Reminder Mini Ferry Schedule Change Effective May 19, 2017

A reminder that the mini ferry schedule change starts this Friday May 19th.

Please click here to go to BC Ferries' website.

For a printable PDF version click here. 

Remember also to always check the bottom of the ferries website for the Dangerous Cargo schedule.

Paste-on new schedules will be available for the back of your phone next Wednesday May 24th. You may pick up a copy at the recycling center or the post office or from Veronica Shelford.  Please take only as many copies as you have phone books - we've printed enough for the books, but not more. 

Click here for one more printable version.

Keith Rush RPF Route 20 FAC

keithrush17@gmail.com

Extended! 10-2 Saturday

Reminder for Maria's Closet Sale (A Shopping Treat)

Friday May 19th at Maria’s Cottage at Pot of Gold

Call Nan for a shopping time 246-4944

Lawrence Valley Trail Opening May 20 & 21

Saturday, May 20th at 2:00PM is the Community Launch. 

Walk the trail with Ann & Bill Dickie.  Free to all (children accompanied by an adult).

There are still a few spots available for the birding tour with James Clowater on Sunday, May 21st from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m.. 

Contact Pat English puzzlnut@telus.net to book your tour - $35/person. 

No dogs for this weekend, please, and waterproof shoes are advisable.

ThINC Wish List for Nature House

Exciting news! The Porter family has generously offered ThINC a building at 'The Portal' (our current name for the former Camp Columbia) to use as a nature house in support of our summer nature education program. In collaboration with the Cowichan Land Trust, the Canada Summer Jobs program and the Thetis Island Community Fund, we've hired Danny Osborne, a 3rd year biology student from VIU to run the nature house and deliver activities and programs 3 days a week in July and August for the benefit of Thetis Islanders.

We've been busy cleaning and painting to get the nature house ready for the summer. With the help of Coastal Community Credit Union and a private donor, we've ordered a Seaquarium (salt water aquarium and touch tank) to enhance marine education. An islander has donated 5 boxes of natural history books for the beginnings of a nature library. We're collecting furniture and program materials to make the nature house a positive and enriching experience for children and adults alike.

If you have any of the following items you would be willing to donate or lend for the summer, please contact Ann at 250-246-8176 or email ThINC@thetisisland.net  and we'll arrange to pick them up.

Here's our wish list:

Leftover acrylic latex paint (preferably light bright colours - blues, greens yellows etc...)

Book shelves (4 1/2 ft high or less to fit under windows)

Nature related books

Comfortable reading chairs

Floor and desk lamps

Art and craft supplies

Microscopes

Binoculars

3 in 1 colour printer/scanner/copier

Magnifying glasses

Collecting nets and jars

Cork Bulletin board

Anything else you think might be useful

We will also need funds to purchase supplies, so if you'd like to contribute financially to this exciting community opportunity, you can donate, for a charitable tax receipt, online or by cheque through the Cowichan Community Land Trust (www.cowichanlandtrust.ca, click Donate Now and specify Thetis Island Nature Conservancy) or if you don't require a tax receipt, directly by cheque to the Thetis Island Nature Conservancy at Box 18-2, Thetis Island, V0R 2Y0.

THANK YOU! We hope to see you and your guests at the Nature House this summer!

The ThINC board

Post Office Computer Working Again

The computer for the post office is working again. All post office services are back to normal.  

Thank You,

Kevin, Postmaster

Maria's Closet Sale ~ by appointment

Friday May 19th at Maria's Cottage

(Pot of Gold) 73 Pilkey Point Road

My Mom has downsized so we have many items of her clothing back at her little house. Nice Brands include Orvis, Lands End, Coldwater Creek, National Geographic, etc. The clothing is in a rainbow of colours and prints in mostly large sizes and in near new condition. There are shells, turtlenecks, shirts, blouses, suits, jackets, coats, housecoats and a couple elegant evening outfits and dresses too, also some costume jewelry and scarves.

Because the Cottage is tiny and parking is limited, please call ahead for a time to come. We can comfortably fit four persons at a time and hope about a half hour of shopping time is workable. If a group of friends would like to come together that would be fun. We will start bookings for 10am.

250-246-4944

Thank you,

Nan Beals

Job Offering ~ Telegraph Harbour Marina

Marina Office and Customer Service Position available at Telegraph Harbour Marina for the 2017 Summer season.

Responsibilities in the store:

*Welcoming Customers/Customer Service

*Moorage Registration

*Serving Ice Cream/Specialty Coffee’s/Fresh Baked Pies

*Inventory/Restocking Shelves

*Cashier

*Light Garden Maintenance

*Store Cleaning & upkeep

*Wash House & Laundry room duties

Applications & or letters of interest can be sent to

sunny@telegraphharbour.com attention Tara or to P.O. Box 7-10, Thetis Island, B.C. V0R 2Y0

Thank you

Yard Waste Burn Permits Extended to May 22nd

If you didn’t get your yard waste burning finished in the past six and a half months, you will get one more week to finish it up for the season.  This cool, moist weather will continue until the May Long Weekend, (May 20, 21, 22) and the Fire Weather Forecast expects significant warming and drying by then, raising the Fire Hazard Danger quickly. 

If you already have a Yard Waste Permit that expires on May 15th, It is now extended to May 22nd automatically.  If you do not have a yard waste Fire Permit, please apply on-line at www.thetisislandfire.ca  for one.  YARD WASTE OPEN FIRE PERMITS WILL END ON MAY 22nd until the Fall.

Campfire Permits are valid until May 31st.  Please apply again for a June campfire permit at the end of this month.

Hecate Strait ~ Glass Sponge Reef ~ Live Stream

Starting May 12^th, the Glass Sponge Reef will be live-streamed through until May 23^rd.  Please click on the image to view.

Although glass sponges look like plants, they are actually animals and are the world’s oldest multi-cell organisms. The glass sponge was thought to have gone extinct 40 million years ago, but the animal was discovered in B.C. in 1987. Some of B.C.'s glass sea sponge reefs are thought to be 9,000 years old. (Neil McDaniel) 

Farewell Tea for Vivian & Gerry Smith

Please plan to join us for afternoon tea on Sunday, May 28th at Forbes Hall from 2:00 to 4:00 to say goodbye to our long-time friends, Vivian and Gerry Smith. They are moving back to England the beginning of June.

If you would like to contribute some goodies or fruit please contact Rita Springer, who recently bought Andy and Ann Keir’s place, at 403-560- 0591 or Lynn Hunter at 250-246- 2176.

Come prepared to share some special memories with Vivian and Gerry. We hope to see you there.

Lynn and Rita

BC Ferries News Release ~ Salish Orca Officially Begins Service on May 16th

Please click here to view the News Release. 

Ferry Schedule Changes

Good morning folks,

BC Ferries have been working on some revisions to our schedule to improve on time performance and simplify it.

Effective May 19th the Friday morning departure times will be adjusted; the 9:10 will become 9:15, the 10:45 will become 10:50, and in the early afternoon the 1:05 will depart at 1:20 PM. This 15 minute change in departure time will remain throughout the rest of the day, with the last ferry from Chemainus leaving at 10:15 PM.

At the same time, the early morning weekend times will now be the same as the other weekday times. In other words we now will have a Saturday to Thursday schedule, and a stand alone Friday schedule. To view these, please go to: http://www.bcferries.com/schedules/southern/chti-current.php

Additionally, effective June 1st Dangerous Cargo will run on alternating weeks throughout the year. We will be discussing the details of this change at our May 29th spring FAC meeting with BC Ferries personnel, which will be held on Penelakut Island.

Veronica Shelford will be ordering a new schedule paste-on for the back of our current phone book...To view this version please go to: http://thetisisland.net/ferry/ferry_schedule_19May2017.jpg

Keith Rush

Co-Chair Route 20 FAC

keithrush17@gmail.com

Ph: 250-416-0013

Cell: 250-732-2766