TWELVE NEW BRONZE AWARD HOLDES FROM
SQUADRON 690 LAKESHORE
Twelve
cadets from squadron 690 Lakeshore received their Bronze Awards from the
Honorable Francis Scarpaleggia, MP for Lac St. Louis during their Annual Review
on 31 May 2008. Congratulations to everyone and good luck for your Silver Award.
Sergeant Liam McKeown (Pointe Claire), Sergeant
Nicholas Buonvino (Pincourt), Flight Corporal Francois Daoust (Pointe
Claire), Corporal Erik Benneter (Kirkland), Corporal Matti Saloranta (Pointe
Claire), Corporal Vaughn Guigui (Kirkland), Sergeant Edward Carroll
(Beaconsfield), Flight Corporal Emily Hodgson (Hudson), Sergeant Karen
Schmidt (Ile Perrot), Flight Corporal Audrey Pinet (Kirkland), Warrant
Officer 2nd Class Stacey Osei-Bonsu (Pointe Claire), Sergeant Nicholas
Weller (DDO)
SILVER AWARD CEREMONY
Sixty
young people coming from all over the province have received on April 26 their
Silver Award certificates of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award from the hands of The
Honourable Pierre Duchesne, Lieutenant-Governor of Québec, at the Hôtel
du Parlement de Québec.
Among the recipients, six Junior Rangers from
the villages of Inukjuak and La Tabatière attended the ceremny for the first
time.
To qualify
for the Silver level, participants must involve themselves for a minimal period
of 60 hours in their community, practice a skill for 12 months, spend 40 hours
of physical fitness through 20 weeks and participate to an adventurous journey
of 3 days and 2 nights.
THREE PARTICIPANTS TAKE THE
CHALLENGE!
On
last March 21 to 24, three participants in The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
went to Duchesnay Centre for an adventurous journey of four days and three
nights. Their group leader, Mrs. Johanne Dostie, Gold participants Ariane Keck
and France Lachapelle as well as Bronze participant Vincent Lachapelle have
travelled 102 kilometers of cross-country skiing and explored the life refusal
on
the site of the Station Duchesnay Tourist. France Lachapelle, participating in
the expedition, says that: "We must not be afraid to change plans if necessary,
the important thing is to always keep in mind the overall objectives of the
expedition." She also says that she is proud to have achieved its aims.
