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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...

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...

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...

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 features access to a vastly improved and expanded archives section, and immediate access to...

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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...

The Pender Highlanders

The Pender Highlanders

The official name is Pender Island Celtic Music Society under the BC Societies Act, but we are usually known as the Pender Highlanders, the name we have had since the beginning of the band in 1995. We provide a musical contribution to many community events (pipes and...

The Pender Highlanders

The official name is Pender Island Celtic Music Society under the BC Societies Act, but we are usually known as the Pender Highlanders, the name we have had since the beginning of the band in 1995. We provide a musical contribution to many community events (pipes and...

The Pender Highlanders

The official name is Pender Island Celtic Music Society under the BC Societies Act, but we are usually known as the Pender Highlanders, the name we have had since the beginning of the band in 1995. We provide a musical contribution to many community events (pipes and...

The Pender Highlanders

The official name is Pender Island Celtic Music Society under the BC Societies Act, but we are usually known as the Pender Highlanders, the name we have had since the beginning of the band in 1995. We provide a musical contribution to many community events (pipes and drums), and meet weekly to learn tunes and improve our skills. Jim Dunlop and several friends from...

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Gregory Franklin

Gregory Franklin has travelled the world photographing bears in the wild. From pandas to grizzlies to polar bears, he has had a unique array of experiences while in the presence of these amazing animals. However, many of these moments took place not from a long way...

Gregory Franklin

Photographing Bears, Carving a Healing Pole, Building Franklin Castle

Gregory Franklin

Gregory Franklin has travelled the world photographing bears in the wild. From pandas to grizzlies to polar bears, he has had a unique array of experiences while in the presence of these amazing animals. However, many of these moments took place not from a long way...

Gregory Franklin

Gregory Franklin has travelled the world photographing bears in the wild. From pandas to grizzlies to polar bears, he has had a unique array of experiences while in the presence of these amazing animals. However, many of these moments took place not from a long way away, but from very close distances. He describes the process and philosophy that has allowed him to be...

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Gregory Franklin

Gregory Franklin

Gregory Franklin has travelled the world photographing bears in the wild. From pandas to grizzlies to polar bears, he has had a unique array of experiences while in the presence of these amazing animals. However, many of these moments took place not from a long way...

Three On The Tree

Three On The Tree

What is your group? What do you do? Three on the Tree is an arts non-profit from Pender Island, BC. We strive to increase arts connectivity in the community by supporting performance events, providing education opportunities, and engaging the youth. Our most notable...

Three On The Tree

What is your group? What do you do? Three on the Tree is an arts non-profit from Pender Island, BC. We strive to increase arts connectivity in the community by supporting performance events, providing education opportunities, and engaging the youth. Our most notable...

Three On The Tree

Connecting Pender Island through performance, arts education, and youth engagement

Three On The Tree

What is your group? What do you do? Three on the Tree is an arts non-profit from Pender Island, BC. We strive to increase arts connectivity in the community by supporting performance events, providing education opportunities, and engaging the youth. Our most notable...

Three On The Tree

What is your group? What do you do? Three on the Tree is an arts non-profit from Pender Island, BC. We strive to increase arts connectivity in the community by supporting performance events, providing education opportunities, and engaging the youth. Our most notable event of the year is the Magic Lake Lantern Festival; however we also run youth camps in the...

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Marc Lesperance

Having grown up on a dairy farm in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, Marc Lesperance bore witness to Canada’s transition from small, family-owned farms in the mid-eighties, to the industrialized methods that exist today. He watched as neighbours struggling to make...

Marc Lesperance

Having grown up on a dairy farm in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, Marc Lesperance bore witness to Canada’s transition from small, family-owned farms in the mid-eighties, to the industrialized methods that exist today. He watched as neighbours struggling to make...

Marc Lesperance

Having grown up on a dairy farm in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, Marc Lesperance bore witness to Canada’s transition from small, family-owned farms in the mid-eighties, to the industrialized methods that exist today. He watched as neighbours struggling to make ends meet were forced to sell their land to those aiming to amalgamate and modernize. “Gone are the days...

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Marc Lesperance

Marc Lesperance

Having grown up on a dairy farm in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario, Marc Lesperance bore witness to Canada’s transition from small, family-owned farms in the mid-eighties, to the industrialized methods that exist today. He watched as neighbours struggling to make...