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Vol. 93 No. 42
Crowsnest Pass
Herald
November 8, 2023 $1.25
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High Praire Red Wings forward Dayton Shantz carries the puck into the Edson Eagles end, followed by Eagles forward Rhodes Buffalo, during their matchup in the Crowsnest Pass on November 2.
NJHL teams face off in the Crowsnest Pass NICHOLAS L. M. ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter The top two teams in the National Junior Hockey League (NJHL) faced off at the Crowsnest Pass Sports Complex on November 4. The Edson Eagles and High Prairie Red Wings faced off as the top two teams in the league heading into the game. The Eagles emerged vicotrilus after a high intensity game with plenty of goals. Edson started the scoring with the help of two even strength goals early in the first period. The first goal was scored by Nathaniel Heese and assisted by Tyson Ward and Mason Buzzell. The second was a goal from Carson Baptiste assisted by Austin Berezowski.
Baptiste added to the lead with a shorthanded goal with 12:49 remaining in the first. The Red Wings didn’t roll over yet, putting in a powerplay and even strength goal to cut the lead to one. This would be the closest they came to tieing the score all game. Baptiste would score the next two goals unassisted. One at even strength to end the first period and one shorthanded to start the second. Berezowski scored two more for the Eagles, with Ethan Ermineskin and Alysik Buffalo adding a goal each to bring the Eagles up to nine goals. Kc Papastesis, Dayton Shantz, Kaden Desjarlais and Ty Cunningham scored goals for High Prarie, but they ended up on the losing side of a 9-4 score. The shots for each team were 40 for the Eagles and 35 for the Red Wings. Before puck drop, owner of the Pass NJHL team, Colin Grindle, revealed the name for the new team with Mayor Blair Painter and CAO Patrick Thomas, with the name Crush being revealed. Beginning in the 2024-25 hockey season, the Crowsnest Pass Crush will join the NJHL. More photos on page 20
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From the Pass to working with Snowbirds NICHOLAS L. M. ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter Looking at a Crowsnest Pass native’s journey to flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force. When he was a kid, Dan Rossi became interested in flying after watching the Challenger space shuttle explode. “For whatever reason, that really awakened me to aeronautics and astronautics, and I really wanted to be an astronaut and then I became interested in rockets like every young boy probably does with some kind of machine growing up in the Pass,” said Rossi. Rossi explained how he and his best friend were
always on snowmobiles, quads or dirt bikes and how from that, he knew he wanted to operate “some kind of machine” as a job. He read more into the way that flight is on the very edge of what humanity can do and his imagination was captured. “My parents and I used to go to Penticton every summer and while we were there, there was an air show that I saw. At the air show there was an F-18 fighter jet (McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet), and I saw that and was like, I have to do this,” said Rossi. When he graduated in 1993, the military wasn’t taking anybody. He still knew he wanted to be a pilot but didn’t know how. “Growing up in the Pass, there’s not a lot of pilots around, so I looked into it just by chance. I was working at the Mohawk in Coleman and one of my coworkers had a brochure for Mount Royal College in Calgary and one of their programs was aviation,” explained Rossi. He was accepted into the program and then graduated in 1996. Rossi was then instructing for the college for about a year when the military called him. From
there, Rossi entered the Canadian Armed Forces in 1997, finishing all his basic training and flying training in 1999. At the time, he was selected to fly Sea King helicopters out of 443 Squadron in Victoria, B.C. He flew the Sea King until he had an accident in 2000. In his first deployment the helicopter crashed into the ocean. “After that, the military gave me a new start. I went to multi-engines and I started flying the Dash 8 (De Havilland Canada DHC-8) here in Winnipeg,” said Rossi. He flew the Dash 8 starting in 2003 and in 2009 he was selected to be an advance and safety pilot for the Snowbirds for the 2009 to 2011 show seasons. The Snowbirds, which are officially known as the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, are the flight demonstration team for the Royal Canadian Air Force. As the advance and safety pilot, Rossi wasn’t in the plane doing all the stunts, he was on the ground. He had to know what the formation was doing and warn if there was somebody out of position, even something as “mundane” as their nose light burned out. Cont’d on page 10
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Action between the Edson Eagles and High Prarie Red Wings on November 4 at the Crowsnest Pass Sports Complex
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U7 Crowsnest Pass Thunder getting autographs from players (left) and playing a match between the first and second periods of play (right) on November 4.
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Mayor Blair Painter and owner of the Crowsnest Pass Crush, Colin Grindle, with the new jerseys for the team getting its start in 2024 at the game on November 4.
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