Volume 53 Number 48 | December 1, 2008 SSUNLIFEUNLIFE DDIRECTIRECT BBILLINGILLING NNoo ppaperwork,aperwork, stampsstamps oorr hhasslesassles Fast, Easy & Convenient MARPAC NEWS CFB Esquimalt, Victoria, B.C. Esquimalt Plaza, 1153 Esquimalt Rd. Serving the Defence Team of Greater Victoria | www.lookoutnewspaper.com 250-388-6451 NEWS 3 Cedric Steele champions the navy HHaulingauling ccashash FILM 11 Capt Trevor Greene’s remarkable journey Editorial & Opinion .........4 Brain Ticklers ...................5 In Focus .........................12 Classifieds .................14-15 $690,000 weʼre almost there! Last chance to donate! Check out Base Administration’s barbecue next Wednesday, it’s a great Dunc Malcolm, Black Press way to donate a few more It was all heave ho on Saturday Nov. 22 as five teams attempted to pull a 20,500 lb Sea King, and crew, 75 feet across the dollars to the campaign. tarmac at the Victoria Airport. The event was a joint fund-raiser between 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron and the Victoria See page 2 for details Airport Authority, raising $1,597.35 for the GCWCC/United Way. Team Victoria Flying Club was the fastest with a time of 13 seconds. 27 Years of Service ouou’re re nvitenvitedd Are you or someone you know y to the Canadian Forces buying or selling real estate? FFestivities e s t i v i t i e s i FoodFood andand FFun!un! Appreciation Night! $1,000 referral For the Kids, contests & activities, plus Santa is coming! $1,000 cash back on sale A great night with special deals and prizes every 30 minutes. And just for you, special savings throughout the store. Good customer Nevenka Kardum service is my Tuesday December 9th 250-479-3333 WESTCAN REALTY #1 priority. starting at 6:00pm 2 • LOOKOUT December 1, 2008 GIVEgenerously to the DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT: CHANGES COMING NEXT YEAR Canadian Blood Services Clinic Naden Athletic Centre NNewew wwayay ttoo sstoretore ffilesiles Tuesday, December 9 Mary Ellen Green Information Holdings ment read-only or allow 9am to 1pm Staff writer Officer Guylaine Lambert only specific users access Donors must have picture ID says the implementation to the data. Filing cabinets crammed of RDIMS for MARPAC RDIMS will allow users There is an URGENT NEED with paper documents are and JTFP users is simply to free up space in their for all blood types! taking up vital space at following the Government Outlook in-boxes because, CFB Esquimalt. of Canada’s legislation instead of sending files On top of that, finding regarding corporate records as attachments, they can information quickly is chal- management. All federal be saved into the RDIMS lenging, even if it’s saved government users must database and be retrieved on a network drive, which comply with information by any RDIMS user, simply Kids Christmas Party often has numerous copies management legislation. by clicking on the link. of documents complicating By law, any document There will be no need to data retrieval and taking up or correspondence that save a corporate document virtual storage space. requires the commit- into a personal folder or To streamline infor- ment of resources, such on a shared network drive mation management, as time or money, is con- because the document will at the Pacific Fleet Club Maritime Forces Pacific sidered corporate records be readily available in the Saturday, December 13, 2008 From 10am - 1pm (MARPAC) and Joint Task and must be archived in RDIMS database. Force (Pacific) are transi- accordance with Treasury All hardware and soft- Free Admission & Santa will be there! tioning to a new way of Board direction. Working ware is in place on storing data. drafts of these documents MARPAC/Joint Task Force The Records Document are also considered corpo- (Pacific) computers. RSVP REQUIRED TO ATTEND Information Management rate records. RDIMS has Training began for Maximum Value of Child’s System (RDIMS) is a suite the capability to save drafts Records Management Gift is $20 of electronic records man- alongside the finished doc- Administrators at the agement software products ument, allowing users to end of November. that will enable users to follow the changes made Administrative Assistants retrieve data in an efficient to each document by date (Super users) will undergo way. It is currently in use at and author. training starting in January Maritime Forces Atlantic, “We have to get away 2009. MARPAC HQ is Chief of Maritime Staff, from the idea that our work scheduled to be the first ADM (Mat) and other is our personal property,” unit for implementation, federal government depart- Lambert said. “Anyone currently scheduled in ments. from outside has the February 2009. “Bringing in a tool like right through the Access A training team will RDIMS won’t solve all of to Information Act to administer classroom-style our information manage- request information from training to all RDIMS ment challenges, but it is the Department, including users, with each unit being a tool that will allow us to drafts of those documents. trained by March 2010. Proud to serve implement our vision of Now we will have them The current Document ready-access to electronic all saved in the same place, Management Control The men and women of the Canadian Forces records,” says IM officer which will greatly reduce System (DMCS) will no and RDIMS implementa- the stress imposed upon longer be used after Feb. SAVE SAVE tion manager, Lt(N) Bruce staff that currently have to 2, 2009, when RDIMS will * * Winter. search a number of places, become the repository for $25 $100 The system is an “elec- both manually and elec- the Formation’s corporate tronic filing cabinet” where tronically, for that informa- documents. on your next booking when you book any Contiki Holiday paper documents will be tion.” when you mention this ad. or GAP Adventure 10 days or longer. For more information scanned and stored, and RDIMS is integrated about RDIMS, see the electronic documents with the Microsoft Office MARPAC J6 website, archived. The author of Flight Centre Westside Village | 1 866 375 0785 Suite, including Word and each document has the http://esquimalt.mil.ca/ Flight Centre Westshore | 1 866 552 4050 Outlook, making it possi- ability to profile the data, marpac/n6/IM/RDIMS/ *Offers are valid when showing Military ID at time of booking. Airfares must be roundtrip. Must be presented prior to purchase. $100 Contiki/GAP discounts are valid for new bookings of ble to store and archive any tours 10 days or longer. Offers can only be used at the Westside Village and Westshore locations. One coupon per booking. Not combineable with any other offer. Offers expires December index.htm. Points of con- 31st, 2008. † The Perfect Holiday Promise applies to bookings made at Flight Centre shops within Canada. A $100 voucher for future travel will be provided to customers who experience an making it searchable by document or email corre- unwanted deviation from their paid itinerary. For full details visit www.flightcentre.ca or speak to a Flight Centre consultant. B.C. Reg. #HO2790 all RDIMS users. This will spondence by profiling it tact for RDIMS training allow users access to perti- during the saving process. are Lt(N) Winter, at 250- nent information in a time- It also gives the author the 363-7544 or Guylaine ly manner. option to make the docu- Lambert at 363-2709. eendnd ooff ccampaignampaign bbarbecuearbecue ddec.ec. 3 Hosted by Base Administration 11:30 am to 1:30 pm N30 Back Loading Bay Hotdog and pop $5 Hamburger and pop $5 FREE Pancake Breakfast Dec. 9 7:30 to 8:30am Nelles Block Capt(N) Marcel Hallé, GCWCC Campaign Chair, invites all campaign volunteers and donors All proceeds benefi t GCWCC/United Way to join him for a “Thank You” pancake breakfast. December 1, 2008 LOOKOUT • 3 Steele, champion of the Canadian Forces Shelley Lipke 15% Staff Writer the 5016 BAG off marked down from Cedric Steele grew up 4499 $$129.129.9955 to with a fascination for the $$110.110. military. sale ends Jan. 31, 2009 In his birth country of DISCOUNT CODE DND113210 South Africa everyone was ALL OTHER BAGS ARE 10% off THE LIST PRICE FOR DND required to serve in the bestgear.ca army. Unfortunately, Polio in his shoulder prevented him from enlisting. GET ADJUSTED! Years later, he found the Now providing spinal decompression therapy military involvement he was craving when he was appointed Honorary Captain (Navy) at CFB Esquimalt. Normally the appointment is a three-year commitment; NOW however, HCapt(N) Steele 20% OFF has held the rank for 11 Dr. Tyler Hersak years and recently received 202-1711 Cook St • 250-592-6464 a letter asking him to remain Chiropractor www.islandchiropractic.ca until 2011. Shelley Lipke, Lookout He started off in his pos- Victoria businessman Cedric Steele has spent the last 11 years working ition making speeches to to improve naval visibility on the Island. He does this in naval dress as an Base Taxi Service clubs talking about the Honorary Captain. for Naden, Dockyard & WorkPoint impact of the navy on the Operates 7:30am to 3pm community and what the the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Forces, I was invit- The support he has given Monday to Friday. navy does for Canada. But community. It’s removed the ed to sail with HMCS Regina to Maritime Forces Pacific, Try to use Base Rounders Call the his involvement has grown mystery of what lies behind to Vietnam,” said HCapt(N) the base and the Canadian before calling the Base Taxi Taxi Dispatch both on and off the base, the gates at CFB Esquimalt Steele. He jumped at the Forces in general has to reduce wait times.