Category Archives: Fundraising

REMINDER – Bottle Drop Off this Saturday – All Hands On Deck!

REMINDER

809 Newark RCACS is conducting the 2nd of 3 Bottle Drop Off’s this Saturday morning. This is a major fundraiser for the unit and all members are required to attend. Cadets, bring your parents, siblings and friends to help out. It’s a lot of work as well, and the more people we have helping out, the easier the job will be.

We depend greatly on the funds that these bottle drop offs provide. In order to keep the program free we need everyone, including cadets, parents, staff and SSC members, to provide some sweat equity. To all the adults, if you have a truck you can bring along for the day, please do. It will help us in transporting the bottles back to VanNoorts. Make sure you wear something that is appropriate for the weather, yet you don’t mind getting dirty. Please be at VanNoorts Greenhouse no later than 0830 to receive instructions and so that we can have everyone out to their stations by 0900hrs.

Make sure you bring water with you for the morning. Pizza will be laid on after we’re finished up for the day. Dress appropriately for the weather. It’s January and we will be out in the cold.

What: Cadet Bottle Drop Off
When: Saturday, January 13 @ 0830hrs until approx 1400hrs
Where: VanNoorts Greenhouse (Corner of Hunter Rd & Four Mile Creek Rd)
Dress: Appropriate Civilian Attire

Any questions, please forward them over to Capt Couroux

Bottle Drop Off – Saturday, September 9

Good evening 809 Squadron,

809 Newark RCACS is conducting the first of 3 Bottle Drop Off’s this Saturday morning. This is a major fundraiser for the unit and all members are required to attend. Cadets, bring your parents, siblings and friends to help out. It’s a lot of work as well, and the more people we have helping out, the easier the job will be.

Make sure you bring water with you for the morning. Pizza will be laid on after we’re finished up for the day.

What: Cadet Bottle Drop Off
When: Saturday, September 9 @ 0830hrs until approx 1400hrs
Where: VanNoorts Greenhouse (Corner of Hunter Rd & Four Mile Creek Rd)
Dress: Appropriate Civilian Attire

Any questions, please forward them over to myself

Regards,
Lt Couroux
Commanding Officer
809 Newark RCACS
“Immortal”

Reminder – Bottle Drive – Saturday, January 7 – 0815hrs-1400hrs

Happy New Year 809!

Cadets and Parents/Guardians,

Our first fundraiser for 2023 is coming up this Saturday morning, January 7. This activity helps provide funds so that the squadron can operate and run the training program. This is an “All Hands On Deck” activity – All staff, SSC members and cadets are expected to participate and we’re also asking that parents/guardians take part as well.

Parents & Guardians, if you’re able to help out (and we hope you are) and you have a pickup truck, please bring it with you, we’ll need your help transporting bottles.

The Squadron is assembling at Van Noort’s greenhouse, ready to go by 0815hrs. We expect to be no later than about 1400hrs (2pm). Van Noorts is located on the corner of Four Mile Creek Rd & Hunter Rd. Saturday is looking to have a high of only 2 deg, so dress appropriately for being outdoors. Bring a thermos with a hot drink as well to keep you warm.

For more information, or if you have questions, please reach out to either myself or Mr Cory Abt, our SSC Chair.

See everyone Saturday morning.

Lt Dan Couroux
CO
809 Newark RCACS
“Immortal”

Air Cadet League of Canada OPC Lottery

Dear 809 family and friends,

Thanks to all that have bought tickets so far. Our squadron has been assessed at selling 6 tickets per cadet and we have 87 tickets left to sell. Please feel free to share the link below with family and friends. The early bird prize is being drawn April 1st!

Thank you for your continued support of our youth Air Cadets. As always, the Air Cadet program provides unmatched leadership development, life-changing experiences, and enhanced aviation training. The funds raised through this lottery help us provide this amazing program to the youth of our community.

This year’s lottery has $100,900.00 in cash prizes to be won, including an early bird prize of $4,500 and a grand prize of $58,000. The early bird draw is April 1st and the grand prize draw is April 29th. Tickets are only $10! Please consider supporting us in one of the following ways. ·

Purchase your tickets today – Buy Tickets Here
Share with your friends and family

Thank you for your continued support.

Regards

Cory Abt
Chair
809 Newark RCACS Sponsorship Committee
chair@809cadets.com

Air Cadet Lottery

Dear 809 family and friends,

I hope you are doing well during these unique times! Thank you for your continued support of our youth Air Cadets. As always, the Air Cadet program provides unmatched leadership development, life-changing experiences, and enhanced aviation training. While we ensure the safety of our cadets and communities, this year’s lottery has been transitioned online. The funds raised through this lottery help us provide this amazing program to the youth of our community.

This year’s lottery has $100,900.00 in cash prizes to be won, including an early bird prize of $4,500 and a grand prize of $58,000. The early bird draw is April 1st and the grand prize draw is April 29th. Tickets are only $10! Please consider supporting us in one of the following ways. ·

· Purchase your tickets today – Buy Ticket Here
· Share with your friends and family

Thank you for the continued support.

Regards

Cory Abt

SSC Chair 809 Air Cadet Squadron

chair@809cadets.com

Bottle Drop-Off This Weekend

Good evening.

As 2Lt Couroux and Mr. Abt have already indicated, this Saturday is our first bottle drop-off event of the year. For those of you who may be unaware, the bottle drop-offs have been the principal fundraiser for our squadron for a number of years now and its continued success is critical to our ability to deliver the cadet program in Niagara-on-the-Lake. COVID-19 and its associated lock-downs have diminished our program’s current activities, but we still need to face the future with the assumption that this is temporary. When this is over, we’ll need the funds to be able to do this… and that can’t be done without the help of our cadet families and friends.

Normally, these events would be an all-hands mandatory activity for cadets where they, their families, staff, sponsorship committee members, and friends all band together for a good cause. Current orders regarding cadets and staff don’t permit us to participate directly, but the work still needs doing and we’re asking for your help on Saturday the 8th from 0830 (8:30am) to 1330 (1:30pm).

If you can offer your time this Saturday in support of the squadron, please contact Mr. Abt as soon as you can.

Thank you for your ongoing support of your cadets and the entire squadron.

J Lemoine
Captain
Commanding Officer
809 Newark RCACS
Immortal!

Message from our SSC Chair – Parental Help Needed – Bottle Drive – Saturday January 8

Dear Proud Parent of a Cadet,

Hoping your holiday season has been great, and that 2022 will be better times for all!

This Saturday January 8^th we are having our bottle drive for 809 Squadron. This is a big fund raiser for us and helps to fund the entire program. During non Covid times this is a mandatory event for cadets and strongly encourage for the rest of the family to pitch in and help. The squadrons working orders are that in person cadet activity is not sanctioned at this time but life must go on. We need your help to make this fundraiser work.

Saturday Jan 8^th

8:30am – 1:30pm

We will have 3 drop off locations that need to be manned and we will need a crew out at the VanNoorts Greenhouse to sort and package.

2-3 trailers will be needed to service these locations

If you could reply right away with the number of family members that can help that would be great…the sooner the better.

Please respond to me directly at chair@809cadets.ca or my cellphone 289-687-7050.

All the best,

Cory Abt

Chair, 809 Squadron Sponsoring Committee

Mandatory Lottery Event

809 families, each year the squadron is given an allotment of lottery tickets to sell to support both the squadron and the Ontario Provincial Committee (OPC). The OPC is the organization that runs/supports elements like flying/gliding, effective speaking competitions, and many more. Due to COVID they were unable to deliver this lottery via paper tickets but have arranged to run the lottery online. Instead of being responsible for 2 books of tickets per cadet, we are required to sell only 3 tickets per cadet this year…we can certainly sell more. Please click the link on our website and participate in this year’s lottery…no physical prizes this year ALL CASH!! Thank you for your support!

Ice Wine Bottle Pick Up

Thank you to all the cadets and parents who helped with the bottle pick up at the Ice Wine Festival in Old Town on Sunday.
The group was very efficient and we collected and sorted three bins worth bottles in only an hour and a quarter.
Your help and enthusiasm is much appreciated.

Best Regards
CV Dau

Ice Wine Festival Bottle Pick Up

We’ve been lucky again this year to have been donated the empty bottles at this year’s Ice Wine Festival. We’re looking for cadet and parent volunteers to help load bottles at the festival site (Queen St in NOTL) and also help unload at Van Noort’s. Depending on the amount of help we get, this should only take about an hour.

Please sign up if you’re interested and be at the Court House meeting room at 1700hrs (5pm) this Sunday (January 26). The Court House is located at 26 Queen St, NOTL.

Mr. Dau will be supervising. Parents, if you have a truck and can help with transportation, please bring that along as well.