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Canada Day Parade: UPDATE!

Our Squadron has been selected to help lead the parade in NOTL for our Nation’s 150th birthday. We will be providing 5-6 cadets for the Flag Party.

The following cadets have signed up:

We have room for TWO (2) more cadets – WE NEED YOU OUT, COME IF YOU CAN!

Dress:  Given forecast states 25C (feels like 34C) with less than 1mm of rain, DRESS HAS CHANGED TO SHORT ORDER (No tunic – blue dress shirt, pants, boots, wedge, rank slip-ons, name tag, ribbons (for those with cadet service medals).

Details are as follows:

  • 215pm – Meet at Willow (Cake shop corner of Mary & Mississauga Sts)
  • 245pm – Parade forms up on Simcoe st at Queen
  • 250pm – Cake arrives
  • 300pm – Parade begins
  • 320pm – parade arrives at King & Queen sts
  • Fife & Drum corps Flag Party & Cake proceed along path into Simcoe Park, Politicians follow cake, cars turn left onto King st
  • 330pm – Cake arrives at Bandshell – Cadets welcome to have a slice!

Our flag party will provide the FLAGS: Canadian, Ontario, 809 Banner, + all frogs, gloves and belts required. Remainder of Flags to be provided by Canada 150 Committee. Capt Lemoine will bring all of our supplies to parade meeting point at Willow at 215pm on Jul 1st.

Final Out Clearance of Old LHQ – WED!

join us as we bid farewell to our old headquarters (LHQ) on Wednesday evening. We still have a few sports and FTX items that need to be moved as well as some cleaning to do before we hand over the keys on Thurs.

If you can help: meet at our old LHQ (the old virgil public school) at 630pm Wed 28 Jun 17. At least two staff members are bringing trucks/trailers – if you have one to lend a hand, please bring it.

We anticipate it’ll take an hour or two to get everything loaded and moved to our new location. Many hands makes light work: come on out if you can!

We also need some cleaners to help us get rid of all our old garbage/recycling and load it into a trailer for the dump. If you can help with that, or cleaning the counters/floors of the old LHQ, come on out!

 

Canada Day: 150 years!

Our Squadron has been selected to help lead the parade in NOTL for our Nation’s 150th birthday. We will be providing 5-6 cadets for the Flag Party.

The following cadets have signed up:

We have room for one (1) more cadet – send an email over to Capt Lemoine to CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE and to add your name to the list.

Details are as follows:

  • 215pm – Meet at Willow (Cake shop corner of Mary & Mississauga Sts)
  • 245pm – Parade forms up on Simcoe st at Queen
  • 250pm – Cake arrives
  • 300pm – Parade begins
  • 320pm – parade arrives at King & Queen sts
  • Fife & Drum corps Flag Party & Cake proceed along path into Simcoe Park, Politicians follow cake, cars turn left onto King st
  • 330pm – Cake arrives at Bandshell – Cadets welcome to have a slice!

Our flag party will provide the FLAGS: Canadian, Ontario, 809 Banner, + all frogs, gloves and belts required. Remainder of Flags to be provided by Canada 150 Committee. Capt Lemoine will bring all of our supplies to parade meeting point at Willow at 215pm on Jul 1st.

Dress: C-1 with medals. Given long term forecast states 22C with 5-10mm of rain, this may change. Capt Lemoine will update you closer to date.

New Local Headquarters (LHQ)!

We have begun our move over to our new LHQ:

1875 Niagara Stone Road, NOTL at the Royal Elite International Academy (formerly the NDSS)

A HUGE thank you to Mr Tony Hendriks (Past Sponsor Chair), CI Serge Carbone (Training Assistant), Mr. Gary Zalepa (Sponsor Chair), and Mr Cory Abt (Parent Extraordinaire) for all of their hard work to get the storage area shelving built and installed, as well as the supply hanging area.  Special mention to CI Ruxa Nicolescu (Admin O), for hauling admin files and helping to set-up the supply and admin offices. Volunteer power is the best! #CRU809

Supply Storage area (adjacent to gymnasium)

Supply & Admin Offices (near classrooms)

SSC – Volunteer Opportunity

The Squadron Sponsoring Committee is looking for a few dedicated parents to take on a new sub-committee: Bottle Drive Fundraising.

Timings will be determined by the group, however the following will be the general parameters for any interested parent:

  • be available once per month
  • be available for a couple of hours (+/-)
  • meet at either the Bottle Drop-Off (located at Ruttan House corner of East & West Line and Hwy 55) or the Van Noort Greenhouse (located at the corner of Hunter Road and Four Mile Creek)
  • sort bottles according to their type as per direction from Mr Zalepa, Sponsor Chair
  • pack, stack bottles in Van Noort/Ruttan storage area for pick-up during bottle drives (twice per trg year)
  • drive to local businesses to pick-up bottles to bring to the two locations above for sorting (on off days, randomly during the year)
  • post posters to advertise local bottle drives (twice per year)
  • plays well with others

Interested parents are asked to contact the Sponsor Chair, Mr Gary Zalepa via email: gary@garyzalepa.com

Air Cadet Pilot Scholarships

Air Cadet League of Canada

Ontario Provincial Committee

Honours & Awards

 31 May 2017

 Directors, Sponsoring Committee Chairs, and Commanding Officers,

 

This is a reminder that there is still time to apply for the  two NEW scholarships from the Jazz Aviation and Air Cadet League partnership for Cadet graduates of the Power Pilot Scholarship! Air Cadets who are interested in pursuing a career as a commercial pilot can now apply for one of these two new education scholarships.

1.       The Jazz Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism. Awarded to a full-time student accepted and enrolled in a Jazz APP-affiliated aviation program for outstanding contributions to safety, leadership and professionalism. The Award consists of a $3000 scholarship to one of the Jazz App programs.

2.       The Jazz Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism and Diversity. Awarded to a full-time student accepted and enrolled in a Jazz APP-affiliated aviation program who has self-identified as Aboriginal, a person with a disability, a visible minority, or female; for outstanding contributions to safety, leadership and professionalism. The Award consists of a $3000scholarship to one of the Jazz APP programs.

 

Air Cadets have until June 30, 2017 to send their application. Needless to say, these scholarships could greatly help the academic development of a Cadet. It is therefore important for them to be aware of this wonderful opportunity and its upcoming deadline.

Details can be found on the ACC65 form – embedded below.

ACC65_Jazz_Scholaships_Feb2017.pdf

ACC65F_Bourses_Jazz_Fev2017.pdf

 Please distribute ASAP to your Power grads.

 Thanks!

 David

 David S. Brown

Program Development Officer

Air Cadet League of Canada

Ontario Provincial Committee

david.brown@aircadetleague.on.ca

Office: 905-477-4411 ext 224

Toll Free: 1-800-513-0952

Famil Flying Tonight – NEW START TIME

WE ARE A GO! Approval has been given for our Famil Flying. Capt Mario Palumbo, CD of the St. Catharines Cadet Flying Training Site will be the Pilot for our outings.  The Sqn is paying for the flying – no cost to our cadets! Meet in the terminal building, wear comfortable clothing (no uniforms).

We have had more cadets sign-up – CHECK YOUR GROUP# below. We are starting an hour earlier to accommodate all our cadets. 

For Wed (TONIGHT!) – Group #1 meet at the NOTL Airport at 450pm. Group #2 meet at the NOTL Airport at 550pm. Group #3 meet at the NOTL Airport at 650pm. You must be LOGGED IN to view the names.

Capt Tammy Palumbo Cell: 289-783-1942

Group #1 Cadets: 

Group #2 Cadets:

Group # 3 Cadets:

Summer Training Information

Please see here all relevant documents for summer training:

Parent Briefing: Summer Training Presentation 2017

Joining Instructions: Trenton 2017 JI

Connaught 2017 Joining Instructions

Blackdown 2017 JI

All photocopies of summer training offers are available at the office – we forgot to send them home last week! Otherwise, they will be uploaded closer to camp dates so you can print a new one at home if required.