Saturday Market - Howling Wolf Farm

Exciting News! The Cowichan Tribes Knitters will be at the Saturday Market / Howling Wolf Farm today with their new creations!

Christopher Pegg

Wildfire News

The latest Coastal Fire Centre Wildfire News is available at

http://www.thetisislandfire.ca/newsletters/2019-06-28_Coastal_Wildfire_News.pdf

The subjects are: FireSmart Discipline, Interagency Cooperation, North Island Complex 2018, Fire Departments, Forest Industry, Prevention Blog, At Coastal, and Weather.

Veronica

Nature House Opening Weekend

Today: Opening Day at the Nature House!

This morning at 11 AM come by the Nature House to watch Andy Lamb and Peter Luckham go for a SCUBA dive to collect animals for the seaquarium! At 12 PM, once the divers are out of the water there will be lots of critters to check out and an opportunity to help carry them up to the Nature House and put them in their temporary home. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Caitlyn

Stripped to the Studs!

Click here to view construction photos.

Community Letters

I never meant to stay….

I came to Thetis to temporarily live with my parents, while sorting out housing after a business transfer from Vancouver to Duncan.  38 years ago. One thing led to another, and with the ferry commuting being a near daily occurrence, I met a guy, fell in love, and stayed put, with lots of future commuting!

At 24 moving from a full-on city experience to the rural sanity of Thetis was an eye-opener. Although Thetis had been part of our family’s life since the early sixties, and our parents had retired here to make it their home, I didn’t realize how quickly it would embrace me. This was the same year that the Thetis Island Community Association got started.  I remember sitting on logs on the property at some of the earliest meetings. The plans that were dreamt!   

We’ve held great events, even without a building.  Bingo - Thetis Island Day - Fall Harvest Dinners…  As our lives moved along, and our family and farm grew, so did the Community Property.  The building was started, and yup, I was on that building committee.  We had to make hard decisions.  We couldn’t do it all.  Not at once.  We had a plan for future add-ons, we found money (which was a huge effort), and thankfully Thetis Islanders showed their typical generosity. 

Having a venue to create events was wonderful, whether it was holding a simple potluck to celebrate being stranded on Thetis while docks were rebuilt, or to originating Ladies Night, where I saw so many women joining in, both in song and laughter.  Some staying long after the crowd had dispersed to be fortunate to be one of the late night singers that witnessed a young girl being encouraged to hit a High C while we belted out Oh Holy Night, and then watched as that same girl became a woman who went on to study opera. And then as she came back to the hall several times to share her talent with us all. There were so many stand-alone moments like these over the years, each one a brick in our foundation. 

To be in that cheerful & loving space as the community gathers to bid farewell to those who are starting new chapters, or to say good-bye to those whose stories have ended. We congregate to discuss, pray, celebrate, determine, cook, play, exercise, learn, laugh, eat, perform, and be entertained. Forbes Hall has become so much more than I ever thought at those early log-sitting days. 

I feel sure that all those who are no longer here, but had the early visions of what a community center could be to their friends & neighbours, would be terrifically proud of just how far their dreams and foresight would reach. 

I am so honoured to be a part of the original dream, all the ones in between, and the dream that is actualizing in our hands. 

Ann Dickie

What's Fresh @ jollity FARM?

Open Saturday 10am-1pm

Jollity Salad

Mixed Berries

Habitat Farm Salami, Beer Pepperoni, Cured Goat Sausage, Pork Sausage

Cherry Tomatoes

Plants

Thank You!

Thank you so much to everyone who called, offering to pick up our cat's medication.  

Pick-up has been arranged.  

What a wonderful bunch of neighbours and friends this island is made up of!

Veronica

For Sale

Hand made solid pine rocking baby cradle.

$25.00

Photo on request.

Enquiries:  ve7ssr@gmail.com

Community Letters

When we moved to Thetis Island from Victoria in 1998 we were looking for “community”, you know… a place where everybody and everything is connected. You’re a part of an interesting fabric of ideas, people and special places.  One of those special places in our community is Forbes Hall.

I like to fix things and build stuff… so the fit with my skills and the need to maintain the Hall was natural.   Reflecting on this I find that I can think of no better place to put my energy over the years.  The Hall has always been a place memories are made.  Celebrations of lives lived and little ones newly arrived, a place where gifts are shared, in so many ways, and more often than not with a plate of great food! 

How often are you able to contribute to something so close to home that touches and improves the lives of so many people.  I have given countless hours to Forbes Hall over the last 20 years and am so pleased to do so.  I look forward to many years of Forbes Hall gifting everyone back.

Ron Bannister

The Handmaid's Tale - Season 2 DVD

I have the library copy of The Handmaid's Tale - Season 2 and have finished watching it. If you would like to watch it, let me know and I will get the DVDs to you.

Tatiana

tatiana@wingwalker.ca

613-219-9642

Thetis Island Marina Specials

Friday, June 28

Lunch: Honey Garlic Chicken Caesar Wrap with fires $15.99

Dinner: Lemon Chicken served with seasoned rice and dinner veggie $14.99

Saturday, June 29

Lunch: Beef Pot Pie $11.99

Dinner: Beef and Black Bean Stir Fry served on white rice $14.99

Sunday, June 30

Lunch: Soft Taco Wrap with lettuce, tomato, onions and 3-cheese blend

served with taco chips $12.99

Dinner: Buffet - Chicken Marinara, baked potato, mixed veggiesand salad

$18.99

Broom Puller

Hello Thetis Islanders...We have forgotten where Gwen's broom puller is - if anyone can help us remember please call Kat at 250-510-2756  

Thank you very much!