Dangerous Goods

There is DG to Thetis this Thursday.

Cheers,
Sharon

Reminder for Wednesday Push-In Event

This is a reminder that at NOON on WEDNESDAY your Fire Department invites you to participate in the traditional PUSH-IN ceremony of our new fire engine. This will be the first time the new Engine 1 will enter its new home and start its 25-year service to the community. We will be serving hot dogs after the short ceremony.

So, it’s out with the old, and In with the new!  

Come and celebrate with us.

Fire Chief J. Caldbeck
Thetis Island Vol. Fire Dept

Sea Life Centre Closed until Saturday

It's time to clean the seaquarium and get ready to welcome some new critters to the Sea Life Centre, which will be closed from Tuesday to Friday. We expect to be open on Saturday as usual from 11 - 3.

The ThINC Summer Team

Please, Only Beverage Containers at the Returnables Depot

Our volunteer sorters at the Returnables Depot have been dealing with all sorts of garbage, tin food cans, cardboard, and glass food jars, including 10 bags stuffed behind the shipping container full of garbage and other items, some returnable some not.

Please be kind to our hardworking volunteers and bring only beverage containers to the Depot.

Thank you,
The ThINC Board

Looking for Kids' Pool

Does anyone have a toddlers kids pool they would like to get rid of?
Lynda Poirier 250-246-4504

Aperativo at the Cafe, Telegraph Harbour Marina

Come join us for a late afternoon/early evening glass of wine or beer paired with your choice of dip or meat/cheese board! Served Tuesday to Thursdays 4:30-7:30

Dip of the Week - $11.69
Mahammara

Moroccan Style Olives

Gourmet Meat Board - $15.69
Copa
Fennel Salami
Mortadella

Gourmet Cheese Board - $15.69
Don Wine Goat
Manchego
Gruyere

See you soon!
THM Staff

Canada Day Pancake Breakfast

Wednesday, July 1st at Forbes Hall

CVRD Fireworks Ban

July 1 – Fireworks – All CVRD Electoral Areas

Fireworks permits are not being issued by the CVRD for July 1, Canada Day as there is a Coastal Fire Centre ban on category 2 and category 3 fires. Area of jurisdiction is all CVRD Electoral Areas.

Considering the drought conditions and risk of wildfires in the Cowichan region, the CVRD encourages celebrating responsibly and enjoying your Canada Day with alternative party items such as laser shows, or other non-flammable lights.

Coastal Fire Centre Ban information: https://ow.ly/ioQZ50ZeIU7

Thetis Island Vol. Fire Dept.

Free Range Eggs for Sale

$7 a dozen cash or e-transfer

Contact Rosaline (250) 252-8455
And I will put them at the end of the driveway in an icebox 404 Kenwood Rd.

For Sale: E-bike - 2019 Bitrix Stunner

Asking - $1800.00.

·       5sp

·       Light, mirror, solid rear rack.

·       Very low kms - 247 Kms

·       Batt - 48V16AH with smart charger - midsized batt. 

·       Selling due to shoulder surgery = I need a e-trike. 

Contact me by:

Doug Fenton at E: dfenton12@gmail.com or C: 250.804.6480.

Eliminate Nukes for a Safer World

Thetis Island friends and neighbours listen politely to my plea to voice support for nuclear disarmament and then change the subject.

Mine is not an original or lonely quest. In fact individuals, groups and a majority of all world countries support the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons.

Why not Thetis?

Here are some answers I’ve received: 

• The horror of nuclear devastation on civilization and the world’s environment is pure fiction that’s too awful -- worse than climate change -- to think about. Those who predict it will happen are merely the latest nut-case doom-mongerers who show up in every generation.

• Deterrence keeps us safe. There’s comfort knowing that the sort of insanely violent intentions, miscalculations and catastrophic accidents embedded in the human story don’t make nuclear war inevitable.

• The leaders of the nine nuclear nations are led by rational people. Their occasional threats to deliver ‘fire and fury’ and ‘limited nuclear strikes’ are no more than bluffs on behalf of citizens everywhere who put up $119 billion last year for nuclear upgrades that will never be used. Even Donald Trump in a corner licking his wounds for losing his grip on power and reality wouldn’t think of pressing the nuclear button. 

• Even if some doubt attends these declarations, there’s nothing any individual or group can do to reduce or eliminate the risk of nuclear war. Besides, life is to be enjoyed, not to be spent in the grip of grim worries.

These answers fortify the illusion of security. They amount to a prediction of a safe future, one that many accept while ignoring its dangerous absence of a guarantee.

For as long as nuclear weapons exist, some will be used for the purpose they were built -- to kill people, their structures and systems.

The first will be launched by accident, miscalculation or vile intent. Ones that follow will be for retaliation that can’t be contained until the whole world is in ruins.

Thinking it’s too horrible to happen won’t stop it from happening.

Relying on deterrence won’t stop it.

Because it hasn’t happened since Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago won’t stop it.

Our silence certainly won't stop it.

Every voice counts. If we think and act like we don’t count, we won’t.

In July 2017, the UN adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which forbids all activities related to nuclear weapons: testing, building, funding and even threatening to use them.

The Thetis community could join other Canadian centres that support this treaty. They include Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg, and, in BC, Vancouver, Victoria, West Vancouver, White Rock, Langley, North Saanich, Saanich, Sooke and Squamish.

If you’re interested in this initiative or any aimed at eliminating the nuclear menace, I'd appreciate hearing from you at thetisteen@gmail.com .

Dave Steen

Thetis Island Pub • Friday–Sunday Feature Specials

LUNCH FEATURE

Grilled Roast Beef & Swiss
Tender roast beef and Swiss cheese on grilled sourdough with horseradish aioli and rosemary Guinness jus.

DINNER FEATURE

Osso Bucco Lamb Shanks
Slow-braised lamb shanks served with crispy fried polenta and grilled broccolini.

*Available this Friday through Sunday only

Our full regular menu is available all week long, featuring your pub favourites, seafood, burgers, salads, wings, flatbreads and more.

Now Open 7 Days a Week!

From the culinary team at:

Thetis Island Marina & Pub

Waterfront dining • Cold drinks • Island hospitality

Meet me at the Marina.