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Blog: February 2013 Archives

Yacht Club Historical Value

Chris Borgal

Posted by Robert Doublett

The The Sydney Architectural Conservation Society invited restoration architect Chris Borgal to do an assessment of the Royal Yacht club.

The offer to look at the building's heritage value by an expert was made after it was revealed that the yacht club planned to move its main operations out of the historical building in downtown Sydney, leaving the building to a local government agency.

ECBC has no plans for the site, which is why it may be worthwhile to look at the building's heritage value and soundness at this time Not a problem unique to Cape Breton all over Canada the same issue is being discussed and debated.

Old churches, old city hall, old libraries, building that mean something to people and a harder to part with.



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2013 Divorce Expo

Gwen Atkinson: Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia

Posted by Robert Doublett

Divorce is univesrally understood to be a terrible process.....not only is there emotional upheaval, there's business.

Who stays in the house,? How will the kids have access to both parents? What about the pensions...the list of details is endless and confusing.

This is where a divorce expo comes in.  There have been two in Atlantic Canada so far, this Friday and Saturday at Membertou will mark the third.

Gwen Atkinson from the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia, she's the organizer.

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Frankie MacDonald on KISS 92.5 FM

Roz Weston

Posted by Robert Doublett

Sydney Resident Frankie MacDonald recently presented his weather forecast on the website for Toronto radio station. Kiss 92.5 FM.


Frankie became a bit of celebrity, and his family thought, the butt of jokes on the KISS Morning presentation, the Roz and Mocha Show.

The radio station has cretaed a webpage featuring Frankie's videos and has included some of the exchanges between the two hosts about the Cape Bretoner.

Roz Weston is one of the hosts of the show. We called him because some family members, and people in the community took exception to what they heard on the site.

He did return our call and explained that when his show introduced frankie as a character he hadn't actually seen the video, he had only heard the audio, but when he saw the video, his developed an affection for the young man from Whitney Pier.



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