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ARMOYAN DIVORCE DRAMA THIS WEEK HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A LAPTOP CAUSE SO MUCH FRIGGIN TROUBLE IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE? I refer, of course, to the unending legal row over copied laptop data that has erupted between Armco Capital and Lisa Armoyan, the beauteous, seperated wife of long-time company director Vrege Armoyan. BY GAY M. SHOW AT PRESSTIME, COLCHESTER COUNTY NATIVE ADAM BURROWS WAS EAGERLY AWAITING A CHEQUE FROM THE PRODUC- ERS OF THE PRICE IS RIGHT AFTER AN APPEARANCE AS A CONTESTANT ON THE ICONIC GAME SHOW NETTED HIM PRIZES INCLUDING A TRIP TO BARBADOS, A HOT TUB AND $5,000 CASH. Although tax implications for foreigners mean Adam will be netting far less than an American resident would, the 2007 NSCC Kingstec Radio and Television Arts graduate doesn’t seem to be letting that small detail bring him down. Adam, who works for Canadian Border Services in Saskatchewan, made the trek to Los Angeles with his long-time pal, New Mi- 4 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK APRIL 27, 2010 Adam Burrows in action (left) as buddy Chad Jackson (above, centre) cheers him on from the audience. ADAM’S 15 MINUTES ... AND $7,000 nas used car peddler Chad Jackson, in early February. The show aired March 25. Adam was the first contestant called to “come on down,” and was also the first to make it onstage with Drew Carey, who replaced Bob Barker as the show’s host a few years back. “When they showed me the boat I just about had a heart attack,” he said of the first prize up for grabs, which he incidentally didn’t manage to secure. But later in the show he scored a spot in the Showcase Showdown, where he bested the competition to win a $22,915 prize package including the trip, the tub and the cash, along with a big screen TV, a Nintendo Wii, and some patio furniture. Unfortunately for Adam, logistics, along with those aforementioned tax implications, are forcing him to forfeit the trip. As non-residents are forced to cough up a 37 per cent tax on On March 30 Armco appealed a recent decision from Supreme Court judge Gerald Moir, who basically pawned the whole legal mess off on the Florida courts, which is where Lisa initiated divorce proceedings against Vrege (Frank 575-579,581,582). The brief, three-page submission from Armco’s Stewart McKelvey solicitor Colin Piercy claims Moir’s verdit was flawed and, among other legal thrusts, argues that the judge failed to establish if Lisa only made one copy of the disputed data, which is currently under Florida court protection, or if she has other copies in her gym bag. Stay tuned. Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca game show winnings, the $8,000 trip would’ve cost more than $3,000 to claim. In addition, he and his fiancee would have had to make their own travel arrangements between Regina and California. Adam’s opted to pay the tax on the hot tub — he plans on selling that to his sister-in-law at cost — and is taking the cash option on the TV, video game thingy, and the furniture, which, when added to the other cash, should leave him with a cheque for about $7,000 after taxes. Bred in Brookfield and Maitland, Hants County, Adam, 23, managed brief on-air stints at Big Dog/Cat Country in Truro and stations in Fredericton before he went to work for Canadian Border Services. His dad Graham works for CBS in Halifax and his mom Elizabeth is a personal care worker. They still live in the Hubtown.
LIBERAL CANDIDATE LAUNCHED IRISH ABUSE STORM BY CARDINAL SINN DOLORES ATWOOD TELLS ME THAT RICHARD BURKE, THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF BENIN, NIGERIA, WHO SHE ALLEGES SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER WHEN SHE WAS 14, RESIGNED ON MARCH 29. According to multiple U.K. press reports, in 2009 the Tipperary-born Burke stepped down while the Vatican investigated Dolores’s allegations that in 1983, while ill in a Nigerian hospital, the priest molested her. To quote an October 26 article in the Independent: “This is the first instance of an official charge of clerical child molestation made against an archbishop of Irish nationality.” Press reports indicated Burke continued a sexual relationship with the minor for years afterwards, although the Nigeria-raised Dolores, who has lived with her husband Christopher Atwood in Wellington, Yarmouth Co. for a decade or more, tells me it did not go on for 20 years, as some reports claimed. The investigation into the Archbishop was revealed in an October interview Dolores gave the Irish Mail on Sunday, and a plethora of international headlines quickly followed. HOLY WRIT The Kiltegan, Ireland-based St. Patrick’s Missionary Society, which ordained Burke in 1975, subsequently acknowledged it received Dolores’s abuse complaint in December 2008, and was regularly keeping her up to date on the investigation, which was being conducted by the Holy See’s top-level watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Dolores, who ran for the Liberals provincially in 2006 and is looking to secure the party’s nomination for the upcoming byelection (see Page 11), tells me she went public after information from her Nigerian home suggested Burke may have recently acquired more than a passing familiarity with her youngest sister. “I wanted him out of his position,” Dolores says, and tells me she felt guilty she hadn’t come forward with her own abuse allegations earlier, but explains the cultural reasons behind her long-kept silence. WHERE’S WALDO, ER, WINGLE? BY M. I. AYE OH, DEAR. AS OF 10:51 A.M. ON APRIL 9, IT APPEARS ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BISHOP HAS GONE MISSING. According to several media outlets, St. Catharine’s, Ont. Bishop James Wingle, spiritual leader of the Yarmouth Catholic Diocese from 1993-2002, has not been seen in public since his April 7 resignation. Citing an inability to “maintain the necessary stamina to fulfil properly my duties,” Bishop Wingle’s abrupt, Vatican-approved departure sent local tongues wagging. The 63-year-old’s whereabouts were immediately unknown to the local Catholic Centre and to his superiors at the Archdiocese of Toronto, press reports indicated. Heck, even his housekeeper is quoted as saying she did not know where Wingle was. Neighbours reported seeing a moving van outside his pad earlier in the week, but they, too, were equally in the dark. And the Pope’s ambassador in Ottawa was as helpful as a pet rock, referring all questions to Vatican, the place where curiosity dies in silence. It’s all a divine mystery, I guess. Losing a Bishop is hard. Just ask the Antigonish faithful, who felt mass shock last September 26 when their shepherd, Raymond Lahey, resigned out of the blue for “personal reasons,” which of course turned out to be a criminal charge of possession and importation of child pornography, a matter still before the courts. For nearly a decade, James Wingle was the Holy See’s highest representative in the Yarmouth Diocese, which has 36 churches and missions throughout Annapolis, Kings, Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth counties, serving a total Catholic population of 36,000. As I once noted, Wingle’s conservative ideology is somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan, and I recall once asking his views on celibacy for priests, a hot-button issue in the church, particularly in wake of the current sex scandal reverberating through the Vatican. Then Yarmouth Bishop Wingle told me: “Celibacy is longstanding, deep and well-founded. I welcome and am delighted to support the ongoing issue of a celibate priesthood.” Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca Dolores Atwood “In Africa, people don’t listen to you.” Shortly after the Irish Mail interview, the St. Patrick’s Missionary Society released a statement acknowledging “the deep sorrow and regret of the society for the suffering the complainant and her family are going through.” Oddly, the Canadian media seems to have missed Dolores’s incredible story, but at the time we hacks were preoccupied with an unfolding church scandal closer to home, that of former Antigonish Bishop, Raymond Lahey. One can only handle so many troubled Bishops. Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca Have you seen this man in the pointy hat lately? APRIL 27, 2010 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK 5
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