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Lt. Oland came aboard with a number of cases of beer and his private power boat, which was stowed in a vacant sponson. HMCS Micmac – The photo of Micmac at Naples 1951 brings back a memory. In the photo Micmac is stern-to the jetty – Mediterranean Mooring!! Naples was HQ for USN Mediterranean Sixth Fleet when we visited there. Frewer, pulled up abreast the jetty, put her astern, turned, backed in, dropped bower anchor and stopped, tied up and secured, all in one maneuver. We hear a few days later that the US commanding Admiral, sated that that was one of the finest show of ship handling he had ever seen. There are those who would say that life at sea, particularly in the navy, is too restrictive. This may sound irresponsible, but to a crowd of carefree youngsters it constituted a rapturous existence the like of which most would never experience again. This, then, is not restriction; it’s freedom, freedom to enjoy the entire world and to taste life anew. The board of inquiry started a couple of days later and they interviewed almost everyone in the ship. Fortunately I was the navigator so they didn’t talk to me. Almost all the officers got in trouble, the XO was court martialed and most other officers got reprimanded for deficiencies found by the Inquiry. The XO was found guilty and suffered a loss of seniority that did not mean much since he had only just been promoted to LCdr. All day long we had been practicing our Squid mortar firing using inert bombs. These projectiles were fired from the two, triple-barreled mortars positioned just below the upper deck near the stern. The six, four hundred pound bombs would sail over the mast and carry on for about a hundred yards in front of the ship. When they hit the water one of our men would chuck a grenade over the side and the ensuing “bang” would denote the bomb explosion. After an hour’s break the skipper informed us that we would be firing High Explosives (Minol or Amatol, I can’t remember) and that when the bombs were fired the mortar crew would be allowed to dash up on deck to observe the explosion. I had been working in the squid handling room and had never witnessed (though I’d certainly felt and heard) the explosions. Helicopters can build up a lot of static electricity in the air and it can be quite a jolt to be the conduit for it when it discharges to the boat. So we use a grounding hook to short out the cable directly to the boat. It is a long poll with a metal hook on the end and a length of wire with an alligator clamp that is attached to an effective grounding point on the casing. As the person is lowered to the casing I would reach up above his head with the grounding hook, short out the cable, and draw him gently toward me until his feet were on the deck. Mike would let go of my ankles at that point and come all the way up out of the well to assist me to unhook the horse collar and immediately guide him firmly to the fin door. Next time we would switch positions in the hatch well. As the admiral’s feet grew closer I observed that his arc of swing was dramatically increasing with the pilots effort to maintain position. I actually had to duck a couple of times to avoid getting kicked in the head or making contact with him before I could ground out the cable with my hook. I couldn’t use the hook yet for fear that I would hit him with it. As the admiral swung and circled and twirled and bobbed all around me I caught a glimpse of a very frantic CO and XO on the bridge hanging precariously over the edge of the fin, both making frenzied gestures for me to grab the admiral. So I dropped the hook and damn the static shock, the next time he swung by in front of me, his feet about three feet off the casing, I reached out and glommed on with a firm all round grasp of his hips. I got him from behind so my face was buried in the small of his back. (Just wanted to clarify that.) Just then the boat dropped into a trough away from the helicopter. The sudden strain on the cable lifted the admiral higher, me off my feet and Mike almost all the way out of the hatch well. At this point Mike and I were desperately hanging on mainly out of self preservation. The Scratcher two badger, Leading Seaman Mike Chislette and I donned our inflatable life jackets over our cleanest submarine sweaters and made our way up and out onto the casing forward of the fin with our helo transfer gear in hand. The sea condition wasn’t bad but there was a good swell running. We had not attained full buoyancy due to our intentions to dive as soon as our esteemed guest was onboard and ushered below, so we were sitting lower than usual in the water. For additional safety, Mike and I stood down in the accommodation space hatch well facing aft in order to be able to observe that part of the casing where the Admiral would be lowered. We could also see the hand signal orders from the XO on the bridge. Once the Helicopter was overhead we would not be able to hear anything and we didn’t have the luxury of wireless headsets way back then.

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We ought to take advantage of the fact that this land is publicly owned. The buildings that face the boulevard will have a maximum height of 12 storeys. That has the potential to create an intimidating visual wall. McCourt says this effect will be avoided by limiting most buildings to six storeys and using the full 12-storey height only for corner tower buildings. LeBreton Boulevard bisects the site, separating the public spaces on the north side from the offices and homes on the south side. If it’s too wide, or too busy, it will cut the neighbourhood off from the museum and the river. Says the NCC isn’t trying to wring the last dollar from the site. The idea is to sell the land at a price that lets developers put more quality into the buildings without making them unaffordable to buyers. […]A document search by independent researcher Ken Rubin revealed the washroom cost $242,336 and was built by V-Par Limited Construction. That total didn’t include the architectural fee, but did include the cost of parking, paths, landscaping and water and sewer hook-ups. So, here’s to more and better marketing and promotion from the NCC. The NCC is pleased to report that 63 per cent of people polled have a positive view of the NCC. The poll, the latest step in a campaign to improve its own image in the wake of the Shortliffe report of awhile back, cost $25,000 and surveyed 600 area residents. Feedback, according to the NCC, amounts to polling residents on their quality of life. The parking garage/plaza project, if proceeded with, seems destined to bring more downtown disruption. Bus and car pick-up and drop-off points will overly dominate area traffic and pour hundreds more visitors into a small area. Documents indicate that the project could mean reopening Sparks Street for some traffic, severely restricting Queen Street traffic, and more than occasional area road closings when bus and vehicle flows are unmanageable. The whole business has worked out rather nicely for the NCC, considering they owned and neglected the buildings for years. Groupe Lepine takes the fall while the NCC can conveniently forget its own role in the loss of the buildings. In the days following the heritage destruction, the NCC took action to remind Groupe Lepine of its obligations under the restrictive covenants imposed at the time of the land transfer. Built in 1912 but unused since 1980, the former cardboard factory has been described by one heritage architect as a stunning candidate for “adaptive re-use” as an office building. […]”The NCC came up here a week or so ago and presented us some of their ideas,” said Mr. Whiteduck. “This was brand new — they were coming to us. That was a real first. It is a positive development. And they have remained in contact and they are going to share with us archeological reports, preliminary reports, etc., so we can react.” One of Dad’s friends was a motorman, also on an LCI. When the ship grounded on shore that morning on Juneau Beach, June 6th 1944, he was able to take a quick trip on deck to look around. He told me “that day I lost half my hearing, and all my religion”. I can only imagine what that young man of 22 saw that morning. HMCS Huron – I was a WM-22 Computer technician in HMCS Huron in the beginning 1980’s. One of the pieces of equipment we had to maintain was the Unbalance Compensation Units . They were notoriously finicky, if they weren’t allowed to power down with their own ‘routine’ it would take days of cajoling to get them to work right again. So much so, that whenever the EO wanted to do Electrical Engineering Drills that would result in a lose of power we had at get a 5-10 minute lead time to bring them off line properly. The EO never could figure out how they were always that wee bit ahead. So credit to the Deck O he found an Army base a within two hour drive with a range suitable for our requirements.

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The admiral was eased out and suspended on the winch wire. As they began to lower him I climbed up onto the casing with my grounding hook and stood with my feet a few inches apart and my heels at the edge of the well. Mike stepped up a rung on the ladder and wrapped his arms tightly around my ankles pressing down on my toes to keep my feet planted solidly on the casing. The bridge and casing were visible to him through my legs. A lot of very important people had been ’dropping in to visit’ and we successfully utilized this procedure several times in the past. We made rendezvous with the helicopter, surfaced the boat and headed into the sea for the most comfortable course to carry out the transfer. The evolution would be carried out on forward casing between the fin and the accommodation space hatch well.

12 Hotels & Inns swinging signs in miniature featuring Blackpool … Located in Colonial Heights, Comfort Suites South Park is in the business district. Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum and Centre Hill Museum are cultural highlights, and some of the area’s activities can be experienced at Swaders Sports Park and Petersburg National Battlefield Park. See what’s happening at Rogers Stadium or Virginia Motorsports Park. The team at CanadianCasinos.ca consists of industry veterans who have both played and worked at online casinos as such we know that makes for a good online gaming experience. Facilities frequently included an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, and a casino for nightly or weekly entertainment. The bungalow colonies consisted of a collection of small, one-storey wood houses, sitting on wood pilings or cinder blocks, and without a basement. They were furnished, but otherwise no-frills houses, usually with a small eat-in kitchen, one or two bedrooms, a bathroom with a shower , decks or screened-in porches. None had air conditioning, but that, along with their small size, still provided an enjoyable summer vacation for New Yorkers used to living in small apartments in a sweltering city. Up to the 1960s, the Delmar was very much a family resort that included a day camp for children. The main tower remains, but most of the site has been reduced to rubble. The property remains embroiled in legal issues as a result of the fire. By the time the fire was extinguished, seven of the nine buildings were destroyed and 20 acres of the surrounding pine forests. New Horizon Recreation of Clifton, New Jersey, bought the vacant 300-acre property in January 1999, with plans to build a Las Vegas-style hotel and entertainment complex. The denial of legalized gambling for Sullivan County killed this plan and two decades later, the property remains vacant. The abandoned buildings stood for several years and were finally torn down in the late 1980s. The property was seized by Sullivan County in 1995 for defaulting on their property taxes. Promotional photo.Kutsher’s promotional photo.Kutsher’s promotional photo. Promotional photo.Mail lobby, with indoor pool background on the right. The new resort, named YO1 Catskills, opened in June 2018, but it wasn’t built on the original hotel site. Instead, YO1 Catskills was built south of the original site beside Baileys Lake at 420 Anawana Lake Road, just past the Rav Tov “Satmar Boy’s Camp”, the camp formerly run by the Kutsher family as part of the Kutsher’s Sports Academy. While there were still other hotels still in operation, Kutsher’s was the last one to be operated by the original family and under its original name. In the 1950s and 60s, the hotel also hosted basketball tournaments, including the annual Maurice Stokes Benefit basketball game. After Swan died, his land was bought by Sol Siegel and Kretchmer. The Siegels built the Commodore and the Stevensville, and while they operated the Commodore, the Dinnerstein family purchased the Stevensville. Like many of the Borscht Belt hotels, it was originally as a boarding house. The remainder of the Raleigh and Heiden property is currently being re-developed into the Venetian Villas, a condominium community with a variety of detached and semi-detached homes. The Pines Hotel closed its doors in 1998 when the Ehrlich family sold the property to The Fallsburg Estates LLC, who planned to redevelop the property into a 300 to 400 home residential development. However, those plans were abruptly halted when The Fallsburg Estates filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002. The Pines ballroom, bars, and a nightclub featured performances by the up and coming Jewish comedians of the day making the rounds of the Borscht Belt hotels. Wolfe and Hoffman attempted to revive the business by combining the two resorts into The Nevele Grande Hotel. Despite their efforts, the Nevele Grande continued to suffer financially and by 2006, Wolfe and Hoffman sold off the Fallsview portion of the property and put all their efforts into the original Nevele, but they could not stop the inevitable. The state gave the owners until 13 July to correct the problems. Sam Meyerson, the first Jewish resident in the area, established the hotel in 1920, growing out of the Spring Glen Synagogue, a small white clapboard bungalow with blue trim used for worship. Promotional photo.The original lobby of the Granit Hotel circa 1970’s. Hudson Valley Resort promotional photo.The Granit Hotel Ice Skating Rink. The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa found itself struggling in the face of the economic downturn in 2008, and in 2010, filed for bankruptcy protection while owner Eliot Spitzer sought out ways to save the hotel. When a plan to put in video lottery terminals fell through, Spitzer was forced to sell the resort at an almost $5 million loss to the HNA Group, a Chinese aviation company, who bought the resort in 2015 for $13.8 million. At the moment, there aren’t any progressive jackpot options within the company’s portfolio of games. One of the most well-known games from Fantasma, Medallion offers up a similar set of symbols on its six reels as the Flower Fortunes game previously spoken of.

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HMCS Restigouche – I guess this story could be called “What if?” We have all been in situations where we think “What if the worst had happened?” Maybe a little too dramatic…however…. On a 4 month deployment on Restigouche to the far East in we arrived in Brisbane Australia for a port visit of 5 days. As one would expect the crew was looking forward the time ashore. Fortunate for me, our divisional officer learn of the plan and informed the ring leaders that the practice had been banned by the navy. He advise the ring leaders to talk to the female galley staff and try and get some lipstick; which they did. The ordeal was photographed for posterity, again with the help of the galley slaves as the film had to go to Yarmouth for developing. We did get sorted out during the day, with a few ships breaking off for Boson and elsewhere, and entered New York’s heavily mined Ambrose Channel in relatively good ordered pairs. During the second day, about May 16th, an Admiralty message came in advising that all U-boats had been located, and that while the convoy was to remain formed, it could run with all normal steaming lights on. As an afternoon watchkeeper I commented to the C.O., LCdr F.E. “Spud” Burrows that that would be great, after all those dark and dangerous years. “Oh no it won’t,” he replied, without further explanation. August 15th, 1950, HMCS Ontario was steaming into Seattle Harbour saluting guns firing a salute to mark the birth of HRH Princess Anne. Order came down to Splice the Mainbrace, to mark the occasion. As I has just turned 20 I received the extra Tot of rum, remainder of day a bit of a blur, managed to get ashore, a bit wobbly. Carrying out accurate MAD compensation on the Tracker required very precise rolls, pitches and yaws, a very difficult task. CPO Earl Slack and PO Lloyd Simpson submitted a suggestion award which resulted in the development of an automatic MAD Compensator. A modified Navigation Lights Control Box from the Banshee was used as a prototype and it allowed the pilot to do precise movements. I made a lot of flights in Trackers doing MAD Comps making sure that the unit caused 10 degree , etc movements of the aircraft when the unit was selected to 10 degrees, etc. One day while working on a P3 amplifier in the belly of the aircraft, I noticed a small black box which I had never seen before. I brought it to the attention of the AEO, Lt Peter Wiwcharuck, and he advised me to keep the discovery to myself. Seems, it was believed, that some pilots found it very exhilarating to really push the Banshee to its limits and thereby overstressing the aircraft. The black box was a recording accelerometer which was being read by the AEO after suspected flights. The oil pressure indication system included the ‘banjo’ unit which was fitted behind the instrument panel. One had to go head first into the cockpit, close your eyes and visualize the unit to remove a couple of nuts and bolts, disconnect, remove and then replace. It could be a frustrating experience and I am sure there are still a few electricians who remember it well. I had a couple of close calls with that big 5-bladed prop which taught me to pay close attention when working on the aircraft while the engine was running, especially in the dark. In January 1951 I was a Leading Seaman Electricians Mate at Newport Corners Radio Station when a call came from ‘on high’ for volunteers to be trained as aircraft electricians to help fill a shortage. We attended the Electrical Aircraft Servicing Course. We spent 5 weeks at the Electrical School in Stadacona and on 2 Apr 1951 were drafted for airfield training to Shearwater . We survived and on 2 May 1951 I was drafted to 30th CAG 871 Squadron to work on the SeaFury, an aircraft that presented some challenges to an electrician.

] the accelerating demolition of Monaco’s architectural heritage, including its single-family villas, has created dismay. The principality has no heritage protection legislation. The latter two were then merged as part of the 2013 redistricting process, where they became part of the larger Jardin Exotique ward. An additional ward was planned by new land reclamation to be settled beginning in 2014 but Prince Albert II announced in his 2009 New Year Speech that he had ended plans due to the economic climate at the time. However, Prince Albert II in mid-2010 firmly restarted the programme. In 2015, a new development called Anse du Portier was announced. At the right with the smaller harbour is Fontvieille, with The Rock jutting out between the two harbours. At the left are the high-rise buildings of La Rousse/Saint Roman. Land reclamation projects include extending the district of Fontvieille. There are two ports in Monaco, Port Hercules and Port Fontvieille. There is a neighbouring French port called Cap d’Ail that is near Monaco. Monaco’s only natural resource is fishing; with almost the entire country being an urban area, Monaco lacks any sort of commercial agriculture industry. The highest point in the country is at the access to the Patio Palace residential building on the Chemin des Révoires (ward Les Révoires) from the D6007 at 164.4 m above sea level. The lowest point in the country is the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi), or 208 ha , and a population of 38,400, making Monaco the second-smallest and the most densely populated country in the world. The country has a land border of only 5.47 km (3.40 mi), a coastline of 3.83 km (2.38 mi), a maritime claim that extends 22.2 km (13.8 mi), and a width that varies between 1,700 and 349 m . Under the 1962 Constitution of Monaco, the prince shares his veto power with the unicameral National Council. The 24 members of the National Council are elected for five-year terms; 16 are chosen through a majority electoral system and 8 by proportional representation. All legislation requires the approval of the National Council, which is dominated by the conservative Rally and Issues for Monaco party which holds 20 seats. Union Monégasque holds three seats while Renaissance holds one seat. The principality’s city affairs are directed by the Communal Council, which consists of 14 elected members and is presided over by a mayor. Unlike the National Council, communal councillors are elected for four-year terms and are strictly non-partisan; however, oppositions inside the council frequently form. Monaco has been governed under a constitutional monarchy since 1911, with the Sovereign Prince of Monaco as head of state. The executive branch consists of a Prime Minister as the head of government, who presides over the other five members of the Council of Government. Until 2002, the Prime Minister was a French citizen appointed by the prince from among candidates proposed by the Government of France; since a constitutional amendment in 2002, the Prime Minister can be French or Monégasque. On 1 September 2020, Prince Albert II appointed a French citizen, Pierre Dartout, to the office.