Glace Bay Woman Avoids Jail for Stealing from Her Grandparents

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

A 27-year-old Glace Bay woman will avoid jail time after admitting to stealing $110,000 from her grandparents.

Jillian Maureen Cameron was handed a two-year conditional sentence less a day, followed by a year of probation, yesterday.

Cameron’s grandparents called police in July of 2012 after discovering $110,000 was missing from a home safe.

Police recovered about $32,000 of the missing money under a floorboard in Cameron’s home that she shared with her partner Scott Carl Anda.

Anda has pleaded guilty to break and enter and will now be sentenced on March 18.

The remaining $77,000 is believed to have been spent over a three-month period on such things as an above ground swimming pool, a motor bike, clothes, a bed and minor repairs to their home.

The Crown says a large portion of the cash went toward buying drugs.

Cameron was also handed a restitution order for $77,000.       

 

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Another Storm Day

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Classes are cancelled in the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board today, as yet another blast of winter hits the Island.

The Marconi Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College and E’toile de l’Acadie in Sydney are also closed for the day.

Meanwhile, the ICEAP has cancelled morning classes.

The weather has also led to the cancellation of flights at the Sydney McCurdy Airport.

And Marine Atlantic is warning that today’s crossings could be cancelled due to forecasted high winds in the Cabot Strait.

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CBU Official Facing Sex Charges Has Retired

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Cape Breton University says an administrator charged with sexual assault is no longer employed by the institution.

59-year-old John Shea MacInnis was CBU’s Director of Marketing and Recruitment.

He was suspended with pay in October when he was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching, involving a person under the age of 16.

CBU says MacInnis retired at the end of December.

He’s due back in court in June.

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Some Cancellations and Dangerous Driving

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Yet another blast of winter has led to school cancellations across the province, this morning.

Classes are cancelled in the Eskasoni School Board, at Wagmatcook School and the Strait Regional School Board, today.

However, school is still on in the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board except for Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona.     

Meanwhile, Sergeant Henry Poswaita with RCMP Cape Breton Traffic Services is warning drivers to use caution.

He adds all roads are snow-covered and visibility has been reduced.

And, Enivronment Canada has revised its forecast to increase today’s snowfall amount to between 10 and 15 cm.

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Education Review on the Way

Written by Bobby Nock. Posted in Local News

Premier Stephen McNeil says the province is poised to conduct a sweeping review of the Nova Scotia’s public education system.

 

McNeil adds it’s been 25 years since the system last went under the microscope and much has changed in that time.

 

 McNeil says the process will go beyond the curriculum review he promised during the election campaign last fall.

 

Among other things, he says the review will look at the length of the school day, the length of the academic year and the use of technology in classrooms.

 

Meanwhile, Education Minister Karen Casey is scheduled to release the names of those carrying out the review as well as more details on the terms of the review, today.

 

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