Literacy Camp

A reminder about the literacy camp for 6 and 7 year olds, July 7-11, 9:30 - 11:30 for Monday to Thursday with Friday a little different.

Reading and other fun activities are planned. The cost is $10.  

Please contact Celine Valestrand at valestrands@gmail.com to register by Tuesday, June 17.

Fathers Day at the Bistro

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This Week at Thetis Island Marina & Pub

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Cowichan Wetland Keepers Course

The Cowichan Land Trust has Partnered with the BC Wildlife Federation to offer a Cowichan Valley Wetlandkeepers Course. The course is being offered for free thanks to many sponsors ($100 value).

The course will take place Friday June 20th to Sunday June 22nd. Friday is an evening session from 6:30pom to 9:00pm, Saturday and Sunday sessions run from 9:00am to 4:30pm.   

To register sign up through this Eventbrite link.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wetlandkeepers-duncan-bc-registration-10848585411

For questions please email info@cowichanlandtrust.ca or call 250-746-0227.

Yoga Update

Hello & happy summer to everyone!

Just a brief yoga note, we are shortening our yoga classes to 75 minutes, and Sonya is going to start up the Thursday class again.

Therefore, for June, July, and August we will be offering Gentle Hatha Yoga, beginners welcome, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-10:45 am starting this week June 3rd.

For more info you can contact Dawn Gordon @ 250-246-9212/250-210-0826 or by email at dawn_gordon@telus.net

Dawn Gordon
250-210-0826

Coastal Fire Centre ~ Revised Information Bulletin

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Islands Trust News Release ~ Input on Proposed Budget

In a new report commissioned by the Islands Trust Fund, UBC researchers found that forests in the Islands Trust area store and sequester more carbon than remaining Coastal Douglas-fir zone forests outside the Trust area. 

The new mapping provides an important communication tool showing that if forests in the Islands Trust area were protected, the Islands Trust area has the capacity to be a major sink for carbon produced in the region.

The following news release (and backgrounder) regarding this topic may be of interest to your readers. Thank you so much for considering this news for your publication. 

News release and backgrounder attached or found online here.  Full report and associated mapping can be found here.

Christine Rikley

Communications and Fundraising Specialist

Islands Trust Fund

FAC ~ May 26th Meeting with BC Ferries

Greetings

The Thetis Island Ferry Advisory Committee (Sue French, Steve Frankel, Art Hunter, and Keith Rush) met with BC Ferries representatives on Monday May 26th in Chemainus.

The main focus of the meeting was to review how the new schedule is working.  As we have only had the schedule for a month BC Ferries does not have any reliable data at this point.  However, it appears to be working fairly well, with most sailings running at or close to on time.  There have been reports of overloads on some sailings at all three terminals, but again no hard data at this time.  By the middle of July, BC Ferries will have more information on overloads, on time performance, crossing times and fuel consumption.

We had a long discussion on the frequency and timing for the Dangerous Goods sailings.  We wanted to see if we could manage with DG twice a month instead of weekly. In the end we concluded that it is early days with the new schedule and we would revisit the topic at our fall meeting.  In the meantime if you have any questions regarding DG please click here to go to the BC Ferries website. 

We also discussed the possibility of setting up a webcam on Penelakut Island.  BC Ferries will explore this with folks from Penelakut.

Finally a reminder that the MV Kuper will be going in for dry docking and refitting from October 14th to December 12th.  The Kalokee will be the replacement ship. 

Keith Rush, Route 20 Chemainus-Thetis-Penelakut FAC

keithrush17@gmail.com

Ph: 250-416-0013

Cell: 250-732-2766

Thetis Island Open Reminder ~

Are you a regular, a part time, or even a once in awhile golfer?

Then save the date of July 5th for the running of the 34th AnnualThetis Island Open to be held at the Mount Brenton golf course in Chemainus starting at 10:30am with dinner to follow the tournament.

Contact Bill Sharp at 250 246-3752 or sharpwg1@gmail.com before June 10th for more information.

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Bike to Work Week

A reminder about Bike to Work Week: It ends today (Sunday). Everyone is encouraged to join our team Thetis Islanders in Motion. If you have biked (run, walked or paddled) to get somewhere where you could have driven your car any day since last Monday, your distance (in kilometres) will boost our team's total. You can register at www.biketowork.ca or simply tell me your distance in a note to thetisteen@gmail.com. I will forward the details to the organizers. 

Thanks, Dave Steen

Coastal Wild Fire News ~ May 30

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Domaine Jasmin Open

The tasting room and wine sales are open this weekend from 12-4 p.m. Come by and taste the 2013 Pinot Gris and 2012 Pinot Noir we currently have available for sale.

 

Denis & Coleen

250-246-9494