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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...
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...
The Pender Highlanders
Pipes, drums & community spirit on Pender Island since 1995
Gregory Franklin
Photographing Bears, Carving a Healing Pole, Building Franklin Castle
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...
Marc Lesperance
Transformations
Three On The Tree
Connecting Pender Island through performance, arts education, and youth engagement
Pender Photo Club
Creating art, sharing stories, and growing together through photography
Meet Paul Williamson
Life’s Many Paths, Our Legal System & The Nisga’a Treaty