This Friday June 29th, 2018, you may want to look up to the sky above Bridgewater for something spectacular.
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces Skyhawks Parachute Team will amaze and awe the public with their colourful and skillful aerial demonstrations when they perform a jump high above the South Shore Town starting at 11am.
Patrick Hirtle, Communications for the Town of Bridgewater, says the Team reached out to them expressing interest in doing a jump as part of their regular ongoing training and the rest they say, is history.
“We were happy to cooperate, we were able to find a landing area for them so it’s going to be the soccer field off the end of Glen Allen Drive and it sounds like it’s going to be a pretty neat event highly visible throughout the community,” says Hirtle.
The Skyhawks are are in Nova Scotia this week as part of the Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo and Canada Day Celebrations in Halifax.
One of the Skyhawks members just happens to be a native of the South Shore.
Captain John Hart was born and raised in Liverpool, Queens County, and graduated from Liverpool Regional High School in 2006 where he immediately joined the Canadian Armed Forces.
With more than 800 jumps under his belt, Hart tells Acadia News that he does, at times still feel the nerves and butterflies before a big jump, noting this Friday’s jump over Bridgewater will be extra special.
“When I’m jumping into Bridgewater here on the 29th, I’m pretty sure my heart rate’s going to be going up, I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of friends I haven’t seen on the ground and of course my family’s going to be there, so it will be a little more nerve wracking than normal,” says Hart. “It’s just going to be incredible, I’m really hoping that my parents push out to everybody to come on out to LaHave Street Park and really enjoy the show that we’re about to put on.”
The Canadian Armed Forces Skyhawks Bridgewater Itinerary:
When: Friday, June 29th, 2018 at 11am
Where: HB Studios Sports Centre, Outdoor Soccer Field
543 Glen Allan Drive, Bridgewater
Who: 2018 CAF Skyhawks Parachute Team
Story by Craig P ower
@CraigTPower
power.craig@radioabl.ca
Above Photo: Captain John Hart, of Liverpool, NS & Member of the Canadian Armed Forces Skyhawks Parachute Team. Photo contributed by the Canadian Armed Forces © 2018 and used with permission.
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