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For many, July is synonymous with summer holidays and spending quality time with the family, but for others, the arrival of warm weather is conducive to sweat and strain; the joy of victory and the agony of defeat.
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Last month, the Canadian Forces Community Gateway celebrated a successful first year of putting military communities on the map. The online gateway connects military personnel and their families with the services available on their local base or wing with the simple click of a mouse.
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Two new services for military families, the FamilyForce website and Family Information Line, were recently launched by Director Military Family Services.
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There was a growing sea of red shirts as walkers and runners converged on downtown Ottawa on Friday, June 3, 2011, for the fifth annual Walk/Run in Red, an event hosted by Canadian Forces Support Unit Ottawa in support of Canadian Forces Day celebrations.
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Launched in June, the CF Appreciation Program delivers enhanced leisure travel and attractions at discounted rates to our Canadian Forces Community.
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Known as the “Peace Games”, the 5th edition of the CISM Military World Games will be held 16-24 July 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Military athletes from over 90 countries will brought together in friendly, world class competition for 37 events in 20 different sports.
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What is it that drew some 6 000 people—men, women and children—to Uplands, in the heart of the national capital, on the first Saturday in June?
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To acknowledge the legacy of PO2 Craig Blake, the first Canadian Navy sailor to fall in Afghanistan, the annual Navy Fitness Challenge at CFB Halifax has been renamed the PO2 Craig Blake Memorial Fitness Challenge.
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The 2010/2011 Non-Public Property Annual Report will soon be available. The new edition will be posted in July. Stay tuned!
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From May 28-29, nearly 40, 000 runners pounded the pavement through the National Capital Region at Ottawa Race Weekend. Among them were just over 100 Canadian Forces members.
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As part of the Strengthening the Forces Health Promotion Program, March 1st I Quit challenges members of the Defence community to stop using tobacco.
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From May 9th to the 19th 2011, 9 Wing Gander held a 2 week Health Challenge modelled after the popular TV show “The Amazing Race”. Participants in teams of two had 10 days to complete the daily tasks that were assigned to them. Teams that completed their tasks first were rewarded with the most points toward a final tally.
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The CFB Esquimalt Lookout Newspaper's recent accomplishments and acknowledgments highlight not only the hard working members that make up the team, but the various programs and initiatives they support as a paper.
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CFB Halifax was the first stop for the Canadian Olympians and Paralympians as they kicked off their first-ever cross-Canada tour to inspire communities, and offer them a chance to meet the athletes.
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Rather than stay in the comfort and safety of their homes, hundreds of Canadian civilians are choosing to work for months at a time in Kandahar, in a theatre of war, where they live in a soldier’s world.
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At the CIS Awards Banquet held in Victoria last June, Major (ret’d) McLeod, a leading coach of the Royal Military College, received the Austin-Matthews Award.
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Michel Desilets has just returned from a fifth deployment to Afghanistan, but is already preparing to leave in July for a sixth. After having gone to Kabul in 2004, he has gone to Kandahar four times since 2006. No, he’s not a soldier—he’s a civilian barber.
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The perfect start to your summer! The Canadian Forces Golf Courses will offer FREE golf to kids under the age of sixteen who are accompanied by a paying adult during the Take A Kid To The Course program taking place July 4-10, 2011.
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