Dates to Remember:

May 2 - Monthly Union Meeting - 8pm

May 5 - Edmonton Hall open 10am - noon

May 21 - Victoria Day offices closed

May 25 - Seniors Breakfast - 9am

June 2 - Edmonton Hall open 10am - noon

June 6 - Monthly Union Meeting - 8pm

June 16 - Family Picnic - Victoria Park

June 29 - Seniors Breakfast - 9am

July 2 - Canada Day Observed - offices closed

July 4 - Monthly Union Meeting - 8pm

July 7 - Edmonton Hall open 10am - noon

July 21 - Las Vegas Scramble Golf Tournament -The Ranch Golf & Country Club - registration form

2012 Boilermaker Annual Awards Banquet

The Banquet was held January 28th at the Delta Edmonton South. Last year was our first 60yr member but it was certainly not our last. This year we honoured John Koch for his 60 years of service as well as a whopping 11 55yr members! Some of which are pictured below.

Our top ranking apprentices of 2011 were: Odin Nielsen, Boilermaker 1st yr; Ryan Harvey, Boilermaker 2nd yr; Scott Krywy, Boilermaker 3rd yr (this was Scotts second time in a row achieving top in his class); Travis Dreissigacker, Welder 1st yr; Charles Moore, Welder 2nd yr; John Chilsholm, Welder 3rd yr.

2011 Show & Shine

What a beautiful day to raise money for kids in need and look at amazing cars!  In total we were able to raise $3898.34 for 630 CHED Santas Anonymous. Your generousity is outstanding thank you all very much!

Crowd favourites and this years winners were:

Car -  Al & Lynsie Knight 1953 Oldsmobile

Truck - Ernie Andruik 1956 Ford F100

Motorbike - Ian Robb 2011 suped up Harley Davidson "Freakshow Custom Bagger"

Well done everyone.  A few of the other highlight cars at this years show were the University of Albertas Formula SAE who placed 7th overall at the 2011 FSAE West competition,  Nap Pepins Electric car, a custom made electric reverse trike and Martin Woods car was out shining in the sun.  This years show was dedicated to the memory of Martin and his family was there to show off his car in some fin burn outs after the show.

Thank you to all the volunteers who dedicated there time and to the Quality Control Council of Canada, Unite Here 47, Encore Specialty Products Ltd. and The Building Trades of Alberta for their generous donations that helped to make this years show a success!

Las Vegas Scramble Boilermaker Golf Tournament

Thank you to everyone who came out to our golf tournament this year and to all those who donated prizes and monetary gifts to JDRF and Dogs with Wings.  All together we raised $5,735.00 for these two great causes.  Saturday we made a difference and had a lot of fun doing it!

Elvis and the Colonel were out again with all the usual fun vegas style challenges including this years newest addition the slot machine! Although we didn't have any big winners on the slot machine we did have big winners out on the course with Janice Malowany winning the Longest Putt for the ladies and Troy Mearon for the men.  Cheryl Hamer won the Ladies Longest Drive and Danny Graham the Men's Longest Drive. James Johnson took home the $500 from the QCC Closest to the Pin Challenge and Kris Sobkiw the $500 TIW Closest to the Pin Prize.  Ken Gochanour, Joseph Raimondi, John Birzgalis and John James Birzgalis found themselves once again tied up after 18 holes, this year with Kevin McHale, Tom Caul, Martin Collier and Joe Holmes.  The tournament moved to the tie-breaking putting green for a putt-off.  Ken hit a perfect putt right into the hole and once again team Gochanour came out tournament champions!  For great pictures of this event click here.

Luc Lefebvre Family Picnic 2011

The clouds parted Sunday June 12th around noon, just in time for our Boilermaker Family Picnic to really get going.  Once again we had fabulous food, music and a lot of fun!  Everyone sported sensational new tatoos, some lookin' fine with as many as 10 dotting their bodies!  This year the activities started out with a scavenger/treasure hunt that had the kids racing around figuring out clues and completing challenges.  Everyone did a wonderful job.  We ended up with some pretty fantastic poems including my favourite;  Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Boilermakers make engines Bloom! by Joseph King, Jacob King, Reese Norman and Levi Pearson.  After the young and young at heart tried out their skills at the foot races, sac races, tug-of-war, shoe kick and finally the much needed balloon toss which proved a heaven sent relief to the heat of the bright sun!  Thank you to all the volunteers that dedicated their time and to all those who attended that helped out by offering their skills as judges and cleaning up at the end of the day.  Check out the pictures posted of this year’s picnic and be sure to come out next year! To view this year's competition winners click here

Annual Awards Banquet 2011

Congratulations to our graduates and long term members among those was Joseph  Ferland receiving a beautiful ring in honour of his 60 year anniversary as a member of Local 146.  This was the first time our local has had a 60 year member.  Joe we salute you!

A shout out also goes to our top apprentices: 1st year Boilermaker - Edward Cherie, 2nd year Boilermaker - Scott Krywy, 3rd year Boilermaker - Eric Hache, 1st year Welder - Dion Johnson, 2nd year Welder - Mark Beckstead and 3rd year Welder Ashley Baptiste.  Well done!

We celebrated with good food, fine folks and great music.  Thanks to everyone that made the night a success.  Let's do it again next year!

Show & Shine 2010

Despite the cool winds this years show was fabulous! Raising $3612.50 for CHED Santas Anonymous.  Almost double the amount raised last year!Thank you to everyone who came out to support this great cause.

Winners of the show were:

Car -  Al and Denise Knight Entry #38  year: 1953 make: Olds model: 98 Holiday Coupe

Truck - Chris Kosheiff Entry #48  year: 1956 make: Chev model: ½ Ton

Motorbike - Darcy Drynan entry # 58 year: 2003 make: Rolling Thunder model: Chopper,

And I bet you're all dying to know who won that stellar BBQ donated by Quality Control Canada.  The winner was ...Velma Thome.  Conratulations Velma! Thank you to The Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 488, Building Trades of Alberta, Alberta Exchanger and Encore Speciality Products Ltd. for your generous donations that helped make the show a success.

The highlight however, was the after hours show.  At the end of the day a few of the hot cars showed off for the remaining crowd preforming burnouts in the parking lot.  Check out the videos posted with other great pictures from the show here.

Seniors Golf Tournament

This year's tournament took place Thursday August 5th at the Ranch Golf and Country Club.    The winning team consisting of Jack Stewart, Wayne Saltys, Mario Morrato and William Robertson are pictured below as Arnie Stadnick presents their well deserved trophies.  Other winners of the day were Allan Parr for Longest Drive, Jack Stewart for Longest Putt and Ken Gochanour for Closest to Pin.