The Pemberton Art's Council is hosting an After School Arts Program this spring with a choice of performance classes with Trish Belsham or fine art classes with Valerie Butters for kids aged 6-12. Registration is open through the Pemberton and District Community Centre and online here http://www.slrd.bc.ca/pemrec-register.
Energy in a nation is like sap on a tree; it rises from bottom up. ~ Woodrow Wilson Thanks to Victoria Saddleman for sharing her photo today.
Phew! We made it – Part Five: Practice Your Plan and check your Emergency Kit. As my mother used to say, “practice makes perfect”. Unfortunately, perfection and emergencies don’t always go hand-in-hand, but you can certainly cut out a lot of the stress if you have walked through your plans before you have to do … Continue reading Emergency Preparedness Week takeover ends with this little bit of advice: Practice makes perfect.
We have two dogs and a cat. My husband often worries I might love them more that I love him. Some days he is correct. So in an emergency I want to make sure I can take care of them, and like heck am I leaving any of them behind if we have to evacuate. … Continue reading When it’s raining cats and dogs, consider what happens to the cats and dogs. Day 6 of Emergency Preparedness Week is all about the fur-babies
My passport and house insurance documents were definitely not on my important-items-to-grab-if-I-had-to-leave-the-house-in-a-hurry list, but they really should be because they will prove much more useful that my 30-year-old stuffie or a photo of my Grandma. This is an easy task which involves a folder or accordion file, some of those plastic document wallets and a … Continue reading Day 5 of Emergency Preparedness Week. Tip of the Day: Gather Important Documents
Ok, now we’re onto the fun bit – Part Two: Build an Emergency Kit. Let’s start with a quick game. If you had five minutes to get out of your home and you had time to grab five items, what would they be? And do you know where they are? If I’d played this game … Continue reading All You Need Is Love… and an emergency kit. Emergency Preparedness Week hits day 4
Woohoo! We’re here – Part One of my Five Steps to Emergency Preparedness Program: Make an Emergency Plan. Making your emergency plan is a family affair, so make a night of it. Get some pizza (and wine for the grownups), some paper and pens and get creative. If you didn’t get your hands on a … Continue reading Keep Calm and Plan On. It’s day 3 of Emergency Preparedness Week and time to roll up your sleeves
First things first, before we start the Five Steps To Emergency Preparedness Program, let’s figure out what we are dealing with here. Pemberton is no stranger to emergency events, we’ve experienced floods, poor air quality, power outages and snowstorms to name just a few. We’ve even had a train derailment. Emergencies are generally broken down … Continue reading Risky Business. Welcome to Day 2 of Emergency Preparedness Week
(Last year, I ran into Tanya in the street the day before Mother’s Day and we had a little vent about Hallmark holidays. She’d walked into a classroom where the kids were busy colouring for Mother’s Day, and she personally knew that a lot of those students had pretty unHallmark relationships with their moms. Later, … Continue reading A plea to schools and daycares to be more mindful about Mother’s Day and ditch the colouring-in exercise that assumes everyone has a Hallmark family
Mentally healthy is not the same as happy-all-the-time. Happy-all-the-time is a fallacy, a myth, an unachievable state, it’s bullsh*t. If you take a look at the world around you and can be completely overjoyed, all the time about everything …. I’d say there’s something wrong with you. But being sad, angry, easy to anger, edgy, … Continue reading Mental Wellness: What to Do To Stay Healthy
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