Vitals Monitoring Clinic – Wednesday, April 5th at Forbes Hall

Every second Wednesday, a Vitals Monitoring Clinic is held at Forbes Hall in the Care Station, coinciding with Soup’s On.

Stop by the Care Station this Wednesday between 11 am and 1 pm to have your vital signs checked or to speak with community paramedic, Vinh Pham.

Forbes Hall Health Services Group

Wanted: Experienced Concrete Person

Looking for an experienced concrete person to hire. 

We need a 30’x50’ concrete pad for a Quonset hut. 

Please email, text or call Rod.

250-686-0136 text or call

Rod.wadel@icloud.com

Firewood for Sale

Rounds for sale, you pick up and self-load. Mix of fir and arbutus wood.

100 dollars per pick-up truck full. 

Mark at 778 881 3987

Garden Tools Wanted

If you have spare garden tools in good shape that you no longer need or would like to sell, please let me know. I’m looking for rakes, shovels, forks, hoes and wheelbarrows.

Contact Gary Geddes at 250-246-8176 or at gedworks@islandnet.com

Young Trees for Sale

$2.00 TREES

2 - SSI Oak: 6” -8”

$5.00 TREES

2 -Cypress: 24” – 36”

2 - Goji Berry: 24” – 30”

1 - Hazelnut 24”

1 - Heartnut: 5”

5 - Raspberry (Sourris):

3 - Rhubarb (Victoria)

3 - Laburnum (Golden Chain): 2” – 3”

$10.00 TREES

3 - Almond: 1’ – 4.5’

6 - Black Locust: 8” – 30”

3 - Catalpa: 9”. to 12”

4 - Gingko Biloba: 5” – 6”

9 - Monkey Puzzle Tree: 2” – 6

4 - Pistachio: 12” - 16”

Rod  

darsenau@gmail.com

eSPOKES Restart Notice

Thank you to all who have expressed an interest in continuing to receive your daily Thetis eSPOKES, a virtual noticeboard email. If you do not wish to continue to receive notices, please use the Unsubscribe in the footer at the end of this message.

Our previous mailing service refused to continue our mailings. The struggle has been to find a mailing service that will meet the needs of the Island. Currently, no daily mailing service is free. At some point, we will have to ask the TIRRA membership at a general meeting to vote on whether to pay the cost or close the email service.

Thetis eSPOKES is included in the TIRRA Communications Committee under Chair, Veronica Shelford:

https://thetisisland.net/tirra/tirra-office.html

Please be aware that although we are email only, we cannot prevent your posts from being displayed more widely. Please consider what personal information you include in your posts. 

Thanks to Ann Dickie at the Blog for all the posts and to Veronica Shelford at the Community Website for much help.

Please continue to send posts and communicate with us at: espokes@gmail.com . 

Your Thetis eSPOKES volunteers,

Claire Hess, Nancy Sinclair and Virginia Vitzthum

Rainfall Stats: March 2023

March 2023: 49.1 mm

March 2022: 89.2 mm

Average March: 90.7 mm

March 2023 YTD: 307.1 mm

March 2022 YTD: 340.7 mm

Average Year to Date: 368.0 mm

Keith

BC Ferries Employee Needs a Place

Good day anyone on beautiful Thetis Island,

My son is a 20 yr old man trying to get a job with BC Ferries, but he needs to be able to stay on the Island from time to time. We are working on getting a trailer, but he’ll need a place to put it, along with electricity and water hook ups?

Can anyone assist?

Best regards,

Geoff McNeill

Nanaimo, BC

604 365 1391

From the Library

A Friend of the Library will be available from 10-1 on Saturday.

Celine 

Yard Waste Caution

Thursday afternoon/early evening there were five serious brush fires reported to 911 in the Cowichan Valley, before 7 pm!  

One was described as the size of two football fields.  Yard waste burns that got away have been blamed for a few of these and the several that were reported on Wednesday.  Fire Permits are now available for April 1st for the month of April (www.thetisislandfire.ca) but we urge you to make sure you have water and tools on site, have the area cleared around the fire, and keep a close eye on your fire.  

Yard waste fires must be extinguished by 4 pm and the fire embers completely doused and cold to touch.  Don’t let the drizzle fool you…we are drying out quickly.

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck

Free Ever-bearing Strawberry Plants - Bare Root

I just culled my strawberry bed, and lots of babies that may not produce fruit this year, but you never know.  

Some older clumps, too. Bare root should be fine if not planted for a day or two, as I gave them a good soaking.

If interested in some or all, they are in a tray inside a bag, beside the address stake at 138 Sunrise Point Road.

Bring a bag if you only want a few. 

Please don't take the tray.   

Wendy

This Week at the Pub

Come check out our special:

Pork and sage meatloaf served with sour cream smashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and Gorgonzola gravy
Yum….

See you at the Pub.

Thetis Marina Resort Team.