For Sale

• 25gal/135psi compressor - $50.00
• 2016 - Dandy Fridge - all fridge, no freezer/energy star/designer/ss/blk - 11 cubic foot. Quiet and works well, I just bought a smaller fridge freezer style - $400.

Huy ch q’a

Doug Fenton.  250.804.6480

Long Weekend Provisions @ Jollity Farm

Open Saturday 10am to 2pm

Fresh harvest:
Strawberries
Asparagus
Salad greens
Kale
Beets
Herbs
Rhubarb
Cherry tomatoes
San marzano tomatoes
Mini cukes

Other treats:
Free Range Eggs
Dumplings - Vegan, New, Triple Mushroom Vegan, Chicken Lemongrass
Kombucha - Botanical Pear or Citrus Ginger
Local ice cream and Kula Pops
Sausages - range of flavours

Select Perennials and 4" Flowers.

With thanks,

Jollity Farmers

Another Trip to Apple Press

Once again wondering if anyone is going to Duncan soon (Friday or Saturday), and can stop by Apple Press at 430 Trans Canada Hwy. They accidentally put part of someone else's order in with our Visitors' Guides, so if it's easy to do, it would be nice to get it back to them. Let me know, and I'll get it to you - just two very small boxes of business cards. If not, I'll mail it back.

veronicashelford@gmail.com 250-701-9336

Flower Starts for Sale this Weekend @ Jollity Farm

If you are looking to fill out some spots in your garden ,we’ve got a limited number of organic flower starts to sell! 

Please email by Friday 4pm to hold for pick up at this Saturdays market: aimee.vand@gmail.com

Hardy perennials: Achillia (Yarrow - mixed colours)

                           Black eyed Susans (tall variety)

Colourful annuals: Chinese Aster (beautiful mixed pastels)

                             Safflower (striking orange blooms) 

                              Zinnia (mixed colours and sizes)

                              Tall snap dragons (rainbow mix)

Tonight at Telegraph Harbour: Dinner with Chef 240Gordy, The Piano Man

Our second summer season is here and we feel like setting the stage (Open Mike) for all of you to come down and celebrate with us. Enjoy a Baron of Beef with au jus, Bun and Coleslaw, just $20.00 (vegetarian option available) Let's kick the summer off!!! Bring along your instruments or sing along. Tap your feet or sample our new Foothills Ice Cream. Thank you to this wonderful, welcoming community for our first year! Our second is here!!!   Today!!! Thursday, May16th  Times: Happy Hour 4-5 serving dinner by 5:30 and music all evening.

Reminder: Ping Pong on Thursday

Come join us at Forbes Hall for ping pong Thursday nights from 7:00 pm till we get tired or 9:00 pm whichever comes first…

Ping Pong Team

Become a Citizen Scientist with the BC Annual Bat Count

May 15, 2024 Thetis Island, BC. The BC Community Bat Program is calling for volunteers to get involved in the BC Annual Bat Count.  Starting June 1st, bat biologists and volunteers will be enjoying late nights, counting bats at maternity roosts throughout the province. “Female bats roost together in summer and raise their young in maternity colonies,” says Rob Welsh, Thetis Island coordinator for the BC Community Bat Program. “They generally only have one pup per female in June.” The males do not help with raising the young and usually roost by themselves in large trees, rock cliffs, boulder fields, or barns and buildings. The Annual Bat Count involves sitting outside a bat maternity roost at sunset, and for an hour, counting all the bats that come out of that roost. “The maternity roosts that we count are in buildings and bat boxes.” says Welsh. Last year, volunteers conducted 888 bat counts at 274 different maternity roost sites across the province. “The data collected is really important as it helps us know how the bat populations are doing in BC,” says Welsh. “We usually do 4 bat counts at every roost site – two in June to count just the females and two more starting mid-July when the pups are learning to fly.”   Begun in 2012, the Annual Bat Count is the only long-term monitoring program focussed on bat summer roosts in BC. The counts help biologists monitor bat populations and track impacts to or recovery of species. If populations decline, it could indicate impacts from white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fungal disease that has decimated bat populations in eastern Canada and USA. The fungus that causes WNS was detected in 2022 in the Grand Forks region of BC, but WNS itself has not been detected yet in BC.   “A large number of the roost site we count, house Little Brown Myotis and Yuma Myotis, both of which are susceptible to white-nose syndrome,” says Welsh.   Bats in BC are key predators of many night-flying insects. They are essential parts of BC’s ecosystems and provide billions of dollars of economic benefit by helping control agricultural, forest, and urban pests. Please report a bat colony or sign up to help with bat counts by contacting Rob Welsh - rmwelsh@telus.net, or 250-246-1547. In partnership with the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, the BC Community Bat Program provides information and promotes local stewardship and citizen science. The program runs thanks to funding from the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, Forest Enhancement Society of BC, the Habitat Stewardship Program, and many regional partners including ThINC and the Islands Trust Conservancy. You can find out more about the BC Community Bat Program and options for helping local bat populations at www.bcbats.ca .

TIVFD Notice of Live Fire Exercise Today Wednesday May 15th

The Thetis Island Volunteer fire department will be conducting a live fire exercise at the Fire Hall between 7:00 pm and 9:00pm Wednesday May the 15th You may notice a column of smoke or smell smoke depending on the direction of the wind in the area of the fire Hall. Please do not call the non-emergency line at the hall or 911. The department will be monitoring for any other potential fires in the area not related to our training and will respond accordingly. Thank you, Deputy Chief Luckham

Telegraph Harbour Marina would like to invite you to our Opening Season Special!!!

Baron of Beef, Bun and au jus, coleslaw   $20.00 Vegetarian option available. Live Music & Open Mike Night. Come one, come all and celebrate the summer start up!!! Complimentary beverages available, coffee, tea and lemonade. Sample our crafted in Western Canada, Foothills Ice Cream. Thursday, May16th Times: Happy Hour 4-5 serving dinner by 5:30

Habitat for Humanity Pop-Up Donation Drop Event

Help support local affordable housing projects and waste reduction this spring by attending a Habitat for Humanity Pop-Up Donation Drop event!

Donate your new or gently-used building materials or clean, good-working condition appliances and home décor to Bings Creek Recycling Centre from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 18^th.

For a complete list of accepted materials, visit: https://www.habitatmvi.org/restore/donate-household-goods/

Lynne Smith

Coastal Fire Centre to Enact a Category 2 and a Category 3 Open Fire Prohibition

Thetis Island is moving to the Category 2(Yard Waste) and Category 3 fire ban on May 15th (Wednesday)

The Province is moving to the prohibition 36 hours later.

Link to full information PDF here. 

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck
Thetis Island Vol. Fire Dept.

Pick up of Phone Book Proof

If anyone is, or going to be, in Victoria in the next few days, could they swing by 911 Fort Street (Island Blue/Fotoprint) to pick up the proofs of the new phone book?

Just two books, not boxes yet :-) 

If you can, please let me know and I'll alert the people there.

Thanks in advance!- 

Veronica   

veronicashelford@gmail.com  250-246-1509 or 250-701-9336