Squamish News

By Anne BrightPublished: Dec. 12, 2014 For over thirty years, Heather Donaldson has worked in the health promotion field.  As

Hazard mitigation for a proposed housing development in Brackendale involves a 35-metre high barrier and a sedimentation basin that will protect the area from one in a 10,000 year debris hazard event.

There will be business opportunities for local companies in construction, remediation, marine transport, medical services and supplies, installation, structural fabrication, etc, company representatives said.

By Matt BlackmanPublished: Nov. 29, 2014   Whether you are for or against it, the proposed Woodfibre LNG became a

Season’s Greetings from the Downtown Squamish Business Improvement Association (DSBIA)! It’s been an extremely successful year downtown and what a better way to wrap up 2014 than to celebrate the Holidays?

Ministry of Transportation proudly says it spent $795 million on Highway 99 to make it the safest highway in the province. That may well be true if the ministry is willing to ignore an ICBC report from 2002 whose recommendations have still not been implemented.

Thomas Schneider is a devoted food grower who also owns four chickens. He believes it was ridiculous for the district to have a bylaw that restricted chicken.

It costs about $60 to buy a plastic barrel and hardware necessary to build a rain barrel—a little bit more for a classy oak cask.

The library is introducing new programs and services, despite a $30,000 budget cut last year.

By Paul HudsonPublished: Nov. 16, 2014     Renewing Your Mortgage – Bank Or Broker? We all have busy lives,