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WCSS WIN Whistler Community Services Society’s donations climbed during COVID

PAY TO PARK

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SOLO SHOW Mathias Horne’s show runs at The Gallery, featuring four bear paintings

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

32 Pique’s Canada Day quiz It’s been a year for the record books as our great nation starts to face its history and deals with an ongoing pandemic. - By Pique staff

WCSS WIN

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PAY TO PARK

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS Whistler has a long history of celebrating diversity and the LGBTQ+

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community—though the resort does most of its celebrating during Gay Ski Week in January.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week call out Whistler for not celebrating Pride

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Let Canada Day 2021 be the day where we finally acknowledge our past, embrace the challenge of reconciliation, and start making Canada into a country that we can be proud of.

78 MAXED OUT At 102 years old Howard Goldsmid might be Whistler’s most senior citizen. But last week he said his final farewell.

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31 RANGE ROVER If we were more nature-positive in our outlook around something so basic as picking up garbage, then every other human endeavour would flow in a similar direction.

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50 VELOCITY PROJECT Zero waste chef Anne Marie Bonneau writes it’s better for everyone to do a little something to reach zero waste than to give up and do nothing because it’s not perfect.

56 MUSEUM MUSINGS Whistler’s first disco, Club 10, opened 40 years ago, and since that time the nightclub business has grown and prospered in the ski resort.

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You could be forgiven for not knowing it was Pride month in Whistler, that’s true. While we are one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly tourist destinations (and I hope communities) we had little on tap for Pride month. I’m chalking this up to our ever-present companion COVID-19 which, until June 15, basically had all travel set at essential,

and displayed in shops, accommodation and other places as a symbol of support. But while Pride month in Whistler may have been very low key in 2021, the idea behind Pride is something we have been embracing for decades—and like many things, we love to celebrate it in winter and ski season. Every year since 1992 Whistler has hosted a gay ski week festival. Always somewhat irreverent and with a reputation as a fun-filled, adventurous event, it matches the resort’s own vibe. Of course it has changed a great deal since the first one hosted under the name Altitude, but its relevance and the opportunity it offers to embrace and learn about diversity is as important to Whistler today, maybe even more so, as it was then. (ICYMI—Altitude was created in response to a controversial amendment to Colorado’s state constitution that prohibited cities and institutions from establishing anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation. Known as Amendment 2, it was eventually declared unconstitutional by the

though hopefully as you read this we will be getting ready for travel and life to be opened up more by our public health officials. Pride month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City, a seminal moment in the fight for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people. The rainbow flag was created a decade later as a symbol of the community’s pride. It is flown by others,

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U.S. Supreme Court.) The Whistler Pride and Ski Festival’s visibility expanded in 2010, Whistler’s Olympic year, with the resort’s first gay pride parade, sandwiched between the Olympics and Paralympics, as well as the establishment of Pride House, a safe space for LGBTQ+ athletes and media that was the first of its kind for the Games.

“We thought by creating Pride House, we could create the conversation. We knew that if there was enough awareness of homophobia within sport, then we could start advocating at senior levels within sport to start making their sporting environments safer for their athletes,” Dean Nelson, the festival’s former director, told Pique in March. “This is the legacy we gifted to the world, and it continues to this day. It’s pretty remarkable.” While the festival had to be cancelled in 2021, the plan is to return to celebrate its 30th year in 2022 (Get your tickets early!). This is not to say that life is sunshine and rainbows for the LGBTQ+ community in Canada—it is not. While the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has brought legal recognition to many areas of life it would be naïve to think that all the hearts of Canadians are won. I think sometimes about Martin Luther King, Jr. when he said, “It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.” Just last week we finally saw Bill C-6 pass third reading in the House of Commons, basically outlawing conversion practice. This is a therapy that aims to change an individual’s sexual orientation to heterosexual through talking or prayer. Members from most parties unanimously supported the bill in a vote of 263-63, though 62 of the 63 “against” votes were from Conservative MPs. There is still much work to be done to support the LGBTQ+ community worldwide and here at home—youth from families who do not accept their identities are more likely to attempt suicide than those from accepting families and they are four times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexual youth. And in more than two dozen countries LGBTQ+ organizations are illegal, while in eight countries people can be executed for being gay or lesbian and in 45 countries women can be imprisoned for being lesbian. This journey, too, must continue. n

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Where is your Pride, Whistler? I’m writing as of June 25 on a very warm evening in the valley—my first summer visit to Whistler since 2004. The exceptional weather and increasing energy returning to Whistler has made this week memorable as a visitor, but I find it very odd that throughout the village and valley I’ve not seen any recognition of, or even virtual plans for Pride (events) in Whistler. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is so top of mind these days and Pride festivities have been held in June globally for decades, it seems that Whistler has skipped over Pride in 2021? Just my perception, as a visitor and former long-time local. Rob Reed // Toronto

Nita Lake development not a success It was hardly shocking when council unanimously approved the high-density townhouse development on Nita Lake. Long before the provincially mandated period of public input, it was clear their minds were made up and that it was—as one put it—a “slam dunk.” It was nonetheless disappointing—and, honestly, more than a little hurtful—that they did so without acknowledging the widespread

and sustained opposition to this project. The surprisingly brief report from staff makes it seem like there was some sort of healthy balance between submissions for and against; in reality, over 200 individuals wrote in or spoke out against this bylaw in its current form, with only a few dozen in favour. The Official Community Plan requires this kind of rezoning to be “supported by the community, in the opinion of Council.” It’s now clear that either council has a very idiosyncratic way of judging such support, or that this provision is so worded as to be utterly meaningless or completely unenforceable. This development has been presented as an

employee-housing project supported by a marketrate component, but it remains very much the opposite. From this posture, the applicant has always sought to frame the debate as between the entrenched and the precarious, between hardworking locals and entitled outsiders. From the correspondence received by council, however, it’s clear that opposition to these townhomes came from all over Whistler. The common concern was never preventing the proper development of this parcel, but simply ensuring that it proceeded with good sense and long-term vision. A small minority may have been worried about the impact on their views or commute,

but the vast majority expressed distress about the shared public asset of Nita Lake and was— perhaps more importantly—mindful of principles of responsible planning and good governance. This is a concerning precedent. The developer has been granted an exceedingly generous amount of market-rate density in exchange for rather few employee-housing units: the Resort Municipality of Whistler will be forced to use this ratio as a benchmark for similar projects moving forward, if only to avoid the persistent suggestion that this deal was in any way exceptional due to this particular applicant’s prominent role in forming public policy. Council has now admitted that every market “bed unit” they offer up as a reward for building employee housing is one fewer that can actually go to a qualified Whistler employee. By doling them out so liberally, we may be drowning the baby in the bathwater. If only council had at least gone through the motions of saying this outcome was a balance of competing priorities rather than an unbridled success, I’d personally be a little less disappointed, although I doubt I’d be any less concerned. Brandon Green // Whistler

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and to those who donated funds and items for our auction, we were able to exceed our fundraising goal, raising nearly $27,000! These funds will enable Whistler Adaptive to continue to support hundreds of individuals to access adaptive sport in the Sea to Sky corridor, directly impacting the lives of individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities. Also, I would like to extend a big thank you to all the staff and volunteers that helped organize, set up, and manage the tournament and the silent auction. As my son Derek and I were lucky enough to participate in the tournament, I can say first hand how well it was organized and vouch for all the fun activities we encountered while playing our round of golf. Thank you again to all who supported and participated in every way! David Bell // Whistler

Please, open the borders We have been owners in Whistler for 45 years, but we are Americans and cannot come up despite being fully vaccinated and can clear a COVID-19 test prior to coming. Our friends in Whistler, I am sure, will welcome us with open arms, as we are totally safe to travel. Also, there are many, many Americans that own in Whistler that are safe. Is there any chance the politicians in Canada can appreciate this and open the borders up for safe Canadian and American travellers? Kirk Smith // Washington

Kudos to the Whistler Racket Club There are few traditional, communityspirited organizations remaining in Whistler, but one that I feel is well worth preserving is the Whistler Racket Club (WRC), under new and energetic managers including Jamie, Ollie, Sean, Shea and Paul to name only the ones I know. From a dowdy and underfunded facility, the staff at WRC has made this a community meeting place with family activities such as axe throwing, pickleball, kids’ games and

of course tennis, with the only indoor courts anywhere near Whistler. On weekends the club brings in live local music at their quaintly decorated outdoor patio and barbecue. The only other place like this in Whistler is the Point Artist-Run Centre, which I hold in similar high regard. Kudos to the Beedie Group for letting these managers run WRC in such a communityminded, yet entrepreneurial, style. Hopefully any rezoning of the Northlands lands will allow the facility to remain, the current spirit to continue, and will not cede the management to some less-imaginative bureaucrats. The current WRC, and The Point, are true Whistler gems that distinguish themselves from the Vail Resorts and Aspen style of catering only to the rich and famous. We need these two organizations more than ever. Jim Pipe // Whistler

It took a village After five years of planning and fundraising, the Pemberton Secondary School Parent Advisory Council (PAC) is proud to announce that the outdoor classroom at Pemberton Secondary School has been completed. The space comprises a small multi-use building that opens onto a presentation deck for leading classes and extra-curricular activities, and log benches for seating underneath a large sail, which provides shade in our hot climate. This letter is intended to thank all of those involved in bringing this project to fruition, despite hurdles along the way. The PSS Outdoor Classroom Project was initiated in 2017/18 by Grade 9 students led by (then) VP Diane Hart. Students consulted with the community and School District 48 stakeholders including the Village of Pemberton and [school board] staff, and in groups created detailed project plans with drawings and concept boards. The students’ vision was a “Shady Place to Meet, Move and Work” and an inspiring space for activities like circle sharing. In Phase 1, construction students designed

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June was proclaimed Orca Awareness Month in B.C. by the Lieutenant Governor in 2016. OrcaMonthBC speaks for wild orcas and promotes freeing of captives seized from local waters, such as Lolita-Tokitae and Corky, imprisoned at Miami Seaquarium and SeaWorld, respectively. Wild orcas are struggling with ship collisions, entanglement in fishing gear, underwater noise which interferes with their ability to communicate by echo-location, and starvation due to lack of salmon. About 60 belugas and dolphins [are held] at the

aware clients to be represented as legal “persons,” not “things.” This is progress, but it hasn’t yet helped orcas Tokitae, Corky, and Kiska. Canada has not acknowledged rights of person-hood for animals, and doesn’t even follow its own Species At Risk Act, which since 2001 has obliged the government to take emergency action to save the southern resident orcas from extinction. Cabinet has still decided only to “advance feasibility work within sub-areas of critical habitat.” Canada did in 2019 pass the Ending Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, which banned further capture, breeding, and import and export—with exceptions. Despite the ban, Marineland recently sold five belugas to Connecticut-based Mystic Aquarium for “scientific research.” Some countries have outlawed whale captivity completely. France in 2018 announced it intends to transition captive whales to seaside sanctuaries. Canada has a long way to go, but lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law (wcel. org) are calling for both a legal definition of animal person-hood and establishment of ocean sanctuaries with a governance board empowered to guard the whales’ welfare. The American-based Whale Sanctuary Project has purchased marine property at Port Hilford in Nova Scotia, which it’s readying for cetaceans rescued from aquariums. The trick is in the rescue part, given lack of law, which criminalizes the captivity industry. For B.C.’s Corky, a 40-acre inlet is being readied on the West Coast by Paul Spong and partners at Orca Lab. Orcas will only be released by aquariums, however, when the law makes their imprisonment a crime. Canadians who think so should contact MPs and the Minister of Justice. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, animal cruelty charges can be laid on the basis of “causation of pain and suffering or injury.” It’s hard to see the imprisonment of large, intelligent, sensitive, family-oriented whales in cement pools as anything but injurious. S. B. Julian // Victoria n

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Rethinking Canada Day WITH THE REDISCOVERY of thousands of graves at residential schools across the country there have been multiple calls to either cancel or rename Canada Day. Sadly, there is some merit to the idea as Canadians come to grips with our history as sometimes-brutal colonizers of lands that were once in the care of First Nations. There

BY ANDREW MITCHELL is also a growing recognition that we are the beneficiaries of a genocide that has been going on since Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River looking for a shortcut to Asia. A cloud is hanging over us. The Canadian genocide has taken many forms over the centuries. There was the accidental (and sometimes deliberate) spread of sicknesses like smallpox that some historians believe wiped out up to 90 per cent of First Nations after first contact. Many of the unmarked graves at residential schools are there because of the unchecked spread of tuberculosis in crowded dormitories. There has also been a kind of geographical genocide where First Nations were separated from each other and pushed into isolated reserves that have not offered much in

the way of opportunities, services, or even necessities like clean drinking water. These actions were then followed by a wider cultural genocide and the attempts of various nation builders to “westernize” First Nations. That approach gave rise to a residential school system where children were taken from their parents, sometimes neglected or abused by their caregivers, and forced to abandon their culture. Driving all of this is a relentless economic genocide where resources that First Nations had claim to were taken and sold without much—if any—benefit going back to the people who never legally ceded their rights to the land. There aren’t many countries on the planet that don’t have horrible histories involving war, genocide, slavery, religious persecution, or various forms of racial/cultural/sexual exploitation. But Canada is different in that we’ve never honestly acknowledged all the uncomfortable truths that made it all possible. The fact that so many people are only learning about residential schools today reveals a serious and obviously deliberate gap in our education system. What Canada does to right these wrongs is what is ultimately going to define us as a nation in the future. Being great starts with being good. Our shameful treatment of First Nations is just one example of Canada’s seldom-

explored darker side. There’s the Komagata Maru; the heartless decision to send a ship with 900 Jewish refugees back to Europe and into the path of Nazis; internment camps; a ban on black immigrants in the early 1900s, and racial segregation that persisted as late as the early 1980s in some parts of Canada. This is a country where one in five children is living in poverty, despite being one of the wealthiest nations on the planet. We’re also increasingly known on the world stage for wolf culls, the seal hunt, and logging of oldgrowth forests. None of this easily squares with the sunny image that we’ve constructed for ourselves over the years. However, despite the sad facts of our origin story, I don’t think Canada Day should be cancelled or renamed. I would rather see it remade into a day of reckoning, the day where we honestly acknowledge our history and pledge meaningful actions to right past wrongs. The reality is we can’t move forward as a united country, the country we aspire to be, until we put our ghosts to rest. It matters if we want peace and progress at home and on the world stage as well. It’s incredibly hard to criticize a country like China for its recent human rights abuses when they can so easily throw our own situation back in our faces. We lost the high ground that we never really deserved. The first step forward is for real

representation. In New Zealand—a country that has its own complex history with First Nations but is ahead of us in many ways—there are a guaranteed seven seats in Parliament for native Maori representatives. We need to do something similar here with at least a few dozen seats in the house and guaranteed representation on Parliamentary committees and in the senate. We need to repeal and replace the Indian Act with a modern law that both recognizes title and gives First Nations the benefit of taxes and resource fees collected on their traditional territories. We also need to start renaming things their original names— and teach those names to future generations. Nobody calls it “Ayers Rock” anymore, it’s Uluru. Mt. Everest is Sagarmatha. That’s how reconciliation works. In New Zealand, everyone also knows the Maori words to the Haaka and national anthem. By now, we should all know at least a few words of our local First Nations dialects. We need to address intergenerational trauma with real reparations and support. Right now, Canada’s First Nations are often treated as second-class citizens, living in third-world conditions. That has to change. Let Canada Day 2021 be the day where we finally acknowledge our past, embrace the challenge of reconciliation, and start the hard work it’s going to take to make Canada into a country that everyone—and I mean everyone—can be genuinely proud of. n

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WCSS recounts record year at Annual General Meeting BOTH COSTS AND DONATIONS CLIMBED AS WCSS HELPED WHISTLER WEATHER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

BY MEGAN LALONDE EARLY ON IN THE pandemic, an older member of Whistler’s community fell ill and required hospitalization in Vancouver. As Whistler Community Services Society’s (WCSS) executive director Jackie Dickinson recounted during the organization’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, June 23, that individual contracted COVID-19 during that time, and sadly, did not survive. “He never made it back up to Whistler, but his story, his legacy, and everything that he represented lived on through all the people at Whistler Community Services,” Dickinson said. “The only reason I figured this out was because I met his wife. She was clearing out all of his stuff. They no longer lived together, but they were life partners. She took all of the food out of his pantry, and she donated it to our food bank. She took all of the clothes out of his closet, and she donated them to the Re-Use-It Centre. She took all of his furniture, and she donated it to the Re-Build-It.” While the man never returned home to Whistler, numerous WCSS departments accepted the responsibility of paying these remnants of a life well lived forward, Dickinson continued.

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“Someone else wore his shirt and never knew what that meant, but to us it’s up-cycling, repurposing, and creating new opportunities. His food that he didn’t come back to eat, fed someone else,” she said. “So many of these stories go untold … it’s just one of many examples of how Whistler Community Services is able to support, uplift, create, and learn from our community.” While those intangible impacts were among the most frequently discussed topics at WCSS’ AGM, the occasion also served as an opportunity to share the organization’s measurable impacts over the last year. Held in a hybrid format, WCSS staff and board members gathered in person in a space donated by the Fairmont Chateau Whistler while other stakeholders and residents tuned in via Zoom to discuss how the organization has fared since the pandemic began. The statistics show that in a year defined by isolation, closed businesses and general uncertainty, locals came to depend on WCSS more than ever. They also demonstrated how the community rallied behind the organization like never before, explained Steve Aikins, WCSS board of directors’ vice-chair. “During this crisis, revenue for our stores [the Re-Use-It and Re-Build-It centres]—we had to shut down for three months and then run at only partial capacity because of COVID—were decimated,” Aikins said. “But with the overwhelming support of the community, organizations and governments, WCSS revenue was at its highest level ever, allowing us to

dramatically increase our services— obviously the food bank, outreach—in order to meet our community’s needs, which we did.” In facing an unprecedented demand for its services, WCSS saw an increase to its costs during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the figures published in its annual report and statement of financial position, released ahead of the meeting. With volunteer programs reduced, wages and benefits payable rose to $133,843 from $93,129 in 2019-20, while program costs climbed to $1,251,090 from $924,856. Office and general administration expenses also more than doubled, from $4,878 to $10,731 However, the organization’s excess of revenue over expenses for the 2020-21 fiscal year came to $582,474, compared to $197,513 in 2019-20. That positive statistic is directly attributable to a spike in donations and grants. Though thrift store revenue dropped to $1,376,420 in 2020-21 from $1,672,400 the year before, WCSS pulled in $1,692,880 in donations and grants compared to $628,002 in 2019-20. The events of 2020 also prompted the organization to develop several new initiatives. Those include the creation of Whistler’s first-ever Food Security Fund—which currently rests at $250,374— an electronic Community Assistance Program, so people could get access to technology and learn about their health status, the formation of a standing committee responsible for considering diversity, equity and inclusion throughout

the organization, and the Food Bank’s new home-delivery program that began in late fall 2020. It provided 50 deliveries from when it began until the New Year, and is projected to make approximately 750 deliveries in 2021. Also in response to the pandemic, WCSS implemented a temporary isolation program that provided 368 room nights of accommodations to help residents safely isolate from January 2021 to May 2021. “A person’s experience in January getting COVID was drastically different than what it looked like in November,” Dickinson told AGM attendees. “That’s what it means to have Whistler Community Services in this community. We delivered food in full HAZMAT suits and visors and facemasks. We had staff walk up hundreds of stairs to deliver people food.” Existing programs that also experienced a massive uptick included the Food Bank itself, where visits were up 87 per cent in 2020 over 2019, from 3,005 visits to 5,642. The Food Bank is expected to see 6,300 visits in 2021. WCSS Outreach Services, meanwhile, saw a 52 per cent uptick in 2020. The organization logged 3,233 visits in 2019 for one-on-one or group sessions for mental and emotional wellbeing and peer support, compared to 4,922 in 2020. That number is projected to reach 6,000 visits in 2021. Additionally, WCSS’ School Lunch Program is projected to provide 82,000 servings in 2021, compared to 12,159 in 2020. For more details, or to read WCSS’ Annual Report, Impact Report or financial statements, visit WCSS.org. n

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Whistler wilting under record-breaking heat RIVER LEVELS RISE, WATER QUALITY IMPACTED, FIRE DANGER RATING HITS EXTREME

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A WEEKEND OF record-breaking heat in B.C. and Whistler extended throughout the week after wreaking havoc on river levels in Pemberton and impacting water quality in Whistler. Highs of 38 degrees in Whistler on Saturday, June 26 and 40 degrees on Sunday, June 27—the highest ever recorded in the resort for either day—climbed to 41 degrees on Monday and 39 degrees on Tuesday— well above the historical average June high of 23 degrees. And on Sunday, June 27, Lytton, B.C. recorded a high of 46.6 degrees—the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, beating a record of 45 degrees set in Midale and Yellow Grass, Sask., in July of 1937. The new record lasted until Tuesday, June 29, when temperatures hit 49.6 degrees. The intense heat led to rapid runoff in rivers and streams throughout the Sea to Sky, prompting an evacuation order in parts of the Village of Pemberton and Area C of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD). At press time, both orders had been rescinded (find the latest at pemberton.ca and slrd.bc.ca). The runoff led to a mandatory portage on the River of Golden Dreams, while also creating problems with Whistler’s water quality. On June 27, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) issued a water quality advisory for Whistler properties, with the exception of Emerald Estates and Cheakamus Crossing. The advisory was prompted by turbidity (or cloudy water) conditions in Whistler’s biggest water source, 21 Mile Creek. Rapid snow melt, a result of the record-breaking heat, pushed the creek’s water conditions past the normal shut-off criteria. While the risk to consumers is low, officials are advising some locals and visitors—particularly those with weakened immune systems—to bring tap water to a full boil before drinking it, or using it to wash fruits and vegetables, brush teeth or make ice. Alternatively, bottled water can also be used. The advisory will remain in place until further notice. The RMOW opened the Meadow Park Sports Centre as a cooling centre on June 28 and 29 and offered free public skate sessions, including rentals, to help locals and visitors keep cool, while local hotels also did what they could to help out. “The lobbies are largely open, [and] they are air conditioned,” said Saad Hasan, president of the Hotel Association of Whistler, adding that COVID-19 protocols like masking and physical distancing remain in place.

“Some hotels are doing freezies, other hotels have set up sprinklers outdoors for children to cool down.” Hotels were also offering bottled water to guests in light of the boil water advisory, as well as offering shuttles to the lakes on request. While BC Wildfire was reporting no recent fires in the Whistler area at press time, Whistler’s fire danger rating climbed to extreme on June 28, where it was forecasted to stay for at least the next four days. Prior to the record-breaking heat wave, the RMOW offered some tips to keep cool in the resort, including: visiting one of Whistler’s quieter parks to spend time in the shade (find one at whistler.ca/parks); heading to the library where the 30-minute “express” visits have been lifted (though mask rules are in place); visiting the Audain Art Museum or the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre; hitting up the spray park at Meadow Park from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and soaking up the shade at Whistler Olympic Plaza. According to Whistler’s Dr. Karin Kausky, the heat wave is not the time to exert yourself. “Use common sense,” she said. “If you’re ever going to give yourself a day off, this would be it. We underestimate how much this heat impacts us. If you’re going to [exercise], do it with someone and not too far from medical help. If something happens while you’re exercising, you have less reserve for managing those injuries.” It’s also important to understand various heat-related illnesses and how to treat them. They range from minor issues like heat rash and sunburn to more serious problems like heat exhaustion and heat stroke. “Heat stroke is a medical emergency,” Kausky said. “You dial 911.” While the risk of heat-related illness varies from person to person, it’s important to look out for young children, seniors, people with underlying health issues and vulnerable populations. Whistler Community Services Society’s (WCSS) outreach team was also out in the community throughout the week to check on people, particularly those who are homeless or living in less-than-ideal situations. Living in your car or outdoors can be particularly challenging right now, Jackie Dickinson, executive director of WCSS said. If someone needs to access the nearest shelter in Squamish, WCSS can provide free transportation. Whistler Animals Galore also reminded pet owners via Facebook to make sure their pet is kept cool and has access to shade and water in the heat. Limit their exercise and never leave them in a vehicle. - with files from Alyssa Noel and Megan Lalonde. n

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Plan,” which comes into force today, July 1, restaurants, bars, and pubs will no longer have to restrict hours for serving liquor or have sixperson caps on tables. “I believe we can take the next step forward,” said Horgan at a June 29 press briefing. Said B.C.’s Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, “We’re moving most of the restrictions at restaurants, bars, and pubs,” clarifying that venue capacity limits have been increased to either 50 people, or 50 per cent of the venue’s capacity. That means that if a venue can hold 60 people, the limit would be 50 people. If the venue can host 500 people, the new capacity limit would be 250. The cap on group seating at restaurants was first implemented in the province back in May 2020, when businesses were permitted to re-open following a full ban on indoor dining implemented two months prior at the onset of the pandemic in B.C. While in Step 2, which began June 15, public health orders were amended to allow liquor sales at restaurants to go until midnight, Step 3 removes all restrictions and returns liquor sales to normal for licensed B.C. establishments. During Step 3, businesses will gradually transition to new communicable disease plans, with guidelines for these plans released by WorkSafeBC on June 28. “These plans will continue to include physical barriers at many business and retail settings. Capacity limits, formal health screening tests and directional arrows, as well as other physical distancing measures will no longer be required. However, they may still be used during this transition period,” said a media release from the premier, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation. Not changing will be the restrictions on socializing between tables—this will also be a rule for nightclubs—which will be able to re-open, with seated parties of up to 10 permitted as of July 1. Henry said details of what will be permitted has been discussed among leaders in the sector, and will include distancing measures and barriers. But there will be no dancing allowed in nightclubs. “We’re in different places,” acknowledges Henry of where B.C. residents and business owners stand at this moment when it comes to comfort levels with reduced restrictions, adding later in the conference that there’s no need for people to provide proof of vaccination. Another significant change under Phase 3 of the Restart Pan is that wearing masks in

public settings will be recommended, but not required. “I’m going to be wearing a mask if I’m in touch with a group of people that I do not know, if I’m on a bus, I’m on a ferry, I’m on an airplane,” Horgan said. “These are recommendations, not directives.” Other key prongs of Step 3 are: • allowing all indoor fitness classes; • allowing some indoor spectators at sporting events; • ending size restrictions for indoor and outdoor personal gatherings; • increasing capacity at indoor and outdoor organized gatherings; • allowing fairs and festivals to operate; • ending group-size restrictions at restaurants; • allowing kids’ sleepovers; • allowing Canada-wide travel for British Columbians, and welcoming all other Canadians. “We’ll be welcoming people from other provinces, preferably vaccinated,” Henry said. Vancouver International Airport (YVR) said it’s ready to welcome back travellers. “We are pleased to see the safe, phased approach that government is taking to advance restart plans in B.C. and Canada for those who are able to travel. We will continue to follow these plans and the direction of public health authorities to implement measures focused on keeping our communities safe while beginning to reopen the visitor economy,” said Robyn McVicker, YVR’s vice president of passenger journey, in a statement. The airport cautions the process of passing through the border will be a bit different than what people may be used to, and travellers are asked to be prepared and patient. For example, those returning to Canada need to follow the federal government’s entry requirements, including predeparture testing, using the ArriveCan app and pre-registering for an arrival test at the airport and quarantine plans where applicable. Security screenings for departing flights will also include a few extra steps, including temperature checks. Masks also continue to be mandatory in the airport and on flights. Henry said that while the mask mandate has ended, wearing face coverings still helps prevent the spread of disease. The fourth, and final, step in the province’s reopening is slated to go into effect no earlier than Sept. 7. The state of emergency will be lifted this week but the public health emergency will remain. - with files from Cindy E. Harnett, Lindsay William-Ross, and Glen Korstrom n

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Whistlerites speak out against pay parking at parks PETITION CALLING FOR LOCALS’ PASSES HITS ITS MARK IN LESS THAN A DAY

BY BRADEN DUPUIS PAY PARKING has long been a thorn in the side of Whistler locals—to the point that its introduction in the day lots is often cited as one of the main factors which led to the ousting of Whistler’s entire mayor and council in 2011. With the introduction of pay parking in four Whistler parks for the first time this summer—part of a new pilot project to manage increasing demand and maintain the parks—the revolt has started anew on social media. Logan Gagnon was one of several Whistler locals to raise the issue on Facebook in recent weeks, after a Monday trip to Rainbow Park unexpectedly cost her $12 (plus an extra $0.25 service charge). A mother of two herself with a third on the way, Gagnon couldn’t help but notice the majority of park-goers that day were families. “[Mayor Jack Crompton] was very vocal about the fact that individuals of Whistler should be walking or biking, so immediately I think of this and I see all of these families with children, and I can relate because I’ve been there,” Gagnon said. “I’m looking at all these families with

kids and all their coolers and all of their equipment, their toys for the kids, you name it, and all I could think about was Jack Crompton saying these people should be walking or biking.” Gagnon’s post to Facebook garnered more than 900 likes and 50 comments before commenting was automatically shut off due to sheer volume. In a response posted the next day, Crompton explained the main goals of the pilot program: managing parking, taking action on climate and funding park upkeep. “It very much came out of a conviction that last year’s status quo is simply not acceptable,” Crompton said in a follow-up phone call. “We saw unprecedented amount of visitation to our parks, which posed traffic safety issues and a burden on park infrastructure. This suite of actions intends to make our parks a better place to be, and secondly, and just as important, the parking component hopes to move us towards our climate goals.” Aside from piloting pay parking at four parks (Rainbow, Lakeside, Alpha and Wayside) the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s 2021 “Summer Experience Plan” includes free shuttles to Rainbow Park (with stops at Meadow Park and the Rainbow Lake

Trailhead) operating out of the Day Lots on weekends and statutory holidays only; 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. Limiting local traffic to parks might seem like a drop in the greenhouse gas emission bucket, but “55 per cent of our local emissions are from single-occupant vehicles,” Crompton said. “For every vehicle that gets off the road, we chip away a bit more at that number.” Not satisfied with the mayor’s Facebook response, Gagnon launched a petition calling for locals’ parking passes for the parks on June 28. By press time on June 30 it had already surpassed its target of 1,000 signatures, reaching over 1,400. “My response to his post was that he did not answer [a] single one of my concerns. He bounced around many people’s concerns and questions, and kind of went more to just the very typical response, and that’s not what people want to see,” Gagnon said. “People want to see answers to specific questions, and that was not provided. “I think the part that’s just most frustrating is this pilot program was

implemented without community support … I feel like a lot of these issues could have been rectified.” Asked about the online backlash, much of it directed solely at him, Crompton said he understands where locals are coming from. “I’d just say our goal is to make our parks experience better. Last year didn’t work, and we need to make some adjustments,” he said. “I get it. I’m the father of four kids. Getting around without a vehicle is challenging. There will be times when I have to pay for parking because I don’t have the time to walk or bike.” That said, local officials aren’t planning on shifting gears yet. “We intend to give this program a chance and understand what worked and what didn’t. Amending it a week in doesn’t give us the kind of information we need to make good decisions moving forward,” Crompton said, adding that he hopes people keep speaking up about their concerns. “I certainly don’t see the impassioned feedback as a negative. It helps us make better decisions, so please continue to provide it to us. We’re tracking it and we’re ensuring it informs our decision-making.” Questions can be directed to parking@ whistler.ca. n

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Whistler Tennis Association holding out hope for Northlands WILL THREE-DECADE-OLD PROMISE FINALLY BE FULFILLED?

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH THE PUBLIC input period for an enhanced rezoning north of Whistler Village underway, one Whistler club is holding out hope that a long-neglected promise will finally come to fruition. The Whistler Tennis Association (WTA) has been eyeing the undeveloped Northlands lot for a new world-class, weatherproof tennis centre since it was first promised back in 1988. That commitment—for a new club complete with a stadium court, four indoor and 12 outdoor courts, and the capacity to host live televised events—was tied to the development rights of Park Georgia, which built the Montebello Townhouses on the site, but never fully delivered on its promise. In 1993, Park Georgia did build three indoor courts, seven outdoor courts and a dining facility (all currently operated by the Whistler Racket Club), but those facilities were always meant to be temporary. In 2002 the land was purchased by the Holborn Group, which in turn sold it to Beedie Developments in 2017. All the while, the WTA has never forgotten the world-class facility it once

thought was inevitable. “I think we’re not taking anything for granted. Obviously there’s going to be some natural concern … there’s a little bit of fear that history repeats itself here,” said WTA president Ben Cherniavsky, noting that a previous incarnation of the WTA, the Whistler Valley Tennis Club, lost a facility on the shores of Nita Lake when the land it occupied was sold in the mid ‘90s. “I think among the members, and there are many members who go back that far, there is some apprehension that we’re going to see that happen again.” That said, there is still an “air of confidence,” but not overconfidence, amongst the WTA and its 800 or so members. “We’re not always going to be 100-percent aligned, but what I would say that Beedie has so far been very good at is listening to our concerns,” Cherniavsky said. While the amenities that eventually get built on the Northlands will be decided through the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s enhanced rezoning process, a representative from Beedie said the proponent is in regular contact with both the WTA and Whistler Racket Club (a separate entity from the WTA, which currently leases its space on the Northlands from Beedie). “We are independent bodies, but we

have a common vision to include tennis in the future of Whistler,” Cherniavsky said of the relationship between the two clubs. As for what sort of facility the WTA is hoping to see delivered, it’s likely too early to talk specifics, Cherniavsky said. The existing facility has 10 courts, and “I think we feel quite strongly that something that is at least the size of what currently exists is not unreasonable,” he added.

“We’re not always going to be 100-percent aligned.” - BEN CHERNIAVSKY The WTA is also hoping to hear from its members, which is why it has launched two surveys—one for locals and one for visitors—to hear their thoughts (find them at whistlertennisassociation.ca). “Is it location, is it affordability, is it number of courts, is it programming, is it junior tennis and things like that? Those are the questions we want to get a feel for, that would help us communicate to the municipality and with Beedie what kind of a facility we would build,” Cherniavsky said.

But the WTA’s vision is for an inclusive, weatherproof, world-class facility for all types of racquet sports, one that would act as a social hub for the community while attracting tournaments and visitation to the resort in off-peak periods. “I think for the whole community it would be a fantastic thing, because right now, Whistler’s population is growing significantly, and our summer visitation is growing exponentially, and our parks, our trails, our recreational facilities are all stressed,” said John Konig, the WTA’s director of advocacy. “So I think it would be such a phenomenal win for the community.” From Mayor Jack Crompton’s perspective, it’s still too early in the rezoning process to talk specific outcomes. “Every individual and community group is critical to us making good decisions on this project. We’ve all been waiting a long time to see the final piece of the village built. Their input will be taken very seriously just like everyone else’s will,” Crompton said. With the WTA submitting a report to council in 2019 detailing the storied history of the promise to the club, as well as the growth in tennis’ popularity, it’s safe to say council is aware of the club’s concerns. “But I’d encourage them to continue to participate in this process,” Crompton said. n

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Former Whistler Chamber CEO running for BC Liberal leadership VAL LITWIN HOPES TO BRING ‘A NEW DEFINITION OF SUCCESS’ TO B.C.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS IT’S BEEN FIVE YEARS since Val Litwin left his role as the CEO of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce to take the reins of the BC Chamber, but he’s not forgetting the influence the resort had on him as he prepares for his next challenge: running for the leadership of the BC Liberals. The three years he spent in Whistler helped shape his career, and even frame how he’s approaching his first foray into politics, Litwin said. “I am forever grateful for the time I had up in Whistler, and for really appreciating up close how the secret sauce of creating a vibrant local economy is about businesses that are feeling supported, [whose] voices are being elevated in the direction of government so they can employ local people, and create exciting opportunities,” he said. “It’s main street businesses that support their local charities, that staff local boards, so it’s all connected, and Whistler helped me see that.” Despite his background in business, the 44-year-old entrepreneur and author isn’t about to pigeonhole his leadership campaign. “I think for too long the BC Liberal

party just hung its hat on the fact that, you know, we’re a pro-business party, and that is not enough to get over the line now in an election,” Litwin said. “For me, the motivation to get into the race is I think the BC Liberal party and British Columbia itself are long overdue for a new definition of success.” Sixty-one per cent of B.C.’s population is now under the age of 40, and “they are demanding new solutions to old challenges,” Litwin said. “I think most people are fatigued with the hyper-partisan tone of politics now. They want to see people getting to work and solving some of the problems that are impacting communities, whether it’s racial injustice, eroding affordability, an intensifying opioid crisis, climate change—they just want to see elected officials get to work.” With that in mind, Litwin referred to himself as “the outsider candidate” who wants to bring people in. “I want to kick-start that change, so for me, the platform is going to be built around a party that still knows how to create a vibrant, inclusive, strong economy, but we are now going to deliver bigger and better for people—all peoples, communities and the environment—and the platform is going to be built around that idea,” he said.

“So we’re going to bring in really big policy ideas and creative new approaches to some of these old problems.” One of those “old problems” is the issue of affordable housing, which Litwin sees as a supply issue, hampered by two chokepoints in particular: sluggish permitting processes at the municipal level, and a lack of proper zoning. “We need land, zoned, for every type of housing that the market is asking for, and that’s affordable market, to rental, to

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low-income, to community housing, and projects to take care of and lift up our homeless population,” he said. “So we need a full mix, but we need land to do it, and we have tons of land in British Columbia, but we just now have to get serious about what living in a world-class jurisdiction looks like. “We’ve got net immigration, we’re growing, so how are we going to keep pace? Are we ready to tackle the problem? And I’m

ready to tackle it.” But the biggest problems facing the province still stem from COVID-19, and how people and businesses recover as cases recede. “I think the first thing is we have to keep performing at a super high level on the public health side so we can open quickly,” Litwin said. “[And] the province needs to stay creative and attentive in terms of the business supports that are going out the door to keep these sectors intact.” While tourism was the sector hardest hit by the pandemic (and will likely be the last to recover), Litwin sees Whistler and B.C. as a “market of choice” when the borders reopen. “So I would say for Whistler, there’s still some tough days ahead, I understand,” he said. “But get ready, because on the other side of this I think Whistler will do well.” The search for a new BC Liberal leader began after the resignation of former leader Andrew Wilkinson following last year’s election. The party currently holds 28 seats in the BC Legislature to the NDP’s 57. The BC Liberal leadership vote is set for Feb. 5, 2022. Other candidates include MLAs Ellis Ross and Michael Lee, former MLA and deputy premier Kevin Falcon, and businessperson Gavin Dew. Read more at vallitwin.ca. n

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SD48 Superintendent recruited by the Ministry of Education LISA MCCULLOUGH LOOKS BACK AT HER TIME GUIDING SEA TO SKY SCHOOLS

BY STEVEN CHUA FOR THE SEA TO SKY’S outgoing superintendent, giving Indigenous students a voice is one of the many standout moments that she’s had during her decade-long tenure at the school district. “Something notable for me is that 10 years ago, we didn’t have an Indigenous education leadership program and we saw the voice of Indigenous students as a voice that wasn’t present in our work and in our corridor,” said Superintendent Lisa McCullough. “Today, we have over 80 students or more in our Indigenous education leadership group with a very strong, powerful voice that just speaks to how all of our students have more voice now, and our Indigenous students in particular, and I think that’s probably one of the things I feel the most proud of.” McCullough has been tapped by the Ministry of Education to work in its governance and analytics division. She doesn’t have a formal title yet, but, in her new role, she’ll be helping school districts throughout the province follow the ministry’s mandated framework for education.

She will be off to her new job as of Sept. 1. To this end, she’ll be part of a team that’s tracking school district performance. McCullough will be giving pointers to the school districts that need some help. She said that one of the things that stood out to ministry officials was the Sea to Sky School District’s commitment to consistent improvement, despite the strides that they made, such as a high graduation rate among Indigenous students. “Our school district has not rested on those laurels. And, in fact, we went through a very ambitious change management model about three years ago, where we called it ‘Digging Deeper,’ and we went in and found evidence of overrepresentation of Indigenous students and children with diverse abilities right across all areas of vulnerability in our school district. And those areas are the same in all public school districts in the province in our country, around the world,” said McCullough. “When we looked inside that data and saw that overrepresentation, we called ourselves out on it. We worked with First Nations communities to learn how to go deeper with our understandings of the work needing to be done. And we are not through that work yet. There is a lot more work to do.” It’s not just about results, but a constant

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drive to do better that has fuelled the ambitions of the Sea to Sky School District, she said. “It’s the relentless, continuous improvement we’re willing to face,” she noted. McCullough has been picked for a secondment, which usually describes a temporary reassignment, but in this case, her stepping away as superintendent will be permanent—hence a recruiting process for

a new top official will be initiated. “There is always a chance that I will return but I am not asking the board to keep the superintendent position available,” she said. “I would be honoured to come back in any position if I did choose to come back.” As a result, the board will begin looking for a new superintendent in July, and is hoping to have a replacement by mid-October. In an announcement, the school board expressed its gratitude for the outgoing superintendent’s contributions. “The board of education would like to express sincere gratitude to Lisa for 10 years of service to School District No. 48 students, parents, community, and staff and wish her all the best in her important work with the Ministry of Education,” read a release from the school board. For her part, McCullough said—audibly emotional—that she treasured the time she’s spent helming the Sea to Sky’s schools. “I have been very honoured to live in this place, and to work with everyone here for over the past decade. So, I guess, I just want to say that I’m immensely grateful for my time here, and for my learning that has been gifted to me. And I am just so deeply proud of students, families, communities, staff and our board of education.” n

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The bear facts: Baby bears, berries, and biking LATE SPRING AND SUMMER ARE BUSY TIMES IN THE FORESTS

BY LUCI CADMAN LATE SPRING and summer are busy times for local black bears. Curious cubs are exploring their new home, yearling bears are learning to navigate life independently of mom, berries are finally on the menu and males will soon be in pursuit of females as mating season approaches. Expect to see cubs trailing behind mom or hiding in the tree canopy as she searches for food and safety close by. Play is a priority for these little adventurers, but with only 16 months with their mother, it is also a critical time to learn vital survival skills.

BEAR MOMS AND TEACHERS Mothers have the responsibility of teaching their young how to climb, swim and cross roads. They show cubs where is safe, where to find food and how to navigate life in a world full of other bears, people, dogs, and wildlife. It is critical we do not interrupt this valuable time of teaching and learning. Please do not harass bears for photographs or allow dogs to be off-leash in areas where bears live. Approaching bears can pressure them

to feel defensive. Bears may be comfortable with people at a distance, but the boundaries of personal space are unique to each individual. Bears may use their voice to ask for space (huffing, jaw popping, excessive exhaling). Occasionally, they may take a step in your direction to request that you back away. This is how bears communicate to us when we are too close.

THE COLOURS OF THE SPRING ARE VIBRANT RED AND ORANGE One unmistakable sign of late spring is the vibrant red and orange hues of salmonberries. Berries are an essential food source for black bears and many other wild animals. Salmonberries are especially important, as they are the first berries to appear. After bears eat berries, they disperse the seeds in their scat and assist in replenishing the forest. We think it is fair to ask that you please pick berries from residential areas and leave the berries in the forest for the animals that depend on them for survival.

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Nature Conservancy Canada takes over Gates Lake land NATIONAL NON-PROFIT HOPES TO CONSERVE AREA NEAR ANDERSON LAKE FOR GRIZZLY BEAR, AT-RISK SPECIES

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE NATURE Conservancy of Canada (NCC) now owns 111 hectares of forest and wetlands near Gates Creek. Five years ago, the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program—a partnership between BC Hydro, the province of B.C., Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and public stakeholders that aims to conserve and enhance watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams (which owned the land)—began the process of transferring it to NCC for long-term conservation. Earlier this week, the national notfor-profit announced ownership of the property, located about five kilometres southwest of Anderson Lake, had officially been transferred. “We’ll be managing the land for ecological purposes to conserve and look for opportunities for restoration,” said Steven Godfrey, West Coast program director with NCC. “And also we’ll be working with the

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N’Quatqua to see if they have any cultural interest here. We’d like to accommodate any traditional uses.” While the area isn’t particularly desirable for recreation, public access will be determined as part of the management

Grizzly bear biologists identified the property as a location that bear populations from the South Chilcotin could meet with those from the Stein Nahatlach. “For this [land] specifically, part of the [appeal] was the grizzly bear conservation

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plan for the area, expected to be completed in the next year. “It’s not necessarily somewhere someone would like to go for a hike,” Godfrey said. “It serves a purpose for habitat for coho, sockeye, and grizzly bears. The land will be left to restore naturally and we’ll look for opportunities to facilitate that with restoration projects.” As part of the process to determine if the land was a good fit for its work, the NCC worked with Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative, the Pemberton Wildlife Association, and Conserve Northwest.

strategy and looking to identify the leastcrossed paths,” Godfrey said. “There’s opportunity for genetic mixing for grizzly bear populations at risk in the area.” On top of that, NCC identified the area as suitable habitat for 14 species at risk, including the olive-sided flycatcher, monarch butterflies, the western toad, and wolverine. The property is on a low floodplain and fed by an underground aquifer. As a result, the wetland and streamside areas also provide a home for other “rare and important” plants, amphibians, birds, and mammals. “I’ve spent a little bit of time up there

and there’s definitely some good habitat for all kinds of species,” Godfrey said. While the FWCP transferred the property to the NCC, it also contributed to an endowment fund to ensure long-term stewardship of the area. The Government of Canada, through the Natural Heritage Conservation Program, Canada’s Nature Fund, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and TELUS Communications also provided funding. “Funding land securement is one of our most effective tools to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife,” said Todd Manning, FWCP Coastal Region board chair, in a release. “In the case of Gates Creek, conservation of this rare and valuable habitat has long been a priority as we work towards having thriving fish and wildlife populations in watersheds that are functioning and sustainable.” This isn’t the first piece of land NCC has secured in the area. Last fall, it also took ownership of a parcel of land down Pemberton Meadows Road along the Ryan River (about 20 minutes from downtown Pemberton). “There is public access there if people are interested, but it also serves as important bear habitat,” Godfrey said. “It’s not somewhere necessarily that enjoyable for recreational hiking, but birders, or someone willing to put some effort in can check it out.” For more, visit natureconservancy.ca. n

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Timing is always a challenge, Westerholm said. “If it looks like the timing is just not going to be conducive to that, or we’re not going to get the amount of information back that we’d like to, or be able to connect with as many folks as we can, we can always delay that a bit if we have to,” she said. But the SLRD has done a lot of research since launching the project, Westerholm added. “So we have lots to work with, but it will be important to monitor that for sure, and just to make sure that we are getting that feedback,” she said. “Because that’s a really key piece, too.”

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SOFI REPORT HIGHLIGHTS REGIONAL DISTRICT’S TOP EARNERS The SLRD board also received the district’s annual Statements of Financial Information (SOFI) at the June 23 meeting, which details the top earners among staff, as well as payments to suppliers. Fifteen employees earned remuneration (which includes things like employee contributions to the Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance and health benefits) above the $75,000 SOFI threshold last year, up from 11 in 2019. Director of legislative and corporate services and interim CAO Kristen Clark led the way with a remuneration of $190,961, followed by outgoing CAO Lynda Flynn at $140,974 (Flynn also did contract Emergency Operations Centre work for the SLRD in 2020). All told, the SLRD paid $2,494,202 to its staff in 2020, up from $2,371,406 the year before. But this year’s SOFI report should be viewed through the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, said SLRD chair Jen Ford. “The pandemic took a huge toll on our team at the regional district … we had a couple of people leave shortly before the pandemic, and that created an enormous workload on a very, very small staff,” Ford said. The result was extra contract work to fill the gaps, “so it does show a bit of a skewed picture,” she said. The SLRD’s 2020 SOFI lists $7,382,393 in payments to suppliers and $18.9 million in total expenses (compared to $11 million and $19.2 million, respectively, in 2019). “There wasn’t any big, huge expenses [in 2020],” Ford said, noting that one large expense, making board meetings more accessible through technology, was covered by a safe restart grant from the province. n

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Be nature-positive ON MONDAY I arrived at Alpha Lake Park in the early morning hours to work on a burdock patch I’ve been winnowing down for a few years. As I moved to dig some up at the edge of the parking lot, I noticed a pile of empty cans, drink bottles and wrappers

BY LESLIE ANTHONY that had clearly been ejected from a car the previous evening and left to who knows what ends. While I stared, others passed them by not noticing or, if they did, looking away. As usual, my immediate thoughts pinballed between wondering who does things like this and why, to what’s wrong with people in general and why it’s still happening in Whistler despite all the messaging to the contrary? Our parks— and other parts of the valley—fill with garbage daily in the summer, and there are hundreds of piles like this to contend with. Though most are left by visitors with no skin in the local game, some is the doing of locals who have no qualms over tossing a beer can in the bush. In either case, this inexplicable selfishness and entitlement is nature-negative thinking: it’s no big deal, it’s a parking lot, I couldn’t find a garbage can, someone else will clean it up. Our collective thinking, of course, should be the exact opposite: we should all want—no,

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need—to find a garbage receptacle no matter what. Whether we’re in a hurry or can’t see one in our field of view, securing trash should always be job one—even if we have to take it home: I am responsible for this; I cannot despoil the environment or harm wildlife. It’s a directive that should be kneaded into our psyches from an early age and baked into our consciousness. Keeping our home free from trash would then translate to keeping others’ homes trash free, which would scale upward from local, to regional, national and global consciousness on the environment in general. If we were more nature-positive in our outlook around something so basic, then every other human endeavour would flow in a similar direction. Such a psychological shift could be a real game-changer when it comes to tackling the big crises of our times, climate change and biodiversity loss. It could be even bigger in heading off Brobdingnagian environmental problems in the first place. Such was the thinking on May 28 this year when Allish Campbell, Canada’s Ambassador to the EU, joined the WWF European Policy Office in organizing an online presentation of a consensus position paper authored by 12 ENGOs: A Nature-Positive World: The Global Goal for Nature. The event featured scientific and international experts exploring the study’s core idea—a nature-positive world. The paper called for a set of actions based on Earth-systems science. For the sake of typical human-goal setting and institutions that have been overwhelmed by the biodiversity crisis in much the same way as we’ve all been overwhelmed by the climate crisis, it set out a simple, concrete global target that aims to bend the curve

on species loss and extinction such that the trend is reversed to a level of zero-netloss by 2030. The discussion was led by the paper’s lead authors: Canada’s Harvey Locke, chair of the IUCN WCPA Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force at Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative in Banff, and Johan Rokström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam. They were joined by Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International. The main takeaways: • We need integrated global strategies and synergies between global climate, sustainability and biodiversity political processes. Consensus on the linked relationship between climate and biodiversity (biodiversity loss accelerates climate change and vice-versa) suggests that shared solutions can produce multiple co-benefits, thus a need to find synergies between climate, biodiversity and development agendas. In other words, high-level political commitments should reciprocally mainstream biodiversity and climate aspects. In order to do this in a way that all can understand, a clear, global goal for nature is needed—a simple success metric to mobilize commitment the way the 1.5˚C target mobilized commitment to the Paris Climate Accord. • As mentioned above, that global goal for nature is to become nature-positive by 2030, a target that means achieving zero-net-loss of nature from today. This requires a global shift towards sustainable production and consumption patterns. Attaining a 30 per cent level of land protections by 2030 (on the table for an upcoming global biodiversity convention) is essential to the success of this

target; the ultimate shared goal should be to achieve an equitable, nature-positive, carbon neutral world by 2050. • We need a conceptual shift to a nature-positive hierarchy. This requires transforming our perception of how things relate to each other. Instead of the usual intersectional conceptualization of environment, economy and society as three circles, where sustainable development can only be achieved in some overlapping sweetspot, we need a hierarchical visualization of the environment-society-economy nexus, where economy is the outcome, society the medium it occurs in, and both are imbedded in a nature that creates all benefits. • From a planetary boundary framework and Earth-systems science perspective, there’s great support for the adoption of a global nature target. We are currently at high risk of destabilizing the Earthsystem equilibrium, which is experiencing unprecedented pressures (hello heat wave!). If you want to know more about this, check out Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet on Netflix. Co-hosted by Rockström and David Attenborough, the film puts the current collapse (at this point not too strong of a word) of Earth’s biodiversity into perspective and shows how the crisis can be averted through nature-positive actions. Finally, we can all help steer minds and outlooks in a more nature-positive direction. I might have started by not wondering who dumped garbage at Alpha Lake, but by just picking it up myself—like I was cleaning my home. Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. ■

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Whistler 1) What is the Lil’wat (L’il’wat7úl) name for the area encompassing Whistler? (Bonus point if you can provide the Squamish People’s (Skwxwú7mesh Úxumixw) name for Whistler.) A) Chkẃelhp B) Ucwalmícwts C) Cwítima D) Srap7úl 2) Last month, the managing partners of the Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) announced they would defer old-growth logging for 2021 as they look to reach a consensus on the future of the public forest. When was the last time old growth was harvested commercially in the CCF? A) 2012 B) 2016 C) 2018 D) 2020

A) The fastest-moving gondola and the highest cable car above ground B) The fastest moving gondola and the first gondola system to officially host a multi-course dinner C) The highest base jump from a gondola and the longest unsupported span between two cable car towers D) The highest cable car above ground and the longest unsupported span between two cable car towers 4) Which nightclub that sat where Moe Joe’s is now closed down in 1999 after losing a three-month battle with the municipality to host exotic dancers on a nightly basis? A) The Boot Pub B) The Savage Beagle C) Capone’s Nightclub D) Club 10 5) The spotted owl, considered functionally extinct in B.C.’s wild, was last heard calling in Whistler near where Function Junction is today on July 17, 1946. Who heard the call, a man considered Whistler’s first citizen scientist? A) Karl Ricker B) Don MacLaurin C) Alex Philip D) Kenneth Racey 6) There has been a recent push for several B.C. communities—Whistler included—to host a future edition of the Olympic Winter Games in tandem. What year is being considered to potentially bring the Games back to the resort? A) 2026 B) 2030 C) 2034 D) 2038

9) As of June 10, Whistler had the highest COVID-19 vaccination rate of any community in B.C. At that point, roughly what percentage of Whistlerites aged 12 and up had received at least one dose of vaccine? A) 81 per cent B) 88 per cent C) 92 per cent D) 96 per cent 10) In the ‘90s, what was then Whistler’s largest intact wetland was lost when a new development was built. Where was the wetland located? A) Around Green Lake B) The Zen lands C) Around Callaghan Creek D) Function Junction

ANSWERS: 1) C. The Squamish name for Whistler is Skwikw. 2) C. 3) D. 4) C. Complaints came in after ads for “Capone’s Exotic Nights” began appearing around town, leading to a hastily approved bylaw that banned nudity in C-licensed establishments. 5) D. A manufacturer’s agent for timber and mining companies who arrived in Whistler (then Alta Lake) in 1920, Racey would become a seasoned wildlife observer, recording 137 bird species and 41 mammal species locally. 6) B. Provincial leaders—including 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee president John Furlong—have made the case for a “regenerative” 2030 Olympics that Furlong said could involve as many as eight or nine host communities. 7) D. Whistler resident and Green candidate Jeremy Valeriote’s margin of victory narrowed after mail-in ballots began being counted and the recount was completed. 8) B. Ski A&E followed pisteurs in Val Thorens, France. 9) C. 10) A. Locals protested the development of the Nicklaus North Golf Course, leading to the longest public hearing in RMOW history, clocking in at around seven hours. Over the years, Whistler has lost more than three-quarters of its wetland habitat.

8) Several TV series have been set or filmed in Whistler over the years. Which of the following shows was NOT shot in Whistler?

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3) In 2015, the Peak 2 Peak Gondola earned two Guinness World Records. What were they?

7) Which political party was initially announced as the winner of November’s provincial election in the Sea to Sky’s riding—which would have been its first ever win in the riding—only to see Liberal MLA and former Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy eke out the victory by just 60 votes after a judicial recount?

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1) Who doesn’t love road trips? The Trans-Canada highway is one of the world’s longest national highways (beat out only by Australia’s Highway 1). How long is it? A) 7,821 kilometres B) 5,295 kilometres C) 10,143 kilometres D) 8,472 kilometres

in which visitors kiss a dead cod fish and take a shot of rum C) A Prince Edward Island tradition descended from pirate culture, where new seamen must jump overboard their fishing vessel and swim back to shore D) What people in Saskatchewan call it when someone gets so drunk they pass out 5) One region in Canada is known for having the highest tides in the world. Where are they found?

2) Why don’t people in Churchill, Man. lock their doors?

9) Canada boasts having “The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.” What event is this tagline referring to? A) The Calgary Stampede B) Osheaga Music and Arts Festival C) The northern lights D) Vancouver’s Celebration of Light 10) We love our trees. What percentage of the world’s forests is located in Canada? A) 21 per cent B) 2 per cent C) 13 per cent D) 9 per cent

A) Because they all live in igloos B) Because the locks freeze in cold temperatures C) Because it has the lowest crime rate in the country D) To give neighbours quick shelter if they run into a polar bear on the street

A) Baffin Bay B) The Bay of Fundy C) Hudson Bay D) Queen Charlotte Sound

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6) Canada has more _______ shops per capita than any other country in the world.

3) Canada is home to Manitoulin Island, the largest freshwater island in the world. In which body of water is it located?

A) Coffee B) Doughnut C) Skate/snowboard D) Toy 7) Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park. In what year was it established?

A) Lake Ontario B) Lake Superior C) Lake Huron D) Great Bear Lake

A) 1875 B) 1912 C) 1908 D) 1885 4) What does it mean to get “skreeched in?” 8) Which of the following is Canada’s oldest business? A) An old Yukon tradition where one walks through a forest in search of owls on a full moon, and screams as loud as possible if one is spotted to welcome the new lunar phase B) A traditional Newfoundland ceremony

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Politics

1) Prior to assuming Canada’s top office in 2015, critics accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (then 43 years old) of being too inexperienced, and “just not ready.” But he wasn’t the youngest to ever do the job. Who is the youngest Prime Minister in Canada’s history? A) Arthur Meighen B) Stephen Harper C) Pierre Trudeau D) Joe Clark

8) In what year did Canada’s First Nations people gain full voting rights? A) 1960 B) 1945 C) 1910 D) 1867 9) Voter turnout is always a hot topic in election season. What was Canada’s highest-ever turnout for a federal election? A) 76.4% B) 79.4% C) 87.2% D) 89.1%

A) Viola Desmond B) Ellen Fairclough C) Agnes MacPhail D) Adelaide Hoodless

A) David Suzuki B) Paul Manley C) Elizabeth May D) Jenica Atwin 7) With just two sitting MPs and an apparent leadership crisis unfolding, the Green Party is unlikely to reach official party status in the upcoming election. How many seats are required to reach that status?

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6) Which Member of Parliament recently “crossed the floor,” leaving the Green Party to join the Liberals?

A) Lucy Maud Montgomery B) Ellen Fairclough C) Agnes MacPhail D) Clare Ogilvie

5) Who was Canada’s first woman MP?

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4) Though Kim Campbell became Canada’s first official woman Prime Minister in 1993, she wasn’t the first woman to do the job. Who was the first woman to serve as Acting Prime Minister?

A) Three years, seven months B) Two years, four months C) Two years, eight months D) Three years, one month

ANSWERS 1) D. Joe Clark was just 39 years old when he became Prime Minister on June 4, 1979 (though he turned 40 the following day). 2) C. Canada’s shortest minority government—led by John Diefenbaker of the Progressive Conservative Party—lasted just 177 days, from the returning of the writ on Aug. 8, 1957 to the dissolution of Parliament on Feb. 1, 1958. 3) A. Canada’s longest minority government lasted 1,329 days, from January 1922 to September 1925. But for a bit of bonus trivia, the Liberal government led by William Lyon Mackenzie King technically fluctuated between minority and majority status during the Parliamentary session due to coalition-building, byelections and MPs crossing the floor. 4) B. Ellen Fairclough—also the first woman to hold a position in Canada’s Cabinet—served as Acting Prime Minister for two days in 1958, after she was appointed by John Diefenbaker to the role. 5) C. Agnes MacPhail became the first woman to sit in Canada’s House of Commons after being elected as a Progressive in the Dec. 6, 1921 election. 6) D. Jenica Atwin made history in 2019 as the first Green MP elected in Atlantic Canada, defeating incumbent Liberal Matt DeCourcey. Atwin returned the seat to the Liberal fold when she crossed the floor on June 10, 2021. 7) A. It takes 12 seats to achieve party status in Canada. The Green Party earned its first seat on the federal stage in 2011, when Elizabeth May won the B.C. riding of Saanich—Gulf Islands. 8) A. While First Nations people were given a conditional right-to-vote status with Confederation in 1867, they had to give up their treaty rights and Indian status to do so. It wasn’t until July 1, 1960 that First Nations people could vote without losing their treaty status. 9) B. Nearly 80 per cent of Canadians cast a ballot in the 1958 election—a far cry from the lowest voter turnout of 58.8 per cent in 2008. In the most recent Canadian election in 2019, 66 per cent of Canadians cast a ballot. 10) C. Since Mayor Jack Crompton was acclaimed in the 2018 election, he technically didn’t have to run for office. But a whopping 20 people put their names forward to run for council (of which six were elected). How many will answer the call in 2022?

3) Minority governments are typically in power for shorter periods. What was Canada’s longest-reigning minority government?

A) 16 B) 28 C) 20 D) 21

A) Six weeks, four days B) Eight months, 16 days C) Five months, 24 days D) One year, six days

10) The next local elections in Whistler (and across B.C.) are scheduled for Oct. 15, 2022. How many people ran for office in Whistler in 2018?

2) While Canada’s next election is still set for October 2023, many believe Canadians will head to the polls this fall, just two years after the 2019 election. What was Canada’s shortest minority government?

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1) How many recipes does the average Canadian know, a number that has increased slightly during the pandemic as people have spent more time in the kitchen? A) 3.4 B) 5.3 C) 6.7 D) 8.9

A) B.C. B) Ontario C) Saskatchewan D) Nova Scotia

2) Which award-winning Pemberton-area restaurant is relocating to Whistler this winter?

8) What ubiquitous sandwich spread was first patented in 1884 by Montreal pharmacist Marcellus Gilmore Edson?

A) Mile One Eating House B) Barn Nork C) Town Square Restaurant D) The Pony

A) Peanut butter B) Mayonnaise C) Chocolate-hazelnut spread D) Pimento cheese

3) It is widely believed that Canada’s Indigenous peoples didn’t make bread until contact in the 18th century with Scottish fur traders, who brought along their own version of bannock. But historians in the 2000s discovered evidence of bread-like foods being made long before European contact that often utilized which ingredients instead of the more contemporary bannock made from wheat flour?

9) Seven years after the founding of the original Food Network in the U.S., its Canuck counterpart Food Network Canada launched in what year?

A) Moss B) Flour from wild plants C) Cat-tail pollen D) All of the above 4) There are 21 steps up to the main entrance of 21 Steps Kitchen + Bar at St. Andrew’s House, but how many steps do staff members have to walk up when they use the back entry to the kitchen? A) 12 B) 18 C) 23 D) 34 5) Milestones restaurants started in Vancouver in the ‘80s, but as of late last year, its last location in the city proper closed down for good. Then last month, the chain was sold to Foodtastic, a franchisor based where? A) Ontario B) Quebec C) Florida D) Massachusetts 6) Whistler restaurant manager Cliodhna Minihane was one of four hospitality workers across the province recently recognized by the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association for exceptional service. Where does she work? A) Earls Kitchen & Bar B) Araxi Restaurant C) Alta Bistro D) Hy’s Steakhouse 7) American chain Fuddruckers, which claims to make the “World’s Greatest Hamburger,” has more than

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A) 1997 B) 2000 C) 2005 D) 2007 10) You may be surprised to learn this staple of North American dining can actually trace its origins to Vancouver’s Gastown, circa 1870. A) The drive-thru B) The potluck C) The Chinese buffet D) The clambake

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Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1,519

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7700 PEMBERTON MEADOWS RD†

#14 - 7438 COTTONWOOD STREET

PEMBERTON

Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4 Acreage: 17.35

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Square Feet: 1,545

Life at the lake! Located steps away from Anderson lake, this meticulously maintained and solidly built 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home sits on over half an acre. A perfect oasis to host family and friends, as either a weekend getaway or for full time living.

A truly unique offering with a beautiful 4 bed, 4 bath post and beam home, income generating duplex with 6 bed & 4 bath, 2 garages, a seed house, mechanical shop and wood shop.†This is prime farmland, includes all infrastructure needed for staff and equipment.

New from the studs up, completely renovated townhouse is a great opportunity to own a fully updated home. This home was impacted by a ﬁre and is undergoing a complete update with new everything. Completion is October 2021.

Detached Home

Organic Farm

Townhome

$790,000

$3,600,000

$799,000

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#111 - 2020 LONDON LANE

#501/#503 - 4315 NORTHLANDS BLVD

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1024

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 905

EVOLUTION

CASCADE LODGE

This luxurious two bedroom residence in “Evolution” is located at the base of Whistler Mountain. Full ownership allows you the ﬂexibility of unlimited personal use with revenue potential. After a day out exploring enjoy the outdoor swimming pool and hot tub.

You can’t beat this location of walking distance to the ski hills, restaurants and shops from Cascade Lodge. This suite is a lock off 1 bdrm & studio. Up to 56 days of personal use each year and the remaining time you can generate some revenue while you aren’t using your suite.

Condominium

$999,000

$549,000

Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 1 Square Feet:1,128

Lot Size: 1.34

Square Feet: 7,642

PEMBERTON PLATEAU

Acres

Just in time for the best summer ever, this Anderson Lake home is ready to be yours! Located at Heritage Park and the Boat Launch, this is a fantastic home for year-round living or as a cabin for your family getaways.

Located a ten minute walk from pristine Gates Lake, imagine your dream cabin here on this buildable lot.

The building site is ready for your dream home with all utilities at the lot line and a signiﬁcant amount of lot prep completed. The panoramic mountain and valley views are simply amazing and this lot enjoys all day sun.

Detached Home

Building Lot

Vacant Land

$670,000

$340,000

$469,900

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9209 PORTAGE ROAD

ANDERSON LAKE

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10008 KOOCHA ROAD

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D - 2309 BRANDYWINE WAY BAYSHORES

Bedrooms: 3.5 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet:1,243 Brandywine Mews – While surrounded by forest and nature, enjoy relaxing on your west facing deck. It is an easy walk to the Creekside base, along the Valley Trail, where you will ﬁnd parks, lakes, shopping, dining and, of course, the gondola! Ski home via the close by Kadenwood ski out trail. Perfect spot for fulltime or weekend home!

Townhome

$1,269,000

22 ACRES

JANE HEIM

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1757 PINEWOOD DRIVE

1873 HIGHWAY 99

Bedrooms: 7 Bathrooms: 4 Square Feet:3,349 Beautiful and expansive home with privacy, stunning views, 3 bedroom rental suite, and 2 car garage. Brand-new kitchen with Bosch appliances, deck with new hot tub and absolutely stunning view. Located minutes from Pemberton bike trails and the new Recreation Park.

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Square Feet:1,845 22 acre property at the base of iconic Mount Currie with 360-degree views and all-day sun. Perfect for the horse lover with a 5,000 sq.ft. barn with 8 stalls, a 2,000 sq. ft. fully enclosed barn with hayloft, and fenced pastures. Includes an established apple orchard, and the zoning allows for a Cidery, Brewery or Distillery.

PEMBERTON PLATEAU

Chalet

$1,639,000

PEMBERTON

Chalet on Acreage

$3,395,000

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1504 ALTA PLACE

#37 - 4000 SUNSTONE WAY - ELEVATE

Lot Size: 1.9

An exclusive enclave of five estate properties within a 9.1 acre private oasis close to the Valley Trail and Alpha Lake featuring stunning views of Whistler peak and vast sun exposure. Design your dream home and build up to 5,000 sq ft plus an auxiliary dwelling in this majestic neighbourhood and enjoy the four-season Whistler lifestyle.

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Square Feet: 2,026 This spacious, elegant duplex features an open-concept layout complete with designer finishes and expansive deck to enjoy unobstructed mountain views. Thoughtfully designed for your active Pemberton lifestyle, Elevate duplexes are ideal for growing families or the perfect weekend home with plenty of room to entertain.

Vacant Land

Duplex

WHISTLER

PEMBERTON

Acres

$2,349,000

$1,209,000

SOLD Personal Real Estate Corporation

DAN SCARRATT

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1749 PINEWOOD DRIVE

7374 PEMBERTON FARM RD EAST

PEMBERTON

Bedrooms: 5.5 Bathrooms: 3.5 Square Feet: 2,345

Bedrooms: 7 Bathrooms: 5 Square Feet: 5,260

Enjoy all the Pemberton Plateau has to offer in this desirable family neighbourhood with easy access to the Mackenzie Basin trail system, the new recreational field, and the Friendship Trail.

Amazing family home on 8.1 acres beside the new Sunstone recreational field, Friendship Trail, and close to Pemberton! Above the valley with southern exposure, this property has everything you need in a private family estate while still having easy access to all amenities.

Chalet

$1,249,000

$3,199,000

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1) Last year, Arts Whistler got approval to host an unusual summer art event. What type of transportation did you need to use to (ideally) access it? A) A car for a drive-in B) A bike to pedal through an art show C) Something to paddle on Alta Lake D) Your own two feet for a roving art show

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9) Which Juno Award-winning artist(s) changed their name this year?

5) Which film won the Whistler Film Festival’s Audience Award last year? A) The Paper Man B) Marlene C) Titanic 2, the Ship Down Under D) Bad Boys for Life

A) The Weeknd, from The Weekend B) Arkells, from We Are The Arkells C) Michael Bubbly, from Michael Buble D) The Halluci Nation, from A Tribe Called Red

6) A renowned Canadian artist marked the 50th anniversary of an important album this year. Who was it and what was the album?

10) A stand-up comedian celebrated their 46th birthday this year by skiing topless in Whistler with a drink in one hand and some sort of smoke-producing object in the other (as seen on Instagram). Who was it?

A) The Weeknd for After Hours B) Celine Dion for Courage C) Arkells for Rally Cry D) Crown Lands for Crown Lands

A) Neil Young, Harvest B) Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate C) Joni Mitchell, Clouds D) Joni Mitchell, Blue

A) Sarah Silverman B) Adam Sandler C) Dave Chappelle D) Chelsea Handler

3) Whistler artist Arne Gutmann was recently featured in a solo show. What was the unique source of his inspiration for the show? (Hint: it was called Stranded.)

7) Canadian actress Annie Murphy is best known for her role as Alexis Rose on Schitt’s Creek. What is the colourful name of her new dark comedy on AMC?

A) Getting stuck on his paddleboard out in Howe Sound B) A year he spent shipwrecked on an island C) Strands of his wife’s hair D) Being stuck in Whistler while the highway was closed

A) Kevin, Mud Man of Oshawa B) Sh*t in the Creek C) Kevin Can F**k Himself D) Sexy Beasts

2) The Juno Awards took place earlier this spring. Who won Album of the Year?

4) Which Sea to Sky restaurant exterior is featured (under a different name) on the TV show Virgin River? A) The GLC B) The Boot C) Mile One Eating House

8) Which Marvel superhero movie star offered support to the protesters fighting to save old-growth forest at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island? A) Mark Ruffalo B) Robert Downey Jr. C) Scarlet Johansson D) Paul Rudd

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ANSWERS 1) C. The unique event, Art on the Lake… literally, returns on Aug. 5, with alternate rain days scheduled for Aug. 12 and 19. 2) A. 3) C. The infamous Poo Font creator was inspired when he walked into the bathroom after his wife had finished showering and noticed long strands of hair left on the shower walls in compelling designs. 4) D. 5) A. 6) D. 7) C. 8) A. In June, the American actor best known for playing the Incredible Hulk shared an online petition calling for an end to old-growth logging and tweeted his support of the Fairy Creek activists. 9) D. 10) D. Handler is no stranger to Whistler, and had been in the resort since December on a work visa.

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Sports 1) What was the last all-Canadian NHL roster to win the Stanley Cup? A) 1993 Montreal Canadiens B) 1975 Philadelphia Flyers C) 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs D) 1983 New York Islanders 2) Canadian Mark McMorris, one of the most famous snowboarders on the planet, is known for his dominance at the X Games, but what was the result of his first ever X Games Slopestyle competition in 2011?

5) Which Canadian soccer player was named Bundesliga Rookie of the Year for the 2019-20 season? A) Phil Folden B) Mason Mount C) Moise Kean D) Alphonso Davies

9) In 2014, while he was a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Martin St. Louis won a gold medal for team Canada at the Sochi Olympic Games. Who is the only other current Tampa Bay Lightning player who was present at those games?

6) Which Canadian basketball players are tied as the highest drafted Canadians in the NBA?

A) Victor Hedman B) Ondrej Palat C) Steven Stamkos D) Nikita Kucherov

A) Silver medal B) 4th place C) 8th place D) Bronze medal

A) Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett B) R.J. Barrett and Steve Nash C) Andrew Wiggins and Steve Nash D) Jamal Murray and R.J. Barrett

10) Of the four names mentioned below, who was the only women’s hockey player to be named captain of Team Canada for multiple Olympic Games?

3) The Florida Panthers have the longest postseason series-win drought in the NHL. How many years has it been since the Panthers have won a playoff series?

7) How many members of the 2006 Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team are still playing in the NHL as of the 2021 season?

A) Hayley Wickenheiser B) Caroline Ouellette C) MariePhilip Poulin D) Cassie Campbell

A) 30 B) 24 C) 16 D) 10

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A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3

4) The 2020 NBA Finals featured the Los Angeles Lakers versus the Miami Heat. How many Canadians in total were rostered in that series? A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 4

8) Local mountain biker Finn Iles has called Whistler home since he was 10 years old, but in which Canadian mountain town did he spend the first decade of his life? A) Revelstoke B) Fernie C) Banff D) Jasper

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Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that the Pemberton Valley Dyking District of 1381 Aster St, Pemberton, BC intends to make an application to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development (FLNRORD), Surrey, for a License of Occupation for Institutional/ Public works such as gravel removal and a hydrometric station situated on Provincial Crown land located at that part of lot 10, District Lot 498, Lillooet District, Plan 1477, containing 6.42 hectares. More or less. The Lands File Number for this application is 2411760. Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: https://comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/applications 2) By mail to Senior Land Oﬃcer at 200-10428 153rd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1E1. Comments will be received by FLNRORD until July 7, 2021. FLNRORD may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact information Access Operations at the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services in Victoria at: www.gov.bc.ca/ citz/iao/. Planning your perfect Whistler wedding? P I C K U P Y O U R C O P Y T O D AY !

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Local mountain bikers have success in Europe SPORTS BRIEFS: WHISTLER OLYMPIC PARK CLOSES FOR SUMMER; ALPINE CANADA ANNOUNCES NEW ACTION PLAN

BY HARRISON BROOKS OVER THE PAST couple of weeks, a handful of local Sea-to-Sky mountain bikers have been riding in various competitions across Europe. Leading the pack were the young Canadians Jackson Goldstone and Tegan Cruz. Goldstone took home second in the Leogang World Cup Junior Downhill event in Austria before going on to Crankworx Innsbruck where he would finish first in the U19 Downhill event, seventh in the Clif Speed & Style, 12th in pro male Specialized Dual Slalom and was a finalist in the Whip Off competition.

GOLDEN GOLDSTONE Squamish’s Jackson Goldstone takes home the gold in the U19 Downhill event at Crankworx Innsbruck. PHOTO BY CLINT TRAHAN/CRANKWORX

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Meanwhile, Cruz took home first in all of the U17 events: Downhill, Dual Slalom and the Rock Shox Pump Track. Canadian success didn’t stop there. Whistler’s Finn Iles made a top-15 appearance at the Elite Men’s Downhill at the World Cup in Leogang before taking third in the same event at Crankworx. Lucas Cruz also had a top-25 finish in the Specialized Dual Slalom event. On the female side, the Canadians put on a clinic with Vaea Verbeeck, Casey Brown, Bailey Goldstone and Georgia Astle all finishing in the top 20 in Elite Downhill. Verbeeck and Astle also finished in the top 10 of the Clif Speed & Style with a second and seventh place finish, respectively. Brown took second place in the Dual Slalom followed by Verbeeck in fourth and Astle in eighth. Verbeeck was the only Canadian to make the top 10 of the Rock Shox Pump Track, finishing sixth, with Brown and Astle following up inside the

top 20. And finally, Brown took home second in the Whip Off competition. Many of the riders will remain across the pond for the next couple weeks or months to continue the European Circuit. Next stop for many of the riders is the World Cup in Les Gets, France on July 3.

ALPINE CANADA ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2021-2026 With the vision of “powering a nation to peak performance,” Alpine Canada announced a new Strategic Plan with the goal of being a “world-leading ski racing nation.” The planned outcome is to be consistently first in the world in para-alpine skiing (currently third), continue to be first in ski cross and to be top five in alpine (currently 10th). The challenges currently facing

Alpine Canada include ski racing being Eurocentric making the cost of supporting athletes greater, a revolving door of European coaches, lack of affordable access to on-snow training and gaps in the development program. The plan to solve these problems includes rebuilding domestic national competitions and international hosting, developing a pool of National Team-ready Canadian coaches, identifying Next Gen talent at an earlier age and designing programs specifically to progress athletes from World Junior Championships to World Championships. Also included in the plan is to increase membership and grow the brand to attract more marketing opportunities to fund the athletes.

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VILLAGE OF LIONS BAY TAKE NOTICE that on July 6, 2021, at 7pm, Council of the Village of Lions Bay intends to consider adoption of the following amendments to Procedure Bylaw No. 476, 2015, as amended: Sections 11 (2) and 11 (3) - Allow for presiding chair of meeting to participate electronically along with the rest of Council For further information, please contact admin@lionsbay.ca

DOWNHILL DOMINANCE Squamish’s Bailey Goldstone (top) and Whistler’s Finn Iles hitting the slopes during the Elite Downhill event at Crankworx Innsbruck on Thursday June 17 in Austria.

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now into August, according to a press release from Whistler Sport Legacies. “The park will remain closed to the public due to filming in the area,” read the release. “Once filming is completed, the park’s gates will open for self-guided sightseeing.” The exact date that filming will be completed is still unknown, but more information will be released in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, this closure means summer biathlon, hiking and disc golf will not be available this year, but will return in 2022. When filming is complete, the park will open again for self-guided sightseeing. For anyone looking for any Olympicthemed activities, head over to the Olympic Park’s sister venue, the Whistler Sliding Centre, where summer bobsleigh will be available with a “youth slide free” promotion from June 30 to September 5, 2021.

WHISTLER BMX OPENING Whistler BMX is back for summer 2021, after a full year out of operation due to the COVID19 pandemic. After attempting to open in May, but not having much luck due to the weather, Whistler BMX is now a full-go for its Tuesday night rides. According to Whistler BMX president and track operator, Jody Hallett, the track isn’t exclusive to just BMX bikes and welcomes riders with bikes of all kinds. “Dirt jumpers are fun on our track,” she said. “BMX is amazing skill development for all kinds of riding. A lot of the pro downhill riders have come from a BMX background.” Races run every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and membership fees, that are required for insurance purposes, are $65 dollars for a full-track membership and $35 for a halftrack membership. More info can be found at its website whistlerbmx.com, or on its Facebook page. n

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Whistler Skating Club had great season despite COVID-19 pandemic WHISTLER’S FIGURE SKATERS WERE ABLE TO ENJOY A MOSTLY NORMAL SEASON LAST YEAR DESPITE SOME CHALLENGES

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE WHISTLER FIGURE Skating Club, and Skate Canada B.C., beat the odds during the pandemic being one of the only skating organizations across Canada that was able to continue operation through most of the pandemic. “We completed the 2020/2021 Whistler Skating Club season where we were met with some remarkable challenges because of [COVID-19],” said Deborah Bordignon, vice-president of the Whistler Skating Club. “[But] we were able to overcome these challenges with the help of our coaches and our skaters and the parents who supported the option that we got from the [RMOW] to operate through COVID. “Through that cooperation and some really hard work on behalf of our coaching staff led by Dianne Diamond, our skaters won several awards at a virtual competition for their season end.” The club was able to continue training its 35 competitive star academy skaters through the summer and winter, but unfortunately,

wasn’t able to run its learn-to-skate programs that usually have more than 100 kids sign up—adding financial difficulties to the list of challenges. However, despite the unusual circumstances, the club saw success with many of its skaters putting up great scores in the virtual B.C. Coast Regional Event, the season’s only competition. “It was B.C Coast that organized it but it was provincial,” said Diamond. “Our skaters performed in our arena under competition settings, and it was all shown over five days where you could go online and you were told what time you would be able to watch your performance, with the judges set up in their houses judging the performances.” Unlike other sports, like gymnastics, that also moved to virtual competitions but allowed the competitors to take multiple attempts at their routine, the skating competition was as close to a live event as it could be. Skaters were given three minutes of warm-up time, then everyone would clear the ice and each skater would have one shot at performing their routine for the camera. According to Diamond, the competition

had well over 700 total skaters from across the province and was only possible due to the “amazing team” at Skate Canada B.C. On top of the competition success, Whistler Skating Club also ran multiple summer programs during the pandemic last year, including a seven-week summer school as well as multiple training sessions with Canadian Olympic figure skater Patrick Chan and his wife, Liz Putnam. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic year, Diamond believes there were some benefits for the club in having a more sheltered and low-key season. “I think we came together, the skaters and the coaches, we really bonded this year because of what we were going through, and we were stronger in the end, definitely as a community, and our relationships were stronger with each other so that was a definite bonus,” she said. “It was incredible seeing it come together. And then because we weren’t allowed to do any adult skating [or] any learn-to-skate programs, our competitive skaters had so much more ice time than a normal year that they just really improved. Everybody improved right across the board.”

This summer, as the pandemic starts to clear up and restrictions begin to lift, the Whistler Skating Club is looking forward to returning to a more normal schedule that includes the same summer programs as last year, but also being able to bring back the learnto-skate programs for all the municipality’s children who missed out on it last year. “I think we are going to have a massive celebration the week of July 5th and you know we are going to do something with our masks … and just celebrate not having to wear a mask when we train on the ice,” said Diamond. “But I’m also looking forward to seeing the little Can Skaters and the adult skaters participating in the club again. It’s a celebration, it’s a growing club and we are doing great stuff. We’ve got great skaters who work really hard, they train really hard and they’re motivated and passionate, so it’s exciting. “And we have Patrick Chan coming and working with us on a regular basis … he’ll probably come out sometime in July and then again in August.” For more information on the skating club’s summer programs and registration visit its website at whistlerskatingclub.ca. n

NOTICE OF HAZARD

On this Canada Day, we mark the anniversary of Confederation which took place 154 years ago. As we reﬂect on what it means to be Canadian, we acknowledge our country is in mourning for the loss of so many young lives at residential schools. May we all stand together in respect and understanding of our Indigenous communities across this country.

This Notice of Hazard is published in accordance with section 25 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and pursuant to Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) Policy 7.3: Mount Meager Landslide Hazard Notification. The SLRD is in receipt of a journal article entitled: “Hazard and risk from large landslides from Mount Meager volcano, British Columbia, Canada”. The article was published on March 1, 2008 in Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. The article identifies a safety risk to persons and property from debris flows in the Mount Meager and Lillooet River valley areas as far south as the head of Lillooet Lake. A copy of the article is available as follows: • at the Pemberton & District Public Library; and • on the SLRD’s website at: http://www.slrd.bc.ca/ services/emergency-management/local-hazardwarnings/mount-meager-landslide-hazard. Dated this 7th day of July, 2021. Melany Helmer Chief Administrative Officer

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Provide your input on the Age-Friendly Assessment and Action Plan The Resort Municipality of Whistler is seeking input from residents, second homeowners, caregivers and service providers to inform an Age-friendly (55+) Assessment and Action Plan.

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Input is being collected via a community survey, virtual one-on-one interviews and focused conversations. The online survey is available at whistler.ca/AgeFriendly and closes at 11:59pm on Sunday, July 11. Paper copies of the survey are available at the Whistler Public Library, Whistler Municipal Hall and Meadow Park Sports Centre.

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VELOCITY PROJECT

Zero waste-ish I AM A JAR hoarder. I have a weird inability to throw old jars into the recycling bin. Instead, I tuck them in the drawer, for future use. (And every now and then my partner stealthily culls them, and I start over, undeterred.) There is

BY LISA RICHARDSON some part of me that believes we are going to run out of jars, one day, globally, as a civilization, and my foresight will mean I will have plenty of storage devices that smell faintly of decades-old peanut butter or salsa. It may be because the biggest environmental battle that informed my childhood was over Fraser Island, a sand island off the coast of Queensland that was being mined for sand, to make glass, presumably for jars, and windows, and screens, and concrete. Just last month, University of Queensland scientists at the School of Civil Engineering announced research is underway to develop a process for making cement with recycled glass, because sand runs out. Explained Dr. Mehdi Serati from UQ’s School of Civil Engineering, the amount of sand in the world is finite, so ingenuity is needed to solve the problem of a looming shortage. “If we don’t do something about

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sand depletion at a global scale, our grandchildren are not going to see sandy beaches,” Dr Serati said. “Over the past 20 years the cost of sand has increased by six times, and it’s the second most consumed natural product globally, after fresh water.” As an Australian by birth, sandy beaches are sacrosanct. Life in Australia doesn’t make sense if there are no sandy beaches. It’s just unimaginable. And so, I merrily hoard jars. But hoarding alone won’t save the beaches. So I have turned to the Zero Waste Chef, a Canadian-born blogger turned San Francisco Bay Area editor for Mother

and a way to get “more in tune with the natural world that might lead us to better preserve and protect” it. She argues that the word “disposable” is a marketing stroke of evil genius, coined to convince us that we are “able” to “dispose” of single-use plastic—as if when it’s out of our sight, it has magically disappeared, which we all know is the most dastardly kind of magical thinking. Out of sight might be out of mind, but it’s not out of play. She’s 100-per-cent granola (recipe included), so I can understand if you experience a reflexive desire to keep that kind of earnest puritanical kitchen priestess

“We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.” - ANNE-MARIE BONNEAU

Earth Living, who took her protest against plastic pollution not to the streets but to the kitchen. Not only does Anne Marie Bonneau endorse my jar hoarding (she’s been living plastic-free since 2011—what else are you going to put your bulk pantry supplies in?), she encourages people to try making your own sourdough, ricotta or bubbly drinks, as a way of reducing packaged and processed food, and plastic waste. She calls fermentation “an act of defiance against our broken food system”

at arm’s length from your household, lest she glimpse the frozen pizza in your freezer and all your other anti-Earth-Mother sins committed in the name of just getting through the day and keeping the ravenous hordes fed… But wait! The math invites us to reconsider this binary of perfection or bust. As she says, in her new book, based on the blog, Zero Waste Chef, “Zero waste isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. You can live a little bit zero waste. And if 10,000 people reduced their waste by 10 per cent that

would reduce 10 times more waste than if 100 people got their waste down to zero.” The math makes my brain shut down, so I just cut and paste it directly, but “the point is, every little bit counts, especially when it’s amplified by a lot of us having a go.” Or, a calculation that I can understand: “We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.” This exact sentence is how she won me over. (Also, the jar-hoarding endorsement. And the recipe for ginger beer which is my current addiction.) But the rallying call to imperfection! Because, I don’t really need any more aspirational benchmarks that I’m incapable of meeting, because I’m flawed, flailing, and trapped in a system that means every aspirational thing I want to do, to help improve the world, or life for other people, essentially means swimming upstream. So bring your flawed and flailing selves to the Zero Waste Kitchen Party. Bring your big hearts, your hope for your kids, your affection for a grandma or aunty or someone you imagine had a little Earth Mother wisdom in her fingertips. Bring your fetish for collecting jars. Bring your love for kitchen experiments and weird science. Bring your friends. Don’t bring righteousness or judgment and let’s leave the despair at the door, or in the hammock out back taking a well-needed rest. As we pick away slowly at deconstructing and remaking systems that actually flow with life, I’m just gonna do the best I can, have a drink of home-brewed ginger beer, and keep staking out countertop space for mason jars full of oxymels, ginger bugs, kombucha, as my little Save the Beaches homage. Come join in the fun. ■

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Squamish artist combines conservation and painting CATCH MATHIAS HORNE’S DEBUT SOLO EXHIBIT, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION THROUGH PORTRAITURE, AT THE GALLERY UNTIL JULY 11

BY ALYSSA NOEL MATHIAS

HORNE marked an impressive start to his art career last year. The 23-year-old Squamish painter was part of his first-ever exhibit in October 2020 when the Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature—best known for housing the work of renowned artist and naturalist Robert Bateman—in Victoria reached out to him about including some of his grizzly bear paintings in a show called Grizzly Bears: Teachers of the Land. “One of the curators there reached out to me from my website,” Horne says. “I wasn’t sure of the credibility of it at first because it felt surreal. Everything fell into place.” Peruse Horne’s paintings—coupled with his passion for conservation—and you can see why he might have received a surprise email invitation. His grizzly bear pieces are startlingly lifelike, but also manage to convey emotion from their fourlegged subjects. “Lighting is important to me,” Horne says. “A lot of my subjects, I like to capture them in a non-threatening way—

BIG BEAR Squamish artist Mathias Horne (left) poses with his painting of a Spirit Bear alongside photographer and collaborator Jack Plant. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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specifically animals that are feared—to drive that human connection to these different species.” While Horne hasn’t had any up-close grizzly bear encounters, having grown up in Squamish, he’s had a chance to observe them from afar. “But I’ve had some up-close encounters with other wildlife that’s really inspired that path of conservation through artwork,” he says.

an incredible and memorable experience. The more you talk to people who work in conservation, they have a unique story that prompted their activism. For me, it was that humpback whale.” While Horne plans to expand his collection to include more marine life going forward, Whistlerites can see his bear paintings during his first solo show at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre from June 30 to July 11.

“You’re not allowed to touch wildlife in Antarctica, but they’re allowed to touch you. It was an incredible and memorable experience.” - MATHIAS HORNE

His most memorable experience was on a trip to Antarctica during his undergraduate degree at Quest University. “We were out on a zodiac with a couple scientists monitoring the humpback whale population when a humpback whale started bumping the boat, spraying us, and playing with the boat,” he recalls. “You’re not allowed to touch wildlife in Antarctica, but they’re allowed to touch you. It was

Wildlife Conservation Through Portraiture will feature four of his largescale bear paintings, including three grizzlies and one spirit bear. The life-size spirit bear painting was part of a collaboration between Horne and photographer Jack Plant, who encountered the bear near the Spirit Bear Lodge in the Great Bear Rainforest. Horne had been following Plant’s

work for some time when mutual friends encouraged them to connect. “We developed this painting from a cool experience he had,” Horne says. “It’s a unique composition. You have this life-size spirit bear who’s standing on the coastal rocks with water behind her. You don’t usually see that.” The project was such a success that he’s now working from another Plant photo of grizzly bear cubs. A collection of Horne’s grizzly bear paintings are part of his Grizzly Bear Project, which donates 10 per cent of proceeds from originals and 15 per cent of proceeds from prints to support the conservation of grizzly bears in North America. (Including The Grizzly Bear Foundation, which was founded by Michael Audain.) “I work really closely with the Grizzly Bear Foundation. A lot of my work is directly funding their conservation work. That’s why I paint a lot of grizzly bears as my subjects,” Horne adds. Going forward, he plans to explore new wildlife subjects and get involved with diverse conservation organizations. “I’m wanting to expand more of my collection to include more marine life and other vulnerable wildlife populations and hopefully connect with more conservation organizations that really give back,” he says. For more on his work visit mathiashorne. com. n

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REVIEW: Mount Assiniboine—The Story BY GD MAXWELL IT’S NOT THE HIGHEST mountain in Canada; topping out at 3,618 metres, it ranks only ninth. But it may well be the most beautiful mountain in the country, largely because of its distinct, near-symmetrical, pyramidal shape. That shape inevitably led to comparisons with the Matterhorn and so Mount Assiniboine was dubbed the “Matterhorn of the Rockies.” Remote, even for the largely unexplored wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, the first verifiable sighting of the mountain came in 1883 when George Dawson, a geologist mapping for the Geological Survey of Canada, saw it from atop nearby Copper Mountain. Legend has it he named it in honour of the Assiniboine tribe because, “the peak with its plume of snow and cloud resembled a teepee with smoke coming out of the vent at the top.” Three years later, Dawson’s map of the area was the first to officially show Mount Assiniboine. While there is evidence to conclude the first non-Indigenous person to, “have passed within viewing distance” of the mountain was likely Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, when he was making his epic trek across Canada in 1841, and, of course, there was physical evidence of Indigenous presence near the base of the mountain, such is the importance of written history. All this is revealed in Chic Scott’s wonderful new work, Mount Assiniboine— The Story. In a sweeping, presentation-style book, Scott weaves more than 100,000 words and 3,000 photos—many never widely seen—through 325 pages that describe the “discovery,” exploration, conquest, development and popularity of Mount Assiniboine. Epic in scope, the book was something Scott had mused about for over a decade, having discussed the notion with Barb Renner who, with husband Sepp, operated Mount Assiniboine Lodge for 37 years and whose photos appear generously throughout the stories of the Lodge’s growth period. But it was conversations with Barb’s son, Andre—who grew up at the Lodge with his two sisters and who now operates it on the back side of a 20-year lease from BC Parks with partners, Claude Duchesne and his wife Annick Blouin—that set the stage for Scott’s deep dive into the mountain’s history. It seems apropos Andre, Claude and Scott put their heads together three years ago and got this project off the ground. Since the beginning, the story of Mount Assiniboine has been a family affair. Since the early years of Arthur Oliver (A.O.) Wheeler, who was the Commissioner for British Columbia in 1913 when the province, Alberta and the federal government decided to survey and set the boundary between the two Western provinces, the mountain’s

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STUNNING SCENE Mount Assiniboine—The Story is a new book that explains the area’s exploration. PHOTO FROM THE RENNER YEARS COLLECTION

story has been one of family, if not nuclear than certainly extended. Wheeler, who in 1906 founded the Alpine Club of Canada, was an Irish immigrant whose life was inexorably tied to the Rockies and Mount Assiniboine. It was through his efforts the B.C. government created Mount Assiniboine Park in 1922. Scott’s tireless research puts readers there, throughout the mapping and development of what would be named, in 1984, a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its, “exceptional and universal value.” In researching the book, Scott uncovered an historical anomaly. While it was always thought the Lodge dated to 1928, it turned out it had been built a year earlier by the Canadian Pacific Railroad, whose efforts to bring tourists west on its rails spurred much of the interest and development in the Rockies. So anxious was the CPR to give reasons for people to travel west, they built the lodge prior to securing a lease from the government to do so. It was delving into the records of another Mount Assiniboine pioneer, Erling Strom, a Norwegian who, along with the Marquis degli Albizzi, brought skiing to Assiniboine in 1928, discovering the Lodge already standing. Strom stayed for half a century and ran the Lodge like it was his own. It was a rich 50 years with a cast of characters from cowboys to pilots to an Austrian who would go on to leave his mark on the development of mountain recreation in B.C.: Hans Gmoser. The Renners succeeded Strom and the Lodge’s history is brought up to date with Andre, Claude and Annick. It’s a storied history of a remarkable part of a remarkable province and a book that will have pride of place in the library of anyone with a love of mountains. And there’s only one place you can get it— directly from the Lodge. n

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Whistler Secondary School student wins poetry prize

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BY ALYSSA NOEL A WHISTLER SECONDARY School student recently won second place in a National Student Poetry Contest. Samuel Baker, a Grade 9 student, took home the $60 prize, a certificate, and a copy of the book Intuition, which features his award-winning poem, The Point. Baker’s poem stemmed from a poetry assignment in Johanne Nielsen’s English class in which students were asked to use poetic devices and imagery to “paint a picture using their words.” To that end, The Point describes Baker’s blissful morning walk with his dog to Alta Lake. “I’m very proud that Sam can share his piece with a larger audience than just within our class,” Nielsen says in an email. “By entering this contest, his poem will be published in a poetry anthology, Intuition: A Collection of Poems Written by Young Canadians (Students in Grades Nine through Twelve). This anthology can be purchased online to support this free national contest aiming to inspire young writers across Canada.” The contest is hosted by Polar Expressions Publishing, which aims to “provide a tool to educators in promoting poetry with the goal of inspiring lifelong enchantment,” according to the release. The contest received entries from more than a thousand teachers across Canada.

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POETRY BOOK A Whistler student’s poem is featured in a new collection. PHOTO SUBMITTED

summer. The shows will feature Sea to Sky and Vancouver talent from 3 to 6 p.m. First up, catch local bluegrass band Courageous Mountain Rangers on July 4. Tickets are sold in advance with $15 for the show or $30 for a late lunch/ early dinner. Get them at thepointartists.com.

BACKYARD BOOK BASH Whistler author Rebecca Wood Barrett is celebrating the debut of her book, My Best Friend is Extinct, with a “backyard book bash” at Florence Peterson Park at the Whistler Public Library on Saturday, July 2 from 2 to 3 p.m. The event will include a short reading of the middle-grade book, origami bookmark making, and cookies and lemonade by Purebread. The book will also be for sale by Armchair Books. Bring your copy or buy one on site to have it signed by Wood Barrett. There are both virtual and in-person tickets. RSVP at whistlerwritersfest.com/ summer-comeback-reading-series/.

CALL FOR YOUNG ARTISTS Arts Whistler is looking for artwork from young Sea to Sky talent aged 12 or younger. Submissions will be included in the Whistler Children’s Festival Imagination Unplugged mosaic exhibit. They can be paintings, drawings, a collage or any other medium—as long as they’re 8” by 10” or smaller on paper or cardstock. Only one submission per community artist—which means from Bowen Island to Mount Currie—is allowed. Art can be dropped off at the Maury Young Arts Centre by July 4 or earlier with the exhibit set for July 15 to Aug. 19. For full rules and more details, visit artswhistler.com/event/imaginationunplugged-call-for-artists. ■

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Council to consider extension of asphalt procurement from Alpine Paving Ltd. On July 20, 2021, Council will be provided an update from staff on the use of asphalt procured from the Alpine Paving plant and recommendations on the air quality monitoring program in Cheakamus Crossing. This update is intended to allow Council an opportunity to provide revised direction on the limitations of where the RMOW will purchase asphalt and how air quality data is collected. As part of this update, Council will consider comments from the public. To submit a comment, please email projects@whistler.ca no later than Thursday, July 8. To learn more about the asphalt procurement process, visit whistler.ca/ AsphaltProcurement.

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DISCO FEVER Whistler’s first nightclub, Club 10, opened 40 years ago, starting a business trend that is just as popular today (well, once we are COVID-19 safe). WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION, 1981

A disco comes to Whistler BY ALLYN PRINGLE FOR DECADES, many of Whistler’s businesses, including late-night establishments, have been concentrated within the village. The first nightclub (or, as it was called at the time, disco) to open in the village was Club 10, 40 years ago. Club 10 opened beneath Stoney’s on Friday, March 6, 1981 in the space most recently occupied by Maxx Fish. The venture was a new one for the owners, Michel Segur and Jean-Jacques Aaron, both of whom operated restaurants in the Lower Mainland (Segur’s Chez Michel continues to operate in West Vancouver today). Club 10 offered music, dancing, some limited food such as

the interior of The Longhorn. According to Konqui, the design was “ultra modern mixed with funk,” a combination of “funky, fun and relaxed.” From the ceiling hung a combination of art nouveau lights and disco balls, reflecting red and blue lights throughout the space. Decorations included two plaster angels, an eagle above the bar, a wall of books, and a large image of Humphrey Bogart. The only part of Club 10’s opening that was not a success was the entrance, which was described by the Whistler Question as “a bit disconcerting” and reminiscent of a “somewhat sterile” entry to a warehouse. This problem was quickly solved by hiring Raymond Clements, an artist from Horseshoe Bay, to paint a mural in the stairwell. After three days, the plain walls

“The sound was not made to be loud, it was made to be clean. It’s directed at the dance floor, so you can still sit at a table and talk.” - GUY 0’HAZZA cheese plates and quiches, and drinks in Whistler’s “normal, pricy range,” and, by all accounts, was an almost instant success. As Club 10 was described as Whistler’s first “real disco,” it’s no surprise that the owners invested in their sound equipment and design, though it appears their aim was not to deafen their patrons. Guy O’Hazza, who installed the club’s sound system, said that, “The sound was not made to be loud, it was made to be clean. It’s directed at the dance floor, so you can still sit at a table and talk.” The system was installed with the capacity to use turntables, but at the time of Club 10’s opening the music relied entirely on cassette tapes. The music itself was varied, ranging from new wave to swing to country and more. The interior of Club 10 was designed by Gilbert Konqui, who had also designed Stoney’s and, later that year, would design

were covered by mountains, chairlifts, ferries, and palm trees. Through the 1980s, Club 10 hosted themed parties, fashion shows, and more before being sold to Mitch Garfinkel in 1990. Garfinkel, an attorney from Florida, had plans to open similar bars in various ski resorts under the same name, Garfinkel’s. Club 10’s space was redone, replacing painted walls with wood paneling, updating the sound system to play compact discs, and adding a large bar with a fish tank in the centre. In June 1990, Garfinkel’s was ready to open to the public, complete with its logo featuring a moose holding a draft beer. Garfinkel’s operated for nine years before relocating to its current location in 1999. Though the business occupying the space may have changed, its purpose has been the same since it first opened as Club 10 four decades ago. n

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GOOD MOON RISING A bright, full moon rises over Whistler Blackcomb’s Red Chair on Tuesday, June 22. PHOTO BY MARGARET KRAUSE, MARGYKRAUSEPHOTO.COM. 2 ART ROCKS If you’re strolling down the non-flooded sections of the Valley Trail BLAZE IN BLUEBERRY Whistler Fire and Rescue Service (WFRS) attended a house fire on Falcon Crescent in Blueberry on Monday, June 28, as temperatures soared in the resort due to the ongoing heat wave. Though the fire spread to the roof of the home, it was contained and prevented from spreading to the nearby forested area. PHOTO BY DAVID BUZZARD. 4 CELEBRATING SLOVENIA A group of 1

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locals gathered near the Fitzsimmons Bridge on Friday, June 25—with a homemade flag crafted by Whistlerite Kat Kranjc for the 2010 Olympics—to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Slovenia becoming an independent sovereign state. PHOTO 5 GOLDEN BIRTHDAY Allyson Sutton and friends beat the heat and celebrated her birthday with a paddle down the high-running River of Golden Dreams this week. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 when Whistler has flooded trails to paddle? Backroads staff took their kayaks to the Valley Trail beside Green Lake for flood levels training on Sunday, June 27th. PHOTO BY ALISHA WELCH .

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mindfulness is there,” he adds. I think you Libras will have a special knack for this fun activity in the coming weeks. (Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a series of “Mindfulness Essentials” books that includes How to Eat, How to Walk, How to Relax, and How to Connect. I invite you to come up with your own such instructions.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My unexpected interpretation of the current astrological omens suggests that you will be wise to go naked as much as possible in the coming weeks. Being skyclad, as the pagans say, will be healing for you. You will awaken dormant feelings that will help you see the world with enhanced understanding. The love that you experience for yourself will soften one of your hard edges, and increase your appreciation for all the magic that your life is blessed with. One important caveat: Of course, don’t impose your nakedness on anyone who doesn’t want to witness it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you analyzed the best-selling songs as measured by Billboard magazine, you’d think we were in the midst of a dangerous decline in population. The vast majority of those popular tunes feature lyrics with reproductive themes. It’s as if there’s some abject fear that humans aren’t going to make enough babies, and need to be constantly cajoled and incited to engage in love-making. But I don’t think you Sagittarians, whatever your sexual preference, will need any of that nagging in the coming days. Your Eros Quotient should be higher than it has been in a while. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt, born under the sign of Capricorn, writes, “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.” In my view, that’s an unwarranted generalization. It may sometimes be true, but is often not. Genuine beauty may also be elegant, lyrical, inspiring, healing, and ennobling. Having said that, I will speculate that the beauty you encounter in the near future may indeed be disruptive or jolting, but mostly because it has the potential to remind you of what you’re missing—and motivate you to go after what you’ve been missing. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On July 21, 1969, Aquarian astronaut Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. It happened during a spectacular astrological aspect, when transiting Jupiter and Uranus in Libra were trine to Aldrin’s natal Sun in Aquarius. But after this heroic event, following his return to Earth, he found it hard to get his bearings again. He took a job as a car salesman, but had no talent for it. In six months, he didn’t sell a single car. Later, however, he found satisfaction as an advocate for space exploration, and he developed technology to make future trips to Mars more efficient. I hope that if you are now involved in any activity that resembles Aldrin’s stint as a car salesman—that is, a task you’re not skilled at and don’t like—you will spend the coming weeks making plans to escape to more engaging pursuits. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Astronomers say the Big Bang birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago. But a star 190 light years away from Earth contradicts that theory. Its age seems to be 14.5 billion years, older than the universe itself. Its scientific name is HD 140283, but it’s informally referred to as Methuselah, named after the Biblical character that lived till age 969. Sometimes, like now, you remind me of that star. You seem to be an impossibly old soul—like you’ve been around so many thousands of lifetimes that, you, too, predate the Big Bang. But guess what: It’s time to take a break from that aspect of your destiny. In the next two weeks, you have cosmic permission to explore the mysteries of playful innocence. Be young and blithe and curious. Treasure your inner child. Homework. Send your suggestions about how I might be able to serve you better. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com

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

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5 7 6 2 1 4 9 3 2 1

5 8 1 7 3 7 6 9 3 5 7 2 4 8

9 8 3

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V. EASY Solution, tips and computer program at www.sudoku.com# 55

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ANSWERS ON PAGE 67

JULY 1, 2021

MAXED OUT

Bidding a quiet farewell to a much-loved Whistlerite “THERE ARE,” as a philosophy prof once began a lecture, “two kinds of people.” While she, and everyone in the class who wasn’t daydreaming at the time, knew there were infinitely more than two kinds of people, one of those kinds piped up from somewhere near the back of the class, “Those who dichotomize and those who don’t.” The class sniggered, the prof shot back, “And those who will pass this course and those who won’t.” Point taken, lips sealed. One such easily grasped dichotomy is those who seek recognition and those who don’t want any part of it. On some

BY G.D. MAXWELL level, all of us want recognition in some form or another. But for some, it’s an allencompassing life force. They want to be the centre of attention, want to be the first to speak up, want to have as many eyes on them as possible as often as possible. Taken to extremes, those people are difficult to be around very often. Obnoxious some would say. But they’re also frequently entertaining. They’re the spark plugs that get things going or maybe steer them on to a better path. Like so many personality traits, a fault if carried to extremes, a pleasure other times. And then there are the ones who are most comfortable outside the spotlight. The ones who do what they do and prefer to remain anonymous, or at least in the shadows. Perhaps they noticed at some point in their lives it is the tallest trees in the forest that meet an untimely end as the result of a lightning strike. Their wheels don’t squeak. And if they start to, they undoubtedly have some grease handy. Some travel so far into anonymity they vanish and live a hermit’s life. Others lead rich lives known only to those close to them. They may have stories and accomplishments that amaze those few who find out about them, the ones they let in a bit further than most everyone else. One of them, the remaining half of a dynamic duo, took his step into whatever comes after this life last week. If there is a spirit world where those no longer living haunt those who are, I’m probably letting myself in for a serious haunting just writing this column. But it’s a chance I’ll gladly take. He admonished me, his children, his grandchildren, his friends over and over again not to make a fuss after he was gone. No obituary, no eulogy, no celebration of life. If he could have simply vanished in a puff of smoke, that would have been a perfect end to a storied life. Yet, he sat for a number of hours a few years ago, sharing a couple of wee drams of

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good scotch I’d brought to his house for it’s salubrious effects and spoke in the presence of a small recording device, knowing full well I’d likely make use of it some day. In all those hours the most frequently repeated phrase was, “Not a word of any of this while I’m alive.” I kept up my end of the bargain. But last week, Howard Goldsmid decided his first 102 years were rich enough and decidedly better than the next hundred and quietly, with close family by his side, took his final journey into the unknown. Howard was a quiet force of nature. Perhaps less quiet in his younger days. There is a bit of mystery about those 102 years. It seems there was a difference of opinion about the exact year he was born, his mother holding one opinion and the

But he did care deeply for other people and innately understood the value of goodwill and high spirits. So much so that when seconded to the U.S. military and stationed in Alaska as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force—a vital outpost to thwart any Japanese invasion—he took advantage of his culinary skills, raw materials and understanding of chemistry to assume the role of morale officer. It wasn’t part of his job as a provisioner and it wasn’t anything he volunteered for. It was just his way of making life a little easier for the people pulling hard duty. Potatoes. That was the key. And potatoes he provided to the mess. A mess of potatoes. As anyone even vaguely familiar with Russian literature knows, potatoes, heat, time and not much else

Being a skilled butcher, one never carved meat or foul in his presence…

Canadian government, via the armed forces, holding another. But after 100, does it really matter? Howard knew how to cook and knew his way around a carcass and that knowledge made a lot of Canadian and American soldiers happy. It also set the table, so to speak, for his new rank—“Sergeant Almost”—not that he cared to make the military a career.

except a bit of equipment you can easily MacGyver together from odds and ends in a commercial kitchen yield vodka. And the salutary effects of vodka on soldiers far from home pulling stressful duty is well known. But not always well appreciated by everyone. “They busted me,” he said. And thus ended—well, not really—Howard’s bootlegging career. Howard, along with Lil, a.k.a. Nana G,

who blazed the trail to the afterlife for him seven years ago, ran a number of butcher shops in Vancouver after the military. But he was a divided man and sunk deep roots in Whistler when just getting to Whistler was a travel adventure. Being a skilled butcher, one never carved meat or foul in his presence but instead sat back and watched the master at work. It was a bit like watching a magician perform. Those who were members of the tight inner circle enjoyed gifts of his presentation piece: a boned, stuffed and rolled turkey. Some Christmases he prepared more than 20 of these choice turkeys for friends in the Whistler community. Whistler was richer for its eldest veteran. An early adopter, Howard and Lil juggled work with weekend warrioring. Active in ski racing, an avid climber, a builder, helpful neighbour, Howard blazed a trail in Whistler’s early years and humbly gave back to the town as long as he could, putting in long hours at the food bank. For their 65th wedding anniversary, they held a town party, not an anniversary party, at Dusty’s and raised over $12,000 for the food bank, refusing to accept more than a thank you for the effort ... and a quiet thank you at that. Like Lil, Howard doesn’t want anyone to make a fuss about his departure. So, like with Lil, I won’t. But as with Lil, someone, maybe me, will announce a time and place in the fall, maybe around the first snowfall, when those who remember might just find themselves in the same place at the same time. Maybe with good scotch. Definitely with good memories. Yes, another unmemorial. Richly deserved. I’ll let you know when. ■

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