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The food industry, from producers to eateries, copes with COVID-19

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT looks at new ways to engage

Council

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ORDERED CLOSED B.C.’s top doc orders nightclubs to close due to COVID-19

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GOOD SPIRITS

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

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From farm to table The food industry, from producers to eateries, copes with COVID-19. - By Dan Falloon

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HAVING A VOICE

Whistler council recently

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DYKING OPERATIONS

New Pemberton

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Valley Dyking District operations and maintenance manager Kevin Clark

news way to engage all types of residents.

briefed Pemberton council at a recent meeting.

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As cases of COVID-19

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LOSING THE LUGE

The International Luge

surge, the provincial health officer closes nightclubs and tells bars to shut

Federation will not hold the 2021 World Championships at Whistler Sliding

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IN GOOD SPIRITS

The Spiritual Warriors have

real estate market bounces back after a COVID shutdown thanks to low

successfully made the shift to online performances, including opening

interest rates and remote work driving demand. But uncertainty remains.

(virtually) for Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS As businesses teeter along on fumes (with Whistler reliant on rubber-tire

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Brandon Barrett explores what is meant when people tell athletes to “stick to sports,” as we see professional athletes force the conversation around police injustice.

58 MAXED OUT Max is headed out fishing in this week’s column and shares how the pastime is a catchand-release lesson on life.

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29 RANGE ROVER Leslie Anthony concludes his entertaining and educational Armenian viper caper.

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40 FORK IN THE ROAD Packing your kids’ school lunches? Packing your own as you head back to some semblance of normalcy, or what passes for it these days? Well, Glenda Bartosh has a few tips for you.

44 MUSEUM MUSINGS Building Whistler’s Town Centre didn’t come without some ups and downs.

This week, the column looks into unionization on the work site.

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Make your voice heard on tourism recovery IT’S THE FINAL DAYS for government decision-makers to settle on how they are going to directly help the tourism sector with the $1.5 billion in recovery funds designated a few months ago. The industry has put forward a $680-million relief proposal to the B.C. government to tide it over until next year.

The province is considering the multiple submissions and public recommendations

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on how to distribute the money—but Whistler companies and businesses in this sector can still call, text, write or tweet MLA Jordan Sturdy (Jordan.sturdy.mla@ leg.bc.ca) and urge him to work to get funds to the resort to help everyone weather this

Destination Greater Victoria: “What we are seeing right now is there are people moving around, there is some limited domestic recovery.

“But it is a very weekend pattern.”

Nursey told the Times Colonist that visitors from around B.C. and Alberta are mostly heading to small resort towns and lakesides rather than camping out in the major hotels of Victoria and Vancouver.

These choices are likely a result of the government’s health messaging encouraging people to get out of cities into the fresh air—a benefit for Whistler and other more rural destinations.

But make no mistake, as we head into fall, small businesses here will face a makeor-break situation.

Whistler and Kelowna are apples and oranges, I know; however, a recent survey in the Okanagan region offers some interesting insight into the situation there. A Stakeholder Impact Survey by Kelowna Tourism found:

[M]ake no mistake, as we head into fall, small businesses here will face a make-or-break situation. phase of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

It was encouraging to read last week (Pique, Sept. 3, “WB says it has enough capacity to make reservation system work”) that our weekend occupancy rates climbed to 70 per cent this summer. While it’s true that the weekday rates are substantially lower, these numbers are something to celebrate.

A recent Times Colonist story reported that Victoria’s rates are at about 35 per cent, and Vancouver is struggling, too.

Said Paul Nursey, chief executive at

• 67 per cent of respondents have seen a 20-per-cent-or-higher decrease in revenue over the summer season; • 74 per cent are forecasting a 20-percent-or-higher decrease to revenue for the fall season; and, • 83 per cent reported decreased sales over the same time last year, up from 47 per cent reported in March.

Some of the hardest-hit businesses by COVID-19 are in the food and beverage and nightclub category—an important and

robust sector in Whistler pre-pandemic.

There is no doubt that some of these businesses are teetering right now as we head into shoulder season. The provincial order issued on Sept. 8 requiring nightclubs to close and bars to stop liquor service at 10 p.m. and shut by 11 p.m. won’t help matters.

A survey by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found that 29 per cent of food-service businesses can’t operate with physical distancing in effect, and 31 per cent of food-service businesses say they can only operate with physical distancing for 90 days.

The Chamber is predicting that 60 per cent of Canadian restaurants could fail within three months.

“It’s very worrisome,” CEO and President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Perrin Beatty told CTV News in late August, adding that 1.2 million Canadians are employed in the restaurant industry with an annual payroll of $30 billion.

At the best of times, he said the profit margins are only four to six per cent— so trying to make money during the pandemic is near impossible. “If you take half the seats out of a restaurant because of social distancing, it is simply a matter of mathematics. There is simply no way you can make it work no matter how hard you try,” Beatty told CTV. Like the tourism sector, Beatty wants government programs put in place specifically tailored to help restaurants get through the pandemic.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that 25,000 businesses closed across Canada in March and April, according to the latest figures available from Statistics Canada.

We want as many of our Whistler businesses to survive as possible. So let’s make our voices heard as the government looks for ways to support tourism. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rejecting affordable housing for families unacceptable As young professionals that have lived in Whistler for over a decade, and are on the verge of starting a family, we find our choices for secure housing rather slim. Slim on rentals and slim on purchasing options.

We weren’t of the means to buy a property of our own before the market went into overdrive (pre-2015), and have watched what little choices we had tossed out of the window along the way since.

Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) is somewhat of an option if you’re in the top 100 people; otherwise, you could be waiting for years to find an affordable place to call your own.

So what about everyone else that has set roots into this area?

This is why we were so shocked to see our local councillors on the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) board reject the recently proposed WedgeWoods West affordable housing development. The project didn’t even get a chance to offer solutions for the issues that were raised. It was simply rejected at first reading.

We watched the meeting online and were frankly astounded at some of the reasons as to

why this project was rejected: Added congestion, lack of walkability, the question of zero-emission buildings, even a question of liability to the SLRD for the developer offering 300 acres of land, for free.

This project could house 52 families. Where do you think they will have to go to find suitable housing for starting or continuing families?

Likely further afield, and have to drive more and add more “congestion” for a greater distance, or leave the area all together.

The corridor knows it needs affordable housing, which is why it seems crazy that an

option for it was delivered to them on a platter!

Where else will a municipality find a developer willing to gift the land portion of a development to provide housing at only the build cost? Land is a huge component to cost in any development, so this sounds like a no-brainer.

Sure, there are some tweaks that will need to happen in terms of pedestrians on or near the highway, but that is what second and third readings are for.

Here you have a developer willing to build apartments and townhomes at $315 per square foot final purchase price (which, by the

way, is less than the latest two-bed-plus-den sale with the WHA), within six minutes of a shopping hub at Rainbow, that could provide security for 52 local families at an affordable price.

How many of our local professionals starting the next chapters of their lives are moving further afield every year?

Here is an option—presented on an affordable platter.

We wonder how many of the councillors rejecting this project walk to their workplaces, have zero-emission houses or even had to pay half a million dollars for their first home?

That’s what affordable is now... half a million dollars. And that still comes with caveats in the form of restrictive covenants and pricing control.

We were excited to see the project move forward as a possible option for our future family. Why did you reject an affordable housing solution in our area, councillors, when the housing shortage is, and has been one of the biggest areas of concern for our area?

Richard and Lainey Grenfell // Whistler

Sea to Sky Highway no place for car rally I am a part-time resident of Whistler and was horrified to hear about yet another crash on the Sea to Sky Highway on Sept. 5.

As I’m sure most people now know, the cars involved were part of the [Hublot] Diamond Rally—a “private rally for registered drivers and navigators” that starts in Vancouver and ends in Pemberton.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I cannot think of a more foolish way to raise money than to allow hundreds of expensive, high-performance cars to take part in a “rally” on a dangerous highway on one of the busiest weekends of the summer.

There are some things we cannot control on the highway, such as the volume of cars and the weather. Yet we can control how we use the highway through the types of events we allow and by how they are managed.

I urge Pemberton and Whistler municipalities to tell the organizers of this rally to take their racecars elsewhere.

Bree Stanlake // Whistler

Essential health staff needs WedgeWoods housing I’m writing to address concerns I have regarding the [rejection by the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) of the] WedgeWoods West application for [affordable housing].

I’m very disappointed in the reasons listed by [councillors on the board] to vote “no” to this project; the benefits of this project far outweigh the voiced concerns.

I find it hard to understand how SLRD councillors who live in Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) housing would vote no for others to have this same opportunity.

At Whistler’s [Health Care Centre], our own staff struggle to find housing here. Of the nurses that own regular positions in Whistler’s emergency room (ER), 25 per cent of the regular staff rent and would buy in Whistler if there was availability. Of the casuals that work regularly in ER, more than 50 per cent that rent in Whistler would also like to buy in Whistler. The rent for one of the nurses is $2,600 a month. For the staff that can’t afford to live/rent in Whistler, they are forced to live in Pemberton and Squamish.

When there is a trauma in the ER that requires extra staff, it is the local staff that provide the fastest staffing assistance and increase patient safety. Otherwise, additional staff must drive from Pemberton or Squamish, which takes an hour, and if the highway is closed, then this is not an option.

Nursing is just a small portion of the entire staff needed for the daily operations of

the Whistler Health Care Centre. This doesn’t include doctors looking for permanent residence, imaging staff, lab staff, mental health staff, community health nurses, administration, and building operations.

Furthermore, health care workers are not the only essential service workers in Whistler that are in the same housing situation.

If the Whistler municipality does not have another affordable housing option that will replace these 52 units, the vote should be “yes” for more affordable housing units at WedgeWoods.

Having essential, emergency service providers in the community best benefits the residents and populations of Whistler.

Tanya Murdock // Whistler

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FireSmart thanks The Emerald Neighbourhood Committee would like to praise and thank the FireSmart Program for giving us use of a FireSmart bin for the past two summers.

The neighbourhood has managed to clear out 280 cubic metres of fire-hazard waste (seven bins) as well as having the FireSmart crews chipping numerous piles of branches.

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Encore for Art on the Lake We’d like to give a big shoutout to the folks at Arts Whistler for putting on the most delightful outdoor event!

With hundreds of people on paddleboards, kayaks, canoes and the like, it was a fabulous day on the lake. Well done!

We sure hope Art on the Lake becomes a yearly event and look forward to the second annual [in 2021]!

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What made the move—led by the majority Black leagues of the WNBA and NBA—so impactful was the scope and profile

BY BRANDON BARRETT of the protests. Sparked by the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA players were in the midst of the playoffs, naturally the highest rated and most profitable segment of the season for the billionaire owners and multi-billion-dollar TV networks showing the games (even with no crowds in the NBA’s Disney World bubble and the pandemic-induced drop in ratings that has affected all sports).

It’s not hyperbole to call the strike one of the most significant political statements in professional sports of the last 50 years, not only because of the widespread dialogue it has sparked on both sides of the political spectrum, but because of what the players got back in return.

After consulting with former U.S. president

Barack Obama, LeBron James and the players’ association made a list of demands to the NBA before they were willing to return to the court.

Probably the most significant of these was that each franchise-owned stadium be converted into a voting location for the 2020 U.S. election, no doubt a blow to President Donald Trump’s not-so-subtle efforts to supress votes in largely Democratic urban centres by systematically dismantling the U.S. Postal Service and actively discouraging mail-in ballots in the midst of a pandemic. (Although Trump had no problem urging voters last week in the historically Republican-dominated state of North Carolina to vote twice—once in person, and once by mail—despite its obvious illegality.)

Of course, some media commentators framed the mass player walkouts as nothing but an exercise in awareness-raising, which conveniently ignores the genuine change the NBA’s workers have managed to achieve.

Others in the mulish “stick-to-sports” crowd have predictably chastised the players as spoiled, overpaid divas. It’s the same wilful ignorance that reared its ugly head four years ago when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality, and one that Trump’s dead-eyed Nepotist-inResidence Jared Kushner put so succinctly when he told a CNBC reporter that NBA players have “the financial luxury” of taking a night off work that most Americans don’t,

ignoring the fact that millions of Americans of varying socioeconomic status have already taken to the streets to protest police violence and Kushner’s own administration right alongside these athletes.

There’s something disturbing about a largely white sports media industry and an overwhelmingly white league ownership structure demanding the players they rely on to line their pockets to just shut up and stick

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to what they do best: hucking a ball through a hoop. It reinforces a sense of ownership over Black and brown bodies that has existed since slavery by telling them they are only as useful as the physical feats they are capable of.

And while these most recent protests made history because of the attention and impact they’ve garnered, athletes have been speaking out against injustice for decades.

In 1961, NBA star Bill Russell and his Black teammates were denied service at a Kentucky hotel restaurant, which led them to boycotting a scheduled exhibition game.

Unsurprisingly, the protest didn’t get much attention in the papers, but you can draw a direct line from Russell’s action to the NBA players of today, who the Boston Celtics legend has commended for standing up for what they believe in.

In 1968, Black track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos created one of the most indelible images in Olympic history when they raised their fists in a Black Power salute during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City games.

The following year, St. Louis Cardinals’ centrefielder Curt Flood became one of the most pivotal figures in sports labour history when he refused to accept a trade to the Pittsburgh Pirates, raising issue with the MLB’s outdated and draconian reserve clause, which kept players beholden for life to the franchise they originally signed with, even after they had satisfied the terms of their contract. After leading the charge for free agency in baseball, which other sports leagues have since adopted, Flood was unsurprisingly criticized for his outspokenness, saying that ballplayers were wealthy and therefore shouldn’t complain about their contract conditions.

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Whistler council audits its rules of engagement COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT REVIEW PRESENTED, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS TO FOLLOW

BY BRADEN DUPUIS ONE OF WHISTLER council’s first orders of business following the 2018 municipal election was to strike up a new Governance and Ethics Committee tasked with enhancing public engagement and building trust in the community.

Now, the committee is getting set to unveil the findings of a new Community Engagement Review (CER).

“This is something that we talked about in the last election, public engagement, and also you can see in the results from the Community Life Survey (CLS) that we are seeing a reduction in the trust that people have in municipal government,” said Councillor Cathy Jewett, chair of the governance committee.

In the latest CLS results (expected to be detailed in full as part of the municipal budget process this fall), just 49 per cent of respondents said they believe municipal decision makers have the resort community in mind when making decisions (in line

REVIEW ENGAGED Whistler council is taking a closer look at how it engages its citizens. Pictured is a 2017 community forum on transportation.

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with 2019’s results).

“So we want to change that,” Jewett said.

“And we want to make sure that people do feel they’re engaged.”

The CER—presented for the first time at the Sept. 1 Committee of the Whole meeting—will provide a roadmap moving forward, said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“It’s good to see it in front of us, and the

for council’s consideration, spread across different topics: general engagement; general communications; project-related engagement; council meeting engagement; planning, land-use and development application engagement; committee engagement; budget and annual report engagement; and ongoing engagement.

The full report and its

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previous election and Coun. Jewett’s vision for a more creative and transparent public engagement effort has really driven this work,” Crompton said.

“It will guide a lot of the public engagement decisions as we move forward.

We intend to be more engaged in new media, we intend to be more creative in the tools that we use, and we intend to try new things in new ways.”

THE TRUST QUESTION The CER presents 29 recommendations

recommendations will be detailed at an upcoming council meeting.

For Crompton’s money, recommendations focused on new media (like text-based surveys, “hybrid” in-person and virtual council meetings, highlightvideo packages from council meetings and more) show a lot of potential.

“I think it’s important to say we’ve done some things well, but times change, and people’s ways of engaging change,” Crompton said.

“I hope that one of the outcomes from this is that we move the way we do things to

a more current model.”

Jewett agreed, adding it’s also important to note where people are getting their information. According to the CLS, Pique Newsmagazine and social media were the preferred places for Whistlerites to get their info (tied at 72 per cent).

“So it’s also really important that we have conversations like this, and that we are open and engaged with our local press as well,” she said.

Over the past 13 years, trust in Whistler’s decision makers has had a median rating of 52 per cent and an average of 57 per cent, according to a municipal spokesperson.

In 2015, the question was benchmarked against other communities, which showed their average favourable score of 53 per cent is in line with Whistler’s median score over the 13 years, and slightly lower than Whistler’s average score.

The accessibility provided by technology—and the ease with which the average member of the public can tune in to council meetings online—could help move the dial, Jewett said.

“One of the really important things is for people to see the debate, and the fact that we don’t always agree,” she said. “We have

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New COVID measures pose more challenges for Whistler businesses WHISTLER HOUSEHOLDS SHOULD ‘TIGHTEN THEIR BUBBLES,’ MAYOR SAYS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS NEW COVID-19 orders from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry closing nightclubs and restricting hours at bars pose more challenges for Whistler businesses (in a year of endless new challenges).

“I’m not worried about Whistler’s longterm at all … but it’s really tough. The uncertainty is tough for a lot of people,” said Joey Gibbons, CEO of Gibbons Whistler, which operates several bars and nightclubs in Whistler Village.

“We’re pretty fortunate to live where we live in Whistler and be able to raise our families and those types of things, so if closing down a few hours, or earlier, is going to help the cause, then of course we’ll support it.”

Adaptation is not a new theme for 2020, and Whistler’s leaders have been

working all out since March to address the myriad challenges posed by the pandemic, Gibbons added.

“It’s hard, and I don’t think people are going to feel how heavy it’s been until it’s normal,” he said.

“But we’ve got a bunch of fighters in this town, and good people, good leaders. We’re lucky to have them all, so we’ve just got to stay together, and keep communicating like we’ve been doing.”

In the meantime, Whistlerites can help local eateries keep their kitchens open and staff employed by ordering takeout, Gibbons said.

Whistler will respond to the new orders the same way it has in the past, said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“Whistler businesses have been quick to adjust to the orders from Dr. Henry,

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ENGAGEMENT FROM PAGE 14 a council that works very well together, but we also are willing to talk about and talk through an issue rather than just going, ‘here it is, be it resolved,’ everybody goes ‘yay’ and we move on.

“No, we’re talking about these things, and I hope that people see that, and that their feedback forms are a really important part of that, because that helps us understand what they want.”

Increasing trust in local politicians is something Crompton thinks about “all the time,” he said, and it’s a continuing focus of council.

“I don’t think that trust in government is something that you fix once and are done with,” he said. “It’s something that you must stay focused on, and this document gives us the tools to build that trust as we move forward.”

MISSING VOICES One of Crompton’s greatest hopes for the review is that the RMOW starts to engage with people it might have missed in the past, like seasonal workers.

“Which is not an easy challenge,” he said.

“There are some people who like to engage in conversations with local government, and there are others who haven’t found ways to access us. My hope is that we can increase the diversity of people that we talk to.”

It’s not an impossible task, he added, noting that Whistler Community Services Society has been successful connecting

with new arrivals through Welcome Week.

Crompton “hit the nail on the head,” Jewett said.

“It would be great to start seeing more seasonal workers … it’s really important that this town works for them, because this town won’t work without them,” she said.

“And it’s the same for every component in the community. It’s all got to work well for the community to make Whistler work.”

The range of missing voices extends to busy parents, too, Jewett said, and the committee is considering things like extending the hours of open houses or finding other ways to deliver information.

“Families have limited time,” Jewett said.

“Between daycare pickup and cooking dinner and getting kids off to activities, how do we fit into their life, rather than them fitting into ours?”

While there is always room for improvement, Whistler’s community engagement is relatively strong, said Shannon Gordon of the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, which helped complete the CER. “I wouldn’t say that one [area] is weaker than the others, and I wouldn’t say that any are really weak,” Gordon said at the Sept. 1 Committee of the Whole meeting.

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“I hope Whistler households are chatting about how that happens,” Crompton said.

“If you live with other people, this is something you have to talk about and understand where your response aligns with the people that you live with.”

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The concerns over nightclubs are not the same as pubs, bars and restaurants.

“Pubs and restaurants have been doing a great job,” Henry said. “The plans that we’ve seen in restaurants, I feel restaurants, for the most part, are really safe.”

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“These venues are still the source of significant risk to everybody in British Columbia,” Henry said.

There will also be restrictions on the serving of alcohol in those pubs, bars and restaurants that can remain open. They must stop serving alcohol as of 10 p.m. and must close at 11 p.m., unless they are providing full-meal service without alcohol being served.

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begin to tick back up. More than 400 new cases were diagnosed over the Labour Day long weekend alone.

“As we go back to work, for many people, back to school, for many people, it is time for all of us to cut back on our social interactions,” Henry said.

Asked if she might rethink the resumption of in-class instruction, now that school is starting and with this surge in cases, Henry said the critical issue there is community transmission, which generally remains low in B.C. She said she believes school can resume safely.

“We are very lucky in B.C.,” she said. “Our community transmission rates remain low, and we know that that is the most important thing for getting schools going again.”

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Whistler real estate market bounces back after COVID shutdown LOW INTEREST RATES AND REMOTE WORK DRIVING DEMAND, BUT UNCERTAINTY REMAINS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S REAL ESTATE market suffered a predictable slowdown during the height of COVID-19 restrictions this spring, but the bounce-back is lending local realtors some confidence in the back half of 2020.

While the dropoff in Q2 led to a 42-percent drop in annual activity when compared with the previous six months, the average transaction value has risen roughly 16 per cent (from $1.247 million at the end of 2019 to $1.45 million in August of this year), according to Whistler Real Estate Company president Pat Kelly.

“I think the tone here is that we had a slow period for a couple of months,” Kelly said, adding that the first quarter of the year was actually better than 2019.

After about eight weeks of sluggish sales, “there was a real surge in demand,” he said.

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of business so far this year, even with the COVID slowdown, we’re not far off the pace we were doing in 2019.”

Some factors at play include low interest rates, as well as a trend of people looking to move to smaller communities—both for safety and remote working purposes.

“People are now understanding that remote working means you can be two hours

Whistler because, again, we control supply, so there’s always people that would like to buy,” he said.

“So what it caused was a real sort of surge in interest, particularly in singlefamily homes, and family-oriented medium density, so townhouses, primarily.”

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away, or three hours away, and you’ve got Canada being a pretty safe place generally, with COVID,” Kelly said, noting that there is an awful lot of interest from Americans living close to the border—even if they can’t currently view properties in person.

“There was always pent-up demand for

reasons, Kelly said.

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sales volume than we were as of last year at this time, and we’re seeing very similar sales figures in terms of pricing,” Friesen Smith said.

Current strong sales aside, Friesen Smith isn’t about to make any bold predictions for the remainder of 2020 (due to these unprecedented times, etc.).

“Honestly, anything could happen, and that’s what I’m telling my clients,” she said.

“I can tell you what’s going on right now, [and] I can probably predict about a month ahead. Normally we can predict three, six, sometimes 12 months into the future, but anything is possible. There are so many variables, there is so much going on in the world, that I refuse to put a stamp on it.”

With that in mind, Friesen Smith’s advice for buyers right now is to make a move if the perfect property comes up.

“The market is moving quite quickly, and Whistler has a small amount of inventory, so there’s not always a lot to choose from,” she said.

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Sabrina Hinitz, who’s on the board of directors for the Whistler Naturalists, came across the idea for community action in an email from the Sierra Club of B.C. “I went to their website and saw that it aligned with all my beliefs here in Whistler,” Hinitz said. “I’m passionate about our forests and old-growth forest.

Every time I see a 300-year-old tree driving down Highway 99 [on a logging truck], my heart breaks a little bit.”

She approached the Whistler Naturalists about hosting a march locally and the group supported the idea.

“Everyone is excited to have this opportunity to raise awareness both about the challenges facing communities across the province, as well as our own challenges unique to Whistler,” Hinitz said.

Overall, the marches are aiming to create change with the province’s Forest and Range Practices Act, ensuring “they include eco-system restoration, sustainable forestry, and meaningful community consultation about our forests,” according to the event description.

But, locally, the concern is largely around protecting old-growth forest, in particular, in the Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF), which is run by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and the Squamish and Lil’wat nations.

Last December, the CCF said its harvest plans for 2020 will be the same as 2019 with no harvest aside from wildfire thinning.

Forest manager Simon Murray told Pique at that time that while they intend to phase out the logging of old-growth in the CCF, it won’t be immediate.

The problem is younger parts of the forest are “all tied up in the carbon credits, so this is a real tough thing for us,” he said. “We really can’t go into these younger stands and start harvesting them yet, because then we wouldn’t be meeting our carbon sequestering targets.”

For her part, Hinitz would simply like to see an immediate end to the harvest of trees older than 250 years old across the province.

“The old-growth is being logged as we speak and it’s deemed an essential service during COVID, so it’s essential for us to protect it, too,” she said.

To that end, the walk will start at Lost Lake Park Beach at 1 p.m. with groups marching (physically distancing, wearing masks) on separate routes to the village.

(Anyone who’s feeling sick or has been outside Canada in the last 14 days is asked to stay home.)

Speakers will talk about forestry in B.C. and the value of old-growth forests.

The event will also be streamed on Facebook Live. Those who can’t attend can also send in photos of themselves next to their favourite tree or wearing blue or green and share them to the Facebook event page (“Forest March BC —Whistler”) or email them to whistlernaturalists@ gmail.com to show their support.

“Musicians, artists, anyone who wants to be involved in any way can get in touch,” Hinitz said. “We’d love everyone’s help and support.”

Meanwhile, the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) has been promoting the Sierra Club’s petition that calls for an immediate moratorium on logging old-growth forest.

It points out that only three per cent of B.C.’s old growth forests are still standing and more than 500 soccer fields of oldgrowth forest are cut every day.

“In Whistler, we’ve logged ourselves into a tinderbox because of all the logging that has happened here historically over the last 90 years,” said Claire Ruddy, AWARE’s executive director. “So we’ve lost a lot of our low-elevation old-growth forest. That means what we do have that remains, it’s really important we protect it.”

While AWARE participated in an independent panel that was reviewing the province’s old-growth review process, “we are still waiting on the outcome of that review,” she added.

The organization has long been working on this issue, but recent attention has started to give her hope, Ruddy said.

“I think what gives me hope is there are more and more people asking, ‘Why are we still doing this?’ That’s what I’ve seen change in the past 15 years doing this. I think that as with so many things, it comes down to people expressing their concern and with their elected officials, letting them know this continues to be important. That’s the only way we’ll shift the system.”

To see the petition, visit sierraclub. bc.ca/stand-up-for-the-last-remainingold-growth-forests-bm-a. n

Resort Municipality of Whistler

Nesters Hill trail closure notice Fuel thinning is now underway in the forested area west of Nesters neighbourhood.

Given the interconnected layout of the trails, all trails on Nesters Hill are closed for the duration of the project, including:

• Cut Yer Bars slabs • Cut Yer Bars Trail • Robin Yer Eggs • Roll Yer Bones • Cut Yer Bones

• Cut Yer Bars blue • Hands of Doom • Suicycle • Sh*ts and Giggles • ESP

Work is expected to take five weeks to complete. For safety reasons, please stay off closed trails.

Thank you for your patience while this important wildfire prevention work is completed.

Please visit the project webpage for the latest information.

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RMOW quietly turns 45 COUNCIL BRIEFS: ZERO-EMISSION AWARENESS GRANT ENDORSED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A MILESTONE anniversary came and went quietly for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) over the Labour Day Weekend.

On Sept. 6, the municipality officially turned 45 years old, but don’t worry—your invite wasn’t lost in the mail.

The date passed with nary a peep from the RMOW, but with all that’s been happening this year with COVID-19, local leaders can be forgiven a lack of pageantry (we’ll just keep the bubbly on ice for the 50th).

“Whistler is a community of risk-takers and visionaries, that has built this rich community we all get to enjoy. We have achieved a lot in our short history,” said Mayor Jack Crompton in a statement.

“Our community—and the world—may now face unpredictable times with the advent of COVID, but what I do know is that our community will continue to preserve and find innovative ways to remain resilient and emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever before.

“I encourage everyone to take a moment to reflect on what has been created in the past 45 years. I’d love to hear your stories about Whistler.”

Provincial Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Selina Robinson commended the RMOW’s “historic” agreement signed this year with the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations in congratulating the municipality.

“Whistler’s 45th anniversary as a resort municipality is an exciting milestone to celebrate their past, along with a new vision for the future, with the

COUNCIL ENDORSES ZERO-EMISSION AWARENESS GRANT Whistler mayor and council voted to support a grant application to Natural Resources Canada’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative on Sept. 1.

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“It drives me nuts when the other orders of government fail to make good on their own responsibilities...”

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recent signing of their historic agreement with First Nations,” Robinson said in a release. “I look forward to seeing Whistler and the Squamish and Líl’wat Nations work together to shape their community and explore new economic opportunities for this world-class resort destination.”

Read more about the early days of RMOW incorporation in Pique, Sept. 2., 2015: “Forty years of defining moments from incorporation to today.”

and rollout of awareness initiatives that remove barriers for people wanting to buy electric vehicles.

The RMOW’s portion of the funding would come from the provincial Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program, which reimburses municipalities their portion of carbon taxes for investment in climate action.

Councillor Ralph Forsyth voted in opposition, citing a recurring pet

peeve of his: federal and provincial cost downloading to municipal governments.

“What we need to understand is this is federal responsibility, and now they’re dangling a little carrot in front of us and saying, ‘Hey this is our job, we’ll give you half the money to do it for us,’ and that is just wrong. It’s not a good thing for the taxpayers to let them off the hook,” Forsyth said.

“It drives me nuts when the other orders of government fail to make good on their own responsibilities, and then they try and bribe us with our money to do it for them, so I won’t be supporting the motion.”

But the motion speaks to the ambition of the RMOW’s new Climate Action Big Moves Strategy, and the target of having 50 per cent of all vehicle kilometres driven in Whistler be from zero-emission vehicles by 2030, said Coun. Arthur De Jong.

“I find this exciting, I think with the six big moves … this is one that we can move quickly,” De Jong said, adding that in 2018, four per cent of new car sales in B.C. were EV—a number that grew to nine per cent in 2019.

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Mary Evelyn Wilton Murray 1946-2020

Mary passed away peacefully on Monday, August 31th with family and friends by her side. Mourning the loss of this wonderful woman is her daughter Jenny Schroeder and grandson Dustyn, her brother Clem Wilton, his wife Beverly, Mary’s many longtime friends in Whistler, Vancouver Island and countless family, friends and cousins from Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Mary took her training in nursing at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and nursed there as well as Collingwood and Halifax. But in the 70’s Mary left her career after coming to Whistler for a holiday and then hiring on as a ticket seller for Whistler at Creekside. This was the beginning of a varied career at the mountain.

From “Alpine Mary” the mountaintop switchboard operator, to running Central Purchasing for Garibaldi Lift Co., to Queen of the Turkey Sale, and a Manager in the Retail division, she was a very dedicated worker at Whistler/Blackcomb over her 38 years there.

With a sparkle in her eye and an unhesitating turn of phrase, Mary drew people to her. She was very generous and loved, especially by her younger staff, always opening her home on holidays to those whose families were far away. She didn’t often ski, but was always ready to tell the mountain guests where they could ind “the really good powder”.

She loved her annual trips to Palm Springs - gol ing and sunning by the pool.

There was many a discussion about the politics of the day even showing up for treatment in Squamish dressed as a US President wearing a hat “Make Chemo Great Again” on April Fools’ Day. Always with a current book by her side, she was an avid reader, Scrabble player and devoted sudoku fan (but only the challenging bigger puzzles).

Baseball was Mary’s passion and she was an amazing resource for baseball history and statistics. In 2016 her beloved Cubs won the World Series ending a 71 year drought. What a day!

A special thanks to the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Sea to Sky Hospice and their truly kind caregivers, the Whistler Community health home care staff as well as Drs. Kautsky and Lim and of course the Squamish Chemo Clinic where she was a regular for over 3 years.

A true Whistler icon Mary loved her Whistler home and the many friends she made over the past 45 years. We will all miss this true gentle soul.

To remember Mary, donations can be made to Sea to Sky Hospice Society at seatoskyhospicesociety.ca

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RCMP investigating after serious accident south of Whistler WITNESSES ASKED TO CONTACT RCMP

BY STEVEN CHUA The Squamish Chief RCMP IS investigating two drivers after a Lamborghini involved in a charity supercar event was involved in a multiple-vehicle collision on the Sea to Sky Highway over the Labour Day weekend.

The crash south of Whistler on Highway 99 at Daisy Lake on Saturday, Sept. 5 caused multiple injuries, two of which were serious, according to BC Emergency Health Services.

RCMP say a black Range Rover and a silver Lamborghini were travelling northbound where they were involved in an incident that caused the silver Lamborghini to lose control and hit the median, cross over into oncoming traffic, and hit a Toyota crossover travelling southbound.

“I can confirm the silver Lamborghini travelling north was part of the Diamond Hublot Rally, but at this stage [we] are determining the exact cause of what made it cross into oncoming traffic,” said Sgt.

Sascha Banks, in a news release.

A request for comment to the Hublot Diamond Rally was not returned before Pique’s deadline.

The highway was closed for upwards of four hours waiting for the RCMP’s Integrated Collisions Analysis and Reconstruction Service (ICARS) to arrive on scene.

While mitigating highway closures was a focus of past municipal governments in the corridor (see Pique, Nov 26, 2017: “RCMP pilot project aimed at shortening road closures on Highway 99”), it hasn’t been a hot-button issue of late.

Neither the RMOW nor the RCMP were able to provide an update on the highway closure working group before Pique’s weekly deadline.

Over the weekend, the Hublot Diamond Rally, a gathering of supercars, was driving on the Sea to Sky Highway in order to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“We are investigating both the drivers of the Range Rover and the Lamborghini for dangerous operation of a motor vehicle,

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and once all details are obtained including the ICARS analysis, we will have a clearer picture of fault,” said Banks.

“We have seen far too much tragedy on the Sea to Sky Highway to last us all a lifetime.

We can only implore those in our area to slow down... everyone who visits us wants to get to their destination safe and sound.”

Officers say multiple occupants of the Toyota and Lamborghini were injured, including two children. They were rushed to hospitals in the Lower Mainland and the Sea to Sky. Two children were injured in the accident and are in stable condition, said RCMP.

BC Emergency Health Services spokesperson Heather Amos said on Sept. 5 that six patients were transported to hospital. Aside from the two in serious condition, the other four had non-lifethreatening injuries.

One patient was airlifted out.

Amos said that a person stuck in traffic after the highway closed for several hours as a result of the event needed medical attention.

That person was transported to hospital.

Officers are asking witnesses to contact the Whistler RCMP as soon as they can at 604-932-3044.

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PVDD updates council NEW OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER SHARES VISION FOR THE VALLEY

BY DAN FALLOON THE PEMBERTON VALLEY Dyking District’s (PVDD) new operations and maintenance manager briefed Village of Pemberton (VOP) council on the state of the Pemberton Valley at council’s Committee of the Whole meeting on Sept. 1.

Kevin Clark, who stepped into the role in February, presented on his priorities as he looks out for the best interests of residents of Pemberton, the Lil’wat Nation and those in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD).

One of the pressing concerns is increasing data collection to help facilitate the best possible decision-making, he said.

While much of the monitoring focuses on the Lillooet River, other rivers and creeks in the valley can be trouble spots even if nothing seems to be amiss with the Lillooet.

The Lillooet’s highest flow rate of the year as of the meeting, 602 cubic metres per second on Aug. 21, was short of the 650-cubic-metre-per-second trigger for crews to start patrols in the area, but other areas presented some risk. The Ryan River was roughly 80 centimetres from topping the road, for one.

Clark added that the Lillooet River flow was recorded at 369 cubic metres per second at the Hurley Forest Service Road bridge, but after the Ryan River and Miller Creek flowed into it, that number surged to 602. The Green River was also close to overtopping near the golf courses, while the Arn Canal was roughly 45 centimetres from overtopping.

Thankfully, Clark said Lillooet Lake’s levels had gone down between 1.5 and two metres in the days leading up to Aug. 21 and could handle the extra water.

With the Lil’wat Nation installing a gauge on the Birkenhead River this fall and Environment and Climate Change Canada’s National Hydrological Service upgrading its Pemberton Creek systems (see more below), Clark would ultimately like to see additional gauges on the Ryan and Green Rivers, as well as on Miller Creek. Another

RIVER RUN The Pemberton Valley Dyking District updated Pemberton council on Sept. 1. important upgrade would be for additional Environment Canada weather collection stations in the valley, as the only current one is situated at the Pemberton Airport.

It’s key, Clark said, because rainfall can be localized and if not all rivers and creeks are receiving rain, there could be less of a flood risk while, conversely, if all are receiving rain, then it allows jurisdictions to react in the most strategic way. If an evacuation is necessary, the data would be used to determine how to best sequence the process.

“We really need some [stations] remotely located, up the Lillooet River Valley near the Innergex power station and one up where the Ryan River originates,” Clark said in a follow-up interview on Sept. 8. “When it rains at the head end of the Lillooet [River Valley], we have several hours before that water comes into Pemberton. If we know that it’s raining harder up there than it is [down] here, and our rivers are already high, that’s the data that we really need.”

The lack of data was particularly evident during the November 2016 flood, as the River Forecast Centre projected a peak

of 770 cubic metres per second, but the peak surpassed 1,400.

In terms of infrastructure improvements, the PVDD’s current priorities start with bringing the region’s dikes up to a level that provide protection for low-lying, unprotected or inadequately protected areas such as parts of Mount Currie and near the airport.

“It’s like changing the oil that’s in your car.

We need to keep the infrastructure that keeps us from the nuisance flooding up to the top standard so that we don’t have a flood from a non-big event,” Clark said. “Until we can secure funding for large-scale projects, then that’s the best expenditure of our money.”

Clark also identified four spots other than dikes that need to be improved. The first is at the Arn Canal, which has aging, leaky infrastructure. Clark expects to hear back by month’s end regarding roughly $900,000 in funding from the Union of B.C. Municipalities’ Community Emergency Preparedness Fund.

Clark also presented to the Pemberton Valley Emergency Management Committee

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on Sept. 8 regarding several potential projects, including fixing the North Arm Channel berm, which was built quickly after the 2003 flood but is now leaking.

The committee, made up of VOP, SLRD and Lil’wat Nation representatives, will go back to their respective municipalities and discuss the project and seek funding if they decide to move forward. The price tag is estimated at $350,000.

The other two projects are fixing beaver and vegetation issues at Grandmother Slough, which Clark has discussed with the Lil’wat Nation, and fixing a leaky gate at Gannon ditch near the intersection of Clover and Fraser roads. If there are no other major events this year, Clark anticipates having budget to replace the Gannon valve.

Other PVDD priorities include lobbying the province for additional funding and work with the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure to reduce flood risk caused by their infrastructure.

As well, to facilitate future project

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VOP council approves Community Amenity Contribution Policy NEW APPROACH WILL ALLOW STAFF MORE FLEXIBILITY IN REZONING PROCESS NEGOTIATIONS

BY DAN FALLOON VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) staff will have a bit more flexibility in their negotiations to secure amenities from developers after council approved a new Community Amenity Contribution Policy.

The policy was presented as a draft in June (“VOP council receives drinking water report”, www.piquenewsmagazine.com, July 11, 2020). At the time, council endorsed the work but sought additional amenity aspirations and other potential projects and also asked for more consultation with the development industry.

The main thrust of the policy is to provide the Village with the ability to negotiate a wider range of amenities from developers during the rezoning process.

The report recommends utilizing a density-bonus process, which would allow developers to build at an increased density over and above the base density in exchange for an amenity contribution, which was not present in the 2007 document.

Contract planner Cameron Chalmers explained that the policy created three classes of amenity consideration. The first is amenities provided by the developer purely to enhance the community, another is a community benefit that falls outside the Local Government Act legislation, such

as upgrading a sewer line for an existing neighbourhood or a road upgrade, and the final is a requirement, such as connecting to water and sewer systems.

The policy also includes greater ability for council to ensure the projects come to fruition.

“We’ve set some more parameters for how we will secure those obligations, to make sure that if it’s a promise coming out of a developer and out of staff’s mouth at the time of a development application, that it’s secured and delivered in a timely sequence,” Chalmers said.

Mayor Mike Richman said while he likes the policy, he acknowledged concerns that in some ways, it’s overly complicated.

“It does lend itself to fairness and flexibility but I do worry that there’s the optics side of it, ‘He paid this and she paid that and I have to pay this,’” Richman said.

“It’s a hard one to explain on the street, so I want to make sure that the whole process is clear and transparent.”

Chalmers noted that while hard numbers, such as a set percentage of anticipated lift value as a result of rezoning, aren’t locked in to the report, staff can use them as a starting point for negotiations.

The full policy is available at www. pemberton.ca/public/download/ files/137484 starting on Page 67.

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PEMBERTON CREEK UPGRADES Environment and Climate Change Canada’s National Hydrological Service (NHS) will upgrade its Pemberton Creek systems on Sept. 21 and 22.

“The planned upgrades include installation of remote camera and surface velocity radar systems to test noncontact methods for flow and water level measurement. Staff will also survey the local gauge vertical datum to the new Canadian height reference system to allow Pemberton Creek gauge data to be incorporated into future models for floodplain management,” a department spokesperson wrote in an email.

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DYKING DISTRICT FROM PAGE 26 planning, Clark is consulting with SLRD, VOP and Lil’wat to create a long-term vision.

There are potential pitfalls ahead, however. Across the district, Clark said, access to dikes is a problem as many were originally built by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration without rightof-way agreements in place, which creates challenges in obtaining provincial funding.

“If you have property that has a dike on it and you don’t have a right-of-way signed with the Dyking District, it really inhibits our ability to service and further upkeep that dike,” he said, noting that the Dyking District lacks such agreements for many area dikes. “It’s a commitment, but if you really believe in the safety of the valley, you might want to really think about that.”

At the end of Clark’s presentation, Mayor Mike Richman said he was pleased to see the VOP and PVDD collaborating on projects so far this year, and feels council is better informed thanks to increased communication.

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Employing the many readily available and emerging solutions to “move the date” closer to year’s end is the goal, but this laterthan-expected overshoot day was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than direct measures to address the climate emergency and other crises.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Pemberton Valley Dyking District (PVDD) be2019 holding its 73rd TUESDAY, APRIL will 9TH, @ 7:00 pm Annual General Meeting (AGM) and you are invited to attend this event. You will gain a great overview of what the PVDD does, see what projects Pembertonthroughout Community Centre – 7390 Cottonwood Street the dyking district completed 2019 and what projects are planned or are in progress for 2020.

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Improvement Districts were given direction to postpone The Pemberton Valley Dyking District will be holding its 72nd Annual General Meeting and you are AGMs, and the deadline was extended to December 31, 2020. Improvement Districts are now encouraged invited to attend this event. You will gain a great overview of what the Pemberton Valley Dyking District to safely conduct physically distant AGMs and elections that comply with directions of the Provincial Health does, see what projects the Dyking District completed throughout 2018 and what projects are planned Officer (PHO). for 2019.

The At PVDD wouldApril like 9, to2019 ask individuals who plan on Dyking attending the 2020 AGM to RSVP the Tuesday, AGM the Pemberton Valley District will also be electing twoat trustees@pvdd.ca, to allow thetoPVDD to plan AGM accordingly, date and venue to be announced. Only those who RSVP will Trustees the Board for aits 3-year term each.. attend the AGM and be notified of the date and venue. RSVP deadline is September 24, 2020 at 5:00 pm.

Please contact the office at 604-894-6632 Voter Eligibility: (ID must be presented) if you do not receive an RSVP email verification or if you have any Only otherpersons questions. attending the election and meeting the following eligibility requirements are entitled to vote:One trustee for a three (3) year term – out going Trustee Chad Gilmore is willing to stand for Election: another three (3) year term.

• A Canadian Citizen • Eighteen yearsinofpreparation age, or older for the AGM, the PVDD would like to call for Trustee nominations to be At this time, and • An to owner landat within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District emailed the of office trustees@pvdd.ca.

Nominations mustboundaries include a letter of acceptance from the nominee • A resident of theinformation), province of British Columbia for individual the prior six to months (including contact in order for that be considered a candidate for election. Please • Legal representative of an owner of land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries contact the office at 604-894-6632 if you do not receive an email verification for your nomination or if you • Authorized agent of a corporation or board that owns land within the Pemberton have any other questions. Deadline for Trustee nominations is September 24,Valley 2020 Dyking at 5:00 pm.

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“Most countries have pretty strict laws about businesses running Ponzi schemes but somehow in the ecological domain we think it’s okay.”

- MATHIS WACKERNAGEL overall 9.3 per cent reduction in humanity’s global ecological footprint.

Network president Mathis Wackernagel sees this year’s result as an encouraging sign that progress is possible, but cautions that it must be made “by design not by disaster.”

He compares our behaviour to a scam where current wealth must be repaid by others in the future: “Most countries have pretty strict laws about businesses running Ponzi schemes but somehow in the ecological domain we think it’s okay,” he says in the Guardian. “We’ve only got one planet and that’s not going to change.

We’ve got a very simple choice, one-planet prosperity or one-planet misery.”

This further illustrates the need for a pandemic recovery that goes beyond returning to “normal” and for measures to address environmental crises that go beyond pandemic recovery.

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more than 85 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

Although slowing population growth is important, we can’t resolve the climate crisis if we don’t reduce the amount of resources we consume, especially in the developed world. As Global Footprint Network points out, we’re consuming resources at a much faster rate than Earth is able to replenish them. That’s led not just to the climate crisis, but also to a profound extinction and biodiversity crisis and continuing environmental devastation.

COVID-19 has put humanity on pause and exposed some of our current system’s flaws. It has also shown that we can slow consumption and move on to something better than the old “normal.” We’re at a crossroads and we must act quickly.

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The Armenian viper caper: Part IV WE WERE CAMPED above treeline on a ridge in Shikahogh Forest Reserve.

We’d driven up here in a parade of camobedecked vans that seemed less park vehicle than military conveyance—but what did I know? Only after debarking to a warning about land mines, a yard sale of rocketpropelled grenades, and Kalashnikov rounds crunching underfoot like peanut shells did it become clear: Shikahogh abutted not only Iran, but the Islamic Republic of Azerbaijan, the arch-enemy Armenia recently concluded a war with.

BY LESLIE ANTHONY Call me old fashioned, but it just didn’t seem cricket to shell your enemies from, or in, a forest reserve.

Sidestepping the ordnance, I’d found the first Armenian viper of the trip, proving not only that this Holy Grail endangered species still existed, but that there was now bioinventory work to do around protecting it.

We’d quickly uncovered several more of the striking creatures, as well as a few other snake species. Giant Caucasian bumblebees fled our footfalls as we waded through opium poppies sprouting from the remains of flattened shepherd’s huts. The decimated buildings offered perfect habitat for rodents and perfect cover for snakes, and there were plenty of both: both Alex and Bob slung pillow-cases bulging with serpents that would provide DNA samples before being released; Kolya, forever stoic, toothpick in mouth, surveyed the scene gripping the wedge-shaped head of a massive Levantine viper.

As always, I found his casualness disarming. The Levantine was extremely dangerous, with a nasty disposition and outsized fangs that delivered high volumes of tissue-destroying venom. Though his friend, Ilya Darevsky, lost a finger to a Levantine and other colleagues had died from its bite, this one hung from Kolya’s hand like a rope he didn’t know what to do with. After helping him bag it I continued flipping through the

CAMOUFLAGE CAPER Can you spot the Armenian viper? mountainside junkyard, but noticed my hands were shaking.

Back at camp, someone had slaughtered a sheep. Bulging intestines uncoiled over the ground like spilled spaghetti, fecal contents oozing from several nicks. It seemed sloppy, but again, what did I know?

Besides, we were all hungry and happy to khorovatz into the night.

After next morning’s Spartan breakfast of cold mutton and vodka served on the hood of a truck, we tromped off to “make photo” with the previous day’s catch. The Armenian vipers, gorgeous and velvety in the morning light, coiled cooperatively on lichen-spackled rock. Even the typically truculent Levantines seemed graciously photogenic. Not so a bright-red, nonvenomous species Alex hectored up and down the road, trying to tire it out as you would a puppy; having none of it, the ill-tempered, 1.5-metre snake struck continuously, eventually nailing his left index finger—already grossly misshapen by a past viper bite—drawing blood and ire from Alex but barely a shrug from Bob or Kolya.

While photographing specimens, Bob and Kolya communicated in a truncated but

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well-rehearsed way. If an animal adopted a threatening posture while being posed, Bob might say Hmmm. Translation: This snake is trouble. Kolya would answer, Uh hmm.

Translation: I see that. The dialogue didn’t shift in accordance with the situation’s gravity. Hmmm could just as easily mean That cobra is spitting at you. While Kolya’s Uh hmm—as he wiped venom from his camera lens—would still mean I see that.

Embodying turn-of-the-century explorernaturalists with a fascination for foreign lands and exotic creatures, Bob and Kolya had described hundreds of new species between them, in some cases just in time to save them from extinction. But the rugged fieldwork behind such discovery came with a price.

After the photo session, the pair trudged back to camp with bilious stomachs, a sign of impending doom. Soon, Bob was at my tent.

“Got any toilet paper?” he begged. “I’m all out and just shitting water.”

It was the unsanitary sheep slaughter.

While the tentmates engaged in a pas de deux of violent vomiting and voiding that left them crawling on hands and knees, I looked to escape the plague by climbing the peak above camp. I expected no more than a brisk walk, but in the illusory way of

For Parts I, II and III of the Armenian viper caper see piquenewsmagazine.com Aug, 2, Aug 15 and Aug.27. Part IV is the final instalment.

Leslie Anthony is a Whistler–based author, editor, biologist and bon vivant who has never met a mountain he didn’t like. ■

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mountains the slope soon jacked up like a rogue wave, turning it into a scramble.

I’d sat atop the highest pinnacle, legs hanging in space, feeling like I could see anything from such a vantage. Into the centuries of warring cultures. Into the geological past and biological present. Into the cataclysm of commerce and an uncertain future wrote for various species. It was the kind of grounding perspective I’d been made privy to by answering the perilous siren-calls of this pack of lunatics. I reckoned I owed a lot to these generous-hearted herpetologists… until my stomach cramped and my bowels made a sound like bad plumbing.

The expedition’s final week was desperately long and hot, but we returned to Yerevan triumphant, carrying DNA samples from which could be gleaned information on gene flow between lonesome populations of Armenian vipers, offering prescription on how best to conserve the vanishing species.

In Aram’s apartment we slumped exhausted around a clattering, jury-rigged fan blowing maddeningly warm air. Recumbent on the sofa I’d occupied for weeks, I watched the others through fluttering eyelids shaded by a ball-cap: Bob hunched over his computer; Levon on his phone and smoking; ditto Aram #1—while also digging through the latest pot-load of crayfish he was certainly propelling to extinction…

I awoke to a commotion near my feet— Kolya chasing an escaped viper. Flushed from the warmth of wires feeding the fan, it had sprung toward the couch where I slept, attempting to climb it. A normal person— perhaps myself some weeks ago—might have jumped in alarm. But sudden movements are never a good thing with snakes, and I knew the crew would deal with it. And if not? Well, there was little to be done.

I pulled my hat back down and drifted off.

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The food industry, from producers to eateries, copes with COVID-19

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By Dan Falloon When the first real shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic were being felt in the Sea to Sky in mid-March, one of the sectors most affected was the food industry.

Businesses were sent for a loop with restaurants forced to close initially, while most residents stocked up more than usual at local grocery stores.

As customers and businesses alike have made necessary adaptations—eateries have reopened with new protocols and it’s not a game of chance trying to acquire flour for your sourdough from the supermarket— Pique looks at how the industry may be forever changed.

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Laughing Crow Organics Start at the farm Kicking off right where the food grows from the ground, at local farms such as Pemberton Meadows’ Laughing Crow Organics, co-owner Kerry McCann explains the business has felt the ups and downs so far.

While its ability to get its products directly into consumers’ hands through farmers’ markets in Squamish and, particularly, in Whistler has been hamstrung by pandemic restrictions, the farm, she says, has seen a sustained spike in its community supported agriculture (CSA) boxes, which were dropped off in a contactless manner even pre-pandemic.

Couple that with people dining out less and, therefore, eating in more, there was some opportunity to be had.

“There was definitely more awareness and demand from the local population, and possibly, a bunch of our [farmers] market customers joined our box program,” she says.

“That felt like the community adapting and continuing to support local food.

“A lot of the conversations we were having with people, if they signed up or afterwards, was, ‘I want to support our local

economy,’” she adds, noting that all of Laughing Crow’s produce is sold within 93 kilometres of the farm.

With its 2020 plan well underway by the time mid-March rolled around, McCann describes the early days of the pandemic as a situation where she and co-owner Andrew Budgell reconsidered their strategy, and bet on a hopeful outcome where they could sell more product. If not, they’d adapt in other ways.

“Our seeds were already here, our crop plan was already made and our season was already planned,” she says. “When it happened in mid-March, we’d already started our tomatoes and peppers and onions and leeks. The early season things were already growing.”

As in previous years, Laughing Crow has tapped into other revenue streams with its sunflower maze, where visitors can also visit the onsite farm produce and goods stand.

“It is kind of like private shopping,” she says with a laugh. “There’s no line-up.”

To the southeast, West VancouverSea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy can provide perspective on multiple levels as the proprietor of North Arm Farm on Highway 99.

As a supplier that tries to carve out a niche by growing purple or white carrots instead of the traditional orange varieties in order to charge a premium, the farm is reliant on restaurants ordering and serving those products, which has been impossible to predict this year.

“It’s hard to know what to plant not knowing if that customer base that has been there for years is going to be around,” he says, pointing to estimates that as many as 30 per cent of eateries may shutter this year.

While access to labour is an issue across the board in the region, Sturdy explains that COVID-19 exacerbated those challenges. In his case, only one of the farm’s long-time labourers made it up from Mexico this season—though it wasn’t until June. In a normal year, many sojourn up in the spring and have been doing so for a decade or more.

“To have all of your experienced employees not available to you at all causes huge, huge issues,” he says.

Sturdy gave the example of how one veteran, who has come up for nearly 20 years, was difficult to replace.

“He knows my system. He knows my equipment. He knows my scheduling. He knows how we fix fences and how we run

an irrigation system,” he says. “That’s only gained through years of experience.

“The idea that somebody who is going to be here for a couple of weeks or a month, and then never again, can replace that person is nonsensical.”

A larger issue, Sturdy points out, is that the workers are classified as unskilled and, as such, do not have a clear path to obtaining citizenship. Sturdy, representing the opposition Liberals, also took aim at the province’s Employer Health Tax, criticizing that it assumes that the affected businesses have high margins, but also that though the seasonal international workers count as part of the payroll, they are not eligible to receive the service.

Also at the federal level, Sturdy has experienced challenges with the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) with employees willing to work, but not to the point that they would jeopardize eligibility in the program.

All told, Sturdy says, the added expenses make it more difficult to compete with growers in California and Mexico, which have competitive advantages of significantly lower wages and longer growing seasons.

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Pemberton’s farming future With supermarkets experiencing shortages in the pandemic’s early days, both Village of Pemberton (VOP) council and residents quickly started considering food security in earnest.

In the municipality’s case, when looking at avenues it could take to boost non-taxation revenue at its regular meeting on May 26, it opted to consider projects in the food and agriculture sector, as well as an RV park and tourism infrastructure, including agritourism.

While work, led by economic and finance consultant Peter van Gils of the Whistler Centre for Sustainability, is still ongoing to determine the feasibility of these projects, it’s clear that maintaining Pemberton’s prime position as an agricultural leader—and ensuring that it benefits locals—is top of mind.

“We’ve said it numerous times that food just goes down to the [Lower] Mainland and then it just comes back up,” Councillor Ryan Zant said during the meeting.

Among the ideas floated in the meeting were finding ways to redistribute vegetables locally and constructing a “mini abattoir.”

“It would make local food even cheaper for locals, but there would be a profit margin as well,” Mayor Mike Richman said.

While he was set to investigate the possibilities further, van Gils expressed reservations about the municipality getting involved, as it would be hard to recoup costs. Stringent regulations would also present challenges.

“You’d have to have significant volume and the volume is hard to come by,” said van Gils, who added that he’s most experienced with similar projects in the fishing industry.

In an interview in early August, Richman says he expects the discussion to return to council this autumn. It’s of interest to more than just those around the table: addressing food security concerns and making the most of Pemberton’s agricultural might

were common suggestions to help the village’s recovery from those responding a survey sent out by the Mayor’s Task Force on COVID-19 Response and Recovery.

Richman, reinforcing that everything is in very early stages, says that a potential agricultural facility could be a VOP initiative, a private venture or take the form of a partnership.

“We’re looking at it from a few levels.

One is as an economic driver with potential revenue other than taxation, but food processing has all kinds of economic spinoff for our valley. Just the fact that we’re an agriculturally rich valley and so much of our food heads down the highway— some of it then comes back; most of it doesn’t—it would give us the ability to store, process, maybe even brand and market the Pemberton Valley food,” he says. “We could keep it regionally so that we the residents can access our own food, so to speak, for the winter.”

In addition to food security, other benefits would be reduced greenhousegas emissions and convenience for locals.

Richman speaks from experience, as he is a small producer of pigs and chickens.

“There’s a lot of us that have six, seven pigs and we end up driving down to Chilliwack or Kamloops to have our animals butchered and then we go pick them up again,” he says. “We go up and down the highway to process our livestock.”

Another pitched option is attempting to form a collective among growers to ensure residents can access local food all year long, which is too taxing individually but is possible with a central facility. It, of course, comes with its own set of hurdles.

While some growers sell locally, Richman says, others plop their produce on a truck and send it to market.

“It’s easier than trying to process, or wash, or store [the food]. That’s a lot of work after harvest,” he says.

Though there were no specifics yet, Sturdy echoes the concerns that there would be enough volume of any crop to make a facility viable, noting that a McCain’s potato-processing facility, for example, would need vast amounts of cheap spuds for something like tater tots.

A collective, he adds, faces challenges from Agricultural Land Reserve regulations, as at least 50 per cent of product that is

stored, packed, processed or prepared must also be produced onsite.

The tide might be turning, however, as blueberry producers in the Fraser Valley look to be making headway to change the law to allow shared storage and freezing facilities, Sturdy says.

If there is a change, Sturdy believes it’s something for local growers to consider, as he notes crop consultants have recommended that seed-potato producers team up.

“The problem is we have pretty rudimentary storage facilities here in the valley and a controlled atmosphere storage facility would provide a much better quality crop after storage,” he says. “The problem is if there are 25 or so growers who are all kind of competing with each other, it doesn’t lend itself to that. They’re a bunch of entrepreneurs. They’re a bunch of small business people. They’re all trying to protect their own market share and protect their own customer base and grow their own unique varieties.”

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Hammer Roasting direct-to-consumer model, she’s unsure of how the business would fit into a collective.

“There are so many wonderful farmers in the valley and so much food is produced here,” she says. “We always feel really thankful to be part of the farming community and we’re surrounded by great farms.

“It would be neat if something more substantial, if something took shape in that way, the ‘hows?’ and the ‘buts’ are generally the end of the conversation. We’d need an aggregation point. We’d need cold storage. We’d need a co-operative, thirdparty model.”

As for meat, interested producers can apply for a Class E licence for on-farm slaughter of one to 10 animals per year for direct-to-consumer sale.

Creating product in a pandemic One glimmer of light for local java lovers came thanks to the health crisis.

Hammer Roasting Company co-owner Mat Peake and wife Chrissy were both “blindsided” by being laid off from their respective part-time jobs due to COVID-19, but ultimately found themselves able to devote more than a day a week to the venture.

“We found ourselves at loose ends with our day jobs,” Peake says with a chuckle, “so we thought, ‘Well, we’ve got nothing else to do, so let’s do this.’

“We had Hammer to distract us from this storm, to a large degree, and we’re very, very grateful for the local support in doing that.”

Peake, a graphic design contractor with Whistler Blackcomb, didn’t anticipate going back to work any time soon when speaking in July, while Chrissy is now focusing on Hammer full time.

The business, now in its fourth year, had fortuitously transitioned from manual orders to e-commerce for its deliveries just last year.

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As people avoided grocery stores, Peake says they turned to Hammer to ensure they had safe, easy access to one staple.

“We noticed this massive uptick on the Hammer side, which was really unexpected and really humbling,” Peake says. “There were many people at that time who were panicking that they wouldn’t be able to get the basic essentials.

“We filled a very important need in being an essential.”

Hammer subsequently added a Wednesday delivery in addition to its mainstay Saturday drop-offs.

The supply roadblock for Hammer could be down the line, as their coffee comes from central and South America—primarily from Brazil, which as of Sept. 9 had the secondmost COVID-19 cases with upwards of 4 million cases and 128,000 deaths.

There’s the possibility to pivot to acquiring beans from Africa or Asia, and while the diehards love the flavour profile of what Hammer has delivered to this point, Peake reasons that customers are also interested in trying new things.

“We just need you to give us a little of your

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grace and flexibility and we are going to get Woods says the timeline to launch the back to normal as soon as we can,” he said. line, by early next year at the latest, was not Another supply challenge, similar to affected by the change. those restaurants have faced, is that the lining for its compostable bags has been The dining hard to get, so Hammer has had to explain experience why its packaging isn’t the usual.

While there’s no opportunity for a coffee On the restaurant side, Restaurant company to shift its supply locally, it’s what Association of Whistler (RAW) president Squamish’s State B Beverage Co. did.

Eric Griffith explains that local eateries When starting the line of craft cannabis reopened into a better-than-anticipated beverages, owner Kelly Ann Woods had situation after the shutdowns. However, initially sought out exotic ingredients with shoulder season approaching and like callamansi, acai and bergamot, but the early winter situation, the local because of supply chain uncertainty in the industry’s cash cow, only recently gaining pandemic and beyond, made the change. some clarity with Whistler Blackcomb’s “From a business standpoint, to a supply- reopening plans, the next several months chain standpoint, to an environment are critical. standpoint to a local economic standpoint, “December is crucial for training and we are being forced to localize as much hiring and getting people up and ready as possible,” says Woods, who also owns for the season,” Griffith, also the owner Gillespies Fine Spirits. “I’m feeling this of Alta Bistro and its wine director, says. innate desire to stay close to home. That’s “Those three weeks at the beginning of the across the board. season are crucial to surviving the winter.

“I love exotic ingredients, but man, the If you don’t have any business and you flavour of a really nice, fresh raspberry is equal can’t afford to bring people on and train to if not superior than a lot of other options.” them, and you have no customers to do so,

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NOTICE OF ALTERNATIVE APPROVAL PROCESS PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with the Local Government Act and the Community Charter that the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (“SLRD”) has proposed the following bylaw: Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Pemberton and District Transfer Station Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1661-2020 (“Bylaw No. 1661”).

Bylaw No. 1661 relates to the SLRD’s Pemberton Refuse Disposal Local Service Area, which includes a portion of Electoral Area C and the Village of Pemberton as participants (the “Service Area”) as shown on the map below:

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Area D Resort Municipality of Whistler

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The borrowing of the sum of $1,375,000 has previously been authorized for the purpose of constructing the Pemberton & District transfer station pursuant to Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Pemberton and District Transfer Station Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1567-2018.

The purpose of Bylaw No. 1661 is to authorize the SLRD to borrow additional funds up to $811,353 over a term of 30 years for the purpose of acquiring property and constructing the Pemberton and District transfer station on such acquired property for the use and benefit of residents in the Pemberton area. $811,353 is the maximum amount of debt to be created by Bylaw No. 1661.

It is with great sadness that we have to announce the sudden passing of our beautiful daughter, sister, granddaughter, auntie, cousin, friend, Kathryn Megan Hill left this world far too soon on August 29/2020.

Kathryn was born in Winnipeg Manitoba on June 26/1990 to Kelly Hill and Tad Bielski. Kathryn grew up in the Whistler / Pemberton area.

Repayment of the borrowed funds is intended to be spread out over a term of 30 years, the cost of which is to be borne by the taxable properties within the Service Area. If the full amount of the $811,353 loan to be authorized under Bylaw No. 1661 is issued, the estimated tax requisition is as follows: (*The electoral area rates below are higher due to a mandatory 5.25% provincial fee which is added to properties within electoral areas.)

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The SLRD Board is seeking participating area approval of the electors by way of Alternative Approval Process for the entire Service Area. The number of eligible electors in the entire Service Area is 3,956 and the number of elector responses required to prevent the SLRD Board from proceeding without the further assent of the electors is 395. The deadline for receiving elector responses for this Alternative Approval Process is 4:30 p.m. on October 13, 2020. The SLRD Board may proceed with this Bylaw unless, by the deadline stated above, at least 10% (being 395) of the electors of the Service Area indicate that the SLRD Board must obtain approval by assent vote (referendum).

Elector responses must be given in the form established by the SLRD Board.

Elector response forms are available at the SLRD office (1350 Aster St., Pemberton, BC) and at www.slrd.bc.ca/PTS_AAP. The only persons entitled to sign the forms are electors of the Service Area. For more information about elector qualifications, see www.slrd.bc.ca/PTS_AAP. Public inspection of the Bylaw can be made at the SLRD office (1350 Aster St., Pemberton, BC) from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Monday-Friday, except holidays) and at www.slrd.bc.ca/PTS_AAP. For more information: SLRD Corporate Officer K. Clark (604) 894-6371 (ext.

230) or kclark@slrd.bc.ca

Kathryn loved life to the fullest, she loved animals and especially her dog Ben. She was a funny, outgoing and vivacious, spirited girl. When she gave you a hug you knew it was real. We will always remember her infectious laugh and the way she lit up a room when she walked into it.

When you think of Kathryn celebrate the good memories you have of her. Remember that life is fragile and short and should be lived to the fullest. Kathryn’s motto was to “Love Life”.

The family would like to thank the ICU staff at Royal Columbian Hospital especially Dr. Adam Thomas for assisting us through this tragic time.

Kathryn leaves behind her parents Kelly Hill and Tad Bielski, sister Stephanie Swift, and Niece Skylar Swift. Her grandmother Irene Hill of Winnipeg Manitoba and many cousins.

A private ceremony to follow.

“All you who sleep tonight, far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right and emptiness above- know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, some for two nights or one, and some for all their years.” Vikram Seth.

In lieu of lowers donations can be made to the Canadian Mental Health Association. www.cmha.ca

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“We’re seeing more sales of our mediumpriced and lower-priced items as opposed to our high, high priced items.”

As for supplies, Stewart says that apart from a stock interruption at the beginning of the pandemic, where mainstays such as toilet paper, baking supplies, and some canned goods were flying off the shelves, the situation has been mostly stable.

Interestingly, international products from Italy and Spain have generally come through fine, but the hiccup comes from closer to home, from the U.S. or even from the odd Canadian company.

“We are seeing many items out of the States being shorted to us,” he says. “It depends on the company, but canned products out of the States—I don’t know if they’re having a problem getting aluminum—but many canned products have become a struggle to get.”

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The big picture I don’t know how the resort is going to go While Griffith says that, to this point, from standstill to full tilt.” supply chains haven’t been affected in a Speaking in mid-August, Griffith said lasting way—some vegetable orders have no members of the Restaurant Association been impacted from time to time by labour permanently closed and all were trying issues, and beef access was briefly limited to make a go of it under new restrictions, during an outbreak of COVID-19 amongst including embracing the increased outdoor workers at a Cargill meat plant—he’s patio space now allowed. However, the anticipating other lasting changes to the temporary patio extensions are only industry, as gathering people will look and allowed until Oct. 31. feel different indefinitely.

Taking the lead on reopening, Griffith While restaurants are able to manage recalls, were the chain restaurants in town, for the time being because of government and the spirit of collaboration was apparent. support, the businesses will eventually Earls, for example, got mandates from have to find other ways to stay afloat, and head office regarding measures such as that could include increasing prices. installing plexiglass. After hearing what “The restaurant layouts will change. The those processes were like, local, independent way that landlords and restaurants, the businesses had some information on which lessees, the way that we deal with each they could base their decisions. other based on square footage, I think all “They went through the hurdles first,” these things are going to slowly evolve.

Griffith says. “The feedback was great, They’re going to look at different ways to because then they would say, ‘This is what design restaurants,” he says. “It’s not just we experienced. These are the challenges we the restaurants. It’s the way that people experienced. Here are some things that we act. I think that people are going to be more did that maybe weren’t necessary or where cautious in these situations, in groups of we overshot, or here’s where we undershot. people that they’re not sure about.

“That dialogue was crucial for a lot of “Supply and demand would say people to get open and do it safely.” that prices are going to have to go up in As many restaurants were busier than restaurants and that’s something we’ve expected, Griffith reports that several been facing for a long time based on our have felt challenged by workers not cost of goods and labour percentages.” wanting to step over the CERB line (The On the positive side of the ledger, $2,000-a-month payments put in place by Griffith says that he’s noticed in his own the federal government for people out of restaurant, which has long focused on work due to the pandemic). As well, while hyper-local fare, that there’s an increased health and safety protocols have changed to desire to boost friends and neighbours. avoid risk of transmission from employees, “Your regulars come back and say, paid sick days have not been implemented. ‘We’ve been waiting for you to reopen,’” he “It just comes down to who’s going to foot says. “It’s a good feeling.” the bill,” Griffith says. “We’d love to be able Griffith notes that Alta Bistro is to be in a position where you can afford to purchasing only B.C. wine at this time to have some of your staff sick and still run the help those ventures also feeling the pinch restaurant and have their wages paid, but I of fewer diners. don’t really know if that’s going to be a reality Up in Pemberton, Mayor Richman is also for our industry right now, given how tight the proprietor of Town Square Restaurant, the margins are and the cost of our goods.” which he says has experienced difficulty

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serving members of the public who have different levels of comfort at this time.

He also notes that while the food and beverage supplies have been generally fine, though he also experienced escalating prices for meat products due to COVID19 at processing plants, there has been a noticeable challenge in acquiring take-out food packaging at times.

Richman adds that restaurateurs are going to have to find adaptations going forward. For example, Town Square employs QR codes instead of physical menus, which has had some side benefits.

“It’s allowed us to react to some of the supply changes, or some of the demands of customers, because you can have a new menu every day if you want,” he says. “If you have an item on your menu that all of a sudden becomes really expensive because of whatever reason … you can remove it, you can change the price, you can add a new item every day without going to print.

“It’s a small example, but it allows us to be a little more flexible and a little more nimble.”

Retail details Grocery markets were one of the few places members of the public could not avoid in the early, confusing days of the pandemic, with employees working to the bone to restock shelves as quickly as they were emptied and clean, clean, clean in those first few weeks.

“The level of cleaning has gone up and will probably stay there,” Nesters Market manager Bruce Stewart says.

As for overall retail trends, Stewart says American tourists led the charge in terms of purchasing the store’s more expensive, premium products, so without them around, there have been adaptations required to serve primarily the local market that’s feeling a pinch in its pocketbook.

“We’re putting more items on sale that

With the odd exception in a detail here or there, the changes felt throughout the industry are not unique to Whistler or the Sea to Sky corridor.

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, has businesses of all types responding to the upheaval caused by COVID-19.

“Generally speaking, people will consume food very differently,” he says.

People are preparing and processing their own food more, Charlebois says, as evidenced by the greater interest in gardening.

Meanwhile, a July survey conducted by the lab found that rates of vegetarianism jumped from 1.5 to 2.5 per cent in a manner of months, while pescatarianism and vegan diets also saw increases. The results come after several COVID-19 outbreaks in processing plants, as well as reports of producers dumping or destroying surplus product, though Charlebois says the industry structure, not individual producers, is to blame.

“COVID really has made some lifestyle sectors look bad,” he says. “I expect that some people may question their choices and are willing to look elsewhere beyond meat products.”

With a far greater segment of the workforce telecommuting and people working from home, businesses such as coffee shops and retailers will be adversely affected.

Charlebois says the market will look significantly different a year or more down the line, but it’s impossible to predict the exact implications.

At any rate, with Charlebois’ projection that the food service industry is expected to shrink by 23 per cent in a year, the negative effect will creep in. The 2019 Foodservice Facts report released by Restaurants Canada before the pandemic had forecasted the food service industry to break $100 billion in 2021.

“That’s a huge chunk of the economy that won’t exist anymore,” Charlebois says. ■

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Whistler loses Luge Worlds WHISTLER OLYMPIC PARK TO HOST NORDIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS

BY DAN FALLOON SEPT. 2 WAS a bittersweet day for Whistler Sport Legacies (WSL) brass.

It started with confirmation that Whistler Olympic Park (WOP) would host Nordiq Canada’s World Championships Trials from Jan. 7 to 10.

But that afternoon, the Whistler Sliding Centre received word that the International Luge Federation (FIL) World Championships, set for Feb. 5 to 7, will take place elsewhere.

WSL president and CEO Roger Soane said there was some indication that the FIL was considering a change, as earlier this summer, it wanted an assurance by Sept.

1 that athletes would not be required to quarantine upon arrival to Canada.

“At that point in time, I said to [Canadian Luge Association executive director] Tim Farstad, ‘There is no way that the government is going to give you any relief for the event in February on Sept. 1.’ It may happen in January, but it certainly won’t happen in September,” he said. “I thought it was a very long shot anyway once they were asking for that kind of clarification.”

Whistler luger Trinity Ellis understands the decision, but was looking forward to taking part in a marquee event on her home track.

“It’s definitely disappointing. That was a big race I was looking forward to, for sure,” she said. “At the same time, with all this COVID stuff, the whole season has been up in the air.

SLIDING AWAY Trinity Ellis was disappointed to see the Whistler Sliding Centre lose the 2021 FIL World Championships.

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“It’s not really much of a surprise, but it’s definitely disappointing to hear.”

To stay ready for the season, however it ends up playing out, Ellis and the other national team members have used one another as measuring sticks and motivators with the uncertainty facing them all this year.

FIL is expected to release its 2020-21 season schedule later this month, and losing two weeks due to quarantining before world championships would have thrown a wrench into the timetable.

Farstad said the association had monthly meetings with FIL for the last four months and saw the writing on the wall fairly early.

“Teams and organizations can’t afford to come and sit in Whistler for 14 days, pay to be there, and then race another two weeks,” he said.

Soane said while the sliding centre put significant efforts into preparing for the event, it hadn’t yet put down any major money.

“It was all planning right now and no outlay of financial commitments,” he said.

“We would have gone into the financial commitment side as we started to put ice on the track in October. It really would be minor things … with the major expenditure being toward the middle and end of January.”

Whistler had already rallied to prepare for the event relatively quickly, as FIL voted to move the championships from Calgary last summer after the Alberta track’s closure.

“We worked hard to get this event in the beginning,” Farstad said. “Our athletes were super excited and it’s tough to take.”

With the change now official, Soane said the sliding centre will likely operate on a tighter schedule, open five or six days a week instead of seven, and with fewer staff members. Should the international borders remain closed, the track will still welcome the

sliding national teams early in the campaign before shifting into domestic competitions.

The track will look to host the event in the next Olympic quadrennial, either in 2024 or 2025, with the latter being more appealing to Soane as, in the case of 2021, it’s set to be the last major event before the Games.

“It’s always key because it’s a qualifying event as well,” Soane said. “It’s a shame that it’s so far away, but a lot of sports work in these four-year cycles.”

Farstad, meanwhile, understands if there needs to be due process to land the championships again, but with the international excitement around bringing the event to Canada shown even when FIL was determining the change, feels confident about hosting again soon.

“I would hope that we’re at the head of the line,” Farstad said. “I would expect other countries would support [us] because they see what happened and it was taken away.”

NORDIQ CANADA BRINGING TRIALS TO WOP On the brighter side, Canada’s top Nordic athletes will come to Whistler Olympic Park in January for World Championships Trials.

The trials would determine which Canadian athletes move on to the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Obertsdorf, Germany in February.

Soane was thrilled to see the park land a major Nordic event, noting that WOP has often been passed over in favour of more traditional hosts in Prince George, Canmore or eastern Canada.

The event’s organizing crew, Soane said, is the same group leading the charge to bring the 2023 FIS World Junior/U23 Nordic Ski Championships to Whistler, making this

trials a test run if the bid is successful.

“These trials would be their first test event, so to speak,” Nordiq Canada events coordinator Jeff Ellis said. “We would build in another event in ’22 in the final prep for ’23, assuming we get the championships.”

Ellis added that, anticipating restrictions still being in place in January, that spectators will likely be barred.

“If we are there under gathering restrictions, they’re the group we don’t need,” he said. “It’s sort of a bonus if we have them.”

In terms of racing itself, the event can currently hold a mass start of up to 50 athletes at a time, though there is the possibility of pivoting to an interval start if necessary.

“That’s not a huge restriction for us.

We don’t necessarily have fields that are larger than that, but we are exploring the possibility of restricting who can come to trials,” he said. “We don’t want athletes to unnecessarily put their health at risk by getting on planes if they don’t need to.

“We’re not such a deep nation that we have 20 or 30 athletes that are fighting for spots on our championship teams.”

With the number of new cases spiking, however, nothing is considered set in stone at this point.

“At three months out, we’re going to start having the conversation, checking in and going, ‘Can we host the event like we’d like to? Yes or no?’” he said, noting there would be regular check-ins until about eight weeks before, when a final decision will be made.

Ellis added in a follow-up text that if the World Championships themselves were not feasible for Canadians to attend, the trials portion of the event would be cancelled, but racing would proceed in some form if possible. n

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Oly hopefuls boost Pemberton skate camp

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BY DAN FALLOON WATCHING THE OLYMPICS is an origin story staple for countless young athletes.

But having this year’s Summer Games bumped back a year could actually prove to be a catalyst for several local youngsters.

Having their competitions cancelled for the year has brought top skateboarders and Olympic hopefuls Adam Hopkins and Maddy Balt to the Sea to Sky to train at the Whistler Athletes’ Centre—and to rip up local parks.

Balt also signed on to help coach at a new camp, Grassroots Skateboard School, in Pemberton for roughly three weeks, helping to get kids comfortable dropping in and performing tricks such and rock and rolls and safeties.

“We really try to take the fear aspect away from them,” she said, adding that the Pemberton park is useful for teaching kids on smaller features. “It’s kind of scary when you’re learning.”

Balt added that she hopes to serve as an inspiration for young girls to follow their dreams in the sport.

Fellow coach Nicolas Navert brings more than just knowhow, providing mental health awareness through his Boarder Camps initiative, which features skateboarding in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.

“It’s mostly to create a support system for kids,” he said. “We incorporate this concept of wellbeing, but pair it with skateboarding and snowboarding.

“It’s going a little further than just skating with them. It’s being there for them as someone you can talk to, someone you can relate to and someone who builds this sort of positive influence in those kids’ lives.”

As he progressed in his career, filming and coaching in Whistler, Navert felt the understanding of building that support system was important to weave into the sport.

“It made sense for me to try to build something,” he said. “It’s lacking in our world as skateboarders and snowboarders.

“There’s this sense of trying to be open about how you feel, try to be open about the way things are going for you and trying to be there for each other.”

In addition to having Balt, who excels in the street discipline, as a coach, the camp also had appearances by Canada’s top park riders in Andy Anderson and Adam Hopkins on Aug. 26 as part of a special demo.

Hopkins was thrilled to spend time, masked and distanced, among some new fans, even riding with them as he got ready. “ I need to get my body limber and ready to skate, so I like to hang out and skate with the kids a bit before we do a demo,” he said.

Hopkins hoped to inspire the young ones, adding that when he was growing up in Thunder Bay, Ont., some pros came to his local park and opened his mind to other

ways of approaching it.

“Sometimes it takes having a demo or having riders come from out of town to show the locals how the park can be used.

Usually, they’ll become inspired or fired up from what they witness and carry that into their own skating afterwards,” he said.

“We had skate parks, but no one ever came to Thunder Bay, so whenever someone did come, that’s all you talked about.”

The camp, which started on Aug. 12, was the brainchild of Alvand Mohtashami, who moved to Pemberton from Whistler in June. Mohtashami enjoyed riding the local park and immersing himself into the local community and soon started the online Grassroots Skateboard Shop at grss.ca as well as the camps. Receiving the thumbs up from the Village of Pemberton, 45 kids registered.

Mohtashami was excited to see how many kids are talented multisport athletes, opining that if they commit, competing at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles— the sport’s heart—isn’t out of the question.

“That gives us eight years to start training athletes to the highest level possible,” he said.

“I believe so much in the community and the ability of the kids, and also the parents, to pursue skateboarding at a high level.”

With school starting back up, the program will transition to after-school and weekend offerings.

To this point, he’s been more than satisfied with the progress the kids have made in less than a month.

“That was one of the coolest things about it, seeing kids learn from Day 1,” he said. “They’re riding around the skate park with confidence.”

Mohtashami knew the participating athletes before they signed on to the camp, and said Canada Skateboard, including team manager Adam Higgins, was extraordinarily helpful in helping lay the groundwork, as well as providing legitimacy, to the camp.

“It was great to be able to reach out to the athletes as my coaches and have the best coaches in the Sea to Sky work with me,” he said.

Balt, who is based in Whistler, was glad to help while preparing for whatever the next step in her career may be.

“I’ve taken a step back, said to myself, ‘We’re just going to do this day by day and as long as I’m still skating and still working hard, it’s all good,’” she said. “When the time comes, I’ll be prepared.

“There’s not really any sense in stressing too much about it because, really, nobody knows what the future looks like.”

She also reinforced to the young athletes that though athletes like herself and Hopkins make skating look simple, it’s the result of hours of dedication.

“Nothing in life that’s worth having comes easy. It always takes hard work,” she said. “Having them there to show that hard work pays off was really cool.” ■

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Bananas make you happy AND OTHER FAR-OUT, FRIENDLY FOOD TIPS FOR THESE ‘BACKTO-NORMAL’ TIMES PACKING YOUR KIDS’ school lunches?

Packing your own as you head back to some semblance of normalcy, or what passes for it these days?

Well, have I got a few tips for you that just might keep you, if not happy, at least a little happier, or more relaxed, as we all face off with that chronic low-grade anxiety burbling just under the surface every time we head to

BY GLENDA BARTOSH the grocery store, the school lobby, the bus, or just about any public place where we have to trust that strangers will be as careful with our well-being as we are with theirs.

Some of these tips might not be new to you. We used to call some of them “comfort food” but since we’ve been forced into re-thinking the idea of comfort itself lately (as in, are you comfortable staying home, or does it make you feel trapped now?), maybe just regard them as pleasant reminders of foods that can make life itself a little more pleasant.

They’re also friendly reminders that you are, indeed, what you eat. Still sipping one too many quarantinis? All jagged up on too much caffeine? What we choose to put inside ourselves can be as much an indicator of our own mood and state of mind as it is an impact on same.

BEST FRIENDS Bananas can help improve sleep, reduce stress and increase relaxation—among other benefits.

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It’s also helpful to have these friendly food tips all in one place. One less thing your poor scatterbrain has to scatter around after.

(Now where did I put that clean mask…?)

BANANAS ARE YOUR NEW BEST ANTIANXIETY FRIEND How can you lose with a yummy, inexpensive fruit with such a Zen disposable wrapper, and whose bright yellow smile makes you feel better just seeing it?

Bananas really can make you happy.

They help you sleep better, reduce stress levels and, generally, make you feel more relaxed due to their high levels of potassium and magnesium—both good muscle relaxants. Bananas also contain the amino acid L-tryptophan, which is converted to 5-HTP in the brain, a molecule which our bodies use to produce serotonin—sometimes called the “feelgood” chemical—and melatonin. Your body needs both of these to regulate sleep, cognition, mood, even behaviour. Low serotonin is associated with depression, anxiety, weight gain, sleep disorders and other disordered states of being.

Sometimes people turn to 5-HTP in supplements since it’s not found directly in any food sources, but it’s easy to get too much of it, which can tip you backwards into more anxiety, shivering, or even serious health problems. Better to take things easy and natural. Just peel yourself a cheerful yellow banana or two, and your brilliantly engineered body will take things from there.

I swear by bananas as very good friends

when it comes to relieving leg cramps, especially at night. (Any food with lots of potassium, magnesium and calcium helps here, presuming other areas of your good health are in order). And many a student website touts their benefits when it comes to boosting brain sugar and subsequent brain power.

SEEK Learning out of Australia, for one, cites them for their ability to enhance concentration, and to help students learn more efficiently. Tryptophan may help preserve memory function, and some scientific studies show that vitamin B6, which bananas also contain, helps memory function, too. Salmon, potatoes and tofu are good sources of B6 as well.

These fun fruits are also good for your digestion (all that fibre) and lowering blood pressure. They’re even recommended for pregnant women to control morning sickness and for babies with upset tummies.

Tummy upset? Morning sickness, albeit in a whole other sense? Sound familiar?

We could all do with a banana or three.

TURKEY AND OTHER FANTASTIC, TRYPTOPHANIC ALLIES Remember a few years back when health and consumer lifestyle media were touting turkey as “the” source of nice, relaxing tryptophan, and that’s why we all fell asleep after Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner?

(Nah, all that booze and over-eating never had anything to do with it…) Yes, I’m happy to remind you in these Covidian times that turkey is a great source of lovely, calming tryptophan and a food friend to embrace.

Bonus: lamb, rabbit and chicken are just as good, if not better meat sources.

In a nutshell, (and you’ll find it in a lot of nuts including cashews, pistachios and almonds), tryptophan is an amino acid found in food. As mentioned earlier, it triggers the production of important molecules in our bodies, like serotonin and melatonin, which are essential for optimal sleep and mood, and the ability to concentrate and learn.

I need both hands to count the number of people I know right now who are not sleeping well. That’s never fun at the best of times (knock on wood the phenomenon doesn’t hit me).

Recommendations for tryptophan in your daily diet are 4 mg per kilogram of body weight, or 1.8 mg per pound per day.

Just search around, using DuckDuckGo, that handy search engine that induces zero anxiety over your cookies being tracked, and you’ll find lots of info on good tryptophan sources.

Besides nuts, turkey and other meats, amongst those topping most lists are seeds—pumpkin, squash, sunflower, sesame and chia; along with soya foods; cheese; fish (especially tuna, halibut and salmon); raw oats and oat bran; beans and lentils; and whole eggs.

Now I can feel your wheels a-turnin’ as you plan some great, simple lunches and dinners that will keep your wheels—and those of your loved ones—well-oiled and smoothly running in the days ahead.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who’s been craving salmon, eggs and nuts lately. ■

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Spiritual Warriors finding community LIL’WAT NATION BAND CHARGES AHEAD WITH VIRTUAL SHOWS

BY DAN FALLOON THE WORLD MAY HAVE shifted online in a big way because of the COVID19 pandemic, but Leroy Joe and the rest of award-winning Lil’wat Nation band The Spiritual Warriors continue to make connections.

The group has kept busy throughout 2020, even sharing a stage (virtually) with legendary songstress Buffy Sainte-Marie as part of the Lytton-based 2 Rivers Remix last Sunday. The weekend festival featured more than 30 Indigenous artists.

“For me, she’s been an inspiration since I first heard her when I was just a young boy, when Aboriginal artists weren’t common at all and she was out there in the mainstream,” guitarist and vocalist Joe said.

Joe got the chance to see SainteMarie perform a couple of years back, but unbeknownst to him before the show, she was presenting her poetry.

“She didn’t even sing. She did poems,” he said.

“It was still awesome, but I thought I was going to see music,” Joe added with a chuckle.

Admittedly, Joe doesn’t tend to tune in to the band’s prerecorded performances for fear of nitpicking, but, speaking before the festival, planned to tune in not just for

IN SPIRIT Through virtual performances, the Spiritual Warriors have played some high-profile shows even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sainte-Marie, but for acts such as the Snotty Nose Rez Kids and a plethora of up-andcoming rappers.

“There’s an Aboriginal music scene that’s really exploding. We’re really starting to get to know each other and collaborate more,” he said, adding that despite losing some shows and festivals this summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic, other opportunities popped up.

“We started doing this virtual thing and it’s really been actually pretty good.

We’ve done at least 10 shows so far,” he said. “We’re very fortunate. It was

and play,” Joe said. “When you’re live, you’re playing a show in front of people that are watching, so you’ve got to be on your game.”

As the frontman, Joe has had to tap into his imagination to know who he’s performing for.

“Because I’m the one in the front, I just imagine a lot of people watching—and I think one time, at least 3,000 to 5,000 people watched,” he said. “You’ve got to get up there and just do it.”

Another recent show came in the form of a performance at, of all events, a geological symposium conference, to which

“They’re songs with a message, songs about real life. One of our songs [“Brothers and Sisters”] is about bringing people back home from the cities, from the street life and it’s a really powerful song.

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completely unexpected.”

While a couple of the band’s shows have been taped or streamed at proper venues such as the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre or Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre (that show, opening for Buckman Coe and Khari McClelland, streams Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. on the theatre’s Facebook page), the band has typically set up shop in the backyard of djembe player Rich Doucet. The change in venue hasn’t altered much for the band.

“We do what we always do. We just go

Joe was connected through a friend.

The organizers were trying to understand and predict natural disasters and attempted to tap into as much Indigenous perspective as possible, right down to the entertainment.

“They’re looking at First Nations communities and leaders for their knowledge, so when they heard our songs, it spoke to them,” Joe said.

Joe has also been thrilled to round out the band, adding guitarist Cuyler Biller over the summer, joining Joe and his daughter,

vocalist Daisy, Doucet, drummer Tim Lall and bassist Mike Rowe.

“He takes that load off of me so I don’t have to do too much,” Joe said of Biller.

In terms of what audiences are hearing, Joe said the band wrote some new songs over the summer and he hopes to record them early in 2021. The inspirations fit in with the band’s past work, “history, land, culture, world happenings,” Joe said.

“They’re songs with a message, songs about real life,” he said. “One of our songs [“Brothers and Sisters”] is about bringing people back home from the cities, from the street life and it’s a really powerful song.

“It’s hard to sing because so many of our people have been suffering down there for years and years and they never make it home. They make it home in a pine box, so to speak.”

Another tune is about bringing together the St’at’imc Nation.

“There’s 11 communities and we’re not as united as we should be,” he said.

Though Joe’s songwriting is inspired by history and world events, he’s avoided the constantly changing COVID-19 world as a muse.

“The pandemic is such a bummer. I’m trying not to be bummed out about it because I’m raising two grandchildren now and I’m just trying to keep things positive,” he said.

“I haven’t written any pandemic songs. I’ve heard some and they’re such a downer.

“There are the funny ones you hear, the parodies, but the pandemic has not inspired me.”

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BY DEE RAFFO FIVE LITTLE INDIANS follows the lives of five young adults as they grapple with life after “Indian School” in the 1960s. From their prison-like residential school on Vancouver Island, they are turfed onto the streets of Vancouver with no support, money, family connections or life skills. We join them as they try to deal with years of neglect and trauma in a world that has no place for them, never mind any understanding.

“Indian School seemed like a hundred years ago, but with Lucy in my living room, it seemed like yesterday. Even though it made my stomach tighten when I looked at her and thought of Father, I couldn’t help but think, in spite of it all, we were here.”

Five Little Indians is the debut novel by poet, lawyer, political activist, and a member of Saskatchewan’s Red Pheasant Cree Nation Michelle Good. As a daughter and granddaughter of people who went through the residential school system, Good tells this story with compassion and insight, with relatable characters you empathize with and root for.

Although the subject matter is inherently dark, Good opens a window into the human cost of colonialism without judgment. Through her words, we find ourselves in the shoes of these survivors, delving into their individual and interlacing stories, understanding why they make the choices they do.

“Lily’s face seemed to hover in the air in front of Clara, soaking and shivering on that

bench, and once again the anger rose up in her. She leapt up from the bench and ran across the parking lot, the rock rising high above her head. With a scream, she threw the rock through the lobby of the Manitou, and then raced away into the night.”

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Escape-artist Kenny never finds a sense of place, Howie grapples with uncontrollable anger, Maisie internalizes the pain of sexual abuse, Lucy uncovers an inner strength and determination, and Clara reconnects with her lost heritage in order to regain a sense of self. Without shying away from the truth, Good writes the characters’ stories with a sense of light and hope. The spare prose gives the novel a simplistic quality for a topic that’s incredibly intricate, which makes it digestible without losing any sense of the issues the author is illuminating.

In interviews, Good explains that one of the reasons she wrote this book was to open up conversations about the trauma people suffered at these institutions and its ongoing ramifications. She has fictionalized and humanized something that, perhaps for many people, seems so unbelievable that it’s hard to relate to, and to understand.

Five Little Indians is a heart-wrenching and heart-warming read, and one that will likely stay with readers long after they’ve turned the last page.

Michelle Good is appearing in the Writers of Fiction event, Sat. Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. at the Whistler Writers Festival online, which runs Oct. 15 to 18.

Dee Raffo is the content editor for Tourism Whistler. She loves revelling in the mountains with her young family and can often be found on the ski hill, bike trails, or pushing a swing in the park. n

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THROUGHOUT 2018, the Whistler Museum’s blog, Whistorical, published a weekly feature called “This Week in Photos.”

We had recently finished scanning the Whistler Question collection of photos from 1978 to 1985 and used the photos (which were helpfully arranged by their week of publication) to illustrate what was happening in Whistler in a particular week for each year the collection covered. Most photos that had been published in the paper were catalogued with captions that helped provide context, but for some photos, you need to go to copies of the Question to understand what’s pictured. One such photo can be seen above.

The image of a protest in front of a partially constructed Town Centre was published in the week of Sept. 11, 1980 but the story behind it can be found in the Question throughout that year. The first report of tensions around Town Centre construction projects is found in an editorial from June 5, 1980. The dispute was mainly over whether the Town Centre was considered an integrated site, allowing both union and non-union workers to work on the different parcels, or a common site, allowing the Town Centre developers to employ only union workers. There were four parcels being built by non-union contractors at the time.

The Labour Relations Board (LRB) had been asked to make a decision on the matter. On June 11, the Whistler Contractors Association (WCA), headed by Doug O’Mara, attended the talks with a letter from Mayor Pat Carleton and the rest of council expressing a desire to keep the Town Centre as an integrated site, allowing the independent contractors of the WCA to continue working there.

The LRB chose not to make a ruling at that time and construction of the Town Centre by both union and non-union workers continued over the summer, though there was still tension.

Over the August long weekend, the unions did stop work for a day, leading to what the Question described as “an extra long weekend.” However, the Question editorial staff were confident enough that the construction season would end without a major disruption that they published an editorial on Aug. 21 thanking those who had kept the Town Centre moving and claiming “we’re fairly confident that the relative harmony that has existed over the area for the summer will extend into the fall.” One week later, on Aug. 28, approximately 200 union workers walked off the Town Centre site. This action began another hearing of the LRB beginning on Sept. 3.

The rally pictured above was quickly organized by the WCA and took place on Sept. 4. More than 300 people turned out to support the WCA and signed a petition to be taken to the LRB. The rally also attracted media attention and interviews with O’Mara, Nancy Greene, and other contractors were aired on CBC and CKVU and featured on the front page of The Province newspaper.

The talks with the LRB continued for almost two weeks while the remaining construction season got shorter. On Sept.

15, the LRB announced that it needed to further investigate the issue and would send two officials to Whistler. In the meantime, the Town Centre was to be treated as an integrated site.

Work resumed on the Town Centre over the next week, just in time for the Premier and Cabinet to visit, but the dispute did not end there. The LRB announced on Dec. 2 that, effective Jan. 1, 1981, the Town Centre would be considered a common site, excluding the Whistler Golf Club and work on Blackcomb Mountain, which opened just two days later. The WCA stated that it would appeal the decision, but Mayor Carleton was not hopeful the decision would be reversed.

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Cruise and Show in late August. The next event is Sunday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m. with a cruise to Pemberton and back. Follow Sea to Sky Classic Vehicles on Facebook for up-to-date info. PHOTO BY PAUL FOURNIER. 3

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Sea To Sky went for a Pemberton Meadows cycle in celebration of what would have been The Ride to Conquer Cancer weekend. PHOTO BY CATHERINE POWER-CHARTRAND. 4 SITTING ART Artists around the Sea to Sky are turning their paintbrushes on deck chairs for a good cause. The Whistler Chair-ity Project, an initiative of the Resort Municipality of Whistler and the province of B.C., is raising funds for the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation in support of local charities. Find the auction of the chairs at whistlerblackcombfoundation.com. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5

ICE COLD Wedgemount Glacier and “Tupper Lake” were the prizes at the end of this hike. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ALYSSA NOEL. 6 GIT ALONG LITTLE DOGGIES Jamie Dowling and her daughter Mckinley recently enjoyed a trail ride at Copper Cayuse Outfitters in Pemberton. PHOTO SUBMITTED.. 7 HIGH IN THE SKY Joffrey Lee submitted this shot from a recent hike on Wedge Mountain. PHOTO BY JOFFREY LEE.

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t,” observes author James S. Gordon. “Rather, it’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” Lucky for you, Aries! Your willpower is even more potent than usual right now, and your willingness to change is growing stronger. And so very soon now, I expect you will reach the threshold that enables you to act crisply and forcefully. You will become so convinced that it’s wise to instigate transformation that you will just naturally instigate transformation.

Adjust, adapt, improvise, improve!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi is an expert on the mental state known as being in the flow. He defines it as what happens when you’re completely absorbed in what you are doing: “immersed in a feeling of energized focus,” with “full involvement and enjoyment in the process of the activity.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are extra likely to enjoy such graceful interludes in the coming weeks. But I hope you will be discerning about how you use them. I mean, you could get into a flow playing video games or doing sudoku puzzles. But God and Life and I would prefer it if you’ll devote those times to working on a sublime labour of love or a highly worthy quest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to researcher Rosalind Cartwright, “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original. It is a continuing act of creation.” Neurologist Oliver Sacks agrees, telling us, “Memories are not fixed or frozen, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” Reams of additional evidence also suggest that our experience of the past is always being transformed. In accordance with astrological potentials, I invite you to take advantage of this truth.

Re-imagine your life story so it has more positive spins.

Re-envision the plot threads so that redemption and rebirth are major features. Engage in a playful reworking of your memories so that the epic myth of your destiny serves your future happiness and success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): All of us are susceptible to fooling ourselves and lying to ourselves. And all of us are susceptible to the cowardice that such self-sabotage generates. But the good news is that you Cancerians will have an expansive capacity to dissolve and rise above self-deception in the coming weeks—and will therefore be able to call on a great deal of courage. As Cancerian author and Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön says, “The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you like, I will give you the waning crescent moon and the dawn breeze. Do you want them? How about sudden bursts of joy for no apparent reasons and a warm greeting from a person you thought had a problem with you? Would you be interested in having those experiences? And what about an unexpected insight into how to improve your financial situation and a message from the future about how to acquire more stability and security? Are those blessings you might enjoy? Everything I just named will be possible in the coming weeks—especially if you formulate a desire to receive them and ask life to provide them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Mary Oliver was renowned for giving herself permission. Permission to do what? To become a different person from the self she had been. To shed her familiar beliefs and adopt new ones. To treat every experience as an opportunity to experiment. To be at peace with uncertainty. I think you’ll be wise to give yourself all those permissions in the coming weeks—as well as others that would enhance your freedom to be and do whatever you want to be and do. Here’s another favourite Mary Oliver permission that I hope you’ll offer yourself: “And I say to my heart: rave on.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The more unintelligent people are, the less mysterious existence seems to them,” wrote philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. I agree with that idea,

as well as the converse: The more intelligent people are, the more mysterious existence seems to them. Since I expect you to be at the peak of your soulful intelligence in the coming weeks, I am quite sure that life will be exquisitely mysterious to you. It’s true that some of its enigmatic qualities may be murky and frustrating, but I suspect that many of them will be magical and delightful. If you ever wanted your life to resemble a poetic art film, you’re going to get your wish.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Comedian and actor Aubrey Plaza bragged about the deal she made. “I sold my soul to the devil,” she said. “I’d like to thank the devil.” Plaza is quite popular and successful, so who knows? Maybe the Prince of Darkness did indeed give her a boost. But I really hope you don’t regard her as a role model in the coming weeks—not even in jest. What worked for Plaza won’t work for you. Diabolical influences that may seem tempting will not, in the long run, serve your interests— and may even sabotage them. Besides, more benevolent forces will be available to you, and at a better price.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Many of you Sagittarians specialize in generous breakthroughs and invigorating leaps of truth. Often, you make them look easy and natural—so much so that people may not realize how talented you are in generating them. I hope you adjust for that by giving yourself the proper acknowledgment and credit. If this phenomenon shows up in the coming weeks—and I suspect it might— please take strenuous measures to ensure that you register the fullness of your own accomplishments. To do so will be crucial in enabling those accomplishments to ripen to their highest potential.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel wrote, “When you die and go to heaven, our maker is not going to ask, ‘Why didn’t you discover the cure for such and such? Why didn’t you become the Messiah?’ The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is ‘Why didn’t you become you?’” I hope that serves as a stimulating challenge for you, Capricorn.

The fact is that you are in an extended phase when it’s easier than usual to summon the audacity and ingenuity necessary to become more fully yourself than you have ever been before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, comedian Lenny Bruce observed, “Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.” His statement is even truer today than it was then. Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, has gathered the concrete evidence. Church attendance was way down even before the pandemic struck. Now it’s even lower. What does this have to do with you? In my astrological opinion, the coming months will be prime time for you to build your intimate and unique relationship with God rather than with institutions that have formulaic notions about who and what God is. A similar principle will be active in other ways, as well. You’ll thrive by drawing energy from actual sources and firsthand experiences rather than from systems and ideologies that supposedly represent those sources and experiences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Psychologist Carl Jung wrote, “The function of dreams is to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes the total psychic equilibrium.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need this kind of action right now. To expedite your healing process, meditate on what aspects of your life might have become too extreme or one-sided.

Where could you apply compensatory energy to establish better equipoise? What top-heavy or lopsided or wobbly situations could benefit from bold, imaginative strokes of counterbalance?

Homework: What’s the best possible commotion you could stir up—a healing commotion that would help heal and liberate you? FreeWillAstrology.com.

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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.

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• 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) Cover Letter & Resume to: Title: Lisa Sambo, Manager Agency: N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre Email: lisa.sambo@nquatqua.ca Fax: 604-452-3295/3280 Deadline: until position is filled We thank all those who apply. Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

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- The incumbent must have a vehicle and hold valid B.C. driver’s license.

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each of the Departments of the N’Quatqua Band and will serve as the Supervisor of the Department Managers. The Band Administrator will administer multiple programs and services, including financial assets of the band, property, natural resources and information and will manage in accordance with policies and priorities set out by Chief & Council. He/she will forecast program needs and plan for future program requirements. He/She will ensure effective financial management of programs and services, including accountability and will seek funding enhancements to improve service opportunities. The Band Administrator will keep abreast of new initiatives and will ensure programs are managed, delivered and evaluated in a coordinated and integrated approach on a fiscal basis and in a culturally appropriate and responsive manner. The Band Administrator will develop a detailed annual budget for Council approval, and will assist Department Heads in preparing annual departmental budgets. He/she will maintain sound working relationships with Staff, representatives of other departments, governments and outside agencies.

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- Must have excellent public relations, interpersonal and communication skills.

- Must be able to work independently and serve as a Team Leader.

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Enter a digit from 1 through 9 in each cell, in such a way that: • Each horizontal row contains each digit exactly once • Each vertical column contains each digit exactly once • Each 3x3 box contains each digit exactly once Solving a sudoku puzzle does not require any mathematics; simple logic suffices.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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Reeling in relaxation THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS right now to be worried, depressed, in denial, angry, suicidal, homicidal and just downright cantankerous. Summer, such as it was, is coming to an end. School, more fraught with concern and anxiety than ever, is starting... with no clear assurance it won’t go virtual again. A ski season defined by reservations is gestating and we’re keeping our fingers crossed the reservation system is robust enough to get us past the validators.

There is unrest, protest and fear from sea to sea to sea. And I’m still dreaming about the outrageously great cheeseburger served

BY G.D. MAXWELL with an appropriately cold, bitter IPA I’ve obsessed about since the pandemic’s lockdown began.

What’s a guy to do?

Go fishing. Or, more accurately, boating and fishing.

I haven’t been thinking about going fishing just because it’s the most sedentary activity known to mankind. I’ve been thinking about going fishing because I’m floating on a boat somewhere in Desolation Sound with a family and grandchildren I never imagined I’d have. And somewhere, lurking beneath the surface of the water, are very tasty creatures.

As hobbies or pastimes go, I guess fishing is no stranger than any other, assuming “other” embraces such pursuits as philately and numismatics. For the terminally insecure though, there is security in numbers—at least for the insecure who feel more comfortable hiding out in large groups—and fishing is still the most widely practiced sport, hobby, distraction, timewasting excuse for sittin’ around drinking beer in the world. It touches man’s primal instincts to challenge nature, secure food, and get things tangled up beyond hope.

Some people believe fishing is a metaphor for life. These people are not fishermen; they are philosophers.

Fishermen believe life is a metaphor for fishing. We are fools. And any place there happens to be water filled to any degree with fish, or even the hope of a promise of fish, is Fool’s Paradise.

While it may be important to include women in the broad and politically incorrect moniker “fishermen,” fishing is, at its very soul, a guy thing, and women who pursue it with passion are channelling their inner guy. Anything that involves as much pointless sitting around waiting for something to happen as fishing does is, by definition, a guy thing.

And that’s probably just as well. Fishing is one of those primal activities that both defines the cosmic essence of being a guy and at the same time, undermines it in at least two very significant ways. It has become a standing joke that guys are incapable of distinguishing between or naming more

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than six colours: red, green, blue, purple, orange and yellow. This is, of course, in stark contrast to many women who can name at least six subtle variations of an infinite number of colours, many of which only exist in paint, home furnishings and the seasonal change of “fashionable” hues.

This grossly unfair stereotype of colour-challenged manhood flies out the window though as soon as a guy walks into a store filled with fishing stuff, which is appropriately named tackle. Standing before a wall of feathers, fluff, glass beads, plastic worms and brightly coloured bits of metal, a guy can suddenly distinguish between subtle shades of tan, olive, ecru, pink, fuchsia, brown and, yes, even teal. All he has to do to make this amazing transition

through life without ever once thinking of a belt as anything more than something to hold their pants up and, with the sad exception of getting old, moving to a Florida condo and suddenly becoming smitten by the white belt and shoes look, never once caring whether their belt matches anything else they are or ever will be wearing.

One need only observe a guy’s progression of fishing accessories to understand how wrong that mean-spirited stereotype really is. A young boy starts his journey on the road to becoming a fisherman with simple, unpretentious gear: a pole, a hook, a worm, a red and white bobber. If he’s been taken to the right place, shown the path of true patience and can

As hobbies or pastimes go, I guess fishing is no stranger than any other, assuming “other” embraces such pursuits as philately and numismatics. in colour perception is—wait for it—pretend he’s “thinking” like a fish. Real fishermen think like fish. Fish, on the other hand, show no signs of thinking at all. If they did, they wouldn’t bite most of the nonsense on the end of a fish line.

And if fishing destroys the myth of guys and colourblindness, it also lays waste the generally held notion that guys are indifferent to “accessories.” It is absolutely true that most guys can go

sit still for more than five minutes without completely losing interest or whipping out his electronic distracter, he eventually feels the rod come alive in his tiny hands and with a bit more luck, lands his first fish and receives his first Real Guy Lesson: You catch it, you clean it.

The inescapable lure of accessories, the primitive, well-concealed guy need to have one of everything no matter how arcane, is the only possible explanation for the

lifelong transition of that young boy and his simple pole into a grown man with a $30,000 plastic bass boat, several steamer trunks full of lures and flies, reels and lines, specialized rods with particular flex characteristics to cover every variable of lake and stream, a wardrobe of fishing attire far more coordinated than his “casual” and “business” clothes put together and a Big Fookin’ Truck to lug the whole kit around in. Even golf, with all its specialized clubs and balls and brightly coloured apparel, doesn’t even come close.

Which is not to say this is entirely a bad thing. Fishing, like baseball, is one of those arenas of endeavour where popular mythology has it that grown men seem able to actually reach out and connect with their children in some more meaningful way than arguing. At least they can if they manage to hold their frustration in check for longer than 10 minutes while they unravel the mother of all knots their kid tangled his line into whipping it around like a lightsaber instead of sitting still and paying attention. A fishing trip, after all, is a time to pass on values, traditions, family lore, misconceptions and just plain wrongheaded notions about what it means to be a guy.

In the world of fishing, what it means to be a guy has a lot to do with sitting silently— except for the gentle slurping of lukewarm beer—and waiting for a hungry, thinking fish to come along and approve of your selection of an ecru and fuchsia chrionomid.

But despite the seeming pointlessness of it all, one truism stands above all others to justify—yea, even recommend—fishing as a solemn pastime: Men can’t do much harm when they have a fishing pole in their hands.

So go fishing; save the world. n

Be Mindful

Stay Safe

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