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[" \u2018.110th Year, No.8, Wednesday, February 24,1993 The Voice of the Pontiac since 1883 Box 430, Shawville, Quebec, JOX 2Y0 750 V V QPF reports 52 per cent solution rO by Richard Wills Thirty snowmobiles snowmobile federation.on police operations as At the February 22nd were stolen in Pontiac in There were six fatal ac- they meet the needs of the MRC meeting, Sergeant '92, and 16 all-terrain ve\tcidents in 1992, and 458 people.Gaston Pâquette of the hides.\thighway accidents in- Campbell's Bay detach- The QPF made 192 visits volving material damag-ment of the Quebec Police to local hotels.Twenty- es only.Fifty-five of these Force presented the five files were opened re were involving deer, mayors of Pontiac with the lating to drug charges, but There were 202 impaired 1992 police statistics.\tPâquette pointed out that a driving charges laid in The number of fatal ac- single file in this category 1992, a figure Sgt Pâquette cidents last year was the could contain the names feels is \"too much\".He same as the year before: of as many as 38 suspects.pledged more effort to-six, with three of these oc- The overall solution rate ward prevention of this curing on snowmobile.for crime in Pontiac is 52 crime, including special There were 202 arrest for per cent, one of the best operations with the OPP at impaired driving, and a percentages in the Out-total of 3,417 traffic tickets aouais.issued.The most common Snowmobile squad cause of traffic accidents, The Hull detachment of ised.Pâquette said, was not im- the QPF has created a spe-paired driving, but simply cial snowmobile squad a failure to heed the rules consisting of two officers.of the road.Following too So far this year, they have Campbell's Bay detach- meet four times a year, close to a car in front, or\tspent 12 days in Pontiac,\tment\tintroduced the\tShawville Mayor Albert failure to obey a no-\tpatrolling the local snow-\tmayors\tto\tthe concept of\tArmstrong was selected to passing zone\tare\texam-\tmobile trails by day only.\tthe Consultative Commit-\trepresent the MRC on the pies of this.\tAn incident was report-\ttee, which the QPF is esta-\tConsultative Committee; Crimes against persons\ted in which it was con-\tblishing\tin\tPontiac.\tSheen Mayor Eldon Jen- were down in 92, Pâquette\tfirmed that a man in Based\ton\ta pilot project\tnings and Bristol Mayor said.There were 10 thefts\tBristol was fined $100 for\tin Papineauville, the pro-\tJack Graham were chosen reported and\t50\tbreak-\twalking on a snowmobile\tject aims at getting feed-\tto represent the and-entries.\ttrail authorized by the back from the community palities.O *\" 4ML t The committee will con- | sist of 16 persons, with two I representatives each from elected officials, the business community, socioeconomic groups, youth, senior citizens, and the cultural community, with one representative each from the schools, social development workers, and the MRC.1 interprovincial bridges.see mort police,\" he\u2019protîv ™at committee as a round table, to tell what the population needs.\" Nicole described the for- i US i*.Consultative Committee Officer Nicole of the h Mr ^ * N The Committee will *- f ig: munici- Pontiac students famished for Somalia â t } by Colette Blain like.PPHS Students went without food from 1 pm on World Vision hopes that Friday, February 19th, the program helps to raise until Saturday at 7 pm, to awareness.\"Our eoa raise money for starving children in Somalia.he said of his participa-Jacques Lavallée of tion in the famine.\"We were allowed to have water and juice.It fills Karey Stevens and Jo- y°\u201cuP* and we were kept hanna Nimchuck, both in *.° bu®y.w®.d,d not have grade 10 also wanted to \u201cP?t0 notice, she said what it felt like to go while whipping up -\t6 French toast for students who participated in the 30-\tShawville-Clarendon firefighters responded to a\t(left) survey\tthe total loss on a sub-zero morning.Fire- busy schedule\" kept\tthem\tb°ur famine at Pontiac\tcall on Wednesday morning, February 17th in Yarn,\tfighter John\tBeimers sets up the portable \"dump\" tank, from noticing it, Johanna\t,,®tesUnt Hi*h School.\tfinding the house of Lloyd and Aileen Stewart already\twhile Wayne Boh art and Blake Pirie man the hose at Dont mention it,\" said\tcompletely ablaze inside.Lloyd and Alex Rutledge\tthe window.\tCause of the fire is unkown grade 7 student Patricia Rivet when asked if she had experienced hunger.Both she and Charleen -photo Richard Wile Our goals are to enhance awareness - of what it is like to go\t.r ,\t.It is the second year that without food, and to pro- without food.Although *\t\u2022 \u2022\t.K both girls felt that their Yarm fire results in a total loss some see students here participated vide people with educa-in the 30-Hour Famine tional sponsored by the interna- problems faced by third Ir?m noticin* dâhanne tional relief organization world countries,\" he said.9aid that s^e had felt dis.i Canada.PPHS Grade 10 student trac>d from her school material on the rgamzat World Vision Canada.PPHS Grade 10 student tractea from her school At Pontiac Protestant\tJason Laurent felt that as\t'vork\u2019 Karey began to feel High School, students\tlong as he was \"doing\thungry after the 24-hour from all grade, took part\tsomething constructive,\"\tmark-\tBrennan\tfound\tthe fast in the fast, all with a view\the did not feel too hungry.\tGrade eight student Kim\tdifficult,\tand\trealized to helping out those less\tHe feels as though he had\tAmyotte wanted to \"See\tthat their\tcontribution fortunate, while having a\ta chance to see what hun-\twhat is was like to be hun-\tfasting, was\tmuch need- little fun and hopefully,\tger is like, because he\tgry,\" but feels as though\ted.gaining an awareness of\tnormally eats non stop,\tshe did not quite get the\tIn fact.World Vision what starvation feels\t\"I was happy to help out,\"\tfull impact of hunger,\traised over\t$2 million Milk producers charge ahead aggressively into \u201993 by by Colette Blain In order to gain control ficial for all tern, with Free Trade and ,\tOn \\f«n,1Q\tx?K\tof their destiny, the pro- The factory produces the GATT hanging over last year, and not only 1 ,\t.\tebruary an(j which employs new cheese from France, Farmers have seen their Money raised by the pro-\t/ J M e\t12 people on a permanent,\tand the new owners plan\tquotas diminsh almost 15 gram this year will go to\t.\t0 a ctlSei?tactory\tfull-time basis.\tto continue production of\tper cent since February of Somalia, in the form of\tin\tPla,sance\u2019 Quebec.\tthe tasty \"Mamirolle\"\t1990 because of poor mar- things like milk powder The move comes as an The factory was slated cheese, as well as others.ket conditions, says Roch and a highly nutrious por- aggressive retaliation\tfor closure in late Decern-\tLactel, the former own-\tMorin, president of the ridge called Unimix, \"not against the\trecession\tber, so the new corporation\ters, will continue to dis-\tCommission Canadienne a big item for the black which has hit\tmilk pro-\thad to move quickly to se-\ttribute for the factory in\tdu Lait, market, but excellent nu- ducers hard in the last few cure the purchase, before it Quebec and in Canada.Sixty per cent of the ex* trition,\" says Lavallée.years.\tfell into the hands of an\tThe milk producers'\tpected increase will go to- out-of-province company,\tconcern over the possibili-\tward skim milk powder; Keeping things at home,\tty of maintaining their\tforty per cent will go to- they believe, will be bene-\tsupply management sys-\tward butter production.W H ' i il F?4 S\u2019no problem on 148 by Colette Blain real problem was getting How many more weeks the snow removal equip-of winter?Those travell- Ml ing from Pontiac to work .x i i ment through the area.Highway 148 was closed m the great metropolises from about 8 am until of Aylmer, Hull and Ot- 12:30 pm, simply because tawa are probably hoping the snowplow couldn't that the groundhogs were even get through this wrong this year.A ton of year's worst drifts at snow has fallen, and Breckenridge.more to come.\tSo, no problem! But, all n Monday, February those who missed a morn-22nd, THE EQUITY re- ing's work had to contend ceived word that there was with a hellatious drive a multi-car pile-up at, home.The snow just kept where else?Brecken- right on coming.By press nagé.\ttime, about 35 cm of fresh As it turns out, there (Brrrr!) snow had fallen, may have been a car or Let's be careful out two stuck in a drift, but the there % \\\\ I +4 m # s r A* I t < m iZ ' * 1 a a KSF High speed apparent cause of fatal accident V a y » X by Colette Blain \"He probably just didn\u2019t At 12:30 am on Sunday, see it (the car),\u201d said HUH February 21st, 24 year-old Jacques Surprenant of the -pholoRk#wdW,,e Paul Dagenais of Lusk- Quebec Police Force Hull Shawville curls in Quebec games u, reprsMnt U,.Ouf.uti.^5%°\"\"' \"\"\"\" *\t\"\" %\u2022 \u2014A_ Teacher Appreciation at McDowell ¦sum t h e ^ch oo r*teâche°r s ^