Be beautiful, be useful: Meg Gallup’s functional stoneware
There is a famous William Morris quote that makes me think of Meg Gallup’s pottery: If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. Featured on the “Shelves of Desire” (just try to … Read more
Adventure? Ready, Set, Go for the Pemberton Bucketlist
Pemberton Feature Promo from Randy Lincks on Vimeo. Pemberton photographer Randy Lincks shot this video for Tourism Pemberton - the perfect starting place for creating the ultimate Pemberton bucketlist. What’s your must-do Pemberton experience?
The Flour Pot believes we all should eat cake. Perfect, pretty, delicious cake.
Lisa Vertefeulle’s custom cakes are so delightful they will make you want to get married, just so you can have one of your own. (She is only making 20 this year, so the law of scarcity almost justifies such extreme measures.) Alternatively, you could become the Ultimate Wedding Crasher. If you’ve attended a wedding in … Read more
Mile One brings the hundred mile diet to the table
What happens when a couple with combined 30 years of experience in fine dining, at front of house (her) and back of house (him) get tired of commuting to work and decide to set up shop in their own neighbourhood? Well, dinner just got good. When Chef Randy Jones and his wife Cindy Yu opened … Read more
For the love of bread
If I were to write a movie set in Pemberton, the main character would be a pastry chef named Raven Burns who has a wild pet crow that follows her to work each day, and who runs a bakery called Blackbird Bakery, that is set-designed to look like the perfect archetype of a bakery, and … Read more
Spotting Pemberton’s most prolific graphic designer, Sumire Design
The artist otherwise known as Sumire Design? You definitely know her work. It’s everywhere. Take a stroll through Pemberton, take someone’s business card, log on to the Pemberton Arts Council website, admire a pair of G3 skis, pick up a souvenir tote or water bottle for Slow Food Cycle Sunday, or a Skate Park tshirt, … Read more
Flower Power in full force at Pemberton’s Bathtub Gardens
Meet the newest addition to Pemberton’s farming community, the flower growers. We discovered them through a fresh bouquet at Mt Currie Coffee Co and followed our nose to the sweetest smelling harvest in the Valley and discovered a couple of real romantics. Who is Bathtub Gardens? Samuel Casavant and Calida Grymaloski. How long have you … Read more
Making coffee count, at the Mount Currie Coffee Company
Before November 2007, when the Mount Currie Coffee Company opened its doors, Pemberton was a kind of Siberia for coffee-purists, an isolated wilderness far far from anywhere. But when the much anticipated cafe opened it doors, that all changed. The Pemberton coffeehouse scene started happening. Owner Chris Ankeny, a photographer and snowboard pro formerly of … Read more
Wild Planet Raw Foods – Sarinda Hoilett shares how to live deliciously raw, wild, and in tune
While a raw food diet might have a reputation as the bento box for the fringe and the freaky, Sarinda Hoilett’s clients and converts are regular folk, people with allergies and food sensitivities, yogis, conscientious moms, dedicated gourmands and the growing ranks of everyday people who want to know where their food comes from. The … Read more
Emporium of Treasures – Discover the One Earth Collection
Three years ago, a pair of big-dreaming entrepreneurial girlfriends fresh from Summerland, BC, made Pemberton their homebase. One was busy getting ready for this little thing called the Winter Olympic Games. Her name? Kristi Richards. The other, Alana Bjorndal, a budding jewelry designer, discovered that the fastest way to take a crash course in all … Read more
A tip of the hat to Pemberton’s Fire Rescue team
You can joke that the chance to drive a big shiny red truck is what really inspires a person to become a firefighter. Any parent knows the power that bright machine exerts on a kids’ imagination… But a fully equipped rescue truck is no joke if you’ve ever been in a motor vehicle accident and … Read more
Honorary member of the Potato Nation – Melissa Craig, we have a crown (and a grilled cheese sandwich) for you.
The Bearfoot Bistro’s executive chef, culinary superstar Melissa Craig, was profiled in the Globe and Mail yesterday. Is there an ingredient that you feel represents Whistler? Pemberton [farm] vegetables, I even use them in the winter. Like carrots, potatoes and beets. I actually phoned them the other day to get some crosnes (Chinese artichokes) and … Read more
Warm Up at Winterfest this Weekend
We’re in the middle of winter, in the middle of the mountains. Unless you’re headed to Mexico sometime soon, you might as well celebrate. Pemberton Winterfest makes that easy… with 12 events planned for the four day cold-stretch of 19 – 22 January, it’s a chance to warm up to winter with activities that are … Read more
Monthly Film Club gets into gear at the Pemberton Library
Pemberton has some great gathering places and hangout spots (the Skate Park on a sunny day comes to mind) but when the mercury plummets, the snowbanks build and dark arrives promptly each afternoon around 4pm, one of the coziest places to hang is the Pemberton and District Library. And now, thanks to an initiative of … Read more
Signal Hill PAC brings Science World to Pemberton, Jan 12
Somewhere between my elementary school days (Apple IIC and gestetener machines, anyone?) and now, PACs have gotten themselves all digitally savvy with facebook pages and blogs and twitter feeds, all the better to communicate with parents and the broader community. As Signal Hill’s brand new marquee sign announces, they’re on facebook. They have a blog. … Read more
Be a friend of the Food Bank
Sometimes, I wonder if the Food Bank sees a surge in donations around Christmas because we feel a bit guilty about our over-consumption and are trying to beg a little indulgence of the Universe. Or maybe it is as simple as getting caught up in the spirit of giving. Either way, the fact is that … Read more
Christmas at Big Sky, December 17+18
The real magic of the holiday season is tradition, which is why the return of Christmas at Big Sky makes us feel so jolly. Big Sky Golf and Country Club once again reclaims its role as the southern outpost of the North Pole this weekend, transforming one of Pemberton’s most spectacular locations into Winter Wonderland, so … Read more
10 Reasons to Shop Local This Christmas (+ 10 Questions with the creators of Crafty by Nature)
Last year, when we profiled the first Crafty By Nature Holiday Show and Sale on Choose Pemberton, we suggested that the event could be either the perfect opportunity to accomplish all your Christmas shopping OR a day to blow off the to-do list and splurge on some handmade treats for yourself, depending on your self-discipline. … Read more
Movember – the final (follicle) stretch for the Pemberton Secondary mo-growing team
For the past few weeks, there’s been a wave of facial hair sweeping the nation, and Pemberton isn’t missing out. Thanks to an inspired team effort from staff and students at Pemberton Secondary, the global fundraiser for men’s cancer Movember (formerly known as November) has received a boost, while the razors are growing duller by … Read more
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