april 08, 2009 12:23am
July 27, 2008 Fredericton is a great tow
Sun. July 27, 2008
Fredericton is a great town.
I had a good night at the dance last night at the legion, Saturday night. I made a couple of appointments for interviews and met some good people. Today started with more rain. There is something about rainy days, I usually like the rain but when you have as much rain as we have had lately it is kind of depressing. But I am a glass is half full guy and I always make the best of things, after I stop bitch'in about it.
After I did my fallow up interview with Chub Howard at Mary's Bake Shop in Perth-Andover, I called a like minded friend that I had met at the legion a couple nights before, Lou Sullivan. We hit it off, right off the bat when we met. He rides an American motorcycle as I do. We had a good conversation about bikes, work and his son who lives in the London. It was good to met a fellow bike enthusiast to talk about some good times.
I stopped in to see Lou and we had a look at my bike. My bike never leaks oil, but that day I was having a leaking problem. Lou had a look at it and he figured out that when I did an oil change I must have put a little to much oil in her. He took the breather apart and cleaned it up and reinstalled the breather hose and put it back together. He showed me his bike. It is a bored out Iron Head Sporty that he uses for burnout competitions. He started it up and it sounded pretty beefy. We said our good-byes and he invited me to a Labor Day BBQ at his place, I will try to make it. I headed back to the RV Fredericton.
I turned in latter than usual that night..
Mon..July 28, 2008.
Set up the spot with CBC
I have been in contact with the CBC to arrange a video segment for the local news at the Chalmers Veterans Unit. People always ask me how I get the news stations to cover our tour, I tell them that our mission is important to the kids of the future and that they remember what our veterans did for their freedom. I call the newspapers, radio stations and the TV news groups, they know a good cause when they see it. The CBC is a community news group and they are interested in our veterans. I stopped at the CBC office in Fredericton and the security guard said that the producer was in a production meeting and could not be disturbed, so I wrote her a little note on the back of one of my business cards. I told him that I would wait outside for a couple of minutes just in case she wanted to talk to me about our tour. Within one minute he was motioning to me to come inside and talk with her. I talked to the producer of the broadcast and made arrangement to met at the resistance. She wanted to film my interview with a veteran while he gave his testimonial. I agreed that we could do the interview as long as the hospital didn't have a problem with them filming in the residence. I called the residence and they said as long as the veteran approved. they would not have a problem. After finishing up at the CBC I headed back to the Blue Bomber for supper and an early night.
