I've been thinking a lot about mushrooms this fall - they're underfoot everywhere, it's hard to miss the mushroom buyers on the corner, and I still have "pick up mushroom book and learn to ID fungi" on my life to-do list. This comes via the David Suzuki Foundation, who send me interesting tidbits since I … Continue reading Mushroom season has been bountiful, and it brings a boatload of hope, too
Take it to the river. Your sorrow, your longing, your aching heart. The river, somehow, always seem to have the capacity to absorb it, and to keep on flowing. Gary Martin shares this image as his monthly contribution to our Wellness Almanac photo blog: An early morning moment of reflection and contemplation after some sad … Continue reading This is what it looks like to take solace by the river, with @garypmartin, photographer
Remembrance Day is on Wednesday. Time: 10:30am Place: Pemberton Legion - 7442 Prospect Street Parade assembles at Fire Hall at 10:10am and departs at 10:45am. Ceremony will commence at 10:55 at the Legion branch. After the service, everyone is invited to the Legion branch for a light lunch. Take a moment at 11am to remember the … Continue reading Remembrance Day is on Wednesday. Take a moment at 11am to remember the fallen.
Tourism Pemberton's instagram account is almost 100% curated - which means that they basically trawl through instagram for the best photos of Pemberton, the most stunning images, the coolest snapshots of the season, the iconic scenes, and anything tagged #tourismpembertonbc... It's pretty much a labour of love for Roy McClean of Custom Fit Communications, the … Continue reading Tag #tourismpembertonbc and share your take on the ‘hood with @tourismpembertonbc’s instagram community
Okay, that's my first real attempt at writing a blatantly click-baity headline. Did it work? Notwithstanding my flirtation with that little tactic of the interwebs, I am honestly amazed by this little kitchen hack that my crunchy colleague shared with me. Now I don't have to peel every cucumber I eat, losing all the good … Continue reading Never eat a bitter cucumber again, once you discover this amazingly simple trick
Do you have ideas for how One Mile Lake Park could be improved? It's Pemberton's most used park, most amazing amenity, and best welcome mat. What should take place there over the next 10 years? Where should the Village invest? A public engagement survey is open to the public from October 23 to November 15, … Continue reading Take this survey to tell the Village of Pemberton what One Mile Lake (and allowing free-range dogs there) means to you
I went hiking with a bunch of ladies over night at a cabin up the Duffey. Most of us had kids, so the hardest work of the weekend was just getting out of the house. By the time we were on top of the mountain, we were giddy with freedom. Or altitude. That’s where we … Continue reading Wanted: a few good (older, wrinkle-proud) women
Don't trash your Halloween pumpkins - compost them back into soil to grow more pumpkins! Come check out the Pemberton Pumpkin Smash happening from noon until 3:00 p.m. at the Pemberton BMX Track (across from the Community Centre). Bring your halloween pumpkin to the Pemberton BMX track Sunday November 1 between noon and 3pm. Pumpkins will … Continue reading Pemberton Pumpkin Smash is happening today, noon – 3pm, at the Pemberton BMX Track
Most of us have more than just one identity. I've heard this called having a hyphenated-identity, and that resonated for me, as someone who grew up in one country and then made my life in another. Dr Evan Adams, an actor, physician, Salish man, and the Chief Medical Officer for the First Nations Health Authority, … Continue reading Take off your blinkers and try two-eyed seeing, with this TEDx talk by Dr Evan Adams on Wellness
Celebrities in our midst? Yes we do. "Earth and wind, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountains and the sea are all excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we could ever learn from books." - John Lubbock Local kid, Austin Ross, is all grown up, and rambling around the world, as … Continue reading Instagrammers of Pemberton: featuring @austinross88 for povs that you might not get in your everyday life. Unless you’re a bird.
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