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LANDSLIDE RESPONSE

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32 Ramping up BC Hydro is killing too many fish at Sea to Sky facility, say conservationists. - By Jennifer Thuncher/Squamish Chief

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The RMOW’s updated Animal

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FEELING FINE

This year’s RBC GranFondo

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Whistler is the final tune-up before the World Championships

including for dogs chasing, threatening or biting, and more.

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08 OPENING REMARKS As part of its proposed Animal Responsibility Bylaw, the RMOW has released an extensive list of prohibited animals that might surprise you.

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week respond to one woman’s concerns over last

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month’s topless march, while another credits the arts community of Whistler’s past for helping her find a home in the resort.

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST It’s a good time to forego flesh, as vegetarianism has never been more mainstream, writes columnist Alyssa Noel.

86 MAXED OUT With the summer winding down, Max turns his attention to the upcoming federal

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30 ECOLOGIC A Lazarus turtle might rightly stimulate our curiosity, but it should also spark creative

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31 THE OUTSIDER Celebrating Whistler’s Beermas, the Whistler Village Beer Festival, which

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38 TRAVEL Read Part 2 of writer Virginia Aulin’s trip to northern France as she searches for the world’s best champagne.

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46 VELOCITY PROJECT Writer Lisa Richardson believes a garden is a reflection of your personality.

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48 EPICURIOUS Find out what’s in store at the new-look Fresh St. Market as it takes over the Marketplace space formerly occupied by IGA.

52 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW While summer blockbuster season is over in most of North America, Whistler gets to enjoy one more big horror film this week. Feet Banks weighs in on IT: Chapter Two.

54 MUSEUM MUSINGS Whistler Museum’s Allyn Pringle looks back on the flood that washed out and damaged several bridges over Fitzsimmons Creek 28 years ago this week.

58 PIQUECAL Did you hear the news? Blue Rodeo singer Jim Cuddy is riding in GranFondo Whistler on Saturday—and then playing a gig at Whistler Olympic Plaza that afternoon at 3 p.m. with Famous Players Band.

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I didn’t know I wanted a monkey until the RMOW told me I couldn’t have one THIS WEEK, I had the unenviable task of filling in as Editor in Chief for Pique’s fearless newsroom leader and resident cat lady, Clare Ogilvie.

Being the first time I’ve had to take on this role, I was a little nervous. The good news, folks, is, if you’re reading this right

BY BRANDON BARRETT now, it means we put out a paper this week.

The office didn’t burn down. Everything is as it should be.

Of course, one of Clare’s many (many!) weekly responsibilities is coming up with an editorial. Typically an

the Debbie Downers over at municipal hall won’t let me have one. And I don’t like being told I can’t have a monkey.

As part of its new Animal Responsibility Bylaw (which, lest you think I didn’t read the thing, is otherwise a valuable and long overdue piece of legislation—read more about it on page 16), the wet blankets at the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) have released an extensive list of animals prohibited within Whistler’s boundaries.

These include, but are not limited to: bears, elephants, seals, anteaters, sloths, armadillos, platypus (platypi?), moose, the creepiest types of spiders, mongooses, whales, hyenas, dolphins, flying lemurs (are normal lemurs OK?), something called a hyrax, and, right there at the top of the list, “all nonhuman primates.”

So the deadbeat housemate down the hall

So the deadbeat housemate down the hall who never washes the Kraft Dinner out of the stovepot is fine, but I can’t have a monkey butler?

editorial will take a strong and reasoned stance on a particular hot-button issue of deep resonance to the community.

This will not be one of those editorials.

That doesn’t mean I don’t feel passionately about my chosen subject.

In fact, I’ve never felt so strongly about anything in my life. Well, at least the last 20 minutes of my life. I’m talkin’ ‘bout monkeys, y’all. Why, exactly? Well, because

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who never washes the Kraft Dinner out of the stovepot is fine, but I can’t have a monkey butler? This injustice will not stand.

Maybe the way to attack this is in the wording of the bylaw. Bureaucrats love technicalities. What if, hypothetically speaking, I dress up my monkey to look as human-like as possible? You’re telling me if I throw a chimp in some board shorts, a Volcom hoodie, and a snapback that the

public at large won’t just think he’s a vandwelling ski bum who hasn’t visited the barber in six months?

Besides, we all know full well Whistler remains in the throes of a severe staffing shortage. Our primate brethren could easily fill that void. Hire some hard-working orangutans for the winter, and suddenly your restaurant/ hotel/zipline operation—seriously, how good at ziplining would orangutans be?—and then, next thing you know, bam, you’re the hottest tourist attraction in town. Making money hand over fist.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: What if the monkeys revolt? Generally speaking, monkeys can be an unpredictable bunch.

One second you’re playing paddy cakes, the next your face is being surgically reattached to your skull.

That’s where the good folks at the Whistler Chamber of Commerce come in. They have, over the years, honed and refined the Whistler Experience customerservice program to such a degree that I’m almost certain even a monkey could be trained into delivering an exquisite, worldclass experience to humans of all types.

The Barenaked Ladies, true Canadian patriots that they are, once asked an important question that I now pose to you, the fine folks of Whistler: Haven’t you always wanted a monkey? Personally, I didn’t know I wanted a monkey until the RMOW told me I couldn’t have one. The great tragedy is, now I—and more importantly, you, fellow monkey-wanter—will never know the joys of nonhuman primate ownership. There’s an election issue if I ever heard one.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Won’t somebody think of the children?

I empathize with the writer of the “Topless March in Poor Taste” letter from the Aug. 29 Letters to the Editor. I cannot believe children (!!) had to see topless women during the march! I, for one, prefer to blindfold my baby when I breastfeed her, lest she discover that she has been receiving nourishment for the past 10 months from breasts, of all things.

Won’t somebody think of the children?!

And, of course, “flaunting their nakedness” (as the writer put it) will only result in disrespect for these women’s bodies—because nothing says “respect yourself!” quite like forcing someone to cover up and feel ashamed of their own body.

Avert your eyes, young men. It starts with a topless march to protest women’s rights, then before you know it, BAM—teenage pregnancy!

Thankfully, as the writer mentioned, the fine men of Whistler are never seen around town shirtless, especially at the park and by the lake.

Magee Walker // Squamish

Support for bare equality I am writing in response to Gail McKellar’s letter “Topless march in poor taste” (Pique, Aug. 29).

Whether you’ve seen this or not, men have the right to take off their shirts at any time, anywhere, except in businesses as otherwise posted for

way to intimacy, driving them to share provocative images with one another.

Would I want my mother, sister, daughter or wife to participate in this march? Absolutely.

I’ll also invite my father, brother, son and husband to come with us. The more people, the better. The aim of the march is to draw attention to the fact that breasts are seen and treated differently than bare, flat chests.

Ironically, it is opinions like McKellar’s that will keep the march coming back to Whistler for 10 years. In the Pique’s article from Aug. 20 (“Topless march planned for Whistler”), the organizer explains that the reason the march left Vancouver is because it had become “less of a big deal.” As soon as bare-chest equality is achieved in Whistler, there’ll be no reason to march here anymore. I, for one, am looking forward to a bigger turnout in 2020.

Kate Heskett // Whistler

Cultivating a sense of home sanitary reasons. Women do not have this right, as power structures and organizations prevent them from doing so. Why? Because breasts are sexual?

Who made them that way? Not the infants that feed from them. Not the women that have them.

Toplessness and nudity are not inherently sexual. However, when it is socially acceptable for a man to be topless, but not for a woman, the message becomes that the female body is different and deserves to be sexualised. During the suffragette movement, the women who marched were told they were the equivalent of prostitutes to display themselves in such a way

in public. Those women were fully clothed but were sexualized in an attempt to diminish and demonize their message.

This march and these types of protests are designed to help us question the beliefs that keep oppressive power structures and ideas in place in our society. There is definitely a great deal of pressure on youth today of all genders to share sexually explicit images of themselves. However, to be clear, it’s not nudity (think getting in your shower) that’s the issue. It’s the sexualization of nudity that is the problem. This social construct has also taught our youth that sexuality is the only

I loved Brandon Barrett’s far-reaching feature, “Turning the page” (Pique, Aug. 29), describing how libraries—Whistler’s, the Xwi7xwa library at UBC, and more—are staying wonderfully relevant in our fast-changing world.

I’m so glad librarians don’t shush us anymore, and that libraries themselves are more welcoming than ever for all kinds of people. If I still lived in Edmonton, my hometown, I’d be the first in line tomorrow morning to use their 3D printer.

But I loved his column, “A love letter to the library,” in the same issue, even more. It really struck a nerve.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 39 SMOKETREE When I moved to Whistler in the early ’80s, it was for a reporter’s job like Brandon’s, also for The Whistler Question. Like him, I wasn’t really outdoorsy. I didn’t ski, didn’t jog, run, or play tennis. And, like the fellow who loves to enjoy the current library’s spacious “living room” and watch a dusting of snow fall through its soaring windows, I didn’t live in a grand house, and never will.

Like Brandon, I was also pretty far from family and friends, plus I’d grown up on a diet of art, books and ideas. Other than my work at the newspaper, and the great gang of people who worked there, I pretty much felt like a fish out of water, too.

So it was a total flashback when he described how the library gave him a sense of place—a home—that nowhere else did when he first moved to Whistler and felt like he didn’t fit in.

It was that same kind of feeling that drove me to start the Whistler Arts Council (now Arts Whistler), the “family” that fostered the library and a whole bunch of other good ideas.

Picture it. It was 1982, and we, the gang who first met to weave arts and culture into the fabric of the community, didn’t have a single physical space to call home—there was no Maury Young Arts Centre, no library, no museum. We didn’t even have a dedicated room to meet in.

But this group of very warm, very smart, very funny, generous people who were very interested in the arts (I use “the arts” loosely) found each other and built a happy, comfortable space for ourselves and anybody else who longed for it. We encouraged each other, helped each other out, and made a sense of place from our dreams, some of which eventually came true.

One of these was Margaret Long, who dreamt of Whistler having a Children’s Art Festival.

It came true. Another was Tamsin Miller, who dreamt of a huge lineup of quality performing arts. It came true. And one of them was Joan Richoz, who dreamt of having a library.

As for me, I dreamt of, and got to enjoy it all.

Besides the newspaper office, that littleengine-that-could arts council was my home, my sense of place at Whistler. In fact, it was the newspaper then, as it is today, that helped the arts council and its endeavours thrive.

It feels sweet—remarkable, even—to see how that little engine could do the same thing for Brandon and, I bet, a few other people over the years.

If anybody ever tells you that art and culture aren’t important in a place like Whistler, don’t believe them for a nanosecond.

And thanks, Brandon, for the memories.

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Library Board of Trustees Applications Applications are being received for Trustee positions on the Whistler Public Library (WPL) Board. Library Board Trustees are appointed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) Council.

Pursuant to the Library Act, ss. 5-6, there are five (5) vacancies available for a two (2) year term effective (January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021).

Interviews will be conducted in the second week of October.

Eligibility requirements: • Must be resident or an elector of the RMOW. • Must not be a RMOW employee.

• Must not be a WPL employee.

SCHOOL LUNCH - PROGRAM The WCSS School Lunch Program starts Tuesday, September 10th!

This is a FREE PROGRAM and NO APPLICATION is required!

This program made possible by the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation.

All children are welcome to access this food, available at all schools three days per week! The goal of this program is to help support nutrition and food security in our schools.

If you have questions or would like to volunteer please contact cara@mywcss.org or see mywcss.org for details.

This program is made possible by generous funding from the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation and DAYHU Group of Companies.

Board guidelines: • The Board consists of eleven (11) members. Ten (10) are appointed from the community and one (1) member from the RMOW Council.

• The Board elects a Chair and Vice Chair at its first meeting in each year.

• The Board must meet at regular intervals at least six (6) times a year.

• Meetings are currently held on the first Wednesday of each month, except August, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

For further information on the responsibilities of the Board members, please contact Chair, Bevin Heath Ansley at wplboardrecruits@gmail.com or visit https:// www.whistlerlibrary.ca/about-us/wpl-board.

Application packages are available at the Municipal Hall or www.whistler.ca and the Whistler Public Library at 4329 Main Street or www.whistlerlibrary.ca.

Please submit applications to: Lucy Wyn-Griffiths Legislative Services Administrative Assistant Resort Municipality of Whistler Municipal Hall 4325 Blackcomb Way Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 Email: corporate@whistler.ca Fax: 604-935-8109 Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday October 2, 2019.

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Finally, it’s tofu-eaters’ time to shine THIS MORNING, I drove by a white minivan with a bumper sticker on the back that read, “If animals could talk, we would all be vegan.”

Curious to see what this devoted vegan looked like, I snuck a glance from the passing lane. Instead of the young, female—maybe sporting dreadlocks—that

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I had expected, it was an older, larger man with a shaved head and a goatee.

It was a nice surprise and drove home a point: plant-based eating has never been more mainstream.

I never could’ve imagined this when I quit eating meat 15 years ago, living in Alberta. Back then, forgoing meat meant accepting bland pasta meals at restaurants—unless you could convince your dining partners to go to then-veryhippie vegetarian restaurants.

It also meant enduring plenty of jokes from relatives at Thanksgiving that went something like, “What do you eat?! Rabbit food?”

Fast forward to 2019 and you can suddenly find a Beyond Meat burger

anywhere within a 10-kilometre radius.

People who were hardcore meat eaters a decade ago are now opting for Meatless Mondays. Fine-dining restaurants that looked down on veggie entrées are coming up with plant-based meals everyone enjoys.

It is a fine time to forgo flesh, friends.

I quit eating meat—something I try to never talk about unless explicitly asked after years of hearing people mock vegetarians

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report put together by more than 100 scientists from 52 countries looking at how land-use practices have impacted the planet.

In short, it found that deforestation and agriculture, along with other human activities, are hampering the world’s ability to keep global temperature increase below 1.5-degree Celsius—the important tipping

The crux of their argument in our Facebook comments was there are plenty of ways humans are messing up the planet, so why should they sacrifice food they enjoy when other people aren’t going to sacrifice having babies, driving cars, and using plastic? and vegans for acting holier-than-thou— mainly because I didn’t feel it was necessary to kill animals for sustenance any longer. (I mean, honestly, save for seafood, I never really liked it anyway—one more reason I never judge meat eaters.)

But, of course, much of the current trend of cutting back on meat is due to our climate crisis.

Earlier last month, the UN’s

point that experts say will bring climate catastrophe.

Basically, reducing meat consumption would lead to lower carbon emissions from livestock and a reduction in fertilizer use, but also it would mean reforesting more land that was previously used for grazing, it says.

Need further proof? The majority of the fires currently burning in the Brazilian

Amazon were started by people clearing land for agriculture, as well as mining and logging.

When Pique shared a column on the IPCC report a few weeks back, several commenters were pretty angry about it.

The crux of their argument in our Facebook comments was there are plenty of ways humans are messing up the planet, so why should they sacrifice food they enjoy when other people aren’t going to sacrifice having babies, driving cars, and using plastic?

They have a point. If I was fully committed to prioritizing the planet over my own desires, I would give up dairy (I love cheese more than life), commit to never procreating (who knows, I might sneak out one small, chill child under the wire), and 100-per-cent ban single-use plastic from my life (still can’t quite kick that to-go veggie sushi).

I think the point is we could all sacrifice a little more. Even experts responding in interviews to the IPCC report advocate for eating less beef, not necessarily becoming full-on vegetarians—which would be too daunting of a transition to expect.

The good news is—as the explosion of the Beyond Meat burger (which, frankly, is probably not all that healthy, but is a pretty tasty fast-food treat) has proven—it’s never been easy, tastier, or more socially acceptable to enjoy a plant-based meal.

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OUR ONLINE CONVERSATION Following a Topless March in support of gender equality that was held in Whistler on Sunday, Aug. 26, one local resident was inspired to submit a letter to the editor to voice her opposition to the protest, which the letter writer deemed to be “in poor taste.”

As you might expect, several of Pique’s Facebook followers took to the comments section to express their disagreement with the letter. While there were a handful of creative graphics and gifs used to make that point, other posts included: “All summer long guys are topless here?

Where has this person been? Also, let me get this straight, the letter writer would like all woman (sic) to remain covered up? Because for them, it’s better to keep the status quo in the name of common decency? Gawd (sic) forbid society errs on the side of equality.

Children won’t think it’s weird or relate it to pornography unless they are being taught that’s what a woman’s naked breasts represents. Maybe teach them they can just be a woman’s naked breasts—with zero shame or added puritanism attached.”

The letter writer, “completely missed the point of this protest,” added another.

“Equality and empowerment. Asking if going topless is morally right...Hello!!! It’s 2019 in Canada.”

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DID YOU KNOW?

Teara Fraser became the first Indigenous woman to start an airline in Canada when she launched Iskwew Air in September 2018.

The entrepreneur will give the keynote speech for the Indigenous Tourism Start Up Program, which takes place in Whistler this fall. Launched by the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre and the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, the Start Up program seeks to equip 14 budding Indigenous entrepreneurs with a plan—and inspiration—to launch their own tourism venture.

THROWBACK THURSDAY

In this issue, published on Sept. 5, 2003— exactly 16 years ago—writer Bob Barnett investigated how security measures had been redefined following the tragic events that took place on Sept. 11, two years prior.

The feature story, ‘Security Measures,’ discussed how recent Canadian developments like the federal AntiTerrorism Act, the Customs Act, the Passenger Name Record and a swift uptick in video surveillance could impact Canadians’ privacy.

“Privacy issues have become more important and more prevalent in recent years not just because of security measures taken following 9/11 but also because in the electronic world of the 21st century there is more information about us readily available. Every time we use a credit or debit card, log online or make a phone call we leave a trail of electronic information behind,” wrote Barnett.

“Much was lost on Sept. 11, and the natural reaction is to improve security.

But in the last two years some of our fundamental values have been under attack in the pursuit of security. Defending those rights and values is even more important in the world today.” n

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Animal Responsibility Bylaw gets first readings BYLAW ADDS NEW FINES, NEW FEES AND A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM FOR DANGEROUS DOGS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS PET LOVERS TAKE NOTE: the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is updating its animal control bylaw.

The updated bylaw—now known as the Animal Responsibility Bylaw—received first three readings at the Sept. 3 council meeting.

“Animal ownership is something that affects most people in the municipality. If you are not an animal owner then you are likely to have interactions with animals in one way or another,” said bylaw supervisor Chris Reiss, in a presentation to council.

“The proposed animal responsibility bylaw will provide updated regulations that foster responsible animal ownership. This will support animal owners and the general public by preventing dog bites and reducing the risks associated with aggressive and vicious dogs.”

The updated bylaw adds a host of new fines for pet owners, including for chasing, threatening or biting ($250); leaving a dog in a hot car ($200) or tied unattended ($100); failure to control a dog in an offleash area ($75); failure to provide food and water, vet care, or protection from the heat or cold ($150); causing or permitting animal suffering ($250); and causing or permitting

DOG DAYS The Resort Municipality of Whistler is hoping to encourage responsible dog ownership through an update to its animal control bylaw.

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animal fighting ($400).

“Many regulations from the current animal control bylaw have been carried over, including that dogs must be leashed, except in off-leash areas,” Reiss said.

“In the future, the parks bylaw will also be updated, and this will provide additional regulations specific to parks.”

Further, the bylaw adds a tiered system for poor dog behaviour. Where currently there is only one designation for dogs that cause injuries (which are deemed “dangerous”) and no process to apply for relief, the update proposes two: aggressive and vicious.

“Aggressive is a dog that’s displayed aggressive behaviour or caused minor injury. If deemed aggressive, the dog owner must muzzle while the dog is in off-leash areas, spay or neuter the dog, and get the dog permanent ID such as a microchip or a tattoo,” Reiss said.

Owners of aggressive dogs can apply for relief after one year if no further aggressive behaviour occurs and the dog completes a behavioural course.

“A vicious designation means a dog has caused serious injury, is known to attack, has caused minor injury on more than one occasion, or has aggressively pursued a person while at large,” Reiss said.

“If deemed vicious, the dog owner must not allow the dog in off-leash areas, spay or neuter the dog, get the dog permanent ID, muzzle the dog when the dog is off the owner’s property, post vicious dog signs at the property where the dog is being kept, keep the dog securely confined indoors

or in an enclosure while on the private property, provide a colour photo of the dog, [and] provide proof of liability insurance of $500,000 dollars, which covers the year that the dog is licensed.”

There is no appeal process once a dog is deemed vicious, though owners can apply to the supervisor of bylaw services to have it reconsidered before a final decision is made.

The bylaw also changes the rules around impounds, offering the first impound of a licensed dog for free, while charging $80 for the first impound of an unlicensed dog.

Second and subsequent impounds will cost $100, while impound charges for aggressive dogs ($300) and vicious dogs ($500) are also being introduced.

“This new fee structure encourages owners to license dogs by rewarding responsible dog ownership; it also simplifies the impound fee structure,” Reiss said, adding that the boarding fee is also being increased from $20 to $40 per day.

In building the updated bylaw (the first update since 2001), RMOW staff referenced similar bylaws in other municipalities like the District of Squamish and City of Surrey.

Whistler Animals Galore was also consulted and approves of the bylaw, Reiss said.

Councillor Ralph Forsyth said he agrees with the ideas in the bylaw, but one aspect still stinks.

“The one irritant that sticks in my craw, and most people’s, is the dog feces—in our parks, in our playgrounds, on the Valley Trail where we provide plastic bags for people, free of charge … and they leave it,” he said.

“So what can we do about that?”

The fine for not picking up dog feces is $150 under the new bylaw, Reiss said, but it can be hard to catch people in the act.

The RMOW expanded its bylaw park and trail ambassador program this year, dedicating two employees on e-bikes to Whistler’s parks and Valley Trail system.

“It essentially has become a six-month position for two people; as time goes on perhaps we could even expand on that,” Reiss said, adding that the RMOW has also done advertising campaigns to encourage people to pick up after their dogs.

“Generally, if we’re around, people are picking up. If we’re not around, or nobody else is around, there is certain people who won’t pick up, or they’ll bag it and pile it up, or bag it and flick it into the bush,” he said.

“So, unfortunately, if nobody is watching it’s very difficult to enforce.”

The updated bylaw also includes a comprehensive list of prohibited animals, which includes everything from mongooses and hyenas to anteaters, elephants and seals.

While it’s unlikely any Whistlerites are harbouring whales or walruses, prohibited animals such as chickens—a big concern for the Conservation Officer Service, as they are an attractant for bears—do pop up on the radar from time to time.

But the local bylaw department “rarely” gets calls about prohibited animals, Reiss said.

“We did have a snake call,” he said.

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Council endorses rezoning for Whistler Blackcomb staff housing NEW BUILD COULD HOUSE MORE THAN 200; PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING TO FOLLOW

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A REZONING FOR a new Whistler Blackcomb (WB) staff building—that could end up housing more than 200 workers— is underway after receiving council’s endorsement on Sept. 3.

A public information meeting will follow before the rezoning bylaws are brought back to council.

The proposed building is six storeys tall with 60, two-bedroom units of about 40 square metres in size. Each unit would include a shared kitchen and bathroom, and would be targeted toward WB’s first-year and returning seasonal employees (four per unit).

“There are currently seven buildings on the site—five of them are used by Vail Resorts for Whistler Blackcomb housing, and the other two are used by Fairmont Chateau employees,” said planner Robert Brennan in a presentation to council.

The existing buildings—built between 1989 and 1997—are all four storeys and contain 338 housing units.

“This site is used primarily by Whistler

people that come here with a vehicle,” said Councillor Cathy Jewett.

“Is there absolutely no accommodation for additional vehicles?”

The applicants requested the parking be reduced, proposing to mitigate the required parking through things like transit and shuttle services, car-share vehicles provided on-site, organized group bus trips and by discouraging seasonal workers from having a car, Brennan said.

“We’ve made it clear that we need to do some additional work with them reviewing how much of the existing parking lot is used—is it highly used? How effective is their bus-trip planning for some of the employees? The car sharing—how well is that going?” he said.

“So we will need some of that additional information to bring back to council before making a final recommendation.”

Coun. Ralph Forsyth said he lived on the site 30 years ago, when, even with two fewer buildings, the parking lot seemed much busier.

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Blackcomb for their first-year employees [and] seasonal workers, so they’ve got a very, as they refer to it, a campus-style housing here, for employees,” Brennan said.

The proposed rental rates of less than $400 a month are consistent with the existing WB staff residences on site. While a firm rental rate hasn’t been committed to, it will be incorporated into a housing agreement that will be included in the rezoning process.

The applicants—Vail Resorts—are proposing no additional parking spaces for the new building, which raised some questions for council.

Under the Residential Multiple 13 zone (where the new building is proposed), the project would require 60 parking spaces.

“I understand that there is a thought that the landlord will be able to control who comes there and whether they have a vehicle or not. However, there will be

empty stalls,” he said.

“Kids just don’t come here with cars anymore. If you ask a car dealer what’s their biggest threat, they’re like, ‘Millennials don’t buy cars.’”

Plans for the new building include common storage areas on the ground and first floors, as well as three common amenity areas and two shared laundry facilities.

Its designs will reflect a similar style and architecture to the existing seven buildings.

As for a set timeline, Brennan said he couldn’t say when shovels will be in the ground.

“They have the same shortage as everyone else with providing housing for their employees, so we are hopeful they are anxious to get this done as soon as they can,” he said.

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Weiler named Liberal candidate WHISTLER ALL-CANDIDATES MEETING SET FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH LESS THAN two months until election day, Patrick Weiler—announced as the federal Liberal candidate in the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding on Aug. 29—knows he has his work cut out for him.

But the 33-year-old lawyer feels up to the challenge.

“I definitely think the next two months are going to be a sprint, but it’s not that there has been nothing going on in the last couple of months,” Weiler said on Sept. 2.

“There’s been a lot of planning, there’s been a lot of door knocking, and the team has been built up in the meantime, but it’s going to be a major challenge over these next two months, and I think it will be a strong litmus test to see how hard the different candidates are willing to work.”

Weiler has already been pounding the pavement himself, attending the Whistler Farmers’ Market over the Labour Day long weekend and finding some time to knock on doors as well.

He said he was a bit surprised to see how similar the responses are throughout the riding.

“Really, the issues that are coming up more than anything else revolve around the environment and how to best manage and conserve the environment on climate change, and on how do we have the best possible plan to mitigate our emissions, but also to adapt to the reality of the changing climate,” he said.

“Affordability, generally, is a huge issue throughout, but especially affordable housing is a big issue for many parts of the riding … and really having the ability to support the middle class.”

Weiler is a resource management lawyer and international development professional, working mainly in environmental and Aboriginal law. “[I’ve] worked on a number of different rights and title cases for First Nations throughout the province, and working within a lot of different environmental assessment processes, so through that I’ve learned what a good system looks like, and the outcomes and the lack of trust when you have a broken system,” he said.

“I’ve spent also about seven years of my life working in international development, on projects for the United Nations development program, focused on helping countries better manage shared water bodies.”

IN THE RUNNING Patrick Weiler, 33, is the Liberal

candidate for the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding ahead of the Oct. 21 election.

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Weiler and his partner own an apartment in North Vancouver, but are living in Ambleside during the campaign.

Though he last lived full-time in the riding in 2009, Weiler has deep roots in the area— Sea to Sky included.

“I grew up in West Vancouver where my father lived, [and] went to school there; my mother was a city councillor in Sechelt, and so I spent a lot of time going back and forth to the coast,” he said, adding that his father also owned a company that managed condos in Whistler, which often brought him to the resort growing up.

Weiler said he’s already hearing from Whistler voters about some key issues: housing, transportation, affordability and the environment chief among them.

The government has its 10-year, $40-billion national housing strategy, but “I think more needs to be done. I would do my best to see that Whistler can be a recipient of more program funding from that,” Weiler said, adding that he’d also like to examine what the government can do to support regional transit.

“Really, my focus would be to work closely with the MLA Jordan Sturdy and with Mayor Jack Crompton, and people within government to help calibrate where the [federal] government can best support a lot of their plans.”

In May, incumbent Liberal MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones announced she would not seek re-election.

Weiler was the only qualified contestant to successfully complete the nomination process, and was acclaimed as the Liberals’ Sea to Sky candidate.

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The first of the Spearhead Huts is taking bookings PUBLIC INVITED TO RESERVE A NIGHT, WITH GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR SEPT. 21

BY JOEL BARDE THE LONG-AWAITED Kees and Claire Hut is open for business.

The non-profit Spearhead Huts Society (SHS)—which aims to build three such huts along the iconic Spearhead Range—has begun accepting bookings from the public for the hut, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 7.

And according to Matt Gunn, a volunteer with the organization, SHS volunteers have been working down to the line to get it open.

“I was up there on the weekend, and there were still people putting the finishing touches for [Sept. 7],” he said. “There are still people working there right now.”

While people on the SHS mailing list were given the ability to book a bed at an earlier date, Gunn said there is still plenty of occupancy available.

“There has been lots of interest in the weekends [during peak winter months], but there is still lots of dates for the weekdays,” he noted.

A night at the hut will cost $45 a night to the general public, with a $15 discount for children under 14 years old. Members of the Alpine Club of Canada’s (ACC) Vancouver and Whistler sections and the British Columbia

OPENING DAY As of Sept. 7, the Kees and Claire Hut—the first of three scheduled huts to be built along the Spearhead Range—will be accepting guests, providing easier access to the backcountry.

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Mountaineering Club pay $30 a night.

The Kees and Claire Hut—which has 38 sleeping spaces in total—comes loaded with gear that will allow hikers and ski tourers to travel light.

These include equipment for cooking and dining, such as pots, plates, utensils, mugs, glasses, coffeemakers and teapots.

When asked about the nightly booking rates, Gunn said the hut is built to an extremely high standard, with advanced

technology that includes a waste disposal system that will allow solid waste to be separated from urine (making it easy to transport out of the sensitive environment).

“That design element isn’t as cheap as just putting in an outhouse, but over time it’s going to maintain a quality experience for people who are visiting the area,” said Gunn, later adding that the rates are based on national rates for other ACC huts.

Moreover, it’s a beautiful facility with a

well-designed communal space and bunk areas, said Gunn.

“I think that when people get out there and spend a night in the hut they’re going to see where the value is,” he said.

Revenue generated from the hut will go towards additional improvements— such as solar energy and water-collection systems—as well as the construction of the two additional huts planned for the system.

Construction of the Kees and Claire hut has been a massive, volunteer-driven undertaking that has involved a significant degree of coordinating with the province as well as Whistler Blackcomb.

Gunn said that once the public sees it, all that work will be palpable.

“I think that as people start to visit the hut they are going to recognize what a great job the volunteers have done,” he said, adding a shout-out to the project’s donors as well.

A grand opening ceremony for the Kees and Claire Hut is planned for Sept. 21, with a celebration event planned for that evening at the Whistler Conference Centre.

Event tickets are $20 and can be purchased at eventbrite.com. All proceeds from the evening will support the Spearhead Huts Society.

To book a bed in the hut, go to spearheadhuts.org/reservations. n

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Does Whistler have a need for speed?

WHISTLER COUNCIL PONDERS LOWERING SPEED LIMITS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS DOES WHISTLER have a need for speed?

Not in residential zones, according to dozens of local residents.

At its Sept. 3 meeting, council received no fewer than 82 pieces of correspondence urging it to reduce the speed limit on Nicklaus North Boulevard from 50 kilometres/hour to 30 km/h.

“On May 14, Vancouver City Council unanimously approved a test project for a residential street or area to reduce the speed limit from 50 km to 30 km. The same proposal has been approved for Victoria,” said Nicklaus North resident John Richmond at the meeting.

“Montreal, Portland, Seattle, New York City, Stockholm and Paris have reduced the speed limit on side streets. Everyone is fine and people still get to work and make their tee times.”

It’s not the first time Whistler residents have lobbied council for lower speed limits or additional speed bumps in residential zones.

In February, Councillor Jen Ford attended the Vision Zero Summit in Surrey, where close to 100 road safety experts,

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municipal government staff, civic leaders, researchers and public health professionals discussed the issue of road safety.

One of her takeaways from the event, she said at the Feb. 12 council meeting, was that a 30 km/hr speed limit makes sense, as research shows the probability of pedestrian survival is about 90 per cent if struck by a vehicle at that speed, but reduced to 20 per cent if struck by a vehicle travelling at 50 km/h.

“We have received a number of these letters. We have seen a great deal of interest, I think, in slowing down our residential neighbourhoods, and it’s not exclusive in Nicklaus North,” Ford said at the Sept. 3 meeting.

“When you see neighbourhoods that don’t have sidewalks—don’t have shoulders even—in our residential areas, and we see kids walking to the school bus, and we see people that just fly through these neighbourhoods… reduction in speed on all of our residential roads is long overdue, and I would like to see this changed as soon as possible.”

Ford suggested referring the 82 letters to the Transportation Advisory Group (TAG), and asking staff to come back with a recommendation “as soon as possible.”

But there are budget considerations to

NEED FOR SPEED? Residents in Whistler’s Nicklaus North neighbourhood sent more than 80 letters to council requesting a lower speed limit on Nicklaus North Boulevard.

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think of, said Mayor Jack Crompton, noting that in the case of the City of Vancouver (which has submitted a resolution to the

Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) asking for incorporated municipalities to be allowed to institute blanket speed zones in residential areas), it would be responsible for paying for new signage if it were to institute the change itself.

“So what they have asked, and what we will be seeing at UBCM, is for the province to downgrade the default speed limit across the province to 30 km an hour in residential areas,” Crompton said.

“So I think that there is some work to do for staff and some thought to put into it for TAG before we would make a decision like that at this table.”

Resort Municipality of Whistler staff has done speed counts in various neighbourhoods—including one recently in Nicklaus North after seeing the letters in the council package, said general manager of infrastructure James Hallisey.

“We’ve found frequently when we’ve done speed counts in various neighbourhoods, often the average speed is below 40 already, even though the speed limit is 50 … Most people aren’t comfortable going 50 down narrow streets, so there’s a bit of a balance there,” Hallisey said. “[But] we can put all these things together and bring it forward to council with an information package.” n

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Whistler RCMP honours Good Samaritan who came to aid of stabbing victim POLICE BRIEFS: COUNTERFEIT AMERICAN BILLS IN SQUAMISH; EAGLE EYE STOPS POTENTIAL BREAK-IN

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE WHISTLER RCMP held a ceremony this week in honour of a Good Samaritan who came to the aid of a stabbing victim in the village this winter.

As previously reported in Pique (“Three injured in Whistler Village stabbing, police say,” Feb. 11, 2019), during the early morning hours of Feb. 11, police responded to a brawl in the 4200 block of Village Square. Once on the scene, investigators learned that several bystanders had tried to break up the fight along the Village Stroll, which resulted in three males suffering stab wounds.

Working in the taxi loop at the time, Jashan Singh Sangha noticed one of the stabbing victims had a life-threatening wound to his lower extremities, police said. Sangha quickly removed his turban and applied it to the wound to help stop the bleeding. He also rushed the man to hospital for treatment.

Speaking with Pique before the ceremony at the Whistler RCMP

detachment in the village, Sangha said he was “very happy [to be] a person who helped someone,” and also appreciated being recognized by the RCMP. “Without hesitation Mr. Sangha came to the victim’s aid,” said Whistler RCMP

SQUAMISH RCMP WARN OF COUNTERFEIT MONEY Squamish police are warning of counterfeit currency being passed around the community after three reports came in to the detachment last month.

“Without concern for himself, Mr. Sangha went above and beyond to assist this individual and showed great care and compassion for a member of our community.”

- PAUL HAYES

Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes in a statement.

“Without concern for himself, Mr. Sangha went above and beyond to assist this individual and showed great care and compassion for a member of our community. I am very appreciative of Mr. Sangha’s actions that day.”

Between Aug. 19 and 26, police said they received three separate reports of $100 American bills. Both Chances Casino and Save-On-Foods reported receiving the fraudulent bills.

A male and female “associated to the counterfeit bills” have been identified

by authorities and the investigations are ongoing, police said in a release.

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‘KEEN CITIZEN EYES’ PREVENT POSSIBLE BREAK-IN, SAYS SQUAMISH RCMP Police in Squamish are crediting a concerned citizen’s eagle eye for preventing a possible break-in last month.

In the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 24, the RCMP said the onlooker phoned police to report a suspicious vehicle. The witness told investigators the vehicle’s occupants were “peeking into parked cars and campers” in the 1600 block of Eagle Run Drive, according to a release.

Investigators eventually wound up locating the vehicle and identifying its two occupants, who both have a history of break-ins and possessing stolen property, police said. n

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Province greenlights $60-million plan to stop ‘enormous, naturally occurring landslide’ near Lillooet AFFECTED SECTION OF HIGHWAY 99 HAS BEEN SINGLE-LANE AND TRAFFIC CONTROLLED FOR PAST TWO YEARS

BY JOEL BARDE THE PROVINCE IS set to undertake a major construction project to stabilize a massive, active landslide that has impacted a treacherous section of Highway 99 for decades.

Known as the Ten Mile Slide, the landslide area bisects the highway (as well as a Canadian National Railway line) approximately 17 kilometres northeast of Lillooet.

“This is an enormous, naturally occurring landslide,” explained project manager Scotty McKenzie.

“It’s approximately 200 metres wide by 300 metres long, and contains more than 1 million cubic metres of material.”

For the past two years, the affected section of highway has been reduced to single-lane traffic, with motorists navigating a narrow gravel road with no barrier.

And as any motorist can tell you, the views below—of the sprawling Fraser Canyon—can be unnerving.

“It’s not two lanes because we’ve lost so

SLIP AND SLIDE In 2016, the Ministry of Transportation shut down the stretch of Highway 99 that runs through the Ten Mile Slide for eight days after the slide picked up speed, damaging the highway.

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much of the road over the past few years,” said McKenzie.

According to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, the province typically invests between $240,000 and $2.3 million annually to maintain the highway through the Ten Mile Slide area.

annually to keep that section maintained is humongous,” he added.

The main stabilization contract has been awarded to Flatiron Constructors Canada. The work is slated for completion in spring 2021.

To secure the area, workers will install

“It’s approximately 200 metres wide by 300 metres long, and contains more than 1 million cubic metres of material.”

- SCOTTY MCKENZIE

“One of our most recent major events was in fall 2016, when there was so much movement that the Ministry had to close the highway for a period of approximately eight days,” said McKenzie. “During that closure, we saw movement rates at the slide peak at approximately an inch an hour.”

McKenzie said that while the chances of a catastrophic landslide wiping out the highway are “relatively low,” the impacts to the road are “substantial”—and it’s time to act.

“The amount of money we invest

about 200 “soil anchors” into the hillsides above the highway. The additional anchors will compliment 44 soil anchors that were installed during Phase 1 of the stabilization project.

The anchors are used to stabilize the slow-moving ground, explained McKenzie.

“We drill and install large steel anchor bars … into the more stable gravel below,” he said, adding that the anchor bars are placed “anywhere between 15 and 35 metres in depth.”

The anchor bars are attached, via a cable,

to a block that sits on the surface.

When tension is applied, the “unstable earth” is effectively squeezed between the anchor bars and the “more dense gravel below,” causing the slide to stabilize, said McKenzie.

The project will also see the reconstruction of the affected section of highway, which sees around 1,600 vehicles per day.

For area locals, Highway 99 is a critical thoroughfare, providing access to the region’s main medical facility in Kamloops.

Moreover, the slide is located within the Xaxli’p Fountain Indian Reserve, having an outsized impact on the First Nation’s members’ ability to travel easily between the reserve and Lillooet.

According to McKenzie, the province is working closely with the Xaxli’p First Nation, and identifying opportunities for them to participate in the construction project.

“We are requiring the contractor to develop an opportunities plan that will provide training and work opportunities throughout the duration of construction,” he said.

During construction, drivers can expect delays and temporary closures.

Motorists should slow down and use caution when travelling through the work area, according to the release.

Ministry staff will continue to monitor the slide for approximately two years before paving the new section of two-lane highway. n

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SLRD secures $4.5 million for Black Tusk Village wastewater project AGED WASTEWATER SYSTEM WAS ‘NEARING THE END OF ITS LIFE’

BY JOEL BARDE BLACK TUSK VILLAGE (BTV) will receive $4.5 million in federal and provincial funding to upgrade its aged wastewater collection system and link it to a new treatment facility in the adjacent strata community of Pinecrest Estates.

“It’s nearing the end of its life,” said Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) board chair and Elector Area D director Tony Rainbow of the BTV’s wastewater system, which is more than 35 years old.

In fact, according to an SLRD release, the system is operating beyond its life expectancy, and is “not compliant” with its operating permit.

Rainbow said the SLRD applied for the grant funding after numerous discussions with Black Tusk Village Strata Council (BTVSC) about the best way to move forward.

“We’ve been talking to them for a couple years now and looking at different solutions, and when this grant was made available last year, we decided, with them, to put in an application,” he noted.

The BTVSC is currently responsible for the maintenance of its wastewater system, with strata fees covering the costs. The new wastewater treatment system will be owned and operated by the SLRD. As such, the SLRD will requisition taxes from the residents of BTV for the costs of this system.

The total project cost for upgrade is estimated at $6,148,000.

The grant funding of $4,508,328 ($2,459,200 in federal funding and $2,049,128 in provincial funding) equates to 73 per cent of the total project cost, with the remaining 27 per cent—$1,639,672—to be funded by the BTVSC. (The BTVSC did not respond to a request for comment by Pique’s deadline.)

Rainbow said the decision to move responsibility for wastewater to the SLRD simply makes sense.

“It’s part of the service that a regional district can do,” he said. “If [the BTVSC] had wanted to just continue themselves, they are perfectly entitled to do that. But things get to a certain scale where it’s easier to involve local government. I don’t think they would have been able to twin the system with Pinecrest without the involvement of the SLRD.” The proposed project will redirect BTV’s wastewater to a new, expanded treatment facility in Pinecrest Estates, which was upgraded last year.

“We’ve been talking to [Black Tusk Village Strata Council] for a couple years now and looking at different solutions...”

- TONY RAINBOW

“Up until two years ago, Pinecrest operated its own system,” added Rainbow.

“But it ran into considerable problems with the Ministry of Environment, and then ended up coming to the SLRD to take it over.”

Rainbow noted that installing piping between Pinecrest Estates and BTV will be costly.

“The two communities are almost a kilometre apart,” he said.

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Indigenous airline founder to kick off Whistler tourism start-up program RESILIENCE AND DETERMINATION ARE KEY TO SUCCESS, SAYS TEARA FRASER

BY JOEL BARDE A VANCOUVER WOMAN who holds the distinction of being the first Indigenous woman to start an airline in Canada will give the keynote speech for the Indigenous Tourism Start Up Program, which takes place in Whistler this fall.

Launched by the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) and the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, the program will seek to equip 14 budding Indigenous entrepreneurs with a plan—and inspiration— to launch their own tourism venture.

Teara Fraser launched her airline, Iskwew Air, in September 2018, gaining the attention of major media outlets, including the CBC. She said it is important for entrepreneurs to understand that setbacks are par for the course when going into business.

“There are always challenges,” said Fraser, who will speak at the SLCC next week. “I think the trick is what you do with the challenges. As an entrepreneur, you have to understand that it’s not going to be easy, and that the challenges are coming.

“When they do arrive, meet them and greet them, and then figure out the best way forward.”

BIG SKY Teara Fraser, founder of Iskwew Air, will

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Fraser said the original concept for Iskwew Air came to her in the lead-up to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, when she became interested in how she could help facilitate travel to Indigenous communities keen to grow their tourism market.

“I was exploring how I might take what I’ve learned in aviation, and my passion in aviation, and use it in the service of community members and Indigenous

she explained, adding that Iskwew Air has yet to provide any flights and is currently focusing on building relationships with Indigenous communities.

Fraser, who started an aerial surveying business in 2010, before selling it three years ago, was first inspired to become a pilot after taking part in an aerial tour in Botswana.

“The pilot was banking the aircraft and

“If we can inspire people to have a connection to the land, and to hear the stories and the worldview and the wisdom of Indigenous people, I think our world could be different.”

- TEARA FRASER

peoples,” said Fraser. “I thought perhaps I could start an air service, connecting travellers to communities, and creating an experience right from the time people arrive at the airport.”

That initial concept has morphed over time, however.

“The original vision was really focused on Indigenous tourism,” said Fraser. “Now that’s just a part of the vision.”

Fraser said she would now like to facilitate corporate charters as well.

“I suppose the vision is bigger in terms of wanting to grow in a slow, steady way,”

telling stories of the land and the trees and the animal,” she said. “For the first time in my life, I was witnessing the land in a completely different way.”

Seeing it from such a perspective can engender a greater appreciation for the environment and land, she added.

“What inspired me to fly is literally seeing the land from the air,” she said. “If we can inspire people to have a connection to the land, and to hear the stories and the worldview and the wisdom of Indigenous people, I think our world could be different.”

Indigenous tourism is thought to be a

growth market, with Indigenous Tourism B.C. reporting that more than $705 million a year is now spent on Indigenous tourism in B.C. Moreover, Fraser believes the sector is poised for further growth.

“Indigenous tourism is the fastest growing sector in Canada,” she said.

“People want to visit Canada and have an authentic experience of its rich culture and history—and that means Indigenous stories and wisdom.”

Cheeying Ho, executive director of the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, said organizers wanted an inspiring figure to deliver the keynote talk.

“We are always looking for inspiring stories,” said Ho. While the Whistler Centre for Sustainability has facilitated entrepreneurship programs for years, 2018 was the first time it focused on serving Indigenous Canadians, launching the Squamish Lil’wat St’at’imc Business Startup Program.

This year, the focus was refined even more, with the program highlighting tourism-related business concepts.

“We wanted to focus on something we feel has a growing market opportunity, and Indigenous tourism is growing,” said Ho. Fraser’s free talk will take place on Monday, Sept. 9 from 6 to 9 p.m., at the SLCC. Register at eventbrite.ca/e/ kick-off-indigenous-tourism-start-upprogram-tickets-65851933907. n

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BY ALLEN BEST allen.best@comcast.net MEEKER, COLO. – In his presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to “Make America Great Again,” a slogan that supporters have distilled to MAGA when trumpeting his talking points on Facebook and other social media.

But what made America great? That seems open to question. The Trump administration has been rolling back restrictions, lowering every bar except for immigration.

Last week, the Trump administration announced it was easing regulations governing oil and gas extraction on public lands. The rules enacted during the Obama administration seek to reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas with 80 times the heat-trapping property of carbon dioxide during its first 20 years, although it quickly dissipates thereafter.

The federal regulations were modelled on those adopted in Colorado, where they have been credited with reducing but not eliminating methane leaks. The federal rules also mirror those adopted by Wyoming to cover drilling in the upper Green River Basin south of Jackson Hole. A rural area, it had air quality rivaling that of the worst cities. Several of the major oil companies, including ExxonMobil, supported the existing regulations.

Just before the weekend, new Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt announced that electric bicycles are now allowed on trails in more than 400 national parks, monuments and wildlife refuges previously restricted to human-powered bicycles, hikers, and horses. The intent, he said, was to make the trails more accessible to pedal-assisted bikes with a top speed of 28 miles per hour.

In Colorado, this drew a rise from Michael Carroll, an avid mountain biker from Durango who is a senior program director for The Wilderness Society. He told The Denver Post that the rule change is an attempt to divide the outdoor recreation community.

“There’s a reason for there being nonmotorized trails,” Carroll said. “People like being able to enjoy the backcountry free from motorization.”

No National Park Service policy governed e-bikes previously.

In Yellowstone National Park, both electric and pedal-assisted electric bicycles have been allowed only on those roads where motorized vehicles were allowed. Now, e-bikes may be allowed on those roads in spring and fall, times when the roads are closed to motorized vehicles, reported the Jackson Hole News&Guide. The newspaper noted that the new memorandum does not strip superintendents of their authority to determine where bicycles, including e-bikes, are allowed.

Still, in a general way, the new policy represents a deference to short-term economic interests.

A century ago, a different metric was used at Trappers Lake, in northwest Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service in 1919 assigned a new hire named Arthur Carhart to survey lots along the shores of the lake for summer cabins. He was a landscape architect by training, although the Forest Service called him a recreation engineer.

Doing his work at Trappers Lake, he encountered two sportsmen. “Do you have to circle every lake with a road?” they supposedly asked him. “Can’t you bureaucrats keep just one superb mountain lake as God made it?”

Returning to Denver, Carhart advised his superiors to rethink their plans. “There are a number of places with scenic values of such great worth that they are rightfully the property of all people,” he wrote to them. “They should be preserved for all time for the people of the Nation and the world. Trappers Lake is unquestionably a candidate for that classification.”

They agreed, and today Trappers Lake is within the Flat Tops Wilderness, the lake accessible not just to cabin owners but to everybody on the same terms.

That is not the thinking of Trump and the crowds he hangs around with.

He’s one of exclusive resorts, places of ornate design. Golf is Trump’s sport, not wilderness trails, in places where the grass is clipped just so.

Rick Reilly, the sportswriter from Denver, recently wrote a book called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Donald Trump. Reilly’s conversations with caddies and others revealed Trump’s dishonest ways. But one that was not dishonest is the most surprising.

Trump has publicly said repeatedly that climate change is a hoax. But as Reilly reveals in his book, in Ireland, where Trump owns a golf course, he applied to local officials for a sea wall, citing the effects of global warming in producing rising waters.

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passed away at home on a beautiful August day after one last bike ride around Whistler Valley. A bad ticker got him just a few months after his 75th birthday.

Mogul was the epitome of a Whistler local. He taught countless lifties how to throw a gondola out of the old barn in Creekside. He helped Bosco fire up the Whistler Answer and wrote many columns for the Question. Had a golden voice for radio. He drove cab in the 90s and sharpened skates for many years at Meadow Park.

Jim was a sportsman – loved his hockey and golf and softball, raced the Peak to Valley since forever and rode in the Cheakamus Challenge on numerous occasions.

A sunny optimist, Mogul always greeted you with an easy smile and a hearty chuckle. He didn’t sweat the small stuff or the past; he knew, as Alan Watts said, that ‘the meaning of life is just to be alive’. He really was living the dream.

A beatnik, a jazzman, a traveller… Mogul had a little of Kerouac’s sacred athletic insight that the “now” is the goal and fulfillment of all living.

The community will gather to celebrate Jim Monahan’s life in the near future. In the meantime, he’d want you to get outside and celebrate yours. Rest in peace old friend.

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What we don’t know

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AS SNAPPING TURTLES GO , the one basking on a partially submerged log was a monster. Never mind that unlike the more gracile Painted Turtles cohabiting this near-north lake—shiny, hand-sized halfdomes who happily stacked themselves atop the most tenuous platforms at the slightest hint of sun—hauling out was infrequent behaviour for the more aquatic snapper. Maybe it was warming itself.

Equally maybe, it was exposing its algaecoated shell to the drying sun in hopes of reducing the plant matter, or airing its dinosaurian skin to kill off parasites.

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But if you were Patrick Moldowan, a turtle researcher at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station (AWRS) in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park, why the turtle was lounging on a summer day in 2018 was immaterial. What did matter was the single data point it might represent in a 46-year study that involved marking, radio-tracking, and repeatedly recapturing the area’s turtles to understand their population demographics, movements and growth patterns. In other words, Moldowan needed to know “who” this turtle was.

Likewise unimportant are details of how Moldowan and two summer research students wrestled the behemoth—12 kilograms and with an almost 40-centimetre-long shell—into their already packed canoe, and, noting the rusted wires of its missing ID tag, paddled it back to the lab for identification. There, they made a heartening discovery: the turtle was R10. It hadn’t been seen in 22 years.

Inducted into the study in 1979 at the tender age of 40-ish years, R10 was a young adult male living the snapper good life in a constellation of waterways north of the station. Recaptured six times between 1985 and 1992, each weigh-in had showed slow but steady growth. Last seen but not recaptured in 1996, R10 then disappeared, and was assumed to have died.

When re-found by Moldowan, age 80-ish, R10 had almost doubled in mass since 1979. This was impressive but expected—even with the short growing season for turtles here at the northern limits of their range. There were, of course, larger questions: how did a turtle in one of the most fastidious, well-manned, longterm studies in the world disappear for two-plus decades? Where did it go? What was it doing?

At this point, the answers are no more than educated guesses. What scientists do know is that the ability to pose questions about a turtle going off-radar for 20 years speaks to a much larger issue.

Since 1944, the AWRS has provided boreal ecosystem researchers access to 30,000 pristine acres (12,140 hectares) of forest not open to the public, facilitating some of the best long-term ecological and

population studies of wildlife anywhere.

Most studies—from snapping turtles (now 47 years), to spotted salamanders (20 years), to small mammals (66 years), to Canada Jay (50 years)—have been underway since long before climate change took hold, providing baseline data against which recent species adaptations may be measured. The Canada Jay study, for instance, is one of few globally to demonstrate a clear mechanism of species decline directly attributable to climate.

Habitat preservation—whether in parks, reserves, or set-asides like the AWRS—is key to such research. And yet habitat continues to disappear at a criminal rate: thousands of acres of northern Alberta’s carbon-sequestering boreal forest vanish annually to supply America with toilet paper and tarsands oil; British Columbia inexplicably accelerates cutting of its remaining temperate old growth rainforests; 76,000 fires burn through the Brazilian Amazon, an orgy of destruction sanctioned by an irresponsible leader bent on land conversion for an already out-of-control cattle industry. The list goes on. Which means that despite its failings elsewhere, the importance of the Canadian government’s many new park, wilderness, and marine protected areas—mostly co-managed with Indigenous groups— cannot be over-emphasized. Nor can the work of NGOs like Nature Conservancy of Canada that protect habitat where governments can’t—or won’t.

Nature clearly benefits from protected areas, but so do we—most obviously via the recreation and ecological services these supply. But we often forget how much knowledge these areas also represent, and how the disappearance of so much we don’t know is happening faster than our abilities to recognize the gaps.

Nature clearly benefits from protected areas, but so do we ...

Maybe we won’t ever know what R10 was up to for 20 years, but those protected acres in Algonquin mean we at least have a chance. In the end, even not knowing informs our sensibilities around ecosystem connectivity and the minimum size of protected areas required to capture all the biodiversity within them.

Confronted with our own ignorance by a Lazarus turtle might rightly stimulate our curiosity, but it should also spark creative ways to preserve the outdoor world in which such curiosity thrives.

Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. n

OUTSIDER

Celebrating Whistler’s Beermas A FAVOURITE ADDITION to my backcountry kit in the last year has been— you guessed it—beer. Not a lot of beer mind you (that can wait until I safely return from the backcountry); I just wrap a single tall can in a couple of koozies. When the party reaches the peak or viewpoint, there’s nothing quite like cracking a cold can of craft

BY VINCE SHULEY to wet the collective whistle. But which beer to bring? Crisp and clean? Hop monster?

Fruit sour? I’m glad you asked...

The best place to sample your next favourite outdoor beer is at the Whistler Village Beer Festival (WVBF), once again flying it flag above Olympic Plaza for the Main Event (Sept. 14 and 15) with over 60 breweries in attendance. On top of that, there are literally dozens of additional events taking place at venues all over town leading up to the Main Event. The standouts I’ve pencilled into my Whistler Beermas week are Craft Cultures: Sea, Land Sky at the Audain Art Museum (Sept. 10), Cask que C’est at the Brewhouse (Sept. 12) and Master Crafters: Haze Craze at the Longhorn (Sept. 13).

So who’s all coming and what are they pouring? That list is too long for this column space, so I made some calls to local breweries and the Gibbons events team to help give you beer fans the gist of it.

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Brewing will be one of 60 breweries pouring the latest trends of craft beer at the Whistler Village Beer Festival next weekend.

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“We let the breweries pour what they want or what they think is going to be popular,” said Jonno Pilcher, Gibbons’ beverage operations manager. “The weather the last few years [at WVBF] has been cold and rainy, when the darker and heavier beers tend to do well. It will be interesting to see if the breweries bring refreshing styles like fruity sours in anticipation of the warm weather we see at our other summer beer festivals.”

Craft beer trends are a sticky point for some brewers. Do you jump on the bandwagon and make it a sure thing? Or do you stick to your guns and brew what you want?

DERRICK FRANCHE: HIGH MOUNTAIN BREWING COMPANY (THE BREWHOUSE) “If it’s a trend beer year, I usually won’t make one. For example, there was recently a trend of ‘milkshake’ beers (brewed with lactose), but I avoided that because it can upset a lot of beer-drinking stomachs with aversions to dairy. Also, the last couple of years it’s been all about hazy beers. I try to clarify my beers as much as possible so as to not be trendster, but there’s such a demand for these hazy, low-IBU (International Bitterness Unit) IPAs. It’s what people want right now, and I want to give them what they want.”

High Mountain will be pouring a lemondrop pilsner and a hazy IPA. Grab the last of Derrick’s oh-so-tasty raspberry wit at the Brewhouse now before it’s gone.

KEVIN WINTER: COAST MOUNTAIN BREWING “The word that kept coming up at the 2019 Craft Brewers Conference in the U.S. was ‘crisp.’ People are getting back into their

easy-drinking beers, the pilsners and lagers are experiencing a bit of a renaissance and breweries are experimenting with new hop varieties and things like barrel ageing.

Another thing we’ve been seeing on the consumer side is that craft beer is pretty devoid of brand loyalty. People have their favourites but they’re always looking to try new beers. The single-can model, where you go up the fridge and create your own fourpack, is only going to get more popular.”

Coast Mountain will be pouring Magic Carpet IPA (back by insatiable demand) and a surprise variation on its summer favourite, Juice Box Sour Wit.

JEFF OLDENBORGER: A-FRAME BREWING “We don’t get too caught up in what’s trendy. We make beers we want to drink and what our vocal community is asking for. We can’t ship beers all over the province like some of the other breweries, so we really need to pay attention to what the locals want. Squamish likes the diversity and drinkability and enjoys having a new beer on tap every few weeks. But you can brew a bunch of different styles of beer and still have the brewer’s signature shine through in those beers.”

A-Frame will be pouring Big Bar Lake Apricot Wine Sour and its Seven Lakes Kölsch.

GEOFF MACDONALD: PEMBERTON BREWING “Sours have become very popular and we’ve done them from the beginning. We find they’re always better with fruit, providing you get the combinations right. Hazies are here to stay, for sure, but I think goses are really gaining traction during the warm

summer months. For the upcoming winter, we’re probably going to try making our darker beers with non-traditional ingredients, be that fruit, botanicals or a salted version, something like that.”

Pemberton Brewing is planning on pouring its summer sensation Barb’s Nice Pear rhubarb pear sour (don’t miss that one) and their Ship It hazy IPA.

BEN REEDER: BACKCOUNTRY BREWING “Our fastest growing beer style is fruited sours, for sure. The other thing we’ve noticed is that people are digging the lower alcohol— but heavily hopped—session IPAs. People want the taste of an IPA but to be able to have a second one before carrying on with the rest of their day or evening. Our inspiration for beers involves a lot of travel to see what other brewers are doing down in the States and then coming home and experimenting or trying to replicate them.”

Backcountry will be pouring their Case of the Mondays peach, guava and pineapple sour and the double dry hopped pale ale Suck it Trebek, which has been renamed Suck it Cancer (since Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek’s diagnosis) and will be part of a cancer fundraiser.

With breweries packaging more and more of their small-batch beers in cans, there’s no longer a reason to compromise on taste when enjoying a few suds off the beaten path. Find your next outdoor refreshment of choice at the WVBF, which runs from Sept. 9 to 15.

Vince Shuley enjoys beer (mostly) in moderation.

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RAMPING BC Hydro is killing too many fish at Sea to Sky facility: Squamish conservationists

By Jennifer Thuncher / Squamish Chief IT IS A COMPLICATED ISSUE, but it comes down to this: local conservationists say BC Hydro

is consistently killing more fish than it needs to.

They are also concerned less monitoring of the impact of BC Hydro’s operation is being done as the utility goes through a provincial review of its operations.

This isn’t the first time these issues have been raised, but the conservationists say they are getting lip service from BC Hydro and all levels of government and so are speaking out publicly, again.

One of the main problems, according to Chessy Knight, Dave Brown and Edith Tobe, local members of the Cheakamus Water Use Plan (CWUP) monitoring committee—which offers advice and feedback on the impact the hydro facility has on local fish and fish habitat—is consistent and dramatic ramping of the water at the hydroelectric facility at the Daisy Lake Dam, just north of Squamish. This ramping results in rapid water level changes in the Cheakamus River, and can also affect the Squamish River as water from the Cheakamus is discharged at the powerhouse there.

Water flows from Daisy Lake Reservoir to Shadow Lake Reservoir, where a tunnel and two penstocks carry the water 11 kilometres to the 157-megawatt Cheakamus Generating Station on the Squamish River.

The conservationists recommend BC Hydro follow a Fish-First Flow Alternative, which includes reduced ramping rates, higher in-stream flows into the Cheakamus River and curtailing hydropeaking when flows in the Squamish River are low. Hydropeaking is when plants produce more power during high demand periods, such as during the winter, or during the day, and reduce production when power is less in demand, like in the summer or overnight. During the winter, when the Daisy reservoir is low, hydropeaking can drastically change water levels in the Squamish River on a daily basis. This impacts fish in the Squamish River downstream from the powerhouse, studies and the conservationists say.

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WHAT IS RAMPING?

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“When a power plant shuts down or starts back up, the water level changes very quickly. It can either go up very fast or can go down very fast,” said Knight, an environmental scientist who has written four scientific papers on the subject of ramping in the region. She is also president of the Squamish River Watershed Society.

Tobe is the executive director of the society.

“When it goes down, which is the bigger concern, it strands and kills juvenile fish and they are the most sensitive life stage.

That happens at any hydroelectric facility,” said Knight.

“When it goes up, it can flush little juvenile fish out of where they are holding— say in a pool or on a gravel bar margin. It can affect spawning fish; it can blow out their nests.”

Tobe, a biologist, describes ramping as, “The faucet is on. The faucet is off. It is as quick as that. Rather than slowly turning the faucet on, so you are not creating a huge swish, and slowly turning the faucet off.”

The trio says that fish will die with any hydroelectric facility, and they accept that.

Their issue is with the number of fish being killed, which they say is excessive.

“In a matter of minutes, they can drop the river 30 centimetres. They can do it so much quicker than would ever happen in nature,” Knight said.

The fish can’t biologically respond to the rate the water is changing.

Stranding happens in nature, but at a much lower frequency, she added.

“If you are looking at 100 per cent of the time when a Hydro facility ramps too quickly and they are going to strand fish, in nature it might happen five per cent of the time.”

This has been an issue for years and likely applies to all 23 BC Hydro dam sites in the province, the conservationists say.

BC Hydro’s own consultants have acknowledged fish have been killed.

In August of 2018, a study showed flows were decreased from 40 to 20 cubic metres per second over two hours.

This resulted in a rate of stage change of

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We estimated that 10 per cent of the steelhead trout fry population in low angle cobble bars was lost due to the Aug. 20, 2018, ramping event.”

Fish stranding Photo by Clint Goyette

8.1 cm an hour, which is three times higher than the Fisheries and Oceans Canada guideline rate of 2.5 cm per hour, according to the report.

“The most surprising perhaps is the large number of fish lost from what most previously considered a relatively modest ramp,” reads the report to BC Hydro on Aug. 30, 2018. “We estimated that 10 per cent of the steelhead trout fry population in low angle cobble bars was lost due to the Aug. 20, 2018, ramping event.”

BC Hydro’s current ramping rates were established as part of its Water Use Plan, which was finalized in 2006.

Committees, such as the one the conservationists are on, are meant to inform water-use plans for hydro facilities of the public’s values when it comes to issues around water and water-use facilities. Operations from the Daisy Lake facility affect aquatic life and habitats in both the Cheakamus and Squamish Rivers.

A Water Use Plan (WUP) is a technical document that, once reviewed by provincial and federal agencies and approved by the

provincial Comptroller of Water Rights, defines how water control facilities will be operated, according to a BC Hydro document on the committee.

Twenty-three BC Hydro facilities are being or will be reviewed, including the Daisy Lake dam.

WHAT THE DISTRICT OF SQUAMISH SAYS The District of Squamish is one of many stakeholders that sit on the BC Hydro Water Use Plan Monitoring Advisory Committee.

“Water ramping rates are regulated under the provincial Water Act, and they have an order under this Act specifying the maximum allowable ramping rates. The rates are maximums, and BC Hydro made commitments to monitor stranding, review the maximum rates, and adjust the operational regime accordingly,” Caroline Ashekian, environmental coordinator with the District said.

“The District has regulations—within the OCP - Development Permit Area 1 Environmental Protection—in place to preserve and protect fish habitat within our jurisdiction and boundaries. Changes to river flow and fish communities upstream of our boundaries have impacts to the ecosystems downstream within our boundaries,” she said.

“The District shares the concerns brought forward by the other stakeholders regarding the impacts to fish, particularly when there is opportunity to mitigate and minimize the impact,” Squamish Mayor Karen Elliott said the District has not shared these concerns with BC Hydro directly.

“We would expect that BC Hydro is abiding by its commitments to monitor, review and adjust accordingly. We support the efforts of local conservationists who are working to affect these changes to BC Hydro’s operating procedures. We have an ongoing and positive working relationship with BC Hydro and will look for an opportunity in the near future to convey our concerns more directly on this issue,” she said in an email.

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PROVINCIAL COMPTROLLER Asked why BC Hydro isn’t required to follow the Fisheries and Oceans’ suggested ramping rate of 2.5 cm/hr., Ted White, the provincial director and comptroller of water rights, said the recommendation is a “generic standard.”

“Different ramp rates can be ordered based on site-specific information. Ramp rates in the Water Use Plan (WUP) order were determined in consultation with federal (including Fisheries and Oceans Canada), provincial, regional, and municipal governments, the Squamish Nation, BC Hydro, environmental and recreational interests, and local stakeholders,” read an emailed statement from White.

No one from the Squamish Nation was available to speak to this issue prior to press deadline due to summer holidays, a nation representative said.

Asked if there was concern about the stranding of fish, White said they were recognized and “will be reviewed as part of the Water Use Plan Order Review (WUPOR) process. An interim stranding assessment study prior to the initiation and completion of the Water Use Plan Order Review is currently under consideration.”

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BC HYDRO SAYS

When it comes to water management decisions, BC Hydro said the company is committed to working for user groups “to find a balance between our power generation requirements and First Nation and stakeholder concerns which include other uses of water, including fish and wildlife, recreation, heritage protection, and flood control.”

Between 1999 and 2002, BC Hydro engaged with First Nations, regulators and other stakeholders in a process to develop a Water Use Plan for the Cheakamus River, with the goal of finding a better balance between BC Hydro’s power generation requirements and environmental, social and economic interests.

Cheakamus was the only Water Use Plan in the province that did not achieve consensus between the interests of the different parties.

The conservationists said that consensus wasn’t reached due to the disagreement over ramping levels.

BC Hydro acknowledged the concerns with ramping and stranding and said that, since last August, the company has been working with the Squamish Nation, regulators—Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Ministry of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development—and local user groups to further address concerns of fish stranding

As soon as you are ready to go again, you want to flip that switch ... If you can go zero to 60 in a minute or two, you are back to making full money.” - Chessy Knight

on the Cheakamus. migrating chinook salmon.”

“Over the last year of testing different In a later email, a spokeswoman for BC operations, we’ve identified several Hydro reiterated, “We’re currently trying opportunities to further adjust our a slower ramping over an extended period operations—including a slower, more to determine if this can help to reduce fish protracted flow reduction during the month stranding.” of August,” the statement says.

Knight said these efforts are only “We anticipate that this slower flow being done because conservationists are reduction will reduce overall fish stranding, “squawking” and that the slower flow needs to including spawning pink salmon and be standard beyond just the month of August.

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implications would be required to assess the impact of different ramping rates, and could form part of the recommendations under the WUPOR,” he said.

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ECONOMIC STUDY? If the reason for not slowing ramping is economic, as Sea to Sky MLA Sturdy and others have suggested, an economic study of various ramping rates seems warranted, Knight said.

“If the plant is shut down, it is losing money,” she said.

“As soon as you are ready to go again, you want to flip that switch ... If you can go zero to 60 in a minute or two, you are back to making full money. To do it responsibly can take 12 hours. The same thing if they need to shut down because they have some scheduled maintenance.”

If an economic study has been done internally at BC Hydro, it hasn’t been shared, she said.

Sturdy shares the conservationists’ concerns.

“It is an economic issue, obviously,” he said. “We should be looking at these things on a scientific basis. Certainly, when we look at stocks of concern around chinook and also steelhead, these are important fish in an area already under a fair bit of pressure. I would certainly like to see some evidence of what they are doing to not be stranding fish.”

The onus should be on BC Hydro to show they aren’t causing issues, he added, “as opposed to what it seems to be, which is the work of Dave and Chessy Knight and Edith Tobe. They are having to do the work to prove that these impacts are happening. I almost want to see that flipped on its head.”

BC Hydro didn’t respond to a question on whether a study had been done and, if so, what it showed.

White said the issue of an economic study was an operational question for BC Hydro.

“However, additional studies of economic

Another concern of the conservationists is that BC Hydro has cut back on its monitoring of fish and fish habitat in the Cheakamus and Squamish Rivers. From 2005, there were a series of monitoring studies commissioned by BC Hydro as part of their commitments under the WUP. The utility is currently down to three main monitoring programs: for steelhead, coho and chum, according to Brown, who is the chair of the Sea to Sky Fisheries Roundtable and vice-chair of the SquamishLillooet Sportfish Advisory Committee. As well, the CWUP committee has received no indication from BC Hydro that these three programs will continue past 2019, or through the flow order review process.

“Erring on the side of caution, you have got to keep doing the monitoring, both through the period of the flow-order review, and for the life of the facility’s operations” Knight said.

Some monitoring is continuing, but not enough to make a scientifically robust dataset, Tobe added.

“We have been fighting since 2017 to make sure these programs aren’t stopping,” Tobe said, adding that her understanding is that insufficient monitoring will be done for three years while the facility’s review is done.

“If the monitoring programs are not continued through the period of the Order Review, a substantial scientific data gap will be created in a monitoring program that already does not answer the fundamental management questions developed during the Water Use Planning process.

“These management questions, and the subsequent field studies to address them, were developed in order to understand the relationship between fish productivity in the Cheakamus River and operation of the Daisy Reservoir hydroelectric facility,” Knight said in a letter to the province.

Provincial comptroller White said the Water Use Plan Order Review process reviews information provided by the monitoring programs, “and documents the outcomes of implementing the WUP. The outcomes are reviewed with First Nations, agency regulators and key stakeholders, and their recommendations are incorporated into the final report to the comptroller for a decision on whether and/or how to amend the WUP Order.

The Cheakamus WUPOR is currently scheduled to begin December 2019 and continue through spring 2021.”

White said BC Hydro has conducted 10 monitoring programs under the Cheakamus Water Use Plan since 2007.

Two of these monitoring programs were initiated in 2008 to monitor fish stranding and were completed as scheduled. The first was designed to assess stranding in the tailrace channel—the channel that carries water away from a hydroelectric plant—over a period of three years and was completed in 2011.

The second was designed to assess fish stranding below the Daisy Lake Dam for one year and was completed in 2008.

There is a program that aims to offset the damage done by BC Hydro facilities.

The Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) is a partnership between BC Hydro, the Province of B.C., Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and public stakeholders to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by construction of BC Hydro dams. Since 2000, the FWCP has funded 42 projects in the Cheakamus River Watershed—including 38 projects to benefit fish and four to benefit wildlife.

The conservationists say they benefit from this program, and it results in good work being done, but they argue the program doesn’t come close to making up for the fish being killed.

WHAT THE SQUAMISHLILLOOET REGIONAL DISTRICT SAYS As a local government federation, the regional district does not have jurisdiction over BC Hydro ramping rates, said Patricia Westerholm, communications co-ordinator for the SLRD. The SLRD has also not received any correspondence on this issue, she said.

ABOUT DAISY LAKE RESERVOIR AND THE CHEAKAMUS RIVER From www.bchydro.com The Daisy Lake Reservoir was created in 1926 when the Cheakamus Dam was built. The dam was replaced in 1984 with a 29-metre high modern earth-fill structure. Water flows from Daisy Lake Reservoir to Shadow Lake Reservoir, where a partially lined tunnel and two penstocks carry the water 11 kilometres to the 157-megawatt Cheakamus Generating Station on the Squamish River.

Normal reservoir level: Between 376.5 metres and 364.9 metres deep Flood control: Only filled above 376.5 metres for short-term flood control.

Cheakamus River: Water levels on the Cheakamus River, a tributary of the Squamish River that first flows into Daisy Lake Reservoir and then out of it before joining the Squamish at Cheekye, are influenced by a combination of precipitation, natural inflows from tributaries, high tide conditions generated at Squamish, and the diversion of water from Daisy Lake to the generating station.

This story originally appeared under a different headline in The Squamish Chief on Aug. 7.

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I FEEL LIKE I’VE STUMBLED into a Brothers Grimm Hansel and Gretel fairy tale when I arrive in the tiny town of Ribeauvillé: half-timber medieval houses in pink, apricot and sea-green boast window boxes spilling geraniums and hug narrow cobblestone lanes.

We crossed the Vosges Mountains to get here from Champagne. These “blue hills” are politically significant because they separate the rest of France from the Alsace region, which was annexed by Germany in 1870, returned to France by the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War, taken

by Germany again during the Second World War and then reclaimed by France.

Today, the Germanic influence still permeates the architecture, food, culture and wine. But while Alsace and Germany grow the same grape varietals, wines here are produced in a different style, aren’t aged in new oak barrels and have a higher alcohol content.

Ribeauvillé is perfectly located in the middle of the wine region and the wines are something else. Aromas of rose, lychee,

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peach and honey fly out of the glass and many wines are unctuous enough to pair with German fare like smoked pork and bratwurst.

Of course, beer is big here, too. On our first night in town, we eat at La Flammerie, which has been around for 30 years. With red-checkered tablecloths, dark walls and peasant-inspired food, we may be only a short distance from Champagne in kilometres, but it feels a world apart in culture and cuisine.

My sister Melanie tries a flight of beer, which sounds more like hair salon selections than brews: white, blonde, ombre, dark brown. I try a Riesling, which takes me by surprise because it is not at all sweet; Melanie, who is a sommelier, explains that Alsace Rieslings are fermented to dryness.

After the heavy meals in Champagne, I’m delighted to see pickled beets, carrots, radishes and green beans on the menu.

My entrée trends back to hearty, though, as I order the “knuckle of ham.” The inexpensive cut of meat is rendered tender by a long period of preparation. It comes with sauerkraut, which is almost as good as what my Ukrainian mom used to make.

The next morning, we again see red tablecloths, this time in our host Marie’s

dining room at Maison des Roses, an apt name given roses abound in her garden, the exterior of her large home is a deep pink and she crumbles praliné roses (almonds covered in cooked sugar, colored pink) in the cereal.

She serves breakfast by candlelight!

In the Middle Ages, this town was the seat of the Lords of Ribeaupierre (hence the name Ribeauvillé) and perched high on the mountain edge are the ruins of three fortified castles.

With full bellies, we saunter four kms up switchbacks lined with mossy trees to Château de Saint-Ulrich, the largest and best preserved of the three. It is quiet save for the occasional whoosh of avalanches of acorns and the plop of chestnuts falling and breaking open on the ground.

Originally constructed in the 12th century, Ulrich was expanded over the next 400 years, resulting in a marvellous mix of military architecture, Gothic and Renaissance elements and Romanesque characteristics. You can still climb the keep, for superb views over the valley. HautRibeaupierre castle, as its name suggests, is higher still and older, built in 1084, but is also more dilapidated.

We take the shorter, steeper route back down to town, where we wander into the tasting room of Domaine de Moulin de Dusenbach. The manager, Greg, is passionate about Alsatian wines (he has two hectares of his own vineyards) and, over the course of two hours, pours us 20—yes, 20—tastes.

We start with three Crémants, which translates to “creamy” and is the perfect way to describe these velvety bubbles.

Vintners use the Champagne method to put sparkle in this wine but it is meant to drink young, making it an affordable and fun sister to Champagne.

We move on to Riesling, Pinot Gris, Muscat and Gewürztraminer. Alsace produces a third of the world’s Gerwurzt (German for “spice”) and we try a “grand cru,” made from hand-picked botrytisaffected grapes, also known as noble rot, which raisinates the grape. This, Mel explains, is why it is so expensive. Think of how little juice you would squeeze out of a raisin! It is like drinking honeyed nectar.

With such a fine introduction to the region’s wine, we are excited to head out on the Alsace Wine Route, officially established in 1953. It is 170 kms long,

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He commissioned an architect specializing One day, we head south through in medieval fortifications to restore the dense forest, along waterways, through castle—apparently dreaming of a return villages and into a couple of walled to the old German Empire. The castle was towns so picturesque they almost don’t handed over to the French government in seem real. Romantic Riquewihr is our 1919. More conflict followed—this time over favourite. Colmar charms with historic the restoration work—due to fluctuating churches, including the imposing Gothic, Franco-German relations.

13th-Century Église Saint-Martin, and a I walk up to the medieval garden, my picture-postcard canal. bike shoes clacking loudly, and a man This is hilly country, with extreme asks me something in French that I don’t hairpin turns cut into cliffs; we are jangled by understand. He switches to hand signals: motorcyclists who roar by as if auditioning did I cycle up to the castle? When I say, for a James Bond movie and drivers who “Oui,” he says, “Brava!” fancy the Fast and Furious style of squealing While we enjoy exploring the area, round corners at high speed. we’re always happy to return to Ribeauvillé As we near home, Melanie lags a bit. Until to wander the pedestrian-friendly Grand we enter a wee town where, upon seeing her Rue with its chapels and scenic squares, maple leaf bike jersey, people yell out, “We fountains and flowers. The sense of history luv Can-a-da!” She pedals harder. here is palpable. As is the joie de vivre.

Another day we head north to tackle an 18-km climb to Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, To read Part 1 of Virginia Aulin’s trip which is shrouded in mist when we arrive. through the French Champagne country, The 12th-century castle was besieged, visit piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/ destroyed and pillaged numerous times venturing-into-vineyards-and-villages-ofdue to European conflicts and royal northern-france/Content?oid=14317109. ■

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A family ride SEA-TO-SKY CLAN TO RACE IN FULL RBC GRANFONDO

BY DAN FALLOON AFTER

COMPLETING the RBC GranFondo Medio in 2018, the Ng family will be taking things up a notch in 2019.

The Brackendale clan, led by patriarch Danny with teenage sons Jojo and Tyler, will be doing the full 122-kilometre ride from Stanley Park to Whistler Olympic Plaza on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Danny, the director of sales at the Four Seasons Resort, said the 2018 ride got the boys hooked, and they trained diligently all winter for the chance to more than double the 55 km they travelled during last year’s event.

“They trained with Sea to Sky Nordics for biathlon,” he said. “We’re looking for fun things to do in the summer to keep their cardio going, so they took up cycling for the summer.”

There will, however, be some sibling rivalry out on the course as Tyler looks to reclaim an upper hand over his younger brother that was rightfully his. Both competed in the 18-and-under division last year.

“Last year, it was the first time doing it, so I mentioned to them, ‘Let’s all finish together and line up our bikes at the finish line so we can all get a nice family photo,’”

MAJOR AWARD Jojo Ng (right) celebrates his third-place finish in the 2018 RBC GranFondo Whistler, to the chagrin of older brother Tyler.

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Danny said. “What happened at the finish line was that Jojo, the younger one who is 15 years old this year, crossed the finish line a fraction of a second faster than my 17-year-old.

“As a result, a month later, Jojo got a certificate from GranFondo saying ‘Congratulations, you are third place in your age group.’

“My 17-year-old said ‘That should have been my spot! I waited for you,’” Danny recalls with a laugh.

Accolades aside, Danny is pleased to see a fire inside both of his sons when it comes

boys, as there’s always a treat at a coffee shop waiting after training.

“I think this will become our annual family event,” Danny said.

LAST TUNE-UP BEFORE WORLDS Saturday’s event will mark the final GranFondo before the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships come to Whistler in 2020.

Speaking from this year’s worlds in Poland, race founder Neil McKinnon said while the race was well done, he believes

“They have both put up over 1,500 km in training. We got a bike trainer in the garage, so that’s how they train in the winter.”

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to preparing for the ride.

“It’s really good to see that there is a focus. They look forward to the event,” Danny said. “They both have put up over 1,500 km in training. We got a bike trainer in the garage, so that’s how they train in the winter. The whole summer, they have been riding along the highway.”

Danny said it’s important to make the training feel like a part of a lifestyle for the

his team has the mechanisms in place to blow past it.

“To be totally honest, I think we have a great opportunity, a tremendous opportunity to create something very special where we are,” he said. “It’s nice being in Poland, and I think what they’ve done is pretty special for the participants, but I think the bar is set at a level that we can exceed in spades.”

This year’s event serves as a qualifier for the World Championships, so it’s one last chance to ensure that everything is working just so before the big show in 2020. McKinnon noted that because of its qualification status, there will be roughly 1,000 extra participants from across North America in this year’s contest.

“For the GranFondo itself, we’ve pretty much got that dialled. There are a few technical elements to it,” McKinnon said.

“More of it is on the show and opportunity to take advantage of people coming that distance, across from Europe or up from Mexico, and how we have the opportunity to create new experiences for them.”

McKinnon expects 2020 to boast additional events in Vancouver prior to the Fondo, such as a time trial and perhaps a criterium.

The major focus, he said, is trying to create an appealing trip for those coming from Europe, who have more traditional views on a GranFondo.

“Turning into an international event, obviously you’re catering to a much different clientele. The interesting thing that happens with a World Championship is you go from the most sustainable, successful and large North American event to being on a stage where you’re really talking to the purists of cycling, the Europeans,” he said.

“We now have the opportunity to say, ‘You guys have had these historical events in Europe. Now, come to the new world of cycling and see how we produce this event.’

“We’re really excited to step up to this challenge.” n

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MEDAL MAN Scott McLagan accepts a medal at the International Dragon Boat Federation World Championships in Thailand.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SCOTT MCLAGAN

McLagan returns from dragonboat worlds PEMBERTON PADDLER WON SEVEN MEDALS, INCLUDING A GOLD

BY DAN FALLOON PEMBERTON’S SCOTT MCLAGAN came home with a bag full of silver—and a bit of gold—at the International Dragon Boat Federation World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand from Aug. 20 to 25.

Competing on the Senior C National dragon boat team, the False Creek Racing Canoe Club member helped the squad earn medals in the 200-metre, 500-m, 1,000-m and 2,000-m events.

While McLagan was happy with his results, he noted that Canada has typically found itself winning gold at that level in years past. However, a powerhouse American squad showed up and dominated.

“Canada has pretty much swept the golds at that event for the last two or three world championships. The Americans came in this year with a really strong [team],” he said. “Somebody must have found some funding because not only were they a really good team, a really big team and a really strong team, they toured North America as a group for the past month—something that we just couldn’t fathom.”

While the Yanks were the juggernaut this year, McLagan said the Canadians weren’t far behind.

“They were definitely stiff competition, but we held them to it,” he said. “We were right on their heels every heat, but they took most of the gold.”

McLagan’s gold medal came in the small boat 500-m race in which the Americans did not compete. Still, the Russians, Australians and Germans provided stiff competition.

With temperatures reaching 37 Celsius and humidity levels up to 100 per cent, the weather conditions did no favours for the Canuck squad, especially British Columbians like McLagan, who have trained in a milder summer.

“That, absolutely, was the biggest challenge,” he said of the weather. “It was oppressive.”

McLagan said the conditions were such that his clothes never fully dried, and he stayed hydrated using Gatorade and Nuun tablets.

“You might be uncomfortable, but in terms of performance, as long as you keep hydrated and keep drinking that stuff, it definitely works,” he said. “You’re uncomfortable, but you’re functional.”

McLagan said the race course, a manmade reservoir with a flat bottom, made it equal for all competitors. In comparison, the Concord Pacific International Dragon Boat Festival on Vancouver’s False Creek—North America’s largest dragon boat event— sometimes has competitors concerned over some shallow sections closer to the banks.

Among other course features were an automated starting line and a laser finish line.

“The course was very fair. That’s always a concern,” McLagan said. “They make the bottom completely flat so it’s deemed to be fair in all lanes. The course was first-rate.”

McLagan said overall, Canada was second in the medal table, trailing only host Thailand. He noted the U24 squad was a particular joy to watch.

“They were just exceptional. They were awesome to watch,” said McLagan, adding the U24s won gold in the open class. “[They’re] very strong young people, basically every one of them built like a walking fire hydrant.”

Admittedly all business, McLagan didn’t get much of a chance to enjoy being in Thailand away from the race course.

“We were up every day at 5 a.m., on the course by 7, raced all of our heats. You would basically come home, try to get cool and prepare for the next day,” he said.

“It’s a competitive event and that’s what it’s for.” n

Traffic Pattern Changes:

Highway 1 and Sea-to-Sky Highway 99 RBC GranFondo Whistler Cycling Event Saturday, September 7, 2019 A planned cycling event will take place Saturday, September 7, 2019, on Highway 1 and Highway 99, between Vancouver and Whistler.

The majority of riders in the RBC GranFondo will depart from Stanley Park in Vancouver between 6 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and cycle over the Lions Gate Bridge, up Taylor Way and along Highway 1 and Highway 99 to Whistler. Some riders will also travel up Cypress Bowl Road before continuing to Whistler.

Riders on another course will depart from Whistler at 9:15 a.m., cycle south along Highway 99, take Callaghan Valley Road to Whistler Olympic Park and then return to Whistler along the same route.

This event will result in temporary traffic pattern changes, delays and some stoppages on September 7, as outlined below: Traffic Pattern Changes: • Downtown Vancouver - 5:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.

• North and West Vancouver - 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

• Squamish - 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• Whistler - 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Highway 1 Lane Closures in West Vancouver: • Upper Levels Highway - eastbound lanes will be closed between Horseshoe Bay and Taylor Way from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Use Marine Drive eastbound as alternative route.

Motorists are asked to allow extra travel time or plan alternative routes. Please exercise caution, watch for traffic control personnel and obey all signs along the route.

Your patience during the event is appreciated.

For more information, visit the DriveBC website at drivebc.ca or september7.info

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Whistler rowers enjoyed excellent summer HARRIMAN, ZIFF NOW SET TO TAKE ON HEAD OF THE CHARLES

BY DAN FALLOON TWO WHISTLER ROWERS have been winning all over the world this summer.

Maureen Harriman and Diane Ziff have taken gold at events in the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Firstly, Ziff recently returned from the USRowing Masters National Championships, held in Grand Rapids, Mich. from Aug. 15 to 18, winning four medals.

Ziff brought home two golds, a silver and a bronze as part of her top performance at a regatta this season.

“At the other ones, I wasn’t quite ready, but I was ready for this one so it worked out really well,” she said.

Ziff’s teammates in the four-women events stretched the continent, from Seattle to Philadelphia. She hadn’t raced with any of them before and yet, they meshed quickly en route to gold.

“I’ve been doing it for 22 years now and you just get in the boat and you row. You don’t practice,” the 78-year-old said with a laugh. “There are teams there that row

together all the time. And they train together.

“In my case, because I live here, there’s nobody for me to train with and there are people who ask me to train with them, which was the case here.

“Because I’ve been doing this a long time, jumping into boats I know nothing about, you have a feel. Generally, I row with rowers who are very good, so you know that they’re going to have pretty good technique.

There’s common ground that you find.”

Harriman, meanwhile, completed two events in Europe this season, the first, in March, coming in Amsterdam, where she won the 2,500-metre as part of a fourperson team.

She also competed in a “bucket list” event, the Henley Masters Regatta on the Thames River in England, eventually winning the knockout event in her twowoman boat with Chicago’s Fran Tuite.

“When I rowed seriously, women weren’t allowed to do that race, so I always wanted to race it,” she said. “It was really great. They really know how to put on a race. There’s such history there.

“The history of rowing in England is so long, and rowing on the Thames, there’s

CELEBRATION TIME Maureen Harriman (left) and rowing partner Fran Tuite celebrate their win at the Henley Masters Regatta in the U.K. earlier this summer.

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just a whole other aura surrounding it. It’s well respected. It’s so historical.”

Harriman said she was glad the other contending team, from the host country, was on the other side of the draw so they could only meet in the final. The teams turned out to be evenly matched.

“It was a really hard race. We just won by a foot,” she said.

Afterwards, Harriman competed at the Cascadia Masters Championships in Vancouver, winning three golds, one individually, one in mixed and one in a twowoman crew. Also at Cascadia, local Janice Groff posted a fourth-place finish in a race, while Ziff took fifth in one event and sixth in another.

Harriman met her teammates for the

European events at Head of the Charles in Boston, which she does every year and will head to again next month. She’s been keeping in shape at her Ontario cottage, but recently returned to Whistler for the final preparations.

“It’s a very different race,” she said of the Head of the Charles. “The one in England was a 1,000-metre, head-to-head [race], so every round, you knocked somebody out.”

Clocking in at 5,000 metres, Head of the Charles is a step up in distance from Harriman’s prior events this year.

Ziff will also be attending the October race, and is eager to do some longer contests.

“It’s a different type of training because you’re not rowing as fast when you’re doing 5,000 metres,” she said. n

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BY DAN FALLOON BLAKE MAHOVIC HIT the national stage on Friday night.

The Axemen Rugby Club fullback was one of three Team B.C. members to play the entire game in a friendly match against the Canadian national team in Langford on Aug. 30. Canada took a 45-13 win as it prepared for the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo.

It was Mahovic’s second time suiting up in B.C.’s colours, as he also played in the Best of the West series against Alberta earlier this summer, helping B.C. to a win and the championship.

“It’s been a great experience,” said Squamish-based Mahovic, a native of Cumbria, U.K. “It’s nice to play at a high level and be around that coaching and really just go and experience a bit more of rugby in Canada.”

After playing university rugby in the U.K. before crossing the pond, Mahovic said it was the most physical game he’s played during his time in Canada.

Mahovic appreciated the chance to take on—and learn from—some of the foremost players Canada has to offer.

“Getting to play against the best players in the country, that was awesome,” he said.

“When you’re seeing these guys playing on TV and everything, you put them up on this pedestal. When you get out there, maybe there’s a bit of nerves … After that first tackle, you realize that these guys are human, right?

“It was great to go out there and really test ourselves and put ourselves on that platform.”

With the national program just one more rung up the ladder, Mahovic and several of his teammates looked at the friendly as an opportunity to get on Rugby Canada’s radar for the future.

“You see these positions are attainable, as well. Everyone starts somewhere,” he said. “That was going through a lot of the guys’ minds. We had guys on the team who

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They’ve been cut and then they came and played provincial rugby to try to get put back on, to get looked at again.”

As a team, however, the B.C. Bears were under no great pains and could take their best shot at a national team without repercussions for losing. It helped, Mahovic added, that the Langford crowd backed their provincial squad.

“It was just so much fun because there was no pressure on us. We could go out there and we could put everything out there,” he said. “People weren’t really expecting us to go out there and pull off this huge upset. We were definitely the underdogs going into that.

“It was a very intense game, but it was a much more enjoyable game.”

As an Axeman, Mahovic was part of the BC Rugby Union’s (BCRU) third division when he was selected to the team (though the squad has been promoted to second division for 2019-20 after winning the championship last season).

“It was definitely a bit more of a strange experience for me because I came from playing third-division rugby, which is the lowest league in Canada, to go play against the national side,” he said, noting all of his B.C. teammates are members of premier league teams. “I was a bit of a wildcard. I was unknown. Obviously, they’d seen me play and then [I] wanted to represent their squad and I got picked.

“It was nice to go out there and get the opportunity to play.”

Mahovic tended to play centre earlier in his career, but has taken to fullback with the Axemen. Because of his defensive prowess, that’s where he’s lined up with the provincial team as well.

On the home front, the Axemen will start the season later this month with three teams in tow. A second men’s squad will join the third division, while the club is also fielding a women’s team.

Mahovic, the club’s head coach, said it is still recruiting men and women. Reach out to the Axemen via their Facebook page for more. n

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CRUISER Lucas Cruz (left) shown celebrating a win during Crankworx Whistler, took fourth at the 2019 MercedesBenz Mountain Bike World Championships junior men’s downhill race on Sept. 1.

FILE PHOTO BY DAN FALLOON

Cruz fourth at worlds SPORTS BRIEFS: RICARD, SPENCE TOP VALLEY TO PEAK; SECOND AEROTHLON HELD

BY DAN FALLOON LUCAS CRUZ WAS a hundredth of a second from the podium at the 2019 Mercedes-Benz Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont-Ste-Anne, Que. on Sept 1.

Cruz ended up placing fourth, as Kye Ahern of Australia earned the junior men’s title over Antoine Vidal of France and Tuhoto-Ariki Pene of New Zealand.

“In the fourth split my tire started going flat but luckily I was still able to hit the bottom jumps and put down a solid time,” Cruz posted to his Instagram account the day after the race. “Definitely an emotional day but I’m so grateful for all of the support I have from friends, family, pros, Canadians and sponsors. Congrats to all the other Canadians who raced and represented [their] country fiercely! I feel amazing on the bike right now and the confidence is high heading into the last round!”

Cruz was the best Canadian overall, while three others made the top 10: Eliot Jamieson (sixth), Patrick Laffey (eighth) and Seth Sherlock of Squamish (ninth).

The Sea to Sky was also well represented in the elite men’s event as Whistler’s Finn Iles placed seventh, nearly five seconds back of champion Loic Bruni of France.

Australia’s Troy Brosnan and France’s Amaury Pierron rounded out the podium.

Other Canadians in the top 20 were Mark Wallace (ninth) and Whistler part-timer Kirk McDowall (15th).

As for the women representing the Sea to Sky, Miranda Miller of Squamish and Georgia Astle of Whistler took 11th and 20th, respectively.

Vaea Verbeeck was the top Canuck, placing eighth, as France’s Myriam Nicole topped Great Britain’s Tahnee Seagrave and France’s Marine Cabirou for the victory.

As for the junior women, Whistler’s Amy Ertel was the lone Canadian to finish, ending up 11th. Austria’s Valentina Holl cruised to victory by more than 12 seconds over runner-up Mille Johnset of Norway

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and 21 seconds over Anna Newkirk of the United States.

For complete results, check out uci.org.

RICARD, SPENCE TOP VALLEY TO PEAK Alexandre Ricard is the Sea to Sky’s King of Ascents.

Less than two months after winning the Red Bull 400 World Championships at Whistler Olympic Park, the Squamish runner held off Shaun Stephens-Whale by 11.3 seconds to win the men’s division in the 22.5-kilometre event at The North Face Valley to Peak Race on Aug. 31. Jessie McAuley placed third.

In the women’s race, Brooke Spence cruised to victory by nearly 23 minutes over runner-up Katherine Short. Sylvia Stellmacher came through to take third.

In the 10-km events, Jeffrey Russell and Zoe Dawson won the men’s and women’s divisions, respectively, while Joey Slesk and Olivia Rodig did so in the three-km contest.

In the one-km kids’ dash, Felix Rodig and Piper Shoniker emerged victorious in the boys’ and girls’ event, respectively.

For full results, head to whistlerblackcomb.com.

SECOND AEROTHLON HELD Pemberton welcomed its second Aerothlon to town over Labour Day Weekend.

The combination of paragliding, mountain biking and cross-country running brought athletes from as far away as Mexico, Russia and Poland.

In the singles event, Canada’s Mukunda Lorenzo won for the second consecutive year, topping fellow Canadians Douglas Hess and Simon Archambault.

In the doubles category, Russia’s Igor Tolsky and Canada’s Misa Pacakova earned the win, while in the threemember contest, Poland’s Roman Karas joined Canada’s Adam Dijkerman and Patrick Devlin for gold.

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A question of growth I READ SOMEWHERE that your garden is a reflection of your personality.

My garden has gone off-script.

It is wild, unkempt, rangy, not willing to commit to any one single thing beyond the belief that there are mysterious forces at play in the natural world to which I surrender control.

It’s utterly prolific and not in any way linear

BY LISA RICHARDSON or orderly. It’s an offering to pollinators. On any given day, there are so many different bees and wasps and butterflies and dragonflies that the air shimmers and vibrates. It’s been full of weeds since I discovered some of those weeds (Hello purslane! Hello plantain herb!) are edible or medicinal, so opted to welcome them, taste them, invite their medicine in, instead of battling them. Battles are so rarely won.

Last season, and all the seasons before in which I’ve engaged in this yearly experiment, all I could see were the flaws, the lack of order, the ample evidence that if a pioneer-era family were depending on my skills, we’d all be dead, that my late

GROWTH GARDEN The middle of a messy fall garden is good place to remind yourself you’re part of an ecosystem of relationships, balancing on the ever-turning wheel of the year, and that everything good will come around again.

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grandmother would shake her head at how few life skills I have.

Today, with the cosmos, dill-weed and sunflowers towering over me, I am OK with this. I have realized that self-sufficiency isn’t as worth cultivating as community is.

And each year in the garden, I have learned that I am part of a community of pollinators; of birds; of earthworms; of black bears that I shoo away, but who still win their fair share; of beet-green-nibbling deer (*shakes

The other night, when racing-brainsyndrome pushed sleep away, I reached for a book of Mary Oliver poems. I turned on the light and read until my mind settled into the hammock of Oliver’s words, and I slipped back to sleep with these lines resting on my chest: “Every year we have been witness to it: how the world descends into a rich mash, in order that it may resume. And therefore who would cry out to the petals on the

... [T]his full, lush , vivacius moment is a good time to think about what you will offer to ensure the vitality of what will be.

fist at air*); of rats (*insert unpublishable curses and shudders*); of friends who gift seedlings and starts and neighbours with abundant fruit trees and a willingness to share. This ecosystem membership card comes with no assurances or written guarantees, and yet, I suspect I am more resilient in this club than if I had invested my loosely focused energy in a stockpile of canned goods, some guns, and a padlocked larder full of canned peaches.

My garden is wildly prolific right now.

And in a few months, everything will be dead.

This is the way of the wheel of life. This is what is true, as much as I might like to push it away: every possibility grows out of an ending.

And the endings keep coming around.

ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality of what will be? I don’t say it’s easy, but what else will do if the love one claims to have for the world be true?”

Growth has been the mantra of this diseased era, the Anthropocene. Globalized growth detached from place or relationship.

Growth, unrestrained by upper limit or sense of limitation or restraint. Growth without end.

The folly.

When Kate Raworth, the British economist and author of Doughnut Economics, remodeled the way we look at the economy, she drew, instead of a pyramid or a supply chain or a spreadsheet or the colonization of other planets, a doughnut.

The first thing she did was draw a big circle around the outside of the economy and say: this is the limit, defined by the Earth’s life-supporting capacity. And here in the centre is a hole, and it represents everyone we’re failing. The challenge is to live within the doughnut—the space between the limits of social justice and planetary systems.

When you trade growth-without-end for doughnuts and gardens and the wheel of the seasons, you have the courage to accept limits, to be still, to acknowledge endings and loss and the discomfort of never really nailing it. You also give yourself permission to start over, again and again, to risk it on relationships, to know the wealth of a table loaded with good food and air vibrating with bees, the difference between a larder and a hoard.

I pile clippings and weeds and garden detritus onto a bed, and prep another for next year’s garlic, and steadfastly ignore those that are gone past the point of no return. I offer the birds free rein at the sunflowers. I collect coriander seeds that dried on the stalk when I let the cilantro go to flower, and the surfaces and corners of the house fill up with brown paper bags full of drying seed pods and flower heads— reminders that this will all come around again, and this full, lush, vivacious moment is a good time to think about what you will offer to ensure the vitality of what will be.

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What’s in store for Whistler’s new-look Fresh St. Market ‘NO MATTER WHAT LEVEL OF INCOME, WHAT LEVEL OF LIFE YOU HAVE, EVERYBODY DESERVES A GREAT SHOPPING EXPERIENCE,’ SAYS GEORGIA MAIN FOOD GROUP’S MARK MCCURDY

BY BRANDON BARRETT YOU

MAY HAVE noticed some big changes at Whistler’s Marketplace grocery store over the past few weeks— chief among them, a new name on the front entrance sign: Fresh St. Market.

The former IGA is currently undergoing a makeover intended to modernize the longstanding store for an evolving customer base.

“We developed Fresh St. Market, first and foremost, six or seven years ago in West Vancouver and the idea of Fresh St. Market was to bring a different way of shopping for our customers,” explained Mark McCurdy, VP of retail operations for Georgia Main Food Group, which now counts four Fresh St. Markets in the province.

The concept is designed to accommodate shoppers who are increasingly spending less time in the kitchen, but still want a quality product, McCurdy said.

“We find more people are shopping fresh many times a week as opposed to once a week. We really wanted to develop a shopping experience like that very similar to what you would find at a public market, like Granville Island,” he noted.

McCurdy said most consumers these days shop around “the centre of the plate,” meaning they select their main course and build a meal around it. Fresh St. Market is designed to accommodate that impulse by offering a wider range of fresh-made foods and hard-to-find products.

“We believe that within everybody there is a foodie—and it can be large or small,” McCurdy said “We also understand that people like to cook, but maybe don’t have the time to do all of the cooking, so we have areas that offer different product mixes to make it easier for you to provide a meal.”

Staying tightlipped on some of the store’s upcoming planned upgrades,

THE FRESH-MAKER An artist’s rendering of the design for the exterior of the Fresh St. Market in Marketplace, which is currently undergoing renovations.

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McCurdy said the Whistler Fresh St. Market will feature concepts “I don’t think you’ve seen anywhere else.”

The store is also undergoing a

of the store will be all lined up differently,” McCurdy said. “Some of them will still be on angles, but it will truly be an easier shop.”

As part of the renovations, the building’s

“It’s a fun approach to food that we think is going to really resonate with our customers.”

- MARK MCCURDY

significant physical transformation.

Along with renovating the bakery and deli departments, the produce section has been relocated, and space has been opened up on the left side of the store for additional stand-up fridges for more prepared foods made in-house.

And those pesky, frustrating diagonal aisles? Those are going, too (mostly).

“The other aisles on the righthand side

landlord is also completing repairs on the store’s roof.

“There’s just so much going on,” McCurdy said. “But it’s sort of like pulling the Band-Aid off: might as well do it all at once instead of tease it through.”

Having skied Whistler since the late ‘70s, McCurdy said he “understands the Whistler market” and wants to renew the company’s focus on locals of all stripes.

The store is already planning on taking part in more community events, such as Cornucopia in November, and McCurdy said the goal is to “welcome back a lot of our customers that maybe have decided to shop somewhere else.

“We want to embrace them,” he continued. “We want to bring them in and say, ‘Look, here’s who we are now. I think you’re going to really love the groceryshopping experience because we believe no matter what level of income, what level of life you have, everybody deserves a great shopping experience, so that’s what we’re going to try to provide here.”

Having begun in mid-July, McCurdy said the renovations are slated for completion in November.

“It’s going to be pretty exciting when people walk in there for the first time,” he added.

“It’s a fun approach to food that we think is going to really resonate with our customers.” n

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Inaugural Mountain Muse Festival kicks off in Pemberton NEW EVENT SET FOR SEPT. 13 AND 14 AT VENUES AROUND THE VILLAGE

BY ALYSSA NOEL PEMBERTON’S LONG, dusty summer is over.

With the (estimated) end of the Downtown Enhancement Project—which saw much of the Village’s downtown under construction over the last few months—in sight, the Pemberton Arts Council (PAC) is hosting a brand-new weekend festival.

The Mountain Muse Festival will take place on Friday, Sept. 13 and Saturday, Sept.

14, and features art and music at various venues around town—from the Downtown Community Barn to Blackbird Bakery, Mile One Eating House, Mount Currie Coffee Company, and Town Square.

“Pemberton has been torn to pieces all summer,” says Karen Love, president of the PAC. “It’s been hard for those venues. We’re hoping the sidewalks will be paved by then and brushed up. Let’s use our downtown …

It’s going to be fantastic.”

The festival kicks off Friday night

MAKING MUSIC Venues around Pemberton,

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with a beer garden and country rockers Dakota Pearl and Old Man Grant. Then, on Saturday, catch Thomas Sloss, Suzanne Wilson, Michael Waters, and the Sea to Sky Orchestra at various venues from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

From 2 to 4 p.m., Mount Currie reggae artists The Spiritual Warriors hit the stage, followed by bluegrass band The Courageous

organizers plan to keep options open to allow artists to perform inside the venues or outdoors.

“It depends on the day,” Love says.

“If the musicians feel like if they’re at the bakery, they might want to be on the deck, we’re keeping options open.”

September is shaping up to be a busy month for the Pemberton music scene.

“I think it’s exciting. Hopefully Pemberton can bring back [its own version of] the Pemberton Music Festival with music in our valley.”

- KAREN LOVE

Mountain Rangers from 4 to 6 p.m. and soulful roots singer Ev Kinsella from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

All the shows are free.

“There is a beer garden Friday night with donations from The Beer Farmers, but then Saturday is alcohol-free. Anyone can come to town, everyone can walk through and listen,” Love says.

The locations for each artist were still to-be-confirmed at press time, but

Smack dab in the middle of the festival, The Meadows at Pemberton is celebrating its 35th anniversary with an evening of music on Sept. 14. Then the annual Pemberton Barn Dance is set for Sept. 22.

“September might be our month for music,” Love says. “I think it’s exciting.

Hopefully Pemberton can bring back [its own version of] the Pemberton Music Festival with music in our valley.”

Last week, organizers were still deciding

on which visual artists to feature in which local shops, but, going forward, Love envisions art being a big part of the festival, too. Currently, they also plan to have live painting on site. “We want to develop it into an art walk as well,” she adds.

The idea for the event initially stemmed from a grant PAC received from the BC Arts Council to host a community art festival.

“Last year, we had the Garlic Festival, but we’ve changed it up a bit because it was too far out of town,” Love says. “We wanted something closer to town to connect with more spaces and develop it over time. It will turn into a bigger walking festival and you can go over two days and listen to music in our town.”

The best way to take in the festival is to check the event’s Facebook page (search Mountain Muse Festival or visit facebook. com/pembertonartscouncil) to find out which venue is hosting which artist, bring a chair down, and enjoy.

“I’m super stoked because all these musicians are super helpful and happy to be part of it,” Love says. “The BC Arts Council, the Government of B.C. has pitched in, the arts council is pitching in, and all those venues are offering up their space as well.

That’s a really great offer from them to have a space for music as well.” n

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THINK SMALL The Teeny Tiny Art Show is back at the Maury Young Arts Centre starting on Thursday, Sept. 12.

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The smaller the better at the Teeny Tiny Art Show EXHIBIT RETURNS SEPT. 12 ALONGSIDE FALL FOR ARTS KICK-OFF PARTY

BY ALYSSA NOEL WHAT IS IT about tiny things that are so compelling?

We all seem to scrunch up our faces, emit an “awww,” followed by a “that’s so cute!” at the mere site of something that’s simply smaller than usual.

Mo Douglas, executive director of Arts Whistler, has a theory.

“I think it all comes from baby animals—and baby humans,” she says.

“There’s something about tiny things we love. I don’t know if it’s because it’s such a departure from what we normally relate to.”

To that end, Arts Whistler is bringing back its Teeny Tiny Art Show for a third year, starting with a kick-off party on Sept. 12 at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

This time around, a callout attracted a whopping 90 artists, who turned in pieces on three-inch-by-three-inch (7.6-centimetreby-7.6-cm) canvasses.

“It’s really clever,” Douglas says. “Some beautiful stuff, some funny stuff, original art that’s really affordable. That’s what’s fun.”

In past years, artists have submitted crocheted pieces (“someone had crocheted the world’s tiniest sofa”), detailed landscapes and other 3D pieces.

“It either tends to be skill or cleverness at that size—sometimes both,” Douglas says. “So many people do cool things with this that it’s a really fun one to look at. The scope of ideas is jaw dropping.”

The tiny theme doesn’t end there, though. At the opening party—which is free and runs from 7 to 10 p.m.—you will also find tiny food and beverages as well as a “do-it-yourself, mini-masterpiece creation station” where you can try your hand at

making your own tiny art.

“We got a hold of a number of extra three-by-three [canvases] and we’ll have a little painting station if people want to do their own teeny tiny masterpieces. We’ll have a public participation frame. All the do-it-yourself masterpieces will be able to live there,” Douglas says.

All the art will also be up for grabs—at a reasonable rate. “I’ve seen work priced from $15 to crazy, ornate creations at $75,” she adds. “It’s really affordable.”

The show is just the first event in Arts Whistler’s Fall for Arts season—well, technically, the second, if you count the actual Fall For Arts kick-off party that starts just before the exhibit opening in front of the Maury Young Arts Centre at 6 p.m.

That party will include live music, button-making, artists painting on site and roving entertainers. “This year, we’ve aligned the launch party and the Teeny Tiny show,” Douglas says. “Some Assembly Required is performing from 6 to 7 p.m. by the piano, Dave Petko and Taka Sudo will be live mural painting, and Paintertainment will have lots of photo ops and fun. There will also be button making for adults and kids. It’s funny how our button-making machine is a crowd favourite.”

This is the fourth year of the Fall for Arts season and it’s picked up plenty of traction, Douglas says.

“On its heels is the first Arts Whistler Live show with T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels starting it off with swing, jazz, and blues,” she says (for more, see page 56).

“They come with a swing dance coach, so you can come at 7 and learn some of the steps. These guys are hot. They’ve got a great video, and a super fun look. It’s a good high-energy start to the season.”

For more information on any of the events, visit artswhistler.com/fallforarts. n

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Horror—and summer—live on in Whistler SUMMER IS NOT OVER , but summer blockbuster season certainly is as North America begins focusing on awards season runs and prestige film festivals.

Venice is just ending (Joker made a big splash) and Toronto is coming up (watch

BY FEET BANKS for JoJo Rabbit, Seberg, Knives Out, and, of course, Hustlers, the ripped-from-theheadlines stripper movie starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu).

All this industry focus on the big city red carpets means out here in the colonies our silver screens are still alive with horror, and for the third week in a row the fresh flick at the Whistler Village 8 is one of those movies you don’t want to watch alone in the

TAG, YOU’RE IT The second installment of Stephen King’s horror franchise, IT Chapter Two, opens this week at the Village 8.

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dark— IT: Chapter Two. Director Andy Muschietti returns for this sequel, set 27 years after the terrorizing events of the first flick. “The Losers Club” are all grown up now, and most have moved on, but when kids start disappearing the old crew returns home to face their fears (again) and take another run at destroying the more-powerful-than-ever Pennywise, for good this time.

James McAvoy (Split), Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game) and Bill Hader (Hot Rod) lead the cast (Hader, given a bit more script/arc/character to work with than his colleagues, ends up as the runaway MVP) with Bill Skarsgård returning to the role of Pennywise the clown.

A link between the unconscious and natural world, Pennywise is a shapeshifting corrupter of innocence and Skarsgård is, once again, up to the task.

But Pennywise is not the only source of evil in this instalment, it’s a regular old human-on-human hate crime that kicks off this story, the clown just uses it to his advantage.

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On the other hand, it’s still plenty freaky and kinda nice to see a horror movie given the time and space to build, nurture and enjoy its characters as people, rather than simple heroes or victims. IT is good enough for me and the only thing to fear is fear itself.

On the small screen, the most divisive piece of entertainment this week is Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, Sticks & Stones. Many viewers find Chappelle’s latest take on the Michael Jackson child abuse story, LGBQT minorities, opioids, #metoo, celebrity scandals and other timely subjects to be in poor taste and lacking the deeper truths that The Chappelle Show used to consistently deliver. And these criticisms are not without merit, but Chappelle, always a provocateur, certainly doesn’t care.

He is purposefully pushing buttons here (he admits he’s a serial “victim blamer”

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and that he “can’t stop writing jokes about trans people”) and almost every joke in the special seems designed to outrage the “outrage culture.”

Early on he chides audiences for being too judgmental and reminds viewers at home “you clicked on my face,” so you get what you get. Chappelle seems to have decided that he has no interest in helping anyone solve any of the problems he talks about.

He will, however, challenge anyone’s beliefs in hopes of making us laugh, and this has value too (remember the 10th Man rule from World War Z? If nine people agree on something, the tenth person has to argue the opposite, to bring perspective and re-evaluation).

There are incredible stand up performances creating positive change in the world, Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette is one of them (it’s not funny though, on purpose).

Sticks & Stones is more about telling jokes, pissing people off, and getting some chuckles out of the ridiculousness of a divisive society in a period of upheaval.

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A REVIEW OF ANDREW PYPER’S CHILLING THRILLER

BY KATHERINE FAWCETT THE HOMECOMING by award-winning Canadian author Andrew Pyper is a wicked and weird blend of science-fiction, thriller, horror, and family drama that reads like a movie on the big screen. Or a nightmare you can’t wake up from.

When the Quinlan family patriarch (it would be a stretch to refer to Ray Quinlan as “dad”) dies, his will stipulates that in order to inherit his substantial fortune, the entire family must stay together at Belfountain, a vast, isolated estate for an entire month. Supplies will be secretly delivered, but there is to be no contact with the outside world. Aaron, Bridge, Franny and other Quinlan family members were unaware this isolated mansion in the rainforest even existed. But that’s just a fraction of what they don’t know about their mysterious father.

It’s a creepy premise right from the beginning, and the creep factor just keeps swelling. The trapped and troubled family members start experiencing the same dreams at night. There are terrifying encounters in the woods. Blood-stains accumulate, secrets are revealed, identities and motives questioned. The reader knows this is not a book to read in the house alone late at night.

There are dark twists and terrifying surprises throughout, some of which made

me back up and re-read parts I’d rushed through. Although I found it difficult to connect with some characters in this book, and some social and scientific themes I wished were further developed, the rollercoaster plot definitely kept me flipping the pages. I could practically hear the soundtrack of low drums, eerie strings, and blood-curdling screams.

Pyper, an Ontario native, has written nine novels and a short story collection.

The Killing Circle (2008) was a New York Times best crime novel of the year. The Demonologist (2013) won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel. Several of his books, including The Homecoming, have been acquired for television and film.

Pyper will be at the 2019 Whistler Writers Festival on Friday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. when he will be offering a workshop called Novel Idea Boot Camp on finding compelling and irresistible story concepts.

He is also a guest speaker at the Crime Writers Lunch on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1:15 p.m. at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.

Find your tickets at www. whistlerwritersfest.com Katherine Fawcett’s book The Little Washer of Sorrows (2015, Thistledown Press) was shortlisted for the ReLit award and the Sunburst Award for excellence in Canadian Fiction of the Fantastical. Her new book The Swan Suit will be released this spring by Douglas & McIntyre. She lives in Squamish. n

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OPENING THE FLOODGATES Between Aug. 26 and 31, 1991, 155 millimetres of rain fell on Whistler. For comparison, Whistler’s historical rainfall average for the entire month of August is less than 50 mm.

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RECENTLY, WE HERE at the Whistler Museum were tasked with finding more information about a flood that washed out and damaged several bridges over Fitzsimmons Creek in the 1990s. As it turned out, the flooding had happened 28 years ago last week, with the bulk of information found in the Sept. 5, 1991 edition of The Whistler Question.

The first mention of an unusually wet end to August appeared in the previous week’s editorial section, where then-editor Bob Barnett opened a piece on government money granted in the area with the thought, “The old adage it never rains, it pours, has applied to the weather this week, but also to government handouts.” Between Aug. 26 and 31, 1991, 155 millimetres of rain were reported to have fallen in Whistler, with the bulk of it coming between Aug. 29 and 30. Historically, the average rainfall for the entire month of August was under 50 mm; this unusually large quantity of water caused destruction throughout the Sea to Sky corridor.

During the five days of intense rain, water levels at the Pemberton Airport and the Golf and Country Club (now The Meadows at Pemberton) were recorded at over two metres and BC Rail recorded at least 12 places between Britannia Beach and Lillooet where the crushed rock that supported the rails was washed away, leaving sections suspended over the ground.

In Britannia Beach, severe flooding caused Britannia Creek to change course through the lower townsite. The highway around Squamish was blocked for 36 hours.

According to the Ministry of Forests, three quarters of the forest service roads in the Squamish Forest District were closed from washouts, flooding or slides, with multiple

bridges destroyed. North of Pemberton, some residents around Skookumchuck were evacuated to Pemberton by helicopter.

Within the Pemberton Valley, a Friday afternoon community effort to shore up a dike behind the Van Loon property attempted to mitigate the damage caused by the flood. Approximately 100 people reportedly came out to fill sandbags. Their success was limited, however, as the dike was breached a few kilometres north of the work, flooding fields and homes and ruining potato crops.

Compared to other areas of the Sea to Sky, the flooding would appear to have caused relatively little destruction in Whistler, mainly due to the community effort to keep Fitzsimmons Creek in its channel.

Through the evening of Thursday and Friday, local contractors, excavators and heavy equipment crews worked to shore up the banks of Fitzsimmons Creek and keep the waters out of Whistler Village and White Gold. According to Tony Evans, public safety director at the time, “If we hadn’t had that, we could have made Britannia Beach look like a walk in the park.”

As it was, the high waters and debris in the creek took out two supports of the Nancy Greene Drive bridge, partially washed out two footbridges linking the village and Benchlands, and destroyed Fitzsimmons Creek Park. The flooding also damaged sewer pipes and interrupted water supplies to White Gold.

At this time 28 years ago, Whistler and the surrounding communities were just beginning their clean-up efforts as the waters receded. It would take weeks to clear debris, assess damages, rebuild bridges, and construct measures to prevent future flooding, such as deepening Fitzsimmons Creek. Some of these measures can still be seen while walking across Fitzsimmons Creek today. n

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T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels kick off new Arts Whistler Live! season TAKE SWING DANCE LESSONS BEFORE CATCHING THE VANCOUVER ACT AT THE MAURY YOUNG ARTS CENTRE SEPT. 13

BY ALYSSA NOEL TERESA RILEY has always wanted to be a musician.

The only problem? “[My] parents wanted me to have a real job,” she says over the phone from her home in Vancouver.

“They frowned upon the artist thing.”

To compromise, she got a day gig as a commercial pilot while continuing to pursue music—and it’s kind of worked out perfectly.

“I do long-haul flights,” she says. “The longest we have is Sydney, Australia—and then I get a lot of time off because the flights are so long. It gives me a lot of time to do my music.”

While Riley started out as a solo rock act, she also went to music school, where she focused on jazz music because “there was no school of rock at the time.”

That choice proved to be a good one down the road. Years ago, during a layover in London, she was walking around a park

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“lamenting why I wasn’t home making music,” she says. “This song came into my head and I wrote it in five minutes. It was a ‘40s swing, big band tune.”

While the track was markedly different from her rock set, she decided to mix it in at a live show. Afterwards, a man approached her. “He said, ‘Would you like to do a music video for free?’” she recalls.

recalls. “It was like walking into the 1940s.

People knew all these moves I didn’t and I started taking lessons.”

Initially, she resisted focusing on a new genre, but her music career began to unfold so organically, it was hard to ignore.

She met singer and trumpet player Bonnie Northgraves who, in turn, introduced her to many of the talented

“This is just supposed to be a fun band and now we’re getting hired to go to Ireland and getting all the gigs. I thought, ‘We better have an album and a name,’” - TERESA RILEY

It wasn’t a scam; he liked the track and was looking for experience behind the camera. To prepare for the video, Riley set out looking for traditional swing dancers to star in it. She had no luck at the time, but long after the project wrapped, she received a reply from someone who told her about a swing dance night at a venue on Commercial Drive.

“I went to check it out anyway,” she

musicians in Vancouver’s jazz scene.

Together, they formed T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels.

“I usually play with the same five or six people, but I like having guest players so it can be a little bit of a different experience,” Riley says. “It’s always fresh and fun and exciting. You know it’s going to be good because they’re such good players.”

While she also kept playing her solo

rock material, she continued to get more gig requests for her jazz music. That recently culminated in a slot kicking off the Arts Whistler Live! series at the Maury Young Arts Centre next week, as well as a gig at a festival in Cork, Ireland in October.

“This is just supposed to be a fun band and now we’re getting hired to go to Ireland and getting all the gigs. I thought, ‘We better have an album and a name,’” she laughs.

To that end, T Riley and the Bourbon Rebels will be releasing their debut album in October, ahead of the festival. The record won’t be ready in time for Whistler, but that won’t stop the dancing.

Riley will be hosting a swing dance lesson ahead of the show. “I love to teach dancing,” she says. “I just taught 100 people at the Fort Langley Jazz Festival … People say, ‘I’d love to try that,’ but they’re too afraid. If you’re going to a show anyway, you might as well take the dance lessons.

It’s a good icebreaker; we make people switch partners every so often and by the end of the lesson, the energy is so good.”

See for yourself on Friday, Sept. 13. The swing dance workshop takes place at 7 p.m., with the show following at 8 p.m.

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FOND FAREWELL Pemberton musician George is releasing her debut EP before heading home to Australia.

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PEMBERTON-BASED MUSICIAN RELEASES DEBUT EP BEFORE MOVING BACK TO AUSTRALIA

BY ALYSSA NOEL FOR GEORGINA DACHEFF (better known by her stage and nickname, George), it was the perfect way to end her two years in Canada.

Two weeks before she returns to her home city of Perth, Australia, the local musician will release a four-song EP called Wake Up Call, followed by a concert to celebrate.

“It’s a really cool way to end my time here,” she says. “It sums up my time in Canada; it was a wake-up call.”

Dacheff wrote many songs during her time in Pemberton (she bypassed Whistler entirely and moved straight to the Village), often packing up her guitar and heading down to the Lillooet River.

“Honestly, in Pemberton, it’s been a different experience than friends I know that have been in Whistler,” she says. “It’s quite a different life I’ve been living out here. I feel like the energy of the mountains have helped me connect, and I feel like it really shows you this in-your-face beauty.”

A curious thing also started to happen in her temporary hometown. “The music comes out now [and] I’m allowing it to flow without judgement,” she says. “I used to have issues where I’d sit down to write a song and I’d try to direct it. Now, it flows … and it’s helped me see the truth. I hope, through my music, I can help connect people—and help everyone else to get the wake-up call.”

Dacheff quickly began playing her music around Whistler when she first arrived in Pemberton in 2017. She also made it into the Whistler Music Search finals in 2018 as a wildcard pick.

Overall, her biggest takeaway from her time in the Sea to Sky corridor is “meeting people and learning from other people and experiencing different kinds of music,” she says. “That would be the best experience out of it.”

To that end, she recently met the Whistlerand Pemberton-based bluegrass band The Courageous Mountain Rangers, and they wound up agreeing to play on her EP. “I was jamming with Larry [Cosulich], their bassist,” she says. “The rest of the band came over and we jammed on one of my songs. It was everything I was looking for, without knowing it. Last night, we all hung out and played through the songs I’m putting on the EP for the first time and this Sunday we’re going to record it all.”

The band will also join her at her EP release party at Town Square Restaurant on Friday, Sept. 6. Hallowed Bones will also play.

“I’m going to play a few other originals as well—and my fun, classic covers,” she says.

“It sums up my time in Canada; it was a wakeup call.”

A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE SLCC Curated by Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre’s Mixalhítsa7 Alison Pascal, this heartwarming exhibit celebrates the faces and family of the SLCC. Learn about our Ambassadors’ deeply-rooted connections to our immersive cultural centre, and the passion they share in belonging to Skwxwú7mesh Lil’wat7ul.

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Just 10 days later, with her work visa expired, she will head back to Perth. “I’m going to chill there for a bit, see everybody, settle for a bit,” she says. “Then I think I’m going to go to Japan and do a work visa there—it depends on what happens. I plan on travelling and seeing more of the world.”

Music wise, Dacheff hopes to build on the progress she’s made in Pemberton. “There’s no real hopes and dreams to become famous or anything,” she says. “I love sharing it so much; the connection that music has [and the power to] bring people together.”

Tickets for the EP release show are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Get them at eventbrite.com by searching “GEORGE presents her debut EP Wake Up Call at Town Square Pemberton.” n

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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. 604-962-0413. > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

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

concert tickets, snowboards, electric sunnies and skateboards! Email info@garfinkels.ca for guest list and VIP options. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s

BAND CAMP WHISTLER YOUTH BAND

Let the trumpets sing! The Whistler Youth Band is a beginner band for youth ages 10 and up. > 6-7:30 pm > Myrtle Philip Community School

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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 make their debut. 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

GREG NEUFELD SFU WRITER’S STUDIO WRITING CONSULTS

Need an expert opinion on your writing? The SFU Writer’s Studio offers free one-on-one, 45-minute consultations. Register at least one week prior to the consultation time required. Seven pages of poetry or a prose manuscript must be submitted one week prior to your scheduled appointment. For more information and to register, call the library at 604-935-8435. > 2, 3 & 4 pm > Whistler Public Library

Armed with a guitar, stompbox and one of the best, soulful voices you will ever hear. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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

COMMUNITY

KARAOKE WITH JACK-QUI NO 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

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. This program is made possible by yoga instructors and childminders donating their time.

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

PARENT INFANT DROP-IN

An opportunity to develop a supportive social network with other parents of young babies. Speakers and a public health nurse are often in attendance. Free. > 11 am-12:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

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

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

STEPPING UP FEAT. TZEN & FRIENDS

This week it is time to TZEN to step it up and he’s bringing a few friends to spin their favorite house tunes all night. 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

Live music every Tuesday and Thursday. > 8 pm > Brickworks Public House

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

RUCKUS DELUXE

Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy-nominated violinist Ian Cameron on mandolin, fiddle, and electric guitar. > 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

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

THROWBACK THURSDAYS WITH MR. TWITCH

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

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

WELCOME CENTRE MULTICULTURAL MEET UP

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 www.welcomewhistler.com for full details. Contact info@welcomewhistler.com or 604-698-5960. > 9:30 am-noon > Whistler Public Library

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Books, songs, and rhymes for preschool children, accompanied by a caregiver. > 10:30-11 am > Whistler Public Library

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

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

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PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Books, songs and rhymes for preschool-aged children, accompanied by a caregiver. Registration is not required. > 10:30 am > Whistler Public Library

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

ART AFTER DARK

Art After Dark is every Friday, with artmaking for youth (18 and under) 3:30 to 5:30 pm, and adult artmaking 6:30 to 8:30 pm. > 3:30-5:30 & 6:30-8:30 pm > Audain Art Museum

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

YOGA @ THE AUDAIN

Yoga @ the Audain every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. > 6:30-8 pm > Audain Art Museum

MUSIC

COLIN BULLOCK

Colin Bullock melds folk, alt-country, blues and pop into a signature, sound that is uniquely his own. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

MARBLE CANYON

Marble Canyon takes the stage playing all of your favourite songs in the whole wide world. It is always a real nice time! And there is beer! Free. > 6-9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company

MOON DROPS

Friday night weekend kick-off party, serving up a more chilled and reggae version of your favourite classics. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

LADIES’ NIGHT

We have a gift for all ladies. Enjoy a glass of champagne then hit the dance floor and dance the night away with DJ Peacefrog. Info@buffalobills.ca for guestlist or table bookings. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

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Live music by Whistler favourites, Red Chair. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

ONGOING & DAILY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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

SPORTS

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

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UK DAVE @ ALPINE CAFE

The smooth sounding UK Dave, bringing you that classic rock, pop, jazz and blues... a sweet treat for your ears! Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe

LIVE @ BLACK’S

Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

POOR DIRTY SYLVIA CHAMPAGNE FRIDAY

Kick off your weekend at Garf’s. Get on the guest list and join the party: info@garfinkels.ca. > 7:30 pm > Garfinkel’s

Catch Poor Dirty Sylvia at the Whistler Brewing Company. > 9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company

Have fun playing the fastest-growing sport in North America. All levels welcome. Free paddle rental. For more, call 604-932-1991. $10. > 4-6 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

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

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

COMMUNITY

GAMES CAFE PEMBERTON FARMERS’ MARKET

Pemberton Farmers’ Market brings together Pembertonarea producers and consumers creating a marketplace for vibrant collections of fresh produce, delicious food, unique art and more. Free. 604-966-4422. > 3-6:30 pm > Pemberton Downtown Community Barn

Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

ART TALKS

Every month, the Whistler Contemporary Gallery will be featuring an artist from their diverse collection of contemporary artists. The gallery invites the public to come and explore the artistic process offering a fascinating insight from conception to completion. > first Saturday of every month, 4 pm > Whistler Contemporary Gallery

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FAMILY TOGETHER TIME WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

THE WHISKEY DICKS

The Whiskey Dicks use fiery Celtic-gypsy fiddle licks, cello played like a bass, energetic guitar strumming, and voice to tell stories of good times. > 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

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

SEA TO SKY

FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS FIRE IT UP FRIDAY

Learn more about Whistler’s culture and history.

Now open by donation. > Daily 11am-5pm, Thu until 9pm > Whistler Museum

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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

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

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WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

SUNDAY SESSIONS

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

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

The best locals’ party in Whistler. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

> 6-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

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RED CHAIR WHISTLER PRESENTS OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES: FAMOUS PLAYERS

Vancouver’s own Famous Players is one of the most in-demand event and party bands worldwide. From Top 40 to rap, Motown to disco, R&B to disco, R&B to rock ‘n’ roll, there is something for everyone at a Famous Players show. Free. > 1:45 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza

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guestlist@moejoes.com for VIP and group perks. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

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A proper four-piece rock band playing all your radio favourites and originals. > 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish 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

WHISTLER FARMERS’ MARKET JIM CUDDY

Jim Cuddy will be part of the celebration, delighting the GranFondo crowd with some of his best hits from 3 pm to 3:35 pm alongside Famous Players Band’s 2nd set. > 3-3:35 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza

GREG NEUFELD

Armed with a guitar, stompbox and one of the best, soulful voices you will ever hear. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

MACMAYER

Saturday night live, featuring the dynamic vocals and engaging guitar playing of Bill MacGillivary and Lawrence Mayer. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

SATURDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB

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

SUPREME SATURDAY

DJ Nikky from Vancouver brings the Whistler’s biggest weekend party and best vibe. VIP champagne parades along with the hottest hip hop and remixes! For VIP and guest, list email info@garfinkels.ca. > 10 pm > Garfinkel’s

The fine and fabulous goddess of music DJ Whitness is back in the house! Her sweet sounds are sure to have you a-moving and a-shaking. Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe

DEATH CAFE

A death cafe is a non-profit get together to talk about death over coffee/cake. The objective is to help people make the most of their finite lives. Death cafes help relax the taboo of speaking about death, and encourage people to express their wishes for after they die. All welcome. By donation. > 3-4:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

BIRDSONG Whistler parkrun is a free five-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

Sunday Session, featuring Birdsong, a vibrant trio of bass, guitar and voice, bring their unique arrangements to jazz classics and modern favourites.

Warm and inviting, this ensemble is the perfect accompaniment to a beverage and some late-summer socializing. Featuring M.J. Mullins, Tony Moser and Robyn Forsyth. > 5-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter formerly of the 99.3 FM CFOX Seeds-winning band theTURN. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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THE WHISKEY DICKS

> 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

LADIES’ NIGHT

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DJ Turtle and friends mix up everything from hip hop, R&B, new rap, dance hall and Top 40 bangers. Email

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Bag of 50 balls at The Whistler Golf Club Driving Range, rental clubs, and a craft beer at Palmer’s Gallery for only $15. Offer only valid during #WVBF2019. > 11 am-6 pm > Whistler Golf Club

WVBF SIGNATURE EVENT: AXES & ALES

Function Junction block party! Start at Forged Axe Throwing before heading to Coast Mountain Brewing then closing out at Whistler Brewing Co. for beers, BBQ, and live music. Your ticket includes: Axe throwing at Forged, a pint at Coast Mountain Brewing, Burger or Hot Dog with Salad at Whistler Brewing. > 2-7 pm > Function Junction

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION

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

JERRY’S DISCO

Dust off your gaper day getup, from backwards helmets to gorby gaps, ‘cos the best Jerry outfit gets a free bottle of Prosecco! > 7-10 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

SOULFUL SUNDAYS LIVE @ BLACK’S

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Ramp up your Saturday night festivities with the boys from Brother Twang. > 9 pm-midnight > FireRock Lounge

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The market hosts an average of 90 local vendors showcasing fresh fruit, produce, artisan crafts and food products. > 11 am-4 pm > Upper Village

Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

> 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

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.

Arrive early to beat the line. > 9 pm > Moe Joe’s

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

KICK OFF: INDIGENOUS TOURISM START UP PROGRAM

Teara Fraser of Iskwew Air shares her story of building an airline that would connect Indigenous Communities to one another and the land. Today, Iskwew Air continues to inspire, elevate and support a growing industry of Indigenous tourism in BC. Free. > 6-9 pm > Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre

PIQUECAL MUSIC

WHISTLER SINGERS COMMUNITY CHOIR

EVAN KENNEDY

Evan creates a unique live performance mixing in lesser-known album songs with the songs of today. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

A community choir for adults in the Sea to Sky corridor.

Everyone is welcome—no auditions—just the desire to sing with others. A broad range of music is sung from classical to pop tunes. Performances include two formal concerts, plus community events. > 7-9 pm > Myrtle Philip Community Centre

IT’S YOUR TIME TO SHINE OPEN MIC & PATIO JAM

Open Mic night at Cranked Espresso Bar 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. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

FILM SCREENING: CAPTAIN MARVEL

On the second Tuesday of each month, the library screens a hit movie, straight from Hollywood or fresh off the film festival circuit! This week, catch Captain Marvel. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

Everyone welcome. > 5:30-7 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

SPORTS

WHISTLER CYCLING CLUB TUESDAY RIDES

Whistler Cycling Club rides for A, B and C level road riders. See www.whistlercyclingclub.ca for details. Free with club membership. > 5:15-8 pm > Whistler Village Sports

WHISTLER BMX WEEKLY RACES

Whistler BMX races every Tuesday at the track in Cheakamus Crossing. All bikes, all ages, all levels welcome! Registration on site at 5:30 pm and racing starts shortly after 6pm. Volunteers always needed! $3-$7. > 5:30-7 pm > Whistler BMX Track

EVENTS + FESTIVALS

SIGNATURE EVENT: SIP & STRETCH

An hour-long beer yoga session taught by a Lululemon ambassador. This event includes a complimentary beer, provided by Après Lager, during your practice plus entry for your chance to win prizes, including Lululemon gear and tickets to WVBF. Registration and a minimum $2 donation is required. > 6-7 pm > Westin Resort & Spa

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MARTINI MONDAY > 7:30 pm > Buffalo Bills

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EVAN KENNEDY > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

MEATY MONDAY

Sport and beer—what more do you need? How about a chance to win our famous meat raffle? Proceeds donated to charity. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

BINGO

Channel your inner granny and dominate bingo at the locals’ living room. > 8 pm > Tapley’s Pub

WE RUN WHISTLER WITH SALOMON

CONOR FITZPATRICK

Join us for this special event in collaboration with the Salomon Store Whistler. Check our Facebook page (facebook.com/groups/werunwhistler) for more information. Visit werunwhistler.com to plan your September of running. #werunwhistler rain or shine! Free. > 5:55 pm > Salomon Whistler

GREG NEUFELD

Armed with a guitar, stompbox and one of the best, soulful voices you will ever hear. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES

Blues night with Sean Rose. > 8 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

Ruckus Deluxe singer Chad Oliver hits the Dubh Linn Gate stage with his stellar solo act comprising of amazing covers, and inspiring originals. > 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

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

Playing your favourite acoustic covers through the ages with a focus on ‘90s songs and guilty pleasures. > 8:30-11:30 pm > Brickworks Public House

ALLSORTS

Bringing a wide variety of sounds to your Tuesday evening, ED:WIN will be playing “AllSorts” of music to get you dancing down at Three Below every Tuesday night.

Listen to hip hop, R&B, house, garage and disco! Free. > 9 pm-1:30 am > Three Below

TOMMY TUESDAYS

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

> 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

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MIKE BELANGER CHAD OLIVER

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. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler

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

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

COMMUNITY

MAC (MATURE ACTION COMMUNITY) COFFEE/ BRUNCH & CONNECT

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 per cent 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

INDUSTRY NIGHT

Live music from Neverland Nights. > 6 pm > Buffalo Bills

BOARDS, BEER AND BINGO

Pow Bingo Night with music provided by DJ Whitness. $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 > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

JAM NIGHT

Jam Night with Kostaman and friends every Wednesday night from 9 pm. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL

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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“I Will Survive” won’t sing itself, so come over to Whistler’s longest-running karaoke night and belt out all your favourite hits. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

SIGNATURE EVENT: CRAFT CULTURES: SEA, LAND, SKY

Join us at the stunning Audain Art Museum for an evening complete with mouth-watering bites and brews, live music and entertainment. The evening will flow through the venue in stages, celebrating the themes of sea, land and sky. Your ticket includes appetizers plus a few varieties of beer and cider. 50$. > 7-11 pm > Audain Art Museum

INTERACT CLUB OF WHISTLER

Interact is a club for young people ages 12 to18 who want to make a difference in their community.

Mentored by the Rotary Club of Whistler and Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium, the club includes students who want to join together to tackle the issues in their community they care most about. > 4-5 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

WILDIN’ OUT WEDNESDAYS FEATURING DJ GAINZ

He’s hot, he’s sicker than your average, Gainz comin’ through mixin’ tracks like a savage. No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

SPORTS

INDOOR PICKLEBALL DROP-IN QUEER WEDNESDAYS TUESDAY TURNTABLISM WITH DJ PRAIZ

Hip hop, drum and bass and jazz mixes that transcend eras, beats that burn hard and soothe like aloe vera. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

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 > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WHISTLER TOASTMASTERS

Build communication, public speaking, and leadership skills with Mountain Spirit Whistler Toastmasters.

> 9:30-11:30 am > Whistler Racquet Club

TENNIS LOCALS’ NIGHT

All levels are welcome to join in the locals’ night.

Clinics for beginners and casual play for intermediate and advanced players. Free racket rental, snacks, and beverage included! $20. > 6-8 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 12 BY ROB BREZSNY

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People in Northeast India weave long, strong suspension bridges out of the living roots of fig trees. The structures can measure up to 150 feet (76 metres) and bear the weight of hundreds of people. In accordance with astrological omens, let’s make these marvels your metaphors of power for the coming weeks. To stimulate your meditations, ask yourself the following questions: 1. How can you harness nature to help you to get where you need to go? 2. How might you transform instinctual energy so that it better serves your practical needs? 3. How could you channel wildness so that it becomes eminently useful to you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you climb to the top of Mount Everest, you’re standing on land that was once on the floor of a shallow tropical sea. Four-hundredmillion-year-old fossils of marine life still abide there in the rock. Over the course of eons, through the magic of plate tectonics, that low flat land got folded and pushed upwards more than five miles (eight kilometres).

I suspect you Geminis will have the power to accomplish a less spectacular but still amazing transformation during the next 10 months. To get started, identify what you would like that transformation to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1996, when Gary Kasparov was rated the world’s best chess player, he engaged in a series of matches with a chessplaying computer named Deep Blue. Early on in the first game, Deep Blue tried a move that confused Kasparov. Rattled, he began to wonder if the machine was smarter than him. Ultimately, his play suffered and he lost the game. Later, it was revealed that Deep Blue’s puzzling move was the result of a bug in its code. I’ll encourage you to cultivate a benevolent bug in your own code during the coming weeks, Cancerian.

I bet it will be the key to you scoring a tricky victory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American hero Harriet Tubman escaped slavery as a young woman. She ran away from the wealthy “master” who claimed to “own” her, and reached sanctuary. But rather than simply enjoy her freedom, she dedicated herself to liberating other slaves.

Nineteen times she returned to enemy territory and risked her life, ultimately leading 300 people out of hellish captivity. Later, she served as a scout, spy, and nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War, where her actions saved another 700 people. In 1874, the U.S. Congress considered but then ultimately rejected a bill to pay her $2,000 for her numerous courageous acts. Don’t you dare be like Congress in the coming weeks, Leo. It’s crucial that you give tangible acknowledgment and practical rewards to those who have helped, guided, and supported you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote, “Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.” I hope that in the last nine months, Virgo, you have resolved which of those three options is true for you. I also trust that you have been taking the necessary actions to claim and own that special place—to acknowledge it and treasure it as the power spot where you feel most at home in the world. If you have not yet fully finished what I’m describing here, do it now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Earth’s species are going extinct at a rate unmatched since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Among the creatures on the verge of being lost forever are birds such as the cryptic treehunter and Spix’s macaw, as well as the northern white rhino

and the vaquita, a type of porpoise. So why don’t we clone the last few individuals of those beleaguered species? Here are the answers: 1. Cloned animals typically aren’t healthy. 2. A species needs a sizable population to retain genetic diversity; a few individuals aren’t sufficient. 3. Humans have decimated the homes of the threatened species, making it hard for them to thrive. Conclusion: Cloning is an inadequate stopgap action. Is there a better way to address the problem?

Yes: by preserving the habitats of wild creatures.

Inspired by this principle, Libra, I ask you to avoid trying halfway fixes for the dilemmas in your personal sphere. Summon full measures that can really work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Though patched together and incomplete, the 2,200-year-old marble sculpture known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace is prominently displayed at Paris’s Louvre Museum. It’s a glorious depiction of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and is regarded as one of Ancient Greece’s great masterpieces. For hundreds of years, it was missing. Then, in 1863, an archaeologist discovered it, although it was broken into more than a hundred pieces.

Eventually, it was rebuilt, and much of its beauty was resurrected. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, could recover the fragments of an old treasure and begin reassembling it to make a pretty good restoration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me,” said actor Sidney Poitier. That can be a dynamic meditation for you during the next three weeks. I think you will derive substantial power from putting it into action. If you’re ingenious and diligent about finding those positive outlets, your anger will generate constructive and transformative results.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1905, at the age of 30, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the novel Anne of Green Gables. It was a tale about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island. She sent the manuscript to several publishers, all of whom rejected it. Discouraged, she put it away in a hatbox and stored it in a closet. But two years later, her ambitions reignited when she re-read the story. Again, she mailed it to prospective publishers, and this time one liked it enough to turn it into a book. It soon became a bestseller. Since then, it has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 36 languages. I figure you Capricorns are at a point in your own unfolding that’s equivalent to where Anne was shortly before she rediscovered the manuscript she’d put away in the hatbox.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Toxorhynchites are species of large mosquitoes that don’t buzz around our heads while we’re trying to sleep and will never bite our skin or suck our blood. In fact, they’re our benefactors. Their larvae feast on the larvae of the mosquitoes that are bothersome to us. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that you be alert for a metaphorically comparable influence in your own life: a helper or ally that might be in disguise or may just superficially seem to be like an adversary.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Audre Lord identified herself as a black writer, lesbian, librarian, mother, feminist, civil rights activist, and many other descriptors. But as ardent as she was in working for the political causes she was passionate about, she didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a single identity. One of her central teachings was to celebrate all the different parts of herself. “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat,” she testified. These approaches should be especially fun and extra meaningful for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. I encourage you to throw a big Unity Party for all the different people you are.

Homework: “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings,” wrote Audre Lourde.

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Whistler Waldorf School Inspiring a Genuine Love of Learning Currently Seeking for the 2019-2020 School Year Elementary Grades Teacher (full time)

LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED SINCE 2004 • $241.50 Bi Weekly Staff Housing (Incl bills) • Staff Meals & FREE COFFEE • 15% Grocery Discount At “The Grocery Store” • Local Customer Base • Competitive Wages • Parties, Perks & Positive Vibes

Elementary Grades Teachers (part time and on-call) 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.

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Arts Whistler - Full arts & culture listings.

Comprehensive artist directory & programs, events & performances year-round. For info 604-935-8410 or visit www.artswhistler.com Pemberton Arts Council - Connect with other artists, writers, artisans, musicians & help make Pemberton a vibrant arts community. Call 604-452-0123 or visit www. pembertonartscouncil.com Pemberton Writers - Meet with other writers to review and critique monthly.

Opportunities for writing in a comfortable and creative setting. Email crowley7@telus. net Sea to Sky Singers - Invites new & former members to join us for an exciting new term, the spring & fall terms culminate with a concert. Choir meets Tues, 7-9pm at Squamish Academy of Music, 2nd Ave. Veronica seatoskysingers@gmail.com or 604-892-7819 www.seatoskysingers.net Whistler Community Band - Rehearsals on Tuesdays 7 - 8:15 pm CONTACT whistlerchorus@gmail.com FOR LOCATION

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CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS Donate Used Clothing & Household Goods- To be distributed to local charities

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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

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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.

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Griffin Squadron Squamish Air CadetsOpen to youth 12-18yrs at Don Ross Secondary School on Tues at 6:30pm.

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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

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, 9-10, 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

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES APPLY TODAY! Diamond Resorts Canada Ltd., Whistler, BC

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YOUTH ACTIVITIES • Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment.

1st Whistler Scout Group - outdoor & adventure program for girls and boys aged 5-17. Times and locations vary.

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Contact scoutsatwhistler @gmail.com or 604-966-4050.

*eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

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SERVICE TECHNICIAN Great opportunity for a super motivated/organized person to excel in the field of hardware installation and lock technician services.

Compensation starting at $24-$30 depending on skill level. Includes: Health Benefits, Mobile Phone Plan, Ski Pass The successful individual will have experience in carpentry and/or building maintenance. Any experience in low voltage electrical and/or hotel card access systems will prove very beneficial. Good communication and customer service skills as well as a strong work ethic are essential to this position.

Please reply to alpinelock@telus.net with a resume and cover letter outlining your suitability and qualifications for the position.

No drop-ins or phone calls please, apply only by email.

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.

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Wages are very competitive (based on experience),

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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.

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

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What we offer: Awesome work environment, Competitive salary, bonuses & the opportunity to work where you live, while saving time and money ($2 p/h) on your commute!

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LEISURE GROUPS Rotary Club of Whistler - Meets Tuesdays AM & PM www.whistler-rotary.org Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782

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NATURE TOUR GUIDE Guide Income ranges from $25 to $35+ per hour

QUALIFICATIONS: • Must have BC Class 5 drivers license • Wildlife Tour Guiding & Outdoor photography skills are a bonus

WRM Strata Management is expanding and we have an excellent career-building opportunity for a Licensed Strata Agent in our Whistler office.

We are looking for someone who can manage a portfolio of strata properties with strong organizational abilities, an understanding of budgets and who has high standards of customer service.

* If you are passionate about wildlife & nature, we can train you!

We offer great growth potential, a competitive salary, extended health coverage and an annual ski/recreation benefit.

Please forward resumes to info@whistlerdiscoverytours.com

Please email tess@wrm.ca with your resume.

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

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 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

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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

**$500 Signing Bonus** plus: • Competitive Wages • Wellness Allowance • Associate Housing • Discounted Food • Extended Medical Benefits • Complimentary Associate Stays • Flexible Schedule • Spa Discounts

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..

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

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

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PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING is now hiring for

Assistant Housekeeping Supervisor – part-time • Staff discounts and incentives • Extended Benefits • Central Location • Wages starting from $19/21 per hour Please reply with a cover letter and resume to hr@listelhotel.com Guest Service Agent/Night Audit – Part-time These roles include the following Perks and Benefits:

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

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

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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 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

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.

Certified Dental Assistant for busy family dental clinic

Red Door Bistro is looking for

BUS PERSONS DISHWASHERS

Located 20 minutes north of whistler in the beautiful pemberton valley.

Full time and part time available.

Part-time Dental Hygienist

Also seeking

Competitive wages, tips, and staff meal every shift. Staff discounts at Roland’s Pub.

Hours negotiable with competitive wage.

Email “info@pembertonvalleydental.ca” or fax to 604-894-6934

Apply in person with resume or email to info@reddoorbistro.ca

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.

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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

Night Auditor Housekeepers & House Persons

JOIN THE MONGOLIE CREW! We are hiring full time & part time:

Eligible successful candidates may receive*:

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com

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

PART TIME BARTENDER GRILL COOKS HOSTS

• Extensive benefits package which may include; ski pass or wellness allowance, disability coverage, travel insurance and extended health and dental.

• Travel allowance and discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

(PART TIME & FULL TIME) Hourly wage + tips, flexible schedule, fun & fast-paced work environment, staff meals.

Learn how to cook with flair!

Email your resume with the position you wish to apply for to: embarc_hr@diamondresorts.com

Send your resume to careers@mongoliegrill.com Or drop off your resume in person before 5pm!

• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment.

NORTH ARM FARM

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

Staffing up for Thanksgiving season

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.

Daytime with some evening events.

Truly local, absolutely Family.

Passion required. Experience valued.

Line Cook Front of House Service

Info@northarmfarm.com 604 894 5379 or come and introduce yourself

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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VISION PACIFIC CONTRACTING LTD. is hiring: EXPERIENCED CARPENTERS CARPENTER HELPERS LABOURERS We offer: • Extended Health and Dental benefits for you and your family • We will sponsor and pay for your work permit & visa • 20cm snow rule & mental-health bike days • Flexible schedule & awesome staff parties!

• Work-life balance is as important to us as it is to you!

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The Bearfoot Bistro, Whistler's premier fine dining restaurant is growing its Kitchen team.

Be part of the action to deliver exceptional fine dining experience to guests in an award-winning and high volume dining room.

Pastry Chef Pastry Cook

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We offer year-round or seasonal employment, industry leading wages, medical services plan, staff meal, staff discounts and more...

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4121 Village Green | Adjacent to Listel Hotel 604 932 3433 | bearfootbistro.com

Scandinave Spa is recruiting for the following positions: Reservation Supervisor Building Caretaker Spa Assistant Director

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING • Bath access anytime for you and a friend • Free yoga classes • Extended health benefits • Free massage after 3 months probation • Subsidized staff accommodation • Great work environment focused on work life balance Don’t miss out. Apply now at https://www.scandinave.com/en/careers/location/whistler/

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FAMILY RESOURCES 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

Staff housing is available for all kitchen positions.

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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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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

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.

We think that you’ll LOVE working at Nita Lake Lodge!

• Work with a great team • Enjoy discounts at Aura Restaurant, Cure Lounge and Fix Café • Recieve staff rates at our award winning spa • Staff accommodation available • Free parking Current positions include: Garde Manger, Casual Banquet Server, Barista, and Maintenance Associate

Visit www.nitalakelodge.com/careers to learn more

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.

Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public Health Nurse. Every Mon 11am-12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.

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

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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

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.

Counselling Assistance Available - WCSS subsidizes access to a private counselor for $35-$50/hr depending on financial need.

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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.

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

START YOUR HOSPITALITY ADVENTURE TODAY! We are currently recruiting for the following positions:

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We are the Spa for you If you are looking for a new place to call home: • We manifest positive energy • We have a long term and loyal team • We treat you fairly and look out for your wellness • You are listened to • We give you proper breaks and time to set up between services • We offer extended medical benefits • We have potential staff housing at affordable rates • You can enjoy $5.00 cafeteria meals • You have the opportunity to work for other Vida locations in slow season We are here for you.

Vida Spa at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler is currently recruiting: REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST (signing bonus applicable) SPA PRACTITIONER • SPA CLEANER ESTHETICIAN GUEST SERVICE AGENT To join our unique Vida family, email Bonnie@vidaspas.com Vida Spas - Vancouver & Whistler Live well. Live long. vidaspas.com Thank You for applying Only those considered will be contacted.

Food Bank Whistler - Located at 8000 Nesters Road, every Wednesday from 10am to noon. For emergency food bags, please call 604.935.7717. www.mywcss.org/foodbank

Healthy Pregnancy Outreach ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101

ResortQuest Whistler is currently hiring:

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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North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy. Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334

Benefits include - activity allowance, extended medical, RRSP match, opportunities for growth and more.

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.

Pearl's Safe Home - Temporary shelter for women & children experiencing abuse in relationships. Locations in Whistler & Pemberton avail 24/7. All services are free.

1-877-890-5711 or 604-892-5711

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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COMMUNITY LISTINGS SOCIAL SERVICES 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

GENERAL MANAGER (FULL TIME/YEAR-ROUND EMPLOYMENT) Skyline Ziplines is the world leader in the Eco-Adventure industry for the design, engineering, construction, and operation. Our team of experts has spent 15 years building iconic sites all over the world.

The role involves management of the Skyline office, day to day operations, shipping & distribution, financials & accounting, and project management.

We are looking for an experienced and detailoriented manager with a strong financial background and ability to multitask and oversee a small group of employees.

Please submit your resume with a cover letter via email to admin@skylineziplines.ca

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Carpenters Carpenters Helpers Labourers Level 2 First Aid Attendant Please submit resume to: info@evrfinehomes

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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 Whistler Multicultural Network Settlement information, social support and programs for newcomers and immigrants living/working in Whistler. 604-388-5511 www.whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com Whistler Opt Healthy Sexuality Clinic - Professional sexual health services at a reduced cost. Free HIV testing. Clinics at Whistler Health Care Ctr, 2nd floor on Tues 4:30-7:30pm. Winter hours Thurs. 5:00pm7:00pm. Confidentiality assured.

District of Squamish Career Opportunity Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub is hiring:

Manager of Sustainability and Climate Change Regular Full Time This brand new position will lead the Sustainability Program at the District of Squamish. It will be strategically focused and play a critical role in leading climate change work and influencing policy to achieve District-wide sustainability and climate change goals.

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LINE COOK DISHWASHER 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

Whistler Women's Centre - Provides confidential support, resources, referrals and advocacy for women living in the Sea to Sky corridor. All services are free of charge and include access to emergency safe housing, child/youth counselling, play space and computer access. Drop-In Centre open Mon 12-230, Tue-Thu 12-5. 1519 Spring Creek Drive. You can also access our services at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 p.m. www.hswc.ca or call (604)962-8711. 24 HR Crisis Line: 1-877-890-5711 Whistler WorkBC Employment Services Centre - Provides free one-stop employment services to job seekers and employers.

Drop in services at the Pemberton Library Thursdays 1-5 PM, and at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 PM. For more information visit www.WhistlerESC.com or call us at 604-932-1600

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WIDE OPEN WELDING IS CURRENTLY LOOKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITION:

FABRICATOR/ERECTOR Please forward your resume to contactus@wideopenwelding.com

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We are currently hiring Full Time Sales Representatives with personality!

Please stop by our Whistler Village location with your resume to fill out an application and say Hi to Michelle or Tina.

Staff Accommodation Available (4154 Village Green)

Birth, Baby and Beyond - Join a registered counsellor and meet other moms with the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences in a safe, welcoming and nonjudgmental setting. Call 604.932.0113 for more information or visit www.mywcss.org.

Concussion Support Group - WCSS is offering a recurring 8 week program to support people living with persistent postconcussion symptoms. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker about upcoming sessions or visit www.mywcss.org.

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Pregnancy and Infant Loss - Facilitated by a registered counsellor, this program is designed for couples and individuals who have experienced loss of a child, either before or after birth. Please call WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak to an outreach worker for more information or visit www. mywcss.org.

SMART Recovery Whistler (SelfManagement and Recovery Training) A Cognitive-Behavioural group for individuals with substance abuse con-cerns.

Drop-in: Registration is not necessary.

Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm Whistler Health Centre (2nd floor-group room)

RELIGION Jesus Rock Of Ages Ministry- A bible based church that holds services at Millennium Place's main floor theatre at 4:30pm. www. jesusrockofages.com

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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Whistler Church- Join us for worship and fellowship around Jesus. Sunday 10 am at Myrtle Philip Community School, 6195 Lorimer Rd. Nursery, Sunday School to gr. 6, Youth gr. 7 and up. Call Pastor Jon 604-7983861 / Kelvin 204-249-0700 or www.whistlerchurch.ca

Get Bear Smart Society - Learn more about coexisting with bears. To report a conflict, garbage or attractant issue call 604-905BEAR (2327) www.bearsmart.com

CARPENTERS / FRAMERS WANTED • 4 on 3 off or 5 on 2 off a week depending on your preference.

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Pemberton Wildlife Association Advocates for the conservation of fish, wildlife & wilderness recreation. Also offering target shooting & archery facilities. www.pembertonwildlifeassociation.com

WAG - Whistler Animals Galore - A shelter for lost, unwanted, and homeless cats and dogs. Let us help you find your purrfect match...adopt a shelter animal! For more info 604-935-8364 www.whistlerwag.com

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Epilepsy Support Group- For individuals & families seeking guidance or support.

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Immigrant Peer Educators - Immigrants providing support and information for those who may be experiencing challenges adjusting to a new culture. 604-388-5511 info@whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com

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• Currently hiring carpenters for framing and concrete forming projects - high end estate home/commercial and residential mix between Whistler/Pemberton.

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LIL’WAT NATION JOB POSTING: CHILD AND YOUTH THERAPIST Title: Location: Status: Reporting to: Wage/Salary: Start Date: Closing Date:

Child and Youth Therapist Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or Equivalent Xet’olacw Community School, Mount Currie, B.C. .8FTE to 1.0 Full Time (4 days per week or 5 days per week) – Part Time Negotiable School Principal Commensurate with Experience August 27, 2019 Post until position is filled

Summary: Xet’olacw Community School is a Lil’wat Nation school situated 35 minutes north of Whistler, BC in the Mount Currie Community. The School is a modern, dynamic institution with a strong First Nations curriculum as well as academics from N to 12.

Xet’olacw Community School is looking to hire a full time child and youth therapist for their school. The child and youth therapist will work with students aged 4-19 within a school based setting. In addition to being trauma informed, flexible and having experience working with Indigenous students, preferred therapeutic modalities include narrative therapy, expressive arts, and CBT. The successful candidate will demonstrate clear boundaries, strong ethics and a firm understanding of informed consent.

The successful candidate will be able to both understand and honour the impact of the history of colonialism on Indigenous communities in their work with the students, their families, the staff and the community.

Key Qualifications and Attributes: • A Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or equivalent • Excellent communication skills; confidence to role model these skills and engage in them • Be registered with the BCACC, CCPA (certified member) and/or the BCTF • Ability to liaise (or learn to liaise) between Indigenous and nonindigenous culture, work within a team, on various teams and independently • Flexibility and collaborative team player • Engages in consistent and healthy self-care practices • Open to Learning Key Deliverables: • Provide therapy to children and youth aged 4-18 and carry a caseload of individual clients, co-facilitate group therapy and maintain appropriate records.

• Participate in school based teams, inter-agency teams and develop mental health resources when needed • Liaise and attend meetings with other health care professionals and service providers when requested by clients (to best support a circle of care and mental health) and with appropriate informed consent.

Key Responsibilities: • Arrive each school day by 8:30 a.m. Be available after hours and on holidays under extenuating circumstances for at risk students and their families.

• Create a schedule that outlines your therapeutic caseload and that honours the scheduling needs of the school (and individual classrooms).

• Co-facilitate or facilitate teaching classes, group therapy and super courses.

• Provide therapy and classroom psychoeducation that is culturally competent, has a clear beginning, middle and end and that is tailored to the needs of the individual or group.

• Be available for debriefing and support for staff regarding mental health in the classroom and to support the mental health of the students on your caseload.

• Participate in peer supervision and personal supervision as needed or requested.

• Be open to participating in culturally oriented activities (including but not limited to; stein Valley hiking, Outdoor-based super courses, learning Ucwalmicwts words and phrases).

Send cover letter and resume including references.

Upon receiving your information an applicant’s Declaration and Agreement will be sent to be signed.

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Verna Stager, Education Director Xet’olacw Community School P.O. Box 604, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Phone: 604 894-6131 / Fax: 604 894-5717 glenda.gabriel@lilwat.ca

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Summer’s swan song means it’s only six weeks until Canada’s federal election DESPITE WHAT THE calendar says, the

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summer of 2019 is over. The green leaves of spring have lost their lustre and are taking on fall colours. Mornings have been getting crispy, kids are back in school, caravans of RVs have diminished and skiers are making nascent sacrifices to Ullr for the coming season.

Oh, and there’s a federal election in a little over six weeks.

While it’s not the most pleasant thing to think about while sipping the last gin and tonic of summer, civic duty calls, nay, screams for at least a flake of our attention.

Of course, if you live and vote in

BY G.D. MAXWELL this riding—the horribly named West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding, even more tortuously shortened to WVSCSSC—you may be forgiven for not being sure it is this Oct. 21st when the fate of the country will be nudged for the next four or so years. After all, it was only last Thursday that the federal Liberals finally announced a candidate for WVSCSSC, and the NDP are either building suspense or haven’t yet found a patsy willing to endure the inevitable humiliation of running here.

As an aside, and as a frequent but not pedantic Liberal voter, I’d just like to say I’m offended it took these guys this long to put up a candidate. After all, they’ve known since May that Pamela Goldsmith-Jones wasn’t going to stand for re-election, not that her decision had anything to do with the shellacking Liberal candidate Michelle Corfield suffered at the hands of Green party candidate Paul Manly in the NanaimoLadysmith by-election a few days earlier. I’m also offended they buried the announcement in the rush to a long weekend. But then, it’s not like their new guy, Patrick Weiler, has any real name recognition.

But, as Holmes famously exclaimed, the game is afoot. On with the show.

The Conservative Party is running rookie Gabrielle Loren. She is a CPA, a partner in her own accounting firm, a former Canada Revenue Agency employee, tireless volunteer and has a nice smile, unlike Andrew Scheer, who looks like the love child of Batman’s Joker and Alvin the Chipmunk when he smiles. It’s safe to assume she represents the platform and policies, such as they are, of the Conservatives. In a riding that has historically swung between Liberal and Conservative MPs, it’s also safe to assume she’s a contender.

Her Liberal rival is Weiler, a 33-year-old lawyer. Like Ms. Loren, Pat—just looking at his picture, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me calling him Pat—lives in North Vancouver, which is, well, north of West Vancouver,

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kind of, but what’s in a name? His legal practice has focused on environmental and Aboriginal law and he’s been deeply into public policy with the United Nations and Canada’s International Resources and Development Institute. He says it’s important to have effective government people trust in. He’s running for the Liberals. If you see a disconnect there…

Dana Taylor, Green Party candidate, ran for the Greens in the provincial election two years ago and polled nearly 30 per cent of the votes. One can argue Christy Clark was an even more loathed leader than Justin Trudeau, providing wind to his sails, but that’s an argument best entered into after

at the party’s platform. You can find it at peoplespartyofcanada.ca. Highlights include ending Canada’s official multiculturalism efforts, denying climate change has any link to human activity, reducing levels of immigration, ending equalization and nuking supply-side management. In other words, making Canada great again.

But wait, there’s more. We also have a candidate from the Rhinoceros party! Gordon Jeffrey is running for the Rhinos. I know nothing about him but— full disclosure—did vote Rhino in a local election in Montreal decades ago and find their platform both refreshing and hilarious.

Trust me, you will need a break if you spend

How about we go back to sleep for another five weeks and not think too much about this until just before our consciences force us to vote?

consuming too much alcohol. Regardless, Taylor brings the most political experience to this race, having also served a couple of terms on North Vancouver city council.

Robert (Doug) Bebb is the candidate of the wingnut, er, Peoples’ Party of Canada (PPC). Mr. Bebb, a semi-retired mechanical engineer, says Maxime Bernier’s values really align with his. I’m not sure what more needs to be said. But if you’re unaware what those values are, you might take a look

any time reading the platforms of the other parties so here’s a link: partyrhino.ca/en/ our-promises.

In what would be a tongue-in-cheek parody of the other party’s platforms if it weren’t so accurate, the Rhinos list defence, the economy, education, employment, justice, health and many more items, each touted as their No. 1 priority! Their green plan would promote carpooling by requiring the brake pedal to be installed on

the passenger’s side of the car. Why didn’t I think of that! They also promise to open tax havens in all provinces. Cue the Resort Principality of Whistler.

Thus far, there is no known candidate from the Canadian Nationalist Party (CNP).

In case you missed it, since it was also lost in last Thursday’s news, the CNP was notified

by Elections Canada that it, too, qualified under the Canadian Elections Act as a registered political party for next month’s election. You might wonder, as many have, what it takes to qualify as a federal political party. The answer is, an application signed by 250 eligible voters. That’s right. In a country of 37 million people, it only takes 250 white supremacists to qualify as a party, a percentage so small it practically requires scientific notation to express.

If you don’t know what the CNP stands for, I’m not going to tell you. Let’s just say it makes the PPC look like a bunch of flaming liberals and represents the scariest and probably most well armed subset of the fringe.

So, now that I’ve whetted your appetite for the upcoming election, how about another round of gin and tonic? How about two? How about we go back to sleep for another five weeks and not think too much about this until just before our consciences force us to vote?

As for me, I’m headed north to do something I’ve wanted to do for decades: paddle the Yukon River and follow the path of the Klondikers from Whitehorse to Dawson. That ought to keep thoughts of an election at bay. n

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2 Bed/1 Bath townhome in Alta Vista, on the Valley Trail and steps from Alta Lake. Corner unit with large covered deck, storage locker and crawl space. Updated with hardwood flooring, granite counters, new bathroom. $610,000 No GST

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$6,200,000

Enjoy the views of Whistler Peak and the Dave Murray Downhill from your patio Hot Tub. Picture your family skiing or riding home for lunch. Walking down to Dusty’s or shopping without having to get into your car. In the summer the bike park is right there as well. Fine dining is a short walk, as are the two lakes in the Creekside Area.

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Anderson Lake

$399,000

3358 Lakeside Road

$2,395,000

This super cute, classic Whistler Chalet, located 50 meters from Lakeside Park was the subject of the popular HGTV Love it or List it. It has been professional renovated and the Sellers, have now decided to LIST IT! Located in Alta Vista, one of Whistler’s most desirable neighbourhoods.

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$690,000

This clean and tidy 2 bedroom townhouse in Whiski Jack is ready to move in. The suite has new carpet and fresh paint with plenty of upgrades including granite counter tops, kitchen cabinets, heated floors, new by-fold doors and ceiling fan. With a large secured crawl space under the building, this property is suitable for full time living or a weekend getaway.

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$830,000

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.

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.

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8219 Mountain View Drive

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This custom modern home in Whistler’s family-friendly Alpine neighbourhood, just minutes to the high school, sports centre, grocery store, skiing, mountain biking, golf, and hiking. Boasting 2660 sq. ft. interior living +755 sq. ft. garage + 1200 sq. ft. decks, there is endless space to enjoy for the whole family.

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604.905.8626

Black Tusk

$648,000

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604.902.2779

8409 Matterhorn Drive

$1,475,000

Now priced below assessed value! Opportunity knocks! Amazing RI1 lot ( infill zoned ) allows for duplex and/or secondary dwelling. Easy build site with all day sunshine and mountain views. This Whistler classic ‘A’ frame has been extensively upgraded over the years and is very cute, cozy and livable while you make plans to redevelop or simply enjoy as is.

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604.902.0132

#202B - 2020 London Lane

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$243,800

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#2 - 2101 Whistler Road

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$599,000

Freshly renovated 1.5 bedroom townhome! This stunning property is turn key and move in ready. Good times await as you are only a 5 minute walk to the Creekside Gondola and all amenities. Featuring new floors, new carpets, updated bathroom, new kitchen, new appliances, and fresh paint throughout, this property checks all the boxes!

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604.902.6106

#15 - 7408 Cottonwood Court

1.5

$559,000

Just in time for building season - this 7535 flat vacant lot in Black Tusk is ready for your client. 15 minutes south from Whistler Creekside you arrive at the gated community of Black Tusk Village. This private community offers single family housing at an attractive price point.

Quarter Ownership in a modern well appointed condo at the base of Whistler Mountain.

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3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom in the Cottonwood Court complex. Perfectly located, less than a 5 minute walk to the elementary school, 2 minutes to the community center and youth center, BMX club skatepark and kids pump track! On site playground and access to the valley trail system with a fenced private backyard.

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