Fusion Self-love! - Best Hosting Plan Ever

� � �
Sydney barrister Joseph Rizzetto is on the
mend, spending increasingly more time at the
office. I’d be willing to bet that Joe has more
courtroom experience than any other lawyer in
so-called “industrial Cape Breton.”
� � �
Nice to see Duncan MacIntyre out and about
with his charming and beautiful daughter Ann.
Duncan, 85ish, ably ran MacIntyre
Chevrolet for decades and was a talented
hockey player in his day. He still looks as though
he could play a rugged game of shinny.
� � �
Curses!
Foiled again!
Robert
Sampson
Sampson McDougall partner Robert
Sampson seemed a little down in the dumps
when I saw him outside the firm’s Wentworth
Street bunker
the other day.
Could it be that his self-flagellating mood is
over Sampson McDougall’s failure, yet again, to
crack Canadian Lawyer magazine’s annual
list of the Top 10 Law Firms in Atlantic
Canada? How could such an august publication
continue to overlook Cape Breton’s Largest
Law Firm, year after year? To make matters
worse, the good folks over at Best Lawyers
in Canada went and left Bobby’s name
off of their 2011 legal beagle round-up.
Chin up, pal! Your day will come!
Speaking of that venerable law firm, isn’t it
time they thought about taking Glen McDougall’s
name off the masthead? It’s been nine years
since he was called to the N.S. Supreme Court
bench. Of course, there’s no particular rule gov-
erning the naming of law firms, but oftentimes a
judge will ask that their name be removed from
the shingle. It doesn’t look good, they think, if a
lawyer from a firm with their name on the letterhead
appears in front of them or is even peripherally
involved with a file.
After all, as somebody much smarter than my
goodself once said, “Not only must justice be
done; it must also be seen to be done.”
� � �
Spotted in downtown Sydney on a recent
evening: the very able solicitor Vince Gillis dining
out at the much-improved Charlotte St. bistro
Allegro with his fine family in tow.
� � �
Congrats to Sgt. Wayne Rudderham
on his coming retirement from the Cape
Breton Regional Police.
Chief Myles Burke predicts that Wayne
will have a busy retirement, as his experience
in arms and SWAT training is in demand all over
the world. The Chief has something of a soft
spot for his departing comrade, as he remembers
Wayne looking out for him as a fresh-faced
recruit at Holland College.
As for the Chief himself, he joins the aforementioned
Mr. Unsworth on the CBRH board,
where his leadership skills and managerial
prowess will prove invaluable to the organization.
� � �
Oh by’e the by’e, a Sydney Socialite recently
rapped my knuckles after I recklessly referred
to her as being “50ish” a few issues back.
In fact this fine and beautiful lady is 45ish,
and truth be told, could pass for 35 on a good
day. While she is a dame who “does lunch,”
she’s no bored lady of leisure.
She has a full-time job and is the loving mother
of four exceptional children. Her dinner parties
are exceptional, and her Town & Countryworthy
home will rank third on our upcoming
Whose House: Cape Breton list. Despite all
this she still finds time to be active in her community,
and has also won critical acclaim for
her recurring role on the reality series The Real
Housewives of Coxheath.
� � �
Can service at the Sydney Home Depot
possibly get any worse? Where do they get
these people?
Conversely, the venerable Mr. Paint on
George Street continues to thrive, based on
the fact that they have the best paint, Benjamin
SILVER DONALD, FROM PAGE 5
“There’s nothing wrong with the house,
there’s problems with us. It’s my health, and her
profession,” says Silver Don. He bought a house
with his Halifax-based freelancer-wife
Marjorie Simmins on Armshore Drive
($491,500) in the tony Northwest Arm ‘hood
in 2006 so they could be closer to where she
works.
A Sydney
Socialite
(not
exactly as
illustrated).
Moore, and years of experience which they
give away free for the asking.
� � �
Next time you’re in the Margaree Valley, do
yourself a favour and check out the Dancing
Goat Cafe & Bakery. Try the veggie sandwich
on whole wheat with hummus. The soups are
divine and the baked goods are scrumptious.
Tell Merv that Frank sentcha, and have him put
it on my bill.
D-Cam was asking $179,900 for the little home
he’s owned since 1986 — he married Marjorie
there in 1998 — and says the sale is pending.
The house is assessed at $128,600.
Fortunately, Cameron tells me the heart problems
are old news, but he was still concerned
enough to sell.
“I’m getting rid of things I don’t need.”
neal@atlanticfrank.ca
DECEMBER 7, 2010 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK 7