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Pender Island Quilters’ Circle
Each month, we’ll introduce one of the many groups, clubs, committees and non-profit societies that make our island community so special. Also see...
Carolyn Cartwright Owers
The Stories That Brought You Here is a home-spun podcast about the people who have built their lives on Pender Island. Each chronicles various parts...
From Our President — December 2025
The Pender Post Society would like to extend heartfelt condolences to its readers on the loss of Helen Allison, an island legend whose contributions...
From Our President – November
To the Honourable Josie Osborne, BC Minister of Health I am a resident of Pender Island, a community of about 3,000 people – though, I swear it more...
The Schooner Way School Trail Project
Great things happen when folks come together for an awesome community project. On Pender Island, a great example is the two-kilometre Schooner Way –...
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 –...
Southern Gulf Islands Community Resource Centre
This month, our Community Spotlight series is pleased to introduce the Southern Gulf Islands Community Resource Centre, which hosts this month’s The...
Barry Mathias
Over the years, a lot of wonderful individuals have come and gone from Pender Island. Several of them have made lasting contributions to how the...
S,DA’YES Truth & Reconciliation Circle
Each month, we’ll introduce one of the many groups, clubs, committees and non-profit societies that make our island community so special. This...
W̱SÁNEĆ Elders
The Stories That Brought You Here is a home-spun podcast by resident Chris Wakaluk about the people who have built their lives on Pender Island....
Pender Post Past – September 1975
As promised in last month’s article, we now have a report on the Fall Fair of 1975. The weather was perfect and the Fair was a great success. There...
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...
August 1975
The Fall Fair was in Full Swing
Pender Island Pride Society
First, can you tell us what your group is about, and what you do? The Pender Island Pride Society exists to support the Pender Island LGBTQ2S+...
Craig Fehr
Volunteerism, Pender Island, and Plumbing in Rwanda
President’s Message for August
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...
President’s Message for July
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...
Farmers’ Institute
Connecting Local Growers with Local Consumers
Bruce Alexander
Beyond Rat Park, Studying Addiction & Challenging Our Assumptions
From the Archives, June 1975: ‘Last Day of School, Take Cover’
One of the first entries in the June 1975 Pender Post was “June 26… Last day of School, Take Cover”. The Pender Post executive set up a schedule for...