Charles E. Frees-Melvin

Once again I got another letter from festival by the Sea saying they don’t need my services this year. I wonder if it is because they have too many volunteers or that I did something in 2002 that I’m not aware of.

Tomorrow I’m going to take a theater production workshop, I think it will be a lot of fun. My good friend Tony (Double T) will be coming with me.

I just had this entire site hosting reset yesterday and there is a stupid bug in the form submission CGI that I just can’t figure out.

All for now.

Once again another aspiring politician was not elected because I voted for them.

Here is the list so far:
2004 Federal Election
Bob McVicar (Defeated)

2004 Conservative Leadership
Belinda Stonich (Defeated)

PC/Alliance Merger
Voted Against (defeated)

2003 Federal PC Party Leadership
Jim Prentice (Defeated)

2004 Municipal Election
Myself (Defeated)

2003 Provincial Election
Mel Vincent Jr. (Defeated)

2001 Municipal Election
Derek Chase (Defeated)

The only exception is when I voted for Elsie Wayne in the 2000 Federal Election.

My good friends Tony, Jeff, and I went to see the fireworks display and it was one of the best displays I have seen in my life. Fort LaTour was defiantly a great vantage point for fireworks.

While I left Client Logic on the 13th after Seven and a half wonderful months.

This fall I am going to be attending the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. I’m going to take Business. For some reason I seem to take courses that I can’t spell.

While running for Mayor, and while posting in here’s forums http://herenb.canadaeast.com/ many people criticized that my spelling is bad.

I’ve spent the past week updating this site. You notice the new background at the top, and the navigation header.

I’ve just started a wiki on the site as well frees-melvin.ca/wiki. I had to remove some pictures from the gallery because I was over my limit. I am going to switch hosting providers from webserve.ca to canadianwebhosting.com in November when my contract comes up for renewal, for about the same price I can get 500 Megs with MySQL and other features.

I am also considering whether to volunteer with Festival by the Sea.

CU L8R

Many people have asked me what was it like to run for Mayor of Saint John. The answer was that it was a time of a life time. I was privileged to meet everyone that I did meet. I now have a greater respect for Saint John and the issues about it.

I thought that I knew a lot about Saint John from reading the news, and watching council, and working in the community. There are others that thought I would have been better off running for council, but with the total number of people running, and the fact was there where much better people who were running for council with the knowledge and ability to do this city well.

To be quite honest the councilors that were elected were some of the best of the crop. Out of the 50 there was actually only about 17 that I thought were the best suited for the job and 9 of them were elected.

Now back to the Mayor’s seat. Running for mayor provided me with the best exposure. I was mentioned on the Newspapers, Radio, and appeared on TV. Also, I had many people who would stop and talk to me, about the community. It was well worth the experience. I could have bought advertising, and signs I was not desperately determined to get elected. But by no means was I not trying, I was running with a from my heart campaign and what I thought was best. I honestly don’t respect people the just run for the fame, I believe the you should be able to do the job before applying, and I felt that if elected I could have done an exceptional job at it.

In the future I will run again it may or may not be 2008 but I will be back for more.