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SUBMITTED PHOTOAN HONOUR:Canadas Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Walter Natynczyk, presents artist Dave Sopha with the generals special CDS coin For Excellence.Portraits of Honour to stop in OakvilleThe Portraits of Honour National guests per seating.many strong families who remain CEO of Kin Canada.70th anniversary, Sopha presented Tour will stop in Oakville on Thursday, For tickets, visit www.oakvillekin.behind to support them. Many of Kin Canada is Canadas oldest all-the associations founder, Hal Rogers, June 23.org or pick up tickets (cash only) at them need financial assistance. We Canadian service organization with with a large mural portraying his life A variety of local appearances is the Bronte Legion. For additional needed to make sure every dollar more than 500 clubs and 7,000 volun-with Kin since the service organiza-planned for the 10 ft. by 40 ft. oil information, call 905-825-9434.raised quickly finds its way to the teers. Over its 90-year history, Kin has tions inception in 1920. mural featuring the hand-painted The mural is touring across people who most need it, and that our raised more than $1 billion. Having received a Life Membership portraits of the 156 Canadian soldiers, Canada in a specialized mobile display contribution will make a measurable So far the mural has taken 6,500 in Kin Canada, the highest honour sailors and air crew who have lost trailer. Organizers expect the tour will difference in their quality of life, said hours to paint. Sopha says his work conferred, Sopha has had an extensive their lives while serving in raise more than $1.5 million in sup-Tour Project Chair Kathrin Delutis in won't be complete until Canadas career supporting military murals Afghanistan.port of the Military Families Fund.a release on the event.combat mission in Afghanistan draws across the country in Legions and The mural will be available for Created in 2007 by General Rick One thing we are all afraid of is to a close.memorials, receiving numerous viewing, free of charge in the Oakville Hillier, former chief of the defence that the years go by and they get for-It was on Dec. 6, 2008 that Sopha awards for his work. Place parking lot from 9 a.m.-noon.staff, the fund assists military families gotten. This mural means none of our stared at his morning newspaper When the Man in Motion Tour It will then visit St. Dominic faced with unforeseen and often fallen are going to be forgotten, that whose headline screamed Canada had arrived in Cambridge, Sopha was School from 12:30 2:30 p.m., before immediate needs that have resulted they are always going to be remem-lost its 99th, 100th and 101st soldier. asked to paint a giant poster of stopping at the Hopedale Mall parking due to conditions of service.bered through generations for the An improvised explosive device had Canadian Rick Hansen. Sopha asked lot from 3-4:30 p.m. and then pulling It also assists the thousands of sacrifices they made, said Bev claimed their lives. At that moment, thousands of people to sign the poster into the Bronte Legion from 5-9 p.m. military personnel who return home McCraw, whose son Sgt. Shawn Eades Sopha decided to dedicate the next in exchange for a small donation to The Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs of with physical or emotional injuries. died on August 20, 2008.few years to honouring every fallen Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Kin Canadas Oakville are planning a special fund-The Kinette Club of Oakville is also The mural is a tribute, a memo-soldier, sailor or aircrew through the national cause. raising dinner in honour of the stop.hosting its annual Sail a Tall Ship rial and a place for people to connect creation of a mural. Sopha has been married to his wife They will hold their Friends of the Dinner and Cruise funding sails from not just for the fallen, but the Sopha has been airbrushing Penny for 41 years. They have a son, Fallen Fundraising Dinner June 23 at June 17-19 in support of Portraits of wounded soldiers, too, stated Judy murals and paintings for 38 years three daughters, 12 grandchildren the Bronte Legion at 79 Jones St.Honour.Clages whose son Petty Officer Second he began his art during an eight-and one great grandchild.The dinner, co-hosted by the clubs There will be four sailing excur-Class (Douglas) Craig Blake died on month recovery following a 1970 car The Oakville Kinsmen and Kinette and Royal Canadian Legion, Bronte sions this year, two evening dinner/May 3, 2010.crash in which he broke his back.Clubs promote various local initiatives, Branch 486, will include an opportu-dance cruises, a lunch cruise and a With many among the Kin family A decade after opening an art studio including: Habitat for Humanity nity to see the portrait and meet its Fathers Day brunch.having served in the military and Kin in Toronto and being commissioned to Halton, Kerr St. Ministries, The artist, Dave Sopha.Tickets are available at the RBC at Canadas past war efforts on the home airbrush murals on vans and motor-Womens Centre, the Salvation Army Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 Speers Road/Fourth Line or online at front, Portraits of Honour is a won-cycles, Sopha and his family moved to and Cystic Fibrosis research. For infor-for children and will include a hot www.oakvillekin.org.derful expression of our continued Cambridge where he opened a studio mation, visit www.oakvillekin.org.ham dinner supplied by Pillers There are so many brave men and affinity for our troops and the associa-and in 1983 he joined the Kinsmen For information on the Portraits of Sausage & Delicatessen. women who proudly wear the uni-tions intense national pride, said Ric Club of Preston (Kin Canada). Honour National Tour, visit www.There will be two seatings of 120 form of the Canadian Forces and so McDonald, executive director and In 1990, to celebrate Kin Canadas portraitsofhonour.ca.25 Friday, June 10, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER www.insideHALTON.com