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NATIONALMay memorialRoyal Canadian Air Force marks victorious Battle of the Atlantic during May. 10, 2019.
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LOCALZzzzzzz…is good for you4 Wing Health Department focuses on Better Sleep for Better Health.
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LOCALFitness can be fun Canadian Forces Morale & Fitness celebrates Staff Wellness day with some fun.
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Volume 52 Number 18 www.couriernews.ca May 14, 2019
RCAF shows the flag in the North
CLIFF KENYON
Inuvik isn’t a place you think of visiting. Or think about at all.
It’s cold and distant, about 3,700 driving kilometres northwest of Cold Lake on the edge of the chilly Beaufort Sea. With a population of only about 3,500 there’s not much going on. It’s not a tourist hot spot.
Although it seems quite insignificant, it isn’t and enjoys a solid link with Cold Lake, its distant southern cousin.
Inuvik, with Cold Lake, holds a key role in North American defence and that’s where 4 Wing Cold Lake Wing Commander Colonel Paul Doyle met recently with U.S. officials in NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command).
He was accompanied by four star General Terrence O’Shaughnessy of the U.S. Air Force, commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD Commander.
“They were making a swing through the Arctic touring,” said Col. Doyle. Earlier, U.S. commanders had stopped in Alaska.
NORAD, established in 1957 with the U.S., has been the backbone of an early warning radar system that has been called our “first line of defence” for North America. NORAD says its role is to detect aircraft and space vehicles deemed to be a threat to
North America.Col. Doyle, with the U.S. officials, visited Inuvik
facilities and held informal discussions about the future of the facility and its role as well as its vital link with 4 Wing.
“I believe we have a key role and an active role in 4 Wing and experience in operating in the Arctic,” he said in an interview after his return to Cold Lake. ”We have a job to do there.”
He said a skeleton crew of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel is deployed at Inuvik, at all times, with many of the service personnel from their permanent base in Cold Lake.
“We are looking into the 21st century and beyond,” Col. Doyle told The Courier. “There is more and more interest in maintaining a strategic presence in the Arctic and Cold Lake is key to that future. We want to see what opportunities there are for using Inuvik well into the future.”
He said although Inuvik is not a high population, area accommodations for CAF members deployed in the northern post are “well appointed” with regular updating. Canadian air defences assigned to NORAD include 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron at Cold Lake.
“We must make sure we can ensure a strong and secure presence for the RCAF in the Arctic,” he said.
“We use our air power to show the flag.”
Col. Doyle said they toured the area with flights over Tuktoyaktuk, about 140 km north of Inuvik, which included air-to-air refuelling with a tanker aircraft from 437 Transport Squadron from 8 Wing Trenton.
Using satellites, NORAD can track North American air space and detect missile launches almost anywhere in the world. It can also track all man-made objects in space. Information is cross-referenced with civilian and military air traffic control to detect unauthorized flights, such as drug smugglers. The Canadian NORAD region monitors all air traffic approaching Canada.
Last week in a one-day exercise, NORAD conducted an air defense exercise over the Prairies and near the east and Pacific coasts.
F-15 and CF-18 fighter jets and a Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 took part in the exercise, all conducted above 14,000 feet.
To test responses, systems and equipment, NORAD routinely conducts exercises using a variety of scenarios, including airspace restriction violations, hijackings and responding to unknown aircraft.
Operation NOBLE EAGLE is the name given to the military response following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and applies to all air sovereignty and air defense missions in North America.
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4 Wing Commander Colonel Paul Doyle, Sergeant Major Paul McKenna Command Senior Enlisted Leader for Headquarters, NORAD Command Force, NORAD Command Commander General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, United States Air Force and 4 Operations Support Squadron Lieutenant-Colonel Seane Doell walk towards “Green Hanger” during a visit to Forward Operating Location Inuvik, Northwest Territories on April 23.
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I’m impressed.I’m a newbie. Been here just
over a month. But yes, very impressed by it all.
Impressed enough to write about it. And my first positive impressions have not faded as they often do.
I had never been to Cold Lake. It’s a bit out of the way for someone who has lived in Southern Alberta most recently and Ontario for many years before that.
When you come over that last hill as you arrive in Cold Lake on the highway and see the welcoming entrance of the sails, you realize this city is not like anywhere you’ve been before. It’s a thrilling awakening after an uneventful seven-hour drive to get here. It’s like a travel companion giving you a nudge and telling you to be alert because this is different so pay attention.
The people of Cold Lake are genuinely eager to warmly welcome a newcomer. Perhaps it’s because many of them were newcomers to the city at some time. The people behind the counter in any store and the busy waiter or waitress in every restaurant are all keen to share a moment of their hospitality. They
don’t do it because they are paid to and encouraged to. It seems to be their nature.
I’m warned it gets cold here. You’d never guess by their warm attitudes. The congeniality. By any measure the big city, let’s say Calgary or Edmonton or even Vancouver, are much colder places.
But let’s talk about the base, too. Where most of us live or work or both.
Wow. That sums it up in one short word.
I experienced the same reality years ago when, as a news reporter, I covered Canadian Forces Base Trenton. I met and worked there with many wonderful people.
At 4 Wing I have met able, efficient people of all ranks as well as civilians doing their jobs well. But they still have a moment to extend a warm welcome. They chat about their day and offer their help in any way.
The acronyms are no longer quite as daunting. I’m sure you will understand all this. As a civilian working for PSP I am allowed an RHU which used to be called a PMQ. It’s neat, tidy, spotless. Thanks Yolanda and the incredible
staff at Canadian Forces Housing Agency.
I was lucky enough because of this job to chat with Chief of Defence Staff General (Gen.) Johnathan Vance during his recent visit to 4 Wing Cold Lake.
Indeed, family and morale are key to the success and readiness and one of his priorities.
I have discovered that 4 Wing is a strong community where people care about each other. They have shared values that they cherish and willingly display to a newbie or a visitor.
These are things I believe Gen. Vance would be pleased to hear from a newcomer.
But I expect he would remind me there is a reason for all this which is to meet Canada’s goal of helping to maintain global stability where ever and whenever needed.
If you aren’t reminded of that every day when you hear the CF18s overhead, think of Gen. Vance who told me this is a “scary sport.”
“It’s a serious world we live in,” he told me. “We have to be ready for anything.”
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May marks victorious Battle of the Atlantic for RCAFJOANNA CALDER
The Battle of the Atlantic, which continued throughout the Second World War, was the longest and largest campaign of the war. Canadian men and women, serving in the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force and the Merchant Navy, bore a heavy burden in this struggle for control of the shipping lanes on the North Atlantic Ocean.
Britain desperately needed supplies, particularly from North America. Germany, however, was determined to sink that incoming shipping with their stealthy U-Boats (submarines). So feared was this undersea menace that the Allied war leaders at the 1943 Casablanca Conference declared the elimination of the U-Boat threat as its number one priority.
The Battle of the Atlantic is commemorated annually on the first Sunday in May.
The Royal Air Force’s Coastal Command, which included seven Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons, fought against the enemy’s U-Boats, merchant ships and warships. Coastal Command aircraft escorted convoys sailing from North America to Britain, and searched the seas from Iceland to Gibraltar. Coastal Command crews destroyed more than one-quarter of all German U-Boats “killed” during the war: 212 out of 800.
RCAF squadrons in Coastal Command and in Canada accounted for 19 U-Boats, while RCAF crews serving in Royal Air Force squadrons involved in many more “kills” in the North Atlantic.
The tide began to turn against the German submarine “wolf packs” in 1943, in part due to the introduction of American-made Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber. The aircraft, used by Coastal Command as a long-range patrol aircraft, helped close the “Atlantic Gap”, the part of the ocean where U-Boats had prowled unmolested because they were out of range of aerial attack. Technological advances such as sonar helped Allied ships and aircraft target U-Boats that had previously operated safely under cover of darkness. Losses to German U-Boats continued, however, right up until the end of the war.
The cost of winning the Battle of the Atlantic was high. Most of the 2,000 members of the Royal Canadian Navy who died during the war lost their lives in the Battle of the Atlantic. More than 750 members of the RCAF died in maritime operations as a result of enemy action and flying accidents in the unforgiving environment. And the Book of Remembrance for the Merchant Navy lists the names of nearly 1,600 Canadians and Newfoundlanders – or those who served on ships of Canadian or Newfoundland registry.
The Battle of the Atlantic is commemorated annually on the first Sunday in May.
Meet Flight Lieutenant David Hornell – a hero of the Battle of the Atlantic
Flight Lieutenant David Hornell flew with the Royal Air Force’s Coastal Command, stalking German
U-Boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.His heroism earned him the Victoria Cross. He
was the first member of the RCAF to be awarded the Victoria Cross and one of only two RCAF members to earn this highest decoration for valour during the Second World.
Flight Lieutenant Hornell, who was born in Ontario in 1910, was the aircraft captain of a PBY-5A Canso amphibious aircraft with the RCAF’s 162 Squadron, temporarily attached to Coastal Command and conducting anti-submarine warfare in the North Atlantic.
On June 24, 1944, he was on a patrol out of Iceland; his wireless gunner – Flight Sergeant Sydney Cole – spotted a sub in the distance and Flight Lieutenant Hornell turned to attack it. But the U-Boat had already seen the aircraft and the sub commander returned heavy and accurate anti-aircraft fire.
Just as he gained speed to attack the submarine, one of Flight Lieutenant Hornell’s guns jammed and two shells hit his aircraft, starting a fire inside the plane and knocking out one engine. Despite the chaos, he still managed to drop his depth charges and send the U-Boat to the bottom of the ocean.
After the Canso crash-landed into the rough and icy sea, only one of the two inflatable dinghies was serviceable. It was too small for everyone, so crew members took turns sitting inside or partially immersed in the water while clinging to the dinghy’s sides. Two of the crewmen died during their 21-hour ordeal. By the time the remaining crew were rescued, Flight Lieutenant Hornell was blind and completely exhausted; he died shortly after being picked up. He is buried in Lerwick Cemetery, located in Scotland’s Shetland Islands.
Flight Lieutenant David Hornell’s Victoria Cross was announced in the London Gazette on July 28, 1944. He was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974.
With files from articles by David Krayden, published in On Windswept Heights, and from the Veterans Affairs Canada website.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 @ 19:00; The Mule (2018)
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Rated: RFriday, May 17, 2019 @ 19:00;
Welcome to Marwen (2018)A victim of a brutal attack finds
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Rating: PG-13Sunday, May 19, 2019 Eng @
13:00 & Fr @ 15:00; The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.
Rated: PG 4 Wing Movie Club
presentations are shown at the 4 Wing Theatre. Admission is free to Defence Team members, your CF One card is the preferred form of identification.
Les films du ciné-club de la 4e Escadre sont projetés dans l’amphithéâtre de la 4e Escadre. Entrée gratuite pour les membres de l’Équipe de la Défense; la carte UneFC est la forme d’identification privilégiée.
These movie listings are subject to change due to outside circumstances beyond our control. In the event that there is a change please check our Facebook and community splash pages for updates.
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*Exclusive offers (the “Exclusive Offers”) are only available to CFOne members who have the designation CF, V, D, and P on their card including but not limited to Veterans and Currently Serving Canadian Forces members, Department of Defence staff and RCMP staff who purchase, or finance a new and unused (not previously registered) Honda Motorcycle, ATV and/or SXS and/or Generator product through Honda Financial Services (on approved credit), from a participating authorized Honda dealer in Canada between March 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 (the “Offer Period”). Members must present a valid CFOne card with the designations of CF, V, D, and P, required at time of purchase in order to be eligible for the Exclusive Offers. Exclusive Offers limited to the purchase of any two (2) Motorcycle and or ATV and or SXS products per eligible CF, Department of Defence or RCMP member. While supplies last. Exclusive Offers can be combined with other select retail incentives in the market, some exclusions apply, see dealer for details. Up to 1% financing rate reduction is available on qualifying models financed and delivered during the Offer Period. Eligible customers will receive an up to 1% reduction off finance rates currently available through HFS to a minimum of 0% APR. Under no circumstances can rates be reduced below 0% APR. Offer has no cash surrender value. Conditions apply. Ask your dealer or visit honda.ca for more details.
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The city’s compost program is about to kick off the gardening season.
Starting earlier than last year, residents will once again have the opportunity to pick up free compost material. This year, the compost product is again rated “Category A” and can be used in agricultural lands, residential gardens, and horticultural operations.
“This compost is created from the yard waste that gets picked up every summer,” said Mayor Craig Copeland. “Not only are residents getting a chance to clean up their yards, but after some time, we can return the clippings in the form of a rich compost.”
This year’s Compost Days pick-up started May 1, and runs for the full month of May. Residents may take the lesser of five bags or 100 kg of compost per visit, and are encouraged to bring their own containers or bags.
To read the full policy, or check out the hours of operation for the transfer station, visit www.coldlake.com.
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4 WING COMMUNITY
LISA FISHER, HEALTH PROMOTION SPECIALIST
In today’s world, the use of technology is constant and ever-evolving. It’s come to a point where people have been found to engage in addictive behaviours with their smartphones, leading to the term “nomophobia” to be coined. Essentially it means
“no mobile phone phobia” and it’s a recent term to describe the fear of not being able to use your cell phone or other smart device. It’s not just smartphones, however. We increasingly depend on our other electronics (e.g. computers, tablets, televisions, etc.) for entertainment, news and to provide us with an escape.
These electronic devices all have something in common: they emit blue light. This blue light has been shown to decrease the production of the hormone melatonin, which is vitally important to the proper functioning of your circadian rhythm, otherwise known as your 24-hour biological clock which regulates many internal functions, including sleep. When melatonin is decreased, it can be more difficult to fall and stay asleep. The light is also to blame for stimulating the sensors in your eyes, sending your brain signals that you should be awake and engaged.
To function properly, your circadian rhythm requires natural environmental signals such as daylight and darkness to ensure you’re able to have an effective sleep.
One of the top tips provided to improve sleep quality and duration is to remove electronics from the bedroom. Many people use their smartphone for an alarm or like to have it close by in case there’s an emergency. If this is the case for you, switch your phone to the “blue light filter” setting. There are also programs that you can install on your computer and/or tablet which can reduce how much blue light is being emitted from the screen.
It’s important to keep in mind that electronics aren’t the only sources of blue light; it also comes from sunlight and white light. You want to ensure you get an adequate amount of blue light naturally from the sun during the day, as it does improve your performance and mood. When it’s time to wind down and get ready for bed, we want to be reducing that blue light to allow our body’s natural processes to adjust for sleep. Turning off all lights in your home 1-2 hours before bedtime is recommended; however, you can also change the lightbulbs in your lamp to red or orange, as they don’t emit blue light. When you have settled in
to bed, keep your room completely dark or use a sleeping mask.
The Health Promotion Department is focusing on “Better Sleep for Better Health” for the month of May and are offering a briefing on sleep for interested personnel. If you’re interested in learning more, request your briefing today by contacting the Health Promotion team at [email protected] or local 6958.
References• Münch, M., Linhart, F., Borisuit, A., Jaeggi, S.
M., & Scartezzini, J. L. (2012). Effects of prior light exposure on early evening performance, subjective sleepiness, and hormonal secretion. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125(1), 196-203.
• Sleep.org (n.d.). Three ways gadgets are keeping you awake. Retrieved from https://www.sleep.org/articles/ways-technology-affects-sleep/
• Vitaterna, M. H., Takahashi, J. S., & Turek, F. W. (n.d.). Overview of circadian rhythms. Retrieved from https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-2/85-93.htm
• Yildirim, C., & Correia, A. (2015). Exploring the dimensions of nomophobia: Development and validation of a self-reported questionnaire. Computers in Human Behavior, 49, 130-137.
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Everyone loves a challenge and this one involves the entire family and is meant to be fun.
It’s called WOOF! 60 minute Challenge, organized by National Recreations of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
And it’s all pretty simple. First, you register your participation at www.facebook.com/CF.REC.FC.
Then you take your beloved dog for a walk on May 25 and have a chance to win a fun pet kit worth $300.
You can walk in your own neighborhood and if you don’t have a dog, you can borrow one from a friend, from the family of a deployed member or a veteran or even borrow one from a local shelter.
Simply go for a 60-minute walk and enjoy.
The purpose of the program is to promote physical fitness and family activities.
The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance, recently launched the new CAF Physical Performance Strategy – BALANCE.
The strategy’s goal is to provide Canadian Armed Forces leaders with the tools to promote a culture of fitness and improve the physical performance of their members.
BALANCE focusses on the relationship between physical activity, performance nutrition, adequate sleep, and prevention of injury to reinvigorate the essential components of operational readiness and lifelong wellness.
The CAF Recreation program plays a key role in developing military communities that are active and families that are supportive of CAF members’ fitness. PSP Recreation offers military families opportunities to be physically active together and participate in programs that meet their needs and interests. By reinforcing a more complete integration of families through recreation programming, there is a profound impact on the CAF’s
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Forgiveness can be better than a cleansing quarrel
I do not know about you, but forgiveness is not easy for me. It is much easier to sulk, shout in anger or not talk to the other person for a few hours (although for some it is not true, their limit is probably 20 minutes, because somehow they cannot remain silent – then the phase of a cleansing quarrel follows).
Anyway, it’s much easier to get mad straight away, shout out all the faults and shortcomings of the other person than just ... forgive. We have many opportunities to forgive others, starting in our own households, with your spouse, parents, children.
Also outside of marriage. When we find out that a friend talks behind our back, when people from work get on our nerves… Not to mention issues from the past ...
The sad truth is that when we allow these wounds to remain in us, they grow in our hearts like weeds and build an invisible (at least at first glance) wall between us and God. But also between us and others...
It is often the case that we try to convince ourselves that ‘he does not deserve forgiveness’. Or ‘what she did cannot be forgiven’. And we still hold this resentment.
But to be honest ... usually the person toward whom we hold our grudge does not know about it at all or does not care about it at all. The truth is that by holding a grudge, we condemn ourselves to
suffering. Because we deny ourselves the freedom that forgiveness gives.
One lady once said: “I know something about it, because one day I had to make a decision to forgive someone who hurt me very much. Everything in me screamed ‘but how, why, I have to forgive, for what reason?’. But I came to a point in my life when I realized that if I did not make that decision, my wounds would keep blocking me.
Because they made me unable to open up to my future husband. They made me distrust people. That I really could not see the Father ... Daddy ... in my God. They made me unable to love, to really love.
And it is not that when I decided to forgive this person and completely give away my hurt to God, I forgot everything that this person did. Unfortunately, I still remember. It still hurts sometimes. But I am free because I do not think about how poor and miserable I am. My wounds do not block me from dealing with others. I am not afraid to love, because I know that my life is not in my hands, but in the hands of God, it is not me who steers it, but He. First of all, my wounds no longer decide about my life and future decisions.
And when I think about all that God in turn has forgiven me. About all my evil thoughts, about pride, lies, judgment, about words that I have spoken that have hurt others; about my egoism, etc...
That’s all that my good God has just forgiven me so far ... and that he forgives me every day when I turn to him; that I can start anew with a clean sheet every day because He loves me unconditionally. When I think about it, I wonder - what right do I have to not forgive?
When my husband annoys me, my first reaction is anger. Often a scream. Even more often, I punish him with my silence, because I know that it will affect him, hurt him most. How cruel.
I feel so horrible when I do something that will sadden him, which silences him. And I would like so badly that he would stop, that he would forget about what I just said, that he would smile, hug me and say ‘everything is OK, baby, it happens’. Phew ... what a relief. I’m so grateful to him when that moment comes...
I wish all that exactly. That they feel that they can be wrong, that they can make mistakes. That they can be people like us. Non-perfect. If you and I have received this great gift of forgiveness and freedom freely, let us try to give it generously.
And if, for various reasons, you have not yet decided to accept this gift - do it today. Do not waste valuable hours and days. Freedom is just around the corner. I checked.”
Respecting others key to your wellness
CLIFF KENYON
Fitness and wellness can be fun and the rewards immeasurable
– such as simply feeling good about yourself.
During the Canadian Forces Morale & Welfare Services (CFMWS) Staff Wellness Day on May 9, about six teams of four participants each took part in a Geocache challenge, organized by Tammy Buchanan, Health Promotion Manager, and her staff.
It was a fun event with teams walking and searching following clues and GPS co-ordinates to find the geocache treasure boxes. Geochaching is a worldwide activity involving the use of GPS and other navigational tools to find hidden prizes just for the fun of it. Don’t get excited. It’s not a real treasure of huge value. But the one hour search and the interaction team members had along the way is the treasure with smiling and bragging rights when they return to home base, the Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre activity room, for the important work which was chatting about the theme of the activity: Be Well, Work Well, in a Safe and Respectful Workplace! It’s all part of the RCAF emphasis on health and wellness.
Buchanan used a quotation from Helen Keller to highlight the theme: “We should respect all people.”
She said it is important for team members with CFMWS and
throughout the base to “remember how we treat our clients and our co-workers every day.”
Even if you pass a homeless person on the sidewalk “showing respect to them is a reflection of your character.”
We may feel badly when someone, perhaps a co-worker, speaks badly to us, but we rarely go out of our comfort zone to praise someone.
Building resiliency is the ability to handle stress and adversity, at work and at home but it can be challenging.
Buchanan said while her son is going through military basic training and finding it tougher
than expected she advises him to set attainable goals broken into small steps.
“Break your goals into small things,” she said. By reaching small goals you can build your confidence.
A positive social network of friends, relatives and co-workers can be a key element contributing to your mental health.
Positive self-talking is among the top cognitive behaviours that can help you cope with stress, improve your mental health and resiliency.
“It’s a conscious effort to be more positive in your outlook,” she said.
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HOROSCOPESCAPRICORN - December 22 - January 19Capricorn, you are considering a financial undertaking that takes you out of your comfort zone. Don’t hesitate, as there’s no reward without a little risk.AQUARIUS - January 20 - February 18Speaking your mind is par for the course, as Aquarians tend to be opinionated. You have the ability to win over others without making them feel pressured in any way.PISCES - February 19 - March 20Enjoy a few hours of hibernation this week, Pisces. Expect to feel recharged in no time. Relaxation for two also can fit the bill.ARIES - March 21 - April 19Reconciliation is important, Aries. That’s especially so if you know you have been in the wrong. Others will respect you much more for your ability to make up and move on. TAURUS - April 20 - May 20It’s time to showcase all of your talents to an authority figure who can push you toward success, Taurus. All you need is a little reinforcement. GEMINI - May 21 - June 21 Fresh experiences are on the way, and you are craving an opportunity to broaden your horizons, Gemini. Sign up for classes or get a new hobby to open your eyes to new things.CANCER - June 22 - July 22Sharing deep feelings with others can be healing, Cancer. Just be sure to choose your confidantes wisely, as the right mentor can make all the difference. LEO - July 23 - August 22Spending quality time with a particular person who is close to you will brighten your week, Leo. It’s just the change of pace you need to put a smile on your face.VIRGO - August 23 - September 22You are more than willing to take on extra work that needs to be done to get a project completed, Virgo. Your team-first attitude is not going unnoticed or unappreciated.LIBRA - September 23 - October 22Creative things catch your eye this week, Libra. Make it a point to stroll through an art gallery or catch a foreign film. Your appreciation for the arts will only grow. SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21 Calling your own shots is perfect for you. The idea of working independently is very attractive to you this week. Give it some thought. SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - December 21Hobbies and leisure time activities with friends will provide a welcome break from work, Sagittarius. Use these opportunities to reconnect with people you care about.
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Canada’s new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft will be in service by 2020.
Delivery to start for Canada’s 16 new CC-295sTHE MAPLE LEAF
The first Canada’s 16 new CC-295 fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft rolled off the assembly line in Spain, bringing us one step closer to first delivery.
This aircraft is the first of 16 to be built following a contract award in December 2016 to Airbus Defence and Space. The CC-295, as it has been designated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), will replace the Buffalo and H-model Hercules fleets in the fixed-wing search and rescue role.
The RCAF will operate the new fleet from 19 Wing Comox, 17 Wing Winnipeg, 8 Wing Trenton, and 14 Wing Greenwood. A training centre for CC-295 aircrew and maintainers is also being built at 19 Wing Comox.
The first aircraft is on track to be accepted by Canada in Spain late this year, and to be flying in Canadian skies in the spring of 2020.
Grand Opening of the New Indoor Play
Structure at the MACC
The Mackenzie Arts and Community Centre (MACC) is pleased to announce the grand opening of its new play structure in the gymnasium to enhance the Open Play program among other various activities. The grand opening will happen this Wednesday, 15 May, during Open Play from 9 am – 12 pm. If you have a child aged 5 and under, be sure to stop in and see this great new structure, and have a piece of cake while you’re at it. Open Play will be free to all community members on this special occasion.