by K-J | 8 Jan 2024 | Features, News, Sports
Canadian World Champion Arm Wrestler Devon Larratt addresses CFB Shilo personnel in December 2023 at two presentations where he shared techniques and thought on soldier and sporting resiliency and mindset. Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag News K-J MillarShilo Stag News...
by K-J | 24 Dec 2023 | Community, Features, News
Shilo Stag News Christmas Feature Winter CompanionsA Jolly Days Tale Presented by the Canadian Forces Newspapers In the heart of a quiet neighbourhood, where winter winds whispered secrets through bare branches, lived Walter – a military veteran as weathered and...
by K-J | 31 Jul 2023 | Features
Jules Xavier Shilo Stag He’s often one of the first individuals on the Base wearing shorts and his colourful Crocs, and the last to put on pants once frigid temperatures arrive on the Manitoba prairies. Working as the RCA Museum’s collection manager, Clive...
by K-J | 31 Jul 2023 | Features
Jules Xavier Shilo Stag Being called a Shilo brat is a badge of honour for Ken Jenkins. Kay Mowbray (nee Schrot) takes pride in the moniker of being a military brat who grew up at Camp Shilo. Same goes for army brat Denise van Rooyen, who called 32 Frontenac home...
by K-J | 30 Jul 2023 | Features
Jules Xavier Shilo Stag The birth of what would later be renamed the Shilo Stag can trace its start as Camp Shilo was evolving itself in the late 1940s. The Shilo Observer made its debut on this prairie Army Base on July 18, 1947. The Friday newspaper at the time...
by K-J | 30 Jul 2023 | Features
Jules XavierShilo Stag After 233 months sitting in the Shilo Stag editor’s chair in my CANEX office, it’s time to sign off with my “30” as I retire from a four-decade journalism career.Yes, your Stag editor turned in his office key July 31...
