Calling all vendors and musicians! The Pemberton Farmers Market is now accepting applications for the 2019 Market Season! Season runs from June 7th to October 25th, Fridays, 3-6:30pm. Application deadline is March 31st. All application forms are available on our website: http://www.pembertonfarmersmarket com. If you have any questions, email info@pembertonfarmersmarket.com And PS It's just been … Continue reading Apply before March 31 to play or vend at the 2019 Pemberton Farmers Market

In the newspaper business, the "social pages" of people out at events, is always one of the most viewed sections. There's something fun about scouting images for people you know. Now, Lil'wat Nation has its own version - thanks to a new Facebook page set up and administered by the Lilwat7ul Culture Centre, and featuring … Continue reading Lil’wat7ul Culture Centre debuts a new Facebook page for showcasing events and photos

My friend shared this story recently, of female librarians delivering books on horseback through the 1930s throughout isolated mountain communities. I think the only thing that could make the Pop Up library more rad would be if the staff rode there on horseback. Which, honestly, wouldn't surprise me. Everyone is welcome! Pop by. Staff will … Continue reading Got books, will travel. Pop Up Library will be at Ts’zil Learning Centre, Monday March 11, 1-3pm

Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. So says Wikipedia, who don't realize how far away summer feels right now, and how meagre this new addition of sunlight seems. And yet, we still spring forward those clocks, before bedtime … Continue reading Spring forward! Daylight savings time commences Sunday at 3am. So spring your clocks forward one hour tonight!

I say this fiercely: if you are feeling utterly discombobulated by new (or otherwise) parenthood, there is nothing wrong with you. The challenge is to maintain balance, when the earth keeps shifting. What a fantastic phrase. How great to see it deployed, by the special guest at Monday's Parent-infant Drop in session at the Library. … Continue reading Parent Infant Drop In explores how to maintain balance (when the earth keeps shifting). Indeed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Buk5JK9Be_L/ For the month of March all proceeds from Village Yoga Pemberton's Friday events are going to support a local little one, Bo, and his loving parents Kat & Jeff with Bo's brave fight with Cancer.  We've followed their journey here at the Wellness Almanac, thanks to Kat's gracious two-time takeovers, each a year apart, … Continue reading Village Yoga’s Friday community nights in March will be done as an offering of support to Kat, Jeff and Bo

The PAC' s 3rd annual Family Dance brings a night of 50's fun, so sock hop down to Signal Hill on Friday and shake, rattle and roll away the evening, to help raise funds for the PAC. Complete with a 50’s theme, Music, Dancing, Silent Auction, Pizza, drinks and more! Tickets are $10 per kid, … Continue reading Family Dance Party at Signal Hill, Friday March 8, 6-9pm

UPDATE: This event has been canceled. Stay tuned to the Boomerang Bags Facebook page for events in the spring. 250 old t-shirts have been diverted from landfill, collected, printed with the Boomerang Bags logo. Are in need of a quick sew and BOOM! They'll be up cycled into reusable grocery bags available for that palm-to-forehead … Continue reading UPDATE: Cancelled. T Shirt to Bag Sewing Circle: BYO sewing machine. Wednesday March 6, 6pm, at the Pemberton Community Centre

Sometimes (often, and most frequently when Child is behaving badly, not listening to me, refusing to eat anything other than instant noodles, crying), I wonder how I measure up as a mother... Add to this underlying not-sure-ness, there is a birthday around the corner, and I so naturally, thanks internet, started scanning Pinterest (MISTAKE!) for … Continue reading How do you measure up? (Hint: try not measuring.)