by Matthew Coutts | Aug 28, 2025 | From Our President
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...
by Matthew Coutts | Jul 24, 2025 | From Our President
I heard the humpback before I saw it. The moist and mighty blast it exhaled as it breached the waters of the Salish Sea. It was, for a moment, the only thing I could hear. The only sense I could process. I had expected to spot the great wanderer in the distance, so my...
by Matthew Coutts | Jun 30, 2025 | From Our President
My family will be marking the anniversary of our move to Pender Island in a few short months and it has me pondering the notion of home. Will the milestone officially make me a Pender Islander? And if not, what is it that makes someone a Penderite? Perhaps I became...
by Matthew Coutts | May 31, 2025 | From Our President
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...
by Matthew Coutts | May 12, 2025 | From Our President
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...
