Islands Trust Wants Your Ideas for an Upcoming Virtual Speaker Series!

Islands Trust is planning to host a speaker series on stewardship education. We want your help to narrow down the topics.

By filling out this two-minute questionnaire, you can help Islands Trust's Trust Programs Committee decide which ideas will become featured in the speaker series.

Fill out the questionnaire -
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/stewardshipeducation

Islands Trust staff

Capernwray Ferry Schedule: September 2023 thru April 2024

Link: Sept/23 - Apr/24

Next Meeting of The Thetis Local Trust - September 5, 2023

You are invited to the next Regular Business meeting of the Thetis Island Local Trust Committee which will be held in person at the Forbes Hall Community Centre. Go to https://islandstrust.bc.ca/event/thetis-ltc-regular-meeting-3/ in the Meetings and Events section of the Islands Trust website for a link to the live stream or to see the meeting agenda.

This meeting will be live streamed, recorded and posted to the Islands Trust website.

Meeting Type: Regular Business Meeting

Date: September 5, 2023
Time: 9:30 AM
Location: Forbes Hall Community Centre - Multipurpose Room
292 North Cove Road, Thetis Island

Thanks,

Wil Cottingham

Office Administrative Assistant

Islands Trust
700 North Road | Gabriola BC V0R 1X3

T 250-247-2063 | islandstrust.bc.ca

You can also reach us toll-free via Service BC 1-800-663-7867 | 604-660-2421

Audree Rees – August 31, 1926 – August 27, 2023

Audree Rees, wife of Pete Rees who passed away in March of 2022. Audree was an expert sailor, a pioneering woman and long-term resident of Thetis Island, Clam Bay Road. She passed away August 27th , 2023 at The Hamlets in Duncan, BC. A celebration of life will be held at Forbes Hall at a date to be announced. A fuller story of her life will be included in the next Quarterly. We hope Thetis Island residents will take a moment to think of Audree and Pete. They surely loved their life on Thetis Island.

Jerry Gildemeester

Res: 604.222.1126
Cell-imessage: 604.377.5052

Nash Trailer for Sale

2009 Nash Trailer 21 ft with all the bells and whistles. Always been under cover. Phone for details. Best Offer takes it, and you can drive it away! On Thetis. 

Please call 250 246 4546. Susan and Ed

Thetis Island Marina and Pub

Proudly presents this Saturday September 2nd at 7pm
Live music
AIR B&B
W/ Branden Dame and Benito
It will be so much fun.
See you on Saturday.

Thetis Marina Resort team.

Rural Islands Economic Partnership (RIEP): Survey

RIEP is asking island and coastal community residents who volunteer, have a business or a job on a rural island to take a short survey about the impacts and opportunities related to economic activity on BC's rural islands:

www.riep.ca/impact

Survey is open until Sep 22! 

WHY THEY'RE DOING IT

Your feedback can help us all learn more about on-island businesses, their activities and practices, and the support they need to adapt to the future changes in the region.  

WHAT THEY'LL DO WITH THE RESULTS

Once the research is complete, RIEP will deliver a full report to the provincial government, along with recommendations on funding, programs, and other resources needed by BC’s rural island and coastal community businesses.

WHY IT MATTERS

Based on these recommendations, RIEP hopes to secure new funds to bring the recommendations with the most ‘impact potential’ to BC’s rural islands…and to be part of the change we want to see in the world!

ruralislandspartnership.ca/

Colin Stein

Community Engagement & Communications Coordinator

FAC/BC Ferries: MV Kuper Refit Dates

The Kuper will be going in for refit from October 11th to December 9th, 2023. The last refit was October to December of 2018. 

The replacement vessel will once again be the Kahloke. BC Ferries has indicated that the maximum number of cars the Kahloke can carry is 23.  Since the Kahloke was last on this route, in 2018, Transport Canada has significantly downgraded its carrying capacity from 155 tonnes to 88 tonnes. 

BC Ferries fleet scheduling group have been working on a revised schedule for the two months that the Kuper is in refit.

More information to follow as we learn more of the details...

Keith Rush 

Route 20 Ferry Advisory Committee 

We're Not Out Of The Woods Yet!

The 4.3mm of rainfall during the thunderstorm overnight Tuesday is not enough for us to open up the restrictions to High Hazard Activities yet. We need two more days at least pf this wonderful damp, cool weather.

At 2 am, in the middle of the downpours, a lightning strike started a fire in North Oyster near Brenton Page Road and the TCH, and the several fire departments that responded did not clear the bushfire until 4 pm on Tuesday. Fires were started all around the Cowichan Valley by lightning.

We are lucky to have been missed. However, if you had insomnia and were watching the light show all night and saw a strike anywhere on Thetis, please let us know and we will monitor the area.

We will let you know when we can drop down to HIGH HAZARD and you can start chainsawing, mowing, milling again.

Thanks for keeping vigilant. Let’s hope we have rounded the corner on hot, dry weather for this terrible wildfire season.

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck

Fire Weather Forecast Looking Better

OUTLOOK: Thursday to Saturday: On Thursday the next upper trough continues down to the Lower Mainland splitting apart as it goes. Conditions will be mainly cloudy, cool with scattered showers for most of the south. Risk of thundershowers over the southern mainland. Winds will be light W-SW inflow (but lighter than Wednesday)Friday and Saturday will be mainly sunny and warmer (but not hot) as an east-west ridge axis from the Gulf of Alaska works it way down to Vancouver Island. Pressure gradients shift and winds will become light morning N-NE outflow alternating with light afternoon NW inflow. A risk of lightning continues over Manning Park and the east side of the southern Coast Range for Friday afternoon; no lightning anywhere on Saturday. Potential for visibilities to degrade with smoke drift from the Interior.

TIVFD

Missing from Forbes Hall...

Therapists Stool...

Yesterday, Tuesday, the Nurse Practitioner arrived to work to find her therapists stool missing from the Care Station.

It was there last Tuesday, August 22^nd. A full search was done by a volunteer, indoors and out. If anyone has knowledge of its whereabouts, please contact info@forbeshall.ca immediately. It may have been taken off-site innocently however it is used weekly and is needed.

Plums...

Over the weekend, someone picked most of the plums from the large plum tree at Forbes Hall. The fencing was opened, plums taken and fencing left ajar.

There were some community plans for these plums which will no longer happen.

Please remember that if something does not belong to you, ask before removing, taking or using.

Thanks

TICA Board

Forbes Hall Community Centre

Bob Burgess

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of friend and former Thetis Islander Bob Burgess. He passed away peacefully in Sidney this past weekend. Bob lived out on Pilkey Point for a number of years with his wife Jean Tannahill. He is survived by his two sons Brady and Scott, stepchildren Camplin, Kate and Kennedy. Bob was an entrepreneur having been an early developer of rainwater catchment systems on the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island. He loved sailing, was a kind, mellow and cultured man. 

Please contact Suzanne Sarioglu 250-246-9965 if you would like to extend your condolences to the family.