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Air cadet squadron shares the day Fourteen young cadets and â€" who were able to make it squadron. :;f:j;u&:lm;;: two staff from the 598 Sabre _ down," s‘uid squadron Lieuâ€" Their membership eventuâ€" Stare Wener Squad_ron formmll th%‘ co]oflur tenant Jim Hulsman, who _ ally rose from 98 to 125, at party in the dedication of a noted that many of his conâ€" which point it broke off into COBOURG â€" It was a _ memorial cairn for which Mr. tingent are away at special Cobourg and Port Hope positively triumphant day for _ Baluk has worked three years _ training camps. squadrons, Mr. Baluk related. Cramahe Township resident . to raise the money. Mr. Baluk was eager to His association with the Bill Baluk Saturday â€" and The cairn commemorates _ have the Cobourg youth parâ€" squadron ended when he was the Cobourg air cadets were the 431 Iroquois Squadron ticipate because, when he _ transferred to Timmins, but an important part of it. and the 434 Bluenose was stationed with the he was pleased with the perâ€" Squadron, Canada‘s Halifax _ Cobourg OPP detachment for _ formance they gave Saturday. P and bomber squadrons based six years during the 1950s "They did a beautiful job at Butn, Tholthorpe, Croft â€" and 1960s, he was an instrucâ€" _ and added a lot to the whole and Yorkshire, England. tor with the squadron. He _ rededication," he said. "I personally think it was a â€" later rose to the position of "I have heard a lot of very good honour for the kids _ commanding officer of the _ favourable comments on how ; well they behaved and how 4 smart they looked." The cairn is now officially B part of the RCAF Memorial Museum in Trenton, followâ€" ing a ceremony attended by former crew members, $ ground staff and family f * : members of those who served in the two units. : Mr. Baluk himself was in 6 6 the 431 with the Lancashires : & at Croft. The units are still in e action, he noted. The 431 is now the Snowbirds, and the 434 is the tacticalâ€"support â€"twinâ€"engine fighters in Nova Scotia. But it was the past that was honoured last weekend s S â€" in the wellâ€"attended cereâ€" & mony. Mr. Baluk did not count heads, but he noted that & he put out 126 chairs and f ; ED there were still people standâ€" ing. Among those who came were: m Peter Crees, form.cr RCAF flight engineer with " the 434, shot down in 1943. °m Hal Wilde of thc‘434: : ‘who holds a Distinguished ying Cross. _ ° s Fl)Im.fg\llan B. Todd, author of Pilgrimage of Grace (.m the ~ Croft aerodrome, who is CUI" rently writing a followâ€"UP hnn.ki\«ioris Jowett of thzf 43‘1(i who holds a Distinguish® w ‘lying Medal. § : l-l“'.migurmcr prisoner Of;::; : Jack Dnllghc"")’-ll;“;l,;” F s n in 1999+ f also Shflélfl;’l‘;‘grmd on page 15