The ultimate blessing I can imagine bestowing on our community: may we be forever bee-friendly, may we be visited by happy pollinators, may all living things flourish, may there be honey. Thanks to Tanya Richman for sharing these shots of some early visitors appreciating this weird weather.
Update as of Tuesday Feb 24: Please note, that due to the passing of two Lil'wat community members, tomorrow evening's CIPP Open House has been cancelled. A new date is yet to be determined. The Village of Pemberton and Lil'wat Nation were one of 6 teams chosen across Canada out of 100 applicants to take … Continue reading POSTPONED Joint Community Open House on Infrastructure Project : Feb 25, 5-7:30pm, Ull’us Community Complex
Snow's gone. It barely looks like winter. Especially in the forest. Dave Steers catches a weird winter in action.
I was drinking a pot of Namasthe tea, and my kid was happily pouring a blended brew of their looseleaf mint, licorice and moss tea back and forth from a little teapot, playing with ice-cubes, tea strainers, and sipping and slurping away. It inspired me to reach out to Isabelle Ranger, tea-crafter, herbalist and mama, … Continue reading Tea with Kids: guest post from Isabelle Ranger
When 75 community members from Mount Currie, Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish met to workshop mental health priorities, the most pressing issue was a three-way tie: training RCMP and emergency room staff who work after hours on how to best handle urgent response cases, creating a designated observation unit somewhere in the Sea to Sky region … Continue reading Event: Making the Valley More Mentally Healthy, Feb 24, 6pm, Library
This post ran in the Question this week. I read a blog post last week - “A Teenager’s View of Social Media, written by an actual teen.” Apart from offering a crash course in Yik Yak and Snapchat, and affirming that Facebook’s death knell was sounded when my mum joined up, the insight into an … Continue reading One Reader vs 100 Likes: On Making an Impact
Cindy Filipenko helps us stock the wellness bookshelf, and kicks off our #WellnessReads2015 quest for the "books that make us better." Here is her book shout-out. Peace Is Every Step: An accessible guide to mindful living Once in a while, the perfect book falls into your lap at the perfect time. That was the case with … Continue reading #WellnessReads2015: Peace is Every Step
Beyond Bannock Challenges Youth to show your Traditional Food, by March 13 The First Nations Health Authority has a social media campaign and contest underway: The Beyond Bannock Traditional Foods Challenge. (All the info shared below has been pasted from the link.) Are you attending Gathering Our Voices 2015? Take part in the GOV Beyond Bannock … Continue reading What’s better than bannock? Win a brand new bike by sharing traditional food on social media.
Amazing what a difference a week makes? Gary Martin captured this moody shot of Pemberton's One Mile Lake boardwalk last week. Seven days later, no snow, and we're "drowning" in sunshine. No-one's complaining today - it's a glorious dose of Vitamin K - but it's sobering to think what this dramatically early snowmelt is … Continue reading Photo of the Week: Gary Martin
Linda Welsh spotted this merlin (Falco columbarius or pigeon hawk) on February 10 and managed to capture the shot from 15 feet away, and gave us permission to share the catch. The merlin (thank you Wikipedia) is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere. A bird of prey once known colloquially as a pigeon hawk in North America,[2] the … Continue reading Birdwatch: a Meadows merlin sighting
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