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Should Canada's immigration laws be tightened? Saturday Sunday Monday SUMYperiods. Rain developing. Cloudy with showers. Low 5. Low 4. Low 6. High 12. High 11. High 11. -- __ -___--- Moon Phases "With tlre cumnt situation the wiiy it is, '7 think that potential immigmnts of any '7 suppkt immiwtion we need to take a stem look at how we . surf should have the pmpr cmdentsals laws..: before they leave the counfiy they'm in. " I do evewins" -Kehar Basra -Heidi Nielsen -Eric Douglas -- 0000-New ~- Moon First Quarter- Full Moon Last Quarter Nov. 14 Oct. 23 Oct. 31 Nov. 8 -_- -- - -. __ .____-_- T!!.-es----------- ,* Date Low Tide (m) High Tide (m) Oct. 20 2:27 a.m. (0.76) 9:36 a.m. (4.47) EIGHT DAYS A WEEK 3:01 p.m. (3.07) 8:OO p.m. (4.12) Community events in and around Sauamish from OCT. 20-27 Oct. 21 309 a.m. (0.83) 10:38 a.m. (4.42) 4:02 p.m. (3.26) 8:32 p.m. (3.88) SATURDAY, OcL 20 THURSDAY, Oct, 25 Oct. 22 3:55 a.m. (0.99) 11:43 a.m. (4.37) Screenings of Treasure Mountain, Eagle Eye Theatre, 430 Soup and Sandwich Day, Tantalus Seniors Centre, 11:30 5:20 p.m. (3.34) 9:07 p.m. (3.62) and 7 p.m. (SEE PAGE A9) - a.m. Oct. 23 4:44 a.m. (1.21) 12:48 p.m. (4.34) Blessings Unlimited Charity Sale, on Discovery Way Tantalus Walking Club, climber's parking lot off Loggers 7:08 p.m. (3.28) 9:55 y.m. (3.37) (across from Mountain Building Centres), 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 24 5:40 a.mI (1.44) 1:48 p.m. (4.31) Lane, 10 a.m. 8:44 p.m. (3.08) 11:27 p.m. (3.16) Between Shifts production of Ravenscroft, Eagle Eye Oct. 25 6:45 a.m. (1.65) 2:40 p.m. (4.30) SUNDAY, Oct. 21 Community Theatre, 8 p.m. 9:31 p.m. (2.84) - - Blessings Unlimited Charity Sale, on Discovery Way Oct. 26 1:22 a.m. (3.12) (across from Mountain Building Centres), 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FRIDAY, Oct. 26 7:52 a.m. (1.80) 3:21 p.m. (4.29) Prayer Squamish gathering, Squamish Community Howe Sound Secondary School football vs. Whdsor, . 1O:Ol p.m. (2.60) - !I church, 7 p.m. HSSS, 3:15 p.m. (SEE PAGE B1) Oct. 27 - 2:49 a.m. (3.24) 1 - __- - - ___-- Hobgoblin Express begins running at West Coast Railway+, MONDAY, Oct, 22 Heritage Park, to Oct. 31. 1 Between Shifts production of Ravenscroft, Eagle Eye Silent auction for Pearl's Place Transition House until Nov. Community Theatre, 8 Ships .in Port 2, Bank of Nova Scotia, Cleveland Avenue. Vessel Depart/Arr Bound for/Arriving from Star Indiana DeP N. Pac (Korea/Japan) TUESDAY, Oct. 23 SATURDAY, Oct. 27 Star Gran DeP Europe/UK Between Shifts production of Ravenscroft, Eagle Eye I Star Herd I a DeP Mediterranean Free flu clinics for health care workers, Coast Garibaldi Community Theatre, 8 p.m. Osprey Arrow Arr. North Asia (China) Health Unit, 12-2 p.m. Barbet Arrow Arr. S.E. Asia (Indonesia) Pop Concert, Squamish Figure Skating Club, Brennan Park Arena, 3-5:30 p.m. (SEE PAGE B1) For more information on these and other upco .___ - __ . -. - -. .- . __ - . ... _._.... ing community events see "About Town" WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 Maureen Gilmour on page A14. Flyers this weekend Opening night of Between Shifts Theatre production of Ravenscroft, Eagle Eye Theatre, 8 p.m. (SEE PAGE A12) IGA Marketplace Save-On Foods Bargain! Shop True Value Hardware Garden Centre (partial) Planet Savers (partial) RACE& COMPANY Barristers, Solicitors & Mediators EST. 1973 G. STEWART KERR LTD. 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THE CHIEF Saturday, OCtobeF 20,2001 A3 i i It's defi 6' require MEWS - 1 Highway failure by 2012 Improvements- needed, ion Olympics or not: 3asra MOT official TIMSHOULTS CHIEFSTAFF WRITER Even without the Olympic rush, Hwy. 99 needs major overhauls to avoid road failure, a Ministry of Transportation (MOT) official told Squamish businesspeople Tuesday. Peter Millburn, the MOT official COURTESY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION entre, 11:30 on the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Traffic between Sqiiamish and Horseshoe Bay is up to 23,700 vehicles per day in so??iespots. Olympic Bid Corporation' trans- 9. \ : off Loggers portation group, addressed the The marine option - passenger- the Sea to Sky Highway is already 478 hours between 1995 and 1998 Squamish Chamber of only ferries to Squamish transfer- overburdened and road "failure" - an average of 15 closures and 3gle Eye Commerce's monthly luncheon ring to coaches - could handle is likely by the year 2012 unless 117.1 hours a year. Just about half meeting at the Best Western Sea to 24,000 passengers per day in a 42- major improvements are made, of those closures are due to motor Sky Hotel. minute trip from Canada Place to Millburn said. vehicle accidents. Millbum, a former director of the downtown Squamish, leaving The ministry has used the figure "Obviously it's got an economic Nhdsor, Sea to Sky region for the Ministry approximately 19,000 passengers of 10,000 vehicles per day as the effect, a safety effect and an effect iples so we can do a toxicolo- of Transportation, said none of the to be handled by highway coaches benchmark for required road on your tourism potential," Ioast Railway report. We're also going to be individual modes of transporta- and passenger vehicles from improvements. Parts of Hwy. 99 Millbum said. some assistance from a tion - rail, marine, air or highway Vancouver to Whistler. between Horseshoe Bay and Possibilities for highway expert who will be - will be able to handle the esti- Local passenger traffic is Squamish were up to 13,700 vehi- improvements include tunnels g his equipment to see mated 43,000 passengers that will accounted for in the Olympic cles per day at peak periods in and viaducts which would take were any problems with travel between Vancouver and model as well - 600 vehicles per 1998 and are estimated to be han- the road over ocean inlets along -. 1 Whistler each day if the 2010 hour are expected to travel dling more than 15,000 vehicles the coast. Both options would take %flusnolsfor seniors - Winter Olympics are held here, between Squamish and the Lower per day today, given a 3.7 per cent the road further away from the agle Eye without substantial highway Mainland on non-Olympic busi- annual increase. rock slopes which have caused improvements. ness, Millburn said. Worse still, traffic reaches damage to the roads and highway The rail option has been largely If a combined marine-bus option bumper-to-bumper levels on 46 closures on several occasions. ther upcolr written off, with a maximum is used, it leaves 36,000 passengers occasions a year - nearly once a Both tunnels and viaducts would capacity of only 14,000 passengers per day on the highway between week - and is "rising exponen- be extremely expensive and diffi- I Town" b: per day and a three-hour travel, Squamish and Whistler - a road tially," Millbum said. cult to build, Millburn pointed out. while air travel will be able to han- whose current maximum capacity According to MOT statistics, "It's definitely a challenge that dle only 400 passengers and be is 24,000 vehicles per day. Hwy. 99 was completely closed to will require world-class solu- reserved for VIPs, Millburn said. Even without the Olympic bid, traffic on 58 occasions for a total of tions." -- .--- he said. "It is our opinion that the proposed ser- make it easier for people living in surrounding High demand for vice would not only support local employees communities to travel back and forth." service: BC Transit that commute between the two communities - As usual for transit services, net costs would including those who commute from Whistler to be shared between BC Transit and the cornmu- work in Squamish - but many Whistler resi- nities, he said. NATALIEMCGINNIS dents may also be interested in using transit to "How much it costs the community depends CHIEFSTAFF WRITER take advantage of the services offered in on the revenue of the service." Squamish. This would be especially true for The service cannot begin in the current year For many locals, driving back and forth to many young locals who don't have access to a because BC Transit will not be able to budget work in Whistler is an everyday reality. private vehicle. for the service until its next budget year, which That's why some local commuters are rallying In the spring, BC Transit did a study on what begins April 2002, said McCabe.