Local News

WorkSafe B.C. has announced their financial turn around from a $500-million deficit to a $300 million dollar surplus and the local labour committee is calling the recent claims "outrageous" and "shameful.

Jane Emerick [email protected] The Squamish Emergency Program Society (SEPS) needs equipment and they are asking the community to help fundraise for the group that tirelessly volunteers its time to keep Squamish safe.

Squamish voters accounted for more than the 973-vote difference between winner Liberal Blair Wilson and Conservative runner-up John Weston in the Jan. 23 federal election.

Jane Emerick [email protected] She is the girl you see every Sunday morning at the soccer field. She serves you a $1 coffee, makes you a hamburger, or sells you a selection of candy she proportioned in plastic bags.

Steven Hill [email protected] Members of the Squamish Streamkeepers want to see an alternative to a proposed road over the sensitive Meighan Creek system.

David Burke Whistler Question The four-month Squamish-Whistler transit pilot project came to an end last week, but officials in both communities are hopeful that a permanent service will be established in the future, perhaps by this fall.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] The District of Squamish took another step toward entering the logging business last week. The Brohm Lake Interpretive Forest appears to be winning the race to become Squamish's first community forest.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] A CN Rail train car carrying pulp derailed in the Squamish estuary at 10:45 p.m. Sunday (April 23) on its way to Squamish Terminals industrial port.

Sylvie Paillard [email protected] Council for the District of Squamish completed budget deliberations Tuesday (April 25). They went into the final day of deliberations with arguably the most vocal councillor, Coun.

Squamish Chief readers may remember Cpl. Douglas Morgan from his rotation in Bosnia and from his assistance to a person going into a diabetic coma on Government Road when everyone was driving around him.