Nic's Cafe

Nic's Café is now offering Chai Latté Mix

$10 for 1 L (comes in a reusable glass jar)

We can be reached at nicscafe@shaw.ca

sjoe.nic@telus.net or 250-246-2564

Stay safe, isolated and healthy

and always be kind

Nicole

Goats...just being goats...

Anais Gerber

Post Office - Holiday Hours

The Post Office will be closed on both Friday & Monday for the Easter Weekend.

Kevin,

Postmaster

Wanted: Plywood

I'm looking for 2.5 - 4'×8' sheets of 3/4" plywood for shelving. For the 1/2 sheet some scraps of 30" will work. 

Ralph Smith

250-766-2978

rsmith1960@gmail.com

Thank You

I just wanted to say a big "Thank you" to Carol Swann for the bar of soap I was lucky to find at the post office today!

Thank you!!

Carrie

Jollity & Habitat Farm Goats

Thank you for your phone calls and emails regarding wandering goats, but....the goats in question are not part of our herd. All our goats are happily residing in their fenced paddocks, and in fact, much too pregnant to be clambering anywhere. We are anxiously awaiting the first kids of the season any moment!

Follow the farm coop at instagram/habitat.farm to see cute baby goat photos soon.

Wanted to Rent...Chipper

Wanted to rent or hire a good quality chipper to deal with fuel load on property on Bella Vista Rd.

Likely only 2 hours work for a big one.  

Mostly branches 2 inches and under.

reply to dslade@telus.net

David Slade

Looking for a Book...

Hello,

I am in search of a copy of the book "Where the Crawdads sing" by Delia Owen for my next book club book. 

If anyone has a copy they could lend me please contact me by email at fmsutter@shaw.ca or call me at 250 613 8289. 

Thanks everyone. Stay safe and be well!

Michelle Sutter

Goats on the Trail

The goats have been dealt with.  

BCWS Burning Restrictions

As well as the Ministry of Environment and Provincial Health Ministry’s cancelling of category 2 and 3 fires due to increased pollution during the pandemic, here is the update from the B.C. Wildfire Service: 

Typically, human-caused fires are more common in the spring due to field and debris burning.  By enacting an earlier provincewide burning prohibition, the BC Wildfire Service anticipates a reduction in human-caused wildfires. This will minimize the need to deploy staff, which help to reduce their risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

TIVFD

CVRD News Release: Public Health Order Reminder

“Residents urged to stay close to home over the holiday weekend,”

https://www.cvrd.bc.ca/DocumentCenter/View/96727/New-Release---Public-Health-Order-Reminder

Regards,

Lynne

Lynne Smith

CVRD Area G Saltair/Gulf Islands Director

BC Ferries Update

Good day everyone,

Today’s update is primarily focused on the Transport Canada regulation announcement yesterday, as I know some of you had questions already concerning how it does/does not affect your route.  Thus, I wanted to get this update to you a little earlier than normal. 

1.    First, here is a link to what TC issued (a news release and associated backgrounder doc): 

https://www.tc.gc.ca/en/initiatives/covid-19-measures-updates-guidance-tc/covid-19-guidance-material-passenger-vessel-ferry-operators.html

and 

https://www.tc.gc.ca/en/initiatives/covid-19-measures-updates-guidance-tc/backgrounder-covid-19-safety-requirements-commercial-passenger-vessels-ferries.html

2.    Pertaining to the first part of the directive (50% passenger reduction OR implementing alternative practices to avoid spreading of virus), BC Ferries has already implement multiple practices to avoid spreading of COVID-19 to satisfy this direction. As it turns out, on a large majority of sailings across the system, utilization (ie. the number of passengers on board) is already below the 50% maximum level as determined by the license of the ship…simply by virtue of low customer demand. So both conditions are essentially in place for many sailings.

3.    The second part of the directive aims to ‘to provide guidance in conducting the health check and in detecting and managing ill passengers with suspected COVID-19’ (see Guideline Measures section early on). You can see they outline three requirements (notify passengers before boarding, make announcement (text provided by TC), and conduct health checks).

How are we following those three TC requirements?

-      Signage being produced with the ‘four questions’, and posted on approaches to applicable terminals.

-      Terminal/on board announcements will be made

-      Customers will be asked if they answered ‘yes’ to any of the four questions…and if so, they will be denied boarding.

NOTES:

a.    these TC requirements are only applicable for sailings longer than 30 minutes in duration. For the routes related to FACs, this includes Routes 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24 and 25.

b.    They are in effect as of 12 noon today and until June 30 as per this order

c.    This is why we are working as quickly as we can to get material (signage, posters, etc) and online information updated asap.

To help communicate what this regulation means and how it affects travel, we will be updating the ‘Travel Advisory’ tab (yellow tab at top of home page) and the COVID-19 webpage. We will include what measures we are doing, these four health check questions and sample imagery of signage.

To be clear, BC Ferries still has not been directed to confirm with customers as to whether they are essential travel and/or resident-only travel. Some media reporting on this TC directive have muddied the water a bit. So, we will not be asking customers ‘who they are/to prove they are essential travel’.

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Other info.

We are updating our Service Notice relating to the ‘Cargo’ sailings on the Duke Point-Tsawwassen route. To clarify, those sailings will be sailing under a reduced license limiting the number of passengers to a maximum of 85. Thus, the intent of those sailings is to provide priority to commercial vehicle customers first, then ‘essential traffic’ (health care workers, etc) will be allowed to board if space is still available, and finally…any other general traffic will be boarded is space still remains. So, although these are aimed at ensuring commercial traffic (groceries, health equipment, etc) have sailing options first, the other categories of traffic will be permitted if the license level has not been reached.

That’s it for today.

Regards,

Darin Guenette

Strategy & Community Engagement

British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.

T: 250-978-2385 C: 250-213-9253 Toll-free: 1-877-978-2385

Darin.guenette@bcferries.com

bcferries.com

Keith Rush 

Route 20 FAC