BATAWA’S POND HOCKEY CLASSIC by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Batawa’s 7th annual Pond Hockey fund raising tournament featured classic Canadian wintry conditions. The temperature high on Thursday February 1, 2018, the day preceding the 4 on 4 competitions, rose above zero softening the ice. On Friday, the temps dipped to minus double digits and the 42,000 square […]
WOUNDED WARRIORS by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Cpl C.J. Wilneff is 26; and retired. Christopher Joseph Wilneff, born and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, joined the military in 2006 at the age of 16. At age 20 CJ, as he is commonly known, volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan with 2RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment). He was medically […]
SOME SILVER LINING by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Master Corporal (MCpl) Chris Downey and Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2) Douglas Craig Blake were both best buds and teammates of an explosives ordinance disposal (EOD) unit in Afghanistan. On May 3, 2010, “It was Craig’s turn to be ‘number one,’ the main guy diffusing the IED (improvised explosive […]
