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Frank Day flees lakes area
From the Lake Herald-Examiner Standard and World Post
There was shock and disbelief across the entire Hundred Lakes region this week on news that beloved radio host Frank "Sunny" Day is in fact a fugitive from New Brunswick justice by the name of Otto Fremchek. "I was shocked. I couldn't believe it," said Linda Ball of Ratuckset, Frank's sometime housekeeper and long-time friend. "There was no indication that he was anyone other than he said he was" said Miss Ball "He seemed to have a past, present and future and no New Brunswick accent at all."
Responsibility for Frank being recognized has been placed squarely with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "We ran some print ads with a photograph of Frank," admitted Arthur Ross, National Head-in-Chief of Personnel and Outsourcing for CBC. "That's how the alleged victims of his alleged Ponzi scheme recognized him. Frankly I'm shocked. I'm having a hard time believing it." The scheme is said to have involved pension funds and a complex financial instrument that leverages milk solids that are to be turned into cheese products at some future date. "Cheese futures are complicated enough," said Neil Callaway of the Steady Financial Services in Hamford Mills, "but this operation that Frank is said to have been running, with hedges and feints and a skein of skillfully altered documents from offshore banks, well … we mostly deal with life insurance and some pretty dull mutual funds. It's sure a surprise. It's hard to accept."
Perhaps no group, though, is as astonished and taken aback as Frank's co-workers at CBNR. "He had just finished the weather, put on a piece of music and gone to grab a coffee at the Tim's across the street," said Bert Peterson, host of Early Days Now. "It was 'The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald,' so it took a while before anyone noticed he was missing." Apparently the Gordon Lightfoot ballad ended and then there was silence. A tin containing petty cash and some lotto tickets was also said to be missing from the office.
"He seems to have been one step ahead of us," said Sgt. David Green of the RCMP. "We arrived at the station just as the last notes of that Gordon Lightfoot song were playing. Like everybody, I'm stunned by the news. I am having a little difficulty believing it." Sgt. Green cautioned against people providing refuge to Frank. "He's a popular guy with a lot of friends in the area and we know folks might be inclined to give him sanctuary in the cottage or whatnot, but they should remember that the charges against Frank are serious." Sgt Green also asked that Frank turn himself in. "Best to come on in and straighten this mess out. A judge looks favourably on that and it'll save us having to get the dogs in from the Cedardale detachment." Other well-known fugitives Gerry "Snake" Sneed and "Blaque" Jacques Robespierre-Epoisses are thought to have been hiding in the Hundred Lakes area for 9 and 16 years respectively.
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