1947 - 2017 EVERY LITRE OF FUEL SUR LE LITRE Shilo D’ESSENCE EVERY WEDNESDAY Stag at CANEX SuperMart Shilo CHAQUE MERCREDI au Supermart CANEX de Shilo Your source for Army news in Manitoba Restrictions apply. Des restrictions s’appliquent. Volume 59 Issue 4 Serving Shilo, Sprucewoods & Douglas since 1947 March 5, 2020 INSIDE This Issue MAKE AN IMPACT Base rink wins Home De- pot contest. Page 2 International Women’s Day First female infantry offi cer shares her story. Page 7 Mr. Bubbles entertains at Winterfest. Page 12 2 Shilo Stag CELEBRATING 72 YEARS PROVIDING ARMY NEWS March 5, 2020 Dadʼs outdoor rink garners Wheat Kingsʼ Home Depot prize Jules Xavier tion to having the oppor- Shilo Stag tunity to meet members of the WHL team on the Base, the family received There’s a reason why MCpl Kyle and wife Nicole Roux treats and prizes from have built an outdoor rink in a fi eld adjacent to their Fron- Home Depot. tenac Crescent PMQ. Besides Oliver, the “Nicole and I believe in our kids having outdoor play, and Roux family includes what’s more Canadian in the winter than playing hockey,” three-year-old Grace and explained MCpl Roux, “not sitting around inside playing fi ve-year-old Jordyn. video games.” MCpl Roux, who is So, since moving into one of the new PMQs recently built originally from Nanaimo, on Frontenac Crescent, he cleared away the construction BC, currently serves with debris off the fi eld on Larkhill Avenue with the advent of 2PPCLI and has been sta- winter and the kids and their friends have had a small out- tioned at CFB Shilo for door rink to play shinny on or just skate when not at Gunner more than seven years. Arena. At the end of March, he’s “This is for fun, not work,” he said of building a rink, not moving east to Ontario unlike what NHL all-time leading scorer Wayne Gretzky’s with his family to join dad did for him at his Brantford, Ont., home. “That’s why 3RCR after being posted it’s small, so the kids can work on their [hockey] skills. This to Garrison Petawawa. did not cost me money, just my time.” This year’s winning Son Oliver, age seven, especially enjoys using the outdoor entry is a traditional rink, acknowledged dad. He’s a member of the Shilo Senti- backyard rink which was built last fall and has been main- MCpl Kyle Roux’s outdoor rink was chosen as the nels novice team. tained throughout the winter. He expanded the width of the winner of the Home Depot backyard rink contest. “He likes hockey, As parents, we encourage [playing] arena. MCpl Roux used scrap wood to give a Photos Jules Xavier/Shilo Stag hockey.” A big fan of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens, MCpl Roux Besides a fl ood light put in place for night skating, MCpl admits that his three children are fans of both the Wheat Roux set up two benches for the kids to use for skate ty- Kings and Winnipeg Jets. ing, or rests. And to help with skill development, whether The Roux family was in attendance at the game, when the shooting pucks at the net or honing stick-handling skills, he winning entry was announced. created two silhouette goaltenders for the net, or if brought “The kids were surprised when they heard our backyard out, static defencemen. He attached a hockey stick to give it rink had won,” he said. the look of a player. With the rink not having four-foot boards surrounding While attending a recent Brandon Wheat Kings home the ice surface, the one thing MCpl Roux made sure of was game, he saw an announcement on the arena overhead score to have lots of pucks for the kids to use. clock asking for submissions to the annual Home Depot “I expect we’ll fi nd a half dozen pucks once the snow backyard rink contest. melts that the kids have fi red off the rink and could not “I sent in a photo and told them about the rink,” he re- fi nd,” he said. called. “I was told by the Wheat Kings the reason they liked Home Depot Canada, with a store in Brandon, caters to our submission was it was a simple rink … it was a dad- do-it-yourselfers, as well as home improvement, construc- made rink.” tion and building maintenance professionals. Many custom- The WHL’s Brandon Wheat Kings announced during a ers choose to have qualifi ed professionals complete home Feb. 21 home game that MCpl Kyle and Nicole Roux from renovation projects for them. CFB Shilo were chosen this year’s winner of the Home De- Home Depot Canada offers installation services through pot backyard rink contest. pre-screened independent contractors for a wide range of The Roux family was selected from a long list of entries products. received at BDO Fan Services during Wheat Kings’ home Home Depot Canada’s stores offer professional custom- games or online. ers, including repair and remodel contractors, special ser- For winning the contest, members of the Wheat Kings will vices and support to make them more successful on the job be visited the Roux’s backyard rink March 3 to check it out, site. These services include a contractor loyalty program then played shinny with the kids at Gunner Arena. In addi- and on site tool rental department. 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When I go in the field I like to see them when they’re working hard, when they’re When Cpl Genevieve Lapointe, a Canadian Army image tired. They have a story to tell just with their faces. So I al- technician, was asked to photograph 40 new graduates from ways try to get that.” an artillery course last July, the only expectation was that Cpl Lapointe’s work came to the attention of officials from she would take a group shot. Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), the agency responsible for Cpl Lapointe, however, took the opportunity to also cap- the Vimy Memorial, via her Facebook page. ture individual portraits of each graduate and that extra ef- “Cpl Lapointe put this series of photos out into the world fort produced a stunning result which is now on display in and it came to me on the same morning from three different an exhibit entitled Faces of Freedom at the Canadian Na- people who forwarded it and said, ‘Oh my gosh, these look tional Vimy Memorial in France. like they would be perfect for the exhibit,” said VAC pro- The exhibit, which features portraits of some 25 Canadi- gram manager Amanda Kelly. ans who have served in uniform from the First World War There were four images from the series under consider- to today, will be featured at the Memorial’s visitor education ation, she added. The one chosen depicts Bdr Jen Wildman centre until May. of 2RCHA based at Garrison Petawawa. Cpl Lapointe is currently posted to the Combat Training “The consensus was that we really wanted to have a Centre (CTC), a unit of the Canadian Army Doctrine and woman in a combat role,” said Kelly. “We have several Training Centre at 5 Div Support Base in Oromocto, New women represented in the exhibit and they are predomi- Brunswick. nantly nurses and signallers. This is a very different role “It was the day of their graduation,” she recalled, “and and it’s very representative, I think, of the diversity of the they were doing the last portion of the course. We wanted to Canadian Armed Forces today.” get their faces at the end because they were tired. On some Canada’s military past is a large part of both the Vimy faces you can tell that. They look dirty, they look like they’ve Memorial and the Faces of Freedom exhibit, but both Cpl been working hard. These were not staged at all.” Lapointe and Kelly noted the importance of drawing links The “we” in this case was Cpl Lapointe and her husband, between historical military figures and those serving today. MWO Stephane Gauvreau, who is BSM of CTC’s Artillery “Bringing the stories of the men and women who are School and helped organize the shoot, which involved 40 commemorated on the Vimy Memorial to life is a challenge individuals. that we embrace fully,” said Kelly. “And being able to relate “People are usually in a rush at the end of a course,” said them to the story of someone like Bdr Wildman is an incred- This portrait taken by Cpl Genevieve Lapointe of Bdr Cpl Lapointe.