CONTENT 03 About iinta MUSIC 05-15 The Oak Ridge Boys: History in the Making SPORTS 18-26 Theo Fleury: The Health of the Matter GIFT-GIVING 30-32 The Human League Association Feature 36-44 Snowbirds: Icons of Canadian Skies Travel 46-50 Top 13 Places to Visit in Canada: British Columbia Literature 53-59 How Do We Become Our Favourite Characters? Aviation 62-64 Aviation's Dirty Word Business 67-75 The World is Passing Me By
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THE OAK RIDGE BOYS
The Oak Ridge Boys, Left to Right: William Lee Golden, Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen & Richard Sterban. All Photos provided by ORB
History in the Making By Jennifer J. Lacelle July 15, 2021
It’s no secret that the Oak Ridge
outside the quiet town of Knoxville,
Boys (ORB) — previously the Oak
Tennessee — the same day he was
Ridge Quartet — have a long-
promoted to Brigadier General. This
standing history in the music
plot of territory would become a place
business, starting with humble
that assisted with developing the
beginnings in “The Secret City.”
atomic bomb.
Historic Starts
Groves was overseeing the Manhattan
In autumn of 1942, three years into
Project, an American development
World War II, Colonel Leslie Groves
and research venture that studied
selected 60,000 acres of land just
nuclear weaponry.
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THEO FLEURY
Photo Via www.thestar.com
The Health of the Matter By Jennifer J. Lacelle August 9, 2021
There are going to be experiences,
A concept that Theo Fleury, former
good and bad, that shape people and
NHL star, says is often confused and
recreate them into entirely different
that the cause of mental illness is
people. These defining moments
trauma.
leave lasting impressions emotionally, physically, spiritually
Fleury is now in the position to
and mentally.
advocate on behalf of victims, though he had to take his own path filled with
It isn’t addiction that leads to mental
trauma and learning before arriving
illness, it’s the other way around.
where he is today.
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THE HUMAN LEAGUE ASSOCIATION
A Human Approach By Kelly Louiseize Editor Jennifer J. Lacelle June 24, 2021
The Human League Association
students new to the city or live
(HLA) is expanding its reach beyond
below the poverty line and need
children’s breakfast projects and
help.
extra-curricular activity assistance to include Greater Sudbury’s vulnerable
By removing social and economic
citizens.
barriers faced in lower-income families, volunteers can provide a
Although the Breakfast Club of
healthy, safe environment for
Canada has since jumped into
children, youth and young parents to
schools with equally healthy meals,
grow a happier, healthier, and more
HLA members say there are still
productive life.
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ICONS OF CANADIAN SKIES
Photo credit: Capt Maciej Hatta
Interview with Snowbird 1 Team Lead, Major Jean-François Dupont By Douglas Landsborough Editor Jennifer J. Lacelle June 30, 2021
Almost as soon as he could walk,
Canadians as the Snowbirds.
Major Jean-François Dupont wanted
Alongside his fellow pilots and backed
to fly.
by technicians, mobile support operators, support clerks, and
With a rich history in aviation that
engineering, logistics and public
started as an Air Cadet and with a
affairs officers, Maj Dupont dazzles
glider license, Maj Dupont is now the
audiences across Canada and the US,
Lead pilot for 431 Air Demonstration
performing feats that at times look
Squadron—known to most
impossible.
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TOP 13 PLACES TO VISIT IN CANADA
British Columbia. Photo credit: Trevor Mckinnon
#12: Haida Gwaii & Capilano Suspension Bridge, British Columbia By Jennifer J. Lacelle August 3, 2021
Sitting along the North Pacific Ocean
History
is Canada’s Westernmost province,
A little after the Ice Age is when the
British Columbia. Where the trees
Indigenous tribes began settling along
are the tallest in the country, you’ll
the western coast; carbon dating shows
find yourself winding up and down
their existence on these lands 6-8,000
roads and through thickets of trees
years ago.
in this province. Whether a new visitor, recurring visitor or permanent
Their villages contained anywhere from
resident you’ll always find something
200 to 1,000 citizens and often used the
to drop your jaw at.
woods around them to build houses.
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BECOMING OUR FAVOURITE CHARACTERS
Does Fiction Influence Reality? By Jennifer J. Lacelle August 10, 2021
The wind whistled between the
about to set upon her. Abigayle’s eyes
trees, echoing nature’s voice as
tilted upward as a lone wolf pup
Abigayle made her way over the
wobbled toward her, ears fallen back
rugged surface of the earth and out
and tail dragging limply behind him.
of the thick forest. She shuddered as
His cry, small but drawn, seeped into
sharp winter air swept across the
the chilly air as if begging her to save
field and through her thin jacket.
him.
Muttering to herself, breath hanging
She paused, unsure what to do, as her
like fog, she cursed the impending
heart fell for the pitiful creature. She
season and the snowy carnage it was
couldn’t even save herself.
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AVIATION'S DIRTY WORD
Turbulence By Michel Treskin Editor Jennifer J. Lacelle August 18, 2021
I don’t know any flight that I have
For a pilot, turbulence can be a
flown as a pilot or as a passenger
nuisance and if severe, can escalate to
where turbulence wasn’t present.
a point where immediate deviation in heading and/or change of altitude is
Turbulence or as the non aviator type
required. Worst case scenario would
would call it, air pockets, has been
be the aircraft inadvertently entering a
terrifying so many since the
thunderstorm (cumulus nimbus type)
beginning of passenger flying. I can
where mega severe turbulence might
surely appreciate the level of anxiety
be encountered from rising warm air
and tension people might feel when
and downward cold air causing
the aircraft encounters turbulence.
momentary loss of aircraft control.
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THE WORLD IS PASSING ME BY
Covid & Travel By Fred Lazar July 27, 2021
I used to joke that the older I got, the
a flight to California to visit our
less I understood. However, I have
children whom we haven’t seen face-
discovered during the past few years
to-face in over 19 months. The three-
that this is no longer a joke. While I
day hotel quarantine requirement that
have many examples to demonstrate
Once my wife and I got our second
this, let me refer to just four.
dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and the Canadian Government changed the
Once my wife and I got our second
absurd quarantine rules, we booked a
dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and the
flight to California to visit our children
Canadian Government changed the
whom we haven’t seen face-to-face in
absurd quarantine rules, we booked
over 19 months. kept us from
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