Jackie Andrew shared these words this week- helpful guidance for navigating the news of late. Do take the time to read it. There is so much I appreciate here... the context for understanding how our actions, and words, and posts, might have unintended impacts, despite our best intentions. I also appreciate the way Jackie redirects … Continue reading How can you be an ally?
Should I say something? I have wondered this week. Does The Wellness Almanac have an obligation to speak eloquently to recent revelations arising at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Is that kind of what we're here for? And what? What words will offer care and love? What words will be part of the healing, and … Continue reading Silence is an acceptable response
Students at L'Ecole de la Vallee, led by teacher Maude Cyr, have completed a beautiful project for the community - transforming a concrete wall outside the Pemberton & District Community Centre into a rainbow mural. The wall was chosen intentionally, because of its location beside the youth centre, skate park and Community Centre - as … Continue reading A new rainbow wall in the community declares you are all beautiful and perfect and worthy of love and belonging
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vmA3_dpgTgg Tanina Williams has been learning about traditional plants from her mother, Saopolaz, and as a culture teacher at Signal Hill Elementary, she passes along all kinds of insight, wisdom and cultural understandings to students. As much of her teaching has moved online, we are fortunate enough to be able to drop in on her … Continue reading Dandelion Love
One Pemberton is a online hub providing essential COVID-19 information and resources to the Pemberton Community. The hub acts as a single source of COVID-19 support tools, community resources and useful links to ensure you stay informed and connected. The OnePemberton online hub was funded by Whistler Community Foundation’s 2020 Emergency Fund Grant Program and … Continue reading One Pemberton service hub is now live
There are good weeds and not so good weeds, I am learning, as I discover the medicinal values of things like dandelion and chickweed. Others are problematic, and gardeners can help ensure that invasives (often sold to us at major big box stores and garden centres) don't get a toehold in our soils. On June … Continue reading Who are the Bad Guys in your garden? Free workshop June 3
When I tracked down the Pectoral Sandpipers a week ago on a puddle of still water the size of a hockey rink, I did not realize they were the opening act of a show of shore birds and waders that should last a week. Every day new actors would show up, others moved on. Of … Continue reading May Birdwatch with John Tschopp presents The Shore Bird Show
I encountered this online this week, and the invitation landed in some freshly tilled ground in my body. "I'm just going to hold it all gently. The uncertainty. The hope. The mistakes. The calling. The past. The story of not good enough. The impatience to heal. All of it. I'm just going to hold it … Continue reading Hold it all gently
I have a very small repertoire of songs I sing to my kiddo - a few easy-to-remember gospel songs that I sometimes feel a bit weird about singing, now that he's 8 and can total clue into the lyrics, because I actually don't know how to explain what it means to "go down to the … Continue reading Widen the circle
The Pemberton Transfer Station is on the move! Preparation of the site began April 19th and will continue for several months while the site's ground settles and compacts. Local company, Lizzie Bay Logging Ltd., has been awarded the contract for the design build project. The $1.8M project (not including purchase of the land or financing … Continue reading Work on the new Pemberton Transfer Station is underway
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