Don't trash your Halloween pumpkins - compost them back into soil to grow more pumpkins! Come check out the Pemberton Pumpkin Smash happening from noon until 3:00 p.m. at the Pemberton BMX Track (across from the Community Centre). Bring your halloween pumpkin to the Pemberton BMX track Sunday November 1 between noon and 3pm. Pumpkins will … Continue reading Pemberton Pumpkin Smash is happening today, noon – 3pm, at the Pemberton BMX Track
We're halfway through National Waste Reduction Week. The SLRD's Zero Waste team have been inviting folk to share your garbage hacks and recycling tips, and win. It's an invitation to show how you love this place, reduce waste, inspire your friends and reduce landfill bloat. And all it takes is a photo or suggestion online. … Continue reading Share your household garbage hacks, invites the SLRD, to win. Actually, we’ll all win. A better planet.
The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District wants to hear your household garbage hacks, to coincide with National Waste Reduction Week, October 19-25 2015. Starting with 7 simple strategies, they're hoping to crowdsource the ultimate How To Guide for regional residents who love this place, and are willing to help move the dial on our landfill bloat. 1. Recycle first. 2. … Continue reading The SLRD wants to hear your household garbage hacks and how you #lovethisplace
What would it look like if you and your family lay down in your household garbage? Gregg Segal, photographer, explored that question, to really bring home the way we are fouling our nest, this lovely planet of ours, with our trashy ways. Interested in exploring your own trash cans a bit more closely? Come chat … Continue reading Pemberton, it’s Time to Talk Trash, Wed Aug 12, 2-5 at the Recycling Depot
I stared into the trash compactor the other day, where all the plastic was being disposed, and felt a wave of despair. Single use plastic, made from petrochemicals, ending up in the ocean or landfill, where it doesn't decompose, is something even local kids have been agitating against, but until now, I've put it in … Continue reading Why go plastic-free? Because Ocean.
Follow up Tree Celebration Day with a rousing and entertaining FREE evening talk by "celebrity" doctor, Dr Art Hister, as he cracks the code on how to live a Longer, Healther, Happier Life. This free Speaker Series presentation will take place on Monday, October 27, from 7om at the Pemberton Community Centre Great Hall.
Effective at 12 noon on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, all open fires, including campfires are banned in all areas of the Coastal Fire Centre, which includes Pemberton and surrounding area. This does not apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes, or to a portable campfire apparatus (ie: your BBQ). This step is … Continue reading Campfire Ban in Effect – Thursday, August 1, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013, from 12:00pm until 3:00pm, join your neighbours in a working bee to spruce up and spring clean Gates Lake Community Park. This event has been organized by the Birken Fire Protection Society and Birken Recreational and Cultural Society. Free BBQ provided by the Sqamish Lillooet Regional District. Please bring: chair, water, … Continue reading Event: Gates Lake Park Spring Clean Up and Community BBQ, May 25
Are You Prepared? Here's a great offer to get you started - 15% discount off the purchase of a home emergency kit! Check out the flyer for promotional code and link to order: Pemberton Resident Offer To touch , feel and inspect a home emergency kit - stop by the Emergency Preparedness Week-Open House … Continue reading
Share your ideas on how we can become a Zero Waste community! Take the Zero Waste Survey.
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