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38 A park for all riders A locals’ insider guide to the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. - By Alison Taylor

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST While Whistler is technically a resort municipality, the resort is a city in denial, writes Andrew Mitchell. But what type of city should it be?

74 MAXED OUT As we wait for springtime weather to arrive in earnest, Max sets the record straight on some Canadian holidays.

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37 RANGE ROVER Columnist Leslie Anthony reflects on the life and legacy of his mother, Raffaelina.

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48 FORK IN THE ROAD Glenda Bartosh offers up a handy index for inspired eating and eclectic distractions, as required.

52 MUSEUM MUSINGS Whistlerites are spoiled for choice when shopping for mountain bikes, with many of the highest quality and most innovative bikes designed and constructed in our own backyard.

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I had never spent time in the resort before moving here, and so I spent my first few months marvelling at each new discovery—a Valley Trail offshoot here, a hidden little hiking path there, a rushing river with a mini set of rapids tucked away in the forest.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS But for my money, Whistler’s real summer selling point is its collection of pristine mountain lakes.

I’ve always loved the way Roger McCarthy, former Whistler councillor and organizer of Whistler’s annual Great Lake Cleanup, describes our lakes, so I gave him a call to see if he’s still got it.

“The reality is, I’ve worked in resorts all over the world, and some of them are on huge lakes … but Alta Lake [in Whistler], and the connection of the lakes, also, is magical,” McCarthy said.

“If you were planning a resort, designing a resort or doing something along those lines, you’d end up with Whistler … The magic of this place is just extraordinary, and it’s 12 months a year. And the lakes are a significant piece of it.”

Yeah, he’s still got it.

As the organizer of the Great Lake Cleanup—the annual one-day lake-cleaning blitz that coordinates a small army of volunteers and divers to scour all local water bodies for loose trash and sunken treasures— McCarthy himself has been instrumental in keeping Whistler’s lakes clean and pristine over the past decade (stay tuned—the dates for this year’s Great Lake Cleanup are TBD).

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But he also credits the work of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) around things like capacity management in recent years.

“I’m happy about what I’m seeing and how the municipality is responding,” McCarthy said.

“We just need to think more about what are the capacities … I think it’s absolutely critical that we continue to do whatever we can to support the health of the lakes.”

A new Lakes Management Options Report now on file at municipal hall will help with that goal (read more on page 14)—and finally having the homes on West Side Road attached to the municipal sewer system can’t hurt, either.

Going back several years, Ian Spooner, head of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University, has studied core samples in Whistler’s Alta and Lost Lakes—the former lake home to significant development nearby, while the latter has largely avoided those pressures.

species, a potentially harmful strategy that was more common at the time.

Meanwhile, productivity and humancaused “nutrient loading”—signalled by an increase in nitrogen—have steadily increased.

“With nitrogen, it’s a signal of human nutrient loading—so poop and pee,” Spooner said at a Whistler Museum presentation in 2019. “And it’s not going back either.”

I’ve never forgotten Spooner’s “poop and pee” quote, because it’s both disgusting and remarkably effective communication for a professor-scientisttype (I don’t care who you are—your ears perk up when you hear someone, anyone, say those two words).

With the homes on West Side Road finally connected to municipal sewers, I was anxious to hear if Spooner believes our long, local discomfort is finally coming to an end—and I am happy to report that he believes connecting the homes to the sewer system is “excellent” news.

“Hugely positive, and hugely positive for the lake, because it just has so much

“I’d probably have my sorry butt in Whistler within a week if there was some major fish kill, or if there was some tourist who got desperately sick with some kind of waterborne disease, but that hasn’t happened.”

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In the case of Alta Lake, core samples have showed copper and arsenic levels returning to normal background levels after spikes in the 1880s with the advent of the PGE Railway and Pemberton Trail, and the 1960s, when some believe copper was dumped into the lake to rid it of an invasive

pressure through use, and it’s really in a funny way like a huge, huge swimming pool for the tourist community,” Spooner said.

If we’re careful, the lakes can likely absorb the pressure from resident and tourist usage, “as long as we’re not adding to the load,” he added.

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just surf on this and let it be’—it’s kind of that catastrophic principle, that nothing is important until it’s catastrophic.”

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“From a water quality point of view, that would be a huge thing, having those [homes connected to the sewer system], and I would expect if I was coming back in 50 years … that what you’d see is a change in your record, a very strong change towards a lower nutrient environment, which is good for all sorts of things, but I think it’s really positive.

“It’s a good news story, in my book.”

I agree. Any time we can get less poop and pee in the water we swim in, it is good news.

As for Spooner’s research into Whistler’s lakes, he says there are always opportunities for follow-ups, but the reality of his work means Spooner is usually only called in once the proverbial poop has hit the fan (or sunk to the bottom of the lake, as it were).

“I’d probably have my sorry butt in Whistler within a week if there was some major fish kill, or if there was some tourist who got desperately sick with some kind of waterborne disease, but that hasn’t happened,” he said.

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Solution to climate paradox is hiding in plain sight Logically, our representational democracy should have proved a suitable framework to solve the issues that are swiftly converging as existential crises. Now, at the 11th hour, we must have the courage to look objectively at ourselves and our systems, to solve for good governance.

That corporations sit at the table with government is nothing new. The outcomes are well documented in the former leader of the opposition of the government of Alberta, Kevin Taft’s 2017 book, Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming in Alberta, and in Ottawa.

Shockingly, the Governor of the Bank of Canada announced publicly that Canada’s post-pandemic economic recovery would rely on “consumer spending and resource extraction.”

Closer to home, the Woodfibre LNG proposal illustrates the entanglement inherent in government/corporate alliance. Most obviously, the unelected spokesperson for the NDP on CBC’s Early Edition political panel, Moe Sihota, is also a Woodfibre LNG lobbyist.

The former VP of Corporate Affairs, and the first employee of Woodfibre LNG, Byng Giraud, served on the governing council of

BC totalled $1.3 billion, with the fracking industry currently holding $3.1 billion in unused tax credits.

For the purpose of responding to the extinction crises that are upon us, we are caught in a paradox. As citizens we subsidize corporations for which the systems that support life on Earth are considered “externals,” while governments exhort us to consume more (cars, electricity, minerals, plastics) in the name of solving the climate crisis.

The solution to the paradox is hiding in plain sight in our language—the meaning of the old root of the word “crisis” is “decide.”

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the Conservative Party of Canada as VP for Western Canada, as senior advisor to the campaigns of MLAs, provincial ministers, MPs and senators, and as chairman of Ridley Terminals Inc., a coal export terminal owned by the Canadian government. Prior to his position at Woodfibre LNG, Giraud was VP of Corporate Affairs for Imperial Metals from 2010 to 2013.

The Mount Polley Mine, of the 2014 “largest mining disaster in the history of B.C.” fame is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Imperial Metals; B.C. taxpayers contributed $40 million toward “clean-up” efforts and no charges or fines were levied.

Recently, Imperial Metals agreed to a $24-million settlement to not develop a mine near the Skagit River watershed (receiving $7 million each from B.C. and Washington state taxpayers; and $5 million each from the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada).

In the most recent report (2018) by B.C.’s Chief Inspector of Mines, the estimated cost to taxpayers to “clean up” abandoned mines in B.C. was $1.2 billion. Federally, subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry of $1.8 billion were announced or provided in 2020, and in 2021, fossil-fuel subsidies by the Government of

The Millon Bottle Pledge was started by Andy Sward. You might be thinking who is Andy Sward? Well, Andy is going across Canada on foot cleaning up the roads and collecting bottles for his Million Bottle Pledge. But according to Andy’s math, he will not be able to collect 1 million bottles and cans before he is 104 years old.

Last spring, Andy was cleaning up the Sea to Sky Highway and lots of kids in my class were saying they saw him. My teacher read to us about his pledge and it was around the time of Earth Day, so we decided to help Andy.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR N Bottle Pledge. My teacher sent him a message saying that we had collected some bottles for his pledge, along with a quote: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

One year later, my teacher reached out to Andy to see if he wanted to come to pick up bottles and garbage for Earth Day. He said he was about to reach out to ask if he could come with us. My class thought that was crazy timing.

We met Andy on the Thursday before Earth Day. He came into the classroom and told us about the pledge. We met Oskoe, Andy’s cart that he picks up garbage with. We started our walk at Spring Creek Community School and made it to Bayshores Park. We had made Andy a card to thank him for cleaning up the Sea to Sky Highway. There were a lot of quotes on the card.

We went back to school. Then my teacher got a message from Andy saying that he was going to laminate the card the class made him.

At recess, some kids and I counted the bottles and cans we got on our walk. We got another 10 bottles. That may not be that much, but it still helps Andy’s Million Bottle Pledge. Anyone can make a difference. Like Dr. Seuss says, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.”

Ella Hodder // Spring Creek Community School, Grade 6

Newspapers should not get free pass on pollution I read with interest the opinion piece regarding Extended Producer Responsibility (“Newspapers are not packaging,” Pique, May 12). It discusses Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging, but in fact EPR is a concept that applies to both products and packaging as reflected in the many EPR programs we already have in B.C. such as for used oil, electronics, large and small appliances, paint, pesticides, light bulbs, beverage containers, smoke alarms, tires and many others.

The provinces, territories and federal government committed to developing programs for multiple categories of products and packaging back in 2009, but progress has been slow, partly due to resistance by some producers (including newspapers). There are plans to expand EPR to mattresses next, but in reality all non-food products should be covered

by EPR. The BC Recycling Regulation lumps “printed paper” in with packaging as a reflection of how it has traditionally been collected—in blue box systems. I am sure that newspapers could develop their own collection and recycling system if they wished, but that would be a lot more expensive and less convenient to the consumer than the existing system.

Part of the intent of EPR programs is to put the costs of properly handling the products or packaging at the end of their useful life back to the companies that make them. History has shown us that producers make the products and choose the packaging but it is the local governments, taxpayers and the environment

that end up bearing the costs and these costs are not considered by the producers (disposable diapers and Swiffers would not exist if they had).

So part of correcting this flaw is to assign the costs where they rightly belong.

Packaging and printed paper programs factor in the revenue generated by a material that has been collected as part of how it assigns costs to producers so if the newsprint has more value than another material, it will reduce the fees against the costs of handling the material. In an ideal world, they would also provide incentives for better packaging and product design, but we are not there yet.

While the Pique is the main source of quality local news and has no flyers, let’s not forget how this looks in other communities with free papers blowing around transit stations and many sets of unwanted flyers delivered with each paper. Also, let’s not forget the product is news, not necessarily the paper, so online methods can also deliver the same news without the paper.

Newspapers play an important role in our democracy, no doubt, but that does not mean they should get a free pass on pollution. Rather than a blanket exemption for newspapers, newspapers should have to participate in the EPR programs as all producers should so they carefully weigh if a flyer is worth it, and the federal and provincial governments should work out a separate system of how to support independent, quality, local news sources as a pillar of our democracy.

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Alzheimer’s walk set for May 29 I realize that thanks are usually printed after an event, but this very generous donation and matching of dollar for dollar is very special to our community and many pioneers from Whistler that are now suffering with Alzheimer’s. I thought I would highlight the special act of philanthropy and hopefully draw more generous people to the event.

I have been volunteering with the organizing committee that is hosting the Whistler AG Wealth Management Walk for Alzheimer’s which is being held on May 29 at 10 a.m. at the Catholic Church at bottom of Lorimer Road.

This year we are honouring Andy and Cheryl Szocs for their very generous past contributions to our fundraising efforts in support of the Alzheimer’s Society. Yet again they have proved their commitment to this cause and community, and with the Clark Family Foundation have promised matching dollars up to $55,555. What a great opportunity for people to contribute and have their contribution doubled.

Whistler is truly fortunate to have such generous people within our community. Posters have been put up at all subdivision mailboxes in Whistler and other key locations. I hope others in our community can come and join us and honour such generous people.

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ACCORDING TO THE 2021 census the population of Whistler is 13,982, which I feel we can safely round up to 14,000 by now. That number doesn’t include second-homeowners who can spend more time here than their primary homes or the thousands of seasonal and temporary workers that pass through.

BY ANDREW MITCHELL When the town of Salmon Arm reached 15,000, they were officially incorporated as a city, although you can apparently qualify with as few as 5,000 people. The City of Fernie has a population of just 6,320.

Meanwhile, Whistler has been building a “resort municipality” with capacity for more than 62,000, which would make it bigger than the City of Vernon, and is under constant pressure to go even bigger with more housing for employees, seniors and the market—and often all three in the same rezoning application.

Nobody even talks about the bed unit cap anymore, the not-so-hard limit on development the resort once set to try to preserve something of our unique mountain town—emphasis on town—feel. But Tiny

Town, as G.D. Maxwell often calls it, is not so tiny anymore.

While there are lots of good reasons to stay small—like the one busy highway in and out, our insanely long and energyconsuming winters, the diminishing quality of the natural experience, the insanity of our powder day lift lines, the mobs at our local parks in the summer, and the effect of all this growth on the visitors that still prop up our economy— the “small” ship sailed years ago. We’re a city in denial.

But if we are building a city, and the numbers say we are, then it’s time to figure out what kind of a city we want to be. There’s a lot more to it than building houses.

On the practical side, we need to give serious thought to essential services. We have a critical doctor shortage and just one clinic, down from four clinics a few years ago. Our health-care centre is also small, doesn’t run 24 hours or allow for overnight stays, and can’t offer things like routine surgeries.

Our schools are increasingly crowded.

Every new development is accompanied by a baby boom (it’s amazing what secure jobs and housing will do for your birth rate), and right now we’re seeing the effect of two new neighbourhoods in Cheakamus Crossing and Rainbow. If we stopped building tomorrow then we could probably muddle

through with the spaces we have, but we’re doing the opposite. Plans for a new middle school might be worth dusting off.

Recreationally, Meadow Park Sport Centre was built for a much smaller town and is inconvenient for people living south of the village. Whistler really could use a second community centre and a second sheet of ice, as well as another pool with more for people to do. Sechelt has a population of just over 10,000 and has an amazing swimming facility with a waterslide, a longer lazy river, a climbing wall, a rope swing and diving boards. The City of Powell River, which has a slightly smaller full-time population than Whistler, has two NHL-sized rinks, one of them with seating for 1,700. Imagine if Whistler had that along with its own BCHL team.

It has been estimated that Whistler has at least 30,000 people in the resort at any given time, including second-homeowners, workers and guests, which means we need recreational facilities on par with a small city like Mission. For example, given our growing senior population and the need for activities, it might be time to think about a curling rink.

And do we really need three golf courses that take five hours and a minimum $150 to play? What if half of one of the courses was turned into an 18-hole, par-three executive course you could hack your way through in

two hours while the other half was used for other outdoor activities?

When it comes to nightlife, Whistler has always had a challenge maintaining a variety of things to do. That’s excusable for a small town but unthinkable for a city. Whistler could use a bowling alley, a pool hall, an arcade, some family-friendly indoor activities like laser tag, and a venue that could host larger musical acts and cultural events. There was a time when the Whistler Conference Centre hosted concerts somewhat regularly, but it’s been a long while since The String Cheese Incident played the big room—or any musical act that wasn’t brought here as part of a private event.

The retail experience is also somewhat lacking for a city and there are all kinds of things you either can’t buy here or have limited choice.

Take marijuana. I hate to harp on it again (this is the third column in which I’ve mentioned it), but Whistler is one of a handful of communities in B.C. that has yet to write a bylaw to allow marijuana sales, three and a half years after legalization.

Stephen King has published three novels since then—I’m just saying.

I didn’t personally plan on moving to a city, having left one that got too big for me, but here we are. There’s no going back now, so I say let’s make the best of it. ■

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New framework would give RMOW more authority over lakes MUNICIPALITY WORKING TO DISMANTLE ILLEGAL DOCKS ON WHISTLER’S LAKES

BY ROBERT WISLA AS WHISTLER’S LAKES continue to grow in popularity, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is advancing a plan to better manage them.

At its May 10 meeting, mayor and council heard a report on lakes management that outlined some tools Whistler could use to create a new regulatory framework.

But given the number of legislative powers at play, lake management is not a straightforward process.

Though the provincial government owns nearly all freshwater and saltwater foreshore (Crown land between the high and low watermarks of streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean), land adjacent to the foreshore can be privately owned.

Building and locating docks or private moorage facilities on Crown land requires authorization from the province—but buoys and vessels (which includes barges with motors 10hp or over) are governed by federal regulations.

With all of that in mind, lake management has been a tough nut to crack for the RMOW in recent years, but the May 10 report touched on some areas the local government can influence.

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proposals for getting a Lakes Management Options Report (LMOR) completed. The main purpose of that was to scan what other municipalities were doing, looking at the pros and cons of all the different ways that they were trying to manage lakes, and make some recommendations for us,” said environmental stewardship manager Heather Beresford in a presentation to council.

Keeping the multi-jurisdictional nature of local lakes front of mind, management options in the LMOR were laid out on a priority scale—with the simplest-to-implement policies recommended for testing first, and if those don’t accomplish the municipality’s objectives, to move to more complicated inter-jurisdictional policies.

One option laid out in the report recommends installing gates at Alta and Green Lakes that would be locked in the evening, which would limit boaters to day-use only, and adding pay parking to the parking lots at both lakes to prevent long-term parking.

This option could be implemented right away since the RMOW already has jurisdiction over land access points.

If locally initiated policies don’t have the desired effect, more complicated zoning and permitting could be adopted.

To that end, the LMOR recommends creating water zones, which would classify what activities would be allowed at each lake; creating lake-specific development permit areas, which would require environmental assessments to go forward; and pursuing applications to Transport Canada under the Vessel Operation Restriction Regulations to restrict certain vessels from operating on a

lake. This could include banning gas motors on lakes—a measure the RMOW pursued for Alta Lake in 2021, but which was ultimately rejected by the federal government.

The final tool in the toolbox is applying for a Crown Head lease, which would be helpful for the municipality if it wants exclusive authority over an area where it wants to stop any and all development or access.

There’s also the ongoing issue of illegal

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docks, party boats and barges on Whistler lakes, which have continued to proliferate even as the RMOW works to remove them.

“Over the last few years, we’ve been getting more and more letters and comments from the public about the proliferation of docks and party barges on the lake,” Beresford said.

“Just general concern with the aesthetics, the environmental, the experiential effects on the lakes and wondering where this goes and asking the municipality to take more action on it.”

Cleaning up the shoreline of these

unauthorized and derelict docks is a priority for the municipality as the busy summer season fast approaches.

“We’ve been looking to remove derelict docks and barges that accumulate on the lake and the foreshore, which is quite an onerous task,” said resort operations manager Derek Jazic.

“It’s costly. It’s very labour intensive.

It involves environmental considerations, as construction of barges don’t always meet proper environment input for dealing with waterlogged styrofoam, tires, old oil cans, etc.”

A municipal spokesperson said in an email that the foreshore licences will allow existing RMOW bylaws to “extend beyond our parks and over the water into and covering the area of the license. This will allow for discouragement and management of buoys, rogue or derelict docks and other possible nuisance or environmentally damaging infrastructure within an RMOW foreshore license tenure.”

Coming up this summer and over the next year, the province will be taking a staged approach to getting residents to dismantle or legalize their docks. It will start with the province delivering letters to dock owners advising them that they are noncompliant. Owners will then have a chance to decommission their docks or attempt to legitimize them within a deadline period.

“If action is not taken by 2023, in their words, they will take action on the most egregious non-compliant docks and nonmoored structures,” Beresford said.

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Couple’s Sea to Sky crime spree ends in ‘high-risk takedown’ MAN AND WOMAN LINKED TO THREE STOLEN VEHICLES AND RASH OF THEFTS IN WHISTLER AND PEMBERTON

BY BRANDON BARRETT LIKE A MODERN-DAY Bonnie and Clyde, except without the criminal savvy, a man and woman’s Sea to Sky crime spree ended dramatically this week in what Whistler RCMP called a “high-risk takedown.”

The pair, who, earlier this month, reportedly rammed a police car with a stolen vehicle and are believed to be linked to a rash of recent thefts, were arrested in Pemberton early Tuesday, May 17.

In a release this week, police said they were advised at approximately 2:30 a.m. by Toyota’s remote connection services that a Toyota Highlander stolen from the Lower Mainland was located in the area of Park Street in Pemberton.

Whistler RCMP members attended, along with police dog services from the Lower Mainland, and performed “a highrisk takedown” of the pair.

“Our members did a great job in safely locating and arresting these suspects,” said Whistler RCMP Cpl. Nate Miller in the release. “These individuals have committed a great deal of crime in a short period of time in numerous communities.”

Astonishingly, it represented the third stolen vehicle linked to the suspects in the past two weeks. Investigators believe the couple were also responsible for taking a black 2007 Volkswagen Jetta that was reported stolen May 14 from the 1400 block

back in Cheakamus investigating the rash of reported thefts and break-and-enters, they were advised that a bank card taken the night before had just been used at a business in Creekside. Police headed to Creekside and tracked down the SUV. After noticing the unmarked police vehicle, the suspects fled. Officers attempted to pull the SUV over at the intersection of Highway 99 and Lake Placid Road, but the suspects rammed the car before speeding northbound.

The stolen vehicle was found hours later abandoned on Cougar Mountain Forest Service Road.

Less than two weeks later, the suspects, who police indicated are from outside the Sea to Sky, were back in the area.

Investigators believe they are responsible for five thefts from vehicles reported in Emerald on Saturday, May 14.

At approximately 8 a.m., Whistler RCMP were tipped off to a theft from a vehicle in the 9200 block of Emerald Drive. ID, credit and debit cards were reportedly stolen.

Hours later, a complainant told investigators the stolen credit cards were used at a retail store in Pemberton, where officers attended and obtained security footage of the suspects.

“The public needs to take the time to ensure that no personal belongings are left in their vehicles,” Miller said in the release.

A second report of a theft from a vehicle came in at about 10 a.m., this time from the 9300 block of Emerald Drive.

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of Poplar Street in Pemberton, the same day Whistler’s northernmost neighbourhood, Emerald, was hit with five reported thefts from vehicles, also linked to the pair. The stolen Jetta was recovered the following day in Whistler.

The suspects’ spree is believed to have begun in Cheakamus Crossing on May 4, when the man and woman had allegedly entered an unlocked home on Whitewater Drive. The two gained entry into the garage and rummaged through unlocked vehicles parked in the driveway, taking car keys and a garage door opener, police said. A witness told investigators she saw the pair gathering items—likely stolen—from beside a nearby utility building before driving off in a dark SUV, which was later determined to be stolen.

The following morning, as officers were

Two unlocked vehicles were accessed and various personal items, including a wallet, were reported stolen. A stolen credit card was reportedly used at a store in Pemberton later that day.

A half-hour later, a fourth vehicle was reportedly accessed and personal items stolen, also on Emerald Drive.

Wasting no time, at approximately 10:45 a.m., a fifth report came in; this time, various credit and debit cards, along with some clothing, were allegedly stolen from a vehicle.

In a statement, Miller urged members of the public in Whistler and Pemberton “once more to please ensure that your vehicles and residences are locked at all time. Please ensure that your personal valuable items are removed from your vehicles.”

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Land-use contract terminations have been ‘incredibly onerous’ on RMOW staff ‘UNIQUE’ PROCESS CAME WITH HEFTY WORKLOAD AND LEARNING CURVE FOR WHISTLER PLANNERS

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHILE MUNICIPAL staff have long known about next month’s provincial deadline to terminate and rezone several decades-old land-use contracts (LUC), that doesn’t mean the complex process hasn’t come with its fair share of headaches at Whistler’s municipal hall.

“It’s a pretty unique process,” said Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) director of planning and development Mike Kirkegaard following the May 10 council meeting. “I’ve been with the planning department for a while, so there have been some precedents that are somewhat similar, but the volume of work and the number of properties that this has entailed is beyond anything else.”

The RMOW began the process of rezoning its eight LUCs, representing roughly 2,600 properties, back in 2016. In 2014, the province set a deadline of June 30, 2022 to replace the contracts with “likefor-like” zoning, giving local governments enough time to ensure the appropriate zoning and bylaws are in place when all remaining LUCs in B.C. are officially

terminated on June 30, 2024.

LUCs were a regulatory tool used in place of zoning in B.C. between 1971 and ‘78, coinciding with a building boom in Whistler.

“That was the era,” Kirkegaard added.

If there was a comparable process, at least in terms of workload and complexity, Kirkegaard would pin it to the major rezoning undertaken for Whistler Village, which officially opened at the tail end of 1980.

“Within its zoning, the original village didn’t have density provisions that reflected the original master plan and covenants, so we went through a process to rezone all the properties in the original village as well,” he explained.

Jessie Gresley-Jones, the RMOW’s GM of planning and resort experience, said the LUC process has been “incredibly onerous” on staff, particularly three core staffers in the planning department— although staff from other departments, as well as outside consultants, have been brought in at various times to assist with the file.

“We’ve adjusted the schedule for council to accommodate them, and doing public hearings almost every second Tuesday,” added Gresley-Jones. “It has been non-stop

for three or more of our staff for months now.”

Policy development in the planning department is “largely on hold” until the June 30 deadline, and an extra meeting of council will likely be required to get the job done in time, Gresley-Jones noted. “They are all complex, all unique. They’re not always necessarily clear, so they consume a lot of time and it requires discussion among many planners, so it’s a massive undertaking.”

Applying the like-for-like zoning principle—more art than science, in some cases—has proven especially challenging, and seemed to represent the bulk of negative comments the RMOW received during the public engagement periods for each respective LUC. Municipalities have to balance the transfer of regulations from each LUC into the new zoning bylaw—which in itself is not an exact process—with the modern realities of the regulatory landscape. Some rules in the original LUCs, for example, are no longer lawful and therefore cannot be transferred to new zoning or bylaws.

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instance, the still-ongoing LUC termination for Twin Lakes-Tamarisk: although childcare was not a permitted use in the original contract, staff saw it fit to propose it as part of the new zoning.

“Deviation from the like-for-like principle is sometimes required or recommended by staff, as it is possible through the LUC termination process at the discretion of council,” explained RMOW planner Philip Gibbins at the May 10 council meeting. “There is documented need for childcare spaces and the creation of additional spaces is supported

by RMOW policy.”

Three of Whistler’s eight original LUCs have been completely terminated, with replacement zoning in effect. However, since 2014, there were 14 files to terminate those eight LUCs, as the Blackcomb base contract is being processed as six separate files, and the Twin Lakes/Tamarisk LUC is being processed as two files. Six of those 14 files are still active and in various stages of completion: three from the Blackcomb base LUC, two from Twin Lakes/Tamarisk, as well as the Vale Inn in Creekside.

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Whistler doctor sounds alarm on physician shortage WITH ONLY ONE FULL-SERVICE CLINIC REMAINING, DR. KARIN KAUSKY CALLS FOR MORE PROVINCIAL SUPPORT

BY BRANDON BARRETT A LOCAL DOCTOR is sounding the alarm on Whistler’s physician shortage following the closure of Town Plaza Medical Clinic this month, and is lending her voice to a campaign calling for more British Columbians to have access to an ongoing relationship with a family doctor.

“The BC College of Family Physicians (BCCFP) recently released a report confirming that almost 1 million British Columbians are without a family doctor,” said Dr. Karin Kausky of the Whistler Medical Clinic, the only remaining full-service family practice in town, in a release.

According to a February BCCFP poll, 40 per cent of British Columbians who have a family doctor are worried they will lose them to practice closure or retirement.

Town Plaza officially closed May 1 after more than 25 years in operation. With the clinic’s Dr. Ian Tamplin and Dr. Janice Carr both at retirement age, the decision to shutter was delayed several years “because of our inability to get an interested physician,” Tamplin told Pique last month.

“In the Whistler area, and across the province, family medicine is in a state of

crisis,” said Kausky, Whistler’s 2021 Citizen of the Year.

“Family doctors are leaving their practices and new doctors aren’t entering comprehensive family medicine … Without more support from the health-care system, things will only get worse. For everyone in our community to have access to the care they need and deserve, we need a plan that supports and invests in family doctors.”

The BCCFP polling also found that two-thirds of British Columbians without a family doctor cited not being able to find a doctor as the reason, while 19 per cent indicated they don’t have a family physician because their former doctor closed their practice—a 100-per-cent increase from surveying done in 2019.

There are multiple factors driving Whistler’s doctor shortage, most of which are not exclusive to the resort. Recruiting GPs, particularly to a town with such a high cost of living and steep commercial rents, has long proved challenging. But along with the economic realities of operating in a tourist town, the pressure points on family practices have only worsened in recent years. This has led to calls, both locally and provincially, for a complete reimagining of a family practice model that essentially asks GPs to double as small business owners.

Family practices also have to contend with the growing administrative burden of managing things like medical records, bookings and billings, which often falls on physicians, pulling them away from patient care. Kausky noted family physicians spend more than 25 per cent of their time charting, completing forms, and managing referrals.

“We want to work with the BC Government to reduce administrative burdens and improve access to ensure everyone who wants a family doctor has that choice,” Kausky said.

Kausky also played a role in founding the Whistler 360 Health Collaborative, a non-profit working to develop a communitygoverned, collaborative primary care service in Whistler, “with the goal of improved patient outcomes, increased provider satisfaction, and increased capacity, by working with [the] local community,” the release went on.

Emerging out of Whistler’s Primary Care Task Force formed in 2019 to address the community’s health-care gaps, Whistler 360 unveiled its ambitious vision last September for a primary care centre that would dramatically transform health-care delivery in the resort. The centre is aimed at improving physician accessibility and offering a more holistic care model that would include general practitioners, nurse

practitioners, and a range of other healthcare professionals under one roof.

Ideally, the centre would be co-located either inside the existing Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC), a renovated one, or as a standalone facility close by, making use of existing lab and imaging services and easily accessible from the village. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has agreed to provide two rooms within the WHCC to begin the process of adding providers.

Providers at the Whistler Medical Clinic have already taken a step to transition to the society, “so we will no longer be cost-sharing associates; we’ll be part of Whistler 360, and we’re trying to get a couple of other physicians on board,” Kausky said last month.

The next step for Whistler 360 is achieving charitable status so it can fundraise in earnest, which would allow it to hire professional management that would then assist in hiring new physicians or nurse practitioners that would ideally be housed in the VCH-provided spaces at the WHCC. The society is hopeful to add the new providers in the coming months.

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POW Canada goes to Parliament WHISTLER’S MIKE DOUGLAS WAS ONE OF SEVERAL PROTECT OUR WINTERS REPRESENTATIVES TO ATTEND A CLIMATE CHANGE AND SPORT SUMMIT IN OTTAWA LAST MONTH

BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER ESTABLISHING chapters in 12 different cities and towns since its inception in 2018, Protect Our Winters (POW) Canada shredded into new territory last month: Parliament Hill.

“Getting a seat at the table, I think, is the toughest thing, but once you open those lines of communication you have a much greater ability to effect change,” said Mike Douglas.

The Whistlerite was one of five representatives from the not-for-profit organization—which aims to turn outdoor enthusiasts into climate advocates pushing for policy solutions—who travelled to Ottawa for a Climate Change and Sport Summit two years in the making.

As chair of POW’s board of directors, Douglas attended the summit alongside POW Canada executive director Ali Wines, climate scientist and board member Daniel Scott, campaign coordinator Emilie Grenier and ambassador Alannah Yip, a professional climber. The summit was organized by MP Adam van Koeverden, an Olympic gold medal-winning sprint kayaker who currently serves as

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“We were supposed to originally go to Ottawa in April 2020. But obviously with COVID and all that we had a two-year delay, so finally Adam pulled it together,” Douglas explained. The event coincided with Earth Day, a time when “climate and the environment is already top of mind for everybody,” added Wines.

The summit saw POW Canada’s team meet with Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Sport Pascale St-Onge, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, alongside a few other sport groups and stakeholders. While the ministers were looking for POW’s input on the government’s new Emissions Reduction Plan, the climate advocates also wanted to introduce summit participants to POW, its goals and its mission.

It was “a really, really positive experience” overall, said Wines.

“I really felt that [the ministers] were excited to hear about POW and our work and enthusiastic to learn more about us. I felt that they really heard us and that we’re aligned in wanting the same things: for

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Canada to meet its obligations under the Paris commitments and to deliver on the new emission reduction plan that was just released,” she explained.

“I left feeling really good that there are genuinely very passionate people in Parliament who want to make a difference and, you know, probably like the rest of us, wish that things would move a little faster and that the wheels would be easier to turn, but also that they’re really looking for nonprofit organizations like POW to help them to do that; to contribute the information that they need … to really push for those changes.”

What POW’s representatives were focused on, added Wines, was helping the ministers understand “the sheer size and weight of the outdoor industry in Canada.” With nearly 70 per cent of Canadians reporting participating in at least one outdoor or wilderness activity, according to 2018 data from Statistics Canada, it’s clear “this is such a hugely outdoorsy country, and it’s full of passionate people who love these natural spaces and want to protect them,” she said.

The meeting marked a major milestone for the organization, said Douglas, who has been part of POW Canada since its inception.

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“One of the things that always impressed me about POW in the U.S. was their ability to make waves in a bigger way and the trips that they were making to Washington D.C.,” he said. “To me it showed that they were being listened to and they had a chance of being effective. So we set those kinds of goals here in Canada pretty early on that that’s where we wanted to get to try and make a big change. To finally get there was huge.”

While earning a seat at that table might have opened the streams of communication for POW and its 23,000 members, Douglas said the organization still needs the community’s help in order to spark the kind of climate action it advocates for.

“The message that came back to us from the ministers was, ‘We want to do the same things that you want to do,’” he said.

“Having been in there with the politicians, they just want the numbers so that they can do the right thing. Honestly, it’s not much more complicated than that. If we had a million members, I can tell you, we could go in there and change things right away.

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‘Work hard. Ski fast. Be humble’ ‘JONNY’S WEEKEND’ CELEBRATES LATE WHISTLER MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB COACH skis on,” Jennifer said with a laugh.

His love for skiing started with family trips to their chalet at HoliMont Ski Club in Ellicottville, N.Y., a few hours south of their home near Toronto. Jonny would eventually go on to ski for Team Ontario and for Northwood School, a private boarding school in Lake Placid, N.Y., before heading to New Hampshire to compete with Plymouth State University’s NCAA team.

All the while, his goal remained the same.

Skiing “was never just a hobby for him,” said Rob. “His goal was … to make the World Cup, 100 per cent.”

BY MEGAN LALONDE IF YOU SPOTTED the massive crowd gathered around a dual slalom course set up at the Dave Murray National Training Centre on Whistler Mountain last month, you’d be forgiven for assuming the event was a spring race, or maybe an end-of-season celebration for the local ski club.

But the group of nearly 200 skiers and snowboarders gathered on Whistler’s slopes on April 16 was marking more than a successful season—they were finally celebrating the life of Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WSMC) coach Jonathan Kellock, better known to most as Jonny.

He died of glioblastoma—an aggressive form of brain cancer—on Jan. 5, 2021, just two months shy of his 29th birthday.

The impressive turnout for “Jonny’s weekend,” made up of friends and family from across North America and Europe, was indicative of just how big an impact Jonny made on his various communities over the years. Loved ones remember him as an honest, hilarious, and charismatic presence; a great cook; a natural yet determined athlete, “a wicked skier,” and a passionate coach who loved to have a good

A DREAM DELAYED REMEMBERING JONNY Well over 100 friends and family took to Whistler Mountain last month to finally say “a proper goodbye” to skier and coach Jonny Kellock, who died from brain cancer in 2021.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE JONNY KELLOCK FOUNDATION

time and was always surrounded by friends.

Most of all, “he just loved being on snow and he loved the mountains,” said his mom, Jennifer. “He was just a really good human being.”

They also remember him for his brave, courageous battle with the disease that ultimately cut his life short. “Never did I see him ever give a ‘woe is me’ kind of

reaction,” said Jonny’s dad, Rob. “He never complained once—not once,” agreed Jennifer.

Those attributes didn’t come as a surprise for anyone who knew him. They were on display throughout his racing career, right from the minute he first clicked into a pair of skis as a toddler.

“I think Jonny was just born with a pair of

But Jonny wouldn’t finish his last semester of university, after suffering a seizure during his fourth year and ultimately being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour.

“When he was first clear of cancer and healed and ready to do something, that’s when he said, ‘Well, you know what, I think I’d like to coach,’” remembered Rob. Initially, Jonny intended to return to his old stomping grounds in Lake Placid.

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 22 coach] Bob [Armstrong] and see?’” Rob explained. Armstrong’s response? “‘Give me a day,’” Rob recalled. “I mean, I didn’t even have to finish my pitch.”

The timing was “serendipity,” said Armstrong, a longtime family friend of the Kellocks. “We happened to have a spot, and next thing you know Jonny was on the plane and … the rest is history. He really found his zone in Whistler, and in the mountains here. We talk a lot about the community in which Jonny lived and worked, and wherever he was, he was a vibrant part of that community.”

Despite his years of skiing and training in far-flung locations all over the world with those various teammates, Whistler is where he rediscovered the fun in skiing and found a tight-knit community on the slopes, in the backcountry, on the mountain bike trails and on the golf course.

It’s also where he found a passion for coaching. He worked with WMSC athletes for three years before his cancer returned.

“He found his real calling as he started coaching,” said Henry Yeigh, Jonny’s housemate and fellow WMSC coach. “He was a supportive coach that challenged athletes to work hard and put their best foot forward on race day.

“That’s one common theme that kept coming up from them: ‘He was one of my favourite coaches of all time.’”

With COVID hampering most group

gatherings since Jonny’s death, the weekend celebration in Whistler was a long time coming. It was “emotional,” recalled Jennifer, and highlighted by the group ski down from the Roundhouse to “Beauty Can Start” on lower Ptarmigan on Saturday afternoon, where the zone was officially re-named Jonny’s Start.

A sign unveiled during Jonny’s weekend now hangs in the start zone, alongside a

A LASTING LEGACY The weekend was “incredibly cathartic” for his parents and sisters, said Rob. “It couldn’t have worked out better,” he said. “That weekend was perfect. It was absolutely perfect. And it was so good for all of us, his family—we were just humbled by the incredible amount of people that came … It was so good for all of us to be able to see that and be able to be with all of his

“[I]t was so good for all of us, his family—we were just humbled by the incredible amount of people that came … It was so good for all of us to be able to see that and be able to be with all of his friends and his colleagues and say a proper goodbye, really.”

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plaque with a few lines about its namesake.

“Once met, never forgotten,” was one line Armstrong opted to include, as well as Jonny’s mantra: Work hard. Ski fast. Be humble.

“That was sort of Johnny’s mantra without him ever having a true mantra. But he lived that way,” said Jennifer.

Now, “every day we’re there, Jonny’s legacy will carry on,” explained Armstrong.

“His name will be mentioned many times every day, either by coaches or kids—you know, ‘we’re using Jonny’s start today.’”

friends and his colleagues and say a proper goodbye, really.”

Jonny’s parents say they’re thankful their son will live on not only through the athletes he coached, but through the foundation created in his honour.

A small group of friends formed the Jonny Kellock Foundation shortly after his passing with a dual-purpose mission in mind: supporting the development of Canadian ski coaches, while also raising funds and awareness for brain cancer research.

So far, the group has managed to deliver a $10,000 donation to the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, as well as sent two up-andcoming ski coaches to national team training camps and races. Those funds were raised, in part, through challenges like “29 for Jonny Boy,” where friends would clock 29 laps (or kilometres or minutes, depending on each participant’s chosen activity) to mark what would have been Jonny’s 29th birthday.

A group of 11 friends, including Yeigh, now make up the board of directors and get together for weekly calls. The Foundation gained charitable status last fall.

“I think it’s been pretty cool what we’ve been able to accomplish in a year … The only reason that’s possible is because of who Jonny was and the community behind him,” Yeigh said. “People are just so keen to support us because of Jonny.”

In continuing to support Jonny’s passions through the foundation, “we’re able to continue that legacy so that younger kids coming through ski racing in Canada, they’ll know who Jonny was and they’ll know his values and what made him such a great person,” Yeigh said. “So certainly there’s a lot of comfort in knowing that we’re able to pass on who he was so that it’s not like he’s just gone. He’s still there, his legacy is still there and his core values are still there. And so that’s certainly healing, for sure.” n

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Wednesday, June 1 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Help shape Whistler’s Green Building Policy and Demolition Waste Diversion Bylaw The Resort Municipality of Whistler is seeking feedback from members of the building and development industry on its draft Green Building Policy and proposed Demolition Waste Diversion Bylaw.

In Phase 1, you helped to create and refine guiding principles for the rezoning of the 4500 Northlands site. Now we are asking for feedback on how the alternative site concepts align with what we heard, and how they will contribute to our shared community vision.

Stakeholder engagement is being conducted simultaneously on the Green Building Policy and Demolition Waste Diversion Bylaw because of their necessary interconnectedness. All feedback received will be reviewed and incorporated in to the final policy and bylaw as appropriate. Please take time to provide feedback on both projects by visiting whistler.ca/engage

Feedback will be used to help shape the preferred concept that will be brought forward for consideration in Phase 3.

Feedback is accepted until May 27, 2022.

For those who cannot attend the open house, information on the rezoning and additional engagement opportunities will be shared at whistler.ca/Northlands.

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Plan ahead for renovations, builders say WHISTLER MUNICIPAL HALL DEALING WITH SURGE IN APPLICATIONS

BY ROBERT WISLA THINKING ABOUT renovating? Best to plan ahead, say builders in Whistler.

In fact, there’s an alliterative approach to keep in mind when starting any new project, said Bob Deeks, owner of RDC Fine Homes in Whistler.

“Proper prior planning prevents poor performance,” Deeks said.

Fair enough, and catchy to boot.

But even with proper planning, sometimes external factors are beyond one’s control.

Aside from the public health challenges and the drop-off in tourism, the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to long delays for those hoping to complete renovations.

In Whistler, the pandemic, along with cyber-attacks and staff shortages, created a perfect storm that has led to a permitting backlog that is months long.

According to the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), there has also been a surge in building permit applications.

So far in 2022, 320 applications have been received and are currently in process. The total volume of applications has been above average and indicates a surge of pent-up

demand to build and renovate.

The current wait times for building permit applications in Whistler are 17 weeks for residential, 13 weeks for multifamily/commercial and nine weeks for stand-alone plumbing.

The RMOW has worked to help speed up the permitting process, and the processing time has improved since Pique reported on the problem in 2021.

to be fully implemented by the end of 2023.

This will reduce wait times and increase efficiencies as well as make the process easier for applicants by giving more visibility into which stage a permit is at and allow for easier communication between the department and the community.”

There are multiple factors behind the increase in permitting applications for building and renovating properties in

“[O]ne of the things that you see is people adapting their houses to create live-workspaces. Couples who both work [from home] are now looking to renovate houses. So they each have a dedicated proper office space along with other things.”

- BOB DEEKS

“The department has had some changes, including a new manager, additional staff to assist with the digitization project, and plans to recruit an additional building official for the team,” said RMOW communications officer Claire Van Leeuwen.

“The building department is working on a digitization project that is anticipated

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Whistler and the Sea to Sky. According to Deeks, the pandemic has pushed more people to work from home, while many people have chosen to live in their secondary Whistler properties instead of their primary residences in Vancouver.

“Part of that was fuelled by people spending a lot more time in their

recreational property because they couldn’t go to work. It really highlighted some things that they wanted to change, and then through that process, people became very adapted to working remotely. I do think there’ll be people who will not go back to the office full-time,” said Deeks.

“I think we’re going to see a segment of the population who has the financial means and resources, they will spend more time working from home, and we’ve definitely seen people who, through COVID, have transitioned and have essentially left their urban residences, and moved to their vacation residences.

“So one of the things that you see is people adapting their houses to create liveworkspaces. Couples who both work [from home] are now looking to renovate houses.

So they each have a dedicated proper office space along with other things.”

According to Statistics Canada, there has been a massive shift in people working from home. From April 2020 to June 2021, 30 per cent of employees aged 15 to 64 who were surveyed by the government said they performed most of their hours from home.

In contrast, only about four per cent of employees did so in 2016.

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Naturespeak: Garden pest or acrobatic beetle?

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PLANTING SEASON is almost upon us.

Whether you are a backyard gardener, smallscale farmer, or a commercial seed potato farmer up the Pemberton Meadows, you’ve got seeds and starts on the brain. But what else might be seeping into your thoughts before sleep arrives?

Pests… insect pests. Those little lifeforms that may potentially ruin a portion of your crop, or all your hard work to produce a handful of the best potatoes you’ve sunk your teeth into.

One of the many pests of potato plants is commonly known as wireworm. Native and introduced wireworms from Europe feed on young potato tubers as larvae, creating small tunnels which can distort the appearance of the harvested tater. Larvae eventually develop into one-centimetre-long, bulletshaped, adult beetles. These beetles belong to the insect family Elateridae, commonly known as “click beetles.”

Like other agricultural pests, the despised wireworm has B.C. native counterparts that are scintillating, strong, and can even be shiny. Some of the native click beetles have descriptors in their common names like “strange,” “resplendent,” “short-horned,” and even… “sad.”

But why the name “click beetle?” These four-to-15-millimetre-long beetles “jump” in the air while making a clicking sound in an attempt to avoid predators. But the kicker is they don’t use their legs. WHAT? The vertical jump is caused by a “jackknifing” action between the two main sections of their body. The beetle’s muscles build up tension, causing a peg to remain stationary and store elastic energy. When the peg is released, it slides down a track, the hinge is unlocked, and the energy is released. BOOM! The whole beetle pops into the air, which can be as high as 25 times its body length. While in the air, the beetle may rotate multiple times, uprighting itself from its initial “belly” side up position. This wild, rapid flexing motion accelerates “up to 380 times gravity.” Nature is nuts!

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CLICK PIC In B.C., there are just over 210 species of click beetles, of which at least 55 can be found in the Whistler-Pemberton area.

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In British Columbia there are just over 210 species of clicks, at least 55 of which can be found in the Whistler-Pemberton area.

That’s 55 unique, flip-flopping, elongated tiny tanks rummaging around our local forests, flowers, and even in your front yard.

So hopefully the next time you start cursing at a wireworm, aphid, or grasshopper in your garden, remember, they are here most likely due to us humans introducing them into an environment they didn’t evolve in. Meanwhile, their native click beetle cousins are a piece of the Sea to Sky biodiversity web, slowly being broken apart by the climate crisis.

Over millions of years, insects evolved alongside various local plants used for food, shelter and raising young, all while being food sources for other insects, birds and wildlife, as well as decomposing the ecosystem’s waste. So to all our neighbourhood click beetles and insects, say it loud and proud: thank you!

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RENOVATIONS FROM PAGE 26 If you are planning to renovate, Deeks recommends that you bring in a builder early in the process and work with them to figure out a budget that fits expectations and budget contingencies.

“I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to bring the builder in that first step and then work with them and that design team to create that vision of design that meets your budget expectations. Spend time planning to make sure that as many of those details are determined before you start construction,” said Deeks.

One of the factors that plagues the

renovation industry is a reputation for being unable to meet people’s expected budgets and deadlines, Deeks added.

“Part of that is reflected in people rushing in to start work before they have all the decisions made,” he said.

“So then you end up in this spiral of delays because you make changes and ongoing cost increases as the scope of work changes, and the builder becomes super challenged to identify what the cost of the change is at the same time as they’re trying to get it finished based on the client’s original schedule expectation.” n

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Alzheimer’s Walk returns to Whistler on May 29 PARTICIPANTS CAN DOUBLE THEIR IMPACT BY REGISTERING ONLINE

BY ROBERT WISLA WHISTLER’S

ANNUAL Walk for Alzheimer’s is returning to the resort as an in-person event on May 29.

“This is our fifth walk in Whistler,” said Whistler Alzheimer’s Walk Committee chair Erika Durlacher.

“The event is the flagship fundraiser for the Alzheimer Society of B.C. The funds raised provide support services and education for those affected with dementia and enable research into the causes of and cures for the disease.”

Alzheimer’s is a neurodegenerative disease that leads to memory impairment, dementia and a slow loss of bodily functions that can last years, ultimately leading to death.

As of 2020, there are at least 50 million people with the disease across the globe.

The majority of cases affect people over 65.

Approximately 70,000 British Columbians are currently living with Alzheimer’s, and more than two-thirds of British Columbians have personally known someone who has had it.

The annual charity walk in Whistler is designed to bring awareness to the disease

and encourage people to raise money for research and aid. The fundraiser enables the society to provide vital services to British Columbians affected by the disease, including the First Link Dementia Helpline, which is often the first link people have to support services.

“The event is the largest fundraiser for the Alzheimer Society of B.C., enabling the charity to continue to provide crucial programs and services to British Columbians affected by dementia, while it also supports valuable dementia research,” said Durlacher.

“There are typically over 20 events held in communities across the province.

Each of these events is dedicated to an honouree—an individual or group affected by dementia or who has valuably contributed to the lives of people living with the disease. This year the Whistler Walk honours Andy and Cheryl Szocs.”

Andy Szocs has been an active philanthropist in Whistler for decades, regularly contributing to causes he holds dear. The Szocs family, along with the Clark Family Foundation, have already stepped up to commit up to $55,555 to this year’s Whistler event through a substantial lead gift and matching campaign. For a limited time, any funds donated by community members to the event will be matched, up

WALK THE WALK Andy and Cheryl Szocs are this year’s honorees for Whistler’s annual Walk For Alzheimer’s.

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to $20,000. You can double your impact by registering for the Whistler Walk at walkforalzheimers.ca.

The Alzheimer’s cause is important to Szocs because of his mother, who fought the disease for a decade but always kept an optimistic point of view.

“She was always happy. She joked about it,” said Szocs.

Szocs’ mother, Mary, passed away in 2010 at 91 years old. To honour her, Szocs gave a substantial sum of money to renovate a church in Kecsked, Hungary, a small rural village an hour west of the capital Budapest where his mother grew up.

He has continued to be a significant contributor to the Alzheimer’s foundation, which is why he has been named the honoree for this year’s walk.

“The fact is that my mom had it for 10 years, and I’m really proud to be honoured this way, but also it’s more of how can I motivate other people to donate?” said Szocs.

“People tend to forget about the value of people living with Alzheimer’s disease, but they’re still here, and they can contribute.

Mom wasn’t a celebrity. She was an incredible, loving, caring individual who represented so many more people living with dementia.

“People have to realize that giving is a wonderful thing, but it’s a huge responsibility. I want to give to an organization where I can make the most impact.”

The 2022 event will take place at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 29. Find more info at alzbc.org/walk. n

Celebration of Life

Shirley Ann Henry

March 1, 1941 - September 28, 2020

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We have waited a long time to be able to celebrate her extraordinary life.

Please join us on June 11th at the Pemberton Community Centre at 2:00pm to honor Shirley.

Light snacks and refreshments will follow.

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Harrow Road housing development in Pemberton takes another step forward WITH ‘RARE’ FUNDING IN PLACE, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR CONTROVERSIAL PROJECT

BY HARRISON BROOKS AFTER TWO controversial community dialogue sessions earlier this year, Pemberton’s Committee of the Whole heard a presentation on a Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) affordable housing project on Tuesday, May 17.

The project, as proposed, will be a fivestorey, 63-unit housing development with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units as well as ground-floor commercial space, located on the corner of Harrow Road and Highway 99.

According to SSCS, 30 per cent of the units will be market rentals, 50 per cent will be “rent geared to income” (or subsidized units for households that meet BC Housing limits), and 20 per cent will be “deep subsidy,” or geared to those with low incomes.

The need for affordable housing in Pemberton is pronounced, as the community continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, with 32-per-cent growth in the last five years, according to Stats Canada’s most recent census.

“We need to recognize that growth needs to be accommodated with … housing, and housing needs for vulnerable working populations,” said SSCS director of housing Jessie Abraham. “We know that rent rates are now unattainable for the average individual or family. In the past 10 years, rents have increased by 74 per cent and we know that there’s a critical lack of affordable housing supply.”

According to Abraham, in addition to addressing the housing crisis, the project will also address the increasing need for social services in the community when SSCS

AFFORDABLE HOUSING Artist rendering showing what the Harrow Road apartment complex will look like after completion.

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moves its office to the new commercial space on the ground floor of the building.

The development process began a few years ago, with the first step being to find a suitable location for the new building.

According to Peter Gordon, owner of Cascadia Consulting, throughout the search for a location, the following research— which whittled the location pool to six—and the consultation with “a number of landowners … we were only able to come up with one site that remained out of the six,” with that one site being Harrow Road.

The next step involved applying for funding from BC Housing. And out of 73 communities applying for the same funding for more than 13,000 housing units across

the upcoming election or else risk losing the funding and the project altogether.

“No one invited this problem, but it is real. We have a very tight and short timeframe to achieve our zoning, or we will lose the opportunity to take advantage of the BC Housing funding. It will go to another community. [Circling] back to what I said about BC Housing also funding the land purchase, they will only do so once the land has the appropriate zoning in place,” said Gordon about the year-end closing date of the land purchase and the unwillingness of the vendor to extend the purchase window a second time.

“So we must have a third reading ahead of council closing down for that election,

“No one invited this problem, but it is real.

We have a very tight and short timeframe to achieve our zoning, or we will lose the opportunity to take advantage of the BC Housing funding.”

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the province, the Harrow Road project was one of 14 approved to go forward.

“Only 19 per cent of those units were approved by BC Housing, and Pemberton was fortunate to be one of these,” Gordon said. “This is no small achievement, especially given we were the only application that also needed funding to purchase the land. That is rare. So in this case, BC Housing will pay 100 per cent of the cost of this project. Again, rare.”

However, that “rare” level of funding and collaboration from BC Housing, in addition to the upcoming quiet period for council over the summer months and the looming election in the fall, has created an urgency to move the process forward before

as there will not be sufficient time after the election to schedule a public hearing and third reading, other consultations with other agencies, and then hand it back to BC Housing for processing the funding prior to completion date.”

In the SSCS presentation to the Committee of the Whole, Casey Clerkson, principal at CPA Development Consultants, which is working with SSCS on the project, made it clear that the proponents made sure to address each of the community’s concerns regarding the building, which were raised at the community dialogue sessions earlier this year, including building height, parking, drainage and the proximity to the neighbouring community to the north.

“We very much want to hear what the public has to say, how they feel, and identify some of their concerns. We are here to listen, we are here to work with staff and we are here to work with the community on ensuring that we have the most appropriate proposal,” said Clerkson.

Since the community sessions, the proponents have shifted the entire site plan to create more of a buffer between the project and the adjacent neighbourhood, engaged a third-party transportation engineer to ensure appropriate parking needs will be met, and retained the services of a civil engineer to come up with a stormwater management plan.

“And I think one of the loudest pieces that we heard, of course, is around the height,” Clerkson said, noting that many of the questions raised related to the need for the building to be five storeys.

“Why not a four-storey? We looked at this and due to the flood construction level, we would have to import about 2.75 metres of fill on this site, where an exemption would be permitted for the commercial use as [currently] proposed [with the fivestorey]. So the ultimate height difference between a four-storey building and the proposed five-storey building is actually less than five feet.

“So I just I want to ensure the team here listening today, that we are listening, and we are hoping, and wanting to respond accordingly.”

While Councillor Amica Antonelli was still concerned about potential flooding in the area and felt “frustrated” by the rushed timeline of the proposal, the committee ultimately agreed to move forward with the proposal and direct staff to continue processing the application as is.

Any remaining concerns with the project will be deliberated at a future special meeting scheduled for late August.

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Environmental group seeks to protect rare endangered snake in the Pemberton Valley PEMBERTON STEWARDSHIP SOCIETY, IN COORDINATION WITH THE PEMBERTON VALLEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION, PLANS TO TEMPORARILY RESTRICT ACCESS TO POPULAR MOUNTAIN BIKE AREA

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STEWARDSHIP Pemberton Society (SPS) is one step closer to its goal of protecting the habitat of a rare endangered snake in the Pemberton Valley, thanks to funding from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District.

On May 11, the SPS received a grant of $2,000 from the regional district to help with a snake habitat protection and trail relocation project that is being done in partnership with the Pemberton Valley Trails Association (PVTA).

The popular trail set to be rerouted is known as Mission Impossible 3 in the Mackenzie Basin trail area. The trail connects the Mackenzie Forest Service Road (FSR) to the bike parking lot near the Sunstone neighbourhood, where the snake was first discovered in the valley.

“We’re just looking to restrict access to this important piece of habitat while still making sure that the trail use in the area is maintained, given how popular mountain biking is in Pemberton,” said SPS co-founder Veronica Woodruff.

At almost the length of a pencil, the tiny sharptail snake is extremely rare and only found in small pockets across the West Coast of North America. The discovery of the snake near Pemberton in 2011 was surprising, as it was the northernmost discovery of the snake and the only population discovered on the mainland of British Columbia.

“It’s found in Washington [state], about 300 kilometres away, and it’s found on Vancouver Island and some of the Gulf Islands. So it’s very small, about the size of a pencil, and it doesn’t go very far in its whole life. So it’s kind of a funny sighting where we don’t really know where that snake is coming from because 300 kilometres is quite a range expansion for that snake,” said Woodruff.

“Since 2011, we’ve been doing different assessments to understand the distribution of sharptail snakes in Pemberton, and then working with the experts who know this population really well from Vancouver Island. And the thing with sharptail snakes is the only places that we’ve really found it are in areas that are either being developed or are slated for development.”

To further understand the habitat of the sharptail snake, Stewardship Pemberton brought in a group of students from the British Columbia Institute of Technology who were working on their Masters of Ecological Science to research and recommend options to protect the snake.

The students created a 36-page report

RARE BREED A sharptail snake soaks in the sun.

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that looked at various available options, including building boardwalks in the area, but in the end, it was agreed that decommissioning the area’s trails was the most efficient and cost-effective measure that could be taken.

“In coordination with the Pemberton Valley Trails Association [PVTA] and Veronica [Woodruff] at Stewardship Pemberton, we worked out a proposed trail reroute to allow us to keep the trail in place but also save the snake habitat,” said PVTA president Emily Slaco.

“Once the new route has been flagged, and everyone is happy with the new line, then the trail will be closed, and the work on the new trail will begin. The area where there is sensitive snake habitat will be deactivated and closed off using natural materials in an effort to minimally disturb this sensitive zone. We are currently planning to begin some work the week of May 23 and have the new route open by May 30.”

The habitat in question is important because it is a hibernaculum, essentially a “snake hotel,” where snakes congregate together to stay warm over the winter months.

“They need very specific habitat structures in order to have a good winter snooze, and that structure is actually quite limited. There’s a lot of it out there, but a lot of the hibernacula have a whole bunch of species using the same habitat,” said Woodruff. “So where the structure exists, you kind of get the snake hotels, where you’ve got sort of a rocky slope, and there’s going to be little compartments in there.

For the alligator lizard, the garter snake, the rubber boa, and the sharptail snake.”

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Home & Garden

Creating climate-conscious, customdesigned gardens HUGO JACKSON OF VITAE GARDENS WORKS THROUGHOUT THE SEA TO SKY CORRIDOR

BY WILL JOHNSON The Squamish Chief

ANY GOOD gardener knows that everything starts with climate.

For Hugo Jackson, owner of Squamishbased Vitae Gardens, it was climate that first drew him from the U.K. to the West Coast of Canada. As a specialist in Japanese-style gardening, he was looking for an environment where particular Asian plants could grow and flourish. And now that he has developed a business servicing private and public gardens throughout the Sea to Sky Corridor, he can personally attest to the fact that this whole area is a lush gardener’s playground—a far cry from what he grew up around.

“In English gardens, you’ll notice they are very full, with everything all packed together.

You don’t see a lot of soil underneath the plants, whereas in Canada people like to be able to see the black soil. They don’t want it to be too full, because they think that looks messy. You have a lot more structural planting in Canada, versus the mass planting they do in the U.K.,” said Jackson.

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And it’s that element of artistry that he enjoys the most about his work. Having started his business shortly before the pandemic in 2019, Jackson started out by supplying hotels in Whistler and the surrounding area. When that contract dried up, he spent some time landscaping for the city before pivoting his attention to private clients.

“The real advantage of doing different gardens in different pockets all around the Sea to Sky is you never end up doing the same

thing over and over, because the climate will dictate what you can do. Within Squamish you have its normal climate, and then it has microclimates—like a cul-de-sac in the road—and certain areas don’t get light, or maybe there’s extra wind exposure, or it’s warmer, and these micro-climates really dictate a lot of what’s possible,” he said.

“So the first thing I do when I’m looking at a design is I take out my compass and figure out which way the house is facing. If it’s south-facing, it will get tons of sun and

be hot. So you’d have to put in something drought-tolerant or have really good irrigation. I could go to one house on the south side of the street and another on the north, and they could end up with two completely different types of garden.”

In the Sea to Sky, one of the primary concerns for taking care of your garden is soil erosion due to all the rain. This is something Jackson coaches his gardeners through during installation: the importance of top-dressing, which means routinely using a soil amender to replace the nutrients that have been washed away. But this is minor compared to some of the significant damage he’s seen from recent weather events, including the record-breaking heat dome and a particularly nasty winter—his past few months have been consumed with clean-up, in some cases reclaiming gardens that have been absolutely devastated.

When he’s helping gardeners identify their ambitions, Jackson often encourages them to create a vision board that will help them clarify what they find important or pleasing. And he pushes them to think outside the box, exploring how aesthetic preferences in other areas of life may bleed over into the gardening world.

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Whatever catches your eye and makes you think ‘cool.’ Once you have that vision board together, it will help you narrow down what you’re looking for in your garden,” he said.

“You might want a hot tub and a steam room with a cedar deck and a rocky garden beside a putting green, and all of those things look great on your vision board, but once you try to fit it on a piece of paper and think that’s all supposed to fit in one garden you realize ‘that will look like a dog’s dinner.’”

In a way, Jackson has ended up becoming a sort of gardening coach, and it’s a role he relishes. The way he figures, gardening is a lifestyle pursuit that requires hard work and commitment, and not everyone is cut out for it. But if you are, there are plenty of benefits.

“You’ve got to be able to be outside.

You have to enjoy being outside and religiously live by the quote, ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, just wrong clothing.’ That’s massive. You have to enjoy being dirty. You have to be the sort of person where there’s nothing white in your closet because you can’t keep it clean for five minutes. Gardening is about knowing the work you’re putting in is helping to provide happiness and a life to a garden, and to people,” he said.

“I was reading some article and they’ve done quite a bit of research that shows if

you garden without gloves on there’s a whole bunch of enzymes and nutrients that will seep into your skin and help with anxiety, depression, and a whole range of different things.”

As part of Jackson’s service, he provides garden owners with advice about current planting trends, weather issues, and tips for helping their garden survive these environmentally tumultuous times. For instance, recently Squamish released a new bylaw restricting the planting of cedar, yew, and juniper trees within 10 metres of your house, but they’ve continued to fly off the shelves at local big box stores. By making people aware of these issues, he can help them contribute positively in the fight to address climate change.

But most of his advice is pretty mundane, like reminding your kids to brush their teeth.

And one of the most important lessons he imparts is the importance of mulching with the Sea to Sky climate. You can fertilize all your plants, weed properly and top-dress thoroughly to mitigate erosion, but it’s mulching that will get your garden through the winter months.

That’s one of the biggest pieces of advice he gives his customers.

“Mulching is massively important in today’s climate. It’s important to do it in the fall because it will insulate the plants over the winter, and it’s important in the spring because it will help hold the water from irrigation and rain. It really helps with water retention.” ■

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Will Canada finally stem rising aviation emissions in 2022?

THE PANDEMIC briefly slowed global air travel, but it’s taking off again. Commercial flights were increasing steadily before COVID19 hit—by about five per cent a year from 2000 to 2019—and the International Air Transport Association projects a 500-percent increase in passenger numbers by 2050!

That may be good for the sector, but it’s bad for the climate. The industry downplays its impact, claiming air travel contributes about two per cent of global emissions, but studies show that if “radiative forcing” is

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accounted for, it’s closer to 3.5 per cent.

That’s significant: If aviation were a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter.

A relatively small number of people cause flight emissions. Frequent-flying “super emitters,” representing just one per cent of global population, caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions in 2018. Most people, about 90 per cent worldwide, don’t get on a plane in any given year.

Emissions from departing flights at Canada’s three biggest airports—Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver—are greater than the climate pollution from Syncrude, Canada’s largest-emitting oilsands operation.

When launching Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said “we need to take steps across the economy” to meet Canada’s target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 45 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels.

But the aviation sector has so far been exempted from requirements to reduce its total emissions. Canadian airlines’ emissions increased by 75 per cent between 2005 and 2018, Transport Canada reports.

Globally, the industry has only met one of its own 50 climate targets over the past 20 years.

Canada is planning to release an action plan to reduce aviation sector greenhouse gas pollution this year—a once-in-a-decade opportunity to finally turn the corner on rising air travel emissions. Let’s hope it’s better than the 2012 action plan— co-developed with aviation industry groups.

It was voluntary, and delayed reductions to that sector’s total emissions until 2050.

And while 23 countries agreed at last year’s COP26 climate summit to support an ambitious, long-term goal to reduce aviation emissions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 C, that agreement also lacks nearer-term emission-reduction commitments. Similarly, IATA’s net-zero plan defers overall emission reductions to 2035, and relies heavily on “sustainable aviation fuel” and, to a lesser extent, carbon capture, both of which are costly, controversial and currently unavailable at the scale needed.

Delaying actual reductions, as these plans do, runs counter to the need to cut

total global emissions 50 per cent by 2030 to prevent catastrophic warming beyond 1.5 C, as spelled out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Fortunately, some countries are committing to cut aviation emissions over the near term. Denmark has promised to make all domestic flights fossil fuel–free by 2030, and the U.S. announced it would cut aviation emissions 20 per cent by then.

In April, France banned some shorthaul flights, a move other European countries are considering (62 per cent of Europeans support a continent-wide ban).

Spain and the U.K. are considering a tax on frequent flyers.

Canada’s new emissions reduction plan indicates that government will engage with industry and other stakeholders this year to reduce aviation emissions and decarbonize the industry.

Will Canada develop its new aviation plan with strong public participation, and include commitments to significantly cut aviation emission before 2030—consistent with its climate targets? Or will it quietly co-write it with industry, like its 2012 plan, putting industry expansion and profits ahead of actual short-term emission reductions? (Aviation emissions increased 37 per cent since the 2012 plan was released.)

There’s reason to fear it will be the latter.

According to Transport Canada, the ministry has been engaging “industry partners” since early 2022 on the new plan, but it still hasn’t indicated when or how other stakeholders and the public will be engaged and consulted.

Frequent-flying “super emitters,” representing just one per cent of global population, caused half of aviation’s carbon emissions in 2018.

As the prime minister stated, no sector should be exempt from contributing to the fight against climate change and reducing emissions.

For decades, the aviation industry has been allowed to recklessly increase its climate-damaging emissions, putting its own growth and earnings ahead of planetary health and livability.

Canadians deserve a plan to reduce aviation emissions that puts the public’s interest ahead of profits. We can’t wait another 10 years.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington.■

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Remembering Ralf HER NAME WAS RAFFAELINA, but everyone called her Ralf. And she was my mom.

In her 90th year, after graceful acceptance and a short bout with a rare leukemia, Ralf passed peacefully in January as the worst blizzard in decades paralyzed Toronto, the city she spent her life in. No fan of urban snowfalls, she voiced appreciation for the poetry of checking out just in time.

BY LESLIE ANTHONY I haven’t said much about losing her these past few months, maybe because it happened in a whirlwind, maybe because ruminating is my way of processing.

But Mother’s Day sparked the inevitable introspection; my life as a child, her several inspirations, and the respect I eventually grew for the job she did raising four boys, of which I am the eldest. From my recollection on the ground, it was hellacious for her and Leslie Sr.—like waking up every day for a decade to break up a bench-clearing brawl.

Despite the endless refereeing, mediation and triage involved, Ralf kept her cool. She didn’t get mad too often, and it was always a flash in the pan. More importantly, through the tumult she managed to instil in each of us a little of her own character and many talents, whether for art, writing, appreciation of the natural world, business, tenaciousness or even faith. Those who know me recognize the

MEMORIES OF MOM Columnist Leslie Anthony remembers his mom and the influence she had on his life throughout the years.

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bits I glommed onto—and the ones I didn’t.

Although she often faced chaos incarnate with her children, Ralf was pretty lighthearted about it, which is perhaps why it was always easy to sit around and have a chuckle with her. This became a crucial part of our relationship: in later years, calling from Whistler, I could always make her laugh, and, as if my sarcasm were a surprise, she’d always sigh “Oh, Les.” As fumbling adolescents and young men seeking their paths, she was eternally helpful to each and proud of where we all ended up. Like many (most?) parents, she never really understood her enormous role in it. But I’ll get to that.

Born in Toronto to Sicilian immigrants, Ralf was the youngest of four, and spent her first years in the west end before the

several clerical jobs before joining her two older sisters at a customs brokerage.

As a teen, she attended dances at the Balmy Beach Canoe Club, where she met many lifelong friends. She met Leslie Sr. while he was playing baseball at Kew Gardens. He proposed to her outside the Canoe Club and they were married in 1951.

She joined her husband at his advertising company where they’d work side-by-side for decades, Ralf eventually becoming president, with Leslie as CEO, before selling the business and starting several others. They enjoyed travelling, and were particularly fond of Florida, opening new worlds for their four rambunctious boys.

As our quartet breached the terrible teens, they bought a cottage in the near-north of Haliburton, a welcome distraction that

Who I might have been without her is not for me to say, only that I’m indebted and grateful for what I know to be her significant legacy. family moved east to the Upper Beaches (considered suburbs at the time) where her father ran a small variety store. Such were the habits and mobility of the day that her parents weren’t entirely aware Lake Ontario was but a short bike ride away, which Ralf, always a micro-adventurer, discovered in due wide-eyed course, beginning a romance with a part of the city that would centre her social life. Tragically for someone with her intellect and curiosity, she was booted from Grade 9 for being late to class after bullies tied her shoelaces together. There was no arguing or mercy in those days, so she took

became the centre of the family universe, a place for Ralf to pass on her love of reading, writing, art and nature-gazing. But she had already done more than she could imagine in that area.

Though I always remember her drawing, I distinctly recall coming downstairs one morning when I was five and seeing an unusual drawing on the easel set-up in the dining room. It was a beetle, and Ralf was filling in the thick, wavy bands on its back with electric blue and bright orange. I was captivated by this rendering—a radical departure from her typical still-life and

portraiture—but more so by the beetle. I wanted to know everything about it and mom obliged, explaining it was a Sexton Beetle and that groups of them buried dead animals (birds, mice) on which they laid their eggs to hatch and feed. This might have been a gross story but it was real-life— the first I’d heard of the actual machinations of nature beyond talking bunny rabbits and other anthropomorphized creatures in children’s books and on TV. I suddenly wanted to know more about other animals so mom trundled me off on weekly visits to the library to peruse books on insects and other critters. I was hooked.

A parallel thread emerged in which I became interested in several of mom’s interests. I took up drawing, mostly based on observation. I took up writing after reading her work in literary journals and being impressed to see her name printed neatly beneath each piece. She never instructed me in these things but was happy I’d found my way to them, as if the apple now leaning on the trunk of the tree were a natural, expected thing. And perhaps that’s the way it is; without pushing me in any way, Ralf opened doors of perception that I literally ran through.

Fortunately, I got to spend more quality time with Ralf in the last months of her life than the past three decades, and it was great to learn more about her life and to be able to thank her for her role in mine. Who I might have been without her is not for me to say, only that I’m indebted and grateful for what I know to be her significant legacy. And that I already miss picking up the phone to have a laugh with her.

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

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or a teen who lives in a mountain town, with North America’s biggest ski resort as a backyard playground, Dylan Marino has managed to put some miles on his bike even during the winter.

In January, he was riding trails in Vancouver; in February, it was Mount Prevost on Vancouver Island with the Commencal Co-Factory Team; and, by April, he was riding in the early-season, 45-kilometre Pemberton Enduro, placing 10th in his category.

All of it was with one goal in mind for this 15 year old who is sponsored by Commencal Canada: riding and racing downhill this summer.

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FEATURE STORY Putting in those winter and spring laps has paid off, with his fitness level at a high as the downhill season kicks off today, Thursday, May 19, opening day of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, heralding the unofficial start of summer in the mountains (even when it’s raining and seven degrees out).

“That first chair up [of the season] is really exciting, knowing you’re going to drop into a fresh trail,” says Marino, who, like many local kids, plans to follow the unofficial Whistler rule of ditching class for opening day. (Like opening day for the ski season and those occasional precious pow days after a massive dump, Whistler teachers understand the desire to get into the mountains, Marino assures.)

He isn’t the only one counting down. With 23 seasons under its belt to date, the mass appeal of the bike park continues to grow. Male and female. Young and young at heart. Pro and beginners. There is something for everyone.

A family of riders and a fateful bike

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Chris Wrightson clearly remembers a turning point in her passion for downhill. It was the end of the summer of 2015, and she had been attending Ladies Nights in the bike park all summer long and feeling her riding getting better every time she was in the park.

“That’s what I love about the park, I love that progression,” she says. “You’re so focused in that moment. It’s just you and riding.”

Keep in mind, Wrightson and her family had moved to Whistler just three years earlier and, prior to that, she wouldn’t even have called herself a confident rider, never mind a person who could rip laps in the downhill park.

That summer, however, there was a new bike hanging in the GLC that Whistler Blackcomb was giving away to mark the end of the season. Wrightson knew she wanted it.

Up until that point, she had been riding her husband Mark’s downhill bike. It was time to take her riding to the next level with her own trusty steed. There’s something to be said about setting your intentions. Winning that bike, Wrightson jokes, was one of the best moments of her life. Still.

“It was awesome,” she says.

It was also a game-changer, just like the Ladies Nights, which she continues to do every summer.

Every week, some years twice a week, she meets her coach and her biking crew for lessons in the park.

“That was how I started making friends in Whistler when I first moved here,” she says, counting some of those

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That GLC downhill bike was passed down first to her daughter Samarra and then to her daughter Georgia.

Wrightson often rides with Samarra, now a bike instructor with her PMBI certification.

“It’s just great to do something with my 16-year-old daughter,” says Wrightson. “She coaches me through the features.”

The Whistler Mountain Bike Park is designed with progression in mind.

Adds Wrightson: “As I woman who is 45, I just really love doing a sport and progressing.”

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Unlike the Wrightsons, Michele Stalker wouldn’t describe her family of four as downhill riders. They ride bikes, naturally (they live in Whistler after all), but they don’t ride park.

Stalker is the exception to the family rule. “It’s just my thing that I do,” she says.

It started with a birthday present in time for Ladies Nights when she first moved here in 2013. While that was a great way to meet friends and progress in the sport, for Stalker, it’s all about getting out and enjoying the local park a handful of times each season for an evening ride.

“It’s right here at our doorstep,” she says.

At almost 50, she adds: “It’s now or never!

“It’s just something that I know my limits with.”

And that’s where the bike park pays off in spades. There is truly something for everyone, from the green styles of Easy Does It to the double black tech of Schleyer.

“You can challenge yourself however you want,” says Stalker.

For her, nothing beats those flowy berms on Earth Circus and Blueberry Bathtub. Nothing beats that feeling when you’re in the groove, leaning into turns, taking the berms high without any fear of flying over the edge.

“It’s your own little rollercoaster,” she says.

Manchester dreams As a 12-year-old kid growing up in Manchester, U.K., the options were somewhat limited when it came to mountain biking. But there was a niche group of kids discovering

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FEATURE STORY PHOTO BY JEREMY ALLEN COURTESY OF TOURISM WHISTLER the trails near Holcomb Hill, which is where Luke Taylor first caught the bug.

He was hooked right away.

Despite living thousands of miles away, Taylor knew all about Whistler.

He had seen the videos of A-Line, he had heard the legendary stories, he knew what Crankworx, the 10-day mountain bike festival born in Whistler, was all about.

“It was a place I always wanted to come to,” says Taylor.

He arrived, in the late summer of 2018, still in his early 20s.

Even with all that hype, the park lived up to every expectation… and then some.

But there was one thing that Taylor didn’t know from the videos. At the heart of this mountain-biking mecca is a community of riders with a shared passion for the sport, whether they’re double black riders or just getting into downhill.

That’s what made all the difference for him—the crew.

“Everyone supports each other and pushes each other’s riding,” says Taylor.

Progression, naturally, follows from this environment. And it’s not just the park, although that was what drew him to Whistler in the first place.

While he tends to ride in the park after work during the week, weekends are typically reserved for big cross-country rides around the resort, which do not disappoint either.

While Taylor recommends doing the Top of the World for the experience of riding from the top of the mountain to the bottom, he still can’t resist the pull of A-Line, that iconic Whistler trail that in many ways has helped shape all the rest.

Taylor can picture “a party train” coming down A-Line, friends going one after the other in a long line, all in sync, all flowing together.

“Not much beats that feeling,” he says.

Crankworx Returns The biggest, and arguably, best stop on the ever-growing Crankworx tour comes home to Whistler, where it all began, from Aug. 5 to 15.

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, events are storming back this summer. All the old favourites are set to take place: Red Bull Joyride, the Canadian Open DH, the Whip-Off World Championship, the Pump Track Challenge, and so much more.

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Teenage dreams and the downhill circuit The same can be said of coming home to Whistler after touring bike parks and downhill tracks across the province.

This summer, like last, Dylan Marino is racing in the BC Cup Downhill Series with an aim to podium at each event he competes in.

He’s done the early-season groundwork this year, with his fitness the best it has ever been ahead of opening day.

“I don’t think people realize how much effort goes into one downhill race,” says Marino of pushing your physical limits for three to four minutes each race.

After riding in parks around the province, Marino, to put it simply, says nothing compares to Whistler.

There are good bike parks out there, says Marino, listing Silver Star and Big White among those ranks.

“Whistler is just so much elevation, so many different trails,” he says.

And nothing beats it when you find your rythym in a race.

“As soon as you get up to speed, it’s just so much fun,” he says.

As for those new to the park, Marino says it’s all about asking the lifties for help loading your bike if that’s intimidating, downloading the Trail Forks app on your phone to find your way, and most importantly, just getting out there.

“You just start working your way up,” he says.

(The Creek Zone is closed for summer 2022 as work continues on the new Creekside Gondola and Big Red Express chair.) ■

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Notice of Public Hearing LAND USE CONTRACT TERMINATION BYLAW (BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN) NO. 2350, 2022 Wednesday, May 25, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m.

Via Zoom Online/ Telephone

Purpose: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to terminate the Blackcomb Land Use Contract (LUC) from the subject lands and apply the following zones to specified portions of the subject lands: 1.

A new MC3 Zone (Mountain Commercial Three) to provide a variety of uses related directly to the base area operations of an outdoor recreation enterprise within the Whistler/Blackcomb Controlled Recreation Area;

2. The existing RR1 Zone (Rural Resource One) to be applied to municipally owned roads; and 3. The existing LP2 Zone (Leisure Park Two) to be applied to the existing open space areas.

Subject Lands: The lands that are the subject of the proposed Bylaw are shown on the map attached to this notice. The subject lands are in the Blackcomb Benchlands area and include municipal roads, open spaces and properties at the base of Blackcomb Mountain.

To learn more: A copy of the proposed Bylaw, background documentation and written comments received from the public regarding the proposed Bylaw are available for review from May 12, 2022 to May 25, 2022 at: • Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) • Online on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) website at: whistler.ca/LUC00022 How to provide input: All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be given an opportunity to provide written and verbal comments that will be considered by Council as follows: 1.

Submit written comments to Council via email: corporate@whistler.ca (must be received by 3:30 p.m. on May 25, 2022) (include “Public Hearing for LUC00022” in the subject line, address the comments to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address in the email); and/or

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Whistler’s Welsh brothers wrap up season on Long Island TYLER WELSH FINISHED HIS NCAA HOCKEY CAREER PLAYING ON A LINE WITH YOUNGER BROTHER NOLAN FOR THE LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY SHARKS

BY HARRISON BROOKS WHILE THE LONG Island University Sharks’ final record of 10-23-3 isn’t where Whistler’s Welsh brothers hoped it would be at the start of the season, it still represents a slight improvement for the school’s brandnew hockey program, which just finished its second-ever year.

The team improved from a .231-win percentage to .338 this year and had some memorable moments, such as beating a very strong team from Miami University.

But the best part of the season for the Welsh brothers—and the part they’ll look back most fondly on when their hockey careers are over—was having the rare opportunity to play with one another at the NCAA level.

“Looking back, it was really special. I don’t know a lot of guys will ever really get that opportunity, so we’re both really glad that we did,” said Nolan. “We were linemates pretty much the whole season. We love playing together. We think the same way when we’re on the ice, so it was pretty special being able to compete with him out there.”

In his rookie season last year, Nolan

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finished first on his team with seven points in 12 games. Heading into this season, with the addition of multiple older transfer players—like brother Tyler who spent the previous three seasons at Yale University— Nolan’s production dipped a bit, finishing the season with 13 points in 33 games.

Tyler, on the other hand, finished second on the team with 25 points in 27

for my senior year at Yale, I probably would have been in that role too, but our season got cancelled so it was nice to be able to step into that role with a different team and be more of that leader and older veteran presence and more the go-to guy for offense and stuff.”

When the season wrapped up, with his college career now over, Tyler got

“We were linemates pretty much the whole season. We love playing together. We think the same way when we’re on the ice, so it was pretty special being able to compete with him out there.”

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games, despite missing the first month with a knee injury he sustained in the first game of the season.

“So it was kind of a bit of a rocky start, but after I came back it started going pretty well. I was given quite a big role and opportunity there … [It] was nice to be able to play a lot as an older guy and be able to put some points up,” said Tyler, adding that he was happy to take on a bigger role with the new club.

“I definitely feel like if we had a season

the opportunity to make the jump to professional hockey with the Newfoundland Growlers of the ECHL, where he played in nine games and put up two goals and an assist to close out the season.

Now back in B.C., Tyler hopes to enjoy the summer offseason and take some time to relax before getting back to training for the upcoming season, where he hopes to continue his professional career.

While he’s unsure of where he will be playing next year, whether it’s back

in the ECHL or overseas in Europe, he’s just excited to start the next chapter of his hockey life.

“I’m looking forward to playing professionally and seeing where that can take me. I feel like it’s a lot of kids’ goals as a young hockey player to be able to make money and play this game as your job, so I’m really looking forward to that, wherever that it is,” he said.

“It’s a bit more of a waiting game to see what my options are, but I think playing over in Europe would be a pretty cool life experience. Even beyond the hockey, just being able to travel over there and experience new culture and everything like that.”

Meanwhile, Nolan is also back in B.C. for the offseason, and plans to head back to Long Island for his Junior year at LIU. And with the loss of the team’s top two scorers from last season, Nolan has his sights set on taking a step forward into a bigger role for his team.

“We’re looking to add a lot more top guys for next year. And I think I’ll have an even bigger role on the team next year, so I’m excited for what the next season holds,” said Nolan.

“I think my role changes and I’ll probably be relied upon more to be the guy to put up some points. Kind of just more responsibility.

It’s not like I wasn’t getting the opportunity last year, but with those guys leaving, I need to be the guy to fill that role.” n

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FAIRWAY FUN Aerial shot of Pemberton’s Big Sky golf course, one of the five best courses in B.C., according to Scorecard Magazine.

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SPORTS BRIEFS: WHISTLER GYMNASTICS CLUB SHINES AT DELTA INVITATIONAL; PEMBERTON AEROTHLON RETURNS IN JULY

WHILE WHISTLER’S golf courses all opened for the season late last week, Pemberton’s golf season has been underway for multiple weeks already.

Big Sky Golf Club—one of B.C.’s top five golf courses, according to Scorecard Magazine—opened on April 22, and despite the “unseasonably cold weather,” general manager Christine Kohls said the conditions have held up really well.

“The snow that we had throughout the winter created a nice blanket, so it actually insulated and protected the greens and fairways really well,” she said. “It’s still not hot enough for the new seeds to get germinated and start growing, but overall, it’s in really good condition for middle of May.” Like almost every other golf course in B.C., Big Sky also saw a major influx of golfers and returning members during the pandemic. And even though things are returning to semi-normal conditions, Kohls doesn’t believe the club will be seeing much of a dip in numbers at all.

In fact, with the return of tournaments and events this year, she believes this summer could be as busy as ever for the club, as long as Mother Nature cooperates a bit.

“The return of tournaments has been really exciting. We’re looking to have some live music events going on in the restaurant. We’ve got 16 weddings booked this year so it will be really good to be able to host parties and events and tournaments without restrictions again,” she said.

“But a bit of help from Mother Nature so

that we don’t have to deal with floods, fires [or] mosquitoes would be great.”

And for those who want to get out and play some golf, but aren’t looking to pay Big Sky’s peak rates of $159, Kohls encourages them to come out to the Academy Course—a five-hole, par-three course with rounds for just $10.

“It’s a great way for families, people who don’t know how to play golf, girlfriends, boyfriends, whoever, to get out and have a fun time,” she said.

Meanwhile, Sunstone Golf Club, which kicked off the golf season one week earlier on April 16 with live music from Dakota Pearl, also came out of the winter in good shape, according to GM Kevin McLeod.

However, with the cold weather, McLeod said numbers have been slightly down so far this season, but he expects bookings to pick up once the weather warms up.

Like at Big Sky, McLeod is excited to get back to hosting events this year after being restricted for the last two years.

Events include tournaments, more live music like the club had on opening day, and a comedy night on May 28, which features three of Canada’s “up-and-coming, fresh and funny comics,” according to McLeod.

Finally, with the price of fuel skyrocketing these days, McLeod is excited to announce the club’s new green fee deals that he said “will help with the pain at the pump,” and consist of discounted fares on select days and times.

Tickets for the comedy night as well as the new green fee deals can be found at sunstonegolfclub.com.

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SPORTS THE SCORE << FROM PAGE 45 WHISTLER GYMNASTICS CLUB SHINES AT DELTA INVITATIONAL Earlier this month, the Whistler Gymnastics Club (WGC) headed down to the Lower Mainland for the Delta Invitational competition—one of the biggest gymnastics events of the year—held at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

Twenty-three WGC athletes competed, with multiple podium and top-10 finishers among them.

The WGC’s athletes are split into two categories: Xcel and Canadian Competitive Program (CCP). Xcel athletes train approximately five to six hours per week, while the CCP athletes train about 12 hours per week.

Standouts among the Xcel Bronze athletes include Emilia Aragon and Isabelle Shaw, who each took home multiple podium finishes. Aragon had a second-place finish on beam and another on floor, a third in all-around and an additional fourth and eighth on vault and bars, respectively, while Shaw took second-place finishes in beam, floor and all-around, as well as a third-place finish in her age group on bars.

In the Excel Silver group’s age 10 category, Juno Buhler and Dylan Eady finished first and second, respectively, in all-around, with Buhler adding an additional first on floor and two seconds on vault and bars.

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Of the 11-year-olds, Kai Kwok and Alexa Maxwell each hit the podium multiple times with three seconds and a third for Kwok and two thirds for Maxwell.

Darcy Naish was the only WGC gymnast to podium in the 12-13 age category, taking home a first-place finish on floor and two thirds in beam and all-around.

And in the 14-15 age category, only Kastle Pazdzierski managed to snag a

Douglas, who each narrowly missed the podium with fourth-place finishes on bars and beam, respectively. Following close behind was McLatchie, who took home three fifths and a sixth; Osborn, who had a fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth- and ninth-place finish across her five events; and Richer and Lang, who each managed a fifth-place finish on floor.

The WGC’s CCP team will head to Kelowna at the start of June for their next meet.

“We’d just like to promote our beautiful sport of flying, and to any athletes that are interested in it, it’s a great way for bikers and runners to discover our sport and for paragliders to get to know more about technical mountain biking.”

- PETER CHRZANOWSKI

podium with a second and two thirds in floor, beam and all-around, respectively.

While none of the club’s higher-level CCP athletes managed a podium finish, there were a handful of strong performances and top-10 results.

All of Ruby McLatchie, Ocean Anderson, Sadie Richer, Sienna Osborn, Chloe Miron, Maya Langdale, Kira Douglas and Avery Lang ended the competition with multiple top-10 finishes.

Leading the pack were Langdale and

PEMBERTON AEROTHLON RETURNS IN JULY After not running last year due to the COVID19 pandemic, the Pemberton Aerothlon is set to return to the area on July 17.

This year will mark the fourth time since 2018 that Pemberton will host the three-leg race, which consists of a 10- to 13-kilometre run, 14-km mountain bike loop and a six-km paraglide.

Organizer Peter Chrzanowski discovered the alternative triathlon in Mexico back in

2015, and has since brought the event to the Sea to Sky, Peru and Colombia.

“Pemberton has some of the best paragliding in the world and it has been heralded as such by some of the best paraglide athletes in the world,” he said.

“But I just hope to see us get a bit more participants every year. We’d just like to promote our beautiful sport of flying, and to any athletes that are interested in it, it’s a great way for bikers and runners to discover our sport and for paragliders to get to know more about technical mountain biking.”

The event is open to anybody, and people can sign up for one of three categories: Individual, where each participant does all three events themselves; Team Race, where each person does one event; and Tandem Duo, where one athlete does the run and bike portions themselves, then does the paraglide portion with an experienced paraglide partner.

Despite it being a “very easy flight,” for a racer to sign up in the Individual category, Chrzanowski said people need to be above beginner-level paragliders. Contestants are also encouraged to find their own paraglide pilots for the Team Race category, but the Aerothlon will provide a database of local pilots who may be available for the race.

The entry fee for the race is $100, and comes with a $50 hemp T-shirt from one of the race’s main sponsors.

For more information or to register for the event, go to aerothlon.com or email Chrzanowski at petercperu@hotmail.com. n

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Fast facts on the food+ scene for a fun long weekend YOUR HANDY INDEX FOR INSPIRED EATING AND ECLECTIC DISTRACTIONS, AS REQUIRED YOU KNOW US CANUCKS —always obsessing about the weather. Hey, we’ve had to. Whether we’ve lived in these lands for thousands of years or just thousands of days, the wind, the sun, the snow, the rain; whether things are freezing too early or thawing too late; drowning in deluges or dying in heat—all of these factors in a

BY GLENDA BARTOSH northern land like ours have to be carefully considered for tons of important reasons.

No. 1: what to do and how to do it on what’s generally considered in Canada to be the first long weekend of the summer.

The Victoria Day weekend is finally here! And while in ancient, prehistoric times it was the Great Snow Earth Water Race that was this weekend’s highlight at Whistler for ages, this year the Whistler Children’s Festival (free your imagination for the 39th year in a row!) will be kicking off, thanks once again to Arts Whistler.

If it feels like this entire spring has been brutally, insufferably, infuriatingly cold and wet throughout Sea to Sky and beyond, it has been. But I’m happy to report that so far—fingers crossed—the weather forecasters are on our, the people’s, side for the weekend. Yes! Squamish, Whistler,

FOODIE FACTS The author pens a handy index of interesting food facts as you head into the long weekend.

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Pemberton—the entire corridor is looking like it’s in for at least some sun and way more normal seasonal temps in the 17-18 C range, up to 10 C higher than it has been lately. Brrrrr.

With that in mind, here’s an eclectic little index in keeping with all things positive. Apologies to Harper’s Magazine (and its far more famous index) which was rightfully dubbed an “unexpectedly excellent magazine” by The New York Times. This was partly due to its wide range “amid a homogenizing media landscape.”

(Pique Newsmagazine, I might add, would definitely qualify too.)

Another thing to celebrate: Harper’s, one of the most progressive, forwardthinking, literate publications on the planet, without ever being snobby or selfconscious, has “only” been around since 1850, making it the oldest, continuously published monthly magazine in America.

It was the brainchild of the New York bookpublishing firm Harper & Brothers, which has since morphed into HarperCollins. Its sister publication, Harper’s Weekly, was called “A Journal of Civilization” when it was hatched in 1857. Something we could all use a good dose of these days.

The mini-index, below, is a bit of fun to further bolster your spirits or, God forbid, just in case you end up having to hunker down in your tent or camper this weekend and play mind games, the goodnatured kind, with your best pals and loved ones.

Happy Victoria Day! Or, more in keeping with the times, have a great long weekend.

May the summer force be with you—at least for a few days.

*** • Number of teams that competed in the first Great Snow Earth Water Race (every team had to include men and women): 20+ • Number of teams that competed in 1978: 60 • Number of calories burned walking 10,000 steps, depending on your weight: 250-600 • Number of calories you burn in the gym in one hour: 400-500 • Number of calories the average mountain biker burns riding for an hour: 600-900 • Average number of calories burned sitting and reading a book for an hour and a half: 150 • Number of calories burned sleeping for 30 minutes: 34 • Rank of the Fraser Valley in B.C.’s agricultural industry: 1 • Percentage of B.C.’s dairy products, berries, vegetables, poultry, eggs, pork, greenhouse veggies, mushrooms, and floriculture and nursery products produced in the Lower Mainland South Coast Region: 70 • Amount of time Fraser Valley farmers are behind schedule with crops: 2-3 WEEKS • Number of record lows broken in southern B.C. last week: 12 • Number of varieties of potatoes grown in Pemberton Valley: 35 • Amount of potatoes grown annually: 9 million pounds, 90 PER CENT for seed • Day considered the start of meteorological summer, when Environment Canada releases its summer 2022 forecast: JUNE 1

• Percentage of all new electricity added to the power grid in the U.S. in the first two months that was wind or solar: 96 • And last but not least, here’s a fun fact related only obliquely to food, unless you count all the calories you burn mountain biking (see above). This is for all you biker fans who might like to join Mike Truelove at the next presentation in Whistler Museum’s Speaker Series, live or online: • Number of Chromag bike frames alone that master bike frame builder, Squamish’s own Mike Truelove, has welded over the past 30 years: 1,000+ *** As for my personal tip for keeping things light this weekend, I highly recommend Juno-winning Norm Foote’s Don’t Overthink It workshop at the Children’s Festival. Norm has written songs for CBC, Disney, Shari Lewis and more—he’s also the voice of Bert in Knowledge Network’s Luna, Chip and Inkie animated series.

Don’t Overthink It is aimed at songwriting, but it’s pretty much a good idea anytime, for anything.

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*** In the “good news” category, still related to food albeit indirectly, this one should really give you a lift as you head off for the long weekend:

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who remembers it was considered “naughty” but very exciting to light up a Burning Schoolhouse, a Canadian invention, for Victoria Day fireworks displays. n

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New-look Whistler Children’s Festival makes its return EXPANDED EVENT FEATURES LIVE MUSIC, ARTS AND CRAFTS, CIRCUS ACTS, WORKSHOPS AND MORE

BY BRANDON BARRETT SINCE EMERGING from the pandemic, local kids’ entertainer and comedian Ira Pettle has levelled up. Between co-launching and starring in the sold-out 15-week Laugh Out LIVE show this winter at Maury Young, and crafting his soon-to-be-released debut kids album, it has been the culmination of two long-held dreams for the local Whistlerite.

For anyone who knows Pettle (which I do as a friend and collaborator), you know he’s something of a perfectionist, holding himself to an impossibly high standard.

So, when he takes to the mic for the 39th annual Whistler Children’s Festival this month to share the songs he’s been working on for months alongside producer and Juno-winning musician Norman Foote, he wants you to know he’s still working out the kinks.

“I’m in that zone of the music flipping into becoming the priority, and it’s still so raw. Children’s fest is the first public share.

It feels so huge for me,” he says.

With the event expanding into two weekends, Pettle will be there May 20 at 5 p.m. to kick off the festival with one of his patented DJ Ira Dance Parties, with the help

CHILD’S PLAY The 39th annual Whistler Children’s Festival moves from its usual July slot to run over two weekends this month.

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of Foote. But rather than play the DJ Ira classics—think the Village People’s “YMCA,” or the Jackson 5’s “Blame it on the Boogie”— Pettle is more inclined to swing for the fences and sing his own tunes live instead.

“I’m not retiring the DJ Ira show, but I think this is the next phase, my new show,” he says. “I need to let go of the ‘YMCA’ to really dive into this music and give myself a chance at hitting this next pitch.”

Pettle returns to the stage the following weekend, Friday, May 27, at 5 p.m.

A festival regular, Pettle is of course but one of a stuffed lineup of performers and educators descending on Whistler Village for the expanded, two-weekend affair. Arts Whistler decided to move the event from its usual July slot to the May weekend for a number of reasons: to avoid the inclement weather that has impacted Whistler’s summers the past few years; to help grow the resort’s shoulder season visitation; and to help re-engage the event’s audience after a couple years of COVID. “We’re giving this a different opportunity,” says Mo Douglas, Arts Whistler’s executive director.

After last year’s event was held in a hybrid in-person, virtual format, this year’s schedule will also see the fest return fully to in-person events, and for the first time, will include performances onstage at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

“All the shows we’re able to do on the stage, we’re able to give a stronger performance experience in the theatre,”

adds Douglas. “Especially for kids that live here, they may have aspirations but don’t have an opportunity to see a lot of live performances. That’s such a cool thing, that they can see adults who have grown up to do this and will be encouraging kids that, ‘You can dance, you can sing, you can do all these things.’”

One unique performer who has a penchant for inspiring the next generation of creatives is Vancouver’s RupLoops, née Rupinder Sidhu, who blends hip hop and live looping with instruments and sounds across a variety of cultures into a live show that tends to mesmerize kids as much as adults. RupLoops hits the stage May 29 at 11 a.m.

“I want to inspire as many people to play music as possible,” he says. “It’s not too long ago that we all played music.

Music was part of our cultural existence; we weren’t just passive consumers in it. In the capitalist framework, we’ve created this framework where music lives over here and only these people do it. So I really try to make my show as interactive as possible. I try to get kids on it and invite them onstage to make music with them so they can see a bit of the process up close.”

Also joining the lineup after performing virtually in 2021 is Vancouver’s Ginalina, a three-time Juno nominee who sings in English, French and Mandarin and explores themes of family, community and nature in what she describes as “West Coast family folk.” That “family” descriptor is even more

relevant considering it is Ginalina’s own four children—aged eight, 10, 11 and 13— who have helped shape her sound, first as backup singers and today as full-fledged members of the band.

“The themes for my albums have completely emerged from our own habits and our own family adventures,” she says. “[My kids] actually sing on every single album and their roles have really changed throughout the years. As they started, they sang background and on choruses. Now they’re singing more complicated lines and adding multilingual layers to it, so they’re very musical now. Now that they’re much older, they’re a real and relevant part of the music and the music band.”

Ginalina hits the Maury Young stage on Sunday, May 22 at 5 p.m.

On top of the live performances, there are a number of interactive workshops over the two weekends, including kids yoga, hand puppetry, breakdance, magic, and acting.

A carryover from last year, there will also be a family adventure map, a free, hands-on, self-guided scavenger hunt around the Cultural Connector that will be available to families all summer.

Other Cultural Connector sites—the Whistler Museum, library, Audain Art Museum and Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre—will be hosting their own free programming to coincide with the festival.

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Arts Whistler spread the local love in 2021 WITH COVID HEALTH ORDERS AND REDUCED CAPACITIES, ARTS COUNCIL FOCUSED ON LIFTING COMMUNITY LAST YEAR

BY BRANDON BARRETT YOU WOULDN’T THINK an arts organization that lives off in-person events would come out the other end of the past two years the better for it. But according to Arts Whistler executive director Mo Douglas, that’s exactly what happened.

“COVID made us, I think, even more creative, better decision-makers, a stronger team, and we feel closer to the community in some ways having done a number of events to really help strengthen the heart and soul that is this town,” she said at Arts Whistler’s annual general meeting, held last Wednesday, May 11 at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

Local was the name of the game for Arts Whistler in 2021, when provincial health orders and reduced capacities gave the long-running arts council the impetus to hone in even further on events and programming that supported the resort community through a trying period.

“We’ve really worked to lift community spirits, using the arts as a tool through the pandemic, and we carried that from 2020 into 2021,” Douglas said.

There was the ReachOut! enamel pin, designed by Whistler artist Aurora Moore, a partnership with the Whistler Community Services Society to raise awareness and funds for well-being programs available locally.

There was the LIFTing the Community initiative, which saw 15 local artists transform retired Catskinner chairs into works of art, reflecting the theme of belonging, and “making the heart and soul of Whistler more visible to our visitors as well,” Douglas said.

There was the Hear and Now festival, which welcomed 18 different local bands to shoot their own original live video content instead of its usual in-person event.

Emerging out of that was Creative Catalyst, essentially a music industry boot camp for five Hear and Now artists and bands that were selected to take part.

“I’m seeing the results of that with the work they’re doing out in the community now,” Douglas noted. “These bands, their names are more prominent, their work is more prominent.”

Then there was the slate of events, both new and old, that offered a welcome dose of culture to an entertainment-starved town, like the second annual Art on the Lake event, which will expand to two days this August; the popular Tour de Pumpkins, which more than doubled its attendance ahead of Halloween last year; and the sold-out 15-week run of Laugh Out LIVE, the improv and sketch comedy show that launched in December.

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“The success of Laugh Out LIVE is a total reflection of the work we’re trying to do, which is take the talent in this community and work with them to keep elevating them to a more and more professional level,” Douglas said.

Rental business at the Maury Young Arts Centre understandably took a hit in 2021, and building that business back is a priority this year.

“It hasn’t been without its challenges but the phones are ringing, which is great, so we’ll see where we end up by the end of the year,” said Douglas.

This year not only represents the first of Arts Whistler’s new three-year strategic plan, but is also the council’s 40th anniversary, with plenty of upcoming events and fundraisers on the horizon.

“We think we look pretty good for 40,” Douglas quipped.

For the calendar year, Arts Whistler brought in $906,020 in revenue, compared to $708,183 in 2020. Its direct expenses for the year totalled $212,532, for an excess of revenue over expenses of $693,488. The council took advantage of two COVIDrelated governments subsidies last year: a $10,000 Canada Emergency Business Account loan, and $235,709 in Canada’s Emergency Wage Subsidy.

Arts Whistler also named new members to its board for a two-year term: Shelagh Thiessen, Kimberly Stanger, Liz Peacock, Katie Willamson and municipal appointee Jeannette Bruce. They join current board members Murray Hunt, Jeff Murl, Theresa LaRose, Brianna Beacom, Brad Nichols, Jessie Morden and Cathy Jewett. Departing board members who have reached the end of their term were Joan Richoz, Michelle Ratcliffe and John Rae. n

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RIDE ALONG In the 1980s, technical displays of riding were held in Whistler Village to help advertise the fledgling sport. This event was part of Labatt’s Can-Am Challenge in 1989, which also included cross-country, dual slalom, uphill climb and downhill kamikaze race events, and the World Mountain Bike Polo Championship.

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BY JILLIAN ROBERTS FROM THE 1960S to the 1980s, Whistler really was a one-season resort. Outside of the peak winter season, many businesses were shuttered because there were not enough people to turn a profit throughout the summer months. During the 1980s, investments went into golf courses, tennis courts and lakeside parks to increase summer visitation. Certainly 40 years ago, as Whistler Village was being constructed, nobody thought the turning point for Whistler becoming a four-season destination resort would come from running the lifts in the summer so people could ride down the mountain at astonishing speeds.

That started to change in the late 1980s.

According to a letter to Village Information in the summer of 1987, Backroads Mountain

today on my 1998 Rocky Mountain Spice, I can’t help but notice that mountain bike design has also changed. When my bike was released it dominated the trails. Now the tires that seemed wide at the time feel very small compared to those around me. When I was overeager a month ago and hit the Lost Lake trails in the snow, those with tires nearly twice the width of mine managed many of the uphill sections as I slid every direction but forward even on the flats.

Bikes have certainly changed over the years. While you could get custombuilt mountain bikes earlier, in 1981 the Specialized Stumpjumper was one of the first mass-produced and mass-marketed mountain bikes. With no suspension and cantilever brakes, an early Stumpjumper can be seen in the Whistler Museum.

Much of the progression of technology can be highlighted in this one bike. Still manufactured today, but with 40 additional

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Bike Adventures was in its third season of running commercial mountain bike tours in Whistler. The language clearly shows that the understanding of mountain biking was still limited for many people.

“A couple of hours on a bike tour will open your eyes to the sport of mountain biking and show you the hidden beauty of this four-season resort,” the letter reads.

“Unlike conventional 12-speed road bikes, 15-speeed all-terrain mountain bikes have knobby tires, upright handle bars, and a strong, sturdy frame. This allows one to travel with power and finesse through forested trails and groomed gravel paths, typically found on Whistler’s backroads.” At this time, the daily rental rate for a mountain bike was $14.

Riding the hundreds of kilometres of incredible bike trails around Whistler

years of competition and innovation, the current Stumpjumper comes with full suspension, disc brakes so you can stop when wet, and the tires are larger in width and diameter. The frame is popular in both carbon fibre and alloy. Similar progression can be seen in mountain bikes generally.

Today in Whistler we are spoiled for choice when shopping for mountain bikes, with many of the highest quality and most innovative bikes designed and constructed in our own backyard. This month, the Whistler Museum Speaker Series brings you conversations with Mike Truelove, the mastermind who constructed the OG bike for Chromag and has gone on to make thousands of frames. Join us on Friday, May 27 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available now for $10 or $5 for museum members. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The only way to the truth is through blasphemy,” declared Aries author Flannery O’Connor. I appreciate the cheeky sentiment, but I don’t believe that all truth requires blasphemy. In many cases, rebellion, irreverence, and skepticism may be enough to pry loose hidden and buried information.

Outright blasphemy isn’t necessary. What does this have to do with you? Well, I’m hoping you will be feisty and audacious in your quest for interesting truths. As you dig, I invite you to be less than perfectly polite. Don’t be rude or unkind, of course. Just be charmingly bold.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me,” declares comedian Margaret Cho. I would love for you to summon her level of self-esteem and bravado in the coming weeks. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you now have the right and duty to boost your self-worth. All of creation is conspiring with you to develop more faith in yourself. And if you do the work to deepen your confidence and self-esteem, there will be an added bonus: a health breakthrough. As spiritual author Caroline Myss says, “Belief in oneself is required for healing.” My prediction: You will rouse an enhanced power to get the soul medicine you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to the blogger Artemisiasea, “The grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution. It’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances; making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt— in the coming-to-be.” I invite you to embrace that wisdom in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won’t be dealing with impossible circumstances, but you may have to navigate your way through fascinating brainteasers and heart riddles. Whatever your destination might turn out to be, enjoy the ride with all the verve you can summon. At least for now, put aside your longing for particular results and instead simply live your life as if it were a magnificent work of art.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It will be in your interest to change more than usual in the coming weeks. I suppose you could wait around passively and scramble to adjust as life flings challenges your way. But the better approach would be to make conscious decisions about how you want to transform. Identify the situations that would most benefit from modification and then initiate the transitions. Rather than depending on fate to provide you with random wake-up calls, choose constructive wake-up calls that are fun and invigorating.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren’t saying much,” declared politician Donna Brazile. I suspect you will disprove her theory in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a lot to say; your communications will be even more interesting than usual. And yet, I also expect you will receive extra respect and appreciation from others. While you may articulate ideas that are challenging to some, you will do so with enough charisma to disarm agitated reactions. A winning combination: expressiveness and approval.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you heard of Virgo adventurer Reinhold Messner? The man is a marvel, and not just because he’s a passionate environmental activist. He was the first mountaineer to reach the top of Mount Everest alone, as well as the first to ascend Everest without supplemental oxygen. No one before him had ever climbed all 14 of the world’s peaks higher than 26,000 feet. He has transited Greenland and Antarctica without the aid of dog sleds or snowmobiles. He also completed a solo trip across the Gobi Desert. I propose we make Messner your inspirational role model for the next four weeks. You may not achieve history-making triumphs like him, but you could surpass what you assumed were your limits. I trust that you will break at least one of your personal records.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The world is a very puzzling place. If you’re not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else’s mind.” Author Noam Chomsky said that. It’s useful counsel for you right now. I’ll go even further.

I will advise you to relish the healthy pleasures of being both mysterious and mystified. Seek out fertile enigmas and be a fertile enigma yourself. Explore the rejuvenating wisdom of being indefinable and uncategorizable. Exult in the quizzical joys of Eternal Paradox.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you ever contemplated the beauty of the people and animals you care for and thought, “I would love to give them the strongest blessings I have to give, the smartest love I can express, and the best listening I’m able to provide.” If so, Scorpio, the coming days will be an excellent time to do that. You will have an extra capacity to offer exceptional gifts that are useful and inspirational. You will be at the peak of your ability to home in on what your beloveds need.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Madeleine L’Engle told us, “The discoveries don’t come when you’re looking for them. They come when for some reason you’ve let go conscious control.” That approach isn’t absolutely true, but it may be useful for you to deploy in the coming weeks. I invite you to relinquish at least a modicum of your conscious control. And if zesty discoveries start flowing in, consider relinquishing even a bit more conscious control.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is it a legend or a true story? Scholars disagree about whether Capricorn scientist Isaac Newton really was spurred to formulate the theory of gravity when an apple fell from the tree he was sitting beneath. This much is certain: Newton lived in the home near the famous apple tree. And that tree is alive today, 380 years after his birth. Ripe apples still fall from it. Is there an equivalent landmark or keystone from your own past, Capricorn—where an important insight arose or pivotal event happened? The coming weeks would be a good time to revisit that power spot, at least in your imagination, in quest of fresh inspiration.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jack Gilbert devoted himself to soulful beauty. I swooned when I first read his line, “We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.” I cried for joy when he said, “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.” On the other hand, I suspect Jack may have been overly consumed with his pursuit of lyrical moments.

His girlfriend Linda Gregg said, “All Jack ever wanted to know was that he was awake—that the trees in bloom were almond trees—and to walk down the road to get breakfast.

He never cared if he was poor or had to sleep on a park bench.” I bring this up, dear Aquarius, hoping you will avoid Gilbert’s lack of attention to practical matters. In the coming weeks, I invite you to be your extravagant, idiosyncratic, interesting self to the max. But also be sure to eat healthy food, engage in pleasurable exercise, and get plenty of rejuvenating sleep—preferably in a comfortable bed rather than on a park bench.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Uberfacts Twitter account informs me that if you were to consume the amount of food equivalent to what a hummingbird eats, you would eat 300 hamburgers or 7,800 cabbages per day. To match the amount of exercise a hummingbird gets while burning all those calories, you’d have to do approximately 37 bazillion jumping jacks. You will never do this, of course. But in the coming weeks, you may be more metaphorically hungry than usual. I predict you will be voracious for new information and novel experiences and fresh ideas. Not 300 hamburgers or 7,800 cabbages’ worth—but still, a lot. My advice: Have fun being insatiably curious and greedy for stimulation.

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NOTICE OF WAIVING OF PUBLIC HEARING ELECTORAL AREA C Birkenhead Lake Estates, D’Arcy, BC

The subject zoning amendment applies to Lot “B”, District Lot 4895, Lillooet Land District, Plan 21690 Public Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 467 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be waived regarding the following bylaw: 1. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area C Zoning Bylaw No. 765, 2002, Amendment Bylaw No. 1743-2022 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with Section 464 of the Local Government Act that on April 20, 2022, the Regional Board will be considering an amendment to the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Zoning Bylaw No. 765-2002 in a manner consistent with the Electoral Area C Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 689-1999.

In 2014, the provincial government amended the Local Government Act to terminate all land use contracts as of June 30, 2024. Local governments are required to have zoning bylaws in place that will apply to the land once the land use contracts are terminated. The SLRD already has underlying zoning in place for Birkenhead Lake Estates. Once land use contracts are terminated, only the zoning will apply. This may result in non-conforming uses, as the underlying zoning for Birkenhead Lake Estates is Rural 1 (RRM) - which does not allow for the level of development currently on the property. Under this nonconforming situation, if a fire were to occur there would be no opportunity to rebuild to the current construction on the land.

To address the non-conforming situation of the current underlying zoning, SLRD staff are proposing zoning amendments Birkenhead Lake Estates.

Summary of New Zoning •

The intent of the Birkenhead Lake Estates (RR BIR) Zone is to provide for residential development consistent with the original Land Use Contract.

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The maximum of private sites permitted is 99 (note that there are 99 lots labelled on the site plan, however, Lot 42 is not included) .

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Permitted uses include not more than one house or cottage per private site, one single family dwelling or mobile home, and an accessory building of not more than 10 m2.

The overall development plan for the Birkenhead Lake Estates property is consistent with the Electoral Area C Official Community Plan.

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Setting the record straight on Canadian holidays LET’S SEE, SUN? Sun? Where the heck is it? Oh yeah, La Niña. So blame her. Flush the warmer temps and have a Plan B for the Victoria Day Weekend Campout and Weenie Roast. Yes, as out of place meteorologically as it may seem, this weekend is the kickoff long weekend of summer, which you may be forgiven for thinking is a cruel joke this year, at least if you live on the Left Coast.

Victoria Day Weekend, not to belabour the obvious, was named for Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India and reputed party girl. Known to her close

BY G.D. MAXWELL friends as Your Highness, Victoria reigned as queen from 1837 to 1901, when her rule came to an end because of an inherited genetic condition known as death.

Contrary to popular belief, Queen Victoria’s name was not Victoria. Oh, those wacky Brits. It was Alexandrina. We can all count ourselves lucky we’re not celebrating Alexandrina Day Weekend if for no other reason it would sound too Lewis Carroll to be believed. Interestingly—and I use the word interestingly because if I used a word that more aptly described how uninteresting what follows is you probably wouldn’t bother reading it—Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, pseudonym itself being a pseudonym for alias which bears a remarkable resemblance to Alice which is what Lewis Carroll is best known for… in Wonderland.

I only mention this fascinating factoid because I can’t for the life of me figure out how, exactly, Queen Victoria came to be called Queen Victoria. The Queen part I understand. But the Victoria part… well, these are the facts. Her father was Edward Augustus, known to his close friends as Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Her mother was Marie Luise Viktoria, whose aliases included Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Princess of Leiningen and Duchess of Kent. She was German and, quite possibly, had personally invaded all of those places herself.

The information in that last paragraph alone should give succor to the antimonarchists among us.

But it raises an interesting question— op. cit. “interestingly”—doesn’t it? It was common practice at the time, in both England and Germany, for children to bear the last name of their father, unless, understandably, the child’s mother wasn’t married at the time of birth. Okay, I’m not suggesting anything here but just sayin’.

In order to keep this column from being even more bogged down by the weight of history, let me stop and welcome our

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holiday visitors, especially the returning Americans who I see are arriving in everincreasing numbers if an unscientific survey of licence plates can be trusted, and help clear up any confusion they may be suffering because they’ve just found out this weekend is Victoria Day Weekend, and a long one at that. They are likely confused because (a) they’re American, and (b) next weekend is, in the U.S., Memorial Day Weekend, also a long one, and (c) as a rule, Americans don’t understand why everyone else in the world does things differently, especially Canadians, who they see as just the same as them but with cheaper money and states called provinces.

I can’t offer much to make Canadian customs less confusing. After more than four decades living here I simply accept these things for what they are. In fact, I’m no less confused than when I arrived lo

July. Canadians celebrate Co-Dependence Day, also known as Canada Day, on July 1, which no Canadian refers to as the 1st of July, unless they mean to say something as insignificant as, “Hey, tomorrow’s the 1st of July, eh?”

No, Canada Day is simply Canada Day. And while it’s true, it does coincide with the British North America Act of 1867 which created Canada, it can rightly be seen by Americans as yet another British snub arising from the ass kicking Americans gave the Brits nearly a century earlier. But please understand, Canadians were just geopolitical pawns then. We didn’t choose July 1 just to steal your old glory.

Ditto Thanksgiving. Sure, we celebrate it on the second Monday in October while Americans celebrate a similarly named holiday on the fourth Thursday in November, but really, that has more to do

Canadians have been celebrating Victoria Day since 1845. Canada wasn’t even a country in 1845! those many years ago and I have a theory that natural-born Canadians are themselves equally confused, apparently preferring things that way.

Americans themselves are confused by the quaint custom of Canadians celebrating well-known American holidays a few days to a few weeks earlier than they do. Americans celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of

with climate than international intrigue.

Being this far north, Canadians have to celebrate the harvest in October. We’d be eating frozen turkey in our igloos if we waited until the fourth Thursday in November. Besides, Canadian football—oh, you didn’t know we had that too?—ends its season in early November. What would we watch in our tryptophan-induced lethargy

if we waited until late November? Hockey?

As if.

And just to set the record straight— don’t take this personally—we beat you to this holiday, too. Canadians have been celebrating Victoria Day since 1845. Canada wasn’t even a country in 1845! But the parliament of the Province of Canada passed legislation calling for a day of celebration to commemorate Queen Victoria’s birthday in that very year. It wasn’t called the Victoria Day Weekend then, weekends not having been invented yet and certainly not long weekends, but that’s when this holiday got started.

By contrast, American Memorial Day started as something called Decoration Day, a day to commemorate dead Civil War Union soldiers. The U.S. Civil War ended in 1865, a month before Canada’s 20th anniversary of Victoria Day. So there. We’re No. 1… but you have the Indianapolis 500 which, until you read this, you might have thought was what you actually celebrated on Memorial Day weekend.

But really, we’re brothers across borders. Let’s not focus on what makes us different, let’s focus on what makes us nearly the same. We celebrate a dead queen.

You celebrate all the dead. We consider Victoria Day the beginning of summer. You consider Memorial Day the beginning of summer. We barbecue; you barbecue. We sunburn; you sunburn. We go to our socialist medicine doctor for sunburn ointment; you lose your home to foreclosure because your health insurance company cancels you claiming your sunburn was (a) an act of God, (b) a pre-existing condition or (c) both.

Oops, sorry; that is something that makes us different.

Oh well, happy Victoria/Memorial Day. ■

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