Events
​ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LUNCH
Saturday September 13, 2025
1200 hours
University Golf Club
5185 University Boulevard, Vancouver
*** Dress: Slacks & blazer, or business suit optional and equivalent for the ladies
*** Cost: No Charge (see details below) - Merry Christmas!!
*** Reception: 1200 Hours (no-host cash bar)
*** Lunch: 1300 Hours (Christmas Snowflake Buffet)
*** Entertainment: Harp player
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Please advise if you will attend, and the number of family guests you will bring. Advise the
Secretary(Jerry Vernon) at jevernon@telus.net or (604) 420-6065 by no later than Sunday, 30
November. Also advise of any special dietary requirements.
If your plans change later, also please advise us of this, for catering purposes.
How can we offer a FREE Christmas Lunch?
As you know, the AFOA is shutting down at the end of this year. Our original plan was for the Dawn Patrol to be our final social event, but 19 Wing Honorary Colonel Bob Quarterman offered to sponsor a final Christmas lunch. His generous donation will either cover a free lunch or subsidize the lunch, depending the attendance, with AFOA picking up the balance. There is limited space, so no outside guests please. Please come with your wife/partner and the same usual close family members that you usually bring to our social functions. However, after we see what the attendance will be, and crunch the numbers, we may still have the flexibility to consider additional guests.
Thanks to those who attended the 2025 Dawn Patrol and made it a success. We had 48 people and had more raffle prizes than people!! We wish to again thank all of those Members who personally contributed items to the Dawn Patrol Raffle. A fully loaded prize table ensured good ticket sales this year on top of the three free raffle tickets that were handed out to all attendees.
Unfortunately, this is our last organized formal social event before the AFOA ceases to exist as a
Registered B. C. Society at the end of this year. However, there remains the possiblity that some of our individual members may wish to continue on a limited basis into the future with a handful of informal no-host sit-down events at some suitable venue that offers a snall private dining room where food can be individually ordered from the menu. This will eliminate the need to pay high fixed costs spread over a very small number of participants, that has made our events so pricy in recent years. Perhaps something like an RCAF Birthday Dinner, a Battle of Britain Lunch and a Remembrance Day breakfast or brunch, where we can watch the Vancouver Cenotaph Service in comfort on a TV screen. Just thinkin’ !!
If you wish to remain on our e-mail list, please advise the Secretary at jevernon@telus.net
If I do not hear from you on this with your preference, I will eventually drop you from the list.
Merry Christmas!!!