{"id":10917,"date":"2026-05-09T03:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T03:35:32","slug":"nicole-benes-a-librarian-of-many-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/nicole-benes-a-librarian-of-many-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: Nicole Benes: a librarian of many hats!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I had two sets of grade 6 and 7 students on Wednesday April 29 at Signal Hill ES in Pemberton. Both sessions were in the morning and the kids were fantastic. Teacher-librarian Nicole Benes is amazing! Not only did she organize these sessions, and the ones for tomorrow, but she was taking a bunch of her students on a bike ride midday!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-10920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/signalhill1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/signalhill1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/signalhill1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/signalhill1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The afternoon was open, so I got some fresh air and took in my stunning surroundings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-10921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-2048x1537.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mountains-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And look at this matcha latte, made with care by the barista at Mount Currie Coffee! It was as delicious as it was beautiful. I bought a package of locally roasted coffee as well so I could make coffee in my hotel room each morning. I had brought some with me, but had run out. (I bring my own filters, pour-over cone, and mini-kettle &#8212; obsessive, I know)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-10922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte-1200x1599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/latte.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two sets of grade 6 and 7 students on Wednesday April 29 at Signal Hill ES in Pemberton. 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Not only did she organize these sessions, and the ones for tomorrow, but she was taking a bunch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/nicole-benes-a-librarian-of-many-hats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday: Nicole Benes: a librarian of many hats!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,262],"tags":[1003,645,1073,1068,1072,353,1071,7,863],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbookweek","category-news-stories","tag-canadian-childrens-book-week","tag-ccbc","tag-kidsbookcentre","tag-kidsbookweek","tag-pemberton","tag-scholastic","tag-signal-hill-es","tag-ukrainian","tag-under-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10937,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}