Exciting to read in the Question this week that the Pemberton Valley Trails Association is moving full-steam ahead with its dream of building a hiking trail up Mount Currie. The province has granted the necessary approvals, and the PVTA hopes to get started on the first 2km of trail before the snow flies, with the … Continue reading Shout Out: PVTA
Spotted on a Thanksgiving walk in the woods - beautiful clusters of mushrooms. Edible? Inedible? The only thing to do when you don't know the answer to that is take only photographs and keep on strolling. Of course, you would always check out the Whistler Naturalists' Fungus Amongst Us Mushroom Festival, this weekend.
The Centre for Addictions Research at the University of Victoria posted this article this summer, which jives perfectly with what we are all about here at The Wellness Almanac. It also jives with what Pemberton resident Mo Douglas has created with the Hello Pledge, and what Pemberton BMX founder Jessica Turner has said is at … Continue reading Wellness: Resilience comes from… caring about each other enough to say hi.
The Pemberton Child Care Society invites you to attend a presentation of the Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning in BC. Stop by the Pemberton Children's Centre, across from the Pemberton Community Centre, from 7pm, October 10th,to hear Sharon Gregson, on behalf of the Coalition of Child Care … Continue reading Event: Vision for Child Care in BC, October 10
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Pemberton Youth and Family Services, Seed to Table, the Pemberton Valley Seniors Society and the Pemberton Youth Centre are teaming up for a fundraiser at the Legion October 12th. This is the culmination of a lot of great work by the kids in our program. Please see the attached invitation. I hope you can make … Continue reading Event: Seed to Table dinner fundraiser
Did you know that the Canadian Tourism Commission and the Huffington Post have both declared the Pemberton region to be the best place in Canada to spend Thanksgiving? (Apart from in your own home?) How lucky are we, to be able to combine both! Here's a collage we compiled of Thanksgiving celebrations from around our … Continue reading Thanksgiving at home in the best place in the world
On Sunday, (Sept 23), Winds of Change Steering Committee Chair Sheldon Tetreault and his family, wife Harriet and kids Riel and Isaac, took a hike with Chief Lucinda Phillips and her husband Bernie, to an area along Owl Lake, north of the Pemberton Valley. (You can see the location of the lake on this map … Continue reading News: Owl Lake Cultural Camp dreaming
It's Mental Health Awareness Week. So we are sharing this perspective recently posted by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Health and Wellness, that explains that Mental Wellness is more than not being mentally ill, and argues that we can all learn a lot from the First Nations perspective on health and wellbeing. Some important elements … Continue reading Wellness is… more than not being sick.
This is a shout-out to the Village of Pemberton Council, for granting $1000 from the Community Enhancement Fund to support the Signal Hill Elementary School lunch program. As reported in this week's Pique, 10-15 kids come to school every day without lunch and 2-5 have arrived without having had breakfast. Signal Hill's lunch program ensures … Continue reading Shout Out: Signal Hill Lunch Program
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