A new world of possibility is in store for a group of wounded and injured military personnel who arrived in Whistler on Sunday (Jan. 22) for an eight-day program designed to help them return to an active life.
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"I want to be a cartoonist," says Sarah Colpitts as she drinks her hot chocolate. Her parents, Greg and Jill Colpitts, smile and nod, but their eyes are tired Like most parents they want their child to reach her goals, but they know it's going to be a tough ride. Sarah was born with an undiagnosed cognitive disorder, which in very broad terms means she has mental developmental issues. In addi ...
The Whistler Adaptive Sports Program (WASP) has been selected as a grant recipient by a B.C. consumer-based recycling program that not only diverts used tires from landfills but gives money back to community organizations that actually reuse the recycled tires.
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January 11, 2012
Vancouver, B.C. – Over half a million pounds of tires have been kept out of BC landfills thanks
to Tire Stewardship BC’s (TSBC) second round of Community Grants in 2011. For the fall
edition of the Community Grant Program, 29 BC communities and not-for-profit organizations
received a total $556,318 to be put towards using BC recycled crumb rubber in their various
community p ...