Summer on Cufra

Steve Frankel

Potluck Dinner & Musical Jam Session on Hunters' Beach ~ July 4th

On the same celebration of Gwen theme, there will be a second event on July 4th.

Bring your instruments...bring your tents and if you'd like to contribute to the potluck or need more details, please email Cat at ilovesprocket@outlook.com to let us know what you would like to bring.

The jam session starts whenever the musicians want to play and dinner will be about 6 p.m.

Gwen was such a beautiful person.

Please join us to celebrate her memory :)

Canada Day Sailpast ~ July 1st

In honour of everything that was fun and fabulous about Gwen Hunter, we would like you all to know that the Canada Day sail past and water balloon fight is on!

Fill your balloons,get your boat and crew out there and let's have some fun!

We're leaving Thetis Island Marina at around 11 a.m. and as for a gathering afterwards, we will see where the wind takes us!

Cat Fielding

Eggs for our Broody Hens?

Wondering if anyone on the island has some fertilized eggs we could put under our broody hens?  Our rooster is gone but the ladies have decided they don't need him.

They are bantams but could hatch any size egg.

Hoping to get some in the next couple days, otherwise I have a source on VI.

Thanks,

McClellans

250-246-9717

Fresh from jollity FARM

Open Wednesdays & Saturdays 9:30 am to 1:30pm

Final spring 2 for 1 sale

+ new colourful Perennials, ground cover, sedums and unique annuals

+ more of your favourite hot pink and lime green petunias

+ heirloom tomato starts 

Organically Grown Produce

Peas (x 2 varieties)

Salad Greens

Hakurei Turnips

Bountiful Spinach

+ Handmade Organic Sourdough Bread

From the Library

Missing

Madmen season 1 ( I don't want to have to buy it again)

The Sound and the Furry by Spencer Quinn

The Diamond Age  by Neal Stephensen (second in a series)

The Harem Midwife by Roberta Rich

Thank you to Doreen Lilley for planning the Friends of the Library schedule for so many years.  Our library would not be what is is if not for the continued commitment of Doreen and the Friends.  Doreen is retiring from this important role.  Is anyone interested in taking on this vital library role? 

The annual Book and Bake Sale fundraiser for the library is August 1.  If you are interested in helping with this activity, let me know.

Your local librarian,

Celine  246-4349

valestrands@gmail.com

Gone ~ Free Cabinets

We are taking apart our old kitchen built maybe in the 50’s, anyone wanting some cupboards (uppers) and drawer stacks (base, lined with tin) please feel free to contact us for pictures or come visit us at 24 B Bella Vista..

these are “retro”.. and clean..

Suitable for a shop or outdoor kitchen..Very heavy and solid.  Plywood.

 

Richard or Tess.. 250 246-2529  FREEEEEEEE...

SOLD -Miter Saw for Sale

RYOBI 10 in. Electric Compound Miter Saw. New, never used. $50

Dee 250-246-9770 or donella123@aol.com

News Release - Help Save Fairyslipper Forest on Thetis Island

Click here to view the news release regarding a campaign underway to create the first nature reserve on Thetis Island – Fairyslipper Forest Nature Reserve on Burchell Hill. 

Media Contacts:

Jennifer Eliason, Manager 
Islands Trust Fund    
250-405-5191
email 

Ann Eriksson

Thetis Island Nature Conservancy 

250-246-8176 email

 

BBQ's for Sale

1. 2 year old Charbroil Gourmet Tru Infrared BBQ with 3 elements and a side burner. It requires a new starter. No cover. $60 or best offer.

2. 6 year old Fiesta Dynasty BBQ in good working order. Some rust on racks. Comes with a BBQ cover. $25

Don
250-246-4291

Some views of yesteryears...

This is the beach in front of Capernwray prior to “the great storm” in the early 1970’s. The storm removed almost all of the fence, reshaped the waterfront, and washed away the bottom of the old access road to the beach, which is in the foreground of the photo. The remains of the road form the footpath by the BC Ferries crew parking. For many years, the Department of Highways (as it was then called) used this road to haul gravel and shell from the midden to surface the roads on Thetis. Prior to paving in the 1960’s, the roads were a pale off-white because of all the shells.

This old house was on the north side of Clam Bay Road, in the early 1960’s, now Swain’s property. This was a house that was converted to be the main lodge for Hutch's Cove Resort that included the present Swain, McDaniel, Lamb, Rees, and Smirl properties. The resort had this lodge and two duplex cabins, plus a wagon shed, on the north side of the road, and an owner’s home, a British American Oil fuel dealership, and a general store on the south side of the road on the McDaniel property. There was a large dock in front of the store.

This was the view from what is now Gerry Taft’s Lot 48 on Harbour Road, looking toward the present site of Telegraph Harbour Marina. The photo was taken between when Al Higgins’ sawmill left the site, and when the Hunter family built the marina in the 50's. The large power boat looks to be the Lazy Gal, which belonged to the Dueck family of Vancouver. Two things to note are that this was taken mid-summer and there are no boats that belong to Thetis, and only two pleasure boats in the harbour. Also how clear some of the Penelakut shore is, as there was a house and yard there not many years before the photo was taken.

A postcard from the 60's ~ oriented a little farther north ~ a big change in not many years.

"Wonderful pictures! Would love to see more." ~ Pat English

"I agree with Pat English, would love to see more. How about a book, Ann??" ~ Gloria Taylor

Ride to Nanaimo?

My name is Emma, and I just arrived yesterday to Thetis Island. I am WOOFFing at Jollity farm with Elisabeth and Noah, and was wondering if anyone is heading to Nanaimo by ferry/car next Saturday (the 13th) or Sunday (June 14) ? I am going to visit a friend on Bowen Island and know that it is difficult to get from Chemainus to Nanaimo without a car and would be willing to split the ferry cost with someone who has one.

If so, please email me silverthornee@gmail.com or call Jollity Farm, or my cell 905 379 7129.

Thank you very much! Emma