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Another Busy Week at Cadets!

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events, Fundraiser

There are a lot of cadet events this week so I thought I’d write a summary of all of the goings on.  There is at least one event every day except for Friday!!

Sunday, February 5 — Cadets on the FTX need to be picked up at the Airdrie Ag building at approximately 3 PM.

Monday, February 6 — CASINO All volunteers should have received their time slots via email from Lorna.  Thank you for your participation!

Tuesday, February 7 — CASINO All volunteers should have received their time slots via email from Lorna. Thank you for your participation!

Tuesday, February 7 — Regular Band practice from 6-9 at Ralph McCall School

Wednesday, February 8 — Parade night 6-9 at Ralph McCall School

Wednesday, February 8 — Parent’s Committee Meeting at Ralph McCall School — all parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Attending these meetings is the best way to keep up to date on different cadet activities, fundraisers and events. It would be great to see more parents at these meetings!!

Thursday, February 9 — Marksmanship Team practice 5 – 7:30 at the Airdrie Agricultural Building

Thursday, February 9 — SAT training at Mewata Armories from 6:30 – 9 for Sections 1, 2 and 3

Saturday, February 11 — Fundraiser dinner at Dick’s Pub at 6. There will be a buffet dinner, 50/50 tickets, raffle of a Texas Mickey, huge silent auction event and dancing!!  Sure to be a great night!

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SAT Trainer dates

By Mark Bentley | Filed in Calgary Highlanders, Events, Training

We have been offered 2 dates for use of the ST Trainer at Mewata Armories (801 11 ST SW, Calgary).  This is the rifle trainer used by the Calgary Highlanders.  This is a great experience for the cadets, especially if they like shooting!  This is not mandatory, but fun for the cadets!

Sections 1-3 will go on Feb 9 1830-2100
Sections 3-6 and the Air Rifle team on Feb 23 1830-2100

Cadets can wear combats or civilian clothing.

Be aware there is another cadet corps parading there on thursday evenings so cadets must be on their best behavior.

Parents are welcome to stay, there might be time for you to shoot too!  There will be no car pooling, cadets are welcome to post below if they need a ride. We really hope everyone can join in this great opportunity!!

If you cannot attend on that day for any reason just let Capt. Mark know and we can switch days, as long as there will be half the cadet corps attending on each day, more shooting relays will be allotted!


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Fundraising Tickets — Last Reminder

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events, Fundraiser

All money for the tickets to our fundraising event must be handed in tomorrow — Wednesday, February 1.  If you are not planning on buying the tickets, please return them so that we can sell them to someone else.  We have a waiting list of people who want tickets.  If you would like your name added to that waiting list, please contact Renae Holmes at airdriearmycadets@hotmail.com.

All cadets who have the tickets MUST either pay for them or return them immediately.  These fundraisers pay for cadet uniforms, training, activities, FTX trips, etc.  This is what makes cadets an accessible program to all families, regardless of income level.  If you are not planning on participating in this fundraiser, please return the tickets immediately so that there is still a chance that they can be sold.  Those of you who’s amounts are still withstanding have already been emailed by Captain Mark.

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Donations

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Donations, Events, Fundraiser

We are still collecting donations of both cash and goods for our silent auction fundraiser.  All of this money will be used by the cadets to pay for equipment, field training exercises, building rent, uniforms, instrument costs, marksmanship training, bus transport fees, meals when the cadets are on trips and all kinds of training including orienteering, leadership, biathalon, drill, parade, etc. etc. etc.

If you have collected donations on our behalf, they can be dropped off to Mark Bentley or Paula Mitchell-Bentley at any cadet event.  Please make sure to give us any donor information that you have so that each and every donor receives recognition for their help.  Thank you so much for everyone who has aided finding donations for our two silent auction events this year, your help has been greatly appreciated!!

If you would like to make a monetary or physical donation to our corps, please contact us at airdriecadets@gmail.com with any questions.  We would be more than happy (ecstatic really) to pick up donations of any kind!  Thank you to all the business people of both Airdrie and Calgary for all of their support over the last few months with our efforts to raise funds.  Please see our 2011 – 2012 donor list here for our growing list of supporters!!

If you would like to approach a business on our behalf, our donation request letter can be found here: February Donation Letter

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Fundraiser Ticket Money

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events, Fundraiser

Hopefully most of you have received the email today regarding handing in the fundraiser ticket money.  If not, here it is:

Fundraiser ticket money

Just a reminder to please bring your money for the valentine fundraiser money, tickets, and ticket requests to cadets as soon as possible.  In order to make this event as successful as possible, we would like to make sure that we sell out!  We will have someone there at the beginning and end of Saturday and Sunday’s training to collect money.  Please note that the cadet who sells the most tickets for the fundraiser will receive $50 donated by Brent and Diann Marchessault!  This will be awarded on Feb 15th.  Thanks to the Marchessaults for their support.  If you cannot attend the fundraiser monetary donations or silent auction items will be accepted.  Please note that if you do keep the tickets, you will be expected to pay for them regardless of if you go to the fundraiser since we will be required to pay for them.

**Please bring the ticket money into cadets as soon as possible.  We need to determine how many tickets are left to sell as well as who still wants to purchase some and hasn’t been able to find any yet.**

These fundraisers are the reason why cadets doesn’t have a lot of costs that need to be covered by the cadets and the parents.  We appreciate everyone’s participation and support in our fundraising efforts which have recently had to increase because of the increase in our rent.  If you do not bring the money or tickets back to the cadets, you will be responsible for the payment regardless of whether or not anyone actually uses the tickets.

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IMPORTANT! Tonight’s Parade Moved — Jan.25

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events, Notices

Parade tonight (Jan. 25, 2012) will be at Airdrie Middle School because Ralph McCall school is closed.

Bring 2 pairs of shoes and the money for the February fundraiser (2 tickets per cadet = $40).  Tonight is also the deadline to have all summer camp applications in.  Make sure all paperwork is complete before leaving.  If you cannot attend, make sure to let your section commander know.  All section commanders should call their section ASAP to make sure everyone knows about the changed location.

Airdrie Middle School is on 1st avenue across from the Plainsmen arena.

Please enter through the front door.  Cadets will not be allowed into the school without an officer.  Remember to be on our best behaviour as they are doing us a huge favour by letting us use their facilities.


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Tupperware Fundraiser

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events

We will be having a Tupperware fundraiser to help the cadet corps raise some money.  The VP of the parent’s committee and cadet mom extraordinaire, Stacey Fennell is our Tupperware consultant for the fundraiser.  Please read her Tupperware Letter here for more information.

Basically, 40% of the sale will go to the cadet corps to pay for uniforms, building rent, FTX events, training, instruments, etc.  These fundraising events are extremely important to ensure that the cadets program is affordable and accessible for all youth who want to be involved.  Our corps works hard in conjunction with the Army Cadet League to make sure that parents and cadets don’t have to pay for anything mandatory out of pocket.

The fundraiser will run from Feb. 1 – Feb. 22 so there should be lots of time to make some great sales.  You can check out the fundraiser catalogs here and here.

The only thing that the cadets, parents and volunteers will do is actually sell the Tupperware.  Tupperware is a familiar, high quality product that everyone has heard of and nearly everyone owns so the sales themselves won’t be hard.  Mrs. Fennell will handle all of the other work, packaging, and paperwork involved in this fundraiser.  Thanks so much Stacey!!

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Hunter’s Education Training

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Army Cadet League, Events, Training

Hunter’s Education training highlights conservation efforts and environmentalist efforts as well as actual hunting per se.  All costs of our corps Hunter’s Education is administered by the Army Cadet League of Canada – Alberta Branch.  Thank-you so much to the League and our representative Ed Liukaitis!!

There is a lot of information to be learned for cadets getting Hunter’s Education.  All of the training dates are MANDATORY.  If any of the dates are missed, the cadets will not receive their certification.  This program is only run once every several years so if the cadets miss any of the dates, they may not be able to complete their certification within the cadet program.

Jan. 28 — All cadets who have not already received their Hunter’s Ed certification must be at Ralph McCall from 9-5 dressed in civilians.  Bring a lunch.

Jan. 29 — All cadets (including seniors with Hunter’s Ed already) must be at Ralph McCall from 9-5 in summer dress.  Bring a lunch.

Feb. 1 — Cadets must bring their kits to be checked to the CO parade.  Cadets must have sleeping bags for the upcoming FTX as well.

Feb. 3 — Alford Lake FTX.  We are meeting at the Airdrie Agricultural building around back.  The buses will leave at 5:30 PM.  Do not forget sleeping bags.  Seniors will do survival training and will be sleeping outside.

Feb. 5 — Parents will meet the buses coming back from the Hunter’s Ed FTX at approximately 3 PM at the Airdrie Agricultural building.  This time is subject to change depending on what time the cadets leave camp.

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50/50 Ticket Sales

By Paula Mitchell-Bentley | Filed in Events, volunteering

The 3016 Airdrie Army Cadets are holding a 50/50 raffle draw.  The proceeds of this fundraiser will be split 50/50 between the cadet corps and whoever’s name is drawn.  The tickets are being sold 1 for $2, 3 for $5 or 12 for $20.  Last year we did a similar fundraiser and the winner collected over $800!!  Great chance to win some serious cash and contribute to a very valuable youth cause.

Please contact us at airdriecadets@gmail.com to purchase tickets or if parents would like to get some tickets to sell on behalf of the cadets.  One of our parent’s, Brent Marchessault, has graciously offered to take care of this fundraising event on behalf of the cadets again.  Thanks so much Mr. Marchessault!!

It would be great to see a lot of participation by all of the cadet families in this fundraising event.  Fundraisers such as these are the reason why parents aren’t on the hook to pay for all of the field training exercises, building rent (which has tripled recently), transportation costs, training costs, uniforms, equipment, etc.  Even families who may not be able to buy tickets can contribute to the cause by helping to sell the tickets.  Please email us for information on picking up tickets to sell or purchase.

**The draw for this event will be held on Feb. 11**

NOTE: This event is open to people even outside of the Airdrie area.  The tickets have a space to write the purchaser’s phone number down.  They DO NOT need to be present to win.  We have people purchasing tickets as far away as Nova Scotia.

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The Airdrie City View did a great article about the upcoming Airdrie Army Cadets Valentines Silent Auction at Dick’s

By Mark Bentley | Filed in Events, In The News

Thanks a lot to Stacie Snow at the Airdrie City View, who did a great article about the Airdrie Army Cadets and our upcoming Airdrie Army Cadets Silent Auction at Dick’s.  You can read the full article on the Airdrie City View Website here.

Thanks also to Air 106.1FM who talked to Paula and were going to mention us on air and posted it on their Facebook page.

The Airdrie Echo also did an article about both of our Silent Auctions in December.

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