Monday, 24 October, 2011

VETERNS UN NATO CANADA WEST HAS MOVED TO:

www.veteransunnatowest.ca

C U THERE!

Saturday, 24 September, 2011

LLOYDMINSTER and VERMILLION RUN SUNDAY 25 SEP

Some members are heading out to Lloydminster Sunday to hook up with the Cold Lake Crew, Wainwright and other members. Meeting at Rickies Bar and Grill in Lloyd. South side (right) of HWY 16 as you come in from Edmonton by the first Tim Hortons and before the CDN TIRE.

Temps in the mid to upper 20s will make this an awesome fall day and a couple new members being patched in. Anyone interested contact Eric Hine to hook up with him and others coming out.

C U then and Ride Safe!

EDMONTON TOY RUN SUNDAY 25 SEPT

Anyone heading out for the Toy Run can meet at Tim Horton's on 97th St by CDN TIRE at 8am

C'mon out, enjoy the day and help the kids!

Ride Safe

Wednesday, 21 September, 2011

BATTLE OF BRITAIN COLD LAKE 18 SEPT 2011

Friday, 16 September, 2011

Portraits of Honour led by Chris, Salty and 90 members and guest of UN NATO

Friday, 19 August, 2011

LUC LIZOTTE at GINO's Place in Edmunston NB

Sunday, 3 July, 2011

Vermillion Fun Run 3 Jul 2011

More pics here:
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Saturday, 2 July, 2011

ust go to: WWW.CFAPPRECIATION.CA

CANFORGEN 111/11 CMP 054/11 231509Z JUN 11
LAUNCH OF THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM
UNCLASSIFIED
ON BEHALF OF THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE, THE HONOURABLE PETER MACKAY, AND THE CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF, GEN NATYNCZYK, I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF THE CANADIAN FORCES (CF) APPRECIATION PROGRAM, EFFECTIVE 23 JUNE 2011. THE CF APPRECIATION
PROGRAM WILL PROVIDE THE CF COMMUNITY WITH ACCESS TO A WIDE ARRAY OF INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND LOCAL DISCOUNTS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES, WITH EMPHASIS ON LEISURE TRAVEL, INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL AS WELL AS FAMILY HOLIDAY PACKAGES, AND MANY OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES OF INTEREST

CF COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH ACCESS TO THE PROGRAM INCLUDE: CURRENTLY SERVING REGULAR FORCE AND RESERVE FORCE MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, FORMER CF MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF DND, OF THE NON-PUBLIC FUNDS, AND OF THE CF, AND FOREIGN MILITARY PERSONNEL SERVING WITH THE CF THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM CAN BE ACCESSED PRIMARILY ONLINE AT WWW.CFAPPRECIATION.CA. INITIALLY, THIS WEBSITE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM COMPONENTS:
THE CF R AND R CLUB PROVIDES ACCESS TO TIMESHARE VACATION RENTALS AT HIGHLY DISCOUNTED PRICES. THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ARMED FORCES VACATION CLUB, A PRODUCT OF WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE, SPACIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS AT 3,500 RESORTS, APARTMENTS, CONDOMINIUMS AND HOMES IN MORE THAN 80 COUNTRIES WILL BE OFFERED TO THE CF COMMUNITY AT COMPETITIVE PRICES. FROM SANDY BEACHES TO SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS, THE
CF R AND R CLUB PROVIDES UNIQUE, WELL-DESERVED AND WELL-PRICED VACATION ACCOMODATIONS AND CF DISCOUNTS, WHICH ARE EXPLAINED BELOW THE DISCOUNTS MADE AVAILABLE TO CF COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM BUILD ON THE SUCCESSES OF THE CANEX DISCOUNT PROGRAM (CDP) AS WELL AS ON LOCAL DISCOUNT PROGRAMS OPERATED BY
MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATIONS. ALL DISCOUNTS THAT WERE FORMERLY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CDP HAVE BEEN INTEGRATED INTO THE BROADENED AND ENHANCED SELECTION OF DISCOUNTS OFFERED BY THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM
DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING EIGHT CATEGORIES:
ACCOMMODATIONS
ATTRACTIONS
ENTERTAINMENT
DINING
HOME LIFESTYLE
SHOPS AND SERVICES
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL
IN PREPARATION FOR THE LAUNCH, THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM HAS FOCUSED ON OFFERING DISCOUNTS FOR ATTRACTIONS ACROSS CANADA AND IN THE USA. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT USERS CHECK THE SITE OFTEN, AS DISCOUNTS, CONTESTS AND SPECIAL OFFERS WILL BE ADDED FREQUENTLY. THE WEBSITE ALSO PROVIDES THEOPPORTUNITY TO GIVE FEEDBACK IN ORDER THAT THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM MAY EVOLVE TO MEET THE CHANGING NEEDS OF THE CF COMMUNITY
ADMINISTERED BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL PERSONNEL AND FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES, MR. D.E. MARTIN, THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM AIMS TO ENHANCE THE MORALE AND WELFARE OF CF COMMUNITY MEMBERS BY PROVIDING UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR REST, RECREATION, AND STRENGTHENING OF FAMILY BONDS FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CF APPRECIATION PROGRAM, PLEASE VISIT WWW.CFAPPRECIATION.CA OR CONTACT COLIN BAYNE AT BAYNE.COLIN (AND SIGN) CFPSA.COM <mailto:bayne.colin@cfpsa.com> SIGNED BY RADM A. SMITH, CMP

Thursday, 23 June, 2011

REGIMENT VMC POKER RUN AUG 13th

THE REGIMENT VMC is holding a charity poker run for the new Veterans Center in Edmonton

DATE: 13 Aug 2011

TIME: registration 11:00 hrs. Run starts at 12 noon

PLACE : Red Line Pub, Spruce Grove AB

COST: 20$ a hand

All members of Veterans UN NATO have been invited to participate, enjoy the day with fellow Veterans and supporters of this great cause!

Military Police National Motorcycle Relay Ride

Contact Salty for pledge forms salty01@telus.net
AB Leg
Day	Event		Route Total	Day Total	Tour Total
13 Aug		Edmonton AB - Cold Lake, AB & rtn
	0730 hrs	Tim Hortons Edmonton Garrison, RR 244
Saturday	0800 hrs	Turn right out of Tim Horton's onto RR 244	5.1 km
		Turn left onto HWY-37 W	500 m
		Turn right at HWY-28 N (signs for Bon Accord)	24.9 km
		Take the ramp onto HWY-28 E towards Waskatenau	54 km
Event	Fuel/Snack	Waskatenau, AB		84.5 km, 55m
		Continue onto HWY-28 E towards Bonnyville AB	147 km
Event	Fuel/Snack	Bonnyville, AB		231.5 km,2hrs 30m
		Continue onto HWY-28 E towards Cold Lake AB	49.5 km
	Fuel/Eat	4 Wing Cold Lake, AB		281 km, 3hrs
Event	1200 hrs	Silent Auction, location TBD / 3 hrs		6 hrs

Return Trip	1500 hrs	Cold Lake, AB - St Albert, AB
13-Aug	Event	Turn right onto HWY 28 W towards Bonnyville AB	49.5 km
	Fuel	Bonnyville, AB		49.5 km, 30m
		Continue onto HWY-28 W towards Waskatenau	147 km
	Fuel	Waskatenau, AB		196.5 km, 2hrs
		Continue onto HWY-28 W towards Bon Accord
		Take the ramp onto HWY-28 W towards Bon Accord	54 km
		Continue onto HWY-28, turn right at HWY-37 W	24.9 km
		Head west on HWY 37 toward HWY-2	9.7 km
		Pass over ramp and head S on HWY-2 towards St Albert	8km
		Turn left at main intersection onto Bellerose Dr	300m
		Turn left into Crown & Tower Pub (11 Bellerose Dr)	End of Trip	293.4 km, 3.5hrs
Event	Silent Auction/ Eat	Crown &Tower Pub, St Albert, AB			574.4 km
	1900 hrs	Sponsored by Molson/Silent Auction

Sunday, 19 June, 2011

POPPY PATCH AND RIBBON

Contact Bob Tarras to order: rjtarras@gmail.com Poppy patch is 12$ incl shipping

R4D Calgary 2011

Sunday, 12 June, 2011

R4D Edmonton 2011

More pics here: https://cid-ef8912aec0925ee9.photos.live.com/play.aspx/Ride%20for%20dad%20Pictures?Bsrc=Photomail&Bpub=SDX.Photos

More pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/cst1575/2011MRFD#

Ride for Dad - Edmonton 2011

Link here: Ride for Dad - Edmonton 2011

RIDE FOR HUNGER REDWATER AB 5 JUNE 2011

Tuesday, 31 May, 2011

UN NATO AT ROLLING THUNDER

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/user/Veteransunnatohq#p/a/u/1/qhFGOQYoTbQ

Sunday, 29 May, 2011

RIP Bomardier Manning

Canadian soldier found dead in Afghanistan

Published On Sat May 28 2011

Article

Bombardier Karl Manning, 31, shown in this undated handout photo, has died in a non-hostile incident in Afghanistan.

HANDOUT PHOTO/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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KANDAHAR — The position of the Canadian flag said it all.

In fact, it spoke louder than anything Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner could have said about the death of Bombardier Karl Manning, who became the 156th Canadian to die in Afghanistan.

The flag was at full staff when Milner announced the death early Saturday.

Manning, 31, died in what the military describes as a “non-hostile” “non-accident” incident.

The flag was at half staff after Milner's statement, in contrast to other times when it's been lowered the moment the headquarters learned of a death.

Manning, a native of Chicoutimi, Que., was an artillery soldier and radar operator, who spent the better part of a nearly completed tour at a remote base amid the desolate hard scrub villages of western Panjwaii.

It is a stark, hostile place that for years had been a Taliban sanctuary, until the Canadian battle group, led by the 1st Battalion Royal 22e Regiment, pushed into the area last December.

Manning's body was discovered by fellow soldiers at the outpost in the Zangabad area on Friday.

“While an investigation is still ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding his death, foul play and enemy action have been ruled out,” said Milner.

If ruled a suicide, Manning would become the fourth soldier involved in the Afghan mission to have died by their own hand overseas.

The most high profile case involved Maj. Michelle Mendes, an intelligence officer, who'd only been in theatre a short time when she was found dead in her room on April 25, 2009.

Her suicide put the military's career and mental health systems under close scrutiny with questions about how such an up and coming young officer could have suddenly decided to take her own life.

Another officer assigned to NATO headquarters in Kabul committed suicide. A corporal with a military police detachment at Camp Mirage in Dubai was another case.

The death of Manning is the second of the year, and the first for the Canadian mission in Afghanistan since March 27.

That's when Cpl. Yannick Scherrer was killed by an improvised explosive device southwest of Kandahar city.

Milner described Manning's death as a great loss and offered his condolences to the man's family, friends and comrades.

“His professionalism and dedication were admired by all,” he said in a brief statement before leaving without taking questions.

News of the death shook soldiers at the outpost and many of them gathered in an assembly on Friday to hear the news from senior officers.

Representatives of the Canadian Forces Health Services branch in Kandahar were unable to comment Saturday.

The military has instituted a myriad of new mental health programs since the army first started seeing major combat in Kandahar, including the establishment of operational stress injury clinics at major bases across the country.

There is a recently overhauled suicide prevention program, which the medical branch has gone out of its way to highlight.

A recently completed a study of suicides concluded the Forces could do more to reduce workplace and career stress.

The most recent figures from the military's health group show 16 uniformed members — men and women — took their lives in 2009, almost double the number reported in 2006 at the beginning of the latest Afghan mission.

But military doctors do not look at the number, but rather the overall rate of suicide, which is averaged over a number of years. That figure suggested suicide in the ranks has remained steady.

Men are overwhelmingly more likely to commit suicide in the Forces than women.

Between 2005 and 2009, 50 men in uniform took their own life. Five women committed suicide during the same time frame.

Military members are screened for suicidal thoughts as part of regular fitness reviews and following overseas deployments, but the study questioned the usefulness of some screening questions.

Experts wondered whether it was possible to get an honest answer when asking someone directly whether they'd had thoughts of taking their own life.

The report suggested military doctors pay closer attention to depression, which is sometimes a precursor to a suicide attempt.

Respect and Prayers to Family of Edmonton Soldier

Body of missing soldier found near Redwater

BY BRENT WITTMEIER, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM MAY 26, 2011 BE THE FIRST TO POST A COMMENT

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Richard Curnow is described as five feet, 11 inches, with an athletic build and weighs 208 pounds. He has brown hair and eyes. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the EPS ‘Dispatch Line’ at 780-423-4567.

Photograph by: Supplied, edmontonjournal.com

EDMONTON -- A body found Sunday near Redwater on Sunday is that of missing soldier Richard Curnow.

Curnow, 25, disappeared on the morning of May 5 while jogging along the North Saskatchewan River near Emily Murphy Park. Police, military, and Edmonton Fire Rescue crews searched for two days, while family and friends kept an ongoing search alive.

Police have deemed the death as non-criminal and will not be releasing the cause of death.

Redwater is northeast of Edmonton. The North Saskatchewan River runs through the area but police didn’t say if his body was found in the river.

Sunday, 22 May, 2011

MFRC 4 WING COLD LAKE Award to Members of VETERANS UN NATO CANADA

Tuesday, 26 April, 2011

Some Patriotic Tat's

Thursday, 21 April, 2011

VIM Ribbon 10$ Proceeds to UN NATO FOUNDATION Contact Salty

Wednesday, 20 April, 2011

Quilts of Valour come to 4 Wing MFRC

By Andrew Serba

Posted 2 days ago

In 2006, when Edmonton resident Lezley Zwaal saw an interview with a Canadian soldier injured in Afghanistan, she felt the need to do something for the young man.

"With my friends, when someone is sick or hurt, everyone will get together and each person will sew a bit of a quilt and then someone will put it together to make a comfort quilt," Zwaal explained. "My reaction when I saw the soldier on TV was 'Where's your quilt?' This was someone who has given more than most for their country so that we can do what we want to do."

Zwaal fashioned a quilt for the young soldier and found a way to get it to him.

It was not easy, as a civilian, to get the quilt in the hands of the soldier. So Zwaal next set to work building a network of quilters along with a network of contacts in the military who could get quilts to injured soldiers.

Three years later, Zwaal named her organization Quilts of Valour and registered the group as a non-profit society. And to date, Quilts of Valour has distributed over 1,550 quilts to soldiers in need of comfort.

Last week, Zwaal came to 4 Wing Cold Lake with six quilts for the Military Families Resource Centre to distribute when they are needed.

One of the quilts was chosen by John Moreland, a Canadian veteran who continues his service to the country through his work with Veterans UN/NATO Canada.

"The biggest reason why we're here today is because someone who I think needs a quilt and a big hug is going to get one," Zwaal said. "That's what Quilts of Valour is all about."

Moreland chose a quilt portraying fall leaves – a quilt that matched a recent tattoo the veteran had done as a memento of his service. He was surprised when he heard how many quilts the group has been able to put in soldiers' hands.

"All I can say is a big 'Thank you,'" Moreland said. "For that many quilts to be out there is amazing. It's a simple gesture...but it goes deep. Something like this means a lot."

Michelle Bourdon of the 4 Wing MFRC said the base is careful to protect the identity of all of the quilts' recipients: The media is only notified if the recipient wants to publicize the work that Quilts of Valour does.

"The 4 Wing policy for distribution of quilts of comfort is always to protect the anonymity of any recipient," Bourdon said. "It's to respect the privacy of the individual soldier, but at the same time to let them know they have the support of caring Canadians."

Moreland said he decided to accept the quilt publicly to bring the group's work to the attention to local quilters who might want to help and to the attention of local soldiers who could use the comfort the group helps provide.

"For most of the guys and gals, the limelight is not what its about at all," Moreland said about the ethic many soldiers hold. "This is a nice, subtle way of recognizing them and if it helps get the word out to help any soldier in any way – big or small – then I'm for it."

The Cold Lake contact for Quilts of Valour is Lisa Dawson. She can be reached at lvgdaws@telus.net or at 780-594-0262 with any questions about the group or to arrange for a quilt to be picked up or delivered.