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BEAR AWARE

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HEAR THE ECHO

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HOME IS NOT A PLACE

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Helping hands Volunteers play major roles in local organizations and events, but are some asking too much? - By Dan Falloon

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BEAR AWARE

Bear activity is high in the resort and

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ADAPTING THE CRANK

Crankworx is set

with one dog injured and two killed in bear encounters, the Conservation

to offer a brand-new Adaptive Mountain Bike Jam to introduce riders to

Officer Service is asking people to be vigilant.

Whistler Mountain Bike Park.

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MOVING TARGET

The potential site for the

GET TO THE POINT

The Flag Stop Theatre

controversial compressor station, related to the Eagle Mountain—

& Arts Festival is bringing out the floating dock for another year of

Woodfibre Gas Pipeline Project, is being reconsidered—again.

performing arts, music, food, and fun.

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CLIMBERS OF DISTINCTION

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HEAR THE ECHO

The new music documentary

Canadian climbers received a mention on the long list of the Piolets d’Or

Echo in the Canyon has a surprise screening at Whistler Olympic Plaza on

mountaineering awards last month.

Thursday—followed by some big-name performers.

COVER Malcolm Watson slashes his way through a classic bank in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park as a storm rolls its way in. Michael Overbeck is an adventure photographer based out of Whistler. He was born and raised in this mountain town and has been drawing inspiration from its landscape, events and the people who call it home for more than 20 years. Check him out at the Deep Summer photo challenge on Tuesday, Aug. 13. - Michael Overbeck // www.michaeloverbeck.com

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08 OPENING REMARKS Dogs have become ubiquitous in Whistler, and understanding that, rules were put in place to keep our canine companions, people and wildlife safe. Why, then, do people continuously break them?

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers weigh in on Ironman, how noisy the village is at night and whether all motorized vehicles on Alta Lake should be battery-powered only.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Everything you wanted to know about the Rugby World Cup in September is wrapped up nicely in a column this week by Andrew Mitchell.

90 MAXED OUT Max laments the state of affairs in the U.S. as it once again endured mass shootings.

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28 ECOLOGIC Writer Leslie Anthony tells us that he first gave money to environmental groups back in the

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29 THE OUTSIDER Writer Vince Shuley heads to Washington state to explore the mountain bike trails

1980s when he had none to his name. It was one of the best investments he ever made.

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38 TRAVEL Ever thought of heading to the Philippines to kayak the archipelagos? Well, writer Tim Morch did just that and tells us all about it in the first of a two-part series.

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48 VELOCITY PROJECT After learning how to be a better voice inside her own head, writer Lisa Richardson turns to Cheryl Strayed (author of Wild) once again to workshop how to name her longing.

50 EPICURIOUS The BC Farmers’ Market Trail helps users learn more about the 145 featured markets across the province, with info on what’s in season, participating vendors, and trip-planning resources.

54 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW A pair of outdoor screenings are not to be missed this week—along with the chance to scare some kids.

56 MUSEUM MUSINGS This week, Brad Nichols delves into the history of the resort’s amazing skateboard park. The park is the second largest in Canada.

60 PIQUECAL The Whistler Public Library is hosting a free screening of the award-winning film Vice on Tuesday, Aug 13 at 7 p.m. For something more active, the Whistler Cycling Club hosts Tuesday Rides for all levels.

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Be responsible for your pets I LOVE DOGS as much as the next person. Indeed, like so many of us, I grew up with them.

My family has dogs and I love visiting them too.

What I have noticed in visiting them in Gibsons and West Vancouver is that my sisters are careful to manage the dogs and the people who approach them. The dogs are leashed in public places (including parks and beaches unless in the roam-free zone) and under control.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

Whistler—not so much.

I was struck recently, as I enjoyed a coffee on the Village Stroll near the playground at Olympic Plaza, by the proliferation of puppies, and by the casual way non-dog owners let their kids just walk up to any dog.

for the rubber-mat ground cover in this location. (Never a bylaw officer around when you need one.)

Finishing up my coffee, I headed for the drug store where I had to carefully approach the front door as a massive dog leashed to the bench was wandering up and down outside the automatic doors lunging for the entrance to reach its master every time the portal opened.

I was done with dogs for the day I thought.

But it was a beautiful day, so later that afternoon I set off for a walk along the Valley Trail, a quick loop of the Whistler Golf Club and down to Rainbow for a quick foot paddle before dinner.

Now, clearly, dogs were on my mind after my observations in the morning, so that likely made me super sensitive to the 12 doggie-poop bags abandoned along my Valley Trail route. For all I know, that is not even a lot—I’d love to know how many of these little treasures Pique readers see on their travels.

... we have clear rules about managing dogs to protect people, birds, bears and all our wildlife.

One dad allowed his toddler daughter to just walk up to a shepherd-cross dog and put her face and hands right into the leashed dog’s face. The responsible owner was there right away and explained that while their dog was kid-friendly, many dogs are not.

Minutes later, a rambunctious collie of some description ran wild and free through the playground chasing everyone, tail wagging, while a teen ran laughing behind it waving the leash.

In its wake? Three knocked-over and now-bawling little kids. Thank goodness

The Resort Municipality of Whistler is very dog friendly. Many of our hotels welcome people and their pooches as well, and let’s not forget Whistler Animals Galore (WAG), our local shelter, which is supported and loved by the community.

We show our respect for dogs and their owners by welcoming them to visit and live, by providing parks and beaches for them, by providing doggie-poop bags and places to dispose of these, and we have clear rules about managing dogs to protect people, birds, bears and all our wildlife.

Conservation statistics show that two off-leash dogs have been killed by bears this year. In 2018, there were six reports of dogs chasing bears—the usual outcome is that the bears would turn and charge towards owners and/or attack dogs.

So why is it that some dog owners can’t reciprocate and respect the resort?

Let’s remind everyone of the rules: Dogs must be leashed except in offleash parks, dogs must possess and wear a valid licence, you must pick up after your dog and dispose of the dog-poop bag appropriately (you can be fined $100 for failing to do this), dogs are not allowed on public beaches for health reasons, nor are they allowed in playgrounds and waterparks.

Also, remember that at the dog parks at Bayly Park and Alpha Lake, a pilot project is running—PUP. The Pick Up Protocol (PUP) program provides special compostable dog waste bags, which dog owners can use to pick up their pet’s waste before disposing of it in a marked red PUP bin. The waste collected will be added to Whistler’s composting stream, rather than being shipped as garbage to the landfill.

So just to clarify—dogs cannot run free on the Valley Trail—on my weekend ramble not one dog I saw on the trail was leashed.

Nor can they run free at Rainbow Park— except in the dog-friendly area. Again I saw at least one dog running on the grass and on the people-beach at Rainbow.

I worry about the dogs running free on the Valley Trail considering that lately I have seen a bear almost every time I have been out.

I worry even more about them on trails such as Riverside—where no dog ever seems to be leashed!

Please canines, tell your human companions to follow the rules—they are there for everyone’s safety. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR alcohol consumption and fires are prohibited and noise levels are restricted from dusk to dawn.

In addition, I would like to ask council and staff to consider the impact of the growing number of barges on Alta Lake. As it is now, owners have moored barges in environmentally sensitive areas and abandoned barges have been found there as well. As numbers continue to grow, I hope staff and council will think about how to manage the numbers, the moorage and the cleanup.

Allowing electric motors only is a good place to start and I hope more policy will follow to ensure the safe, peaceful enjoyment of Alta Lake for all, while preserving the natural environment and the historic quiet, laidback atmosphere that Alta Lake is appreciated for.

Ken Mason // Whistler

Whistler noise needs attention Good morning, Mr. Crompton: I hope you and your family had a nice peaceful sleep last night and, if you did, you obviously don’t live in the village.

I have been coming to Whistler now for years for work and pleasure, and I have been meaning to write this email numerous times but after last night, I’ve had it.

We try not to stay anywhere near the village because like clockwork, between 1 and 2:30 a.m., they let the hooligans out of the bars to wander the streets of the village screaming and yelling unabated!

This is not a one-off. It happens every time. How embarrassing for Whistler, how embarrassing for B.C. and Canada, as Whistler is one place that people come to from other countries to get a taste of the Canadian dream.

All the people and families that pay good money to stay here and have to endure that crap every night is beyond comprehension.

Never again will we stay in the village area.

Robert Booth // Maple Ridge

Alta Lake barges need rules After reading the article in last month’s Pique (“The slippery slope of impaired dinghy-ing,”

‘Suck it up’ July 25) regarding “the rules on land or at sea,” I’m pleased to see that after receiving a letter from Jan Tindle suggesting an electric motor bylaw for Alta Lake that the RMOW staff is looking into the matter and will bring review to council.

Most people I’ve spoken with, especially young people, are in complete support of allowing electric motors only. The majority believe it is overdue and will greatly reduce pollution and noise.

I believe a few exceptions could be made for commercial operators who need gas-

To the hard-done-by residents of Mountain View Drive: The Resort Municipality of Whistler got rid of the porta-potty in the cul-de-sac and put up a number of no-parking signs.

I went there for a hike the other day and ended up parking right in front of someone’s house. To me, it didn’t make much sense.

Why not maintain the parking in the cul-desac where there is more space and no houses?

Oh well, it’s a done deal now!

The quote in the paper read: “We now have a significant rise in traffic going up and down our street, and non-resident vehicles parking the full length of the legal side of

powered motors for safety reasons.

I hope the staff and council will consider whether these barges and their operators need to abide by the same rules as those on land and water. As the article pointed out, these barges are watercraft vessels, yet they are not required to abide by the same mandatory safety requirements and laws that apply to all other watercraft vessels.

Also, I think staff and council should review whether the operators of barges should be subject to the same bylaws that apply to others in public places, such as parks, where

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the street” (“Municipality addresses parking issues on Mountainview Drive,” Aug. 1). We live in Whistler and are always going to be at times inconvenienced by the popularity of our town. Take a drive down to Alta Vista on a sunny summer day and see what a congested neighbourhood really looks like!

As the saying goes, “suck it up buttercup.”

It’s Whistler.

Jan Tindle // Whistler

Thanks, Whistler On behalf of the Alzheimer Society of B.C., I would like to thank Whistler residents for their instrumental support of the 2019 IG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s, and invite them to become involved with the event in 2020.

Whistler was one of 21 communities that came together on Sunday, May 5 to honour and remember people who have been affected by dementia.

Whistler residents raised more than $21,000, which contributed to the more than $1.1 million raised across the province. Without this funding the Alzheimer Society of B.C. would not be able to deliver local programs and services and support research into the causes of and cures for dementia.

Whistler’s event honoured Chantel Jackson

and Jane Burrows. Thank you to Chantel and the Burrows family for graciously giving the gift of their stories to help reduce stigma associated with the disease and let other people on the dementia journey know they are not alone.

We would also like to recognize the local offices and staff of our national title sponsor IG Wealth Management, which provided tremendous support for the event.

On the ground, each event is organized by a dedicated volunteer committee, without whom the event would not be possible. Huge thanks to Whistler’s committee, led by Erika Durlacher.

You can help us build on the incredible success of this event next year! We are currently recruiting motivated volunteers to organize and implement the 2020 event—a variety of organizing committee roles are available. To learn more or to apply for a volunteer role, visit alzbc.org/walk or contact Matt Brooks at mbrooks@alzheimerbc.org or 604-681-6530.

If you have questions about dementia, please call the First Link Dementia Helpline at 1-800-936- 6033.

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After five or six years, Ironman organizers still don’t get how to protect our bears.

After the race was over, bears where seen getting into the gel packs at the finish line and making security guards climb fences to get away from the bears because nothing was done to remove the garbage.

I think Ironman event organizers have had more than fair warning regarding bears and should be charged under the Wildlife Act. Happy to see Ironman gone if they can’t do something so simple.

Geoff Gerhart // Whistler

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I am writing this letter in response to Dan Falloon’s opinion piece in the Aug. 1 edition of the Pique about Ironman’s exit.

I just have to say I appreciate his balanced piece even though I may hold a different view than him.

I have found other articles in the Pique unnecessarily pro-Ironman. For me, it is good riddance to the Ironman. I am just ecstatic to see it go back to Penticton. In fact, the race leaving is some of the best news I have heard lately!

As a long-time local, I was absolutely disgusted to learn about the shamefully large amount of B.C. taxpayer money the for-profit event received. Whistler is busy enough in the summer and does not need this event.

The road closures and delays were extremely disrespectful to the general public, as it holds them hostage from moving about their own community. I mean, the buses did not even run for large parts of the day from Cheakamus, for heaven’s sake, and it is a fairly long walk or ride to the village.

All this for some show of exclusive elitist vanity. This is coming from someone who has raced triathlons and run, bikes and swims.

Do not get me wrong, I support sports events and do not mind short road closures or delays, but what we have seen with this race is outrageous.

Ironman, I hope the door hits you on the way out and you do not come back. I hope the “unGrandFondo” rides off into the sunset next.

Darcy Anderson // Whistler

Forty Mile worth the trouble I enjoyed Leslie Anthony’s column about his canoe trip down the Yukon River to the historic site of Forty Mile (“A big day,” Aug. 1).

In 2015, I drove to Forty Mile, alone, in a brand new Jeep, with only a hand-drawn map.

I started on the Top of the World Highway that goes from Dawson City, Yukon to Tok, Alaska, and turned off on an unmarked, dirt road that looked about right. When the road deteriorated

to two tracks and the grass growing down the middle got 30 centimetres high, I would turn around and take a different route. This happened maybe six times. I even saw two grizzly bears, my first ever, standing up and looking at me curiously.

Eventually I found a small parking lot, an outhouse, and a sign saying Forty Mile, so I started off walking. About a kilometre later, I passed a grave surrounded by a white picket fence, then the Anglican church came into view followed by a grass clearing and the remains of the Gold Rush town.

The general store had a huge wooden bar on the door and a sign saying to lift it and go in and use it for shelter in an emergency.

There was a large, red water tank on wheels for fighting fires, the RCMP barracks and a sign saying more ruins were down the trail (but I kept thinking of the two grizzlies).

Two German paddlers came ashore from the river and said “hello” and offered me some of their bug spray. Apart from them, I saw no one.

Forty Mile was the town that the miners travelled to in 1896 to register the first claim on Bonanza Creek that started the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898—there was no Dawson City then, only the Canadian outpost of Forty Mile. Now, Dawson has been restored with its gravel streets and wooden sidewalks and National Park guides in period costumes, and Forty Mile doesn’t even have a sign on the highway.

If you are looking for a unique Canadian holiday, head north to the Yukon and start exploring the old Gold Rush sites.The best time to travel is mid-August to early September, when the tourists and the bugs disappear, the cottonwoods turn gold and the tundra turns red.

Ruth Buzzard // Whistler

Thanks from the Pemberton Canoe Association The Pemberton Canoe Association would like to acknowledge the generous contributions made to the club this season.

The first thank you is to the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation for its grant, which will allow the club to purchase a new sprint kayak and canoe.

The club would also like to thank Squamish Mills for its donation, which is allowing the club to purchase a four-man sprint kayak.

These new boats will be great additions to our flatwater program.

Finally, the club would like to thank all the volunteers in the club that do a multitude of jobs to keep this club running, and the Village of Pemberton that continues to aid us in running and expanding our programs at One Mile Lake.

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FOR THE RECORD As a point of clarification on the story in last week’s Pique on the Kids on the Go Program (“Parents satisfied with Kids on the Go—but registration can be improved”) it should be noted that the online registration is for full-day KOTG. There is no online registration for the after-school program. n

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Your rugby World Cup primer YOU KNOW that excitement you feel when you put up your tree and hang your stockings just three weeks before Christmas?

Or it’s a week before the next Star Wars sequel/prequel/spinoff opens in the theatre?

That feeling of excitement and anticipation doesn’t begin to describe how I feel six weeks out from the start of the Rugby World Cup (RWC).

BY ANDREW MITCHELL Most people are generally aware that a sport called rugby exists. Some may have watched a sevens game at the Olympics or seen sports highlights on a slow night with only nine baseball games and one CFL matchup.

They may know that New Zealand, a country of just 4.6 million people, is the world’s dominant rugby power and lead off every game with the Haka, a Maori war dance that can raise the hair on the back of your neck.

They may even have watched Invictus, a Matt Damon movie about Nelson Mandela, the end of apartheid and the role that the world champion Springboks played in uniting a divided country. (I thought the

movie could have used more rugby scenes but thoroughly recommend it.)

If you’re not familiar with the sport, or why hundreds of thousands of fans from around the world are converging on Japan in September to paint faces, sing, scream at refs and down an absurd number of beers, here’s a crash course on the world’s most physically challenging sport: Rugby Union is a game played on a pitch about the size of soccer field with uprights at either end. Each team has 15 players on the field at a time, including eight forwards (a.k.a. the pack), one scrum half (like a quarterback), one fly half (kind of like a second quarterback) and five backs (two centres, two wings and a fullback).

Like most games, the goal is to score more points than your opponent. You can do this by touching the ball down over the opposing team’s “try line.” A “try” is worth five points. The team that scores then draws a perpendicular line backward from the try line and attempts to kick it through the uprights to “convert” the try, adding two more points.

That isn’t easy to do when you score close the sidelines, it’s raining and the wind is howling, which is the default weather in a lot of places where rugby is played.

You can also score penalty kicks, worth three points each, and at any time a player can drop the ball and kick it off the ground and through the uprights to score a three

point “drop goal.” (The latter are extremely rare, although Johnny Wilkinson made a tie-breaking, extra time drop goal in the 2003 RWC final that England will never stop talking about.)

Players move the ball forward by kicking it, running with it, or passing it backward. Mauls form when two or more players bind on to each other and push the ball downfield. Rucks form over tackled players, who are supposed to release the ball but don’t always—and there are incredibly complicated rules around rucks that still confuse most rugby players, fans and refs. Line-outs occur when the ball goes out of bounds. Scrums are held for certain types of penalties (such as knocking the ball forward) or when a player touches the ball to the ground in their own try zone.

The play only stops when someone scores, the ball goes out of bounds, or there’s a penalty—in which case the ref will usually put up his arm but refrain from blowing the whistle if the fouled team still has the advantage.

Like a lot of sports, rugby has a concussion problem. New rules to protect players result in more yellow cards (players go to the “sin bin” for 10 minutes) and red cards, which result in players leaving the field for the rest of the game, and then some, while their teams are forced to play short-handed.

For more on tactics, I recommend a YouTube channel called Squidge Rugby hosted by a Welsh superfan, which offers some of the best, most entertaining, rugby analysis anywhere.

This World Cup is particularly exciting.

While New Zealand is ranked first in the world, the current All Blacks are not invulnerable. They tied South Africa in their last outing, and only squeaked past a fired-up Argentina the previous week. In 2018, they nearly lost to England and then lost to Ireland. Other nations are finally catching up to New Zealand’s style of play, and there are half a dozen teams that could break up the All Blacks’ streak.

Wales has emerged as a powerhouse after sweeping the Six Nations this year, while Ireland did the same previous year.

South Africa is capable of an upset at any time. England set a record streak of 19 wins after coming up short at the last World Cup, and though they’re down right now they’re still a top-five squad.

Australia is a wild card and France has a history of coming out of nowhere.

Canada is in the mix as well, in the same pool as New Zealand, South Africa, Italy and Namibia. While it’s unlikely the Canucks/Les Rouges will win any games, we’ll be heading to Japan with our strongest squad in recent years and nothing to lose.

Sept. 20 can’t come fast enough. n

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Once again, it was a Pique columnist, Dan Falloon, writing on Ironman that got our social media followers talking. In “Saying farewell to Ironman,” Falloon commented on the event’s complicated relationship with the resort but said it felt like the relationship was “on a break, not a break-up.”

Pique followers had this to say:

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Why not quote some of the hard statistics like the direct economic impact that Ironman brought into RMOW each year?

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I’ve been searching for cold hard facts for the last few years. All I ever got was a ‘report’ done by an association paid for by large events like this.

I think the town will do just fine. Maybe even better now that the highway will be open again for a prime summer weekend.

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This issue from 20 years ago took a deep dive into the growing live music scene in Whistler at the time. It talked about the opening of two new clubs—Moe Joes, which promised a live band every week for the first few months, and AlpenRock.

“On the surface, these two clubs only add to the healthy variety of weekly entertainment in Whistler. It’s safe to say up to 10 nightclubs in Whistler will book a band almost any night of the week,” said writer Paul Andrew.

The issue also covered the new, proposed municipal bylaw governing garbage disposal, which boosted the $75 fine for improper storage of trash to $500.

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Bear activity on the rise PUBLIC REMINDED TO KEEP DOGS ON-LEASH AFTER TWO DOGS KILLED BY BEARS THIS YEAR

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH BEAR ACTIVITY on the rise in Whistler—bears have killed two dogs and seriously injured another so far in 2019—the public is being reminded to stay vigilant.

According to the Conservation Officer Service (COS), more than 50 per cent of negative encounters between the public and bears involve dogs.

“In Whistler we do have a bylaw, you’re supposed to have your dog on-leash,” said Sgt. Simon Gravel with the COS. “We see too many people still with their dog at large, so we hope to let the public understand the possible consequence of that and take responsible action and keep their dog on-leash.”

While Gravel confirmed two dogs were killed by bears this year, he couldn’t provide more information before press time.

From 2016 to 2018 there were 19 reports of dogs chasing bears in Whistler, according to stats from the COS. In 2016, a sow and two cubs of the year were destroyed after numerous reports of the sow charging people with dogs off-leash.

Under the Wildlife Act, an individual can

BEAR AWARE Whistler bear activity is on the rise, and the public is being reminded to keep their dogs on-leash and secure attractants.

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be charged for letting their dog chase a bear.

Bears are incredibly intelligent, and remember both good and bad experiences, said Ellie Lamb of the Get Bear Smart Society.

“If a mom bear has a history in an area where dogs have unfairly chased and harassed both her and her cubs she will simply come to dislike dogs. There have been many times where a dog has harassed

have involved bears traversing the Valley Trail, Gravel said.

“There’s been a lot of encounters, but nothing aggressive, no major issues,” he said.

“But people need to be aware that if they use the Valley Trail to try to make some noise and not travel alone, maybe, at night, and make sure when you go to a tight corner to make a bit of noise to inform the

“We cannot have untrained dogs chase and harass bears or the bears will at times fight back.”

- ELLIE LAMB

a bear and brought the fearful bear back to the human, and death or injury followed,” Lamb wrote in an email.

“We cannot have untrained dogs chase and harass bears or the bears will at times fight back. Not only is it cruel and unfair to a bear, but it can create problems where there didn’t need to be [any].

“If we are to be kind to both our dogs and the bears in an area, the onus is on us to leash our dogs during the bear season.

Otherwise either the dog, the owner and most assuredly the bear are at risk of being unnecessarily injured or even killed.”

Many of the recent reports to the COS

bears of your presence.

“That would be a good, proactive way to avoid a surprise encounter.”

The warm weather means people need to take extra caution, Gravel added.

Those lounging at Whistler’s lakes need to secure any attractants before they hit the water, and open doors and windows at home should be monitored.

“It doesn’t take long for a bear to access a house, and that’s definitely a very hazardous situation,” Gravel said.

“So we’re asking the residents to be very, very diligent with open access to their houses.”

The COS has procured a capture net to assist with relocations (in October of last year, a sow died in a fall from a tree after being tranquilized, prompting outrage from the community).

“We did some training and practiced with it. We didn’t use it in a real scenario yet, but it’s in Whistler ready to go if it’s needed, and we’ll use it when it makes sense to use it,” Gravel said, adding that, while it’s possible to deploy the net alone, it’s quicker and easier with multiple officers.

“So in a situation that they will be needed, most likely we will either have two officers or we’ll ask for assistance.”

While Whistler is lucky to have one officer and another officer-in-training stationed locally, it’s also a very busy time of year for the COS, Gravel noted.

“We also have a presence on the water making sure the people that are paddle boarding or boating have the proper safety equipment, and we also enforce the Fisheries Act and the Wildlife Act for angling-related issues,” Gravel said.

“So right now it’s very busy on the river in Squamish and the lakes in Whistler with the nice weather, so we have a presence there and we’re making sure people follow regulations.

“But we do have three officers in Squamish and we obviously support the entire zone here, so we go where it’s needed.”

Report bears in residential areas by phoning 1-877-952-7277.

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How tech is changing the way tourism hotspots are marketed DMOS LIKE TOURISM WHISTLER USE TROVES OF ONLINE DATA TO CREATE HIGHLY PERSONALIZED, TARGETED ADS

BY BRANDON BARRETT AS TRAVELLERS around the world increasingly move to online booking platforms, the way tourism destinations market themselves has undergone a transformational shift, with highly personalized, targeted messaging replacing more traditional forms of advertising.

“The world of travel and travel marketing has really changed a lot, even in the five years I’ve been in this role,” said Destination BC CEO and president Marsha Walden, addressing a Whistler Chamber of Commerce luncheon last month. “So it’s really important that we, as an industry and us as a leadership organization in the industry are superb in how we leverage digital platforms, how we create compelling content that really motivates visitation, and how we share what we know and what tools we have with the rest of the industry.”

Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) strive to personalize their marketing in order to gauge a potential visitor’s “indicators of intent” and target advertising

or watched one of our videos. Based on that, we can then serve them an appropriate next course of action.”

But it’s not just TW content that the DMO can glean insights from. Increasingly, B.C. tourism organizations are “focused on creating shared technologies, shared platforms, shared content systems, shared expertise and shared data repositories that each of us will be able to leverage,” said Walden.

TW, for example, has partnered with Destination BC and Tourism Vancouver on a shared information network called “The Data Hub.” “Through that, we’ve been able to achieve more economies of scale by leveraging different technology platforms and data-sharing platforms,” Hume said.

The troves of data being leveraged also gives DMOs a better sense of broader trends in visitation—although it’s far from an exact science, conceded Cox. “We always talk about how the Holy Grail for us would be to truly be able to attribute the success of a marketing campaign to people physically being on the ground here in Whistler,” she noted. “I wouldn’t

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accordingly, explained Helena Cox, senior manager of content marketing and partnerships for Tourism Whistler (TW).

“Ultimately what we’re trying to achieve is showing consumers the right content at the right time that really aligns with their interests and the state that they’re at in their trip planning,” she said.

If a user is considering a number of destinations online, for instance, TW may show them “a piece of inspirational video content on our website or blog that showcases the beauty of Whistler,” Cox said. But if a consumer has already booked their Whistler vacation, TW may instead target them with a blog about how to plan or pack for their trip.

“We’re really talking about … a digital footprint,” said Kim Hume, TW’s senior manager of data marketing and creative services. “We do a lot of remarketing that we have a lot of success with. So that’s based on maybe someone that’s either read a blog post, opened our email and clicked,

say that we’ve completely cracked that with technology yet, but there are certainly pieces of technology that are developing and evolving and we’re testing to hopefully get us to that point in the end.”

Given growing concerns around overtourism, Walden also encouraged tourism providers to think of ways that digital technology can be used to help disperse visitation, citing a Visit London mobile app launched last year that incentivized tourists to explore lesser known parts of the British capital.

Along with promoting slower midweek and shoulder season periods, TW uses its various channels to “showcase responsible tourism and promote conscious travel to Whistler,” Cox said. “We’re really trying to highlight important key messages to visitors from around the world who might not otherwise know things that are important, such as how to be bear-aware, how to be AdventureSmart, how to be fire-smart—that kind of thing is a real focus for us.” n

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Possible arson has Pemberton police on lookout for suspect POLICE BRIEFS: SHOPLIFTERS HIT VILLAGE STORES; SHAMBHALA TICKET FRAUD

BY BRANDON BARRETT PEMBERTON RCMP is asking the public for help identifying a suspect linked to a possible arson last week, according to a release.

At about 5:20 p.m. last Tuesday, July 30, local police received a report of a suspicious fire in the 7400 block of Urdal Road. Mounties said pedestrians in the area had noticed smoke coming from a brush area on the north side of the Arn Canal. One witness also reported seeing a young male running from the area shortly after the fire was discovered.

Pemberton Fire Rescue noted another suspicious fire on July 28 in the same general area, police said.

The suspect is thought to be in his late teens or early twenties, and was wearing a dark hoodie, dark pants and sunglasses at the time. Investigators said he was alone and left the area on foot.

Anyone with information on either of these fires is asked to contact the Pemberton RCMP at 604-894-6634, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous.

SHOPLIFTERS HIT VILLAGE STORES Whistler police have released security footage of a group of apparent shoplifters after several village stores reported thefts over a number of days this summer.

On June 29 and July 1, Whistler RCMP said it received several reports of stolen merchandise from a number of retail locations in the 4400 block of Sundial Place and the 4200 block of Mountain Square.

Investigators indicated the thefts reportedly took place over a number of days.

Security footage from June 29 captured four males appearing to be in their early twenties walk into a store and “look around

SHOPLIFTING SUSPECTS Police have released still images from security footage of four men linked to a series of thefts from several Whistler Village stores this summer.

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prior to selecting merchandise” before leaving the shop without paying, police said in a release.

Now, Mounties are releasing screenshots of the footage in the hopes the public can assist in identifying the suspects.

Anyone with relevant information is asked to contact the Whistler RCMP at 604-9323044, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

WHISTLER POLICE WARN OF SHAMBHALA TICKET SCAM Local police are warning of apparent fraud after several Shambhala Music Festival hopefuls were reportedly defrauded while trying to purchase secondhand tickets.

Whistler RCMP said it received several reports of the apparent scam on July 31 after trying to buy tickets on the popular Whistler Buy and Sell Facebook page.

The purchasers were asked to e-transfer money with a promise the tickets would arrive via email. When the victims enquired about refunds after their tickets failed to arrive, police said in a release they were given “a series of excuses” before the alleged scammer eventually cut off communication.

“Police are reminding folks to be cautious when it comes to purchasing secondhand tickets from unknown sites or persons and to report any suspicious behaviour or transaction to the police,” the release went on.

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Whistler woman and Syrian ‘man from the airport’ working to bring 200 refugees to Canada WHISTLER COULD POTENTIALLY HOUSE HANDFUL FROM GROUP CURRENTLY DETAINED IN AUSTRALIA

BY BRANDON BARRETT YOU COULD EXCUSE Hassan Al Kontar for wanting to take some time to himself after the Syrian refugee spent seven months languishing in a Malaysian airport terminal last year. But with the platform he’s gained as one of the most visible figures of the global refugee crisis, the 38-year-old is committed to giving a voice to those who have none.

“It’s a matter of obligation to me,” Al Kontar said of his refugee advocacy work since being granted asylum in Canada last November. “I still receive hundreds of messages from individuals all across the world: homeless people, powerless people asking for help. I can’t help on an individual basis, but when it comes to groups, like Operation Not Forgotten, I can be really helpful.”

Al Kontar has teamed up with Whistlerite Laurie Cooper, who led the push to bring the Syrian to Canada, along with non-profit organizations Canada Caring Society and MOSAIC to sponsor roughly 200 “forgotten” refugees currently detained on

the Australian islands of Nauru and Manus.

(They are part of a larger group of close to 900 refugees detained on the islands, 650 of which are eligible for asylum in the U.S.) In 2013, Australia’s then-coalition government toughened its asylum laws, which gave the military the power to intercept and bar migrant boats from entering the country.

In the run-up to May’s national election, there was hope among the detained refugees

and advocates that a Labor Party victory could lead to a loosening of Australia’s asylum policy. But after a surprise win by the Liberal-National coalition, the hope for resettlement began to fade.

“About three days after the election, I started hearing reports through my Facebook friends, who are refugee advocates working from Australia, that the refugees were in such despair after the election results that they were self-harming

and attempting suicide,” Cooper relayed.

“Within three days there had been nine suicide attempts, and now I think there have been more than 120 suicide attempts.

They’ve given up all hope.”

Discussing the issue with her daughter, Cooper, who has co-sponsored roughly 50 refugees to come to Canada, “flippantly said, ‘Maybe I should help them.” By the following

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POLICE BRIEFS FROM PAGE 18 Shambhala is an EDM festival near Salmo, B.C. that has historically been a popular destination for Whistler festivalgoers. It’s scheduled to run from Aug. 9 to 12.

MISSING ALBERTA WOMAN THOUGHT TO BE IN WHISTLER HAS BEEN LOCATED A missing Alberta woman who was thought to be in the Whistler area has been located,

confirmed RCMP. Christine “Tink” Newman had been last seen in Claresholm, Alta. on July 8, however, local police said her bankcard was used to hire a taxi in Whistler on July 17. The 29-year-old was found over the weekend, thanks in part to media reports on her disappearance, police said.

“In this case, it appears as though—I don’t know if it was your [report] or perhaps Alberta’s, but it was through your help and the public’s awareness that helped us find her,” Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes

told Pique on Tuesday morning, Aug. 6.

A former skeleton athlete, Newman had previously trained at the Whistler Sliding Centre. She made national news in 2014 after getting trapped in a tree well in Garibaldi Provincial Park for more than seven hours.

Near cardiac arrest at the time of her rescue, Newman received approximately four hours of continuous CPR, believed to be one of “a half dozen people in medical history that have had CPR for that long [and recovered],” Dr. Doug Brown, a leading expert on mountain rescue protocol, said at the time. n

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WCSS becomes official naloxone distribution site COMMUNITY SERVICE PROVIDER OFFERS FREE KITS AND TRAINING TO INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLERITES NOW have greater access to naloxone—the life-saving drug that counteracts the effects of an opioid overdose—thanks to the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) being named an official naloxone kit distribution site.

The social-service provider had lobbied for official designation as a Toward the Heart take-home naloxone site for the past two years, but “there were questions around whether or not we would distribute enough kits to be an official site,” explained Jackie Dickinson, executive director of WCSS. In the interim, WCSS outreach workers referred clients to the second floor of the Whistler Health Care Centre or a local pharmacy to obtain the kits. But thanks to a surge in interest from resort employers, WCSS recently obtained official designation from the BC Centre for Disease Control as a distribution site, one of 1,643 across the province.

“It was more an ask coming from the community that culminated in this happening,” noted Gizem Kaya, outreach worker and program manager for community development at WCSS. Kaya added that, in the past month alone, WCSS

has administered training and handed out approximately 100 naloxone kits to staff from The Adventure Group, Whistler Blackcomb and Gibbons Whistler.

There have been roughly 158,000 kits distributed throughout B.C. since the provincial take-home naloxone program was launched in 2012, and approximately 45,000 overdose reversals reported, said Dr. Jane Buxton, medical lead for harm reduction at

the BC Centre for Disease Control.

A side effect of having the naloxone kits more readily accessible is that it helps to spark a conversation around drug use in the midst of B.C.’s opiate crisis, added Buxton.

“People start talking about overdose,” she said. “It helps that discussion and that can reduce stigma when people think about who may be at risk and who needs to have a kit.”

The province set a new record last year with 1,510 overdose deaths, 87 per cent of which involved the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl and its analogues, up from just 25 per cent in 2012. Those numbers have levelled off this year, with overdose deaths down 32 per cent through the first three months of 2019.

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AUSTRALIAN REFUGEES FROM PAGE 20 morning, it was decided. “’Goddamn it,’” she thought to herself, “I should just sponsor them all to come to Canada.’”

If successful, the refugees would arrive through Ottawa’s private sponsorship program, which requires the group to raise the necessary funds to support them during their first year in Canada. Between $3.3 million and $4.1 million would need to be raised, of which approximately $200,000 has already come in from Australia.

“There are really, really good people in Australia who want to help the refugees and they are devastated they can’t bring the refugees to Australia,” Cooper added.

Cooper said there is a potential to bring a handful of refugees—who primarily hail

from Iran, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, she noted—to Whistler, where 13 Syrian and Afghani refugees have already settled, including Al Kontar, who moved to Vancouver in May. Cooper also recently approached the Rotary Club of Whistler about leveraging its local and national network for potential funds, as well as assist in the refugees’ eventual settlement here.

(Five individuals are required to commit to supporting each privately sponsored refugee.)

“Rotary clubs are community service organizations,” said club member and former president Ken Martin. “They are a 100-per-cent volunteer and we raise money to help raise local and international

initiatives; this just happens to be both a local and international initiative.”

Although Syrian refugees like Al Kontar have garnered much of the West’s media attention, he believes it’s essential the stories of the 25.9 million refugees around the world are shared—and hopefully viewed in a new light.

“People always hear about us from the news, but never from us directly,” he said. “That’s why, in my opinion, we need to humanize the issue, to let them hear directly from us and to show them that, yes, we may need the help, but what we need more is an opportunity to help ourselves.”

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 21 “It’s no cause for celebration,” said Buxton of the decrease. “It’s still far, far higher than it should be. Opioid overdoses are preventable; they should not happen.”

Getting a handle on fentanyl use in Whistler has proved challenging. The BC Coroners Service breaks down overdose deaths by health service region—there were 39 illicit overdose deaths last year in the North Shore-Coast Garibaldi region, which encompasses Whistler. But the provincial agency doesn’t typically drill down to community-specific figures when the number of deaths per year falls below 10, primarily due to privacy concerns, a guideline that has drawn criticism from Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, medical health officer for the Sea to Sky. In March, Whistler RCMP reported that fentanyl was found in drugs seized as part of a drug trafficking investigation, the first time local police confirmed the presence of fentanyl through a forensic analysis.

Although firm numbers are hard to come by, given the prevalence of recreational drug use here—fentanyl and its analogues can be cut into powders or pressed into pills and are often mixed with other drugs— Whistler remains at risk.

“There is a misconception that this opiate crisis is concentrated to the Greater Vancouver Area and the Downtown Eastside. The truth is that people are dying, and primarily in this opiate crisis it’s men who are 35 and up who live in

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rural communities,” said Dickinson. “We really felt that a rural community such as ours is at risk and we know our substance use here is high. It’s important to talk about.”

WCSS has also made a point of raising awareness of the kits through its social media channels as well as diagrams at its main Nesters Road office when clients come in.

“That’s essential,” Dickinson said. “If people have to ask for it and there are no visual cues to remind them that this place has this service, then what’s the point?”

The take-home naloxone kits are available at WCSS’s office from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For

individuals interested in picking up a kit, WCSS recommends calling in advance to ensure there is an outreach worker present to administer a 15-minute training session.

WCSS is also available to deliver group training to local employers.

FREE LEGAL SUPPORT NOW AVAILABLE ACROSS SEA TO SKY Legal advice is now available for free to financially restricted individuals in the Sea to Sky thanks to the Sea to Sky Community Services Society (SSCS).

The social service provider recently

launched its Poverty Law Advocacy program, which offers residents of Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton “assistance at tribunals and hearings in housing matters between tenant and landlords, human rights issues, appealing Assistance Benefits denials, and other legal matters,” according to a release.

“Often, people are simply not aware of their legal rights,” said Peter Kabengele with the SSCS in the release. “This new program is designed to give free advocacy and assistance to those in the Sea to Sky Corridor who may not otherwise be able to afford this kind of support.”

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Tiny toads migrating en masse at Lost Lake CLOSURES REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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migration is once again underway at Lost Lake, and the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has closed the lake’s access road, parking lot, beach and events lawn for their protection.

The closures will be in effect until further notice.

The east portion of the Valley Trail past the Lost Lake washrooms is also closed, as are the beach cut trail and adjacent nature trail.

All other Lost Lake trails remain open for now.

It was a very busy long weekend at Lost Lake, said Mayor Jack Crompton on August 6.

“Our toad contractors and our many volunteers worked hard directing park visitors and helping toads cross busy trails throughout the weekend,” Crompton said.

“On Sunday, the whole beach area, parking lot and access road were covered with toads, so it was definitely a good call to have the beach and portions of the Valley Trail closed off.”

The RMOW asks that residents and visitors watch for signage indicating “active migration zones” and watch their step and

TOAD PATROL Whistler’s annual western toad migration is in full swing at Lost Lake.

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walk bikes in these areas as “toadlets” are no bigger than the size of a dime and can be easily crushed underfoot.

“Currently there are still hundreds of toads on the beach and surrounding lawn areas,” Crompton said.

“The irrigation has been turned off now in an effort to make the conditions less ideal and in hopes that the toadlets will start leaving the area. Unfortunately, with the hot

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and dry temperatures the toads tend to slow down and hide out in moist and cool areas.

“It is hard to predict when the beach can re-open, but hopefully by the end of the week the majority of the toads will have moved out of the area.”

The RMOW’s environmental technicians and volunteers remain onsite monitoring the situation and helping toads cross the Valley Trail to forest areas.

The free Lost Lake Shuttle is still running, but visitors will now be dropped at the entrance to Lost Lake Road on Blackcomb Way. Food trucks scheduled for Lost Lake are also cancelled during the access closure.

The toad migration is an annual event at Lost Lake, with tens of thousands of tiny western toads migrating from the beach area in Lost Lake Park to the surrounding forest areas every year.

The migration typically occurs between the end of July and end of August and takes two to four weeks.

At their busiest, an estimated 1,800 toads cross the beach trail every hour Weather conditions can significantly alter their behaviour, but the toadlets tend to be most active in crossing areas from 8 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. during the migration period, according to the RMOW. “In addition to permanent features, a number of temporary fences, signs [and] boardwalks are installed closer to the migration area,” Crompton said.

“Monitoring the stages and development of the tadpoles throughout the summer enables the RMOW to proactively prepare for the migration and focus on public education.”

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FortisBC considers moving compressor to Woodfibre LNG site SQUAMISH BRIEF: CARBON ENGINEERING GETS FEDERAL MONEY TO BUILD A NEW INNOVATION CENTRE IN SQUAMISH

BY JENNIFER THUNCHER AND KEILI BARTLETT / SQUAMISH CHIEF THE POTENTIAL site for the controversial compressor station, related to the Eagle Mountain—Woodfibre Gas Pipeline Project, is being reconsidered—again.

FortisBC confirmed late last month that it is considering moving the compressor station from Mount Mulligan to the Woodfibre LNG site.

“In response to feedback from the community, we are evaluating the possibility of locating the new Squamish compressor station at or near the Woodfibre site,” said Vanessa Connolly, senior manager of external relations with FortisBC. “We are currently carrying out a feasibility assessment. If a new location is chosen, we would follow all necessary regulatory processes.”

Squamish Nation leadership said it is aware of the possible change, but didn’t express an opinion on the move.

“As one of the local governments, the Nation will review any changes in the scope of the project and will await further information and analysis,” said Khelsilem, Nation spokesperson and councillor.

Mayor Karen Elliott said the District is in talks with both Woodfibre LNG and FortisBC as plans for the LNG facility progress.

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“We have been informed that FortisBC is looking at whether or not a site on or near the Woodfibre LNG site may be suitable for a compressor station, and expect more information in the fall once they complete their due diligence,” she said in an email.

The compressor station was initially slated for the Squamish Business Park, but opposition from residents and

seriously,” she said. “This is also an opportunity for FortisBC to do the right thing and use electricity to power the compressor station, which means less local air pollution.”

Saxby added that the group would like more information about the relocation to Woodfibre, in particular about the safety of placing the facility so close to

“If a new location is chosen, we would follow all necessary regulatory processes.”

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the Squamish Nation led to the Mount Mulligan, Valleycliffe location to be chosen instead.

Valleycliffe residents and representatives with the Squamish-based environmental activist group My Sea to Sky were not happy with the Mount Mulligan location, 1.8 kilometres from residences.

Noise, proximity to drinking water sources, greenhouse gas emissions and other safety concerns were also cited as issues with the Valleycliffe location.

The Woodfibre LNG site is about seven kilometres southwest of Squamish.

My Sea to Sky’s Tracey Saxby said the move to relocate the planned facility is a step in the right direction.

“We appreciate that FortisBC has taken our safety concerns about the location of the compressor station on Mount Mulligan

the liquefaction plant and floating LNG storage units.

SQUAMISH’S CARBON ENGINEERING GETS FEDERAL LOAN Carbon Engineering received a loan of $25 million from the federal government to help create a new innovation centre in Squamish.

“This new project will, over time, create 450 new jobs, maintain over 50 existing jobs, will promote further clean-tech innovation and will protect our environment as Carbon Engineering will use this funding to develop and deploy clean technologies that will help to mitigate the impacts of climate change,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, the federal Minister of Fisheries, Oceans on June 25 in Squamish.

“Today’s announcement is about attracting investment. It’s about creating high-skill jobs, it’s about developing Canadian expertise and making sure innovation is something that happens here in communities like Squamish and across this country.”

The new Newport Innovation Centre on Squamish’s oceanfront will include a research and development facility, lab and offices as Carbon Engineering continues to develop its direct-air capture and Air-toFuels technology for commercial use.

The centre will act as a model for commercial plants to be built in Canada and internationally.

David Keith, the founder of Carbon Engineering, said the centre would be operational in two and a half years. The project is currently in the late stages of engineering, and contracts will be issued early next year. Approximately 100 people will be employed within two years.

The loan repayment would begin at a favourable interest rate once the company’s commercial operation is running.

“In the end, the prize is deployment,” Keith said at the announcement. “The prize is making a real difference to the global environment, making a real difference to the economy of this country. That work, to be honest—despite all our success—is still in the future.”

This funding will be combined with the $91 million Carbon Engineering raised earlier this year in a private investment round.

It will go toward the commercial deployment of the technology at full scale, up to one million tonnes of carbon annually, Keith said. n

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Canadian climbers receive Piolets d’Or nods

BY DAN FALLOON THREE CANADIAN climbers received a mention on the long list of the Piolets d’Or mountaineering awards last month.

The awards, which are given out at the Ladek Mountain Festival in Poland in September, revealed Max Fisher, Alik Berg and the late Marc-Andre Leclerc as part of the list. In all, 58 “significant and innovative ascents” were recognized.

Fisher, a Vancouver Island resident, was included for his ascent of 2,410-metre Punta Pantagruel in northern Patagonia with Chile’s Felipe Cancino and American Willy Oppenheimer in February 2018.

When he looks at the list, he’s thrilled to see himself included alongside names such as Slovenia’s Luka Lindic.

“It’s a surprise, I can tell you that,” he said. “It’s kind of funny when you go out and do things you really like to do and then you get some recognition for it. It’s sometimes hard to believe.

“When you hear Piolets d’Or as a climber or alpinist, it’s a big deal.”

Fisher worked for 10 years with National Outdoor Leadership School, an American-based school working internationally, which is where he met Cancino. Oppenheimer, meanwhile, he connected with while skiing and climbing

CHILEAN CLIMB Willy Oppenheimer and Max

Fisher packing up on the Punta Pantagruel summit looking south over the northern icefield.

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in the northwestern United States.

Cancino had photos of a new climb on Punta Pantagruel, and the team was on board after seeing them.

“It was Felipe’s idea to go in there. This time, he asked both of us, Willy and I, to go,” he said. “We weren’t necessarily sold on which aspects we were going to climb until we got down there and looked at it. The east face seemed like it made the most sense, and with our window, we only had a short few days of good weather.”

At the top of the 350-m Brisa Sauve (or “soft breeze”) peak, the trio thought they might have another day to climb and saw another peak to summit, which they called Cerro Fantasma (or “ghost peak”).

“We looked across and we looked at the map and we thought, ‘That peak looks sweet.’ It’s not actually on the map, so we thought we should do our best to put this on the map,” Fisher said of the 2,252-m climb. “It looked like it made sense that we could cover the distance, climb the feature and that aspect and get back to camp because it’s a bit of a longer day. You walk 15 kilometres there and back.”

While it was a great feeling to summit new territory, Fisher said it was also important for helping UBC PhD student Camilo Rada re-map the entire ice fields in the region. However, it can be challenging to set out on the new territory, especially mid-expedition. “[Maps are] not very accurate in Patagonia. They’re maps that the military made,” he said. “The glare of the snow on the ice fields creates a big white blotch on the map. They don’t know what elevation

necessarily is. You just have to go and see, then you can pick and choose as a climber if you’re going to explore and see things.

“You don’t necessarily know what you need to bring in terms of gear. It can make it a little more logistically challenging.

Maybe you’re going to bring more than you actually do need.

“But that’s just part of the process of exploring things that haven’t really been explored before.”

For the new Cerro Fantasma climb, conditions were near ideal, Fisher recalled.

“The day was beautiful. There was no wind, which is rare down there. When we got to the base of the face, it looked like fairly moderate terrain, so not too hard,” he said. “Because there was so much snow, we had to climb in winter style so it made it a little bit slower.

“The first few pitches were moderate and then we got into some more tricky mixed climbing. Then Felipe led us up to this little chimney onto the ridge. It was just a few more pitches.”

Those final few pitches, Fisher explained, were affected by the moist Patagonian air—when it’s windy, the moisture sticks to the rocks “like plaster, almost,” which can make it difficult to navigate.

Fisher said he has thought about returning to Patagonia, as some other potential climbs caught his eye.

Alik Berg, a Canmore resident, made the list for a climb a little bit closer to home, ascending Mount Temple, just south of Lake Louise, via a new route. Berg, who completed the 3,547-m climb solo in

December 2018, has been included in the Piolets d’Or long list before and downplayed his nomination this year.

Berg had long hoped to complete an east-face climb on Mount Temple, but needed low-snow and low-temperature conditions to come together just right.

“I’ve climbed Mount Temple a bunch over the years,” he said. “I hadn’t climbed the east face, which is a roadside thing you see driving by all the time. It requires specific conditions, so I’d had my eye on it for a long time.

“The ice doesn’t form at that elevation until into December, or late November. It’s ideally an early-season route, but it has to be cold enough for those pitches to be formed.”

Berg said his ascent was easier than the routes on the north face, especially technically, though he noted that it’s still a lot of terrain to cover in one day.

The late Leclerc received two nominations, one for a 2,439-m ascent with the United Kingdom’s Tom Livingstone on Mount Slesse and for the 2,106-m ascent of the Mendenhall Tower with American Ryan Johnson. Both died on the descent.

In addition to Berg’s nomination and Leclerc’s Mount Slesse climb, two other accomplishments from within Canada received nods: Americans Chris Wright and Graham Zimmerman’s 2,883-m summit of Mount MacDonald, and the ascent of Mount Blane by American Brette Harrington and New Zealand’s Rose Pearson.

For a complete list, visit: www. planetmountain.com/en/news/alpinism/ piolets-dor-2019-jury-big-list-worlds-mostsignificant-innovative-mountain-climbs.html. n

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Mountain News: Why this airplane slammed into the side of a mountain allen.best@comcast.net CANMORE, ALTA. – Deprivation of the oxygen adequate for proper functioning of the brain and other parts of the body is a condition called hypoxia. It famously occurs among mountain climbers who have ascended too rapidly without acclimatization or, at extreme heights, like the top of Everest, all climbers.

It also affects air passengers, including the pilot of a small plane that crashed near a mountain summit south of Banff and Canmore in August 2018. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has found that oxygen deprivation “likely played a role” in the crash that killed the pilot and a survey technician.

The Piper PA-31 had taken off from Penticton, B.C., and, after two hours of survey work, was heading towards Calgary, flying at about 4,572 metres above sea level when, according to a flight data monitoring system, things went awry.

The plane had a portable oxygen system, but the pilot was not continuously using it, according to the monitor, which included a camera. Use of oxygen is required when 4,000 metres above sea level. Onset of hypoxia can be slow and gradual, so it’s likely the pilot did not recognize the symptoms.

At sea level, air contains 20.9 per cent oxygen. In Aspen and Vail, the oxygen content lowers to 15.4 per cent. It drops to 11.8 per cent atop Washington state’s Mount Rainier, which is 4,392 metres. Atop Everest, it’s at 6.9 per cent.

A 2014 article in Flying magazine explained that linking hypoxia and accidents was hard. Even so, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s aviation accident database listed 24 accidents related to hypoxia in the prior decade, 22 of them resulting in fatalities.

One of them occurred in 2003, when a pilot with three passengers took off from north of Denver with a destination of Las Vegas. The pilot at one point told air traffic controllers he thought he was above Montrose when, in fact, he was above Telluride, a distance of about an hour by car. The crash occurred near La Sal Junction, Utah, south of Moab.

WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING IN BANFF BANFF, Alta.—When rescuers arrived on a mountain slope in Banff National Park to attend to a 28-year-old woman, she wasn’t sure why she had summoned them by cell phone. She had said she was disoriented and had some memory loss, but she wasn’t sure why.

What the rescue team quickly discerned from talking with her and seeing her melted clothing was that she had been struck by lightning. Whether it was by ground

currents or by direct strike isn’t clear. She was hospitalized.

Any time you get struck by lightning or get struck by ground currents that are strong, you are lucky to survive. “It was an extremely close call, and it could have turned out a lot worse,” said Banff spokesman Brian Webster.

The Rocky Mountain Outlook noted the general rules-of-thumb on lightning: get off summits or other high points, get rid of ice axes, hiking poles, or other metal objects, keep moving downhill rather than just hunkering down, and if your hair stands on end or you hear a buzzing sound, like the sound of bees, skedaddle—and not upward.

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BY ALLEN BEST

A-BASIN SWITCHES SIDES AFTER 22 YEARS WITH VAIL RESORTS DILLON, Colo.— Arapahoe Basin last week announced it was joining Alterra Mountain Resorts pass system after ending its affiliation with Vail Resorts after 22 years.

In February, the company announced it was not renewing its partnership in Vail’s Epic Pass program. It suggested that Vail Resorts was producing more skiers than its infrastructure could accommodate.

“While the mountain still has plenty of room for skiers and riders, the ski area is feeling a pinch on parking and facility space,” the company said. “Due to these constraints, Arapahoe Basin believes its staff can take better care of its guests by separating from Vail Resorts.”

No room exists for a new parking lots along U.S. Highway 6 at the base of

“Due to these constraints, Arapahoe Basin believes its staff can take better care of its guests by separating from Vail Resorts.”

Loveland Pass. Alan Henceroth, the chief executive, told the Summit Daily News that a multimillion-dollar parking garage wasn’t a viable option.

He declined to say exactly how many people were visiting A-Basin’s slopes on Vail Resorts’ passes, but he conceded it’s a big number.

The ski area along the Continental Divide was founded in 1946 by 10th Mountain Division veteran Larry Jump.

It has the third-highest elevation among Colorado ski resorts, 13,050 feet, just shy of 4,000 metres, but lower than top elevations of Silverton Mountain and Telluride. n

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ECOLOGIC

‘War in the Woods’ I FIRST GAVE MONEY to environmental groups back in the 1980s when I had none to my name. It was one of the best investments I ever made.

Never one to suffer solicitous strangers, the parade of earnest folks who came knocking while I was a graduate student in Waterloo, Guelph and Toronto were a different and more persuasive breed. Though I empathized with causes like panda conservation and biodiversity loss in the Amazonian rainforest, these door-to-door diligents presented an issue of comparable urgency and scope closer to home: the wanton destruction of British Columbia’s old-growth rainforests by rapacious logging companies and a province

BY LESLIE ANTHONY rabid for revenue at any cost. Thus, a parade of sandaled, bearded emissaries slung with colourful Central American wool satchels found succour on my doorstep, flipping through binder photos of behemoth trees and sign-riddled blockades from our country’s West Coast.

Though the imagery was compelling, it wasn’t exactly a revelation. This was also the stuff of national—and often international—news at the time. But being an evolutionary ecologist who’d seen firsthand the inexplicable clearcuts of B.C.’s scant remaining old growth and who well understood the ravages of anachronistic forest practices, I was predisposed to join the

on the forest floor. The fight that most encapsulated this to the world took place 27 summers ago.

On April 13, 1993, after a decade of logging embroilments in the area, and despite zero First Nations consultation, B.C.’s NDP government of the day announced a landuse decision for Clayoquot Sound it believed would balance environmental, economic and social needs. On paper it reduced the annual allowable cut by a third and took back 95,000 hectares from forest companies which, added to existing set-asides, protected 33.4 per cent of the land base and sequestered a further 17.6 per cent in “special management areas.” This fooled no one, as everyone understood 66 per cent of the area remained open to logging.

This sparked a massive protest that saw Clayoquot Sound become another symbol on the international map of all that was wrong with industrial logging—a touchstone for a change in forestry practices that would preserve some of what should be heritage birthright for all British Columbians.

Over the summer, the region became the beating heart of a widespread environmental awakening, inspiring largescale peaceful actions and engendering a strategy since utilized in environmental campaigns around the globe. In addition to government and logging companies, protestors targeted global corporate customers of B.C. wood and paper products, costing the province millions. The scofflaw industry circled its wagons, but to no avail.

Although the protests wrapped in October 1993, the so-called “War in the Woods”—Canada’s largest-ever act of civil disobedience—saw 12,000-plus protesters,

... polarization eventually deliquesced into important accomplishments and breakthroughs ... fight. Thus I came to revere battlegrounds like Haida Gwaii’s South Moresby, and Vancouver Island’s Carmanah Valley, Meares Island, and Clayoquot Sound; my frontline heroes comprised Haida and other First Nations, the Western Canadian Wilderness Committee, and the Friends of Clayoquot Sound; the enemies were forest companies like MacMillan Bloedel and toady governments who facilitated them.

I dutifully signed on to receive newsletter updates and copies of related government documents. I read a lot. I got angry. From afar I cheered on the thousands who gave enough of a damn to fight for these last redoubts of coastal biodiversity, thousands of years in the making.

Despite sympathy for the loggers— people just trying to make a living and mostly caught in the middle—it was hard to fathom the industrial-level hubris required to fell a 1,000-year-old tree with a clear conscience, or the seemingly bizarre entitlement of those who (Grant Hadwin— anti-hero of John Valliant’s The Golden Spruce notwithstanding) would continue this conceit until the last giant lay dead

856 arrests (300 in a single day), visiting celebrities like Robert Kennedy Jr., and a spontaneous concert by politico Australian band, Midnight Oil. While the fight drove a wedge between neighbouring communities like Tofino and Ucluelet, polarization eventually deliquesced into important accomplishments and breakthroughs: the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel for Sustainable Forest Practices led to B.C.’s first forest-practices code; Clayoquot’s First Nations signed a groundbreaking agreement under the province’s new treaty system; and the protests had a major influence on global environmental movements, including the Great Bear Rainforest, tarsands, and antipipeline campaigns.

As a British Columbian of two decades now, the most important upshot to me was how forest areas I now enjoy and recreate in across the province were saved from the feller by the War in the Woods—a winning cause I couldn’t be prouder to have donated to.

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OUTSIDER

A taste of stateside “BIKING AND BEER. It’s what we’re known for in this town,” says the server at Bellingham’s Structures Brewing as he slides a taster of raspberry “Juice on Juice” double IPA—a house specialty—across the bar. The

BY VINCE SHULEY pink cloudy liquid is as delicious as it looks. I waste no time in ordering another 12 ounces.

Structures is one of 13 breweries in Bellingham and surrounding Whatcom County in northern Washington State. With a population of just over 90,000 people, the city has one of the highest concentrations of breweries per capita in the United States.

My partner and I have already resigned ourselves to the fact that we probably won’t be able to sample all 13 breweries in the space of a weekend, so we’ve been combing the locals’ recommendations on which venues to prioritize. Structures—along with its needs-no-introduction raspberry double IPA—was one of them. After an hour of knocking back some of Bellingham’s finest, admiring the hard rock-themed decor and a full growler firmly wedged in the backseat, our designated driver moves us on to the next brewery on the list.

CYCLING SOUTH OF THE BORDER Sunset views from Larrabee State Park near Bellingham, Wash.

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We’re also here for Bellingham’s other major attraction—its trails. The local trail association was born out of a grassroots group of mountain bikers and diggers known as the Whatcom Independent Mountain Pedalers (WHIMPS) spearheaded

by Jim “Sully” Sullivan in the mid-to-late 1980s. The goal—much like the origin story of most mountain bike trail associations— was to clear and maintain trails and counter burgeoning anti-mountain bike efforts happening in metro areas. Mountain biking rapidly grew in the following decades, as did Bellingham’s population. WHIMPS became further involved in trail advocacy, forging cooperative agreements with both Bellingham and Whatcom County

scene; it’s close to town, it’s easily accessed from both the north and south ends and pretty much anyone can have fun here on a bike. Think of it as super-sized Lost Lake trails with jumps. We wanted to sample as much as we could in a day, so we started from the North Entrance, worked our way to the southern trails then looped back towards the car at the end of the ride.

The blue and green climbing trails are a welcome relief from the cardiacinducing climbing trails of the Sea to Sky. You cover more distance at less gradient and there are plenty of opportunities to avoid the less-exciting FSR ascents. For the more exciting descents, we confirmed our reports that Bellingham riders are fans of

Think of it as super-sized Lost Lake trails with jumps.

Parks. It was in 2002, when a large real estate development company bought Galbraith Mountain, that WHIMPs forged a groundbreaking maintenance and stewardship agreement, an agreement which stands today with a new landowner and the now federal non-profit organization WHIMPS Mountain Bike Coalition (WMBC).

Galbraith Mountain has the perfect contours to build trails of all levels, as evidenced by the webbed cluster of lines on the trail map. This area is the bread and butter of Bellingham’s mountain bike

speed and flow. Pretty much every descent trail on Galbraith features jumps, berms, wooden stunts and the occasional rock slab.

Everything has been constructed with the advanced flow trail rider in mind, such as flagged pro-line level gap jump options—on a blue trail! As fun as they are, one of the pitfalls of these types of trails is that they require repetition to be enjoyed to their potential, which doesn’t always work with a single-day sample by sojourning mountain bikers. Despite that, throughout the day we encounter locals, families, out-of-state road

tripping bros and other travelling couples, all of whom seemed to be getting the most out of their day.

Before the final descent of the day, we strike up a conversation with a group of Bellingham locals at a rest point while enjoying a view of Mount Baker jutting above the North Cascades. We comment on the Galbraith trail style and mention we’re used to the more steep and technical advanced trails up in B.C. They eagerly reply that they’ve got plenty of that, too, but you need to drive further west outside of the county lines. A lot of those trails are on the darker end of the grey scale of legitimacy, so there’s no easy Trailforks navigation or signage. A local needs to show you those places and that local should have some sort of connection to the digger that built them. With more than enough entertaining mountain biking at our fingertips in Bellingham, we leave that stone unturned for this trip.

Over the remaining course of the weekend, we ride the popular shuttle trails in Chuckanut, enjoy daily sunsets on the beach by Larrabee State Park Campground and work our way responsibly through six other breweries. With the drive home to Whistler taking less than three hours (smooth border crossing permitting), Bellingham’s beers and trails are closer than you think.

Vince Shuley has six other breweries in Bellingham he has yet to visit. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider, email vince@vinceshuley.com or Instagram @whis_vince. n

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HELPING HANDS VOLUNTEERS PLAY MAJOR ROLES IN LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND EVENTS, BUT ARE SOME ASKING TOO MUCH? > BY DAN FALLOON

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s he stood on Blackcomb Mountain running an aid station in the pouring rain, David Jenkins couldn’t help but have, at the very least, a fleeting moment wondering why.

“Very heavy rain showers turned the surrounding area into a mud bath,” he says in a phone interview. “It was a pretty tough day.”

He had not only given up a full day to help with the Salomon Coast Mountain Trail Series’ Whistler Alpine Meadows Race, starting at 5 a.m. and working late into the evening, but had driven up from Coquitlam to do so.

“It goes through my mind a number of times, especially when you’re paying out of your own pocket for travel expenses and so on,” he says. “It can take a hefty amount of money to volunteer sometimes.”

But Jenkins, who regularly helps with the seven races on the series circuit, reconsiders when he thinks about the 570 runners who set out at the beginning of that September day, including several who complete the 110-kilometre course more than 27 hours after the starting gun.

“I see this as a way of putting something back into the sport,” Jenkins says. “You see all these runners really putting their heart and soul into a race. When they stop at an aid station, you try to give them encouragement.”

Stories like Jenkins’ are common. Whistler would not be what it is without countless unpaid folks putting in hour upon hour of labour behind the scenes.

Here’s a look at how several local organizations and events rely on the efforts of volunteers to stay viable, what some are doing to ensure they don’t burn out their helpers, and how there is some controversy about some for-profit groups asking for free(ish) work.

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‘…THE VALUE WE HAVE FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS…’ With all the work it does keeping the resort ticking, the natural place to start is the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS), which at any given time boasts 50 to 60 volunteers in its ranks.

WCSS hosts those people in a variety of roles ranging from helping out at the food bank, at the Re-Build-It Centre and the Re-Use-It Centre, with the school-lunch program or with one-off fundraising events.

According to executive director Jackie Dickinson, the food bank is the core of WCSS’ volunteer operations with several of its helpers serving there for more than two decades, longer than many staff members have been with the organization.

“They’ve seen us through many different types of locations and situations. Whenever we have staff or people we’re onboarding, especially in our socialservices department, we always have them spend some time in the food bank. We encourage them to learn from the volunteers that have worked there because they hold so much information and such a wealth of understanding,” she says.

“It instantly creates a connection around the value we have for our volunteers, their knowledge, and what they have to offer.”

With food-bank volunteers often working in large groups together—10 for morning shifts and five more in the afternoon—Dickinson says there’s a social aspect to the experience that has kept the same people in place for so long.

In addition to that sense of connection, at the food bank, volunteers get to experience the direct benefit they’ve had on others in the community.

“There’s instant gratification from your work, which I think is a really big part. Sometimes we volunteer and we might be behind the scenes, which is necessary work, but we’re not sure what direct impact that has on our community,” Dickinson says. “Our food-bank volunteers can directly see the impact because they’re helping people with food-

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A newer WCSS effort is also focused on making sure people have food in their bellies. The school lunch program runs three days a week, provides food to all five of Whistler’s schools and last year, served more than 12,000 snacks to local students. That effort took 143 volunteer hours with one individual responsible for more than 60 of those. On school-lunch days, three are working with another five on-call.

Isla Robertson answered the call to help during the school year, joining school-lunch coordinator Cara Burrow once a week to prepare snacks and lunches.

“Believe it or not, in Whistler, kids still go to school and are not getting all the nourishment and nutrition that they need,” Robertson says.

Growing up in Burnaby, the 34-year-old started volunteering at a young age, helping out with the Vancouver Writers Festival when she was in high school.

Robertson enjoyed the work as well as the associated fringe benefits, such as free entry into events.

She’s gotten involved with other arts organizations, even parlaying volunteer work with Vancouver theatre The Cultch to part-time and eventually fulltime employment.

Upon moving to Whistler two years ago, she quickly reached out to Arts Whistler, offering casual help at its events as a ticket-taker and usher. While helping out an organization that aligns with her interests was important, Robertson adds that it was a quick way to get—and stay—involved in a local social circle.

“I think it’s really important to be around people you share values with and that are passionate about the things that you’re passionate about. I find that really rewarding,” she says. “Those relationships are as important as friends and family.”

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or, at times, exceed what is required.

For her part, Robertson explains it’s important to her to give more hours to a local organization, especially while she’s working less at her regular day job. She plans to return to the school-lunch program when it starts up again in the fall, and is eyeing summer roles, such as lending a hand to the Foodworx challenge during Crankworx.

“The great thing about volunteering is you can choose when you have more free time, when you have a slow week, or when the weather is terrible in Whistler in September and October, you can go in there and, when you’re spending time indoors anyway, you can reach out and ask for volunteer opportunities,” she says.

For its core programming, WCSS hopes to receive a commitment of, at minimum, six to 12 months from any potential volunteer. With roles like those in the food bank requiring strict confidentiality, there needs to be a level of trust between client and volunteer.

“In a small town, we want to respect the confidentiality of the people we serve, so everyone fills out a confidentiality agreement,” Dickinson says. “Building trust with our clients is a really integral part of building the delivery and service of that program.”

Dickinson also shone a light on an oft-forgotten but important volunteer role: serving on a board.

With WCSS, its 11 board members serve two-year terms with many choosing to sit for the maximum of eight consecutive years. After taking a break, some even return for more.

“They’re making really important, strategic decisions around the long-term strategies of our organization,” she says.

While volunteer help comes from all age groups, Dickinson says, those who can commit to a regular shift have a sense of stability.

“It can be harder for anyone, it doesn’t matter what age they are, if they don’t have secure housing or their job is somewhat unpredictable,” she says.

Meanwhile, Whistler Animals Galore (WAG) has a core group of roughly 45 volunteers—and a waitlist of approximately 80. Volunteer coordinator Robyn Bosada says because Whistler’s nature encourages

turnover, the waitlist is a helpful resource.

“It changes seasonally, since Whistler is such a transient place. Often, groups of people leave at a time, and then we’re always looking to bring on some fresh volunteers,” she says.

Those who volunteer in the shelter can sign up for either cat enrichment or dog enrichment shifts. The former involves playing with the felines and, sometimes, rearranging their rooms while the latter includes taking the dogs for walks or out into the WAG yard for some play time and, occasionally, some training.

Volunteers commit to a shift a week for at least four months, and again, trust comes into play.

“We also do have a lot of nervous animals, so it does take them quite a bit to earn the trust of the animals. That’s why we like to have them onboard longer,” Bosada says.

THE ONE-OFFS Being a resort town with a cornucopia of sporting and artistic events, there’s no shortage of short-term volunteer roles that Whistler’s festivals need filled.

The Whistler Alpine Meadows race, at which Jenkins volunteers, requires 350 to 400 shifts to be filled over the course of the weekend, says volunteer coordinator Genevieve Arnaud. With race distances of 110 kms and, new this year, 175 kms, some marshals, sweeps and aid station helpers will put in time in the dead of night as ultrarunners challenge the course.

“It always starts with whatever people can give us, but with this event, we’re looking at a couple overnight components. Last year, we had to divide it up into eight-hour or 12-hour shifts, even. There were a couple overnight shifts, but we try to minimize those as much as possible for safety,” Arnaud says.

While several locals sign up to help, a significant portion is from elsewhere. Arnaud says some, like Jenkins, help out with several of the series’ races, while competitors’ partners—and even competitors themselves—will offer help.

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extravaganza. In 2018, more than 330 volunteers from 23 different countries contributed upwards of 5,500 hours to help the 10 different crews achieve their goals. Tasks range from administrative work with the competitors or in the office, on-course marshalling and timing with both the pros and Kidsworx, and environmental initiatives such as Greenworx.

Crankworx World Tour general manager Darren Kinnaird got his start with the festival as a volunteer, starting a de facto awards crew before it became an official category. Kinnaird says he’s made sure to keep those humble beginnings in mind even as he now heads up a three-stop international tour that leans heavily on those who were once just like him.

“What makes Crankworx unique, which is what makes it unique to your spectators and your participants, also makes it unique to your volunteers, is you are so close and engaged in the action,” he says. “A lot of other festivals and events, you’re behind a fence or you can’t get close to the action or meet your heroes.”

One of the challenges event producers face that, at least currently, organizations don’t is that it can be difficult to attract the volume of volunteers needed to be successful.

“We’ve been good with numbers but we are just good. It’s always nice to have a few more people just in case unexpected things happen, like they always do,” says Arnaud, who is in her third year with the Coast Mountain Trail Series.

Over at Whistler Sport Legacies, president and CEO Roger Soane says the organization relies heavily on both long-term and short-term volunteers.

Whistler Olympic Park and, to a lesser extent, the Whistler Sliding Centre welcome a team of 65 to 85 consistent volunteers to regularly help with its programming. However, there is a greater need when either host events, as the sliding track did this past winter when the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation brought its World Championships to town. More than 150 people came to help out, but Soane says being shorthanded is common and the organization sometimes has to shift resources around to fill in the gaps.

“We’re always tapping on the same shoulder asking ‘Can you come out and help us?’” he says.

“There is always a concern that we’re not going to reach that number.”

CORPORATE VOLUNTEERISM The final edition of the Subaru Ironman Canada in Whistler came and went on July 28 with more than 1,200 volunteers stepping up during race week to make the day possible for roughly 3,300 athletes.

From the time the race landed in the resort in 2013, it was one of the region’s most divisive events.

Shutting down traffic on Highway 99 for the better part of a high-season weekend day didn’t help, and doing so in order for a multinational corporation to make a profit, with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) allocating six figures annually

through either the Resort Municipality Initiative or Municipal and Regional District Tax programs for the privilege, meant a fairly sizeable group of Whistlerites weren’t interested in giving up their time—especially after the World Triathlon Corporation was purchased by China’s multi-billion-dollar Dailan Wanda Group in 2015.

While even large events such as Crankworx insist the funds it raises go right back into the event, Ironman is unapologetic about its motivations and isn’t worried about those who feel volunteering for a profit-driven company is inappropriate.

“Definitely, the people who have that opinion don’t volunteer,” volunteer coordinator Marie-Anne Prevost says. “When I do get the chance to have a discussion with somebody about it, I always bring up the fact that every single sporting event has volunteers, whether it’s the Olympics, FIFA [World Cup] or an alpine FIS event. They all survive on volunteers and they all make lots of money.

“We are a private corporation that is a for-profit corporation, absolutely. There’s no secret about that.

However, we do need volunteers in order for the event to happen. “[Without volunteers], it would never be profitable, just like the Olympics wouldn’t be.”

(It should be noted that though large organizations such as the International Olympic Committee and FIFA bring in billions of dollars through their cornerstone events, they are technically non-profits.)

However, Ironman attracts volunteers through a quid pro quo approach, as any community group, led by a volunteer captain who rounds up 30 people to help staff an aid station, was eligible to apply for a grant through the Ironman Foundation. Several local groups did just that, with newer groups such as We Run Whistler and the Whistler Triathlon Club coming out to garner some much-needed funding in their early days.

“They apply for an Ironman Foundation grant and they get, basically, a grant, a donation to their community group,” Prevost says. “[The amount] is different. They don’t apply for the exact amount of the grant. The Ironman Foundation gives a lump sum of money to Ironman Canada and, depending on how many grants are applied for, it’s divvied up among the applications and it’s also divvied up based on how many volunteers each applicant has brought in to help.”

This year, 26 local groups are set to receive grants.

Volunteerism in a corporate context has its detractors. Though it’s rare for such circumstances to arise when non-employees give up their time to a for-profit company (and if it’s an employee, that’s a whole other issue), companies organizing troops of employee volunteers to help charities is becoming increasingly common. While increased

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corporate social responsibility through employee volunteerism can benefit a company, employees and a non-profit if done well, that’s not always the case. In a 2015 Boston Globe article, a YMCA chief operating officer described regularly encountering clueless volunteers ill prepared to actually perform the necessary labour.

There can be issues with company messaging as well, with employees finding it difficult to decipher whether their work would be truly voluntary or more encouraged by the employer, which can violate labour laws. In an article for the London School of Economics, Temple University professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, School of Media & Communication, Donnalyn Pompper, described how the efforts could go awry for both employee and employer: “As team players, some go along with a volunteer program in hopes of a positive performance review, transfer, or a promotion with greater rewards.

Should such results fail to materialize, expectancies are violated, and employees are left to ponder whether their time investment really was worth it. Forcing employees to do something they may resist could result in social media backlash, with employees using uncontrolled media to speak out against companies in real-time,” she wrote.

Pompper, however, did go on to emphasize that, done right, employees can gain new skills, companies can receive good publicity for the work, and of course, accomplishments such as building houses for the homeless, beautifying a neighbourhood or mentoring local youth are achieved.

SAYING THANKS While most volunteers don’t approach the work thinking about how it can benefit them, none would deny that it feels great to have their efforts appreciated.

As Ironman shows, some have more resources than others. Crankworx, for example, hosts a renowned wrap-up party where hundreds of prizes, some as valuable as $5,000 GT bikes, are handed out.

As well, each volunteer earns a Whistler Mountain Bike Park pass for every 12 hours worked.

WAG, meanwhile, runs a volunteer of the month program to help recognize good work.

“Once a month, we do recognize volunteers who are showing a lot of initiative and are contributing a lot to our shelter,” Bosada says, noting Moguls recently donated gift cards as an extra thank-you.

“We get everyone in the shelter to sign a card for them to show them how much we really do appreciate their help.”

The Whistler Alpine Meadows race, meanwhile, offers runners a discount on entry into future races, in addition to a swag bag and volunteer T-shirt.

Arnaud notes that at other, more established races such as the Squamish 50, incentives include presale registration, which comes in handy when the event sells out almost immediately nearly a year before the race.

“It’s hard to know who’s going to use the entry or who isn’t and try to cater to different people’s needs

or interests,” she says. “Ours is specific to running, so it just keeps it simple.”

Food often plays a central role in how organizations recognize volunteers. WCSS hosts a volunteer dinner at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler each year, while Whistler Sport Legacies also invites its volunteers to grab a bite. Soane, who makes a point to attend, adds that he’ll generally field about 30 minutes of questions from volunteers who are invested in what happens with the organization.

“They’re very engaged in what we’re doing and what we’re doing for the future. Some of them have individual interests in different sports—one might be biathlon, or sliding, or ski jumping. They have questions on what are we doing for each individual sport. How are we growing? Is the community buying in?” he says.

AVOIDING FATIGUE When it’s not unusual to go back to the same wells again and again, what keeps those people coming back fresh instead of burning out?

Soane’s approach is to treat Whistler Sport Legacies’ volunteers in the same manner as employees, so there are orientation events and clear scheduling through a centralized volunteer coordinator.

Dickinson agrees with that approach for WCSS, as professionalism is important, especially in instances that may be stressful or upsetting.

“There will be times where they’re going to come in and experience an adverse situation or a challenging person,” she says. “I think it’s always important to maintain an open line of communication to talk about the challenges they had. “[They’re] just like another worker in your environment. [They should feel] their voice has been heard, that they feel important, that they feel needed and, essentially, part of your team.”

The balance, of course, is ensuring that volunteers aren’t pushing themselves too hard, as Dickinson says it’s not unusual for people to go above and beyond to keep a commitment, even when it might be hazardous to do so, especially in contexts like the hot lunch or school lunch programs.

“What I’ve noticed is that when people make a commitment to volunteering, they don’t want to let people down,” she says. “We will have people show up who are really not well because they don’t want to let the team down. When people arrive like that, we say ‘For Food Safe standards, we can’t allow you to stay,’ but it’s amazing the commitments that people are willing to show for something they’re not getting paid for.” ■

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TRAVEL & ADVENTURE Helicopter Island in the Bacuit Bay

Paddling Pala STORY AND PHOTOS

BY TIM MORCH IT WAS a natural distraction.

I was trying to assemble my Vancouvermade Feathercraft Wisper XP collapsible sea kayak, but my eyes were repeatedly drawn to the implausibly clear, blue-green sea dotted with islands. The Karst limestone outcroppings of panoramic Bacuit Bay exploded from the water to extraordinary heights, demanding attention. My eyes darted from the kayak’s frame assembly to another island and back. I could hardly wait to begin the adventure.

Palawan is the southernmost province in the Philippines, boasting more than 1,700 islands, nearly 25 per cent of the more than 7,100 islands that make up the Philippines. It is the second-largest archipelago. Although designation as a fish and wildlife sanctuary in 1967 has only slowed illegal fishing and logging, it remains a nature lover’s paradise.

Loaded with our Hennessy Hammocks, cook stove, food and lots of water, my friend Ian Taylor and I departed CorongCorong, just south of El Nido and, pointing ourselves south, we set out for Port Barton.

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starboard beam set the tone crossing Bacuit Bay with “Amihan,” the Filipino term for the season dominated by powerful northeast trade winds that blow from midDecember until mid-April, making itself felt. We stayed in the lee, on the west side of the island, to avoid its brunt.

Across the bay, we tucked into sheltered water behind Antalula Island. A classic clamshell beach revealed itself in the cliffs and the promise of a stunning sunset drew us ashore. But as we were early, we decided to continue to another sunset beach on a nearby island.

The islands of the Bacuit Archipelago are mostly empty and it looks like open season for camping until you stumble on an unmarked resort, or discover the island is privately owned and armed guards tell you to leave. Such was our experience as the dream of a secluded sunset on Pangalusian Island was dashed when we paddled into a major construction project—600 labourers working 24/7 building a luxury resort defied the desolation indicated on the chart and GPS. However, as we cast our gaze across the strait we noticed a beach dotted with a few bamboo homes beckoning. Beaching our kayaks, we were welcomed by Roy, a

construction worker living in the area. He spoke English and was full of information, including a key piece of data: Palawan was under a Signal 1 typhoon warning.

Accepting Roy’s invitation to hang our hammocks in a sturdy mangrove storm shelter turned out to be a good idea, as strong winds and heavy rains raged all night.

By morning, it appeared the storm had passed, an observation confirmed by Roy, who said it was 420 kilometres offshore.

We set out thinking all was well.

Indeed, the rolling waves in southwestern Bacuit Bay diminished as we rounded a headland and entered the

northern end of Endeavour Strait. For the next few hours, the sea was like glass.

In a fishing village near Malampaya Sound, we gleaned from the locals that they were concerned about the typhoon, but trusting what Roy had said earlier we carried on, blissfully unaware of the intense weather looming.

Malampaya Sound was regarded historically as the fish basket of the Philippines. It stretches 20 km inland and almost cuts Palawan Island in two. The variety of species here was once incredible.

Now, however, the numbers are low. Illegal fishing has depleted fish stocks and local

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Ships vacuuming the seafloor in search of minerals are creating the next environmental disaster—we could see a dark brown sediment colouring the water—and it was obvious the ecosystem was under threat.

Camp that night was an abandoned resort, and with ominous clouds rolling in and the wind intensifying, my habit of setting up camp well above the tide line seemed an especially good idea.

The rain that night was Biblical and the wind topped 100 kilometres an hour. The

following morning, we learned that Roy got Tropical Typhoon Sendong’s direction wrong—it was 420 km east of us, not west. The eye of the typhoon had passed overhead just 50 km south of our campsite during the night.

With the wind raging all next day and the sea frothing ferociously, we decided to stay put and wait it out. Gusts came from every direction and the waves followed suit, slopping this way and that. It was an experience we won’t soon forget.

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Crankworx welcomes first-ever adaptive jam ‘WE CAN’T PARTICIPATE’ WITHOUT IT, SAYS MOTHER OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

BY DAN FALLOON JENNY GRIMES’S SON, Richie, is an avid athlete, or as she puts it “a super active kid.”

Though he’s just seven, going into Grade 3, he’s already experienced skiing, mountain biking, triathlon, water skiing and boogie boarding.

Richie also has cerebral palsy, and so all the sports he participates in are adapted to his needs.

For the past two years, said Grimes, Richie has been mountain biking in Whistler at Lost Lake and on the Valley Trail, and closer to their North Vancouver home in the Seymour Demonstration Forest. When Crankworx announced that it is holding an Adaptive Mountain Biking Jam on Monday, Aug. 12, the family raced to register.

Grimes said that having experienced Crankworx before, it’s meaningful to Richie to take part this year.

“Otherwise, frankly, we can’t participate, so the fact that they have created this opportunity this year is incredible,” she said. “It means so much to him because he knows that he can do this.

He has the opportunity to try it whereas before, we just watched his dad bike in the

ADAPTIVE OPPORTUNITY Seven-year-old Richie is

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bike park or we would sit on the GLC patio and watch the bikers launch off.”

Grimes said the family has always been an active one, so they’re committed to having their son included.

“We had to search out ways for him to experience things that we like,” she said.

“His dad’s a big mountain biker, so pretty much, he’s never had an opportunity not to like mountain biking,” she added with a laugh.

Jam organizer Carly Fox, who also

in terms being a kids’ course, so we had conversations about potentially setting up an adaptive B-Line downhill,” she said.

Organizing an adaptive element to race didn’t pan out, but it got Fox’s wheels turning and she started talking to adaptive athletes about what types of events they’d want to see.

“One of them who was super helpful actually said to me, ‘I know what I would do if you put me on a mountain bike in the bike park: I would send it, I would hurt myself

“It means so much to him because he knows that he can do this.”

- JENNY GRIMES

handles the Kidsworx portfolio, described the event as a combined effort, as Whistler Adaptive volunteers will be out helping the riders.

Fox, who works alongside Whistler Adaptive during the winter with the ski school, said the idea originated when an adaptive rider was asking about options during last year’s Crankworx festival.

Though there is an adaptive category in the Air DH, the rider acknowledged he didn’t have the skills to take on the legendary A-Line route, but still wanted to race. As the head of the Kidsworx B-Line race, the rider was passed on to Fox. “B-Line isn’t anything to be barked at

again. What if we took it back a notch and looked at actually inviting people to come and ride the bike park in an adaptive setting?’” she said. “Why not make it a jam session? [It’s] Intro to Bike Park for adapative.”

Fox said that riders of all levels are invited, as she hopes to make the jam accessible to new bikers, those who injured themselves riding or experienced riders who never thought the bike park was for them.

There will be five different styles of bicycle for riders to try, so those who come out can try to find just the right fit.

“We’re going to have a lot of support, so anyone who’s thought that they wouldn’t get back into the park or thought that it

wasn’t possible to go and ride a mountain bike in a bike park if you have mobility challenges [will be able to],” she said.

Fox hopes to have between 20 and 30 people of varying abilities taking part, though with the confirmation that British rider Martyn Ashton, who started adaptive riding after a 2013 injury, will be bringing his Random Tandem to the event, hopefully more people will come out. Ashton hopes youngsters who come out will learn what is possible.

“I think it’s remarkable to be honest.

There have been so many athletes over the years that have tried to break new ground— it’s great to see it has had an effect and not only that but broke new ground,” Ashton said in an email. “It is easy to think you need to have a perfect body to make great things happen. Seeing the most determined people ever just making a great go of it is pretty inspiring.”

The jam will start in the bike park learning area, and riders who feel comfortable tackling B-Line will be able to descend there.

“We’ve checked how accessible it is firsthand. You can get from a wheelchair into the gondola, out of the gondola, into a bike, all the way up to and through the learning area on a bike,” she said.

The ride takes place on Aug. 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. For more information and to register, visit www.crankworx.com/event/ adaptive-mountain-biking-jam-session.

Registration costs $30 plus fees.

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Walker excited for Juvenile Champs MEADOWS AT PEMBERTON HOSTING MAJOR EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME

BY DAN FALLOON STEWART WALKER HAS had a trying 2019 at times, but the young Whistler golfer is rebounding and making the most of his summer.

Walker was hospitalized with appendicitis in the spring, interrupting his preparations for the summer season, giving the 14-year-old Nicklaus North member some additional challenges as he works on developing his game.

However, in an interview at Pique’s office on Aug. 6, Walker said he’s generally golfing a round a day, at minimum, as he prepares for some major events on his calendar. At the forefront is the B.C. Juvenile Championships next week from Aug. 13 to 15 at The Meadows at Pemberton, and Walker has been up preparing for the tournament as he eyes a top-three finish.

“It’s going to be a really good one, I think,” he said. “It’s different on the back nine, it’s quite tight on the back nine with a lot of trees, but it will be interesting.

“I’m taking notes every time I’m there for the tournament.”

Walker is coming off some good news as he excelled at the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship subregional qualifier at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash. on Aug. 5, advancing to the regional qualifier of the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash. on Sept. 8. If he advances from there, he will compete at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, home of the Masters, in early April.

Walker recently completed his first year at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, which has allowed him to golf more during the offseason. He’s enjoyed being part of a team, however, as one of his schoolmates was recently in from California to golf alongside him.

“I’m more used to playing just by myself,” he said. “But it’s fun.”

However, the year was interrupted by his bout with appendicitis, which hospitalized him for three weeks. It was difficult to even gain a diagnosis, as doctors in Duncan didn’t pinpoint the issue, but after heading south to Victoria, doctors there caught the ailment and performed an operation.

Walker returned to the course for his birthday, May 19, as he got to play his first round of golf in four weeks.

“It was so good. I could only half-swing and I think I ended up shooting a 76. It isn’t too bad,” he said. “I was set back quite a bit.

I lost 15 pounds in the hospital. I lost a lot of strength, so I was just building back my strength.”

The intervening time was tough on Walker, as he was sleeping upwards of 20 hours a day and when he did get out to golf,

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he was limited in his activities.

“It was pretty tough. I was out to chip and putt quite a bit, but watching other people hitting long irons and driving was not that fun,” he said.

Walker credited coach Graham Kehoe with helping to get the best out of him in the years they’ve been working together, and especially to get him back on track after his illness.

In one training session, Walker moved up to the red tees and shot a 59. He’s now trying to go a round without a bogey from the regular tees—so far he’s come close and has advanced down to the last two holes before recording an above-par score.

MEADOWS AT PEMBERTON EAGER FOR EVENT While golfers are eager for the B.C. Juvenile Championships, so too is its host course.

Meadows at Pemberton general manager Kevin McLeod said the course is in great shape and ready for the more than 90 golfers registered as of Aug. 6.

The championships are designed for competitors aged 13 to 15.

“Our maintenance team has done a fantastic job getting things ready for the kids,” he said. “We’ve never had a tournament like this before, so everyone’s quite excited. It spotlights golf and will hopefully rejuvenate the crowd of golf and bring more kids into golf.”

In other course news, the Meadows is hosting a 35th anniversary party on Sept.

14 with She Stole My Beer, Marble Canyon, Steep Creek and DJ Foxy Moron.

Tickets are $45 and available at pembertongolf.com. McLeod added that there will be a shuttle from Whistler for those who are interested for an extra charge. n

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The SLRD is in receipt of a journal article entitled: “Hazard and risk from large landslides from Mount Meager volcano, British Columbia, Canada”.

The article was published on March 1, 2008 in Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards.

The article identifies a safety risk to persons and property from debris flows in the Mount Meager and Lillooet River valley areas as far south as the head of Lillooet Lake.

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McLagan cracks Canadian team PEMBERTON DRAGON BOAT ATHLETE OFF TO THAILAND FOR WORLDS

BY DAN FALLOON IF YOU THINK knowing the coach was a leg up for Pemberton’s Scott McLagan to make the Senior C National dragon boat team, you’d be wrong.

In fact, that Kamini Jain was both his False Creek Racing Canoe Club (FCRCC) coach, as well as a co-coach on the national team was perhaps a bit of an added challenge.

“To tell you the truth, my main competition and my main rivals to get on the team were my fellow FCRCC team members,” McLagan said with a chuckle.

“Just about everyone that applied from elsewhere in Canada actually made it on the team. The team has to be seen as representing from across Canada.”

After submitting fitness tests and jockeying for position in a pair of camps, McLagan was named to the team and will compete at the International Dragon Boat Federation World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand from Aug. 20 to 25.

With FCRCC, McLagan recently competed in Regina at nationals with the team, where it won gold in the senior ‘C’ mixed category.

“They’re a very competitive club, a very

OFF TO THAILAND Pemberton’s Scott McLagan will compete at the International Dragon Boat Federation World Championships in Thailand later this month.

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competitive bunch of people and they’ve got an extremely competitive coach,” he said.

McLagan, who paddled in Pemberton for several years under Hugh Fisher and Karen Tomlinson, originally joined FCRCC to extend his paddling season all year long as opposed to finishing in October.

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“It’s not really athlete-to-athlete competition.

It’s coach-to-coach competition,” he said.

As a smaller guy on the team, McLagan is placed in either the front or back while the larger people (or “wrecking balls”) are in the middle where the boat is wider, which helps to stabilize the boat.

McLagan added that he has experience in Seat 1, also known as the stroke seat, which is occupied by the de facto team captain.

“You’re in charge of setting the stroke rate, team strategy, that sort of stuff, over the course of the heat,” he said.

Describing bringing together team members from across the country as “smooth as silk,” McLagan feels confident heading to Southeast Asia. The most difficult element will be getting acclimatized to the weather conditions, especially as local weather has given B.C. athletes little heat in which to adapt.

“The biggest challenge will be heat and humidity,” he said. “In British Columbia this year, it’s the coolest summer that I can remember. It’ll be really tough on the body to land in 100-per-cent humidity and 35-degree temperatures.

“All I can do is just train and when I get there, just get used to it.” n

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“You can take courses that are very relevant to the skills you need at that point in your job or career, which can also be combined with other courses to ladder into full programs,” says Cheyne.

Registration for the fall enrolment closes August 26th.

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and andpains? pains?

The Whistler Learning Centre’s new partnership with BCIT looks to provide Sea to Sky residents with post-secondary education courses delivered in Whistler.

Suki Cheyne, the Executive Director of the Whistler Learning Centre (WLC), explained that the relationship with BCIT goes back to a symposium in 2016, which discussed what post-secondary education in Whistler could look like and if there was an interest in bringing courses to the area. Cheyne says the overwhelming response from those who attended was ‘yes’ to offerings courses in the community.

Following the symposium, BCIT supported the idea by committing resources to research and the partnership was born.

Part of the research involved talking to residents and employers.

“We’ve been conducting focus groups and market research for the last year, the data collected contributed to the September BCIT courses that we will be hosting in Whistler,” says Cheyne.

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MAD MAN Karsten Madsen pulled off podium finishes in four consecutive Xterra races, including in Mexico on Aug. 3.

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BY DAN FALLOON AFTER WHAT Karsten Madsen has overcome in the 2019 Xterra triathlon season, one might be inclined to give him a hand.

In June, the Whistler triathlete had to undergo invasive heart testing after collapsing at a race in Spain during the spring; cleared to return to activity, he took third at Xterra Victoria, kicking off a run of four races in five weeks in which he podiumed in each contest.

And about that hand, Madsen could have used it this past weekend during a second-place finish in Xterra Mexico, as a busted paw may have kept him from his first victory of the year. Madsen hurt his hand riding Lord of the Squirrels the weekend before the race, and it was still irritating him on race day.

“I smacked my hand on a tree, and then during the race, I hit it again on another branch,” he said.

The re-aggravation happened just before a major on-course descent on the bike course, which is, to say the least, not an ideal place to be in pain.

“The descent that we had to do was steep, had some slick rock. It was really working the front end of the bike,” he said.

“At the bottom of it, my middle-finger knuckle … had super sharp, fiery pain. I had to shake out my hand. For the rest of the ride, I had to have a dead hand on the bar.”

Still, throughout the bike, Madsen attacked and battled eventual champion Sam Osborne, but the difference in the race didn’t even happen on course. The pair came into the second transition together, but between his sore hand and cold feet, Madsen struggled to get his runners on and trailed Osborne by 20 seconds coming out of the transition.

“It stayed that 20-second gap the whole run,” he said. “I wasn’t pulling any time out of him, but I wasn’t losing any time.

We were making eye contact at different switchback points in the run.”

Though giving up a potential win stings, Madsen still bested a strong field that featured the two most-recent Xterra

world champions. Madsen was also pleased to make up ground on Osborne heading into the end of the season.

“This was another step in that direction of getting close to him, and again, he’s a top level athlete,” he said. “To be second in a stacked field, which was the biggest test of the whole year with the guys that were there, was really exciting.”

During his heavy workload, which also featured contests in Quebec and Colorado, Madsen made an earnest attempt to keep from getting too far ahead of himself, instead handling each race as a bite-sized kernel before focusing on the next task.

“The big thing was dissecting it and breaking it all down. If I got caught up in thinking about the whole picture, it was daunting,” he said. “The training plan I was writing to myself was all built around, ‘How can I improve fitness between the races while keeping my fatigue levels in check?’ That was the two competing themes I was dealing with.

“Each race was nice because it was a report card. Was I doing that process right?”

In terms of travel, Madsen learned to deal with the compressed schedule after racing plenty last year. In 2019, he feels he’s better able to plan his travel down to booking certain flights over other, keeping up with nutrition and hydration and making sure his vitamin levels are where they should be.

Right now, a break in the Xterra schedule will allow Madsen to attend sponsor events and train before another tough block starting at the end of August. Next week, he will fly to Colorado to complete some altitude training in preparation for a race in the Dominican Republic and the Pan Am Championships in Ogden, Utah on Sept. 7.

Madsen, currently sitting fourth in the overall standings, is still pushing for a narrow shot at the win, but acknowledged that finishing second is more attainable.

“Coming second in the series is very doable,” he said. “I’ve got my head set on winning the series, because that’s mentally what you need to do. You have to think that you need to win, so that you can get the maximum out of you.”

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Geddes wins division at Ironman LOCAL TRIATHLETE EARNS SLOT IN 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY DAN FALLOON BILL GEDDES acknowledges that he doesn’t race a lot, preferring to pick and choose his races.

So far in 2019, two of his selections have qualified him for other events.

After placing second in the men’s 60-to64 age group at the Apple Triathlon in Kelowna last month, which doubled as the national championships, Geddes punched his ticket to the 2020 International Triathlon Union World Championships in Edmonton.

Three weeks later, Geddes topped his division at the half-distance Ironman Canada 70.3 here in Whistler, qualifying for the 70.3 World Championships in New Zealand in November 2020. The latter was particularly gratifying for Geddes, as he was planning to travel to New Zealand anyway.

“It’s an opportunity to go race down there and then go travel and enjoy myself,” he said.

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of course, but it was a tough slog for Geddes as he’s dealt with a nagging abdominal injury, possibly a hernia, for the last twoand-a-half months.

After completing a strong swim and bike during Ironman, the pain was nearly too much during the run and Geddes considered folding up his tent during the “sheer hell” of the run.

“One of my boys said, ‘Wow, dad, you’re in first and you’ve got 20 minutes on the next guy,’” he recalled. “I walked and ran and finished, so to speak. I got lucky enough to come in at the top of my group, so it’s all good.”

All in all, the day was pleasant for Geddes, apart from some chilliness early on during the bike course. However, completing the half-distance Ironman in a strong time allows competitors to miss the heat of the day as he crossed the line shortly after noon in five hours, 24 minutes and three seconds (5:24:03).

“It was a picture-perfect day. It couldn’t get any better,” he said. “And the temperature was right, too. It wasn’t super

WILD BILL Whistler’s Bill Geddes punched his ticket to the Ironman 70.3 World Championships after winning his division during Subaru Ironman Canada 70.3 on July 28.

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hot. It was hot, but it wasn’t 30-plus.”

Geddes said he often did marathons in the 1980s, but gradually started to lean toward running events such as ultramarathons. He had a successful return, completing the fulldistance Ironman and qualifying for World Championships in Hawaii in 2014, 12 years after his last Ironman.

Upon turning 60, Geddes wanted to try for World Championships again but at a shorter distance, as he doubted his body’s ability to withstand the barrage of a fulldistance race.

It was especially meaningful considering Ironman’s move back to Penticton after this year’s Whistler race. Geddes wanted to take advantage of its presence in his own backyard one last time.

“It’s a bit of a home-field advantage because I know the bike course pretty well,” he said. “In terms of the 70.3s, I don’t think there’s a tougher bike ride out there. It’s a really tough bike ride. It’s 1,200 metres of climbing in 90 kms.

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ON TRACK Finn Iles, shown here racing in Fort William, in June, placed 17th in Val di Sole on Aug. 3.

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BY DAN FALLOON FINN ILES CAME THROUGH the Val di Sole finish line in one piece.

The Whistler rider has struggled to put down a complete run in recent Mercedes-Benz UCI Downhill World Cup events, but placed 17th in the men’s elite category, 10.93 seconds back of winner Laurie Greenland on Aug. 3.

“Well hey, I finally finished a race!

17th isn’t where I wanted to finish, but I’m now 15th overall and excited to be able to build off this into next race,” Iles posted to Instagram after the race.

Forrest Riesco was the only higherplacing Canadian, taking 15th.

In the junior men’s event, Pemberton’s Lucas Cruz struggled to a 16th-place finish.

Cruz ended up 20.19 seconds back of winner Tuhoto-Ariki Pene of New Zealand.

Alongside a photo of himself after a crash, Cruz posted to Instagram; “Thankful to have finished my run after this and walked away with a positive attitude and some bruises.”

The World Cup season continues this weekend in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

HILL MISSES CUT IN LETHBRIDGE Whistler golfer Kaitlyn Hill narrowly missed the cut at the Canadian Junior Girls Championship in Lethbridge, Alta. last week.

Competing at the Lethbridge Country Club, Hill shot a seven-over-par 79 and then a 13-over-par 85 to finish at 20-over-par after the first two rounds. The cut was at 18-over-par, so Hill did not continue into rounds 3 and 4.

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Saturday’s clinics include: first steps to ultra running, running photography, climbing skills for ultra running and a 20-kilometre alpine group run hosted by We Run Whistler.

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MONDAY AUGUST 19TH, 2019 FROM 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM At The Whistler Mountain Ski Club 2028 Rob Boyd Way. RZ1152 proposes to rezone the lands from CC2 (Commercial Core Two) to a new zone that would allow for development of a new building containing two employee restricted apartment units for use by staff associated with the Ski Club.

The purpose of the open house is to provide the public with information about Rezoning Application RZ1152. The applicant will present information on the proposed employee housing development, and municipal staff will describe the rezoning consideration process including applicable evaluation criteria, studies that may be required, and legislated procedures. The presentation will commence at 6:00 PM. Members of the public will be provided the opportunity to ask questions and provide written comments.

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BILL GEDDES FROM PAGE 44 “It’s a lot of climbing and then you’ve got to run afterwards.”

For now, Geddes is in rehab mode preparing for his two upcoming opportunities on the global stage.

“I’m going to be going through trying to get better, and there is a chance I’m going to need an operation,” he said. “I’m going to be in a position where hopefully by the end of

October I’ll be able to get out and do a little bit of cross-country skiing.”

Lastly, Geddes was appreciative of coaches Christine Suter and Andy Robinson for getting him up to snuff for his recent contests.

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Voice lessons THEY SAY that your mother’s voice is the one you hear in your head, even as an adult, all your days.

I reached a point when I realized that that was not going to work for me anymore.

It was not the right voice.

BY LISA RICHARDSON And so began a long, slow exorcism; a careful, yet fitful, attempt to practice speaking to myself differently. With different cadence, phrases, tone. It was like learning a new tongue, and what I needed was a language teacher, a voice to imitate, a way to get the accent right. And Cheryl Strayed was where I found it.

Cheryl Strayed is the uber-successful author of Wild, but I wasn’t trying to write like the broken-hearted 20-something who had loaded a beast of a backpack on her faltering shoulders and attempted to solohike the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995.

Instead, it was Sugar I needed in between my ears, Strayed’s alter-ego, crafted for free in the two years between the completion of her MFA and her writing of Wild. Sugar was an anonymous advice columnist who responded to life’s biggest questions on the literary website The Rumpus, turning

HEARING TRUTH After learning how to be a better voice inside her own head, Lisa Richardson turns to Cheryl Strayed once again to workshop how to name her longing, and discovers she doesn’t need her anymore.

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a defunct web-advice column that got zero hits into a viral success—based not on snark or exploding kittens or shaming or even oldfashioned common sense, but exquisitely vulnerable revelations in exquisitely crafted language, that acknowledged these timeless truths: we all break in places, we all struggle to put the pieces back together, we all know intuitively what we need to do and how the pieces will fit best, we all flail for the courage to do it, but we can.

Select columns were collated in the New York Times’ best-selling collection Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, after Wild was released and Strayed outed herself as Sugar.

aimed at helping us hear our inner longings more clearly (and not the voices of our parents, or the culture, or whatever else might be holding us down).

Her tool: letters to ourselves. Which could be cliché were it not for the particular phrasing she offered. Or maybe it is cliché, but in spite of that, I clearly needed to carve out a few hours, to sit quietly, turn off the phone, leave the 263-item to-do list to steam and compost in its own corner, and check in with myself. Dear Lisa, she prompted. This is your inner voice of Truth and here’s what I know about what you really want. Dear Lisa, This is your Fear and I’m going to tell you everything you’re afraid of. Dear Lisa,

I was able to stop myself from looking at my reflection with a scowl and a dutiful recitation of all the imperfections I could see, and replace that tic with a firm look: “Only kindness today.”

I read the essays and absorbed the voice, more than the advice, until it didn’t feel weird to call myself “sweetpea” or some other endearment and I was able to stop myself from looking at my reflection with a scowl and a dutiful recitation of all the imperfections I could see, and replace that tic with a firm look: “Only kindness today.”

Sitting in the Rainbow Theatre, renamed for last weekend with the more Wander-lustrous term, The Speakeasy, Cheryl Strayed—yes, Dear Sugar, in the flesh—ran me, and a room full of other seekers through a series of writing prompts,

this is your Courage and I want to remind you of all the times and ways that you have been brave.

“I don’t imagine it all will have helped you,” said Strayed, at the end of the session. “But I hope that one sentence you wrote today makes you go, ‘OK, that was something I needed to hear.’”

I flick through the pages of my notebook, afterwards, as if reading a letter from an old friend, “Lovely, more than any of those familiar old fears, so old now they’re starting to lose their teeth, you are afraid that we are running out of time.

And because you’re more afraid of that, than being laughed at, you’ve been getting braver and braver.”

This was always, but never actually, a story about my mother. It’s a story about the future. The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. If I have one gift to offer my son, it is this: to be the voice is his head that he needs to hear.

When he needs it.

I don’t worry so much about getting the words right now. I mean, I do. Of course I do. And he’s only six years old, so the complications ahead make me gasp. But so far, I don’t worry about saying to him I don’t know. More than the actual words or the advice, what I want to offer him is a tone of voice that feels like a physical embrace.

I realized that I don’t need Sugar, or Cheryl Strayed anymore, although it was lovely to spend the day in her aura, and see that, despite her immense success and celebrity, and her summer vacation invitation to go hang out at Oprah’s house in Hawaii, that she is still real and deeply empathetic, and to hear her say that the painful process of listening to your own inner voice, instead of all the other voices that put you in your place, eventually exerts its transformation, a transformation that is almost always more subtle than we expect it to be. We don’t notice ourselves becoming kinder to ourselves, we don’t notice our kids getting older, until one day, it’s too late, and we are simply a tone, resonating into the still clear air, resonating in the hearts of the people we have loved best.

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BC Farmers’ Market Trail connects locavores to food vendors around the province TRIP-PLANNING AND DIGITAL RESOURCE EXPANDS IN SECOND YEAR

BY BRANDON BARRETT AT A RECENT agricultural tradeshow on Vancouver Island, BC Association of Farmers’ Markets (BCAFM) director Heather O’Hara was given a sage piece of travel advice.

“There was a gentleman who came up to my booth and said, ‘The first things my wife and I look for when we get on the road is a town’s cemetery and the farmers’ market,” she said with a laugh. “You can learn the history at the cemetery and you can learn about the food and the community spirit at the market.”

The BCAFM is helping both visitors and locals connect with farmers’ markets around the province through a digital resource and trip-planning tool called The BC Farmers’ Market Trail, modelled after the BC Ale Trail, a similar initiative centred around craft beer.

Designed to meet the growing demand for information on sourcing all things local, the mobile-friendly website offers snapshots of each of the 145 BCAFM member markets, giving details on each market’s specialties and what products are in season, along with basic information about operating hours.

“Right now, Phase 1 of this entire project is to get the markets listed, with more detail about the region and to give people a bit of a flavour of the markets in that region,” O’Hara explained. “But in the future, I’d love to be in a situation where we’re actually featuring our 4,000 vendors as well.”

Last year, the initiative launched with a focus on markets in the Kootenay Rockies and Columbia Basin regions, while this year the trail expands its focus to the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Northern B.C., the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island.

O’Hara said the trail will shift focus to the remaining regions in B.C., including the Sea to Sky, which features four listed farmers’ markets: Whistler, Pemberton and two in Squamish.

EPIC TRAIL The BC Farmers’ Market Trail helps users learn more about the 145 featured markets across the province, with info on what’s in season, participating vendors, and trip-planning resources.

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Whistler Farmers’ Market manager Rossanne Clamp said she’s already seen how the trail has raised the exposure of the Upper Village market.

“Just last Sunday, I had a few people from Tampa Bay who run a series of

it directly for … its intended purpose.”

With Destination BC contributing $50,000 to the project this year, part of the goal of the trail is to encourage and support travel based around B.C.’s farmers’ markets.

“We have a lot of tourists who are

“I thought it would be one of those projects that built up over time, but I already found someone who was using it directly for … its intended purpose.”

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markets there who had used the trail to find us,” she noted. “I wasn’t expecting it to have such a quick return on the project. I thought it would be one of those projects that built up over time, but I already found someone who was using

interested in nature and local and they care about the ethics of purchasing, so I think when people come and visit certain locations, visiting a farmers’ market is an excellent way to see what’s going on in that particular area,” Clamp said. “Instead of just getting

the same products you could find in malls across Canada, you’re getting products that are specific to the place that you’re visiting.”

According to the BCAFM, 80 per cent of British Columbians’ food purchasing decisions are “strongly influenced” by their interest in supporting the local economy, while 79 per cent said their buying choices are influenced by a desire for fresh food.

“The BC Farmers’ Market Trail is a great example of marketing collaboration and alignment across the province, connecting travelers with ways to eat and shop locally for farm fresh foods,” said Marsha Walden, CEO of Destination BC, in a release. “This trail unites the collective power of tourism champions in towns, cities, and regions with a common purpose—the result being a great trip-planning tool for visitors and residents that enables them to enjoy healthy food choices on the way to their destination.”

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Going into the 11th year of serving up sushi and other Japanese dishes in Whistler, Hayahiko (Speedy) Takada, head chef and owner of Nagomi Sushi, said the restaurant’s goal has never changed.

And that’s to offer diners the best Japanese dining experience in the resort destination.

It was quite a challenge early on when Speedy - his nickname is derived from Haya, which means speedy in Japanese - and restaurant partner/co-chef Shizuo Kashino decided to leave their former jobs working for another sushi restaurant and start out on their own.

“We needed to do things the way we wanted to,” Speedy explains.

At the time, there were five or six other established sushi restaurants in the area.

“We knew we’d have to work extra hard to be competitive,” he says.

Part of the plan was to locate a little further from the centre of the village near the base of Blackcomb Mountain.

With the restaurant site in place, they went about creating a menu that would highlight the skills of the chefs, using seafood sourced locally and also direct from Japan.

“We use in-season fish from around the world,” Speedy says.

One of the dishes they use the imported ingredients in is the nigiri combo and assorted sashimi.

“That way the customer gets something that may be new to them,” Speedy says. “They can enjoy a little of everything.”

Going further afield, the restaurant periodically stocks blue fin tuna from Mexico and even king salmon from New Zealand.

The local catch usually includes spot prawns, sockeye salmon, and albacore tuna.

With the assistance of suppliers, plans are to increase the selection of local fish.

“I am told there are around 300 types of local fish we can use, so we are looking to see what are the best ones to add,” Speedy says.

One long-time customer who enjoys the variety is “Bungee” Mike Krieger, a former fisherman from California whose loyalty earned him the honour of having a sushi roll named after him - the Bungee roll.

“With every aspect of the dishes, both traditional and modern, being crafted with the utmost passion and dedication from Speedy and Shizou, anything that comes from Nagomi Sushi is top of the line,” Mike says.

Staying with the local theme, the majority of the produce complementing the dishes comes from local Pemberton farms.

“Especially during the summer season, we like to get the micro vegetables for the garnish on the sushi and sashimi,” Speedy says. “Local and fresh produce is always the best.”

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Local lore takes centre stage in About The Moose ORIGINAL PLAY DEBUTS AT THE FLAG STOP THEATRE & ARTS FESTIVAL, RUNNING FROM AUG. 9 TO 11

BY ALYSSA NOEL BACK IN THE EARLY ‘80S, a mysterious California man lugging a large cross with a wheel affixed to its bottom showed up in town.

While he was a bit of a spectacle, he wasn’t proselytizing. Rather, he had recently kicked a drug problem, discovered his faith and wanted to quietly celebrate it by hauling the eight-foot-long wooden crucifix from his home state all the way to Alaska.

“He was just filled with his faith and cleaned himself up and wanted to do a pilgrimage,” says Stephen Vogler, artistic director at The Point Artist-Run Centre.

Vogler had this story in the back of his mind when, earlier this year, he decided to incorporate it into a play for The Point’s annual Flagstop Theatre & Arts Festival.

To get the details straight, he sat down with long-time locals Marcel and Joan Richoz, who kindly gave the man a place to stay after Marcel encountered him while

FLOAT ON Last year was All Relative on the floating stage at The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival. This year it’s About the Moose.

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working on construction of the Hilton in the village.

“So he stayed at their house in Alpine,” Vogler says. “There was a big hubbub in town about this cross. The next day, [Marcel] dropped him off at Village Gate Boulevard [where he had picked him up] because he wanted to start where he left off.”

The production, developed as part of the Flagstop Theatre Mentorship program, is set to debut on Aug. 9 on a floating stage outside The Point—weather permitting.

“We’re going to be ready for any weather,” Vogler says. “We’ll have a big tent as well on the grass that we could move in to cover the audience.”

“He was just filled with his faith and cleaned himself up and wanted to do a pilgrimage.”

- STEPHEN VOGLER

But that’s not the only local lore About The Moose delves into. The location of the play—which is directed by Angie Nolan and features several local actors—is kept deliberately vague, but it’s also inspired by a moose that temporarily called Whistler home in 2013.

“In my play there are three forces going on,” Vogler says. “The moose is the force of nature. [The California] guy is the force of faith and then there’s the bureaucracy. It’s a satire on bureaucracy, really.”

After that, the show will tour to Gibsons on Aug. 16 and Powell River on Aug. 17. “It’s quite a crazy undertaking with 13 people,” Vogler adds.

The Flagstop Festival, meanwhile, will also feature comedy, music, dance, and food from Aug. 9 to 11.

Alongside the play, Friday evening will also feature a dance performance by Trish Belsham’s Gruff Goat Dance Theatre, and wrap up with a show by Vancouver band Coal Davie and the Rockabillionaires.

Saturday evening, meanwhile, will be focused on comedy with comedian Dino Archie, who splits his time between Vancouver and L.A. and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2016.

“We went big this year with Dino Archie,” Vogler adds. “He’s really great.

I really like his stand up. Vancouver TheatreSports will be back again. They’ll do a workshop with our local improvisers in the afternoon.”

That will culminate in an improv show later that evening, followed by a performance by Pemberton country band Marble Canyon.

Finally, Sunday afternoon will feature monologues performed on the floating stage

by The Point’s Youth Theatre Mentorship Program, as well as live music and bocce and brunch.

“I’m hoping to sell out both nights and have a good turnout on Sunday,” Vogler says.

Festival passes for the weekend are on sale for $80, which includes two dinners and all of the shows, or $50 for the shows only.

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Arts Whistler launches ‘boldest’ Fall for Arts lineup SEASON OF MUSIC, FILM, THEATRE, ART, AND FOOD KICKS OFF ON SEPT. 12 WITH LAUNCH PARTY

BY ALYSSA NOEL MO DOUGLAS is attempting to go on a summer holiday.

“This will be the last two weeks of being allowed to breathe until November,” she says, with a laugh.

That’s because Arts Whistler, where she serves as executive director, is about to launch its largest Fall for Arts season yet.

Its September kickoff marks the fourth year the organization has rebranded fall as a time to celebrate and enjoy the arts in Whistler.

“It’s crazy how the entire sector sees it now as the full-court press,” she says.

“We’re into year four and the momentum and traction is really there.”

While more is still to be revealed, Arts Whistler released the bulk of its Fall for Arts lineup in the last two weeks.

It’s all set to begin on Sept. 12 with the Fall for Arts Launch Party. There will be a street party outside the Maury Young Arts Centre from 6 to 8 p.m. which will then move inside for the opening of the Teeny Tiny Art Show.

The next night, Sept. 13, will be the first show in the Arts Whistler Live! Series that runs throughout the fall and winter. For that gig, T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels will perform old-school jazz and “upbeat, swingin’ rock,” alongside a swing dance workshop.

The other performances lined up for the season include “The Howl”—A Musical Masquerade, featuring Juno Awardwinning performer Norman Foote and the Myrtle Philip Community School singers; Hamilton roots-rocker Terra Lightfoot; burlesque troupe The Geekenders; a community holiday singalong with Barbed Choir, Whistler’s rock ‘n’ roll choir; the Andrew Collins Trio; a double bill of Canadian comedians Charlie Demers and Ivan Decker; and The Phonix: Time Machine Party, featuring a dance band

playing Motown, funk, and soul.

“We’re really pleased,” Douglas says.

“This one is awesomely versatile. We couldn’t believe we scored Terra Lightfoot and two of Canada’s top comedians are coming.”

The show she seems most passionate about, though, is the world premiere of Ùtszan (to make things better), a one-woman play written and performed by Yvonne Wallace from the Lil’wat Nation. “This one-woman, multi-character show excavates Indigenous knowledge, humour, strength, and resilience through language reclamation,” according to the description.

It will run from Sept. 19 to 22 with a Q&A session after each show meant to foster understanding and reconciliation.

Douglas believes it will be a powerful tool for building community between Whistler and the Lil’wat Nation. “It will be an open dialogue on, ‘How do we go forward as friends and neighbours?’ Not the economic aspect, but community. It should be incredibly powerful,” she says.

Coinciding with that show will be the return of Hear and Now, a weekend festival that features entirely local bands and musicians.

Meanwhile, there will also be several other venues and organizations in town hosting major events and festivals under the Fall for Arts banner, including the Audain Art Museum’s new exhibit Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast; The Whistler Village Beer Festival; The Whistler Writers Festival; Cornucopia; Flag Stop in the Fall—The Point Take Over at the Maury Young Arts Centre; and the Whistler Film Festival.

Arts Whistler will also be hosting its annual Holiday Market, as well as a new exhibition by rising Lil’wat Nation artist Levi Nelson.

“This is the boldest season we’ve ever had,” Douglas says. “It’s crazy what’s happening … I don’t even know the half of it yet.”

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Outdoor shows and scary stories HOT DAMN, it’s a big week for movie lovers and the action kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 8, with a free screening of Echo in the Canyon at Whistler Olympic Plaza, plus a

BY FEET BANKS live performance by the film’s producer/ musician Jakob Dylan and the Echo in the Canyon Band.

In case you missed the movie at the Village 8 a couple weeks ago, Echo is a thorough and intimate documentary charting the explosion of folk-rock music that emerged from L.A.’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-1960s—a time when bands like The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas were all living in the area, hanging out and feeding off each other’s creativity (with outside influences/guests like Joni Mitchell, Eric

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Clapton, The Beatles, and more).

Directed by Andrew Slater, Echo follows Dylan as he interviews the key players of the era and performs their hits with an ace band of musicians from his generation (including Beck).

Echo in the Canyon also features Tom Petty’s last filmed interview and if that alone isn’t enough to come to the free show tonight, Dylan, director Slater and co-producer Eric Barret will be in attendance for questions after the screening/performance. It all kicks off at 7 p.m.

Don’t sleep on this one, Whistler.

But wait! Squamish has an outdoor film on offer on Friday, Aug. 9, with Academy Award-nominated documentary (it shoulda won) Minding The Gap screening at the Squamish Youth Centre at 8:30 p.m.

Director Bing Liu spent most of his youth in Crap-ville, Illinois skateboarding and filming with his buddies as they navigated the potholes of growing up in a world fraught with domestic violence, trauma, racism and economic dislocation.

Drawing from more than a decade of footage and honest and intimate interviews, Liu crafts a cutting film about race, class and manhood in contemporary America. And

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This screening is presented by the Squamish Arts Council to kick off their “Through the Lens” youth film series/ program and admission is by donation.

(Shout out to the Zero Ceiling Foundation for helping bring this flick to Squamish.)

And the fun keeps right on rolling in theatres this week. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark opens at the Whistler Village 8.

Produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) and directed

by André Øvredal (Autopsy of Jane Doe), this one is based on Alvin Schwartz’s popular 1981 novel of the same name (and its sequels).

Pulling primarily from old myths and legends he found in anthropology journals in the Princeton University, Schwartz took tales about bloody heads falling down chimneys, cannibal scarecrows, and people stealing livers and eating them, and packaged it into one of the best children’s books ever.

Of course, not everyone appreciates a story about a spider laying eggs in a kid’s face right before bedtime, and Scary Stories was also the No. 1 most challenged tome on the American Library Association list from 1991-99.

Parents were not digging it. (For

context, civil rights hero Maya Angelou’s biography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings took second place for books people wanted banned, with Daddy’s Roommate, a story written to help explain homosexuality to pre-teens, taking bronze. So the take home lesson here is American librarians have to deal with a lot of intolerant asshats.)

The Scary Stories film collects some of Schwartz’s greatest hits into a narrative about a group of teens who discover an old book written by a young girl with dark secrets. And as they read it, those stories become their own.

Both del Toro and Øvredal have repeatedly said they made the movie for a younger audience but it’s carrying a 14A rating here in Canada and the trailer is goddamn terrifying. (Take the kids! Society is too scared to be scared these days and some terror in the dark will do everyone good—fear builds character!)

Mob-wife flick The Kitchen also opens, as does Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Angry Birds 2 and a Kevin Costner-voicinga-dog flick called The Art of Racing in the Rain. Talking animals are a tough sell but Amanda Seyfried co-stars and you can’t go wrong there. n

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and artisans: Arts Whistler has put out several calls for talent for fall events.

First up is teeny tiny art for the Teeny Tiny Show. Artists should submit their 7.6cm by 7.6-cm (three-inch by three-inch) pieces by Aug. 12. All mediums are welcome.

For more information visit artswhistler. com/event/call-for-artist-teeny-tiny-show.

Organizers of Hear and Now: Whistler’s Local Music Celebration are also looking for Sea to Sky musicians to perform at the annual festival on Sept. 21 and 22.

Currently, there are 16 time slots for bands and solo acts.

This year, in order to offer more opportunities for local musicians, preference will be given to first-time festival performers or those who haven’t played the event in the last two years.

To be considered, email abrowne@ artswhistler.com by Aug. 15 with your contact name, number, band name and number of members, band description, and band website and social media. For more information visit artswhistler.com/ event/call-for-musicians-hear-and-nowwhistlers-local-music-celebration.

Finally, the deadline is also approaching for the Arts Whistler Holiday Market. That event sees more than 100 vendors from the Sea to Sky and across B.C. sell their arts, crafts, and food from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, this year at the Westin Resort & Spa Whistler.

The deadline to submit an application to a jury is Sept. 9. Complete details are

Muse Lab is set to host a unique workshop on Aug. 20.

Erika Cicmanova, a scenographer, artist, and lecturer, will be leading an afternoon session on how to create a marionette using materials found in nature.

“During a short walk you will find the gifts and beauties of our majestic forest,” reads the workshop description. “We will gently guide you and explain how to work with pinecones, branches, mosses, beans and seeds.”

After collecting the forest materials, the group will head to Muse Lab in Function Junction and learn how to build their marionette. Children and adults are both welcome.

The session costs $60 and runs from 2 to 5 p.m. For more information visit yourcreativeuniverse.com.

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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, surfing’s popularity began to skyrocket in California, and would eventually go on to influence North America’s youth culture with the music, films, philosophies and attitudes that are now associated with the sport. Skateboarding, or sidewalk surfing as it was then known, grew out of the surfing culture during this time, and became something to do when surfing conditions were less-than-optimal.

Skateboarding’s popularity increased during this period, expanding out of California surf shops to any place around the world that had cement or asphalt. In 1976, the world’s first purpose-built skatepark opened: Carlsbad Skatepark in Southern California. This was soon followed by the Albany Snake Run in Albany, Western Australia. Both areas had strong links to surfing culture.

Surfing and skateboarding had an immense influence on the development of snowboarding; one of the first snowboard products, the Snurfer, invented in the late 1960s in Michigan, allowed riders to essentially surf on snow. Over the next 20 years, snowboarding evolved and expanded and by the late 1980s started to become a fixture in Whistler, specifically on Blackcomb Mountain.

Olympic gold medal winner Ross Rebagliati was the first snowboarder allowed to ride the Blackcomb lifts. The new sport found its home early in our valley, he said.

“When we were first allowed to snowboard here, they did not just sell us the tickets and

say, ‘that’s it.’ They embraced the whole idea, the culture. They took the initiative to build snowboard parks and created things specifically designed for snowboarders.”

In 1991, the original Whistler Skate Park was constructed and includes the snake run and bowl that are still present today. Designed by Monty Little and Terry Snider, it integrated elements that they had developed in other skate parks in West Vancouver and North Vancouver. These elements included large waves and shapes that would encourage speed and fluid, rounded movements, a nod to the surfinspired approach to both snowboarding and skateboarding. Monty Little viewed the Whistler Skate Park as a functional sculpture, taking inspiration from the mountains and streams of the area.

In the late 1990s, the Whistler Skate Park saw its second round of development.

This refurbishment was born out of safety concerns due to the original surface delaminating, as well as the changing style and approach boarders were taking to skateboarding. With support from then-Mayor Hugh O’Reilly, the Resort Municipality of Whistler and the skating community, new elements were added to the skate park that reflected the next generation of skateboarders. These included more street elements such as rails and grindable steel edges, used for more technical tricks and manoeuvres.

With the latest expansion in 2016, the Whistler Skate Park has become the second largest in Canada with a total skateable area of more than 4,600 square metres (50,000 square feet). The Whistler Skate Park’s popularity has made it one of Whistler’s prominent summertime features.

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Echo in the Canyon adds surprise Whistler screening MUSIC DOCUMENTARY PLAYS IN WHISTLER OLYMPIC PLAZA WITH PERFORMANCE BY JAKOB DYLAN; Q&A TO FOLLOW

BY ALYSSA NOEL JAKOB DYLAN had never conducted an interview before Echo in the Canyon.

As a long-time musician and frontman of The Wallflowers, he had been on the receiving end of journalists’ questions for decades, but it wasn’t until he partnered with friend and music producer Andrew Slater to make the documentary that he found himself in conversation with everyone from Brian Wilson to Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and the late Tom Petty.

Turns out, he was a natural.

“His DNA dictates a lot,” says Slater, director, producer and writer of the film.

As you might have guessed from his surname, Jakob Dylan is the son of Bob Dylan and, as a result, even before he became a musician himself, he spent plenty of time around music’s biggest names.

But the new documentary sees Dylan digging deep into a single topic: the boggling array of music that came out of L.A.’s Laurel

ECHO ON Jakob Dylan (left) and Tom Petty from a scene in Echo in the Canyon.

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Canyon from 1965 to 1967.

“What I noticed was when I had Jakob do the first interview—the schedule worked out that it was Eric Clapton—Eric was telling Jakob things I had never heard because it was two songwriters sitting there,” Slater says. “Capturing that gives the film intimacy people often don’t get when someone is just being interviewed by a talking head or a journalist. People are more guarded than if it’s someone they personally trust.”

Slater also has a deep relationship with the music industry. He started out as a music journalist and later worked as a music manager before becoming a record executive and producer.

He became inspired to add documentarian to his resume after he and Dylan—a long-time friend—watched the 1969 Jacques Demy film, Model Shop.

“The way it was shot made me think about the music I loved and what drew me to L.A.,” Slater says. “I went back to look at the songs I loved from that period. Jakob and I decided we would make a record of those songs. That led us to the stories behind the songs and the people behind them and we thought, ‘Maybe this is a larger thing.’”

“It coincided with the 50th anniversary

of The Byrds’ first album [Mr. Tambourine Man] which is the spark that ignites everyone’s interest in coming to L.A.” Slater brought the idea to several filmmakers, but they all said they didn’t think it would make it to theatres. “Someone said, ‘Why don’t you do it?’” he recalls. “I said, ‘I’m not a director.’”

Eventually, though, he warmed to the idea.

Since its release in May, the film has grossed more than $3 million and is projected to be one of the top five documentaries of 2019 in North America— though those metrics are beside the point, Slater says.

“I just wanted to make something that was more of a reflection of that time— the sense of community and kindness and sharing—and bring some of those ideas into today and maybe people would go to the theatre and be inspired,” he says.

The final product is multi-layered: it features Dylan and a slew of contemporary musicians in concert performing songs from the Laurel Canyon era. Those scenes lead into intimate living room chats with Dylan, Regina Spektor, Beck, and Cat Power about the lasting impact of those songs intercut with in-depth accounts

from the musicians who experienced it firsthand.

“I wanted it to be something that was more like a tracing paper of a historical document,” Slater says. “I wanted it to be multi-layered. In the film, you’ll be in the studio recording a song and in the middle of the song you go to the show. Then the author of the song is listening to it … The film is more a poem than it is a linear narrative.”

The documentary has screened at film festivals and in theatres in major North American cities, but on some special occasions, Slater and Dylan have done Q&A sessions with Dylan performing afterwards.

That will be the case in Whistler when the film makes a surprise stop at Whistler Olympic Plaza for a free screening on Thursday, Aug. 8.

“Whistler is legendary and it’s beautiful and we’ve never been there,” Slater says. “So we’re super excited to come up there and show the film and experience it together.

I think we lead with our hearts more than our heads. It seemed like that’s what was drawing us to Whistler.”

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ROCK ON Coal Davie and the Rockabillionaires are playing at The Point Artist-Run Centre on Friday, Aug. 9.

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Shake it up with Coal Davie and the Rockabillionaires VANCOUVER ‘URBAN ROCKABILLY’ BAND RETURNS TO WHISTLER ON FRIDAY, AUG. 9

BY ALYSSA NOEL COAL DAVIE and the Rockabillionaires have a simple recipe for enjoying their live shows.

“They just have to shake, smile, and enjoy,” Coal Davie, the band’s frontman says. “We always have fun. Our goal is to always make people dance, make people smile, make people laugh—make them feel comfortable and powerful.”

Considering their good-time vibe, unique aesthetic, and rockabilly-meetsrock ‘n’ roll sound, it’s no surprise the Vancouver band quickly found themselves on festival stages around the South Coast this summer. While they only came together last year, thanks, in part, to Davie’s relentless hustle, they’ve managed to quickly garner a following.

“I’ve been really consistent in marketing us and trying to engage venue owners and promoters and festivals,” he says. “I’ve worked quite hard—not too hard, but I’ve reached out a lot. I’m not shy about it.”

While Davie has long been a writer of “all kinds of things,” last year, he decided he wanted to start writing music in a serious way. So, he put pen to paper while simultaneously joining a blues band in an effort to glean insight into playing with a band.

“Then, last summer, I decided I don’t have an interest in playing other people’s music,” he says. “It was fun and [a] great learning [experience], but I’m more into the stories I have to tell.”

To that end, he connected with Vancouver musicians James Lee, Yuri Ishii, and John Vavrik and began crafting upbeat tracks that hovered somewhere in the

rockabilly family. “Urban rockabilly might be a way to look at it,” Davie says. “I like the idea that we don’t look typical and not all of our songs are authentic [rockabilly]. Some are ‘70s rock ‘n’ roll, we’ve got some punkish tunes we do. Some are psychobilly …

They’re either danceable or have a message or story of some sort. I think we’re doing something different.”

Since pursuing gigs at the beginning of the year, the band has been invited back to multiple stages—from Salt Spring Island to Whistler’s Dubh Linn Gate.

“We’re very grateful to a lot of the local venues who took us in, didn’t know us and said, ‘This band looks interesting.’ Many of those venues have brought us back again,” he says.

Next up: the group is set to release a debut album in the fall. (Currently you can check out a selection of live recordings on their Soundcloud page.)

“In June we went into the studio and we recorded an album’s worth of music, which is being mixed and mastered now,” Davie says. “The studio album will be ready for September. We have videos on the way too.”

But first, they’re making another trip up the Sea to Sky Highway to perform at The Point Artist-Run Centre as part of the Flagstop Theatre & Arts Festival on Friday, Aug. 9.

The Point’s artistic director Stephen Vogler happened to catch their set at the Dubh Linn Gate earlier this summer and was struck by their energy.

“The two times we went [to Whistler] we had a great time,” Davie says. “We enjoyed the mix of locals and people on vacation.”

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BAND CAMP

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8.8

MUSIC

JACOB DRYDEN

Jacob Dryden mixes cutting edge modern pop with old-school rock. Free. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

Band Camp is a local talent development night at Black’s Pub. This is where new talent to Whistler debuts and artists who have been honing their skills at Jam Nights perform. This week it is Nicole and Alex a.k.a.

Hot Licks on guitar and vocals from 9 pm. Free.

604-932-6408. > 9 pm-midnight > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

MIKE BELANGER THE HAIRFARMERS

The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs. A Whistler must-see! > 5-9 pm > Sidecut

COCKTAIL DANCE PARTY

Start your weekend early with a handcrafted cocktail.

Then hit the dancefloor or rock our legendary dancing cage with help from DJ Peacefrog. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

KARAOKE WITH JACK-QUI NO

Put it on the rocks and call it a show! Hosted by Jack-Qui No. > 8 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

> 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

THROWBACK THURSDAYS WITH MR. TWITCH

Enjoy a musical journey of nostalgia curated by Mr. Twitch. Disco, funk, hip-hop, house and whatever else.

Old-school vibes, remixes mash-ups and new stuff to keep you on your toes. Free. 604-962-0601. > 9 pm-midnight > Three Below

THURSDAY LOCALS’ NIGHT

Come join our legendary locals’ night every Thursday, kicking off the night with a game of skate at 9 p.m. followed by DJ Praiz and friends throwing down some dope tracks. Prizes to be given away each week include concert tickets, snowboards, electric sunnies and skateboards! Email info@garfinkels.ca for guest list and VIP options. 604-932-2323. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s

LIVE MUSIC AT BRICKWORKS Live Music every Tuesday and Thursday > 8 pm > Brickworks Public House

JACINTA COUNIHAN

Jacinta Counihan is a solo guitarist/vocalist who brings her own acoustic flair on a variety of tunes from the ‘80s to present. > 8:30-11:30 pm > Brickworks Public House

THROWBACK THURSDAYS

Come lounge out, dance and listen to all the throwback hits one could need. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

STEPPING UP

This week it’s time for DJ Handsomish and SHOOBZ to step it up and spin their favourite house tunes all night. Happy hours until 11 p.m. Level Up cards accepted. For guest list and group perks, email guestlist@moejoes.com. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

THURSDAY NIGHT FUNK FEATURING DJ DAKOTA

He spins old school and new school, ya need to learn though, he burns baby BURNS … like a hip-hop inferno! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION

Docents will provide visitors with an introduction to the Audain Art Museum and its permanent collection.

Visitors will be encouraged to explore the galleries afterwards. These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership.

604-962-0413. > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

ECHO IN THE CANYON FILM SCREENING + Q&A + MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-’60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. At the screening on Aug. 8, enjoy a Q&A with producer/ musician Jakob Dylan, director Andrew Slater, and producer Eric Barrett plus live performances with Dylan, Jade Castrinos, and the EITC band. > 7 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza

COMMUNITY

WOMEN’S KARMA YOGA

Drop in for weekly yoga classes led by an all-female team of Certified 200 Hour Yoga Instructors. Includes mat use and childminding. All women, all ability levels welcome.

Contact us to join the team. Free. 604-962-8711. > 9-10 am > Whistler Women’s Centre

ACTIVATE AND CONNECT FOR SENIORS 50+

Connect with friends, new and old, through weekly activities. Meet at Whistler Community Services Society.

In partnership with Mature Action Community. > 9:30-11 am > Whistler Community Services

ROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER MILLENNIUM

Join the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium to learn about what the club is doing to support your local community and international projects. Lunch is available for $20. Everyone welcome. > 12:15 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB

The club meets every week and visitors are welcome.

For a partner, please call Gill at 604-932-5791. > 1-5 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

BNI MOUNTAIN HIGH

BNI provides a positive and structured environment for development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Register by emailing melissa@ betterbrainhealth.info. $20. > 6:45-8:30 am > Whistler Chamber Boardroom

EVENTS + FESTIVALS FLAG STOP THEATRE & ARTS FESTIVAL

MULTI-DAY EVENT

AUG. 9-11

All are invited to enjoy three days of original theatre on a floating stage, standup and improv comedy, live music, dinner and dancing, and more at the eighth annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival. For full event details and tickets, visit thepointartists.com/events.html. > The Point

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FIRE IT UP FRIDAY

Come down to Tommy’s Whistler and set the bar high for the weekend. DJ Dre Morel spinning pop, rock and hip hop beats all night long. For guest list and VIP reservations visit tommyswhistler.com. Let us know if you are celebrating for a gift from us to you! > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

KARAOKE FRIDAYS > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS

Start the weekend off right with music by B.C.’s finest party DJs mixing the best in hip hop, rap, R&B and party anthems. Whistler’s most energetic dancefloor. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE

Live music by Whistler favourites Red Chair. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

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SEAN MICHAEL

Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kurt Cobain and Bob Marley play major roles in Sean’s guitar style and vocal melody. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

PINKBIKE OFFICIAL CRANKWORX KICKOFF PARTY DJ Stache followed by Olly Watt and DJ Ed:Win > 6 pm > Longhorn Saloon

LIVE MUSIC

Solo artists perform every week, except on the first Friday of every month when they swap out for a full band. No cover, no lineups. > 6-9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company

WEEKEND KICKOFF PARTY WITH LOZEN

Lozen is a VIMA-nominated artist who has a knack for captivating listeners with diverse musical tastes. Her collage of lyrical rap flow and smooth vocal melodies over criss-crossing genres has earned her a loyal tribe and expanding fanbase. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

THE STOVEPIPE RACOONS @ ALPINE CAFE

A fun night out with Jeff and Brett! Guitar and dobro are featured alongside interesting material you may not have heard and lots that you have. Come join the fun! Free. > 7-10 pm > Alpine Cafe

LADIES NIGHT

Ladies Night at Bills! No cover charge and free bubbles before 10 pm. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

CHAMPAGNE FRIDAY PIERRE EADY

> 6-9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company

Kick off your weekend at Garf’s. Get on the guest list and join the party: info@garfinkels.ca. > 7:30 pm > Garfinkel’s

LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY 6-9PM

Music Line Up:

HAPPY HOUR

Aug 9th Pierre Eady

$15 PITCHERS

Aug 16th Chad Storm

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Aug 23rd Robcat

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LOCALS LIVE PRESENTS RED CHAIR

Whistler’s favourite rock band Red Chair playing live at Tapley’s Pub. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

FRIDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB Shake off your work week by grooving to deep cuts featuring classics and future gems ... You can’t help but move to the beats! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

ONGOING & DAILY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WHISTLER MUSEUM

Learn more about Whistler’s culture and history.

Now open by donation. > Daily 11am-5pm, Thu until 9pm > Whistler Museum

THE CULTURAL CONNECTOR: A JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY

Grab a Cultural Connector guide and explore Whistler’s world of culture. As you follow the Cultural Connector route, you’ll discover the stories that enrich Whistler’s culture, the venues that celebrate it and the milestones that we’ve achieved along the way. The pathway will lead you through beautiful surroundings and six cultural institutions: Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, Whistler Museum, Whistler Public Library, Maury Young Arts Centre, Lost Lake PassivHaus, and Audain Art Museum. Free. > Ongoing > Maury Young Arts Centre

COMMUNITY

GAMES CAFE

Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

SPORTS

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION

Docents will provide visitors with an introduction to the Audain Art Museum and its special exhibition. Visitors will be encouraged to explore the galleries afterwards.

These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership. > 5:30 pm > Audain Art Museum

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

Triathlon focused swim squads. Full details at whistlertriclub.com/training-sessions. Free to members for fall (includes entry into Meadow Park). Nonmembers $8 drop-in (includes entry into Meadow Park). > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

INDOOR PICKLEBALL DROP-IN

Have fun playing the fastest growing sport in North America. All levels welcome. Free paddle rental. For more, call 604-932-1991. $10. 604-932-1991. > 4-6 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

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Spinning the vinyls and bringing the beats, DJ Ben Keating has all the sounds that make you wanna dance! Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe

WEEKEND GETAWAYS

Whistler’s newest nightclub and lounge turns it up every Saturday night with VIP Tables and a party not to miss out on. DJ Dre Morel spinning pop, rock and hip hop beats all night long. For guest list and VIP reservations visit tommyswhistler.com. Let us know if you are celebrating for a gift from us to you! > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

guest list email info@garfinkels.ca. > 10 pm > Garfinkel’s

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

SPORTS OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT AUG 11

CRYSTAL LODGE

COMMUNITY

BROTHER TWANG

Come wind down your ski day or ramp up your Saturday night festivities with the boys from Brother Twang. > 9 pm-midnight > FireRock Lounge

SEA TO SKY

LIVE @ BLACK’S WELCOME CENTRE MULTICULTURAL MEET UP

AUDE RAY

Come and say, “hi” if you are new to Canada and Whistler! Everyone and every age is welcome. Casual meet up, workshops, information about living in Canada. Check calendar at welcomewhistler.com for full details. Contact info@welcomewhistler.com or 604-698-5960. > 9:30 am-noon > Whistler Public Library

Enjoy live music by the lovely Aude Ray this Friday in the barn: original pieces infused with folk, country, rock, R&B, and soul. Free. > 3-6:30 pm > Pemberton Downtown Community Barn

ROAD WAVES

JUMMAH SALAH (FRIDAY PRAYER)

There will be a weekly “Jummah Salah” (Friday Prayer) held at the Maury Young Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Hall. It is open to all and everyone is welcome. There is no cost for this event. Organized by the BC Muslim Association. > 1:30 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre

WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

SAT

8.10

MUSIC

LADIES’ NIGHT

WILD WEST SATURDAYS

DJ Stashe, DJ Olly Watt, DJ Ed:Win, live music with Red Chair. > noon > Longhorn Saloon

> 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH CAT MADDEN

Local Sea To Sky artist Cat Madden, invites you into the refreshingly unique realm of jazz-grunge! She puts her own twist on all your favourite covers that will blow your mind. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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An energy-packed four piece from Niagara Falls that touches in the roots of funk, blues, rock and jazz.

Their shows are built on a philosophy of playing from their hearts and an open mind, making for an exciting exploration with a huge sound. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

SEAN MICHAEL

For ages 13 to 18. We offer ping pong, a skateboard mini-ramp (skateboards and helmets to borrow), free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, guitars, board games, a projector and widescreen TVs. Free. 604-935-8187. > 3:30-11 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

It’s Whistler’s No. 1 stop for stag and stagette parties.

DJ Turtle and friends mix up everything from hip hop, R&B, new rap, dance hall and Top 40 bangers. Email guestlist@moejoes.com for VIP and group perks. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

WHISTLER PARKRUN

Whistler parkrun is a free 5 km community fun run or walk held every Saturday over spring and summer. All levels and abilities welcome, walkers, runners, kids, strollers and dogs. Join us every Saturday at 9 a.m. at Lost Lake Passivehaus. Free. > 9-10 am > Lost Lake Passive Haus

SUPERVISED SAILING ON ALTA LAKE

Join the Whistler Sailing Association for its Supervised Sailing program every Saturday on Alta Lake.This program is designed for experienced members to practice their sailing while having a certified coach onsite to help with rigging, launching and safety on the water. Participants require a basic membership ($20) and must know how to sail to participate. > 1-4 pm > Whistler Sailing Association

COMMUNITY

SINGING WITH THE BABIES

Learn songs and rhymes to soothe and entertain baby while encouraging early language development. For kids up to walking age. Free. > 11-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

SATURDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB

FAMILY TOGETHER TIME

SUPREME SATURDAY

WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

He got your blood pumping last night, now satiate your thirst for amazing cocktails and unique beats with tyMetal’s eclectic DJ feats. No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

DJ Nikky from Vancouver brings Whistler’s biggest weekend party and best vibe. VIP champagne parades along with the hottest hip hop and remixes! For VIP and

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A parent-directed hour with board games, crafts and a story corner with felt puppets. A drop-in program for families of all ages. Free. > 3:30-4:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

> 6-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

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8.11

MUSIC

AUDE RAY

Aude Ray performs folk and R&B at this edition of Sundays at The Point, plus monologues performed on the Floating Stage. Free. 604-698-5482. > 12-4 pm > The Point

LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS

Join us on our patio every Sunday afternoon for live music featuring Whistler musicians. Great tunes and great vibes all summer long! Free. > 3-5 pm > Merlin’s Bar & Grill

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter formerly of the 99.3 FM CFOX Seeds-winning band theTURN. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

STEPH & SHANE

Live music from noon onwards. Free > noon > Stonesedge

SUNDAY SESSION WITH MICHAEL BELANGER

If you haven’t had a chance to catch this new to Whistler musician, you’re missing out. He’ll be playing your favourite acoustic covers through the ages with a focus on ‘90s and guilty pleasures. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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GAMES NIGHT AT PANGEA

Challenge your crew: Cards Against Humanity, Jenga, Settlers of Catan, HedBanz, and many more. Drinks and food specials all night long. > 4 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

SUNDAY SESSIONS

The best locals’ party in Whistler. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

THE ASTON SHUFFLE FREE SHOW W/ RSVP

Iconic Australian dance music duo and Triple J radio Friday Night residents of “The Friday Night Shuffle” The Aston Shuffle return to Buffalo Bills for yet another EPIC night! Local support from Olly Watt & ED:WIN. For free entry, get on guest list - info@buffalobills.com. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

LONGHORN SUNSET SESSIONS DJ Olly Watt. > Longhorn Saloon

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

COMMUNITY

CHAD STORM

WHISTLER FARMERS’ MARKET

OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT

SUMMER FUN WITH CODING

Sexy blues tones and warm electric vibes; batten down the hatches, you’re in for a storm! All your favourite tunes stripped raw and served with soul. > 9-11:55 pm > Three Below

An open stage invitation for all who can sing, perform or even just wanna jam out with our house band.

Whistler’s longest-running jam night every Sunday at Crystal Lounge. All instruments are provided. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

SOULFUL SUNDAYS

Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

SUMMER ’19 19 ISSUE ON STANDS AND IN ALL GOOD BIKE SHOPS NOW

The market hosts an average of 90 local vendors showcasing fresh fruit, produce, artisan crafts and food products. > 11 am-4 pm > Whistler Farmer’s Market

Learning coding helps kids improve their creative, logical, and troubleshooting reasoning. STEM is the future. This program is designed for kids aged 8 to 12. Registration is required for all sessions, so please email the library at youthservices@whistlerlibrary.ca or call 604-935-8436 to sign up. > 2-4 pm > Whistler Public Library

SEA TO SKY

SQUAMISH STREET MARKET THE SUNDAY GLOW PARTY

Moe Joe’s is transformed into a psychedelic, UV-infused rave cathedral, as Fidel Cashflow, Zapps and La Dooda cook up an aural feast of house and electro beats. > 9 pm > Moe Joe’s

Head to Downtown Squamish on Sunday, August 11 from 12 pm to 6 pm for a FREE outdoor event! Check out the vendors, food trucks, local craft beer and cider family friend beer garden. There will also be music, entertainment and live art show. Free. 604-815-8725. > 12-6 pm > O’Siyam Pavilion (Brackendale)

SUNDAY SESSIONS PRESENTS ED:WIN

Sunday Sessions at Tapley’s presents ED:WIN > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

SUNDAY NIGHT THEORY

tyMetal’s diversified taste translates to deep cuts featuring classics and future gems, guaranteed to tweak your brain stem! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

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MUSIC

PATRICK GAVIGAN > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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MEAT RAFFLE MONDAY & PINT NIGHT

Meat Raffle Mondays are back at Tapleys! Tickets start selling at 7 pm, draw at 10 pm. > 7 pm > Tapley’s Pub

WORKBC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DROP IN

Get your resume reviewed, learn about the local labour market, job search tips, and more. All services are free. For details, call 1-877-932-1611 or go to WhistlerESC.com. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Public Library

MONDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH WHAT A RACKET!

Local legend Monty Biggins offers hits of the eras in an Americana Swing sound. His soulful voice has been described as a journey of the heart. An entire rat pack in one man, he’ll tip his glass to you with that jazzy swagger. > 7-10 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

TUE

8.13

MUSIC

MARTINI MONDAY > 7:30 pm > Buffalo Bills

PATRICK GAVIGAN > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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TRIVIA NIGHT

The Crystal Lounge hosts trivia every Monday night!

Bring your friends and test your knowledge for a night of fun, laughs, prizes and the chance to “burn your bill.” Conditions apply. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

SORRY FOR PARTYING ‘MOTLEY CRUE PARTY’

Red Chair plays from 8 to 10 p.m. Catch a Motley Crue tribute band from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. > 6 pm > Longhorn Saloon

all your favourite hits. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

TOMMY TUESDAYS OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH HOST KOSTAMAN

This is a super fun night for music lovers and artists of all levels. Cranked is the perfect place for new artists to try performing in front of a small supportive audience. This night always bring a solid mix of seasoned and budding artists together, and opportunities to collaborate. > 9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

BINGO

Channel your inner granny and dominate bingo at the locals’ living room. > 8 pm > Tapley’s Pub

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES

Blues night with Sean Rose. > 8 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

MONDAY MIX MADNESS

He’s top of the food chain and he’ll sweep away the Monday pains. He’ll shock your brain, the one and only DJ Gainz. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

> 8 pm > Brickworks Public House

WFF SUMMER CINEMA SERIES: STAND BY ME

The Whistler Film Festival, in association with Creekside Village, presents the WFF Summer Cinema Series featuring four, free, outdoor movies every Monday night.

Movies start at dusk (after 8pm) and will be held in the plaza at the base of Whistler Mountain in Creekside.

Chairs available by donation. Dusty’s Bar & BBQ invites guests and families to enjoy dinner and a movie on all movie dates, and ‘Kid’s Eat Free’ from 5pm to 8pm. This week’s film is the ‘80s teen classic, Stand by Me. > 8 pm > Whistler Creekside

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

> 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

COMMUNITY

MUSIC & WORDS

This drop-in program is for kids two to four years and it focuses on early literacy through music, rhyme, stories and movement. Free. > 10 am > Whistler Public Library

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

This program gives toddlers, parents and caregivers the opportunity to learn songs, rhymes and finger plays together. For more information, please come to the library, call 604-935-8436 or email youthservice@ whistlerlibary.ca. Free. > 10:30 am > Whistler Public Library

SUMMER WHISTLER NATURE CAMP

Whistler Nature Camp’s summer session offers a unique opportunity for kids age 6-10 to connect with Whistler’s natural backyard! Imagine a place where their natural sense of wonder can ignite at the centre of their fun and learning and helps to inform the direction each day will take. > 8:30 am-3:30 pm > Spruce Grove Field House

TRIVIA TUESDAY

Grab your crew and re-energize those brain cells as hosts Emily and Stephen bring you four rounds of trivia fun. First place is $50 bar tab. Side prizes throughout.

Max team size is four. > 8:30-10 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

BINGO NIGHT PRESENTED

BY NORCO BICYCLES

Play some free Bingo and win a brand new Norco bike!

All you have to do is come to Tapley’s on Tuesday, play some free bingo and have a great time with your friends! > 9-11 pm > Tapley’s Pub

BEST PICTURE SERIES: VICE

The library’s Best Picture Series is back! Join them on the first and second Tuesday of the month for a screening of the Best Picture nominees from the 2019 Academy Awards. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

SPORTS

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8.14

MUSIC

CONOR FITZPATRICK

Once the word gets out, everyone is going to want to see Conor Fitzpatrick play. He is already one of Cranked’s favourites. On warmer days, he will be playing outside on our sunny patio. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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Whistler Cycling Club rides for A, B and C level road riders. See whistlercyclingclub.ca for details. Free with club membership > 5:15-8 pm > Whistler Village Sports

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We reserve the prime family-style table by the Ola Volo mural for our LGBTQ2+ family. Get your game (or gay’m) on. > 5-8 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

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RHYME & SONG The only whistler local giving you some acoustic R&B! Soulful, powerful and sultry. Sounds you can vibe out and sing along to. > 8:30-11:30 pm > Brickworks Public House

Group run for intermediate runners and above. We offer two distance options,~6 km and ~10 km. Check our Facebook page (facebook.com/groups/werunwhistler) for weekly updates. Visit werunwhistler.com to plan your summer of running. #werunwhistler rain or shine! Free. > 5:55 pm > Lululemon

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DJ Dre Morel and weekly guests turning it up every Tuesday night all summer long. Pop, rock and hip hop to crank up your Tuesday night. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

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Whistler BMX races every Tuesday at the track in Cheakamus Crossing. All bikes, all ages, all levels welcome! Registration on site at 5:30 p.m. and racing starts shortly after 6pm. Volunteers always needed! $3-$7. > 5:30-7 pm > Whistler BMX Track

RED BULL ROOFTOP RAGER

Red Bull will be throwing down the gauntlet with their DJs and Pangea’s killer cocktails (all made with Red Bull for this event). Two tickets providing access to the VIP viewing booth for the Red Bull Joyride will be given away too. > 5 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

PIQUECAL JACOB DRYDEN

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Live music from Neverland Nights. > 6 pm > Buffalo Bills

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“LONGHORN LUAU” DIRT DIARIES OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY DJ CYRO. > 8 pm > Longhorn Saloon

sailing race, followed by a social evening. Please visit whistlersailing.com/races-family-club-sail/ for prices, prerequisites & registration. Rig at 5:30 pm, first horn at 6:15 pm. > 5:30 pm > Whistler Sailing Club

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Join the library each week for a little natural history, a story, and a craft, presented in partnership with Whistler Museum. > 11 am-noon > Whistler Public Library

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Pow Bingo Night with DJ Foxy Moron. $2 per sheet, prizes for winners. All proceeds go to the Downtown Women’s Centre, who provide homeless women with amenities, food and a safe place to go. > 8 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

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Brush up on your general knowledge for quiz night every Wednesday with Whistler legend, Quizmaster Stache. > 9-11:55 pm > Three Below

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WHISTLER FARMERS’ MARKET > 2-7 pm > Whistler Farmer’s Market

NOTICE OF PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Regarding Rezoning Application RZ001147 A Proposal To Rezone 1315 And 1345 Cloudburst Drive (Cheakamus Neighbourhood) (LOT C DISTRICT LOT 8073 GROUP 1 NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT PLAN EPP1290, AND, LOT B DISTRICT LOT 8073 GROUP 1 NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT PLAN EPP1290) The Resort Municipality of Whistler invites interested members of the public to attend an open house on:

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RZ001147 proposes amendments to theAC3 Zone (Athletes’ Centre Three) and AC2 Zone (Athletes’ Centre Two). These amendments will permit an increase in gross floor area at 1315 Cloudburst Drive from 2500 m2 to 3900 m2 to allow for a four story apartment building with 57 dwelling units for employee and athlete use; and will permit employee use of the existing townhouse units at 1345 Cloudburst Drive.

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Mother Goose is a free group experience for children newborn to 18 months and their families. Registration is required, and spaces are limited. Register today!

For more information and to register, email grace. chadsey@sscs.ca or call 604-698-6935. > Florence Petersen Park

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Interact is a club for young people ages 12-18 who want to make a difference in their community. Mentored by the Rotary Club of Whistler and Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium. > 4-5 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

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This is for the 55-plus community to get together and chat, enjoy coffee/tee and snacks, play cards and board games and we’ll also have occasional guest speakers. Cranked offers any MAC member a 20-percent discount on any food or beverage item they order durning this event. Feel free to view the “Whistler Mature Action Community” Facebook page or contact Kathy White at chair@whistlermac.org for more details. > 10 am-1 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

Members of the public will be provided the opportunity to ask questions and provide written comments.

For more information on Rezoning Application RZ001147, refer to the application file on the RMOW website https://my.whistler.ca/ OnlineServices/ourcity/prospero/search.aspx or contact the Planning Department at 604-935-8170.

REZONING APPLICATION RZ001147 1315 AND 1345 CLOUDBURST DRIVE

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When it came time to write

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your horoscope, I was feeling unusually lazy. I could barely summon enough energy to draw up the planetary charts. I said a weak prayer to the astrological muses, pleading, “Please don’t make me work too hard to discover the message that Aries people need to hear; just make the message appear in my mind.” As if in response, a voice in my head said, “Try bibliomancy.” So I strolled to my bookcase, shut my eyes, pulled out the first book I felt, and went to a random page. Here’s what I saw when I opened my eyes: “The Taoist concept of wu-wei is the notion that our creative active forces are dependent on and nourished by inactivity; and that doing absolutely nothing may be a good way to get something done.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s an old Rosicrucian vow you might have fun trying out: “I pledge to interpret every experience that comes my way as a communication of God with my soul.” If you carry out this intention with relaxed playfulness, every bird song you hear is an emblem of Divine thought; every eavesdropped conversation provides hints of the Creator’s current mood; the shape that spilled milk takes on your tabletop is an intimation of eternity breaking into our time-gripped realm. In my years of offering you advice, I have never before suggested you try this exercise because I didn’t think you were receptive. But I do now.

(If you’re an atheist, you can replace “God,” “Divine,” and “Creator” with “Life.”)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Below are unheralded gifts possessed by many Geminis but not commonly identified by traditional astrologers: 1. A skill for deprogramming yourself: for unlearning defunct teachings that might otherwise interfere with your ability to develop your highest potentials; 2. A sixth sense about recognizing artificial motivations, then shedding them; 3. A tendency to attract epiphanies that show you why and how to break taboos that may once have been necessary but aren’t any longer; 4. An ability to avoid becoming overwhelmed and controlled by situations you manage or supervise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1993, I began writing a book titled The Televisionary Oracle. By 1995, I had generated more than 2,000 pages of material that I didn’t like. Although I was driven by a yearning to express insights that had been welling up in me for a long time, nothing about the work felt right. I was stuck.

But finally I discovered an approach that broke me free: I started to articulate difficult truths about aspects of my life about which I was embarrassed, puzzled, and ashamed. Then everything fell into place. The process that had been agonizing and fruitless became fluidic and joyful. I recommend that you try this strategy to dissolve any mental blocks you may be suffering from: dive into and explore what makes you feel ashamed, puzzling, or embarrassed. I bet it will lead to triumph and fulfilment, as happened for me.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I am overjoyed that you’re not competing for easy rewards or comparing yourself to the mediocre crowd. Some people in your sphere may not be overjoyed, though. To those whose sense of self isn’t strong, you may be like an itchy allergen; they may accuse you of showing off or acting puffed up. But freaks like me appreciate creative egotists like you when you treat your personality as a work of art. In my view, you’re a stirring example of how to be true to one’s smartest passions. Keep up the good work! Continue to have too much fun! I’m guessing that for now you can get away with doing just about anything you want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Let’s enjoy a moment of poignant silence in honour of your expired illusions.

They were soulful mirages: full of misplaced idealism and sweet ignorance and innocent misunderstandings.

Generous in ways you may not yet realize, they exuded an agitated beauty that aroused both courage and resourcefulness. Now, as those illusions dissolve, they

will begin to serve you anew, turning into fertile compost for your next big production.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Old rules and traditions about how best to conduct intimate relationships are breaking down. New rules are still incubating. Right now, the details about how people express their needs to give and receive love seem to be riddles for which there are no correct answers. So what do you do? How do you proceed with the necessary blend of confidence and receptivity? Can you figure out flexible strategies for being true both to your need for independence and your need for interdependence? I bring these ruminations to your attention, Libra, just in time for the “Transforming Togetherness” phase of your cycle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for your once-a-year shout-out to your most audacious possibilities. Ready?

Go ahead and say, “Hallelujah! Hosanna! Happiness!

Hooray for my brilliant future!” Next, go ahead and say, “I have more than enough power to create my world in the image of my wisest dreams.” Now do a dance of triumph and whisper to yourself, “I’m going to make very sure I always know exactly what my wisest dreams are.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During the next three weeks, I advise you to load up on copious amounts of caffeine from Monday at 8 a.m. until Friday at 6 p.m.

Then drastically cut back on the coffee and consume large amounts of alcohol and/or marijuana from 6:01 p.m. on Friday through 6 p.m. on Sunday. This is the ideal recipe for success. JUST KIDDING! I lied. Here’s the truth, Sagittarius: Astrological indicators suggest you would benefit from making the coming weeks be the most undrugged, alcohol-free time ever. Your potential for achieving natural highs will be extraordinary, as will your potential to generate crucial breakthroughs while enjoying those natural highs. Take advantage!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I don’t presume you should or will gleefully embrace the assignment I’ll propose. The task may indeed be too daunting for you to manage right now. If that’s the case, don’t worry.

You’ll get another chance in a few months. But if you are indeed ready for a breathtaking challenge, here it is: Be a benevolent force of wild nature; be a tender dispenser of creative destruction; be a bold servant of your soulful dreams—as you demolish outmoded beliefs and structures that have been keeping a crucial part of your vitality shackled and latent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I have cast a feisty love spell that will be triggered in anyone who reads the first line of this horoscope. And since you have done that, you are now becoming even smarter than you already were about getting the most out of your intimate alliances.

You’re primed to experiment with the delights of feeling with your head and thinking with your heart. Soon you’ll be visited by revelations about any unconscious glitches that might be subtly undermining your togetherness, and you’ll get good ideas about how to correct those glitches.

Astrological rhythms will be flowing in your relationships’ favour for the next seven weeks!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I estimate that about 25 per cent of your fear results from your hesitation to love as deeply and openly and bravely as you could. Another 13 per cent originates in an inclination to mistake some of your teachers for adversaries, and 21 per cent from your reluctance to negotiate with the misunderstood monsters in your closet. But I suspect that fully 37 per cent of your fear comes from the free-floating angst that you telepathically absorb from the other 7.69 billion humans on our planet. So what about the remaining four per cent?

Is that based on real risks and worth paying attention to?

Yes! And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in diminishing its hold on you.

Homework: Make a playful effort to change something you’ve always assumed you could never change.

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Playground Builders: Creating Play Building Hope - Playground Builders is a registered charity that builds playgrounds for children in war-torn areas. Learn more, volunteer or donate at www. playgroundbuilders.org Sea to Sky Community Services - running dozens of programs in Whistler to help people through times of crisis and with everyday challenges. www.sscs.ca 1-877892-2022 admin@sscs.ca Stewardship Pemberton Society and the One Mile Lake Nature Centre- Connecting community, nature and people through education, cooperation, and community involvement. www.stewardshippemberton. com Whistler Health Care Foundation raises funds for improving health care resources and services. New board members welcomed. Contact us at info@ whistlerhealthcarefoundation.org or call Karen at 604-906-1435.

SPORTS & RECREATION Alpine Club of Canada Whistler Section - Outdoor club focused on ski/split board touring, hiking, mountaineering and skills training.

More info: accwhistler.ca Trip Schedule: accwhistler.ca/trips/ Griffin Squadron Squamish Air CadetsOpen to youth 12-18yrs at Don Ross Secondary School on Tues at 6:30pm.

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HOSTEL STAFF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MULTIPLE POSITIONS We are looking for fun loving and energetic people to join our team. Subsidized housing available onsite at the hostel, located in Cheakamus Crossing. Flexible schedule with tons of time to explore Whistler this summer!

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Whistler Sliding Centre (Bobsleigh, Luge & Skeleton) Positions for this venue are currently filled

Whistler Olympic Park Positions for this venue are currently filled

Visit our website to view current postings and to apply: www.whistlersportlegacies.com/careers

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Pemberton Valley Trails AssociationMeets the second Wed of each month. 7pm at the Pemberton Recreation Centre. Call 604-698-6158

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Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub is hiring:

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Guest Service Agent – Full-time Night Audit/Guest Service Agent – Part-time These roles include the following Perks and Benefits:

• Staff discounts and incentives • Extended Benefits • Central Location • A dedicated and supportive management team

Work at Whistler’s best location!

Refine or jump-start your culinary career in our fast-paced and busy kitchen. We offer competitive wages, tips and a season ski pass. Please stop by the pub between 10am and 5pm with a copy of your resume.

You can also submit your resume via email to careers@dubhlinngate.com

• A fun team, and fantastic staff events • Wages starting from $18 per hour Please reply with a cover letter and resume to hr@listelhotel.com

Thank you for your interest. Only those applicants being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Whistler Waldorf School Inspiring a Genuine Love of Learning Elementary Grades Teacher (full time)

High School Drama, PE, Fine Arts, French, Science, Math Teachers (part time and on-call) Administrative Assistant / Registrar (full time, excluding school holidays) BC Teaching Certificate or eligibility required. Waldorf Teaching Certificate or commitment to Waldorf teacher training required.

For more information and to apply visit our website. whistlerwaldorf.com

Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Provides sports & recreation experiences for people with disabilities. Chelsey Walker at 604-905-4493 or info@whistleradaptive. com Whistler Martial Arts offers - Kishindo Karate for kids age 4 and up, Capoeira and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for kids and adults. Also Kickboxing, Judo, Yoga and Bellyfit for adults. Call Cole 932-2226 Women's Karma Yoga - Thursdays, 9:30-10:30, ongoing by donation and childminding provided. Whistler Women's Centre: 1519 Spring Creek Drive. Drop-in for weekly yoga classes led by an all female team of certified yoga instructors. All women, all ability levels welcome. hswc.ca | 604-962-8711

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Currently Seeking for the 2019-2020 School Year

Elementary Grades Teachers (part time and on-call)

Sea to Sky RC Flyers - Model Aeronautics Association of Canada Club active in the Sea to Sky Region flying model airplanes, helicopters and multi-rotors. Contact S2SRCFLY@telus.net

Mountain Country Property Management is currently recruiting for the following position:

Property Manager The Property Manager will be responsible for the management of a portfolio of residential properties in Whistler. The candidate will possess experiences preferably in customer service, owner relations, communications, building maintenance and working independently. Preference will be given to candidates who have completed or are enrolled in the Rental Property Management licensing program. Growth and development opportunity.

Salary position with medical, ski, and education benefits.

Submit your resume by e-mail to Gord Low at glow@mountaincountry.ca by August 19, 2019

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1st Whistler Scout Group - outdoor & adventure program for girls and boys aged 5-17. Times and locations vary.

More info: http://1stwhistlerscoutgroup. webs.com.

Contact scoutsatwhistler @gmail.com or 604-966-4050.

Whistler Children's Chorus Rehearsal Tuesdays at MILLENNIUM PLACE (4 - 5:30 pm) contact whistlerchorus@gmail.com Whistler/Pemberton Girl Guides Adventures for Girls age 5 & up. Sparks & Brownies (Gr K,1,2,3) Guides (Gr 4,5,6) Volunteers always welcome. coastmountaingirlguides@gmail.com Whistler Youth Centre - Drop - in: Fridays 3:30 - 11 PM & Saturdays 6 - 10 PM for ages 13 - 18. Located downstairs in the Maury Young Arts Centre (formerly Millenium Place). We offer: a Ping pong table, Pool table, Skateboard mini ramp w. skateboards and helmets to borrow, Free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, Guitars, Board games, Projector and widescreen TV's. Facebook THEYC Crew, www.whistleryouthcentre. com or call 604-935-8187.

LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge Club- Whistler Racquet Club reconvenes in late fall. The club meets every week and visitors are welcome. For partner, please call Gill at 640-932-5791.

Knitty Gritty Knit Night- Held every Tues 6-8pm. Free evening open to everyone with a love for knitting/crocheting. Beginners welcome. For location and further details email knittygrittywhistler@gmail.com or find us on facebook.

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Mountain Spirit Toastmasters- Builds communication, public speaking, and leadership skills . Wednesdays at the Pan Pacific Mountainside - Singing Pass Room, 5:30-7pm. Email contact - 8376@ toastmastersclubs.org www.whistler. toastmastersclubs.org Pemberton Women's Institute - Meets the third Mon of each month in the activity room at St. David's United Church at 7:30pm.

New members welcome. Linda Ronayne at 604-894-6580 Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782 Shades of Grey Painters Meets twice a week - Tuesdays, Watercolour, 11.00am-2.30pm @ The Rec, Pemberton.

Thursdays, Acrylic, 1.00pm-3.30pm @ The Amenities Building, Pioneer Village, Pemberton. We are like-minded people that get together & paint. Gretchen is the painting coach. $5 to attend.

Whistler Reads - Meets to discuss a new book every eight weeks. Go to bookbuffet. com & click on Whistler Reads for the latest book/event. Paula at 604-907-2804 or wr@ bookbuffet.com

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MECHANIC ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT (PART TIME) PERKS INCLUDE: FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE – FRIENDS & FAMILY DISCOUNTS – EPIC STAFF PARTIES - FREE ACTIVITIES FOR STAFF Full job Full j desc escriptionss at: at ww ww ww w.canadia w. anwilderness derness.com m/e /employment oyment/ oyment

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Certified Dental Assistant for busy family dental clinic

Located 20 minutes north of whistler in the beautiful pemberton valley.

Also seeking

Part-time Dental Hygienist Hours negotiable with competitive wage.

Email “info@pembertonvalleydental.ca” or fax to 604-894-6934

COMMUNITY CENTRES Maury Young Arts Centre - Whistler's community centre for arts, culture & inspiration. Performance theatre, art gallery, daycare, youth centre, meditation room, meeting facilities. www.artswhistler.com or 604-935-8410

Now Hiring for the Following Position: EXPERIENCED HOUSEKEEPERS – CASUAL

Pemberton & District Community Centre - Located at 7390 Cottonwood St. Fitness Centre, facility rentals, spray park, playground, children, youth, adult & seniors programs. For more info 604-894-2340 or pemrecinfo@slrd.bc.ca

• Competitive Wages - $25/HR • Discounted Food • Flexible Schedule • Spa Discounts

MUSEUMS Pemberton and District Museum and Archives Society - Located at 7455 Prospect St. Open: May to Nov annually from 10am-5pm. Guided tours and activities for all ages. Join us for "Tea & Tales" every Tuesday at 2pm in July and August. Some seasonal closures. Closed on holidays. www.pembertonmuseum.org

Discover new opportunities and embark on a career in Hospitality with Pan Pacific Whistler To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume to careers.ppwhi@panpacific.com

Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre Explore First Nations Art Galleries, and Interactive Exhibits. Gift Shop & Cafe are in our admission free area. Open Tuesday'sSunday's per week. 10am-5p.m..

Advantage English School E/J is currently looking for Part time ESL Teacher to join our team. This position is part-time but qualified teachers will also be considered to continue with us year round based on student enrollment.

Whistler Museum & Archives Society Explore interactive exhibits, listen to local stories & discover Whistler's journey. Open daily 11am-5pm, 4333 Main St. www. whistlermuseum.org or 604-932-2019

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: University degree or equivalent A background in business, hospitality or tourism (work experience or degree) Native or proficient level English Highly motivated, proactive and positive Organized and thorough and able to work well under pressure and within strict time constraints Excellent planning and organization skills, with good attention to detail

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING Whistler Breakfast Club Meets monthly at 6:45-8:30am at Whistler Chamber office. Offering a chance for business owners to meet and "speed network" with other business owners to build their circle of contacts and collaborators in the Sea 2 Sky Corridor. Learn more at facebook.com/ whistlerbreakfastclub

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DESIRED QUALITIES: TEFL certificate (CELTA or equivalent) OR 2 year teaching experience Experience with social media, marketing a bonus

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Whistler Chamber of Commerce - Is the leading business association in Whistler that works to create a vibrant & successful economy. Learn more about the programs & services at www.whistlerchamber.com

Part Time & Full Time Hosts & Server Assistants

Women of Whistler - Group that provides opportunities for Whistler businesswomen to network, gain knowledge & share ideas in a friendly, relaxed environment. Learn more at www.womenofwhistler.com

FOR SENIORS

JOIN THE MONGOLIE CREW! We are hiring full time & part time:

GRILL COOKS HOSTS

(PART TIME & FULL TIME) Hourly wage + tips, flexible schedule, fun & fast-paced work environment, staff meals.

Learn how to cook with flair!

FREE golf, many perks/benefits Whistler’s Best Patio, great culture/ events, competitive wages, more!

Inquires: jgordon@golfbc.com

Mature Action Community (MAC) - Represents seniors in Whistler and welcomes new members. MAC meets for fun and interaction with local seniors and those just visiting on Thursday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the Whistler Community Services Community Room for Activate and Connect. Come join us for coffee and socializing while engaging in fun activities. Check us out at www.whistlermac. org or view our schedule on Facebook Whistler Mature Action Community Group page.

Send your resume to careers@mongoliegrill.com Or drop off your resume in person before 5pm!

SEEKING EVENT STAFF Be a part of our signature event as we prepare to host our Longtable Dinner at North Arm Farm in Pemberton, BC on August 18th.

Friendly, hard-working candidates are invited to apply for this fun and rewarding day at the farm. Meals, transport from Whistler, and competitive renumeration included.

Hospitality training is preferred.

Please email your resume to: longtable@araxi.com or apply in person Sunday - Thursday from 3-5pm.

Activate & Connect - Come join us Thursday mornings 9:30am to 11:00am at Whistler Community Services for a weekly drop in program for seniors 50+. Everyone welcome, in partnership with Mature Action Community. www.mywcss.org

Now Hiring for the Following Positions: HOUSEKEEPERS **$500 Signing Bonus** plus: • Competitive Wages • Wellness Allowance • Associate Housing • Discounted Food • Extended Medical Benefits • Complimentary Associate Stays • Flexible Schedule • Spa Discounts

Discover new opportunities and embark on a career in Hospitality with Pan Pacific Whistler To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume to careers.ppwhi@panpacific.com

Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults dealing with the challenges of social wellness. Please call our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker.

Pemberton Men's Shed - Weekly social meetings WED. 11-2 in the Seniors/youth Rec. bldg. beside library. Social meeting with BYO Bag lunch, card games and pool/ snooker. Help out in YOUR community, operating the Pemberton Tool Library.

Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 604576-9734 or ecbayer2@gmail.com

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com

WE ARE LOOKING TO HIRE:

FULL TIME: LINE COOKS (ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE) PART TIME / FULL TIME: BUSSERS HOSTS Full-time and year round. We feature evening work only, staff meals, competitive wages and a great work environment. So if you’re looking for a change or some extra hours, come by and see us. Flexible schedules are available.

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Healthy Home, Healthy Planet - Expert in green cleaning offers tricks, info & 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

Re-Build-It Centre - Daily 10:00am to 5:00pm. Accepting donations of furniture, quality used building supplies & new items.

Deliveries and pickups available for $35. Call 604.932.1125, www.mywcss.org, rebuildit@ mywss.org

Regional Recycling - Recycle beverage containers (full deposit paid) electronics, appliances, batteries, Lightbulbs, drop-off times are 9am-5pm on Nesters Rd. Pick up service 604-932-3733

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Baby/Child Health Clinics - Free routine immunizations & newly licensed vaccines for purchase, growth & development assessments & plenty of age appropriate resources avail. By appointment 604-9323202

Camp Fund - Provides financial assis-tance to enable children of financially restricted families to attend camp. Call WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org

Families Fighting Cancer In The Sea To Sky - We are a non profit partner with Sea to Sky Community Services. We provide financial and practical support to children and parents with dependants diagnosed with cancer. Please contact us on our confidential email: ffcseatosky@gmail.com, visit our Facebook Page or website www. familiesfightingcancer.ca

KidsArt - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to participate in arts and culture education. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www. mywcss.org.

Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public Health Nurse. Every Mon 11am-12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.

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4x10 hour days per week, year round position with benefits Travel Consultants have a passion for ensuring that guests have the best possible vacation experience in Whistler. The main goal of Travel Consultants is to sell an entire Whistler vacation package, including accommodations, activities and transportation to guests worldwide. This position requires an enthusiastic individual who can share their passion for Whistler and close the sale. Previous experience in travel reservations and/or travel agent sales is helpful; a strong knowledge of Whistler is essential.

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Caregiver/ Domestic helper.

Job duties are: care for children, meal prep & cook, clean, laundry, dog walk. Child care experience & cooking experience req’d, good references. $20/hr, 20 hr per week. Send resume to homeschoolwhistler@gmail.com

Kids on the Move - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to participate in sport programs. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www. mywcss.org.

Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults and families experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness.

Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker or visit www. mywcss.org.

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The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) Whistler's Natural Voice since 1989. Regular events, project and volunteer opportunities. www.awarewhistler.org info@awarewhistler.org

The Mountain Village Social Gathering Join us at one of our regular social gatherings on the last Wednesday of every month.

There is a group of us at The Mountain Village who are forming a sustainable, multi generational neighbourhood based on the co housing model. WHAT IF... Housing wasn't just a place to live, but rather, a way of life? To find out more, visit our Facebook page @themountainvillage or go to our website www.themountainvillage.ca

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ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Re-Use-It - Daily 11:00am to 6:00pm, Donate all household goods in good shape.

Accepting bottles & cans, old electronics, anything with a cord, and light fixtures for recycling. All proceeds to WCSS. Call 604.932.1121, www.mywcss.org, reuseit@ mywcss.org.

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Office Administrator Busy Plumbing and Heating Company seeking Office Administrator to work with other office administrators. The ideal candidate will be independent, witty and organized. A fast learner with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in an office setting.

Required Skills • Skilled in all aspects of Microsoft Office programs including Excel, Word and Outlook • Must be very good at MS Excel • Must be able to produce and maintain excel spreadsheets • Excellent phone skills (screening calls, message taking, work order taking) Send resume in confidence to:

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GUEST SERVICES AGENT

Pinnacle Hotel Whistler has an opening for a full time or part time guest services agent. We are looking for a customer service professional who will help our guest enjoy their experience at our hotel. Duties include check in and checkout of guests, concierge and reservations.

Experience preferred but we will train the right person.

Please contact Roger Dix rdix@pinnaclehotels.ca or ph: 604-938-3218

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Pemberton Strong Start Family Drop-InA play group for you and your under-5 child.

Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm. Thurs only 12pm-3pm. Call 604894-6101 / 604-966- 8857

PM Server Assistant In Room Dining Server Steward Front Desk Agent Concierge Security Officer Commis2 Guestroom Attendant

Whistler Public Library - Open Mon-Thurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 10:30am. Parent & Infant dropin, Thurs 11am. Preschool Story Time, Fri 10:30am. Singing with the babies, Sat 11am.

Call 604-935-8433

Purchasing Receiver Private Residence Receptionist Private Residence Door Attendant Shuttle Driver Spa Attendant

SOCIAL SERVICES Access to Justice - Need legal advice but are financially restricted? Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to find out more or visit www. mywcss.org.

The Four Seasons team is looking for these roles to start immediately. $500 signing bonus available for all hires

Counselling Assistance Available - WCSS subsidizes access to a private counselor for $35-$50/hr depending on financial need.

Contact an outreach team member at 604932-0113 www.mywcss.org

Counselling Assistance - WCSS subsidizes access to a private counsellor depending on financial need. Contact an outreach worker at 604.932.0113 or visit www.mywcss.org.

Details:

Please apply online via jobs.fourseasons.com

ESL Volunteer Tutor Program - Volunteer one-to-one tutoring for new immigrants & Canadian citizens. For more information or to register, contact the Whistler Welcome Centre info@welcomewhistler.com or call 604.698.5960

Food Bank, Pemberton - Run by Sea to Sky Community Service. Open every second Monday. 604 894 6101

CONSTRUCTION SAFETY COORDINATOR:

The Adara Hotel, Whistler We now have the following positions available:

HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER BOOKKEEPER We offer better than competitive wages, benefits, spirit or epic ski pass and more. The Adara Hotel is a small boutique hotel nestled in the heart of Whistler close to all amenities and services. We take care of our staff and experience is an asset not a requirement.

• 3 years construction experience & site/field safety role • Experienced in developing health & safety resources Also Recruiting: • Heavy Duty Mechanics • Dump Truck Drivers • Pipelayers & Labourers

Meadow Park Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $131.20 municipal recreation credit.

Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org.

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We offer full-time/flex-time positons in a positive, safe work environment.

Salary based on experience.

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Looking for a dog to adopt?

Send us your resume or call Solidcontracting@gmail.com 604-966-7062

Look for WAG’s bright orange bandanas on dogs being walked by volunteers! These dogs are looking for their forever home.

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Healthy Pregnancy Outreach ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101

Email resume to careers@coastalmountain.ca

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Food Bank Whistler - Located at 8000 Nesters Road, every Monday from 10am to noon. For emergency food bags, please call 604.935.7717 for as-sistance. www.mywcss. org, food-bank@mywcss.org

North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy. Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334

Outreach Services - Free, confidential support for youth experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness. Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker or visit www.mywcss.org.

RMOW Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $127.60 municipal recreation credit. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 www.mywcss.org

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1-877-890-5711 or 604-892-5711

Support Counselling - For women regarding abuse & relationship issues. No charge. Call 604-894-6101

Victim Services - Assists victims, witnesses, family members or friends directly affected by any criminal act or traumatic event. Call 604-905-1969

Whistler Community Services Society Outreach Services Now Available Monday to Saturday at our new location - 8000 Nesters Road (next to WAG) 604.932.0113 www. mywcss.org

Whistler for the Disabled - Provides info for people with disabilities on what to do & where to go. Visit www. whistlerforthedisabled.com

Whistler Housing Authority - Long term rental & ownership housing for qualified Whistler employees . Visit www. whistlerhousing.ca

Whistler Mental Health & Addiction Services - If you or someone you know needs help with a mental health issue or substance misuse or addiction problem, we can assist. Mon-Fri 830am-430pm. 604-6986455

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HEALTHY CHOICES FACILITATOR This position is a fixed term position with a start date of September 2019 working 32 to 40 hours per week.

The Healthy Choices Facilitator role is to provide primary prevention and early intervention education within schools in Whistler, Pemberton and Mount Currie. The Healthy Choices Facilitator will work with school personnel to assist students with issues regarding substance challenges, nutrition, resiliency, asset building and mental health/illness.

Please send your cover letter and resume to: hr@mywcss.org

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Whistler WorkBC Employment Services Centre - Provides free one-stop employment services to job seekers and employers.

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RE-USE IT CENTRE AMBASSADOR Whistler Community Services Society is seeking a Re-Use It Centre Ambassador This position is full-time permanent with a varied work schedule. It provides extended health benefits, a wellness benefit and MSP coverage.

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Epilepsy Support Group- For individuals & families seeking guidance or support.

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Roman Catholic Church- Come celebrate mass at Our Lady of the Mountains, Whistler on Saturday 5pm, Sunday 9am, Tuesday 5:45pm, Wednesday 7pm, Thursday/Friday 5:45pm. St. Francis of Assisi, Pemberton on Sunday 12:30pm and Friday 9am. St. Christopher's, Mt. Currie on Sunday 11am.

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America was great once A 21-YEAR-OLD , obsessed by what he considered an invasion of Texas by Hispanics, walked into a Walmart last Saturday with an automatic weapon and several hundred rounds of ammunition and killed 22 people and wounded a couple dozen more. Then he waited patiently in his car for the police to arrive and peacefully surrendered himself to them.

His language, bemoaning the Hispanic invasion, race mixing, open borders and expressing a desire for those people to go back to their own country sounded familiar, presidential even.

That he was an out and out loser is apparent from his background and his own words. He’d been unemployed after losing

BY G.D. MAXWELL his grocery store bagger job five months ago. He had no motivation to work and fantasized about a software development job, assuming the eight hours a day he noodled on a computer was sufficient qualification.

But maybe he was right about the whole Hispanic invasion thing.

After all, it was Hispanics who invaded Texas in the early part of the 19th century, wasn’t it? The peaceful Texians, the Old Three Hundred who followed Moses Austin to settle along the Brazos River, had prospered, notwithstanding the lack of even pioneer comforts that awaited them.

Anxious for greater numbers, in no small part to help protect their nascent civilization against the “savage” native tribes who already inhabited the area, they embraced liberal immigration policies designed to encourage people from Mexico to move to Texas. They granted significant acreage to individuals who recruited settlers from other U.S. states, Europe and Mexico.

Things didn’t work out so well. Many of the immigrants ignored, opposed and even flagrantly violated Texian law. Many were criminals who enslaved others, notwithstanding the Texian law against slavery. They robbed, murdered, raped and generally acted in accordance to modern day presidential descriptions of Mexicans.

After a time, their numbers growing, they rose up in revolt against Texian rule...

Wait a minute. Something’s not right.

Oh hell, I was reading this all backwards.

It was the peaceful Mexicans and Spanish settlers who laid claim to the area now known as Texas a couple of centuries before there even was a United States who made the historical blunder of inviting the invasion of U.S. colonists to join them.

Wow, talk about your strong argument in favour of a border wall.

It was, of course, those American settlers who defied the Mexican laws against slavery, who robbed, murdered, raped and generally carried on like the criminals some

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of them were and who eventually waged war and stole the land that is now the second largest U.S. state with the second largest population and the largest deathrow population. Git along little doggie.

While it is undeniably true the U.S. has a mass-murder problem, with such occurrences currently running in excess of one per day, the crux of the problem, as is said over and over again by Republican politicians and the National Rifle Association, is not guns. Of course it’s not; it is also not a lack of gun-packin’ civilians who can blow away the bad guys as soon as they figure out who they are.

The crux of the problem is Republican politicians and the NRA and other gunrights advocacy groups.

There are only three things certain in the wake of last weekend’s big shootouts in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. The first is

when mass shootings began in the U.S. The first I remember was the August day in 1966 when a former Marine began killing random passersby from the Main Building tower at the University of Texas, in Austin. Hmm... sounds familiar.

The third certainty is this latest round of high-profile killings will spike an increase in gun sales south of the border. Mass murders always increase gun sales. Not because people feel less secure and buy guns for protection but because gun nuts fear a crackdown on their access to those things their heart covets most. Quick, get your assault rifle while you can. Heck, get two.

Republican politicians won’t allow any serious restrictions on gun sales because they’re both beholden to the NRA, et. al., and because their base believes mass murder is just the cost of a free and open society with an unrestricted right to bear

... this will happen again...and again... and again, as is has with numbing regularity for almost as long as we can remember.

that nothing of consequence will come from it politically. Senate Republicans and the Pussygrabber-in-Chief will see to that, notwithstanding his painfully scripted, undoubtedly forced public statement on Monday.

The second, obviously, is this will happen again...and again...and again, as it has with numbing regularity for almost as long as we can remember. I don’t know

arms. So they create the kind of fantasy we see the President voicing. It’s not the guns, it’s the mentally ill people with guns and a video game fixation who kill people.

This conveniently ignores the fact mentally ill people account for only about five per cent of homicides and there are lots of gamers in every country in the world. But only one country has this persnickity mass murder problem. The one with more guns

floating around than people and a culture that believes in shooting first and asking questions later.

And so we have the spectacle of The Orange One, standing in front of microphones Monday, Mike Pence holding a shiv to his back, reading—likely being forced to read—a statement flashing up on the teleprompter in large print, condemning racism, bigotry and white supremacy. He read it with all the gusto one reads the long list of possible side effects on one’s medication. But to his credit, he stayed on script. He didn’t tangent off and say, “But there’s good people on both sides,” as he did when attempting to condemn white supremacists in Charlotte a couple of years ago.

You could see the bile rising in his rubby-red face. He was disrespecting his people, his core, his haters who echo his words on the Hispanic invasion. He said the words on the teleprompter but he offered no solutions, at least none that will have any chance of lessening the feedback loop of angry men turning to random murder to salve their frustration with their impotent lives.

And there is every possibility he will revert to his core and Tweet something that encourages those angry men before this column ever reaches print.

So, as my former fellow Americans ask again and again, “When will this end?” The short answer is never. And sadly, if the platoon of Democratic candidates vying for a shot at unseating him is any indication, we may watch this vilification spool out for another four years after the election in November 2020.

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Adventures West Lakeside 4 bedroom sleeps nine. Rare Lakeside offering on Whistler’s finest private beach with a private outlook to the expansive lawns. There are lockups for your water toys at the waters edge and a secure private storage room for your bikes. Just minutes from the Village this is the best four season location there is.

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$399,000

Looking for a Whistler getaway? A studio looking over Blackcomb and Whistler Mountain could be the perfect place for you. Enjoy the proximity to the action in the Village, the large pool, 2 hot tubs and the exercise room in the Cascade Lodge. When you are not occupying the suite it will be rented generating revenue.

Featuring 100 feet of lakefront, on .68 of an acre, this property is situated on the east shore of pristine Anderson Lake, so it catches all the afternoon sun. Accessible by boat, the cabin was completely renovated in 2015, with about 936 sq ft of total living space. It boasts spectacular views up and down the lake and of the Bendor Mountain Range to the west.

Dave Beattie*

Dave Halliwell*

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604.905.8855

8579 Drifter Way

$2,650,000

604.932.7727

3277 Arbutus Drive

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$2,139,000

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604.938.2499

#6 - 4636 Blackcomb Way

$197,000

Adjacent to the Fairmont Chateau golf course, this rarely available, 1/5th interest in an immaculate 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhome boasts a spacious open layout, heated slate floors in bathroom. A cozy wood burning fireplace, large master bedroom with sitting area, and plenty of secure parking are among the many amenities.

Dave Sharpe

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604.902.2779

#13 - 2544 Snowridge Cresc.

$1,250,000

Bright Alpine chalet perfect for a large family or 2 families to share. 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (5 bedrooms in the home with a 2 bedroom suite) spread over 3,528 sf all with multiple windows to draw in the sunshine. Upstairs is open concept with large living area separated from the dining by the double-sided gas fireplace.

Outside you have incredible privacy to enjoy your new 19 foot swim spa/hot tub all year long. Gorgeous gardens of flowers and vegetables on the sunniest property in Brio.

Step inside and you will be impressed with all the room. Huge loft that could be easily converted into another large bedroom to give this property 5 bedrooms!

Unbeatable SKI IN/OUT location right on the Dave Murray Downhill. Just steps to Whistler creekside base area shops, lakes and valley trail network. Vaulted ceiling unit featuring a bright spacious open concept living area with fresh paint, carpet, windows and more! This is a very well managed and maintained property in perfect ‘move in’ condition.

Denise Brown*

Doug Treleaven

James Collingridge

604.935.2013

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