Soup's On Start-Up Meeting

Monday, September 15, 2pm in the Library at Forbes Hall

Join us as we plan the re-start of Soup’s On for the 2025-2026 season. 

All those interested in joining in, whether you’re a newcomer or not-so-newcomer, we’d love to have you join us.

Wednesdays through the “rainy” season of October through April, Soup’s On happens at Forbes Hall. We served an average of 60 people over 24 Wednesdays in the 2024-25 season.

Our needs list includes organizers and money counters, table and chair set-outers, table setting and service, dishwashers, bakers, bread-makers, soup makers, and clean-uppers.

If you can do any of these, please join us! 

The Soup’s On Team

From the Library

A Friend of the Library is available Saturday 10-1, Sunday 1-4, & Monday 10-1.

Enjoy,

Celine

Sea Life Centre: Hours over Labour Day Weekend

Open on Sunday & Monday, August 31 & Sept 1:

Drop in to the Sea Life Centre this weekend, located at the Telegraph Harbour Marina!

Saturday Aug 30: Closed

Sunday Aug 31: 9:00am - 3:00pm Drop-In Hours with Glorious Gloria

Monday Sep 1: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Drop-In Hours

Stop by to see our display and keep your eye out for new exciting critters this upcoming week. New additions include some fun vertebrates, including a new pipefish and a school of shiner perch!

Stay tuned for our updated Fall hours starting in September.

Thank you for the continued support!

The ThINC Team

Country Grocer Receipts Support Food Bank

A big thank you for continuing to save your Country Grocer receipts in support of the Harvest House food bank. Thetis islanders have been dedicated to this cause for countless years. The receipts add up and provide gift certificates for the food bank.

The receipt box is located at the post office boxes on the table next to Terry's stamp collection for cancer and the Island drop box. Thanks to Heather Gorrie for creating both boxes for us.

Anne-Marie

Goosey Gander Shop Open Saturday & Sunday 10am to 4pm

Thetis Island is home to many amazing and interesting people from all over the
world, so the Shop often has a fascinating variety of objects always coming in.

This week some Ostrich eggs from South Africa and Emu eggs from Australia arrived. We know Gooseys make big eggs, but these are whoppers!

Another world traveler brought in three 35mm cameras, and two Batiks from Bali also arrived. There’s a beautiful family sized picnic basket, an old Canadian cast iron frying pan, a Scottish bird watching book, an adorable kitty cat tea cozy, some teeny Taro cards with a book, a phone holder for a bike, a set of 50-year-old bright red Knott’s Berry Farm glasses, a quality Yorkville music stand, more pieces of brown Scandinavian pottery, a new men’s Roots leather wallet, and some 200-year-old collectible bottles including two ingenious old Codd bottles with the marble inside.

Come on by and have a look!
73 Pilkey Point Road

Thank you,

Nan Beals

Blue Cottage Bread

Open Saturday, 8:30am at Telegraph Harbour Marina.

Slow fermented, unbleached flour. Limited quantity.

Tracy

Bake Sale Plus Market

Today, Saturday, Aug. 30th at 
Thetis Island Pub and Marina at Dunfield Park,
"O'Pun" between (Irish time) Ten O'CLOCK until Two O'Clock.

See how many of these punny things you can find at the market:

Spring her egg roll, where Pi’s are squared, does hen eggs?, see a banana fritter, See da car fin, help the police and look for Herb and spies or Mat Loaf. Look for a pull, plumb, jambs, sheik and new dells. You may see a pro deuce at the veg tables. Relish the thought to meet Herb and Chaga TEE, or ban Anna raising loaves before she shouts Geez! Cake. No firing guns but you can fire saws. What is on the table? It’s our doe bred.

It may take a while to find all the items, but, after all, it is LABOUR DAY weekend.

Then, you can Chuckle late.

Yoga 9am Saturday @ Forbes Hall

Hello all,

Teaching slow flow Saturday at 9am, please bring your own mats, looking forward to seeing you!

Any questions contact me: kareneroff@gmail.com

Karen

Sunday Church

The "on screen" speaker this Sunday the 3st is Charlie Fordham.
Archived from May of 2020, The Sermon On the Mount.
An overview of Matthew Chapters 5, 6 and 7..

10 AM at the Community Centre, all are welcome.

Further info---Ernie 250-252-0144.

2026 Thetis Island Calendar Submissions

The Thetis Island Calendar will be produced once again!

For the 2026 edition, we’re looking for photos of native and naturalized flora and fauna, both aquatic and terrestrial, plus iconic geology.  However, as in the past, we welcome all photos of Thetis.  

Cut off for submissions is September 20, 2025.

Only photos 1.4 mb and larger will be considered, and submissions are limited to 8 photos per photographer. 

The top 14 images will be chosen for the calendar, with another 20 being chosen for the gallery at the hall (these may be used for notecards).  All selected images will be used with photographer’s credit included. 

Upon submission of your photograph, you are allowing TICA to use it for the mentioned purposes, and for editing to be done correcting for use and printing. 

The photographers of the chosen 34 photographs will be contacted that their photo has been chosen for either the calendar or the gallery.  

Photos do not need to be taken in 2025.

Please submit photos to info@forbeshall.ca by September 20, 2025. 

Thank you in advance for supporting this fundraiser with your photographs!   

The TICA Board

image: 2025 Calendar

Coastal Fire Weather Forecast for Weekend

SYNOPSIS:

For the southern zones, clouds and some light showers to start Thursday, breaking up in the afternoon. This will help drop temperatures by 1-3 degrees today. As for rain, it’s light showers at best and very patchy. An upper SW flow continues with consistent light to moderate winds. Strongest gusts will be in the Fraser Valley once again, with gusts maxing out around 25-30 km/h. As the trough continues to move north instability continues this afternoon and over the next couple of days. Thunderstorms look to develop through Manning Park and the Coastal Mountains again today and possibly on Vancouver Island around the Campbell River area. Any storms that do develop will have little to no precipitation with them so the risk of new starts is high as lightning will be dry..

OUTLOOK: Saturday to Monday

A trough of low pressure will bring clouds over a good portion of the Coastal Fire Center, helping drop temperatures to seasonal and increasing relative humidity (RH) values. On Saturday, the offshore low will start to move close to Vancouver Island and will help push in sub-tropical moisture as well as instability. This low along with the current trough basically become one feature. Storm potential increases with Vancouver Island as well as the Sunshine and North coasts seeing widespread storms Saturday night. These storms are expected to be accompanies by rain as they’ll be tapping into more sub-tropical moisture. Temperatures will see a downturn for the weekend and a rise in RH values. It will start drying and warming up to start next week.

NOTE FROM TIVFD

We are still in Extreme, but if all goes well precipitation-wise, we may be able to drop to HIGH on Monday. Keep checking the website, the ferry line Fire Board or e-Spokes for updates. For those of you wondering about the Smokey conditions, check out www.firesmoke.ca for the map of where the smoke is coming from, and when it drifts over us.

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

Recycling and Waste at Forbes Hall

As the organizing of recycling and waste at Forbes Hall continues to be a struggle, we have created clearer and more detailed instructions and signage. 

To aid users of the hall in disposing these items, a document has been prepared on how to deal with different materials. This will be included with all booking and rental agreements going forward. 

Instructions for Recycling, Returnables, Compost and Refuse

For everyday use, the number of waste receptacles has been reduced to one per room, with none provided for the assembly hall.  These are for waste only.  

The large recycling, waste, and returnables bins at the end of the main corridor all have updated signage, and some of the smaller ones throughout the building do, too.  Please follow these instructions and help us to do a better job in pre-sorting our recyclables, returnables and waste. 

Instructions for composting are on the bulletin boards, the beverage station and the main kitchen. All compost should be removed to the outdoor compost area daily. If you make it, take it.

There are bins on the north covered patio, one for waste and one for returnables. If you do not have access to inside the hall, please take your recycling home with you.

Note:

• A plastic bottle with snack wrappers pushed into it is no longer returnable and the snack wrappers no longer can be recycled.  When combined they become contaminated, therefore waste, and go to the landfill, unless a volunteer takes the time to get the wrapper out.  This was found in the landfill/waste bin, so theoretically was correctly disposed of, but going to the landfill unnecessarily. 
• Pulled weeds were put into the Returnables bin on the same patio.  While the weeds found were Tansy Ragwort (invasive/poisonous), and should not have gone into the compost, they should have gone into the Landfill/Waste bin, definitely not with returnable cans and bottles. 

These small actions take time to correct.  Each incorrect placement adds work to the volunteers who sort and dispose of the recycling, returnables and waste.

Please take the time to read signage and comply.  

Thanks

Ann Dickie

Facilities Co-ordinator, Forbes Hall Community Centre