Moncton Firemen's Community Fund

The Moncton Firemen's Community Fund 2024 calendar is now on sale at the following locations,- All Greater Moncton Sobey,s Needs convenience stores, Shoppers Drug Mart 681 Mountain Road, Sterling Apples Shediac Road, Jean's Restaurant 1999 Mountain Road, Irishtown Convenience store, Coverdale Road convenience store, Point Park convenience store, Read's Newsstand 347 Mountain Road, Dad,s and Lad,s Barber Shop Weldon St. Price is $5.00 and proceeds go to local charities.

This is a picture of members of the Moncton Fire Department who received their Exemplary Service medals circa 1990. ( ret. ) Retired; ( dec. ) Deceased, (S.C.F.P.) Salvage Corp and Fire Police.
Front row- Fire Prevention Officer Joe Horsman- dec.; Division Chief Fire Prevention Bill Melanson- dec.; Platoon Deputy Chief Ulysee ( Harry ) LeBlanc- dec.; Platoon Deputy Chief John Gillard- ret,; Fire Chief Gordon Richardson- dec; Senior Deputy Chief Bob Leger- dec; Platoon Deputy Chief Earl Killam- ret; Platoon Deputy Chief Paul Cormier- ret.
Middle row- Firefighter/ Driver Marshall Touchie- dec; Captain Jim Hicks- ret; Captain Jim Mont- dec; Firefighter Phil Doiron- dec; Firefighter/ Driver Ed Haley-dec; S.C.F.P. Driver Dale DeWare- dec; S.C.F.P. Driver Gerry Steeves, dec-; Captain Clarence Curwin- dec; Captain Jim Harvey- dec.; Platoon Deputy Chief Norm ( Red ) Mullins, ret; Captain Ray Leger, ret; S.C.F.P. Driver Eldon Matchett- dec; Firefighter/Driver Emery ( Tim ) Cormier- dec; .
Back row- Captain Don MacCallum- dec; Jack Leaman, S.C.F.P. Driver- dec; Firefighter /DriverGeorge Stone- dec; Retired Fire Chief Jack Bishop- dec; Division Chief Training Howie Butler- dec; S.C.F.P. Driver Jim London-dec; Firefighter / Driver Andrew ( Drake ) Cormier-dec; Fire Dispatcher Elmer ( Meemer ) Biddington,- dec. Firefighter / Driver Cam LeBlanc, ret.

The Moncton Firemen's Community Fund 2024 calendar is presently being put together for release in November of this year. Posted here is the front cover where members of the Moncton Fire Department are involved in pet rescues.

Retired Moncton Volunteer Firefighter Jack Christie was busy recently, delivering donations to several local charities, including Y.W.C.A. Family Centre, Moncton Headstart and Crossroads for Women. We are mailing our yearly donation to Burn Camp for Kids. We have supported these organizations for several years

The 2023 Moncton Firemen's Community Fund calendar will be arriving Dec 1st. and will be on sale at all Need's Convenience stores in Moncton and Riverview, Shoppers Drug Mart 681 Mountain Road, Jeans Restaurant, and convenience stores on the Irishtown Road, Point Park, Coverdale Road Riverview and Stirling Apples Shediac Road. This year's feature 4 page insert includes apparatus that made the Moncton Fire Department operate over the years from horses to the modern trucks that are used today. Price for the calendars is $5.00 with proceeds going to local charities.

Jack Christie, a member of the Moncton Firemen's Community Fund presents a cheque to Caroline Donelle who is the Executive Director with the Moncton Headstart organization. Moncton Firefighters have supported this organization for over 40 years.

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Very happy to have Tracey Redmond purchasing tickets supporting the Moncton Firemens Community Fund and grabbing the winning prize of $11,137. dollars. Make sure everyone gets out and supports their local firefighters in the N.B. Firefighters 50/50 Draw. You might be lucky like Tracey.

The Moncton Firemen's Community Fund send our sympathies to the family of Claudette Bradshaw, who among other things started the Moncton Headstart program which the Moncton Firefighters have supported for over 30 years.

Each Monday following our N.B. Firefighters 50/50 draw, we will select ONE supporter for the Moncton Firemen's Community Fund who both purchased a raffle ticket, and liked and shared this post, for a prize of our recent MFD history book AND a 2022 MFD Fire Prevention Calendar (pictured). To apply for this weekly draw email [email protected] once you have supported us and best of luck to everyone.

Thank you for your support!
Al MacNutt

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New wooden boxes being made to sell our Fire Prevention calendars in the fall. Work is being carried out at Walters Woodworking shop in Kinnear Settlement.

Skip Williston, Jim Miller and Paul MacFadyen , members of the Moncton Fire Department, were Counsellors at the Atlantic Burn Camp For Kids that is held in Cape Breton each year.

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Pictured here is a picture from 1959 that shows Canadian Wrestling Champion Whipper Billy Watson meeting some crippled children at the No. 3 fire station on Bonaccord St. Mr. Watson would travel all over Canada to make appearances to promote fundraising for these kids. He paid all his own expenses and did not accept any payment for his charitable work.

Moncton Firefighters used to have a Winter Carnival at the Moncton Stadium, to raise money for charitable organizations. This picture is circa 1965 and shows the firefighters bringing the 1926 LaFrance Pumper into the rink with some friends on board.

The Moncton Firemen's Community Fund is a member of the New Brunswick Firefighters 50/50 Draw which is held each week to raise money for fire departments and fire related community groups that support charities in New Brunswick. This week the winner was Margaret Stewart from Moncton and she chose our organization to receive the other part of the prize money. We will use that money to support our 6 charities - Crossroads for Women, House of Nazareth, Salvation Army, Atlantic Burn Camp for Kids, Christmas Daddies and Moncton Headstart. Thanks Margaret for thinking of us, it is appreciated.

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A few years ago a group of Moncton Firefighters volunteered to have their heads shaved to support the Moncton Police Officers who were raising funds to help the Cops for Kids Campaign that works with children who have cancer. Pictured here are MFD firefighters George Butler and Bob Ouellette getting the buzz, then John Murphy, George , Bob , Don Melanson, Dan Malone and Bobby LeBlanc after being clipped. Other photo shows Bob Ouellette back to work at Station 2.

The 2022 Moncton Firemen's Community Fund calendar will feature an insert that will honor members of our department who served in the military before becoming firefighters. We will feature over 40 men who served their country with distinction.
Calendars will be selling for $ 4.00 with proceeds going to local charities. They will be available starting Nov. 13 at all Needs stores in the Greater Moncton area, Lyons Country store, Point ParK Convenience, Coverdale Road Convenience, Stirling Apples, Reades Book store Mountain Road, Race Trac Convenience store, Jean's Restaurant and Shoppers Drug store 681 Mountain Road after Nov. 24

This is a really great group of firefighters. For obvious reasons, they are all very near and dear to my heart.
I’m very much looking forward to seeing the new calendar coming out in November.
Not long before Dad died, he actually sponsored and paid for several of the war veterans ads featured in this calendar. All of the “advertising” space in the calendar is very fairly priced and it’s how they raise the money they do for all the local charities. Even though it wasn’t a lot of money, as soon as Dad found out that some families couldn’t afford it, he immediately said he would pay for every family that needed it. That’s just who he was .
So I decided to purchase an ad space in this calendar just FOR Dad. I figured it was a win win situation.
I get to help the firefighters raise money to help local charities in our community AND I get to honour my fathers 32 year career.
Many people may not know this, but my fathers death has been officially deemed as a “ died in the line of duty” death.
I will be purchasing some of these calendars to have a few on hand in my new “dream shop “ once it’s up and running. ❤️it

The Moncton Firemen's Community Fund is a group of Active and Retired Moncton Firefighters and our main purpose is to assist local charities in our community. To do that, for the past several years we have produced a Fire Prevention calendar that hopefully keeps people on the alert for potential fire hazards. Also in our calendar we show pictures of old buildings in the Greater Moncton area as well as fires that have happened over the years.
This years calendar will feature the Brunswick Hotel, Scoudouc Airbase, LeBlanc Block fire, Palace Restaurant and many more. We will also have a special 4 page insert in the calendar, called " A Few Good Men ' which will honor members of our department who fought in WW1, WW2, Korea and Afghanistan. Many pictures and stories will make up the nearly 40 firefighter/soldier of our department.
Each year we donate funding raised from selling ads in our calendar, to 6 local charities- Salvation Army, Atlantic Burn Camp for Kids, House of Nazareth, Crossroads for Women ,Moncton Headstart school supplies and Christmas Daddies. In the past we have given our calendars away at no charge but because things have changed drastically in the past few months, our charities need more funding to help their projects. So this year with the help of Needs Convenience stores, we are selling our calendars for $3.50 plus tax. Other outlets are getting on board to help out including Stirlings Fruit Market, Dad's and Lad's barbershop and hopefully more to come. Also we offer to deliver the calendars for a small fee.
Hopefully we can bring in funds to help these organizations keep doing the good work that they do. Also our organization has recently joined the New Brunswick FireFighters 50/50 Weekly Jackpot Draw which will involve Fire Departments throughout N.B. in raising money for firefighting equipment and many firefighter sponsored charitable groups in our Province. More news on this later but plans are to have the first draw by the end of this month.
So that's a little bit of information on who we are and what we do. If anyone has questions about our Not For Profit organization you can contact the undersigned ' This years calendar is scheduled to be here by mid November.
Al MacNutt
Secretary Treasurer
382-2111 Office
756-4277 Cell