Team Shelburne...... Hope you've looked at Team Shelburne Minutes at the Barrington Web page. (Brian Holland has done a terrific job of compiling, recording and posting Minutes of Team Shelburne meetings.)It'll help you see (at least part of) what was going on in public..... This letter will show you what was going on behind the scenes with SWSDA and Mr. Anderson.
In the letter to your right(click on it to expand it) Mr. Anderson assures Team Shelburne a week before the closing of the sale of the Nova Scotia Boys School that SWSDA will forward a list of invoices received and paid on a monthly basis to Team Shelburne..... Don't know if they ever did.... maybe you should ask your representative on Team Shelburne if they ever received ANY invoices or receipts from SWSDA!
In the letter, Mr. Anderson also assures Team Shelburne that all funds for the Youth Centre since inception have "...been held in a separate interest bearing project account." Like most reasonable people I am sure Team Shelburne members thought this meant the money was not commingled and/or susceptible to "being dissipated" along with all other SWSDA money, and that the money was actually collecting interest.
BOY..... THEY MUST HAVE BEEN "SOME RIGHT SURPRISED" TO SEE MR. ANDERSON'S AFFIDAVIT A FEW MONTHS LATER IN NOVEMBER DECLARING THE MONEY GONE!!!!
Questions.......
1. Do you think Mr. Anderson deceived Team Shelburne?
2. Do you think he did it on purpose?
3. If you had an employee do this to you what would you do?
You probably will recall or may have read that Parker Comeau wanted to go to the RCMP and spoke out about what he thought was happening when he heard .... however, Alan Reid, the Town of Shelburne's representative on the SWSDA Board and an avowed supporter of Mr. Anderson was opposed to the motion.... I've got a copy of the video of Council that night and everything Mr. Reid said in Mr. Anderson's defence... if I can digitize it I'll load it up to refresh people's memories... our present Mayor Delaney was at Council that night so I'm sure he'll remember.
In response.... Mr. Anderson used our tax dollars to hire high-priced lawyers to write threats of defamation lawsuits unless retractions were made .... immediately.... and sure enough both Mr. Comeau and the Chronicle Herald "did the necessary".... how do you spell "hutzpah"? My old Aunt Rose would have said that Mr.Anderson had "more nerve than the devil". I usually agree with Aunt Rose.... she was pretty smart about people.....
All of this sort of reminds of .... the first time I saw a shell game when I was fourteen and in New York City for the first time on a trip with my high school band... I'll never forget the fast-talking guy with the cigar and the three shells and a pea on a street corner... boy.... was he making money.... I was fascinated and never figured out how he could fool people so easily who were standing so close to him .... and watching him so closely......
Guess scrutiny involves more than proximity.....
