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INSIDE THE 33-YEAR EFFORT TO IDENTIFY MYSTERY REMAINS FOUND ON WHISTLER MOUNTAIN

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COVID CONFUSION

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I am juggling the reality of building a home-schooling schedule for my son, which allows me to keep him engaged whilst I also work at the same time. It’s challenging - but it’s (hopefully) going to help us bond in new ways!

- Catherine McKay

I’ve been delivering groceries to a friend that’s high risk, so they don’t have to risk exposure and embracing social isolation by keeping in touch with clients and friends via ZOOM! - Katelyn Spink

Between spending a lot of time cooking together, trying to figure out who gets on the Peloton bike at what time and how many walks in one day is ok for the dogs, we have had a lot of laughs!

We are taking advantage of the “seniors only” grocery shopping hours and we are getting a little chubbier by looking up unique and interesting recipes and baking cookies instead of buying them!

- Wendi Warm

- Lance Lundy

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO BEND THE CURVE? HERE’S WHAT SOME OF OUR REALTORS HAVE BEEN DOING!

I have started using my education degree from McGill doing home schooling with my daughter, we’re playing board games, singing karaoke and I am getting really good at Don’t Stop Believin!

We have a 5pm apres with the neighbours in their sunny driveway. Our kids have drawn three separate areas in chalk in the driveway so all three households can chat to each other, but maintain their 2 metres distance.

- Jane Heim

I’m enjoying some high quality Scotch on the deck, looking at our garden and I’ve even let my wife use the dog shears to cut my hair...

I don’t have much, but still!

- Pat Kelly

- Dave Brown

My family is helping bend the curve by only necessary trips to the store (the freezer has never looked so empty), online exercise and yoga classes thanks to Whistler Adaptive, followed by Happy Hour with friends and family; keeping the connection at a distance!

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LETTERS

Letter writers this week call out government for not offering

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Local sport organizations that would

enough support to commercial landlords and tenants, and suggest we look at what

normally be preparing for their summer seasons are adapting to and feeling the fallout of

Whistler could be post-pandemic.

COVID-19 in varying ways.

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COVID CONFUSION

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has

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thrown Resort Municipality of Whistler finances into uncertainty.

Train Wreck site, offer “outdoor” excursion for self-isolating locals.

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Please, don’t come to Whistler IN MY WILDEST dreams, I never thought I would be writing and begging people not to come to Whistler.

After all, we are a resort that prides itself on hosting guests and offering a getaway experience that’s second to none.

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hospitalizations of those suffering from the virus are stabilizing in B.C., but that in no way means we can all head out to the parks together in the coming days.

This is Easter weekend, yes. And it looks like great weather—BUT WE MUST STAY CLOSE TO HOME AND ONLY GO OUT WITH OUR FAMILY GROUPS WHILE

users wouldn’t stop to chat on either side of the trail while others have to steer their way through the middle of the conversation, which has users navigating way less than two metres of space.

The District of Squamish, which is drawing hundreds of visitors from the Lower Mainland each weekend, is desperately searching for a solution for the number of people who are ignoring the provincial government’s directive not to travel.

It is lobbying government and asking its residents to reach out to do the same to share their concerns.

Whistler is part of this messaging and, to enforce it, will have both bylaw and RCMP officers out and about. Those who don’t follow the direction of bylaw can be fined $500.

For weeks, the electronic sign boards on Highway 99 have been telling people not to travel—are we honestly going to have to have police stopping people on roads, in parks, at trailheads checking up on us?

Is that the kind of society we want to live in?

A recent Insights West survey of nearly 600 businesses found that 31 per cent of owners fear they won’t recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

PHYSICALLY DISTANCING OURSELVES FROM OTHERS. I truly understand that we need to get out and get fresh air. And it’s OK to do so in our household groups. But be mindful of others.

Some municipalities are actually making their community trails and paths one-way.

That might be something we could consider for, say, the Whistler Golf Club loop, a very popular route these days, and one where we all seem to meet countless friends. That way,

Even our Whistler Health Care Centre is asking people to stay home. It is preparing for serious COVID-19 cases while it looks after the health of our resident population.

It doesn’t need to be using its resources to help those from outside of Whistler who need medical attention.

This is not about closing our borders or being uncaring. This is about fighting a pandemic. That is what should be top of mind.

Let’s be frank here. We are all going a little crazy under the shelter-at-home regulations and we all want our resort to get back to normal as quickly as possible, but staying away from each other is the only way to get there until we have a vaccine (and that is many months away), or we get the infection rate to a place where one patient is infecting, mathematically, less than one other person— not the 2.5 we see currently.

For ourselves, we need to look to those around us and lend a hand. Check with your neighbours by phone or from the bottom of the driveway and see how they are doing. If it is your shopping day—think about shopping at a different store each week so we can support them all. Ordering out for dinner or lunch, again, try to choose a different eatery each time—and maybe even one of those partnering with the food bank.

Shop local first for whatever you can.

I know that TMC Freeriderz has bandanas online for sale and will even deliver—why not make a facemask with them and help a local business? There are so many examples of our businesses being creative.

We’ve got to help them out if we can.

A recent Insights West survey of nearly 600 businesses found that 31 per cent of owners fear they won’t recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

A Canadian Federation of Business survey of 11,000 businesses at the end of last month found the COVID-19 outbreak is quickly becoming a disaster for small businesses. It found that a full 60 per cent of small firms have seen a significant drop in sales, with more than one in three reporting a reduction greater than 75 per cent.

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Immediate action needed to support Whistler businesses I can’t help but try to analyze what I see as a big disconnect going on between the Government of Canada, the provincial government and the real estate market in Canada.

We have been asked, not told, by both levels of governments to close our retail stores, restaurants, coffee shops, spas, hair salons and all other non-essential services in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

If the government had ordered us to close, that would probably have forced the insurance companies to actually pay out the businessinterruption insurance policies that we all carry. Instead, government decided to ask that we all work together and in doing so relieved the insurance companies from paying out because there was no “damage” to our business. A virus isn’t considered damage.

Our commercial landlords, for the most part, have either requested full payment each month or offered to defer part of our monthly rental costs and start paying that balance back at a later date. The excuse most landlords are using is that they have mortgage payments to make and seem to think that tenants should have ample funds to use up in the case of business interruption.

Shouldn’t the landlords also have ample funds to cover an emergency? Since closing my store mid-March, I have taken in zero dollars, and by the end of April, I should be able to make an income of zero dollars again. Where is the shared responsibility in that scenario?

Now to my point: In B.C., the provincial government announced plans to help residential tenants by paying up to $500 per month paid directly to the landlord. I suspect it’s being paid directly to the landlord so as not to alarm lenders. If lenders start getting nervous, then it becomes a house of cards ready to fall down in even a mild wind. How many residences in Canada have mortgages?

Many, I suspect. That measure will temporarily keep the housing market from coming down too far, too quickly.

So far, the Government of B.C. hasn’t announced any measures to assist either the

commercial landlord or tenant. Is it part of the NDP platform to ignore the many calls to help businesses survive during a crisis? Does it now fall on the federal government to mandate some sort of relief for businesses?

By the way, a $40,000 loan is just piling on debt. It’s not relief. Not paying a BC Hydro bill is not going to save a business. Deferring health tax is not going to save a business. Allowing PST filing and payments to be deferred until September is not going to save a business if it can’t open. Essentially deferring payments won’t save businesses.

So I ask you, government leaders, why is there this disconnect?

If something significant isn’t done immediately for commercial landlords and their tenants, not only will the weak not survive, but it will also take a significant toll on the strong.

Not knowing when businesses will be allowed to open again is hard because as we’ve been told, this virus will keep us closed for at least another two months, if not longer.

We are always being told how important Whistler is to B.C. tax coffers. Even if you take the long view, it’s hard to imagine that it’s beneficial to allow a huge vacancy rate to occur in Whistler by not offering a solution to the current tenants.

Keep us in place, and magically, tax dollars will flow again once we are allowed to open. If you don’t, then it won’t be business as usual for a long, long time.

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Time for a conversation about our future Week 4. That escalated quickly. Q.U.I.C.K.L.Y. Faster than we washed our hands pre-COVID-19.

It’s not that we didn’t see it coming, but holy … Sit. Down. Now. Wow. The “disheartened fizzle” that we had anticipated of the seasonaires’ departure turned into an appalling display of Lord of the Fliesesque behaviour, both up at staff housing and on the lake as it appeared everyone was intent on taking home, and thereby spreading, the virus.

A Whistler keepsake, perhaps? Ugly.

Let’s never speak of this again, shall we? Deal.

With that (hopefully) out of Whistler’s system, the mass exodus now continues to trickle down the highway, destination: notWhistler. Peace and quiet flourishes, except for a brief explosion of gratitude daily at 7 p.m.

Spring continues to taunt us with the promise of brighter days ahead; it’s never been so close, yet so… incredibly… far.

And now we find ourselves with an abundance of time. It’s weird, to just hit the pause button on life. So fully and completely… paused.

Like the vast majority of Whistler’s residents, I too have found myself unceremoniously unemployed due to this whole situation, our community ACL tear, as you’ll recall from my letter to the editor the week of March 26. I’ve been thinking about a few things these past few weeks, mostly to the tune of the Beach Boys’ classic tune “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”

What else do we have to do right now other than dream about the future, of what could be once we make it through? Considering we’ve all got the time, let’s share. Complete fantasy, vaguely possible, or heck-yes-why-hadn’t-wethought-of-that-before? It’s all fair game.

Whistler, it’s time for a chat. (Yes, I’m aware there’s plenty of chatter on the Whistler Facebook groups, which is great to see, but let’s include everyone, try something different during this time of pause.)

Uncertain where to start?

I’ll go first! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could ban Airbnb everywhere outside the village? Great start! How about implementing rent caps on Whistler properties so that locals can actually live here. Preposterous—I love it! Or limiting the number of humans allowed to live in a two-bedroom apartment to something crazy, like four?! Perhaps Whistler’s housing task force—stay with me here—operates with force! Why not?!

Locals’ ski-pass pricing? Now I’m pushing it!

Mayor Jack Crompton? Councillors? We’re gonna need your assistance here, but I’m hopeful it’s nothing some virtual meetings can’t do. This is our town so let’s bring it back to a town that reflects us. Whatcha got, Whistler? Speak up!

Kate Turner // Whistler

Hire Canadians to work on farms I sympathize with local farm operators and would really like to support them (see Pique, March 27, “Farm workers to be exempted from COVID-19 travel ban”). Now, more than ever, farming is an essential service in our province and country.

However, the article suggested that farms need foreign workers to operate and I do not believe this to be true currently. There are thousands of healthy, out-of-work Canadians who can help and are in desperate need of work and housing right now.

Recently, we recruited farmhands and supervisors for a Pemberton farm and the response has been overwhelming.

It would be a shame to bring in any more foreign workers, especially since new workers who get sick could add more burden to our already challenged health-care system.

At least until this crisis passes, I’d like to plead with farms to support our community and hire locally.

Jacki Bissillion // Owner and president of Whistler Personnel Solutions n

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The end of the world JUDGING BY MY social media feed, people are starting to go a little crazy in isolation— mostly in good, productive, and humourous ways, but it’s early days still with potentially months to go. Most people are clearly looking forward to the happy day when “flattening the curve” gets a relaunch as sexual innuendo.

As for myself, I’m ashamed to admit that

BY ANDREW MITCHELL the current level of physical distancing and isolation really isn’t all that different from my day-to-day life. In fact, you could say that I’ve been prepping for something like this my entire life.

I’ve always saved three months of wages, because that’s what I was told to do in case I ever lost my job. I’ve always stocked up on non-perishable food because we live in an earthquake/forest fire/rockslide zone and that’s what was recommended. I have easily a dozen solo hobbies that I can happily use to fill every single moment of every single day. The real trick is to get me to put those things down long enough to engage with the real world.

There are books, movies, TV shows, video games, etc. that I can enjoy over and over and will never get tired of. I also do a lot of things on my own most of the time, like run, snowboard and mountain bike—not because I’m a loner, but because I generally suck at them and don’t like to hold faster, better people up.

There have never been enough hours in the day for me to do the things I like to do.

That’s still the case even with the outside world on temporary shutdown.

But while I feel mostly prepared for this pandemic, it really bothers me that our governments were not.

couple hundred billion dollars when all is said and done, which will bring us closer to a trillion dollars in total debt obligations.

That’s more than $24,000 for every man, woman and child in Canada, not including our combined provincial debts.

I fully agree that money needs to be spent right now, but I will never understand why we don’t have any money set aside for emergencies—or why we added $85 billion to our debt over the last five years in a so-called “bull” economy.

There are people who will argue that debt doesn’t matter, but I tend to listen to the economists who disagree. Your nation’s debt level determines the rate of interest we pay, which determines how much money government has left over to spend on programs. Debt also reduces funding for innovation and growth and drives down the value of our dollar, making it more expensive to import things like masks and respirators. It also reduces our capacity to respond at times like this.

The Government of Canada pays around $27 billion a year in interest on our debt, roughly a quarter of which goes to foreign investors. That money could buy a lot of medical supplies and help a lot of struggling businesses and out-of-work individuals right now.

A lot of countries are in the red, so we’re definitely not alone or the worst. But there are also countries in far better shape than Canada when it comes to weathering emergencies.

Take Norway, for example. They’ve built up a trillion-dollar wealth fund that was generated almost entirely by oil revenues—something Canada and Alberta has but failed to properly capitalize on before the prices slumped.

Given our current situation, I’d rather we did things more like Norway.

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COVID-19 started showing up more than three months ago and yet we’re still scrambling to order the surgical masks, ventilators and other things we need to combat the spread of the virus and treat the afflicted. Hospitals should not be having shortages and buying supplies from resellers on Amazon.

Given that the U.S. is taking a predictable “America first” approach to things like masks and respirators, it seems ridiculous to depend on other countries to send us the necessary things we should have the capacity to make for ourselves in a crisis.

Then there are the insane costs we’re about to take on as a nation—probably a

are being sorely tested, and so far, we’re passing with flying colours. We have hospitals, trained medical personnel, subsidized universities to train said personnel, programs for workers and businesses to stay afloat, subsidies to keep industries and jobs alive for when things turn around—everything an advanced nation should have. We just don’t want to pay for them with higher taxes, which has to change.

Globalism clearly fails in an emergency situation. Failing to acknowledge that and to talk about things like taxation, debt levels and our level of self-sufficiency would be a lost opportunity.

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COVID-19 casts doubt on Whistler’s municipal finances WITH REVENUES IN SHARP DECLINE AND UNCERTAINTY RULING THE DAY, OFFICIALS SEEK FINANCIAL BALANCE

BY BRADEN DUPUIS LIKE IT HAS with so many other facets of life, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) finances into uncertainty.

While an earlier-than-usual start to the RMOW budgeting process brought the five-year financial plan before council in December 2019, “that five-year plan is now up for some revision,” said director of finance Carlee Price, in a presentation to mayor and council at the April 7 council meeting.

“We don’t know when these revisions are going to happen; we prefer to wait until things are much clearer, but the community can fairly expect that by the end of 2020 the actual numbers will look quite different than what we expected at the end of 2019.”

Planning effectively for the financial impact of COVID-19 is “one of the sharpest challenges” facing the municipality, Price said, and it involves making a lot of assumptions—some that are changing as fast as the news.

“So for example, when the announcements were made by the province in mid-March (around physical distancing recommendations), we were adjusting the expectations around tourist visits. As the borders were closed, we adjusted those expectations again,” Price said.

Whistler mayor, council and staff convened on April 7 for their first public teleconference meeting since municipal buildings were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“This is a process that will continue through the entirety of the closure.”

Incoming cash has “slowed to a trickle” with no hotel tax revenue, transit fares, Meadow Park Sports Centre fees, parking tickets or parking passes, Price added, and “we’re not seeing the same money coming into the organization that would be normal for this time of year.”

But costs have continued, meaning the RMOW’s reserves may come into play sooner rather than later.

“The role of reserves in a crisis—and specifically here I’m talking about the operating reserve—is to bridge any gap,” Price said. “So an operating reserve is specifically set aside in cases where the municipality may run into trouble with the revenues coming in, or expenses becoming unusually large. We do have an operating reserve at the municipality, and we do expect to call on this reserve in the coming months.”

The RMOW’s operating reserve balance (unaudited) at the end of 2019 was $6,145,555.

Also shrouded in doubt are the length of the shutdown and the “shape” of the potential recovery, Price added.

“Once things return in Whistler and elsewhere to relatively normal status, it will take some time for visitors to return,” she said, noting that families will need to rebuild their own savings before planning vacations.

“So even once the shutdown is complete, we need to think about what the shape of the recovery—whether it’s in the second half of 2020 or even reaching into 2021—looks like, and how that influences our estimates as well.”

What does all of this mean for the

average Whistler taxpayer? That, too, is yet to be seen.

The 2020 tax bylaws—based on a 2.8-per-cent property tax increase, along with two-per-cent increases to sewer, water parcel and solid waste fees—have yet to come to council for first readings.

Price noted the RMOW has received a number of inquiries about property taxes, and whether there might be a deferment.

The RMOW is still waiting on provincial decisions around tax timing, she said.

“I would note that the RMOW’s ability to act independent of any decision from the province is extremely limited,” she said.

“Action also has cash effects—any deferment of taxes to the community would have an effect on our ability to continue to carry the cash through to the new payment window.”

In Pemberton, local officials changed course from a five-per-cent tax increase in light of the pandemic, finding enough cuts in the budget to avoid an increase this year (see related story on page 24).

While Whistler’s budget is no doubt a different animal, could we see something similar from mayor and council locally?

“Our priority now is to ensure we are well-equipped to serve this community during this incredibly difficult time,” said Mayor Jack Crompton after the meeting.

But tax adjustments or not, some community groups are already experiencing municipal cuts, like those that receive Fee For Service (FFS) funding from the RMOW. The Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association saw its FFS funding fall from $120,000 to $40,000 because of the pandemic (see related story on page 38).

“We’re in this period now where we have so many unknowns, there’s been huge economic impact, obviously, in the community, so we’re moving very carefully in terms of what might be normal expenditures like a FFS,” said Chief Administrative Officer Mike Furey.

The RMOW’s priorities at the moment are things like essential services, helping those in need, and supporting social services, he added, pointing to enhanced support for the Whistler Community Services Society through both money and loaned staff (as well as other organizations).

“When we look at things like FFS, we’re trying to approach it and go, ‘Well you know, maybe this is not the year where we build another ‘Into the Mystic’ trail,’” he said.

“We’re looking closely at all of our projects, [and] we’re trying to prepare for the unknown—how long this might go on, what might be the impact, what might be our recovery period—and we’re trying to make very cautious and careful decisions.”

With so much yet to be known about how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact Whistler in the long-term, how are officials reassuring the community?

“We’re in a really interesting time as a community, and as a country,” Crompton said. “I am confident that Whistler and British Columbia and Canada will pull together and come through this strong.”

The community can expect a very “fulsome financial picture in the very near future,” Furey added.

It was the last council meeting for Furey, who will leave the RMOW in June.

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Whistlerites urged to stay the course on COVID-19 ‘WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BE VIGILANT,’ SAYS WHISTLER’S MEDICAL DIRECTOR, AS DOCS PREP FOR POSSIBLE SURGE

BY BRANDON BARRETT AS LOCAL MEDICAL personnel brace for a possible surge in COVID-19 cases, Whistlerites are being urged to stay the course on physical distancing and other protective measures.

“We haven’t experienced a surge yet, but the advice from public health [officials] is that it still could occur in the weeks to come, so we have to continue to be vigilant,” advised Dr. Bruce Mohr, medical director for the Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC).

“B.C.’s curve appears to have levelled for the time being but we still don’t know if or when it might go up again, or how long it will be before it goes down. We also do not know if this reflects Whistler’s curve. It is still early.”

Personnel at the WHCC as well as at the Whistler Medical Centre, located in the same facility, have been carrying out “robust planning” to manage both emergency and urgent care, explained Dr. Karin Kausky, but “the behaviour of individuals will have a much bigger impact on the health of our community than all of our planning.”

Local doctors are also hopeful the same message reaches anyone thinking of visiting the resort over the upcoming Easter holiday.

“Small communities do all their capacity planning based on their base populations, and the capacity of all essential services, including medical, can be exceeded if there are large numbers of visitors—and B.C.’s medical health officer has asked us to avoid all non-essential travel because that is a way of spreading the virus as well,” Kausky stressed.

A second ventilator has been acquired at the WHCC for patient transport. Without an intensive care unit, the WHCC is not equipped to keep patients requiring higher levels of care, instead relocating them to tertiary care hospitals in the the Lower Mainland.

“We are not in the business of housing patients on ventilators here,” Mohr noted.

Patients should continue to avoid the WHCC unless they feel the problem is urgent or they cannot get advice or care elsewhere. If possible, urgent care patients should call the centre at 604-932-4911 before visiting the ER. “There are reports of people in the Lower Mainland showing up late to emergency with heart attack, stroke, and other conditions where timely care is crucial,” Mohr noted.

For non-urgent issues, patients are asked to contact their family physician or specialist as they normally would to arrange an appointment by phone or teleconference.

Those without a family doctor can still consult a GP remotely through a virtual

clinic set up last month at www.divisionbc. ca/sea-sky.

Canada’s 811 healthline is also available for COVID-19 self-assessments as well as other medical advice and information.

CLEARING UP CONFUSION AROUND SYMPTOMS The avalanche of messaging since the COVID19 outbreak has made it challenging to keep track of even the most vital information on the virus.

We’ve all heard of the most common novel coronavirus symptoms: fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, and other flu-like symptoms, such as muscle ache and fatigue.

Others may have mild cold-like symptoms, such as a sore throat or runny nose. Less common symptoms include diarrhea, and in some cases, the loss of taste or smell.

And while we know those infected can go about two to five days before presenting symptoms, there are also those who may never develop symptoms at all—which so far appears to be more common among younger patients, Kausky explained.

“It seems that younger people are more likely to be asymptomatic shedders, so in our relatively younger population, that’s where the … use of masks comes up in the community,” she added.

THE MASK QUESTION Initially, Canadian health officials were concerned over the potential for non-medical masks, such as homemade cloth masks, being misused and giving wearers a false sense of security. But with the transmission of the virus from those who show no symptoms happening more often than previously thought, that message has shifted.

Wearing a non-medical mask has not been proven to protect the person wearing it, but it could help protect those around you.

“If everyone starts wearing the masks, then we protect each other,” said Mohr.

Those who choose to wear non-medical masks or face coverings should ensure it is well-fitted and does not gape at the sides.

Wearers should avoid moving or adjusting their mask, and, after finished wearing it, should assume it has been contaminated on the outside and either dispose of it or wash it for reuse. Wash your hands before and after putting it on, as well as before and after taking it off.

Vancouver Coastal Health has a webpage outlining what supplies it accepts, what standards they have to meet, and a form to fill out for anyone looking to donate equipment at vch.ca/get-involved/donate/ donate-medical-supplies. ■

Thank you

Ms. Sandhu, Mr Gohlke, Ms Blancher and Ms Maclean, Ms Dodds, Ms Bergersen, Ms Bellmore, and all the incredible support staff at the Whistler Waldorf School for all your hard work and dedication over the last few weeks. We truly appreciate you!

With love and gratitude from the whole school faculty.

The staff at Foto source would like to thank the truck drivers supplying our town with the basic essentials.

Also a big shout out to the team at Pique Newsmagazine for keeping us informed and entertained.

FYiDoctors Whistler would like to thank you to our front line team-Alissa, Meg, Cara, Dr. Shea Colpitts & Dr. Cindy Wagner.

We know this is a stressful time and we remain intent on serving our patients as best we can.

Please call us at 604 932-2600 if you have an eye-related emergency, need to order contact lenses or have any general inquiries. We are currently focusing services on urgent patient care only.

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WHA assisting tenants struggling financially on case-by-case basis RENT FREEZE IN PLACE; NO WHA TENANTS WILL BE EVICTED DURING STATE OF EMERGENCY

BY BRANDON BARRETT IN THE MIDST of the COVID-19 crisis, the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) said it would explore options for assisting tenants struggling financially on a case-bybase basis.

“For WHA tenants having difficulties making their rent until the government subsidies are accessible and received, rent deferment options have been provided, as have individual payment plans for those whose financial situation has changed as a result of COVID-19,” wrote WHA general manager Marla Zucht in a statement.

“These additional measures of financial assistance are being developed directly between landlord and tenant based on each household’s unique needs.”

The independently run, municipally owned corporation has been directing renters to existing provincial and federal assistance programs, including employment insurance benefits, Ottawa’s Emergency Response Benefit, as well as a one-time rental supplement of $500 per

month for three months administered through BC Housing.

WHA also delayed automated rental payments this month from April 1 to April 3, and has notified tenants that there would be a freeze on any new annual rent increases.

As per a recent change to B.C.’s Residential Tenancy Act, no tenants can be evicted during

for our community with many uncertain months ahead. I recognize the loss of jobs puts many renters and landlords in a really difficult situation. I have confidence in the WHA board and staff,” wrote Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton in an email.

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the province’s ongoing state of emergency.

Beyond that, renters are encouraged to contact WHA’s property management team at Mountain Country Property Management “and we will explore each situation on a case-by-base basis,” Zucht said. Tenants living in WHA units in Cheakamus Crossing can contact Gina Ciccone at gina@ mountaincountry.ca, while all other WHA renters can get in touch with Steve Duncan at steve@mountaincountry.ca.

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renter Cheryl Parker to write a letter to the organization, as well as elected local officials, calling for more comprehensive, urgent action.

“I am one of the lucky ones at this point, I can still work from home for the next few weeks,” she wrote in the March 27 letter.

“But what about those people out there that served your coffee, made your food, painted your homes, tuned your skis? These people need help now. Later is just too late.”

While she’s happy to see WHA taking

steps to assist tenants, Parker said she would have liked to see the message more widely circulated. The WHA did post a statement to its website on March 26 outlining the government assistance available and urging tenants with financial challenges to contact their property manager, but Parker felt it didn’t go far enough.

“It was one of those things where people want to hear that from the WHA. People want to know that they’re there, not that they’re just going to send us a link and go, ‘Hey, figure it out.’ We wanted to hear that yes, we can contact them,” she said.

“Step up. Be a leader. Other than that, it could lead to something in the community.

People would see that the WHA was stepping up to offer help or give a discount on rent, and maybe that would encourage [landlords] in the community.”

WHA homeowners experiencing financial difficulties are encouraged to contact their lender directly to discuss repayment scenarios. The WHA does not have any control over property owners’ lending structures.

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Our team is so grateful for our Whistler friends and neighbours who have helped our family business keep going through this. You know who you are and you are amazing! We love being able to help and give back to this amazing community and we hope that we have been able to do our part to be of service to you. We will continue to do what we can to provide support to Whistler as we have been for the past 25 years!

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APRIL 9, 2020

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Contract for Alta Vista services upgrade awarded COUNCIL BRIEFS: Q4 FINANCIALS PRESENTED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WORK TO UPGRADE aging services in Whistler’s Alta Vista neighbourhood is set to begin after council awarded a contract worth $2.7 million to Capilano Highway Services at its April 7 meeting.

It was the first council meeting to be conducted remotely via teleconference since municipal buildings were closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Councillors conferenced in from their respective homes, while Mayor Jack Crompton and key staff did so from municipal hall.

The Alta Vista project includes replacing water mains, sanitary sewers and storm water drainage infrastructure in the neighbourhood—some of the oldest remaining in Whistler.

The project is planned over three phases, ending in 2022, and includes road resurfacing and Valley Trail upgrades.

Capilano was one of five companies to bid on Phase 1 of the work, narrowly edging out Pedre Underground Utility Contractors Ltd. The five bids ranged from a high of $3.36 million to Capilano’s $2.7 million—though all five were above the Resort Municipality

of Whistler (RMOW) engineer’s estimate of $2.55 million.

The RMOW has budgeted $3,050,000 for Phase 1 of the work, which will be completed in 2020.

Capilano is keen to get started, said capital projects manager Tammy Shore, in a presentation to council.

“They are well known, they’re a longtime company in the Sea to Sky,” she said. “[I’m] quite happy with what we got. I think we’re getting quite good value for our money there.”

to “lessen the pain and the burden” on the neighbourhood, Shore said.

“It’s a very busy place in the summer, so we didn’t want to do all these upgrades in one year, obviously,” she said.

“So there was a lot of thought put into the construction sequencing for this project.”

Despite recent directions around physical distancing from provincial health officials, construction of critical infrastructure is still permitted, and Capilano (and all other RMOW vendors) will be following provincial safety guidelines with respect to COVID-19.

“I think we’re getting quite good value for our money there.”

- TAMMY SHORE

A tender for Phase 2 of the project will be issued in January 2021.

Work will take place from April to November each year, and the project will impact a number of streets: Alpine Crescent, Alta Vista Road, Archibald Way, Carleton Way, Lakeside Road, Tyrol Crescent and St. Anton Way. The project is spread over three years

Safe work procedures will be reviewed, approved and adjusted on a daily basis as necessary.

The work is necessary is to minimize the risk of failure of aging pipes, reduce water loss from leakage, minimize ongoing odour issues, improve pedestrian safety, and reduce maintenance costs in the area.

Updates will be posted to whistler.ca.

Q4 FINANCIALS PRESENTED Council also received the RMOW’s Q4 financial update at the April 7 meeting.

At the end of the 2019 fiscal year, operating revenues were at 102 per cent and expenditures 98 per cent of annual budget amounts (compared to 108 per cent and 97 per cent last year), said director of finance Carlee Price.

Revenues last year were 4.1-percent greater than in 2018, and surpassed $100 million for the first time, Price acknowledged.

Investment income for the nine months ended Dec. 31, 2019, meanwhile, was $3,230,404 (unaudited)—146 per cent of the total budgeted for the year.

Most investment income is allocated to reserves in order to fund future expenditures, with some allocated to operations throughout the year.

While the RMOW ended 2019 in a sound financial position, the impacts of COVID-19 are already starting to pile up in 2020 (see related story on page 12).

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Rise in demand prompts food bank’s relocation to Whistler Conference Centre COMMUNITY URGED TO ONLY VISIT FOOD BANK AFTER EXHAUSTING OTHER RESOURCES

BY BRANDON BARRETT TO ENSURE proper physical-distancing measures amidst a surge in demand, the local food bank has been temporarily relocated to the Whistler Conference Centre.

“With social distancing, we just weren’t able to effectively do that for large numbers at our current location,” explained Lori Pyne, interim executive director of the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS), which operates the food bank.

The Nesters Road facility had seen a massive increase in demand compared to the same period last year—and with a fraction of the population still in town.

For the week of March 16, which began just three days after Whistler Blackcomb announced its closure, the food bank gave out 75 emergency food bags. By the end of last week, that was up to 306 bags. On April 6 alone, 156 bags were handed out.

“Usually there is a plethora of reasons that people give [for visiting the food bank], but everyone is saying COVID,” Pyne said.

“What we’re seeing now is that people

have received their last paycheque and the government funding has not yet kicked in.”

Prepared food bags are available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday at the conference centre. The food bank can be reached at 604-902-4800.

Pyne stressed that the food bags are intended as a last resort, and urged the community to exhaust all other possible avenues before visiting the food bank.

“This is meant to be supplemental food and not every meal for a week. You are supposed to use all of your other resources first, like your family, your neighbours, government money,” she advised.

The conference centre, owned by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and operated by Tourism Whistler, will be offered to WCSS at no cost. The RMOW has also committed to providing eight additional frontline staff at the new location, Pyne said.

For now, WCSS is sticking with paid staff to man the food bank, but Pyne said there is a need for volunteers to pick up and deliver emergency food bags as well as what she jokingly called “food-bank bouncers” to manage the crowds at the new location.

Money remains the best way to donate,

RELOCATED Frontline worker Emi Quigley at the

food bank, which relocated this week to the Whistler Conference Centre.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WCSS

as the food bank receives wholesale pricing, but for those interested in donating food, the most-needed items are: protein-rich canned food, such as tuna, salmon and meat; canned vegetables and fruit; canned soups; cereal and granola bars; dried beans and legumes; peanut butter; and rice, pasta and pasta sauce.

“Our usual program feeds 50 a week and now we’re feeding 150 a day, so you can imagine our finances don’t stretch very

far,” Pyne said of the need for monetary donations, which can be made at mywcss. org/get-involved/donations. Businesses looking to make bulk food donations can contact foodbank@mywcss.org.

Through its outreach services, the WCSS can also offer emotional support, assistance with applying for government resources, advice on counselling options, and help finding food and shelter. They are available Monday through Saturday and can be accessed at 604-932-0113 or online at mywcss.org.

“A lot of people coming to access the food bags are also in need of outreach,” said Pyne. “Things outreach can do are help you apply for employment insurance if you don’t know how to do it. If you don’t know what you’re entitled to as a tenant, outreach can help you navigate that path. It’s another piece to let the community know that those resources are out there for them.”

Pyne also took the chance to credit her staff for going the extra mile during such a challenging period.

“Everyone shows up every day with great integrity, and quite frankly, it’s very inspiring,” she said. “Everyone’s hanging in there. It’s a stressful time.” n

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Local science-based COVID-19 group aims to keep Sea to Sky informed QUEST UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS LAUNCH BLOG, FACEBOOK GROUP

BY ALYSSA NOEL THREE QUEST University professors have launched new resources specific to Sea to Sky residents looking for science-based information and local help during the COVID19 pandemic.

Dr. tobias c. van Veen, a visiting professor in humanities with a background in activism and organizing, first reached out to his colleagues Dr. John Reid-Hresko, a sociology tutor who studies the culture around epidemiology, and Dr. Negar Elmieh, an epidemiologist who studies science communication, when self-isolating first started about three weeks ago.

His idea: to launch The Quest University COVID-19 Working Group, a blog for which they would serve as editors and both curate a list of academic research (which is up now) and host the rapid publication of short, peer-reviewed articles and thinkpieces (soon to be added) distilled through a local lens.

The other component of his idea was to moderate and run a Facebook group called Sea-to-Sky COVID-19 Mutual Aid Network

to offer reliable, up-to-date information and resource sharing in the community.

“This is outreach work,” van Veen said.

“I see this as part of my own personal, political, and ethical commitment to the community.”

One example of the roles he sees these resources playing is the back-and-forth debate around the use of masks.

“We’re going to have a post soon that discusses mask use and how best to use masks,” he said. “Things like masks have changed so rapidly in the last two weeks.

We’ve gone from debating whether to use them to researching how to make masks and wear them. I’ve been studying what’s been coming out of China and South Korea, and their health experts have been telling the West to use masks for weeks now. From a communications perspective, I’ve been tracking the slow response of the West to that information … Our response has to be rapid, and most of the rapid response work we’re doing is through the Facebook group, providing health, science and financial aid information in the Sea to Sky, helping to promote fundraising for medical equipment, and coordinating projects like mask-making.”

MASK UP Quest University humanities professor

tobias c. van Veen wears a mask made by local Sara Varela-Redondo, who has been donating masks to service support staff in Whistler.

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The effort is not a critique of Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s top medical health officer, or Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, van Veen said. Rather, he’s looking at the role good communication and transparency play in conveying clear messaging to the public.

“Often a scientist will have a certain desired outcome, and we trust the scientist for the outcome, but their messaging might not produce that outcome because they’re not necessarily trained at communicating

to a diverse public,” van Veen said. “No one knew what social distancing meant, and so it produced the opposite result, with folks gathering in parks. It’s an abstract concept that has no content to it. You need to tell people very clearly a directive. It needs to be put in positive terms, like ‘stay at home, and only go out for groceries once a week’ and ‘only play with folks in your own household.’ Everyone understands what that means.”

Another role the Facebook group is playing is to connect those in need with services. Through it, locals have been offering counselling, free bookkeeping, caregiving, and mask-making tips.

“The positive message here is the community is really coming together,” van Veen said. “So many people are helping out. I want to give a shout out to everyone who has been contributing. We should all be really happy where B.C. is at in terms of the curve—so far, so good. Keep it up. Now is not the time to relax on our efforts.”

To see the Quest University COVID-19 Working Group, visit covid19blog.questu. ca. For the Facebook group visit facebook. com/groups/SeatoSkyCV19. n

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Keeping faith in the face of COVID-19 WHISTLER’S FAITH-BASED GROUPS ADAPT TO PHYSICALISOLATION GUIDELINES

BY JOEL BARDE LIKE EVERYONE, local religious groups are adapting to new physical-distancing requirements, adjusting their services so as not to risk spreading COVID-19.

With major Christian holidays Good Friday and Easter Sunday approaching, Jon Pasiuk, lead pastor at Whistler Community Church, said that it has been livestreaming services.

“We all log in at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings from our homes, and we worship together,” he said.

Pasiuk added that he is encouraging the congregation of about 130 people to stay connected, saying that doing so is key to ensuring everyone emerges from this difficult time in a good place.

“Community health is about more than just not spreading a virus,” he said. “It’s about making it through together and being together.”

A phone call goes a long way, he said.

“What we need right now is to hear each other’s voices and let each other know that we are thinking of them and praying for them. That encouragement seems to mean a lot right now.”

The current “stay home” message has also forced the church to cancel its plans for a groundbreaking ceremony for the new church set to be built on Fitzsimmons Road in White Gold.

“That was supposed to be a big community block party,” he said, adding that the church plans to livestream the event instead.

With society on edge about the pandemic, Pasiuk said that many are finding comfort in faith.

“A lot of people have lost their jobs, or they’ve had their hours reduced,” he said.

“It can be very discouraging to face that uncertainty and face the isolation, and so it’s really important that we are looking to God and that we are supporting one another through it.”

The Gospel, he added, also holds an important message when it comes to selfisolation.

“We are taught by Jesus to love our neighbours as ourselves and to consider others more important than ourselves,” said Pasiuk. “So we want to not just avoid unhealthy behaviours, like hoarding or anger … We want to be conscientious, we want to make sure that we are not putting anyone else at risk.”

Rosa Evangelista, pastor at Jesus Rock of Ages Ministries Whistler, said the church has also moved online.

It’s offering a “prayer line” mini-service for an hour six days a week in addition to its extended Sunday services.

“In a way, it actually has a positive

impact on us,” she reflected. “We’re doing everything online, and it has brought the church closer [together].”

Whistler’s Catholic church, Our Lady of the Mountains, is also moving its services online. This represents a dramatic change in the nature of church services, as the congregation can no longer receive Holy Communion, explained the church’s resident priest, Andrew L’Heureux.

“I don’t think in the history of the church … that we have ever had a situation like this where churches and Sacraments were not available,” he said. “Even during persecutions that the church has faced over the years, the Sacraments were made available, often at great personal sacrifice to the priest and the lay people.”

“It’s about making it through together and being together.”

- JON PASIUK

The church is, however, leaving its doors open for roughly 10 hours a day, so as to allow people to pray.

“We have removed most our chairs to foster the physical distancing needed for people’s safety and make an effort to sanitize the place each day,” said L’Heureux.

Spring is also an important time for the Jewish community, with Passover set to take place from April 8 to 16. Traditionally, the community is brought together for Seder dinners during this time, explained Ira Pettle, who has organized Hanukkah celebrations in Whistler the last two years.

“We eat food together, we pray together, we sing together, we dance together, and this year, it’s not happening.”

Seders are typically family affairs, bringing together multiple generations, but in Whistler, Jewish outreach organizations such as Chabad will organize community get-togethers.

“Organizations like [Chabad] are designed to help Jewish people who are kind of fragmented, who don’t necessarily have family during the holidays,” Pettle said.

This year he plans on having a “miniSeder” at home with his girlfriend, he added. “It’s just going to be the two of us,” Pettle said. “We’ll do our best to observe and honour the tradition, but we are going to be doing it on our own.”

As for Whistler’s Muslim community, the Friday prayers that are typically held at the Maury Young Arts Centre have been cancelled.

They are organized by the BC Muslim Association (BCMA), which has cancelled events around the province. n

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VOP considering budget adjustment in face of COVID-19 COUNCIL PUTS FORTH RESERVE TRANSFER CUT TO AVOID TAX INCREASE

BY DAN FALLOON AS THE VILLAGE of Pemberton (VOP) continues its 2020 budget process, the municipality is considering some adjustments as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue.

In council’s Committee of the Whole meeting for its third budget session, held through a publicly accessible Zoom meeting on April 7, chief administrative officer Nikki Gilmore said the initial budget was considering a roughly five-per-cent tax increase, but with the drastic change in the world since its last session on March 10, the VOP has changed course in order to avoid an increase.

After the last council meeting, Lena Martin, the VOP’s manager of finance and administration, sought to cut more than $63,000 from the budget to limit the rise to five per cent, but in the interim, found further cuts to negate the increase altogether.

“We have obviously been monitoring and assessing the impact of COVID-19 on our community, but we also have to look long term at our whole year,” she said. “This is our only opportunity to collect taxes that are needed to sustain us … until July of next year without knowing what, really, the future holds for financial stability for a lot of people.”

Council was in agreement on many of

BUDGET ADJUSTMENT Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman during the Committee of the Whole meeting, held remotely on April 7.

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the extra cuts, though a few generated some debate.

One such item was limiting the 2.2-percent consumer price index (CPI) raise, calculated in December, to only union staff for whom a raise had already been negotiated, meaning non-union staff and council would receive no raise.

Councillor Ted Craddock said he is generally against CPI increases, but at this time, felt uneasy leaving out some staff.

Martin noted that other municipalities are going ahead with CPI raises for staff members, which could make it difficult for the VOP to attract staff if they don’t follow suit.

There was also debate over hiring for two new roles, though one of those, a full-time, half-year emergency coordinator, could serve as an expansion of the existing part-time role.

“This role doesn’t necessarily have to be with a new person. All we have now is a part-time person who is doing a full-time

“The current circumstances certainly point to the fact that having proper emergency coordination staff is pretty important to us.”

- MIKE RICHMAN

“I don’t feel comfortable that some of our staff will be receiving it and part of the staff won’t,” he said.

Coun. Amica Antonelli, meanwhile, noted that several Pemberton workers would not be receiving an increase, while Mayor Mike Richman reiterated that the move is in line with financial projections.

“It’s not that we’re just trying to cut a raise out of people’s salaries. It’s that we don’t expect the cost-of-living index to go up 2.2 [per cent] as predicted,” Richman said before council approved a plan with no CPI increase for non-union staff.

job,” Gilmore said. “The rest of her job is not being done at all.”

Gilmore said there is “desperate need” to expand the role, with Coun. Ryan Zant agreeing, noting that expanding the position would help staff better prepare for potential new waves of COVID-19 cases later in the year.

Richman added that while the virus is top of mind, it doesn’t preclude other emergencies from hitting the community at the same time.

“The current circumstances certainly point to the fact that having proper emergency coordination staff is pretty important to us,” Richman said.

Meanwhile, council opted against hiring a new part-time bylaw officer.

Among other cuts to the budget was reducing the education, training and travel allotment for staff and council, especially with several conferences already cancelled. As well, council voted to defer both the retrofit of the train station washroom, which will remain open during the pandemic, and the planned refinishing of the Pemberton sign, to 2021. Half of the Development Cost Charges Bylaw Phase 1 will also be put over to next year.

Meanwhile, council voted to allow for six months of portable toilets at the community barn, down from year-round use. The toilets are currently not in use due to the pandemic.

Council halved the community enhancement fund to $7,500, as well. In 2019, much of the money went to events, many of which are, at best, up in the air this year. However, council still wanted to have funds available to support initiatives such as the Pemberton Secondary School (PSS) Red Devils Alumni Association, the PSS bursary program, the Men’s Shed and the Pemberton Wildlife Association, all of which received funds in 2019.

To keep the tax rate steady, council voted to cut $41,526 from its reserve transfer.

Council will give first three readings to the proposed 2020-2023 Five Year Financial Plan at its regular council meeting on April 21, while at its regular meeting on May 5, it will get fourth and final reading. Also at the May 5 meeting, the tax-rates bylaw will receive its first three readings and, if applicable, the water, sewer and frontage rates bylaws will as well. The tax-rates bylaw will receive its fourth and final reading at a special meeting that is still to be scheduled. n

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Families coping after Pemberton house fire

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LARCH STREET RESIDENCE ‘TOTAL LOSS’ AFTER MARCH 30 BLAZE

BY DAN FALLOON THOUGH SHE’S QUICK to help others in her career as an educational assistant, Ann Chua is coming to grips with needing some aid herself.

Chua and her partner of roughly a decade, David Sneddon, were woken up on March 30 to a fire in their Larch Street home in Pemberton. Chua suffered burns on her fingers dragging Sneddon out of the house to safety, while he is in Vancouver General Hospital with third-degree burns to 40 per cent of his body.

Without renters’ insurance, the couple was left with nothing, though a GoFundMe started by Sneddon’s sister, Christy, surpassed its $15,000 goal as of April 6. The fundraiser is online at gofundme.com/f/help-david-and-annrebuild-after-the-fire.

“I don’t want the attention, but asking for help is, I think, necessary,” she said through tears during an April 5 interview.

With so much still unknown about Sneddon’s condition, Chua said it’s difficult to anticipate what they will require in the future.

“There’s so much that we need to take care of right now. It’s hard,” Chua said.

“Right now, I can’t make long-term plans because I don’t know what [Sneddon’s] injuries are. I know it will change everything for us.

“Right now, we just want him to get better.”

Chua is trying to take the situation “one day at a time,” as Sneddon, a chef, recovers.

“It’s just deep, deep sadness for me right now about everything that happened,” she said.

Chua said in addition to having the fundraiser, she has received messages of support from her workplace and the community at large.

Christy Sneddon said she and the rest of David’s family, including his 25-year-old daughter, are trying their best to support Chua from Toronto with no way of safely travelling to be here in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christy said it’s frustrating and upsetting to be away from the family at such a difficult time, so it was important to try to set up online support for the pair.

However, she doesn’t spend much time on social media and was unsure of whether it would reach a wide audience. Within days, however, it surpassed its initial goal.

“It was one of my only options to help,” she said. “Before I knew it, it was all over the place and everyone was stepping up to help.”

Christy said her brother underwent his first grafting surgery, taking care of his arms and upper body, on April 2.

“He was very unstable coming out of

that. Friday was a bit of a tough day,” she said on April 6. “The weekend was basically a holding pattern, just hoping nothing went wrong, and nothing did.”

Homeowner Diane Rothdram, whose family lived in the upper section of the house, recalled being woken up but confused about what was happening, thinking the noise was heavy rain outdoors.

Once she understood what was going on, however, she roused her children, aged 10 and 11. The front door was a “wall of flames,” Rothdram said, but she and her family were able to escape through the garage.

Husband Mike went back inside to retrieve the family dog, grabbing a fire extinguisher and spraying the side of the house when he came back outside. At the same time, he tried to alert Chua and Sneddon.

“Our next-door neighbour, who works for the Whistler Fire Hall, found Dave on the grass and Ann, our tenant, was out on the grass as well,” she said.

Rothdram said paramedics came to take Sneddon away quickly.

Emergency Medical Services arrived quickly, Rothdram said, and there was already a dog-friendly room set up for them at the Pemberton Valley Lodge.

After posting to Facebook to let the community know the situation and to try to secure a new residence, Rothdram estimated the family received 30 offers of places to stay, and it appears that they’ve found a new three-bedroom home.

Rothdram, still working as the general manager at Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub, said Mike was still on payroll at Blackcomb Glass at the time of the fire, so they hadn’t felt major financial effects of the COVID19 pandemic.

She credits her children for holding up well in the face of several stressful situations all at once.

“Every once in a while, they’ll realize something else that they’ve lost and they’ll tear up a little bit, but all of us are more grateful than anything else because it was a pretty extreme event and it could have just been so different for us,” she said.

Rothdram was also thankful to the firefighters and paramedics who helped out, as well as to the community for rallying around them and their tenants.

“Pemberton is incredible,” she said.

Village of Pemberton deputy fire chief Cameron Adams described the house as “a total loss,” noting that the blaze took roughly six-and-a-half hours to extinguish after crews initially responded at 12:49 a.m.

“It was definitely a tough fire to fight and with it being fully involved by the time it was called in, the crew did an amazing job with what they were faced with,” he said, adding, “It’s unclear how it started.” n

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The pandemic pendulum MODERATING EMOTIONAL SWAYS IN OUR TROUBLED TIME

BY NICOLA BENTLEY THERE’S A RAPID fall as the pendulum drops from the right on its descent to the middle; it stays suspended for a time at the bottom of its arc before seizing momentum and rising left again.

The pendulum of life, the one that normally swings from challenge to opportunity, from season to season, has shifted to overdrive. The new pandemicfuelled pendulum of emotions, hopes, concerns, and even intense darkness is our new shared reality. This pendulum of despair and optimism has significant force.

My personal pendulum normally sways as life undulates, but now it shifts hourly and sometimes from minute to minute. But here we are, all of us, as we bear witness to our shared reality, without a clear end in sight; thrust literally from feast to famine overnight.

This pandemic pendulum is shared with my community, with all British Columbians, and with our distressed world.

One day I live fully in gratitude, in the moment, grateful for my health, for my

PANDEMIC PENDULUM Mindfulness is an

essential tool to manage the great sweeps of emotion we are feeling during troubled times.

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home in Whistler, grateful for the love of my husband and family, and for the resilient spirit of my community.

At the other side of the pendulum I have more anxiety than I have ever known. My parents live in the U.S., where I watch the horror movie unfold by the hour south of our closed border.

I feel the distress across our community as I watch the challenges our entire region is facing. This experience on the left side of the pendulum is shared by all of us as residents, local governments, provincial and federal leaders, social-service organizations, large- and small-business owners; we’re all together on this uberfuelled, pandemic pendulum.

So how do we stay in that space that we normally occupy, where the pendulum sways seem manageable, where we co-exist with the teeter-totter of our regular lives?

In my case, I’ve seized hold of my mindfulness practice. This is my tool to stare down and slow the pendulum and its power over me.

Mindfulness gives me an instrument to observe, to pay attention, to notice when I start to climb onboard the fear-inducing ride.

I watch as the left tries to take hold, as the panic sweeps across my upper body and I feel like a heavy foot is pressing down on my chest. Then I shift right—usually when I get outside in the fresh air. This is

when I witness community and caring; I share a smile or wave with someone else momentarily on the right too.

And every morning, early, I just sit. I sit and I breathe, and I observe what breathing and being still feels like.

It’s as simple as that and yet not so simple. Sitting still is not a new thing for me. I’ve had a mindful-meditation practice for more than two decades. I’m not at peace with this frightening experience, this global scourge, but being mindful allows me to keep at bay the left, the side that can feel dismal, like grieving someone I’ve known my entire life.

Mindfulness is a tool that allows me to reflect and feel somewhat settled in this greatly shifting time. This idea of presence isn’t something to “get” or research online (although you can certainly do so), it’s inside each of us.

Mindfulness is a personal awareness practice. It’s the action of taking notice, of observing one’s own feelings and thoughts so we can rest and settle our minds. The opportunity for mindfulness is everywhere.

When I wash my hands mindfully and deliberately for my health, and that of others in my community. While I write the grocery list for my solo, once-a-week, quick foray, conscious while in the store to thank all the staff I see. When I speak to a community member or a business

owner on the phone about their worries, I listen deeply to demonstrate that I do hear them, and I’ll do my best to seek out the information they need. When I sit at my dinner table each evening and share gratitude with my guy. We’re so grateful to be Canadian, to have a public health system such as ours where the frontline is the true battlefield.

I draw on mindfulness as a tool, like something I would include on a hike, something I would pack along like a nourishing lunch or an extra layer.

Mindfulness is an essential piece of equipment to manage the great sweeps of the pendulum as it attempts to rock us all wildly back and forth.

Mindfulness is not a cure, but it allows me to feel like I’ve reached camp before dark, like I’ve still got water left in my canteen.

Before the next sweep shifts left again, before it gets too dark, check out what’s in your own pack. You may find a version of mindfulness there for you that could bring some emotional moderation in this troubled time.

Wash your hands, keep your distance and be mindful.

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ODD JOB

The sourdough makers AS A PANDEMIC- shuttered global gentry finds time and motivation to pursue all manner of guerilla baking, and weighing the popularity of specific items by sheer volume of Instagram posts, it appears that sourdough is in.

This is no surprise to Whistlerites Ed

BY LESLIE ANTHONY and Natasha Tatton, owner-operators of BReD, a plant-based bakery and coffee shop built on the esoteric bread style. For the 30-something Brits who met in their late teens and travelled the world before landing here to carve out a professional life, sourdough isn’t just in—it’s life.

Like most consuming passions, this one had an on-ramp. With a strong interest in food and fine dining from an early age, Ed was working as sous chef at Whistler’s Alta Bistro. “We made everything from scratch but the bread,” he recalls when I chat with the couple by phone. “I asked if we could get a bread program going since I had some experience in it. Once we started, I’d sometimes show up at yoga with a loaf of sourdough, the smell would permeate the studio, and people would ask where they could get some. So, in February 2016, I started taking orders through Facebook and using Alta Bistro’s kitchen when it was free.”

SOURDOUGH START-UP Sourdough has become

de rigueur during the downtime of the COVID-19 pandemic, which came as no surprise to BReD’s Ed and Natasha Tatton.

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Starting with 30 loaves a go, demand soon skyrocketed. “I’d just proposed to Natasha and needed money for our wedding fund, so I jumped up to 50, 100, 150 loaves. With just two ovens and a tiny mixer that could only do 15 loaves at a time, it got crazy,” he recalls.

Natasha chimes in. “Ed originally thought sourdough had a manly appeal— like craft beer,” she chuckles. “But the target market was young moms, who loved his English charm and good looks.”

Production eventually outgrew Alta Bistro, which needed its kitchen—and sous chef.

Ed nevertheless nurtures fond memories of these humble beginnings. “It was good market research, too—what styles of sourdough did people like, how much would they pay?”

These were important questions, because a business seed soon sprouted.

is telling me—It’s just a dispenser and I’m like, No—it’s not. You know how little girls dream about their wedding details? I had that kind of vision.”

The issues weren’t always small, adds Natasha. “We had an expensive oven built to order in Italy and were terrified we wouldn’t be able to get it through the door, or that it was too heavy, so there were engineering concerns.”

Eighteen months after deciding, BReD opened on March 22, 2019. The reception was unprecedented. “People are cautious about new businesses, looking to see what you bring to the table, but we were busy,” says Natasha.

On top of several different bread types, Ed’s sourdough cinnamon rolls were an instant hit, most mornings seeing line-

“Humans have been making bread for over 6,000 years. It got a bad rap recently, but our bodies digest fermented grains much better.”

- ED TATTON

With both his brothers and father being business owners, Ed had likewise contemplated his own restaurant. He and Natasha saw demand in Whistler for both quality sourdough and plant-based food choices, but opening a shop remained a big decision. They sold their house in the U.K., added their savings to the pot, and secured financing. Then the fun began.

A perfectionist by nature, Ed now had latitude to research and geek out on proper equipment, which the pair share a laugh over. “It took me two hours to decide on a hand-towel dispenser,” recalls Ed. “Tash

ups out the door onto Franz’s Trail, the commercial heart of Creekside.

The appeal was obvious: exceptionally high-quality baking and barista work, vegan friendliness, and an open-concept kitchen, a window into the mystique of sourdough—a start-to-finish 32 hours of labour, physics, chemistry, and biology seen in a threeingredient mix of flour, water, and salt, and the combined leavening and fermentation abilities of yeast and bacteria (acids produced by Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis give sourdough its signature flavour). As Ed puts it: “Humans have been making

bread for over 6,000 years. It got a bad rap recently, but our bodies digest fermented grains much better.” So…sourdough.

With huge community support and record-breaking sales this winter, March 2020 was going to be spectacular—a fitting way to celebrate a first-year anniversary.

Then, like most Whistler businesses, it shut.

“One minute we’re hiring new staff, the next we’re laying everyone off and operating an online shop,” says Natasha.

In fact, BReD was an instant model of pandemic-friendly business: orders are placed on edsbred.com before 8 a.m.

Friday; you pay online, receive an email confirmation, then choose a pick-up time between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Each customer has a five-minute window with no one else in the shop in which to pick up their packed order from a table.

With Ed working to capacity on his own, they’re selling out every week. Occasional specialty items keep it interesting for customers. Natasha’s favourite? “At the moment, hot-cross buns—because they’re so nostalgic of childhood. But normally it’s a pecan cinnamon bun with house-made coconut whipped cream and an oat-milk latte.” Ed’s tastes are simpler; he still best appreciates a slice of sesame or poppyseed sourdough—with peanut butter, avocado, or extra-virgin olive oil.

Some of the changes (e.g., online shop) will linger after the COVID crisis, but the love of making bread will never diminish for Ed. “A hundred things can go wrong making sourdough, so when they don’t, and I make some epic bread, I’m pretty happy.”

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Inside the 33-year effort to identify mystery remains found on Whistler Mountain

By Brandon Barrett 32 APRIL 9, 2020

FEATURE STORY is a balmy day in August 1987, all the excuse Dave Williamson and Rod MacLeod need to get out of the office for a while and escape the oppressive heat.

Working as planners for what was then the Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation, Williamson and MacLeod are surveying a potential lift line near mid-station, hanging flags and doing some fall-line analysis as they walk through the lush, moss-laden understory of an old hemlock forest.

As they venture downslope, making idle chatter, Williamson spots something in the distance: a gleam of white peeking up from out of the verdant landscape.

“Hey, look, there’s a skull,” he says to his supervisor, half-jokingly.

“No way, it can’t be,” MacLeod replies.

They continue on to get a closer look when, some 15 metres away, a realization dawns on Williamson: That really is a skull.

The pair then runs through the most likely scenarios, as we tend to do when confronted with such an improbable reality.

It’s a rock, MacLeod suggests. Or a bear skull. “‘Well, if it’s a bear, it’s been to the dentist, because I can see its fillings,” says Williamson, now peering intently into the skull’s jaw, which sits in vivid contrast to the evergreen bed of moss beneath it.

“This thing has got a bullet hole in the side of it,” he observes.

“No, no, that’s an ear hole,” retorts a stillskeptical MacLeod.

“Well, it has got two ears on the side of its head then,” says Williamson, the last shred of doubt evaporating in his mind.

“Holy moly, we just found something here.”

The Whistler of 33 years ago was of course a very different place than the hypermodern ski mecca it is today. With a mid-‘80s population hovering around 3,000, it would have been almost impossible for a local to go missing without someone noticing.

In fact, even unsolved missing persons cases were relatively rare back then, and Sandy Boyd, who was VP of operations for Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation at the time, told the Whistler Question in an article soon after the skeleton was found that there had never been a lost person reported on-mountain that the lift company was unable to track down.

While there is no mystery surrounding the ultimate cause of death—a postmortem confirmed the John Doe died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound believed to be a deliberate suicide—the few additional facts investigators managed to turn up have only added to the puzzle of the man’s life.

First, the basics: We know the heavily decomposed remains had been there for at least two years, possibly three, and belonged to a Caucasian male between 30 and 49 years of age. He was estimated to be approximately 5-9 in height, weighing 151 pounds, with long brown hair and was

wearing a white Daniel Hechter shirt, white of Tribeca, to begin lending its skillset to Nike court shoes, and a powder-blue K-Way the investigations of more than a dozen jacket when he was found.

Canadian cold cases.

An examination of the skull indicated About six years ago, instructor Joe the man had poor dental hygiene, Mullins and director of continuing studies and based on the dental work he had John Volk were talking about offering a undergone, police surmised he had new course in forensic sculpture. Mullins probably visited a North American dentist. had the idea of using real-life cases as the The gun recovered near the body—a .38 basis for the course, and contacted New calibre revolver dating back to the First York City’s chief medical examiner’s office, World War—was later traced to a 1983 theft which just so happened to have recently in Las Vegas, Nevada. acquired a 3D printer. The office agreed, Curiously, the man was also found with and began scanning skulls from a number a single South African Rand bill in his of open case files to send to the school. pocket, adding more questions as to his Trained in a wide range of fine arts skills, possible origins. students at the academy were already well With no vehicle found nearby, it’s likely versed in écorché, the art of drawing, or in the man made the roughly two-hour walk this case, sculpting a human figure showing uphill from the village—not uncommon in the muscles of the body without skin. those days—before settling on the serene “All of the students that go through our backdrop of where Franz’s Run now sits to program have been trained in anatomy and end his life. all have done a little bit of sculpture. They

enrol in a forensic identification class at the academy. Mullins outlined the forensic sculpture course for her and said they were on the lookout for fresh cases.

“When [Sampson] was taking this class, she said, ‘Wow, we happen to have some cases to work on.’ It was through Charity Sampson’s work that this program was put together,” Volk explains.

The RCMP provided the academy with 3D-printed versions of 15 male skulls located between 1972 and 2019—including Whistler’s John Doe—chosen in part because they had fully enacted craniums and mandibles.

“Every face tells a story and these are 15 individuals who deserve to have their stories told,” says Marie-Claude Arsenault, the RCMP’s chief superintendent for specialized investigative services, in a release. “We started with unidentified remains, then a face, and we are hoping to end each of their stories with a name.”

It’s through this unique joint initiative that 32-year-old Adam Lupton found himself staring into the eyes of the reconstructed face of a nameless bearded man last year, whose remains were located in West Vancouver in 1996. (The artist who recreated the face of the man discovered in Whistler in 1987 was unavailable for comment.)

A Vancouver native himself, Lupton never expected he would one day find himself working on active forensic cases when he enrolled at the renowned New York school.

“I’m not necessarily a sculptor; my main focus is painting, so I never thought, ‘First, I’ll sculpt and then I’ll sculpt a cold case of an actual deceased person,’” he says. “I never in my wildest dreams thought I could do that or would have the opportunity to do that.”

Each student is given a skull replica, and they begin by adding muscles to the face with clay, inserting small straws to A brief article on the mystery remains printed in the now-defunct mark tissue depth. Once the layer of skin Whistler Citizen on Aug. 20, 1987. is laid on, “you can really start to see how “We were working but there wasn’t a lot all have skills that the average art student the skulls inform everything on top of it: of activity on the mountain at that time,” wouldn’t,” Volk explains. “They all think of how the cheekbones raise, how noses start says Williamson, who is now the principal this as pretty normal here, but in the reality to become more pronounced or wide or for environmental consulting firm Cascade of the broader world, it’s pretty abnormal skinny,” Lupton says.

Environmental. “It was before the bike park. the training they get.”

At this stage, the sculptors rely on There were no operations in the summer.

The program proved such a success that police case files to flesh out the remaining I think he just hit the end of the road, it was expanded to include skeletal remains features. Wrinkles are placed to age the basically, where the Pony Trail bypasses from a variety of cold cases stretching face appropriately, and other defining traits Franz’s, thought it was a nice place and from Delaware to California, including two such as visible injuries or facial hair are wandered off into the woods.”

19th-century skulls from unknown soldiers added to get as close as possible to what As the leads dried up over the years, killed during the American Civil War and that person might have looked like at the the RCMP eventually turned to an unlikely an enslaved African man from Colonial-era time of death. source for help—some 5,000 kilometres away. Connecticut.

“There’s a hope that it’s the right face or In 2018, the school also partnered with something close to the right face,” Lupton the medical examiner’s office in Pima County, says. “The entire scientific method behind Ariz. to recreate the faces of eight unknown it is based on approximations.” border crossers whose skeletal remains had Unlike their usual artistic pursuits, the been found in the harsh Sonoran Desert. students have no room for creative license.

How the RCMP got connected with the “This isn’t about, ‘Oh, this person would academy was something of a stroke of luck. A look better if they had a bigger chin or if A lot of things had to break a certain few years ago, Cpl. Charity Sampson, with the their cheekbones were set off a little bit,” way for the New York Academy of Art, a RCMP’s National Centre for Missing Persons Lupton says. “We’re not after making the best prestigious private art university in the heart and Unidentified Remains, happened to looking bust we can make. It’s about making

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ABOVE: A bust recreated from a 3D-printed skull of Whistler’s John Doe at the New York Academy of Art. Photos courtesy of the RCMP something that hopefully sparks an idea in someone to identify this missing person.”

At a certain point in the process, a strange reality begins to set in for the students, who’ve been tasked with the immense responsibility of giving a face to the faceless. At the start of the week, they are just dealing with a 3D-printed skull, and no matter how distinct each skull might be, they are still no more than cold representations of a life that once was.

But sometime around the third or fourth day, something changes. The faces start to become real, the recreated busts peering back at their creators with unwavering eyes.

A knowing silence settles over the class.

“What I see happening is the first couple of days, there’s a lot of chatter. Students are

talking to one other and they’re building the [busts],” says Volk. “Sometime either late Wednesday or early Thursday morning, they suddenly become individuals. Rather than having 15 or 16 students and an instructor, now there are 32 people in the room. It’s suddenly kind of like a church.

It’s really quiet.”

For most students, what begins as a novel weeklong workshop in forensic sculpting transforms into something much more profound. A bond is formed, and the artists can’t help but wondering: Who was this person?

“Everyone tries not to, but you’re spending so much time with this person who hasn’t been seen for 10, 15, 20 years, and you have enough information in

their case file that you can start to build a narrative or ask questions: What was their life like? How did they end up like this? You think of the possibilities,” Lupton says.

“It is a connection you build, and over time, you empathize with this person.”

In the more than three decades since Whistler’s John Doe was recovered, police have chased down several tips from across the continent that have ultimately led nowhere. They’ve pored through missingperson records in both Canada and the U.S., to no avail. In 2013, a promising lead did emerge that investigators hoped would match the remains to a missing Toronto man. Unfortunately, DNA and dental records proved no match.

The New York Academy of Art program

has had its successes, however. Since it was launched five years ago, there have been four positive identifications, including of remains found on a Nova Scotian beach last September that were matched to DNA evidence.

In the absence of so few biographical details, we have a tendency to fill in the blanks with our own speculation about a person’s life, however outlandish, which often says more about us than it does about them. Theories abounded after Williamson and his supervisor discovered the remains near mid-station so many years ago. Some thought it was an arranged hit, like out of some noir crime flick, made to look like a suicide. Friends of Williamson joked he had found the missing American union leader and notorious mob target Jimmy Hoffa.

FAR LEFT: A specialist at the National Research Council cleans a printed 3D skull. OTHERS: Students at the New York Academy of Art were tasked with recreating the faces of 15 unidentified remains provided by the RCMP. Photos courtesy of the RCMP

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“It was certainly a popular cocktail discussion,” he recalls.

“It’s one of those little mysteries that will be part of Whistler lore.”

For now, that’s how Whistler’s John Doe will remain—a mystery. But like the skull replicas that, over time, are given flesh and features that transform them into a reflection of a real life, we can only hope that for those who might still be out there, spending sleepless nights wondering where their loved one is, a sense of closure, however overdue it might be, is not far off.

If you have any information on this case, please contact the Whistler RCMP at 604932-3044 or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous. ■

t’s a sunny spring day in April 2014, and Mark Steffens is out for his first bike ride of the season, eager to explore the trails around the Emerald home he and his family just moved into.

Near the end of the No Girly Man trail, he sees what appears to be a trail-builder’s camp, flush with overhanging tarps and equipment. At first, he doesn’t think much of it, and continues riding on. But something feels off. He wonders why someone would leave their trail-building gear out so early in the season, clumps of snow still dotting the trail. So he turns around to get a closer look.

As Steffens approaches the makeshift camp, he spots a clear layer of vapour seal, typically used to insulate homes, spotted with droplets of condensation.

He notices a duffel bag, some boots, and a few other personal items.

“It started to look really odd,” he remembers. “I started prodding around and actually grabbed a hand, or pushed onto the hand, at which point I realized it was a body.”

Despite Steffens’ initial fear that he may have stumbled onto a crime scene, police quickly ruled out foul play. The partial remains had been there since at least November 2013, when the man, Caucasian, between 50 and 65 years old with long grey hair in a short ponytail, was last seen leaving Nesters Market. Although numerous tips came in and a police sketch was circulated in the months after the man’s death, no positive identification has ever been made.

Like his fellow John Doe discovered in the alpine almost 30 years earlier, it would seem the man sought out the beauty and solitude that Whistler offers to spend his final, lonely moments.

It’s something that has weighed on Steffens in the years since, wondering if there are loved ones out there who might not know he’s gone. “[I have] these memories and this curiosity and this sadness around this person vanishing without any real family or any real impact from it,” he says. “Is there someone out there who’s still hoping that he’s around, a friend or family member who is searching still and needs that closure far more than any of us do?”

Whenever tragedy touches our personal lives in the way it did for Steffens and Williamson, we have this innate desire to understand why. Maybe it’s a way to reassure ourselves that we are different, that we will die at the end of a long and fulfilled life, surrounded by the people we love. But the truth is we are all closer to the darkness than we’d like to admit, something that has become readily apparent in the strange times we now find ourselves in.

One question that struck me time and again in reporting this story was this: were these men so far beyond the margins of society that no one—not family, not an ex-lover, not even a casual acquaintance— noticed, or worse, cared they were gone?

I couldn’t help but be reminded of my older brother Chad, who wrestled with a laundry list of mental health and substance issues for much of his 34 years. When he died on a hot August day in 2013, he was also alone, and it took days for anyone to discover his body.

I think it was this painful memory, a few weeks before my own 34th birthday, that led me to ask Steffens a question that seemed to throw him for a loop: Was it important to try to keep the memory of these unknown men alive, to continue seeking answers, if only to give them the voice they never had in their lifetimes?

“For me, personally, I feel it’s incredibly important what they’re doing in case there is someone searching or looking for closure,” he says. “But when it comes to the individual’s legacy and giving that person a voice, particularly in my case, I don’t think this person would care if he left a legacy.”

Steffen’s honest answer made me realize that, similar to funerals, this kind of quest for closure, vital as it is for the living, is of no use to the dead.

And by the time they’re gone, it’s already too late to ask why.

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ur adventures began in the Casablanca airport parking lot. The Economy car rental attendant offered a weathered SUV and assured my husband and I, “C’est une excellent voiture.” French is spoken by most in this Arab-Berber kingdom. We were somewhat reluctant, but eventually acquiesced, figuring we’d blend in like locals with a used vehicle covered in desert sand, and I even donned a hijab.

The 100 windy kilometres of bucolic spring green farmlands peppered with shepherds herding their goats and sheep to El Jadida was breathtaking. Restaurant du Port overlooked the 16th-century Portuguese stonewall Atlantic harbour that was packed with blue, wooden fishing boats. As we savoured our fresh sole lunch, a visitor joined us—a ginger-coloured kitten, which we soon discovered is a common Moroccan sight.

Essaouira is 275 kilometres south of El Jadida, and we encountered some treacherous washed-out spots along the coastal road. With an azure sky and gilded ocean views, we didn’t mind the challenge and neither did our seasoned SUV. Villa Maroc, a riad nestled in Essaouira’s European inspired medina, is a picturesque family-run guesthouse, restaurant, bar, and hamman. Our room overlooked the misty beach, popular amongst surfers. Famished and fatigued, we snuggled up by a romantic

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fire in one of the restaurant’s private stucco rooms, and were served a scrumptious turmeric beef couscous paired with Perle Noire, a local red.

We roused to the early call to mosque salat (prayer). Blooming germaniums, blue mosaic tables, and seafoam green chairs filled the ocean rampart view roof deck.

Fatima, an attendant since 1990, served us a delicious breakfast that included fresh flat bread and locally made preserves.

The caramel-coloured sand beach beckoned us where hopeful camel hagglers offered rides. We continued on to the dock with a bustling fish market filled with sardines, snapper, and shellfish. Jetlagged, we returned to Villa Maroc’s hamman, and bathed with black soap, an olive paste soap known for its moisturizing qualities.

Before dinner, copious cats greeted us, as we meandered hand-in-hand through the medina. We eyed an ivorybeige, diamond-patterned rug perfect for our living room, but not quite the size we needed. Mohammad, the Maison Berbere merchant, assured us that it could be customized in the time it took to eat Villa Maroc’s lobster and aubergine dinner.

Late morning, we began the 170-kilometre Marrakech journey with our Beni Ourain rug breezing through the argan tree farms. Goats climb argan trees and eat the fruit, which is

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collected from their droppings, aiding the arduous process of producing a magical oil sought after by chefs and aestheticians.

Travel the speed limit. We were stopped by police three times, who were especially friendly when we paid the 400-dirham ticket in cash.

La Mamoumia, a palatial kingdom within itself, is near the Koutoubia Minaret and the north gate of Marrakech’s mystical medina. After checking in, we headed to the enchanted-garden swimming pool to catch the last rays of the day. No hijab needed.

Dinner at La Morocain was exquisite. The orange orchard entrance with the velvet and toutaoui design details made us feel like sultans.

The next day, we explored the medina souks infused with aromatic spices, leather goods and pottery that led us to the mellah, Jewish quarter. The Lazama synagogue, built in 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition, is hidden within the mudbrick alleyways.

At sunset in the Agafay Desert, 35 kilometres southwest of Marrakech, we celebrated our 20th anniversary with champagne and succulent chicken tagine gazing upon the snowcapped High Atlas Mountains. We sipped hot mint tea by a blazing olive-wood fire beneath the halfmoon, star-filled sky, while we were serenaded by gimbari and drum musicians.

The next day, we wandered to the Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) Museum, a fashionistas delight archiving his Moroccan influenced designs. YSL purchased the adjacent botanical oasis, Majorelle Garden, in 1980, and the Berber Museum within the grounds was worth maneuvering the crowds for.

Our last day, we ascended to Asni, a serene Berber village carved in the hillside of the High Atlas Mountains 75 kilometres from Marrakech. Rashid, a local guide, led us through the rock-cliff trails with scenic views of olive and walnut orchards, riverbeds, and mountain vistas. It was unusually warm, and the peach trees were already in bloom.

In the evening, Marrakech’s bustling square, Jemaa el-Fnaa, beckoned us. We slithered through macaque monkeys, henna artists and fragrant food stalls.

Deep within the souks we stumbled upon a restored 16th-century enchantment, Dar Cherfa, where we dined by reflective pools, decorative auburn stucco, and tiles.

It was time to say au revoir. As we shared the Casablanca-Marrakech motorway with donkey-drawn carts, motorcycles, and trucks, we were mesmerized once again by the juxtaposition of the ancient and modern magique of Morocco—and grateful that our SUV had weathered our memorable journey. n

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Whistler clubs cope with COVID-19 ORGANIZATIONS FEELING VARIETY OF EFFECTS FROM PANDEMIC

BY DAN FALLOON AS THE FALLOUT from the COVID19 pandemic rolls on, Whistler sports organizations find themselves in an array of situations going forward.

Like any business affected by the crisis, there are a variety of situations in which a club could find itself, ranging from some that are seeing a fairly equal decrease in both costs and revenue to some that are losing significant funding and are being forced to closely analyze budgets to survive.

One of those in the latter category is the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA), which has postponed several planned events, including races and its large annual bike swap fundraiser, while still planning to responsibly maintain as many trails as possible so it’s prepared when the world starts to open up again.

However, a two-thirds reduction of its fee-for-service agreement with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), from $120,000 to $40,000, will present significant challenges, according to executive director Trevor Ferrao.

“It means basically only being able to employ our trail crew for May and June and not the rest of the summer,” he said. “That’s even taking into account the federal wage subsidy as well.”

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Ferrao said the focus in the early season would be ensuring trails are safe after the winter, so it would be key for WORCA to frontload the labour if forced to make a choice. After June, the burden would fall on lead trail builder Dan Raymond.

“Looking at the funding, we’d be struggling to get into September. Maybe midSeptember, depending on the subsidies,” he said. “But that would just be one person, and we’d be struggling to keep up.

“Once we get through the current situation, we’re expecting a lot of trail

programming at the first hint of danger.

However, after putting in hard work, the group has moved its services online with eight classes a week for athletes to meet up with coaches through Zoom for everything from strength and conditioning and active stretching to yoga.

“It’s been a stressful two weeks just figuring out how we can move forward with operations,” she said. “We were one of the first programs to close because with 90 per cent of our client base, our participants and athletes, having compromised immune

“It’s been a stressful two weeks just figuring out how we can move forward with operations.”

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users, not just bikers but hikers and trail runners, so it’s going to be a struggle to keep everything maintained to the high standards that we have.”

If trails can’t be maintained to required standards, it may come about that some will be forced to close.

Without membership fees coming in, Ferrao said in the big picture, WORCA is working with worst-case budgets that see no events held this year.

Meanwhile, Whistler Adaptive executive director Chelsey Walker said the organization could take no risks and shuttered its in-person

systems, we had to shut down. There was no other way.”

Walker explained that for families of Whistler Adaptive clientele, offering online classes is a “lifeline” and a chance for those caregivers to reclaim some of their own time.

“We’re all about providing respite for parents or other family members who might be in a caregiving situation. If we can give them an hour off to go do something else … it provides that support that is so desperately needed at this time,” she said.

Walker said Whistler Adaptive is starting to look into which funding and

grant opportunities are available, including as an autism service provider.

While its major fundraiser, an annual gala in May, is off, Walker said Whistler Adaptive isn’t ringing alarm bells, especially after holding several successful small fundraisers in recent months.

“We tend to be quite fiscally prudent as an organization and we look to keep six months of core operating funds in the bank so we could carry on if we were able to lose a major donor or sponsor,” she explained.

On the youth organization front, president Kevin Creery of the Whistler Youth Soccer Club said the situation has remained stable.

While it’s been frustrating to cancel the planned spring soccer season, which was about to start up when the snow melted, the club has kept in touch with its athletes to encourage skill development such as ball work in the garage.

Financially, the club has had to pay out some refunds to players for the spring season, while offering credit to players who signed up for fall. The organization will look to apply to federal programs for nonprofits, while keeping an eye on changes to grant programs, but Creery said the club is generally in OK shape.

“We’re lucky we don’t have a lot of overhead.

We don’t have an office. [Administrator] Erin Crawford works at home,” he said. “We won’t be paying for field rentals at this point, so we’ll save a bit of money there.

“It’s tough, for sure, for everyone, but right now, it’s more important for people to support the organizations that can support our community.” n

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Tilston rising to Alpine Canada as men’s coach ARMSTRONG SET TO TAKE OVER AT WMSC

BY DAN FALLOON MARK TILSTON IS SET to make the jump from Whistler back to the World Cup. Tilston, who spent the last five years at the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) as executive director, was announced as the new men’s head coach for Alpine Canada on April 3. The reveal came a day after Tilston posted a farewell letter to the WMSC website.

“I really enjoyed my time at the club and I learned an awful lot here, but at the same time, I’m excited to go back and work on the World Cup and work with some world-class athletes,” Tilston said on April 6. “I’m very excited, all in all.”

In his announcement on the WMSC website on April 2, Tilston said that marketing and sponsorship director Bob Armstrong was set to take over his role with the club.

With the national team, Tilston will head up a program that has plenty of WMSC content in up-and-comers Broderick Thompson, Brodie Seger, Cameron Alexander, Jack Crawford, Kyle Alexander, and Riley Seger as well as veteran Manuel Osborne-Paradis. While the local connection means Tilston has crossed paths with his new charges, he doesn’t necessarily feel he has a head start on how to lead them.

“You kind of have a very superficial knowledge,” he said. “You’ve seen a little bit of their results and you know where they come from. But by no stretch of the

most significant lessons he took from those experiences is that it’s impossible to have a cookie-cutter approach.

“The biggest thing for me that I learned is that every athlete is different. The motivation behind every athlete is different.

The challenges for them are different,” he said. “In a sport like skiing, you can’t take one model and apply that broadly across everybody because they’ve all got different critical, psychological strengths and weaknesses. They’re all coming at it from a different philosophy.”

Apart from the mental side of things, Tilston noted that a sport like skiing is one in which those with different body types can be successful, but of course, that means crafting a unique attack for each competitor.

“In skiing, you can have tall athletes, short athletes, heavy athletes and lighter athletes, but they all have to come at it from a different angle,” he said.

On that note, Tilston’s first order of business when he takes the reins on May 1 will be to get to know more about each racer so they can have a fruitful relationship when on-snow skiing resumes post-pandemic.

“I’ll have to meet everybody. I guess it will be virtually,” he said. “I’m looking forward to speaking with the athletes, learning more about them and the challenges that they face, and getting that individual perspective of things.”

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In a release, Alpine Canada high performance director of alpine Phil McNichol said he was thrilled to bring Tilston in to the program.

“We are ecstatic to have Mark join our team and the collective long-term effort to advance our high-performance programs,” said McNichol. “His vast knowledge and experience in sport science, the Canadian domestic alpine system and World Cup coaching will have a high impact on the work ahead.”

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“The overwhelming takeaway is really community, whether it’s community within the ski club or community within Whistler or community within skiing, the ski club is connected in so many ways to so many individuals, groups and organizations,” he said. “It really does only work as a result of that community component.

“The people that are involved in the club and are in all the same communities, I’ve met an incredible group of people.”

Tilston, who is married to local Olympic ski racer Britt (nee Janyk), will stay based in Whistler, at least for now.

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Making do with what y’all got SHELF LIFE AND SPRING LIFE IN THESE COVIDIAN TIMES BESIDES ENJOYING virtual happy hours with pals and scanning the kitchen shelves to figure out what the heck to do with that flat of creamed corn she bought at Costco because it was such a great price, Cate Webster (who just missed her 40-years-ofservice party at Whistler Blackcomb when the mountains went dark) has some pretty good ideas on how to use her yawningly empty dining room table.

It’s been dedicated to a giant jigsaw puzzle of Machu Picchu, which she visited

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“A thousand pieces take up a lot of room but as we won’t be having a dinner party any time soon, it’s space begging to be utilized,” says Cate via email from the cozy Tapley’s Farm home she shares with Y.P., another long-time Whistlerite who managed mountain events and terrain parks for years.

Like Cate, we all so appreciate our grocery stores and the staff keeping them going right now. But with all the distancing and supply-chain disruptions (like Okanagan farmers desperate for seasonal labourers to pick their asparagus), it sure ain’t business as usual.

Here we are, stuck at home, making do in more ways than one, with spring celebrations fast approaching. There’s Easter, Passover, Vaisakhi and more, but resist, resist, resist your usual gatherings, folks, and take heart with these make-do strategies from your home-bound neighbours.

HOT CROSS BREAD They’re crossed, albeit not buns.

As always, Max makes his own unique mark in life with his lovely homemade baguettes and whole-wheat loaves. You, too, can make your own Easter-ly bread, even without yeast. (Think Irish soda bread.)

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See those fabulous loaves of bread Pique’s inimitable G.D. Maxwell whipped up with his own two hands? You’ll find tons of easy bread recipes online, including ones that don’t need yeast. Bonus: Nesters Market has lots of flour.

Another Max make-do, one shared by fellow stalwart Whistlerite, Pauline Wiebe: Save those meat bones in the freezer. Actually, Max freezes lots of stuff, like vegetable peelings and Parmesan cheese rinds (ask him

PAULINE’S MINESTRONE SOUP Hungry? Tired? You need some of Pauline’s min-eh-stron-eh zuppa! Along with this recipe, which she’s been making for years, she’s included the etymology of minestrone: A thick vegetable soup, first referenced in English in 1871, from the Italian minestrone, from minestrare, meaning “to serve” or “administer,” as in, to administer a remedy. Ahem. “No two batches are ever the same,” she notes. “Keeps life interesting.”

This can be vegetarian, chicken- or beef-based, depending on the broth or stock you use, whether it’s homemade or not. You can add chicken or beef from those bones you boiled, or some bacon. It’s also a great way to use dried beans, just cook them well before adding.

2 TBSP. olive or grapeseed oil 1 LARGE onion, diced 2-3 carrots, diced 2-3 stalks celery, diced 3 TBSP. tomato paste 2-3 CUPS chopped vegetables: green beans, cabbage, potatoes (preferably Yukon gold), zucchini or any veggies except broccoli or beets 3-4 cloves garlic, minced SPRIGS of fresh thyme, rosemary, parsley OREGANO OR ITALIAN herb mix, to taste 1/2 TO 1 TSP. salt (to taste) 1/4 TSP. red pepper flakes 2 bay leaves 1 796-ML. tin diced tomatoes 4 CUPS broth 2 CUPS water 1/2 TO 1 CUP small-shell pasta (cook before adding) 1 398-ML. tin kidney or cannellini beans, drained 2 C. spinach leaves 1 TBSP. lemon juice Heat oil in large soup pot. Add onion, carrot, celery, tomato paste and a pinch of salt.

Sauté 7-10 minutes, till the onions are translucent. Add diced vegetables, minced garlic, fresh thyme, rosemary and parsley sprigs. Sauté 5 more minutes. If you use potatoes, cook veggies a bit longer before adding: diced tomatoes, broth, water, salt, bay leaves and pepper flakes. Bring to a boil. Lower heat, partially cover and simmer 20-30 minutes. Add pre-cooked pasta, beans. Heat through. Add any leftover, cooked vegetables you want to use up; spinach; and salt, pepper and dried herbs to taste. Remove bay leaves and herb sprigs. Add lemon juice and serve garnished with Parmesan cheese and chopped parsley.

about the mouse story!). But we’re interested in bones here, the key to homemade stocks and the best soups and stews.

Stock is made by boiling meat bones.

Period. (Broth uses veggies and seasonings more.) For his, Max uses the bones from meat he’s cooked or roasted, then frozen, or raw bones, say from a chicken galantine or ballotine (a whole, de-boned chicken rolled in a bundle, or ballot in French.) Boil a bunch of bones with enough water to cover them, then simmer for three or four hours.

“You can’t go wrong, basically. If you put in a whole lot of water, and find your stock is a little weak, you just let it simmer a couple more hours until it reduces and has the right zing for you. It’s like whisky— you’ve got to do it to taste,” says Max, another social animal staring down his empty dining table these days.

When your stock cools, strain it through layers of cheesecloth and a sieve or colander, or even a coffee filter will do. If you don’t use it right away, like in Pauline’s soup (see recipe), store it in that good ol’ freezer. That’s it!

Meanwhile, back at Cate’s and Y.P.’s lonely dining table, the jigsaw is gone and it’s now been converted into a sewing zone for masks she’s making. And remember at Machu Picchu, 50 to 90 per cent of Incas were killed by diseases the Spaniards carried— smallpox, influenza and more.

As for making do this Easter, try making this lovely minestrone soup from Pauline.

Share some, along with that bread you baked—safely, of course. Wash your hands carefully, fill a cheerful container, wash it, set it on your neighbour’s doorstep and alert them with a call or text. Step back and yell, “Happy Easter!” from the driveway.

You can still dress up, and bake some of Renate’s delicious pecan balls from my previous column (they almost look like Easter eggs), then hide them around the house.

Have a spring-y good time!

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chef and restaurateur Mee McCormick doesn’t like to use the word “healthy” when talking about cooking.

“Because we really view healthy food as punishment,” she explained. “We look at it as a timeout or we’re grounded, and I think it’s the opposite. It’s about finding the balance and changing ingredients.”

For McCormick, that balance meant shifting the focus to her gut, specifically, the microbiome, all that genetic material made up of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that helps us digest food, regulate our immune system and can even affect one’s mood.

“Understanding the microbiome is super liberating because it’s the future of medicine,” said McCormick, whose own healing experience with Crohn’s disease and immune-system issues she details in her book, My Pinewood Kitchen: A Southern Culinary Cure.

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Cognizant of the stress and anxiety people are currently feeling, McCormick was clear that doesn’t necessarily mean giving up your favourite indulgences.

Dark chocolate, for example, has been shown to lower the risk of diabetes and heart disease as well as improving our gut bacteria.

“Cocoa is a pre-biotic plant food—this means it feeds the good probiotic bacteria,” she said. “It feeds the particular bacterias that science is now proving are linked to cortisol and stress levels. We’re supporting our mental health by what we’re eating. To me, all of this is thrilling.”

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It is revelations like this that McCormick feels are essential to convincing people that their diagnosed illness doesn’t have to be a life sentence.

“Right now, living in the South, I just read all these articles that the COVID-19 virus is going to do more damage in rural Southern communities and cities than anywhere else, because we have such a high rate of obesity, diabetes and chronic illness.

But a lot of this stuff we can control with diet,” she said.

“I have been on this journey for 12 years, healing my own intestines from a large ulceration the total circumference of my small intestine—and I did it all with food. When I did it, this light bulb went off and [I realized] the only thing touching the lining of my intestines is food, so I’ve got to be able to influence that.”

Gaining a better understanding of the food we cook and its impact on us is one of the positive side effects of spending more time in the kitchen during the COVID-19 crisis, McCormick feels.

“This is an opportunity to reset the family table. This is the opportunity to cook with your kids, to get your husband or wife in the kitchen with you. This is the time to try things you might not try any other time because you don’t have time,” she said. “It’s all about shifting your perspective, just through changing your food. If we shift our perspective to: ‘This is the blessing handed to us today, getting to cook with my kids. I get to introduce my kids or inspire them to try something new,’ then we shift our perspective to eating this because it does this for my body—it changes it. It’s no longer health food, it’s food for my own wellness.”

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Go on a virtual 3D tour of iconic Whistler spots IF YOU MISSED THE CHILI THOM EXPERIENCE IN 2017, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO CHECK IT OUT

BY ALYSSA NOEL ARE YOU KEEN to experience a quintessential Whistler day?

Maybe you wake up, hike to Train Wreck, and check out some murals on the boxcars scattered around the area. Then how about a trip to the Audain Art Museum?

While you’re at it, you might as well hop across the street to the Maury Young Arts Centre, then walk a few minutes to check out the Whistler Museum.

Oh wait, there’s that little matter of COVID-19 upending our lives, shuttering institutions, and forcing us all to stay home.

It’s in the midst of this cabin fever that Francis Chiasson’s 3D camera tours of all these iconic Whistler locations have taken on a new purpose: helping housebound locals escape to their favourite places for an afternoon.

“This is halfway between video and still photography,” he says. “You can immerse yourself in the scene. Then you can move through it to the next spot, but you’re not controlled by video; you can move it.”

Chiasson’s wife and son first told him about this new technology after they saw the Matterport 3D camera system at a real estate conference. He was immediately intrigued.

“Very often, they’re cautious about putting stuff in front of me; I’m very critical

ARMCHAIR ADVENTURE Take a 3D tour of the Train Wreck site from the comfort of your own home.

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of technology,” he says with a laugh. “But I was like, ‘This is really cool.’”

As an owner and a broker at RE/MAX Sea to Sky Real Estate, he started using the technology to offer 3D tours of houses.

“The camera has been quite a boon to our business, but on the side I’ve had a bit of fun with it,” Chiasson says.

Three years ago, while touring The Chili Thom Experience—the community-wide tribute to the late artist and creative—he had an idea. What if he brought his camera into the Audain

through each space with the camera, stopping every 2.5 metres or so to snap a 360-degree image. The data transferred to an iPad before he uploaded it into a 3D model.

The Chili Thom Experience might start at the Audain Art Museum, but the resulting 3D experience allows you to jump to corresponding shows at the Maury Young Arts Centre, Whistler Museum, and Whistler Public Library.

Chiasson also linked certain paintings to the Chili Thom website for viewers to

“It went together very well,” he says. “It was the first time I had done galleries or a large area like that. I was pretty excited to get that done. It was awesome to preserve it.”

- FRANCIS CHIASSON

Art Museum to capture the soon-to-be wrapped-up show?

He contacted the museum, which pointed him to Arts Whistler, the organization that was hosting the celebration. “When I showed them what I did they said, ‘You know we’ve got several other venues. Would you mind doing all of them?’” he recalls, laughing. “I can do a 2,000-sq.-ft. home in under three hours. I wasn’t sure, in these big spaces, how long it would take me.”

It turned out well. Chiasson walked

the woods, I was shaded in most places so it worked out pretty well.”

One of the most compelling parts of the virtual hike is actually going inside the boxcars to look at the murals. Like a museum’s walls, the pieces are constantly changing so the camera captured a point in time.

“Preserving what was there was cool,” Chiasson says. “I’d like to go back.”

While he put links to his projects out through informal means in the last few years, they’re now online as part of Arts Whistler’s new COVID-19 culture resources called Arts Online!

“I thought it was time to put this out there again,” he says. “Now that parks are closed, museums are closed, everything is closed … it’s my contribution to entertain people while they’re sitting at home.” n

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“It went together very well,” he says. “It was the first time I had done galleries or a large area like that. I was pretty excited to get that done. It was awesome to preserve it.”

A bigger challenge he took on: capturing the Train Wreck hike and site last summer.

“The camera is designed for interiors,” he says. “It’s not too friendly outside—especially in the sunny weather. The camera uses an infrared beam to measure and in an open-air space with sunshine; it gets confused. But in

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BY ALYSSA NOEL THIS SEASON, Izzie Larter took a leap.

After some encouragement from her Whistler Blackcomb ski school colleagues, she emblazoned her drawings of Whistler archetypes reimagined as cats on T-shirts and hoodies. It cost a lot upfront for bulk ordering, but she was confident as soon as her ski school buddies wore the pieces around the resort, more orders would roll in.

And then the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

“That all kind of changed when we all got laid off,” she says.

Most of her friends and colleagues have now returned home, but Larter is happy many of them went back with one of her designs to remember the short season by.

She still has a few orders she has to figure out how to ship to those who prepurchased them, but she also has a few of her designs up for grabs for locals as well.

Pique caught up with Larter to find out more about her art, her clothing project— dubbed Juzzi—and where she’s going next.

PIQUE: Tell us about the kind of art you do.

IZZIE LARTER: I do quite a bit. I did a creative media course at college and studied photography at A Level. I’ve always been doodling. I have ADHD. That’s where my mind would wander off. I would be doodling down the margins in class. I had to be doing something with my hands—I couldn’t just listen to the teacher.

I love working in black pen and ink— just fine lining. The thing I like to do to challenge myself is draw just in black pen.

How has your art changed in Whistler?

IL: I’d say growing up a little bit and just starting to calm down a little bit more. With my ADHD, I felt I was off the rails in college, bouncing off the walls. Coming out here and having an active lifestyle in work every day, I had somewhere to channel the excess energy. I kind of had a clearer head to take my art to the next level.

Just being out here, it’s been incredible.

I don’t think I’ve been anywhere else in the world that has made me happier.

There’s a lot of artwork, even if it’s not on a wall. On the hill you see so many different pieces of artwork on people’s boards and skis.

What’s been your biggest artistic achievement since moving to Whistler in 2018?

IL: I wouldn’t say [the clothing line, Juzzi] isn’t the biggest thing I could achieve, but it’s the start of a lot more to come that I’m really excited about. It’s the first thing I’ve done where I’ve taken my ideas and acted on it.

I’m super stoked how well it’s gone.

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How has this pandemic affected your work?

IL: It stunted what I wanted to do creatively.

My plan was I wanted to get loads of different portraits, go on the hill and take shots. A few of my friends are insane at park and freestyle skiing. I had so many plans for once I had these printed that I, unfortunately, wasn’t able to do.

Luckily, with a camera I can stand six feet away from someone because I have a lens. A few days ago I managed to take photos of people who came and picked their [orders] up; I could do it at a safe distance.

I’m trying to figure out how to ship things people have bought from me. I had people who paid me before we lost our jobs. I could easily send them their money back, but that’s not why I started doing this in the first place.

I did it for people like me who lived in Whistler and didn’t have much money. I wanted everyone who was here, or is here, to have a little something from the season, that’s why I started doing it.

I still want to get it to them, even if they’re across the world, even if I have to ship it to them.

How can people buy your art?

IL: The best way is on Facebook (facebook. com/izzie.larter) or Instagram (instagram. com/izzie_larter/). Or on my portfolio at izzielarter.weebly.com—it has my art, photography, film, Juzzi, and a bit about me.

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NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW

Farewell to a music legend (and Quarantino, Part 3) MOVIES ARE NICE , they certainly add value to our lives—but they’re not music.

You can’t watch Casino while you work that office job (or Office Space while you deal cards at the casino), loud movies on a long solo drive won’t help heal a broken heart, and a night at the theatre rarely creates the same vibe as a live concert.

BY FEET BANKS Movies require fancy equipment and idle time, but music, sweet glorious music, is always there for us. It’s the most accessible of any artform, and probably the most important.

Music took a hit this week, when the virus took out singer-songwriter John Prine. He wrote songs unlike anyone else, with characters, emotions, and narratives so rich they felt cinematic. John Prine wrote movies for our ears.

He was in a movie once, playing a

SAD GOODBYE Legendary singer-songwriter John

Prine died of complications from COVID-19 on April 7.

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small part in the 2001 Billy Bob Thornton vanity project Daddy and Them, which is apparently pretty awesome, but hard to find. (Prine wrote the amazing song “In Spite of Ourselves” for the flick.) Sony Pictures also owns the rights to a documentary tentatively titled John Prine: Hello in There that’s been in “post-production” for more than a year.

Let’s hope that comes out sooner than later. Until then, crank up the volume and pour some of your quarantine whiskey on the block for one of the greatest. RIP John Prine.

In movieland, everything remains ground to a halt, but this month, the CBC kicks off Hot Docs at Home, an attempt to adapt North America’s largest documentary film festival into an online reality. Featuring tons of new films, as well as livestreamed Q&As with filmmakers, Hot Docs at Home kicks off Thursday, April 16 at 8 p.m. on CBC and its streaming service CBC Gem. Back on your couches, Quarantino rolls into Week 3 and we’re finally getting to his first movie as a director, Reservoir Dogs. The original plan was to burn all Tarantino’s True Romance money and shoot a $30,000 16mm flick with Quentin and his actor friends starring, but after Harvey Keitel got his hand on the script, he joined as the co-producer and they were able to scratch

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up around $1.5 million. Keitel even paid for Tarantino to do a casting session in New York (which netted them Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Steve Buscemi—so, smart move).

Shot in 35 days in the summer of 1991, Dogs is simple tale about a jewelry heist gone awry. The film was not a hit during its theatrical run due to its violence (the worst of which—the infamous ear-cutting scene—isn’t even shown in detail).

However, critics, and video renters, were drawn to the dialogue—beside the 272 f-words and (again) casual racism, movie characters had never really talked like this before. With rants on tipping, Madonna and dicks, or which black actress resembled the hot chick at their local bar, Tarantino brought pop culture into the movies in a huge (and later much-imitated) way.

In an interview, he explained that this style was a push towards realism. “Most of us don’t talk about the plot of our lives,” he said. “We talk around things, we talk about bullshit.”

In fact, Tarantino’s first three flicks can be considered his realism era, set in his hometown of L.A. featuring tough-guy characters who jive talk in a manner you can imagine a Los Angeles native would have grown up with.

Everything got a lot more poetic once

Jackie Brown was in the can, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.

The other thing about Reservoir Dogs is how much it does with so little—just a handful of characters, but each given huge backstory, two main locations, the actual robbery is never seen (cheaper to film), in 99 minutes—it could have been a stage play (and apparently that crossed Tarantino’s mind). The super sounds of the ‘70s soundtrack, anchored by Steven Wright as the K-Billy DJ, was another huge win, and we’ll talk about Quentin’s record collection next week.

To close out Reservoir Dogs, we need to look at how it honours the art of the story and storytelling. While preparing cop Tim Roth to go undercover, Randy Brooks’ mentor says, “The details tell the story…

You gotta know every detail there is to know about this commode…take all them details and make them your own. While you’re doing that, remember that this story is about you and how you perceived the events that went on. The only way to do that is to keep sayin’ it, and sayin’ it and sayin it…”

That’s as close to a Tarantino screenwriting course as we are gonna get.

And he gave it up in his first frickin’ movie.

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A LIFETIME OF STORIES Grace Woollard and Grace Archibald in the Cheakamus Canyon on their way to Alta Lake, 1912.

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BY ALLYN PRINGLE WHILE SOME of the stories we hear or read about at the museum provide only a glimpse into the lives of individuals who lived in the Whistler Valley (such as Josef Janousek, the subject of last week’s article), others provide a much more complete picture of an individual or family. One such individual was Grace Woollard, a nurse who began visiting Alta Lake in the summer of 1912.

When Woollard first came to Alta Lake, there was no train service to travel by, or Rainbow Lodge to stay at. She travelled first by boat, and then on foot and by horse with two friends, fellow nurse Grace Archibald and her brother Ernie Archibald, who were looking to preempt land around Alta Lake. The two Graces stayed at a cabin on the east side of the lake, while Ernie stayed at the survey

He was soon joined there by Grace and their newborn daughter Betty.

Grace and Betty stayed in England while Charles went on to serve with the Field Ambulance, a mobile frontline medical unit, in France. The family returned to Vancouver in 1918, where Charles would become the commanding officer of the Vancouver Military Hospital.

When the Woollards did make it back to their Alta Lake cabin, they found it already occupied. A family, supposedly from Victoria, had a daughter who was suffering from tuberculosis and had moved into the cabin after a doctor suggested the fresh mountain air might benefit her. Rather than make a fuss, the Woollards let the family keep the cabin and found a new lot for themselves. They settled in the area known today as Blueberry Hill, alongside friends of theirs, the Clarke family.

Though she did not live at Alta Lake fulltime, Grace often found her nursing skills in

Grace was called on for help in medical emergencies, such as when a woman in labour unexpectedly disembarked from the train at Rainbow Lodge and Grace delivered her twins.

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camp of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway on the west side. This first excursion to Alta Lake introduced Woollard to an area that she would continue to visit for the next six decades.

Woollard grew up in Ontario, where she met and married Frederick Ray. The two had twin boys, but after the death of Frederick and of both her sons from whooping cough in 1910, Woollard decided to train as a nurse. By 1912, she was working at the Bute Street Hospital in Vancouver, where she befriended Grace Archibald.

Two years after her trip to Alta Lake, she married Charles Woollard, a doctor in Vancouver. The pair returned to Alta Lake and bought their own lot, where they had a summer cabin built. They were not, however, able to spend much time at this cabin. In February of 1915, Charles joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and travelled to England.

demand there. The nearest doctor was usually a day trip away and until 1948, the nearest hospital was in Vancouver. Grace was called on for help in medical emergencies, such as when a woman in labour unexpectedly disembarked from the train at Rainbow Lodge and Grace delivered her twins. She even gave advice at community events such as dances.

Charles and Grace had two daughters, Betty and Eleanor. Grace sold their cabin on Blueberry Hill in 1941 and bought a cabin at the south end of Alta Lake to be close to Betty and her daughter, who were living there while Betty’s husband, Douglas Clarke, was away at war. Eleanor and her husband Maison Philip (nephew of Alex Philip of Rainbow Lodge) would also stay at that end of the lake.

Though Charles died in 1924, Grace continued to visit Alta Lake until her death in 1969. ■

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1 BORED BELLA Bella is doing her best to keep her head up while isolating in Rainbow. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 2 PRACTISE GOOD HYGIENE Seventeen-year-old Terra needed a bath and regrets that the humans finally found the time to give her one. PHOTO 3 DOCK DAYS Ally stepped out for some physically-distanced fresh air on the dock. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 FISH FINDER Nelson was very disappointed when his mom broke the news that his fishing trip was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 PUZZLE PAWS George the cat is enjoying all of the quarantine projects, especially this bright puzzle by local photographer Dave McColm. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 HAIRFARMERS FAN Quincy the husky-lab mix enjoys isolation on his favourite couch and blanket while listening to the Hairfarmers’ Friday Après livestreamed concert. While he doesn’t drink Kokanee, his people do while watching with him. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 7 PHYSICAL DISTANCING, PLEASE WAG alum Tinks isn’t exactly thrilled by the fact that her humans are now always in the house and interrupting her nap schedule. PHOTO SUBMITTED. SUBMITTED.

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF APRIL 9 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Moses did 40 years’ worth of hard work on behalf of his people, delivering them out of slavery in Egypt. Yet God didn’t allow him to enter into the Promised Land. Why? At the end of his travails, he made a minor mistake that angered God beyond reason.

Petty? Harsh? Very much so. I’m happy to say that your fate will be very different from Moses’. Some months from now, when your labours bring you to the brink of your own personal version of the Promised Land, not even a small error will prevent you from entering and enjoying it. And what you do in the coming weeks will help ensure that later success.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Built in the third century B.C., the Colossus of Rhodes was a monumental statue of the Greek sun god. It stood in the harbour of the island of Rhodes, and was called one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Alas: An earthquake struck the area 54 years after it was finished, knocking it over and smashing it into fragments. Three centuries later, many of the chunks still lie scattered around the harbour. I offer this as a teaching story, Taurus. If there are any old psychological ruins lying around in your psyche, I encourage you to conduct an imaginary ritual in which you visualize throwing those ruins into a big bonfire.

Clear the slate for the new beginnings that will be available once the COVID-19 crisis has settled down.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Argue with anything else,” writes author Philip Pullman, “but don’t argue with your own nature.” Amen! That’s always good advice for you Geminis, and it will be especially crucial in the coming weeks. A certain amount of disputation and challenging dialogue with other people will be healthy for you, even an effective way to get clarity and advance your aims.

(Don’t overdo it, of course.) But you must promise never to quarrel with or criticize your own nature. You should aim at being a radiant bastion of inner harmony and a powerhouse of self-love. Do whatever’s necessary to coax all your different aspects to work together in sweet unity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Like many Cancerians, painter Marc Chagall cultivated an intimate relationship with his dreams and fantasies. His fellow artist Pablo Picasso remarked, “When Chagall paints, you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel.” Being a Crab myself, I know how essential it is for us to be in close connection with reverie and the imagination. Every now and then, though, there come occasions when the demands of the material world need our extra, focused attention—when our dreamy tendencies need to be rigorously harnessed in behalf of pragmatism. Now is one of those times.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an influence you’re ready to outgrow, Leo? Are there teachers who have given you all they have to offer, and now you need to go in search of new founts of inspiration and education? Have you squeezed all possible value out of certain bright ideas and clever theories that no longer serve you? Are you finished with old sources of excitement that have lost their excitement? These are the kinds of questions I encourage you to ask yourself in the coming weeks.

It’ll be a favourable time to celebrate the joyful art of liberation—to graduate from what might have been true once upon a time, and prepare for the wide-open future after the COVID-19 crisis has mellowed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your words of power in the coming days are simple: deep, low, down, below, dig, dive, and descend. I invite you to meditate on all the ways you can make them work for you as metaphors and use them to activate interesting, nourishing feelings. There’ll be very little worth exploring on the surface of life in the coming weeks, Virgo. All the hottest action and most valuable lessons will be blooming in the fertile darkness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before the COVID-19 crisis arrived, were you ensconced in roles that were good fits for your specific temperament and set of talents? Did

you occupy niches that brought out the best in you and enabled you to offer your best gifts? Were there places that you experienced as power spots—where you felt at home in the world and at peace with your destiny? Once you’ve meditated on those questions for a while, Libra, I’ll ask you to shift gears: Meditate on how you’d like to answer similar questions about your life in the future.

Once this crazy time has passed, what roles will be good fits for you? What niches will bring out the best in you?

What will be your power spots?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Fen” is a word that’s not used much these days. It means a marsh or boggy lowland. Decades ago, Scorpio poet Marianne Moore used it in a short poem. She wrote, “If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.” In my opinion, that’s an apt battle cry for you right now. You shouldn’t be upset if people tell you that certain things are impossible for you to do.

You should be grateful! Their discouragement will rile up your deep intelligence and inspire you to figure out how you can indeed do those things.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Goodness alone is never enough,” wrote author Robert A. Heinlein. “A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” I think that’s an interesting thought for you to consider during the coming weeks, Sagittarius. If you want your care and compassion to be effective, you’ll have to synergize them with tough intelligence. You may even need to be a bit ferocious as you strive to ensure that your worthy intentions succeed, and the people you love get what they need.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are there any ways in which you have been wishy-washy in standing up for what you believe in? Have you shied away from declaring your true thoughts and feelings about important issues that affect you and the people you care about? Have you compromised your commitment to authenticity and integrity for the sake of your ambition or financial gain?

In asking you these questions, I am not implying that the answers are “yes.” But if, in fact, you have engaged in even a small amount of any of those behaviours, now is an excellent time to make corrections. As much as possible, Capricorn, focus on being trustworthy and transparent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Physicist Edward Teller believed there is no such thing as “exact science.” And in his view, that’s a good thing. “Science has always been full of mistakes,” he said. But he added that they’re mostly “good mistakes,” motivating scientists to push closer toward the truth. Each new mistake is a better mistake than the last, and explains the available evidence with more accuracy. I suspect that you’ve been going through a similar process in your personal life, Aquarius. And I predict that the good mistakes you’ve recently made will prove to be useful in the long run.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Few astrologers would say that you Pisceans are masters of the obvious or connoisseurs of simplicity. You’re not typically renowned for efficiency or celebrated for directness. Your strength is more likely to be rooted in your emotional riches, your ability to create and appreciate beauty, your power to generate big dreams, and your lyrical perspective on life.

So my oracle for you this time may be a bit surprising. I predict that in the coming weeks, your classic attributes will be very useful when applied to well-grounded, down-to-earth activities. Your deep feelings and robust imagination can be indispensable assets in your hard work on the nuts and bolts.

Homework: Rilke said, “If the Angel comes, it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears, but by your humble resolve to always be a beginner.” Any comments?

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• A well-maintained landscape contributes to peoples’ happiness and well-being, particularly important when people are isolated.

• Public safety is another aspect of our work; overgrown lawns and gardens provide cover for pests or vermin, as well as increase the crime rate.

• While the COVID-19 crisis continues, we need to continue to support actions to com bat climate change by caring for trees and plants.

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• Workers are keeping the required physical distance and staying current with Provincial requirements with information provided by the BC Landscape & Nursery Association (BCLNA).

• Workers are avoiding contact with the public; please stay inside while we work. Please email or call us if you need to communicate with us.

• Physical distancing is being maintained by our crews onsite with separate vehicles for travelling. Tools, trucks, and hands are being sanitized regularly.

Our BCLNA member landscapers will continue to provide pest management and plant health services, with safety measures in place as per Provincial regulations and Best Management Practices (BMP’s). This is in addition to their regular plant maintenance practices.

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MEETING PLACE Welcome Centre at Whistler Public Library Information, support, community connections and ESL practice groups for newcomers and immigrants.

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ARTS & CULTURE 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.

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Whistler Children's Chorus Rehearsal - Tuesdays at MILLENNIUM PLACE (4 5:30 pm) contact whistlerchorus@gmail. com Whistler Youth Centre - Drop - in: Wednesdays 3:30- 7:30 PM (Interact Club of Whistler 4:15 - 5pm), Fridays 3:30 - 10 PM & Saturdays 4 - 9 PM for ages 13 - 18.

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Whistler Singers Rehearsals are Tuesdays from 7 to 9pm at Myrtle Philip School in the Toad Hall room. Everyone is welcome!

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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 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 1-877-892-2022 admin@sscs.ca Stewardship Pemberton Society and the One Mile Lake Nature CentreConnecting community, nature and people through education, cooperation, and community involvement. www. stewardshippemberton.com Whistler Health Care Foundation raises funds for improving health care resources and services. New board members welcomed. Contact us at info@ whistlerhealthcarefoundation.org or call Karen at 604-906-1435.

SPORTS & RECREATION Alpine Club of Canada Whistler Section - Outdoor club focused on ski/ split board touring, hiking, mountaineering and skills training.

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Pemberton Valley Trails AssociationMeets the second Wed of each month.

7pm at the Pemberton Recreation Centre.

Call 604-698-6158 Sea to Sky RC Flyers - Model Aeronautics Association of Canada Club active in the Sea to Sky Region flying model airplanes, helicopters and multirotors. Contact S2SRCFLY@telus.net Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Provides sports & recreation experiences for people with disabilities. Chelsey Walker at 604-905-4493 or info@ whistleradaptive.com Whistler Martial Arts offers - Kishindo Karate for kids age 4 and up, Capoeira and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for kids and adults.

Also Kickboxing, Judo, Yoga and Bellyfit for adults. Call Cole 932-2226 Women's Karma Yoga - Thursdays, 9-10, 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 | 604962- 8711

YOUTH ACTIVITIES 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

LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge Club- Whistler Racquet Club reconvenes in late fall. The club meets every week and visitors are welcome. For partner, please call Gill at 640-932-5791.

Knitty Gritty Knit Night- Held every Tues 6-8pm. Free evening open to everyone with a love for knitting/crocheting.

Beginners welcome. For location and further details email knittygrittywhistler@ gmail.com or find us on facebook.

Mountain Spirit Toastmasters- Builds communication, public speaking, and leadership skills . Wednesdays at the Pan Pacific Mountainside - Singing Pass Room, 5:30-7pm. Email contact - 8376@ toastmastersclubs.org www.whistler. toastmastersclubs.org Pemberton Women's Institute - Meets the third Mon of each month in the activity room at St. David's United Church at 7:30pm. New members welcome. Linda Ronayne at 604-894- 6580 Rotary Club of Whistler - 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 Shades of Grey Painters Meet on Thursdays from 1-00 - 4:00 pm @ the Amenities building, Pioneer Junction, Vine Road, Pemberton. We are like-minded 50+ acrylic painters who get together to paint and learn from one another. No Fee. 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 Whistler Valley Quilters Guild - Meets most 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from September through May. Visitors interested in Quilts and other Fibre Arts are more than welcome to join us. Experience not a requirement. For location and topics of upcoming meetings email: whistlerquiltguild@gmail.com , visit www.whistlerquilters.com or look us up in the Arts Whistler calendar under What's On.

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 604-8942340 or pemrecinfo@slrd.bc.ca

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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 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

Baby/Child Health Clinics - Free routine immunizations & newly licensed vaccines for purchase, growth & development assessments & plenty of age appropriate resources avail. By appointment 604-9323202 Camp Fund - Provides financial assistance 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.

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 DropIn- A play group for you and your under-5 child. Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm. Thurs only 12pm3pm. Call 604-894- 6101 / 604-966- 8857 Whistler Public Library - Open MonThurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 10:30am.

Parent & Infant drop-in, Thurs 11am.

Preschool Story Time, Fri 10:30am.

Singing with the babies, Sat 11am. Call 604-935-8433

North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy.

Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334

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 Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults dealing with the challenges of social wellness. Please call our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker.

Pemberton Men's Shed - Weekly social meetings WED. 11-2 in the Seniors/ youth Rec. bldg. beside library. Social meeting with BYO Bag lunch, card games and pool/snooker. Help out in YOUR community, operating the Pemberton Tool Library.

Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 604-576-9734 or ecbayer2@gmail.com

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com Healthy Home, Healthy Planet - Expert in green cleaning offers tricks, info & advice on the best way to green clean your home or work space! Call France 604-698-7479. Free private presentation on request. www.healthylivingwhistler. com Re-Build-It Centre - Daily 10:00am to 5:00pm. Accepting donations of furniture, quality used building supplies & new items. Deliveries and pickups available for $35. Call 604.932.1125, www.mywcss. org, rebuildit@mywss.org Regional Recycling - Recycle beverage containers (full deposit paid) electronics, appliances, batteries, Lightbulbs, drop-off times are 9am-5pm on Nesters Rd. Pick up service 604- 932-3733 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.

The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) - Whistler's Natural Voice since 1989. Regular events, project and volunteer opportunities. www.awarewhistler.org info@awarewhistler.org The Mountain Village Social Gathering - Join us at one of our regular social gatherings on the last Wednesday of every month. There is a group of us at The Mountain Village who are forming a sustainable, multi generational neighbourhood based on the co housing model. WHAT IF... Housing wasn't just a place to live, but rather, a way of life? To find out more, visit our Facebook page @ themountainvillage or go to our website www.themountainvillage.ca

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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 - 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 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/food-bank Healthy Pregnancy Outreach ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101 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.

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 Sea to Sky WorkBC Centre - Provides free one-stop employment services to job seekers and employers. Services available in Whistler, Squamish, Pemberton & Mt. Currie. For more information, call us: 1-800- 763-1681 or email: centre- squamish@workbc.ca 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

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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.

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Al-Anon meeting, multi-purpose room, 2nd floor, Whistler Health Care Centre, Wednesdays, 5:30 pm. 604.688.1716 "Are you troubled by someone's drinking? Al-Anon can help."

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1 8 3depending 2 on experience Wage: Negotiable of work: 32 hours per week FUR & FEATHERS 9 6 Hours 4 7 Location: D’Arcy, BC 7 Closing 9 Date: Until position is filled cover letter &resume to: 4 1 5 2 Submit 3 E-mail: lisa.sambo@nquatqua.ca 2 6 7 9 5 RELIGION

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR AND/ OR ABORIGINAL SUPPORTED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT WORKER The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking a qualified Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker to fill a full-time position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidate will join our NCFDC team, the function of the Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker is to provide the extra staffing support to a child care center in order for children with extra support needs to fully participate in the child care settings chosen by their families. The Early Childhood and/or Support Worker works as a team member with child care setting staff and with all the children and families providing general support to the whole program to ensure effective inclusion of the children.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in: • Ability to develop and maintain a warm, caring, responsive relationship with the child.

• Ability to establish and maintain supportive, collaborative relationships with families and staff.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, positive, professional, nonjudgmental attitude.

• Physically ability to carry out the duties of the position.

• Planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum that supports community, inclusion and is culturally significant for young Aboriginal children • Understanding and working knowledge of Child Care Licensing regulations • Interpersonal, written, oral communication skills and maintaining positive communication with parents • Collaborating with community service providers, Self-directed and able to initiate and complete projects In addition, the Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker will have: • A minimum of 2 years work experience in a child care setting • Valid Early Childhood Education Certificate, Special Needs License to Practice or going to school to take Early Childhood Educator and/or special needs.

• Special Needs certificate or relevant experience preferred • Clear Criminal Records Check & Current First Aid • Food Safe, or willingness to obtain • Some knowledge of curriculum and philosophies in First Nations Early Childhood settings Terms of Employment: • Full-time Permanent, Monday to Friday hours to be determined • Start Date: As soon as possible • Wage: (negotiable depending on experience)

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We are all in this together, stupid “POWER CORRUPTS. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I’m pretty sure that was the takeaway from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Inspired by the Russian Revolution in the early part of the 20th century, its lesson could just as easily have been drawn from the French Revolution, the Cuban Revolution or any number of other failed dreams of a more egalitarian society gone horribly wrong.

Even dreamers have a pig like Napoleon hiding just below their surface, as Stanley Milgram proved nearly two decades later in his experiments underscoring obedience to authority.

BY G.D. MAXWELL Coupled with Aristotle’s observation, “horror vacui,” generally translated as “nature abhors a vacuum,” we have a pretty good glimpse of the political dynamics being facilitated by the current pandemic.

Leaders of countries—notably countries that have histories of totalitarian leanings— have been using the pandemic to grab power in such a wholesale fashion the legerdemain has been dubbed “coronavirus coups.” While such moves toward unbridled power might be expected in countries like Serbia, Hungary, Philippines and Myanmar, for example, even countries considered bastions of democracy have not been spared political overreaching.

Since it comes near the bottom of a long list of personality failures of the Orangutanin-Chief south of the border, I won’t bother mentioning what’s going on there. But the combined opposition rose up on outrage when our own Prime Minister reached for economic fiat unprecedented in any parliamentary democracy recently. Like I said, Napoleon isn’t that far away for any of us.

Which is why it is all the more important we consider the possible consequences of our behaviours that run counter to the admonitions and pleadings of public health officers across the country.

A very long time ago, I entered a public tennis court where I lived in New Mexico.

It was a free court with a nice, resilient surface. There weren’t many rules of play but an important one was, “No street shoes.

Court shoes only.”

Made sense. Hard-soled street shoes marked the surface and the marks were a bitch to remove. They also abraded the surface and weather did the rest to leave the courts pockmarked.

So I asked a guy who was wearing such shoes and leaving such damage whether he’d read the sign. His response was a guttural, “So who are you, a f@*king cop?”

I hadn’t noticed his knuckles were dragging on the court as well.

“No,” I responded. “Is that the kind of world you’d prefer? The kind where there’s a cop standing at every entrance to make sure people who are too f@*king stupid

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to abide by simple rules get busted?” An intemperate response, to be sure, but my racket was bigger than his.

Fortunately, his opponent had a shred of decency and was silently disturbed by his friend’s shoes and attitude. He suggested leaving and they did. End of story.

Except it isn’t. Because there still seem to be too many people who are too f@*ing stupid or ignorant or uncaring to abide by simple rules. Except this time it isn’t a tennis court surface that might be harmed.

It’s themselves, it’s people they care for, it’s people who may care for them and it’s people they don’t even know, it’s people

Don’t get too close to each other.

That they tended to be young is neither an excuse nor a good reason. Hell, I know seven-year-olds who have mastered the concept of staying two metres apart and admonish their parents if they inadvertently draw closer than that to neighbours they’re chatting with.

They’re selfish, spoiled, hedonistic miscreants and their behaviour threatens us all... in ways that go well beyond the spread of an invisible virus.

Health issues aside, their behaviour threatens the free movement we currently enjoy. Unlike many places in the world,

They’re selfish, spoiled, hedonistic miscreants and their behaviour threatens us all... who are loved by and important to a whole world of “others.”

Again this past weekend, there were congregations of people who just couldn’t seem to grasp the concept of personal distancing, the two-metre tango. They got together on a local lake. Others got together down in Squamish and other places. They partied like it was, well, a couple of months ago. They showed a blatant and dangerous disregard for the simplest of directives:

Whistleratics are not under lockdown orders. We’ve been encouraged to stay home but we are free to wander the hundreds of kilometres of trails that encircle Tiny Town.

We’re free—currently—to walk the Valley Trail, although I won’t be surprised if that gets cordoned off due to people crowding each other and walking in groups. We can get together for two-metre cocktails... and we do.

But we’ve lost the freedom to skin

up Whistler and Blackcomb. The official reasons given for that closure didn’t mention the inappropriate behaviour of people who were partying there or the idiots climbing the lift towers but you can be certain that was back of mind.

What freedom of movement we enjoy can only be threatened by two things: rapidly increasing local cases of COVID-19 and blatant disregard for the basic rule of safe behaviour—distancing. So I take it personally when people can’t control themselves enough to do something as simple as stay a few steps apart from each other. So should you.

It’s hard enough to keep decision makers who live far away from instituting rules we don’t need to live by. Whistler has, for example, very good municipal water.

But it used to be better. Before 2,000 people were poisoned with E. coli and six died in Walkerton, Ont. two decades ago, Whistler treated ground water with chlorine and well water with next to nothing. But federal regulations in the aftermath of Walkerton meant our water had to be treated as though it was all downstream from a feedlot. The failure of two unqualified employees in Ontario cost the town a great deal of money.

The failure of a small percentage of people who think they’re either immortal or special may well cost all of us access to the outdoors, certainly a major reason we live here.

So get with the program, folks. Put a brain on. n

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