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Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre is open for business - outside JOY SMITH For everyone who is just dying to get back into the gym or do a spin class with your bestie or maybe do some weights? Well now you can… sort of. Group fitness classes are now being held outside at the Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre sports field and back parking lot. All classes will have a maximum of nine participants, masks are mandatory and physical distancing will be maintained. Monday is Yoga from 1600 hrs to 1645 hrs; Tuesday is Spinning from 1200 hrs to 1245 hrs; Wednesday is Total Body Strength & Conditioning from 1200 hrs to 1245 hrs; and Thursday is Spinning again at 1600 hrs - 1645 hrs. Decompress from your busy week with another Yoga class Friday from 1200 hrs to 1245 hrs. Yoga classes will be a mix of Vinyasa and Yin. Call the Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre welcome desk to register at 780-840-8000 ext 7823. The Outdoor gym is also open for business. Located behind the Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre the outdoor gym utilizes a Beaver Fit Box as well as a squat rack, chin up bar, TRX, various weighted bars/ plates, free weights, medicine balls, kettle bells, sandbags, tires, and more. The gym is available Monday to Thursday from 1100 hrs - 1700 hrs. No appointment is necessary and COVID-19 protocols will be in place. Fitness classes and gym use is open to military Submitted members as well as members The Col J.J. Parr Sports Centre’s outdoor gym utilizes the use of the Beaver Fit of the Defence team. Box filled with great exercise equipment. It is open to the military and Defence So let’s hit the Gym! team Monday to Thursday from 1100 hrs - 1700 hrs.
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Exercise MAPLE STRIKE taking place at 4 Wing Cold Lake MAY 3, 2021 – COLD LAKE, AB – NATIONAL DEFENCE / CANADIAN ARMED FORCES 4 Wing Cold Lake is hosting Canadian Army Joint Terminal Attack Controllers participating in Exercise MAPLE STRIKE until May 7, 2021. The public is advised that teams of 5-10 soldiers dressed in tactical combat gear may be seen in the Cold Lake, Ardmore, and Bonnyville areas from May 3 to 7. The soldiers will not be armed and will not have any ammunition. The soldiers will be communicating with 4 Wing aircraft flying over the area conducting valuable Close Air Support training. Further training will take place within Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake and the Cold Lake Air Weapons range to include night flying operations involving 4 Wing CF-18 aircraft. Residents of Cold Lake and the surrounding area can expect to see and hear aircraft during this time. Military personnel participating in this exercise will be adhering to strict COVID-19 mitigation protocols to ensure the health and safety of the community. Members of the public are asked not to interact with the soldiers in respect of COVID-19 protocols and not to interfere with the training scenarios. 4 Wing is always mindful of the Lakeland community and this type of training is not intended to disrupt your valuable peace and quiet. This exercise is important to aid in preparing soldiers for combat operations in dynamic built up areas overseas. The ability to conduct night missions is vital to 4 Wing and the Joint Terminal Attack Controller’s operational capabilities.
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Military Family Resource Centre Society gets help putting together Canada Day morale packages
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Wing Commander, Col Dave Moar and Canadian Natural Stakeholder relations advisor, Carrie Baumgardner help prepare Morale packages that will be sent to deployed 4 Wing members. A total of 30 packages Joy Smith were prepared and will be mailed to troops deployed to Latvia, Kuwait, 4 Wing members on deployment will receive a package packed with all Romania, Egypt and Qatar. kinds of goodies to help them celebrate Canada Day.
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Understanding musculoskeletal injuries DEFENCE STORIES One of the most common reasons for women in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to be medically discharged, or not deployed, is musculoskeletal injury (MSKi). Avoidable injury should never be an impediment to service, and so we want to better understand why this problem is happening, and how it can be alleviated. This is why Canadian Forces Morale & Welfare Services’ Personnel Support Programs (PSP) is partnering with the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, to undertake various focus groups to better understand the risk of MSKi,
especially for women during prenatal and postpartum periods. The goal of this specific project is to use focus group data to guide the development of improved training strategies that should result in lower injury rates, while up-holding gender-free fitness standards. If you’re a woman or man, aged 18 to 65, a current or former CAF Member, and fit in one of the following groups: • a female who has been pregnant while serving in the CAF or; • a female who has not been pregnant at all while serving in the CAF or;
• a female or male who have experienced an MSKi that required medical advice and/or treatment, and have impacted ability to carry out their duties or; • a female or male who have experienced an MSKi, but whose duties have not been impacted, please contact our research coordinator and help us improve your experience! Kevin Semeniuk (University of Ottawa) Email: ksemeniu@uottawa.ca Phone: 613-562-5800 x1003 Thank you for taking the time to help your fellow CAF Members! For more information visit: Understanding Musculoskeletal Injuries (cafconnection.ca).
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CWO Peter Stauffer Memorial Scholarships were created by the Medley CFB Society in honour of Peter Stauffer, the Wing Chief Warrant Officer and an active member of the Society from July 2000 until July 2004, who passed away due to cancer September 19, 2004. In Peter Stauffer’s name, the Society presents three $2500.00 Scholarships each academic year.
Application process: Open to all graduating high school students who are dependents of personnel currently serving at 4 Wing in the CAF (Regular or Reserve) or as DND or NPF employees. The students must be planning on pursuing full-time post-secondary studies at a recognized educational institution (academic or technical), must have maintained a consistent academic standing and have contributed to the community in a demonstrable manner. The most important application requirement is the 500-word essay on either ‘Leadership’, ‘Quality of Life’ or ‘Community Spirit’. Students must provide a clear and well thought out presentation of what their selected quality means to them and illustrate that quality’s influence in their own lives.
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Vote for your favourite youth reporter story CANADIAN FORCES NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Support the next generation of writers. Vote for your favourite youth reporter story between now and May 31st and you can set one young person up with a grand prize package, including a $2,500 scholarship. Every fall, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Newspapers* invites young people, 13 to 18-years-old, from military families and Cadets, to enter our Youth Reporter Competition. This year’s competition is sponsored by Adobe. Aspiring reporters are asked to submit a story idea about something important in their life or community. CAF Newspapers received more than 50 applications from CAF-affiliated youth across Canada and the world. In late January, a selection committee of CAF Newspaper editors reviewed applications to select six story ideas with the most editorial merit. Originality and social impact are key considerations. One month later, six finalists were contacted and given a deadline to develop their story idea into an original article. All stories are featured in a special PLAY e-zine edition, published on CAFconnection.ca and in CAF newspapers across Canada. Your vote takes them to the next level. “The youth reporter competition gives young people affiliated with the CAF a chance to have their voices heard and to develop their writing acumen,” says Ryan Cane, Editor in Chief and National Recreation Manager for PSP. “As a community, we learn a lot by listening to stories that are meaningful to the next generation, and it’s great that CAF Newspapers offers this opportunity annually.” Now it’s your turn to connect with these young writers. Read the top six stories and vote for your favourite for a chance to win a participation prize. Voting is open until May 31, 2021 (closing at midnight EDT), at CAFconnection.ca/YouthReporter. *CAF Newspapers are managed by Personnel Support Programs (PSP), a division of Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services (CFMWS). **Voting rules apply
The cost of housing
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ince I am posted to Ottawa this summer, the housing market has been on my mind a lot lately. The prospect of buying a home for twice the price that I sold mine for here in Cold Lake is a bit distressing. The cost of housing seems to be bloating up faster than our income is by a fair margin. In raw numbers, since I joined the military in 1998, the salary for a basic corporal has increased by 76%, and a basic captain 72%. Over the same period, the average cost of housing has doubled or tripled. I have always found this fascinating: the cost of something rarely corresponds to the value of the actual material and workmanship that went into it, and more to do with how much a population is able to pay for it. People move to big cities to get good jobs. But then houses cost more in big cities because people will pay more to live close to those jobs. Yet the same house costs twice or three times as much in the city as it would in the country, despite the fact that it has the same amount of lumber and screws and drywall and shingles and such, and took the
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same amount of time to be built by craftsmen of equal skill. Of course, those craftsman need to be paid higher salaries in order to work in the city, or else they wouldn’t be able to afford to live there, because the costs of the houses they build are so high! But it’s not all as bad as it sounds. Economists reminds us that, while the actual costs of houses have increased so much, the cost of borrowing is much better, which means that our monthly payments are actually less. (For example, in the 80’s, when the interest rate was over 15%, people were paying over 50% of their monthly income on housing!). So, I have a lot to be thankful for. I thank God that I have never lost a lot of money selling a house (I know some of you have). I even thank God that I’ve never really made any money selling a house, since then I can tell myself it was a fair deal for the next family. I am reminded of the days of feast and famine recorded in the book of Genesis, when Joseph served as the prime minister for Pharoah. When the famine got so bad that no one had food left, the people
sold themselves as Pharaoh’s slaves if he would feed them. We have not gotten to that point yet, at least. The important thing is to keep it in perspective. Our income is there to provide what we need… to complete our mission. What is your mission? What are your goals? As a believer in Jesus, I am comforted by his words, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith!” (Luke 12:21-26) andrew.whitman@forces.gc.ca
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Enjoy some great activities in May PSP COMMUNITY RECREATION Spring is here and that means it’s time to get outside and explore! Head over to the 4 Wing Recreation Instagram page for weekly ideas on great ways to get active outside with our Movement Monday posts. Also, starting Wednesday, 19 May follow along weekly through the summer as Lesley, our Aquatics Supervisor, shows us everything we need to know about
how to prepare, maintain, and harvest a garden. We also have some great Take & Make packages available in May for various skills and interests to enjoy being creative at home! These include a Cinco de Mayo Piñata, which includes a draw to win a Mamacitas Mexican Restaurant gift card, a Mother’s Day mug and gift pack, a “worms & dirt” sensory bin discovery pack, a mud kitchen play set, and a fairy/gnome garden planter kit. Head to Book King to register for
any of these fun take home opportunities. As always, follow our social media accounts, Facebook – 4 Wing Connection, and Instagram – 4 Wing Recreation for the most up to date information on upcoming programming! We hope your spring is joyful and fun despite the current restrictions. See CAFconnection for details.
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HOROSCOPES
Crossword ACROSS 1. Engine additive 4. A hearty laugh 8. Restrain 10. Dried coconut kernels 11. Nefarious 12. Elderly 13. Central part of a church building 15. Throw into confusion 16. Intestinal 17. Qualities of being religious 18. Live up to a standard 21. Seize 22. Go quickly 23. Automated teller machine 24. Bowling necessity 25. One point east of due south 26. Japanese honorific 27. A way to induce sleep 34. Makes cash register
rolls 35. A city in S Louisiana 36. Make more cheerful 37. Manicurist 38. Consents 39. Network of nerves 40. Mocking smile 41. It covers the body 42. Partner to pans 43. Perform in a play DOWN 1. Beautiful 2. Polynesian island country 3. Shrub of the olive family 4. Self-governing Netherlands territory 5. Shared one’s view 6. Tailless amphibians 7. Charge passengers must pay 9. Sound sheep make 10. Known for sure 12. Filled with
unexpressed anger 14. Student (abbr.) 15. Criticize 17. Gathering place 19. Informal alliances 20. One’s mother (British) 23. Landholder 24. Peter’s last name 25. Parties 26. Title of respect
27. Red wine 28. Pearl Jam’s debut 29. Shaft horsepower (abbr.) 30. Frosts 31. Cry of joy 32. Induces vomiting 33. Mother or father 34. Dal __: Musical navigation marker 36. Door fastener part
CAPRICORN - December 22 - January 19 Your desire to get things done is only hindered by the free time you have. This might be an opportunity to take a personal day and catch up on your home life, Capricorn. AQUARIUS - January 20 - February 18 Give yourself some self-healing time, Aquarius. You have been juggling a lot of different things lately, which may have crowded your mind. Sort it all out. PISCES - February 19 - March 20 Leave worries at your doorstep, Pisces. This is a week when the sun is always shining and everything seems to fall in place. ARIES - March 21 - April 19 Aries, serving others is important, but it also is essential that you take care of yourself. Set aside time for some pampering or at least to enjoy some moments of quiet. TAURUS - April 20 - May 20 Taurus, it is important that you take a stand one way or another concerning a relationship with someone close. Taking a stand will benefit both parties. GEMINI - May 21 - June 21 Gemini, stubborn minds can cause friction when they interact with one another, but you can be the mediator who steps in. Try to cool tempers and smooth things out. CANCER - June 22 - July 22 Expect things to go quite nicely for you this week, Cancer. More prosperity should be heading your way and all in all things will flow smoothly at home and work. LEO - July 23 - August 22 It is time to get on the same page as others close to you, Leo. This could involve making some minor adjustments to your way of thinking, but it will be well worth it. VIRGO - August 23 - September 22 Important lessons on balance are learned this week, Virgo. They involve how much of yourself you are sharing with others. You may need to slightly scale back the helping hand. LIBRA - September 23 - October 22 Libra, if you feel like you’re not getting the attention you deserve at work, you may need to plead your case to a new audience. See if you can move up the chain of command. SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21 Your mind and energy levels are on an even keel this week, Scorpio. You have the perfect combination to get big projects done. Tackle as much as you can. SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - December 21 Sagittarius, it is alright to be a bit more selfish than usual for the next few days. You probably have tasks that have been put off for some time. Now is the time to get them done.
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Five kids under five: how this SAR spouse handles the unpredictable HOLLY BRIDGES
flexible, family routine with predictable nap times, “me time” with girlfriends (pre-pandemic) and “seize the moment” type of outings with her family during days off as ways of coping. Kelly-Lynn also has family in nearby PEI and New Brunswick to fall back on. “Down time can also be a nice van ride in an afternoon when all the kids fall asleep. My husband and I will have a hot coffee or pit stop to local breweries or wineries to pick up a few treats for the evening. “I do enjoy a hot shower, Netflix, snacks and a drink at home just fine. It won’t always be this way so we see this as a blessing and an adventure with plenty of time down the road with more time for us. For now, I’m happy to be needed.” Needed indeed The RCAF recognizes the immense sacrifices and contributions made by spouses like Kelly-Lynn, referring to them as “Invisible Crew Members,” without whose support the RCAF simply could not operate. Kelly-Lynn is proud to contribute in her own way to the RCAF mission. “I don’t do an actual RCAF job but I am my husband’s biggest fan, study buddy, his rock and stability. “Being a stay-at-home mom at the moment means he doesn’t need to worry when he gets a call. He can just go.” Hubby says thank you Kelly-Lynn’s husband, Cpl Dan Domonkos, says a lot of people would be amazed at the sacrifices made by
military spouses, and adds “she makes it so I don’t need to worry and I can There are supermoms. And then focus on missions and my job.’ there are military supermoms. “I would like to thank my beautiful On any given day, Kelly-Lynn Nicole, wife for always being by my side and mom of five kids under five, including supporting me with everything! I triplets, never quite knows what to couldn’t do this alone and appreciate expect. One day her husband might everything [she] has done for me and be at home with the family or at work, our little family!” while another he’s off flying potentially Help for SAR spouses dangerous search and rescue missions, Although Kelly-Lynn finds it hard with little more than 30 minutes’ notice. to ask for help, she says it would be nice if “A lot of people are amazed at how others in the military community could my spouse has to drop everything the know somehow when SAR spouses are minute he gets a call to go to a rescue. alone, unlike Army and Navy spouses They are amazed at the missions he whose community support systems are does,” says Kelly-Lynn, whose husband fairly established during predictable is is a flight engineer with 413 Transport and longer deployments. and Rescue Squadron in 14 Wing “SAR spouses deal with instant, Greenwood, N.S. “They can’t get over mini, local deployments. We don’t Submitted the fact that he could be gone for days know when the call will come in; and Kelly-Lynn Nicole and her husband for a mission with such short notice. At when they leave we don’t know when Cpl Dan Domonkos with their five the drop of a hat, I’m left to hold down they might return - and if they will. It children. the fort.” would be nice for others to have a better “It’s an adventure and we like to Short-fuse and unpredictability of understanding of our lifestyle. travel. I’ve grown up with this lifestyle, missions “We need a community, a village, and I think it’s really what you make Such is life in search and rescue, something to reassure SAR spouses of it. It’s really the only life I’ve known, one of the most unpredictable, and there are people they can count on and it’s been a rewarding one thus far. inherently dangerous, battle rhythms when they need help the most. Kindness, I can pass down what I know of it to in the Canadian Armed Forces and the company and conversation. When our my children. They will have each other RCAF. husbands are away or during the most through moves, learn to adapt to new “Missions can happen at any given stressful times, a simple tea and treats surroundings and keep an open mind time. They happen in the middle of dropped off for the kids, a friend that to new possibilities. Plus, you make dinner, grocery shopping, family getpops by with a ready-made meal, to friends everywhere you go. It can really togethers, the middle of the night drop in and break up the day or help be a positive lifestyle.” and most happen in bad weather and with bedtime routine would be great.” RCAF Family Connection Program dangerous conditions. As a super Still, Kelly-Lynn wouldn’t change can help woman as some may see me, I am things for the world. If you would like to find a friend only human and of course I can get or be a friendly connection during the extremely worried.” Annual Posting Season, register for the A worrisome lifestyle RCAF Family Connection Program. Kelly-Lynn, a “base brat” whose The RCAF Family Connection father served in the RCAF, says worrying Program’s volunteer connectors stand is probably her biggest challenge. She ready to assist families settle into their and her husband lost friends in the new communities during the posting 2006 crash of a CH-149 Cormorant in season, and to support families who are Nova Scotia, which often weighs heavily separated from their loved ones due to on her mind and heart. military service. “SAR isn’t exactly a walk in the You can register here. park,” says Kelly-Lynn. “In better The Canadian Armed Forces and the [weather] conditions, it could be a RCAF have the main responsibility for longer search mission with no telling providing SAR from the air in Canada. It when they will return. It’s hard to not also coordinates the national response for air have my other half home with me. We and maritime SAR. CAF assets are tasked love our time together as a family. So, to respond to about 1,000 SAR missions when the schedule changes and we have every year with families holding down the RCAF to change or reshuffle plans, it’s hard.” fort for almost every one. We celebrate and Cpl Dan Domonkos is a flight engineer with 413 Transport and Rescue How Kelly-Lynn copes thank them for their service. Kelly-Lynn credits a consistent, yet Squadron in 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S.
401 Sqn remembers Photos by Kyle Ferris
On May 2, 2021, on behalf of 401 Squadron (Sqn), Kyle Ferris placed flowers at a Cairn erected by 401 Sqn at the entrance to CFB Gagetown in memory of Lt Ron Ehrne, commemorating the 50year anniversary of an otter crash that claimed his life. See the Courier News article on the crash for full details here.