Pique Newsmagazine 2819

MAY 13, 2021 ISSUE 28.19

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With Whistler’s lakes under pressure and residents starting to push back, the RMOW preps for summer 2021. - By Braden Dupuis

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KEEP ON TRUCKIN’

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to Pemberton this summer, after council voted to approve a two-year pilot

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COVER I love summer almost as much as I dislike the amount of garbage left around the lakes here, and I REALLY love summer. - By Jon Parris 4 MAY 13, 2021

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS The pandemic has highlighted inequalities in our society—some of which

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The much-loved Friends of the Library book sale is going virtual

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Alyssa Noel asks if posting and sharing select images or information on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter helps, harms, or does nothing at all?

62 MAXED OUT In the past 15 months Max has witnessed any number of actions and pronouncements related to how we’re supposed to deal with this pandemic that are, let’s be generous, confusing.

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40 EPICURIOUS After the pandemic upended plans last year, the Whistler Farmers’ Market opens from its new home at the Whistler Racket Club on May 23.

Contributors G.D. MAXWELL, GLENDA BARTOSH, FEET BANKS, LESLIE ANTHONY, ANDREW MITCHELL, ALISON TAYLOR, VINCE SHULEY, LISA RICHARDSON

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Inequality and racism often go hand-in-hand ONE OF THE MOST encouraging and uplifting experiences to come out of this whole lockdown, pandemic, life-on-hold time in our lives is watching how our community has shifted its focus on ideas about food security.

It was pretty obvious early on that local government, social service support organizations and neighbours were going to need to step up in a way not seen before

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

to make sure that people had enough to eat. After all, the resort has literally thousands of people out of work thanks to the pandemic, and the restrictions it has caused on business operations and so on.

And, while it is true there are pretty good government financial-aid programs, it is still a real challenge to pay rent, bills and eat. The support also needs to be available, and even delivered, in an inclusive way free from judgment.

is White discomfort, which is at an all-time high since many people have never had to think about racial issues at such depth or for this long before or examine their role in it,” local anti-racism and diversity consultant Anita Naidu told Pique last week.

“So the best thing those who are committed to fighting racism can do is be willing to get really uncomfortable, because no matter how progressive, educated and international a community deems itself to be, those insidious forms of racism will be difficult to upend until that discomfort is welcomed.”

Settle into that for a moment.

Jackie Dickinson, executive director of WCSS, made the point that in looking at these hurtful incidents we need to consider that racism and inequality need to be part of the same conversation as we search for solutions.

It’s easy to imagine that our pictureperfect resort is untouched by inequality, but that is simply untrue. The very fact that it is so expensive to live here breeds inequality as many people make financial sacrifices to call it their home.

One of the greatest assets we have, and one that is working hard to level the

It’s easy to imagine that our picture-perfect resort is untouched by inequality, but that is simply untrue.

It sounds simple enough, but on the ground, on the frontlines, it’s been a real challenge, and one that would not have been possible without the very good people at Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) and the many local businesses and residents that have supported them.

So it was with a real feeling of heartache that I learned of the multiple racist incidents that frontline workers at WCSS have experienced in the past several weeks (Pique, May 6, “WCSS staff has been target of ‘multiple’ racist incidents, non-profit says”).

“At the root of dismantling covert racism

financial playing field, is the Whistler Housing Authority. Thousands are housed in affordable, quality living spaces thanks to this organization and with building continuing it is a lifeline for many, including families. (If you are not on the list to rent or purchase, what are you waiting for?)

But living is getting more and more expensive and wages are simply not keeping up for people who do not work in public or government services.

Consider that in recent years the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for B.C. has been about two per cent annually (it will likely be

much higher this year), but not everyone gets a yearly equivalent wage increase, so your wages are actually going backwards.

Added to this is the fact that the cost of staple goods like food, transportation, rent and utilities go up more than the CPI in many years, so it can feel for many people that they can’t get ahead.

This pandemic year has seen significant increases in the cost of food, for example, and it’s likely this will not be short-term.

As with so many supply-and-demand commodities there have been, and continue to be, serious logjams in the supply chains.

Many agricultural commodity prices have skyrocketed over the last year— corn is up 84 per cent, soybeans are up 72 per cent, sugar is up 59 per cent, wheat is up 19 per cent and coffee is up 13 per cent.

Food production in the U.S. also relies on a highly mobile army of labourers, whose low pay and crowded working conditions make them uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19, and this has wreaked havoc, said Phil Lempert, founder of SupermarketGuru.com. This will impact the importation of food to B.C.— about 78 per cent of produce eaten in B.C. is imported, mostly from the U.S. In Canada, many food-processing plants have also been hit by coronavirus outbreaks impacting the supply chain.

A report late last year predicted that a family of four can expect to spend an extra $700 a year on food in 2021—that’s a five-percent increase, and we’re on track to meet the prediction by Canada’s Food Price Report.

About 3.8 million Canadians were food insecure before the pandemic, according to Statistics Canada. That number rose by about four per cent, to 5.3 million, by May 2020 and is expected to continue rising as the pandemic drags on.

It is easy to see how both those working and those out of work right now need help to put food on the table as this pandemic continues. Please give where you can with an open mind and remember to stand up against racism wherever it may raise its ugly head. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Friends of the Whistler Public Library host virtual used book sale Calling all Whistler book lovers, new readers, young readers and seasoned readers!

We have all missed the semi-annual, used book sale and many of you asked what you could do with all the books you have accumulated during these “Times of Covid.”

Well, ta-da, welcome to the Virtual Used Book Sale!

Many thanks go out to all of you who have overwhelmed us with your donations of used books—the bins at the library have been emptied daily by our amazing team of volunteers and are now being sorted and “bagged”—paper bags only—into bags of 15 books for $15.

The categories are divided.

Childrens’ books will be sorted into age groups: Birth to five years old, six to 12 years old, and 13 to 16 years old.

Adults will get a miscellany of 15 books that include a cookbook, a biography and fiction. All books are in good condition and current—no dog-eared or chewed ancients or school texts!

Please go to the book sale ad in Pique to access the QR code to order your bag of books, or you can find posters on most of the mailboxes throughout Whistler for the code.

There is an option to “donate”—so if

you just can’t fit any more books into your bookshelves, think of donating to schools and homes that need them.

The bags will be available for pick up at the Whistler Public Library on May 20, 21 and 22.

You will receive full details after you have purchased your bag of books.

Happy reading and may the books be with you!

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Vail Resorts did the right thing A few weeks ago I wrote a letter to the editor regarding the status of my refund for Whistler

The mathematical formula for determining eligible customers, prorating days, and measuring seasonal usage, as well as validating legal mailing addresses and managing customer expectations has got to be a very complex and sometimes overwhelming experience.

I can only imagine what it’s like dealing with upset customers (as I was), and managing a once-in-a-lifetime experience like COVID-19 (as we all are). Doing all of this with a small staff, likely a limited budget, and managing a decision-making process that will only reduce the company’s 2021 revenue has got to be a really tough job.

I had no idea that my letter to the editor at Pique would generate so many connections. To all those who reached out to me, forwarded my letter, or just read my previous letter; my advice is just hang in there. The right thing will be done. Yes, there may be edge cases and some will squeeze through and others will not. However, in the end, I think these things will have a way of balancing out and Vail Resorts is doing everything it likely can to properly balance a very challenging time for its team and customers.

So this time I am saying thanks. Thanks to ACM Claims for doing honest work, Vail Resorts for doing the right thing, and to a small group of people who are working very hard and managing this process.

This is possibly the most tiresome and thankless work for many of you (meaning you likely hear more negative customer feedback than positive), but I do want to recognize your

Blackcomb passes (April 27, “Vail Resorts— you blew it”).

Like many of you, the refund process was (and remains to be) a long and frustrating delay. Many have been responding to Vail Resorts on the marketing channels of Facebook and Instagram, and the rhetoric and frustration has been amplifying over the past few weeks.

Well, good things come to those who wait.

This week I received a refund in full. Why? I don’t know if my previous letter had an influence on speeding things up, or if it was just irony that ACM Claims reached out the same week after my letter posted to confirm my mailing address. What I do believe is there are likely thousands, if not tens of thousands of refunds to process and it’s going to take time.

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efforts and say thanks for doing the right thing. I’m still waiting I feel like a best friend from a long time ago I’m lucky to count myself a Whistlerite. [has] reached out to me and could use some I fell in love with Whistler around 2000. positive feedback.

I’ve owned a small property there for a couple Brad Sevenko // Seattle Washington of decades. So I visited regularly pre COVID-19, supported local businesses, contributed to local charities, and made enough good friends Make sure you check trees for nests that maybe a couple of runs each ski day, I get before chopping them down to catch up with one in the lift queue.

Hell, there’s even a Chili Thom artwork Recent drives around town have shown me that not many realize the damage they’re doing that I was honoured to collect from him in whilst pruning/chopping down trees during Squamish, in pride of place in my living room at home in England. the spring.

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Did you know it’s illegal to disturb a migratory bird nest? Every branch you chop off needs to be inspected for hummingbird nests, which are so small you can barely see them even whilst looking for them.

Cutting down tall grasses, shrubs and trees right now during the nesting period can disturb and destroy nests.

Of all the FireSmart thinning that’s going on in town right now, the logging in Cheakamus, the new development destroying Riverside and all the forest up there, all the trees that have been chopped down just after the highway turn off, I bet none have been inspected and this isn’t good enough.

The pruning around golf courses, and strata buildings hacking back shrubs, shows me there is a lack of education around this subject with many landscapers in town.

My email to the RMOW regarding this issue has not been returned.

Please tend to your gardens in March or leave them until the nesting period is over.

Sara Anderson // Whistler

I’m also British. Since March 2020, the Canadian government has prohibited me from entering Canada. Not guidance, not Dr. Bonnie Henry-style suggestions. Prohibited.

Which makes it kind of curious, that Vail Resorts (or rather, American Claims Management—ACM) informed me on April 29 that I wasn’t eligible for any credit on the 2020-21 season pass I bought, nor the credits from 2019-20 which I’d applied for.

I immediately appealed. I am still waiting for any reaction to that appeal.

I can take the ACM claim form that didn’t accept a non-North American telephone number, so I had to call in my claim. I can take the 20- to 30-minute wait times the half-dozen times I’ve called (international) since February to find out whether my claim had been assigned to an adjustor. I can even take the fact there has not been a single email received confirming my application and the information on file.

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A blind British Columbian takes a jab at the COVID-19 vaccine rollout Let me start by sharing a couple of things about myself.

First, I am completely blind. I have been since birth due to a genetic condition.

Second, and this may strike you as odd, but overall COVID-19 has been relatively good to me. I’ve been able to work from home with no problems (save for some minor back issues from too much sitting), and my mother lives

Earlier this month, the BC Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons and some advocates in the visually impaired community wrote to Health Minister Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie Henry, requesting vaccine prioritization for legally blind British Columbians, similar to what has been done for people with other physical and intellectual disabilities.

The response was disappointing.

While they understood our concerns, they maintained that due to the limited vaccine supply, priority was being given to “those who the evidence shows are most vulnerable to severe illness first.”

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close by, able to help with tasks like grocery shopping. I’ve managed to stay physically active through swimming and skiing, with the assistance of a few close friends. If I’m stuck for a ride, I have no issue calling an Uber.

Unfortunately, the sad reality is that the majority of blind and visually impaired British Columbians aren’t nearly as lucky.

Not only has isolation been taxing on their mental health, but tasks such as shopping have been made problematic, having to navigate a myriad of Plexiglas dividers. How do you expect a blind person to maintain the required two metres between themselves and others— not to mention trust those around them [to] practise proper mask-wearing etiquette?

Sadly, at least 70 per cent of blind Canadians are either underemployed or unemployed, so there’s no way they can afford an Uber, leaving them all the more vulnerable when taking transit.

Even in an Uber, it’s impossible to know if the driver is properly masked up, or if the Plexiglas has slipped out of place.

Dr. Briar Sexton, the Advocacy Chair for the B.C. chapter of the Canadian Ophthalmology Society, who disagreed with him.

“I welcome Minister Dix to send evidence that a well 55-year-old is more clinically vulnerable than a blind 50-year-old,” said Dr. Sexton.

“In the absence of hard data, the medical community must be reliant on common sense.”

One final point. The visually impaired community in B.C. is not exactly a sizeable one; maybe 500 people, tops. Perhaps we’re not as medically vulnerable as some other British Columbians who have been prioritized for vaccine. Factor in those who might have been prioritized due to additional medical conditions aside from blindness, and the pool shrinks even further.

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Is there value in social media activism?

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, marked the National Day of Awareness and Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Gender diverse people.

My social media feed was flooded with posts acknowledging that fact—some with beautiful illustrations, others with valuable statistics and information on the issue.

BY ALYSSA NOEL arts@piquenewsmagazine.com

I liked and commented on many, but in the end I didn’t end up sharing any of them, despite the fact that I believe the issue to be one of the most important in our country.

Why? Because I have mixed feelings on the value and motivation behind social media activism when it’s not also coupled with non-cyber action.

On the one hand, with the right posts, social media can do a great job of spreading the word on important issues or information. Furthermore, I like seeing what people I follow care about.

But, on the other, there are a few pitfalls. If a tragedy, incident, or movement happens and, for whatever reason you don’t post about it, does that tell people you deem other issues you’ve posted about more

worthy—even if, say, you happened to take a break from social media that week?

Furthermore, there are myriad opportunities to bungle it. Do you remember nearly a year ago when everyone posted black squares on their social media to take part in Blackout Tuesday? It was meant to

This isn’t to say you shouldn’t take part in anti-racism movements out of a fear of messing up and feeling uncomfortable.

In fact, the opposite is true; white folks in particular have to learn how to do a better job of admitting their mistakes, learning from others, and feeling uncomfortable in

Personally, one rule I’ve come up with for myself: only share posts on race in particular that come directly from a person or organization that belongs to that group.

show support for the Black Lives Matter movement by drawing attention to police brutality and racism towards Black people.

Only, halfway through the day, the criticism started. Exploding use of the hashtag actually meant that important information from activists was getting buried in a sea of black squares—all by well-intentioned people, many of whom likely weren’t doing much more than social media activism.

order to learn and grow. (I say this as— and write this column from the perspective of—a white person.)

But when you wind up harming the movement you thought you were helping— that’s another problem altogether.

So what is the right way to use this complicated—and sometimes powerful— tool we’ve been given?

I don’t have the answers or, as a result, a hard stance on this issue. Rather, I think

it’s something to contemplate. Personally, one rule I’ve come up with for myself: only share posts on race in particular that come directly from a person or organization that belongs to that group.

In the end, I think the most powerful part of social media is its ability to amplify voices that otherwise might not have been heard.

To that end, as our world has started to wake up to longstanding inequality, there have been plenty of Instagram accounts in particular that offer amazing insight into diverse perspectives. Following them and reposting them is about the most basic anti-racism work you can do, but I can say simply diversifying my feed has made it more interesting and engaging.

Many of my favourite accounts are outdoors based: brownpeoplecamping, blackgirlstrekkin, blackpeoplewhohike, melaninbasecamp, outdoorafro, and unlikelyhikers.

In the end, I’m open to being wrong.

Maybe there are plenty of examples of how social media activism alone has made a dent in social problems. Maybe people would be better off seeing images and messages of substance rather than just pretty landscapes and cute dogs.

For now, I’ll keep scrolling and enjoying my feed that offers a mix of memes and messages. ■

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Hackers had ‘deep’ access to Whistler systems, docs show RANSOMWARE ATTACK MAY REQUIRE A COMPLETE REBUILD OF RMOW NETWORK

BY BRADEN DUPUIS SOME SERVICES at the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) are beginning to come back online following a ransomware attack made public on April 27, but full recovery could take months, as documents posted to the dark web indicate the criminals had deep access to municipal systems.

Over the course of a week, the criminals posted various password-protected links ending in the names of different RMOW employees (which they claim to have sold on the dark web), followed by an excel spreadsheet that included sensitive system administration info, and ultimately a data dump of “important” passwords.

“Primarily they seem to be looking to demonstrate to the municipality that they did indeed have deep access to their systems,” said Brett Callow, threat analyst with Emsisoft, a cyber security company with a particular expertise in ransomware.

“Gathering up the various credentials needed to access various parts of the network would obviously require them to access those parts of the network.”

UNDER CONSTRUCTION A message posted to the dark web by cyber criminals on April 30 claiming to have access to about 800 gigabytes of Resort Municipality of Whistler data.

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Having gained such pervasive access to the RMOW’s systems, the problem will be “very hard to remediate,” Callow added, and the RMOW may be looking at a complete rebuild of its network.

“That is absolutely the best solution— you rebuild your network,” he said. “If you don’t do that there is always a risk that you’ll miss a backdoor they’ve created.”

That process can cost millions of dollars and take months to complete, Callow said,

was released to fix the problem in February.

Asked about the documents posted to the dark web, and if the RMOW installed the SonicWall patch released in February, a spokesperson said the municipality cannot comment on specific details of the investigation while it is still underway.

“We obviously can’t say that that was the entry point, but it’s certainly possible,” Callow said.

“We can certainly say that ransomware

“Primarily they seem to be looking to demonstrate to the municipality that they did indeed have deep access to their systems.”

- BRETT CALLOW

noting that, according to statistics, the average ransomware incident costs $8.1 million and takes 287 days to recover from.

With an investigation ongoing, it’s still unclear how the criminals accessed the RMOW’s systems, but it’s possible they exploited a “zero-day” vulnerability (an exploit previously unknown to the developer) found in SonicWall VPN, a service used by the RMOW. Cyber security experts from a firm called FireEye documented the vulnerability in a blog post on April 29, noting that a patch

groups do exploit vulnerabilities in VPN, including a zero-day that existed in SonicWall’s VPN, and that the municipality seem to have used SonicWall.”

The RMOW said in a May 11 update that its investigation “has not found evidence” that public or customer info has been compromised, and that it will reach out to affected individuals if that changes.

The leaked documents Pique viewed contained no definitive proof to the contrary.

Asked for his opinion, Callow cast doubt

on the RMOW’s reassurances.

“The question is: if they were able to gain access to the network and obtain credentials that would have enabled them to access other areas of the network, why didn’t they and why didn’t they take data?” he said.

As for what type of market there would be for the RMOW’s data, “it would depend what the data is,” Callow said.

“Information about individuals could be used for identity theft. Information about other organizations can be used to spearphish them (phishing attempts targeted at individuals),” he said.

“So there is a market, but how much of a market I really can’t say.”

NO ESTIMATE FOR FULL RETURN OF SERVICES After learning of the attack on April 27, the RMOW took all of its services offline as a precautionary measure.

The municipality is also working with the RCMP and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. on the matter.

In a release issued May 11, the RMOW noted there is still no estimate for when all services will return to normal, but “a limited number of critical systems” are expected to start to return within two weeks.

“We apologize for this inconvenience to our community members and greatly appreciate everyone’s patience as we work diligently to bring these services back

NEWS WHISTLER 8353 Rainbow Dr. Alpine Meadows online,” said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen in the release. “The safety and security of the RMOW’s systems is our highest priority to protect the information that we maintain for our employees and community members. It is a painstaking and lengthy process to make sure that our systems are fully secured before we bring them back online. We are working with cyber security experts to further strengthen our security safeguards in the ever-evolving cyber security landscape.”

Once systems are back online, the RMOW will work through applications and requests in the order they were received, the release said, adding that alternate service delivery methods have been put in place where possible.

In-person service at municipal hall is still suspended, but all departments can be reached (find specific contact info, as well as RMOW updates and a FAQ at whistler.ca).

A call centre is available for the general public at 604-932-5535 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Though council meetings scheduled for May 4 were cancelled following the attack, a special council meeting was held May 11

that it does not contact individuals by phone or email to request personal information.

“Additionally, the RMOW advises community members to continue to exercise a high level of awareness about protecting their sensitive personal information and to practice good password hygiene such as regularly changing passwords to all online accounts and not re-using the same password for multiple accounts,” the release said.

A GROWING PROBLEM Ransomware attacks have been increasing in frequency as of late, with cyber criminals carrying out operations on higher-profile targets.

Last weekend, a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline—a critical U.S. pipeline that supplies about 45 per cent of the fuel used along the East Coast— prompted President Joe Biden to issue emergency legislation, while the City of Tulsa, Okla., also shut down services after a ransomware attack on May 7.

“The targeted organizations have gotten bigger and bigger,” Callow said.

“Ransomware used to be the bane of mainly

“The safety and security of the RMOW’s systems is our highest priority to protect the information that we maintain for our employees and community members.”

- VIRGINA CULLEN

to adopt an amendment to the five-year financial plan and the RMOW’s 2021 tax bylaws (both were given first three readings on April 20).

A closed meeting was also held on May 11, to “discuss the security of the property of the municipality, the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, and discussions regarding the provision of a municipal service, and discussions with municipal officers and employees respecting municipal objectives, measures and progress reports for the purposes of preparing an annual report.”

The next public meeting is scheduled for May 18.

The property tax deadline for 2021 is currently Friday, July 2, and like last year, penalties will not be charged on late payments until Friday, October 1 due to COVID-19. Staff are recommending that this year’s deadline be changed to July 31.

Council will consider the recommendation on May 18th.

Individual property tax statements outline all the ways to pay property taxes (in-person, mail-in cheque, online banking, credit card), and those payment methods will be available any time after tax notices are mailed (mail-in and online banking are currently available.)

The RMOW is also reminding the public

small businesses, but that’s no longer the case, and demands have risen considerably as well.”

The average demand has gone from about $5,000 in 2018 to about $200,000 today, Callow said. And while there are no hard stats showing how many companies choose to pay the ransom, “about 30 per cent would seem to be a reasonable midpoint,” he added.

DarkSide, for instance—the group claiming responsibility for the Colonial Pipeline hack—has released data stolen from 83 organizations, “and they have carried out at least 113 attacks that we know about,” he said.

Cyber insurance—which the RMOW has—could potentially cover everything from the amount of the ransom demand that is paid to the cost of rebuilding the network (minus the deductible).

But it can also be a double-edged sword, Callow said.

“Some people believe that insured organizations may be more inclined to pay ransoms, because the money isn’t coming from their own pocket, which of course pushes more money into the whole cyber crime ecosystem, which incentivizes more cyber crime,” he said.

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Whistler Search and Rescue holds first membership drive since 2014 ALSO, WHISTLER RCMP LOOKS TO TRAIN FOR TWO SEARCH-AND-RESCUE LIAISON ROLES compared to the same period last year (88), but a whopping 38-per-cent jump in calls requiring mobilization, from 55 to 76.

That tracked with the wider provincial trend. According to B.C.’s public safety

BY BRANDON BARRETT FOR THE FIRST TIME in the better part of a decade, Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) is looking to expand its ranks.

Its first membership drive since 2014, the volunteer organization is accepting applications for around a dozen new members until June 15. Manager Brad Sills said, between the recent departure of two longstanding members and a rise in call volume during the pandemic, it was time.

“Tasks have increased so we want to shore up our numbers a bit more,” he explained.

“We operate a pretty small crew at 31.

Most of the teams in the Lower Mainland are closer to 50 or 60, so there’s a little bit of burnout going on.”

Like other search-and-rescue groups across B.C., WSAR saw a surge in mobilizations over the past year, as more recreationalists took to the backcountry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to its annual manager’s report, covering March 1, 2020 to March 1, 2021, WSAR saw a similar call volume (92)

“Most of the teams in the Lower Mainland are closer to 50 or 60 [members], so there’s a little bit of burnout going on.”

- BRAD SILLS

ministry, ground search-and-rescue groups were deployed 1,959 times between April 2020 and April 2021, an increase of nearly 25 per cent, making it the busiest year in B.C. SAR history.

Sills is hopeful the membership drive will also inject some much-needed youth into the organization, “provided that they have that sort of basic experience that we’re looking for, which is a first-aid ticket and at least some

formal avalanche training,” he said. “We’d love to take on 20-year-olds but they need to have this experience.”

Along with that baseline experience, Sills said the two main attributes of an ideal WSAR candidate would be “dedication and attitude.”

“We want people that are really passionate about helping people in distress and are willing to work with each other in a very collaborative manner to do whatever needs to be done to affect that rescue.”

The average WSAR member spends approximately 200 hours a year on the job, including weekly training exercises that have mostly been held virtually in the pandemic.

“We’re just waiting for COVID to be over and we want to get back to [normal] because training has really taken a hit this past year,” noted Sills, adding that members will primarily focus on helicopter, rope and crevasse rescue training ahead of next winter.

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RCMP detachment looks to train two members as search-and-rescue liaisons.

A role previously held by former Whistler RCMP detachment head Steve LeClair, the liaisons would effectively serve as the point of contact for WSAR, would attend training days and “create that relationship, as we have similar interests and skillsets,” wrote RCMP Sgt. Sascha Banks in an email.

“We have found this a great asset with Squamish RCMP for understanding why certain things are done, learning their procedure, and sharing knowledge.”

Sills said the liaison position in the past has played a vital role when search-andrescue crews are tied up on other calls.

“The value for us is when we can’t get through, for whatever reasons,” he said.

“Whistler as we all know is a very busy place and we can be working a call and trying to get ahold of a member, and it’s not that they don’t want to answer, it’s just that they’re chock-a-block busy.”

Pique reached out to LeClair for comment, but as he is now serving as a reserve constable in semi-retirement, he said he is not permitted to speak to the media. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER LEADERS and labour advocates welcomed new legislation introduced in B.C. this week that guarantees paid sick days for workers—but questions remain over the long-term cost to small businesses already feeling the pinch of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tabled by labour minister Harry Bains on Tuesday, May 11, the legislation guarantees three days’ paid leave for workers dealing with COVID-19 through an amendment to the Employment Standards Act. The leave applies to employees experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, self-isolating or awaiting a test result.

The province will reimburse employers without an existing sick-leave plan, up to $200 a day for each worker.

By January 1, 2022, the legislation will be extended to anyone who cannot work due to any illness or injury—not just the coronavirus.

While she welcomed the news of a COVID sick leave program for the resort’s frontline workers, Whistler Chamber of Commerce CEO Melissa Pace said key details of the longterm sick-leave plan still need ironing out.

“I don’t think the government’s released enough about the program for us to really understand the implications, good or bad, at this point,” she said.

“Is this going to be another cost passed to employers or is the government going to cover this?”

Victoria said it would consult with B.C.’s business community and labour sector to hash out the details of the permanent leave program, namely, how many paid sick days would be offered and how much of the cost would be downloaded onto employers.

“It’s a little bit concerning,” said Annie Dormuth, provincial affairs director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), of the potential added costs for business owners. “We don’t know what the summer holds in regards to restrictions or when small businesses can get back to normal operations. Furthermore, if we’re going to see a full return of those revenues, even introducing an additional cost as early as Jan. 1, 2022 is concerning given the uncertainty of the state of small businesses and their economic recovery.”

A CFIB analysis found that the average B.C. small business has added more than $138,000 in debt during the pandemic, despite only 37 per cent making normal sales at this time.

Small businesses have been further hampered by a lack of staff, with only 45 per cent in B.C. currently operating at their normal hiring level.

“Part of the question of economic recovery will be: how do we reconnect employers back to those employees [laid off during the pandemic]?” Dormuth said. “But a larger question lays underneath that: Will employers actually be in a position to hire back all their staff?”

Many larger employers, such as Whistler’s hotel chains, already offered some form of paid sick leave prior to the pandemic, with others implementing additional COVID-19-specific leave protocols over the past year, said Saad Hasan, president of the Hotel Association of Whistler.

“Now as far as the smaller hotels and other boutique properties, that is where I want more clarity from people as to whether this is a positive step,” he noted, adding that he would be discussing the matter with members further this week.

The BC Employment Precarity Survey, conducted in late 2019, showed that 53 per cent of B.C’s workers currently do not have paid sick leave. An alarming majority of low-income workers—81 per cent of those earning less than $40,000 a year and 89 per cent of those making less than $30,000— don’t have paid sick days, an issue that disproportionately affects women and racialized workers.

The proportion of Whistler workers without paid sick days is harder to pin down, as the Chamber doesn’t track it, but United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) 1518 secretary-treasurer Patrick Johnson said conversations with local workers “would indicate that the percentage is pretty high.”

The UFCW had been advocating for paid sick leave both for COVID-19 and non-COVID-related reasons, and Johnson believes Tuesday’s announcement is a good starting point in the ongoing dialogue with the province.

“I think it’s a fundamental first step to start this, but we need more paid time,” he said, adding that UFCW is lobbying for a minimum of five permanent paid sick days.

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New study shows Earth’s glaciers melting faster than previously thought UNBC STUDY USED SUPERCOMPUTER TO ANALYZE SATELLITE IMAGES OF WORLD’S 217K GLACIERS

BY BRANDON BARRETT A NEW STUDY out of B.C. paints the clearest picture yet of the state of the Earth’s glaciers, and shows that they are melting faster than ever before.

Jointly funded by the University of Northern B.C. and the Hakai Institute, the study relied on a supercomputer— the equivalent of 584 modern computers running for a year straight—to construct digital elevation models based on more than 440,000 satellite images used to track the rate of mass loss from the Earth’s glaciers.

Co-author Dr. Brian Menounos, UNBC professor and Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change, said the satellite imagery gave the international team of researchers what is likely the most thorough and precise view yet of Earth’s glaciers.

“Clearly the rich, dense record that is afforded by space observation has really helped us visualize and quantify the change on a glacier-by-glacier scale and that really hadn’t been done prior,” he explained.

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the Earth’s roughly 217,000 glaciers are receding, but this most recent study, published April 28 in the science journal, Nature, showed just how quickly the rate of glacial loss has accelerated this century.

Between 2000 and 2019, the world’s glaciers lost on average 267 gigatonnes of ice per year, representing 21 per cent of the Earth’s observed sea-level rise in that time. That pace has only picked up recently, too: Glaciers lost 227 gigatonnes of ice per year between 2000 and 2004, but between 2015 and 2019, that rate accelerated to 290 gigatonnes per year.

“There is a whole body of other science that suggests greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, so there’s little doubt in my mind that the acceleration [in glacial melt] is partly driven by the increase in surface temperature and caused by greenhouse gas emissions,” Menounas said.

Glaciers along the western spine of North America are melting even faster, with their thawing rate increasing fourfold between 2000 and 2019. In B.C., where, due to a combination of cost and tricky terrain, only three glaciers are routinely monitored by federal researchers, the province’s glaciers haven’t fared much better, particularly those

along the Coast Mountain range.

“We could show that there was about, I believe, a five-fold increase in melt in the most recent decade compared to the first,” Menounos said of B.C.’s roughly 15,000

“[S]pace observation has really helped us visualize ... the change on a glacier-byglacier scale.”

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glaciers. “That again is partly driven by changes in atmospheric circulation, but in large part globally, it’s due to surface temperature increase.”

With an estimated 150 million people now living on land that will be below the hightide line by mid-century, the repercussions of

sea-level rise cannot be ignored. Glaciers are responsible for more than a fifth of the roughly 22 centimetres that sea levels have risen since 1880, but it’s disappearing ice sheets that could have the largest impact on sea levels long term. “[Glaciers] may contribute something like 30 to 40 centimetres this century, but what we really need to start worrying about are the ice sheets, the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets, because they have the capacity to change sea level by several metres within 100 to 200 years,” Menounos said.

Although the study includes some harrowing statistics of global glacial melt, Menounos said every individual has a role to play in reversing the trend.

“If we dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [glaciers] will come back as Earth returns to a balanced energy budget prior to industrialization. There are ways to get there, so there is hope,” he said. “But I do think it takes a global effort, and that spans from the international community to individual countries down to the individual making decisions about not what’s going to be an inconvenience for them, but rather what sort of planet they wish their children or their grandchildren to inherit.” n

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NOTICE THINK GREEN Members of Project Now’s fast fashion groups are working to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of the fashion industry.

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WSS students take action on climate with new initiative AWARE-LED PROJECT AIMS TO ENGAGE LOCAL HIGHSCHOOLERS ON CLIMATE ISSUES

BY HARRISON BROOKS STUDENTS AT Whistler Secondary School, in partnership with the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE), are taking climate change awareness into their own hands with the Project Now initiative.

The program, now in its first year, started as an idea in 2019 between AWARE’s program coordinator, Taniell Hamilton and executive director, Claire Ruddy. Their goal was to get students from the Whistler Secondary School’s Eco Club more engaged in the cause and teach them real life skills along the way.

“One of the things I’ve seen is that there is this disconnect between people having ideas and then not knowing how to get their ideas off the ground,” explained Hamilton.

“So, what we wanted to do was create this mentorship program where students could come up with a project that they were passionate about, then through community mentors and leaders within Whistler, really foster those ideas and introduce them to different people in the community that might be able to bring them to life.”

Project Now consists of 27 students split into five groups each with the goal of addressing climate change in a different way. Projects include things like improving waste management and promoting healthy vegetarian eating habits in a positive way.

Some are also raising awareness about the environmental impacts of fast fashion, as well as social media campaigns, and learning and understanding local policy and bringing that knowledge back to inform their peers on what’s happening in the community.

According to Sierra Haziza, president of the high school’s Eco Club and leader of the Erase the Waste group project, teaming up with AWARE has been incredibly beneficial to them both in giving them skills they can take forward into their future careers and helping them understand how changes are

made at the community level.

“I’m actually hoping to pursue a career and an undergraduate education in sustainability,” said Haziza.

“So, what I’m really excited for is to take the skills that I’ve learned through my mentorship, so things like engaging different stakeholders in meetings, how to lead meetings and all of those skills, and really apply them and use what I learned in post-secondary [education]. I’m excited to have a future in climate action.”

Ruddy said the success of each group is defined by the students themselves and the goals they set for their projects, but they try to work under the same objective and set up each project to be “SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound.”

As the school year starts to wrap up, the students are focused on raising awareness about their projects and engaging with as many people as they can. But however it turns out, whether they reach 10 people or 10,000, Haziza believes the program has already been a huge success.

“I think Project Now as a whole has already been incredibly successful just in the sense that Eco Club next year is going to have such strong connections and resources,” she said.

“But I think it’s also successful in the sense that the actual mentorships have taught [us] a lot about how to engage in different situations, and I think those are important tools to have.”

Ruddy intends for this program to continue next year with even more students involved. She also hopes people in the community take note of what these students are doing and take another step in reducing their own footprints as well.

“These students are going to live under the conditions that have been created by human-caused climate change for the longest,” said Ruddy.

“And so, the more we can do to support them to feel empowered and to act on climate, the better.” n

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WHISTLER’S ENTREPRENEURS

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ENTREPRENEURS en·tre·pre·neur | noun 1. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.

2. In this feature we recognize the courage and hard work that it takes to create your own business and become an entrepreneur. Please read the stories of these six Whistler entrepreneurs that contribute to the fabric of our community.

Bill Bagnall Get unique cabinetry for your home that’s made locally

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hether it’s a custom kitchen, a bathroom vanity, a luxury wine cellar, or the perfect dining room table, William’s Joinery can turn your imagination into reality.

“I can build anything people want. There’s not anything I can’t build,” owner Bill Bagnall says.

Bagnall is a fifth-generation craftsperson who started working in cabinetry when he was 16.

A certified joiner and cabinetmaker, Bagnall moved to Whistler from his home country of Australia in the mid-1990s.

After a year spent working in the ski industry, Bagnall returned to his craft. He’s now been operating in the Sea to Sky Corridor for over 20 years, making the finest custom kitchen and cabinets in Western Canada.

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Bagnall works closely with his clients, determining exactly how his work can meet their needs. In the planning stages, Bagnall will sketch a design right in front of his clients for their immediate feedback.

“I try to meet all the clients I work for directly.

Whether they’re in Europe or somewhere else in the world, I try to meet most of them to get a feel for the client,” Bagnall says.

“We don’t just do a prefabricated cabinet.

We custom make pieces to their exact specifications, and how they like their storage to work.”

For those who might not have a clear vision of what they’d like their custom work to look like, Bagnall can help guide them by suggesting designs and showing images from his extensive library of photos of past projects.

“I love working with people to design, build, and finalize something that they actually want,” Bagnall says.

Seeking out custom work from William’s Joinery also has the advantage of supporting a local small business while getting a unique piece that is the perfect fit for your home.

“When you shop local and deal directly with a local artisan, you get exactly what you want,” Bagnall says.

“Especially if you want something different, you’re getting something from a custom workshop that’s made locally.”

To learn more about William’s Joinery visit www.williamsjoinery.com

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Peter Shrimpton Whistler law firm supports the needs of its community

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ountain Law Corporation’s principal lawyer Peter Shrimpton grew up skiing and vacationing in Whistler.

When it came time to settle down and start his family 30 years ago, he knew the growing community was exactly where he wanted to be.

“I watched Whistler grow and saw that it had a lot of potential as a true community where families could set down roots and entrepreneurs could embark on substantive careers,” Shrimpton says.

“As a young lawyer, wanting to have a large family and desiring an idyllic recreational setting not too far from the urban environment, I, along with my wife at the time, decided Whistler would be the perfect place.”

Shrimpton purchased two practices in Whistler and merged them to create Mountain Law Corporation.

One was from a retiring lawyer, and the other was a successful notary practice.

From there, he built on the existing clientele with his community involvement.

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After almost a decade on the board of the Whistler Youth Soccer Club, Shrimpton served as President for seven years.

He provides pro bono legal advice to numerous non-profits and charities and has for many years volunteered weekly for Whistler Community Services Society’s low income law clinic in association with Access Pro Bono B.C.

He also served as Board Chair of The Whistler Forum for Dialogue and Innovation, the Whistler Village Church, and the Whistler Skiers Chapel (which then became the Whistler Interfaith Society).

Mountain Law’s three-pronged practice focuses primarily on wills and estates, business law, and real estate transactions.

During this uncertain time, it’s more important than ever to have binding legal documents for your business, estate and personal planning.

“I take great satisfaction from the one-on-one, very personal work,” Shrimpton says.

“It’s beneficial for people to have peace of mind knowing that if they’re incapacitated or if they die, their wishes will be fulfilled.”

Shrimpton jokes that he practices what he preaches.

When his three oldest children turned 19, they each received a completed will and estate planning kit.

He also greatly enjoys helping local families and entrepreneurs take the stress and complication out of real estate and business transactions.

“I love assisting people who come here and want to start a family and/or a business because that’s exactly what I did,” Shrimpton says.

“With my knowledge and expertise, and with my terrific legal team, I think I’m a valuable ally for anyone.”

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Heidi Denessen Local artist launches virtual studio to teach painters of all skill levels

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estrictions on in-person gatherings inspired local artist Heidi Denessen to launch a virtual studio to connect with students across the country to offer step-by-step painting classes.

“I teach everyone from people who have never once stepped into an art supply store to people who paint regularly but who want to try a new style,” Denessen says.

“I take you through all the steps. All you need is a desire to do it. You don’t have to have skills.”

For a monthly membership fee of $24, which can be cancelled at any time, members gain access to a growing library of classes, with a new class added every month. Included with classes are the supporting materials, supply list, and extra exercises.

Denessen’s virtual studio includes a library of classes, a resources section with links to interesting art-related books, websites, and Instagram accounts, and a lounge section, which includes a 24-hour chat room so members can discuss their projects together.

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Denessen also hosts a weekly live Zoom meetup where students can drop in for advice.

She recommends her classes for people ages 12 and up.

“If you’re struggling with a part of the painting, hop on with me and I’m happy to help people.

While we’re not in the studio together, you have access to me that way,” Denessen says.

“I want people to feel supported. You’re not just watching the videos. There’s help for you if you need it too.”

For members who want to display their finished work, there’s also an online membersonly gallery.

Denessen has an art degree from Emily Carr and received a teaching certificate from Simon Fraser University. She taught high school art for several years before focusing on her own art after her children were born.

“A lot of the work I do is very solitary, just creating things in the studio alone. Teaching allows me to have a great connection with people,” Denessen says.

In addition to the virtual studio, Denessen offers her original paintings and a selection of housewares and clothing items printed with her work through her online shop.

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Doug Washer

Whistler ice caves offer an other-worldly destination

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oug Washer loves creating awe-inspiring experiences.

It’s something he’s done for more than three decades in the Whistler region by taking visitors to see the grandeur of the local scenery.

One of the major destinations his luxury tour company—Head-Line Mountain Holidays—transports them to, is a vast ice cap on the door step to Whistler .

“It’s a 320-square-kilometre ice cap, probably the largest, southernmost temperate latitude ice cap in the world,” Washer says. “And by its nature it’s a massive ice field with jagged peaks, tuyas (flat-top volcanoes) and associated features, like the amazing ice caves, that are out-of-this-world fascinating.”

Guests with Head-Line are flown by helicopter from Whistler to the ice cap, then shuttled by snowmobile and snowbuggies (track equipped ATVs) to tour the ice caves.

“Going up there, it’s an exhilarating experience,” Washer says. “The short helicopter flight alone takes you through some incredible scenery. Then, you jump on the snowmobiles and snowbuggies and begin a unique adventure to discover some of the most fascinating scenery you are likely to ever witness.”

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At the forefront are the ice caves that reveal themselves as massive, shimmering blue, translucent domes when you enter.

They present an otherworldly backdrop perfect for that adventure destination trip, or another special occasion.

“Guests can customize their visit,” Washer says, adding many have done surprise marriage proposals, while others have staged a full wedding ceremony in an ice cave. “Those are usually small events with just a few people that we call a Heli-Sledding-Wedding.”

Outside on the ice fields, you can also use spotting scopes to observe wildlife that traverse through the region.

“If you’re fortunate you may just see, way in the distance, a huge grizzly bear trotting across the ice field,” Washer says.

As well, meals can be packed along for a trip, and even a full-blown BBQ can be served on the ice field.

While COVID-19 health restrictions have limited visitors from further afield, Head-Line has adjusted to provide a virtual visit to showcase the region.

“We offer what we call Simu-Live Experiences,” Washer explains. “We go up and video record a customized interpretive tour of the ice caves that, for example, can be shown during a break in a client’s online meeting with staff.

“That way, we can bring entertainment, knowledge and experience to the colleagues who work together, while also taking the dullness out of another Zoom meeting, injecting it with some inspiration to travel later with a taste of what they can experience when travel opens up again,” Washer says.

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Dr. Maureen Harriman Doctor Helps Whistlerites Look and Feel Their Best

important for patients to know that all treatments at her clinic are based in science - the guesswork is taken out of the equation.

r. Maureen Harriman is a Board Certified surgeon in both Canada and the US in the speciality of Otolaryngology (Ear Nose and Throat ENT). She also has a fellowship in Otolaryngological Allergy and has a special interest in pediatrics. Her clinic in Whistler is geared toward providing patients with exceptional patient care they can trust.

Her ENT patient care is also enhanced by allergy treatment. Many of her patients spend a lot of time outdoors which can be problematic for allergy sufferers. Many of her pediatric patients could not tolerate subcutaneous (injection) desensitization treatments. Now not only can she test and identify those inhaled allergens causing a multitude of medical problems including nasal congestion, sneezing, itchy eyes, asthma, sinusitis and general fatigue but a much gentler treatment is available.

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Her extensive experience allows for a varied practice that offers ENT, allergy, and skin care treatments.

As well as offering ENT services her practice also includes minimally invasive cosmetic treatments (she personally does all the injections) as well as sublingual immunotherapy (oral allergy treatments instead of injections).

“I enjoy having a practice that helps patients look and feel their best. Patients are able to receive treatments that encourage graceful aging.”

“In Whistler people are fit, healthy and active and I want to help people look and feel like they are at the top of their game. Botox and fillers are great for a natural improvement. My patients are looking for a natural look that makes their appearance match the way they feel.”

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Dr. Harriman did additional training in Beverly Hills CA with Dr. Obagi, a dermatologist and the founder of ZO Skin Health. She now offers this product line in her clinic so her patients can access science based skin care. “It becomes very difficult to sort through all the products and treatments that are out there.

It can get very confusing,” Harriman states . It is

“We can now help to desensitize patients to their allergens instead of simply treating symptoms. In the past the only option to try to make a person less allergic was weekly injections at a doctors office.

Dr Harriman received her undergraduate training at University of New Brunswick, her medical degree from MacMaster University and then completed her specialty training at the University of British Columbia. She is also a competitive rower, was previously a member of the Canadian National Rowing Team and a silver medalist at the World Championships. She is now rowing masters. She has lived and worked in Whistler for the last 18 years.

She and her husband raised their three children in the community giving her a strong connection to the people in the Sea to Sky corridor. She is proud to provide the community with excellent patient care.

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Jeff Gold

Pemberton furniture store offers timeless style at an affordable price.

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hen Jeff Gold lost his travel industry job last year, he jumped at the opportunity to get serious about his love for designer furniture.

While he’d had a side hustle selling high-quality reproduction mid-century modern furniture in the space of the year, he turned his passion project into a thriving business: Retro Modern Designs.

Today, most of his business is made up of customers in Vancouver and he ships every week to Toronto and Montreal. This summer, Jeff plans to expand his showroom and his collection.

“If you buy a piece from our collection, there is a good chance it will be the last piece of furniture you ever want to sell,” Jeff says.

Retro Modern Designs customers appreciate Jeff ’s personalized service and his quick reply to all enquiries.

“When it comes to quality in the reproduction market, I look for the highest quality, and I continually strive to improve that if I’m not satisfied.”

“When you reach out to our company, you’re getting direct access to the owner within minutes,” he says.

Each piece sold by Retro Modern Designs is handpicked by Jeff, who also adds pieces to the collection based on customer feedback.

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While Gold initially decided to open his showroom in Pemberton to serve the development in the rapidly growing community, he has found that the internet and social media have expanded his reach across the country.

“I could sell any style of furniture, but I chose this style because I love it,” he says.

Jeff grew up with many of the original midcentury modern styles in his home, including a beautiful Eames chair. His father, a fashion designer, inspired his eye for quality designer items.

He also offers hassle-free local delivery, not only dropping off the pieces, but unboxing the furniture and clearing away all packaging.

“I don’t leave clients anything to deal with other than their beautiful new piece of furniture,” Gold says.

To learn more about Retro Modern Designs and to order online visit www.retromoderndesigns.com

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Pemberton council greenlights food truck pilot project SUMMER PROGRAM GIVES PREFERENCE TO LOCAL VENDORS OFFERING HEALTHY FOOD OPTIONS

BY BRANDON BARRETT VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) officials greenlit a pilot project this week that will welcome mobile food vendors to the community, starting this summer.

At a virtual council meeting on Tuesday, May 11, Pemberton council approved a revised version of the mobile vendor program that was first presented to officials at a Committee of the Whole meeting last month.

The amendments extend the original oneyear pilot through the summer of 2022, and gives preference to local vendors, vendors proposing healthy food options and vendors sourcing ingredients locally.

“The pilot program is intended to be a learning process for the Village and for vendors, with changes expected to be made to the policy after the first season,” said VOP legislative assistant Gwendolyn Kennedy.

The vending season runs from June 11 to September, with this year’s application deadline set for May 28.

Applicants will be considered using an 100-point scoring system, with bonus points given to operators residing in Pemberton or the Squamish Lillooet-

FOOD TO GO The Village of Pemberton greenlit a pilot project this week that will see mobile food vendors set up in five different locations this summer.

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Regional District Area C, as the VOP cannot legally prohibit business owners from outside the community from taking part.

The Pemberton Chamber of Commerce and the Pemberton Area Economic Development Collaborative will be also notified of the program so they can help get the word out.

Food vendors will have the opportunity to apply for their preferred locations and

latter will only be available on Friday nights coinciding with the local farmers’ market after an amendment from the council table.

“I would have some concerns if we open it up other than for the farmers’ market, for the simple reason that The Pony is setting [a food truck] up, about a block away, and that area downtown is also where the majority of our cafés, bakeries, coffee shops, etc. are located,” noted acting mayor Ted Craddock.

“The pilot project is intended to be a learning process for the Village and for vendors, with changes expected ... after the first season.”

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dates, with a random draw deciding in the event certain days, or locations, are requested by more than one operator. The objective, the VOP said, is for vendors to cycle through the different locations throughout the summer to maximize variety for customers and ensure that vendors have fair access to desirable venues.

The approved locations are: the One Mile Lake lower parking lot; the Industrial Park; the Pemberton Community Centre parking lot; the Den Duyf Park, and the Downtown Community Barn, however, the

In June 2020, VOP council approved a three-year permit for The Pony to operate a food truck in a vacant lot on Portage Road.

(Mayor Mike Richman recused himself from the discussions as a co-owner of Town Square Restaurant.)

Successful applicants will be granted a mobile food vendor permit valid for the applicable season of the pilot program, with approved 2021 operators required to submit a new application for the 2022 season if they wish to participate. A business licence is also required in addition to the mobile

vendor permit.

Along with adding animation to the community, the VOP sees the program as a way to help counter some of the losses suffered by a restaurant industry that has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.

“Mobile food carts can provide a viable expansion for an existing restaurant or café, allowing them to access markets not available to brick-and-mortar locations during the pandemic,” read an April 27 report to council.

COUNCIL SIGNS ON TO GOOD FOOD PROGRAM In other Spud Valley culinary news, Pemberton council on Tuesday voted to endorse an initiative that aims to advance the sustainability of the region’s food system.

Launched in 2018 by the Squamish Lillooet Regional Food Task Force, the Good Food Program looks to support local food producers and processors through the implementation of food procurement practices aligned with “good food” values.

The pledge asks participating local governments to purchase directly from local farms and producers when possible; to establish supply-chain accountability with vendors and distributors; and to work towards implementing good food values in its procurement and purchasing practices.

While the Good Food Program is still in development, organizers are asking local governments and organizations to sign onto its pledge and policy before it is finalized. n

NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Diking district pushing for policy change to operate more efficiently RIGID SEISMIC GUIDELINES COULD HAMPER PVDD FUNDING

BY DAN FALLOON & BRANDON BARRETT THE PEMBERTON Valley Dyking District (PVDD) is requesting changes to a couple of provincial policies in order to allow it to operate more efficiently.

One is to allow it to continue as an improvement district, even though the province started phasing out such organizations more than a decade ago by restricting the ability to directly apply for funding.

In a letter addressed to Minister of Municipal Affairs Josie Osborne, PVDD operations and maintenance manager Kevin Clark noted that, since its goal is to impartially serve the Village of Pemberton (VOP), Lil’wat Nation and the Squamish Lillooet Regional District (SLRD), it is hindered by the limitation.

“We don’t want any special treatment, we just want to be able to compete [for funding],” Clark told VOP officials at a February council meeting. “We’re just asking to allow us to put in a great funding application with … science and rationale to back it up and be allowed to compete for that in the same way that, this year, the Village and the SLRD and Lil’wat were allowed to.”

Clark reviewed other improvement districts that handle diking and felt many could feasibly be absorbed into a nearby local government, but that’s not the case with the PVDD. “We have a very unique situation where we cover diking and flood infrastructure, which goes through all three jurisdictions,” Clark said. “Our existence in its present form provides the best outcome for the valley as we try to be a neutral third party and not be seen to be catering to any one person.”

Clark added that he anticipates that allowing the PVDD to compete for funding will open up access to money over and above what the three local governments can ask for.

“That would put us into the realm of being able to actually try to protect ourselves because we’re always that little bit short,” he said.

Clark’s second concern, outlined in a letter addressed to Inspector of Dikes Mitchell Hahn, revolves around PVDD’s inability to raise a 1.4-kilometre section of Miller Lillooet dike from the CN bridge approaching Highway 99, as the project would not meet a set of seismic guidelines, meeting a one-in2,475-year standard, set forth in 2014.

“That section of dike we know will overtop in around a one-in-50-year event, which we almost had in 2016 and we’ve had several near misses since and prior,” Clark said. “The actual ground under Pemberton will liquefy in a one-in-600-year seismic event.

“These guidelines are well outside of what’s realistic.”

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRO) told Pique that, because it has yet to receive a maintenance application from the PVDD for the Miller Lillooet dike, it cannot at this point determine if it would be eligible for a relaxing of the seismic guidelines, but that such asks would be considered on a case-by-case basis. (For his part, Clark said he has provided the ministry with ample engineering data on the dike’s flood risk.)

“Relaxation is a serious consideration and may require a resolution in council (not just letters of support) so that the public is well informed that a dike is being built to a sub-standard and that future development in the area is approved with full knowledge of this deficiency,” the spokesperson said.

The ministry representative also noted that Engineers and Geoscience BC is currently drafting guidelines “to assist qualified professionals in undertaking the design and analysis of seismic dikes including a proposed alternate method to ‘meet’ the provincial guidelines’ intent” without fully meeting the performance criteria.

Clark said the PVDD is investigating other mitigation options, such as replanting slide debris up at Mount Meager, and investigating density of development on its own dime.

Clark is also concerned about proposed changes to B.C.’s Emergency Program Act, which will add language such as preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery to what is required from local governments, essentially “downloading responsibility” from what has traditionally been federal and provincial duties.

While landowners can currently apply to a joint federal and provincial Disaster Mitigation Fund in the event of a flood, local municipalities would shoulder some burden if the changes pass.

That said, Clark sees a pretty significant loophole if it can’t improve the Miller Lillooet dike because of the seismic guidelines.

“We can’t be held liable for a flood that we weren’t allowed, by legislation, to protect ourselves from,” he said.

In response, the FLNRO spokesperson said B.C.’s Dike Maintenance Act only allows an inspector to designate liability “to dikes that are built, modified, and not maintained to the standards imposed by the inspector or without approval as required under the Dike Maintenance Act. Meeting these standards does not provide insurance or guarantee that a dike will not fail and does not covered liability beyond the scope of the Act if a dike should fail.

As such, liability beyond this is outside the authority of an inspector to answer.” n

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Reconciliation means rethinking parks governance PROTECTION and restoration are two sides of the conservation coin—protection for spaces that haven’t yet been damaged or destroyed by large-scale human impacts and restoration for ecologically critical places that have.

Although both might seem like relatively straightforward scientific tasks, they have been and continue to be significantly shaped by colonialism—globally and in Canada.

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BY DAVID SUZUKI Landscape-level restoration initiatives are somewhat new. It’s only recently that the scale of our activities has degraded entire ecosystems. Yet restoration initiatives are still subject to colonial approaches.

Consider one recent European-led, nature-based approach to climate change, part of an initiative to plant a billion trees. It included the Serengeti plains and Kruger National Park in Africa as potential reforestation areas. According to the Yale Journal of Forestry, “By not excluding conservation areas and traditional rangelands … these maps promote the idea that Africa’s natural heritage can be turned into industrial tree plantations to offset the rich world’s carbon emissions.”

Protected areas were established in Canada decades before Newfoundland and Labrador joined other provinces and territories to form the country we know today. Most are rooted in a colonial approach that defied Indigenous rights and fractured Indigenous Peoples’ relations with land.

Jasper National Park’s website provides this overview: “When Jasper Park Forest Reserve was created in 1907… Indigenous peoples were seen as obstacles to the enjoyment of nature. According to wilderness conservation policies at the time, Indigenous peoples were considered incompatible with nature and so couldn’t live in, hunt, or harvest within park boundaries. First Nation and Métis peoples were physically removed from the landscape, blocked from accessing it and banned from harvesting plants and animals, holding gatherings and accessing cultural sites.”

This is not unique to Jasper. Indigenous people were also forcibly removed to create Vancouver’s Stanley Park and Quetico Park in Ontario, among others.

As Indigenous writer Robert Jago remarks in “National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes,” “Canada’s Parks Departments have treated Indigenous peoples like an infestation ever since the founding, in 1885, of what is now Banff National Park.”

How can we, who find solace and communion in parks, help overcome these past injustices?

Indigenous Peoples are already leading on many fronts, including championing land repatriation and Indigenous land governance, and by asserting rights and responsibilities that provincial and federal governments have long denied. These initiatives deserve broad public support.

As one example, in Jasper, Simpcw First Nation Chief Nathan Matthew announced in 2017 that his tribe was going to resume hunting deer, sheep and elk within the park, after being banned from doing so when the park was established.

“We’re determined to exercise our title and right within our territory,” he said.

In “Return the National Parks to the Tribes,” Indigenous American David Treuer writes, “For Native Americans, there can be no better remedy for the theft of land than land. And for us, no lands are as spiritually significant as the national parks. They should be returned to us. Indians should tend—and protect and preserve—these favoured gardens again.”

Canada too must explore new means of land governance. Indigenous Peoples have long histories of responsibly stewarding ecosystems, of living within them without causing their demise.

Many national and provincial parks are not succeeding in their primary objective to maintain biodiversity. Jasper recently announced extirpation of a resident caribou herd, and conflict continues over management decisions that could affect the two remaining, highly imperilled, herds.

According to Treuer, “it’s not clear that today’s model of care and custodianship best meets the needs of the land, Native people, or the general public. Nor is it clear that the current system will adequately ensure the parks’ future. That’s something Indians are good at: pushing ahead while bringing the past along with us… Placing these lands under collective Native control would be good not just for Natives, but for the parks as well.”

It’s our collective responsibility to engage in conversations about how new systems of land governance could look.

Everything should be on the table, including ownership and governance of current protected areas. As Jago notes, “The places Canada has made into parks are filled with our stories—every mountain, every valley has a name and a history for Indigenous peoples.”

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin. ■

OUTSIDER

(Re)testing the waters of MTB racing, virtually I REALLY WISH I’d raced the Nimby Fifty when it was around. Not that I’d expect to do well against the field of ironlung competitors in the Elite division, or

BY VINCE SHULEY the amateur divisions for that matter. It would be more about finding some other non-XC racer (who also had little business being there), chasing them down and not coming dead last. If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’re probably familiar with my tendency to put my body through the proverbial meat grinder once in a while. But other than Darkside Skimo Race and the odd Toonie race, I’ve always been a bit hesitant to throw my hat in the ring for the mass-start suffer fests.

I’ve used all the excuses. Back when I was covering sports for the Whistler Question I’d say I couldn’t take part because, “I have to be at the finish line to take photos and interview the winner.” That was only half true; if I’d applied myself and been organized I could have figured it out. The other staple excuse I’d regularly employ was “I don’t have the right bike for that kind of race.” Also half true; my long-travel enduro bike wasn’t going to win any hill-climb

THE NIMBY FIFTY no longer runs, but is spiritually succeeded this year by the Pemby 50 in a virtual format.

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battles, but it would have gotten me over the line and been a dream for the descents.

Mostly, it came down to just not wanting to race anymore. To do well in cross-country races, you have to train hard. You should be on a road bike doing intervals a few times a week and hiring the services of a personal trainer. I’d raced cross-country in my youth in Australia and even got some half-decent results for a few years, but I didn’t want racing to consume my recreation anymore.

When I started experiencing Whistler summers, that pretty much became a selffulfilling prophecy having access to the

(Strava is notorious for this) and intentional data manipulation, which is why most of the events that employed this virtual format are grassroots with results being secondary to everyone having fun.

It’s not the same, though. Mass start races have a way of giving you an adrenalinefuelled boost of speed, physically pushing yourself past the pain barrier for a chance to overtake that gal or guy you’ve been chasing for the last 45 minutes. There’s a camaraderie between racers; you might briefly “hate” each other as you both attempt the final anaerobic sprint across

Mass start races have a way of giving you an adrenaline-fuelled boost of speed, physically pushing yourself past the pain barrier for a chance to overtake that gal or guy you’ve been chasing for the last 45 minutes. likes of the bike park and the local trail system. Whistler races were these massive epics designed by event master Tony Horn, which had similar, slightly toned down renditions up and down the corridor in later years.

Then COVID-19 happened and all races were shitcanned for the foreseeable future.

But with technology such as it is, virtual races quickly became a thing. Complete the circuit in a certain timeframe, log it with your Strava or other GPS tracking device and send in your results. There is big potential for margins of error, mistakes with tracking

the line, but there’s nothing but respect once you’ve caught enough breath to fist bump and coherently say “good race.” Then there’s the best part of any race: the party.

No need to describe how great it was getting together in large groups and celebrating these sorts of events. I miss it, too.

We’ll probably have another summer devoid of mountain bike races, but that doesn’t mean we can’t gather a couple of bubble friends, push ourselves on a longer ride than usual and have a few beers on the tailgate. This is what I intend to do next week for the Pemby 50.

Described as “50kms of Pemberton singletrack completed in one day, professionally designed to get that suffergrin going,” the Pemby 50 is not a race, but more of a motivational ride to fill the gap left by the usual spring mountain bike races.

There are animals in the Sea to Sky who would do this as warm-up for their summer solstice mega ride, but for the rest of us, 50 kilometres and 1,850 metres of elevation gain on Pemby’s prime singletrack will kill the legs just fine.

Even though you can attempt this ride at your own pace and even stop at the lakes for a swim, preparation is key if you intend to complete all 50 kilometres.

This is what most mountain bikers would refer to as a “two-sandwich ride.” Add to that LOTS of easily digestible snacks and a handful of energy gels to alleviate the inevitable bonking on the last couple of climbs. Being Pemberton, it will likely be hot. I carry roughly two-and-a-half litres of water in a bladder in my backpack and fill my water bottle with electrolytes.

Packing the relevant tools and parts for the (also inevitable) mechanical mishaps is key as well.

The best part of the Pemby 50 is that everyone has nine days from May 22 to May 30 to complete it (including two full weekends), though the route has to be done all in one day.

Who’s with me?

Vince Shuley will be telling his legs to shut up. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail. com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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tanding on the frozen shoreline on an impossibly sunny day in early March, Alta Lake is nothing less than idyllic.

The sun reflects blindingly off the blanket of snow spanning the lake, disturbed at the moment only by a pair of cross-country skiers, silently gliding in different directions.

Aside from some clattering and banging coming from a nearby construction site, it’s a perfectly tranquil scene when viewed from the back of Lawrence Keith’s deck.

But Keith knows the peace won’t last.

Living immediately next door to Lakeside Park, Keith has seen visitor numbers to Alta Lake explode in recent years, as Whistler truly comes into its own as a four-season resort.

At the same time, he says, commercial operations in the park beside his home have only expanded.

“This encroachment keeps going. It keeps pushing. Every summer it’s further,” he says.

“There doesn’t seem to be any restrictions or control over any of it. It hasn’t been well thought through as to its impact, and it just seems to be growing, like a monster.”

Further, in Keith’s mind, there doesn’t appear to be any overall plan to manage the growth, “and when there is a plan, they don’t stick to it anyway,” he adds.

On a patio table on Keith’s back deck, the longtime local has laid out maps of the original Lakeside Park management plan, as well as a binder nearly bursting with documentation and correspondence stretching back to the early 2000s.

He points to a raised berm that was designed to protect his property from park noise, then to a space beyond the treeline where a shed was installed without warning in 2016 by cutting into the berm.

When he emailed the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to ask them to fix the berm—designed as a noise buffer for his property—Keith was told two trees that were removed would be replanted in a week.

Five years later, Keith is still waiting for the vegetation to be replanted.

It’s possible the shed itself was constructed illegally, as the LP1 zoning of Lakeside Park dictates that no structures be built within a 10-metre setback (the RMOW said it was unable to respond to several questions posed on April 26 about the legality of the shed, and other “scope-creep” issues in Lakeside Park, after a ransomware attack took services offline on April 28).

There are other concerns, too: boat launches have only become more frequent, often using the north side of the public dock (something they aren’t meant to do, Keith says); a handrail included

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in the original drawings of the dock was never installed, while the dock has been expanded; the berm itself was never extended to the road, leaving space for noise to seep through; public canoes are stored just metres from Keith’s property line, inside a 10-metre setback; and increased numbers of Valley Trail users en route to the park, representing a safety issue in the neighbourhood.

For his part, Keith doesn’t want to be a troublemaker. Having owned his property by the lake for close to 30 years, he’s spent nearly half of them quietly combatting the municipality on issues of noise and privacy.

More recent attempts to parley with Mayor Jack Crompton and council have been met with disinterest, or unsatisfying answers, he says.

Last summer, as crowds of Lower Mainlanders and locals flooded Whistler’s parks in search of a pandemic escape, Keith decided enough was enough, and started a petition calling for the end of commercial activity in local parks.

The petition has so far garnered more than 675 signatures.

“I don’t really wanna be in a big fight with everybody, but I don’t think I have any other choice,” Keith says.

“This is really my last opportunity without taking some type of legal action. I don’t see what else I can do.”

While at the root of it, Keith’s conflict is between himself and the municipality, it is emblematic of a larger trend in Whistler: As the resort comes into its own as a fully realized, four-season destination, local lakes and parks are under immense pressure.

What is the RMOW doing to keep up?

‘THINGS JUST GET BUSIER AND BUSIER’ Though Keith has yet to formally deliver his petition to municipal hall, banning commercial use of parks is not something Whistler’s mayor is supportive of, and it’s not something council plans on considering in the short term, at least.

“It may be hard to imagine, but 15 years ago Whistler was a place people visited in the winter, not the summer,” Crompton says.

“Our community spent a huge amount of time and energy becoming a four-season resort. We diversified a very much winteronly tourism economy into one that could support jobs and families year-round.”

But that’s not to say the issues raised by residents like Keith are being ignored, Crompton adds.

“I don’t want to diminish the concerns about how these community amenities like parks and trails are managed. We need to consistently focus on how we can be better every day,” he says.

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How we can be better every summer?”

With that in mind, RMOW staff is taking lessons learned from last summer—when local parks were overwhelmed with people desperate to get outdoors after months of COVID-19 isolation—and applying them to the upcoming summer.

On March 16, council endorsed a new 2021 Summer Experience Plan, which lays out a number of key initiatives to help manage capacity in parks and at trailheads.

Key among the proposals is the introduction of seasonal pay parking at four parks (Rainbow, Lakeside, Alpha and Wayside); regular shuttles to Rainbow Park (with stops at Meadow Park and the Rainbow Lake Trailhead) operating out of the Day Lots; privately-operated bike rentals; expanded bike valet services; enhanced animation to help disperse crowds throughout the valley; and an increase to washroom facilities, garbage and compost bins, food service and park hosts.

“For Whistler, our lakeside parks, in particular Lakeside and Rainbow, are two of those really key destinations for visitors … They are destinations that are meant to serve not

just locals, but our guests, and they are busy,” says general manager of resort experience Jessie Gresley-Jones, adding that the RMOW is being “proactive” in managing park use this summer.

“So we’re looking at ways to manage parking; ways to facilitate guests getting to and from the parks sustainably, and safely; looking at ways to have more storage opportunities, and ways for locals to still use the parks effectively and be able to get there without needing to also drive and encounter what might be a very busy parking situation,” he adds.

“And so the summer plan, I think, is being quite comprehensive in its strategy, to try and tackle a lot of the issues that came up last summer with quite a different summer experience.”

As it relates to the specific concerns raised by Keith, the RMOW continues to monitor the situation and consider the feedback it receives, says manager of resort parks planning Martin Pardoe in a recent tech briefing.

“Our intent is to provide a safe experience for people, and a remarkable experience. We are in the resort business; we are the ‘resort municipality,’ we’re not the ‘town of,’ and we’re obliged to provide that,” Pardoe says.

“At the end of the day, we have a destination resort park that is very desirable for people to go to, and it provides a great resource for our community.”

Safeguarding local lakes is an ongoing focus at the municipality, and is made more difficult by jurisdictional overlap: while the municipality controls lakeside parks, B.C.’s foreshores are the jurisdiction of the provincial government, and the water itself is governed by the federal government.

“That is a challenge, but we work together with our partners,” Pardoe says, adding that while lake and park use is increasing, the RMOW has been “fairly strong” through its Recreation & Leisure Advisory Committee in turning down applications for bigger, more intrusive commercial operations at Whistler’s lakes.

One such example was for an “electrified, overhead automatic wakeboarding system,” Pardoe says.

“We didn’t feel the need to add additional busyness,” he says, noting that the RMOW recognizes the importance of protecting local lakes where it can. “[But] like everything in life, it gets busier over time,” Pardoe says.

“There’s more people living here, there’s more people living in the Lower Mainland, and there’s more people coming to Whistler over the years, and things just get busier and busier.”

A FOUR-SEASON SUCCESS STORY Keith’s opposition to the expansion of Lakeside Park is not new, if happening mostly in the background in recent years.

He was one of several outspoken critics as the park was being developed in the mid 2000s.

According to stories pulled from Pique’s archives, the issue of commercial operations in the residential neighbourhood has been at the heart of the opposition

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Eric Wight, owner of Backroads Whistler, which rents out canoes, kayaks and paddleboards, has been operating out of Lakeside Park since 2006.

Since then, it’s gone from a small neighbourhood park with boat rentals to a major park in the Whistler Valley, Wight says.

“Most of the locals I talk to go, ‘You know what? We were a little bit worried about it at first, but it’s been great. And for 10 months of the year, we’ve got this park that no one uses, and two months of the year it’s a resort and we expect people to come to the park,’” he says.

These days the number of guests he welcomes each summer is mostly steady, depending on the weather.

“Since 2012, we’re not seeing mass year-over-year increases [at Backroads Whistler],” Wight says.

“The park is getting busier with the general public, for sure.”

The RMOW does not currently track user numbers in parks, but has earmarked $275,000 over five years in the 2021 budget for a data collection and monitoring program “to be used [for] asset management, inform decision-making and long-term planning purposes.”

As it relates to Keith’s concerns, Wight says Backroads has made efforts to address issues and mitigate its own impact where it can, including installing padding for canoe racks, but the private business can’t be responsible for the general use of the park. “[Keith] is really on us about noise, but I really don’t think I’m his noise problem,” he says. “Lakeside Park has become very popular to the general public … People are coming down, and it’s a park, it’s a resort, they’re having fun.

“If you took the boat rental operation completely out of Lakeside Park, completely gone, is that going to change the noise level?”

It’s another example of Whistler perhaps being the victim of its own success, Wight adds.

“Whistler is a wonderful place to visit. It’s a wonderful place to live, and being a resort town, we invite people to come to visit us because of its natural attributes, and so you and I, [when] we want to turn left onto the highway, we’ve got to wait a while longer than we used to,” he says.

“We’re having fun, that’s why we live here. Resort guests are having fun, that’s why they come to visit. That’s why they come back—because they had a great time.”

When Keith’s petition began circulating last summer, several people wrote to council in support of commercial operations in parks, including Arts Whistler director Mo Douglas.

Arts Whistler had just hosted its first Art on the Lake event, which allowed guests and locals to bring their own kayak, canoe, paddleboard or boat to Alta Lake, or rent one from one of the local companies, to paddle around a “floating art exhibit” arranged at the south end of the lake.

“It’s a good example of bringing people to a really wonderful experience, using this remarkable environment that is the lake, but if there’s no commercial opportunity

there to simply rent a kayak or canoe, that’s going to limit a lot of locals’ opportunities,” Douglas says, noting that many in the community can’t afford to purchase their own kayak or canoe, or may not have a car to transport it, or space to store it at home.

“Being able to access a few rental opportunities on any popular recreational lake in any community is a big asset, for both the residents and the visitors,” Douglas says.

“So for [Arts Whistler], we would hate to see that change and create a loss of a broader community opportunity that we happened to just create, recently.”

Dan Wilson, a resident of Alta Vista for 13 years (and a user of Lakeside Park for 25 years, including a stint working concession in the park in 1994), also wrote a letter in support of commercial operations.

“A concession has operated there for many years and this is not an additional use leading to park challenges,” Wilson wrote, adding that the concessionaire is a “guardian to the beach park in the summer,” picking up garbage, cleaning washrooms and reminding visitors and locals about bylaws.

“This duty could be enhanced if needed.”

The concerns would be better addressed through enhanced signage, extending bylaw enforcement from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the summer, and better speed control systems for the Valley Trail, he wrote.

“Public access to waterfront is very important and shouldn’t be exclusive to those who can afford a multi-million-dollar lot on the lake—some of which destroy the shoreline habitat with landscaping to the water’s edge or with illegal floating docks and riparian area destruction,” Wilson said in a follow-up email, adding that with the RMOW working toward more access for the public and repairing the impact of landscaping and docks, “these goals should be supported.”

Making parks bigger is a benefit to locals and Whistler as a whole, Wilson added.

“Yes, it is busy at times, and that was to be expected when it became a ‘destination’ park. [But] the park was always busy in the past, only it was smaller so slightly less neighbourhood intrusion,” he wrote.

Further, commercial activity has been in the park “for at least 30 years,” and the current operators are great stewards.

“Certainly the river use itself should be managed better by both public and commercial users,” Wilson said.

“Arguably those in canoes with some training/education from the commercial operator are better managers of the area, however, than those local residents in tubes/rafts.”

‘THE LAKES ARE OUR GEM’ Pressure on Whistler’s local lakes has been a growing concern in recent years, and a new group formed last summer aims to preserve and protect the resort’s summer jewels in collaboration with the RMOW. The Whistler Lakes Conservation Association (WCLA) was formed last summer after the RMOW began work on a new dock strategy, said chair Michael Blaxland.

“Our No. 1 concern is the lakes, and protecting the environment of the lakes, so that involves water quality,” Blaxland says.

“We are concerned about the development around the lakes, so that would be parking and traffic and the issues that were raised by Lawrence … and we’re very interested in the whole issue of rogue party barges—docks and barges being generally too many, and too big, and not made of the right material, some of them.” (Read more at whistlerlakes.ca.)

Representatives of the group—which has close to 200 members (who are required to own lakefront property to join)—have met with the RMOW every few months to discuss pressing concerns.

Blaxland himself has been in the valley since 1979, and has lived lakeside at Alta Lake for about seven years.

“The lakes are our gem, and we have to preserve them,” he says. “And all but about maybe 20 days of the year, everything is OK, and then for 20 days of the year it gets blasted by too many people, too many issues, too much of everything, and it’s pretty chaotic.”

While Keith is a WLCA board member, the group has not yet taken a position on his petition, Blaxland says.

In his personal opinion, there are issues with sending users down the River of Golden Dreams (ROGD) in the later summer months, when water levels are lower, and concerns around inexperienced users renting watercraft and subsequently requiring rescue.

“So some of this stuff makes a lot of sense to me, but personally I recognize that there’s three groups that have an equal right to access to the lake, and use of the lake,” he said: lakeside owners, residents of Whistler who don’t live lakeside, and tourists.

A former guide himself, Blaxland sees the value in commercial operations in parks and on lakes.

“Tourists love it. It’s the highlight of their trip, to go on their first canoe ride and go down the ROGD,” he says.

“I think they have a right to use that, in my opinion, and we have to accommodate it. But all of us have to adjust, because it’s getting overused.”

The issues on Whistler’s lakes are complex, and constantly changing. When the RMOW took action on hauling out rogue party barges last year, for example, some took it upon themselves to simply build new, bigger barges.

“That type of stuff has got to stop,” Blaxland says.

“The issues are complex, and we just have to work through them.”

For Keith, the issue is simple: the municipality needs to adhere to its own zoning.

“I think if they kept to the zoning, it wouldn’t be so overcrowded, and the problem is they haven’t complied to their zoning,” he says.

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WORCA hopes for return to normal ahead of 2021 season DESPITE CHALLENGES DUE TO COVID RESTRICTIONS, WORCA BELIEVES 2021 MOUNTAIN BIKING SEASON WILL BE STRONG

BY HARRISON BROOKS OPTIMISM and expectations are high for the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA) ahead of the 2021 trail-riding season.

After a difficult year in 2020, which saw its funding from the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) cut by $80,000, membership numbers drop by nearly 200 people, and trail usage spike nearly 200 per cent, early numbers suggest things could be returning to normal this year for the organization.

According to WORCA president Dale Mikkelsen, it currently has 853 members signed up, an increase from the 690 registered at the same time last year, putting WORCA on pace for its usual 1,600 to 1,700.

However, after membership dropped in 2020, there is still a long way to go to reach its goal of a consistent 2,000 members year to year.

“We are a town of roughly [12,000 to 14,000] full-time residents and I would assume that nearly half, if not more than half, use the trail network that WORCA maintains and manages,” said Mikkelsen.

“So, my sort of plea to the community is that $60, which is the cost of an adult membership, is probably the cheapest

IF YOU BUILD IT Volunteers building a new mountain biking trail May 4, 2021.

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season pass in town and offers an absolutely unlimited resource anywhere from the valley floor to the high alpine.”

Despite numbers rebounding from last year, the current COVID-19 restrictions are still presenting some struggles for WORCA. Specifically in terms of their weekly trail nights, which saw a reduction in the number of volunteers used, and its annual bike swap that had to be postponed for another year.

However, through all the bad news, there were some silver linings—reinforcing just how much the community cares about the work WORCA does, and how important

However, said Mikkelsen, with the pandemic dragging on there is a concern that community financial support may not be there in 2021. “When people are having such hard times themselves, [will that] happen again? I doubt it. So, we are really looking to the RMOW to increase the fee-forservice funding this year versus last year.”

“I think we all learned a lot last year.”

- DALE MIKKELSEN

the trails are to the entire community.

“I think we all learned a lot last year,” said Mikkelsen. “Things that people didn’t anticipate, including ourselves, including the RMOW, and that what COVID meant was a huge reliance on outdoor recreation as everyone’s outlet. And with that increased ridership the trails had a hard summer.

They got very well ridden.

“Last year being the first year of COVID was a year that a lot of philanthropists and local businesses came forward to fill the gap that was left in our [RMOW] fee-for-service funding. It was really inspiring.”

With the community stepping up to help them out in a big way last year, Mikkelsen and his team at WORCA realized that people like giving and helping out where they can. This epiphany sparked another new idea—the Super Supporter Membership. This is a way for people who want to do more to help the trails and can afford to give more to be able to do so, while receiving some cool gifts in return.

The Super Supporter Membership costs $300 and includes a limited edition tube decal from RideWrap and a custom WORCAbranded jersey from ENNEF Design Corp.

Kelly Wilson, one of the 29 current Super Supporter members and a WORCA member for the past five years, was more than happy to spring for the more expensive membership this year as a way to give back and help maintain the quality level of his favourite summer activity.

“I ride a lot, and thus derive a lot of value from our amazing trail network, so I feel obligated to give back,” he said.

“But with two young children and a full-time job, I don’t have much free time for volunteering. So, to satisfy that sense of obligation, I always donate something whenever WORCA asks for money.

“Three hundred dollars seemed like a lot at first glance, but is actually very reasonable compared to a season pass on the hill in either winter or summer. I’ll definitely continue to be a super supporter in subsequent years.”

With the RMOW dealing with its recent ransomware attack, the fee-for-service funding announcement has been put on hold for a week. Mikkelsen expects to find out exactly how much WORCA will be working with sometime next week. But he’s feeling pretty good about where the group stands as the RMOW has already fast-tracked the organization $35,000 to get started on the necessary early season repairs and maintenance. n

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What is wing foiling and why are people doing it in Whistler?

MEET PEPE KRAUSE, THE 15-YEAR-OLD WINDSURFING WORLD CHAMP AND WING FOILER WHO CALLS WHISTLER HOME

BY MEGAN LALONDE IT’S NOW COMMON to see Whistler’s lakes peppered with paddleboards on a warm summer day. But in the near future, you just might see a lot more people standing on boards holding inflatable wind-wings rather than paddles.

One athlete you might spot ripping up the surface of Alta Lake later this summer is Pepe Krause, a 15-year-old Whistler local and two-time windsurfing world champion.

Instead of busting out tricks on his windsurfing set-up, lake-goers in Whistler are more likely to see Krause gliding slightly above the water on a foil board these days, holding tight to that aforementioned wing, When the onslaught of the COVID19 pandemic shut down windsurfing contests and international travel, “I was really bummed out about that because I was really excited to keep doing the World Cup and the World Tour,” he recalled over FaceTime from Martinique, where he and his father Stephan were docked after successfully traversing the Atlantic Ocean in their family’s sailboat. After departing from France, the pair are sailing back home to British Columbia via the Panama Canal.

“The ocean is really my home. I love it, more than anything in the world, so I started missing the ocean a lot—like, a lot,” Krause said.

It was at this point that Krause was introduced to a brand-new sport, courtesy of fellow local Steve Legge. A former head coach for the Canadian National Snowboard Alpine & Boardercross Team, Legge is now the CEO of Kahuna Paddleboards, which he founded in 2010, and Stinger Foils, Boards and Wings, where he started creating wakesurf foil boards in 2017 and testing the wind-wing with a foil just over one year ago.

Wing foiling is among the newest activities on the water-sports scene, and is serving as a lower-consequence, moreaccessible option for those who are drawn to kitesurfing or windsurfing. Best of all, it requires less wind than its kite- or sail-based counterparts—making it a perfect sport to take to Whistler’s lakes, Krause said.

“Basically it’s the replacement of what windsurfing was, because there’s no longer a mast or a boom. It’s an inflatable wing, which is similar to a kite, but smaller. It propels you across the water on a foil,” explained Legge. To Legge’s knowledge, Stinger is currently the only Canadian company fabricating these wind-wings.

It’s just the latest of many water sports that Krause—now a team rider for Legge’s

Stinger brand—has added to his repertoire over the years, since his dad taught him to windsurf at five years old.

“The board is above the water, but the foil is what gives you lift, so there’s minimal drag and that’s why you don’t need these big huge sails and to give you lift … It looks effortless when he does it,” Legge added.

Originally from Germany, Krause and his family settled in Whistler in 2019 after making the move from Europe to Vancouver Island towards the end of 2018, the same year he began competing on the Youth World Tour.

Over the course of his young career, he’s racked up impressive results like third in the U13 division at the Gran Canaria Wind & Waves Festival in Pozo Izquierdo, Spain in 2017, and second at the same event in 2018. He earned enough points over the course of the tour to earn the title of World Champion—twice. At the end of the 2019 season, Krause ranked fourth overall in the Professional Windsurfers Association Youth and Junior Wave Boys U15 division. At 11, he said he became the youngest athlete to compete in the prestigious Aloha Classic.

“He’s the next Kai Lenny,” said Legge, referencing the Hawaiian famed big wave surfer, stand-up paddle racer, windsurfer, kitesurfer, wing foiler and all-around watersports legend. “On a scale of one to 10, Pepe is a 12.”

It’s a fitting comparison: Among Krause’s short-term goals is to surf Jaws, Maui’s biggest and most powerful surf break, for the record.

That said, Krause admits he was disappointed upon moving to Whistler and finding it difficult to go windsurfing in his own backyard on a daily basis—typically, he and his family would make the 45-minute trek to Squamish and the windy Howe Sound waters several times a week. Wing foiling, however, has changed the game.

Because of the afternoon thermal winds that blow through the valley regularly, Alta Lake sets a perfect scene for the sport. “You can get through the gusts easier, because … wing foiling is a slower speed [than windsurfing],” Legge explained.

Particularly when those gusts result in whitecaps across Alta Lake’s surface.

“When it’s too windy to go paddleboarding, it’s time to go wing foiling,” he said.

Interested in trying it out for yourself?

Legge recommends getting comfortable riding a foil first—best done behind a motorized watercraft of some kind—“then you need to learn to wing,” he said. “Whether you’re on skis or a paddleboard, you need to learn to work with the wind to propel you.

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After several years of upheaval, the Whistler Farmers’ Market moves to new location WHISTLER RACKET CLUB WILL PLAY HOST TO SUNDAY MARKET FROM MAY 23 TO OCT. 10

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE WHISTLER Farmers’ Market (WFM) is officially on the move for 2021.

The market gets underway May 23 from its new home in the carpark of the Whistler Racket Club, and will feature 50 vendors each week, including a variety of food and beverage offerings, local farms, and a selection of artisan craft-makers.

Nearly 100 vendors will be rotating throughout the season, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday until Oct. 10.

The regular Wednesday evening markets of past years are currently on pause.

“It’s been a lot of work for the market and the vendors to adapt to COVID, and we’re just looking to build on the wins of last season, hosting a larger market, with more variety and shopping options, and a chance for the community to really enjoy that,” said market manager Bree Eagles.

This year marks the first time the market will be held outside of its usual home in the Upper Village. With COVID-19 upending plans in 2020, the board of directors voted against holding the market at its long-time venue at Blackcomb base, land leased by Whistler Blackcomb, as physical distancing protocols would have only permitted 17 vendors, a number the board felt wasn’t financially viable. The board had also

WHAT’S THAT RACKET The Whistler Farmers’ Market leaves its usual Upper Village home this summer for the Whistler Racket Club, which will host 50 vendors every Sunday from May 23 to Oct. 10.

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applied to the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to host the market in the day lots behind the Audain Art Museum, but was rejected, with the RMOW citing concerns, among others, around traffic flow and construction work in the area.

Then, at the 11th hour, the board secured a home in front of the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC), which presented some logistical challenges to work through.

“The SLCC really was awesome and was a super fun market that worked really well for us. The glitch with the SLCC as well as the Blackcomb base last year was

It’s a welcome injection of stability for a market that, along with the changes in venue, has seen some turnover in the manager’s role. Eagles came on last summer just as the market was set for its late-season opening at the SLCC, taking over for Rosanne Clamp, who joined the WFM in May 2019. Clamp, the former producer and coordinator of Vancouver’s Circle Craft Market, took on the role from longtime manager Chris Quinlan, who stepped down following the 2018 season after tensions arose with the WFM board and reports of in-fighting amongst members. (See “A tale of two farmers’ markets,” Pique, May

“[W]e’re blessed with this flat space that people could even potentially park the car at, come in, purchase their items and leave.

The accessibility is much more fruitful than the Upper Village ever was.”

- KOREY KLEIN

that there just wasn’t enough room for enough vendors and a bunch of people count on that for their summer income,” said longtime vendor Andrew Budgell of Laughing Crow Organics, who credited new management for running a smooth market last year in spite of all the changes brought on by the pandemic.

“Last year the market was unprecedentedly well run. We were so pleased with it. The new management crushed it, was super involved and engaged in working with the vendors,” he added.

16, 2018.)

With more lead-in time this year, Eagles said she’s primed to make the market a success in its new home.

“It’s giving us an opportunity to really put our best foot forward this year. With all the added planning time, we’ve had a chance to really build up a strong vendor list,” she said. “We’re really focused on creating variety and knowing that the market will have quite a local presence, creating something the locals can really engage with throughout the season.”

Eagles added that the board would “explore returning to the Upper Village when health orders allow, but our 2021 season home is the Whistler Racket Club.”

Although it will likely take some time and marketing for customers to get used to the new venue, there are some welcome benefits to hosting the market at the Racket Club, said longtime vendor Korey Klein from the Whistler Wood Fired Pizza Company.

“We’re seeing a location here that’s unbelievable,” he said. “People love the farmers’ market, they love attending it, and we’re blessed with this flat space that people could even potentially park the car at, come in, purchase their items and leave.

The accessibility is much more fruitful than the Upper Village ever was.”

Some of the vendor offerings this summer include fresh organic produce, new farm vendors featuring meat, honey and seafood products, gluten-free and vegan products, as well as “a range of international flavours including crepes, pizza, pierogis, empanadas, samosas, okonomiyaki, and Mexican dishes,” the market said in a release.

On the craft side of things will be items such as leather goods, beauty and skin products, fibre art, linen clothing, pottery, paper products, glass, wood and metal art, jewelry, and more.

The Racket Club will also animate the market festivities with a range of programming, including roller disco for kids, axe throwing and music.

COVID-19 health and safety protocols will be in place, and customers will be asked to wear face coverings.

For the full list of vendors, visit whistlerfarmersmarket.org/maps. n

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Audain Art Museum virtual gala raises record-breaking amount AMIDST CHALLENGING PANDEMIC YEAR, ILLUMINATE GALA RAISES $650K

BY ALYSSA NOEL ON THE MORNING of April 25, Curtis Collins woke up and breathed a sigh of relief.

The night before marked the Audain Art Museum’s first virtual Illuminate Gala & Auction and, frankly, he hadn’t been entirely sure how the event might translate online.

“In a year that was very unpredictable, I can only say I went, whew—exclamation point,” Collins, director and chief curator of the museum, said. “As our first-ever virtual gala, it was a massive success both in terms of how much we were able to raise for the museum, but also the community support that really rallied around the museum, in terms of purchasing tickets to the event or participating in the silent auction and, of course, the live auction as well.”

In the past, the last four galas (last year’s was cancelled due to the pandemic) grossed between $300,000 and $500,000.

This year’s online event raised $650,000.

“In terms of ticket sales, we sold more tickets than ever before,” Collins says.

“There were 379 people in attendance.”

The event was more important than ever for the museum after a tough year in which they had to cut 30 per cent of their staff and

BIG BIDS Heffel Fine Art Auction House managed the live bids for 16 art pieces during the Illuminate Gala & Auction on April 24.

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cancel a number of exhibitions due to the pandemic’s impact on their budget.

“With the success of this year’s virtual gala, it will enable the museum to … rehire a number of managerial positions,” he says. “It will also allow us to bring back our exhibition schedule to what it was previously.”

While the gala usually takes place in a Whistler ballroom, this year, ticketholders had food, wine, a cocktail kit, and an ice sculpture depicting the museum delivered to their homes in time for the one-and-a-

But perhaps the liveliest part of the night was the live auction for 16 pieces of art— ranging from traditional to contemporary, including one commission. Potential bidders had the opportunity to see the art in person at previews in Whistler and Vancouver, which helped drum up enthusiasm, Collins says.

With Robert Heffel of Heffel Fine Art Auction House as the auctioneer, six people were taking bids by phone while other bidders were submitting online simultaneously.

“I’m going to say four or five of [the

“With the success of this year’s virtual gala, it will enable the museum to … rehire a number of managerial positions. It will also allow us to bring back our exhibition schedule to what it was previously.”

- CURTIS COLLINS

half hour broadcast.

The show featured a welcome song from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, live music and dance performances, as well as a silent auction with many items and experiences donated from local businesses.

“It oscillated between Vancouver and Whistler,” Collins says. “In many respects, the museum wants to establish itself as one of the premier cultural institutions in the Sea to Sky corridor; that underlined it.”

pieces] went to locals,” Collins says. “We had quite spirited bidding from Whistlerites.

Similarly, somewhere in the order of eight or nine pieces went to people in Vancouver or the Lower Mainland.”

The success of the event—which Collins attributes to the Audain’s staff and volunteer committee—could have implications for future years.

“Next year’s event, we’re hoping it will be in-person, but I think what we’ll do is

some kind of hybrid between in-person and virtual,” he said. “What we found out this time is a lot of people were interested in keying into the live auction broadcast, so we may offer that.”

NEW EXHIBIT OPENING IN JUNE The museum, which is currently closed to accommodate the ongoing COVID-19 travel advisory, is set to reopen with a new temporary exhibit next month.

Featuring work inspired by Nunavut, it will include drawings by the late Itee Pootoogook, a Nunavut resident, and largescale photos by Louie Palu, who travelled to the north in pursuit of a photo series.

Pootoogook’s work will be on display with upwards of 60 of his colour pencil drawings.

“These drawings will give you an Inuit perspective on contemporary life in Nunavut,” Collins says. “They’re beautiful drawings.”

Palu’s series, meanwhile, set out to explore the Distant Early Warning system in Artic during the Cold War. The exhibit as a whole will depict “the Inuit perspective on the North and the Southern settler perspective of the North,” Collins says. “One in drawing and one in photography. They offer two very different perspectives in different mediums.”

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Five local music acts take it to The Next Level ARTS WHISTLER’S LIVESTREAM SERIES KICKS OFF ON MAY 15 WITH CAT MADDEN

BY ALYSSA NOEL LIKE MUCH of the arts, culture, and music world, Arts Whistler has grown used to a last-minute change in plans.

That’s why it wasn’t too fazed when its dreams of hosting an in-person audience for The Next Level series were dashed by public health orders.

“It’s definitely something the whole pandemic has prepared us for back to March of 2020,” says Imogen Osborne, programs and events manager with Arts Whistler. “We’re pretty good at changing tact these days and taking it as it comes. The musicians have been really great too. They all understand.”

The upcoming series, instead, will be livestreamed starting Saturday, May 15, and running through June. It marks the culmination of Arts Whistler’s professional development program, Creative Catalyst.

For that one-off “band bootcamp,” five Sea to Sky bands and musicians—including Cat Madden, Introduce Wolves, Evan Kinsella, Lozen, and Little Earthquakes—were selected to learn everything from how to promote themselves to taking songwriting to the next level and even technical skills for the stage.

“I think [the musicians] are incredibly grateful to be involved in an experience like this,” Osborne says. “If each of them individually were to go out and seek consultation or workshops with these individuals it would be thousands of dollars. To bring them all together and have this shared experience with the creative professionals, the feedback we’ve been hearing from them is they’re grateful to be involved.”

Many of the sessions with local presenters were able to take place in-person, which was also a bit of a novelty.

One of the biggest surprises was how helpful the styling session was with Whistler stylist Jessie McNaught.

“People don’t like to be told what to wear,

but that wasn’t what it was about as a whole,” says Amelia Browne, project lead on the initiative. “It solidified their values and what they want to get from their musical careers.”

For Squamish musician Cat Madden— who’s kicking off The Next Level series—the overall experience was even better than she imagined.

“I got so much out of it, it’s ridiculous,” she says. “The coolest thing about all this is I feel like we’ve actually been given insight into what could potentially be our everyday—properly planning our shows, planning our stage outfits, light design, set design, the stage show. Not just writing down 10 songs you’re going to play, but deciding how they flow into each other and taking it way more seriously.”

The upcoming livestream, meanwhile, will mark her debut with two new band members. The plan is for Madden to step back from the guitar to focus more on showcasing her powerhouse vocals and developing a more compelling stage presence.

“When I play guitar, I do have to stand in one spot and be stationary,” she says. “It will be a more enthusiastic performance from me personally.”

She also plans to debut new music.

“It’s a bigger band, a lot heavier on some of the songs. We’re definitely well practised by now. It’s going to be better than it’s ever been for sure,” Madden says.

While playing for a live audience is still the ultimate goal, she says they’re looking forward to the livestream, which they hope will include an interactive element.

“Honestly, just the fact that we don’t have to bring anything apart from our equipment—no sound system or lights or tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment [to livestream]—all we have to do is show up with our instruments, it’s so luxurious,” she says.

Catch the livestream on Saturday, May 15, from 8 to 9 p.m. For more information, or to see all the dates, visit artswhistler. com/press-release/creative-catalyst-nextlevel. n

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ON DISPLAY Whistler Waldorf School students are exhibiting an array of art at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

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Jeff has left us and headed off to “Shakedown Street” in the sky.

Jeff was born in London, Ontario and attended the University of Waterloo where he played collegiate hockey. He was an avid hockey fan and played in Whistler, first with the Sabre Rentals, then Garfinkel’s team who he helped lead to winning the A league final three years straight. He was also a member at Big Sky golf course and LOVED his golf.

“Swing easy Leftie”.

Jeff moved to Whistler in the summer of 1989. He started working as a server at The Trat, then became General Manager at La Rua and then went on to become a beloved server at Hy’s.

He was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. He touched so many of us in Whistler.

He was a Friend/Mentor and Brother To all of us, always giving great advice to all of his fellow servers and bartenders.

He would be the first to move to get a customer into your bar and would stay with you til close if no one was in there. He was so fun to hang out with and always stood by his friends.

He loved to give back to the kids, giving them advice how to tip and order at the bar. On the last day of Stinky’s being open on March 17th 2020 before the very first covid lockdown, a local couple were in with their two small children dressed for St. Paddy’s day and he bought them both Lil Stinkers t-shirts.

This was just one example of his incredible generosity.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL IN A SCHOOL YEAR that saw nearly all field trips cancelled, Whistler Waldorf School’s first art show at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre was a big deal.

“Pretty much everything got cancelled,” says teacher Rachel Colvin. “So it’s been amazing—even to come out and do a field trip. We walked here and we were able to go into the gallery in small groups.”

The show featured a range of art from Grades 1 to 7 between May 6 and 9, while Grades 8 to 12 will have their pieces on display from Thursday, May 13 until Sunday, May 16.

The artwork from the younger students ranged from watercolours to drawing and beeswax modelling, which is incorporated into their daily lessons, Colvin says.

At the high school level, both Grades 8 and 12 will showcase the results of their major research projects that have an artistic component.

“These projects explore scientific topics to philosophical questions to business ideas and everything in between,” Colvin says in an email.

Grade 10 and 11 final projects addressing social and environmental issues will be on display alongside art projects that reflect a personal story and values. On top of that, she adds, the Grade 10 history-through-art class will display acrylic paintings, and the Grade 8 and 9 art class will showcase prints, drawings and collages.

The younger students, meanwhile, had a great time showing their work in public and many brought their family bubbles through the space over the weekend.

“They loved seeing their artwork on display,” Colvin says. “As many classes

as [we could have] came over with their teachers and we brought them up in small groups. They would run over to their art and call their friends over. They would also go look for their siblings’ work.”

Grade 10 student Khalan Whitt is set to have three pieces on display exploring the arc of her artistic journey.

“Each piece is a different representation of how I portray my own emotions in my artwork—or how doing art makes me feel personally,” she says.

The first is filled with shades of green and yellow with a snake in the centre, surrounded by gold accents. “When I was first getting into art I was extremely jealous of other artists who were doing well,” she says. “I hated the phrase, ‘All you need is practice,’ when that’s the best thing you can do: keep working and doing the best you can … It’s how I felt in the past with art—green, envy.”

The second piece—filled with reds, yellows, and oranges—features a fox with black and grey paint splatters, meant to demonstrate how she expresses her emotions through art. The final painting, meanwhile, represents “how I feel after painting. It’s two hands, one on top of the other. The one on top is trickling paint between its fingers. The one on the bottom is catching paint. It’s me being calmer, loving my work,” she says.

Unlike many of her classmates, Whitt has had work on display at The Gallery before—only her name wasn’t attached.

“I had two paintings at the last Anonymous Art Show,” she says. “It will be a lot different since this time you have my name on it. I think it will be nice to have people come and see my work. I put a lot more effort into each piece.”

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February 6 1939-April 30 2021 On Friday, April 30, 2021, Hugh (Hughie) Walker, loving husband of Pierrette (Pete), father of Jen (Corey Anderson) and Wayne (Kim Fairall), and grandfather of Aislinn Magnussen passed away at age 82.

Hughie was born on February 6th, 1939 in Kilmarnock, Scotland to William Walker and Elizabeth (Kilpatrick). He immigrated to Montreal, Canada with his parents and sister Janet in 1950.

Hughie and Pete met on the slopes of St. Sauveur and upon moving to BC in the late 70’s, spent as much time as they could skiing at Whistler Mountain. Hughie retired in 1994 from Nesbitt Thompson, where he worked for 40 years culminating in a key role managing all trades.

Hughie loved music and was a lifelong athlete. As a boy he was a champion highland dancer, as a young adult he sang as one of the Four Pals and played soccer with the St. Paul Rovers. His passion for skiing was second only to that for golf. He regularly kicked his friends asses at both.

Hughie was known for his humble and patient nature. While he excelled at many things, he never made anyone feel inferior. Hughie was quite simply a joy to be around and one very cool dude.

A celebration of Hughie’s life is being planned.

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NAMESAKE Harry Horstman, most likely on his mining claim on Mount Sproatt.

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Why is that named Horstman?

BY ALLYN PRINGLE OVER THE PAST few months we have received quite a few donations of artifacts and archival records at the Whistler Museum, including scale models, archival films, and photographs in various forms. One recent donation included a copy of a land title of an early 20th-century Alta Lake resident whose name is well known throughout the valley: Harry Horstman.

Horstman moved west from Kansas at some point prior to 1912. He staked a mining claim on Mount Sproatt, where he spent much of his time searching for copper and iron (and possibly dreaming of gold). He also preempted two parcels of land, one between Nita and Alpha Lakes and another at the other end of Alpha Lake.

Preemption was a method of acquiring Crown Land from the government for agriculture or settlement; preemption did not take into account Indigenous claims to land, and the land that Horstman preempted is part of the unceded territory of the Squamish Nation and the Lil’wat Nation. According to this recent donation, Horstman’s property at the south end of Alpha Lake was known as Lot 3361 and was made up of 150 acres, more or less.

Horstman kept a small farm on his property near Nita Lake where, according to Jenny Jardine, he had 50 to 60 chickens, “all sorts of potatoes and rhubarb and gorgeous cauliflowers.”

He sold eggs and fresh produce to Rainbow Lodge and other Alta Lake residents to supplement his income from prospecting. Part of his property on Alpha Lake was acquired by Thomas Neiland, who

moved to Alta Lake with the Jardine family in 1921 to set up a forestry business. It is not, however, clear how much of the 150 acres was used by Neiland or whether Horstman made use of the rest of the land.

While some Alta Lake residents, such as Jenny Jardine’s brother Jack and railway section foreman Fred Woods, got to know Horstman relatively well, others described him as an “odd man” and may have seen him mostly from a distance.

According to Pip Brock, Horstman “didn’t enjoy people that much,” though he was part of the Alta Lake Community Club in the 1920s and was even put in charge of the coffee at their first picnic.

In 1936, Horstman sold his Nita Lake property to Russ Jordan, who reportedly bought the approximately 160 acres for $2,000. When Horstman began to find the physical labour of prospecting too much, he retired to his cabin on Alpha Lake, presumably on his property on the south end of the lake. He remained there until about 1945, when his neighbours on today’s Pine Point, Dr. and Grace Naismith, arranged for Horstman to move to a nursing home in Kamloops.

Harry Horstman died in 1946 and was buried in Kamloops, though his name can still be found throughout Whistler, most notably the Horstman Glacier on Blackcomb Mountain. In an interview in the 1980s, however, Jack Jardine expressed his confusion as to why Horstman’s name was given to a glacier on a mountain Horstman was never known to climb.

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TACOS FOR ALL Eric Griffiths of Alta Bistro and Jeremy Peterson of Stinky’s on the Stroll joined the Whistler Community Services Society’s Outreach Team last week to provide free tacos at the food bank. Every week in the month of May a restaurant will be donating their time, staff and meals to the WCSS food bank program and its clients. “It really demonstrates we are all in this TOGETHER and kindness is truly contagious,” WCSS wrote. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 GREAT GRADS After

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of her poems, Emily Dickinson tells us, “The pedigree of honey / Does not concern the bee; / A clover, any time, to him / Is aristocracy.” I suggest you be like Dickinson’s bee in the coming weeks, my dear Aries. Take pleasure and power where they are offered. Be receptive to just about any resource that satisfies your raw need. Consider the possibility that substitutes and stand-ins may be just as good as the supposed original. OK? Don’t be too fussy about how pure or prestigious anything is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A fan once asked composer Johann Sebastian Bach about his creative process. He was so prolific! How did he dream up such a constant flow of new music? Bach told his admirer that the tunes came to him unbidden. When he woke up each morning, they were already announcing themselves in his head.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Taurus, a comparable phenomenon may very well visit you in the coming weeks—not in the form of music, but as intuitions and insights about your life and your future. Your main job is to be receptive to them, and make sure you remember them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I love unmade beds,” writes Gemini poet Shane Koyczan. “I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds.” In the coming days, Gemini, I encourage you to specialize in moments like those: when you and the people you’re interested in are candid, unguarded, raw, vulnerable, and primed to go deeper. In my opinion, your soul needs the surprising healing that will come from these experiences.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Trailblazing psychologist C. G. Jung said his loneliness wasn’t about a lack of people around him. Rather, it came from the fact that he knew things that most people didn’t know and didn’t want to know. He had no possibility of communicating many of the interesting truths that were important to him! But I’m guessing that won’t be much of a problem for you in the coming months. According to my astrological analysis, you’re more likely to be well listened to and understood than you have been in quite some time. For best results, ASK to be listened to and understood. And think about how you might express yourself in ways that are likely to be interesting and useful to others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The French government regularly gives the Legion of Honour award to people deemed to have provided exceptional service to the world. Most recipients are deserving, but a few have been decidedly unworthy. In the latter category are Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as well as drug-cheating athlete Lance Armstrong, sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, and Nazi collaborator Marshal Pétain. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because the coming weeks will be a favourable time to reward people who have helped and supported you. But I also suggest that you pointedly exclude those who have too many negatives mixed in with their positives.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 2010, an American engineer named Edward Pimentel went to Moscow to compete in the World Karaoke Championship. He won by singing Usher’s “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love.” His award: 1 million dumplings, enough to last him 27 years. I have a good feeling about the possibility of you, too, collecting a new prize or perk or privilege sometime soon. I just hope it’s a healthier boon than dumplings. For best results, take some time now to clearly define the nature of the prize or perk or privilege that you really want—and that will be truly useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I will love it if sometime soon you find or create an opportunity to speak words similar to what novelist D. H. Lawrence once wrote to a lover: “You seem to have knit all things in a piece for me.

Things are not separate; they are all in a symphony.” In other words, Libra, I’ll be ecstatic if you experience being in such synergistic communion with an empathic ally that the two of you weave a vision of life that’s vaster and richer than either one of you could summon by yourself.

The astrological omens suggest this possibility is now more likely than usual.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometimes people don’t like the provocative posts I publish on Facebook. They leave comments like, “You stupid idiot!” or “I hope you commit suicide!” and far worse. When I delete their messages, they become even more enraged, accusing me of censorship. “So you don’t believe in free speech, you jerk?” they complain. I don’t try to reason with them. They don’t deserve any of my time or energy.

But if I did communicate with them, I might say, “My Facebook page is my sanctuary, where I welcome cordial conversation. If you came into my house and called me an idiot, would it be ‘censorship’ if I told you to leave?”

I hope these thoughts inspire you to clarify and refine your own personal boundaries, Scorpio. It’s a good time to get precise and definite about what’s acceptable and unacceptable from the people with whom you engage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Have you ever kissed a monster in your nightly dreams? Have you won a chess match with a demon or signed a beneficial contract with a ghost or received a useful blessing from a pest? I highly recommend activities like those in the coming weeks— both while you’re asleep and awake. Now is a good time to at least make peace with challenging influences, and at best come into a new relationship with them that serves you better. I dare you to ask for a gift from an apparent adversary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What does it mean to “follow the path with heart”? I invite you to meditate on that question. Here are my ideas. To follow the path with heart means choosing a destiny that appeals to your feelings as well as to your ambitions and ideas and habits. To follow a path with heart means living a life that fosters your capacity to give and receive love. To follow the path with heart means honouring your deepest intuitions rather than the expectations other people have about you. To follow the path with heart means never comparing your progress with that of anyone else’s, but rather simply focusing on being faithful to your soul’s code.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It’s a good thing when people are different from your images of them,” wrote Aquarian author Boris Pasternak. “It shows they are not merely a type. If you can’t place them in a category, it means that at least a part of them is what a human being ought to be. They have risen above themselves, they have a grain of immortality.” I love that perspective!

I’m offering it to you because right now is a favourable time to show that you are indeed different from the images people have of you; that you transcend all stereotyping; that you are uncategorizable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have personal possession of the universe’s most monumental creation: consciousness. This mercurial flash and dazzle whirling around inside you is outlandishly spectacular. You can think thoughts any time you want to—soaring, luminescent, flamboyant thoughts or shrivelled, rusty, burrowing thoughts; thoughts that can invent or destroy, corrupt or redeem, bless or curse. There’s more. You can revel and wallow in great oceans of emotion. Whether they are poignant or intoxicating or somewhere in between, you relish the fact that you can harbour so much intensity. You cherish the privilege of commanding such extravagant life force. I bring these thoughts to your attention because the time is right for a holiday I call Celebrate Your Greatest Gifts.

Homework. Send testimony or proof of how you’ve seized control of your own life. Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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PRESCHOOL CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR INFANT TODDLER EDUCATOR The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking 2 qualified Early Childhood Educators. One is a full-time permanent position, the other is a full time maternity leave position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidates will join our NCFDC team. The Early Childhood Educators work as team members with other 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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Covidiots should be served their just desserts I GENERALLY, UH, follow the rules.

To be both clear and honest, that has more to do with my marital status than native inclination. One must compromise if one is to live successfully with others, eh?

But sometimes, OK, often, I revert to type. I assumed I was doing that when I crossed from one of the current de facto health regions in this province to the other... the one that includes about 90 per cent of the entire humongous landmass of B.C. The same one all those folks who drive into the province from Alberta—Canada’s Brazil— can travel through with, if not impunity,

BY G.D. MAXWELL at least no fear of a random road stop. The one that runs from Yukon to Washington with itty bits carved out for the Vancouver Coastal/Fraser Valley health regions and Vancouver Island. The one that includes Haida Gwaii.

In the past 15 months I’ve witnessed, as I’m sure you have, any number of actions and pronouncements related to how we’re supposed to deal with this pandemic that are, let’s be generous, confusing. Too generous?

Let’s be clear, are dumb. But this current one may require we retire the dumb prize.

Health regions as boundary lines? What possible value are health regions as a metric by which to parse risk of contagion? And here I never thought they’d find a way to make the concept of bubbles seem sensible.

An argument could be made that with Vancouver Island being its own health region, we are at least buffered against those who rule from Victoria, lest we catch whatever has affected their thinking.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I boldly ignored these absurd travel restrictions and made my annual, springtime sojourn to Smilin’ Dog Manor in the southern Cariboo.

I felt empowered. I felt bad. I felt more like myself than I have since this drama began.

Until I discovered I hadn’t actually breached the travel restrictions. My fourhour drive from Vancouver Coastal to Interior Health actually fell under one of the 287 exceptions and was totally permissible.

I’m not certain I want to divulge which exception but Smilin’ Dog is where I claim my Home Owner Grant. Just as well since I didn’t bother to think up a reasonable sounding lie in case there was a roadblock somewhere on the Duffey.

I thought I was proving the point that stupid rules beget increased rule-breakers.

Instead, I was unknowingly following the rules. Curses.

Fortunately, I have another chance coming up. I have to come back to Whistler, then onwards. I’m trying to decide which of the 362 exceptions I’ll fall under this time.

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I might be transporting commercial goods.

But I like the idea of heading to a parole check-in, or providing care to a person because of a psychological impairment, self-help in my case. But I don’t want to be too prepared since it’s highly likely there’ll be no roadside checks. Lest anyone think I’m a walking super-spreader, my travels are mundane to the point of boring. From one house to another. One set of friends I can’t see to another. The only difference is which grocery I dash into and out of, masked and sanitized and distanced.

Meanwhile, domestic and international flights are still landing at YVR and other Canadian locations. As reported in The Globe and Mail, there were 1,873 flights that

Whistler, at least until the powers that be threw the town under the bus and closed us down once again. But hey, land in Vancouver and Whistler’s in the same health region. What could go wrong?

But we’re still being calm and kind. How kind? The first weekend RCMP set up roadside stops, no tickets were issued. That’s kind.

By comparison—and leading the toolittle, too-late race—Alberta has actually arrested several high-profile serial offenders.

Brothers Artur and Dawid Pawlowski were carted off to the hoosegow for continuing to open up the church they lead while ignoring such niceties as reduced-capacity limits, masks and distancing. Their flocks are outraged but to date, no one has been struck

[I]nstead of arresting miscreants, videoing them, pump their faces into a biometric database and turn any of them away at every hospital in the land if they have the audacity to show up complaining of COVID-19 symptoms.

arrived or departed from Canadian airports between January 1 and May 5 that carried at least one passenger who later tested positive. In January and February, 60 per cent were international flights. Now 60 per cent of viral cases come in domestic flights.

And those are just the known cases, which I’m sure were 100 per cent of all cases.

Regardless, it sometimes seems all of those that landed at YVR ended up in

dead by the hand of God for arresting them.

Another freedumb fighter, Chris Scott, proprietor of the Whistle Stop Cafe, was finally popped for continuing to ignore common sense and closure orders. News footage of Scott and his supporters whipping each other up into a frenzied freedumb loop play out, reminding me uncomfortably of a gaggle of gobbling turkeys lacking enough sense to come in out of the rain.

Personally, I’m not sure arrests are the way to go. They only aggravate those who believe it is an assault on their personal freedoms to make them do anything that makes sense, or believe this virus doesn’t exist or believe since they haven’t dropped dead, it’s all just a big conspiracy.

Good enough for me. If you believe the lord will protect you, if you believe serving up gastric distress is an absolute right, if you think masks are for pussies, Bill Gates is out to turn us all into slaves, right on, dudes and dudettes.

I think we’d all be better off not hitting the hornet’s nest and instead of arresting miscreants, videoing them, pump their faces into a biometric database and turn any of them away at every hospital in the land if they have the audacity to show up complaining of COVID-19 symptoms, carting them off instead to a repurposed feedlot where they can wallow in their own respiratory distress. You want freedom?

Here’s the ultimate. You believe your deity will come to your aid? Put him/her/them and your faith to the test. Unwilling to join the social contract and protect others? Don’t look for any help from those others.

Why clog the healthcare system with people who won’t accept simple rules? Why force doctors, nurses and first responders to treat people who wouldn’t lift a finger to make their already hellish lives a little easier? They’ve opted out of doing their part to protect society. They’ve chosen to put their own distorted concept of individual freedom ahead of the common good. Give ‘em a dogeared copy of The Fountainhead and toss their asses into the Feedlot of Freedom.

To quote the late Lou Reed, I’m sick of ‘em. ■

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