Al18 - The Canadian Champion, Frîday November 10, 2006 Where and when to pay your respects Residents wil bave a couple of ways to mark Remembrance Day this weekend, tbanks to tht Milton brancb of tht Royal Canadian Legion. Tht first will taIse place tomorrow at Evergreen parade will rnarcb off frorn thte fmom AIR on page Ai S Ctrnery on Ontario Street, Legion, 21 Charles St., at 1:30 'Holy God, it looks like war now"' witb a short parade at 10:45 p.rn. and travel to the Cenotaph Sonoski was stationed in Yorkshîri arn. followed by a two-minute at Town Hall, 43 Brown St. A and hegan to go on bombing raidso silence at il arn. service will then take place at 2 Germany Hîs first raid targete( Sunday, a Rernembrance Day p.m. Duîsberg and învolved 1,000 planes - RIcK MALBOEUF REGIONAL COUNCILLOR WARDS 2 & 4 BECAUSE... Rick has the political experience and background needed to ensure that the concerns of Milton residents are heard and deait with by Council. His business experience enables hlm to bring common sense to the decision making process at Council. Rick has family and friends throughout the community who keep him informed and apprised of the issues facing Milton. Honoured with a medal for valour, his military background proves he can handie the tough fight. Rick has neyer abandoned his S prncpals for political gain and has ahways put the interests of his constituents first. We Need Rick Ma/boeuf On Council So He Gan Get Milton Back On Track! LieW0bh6-1-199 Fa: 90) 88-11 To the Voters of Ward One 7BIAN P-ENMAN MUNICIPAL COUNCILLOR WARD 1 On9 your hehaif, Drrian hbas served la the following capacîties:- *Town of Milton, Councillor for Ward 1 *Chair: - Administration, Planning & Budget Committee - Town Hall Expansion Committee - Conservation Halton - Milton Meals On Wheels *Co-Chair: - Milton Economic Development BRIAI " Foundations: - Milton Hospital and Conservation Halton " Member: - Conservation Ontario " Steering Committee: - Halton & Hamilton Source Water Protection NI PENMAN a takes PRIDE in Solving Your Problems e is a Seasoned& Experienced Politician * is scally IResponsibie *has a Vision for the Future of Dur Community *has been a Staunch Defender of the Rural Landscape in Milton TOGETHER WE WANT. A cost effective and accounitable local gomerment. A well-managed pattern of growth. A sale, livable community. wlu and lus sons cicathi to a lacIs therc- of. A monument was erected at tht crash site, wbicb Sonoski visited hast year. Understandably, Remembrance Day is an ernotional tirne for Sonoski, as it is for veterans around tht world. "I always corne to tears when they start playing O Canada." Stephanie Thiessen con be reached at sthiessen@amiltoncanadiancuiampion. tom. 1 Nov. 11 em iotional day a staggering sight for a boy from smail town ()rtariO. re '( Iver thet' arger, ail yoncoeuld see ýfwas air rau and grcat pifs of smoke," ,d Son<sk i r'nt ir - -[-hc 'moIsi ww' rorriHais, anti air- crai shells shot inb the air at the planes. "You'd hear pîcces oh lak allng and you'sI ail pray for one not to explode directly beside you," Sonoski said. Ail around hlm, he saw planes going down in fiery wrecks. It was while on a sirnilar mission that bis plane becarne one of thern. Hit by a piece of fiaI, tht engine caught fire. Fxposed and vuinerable in enerny searcbh igbts, the crew found itself witb a difficult decision - bail out and becorne prisoners of war or try to bead back. Tbey cbose the latter and made it as far as Tuddenbarn, England, wben tbey realized tbe Halifax 3 was going to blow up and tbey bailed. On bis way down, bis paracbute slowing bis [aIl, Sonoski saw the plane plummet. He landed in a plowed, muddy field and eventually ended up at an Arnerican air base bospital - in the bed rigbt beside the other gunfler. Arnazingly, ail the crew rnernbers bad escaptd and were only banged up. It was the luckiest tbing that ever bappened. It wasn't sIsilI, it was lucIs," be said. That wasn't to be bis last narrow escape, for bis only plane crash. Sonoski adrnitted that tht brave front be upbeld around bis cornrades slipped a bit at tacb takeoff. "You said a prayer before tht pilot put thethtrottle forward. You'd wonder, 'Is this our nigbt? Are we going to get back?' You'd get used to tht idea that if you were going to dit, it could be tonigbt." Take-off was particularly scary because you neyer knew if tht engine was going to malfunction, Sonoski explained. It was tht littît pleasures that sus- tained thern, narnely tht bacon and tggs before take off and rurn upon return, be said. I was always glad flot to be in tht arrny They didn't know wben their next meal would corne." Sonoski returned borne in May 1945. Even wbile overseas, he badn't told bis rnom be was figbting in tht war, and bis siblings belped keep tht trutb frorn ber. Sadly, she bad a stroke wbile ber youngest son was away, and died tbree rnontbs after bis rtturn. Tht decades that followed Sonoski's returo included more than 30 years managing a hotel, marriage to bis wift, Frances, wbo dîed in 1991, and tht birtb of five cbîldren. "My eldest son joined tht air force wben be was 23," Sonoski said. It was wbile strving in Goose Bay, Nfld., that Colins belicoprer crasbed, 1(ilIin2 Iiiiim ad t1 i'ei e