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Week of April 13, 1981 [3]

Photographs including but not limited to Blackcomb buildings; car accidents; children's activities; group photos; skiing Blackcomb Mountain; chairlift
Appears in April 16, 1981 issue:
02-141-23. Pg. 9. Caption: Nonie Bredt, 6, of Miss Pauliuk's class at Myrtle Philip Elementary School tells the world what spring means to her. Spring is nice. Spring is flowers blooming. Spring has bees.
02-141-27. Pg. 17. Caption: Gord Voncina of Whistler directs traffic around Dept. of Highway vehicles that are doing their annual spring cleaning of the ditches along Highway 99.

Week of April 15, 1982

Photographs including but not limited to roads; cars; garbage; construction; meal at restaurant; firemen; awards; skiers; lift line-ups; Gondola Village mountain camping; party; Garibaldi relocation project; torched remains of Garibaldi Lodge; Whistler Cable TV; B.C. Tel; Easter Back Bowl Downhill; Cheakamus Canyon project
Appears in April 15, 1982 issue:
02-250-3. Pg. 1. Caption: [bottom] All that remains today is a charred pile of debris. The lodge was torched by the provincial government after no bids were received on the building. It is one of the victims of the Garibaldi relocation project implemented by the province because of the threat of the barrier.
02-250-88. Pg. 3. Caption: [top left] Firemen had a smokey fight when they first arrived on the scene.
02-250-130. Pg. 3. Caption: [top right] Jim Dawson of Whistler Cable T.V. takes a look over blueprints while B.C. Tel workmen hang new cable in the Gondola area.
02-250-47. Pg. 8. Caption: [top left] Pat Kelly, Real Estate Agent, Whistler Cay Resident.
02-250-152. Pg. 8. Caption: [top middle] Diane Robb, Waitress, Gondola Area Resident.
02-250-53. Pg. 8. Caption: [top right] Denver Snider, Mons towing, Emerald Estates.
02-250-56. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom left] Don Willoughby, Businessman, Alpine Meadows.
02-250-50. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom middle] "Fast" Eddy, Union Construction Worker, Alta Vista.
02-250-149. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom right] Susan Nielsen, Bookkeeper, Whistler Cay resident.
02-250-78. Pg. 9. Caption: [top] A round of applause and a bouquet of flowers were Race Secretary Joan McCulloch's reward for a year of hard work. Owen Carney, Alpine Chairman, (Centre) made the presentation.
02-250-110. Pg. 9. Caption: [bottom] Michell Brown and Doug Smith hold up the Price Waterhouse Trophy, which they won in junior skiing competition at Blackcomb Mountain on Sunday.
02-250-7. Pg. 11. Caption: The latest development in the Cheakamus Canyon project is the diversion which carries vehicles through the rock cut (Centre) rather than around one of the most dangerous corners on Highway 99 (right).
02-250-21. Pg. 16. Caption: [bottom] Some Whistler residents could do with a few lessons in tidiness and cooperation. This scene at the Mons garbage compactor tells a story.
02-250-39. Pg. 17. Caption: [Building on a dream]
02-250-134. Pg. 21. Caption: This prefab housing appeared Thursday, April 8 at the Gondola base area. No occupants were discovered.

Week of April 20, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to tennis; cars; children playing; construction; Easter Egg Hunt; chefs at catering; band playing saxophone and guitar; baby; Holland Landscapers Ltd.; Rendezvous Rest Blackcomb; snowman; Blackcomb Mountain; skiing; one-legged skier; drinks; liquor store; Whistler Village
Appears in April 23, 1981 issue:
02-188-95. Pg. 1. Caption: Debris and ashes are all that remain after the Manson cabin burned to the ground Good Friday. The large flat metal sheet in the lower left was once a 100-gallon propane tank that exploded and then was flattened after the blast.
02-188-41. Pg. 4. Caption: Brand new Adam Smythe, the youngest pass holder on Blackcomb Mountain, shares a look with his mom Debbie.
02-188-86. Pg. 8. Caption: [top] It was a skiing Bunny up on Blackcomb Easter Sunday passing out eggs (no, not frozen ones) to mini-skiers.
02-188-107. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom] Dennis Lamarche, manager (right) and Glen Holdener, assistant manager picket outside Whistler's Liquor Store Saturday, April 8.
02-188-60. Pg. 9. Caption: Some of the may Easter Weekend visitors who enjoyed (or over-enjoyed) festivities and decided to recharge their batteries with a few quick winks in the sun.
02-188-38. Pg. 10. Caption:At the Mountain House Cabaret, the Doc worked his magic once again for Whistlerites for six straight nights. Remember him 'way back when? Biminis? The Ankor?
02-188-112. Pg. 10. Caption: [Stoney's Advertisement]
02-188-108. Pg. 13. Caption: The beachcomber comes to the ski slopes: Bruno Gerussi and Alderman Mark Angus enjoy the sun outside of Stoney's Saturday, April 19.
02-188-28. Pg. 14. Caption: [top] (l to r)Lee Moors, Bob Pearson and Steve Atkinson of Russell's rightfully enjoy some of their marvelous creations -- made especially for Easter Brunch.
02-188-71. Pg. 14. Caption: [bottom] nal sculpture by Christine Longo, 4.
02-188-80. Pg. 15. Caption: New mechanic [Ken Domries]
02-188-33. Pg. 17. Caption: [top] Near the Mountain Inn at Whistler lift base.
02-188-66. Pg. 17. Caption: [middle] On the training wall by the Blackcomb access road.
02-188-55. Pg. 17. Caption: [bottom] Nmber 2 day skier parking lot at Whistler Village.
02-188-88. Pg. [20]. Caption: [top] Now you see it -- now you don't. The cornice in Blackcomb Bowl was blasted off on schedule Easter Sunday before it fell of its own accord on some unfortunate skier.
02-188-83. Pg. [20]. Caption: [bottom] The cornice in Blackcomb Bowl.

Week of December 11, 1980

Photographs including but not limited to opening day on Blackcomb; Hugh Smythe; Pat Carleton; skiing; fire; chairlift; liquor store; cars; High Forest Properties
02-151-27. Pg. 1. Caption: [middle] telephone workers patch up the burned cables the next day as the hall remnants still burn.
02-151-17. Pg. 1. Caption: [bottom] Chainsaw-wielding Mayor Pat Carleton cuts the ribbon on the first Blackcomb Mtn. Chair.
02-151-46. Pg. 3. Caption: Icicles hang down from the roof of Blackcomb Lodge after the recent cold spell.
02-151-9. Pg. 4. Caption: All smiles -- Jean McEwan receives her award from Capilano College Principal Paul Gallagher as Ross Smith looks on.
02-151-23. Pg. 7. Caption: The 18 foot cake prepared by Gourmet for the opening of Blackcomb Mountain.
02-151-115. Pg. 8. Caption: Powder hound enjoys the deep under lift 4 on Blackcomb last week.
02-151-125. Pg. 9. Caption: 1980 Citizen of the Year, Chamber of Commerce President Drew Meredith.
02-151-62. Pg. 11. Caption: [no caption provided]
02-151-73. Pg. 12. Caption: Kelly Maxwell passes a box of oranges to driver Sonny King while Matt Satre packs two into the school.
02-151-105. Pg. 12. Caption: [portrait of Ski-ed on Blackcomb; repeates] Jose (Pepo) Hanff.
02-151-55. Pg. 13. Caption: [top] while the shelves start to fill up in the new Whistler Liquor Store.
02-151-67. Pg. 13. Caption: [bottom] Managers Dennis Lamarche and Glen Holdner stock shelves (liquor store).
02-151-92. Pg. 14. Caption: [top] One of the happy table groups at the Chamber of Commerce Dinner.
02-151-88. Pg. 14. Caption: [bottom] Bracketed by two attractive ladies -- Graeme O'Neill enjoys the Chamber of Commerce Dinner Dance with his wife Deanna (left) and Thuy Nguyet.
02-151-38. Pg. 16. Caption: Constable Fred Pinnock (left) and Corporal Larry Killaly are Whistler's newest members of the RCMP detachment here.
02-151-119. Pg. [20]. Caption: The first chair up Blackcomb -- President Hugh Smythe loads the first skiers up the lift on December 4 while others wait to get up into the untracked snow.

Week of December 15, 1981 [2]

Photographs including but not limited to dogs; mountain views; Blackcomb Mountain; skiing from the peak; hanging upside down on chin-up bar in ski boots; Peters Underground; cars; Creekside Husky
Appears in December 17, 1981 issue:
02-235-44. Pg. 8. Caption: [top left] Roland Kentel, High Forest.
02-235-35. Pg. 8. Caption: [top middle] Joan Gross, Alpine Meadows.
02-235-39. Pg. 8. Caption: [top right] Bob Wick, Emerald Estates.
02-235-43. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom left] Denver Snider, Emerald Estates.
02-235-36. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom middle] Penny Wright, Whistler Creek Lodge.
02-235-31. Pg. 8. Caption: [bottom right] Leslie Simpson, Whistler Cay.
02-235-57. Pg. 10. Caption: [top] Volunteers level the snow based on the soon-to-be-completed ice rink in the Recreation Centre.
02-235-41. Pg. 10. Caption: [bottom] Its owner Peter Skoros (left) under the new sign announcing his new restaurant in the Town Centre which will be opening next week.
02-235-9. Pg. 14. Caption: A peaceful moment for two best friends crossing the fresh powder of Sproat Mountain.
02-235-28. Pg. 15. Caption: [Hanging around in Alta Vista]
02-235-68. Pg. 18. Caption: Citizen of the Year Trev Roote shows off his plaque to wife Susan outside his Whistler chalet.
02-235-49. Pg. 19. Caption: Chamber of Commerce guest speaker Jack Donaghue addresses the dinner dance guests while Jenny Busdon, Michael D'Artois and Mayor Pat Carleton listen.
02-235-14. Pg. 22. Caption: [bottom] Hanging in Suspense. This workman tightens the cable for Whistler Cable TV's new line running up the east face of Sproat. Photo by Peter Chrzanowski.

Week of February 1, 1983

Photographs including but not limited to Budget rental cars; Armchair Books; dinner event with band; cross-country skiing race; portraits; CKVU film crew; eating at a restaurant; The Keg re-opening; driving; Blackcomb; S. F. U. Clansmen Invitational ski racing; chairlift; Bartosik; National Collegiate Ski Association Division Meet; "Whistler 200" dinner at Delta Mountain Inn; Whistler Hay and Sleigh Rides; Tacoy Ride band playing
Appears in February 3, 1983 issue:
02-328-69. Pg. 1. Caption: CKVU talk show host Laurier LaPierre rolled into Whistler Friday, Jan. 28 with his T.V. crew to compile and updated report on the crown corporation takeover at Whistler. At Beau's Restaurant, LaPierre interviewed (l to r) Roy Ferris (hidden), Mike Widger, Geoff Power and Glenda Bartosh for the opinions on Whistler and its future. The segment will be aired on the Vancouver Show Friday, Feb. 4.
02-328-111. Pg. 2. Caption: Judy Fosty ... "Even if we make a little bit of money, it's a start."
02-328-106. Pg. 3. Caption: [top] Like a bridge over troubled waters the Culliton Creek span begins to edge its way towards the southbank. Scheduled for completion this spring, the bridge will take a big kink out of Highway 99 when it is finished.
02-328-49. Pg. 3. Caption: [bottom] Tom Blake .. Snowmass Resort Association president.
02-328-125. Pg. 6. Caption: Overall winners in the National Collegiate Ski Association Division Meet, UBC ski club accept awards after the competition Sunday, Jan. 30. John Bartosik photo.
02-328-14. Pg. 8. Caption: Every drum roll means a winner at Whistler Mountain Ski Club's "Whistler 200" dinner Saturday, Jan. 29 in Delta Mountain Inn.
02-328-116. Pg. 9. Caption: Whistler's first piece of fire fighting equipment a 1962 International complete with 1,200 gallon tank, at its new home in the Village of Pemberton. Pemberton Fire Chief Milt Fernandez said the thank truck will round out fire services in the area, where water delivery is a problem.
02-328-163. Pg. 10. Caption: Whistler Hay and Sleigh Rides trundle through Whister Village most afternoons. Pick up a lift from The Stables behind the Public Safety Building. John Bartosik photo.
02-328-28. Pg. 11. Caption: Tacoy RIde lured listeners to the dance floor with their original reggae numbers at the Longhorn Pub Jan. 25-29.
02-328-36. Pg. 12. Caption: Paula Brown of Pacific Lutheran University, first place finisher in women's 7.5km cross-country race in the inter-collegiate competition held at Whistler Jan. 28, 29 and 30. Brown dashed around the course in 31:49.
02-328-87. Pg. 13. Caption: Brian Moran, Ken Till, Bob Elliott and John Grills outside the soon-to-be-opened Whistler Keg.
02-328-64. Pg. 16. Caption: [left] Warren Borden, Shipwright, North Vancouver.
02-328-63. Pg. 16. Caption: [middle] Keith Dalley, Lift Maintenance Supervisor, Whistler Mountain, White Gold.
02-328-53. Pg. 16. Caption: [right] Frank Thiessen, Professional Pilot, Alpine Meadows.
02-328-95. Pg. 18. Caption: Getting into the swing of things, this youngster shows style and stamina during an outing on Whistler's Lost Lake trail system.

Week of March 8, 1982 [2]

Photographs including but not limited to car accidents; woman on exercise machine; collapsed bridge; ski gear and snow; Brandywine Inn; Whistler downhill course changes; Nasty Jack's Canada Ski Team Benefit; Alta Lake Inn; skiing; Blackcomb Mountain; Whistler Mountain; bar; restaurant; pianist; cooking; Doc Fingers; Action B.C.; spring cleaning in Village centre
Appears in March 11, 1982 issue:
02-216-19. Pg. 1. Caption: All that remained of the lower portion of the Backcomb skiers bridge that collapsed Saturday, March 6 injuring two.
02-216-12. Pg. 9. Caption: Action! Fitness instructor Sue Worden pedals her heart out for Action B.C. testing Saturday, March 6 while Kevin Ponnock, fitness consultant, records pulse rate. The government-sponsored program includes flexibility testing and a diet analysis so that participants can assess their fitness level.
02-216-51. Pg. 12. Caption: George Merry of Trail, Peter Vajda and Bill Kirker at the UBC Ski Team reunion at Whistler March 7.
02-216-41. Pg. 14. Caption: Peter Malliaros and Ross Smith cook the first outdoor souvlaki of the seas at L'Apres patio on March 6.
02-216-59. Pg. 17. Caption: Spectators watch Powder 8 Contest on Blackcomb Mountain, Sunday, Mar. 7.
02-216-88. [Sue Wanner at the Black Forest restaurant]

Week of March 9, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to helicopters; car accidents; hot tub; music show in school setting; kayaking; motorhome; mountaineering; snowy mountain peaks; party; competitive skiiers
Appears in March 12, 1981 issue:
02-133-50. Pg. 5. Caption: [top] The Alpha Lake Aggregate pit shows no evidence of campers ....
02-133-47. Pg. 5. Caption: [centre left] ... while there are crowds at Whistler Mountain ...
02-133-44. Pg. 5. Caption: [centre right] ... the club cabin area ...
02-133-41. Pg. 5. Caption: [middle left] ... the schoolyard ...
02-133-42. Pg. 5. Caption: [middle right] ... the town centre ...
02-133-46. Pg. 5. Caption: [bottom] ... and at the gondola base ...
02-133-73. Pg. 8. Caption: B.C. Disabled Ski Team member Ron Backie heads through the Molstar course.
02-133-101. Pg. 12. Caption: [top] The crowd gets out onto the dance floor at Club 10.
02-133-34. Pg. 12. Caption: [bottom] Mayor Pat Carleton (centre) congratulates Michel Segur (left) and Jean-Jacques Aaron on the opening of their new club.
02-133-43. Pg. 17. Caption: Early Sunday morning inspection tour of the Resort Centre left this 4X4 well stuck in the mud!
02-133-65. Pg. [20] or back cover. Caption: You can't see the tracks, but you can see the judges (lower left) and the competitors (upper right under the rocks) at the Figure 8 contest held in the Blackcomb Bowl on Sunday (story on page 3).
02-133-97. [Jane Burrows, Maureen [?], Kathleen Lazzina, and unknown woman]

Week of May 29, 1980

Photographs including but not limited to town planning; Blackcomb Construction; cars;
May 29, 1980
02-113-44. Pg. 1. Caption: [top] Construction camp trailers shape up in Town Centre as workers (background) excavate sewer line trenches.
02-113-15. Pg. 1. Caption: [bottom] Jim Carlberg, architect-developer, spotlight's his presentation to Council with model of Package 18 while Chris Green, No. 17 developer, looks on.
02-113-39. Pg. 5. Caption: Singing Pass parking lot, about three miles from the highway through Town Centre, with new map and visitor register.
02-113-28. Pg. 6. Caption: [above] Cast and Crew of Gold Key Entertainment's movie "Up River" waif for the next take.
02-113-24. Pg. 6. Caption: [below] a Cabin is ignited for a dramatic scene ready to shoot.
02-113-18. Pg. 7. Caption: Jim Bradley assisted by Peter Grant and his truck prepares to move this building off a duplex lot near Whistler Centre.
02-113-66. Pg 8. Caption: Hydro use giant trailer and steering unit to move new transformer into Rainbow substation at Mons.
02-113-5. Pg. 11. Caption: Package 16 is quick to start work. The first of the Phase II parcels to start work in the Town Centre this year. Jim Cook's pumper truck helps fill forms with cement from Cardinal Concrete.
02-113-72, 43. Pg. 14. Caption: Here today, gone tomorrow -- the continuing battle of graffiti artists on the old firehall at Mons was finally ended Tuesday May 27 when municipal crews tore the building down.
02-113-16. Pg. [16]. Caption: The uphill, sunny east side of the new Blackcomb daylodge waits for glass and interior work to be done.

Week of May 4, 1981

Photographs including but not limited to trucks; sleeping child; town planning; Myrtle Philip School; awards; windsurfing on Alta Lake; CAA; Telemark Blackcomb Mountain; skiing; car accident; chairlift; dog; musician playing guitar
Appears in May 7, 1981 issue:
02-186-16. Pg. 1. Caption: Architect Joe Yamauchi and Alderman Mark Angus inspect the model of the Whistler Tower Building planned for Parcel 26. Arrows indicated the controversial tower.
02-186-70. Pg. 3. Caption: Costumed members of the Vancouver Telemark Society practise group telemark turns on the last day of the season.
02-186-59. Pg. 4. Caption: Jody Wick, 10, of Myrtle Philip Elementary, brings out the shine on Ike's tow-truck during the WPTA's successful carwash held May 2.
02-186-22. Pg. 7. Caption: New engineer on staff [Doug Wylie]
02-186-10. Pg. 8. Caption: Peter Grant and his Kenworth. Grant's been truckin' through this valley for four years. "There's more and more work every year," he says.
02-186-52. Pg. 13. Caption: [windsurfer]
02-186-35. Pg. 15. Caption: For being the top MPE artists, not to mention electrically alert, Tami Wick, Rya Kirkwood and Cris Simpson were awarded these framed certificates. Standing behind (l to r) are Ross Dinwoodie, Laroy Watt and Gary Wong.
02-186-76. Pg. 16. Caption: Wreckage of the 280 Z Datsun that Geoff Power was driving when it went out of control and rolled three times in the ditch of Highway 99 near the Northair turnoff. The car belongs to Dave Manson of Vancouver.
02-186-23. Pg. 17. Caption: Bridge over troubled waters! Local contractor Ian Michell recently completed his second pedestrian bridge over 19-Mile Creek in Alpine Meadows. The neighbours certainly appreciate his efforts to solve the local access problem.
02-186-8. Pg. [20]. Caption: Whew! All tuckeredout at the end of the season, Donald Campbell, 4, of North Vancouver decided that the best place for a weary skier to lay his helmetted head was the front step of Jim McConkey's Ski Shop.

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