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December2013

THIS ISSUE

PRESIdENT’S MESSAGE Harvey Fry

The Wing Ding is published monthly. The opinions expressed are those of the editor and contributors and in no way reflect opinions of the Air Force Association of Canada or of the 404 K-W Wing, who jointly and separately assume no liability.

president’s message 1 general meeting 1padres’ Corner 2Christmas dinner 2

ladies auxiliary 3

entertainment 3

friday lunChes 3

Just us Jamming 3

happenings and 4

entertainment 4

poppy Campaign 4

euChre 5

shuffleboard 5

bar hours 5

robbie burns 5

Cookie Walk 6

neW years levee 6

Calendar 7

exeC’s phone list 8

membership report 8

404 K-W Wing monthly meeting will be held Thursday, December 5th, 2013.

Meet & Greet at 5:30 pm, Dinner at 6:30 pm - Meeting at 7:45 pm.

Please reserve dinner tickets by Tuesday December 3rd latest.

GENERAL MEETING NOTICE

My thanks go out to all of our members helped make our many Remembrance day activities the successes they were. Thank you to Sid Kenmir and our taggers who raised so much money for the Poppy Fund; to the Ladies who provided another super luncheon; and to all of you who attended church, cemetery, cenotaph and parade services. Your Wing facilities are still not being used as much as they might be. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights are still busy, but Monday and Thursday nights we are not open because of lack of use. Saturday afternoons pose another problem with so few members attending. Please let our Council know what you’d like to see take place on Saturday’s. do you want horse races, cards, darts, shuffle board? Let us know. It need not be the same thing each Saturday. Perhaps one or two weeks could have races followed by one of

darts, one of shuffleboard, or whatever. There could be all kinds of schedules. What are you suggestions? Tell us, please.At our November dinner meeting the members attending unanimously requested that we change our dinner and meeting times effective January 9, 2014. Mark this down in your appointment book, please...... Meet and Greet at 5:00 pm, dinner at 6:00 pm and Business Meeting at 7:15 pm. Let’s try it.Also at our January 9th dinner Meeting, the Wing will receive a presentation from the Kitchener Rangers Hockey Club a memento of our Wing’s participation in the Poppy Fund hockey game of October 25th. We are honoured.Please support our Ladies at their Cookie Walk and Breakfast on december 7th.Tickets are available now for our Christmas dinner on december 14th so don’t be disappointed. Get your tickets at the bar now! See you at the Wing

Merry Christmas &

Happy New Year to all

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Dr. Bruce SweetPAdRE’S CORNER

In the faith this is the time of year when we talk about many Bible passages dealing with the birth of Jesus. One of these is found in the first chapter of John: And the Word became flesh and lived among us...I am always looking for places where I see the Word becoming flesh in the world. Where do we observe love, forgiveness, mercy and grace being lived out in people's lives? I'm sure it happens a lot but these are not usually the kinds of stories that make it onto the news. As I write this the items dominating the newscasts are about the Senate scandal as well as the activities at Toronto City Hall. So, if it's not going to be on the news, maybe it's up to us to pay special

attention to these events when we see them occurring in our own daily lives. Would we feel comfortable in saying something to the person who has enabled the Word to become flesh? And would we be inspired to act in the same spirit? I also found this on the Internet: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012). I don't present this to make us feel guilty.

Indeed, I am very grateful for the country in which we live and for our overflowing bounty. I also wonder, however, how to best share it. during the season of Advent in the Christian Church we prepare for the birth of Christ in our lives. This year Advent is december 1-23. How does the story of this birth continue to happen today? The story is most real when it happens to, and within, us. Here are a few websites I found that speak to this: Welcome | Random Acts of Kindness http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/Word Made Flesh http://www.wordmadeflesh.org/With this I wish you a Merry Christmas and great joy as you experience the Word becoming flesh.

Christmas Dinner Party With turkey and all the trimmings

Saturday, December 14th

Cocktail ~ 5:30 Dinner ~ 6:30

Reserve your ticket now Call: 519-884-1272

404 Wing

$25

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LAdIES AUxILIARY Carol Totzke

FRIdAY LUNCHES Carol Totzke

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WEdNESdAY ENTERTAINMENT Larry Allenson

JUST US JAMMING! Come out to play

or just to enjoyWednesday, december

4th, 11th and 18th at 7 pm

On Saturday, december 7th, we will be having our Cookie Walk and Breakfast from 8:30 to 11:30 am. In order

to sell cookies to our members and the public, we need as many of our

Great Lunches are here on Friday, the 6th, 13th and 20th in December. 12 noon - 1:30 pm

Appreciation Lunch is Friday the 20th. Come for lunch at your Wing!

ladies as possible to bake cookies for our fund raising event. Tickets for our gourmet basket and other draw prizes will be available from our L/A members or at the bar. Cost of the tickets are $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00.The Ladies Auxiliary Christmas

party will be held at the Wing on december 18th at 12:30 pm. Chinese food is being brought in. Money for the Angel Tree and canned food for the Food Bank will be collected at this time.Merry Christmas and a happy and safe new year to all.

370 Highland Road W., Kitchener, Ontario N2M 5J9Phone: 519-581-1158 Fax: 1-519-581-0624

Christmas will soon be here, so book your tickets now for another great night of food and fellowship at our annual Christmas Party on dec 14th. The New Years’ levee is on January 1st from 1 - 5 pm.

ENTERTAINMENT Donna, Terry, Bob and Larry

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KidsAbility serves over 4,000 children with physical, developmental and communication disabilities in

Waterloo Region and Wellington County each year.Phone: 519-886-8886 x 201 www.kidsability.ca

Ad courtesy of Harvey Gib NewmanCharitable Business #89094 3673 RR0001

KidsAbility

404 WING POPPY CAMPAIGN 2013 Sid Kenmir & Vic Snowden, 404 Wing Poppy Co-Chairs

I am very pleased to report that 404 Wing had a terrific Poppy Campaign this year, we hit the magic $12,000.00 mark for the first time ever. With more volunteers we could have hit the $15,000.00 level, the money is out there just for the taking.Our total cash for 2013 is $12,000.00 compared to $10,565.00 in 2012, putting us up $1,435..00. I think the 404 Wing members and non-members did a super job of canvassing this year at Conestoga

Mall Food Court & Zehrs store in the Conestoga Mall and our local Sobey’s store. A big thank you to: Vic & Pat Snowden, Richard Setka, Harvey Fry, Peter Sumlick, , they went out tagging at least three times, this brings the money in a lot faster. Richard Setka collected the most money this year, he collected $2,387.33 on many, many trips out to the Conestoga Mall Zehrs Store and Food Court. He had some 4 hour shifts and some 2 hour shifts, he went out tagging whenever he had some spare time. This is what I call dedication, thank you so much Richard.The following 404 Wing members and non-members also gave up their valuable time and went out tagging at least once, most went out twice: Brenda Stamp, Anna May Trapp, Ada Monaghan, Terry Bruce, dell Budd, Ross Knill, Jim & david Playford, Ron Beaudreau, Skye van Ess, Garry & donna Kuehl, Ken Gawthorn, Ernie dyck, dick Trussler, Aline McCubbin, Paul Peel, Michelle Leschak and dennis Villeneuve. Let me know if I forgot anyone.Ken Gawthorn of Unit 52 KVA went out for two shifts at the Conestoga Mall Zehrs Store and brought in $1,443.49 and he isn’t even a member of 404 Wing, thanks for helping us Ken.I would like to thank my wife Marlene, Bob Young, Elizabeth Maurer, Gib Newman, Aline McCubbin and Paul Peel for giving up most of their valuable Saturdays and other times to count money.Larry Allenson and Lucia Power took counter top Poppy boxes to their places of work and brought in $183.84, every bit helps, thank you for being so thoughtful.I think the public was very generous this year because 404 Wings number of volunteers was way down. We need more volunteers in 2014 to keep me from getting ulcers from looking at all of the empty spaces on our Tagging Schedules. This year, a lot of the money came in from canvassers on the first and second week-ends, maybe we’ll try to get more canvassers out on those two week-ends of the 2014 Poppy Campaign.In 2014, I would like to see way more Wing volunteers and more Wing members opting for more shifts, this really increases the final total. It would really be nice if we had so many volunteers that we could spend more time at Sobey’s Store at Northfield drive and Weber Street North, which is also in 404 Wing’s territory. Thanks to all of you once again,

“ Please support our advertisers”

Come out and enjoy Euchre in december on Tuesday,

dec. 3rd, 10th and 17th at 7 pm.

Happy Holidays See you at the Wing.

EUCHRE

SHUFFLEBOARd “Sugi” Sugimotto

Sunday ClosedMonday ClosedTuesday 6 - 9Wednesday 6 - 9 Thursday ClosedFriday Noon - 1:30 Friday 4 - 11Saturday 2 - 6

BAR HOURS Larry Allenson

Shuffleboard season is in progress.Wednesday, december 4th, is the only day we will be

playing this month starting from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.Come and join us for a great afternoon.

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ROBBIE BURNS SUPPER Donna Kuehl

Season’sGreetings

Bob Young

“ Please support our advertisers”

Robbie Burns Supper Saturday, January 25, 2014

Come away in at 5:30 pm

Steak pie, neeps & tatties served at 6:30 pm

Tickets ~ $15

404 K-W Wing, RCAFA, 510 Dutton Drive, Waterloo

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COOKIE WALK & BREAKFAST Michelle Leschak - Convenor

COOKIE WALK & BREAKFASTSaturday, December 7th, 2013

8:30 am to 11:30 am519-884-1272 (in the lounge)

510 dutton drive, WaterlooChoose your own Christmas Cookies for

$3.50 per dozen or $10.00 for 3 dozenGourmet Basket tickets $2.00

or 3 tickets for $5.00A dELICIOUS BREAKFAST will be served also.

Any ladies who wish to contribute some cookies or perhaps a donation to help out with this fund-raising event,

it would be most appreciated. Thank-you !

Levée New Year’s Day

January 1st, 2014

2 – 5 pm

Ring in the New Year with friends and “olde acquaintances”

enjoy the music

$ Donation Free event ! 404 K-W Wing, Air Force Association 510 Dutton Dr., Waterloo (519) 884-1272

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December

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Private Function 3 - 9 pm

“Just Us” Jamming

7 pm

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“Just Us” Jamming

7 pm

Optimist Exec Mtg.

(Roundel Room) 7:30 pm

Saturday Entertainment

2 - 6 pm

404 Christmas

Party 5:30 pm

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Singles Selective 7:30 pm

General Dinner

Mtg. 6:30 pm

Mtg 7:45 pm

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Euchre 7 pm

Euchre 7 pm

Ladies Aux Christmas

Party 12:30 pm

29 30 31 Jan 1 2

“Just Us” Jamming

7 pm

Shuffleboard 1:30 - 3:30 pm

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Friday LunchNoon-1:30 pm

Singles Selective

Christmas Party

(Large hall)7:30 pm

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Saturday Entertainment

2 - 6 pm

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CLOSEdEuchre 7 pm

Happy New

Year’s Levee 1-5pm

Merry Christmas

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CLOSEdAppreciation Friday Lunch Noon - 1:30

pm

Cookie Walk & Breakfast

8:30- 11:30 am

Private Function 6-10 pm

Canoe Club6:30 -

9:30 pm

Private Function 3 - 7 pm

Dinner Mtg.

moved to Jan 9/2014

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Dec 7 - Auxiliary “Cookie Walk”

Dec 14 - Christmas PartyJan 1 - New Year’s Levee Jan 25 - Robbie Burn’s

Supper

404 WING ExECUTIVE COUNCIL 2013 - 2014ExECUTIVE OFFICE dIRECTORSPresident Harvey Fry 743-2958 director (R) Bob drummond 226-972-25281st Vice President donna Kuehl 744-3146 director (R) Peter Sumlick 746-56542nd Vice President Vic Snowden 744-1206 director (R) Sid Kenmir 748-1778IMM. P.P. Mike Turos 584-7217 director (R) Larry Allenson 576-9929Secretary TBA -----------Treasurer Ernie dyck 746-0496 Appointed Chairpersons and Committees Air Cadets P Wilf dippel 664-2669 Ontario Group PresidentP Les Ball through ExecAir CadetsP Garry Kuehl 744-3146 Padre dr. Bruce Sweet 886-1471 Bar Officer1 Larry Allenson 576-9929 Poppy Fund RepP Sid Kenmir 748-1778

dinner Meetings2 Peter Sumlick 746-5654 Vic Snowden 744-1206Entertainment1S Larry Allenson 576-9929 Regalia1 Wilf dippel 664-2669Events Booking Peter Sumlick 746-5654 Visiting TBA -----------Historian1 Vic Snowden 744-1206 Veterans CouncilP Sid Kenmir 748-1778House2 Sid Kenmir 748-1778 Vic Snowden 744-1206MembershipM donna Kuehl 744-3146 Western Region RVPP Jim Scherb. through Exec OLG ContactP donna Kuehl 744-3146 Wing ding (Editor)P Larry Allenson 576-9929 Wing ding (Producer)E Trish Walker -----------

LAdIES AUxILIARY ExECUTIVE 2013 - 2014 ExECUTIVE OFFICERS President Carol Totzke 885-6173 Secretary Anne Mulhall 885-7030 1st Vice President Penny Cleaver 579-6878 Treasurer Aline McCubbin 579-2326Immed. Past President Bev Rylott 579-4583

dIRECTORS Friday Lunches Aline McCubbin 579-2326 Phoning Mindy Scott 621-8938 Historian Pat Snowden 744-1206 Jean Jarosz 743-7333 Kitchen dinner Meetings Joan Fry 743-2958 Publicity Michelle Leschak 576-1272 Kitchen L.A. Meetings Anne Bennett 885-1848 Special Events Terry Bruce 884-3642Liaison Bev Rylott 579-4583 Penny Cleaver 579-6878Membership dorothy dippel 664-2669 Sick & Visiting Elizabeth Maurer 742-7810

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1 Reports through 1st Vice President2 Reports through 2nd Vice PresidentE Reports through EditorP Reports through PresidentM Reports through immediate Past President

(Call 519 area code unless otherwise stated)

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MEMBERSHIP REPORT Donna Kuehl

Associate 15 Regular 32Regular - dual 18 Regular-Life 7Regular - Life dual 2 VOTING 74Social 23 Corporate Group 2 404 Honorary 12