Legacy Story
September 6, 2020
Jill Ackhurst took a particular interest in the annual flow of young people to the community and was concerned about their lack of connection to the roots of the Whistler community.
Jill Ackhurst took a particular interest in the annual flow of young people to the community and was concerned about their lack of connection to the roots of the Whistler community.
Anne Townley thought Whistler was a stop en route to Alaska where she was planning on a career in outdoor guiding. That was 1982. She hasn’t been to Alaska yet.
Along the way, Bob and Sue Adams mentored a generation of bright employees, helped a number to strike out on their own, sold the Upper Village Market to their very able manager and became the kind of business owners smart, ambitious people wanted to work for.
On arriving in Whistler, Anne Popma & Garry Watson both immediately became deeply involved in community developments.
That Marlene Siemens was a mountain girl was never in doubt. That her natural inclination for altitude was latent was understandable
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