Slow Food Cycle Sunday is less than a month away, and in the spirit of celebrating bikes and putting a bit more "cycle" into the art of recycling, Pemberton's Cultural Roundtable has launched a ReCycle Art Bike Contest. Play with words. Play with trash. Play with bikes. Decorate your own Art Bike with recycled materials, … Continue reading Art: Putting the bicycle into recycling
This post is reprinted from The Pemberton Fish Finder. From August to November 2013 researchers from the University of British Columbia, in partnership with the St’at’imc and N’Quatqua First Nations, are studying adult sockeye, pink, Chinook, and coho salmon migration in the Seton-Anderson watershed and in the Fraser River near the Seton River. Salmon are … Continue reading Salmon Migration Study, Fraser River – Anderson Lake
This post is a re-post from July 30, 2012. The thimbleberry, or Snow Bramble (Rubus parviflorus) is now bearing fruit. A member of the Rosaceae (Rose Family), the thimbleberry is a perennial flowering plant, native to North America. The fruits or berries of these shrubs are edible and are sweet in taste. The berries can’t be stored for … Continue reading In season: thimbleberries
Outside Frontier Street Pharmacy, the Pemberton Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday from 3pm to 7pm. What are your reasons for supporting local growers or stopping by the Market?
Hugh Naylor spent over a year researching and interviewing locals and wildlife officers to put together this account of Winston, the legendary bear. Sometime in the mid 1970s, our story grizzly was born somewhere in the Upper Lillooet River watershed. He probably had a healthy upbringing because he became a large powerful dominant bear. He … Continue reading Sighted: A Grizzly Bear
If you do acts, small or large, to look after our local environment, then here's to you. (Thanks for the inspiration, Maxine Bruce.)
Tea & Tales is a weekly event that runs at the Pemberton Museum every Tuesday starting July 9th, 2013 through until August 20th, 2013 from 2pm to 4 pm. Visitors can enjoy tea, coffee, or juice and homebaked treats for $2. Each week tea-goers are invited to listen to a local tale presented by a … Continue reading Event: Tea and Tales at the Museum, Tuesday July 23, 2-4pm
A thought for summer, in praise of hammock days, lazing with a book, sleeping late, or chilling with friends by the water. After all, Socrates was no fool.
This week, we meet photographer Simon Bedford and explore his passion for documenting local faces through portraits of members of the Lil'wat Nation.Who are you?My name is Simon Bedford, and I came to Pemberton 8 years ago with my family after a lifetime working as a photographer and tv cameraman in London. When I arrived … Continue reading Work in Progress: Simon Bedford
