A small delegation from the City of Cold Lake will be visiting Cold Lake’s sister city of Hügelsheim, Germany later this week. Mayor Craig Copeland, councillor Bob Mattice, and Chief Administrative Officer Kevin Nagoya will represent Cold Lake on the visit. Hügelsheim was the site of Canadian Forces Base Baden-Söllingen, which was established as an […]
If you love the old-time music of a town band, the 4 Wing Band does that sound. But the band’s upcoming Christmas concert also offers exciting arrangements of current Christmas music. The band is made up of military and civilian volunteers, and is established specifically to support official occasions at the RCAF’s 4 Wing Cold […]
“If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.” – Jascha Heifetz Due to Covid-19 restrictions and precautions, the musicians of the 4 Wing Band went for about 500 days without being able to rehearse together. They’ll be the first to tell you […]
4 Wing Cold Lake held a small ceremony on Sunday to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Over several months in 1940, the Royal Air Force (RAF) and its allies, including the RCAF, repelled Nazi Germany’s attempt to weaken Britain’s air defences. The German air campaign was intended to precede Hitler’s planned […]
4 Wing Cold Lake commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain on Sunday. In 1940, Hitler commanded air strikes to incapacitate Great Britain’s own air power and air defences. This would have paved the way for a Nazi invasion of the island. Allied air forces turned the tide against the Luftwaffe, forcing Hitler […]