4th annual Fly-In reveals Pemberton's sweetest picnic spot, with free family fun on offer at the Airport

Randy Elkins wanted to be a pilot for as long as he can remember, and he made it happen, "as soon as my finances let me."

Now the proud owner of a Cessna 210, which he hangars out at Pemberton Airport with Pemberton Soaring, Elkins estimates that he has flown in and out of 124 airports across Canada and around North America.
 But he reckons that the Pemberton Airport is one of the prettiest airports in the world to fly in to. "The terrain is just beautiful. The mountains. It's just very pretty."

For the last four years, members of the Pemberton Flying Club and other local aviation enthusiasts have organised the Pemberton Fly-In.
 The Pemberton Lions Club provided food sales that helped make the Fly-In a mouth-watering success.

 Riddle of the day: which is sweeter? The bike-ride? Or the post-ride beer?

Thanks to an initiative of the Pemberton Centennial Rotary Club and the Friends of the Pemberton Library, with additional support from the Pemberton Lions Club, Slow Food Cycle Sunday riders will be able to enjoy both.

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Tickets on sale nowfor Slow Food Cycle dinner featuring Pemberton produce prepard by Araxi's James Walt and Grant Cousar's Whistler Cooks Catering

Slow Food Cycle Sunday was conceived in 2005 as a festive way to shorten the distance between fork and field. This year, to celebrate the Slow Food Cycle weekend, the Pemberton and District Chamber of Commerce presents the Slow Food Cycle Dinner Event, bringing the distance between farm-gate and dinner-plate as close as a kiss. 

The intimate 80 person dinner will take place Saturday 14 August at Pemberton Valley Farms, a second generation family seed potato farm 35km up Pemberton Meadows Road. Under a timber-frame open-air gazebo on the farm’s spectacularly maintained grounds, diners will enjoy a four course feast prepared by two of the most passionate ambassadors for Pemberton produce, both of whom work out of Whistler’s hottest kitchens.