Jollity Farm Notice

Sign up for the Jollity FARM CSA Food Box Program (csa = community supported agriculture)

Our limited spaces are quickly filling up but we still have room for more members in 2013. 

Receive 20 weeks of the freshest organic vegetables (and some fruit) from early June to mid-October.

Full Box memberships are $28/week and Half Box memberships are $18.

Typically members pay for their full share at the beginning of the season but we are flexible. Talk to us about monthly and weekly options.

We are your local island farmers and depend upon input from the community. When we know

how many people we are growing and harvesting for that equals less waste and more efficient

production. Commit to eating well this summer and support local agriculture on Thetis Island.

Visit our website for more info or contact us - www.jollityfarm.ca

Noah and Elisabeth Bond

info@jollityfarm.ca or 250.416.6736

Little Island Aikikai ~ Billets Needed for Aikido Seminar

Looking for billets July 26th and/or 27th

On July 26-28 our Aikido club will be hosting the "Hope Invitational" Aikido seminar at Forbes Hall. The event will include Aikido instructors and practioners from Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Mainland. The first day of the seminar is devoted to teaching our children about Aikido "the art of peace", which is a non-combative martial art based on the principles of harmony, integration of mind and body, and self defense.

To keep costs down, we are seeking billets for July 26 and/or 27 to host the Instructors who will come to teach here as volunteers. If you have a guest room or cabin available for one or both of these dates that you would be willing to share with one or more lovely people (preferably without cost but even a low cost would be much appreciated), please contact Kelly Bannister at kelly_bannister@telus.net or at 246-9753

We also warmly welcome volunteers to help out with rides, food prep, food donation and other aspects of the event. Thank you for considering our request!

Kelly Bannister and Grant Babin

Looking for a Recumbent, Stationary Bike

I am looking to buy a recumbent, stationary bike and I'm wondering if any Islanders out there have one that is only doing duty as a clothes hanger or taking up space. I'd be happy to give one in good working condition a home for a fair price.

Thanks so much,

Alisha Rennie 250-416-0395

Islands Trust Community Stewardship Awards ~ Nominations

Please click here for the news release regarding 14 Island Projects Nominated for Islands Trust Community Stewardship Awards.

FAC ~ April Traffic Stats

April 2013 BC Ferries Traffic

Route 20 (CTP) is down 3.93% for vehicles and down 1.93% for passengers for the month of April...

Regards...

Keith Rush

April Traffic Stats

Traffic Graph

Brian Hollingshead Summary

Thetis Island Improvement District ~ AGM ~ May 18th

All Thetis Islanders are invited to the Improvement District Annual General Meeting, Saturday May 18 at 10:00AM, Forbes Hall.

Peter Pardee, Chair and Trustee

Islands Trust Fund News Release

Click here to view PDF regarding the Islands Trust Fund's effort to help in the campaign to save South Pender's Brooks Point.

BC Provincial Election - Thetis

186 people voted at Poll 098 Thetis Island and 4 voted at the Absentee Poll (off-islanders, visiting)

Many Thetis Islanders voted in the advanced polls or absentee polls off-island and are not included in this tally:

Jacobson (Liberal) = 45

McDonough (Green) = 48

McNab (Independent) = 1

Paddon (Independent) = 0

Routley (NDP) = 74

Sherry (Conservative) = 18

Jeannine Caldbeck

Welcome home Commander Hadfield!

Portable CD player needed by Scottish Dancers

Found one, Thanks!

Dear Islanders, your Thetis Island Scottish Country Dancers are looking for a battery operated portable CD player to play our dancing music while we dance in the Thetis Island Parade.....If you could loan us one just for parade, call Andy Keir 246-2132, Simone Luckham 246-4802 or Mary Forbes 246-2276..... Thank you

Take care, Mary Forbes

Author Recommendation ~

I would like to bring readers' attention to an author who I think is well worth reading.  She is Donna Leon and writes the Commissario Brunetti mystery series.  She lived in Venice for 25 years and seems to have a very interesting view of Italian politics (frightening!).

The books are well-written and rather low key so do not feature the nasty and brutish murders of many other modern mystery books.  It took me a couple of books to get hooked ..but I'm hooked!  Please keep them in mind. 

Sandy Alexandre

First Sunday Market ~ May 19th

TELEGRAPH HARBOUR MARINA

First Market of the Season: SUNDAY  MAY 19TH

9:00 a.m.  to 1:00 p.m.

SEE YOU THERE !

INFORMATION : 250-246-5275  CHRIS

Marilyn Pegg