{"id":136601,"date":"2025-08-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:30:00","slug":"hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden treasures and a not so hidden one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I got a tip about a mural that was being painted at Riverside Municipal Park and was told, &ldquo;Come see, it&rsquo;s beautiful!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Emily Wilson, visual artist and illustrator, was hired by the Town of Smithers, with support from the Smithers Art Gallery and Wetzin&rsquo;kwa Community Forest Corporation, to paint a mural on all four sides of the Town of Smithers Riverside pump house.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wilson&rsquo;s work explores our human connection to nature. She has formal education in visual art from Vancouver Island School of Art,&nbsp;and as well, a bachelor&#39;s degree in cognitive science and history from McGill University..<\/p>\n<p>Curious about&nbsp;how the world works, she couples her background of education with her artistic talent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Emily moved to Smithers in January, and her art at Riverside is her first public work in the valley.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The mural on the pump house was an exciting inspiration for me,&rdquo; she said,&nbsp;&ldquo;a celebration of the beauty of the valley, all the way from high alpine to the bottom of the river.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can check out her work at&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/emilythewilson.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755559856909000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0SjQcBO_HS0lMQikXw7HxH\" href=\"http:\/\/emilythewilson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">emilythewilson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tip I got about the &lsquo;beautiful mural&rsquo; at Riverside Park came from a friend who was at the start of the perimeter trail to check on her geocaches. She has three on that trail.<\/p>\n<p>Geocaches are hidden treasures and a fun way for friends and family to enjoy our gorgeous valley. It is a worldwide game with approximately 250,000 sites in Canada.&nbsp;Geocaching hunts can get us outside, not just at home, but for travel adventurers too.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have 22 sites in the Bulkley Valley. All you need is your cell phone and a log-in name.&nbsp;&nbsp;Download the app or go to&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/geocaching.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755559856909000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ju_l-459YHPO6haAivSMP\" href=\"http:\/\/geocaching.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">geocaching.com<\/a>.&nbsp;You get coordinates and an encrypted message to decipher clues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you put a little treasure in your pocket you can trade it for a treasure in the cache.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My friend, who manages her caches, has a user name Cresonite, and I started in the Arizona desert and picked the user name Chalcedony Rose.<\/p>\n<p>The sites are usually picked by local residents for their uniqueness or beauty. Our valley is exceptional for its uniqueness and beauty, and we can explore it by following a treasure map.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A beautiful site, like the pump house at Riverside Park, and the stunning flowers that surround it, might just &lsquo;pop&rsquo; into view.<\/p>\n<p>If you have items for this column, please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sonja.lester.b.c@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">sonja.lester.b.c@gmail.com<\/a>&nbsp;or call 250-847-4414.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonja checks out the new mural on the Riverside Park pump house and talks geocaching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":136604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columnists","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hidden treasures and a not so hidden one - The Interior News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hidden treasures and a not so hidden one - The Interior News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sonja checks out the new mural on the Riverside Park pump house and talks geocaching\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Interior News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T12:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Staff reports\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Staff reports\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/\",\"name\":\"Hidden treasures and a not so hidden one - The Interior News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/pump-house.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-21T12:30:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b2a2559930289000cbfc74c234c9073b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/08\/21\/hidden-treasures-and-a-not-so-hidden-one\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/pump-house.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/08\/pump-house.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Robi McKnight (left) and Andrea Callison check out the new mural on the pump house while enjoying a picnic at Riverside Municipal Park. 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