"I gave direction that it'd be preferable for the Canadian CF-18s to do the shoot down," Gen. Wayne Eyre said Tuesday. "But I will say they were delayed in departing Cold Lake because of freezing rain."

The comment came as members of the House of Commons defence committee pressed Eyre and Defence Minister Anita Anand for answers about the range of flying objects shot down over North America last month.

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Those include a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4 after flying over Alaska, Western Canada and large parts of the northern United States.

They also include three objects shot down in quick succession between Feb. 10 and 12, including one downed by an American F-22 over Yukon on Feb. 11, which officials have described as a suspected balloon.

There have been questions over why the object over Yukon was destroyed by a U.S. fighter jet, as Canadian officials have said there were CF-18s scrambled and in the area after it entered Canadian airspace.

Anand also defended the use of an American fighter jet, saying the aircraft was operating at the time under the jurisdiction of NORAD, the joint U.S.-Canada military command responsible for protecting North America.

"Aircraft under NORAD were being scrambled," she said. "And the decision to take down the suspected balloon was made by the prime minister using NORAD assets after phone calls with President Biden and with the secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin."

Anand did not provide much in the way of new details about those objects except to say that they do not appear to be "state-affiliated," meaning they likely weren't owned and operated by a foreign government.

However, she refused to comment further, noting that efforts to recover the wreckage of the object shot down over Yukon as well as those downed off the coast of Alaska and over Lake Huron have been suspended.

U.S. and Canadian officials say they do not believe the objects posed a security threat. U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have said they instead posed a threat to airline safety.

Committee members also pressed Anand and Eyre without success on the origins and purpose of several surveillance buoys recovered from Canada's Arctic waters, which reports have alleged were from China.

Anand and Eyre were also hesitant to comment on reports that the Chinese balloon destroyed on Feb. 4 after several days flying over Western Canada was able to jam military communications and electronics.

"Bottom line, from my perspective, we don't know," he said. "A surveillance balloon does perhaps provide some advantages in terms of its persistence over an area. But there are other capabilities, satellite capabilities as well, that could provide almost the same, if not better, collection capabilities."

Gretzky, who recently bought a home in Gardens, had expressed interest in using the $43 million sports complex for his youth hockey school before the city terminated its relationship with the nonprofit behind the project.

The nonprofit Palm Beach North Athletic Foundation failed to meet four fundraising milestones over two years and sought a city-backed bond to fill the void, City Manager Ron Ferris told the City Council in a blistering Oct. 31 memo.

In documents submitted to the city, the foundation said it had amassed contributions and pledges totaling $3.7 million despite the difficulty of raising money during a pandemic and stock market downturn.

He also pointed out that the financial plan would cover construction of the ice rinks but not a proposed gymnasium and would still require raising $15 million in contributions (although the foundation spelled out one scenario requiring just $11 million in fundraising).

The city awarded the contract to the foundation to build the two-story complex on 14 acres of the county-owned North County District Park in October 2019 and the county agreed in March 2020. The complex would include two ice hockey rinks, each with 500 seats; a gymnasium; an indoor playground; squash courts; a jogging track; community rooms; and a rock-climbing wall.

Audited statements presented by the foundation showed $3.7 million in contributions and pledges, including a $1.25 million commitment from insurer and wealth manager NFP, a New York-based company that recently took offices at the DiVosta Towers near the Gardens Mall.

No other City Council member replied to the Ferris email, the documents show, but one prospective member did. On Nov. 2, Ferris forwarded his memo outlining his reasons for terminating the agreement to Bert Premuroso and Dana Middleton, two candidates for City Council.

At the Nov. 3 meeting, Ferris said the city had received seven expressions of interest in the 14-acre site since the October 2019 award to PBNAF. He said he would meet with at least three proposers but refused to tell the council what they were proposing, saying those discussions were confidential under state law.

To shield those proposals, the city appears to be acting under the Request for Proposals issued in 2018 that drew just one responsive bidder, PBNAF. When asked to provide any newly issued RFP or details of the subsequently submitted proposals, the city provided no information.

Thanks Joel for an illuminating and informative article presented in a clear and concise manner. In the interest of transparency and communication with the residents of PBG this information should have been presented and discussed at the one and only regular November City Council meeting by the City Council and the City Manager. Unfortunately, for reasons not made public, it was not.

Feb. 13: Huge development proposed for tiny Lake Park. West Palm Beach preps Broadway for renewal. Stet goes to Vegas and The Sphere. And upcoming in Stet and The PB Post: Untold details on the Romen Phelps shooting at Dreyfoos High.

Dec. 19: Many local officials would rather quit than file the detailed Form 6 financial disclosure report and many do, West Palm Beach embarks on another study of its waterfront, county pays a little bit more to secure a large chunk of Pal-Mar restoration area.

Dec. 12: A disgraced doctor gets his prison sentence shaved and has his say in court; a postage stamp high-rise angers neighbors in West Palm Beach; Gardens annexation continues to clash with North Palm Beach and Juno Beach; Lev Parnas could be coming home to Boca and the Norton Museum steps out.

Curdes was one of only three American pilots to shoot down aircraft belonging to the German, Italian and Japanese air forces. The other two pilots were Lt. Col. Carl Payne[a] and Maj. Gen. Levi R. Chase.[b][3] In total, Curdes shot down seven German Messerschmitt Bf 109s, an Italian Macchi C.202 fighter, a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft and an American Douglas C-47 Skytrain. After the war, Curdes flew Douglas C-54 Skymasters in the Berlin Airlift and after retiring from the Military after 22 years of service, he founded a construction company.[1]

Louis Edward Curdes was born on 2 November 1919, to Esther H. (nee Kover) a former schoolteacher and Walter L. Curdes who worked in development and home-building real estate. He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana with one sister during the Great Depression and later graduated from North Side High School in 1938. Curdes played basketball and ran track in high school, but his coach caught him smoking so he was cut from the teams. He would also help maintain many of his father's rental properties.[1][2]

Walter Curdes had an interest in aviation and had helped Art Smith with getting his aircraft airborne and would also take young Louis to air races at Smith Field, Cleveland and Georgia. When Curdes was eight or nine, he got a ride in a World War I Curtiss JN Jenny. Curdes' father also took him to see the building of the USS Akron and the USS Macon airships. Due to these experiences, young Louis developed a deep interest in aviation.[2]

Louis later enrolled at Purdue University to study engineering and found construction work in the summers. Curdes only occasionally followed the ongoing wars in Europe and Asia, but still had a strong dislike of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. After three years of study, he dropped out and joined the military to become a pilot on 6 December 1941, the day before the Attack on Pearl Harbor.[1][4]

About a month later, Curdes became a Flying Cadet and spent the next month in Santa Ana, California, two months in Ontario, California, two months in Lancaster, California for Basic Combat Training and then two months in Luke Field, Arizona. He trained on a few different aircraft including the Stearman PT-13, North American T-6 Texan, Vultee BT-13 Valiant and the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. At the time, few cadets got to experience the high performance P-36 Hawk. He then joined the Army Reserve on 12 March 1942 and later became a 2nd Lieutenant, graduating from Flying School on 3 December 1942, at Luke Field, Arizona at the age of 23 and was posted to the Mediterranean theater.[1][2]

Curdes joined the 329th Fighter Group in Glendale, California and then spent a month at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego. After that he was sent to Edwards Air Force Base and then back to Santa Ana. In March, he was sent overseas, but on 17 April, was transferred to the 82nd Fighter Group, 95th Fighter Squadron, where he saw action in North Africa, Sardinia and Italy, flying a Lockheed P-38 Lightning.[5] On his first mission on 23 March, 1943, he engaged multiple Messerschmitt Bf 109s of the Jagdgeschwader 27 and was able to shoot down three and damaged a fourth near Cape Bon, Tunisia. Curdes had such a shortage of fuel after this engagement that he had to force a landing in a dry riverbed and wait for the Army to bring him fuel and Marston Mat to create a temporary runway.[1][6][3]

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