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MANY VISITORS HAVE IMAGINED OWNING A HOME OR WEEKEND GETAWAY 

IN WHISTLER, BUT WHAT IF YOU WANT TO DO MORE THAN JUST IMAGINE? 

“Work with a company and agent that is knowledgeable and has all the support 

and resources you need; especially when buying in another country, or at a resort,” 

suggested Heidi McDaniel, a US citizen who recently bought a Whistler ski home. 

“An agent’s knowledge is invaluable!” 

McDaniel and her family have been to other resorts, but Whistler was always 

near and dear to their hearts. 

“We are avid skiers and have been to many different ski resorts, but Whistler is 

our favourite and we are up there so often we decided it was time to buy,” she 

said. “We love to ski, ski and ski, but in the summer we ride bikes and swim at 

the local lakes and the boys even did an overnight hike. There is so much to do 

in Whistler!” 

Being a citizen from outside Canada, McDaniel had her concerns about buying in 

the resort until she met with the real estate professionals at the Whistler Real 

Estate Company Ltd (WREC). 

“Our good friends who used Whistler Real Estate Company to buy their own 

home referred us to them,” she said. “They are very knowledgeable about the 

Whistler market.” 

She said their WREC agent gave them incomparable personal service. 

“We let them know what we were looking for and they presented us with the best 

options,” she said. “They were very accommodating to our schedule and always 

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Thanks to WREC, the McDaniels now have their weekend ski getaway home in 

their favourite resort in the world. 

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site resurrected to honour doomed mercy flight 

SMITH TAKES CRANKWORX TRIPLE CROWN 

Winning Sunday’s Canadian Men’s Open DH gives him third 

Whistler title 

WANDERLUST Pique’s guide to Whistler’s newest festival 

LIVE AT SQUAMISH A breakdown of Squamish’s third 

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OPENING Remarks 

A road for 

all to share 

In 2009, after seven years of work, the 

$600 million upgrade of the Sea to 

Sky Highway was completed. With an 

additional 80 kilometres of passing lanes, 

more sections of divided highway, fewer 

blind corners and wider shoulders the vital 

link with the Lower Mainland for everyone 

from Horseshoe Bay to Whistler became 

safer, more reliable and easier to drive. 

By Bob 

Barnett 

Auditor General John Doyle’s office 

recently released a report on the publicprivate 

partnership that rebuilt the 

highway and said, for the most part, the P3 

project met the goals of increased safety, 

reliability and capacity, although he was 

less impressed with the project’s delivery of 

value for money. 

The Ministry of Transportation and 

Infrastructure said in an emailed response 

to Pique reporter John French that: “The 

data indicates significant reductions in road 

closures and reductions in the duration of 

road closures” since the highway project 

was completed. Details on data were 

scarce, although MOTI said there were 

217 accidents on the highway in 2004 and 

124 in 2011. The ministry is continuing to 

monitor and will report key indicators in 

the future. 

While most would agree the highway 

has been vastly improved, use of the 

highway has also become more complex 

since the upgrades. It used to be just 

a transportation corridor, primarily for 

cars and trucks. It is still that, but it 

has also become a popular route for 

recreation, particularly in the summer. 

Cyclists, motorcyclists and sightseers have 

discovered — indeed, been encouraged 

to use — the Sea to Sky Highway. The 

highway has even become the link for “a 

cultural journey,” a series of kiosks that 

tell some of the history and legends of the 

Squamish and Lil’wat Nations. 

Bringing these different users together 

on the improved and presumably busier 

highway has not been a disaster, but there 

have been some growing pains. 

The RCMP video of motorcyclists going 

more than 200 km/h and passing cars on 

double solid yellow lines is well known. 

The additional passing lanes have, on 

the whole, allowed drivers who may want 

to enjoy the road and the scenery on 

Highway 99 to do that without having 

another car glued to their rear bumper, 

urging the slower vehicle to speed up or 

get out of the way. Further education about 

the use and purpose of passing lanes — i.e. 

for passing — is still required. 

Cyclists and drivers are generally 

showing greater awareness and respect 

for one another, but it only takes one 

bonehead move for one group to curse the 

existence of the other. Which is surprising, 

since so many drivers are also cyclists and 

vice versa. 

The popularity of the RBC GranFondo 

Whistler, which takes place Sept. 8, has 

made the Sea to Sky Highway a pilgrimage 

for cyclists training for the event, particularly 

on weekends during the summer. But we 

have been slow to recognize this fact. A 

study by Simon Fraser University students 

found “signs for wildlife… far outnumber 

those of cyclists.” However, in the last 

week the electronic highway message 

boards have been changed and now tell 

motorists to “Watch for cyclists/maintain 

your distance.” This is in addition to the 

message to watch for motorcycles. 

The SFU study found four major hazards 

for cyclists on Highway 99: shoulder width, 

signage, maintenance and drainage. The 

authors proposed, “…the most appropriate 

mitigation methods to pursue are increased 

signage, more frequent shoulder-sweeping, 

and improvements in drainage and hazard 

marking.” They suggested the mitigation 

efforts would cost $116,000. 

Making the highway safer for cyclists 

should, in theory, make it safer for all 

users. The mitigation efforts suggested 

in the SFU study would be helpful but 

the real answer lies not with expecting 

government to do more, but with all of us 

taking responsibility for our actions and 

attitudes on the highway. 

For Whistler and Squamish, the Sea to 

Sky Highway is the most vital link to the 

rest of the world. It should be equal parts 

transportation infrastructure and welcome 

mat. Yet too often we — cyclists, motorists, 

even pedestrians in Whistler — act like we 

are the only ones using it. Little thought is 

given to others on the road. 

The stretch of highway through 

Whistler is particularly abused. The skid 

marks before each stoplight in Whistler 

are evidence of drivers who aren’t thinking 

about anything other than getting to where 

they are going. 

The highway upgrade included 

widening the road to three lanes through 

most of Whistler for the 2010 Olympics. 

Following the Games the road was 

returned to two lanes in most places and 

wider shoulders were created to encourage 

cyclists and pedestrians to use the highway. 

And they do. But it is common to see 

cyclists riding the wrong direction, creating 

Cyclists and drivers are generally showing 

greater awareness and respect for one another, 

but it only takes one bonehead move for one 

group to curse the existence of the other. 

a new hazard: two-way traffic on the 

shoulders. 

The amount of detritus that falls off 

of and out of vehicles and is left on the 

side of the highway, especially in Whistler, 

is appalling. We wouldn’t tolerate it on 

our own property; why do we consider 

it someone else’s problem when it’s on 

public property? 

The rebuilt highway has been a benefit 

to nearly everyone. With a little more 

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Letters TO THE EDITOR 

The Flag Stop 

Festival says thanks! 

I can’t think of a better way to cap off the 1st Annual 

Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival than paddling 

a canoe carrying a giant horse lantern on glassy 

Alta Lake while the final performance unfolded on 

the floating stage beneath a starry sky streaked by 

meteor showers. 

It was a magical afternoon and evening 

beginning with the music and theatre performances 

of the “Young But True” seven-to nine-year-olds 

who emerged from Aude Ray’s Expressive Arts 

workshops at The Point this summer. Michael 

Faiella kept the tunes rolling out for the rest of 

the afternoon until the opening reception for the 

TRACKS art show began in the heritage lodge. 

The Improv Theatre troupe, also emerging from 

this summer’s workshops at The Point, was the first 

to take the floating stage with a hugely entertaining 

set before a sold out crowd assembled on the grass 

and back porch. Their performance was followed by 

the debut of Agnes featuring Lilli Clark, Angie Nolan, 

Greigh Laschuk and Wayne Escott. Simon Stribling 

and Josh Roberts provided the 1920s-era jazz, and 

then added Lauri Lyster and Rajan Das inside the 

lodge where they got the dance floor shaking to their 

hot swing jazz set. 

Thanks to all the artists from Whistler, the 

Sea to Sky and Vancouver, both young and older, 

who spun the magic for the crowd. Thanks also 

to all of the local sponsors who supported the 

festival so generously: Pasta Lupino, Burnt Stew 

Computers, Nesters Market, Local Automotive, 

Pique Newsmagazine, Armchair Books, Mountain 

FM, Dubh Linn Gate, Southside Diner, Prior Skis, The 

Love Nest, Whistler Backroads, Sherwin Williams 

Paint, Rona, WMN.FM and XL Audio Visual. Thanks 

also to Tourism Whistler for helping to spread the 

word, and to the RMOW for their support with our 

pilot project at The Point. A special thank you to all 

the volunteers who put in a great effort to make it 

all happen. 

At their best, festivals manage to bring together 

the many layers in a society, uniting people and 

leaving them with a sense of magic. When the 

stars were falling from the sky, and the crowd 

on the grass watched Aude Ray’s final Suitcase 

of Dreams performance on the floating stage, I 

felt we’d managed to do just that. We’re already 

looking forward to next year’s festival on the second 

weekend of August. See you then, or at the final two 

Saturdays at The Point this summer! 

Stephen Vogler 

Artistic Director, The Point Artist-Run Centre 

OUR TURN AT THE WHC CENTRE 

We’ve been coming here for skiing since 1992, 

when the Keg was right on the edge of town, and 

the red, blue, orange and black chairs were all 

still in service on Whistler. For the last 12 years, 

we’ve been owners here, bringing our kids here 

for the summer as well, and watched them grow 

into the numerous daredevil and not so daredevil 

activities Whistler offers, summer and winter. 

Over the years we’ve had various trips to Whistler 

Physio for minor bits and pieces, and friends 

we’ve travelled with have graced the health 

care centre with various broken bones and torn 

ligaments. 

Until yesterday, we had avoided the serious 

stuff; but then it became our turn. Our eldest 

daughter had been playing on the tightropes 

at Rainbow Park. She came running over to us 

with her sister in tow, held out her arm, and 

announced, “I think I’ve broken my arm.” An arm 

doesn’t have two elbows: it took only a glance to 

realize that she was right. 

We’d like to thank the lovely lady and her 

sister who called an ambulance for us, sent 

her daughters to the car park to wait for the 

paramedics, who stood over Becky making a 

human sun block, and who made (with Becky’s 

little sister, Maddy) much better distracting 

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conversation with her than we were able to 

muster. We’d also like to thank the man who 

appeared from nowhere with a bag of fresh ice at 

4 p.m. on the hottest afternoon of the year: where 

that came from, we’ll never know, but it was ideal 

to pack around the rapidly swelling forearm. 

Thanks are also due to the paramedics who 

attended, whose names we were told, but which 

were lost in the parental anxiety of the moment; 

and to all the staff at the hospital here in 

Whistler, who reset Becky’s bones in double quick 

time, and who exuded the reassuring confidence 

that comes with working on broken bones day 

in, day out. 

So, a couple of broken bones for a girl on 

the cusp of her teenage years, in her favourite 

place in the world, and a pink cast to boot. Rite 

of passage completed; one of life’s boxes ticked. 

Thanks again to everyone who played their part in 

this small drama — on reflection; there was no 

better stage upon which it could have been set. 

Greg & Liz Banner 

London (and Whistler) 

HUMANS’ CROSSING 

Drivers beware of humans crossing from parking 

Lots 1 and 2 on Blackcomb way. I drive this daily 

and it has come apparent that visitors and locals 

alike refuse to cross at the intersection — they 

instead choose to use the middle of a busy road 

without a care in the world. 

I have come close too many times to count. 

How about we police this like we do so many other 

hot spots this summer. I’m sure jay walking and 

riding your bikes in and out of traffic will add to 

the money we need so badly. I have yet to see any 

sign of the RCMP even monitoring this area. Also, 

maybe the Resort Municipality of Whistler could 

put back the fence to deter them from crossing 

at that area, as it’s only a matter of time before 

a fatality will occur. 

Russell Peters 

Whistler 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SIKH? 

This one question arises in my mind when I 

think of the shooting spree at the Sikh Gurdwara 

(Congregation place of worship) of Wisconsin 

in Oak Creek on Sunday, August 5 that left six 

dead. Why did this happen and why are only Sikhs 

being targeted? And then I think that there is a 

lack of communication or interaction with other 

communities about expressing our faith. 

We must use media as well as other modern 

resources to explain who Sikhs are and what their 

identity is. The Sikh faith is the fifth largest in the 

world with more than 30 million followers spread 

over 165 countries. It includes belief in one God 

and that the goal of life is to lead an exemplary 

existence. The Sikh faith originated in Pakistan 

and North India, about 500 years ago. Sikhism is 

sometimes confused with Islam, Hinduism, and 

Buddhism because of geographical proximity and 

cultural similarities. 

Sikhs live according to a code of honour in 

service of all humanity. Sikh ethics advocate 

equality for men and women of every race 

and religion. Sikhs have a history of being the 

defenders of the defenseless. Sikhs are known 

for acting against the terror of forced conversion. 

Many Sikhs throughout history are respected for 

having sacrifi ced their own lives, so that people 

of other religions may have freedom to worship in 

the manner of their choice. 

A Sikh believes in one God and follows 

teachings of the ten Gurus. Guru Nanak was the 

first Guru and was born in 1469 AD in Punjab, 

Pakistan, and founded a new religion Sikhism. 

Sikhism is a progressive religion well ahead of 

its time. Sikhism preaches a message of devotion 

and remembrance of God at all times, truthful 

living, equality of mankind and denounces 

superstitions and blind rituals and seeks the 

welfare of all the human beings of the globe and 

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without any distinction of caste, creed, colour, 

religion and would be the same whether one 

is rich or poor and all sit in the same row. 

Guru Nanak fi rst started this institution, which 

outlines the basic Sikh principles of selfl ess 

service, sharing food with one another in a sense 

of humility, oneness and equality of mankind. The 

word GURDWARA means an abode of the Guru 

(the spiritual teacher), the Holy Guru Granth. 

Outside every Gurdwara there is a high 

fl ag post covered with saffron— or an orangecoloured 

cloth, surmounted with a double-edged 

sword. This symbolizes the combination of 

temporal and spiritual aspects of Sikh life. Also 

the fl ag post shows the presence of a Gurdwara 

for the people to know, where they can come to 

pay their respects, without distinction or fear. 

The word Sikh means constant learner, a 

disciple and a follower of Sikhism. A Sikh loves 

all. He/She is characterized as a broad-minded, 

enterprising, energetic and industrious human 

being. A Sikh has a unique and distinctive 

personality and is represented by fi ve symbols 

know as fi ve Ks which caution a Sikh to introspect 

and wash out all impurities for qualitative 

living. KESH (long unshorn hair) —representing 

holiness, naturalness, saintliness, spirituality, 

commitment and masculinity. KANGA (comb) 

— signifying cleanliness, orderliness and 

spiritual discipline. KARA (a steel bracelet) — 

reminding unity with God, universal brotherhood, 

self-restraint, strength of steel, victory over 

superstitions. KACHHERA (pair of shorts) — 

observing moral restraint, continence, chastity 

and sexual discipline; and fi nally the KIRPAN (a 

curved sword) — symbolizing courage, dignity, 

grace and emblem of power. 

This is a Sikh’s uniform, along with a 

turban. The turban is a sound indication to 

others that a Sikh lives in the image of infinity 

and is dedicated to serving all. This unique 

identity conveys royalty, grace and uniqueness. 

A turban of a Sikh does not represent anything 

except complete commitment to his Guru and 

utmost reverence to God. Sikhs are meant to 

keep hair in its natural unaltered state. In 

addition to maintaining long hair themselves, 

Sikh parents are to keep their children’s hair 

intact from birth onwards. 

According to the Sikh Code of Conduct, all 

intoxications, such as alcohol, tobacco and all 

its derivations, and trimming of the hair from 

any part of the body are forbidden. Adultery is 

considered a sin. A Sikh should regard another 

man’s wife as his sister or mother and another 

man’s daughter as his own daughter. The same 

rule is applicable to the Sikh women also. 

All Sikhs share the surname Singh, which 

means a lion. All Sikh women use the name 

Kaur, which means a princess. In Sikhism 

these titles eliminate discrimination based on 

“family name” (which denotes a specific caste) 

and reinforces that all humans are sovereigns 

and equal under God. So at a distance with 

their beards and turbans, Sikhs may look a 

bit different, yet as one grows to know more 

about them, one finds in them kindred spirits 

and true friends. Some observations regarding 

Sikhs are as follows: 

American writer and historian H. L. Bradshaw 

in Sikhism — A Faith Of New Age wrote: “This 

religion befi ts the inquest of science. Therefore, 

for the man of tomorrow, Sikh religion will be 

his last hope and refuge. Sikhism is a universal 

world faith with a message to humanity.” 

Said Sir Winston Churchill: “British people 

are highly indebted and obliged to Sikhs for a 

long time. I know that within this century we 

needed their help twice (in two world wars) and 

they did help us very well. As a result of their 

timely help, we are today able to live with honour, 

dignity, and independence. In the war, they 

fought and died for us, wearing the turbans.” 

General Sir Frank Messervy said this: “In the 

last two world wars 83,005 turban-wearing Sikh 

soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded. 

They all died or were wounded for the freedom of 

Britain and the world, and during shell fi re, with 

no other protection but the turban, the symbol of 

their faith.” 

My thoughts and prayers go out to the 

families of the victims, the wounded offi cer and 

a community that is still in shock. There is no 

doubt in my mind that the heroic actions of the 

American police offi cers prevented a greater 

tragedy. 

In the end, the Sikh nation is very largehearted 

and in spite of racial differences and 

visual identity, we co-exist with others happily 

and remain kind-hearted. 

Amrinder Singh Ghangas 

Squamish 

SLOW FOOD THANKS 

Slow Food Cycle Sunday would like to thank all 

the local businesses, vendors, volunteers and 

bike riders for participating in the best event 

yet this past Sunday. Countless volunteers on 

14 open farms hosted over 50 vendors and 

welcomed over 4,000 riders, who hopefully 

went away, not only with sated palates, but 

a better understanding of the importance of 

preserving farmland (if only to be able to do 

this ride every year!). 

Mark your calendars for next year: August 

18, 2013. 

Niki Vankerk and Anna Helmer 

Pemberton 

PADDLES UP 

The Pemberton Canoe Association would like to 

extend a boat full of thanks to all of the supporters 

and donors who helped send 28 paddlers to the 

World Outrigger Sprint Championships in Calgary 

August 7-16. 

We would like to acknowledge the support 

from the Village of Pemberton and the Squamish 

Lillooet Regional District who stepped up as a 

GOLD sponsor for the team. A team banner hung 

proudly in the Team Canada tent and our team 

shirts were a big hit. Special thanks to BANG ON 

shirts in Vancouver for donating the shirts! 

Our Legion Dinner fundraiser was a big 

success thanks to the Scotiabank, which 

matched our ticket sales. Thank you to the 

Pemberton Legion for the venue. There were 

many silent auction prizes thanks to the 

wonderful local businesses in Whistler and 

Pemberton; Local Motion, Pemberton Valley 



Lodge, Delta Vancouver Suites, WB Bike Park, 

Ivy Esthetics, Spud Valley Sporting Goods, 

Wag n Wash, Mile One Eatery, Suikiya Sushi, 

Blackbird Bakery, Michelle Beauregard, Napa 

Auto Parts, Canadian Wilderness Adventures, 

Deb Hillary, Martin Dahinden, RONA, Mt. Currie 

Coffee Co., AC Petroleum, Karen Love Art, and 

Pemberton Valley Nurseries. 

This World Class Sprint event was an 

inspiration for all the youth and adult paddlers 

alike. Witnessing the cultures and spirit of the 

other countries was truly an experience they will 

all remember. The Pemberton Youth paddlers 

were top notch and we would like to congratulate 

Aleaa Dahinden, the fi rst Canadian youth to ever 

earn a medal at the Worlds. Aleea fought hard for 

a bronze in the V-1 category, just seconds behind 

two New Zealand paddlers. 

A huge thank you to Hugh Fisher who spent 

hours training the kids five days a week all 

summer long. Hugh was very successful at the 

event bringing home fi ve gold medals in a variety 

of events, including the V-1 Senior Masters 

category. We would also like to thank Karen 

Tomlinson who organized the youth paddlers 

during their training sessions in Pemberton. 

The next Worlds are in Rio de Janeiro, 

Brazil, which has got the paddlers talking! 

Many other events are coming up and the 

Canoe Club is gearing up to continue training 

through the fall and developing a five-year 

plan to ensure that we have strong paddlers 

ready for the next world championships, as 

well as regional and national events. 

Liz Scroggins, 

Pemberton Canoe Association 

COMPETITION COMPLETE, MANY TIRED, 

HAPPY PILOTS GONE HOME 

The 2012 Canada Paraglide Nationals are over. It 

was a fantastic competition that proved our new 

upper launch in MacKenzie Basin is capable of 

supporting a world-cup race. Up above, visiting 

pilots from all over the world were blown away 

by the powerful, big fl ying. They loved that you 

could find yourself orbiting across from bald 

eagles and turkey vultures working the clifffront 

thermals that lead to the ridge tops. They 

were gobsmacked by the route options including 

our radical “vol-bivi” opportunities (paraglide 

alpine bivouacking). Some were intimidated by 

our gaping valley crossings but they learned 

to find the bullets that usually get you across. 

Sunny evenings they discovered our magic 

lift powered by cool katabatic air slipping 

downslope under a warm stable valley air 

mass, lifting the entire body and every wing in 

it inexorably until dusk. Several pilots reported 

they got more, better adventure flying here 

in one week than all year back home. With 

this competition Pemberton’s become a top 

international free-flying aspiration. 

The competition organizers, Jim Orava and 

I, would like to greatly thank our competitors for 

coming and for their sportsmanship. Likewise 

we gratefully thank our 37 volunteers, many 

of whom came from out of town and abroad 

to bring their passion, specialized knowledge 

and experience to the comp. They served as 

race offi cials, in logistical support, emergency 

response, and hospitality. They were dedicated 

and they sacrifi ced. They got shirts. 

We’d also like to thank, in no preferential 

order, Pemberton and region’s local governments, 

our public emergency responders, our sponsors, 

local businesses and media, and of course, 

our residents and local First Nations. You were 

all superb and understanding of the unique 

demands of the competition, of our learning 

experience in producing the comp for the fi rst 

time, and of the impact our sport creates in a 

close community like Pemberton. Loving thanks 

to the forbearance of our wives and families. 

Thank-you especially to those local landowners 

who volunteered their lands for auxiliary goal 

fi elds and for emergency landing spots. 

Our visiting racers continually expressed a 

lot of gratitude and respect for the significant 

volunteer effort of the local flying community and 

our Canadian Sport Flying Associations (West 

Coast Soaring Club, Hang-gliding and Paragliding 

Association of Canada) over many years to develop 

the required infrastructure and establish the 

regulatory compliance and safety protocols that 

create the free flying opportunity we enjoy here. With 

the overwhelmingly positive comp reviews we’ve 

been hearing, I expect we’ll see significant growth 

in tourism visits from airsports pilots, friends and 

families in years to come. 

Finally, we sadly acknowledge the tragic loss 

of competitor John Clifford in a fl ying accident 

during a race. He was a true competitor and 

fellow adventurer and will be missed. We will 

continue, for John and for all other airmen and 

women, before and after, who know the joy and 

cost of our freedom to fl y. 

Expect another, bigger world-cup style 

paragliding event in Pemberton in 2014. 

Nigel Protter 

Whistler 

DREAM WEDDING 

I would like to send a huge “ Thank You “ to the 

Fairmont Chateau Whistler. This past weekend 

our daughter’s wedding was held at the hotel and 

the service was over the top. The hotel staff could 

not do enough to make sure all of our needs were 

met. Raised in Whistler, our daughter always 

wanted to have her wedding in her hometown and 

the Fairmont came through, fulfi lling her dreams. 

Many thanks to Norm Mastalir, Megan Sanders, 

Anais Mercier and Ashley Clerk. 

Thank you for personally looking after all of 

us and giving an experience of a lifetime. We 

felt that you went the extra mile for two local 

families, (Candice and Cole’s). 

Kathryn Mooney 

Whistler ■ 


12 News 

FROM THE VALLEY 

CRANKWORX CROWDS 

Thousands gathered 

to watch the Joyride 

Slopestyle on Aug. 18. 

PHOTO BY BLAKE JORGENSON 

Crankworx hits many ‘firsts’ in 2012 

MORE PEOPLE, MORE EXHIBITS, MORE MONEY FOR TWO-WEEK MOUNTAIN BIKE FESTIVAL 

By Cathryn Atkinson 

cathryn@piquenewsmagazine.com 

The ninth annual Crankworx is over 

and Darren Kinnaird, the mountain 

bike festival’s general manager, is 

still basking in the glow of two weeks of 

first-time achievements. 

The first of the firsts would be the 

sheer number of visitors, with an estimated 

60,000 people in Whistler Village on 

Saturday, Aug. 18, for the second last 

day of competition. Kinnaird said visitor 

numbers were high for the whole two 

weeks of the festival. 

“The crowds were incredible, just so 

many people were here right from the very 

beginning. Traditionally, the first few days 

are quieter but this year it seemed busy right 

from the word ‘go’,” Kinnaird said. 

“Someone told me there were 60,000 

people in the village on Saturday. There is no 

way of verifying that right now… But they 

were saying it was as busy as it was during 

the peak of the Olympics; as busy as it gets 

at Christmas.” 

Kinnaird ran off a list of other firsts 

for the festival, from the sporty to record 

business for some Whistler companies. The 

eclectic mix included breaking records for: 

• the number of exhibitors and size and 

scope of exhibitors; 

• the number of unique viewers to see 

live webcasts and replays; 

• multiple days of sell-outs of tickets for 

the Top of the World Trail; 

• the biggest prize purse for a downhill 

race ever (Jeep Canadian Open Downhill) 

and for a Slopestyle (Red Bull Joyride); 

• the biggest jump ever in a slopestyle 

competition (60 feet); 

• Steve Smith of Vancouver Island 

winning the Triple Crown of Crankworx 

— all three downhill races (Garbanzo 

Downhill, Air Downhill, and Jeep Canadian 

Open Downhill) — which had never been 

done before; 

• Garibaldi Lift Company having its best 

day ever; 

• beating the 10-day visit record for the 

Whistler Mountain Bike Park; and 

• record visits to crankworx.com. 

As well, the Resort Municipality of 

Whistler reported that during Crankworx 

they were able to utilize the fibre optic 

network installed during the 2010 Winter 

Games to the greatest extent since the 

Games ended. The network was used to 

connect Crankworx events and Whistler 

Olympic Plaza, and broadcasting live 

footage on big screens. 

“We think (the number of people) had 

a little to do with the new programming 

we did,” Kinnaird said. “There were the 

concerts, and also the Dual Speed and 

Style race drew a lot of people into the 

village on the first Saturday night. There 

were between 6,000 and 8,000 coming to 

check out that event, which was really cool, 

said Kinnaird. “It’s ‘made for’ TV. The best 

slopestyle guys, the best racers going head 

to head in a format that doesn’t favour 

either side, so it’s kind of neat.” 

Kinnaird said riders are often a source of 

new ideas for Crankworx events. 

“The more you can get their involvement, 

the more interested they are in competing in 

events,” he said. 

This spike in guests coming to see the 

festival did not surprise Kinnaird. 

“The interest in the event grows every 

year. We had the most amazing weather we 

could have dreamed of,” he said, apart from 

a few thunderstorm concerns. 

And how was Crankworx measuring up 

in the pantheon of large-scale mountain 

bike events around the world? 

“We have the biggest slopestyle event 

in the world. There’s nothing that draws as 

many fans as that. There are two diamond 

events in the Freeride Mountain Bike tour 

and this is one of them,” he said. 

“Whistler is so unique. It has 

everything the big partners, the exhibitors 

and everyone is looking for: the great 

restaurants, the nightlife, the Whistler 

Mountain Bike Park is such a massive 

attraction… and it’s just so appealing to all 

of the different stakeholder groups.” 

Sponsors, too, had two very good weeks, 

he said. 

One, Jeep Canada, pulled its biggest 

numbers ever for test drives at an event. 

Others held executive meeting and media 

launches while the festival was ongoing. 

“Next year is the 10th anniversary of 

Crankworx, so we’re always trying to make 

things bigger and better every year. To be 

honest, the planning for next year started two 

months ago,” Kinnaird said. 

And Kinnaird wanted to thank the over 

300 volunteers who helped, yet another 

record, though the huge volume of visitors 

meant that some volunteers had to drop out 

in order to work shifts around Whistler. 

“We lost a few volunteers because they 

were forced to go back to their jobs because 

the weekend was so busy. A good problem to 

have, I guess,” he said. 

Michael Brisbois, chairman of the 

Restaurant Association of Whistler, said his 

THIS SECTION 

members thought it was a fantastic festival, 

adding that the association liked that there 

were earlier events ending before 6:30 p.m., 

encouraging visitors to visit local restaurants. 

“Everybody that I talked to or got 

feedback from in the association said that 

they were up or flat, depending on where 

they were in the resort. The places in the 

main village or Marketplace that I heard back 

from had a great Crankworx, they thought it 

was excellent,” Brisbois said. “Those outside 

had the same numbers as last year.” 

Brisbois said they would like to see more 

weekday events, to spread the crowds out 

over the two-week period. 

Meanwhile, Tourism Whistler’s July 

visitor numbers were very much impacted 

by moving Crankworx from July, where it 

was in 2011, to August for this year. 

While the final tally for August won’t 

be in for a month, Louise Walker, Tourism 

Whistler’s Vice President of Marketing and 

Strategic Planning, said accommodation 

bookings prior to the start of the event were 

23 per cent higher than the last Crankworx 

held in August, in 2010. Statistics show so 

far this is the third busiest summer on record. 

“We’ve had nothing but positive feedback 

so far,” she said. 

Walker was able to give July’s numbers 

for visitors to the resort. Room nights were 

down three per cent last month from July 

2011, though Walker noted that July 2011 

was Whistler’s busiest July on record. 

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News FROM THE VALLEY 

Welcome to Wanderlust 


W 

anderlust winds its way into 

Whistler this weekend, with its 

impossibly bendy people, its meditative 

air, and its music and other events. 

Bringing together the world’s leading 

yoga teachers, top musical acts and 

DJs, renowned speakers, top chefs and 

winemakers in a yoga festival on this scale 

is a first for the resort, especially in terms of 

attracting new types of guests. 

As anticipation builds it looks like it 

will be a good fit for the resort, said James 

Buttenshaw, research manager for Tourism 

Whistler. 

“The pace of bookings coming into 

the weekend are stronger than they were 

last year for this weekend, so the festival 

appears to be having an impact. It’s over 10 

per cent busier,” Buttenshaw said. 

“Obviously, the festival wasn’t here last 

year and it’s difficult to see where it finishes 

up because some visitors will book at the 

last minute, but at this stage it is looking 

really positive coming into the weekend.” 

The dozens of relatively smaller festivals 

of a day or weekend in length have been 

bringing in new types of visitors to the 

Crankworx 

< FROM PREVIOUS PAGE 

“It was bolstered in 2011 by Crankworx 

(which was moved that year from August), 

and in terms of rates they remain flat, along 

with last year. We are still offering a very 

competitive rate which is good news for 

visitors,” she said. 

When Tourism Whistler looked at regions 

of origin of guests, there was a slight decline 

in the regional market, which includes 

Washington State and British Columbia, 

Walker said. 

“That does correlate to Crankworx 

shifting (back to August in 2012) as well, so 

that would be expected,” she said. 

On a more positive note, there was an 

increase in conference and group business 

last month, along with increases from 

destination markets. 

“So while there was a slight decline in 

room nights it’s very positive to see more 

destination visitors,” said Walker. 

“I think summer has moved forward 

to being a bit of an ‘on’ season as well (as 

winter).... July and August the last few years 

have been getting busier and busier.” 

Another trend, she added, was 

that accommodation occupancy was 

significantly higher at the weekends in July, 

compared to weekdays. 

“You’re looking at 70 to 85 per cent 

occupancy, whereas during the week it is 

down to 50 per cent. The challenge for us, 

moving forward, is to fill those midweek 

rooms,” Walker said. 

resort, and although yoga is very much part 

of the Whistler scene, an event on the scale 

of Wanderlust is an exciting development. 

“The thing with Wanderlust is that it does 

fit well with Whistler — it’s a celebration of 

healthy outdoor lifestyles. That’s Whistler — 

there’s a very good brand alignment there. 

The music also fits really well, but it’s great 

to have that variety in the events offered 

throughout the summer.” 

Buttenshaw said it is always challenging 

to know how a new event like Wanderlust 

will impact the resort. 

“We always track the room and 

accommodation occupancy levels and in 

terms of the specifics of Wanderlust we 

will look at ticket sales, which will help us 

evaluate how much of a success it is.” 

A spokesperson for the Resort Municipality 

of Whistler said the RMOW contributed 

$100,000 of augmentation funding for 

the Wanderlust music program in Whistler 

Olympic Plaza on Thursday, August 23, 

Friday, August 24, and Saturday, August 25. 

While this is the first time Wanderlust 

has come to Whistler it is already established 

in other locations including Squaw Valley, 

Calif., and Copper Mountain, Col. 

For full coverage of Wanderlust go to 

page 58. ■ 

Other festivals picked up the slack in 

July after Crankworx was moved back to 

August for 2012, she added. This included 

the BC Bike Race, the Longboard Festival, 

The Children’s Arts Festival and the Charlie’s 

Angels All-Women Bike Race. 

Whistler’s Mayor, Nancy Wilhelm- 

Morden, said Crankworx “seemed like a 

weekend every day,” in terms of visitor 

numbers. 

“The municipality contributed $100,000 

in augmentation money for the festival, which 

came from (Resort Municipality Initiative 

funds), and that went to concerts and to Dual 

Speed and Style and the Ultimate Pump Track 

Challenge. This is exactly what the RMI 

funds are for, to augment already successful 

festivals to make them even more successful. 

It was good news all round,” she said. 

Given the sheer volume of people, 

relatively few incidents were reported to the 

RCMP. Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair of the RCMP 

said there had been one stabbing during 

Crankworx, which resulted in minor injuries. 

The investigation is ongoing. 

“The numbers for intoxication in 

public (were) seven for the week. That’s 

pretty standard (for any average night in 

Whistler), having one a night, so that’s 

pretty good,” he said. 

“The police were out there all the time 

conducting patrols and I think that having 

the police out there, pouring out liquor, 

they were stopping problems before they 

got started.” ■ 

celebration 

LAKESIDE 

PARK 

FRIDAY , AUGUST 31 

4 to 6 p.m. 

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Developer considers suing RMOW over Mons rezoning 

By Alison Taylor 

The time for talking with municipal 

staff about the Mons Road industrial 

rezoning is likely over for developer Steve 

Bayly; he’s reviewing his options, including 

litigation for financial damages. 

On Tuesday, council put the brakes on 

final approval of his Mons development. 

With questions and concerns, council sent 

the project back to staff for answers when 

considering the passage of one of the largest 

projects to come before them this year. 

But after five years of municipal 

wrangling, three successive councils 

dealing with the project, and more than $2 

million in costs to meet the municipality’s 

requirements, Bayly has had enough. 

“We have severe financial consequences 

from this action,” said Bayly late Tuesday 

evening after walking out of a council 

meeting when it appeared his rezoning 

would not make it to final adoption. 

The large-scale rezoning project was set 

to transform the northern end of Whistler 

with an industrial zone on a 6.5 hectare (16 

acre) site for transportation, infrastructure 

and civic uses. 

Bayly and his business partner, fellow 

businessman Nigel Woods, were ready to 

start building the new road on site this week. 

All their conditions were met, rights of 

way secured, an easement secured from BC 

Hydro. Those are all void now as the terms 

were not met this week. 

“We spent all this money and all this 

time living up to the conditions they (the 

municipality) imposed,” said Bayly, of the 

conditions set at third reading in 2009. 

What remained were fourth readings of 

the bylaws, typically a quick pass from the 

council table given that it has considered first 

and second readings of the bylaws, a public 

hearing, and then third readings. 

But this council finds itself in a tricky 

situation, inheriting a development project 

largely approved by previous councils, with 

just final adoption of the bylaws outstanding. 

In 2008 when council of the day first saw 

the project, then-Councillor Nancy Wilhelm- 

Morden voted against it. It passed in a five 

to two vote. At the October 2009 public 

hearing, she also spoke out against it as a 

private citizen. This was a revised rezoning 

initiated and paid for by the RMOW. The 

council vote was six to one in favour. 

Wilhelm-Morden commented at the time 

on a lack of a clear plan for the proposed space 

and the concern over the many possibilities 

that would fit within the restrictions of the 

bylaw. It appears those concerns remain, not 

only for now Mayor Wilhelm-Morden, but 

also the rest of council. 

“The concern I have is the potential 

size of the build out of the buildings,” said 

Councillor John Grills, wanting to know what 

the land would look like in five years. 

Staff informed council that there was 

potential at maximum build out of roughly 

50,000 square metres (or more than half a 

million square feet). There is no cap on that 

maximum development. When later asked 

why there was no cap, Mayor Nancy Wilhelm- 

Morden said simply: “I don’t know.” 

Bayly later called that 500,000 square 

foot number “a ruse” designed to create 

delays. That is the absolute maximum 

build if every buildable square foot had 

a three-storey building, which is beyond 

anything reasonable, he said. 

Councillor Duane Jackson also raised 

issues about the type of uses allowed — 

would it compete with vacant space in 

Function Junction. 

“What I’m struggling with… is things that 

potentially create a competition,” he said. 

Among the allowed uses in the rezoning 

are: fuel services, motor vehicle maintenance 

and storage facility, landscaping services, 

indoor and outdoor recreation and taxi 

dispatch and storage yard. 

“Because we don’t have the detail we 

can only speculate,” said Councillor Jayson 

Faulkner. 

When it appeared there was dissension 

in the council ranks against staff’s 

recommendation to approve the bylaw, the 

mayor said: “I guess the question is: what do 

we do next?” Council agreed to put it back in 

staff’s hands to get more information. 

“It’s not to pour cold water all over the 

concept,” said Faulkner. “There’s just a lot 

of details that I just don’t understand and I 

haven’t seen anywhere.” He couldn’t in good 

conscience move it ahead, he said. 

But council was poorly informed Tuesday 

night, said Bayly, adding he feels his project 

is being delayed while another, namely BC 

Transit’s, is quickly moving ahead. 

“It seems to me we’re knocked off the 

rails, while BC Transit is fast-tracked,” said 

Bayly. He was referring to the neighbouring 

transit facility, which was approved by 

council at the same meeting for a rezoning 

to allow a third-party bus company to rent 

space at the site. It was in direct competition 

to his project, he said. 

“It’s tough when the approving authority 

(RMOW) is in direct competition.” ■ 


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COUNCIL SETS THE BALL ROLLING FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES AT BUS FACILITY 


More than $200,000 could be made at 

the BC Transit facility if commercial 

opportunities are allowed to flourish there. 

And Whistler wants a piece of that action. 

On Tuesday council moved ahead with 

zoning amendments to pave the way for 

the first commercial operations at the BC 

Transit facility, perhaps setting the stage 

for more commercial operations at Transit 

centres elsewhere in the province. 

The zoning changes will allow Transit 

to rent bus parking, the diesel fuelling 

station and the bus washing station at a 

fee. The $23.5 million facility is underutilized, 

built for 50 buses with only 23 

serving the community at the moment. 

The bus parking contract already secured 

by BC Transit will generate $40,000 per year. 

It deals with parking for one anchor tenant. 

The municipality will get $17,000 the 

first year, increasing to roughly $20,000 

in later years. That money will go back 

into transit services in Whistler, as will BC 

Transit’s cut of the money. 

At first council appeared reticent to 

share its views. 

“Any questions?” Mayor Nancy Wilhelm- 

Morden asked her team, to silence. 

“My goodness, quiet bunch.” 

She went on to explain why she was 

supporting the proposal — namely to 

mitigate the construction costs of the large 

capital project, but also to have some say 

on remedial work that could be done to the 

site at council’s request. The site has been 

exempt from municipal land use bylaws 

because Transit and the landowner, BC 

Hydro, are both Crown corporations. Thirdparty 

operators like private bus companies, 

however, are not exempt. 

After the mayor spoke, the rest of council 

loosened up a little. 

Councillor Jack Crompton expressed 

some reservations about his support. 

“I find it difficult when government gets 

into business,” he said. 

Councillor Duane Jackson urged him to 

look at the bigger issues such as getting the 

private buses out of the free parking in the 

day skier lots. 

Other councillors expressed their support 

given that the facility is underutilized and 

this could be a way for the municipality to 

exercise some control on the site. 

“I feel like we’re outside the fence right 

now,” said Councillor Roger McCarthy, 

adding that once the municipality gets 

“inside the fence” it could have more 

control on what he described as “one of 

the worst eyesores.” 

Crompton explained that he wouldn’t 

vote in favour of the deal if he didn’t see the 

upsides too. 

“I want to be clear that there are 

downsides,” he added. 

The council report doesn’t reveal too 

much about future opportunities on the site. 

“BC Transit’s Commercial Services 

Business Case presents a number of different 

possible future revenue opportunities,” 

states the report. “The high-side net revenue 

projections range beyond $200,000 per year, 

if all business opportunities identified at 

this site are pursued. There are, of course, 

uncertainties going forward. One or more of 

the identified opportunities may not evolve 

as originally foreseen. Nonetheless, the 

annual revenue comes at no cost… and no 

risk to the Resort Municipality of Whistler.” 

BC Transit would not release the 

Commercial Services Business Case this week, 

but corporate spokesperson Meribeth Burton 

explained that the $200,000 is potential 

revenue further down the road. Right now 

Transit is focused on its one secured $40,000 

contract and getting council approval. 

“We’re looking at innovative ways to 

generate revenue and to make best possible 

use of the transit centre,” she said. “We 

expect that we can generate upwards of 

$200,000 if we also have the site available 

for bus washing as well as parking for other 

interested bus and related companies.” 

There will be public hearings on the 

bylaw changes before council moves ahead 

with finalizing the bylaws. 

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have a well-deserved beer at Olympic Plaza 

after the 122-kilometre RBC GranFondo race 

next month. 

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the outside, blocked from the fenced-off 

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This week council gave its endorsement 

to a Special Occasion License for GranFondo 

that will have a maximum 2,500 capacity with 

service from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Plaza. 

Like other festival organizers in 

Whistler, GranFondo organizers wish the 

province’s liquor laws would allow all their 

participants to be together and enjoy a beer 

at the same time. This is the next best thing. 

“We feel our event caters to a very familyfriendly 

audience, and the atmosphere 

that we’re trying to create is very much 

full of camaraderie and celebration, versus 

drinking, that it would be nice to be able 

to lift those types of limits,” said Lindsay 

Carswell, GranFondo’s director of marketing. 

That said, Carswell added that the beer 

garden is one facet to the overall event. 

“We’re not concerned about delivering a 

great experience for people on the day.” 

It is anticipated there will be roughly 

1,000 guests at the event under the age of 19. 

The GranFondo last year generated $2.7 

million in economic activity for Whistler 

and $8.2 million for the province. 

This year the event will take place on Sept.8. 

PLAZA NOISE REPORT COMING TO COUNCIL 

Noise issues continue to mar Whistler’s 

second annual summer concert series. 

At its first meeting in September 

municipal staff will deliver a report to council 

looking at a range of issues surrounding the 

concert noise from Whistler Olympic Plaza. 

“They’ve been out taking measurements in 

various locations so we want the results of that 

monitoring,” said the mayor after the meeting. 

“And then there’s been some consideration of 

changing the location of speakers and things 

like that. So it’s just to give us an update on 

what we’ve been hearing.” 

Council heard again Tuesday night in a 

letter from Whistler Cay Heights residents 

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2011 ENERGY REPORT DELIVERS MIXED NEWS 

The Resort Municipality of Whistler spends 

one million dollars every year on electricity 

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That’s just part of its $1.7 million 

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“We’ve got to continue to target five or 

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FEE INCREASES DESIGNED TO STEM FINANCIAL LOSSES 


It’s likely going to cost more to swim, 

sweat and skate at the Meadow Park 

Sports Centre next year — perhaps as much 

as 30 per cent more. 

And the visitors hardest hit will be 

those who live outside Whistler. 

Municipal staff is considering three 

options for raising prices at the rec centre. 

The preferred option, according to 

Roger Weetman, manager of recreation 

services, would see a $10 drop in fee, up 

from the current cost of $8, with a 20 per 

cent discount on pass prices for residents. 

This could recoup about $125,000. 

“Obviously there’s a goal to maintain 

affordability,” Weetman told council of the 

review at Tuesday’s council meeting. 

The proposed fee increases are designed 

to stem financial losses at the rec centre where 

costs are outpacing revenues. Among the 

things contributing to the gap in costs and 

revenues is the increased competition from 

the local commercial fitness centre and the 

impact of the new outdoor village skating rink, 

which it is estimated could have negatively 

hurt the rec centre by as much as $50,000 in 

lost skating revenues and admissions. 

This year’s operating shortfall is 

estimated at more than $1.37 million. 

“As a result of the issues facing 

Municipal recreation revenues and costs… 

staff anticipates proposing relatively major 

changes to the MPSC Admission and Pass 

Fee Schedule structure,” wrote Weetman in 

his report to council. 

The biggest impact, however, will be 

felt most by non-residents who will not be 

eligible for the discounts that residents will 

get on all passes. In addition, non-Whistler 

residents could also face a 25 per cent 

surcharge on rec programs. 

Whistler, through Mayor Nancy 

Wilhelm-Morden, requested a financial 

contribution to cover operating costs from 

the Village of Pemberton and the Squamish- 

Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) but was 

denied this at July’s SLRD board meeting. 

Councillors expressed some concerns 

about how complicated the pricing 

structure appeared to be. 

Councillor John Grills said he 

was pleased to see that there would a 

consultation period with the public. 

Staff’s recommendation is planned for 

early 2013. 

Meanwhile, this year’s scheduled 

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The pool will be closed for maintenance for 

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The fitness studio will be closed from Aug. 

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for four days, Sept. 4 to 7. ■ 

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Sturdy said there was a lot of opinion on the 

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HOMEOWNER RAISES SAFETY CONCERNS WITH COUNCIL 


Kleo Landucci has never written a letter 

of concern to a mayor and council 

before, but seeing a man standing atop the 

Olympic rings in the village was enough 

for her to put pen to paper. 

“To be honest, we’ve had it. Because 

every night that we’re up there at our 

place, the rings are used as yahoo-central 

late at night, and there’s no one around 

watching,” said the Vancouver resident, 

whose family has owned a place at the 

Tyndall Stone Lodge since 1996. 

Landucci emailed her concerns to 

council last month, including several 

pictures taken from her balcony. One 

shows a man standing at the very top of 

the middle ring, at least 3.6 metres (12 

feet) above the ground, hands spread high 

above his head in a victory pose. 

The picture doesn’t show the man’s legs 

shaking as he attempted his feat. 

Another shows more than a dozen teens 

standing beside the rings and on various 

parts of the rings. It too doesn’t show the 

structure moving under the weight. 

“I would hate for Whistler to have a 

headline saying ‘Injury off Olympic rings,’” 

said Landucci. “It would be the worse thing 

ever for the person involved and for the 

town of Whistler.” 

The daytime problem is exacerbated 

at night after the bars let out when drunk 

people climb the rings. Landucci recalled 

one incident this summer when there were 

about 10 people on the rings after 2 

a.m., each using the structure as a musical 

instrument for about 45 minutes. 

“They’re meant to be this terrific tribute 

to what Whistler has done… and someone’s 

going to get hurt,” said Landucci. “It’s just a 

matter of time. It’s really not a matter of if, 

it’s a matter of when.” 

It’s not about noise, she added. Her 

family knew, buying in the village, there 

would be noise. The family doesn’t come 

to Whistler to catch up on sleep, she said. 

“I wouldn’t be complaining if it was 

OLYMPIC-SIZED LIABILITY? Council is looking into the concerns of resident Kleo Landucci, 

who worries about the antics of visitors climbing the Olympic rings. 

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just noise,” she added. “I would deal with 

that. But it’s the safety of those rings.” 

When asked about the safety of the ring 

structure, Whistler RCMP Staff Sergeant 

Steve LeClair said: 

“The rings are safe for their intended 

purpose (a visual reminder of Whistler’s 

association with the 2010 Olympic Games… 

and perhaps a photo op for tourists and 

locals.) Those who climb on them put 

themselves at risk, however. The rings were 

not intended for people to climb.” 

Landucci doesn’t have the answers. But 

she was impressed with some members of 

council’s quick response to her initial letter. 

She said: “They’re obviously very 

interested in the wellbeing of Whistler.” 

Prompted by her letter, on Tuesday 

council asked staff to look into the safety 

and liability issues at the rings, as well as 

maintenance of the rings such as removing 

stickers and possibly getting fresh paint. 

The municipality’s general manager 

of resort experience Jan Jansen said the 

Municipal Insurance Association reviewed 

the installation of the rings and gave its 

input on how to manage the situation. 

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Cliff jumper’s body recovered from Anderson Lake 


The body of a 26-year-old Surrey 

man, identified on Facebook as Ben 

Trompetter, who jumped off a cliff Friday 

evening and failed to resurface in Anderson 

Lake, was found almost 40 hours after he 

went missing in the water. 

The RCMP dive team recovered Ben 

Trompetter’s body around 11 a.m. Sunday 

morning. He was found in approximately 

21 metres (70 feet) of water, close to the 

area where he jumped. 

Tributes poured out on Facebook for 

the young Surrey man, who worked as a 

guide for Beach Travellers, an adventure 

travel company specializing in showing 

exotic locations around the world to young 

travellers. 

“He lived his life to the fullest each and 

every day as if it was his last. He was an 

adventureman, a friend, a free spirit who’s 

#1 passion was life itself,” said the Beach 

Travellers Facebook page. 

When asked what went wrong on 

Anderson Lake last weekend, Whistler 

RCMP Staff Sergeant Steve LeClair said: 

“(We) don’t know at this point. He 

jumped from quite a high height. We can 

speculate that he lost consciousness when 

he struck the water at velocity and then 

possibly drowned.” 

The coroner has not ordered an autopsy 

currently, according to police. 

The man, who had been boating with 

friends on the east shore of the lake, 

roughly 15 kilometres north of D’arcy, 

climbed a cliff Friday evening and jumped 

into the water from a height of roughly 

53 metres (175 feet). Police reported 

that jumping from cliffs into water was 

something he did regularly. 

When he didn’t resurface, several of his 

friends dove into the water to try to find 

him. Police were called just before 6 p.m. 

Police and Pemberton Search and 

Rescue were on scene and several civilian 

boaters also helped in the search. Two 

helicopters were also part of the search 

as well as the four-member RCMP dive 

team. ■ 

Flurry of tickets for week two of Crankworx 

The second week of Crankworx saw 175 tickets 

handed out, mostly for open alcohol offenses. 

Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair of Whistler 

RCMP said 152 tickets were given for 

open liquor, two for consuming alcohol 

in public, seven for intoxication in public, 

three for obstruction, three for minor 

possession, one for urinating in public, 

two for nuisance, and three for fireworks. 

Meanwhile, Police also reported that 

bikes were stolen in a series of thefts on 

Lakeside Road on Aug. 19. One man, 

living in the 3300 block, said someone 

broke into his unlocked garage. Two other 

properties had expensive bikes stolen 

from garages that night. 

MAN INJURED BY BOTTLE IN THE FACE 

A man staying at a hotel in Whistler called 

the RCMP and reported he had been hit 

in the face with a beer bottle and needed 

medical attention on Aug. 19 at 3:30 a.m. 

He told police that an acquaintance of 

his had thrown a bottle, which had hit him 

in the face, breaking the skin. The injuries 

were photographed and a statement taken. 

A suspect, a 22-year-old man from 

Coquitlam, was arrested for assault and brought 

to the Whistler detachment, and was later 

released on the promise to appear for a court 

date on Sept. 19, and was given an undertaking 

to have no contact with the injured man, 

who was a 22 year old from Maple Ridge. 

TWO DARTS TO DOWN THIS BEAR 

A problem bear proved a slippery customer 

in Whistler Village, when the Conservation 

Service called in the RCMP to tranquilize 

the animal at Village Gate and Northland 

Boulevard on August 14 at 10:20 a.m. 

After darting the bear, it ran into nearby 

woods and was not found by officers. 

At noon, the RCMP received a second 

call that the same bear had returned to 

the same location. It was located, further 

tranquilized and this time successfully 

removed from the area. 

Another bear was tranquilized on 

McKeever Place on Aug. 21. ■ 

- Cathryn Atkinson 



Council considers future 

of Spearhead Huts 

FUNDRAISING FOR PROJECT TO SPAN FIVE YEARS 


The $1.7 million Spearhead Huts 

proposal — three backcountry huts 

linked by trails in Whistler Blackcomb’s 

backcountry backyard — is gaining ground. 

Proponents Liz Scremin and Rob 

Brusse, of the Spearhead Huts Committee, 

made a presentation to council Tuesday at 

the afternoon’s Committee of the Whole 

meeting, detailing the five-year project that 

will take thousands of volunteer hours 

and hundreds of thousands of dollars in 

fundraising efforts. 

The project is designed to capitalize on the 

relatively untapped backcountry on Whistler’s 

doorstep both in summer and winter. 

“It’s a unique high-altitude traverse over 

moderate terrain,” said Brusse, of the multiday 

hike or ski, stretching about 35 kilometres. 

It’s no secret that council supports 

the project. In its Council Action Plan, 

developed shortly after taking office, 

council agreed to support the advancement 

of the Spearhead Hut initiative. 

Tuesday’s presentation was an in-depth 

look at the backcountry project that calls for 

two new huts along the Spearhead Traverse 

and a replacement hut at Russet Lake. Each 

hut is estimated to cost $380,000 and each 

could house 35 to 40 people per night at a 

cost of $20-30 each. 

“We’re not talking about a luxurious 

hut or a spartan hut,” said Brusse. 

The first step, after getting approval 

from BC Parks, which is expected in 

October, is to begin fundraising for the 

Pattison Hut and the Decker-Pattison trail. 

The hut is slated for high on the summit 

ridge of Mt. Pattison. 

Once that project is complete 

fundraising will begin for the Macbeth Hut 

and the new trail to that hut from Pattison. 

The third phase of the project is to 

replace the existing hut at Russet Lake, 

slated for a new location a little further 

from the lake to capitalize on sun and 

WHAT A VIEW The $1.7 million Spearhead Huts proposal is taking shape, with Whistler 

Council discussing the proposal at a Committee of the Whole meeting. 

views, and build a new trail from Macbeth. 

“The views are spectacular, looking 

deep into Garibaldi Park,” said Scremin. 

Councillor Jayson Faulkner, also a 

member of the Spearhead Huts Committee, 

believes the hut-to-hut traverse could be 

“ridiculously popular” so much so that 

it will need an online lottery system to 

determine who gets to use the huts. 

There are currently no numbers for the 

skiers who access the area. Faulkner said it 

could be between 500 and 1,500 per year. 

This development would see numbers grow. 

“It is absolutely a world-class 

experience,” he said. “This is way more 

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dramatic back there (compared to Whistler 

Blackcomb), way more wild.” 

And he believes it will have economic 

spin-off benefits to Whistler. He compares 

it to his backcountry experiences in Europe, 

bookended by time in town. 

“I don’t do the hut trip and leave,” said 

Faulkner. 

There have been two major fundraising 

events, securing $40,000 for the project. That’s 

just a drop in the bucket of the $1.16 million 

needed. A further $580,000 is expected to 

come from volunteer labour and donations. 

For more information go to www. 

spearheadhuts.org. ■ 



Memorial plaque for Jeanie the bear unveiled 

SEVERAL BEARS TRY TO ENTER PROPERTIES IN RECENT DAYS, RESULTING IN SCARY ENCOUNTERS 

By Andrew Mitchell 

There are dozens of bears in the Whistler 

area at any given time, but few had the 

same impact as Jeanie. She was a regular 

sight for riders of lifts and gondolas, for 

people taking bear viewing tours, and for 

locals out hiking and biking. With seven 

sets of cubs delivered in her lifetime, she 

was often in the company of young bears. 

She was featured on postcards, in picture 

books and documentaries. 

Last October, after a particularly bad 

berry season left bears looking for lateseason 

forage, Jeanie was shot and killed 

by the B.C. Conservation Officer Service. 

She had been entering cook-filled kitchens 

to steal food and acting aggressively, often 

accompanied by her cub Jeanette, and it was 

decided that she posed a public safety risk. 

Jeanie was buried on Whistler Mountain, 

where she spent so much time; a memorial 

plaque was attached to a rock marking her 

grave. The plaque is not easily accessible to 

hikers. However, bikers have easy access to 

it. It is directly across from the top of the 

Fitzsimmons Express chair near Olympic 

station and is directly adjacent to the forest 

edge about eight metres up the ski run. 

Sylvia Dolson of the Get Bear Smart 

Society said it was important to honour 

Jeanie’s legacy. 

“Jeanie’s high tolerance for the presence of 

people allowed us a glimpse into the private 

life of a bear,” she said. “She showed us the 

fierce, protective nature of a mother bear, and 

at the same time, the gentle, nurturing and 

playful side. She helped us realize the wide 

range of emotions that bears have.” 

While it’s easy to think of bears as eating 

half the time and sleeping the other half, 

Dolson said that Jeaniem would play. 

“Jeanie always took time to play with 

her cubs, allowing them to use her as a 

jungle gym. She even played herself,” Dolson 

recalled. “At one time, Jeanie had a little 

pond of water near Bear Paw... and she used 

to love to lay back in the pond and splash.” 

Dolson said Jeanie’s story also 

underlines everything that the Get Bear 

Smart Society is trying to achieve, and 

that’s for people to take care not to attract 

bears into human areas where they can 

come into conflict with people. People 

who like bears may also be doing them 

harm by not chasing them off. 

“Unfortunately, bears aren’t chased 

off enough, so they don’t understand that 

hanging around houses is inappropriate,” 

said Dolson. “One day, when their behavior 

becomes intolerable to people, COs 

(conservation officers) are tasked with the 

responsibility of killing them. Sadly, a dead 

bear doesn’t learn anything and the vicious 

cycle continues.” 

Meanwhile, 19 Mile resident Anne 

Jelenic had a scary encounter with a bear on 

Tuesday. A bear tried to get into her home 

while she was visiting her neighbour. She 

called her 10-year-old son and told him to 

close the door and lock it. 

“Before that he opened the door and the 

bear was right in front of him,” she said. “He 

was freaking out and I was freaking out.” 

Jelenic said the bear damaged the 

front door trying to get into her house. 

She and her neighbour yelled until it left. 

The incident was reported to the RCMP 

and conservation office Tim Schumacher 

responded with the police. 

She learned that the bear had tried to 

break into three other homes earlier in the 

day. Jelenic said the CO and the RCMP 

dealt with the animal by tranquillizing and 

removing it. 

Bear lovers in Whistler are also 

concerned about the fate of a sow caring 

for her three cubs. The family has been 

living in residential areas of Whistler all 

season, according to Dolson. She noted 

that the mother of three has been foraging 

mostly on natural foods. 

“My guess is she is in the residential 

areas to stay away from more dominant 

males,” said Dolson. “They always get the 

prime feeding locations, the big male bears. 

Even other females are running her off.” 

Dolson said Whistler residents can 

ensure bears never enter a home. 

“Whistlerites should be very mindful 

of anything that looks or smells like food 

in their backyards and close and lock all 

accessible doors and windows,” wrote the 

bear advocate. 

Schumacher reported a bear hanging 

around the Alpine area was given a shortdistance 

relocation recently after it was trying 

to access a secured food storage. He also 

pointed out that vehicles used to store food or 

garbage have been damaged by bears. ■ 

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Whistler Search and Rescue celebrates 40 years 

BIGGEST SAR FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR SET FOR OCT. 13 

By John French 

Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) 

members are preparing to get Wine’d 

Up for the organization’s biggest annual 

fundraising event. 

Tickets for the event go on sale Sept. 1 

and SAR’s Sue Stafford said all the tickets for 

the party sold out in just eight days last year. 

To date, the Wine’d Up parties have 

raised more than $380,000 to help 

cover training costs and the purchase of 

equipment. 

Stafford said the event is slated for Oct. 

13 at Dusty’s in Whistler Creekside, and 

includes dinner, a silent auction and a live 

auction. Five of the resort’s top chefs will 

prepare the meal and Gary Raymond is 

scheduled to lead the live auction. 

Stafford said the event has raised 

between $48,000 and $52,000 each year 

in the last three and she expects to reach 

that range again this year. 

“The half million dollar figure is coming 

closer to me,” said Stafford. “I’m really 

on the big push. I’d really love to push a 

bit hard but with the economic times not 

everybody has quite the deeper pockets 

they had.” 

She said the event gets great support 

every year from Whistler Blackcomb 

through the donation of the venue and the 

use of the reservation system to sell tickets. 

The Wagner Family of Wine is donating 

the wine for the event and Stafford said 

many other businesses are contributing to 

the fundraiser. 

Brad Sills, a founding member and 

director of WSAR, said the very-busy volunteer 

members of his organization wouldn’t be 

able to fulfill its mandate without the support 

Wine’d Up gets each year. 

“The sheer cost of maintaining rescue 

quality equipment and training regimes is 

a constant burden in the face of uncertain 

funding sources,” Sills said. “We are all 

so privileged to live in a community that 

recognizes the need for this service.” 

Event tickets can be purchased by 

calling the WB reservations line at 1-800- 

766-0449 when sales begin on Sept. 1. 

Only 130 tickets will be sold to the party. ■ 

Fawcett expected to enter plea at next hearing 

INFORMATION SHARING NOW COMPLETE AMONGST LEGAL TEAMS IN SLED DOG CASE 

When Robert Fawcett appears next in court he is 

expected to enter a plea to causing unnecessary 

pain or suffering to an animal following a sled 

dog cull in April of 2010. 

Fawcett didn’t appear in North Vancouver 

Provincial court on Aug. 16, but his lawyer, Greg 

Diamond, confirmed he now has the information 

needed to discuss with his client what his plea will be. 

“We have had discussions and further 

disclosures,” Crown Counsel Nicole Grégoire told 

Judge Steven Merrick. “Submissions are complete.” 

Merrick confi rmed that an arraignment 

hearing would take place at the courts on Aug. 

30 at 1:30 p.m. The purpose of an arraignment 

hearing is to enter a plea. 

There were no protesters at the latest hearing, 

unlike the first hearing in North Vancouver, which 

attracted a small group of animal activists. 

Fawcett was the general manager of the 

Whistler-based Howling Dog Tours at the time of 

the sled dog cull north of Whistler. 

The BCSPCA spent more than $200,000 to 

investigate after it was discovered that Fawcett had 

given WorkSafe BC details of the cull when he applied 

for benefits for post traumatic stress disorder. 

Details of the killings were leaked to 

reporters in January 2011, after Fawcett was 

awarded WorkSafe BC benefits. The gruesome 

details led to an international outcry. 

The BCSPCA submitted a 1,000-page report 

to Crown Counsel in September of 2011. Earlier, 

the BC SPCA uncovered the remains of 54 sled 

dogs from a mass grave at the company’s sled 

dog operations site, though the original allegations 

suggested that up to 100 dogs were killed. ■ 

- John French 



Pride House: From Whistler to London 

DEAN NELSON OF WINTERPRIDE FESTIVAL IN LONDON FOR 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 

By Andrew Mitchell 

While tolerance and gay pride may 

seem like old news to many of us, 

Dean Nelson of Whistler’s WinterPRIDE 

gay and lesbian ski weeks knows that, 

globally, we still have a long way to go. 

Although he’s a professional party planner 

by trade, the politics are unavoidable in a 

world where people who identify as strictly 

heterosexual are still subjected to violence 

and state persecution. 

But what better way to combine party 

planning and draw attention to the human 

rights issue than to host a Pride House at 

an Olympic Games? 

For the 2010 Olympics, Nelson 

broke new ground by working with the 

organizing committee and others to 

create 2010 Pride House, with venues in 

Vancouver and Whistler that were open to 

athletes, coaches, officials, family members 

and fans. The venue inspired a few athletes 

and former athletes — including New 

Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup to 

come out publicly. 

When 2012 came around and the 

chance to host a Pride House for the 

Summer Games in London, Nelson got 

involved right away. It was harder to put it 

together — London is a big, expensive city 

compared to Whistler and Vancouver — 

but in the end it was a success. 

“Pride House 2012 (PH12) has been a 

bit different than the pavilion experience 

that we had created in Vancouver and 

Whistler,” he said. “London had many 

challenges in getting the pavilion up 

and running due primarily to funding. 

Fundraising, as you can imagine, has 

been incredibly difficult considering the 

very fragile economies of Europe, and the 

complexity that the Olympics adds only 

compounded the challenge.” 

Nelson gave high marks to the 

London organizing committee for 

creating ambassadors for the Pride House, 

including former rugby star Gareth 

Thomas, NBA player John Amaechi and 

David Furnish, Elton John’s husband. They 

were instrumental in securing funding and 

LONDON PRIDE Dean Nelson 

other support for PH12. 

“The star power changed what we did 

in Whistler from being grassroots concept 

to more of a U.S.-style lobbying/political 

action group with a deeper reach behind 

the scenes,” said Nelson, who Pique reached 

by email in London last week. 

With the support of organizers and 

ambassadors on board, PH12 took off. 

There were parties of course, but the venue 

also became a focus for the global politics 

and the battle against homophobia within 

sport, and in general. 

“The achievement of PH12 was the 

fact that the IOC (International Olympic 

Committee) and LOCOG (London 

Organizing Committee) actually had a 

LGBT strategy and engagement policy in 

place from day one. They even had a special 

Pride Olympic Pin available for sale, which 

quickly became a collector’s item, and was 

one of the rarest pins available. 

“(The) bottom line is that PH12 

created an environment that fostered open 

communication and protection based on 

sexual and gender diversity and inclusion.” 

PH12 was also responsible for creating 

a foundation to assist LGBT athletes 

to train for future Games, and a living 

document/policy at the IOC on supporting 

and activating pavilions. 

Overshadowing PH12 was a controversy 

brewing in Russia, where a judge ruled 

against efforts to create a Pride House in 

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Sochi for 2014. The judge determined that 

the Pride House would spread propaganda 

and incite social-religious hatred, going as 

far as to suggest that celebrating pride could 

hurt birth rates and weaken the country. 

The ruling attracted global attention, as it 

implied that sexual orientation is always a 

lifestyle choice, while for decades people in 

the LGBT community have insisted — with 

some genetic evidence to back them up — 

that they were born that way. 

Nelson acknowledged that it is going 

to be tough to get a foothold in Sochi, but 

he’s not giving up. 

“(Back) in 2010, we always knew 

that Sochi would be more of a challenge, 

and that was part of our communication 

strategy back then as well,” he said. “We 

are not surprised by the official statement 

and the extraordinary measures the Russian 

court systems/government has taken to 

ensure that PH14 does not happen. We are 

still hopeful that we will find a solution 

and make it a reality. It just may be 

in a different form than what we had 

imagined, but anything is possible in two 

years. Governments change and people’s 

attitudes can change as well. I think we 

just need to keep our eye on the ball and 

know what our end goal is, and be creative 

in obtaining that objective.” 

Russia’s lack of welcome for Pride House 

underlines another reality of the Summer 

Games. While countries competing in 

the Winter Games are generally wealthier 

and more democratic, many nations 

represented at 2012 still criminalize and 

persecute people with different sexual 

orientations. Wikitravel lists 81 countries 

where homosexuality is illegal, and in a 

“(Back) in 2010, we 

always knew that 

Sochi would be more 

of a challenge...” 

–DEAN NELSON 

few cases — like Saudi Arabia and Iran — it 

can be punishable by death. 

That list of countries includes Jamaica, 

which provided some of the Games’ top 

highlights in the 2012 track and field 

events. Homosexuality and sodomy 

is illegal there and those in the LGBT 

community are frequent targets for 

violence and hate crimes — so much so 

that gay Jamaicans can apply for refugee 

status in some nations. 

Nelson said that fact wasn’t lost on PH12 

organizers, which is why they emphasized 

the politics as much as the celebration with 

events and exhibits tackling homophobia 

and other issues. In his view, it’s not about 

being at any one Olympic Games, but 

using the Games as a platform to promote 

diversity and tolerance. “We are trying 

to position within the system that the 

Pride House pavilion is a venue of sexual 

diversity and inclusiveness that encourages 

athletes and their support team to have a 

safe, inclusive environment that will allow 

them to excel and be their very best — 

rather than expend additional energy and 

resources to hide an aspect of themselves. 

“It is similar to the ages when people of 

colour were prohibited in participating and 

how the IOC and sporting bodies worked 

with various government and organizations 

to make that change. There is hope, we will 

just need to proceed strategically and with 

due care and caution.” 

Nelson was thrilled with the amount 

of positive media attention that PH12 

received and by the feedback of athletes 

and others. 

He also had a chance to tour London 

during the Games, and was able to compare 

the event to the Games in Vancouver/ 

Whistler. 

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different,” he noted. “Just the size and 

scope of London versus Vancouver. The 

advantage of hosting a Winter Olympics 

versus summer is that the Winter Games are 

smaller and somewhat more manageable 

in my opinion. Our Games were more 

compact, and especially in Whistler where 

the Games took over the village and you 

could feel the excitement and energy. Both 

Vancouver and Whistler had free live site 

locations that were easily accessible, as 

well as the official celebration venues that 

required tickets.” 

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and it was impossible to access some of 

the Olympic icons like the Olympic rings, 

hung from the Tower of London, and the 

Olympic flame, which was kept indoors at 

the stadium. However, he said it was easy 

to bump into athletes and other dignitaries 

touring London in between events. 

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Vancouver, is that most people left town, 

so taking in the traditional sights and 

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An online petition to get Pemberton 

added to the political discussion with 

the aim of switching its federal riding has 

been set up by the Village of Pemberton. 

The village wants to see the boundaries 

for two ridings change, removing Pemberton 

from Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon and adding 

it to West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea 

to Sky Country, the riding that includes 

Whistler, Squamish, West Vancouver and 

the Sunshine Coast, which is currently 

represented in parliament by MP John 

Weston of the Conservative Party of Canada. 

“Our social orientation, our 

transportation infrastructure, our business 

supply infrastructure, our recreation, our 

food supply… just about everything goes 

north-south here from Pemberton down into 

Vancouver. There is zero connection with the 

eastern Fraser Valley,” said Pemberton Mayor 

Jordan Sturdy in an interview. 

“We are a part of the Sea to Sky. The 

constituency for it is West Vancouver- 

Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky. Well, they left 

out part of the Sea to Sky, the ‘Sky’ part. 

Which is us!” 

Federal electoral districts, also known 

as ridings or constituencies, provide the 

geographic areas where voters cast votes 

to elect members of parliament. Change 

proposals are considered every 10 years, 

and use the latest census numbers to assess 

population growth. 

The Federal Electoral Boundary 

Commissions (FEBC) in each province 

BOUNDARY PETITION 

Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy 

consider and assess demographic 

changes that have occurred since the 

last redistribution process. Based on 

their assessment, the commissions make 

recommendations for alterations in 

existing boundaries in order to achieve 

better representation. 

Pemberton was moved from the riding 

the last time the FEBC made changes and 

the mayor wants this reversed. 

The petition, which was uploaded on 

Aug. 14, has 25 signatures so far. The 

village hopes to get 1,000 signatures. 

Pemberton is not currently on the 

discussion table and the petition is one 

way Sturdy hopes to change this. 

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Pemberton should be in federally. It’s 

not always easy for people to write to the 

Federal Election Boundaries Commission 

and this is an easy way — go to our website, 

sign up, tell us and the commission what 

you think,” Sturdy said. 

“I’m confident that our constituents 

would tend to agree to our perspective. 

Let’s give them a chance to have voice.” 

But would a petition have an impact? 

“I certainly hope so. There’s very little 

logic to have the continuation of the 

existing boundary, other than hydrology in 

that the Lillooet River flows into Harrison 

Lake, which is adjacent to Chilliwack. 

That’s about it, as far as I can tell,” Sturdy 

said, laughing. 

Sturdy said he had made both Weston 

and Mark Strahl, Pemberton’s current MP, 

aware of Pemberton Village’s hope to 

switch ridings. 

“I often joke with Mark Strahl that the 

quickest way for him to get to Pemberton 

is to pass through about 18 other 

constituencies, and four-and-a-half hours 

later he arrives here,” Sturdy said. 

“Certainly Mark and before him (his 

father) Chuck Strahl have provided us with 

good representation, but our interests in 

common are really with the Sea to Sky.” 

Sturdy said both MPs are on board. 

“Both of them understand our desire 

to shift and have no opposition to it. 

They are sensitive to supporting particular 

proposals because of the possibility of it 

being misinterpreted as gerrymandering, 

but certainly both of them understand. 

John already has a pretty big riding, but an 

additional couple thousand at the end of the 

day doesn’t make much of an impact in terms 

of his ability to do his job,” Sturdy said. 

The Village of Pemberton wants residents 

to also attend an upcoming public hearing 

on the issue on September 11, 2012, at the 

Executive Suites Garibaldi Springs Resort in 

Squamish. It starts at 7 p.m. 

The petition is at: http://www. 

petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/ 

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PUBLIC HEARING 

OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW 

(BC TRANSIT SITE) NO. 2013, 2012 

ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (BC TRANSIT SITE) NO. 2012, 2012 

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Act RSBC, 1996, 

c.323 that the Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler will hold a Public Hearing 

to consider representations regarding “Offi cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw 

(BC Transit Site) No. 2013, 2012” and “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (BC Transit Site) 

No. 2012, 2012” (the “proposed Bylaws”) in the Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre at Maurice 

Young Millennium Place, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British Columbia commencing 

at 6:00 p.m., September 4, 2012. 

AT THE HEARING the public will be allowed to make representations to Council or 

present written submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed Bylaws and 

will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard. 

SUBJECT LANDS: The lands, which are the subject of the proposed Bylaws, are located at 

8011 Highway 99 (“the Lands”). More specifically these lands are described as that portion of: 

The North 1/2 of District Lot 1758, Group 1, NWD, except fi rstly: Part in Reference 

Plan 1022, secondly: Part in Plan LMP3329, thirdly: Part in Highway Plan 90 

described in Reference Plan BCP42773 as shown outlined in bold on the map below. 

PURPOSE OF “OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW (BC Transit Site) 

No. 2013, 2012”: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to amend policy 

supporting light industrial use and identify the Lands as a development area, a service 

commercial and industrial area, and a sewer and water service area.” 

PURPOSE OF “ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (BC Transit Site) No. 2012, 2012”: 

In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to rezone the Lands from RS-E1 

(Residential Single Estate One) to CTI2 (Community and Transportation Infrastructure Two) to 

provide for uses related to the parking and maintenance of passenger transportation vehicles. 

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the proposed Bylaws and related documents 

which have been or will be considered by the Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler 

may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall of the Resort Municipality 

of Whistler located at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British Columbia, between the 

hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday only, from August 23, 2012 to 

September 4, 2012 (inclusive) (statutory holidays excluded). 

Lonny Miller, Corporate Offi cer 

SUBJECT LANDS - BYLAW 2012, 2012 AND BYLAW 2013, 2012 

NOTICE OF 

PUBLIC HEARING 

ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW 

(FUNCTION JUNCTION - INDOOR RECREATION USES) NO. 2003, 2012 

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Act RSBC, 1996, 

c.323 that the Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler will hold a Public Hearing 

to consider representations regarding amendments to Whistler “Zoning and Parking 

Bylaw No. 303, 1983” (Zoning Bylaw) by means of “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Function 

Junction - Indoor Recreation Uses) No. 2003, 2012” (the “proposed Bylaw”) in the 

Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre at Maurice Young Millennium Place, 4335 Blackcomb Way, 

Whistler, British Columbia commencing at 6:00 p.m., September 4, 2012. 

AT THE HEARING the public will be allowed to make representations to Council or 

present written submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed Bylaw 

and will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard. 

SUBJECT LANDS: The lands, which are the subject of the proposed Bylaw, are 

located in Function Junction at 

• 1010 Millar Creek Road to 1110 Millar Creek Road 

• 1005 Alpha Lake Road to 1224 Alpha Lake Road 

• 1410 Alpha Lake Road and 1430 Alpha Lake Road 

• 1002 Lynham Road and 1006 Lynham Road 

The Lands (“the Lands”) are shown outlined in bold on the map below. 

PURPOSE OF “ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (Function Junction - Indoor 

Recreation Uses) NO. 2003, 2012”: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed 

Bylaw is to rezone the Lands in Function Junction to generally allow Indoor Recreation 

Uses in the Industrial Service One (IS1), Industrial Service Four (IS4), Industrial Light 

Three (IL3), and Function Junction Light Industrial Residential (ILR) zones, respectively. 

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the aforementioned “Zoning 

Amendment Bylaw (Function Junction - Indoor Recreation Uses) No. 2003, 2012” and 

related documents which have been or will be considered by the Council of the Resort 

Municipality of Whistler may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall of 

the Resort Municipality of Whistler located at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British 

Columbia, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday only, 

from August 23, 2012 to September 4, 2012 (inclusive) (statutory holidays excluded). 


The following Public Hearings will be held on September 4, 2012 starting at 6:00 

p.m. in the following order: 

SUBJECT LANDS - BYLAW 2003, 2012 

The following Public Hearings will be held on September 4, 2012 starting at 6:00 p.m. in 

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2. Offi cial Community Plan Amendment Bylaw (BC Transit Site) No. 2013, 2012 and 

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3. Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012. 

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Apocalypse. Now. 

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fun at the nerdy predilections of this motley 

sect, but that I also held them in great esteem. 

They were, after all, labouring in obscurity on 

the cutting edge of science and conservation in 

the world’s most dangerous outposts, bringing 

a suite of modern molecular and analytical 

By Leslie 

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methods to bear on their investigations of 

reptiles and amphibians. Their ranks had 

largely been purged of pet-trade geeks, 

unrepentant collectors and mountebank 

naturalists, and the remaining professionals 

were engaged in saving the natural world by 

documenting and maintaining its richness. 

Since humans claim a place in this natural 

order (despite the unfathomable protests 

of conservatives and religious wankers) we 

could even call their efforts altruistic. 

When last we left our heroes in 2006, 

they were eight years into the fight against 

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (chytrid) the 

microscopic fungus fingered in 1998 as the 

meteor mysteriously plowing through the 

world’s 6,000-plus amphibian species — even 

those in remote and pristine areas — leaving a 

trail of extinctions in its wake. They were also 

fighting a few invasive species fires — the many 

incursions of the Cane Toad and Bullfrog 

around the world, the gutting of Guam’s native 

fauna by the Asian Brown Treesnake, and 

a newly discovered population of Burmese 

pythons in Florida’s Everglades that seemed 

more novelty than threat. Oh, and there 

remained lingering debate over the “deformed 

frog debacle” of the mid-nineties, when it 

came to light that horribly disfigured (see: 

polymelia, polydactyly) were increasingly 

common in ponds in agricultural settings; 

something was happening at a critical stage 

in their complex development from egg to 

tadpole to frog — was it disease? Parasites? 

A toxin? It turned out that the same parasites 

responsible for swimmer’s itch in Whistler’s 

lakes — trematode worm larvae — caused 

deformities by burrowing into tadpoles just 

as their limbs were forming. But the reason 

the parasites were so prevalent, and the 

amphibians so susceptible, was exposure to 

agricultural chemicals; fertilizer in the former, 

immune-system destroying pesticides in the 

latter. Both were exacerbated by increasing 

water temperatures tied to a warming climate. 

Hoping to catch up with some buddies as 

well as the latest swell research on such fun 

topics, I’d headed to Vancouver for the 7th 

World Congress of Herpetology, held at UBC 

August 8-13. The week-long affair, however, 

was nothing like other meetings I’d attended: 

little revelry, none of the usual posturing 

and optimism, a surfeit of gloom and doom. 

Funding cuts loomed large but there was 

more. Symposia titles were dominated 

not by the usual ecological, physiological 

and evolutionary topics, but by the Four 

Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war (invasive 

species, translocations, reintroductions), 

famine (collapsing food webs), disease 

(chytrid and emerging pathogens like 

ranavirus and chelonian herpesvirus), 

and death (frog, lizard, and snake species 

disappearing at a rate explicable only by the 

previous factors + climate change). 

It all added up to a scary phrase heard 

outside every presentation: “the new 

normal.” No longer were these scientists 

hoping to safeguard the world’s biodiversity, 

they were now simply trying to cope with 

the disaster upon us, and learn enough to 

deal with what everyone agreed was coming: 

complete ecological meltdown. 

It’s now indisputable that the practices of 

big agriculture in general, and GMO crops in 

particular, are responsible for “colony collapse 

syndrome” in honeybees and a precipitous 

decline in butterflies — both prime pollinators. 

But aerosolized, hormone-disrupting pesticides 

from California’s Central Valley — which 

grows 50 per cent of America’s food — are also 

carried to high-altitude areas in the Sierras that 

have seen massive die-offs of frogs. The same 

montane paradigm holds in Central and South 

America, areas of the worst chytrid disasters. It’s 

now known that the fungus has long co-existed 

with amphibians, but that new strains 

have emerged or been moved around with 

invasive species to increase the immunecompromised 

animals’ susceptibility. The 

now unstoppable chytrid epidemic, like the 

deformities, doesn’t have just one cause. 

Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are 

on the edge globally. As evidenced by a 

preponderance of lethal, once-rare fungal 

diseases in organisms as diverse as coral, 

trees, frogs and bats — fungi that co-evolved 

with these organisms for millennia and 

only recently become pathogenic — the 

proverbial shit has hit the fan. 

Several scientists confided that research into 

proximal causes was fine, but dust in the wind 

of the bigger picture. Habitat is the elephant in 

the room, the thing no one — and no funding 

body, tied as they are to politics — wants to 

acknowledge. Because it usually means putting 

a halt to some development, which might slow 

the precious economy. And yet every study of 

declines points back to loss and degradation of 

habitat. It’s simple: animals dwelling in nonoptimal 

conditions are already ecologically 

and genetically stressed; add a litany of toxic 

chemicals, a rapidly changing climate, and a 

host of competing invasive species and you 

have a formula for emerging disease, collapsing 

food webs, population crashes, and extinction. 

I was hoping to write Snakebit, Too 

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Mountain News: Four-resort 

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Compiled by Allen Best 

DENVER, Colo. — The fundamental 

story in the ski industry for the last 

15 years has been how companies will 

compete with Vail. The new Mountain 

Collective pass announced last week by 

Aspen, Jackson Hole, Alta and Squaw 

Valley can be seen as a response. 

Costing $349, the pass offered two free 

days at each of the four resorts, after which 

pass holders are entitled to purchase lift 

tickets at a 50 per cent discount. 

Rick Kahl, editor of Ski Area Management, 

called it a “really smart move” on the part 

of the four ski area operators. 

“You have these sort of iconic ski 

areas on the same ticket. It’s a relatively 

inexpensive way to ski two of the four, and 

if you ski three of them, you’re in fat city.” 

It’s also an obvious response to the 

Epic Pass offered by Vail Resorts. That 

pass, which costs $659 for the full national 

benefits, allows buyers unlimited skiing 

at the four ski areas owned by Vail in 

Colorado plus Arapahoe Basin, a close ally, 

and the three ski areas now owned by Vail 

in California. 

Inside the ski industry, the Epic Pass 

has been seen as a home run for Vail 

Resorts. It has allowed the company to lock 

in customers the summer before, evening 

out income — and delivering revenue even 

in low-snow years, such as last winter. 

The idea of discounted season passes 

didn’t originate with Vail, however. That 

distinction goes to Idaho’s Bogus Basin. 

With a big ski area and too few skiers, the 

ski area saw that less could be more: lower 

season passes caused more people to buy 

them, and a net increase in revenue. 

Colorado’s Winter Park next adopted 

the discount strategy, and then Vail Resorts, 

which only a few years prior had expanded 

from its origins in Vail into a publicly 

owned company that swallowed two 

other ski areas in Summit County. Since 

then, many ski companies have toyed 

with passes that offered discounts, allowed 

greater variety, but created brand loyalties. 

The Sierra Sun traced the origins of 

the new pass to a conversation last winter 

among chief executives of Squaw Valley, 

Aspen and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. 

The Vail Daily talked with Will Marks, 

who analyzes Vail Resorts for JMP Security. 

He said he believes the new Mountain 

Collective pass will have a minor impact 

on sales of the Epic Pass. But he said he 

does believe that discounted pass products 

are the wave of the future within the ski 

industry. 

David Belin, a ski industry analyst for 

RRC Associates, a research and consulting 

firm, said he believed the new pass was 

crafted carefully so as not to cannibalize 

any of the resorts’ client bases. 

“They are leveraging each other’s 

customers to generate interest,” he told the 

Aspen Daily News. 

Similar pass programs have also existed 

among smaller ski areas. For decades, the 

very small ski areas in Colorado have 

offered something called the Gems pass, 

which offers discounts. 

More recently, Colorado’s Monarch 

Mountain has assembled a friends-withbenefits 

package that now has expanded to 

31 ski areas, including five smaller ski areas 

in Europe, along with nine in Colorado, 

five in New Mexico, and others in Arizona, 

Michigan, California, Wyoming and Utah. 

Also: Revelstoke and Red Mountain in 

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BANFF, Alberta — Trail etiquette is on the 

mind of people in the Canadian Rockies, 

In the Rocky Mountain Outlook is a letter 

from a bicycle rider, who laments the 

lack of common courtesy. Users need to 

recognize that it’s a multi-use and multiuser 

trail, writes Cecil Lafleur of Canmore. 

In Jasper, the complaint was different. 

Horse riders should do what dog-owners 

have long done on their trails, which is 

to stop and pick up after their waggytailed 

pals, said a self-identified newcomer, 

writing in the Jasper Fitzhugh. 

JASPER TO CELEBRATE STARRY, 

STARRY NIGHTS 

JASPER, Alberta — Organizers of the 

Dark Sky Festival planned for October 

in Jasper National Park are looking for 

a correspondent who can report on the 

festival’s activities. 

The inaugural festival was held last year 

in Jasper, which has been designated by the 

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada as a 

dark sky preserve. A website for the event 

notes that while the park has exceptionally 

dark skies, meaning that stars can be seen, 

it’s also accessible by highways. See www. 

jasperdarkskyfest.com 

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of them to put on its list of good people 

to work for. 

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president of ZaneRay, in an interview with 

the Whitefish Pilot. “It’s nice to have Outside 

recognize what we’ve been doing.” 

HARD-ROCK MINING REBOUNDS 

IN ROCKIES 

CREEDE, Colo. — The San Juan Mountains 

will soon be alive with the sound of 

high-powered mining drills, with new 

or expanded mining ventures planned at 

Creede, Silverton and Ouray as the result 

of rising prices for metals. 

Similar plans had been in the news 

five to six years ago. But like the saws and 

hammers at construction sites, they were 

silenced by the recession. 

In Creede, a company called Rio Grande 

Silver is seeking support to further explore 

the potential of silver deposits that would 

justify a new portal. The exploration would 

yield an added payroll of 40 employees, 

reports the Alamosa Courier. 

On the west side of the San Juans, 

permits are moving forward for a mill at 

Silverton and a mine near Ouray, according 

to The Denver Post. The mining at Ouray 

would put 70 people to work to extract 

lead, copper, zinc and silver. 

All three towns have colorful boomand-bust 

histories from the 19th century. 

Silver was discovered at Creede in 1883, 

and at one point the town had a population 

of 15,000. Poet Cy Warman wrote that “it’s 

day all day in the daytime, and there is no 

night in Creede” during those boom years. 

SHOES REQUIRED AT VAIL EATERY 

VAIL, Colo. — Keep the doors closed! That 

will be the mandate henceforth at one of 

Vail’s most popular eateries, restaureur 

Kelly Liken recounts that business was 

wrapping up at about 10 p.m. on a recent 

hot, summer night when a big black bear 

wandered into the building lobby. A 

bartender glanced into the lobby, thinking 

he was seeing a large dog. 

As the lingering diners were herded 

toward the kitchen, the bartender made 

loud, unfriendly noises, which caused the 

bear to leave. The working hypothesis was 

that the bruin had apparently been drawn 

by the smell of garbage from nearby homes 

in the building. Couldn’t have been the 

odours from Vail’s best-known restaurant, 

could it? 

FAMOUS PEOPLE LOVE THEIR TIME IN ASPEN 

ASPEN, Colo. — The Aspen Daily News 

recently interviewed two long-standing 

visitors, rock musician Joe Walsh and U.S. 

diplomat Madeleine Albright. 

Walsh is a guitarist for the Eagles, a 

band that in 1971 tightened up its sound 

by playing a month-long stint at a nowdefunct 

bar at the base of Aspen Mountain. 

That was in 1971, just before the band 

recorded its debut album. 

Since then, notes the Daily News, Aspen 

has evolved “from a long-hair Mecca of 

soft snow, hard drugs and casual sex into 

a playground of the 1 per cent.” Despite 

the changes, Aspen remains the same at the 

core, Walsh said. 

And that was also the message from 

Albright, the U.S. secretary of state from 

1997 to 2001. Born in Czechoslovakia, 

her father, a diplomat, moved her family 

to Denver when she was a teenager. She 

began visiting Aspen in the 1950s, and 

has returned regularly through the years — 

routinely two weeks at Christmas, and two 

more in summer. 

“Seeing her in person, it’s hard to 

believe this slight-of-stature, 75-year-old 

grandmother of six was once called an 

‘unparalleled serpent’ by Saddam Hussein 

and is considered by many to be one of the 

roughest women in the world,” says the 

Daily News. “By the way, she can leg press 

450 pounds.” 

She also defended the Aspen Institute, 

which sponsors think tanks that bring 

together intellectuals from around the 

globe. Critics, notes the Daily News, say 

“By the way, she 

can leg press 450 

pounds.” 

–THE DAILY NEWS 

such talk-fests produce little in terms of 

tangible results 

Albright is having none of it. 

“The purpose of it is to find a way you 

have a civilized discussion with different 

points of view,” she said. “It’s a very 

valuable place to be able to have that kind 

of discussion, and people shouldn’t feel 

that isn’t important.” 

Also gabbing about world affairs in 

Aspen last week were Tom Friedman, the 

New York Times columnist (who has a 

place in Aspen), and local resident Amory 

Lovins. Their topic: climate change. 

“One party has the completely wrong 

convictions, and the other doesn’t have 

the courage of their convictions,” said 

Friedman, who said that climate change 

should be a priority issue for the United 

States. 

Lovins, founder of the Rocky Mountain 

Institute, also said that other countries 

have surpassed the Untied States in the 

transition from fossil fuels. Portugal 

climbed from 17 per cent renewable energy 

in 2005 to 45 per cent in 2010, while the 

U.S. rose from nine per cent to only 10 per 

cent during the same timeframe. ■ 


30 Alta States 39 

Fact and fiction 

— Whistler’s next 

chapter needs 

good storytellers 

“Don’t Dream It. Be It.” 

- Dr. Frankenfurter 

I’ve been writing a lot of fiction lately. 

No. No. I don’t mean in Alta States. 

C’mon, be kind. This column is strictly 

reserved for true stories. Okay, so maybe true 

stories with a bit of opinion thrown in. Still, 

that’s not what I’m referring to here. 

I’m talking about the kind of writing 

where you can let your imagination gallop 

full and free. Where the only truth is the 

By Michel 

Beaudry 

one the writer creates. And there’s nothing 

more liberating to the imaginative mind. 

Mould a few characters from the clay of 

your own fancy, invent an outlandish 

situation for them to confront, and then 

stand back and let them work it out on 

the page (or the screen) before you. Voila 

– pure magic. 

And it’s amazing how quickly these 

characters take control of your story. You 

think your mind is driving the plot. You’re 

sure the narrative is yours. But then, just 

when you’re gazing out at the sky, thinking 

of the next words you’re going to write, or 

maybe about the stand-up paddle session 

you’re planning on that afternoon, or the 

crazy Hungarian novel you’re reading 

right now, PAF! One of your protagonists 

revolts and leads the story on a completely 

different path than the one you had in 

mind. And it’s way better than the narrative 

trail you’d proposed to take. 

It’s uncanny. Almost like you’ve 

invented this hauntingly real world — 

where people actually live and breathe and 

love and lose — only it exists in another 

dimension. And it takes on a whole reality 

of its own. Totally independent of your 

wishes. I mean, my made-up characters 

surprise me all the time. Do forbidden 

things, carry outlandish opinions, respond 

in ways I could have never devised. Maybe 

that’s why it’s so fun to embark on these 

fiction journeys. I set them in motion, 

sure, but I’m never quite sure where they’re 

going to take me. 

Which makes me wonder if God isn’t 

the ultimate fiction writer…. 

But I digress. I was thinking of the 

Whistler story the other day. And all the 

characters who’ve been involved in its 

telling over the years. Franz and Al and 

Hugh and Mur and Joe… and Myrtle and 

Florence and Joan and Sara and Nancy and 

Ashleigh. And I realized just how much of 

a wild adventure tale this community has 

lived over the last forty-five years. 

Now I know Whistler’s alter ego, Alta 

Lake, existed long before skiers set tracks 

on the surrounding mountains. And the 

early lakesiders’ stories offer an intriguing 

lens into that time. But for today’s 

exercise, let’s assume that the story I’m 

talking about started when a bright-eyed 

Norwegian transplant decided to convince 

his Vancouver buddies that a ski area in the 

Coast Mountains could be just as good as 

one in the Alps. 

Like any raconteur — maybe more 

even— Franz Wilhelmsen had to spin a 

good tale to keep his listeners entertained. 

And enthused. Excited even. After all, he 

needed to separate them from their money 

if his ski-area project were to take off! 

Fortunately, he was outstanding at it 

(the fact that he refused to take “no” for 

an answer obviously helped). But those 

who were around back then will tell you 

bluntly: it was never a slam-dunk. This was 

the kind of risk-fraught project that most 

investors wanted nothing to do with. But 

Franz was nothing if not convincing. He 

twisted arms, called in debts, pulled on his 

social connections — in short; he did what 

he had to do to make the story happen. 

And he succeeded. 

By February of 1966, Whistler 

Mountains’ shiny-new lifts were hauling 

awed visitors into a winter wonderland 

that few could have envisioned before. 

When Whistler hosted the world’s best 

snow-sliding athletes in 2010, well, I could 

just imagine Ol’ Franz grinning from earto-ear 

in his own private Valhalla. “See,” 

I’m sure he was telling his pals up there, “I 

told you my story would work!” 

No matter how you pare it, his is an 

impressive piece of tale spinning…. 

Looking around today at Whistler’s 

enviable valley facilities — the pedestrian 

village, the biking trails, the parks, the 

mountain lifts, and yes, the restaurants and 

hotel rooms and B&B’s and... — it feels like 

we sometimes take our history a little for 

granted. We forget 

just how BIG an 

imagination Whistler’s 

earliest proponents 

really wielded. Indeed, 

the resort’s long-term 

success is due in no small measure to 

the huge-picture thinking of its earliest 

residents. 

And I’m not just talking developers 

here. It took a lot of guts in 1981 to 

stick around and build a house and suffer 

crushing interest rates and raise your kids 

in a perpetual construction site… and all 

for the dubious honour of calling Whistler 

home. Just ask anyone who did it. And 

what about the many small-e entrepreneurs 

who bet their life savings on starting a 

restaurant or a bookstore or even a ski 

shop in Whistler? I mean, talk about brave. 

Talk about buying into the story. 

As for trying to muscle your way into the 

Whistler housing market in the 1990’s, well, 

that too took a big sense of mission. And 

a heroic dose of optimism. For those who 

risked it knew they were mortgaging their 

future for a chance at a Whistler address. And 

yet. And yet. So many of them endure. 

Community. I think it’s a part of the 

Whistler story that many people miss. 

You see, the concept of ‘resortcommunity” 

— a term that Whistler 

happily embraced in the early 1980’s — is 

profoundly oxymoronic. It’s an existential 

thing. As in: the bigger and flashier and 

glitzier and noisier the “resort” gets, the less 

the resident “community” actually wants 

to be part of the picture. When the reverse 

happens — when the visitor numbers fall 

and the retail rape-and-pillaging wanes 

— well, that’s when the majority of the 

residents are at their most comfortable. All 

the things they moved here for, you see, 

now become accessible again. 

I know. Huge irony. And yes, of course, 

I also realize that the secret to success for 

Whistler resides is finding that balance 

between the two extreme states: feast and 

famine. And it’s not an easy task. 

Still, I think Whistler is closer to finding 

that balance than ever before in its history. 

I mean, it’s only anecdotal and all, but I 

haven’t heard so many positive comments 

about the place (from both residents and 

guests) since I first started writing this 

column six long years ago. 

REMINISCENCE of the past, and looking to the future. 

A recent letter to the Pique illustrates 

this shift nicely. “For a time in the early 

2000’s,” wrote the Burnaby correspondent, 

“I started to hate Whistler… I felt like I was 

visiting Las Vegas or some other American 

tourist trap.” And so she and her husband 

stopped coming. “Well,” she continued, 

“circumstances brought us here again last 

weekend… and are we ever glad.” She 

concludes: “We… hope the road [Whistler] is 

on now is the one it will continue to follow.” 

So what happened? To me it seems 

obvious. The locals have taken back their 

town! 

Yes, the beds aren’t all full, and some 

great restaurants are shutting down and the 

overall number of employees is dropping 

and many of Whistler’s small-business 

owners are struggling. But Whistlerites feel 

somehow more involved in what’s going 

on now. More in charge. Intrawest is gone. 

The IOC has disappeared. The Vancouver 

Organizing Committee for the Olympic 

Games no longer exists. And the great wave 

of transients that used to flow in and out of 

town every winter has crested. The inmates 

are free to take over their own asylum again. 

The Whistler community, says longtime 

local Kashi Richardson, is in great shape. “I 

keep hearing about young families moving 

back to Whistler,” says the popular yoga 

instructor. And that, she adds, might be the 

Olympics’ greatest legacy — the fact that we 

now have a decent resident-housing stock for 

those who want to set roots down here. And 

I couldn’t agree more. For that too is another 

stabilizing force in the community. 

Still, Whistler’s destiny is not written in 

a big book in the sky. It would be nice, you 

know, but I’m afraid we’re out of luck on 

that one. Rather, Whistler’s next chapters 

will be determined by all the people who 

live, work and play in this valley. It’s your 

dreams, your hopes, your beliefs —your 

successes and failures — that will decide 

how this kooky, crazy, loveable, contrarian 

town evolves. 

So dream big! Write a great script! But 

mostly — think of snow. Winter is coming 

soon… ■ 


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through the heart of the Great 

Bear Rainforest 

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I am eyeing the 11 avid paddlers in the 

11-metre long canoe. They lean in into 

their paddles in harmony through the 

mirror-like waters of Whale Channel when 

it happens. Beyond them stretches the 

seemingly endless rugged coastline of 

what’s known as the mighty Great Bear 

Rainforest. Perched on the bow of the 

support boat with the rest of my team, we 

are resting after our two-hour-long session 

at the paddle and I am thinking about how 

there are few places in the world which 

feel like true, remote wilderness and this is 

definitely one of them. 

Suddenly my reverie is broken by a cry 

and I notice the crew has paused and all 

are pointing ahead of the canoe. From my 

vantage point on the bow of the boat, I can 

see nothing at first, but then in a heartbeat, 

I spot it — the rise of the distinct tall, black 

fin, the flash of white on the face and I 

immediately register it is a killer whale 

(Orcinus orca). A female and two calves 

travel past us up the coast surfacing less 

than ten metres away from the canoe as 

they travel 

The essence of our calling is surmised 

in this one moment in time — a wild 

encounter on a wild coastline — which is 

battered not only by winds and storms, but 

is now placed at the forefront of a battle 

between encroaching development and the 

coastal people standing in its way. 

When Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. filed a 

project application with the National Energy 

Board for the Northern Gateway Project in 

May 2010 — a proposed 1,172 km-long oil 

pipeline that would transport approximately 

525,000 barrels of crude oil per day from 

the Alberta tar sands project to Kitimat, 

B.C., where it would be picked up by oil 

tankers and exported to the U.S. and China 

— it set into motion a lengthy regulatory 

review being conducted by the Canadian 

Environmental Assessment Agency. 

It also set into motion a powerful 

environmental debate, which has stirred 

up a flurry of activity on both mainstream 

media and social media the world over. 

Since the joint review panel hearings 

were launched in January this year, more 

than 4,000 people have signed up to speak 

and leaders of the Gitga’at, Saik’uz, Haisla 

and other First Nations have spoken out 

strongly against the project. 

According to Enbridge, this $4-billion 

megaproject will create 4,000 construction 

jobs as it crosses the traditional lands 

of 40 different First Nations. As for the 

oil tankers (dubbed super tankers) the 

company promises double-hulled vessels, 

radar monitoring stations, pilot super 

tugs and high-tech shipping protocols to 

prevent spills. 

But people on the coast and across the 

country are not feeling reassured by these 

promises. 

Branded “radical environmentalists” by 

Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Joe 

Oliver, Canadians from all backgrounds are 

demonstrating against pushing the pipeline 

through. 

On-line petitions have been circulating 

widely, alongside articles, blogs and 

massive rallies held in Victoria, Vancouver 

and Prince Rupert. 

But for one university student this was 

not enough. 

Magdalena Angel’s first trip to the Great 

Bear Rainforest — a remote area covering 

more than two million hectares of pristine 

temperate rainforest on the north-west 

coast of B.C. — with her Quest University 

ecology class in 2009 left her yearning 

for more after being welcomed warmly 

by the community of Hartley Bay and 

experiencing the rainforest firsthand. 

...leaders of the 

Gitga’at, Saik’uz, 

Haisla and other 

First Nations 

have spoken out 

strongly against 

the project. 

With a passion so clearly conveyed 

through her words, she describes how she 

made her way back to the region exactly a 

year later to volunteer at a whale research 

station situated on Gil Island. These visits 

solidified her zeal for protecting this 

threatened coastline. 

Angel says that she felt spurred on 

by a desire to support the First Nations 

communities, environmental groups and 

people of the coast who are working hard 

to preserve the culture and the integrity of 

this area of unimaginable beauty. 

And thus a campaign idea formed in 

her mind. 

Targeting youth because, as she says 

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in her own words, they are the ones who 

often get overlooked and she wished to 

empower them to have a voice, the Great 

Bear Rainforest Youth Paddle came to life. 

Spearheading the ambitious awarenessbuilding 

campaign, Angel rallied a group of 

Quest University students, who, alongside 

11 high school students from Hartley Bay 

— a tiny Gitga’at First Nations community, 

which, along with Kitimat stands at the 

epicentre of the super tanker debate — 

embarked on a four-day, 110-kilometre 

paddle in June from Hartley Bay to Kiel, 

circumnavigating Gil Island, tracking part 

of the proposed tanker route. 

Norm Hann, Squamish resident and 

owner of Mountain Surf Adventures, 

helped co-ordinate the Quest class trips 

to Hartley Bay and says he is impressed by 

Angel’s motivation. 

“She’s definitely taken the bull by the 

horns,” he says. 

Hann is no stranger to activism, as 

he himself organized a campaign entitled 

Standup4Greatbear, a 400-km standup 

paddleboard trip from Kitimat to Bella 

Bella in May 2010 along the proposed oil 

tanker route. 

“I guess at the back of my mind I’m 

always smiling a bit because I know that 

once I bring these students up there, they 

usually take off in their own way,” he says. 

Paddle power 

Following a three-day stint to learn the 

intricacies of paddling a 18-person canoe, 

the group cast off from the shores of the tiny 

seaside community lined with boardwalks 

and tall cedars and embraced the eight-hour 

journey to Kiel, a distance of 26 nautical 

miles. It was June 7. 

Kiel is sacred to the Gitga’at people — 

it’s a traditional spring harvesting camp on 

Princess Royal Island, which has been used 

for generations. It consists of a scattering 

of tin and wood buildings that house 

community members while they harvest 

and dry seaweed and halibut. 

After the massive canoe had been 

hauled up onto the white shell-strewn 

beach, the paddles put away and a feast of 

fresh salmon gobbled down, I spoke with 

Quest student Net Mirachatsuwan about 

her thoughts on the day. 

“Today when we set out with a destination 

in mind, I think everyone was way more 

determined,” she says with a tired smile. 

Videographer Bill Munoz agreed, 

adding that there was a certain look in 

everyone’s eyes. 

“There was this intensity,” he reflected 

as we sat on the couches in the large 

cabin, our home for the next few days, and 

soaked up the peaceful atmosphere that 

defines Kiel. 

Munoz, alongside filmmaker Kimara 

Brilling, has been documenting the 

expedition and he remarked on the 

complexities of filming from a sailboat as 

it followed the canoe. 

“The challenge is it’s rocking so you’re 

trying to keep the frame steady and at the 

same time, not go flying off the edge. About 

halfway through my legs were rubber,” he 

laughs. 

The pair plan to release a documentary 

in the fall. 

Brilling commented on how the paddle 

itself is very uplifting. 

“It stands apart from any tanker ever 

being in the water,” she says, “and this is 

the reality that we’re trying to maintain 

because there’s such abundance here. It’s 

important to celebrate, rather than live 

with the idea of disaster — I think the act 

of celebration is really powerful.” 

As dusk finally fell around 11 p.m., I 

found myself sitting around a bonfire on the 

beach where the sonorous sound of laughter 

floated under the canopy of the starlit sky. 

Reflected in the flickering of the flames, I 

could clearly see in each person’s eyes that a 

passion for this place had been ignited. 

What’s at stake 

“I think if this project goes through, there 

will be an accident — it will be massive 

and it will be catastrophic,” says whale 

researcher Hermann Meuter. 

We’re gathered around Meuter and 

fellow researcher Janie Wray at Whale Point 

in the cramped quarters of the Cetacea Lab 

research station, listening attentively as 

the pair describe the appalling effects the 

super tankers would have on humpback, 

fin and killer whale populations. A live 

stream of underwater recordings plays 

constantly in the background, thanks to a 

series of hydrophones placed throughout 

the region. 

Whales depend on sound — it’s crucial 

for their survival — and if the tankers come 

to this coast, Meuter and Wray argue it will 

drive them away. 

Approximately 252 humpback whales 

call these nutrient-rich waters home each 

summer and for more than ten years 

the research team has been compiling a 

massive database on whale behaviour and 

population numbers. 

“If this project goes through, we will 

lose a very important place for whales, 

there’s no doubt,” says Meuter. 

Super tankers produce 215 decibels of 

noise underwater — which is ten times 

louder than the sound of a jet engine if you 

stand 10 metres away, says Meuter. 

“We can’t really fathom how loud this is 

but it’s enormously loud. It’s a huge noise 

source and because these channels around 

here are so narrow, what will happen in 

these shallow inlets, the noise will echo 

back off the rocks which will make it even 

more confusing for the whales if they are 

navigating.” 

Even without an accident there are huge 

repercussions to the whales, says Wray, 

pointing to the danger of ships hitting whales 

in addition to the noise pollution. 

The travel route that Enbridge is 

proposing also concerns the researchers. 

The pair point to a large navigational 

chart on the wall of the station and 

explain that these super tankers —three 

football fields in size— would have to 

negotiate a treacherous path of more 

than 100 nautical miles through knots of 

islands and narrow channels — a route 

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which passes through the heart of the 

Gitga’at people’s territory. 

The route will require the massive 

ships to maintain 12 to 19 knots through 

hazardous waters in order to make several 

turns greater than 90 degrees. 

“It’s really interesting,” notes Wray, 

“when they first put out the environmental 

assessment and everyone had a chance to 

look at the charts that they put out, this 

chart here, they actually didn’t have that 

island on it — they took the island out and 

made it look a lot easier to navigate. They 

didn’t get away with that for very long,” 

she says with a wry grin. 

Just as we complete our visit to the 

station and jump back onboard the canoe 

to paddle the seven kilometres back to Kiel, 

a humpback whale surfaces a few hundred 

metres away, a fitting salute to the tireless 

work of the researchers at Whale Point. 

Province-wide opposition 

“I guess at the 

back of my mind 

I’m always smiling 

a bit because I 

know that once I 

bring these students 

up there, they 

usually take off in 

their own way.” 

- Norm Hann 

Opposition to the Enbridge project has 

been spreading like wildfire across the 

province — not only through the voices 

of individuals, but also in the form of 

municipalities taking a stand. 

Take, for example, the Resort 

Municipality of Whistler (RMOW). 

At the RMOW council meeting held 

on April 3, council passed a resolution 

opposing the pipeline and Whistler Mayor 

Nancy Wilhelm-Morden says it was an 

extraordinary step for the municipality to 

join in the debate. 

“We don’t usually dabble in matters 

outside of our mandate,” she said, “but 

because we are in the tourism business, 

we are absolutely dependent upon the 

pristine nature of our environment. And 

it’s not just Whistler’s environment, but 

British Columbia’s environment. British 

Columbia is marketed internationally 

as ‘Super Natural B.C.’ ... and if it is 

marred significantly in any way that affects 

everybody in the tourism game.” 

She went on to say that as a result of 

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the resolution, the RMOW has received a 

huge amount of positive feedback from the 

community. 

And the RMOW is not alone. 

The councils of Prince George, Smithers 

and Terrace, among others, have also voted 

against the pipeline. 

Voice of the elders 

It’s mid-morning in Kiel and we have 

assembled outside with the sun on our 

backs while Gitga’at elder Helen Clifton 

imparts her wisdom to us. 

Her light laugh is contagious as she 

jokes about children today with their 

electronic toys, and shares how she feels 

it is her mission to help them learn to live 

off the land. 

Clifton, a member of the killer whale 

clan and whose Gitga’at name is Gwila 

nax nox, meaning “all knowing,” has been 

coming to Kiel for 70 years. She has 

witnessed the enormous changes that have 

come to Kiel over the years, namely in the 

form of fridges and freezers. 

Yet there are even more troubling 

changes on the horizon, she says. 

“This year I told the people to enjoy 

the camp, enjoy the gathering as much 

as you can ... because pretty soon you are 

surrounded by all the development that’s 

going to change our way of life. That you 

will not be able to live the life I lived here, 

that you’re going to have to adapt and I 

don’t know if we can because we’re people 

of the sea. Your psyche comes from the sea. 

Everything we have ever gotten the sea has 

provided,” she says. 

She worries that the super tankers are 

going to introduce invasive species to the 

coastline, and she wonders what kind 

of backwash massive ships like that will 

produce. 

“Where are they pumping their bilge as 

they are entering our coast? What kind of 

laws apply to them? We’re an oil and gas 

world. It’s the oil and gas companies that 

control the world today, that’s the way I see 

it. And even I depend on oil and gas,” she 

says as she nods to the constant droning 

of the diesel generators that power the tiny 

community. 

“I try to be optimistic,” she continues, 

her warm smile returning. “I feel there’s 

hope when I meet you all. It means there 

are other people in the world who want to 

save the Great Bear Rainforest. I believe it 

with my heart and soul that development 

won’t ruin it, that environmentalists and 

First Nations will work together to save the 

traditional way of life here.” 

Before it’s time to move on, Clifton 

speaks about the traditional plants of the 

Gitga’at people and their strong spiritual 

connection to the land. 

She tells tales of her youth, collecting 

cedar bark on a neighbouring island and 

talking to the tree, asking for its permission 

to take bark and then thanking it for the gift. 

“The energy moves between you and 

the plant. It’s a very spiritual thing,” she 

explains. 

Pausing to listen to the cry of a nearby 

bald eagle, she smiles and turns back to us, 

saying in her soft, but strong voice, “This is 

one place where you tune into nature and 

become part of her world.” 

Wind, waves and wily weather 

We were certainly tuned in to nature and 

her unpredictable ways later on that day as 

I joined one of the teams paddling across 

the channel to visit the infamous Sea Lion 

rocks. 

Home to a colony of raucous Stellar sea 

lions, apparently it’s a must-see stop when 

you are at Kiel. 

The wind picked up as we paddled 

across and as our ocean guide Phil Winters 

confessed later on, things then started to 

get a bit hairy when gusts of 15 to 20 knot 

winds hit the canoe. 

“We were definitely starting to get to 

the limits of what I was comfortable with 

in terms of the weather,” he remarked 

afterwards. 

His challenge was in steering the canoe 

in the exposed waters with an increasing 

wind. 

A gust of wind and the waves worked 

together to turn the canoe broadside, 

pushing us sideways, but Winter managed 

to get us straightened out as we dug in 

and paddled hard. Taking shelter behind 

a small island and anchoring the canoe to 

the kelp, we were shuttled via boat to the 

rocks for the compulsory photo sessions of 

the sea lions. 

Winter says his main concern during 

the trip was the weather – the forecast 

kept changing, as it always does on the 

coast, and he was often spotted with a 

small hand-held radio to his ear, listening 

intently to the updated weather forecasts. 

Upon our arrival back to Kiel, we got a 

taste of the Gitga’at people’s deep connection 

to the sea. A few community members had 

been busy harvesting while we were away 

and as we gazed in wonder at the mesh bags 

brimming with cockles (a type of clam), sea 

urchins and other unidentifiable seafood 

it was easy to see that the sea is nature’s 

supermarket for these people. 

A way of life threatened 

Cam Hill, a Hartley Bay high school 

teacher and band elect council member, 



helped Angel to organize the paddle. His 

Gitga’at traditional names are Aaya’yawx, 

which means “peacekeeper” and 

Hagilaxha, which means “thunder in the 

sky.” Seated at the table in the cabin at 

Kiel, with his red-chequered lumberjack 

shirt, cut-off shorts and tattooed legs and 

arms, he’s a gentle giant with a ready 

laugh, but also a force to be reckoned 

with when it comes to protecting 

his land. 

He tells us how the community of 

Hartley Bay made a presentation at the 

joint review panel hearings, where they 

were asked to define their oral history. 

From young people just 12-years-old to the 

most elderly matriarch in the community, 

they all spoke about the Gitga’at ways — 

they were powerful. 

But he is upset about the need to 

defend their existence. 

“Never before in my life, or my father’s 

or grandfather’s did we ever think we’d be 

sitting in Hartley Bay defending who the 

Gitga’at people were and are,” says Hill. 

“The process was demeaning, disgraceful. 

People who lived here for thousands of 

years had to defend who we are.” 

When asked about what promises 

Enbridge has made to the Gitga’at people, 

Hill gives a bitter laugh. 

“When you talk about promises,” he 

says, “we basically said there are no benefits 

to the Gitga’at people in any way, shape or 

form with the tankers travelling through 

our territory — none. There is no balancing 

act either — if you put the benefits on one 

side and the risks on the other, our whole 

way of life would be decimated.” 

In terms of eco-tourism potential in 

the region, Hill believes they are situated 

on the edge of a gold mine. “We’re finally 

at a place where we can have our people 

employed in our territory and not harm 

our territory. So we’re very interested in 

knowing how this is going to impact 

all the living organisms within the 

Gitga’at Nation.” 

Hill says his people have very little faith 

in government and big business. 

“They want to bring the world’s dirtiest 

oil to our coastline.” 

The youth of Hartley Bay agree with 

Hill. 

Hilary Robinson (also known as Jonni) 

is a Grade 8 student who says if the 

tankers came, life wouldn’t be the same for 

her people. 

“Even if they came through and there 

were no spills, it would still cause a lot 

of bad things to happen. Even the land 

animals would be affected,” she said. 

Grade 9 student Jenelle Reece says she 

is worried about the development that 

threatens her land and admits she wouldn’t 

be who she is today without her home. 

“It would change things for us; we 

would have to move away. And we depend 

on the ocean for a lot of our food and it 

would just be horrible.” 

Chris Stewart, 24, was raised in Hartley 

Bay and came to Kiel every year growing up. 

When asked what makes this place so 

special, he replies, “Just look at it. And this 

chunk, my chunk, is special to me, special 

to my elders, special to my little cousins 

and we wouldn’t trade it for any amount 

of money.” 

A dream fulfilled 

“Good morning everyone! It’s the horrible 

hour of 5 a.m. and it’s time to wake up, 

pack up and get paddling!” the voice 

bellows throughout our sleeping area. 

It’s Winter, and he and Hill are 

chomping at the bit to get out on the water 

for the paddle back to Hartley Bay. 

Seven hours later, after two team switchovers, 

the spotting of another humpback 

whale, a sea lion and the astounding 

encounter with the orcas, we glide back 

into Hartley Bay as the festivities ring out 

loud and clear in the form of bear bangers, 

fireworks and loud cheers from the crowd 

gathered at the dock. 

Angel is beaming from ear to ear as she 

clamours from the canoe and exchanges 

hugs and high-fives with the other 16 

youth leaders. 

She confesses she is reeling from the 

experience of seeing her dream manifest 

into reality. 

“Seeing this finally come together I feel 

really proud – a sense of accomplishment 

after a lot of struggling and stress,” she says 

with a wide grin. 

She admits to not knowing why she 

didn’t quit so many times along the way. 

“I guess I just really believed in it, deep 

down, that once we got here it would be 

worth it.” 

As for the impact the trip had on the 

young paddlers, a reflection session back 

in the classroom in Hartley Bay revealed 

budding life-long friendships and a 

shared passion for saving the coastline 

from tankers, with the Quest students 

already planning their next trip back to 

the area and more awareness-raising in 

the works. 

Guffaws of laughter erupt in the room 

as funny moments are re-lived, and there 

are some tears shed as well. 

Hill sums it up aptly as he addresses the 

young people: “Youth from two culturallydifferent 

backgrounds have banded 

together and paddled along a proposed 

route that could be devastated in one twist, 

one slip of a wheel,” he says. 

“I think the Gitga’at people are richer for 

having spent time with you and they have 

brought a wealth of knowledge to you as 

well.” 

“Youth, in my mind, play a pivotal 

role because youth are the future. And the 

future is now and you can’t disregard the 

potential that young people have.” ■ 

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46 Travel AND Adventure 

Golf Heaven, good restaurants and bunker hell 

stories by Jim Sutherland 

and Peter Neville-Hadley 

Meridian Writers’ Group 

ACCESS 

Information on courses 

mentioned can be found 

at golfeastlothian.com 

Information on the Falkirk 

Wheel can be found at 

thefalkirkwheel.co.uk 

Go to visitscotland.com 

for more information on 

travel in Scotland 

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland || Does heaven exist? Let’s leave that one 

aside and talk about golf heaven instead. Oh, we know it exists. The question 

is, which part of Scotland is most sublime? 

Some will say St. Andrews, or maybe the wild west coast or elemental 

northeast. My vote at the moment is for the area just east of Edinburgh, 

centered around the seaside village of North Berwick. I’m standing on one of 

the world’s oldest (and best, and most underrated) golf courses, which might 

have something to do with it. North Berwick West Links was laid out early in 

the 19th century, and despite playing almost exactly as it did at the turn of 

the 20th, still challenges top players while giving less-than-top ones like me 

the round of a lifetime. This is golf before the game became pasteurized and 

homogenized. One green is guarded by stone walls, another has a two-footdeep 

trench running through its centre. The par-3 15th—“Redan”—may be the 

most copied hole in the game. 

And North Berwick West is just one of roughly a dozen seaside links 

stretching along the south shore of the Firth of Forth. Muirfield is in the Open 

Championship rota, and Old Musselburgh lays claim to a hotly contested title 

of the oldest golf course still extant, its origins in 1672 predating the current 

layout at St. Andrews. (Moreover, Mary Queen of Scots was known to have 

knocked a ball around here a century before even that, so there.) Throw in 

Dunbar and North Berwick’s Glen course, to name just a couple, and this is 

easily one of the finest arrays on the globe. 

I could go on, but the appeal of North Berwick extends even beyond its 

courses. The town is mere minutes from Edinburgh by commuter train, and the 

Scottish capital has a thing or two going for it from a tourist’s point of view. 

For another, North Berwick puts the lie to the idea that eating in Scotland is 

a less than pleasant adventure. That commuter train figures in again. Most of 

the traffic is in fact the other way around—carrying prosperous executives back 

and forth from their jobs in the city to their seaside homes in charming North 

Berwick—and the town’s eateries reflect this reality. Fast food outlets have been 

outlawed, humble pubs feature chef-driven menus, and good white-tablecloth 

restaurants abound. The town and immediate area are also home to a couple of 

prominent tourist attractions: the Scottish Seabird Centre, its telescopes trained 

on the puffins that inhabit a nearby island, and the National Museum of Flight, 

complete with a now-grounded Concorde. 

Oh, not everything is perfect here in golf heaven—my shot here on the 

Redan, for example. Going against all wisdom, I’ve attempted to fly the pin 

from 180 yards, and my six-iron has come up inches short. Given that my next 

shot will be out of the bunker from hell, the true question this moment is, why 

am I so content? 

The canal where a ferris wheel 

replaces the locks 

FALKIRK, Scotland || Scotland has long been famous for engineering 

genius, its roving sons building the world’s bridges, railways and steamships 

from the Victorian era onwards. So it is perhaps only appropriate that a 

fine piece of 21st century engineering has become one of Scotland’s most 

popular tourist attractions. 

Towards the end of the 18th century the completion of a 56-kilometrelong 

canal, the Forth & Clyde, allowed ocean-going trading vessels to sail 

right into Glasgow. Subsequently, when the Union Canal opened in 1822, 


Travel & ADVENTURE 

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ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (RESTAURANT USES) NO. 2014, 2012 

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Act RSBC, 1996, c.323 that the 

Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler will hold a Public Hearing to consider representations 

regarding amendments to Whistler “Zoning and Parking Bylaw No. 303, 1983” (Zoning Bylaw) by 

means of “Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012” (the “proposed Bylaw”) in 

the Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre at Maurice Young Millennium Place, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, 

British Columbia commencing at 6:00 p.m., September 4, 2012. 

AT THE HEARING the public will be allowed to make representations to Council or present written 

submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed Bylaw and will be afforded a reasonable 

opportunity to be heard. 

SUBJECT LANDS: The lands, which are the subject of the proposed Bylaw, are located in all zones 

that permit restaurant use within the Resort Municipality of Whistler. 

PURPOSE OF “ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (Restaurant Uses) NO. 2014, 2012”: In general 

terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to create a defi nition of “restaurant” in Zoning Bylaw 

303, 1983 to exclude drive-in and drive-through restaurants, unless expressly provided otherwise. 

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that a copy of the aforementioned “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 

(Restaurant Uses) No. 2014, 2012” and related documents which have been or will be considered 

by the Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler may be inspected at the Reception Desk of 

Municipal Hall of the Resort Municipality of Whistler located at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, 

British Columbia, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday only, from 

August 23, 2012 to September 4, 2012 (inclusive) (statutory holidays excluded). 


The following Public Hearings will be held on September 4, 2012 starting at 6:00 p.m. in the 

following order: 

1. Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Function Junction – Indoor Recreation Uses) No. 2003, 2012; 

2. Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw (BC Transit Site) No. 2013, 2012 and 



this connection was extended to Edinburgh, 

completing a Scottish Lowlands waterway 

network. But in 1933 the vital, 11-lock link 

that joined the two canals was cut by road 

construction, leaving two separate routes, one 

35 metres above the other. In the decades 

that followed, both were largely abandoned 

and forgotten. 

Now, revived for pleasure boating 

(along with much of Britain’s extensive, 

18th and 19th century canal network), the 

two have been reconnected with the world’s 

only rotating boat lift: a vast, cog-covered 

mechanical beast that scoops up boats and 

water and sends them arcing through the air 

on the mother of all ferris wheel rides. 

The ride didn’t come cheap. The highway 

project that originally severed the canal only 

saved £16,000 by taking the shorter route 

through the locks. The revival of the waterway, 

completed in 2002, cost £84.5 million, of which 

20 per cent was spent on the reconnection itself. 

In the new alignment the final bit of 

the upper canal, before it reaches the Falkirk 

Wheel, soars over the valley on a series of 

pylons, passing like a thread through the 

concrete rings that top each support. Beyond 

the last ring is the wheel. There is more than 

a small element of science fiction in its design, 

Clockwise from top left: 

The futuristic Falkirk 

Wheel takes pleasure 

boats on a ferris wheellike 

ride from the end of 

one canal to another, 35 

metres below. On the 

Beach at North Berwick, 

looking west; photo by 

Graeme Pow (flickr.com/ 

photos/graeme_pow). 

The 18th green at North 

Berwick West Links; 

photo c/o North Berwick 

Golf Club. Nesting gannet 

birds at Bass Rock, North 

Berwick. Traditional 

Italian restaurant in 

North Berwick; photo by 

Graeme MacLean (flickr. 

com/photos/gee01). The 

Falkirk Wheel from a 

different angle. 

and yet just beyond lie some traditional locks 

with creaking wooden gates: the overall effect 

is Klingon Empire meets Wind in the Willows. 

To the onlooker, a ship entering the 

wheel’s upper gondola seems ready to glide 

straight on and plunge into the water below. 

But it halts, and barriers rise behind it. There’s 

a 20-second delay while 240 sensor checks are 

carried out by computer, then the structure 

begins, ponderously but magnificently, to 

rotate. The speed is impressive, if not exactly 

the “white-knuckle ride” promised in some 

of the literature. More impressively still, the 

system is so perfectly balanced that the energy 

needed for a single rotation is no more than 

that required to boil eight kettles. 

Unlike with traditional locks, no water 

is lost, since as much is carried up with each 

rotation as travels down, and the journey 

time is in minutes rather than the hours it 

sometimes took to descend the original 11 

locks, especially at peak season. 

There’s no charge for taking a boat up or 

down, but if you haven’t brought your own 

vessel you can pay to take one of the frequent 

cruises on offer at the visitor centre, which 

sits at the base of the wheel and whose glass 

wall offers panoramic views of this unique 

engineering marvel at work. ■ 






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48 Sports 

THE SCORE 

ROYAL RIDER 

Steve Smith was named 

Crankworx king at the 

end of the mountain bike 

festival following his 

three downhill event wins 

on Whistler Mountain. 


Smith takes Crankworx Triple Crown 

WINNING SUNDAY’S CANADIAN MEN’S OPEN DH GIVES HIM THIRD WHISTLER TITLE 


and Andrew Mitchell 

There was little doubt who the 

Crankworx king, queen and 

prince would be this weekend as 

Crankworx wound down. 

After winning the Canadian Open 

Downhill (DH), the Air DH on Wednesday 

and the Garbonzo DH last Sunday Steve 

Smith was crowned the king of the festival. 

Casey Brown was named the queen 

based on her wins in the Canadian Open 

Women’s DH and the Garbanzo DH. 

Whistler’s Jack Iles, 15, was named the 

Crankworx prince for his string of victories 

in the Whistler Bike Park. 

For the second Sunday in a row, 

Smith thrilled fans along the course and 

assembled at the finish line. As was the case 

last Sunday at the Garbonzo DH, Smith 

was the last competitor down the course. 

He beat Mick Hannah of Australia, who 

finished second, and Andrew Neethling of 

South Africa in third place. 

The more than 100 professionals who 

raced ahead of Smith and the amateurs 

who raced earlier in the day chewed up the 

course before Smith laid down the final 

run of the day. Interviewed at the finish 

he described the course as a “loose” track. 

“I was quite nervous after winning the 

two I didn’t expect to win,” Smith said. “It 

put on a lot of pressure.” 

Smith set the Crankworx bar high by 

being the first rider to win all three of 

the festival’s major DH events. He earned 

$10,000 for winning the Canadian Open 

DH and that paycheque followed earnings 

of $2,500 from the Garbanzo DH and 

another $2,500 for taking top spot at the 

Air DH. 

Casey Brown of Revelstoke took her 

second major Crankworx win by racing 

faster than Whistler’s Claire Buchar for the 

second Sunday in a row. Squamish’s Lauren 

Rosser was the third fastest competitor in 

the Canadian Open Women’s DH. 

THOMAS GENON TAKES RED BULL JOYRIDE 

Coming into the post-competition press 

conference, Belgian rider Thomas Genon 

was covered with dirt, his eyes red and 

irritated, his front tooth chipped. Not 

because of a crash, although there were 

plenty of those — his fellow competitors 

just got a little carried away at the podium 

celebration. 

Martin Soderstrom, who placed second 

in the Saturday event, blasted Genon in 

the eyes with champagne while Genon 

struggled with his own cork. He turned 

away only to get blasted by American Cam 

McCaul who, while shaking his champagne 

bottle, chipped Genon’s front tooth. Then 

Soderstrom threw some dust in his face for 

good measure. 

It was a hazing of sorts for an incredibly 

talented up-and-coming rider, who had just 

won $25,000 and the top title in freeride 

mountain biking — on a hard tail no less, 

with over 10,000 fans lining the course. 

Genon’s winning run, which he landed 

in the semi-final, included the biggest front 

flip of the day and a backflip onto the 

cabin, capped off by a huge tailwhip to the 

finish. The only run that came close was 

Soderstrom’s last, which ended with a 360 

double tailwhip that came up just short. 

Cam McCaul made some of the biggest, 

laziest backflips of the day off the 60-foot 

kicker, finished off with a 360 off the cabin 

to take third. 

Pretty much everybody else had a bad 

day, with seven out of eight athletes in 

the super final crashing or going out with 

mechanicals. Whistler’s Brandon Semenuk, 

the reigning Red Bull Joyride champion 

and the winner of the last four major 

slopestyle events, crashed near the top of 

both of his runs and didn’t even make the 

money round. It was that kind of a night. 

Genon, who doesn’t speak much English, 

provided some of the most entertaining 

moments of the press conference. 

“I don’t know what I’m going to do 

THIS SECTION 

here,” he said, taking his seat below the Red 

Bull Joyride banner. “I can’t speak English.” 

Genon said he’s been watching 

Crankworx since he took up dirt jumping 

at the age of 12. Although he’s had solid 

results in Europe and at the Claymore 

Challenge, he wasn’t expecting an invite to 

the Red Bull Joyride. 

“I was just so happy just to be invited, it 

was an honour, and I’m so happy to be first.” 

Three Canadians finished just shy of 

the podium. Ontario’s Brett Rheeder was 

fourth with an 80.6, Surrey’s Anthony 

Messere was fifth with a 79.4 and an 

emotional Casey Groves of Kelowna — 

competing a day after the death of a cousin 

— was sixth with a 78.6. 

TROY BRONSNAN AND MELISSA BUHL 

ARE DUAL WINNERS 

Two racers, two tracks and just one winner. 

The Giant Dual Slalom competition ended 

with two winners; Troy Brosnan and 

Melissa Buhl. 

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50 MORE CRANKWORX Three full pages of biking results 

51 JABR Kindree takes fi nal Squamish bike race of the season 

52 WHEEL UP When Phil Chew says ride, you should do just that 

53 ALPINE ADVENTURE Top of the World impresses 


Sports THE SCORE 

THIS WEEK’S TOONIE: 

When: 

Aug 23rd 

Sponsors: Skiis n Biikes / Dusty’s 

Sign in: 5:30pm Dusty’s 

Start time: 6:30pm 

Course : Tunnel Vision - Big Timber 

Après: 

Dusty’s 

MOUNTAIN BIKE MONARCHY Steve Smith, Casey Brown and Jack Iles were named Crankworx king, queen 

and prince after the trio each posted multiple-event wins on Whistler Mountain. 

PHOTO BY JOHN FRENCH 

NEXT WEEK’S TOONIE: 

When: 

Aug 30th 

Sponsors: RBC / Buffalo Bill’s / Mark Richards Gallery 

Sign in: 5:30pm Top of Alpine Way 

Start time: 6:30pm 

Finish : Rainbow Trail Parking Lot 

Après: 

Buffalo Bill’s 

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Brosnan said after the event that the 

spectators played a role in his win. 

“It feels amazing, I’m coming back 

trying to have fun and get in a little 

training before Worlds,” said the winner 

from Australia. “It was a good night. The 

crowd was pretty big and that helped.” 

American racer Luca Shaw placed 

second and he was followed by Bas Van 

Steenbergen of Kelowna. 

Melissa Buhl of the USA beat out 

North Shore racer Micayla Gatto and 

Steffi Marth of Germany in third. 

“It’s been a long week with a lot of 

events, so I feel really good about this 

win,” said Buhl. “This is my first win at 

Crankworx and I couldn’t be happier.” 

LUNN, VAN STEENBERGEN TAKE 

TEVA BEST TRICK 

Two generations of B.C. riders walked 

away from the athlete-judged Teva 

Best Trick showdown on Thursday 

night with $4,000 cheques and the 

appreciation of a massive crowd. 

The first hit was a straight air under 

the big screen. There were a lot of solid 

tricks and combinations — Sam Dueck’s 

“That’s a trick that 

comes out different 

every time I train it...” 

–JORDIE LUNN 

Double Tailwhip, Martin Soderstrom’s 

360 table and Yannick Granieri’s flip 

whip stood out — but the one that got 

the biggest cheer from the crowd, and 

the most votes, was Jordie Lunn’s very 

corked 720 spin. 

“That’s a trick that comes out different 

every time I train it, sometimes it’s a 360 

with a flip, sometimes I get it right and 

I land a corked 720,” said 29-year-old 

Lunn. “It’s a fun one to do, and I was 

definitely building up to it today.” 

Tom van Steenbergen, the winner 

of the second feature, is a young 

competitor at just 16 years of age. 

The second feature was the porch 

trick off of the Kokanee Cabin at the 

base of the mountain. Van Steenbergen 

sewed up the votes with a front flip tuck 

no-hander, with his hands well out to 

the sides. 

“It’s a trick I first got in the Air 

Dome and then practiced it a lot, then 

a few weeks later I tried it out on a trick 

jump,” he said. “It didn’t go well at all. 

I pretty much ate it. But a couple of 

days after that I tried it out on a step 

jump and landed it the first time, and 

after that I just kept doing it.” 

ROPELATO, KINTNER THREE-PEAT ON 

PUMP TRACK 

The second part of Thursday evening’s 

double-header was a double three-peat 

at the Ultimate Pump Track Challenge 

presented by Rock Shox. 

The event was moved from the top 

of The Boneyard this year to Whistler 

Olympic Plaza, resulting in a crowd of 

thousands out to enjoy some head-tohead 

racing under the lights. 

The racers were seeded according to 

their qualifying runs, and then paired off 

on parallel pump courses. They would 

race twice, switching sides between 

runs, with the rider posting the lowest 

combined time advancing. 

For the third year running, Mitch 

Ropelato of the U.S. took the men’s 

event, edging out Australia’s Troy 

Brosnan in the final. While Ropelato 

was solid in every run, he also had a 

bit of luck — Brosnan crashed in his 

run and bent his bars out of shape. 

Cody Johnson, the biggest surprise of the 

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night, had a bad start in an earlier heat. 

Martin Soderstrom — who added colour 

with a tailwhip, behind the back clap/ 

no-hander and a bar spin off the last 

small jump - had a crash in the middle 

section. 

That’s not to say that Ropelato 

wouldn’t have won anyway. No gap was 

too big for him to come back from. 

“The second corner is pretty key 

(to this course),” he said. “If you were 

behind you could rail it and come down 

the straightaway with enough speed to 

pull ahead of the other person. I really 

liked this course.” 

Ropelato said he tried to focus on 

his own race and not to pay too much 

attention to the other rider, but it was 

impossible not to feel the pressure. “You 

could see them coming up on you, so 

that pushed you a little harder,” he said. 

Third place went to Cody Johnson, 

with Soderstrom in fourth. 

Jill Kintner of Washington State 

took the women’s pump track title for 

the third year running, besting Micayla 

Gatto of the North Shore in a tight final. 

Just 0.22 seconds separated the two 

riders after two rounds. 

Unbelievably, Kintner wasn’t even 

sure she was going to race. Just six weeks 

ago she broke her radius bone, and had 

surgery to put in a plate. No cast was 

required, which Kintner said was the 

only reason she had enough strength in 

her hand for something like the Ultimate 

Pump Track Challenge. 

“I wasn’t really cleared to race on 

it. My doctor said I could ride my bike, 


but he told me I couldn’t crash — and I 

didn’t,” she said. 

Normally Kintner would enter other 

events as well, but decided to draw the 

line at the pump track rather than risk a 

more serious injury. 

SMITH ON A ROLL WITH AIR DOWNHILL WIN 

Nanaimo’s Steve Smith took his second 

downhill competition in less than a week 

by winning the Air DH on Wednesday. 

Smith finished almost four seconds 

ahead of American Brian Lopes, who 

won this event five years in a row before 

Andrew Neethling unseated him in 

2011. Lopes was followed by Australian 

Mick Hannah, Neethling (from South 

Africa) and Mitch Ropelato of the U.S. 

The fastest local rider in the group was 

Ian Morrison. 

“It’s fast and dusty, but I prefer it that 

way,” said Smith. “It’s pretty exciting to 

win both the Garbanzo Downhill and 

Air Downhill as I haven’t won either of 

these events before.” 

It’s not that the other riders were 

slow, either. Technically Lopes would 

have set a new course record for A-Line 

with his second place time, while Smith 

himself shattered the previous record by 

over five seconds. 

In the women’s event, French rider 

Emmeline Ragot took the win, with a 

couple of fast Canadians giving chase. The 

North Shore’s Micayla Gatto was second 

while reigning champion Claire Buchar 

placed third. Casey Brown of Revelstoke 

and Whistler’s Sarah Leishman rounded 

out the top five respectively. 

First place in the women’s race was 

worth $1,500 while Smith took home 

$5,000. ■ 



Kindree makes it four for four in Squamish 

SANDRA WALTER WINS WOMEN’S DIVISION AT JUST ANOTHER BIKE RACE 


It was just another win for Neal Kindree 

at Just Another Bike Race (JABR) in 

Squamish. 

Fresh off a narrow win at the BC Bike 

Race, Kindree owned the trails just below 

Garibaldi Provincial Park on Saturday. He 

completed the JABR course in two hours, 

five minutes and 16 seconds. 

The win was the fourth Squamish 

event win for Kindree. He started the bike 

season by winning Orecrusher in May, the 

Test of Metal in June, and Gearjammer 

last month. 

“It was wickedly fun,” Kindree 

said of the race. “The trails themselves 

are amazing and they’re not the most 

commonly used trails. This time of year 

you get on the trails people know and 

like and ride all the time, they are pretty 

beat up.” 

He said the trails that make up the 

course are difficult. According to Kindree, 

the JABR course is the most difficult and 

technical of all the races in Squamish. 

“I would call it the cathedral of the 

Hell of a Series races,” said Kindree. 

Next up for Kindree is his first 

participation in the Fondo on Sept. 8. 

Cory Wallace of Jasper finished the 

race in second place in a time of 2:11:13 

while Kris Sneddon of Sechelt placed third 

with a time of 2:13:06. 

Quinn Moberg of Squamish placed 

fourth overall and first amongst the 

competitors under the age of 20. Moberg’s 

time was 2:19:02. 

Jesse Melamed proved to be the fastest 

Whistler racer finishing seventh in a time 

of 2:21:03. 

Sandra Walter of Coquitlam raced the 

course in two hours and 28 minutes. She 

beat Brandi Heisterman of Squamish, 

who clocked a time of 2:33:37. Ann 

Yew, who splits her time between North 

Vancouver and Whistler, finished third in 

just over two hours and 49 minutes while 

Rua Reed of Squamish just missed the 

podium with her fourth place finish in 

the Pro Elite group. 

JUST ANOTHER WIN Neal Kindree led Just Another Bike Race (JABR) from start to fi nish to 

sweep each of the four major mountain bike races held in Squamish this season. 

Top age group finishers from Whistler 

included Nina Arnold, Carl Goldstraw, 

Rick Reid, Tony Routley and John Blok. 

Top Squamish finishers included 

Heather Adamson, Sam Bowerman of 

Squamish, Davey Mitchell, Eric Goodwin, 

PHOTO BY JOHN FRENCH 

Olivier Gendron, Troy Lynn, Chris Christie 

and Jordan Tesluk. 

Pique requested an interview with 

Sandra Walter but she was travelling to 

the Chilcotins and didn’t respond by the 

Pique’s deadline. ■ 


ENGAGEMENT 

OPPORTUNITY 


TASK FORCE, LEARNING AND EDUCATION 

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is seeking the 

expertise of 4 to 5 uniquely qualifi ed individuals to serve on 

a voluntary basis on the Council-appointed Task Force being 

established for its Learning and Education Planning Process. The 

purpose of this process is to investigate economic development 

opportunities for Whistler within the fi eld of learning and education. 

Whistler is a maturing and evolving resort community interested in 

actively pursuing opportunities that will complement and diversify 

its tourism economy. Learning and education are considered to 

have signifi cant economic growth potential, while providing other 

community benefi ts. A variety of proposals and initiatives are 

currently seeking the support of the municipality. 

The municipality is committed to undertaking a deliberate 

approach to identifying and evaluating the full range of potential 

opportunities with respect to furthering Whistler’s vision, values 

and planning policies. As directed by municipal Council, the planning 

and community engagement process will result in a strategic 

framework with specific objectives, criteria and recommendations 

for guiding decision-making. A preliminary scoping of this process 

and the desired outcomes is presented within the June 19, 

2012 Administrative Report to Council: Planning and Community 

Engagement for Education Opportunities. (Refer to page 71 of the 

Council package posted at whistler.ca/council) 

WHEELS WEST The 2012 Westside Wheel Up is set for Sept. 15 at noon starting from 

Function Junction and ending at Rainbow Park, where a party is planned. 

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West Side Wheel Up marks 

end of race season 

DETAILS SET FOR FUNDRAISING BIKE RACE NEXT MONTH 

The Task Force will play an instrumental role in the planning 

process and is to be comprised of individuals from within and 

outside of the resort community covering a wide range of relevant 

expertise in economic and community development; learning 

and education; business, tourism and resort planning; and 

campus development planning. The Mayor, Councilor and Chief 

Administrative Offi cer will also participate on the Task Force. The 

Task Force will work closely with the dedicated Project Manager 

and senior municipal staff, including the General Manager of 

Resort Experience and Manager of Planning, providing advice and 

recommendations regarding community engagement, identifi cation 

and evaluation of potential opportunities, and preparation of the 

strategic framework plan. The process is to be completed within 

the seven-month period between September 2012 and March 

2013, with the Task Force meeting on a regular basis during this 

period. 

Task Force members will have distinct qualifi cations with proven 

experience within the identifi ed areas of expertise. Members will 

be expected to objectively contribute their insights in the best 

interests of the long-term future of the resort community. 


Phil Chew has a challenge for Whistler 

bike riders. 

The West Side Wheel Up race director 

has been organizing the race for the last 

12 years of its 19-year history and he’s 

calling on Whistler riders to come out 

for the last big mountain bike event of 

the year. 

The event is set for Sept. 15 and one of 

the top prizes this year is a season’s pass 

to Whistler Blackcomb. 

Chew said more than $4,000 was 

raised through the race last year for the 

B.C. Disabled Ski Team. 

“We give that out in bursaries to 

disabled athletes and this year I’m hoping 

that there will be more WORCA members 

that will come out to the race,” said Chew. 

Last year, the event attracted 123 racers 

and he said that was the largest number 

of competitors to ever take part in the 

West Side Wheel Up. He pointed out the 

number was one racer higher than the 

previous record. 

Chew wants WORCA members, who 

are used to racing for only a toonie, to 

know that while the entry fee for the 

Wheel Up is $25 the proceeds go to a 

good cause, and each rider is eligible for 

some great prizes. 

Registration for the race will open at 10 

a.m. at the Whistler Brewing Company on 

Miller Creek Road in Function Junction. 

The race will start at noon and follow the 

traditional West Side route with the finish 

line at Rainbow Park. 

Chew says a celebration will follow 

the race with a barbecue, music and a beer 

garden. ■ 

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through this exciting and challenging project, please submit your 

Expression of Interest including cover letter, resume and summary 

of relevant experience to RMOW Planning Services, Re: Education 

Task Force, by 4:00p.m. PST, September 7, 2012. Please 

direct any inquiries to Mike Kirkegaard, Manager of Planning at 

mkirkegaard@whistler.ca. 

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Top of the World opens to positive reviews 

WORK CONTINUES ON ALPINE TRAIL ABOVE THE WHISTLER BIKE PARK 


Mountain bike riders have found their 

new high point. 

Whistler Mountain’s much-anticipated 

newest bike trail, called Top of the World, 

opened this earlier this summer. Getting to 

the top of Top of the World requires the 

purchase of a $15 ticket to ride the Peak 

Chair and only 100 people a day get the 

privilege of riding the new route. 

Lee Lau of pinkbike.com wrote on the 

influential bike site that Top of the World 

is a gateway to the alpine for bike riders. 

“The Top of the World can be best 

thought of as an experience and not just 

merely a trail,” wrote Lau soon after the 

trail opened to the public. 

The trail offers riders on Whistler 

Mountain access to almost 5,000 feet (more 

than 1,500 metres) of riding. The trail starts 

at the Peak Chair summit and rolls down 

the backside of Whistler Mountain into 

areas that are closed in the winter. The trail 

connects with Highway 86, Peak to Creek 

and joins the Garbanzo bike trails. 

Whistler Bike Park Manager Brian 

Finestone is featured in a promotional 

video for the trail and in it he informs trail 

users that Top of the World is just the first 

of a network of planned alpine trails. 

“As you roll away from the lifts it just 

gets silent,” said Finestone. “The industrial 

sounds just go away and all you can hear is 

the wind through the alpine granite.” 

Finestone has promised alpine-specific 

single-track trails dedicated to biking on 

Whistler Mountain. 

“The idea of it is that it’s not going to 

be inundated with people,” said Finestone. 

The design and construction of the 

new trail was done by Tom Prochazka 

and his son Alex. Prochazka’s company, 

Gravity Logic, headed up the trail project 

for Whistler Blackcomb. Reached in 

Colorado this week, Prochazka said he and 

the partners in his company, Dave Kelly 

and Rob Coquyte, aren’t quite finished 

with Top of the World. 

“It took two to three weeks to design,” 

said Prochazka. “We started building it last 

ALPINE HIGHRIDE The builders of Whistler Mountain’s new trail called Top of the World 

aren’t fi nished yet, but the project is complete enough to allow mountain bike riders to 

descend from the top of the Peak Chair to Highway 86. 

PHOTO BY STERLING LORENCE 

fall. We probably spent about five weeks on 

it last fall and this year we started building 

it at the start of August.” 

The trail length is 4.5km and Prochazka 

said there’s still more work to be done to 

get the trail to completion. 

“We probably still have another three 

weeks to go on the section we’re at now 

and then there will be one more section to 

do, which will be about a kilometre long 

that will be done in the future,” said the 

trail builder. 

Top of the World will be open through 

to Sept. 28. ■ 

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54 Food AND Drink 

On the shelves with a Purebread-ist 

BAKERY WIZARD MARK LAMMING TAKES US THROUGH THE FAMILY FRIDGE 

Anybody who calls a bread “Old 

Stumpie” is alright by me. 

Not to anthropomorphize a loaf of 

bread too much, but when I met my first 

Stumpie I had to smile at something with 

such a sympathetic name that looked like 

a friendly brown alligator with no legs — 

or tail, for that matter — and sesame and 

pumpkin seeds flecking its back. 

By Glenda 

Bartosh 

But why call it Stumpie? That question 

drove me to poke in the fridge of Mark and 

Paula Lamming, creators of Old Stumpie 

and owners of the cleverly named Purebread 

(a riff on “thoroughbred” and something 

clean, solid and natural: “pure bread”) 

located in Whistler’s Function Junction. 

But first I had to ask Mark how a Kiwi 

(those accents are a giveaway) ended up 

in Whistler baking up a storm. It’s one of 

those “do-what-you-love” stories riddled 

with happenstance and good timing. 

After leaving Christchurch, New 

Zealand, for a year of travel which has now 

become 25 years away, Mark happened to 

end up in London, England, “flatting” 

with a bunch of Kiwis and working his 

own commercial cleaning business. One 

of his flat mates happened to work with 

Paula, a Canadian expat, who came along 

to a barbecue. 

It was 1988; the two hit it off. After a 

trip to the U.S., Australia, New Zealand 

and Sri Lanka, Mark landed a job back 

in London at British Telecom just as the 

Internet was taking off. A cheap London- 

Vancouver flight in May 1990 provided 

their first glimpse of Whistler. 

“It was amazing. The skiing was still 

going on, so we skied in the morning and 

SATURDAY NIGHT 

AUGUST 25 TH 

RACHEL THOM 

STARTS AT 9PM 

then mountain biked in the afternoon,” 

says Mark. “We thought, wow — this 

place is incredible!” 

When Paula became pregnant with 

their first child, Megan, they decided 

London wasn’t the place to raise a family, 

so they chose the Toronto suburb where 

Paula had grown up. Mark’s experience at 

British Telecom landed him a spot with 

Oracle software. In charge of customer 

service across Canada, he often came to 

Vancouver. Since the brother of one of 

his co-workers just happened to manage 

the Crystal Lodge, the Lammings visited 

Whistler again and again. 

Then when Mark’s office in Toronto 

moved, giving him a two-hour commute, 

a line was crossed. 

“I don’t know what the trigger point 

for Whistler was, but we said, let’s just 

wing it and see if I can get some work. 

If not, then Vancouver is not a bad 

second choice.” 

That was 19 years and a Club Intrawest 

management job ago. When the Intrawest 

job folded with the Fortress takeover, 

more serendipity unfolded. 

“Norm and Natasha Strim, who run 

Nonna Pia’s Balsamic Reductions, were 

doing Bizarre Bazaar in 2008,” says Mark. 

“We had a bread maker and had been 

playing around making bread more for 

our own use, but we’d also been sharing it 

with friends. They really liked it, and asked 

us to do bread for them for sampling.” 

As it turned out, as many people asked 

about the bread as they did about the 

balsamic vinaigrettes. 

“What a bread maker showed us was 

how easy it is to make bread,” he says. 

“There’s a bit of magic but no real mystery 

to it.” 

By the following year Mark and Paula 

had their own table at Bizarre Bazaar 

selling bread. And by 2010, Purebread 

was an icon at Function Junction and 

beyond. In fact, Old Stumpies and their 

cousins like Seriously Seedy and more — 

even the cranberry, ginger, raisin bread 

Vancouver Magazine named one of the Top 

100 things you must taste in Vancouver 

— can be had at farmers’ markets from 

Whistler to Langley, 150 market days this 

summer alone. 

Their fridge — a stainless GE perched 

in their Whitewater townhouse that’s part 

of the very nice employee housing in the 

former Olympic Village — is a reflection 

of all of the above. 

On top sits a bunch of big ceramic 

serving platters and a Mexican mortar 

and pestle from another of their trips. 

The door sports a lottery ticket (“guess 

we haven’t won”); an Irish fridge magnet 

leprechaun bottle opener; a recipe 

from Australia’s delicious. magazine for 

spaghetti sauce that they make with all 

the farm-fresh cherry tomatoes available 

now; and, to top it off, a farmers’ market 

shopping checklist (as if they need that!). 

Inside, the first thing we find is a 

container of homemade carrot, cashew, 

coconut soup Paula made with coconut 

milk (they’re trying to cut back dairy) 

and a feast of fresh produce and goodies 

from the various market farmers who 

like to trade or barter. There’s an 

eggplant; zucchinis from Camel’s Back 

Harvest in Pemberton; blueberries slated 

for blueberry lemon ginger jam; and 

feta cheese. 

The second shelf is almost solid 

greens, also from fellow market vendors, 

including a spicy salad mix from 

Squamish, fresh basil and a salad mix 

with edible flowers. The exception: butter 

with big chunks of sea salt they brought 

back from France. 

On the third shelf are organic eggs, 

again from the farmers’ market; a block 

of parmesan; a bag of purple green beans; 

some of Whistler Brewing’s grapefruit 

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ale; salsa from Momma Nellie, another 

market vendor; carrots; and spinach 

tortillas for wraps and enchiladas. 

In the fresh produce drawers we find 

— what else? — more produce: snap 

peas, Serrano chilies, golden beets, more 

carrots, sundried tomatoes, some “really 

old lemon grass,” a bag of Brussels sprouts 

and some fresh herbs. 

The fridge door, as expected, is a 

kingdom of condiments for cooking up a 

storm, from Dijon mustard and chipotle 

mayo to sweet onion jam from Sticky Spoon 

(“the best jam maker in Vancouver”) and 

dried shitake mushrooms. Though I can’t 

imagine why, they even have a container 

of Green Superfood and, embarrassingly, 

notes Mark (but I think it’s pretty funny), 

a packet of yeast way past its expiry date. 

Since we were on the shelves with 

a professional baker, I had to ask his 

opinion on keeping bread in the fridge, 

especially in summer when heat and 

humidity are a bread’s worst enemy. 

Conventional wisdom is not to, says 

Mark, since fridges are so drying. Best 

to keep your loaf in a paper bag in a 

breadbox or tin. If need be, cut it in half 

or slices, wrap it well and freeze it. 

So, are the Purebread-ists sick of 

bread? Nope, they love different breads 

different times of year. In fact as we talk, 

son, Jack, is making a sandwich with their 

buckwheat sour cherry pecan bread. 

As for my friend, Stumpie, he’s a rye/ 

wheat hybrid made with Stump Town 

coffee and molasses. Good Ol’ Stumpie. I 

just knew he was named with reason. 

For the Lamming’s favourite recipe for 

fresh cherry tomato spaghetti sauce, go to 

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Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning 

journalist who can eat almost half an Old 

Stumpie at one sitting. ■ 

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got the real deal. 

In an effort to share what really 

happens to our food before it ends up 

on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic at 

your grocery store, Delores Los converted a 

By John 

French 

live rooster into meat for her freezer to be 

eventually turned into dinner. 

A group of about 20 people watch 

as Los coolly takes a rooster, places it 

into a tin slaughtering funnel and starts 

explaining what would happen next. 

“You’re not going to do that now, are 

you?” asks one late arrival to the chicken 

coop. 

Los confirms the plan and says: “This 

is what happens to your food. This is how 

you get your chicken.” 

She points out that most grocery store 

chickens come from factories and she 

believes the factory process is different 

from the one she uses. 

“I wouldn’t know what is done there 

and wouldn’t want to know,” Los says as 

she slides the bird into the funnel. 

She stuns it by putting a knife into its 

beak. The knife then goes into the animal’s 

brain to complete the stunning process 

and then she cuts the rooster’s throat and 

starts the process of preparing the bird 

for freezing. This may look brutal in print 

and not necessarily inline with the bright 

and cheery image of the Slow Food Cycle 

Sunday event in Pemberton, but Los feels 

it is important for people to know where 

their food comes from and how it is 

handled before it’s eaten. 

The group of people who witness the 

surprisingly calm final moments of the 

bird’s life include two young fellows of 

about kindergarten age up to people of 

grandparent age. 

The small group gets to see all the 

steps as Los drains the rooster’s blood then 

removes the head and feet followed by 

removal of the feathers. 

“Who would like to help come and take 

the feathers off?” Los asks after dunking the 

bird into hot water. “It takes a few minutes 

to take the feathers off.” 

Two keen volunteers jump right in and 

help pluck the feathers. The inner organs 

are removed and Los names each part 

then dissects some of the organs. Through 

the whole process Los tells stories of her 

experiences of life on the farm. 

“I used to teach at the Outdoor 

School, which is just down the road, and 

we used to have an open house,” says 

Los. “I did this for an open house and the 

Minister of Education from Victoria came 

one time — most excited about watching 

this. We used to milk the cow and stuff 

like that too.” 

While the bird shuffled off its mortal 

coil another event at the other end of life’s 

spectrum was happening close by a chick 

poked its way out of a shell to meet its 

brothers and sisters which had hatched 

earlier in the day. 

The rooster demonstration was well 

received by those who stayed to see it and 

more than one observer thanked Los for 

doing the demo. 

“People don’t see it,” Los says as she 

gives the meat bird a final rinse. “They 

don’t have any idea about it and somebody 

has to do this all the time. This sort of 

thing has to happen.” 

“People don’t see it, they don’t have any idea 

about it and somebody has to do this all the 

time. This sort of thing has to happen.” 

- DELORES LOS 

In addition to the excitement at the 

chicken coop, Los gave bee lovers some 

insight into how a beehive works. She 

pulled apart one of her hives and showed 

the inner workings of the colony and 

explained how honey is made. 

The Los farm was the final stop on 

the 25k ride up and down the valley. 

More than 3,200 people participated in the 

annual ride up the Pemberton Meadows 

Road on Sunday (Aug. 18). Along the way, 

participants were treated to live music, 

tours, spectacular views, fresh food and the 

hospitality of friendly farmers. 

A select few also got to see farm life 

from start to finish. Eggs hatched and 

a rooster died almost at the same time 

within metres of each other. Life goes on 

and it is business as usual. The masses will 

be invited back to Pemberton for more 

again next year at the ninth annual Slow 

Food Cycle Sunday. ■ 

Chef Edison Mays invites you to 

‘Rock the Brick’ 

36 oz. bone in strip topped 

with fresh rock shrimp 

+ 3 sides 

$96 

serves 3 

7 days 7 events 

Fresh Catch Monday 

Choose your catch! White wine steamed mussels and clams, 

Po’ boy hoagie or Grilled fish Sandwich. 

Taco Tuesday 

Grilled Steak, Chicken or Roasted Pork with 4 Kinds of Salsa. 

Wine Wednesday 

Sommelier David Foran’s pick of the week is a 2008 Poplar 

Grove Cabernet Franc, from Penticton paired with Chef 

Clayton’s matching bites. 

Backyard Bar-BQ Thursday 

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Summer BBQ is back Enjoy unlimited Jack 

Daniels baby back ribs, whole suckling pig, seafood paella, 

tequila lime chicken, grilled BC salmon, sides, salads and 

dessert for only $26. 

Live music by the Hairfarmers - 5:00 PM- 7:00 PM 

Fat Dog Friday 

Bacon Wrapped Kobe Dogs with all the Fixin’s! Pair with 

your choice of double d’ onion rings, spicy fries or slaw. 

Live music by Collin Bullock- 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM 

Bling Burger Saturday 

Try one of our delicious Kobe beef burgers ‘Medicine Man’ 

or ‘Straight Up’ - or go green with the ‘Roof Top Vegan’ burger! 

Live music by Chad Oliver- 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM 

Slow Food Sunday 

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Dungeness crabs are harvested all year 

and that’s just as well says Chris 

McKinney of the Rim Rock Café since his 

customers order crab cakes all year too. 

But even though the crustaceans are not 

seasonal according to McKinney, there’s 

something just a little more spectacular 

about crab cakes when they are eaten in 

the summer. There’s something even more 

exquisite about the experience of enjoying 

crab cakes when the eating takes place on 

a sunny patio. 

McKinney, who is originally from 

Montreal, says he chose to highlight the 

Rim Rock’s crab cakes because the coastal 

waters, just a few mountain ranges to the 

west and less than a one hour drive to the 

south, offer an abundance of seafood that 

is easily accessible to Whistler foodies. 

“Summer time, the crab is always so 

good, and you can’t go wrong with the 

corn (either),” he says. 

The fresh crab that goes into the Rim 

Rock crab cakes is most abundant from 

May to October from Mexico to Alaska. But 

we humans aren’t the only ones who covet 

the Dungeness crabs. Octopus, halibut, 

dogfish, sculpin, birds and other crabs 

seek out the tasty meat under the hard 

Dungeness shell. 

To find the beginning of this story one 

has to jump back to 1998 when McKinney 

first came to Whistler. His sister was living 

here already and she helped him find an 

entry job in the resort. It was his second 

resort job that landed him in the food and 

beverage industry. 

“One day I saw an ad in Pique for a 

cook at Teppan Village — no experienced 

required — so I thought this is my chance, 

I’ll get in the kitchen there,” says McKinney. 

One of the owners was also from 

Montreal, he explains. They got along 

well and so began McKinney’s cooking 

career. He tried to leave Whistler – a 

stint on a commercial fishing boat wasn’t 

quite as interesting as what he left behind 

in Whistler. Like so many before him, 

McKinney was lured back. He applied for 

a job at the Rim Rock and owner Rolf 

Gunther hired him. 

Nine years later for McKinney, he’s 

excited about the Rim Rock going into 

its 25th year of operations offering its 

consistent menu focused on meat and 

seafood dishes. 

In the course of those nine years, 

McKinney admits to stealing away to 

France for a winter season and spending a 

little time at Langara Lodge. 

“It is funny, with the Rim Rock 

everybody always comes back,” he says 

with the laugh of a stock trader with 

insider information. The staff retention 

at the Rim Rock is impressive and 

McKinney is quick to admit his nine 

years is nothing compared to the number 

of years most of his coworkers have 

dedicated to the Rim Rock. 

“We are always busy,” he says. “It is just 

a good vibe. Rolf is very hands off as far as 

You , re gonna love it! 

Whistler’s Farmers Market 

Sundays 11 am to 4 pm 

& 

“It is funny, with the 

Rim Rock everybody 

always comes back.” 

- CHRIS MCKINNEY 

a boss goes. He knows we can all handle 

ourselves and we do.” 

The Dungeness crab McKinney serves 

at the Rim Rock is as fresh as the halibut, 

which is in season right now and very 

popular with Rim Rock customers, 

According to McKinney, halibut is 

more popular than salmon and significant 

amounts of halibut is being served this 

season. 

“It’s tasty and people really look 

forward to halibut season,” says McKinney. 

“B.C. diners are informed about it.” 

But there is more to the 25-years of 

success of the Rim Rock than just its great 

seafood, he says. The crab, the halibut 

and all the other fresh food is offered at 

great value. 

“The food is pretty simple,” says 

McKinney of the dishes he produces. 

“There’s not a lot of crazy things going 

on in our kitchen. There’s no nitrogen 

and there’s no chemicals. It is just basic, 

simple food. 

“People like the value that they get 

when they come here. There are very few 

small plates here.” ■ 

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1 lump of Dungeness crab meat 

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2 cups panko bread crumbs 

8 chopped basil leaves 

Reserve 1.5 cups of panko for dredging 

Combine all other ingredients, form into 

cakes and coat with remaining bread 

crumbs. 

PUREE 

1 tbs butter 

2 ears of corn (off the cob) 

¼ cup white wine 

¼ cup heavy cream 

1 tbs minced shallot 

Sweat the shallots and corn in butter. Add 

wine and cream then reduce for five minutes. 

Puree and pass through a fine strainer. Keep 

warm or reheat in a saucepan. 

CORN AND CHORIZO 

1 ear of corn (off the cob) 

1 dry Chorizo sausage 

(sliced “toonie” thick) 

10 cherry tomatoes (halved) 

Heat a pan, add Chorizo, toss for a 

minute, add corn and continue tossing. 

Add tomatoes at very end. 

PLATING 

Heat vegetable oil in a pan, add crab 

cakes and cook until golden brown. 

Meanwhile, sauté the corn and Chorizo in 

a separate pan. Put warm corn puree on 

plate then put corn and Chorizo mix on 

top of that then add crab cakes on the 

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58 Wanderlust 

SCENE 

WANDER-FUL 

The inaugural edition of 

Wanderlust Whistler kicks off today 

(Thursday), with free concerts, 

foodie fun and a whole lotta yoga. 

What is Wanderlust, again? 

PART 2 OF OUR GUIDE TO WHISTLER’S NEWEST FESTIVAL 

By Stephen Smysnuik 

arts@piquenewsmagazine.com 

Okay, so Wanderlust arrives today 

(Thursday) which is great news for 

yogis, music-lovers and eco-foodies 

and other health-concerned individuals. 

If you missed our coverage last week, 

the festival might still be a bit confusing. 

Naturally, you might be asking what, 

exactly, Wanderlust even is. 

Well, ask no more, for here is Pique’s festival 

guide. As you will see, our arts and music 

sections have been replaced this week with 

extensive coverage of both the Wanderlust and 

LIVE at Squamish festivals. Please don’t fret: 

We’ll return to normal next week. 

WHAT IS WANDERLUST, AGAIN? 

In short, Wanderlust is a music festival 

and a resort-wide yoga retreat. Combine 

that with some eco-friendly food-and-wine 

experiences, a TED Talks-style lecture series 

and assorted outdoor activities and you 

have Whistler’s newest festival. 

As of 2012, the festival is held in four ski 

resorts across North America. Sean Hoess and 

Jeff Krasno started following their inspiring 

experiences at yoga retreats. The pair owned 

a New York music label together throughout 

the ‘90s and sought to bridge their expertise 

in the music business with the ever-expanding 

popularity of yoga in North America. 

The first Wanderlust was held in Squaw 

Valley, California, in 2009 and included 

musical acts Spoon, Common, Broken Social 

Scene, among others. After taking 2010 off, 

the festival returned to Squaw Valley, with 

another one in Bondville, Vermont. Copper 

Mountain Resort, Colorado has been added 

in 2012, along with Whistler. 

MUSIC AND YOGA AT ONE FESTIVAL? 

Yes, well…Hoess says it’s not “as crazy as it sounds.” 

“Both music and yoga are expressions 

stemming from the heartbeat and breath 

— with music, it’s a matter of creating rhythms 

and sounds. With yoga, it’s a matter of finding 

a pace within the individual’s own rhythms 

through breathing and the heartbeat. There 

will be live performances at certain classes. 

“A lot of people have found that 

those two things are very synchronous, 

particularly with live music — and it’s one 

of the things that we do at Wanderlust and 

it’s one of the things that separates us.” 

WHO, EXACTLY, IS THIS FESTIVAL FOR? 

“Well, uh, that’s an interesting one,” Hoess says. 

“I can’t really say who it’s for exactly,” he 

adds, nothing that there will be “different 

things for different people.” 

He says the core audience (about 70 per 

cent) is female, between 25 and 44 years of 

age. The remaining 30 per cent is made up all 

walks of life — small children, elderly men, 

wine enthusiasts, music nerds, you name it. 

The orthodoxy is that the Wanderlust 

philosophy complements the Whistler 

temperament quite well — a whole lot of yoga, 

some hiking, biking, live music and a little 

wining and dining — which is why the RMOW 

has contributed $100,000 to the festival to 

augment their programming. It’s a festival that 

celebrates the healthier (and finer) aspects in 

life, much like the majority of Whistler locals. 

“To have that caliber of yoga instruction 

and music at a resort in the summer, it’s 

really quite a great opportunity,” says Myra 

Foster, spokesperson for Stratton Mountain, 

adding that there’s something for people at 

all levels of the yoga practice. 

“I felt as though, with that calibre of yogi, 

you have to be really, really good and be 

practicing forever, but it’s very inviting and open 

to everybody…at any level or interest,” she says. 

Even if you’re not into the yoga, there’s 

still the music and the foodie aspects to enjoy. 

“There are still a lot of people who want to 

have a lot of fun, drink a few glasses of wine... 

and see some great music. We’re trying to find 

a home for all of that,” Hoess says. 

WHAT DO THE LOCALS THINK? 

It’s hard to say what everyone thinks (sadly, 

we’re not mind readers), but the general 

consensus within the yoga community (and 

the community at large) is that Wanderlust 

will be very positive for Whistler. 

“Everybody I’ve been talking to about 

it so far is very excited about Wanderlust,” 

says Dave Haliwell, owner of locally owned 

yoga-ware retailer Fruv Freedomware. 

“It’s a really exciting thing that’s coming 

to Whistler.” 

Janet Corvino, studio manager at NewAlpine 

Yyoga, says the festival is a positive step toward 

putting Whistler on the map as yoga centre. 

“Right now, Vancouver is one of the top 

cities in the world,” says Janet Corvino, “It’s on 

the cutting edge of yoga, and to bring that to 

Whistler, to showcase that, Yyoga has many of 

its teacher up here, which is a great opportunity 

for the locals to experience that.” 

She says that while she’ll be at all of the 

events, there’s been some concern among 

locals that she has talked to about ticket 

pricing (tickets range from $99 to $475). 

“The Whistler locals find it a little 

challenging, financially,” she says. “I think 

they would like the option to drop in. 

They’re all working, they’re not on vacation. 

They’d like the option to drop into one class, 

as opposed to have to buy the full day pass.” 

Regardless, there’s little question that 

the community is excited to see how this 

inaugural year works out. 

THIS SECTION 

WHAT WILL THE FESTIVAL LOOK LIKE? 

Since Wanderlust is an untested product, it 

won’t take the village over as, say, Crankworx 

did last week. With that said, the festival will 

be use as much of the village as they can. There 

will be yoga workshops at Whistler Olympic 

Plaza, along with all the free concerts. There 

will be yoga-related animation throughout 

Village Stroll all weekend. The ticketed yoga 

events will be held at various hotels and 

venues throughout Whistler. 

At Stratton, Foster says the festival 

contributes to an “amazingly positive” vibe 

throughout the resort. 

“The resort is so lively here, with the yogis, 

the music, all of the animation that this festival 

brings to the resort, along with thousands 

of people who are true outdoor mountain 

enthusiasts. The energy is amazing,” she says. 

In Stratton, the festival takes the town 

over. Hoess says that Whistler has presented 

“a little bit of a challenge,” compared to 

their other three locations, since there is a 

vibrant existing community living within 

and around the festival grounds. 

Hoess says hat it will likely “take a few years” 

to grow the festival to the scale of Crankworx 

or the World Ski and Snowboard Festival. 

WILL THERE BE FREE STUFF? 

Most of Wanderlust’s musical 

programmings will be free — a bonus for 

the Whistler branch of the festival, as the 

music components at the other Wanderlust 

festivals are ticketed. 

There will also be a free outdoor yoga 

class with celebrated yoga instructor Seane 

Corn while Michael Franti performs live. 

See www.whistler.wanderlustfesival. 

com to purchase tickets or check out the 

entire schedule. ■ 

60 MORE WANDERLUST More on Whistler’s newest festival 

63 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW Bikes, bikes, bikes 

64 CYBERNAUT In support of standing desks 

65 PARTIAL RECALL Whistler last week, in pictures 


NOTHING BUT BLISS Blissologist, writer 

and speaker Eoin Finn will be one of 

dozens of yoga teachers and enthusiasts 

in Whistler this weekend for Wanderlust. 

Eoin Finn and 

science of happiness 

YOGA MASTER TAKES PART IN WANDERLUST FESTIVAL 


The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius 

once wrote: “The art of living is 

more like wrestling than dancing.” 

True enough, particularly these days 

— but according to Eoin Finn, it doesn’t 

have to be this way. 

The yoga master, surfer and teacher in 

‘blissology’ — what Finn describes as the 

science of happiness — says that happiness 

is ever present in all of us, and when we 

slow down enough we can find. 

The challenge is in actually slowing down. 

“The major cloud that obscures that 

sunlight is stress, tension and worry,” Finn 

says while driving toward Tofino. “When 

you start to dissect, you know, what is 

stress, tension and worry, basically it’s 

states of your body and your mind not 

being in the flow of life. 

“That’s the great gift of yoga — you get 

rid of it so much physiologically that your 

mind follows. The next thing you know, 

after your third sun salutation, you’re like, 

‘What was I worried about, anyway?’” 

This is hardly a radical thought but certainly 

an appealing one for anyone seeking to 

improve ones physical and mental well being. 

This weekend, Wanderlust will descend upon 

Whistler, in an effort to celebrate that pursuit 

of heightened well-being. Finn will head four 

yoga workshops over the weekend, and will 

take part in a panel discussion on Thursday 

about the student-teacher relationship. 

The Vancouver-born Finn has been a 

regular fixture at yoga retreats, summits 

and lectures around the world. He’s 

been featured in media as diverse as the 

brainy web series TedxTalks and the easily 

digestible Oprah Magazine. His writing 

has been published in volumes alongside 

Deepak Chopra and Ekhart Tolle. Central 

to each media and lecture appearance has 

been his core message: Follow your bliss. 

This was actually the mantra of 

American mythologist Joseph Campbell, 

whom Finn is an avid follower of. During 

college, he read Campbell’s quote, “Follow 

your bliss and doors will open where once 

there were walls,” and took it very seriously 

to heart. 

“I thought about it long and hard, 

about what’s my bliss, what’s my life 

calling and I realized that the big skill that 

I had was being happy and lighting up a 

fire in people’s hearts, so that’s what I’ve 

dedicated my life to,” Finn says. 

“The whole point is that a lot of people 

are afraid of that. You know, they’re told 

that they should live a certain life, and I 

always say the word ‘should’ starts with 

‘shhhhh!’ telling you to silence it.” 

Or, rather, quit wrestling already and 

get dancing. ■ 


Who’s who at Wanderlust? 

The first-ever Wanderlust Whistler will feature a few of the most celebrated 

yoga teachers in the world. Dedicated yogis will already know these folks, 

but for everyone else, here’s a rundown of the three yoga superstars who will be 

in town this weekend. 

These are, of course, not the only celebrated yoga teachers in town this 

weekend. For information on all yoga instructors, visit whistler.wanderlustfestival. 

com/lineup. ■ 

BARON BAPTISTE 

Founder of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga and author of four 

books, Baptiste helped introduce the term “power yoga” 

to the American public. Over the past 20 years, he’s been 

instrumental in transforming the face of modern-day yoga 

by removing the mysticism and New Age overtones while still 

providing people access to the benefi ts of the practice. 

SIANNA SHERMAN 

In 2008, Yoga Journal named her one of 21 young teachers 

shaping the future of yoga worldwide. She has earned a global 

following with her Mythic Yoga Flow classes, accessible yet 

powerful offerings that weave therapeutics, mythology, Tantra 

and alignment, which “pours mythic consciousness into the 

embodied art of yoga.” 

SEANE CORN 

Corn has been both crucial in developing yoga for modern-day 

practitioners and an instrumental force in fi ghting HIV/AIDS. 

She has been a dedicated champion of YouthAIDS, helping to 

raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the cause. She’s 

also become a popular face of yoga in the U.S., appearing on 

countless magazine covers. 



NOTICE 

ALTA VISTA SEWER REHABILITATION PROJECT 

FALL 2012 

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has commenced a sanitary sewer 

rehabilitation project to rectify deterioration of a section of existing sanitary 

sewer piping and manholes. This project is designed to extend the life of the 

infrastructure and the work zone is shown on the map below. 

CONSTRUCTION: 

• Along Saint Anton Way & Archibald Way between Blueberry Drive & Carleton Way 

• Access to all residential properties will be maintained. 

EXPECT DELAYS: 

• Single lane alternating traffi c 

• Valley Trail may be closed 

QUESTIONS? 

If you have questions or 

concerns, please contact the 

RMOW Infrastructure Services 

Department at 604-935-8190. 

Visit www.whistler.ca for more 

information. 






TEL 604 932 5535 

TF 1 866 932 5535 

FAX 604 935 8109 

Who’s playing 

Wanderlust? 


Yes, the yoga is an integral part of 

the Wanderlust experience, but as 

co-founder Sean Hoesse has explained, 

the festival was founded as a mix of yoga 

retreat and music festival. 

While the music components of 

Wanderlust festivals have historically 

been ticketed, the Resort Municipality of 

THIEVERY 

CORPORATION 

FRIDAY & SATURDAY 11:30 PM, 

WHISTLER CONFERENCE CENTRE, 

$34.50 

One of the most diverse electronic acts in the business, 

Thievery Corporation has explored everything from 

Brazilian bossa nova to psychedelic space rock. They’re 

headlining for two nights with a special DJ set. 

Whistler has contributed $100,000 of the 

Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) funds 

to provide most of Wanderlust Whistler’s 

musical offerings free (!) of charge. 

There are other musical acts performing 

this year as part of certain yoga workshops 

and other events accessible only to “Yoga 

Plus” ticket holders. The artists listed 

below can be accessed and enjoyed by the 

general public. All shows are free, unless 

otherwise noted. 

MICHAEL 

FRANTI 

FRI 7 PM & SAT 8:30 PM 

OLYMPIC PLAZA MAIN STAGE 

The yoga-loving, humanity-embracing, dreadlocksporting 

frontman for Spearhead has been a staple 

of previous Wanderlusts and past Whistler festivals, 

so it only makes sense that he’d bring his celebratory 

funk-rock through town this weekend. 

KRISHNA DAS 

THURSDAY 8 PM, 


Considered yoga’s rock star for combining the calland-response 

chanting from yoga with accessible 

melodies and soulful instrumentation. 

LIVE 

this week: 

RUCKUS DELUXE 

REBIRTH BRASS BAND 

FRIDAY 8:30 PM, 


Arguably the quintessential New Orleans brass band, 

Rebirth has catapulted out of the French quarter into 

festivals all over the world, spreading the voice, and soul, 

of their city along the way. 

MC YOGI 

SATURDAY 7 PM, 


Replace hip hop’s misogyny with the hip hop philosophy and 

what do you get? MC Yogi, who translates the ancient wisdom 

of yoga tradition for the modern, urban generation. 

QUIXOTIC 

FRIDAY & SATURDAY 10:30 PM, 

WHISTLER CONFERENCE CENTRE 

A visual and aural carnival, Quixotic is an artistic ensemble 

that mixes aerial acrobatics, dance, film and music to 

challenge the limits of what Art is capable of and thrilling 

audiences in the process. Opening for Thievery Corporation. 

YOUSSOUPHA SIDIBE 

THURSDAY 7 PM 


Blending reggae and Western music with the ancient 

Kora styles of his native Senegal, Sidibe will eradicate any 

previous notions you may have held about the harp. 



MOUNTAIN FEAST Wanderlust will have two main food celebrations this weekend, including 

Feast in the Mountains, which will showcase B.C.’s culinary delights in Rebagliati Park on 

both Friday and Saturday. 

Want to eat at 

Wanderlust? 

TWO MAIN FOOD CELEBRATIONS PLANNED FOR FESTIVAL 


Before, in between and after the 

meditation, stretching, hiking, music 

and yoga at Wanderlust food will be enjoyed. 

Since most wanderlust attendees are 

looking for food options consistent with their 

lifestyle festival organizers have arranged 

to deliver health-conscious food and drink 

offerings for the duration of Wanderlust. 

These are the details of the two main 

Wanderlust food events: 

FARM TO TABLE DINNER 

Fri. August 24 | 7 pm 

The Farm to Table Dinner will offer a 

dining experience at the Roundhouse 

Lodge on Whistler Mountain featuring 

mountain views from the Glacier Room. 

Wanderlust is working with British 

Columbia’s finest farmers and agricultural 

producers along with Whistler Blackcomb 

to create a nourishing feast to revitalize 

your body after a full day on the mat. 

Tickets: $108, includes all-day gondola 

access, the meal, tax, gratuity, and two 

glasses of red or white wine. 

FEAST IN THE MOUNTAINS 

Fri. August 24 and Sat. August 25 | 4-8 pm 

Feast in the Mountains will showcase 

British Columbia’s culinary bounty by 

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transforming Rebagliati Park into a roaming 

gourmet sampling of local foods prepared 

by Whistler’s best dining establishments. 

Spend a summer’s afternoon amidst 

British Columbia’s Coastal Mountains, 

wander the park and savor the creations. 

Vendor booths will include award-winning 

chefs, farmers, food artisans, vintners and 

brewers offering samples of their products. 

Feast in the Mountains is an event for 

Wanderlust participants aged 19-plus. 

Watermark and Astrid’s Fine Foods are 

teaming up to operate the fourth annual 

Feast in the Mountains event. Sue Eckersley 

of Watermark says it has been a fun to 

partner with Wanderlust to offer the event in 

conjunction with the new festival to Whistler. 

This is the first time Feast in the Mountains 

has been held over a two-day period. 

Eckersley says 12 food vendors are 

participating, along with 11 beverage 

operations. Most of the beverage vendors 

are offering wine though there will be two 

breweries and a tea company as well. 

“It is very reminiscent of Crush in a lot of 

ways,” says Eckersley of the outdoor event in 

the park. “This has more emphasis on food 

where the focus at Crush is on wine.” 

Eckersley says to look for cheese, 

meat and dessert offerings at Feast in the 

Mountains. 

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Notes FROM THE BACK ROW 

Bikes, bikes, bikes 

It’s a shame Premium Rush didn’t open 

last week during Crankworx because 

it’s about a New York City bike messenger 

whose afternoon gets a whole lot more fastpaced 

when he picks up his last delivery of 

the day, or maybe his life. 

For the hardcore biking crowd of 

course, urban bike messenger action is 

nothing new — it introduced one of the 

early Kranked films and the subsequent 

By Feet 

Banks 

rise of tiny POV cameras and internet 

video has led to everything from feature 

documentaries to YouTube alley cat 

adrenaline reels. 

But this week, fixed-gear urban biking 

gets the Hollywood treatment as Joseph 

Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) outpedals 

shitty luck and a bunch of bad guys 

through the perilous streets of NYC in 

what looks like a solid B-thriller. 

There were no pre-screenings (usually 

a bad sign) but the trailers seem fun in 

a “late-summer-thrills” kind of way. The 

talent involved is on-point as well — 

Gordon-Levitt loves filmmaking enough 

to start a collaborative website about it. 

Bad guy Michael Shannon (Runaways, Take 

Shelter) is not known to mess around with 

uninteresting crap, either. The guy is a 

real actor’s actor. Add that it’s all written 

and directed by David Koeppe, the scribe 

behind hits like Jurassic Park, Carlito’s Way, 

Spider-Man and more, Premium Rush looks 

mighty promising (It also looks like one 

long-ass chase scene but at least it’s only 

90 minutes long). 

From a cultural perspective, I suppose 

it’s nice to see bikes — sustainable, zeroemission, 

healthy modes of transport 

— as the heroes in an action movie rather 

than Hummers and hot rods. Too bad 

the touchy-feely bike messengers will 

never be as cool as the kids in Rad, that 

bodacious BMX flick filmed in Calgary 

that made up for its shot-recycling 

meagre budget with a healthy dose of 

pure radness (and a young Lori Loughlin, 

a.k.a. Aunt Becky from Full House). 

Premium Rush opens Friday across this 

great nation and at the good old Village 8. 

Rad came out in 1986 and is the Download 

of the Week. Line of Sight, released on DVD 

last month, looks to be one of the better 

bike messenger documentaries out there 

and Red Light Go is apparently about real 

NYC bike messenger culture so that might 

be worth checking too. Most of the best 

documentaries never hit theatres anymore. 

As we saw last Saturday at the Redbull 

Joyride, the bike community is only getting 

larger, so if Premium Rush does well don’t 

be surprised to see it spawning sequels 

similar to the way The Fast and The Furious 

did. Hollywood loves a built-in audience 

(and, apparently, cheese-dick movie titles). 

Keeping with the need for speed, Hit 

and Run also opens Friday. It’s about an 

ex-bank robber/getaway driver in witness 

protection (and named Charles Bronson) 

whose past comes knocking one morning, 

with a golf club to the face. Turns out his 

old bank-robbing buddy (Bradley Cooper) 

is out of the joint, feeling betrayed and 

looking for some of the loot. Cue car chase 

scenes and sun soaked, dusty Californian 

landscapes as Charlie and his sweet 

girlfriend (Kristin Bell) try to get over their 

issues, at 120 miles per hour. 

The car chases are the standout — 

apparently they used all real stunt drivers 

and no CGI. Some crass humour and a 

1:40 run time dish up a few moments of 

real fun. Like any good crime-committing 

vehicle, Hit and Run is a rental. 

Still on the roads, fanatic film lovers 

can make the drive to Vancouver to check 

out Samsar, the latest filmed-in-70mm 

visual masterpiece from the team behind 

Baraka. ■ 

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SLRD Zero Waste Strategy 

Electoral Area C and Pemberton 

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is seeking the services of a qualied 

Engineering or Environmental rm to investigate and develop a comprehensive Zero 

Waste Strategy for Electoral Area C and the Village of Pemberton. 

The complete RFP document can be found online at www.slrd.bc.ca or www.bcbid.ca. 

Closing Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:00 PM 

All inquiries relating to this RFP must be directed to: 

Brooke Carere 

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Phone 604.894.6371 

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I’m still standing 

little anniversary came and went 

A without my noticing, and now I’m 

proud to say that I’ve been standing at 

work for 13 months. In July 2011 I finally 

got off the fence and bought a box to raise 

my computer off my desk to standing 

height, an anti-fatigue mat to stand on and 

a bar stool so I could sit some of the time 

while my body got used to it. 

By Andrew 

Mitchell 

For a long time before that I had 

been reading about the health benefits of 

standing at work, benefits like improved 

circulation and more calories burned, 

versus the serious health risks you take 

by sitting all day in front of a computer, 

regardless of how active you are before 

or after work. I sat for over a dozen years 

before I made the move, sometimes for 14 

hours a day, and I felt terrible. 

I’m pleased to say that I do feel a lot 

better now. I gained less winter weight 

than usual, the compressed disk in my 

back — once aggravated by sitting almost 

motionless for hours at a time — no longer 

bothers me, and I feel more alert and more 

productive as the day wears on. My posture 

is better. I feel slightly taller. 

...the compressed disk 

in my back — once 

aggravated by sitting 

almost motionless for 

hours at a time — no 

longer bothers me... 

There were a few issues with my legs and 

feet aching for the first few weeks, which is 

when the bar stool came in handy. I started 

off sitting about half the time, then increased 

my standing periods to the point where I 

now stand for probably over 90 per cent of 

the day. Usually I’ll sit to eat or if I’m tired 

after a jog on my lunch break, but I’m 

never on the stool for long. In fact, I made 

sure to get the most uncomfortable stool I 

could find to keep those sitting breaks as 

short as possible, and now I probably sit 

for less than five minutes out of every hour. 

Good move, I’d say. 

My feet, calves and shins sometimes get 

tired, but I find standing in socks on my 

anti-fatigue mat helps a lot — and I tend to 

move around more when my legs get tired 

so I’m burning even more calories in a day. 

On that note, it’s also important to get 

a good mat. The first one I bought went 

flat in a few months and didn’t help much. 

The second one, made of memory foam, 

feels awesome under my feet. Hours fly by 

before I’m even aware of them. 

Still, the experience is not complete 

yet. My computer screen should be slightly 

higher (the top of your screen should line 

up with your eyes), and I need a bigger 

surface to work from — and a set-up that 

I can lean on. Having a box on my desk 

also prevents me from putting a box under 

my desk to put a leg up, bar-room style — 

one of the ergonomic, anti-fatigue features 

every standing worker should have. 

Luckily, this is an easy fix for me. The 

desk that my box sits on is held up by four 

2x2 legs. A trip to the lumber store to get 

longer legs and to build a few braces to 

put my desk at the right height — usually 

around elbow height for most people — is 

all I need. I can prop my computer up a 

little higher using boxes and boosters to get 

it to the right spot. 

There are a lot of different ways to get 

a standing desk. You can buy them, even 

spending your money on adjustable models 

with motors to move them up and down. 

You can fudge them by putting boxes and 

coffee tables on your desk, or by assembling 

an array of different IKEA pieces into the desk 

you want — there’s an excellent article at 

LifeHacker (www.lifehacker.com/5934906/ 

standing-desks-on-the-cheap-the-ikea-guide) 

that shows you a few different ways to 

achieve this for between $140 and $250. 

There are also plans online to build your own 

standing desk using ladders, metal pipes, 

wood and other materials. Do a Google 

search for “build your own standing desk” 

and you’ll find articles from HowToGeek, 

LifeHacker, Men’s Health, Office Fitness, 

Wired and others. 

SAMSUNG VS. APPLE 

For all the high-tech patent lawsuits out 

there, it’s rare to see them actually go to 

trial as most settle or come to some form 

of agreement — or the claims are thrown 

out in the pre-trial process. But Apple vs. 

Samsung, and Apple’s claims that Samsung 

stole dozens of ideas from the iPhone/ 

iPad, is one of those trials that is going 

the distance, providing a fascinating look 

inside both companies in the process. 

Apple is alleging that Samsung stole 

everything from the physical design of their 

gadgets to the shape of the icons, while 

Samsung is claiming they developed similar 

designs independently to Apple, and were 

just going with the logical choice — and 

besides, they argue, Apple stole everything 

from other sources, and thereby should 

never have been awarded the patents they 

hold based on the concept of “prior art.” 

All of the leading financial and 

technology pages are following the suit, 

like ArsTechnica, Cnet, Forbes, etc. It’s a 

surprisingly interesting read that could 

have massive implications for the future. ■ 


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biker hits the jump at the Redbull Joyride on Saturday. Photo by Rob Shaer 3) Enthusiastic fans cheer on a biker during the Canadian Open Downhill on Sunday. Photo by Rob 

Shaer. 4) The Joyride Champions — (from left to right) Martin Soderstrom, who placed second, Thomas Genon, first, and Cam McCaul, third — share a laugh following the award 

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66 Music 

NIGHTLIFE 

HIP’S NEW PLAN 

Canadian rock icons the Tragically 

Hip will headline LIVE at Squamish on 

Saturday night, performing classics 

alongside new gems from their upcoming 

album And Now for Plan A. 

Stating the Tragically obvious 

TRAGICALLY HIP TALK NEW ALBUM, THEIR THREE-DECADE RUN AND THAT PESKY AMERICAN MARKET 


They say this about all the greats what 

can you write about the Beatles that 

hasn’t already been written? Likewise 

for Led Zeppelin, or even U2, or Nirvana. 

It would seem that once a band reaches a 

certain height, and has remained popular for 

long enough, there will have been a enough 

writers scrambling to say the same thing in a 

different way, over and over again. 

And, alas, we face this problem with the 

Tragically Hip, Canada’s most iconic rock 

band. What can be said, that has not been 

said already, about a band that has done 

more than most Canadians to define this 

nation’s culture? Even that’s been said many 

times over. 

But to hear bassist Gord Sinclair tell it, 

all of this has been a happy accident. Few 

elements of their success, if any, have been 

calculated. Everything (or almost everything) 

that has happened has been the result of five 

good friends being honest with each other, 

and making honest decisions as musicians. 

“It’s the cool thing about being in a 

band where the most important aspect is 

how we’re feeling about each other and 

the material that we’re playing. Our prime 

responsibility is to each other as a group,” 

Sinclair says, speaking by phone from his 

home in Kingston, Ont. 

“Back in the mid-‘90s it would have been 

really easy to go back and re-record ‘New 

Orleans is Sinking,’ again and again and 

again, but we didn’t,” he says. 

If they had, he says they never would 

have lasted as long as they have. It’s all 

been one “honest choice” after another 

that has ultimately driven their popularity. 

There was never any intention to create 

the soundtrack to a Canadian’s life, or 

to provide the nation a poetic voice that 

music fans could get behind. 

Sinclair says they simply have written 

about what they know and a lot of it has 

to do with Canada. Vocalist Gord Downie’s 

lyrics — not to mention his delivery — have 

encapsulated for millions of people the 

diversified, even eccentric Canadian soul. 

They had, in fact, been pressed by their 

former record label RCA early on in their 

career to generalize their perspective — “to 

write about chicks and cars,” Sinclair says 

— to target the American audience. Sinclair 

says RCA insisted that they change the title of 

the Road Apples cut, “Cordelia,” before it was 

released in 1989. 

“He said ‘Cordelia’ was too egghead,” 

Sinclair laughs. “If it was ‘Carrie Lynn’ it 

would be a different thing, but no one in 

States is going to buy ‘Cordelia.’ You hear 

of artists changing the lyrical content to suit 

the commercial aspect but that’s just not our 

bag. We’ve never been good about being that 

thing, whatever that is.” 

It has come at something of a cost: while 

their popularity has soared in Canada, it never 

took off in the U.S. They have never had that 

one song that managed to “crack the American 

nut.” Even an appearance on Saturday Night 

Live in 1992 — often a catalyst for mainstream 

success for emerging bands down south — did 

little to boost their appeal. 

“It used to be a sticking point for us. 

When we were younger men, we’d go, ‘Well 

jeez, if we can sell a million records in 

Canada and the United States is 10 times 

the size, why can’t we sell 10 million records 

down there?’ But it’s not just simple math. It 

really, really isn’t. It’s a completely different 

industry, with different priorities.” 

They’ve come to accept this over time, and 

Sinclair says the band feels “fortunate” with the 

career they’ve had in the States. If nothing else, 

playing to smaller clubs in the U.S. has had a 

levelling effect on their egos after selling out 

arenas in Canada for two decades. 

“There’s a great deal of humility. You 

play and you play and you play, then you 

make that left turn to the border, go into 

Seattle and you’re back (playing) for 20 

people again,” he says. 

As a result, it seems the Hip has reached 

the perfect level of popularity: they have 

enough fans, and have sold enough records, 

where they can comfortably pursue their 

craft, but have flown enough under the 

WHO: Tragically Hip 

WHERE: Stawamus (Main) Stage 

WHEN: Saturday, 9:15 p.m. 

radar where very little is expected of them 

(consider U2 or Radiohead). They’ve never 

reached dramatic international heights, and 

it has never gotten big enough to crush them 

(see contemporaries: R.E.M., Nirvana). 

More importantly, they’ve remained 

consistent enough throughout the years, 

with enough integrity as artists, that they’ve 

cemented a loyal fan base and they’re at the 

point, in 2012, when the Hip can really do 

no wrong. 

Fortunately, for a band that has been 

bestowed this iconic status, they have never 

fallen into the egomaniacal trappings that 

could very well have consumed them. 

“We’ve been fortunate. We’ve had a lot 

of accolades thrown at us in the span of 

our career. We are genuinely flattered by it 

but we don’t really take it all that seriously,” 

Sinclair says. 

“I like to think that we’re just in a long 

line of really good Canadian bands that have 

learned how to write, and how to play, and 

perform in front of people and convey the 

emotions that music is all about to people in 

a live setting.” 

Next year, the Hip will celebrate 30 years 

together, with the original lineup nearly 

intact: Downie, Sinclair, drummer Johnny 

Fay and guitarists Rob Baker and Paul 

Langolis, who replaced saxophonist Davis 

Manning in 1986. They’re now putting the 

final touches on their 12th studio album, 

And Now For Plan A, due out in October. 

Sinclair says the album represents a band 

THIS SECTION 

that is still comfortable playing together, 

after all these years. Recording, he says, was a 

“painless process.” 

“We sat down with (Gavin) fairly early 

in the process and what he really wanted to 

capture in the process was the band playing 

together,” he says. “In a lot of ways, it was 

kind of like how we would have made 

records in the early ‘90s, when we were 

touring all the time, writing on the road, 

learning songs on the road and throwing 

them in the set.” 

The album’s first single, “At 

Transformation” is the Hip at their 

heaviest, a brainy and brawny gem harking 

back to their Fully Completely glory days. 

Chances are it will do little to sway all the 

non-believers but the legion of dedicated 

Hip-head are heralding it as a return to 

form. Sinclair says the same can be said for 

the entire album. 

“It’s a Tragically Hip record. It’s not the 

same thing over and over again,” he says. “I 

mean, we’re kind of old fashion guys in the 

sense that when we’re making an album, 

we’re still thinking in terms of a collection of 

material that we’re hoping that people will 

listen to from song one to song 11.” 

“We write songs that will play off of 

each other and make for a great 35 minutes 

of listening. We might anachronistic in 

that sense but that’s still what I’m looking 

for when I buy CDs. I mean, I might be 

anachronistic there because I still buy CDs,” 

he laughs. 

And there it is. The untold truth: The 

Tragically Hip are straddling the line between 

iconic and archaic. Not that it matters, 

necessarily — they still rock harder 95 per 

cent of the working bands out there. ■ 

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Music 

The art of whimsy 

MOTHER MOTHER PLAY LIVE AT SQUAMISH SUNDAY 

MOTHERS OF 

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Eccentric indie-pop 

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new album The Sticks, 

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There are fewer words more overused 

in music writing than “eclectic” and 

“whimsical.” It’s the bane of a music 

writer’s career, to find new ways to say the 

same things over and over again. 

But alas, you come across a record as 

heterogeneous as Mother Mother’s latest, 

The Sticks (due out Sept. 18) and only two 

words come to mind…and you know what 

they are. 

The Sticks, Mother Mother’s fourth 

album and second in 18 months, finds 

the band building on the refined, polished 

songcraft of 2011’s Eureka while harking 

back to their more playful beginnings. 

It also couldn’t come at a better time: 

with the success of Eureka still fresh in 

people’s minds, and an evening slot at this 

weekend’s LIVE at Squamish, The Sticks 

will likely cement old fans for the long 

haul and convert the non-believers. 

“I felt like we did what we could 

with it (Eureka) and instead of stopping 

and going into mysterious, long-winded 

hiatus, it felt proper just to have no lull, 

just to ride the momentum of that record 

with another record,” says vocalist/guitarist 

Ryan Guldemond. 

Eureka, while a creative breakthrough 

for the band and great entry point for 

newcomers, abandoned much of the 

eclecticism (there’s that word again!) of 

their previous work. The plan this time was 

for all the members — Guldemond, his 

sister/keyboardist/vocalist Molly, vocalist/ 

keyboardists Jasmin Parkin, drummer 

Ali Siadat and bassist Jeremy Page — to 

abandon cohesiveness altogether and see 

where the writing process would take them. 

“(It’s about) not getting in the way 

of the song or what the creative spark is 

asking,” Guldemond says. “That’s the way 

to do it. You don’t want to pre-ordain your 

outcome. You just want to be so open to 

the transmittance of creativity that when it 

WHO: Mother Mother 

WHERE: Stawamus Stage 

WHEN: Sunday, 7:30 p.m. 

happens, you can just follow it, not even 

take ownership, just chase it around and 

see where it goes.” 

The Sticks is a pop album that 

defies convention, swollen with vocal 

harmonies bordering on demented and 

clever arrangements. It’s a culmination 

of everything they’ve done until this 

point, harking back to their earlier, more 

whimsical songwriting approach while 

building on the polished songcraft of 

Eureka. 

“Music and art are great realms where 

you can be feral and try everything and not 

be scared, not be boxed in by conventions 

and rules,” Guldemond says. 

“It’s a little surprising when people are 

shocked or taken aback by our band’s thirst 

to experiment. (People) ask, ‘Why are you 

so eclectic?’ Well, music is a vast language 

that you can craft a myriad of different 

sentiments, paint a million pictures, evoke 

a million different feelings and colours. So 

it’s like, duh, why would you just say the 

same thing over and over again?” 

Their rising popularity has put them at 

the vanguard of Vancouver independent 

music, and while they have little of 

the hipster cache of Japandroids, Black 

Mountain or any other local act to receive 

a nod from Pitchfork, they are nonetheless 

helping to define the voice of their city. 

None of this is intentional, of course. 

Guldemond is focused solely on making 

music. Everything else is extraneous. 

“We don’t feel like we’re the 

ambassadors of any region, or the 

spokesperson for anybody. If that’s 

happening, that’s perfectly lovely. There 

are no negatives to draw from our music 

unifying something, or a group of people, 

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Kinda Toxic and sorta mushy 

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT TALK NEW ALBUM 


Mike Jollett admits it. His brain has 

turned to “mush.” 

After three intense weeks in Nashville, 

recording his third album, The Airborne 

Toxic Event frontman has returned to Los 

Angeles for some much-needed down time. 

Of the new album, he says the songs 

were recorded live off the floor — a 

departure from 2011’s All At Once — and 

that he has no idea when it will be released. 

And that’s all he says, sorry to say… except 

that, well, recording has been…complicated. 

“(Recording) is fun in the way that 

when you’re recording something and 

you’re really, really engaged with it and 

you wake up the next morning and you’re 

like, ‘Holy shit! How did I get my brain to 

the point where I was able to do that?’” 

Jollett says with a laugh. 

“It’s only through repetition and 

endless hours of doing something. Fun is 

the wrong word. It’s like all-encompassing 

and sort of all consuming, and in that way 

I guess it’s inspiring.” 

It all comes with the territory. With 

two albums and a slew of online hype — 

especially in the early days — TATE has 

been an indie-rock favourite for people 

who normally don’t like indie rock. 

They’ve taken the beloved orchestral 

aspects of Arcade Fire, sanded down 

Modest Mouses’s rougher edges and 

thrown in some clever insights into the 

human condition, concocting a palatable 

brand of indie rock suitable for radio 

tastes — and that’s a great thing, at a time 

where quality radio rock is about as rare 

as a Siberian tiger sighting. 

What makes it all the more impressive 

is that TATE — named after a section 

in Don DeLillo’s postmodern masterpiece 

White Noise — arrived from virtually out 

of nowhere to find instantaneous fanfare. 

They formed in October 2006. Less than a 

month later, they played their first show. 

By December Rolling Stone, L.A. Weekly 

and other mainstream media were touting 

them as rising stars. 

They released their self-titled debut 

in 2007, to mostly positive fanfare. The 

album shot to number one on Billboard’s 

Heatseekers Albums chart and suddenly, 

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welcome, hey? 

they were a touring rock band — a big one, 

at that — hitting all the major festivals and 

the like. 

Jollett, it must be noted, had never 

played in a band before. The new-found 

success was quite confounding. 

“I felt for a long time like a charlatan,” 

Jollett says. “I always thought I was really 

good at it but maybe it hadn’t been my 

main thing for a long time. But at this 

point, I’ve been at it seven years, so I guess 

I feel like I’ve paid my dues.” 

Jollett, a thoughtful and conversational 

interview subject, talks about his craft in 

terms of “reaching out,” as if the music is 

merely a vehicle for Jollett — a professional 

writer before founding TATE — to transmit 

his ideas to the largest audience possible. 

In his mind, music is an instrument for 

emotional connection — the artistic 

equivalent of brotherly heart-to-heart. 

“Songwriting is a way of reaching 

out to others. There’s something in your 

mind that you’re alone with and, for 

whatever reason, if you feel that you 

can express it then you’re not alone in it 

anymore,” he says. 

“At the other end of things, you hope 

there’s people out there who recognize in 

that idea something familiar and they too 

are relieved and somewhat heartened by 

the fact that other people have had these 

sort of outspoken thoughts and emotions.” 

Jollett joined Twitter recently, and over 

the past month has taken to answering 

fan questions— everything from advice 

on how to start a band to what books to 

read. He says it’s merely another way to 

connect. It’s not merely about connecting 

with “fans” but connecting with humanity 

in general. 

More than anything else TATE has 

achieved, it’s this connection with huge 

groups of people that gives him the most 

pride. 

“It’s been a tremendous, tremendous 

honour. I have zero jadedness about 

(playing music). I feel very engaged, I feel 

lucky, I feel honoured and I just want to 

live up to it,” he says. ■ 



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Sure, Otis Redding is long dead but the funk lives on 

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(for some of us, for some reason I’ll never 

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LIVE at Squamish will be bringing sweet 

sounds and grooves to the corridor for 

three days this weekend, and what’s more, 

it will bring thousands of revellers — and 

their money — to Squamish. 

Beyond the music of Tragically Hip and 

The Sheepdogs, the town itself is putting 

on a show that will tempt people to look 

beyond the Loggers Sports Grounds and 

Hendrickson Fields, where the festival is 

being held. 

Stan Matwychuk of the Downtown 

Squamish Business Improvement 

Association says its own festival, a “cultural 

and musical event” called On the Street, 

will be a chance to celebrate the weekend 

and introduce visitors to the restaurants 

and stores in the downtown, as well as 

offer a little extra fun for those wanting to 

explore. 

“Essentially, On the Street is trying to 

piggyback on LIVE at Squamish, and we 

saw it as an opportunity to get a festival of 

our own going,” Matwychuk said. 

On the Street takes place on Saturday, 

Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Cleveland 

Avenue and kicks off with an Elks pancake 

breakfast sponsored by Chef Big D’s. Local 

bands will be playing throughout the day 

at the nearby O’Siyam Pavillion, and there 

will be a Kid’s Zone with chalk art and face 

painting. There is also yoga in the park and 

slacklining. 

In terms of finding goodies and 

bargains, shoppers will be greeted by 

sidewalk sales from the downtown’s locally 

owned retail stores and the Squamish 

Farmers’ Market. 

“Everyone wakes up in the morning 

at LIVE at Squamish and wants breakfast. 

We’ve found that Zephyr Café’s sales go up 

200 per cent and Chef Big D’s line can go 

down the street,” Matwychuk said. 

“If we get one per cent of the visitors 

to town coming out to see us we’re doing 

great. A couple of hundred dollars is a big 

deal to our small business owners.” 

Matwychuk himself has built mobile 

art walls to allow local artists, including 

himself, to showcase their abilities. 

“We’re part of the BC Culture Crawl 

“(It’s) an opportunity to get a 

festival of our own going” 

–STAN MATWYCHUK 

and I’m going to be painting and anyone 

else is welcome to take part,” he said. 

The Squamish Arts Council has three 

events that local visitors can enjoy over the 

weekend, said spokesperson Zoe Evamy. 

I Love Squamish is an interactive 

exhibit where amateur and professional 

photographers can add photos of the town 

and region to a display that celebrates the 

scenery, lifestyle and people. 

And Into the Woods with Red Riding 

Hood with 30 participating artists 

continues, curated by Krisztina Egyed. Both 

exhibits are located at the Squamish Arts 

Council Building 37950 Cleveland Ave, in 

the pavilion park, next to Farmers’ Market. 

The Foyer Gallery at the nearby 

Squamish Library has the works of climber/ 

photographer Rich Wheater and the stone 

sculptures of Patrick West. 

“The marketing and media attention 

that the festival receives around the 

province and nationally is invaluable, it 

is an event like this that puts Squamish 

on the map as a destination and brings 

thousands of visitors who without 

the festival may not otherwise visit 

Squamish,” said Lesley Weeks of Tourism 

Squamish. 

She also hoped visitors would take 

advantage of the region’s outdoor 

attractions, such as rock climbing and 

hiking, visiting local lakes and parks, even 

white water rafting and “flightseeing” at 

Squamish Airport. 

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A Finalist from Whistler’s Music Search. She uses 

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d Tapley’s Pub 

d 9:30 pm 

KOSTAS 

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d Nita Lake Lodge 

d 7-10 pm 

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RACHEL THOM 

Rachel Thom plays your favourite Top 40 hits, new 

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d 9 pm 

THE STREELS 

Newfoundlander Lorne Warre is joined by Jennie 

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A dynamic duo featuring Biggins on vocals and guitar 

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from Prince to the Beatles, traditional Celtic music 



d 8 pm 

JAM SESSION SUNDAYS 

Play alongside Kostaman at Whistler’s longest 

running jam night. Mics, guitars, bass, drum kit 

and percussion available. Show starts at 9 pm, 

but show up early to guarantee a slot on the mic. 


d 9 pm 

NICK HOPE 






RUCKUS DELUXE 

Merlins Live Patios Sessions: Ruckus Deluxe not 

only performs their own contemporary country 

material but specializes in innovative versions of 

current and classic covers, including traditional 

fi ddle tunes, hard rock classics, 80’s pop songs 

and alternative favourites. 

d Merlin’s Bar & Grill 

d 12-4 pm 

IN THE MIX 

Clubs/DJs 

It’s the Mix’s hippest night alright, with a rotating 

cast of DJs spinning in a cozy martini bar. Sound 

appealing? Kori K is spinning. 

d The Mix by Ric’s 

d 9 pm-1 am 

LEGENDARY LOCALS NIGHT 

Whistler ski bar turns up the heat with 

DJ PHD. 

d Longhorn Saloon 

d 9 pm 

THE SUNDAY GLOW PARTY 

It’s Whistler’s busiest weekly club night! Fidel 

Cashflow and DJ Turtle spin a seamless, high 

energy mix of House, Electro, Dubstep, and Mashups. 

Glow in the dark necklaces, bracelets, and 

face / body paint are provided upon entry. 

d Moe Joe’s 

d 9:30 pm 

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Live Music 

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d 7 pm 






from Prince, The Beatles, traditional Celtic music 



d 8 pm 

DUB FX & FLOWER FAIRY 

Presented by Victoria Ska Society,with special 

guests Snareophobe & Starfi ghterz. First 100 tix 

$15….. $20 after that. 

d Garibaldi Lift Co. (GLC) 

d 9 pm 

MATT & MEGS 

GOING-AWAY JAM 

Matt & Megs are long time locals/staff and are 

leaving town, their going away party is going to 

be a Jam night concept hosted by Jon Shrier with 

multiple entertainers hitting the stage. 


d 9 pm 

NICK HOPE 

Hipper and more contemporary than the 

“Classic Rock” purveyors of days gone by, Nick’s 

mesmerizing vocals and upbeat style will win you 

over. 




OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH 

CAM SALAY 

Everyone welcome, Squamish has got talent! 

Sign–up with Cam starts 8pm. 

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d 8 pm 

d Howe Sound Inn & Brew Pub, Squamish 

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Clubs/DJs 

LEGENDARY ‘80S NIGHT 

With DJ Ryder! The dance floor is lit up with retro 

‘80s throwbacks and old school dance jams. Dress 

in your fi nest ‘80s gear for prizes. 


d 9:30 pm 

TUE. AUG28 

CAMERON CHU 

Live Music 




d 7 pm 






from Prince, to the Beatles, traditional Celtic 

music and originals. 


d 8 pm 

COLIN BULLOCK 



as James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Donovan and Jim 

Croce, but fi nding his own voice amongst all of 

this. 



KARAOKE TUESDAYS 

“I Will Survive” won’t sing itself, so come over to 

Whistler’s longest-running karaoke night & belt 

out all your favourite hits. Arrive early to avoid 

disappointment. 


d 9 pm 

Clubs/DJs 

REALLY GOOD TUESDAY 

Maxx Fish’s weekly local’s night featuring Mat the 

Alien, The Librarian and Russ-2Far-I. Massive bass 

drops and wobbly intersections, plus turntablist 

skills of one of Western Canada’s best make this 

night go off! 

d Maxx Fish 

d 9:30 pm 

WED.AUG 29 

Live Music 

CAMERON CHU 




d 7 pm 






from Prince to the Beatles, traditional Celtic music 



d 9:30 pm 

COLIN BULLOCK 




Croce, but finding his own voice amongst all of 

this. 



JAM NIGHT W/ KOSTAMAN 

Settling back into its original midweek sneak 

slot to better accommodate Whistler’s musical 

wildlife, jam night is clubland’s only live music 

night featuring rastaman Kostaman. So all of you 

musicians, singers and burgeoning musicians 

come on down to kick out the jams. 

d Maxx Fish 

d 10 pm 

JON SHRIER 

Whistler local singer/songwriter performs for the 

Farmers Market live Patio Sessions. He blend acoustic 

guitar with light percussion and a powerful voice. A 

sound described as “feel good music.” 

d Merlin’s Bar & Grill d Crystal Lounge 

d 3-7 pm 

d 9 pm 

SEAN ROSE 

Local blues man does what he does best tonight: that 

is, you know, play the blues. He’s good at it. Trust. 


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DRAFT NIGHT 

Clubs/DJs 

DJ Jayse Aspey lights up the night with his eclectic 

set of electro, house, re-mixes and scratching. 

d Maxx Fish 

d 9:30 pm 

INDUSTRY NIGHT 

Industry night with DJ PHD mixing new and 

classics house/hiphop/rock/mashups. Pool and a 

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d 8 pm 

THU. AUG30 

Live Music 

BRYCE DOEY 

Expect a kick-ass set of ‘70s, ‘90s and originals 

from this dynamic, local performer. No cover. 

d Milestones 

d 8 pm 

CAMERON CHU 




d 7 pm 

COLIN BULLOCK 




Croce, but fi nding his own voice amongst all of 

this. 



FRANK N BIGGS 

A dynamic duo featuring Biggins on vocals and 

guitar and Frankie G on drums doing their bluesy 

twist on covers ranging from Snoop Dogg to the 

Beatles. 


d 9 pm 

RUCKUS DELUXE 

Ruckus Deluxe features Chad Oliver, with an 

amazing vocal range and innovative acoustic 

guitar style, and Ian Cameron who shreds on 

fi ddle, electric guitar and mandolin. They cover a 

huge range of material, including unique versions 

of rock classics, pop and alt favourites and 

traditional Celtic and country. 


d 8 pm 

BIG SEXY FUNK 

Clubs/DJs 

If you love the sound of real vinyl you will love 

Thursdays at the Firerock Lounge. Vinyl Ritchie & 

Foxy Moron will be spinning all 45 records under 

a discoball. There will be Giant Jenga and Twister 

for you to play; or maybe you just want to chill 

on a couch and watch the vintage videos, while 

enjoying one of the “Specials.” Whistler’s biggest, 

little Thursday night! 

d FireRock Lounge 

d 10 pm 

BRANDY’S FUNK NIGHT 

Come on in for the return of our successful funk 

night! A weekly rotation between funk cats DJ Chili 

Thom and DJ Canosis is sure to keep things fresh. 

Always a locals favorite. 


d 10 pm 

DJ PHD 

World-renowned DJ and Bill’s legend spinning the 

baddest beats from the ‘70s to today. 


d 9 pm 

DJ TURTLE & GUESTS 

Party rockin anthems all night! 


d 10 pm 

EPIC THURSDAY 

Fidel Cashflow is the new hardest working DJ in 

Whistler — Fidel drops big room house trax and 

dub-electro for the locals to party to. Featuring a 

party-barge / floating island give-away every week. 

d Maxx Fish 

d 9:30 pm 

TWO HOURS OF POWER 

Be more efficient: party twice as hard in half the 

time! Loacal favourite, DJ Rosco is in the booth, 

spinning an eclectic mix of hip hop, R&B, dubstep, 

electro, mashups and party anthems. No cover. 

d Moe Joe’s 

d 12-2 am 

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WANDERLUST 

AUG 23-26 

ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD+DRINK, YOGA 

WANDERLUST AUG 23-26 

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Wanderlust is a one-of-a-kind festival bringing together the world’s leading yoga teachers, top musical 

acts and DJs, renowned speakers, top chefs and winemakers, and much, much more. Early morning 

meditations and all-night chakra spinning musical performances - it’s an all-out ecstatic celebration 

which aims to create community around mindful living. 

ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT 

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This festival is about the music but LIVE at Squamish is more than just that. As we like to say it’s “Happy 

times in a big field with great music” and happy times to us means a beautiful site, a chilled out vibe, areas to 

explore, art to view, things to interact with and experiences to tell your friends about. You don’t want to miss 

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ONGOING... 

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 

FOYER GALLERY 

Walls: mixed media on wood & canvas 

works by Curtis Suave, ‘Enticing the 

Infinite’. Cases: jewellery by Sharon Knox, 

‘Kreative Karats’. 

> Daily until Aug 29 

> Squamish Public Library 


ART & HERITAGE TOURS 

This 1.5 hour walking tour showcases 

a selection of ArtWalk Venues, Public 

Art and Whistler’s rich history. Free. 

604.932.2019. 

> Every Fri-Sun, 11am 

> Whistler Visitor Information Centre 

THURSDAY AUG 23 


CORDILLERA TRIO 

Whistler-born violinist Maddie Reid performs works 

by Brahms, Beethoven and other composers with two 

fellow University of Victoria music grads. By donation. 

> 7:30 pm 

> Our Lady of the Mountain Catholic Church 

WANDERLUST 

COMMUNITY 

DROP-IN YOGA 

One hour classes taught by certified teachers. 

Mats/child care provided with donation. 

> Every Thursday, 9:45 am 

> Whistler Community Services, Spring Creek 


MIKE DEAS WORKSHOP 

Best selling author and illustrator Mike Deas will 

talk about his graphic novel work. No registration 

required, bring your sketchpad and have fun 

learning how to create your own characters. Free. 

> 11 am-noon 5-8 yrs | 1:30-2:30 pm 9+yrs 

> Whistler Public Library 

FRIDAY AUG 24 

MUSIC 

covers and amazing originals for the Mountain 

Top BBQ Series. 

> 5-8 pm 

> Roundhouse Lodge, Whistler Mountain 

MUSIC 

GARY YOSHIDA 

Enjoy sweet musical sounds after your round of golf 

with Gary; blending ryhthm loops with melodic 

leadlines and singing your favourites. Free. 

> 4-7 pm 

> Whistler Golf Club 

MUSIC 

COMMUNITY 

VALLEY OF DREAMS 

WALKING TOURS 

Led by long-time locals, this one-hour 

tour explores the history and heart 

of Whistler’s amazing pioneers. By 

donation. 

> Daily, 1 pm until Sep 30 

> Whistler Visitor Information Centre 

KRISHNA DAS WITH 

YOUSSOUPHA SIDIBE 

Layering traditional Hindu kirtan with instantly 

accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, 

Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” Free. 

> 7-9:30 pm 

> Whistler Olympic Plaza 

BROTHER TWANG 

Playing their style of rock, including crushing 

REBIRTH BRASS BAND 

Rebirth is committed to upholding the tradition of 

brass bands while incorporating modern music into 

their show. Their signature brand of brass funk has 

won over several generations of music lovers. 

> 8:30 pm 


SATURDAY AUGUST 25 TH 

THE HARPOONIST & THE AXE MURDERER 

Americana / Blues / Roots Music / www.harpoonistaxemurderer.com 

“Adding a fresh take to the roots music genre via contemporary lyrics and arrangements, while maintaining traditional 

structures and emotion, the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer are a welcome addition to the Canadian blues and roots music scene.” 

- Holger Peterson, CBC Saturday Night Blues 9:30pm * NO COVER!!! 

MONDAY AUGUST 27 TH 

OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH CAM SALAY 

Everyone welcome, Squamish has got talent! Sign – up with Cam starts 8pm 

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WANDERLUST 

ONE BODY UNITED: TAKE A STAND 

A special Wanderlust community class hosted by 

Seane Corn and Michael Franti — open to all! Free. 

> 7 pm 


WANDERLUST 

THIEVERY CORPORATION W/ QUIXOTIC 

These two independent thinkers have created an 

impressive body of diverse work that has made them 

one of the most influential and respected names on 

the electronic/dance music scene. With Quixotic. 

> Whistler Conference Centre 

> 10:30 pm Friday and Saturday 

SATURDAY AUG 25 

Second Show 

THIEVERY CORPORATION W/ QUIXOTIC 

> 10:30pm | Whistler Conference Centre 

SPORTS 

5 PEAKS TRAIL RUN 

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Steep climbs, sharp descents and craggy wilderness 

trails…you will be treated to tremendous views 

of ancient glaciers, snowcapped peaks, dormant 

volcanoes and the beautiful Coast Mountain Range. 

> 9 am Children’s Challenge 

11am Sport and Enduro races 

> Blackcomb Mountain 

COMMUNITY 

CREEKSIDE ARTISAN MARKET 

The Creekside Artisan’s Market takes place every 

Saturday through to September 8 featuring 

unique and original arts, crafts, produce and 

more. 604.905.3320. 

> 10 am-4 pm 

> Franz’s Trail 

COMMUNITY 

LEGO BUILDING COMPETITION 

This year’s theme is: Design Your Ultimate 

Whistler Hideaway. Prizes donated by local 

businesses will be awarded for the top entries in 

each age category. Registration at the museum or 

by email or phone. $5 per child. 604.932.2019. 

> 2-4 pm 

> Whistler Museum 

COMMUNITY 

LIBRARY BIRTHDAY PARTY 

Come to the Whistler Library for a morning of 

storytelling and singing with local children’s 

performers Laura & Libby and The Small but 

Mighties. Birthday cake will be served at 11 am. Free. 

> 9:30-11 am 


WANDERLUST 

MICHAEL FRANTI & 

SPEARHEAD WITH MC YOGI 

One of Whistler’s most beloved artists returns for 

a free show for Wanderlust. 

> 7-10 pm 



SATURDAYS AT THE POINT 

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Experience the heritage lodge and lakeshore park 

through the lens of the arts. Live music, cafe, art 

show. Bike, foot and boat access encouraged. 

> 11 am-5 pm 

> The Point, 5678 Alta Lake Road 


DRUM MAKING WORKSHOP 

Join Tsawaysia Spukwus (Alice Guss), as she 

guides you through the creation of a traditional 

Squamish Nation sacred drum while sharing 

songs and storytelling. $150. 604.897.1421. 

> 1-3 pm 

> Squamish Lilwat Cultural Centre 

MUSIC 

PAPA JOSH 

Papa Josh is joined by Anita Burleson, Rajan Das 

and surprise guests for the last episode of Art in 

the Park. Jazz, funk, R&B and more. 

> 2-5 pm 

> Foughberg Park, Pemberton 

SUNDAY AUG 26 

COMMUNITY 

AWARE KID’S NATURE CLUB 

For kids aged 5-12 interested in learning 

about the environment and Whistler’s natural 

surroundings. Kids must be accompanied by an 

adult. 

> Last Sunday of every month, 10-11:30 am 


FOOD & DRINK 

WHISTLER FARMERS’ MARKET 

Shop for farm fresh produce every Sunday. At 

the Whistler Farmers’ Market everything is made, 

baked or grown. 

> 11 am-4 pm every Sunday 

> Upper Village 

COMMUNITY 

AIRPORT COMMUNITY DAY 

The 835 Griffin Squadron Squamish Air Cadets 

invite everyone to the Squamish Airport to 

see aircraft on display, check out the airport 

operations, participate in kids activities and win 

prizes. The event will go rain or shine. Free. 

> 11 am - 3 pm 

> Squamish Airport 


AUG 24-26 

LOGGERS SPORTS GROUNDS, 

SQUAMISH 

MUSIC 

PAPA JOSH JAZZ DUO 

The ever so funky Papa Josh is also a hard swingin’ 

jazz guitarist. He’s joined by Rajan Das on upright 

bass for an evening of classic tunes by Ellington, 

Gershwin, Coltrane, Horace Silver and and more. 

> Roundhouse Lodge 

> 5-8 pm 

MONDAY AUG 27 


HOSPITALITE 

The next movie in the Film Movement Series. This 

film is described as “a marvelous tension between a 

prim comedy of manners and unbridled slapstick” 

from Japan. Free - popcorn by donation. 

> 7 pm 


MOUNTAIN 

WOMEN’S NIGHT 

The perfect balance between learning and 

socializing. In a pressure-free environment, progress 

at your own pace among fun and supportive peers. 

> Every Monday, 6 - 8 pm 

> Whistler Mountain Bike Park 

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SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN 

Request for a new facility authorization 

Sea to Sky Soils and Composting Inc. located at Block H, D.L. 1549, north 

of Whistler, at the South Rutherford Creek in Pemberton B.C. is proud 

announce the development of a new organic recycling facility. 

We are in the process of applying to be included in the Squamish Lilloet 

Regional District solid waste management plan. 

Operator – Jaye-Jay Berggren, P.O.Box 1010, Mount Currie, B.C., V0N 2K0 

Landowner – Lil’wat Nation 

Sea to Sky Soils will meet all provincial and federal composting regulations 

and will focus on recycling the regions food waste into a nutrient rich soil 

amendment. 

For additional information associated with this sustainable project please email 

Jaye-Jay Berggren at jaye-jay@seatoskysoils.com 




BEFORE THE DELUGE 

Aerial fine art photographer Ellen Atkin donated an 

aerial fine art image to the Pemberton Community 

Centre which shows the area now covered in mud 

from the landslide of 2010 on the Lillooet River. 

Ellen will return to Pemberton to reshoot the same 

scene. This event is the public unveiling of “Before 

the Deluge” and “After the Deluge” will follow. 

> 11 am 

> Pemberton Community Centre 

TUESDAY AUG 28 

SPORTS 

TRAIL RUNNING 

TRAINING TUESDAYS 

Join us for the first of our 12 Free Trail Training Sessions. 

Our goal is to explore trails, improve as runners and 

have fun. Dedicated runners will be rewarded with free 

entry into the MYM 50 relay in early Sept! Free. 

> Every Tuesday, 6:15 pm 

> Helly Hansen, Westin Resort & Spa 

EVENTS & FESTIVALS 

JOEL THIBAULT HOSPITALITY CUP 

A legacy to Joel Thibault, a French chef who 

brought his passion for food and wine to Whistler 

and Vancouver. Sadly Joel passed away from 

cancer in 2005. This tournament is his legacy to 

raise funds for cancer research. RSVP Deadline 

- Monday August 27. $600 (Team) or $150 

(Individual). 604.938.9898. 

> Nicklaus North Golf Course 

MOUNTAIN 

TESTOSTERONE TUESDAYS 

New this summer, these all-male drop-in 

nights are perfect if you want to train for Phat 

Wednesdays, or if you’re new to the sport and 

want to find some buddies to ride with. 

> Class 6-8 pm | Meet at GLC stairs 5:30pm 


WEDNESDAY AUG29 


CELESTIAL CINEMA 

Whistler Presents and the Whistler Film Festival 

present this week’s film: Score: A Hockey Musical. 

Families are welcome with kids of all ages. Free. 

> 8 pm 


SPORTS 

F-CANCER CHAINLESS A-LINE CLASSIC 

Last summer, in honour of local racer Nick 

Geddes (who was fighting leukemia), this event 

raised $3000 towards Cancer Research at BC 

Children’s Hospital. This year’s event, renamed 

the F-Cancer Chainless A-Line Classic, will be 

held on Wednesday, August 29th with a goal of 

raising $5000. If you or your company are able 

to contribute to this worthy cause please contact 

Colleen Ikona at cikona@whistlerblackcomb.com. 

> 4:30 pm 


FOOD & DRINK 

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MARKET 

The Wednesday Afternoon Farmers’ Market will 

be operating from at the base of Blackcomb 

Mountain all summer. Shop for all things made, 

baked or grown. 

> 3-7 pm every Wednesday 

> Upper Village 

THURSDAY AUG 30 

COMMUNITY 

DROP-IN YOGA 

One hour classes taught by certified teachers. 

Mats/child care provided with donation. 

> Every Thursday, 9:45 am 

> Whistler Community Services, Spring Creek 

FOOD & DRINK 

NUTRITIONAL WALKS 

Free nutritional talks. This week’s talk: Beans, 

Beans the Musical Fruit! Join Registered Holistic 

Nutritionists Tracy Higgs and Sandy Davies each 

week for inspirational whole food ideas to wet 

your palate. Free. 

> 10 am 

> Nesters Market 

UPCOMING... 

COMMUNITY 

CELEBRATION LAKESIDE PARK 

Celebrate the completion of Lakeside Park 

upgrades. This family-friendly celebration 

includes a kids’ sand castle building contest 

judged by Mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden, 

celebratory cake, ribbon cutting, face 

painting and kids’ crafts. 

> Fri Aug 31 | 4-6 pm 

> Lakeside Park 

EVENTS & FESTIVALS 

SHOW & SHINE 

New community centre amphitheatre on 

Cottonwood St. Entry fee for car / bike: $25. 

Fun for all ages. Thousands of dollars worth 

of prizes. Email cars@pembertonlions.com. 

604.935.2007. 

> Sat Sep 1 | 12-4 pm 

> Cottonwood Community Centre, 

Pemberton 

FOOD & DRINK 

RAW FOOD DINNER 

The last raw food dinner at Burnt Stew! 

Come and experience incredible flavours and 

beautiful food presentation from raw food 

chefs Sarah Uy and Priscilla Levac. Tickets 

must be purchased in advance at Burnt Stew 

Cafe. $40. 604.902.4447. 

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Astrology 

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of August 23rd By Rob Brezsny 

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know what a 

controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable 

fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has 

accumulated too close to wooded areas. With less fuel 

around, bigger fires are not as likely to ignite accidentally 

and turn into conflagrations. I encourage you to use 

this as a metaphor for your own life, Aries. How? First, 

identify a big potential problem that may be looming on 

the horizon. Then, in the coming weeks, get rid of all the 

small messes that might tend to feed that big problem. 

Make sure it’ll never happen. 

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Jungian storyteller Clarissa 

Pinkola Estes advises us to take good care of the 

untamed aspects of our nature. “The wild life must be 

kept ordered on a regular basis,” she writes. One way to 

do this is to keep our uncommon and unruly ideas clear 

and organized. It’s also important to give them respect, 

and understand that they’re crucial to our spiritual and 

psychological health. How are you doing in this regard, 

Taurus? What’s your relationship with the untamed 

aspects of your nature? According to my reading of the 

omens, now is prime time for you to honour and nurture 

and cultivate them. 

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): By my astrological 

reckoning, you’re not nearly wet enough right now. 

I recommend that you take immediate and intensive 

steps to remedy the situation. There should not be 

anything about you that is high and dry; you need to 

soak up the benefits that come from being slippery and 

dripping. If you’re suffering from even a hint of emotional 

dehydration, you should submerse yourself in the nearest 

pool of primal feelings. For extra credit, drink deeply from 

the sacred cup that never empties. 

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the 16th century, Holy 

Roman Emperor Charles V ruled over a vast swath of land 

that included 12 modern European nations. According 

to some historians, he once said, “I speak Spanish to 

God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to 

my horse.” This is the kind of attitude I recommend that 

you adopt in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Tailor your 

language to the people and creatures you’re speaking 

to. Address them on their own level of consciousness, 

respecting their limitations and appealling to their 

particular kind of intelligence. Of course this is always 

a good policy, but it’s especially important for you to 

observe now. Fluency and flexibility will be rewarded in 

ways you can’t imagine. 

LEO (August 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to enhance 

your relationship with money? If so, do you have any 

specific ideas about how to do it? The coming weeks 

will be an excellent time to identify and implement those 

ideas. Let me make an initial suggestion: Keep your 

magical thinking to a minimum, but don’t stamp it out 

entirely; a small amount of frisky fantasizing will actually 

boost the likelihood that your more practical intentions 

will achieve critical mass. Here’s another tip: Imagine the 

presents you’d get for people if you had some extra cash. 

Stimulating your generous urges may help motivate the 

universe to be generous to you. 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A guy I know was invited to 

hang one of his paintings in a New York gallery — on one 

condition. It had to be a piece he created on the spot, 

in the gallery, on the day the show opened. That would 

be way too much pressure for me to handle. I need to 

spend a long time on the stuff I make, whether it’s music 

or writing. I’ve got to fuss over every little detail as I 

constantly edit and refine and add layers. What about you, 

Virgo? Could you quickly come up with some new wrinkle 

or fresh creation that would show the world who you really 

are? I’m guessing we will soon find out. 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you’ve been reading my 

horoscopes for a while, you know I’m not a decadent 

cynic who thinks “no pain, no gain” is the supreme 

formula for success. On the contrary. I think it’s quite 

In addition to this column, Rob Brezsny creates 

possible to enjoy tremendous growth spurts when you’re 

happy and healthy. Pleasurable events can be great 

learning experiences. Joy and freedom may activate 

potentials that would otherwise remain dormant. Having 

said that, I want to make a suggestion that may seem 

at odds with my usual approach, even though it’s not. 

For the next two weeks, I encourage you to explore 

the necessary power of decay. Harness the archetypes 

of breakdown and dissolution as you put an end to 

things whose time is up. This work is key to your future 

rejuvenation and renaissance. 

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m going to ignore the 

Urban Dictionary’s more modern definitions of the word 

“yeast,” and stick to the original meaning: an agent of 

fermentation that brews alcoholic drinks and makes 

bread dough rise. Metaphorically speaking, Scorpio, you 

should be like that for your gang or crew or tribe. I urge 

you to stir up group morale. Provoke deeper thought and 

stronger feelings. Instigate some bubbly new trends and 

effervescent interactions. Be yeasty! 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sussex is a county in 

southeast England. Its official motto is “We wunt be druv,” 

which is Sussex dialect for “We won’t be pushed around.” 

It’s not bad as mottoes go, I guess. There’s power in 

announcing to the world that you’re not going to allow 

anyone to manipulate you or bully you. But I’d like to see 

you come up with a more robust battle cry for yourself, 

Sagittarius — one that doesn’t focus on what you won’t 

do, but rather on what you will do. It’s an ideal astrological 

moment to articulate your driving purpose in a pithy 

formula that will give you strength whenever you invoke it. 

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most people consider 

global warming somewhat of a mixed blessing,” wrote 

Aaron Sankin on Huffington Post. “On one hand, there’s 

ocean acidification, deserts gobbling up wide swaths 

of farmland and the massive die-off of the innumerable 

species unable to cope with the effects of the world’s 

rapidly rising temperature. But, on the other hand, you’ll 

be able to wear shorts for literally the entire year.” Sankin 

is being deeply sarcastic, of course. Let’s make his 

satire a jumping-off point as we consider some sincerely 

worthwhile trade-offs you might want to implement in 

your own sphere. Would you be willing to sacrifice a 

trivial comfort for a new privilege? Would you shed a 

small pleasure to gain a much bigger pleasure? Might 

you divest yourself of a pocket of resentment if in doing 

so you’d attract a cleansing epiphany? 

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I don’t expect your travels 

in the coming weeks to be like a smooth luxury cruise 

in a stretch limousine. Your route is not likely to be a 

straight shot through breathtaking scenery with expansive 

views. No, my dear Aquarius, your journeys will be more 

complicated than that, more snakey and labyrinthine. 

Some of the narrow passages and weedy detours you’ll 

need to navigate may not even resemble paths, let alone 

highways. And your metaphorical vehicle may resemble a 

funky old 1967 Chevy pick-up truck or a forklift bedecked 

with flowers. It should be pretty fun, though. Keep in mind 

that your maps may only be partially useful. 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In medieval times, you 

didn’t need a priest to get married, nor did you have to be 

in a church or recite a set of vows. You didn’t even have 

to round up witnesses. All that was required was that the 

two people who wanted to be wed said “I marry you” to 

each other. Those three words had great power! In the 

coming days, Pisces, I’d love to see you draw inspiration 

from that lost tradition. Your assignment is to dream up 

three potent declarations that, while not legally binding, 

express the deepest and most loving intentions you 

promise to be faithful to in the coming years. 

Homework: What’s the single most important question 

you’d like to find an answer for in the next five years? Tell 

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LISTINGS, DEFINED: 

Long Term Rentals 

Monthly rental accommodation 

that is available to local renters 

for a minimum of 12 months 

where the rental price remains the 

same throughout the year. 

Short Term Rentals 

Monthly or seasonal rental 

accommodation that is available 

to local renters for less than 12 

months, or where the rental price 

varies throughout the year. 

Vacation Rentals 

Nightly and/or weekly rental 

accommodation, available to 

visitors over a short period of time. 

PINECREST ESTATES 

18 KM SOUTH OF WHISTLER - 21KM 

NORTH OF SQUAMISH 

Private room and Bath room lots of 

storage, to share with the main house. 

Room & board can also be an option. 

604-932-4062 or 

deeppowder1@live.com 

TAMARISK 

Fully furn 2bdrm, full bath unit, perfect for 

2sgls or a cpl, prkg, pool, tennis courts, 

located right beside Alta Lake, avail 

1Sept for 12mths, renting for $1350/ 

mth+utils. For more info contact: craig@ 

mountaincountry.ca Ref 1400 

LARGE FURN STUDIO 

Close to bus, reno’d bath & kitchen, 

lakeview, large deck; common laundry, 

pool, tennis courts; n/s, n/p, avail 

immed, $950/mo+util. 778-789-0427, 

604-524-5146 or jlatham@telus.net 

BAYSHORES 

4Bdrm, 2.5bath, 5appl’s, prkg, strg, 

sauna, can be furn, partially or unfurn, 

n/s, n/p, snow clearing, wifi & cbl incl, 

cls to Whistler Creek & gondola, 

1yr lse min, avail 1Sept, $2500/ 

mth+hydro. Call Kate 604-938-3980 

or email katelinton@shaw.ca 

3Bdrm+den, upper level suite, ensuite 

laundry, closed carport, pets ok, avail 

1Sept, $2000/mo+utils. 778-885-4737 

1Bdrm suite avail immed: w/d, $1000/mth 

incl hydro. Pets ok! 1Bdrm in 4rm hse 

avail immed: $425/mth incl hydro. 604- 

962-4004 nabechanko924@gmail.com 

Bright, clean, unfurn, 1bdrm suite, 

w/d, heated fl rs, priv entry & patio, 

n/s, n/p, prkg, avail immed, $900/ 

mth+hydro only. Call Kate 604-938- 

3980 

Fully furn, 1bdrm suite, situated in a quiet 

high-end residential neighbourhood, 

mins from Whistler Creekside, w/d, 

1prkg, suits sgl or prof cpl, n/s, n/p, avail 

immed, $1050/mth. ludovina@telus.net 

604-346-5025 

1Bdrm unfurn unit, sep living area, all 

appl’s, ample prkg, full bath, pet friendly, 

perfect for a cpl or mature sgl, renting 

for $900/mth+utils, avail June 1 for 

12mths. For more info contact: info@ 

mountaincountry.ca ref 2363 

AVAIL SEPT 15TH IN MILLARS POND 

2 Bdrm above ground suite. DW, insuite 

laundry, gas FP, NS, NP. $1300 plus 

utilities Call 604-985-9113 

DUPLEX IN BAYSHORES 

3 bdrm 2 bath fully furnished spacious 

1/2 duplex, dishwasher, washer/dryer, 

n/s, n/p, lots of parking & storage. 

Close to bus & Creekside. Hydro, 

internet, cable incld. $2,150/mth. 1 year 

lease preferred. bdingsdale@shaw.ca 

RENOVATED FURN’D 3 BDRM + DEN 

Great value Furn’d 3 level 3 Bdrm + Den 

twnhome. Sauna. WD. Woodstove. 

Near mailboxes. Short walk to 

Creekside. $2,250/mo+util. 604-967- 

1195. simon@whistlerproperty.com. 

Photos at www.whistlerproperty.com 

BAYSHORES 3BDRM W/ PRIVACY 

Nice 3bdrm, 2bath, unfurn twnhm on 

2levels, deck, d/w, share lndry, 1prkg, n/ 

p, n/s, ref’s req’d, 1yr lse, quiet, prof cpl 

pref’d, $1720/mo+utils. 206-769-3380 

CREEKSIDE 

CREEKSIDE AREA RENTALS 

1. Furn “LAKE PLACID LODGE” 1 Bdrm. 

FP. Parking. Pool & Hot Tub. Common 

Laundry. $1,300/mo + util (Hot water incl). 

2. Unfurn “TAMARISK” 1 Bdrm beside 

lake. Swimming Pool & Tennis. 

$1,100/mo + util. 

3. Furn’d 2 Bdrm + Loft “VALE” Townhome. 

WD. Firplace. Storage. $1,950/mo + util 

for 12 months. 

Phone Wendy Tabrett at 604-698-0272 

Email: wendy@whistlerproperty.com 

Photos & details: www.whistlerproperty.com 

Whistler Property Services 

Unfurn 1bed, bath, cls to bus & Creekside, 

avail 1Aug for 12mths, renting for $950/ 

mth incl hydro. For more info contact: 

craig@mountaincountry.ca Ref 2355-S 

2Bdrm furn condo, 2221 Gondola Way, 

h/t, priv laundry, 5min walk to Gondola, 

yr lse, $1450/mth+utils. 604-599-9459 or 

778-926-0189 

Unfurn, lakeview, 1bdrm, full bath, priv 

entry, sundeck, f/p, strg, prkg,w/d shr’d, 

no smoking, n/p, n/parties, 1yr lse, ref’s 

req’d, $1200/mth+utils. 604-932-2097 

4Bdrm, 2bath+den, fully furn & beautifully 

appointed home w/all accessories for 

day to day living, situated on quiet culde-sac. 

This home has sgl car garage, 

lrg sep boot rm & spacious deck w/ gas 

bbq. Looking for l/t lse to very responsible 

persons, n/s, n/p, avail 1Sept, $2800/ 

mth+utils. For info & slideshow email: 

srtreno@direct.ca 

Part furn 3bdrm, 2bath twnhse, min to 

Creekside gondola, prkg, onsite garbage, 

all appl’s, good light, avail for 12mths, 

starting 1Sept, renting for $2000/ 


mountaincountry.ca Ref 2110-11 

Fully furn 4bed, 3full bath unit, perfect for 

4sgls, one room is a fully self contained 

suite, avail immed for 12mths, renting for 

$2500/mth+utils. For more info contact: 

craig@mountaincountry.ca Ref 35 

Furn 3bed, 3bath twnhm, d/w, f/p, w/d, 

nicely appointed, walking distance to 

Creekside gondola & shops, avail 1Oct 

for 12mth rental $2400/mth+utils. contact: 

craig@mountaincountry.ca ref 2110 

Fully furn, 1bdrm in 2bdrm apt, cbl, 

internet, walking distance to village, sgl 

only, n/s, n/parties, avail immed, $650/ 

mth. 604-907-1970 

LUXURY SKI-IN/OUT 3 BED 

Furn, reno’d, townhome steps from 

Creek ski lifts. Priv h/t, views, garage, 

w/d, f/p, n/p, n/s. $2500/no + util negot 

jennifer@myseatosky.com 

ROOM AVAILABLE IN 3 BED 

HOUSE 

Furn room with dbl bed avail Sept 1 

for single person in 3 bed house. 

Rent $555.00pcm incl cbl/internet. 

Hydro extra. n/p, n/s, no parties. 

Parking. w/d. walk to lifts/bus. l/t. 

creeksideroom@yahoo.com 604 

967 2817 

3BDRM TOWNHOUSE EACH WITH 

OWN BATHROOM 

Beautiful, recently reno’d 3bdrm twnhse 

each with own bathrooms, fully furn, 

lots of prkg, 5min walk to Creekside 

gondola, grocery store, liquor store & 

other amenities, w/d, d/w, $2400/mth. 

snan16@hotmail.com 

CLEAN, WELL MAINTAINED STUDIO 

Studio available Sept 1, 1yr lease or 

longer if desired. Furnished with a full 

kitchen, parking for 1 vehicle. Ski & Bike 

Storage. Great location for bus to 

village or walk to creekside. The suite is 

perfect for a couple or a single. Queen 

Murphy Bed. Rental price is $950/ 

monthly, which includes Hydro & Cable 

TV. No Pets. Call me at 604 902 4908. 

Cash back incentive if you stay for the 

term of a 1yr lease agreement. 

"VALE INN" FURNISHED STUDIO 

Rent for this Furn’d "VALE INN" condo 

near Creekside includes all utilities 

(electricity, cable & internet). Fireplace. 

Common Hot Tub. Ideal for single 

person. $950/mo incl all util’s. 604-967- 

1195. simon@whistlerproperty.com. 

Photos & details of this & other WPS 

Rentals at www.whistlerproperty.com 

2 BDRM SUITE CREEKSIDE 

Bright, unfurn 2 Bdrm/1Bath incl WiFi, 

DW, FP, own entry, laundry. Grd lvl suits 

2 NS NP. $1400 incl Util. Lease with 

references pref’d. Call 604-230-3622 

2 BDRM + PRIVATE LOFT TOWNHOME 

Furn’d "VALE" towhome by Creekside. 

3 bdrms, 3 bthrms. Fireplace. Washer/ 

Dryer. No Pets. $1,800/mo+util. 604- 

966-8944. mike@whistlerproperty.com. 


CREEKSIDE-3 BEDROOM CONDO 

2.5 bath, appliances, shared w/d, 

fireplace, deck, garage.Reno’ed in 

2009.Private lake access. Walk to 

lifts. Non-smoking, no pets. $2300/ 

month + utilities.Avail Sept 1. 

Genevieve 604-938-1459 

UNOBSTRUCTED MOUNTAIN & 

LAKE VIEWS! 

2Bdrm condo, Sundance, furn, w/ 

5appl’s, Nov-May, $2000/mth, 

LONGTERM, 12mths, $1500/ 

mth+WiFi, Cbl, Utils, common H/T, 

N/S, N/P & refers. 

whistlerexperience@gmail.com 

FURN STUDIO HIGHLAND LODGE 

Includes all utilities. Upgraded unit with 

Murphy Bed full kitchen and fireplace. 

Great location - walk to bus and lifts. N/ 

S N/P Lease with references. Avail. 

immed. $800 mth. 

604-916-4910 

lynda.catherwood@gmail.com 

2 BEDROOM CREEKSIDE 

Ground level 2 bedroom apartment in 

Creekside. Walk to lifts, shops and 

restaurants. Easy access to bus stop. 

Suitable for 1 or 2 people. Long term, 

NS. $1000 - $1200 month 

Email for more details; 

marnie@skiingbc.com 

SUNNY 2 BEDROOM IN CREEKSIDE! 

Partly furnished sunny 2 bdrm, 1 bath 2 

story suite. Fenced backyard, parking 

for 2 vehicles. N/S. Friendly pets 

welcome. Available Oct 1st. $1400 plus 

utilities. 

contact: 

wannabeabear@hotmail.com for more 

details. 

CREEKSIDE 1-BDRM - AVAIL. OCT 1ST 

LP Lodge - Oct 1st+ (1-year lease) - 

Furn 1BDRM - max 2 occ - n/s, n/p, 

parking, patio, pool, sauna, h/t, bbq - 

150 yds to lift, Dave@extracontact.com 

COSY CREEKSIDE 2 BED & LOFT - 

WALK TO GONDOLA & STORES 

ATTRACTIVE 2 BEDROOM AND 

LOFT HOME . WALK TO SKI HILL/ 

SHOPS! LARGE BEDROOMS/ 

CLOSETS AND STORAGE FOR 

SKIS AND BIKES. WOOD 

FIREPLACE DROPS HEAT BILLS. 

DECK VIEWS/BBQ JACUZZI TUB. 

VAULTED CEILINGS, 

CONTACT-604-800-4575(STACY/ 

FIN) STACY@ECOPOSITIVE.COM 

3 BEDROOM VALE CONDO 

Bright 3brdm, 3bath, 1100sqft unit in 

ideal location at Vale Condos on bus 

route & 5min walk to Creekside 

gondola, shops, lakes & Valley Trail. 

Lots of prkg, garbage & recycling 

onsite, newer appl’s, d/w, w/d, f/p, n/s 

in or around unit, max 4ppl, avail for 1yr 

lse starting 1Sept, $1850/mth+utils. 604 

-902-3031 

2BDRM/BATH MTN VIEW TWNHM 

New flooring and recent paint.Nonsmoking, 

no pets. Avail Sept 1. Call 604 

-657-4976 to view. 

2Furn bdrms in 3bdrm twnhse, great 

location, walk to lifts & bus, pref mature, 

resp l/t rmmate, n/cpls, n/p, avail 

immed, one year lease 604-932-2411 

ALTA LAKE 

1Bdrm-WATERFRONT-Btm floor w/ 

immaculate yard, 20 ft from your patio to the 

lakeshore of Alta Lake. No pets-smokingpartying. 

Cls to the village. Incl: Fully furn-Cbl 

TV- Shrd laundry room-Prkg for 1 car-Shrd 

dock-snow removal- garbage drop-off/pickup 

on site. Not incl: Hydro-internet-phone. 

No pet. Will accept L/T or S/T rental, $1000/ 

mth. Email whistlerbythelake@hotmail.com 

or call 604-902-6616 

NORDIC 

2 BRMS FOR RENT IN 3 BDRM 

TOWNHOUSE 

2 bdrms for rent, 650 ea, everything 

included, parking avail. 10 min walk to 

creekside gondola. Nice quiet place to 

kick back. Kevin 604 902 8859 

BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED 

EXECUTIVE 3 BDRM DUPLEX 

Updgraded kitchen, hardwood 

floors, stone f/p,Double garage. 

Private spa. Quiet Powderwood culde-sac 

near ski runs. Annual Lease 

2,900/month. NS,NP. Details at: 

www.vrbo.com #383747 Ph 778 

847 5694

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VILLAGE VILLAGE NORTH WHISTLER CAY 

Fully furn 3bdrm, 2bthrm unit, new 

paint, new fl ooring, ski in/out location, 

perfect for mature quiet cpls or sgls, 

avail Oct 1 for 12mths, renting for $2400/ 


mountaincountry.ca Ref 2556 – 11 

Furn 3bed, 2bath, all appl’s, ski-in/out, 

prkg, garbage/recycling onsite, avail 

immed for 12mths renting for $2200/ 


mountaincountry.ca Ref 2552 – 5 

3Bdrm, fully furn unit, 2car garage, 

h/t, nice quiet area, perfectly suited 

for a family, renting for $3200/mth for 

12mths. For more info contact: craig@ 


Fully furn 3bdrm, 3bath unit in ski-in 

location, 2garages, onsite garbage & 

recycling. Great views & living space & 

all appl’s, avail immed for 12mths, renting 

for $3200/mth. Contact Mountain Country: 

craig@mountaincountry.ca Ref2250 

Furn 3bed, 2bath, all appl’s, ski-in/out, 

prkg, garbage/recycling onsite, avail 

immed for 12mths renting for $2200/ 



Part furn 1bdrm, 1bath, prkg, huge 

amount of strg, cls to Creekside amens, 

onsite laundry, avail immed for 12mths, 

renting for $975/mth+utils. For more info 

contact: craig@mountaincountry.ca Ref 

Eva Lake Rd 

Fully furn 3bdrm, 2bath unit, cls to 

Creekside gondola, good living space, all 

appl’s, deck, prkg, suited for quiet sgls, 

avail 1Oct for 12mths, renting for $2100/ 


mountaincountry.ca Whisky Jack 

SUNNY 3 BDRM TOWNHOUSE WITH 

VIEWS CLOSE TO TRANSIT AND 

VALLEY TRAIL 

This well kept unit has 4 decks Garage 

FP W/D 2 Bath is available to mature 

adults N/S N/P and is well laid out for 

individual privacy. References req’d 6 

month lease is okay. Utilites and cable 

are extra. $2,200 per month. Available 

immed. Please call 604 905-9930. 

RENTAL NORDIC ESTATES 

1500sqft, 1/2 duplex, 5bdrms, easy 

access, clean, private, 2-3 pce baths, 2 

parking, N/S, N/pets, avail 1Sept, 

summer $2700/mth, winter $3200/mth. 

604-937-7851 Merv 

UPGRADED 2 BDRM SUITE 

Clean + private, w/d, d/w, new s/s 

appl’s, lrg deck, storage, new flrs & 

paint. N/S, N/P, N/P. $1325/mth+utils. 

604-902-0102 

3 BED/2 BATH AT POWDERWOOD 

Beautiful, furn, avail Nov-end Apr. 

Garage, F/P, N/P, N/S, Net/phone inc, 

$3200/mo+util neg, Exec/family only. 

jennifer@myseaotsky.com 

"CASTLE RIDGE" TWNHM + GARAGE 

Large Furn’d 3 Bdrm + Storage Loft end 

townhome with 2 Car Garage. Wood 

Burning Fireplace. WD. Large sunny 

decks. $2,600/mo+util for 1 yr term. 604 

-966-8944. mike@whistlerproperty.com. 


"WHISKI JACK" 2 BDRM TWNHOMES 

Couple "WHISKI JACK" 2 Bdrm 

twnhomes. Short walk to Dave Murray 

Downhill & Creekside. One unit has 1.5 

Bthrms. Other has 1 Bthrm. Rents start 

at $1,400/mo+util. 604-967-1195. 

simon@whistlerproperty.com. View 

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NORDIC ESTATES - 2 ROOMS 

In bright furn 5bdrm hse, on bus route, 

n/s, n/p, utils & prkg incl.$630and$875. 

Email:sweetnordicsuite@gmail.com 

Part furn 1bdrm, full bath unit, prkg, 

onsite garbage/recycling, 2min to Alta 

Lake, pet friendly, all appl’s, some strg, 

perfectly suited for mature cpl or sgl, 

avail 1Sept for 12mths, renting for $1200/ 



SPACIOUS 1 BEDROOM SUITE 

Unfurn, Den or 2nd bedroom neg, quiet, 

1car prkg, FP, max 2 people, n/s, n/ 

parties, n/ pets. Sept 1. $1150+utils. 

604-228-8442 

2 BDRM END UNIT, PRIVATE ENTRY 

Avail Oct. 1 for one yr lease or more: 2 

bdrm end unit condo with private entry, 

5 appliances, gas fireplace, private 

patio, extra storage, quiet location. 

$1250/month. Call Dale: 250-485-8716. 

BLUEBERRY HILL 

3Bed, 1bath furn cabin, d/w, f/p, deck, 

cls to the village, avail immed for 12mth 

rental $1900/mth+utils. For more info 


3002 

TWO "IRONWOOD" 2 BDRM CONDOS 

Furn’d large "IRONWOOD" 2 Bdrm 

condos. WD. Gas FP. Common Pool & 

Hottub. UG Parking. $1,850/mo + util 

for 1 year term. 604-967-1195. 

simon@whistlerproperty.com. Photos & 

details of this & other WPS rentals at 

www.whistlerproperty.com 

"GREYHAWK" 4 BDRM CONDO 

Large Furn’d "GREYHAWK" 4 Bdrm two 

level condo. Gas Fireplace. WD. 

Common HotTub. $3,200/mo+util. 604- 

967-1195. simon@whistlerproperty.com. 


rentals at www.whistlerproperty.com 

BRIO 

1Lrg rm, dbl occupancy, in log hse w/ 

priv deck, $1100/mth. 2sgl rms, $550/ 

mth each, short walk to village, avail now. 

604-905-0230 or text 778-389-4640 

Fully furn 2bdrm, 1bath unit, all appl’s, 

great location, perfect for a cpl or mature 

sgls, avail Sept 1 for 12mths, renting 

for $1650/mth. For more info contact: 


$400 SHARED ROOM FOR RENT IN 

NICE BRIO HOUSE 

Shared rooms available in 4 room, 8 

person house in Brio. W/D, 

Dishwasher,sauna, bbq, 2 balconies, 2 

bathrooms + 1 en-suite, gear storage 

room.Great location 15min walk into 

town and a trail that you can ride from 

the mountain to the door with in 

summer and winter.Available from the 

1st of September.No Partiers/smokers 

please contact george_caro@shaw.ca 

3 BEDROOM/2BATH TOWNHOUSE 

End unit, available asap. F/P, W/D, D/W, 

N/S, pets negotiable, 2PRKG, lrg deck, 

Summer $2000/mth, Winter $2800/mth. 

Email kris@skoupas.com 604.932.7788 

"BRIO" 4 BEDROOM HOME 

Large 4 Bdrm, 2 Bthrm home work 

short walk to & from Village. Ideal for 

group or employees without vehicles. 

Vacant & easy to View. Sauna option. 12 

mo rate: $3,200/mo+util. 604-932-7849. 

duane@whistlerproperty.com. Photos & 

details at www.whistlerproperty.com 

LRG RM AVAIL SEPT 1ST 

Fun mature clean housemate wanted. 

Deck, d/w, fireplace, w/d, prkg. $700sgl 

-$850cpl/shr +utils. 604-905-8747 

VILLAGE 

AMAZING WHISTLER CONDO 

Marketplace 1BD/1BA. L/T. W/d, f/p, d/ 

w, u/g parking & h/t. Avail Now.Walk to 

Village $1600. Call 604-926-6973. 

RENTALS NEAR & IN VILLAGE 

1. Stylishly Reno’d Furnished “VALHALLA” 

3 Bdrm Village North twnhome. Hot Tubs. FP. 

WD. Our nicest 3 bdrm. $3,300/mo + util. 

2. Furn “SUNRISE” 3 Bdrm + Loft + Garage 

Townhome short walk from Village via 

Underpass by Golf Clubhouse. Great sunny 

Decks. FP. WD. $3,300/mo + util for 1 yr. 

3. Furn (or Partly Furn) “ALPINE GREENS” 

3 Bdrm twnhome in Benchlands overlooking 

1st fairway of Chateau Golf Course. 

WD. 52” TV. $3,250/mo + util for 1 year. 

Phone Duane Kercher at 604-932-7849 

Email: duane@whistlerproperty.com 

Photos and details at www.whistlerproperty.com 

Whistler Property Services 

BENCHLANDS 

Fully furn 2bdrm, 2bath unit, ski-in/ 

out, good living space, perfect for quiet 

professionals, n/p, n/s, avail 1Aug, for 

12mths, renting for $2200/mth. For more 

info contact: craig@mountaincountry.ca 

Ref Greystone Lodge 

Fully furn 3bdrm, 2bath unit in ski-in/out 

location. Nicely appointed, covered prkg, 

onsite garbage/recycling/ski lockers, 

perfect for a weekend retreat for a family, 

avail immed for 12mths, renting for 

$2600/mth. For more info contact: craig@ 

mountaincountry.ca Ref Powderhorn 

Fully furn 3bdrm, 2bath unit, prkg, 

garbage, pet friendly, great living space, 

2min to Lost Lake & cls walk to the 

village, suited for mature professionals or 

families, avail 1Oct for 12mths, renting for 

$2600/mth. For more info contact: craig@ 

mountaincountry.ca Ref The Woods 

"PAINTED CLIFF" 1 BDRM ON SKI HILL 

The best location for those wanting to 

be on ski run. Top of Painted Cliff Road. 

Furnished 1 Bdrm with Wood Burning 

Fireplace, In-Unit Washer & Dryer, 

Secure underground Parkade. Common 

Hot Tub. Free Village Bus Loop service. 

$1,700/mo+util for 1 yr. 604-967-1195. 

simon@whistlerproperty.com. Photos & 

details of this & other WPS Rentals at 

www.whistlerproperty.net 

"WOODRUN" 2 BDRM ON SKI HILL 

Furn’d 2 Bdrm, 2 Bthrm condo on 

Blackcomb Mntn. WD. Gas FP. 

Common Pool, Hottub & Exercise Rm. 

Parking. NP. Avail Sept 1st. $2,100/mo 

+ util for 1 year term. 604-698-0272. 

wendy@whistlerproperty.com. Photos at 


3 BRDM, 2BATH TOWNHOUSE 

on golf course, furnished, W/D,D/W,F/ 

P,U/G/P, avail August 1, $2800+util. 

email:jimrohla@shaw.ca 

VILLAGE NORTH 

NORTHSTAR 

2BD/2BATH T.HSE pool, h/t, w/d, 

fireplace, d/w, u/g parking Avail Sep 

$1950 Call Agnes 604-790-8255 

1 BEDROOM - GLACIER’S REACH 

Great view 1-bdrm, prkg, pool, laundry, 

2 balconies, hot tub. 

$1,200. Sept-Nov., Dec. $1,800. 

604-948-8008, cell 778-988-7317, 

email ham.nic@gmail.com 

GLACIERS REACH 

SEPT 1st 2bd,2bth,T.Hse Furn/ some 

util incl,Gas Fireplace /W/D Ungrd Pkg 

H,Tub/Pool Deck steps to village/ski 

2000 mth N/S N/P N/party. to view 778- 

321-7527 pattaymalay@gmail.com 

Fully furn studio unit, 1bath, all appl’s, 

covered prkg, common h/t, central 

village location, perfect for a cpl or 

mature sgl, avail immed for 12mths, 

renting for $1100/mth+utils. For more info 


Marketplace Lodge 

Fully furn 1bdrm, 1bath, all appl’s, 

covered prkg, onsite garbage/recycling, 

central village location, patio, good light, 

avail 15Oct for 12mths, renting for $1350/ 

mth. For more info contact: craig@ 

mountaincountry.ca Ref Northstar 

GRANITE COURT STUDIO 

Large studio condo. Full kitchen, d/w, in 

suite w/d, wifi, u/g parking, lge deck, full 

WC, f/p. $1200 May-Nov; $1800 Dec- 

Apr, utils incl. Avail immed. 604-961- 

6863 tomax1@shaw.ca 

VILLAGE STUDIO TOWNHOME 

480 sq.ft. F/S/D & w/d Gas f/p; 

sundeck; undergrnd parking. Unfurn. 

Single or couple; no pets, no smoking. 

$900/mo plus util. Avail Sept 1st for 1 

yr lease. Email sally@direct.ca 

GRANITE COURT 3 BDRM TWNHOME 

Great Blackcomb Mntn views. Furn’d 3 

Bdrm twnhome btwn Tennis Club & 

Med Clinic. Fireplace, WD. Secure 

Parkade. $3,250/mo + util. 604-698- 

0272. wendy@whistlerproperty.com. 



WHISTLER CAY HEIGHTS 

Fully furn 2.5bed, 3bath twnhse, furn, 

great views, all appl’s, f/p, well appointed, 

avail immed for 12mths renting for $2600/ 



Lrg beautiful 2bdrm, 2level suite, high log 

ceiling, lrg deck, view, n/p, n/s, suitable 

sm family or prof cpl, 1yr lse, $2000/ 

mth+utils. 604-269-0476 

ROOM FOR RENT 

Room in 2 bed suite. Dbl bed. Suit 

single person. $695+utils. 

peterfromcanada@gmail.com 

GREAT LOCATION! AVAILABLE NOW 

Private and shared rooms in fully 

furnished; move in ready units. Quick 

walk to the village, storage for bikes, 

and laundry. From $460 + $30 utilities. 

Contact Paul at 604-902-6001 or 

live@seasonswhistler.com 

WHISTLER CAY 

WHISTLER CAY 2 BEDROOM 

$1600 

2 Bedr/2Bathr, fully furn townhome. 

All appliances including DW, W/D. 

Cable, Internet, Bike/Ski storage, 

BBQ, N/S, No Pets. Max 3 ppl. 2 

Car Spaces. Avail from Sept 1st. 

$1600.00/mnth+util For more info 

contact 604 902 3998. 

Rms avail, everything incl, great price 

& location, walk/bus to village, cls to 

Rainbow, w/d, wireless, cbl, phone, 

hydro, prkg, shrd or sgl rms avail immed, 

$450/mth/person/shrd, $700/mth/sgl rm. 

Email easystreetwhistler@hotmail.com 

COZY PRIVATE 

2.5bdrm+loft hse for rent. 900sq ft, w/d, 

cable, bbq, bike/ski storage, great for 

sml family, big insulated storage shed, 

n/s, n/p, unlimited free long distance & 

free hi-speed internet, $2000mth+utils. 

604-907-4567 

FURNISHED 2 BDRM SUITE 

Great location on Beaver lane by 

Whistler Golf Course, Furn’d 2 bdrm 

suite. Avail for 1 yr. Near Lake. Extra 

Parking. $1,400/mo+util. 604-698-0272. 

wendy@whistlerproperty.com. Photos & 

details of this & other WPS Rentals at 


ADVENTURES WEST LAKESIDE 

Charming and cozy 2 Br 1 Bath 

lakefront condo, 6 appliances. 

Fabulous lake and mountain views 

from sunny deck. Unfurnished, near 

bus NS. NP. no pets (strata 

rule)References required. $1500/ Mo 

incl hydro. 604-932-4627 

TAPLEY’S FARM 

UPGRADED SUITE - 1 BEDROOM 

PLUS LOFT 

Bright, large and upgraded 1 bedroom 

and loft located in Tapleys Farm / 

Whistler Cay. Sep. entrance, wood / 

heated slate floors, Jacuzzi, fireplace, 

w/d, d/w, private back yard and deck, 

cathedral ceiling, , full kitchen, on bus 

route, 15 minute walk to Village, no 

pets, no smoking. Ideal for couple or 

single. Long term lease. $1,400 / month. 

Available Oct 1 604 905 6770 

SPRUCE GROVE 

DELUXE 4 BEDROOM DUPLEX 

WITH AMAZING VIEWS 

Luxury furnished 4 bdrm, 3 bath/ 

deluxe finishings + amazing views. 

Deluxe kitchen appliances, w/d, 

satellite TV + 1 car garage. Extra 

storage in basement. Non-smokers 

and no pets /quiet neighbourhood 

perfect for a family/ professionals. 

contact schwartzman@capeconstruction.com 


1Bdrm suite, heated tile bathrm fl r, w/d, 

n/s, n/p, avail 26Aug, $850/mth+utils. 

604-935-8677 Showing August 28, 

5pm-7pm 

Partially furn 4.5bed, 4bath, 2car garage, 

sgl detached home, great yard, lrg deck, 

d/w, f/p, w/d, avail 1Sept for 12mth 

rental, $3200/mth+utils. Contact: craig@ 

mountiancountry.ca ref 8084 

Bright newly reno’d 1bdrm in hse, priv 

entry, w/d, 1yr lse, avail immed, $1075/ 

mth incl utils. 604-417-1837 

Beautiful deluxe studio ideal for 1person, 

airtight f/p, shrd w/d, n/s, n/p, $750/ 

mth+40%utils. 604-932-3588, 604-671- 

8195 

PRIV SGL RM AVAIL NOW! Great 

location, great rmmates, near bus & 

sports centre, incl satellite & wifi , $495/ 

mth/sgl & 565/mth/sgl. Call 604-938- 

9848 or clubedwhistler@hotmail.com 

2Sgl rms avail now in 4bdrm hse, on 

Valley Dr near Alpine Way, $550/mth & 

600/mth (w/shower & sink), incl hydro. 

1-604-266-2447 

1Bdrm partly furn unit, perfect for a sgl, 

renting for $800/mth incl hydro. For more 

info contact: craig@mountaincountry.ca 

Ref 8308 

2Bdrm, ground fl r, priv entry, lrg balcony, 

airtight f/p, 4appl’s, shrd w/d, heat/hot 

water/hydro/snow clearing/strg/prkg 

incl’d, n/s, n/p, n/parties, quiet resp ppl, 

$1200/mth. 1-604-462-0444 


Bright, spacious, unfurnished, 4bdrm 

house, f/p, 2 bathrooms,jacuzzi, deck, 

all appliances, n/s, n/p, ref. required, 

pref. family. fleur975@hotmail.ca 



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ALPINE MEADOWS EMERALD ESTATES 

PEMBERTON PEAKS/PIONEER JUNCTION (PEMBERTON) NORTH YARDS (SQUAMISH) 

3 BDRM HOUSE - $2500/MO + UTIL. 

Furnished home with Updated Kitchen 

short walk to Meadow Park, Sports 

Center & Alpine Market. Two large 

balcony decks. Gas FP. Large flat yard. 

Lotsa Parking. 604-966-8944. 

mike@whistlerproperty.com. Photos & 

details at www.whistlerproperty.com 

2 BED SUITE 

Year round only. Nicely finished, clean 

unfurnished above ground suite in near 

new house. On bus route, huge ski/ 

board/bike storage. Patio, No smoking. 

1400+util Dave 604-932-1441 

blueice@telus.net 

3 BDRM BY SPORTS CENTRE 

Furn’d "SNOCAP" 3 Bdrm. Woodstove. 

Laundry. Sauna. $1,800/mo+util. 604- 

967-1195. simon@whistlerproperty.com. 

Photos of this & other WPS Rentals at 


1 BED & DEN -LARGE, SUNNY $1500 

New lam floors, lights & paint. W/D, D/ 

W, park, priv ent, cov patio. Inter, hot 

water incl. 1 pet. Lg term. 604 219-8356 

1 BEDROOM AVAIL. IN 3 

BEDROOM HOUSE 

Furnished or unfurnished room. 

Close to Meadow Park, shared 

office space avail, Hot Tub, large 

sunny deck, Pump Track. $550 

+utilities. 604-935-2950 

THREE BEDROOM 

Three bedroom, Two bath large home 

close to rec centre and bus. Long term 

pref $1800 plus utils. 604 894 5941 

RUSTIC ALPINE A FRAME 

2Bed & Loft; extra parking/storage. W/ 

D, dishwasher. Avail. immed. or Sept. 

1st. $1600 plus 2/3 util. Contact 

alpinecabin7@gmail.com 

COZY 1 BDRM + DEN SUITE 

clean and bright, new paint, w/d, d/w, 

deck, 1 prk spc, unfurnished, n/s, n/ 

pets, $1200/mth + utl. 604 902 0102 

BRIGHT 1BDRM GARDEN SUITE 

unfurn, quiet on cul de sac. Fridge, 

stove, w/d, cbl, prkg spot. Perfect 

for single. N/S, n/p. Own meter. 

$750+util. 604-220-6194 

donmcinnes@telus.net 

2BDRM, 2BATH SUITE 

Bright spacious 2bdrm, 2 bath suite, lrg 

kitchen across from Meadow Park, max 

2ppl, avail 1Sept $1,450/mo+utils 604- 

932-6936 

SUNNY 1 BEDROOM SUITE 

Sep-Ent, Renoed, Heated flrs, pking, 

WD, Int,TV, Hydro Included. NS, NPets, 

NP, No Drugs. $1250Mth, dml@telus.net 

BEAUTIFUL VIEWS 4 BDRM 

HOUSE 

Four Bedroom, Two Bathroom home 

with gorgeous views. Two car 

garage, W/D, D/W, lots of storage. 

N/S, N/P, available Sept. 1st, year 

round only. 2200/mo plus utilities. 

cjewett@shaw.ca 

or 

christopherbarnard@gmail.com 

RAINBOW 

1 BR SUITE RAINBOW 

Beautiful bright new 1 br suite Baxter 

(above Rainbow). Parking, w/d, d/w, 

bike storage, patio, unfurn, n/s, n/p, 

amazing view. $1250 + hydro. Avail 1 

Oct. whistlersuiteforrent@gmail.com 

EMERALD ESTATES 

1Bdrm suite, fully furn, w/d, prkg, sep 

entry, strg, mountain views, cable, wifi , 

n/s, $1000/mth+40%utils. Phone Mary 

604-942-7071 or 604-928-6213 or 

marythomas059@gmail.com 


1Bdrm+den suite, unfurn, pets ok, kids 

are not, avail 1Sept, $900/mth incl utils. 

604-902-1986 

Lakefront, lrg 2bdrm, deck, priv entry, 

shrd w/d, semi or fully furn, prkg, quiet 

resp tenants, near bus, n/p, avail 1Sept 

or 1Oct, $1300/mth incl utils. 604-985- 

3759 or 604-932-3947 

3BDRM 2BTHRM - SEPT 1ST 

Clean, bright, laminate flrng, furnished 2 

decks d/w w/d f/p ns np, $1750/mth. 

alpineproductions.com/ 

whistler_emerald claireallen@shaw.ca 

UNFURN’D 3 BDRM HOME 

Uphill Unfurn’d 3 bdrm, 2 bthrm home 

with great views. Open Parking. Great 

value at $2,200/mo+util. FP. 604-698- 

0272. wendy@whistlerproperty.com. 



ONE BEDROOM SUITE IN EMERALD 

One Bdrm furn suite in Emerald. Very 

close to bus stop. Small pet ok. $900/ 

mnth. roominemerald@hotmail.com. 

BEAUTIFUL 1 BR VIEW SUITE 

Beautiful 1 BR, 1 bath/shower, 

unfurnished suite on ground level of 

2nd family home, sep/entry, very 

quiet and bright, spectacular lake 

and mountain views, private deck, 

garage prkg, good strg, 4 minute 

walk to bus, cable, wifi, n/s, n/p, n/ 

parties, ref’s req’d, cpl preferred, 

$1,075/mth + utilities on one yr lse. 

Available 1Aug or 1Sept, 2012. 

Email: whistlerchalet@shaw.ca 

LONG TERM RENTAL 

MANAGEMENT SERVICES 

Homeowners wishing good 

quality, low risk tenants for your 

Whistler or Pemberton property 

please contact any one of our 

below rental agents. We have 

pre-screened tenants that are 

seeking rental properties for 

both seasonal & annual terms. 

LICENSED RENTAL AGENTS: 

Wendy Tabrett 604-698-0272 

wendy@whistlerproperty.com 

Mike Garcia 604-966-8944 

mike@whistlerproperty.com 

Simon Westwood 604-967-1195 

simon@whistlerproperty.com 

Duane Kercher 604-932-7849 

duane@whistlerproperty.com 

VIEW OUR AVAILABLE 

RENTAL LISTINGS AT: 


PEMBERTON 

STUDIO SUITE 

Large studio suite, w/ private 

entrance, soundproofing, parking, 

patio doors and deck, sunny, treed, 

fenced yard, w/d, 1 blk from 

downtown, storage shed, backing 

on greenspace, n/s $600/mth 604- 

290-3776 

FULL FURN 2 BDRM TWNHSE 

Avail Oct 1-1100 sqft 2 bathrms 

insuite laundry prkg pets ok$1195mth 

email lmmclean@telus.net 

TWO BEDROOM SUITE. 

Private entrance, w/d, cable, wireless 

internet. Walking distance from town/ 

bus. One parking space. Long term 

pref. $750. 604-935-8771 

BEAUTIFUL 1BDR SUITE 

1bdr suite with parking, storage, W/D, 

DW. Large kitchen and Vaulted ceiling. 

Internet Incl. Awesome landlord! Avail 

now, $750/mth. Call Ian (604)902-0050 

3 BDRM HSE, CLS TO TWN 

3Bdrm, 2bath hse on acreage, beaut 

views, lg deck, lots of pkg, quiet street, 

1km to town.W/D,D/W woodstove, 

includes snowclearing, n/s, pets negot 

(incl horse) $1600/mo avail Oct 1 ALSO 

AVAIL Lrg 1Bdrm suite avail Oct 1 same 

property, shared util $750 604-966-8009 

UNIQUE 1 BEDROOM 

Fully furnished, newly renovated, clean 

and unique place. Private backyard and 

garden, storage, parking, w/d. Centrally 

located but quiet. n/p, n/s. 

klaramanhal@gmail.com or 778-788- 

7008 

BEAUTIFUL UNFURNISHED 

3BDRM CONDO 

CLS TO BUS STOP & SHOPPING 

CTR SECURE UNDERGROUND 

PRKG W/D, AVAIL IMMED, 1250/ 

mth. chris_okumu@yahoo.ca, 1-780 

-257-5401 

ARBUTUS/COTTONWOOD (PEMBERTON) 

2 BDRM/ 2 BATH TOP FLOOR 

APARTMENT 

2 Bdrm/ 2 Bath Top Floor 

Apartment. W/D, D/W, 2 Stalls in 

heated garage, storage unit, across 

from bus stop. $1000, Price 

reduced for long lease. 404-246- 

0912 or valderan@hotmail.com 

2 BDRM+DEN 

bonus room, sgl car garage. 5 min walk 

to school and town. N/s, n/p, w/d dw. 

Avail sept 1st. (604)905-8345 After 5 pls 

ASPEN FIELDS (PEMBERTON) 

1 BEDROOM SUITE - 1443 ALDER 

DRIVE 

Avail NOW, private entry, $700 incl. 

Hydro, bright, WD, NS, storage, parking 

604-932-1608, bmares@shaw.ca 

DOWNTOWN (PEMBERTON) 

3 BEDROOM PRIVATE APARTMENT 

3 bed/1 bath private apartment in 

dowtown Pemberton close to stores, 

bus, schools etc. Good parking. $800 

plus utilites. NS NP avail now. 778-874 

-7469 

LRG 1BDRM SUITE - CLS TO TOWN 

Great 1bdrm suite incl d/w, w/d & full 

kitchen. Prkg for 1 car, 3min walk to 

bus. No smoking, family hse, no 

partying, pets considered. Avail 1Sept, 

$700/mth incl utils. Call 604-698-0643 

rwood@whistlerblackcomb.com 

TWO BEDROOM SUITE 

Two bedroom above ground suite very 

close to town. D/W, W/D. Private 

entrance. Very clean. $800 plus utils. 

604 894 5941 

DOGWOOD/BENCHLANDS (PEMBERTON) 

2 BEDROOM SUITE - 1367 

GREENWOOD ST 

Avail. NOW, 850+hydro, private entry, 

W/D, cats OK, NS, parking, storage; 

604-932-1608, bmares@shaw.ca 

1 BEDROOM SUITE - 1354 

GREENWOOD ST 

1 yr old suite, Avail Sept 1st, 

hardwood floors, covered deck, 

WD, DW, Private entrance, parking, 

storage, close to downtown, 

$675+utilities, bbmares@shaw.ca or 

604-932-1608 

BEDROOM FOR RENT IN CONDO 

Furnished bedroom for rent in 2 

bedroom condo. A/C, gym, w/d, 

internet $550/month 935-8727 

PEMBERTON TOWNHOME 

Bright 3 bdrm, 2 bath townhouse in the 

Peaks. Great location, walk to town. 

Deck/patio, w/d, d/w, fireplace, 2 car 

garage. $1400/mo+utl Available 

October 1. Contact: katoh@telus.net 

THE GLEN (PEMBERTON) 

UPPER FLOOR OF HOUSE FOR RENT 

Lrg 3bdrm, 2bthrm, beautiful sundeck, 

view, fenced yard, cls to town, school & 

parks.Incl cbl, d/w, prkg, seeking 

reliable n/s tenant, avail 1Sept, $1150/ 

mth. 604-698-5991 

2 SUITES FOR RENT 

upstairs 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1100/m plus 

U.T. or downstairs 2 bedroom, 1 bath 

800/m plus U.T share laundry, n/p call 

after 5 p.m. 604 894 5515 

PEMBERTON PLATEAU 

WHEEL CHAIR 

ACCESSIBLE 

PEMBERTON 

PLATEAU 

Custom Family Home. 4 bed 3 

bath DW, WD gas fireplace large 

deck, stunning east mountain 

views, wheel chair accessible 

garage. N/S, N/P certified guide 

dog welcomed. 

1,350/+util. 

References 1yr lease 

(Robin) 250.881.3504 

bin_ski@hotmail.com. 

LRG 1 BDRM SUITE PEMB PLATEAU 

Self-contained suite w/ own ent, prking, 

W/D. Avail Sept. 1 N/S, N/P $700/mo 

+utl or $650 w/lease 604-894-3334 

plateausuite@hotmail.ca 

"PEMBERTON PLATEAU" TWNHOMES 

1. Largest available unit. Newly 

Recarpeted & Repainted UNFURN’ D 4 

Bdrm, 4 Bthrm end twnhm. Large 2 car 

Garage. WD. Big Views. Lots of light. 

Our nicest avail Pemb twnhm. NS. 

$1,550/mo + util. 

2. Other "PLATEAU" twnhm is PARTLY 

FURN’d 3 Bdrm + Family Room & 

Garage. $1,500/mo+util. 604-966- 

8944. mike@whistlerproperty.com. 


PEMBERTON PLATEAU 

VIEWS & PRIVACY 

2Bdrm+den/3rd bdrm in quiet building, 

office, laundry room, security system, 

chef designed kitchen, 2decks, 1/ 

2garage, n/s, n/p, ref’s, 1yr lse, $975/ 

mth+utils. bin_ski@hotmail.com or 250- 

881-3504 (Robin) 

MT. CURRIE / D’ARCY 

2 BDRM TOP FLOOR OF HOUSE 

2 brdrm 1 bath top floor suite avail 

immediately w/d, d/w, f/p large deck in 

nice quiet area 20 min N of Pemby. 

$1000/mth plus utilities. Call Stephane 

604 452 1557 or 604 698 6161. 

1 BEDROOM SUITE FOR RENT 

1 Bedroom suite for rent, utilites, WiFi & 

basic included, non smoking, no pets 

avail Sept. 1st, $550/mth. Call 604-892- 

1322 

2 BEDROOM SUITE 

2 Bedroom basement suite ,utilities,WiFi 

included no pets available immediately, 

750/mth call. 604-892-1322 

2 BEDROOM SUITE 

2 Bedroom basement suite ,utilities,WiFi 

included no pets available immediately, 

750/mth call. 604-892-1322 

1 BEDROOM SUITE FOR RENT 

1 Bedroom suite for rent ,utilites,WiFi 

includeded non smoking,no pets aval. 

september 1st 600/m call 604-892-1322 

VALLEYCLIFFE (SQUAMISH) 

2Bdrm basement apt, w/d, f/s, 1bath, 

1prkg, shrd cbl, n/s, n/p, n/drugs, avail 

now, $850/mth+1/3 utils. 604-800-6595 

1BDRM IN 3BDRM SHRD APT 

Sauna, gym, cls to shopping, trails & 

bus, incl internet & cbl, avail 1Sept, 

$550/mth+utils. 604-848-8513 or 604- 

815-3709 

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Services 

Full screening of tenants 

Unfurnished / Furnished homes 

Whistler and Squamish 

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Furn duplex on Alpha Lake, 2prkg at 

entry, quiet, priv 1700sqft 1bdrm+loft, 

fully equipped. Hardwood fl oors, 2baths, 

wood burning f/p, n/p, n/s, all amens, 

avail Jan 15-Apr 15, some fl exibility, 

prefer mature cpl, rent negotiable for right 

tenant. 604-905-1128 

CREEKSIDE 

Fully furn, self contained studios, 

1block from Creekside shopping 

& beside bus rte, laundry in 

house, h/t, starting at $550/mth 

incl utils & internet. Call 778- 

869-5551 Pls lve msg. Check out 

www.whistlerbeds.com Avail for 

summer/fall bookings only. 

Great Locations, Great Prices, all 

you need within 2min walk, avail 

immed until 31Oct. Also avail for 

the whole winter commencing 1Nov. 

Fully furn, 1 & 2bdrm condos & 

studios, sleeps up to 5ppl, very near 

bus & shopping, min stay 2mths, incl 

internet & utils. For more info pls 

leave clear msg on phone 604-583- 

1377 or 778-869-5551 or email w/ 

phone number rent@whistlerbeds. 

com www.whistlerbeds.com 

BEAUTIFUL 2 BED+DEN 

TOWNHOUSE 

2Bdrm+loft, London Lane 

townhouse, fully furn, w/d, n/s. 

Close to everything. Avail now-end 

Nov’2012 - $1700/mo incl hydro. 

res@yesimprovement.com or call 

604 905 2560 

FURNISHED ROOMS 

furnished rooms available Sept 1, 

private bathroom, wifi and utilities 

included. 300 pp shared, 500 single. 

6049673003 patkeogh2@gmail.com 

Furnished 2bdrm, 2bath condo, 

balcony. Wifi, cable TV. Can sleep 5. 

Laundry in building. Pool, hot tub, 

Sept 1, $2500/mth incl utils. 604- 

967-3003 patkeogh2@gmail.com 

BLUEBERRY HILL 

Furn 2bed, 2bath, nicely appointed, w/d, 

d/w, f/p, great views, available Nov-April, 

$2750/mth incl internet & cbl. Contact: 

craig@mountaincountry.ca ref# 3201 

Furn 2.5bdrm, 1.5bath cabin, w/d, f/p, 

2decks, walking distance to the village, 

avail 1Oct- 30April, $2600/mth+utils. 

Contact: craig@mountaincountry.ca ref 

3031 

VILLAGE 

Beautiful studio in Deer Lodge, incl prkg, 

w/d, cbl, phone, fully furn, avail 3Sept- 

1Dec. 604-307-6652 

Nightly, wkly or mthly accom avail now, 

fully furn, utils incl. For more info call 604- 

905-9596 or csmithwhistler@gmail.com 

“The Nest” is avail 1Sept-15Dec, best 

studio, best location, beautifully furn, full 

kitchen, shrd h/t & laundry, secure u/g 

prkg, perfect for cpl, $1100/mth incl utils/ 

wifi . 604-274-0324 or jostewart@shaw. 

ca www.thenest.directvacations.com 

STUDIO OVERLOOKING OLYMPIC 

PLAZA 

Top floor, full kitchen, bath, large deck, 

n/p, n/s. W/D & h/t same floor. Avail Aug 

26-Nov30. $1050/mth incl util, internet. 

melbis@shaw.ca 

TOWNHOUSE 

Luxury, furnished, 2bdrm, 2bath. 

Wifi, cable TV, laundry. Private hot 

tub, underground parking. Can 

sleep 5, Oct 1 $3000/mth. 604-967- 

3003 patkeogh2@gmail.com 

LOST LAKE LODGE 

One and two bedroom suites 

available for 6 months or 

year leases. 

Prime building location, furnished 

with excellent amenities. 

Pool, hot tub and Fitness room 

and underground parking. 

Call to view your new home! 

604 935 5703 or email 

tanya@mountainresrealty.com 

mountainresrealty.com 

UPPER VILLAGE 

LOST LAKE LODGE 

2BD/2BTH pool, h/t, fireplace, w/d, u/g 

parking, d/w avail Sep-Dec $1600 Call 

Agnes at 604-790-8255 

VILLAGE NORTH 

Sunny, 1bdrm, furn luxury condo, near 

Marketplace, w/d, f/p, h/t, prkg, n/s, 

n/p, n/parties, avail 1Sept-mid Dec, 

$1300/mth. Email melissag@telus.net 

Beautiful, newly reno’d studio suite in 

Lagoons building, fully furn, h/w fl rs, 

u/g prkg, w/d, internet, avail 1Aug-1Dec 

$950/mth or $1095/mthly incl utils. 

Bruce 604-463-7734 or 604-318-4631 

skicondo36@hotmail.com 

BENCHLANDS 

Fully furn 2bed+loft, 2bath unit in great 

location, all appl’s, good living space, 

strg, prkg, onsite garbage/mail, avail 

Sept 1 until March 30, 2013. Perfect 

for mature professionals. For more info 


Snowberry 


Fully furn 4bdrm, 4bath detached hse, 

incredible views, upgraded kitchen, lots 

of light, amazing deck & ample prkg, avail 

immed for a seasonal rental renting for 

$4500/mth+utils. For more info contact: 


ACCOMMODATION WANTED 

HOME SEEKING NATURE WOMAN 

Female in 30’s seeking to rent a quiet, 

clean, natural lit place, Sept, w internet, 

parking (garden is a bonus), furnished/ 

semi-furnished. mayalaom@gmail.com 

REAL ESTATE 

OUT OF TOWN 

Pristine Gates Lake, priv access, 3/4acre 

lot, A-frame w/loft, 100amp serv, deck, 

docks, 2hrs to Vancouver. Call 250-847- 

0096 View details at propertyguys.com at 

sign # 41838 

REAL ESTATE 

3 BED 2 BATH TOWNHOUSE 

MCKEEVER’S PLACE 384K - WHA 

Quiet location with great views. Close 

walk to store, Sport Ctr, School, bus 

and valley trail. Unit has been 

completely upgraded. For photos & 

details check PLACEINWHISTLER.COM 

for viewings call Steve - 604-906-0078 

TIME SHARES 

2 Separate weeks for sale. July 

& September. Pacifi c Shores in 

Parksville. Sleeps 7. Extremely 

low prices. Vacationing in Whistler 

August 18-31. 1-253-312-8656 or 

coy_priest@yahoo.com 

COMMERCIAL SPACE 

COMMERCIAL KITCHEN 

Kitchen for rent hourly/monthly. Kitchen 

& 1bdrm suite or Kitchen, 5bdrm chalet 

& 3car garage for rent or sale. 

info@whistlercatering.com 

COMMERCIAL KITCHEN SPACE FOR 

RENT 

Certified commercial kitchen in Function 

Junction available for rent 3-4 days per 

week. $120/day including hydro. 

Contact: tashnorm@shaw.ca 

HEATED STORAGE SPACE FOR RENT 

In Function Junction. Secure, garage 

door access 

Contact: tashnorm@shaw.ca 

Join the group of successful 

businesses at Nesters Square. 

Will build to suit your needs. 

Great offi ce, retail or service 

business opportunities. 

PEMBERTON 

BRING YOUR TRADES & OFFERS 

IN! 5 Acres for sale w/rustic cabin & 

house, majestic views, in last days of 

construction, reduced price, $450,000. 

Will consider rent to own. Reid Rd. May 

fi nance. Also possibility of 2acres w/one 

home. 604-813-3000 

5 Acres for sale, Poole Creek, old growth 

forest neighbouring property, $170,000. 

Will build to suit, may subdivide to 

2.5acres. May fi nance. 604-813-3000 

LARGE 3 BDR CONDO 

LOWEST PRICED! 1644sqft, 2 levels, 

upgrades, views, centrally located, 

offered at $326,000 Call: 604-902-4167 

CARS 

2004 HYUNDAI SANTA FE 

5-door, SUV, White/Gray, Automatic, 

4WD, 111,523 kms, Good condition. By 

Owner, $8,500 OBO 604-967-1848 

TRUCKS / VANS / SUVS 

2006 FORD F-150 

White/Gray, Automatic, 261,500 kms, 

Good condition. By Owner, $10,000 604 

-902-9300 pat_wiebe1@hotmail.com 

1995 BLUEBIRD 25 PSGR SHORT BUS 

dt466 turbo Diesel, 5spd, 4 whl 

hydrualic disc brakes, Exc cond, $7,000 

604-935-8727 

1998 TOYOTA 4RUNNER 

310,000 kms, 4-cyl, 5 spd manual. One 

owner only. Mechanically well 

maintained & runs great. Body has 

some dings & scratches with minimal 

rust. $4900 firm. Scott 604-905-8098 

RVS / CAMPERS / TRAILERS 

30Ft enclosed tandem trailer, 2 axels, 

good for tool or job trailer, vehicles, 

quads or hunting, $2700. 604-813-3000 

MOTORCYCLES 

SERVICE ON ALL 

BRANDS & MODELS 

Snowmobile • Motorcycle 

Small Engine • Parts & Accessories 

Gear & Clothing 

authorized dealer 

10–1212 Alpha Lake Rd 

Function Junction, Whistler 

604 905 7733 


Open Monday to Saturday // Like us on Facebook 

DIRTBIKES 

Authorized 

Arctic Cat ATV Dealer. 

Echo Power Products 

Sales & Service Centre 

We service ALL MAKES AND 

MODELS: Dirt Bikes, Trials 

Bikes, Street Bikes, ATVs, Side 

by sides, Chainsaws, Blowers, 

Trimmers, Lawnmowers, BOATS 

and more! 

OPEN TUESDAY - SATURDAY 

8:30am - 5:30pm 

1954 Highway 99. Across from the 

Industrial Park in Pemberton 

Ph. 604-894-6840 

www.route99motorsports.com 

MARKETPLACE 

BICYCLES 

GIRL’S BIKE 4-7 YEARS 

Geared girl’s bike to suit 4-7 year old 

girl. Light use. Good condition with a 

few scuffs. Turquoise colour. No 

suspension. $20 OBO 604-902-0256 

Greg.banner@btinternet.com 

15" ROCKY MOUNTAIN FUSION 

2 years old, Front fork - Rock Shox Dart 

2, Good for beginners & commuters, 

$250. kathrynmarsh@outlook.com 

MARKETPLACE 

BAYSHORES VILLAGE 

WHISTLER CARS FURNITURE 

BRAND NEW MATTRESSES! 

OPEN DAILY FREE DELIVERY 

Bed Frames just $50 

Single from $129.99 

Double from $219.99 

Queen from $249.99 

King from $599.99 

Futon Sofa from $299.99 

New Location in Function Junction 

2-1020 Miller Creek Rd. 

Open 1-5:30 Mon-Sat 

604-938-4285 

GARAGE SALES (WHISTLER) 

MULTI-FAMILY GARAGE SALE 

8119 McKeevers Pl (19 Mile Creek, 

Alpine), Saturday August 25, 9:00 

AM - 11:00 AM. Rain or Shine. 

GARAGE SALE - WHISTLER 

SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY! 

8182 Meadow Lane, Alpine Meadows, 

Whistler. Saturday August 25, 10:00 AM 

- 2:00 PM & Sunday August 26 (as long 

as it’s not raining) 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. 

WHISTLER CAY, GARAGE SALE 

6545 Balsam Way, Whistler, Saturday 

August 25, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. 

EVERYTHING MUST GO! CHEAP! 

Furniture, Sporting, Household. Rain or 

Shine 

WHISTLER CAY, MOVING SALE 

6737 Crabapple Drive, Sat. 25Aug, 8AM 

-1PM. Rain/Shine. Leaving the countryeverything 

needs to sell! Full 

kitchenware, 3seater & foldout coaches, 

HD TV w/stand, stereo, 2queen beds, 

clothing, outdoor furn, bbq, vintage 

cruiser bike, ice skates & more-even 

some give aways! Contact if you would 

like to view in advance. 604-388-8142 

GARAGE SALES (PEMBERTON) 

COTTONWOOD COURT, GARAGE 

SALE 

#28 - 7408 Cottonwood St. Sunday 

August 26, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Infant 

Girl clothing/items, infant/toddler toys, 

Handmade craft/accessory items, 

Clothing, household items 

DOWNTOWN, MOVING SALE 

7471 FRONTIER ST, PEMBERTON, 

Saturday August 25, 10:00 AM - 2:00 

PM. . 

SERVICES 

RIDE SHARE 

Looking for ride share from Pemberton to 

Whistler Monday-Friday at 1pm, Whistler 

to Pemberton 11pm. Call 604-894-1594 

FINANCIAL SERVICES 

BOOKKEEPING SERVICES 

Quickbooks pro-advisor, full cycle 

services, payroll, set-up, maintenance. 

604-932-1113 lisadanlep@yahoo.ca 

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS 

Decks, decks, decks, ProDeck. Let 

us build you a dream, repairs, new, 

maintenance, windows, Visa/MC/Amex 

accepted. To get a quote call 604-905-9053 



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SERVICES SERVICES 

SERVICES SERVICES SERVICES 

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS BUILDING & RENOVATIONS 

PAINTING & DRYWALL FLOORING & TILE CLEANING SERVICES 

FOR ALL YOUR 

RE-MODELLING NEEDS 

big/small, indoor/out. 

CHECK US OUT: 

cubconstruction.com 

604-905-5350 

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL 

CARPENTRY RENOVATIONS 

GENERAL CONTRACTING 

• Design 

• Finishing 

• Framing 

• Kitchens 

• Bathrooms 

• Hardwood 

Floors 

• Tiles 

• Decks 

• Custom 

Cabinetry 

• Millwork 

Matthew Goodwin 604-906-0717 

dungoodconstruction@gmail.com 

www.dungood.ca. 

MOVING & STORAGE 

Quality, fast, affordable, no-mess painting 

Specializing in Log Home Restoration 

Post & Beam Restoration 

Interior/Exterior Painting 

New Construction, Commercial, 

Residential 

Sun Decks & Pressure Washing 

No job too big or too small 

3 Years Guarantee on 

workmanship 

Free estimates 

WWW.DIAMONDPAINTING.CA 

604 906 3001 

SHAW 

CARPET & FLOOR CENTRE 

Family owned & operated 

Open Monday through 

Friday 8:30 - 4:30 

Saturday 10:00 -4:00 

Sundays and Evenings 

by appointment only. 

3-1365 Alpha Lake Road 

Whistler, B.C, V0N1B1 

Phone 604-938-1126 

email shawcarpet@shaw.ca 

MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS 

Gold Medal 

cleaning 

Servicing Sea to Sky 

Locally Owned & Operated 

CARPETS CLEANED 

FROM $30 A ROOM. 

NOW OFFERING SHORT TERM PROPERTY 

MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE - 

SPECIALISING IN OWNER DIRECT CLIENTS 

WANTING BETTER RETURNS AND PERSONAL 

SERVICE. PROVEN TRACK RECORD FOR 

+6YRS IN WHISTLER MARKET. 

Friend 

us on: 

CALL TOLL FREE 

1 877 892 8987 

goldmedalcleaning@shaw.ca 

FIREPLACES & STONEWALLS 

Real Rock • Basalt 

Slate • Bricks 

Squamish m Pemberton m Whistler 

ALEXEY 

604-892-4053 

alexeyche@yahoo.ca 

15 Years local experience. 

Small or Large Renovations 

New Home Construction 

Kitchens & Bathrooms 

Tiling & Hardwood Flooring 

Custom Furniture 

- FINE HOME QUALITY - 

References Available Upon Request 

604-935-2347 

info@macdougallconstruction.com 

www.macdougallconstruction.com 

(604) 902-0815 

Build, Maintain and Restore 

WWW.JSTLCONSTRUCTIONLTD.CA 

SALES : RENTALS : SPACE 

BRAND NEW WATERPROOF 

CONTAINERS 

20’ x 10’ x 10’ from $300/mo 

40’ x 10’ x 10’ from $550/mo 

VEHICLE IMPOUND YARD 

From $5 day 

24 hour access available 

604 966 6308 

whistlersecuredstorage@hotmail.com 

SIZES RANGE FROM 

40 TO 240 SQ. FT. 

DRIVE TO ALL UNITS 24/7 

RESIDENTIAL AND 

BUSINESS STORAGE 

Call Julie for prices or go to 

www.mountainviewstorage.ca 

604-894-6995 

WHISTLER ALL 

TIME MOVING 

big or small we do it all! 

storage containers available 

Call Alex 604-907-2780 

whistleralltimemoving@gmail.com 

WHISTLER 

MOVES 

Moving & Storage 

> Whistler > Squamish 

> Pemberton 

> > 

604 907 3221 

WHISTLERMOVES.ca 

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING 

Fully Licensed & Insured 

Excellent Service, Pride in our 

Work & Attention to Detail 

FREE QUOTE 

604-966-7911 

info@altalakepainting.com 

www.altalakepainting.com 

GARDENING & LANDSCAPING 

SPRING 

CLEAN UP 

Paving Stone Driveways 

Landscape Management 

Design & Installation 

call for a free estimate 

604 905 4424 

info@gardenersyard.com 

www.gardenersyard.com 

SALE | SERVICE | REPAIR 

All brands of Power Equipment 

authorized dealer 

Fair Pricing I Reliable Service I Quick Delivery 

Open Monday to Saturday 

10–1212 Alpha Lake Rd , Function Junction 

604 905 7733 


HIGH COUNTRY 

APPLIANCES 

SALES & SERVICE 

NEW SALES 

• Service to most makes & models 

604-932-3535 

Servicing Whistler & 

Pemberton since 1987 

PEST CONTROL 

Critter Get Ritter 

Serving West Vancouver to Lillooet 

2 HOUR 

RESPONSE 

24/7/365 

Free 

Pest Control 

Inspection with 

every chimney 

sweep 

“Sustainable Pest 

Wildlife Control 

Focused on 

YOUR Environment” 

*Working towards 

carbon neutrality! 

Whistler 604.902.7417 

Squamish 604.849.5416 

Vancouver 604.364.7417 

tristan@crittergetritter.com 

crittergetritter.com 

READY FOR YOUR SPRING CLEAN 

> MOVE IN - MOVE OUT 

> WINDOW WASHING 

> CARPET CLEANING 

> FREE ESTIMATES 

604 902 3573 

powderfreshcleaning@hotmail.com 

Dirty Doggy? 

Drop by the shelter 

and give your dog a 

bath in one of WAG’S 

do-it-yourself waist 

level tubs. Each bath 

is by $15 donation 

to WAG. Please call 

ahead to book a time. 

www.whistlerwag.com 

WASTE REMOVAL 

GOT GARBAGE? 

WE’LL TAKE IT! 

call today for an 

appointment 

Whistler Garbage 

Pick-up 

604-698-5202 



SERVICES 

Altitude 

Computers 

PC SALES AND SERVICE 

In shop service as well as on site 

service for home and businesses. 

Full Service Retail Store 

Virus and spyware removal 

Data Recovery 

Networking and wireless Set up 

Upgrades and backup solutions 

LOCALS PROGRAM 

$$ SAVE $$ 

604-905-3426 

info@altitudecomputers.ca 

SPA SERVICES 

1062 Millar Creek Rd Function Junction 

Waxing 

Brazilian $40 

THE 

Bikini $20 

COMPUTER Under Arm $15 

Full Leg $45 

DOCTOR 

...MAKES HOUSE CALLS Massage (60min) 

CAN TEACH YOU ON PC & MAC: Swedish $60 

• VIRUS REMOVAL 

Deep Tissue $70 

• Photoshop 

Aromatherapy $70 

• Web Design 

Hot Stone Massage $80 

• Blogging 

• System trouble-shooting 

Spa Services 

Call for a FREE consultation! Mini Manicure (30min) $30 

Mini Pedicure (30min) $35 

604.932.8819 Spa Manicure (45min) $40 

Spa pedicure (45min) $48 

PHOTOGRAPHERS 

Add OPI Shellac / Gel $10 

Express Facial (30min) $38 

Deluxe Facial (60min) $65 

Eminence Signature 

Facial (75min) $89 

ÉMINENCE 

ORGANIC SKIN CARE 

604.938.1800 

WHISTLERHIDDENSPA.COM 

UPPER VILLAGE - GLACIER LODGE 

Alpine Esthetics 

Alpine Meadows, Whistler 

Jennifer Lynn Tarbet, CCP 

Licensed Esthetician & 

Certified Massage Practitioner 

SALON & SPA 

facebook.com/AlpineEsthetics 

www.alpineesthetics.com 

Same day appointments available 

Reward 

604-938-3562 

yourself. 

Polished Esthetics 

Enjoy every day 

Angela Dallago Certified Esthetician 

a home based licensed salon 

locals’ discounts: 

get polished, be polished, stay polished! 

30% OFF All Treatments * 

15% OFF All Products * 

* Must mention at time of booking. Must 

be a resident of the sea to sky area 

to receive discount. Special cannot be 

used in conjunction with any other offers. 

Some restrictions / blackout dates may 

apply. Subject to taxes & gratuity. 

SERVICES 

7 DAYS A WEEK - ALL YEAR - ANY SEASON 

**Get your Locals Program 

Membership Card** 

MANICURES & PEDICURES 

HAIR REMOVAL • TINTING • MASSAGE 

ALL WAXING 

30 % 

OFF 

NOW DOING OPI GELCOLOR 

NAILS. ADD TO YOUR 

MANICURE OR PEDICURE 

FOR AN EXTRA 10$ 

604 907 1272 

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NO SULPHATES. 

NO PARABENS. 

ORGANIC 

Your favourite 

Permanent 

Hair 

Straightener 

is back! 

THE V.I.P LOUNGE 

HAIR, FACE & NAILS 

ETHICAL 

PRICING 

AND 

PRODUCTS 

SELF LOVE 

TEXT OR CALL 

(604 905 8347) 

Looking for 

Michael 

Faiella? 

Cuts, colors, foils & 

updo's. Specializing in 

makeovers, weddings 

& special events. 

CALL OR TEXT 

604-698-7821 


THIS TOWN 

WITHOUT IT! 

Available 

everywhere 

and it’s free! 

SERVICES 

COMPUTER & INTERNET SERVICES SALON & SPA 

SALON & SPA CHIROPRACTIC & PHYSICAL THERAPY CHIROPRACTIC & PHYSICAL THERAPY 

Same day appointments available 

MARTIAL ARTS 

Being Awesome Takes Practice! 

Whistler’s newest facility for 

martial arts, group fitness and 

healing arts. 

OPENING 

SEP. 4TH 

KISHINDO MARTIAL ARTS 

» Kids ages 6+ 

» Lil’ Bonsai ages 4+5 

» Kobudo/Weapons 

» Kickboxing N/C 

» Tai Chi/ Qi Gong 

CAPOEIRA ACHE BRASIL 

» Kids and Adults 

» Intro/Beginner 

» Level 1+2 

» Acrobatics 

» Music/Roda Skills 

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU 

» Gracie Barra Fundamentals 

BELLYFIT 

» Ladies only 

YOGA 

» Vinyasa/Flow 

» Yin 

» Warm (not hot) 

» Broga (guys only) 

» Partner stretch 

DROP IN OPEN FLOOR/MAT 

» Breakdance 

» MMA 

» Music 

After School 

Pick Up Van 

for Kids! 

Healing Arts • Creative Arts 

Musical Arts • Fine Arts 

Best Studio Rental Rates 

Available for all kinds of user groups! 

Two studios in 2,700 Sq. Ft. 

Open every day 6am to Midnight 

PROFESSIONAL ENSUITE SERVICES 

SUMMER SPECIALS 

ALL WEEK LONG! 

Acute and Chronic Injuries 

Try Acupuncture and Herbs 

Fruv Flow Team Member Nicole Lohse 

• Acupuncture 

• Shiatsu 

• Refl exology 

• Thai Massage 

• Acupressure 

• Aromatherapy 

• Herbal Cures • Tui Na Massage 

locals specials available & 

extended medical accepted 

(604)-905-9468 

Michelle Kaminski, R. Dr. TCM 

Registered Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine 

www.my-healing-hands.com 

WHISTLER’S 

BEST 

MASSAGE 

THERAPY 

Deep Tissue 

Relaxation 

Aromatherapy 

At your location or ours. 

604 935 9388 

YOGA & PILATES 

Designed Locally 

Made in Vancouver 

Owned by a 

Whistler Madman 

Yogawear for 

Everywhere 

604.935.3444 whistlerspa.com 


Located in Function next to Wild Wood 

Cafe #2-1085 Millar Creek Rd. 

awesomeartsacademy.com 

932-AAA6 (2226) or 966-8118 

In Marketplace next 

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MONDAY 

9:00-10:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

6:30-8:00pm 

8:15-9:15pm 

TUESDAY 

9:00-10:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

6:30-8:00pm 

8:15-9:15pm 

WEDNESDAY 

9:00-10:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

6:30-8:00pm 

8:15-9:15pm 

THURSDAY 

9:00-10:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

FRIDAY 

9:00-10:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

SATURDAY 

10:00-11:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

SUNDAY 

10:00-11:30am 

12:15-1:15pm 

5:00-6:15pm 

YHot 

Flow 

YHot 

Power 

Yin 

YHot 

Flow 

YHot 

Power 

Yin 

YHot Expand 

Flow 

YHot 

Power 

Yin 

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Flow 

YHot 

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Flow 

YHot 

YHot 

Flow 

YHot 

YHot 

Foundation Flow 

YHot 

Blissology 

with 

Eoin Finn 

September 10 - 14, 2012 

Visit yyoga.ca to register! 

604.935.9642 

5 x pass $65 . 10 x pass $120 

Month Unlimited $95 

Drop-in $15 . 2-week Trial $25 

New 3 Month Membership $270 

MONDAY 

9:30am Core Awareness 60 min. 

11am Vinyasa 75 min. 

5:30pm Foundation 75 min. 

7pm Yin 75 min. 

TUESDAY 

9:30am Heavenly Hip 75 min. 

5:30pm Yoga Dynamics 75 min. 

7pm Power Core 60 min. 

WEDNESDAY 

9:30am Hatha 75 min. 

11am Power Flow* 60 min. 

5:30pm Vinyasa 75 min. 

7pm Yin 90 min. 

THURSDAY 

8am Hatha Flow 60 min. 

11am Yoga Dynamics* 75 min. 

5:30pm Vinyasa 60 min. 

FRIDAY 

9:30am Hatha Raja 75 min. 

5:30pm Hatha Flow 60 min. 

SATURDAY 

9am Happy Hearts 75 min. 

11am Hatha Flow* 60 min. 

7pm Hatha Yin 75 min. 

SUNDAY 

9am Yang Yin 90 min. 

7pm Hatha Flow 60 min. 

* KARMA CLASSES - min donation 

$5 for non-members, $1 for members 

2131 Lake Placid Road 

(2nd floor above the train station) 

604-966-5715 

#3-40383 Tantalus Rd, Squamish 

www.shalayoga.ca 

604-567-6000 

SUMMER 2012 

MONDAY 

6:30-7:30am Morning Yoga Josee 

9:00-10:30am Yin Yang Vinyasa Christine 

12:00-1:00pm Flow Jen 

6:00-7:15pm Flow Crystal 

7:30-8:30pm Meditation By Donation Josee 

TUESDAY 

6:30-7:30am Morning Yoga Jen 

9:15-10:30am Flow Jen 

12:00-1:00pm Hatha Josee 

5:30-6:45pm Flow Kristin/Crystal 

7:00-8:30pm Yin Yang Kristin/Crystal 

WEDNESDAY 

6:30-7:30am Morning Yoga Tara 

9:00-10:30am Forrest Yoga Charles 

11:00-12:15pm Yin/Restorative Josee 

5:30-6:45pm Yoga For Core Awareness Jodi 

7:00-8:30pm Yin Josee 

THURSDAY 

6:30-7:30am Morning Yoga Jodi 

9:30-11:00am Hatha Jodi 

12:00-1:00pm Flow Jodi 

5:30-6:45pm Flow Kristin/Crystal 

7:00-8:30pm Hatha Kristin/Crystal 

FRIDAY 

6:30-7:30am Morning Yoga Charles 

9:15-10:30am Forrest Yoga Charles 

12:00-1:00pm Hatha Josee 

5:00-6:30pm Hatha, Yin Influenced Josee 

SATURDAY 

7:30-8:30am Morning Yoga Yvonne 

9:00-10:30am Hatha, Yin Influenced Yvonne 

SUNDAY 

8:30-9:30am Morning Yoga Yvonne 

10:00-11:30am Integrating Yoga Therapy Amie 

7:00-8:30pm Yin Josee 

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ARTS & CULTURE 

Whistler Chorus Rehearsals - 

Thursdays 3:30 to 5:30 pm, Whistler 

Secondary School Music Room. www. 

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Whistler Singers Rehearsals - 

Everyone welcome. Thursdays from 7-9 

pm, Whistler Secondary School. For 

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Whistler Singers - Everyone is welcome. 

Rehearsals are every Thursday 7 - 9 

p.m. at Whistler Secondary School. For 

more info, contact Alison 604-932-2979 / 

harphunter@telus.net. 

Sea to Sky Singers - Rehearsals begin 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 & meet 

every Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. at St. 

John’s Anglican Church on Diamond 

Rd. Contact Veronica McPhee at 

dvmcphee@shaw.ca. 

Pemberton Arts Council - Connect 

with other artists, writers, artisans, 

musicians & help make Pemberton 

a vibrant arts community. Visit www. 

pembertonartscouncil.com or call 604- 

452-0123. 

Whistler Arts Council - Full arts & culture 

listings. Comprehensive artist directory & 

programs, events & performances yearround. 

For info call 604-935-8410 or visit 

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Whistler Community Band - Meets 

every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

at Whistler Secondary School. All ages & 

ability levels. Call Jen at 604-967-1987. 

Pemberton Community Choir- Sparkle 

Choir (Grades 1-3) rehearse every 

Wed from 12:30-12:55pm at Signal 

Hill Elementary School. Pembertunes 

(Grades 4-7) rehearse every Tues from 

3:30-5pm at St. David’s United Church. 

Call Helen Pearson 604-894-1520 

CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS 

Whistler Community Services Society, 

offering over 27 programs and services 

to Whistler residents in need. Donations 

and volunteers welcome. admin@ 

mywcss.org or 604-932-0113 

Whistler Health Care Foundation - The 

Foundation raises funds & awareness in 

support of capital equipment, facilities & 

services for the health of the community 

of Whistler & the Sea to Sky Corridor. For 

info on how you can contribute, contact 

us at info@whistlerhealthcarefoundation. 

org, go to our website at www. 

whistlerhealthcarefoundation.org or call 

604-932-4911 

Zero Ceiling Society - Delivers adventurebased 

learning for disadvantaged and 

at-risk youth. Donations and volunteers 

welcome. Call Kasi at 604-935-7963 or 

visit www.zeroceiling.org. 

Coats for Kids - Winter coats for children 

of all ages can be dropped off at Dual 

Mountain Drycleaners, both locations. 

Contact 604-932-0113 or 604-935-7500. 

American Friends of Whistler - 

Americans with ties to Whistler raise & 

distribute funds to enhance the community. 

For more info visit www.afow.org. 

SPORTS & RECREATION 

Whistler Roller Girls Society - Whistler’s 

roller derby league is recruiting; players, 

offi cials & referees. For more info contact 

whistlerrollergirls@gmail.com 

Pemberton Valley Trails Association 

- Meets the second Wednesday of 

each month at 7 p.m. at the Pemberton 

Recreation Centre. Call 604-894-6402. 

Pemberton Valley Snowmobile Club 

- Regular monthly meetings the first 

Thursday of each month October thru 

April. BCSF/Rutherford trail passes 

& liability insurance available for 

purchase. 7 p.m. at the Pemberton 

Community Center. 604-894-1155 or 

pembertonvalleysnowmobile@gmail.com. 

Whistler Martial Arts Centre - Offers 

Kishindo Lil’ Bonsai for kids age 4 & up. 

Adults age 16 & up in Kenjutsu (sword), 

Capoeira Ache Brasil & Bellyfi t. Call Cole 

Manson Sensei at 604-966-8118. 

Alpine Club of Canada, Whistler 

Section - Outdoor club focused 

on mountaineering, ski touring, 

climbing & hiking. Trip schedule www. 

alpineclubofcanada.ca/sections/whistler. 

html. Call 604-902-1772 for details. 

Whistler Adaptive Sports Program - 

Provides sports & recreation experiences 

for people with disabilities. Call Chelsey 

Walker at 604-935-9406 or email info@ 

whistleradaptive.com. 

Whistler Sailing Association - Come 

along, learn (lots of courses) and enjoy 

sailing with us at 5678 Alta Lake Rd (old 

hostel). All abilities, ages and families 

welcome. Contact Patrick at 604 932 

7782. www.whistlersailing.com 

YOGA AT HI-WHISTLER 

New Yoga Schedule at HI-Whistler! 

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YOUTH GROUPS & ACTIVITIES 

Whistler Scouts - Outdoor & adventure 

programs for boys & girls. Beavers 

(5-7 yrs), Cubs (8-10 yrs), Scouts (11- 

13 yrs), Leadership (18+ with police 

check) Meeting every Monday 6:30 pm 

at Myrtle Philip. Kym 604-907-2580 or 

1stwhistlerscoutgroup.webs.com. 

Mountains for Children - Open gym at 

Spring Creek School Wednesdays 3-5 

p.m. when school is in session for kids 

0-6. Toddler cars, parachute games, mini 

basketball, hoola hoops, bowling & more! 

Whistler Children’s Chorus Rehearsal 

- Tuesdays Junior Choir 3-4 pm, 

Intermediate choir 4 to 5 pm at Spring 

Creek Community School. www. 

whistlerchorus.org 

The Whistler Youth Centre - located in 

the basement of Millennium Place is open 

Fridays 3:30-11pm & Saturdays 6-10pm 

PLUS Free yoga Wed nights 5-6pm. For 

anyone 13-18. Come skate the mini ramp 

& box. Play some pool or ping-pong. 

Internet & video games galore. Friday 

night $3/dinners. Come hang out! For 

more info Facebook The Whistler Youth 

Centre or call 604-935-8187 

Griffin Squadron Squamish Air Cadets 

- Open to youth aged 12 to 18 at Don 

Ross Secondary School on Tuesdays at 

6:30 pm. 

WCSS Youth Outreach Workers - 

Provides free, confi dential support to 

youths & young adults. Call Claire 604- 

902-0670 or Davin 604-938-3902. 

Balsam Street Daycare - A fun, creative, 

active and positive atmosphere run by a 

stay-at-home mother. Call Kristi at 604- 

894-5992. 

LEISURE GROUPS 

Group Meditation - Meditate with a 

group on Thurs evenings, all kinds 

of meditation welcome. Thursdays at 

8:30pm, The Oracle at Whistler 

Knitty Gritty Knit Night - Held every 

Tuesday from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at Gone 

Village Eatery. This is a free evening 

open to everyone with a love for knitting 

& crocheting. Beginners welcome. For 

further details contact knittygrittywhistler@ 

gmail.com or find us on facebook. 

Pemberton Women’s Institute - Meets 

the third Monday of each month at 

the activity room at St. David’s United 

Church at 7:30 p.m. New members 

welcome. Contact Linda Ronayne at 604- 

894-6580. 

Whistler Reads - The Whistler Village 

book group meets to discuss a new book 

every eight weeks. Go to bookbuffet.com 

& click on Whistler Reads for the latest 

book/event. Contact Paula at 604-907- 

2804 or wr@bookbuffet.com. 

Rotary Club of Whistler - Meets 

Tuesdays, 7:15 a.m., at the Wildwood 

Pacifi c Bistro on Northlands Blvd. 

Duplicate Bridge Club - As of Jan.18 

& each subsequent Wed. the Whistler 

Duplicate Bridge Club will meet at 

Millennium Place at 1:15 p.m. game 

promptly at 1:30. Visitors welcome, for 

a partner pls call Gill 604-932-5791 or 

Annette 604-932-5914 

Whistler Valley Quilters’ Guild - The 

guild meets the fi rst and third Tuesday, 

Sept - May at 7 p.m. in the multipurpose 

room at Millennium Place. Visitors & 

new members welcome. For info email 

whistlerquiltguild@gmail.com or 604- 

938-1063 www.whistlerquilters.com 

Whistler Lions Club - The club meets on 

the first Tuesday of each month. Everyone 

welcome. Call Ed at 604-938-9848. 

Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium - The 

Club holds meetings every week, Thursdays 

at 12:15 p.m. at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 

COMMUNITY CENTRES 

Millennium Place - Whistler’s community 

centre for arts, culture & inspiration. 

Performance theatre, art gallery, daycare, 

youth centre, meditation room, meeting 

facilities. Visit www.artswhistler.com or 

call 604-935-8410. 

The Whistler Blackcomb Foundation 

Social Services Centre, 1519 Spring 

Creek Drive. Features programs and 

services from Whistler Community Services 

Society, The Howe Sound Women’s Centre, 

Sea to Sky Community Services and Zero 

Ceiling. Open Monday-Friday. Contact 

each non-profit for specific programming. 

MUSEUMS 

Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre- 

Explore First Nations Art Galleries, 

Interactive Exhibits, Gift Shop and Café. 

Open Daily 9:30 am – 5:00pm 

Whistler Museum and Archives 

Society - Explore interactive exhibits, 

listen to local stories & discover Whistler’s 

journey. Open daily 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Go 

to www.whistlermuseum.org or call 604- 

932-2019, 4333 Main Street. 

Pemberton and District Museum and 

Archives Society. Located at 7455 

Prospect St. Society meets every 2nd 

Wed. of the month at the museum. 

Museum open: May to Sept annually 

from 10am – 5pm. 604-894-5504. 

Closed Sundays until August. For more 

info: www.pembertonmuseum.org 

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING 

Mountain Spirit Toastmasters - 

Meet Wednesdays at the Pan Pacific 

Mountainside - Singing Pass Room, 5:30- 

7pm. Email andreajlrobson@gmail.com. 

Women of Whistler - Group that provides 

opportunities for Whistler businesswomen 

to network, gain knowledge & share 

ideas in a friendly, relaxed environment. 

Learn about upcoming events at www. 

womenofwhistler.com. 

Whistler Chamber of Commerce - 

Established in 1966 & instrumental to the 

establishment of the Resort Municipality 

of Whistler, the Whistler Chamber of 

Commerce is the leading business 

association in Whistler that works to 

create a vibrant and successful economy. 

Learn more about the Whistler Chamber 

of Commerce’s programs and services at 

www.whistlerchamber.com 

Mature Action Committee (MAC) 

- Reviews potential opportunities for 

activity services in Whistler that will not 

only enable seniors to age in place, but 

also enhance senior’s lifestyle choices. 

Visit www.whistlermac or e-mail info@ 

whistlermac.org. 

Senior Citizen Organizations - The 

Council of Senior Citizens Organizations 

(COSCO) is an advocacy group devoted 

to improving the quality of life for all 

seniors. Contact Ernie Bayer at 604-576- 

9734 or ecbayer@shaw.ca. 

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY 

Regional Recycling - Whistler Hours 

for bottle drop-off are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 

Nesters Rd. Deposit-refunds available. 

Commercial loads by appt. Call 604-932- 

3733. 

Healthy Home, Healthy Planet -Stop 

using chemicals & green cleaning. Expert 

in green cleaning offers tricks, information 

& advice on the best way to green clean 

your home or work space! Call France 

604-698-7479. Free private presentation 

on request. www.healthylivingwhistler.com 

Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & 

support to people who are interested in 

making healthier, greener, more peaceful 

food choices. earthsave.ca/eswhistler. 

Council of Canadians - The Whistler 

chapter invites locals to engage in 

discussions of social justice, water issues 

and international trade. Contact Pina at 

pbelperio@gmail.com. 

WCSS Re-Use-It Centre - Open daily, 

11 a.m.- 6 p.m. at the recycling depot in 

Function Junction. Call 604-932-1121. 

AWARE - Non-profi t dedicated to 

preserving the environment. Regular 

meetings & vollie opportunities. Visit 

www.awarewhistler.org email info@ 

awarewhistler.org Facebook AWARE 

Whistler. 

FAMILY SERVICES 

Pemberton Parent Tot Drop-In - Mon, 

Wed and Thurs, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Call 

604-894-6101. 

Kidsport Whistler - Financial assistance 

is provided to local fi nancially restricted 

families so “all kids can play.” For info 

call 604-905-9393 or 604-938-3133, ext. 

350 or 604-932-0113. For Pemberton call 

604-894-5979. 

Big Brothers, Big Sisters - Call 604- 

938-9299 if you would like to make a 

difference in a child’s life. 

WCSS Parent Infant Drop-In - Provides 

social support &information to new 

moms. Meet on Thursdays 11 a.m. to 1 

p.m. at the Whistler Public Library. 

Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In - 

Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public 

Health Nurse. Every Monday 11-12:30 at 

Pemberton Public Library. 

Whistler Public Library - Open from 

11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through 

Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 

Saturday. Closed Sundays. Tot Words & 

Music at 11 a.m. on Mondays. Toddler 

rhyme & song, 11 a.m. on Tuesdays. 

Drop-In toddler story time at 11 a.m. on 

Fridays. Parent infant drop-in 11 a.m. on 

Thursdays. Singing with the babies at 11 

a.m. on Saturdays. For more info, call 

604-935-8433. 

Baby/Child Health Clinics - Free routine 

immunizations & newly licensed vaccines 

for purchase, growth and development 

assessments & plenty of age appropriate 

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SOCIAL SERVICES 

Children Who Witness Abuse 

Counselling - Free support service for 

parents & youth ages 3 to 18 who have 

been exposed to abuse. For more info 

call Lindsay at 604-935-8534. 

ESL Settlement Assistance Program 

- Free ESL groups & tutoring for new 

immigrants & Canadian citizens. Carole 

Stretch 604-698-7226 or cstretch@ 

capilanou.ca 

Whistler Mental Health and Addiction 

Services – If you or someone you know 

needs help with a mental health issue or 

substance misuse or addiction problem, 

we can assist Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m. Call 604-698-6455. 

Whistler Emergency Social Services 

– ESS provides short-term assistance to 

Whistler residents during emergencies. 

For more info or to join please contact 

Erin Marriner, ESS Coordinator at 604- 

967-2153 or emarriner@whistler.ca 

Healthy Pregnancy Outreach Program 

- Learn how to prepare healthy affordable 

meals at this outreach program. Call Sea 

to Sky Community Services Society at 

604-894-6101. 

Whistler Housing Authority - Long-term 

rental & ownership housing for Whistler 

residents. Visit www.whistlerhousing.ca. 

The Alzheimer Society of B.C.’s 

Whistler Caregiver Support Group has a 

new location. On the 1st Tuesday of each 

month from 7pm-8:30pm at the Whistler 

Health Care Centre, 4380 Lorimer Road, 

Whistler, B.C. For more info pls call 

1-866-984-8348 or email ksutherland@ 

alzheimerbc.org. 

Pearl’s Safe Home - Temporary shelter 

for women & children experiencing abuse 

in relationships. Locations in Whistler & 

Pemberton available 24/7. All services 

are free. Call 1-877-890-5711 or 604- 

892-5711. 

Safe Healthy Sexuality Clinic - 

Professional sexual health services at a 

reduced cost. Free HIV testing. Clinics 

held at the Whistler Health Care Centre, 

second fl oor on Tuesday 4:30-7:30 p.m. 

Confi dentiality assured. 

WCSS Helping Hand - Volunteers give 

rides to doctor appointments, help with 

groceries, cook meals, or tidy up. Melissa 

at 604-902-0865 or helpinghand@ 

mywcss.org. 

Support Counselling - For women 

regarding abuse and relationship issues. 

Call 604-894-6101, no charge. 

Victim Services - Assists victims, 

witnesses, family members or friends 

directly affected by any criminal act or 

traumatic event. Call 604-905-1969. 

NSSS - Services for family, friends & 

community-Mental illness information, 

support & advocacy. Locally, call 

Christine at 604-849-2252 or 604-932- 

7543 

Whistler for the Disabled - Provides 

access to information for people with 

disabilities on what to do & where to go. 

For info visit www.whistlerforthedisabled. 

com. 

Whistler Community Services - 

Non-profi t society that supports social 

sustainability in Whistler with programs 

to assist community members. Contact 

604-932-0113 or www.mywcss.org. 

FUR & FEATHERS 

Get Bear Smart Society - Learn more 

about coexisting with bears. Call 604- 

905-4209 or www.bearsmart.com. 

FUR & FEATHERS 

WHISTLER ANIMALS GALORE– 

Shelter for lost, unwanted & homeless 

animals. Volunteer dog walking or animal 

visits daily between 1pm-4pm. For more 

information call – 604-935-8364, visit 


Pemberton Wildlife Association - 

Focuses on conservation of all fi sh & 

wildlife species & operates a certifi ed 

shooting range. For more info call 604- 

894-5730. 

RIDE SHARE 

Rides to and from Whistler - Seats 

available in carpool service between 

Squamish & Whistler. Call 1-888-593- 

7433 or www.ride-share.com. 

SUPPORT GROUPS 

Dementia Caregiver Support Group 

- The Whistler Dementia Caregiver 

Support Group meets the 1st Tuesday 

every month at 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 

For more information contact Kerri at 

1-866-984-8348 or e-mail ksutherland@ 

alzheimerbc.org. 

Epilepsy Support Group – Individuals 

or families seeking guidance or support 

may contact eswhistler@gmail.com 

AL-ANON MEETINGS - Wednesday 

evenings at the Medical Centre 8 p.m., 

Room 15, upstairs. 604-935-1229 

Osteoporosis Support Group - Would 

you like to become part of a support 

group to deal with osteoporosis? Call 

Morgan at 604-935-1947 or e-mail 

morganj@telus.net. 

Narcotics Anonymous Meetings - A nonprofit 

fellowship based on the twelve-step 

recovery model. Two meetings/week at the 

Whistler Health Care Centre, room 15. For 

more information call 604-815-4085. 

RELIGION 

Gospel Christian Service - Jesus is 

Lord (JIL) full Gospel Christian church 

holds Sunday worship services at 

Millennium Place from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 

For prayer meetings and bible study and 

other details contact 604-902-8802. 

St. David’s United Church – 

Pemberton- Join us for worship at the 

“Church on the Hill” every Sunday at 10 

a.m. 604-894-6981 

Pemberton Christian Fellowship 

Church - Pastor Paul invites you to 

our Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. at 

the Pemberton Community Centre. 

For more info call 604.905.9404 www. 

pembertonchristian.com 

Church on the Mountain - Join a group 

who value: truth, life, and people on 

Sunday nights at 4:30 p.m. at Millennium 

Place. Preschool Sunday school also 

available. For info call 604-902-4111 or 

www.churchonthemountain.ca. 

Our Lady of the Mountains Roman 

Catholic Church - Join in for mass at 

5 p.m. Saturday at 9 a.m. Sunday at 11 

a.m. and Thursday at 7 p.m. in Mount 

Currie and at St. Francis of Assisi in 

Pemberton. Mass is at 12:30 p.m. on 

Sunday and Friday at 9 a.m. For info call 

604-905-4781. 

Whistler Muslim Services - Join in for 

Jumuaa Sallah every Friday at 12:30 

p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Whistler Creekside 

Lodge. For info call Br Yusuf: 604-907- 

0055 or go to www.whistlermuslims.com. 

Whistler Community Church - 

Evangelical Sunday services at 10 a.m. 

in the Myrtle Philip Community Centre, 

6195 Lorimer Rd. Sunday nursery care 

and classes for kids up to Grade 6. Call 

Tim at 604-932-3139 or go to www. 

whistlerchurch.ca. 

GENERAL NOTICES 

U.S. 

Exchange Rate 

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WHISTLER’S 

STORALL 

Silent Auction 

AUGUST 28 TO 30, 2012 

Location: 

Whistler’s Storall 

1216 Alpha Lake Rd 

Whistler, BC 

Bids accepted until 

7:00pm Aug. 30 

Bidder must take all contents 

of locker bid on. 

3 Units. Items include: 

piano, Christmas decorations, 

golf clubs, tools and 

miscellaneous items. 

LOST & FOUND 

LOST CAT IN WHISTLER - 

FLUFFY, WHITE WITH GREY FACE 

Polly is very loved, and very missed. 

She went missing Aug16 in Emerald 

-- but could be anywhere. She’s shy 

around strangers. If spotted, please 

call with location 778-227-6917. 

frominsideout@hotmail.com 

Found - iPhone on Khyber, 1st wk of 

Crankworx, text me at 604-967-3936 w/ 

lock code & I’ll give you your phone. 

LOST - Garmin GPS unit on Upper 

Babylon, Friday, 17Aug. Call 604-932- 

7902 

LOST - GoPro camera w/wifi backpack 

& attached to plastic plate, in Upper 

Babylon, Friday 17Aug. Reward is keep 

camera, just return SD card. Thanks. 

604-932-3936 

LOST - Bracelet, silver w/robin’s eye blue 

stones on band, turquoise, Sat 18Aug, 

somewhere in Gondola or VillageStroll, 

Reward. Email dweinman@q.com 

Lost - Men’s brown leather trim wallet, 

Mon 20Aug, cycling from Alta Vista to 

Whistler Ski School gondola, via West 

Side Rd. 604-906-1441 Leave message. 

JEEP KEYS FOUND 

Black jeep key & misc. keys on a ring. 

Found at Loggers Lake on Sunday 

Aug.19. call jamie@604-562-3372 

LOST BIKE LOCK 

Lost Bike Lock - Between White Gold 

and the Village on Thurs. Aug16th 604- 

698-9359 

Now accepting applications for 

Floor & Kitchen Staff 

experience a bene t, but not a 

requirement. Ideal candidates will be 

looking for long term employment & 

must be capable of working in a team 

environment & delivering outstanding 

customer service. 

Apply in person before 5pm with 

resume & references. 

email careers@mongoliegrill.com 

SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHING ASSISTANT 

Whistler Waldorf School is seeking a Special Needs 

Teaching Assistant to work in the classroom 30 hrs per 

week . The ideal candidate will have completed a Special 

Needs Assistant program or have experience working 

with children with special needs. 

Please send resume to info@whistlerwaldorf.com or fax to 

604-932-1876. Thank you to all applicants. Only those selected 

for an interview will be contacted. 

is currently looking for 

EXPERIENCED SERVERS 

EXPERIENCED COOKS 

KITCHEN STAFF 

HOSTS 

Drop resume into restaurant between 5-6 pm mon- thu. 

Three Below Restaurant 

100-4295 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC VON 1B4 

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LOST & FOUND 

FOUND, DIGITAL CAMERA 

Sunday after Crankworx on Highway 99 

between Lorimer and Village Gate 

r.crider@telus.net 

EDUCATION 

FIRST AID & SURVIVAL 

FIRST AID COURSES 

16 HOUR RED CROSS 

STANDARD FIRST AID 

Sept 19-20 


Aug 25-26 

Sept 24 (1 st day) & Sept 28 (2 nd day) 

RED CROSS EMERGENCY 

FIRST AID & CPR-C 

Aug 25, Sept 19, 24 & Nov 3, 17 

16 HOUR RED CROSS 


Nov 3-4, 17-18 

www.scandinave.com 

Scandinave Spa Whistler 

A Unique Outdoor Spa offering 

Relaxation in the heart of Nature 

is looking for: 

INDOOR & OUTDOOR NIGHT 

DUTY CLEANER 

This is a part time position for a positive, dynamic 

and meticulous team player, with previous 

experience. 

Duties include: 

• Cleaning the reception, reservation, locker 

rooms, washrooms, treatment rooms and ofces. 

• Cleaning the outdoor baths, sauna, steam bath 

and solariums 

• Working overnight from 12 am to 8 am 

Forward resume to: stevenb@scandinave.com 


 

Accounting Manager 

(Full - time, permanent position) 

 

reporting and full cycle bookkeeping and data entry, in addition to developing 

and maintaining accounting principles, practices and procedures to ensure 

 

 

 

Reporting to the ED, the Accounting Manager works closely with staff on 

budgeting and monitoring of programs, has contact with Board Members, 

auditors and Treasurer requiring strong interpersonal communication skills 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, August 31, 2012. 

Whistler Alpine Guides Bureau 

604.938.9242 

www.whistlerguides.com 

At Westin, you can learn, grow and succeed. Exceptional benets, 

training, and perks provide the basis for a renewing work experience. 

Current permanent full-time opportunities include: 

SPRING/SUMMER 

SPECIAL 

Worksafe BC First Aid 

Level 3 $459.00 

Level 3 Renewal $359.00 

Level 2 $359.00 

Level 1 $70.00 

Traffic Control Person 

Course $198.00 

Forklifting Course $168.00 

METRO SAFETY TRAINING 

#102 - 100 Braid Street 

New Westminster, BC, V3L 3P4 

P: (604) 521-4227 F: (604) 521- 4123 

You can now Register Students 

Online @ www.metrosafety.ca* 

C.C. Payment Required* 

Answers 

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Wide Open Welding is currently looking 

to fill the following positions: 

FABRICATOR /ERECTOR 

Please forward your resumes to 

contactus@wideopenwelding.com 

or fax it to 604.894.5024 

TLH Heliskiing Ltd./Tyax Wilderness Resort and Spa is a dynamic 

organization that prides itself on offering an exceptional wilderness 

experience to a wide range of international clientele. Located in the 

breathtaking Chilcotin mountain range, we offer unique employment 

opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts eager to share their passion for 

adventure with our guests. 

Applicants must be willing to relocate to our remote lodge and value 

 

 

Now hiring: 

 

ACCOUNTANT/BOOKKEEPER 

 

MASSAGE THERAPIST 

RESERVATIONS 

COORDINATOR GROUNDSKEEPER 

SERVERS 

CLEANER 

FRONT DESK AGENTS 

 

e: careers@tyax.com 

tyax.com 

tlhheliskiing.com 

Housekeeping 

Manager 

F&B Supervisor 

Host/Hostess 

Chef De Partie 

Cook 1 

Reservations Agent 

Apply now and submit your resume to: 

The Human Resources Department 

In Person: Monday to Friday 9am-4pm | By Fax: 604.935.4351 

or visit us at: www.westinwhistler.com and apply online 

Follow us on www.twitter.com/Westin_Whistler 

Like us on Facebook at Westin Whistler Employment 


Come and join our Organization! 

We are currently accepting applications for: 

Lifeguard/Swim Instructor (casual) 

Computer Systems Technician - Help Desk (term) 

Skate Host (casual) 

Program Leader Supervisor (casual) 

For full details on current openings 

and to apply please visit our 

website at www.whistler.ca/jobs 


Protect your pooch this summer! 

With increasing temperatures, it is far too dangerous 

for dogs to be left in vehicles. Heat stroke, coma and 

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EMPLOYMENT 


VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 

Volunteer Opportunities at WCSS Re- 

Use-It Center - Looking for enthusiastic 

committed volunteers please email 

resumes to reuseit@mywcss.org or 

contact the store 604-932-1121 for an 

interview. Store credit offered as a benefi t 

to volunteering. 

Special Olympics - If you are a fan of 

courage, if you admire determination & 

if you can’t help but share in the joy of 

victory, then you’re already a fan of Special 

Olympics. Why not make it official? Join 

the Special Olympics BC – Whistler 

Valley program as an athlete, coach or 

volunteer. New soccer & youth programs 

are set to start in spring, welcoming 

individuals w/intellectual disabilities from 

Whistler, Pemberton & Mount Currie. To 

get involved, contact SOBC – Whistler 

Valley Local Coordinator Karen Krivel 

at 604-938-0566 or Email karenkrivel@ 

hotmail.com 


Restaurant in the village is looking 

for a server. Experience required and 

German speaking an asset. Also require 

a dishwasher and kitchen helper. 

Please send resume with cover letter to 

seasonlikeachef@gmail.com 

WAG IS HIRING RECEPTION/ 

SHELTER ASSISTANT Outstanding 

individual required to help in the shelter 

part time. The ideal candidate must 

have a minimum 3 years experience 

providing customer service in a fast 

paced environment. An understanding of 

shelter procedures regarding infectious 

disease transmission and animal 

behaviour would be considered an asset. 

You will be providing direct care to WAG 

animals, conducting daily/weekly shelter 

cleaning duties and assisting with the 

daily operation of the shelter. Must enjoy 

working with a wide variety of people, 

interacting with the public and have basic 

computer literacy. Email resume and 

cover letter to wag@whistlerwag.com 

NEED WORK? START TODAY! Visit 

www.employmentunlimited.com & 

complete an online job application. 

Work f/t, p/t or wkends. Jobs avail 

daily. 604-905-7696 

Luigi Squeegee is looking for 

experienced & non-experienced window 

washers from now until Christmas & 

beyond, full time employment. Resumes 

to luigiSqueegeewindows@gmail.com 

Fully licensed & furnished restaurant 

for lease in The Pemberton Hotel in 

Pemberton, BC. Monthly rent plus triple 

net. Deposit required. Option to lease 

pub with restaurant available. Serious 

inquires only. For more information 

please contact Sohan Gill at 1-604-760- 

7610 or Rav Gill at 1-604-671-7174 

Roland’s Creekside Pub, Beer & Wine Store, and 

BBQ Bob’s are now accepting resumes for 

Servers, beer & wine store 

clerks, dishwasher, prep cook, 

and delivery drivers 

Please apply in person with resume to 

2129 Lake Placid Road 

Blenz Coffee Whistler is seeking a hands on and interactive 

Operations Manager 

The ideal candidate will have a strong customer 

service based focus with an emphasis on people and 

product. Strong team building and motivational skills 

required in an individual that sets a fun and productive 

atmosphere. Compensation package with bonus structure 

commensurate on experience. 

If you would like to join an exciting and fast paced team 

with a busy local business please forward your resume to 

whistler@blenz.com Attention Wendy Kendall. 

Whistler Premier Resorts, Whistler’s leading 

property management fi rm, is currently recruiting: 

Front Desk Lead Supervisor 

Assistant Supervisor Housekeeping 

Awesome Arts Academy is whistler’s newest facility for martial arts, group 

fitness and healing arts. Located in Function Junction, next to Wild Wood 

Cafe, in the old Napa Auto Parts store. 

we are looking for teachers of all disciplines in 

yoga, group fitness, personal training, martial arts and 

registered practitioners of healing arts. 

You may already have a group and are looking to rent studio space or you 

would like to start up a program of your own, we offer you the opportunity to 

run independently or partner with AAA. 

Offering you the lowest rental rates in Whistler! 

We are also looking for Individuals who would be interested in contra 

partnerships in areas of teaching classes, front desk, cleaning, managers of 

sales, web, advertising and book keeping, in exchange for Full Membership 

privileges. Exact details negotiable. 

We’re also interested in contra partnerships from local business, for any other 

services or products that may fit. 

Check us out at awesomeartsacademy.com 

Reply to dragonteachercole@live.ca 0r call cole at 604-966-8118 for more info 

The Old Spaghetti Factory is currently hiring: 

HOSTESSES 

Hiring for full-time and part-time positions. We offer flexible 

hours, high wages, free daily meals and all the members of 

our team can count on year round employment. 

604-938-1081 or Apply in 

person to 4154 Village Green 

(inside Crystal Lodge) 

The Old Spaghetti Factory is voted #20 best 

Company in BC to work for, so come and 

join our team of over 100 players! 

Horticulturist needed for the Gardener’s 

Yard Inc. Experience req’d. Pls email 

resume to info@gardenersyard.com or 

call 604-698-0238 

Misty Mountain Pizza is looking for F/T 

counter/prep & pizza cook for the evening 

shift, 7pm-3am, comes with a ski pass. 

Apply at Misty with resume. 

Avalanche Pizza is hiring counter help/ 

cooks & delivery drivers. Pls drop off 

resume at village location. 

Cook of Indian foods for busy Indian 

restaurant in Whistler & Vancouver. Must 

be capable of cooking all types of foods 

from scratch incl snacks, curries & Indian 

breads. Must have 3yrs exp. This is a f/t 

position, average salary is $18/hr, 40hrs/ 

wk, gratuities & accom provided. Pls fax 

resume to 604-905-4901, 4368 Main St. 

Whistler, tandooriwhistler2@yahoo.ca 

Please submit your interest to Human Resources at 

anna@whistlerpremier.com or call 604 935 5709 for more details. 

WHISTLER 

Trattoria di Umberto 

Fine Tuscan Cuisine 

We are looking for dedicated, experienced and dynamic staff to 

join our team for the upcoming winter season. 

BUSSER 

Please drop off resume in person to the Trattoria di Umberto 

between 2-4pm or call 604 932 5858 

The Listel Hotel Whistler is now hiring for the 

following position: 

BREAKFAST ROOM 

ATTENDANTS 

Please email resumes to 

schappell@listelhotel.com 

Thank you for your interest. Only those applicants being considered 

for an interview will be contacted. 



EMPLOYMENT 


Established cleaning company servicing 

Whistler is looking for energetic cleaners, 

fl exible hrs, must have an eye for detail, 

strong work ethic & be able to work solo 

or within a team, $14/hr to start. Call Kate 

604-938-3980 

Carpenters & labourers needed, must 

have own tools & transportation. swgco@ 

telus.net 

***LOCAL AUTOMOTIVE*** Automotive 

technician for yr round position in 

Whistler. 604-905-9109 steve@ 

localautomotive.com 

NETWORK ENGINEER 

basewireless.com - PT Network 

Engineer/Administrator 3 years exp. 

TCP/IP net, Unix, wireless, fibre 

support@basewireless.com 

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN 

Resort Quest Whistler is recruiting for the following position: 

GUEST SERVICES REPRESENTATIVES 

Professional, full time, guest services agents are needed to check in 

and offer excellent communication to nightly rentals, property owners 

and their guests for over 400 properties in multiple locations. 

Interested candidates must have knowledge of Whistler and its 

amenities, love interaction with people, can multi-task, 

and think quick on their feet. 

Must be able to work evenings and weekends and commit 

to full winter season. 

To apply for this opportunity, please email 

your cover letter and resume to: 

Valerie Haines General Manager – Operations 

vhaines@resortquestwhistler.com 


PROGRAM COORDINATOR 

Part-Time (25 hours/week) 

Zero Ceiling is a Whistler based registered charity that 

provides adventure-based learning and employment 

programs that empower at-risk youth and young adults to 

develop life skills and achieve personal growth. 

The ideal Program Coordinator has skills & experience in 

the following areas: 

» Program 

Administration & 

Facilitation with at-risk 

youth and young adults 

» Curriculum 

Development 

» Fundraising & Events 

» Budgeting 

» Volunteer Programs 

» Mentor Programs 

» Writing 

» Social Media 

» Strong Computer Skills 

Willpower Electrical Systems is 

currently hiring for a journeyman 

electrician. This is a permanent full 

time position. All applicants must be 

well presented with good 

communication skills. Only IP red 

seal journeymen need apply. All 

applications can be sent via email to 

info@willpowersystems.com 

HAIR STYLIST 

Devlin Salon is looking for an upbeat 

hair stylist, with minimum of 2 years 

experience to join our team, preferably 

with a full clientele. Devlin offers hands 

on, Aveda education as well, a medical 

benefit package is available. If you are 

passionate about hair, email resume to 

info@devlinsalon.com or drop off in 

person. 604-898-4788 

info@devlinsalon.com 

PERSONAL ASSISTANT - WHISLTER 

For occasional home entertaining. Prep/ 

serving/cleaning. Experience in a 

kitchen req. $20.00/hr. 604-905-2676 

Horticulturist needed for the Gardener’s 

Yard Inc. Experience req’d. Pls email 

resume to info@gardenersyard.com or 

call 604-698-0238 

CABINET MAKER / JOINER Wanted 

by Local Whistler woodworking shop: 

Looking for experienced & motivated 

individual with extensive experience in 

shop manufacturing, wood fi nishing (incl 

stain & spray is an asset) & site installation 

for detailed high-end residential cabinetry 

& architectural millwork. Offer a variety 

of interesting work project, good & 

relaxed work environment & competitive 

wages based on individual skills.The 

right candidates to pls email resume to 

mountaindesign@me.com 

PRODUCTION & SALES COORDINATOR 

Coast Mountain Photography is a full service photography & video production 

company covering event, commercial, stock, wedding etc. for over 15 years. 

FULL TIME POSITION – ADMIN. /PRODUCTION /SALES: 

• Provide direct sales, inside sales /support, marketing and administrative duties. 

• Update and improve database tracking, promotional materials, etc. 

• Preparation and completion of projects, client satisfaction. 

• Handle sales and marketing initiatives for online, direct marketing and e-media. 

• Assist with presentations, tradeshows, marketing and quotation prep, etc. 

Qualifications: 

• At least 3 years of sales and marketing experience. 

• MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Lightroom, Photoshop /Illustrator, Simply Accounting, etc. 

• General administrative skills, excellent communication skills (telephone & written). 

• Both PC and Apple computer knowledge essential. 

• Photography/production/design experience an asset. 

We thank all candidates but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 

Please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@coastphoto.com 

WWW.COASTPHOTO.COM 

Apprentice Electrician position available 

2nd or 3rd year experience 

We offer a highly competitive salary package. 

If you like variety in your work experience, are responsible 

and would like the opportunity to advance your career, 

Please send your resumé in confidence to: 

e. info@sparkelectrical.com f. 604 932 0242 or 604 938 4677 

Zero Ceiling is looking for a candidate with excellent 

people & communication skills, is a self-starter, organized, 

dynamic, able to work independently, flexible and willing to 

do what it takes to get the job done. 

Please submit resume by email to: kasi@zeroceiling.org. 

Only qualified applicants will be selected for an interview. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, August 31, 2012. 

The BrewHouse in Whistler is looking for a 

MANAGER 

Please apply in person with resume 

4355 BLACKCOMB WAY 

WHISTLER, BC, V0N 1B4 

Alpine West Systems Electrical 

is currently hiring: 

APPRENTICE’S & JOURNEYMAN 

Resume & Cover Letter can be forwarded to jeffm@awse.ca 

No Phone Calls Please. 


THIS 

TOWN 

WITHOUT IT! 


Matt McDonald 

ELECTRIC Inc. 

We are looking for 

3RD & 4TH YEAR REGISTERED APPRENTICES. 

Excellent renumeration available. 

Please email your resume to mattmcdonaldelectric@look.ca 

2 HOUSEMAN POSITIONS – Full Time 

2 FRONT DESK AGENTS – Full Time 

Please email your resume to cjensen@whistlerplaces.com 

or apply in person at our front desk. 



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Whistler Platinum has an opening for the 

following positions: 

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS 

GUEST SERVICES MANAGER 

RESERVATION AGENT 

For detailed information, including descriptions and job 

requirements for each position, please visit 

whistlerplatinum.com/employment 

Please email your resume to jobs@whistlerplatinum.com 

Employment Opportunities: 

Full Time 

Maintenance 

Person 

BC Coroners Service 

Ministry of Justice 

Coroner 

Sea-to-Sky Corridor 

We are seeking an individual who is interested in an opportunity to serve the community in this unique position. 

Under the direction of the Regional Coroner, you will work as an “as-and-when-required” medico-legal investigator. 

You must have completed a degree or diploma in a health, legal or social sciences field and have five years’ 

experience in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. 

This position is not open to current provincial government employees, current civilian employees or volunteers 

of any police force or health authority, or any position which may create potential conflict of interest or 

perception of bias or interfere with the impartiality of your role. 

This is not a salaried position. Pay is dependent on the number of cases and hours 

worked and will vary in each community. 

If you have the necessary skills to serve in this interesting and challenging 

role, and you reside along the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, please forward your 

covering letter and résumé, clearly demonstrating how you meet each of the 

qualifications above and in the job description, by Sept. 10, 2012. Quoting 

Reference Number: 2012:VAN0001, please send your application to: Office 

of the Chief Coroner, Suite 800, Metrotower II, 4720 Kingsway, Burnaby, 

BC V7H 4N2; email: BC.Corser@gov.bc.ca; or fax: 604.660.7766. 

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview 

will be contacted. 

To learn more, please visit www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/coroners 

At Mountainside Lodge we offer a progressive payscale with 

extremely competitive wages and benefits and employee use 

program for those who qualify. 

Candidates should forward a resume to: 

No phone calls please. 

We thank all applicants for showing 

msljobs@shellvacationsllc.com interest. Only those selected for an 

fax 604.932.4523 

interview will be contacted. 

GUEST SERVICE AGENT 

If you are this person please submit your resume to 

gsm@whistlerhi.com or drop it off to our front desk 

4295 Blackcomb Way | Whistler |BC |V0N 1B4 

Is Seeking 

Estheticians & 

Certified Massage Technicians 

Busy year round, competitive commission, great team environment. 

please forward inquiries & resume to samantha@whistlerhiddenspa.com 

The Wood Restaurant & Lounge in Pemberton Is looking for a: 

Restaurant Server 

Kitchen Line Cook 

Dishwasher 

(no experience necessary) 

Please email Richard@thewoodrestaurant.com Or drop in. 

MEAT CUTTER 

Must have experience. Benefits available. 

To join our team, we are looking for the best people who are prepared to 

go that extra mile. We offer competitive wages based on experience and 

excellent benefits (depending on eligibility). If you feel you can make a 

positive contribution, then bring in your resume to: Jackie or Kirsten at the 

Pemberton Valley Supermarket. 

Fax: 604.894.1107 Email: jackie@pembertonsupermarket.com 

or kirsten@pembertonsupermarket.com 

Vision Travel Ltd. 

TRAVEL CONSULTANT 

POSITION AVAILABLE 

FULL TIME and PART TIME 

ARE YOU A SELF MOTIVATED, 

ENERGETIC TRAVEL AGENT..... 

IF SO PLEASE SUBMIT 

YOUR RESUME. 

YOU MUST BE EFFICIENT ON SABRE, 

WITH A MINIMUM OF 2-3 YEARS FULL 

TIME EXPERIENCE ON YOUR RECENT 

RESUME AS A FULLY 

QUALIFIED TRAVEL CONSULTANT. 

IF THIS IS YOU, PLEASE EMAIL 

TRAVELWHISTLER@GMAIL.COM 

ATTENTION DIANNE FOSTER 

OR DROP BY WITH YOUR RESUME. 

WE THANK ALL RESPONDENTS, ONLY 

THOSE SUCCESSFUL 

APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED. 

Inside Out 

BOUTIQUE 

Lingerie & Loungewear 

Looking for 

PART TIME 

SALES PERSON 

up to 3 days a week 

Drop off resume 

604-932-2145 

Located in Whistler Town Plaza 

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WYNDHAM VACATION OWNERSHIP 

OWN THE EXPERIENCE 

As the #1 company in the timeshare industry, Wyndham Vacation Ownership 

can offer you an experience unlike any other. WorldMark by Wyndham, 

a Wyndham Vacation Ownership company is looking to fill the following positions: 

GUEST SERVICES MANAGER 

HOUSEKEEPING PREPPER/INSPECTOR 

NIGHT GUEST SERVICES/SECURITY 

PLEASE FAX YOUR RESUME TO 604 938 0430 BY EMAIL Raquel.steeves@wyn.com 

or DELIVER IN PERSON AT Worldmark Sundance, #409-2221 Gondola Way 

IN-RESORT SALES REP 

FULL or PART TIME 

As an In Resort Sales Rep for Canadian Wilderness Adventures 

you will be responsible for selling adventure tours to guests, 

resellers, and tour operators. 

Key duties: 

- Keep our resellers up to date with our operations 

- Deliver brochures to all locations 

- Set sales incentives for resellers 

- Present product knowledge sessions with resellers 

- Organize familiarization tours for resellers 

- Keep track of signage in-resort, and find new opportunities 

 

- Use social media channels to run promotions 

Experience: 

The ideal candidate would have previous sales experience, great 

interpersonal and customer service skills. Be flexible, reliable, and 

use their initiative. Computer and presentation skills are an asset. 

Please forward resumes to: 

sales@canadian01.com 

RESTAURANT 

Part Time 

Server position 

Are you bubbly? Do you know 

how to enjoy your work? 

Come and see Betty 

after 4:30pm at Harajuku 

or email your resume to 

harajukuizakaya@gmail.com 

The Sundial Boutique Hotel has an opening for the following positions: 

Room Inspector 

Room Attendant 

Houseperson 

Guest Service Representative 

Night Guest Service Representative 

Maintenance Representative 

If you feel that this position is the right opportunity for you, please fax or 

email your resume with Attention to “Human Resources Department” to: 

604-932-7152 | hr@sundialhotel.com 

We thank you for your interest. Only candidates chosen for further consideration will be contacted. 

We are currently hiring experienced energetic customer 

service orientated professionals to join our team. We offer 

a competitive compensation package. 

RESERVATION AGENT 

Contact Human Resources at: 

hr@whistlerspa.com | fax 604.935.3443 

or drop by with your resume. 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. 

SEA TO SKY 

IMMIGRATION SOLUTIONS 

We are based in Whistler: 

Provincial Nominee Programs 

Federal Skilled Worker • Work Permits 

Labour Market Opinion • Family Sponsorship 

R. Bueno, ICCRC Member R408255 

1-888-627-1101 info@come2cnda.com www.come2cnda.com 

Looking for a 

dog to adopt? 

Look for WAG’s bright 

orange bandanas on 

dogs being walked 

by volunteers! These 

dogs are looking for 

their forever home. 

604.935.8364 


NEED A WORK PERMIT? 

NEW 

Open work permits not requiring 

a Labour Market Opinion. 

E: info@whistlerimmigration.com 

P: 1-888-266-1161 

W: whistlerimmigration.com 

Great for those who are no 

longer eligible for a working 

holiday permit 

WHISTLER CLUB CRAWL IS NOW HIRING FOR BOTH 

SALES AND GUIDE POSITIONS. JOIN A GREAT TEAM! 

WORK FOR 

ALWAYS A PARTY 

CLUB CRAWL 

PLEASE SEND RESUME AND COVER LETTER 

TO TASHA@WHISTLER CLUBCRAWL.COM 

OR CALL 604.907.3742 



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We are seeking applications for the following positions: 

ESTHETICIAN/RECEPTION 

Min. 2 years experience. 

SERVER ASSISTANT 

Full time 

FIX CAFE ATTENDANTS 

Full time & part time 

ASSISTANT RESTAURANTS MANAGER 

min. 2 years experience 

HOSTESS 

ASSISTANT PASTRY CHEF 

If you are looking for a great opportunity with our growing 

boutique hotel, please submit your resume with cover letter to: 

careers@nitalakelodge.com 

or in person at 2131 Lake Placid Road, Whistler (Creekside) 

Experience the difference of 

a career with 

We are currently hiring for: 

MANAGEMENT & 

SALES ASSOCIATES 

For our Tyndall Stone Lodge location! 

To apply & learn more about these exciting 

opportunities, please visit: 

www.lechateau.com/careers 

Or, introduce yourself to a member of our 

Management Team today! 

The Old Spaghetti Factory is currently hiring: 

LINE COOKS 

At The Old Spaghetti we know “People are our most important asset”. The 

single biggest reason for our success is the quality of our employees. At The 

Old Spaghetti Factory we are totally committed to our guest’s satisfaction and 

realize this can be accomplished only with employees with the same level of 

commitment. At The Old Spaghetti Factory we always look for enthusiastic, 

outgoing, service-orientated individuals. We offer flexible work schedules, 

discounts on food, a friendly team environment, and of course – lots of fun. 

Main Duties: 

• Prepare and cook full course meals 

• Prepare and cook individual dishes and foods 

• Ensure quality of food and determine size of food proportions 

• Work with minimal supervision 

• Prepare dishes for customers with food allergies or intolerances 

• Inspect kitchens and food service areas 

• Train staff in preparation, cooking and handling of food 

• Supervise kitchen staff and helpers 

• Maintain inventory and records of food, supplies and equipment 

• Clean kitchen and work areas 

• Wash dishes 

Employment Requirements: 

• High School Diploma 

• Some college/CEGEP/vocational or technical training or 3 years 

working experience. 

• Languages: Speak English, read English, Write English 

• Ensure quality of food and determine size of food proportions 

• Experience: 3 years or more, technical or vocational training will be 

accepted in lieu of 3 years experience requirement 

• Skills: Reading text, document use, numeracy, writing, oral 

communication, working with others, problem solving, decision 

making, job task planning and organizing, signifi cant use of memory, 

continuous learning 

Wage: 

• $12.00 per hour 

Apply in person or mail to: 4154 Village Green, Unit 110, 

Whistler BC V0N 1B4. Fax resume to 604.938.1015 

Email resume to: whistler@osf.ca 

Is hiring NOW for the 

remainder of the summer 

and fall/winter season! 

Line/Prep Cooks 

Expeditors 

Host/esses 

Setters 

Servers & 

Bartenders 

Successful applicants will start now 

& secure their winter roles early! 

Please apply in person with your 

resume between 2 and 5pm. 

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PUZZLES 

ACROSS 

1 Lickety-split 

6 Monks’ quarters 

11 Sports channel 

15 Kind of cuisine 

20 Movie spools 

21 Hunter constellation 

22 Rush off 

24 -- circle 

25 Ignoramus 

26 Venomous black 

snake 

27 Keep in stock 

28 Type of vinegar 

29 Savory smells 

31 Attack on a castle 

33 They monitor B.C. 

and N.W.T. 

34 “Dave” actor 

35 All-inclusive (3 wds.) 

37 Webster or Beery 

39 Insurance gp. 

41 Scout leader, often 

42 Big pitchers 

43 Auto import 

44 Pawn takers 

46 Country-club fees 

50 High dudgeon 

51 Dollar 

52 With one’s boots on 

53 Nowhere near 

57 Chunnel terminus 

59 Soften 

60 Monthly bill 

61 Noted Roman censor 

62 Bogging down 

63 Roquefort hue 

64 Droplets 

65 City near Tehran 

66 Objects 

67 Cellar item 

68 Shore up 

69 Brittle 

72 “-- Girls” 

73 Outlet for smoke 

74 Wrist movement 

75 Skedaddled 

76 Became rigid 

79 -- and desist 

80 Sun Dance 

84 Finish the laundry 

85 Be gracious 

86 Very pleased 

87 Goat’s-hair garment 

88 Opens, as toothpaste 

91 A -- of fate 

92 The “Elephant Boy” 

93 Bridge expert 

95 -- Paulo 

96 Yanks at 

97 Hedge shrubs 

98 “Watch out!” 

99 Cabinet dept. 

101 Thrash about 

102 Dearth 

103 Matadors’ wear 

104 -- Nui (Easter Island) 

105 Seniors’ org. 

106 Plagiarize 

107 Swab the deck 

108 Forced to go 

109 Unvoiced 

111 Leaves before 

opening 

112 Like a teacup 

114 Underworld network 

117 Kind of meditation 

118 Spy’s communique 

119 Sea turtle 

124 Old cattle town 

126 -- de vie (brandies) 

128 Galaxy locale 

130 Saffron dish 

131 Queenlike 

132 Toss here and there 

134 Edit, as text 

136 Little Richard’s 

hometown 

137 Playing marble 

138 Pied-a- -- 

139 Landlords’ income 

140 -- -garde 

141 Derek and the 

Dominos classic 

142 Big Board letters 

143 Foot the bill 

144 Suit fabric 

DOWN 

1 Tunes from an opera 

2 Peter, in Panama 

3 Familiar quintet 

4 Tiptoe’s opposite 

5 Villa 

6 Web suffi x 

7 Exam smudge 

8 Price ceilings 

9 Brain parts 

10 River hazard 

11 PC button 

12 Pharaoh’s amulet 

13 Veranda 

14 Benchmark 

15 “Wild Bill” 

16 Dye-yielding plant 

17 Brought to ruin 

18 Pop singer -- Marie 

19 Blew it 

23 Violent storms 

30 Planting crops 

32 Make laws 

36 Geeky type 

38 Furniture wood 

40 Pie a la -- 

43 Kirk’s helmsman 

44 -- Island Red 

45 Pouch 

46 Venus -- -- 

47 Forms a merger 

48 Exit 

49 Not chubby 

51 Borscht veggie 

52 Rough cabin 

54 Online info 

55 Perched on 

56 Actress -- Schneider 

58 Reply to a ques. 

59 Mme.’s daughter 

60 “Then -- will guide 

the planets ...” 

63 Unit of a modem 

speed 

64 Like a cool fall day 

67 Malamute’s load 

68 Unwritten on 

69 Attired 

70 Not a Sen. 

71 Boise’s st. 

73 Son, in Verdun 

74 Phobias 

75 Herr’s spouse 

77 “-- -- Man Answers” 

78 Vain fellow 

79 Nip in the air 

80 Linen vestments 

81 Zimbabwe capital 

82 King of the fairies 

83 Most rational 

85 Holland export 

86 Rubberneck 

88 PC owner 

89 Zilch 

90 Sudden ouster 

91 Canning jar size 

92 Office asst. 

93 Mousse alternative 

94 Feels grateful 

96 Most obvious 

97 Canine noises 

98 Sheep loser (2 wds.) 

100 Household member 

101 Not run from 

102 Ore deposits 

103 Tennis great Bjorn -- 

106 Bossy’s chew 

107 Vivid color 

110 Flowering shrub 

111 Men’s underwear 

112 Tertiary epoch 

113 Stage productions 

114 Fable ending 

115 Rolex rival 

116 Loose-fitting 

118 Pungent spice 

119 Weaker, as an excuse 

120 Lift with effort 

121 Dana of “MacGyver” 

122 Moving right -- 

123 Beatrice’s admirer 

125 Flag down 

127 Two fives for -- -- 

129 Sassy 

133 Microscopic 

135 Summer hrs. 

Last Weeks’ Answers 

Solution, tips and computer 

program at www.sudoku.com 

Answers page 91 

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, 

and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9 

with no numbers repeating. 

That’s all there is to it. 

There’s no math involved. 

The grid has numbers, but nothing has to 

add up to anything else. 

You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. 

Level of diffi culty: MEDIUM 

5 9 2 7 

2 3 7 6 9 

9 8 4 

8 6 4 5 

6 3 8 

6 7 5 3 4 

8 7 9 2 


98 Maxed Out 

Vampire or Zombie... you decide 

Frankly I’m perplexed. Puzzled. 

Mystified. Try as I might, I just can’t 

choose an answer. I’ve winnowed 

the possibilities down to two but as soon 

as I pick one, I start thinking the other 

might be better. 

I’ve come to the conclusion you should 

decide. Yes, you; the collective and individual 

by G.D. 

Maxwell 

community of true-blue Whistleratics. After 

all, who more than you know most about 

our happy mountain home? 

The question? Is Whistler Sport Legacies 

(WSL) in general, and the Whistler Sliding 

Centre (White Elephant) in particular, 

more like a vampire or a zombie? 

Vampires, as we all know, are a subset of 

the Living Dead. They rise from their coffins, 

and restlessly roam the night, sucking the 

blood from unsuspecting sleeping persons. 

You have to drive a stake through the heart 

of a sleeping vampire to kill it. 

Zombies are also a subset of the Living 

Dead. Zombies just wander brainlessly 

around — not unlike the crowds in the 

village after last call — sucking the brains 

out of living people, often their friends. 

You can kill zombies with anything, but 

shotguns seem to be the weapon of choice. 

So why are WSL and the White Elephant 

either vampires or zombies? Good question. 

With not much else to do up at Smilin’ 

Dog Manor, I was re-reading the August 9 

Pique for something like the eighth time, by 

which point I’d read pretty much everything 

except some of the ads that don’t include 

skimpily-clad women. I spotted a notice 

from the RMOW deceptively entitled 

“Permissive Exemptions Bylaws.” Thinking 

it might have something to do with escort 

services, I read it only to discover it listed 

various pieces of property within the 

RMOW that were given exemptions from 

paying 2013 property taxes. Mine wasn’t 

listed; neither, I suspect, was yours. 

But the White Elephant was, for 

$306,760. So was the High Performance 

Centre and Lodge down in Cheakamus 

Crossing, $36,353. Ditto the WSL Athlete’s 

Accommodation, $24,332. 

In total, WSL’s properties will not pay 

the RMOW $367,445 in 2013. They didn’t 

pay any property tax this year either. Or 

the year before, or the year before, or…. 

And it may get worse. The next column in 

the notice suggests the trio might be off 

the hook in 2014 and 2015 to the tune of 

$734,891. I can feel the blood being sucked 

from sleeping taxpayers. 

Now the good news is — and I’m 

stretching the definition — those numbers 

seem to suggest the RMOW isn’t going to 

raise our property taxes in the next three 

years. The bad news is they could lower our 

property taxes if WSL would man up and 

pay their property taxes instead of acting 

like vampires. 

This may be a good point to quote 

from the RMOW’s Guiding Principles for 

Whistler’s Involvement in the 2010 Olympic 

Games. It says, “The Bid Corporation and 

Organizing Committee must: Ensure that the 

financial exposure of the RMOW is limited 

by ensuring that Olympic revenues meet or 

exceed all financial requirements.” It also 

says the Games must result in the creation 

of legacies which are of lasting value to the 

residents and businesses of the RMOW. 

Do you feel the value, people? 

Of course, WSL may say those principles 

don’t apply to them since they’re neither 

the Bid Corp nor VANOC. I believe they 

used the same reasoning to repudiate the 

agreements those ancestor entities made 

with Callaghan Country. But that doesn’t 

let the RMOW off the hook. The clear 

intention of hosting the Olympics was that 

it wouldn’t continue to burden Whistler 

taxpayers by sucking our blood. Which it is. 

But this is where the zombie thing comes 

into play. When asked about this on-going 

— and it’s been on-going since 2008, by the 

way — permissive exemption, the RMOW 

Office of Miss Communication (OMC) said, 

“The WSL properties have been exempt from 

municipal taxes since their construction so 

continuing the tax exemption does not cost 

the RMOW anything.” 

The only way WSL not paying their 

property taxes doesn’t cost the RMOW 

anything is if, let’s think this through 

people, THE REST OF US MAKE UP THE 

SHORTFALL! True, the RMOW hasn’t 

reduced its budget to make up for the gift to 

WSL so technically, they’re not out. We are. 

The logic behind this statement is a 

clear indication that someone has had 

their brains sucked out. The fact we let 

them get away with this suggests we may all 

be missing some grey matter too. 

The OMC also said the WSL provides 

a service to the community. Huh? Could 

you be more specific as to exactly what 

that service is? I’ve never considered being 

an on-going tax drain a service. I’ve never 

considered running a marginal enterprise 

at a hopeless operating loss and then going 

to different levels of government begging 

for more tax dollars a service. At least we 

know the Peak 2 Peak is going to pony up 

after their tax holiday expires. The White 

Elephant? Never. Even the OMC admits 

WSL “…would not be able to function and 

pay sizable property taxes.” 

The fi rs t annual report — delayed 

seemingly forever — from the WSL says 

it costs $7.5 million to keep their venues 

going. Revenues in the first year after the 

Games were $2.3 million. $2.7 million 

came from the Games Operating Trust. 

You do the math. And this might be a good 

time to bring up two more Principles the 

RMOW insisted on — that its “partners be 

ethical and transparent and engage in open 

and timely communication. 

Enough is enough. There is no rationale 

for keeping this farce, vampire or zombie, 

stumbling among us sucking our blood 

and eating our brains. Some folks say, 

“Well, it’s already built; we might as well 

make the best of it.” Those people slept 

through the Economics lecture on sunk 

costs. Just because you’ve sunk a bazillion 

dollars and counting into a bad idea is not 

a good reason to continue to sink more 

money into it. 

Without the White Elephant WSL 

might have a chance of lifting themselves 

out of the Walking Dead. Maybe it can 

even abondon its plans to build condos 

There is no rationale for keeping this farce, 

vampire or zombie, stumbling among us 

sucking our blood and eating our brains. 

at WOP. But it’s time to either suck up the 

cost to tear down the Elephant or strip the 

dangerous chemicals out of it and let it 

become a ruin. Hey, in a century or so it 

might become a real tourist attraction. 

I suspect council has already gone 

along with the tax holiday for 2013. But 

that should be the last year we lose blood 

and brain to this beast. If it can’t swim after 

that, let it sink. 

It’s time to get the stakes and shotguns 

ready and kill this beast before it kills us. ■ 


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