The traditional Easter Sunday Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Pemberton Lions Club, will be at Pioneer Park - free for ages 12 and under. And in the lead-up, Easter Egg decorating, hunt and other games on Wednesday 18th March from 3:15 to 5pm for all 5 to 8 year olds! — with Pemberton Recreation at … Continue reading Easter’s coming, get cracking kids.
Turn the clocks forward an hour before you hit the hay tonight. Ah, that seems so simple. But anyone with kids knows that throwing the sleep schedule off by an hour is... a big deal. (Anyone without kids is probably rejoicing because you'll get an extra hour of sleep.) I trawled the internet to find … Continue reading Spring Forward Tonight (and some Survival Strategies for adjusting the kids to daylight saving)
The Pemberton & District Community Centre Spring Leisure Guide is out now. Copies are available at the front desk, or downloadable here - Final Copy Spring 2015-1 Spring Registration begins Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 9 am. Registration is on a first come first serve basis. Registration numbers will be issued starting at 6 am. Customers … Continue reading Spring Recreation Guide now out
Go outside and look up! It might be a mini-moon (according to earthsky.org, tonight's full moon is the smallest full moon of the year, farthest from the Earth than the closest full moon, that will be the September 28 Harvest Moon), but it's still beautiful. And PS Happy World Book Day.
I read two long articles recently, about addiction, that blew my mind open a little wider, and I wanted to share them here. They're worth the time. The first, The Like Cause of Addiction has been discovered, and it is not what you think, ran on the Huffington Post at the end of January, and … Continue reading Two Longreads on Addiction that Will Change The Way You Think Of Addicts, whatever your perspective
Update as of Tuesday Feb 24: Please note, that due to the passing of two Lil'wat community members, tomorrow evening's CIPP Open House has been cancelled. A new date is yet to be determined. The Village of Pemberton and Lil'wat Nation were one of 6 teams chosen across Canada out of 100 applicants to take … Continue reading POSTPONED Joint Community Open House on Infrastructure Project : Feb 25, 5-7:30pm, Ull’us Community Complex
When 75 community members from Mount Currie, Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish met to workshop mental health priorities, the most pressing issue was a three-way tie: training RCMP and emergency room staff who work after hours on how to best handle urgent response cases, creating a designated observation unit somewhere in the Sea to Sky region … Continue reading Event: Making the Valley More Mentally Healthy, Feb 24, 6pm, Library
This post ran in the Question this week. I read a blog post last week - “A Teenager’s View of Social Media, written by an actual teen.” Apart from offering a crash course in Yik Yak and Snapchat, and affirming that Facebook’s death knell was sounded when my mum joined up, the insight into an … Continue reading One Reader vs 100 Likes: On Making an Impact
Beyond Bannock Challenges Youth to show your Traditional Food, by March 13 The First Nations Health Authority has a social media campaign and contest underway: The Beyond Bannock Traditional Foods Challenge. (All the info shared below has been pasted from the link.) Are you attending Gathering Our Voices 2015? Take part in the GOV Beyond Bannock … Continue reading What’s better than bannock? Win a brand new bike by sharing traditional food on social media.
The Wellness Almanac 