This is a guest post written by Harriet van Wart who leads the Land and Resources Department for the Lil'wat Nation, reflecting on the first ever team takeover for the Wellness Almanac. It was inspiring to meet the team and get a glimpse at the work they do. I was really excited when Lisa invited … Continue reading When the Lil’wat Land and Resources Department took over the instagram account
This is going to be sitting on my coffee table this winter. And I'll turn the pages, to mark the days, that Polek shot his photos, as a reminder of two things: 1. what a beautiful place we live, and 2. how much can be accomplished when you build upon the power of a daily … Continue reading The Valley of Light project comes to fruition
As the days begin to get shorter and autumn chills the air, the museum will be getting ready for Halloween. The museum will be hosting another Halloween Event for children under the age of 12 on Saturday Oct 29th. There will be hot dogs, marshmallows and hot cocoa to warm little hands and toes. There … Continue reading Spookfest at the Museum for the kiddies, October 29
via the SLRD Mount Meager, 60 kilometres northwest of Pemberton, is a volcano in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt that last erupted explosively 2426 years ago. It is considered dormant. In the summer of 2016, sulphur smells and sightings of volcanic openings, or fumaroles, in the vicinity of Mount Meager were reported. Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) and academic partners … Continue reading Mt Meager activity is under review
Kicking off our month of litterless lunch ideas is a recipe from the Zero Waste education coordinator herself, naturalist Kathy Jenkins, who says: "I get stressed out if I run out of these because I can't handle buying bars from the store. You can add whatever dry ingredients you like." Hat-tip to Girl's Gone Child … Continue reading Litterless Lunch Hack #1: Make Your Own Granola Bars!
Shares Victoria, "This photo was taken in Quilchena, a reserve near Merritt, my dad's hometown. I'm in love with this photo because of the color but as well as because of my love for this land. I have so many childhood memories here and it is good to be back to visit family I haven't … Continue reading Sometimes, the land speaks to you. Sometimes it sings. This photo by Victoria Saddleman is of the song.
This is a repost of Cindy Filipenko's column from the Question this week. Imagine if over the past few decades more than 1,100 lawyers across the country just disappeared. They were on the way to work but never made it. Or perhaps they never came back from court. Now imagine that those cases received only … Continue reading Join Sisters in Spirit to raise awareness about murdered and missing aboriginal women, October 4, in Whistler, 11am
“The Lillooet River is such a mystery,” says Veronica Woodruff. “It’s so murky. Even where it’s only ten centimeters deep in shallow spots in the middle, you can’t actually see the bottom.” An environmental technician and founding director of Stewardship Pemberton, Woodruff paddleboards the river all summer and lives right beside it. “It doesn’t have … Continue reading Mapping the Mysterious: Stewardship Pemberton’s new 3D model of the ‘hood
Students from Pemberton Secondary built these beautiful chickadee houses and a bird feeder for the Pemberton Creek Community Garden. To attract house wrens and chickadee, place the box very close to or actually in the cover of a bush or small tree where they seek shade and protection of thick bushes and where mated pairs … Continue reading The best kind of Air BnB: bird-feeders and bee boxes as accommodation for the winged ones
This Friday, let's make the entire Pemberton region, from the Meadows to downtown, to Mt Currie, to D'arcy, a sea of orange. Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake, BC, Canada, in the spring of 2013. It grew out of Phyllis’s account … Continue reading Dig out your best and brightest orange for Orange Shirt Day this Friday
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