PSS' Class of 2022 will have a farewell ceremony tomorrow at the school - the Procession and commencement takes place at 10m. Students will "parade" to school, at 9:15am, with their personal "gradmobiles" escorted by emergency services, to the PSS bus loop. All are invited to find a spot along the way to cheer on … Continue reading Con-GRAD-ulations – Pemberton Secondary School’s grad parade and farewell ceremony is tomorrow, Saturday June 11
Leanne Prain is a yarn-bomber and writer, the co-artistic director of The Imprint ( a literary collective founded with poet Laura Farina to explore participatory acts of writing in public spaces), and a Comox Valley raised kid now living in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh. During the pandemic, … Continue reading Win a copy of The Creative Instigators Handbook and discover the artsy wildness in you
She needed storiesas much as the pagesof a book needed her. To escape. In a quiet cornershe read cover to coverloving & hating characters. To connect. Yes, sure she tried different scenarios onwhen storylines lingered. Long after the last page. Kúkwstum̓ckacw / Thank you for reading.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cebp-X7pUq4/ This week, Amanda Walker, the Literacy Outreach Coordinator in Pemberton and Whistler and chair of the Whistler and Pemberton Literacy Partnership (WPLP), is at the helm of our instagram account, sharing just what the WPLP is all about. Hope you'll follow along over on instagram! You might even win a book! Amanda is one … Continue reading What’s literacy got to do with wellness? Only everything.
"You've changed," my 9 year old advised me, the other weekend, when I opted not to sleep out in the backyard with him and his dad, but to enjoy the bed to myself. "Covid has changed you. You're more scared." There are many things I could say to my defence. (Also: BED TO MYSELF!!!!! It … Continue reading Culture and community are all we’ve got to shore us up, in the face of precarity
Congratulations to the 18 Pemberton Secondary students who won the High School Mountain Bike Provincials in Victoria, BC over the weekend (and thanks to Tamara Beaton for the update shared below.) The team consists of students from grades 8 to 12, who raced cross country in the morning and then did an enduro in the … Continue reading Proud to celebrate the PSS Mountain Bike team – provincial champions!
One of the things I've been learning at our weekly Active Hope Climate Squad gatherings is that the overwhelm of facing climate change (or any massive system-level overhaul that is urgently required and seems fundamentally impossible to pull off) is crippling if you imagine you're on your own and that you are the only one … Continue reading Climate Action conversations welcome your energy
Sharing this post is me being my best self, because I would quite happily take all these books home myself, although my family wouldn't be stoked... My happy place is inside a fortress of books, always with something to read... Friends of the Pemberton Library have been soliciting for books from the more Marie Kondo … Continue reading Old books, new books: Friends of the Library’s annual bookstall hits the sidewalk on Friday
Old me lies in themetamorphosis stage.Of growing herwounds to wisdom. While the new meis working out whatneeds working out. Before spreadingmy f r a g i l e wings. To winds in worldsthat so desperatelywant validation. Kúkwstum̓ckacw / Thank you for reading.
Pemberton Off Road Trail Association (PORCA) and the Indigenous Life Sports Academy (ILSA) are joining up to host IMBA Canada’s Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day (TKMBD), on Saturday, June 5 at 10am. It's an annual event that seeks to introduce the joy of mountain biking to the next generation. Created in 2004 in honour … Continue reading Change of location: Saturday is Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, so head to Pioneer Park, even if you don’t have a bike. It’s free! But register in advance so they can plan!
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