Thetisblog Photo Contest ~ Deadline Extended to May 18th

Only a few days left to enter this year's contest.  Be brave and enter that photo you know you've taken!

thetisblog’s third anniversary's photo contest, looking for the quintessential picture of Thetis or our community, to grace the front page of the blog.

Rules: the photo must have been taken on Thetis, or looking at Thetis.  It must have been taken between May 1st 2014 and April 30th 2015.  Only three submissions per person, please.  All submissions need to have been taken by the person submitting them. Please include your name, the general area & the date the photo was taken.  If the photo is of a community event, please mention the event.  E-mail your photo in full-sized format to editor@thetisblog.net 

The winner will win home baking by Ann Dickie, and the photo will shown be on the front page of the blog for the next six months.  The runner-up’s photo will be shown on the front page for the six months following.  A gallery of all submitted photographs will be created on thetisblog. 

Wanted ~ 12 People for Nutrition Case Study

Hello friends and fellow islanders,

I am in the final stages of completing a course in Natural Nutrition.  The purpose of this course is to reacquaint ourselves with live, natural and good quality food, and to learn how to use our food as medicine to restore our innate vitality; and to increase our awareness and well being.  I am looking for 12 people who would be willing to complete a Lifestyle Analysis and a Nutri-systems questionnaire in the next two weeks.  

These two evaluations, coupled with a phone or in-person interview and a follow up session will be free to the first 12 people who contact me,

Dawn Gordon, CHHP, RYT – 250-210-0826,

or by email: dawn_gordon@telus.net

To read more about Dawn's journey, click here.

Friday Evening Ping Pong Cancelled

Ping pong will be cancelled this Friday evening because of a conflicting event. Join us Sunday afternoon at 2 pm.

Matt Hess, ping pong enthusiast 

New Flapper Valve has been installed ~

On May 7th, the new flapper valve was installed on the culvert under Pilkey Point Road by the lagoon near the end of Marina Drive.  This will help to manage mosquito populations.  Thanks to Andy Newall, area manager for M.O.T., Grant Gordon, Don Hunter, Ian Ralston, and Wilf Scheuer.

No More Orders for Baking for Nepal

Thanks to all of you who have ordered baking to raise funds for the Canadian Red Cross / Nepal Relief.
Due to a huge response, I am not able to take any new orders.

Thanks so much for your support.
All those who have placed orders have now been contacted via e-mail, and my apron strings are tied. 

Thanks again,
Ann Dickie

TIMA ~ The Big Event ~ Burgers, Ballads, and Beer

Here's the latest scoop on the BIG EVENT. Mark it on your calendar:

 

Burgers, Ballads and Beer (a.k.a. An evening of nautical tunes and tales)

 

Thetis Island Marina ~ 7:30PM ~ Friday, May 29

  

Join the TIMA crew and sundry salty types for a hilarious soirée of nautical music and unshipshape anecdotes about life, laughter and folly on the briny deep, shared by the sly, the shy, the outgoing and the outrageous.

Here are the names of a few folks who’ve hinted, threatened, agreed heartily or are currently being coerced (as in keel-hauled) to play music and/or give you a 5-minute account of some humorous or humiliating adventure on high seas, low tides or impertinent reefs: Lynda Poirier, Darron Stepple, Simone Luckham, Dave Pethick, Petra Accipiter, Maureen Loiselle, Mike Ferguson, Gerhard Wanney, Tom Taylor, Bob Pickell, Gerry Smith, Hortenza Nawatzki, Wayne Loiselle, Dale Burkholder, Michel Filion, Gary Geddes, Freya Fullner, and that’s just for starters.

We’re also hoping to have Peter Luckham as MC and are looking for someone to lead us in singing some knotty, or naughty, nautical tunes.

If I’ve missed your name or if you have a 5-minute anecdote or watery melody and would love to be included, let me know by phone or email. No audition required. Or just show up at the soirée and volunteer to be part of our floating opera.

Also, if you know a Thetis Island stowaway with a tale that must be told, bully him or her to share that story.

And let me know and I’ll help arrange to have this secret sharer Shanghaied. 

 

Lots of folks will be arriving early for dinner. If you can’t make it for dinner, come up the gangplank in time to find a seat for the 7:30 launch. If the weather’s good, we may have our event outdoors in the covered area.

 

Gary Geddes

Wanted: Used, built-in dishwasher

Wanted, a used, built in dishwasher that works. Anyone have one gathering dust in the shed after a kitchen renovation?

Donovan

246-4695

Reflective Lot # Sign Posts

If you wish to purchase a reflective sign post for your driveway to enable emergency services to more easily find you, email chief11@telus.net with your name and Lot #.  The white  posts with blue reflective numbering are $45 and delivered to the Thetis Firehall for pickup. Cash or cheque to Thetis Island Vol. Fire Dept.

Sun, Sea, Sails & Shimmies

The Thetis Island Shimmy Mob Dancers (from the Gypsy Dancers of the Salish Sea) would like to send out a great big “Thank You!!!” to everyone who came out to watch and cheer on our team at Thetis Island Marina on Saturday May 9th, and to the generous donations that came from islanders and beyond.  Together we raised over $3400 in funds for Cowichan Women Against Violence (CWAV) and Somenos Transition House. Wow!!!! Thank you all!!!

Special thanks to Ron & Kelly Bannister and Trisha Hunter for technical support, videos and photographs, to the Thetis Island Regatta participants for letting us dance at their party, and to Paul Deacon for providing such an awesome venue for our performance.  The sun and sea, along with spectacular sailboats were excellent special effects!

For those who missed our performance, or would like to see it again, here's the video:

Shimmy on  ☺

Notice from jollity FARM

To all Thetitians! Thank you from jollity FARM

As we head into our 4th year of farming on Thetis Island, we want to acknowledge all the help and support from you, our community. Thank you for your donations of compost, used pots, manure, windows, fencing; sharing of advice & expertise, elbow grease plus support for our evolving venture. It was a great turn out last Saturday and we look forward to sharing new offerings with you each week. 

*we will always re-use plant pots of any size, so you are welcome to return them to the farm at your convenience

In gratitude,

Noah & Elisabeth Bond

First Sunday Market of the Season!

Come join us for the first Sunday Market of the season.

Sunday May 17th 10AM to 1PM Telegraph Harbour Marina in the pavilion.

Many local artisans with a wide variety of crafts, baking, jeweler, knitting, homemade chocolates, cards and much more.

See you there!

Gloria

TICA Plant Sale & Lunch

Plant sale at Forbes Hall SATURDAY May 16 10am to 2 pm

Join friends for LUNCH at  Forbes Hall SATURDAY MAY 16   11:30AM to 1:00PM (while quantities last)

HOME MADE BURGERS'N FRIES WITH 'SLAW $8.99

DON'T MISS IT!

All proceeds go to maintaining and improving Forbes Hall