Monday 4 November Parade
As Monday is CO’s Parade, Dress will be C1, Tunics, dress shirt, and medals (not ribbons) if earned.
We are also expecting a special guest, Captain Notschaele to be in attendance on Monday night. Captain Notschaele is our Zone Training Officer.
Annual Validation Forms
Thank you to everyone who has returned their Annual Validation forms!
We still have a few outstanding validations. If you have not yet returned them please bring them this week. If you need another copy, please see 2Lt Drew so she can get the appropriate documents to you. These were due back by 4 October, 2019 and are now long overdue.
AGM
This weekend Captain Walton, Mrs. Dickson and Mrs. Stewart attended the Annual General Meeting (AMG) in Saskatoon.
While they were there they presented a cheque in the amount of $10,000 to Saskcadet to renovate the male washrooms.
The 691 Hawk Sponsor Committee was also presented with an award for “Top Sponsoring Committee”. Congratulations! Thank you to all the members of the committee for all the hard work you do. This award was well deserved.
Squadron Sponsor Committee (Parent Support Group) Meeting
There will be a meeting on 4 November, 2019 starting at 18:45 (6:45 PM). Please come out and support your cadet!
Code of Conduct Forms
The Cadet Program has established a revised code of conduct. As such, all cadets and parents are required to sign this form. They will be sent out on 4 November and will be expected back on 18 November.
If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to an officer.
2021 Easter Trip
Please start bringing back your forms for the easter trip on Monday night. They are not officially due yet but we are hoping to start registrations for the trip.
If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to Captain Walton.
WOII Merit Review Boards
For those who have submitted their letters to Captain Walton, we will be holding the Merit Review Board on Monday 4 November, 2019.
Please ensure you have reviewed the study package and are prepared for the board.
The board members will include Mr. Bousfield, Lt Kinneberg, and 2Lt Drew.
If you have any questions please see 2Lt Drew.
Uniform Care/Range Day
This mandatory event will be at Memorial Hall on Sunday 10 November from 9:00-15:00 (9:00 AM – 3:00 PM). Lunch will be provided.
You will need to bring a water bottle and your uniform full uniform (excluding your wedge). This includes your cadet issued boots, pants, blue button-up shirt, tunic and tie.
If you have polish and a cloth, please bring them as well. If you do not, we do have some available to purchase through the canteen.
We also plan on doing some marksmanship. We will start with a quick briefing and some safety handling before having everyone shoot. We will be shooting for marksmanship qualifications. Depending on how close your grouping is, you can earn different badges to sew on your uniform.
Mexican Supper Fundraiser
All unsold tickets and money from sold tickets are due back on Monday 4 November. Please turn these in to Mrs. Dickson.
The Mexican Supper will be held at Memorial Hall from 17:00-20:30 (5:00 PM – 8:30 PM).
If you’re still looking to purchase a ticket, please contact Mrs. Dickson. Tickets are $30.00 each and the proceeds go towards our fundraising for the 2021 Easter Trip.
Ground School
Ground school is open to all cadets who are interested in taking the gliding or power flying exams in early January 2020.
Ground School will be held on Sunday, 3 November, 2019. The class will be held at the Regina Armoury (1600 Elphinstone St) from 18:00- 21:00 (6PM-9PM)
Please let Captain Walton know if you are attending ground school as there is paper work that needs to be completed.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance day is an extremely important day, not just for cadets or military members, but for everyone across Canada to remember those who have fought to make our country what it is today.
As cadets, it is mandatory that you participate in any the various Remembrance Day ceremonies being held throughout the province. If you not local to Indian Head, you are more than welcome to participate somewhere closer to home. If this is the case, take a picture of you in uniform at the ceremony and post it to the Facebook page or send it to 2Lt Whalley so we can confirm your attendance and well as record it for your training files.
There will be no cadets on Monday 11 November as you will be expected to participate in a Remembrance day ceremony instead.
Take a minute below to read the attached PDF on the wearing of Poppies.
Wearing-of-PoppiesTri-Service Volleyball Invitation
41 Hercules RCACS (Regina) has invited us to the volleyball tournament they are hosting on 23 November, 2019. The tournament will be held at Pilot Butte School. Lunch will be provided.
Thank you for everyone who showed interest! We have quite a few to try out for our volleyball team. A team consists of eight members so please make sure you attend the practice so we can work together to create the best team to send to the competition.
Our first practice will be Wednesday 13 November at 18:30 (6:30 PM) at Wosley High School.
Level 5 Workshop
Those level 5’s signed up for the Level 5 Training Weekend need to see 2Lt Drew on Monday night to receive their offers of participation to sign and bring back the following week.
Digital Copy of Instructional Guides
Senior cadets or instructors, the link below will redirect you to a page on the Air Cadet League of Saskatchewan website. This website has a digital copy of all the current and up to date Instructional Guides. If you are an instructor, please use the PDFs provided to assist you in preparing your lesson plans. If you have any questions please speak to an officer.
Sask ACL website: https://skacl.ca/resources/lesson-plans
Technology Project
We are always trying to expand the program and offer different programs so there is something for everyone. Captain Walton is looking to offer an optional technology project. As air cadets, we would like to keep it related to aviation but are welcome to all ideas.
Do you have any ideas you would be interested in?
Is there a cool activity you did at summer training you’d like to expand on?
See an interesting project or activity and think we should try that? Let Captain Walton know!
Current ideas include:
- A code club, building and coding some sort of game or program. Possibility of using a Raspberry Pi or a micro controller like a Adruino
- Learning more about basic electronics
- Build a robot to preform a specific task.
- Build a fighting robot (battle BOT).
- Build and program a homemade drone or RC airplane.
- Build an air plane tracker like a piaware flight feeder. https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
- Tear down and rebuild a small 4 stroke motor
- Air Traffic Control live simulation