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Monday Night Training

Join us for another busy night!

Drill Team: 7-8pm in the gym. Wear your DRILL TEAM HOODIE, jeans, parade boots and wedge. Need a hoodie? bring $25 and we’ll give you one for this year. Variety of sizes available. (Parents note: the $25 represents 50% of the actual cost of the hooded sweatshirt, Sqn Sponsoring Committee has covered the remaining cost)

Range Team Try-outs – 8-9 pm. Continuing tonight, cadets are encouraged to try-out for the Squadron Air Rifle Team. For those successful candidates, hoodies are in and will be available for purchase once the team is chosen. $25 each.

Effective Speaking & Flight Club 8-9pm. meet with Mrs Gowans or WOII Giansante to see what is going on tonight.

SSC Position at 809 Squadron

There is currently a Squadron Sponsoring Committee position available at the unit. It is open to any interested individual, either parent of a cadet, or member of the community at large.

A decision to join and work with the Squadron Sponsoring Committee (SSC) will involve the following commitment of time on behalf of our Air Cadets:

  • a 2-3 hour meeting once per month on Wednesdays, possibly some pre-meeting preparation and/or post-meeting activity;
  • 6-8 hours preceding and during the Weekend for the Annual Ceremonial Review and Awards Banquet, 6-8 hours on 2 Saturdays/yr for 2 Bottle drives, 2-4 hours on two to three Saturdays/yr for Bottle drop-offs, plus other occasional Bottle Pickup times and 4-8 hours twice/yr assisting during Air Cadet Tag Day Weekends;
  • Committee work as assigned, i.e.; Corporate Sponsorship, PR, Effective Speaking, Parent Liaison, Special Events etc. The average time commitment is about 5 hours/month;
  • Primarily between Sept-June, Activity levels are decreased during the summer!

For the full details, please view our SSC Policy document found here: 809 SSC Policies (1),final

Fore more information, please contact Mr. Hendriks, Sponsoring Committee Chair, at the Squadron.

Monday Night Training

Join us for a busy night:

Drill Team 7-8pm – in the gymnasium, dress is civilian with drill boots and wedge

Flight Club 8-9pm – in classroom #3

Effective Speaking 8-9pm – in classroom #1

Rifle Team Try-Outs 8-9pm – in the gymnasium, will coincide with Flight Club & Effective Speaking, each cadet will have at least two relay chances (four targets) to fire. All cadets welcome to try-out – RANGE COMPETITION is the SAME day as the FTX. Cadets that are selected for the range team will be expected to make their own way to 23 Sqn HQ in St. Catharines, then will be transported by Capt Palumbo to the FTX at the end of the comp.

NO OTHER training will be taking place at the squadron. Classrooms #2 & #4 will be off limits – except during canteen break.

Vimy October 2017

A friendly reminder to parents that the next installment of the payment for the Vimy trip is due tonight.

NEXT WEEK: there will be a FUNDRAISING meeting for ALL cadets & parents attending the VIMY Trip in October. The meeting will be hosted by Mr Hendriks, Chair of the Sponsoring Committee, and Capt Lemoine. It will begin in classroom #1 at 745pm. Please make plans to join us.

Flight Club has taken off!

Do you have an interest in flying? Flight Club has started on a more formal learning curve this week.

Tonight we: Calculated distances from airport to airport, calculated time to destination, measured the degrees for your heading to your destination and return, partial simulated flight from St. Catharines to Hamilton.

Join us next Monday night from 8-9pm in classroom #3 as we build on what we learned this week.

Monday Night Training

As announced at closing briefing last Wednesday, Monday night training includes:

Drill Team 7-8pm (in the gymnasium) wear drill boots and wedge with civilian clothing

Flight Club 8-9pm (in classroom #3 with Capt M Palumbo, CD from the Gliding Centre) – all welcome!

Effective Speaking 8-9pm (in classroom #1) Only two more weeks until the Sqn Competition

No other activities will be taking place this evening. Sports will resume shortly – listen to announcements on Wed night for details.

NAG Sports Competition – 809 Volleyball Champions!

Our Handball team met their match with 87 Eagle Squadron from Welland – the eventual winners of the Handball trophy. They fought hard – well done 809! Team Captain WOII Giansante, WOI Lavoie, FSgt Griffin, Sgt Couroux, FCpl Gowans, FCpl Nicolescu, Cpl Abt, Cpl Miele & Cpl Voogt.

The day was interrupted for an impromptu selfie with LCol Evans and CWO Hill (from Regional Cadet Support Unit Central in Borden). LCol Evans commented on our 809 T-shirts (well done CI Thiffault!) and said she would like one as well – we will send her and CWO Hill their very own this week.

Our volleyball team remained undefeated for the ENTIRE day – until the championship match against 62A. You can imagine our distress when it came down to a tie-breaker. At one point 62A was up 6-0 then 16-8. But our team pulled together and tied it up to 18-18! A final two serves and we were victorious! And there was much rejoicing.

Team Captain FSgt Lett, FSgt Zalepa, FCpl Lett, Cpl Bell and Cpl Hill accept the NAG Volleyball trophy for 1st place.(missing from the photo: Sgt Carbone & Cpl Milana)

Photo credits to Mr. Carbone.

CONGRATULATIONS to all our players. It was a great day – hope you’re getting some rest today!

NAG Sports Competition – TOMORROW!!!

 

Tomorrow – Sat 28 Jan 2017 – is our Annual NAG Sports Competition. We will be competing in two of the three sports (Volleyball and Handball).

All cadets are expected to arrive at the 128 Sqn Trinity Church Hall 0650am

tomorrow morning. Pick up will be from the same place at approximately 515pm.

Google map link here: 128 Sqn @ Trinity Church 15 Pine St S Thorold

BRING: water bottle, backpack – to hold your extra clothes (come dressed in 809 Sqn T-shirt, shorts, socks and running shoes with long pants/sweater overtop), snack and any reading material, card game, etc to pass the time between games. DO NOT bring anything you would be devastated to lose.

Parents are welcome to spectate: we will be competing in Dunnville at the High School located at 110 Helena St Dunnville.

Lunch is provided for all participants (beef on a bun + salad). There will be a canteen – bring $5 max.

Do you need a ride to the bus pick up?? Call Capt Palumbo 289-783-1942 BEFORE 615am on Sat.