🎥The Pemberton and District Community Centre is excited to be offering two outdoor movie nights!! 📽Bring your friends and family to the Community Barn and get comfortable!  Movies will start at 8pm. July 21 - Super Mario BrosAugust 11 - 10 Things I Hate About You 🎞Don't forget to bring: bug spray, warm clothes, snacks, … Continue reading Save the date for a community movie night

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuixzuno5Xc/?img_index=2 I have learned some amazing things from conversations and sharing circle classes with Tanina Williams, a wonderful teacher, Lil'wat knowledge keeper and consultant with amawilc, so I was utterly stoked to scroll through my instagram feed and stumble on an update from the Pemberton Youth Soccer Association (PYSA), sharing the way they kicked off … Continue reading Tanina Williams kicks off the PYSA summer camp with her wisdom

I was out of town for this presentation, and it is possible there are not enough tissues in the world for me to have attended and kept everyone dry. Hopefully you saw the Pique story, celebrating the health of Oliver Richman, and lifting up Lennox Davies, a 19 year old Pemberton Secondary grad, who was … Continue reading For you to-do list: take or refresh your CPR training

Once upon a time, not very long ago, a woman named Anne Ferguson worked at the Vermont Department of Health, and she had an idea. To encourage families to go outside, be active together and engage with literacy, she decided to get destructive. That is, in cahoots with a librarian at the Kellog-Hubbard library, she … Continue reading The first Storywalk for the summer has landed

PUBLIC INVITE: to participate in a trail dedication and renaming ceremony July 15, 2023 (1:00 p.m.) in honour of former SLRD staff member, and PVTA board member Graham Haywood. Meeting place will be at the trail head (adjacent to the transmission tower, approximately 9.5 kilometres up the Mackenzie Basin Forest Service Road) with representatives from … Continue reading Gravitron Trail redeveloped and renamed in honour of the late Graham Haywood – all invited to trail dedication and renaming ceremony July 15, 2023

Maybe it's not cool for a white woman to quote adrienne maree brown as a justification for attending Canada Day. When the poet, writer and movement mediator wrote We Will not Cancel Us, she was responding to something that was happening within the movements and community around black liberation and Black Lives Matter, where people … Continue reading We will not cancel each other out

The Whistler Writers Festival has some very exciting news about their Writer in Residence program. Cody Caetano, a guest author last year, is the program mentor this year. Author Cody Caetano was longlisted for the 2023 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal and Canada Reads. Cody Caetano will provide mentorship and guidance as part of the Whistler … Continue reading Writer in residence brings Cody Caetano to Whistler, invites indigenous creatives to apply for scholarship

The Wellness Almanac was really honoured to receive permission from the Xetolacw Community School and the Pique newsmagazine to share the stories that ran in the June 22 issue, written by grade 11 socials students from XCS. (We couldn't get permission from each individual student as they had already graduated for the year.) We wanted … Continue reading With emphasis

Powwows are a community celebration and drumming ceremony that have existed for generations. The powwow draws people together and is a forum for the First Peoples of this country to express their solidarity and cultural heritage. I’m Lil’wat and have been going to powwows since I was too young to even remember. My family and … Continue reading The power of powwows by Patrick Smith