Squamish News

IT’S NO secret that I love dogs…and cats and pigs and horses and goats and cows and, really, all animals, but I especially love dogs — they have a special spot in my heart.

People want to move here but there’s a limit to what people can and are willing to afford and real estate is not the investment it was 20 years ago.

By Jason WoodPublished: July 10, 2015   MY WIFE and I were rowing a canoe around Salt Spring Island 11

The Virgin Mobile Presents Squamish Valley Music Festival will be searching for qualified candidates to fill a number of important paid employment positions for the second annual Job Fair on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Squamish Adventure Centre.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is urging Sea to Sky residents to take precautions due to poor air quality resulting from local wildfires. Air quality in Whistler and Pemberton slightly improved overnight but the air quality in Squamish is now worse.

IN 1998, the original resort plan was supported by 90 per cent of the community of Squamish and by 85 per cent of the community of Whistler as presented in a Marketed Independent Research Study conducted in April 2002 in which the original 8,000 acre project site was enlarged to 12,000 acres.

I wasn't too worried about the actual shaving of my hair, as it was something I had planned to do 17 years ago when I was going to be ordained as a Buddhist nun in Thailand.

WE LIVE in an endemic region for Lyme disease according to Health Canada. The International Lyme and Associated Disease Society says that Endemic areas have closer to 50 per cent of ticks carrying the disease. This differs substantially from the 1 per cent that the suggested by the Center for Disease Control.

A LITTLE while back, as we were getting ready to offer a series of music-healing concert abroad, my fiancé & I were gifted T-shirts with the inscription ‘Silence is luxurious’.

Want this new family in Squamish to get excited? Just talk to them about mountain biking.