A flock of birders descended on Grimm’s Deli, Tuesday, December seventeenth to participate in Pemberton’s nineteenth Christmas Bird Count. This tally of all species seen for the day provides valuable information for conservation biologists and citizen scientists; population distribution and trends for various species can be tracked over the years. The participants in these counts … Continue reading Pemberton Christmas Bird Count
The Pique reports this week that the iconic Pemberton Gingerbread Project, a contest and auction that sees local businesses, organizations and gingerbread wizards craft the most incredible gingerbread creations, is on hiatus. The annual Christmas event generated serious inspiration for my home's gingerbread making team, and up to $15,000 in donations to the Pemberton Food … Continue reading With Gingerbread Project on hiatus, Pemberton Food Bank is short $15,000 in holiday donations
Solstice, as the true tipping point between the old year and the new, is a time for revisiting, celebrating and releasing the past year, and setting our intentions for the year ahead. Intentions which we bring into consciousness along with the return of the light, and feed and nourish as the returning light feeds and … Continue reading Honour the dark. Happy solstice
There was a point during Signal Hill Elementary School's Xmas concert that I got all choked up and on verge of weeping - my kid wasn’t even on stage at that point and it had nothing to do with the fact we nearly didn’t make it there, (the six year old having arrived home from … Continue reading Making Spirits Bright – put a Christmas concert on your calendar because kids embody the magic of the season
Last year, I went on a vision board making kick. Out of nowhere, I suddenly found myself cutting and pasting and clipping and collaging and what made it fun was the social, the letting go, the holding space to wonder what images spoke to me and what they might add up to, if I gave … Continue reading Vision Boards for 2020 – opportunities
Did you know that Winterfest has evolved into our community's free family New Year's Eve celebration, from its roots as a pre-2010-Olympics event? Once upon a time, the province handed out money to communities to build their Olympic spirit. The money dried up when the Olympics moved on to its next location, but the volunteers … Continue reading Winterfest: a free family New Year’s Eve celebration
Permaculture Helps with Starhawk from Permaculture Design on Vimeo. Last year, I travelled with a car full of green-thumbed Pemberton woman to Squamish for a free all-day workshop on permaculture. Dawn Johnson later explained the shift in her thinking that the workshop brought about: When I used to think about permaculture, I thought of it … Continue reading A shift in our thinking
Sometimes when I tell myself to breathe, it triggers panic – as if by drawing attention to this innate, unconscious, automatic action, breathing in and out suddenly becomes improbably difficult. Meditation, swimming laps, yoga… all these experiences often contain a few extremely panicked moments when I gasp, unable to catch a breath that has suddenly … Continue reading Unearthed
Last week the Pique reported that the PEMBERTON Museum is repatriating the Lil'wat Nation cultural items in its collection. To see the online database of Indigenous items at the Pemberton Museum visit pembertonmuseum.org/collections/objects/. If you have objects to repatriate to the Lil'wat Nation, email info@lilwat.ca or call 604-894-6115. Here's the story by Alyssa Noel: Last January, Lil'wat Political … Continue reading Got artefacts? Bring them home
So many beautiful ways to celebrate local makers and artisans this weekend and gather with friends and community members, or take a ride on a reindeer. And don't forget that Monday 16 December is the last day to donate PJs or toys for Super Ty's Holiday Toy Drive. December 13: Signal Hill Elementary Holiday Market, … Continue reading All the festive things this weekend
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