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Canadian Heroes Car and HMCS Haida
This will be my 5th Honda that I have wrapped
Private Tyler Todd
It was a beautiful day in Southern Ontario today, a great day for a drive through the rolling hills and flatlands that make up a section of our great Province.
Scattered throughout the countryside every 10 miles or so you find small hamlets, villages and small towns, all steeped in history, some no more than just a crossroad with a stop sign and a scattering of houses, and others with a few business’s that employ most of the town folk and make up a good part of the character of that place that they call home.
Today I went to the small town of Plattsville, which is between Woodstock and Kitchener, a place I have driven through many times over the years, but never an end destination like it was meant to be today.
When I was coming into Town, I noticed all the yellow ribbons tied around trees, and on peoples houses as well, it actually even started at the towns before Plattsville, I noticed the first ribbons in Washington as I was heading down 97.
Canadian Flags where flying proudly, standing straight out as they where being driven by a strong westerly wind today, there is never a prouder moment than seeing our flag flapping loudly by the wind, showing her true colours to everyone passing by.
I thought it would be a good time to cue up ” Canadian Heroes” on the cd player, music can set the tone and the feeling at times, and this time was no different.
I also thought it might be nice to get my video camera out, its a rare sight to see the outpouring of love and emotion from people, something even as simple as a yellow ribbon or the flying of our Countries flag started to carry a different meaning today, I am sure everyone whom came down the road felt the same way.
As I rolled into town, I could see the roadblock ahead, it became apparent that the Church where the service was being held was on the main street heading right through town, which is common for small towns, as when they where originally founded, they all started with just 1 road and then built from there over the years.
As I made my way through the town via the side streets I parked almost right infront of the church and the song came to an end right as I was parking the car.
It was beautiful, surreal and eerie all at the same time.
As I made my way to the church, the service just started and hundreds of people lined the main street and filled the churches parking lot and we listened to the service over loudspeakers outside.
As I looked around the town, it was nice to see the tributes to Tyler everywhere, its the little things that people remember for years to come, I am sure the families appreciated everything that people did today.
I took pictures today, which was very unusual for me, as since my military career started back when I was 11 years old in cadets, I have attended probably a 100 parades and services, with different duties as I progressed in age, but always being a part of the service, and hardly ever as a civilian.
I am glad I brought my camera, for it will forever record the moment in history, and I hope that at some time people that where close to Tyler will remember him through these pictures that I took, for I intend to share with the town where he grew up the snapshots of respect from today.
http://www.canadianheroes.com/
Illegal Road Hockey
Is it still illegal to play hockey on our streets?
I remember a story about this being so years ago
Talk about embarrasing!
Seems Toronto is going to scrap their bylaw amongst other cities
Time we also did the same
Car!!!!!
Roller girls at the waterfront
The hammer city roller girls are putting on a demostration at our new skating rink at the waterfront at wingfest!!! This is exciting come on down!!!
Devils Punchbowl
Tonight I visited the Devils Punchbowl to see if my 40 foot Canadian flag would fit and luckily it will!!! The fog rolled in and the cross lit up which made it look and feel very eerie. I can only imagine what it will look like once I get my flag there for all to see from miles away
Family Military Resource Centre Funding Cancelled in Hamilton
Today I learned a sad truth, in that funding has been cancelled for the FMRC in Hamilton. I have heared rumours of this before, but was rather shocked today when I learned from several different sources of the changes.
Personally, it has been a whirl-wind of changes in the military world, my old unit was renamed as well, which sounds like another funding issue as well, I am all for streamlining and making things work better, but it has been a lot of stuff that has been happening of late, some rather disturbing.
Seems like the cuts for support issues will be a lasting one, to do it now when we have troops overseas in combat roles does not seem like the right thing to do at a time like this personally.
But then again, we do live in a different financial world nowadays, so things are definetly being run a lot tighter, and that I guess we all need to respect and understand….to a point….
So, starting today, we will start a ” Made in Hamilton” solution to all of this, and I am going to start our own sources of funding and further our reach and build on the support that the families need and deserve.
http://www.canadianheroes.com/
Private Tyler Todd
It was a beautiful day in Southern Ontario today, a great day for a drive through the rolling hills and flatlands that make up a section of our great Province.
Scattered throughout the countryside every 10 miles or so you find small hamlets, villages and small towns, all steeped in history, some no more than just a crossroad with a stop sign and a scattering of houses, and others with a few business’s that employ most of the town folk and make up a good part of the character of that place that they call home.
Today I went to the small town of Plattsville, which is between Woodstock and Kitchener, a place I have driven through many times over the years, but never an end destination like it was meant to be today.
When I was coming into Town, I noticed all the yellow ribbons tied around trees, and on peoples houses as well, it actually even started at the towns before Plattsville, I noticed the first ribbons in Washington as I was heading down 97.
Canadian Flags where flying proudly, standing straight out as they where being driven by a strong westerly wind today, there is never a prouder moment than seeing our flag flapping loudly by the wind, showing her true colours to everyone passing by.
I thought it would be a good time to cue up ” Canadian Heroes” on the cd player, music can set the tone and the feeling at times, and this time was no different.
I also thought it might be nice to get my video camera out, its a rare sight to see the outpouring of love and emotion from people, something even as simple as a yellow ribbon or the flying of our Countries flag started to carry a different meaning today, I am sure everyone whom came down the road felt the same way.
As I rolled into town, I could see the roadblock ahead, it became apparent that the Church where the service was being held was on the main street heading right through town, which is common for small towns, as when they where originally founded, they all started with just 1 road and then built from there over the years.
As I made my way through the town via the side streets I parked almost right infront of the church and the song came to an end right as I was parking the car.
It was beautiful, surreal and eerie all at the same time.
As I made my way to the church, the service just started and hundreds of people lined the main street and filled the churches parking lot and we listened to the service over loudspeakers outside.
As I looked around the town, it was nice to see the tributes to Tyler everywhere, its the little things that people remember for years to come, I am sure the families appreciated everything that people did today.
I took pictures today, which was very unusual for me, as since my military career started back when I was 11 years old in cadets, I have attended probably a 100 parades and services, with different duties as I progressed in age, but always being a part of the service, and hardly ever as a civilian.
I am glad I brought my camera, for it will forever record the moment in history, and I hope that at some time people that where close to Tyler will remember him through these pictures that I took, for I intend to share with the town where he grew up the snapshots of respect from today.
http://www.canadianheroes.com/
Hamilton’s Newest Waterfall-Mohawk Falls
Here is the first video of one of Hamilton’s newest waterfalls to be found, its beautiful!!!!!!
http://cityofwaterfalls.ning.com/video/mohawk-falls
Family Military Resource Centre Funding Cancelled in Hamilton
Today I learned a sad truth, in that funding has been cancelled for the FMRC in Hamilton. I have heared rumours of this before, but was rather shocked today when I learned from several different sources of the changes.
Personally, it has been a whirl-wind of changes in the military world, my old unit was renamed as well, which sounds like another funding issue as well, I am all for streamlining and making things work better, but it has been a lot of stuff that has been happening of late, some rather disturbing.
Seems like the cuts for support issues will be a lasting one, to do it now when we have troops overseas in combat roles does not seem like the right thing to do at a time like this personally.
But then again, we do live in a different financial world nowadays, so things are definetly being run a lot tighter, and that I guess we all need to respect and understand….to a point….
So, starting today, we will start a ” Made in Hamilton” solution to all of this, and I am going to start our own sources of funding and further our reach and build on the support that the families need and deserve.
http://www.canadianheroes.com/
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