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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1998-04-15, Page 13k, • 1, r Pizza Pizza 235-3141 trumzzxxxxxxxxxxx Second Section - April 15, 1998 Students to be chosen for Junior Snowbird Program Take me out to the air expo. Grand Bend international Air Expo organizers Nialf Straw. left, and TOM Lawson. have been over- whelrhed with public interest in a new Junior Snowbird program. At the June 3 show. area students will meet the Snowbirds, help their maintenance crew and view the show from the con- trol tower. Selection 'process details will be, decided today and participants will be announced' mid-May. The Griffin. The Huron . Park Airport held a Grand ,fiend International Air • Expo Preview April 4 featuring the Griffin twin -engine helicopter, one of eight 'utility helicopters acquired try the Canadian Forces in 1996. From left is Fred Paradie, visiting intelh gence officer. Captain Andrew Kraska and Captain Lyle Holbrook. Their squad was involved with aid to recent ice storm and flooding victims. WI I tr.,- . 1...7' 4,51. Ne--fik Don't Forget to Order your Chicks today Ch/ckys 9B Da) Old or Started Birds Egg Layers * Meat Birds Ducks * Pheasants Turkey *Guinea Fowl a��lii r ery Dates x,; ;1r ti[ 2:9, May 27. June 24 (Please order 4 weeks in advance) White Rock - your choice (Cockerals, Y lets, Non Sexed) Ry Brenda Burke T -A Reporter CENTRALIA - For the first time in local aviation history, students -will be chosen.to meet the Snowbirds and v'orl, xx Oh their maintenance crew at the Grand Bend International Air Expo this summer. Nine out of 11 Snowhird aircraft will perform at the June 3 Huron Park Airport expo where Junior Snowhirds will attend a pre-flight meet- ing, accompar» the maintenance crew to prepare the aircraft and then watch the performance from the control tower. •Due to an active public response. Junior.Snowhir•d program organiz• - ers upped the number of participating studcills last week from 11 to 22.. involving Grades 6 to OAC.in Huron. Perth. Lamhton andMiddlesex -. County schools. "Mx phone is ringing off the hook." said McCurdx Piihlic School. Principal Niall Straw. also part,_ 01: the 10 -member. Junior Snowhird committee. Most calls arc from parents wondering how their children can become Junior Snowhirds. The selection process w ill he decided at a 'committee meeting todax with participants to he announced hx Max 22. • "You're a part of it as opposed to being an audience." said Straw Of - the program. adding McCurdh's library was packed with people seeking Snowhird autographs a dai.-heforc last year's sou. Arsim.ilar autograph session will take place this year. • "The. snowbirds in partictilar would rather per•fonn -'with small groups." said air expo organizer Toni Lawson, wh-o came up with the Junior Snowhird idea: "They've never been involved. with an air expo and they're very excited about it." ."We could go really hie on this.': said -Straw who prefers to launch the project on a smaller scale — at, least for now. He. stressed all students should get a chance to he a Junior Snowhird., - he would rather avoid turning the opportunitx into a large-scale,comp<' tition. yet at the same time wants -students to activeh participate in 'the -selection process. "We really want the kids to drive the show;" explained Lawson. A school curriculum component .of the program is also heing dei el' oped. McCurdy students will complete Hyperstudio repons..which• are_ essentiallx multi -media computer projects. A Wehsite is also on the wax. Junior Snowbirds will have.'passports' stamped as -they experience vari- ous asilects of the air expo. then later work on• school presentations. - - The Snowhird program. was created in an effort to add an educational , component to the annual. air show. to differentiate it from London's show. This is the first year the shoo has boo -dubbed a career 'expo' with an emphasis on aviation. The RCMP and OPP will also he on hand with their programs and activities. "This is the -sixth. air show and the fifth time we"ve had the. - Snowbirds," said Lawson of the. free show that gathers support for area food banks. - The three-and-a-half.hour expo. normal1 slotted for the evening. will take place in the morning. Hi€hl ghts, of, the performing aircraft line-up _include a parachute' • team. a search and rescue helicopter demonst'ation. a Stealth fighter. F- • 16 Falcons and. local pilot Mark Stuart in an aerohatic performance. - Last Vear's show attracted between 12.000 to 1'5.000 spectators and has. grown -in size over. ,the years:- Two years ago. the -show Was put on with .onlx eight- days notice due to a Snowhird cancellation. Still. the postponed show drew 8.00( people. . "We're son of,the small show that tries:" said Law sorb. ,RENTALO SPECIAL MILWAUKEE 3/8" CORDLESS DRILL w/steel carrying case 524995 TOOL F3 RENTAL STOP SPECIAL MILWAUKEE 3/8" CORDLESS DRILL willed plastic carrying case $26549 i7013 vr-471.1774.7,113$ FC)RZALL YOILIJRRENTAL NEEDS SEE LJS... Order Deadline April 25th Order Lath/ and Inquire '1odntl!!! For more details, contact ENSAL.L Exeter (STRICT i po •OIL'RAnVI Ilderton 235-2081 1-888-874-4435 866-1300 Parkhill Foreat 4 294-6252 786-2812 1 EXETER 235-4441. PICK-UP AND I)ELIVIiRY SEMVI( I AVAILAIi1