2025 Thetis Island Calendar

It’s not even halfway through 2024 and we’re already thinking about a 2025 follow-up to this year’s beautiful Thetis Island Calendar.

Browse through photos you’ve taken in the past; take some more through the summer! We will be doing a “Thetis through the Seasons” calendar for 2025 and are excited to see some beautiful images, once again.

You can start sending them as soon as you like, we’ll hold them in a file until early fall when we will sort through them, finding the special 12+ to create 2025’s calendar.

Images to be sent to info@forbeshall.ca, 1 MB or larger.

We're looking forward to seeing what Islanders have been snapping!

TICA Board

Fruit Recovery & Processing Project

Hello,

We are looking at bringing together interested fruit pickers and matching them up with residents with unpicked or excess fruit.

A second stage would be to preserve the fruit and explore different methods of preservation (ie: canning, freezing and dehydration).

If possible, we would set up teaching events for people to learn how to preserve safely and efficiently. We would look to create a method to share the end product with homeowners that provided the fruit.

We are still at the exploration stages but will need to get started soon for this year's harvest season.

If you are interested, please contact me or Jim Moloney. We will need to organize a planning meeting in the near future to work out the details.

Thanks,

David Reay, davidreay@telus.net

Jim Moloney, jimolo46@gmail.com

Reminder from Coastal Fire Centre

The Province shut down open burning for Category 2 and 3 fires (yard waste/burn piles) last month (May 17th) in the Coastal Fire Centre region.

Also prohibited are the activities listed below (Wildfire Act, Section 12):

• Fireworks;
• Sky Lanterns;
• Binary Exploding Targets;
• Burn Barrels or Burn Cages of any size or description; and
• Air Curtain Burners.

Campfires with permits from the TIVFD are still being allowed until June 30th. We will be assessing the fire danger for campfires in July at that time.

If you want to be really safe and enjoy a campfire atmosphere during a complete shutdown this summer, it’s a great idea to purchase a CSA Approved campfire appliance that uses propane. No smoke, no embers, no sparks, and you can even char your marshmallows on them. A propane campfire appliance does not need a campfire permit.

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck 

Thetis Island Vol. Fire Dept.

Forbes Hall Nurse Practitioner Clinic Closed: Tuesday, 2 July

Nurse Practitioner, Erin Van Wieren, will be away the first week of July.

Brittany Morrison will provide virtual and telephone locum coverage on Tuesday, 2 July.

Also, no virtual or telephone appointments will be taken for Thursday, 4 July.

Appointments can be made by calling 250-739-5700, extension 54814.

Forbes Hall Health Services Group

Thetis Infrastructure Task Group - Public Meeting at Forbes Hall: 7 pm Tuesday, July 2nd

The Thetis Infrastructure Task Group is made up of TIRRA (Thetis Island Residents and Ratepayers Association – Solid Waste Yard), TIPC (Thetis Island Port Commission – Community Dock & Boat Launch), TIID (Thetis Island Improvement District – TIVFD/Firehall) and TICA(Thetis Island Community Association – Forbes Hall Community Centre).

For the past 6 months our group has been working with the CVRD on their funding, planning, and assistive work for Thetis Island. Each year Thetis Island pays about 1/3 of Area G’s taxes, yet we only make up 1/4 of the population. Most funding goes to services Thetis Island residents rarely access.

We would like to hear from the community. Property Tax Day is July 2^nd and we thought it appropriate to hold the meeting on this date.

There will be brief introduction statements by each of the four groups, and a 10-minute financial presentation by Paul Duncan before we open the floor to you. All concerns, questions and ideas will be recorded for use in our future meetings with the CVRD.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Thetis Infrastructure Task Group

Ann Dickie, TICA; Keith Rush, TIID; David Reay, TIPC; Gord Prescott, TIRRA; Wendy Hinsperger, TIRRA; Paul Duncan, Financial Analyst

A Friendly Reminder…

Hot pavement reminder for your pooch...

If it's too hot for YOUR bare feet, then it's too hot for THEIR paws!

Conditions can change quickly so don't leave your pet in the car alone...

Ralph Smith

Cedar Beach Pizza

Life is busy. Pizza will be closed Thursday June 20 through next Wednesday June 26. We will reopen Thursday and Friday next week. We will be closed June 29-July 1 as we prepare for the Canada Day Pancake Breakfast on July 1.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

See you on Canada Day at Forbes Hall!

Virginia Lamb

250 246-9770, Cedar Beach Pizza

Table and 4 Chairs for Sale by Donation

Round table with four very nice wooden chairs for sale by donation to the TIVFD Fire Fighters Society. The table is designed to take a leaf, which the fire department doesn’t have. 

Can be viewed at the fire hall by appointment with the fire chief, 250-252-0544.

School Celebration

TIES will be holding an end-of-year celebration at Forbes Hall on Wednesday, 26 June, at 1:00 pm.

The community is invited to join us.

Thank you,

Sarah Lucchetti 

From the Library- New Materials

The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci fiction

Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay fiction

Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese fiction

Starlight by Richard Wagamese fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz fiction

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones fiction

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden fiction

Still missing: Season two DVD Boardwalk Empire

Enjoy your island library

Celine

Please Loan me (very-short-term) a Mouse/Keyboard….

So, in a moment of complete brain melt, I accidently disconnected my Bluetooth on my Mac desktop... Promptly losing my ability to turn it back on with my Bluetooth keyboard/mouse. (Insert facepalm here).

Does anyone have a wired mouse/keyboard I could borrow and bring right back?

You get to meet a genius in the exchange!!😂

Please text Jess @ 2503273860 if you are feeling like being my hero!

Wanted: Plants

Hello Neighbours,

We’re planting a new garden and looking to get some more plants. Before I go across, thought I’d check and see if anyone here has some they’d like to part with. Happy to dig them up ourselves too!

Mostly interested in perennials and shrubs but will check out just about anything!

Please email hollyberryhollow@gmail.com or text 250-416-9771