https://www.instagram.com/p/Cebp-X7pUq4/ This week, Amanda Walker, the Literacy Outreach Coordinator in Pemberton and Whistler and chair of the Whistler and Pemberton Literacy Partnership (WPLP), is at the helm of our instagram account, sharing just what the WPLP is all about. Hope you'll follow along over on instagram! You might even win a book! Amanda is one … Continue reading What’s literacy got to do with wellness? Only everything.

"You've changed," my 9 year old advised me, the other weekend, when I opted not to sleep out in the backyard with him and his dad, but to enjoy the bed to myself. "Covid has changed you. You're more scared." There are many things I could say to my defence. (Also: BED TO MYSELF!!!!! It … Continue reading Culture and community are all we’ve got to shore us up, in the face of precarity

Congratulations to the 18 Pemberton Secondary students who won the High School Mountain Bike Provincials in Victoria, BC over the weekend (and thanks to Tamara Beaton for the update shared below.) The team consists of students from grades 8 to 12, who raced cross country in the morning and then did an enduro in the … Continue reading Proud to celebrate the PSS Mountain Bike team – provincial champions!

One of the things I've been learning at our weekly Active Hope Climate Squad gatherings is that the overwhelm of facing climate change (or any massive system-level overhaul that is urgently required and seems fundamentally impossible to pull off) is crippling if you imagine you're on your own and that you are the only one … Continue reading Climate Action conversations welcome your energy

Sharing this post is me being my best self, because I would quite happily take all these books home myself, although my family wouldn't be stoked... My happy place is inside a fortress of books, always with something to read... Friends of the Pemberton Library have been soliciting for books from the more Marie Kondo … Continue reading Old books, new books: Friends of the Library’s annual bookstall hits the sidewalk on Friday

Pemberton Off Road Trail Association (PORCA) and the Indigenous Life Sports Academy (ILSA) are joining up to host IMBA Canada’s Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day (TKMBD), on Saturday, June 5 at 10am. It's an annual event that seeks to introduce the joy of mountain biking to the next generation. Created in 2004 in honour … Continue reading Change of location: Saturday is Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, so head to Pioneer Park, even if you don’t have a bike. It’s free! But register in advance so they can plan!

I love snakes. I am surprised to discover this about myself. And it's mostly directed towards Pemberton's very small, non-poisonous, non-lethal, rare and rather adorable snakes... which is why I feel appreciation to the efforts of the SLRD, Stewardship Pemberton and the PVTA to reroute a bike trail to accommodate important snake habitat. I will … Continue reading Sharp tailed snake protection underway

Hey planners, goal-setters and coaches! What are the best questions you ask people, to help them identify their goals? What helps people unearth their true purpose, and set out on that path? This question feels alive for me today because it's my birthday. And I've had this note on my unwieldy calendar of to-dos, to … Continue reading 10 years now

Acts of care bring us back into relationship, physical relationship, and it's only within the field of a relationship that repair can occur. At least that's what I've been thinking about lately - and when this Poem a Day poem landed, it amplified that. Poet Leora Kava names this push-pull tension of wanting to learn … Continue reading “Pulling syllables” – a poem about longing for your mother tongue and finding a way to pronounce it

Yellowleg. Photo by John Tschopp Writes our birding correspondent, John Tschopp, this week: "A year ago I was privileged to observe and photograph a rare bird for Pemberton, a Red-necked Phalarope. The date was May 19  2021. This spring I kept my eyes on that same puddle of water, on private property. One day, there … Continue reading Of miraculous anniversary sightings: the red-necked Phalarope