Volume 61 Number 10 | March 7, 2016 Thank You For Shopping Locally! newspaper.comnewsppaaper.comom MARPAC NEWS CCFBFB EEsquimalt,squimalt, VVictoria,ictoria, BB.C..C Photo by SLt Melissa Kia, Navy Public Affairs We’re not sure if the crew of HMCS Ottawa found a pot of gold on board, but being at the end of this rainbow made a majestic photo as the ship passed Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters on its way out of Esquimalt Harbour early last week to conduct sea trials. 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It will conclude With deployment sched- with that goal in mind and tage may finally give the much larger talent pools to relying heavily on friends, with the championship ules and other operational avoid the tendency to ride CFB Esquimalt Senior draw on.” family and hockey fans at game on Thursday, March commitments, players are the highs and lows of the Tritons a chance to shed sometimes unable to get After the tournament the base to cheer them 10, at 8:30 a.m. on, strong fan support can crowd.” their underdog tag at this the time off to travel for curtain-raiser, the Senior Senior Tritons assis- also be a mixed blessing, The teams participat- year’s Canadian Armed tournaments. Tritons play two games on tant coach MS Andrew explains Senior Tritons ing in this week’s tourna- “Guys that might not March 7, battling Atlantic Forces Old Timers Hockey Johnston says hosting the defenceman Maj Mark ment can add to their ros- Championship. nationals in their own back- have been able to be Champion CFB Halifax at 8 a.m. and Ontario Region Kierstead. ter up to four players from The five-day, five-team, yard will allow his team to released to play in the tour- winner CFB Pet “Hometown support is other bases in their region. 13-game round-robin tour- put together a more com- nament will be on our ros- awawa at Esquimalt will be adding ter this time around,” says 7:30 p.m. They close out huge and it can be a signifi- nament began Sunday, petitive lineup. That was cant boost, but also a sig- four players from 19 Wing not the case at last year’s MS Johnston. “We are very the preliminary round March 6, at Wurtele Arena on March 8 at 2 p.m. nificant challenge to over- Comox: Left-winger, Sgt tournament, held at CFB close to having a full team, Richard Pyle, Centre MCpl but the fact remains we are against defending National come,” he says. “As a player Champion, CFB Valcartier. you need to remain even- Jonathan Leguedard, Capt CAF Old Timers Hockey Championship Schedule (All gameskeeled, approach at every Wurtele shift Wayne Atwood, Arena) and Goalie MCpl Stephen Arcand. MONDAY, MARCH 7 Esquimalt vs. Halifax, 8 a.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Edmonton vs. Petawawa, 10 a.m. Edmonton vs. Valcartier, 8 a.m. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9 Halifax vs. Valcartier, 2 p.m. Petawawa vs. Halifax, 10 a.m. Semi-final 1, 9:30 a.m. Esquimalt vs. Petawawa, 7:30 p.m. Esquimalt vs. Valcartier, 2 p.m. Semi-final 2, 2 p.m. Edmonton vs. Halifax, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Championship Game, 8:30 a.m. Bad Driver Award #623: Keep ‘em Guessing Bad drivers like Trixie bring us who don’t signal (and don’t forgetgood to drivers signal likeyourself) you. So watch out for people collision repair, remember BC’s favourite bodyshop, Craftsman Collision. t And when you do need ffoor Keep ‘em Guessing rixie Turner T ®™ Trademark of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under licence by LoyaltyOne, Inc. and Craftsman Collision Ltd. 6VÌÀ>ÊUÊ ÃµÕ>ÌÊUÊ Ü`ÊUÊ ÕV>ÊUÊ >> March 7, 2016 LOOKOUT • 3 Royal BC Museum loans First Nations exhibit to Naval and Military Museum Rachel Lallouz between two canoes. Keddie says. “When people Staff Writer “This area has evidence are aware of their own his- of a fascinating human tories they are much more On display now at the history going back over likely to preserve it and be CFB Esquimalt Naval and 4,000 years,” says Royal interested in it.” Military Museum is a new B.C. Museum Curator of Echoing his words, CFB exhibit loaned from the Archaeology Grant Keddie. Esquimalt Naval and Royal B.C. Museum fea- Keddie says the area is Military Museum Exhibit turing early First Nations especially unique because it Designer Clare Sharpe says, settlement and cul- is an accessible archaeologi- “We are pleased to receive Local - Reliable - Safe tural features stretching cal site that people can visit the loan of this interpre- along Fleming Beach and and learn from. tive display, which is very 2925 DOUGLAS STREET Also serving the WESTSHORE COMMUNITY Macaulay Point. Macaulay Point was relevant to new permanent VICTORIA, BC V8T 4M8 www.westwindtaxi.com • 250.474.4747 The exhibit brings to known as Mukwuks by the content our own museum life Lekwungen land use Lekwungen First Nation has developed in connection through panels, archival on whose traditional ter- with the First Nations pres- photographs and paintings. ritory it is located. Today ence in this region,” she says. Especially rare in the the Lekwungen are repre- The exhibit will be on WESTSHORE WESTSHORE U-LOCKU-LOCK MINIMINI STORAGESTORAGE sented by the Esquimalt display until April 18, 2016. exhibit is an original stone MILITARY and Songhees Nations. - With files from Clare net sinker found under DISCOUNT water on the reef off the “I think it’s really impor- Sharpe, Museum Exhibit OFFERED southern end of Macaulay tant to let people in the local Designer and Webmaster, Point. 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This stone net sinker, found in the waters off Macaulay Point, is a rare artifact. 4 • LOOKOUT March 7, 2016 ofOPINION WHO WE ARE WHATmatters SAY YOU MANAGING EDITOR Melissa Atkinson 250-363-3372 [email protected] We asked Persian Gulf War veterans who attended the Feb. 26 STAFF WRITERS People Talk commemorative ceremony what was their biggest memory of the war: Rachel Lallouz 250-363-3672 [email protected] Peter Mallett 250-363-3130 [email protected] PRODUCTION Carmel Ecker 250-363-8033 [email protected] Shelley Fox 250-363-8033 [email protected] RECEPTION 250-363-3127 The night war was declared Back then, I was an army I was on the bridge wing I was a marine engineer I had seen Tilley hats ACCOUNTS/CLASSIFIEDS I was on watch on HMCS Lieutenant aboard HMCS of the Protecteur and the and stoker on the Terra before, but decided to Heather Catte 250-363-3127 Protecteur and I’ll never Protecteur and I’ll never sea training chief threw his Nova. It was so hot in present one with the unit [email protected] forget our CO declaring forget leaving Halifax hat in front of me and the underbelly of the ship badge sewed onto to it to SALES REPRESENTATIVES ‘ladies and gentlemen’ we Harbour on Aug. 24, 1990, exclaimed ‘that hat is a with temperatures close to our CO. He said he loved Ivan Groth 250-363-3133 are at war. That was the and seeing tens of thou- missile, what are you going 145o F. We all lost tons of it and promptly ordered [email protected] first time any of us had sands of people lining both to do?’ I kicked the hat weight and combatted the 3,000 of them and that’s heard those words and at the Dartmouth and Halifax overboard and he promptly extreme heat by wearing how the Tilley hat became Joshua Buck 250-363-8602 the time we truly didn’t side of the harbour and the replied ‘you owe me a new vests stuffed with ice packs a lasting symbol of the Gulf [email protected] know what that meant. hundreds of boats in the hat.’ to keep us from overheat- War. EDITORIAL ADVISOR water. I’ll never forget that ing. Lt(N) Nicole Murillo 250-363-4006 Andrea Mercer sendoff. OS(Ret’d) Hedley Cullen LCdr Cmdr Jim Hayes Sara Helmeczi 250-363-7060 OS(Ret’d) William Cumby Maj Dale Arndt Published each Monday, under the authority of Capt(N) Steve Waddell, Base Commander. Le LOOKOUT est publié tous les lundi, sous l’égide du Capt(N) Steve Waddell, Commandant de la Base. 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