On Mother’s Day the 9th day of May in 1982 I was birthed, in the port city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. I graduated with Honours from Saint John High School in 2001. I was born with a strong sense of dedication to the community and political workings of organizations, probably due to the many years that I was involved in Scouting (1987-1996) and Air Cadets (1995-1997). I have always believed that anything is possible and that leadership is where I feel more comfortable.  I have never really consider myself a writer or author although things always seem to come back to that. I don’t even consider myself an artist really but I some how keep coming back to that as well. Once again, I don’t even think of myself as a computer expert, but others tend to disagree. I have found that success tends to come from thinking high about yourself, always try it anyways, ask questions, take charge and responsibility, and appear confident when you talk.

Now back to about me, after high school I wend to university on two different occasions once for Journalism, and the second time for Business. Neither time did I get the impression that I was going completely in the right direction. Now I’m trying for the lucky third try, in an attempt to obtain a pre-law path of a BA with a major in Economics and a minor in History.

In some ways I enjoy being artistic and creative. Making television and videos with friends is definitely a highlight of my time. Also I enjoy changing and manipulating the design and back end programing on this site.

Since December 1999, I’ve been volunteering at Rogers Television. On March 25th 2004, I decided to run for Mayor of Saint John. I was quite impressed by the warm welcome I received while running. Although in the end ended up with about 2% of the vote with 448 voting supporters, however I believe there were others who did not vote. I was quite politically active, and held a position on the Board of Directors of the Conservative Party of Canada Saint John Electoral District Association from 2004-2008. Participating in the National Policy Convention in March 2005 focusing on strengthening the Party’s constitution.

About this Site

The Official Charles E. Frees-Melvin Website is my personal home on the Internet. It started in the fall 1997 as a small unvisited Star Trek Fan site onGeocities. Then it ping-ponged around the net for several years and by several names (Chuck’s Anything and Everything site, ChuckNET). In July 2002 my photo Gallery began, however being on free hosting at the time led to problems.

In late 2005 the site was completely revamped to make CEFM.ca the primary domain. At the same time the site was migrated to the WordPress CMS that is in place now.

This site is a fairly diverse collection of software as is it’s ideas and writings. It is hosted in Vancouver, BC, Canada by my host CanadianWebHosting.com. It consists of 3 WordPress integrated installs and 1 Gallery install. All themes off of the main CEFM.ca WordPress install. You can tell by the sub-domain when you are not on the main WordPress install. The current theme being used is a adaptation derivative from “Eos” (avalible here) by SRS Solutions.

This site runs on Linux with Apache 1.3, PHP5 and MySQL5.

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