Local News

The Squamish United Church is holding a meeting of the minds with an interfaith dialogue entitled East Meets West: Zen, Taoism and Christianity on Wednesday (Jan. 23).

The district is feeling the pressure of downloading from the province and feds, says Mayor Ian Sutherland. At the Chamber of Commerce New Year address luncheon Friday (Jan.

A slope style snowboarder from Don Ross Secondary carved his way to the top of a provincial podium in Big White over the weekend (Jan. 12 to 13).

Signatures have begun to pile up on a petition against a proposed rehabilitation centre near the Paradise Valley Campground.

Local artists have been given two more weeks to send in their submissions for the fourth Annual Wild At Art festival. Visual arts co-ordinator Judy McQuinn has shifted the deadline from Jan. 15 to Feb. 1.

Staff at the Howe Sound Women's Centre are taking a close look at a promise of support made by Westmana Development on Tuesday (Jan. 8).

The Black Tusk Caledonia Pipe Band and the Mount Garibaldi Masonic Lodge are teaming up in the name of Robert Burns on Friday (Jan. 25) at the Brennan Park Auditorium.

Housing prices climbed faster in Squamish than any other in the Lower Mainland in 2007, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

Local homeowners are attempting to cash in on the Olympics with offers to lease their homes for as much as $25,000 for less than a month in February 2010.

The 22nd annual Brackendale Eagle Count on Sunday (Dec. 6) brought in alarmingly low numbers: only 893 eagles - less than half found in the area in 2007 - were back one year later.