Cape Breton Post September 10, 2008 Wednesday Cape Breton Post and Cape Breton Magazine CENTRE search for Cape Bretoners living away SYDNEY - Cape Breton Post and Cape Breton Magazine CENTRE have partnered in a project to search for Cape Bretoners living off-island. The goal of the "Search for Cape Breton Away" project is to locate people with a Cape Breton connection and to get them reading about Cape Breton Island. "We share a huge worldwide audience with Cape Breton's book publishers and writers" said Anita Delazzer, publisher of the Cape Breton Post. This project is a chance to stimulate interest in Cape Breton among thousands of people who are already on our side but live away" Success of the "Search" will depend on Cape Bretoners living on-island sharing the names and e-mails of their relatives and friends living off-island. The project will collect this information through a contest. Details of the contes will be disclosed in an advertisement in the Friday, Sept 12th edition of the Post. Breton Books and the Cape Breton Post will be giving away Cape Breton books and online subscriptions to people both on and off-island, as well as a grand prize to a lucky Cape Bretoner. "It's kind of a dream project" says Ronald Caplan, a director of the CBM CENTRE. "With the help of Cape Bretoners living on-island, we will create the most reliable, up-to-date data base of Cape Bretoner's and friends of the island living off-island. That can be Boston or Alberta or anywhere in the world Cape Bretoner's have gone". Besides the partnership contributions, the "Search for Cape Bretoner's Away", has received assistance from Nova Scotia Cultural Affairs. Caplan explained that once interest has been ignited, the future is up to those Cape Bretoner's and friends of Cape Breton living away. He says some may consider visiting Cape Breton. Some may consider retirement or investment. But he adds that the project will not participate in any such marketing. "I am condifent that right now is a good time to stiulate such interest in Cape Breton. Encourgage people to read about Cape Breton - our books and our news - and the return to the island will be sugnificant". Details and a contest entry form will be in this Friday's Cape Breton Post. It will ask people on-island to provide the names and addresses and especially e-mails of Cape Bretoner's and friends living away. Every name submitted will be counted as a separate entry in the draw. Caplan said "I hope people will send in their whole address book, their entire Christmas list, addresses and e-mails, of everyone they know living away. You can submit one name or a thousand. Every name counts as an entry in the contest". Caplan pointed out that this "Search" is an extraordinary opportunity to get in touch with that huge group of people we so often talk about - "people who have Cape Breton attachments of the heart, our friends and relatives living off-island, worldwide". The "Search for Cape Bretoner's Away" contest begins in Friday's Cape Breton Post and runs until October 4th.