Soup's On ~ Wednesday, April 8th

Forbes Hall/Community Centre - - $5.00

Service begins at 11:30 AM and goes on until soup is gone or 1:00 PM, whichever happens first! If available, there will be take-out soup for sale. Bring a container!

MENU to CELEBRATE SPRING!

Italian Wedding Soup

Hearty Bread

Assorted Baked Goodies

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand!"

Pot of Gold Coffee and Tea

At 1:00 PM you are invited into the Hunter Room for Bridge.

Mark your calendars also for and added and final Soup's On taking place on April 15 with our special guests CVRD Director Mel Dorey and new CAO Brian Carruthers.

From the Soup's On Committee, celebrating Volunteer Week by applauding all our wonderful soup cooks, cookie makers, dishwashing wonders and the two great volunteers from Capernwray, Alanna and Chay!

TIRRA ~ Executive 2015 - 2016

Steve Frankel, Chair/President

Stu Downey, VP, Mosquito/Pest Management Committee

Claire Hess, Recording and Correspondence Secretary

Ernie Hunter, Treasurer and Resident Sage

Stephanie Cottell and Vicki Walker, Co-Chairs, Solid Waste Management Committee

Graeme Shelford, Chair, Transportation Committee

Suzan Sarioglu, Chair, Cemetery Committee

Vicki Walker and Andy Keir, Co-Chairs, Thetis Island (AKA,Lawrence) Trail Committee 

We would like to extend our  deep appreciation to the (past) 2014-2015 Members of the TIRRA Executive

Doreen Lilley, Chair, Trails Committee

Ken Stinson, Recording Secretary

Thank you for volunteering your work, time and energy to our community

To the new members: Claire Hess, Vicki Walker, Stephanie Cottell, Andy Keir, many thanks for your willingness to join TIRRA Executive and volunteering for the benefit and support of our community.

Thanks also to Graeme Shelford for continuing his 16 years as Transportation/Roads Chair and to all who are continuing to serve.

A special note and Recognition to Ernie Hunter; your dedication, work and extraordinary commitment to TIRRA the Thetis Island Community is and has been invaluable, and deeply appreciated. Thank you for agreeing to stay with TIRRA as an integral part of our Executive

Thank you also to all past and new members of TIRRA

Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Weekend

Steve Frankel

CVRD at Last Soup's On of the Season ~ April 15th

Mel Dorey our CVRD director is planning to bring Brian Carruthers, the new CAO, to Thetis April 15th to get in on the last "Soup's on" for the season.  Brian wants to meet some islanders and have a look around as well as enjoy a great community lunch.  As usual, everyone is invited.

Ernie Hunter

A big "THANK YOU" to the soup's on crew for making it all happen every week each winter!

Overbury Annual Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Bunny is making an early visit to Overbury this year!

Overbury's Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 4 at 11:00 am

Please meet at the entrance to Overbury.  Remember to bring a basket for your eggs. 

We are looking forward to seeing you. 

Arlene and Norm Kasting

Overbury Resort

288 Forbes Rd

Absentia from Thetis ~ Dr. Randle

I have been asked by a colleague with a grave illness to provide Locum veterinary services in Iqaluit, Nunavut from April 13th through July 17th.

Unfortunately and regretfully, I will not be able to provide veterinary attention for islanders between these dates.

Dr. Martin E. Randle

Basket Making ~ June 10 - 11, 2015

Interested in Basket Making? SAVE THE DATE! June 10-11 for two basket making courses on Thetis with special teacher Joan Carrigan

www.joancarrigan.com

More details after Easter.

Joan Brich

from the Library ~ Sale ~ Saturday, April 4th

Set aside this Saturday, April 4 from 10 - 2 for the SPRING BOOK SALE and TICA CAFE. 

Lots of great books for summer reading and good treats from the TICA cafe.  This year we will have a contest to guess the jellybeans in the jar.

This event keeps up the library budget and supports the community hall. 

The last of the TICF donation for the Children's section of the library has been spent and the books are ready to be borrowed.

A few of the new materials:

Fantastic Mr. Fox  dvd

Where the Wild Things Are  dvd

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs dvd

Hook  dvd

The Giver  dvd

O Brother where art thou?  dvd

Thanks for supporting your local library.

Celine

ThINC Walk Reminder

Ping Pong cancelled this Friday

There will be no ping-pong this Friday evening due to preparations for the Library book sale.  Sunday's afternoon session will be doubly vigorous to make up for the idleness.

Matt Hess, Ping pong enthusiast

Mosquito Information

TIRRA Call to Meeting about Mosquito Mitigation Efforts on Thetis

Date: Saturday, May 30th

Time: 3PM to 5PM (Meeting will end at 5PM)

Location: Our Community Hall

We realize this notice comes to you quite early. There will be reminders of this meeting sent out on eSPOKES later.

Whether you are a full time resident, or a part time resident, you strongly are encouraged to attend this meeting.

As most of you are aware, last spring and summer was an extremely bad season for mosquitoes,

Where on the Island your property is located, may have impacted the degree that you were affected.

This meeting will include a very brief summary of the issues discussed so advance reading is recommended, please click here to view articles and summaries.

You are encouraged to read these, prior to the meeting, as well as bringing your questions, suggestions, ideas to this meeting.

There will be ONLY one Item on the Agenda:  Mosquito Problems on Thetis Island

We will begin the meeting promptly at 3 PM the Meeting will end at 5 PM

If you have any questions, concerns, please feel free to contact me prior to the meeting.

If you e-mail information to me I request that the e-mail is brief.

Phoning is best, since we are on Dial-Up here 

Steve Frankel, Chair,

OBO, TIRRA Executive

PH# 250-246-2099

Thetis Island Rental

Hi friends and neighbours,

I am in need of a place on Thetis to call home. I'm looking for a long term rental, for a reasonable rent, for May 1 2015 I have a long established home support business on Thetis, so need to be here for my people.....Please help ! 

Ginny

Please email ginnyarrowsmith@gmail.com or Cell 250-537-7030

Thetis Island Circa 1919

Click here to view the History Page and a series of photographs from the private collection of Mrs. Spetifore, one of George Roe's daughters.  Mrs. Spetifore kindly gave them to Grace Dickie, who in turn shared them with the Provincial Archives in Victoria.