7Song, herbalist and director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine, talks people through assembling a herbal first aid kit, in a free online seminar offered tomorrow by Learning Herbs. More than just putting together a salve, tea tree oil and bandages in your backpack, 7Song, who apparently teaches the most comprehensive herbal first aid … Continue reading What to pack in your herbal first aid kit? Free online seminar tomorrow, Thursday, August 27, 1pm

Save the date, and book your favourite lounge chair for the 2020 edition of the Whistler Writers Festival, because the event is going virtual, live-streaming readings and masterclasses direct to you, regardless of your postal code. The line-up was announced August 13, with tickets going on sale on August 31, and a full reading list … Continue reading Whistler Writers Festival goes virtual for 2020, with headliner Wade Davis and host of incredible indigenous and Canadian writers

Based on the best-selling novel Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson, TRICKSTER, a new series coming from CBC, stars  newcomer Joel Oulette, and is created by award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer (RISE, Nuuca) and Tony Elliott (Orphan Black). Oulette plays Jared, an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his dysfunctional family above water, holding down an … Continue reading Eden Robinson’s novel Trickster coming to CBC this fall

  The Pemberton Museum reported in its July newsletter that it has received a significant donation from Johnny Jones in late May. Johnny donated a musket rifle barrel that he found at Q'alatku7em (33km) and a metal spear found at Twin One Creek. He also donated two huge pyrite rocks for the displays. His donation … Continue reading Johnny Jones donates musket and spears to Pemberton Museum which may prove to be among the oldest items in the collection

It's not really cost-effective, this pickling and preserving business, I realize, as I empty another $20 bottle of Bragg's apple cider vinegar into a pot. My husband keeps checking in, nervously asking "Are you having fun?" because these evenings are cutting into my Netflix/book-reading time, and I tend to be an angry-and resentful-if-you-aren't-also-contributing house-cleaner. But … Continue reading Picklepalooza: preserving high summer for my Future Self (and friends)

In Ucwalmictws, the language of the St'atl'imc Nations, the word for harvest is k̓úl̓tsam̓ Beautifully, it isn't just a noun, it's a way of being: meaning also - "Take only what you need and use what you take." It's not just the "what", it's the "how." I love the way this makes me reframe what … Continue reading k̓úl̓tsam̓: This harvest time, learn the Ucwalmictws word

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6q6J0hzpd/ Every Saturday, on their instagram account (you ARE following @pembylibrary, aren't you? It's amazing.) our local library staff recommend a great read. The recommendations run the gauntlet from cookbooks to beach reads to can't-put-down-crime novels, to stuff that might knock you our of your comfort zone... like the latest suggestions, from Brennan: Seven Fallen … Continue reading Pemby Library Staff Picks: Seven Fallen Feathers

  On the weekend, a fire engulfed four townhomes in the Cottonwood complex, before being put out by the Pemberton Firefighters Association. (Thank you firefighters!) Four families have lost their homes. We extend our deepest condolences to them, and to the Cottonwood complex. According to the community forum posts, everyone and all animals were safe. … Continue reading 4 practical ways to be a help (and not a hindrance) to someone in shock/trauma

K ukstumkacw, thanks, to Levi Nelson for permission to share his recent work, Indoctrination.   The title refers to "the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically." As more and more people I know are exploring home schooling or what the fall might look like, and how they … Continue reading Levi Nelson reveals his new work, Indoctrination