The Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA), is a Canada-wide volunteer aviation association dedicated to providing air search support services in downed aircraft, recently more humanitarian efforts, and promotes Canada’s Search and Rescue Program across Canada. Our volunteers are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist in providing air search assistance to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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CASARA NEWS
CASARA's First Ever Virtual BOD Meeting
This past weekend on Oct 17th 2020, CASARA held its first BOD virtual meeting via Zoom assisted by a local SK firm 5 by 5. This event included all Executives, Directors, Deputy Directors and Invitees across Canada!
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Charles Pachal - Governor Generals Sovereigns Medal for Volunteers
Congratulations to Charles "Chuck" Pachal on receiving the Governor Generals Sovereigns Medal for Volunteers (SMV) !
This medal is presented to Canadians who devote a large amount of time into volunteerism. Chuck has been invol...
Success In The North
Besides the event in Yukon, there was a search conducted for a missing hunter recently in Nunavut! This involved John Vander Velde (Director of NU), Koovian Flanagan, Leesee Papatsie, Gerard Nadrowski, and Meeka Mike searching for Robert Joamie.
Robert went caribou hunting o...
Ongoing Search In The North
This past week we have seen multiple events take place in the north involving CASARA. One of them is in the north west, Yukon and one in the north east, Nunavut. In this story we’re going to look at how CASARA YK has been involved with a 70 year mystery on a missing air...