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of 10 September 2016

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

I hope all members had an enjoyable and safe summer. The next three months will be a very busy time for 258. We have several parades coming up and I hope to see a good turnout of Blues and Greys attending. The 2016 Poppy Campaign is just around the corner and 258 needs as many volunteers as possible to help make this years campaign a success. The Pine Hills Dinner will be held at Branch 614 on Saturday 10

th September 2016

starting at 12:00 p.m. Tickets are available at a cost of $10:00 and we have a limited number of free tickets allocated to Veterans. Please contact Bryan Bennett for Veterans tickets.

Yours in comradeship,

Richard Viles. President Branch 258

EDITORS NOTE This Newsletter will be available in Hardcopy at the branch and an online copy will be on our web site

www.rcl258.com

If you wish we will send you a copy of the Newsletter via e-mail, send a request to

[email protected]

If you have any suggestions to improve the Newsletter, you can contact any executive member while you are at the branch, or send an e-mail to

[email protected]

If you want to remain anonymous, you can put a note in the suggestion box at the bar

BRANCH OFFICERS President Richard Viles Past President David Adamson 1

st Vice President Irene Stevens

2nd

Vice President Doug Stevens 3

rd Vice President June Viles

Secretary Ellery Hollingsworth Treasurer Douglas Flower

BRANCH EXECUTIVE Bryan Bennett Ellery Hollingsworth Neil Leggatt Wayne Powell Phil Richmond

BRANCH HOURS Monday CLOSED *** Tuesday 2:00pm till MIDNIGHT Wednesday 2:00pm till MIDNIGHT Thursday 2:00pm till MIDNIGHT Friday 2:00pm till MIDNIGHT Saturday NOON till MIDNIGHT Sunday NOON till 7:00pm

NOTE 1: The branch will be open on the night

of the General Meeting at 6:00pm

NOTE 2: The branch may be closed early at

the discretion of the Bar Steward.

GENERAL MEETING The next General Meeting will be on Monday September 12, 2016 at 8:00pm.

HIGHLAND CREEK - BRANCH 258


ENTERTAINMENT Karaoke Dance Party With Bob Pettos

Friday Sep. 2 7:00pm

Branch closed Saturday Sep. 3 7:00pm Karaoke Dance Party With Carlo

Sunday Sep. 4 3:00pm

Karaoke Dance Party With Burt


Dance Party With Rob Martine

Saturday Sep. 10 8:00pm

Pub Sunday Dance Party with Blue Thunder




Dance Party With Syd Simkins

Saturday Sep. 17 8:00pm

Karaoke Dance Party With Carlo




No DJ in the Lounge Saturday Sep. 24 LA Western Night Saturday Sep. 24 6:00pm Pub Sunday Dance Party with Pepper Shakers




Fish & Chip Dinners will be served from 5:00pm – 7:00pm for $7.00 on the following Fridays Friday Sep. 2 Friday Sep. 9 Friday Sep. 23 Friday Sep. 30

Meat Roll returns Saturday Sep 3 at 3:00pm in the Lounge with Doug Stevens

MEMBERSHIP – EARLY BIRD The Early Bird Campaign Starts September 1

st and

ends on November 30th

.

If you renew your membership in September, your

name goes into the draw. At the October General

meeting, 3 names are drawn.

If you renew in October, your name is added to the

draw and at the November General meeting, 2 more

names are drawn.

If you renew in November, your name is added to

the draw and at the December General meeting, 1

final name is drawn.

If your name is drawn then you will have your

membership fee refunded, so it is worth the try.

A grandfather was returning home with his

grandchildren one day when a fire truck zoomed

past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a

Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the

dog's duties.

"They use him to keep crowds back", said one child.

"No", said another. "He's just for good luck."

A third child brought the argument to a close.

"You're both wrong they use the dogs to find the fire

hydrants."


WEEKLY SPORTS ACTIVITIES Tuesday Shuffleboard 7:30pm Tuesday Ladies Darts 7:30pm Wednesday Mixed Darts 8:00pm Wednesday Shuffleboard 1:30pm Friday Darts (Blind draw

doubles) 7:30pm

Sunday Darts (Blind draw doubles)

2:00pm

Tuesday Shuffleboard starts Sept. 13 Wednesday Shuffleboard starts Sep. 14

PARADES Mark your calendars for the 2016 parades.

Sunday September 11, 2016 Pine Hills Parade, Toronto Blues & Greys Colour Guard Form up 1:15pm Move off 1:30pm

Colour Guard meet at Branch at 10:30am

Sunday September 18, 2016 Battle of Britain, At Pine Hills Blues & Greys Colour Guard Form up 1:30pm Move off 1:50pm

Sunday September 18, 2016 Honours and Awards, Branch 258 Colour Guard Move off 3:00pm

Sunday November 06, 2016 Remembrance Day Service Scarborough Civic Centre, Blues & Greys Colour Guard Form up 2:00pm Move off 2:30pm

Friday November 11, 2016

Remembrance Day Service Cornell Public School, Colour Guard Form up 10:00am Move off 10:30am

Friday November 11, 2016 Remembrance Day Service Toronto Zoo, Blues & Greys Form up 10:30am Move off 10:45am

Friday November 11, 2016 Remembrance Day Service Branch 258, Blues & Greys Colour Guard Form up 1:00pm Move off 1:30pm

Friday November 11, 2016 Remembrance Day Service Legion Village, Blues & Greys Colour Guard Form up 6:30pm Move off 7:00pm

Tentative dates – subject to change

After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother

changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and

proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children

getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew

thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and

stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with

stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the

three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"


SENIORS ASSOCIATION

EXECUTIVE MEETING

WEDNESDAY SEP. 7, 2016 @ 10:30 AM

GENERAL MEETING

Tuesday Sep. 13, 2016 @ 1:30 pm

LINE DANCING

Starts September 14

LUNCHEON

Wednesday Sep. 21, 2016 @ 12:30 pm

DID YOU KNOW...? Tommy Prince was born on October 15th, 1915, in Scanterbury Manitoba Canada in a family of eleven siblings. He left school at an early age (8

thgrade)

and followed his father in his hunting expeditions around the Indian reserve, and was thus able to provide a meal for his younger siblings.

At the time, hunting was just a means to put food on the table; little did he know that it would come in handy during his career as a soldier. He later joined the cadets as a teenager, where he perfected his rifle handling skills until he could easily put five bullets on a small target. He is often described as a quiet man whose moves were always well calculated.

In 1939 at the onset of World War II in Europe, Tommy Prince volunteered to fight for the Canadian Army but was turned down multiple times until he was finally accepted in 1940 in the

Royal Canadian Engineers. He trained here for two years and later joined the paratrooper service and after enduring rigorous training, he was among the few people who were sent to join the parachute school in Manchester, England.

Due to his earlier acquired hunting and tracking skills, he excelled at the parachute school and was promoted to Lance Corporal. He returned to Canada in 1942 and joined the Canadian Parachute Battalion, where he was made a sergeant. This Canadian unit joined forces with the US Special Force, to form the 1st Special Service Force.

Shoulder sleeve patch of the 1st Special Service Force

The first mission of the First Special Service Force was in January 1943, to fight the Japanese in the Pacific when they had invaded an island known as Kiska, but they did not even have to put up a fight because, by the time they reached the island, the Japanese had already withdrawn.

Later, Tommy Prince with the First Special Service Force was sent on some missions and his commanders noticed his exemplary tracking skills and made him a reconnaissance sergeant. Whenever the team wanted to make an attack, Tommy Prince would be sent to track enemy positions and describe the surrounding landscape. However, it was during the Italian mission when they were fighting for the liberation of Rome, that Tommy Prince would shock everyone when his bravado far outshone what you usually see in films.

It was on February 8th, 1944, and the Special Force


was engaged in a furious battle with the German Nazis for three months continuously. He volunteered for a solo reconnaissance mission to the enemy lines and hid in a farmhouse from where he would provide information about the enemy whereabouts and their movements. The information would be radioed back to the Allies using a 1,500-meter transmission cable. The information he sent back ensured that the Allied forces hit enemy targets accurately, destroying four key enemy positions.

During a rapid-fire exchange between the two forces, Tommy Prince’s communication with his team was interrupted, and he knew that the transmission cable had been tampered with. This is where he pulled one of the bravest moves of his career. Tommy Prince got rid of his military uniform and put on rugged farmer’s attire which he found in the abandoned farmhouse. He disguised himself as a farmer, and ventured into German occupied territory, pretending that he was working on the farm. Armed with only a hoe, it was difficult for the Nazis to distinguish him and other Italian farmers, and he was thus able to spot where the cable had been cut. He pretended that he was tying his shoe, and repaired the damaged cable.

Afterward, he returned to the farmhouse which was his observation post and continued to provide enemy positions. So accurate were the targets he provided to the Allied forces, that within a short time the Germans were forced to withdraw. When he returned, Lieutenant-Colonel Gilday recommended Tommy Prince for a medal for, “exceptional bravery in the field.”

After the liberation of Rome, the Special Service Force was sent to Southern France. At one time when he was on his way back from a reconnaissance mission, he and a private were caught in a fierce battle between the French forces and the Nazis. They took up a position and started shooting at the Germans, taking out so many of them that the rest had to withdraw. The French commander was shocked to realize that it was just Tommy Prince and a Private who were behind the forced German retreat; because he thought the rapid fire was coming from a group of fifty Allied soldiers. He was impressed by Prince’s bravery, and recommended him for a medal, the Croix de Guerre, but the message never reached

the French Commander-in-Chief because the commander was killed en-route.

Tommy Prince is usually described as a weird yet entertaining character. His colleagues knew that he used to carry a pair of moccasins in his bag, and during the night he would take off his boots and wear the moccasins. He was thus able to creep quietly into the enemy camp, and sometimes he would do crazy things like stealing the Germans’ shoes.

Other times he would go with a few of his colleagues, and they would apply shoe polish to their faces, then creep into the German station at night and slit the throat of every third German soldier when they were sleeping. In the morning, the Germans would wake up to find their colleagues dead, plus missing shoes and this would totally freak them out. The Germans thus nicknamed the Special Force Service as the ‘Devil’s Brigade.’

Tommy Prince was awarded some of the most distinguished medals during his career as a soldier, including the US Silver Star. He served in various military positions until September 1954 when he was respectfully discharged, due to Arthritis in his knees. He died on November 1977, at the age of 62.

He left a living legacy as one of the most decorated Native American soldiers of World War Two.

My young grandson called the other day to wish

me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was,

and I told him, "80". My grandson was quiet for a

moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"


LADIES AUXILIARY President Brenda Butt Past President Shirley McMurter 1st Vice President Ann Butterfield Treasurer Wilma Snelgrove Secretary Yvonne Tracey Membership Yvonne Tracey Sergeant-at-Arms Verna Heath Kitchen & Social Convener

Irene Stevens

Kitchen Convener Sandy Degear Hostesses TBD Sick Convener Audrey Maher Chaplain Margo Hallikainen Sports Convener Jackie LePage Standard Bearers Kathleen White Connie Marshment Margaret Pearson Nancy Clark Exec- Gratuities Vera Roy Exec- Sandwiches TBA

LA EXECUTIVE MEETING

THURSDAY SEP. 1, 2016 @ 7:00 PM

LA GENERAL MEETING

THURSDAY SEP. 15, 2016 @ 7:30 PM

LA WESTERN NIGHT

SATURDAY SEP. 25, 2016

Doors Open 6:00pm

LA SPORTS

Dates for sports are:

Euchre o Sep. 25th 2016 o Branch 11 – 9 Dawes Road

Darts Singles/ Doubles o Oct. 1st 2016 o Branch I/42 – 243 Coxwell Avenue

Cribbage o Dec. 4th o Branch 258 – 45 Lawson Road

Team Darts o Feb 4th 2017 o Branch 614 @100 Solome Drive o

Everyone must be registered 2 weeks before the date and the paperwork in. These are all Zone Functions. yours in comradeship Jackie


Address :

Highland Creek Legion Branch 258 45 Lawson Road West Hill, On M1C 2J1

Phone :

416.281.2992 Telephone extensions 21 – Office 22 – President 23 – Banquet Hall 24 – Bar 26 – Kitchen 30 – Membership 28 – Entertainment

Fax :

416.281.8114

e-mail :

[email protected]

Website:

www.rcl258.com

Highlandcreeklegion

BRANCH CONTACTS Bar Chair Doug Stevens Board of Management Chair Doug Stevens Cadet Liaison Phil Richmond Chaplain TBA Colour Guard Liaison David Adamson Entertainment Chair Irene Stevens Executive Committee Chair Irene Stevens Honours and Awards Chair David Adamson House Chair Doug Stevens Ladies Auxiliary Liaison David Adamson Legion Week Chair Phil Richmond Lottery & Nevada Licensing Chair Richard Viles Membership Chair June Viles Memorabilia Les Goodwin Poppy Chair Bryan Bennett Public Relations Chair Ellery Hollingsworth Regalia Chair June Viles Resolutions Chair David Adamson Service Officer Bryan Bennett Sgt-at-Arms (Parades, Transportation)

Phil Richmond

Special Events Chair Irene Stevens Sports Chair Bryan Bennett Track and Field Chair Doug Stevens Training and Organization Development Chair

Phil Richmond

Tribute Services TBA Walkathon Chair Doug Stevens Ways and Means Chair Irene Stevens Webmaster Phil Richmond Youth Education Chair Phil Richmond Youth Education Co-Chair Neil Leggatt

STANDING COMMITTEES Banquet Hall Coordinator Ann Storrar Colour Guard Chair Bryan Bennett Colour Guard Captain Al French

EXTERNAL GROUPS Seniors Association Irene Stevens

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