins industry award The "Talisman at Taluswood," designed and built by Kyber Developments Ltd. of Whistler, has won the Canadian Home Builders' Association's National SAM Award for best single detached home over 2,200 square feet.

KIDSfest 2000 Sea to Sky Entertainment is proud to present its nonprofit venture into children’s theatre. "We wanted to do something with the young people in this community," says the show’s producer Adriane Polo.

By Loreth Beswetherick Tourism Whistler’s massive fee hikes for corporate supporters — up almost 2,000 per cent in some cases — could cost the organization members.

Whistler-Blackcomb and Snowshoe in West Virginia were the stars in the Intrawest stable outperforming other mountain resorts in generating revenue for the corporation this quarter.

Victoria Troup, a naturalist well-known in the Sea to Sky area, has passed suddenly at the age of 54. Troup, along with Nancy Ricker, was responsible for starting to collate a natural history inventory of the Whistler region in the mid 1980s.