The Howlers campaign to help raise funds for Give a Mile has been so inspiring for me. To date, we have raised $ 3,000 and donated over 30,000 Aeroplan Miles. . We are moving into the final week of the campaign and I urge you to help the Howlers to support Give a Mile with the incredible work they are doing to help people to visit terminally ill friends & family that otherwise would not have been able to.

Take a minute to visit Give a Mile’s website (www.giveamile.org) to check out the incredible work they are doing and learn about the stories of people that they have been able to support at such a critical time. Truly inspiring!

Give a Mile is committed to a 100% donation model, meaning that funds and points raised by the Howlers campaign go directly to making flights happen and not to administration or salaries. Give a Mile is fuelled by a group of selfless volunteers, ensuring that all contributions go to achieving their mission.

As I mentioned, we are in the final week of this incredible campaign and I am asking for your help. Give a Mile cannot do it alone and here is how we can help. Give a Mile needs to raise $ 25,000 and secure donations of 1,000,000 Aeroplan Miles to make their 2014 goal a reality. In keeping with the spirit of supporting important endeavours, the Howlers are spear heading a campaign to help raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile over the next month. Please take a moment to visit the Give a Mile website (http://giveamile.org/). I hope you can help support our campaign to raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile. 

I would also ask that you consider an Aeroplan Miles donation to the organization. The process is really very simple, just click onhttp://beyondmiles.aeroplan.com/eng/charity/515 and it will take you to the Aeroplan website where you can make your donation

Thank you.
Karl Fix
President
Dog River Howlers

The Dog River Howlers RFC ( www.facebook.com/dogriverhowlers) will be receiving a "Fair Play " award (displaying the values of rugby on and off the pitch) from the NACRA (North American And Caribbean Rugby Association ) at the half time of ARC Canada vs Argentina game AT 4:30 PM on Sunday October 19 in Langford BC (part of greater Victoria).

To lead up to that and also celebrate this award with Howlers and their friends we will be hosting a "Howlers Night" at on Saturday October 18 beginning at 6:30 pm at James Bay Clubhouse (upstairs) at 205 Simco (Mc Donald Park)in Victoria

To order your tickets please SEND KARL FIX A RETURN EMAIL ([email protected])TELLING ME HOW MANY TICKETS YOU WOULD LIKE AND THEN IN TURN FORWARD YOUR CHEQUES PAYABLE TO the Dog River Howlers to Karl Fix c/o East End Dental, 2069 Park Street, Regina Sask., S4N-6S2. KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE ARE ONLY 100 TICKETS AVAILABLE !!!  .................(40 Tickets left!!)

Itinerary:
6:30 to 7:20 pm -     cocktails
7:20 to 8:20 -          dinner
8:20 - 9:10 -            first performance
9:40 - 10:30 -     second performance

Entertainment will be provided by Juno Award and Canadian Guitar Wars winner singer/guitarist JACK SEMPLE ( http://www.jacksemple.com/) . The cost per ticket will $100 which will include a full dinner (with wine) and this world class entertainment. All attendees will also be automatically entered for some draws for Howlers paraphernalia and a number of giclee limited edition prints.

About Jack Semple

Jack is one of those rare guitar players who leaves a crowd speechless, one of those players who leaves a crowd in total astonishment, in absolute awe of what they have just experienced. Listening to and watching Jack play fills one with a sense of having witnessed an event in time, one not soon to be forgotten. Jack Semple is an absolute virtuoso of his art form, playing with unparalleled feeling and total technical control.

He is an epic guitarist and a soulful singer. His music is like Stevie Ray Vaughn meets James Brown meets Robben Ford. He is a Juno Award winner and Western Canadian Music Award winner.

Semple also commenced a solo recording career that has resulted in the release of ten albums. In 1992, Semple came to national prominence through winning the MuchMusic "Guitar Wars" contest. Semple has been twice nominated, in 1999 and 2000, for a Gemini Award for his soundtrack work on the television series Incredible Story Studio. Semple won a Juno award in 1991 for best roots recording. He has won two Western Canadian music awards for "Qu'Appelle" and "In the Blue Light".

Semple has played from Vancouver to Montreux, has worked for CBC radio and TV, and shared the stage with a wide range of top artists, from Martha Reeves to the Drifters, Little Anthony, Colin James, the Lincolns, Ronnie Hawkins and K.D.Lang

Howlers Sean Ferguson, Seb Pearson, Jorden Sandover-Best and Matt Taylor will be part of the Canadian 7's Team competing in 2014 International University Sports Federation, FISU, Men’s and Women’s Sevens Championship in Sao Jose de Campos, Brazil from August 8th -10th. Congratulations and all the best to you and the entire team . Oh Canada and Howuuuuuu !!! 

Pic#1 - Natasha Smith , Pic #2 - Arielle Dubissette-Borrice

Howlers Arielle Dubissette and Natasha Smith will be part of the Canadian 7's Team competing in 2014 International University Sports Federation, FISU, Men’s and Women’s Sevens Championship in Sao Jose de Campos, Brazil from August 8th -10th. Congratulations and all the best to you and the entire team . Oh Canada and Howuuuuuu !!

Canada’s Women's Team – Name, (Club) Hometown:

Arielle Dubissette-Borrice – (Toronto Scottish) Toronto, ON
Bianca Farella - (Town of Mount Royal RFC) Montreal, QC
Paige Farries - (Druid RFC) Red Deer, AB
Deanna Foster - (McGill University) Caledon, ON
Emmanuela Jade – (York University) Guelph, ON
Sara Kaljuvee - (Toronto Scottish) Ajax, ON
Katie McNally - (Guelph RFC) Guelph, ON
Breanne Nicholas - (Kent Havoc RFC) Blenheim, ON
Nadia Popov - (Aurora Barbarians) Newmarket, ON
Natasha Smith - (Barrhaven Scottish RFC) Ottawa, ON
Alex Tessier - (Montreal Barbarians) Saint-Clotilde-de-Horton, QC
Natasha Watcham-Roy - (University of Ottawa) Gatineau, QC

Howlers Mike Fuailefau and Lucas Hammond are part of Canada's National 7's Men's side that are competing in 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Scotland starting on Saturday July 26th.

Canada are in Pool A with defending champion New Zealand, plus Scotland and Barbados.

Pool B has South Africa, Kenya, Cook Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago, Pool C features Samoa, Wales, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia, while Pool D is made up of England, Australia, Sri Lanka and Uganda.

I really appreciate all the support that so many of you have given to the Howlers campaign to help raise funds and Aeroplan Miles for Give a Mile. This group is enabling people to visit terminally ill friends & family that otherwise would not have been able to. So inspiring!

I recently learned about a Give a Mile program that I wanted to share with you. The Flight Hero program is an opportunity for you to take a lead role in raising the Aeroplan Miles required for a flight. Essentially, in coordination with Give a Mile, An individual makes the commitment to raise 25,000 Aeroplan Miles. Utilizing your network of family, friends, co-workers and rugby team mates, you take on the responsibility of helping to make a flight happen.

Here is how it works:

1.         Go to http://giveamile.org/flights/ to learn about the people that Give a Mile is trying to help.

2.         Contact Give a Mile’s Flight Hero program lead, [email protected], and make your commitment

3.         Raise the 25,000 Aeroplan Miles.

I understand that Give a Mile is more than happy to support and coach the Flight Hero volunteers, so you will have all the tools that you need to be successful.

But they cannot do it alone and here is how we can help. Give a Mile needs to raise $ 25,000 and secure donations of 1,000,000 Aeroplan Miles to make their 2014 goal a reality. In keeping with the spirit of supporting important endeavours, the Howlers are spear heading a campaign to help raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile over the next month. Please take a moment to visit the Give a Mile website (http://giveamile.org/). I hope you can help support our campaign to raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile. 

I would also ask that you consider an Aeroplan Miles donation to the organization. The process is really very simple, just click on http://beyondmiles.aeroplan.com/eng/charity/515   and it will take you to the Aeroplan website where you can make your donation

Thank you.

Karl Fix

President

Dog River Howlers

We have received a great response to the Howlers campaign to help raise funds for Give a Mile over the next month. To date we have raised $ 1,500.

The funds that the Howlers are raising for Give a Mile go directly to the taxes and related costs of flights and not to operations or administration. That means that every dollar we raise will be utilized to enable people to visit terminally ill family members. That is powerful.

Have you had a chance to visit the Give a Mile website (www.giveamile.org)? I was touched by the stories about the people that Give a Mile has been able to support at such a crucial time. Recently, Give a Mile was able to support an individual with a flight to see her father, who was dying of pancreatic cancer. Through Give a Mile, the daughter was able to travel across the country to be with her father in the last days of his life. This simply would not have happened without the support of Give a Mile. There are many stories like the one I have shared and I encourage you to visit the website.

They cannot do it alone and here is how we can help. Give a Mile needs to raise $ 25,000 and secure donations of 1,000,000 Aeroplan Miles to make their 2014 goal a reality. In keeping with the spirit of supporting important endeavours, the Howlers are spear heading a campaign to help raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile over the next month. Please take a moment to visit the Give a Mile website (www.giveamile.org). I hope you can help support our campaign to raise $ 10,000 for Give a Mile. 

I would also ask that you consider an Aeroplan Miles donation to the organization. The process is really very simple, just click on http://beyondmiles.aeroplan.com/eng/charity/515   and it will take you to the Aeroplan website where you can make your donation.

Thank you.

Karl Fix

President

Dog River Howlers

Howlers Mike Fuailefau and Lucas Hammond are part of the Canadian team for the upcoming July 26 and 27 Commonwealth Games. 7's competition in Edinburgh Scotland. The Canadian sevens team has been placed in Pool A with 4-time defending champions New Zealand, Barbados, and host-nation Scotland.
HOWUUUUUUU AND OH CANADA !!!!!

Name Age Hometown Position
BRAID, Connor 24 Victoria, BC Prop
DOUGLAS, Justin 20 Vancouver, BC Wing
DUKE, Sean 26 Vancouver, BC Wing
FUAILEFAU, Mike 22 Victoria, BC Hooker
HAMMOND, Lucas 20 Toronto, ON Scrum Half
HEARN, Ciaran 28 Conception Bay, NFLD Centre
HIRAYAMA, Nathan 26 Richmond, BC Fly Half
JONES, Harry 24 West Vancouver, BC Utility
MOONLIGHT, John 27 Pickering, ON Hooker
SCHOLZ, Mike 25 Oakville, ON Prop
TRAINOR, Conor 25 Vancouver, BC Centre
WHITE, Sean 26 Victoria, BC Scrum Hal

Pool A - New Zealand, Canada, Scotland, Barbados
Pool B - South Africa, Kenya, Cook Islands , Trinidad and Tobago
Pool C - Samoa, Wales. Papau New Guinea, Malaysia
Pool D - England, Australia, Sr Lanka, Uganda

Honorary Howlers captain Lorne Cardinal aka Sergeant Davis Quinton (in photo with full Howlers gear on the set) is back in Dog River (Rolueau Saskatchewan) filming the "Corner Gas" movie to be released this X-mas. CTV's "Corner Gas" sitcoms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Gas ) attained the highest ratings in Canadian TV history. Lorne a rugby player himself was instrumental in getting CTV to allow us to use the name Dog River.