https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWQfe__fNbs My fella is laid up right now with an injury, so that has altered my clicking patterns. "Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves?" asks Dr Lissa Rankin in her TED talk. Click, I go, down that rabbit hole, and what I learned is that there has long been evidence that healing has … Continue reading To heal, you need more than medicine. You need care.

The Pemberton Art Council has a fun idea - to create a collaborative community exhibition, called STRONGER TOGETHER. And YOUR are invited to be part of it. Postal art is an art movement centered on sending small scale art works through the postal system.   Create a small work of art on the back of a postcard … Continue reading Send a postcard, be part of an exhibit – deadline June 15

On Friday afternoon, a Long-eared Owl who had been in rehab for three months after being hit by a vehicle near the Ryan Creek bridge, was ready to head back out into the world. John Tschopp and friends helped return him to the original location and shared this video of the moment of first flight! … Continue reading Recovered long-eared owl released on Friday!

Thank to Michelle Beks for sharing this reminder to love local spuds, and make sure you get them from a local grower, to protect our local farmers and their livelihoods: Hello everyone. Now that spring is almost upon us and thoughts are turning from skiing to gardening just wanted to put out this little reminder … Continue reading Plant your spuds but make sure you get them from a local grower

To celebrate spring, which sprang/was sprung (?) officially on Saturday, the Pemberton & District Library invites you to effuse and wax lyrical (or not so lyrical) about the season, with their Haiku Contest. Pemberton in SpringAt the public libraryA haiku contest ✍️Write a haiku about spring in Pemberton—what you love; what you notice; what inspires … Continue reading Write a haiku in honour of Spring

Happy Doula Day! Today, March 22 marks the first day of "World Doula Week". This day was originally chosen in 2011 because it was the Spring Equinox, a day celebrated in many cultures as the return of fertility. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMkyfGtpjpy/ The purpose of World Doula Week is to show support for Doulas in their roles. To … Continue reading Happy World Doula Week

Are you interested in taking your PMBIA Level 1 Mountain Bike Coaching Certification? PORCA's Executive Director, Bree Thorlakson, is organizing a private course in Pemberton for April 17-18th. Please contact bree@porcabikes.com if interested and she will send more details when she gets them this week. Priority will be given to those interested in coaching for … Continue reading Wanna become a bike coach?

So, according to my sources, today marks the moment here in the Northern Hemisphere, where we experience the Spring Equinox... "a time of balance between the light and dark and a day to celebrate new beginnings." As an added bonus, and something I've only just started to learn, it also marks the shift from Pisces … Continue reading Happy Spring Equinox and Happy Astrological New Year!

Áma sq̓it!! Indigenous Women Outdoors and PORCA are putting together a mountain biking program this summer and we are looking for Women that might be interested in getting out and enjoying the amazing bike trails on our territory. The program will be open to 6 women identified community members and will include 6 sessions with … Continue reading Lil’wat girls and women – want to learn to mountain bike together?

Pemberton's Kera Willis from Mountain Horse School is a feature speaker at the Healing with Horses Collective Telesummit, which is happening virtually this week. Kera's talk on "how to bring kids together with horses in ways that catalyze healing, communion and wonder" will air on Friday, March 19 at 6am, and you'll then have 24 … Continue reading Free talk on awesomeness and healing power of horses, with local guide Kera Willis, Friday March 19