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Rock your pink shirts, and join guest speaker, Alanna Ray at Signal Hill tonight, 7pm, to learn how to build resiliency and healthy habits in your kids

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via Signal Hill PAC's February Update All are welcome to hear Alanna Ray, the new Healthy Choices Facilitator for Sea to Sky, present at Signal Hill tonight at 7pm, on the Healthy Choices Program. Ray is working in conjunction with Whistler Community Services Society to offer prevention-based education about healthy choices, mental health, and related … Continue reading Rock your pink shirts, and join guest speaker, Alanna Ray at Signal Hill tonight, 7pm, to learn how to build resiliency and healthy habits in your kids

A reminder, a welcome, and a call to action

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Polek Rybczynski has reprised his photo journal practice this year, and is 48 days in to the project, which goes further afield than the Pemberton 'hood, and extends the length of the Sea to Sky corridor.   I've subscribed to his blog - even though my email is out of control and I try to … Continue reading A reminder, a welcome, and a call to action

Natalie McNamara’s week on instagram

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  Natalie McNamara shares her reflection on a week as the Wellness Almanac's instagrammer, below. https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6SBOljntv/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6S1OsD6z2/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac https://www.instagram.com/p/BP6exztDGtP/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac Focusing our intention in on our own lives is pretty cool.  Posting photos of our weekly routines on a social media site like Instagram is an interesting experiment.  I was mindful of many things that I am … Continue reading Natalie McNamara’s week on instagram

NEWS: Xa’xtsa/Douglas First Nation secyre $450,000 grant for jobs and entrepreneurship training

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Douglas First Nation are a small band of around 60 members living on a reserve located at the northern tip of Harrison Lake. In late January, the community learned that they had been awarded a grant worth up to $405,000 from the Canada – BC Jobs grant program to provide much needed skills, training and … Continue reading NEWS: Xa’xtsa/Douglas First Nation secyre $450,000 grant for jobs and entrepreneurship training

Pemberton Arts Council’s AGM is Wednesday, Feb 15, 7pm at the Pemberton Community Centre

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Find out what's happening, who's making it happen, and how to be one of those happening makers yourself, at the 2017 Pemberton Arts Council's AGM on Wednesday night, from 7pm - 9pm. All are welcome to join them for refreshments, community sharing of ideas, PAC plans for 2017, annual reports, the election of new board … Continue reading Pemberton Arts Council’s AGM is Wednesday, Feb 15, 7pm at the Pemberton Community Centre

Despair, Trump and what having a baby taught me about what is still to come

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I have neutralized my despair since the inauguration of Donald Trump (or at least, attempted to), with this single thought: we are at the beginning of creating a better world. The dream of it has been brewing for some time — inequity, greed, climate disaster, ecological collapse — the balance is tilted so far out, … Continue reading Despair, Trump and what having a baby taught me about what is still to come

Unmasking why self-care (and flossing) is so darn difficult

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I sometimes think the height of wellness is flossing. Maybe because I have such a vexed relationship with self-care. And because flossing has been an annual resolution for me, every year, for like, the last twenty years. Which makes no sense. It should just be a habit, right? It shouldn't require resolve, or goal-setting, or … Continue reading Unmasking why self-care (and flossing) is so darn difficult