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Community Council represents RHU residents
The 14 Wing Greenwood Community Council’s main functions are to conduct activities of interest to the community, provide a voice concerning matters of the Residential Housing Units residents, provide a channel of communication between the wing and RHU residents, and to make recommendations to improve welfare, safety and comfort of the RHU area. The Community… Read more
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Always time for special museum visitors…
Two careers’ worth of stories were swapped in a morning’s tour of the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum July 2, as museum society chairman Royal Canadian Air Force Major General (retired) Ian Patrick hosted visiting United States Air Force Colonel (retired) Loran Gierhart, from Texas. The former military pilots compared aircraft flown, bases and airfields they’d… Read more
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Cancer challenge motivates Valley cyclist
For Marie Johnstone, cancer has “hit too close to home, too often.” She has dedicated the last four years to raising funds for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) through the Great Cycle Challenge Canada. “I think I started because my daughter, Angela’s best friend at school died of cancer and, being so close to… Read more
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Back-to-school weather challenge
Hello, students! I’m Corporal Winter, with 14 Wing Greenwood’s Intelligence and Meteorological Flight. I’d like to invite you to learn more about MET in Greenwood, and task you with entering to become Greenwood’s most accurate student forecaster! The MET section at 14 Wing works around the clock, 365 days a year, to support military operations… Read more
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Remembering Flight Lieutenant James McRae DFC CD: A life of courage, service
It was meant to be a joyous occasion, marking the return of the resurrected Canso 11094 to the skies over Yarmouth, and its reunion with one of its Second World War-time pilots. Instead, the community gathered June 21 in solemn remembrance of Flight Lieutenant (retired) James M. McRae DFC CD, a respected figure whose life… Read more
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CFS Sydney ‘a special spot’
Apparently we all missed the best posting: working, or living near, Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Sydney. Several dozen people gathered June 21 to 23 for a too-long-delayed first reunion, 32 years after the radar site was decommissioned, and 59 years since one attendee last cleaned the base rink’s ice. “We had a ball,” says co-lead… Read more
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Bombs away! GMAM Boly restoration progresses
The Bristol Bolingbroke restoration team at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM) has been beavering away over the last year, building new bomb bay doors, torn away April 28, 1943, when the aircraft made a forced belly-landing in a farmer’s field near Dafoe, Saskatchewan. The museum’s aircraft, registered as tail number 9997, suffered an engine… Read more
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All about appreciation
Families gathered at 14 Wing’s Community Recreation Centre on the evening of June 20 for the Personnel Support Programs and Military Family Resource Centre joint volunteer appreciation night. Though the sun was shining outside, everyone was happy to get away from the heat wave and cool down in the air-conditioned teen room as they enjoyed… Read more
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Cadets’ ACR shows youth ‘coming into leadership roles’
517 Flight Lieutenant (F/Lt) Graham Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron held its 74th Annual Ceremonial Review June 9, on a warm, sunny evening, in a 14 Wing Greenwood parking lot, outside The Aurora Newspaper. The annual parade recognizes Cadets who, whether through their performance, volunteerism or esprit de corps; have distinguished themselves during the 2023… Read more
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Celebrating connection
Members of 14 Wing Greenwood and community friends gathered at the base’s main gate June 21 to raise the Mi’kmaq Grand Council flag in celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, and the summer solstice. After the flag raising, 14 Wing Commander Colonel Jeff Davis presented Annapolis Valley First Nation councillors Nastasya Kennedy and Monique Holland… Read more
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