Upper Body Workout back on Monday!

Monday Upper Body Exercise is on!!

Join us at 9:15

Thanks

Gloria

GONE! ~ Large Simple Storage Cabinet for Free

This unit has had many different uses since being built in the mid-20th century. A bit of sanding and a lick of paint and it will be ready to go for many more years.

76.5"wide x 20"deep x 32"tall

Must be gone by February 19th.

Please call Ann or Bill 250-246-4079

Thank- you!

The Fire Dept thanks Grant Gordon and Joe Knowles for the great job they did keeping up to the winter weather.

We appreciated all the constant ploughing to keep the main roads passable for emergency vehicles if needed.

Kudos to you.

TIVFD

Thanks to TIVFD

We just want to thank the wonderful people of the Thetis Island Fire Department for helping us with our chimney fire this past week.

We are truly grateful for the work that you all do in volunteering for us all in this great community.

With sincere thanks

Richard and Tess DeMarco

An Owl Afternoon

Dear Islanders and Beyond,

I would like to invite you for an afternoon about Owls at the community hall on Saturday Feb 11th 2-4pm.

I will talk you through some amazing owl anecdotes, you will learn and laugh with me during this time hopefully!

If you have any owl related things in your house you're welcome to bring this along.

Please make my afternoon a good one and come along for a couple of hours. You will not be disappointed, I will guarantee that!

Jerney de Vries (house-sitting for the Frankels)

250-246-2099

Vet Visit Rescheduled for Sunday, February 12th

The next veterinary visit will be Sunday, February 12th also to enable catch up from Wednesday's weather interruption.

Please phone or email for an appointment.

250 436 0045 erskine2814@outlook.com

Dr Martin Randle

Upper Body Workout ~ Cancelled for Friday Feb 10th

Friday's exercise class is cancelled due to weather conditions.

Gloria

Opinion Piece ~ Dave Steen

Recent events tell us that any plans to make the world a better place won't be so easy to carry out.

We can't avoid some blame for the troubles. It's said that all that's needed for bad stuff to flourish is for good people to look on in silence.

Even blissful, remote Thetis isn't far enough away for us to feel justified in not speaking out.

Some claim virtue in staying out of the fray, until they become its victims.

Some believe they're excused by borders. They believe what happens elsewhere is none of their business. Besides, they say, they're powerless to do anything about it.

They quietly forgive the guy next door or in next country for his trespasses. They hide behind the notion that he's the king of his castle, entitled to do whatever he wants on his private property. In their assertion of private interest, voices for the public interest are belittled and shouted down.

If those more enlightened about history and human nature had been more vocal, the recent return to unchecked greed and its false claim to raise everyone's boat wouldn't have happened. Instead of its promise of liberty and prosperity, it's bringing on corruption and social injustice and damaging democracy, the natural environment and the hope for world peace.

The world is suddenly a more fearful, dangerous place.

New York Times columnist David Brooks says this is an “extraordinary moment” in history that cries out for an extraordinary response. He says “we've never had a major leader as professionally unprepared, intellectually ill informed, morally compromised and temperamentally unfit” to lead the free world.

Let's reject the return to policies and programs of hatred, intolerance and unquestioning reverence for power so we can avoid their cataclysmic consequences.

We owe it to ourselves, the huddled masses of the world and our children.

Dave Steen

Exercise Bicycle Wanted

Do you have a stationary exercise bicycle that you're not using? I'm willing to borrow, rent or buy it. The bike should be able to be adjusted to fit a taller person (6 feet). Please call 250-246-3895.

Dave and Bev Greene

Recycling Yard Closed Wed. Feb 8th

The Recycle Yard will be closed on Wednesday the 8th.  

We are planning to be open on Saturday the 11th.

Thanks for your patience.

 

Ernie

Soup's On Cancelled this Week

No Soup's On for February 8th.

Winter Evening

Jeannine Caldbeck