If thy neighbour offend thee, give each of his children
bagpipes.
-- Old Scottish Proverb.
Pipes and Drums Schedule April - December 2005.
Regimental Pipes and Drums....2005
Cpl Erin Bowden
September 2005
 Every year we start the article off by saying how busy of a year it was. Well this year wasn’t incredibly busy, until the summer months, which more than made up for it. The last time our schedule was this busy was in the summer of 2001.
 The summer started off with the standard mess dinners for the senior NCO’s and Officers at Melfa River. From there it exploded. From mid May to the end of July we played at a variety of venues. There was the Children’s Wish Foundation, the Stony Plains Rainmaker Rodeo, and the opening parade for the Edmonton Grand Prix, Spruce Meadows, a lot of Change of Command parades, and the K-Day pancake breakfast and also for Mr. Balm. The band also managed to play for ATCO in conjunction with the Alberta Centennial celebrations in August. With such a busy schedule you can see why we only managed one or two barley sandwiches.
We at some point or another decided that we like to keep things different so we welcomed in slew of new people. To the pipe section we said welcome back to newly retired Paul Peters . Also contributing an unusual note is civilian Rob Baker.
 The drum line wasn’t with out their new recruits either. Cpl Jason Cunningham came out to just play one or two performances and stayed for the kitty. A huge change was going from no tenor drummers for the last five years to two new ones. Cpl Nathan Mills and Cpl Jewels Terence from 1 Field Amb . With all these extra drummers maybe some day well see them do a drummers salute! WO Stacey is also handing over the reigns to a new drum major WO Tony Batty. I think we’re almost averaging one a year now! We would also like to congratulate MCpl (Marv) MacNeill on taking the reigns as the new Pipe Major and MCpl (Al) MacNeill as the new Pipe Sgt.
Make sure you keep checking this site as the Pipes and Drums will have a new look for the upcoming year! If you are interested in hiring the band please leave a posted message and the band will be in touch.
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