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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 12-15, 2005 The Park Record A-4 MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS New ski area proposed east of Vancouver, B.C. One idea it lo use a new gasification process, whereby municiRecord guest writer pal solid waste would be burned CHILLIWACK.B.C. - A pro- to produce heat and electricity. posed ski circa about 5? miles (92 The cost is $45 million, as kilometers) cast of Vancouver opposed to $300,000 for basewill soon draw greater scrutiny. board heaters. The provincial government will This would eliminate the need formally ask if resort developers for Whistler having to ship its are interested in the site, called garbage elsewhere, but it will < 'hipmunk Ridge. require that all recyclable and Beyond this first-blush provin- compostible materials, as well as cial review is another hurdle in batteries and PVCs. be removed. the form oi the Che mil First Another idea is for Whistler to Nations At first, the aboriginals lap the methane gas that is seepstaunchly opposed the project, ing out of the community's landalthough that position appears to fill. 'Iliis would reduce Whisllcr's have softened, reports Whisllcr's contribution of greenhouse Pique newsmagazine. gases, a goal it has already adopt''Recent court decisions have ed by endorsing the Kyoto shown that this type of project Protocol. won't gel very far without the approval of First Nations, so it's •Foreign tourists at all-time better to begin those negotia- high tions as early as possible." explained Brent Harley. a resort STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, planner. Colo. - It started last year, but The resort is being proposed one of the bigger stories of the by Resorts West, a properly man- year at ski areas in Colorado is agement company based in Park the return of tourists from forCity. The company envisions one eign countries. It's happening in or two trams from the town of Aspen and Vail and also Chiliwack. which is located just Steamboat and probably elseoff the TransCanadn Highway where in the U.S. The trams would lead to a bowl Foreign tourists are at the surrounded by 5.000-foot peaks. highest mark in a decade in As well, a real estate component Steamboat, says Andy Wirth, is planned. vice president of marketing for Although the ski trails would the American Skiing Company's average 2.000 feet of vertical, far resorts in the West. Even includless than the 5,000 or so found at ing the locals with season passes. Whistler, the terrain and snowfall foreign tourists ,account for rival those of Whistler and other almost 10 percent of skier visits ski areas near Vancouver. This at Steamboat, he told The resort would appear to also be Steamboat Pilot much more accessible lo The reason foreigners arc skiVancouver and Seattle residents ing U.S. resorts is the weakened than is Whistler. dollar in international exchange rates. The dollar has dropped in •Garbage could be used to value 20 percent in just the last year and a quarter. heat Olympic Tillage All this has Jeff Thredgold. a .WHISTLER, B.C. - Whistler corporate economist for Vectra and British Columbia certainly Bank Colorado, predicting more talked the environmental talk foreign investment in resort real when soliciting the 2010 Winter estate. He also predicts a Olympics. It's now time lo see if renewed surge of Californians they will walk the sustatnability moving lo Colorado as walk. Colorado's economy, while lagAt issue, explains Pique news- ging behind those of other slates magazine, is how the alhletes' vil- in the Rocky Mountains, gets lage will be heated. 'Hie resort more back lo its usual robust procommunity could go the conven- portions. tional route, electric baseboard Although the Federal Reserve heal, or it could adapt a variety Board is raising interests, which of more innovative technologies is expected lo cool the hot real that have greater initial expense estate market, he does not see but ultimately less impact on the that efforl cooling mountain real planet. estate sales. By ALLEN BEST Starting at $50ISP INSTALLED' including full bullnose edge, sink & cooktop cut out Most Jobs Finished in 2 Days No Hidden Charges!!! 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Although living primarily in Cuba and the Florida Keyes, Hemingway had spent portions of 22 years in Ketchum, where he fished and hunted. Beset by men•Rags to riches during tal illness in later years, he tried to kill himself several times and Aspen's coming of age finally succeeded in 1961. ASPEN. Colo. - One of Several neighbors and others Aspens most prominent movers- scorn the idea of making the and-shakcrs, an individual both house a public museum, and loathed and loved, has died at the argue that the house was relativeage of 59 of kidney cancer. ly unimportant in the writer's life, Harley Baldwin had, by hisHemingway scholar, Martin own account, shown up in Aspen Peterson, in a piece published in in 1968 with nothing more- than a the Idaho Mountain Express, military deferment and $1,200 in argues otherwise. He says that his pocket. He began in business Hemingway did important pieces in an extremely small way, hawk- of writing in Ketchum, including ing crepes out of the Popcorn portions of "For Whom the Bell Wagon, but somehow within sev- Tolls." eral years found the capital to There are other arguments become a partner in a real estate that Hemingway drank a lot, that development about 25 miles he didn't get along with members away. Within three years of show- of his family, and so on. The ing up in Aspen, he was buying scholar acknowledges all this, but rundown downtown real estate insists the house is worth saving. that he then converted into Finally, there is the matter of trendy shops. the suicide. "But that doesn't Later, among his various ven- make the house any less worthy tures, he operated both an art of appreciation and respect than gallery and the members-only the cemetery (in Ketchum where Caribou Club. He was, reports Hemingway is buried." The Aspen Times, "both credited Hemingway should be rememand reviled for his role in the bered for his life that was "generresort's transformation into a ally lived well and enlhusiasticalhigh-end shopping mecca and for furthering the town's glitzy image. Baldwin, however, was •Tsunami relief efforts conunapoiogetic and downplayed his tinue in ski towns influence, suggesting he was simply "ahead of the curve." DURANGO, Colo. - 'Hie He later spent much of his efforts lo raise money lo aid victime in New York City, where he tims of the tsunami in the Indian and his partner, Richard Ocean are continuing in ski Edwards, had a home overlook- towns cross the West. Among the ing Central Park. He also taught many recent efforts have been a seminar at Columbia something in Durango in which University. "One of the things I restaurants came together in try lo leach is, it's good to make something called "EAT for the some money: it's really quite People." The participating thrilling. But you've got to enjoy restaurants donated 10 percent of your life," he told T i e Aspen their total sales. That and other raised $20,0000 in Times in an interview several efforts years ago. "It's really important Durango, reports the Durango to leach people to create the life Telegraph. that they want to live." A lien Best has edited mountain •Controversy continues town newspapers for 20 years. He has served as managing editor at abont Hemingway home four different mountain town KETCHUM, Idaho - Forty- newspapers and is now fiving in four years after he killed himself metropolitan Derived. ' PERSIAN RUGS: Embargoes Just Lifted After 15 Years! For r e s e r v a t i o n s 54%-73% OFF REGULAR PRICE, SAT. & SUN. 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