Hello Parents/Guardians,

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.

Recently, a cadet’s family has come forward with a fundraising proposal to help raise funds for the squadron. The family owned New Joyful Living Ltd., a registered company in Canada.

The company has made available KN95 disposable face masks to the 918 SSC for sale. I have personally inspected the masks and they appeared to be very well made. Each box contains 10 masks and each mask is also individually wrapped. Some of you might have concerns about the quality of the masks but I want to assure you that the masks have received the Certificate of Compliance from Ente Certificazione Macchine (A European Notified Body (n.1282) authorized to carry out conformity assessments and issue product certifications according to ISO 17065, with respect to the requirements of the major product directives.) and have been legally imported into Canada. Please refer to the attached for further details and product info.

The 918 SSC will be selling 4 boxes of 10 (40 disposable KN95 face masks) for $20 as per New Joyful Living’s suggestion. For comparison, Costco is also selling the KN95 masks at $19.99 for a box of 20. By purchasing from the 918 SSC, you will not only be getting an additional 20 masks but the squadron also benefits by receiving 40% of the sales proceeds, hence, a win-win situation.

If family members, friends, colleagues, and even neighbors that you know are going to be purchasing masks in the coming days, please kindly ask them to consider buying from the 918 SSC. That way, you will also be helping the 918 SSC raise the much needed funds to enhance our cadets’ experience for the next training year when conditions, hopefully will return to normal. Currently, we have not been approved for a casino licence and even if we do receive one in the coming days, we do not know when our turn to host one will be due to the massive backlogs arising from the pandemic. It could very well be up to a year or more before we can even host our very first casino. In the meantime, we just have to continue to fundraise so that we can enter the next training year with a better financial situation.

Lastly, the 918 SSC would like to thank New Joyful Living for donating 40% of the sales proceeds to the squadron. We are hoping that the families of every cadet family will help support the squadron by participating in this great fundraising opportunity. There are not many fundraising opportunities out there with a return of 40%, so we should all take advantage of this. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Thank you.

On behalf of the 918 SSC,

Joseph Tan

Fundraising Director

 

 

Fundraiser Details:

Goal: As many as we can possibly sell.

Price: $20 for 4 boxes of 10 disposable KN95 face masks.

 

How to Order:

Email your name, email address, contact number, and the number of boxes you wish to purchase to Joseph (fundraising@918aircadets.ca).

 

Payment: E-transfer to donations@918aircadets.ca. Please indicate it is “For Mask Sale” in the note.

 

Orders Pickup: Will arrange with purchasers once orders are received.

Spring Greetings Cadet Parents,

We are on the final stretch for the 2022-23 year.  Thank you so much to all the parents that helped contribute to the cadet activities.   Your efforts with fundraising through cheque writing, canteen, bottle drive, and product purchases throughout the year helped sustain the cadets and I hope that your cadet is excited to be part of the Griffon squadron!  

Don’t forget our highway cleanup is happening this weekend.   Details are on Team App and we ask for more parents to help lighten the load for this fundraiser.   Many cadets will also be involved in community service this month.  Please contact Peter at fundraiser@918aircadets.ca or Craig chair@918aircadets.ca if you have questions.

Remember our cadet photo sessions?   For those who participated, watch for the photo proofs starting next week.  Individual photos and group shots (from February CO Parade) can be purchased on Wednesday nights in the atrium at pickup and drop-off times.   Prices are $30 for the photo package and $15 for the group photo.

There is good donation news to report!   The corporate committee put many applications through, and the Kinsmen Club responded last week with a $5000 grant towards aviation software and power flying familiarization for our squadron cadets.  Also, some of our cadets did a great presentation to the Norwegian Club who also donated $5000.00 to our squadron.   Thanks to all involved!

Attention!  You are invited to come to the May parent meeting, moved to Monday, May 15th at the Good Shepherd Church.   Hopefully, we can report on the results of the drill competition in Edmonton which many of our cadets will be attending.  Good luck cadets!

Please see the attachments for the April meeting minutes and May agenda items. And don’t forget our EverBamboo product fundraiser by K.B.  

BUY 2 GET 1 FREE for both in-person booth and online orders

Free pickup at Good Shepherd Church at 9:30 pm every 2nd and 4th Wed of the month.

IN-PERSON BOOTH

BUY 2 GET 1 FREE for Shoe Deodorizer (Reg $10 each) and Hockey Deodorizer Set (Reg $15 each)

9:20 to 9:35pm on 2nd and 4th Wed on Apr 26th, May 10th & 24th.

May 24th would be the last day for the in-person booth.

ONLINE PROMO

Coupon codes valid on www.everbamboo.com/ca

Buy 2 Get 1 Free code: 918B2G1Free

Free Shipping code: 918AC

(enter both codes at the Checkout step)

SSC Griffon will be having our Annual General Meeting on June 7th at the Good Shepherd Church.  Please consider stepping up to join the executive team.   We will have some openings as some of the executive team will transition away from the executive, so if you are interested or wish to nominate someone, please contact the SSC Griffon Executive.     

See you soon,

Dianna 

918 Griffon SSC Secretary

 

 

 

Funds generated in the Highway Cleanup Project will directly go to the 918 Air Cadet Squadron.

The Government of Alberta ( trans.hwy-cleanupcalgary@gov.ab.ca ) has assigned us to clean up Hwy 1, East of Hwy 68 for 8 Kms on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The length of this section of the highway is 8 km. The government will pay $100 per km.  2 – 4 people will form a group and clean up 1 km of the highway. The event is insured by CAF. All adult volunteers must do volunteer screening. If volunteers are not screened, they will be contacted by the fundraising coordinator to screen after signup.

Our current plan is 

9:30 Parents volunteers meet at the Good Shepherd Church

11:00 – 14:00 Highway cleanup in 8 groups

16:00 Volunteers come back to the Good Shepherd Church

Please click the links below to view the detail of the Highway Cleanup Project 

Participant Guidelines and Rules

Action and General Safety Plan Checklist

Managing Supervisor’s Handbook

The videos for Alberta Highway cleanup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5bFv5Itc0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZucJM4kxE

Thank you for your support to our air cadets. Hope you become a volunteer. Please sign up.

Click here to sign-up: 918 Griffon SSC: Annual Highway Cleanup (signupgenius.com)

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c44a4a62ba3fdce9-annual#/

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Peter Jiang at peterjzc@gmail.com

 

 

 

918 Griffon RCACS | Announcements | by SSC Chair

Good afternoon parents,
We had eight parent volunteers who attended the on-site training last week at the Saddledome for the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Group (The Flames), so please join me in thanking them for their support. We have also had one parent work a shift at the Dome with three parents will be working between today and Sunday.

There is a second on-site training session scheduled for February 21, 2023, so if you are interested in helping out with this fundraising initiative (we need another 20 parent volunteers), please complete the following and e-mail me the two certificates at chair@918aircadets.ca 

We have scheduled an In-Person Orientation for New Groups on February 21st @ 5 pm (subject to change). Prior to attending, you must have ALL of complete the following:

Food Safe which can be obtained free of charge from AHS here: https://albertahealthservices.ca/eph/Page3151.aspx

If over the age of 18 – ProServe which can be obtained for a fee from AGLC here: https://proserve.aglc.ca/ (please advise me if they are under 18, I will not just assume they are)

The Waiver can be signed off electronically here: https://calgaryflames.formstack.com/forms/fundraiser_waiver

Please e-mail me at: chair@918aircadets.ca (Craig Hatch) with any questions.

March greetings 918 squadron parents,

 

As spring approaches, our air cadet squadron is flying high with many activities happening.  Parent meeting  Wednesday, March 8th @ 1900 hrs (7:00 pm) at the Judith Umbach Library located in Thornhill.   You will hear about upcoming cadet events as well as Squadron Sponsoring Committee (SSC) fundraisers to give the cadets an enhanced experience, which can only happen with parent support.   With 4 months of cadet activities to go, the SSC has raised approximately 40% of its fundraising goal for the year, so there may be some budget cutbacks needed.   Thanks so much to the parents who have generously contributed time or finances to 918 squadron.   To other parents, there is still much opportunity to help out! 

 

For those families who missed the first 2 cadet photo shoots, come to the meeting to join a potential 3rd photo shoot depending on level of interest.   We are still looking for yearbook lead volunteer.

 

Start saving your bottles for the next bottle drive on Wednesday, April 12th.

 

Remember to look at your Google Calendar and also sign up for Stack Team App.  You may have noticed that some marksmanship events had time changes last month, and these notifications are provided in Team App for cadet parents.   

 

All the best,

Dianna 

918 Griffon SSC Secretary