Saturday, 23 July 2005 (9 photos)
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E Coy has earned the right to fly the pennant for week 2.
Capt Archie Pow and Lt Faisal Jama on their way to training for the morning.
Newly arrived 2nd intake basic cadets in Foxtrot Company marched down for lunch under the supervision of C/Sgt Blaine Andrejcin and C/Sgt Justin Silver.
Guard Company's 31 Platoon marches back from Dieppe Square having complete a drill lesson in Closed pace stick drill with C/WO Xenia Menzies.
The Echo Company office is busy with Capt Donna Generous and the company clerk C/MCpl Simon Gagnon doing paperwork.
Cdts Jason Searle 2924 Rocky Mountain Rangers RC(Army)CC, Barriere, BC, and Nathan Klop1725 Engineers RC(Army)CC, Chilliwack, BC reading the commemorative plaque at the Kiska Gun.
The Vernon Camp Idol contest in full swing at the cadet canteen Saturday night. Many talented cadets take turns singing in front of the audience of cheering cadets.
Cdt Krystin LeClair 788 British Columbia Dragoons, RC(Army)CC Penticton, BC is one of the contestants on the Vernon Camp Idol, a member of Bravo Company, this is her second summer at Vernon. This evening, she sang Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me To The Moon" to the roar of approval from her peers and with good reason, "I didn't really know what to sing tonight. I had only two minutes notice and I was nervous, but I chose Fly Me To The Moon because Frank Sinatra is one of my favourite singers". Cdt LeClair has been singing opera since the age of 5 when her mother took her to see her first opera Carmen. Since then she has completed her grade10 in the Royal Conservatory of Music, practicing at least 2 hours a day with weekly lessons of several hours. She has been in cadets four years but only began playing snare drum just a month ago, already she is a level three drummer in Bravo Company, which she attributes to her training in singing. Starting grade 12 in high school this fall, she sees herself touring and singing around Europe in 5 or six years after she has completed a university degree in music. If you can, catch her singing, she has a remarkable voice.
Heading over to Coutt's Common.
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A Coy - in Camp
B Coy - in Camp
C Coy - in Camp
D Coy - in Camp
E Coy - in Camp
F Coy - in Camp
G Coy - in camp
Today's weather: Max Temp. 27.5 Min Temp. 11c partly cloudy and warm
This day in Canadian Military History...
23 July 1748
In accordance with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, French troops march into Louisbourg to repossess it from the New Englanders who had taken it in 1745.
23 July 1918
Prisoners of war escape from Holzminder prison camp and try to make their way to Holland. Of the 29 who make the attempt, 10 succeed, among them Lt. J.G. Colquoun of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.