From Our President – October

From Our President – October

I gave myself an impossible task last month, and I knew from the start it was doomed to fail. As we finished September’s issue of The Pender Post – an issue I’ll acknowledge only after the fact had a rather auspicious number – I was reviewing the Calendar of Events....
From Our President – September 2025

From Our President – September 2025

The answer is 10 years, I’d been told. Though I’ve also heard seven is the baseline; and one ambitious would-be local claimed to have done it in three. Another woman, who first set foot on Pender Island some 14 years ago, suggested it was not so much the length of...
A Bow to the Online Reader

A Bow to the Online Reader

The Pender Post is taking a significant step forward this month, with the unveiling of our new website, a modernized update to our online presence for the benefit of our valued readers. Unveiled in conjunction with our June 2025 issue, The Pender Post homepage now...
President’s Message for May

President’s Message for May

The first time I read The Pender Post was more than a decade ago, while on holiday with my then-fiancée, who had spent much of her childhood summers on the Pender Islands. I was a journalist in Toronto at the time, and it was perhaps professional curiosity that led me...