Thursday 31 December 2015

2016 Polar Bear Swim Jan 1

At the Tahsis Boat Launch at noon on January 1, 2016, Come out for a Polar Bear Swim, 
or at least come out to see the brave crazy souls who go for the dip!  

Sign a waiver beforehand at the Rec. Centre, or come early to the boat launch.  

Enjoy a hot chocolate or a hot dog.

Happy New Year! 

Friday 18 December 2015

CMESS Christmas Concert

How fun to watch the students of CMESS perform "The Magic Snow Globe" at the Christmas concert last night!  We also enjoyed the high school students who sang and played guitar with Mrs. Sanderson.








The PAC wrapped up their biggest fundraiser of the year and drew the winning raffle ticket for the giant stocking full of gifts.  The lucky winner was Dave Madill, who his wife reports is like a kid in a candy store while going through all the loot!  Congratulations Dave, and thank you to everyone for such generosity when purchasing tickets!  A special thank you to Allison, Mary, Harmony and Anna for really outdoing themselves with all that hard work organizing the stocking and drumming up all those prizes!

Another thank you to PAC for baking some treats to share with everyone at the concert, I made some treats along with Alice, Allison, Maureen and Aubrey.  There are some serious treat baking skills in this town!



Congratulations also to Kim Anderson, who was recognized by the School District last night for her 25 years at CMESS working with children of all ages as an Educational Assistant!  Well done, Kim!

 

Wednesday 16 December 2015

Santa tours the town

Thank you to the Tahsis Volunteer Firefighters and the Tahsis Lions Club for driving Santa, Mrs. Claus and a few of the elves around town to deliver candy and wish everyone a Merry Christmas!  This is a popular annual tradition that we look forward to every December. 











Sunday 13 December 2015

Wreath Making Workshop

Sharon did a great job coaching about 15 people through making beautiful wreaths on Saturday afternoon at the Rec Centre.  Tahsis just got even more festive and decorated!











Saturday 12 December 2015

Friday 11 December 2015

Captain Meares Elementary Secondary School Christmas Concert Coming Up

The CMESS Christmas Concert will be held on Wednesday, December 16th at the school gym at 7 pm.  Hope to see everyone there!  This is always a feel-good event, watching the children put on a show after weeks of support and encouragement and hard work from staff and students alike.  At the concert, the PAC group will be drawing the winning ticket for the giant Christmas stocking filled with presents, and that is an exciting event too!

Here are a few photos from past concerts:

Andrea and Marion in Surfin' Santa

Ashley as an elf

Hayley as Clara

Sam

Kurt and Andie as Mr. and Mrs. Crabby in Frosty's Big Adventure

Samantha and Marion in Frosty's Big Adventure

From the Nutcracker

Wednesday 9 December 2015

A Visiting Colony

We have some loud guests occupying the docks and breakwaters down by Westview Marina and the Lodge at Tahsis Harbour... sea lions!  For 2 days now, they have been causing a ruckus with their constant barking, and posing for photographs. 

Photo by Jim Horvath

Photo by Jim Horvath
  

From Canadian Geographic:  Groups of sea lions have many names depending on where they are: on land they are a colony, in water they are called a raft, during breeding seasons they're referred to as a rookery and when several females are in one male's territory, they're called a harem.

Sunday 6 December 2015

Community Christmas Dinner

We enjoyed a great event last night, a free Christmas dinner for the whole community.  It was organized by the Tahsis Seniors Society, held at the Tahsis Recreation Centre, catered by Santosh Sharma (with help from Theresa and Susan) from Oceanview Cafe, and funded by the New Horizons for Seniors federal grant.

Santa visited with generous gifts for every child in town, and Paul brought out a large collection of vintage toys for kids of all ages to play with, once we'd finished our excellent turkey and ham dinner with all the trimmings.

Thank you to all involved for such a wonderful evening!


Brody

Liz

Desserts

Tim and Andie are happy about the food!

The kids had a great time too!

Andie and Felix check out the toys

Mya figures out the rocket


Ethan, Andie and Sam

Santa and Mitzi

Ronny

Andie and Casey with Santa

Cole and Santa

Sharron