Minutes: Thetis Community Assembly April 15, 2024

Here are the minutes of the recent Thetis Community Assembly, and the Indigenous Working Group Update.

The next meeting of the assembly will be held in September 2024, date not yet set.

Ann Dickie

Co-facilitator, TCA

Minutes TCA April 15, 2024

Indigenous Working Group Update 

Neighbours Helping Neighbours Repair Fair Reminder

June 1st - 10am to 2pm

Forbes Hall inside and out

Lunch (for purchase) will be available as well as snacks and coffee.

Participants will feature a variety of activities: minor fixes, assessments, teaching, and demonstrations. For items such as home repair we are arranging for some experienced building and renovation persons to provide ideas and advise.

We are also looking at providing a range of reuse ideas and would love to display your creativity.

The number of participants and categories continues to grow, but if you have a service or skill that you think fits the theme, please contact Vicki or David.

David Reay davidreay@telus.net
Vicki Walker 250-246-9126

The People’s Apothecary Garden - Plant of the Week #6 – Motherwort

This lovely sounding medicinal plant is a massive mint (from the mint family, but definitely not of the chocolate mint variety!) is known by many herbalists as one of the best for “gladdening and strengthening the heart”. It’s quite a gnarly fellow, so don’t go pushing it around or you will get a few prickles in return!

To learn more about its medicinal uses (and for pictures), see: 

https://www.thetisislandnatureconservancy.org/single-post/plant-of-the-week

Community Climate Resilience (CCR) is Meeting Tuesday the 7th of May, 5-7p at the Hall

Last monthly meeting till September.

The Repair Fair is coming up on the 1st of June. Drop by if interested in lending a hand on the day!

6-7p. Discussion of grey water and other water-conserving strategies that members have adopted.

If you have experience to share or want to hear what others are doing, please join us.
To contact CCR or to join the mailing list:
ccr@thetisisland.net

Remembering small friends, as they go into dormancy for the dry season:
"The beauty of mosses in a temperate rain forest is much more than visual, they play a vital role in creating it...Like pillowy sandbags set in the way of a river, clumps of moss slow the passage of rain down the trunk of a tree. As water flows over mosses, much of it is absorbed into the tiny capillary spaces of the clump. Water is held in tapered leaf tips, funnelled into tiny drainpipes to the concave basins at the base of every leaf. Even the dead portions of the colony, the old leaves and tangled rhizoids, can trap moisture... In a mossy cloud forest in Costa Rica the mosses absorbed 50,000 liters of water per hectare of forest in a single rainfall. It's easy to see how flooding follows quickly on the heels of deforestation. Long after the rain has gone the mossy tree trunks remain saturated and slowly release last week's rain...In addition, the cell walls of mosses are rich in pectin, the same water-binding compound that thickens strawberries into jam. The pectin enables mosses to absorb water vapor directly from the atmosphere. Even without rainfall, the canopy mosses collect water and slowly drip it to the ground, keeping the soil moist for the growth of trees, which in turn sustain the mosses."

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Community Climate Resilience Group

Cat Looking for Home

I have a friend who needs to find an indoor/outdoor home for a gorgeous black/white tuxedo cat named Cheeto. He is 6 yr old, neutered, used to other cats, and a plus for Thetis…is an accomplished rodent hunter. Cheeto’s family recently moved to Victoria where he is restricted to the indoors only, and he is miserable.

If you have room for him, please either contact me at seaspray@telus.net or contact Cheeto’s owner directly at rmtoste@gmail.com

Carol

For Sale - New or Hardly Used

Keeper Ratcheting cargo bar $25
1 7/8” Tow ball $5
Tow ball mount with Pin 2” drop $20
Tow ball mount Class III 5¼” drop $25
New Torin Big Red Jack stands 3 Ton 11¼ - 16¾” $25
New 500AMP Battery Booster cables, 9ft $10
New Oatley 26” Hot Water Heater pan $15

John G
Tel 250 246 6560
Email trolls13@telus.net

For Sale

Nintendo Wii. Controller. And games.
$65.00
Chris F
Text 2502520699

Thank You

Thank you to our incredible team of first responders. How lucky are we on this island.

We have new baby islander.

Kjell and Celine, grandparents

Thanks to All Who Voted

I was so surprised by the number of you who came out and voted. It was truly a community driven election. Thank you all.

Thank you to Fred, Dixon, and Ian for putting their names forward.

As a newly elected Trustee I will work hard on behalf of everyone to maintain and support the excellent Volunteer Fire Department and First Responders here on Thetis.

Thank you again,
Michelle Sutter 

Pickup from Apple Press in Duncan

The print proof of the Visitors' Guide is expected to be ready for pickup any time this coming Tuesday (the 7th).

If anyone is in Duncan that day and can spare the time to swing by and get it for us, that would be very much appreciated. The address is 430 Trans Canada Hwy, just north of Coronation on the east side of the highway. It might even be ready later Monday afternoon (they're open 'til 5). Their phone number is 250.732.8919 if you were over there Monday and felt like trying.

Let me know and thank you!
veronicashelford@gmail.com
250-246-1509

Summer Market is Coming!

The first Summer Market of the year will be May 18th at the head of Telegraph Harbour.

We have new vendors for you to check out, but we always have room for more. Why not join us? You can do the whole summer season, or just a day here and there.

For more information, contact Chris Pegg at cpegg@telus.net

Scrap Vehicle Pickup

Hi, does anyone on the island have a scrap vehicle(s) they’d like picked up? 

We have someone coming to move a trailer for us this week, and he also happens to be a scrap hauler. He’d be more than happy to take away a vehicle or two while he’s here.

Please send a text to 250-416-9771 or email ellen.hrad@icloud.com