https://www.facebook.com/events/897775124305350/?acontext=%7B"source"%3A"29"%2C"ref_notif_type"%3A"event_calendar_create"%2C"action_history"%3A"null"%7D&notif_id=1615237206415480&notif_t=event_calendar_create&ref=notif Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11 AM PDT – 12:30 PM PDT Parent Infant Drop In provides an opportunity to connect with other parents and caregivers of infants in the community and to hear from guest speakers on a variety of topics related to infant development. Join Speech and Language Pathologist, Rosalie Dowse to … Continue reading Parent Infant Drop in at the library tackles “communicating with your baby” Monday March 15 11am

You could be mistaken for thinking that Main Street, through Mount Currie, is a road. Granted, it is a smooth surface, coated in bitumen, with two lanes. It's the route you need to drive if you're passing through. There are signs (many asking people to PLEASE, slow down) alongside it. It does look like a … Continue reading Take it easy. Slow down for Mt Currie

The Pemberton Valley Trails Association PVTA and PORCA are recognizing the work of volunteer trail fairies, of the folk who head out with a rake and some pruners and give their favourite trails a little pre-season love. As PORCA President Ian Kruger says: "Do your part, rake a bit, clip a little, and shred a … Continue reading This month, take your rake for a walk and give a trail some love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzahA2h9PvU There was a time when these elders, women, went into a sweat lodge together. And these thirteen women were worried and concerned for our people, and a song came back to them. And it was the Women's Warrior song. When we hear the word "warrior", we think in a certain way, today. But this … Continue reading let us hold the women up: International Women’s Day message from Tanina Williams

On Wednesday, my husband made the fatal error of waking up and saying, "here we go again, groundhog day." The error had been more accurately running out of coffee the day before, so by Wednesday morning, I was 24 hours into withdrawal from an addiction I hadn't realised the real depth of. Head ache, and … Continue reading Groundhog day

https://www.instagram.com/p/CL8LF2oh6bA/ I am super inspired by the beautiful photos of this territory, this unceded traditional territory, that Amanda shares in her instagram takeover, the reminder that we share this land with many beings, and the way she pairs them with captions that verge on living poems. Wanted to share this one, from her takeover this … Continue reading Lay your tracks

Take a peep at our instagram account, which has been hibernating throughout COVID-19, and is enjoying a spring emergence, in the hands of contributor Amanda Ritchie. I am a fan of this woman's writing and am grateful she is sharing her perspective and words with us at instagram.com/thewellnessalmanac. And if you're in the mood to … Continue reading Guestagrammer Amanda is up!

There's a great way to support local business and a thriving community - apart from actually shopping and dining here. You can support the Chamber. AGM is coming up and you're invited. RSVP to info@pembertonchamber.com for the Zoom log in and learn what your Chamber has been up to and what's queued up for the … Continue reading You are invited to zoom in to the Pemberton + District Chamber of Commerce AGM, March 17 11:30am

Fun to open my emails and see PORCA's Bree Thorlakson profiled in the Community Foundation of Whistler's newsletter. Bree was awarded the 2020 Kathy Barnett Leadership Fund grant to support her studies in Non-profit management at SFU. Kathy Barnett Memorial Fund provides grants to women living in the Sea to Sky Corridor who are looking to … Continue reading PORCA’s Bree Thorlakson awarded the 2020 Kathy Barnett Leadership Fund grant

Poetry break. Just because. WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES by Mary Oliver When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant … Continue reading When I am among the trees – a poem by Mary Oliver