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Week of August 16, 1984

Photographs including but not limited to portraits; Todd McPhalen; band playing in Whistler Village; medals; town planning meeting; bike race; baseball; Cheakamus Challenge; the Melloyds acapella group; Music Festival
Appears in August 16, 1984 issue:
02-421-B-18. Pg. 1. Caption: [left] Dennis Morris, Alta Vista resident protested the proposal.
02-421-E-8. Pg. 1. Caption: [right] The Melloyds, an a cappella group, grabbed the spotlight as one of the most entertaining acts during the weekend Music Festival.
02-421-B-20. Pg. 2. Caption: Jan HOlmber points out the merits of his proposal to turn his Alta Vista home into a 40-seat restaurant at Monday night's public meeting.
02-421-A-29. Pg. 3. Caption: [middle right] A wide variety of musical acts took part in the festival including (below) Olatunji, and band featuring African drums and dancing.
02-421-C-16. Pg. 3. Caption: [middle left] And Vancouver's rock powerhouse, Jim Byrnes, created a local following after juste one show Saturday.
02-421-F-29. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] At bottom is Mojo, which performed Saturday in Mountain Square to a rock/rhythm and blues-minded crowd, and Sunday at the Longhorn.
02-421-C-6. Pg. 5. Caption: Legion 277 form Squamish finished in third place Sunday in the Tapley's A's Fastball Tournament. Legion lost to K and D Furniture in the double knock-out tournament and the big winner of $800 in first prize money was The Coach House from North Vancouver. The Coach House squad defeated K and D 9-1 in the championship game. Cliffside Buds finished in fourth place and Tapley's A's in fifth in the 12-team, two-day tourney.
02-421-E-3. Pg. 7. Caption: [left] Cyclist Tom Broznowski of Seattle, above left, was one of 93 competitors in Whistler last Thursday and Friday for the Lowenbrau 1984 International Cycling Series. Broznowski eventually won the series, which finished in Gastown on Sunday. He had the best time in the Vancouver-Whistler road race and the White Gold criterium.
02-421-D-9. Pg. 7. Caption: [right] At right, Canadian national team member Martin Willock awaits the pack in the White Gold criterium after changing a flat. Hillock was declared King of the Mountain by posting the best total time on specified uphill sprints during the road races.
02-421-D-23. Pg. 8. Caption: [top] Cyclists in Friday evening's White gold criterium race averaged about 37 km/hr in the 50km event. Ninety-three racers from the Lower Mainland, the rest of Canada and other parts of the world took part in the criterium, which was part of a five-event series that ended Sunday in Gastown.
02-421-A-10. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom] Todd McPhalen, Whistler cyclist.
02-421-A-6. Pg. 9. Caption: Whistler windsurfer Sue Cameron picked up four medals at the Western Hemisphere Championships (District 11) on Chestier Lake in Calgary over the weekend. Cameron, who plans to enter professional competition, placed high in there separate events to pick up the overall crown. The championships will be aired on Sept. 8 on CTV.
02-421-B-17. Pg. 14. Caption: [left] John Bartosik, photographer, Whistler Centre.
02-421-A-19. Pg. 14. Caption: [middle] Barry Johnson, Carpenter, Alpha Lake Village.

Week of August 17, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to construction crane fallen into Green Lake; drinking; dancing; party; Inside Out Tennis Tournament; mountain views; Saturday nights at Club 10;
Appears in August 20, 1981 issue:
02-166-10. Pg. 1. Caption: L&A Contracting CAT 225 loader sits in the waters of Green Lake after road widening ledge collapsed on August 11.
02-166-30. Pg. 7. Caption: Dave Cathers exhibits fine form during the mixed double finals at the Inside Out Tennis Tournament.
02-166-34. Pg. 8. Caption: [top] The Swimmers and sunbathers on the beach and the new dock...
02-166-33. Pg. 8. Caption: [middle] ... the campers who continue to use the area as a campground...
02-166-32. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom] ... and the bears who keep pushing the toilets over in their search for garbage.
02-166-13. Pg. 10. Caption: Four ladies beat the heat by boogieing in wet T-shirts at Club 10 Saturday night.
02-166-5. Pg. 15. Caption: Whistler Question publisher Paul Burrows loads one of the 40 bags of mail that left the Post Office on August 12 after the mail strike was over.
02-166-44. Pg. 16. Caption: Hilda Davey and daughter-in-law Nancy smilingly await the arrival of the new soft ice cream machine at Hilda's Deli which recently re-opened in the Village centre.
02-166-41. Pg. [20]. Caption: [bottom right] While those closer to the scene saw water bombers fighting the blaze.

Week of August 17, 1981 [2]

Photographs including but not limited to mural; railway tracks; hiking with dog; Sayward; Whistler Village
Appears in August 20, 1981 issue:
02-169-10. Pg. 3. Caption: RCMP Constable R. Beaudray and tracking dog Chimo pause for a moment on the third day of their search through the rugged bush near Green Lake. They were searching for clues after the clothes of a missing Maple Ridge teenager were found in the area.
02-169-30. Pg. 11. Caption: Neil James Band struts their stuff before an appreciative audience in the Village Square on Sunday Augutst 16.
02-169-4. Pg. 17. Caption: Larry Deal takes a break at Club 10.
02-169-32. Pg. [20]. Caption: [top left] FIRE! Lighting strike sets fire to Rainbow Mountain Ridge. Sunday Afternoon cocktail sippers got this view from Stoney's terrace.

Week of August 18, 1983

Photographs including but not limited to awards; town planning; car accident; running in Whistler Village; cycling; triathlon; band playing; construction; outdoor concert; musicians playing various instruments; jazz festival; swimming in the lake; Willie Whistler; podium of cycling race; setting up for outdoor concert; portraits; Gettin' Off Easy; Ernestine Anderson; Larry Coryell; Richie Cole
Appears in August 18, 1983 issue:
02-336-146. Pg. 1. Caption: It was a hot time in the old town of Whistler Aug. 12-14 as jazz musicians and their fans poured into the valley for Jazz on the Mountain. Skies stayed sunny and spirits soared, including Larry Coryell's. A pioneer jazz fusion and one of the most innovative performers featured at the three-day event, Coryell cranked it out with saxophonist Richie Cole and blues belter Ernestine Anderson for a real show-stopper Sunday afternoon. See story page 3. J. Bartosik photo.
02-336-293. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] (Above) Vancouver's Getting' Off Easy surprises Saturday's early crowd with a mixture of Andrew Sisters and Manhattan Transer.
02-336-98. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] (Left) Ernestine Anderson belts out another soulful tune during Sunday's jam session with Larry Coryell and Richie Cole.
02-336-58. Pg. 5. Caption: David Taylor, who finished third in the triathlon, crosses the finish line in Village Square Sunday.
02-336-301. Pg. 6. Caption: [left] Hilda Davey, Realtor, Whistler Village.
02-336-303. Pg. 6. Caption: [middle] Bruce Knack, Computer Programmer, Boca Raton, Florida.
02-336-306. Pg. 6. Caption: [right] Kathy Taberner, Businesswoman, Adventures West/Horseshoe Bay.
02-336-252. Pg. 6. Caption: [bottom] Whistler's new $15,000 tent had its inauguration during the August 12-14 jazz festival, much to the pleasure of 4000 jazz buffs who turned out for the event held at the base of Whistler Mountain. Friday night's concert, offered at no charge, featured the stylings of West Coast Jazz Orchestra and Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation in Village Square. At press time, no official report had been released on the financial outcome of the festival.
02-336-219. Pg. 10. Caption: Jerome Rozitis, right, took first place and Andrew O'Keefe second in the Children's Triathlon Saturday.

Week of August 2, 1982

Photographs including but not limited to summer skiing on belt in Whistler Village; windsurfing Alta Lake; marching band winning award for the Squamish Logger's Sports Parade

Week of August 2, 1984

Photographs including but not limited to swimming and canoeing Alta Lake; windsurfing; fishing; golfing; Whistler Village sign; portraits; mountain views; cars and construction vehicles driving along a lake: Molson's Fun Swim; Alta Lake Community Club; Whistler Golf Club
Appears in August 2, 1984 issue:
02-393-13. Pg. 1. Caption: Swimmer Shelley Warne was one of 36 swimmers who participated in the Sixth Annual Molson's Fun Swim on Alta Lake Sunday. Warne swam from Wayside Park to Alta Lake Inn and back under-the watchful eye of Marilyn Moore, who dusted off her bathtub derby craft for the occasion. Fun swim organizers report the event went off without a hitch. Other competitors in the swim included Sharon Daly, Joan Parnell, Mike McCroden, Leslie Bruse, Molly Boyd, Shawn Hughes and Daryl Stone. Men's and women's winners were John Puddicombe and Shirley Fay, who completed the three-mile course in times of just over a half-hour.
02-393-57. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] Steve Martin? No, this wild and crazy guy is parks worker Ted Pryce-Jones who was out last week painting arrows and yellow lines on Valley Trail curves and bends. The new lines and arrows are designed to give cyclists and pedestrians warning and keep users to one side.
02-393-65. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Sgt. Al Speak is the new head of Whistler's six-man Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment, replacing Sgt. Jim Hogarth who left yesterday for a posting in Mission. Speevak, 41, began his duties Monday and comes from Vancouver RCMP headquarters, where he spent five years in the planning branch. That job involved management studies for the national police force, and also entailed development of computer programs. Speevak is a 14-year veteran RCMP and has had previous postings in Nanaimo, Golden, Kamloops and Ottawa. He also spent four years on the Royal Hong Kong police force, and earlier received a Master of Science degree in police administration from Michigan State.
02-393-51. Pg. 7. Caption: Members from the Alta Lake Community Club officially opened one of its five benches last Wednesday that it recently donated to the municipality. The club donated $1,000 and parks planner Tom Barratt used the money to build the benches located along Valley Trail. Trudy Gruetzke-cut the ribbon opening the benches with other ALCC members, Heather Gamache, Nancy Treiber, Louise Zinsli, Evelyn Cullen, Marg Fox and Suzanne Wilson.
02-393-48. Pg. 8. Caption: The Whistler Golf Club is attracting scores of players from the Lower Mainland and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the course is averaging about 225 players a day. Golfers can also take advantage of the course's practice fairway and make a start hitting some of the 7,000 golf balls the course has available at $4 a large bucket and $2 for a small one.
02-393-61. Pg. 9. Caption: George Kelly of Seattle was the 10,000th golfer to tee off at the Whistler Golf Course this year. Kelly, a food service distributor, played his round July 24. Bookings on the course are at 100 per cent most weekends and 80 per cent weekdays. Numbers are up considerably from last year when the 10,000th player came through in the second week in September. The only problem the course is having now is that players are having a hard time getting tee times.
02-393-73. Pg. 14. Caption: [left] Shane McPhaden, Truck Driver, North Vancouver.
02-393-70. Pg. 14. Caption: [middle] Laurie Obyrne, Actress, Vancouver.
02-393-68. Pg. 14. Caption: [right] Jack Stein, Advertising Executive, Richmond.
02-393-78. Pg. 18. Caption: The incumbent in the federal race has posted signs in the most obvious -- and -- ironic places. Greenaway is contesting Whistler's mayor, Mark Angus, for the Cariboo-Chilcotin seat.

Week of August 20, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to Whistler Marmot mascot sowing seeds at golf course
Appears in September 3, 1981 issue:
02-168-34. Pg. [20]. Caption: Willie Whistler gives Bonnie Cerka of the Resort Association a golf lesson.

Week of August [21], 1978

Photographs including but not limited to freestyle skiing; driving; and cars.

02_040_019: [From left to right: Drew Meredith, Jack Greenwood, and Rich Miller]
02_040_025: [Charlie Raine is on the top right, the other children are unknown]

Week of August 21, 1980

Photographs including but not limited to Construction; Peoples Drug Mart; Swimming
02-098-4. Pg.1. Caption: Town Centre's Resort Centre rises faster as summer begins to wind down.
02-098-8.Pg. 3. Caption: (Top) Swimmer roundss the halfway mark and looks towards the finish.
02-098-12. Pg. 3. Caption: (Right) Stepping out at the finish with a little pain
02-098-15. Pg. 3. Caption: (bottom) Congregating at the after party to check at the scores.
02-098-6. Pg. 5. Caption: In Pemberton there`s parking for all types of vehicles.
02-098-1. Pg. (12). Caption: Grant Cooper cuts through bush on shores of Lost Lake Miles of X-country trails are being cut as well as a dock and beach for the south end of Lost Lake.

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