What does it mean to live by your name, your indigenous name, not your English (or "government" name) that comes from the territory you grew up in? A lot of patient spelling-it-out introductions... Squamish language speaker and teacher, Khelsilem explores this question and the importance of indigenous language, and being generous as a language teacher, … Continue reading Khelsilem shares the reasons we need thriving indigenous languages and how we can make it happen, on TEDx
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The Pemberton Child Care Society offers “Before School Care” for children attending “Signal Hill Elementary School” and “Ecole de la valley”. Before School Care is available when school is in session. Before School Care begins at 7:30am and will conclude with children being escorted to school ready for class. Programming includes a light breakfast consisting … Continue reading Sign up now for Before School Care
On July 24, the Village of Pemberton announced that "blazing fast" internet speeds and "enough bandwidth for generations to come" will be coming to Pemberton, by 2019, thanks to a $5 million infrastructure investment by TELUS into fibre optic. This investment is part of TELUS’ commitment to invest $4.7 billion throughout British Columbia between 2017 … Continue reading Fibre optic network is coming to Village of Pemberton
I want to talk about hope. I've been derailed many times in my lifetime - in all the big ways. I can check off the list of major stressors like a resume for survivorship - Divorce Death of loved ones (both parents - one suicide, one cancer) Diagnosis of a life threatening illness - twice … Continue reading Hope
Even though we haven't yet met, I was pretty stoked to hear that David Ward had moved home for work, to take a position at the Village of Pemberton, as I've been a fan of his photography for some time. Now I can be assured his lens will be trained on local sights... and keep … Continue reading Knee deep in the Birkenhead River, David Ward chases the light
2018 Slow Food Cycle | Sunday, August 19 Where: Pemberton Meadows Road at the location of the old Pemberton Community Centre. Look for School District 48's Bus Garage and Playing Fields just north west of the Village of Pemberton. When: 9 AM to 3 PM on Sunday, August 19 Cost: $5 per person / $20 per family … Continue reading Slow Food Cycle returns August 19 – with road closed to vehicle traffic between 10am and 3pm
They juggled busy workloads, doubled as students and blazed trail, as graduates in the inaugural class of the Indigenous Community Development and Governance Diploma. Huge congratulations to Lil'wat Nation Councillors Kík7ak Helena Edmonds and Lhpatq Maxine Bruce on their graduation from the Indigenous Community Development and Governance Diploma program. The … Continue reading Lil’wat Nation Councillors Kík7ak Helena Edmonds and Lhpatq Maxine Bruce graduate with Indigenous Community Development and Governance Diploma
Join the One Book, One Corridor challenge, and join in on what promises to be a powerful community-wide conversation. I picked this book up after seeing the Library's Staff Picks Saturday post. YA books can make the best reading, because they're often shorter to power through... The material isn't lightweight... but they tend to be … Continue reading Must-read: The Marrow Thieves
You've got to love it when a potato farmer, who has seen plenty of fields in bloom, for whom said fields mean work, work and more work, still stops to soak in the glory of a field of potatoes in bloom, take a photo, share it online and invite people to take a drive up … Continue reading Potato fields in bloom still make Michelle Beks sigh
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