SHAPE Community Life February 2020 IMM: WHERE SWEAT JOINS NATIONS nato's legal operations lady spartans SHAPE Community Event & Communication Management The SHAPE Newcomers’ Guide 2020 is available in our office (Bldg. 102 Rm 105) Come get your copy! New SHAPE2day website COMING SOON Stay tuned for more information! SHAPE2Day Website SHAPE Community Life January 2020 SHAPE Community Life April 2019 SHAPE Community Life May 2019 SHAPE Community Life Latvia SHAPE half-marathon lazareff prize - Gen scaparrotti SACEUR Change of Command Ceremony CSEL Change of responsibility final town hall SHAPE Community Life April 2019 SHAPE Community Life Latvia SHAPE half-marathon lazareff prize - Gen scaparrotti SACEUR Change of Command Ceremony CSEL Change of responsibility EDITOR’s Letter Dear Shapians, María José Tezanos Bustamante Community Event & Communication Management SHAPE Morale & Welfare Branch SHAPE Community Life Bldg. 102, Room 105 065/44.20.69 [email protected] www.shape2day.com SCL 1 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2020 COMMUNITY NEWS 3 The Spirit of St. Nicholas 4 The Santa Claus Breakfast 5 2019 Christmas SHAPE Village Contest 7 A Meal for a Wish 8 The Big Green BOX 9 Cervantes diplomas 11 SHAPE International Toastmasters Club 9 MILITARY NEWS 12 Legal News! 13 Minister Guerini visits Afghanistan 14 IMM: Where Sweat Joins Nations SHAPE LIFE 17 Grandma’s Attic Serves U.S. and NATO Community 18 Geeks in Ink - Menage Trois 18 Modern Jive at SHAPE 19 Look no further and discover the Library 21 The French Wine & Gastronomy Festival is back 22 SHAPE International Band 26 Love Hearts! 12 TRAVEL 28 Bergama: The Ancient City of Firts, Culture and Arts 31 EXPO Chantal HIX SPORTS & FITNESS 32 Let the Underdogs Rise 33 Last Quarter Fitness Challenges Champions 34 SACEUR Throphy: Volleyball Tournament 36 SHAPE Football Club MORALE & WELFARE 38 Upcoming Movies - SHAPE Alliance Auditorium 39 SHAPE Trips and Tours 26 40 SHAPE International Library 40 Fuel Card Price Information 41 SHAPE Performing Arts Centre 41 Silver Spoon Menu 42 SHAPE Sports & Fitness 43 SHAPE Pizza Bowl 44 SHAPE Club - B3’s - Upcoming Events SHAPE AGENDA 45 Dates for your Diaries 46 Ongoing 47 SHAPE Travel Group 48 Forum and Puzzles 34 2 SCL Community News The spirit of St. Nicholas brought smiles to over 300 children this past December 2019! By Pam Giacomello, President of the SHAPE IC3 ometimes gratitude is best expressed in pictures with Our SHAPE and US community’s gave gifts for over 300 just a few words to explain. S.H.A.P.E. IC3, (or SHAPE children under the following programs: International Chapel Charity Assoc.) are a dedicat- S “It Must Fit under the Bed” for over 100 children, for ASBL ed, international team of volunteers, who together with “charity partners from our community”, help to facilitate activities that support children in six charities, “outside “It Must Fit in a Shoebox” for over 94 children, supported the fence”. Each December, we invite participation for by Saint Augustin, in Mons. A local shoe store “Chauss- the SHAPE IC3 St. Nicholas Gift Program. ures Raoul”, in Chievres, gave us 2 large donations of In 2019, we hosted three parties on SHAPE: S.A.A.E. Bethl’eem: a foster care home for children (15), “It Must Fit In a Sac” Over 50 gifts were given to ESOP, in were hosted by two countries who with St. Nicolas gave Cuesmes, who celebrated Pere Noel later in December. out gifts, enjoyed pizza, and were treated to hear French I want to thank our IC3 Team, who managed the facil- children’s stories. itation, the volunteers who wrapped, shopped, helped Centre de Don Bosco: a foster care home for boys (15), with deliveries, our two gentlemen as St. Nicholas vol- unteers, as well as the US Chaplain who found us some at Decathlon, ate pizza, did arts and crafts and were treated to a show of marionettes! and bags of gifts. Les Ecoles de Devoirs: met us out front of SHAPE and On behalf of the SHAPE IC3 team, we wish to express picked up gifts for their children (20) helped by a bigger our heartfelt thanks for a wonderful opportunity to part- charity. A special group gift, with snacks and drinks for ner with you, in our support of the Belgium tradition of St their party was provided. Nicholas. 12 Chantal and Cristina, Gift Coordinator and Vice President Centre Don Bosco SAAE Bethl’eem The pictures show the large hearts & the smiling faces of a job well done! “It Must Fit in a Sac” Gift Program The store that made the “It Must Fit In a “It Must Fit under the Bed” Gift 34 Shoebox” Gift Program happen! Program for St Vincent de Paul www.shape2day.com SCL 3 The Santa Claus Breakfast By Laurent Spitaels he Belgian National Military TRepresentation (BEL NMR) to SHAPE recently organised a “Santa Claus” breakfast. Faithful to our ancestral traditions based on mutual aid and solidarity, the members of the Belgian Community of SHAPE invited to this meal did not come empty-handed. Mrs Houdart, Alderworman for Youth and Early Childhood in the City of A large collection of games and toys had indeed Mons, the administrative team, Mrs Sarah Libert, and the pedagogical team, been organized on this occasion, allowing us to Mrs Melody Maiquez, of the "Cité de l'enfance" as well as the Belgian Military collect many gifts. Representation of SHAPE during the handing over of the toys. The project was aimed at helping a Children Protection Association of Mons. The designated institution was the "Cité de l'enfance" (City of Childhood). Sheer The sponsors invited to Driving Pleasure collaborate in our project reacted more than positively and opened up the hope of perpetuating this challenge exponentially for the years to come. Sincere thanks to the individual donors, to Camille the manager of the store “Fox et Compagnie" (“Fox & Company”) in Mons, to the manager of the Dreamland in Jemappes as well as to Mr Bartolas and Mrs Jennifer Dessart of Carrefour Market SHAPE. DRIVING PLEASURE Our warmest thanks to BEL-NMR, WITHOUT BOUNDARIES. Captain (Navy) Philippe Warnauts, DISCOVER YOUR SPECIAL to our Deputy-NMR LCL Yvan Porcu DIPLOMATIC SALES CONDITIONS. ... and also to Santa Claus. Environmental information (RD 19/03/04): www.bmw.be 6.7-11.5 L/100 KM • 161-263 G/KM CO2 (WLTP) Louyet Mons Rue des Sandrinettes 48 7033 Mons-Cuesmes Tél. 065 40 02 00 www.louyet.bmw.be 4 SCL 2019 Christmas SHAPE Village Contest ... and the Winners are: Courtesy of Housing Management Section (HMS) Avenue de Lisbonne 27, is number 1 Rue Banting 3, is number 2 Avenue de Lisbonne 11, is number 3 ex-aequo Family RAIKOS Family TODORAN Family OLEKSA MS was pleased to welcome the winners of the SHAPE HChristmas Decoration Contest this 10th of January 2019 in the FSCEP building. The selection was made to elect the six best Christmas decorations in the made and decorations are more and more beautiful over the years. COM BSG encourages this spirit Rue Diesel 8, is number 3 ex-aequo of conviviality and celebration. Rue Mercator 14, is number 5 Family STREDI Family SIDIROPOULOS Rue Lie 11, is number 6 Family PETREACA Photo by Mar Domínguez Martínez (CECM Section) The SHAPE Village Christmas Housing Management Section Contest is sponsored by (HMS) www.shape2day.com SCL 5 A representative from VOLVO ARDSON will be in the Display Room located in the Commercial Area (Bld. 504 - next to the SHAPE Optical) on 19 February - 18 March - 22 April PRIVILEGED TO SERVE YOU IN MONS 60 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICE - Exclusive pricing and savings - Premium service near your location - Volvo Assistance 24h - Volvo Insurance - English speaking employees MONS VOLVO CERTIFIED DIPLOMATIC AND DIPLOMATIC SALES AGENT Rue de Grand Courant 6A - 7033 Cuesmes +32/65 327 847 [email protected] Your dedicated Diplomatic Seller in Mons. 6 SCL A MEAL FOR By Christy Cherry T www.shape2day.com SCL 7 The Big Green Box Helping hungry kids in the local community By Pam Giacomello, President of the SHAPE IC3 he IC3, is a S.H.A.P.E. Group 2 charities, three support children T directly. Two are Homes where local charities and our diverse children are placed due to a need community. We can sponsor an event that supports a charity them placed there By the Court.) need or run programs ourselves. but family contact is maintained. The third, is an “After School Club” Have you noticed our box in the who help kids whose families are Carrefour Market? Re-named supported By the parent charity. last fall, the “Big Green Box” is a Subsequently the remaining place to give non-perishable food donations for, what we see as the “working poor”. Grace Buckle in the IC3 Garage Last fall, we made a deliberate from the government. choice to focus our energies from eleven charities to six, as It was brought to our attention we operate as volunteers within that some of the children in one a Board of eight. We work on the of the charity Homes, was coming interests or desires of those in to school with very little. Hungry, our community who want to help one would ask the daughter of a others in some way, and we help to colleague for some of her food. We learned that water versus the activities for this to happen. juice or milk, no fresh fruit, like an apple, was provided. Even a The 2019-2020 Board members small sandwich contained Nutella hail from Canada, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia and the United States. The BGB being an IC3 program, The teacher went shopping as the children where sharing.