Capital News Thursday, July 28, 2011
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Snowbirds return to Kelowna The Kelowna Rotary Club is bringing the Canadian Forces Snowbirds here on Monday to provide a 35-minute aerial show over the area of Waterfront Park. Vern Nielsen, spokesman for the Kelowna Rotarians, said the show will start at 5 p.m. It will be proceeded by a fundraising gala banquet on Sunday, 6:30 p.m., at the Coast Capri Hotel, in honour of the Snowbirds’ visit. Tickets are still avail-
Vern Nielsen able at $100/person, with a Snowbird pilot to be seated at every table. For tickets to the ban-
quet, call 250-762-5050 or go to www.SelectYourTickets.com. Nielsen said there will be photo opportunities with the Snowbird pilots and team members along with entertainment by a singer. Nielsen said the opportunity to host a show by the Snowbirds started out as a mere coincidence. “I happening to be talking to a friend of mine who had just retired from the Armed Forces. He knows the Snowbirds
commanding officer and some of the pilots,” Nielsen recalled. “He suggested we should bring them to Kelowna this summer, and I said absolutely.” His friend made some calls and found out another B.C. community was interested in bringing the Snowbirds to their town, but hadn’t completed all the paperwork yet. “He said if we get our (paperwork) in right away there’s a good chance we could get them and that’s what happened.”
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Putting a face to the Afghanistan death toll Mural from A1 that 100 Canadian troops had been lost in Afghanistan… I was happy (my nephew) wasn’t one of them, but I realized I had 100 postage-sized faces looking at me and they all had someone missing them.” So he went to work. On a canvas that
stretches 10 feet tall by 40 feet wide, Sopha spent 6,500 hours recreating the faces of 155 Canadian soldiers, sailors and aircrew who lost their lives in Afghanistan. “I start by laying out the size, then I go directly to the eyes and spend two or three hours,” he said. “They give me a feeling what a guy is like and
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who they really were.” The mural is touring across Canada in a specialized mobile display trailer, and organizers expect to raise more than $1.5 million, which will go to the Military Families Fund. That fund was established in April 2007 by Canada’s former Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hilli-
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