Yard Waste Permits Opening Saturday

We have once again moved from MODERATE to LOW hazard and most of our fire fighters are back on Thetis from holidays etc to respond, so we are opening up the Fire Permit applications to start on 28 September instead of 1 October.

If you have already applied, you do not need to apply again for those three days…we will automatically backdate your permit to 28 Sept.

If you need a Fire Permit for yard waste from 28 Sept to 31 October, go to thetisislandfire.ca and select Fire Permits from the menu on the left-hand side. 

Don’t forget to check the Venting Index before you ignite your yard waste piles this weekend. The Index must be GOOD.

TIVFD

IV Pole on Wheels--Free

Old-fashioned IV pole on wheels with four hooks, height adjustable, once rescued from being thrown out by a hospital. Quirky coat-rack, plant hanger, hummingbird feeder pole … endless possibilities. 

Text Adam at (250) 802-2418.

Metal Barrels--Free

Free, two (2) metal 55-gallon barrels.

They are rusty; we have never used them and do not have any need for them. If no one has a need for them they will go to metal recycling.

Please call or text 403-710-6472

Thanks,

Karl Unger

Wood Splitter For Sale

Princess Auto 20-ton Hydraulic Wood Splitter for sale.

9-hp Honda Engine. Towable with a 17/8 ball. $800. 

Call Tom at 250-510-1122.

Assorted Items for Sale

Apple Watch. Series 5. GPS. 44 mm. Black. With charger. $75

Oar $20

Paddle $15

Antique wooden trunk. Black. Dovetailed. Great decor or firewood box. $75

Large brass school bell. Loud! $100

Text 2502520699

Chris F

Cedar Beach Pizza Schedule & Closure

The relatives, friends and boaters have all gone home and things are quite quiet at Cedar Beach. 

So, Andy and I will be taking advantage.

25 Sept (Wednesday): Closed

26 Sept – 30 Sept (Thursday to Monday): OPEN

1 Oct – 10 Oct: CLOSED

Open for Thanksgiving Weekend. Turkey Pizza anyone? 

Thanks for your business,

Virginia

250-246-9770

Forbes Hall Orientation Sessions: 1:00 pm on Wednesday, 25 Sept, & Thursday, 26 Sept

If you are an activity leader at, or regular user of, the Forbes Hall Community Centre, these sessions are for you!

Don Sinclair will give you a general orientation of how to access and exit the hall, along with how to use and care for the rooms and their equipment. 

Simply turn up at the hall at 1 pm on either day to join the tour. 

Thanks,
the TICA Board

Items For Sale

Bolle Snow Helmet and Goggles. Large size. Like New $50.

Assortment of golf clubs. King Cobra 350, 1,3,5 woods graphite shafts, Ping Si Titanium driver, Slotline Inertial putter, Bazoka Iron-Wood and Medius training club. $50 for all the golf clubs.

Swagman Kayak cart. Like new. $100 (over $200 on Amazon).

Phone Rodney at 250 510 8647

Free Item

Older garden-swing; has some rust.
You must disassemble for transport.

Text 250-710-9238 or 604-997-7292

Char

New at the Library...

Newly catalogued material:

Paulaby Isabel Allende. 863

Dark Saturday by Nicki French fiction

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood. A new series. Donated

The wren, the wren by Anne Enright fiction. Donated

Sand talk: How indigenous thinking can save the world by Tyson Yunkaporta. 305.89

Lots of puzzles for rainy day fun.

PAG - Plant of the Week #26 - Plantain (Ribwort & Broadleaf)

In our second to last Plant of the Week posting for the season, we have a double whammy.

A great foodstuff, plantain packs a nutritious punch yielding many vitamins and minerals. Their leaves can be eaten raw or cooked, and their seeds can be used in soups.

In addition to their edibility, they have also been used for their medicinal properties by both Europeans and First Nations alike. Commonly found all over Thetis (and now much of the world!), they are surprisingly not native. They have been around since the arrival of the first European settlers and are now considered naturalized. 

In the book, Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer refers to them as “White Man’s Footstep”:

“Our people have a name for this round-leafed plant: White Man’s Footstep. Just a low circle of leaves, pressed close to the ground with no stem to speak of, it arrived with the first settlers and followed them everywhere they went. It trotted along paths through the woods, along wagon roads and railroads, like a faithful dog so as to be near them.”

www.thetisislandnatureconservancy.org/single-post/plant-of-the-week

Charlotte Fesnoux,

ThINC Program Coordinator

The Equinox: The Sun on Sunday

This year the September equinox ("fall equinox" in the Northern Hemisphere) is at 5:44am Sunday, 22 September. 

Among other things, this means that today, everywhere on the Earth, the Sun is above the horizon for almost exactly 12 hours, sunrise happens almost exactly due East (90 degrees compass course), and sunset happens almost exactly due West (270 degrees compass course). The local times of sunrise and sunset vary from place to place. 

The only exceptions are at the North pole (where the Sun is just setting today, and will stay below the horizon for the next 6 months), and at the South pole (where the Sun is just rising today, and will stay above the horizon for the next    6 months).

The underlying reason for all these phenomena is that the Earth spins (daily) about an axis that's tilted relative to the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

The Spring and Fall Equinoxes are the times each year when the Earth's position in its (yearly) orbit around the Sun places that tilt precisely "sideways" relative to the Sun.

There's a more detailed explanation, with a nice animation, at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt#Earth

Jonathan T.

(TI’s local astrophysicist)