Media Release

Cancer May Be the Reason I Die, but the Nova Scotia Government is responsible.

I’m caught between the inefficiencies of the courts, the Nova Scotia government and the Maintenance Enforcement program. The Nova Scotia government has removed from the federal government’s Canada Pension Plan Disability payment that I receive $341.00 of a total of $746.89, leaving me, in second stage chemotherapy treatment, a total of $371.89 to shelter, clothe and feed myself as I enter the more dangerous stage of cancer treatment.

I will not and should not have to rely on friends and family as I believe it is the responsibility of the Nova Scotia government who has known that since December 2006 I have been trying to solve this issue. The delays continue to be in the legal system and with the scandalous Maintenance Program of Nova Scotia for which no one in the Nova Scotia government will come forth to accept responsibility.

Susan Litke of Dalhousie Legal Aid, whose is responsible for my file, has not spoken directly with me for months. As matters stand I have no idea what they are doing since the last correspondence from the student assigned to the case and there’s no end in sight due to endless bickering of my legal representatives with Judith McPhee, a self-styled court officer, over who there’s no control.

The Maintenance Enforcement Program is out of control and it could very well in the end be responsible for my own death.

It is easy for the Nova Scotia government not to coward when its opposition is an impaired man with terminal cancer and they can affect my financial means to fight for my life without looking me in the face.

I only want what I am entitled to, the CPP Disability, and I want Nova Scotians to see the image of a man struggle for his life with the Nova Scotia government pulling in confused directions because it is leaderless. A leader needs to steps up.

I wrote the Prime Minister and here is what one of his aids wrote back; the letter is dated June 20, 2007 and it was received yesterday:

“While you may be assured that your comments have be carefully reviewed, maintenance enforcement falls within the jurisdiction of the provincial government. You would be best advised, therefore, to continue to pursue your enquires with the Nova Scotia Department of Justice.”

I am left no choice and it comes down to this. I have done everything to avoid this but until my disability pension is restored in full, I have no choice but to discontinue my cancer treatment due to lack of funds to support my needs while I am under the second treatment. This matter has to be resolved through cooperation.

Once the matter is resolved, I will be able to continue my treatment, at least having some financial resource to nurture myself and help fight against the effects of the chemotherapy

For more Information contact Frank Boyd’s committee and friends at 463-0070

Bound To Be Free – Fight For Justice has offered to assist me by paying legal fees to hire a lawyer to get this matter finally resolved.

Bound To Be Free - Fight For Justice is a Black organization whose mission is "Freeing Blacks from a system of poverty and imprisonment through social, economical and spiritual empowerment.”

Their social justice involvement has been financing and assisting the "Save Lincolnville Campaign" in the fight against the Landfill a kilometer away from the community of Lincolnville, assisting Black inmates in prison and held meetings that have formulated initiatives that will further develop Black communities.

Bound To Be Free – Fight For Justice has offered to assist me by paying legal fees to hire a lawyer to get this matter finally resolved.

Bound To Be Free - Fight For Justice is a Black organization whose mission is "Freeing Blacks from a system of poverty and imprisonment through social, economical and spiritual empowerment.”

Their social justice involvement has been financing and assisting the "Save Lincolnville Campaign" in the fight against the Landfill a kilometer away from the community of Lincolnville, assisting Black inmates in prison and held meetings that have formulated initiatives that will further develop Black communities.

For more Information contact Frank Boyd’s committee and friends and if you wish to help Mr. Boyd financially please call 463-0070, ask for Susan.

Available: 902 463-0070
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Letter from Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Thursday, June 28, 2007.

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For more Information contact Frank Boyd’s committee and friends and if you wish to help Mr. Boyd financially please call 463-0070, ask for Susan.

Everybody Deserves a Headstone

A man widely believed to be the mdoel for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a known identity and a grave marker bearing his name.

On Wednesday, a granite gravestone marker was placed at his burial site. It bears his name and an etching taken from the man depicted on the Cream of Wheat box.

Jesse Lasorda, a family researcher from Lansing, started the campaign to put the marker and etching on White's grave.

Frank L. White, the nameless face that everyone knew for decades since 1900 by his appearance on the box, died in 1938 and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name -- the popular icon, known everywhere, by everyone who eats breakfast and yet, the forgotten...

"Everyone deserves a headstone," Lasorda told the Lansing State Journal. He discovered that White was born about 1867 in Barbados, came to the U.S. in 1875 and became a citizen in 1890.

When White died on February 15, 1938, the Leslie Local Republican described him as a "famous chef" who "posed for an adverstisement of a well-known breakfast food."

White lived in Leslie for about the last 20 years of his life, and the story of his posing for the Cream of Wheat picture was known in the city of 2000 located between Jackson and Lansing and about 70 miles west of Detroit.

White was photographed about 1900 while working in a Chicago restaurant. His name was not recorded. White was a chef, travelled a lot, was about the right age and told neighbors that he was the Cream of Wheat model, the Jackson Citizen Patriot said.

Long owned by Kraft Foods Inc., the Cream of Wheat brand was sold this year to B&G Foods Inc.