FREE Ping Pong Table

FREE Ping Pong Table (includes net)

Tom

250 246 1004

Extinguisher Clinic in AUGUST

Back by popular demand! The annual free fire extinguisher clinic will be held next month…August 13th (Sunday) at 2 pm at the fire hall. Have your home, boat and car extinguishers checked. We will remind you again at the end of July. TIVFD--

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck

Thetis Island Volunteer Fire Dept.

Canoe for Sale

16-foot fiberglass canoe for sale. $100.

Phone 250-246-2315 or email blawson@islandnet.com

Goosey Gander Shop Thank You

Thank you to all of you who brought such an amazing variety of wonderful and interesting items to sell and thank you to everyone who came to shop and have a look this weekend. Many items found new happy homes!

We’ll be open on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday 10 to 4 for the summer, so we’ll always be looking for more goods to keep the shopping fun and interesting. If you have something(s) you might not need anymore and would like to sell, and someone else would find useful, please do call or write for a convenient time to bring them over during the week.

You set the price you would like, and we log them in with a 25% commission for the shop, then we take your picture with them so that nothing is misplaced. Then when your item(s) are sold we log in the sale and pay you at month’s end.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hope to see you soon as a seller, or a shopper, or both :)

and Thank You again,

Nan Beals

250-246-4944

thegooseygandershop@gmail.com

73 Pilkey Point Road

Huge Shoutout to TIVFD

A huge shoutout to Jeannine, Chad, Dave, Marjan and Peter for their top-notch assistance to our visiting mother when she took a fall and broke her ankle yesterday. Transport to Duncan was swift and expert. She received surgery by dinner time and was in good spirits.

Ron and Eleanor

Motorcycle for Sale

One of my colleagues, the Denman Island Fire Chief, has retired and is selling his touring motorcycle. I said I would help him out by letting the aficionados on Thetis know about it: 2003 Honda ST1300

Immaculate condition with only 36,000 kilometers. Looking for a long-distance sport touring motorcycle? The price is $5,400 firm. Not suitable for beginner riders.

If you are interested, let me know and I will send you some technical details and some pictures. Jeannine.caldbeck@icloud.com

Local Hay?

Does anyone on the island have hay for sale? We need about 10 bales and local orchard grass hay would be just fine.

Thanks!

shirlnmike@hotmail.com

ThINC Nature House - Week 2 Events: July 12 - 16

This week's Nature House activities include:

Wednesday, July 12

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Herby-Essence - Blind Tea Tasting Activity at the PAG (all ages)

Thursday, July 13

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Wild Creatives: Hapa-Zome Printing at the Nature House (all ages)

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ThINC Tank: Screening of Island of the Sea Wolves - Episode 2: Summer (youth, adults)

Friday, July 14

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Young Naturalists: Dive Demo & Critter Collection at Telegraph Harbour (all ages welcome!)

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Expert Excursions: Soil Walk with Ian Ralston in Meadow Valley (all ages)

Saturday, July 15

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Seaquarium Drop-in at the Nature House

Sunday, July 16

10:00 am - 12:00 pm Harvest Hours at the PAG

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm S4: Global Climate (In)Justice with Eden Luymes 

For more details on these activities: www.thetisislandnatureconservancy.org/single-post/nature-house-week-2-events-july-12-16

If you are keen to participate in our Nature House program, sign up for a Nature House membership here: www.thetisislandnatureconservancy.org/get-involved

For an additional $20, you can become a member of ThINC, which helps to support our programs and projects.

For any questions you have about this summer's Nature House program, please get in touch with Eden at eden@thetisislandnatureconservancy.org

Celebration of Life for Catherine Korol

Bill Korol and the family of Catherine Korol would like to invite you to a celebration of life for Catherine on September 23, 2023. 

It will be held at Forbes Hall, 292 North Cove Road Thetis Island, BC from 2-3:30 p.m. There will be opportunity for everyone to share memories of Catherine and visit together. 

We plan on serving tea, coffee and light snacks. 

For those coming by ferry, you are more than welcome to come directly to the Hall. The ferry leaves Chemainus at 12:30 and arrives at Thetis Island at 1:20. Following the gathering, there is a ferry leaving Thetis Island at 4:45 which arrives at Chemainus at 5:20 p.m.

Please email susan.korolunger@gmail.com if you have any questions.

A Summer Problem

Heat and no/less water. An approach on how to solve or at least make it more bearable.

The issue of water, cooling and air conditioning.

Are there interested islanders who like to join/try to work on a solution ?? 

Water....made me thinking after picking up my sprinkler from the TIVFD.

Freshwater or ground water (for drinking/watering plants/store water - wild fire protection) or a system for cooling/freezing/air conditioning seem to be an increasing issue in the future. In the winter we have water and don't need cooling - in the summer water is in high demand and we have heat and no or little rain for month. The main problem is and will be the amount of energy needed to achieve all of water generating/cooling. And as more high tech and complicate it get as more difficult and expensive it is to use a system/setup for the average person. I could continue now talking maybe wait for decades that a solution pops up - where as maybe for me there are not so many decades left!?!  OR I just start and do something. Since I am always up for a challenge - I am doing. And if for me if a solution doesn't work the first time than it has to be adjusted till it works!!

Now learning from history - as so often there is already a useful approach. There is a actually long forgotten way by just using the sun as energy source - a way I always wanted to try but never did. Now it seems right for me to do and get started and time to do it is not really the issue anymore. 

Invented by Otto H Mohr in California 1938 was the solar operated fridge/cooler - working after the Joule-Thompson effect. It never really went in production because it wasn't interesting enough for the big industry making money - like so many useful solutions. It is a closed cycle with NO mechanical or electric parts used just the sun as energy source. But don't worry it is not a nonsense perpetual motion machine. Please feel free to search the internet for solar fridge Otto H Mohr in California 1938. 

Like every fridge/freezer/air conditioner a coolant is compressed and when it is expanded again - it freezes/cools. Just Physics! Now with the solar operated Joule-Thompson effect the compression is done by heating/vaporizing a liquid coolant with sun light instead of using a compressor to create pressure like in every fridge/freezer. Now I would use CO2 instead of Ammonia or Freon as coolant and then expand it through a small nozzle to get the same effect. When the sun is not available the CO2 will condensate and get liquid again to start over with the next sun. The process slows down without sun, and it will not run at night!! For me that is perfectly fine. This is a simple way to cool air (fridge/freezer/air conditioner) or even produce water by condensation just the humidity of air. Please have a look at my sketch to produce water from condensing air humidity(... like put an open fridge outdoor). It is nothing new just combined different. It will not generate m3 of water a day, but it will run continuously - little by little when the sun is shining. For air conditioning or fridge/freezer the cooling part would be in a box/old fridge or inside the building. 

But to make it clear I am absolutely not interested to run a business or making money or sell anything. The system should be available for everyone. It will be simple, easy to assemble and free for everyone and everyone should be able to just buy the parts online or in a hardware store. But operating at own risk!! No warranty!! There are no dangerous parts at all. Worst cast - maybe wrong assembly - just a little leaking CO2.

So, if there is anyone who like to join and is up for this unusual approach to build it - not scared to fail with the first trials?!?  I start now. And sorry I will start slowly - since everyone who knows me - I have a few other projects on the side too.  :)

But the next summer comes for sure and better start slowly now as talking and do nothing!!

Thanks,

Matthias

contact info >> please check Thetis phone book - there is only one Matthias I guess :)

Link to more information...

ThINC Seeking Clipboards!

If anyone has any clipboards that require rehoming, please let me know at charlotte@thetisislandnatureconservancy.org.
ThINC's stash appears to be diminishing and could use a recharge!

Thanks,
Charlotte

Bicycle Loan

We are looking for a ladies’ bicycle to borrow for the week of July 13th. If anyone can help us out our guest would be most appreciative. Can pay if required.

Thanks in advance.

Richard and Tess
250 245 0566