with its shops empty but was not alone. New construction in Canada is hard to find and shipyards across Can-ada are feeling the pain. In Central Canada with M. I. L. Davies still ques-tionable and the closure of the Port Weller Drydock facility we could lose important repair and replacement facilities for Canada's Great Lakes ship-ping fleet of old age vessels. On the west coast BC Ferries has spent hun-dreds of millions of dollars on foreign built vessels to be used in BC coastal waters. Here on the east coast off-shore supply vessels are being built in foreign yards for use in our Atlantic oil and gas industry. I have great concern over governments lack of attention at this time, when most shipyards in Can-ada are on the ropes losing work. Ca-nadian government should be sup-porting its own industry. Our industry has high quality and productivity but our competitive edge has been under-mined by unfair global competition where other countries protect their shipbuilding industry in ways Canada will not. We will continue to encour-age government to recognize the im-portance of shipbuilding to Canada as they move forward with even more trade talks with South Korea and the European Free Trade Association. A number of letters and over 1000 peti-tions have been sent to the federal government opposing these trade talks and calling for a new shipbuild-ing policy.

Volume 3, Issue 1 Halifax, January 9, 2007

CAW/MWF LOCAL # 1

Letter from the President B y K a r l R i s s e r J r .

The Marine Worker

Inside this issue:

Christmas in November 2-5

Kids Christmas party 6-9

Lonnie States 10

Calendar 11

Obituaries 11

Contact us 12

Dear Brothers and Sisters

I hope you all had a very Merry Christ-mas and a Happy New Year with friends and family. It was great to see everyone at this year's Christmas Dance, especially the retirees in attendance. Special thanks to Les Wears, Fraser Ban-field and their team of volunteers for making it a great success.

As we look forward in to 2007 a combi-nation of Navy work, Commercial Re-pair and a new cruise ship being built in the shop should make for a good year. Halifax Shipyard has gone too long

In closing I would just like to say it's a real adventure being Presi-dent of Local 1. Over the last two years I have learned a lot and I’m looking forward to what 2007 will bring. We are all lucky to have the team of executive board mem-bers, committee members and shop stewards working hard, vol-unteering their time and energy to make this Union work. Thank you.

Karl

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First, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Les Weirs, Frasier Banfield, Koren Beaman, Ricky Purcell and his wife Heather for all their hard work in making the dance a success AGAIN this year!! Another year has past, and Local 1 started the holi-day season off with the annual Christmas dinner and dance. Thankfully the weather co-operated with us this year and no-one had to rush home ahead of the snow! There was a wonderful turnout to the dinner-dance by the Retirees. It was fantastic to see and meet everyone and hear the 'old stories' (to us young uns'). The evening started off with ticket buying and a whole lot of mingling! Dinner was a hot roast beef buffet (and/or vegetarian lasagna!) followed by tones of cheesecake for dessert!! After dinner was over the prizes were handed out fast and furious by our wonderful MCs: Les and Frasier. The first prize of the evening was $500 which went to Bernie Gorman. Ronnie Petrie won the 32" TV. The two big door prizes (over $700 each) were won by John Winters and Jamie Vaslet. Members and Guests were all abuzz over the great prizes picked out by Les and Koren, like: TVs, a con-vection oven, stereos, a vacuum, small generators, and lots of money!!! The "Last Call Band" kept people dancing all night until the lights came on!! I don't think some people ever sat down. All the fun and entertainment was captured by our 'in-house' photographers: Zibby Kwiatek and Paul Coulet. If you were smiling they probably got you!! On behalf of the Entertainment Committee we would like to thank everyone for attending and making it a success. Here's hoping you had a great time, and that we will see you at the next event! Cheers! Chrisanna Doyle Entertainment Committee

Christmas in November By Chrisanna Doyle. Photos by Zibby Kwiatek and Paul Coulet

Get your 50/50 tickets! Station manned by Chrisanna Doyle, Mike Stackhouse and Angela Weal. Bobby Gale buying ticket.

Retired Megnauth Babooram “Ram” and his wife were happy to see old friends.

Doug Casey and Camille MacDonald getting their dinner

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Crane operator Dave Terry in line for his dinner. Retired rigger Pat Leblanc and his wife Dorita.

Riggers Tom Hogan, Gary Francis with Kevin Hackett retired rigger.

Jamie Vaslet and his partner.

Retired electrician Sammy Lawrence. Retired electrician Cyril Hammond In line for the cheesecake.

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Frasier Banfield and Les Wears getting ready to give away the prizes.

From left Jim MacDonald, Hoppie Gilles and Curtis Carr.

Ronnie Petrie won another TV (last year too) This is becoming a pattern (ha, ha)

Keith Cole was happy walking away with his prize.

John Winters winner of $700 50/50 prize. Jamie Vaslet walked away with the other $700 50/50 prize.

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Electrician Rob MacKenzie and his wife. Paul Coulet in action.

Paul Payne and his wife

Tommy Lozos, Jim Walsh and Tommy Stevens

Brent Murphy and his wife Brian Sullivan and his wife

Pat Leblanc, Gary Francis and Bobby Hatch.

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As always Santa came with an army of elves.

Big smiling faces were plentiful.

Fathers and sons came to enjoy a visit with Santa.

2006 Kids Christmas Party By Zibby Kwiatek

Santa was very happy to see some of the kids for the first time.

As he promised Santa came back in December to spend a day with Local 1 families. Kids gathered to talk to him and give him an update on the gifts they would like to get for Christmas. After all, how often do you get an opportunity to talk to Big Guy in per-son.

As always he did not come alone, he brought his elves and they went to work right away.

There was a lot of work for them (no EI). They had to make sure that all the decorations were in place and the lights were shining bright, gifts were ready for the kids, and milk and cookies were standing by for Santa and many more.

This year Santa brought some elves with him: Melissa, Sharon, Jane, Frasier and Zibby (that’s me) to take pictures and record everything that happened.

We not only brought gifts but also many games for the kids to play. There is nothing better than running and playing to work off the sugar generated energy. “Candies, cookies, and pop!!!”

The kids and parents had a great time. Santa was very happy to see all the kids again.

After the party we packed up and went back to the North Pole, but we will be back next year as long as the kids believe in Santa and as long as there is Christmas. Bye.

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Hard working elves Frasier and Jane. Donny Kenny and his family.

I would call it a very strong negotiating position.

“Yes, little boy you will get anything you want for Christmas.” Arles Harnish and his grandson.

Jordan Lomond with his grandson. Kenny MacLeod with his beautiful granddaughter.

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Scott Rafuse turned out to be a master in “Flick a Chick” Andrew Parks’ sons visiting an old friend.

Dennis Jenkins with his grandson.

“Santa here comes my dad. Can he come and seat on your lap?” “Ok, but only because you were such a good boy.”

Proud mommy watching her boys play.

Jimmy Knight:” I always wanted to be an elf.

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Elves are always welcome on Santa's lap. Elves will always find time for parents.

Gary Joudrey family enjoying visit with Santa. “Bubbles, bubbles. I love bubbles!”

Sugar rush. “Is that all? No more kids? Time for me to go back to the North Pole for a rest.”

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Former Boxing Champion Lawrence States has a plan to get kids off the streets and into the ring. In May 2005, States opened Windsor/Three Mile Plains Boxing Club. Its mandate is to “reduce the number of youth at risk by providing a safe environment while developing discipline, dedica-tion and physical activity through the sport of boxing.” State’s theory is if kids are training three times a week, they’re not getting into trouble. “The fo-cus of the club is to recruit potentially ‘at risk’ youth in the community who will benefit from formal participation in an organized sport,” States said. States formed the club out of love for the sport and youth. He coaches for free, provides the equipment and charges members only about $10 a month to offset the rental cost of the hall. The only downside is that the location in Three Mile Plains is not accessible for many youth. States said he would love to reach more kids by moving to a more central location because, “there are a lots of kids this program could reach, but they just can’t get to us.” Formidable figure.

Once called “ Blue Chip”, States fought in the ring for 13 years throughout ‘60s and ‘70s. Now retired from boxing and a career at the Hali-fax Shipyard, he’s formidable figure who belies his 67 years. “I tell the kids if I can do the train-ing at my age , so can they.” And those neighborhood kids who asked States to begin coaching have shown real commitment. “They’re learning fast and listening,” States said. The dark basement of the hall hasn’t deterred members, who range in age between eight and 18. Nick Campbell said he loves the chance to work out, but wishes they had a bigger, better place to train. “If I wasn’t here I’d probably just be at home watching television,” he said. The enthusiasm of one young boy was obvious as he hopped on his feet and punched the air, talk-ing about his first fight coming up in January. He said he had a lot of friends who wish they could join, “but it’s too far away.” Nephew, Nathan States has been boxing for a little over a year will fight for the third time this January. He encouraged the young fighters to train hard, “because if you don’t, you can get hurt.” The risk of injury is minimal because pro-tective headgear is provided for all the members that compete. “We belong to the Boxing Federa-tion and there are safety standards,” he said. The popularity of the sport isn’t confined to the boys, either. A couple of girls plan to join the club in the near future. To shy for an inter-view, they watch members train and make plans to get into shape themselves. Meanwhile, States continues to look for a loca-tion in town where more kids can be included. “We don’t really have any money to spend on a space, but people should see the benefits of giving kids this chance,” he said. To his mind, the club isn’t only about boxing, but about living clean. ”I tell them to stay away from the junk food, exercise, sleep well and no drugs.” Lawrence State’s career as a fighter for area youth continues to thrive.

Former Champion Boxer inspires youth

By Nadine Armstrong - The Hants Journal - NovaNewsNow.com

Lonnie States retired welder.

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Events and Holidays

JANUARY

• January 9 - General Membership meeting.

FEBRUARY

• February 3 - The Metro Union Dart Tournament

• February 13 - General Membership meeting.

• February 21— The Metro Union Bowling Tour-nament

MARCH

• March 13 - General Membership meeting.

APRIL

• April 9 - Easter.

• April 10 - General Membership meeting.

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CONDOLENCES

Our condolences are extended to the families of our Brothers who passed away recently :

Kenneth W. Donovan - age 61, retired burner and tool crib operator. Passed away on October 6, 2006.

“THE MARINE WORKER” is an official publication of the

CAW/MWF Local # 1.

Members are encouraged to express their views on topics which have been addressed in “THE MARINE WORKER” and rise other issues for discussion.

Any opinions or views published in “THE MARINE WORKER” are those of the contributors and are not necessarily the opinions or views of CAW/MWF

Local 1, the CAW or the Editor and neither CAW/MWF Local 1, the CAW nor the Editor accept responsibility for them.

Edited by

Zibby Kwiatek , Scott Isenor and Chrisanna Doyle

Contact address above or Zibby directly at:

zibby@ns.sympatico.ca

Deadline for the next issue Friday, April 6 , 2007.

CAW Marine Workers Federation Local #1 represents approximately

1,000 workers in the Halifax Shipyard and the following units:

♦ Offshore Services - offshore projects, operating from the Woodside

Wharf in Dartmouth,

♦ Office Staff - the Halifax Shipyard office staff.

♦ ABCO Industries - Lunenburg manufacturers of the welded aluminum

boats.

♦ Maritime Steel - Dartmouth steel fabricators.

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