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NEAR BASE VVolumeolume 6611 NNumberumber 2255 | JJuneune 220,0, 22016016 Check back often for ongoing promotions, contests, events, new products and sales. Nous orons des nouveautés tous les jours: promotions et concours, événements, nouveaux newspaper.comnewsppaappeerr..com produits et soldes. MARPAC NEWS CCFBFB Esquimalt,Esquimalt, VVictoria,ictoria, B.C.B.C Ed Dixon, MARPAC Imaging Services Member of Maritime Forces Pacific command team supported the prostate cancer awareness event “Wear PlaidMCpl for Chris Dad” Ward, held MARPAC June Imaging 17. Services Wearing a colourful selection of plaid garments are, front row left to right: Capt(N) Mike Knippel, Capt(N) Steve Jorgensen, RAdm Gilles Couturier, and Capt(N) David Mazur. Left to right in the back: Capt(N) Doug Young, Capt(N) Jason Boyd, Cmdre Marta Mulkins, Cmdre Jeff Zwick, and Capt(N) Steven Waddell. See more photos on page 12. 2 • LOOKOUT June 20, 2016 a w a y t o i v e d a y D r i GET FINANCING NOW ! Boomer’s Legacy donates to HeroWork DDND-MILITARYND-MILITARY Peter Mallett cyclists were all smiling and will include a new roof, al communities, where all $ Staff Writer cheerful because they knew electrical upgrades, kitchen members of the community they were riding on behalf and bathroom upgrades, come out and work together DDISCOUNTISCOUNT 775050 A $20,000 donation of their fallen comrades and new flooring, landscaping, to help out their neighbours. * Not to be combined with their community.” and repainting. Lt(N) Dudeck worked on any other offer. Present this by the Boomer’s Legacy PPROGRAM*ROGRAM* ad & military ID to qualify. Foundation to HeroWork The bike ride pulled Rainbow Kitchen pro- last year’s project and said will elevate Esquimalt-based together over 100 military vides lunches for up to 150 he’s very excited about this VICTORIA MEGA CENTRE • (250) 478-7603 Rainbow Kitchen’s ability to and civilian riders and sup- people per day, including year’s effort where he will 1772 Old Island Hwy, Victoria, BC help those in need. port personnel in a two-day, street youth, single par- be working on the Project The donation was pre- 240 kilometre ride from ents and their children, the Management team. sented to the Victoria- 19 Wing CFB Comox to unemployed, homeless and “The really cool thing based charity by Maureen the Legislature grounds in individuals on social assis- about this project for myself Eykelenboom, Boomer’s Victoria. tance, and seniors on fixed and people at the base is Legacy Foundation founder, Boomer’s Legacy incomes. the church is in right in our and Capt(N) Steve Waddell, Foundation was founded HeroWork was founded in backyard, and is an impor- Base Commander, at the by Maureen Eykelenboom, 2010 and by the end of this tant stakeholder and con- Legislature following the mother of Cpl Andrew project will have completed tributor to the community conclusion of the ninth ‘Boomer’ Eykelenboom, approximately $1.8 million and needs our assistance,” annual Boomers Legacy B.C. a medic with 1 Field of its “Radical Renovations” said Lt(N) Dudeck. Bike Ride on June 12. Ambulance killed in to aging and decaying struc- HeroWork is currently HeroWork will now use the Afghanistan in 2006. tures operated by commu- looking for volunteers for funds to mobilize the com- The foundation is oper- nity support organizations the project that will start ated by the Canadian in Victoria. Their work Sept. 16 and continue for CALL US TODAY. 250.380.1602 www.seaspan.com munity to make repairs and upgrades to the Esquimalt Forces Morale and Welfare has included overhauls to three consecutive weekends United Church that houses Services (CFMWS) through the Citizen’s Counselling until the “Big Reveal” on Rainbow Kitchen. the Support Our Troops Centre in 2015, Threshold Oct. 2. They are looking “It was a profound and Program, and distributes Housing in 2014, and the for both skilled tradespeople heart-felt moment when funds to people in need, both Mustard Seed Foodbank in and anyone who can lend a EE-F-FIILELE FFROMROM $$5757++GSTGST all the Boomer’s cyclists domestically and abroad. 2013. hand in other parts of the arrived on the Legislature Lt(N) Colin Dudeck, a Much like the work project, including clearing lawn, and it was a great marine systems engineer Habitat Humanity has done debris, shoveling, lifting and honour to receive their with the Halifax Class in providing homes for the carrying items, cooking, and Modernization Project, homeless, Latour said the registering volunteers. Top Shelf support,” said Paul Latour, Bookkeeping Ltd. joined HeroWork last year group’s Radical Renovations Anyone interested is asked Locally Owned & operated since 1994 HeroWork founder and executive director. “Despite and said the $500,000 reno- are similar to old-fashioned to write Lt(N) Dudeck at 2 CONVENIENT YEAR ROUND LOCATIONS a long day in the saddle, the vation project at the church barn-raisings in agricultur- [email protected]. 101-76 Gorge Road West 1253B Esquimalt Road Victoria, BC V9A 1M1 Victoria BC V9A 3P4 250-388-9423 250-590-4050 AUTHENTIC THAI Friday Lunch Buffet • Lunch Combos • Full Dinner • Photos by Cpl Brent Kenny, MARPAC Imaging Services Right: Boomer’s Dine In Take Out Legacy team members approach the finish point at the Legislature Thai dining at its Best! Building, June 12. 1207A Esquimalt Rd. • 389-1845 • www.zapthai.com Below: Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps (center) addresses the Boomer’s Legacy Team after LUNCH BUFFET their two-day ride from EVERY DAY! Comox to Victoria. 11:30 AM - 3 PM ONLY $14.99 Fast & Fresh! We do takeout and delivery. For catering orders & Group parties please book in advance. 298 Island Hwy., Victoria • 250 744 3330 www.amrikkosvictoria.com June 20, 2016 LOOKOUT • 3 Protecteur’s cruise ship director loses battle with cancer Harry Marshall – December 17, 1963 - June 16, 2016 who would be there to drive you home The beloved Cruise Director eventually 2016 on my father’s headstone following from a bar, volunteer to take your duty retired from the RCN, ending a 24-year my cremation. Thanks for the well wishes. watch shift, or go without food himself career in June 2012. Even though four I’ll be on the other side with a full bottle to make sure you weren’t hungry,” said years have passed since he left, Marshall of Pusser’s Rum, bring your own damn PO1 Boyd Greeley from the Regional still referred to Protecteur as “his ship.” glasses.” Cadet Support Unit who served aboard He noted it seemed somehow “fitting” Marshall said he didn’t want a funeral, Protecteur with Marshall for nearly six that at the moment in time when drew but rather a cremation with his ashes years. his final breath, the decommissioned ves- spread from high atop Signal Hill in Marshall’s jack-of-all-trades position sel he loved so much is in the final stages St. John’s, which overlooks the Atlantic required him to do the jobs that nobody of being demolished at a scrap yard in Ocean. wanted to do including heavy lifting and Liverpool, N.S. The prognosis took a heavy toll on those cleaning. But he did them with vigour “I have circumnavigated the globe in closest to him, including his identical recalls PO1 Rick Hussey, who served with HMCS Protecteur and had life experi- brother Robert Marshall who completed a Marshall for four years. ences that some people could only dream 15-year career in the Army in 1998. “He could get away with anything or fathom about,” said Marshall. “I’ve been “Harry and I did everything together because everyone loved him so much,” to Russia, Asia, the Mediterranean, Hawaii while we were growing up,” says Robert. “I said PO1 Hussey, a demolition instructor and Australia, and wouldn’t trade in those just have that physical chemical bond with at Fleet School. moments for anything.” him, it’s almost like we are two halves of Even though Marshall was unconvention- On June 13, Marshall slipped into a an orange and we are so connected that I al, certainly not a conformist, and some- coma and was declared brain dead. A wondered when Harry finally passed if I Leading Seaman (Retired) Harry times border-line eccentric, those closest to month before this decline, he wrote in a would feel it.” Marshall died June 16 after a battle him described the man as always having an Facebook post: According to all accounts he wasn`t the with cancer. unparalleled sense humour, humanity, and “Full acceptance of this. I know what only one who felt this moment. duty throughout his career. is going to happen and a stone mason is Harry Marshall died in the early morn- Peter Mallett “I only sailed with Harry for a couple going to engrave Harry J. Marshall 1963 to ing of Thursday June 16. He was 52. Staff Writer of years aboard Protecteur but he left a lasting impression. He was a prominent Hundreds of Royal Canadian Navy sail- figure to so many of us in the RCN,” says ors rallied alongside the longest serving LS (Ret’d) Melinda Urquhart, who started member of HMCS Protecteur in his fight Marshall’s Facebook Page on April 16 and against terminal cancer. has since been flooded with friend requests Leading Seaman (Ret’d) Harry Marshall and posts. spent 13 years aboard the now decom- Marshall also served aboard HMCS missioned supply ship and according to Annapolis and HMCS Ottawa during his all accounts the lovable boatswain was no career. “ordinary” Ordinary Seaman. To most of his shipmates Marshall Perhaps it is the proud Newfoundlander’s was affectionately known as “The Cruise unwavering positivity about life that Director” and he would always joke that explained why Marshall amassed so much the first four letters in HMCS Protecteur support in his unwinnable fight against didn’t stand for Her Majesty’s Canadian stomach and esophageal cancer.