WHISTLER, B.C. – Auto-maker Nissan late this year will begin shipping its new all-electric mid-sized car, called the Leaf. Portland, Seattle and Vancouver are among the cities gearing up to accommodate the cars.
So is Whistler. Town officials have installed four charging stations in the Whistler Conference Centre parking garage.
“The charging stations are a small step on a much larger journey toward sustainability. However, they demonstrate that Whistler is continuously willing to explore and support new opportunities for progressive energy and emissions management,” said Mayor Ken Melamed.
Other ski towns are also starting to install charging stations for electric-only cars. In Colorado, Aspen last year installed 27 charging stations at its municipal parking garage, and Vail has one. Jackson, Wyo., has started talking about charging stations.
Electric motors are six times more efficient than the internal-combustion engine in translating energy into forward moveme

FRISCO – As the newest member to Frisco’s town council, Kim Cancelosi said she’s ready to take the plunge. She’s one of three candidates registered for three open council spots, so the Town of Frisco recently canceled its April election in favor of appointments.
Cancelosi has lived in Frisco full-time since 1995 (after she met her husband Jim at Music on Main), but she started visiting Frisco in 1979 when her parents moved there. She said she’s always liked to be active in public service. So when other residents told her she should run for an open council spot, Cancelosi stepped back to measure whether she had the time.
“I don’t think you can just show up on the two meeting days and think that’s all it involves,” she said, noting that she believes the council’s time commitment to be within her capabilities.
Cancelosi, a mother of two boys – Keegan (10) and Lukas (8), is a former attorney who currently works in home fa

SUMMIT COUNTY – A breakfast fundraiser for the Wounded Warriors Family Ski Week is set for Sunday at the Elks Lodge in Silverthorne from 9 a.m. to noon.
This event will benefit the warriors ski weekend to be held from April 11-18. Families will stay together at donated units in Breckenridge’s Grand Timber Lodge, and the disabled ski event will cost around $100,000 to put on, all expenses included.
Tickets for the fundraiser cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. It’s $5 for children 12 and under.
Form more information, contact Elizabeth Wickert at (970) 453-4778.

FRISCO – The Frisco Public Works Department reports that Meadow Creek Pond located behind Walmart is closed for ice skating for the season. Unstable ice conditions make the pond unsafe for skating or for any public access.
For more info, call Public Works at (970) 668-0836.

As of today, Frisco’s election for council members will be canceled. A resolution to approve this was OK’d at Tuesday’s town council meeting.
There are three candidates to fill three seats, so an election isn’t necessary.
Though the Town of Dillon also has three candidates to fill three open council seats, its election is not being canceled as there are two mayor candidates – Don Parsons and Ron Holland.

The Summit Chamber of Commerce invites you to celebrate its revitalization on March 18 from 5:30-7:30 p.m at the Best Western Lake Dillon Lodge, located at 1202 Summit Blvd. in Frisco. In honor of the celebration, Climax Molybdenum and the Summit Daily News will host the Business-After-Hours Mixer.
Admission will be free. Join us for food, drinks, fun, door prizes, networking and business. Chamber partners and the general public are encouraged to attend, not only to celebrate the Chamber’s future, but our wonderful community as well. The Chamber is grateful for the support it has received within the community the past few months, as it strives to represent the business voice of Summit County.
With food provided by All Seasons Catering and wine by D’Vine Wine, the evening is sure to be great. Thank you to additional sponsors of the evening; Creative Cabinetry, Edward Jones, GOP, Pinnacol Assurance, Tiger Run Resort and Yellowbook.
Thinking about joining the Chamber? No

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Interstate 70 through the Glenwood Canyon reopened about 3 p.m. this afternoon.
The Colorado Department of Transportation had been working on getting one traffic lane in each direction open on through the canyon since a rock fall
closed the road early Monday morning.
Crews were able to open the interstate to one lane in each direction with a 14-foot width restriction, and speeds are reduced to 40 mph through the
canyon.
CDOT Maintenance crews began clearing snow in the canyon early Thursday morning and began work to make the repairs necessary to open a single lane
of traffic in each direction. Crews cleared rock debris from all lanes which were brought down from yesterday’s mitigation work removing a large boulder above the fall area.
The blast brought down about a dozen larger boulders, and many smaller rocks.
Repairs to the elevated roadway’s drainage system and roadway patching in numerous places where boulders punched holes in the road surface are

SUMMIT COUNTY – Summit County Coroner Joanne Richardson released the identity of Wednesday’s avalanche victim as 20-year-old Daniel Michelotti from Spring Grove, Ill.
Michelotti was snowboarding with two friends in the Steep Gullies area, just west of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, when an avalanche carried him about 1,000 feet and killed him. According to Richardson, suffocation was the cause of death.
It took the two friends about 20-25 minutes to descend the slope and dial 911.
About 37 rescuers from Summit County Rescue Group, Keystone Ski Patrol, A-Basin Ski Patrol and Summit County Ambulance Service responded to the scene.
Michelotti moved to Colorado in November and was an employee of Breckenridge Ski Resort.

Julie Sutor can be reached at (970) 668-4630 or jsutor@summitdaily.com.

GLENWOOD CANYON – One lane of Interstate 70 in each direction in Glenwood Canyon should open Thursday after crews do some cleanup, drainage work and final pavement repair, the Colorado Department of Transportation says.
One lane of eastbound and westbound I-70 will reopen by the end of the day Thursday, CDOT spokeswoman Nancy Shanks said late Wednesday night.
State work crews, using a helicopter to ferry drilling equipment and a generator high up on the canyon wall, blasted free a huge boulder perched above the site of Monday’s rockslide. Pieces of the boulder rained down on the freeway shortly before 6 p.m., causing no further serious damage than the destruction done by the initial rockslide.
The impact of numerous large rocks and boulders, which fell from the northern canyon wall shortly after midnight on Monday, tore gaping holes in the road platform and closed the freeway in both directions.
The closure forced traffic to detour far to the north on US 40 before dropping ba

BRECKENRIDGE – The Town of Breckenridge this week terminated an agreement with developer Mercy Housing on the 42-unit Valley Brook affordable housing development after nearly two years.
“The economy – and the economics of the situation itself – was probably the biggest reason,” Councilman Eric Mamula said Wednesday, adding that it will save the town money to develop it in “smaller chunks” rather than “one shot.”
The development agreement for the estimated $12 million project, financed in part by the town and government grants, began in June 2008.
Mercy Housing Colorado president Jennifer Erixon said her company is gathering invoices so it can be reimbursed for costs to date.
“Ultimately, the council decided it needed to take an approach that didn’t involve a third-party developer, and we respect that,” she said.
The project hit choppy waters last fall when general contractor BASE Building Solutions pulled out, p