The record, 29 juillet 1986, mardi 29 juillet 1986

Tuesday Births, deaths .7 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm, Business .5 Living .6 Sports .12 Townships .3 r —- m $ "Two non-smoking." o VNUNDt RSiOHM KRISTIN DI NNI > Sl'NN> SUM H EMI NI ARY SliBRH Weather, pane 2 Sherbrooke Tuesday, July 29, 1986 40 cents Washington asbestos hearings were unfair — Nash By Dennis Bueckert MONTREAL (CP> — The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency showed bias in its recently-completed hearings on the safety of asbestos and new hearings should be held, says the Montreal-based Asbestos Institute, an industry lobby group.Gary Nash, president of the institute, said the same bureaucrats who sponsored the agency’s propo- sal to ban asbestos in the United States also conducted the hearings, thereby acting as "prosecutor, judge and jury all in one".He also said at a news conference Monday the United States is using its influence at the World Bank to block Third World development projects calling for the use of asbestos.Nash said the agency’s two weeks of hearings which ended last Friday did not allow for the cross-examination of expert witnesses and ignored major reports such as a four-year study by the Ontario Royal Commission on Asbestos published in 1H84.He said new hearings allowing for cross-examination are essential to get the facts and to build up documentation for a legal challenge if the proposed ban is implemented."We want to know the basis of their analysis," he said."If the EPA is biased, we will then be able to show it in court." The Asbestos Institute, funded by the industry together with the federal and Quebec governments, argues that some types of asbestos can be used safely with proper controls.“How do we know whether or not the (U.S.) government is using the health issue as a barrier to trade?" he asked "Are there objective criteria to assess w hether a country is using a rule in that fashion?"I understand there's a carcinogen in peanut butter called alfa toxin," said Nash."It normally comes with the peanuts and then it's imported into Canada.Should get concerned about that?Should See U.S.HEARINGS, Page 3.Patronage appointments ‘normal’ QUEBEC (CP) — A spokesman for the Quebec Liberals says 40 patronage appointments made by Premier Robert Bourassa in his seven months in power are normal and that the party would have to be "masochistic to do otherwise." "The people elected us because they wanted change," Pierre Bi-beau, special adviser to Bourassa, said Monday."They are going to get it."When the Parti Québécois was in power, it was the same thing,” he added."You'd have to be a masochistic to do otherwise.” Bibeau said the Liberals have made 283 appointments since they defeated the PQ last Dec.2.Of those, approximately 40 have gone to Liberals, he said.He also insisted there will be no purge."We will force someone to resign only in exceptional cases,” he said.Some of the prominent Liberals who have found new posts include Germain Leduc, who gave up his safe Montreal riding of St-Laurent so that Bourassa could run in a byelection there earlier this year.Leduc was given a post with the province's industrial development board Former solicitor general Fernand Lalonde.who sat in the Quebec legislature for 11 years and was the Liberals' 1985 campaign chairman, has been rewarded with the job of adviser to the Quebec Transport Department during negotiations aimed at privatizing Quebecair, the government-owned regional airline.NEARLY WON Denis Ricard, who ran against PQ Leader Pierre Marc Johnson in the Montreal riding of Anjou in last year’s election — losing by only 350 votes — has become assistant deputy minister in the International Relations Department.Ricard has also served as Bourassa’s deputy chief of staff and as an aide to former federal Liberal minister John Roberts.Andre Maltais, who was defeated in Duplessis riding in last year’s election and who also ran unsuccessfully against Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Mani-couagan riding in the federal election in 1984, has been named special advisor to Raymond Savoie, the minister reponsible for native affairs.Party director John Parisella also defended the appointments, some of w^hich are unpaid."The government has acted with a certain amount of equilibrium,” he said."There are some members who even think that there hasn't been enough change yet.” Smooth sailing Stevens knew of trust holdings By Jim Coyle TORONTO (CP) — Details about Sinclair Stevens's troubled private holdings — which had been placed in blind trust — were among information his special assistant compi led to convey to him while he was a federal cabinet minister, a judicial inquiry learned Monday.Under persistent questioning by commission counsel David Scott, Walker insisted she "may or may not” have actually informed Stevens of developments she had written down on attempts to refinance firms related to his York Centre group of companies.Stevens resigned in May as minister of regional industrial expansion after repeated allegations that he breached conflict-of-interest guidelines by keeping tabs on hoi dings placed in blind trust.Mr.Justice William Parker of the Ontario Supreme Court was appointed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to investigate whether Stevens was aware of transactions involving his holdings.The circumstances surrounding an interest-free, $2.6-million loan obtained by his wife, Noreen.from an executive of a company that received millions of dollars in grants from Stevens’s department, is also being investigated.Stevens has said he knew nothing about how his business transactions were handled and was not aware of his wife's actions on behalf of family firms.PREPARES LISTS One of the diary lists prepared in late December 1984 — two months after Walker had joined the former minister as special assistant — included the notation: "Ted — Sis’s $1.2 million.March closing.Work in progress.” Walker acknowledged that the source of the information was Edward (Ted) Rowe, president of York Centre and a former cam paign manager for Stevens.The note regarded attempts by Sisman Shoes Ltd., a subsidiary of York Centre that later went into recei-vership, to acquire financing.Scott mocked Walker when she said that as a result of conflict requirements she made it a practice not to inform her boss about his personal holdings in blind trust."You did not see any conflict in sitting on the one hand in the minister's office and on the other hand in York Centre's office carrying on business?” Rowe asked.Another list of information, under the initials SMS — which Walker acknowledged stood for Sinclair McKnight Stevens — men tinned that Rowe met in April 1985 with Jocelyn Bennett of Gordon Capital Corp.to discuss financing for York Centre that Bennett was trying to arrange.DENIES ACCUSATIONS But Walker said she "did not believe” she conveyed the information to Stevens.In February 1985, there was also a suggestion the minister might be asked to get involved in resolving a difficulty one of his firms was ha ving with a bank.Walker — taking notes during a telephone conversation with J.A Denton, vice-president of Hanil Bank Canada, — wrote that a delay in receiving bonds that had been held by the bank as collateral on a loan was causing "a very embarrassing situation." The notation says: “Maybe Mr.S could call your president in Seoul.” But Walker testified Monday that the comment was made by Denton — despite the reference to “your president” — and it was just part of a “lively discussion” There were also frequent references to Frank Stronach, chairman of Magna International Corp Anton Czapka, a director and cofounder of Magna, arranged the $2.6-million loan for Mrs.Stevens.Earlier in the day, Scott revealed that a commission lawyer visi ting Walker's Mississauga home had obtained further documents this weekend regarding the former minister’s blind trust as well as his personal financial records and those of his firms.Second man arrested in police shooting 7 oth j7 go down to the seas again.’Oral least down to Lake Memphremagog, this couple must have been KM OKDI’I UK-! Ill MON thinking, as they made one of the sanest possible responses to Monday's heat.MONTREAL (CP)—A suspect in last week's slaying of a suburban St-Hubert police officer was arrested without a struggle in Montreal Monday, police said.Louis Troalan, 21, the second suspect to he arrested in the shoo- Father charged with infant daughter’s murder WINDSOR, Ont.(CP) — The unshaven, sobbing father of a two-year-old girl appeared in court Monday charged with her second-degree murder, two days after he told police she had been kidnapped by a hitchhiker he picked up on his way home from the library.A distraught-looking Glenn Roach.29, dressed in blue jeans and a plaid shirt, stood in the prisoner’s box as the charge was read in provincial court.No plea was entered and Roach, an autoworker from nearby West Sandwich Township, was remanded in custody for another appearance today.Just before he was taken back to jail, he buried his head in his hands and started sobbing.The body of his daughter.Melissa, was found stuffed in a garbage bin outside a department store in suburban London, Ont., on Sunday.An autopsy of the child's body was conducted Mon- day but results were not immediately released.Roach told police during the weekend that he was returning from the University of Windsor library on Saturday with his daughter in the back seat of the ear when he picked up a hitchhiker.He said the man pulled out a gun and ordered him to drive to Toronto.The man turned him out of the car near Woodstock and drove off with the 27-month-old child still in the car, Roach said.Roach then hitched a ride to a nearby police station and told his story.His empty car was found on Highway 2 near Woodstock about 5 p.m.Staff Sgt.John Abbey said some elements of Roach's story "could not be established." He was brought to police headquarters in Windsor on Sunday and taken by four city detectives to London to search for the child.Girl was strangled or asphyxiated TORONTO (CP) — Eleven-year-old Alison Parrott was either asphyxiated or strangled by the man who lured her out of her midtown Toronto home with a phone call, published reports suggest Quoting unnamed police sources, the Toronto Star says the budding track star was asphyxiated, while The Globe and Mail says she was "probably strangled.” Officially, police are witholding details of her death, saying it would hamper the intensive manhunt for her killer.Two young boys found Parrott on Sunday night in a ravine, about 10 kilometres from her home.Her nude body lay in thick underbrush, face down in the mud near the Humber River.On Monday, about 80 police officers scoured the west bank of the river for clues.At one point, they emerged from the undergrowth with a yellow fabric — possibly plastic, and perhaps a ground sheet or slicker — and carefully placed it into a transparent.evidence bag."We haven’t been told to look for any weapon,” an unnamed sergeant leading a team of uniformed officers told Thev Globe and Mail."She was probably .strangled.” Meanwhile.The Star said police have revealed that an autopsy on the body showed she died of asphyxiation.In the search tor clues, police have gone as far as seizing all garbage collected in the Toronto subway system since Friday, a Toronto Transit Commission spokesman said Monday.Investigators met Monday night to compare notes and sift through boxes of clothing, baseball hats, gloves, socks and shoes found during the search.NO DETAILS Along with details of the autopsy.police have refused to divulge results of a laser search for fingerprints on the girl s body.Insp.David Boothby.who is heading the investigation, said rain during the weekend would not have erased the killer's traces from Alison's body "The elements don’t help.But they don’t stop the laser either” Laser light is an intensely concentrated light source.According to a Toronto scientist who works with lasers, “amino acids and other materials in one’s fingertips are detected through laser-induced fluorescence’’ (in short, it glows).Experts who deal daily with lost and abducted children, are surprised by the unusual deter mination and guile of Alison’s killer.Two weeks ago, when Alison was at camp, a man identifying himself as a photographer for a sports magazine left a message with a babysitter at the Parrott home.He said he wanted to take pictures of Alison to publicize a track meet in New Jersey where she was to represent Ontario.Her parents.Peter and Lesley Parrott, said the man phoned for another photo session Friday and arranged to meet her at a sports stadium near the University of Toronto where her track team regularly trained.ting death of Const.Marcel Simard, was collared near the Olympic Stadium by Quebec provincial police who were acting on a tip, St Hubert police chief Pierre Tru deau told a news conference."He was walking from the metro (subway) to the Velodrome, up and down, for about 15 minutes,” said Trudeau.“He looked like he was waiting for someone.“He was arrested.” Troalan, who was not armed, surrendered without a druggie He was scheduled to appear in court today to be charged with first-degree murder, police said.Another man, Carol Pinel, 26, was arrested shortly after Simard was gunned down on a St Hubert street last Thursday.Pinel was charged Friday with the first degree murder of Simard, attempted murder of Simard s partner, Const.Louis Lavigne, an-dillegally discharging a firearm.He was scheduled to appear in court today for a bail hearing.Simard, 33, was shot in the neck through the back window of his Partol car Lavigne, who was dri ving the car.was not injured.The shooting oceured as the two officers pulled up to question two pedestrians police said were acting suspiciously.Simard, a 10-year veteran of the 100-man St-Hubert force and the father of three, was the third police officer in Canada to be slain in the line of duty this year.His funeral will be held today 2—The RECORD—Tuesday, July 2H, l»K(i Bennett is thanked amid talk of ‘Stop Vander Zalm’ campaign WHISTLER.B,C A tcm porary trucedcscenclcd on the heated Social Credit leadership race Monday, but only lontf enough for the party to pay tribute to retiring Premier Bill Bennett before the li nal onslaught of campaigning today.Despite a wrangle over whether trailing candidates are ganging up on the front-runner, the warring camps put away their differences lb say "Thanks Bill" at a nostalgic tribute to Bennett, party leader for 13 years and premier since Dec.22, 1975.The 12* candidates eager to replace Bennett will lay out their policies today and engage in some last-minute arm twisting for support from the 1,300 delegates.Bennett appealed to the party to bury differences and work together after the leadership convention in his farewell speech to an Overflowing crowd in the convention centre where his successor will be picked Wednesday.Just hours earlier, the talk among Socreds who have virtually taken over this mountain resort 100 kilometres north of Vancouver was about whether a movement was afoot to stop the juggernaut of Bill Vander Zalm.the plain-talking former cabinet minister popular with the grassroots but resented by members of the cabinet.Political strategist Patrick Kin- sella, supporting Attorney General Brian Smith's campaign, said there are signs of a "Stop Vander Zalm" campaign.CLOSE RACK?Provincial Secretary Grace McCarthy seen as running neck-and neck with Vander Zalm, said she has not noticed such a drive and called it "wishful thinking." Vander Zalm.bouyed by recent favorable opinion polls showing he was ahead, said he did not detect a move to gang up against him among the delegates."But it's possible: yes, we’re hearing the same rumor," he said."Maybe it’s only a rumor, al-tln.ugh there is some credibility to the rumor when you see one of the campaign organizers coming out saying it."It could be that there is something happening in the backrooms and it may be beginning to filter to the streets." Kinsella claimed that Brian Smith is in third spot, having overtaken a "fading" Bud Smith — a political organizer who worked as Bennett’s principal secretary until a few weeks before the premier’s May 22 retirement announcement.The Smiths are not related.Eight other candidates seen as far behind the front four are Human Resources Minister Jim Nielsen, Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie, backbenchers John Families say firing conductor was wrong EDMONTON (CP) —The family of one of the two engineers killed in the Hinton, Alta., rail disaster said Monday they are angry over the firing of freight train conductor Wayne Smith "The whole family feels lousy about this." said Shaun Hudson.His father Jack was killed in the fiery collision with a Via Rail passenger train Feb.8 that killed six other crew' members and 16 passengers."Firing Wayne is not going to bring my dad back, it’s not going to bring the dead passengers back, we don’t understand what the point is,” Hudson, himself a railway worker, said in an interview."It’s not going to change anything." Smith was handed a letter of dismissal Friday by Canadian National -Railways at hrs home-in Jasper.Alta.The letter said the firing was based on rule infractions."I hope they understand that on that day I was doing my job." Smith.33, said Monday night.He said he has kept quiet about the crâsh, hoping he could save his job.“I feel I’ve been fired for doing my job." he said."Whether CN or anyone else thinks that I’m respon- sible.it’s up to them.I personally don’t feel responsible.” The Hudson family agreed with him.“There’s no doubt in our minds that Wayne was doing his job,” the younger Hudson said.“I would have thought CNR would have been a little more compassionate and take into account what Wayne’s been through.” Smith said he was surprised the firing came before Mr Justice Rene Foisy of Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench released the findings of his inquiry into the crash.Smith has asked the United Transportation Union to appeal his dismissal.Union lawyer Michael Church accused CNR if "being the jury and the executioner," by deciding the 13-year rail veteran’s fate before Foisy’s report is released."We’ve said from the beginning of the inquiry CNR has prejudged the case," he said.CNR spokesman Bill Dewan said the firing “is a matter between the employer, the employee and, in this case, the union.” He refused any further comment on the dismissal.Poll says Liberals would do better with Chrétien MONTREAL (CP) - The federal Liberals, already leading in public opinion polls, would gain even more support if they were led by Jean Chretien instead of John Turner, suggests a survey published in two Montreal newspapers.If an election were held today, the poll indicates that 39 per cent of decided voters would back the Liberals, compared with 36 per cent for the Tories and 24 per cent for the New Democratic Party.But when asked how they would vote if Chrétien led the Liberals, 46 per cent of respondents said they would back his party, compared with 32 per cent for the Tories and 21 per cent for the NDP.The poll, by Environics Research Group Ltd.of Toronto and CROP Inc.of Montreal, was conducted between May 26 and June 15 and described in a preliminary Focus Canada CROP report.sent to private clients by the two public-opinion houses.The pollsters interviewed 2,040 Canadian adults at home.The report did not give the percentage of undecided voters nor the margin of error, but previous CROP polls of a smaller size have been accurate to within five percentage points, 19 times out of 20.Chrétien, who lost his bid for the Liberal leadership to Turner in June 1984 and resigned his St-Maurice seat this year, has played down any interest in taking over from Turner, saying repeatedly "the job is not open.” But his supporters continue to battle on his behalf.Turner faces a vote on his leadership at a national party convention in Ottawa in November.The Montreal Gazette and La Fresseobtained copies of the confidential survey.1______ftgl MXBDOmtJL George MacLaren, Publisher S69-9S11 Charles Bury, Editor .549-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Mark Gulltette, Press Superintendent.569-9931 Richard Lessard, Production Manager .569-9931 Debra Waite, Superintendent.Composing Room .569-4656 CIRCULATION DEPT.— 569-9528 Subscriptions by Carrier: 1 year: $83.20 weekly: $1.60 Subscription» by Mall: Canada: 1 year- $60.00 6 months- $35.50 3 months- $24.50 1 month- $14.00 U.S.A Foreign: 1 year- $12000 6 months- $72.00 3 months- $48.00 1 month- $24 00 Back copies o( The Record ara available at the lollowlng prices: Copies ordered within a month ol publication: 60e per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.Established February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gszatte (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by Townships Communications Inc./Communications des Cantons Inc.Offices and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1 Second class registration number 1064.Color separations by Prospect Litho, Rock Forest.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Reynolds, Stephen Rogers and Cliff Michael, Saanich mayor Mel Couvelier, Conservative MP Bob Wenman and former Bennett aide Kim Campbell Among the people who spoke Monday night in praise of Bennett were former Alberta premier Peter Loughccd and Expo chairman Jim Pattison.The Social Credit party ended an era when delegates said thank you to Premier Bill Bennett.After the voting Wednesday, the party will be led by someone other than a Bennett for the first time in more than three decades.The coalition of Liberals and Progressive Conservatives chose the late W A C, Bennett as its leader in 1952.In 1973, the party chose his son, Bill, on the first ballot."I could always handle the criticism — but maybe it’s because 1 had more practice handling the criticism than I could deal with the kindness of friends," the 54 year-old premier told more than 1,500 party supporters in crowded convention centre who bid an official farewell.On several occasions during the tributes, Bennett was moved to the point of tears.Pattison, Bennett’s millionaire friend and the chairman of Expo 86, described the last five years in British Columbia as the worst economic times he remembers in his 51 years in the province.But he said to Bennett: "You’ve done a first-class job being premier," Bennett, clearly moved by the praise, took the hand of his mother, May, who was sitting next to him, held it briefly and then stared down at the floor as the applause died.Pattison said Bennett always had a problem blowing his own horn and then proceeded to play a bugle fanfare introducing a film showing some of the huge projects completed under Bennett’s direc- tion including Expo 86, the Coqui-halla Highway and the Revelstoke Dam.Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, who retired last year, called Bennett "one of my idols." He praised Bennett saying “his influence on national policy was substantial and significant.It has made all of Canada a better place to live." He read telegrams from premiers and former premiers as well as Prime Minister Brian Mulro-ney, U.S.Vice-President George Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.News-in-brief No more airport X-rays MONTREAL (CP) — The federal Transport Department has ordered a new computerized security system at Canada's airports that will ensure that any luggage that can't be matched with an owner is removed before an aircraft takes off.After talks with the airlines, the department also decided X-ray machines will no longer be used to test baggage for bombs except in periods of serious danger.Seaplane crash kills one CHAPAIS, Que.(CP) — A man from Newcombe, N.Y., was killed when the seaplane he was riding in crashed and sank while attempting to land on a lake near this remote town.Divers recovered the body of Harry Chace, 70, from the aircraft Monday.Pilot Robert Middelton.58, and David Thomas, 52, both from New York State, sustained only minor injuries in the crash Sunday evening and managed to swim to shore.They were taken to hospital in Chibougamau.Nova Scotia gets Litton HALIFAX (CP) — The Nova Scotia government won the bidding war for a Litton radar components plant with a $5.8-million incentive package and a solid business reputation.Development Minister Roland Thornhill said Monday.The province was competing with Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick for the $18-million plant, which is expected to create 400 jobs.The Island, which had offered Litton Systems Canada Ltd.$9 million, thought it had secured the plant just days before an April provincial election.McMillan was misquoted ST.JOHN’S, Nfld.(CP)—The Canadian Press erroneously reported Sunday that federal Environment Minister Tom McMillan told a meeting of the Canadian Wildlife Federation that the South Moresby area in British Columbia will become a national park.McMillan was also quoted as saying he will introduce amendments to the Environmental Protection Act when Parliament resumes sitting in September.In fact, McMillan told members of the Canadian Nature Federation that he would like to see the archipelago containing the South Moresby region declared a national park in 1987, a year designated by Ottawa as Wildlife ’87 to focus on conservation and wildlife protection.However, no agreement has yet been finalized with the British Columbia government, which owns most of the land involved.Child trapped in machine HAMILTON (CP) — A 22-month-old boy was found dead inside a washing machine on which his mother had been changing his diapers before she was called away, police said Monday.Joel Roth either climbed or fell into the toploading machine Monday after his mother, Anne, left him unattended to check another child, said Staff Sgt.Ted Yarmel of Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police.The lid shut, trapping the child inside as the machine went through its spin-dry cycle, he said.Shooting more seals FOURCHU, N.S.(CP) — As television cameras rolled, fishermen with high-powered rifles shot eight grey seals Monday in a staged effort to convince Ottawa of the need to kill off 436 61?Toronto 53 4 8 525 71?Detroit 5?4 7 525 71/?Milwaukee 47 50 485 1?1?West Division California S3 45 541 levas 50 50 500 4 Kansas fitv 46 54 460 8 California at Oakland Wednesday Games New York at Milwaukee CaMorma at Oakland Detroit at Cleveland N Boston at Chicago N Baltimore at Teias N Toronto ai Kansas C'ty N Seattle at Minnesota N FOOTBALL 10RONT0 (CP) Statistics released Mon day by the Canadian Football League SCORING ID C FG S P Chomyt tor 0 7 13 1 4?Dnron Fdrh 0 15 8 8 47 Hay Cal 0 10 9 3 40 Dorsey Ott 0 12 8 2 38 Ruoft Ham 0 9 8 5 38 Ridgway Sask 0 6 10 2 38 Kurtz Mti 0 5 8 5 34 Passaglia B C 0 5 9 1 33 Barousse 0ft 5 0 0 0 30 Aleiander Cal 5 0 0 0 30 Jenkins BC 5 0 0 D 30 Osbaidiston B C 0 6 S 4 ?5 Butts Oft 4 0 0 0 24 Kermerd Wpq 0 9 4 3 24 Murphy Wpg 4 0 0 0 24 PUNTING No Yds Avg l llesic Tor 53 2615 49 3 76 Dixon tdm 28 1324 47 3 74 Clark.Ott 46 2134 46 4 80 Cameron Wpq 27 1162 43 0 57 Kurtz Ml' 25 1075 43 0 73 PUNT RETURNS No Yds Av« TO Clash B C 4?406 9 7 0 Woods Tor 15 241 16 1 0 Richards Edm 1?213 17 8 0 Ne'tes Wpg 14 204 14 6 1 Lee Ham 15 187 12 5 0 KICK RETURNS No Yds Avg TO Jenkins BC 13 286 22 0 0 EHis Tor 10 23’ 23 2 0 Butts Ott 1?206 1/ 2 0 Brown Ott 10 203 20 3 0 Taylor Mil 9 195 21 7 0 INTERCEPTION RETURNS No Yds L TO Streeter Ham 7 169 52 ?S-gier 011 5 107 70 1 Crawford BC 3 72 30 0 Ryan Mr 3 .16 23 0 loney Edm 3 35 35 1 Bfaz'ey Tor 3 it ’8 0 Shields Ham 3 16 1?0 Sher-Lenn hurler tosses no-hitter at provincials Sher-Lenn 10 St-Donat 0 By William Harris SHERBROOKE — The Sher-Lenn little league all-stars are definitely the team to beat at the 1986 provincial playoffs.They proved it beyond any doubt last night.Pitching ace Pablo Boudreau hurled a no-hitter, throwing only 70 pitches and striking out 14, as Sher-Lenn humiliated their opponents from St-Donat 10-0.Sher-Lenn thus advanced to this Wednesday’s semi-final against Valleyfield.Game time is 6 p.m.Asked if he'd ever seen a nohitter before, Sher-Lenn manager Bob Halsall replied : "That’s a good question.” “I know I’ve seen one in regular league action, but now that I think of it, that’s the first one I can remember at the provincial level,” Halsall continued.Despite his outstanding performance.Halsall claimed Boudreau was having a little trouble in the first inning.Tve been training him for the final, where I’d like him to pitch low and inside,” Halsall said.“He was having a tough time hitting that spot when the game started, but once he settled down there was no stopping him.” NEW STARTER Oany Larochelle will start Wednesday’s semi-final, and although he isn't a power pitcher like Boudreau.Halsall is extremely confident of his abilities.“He's been my aee in the regular league all season," Halsall said "He’s got an impressive variety of pitches.You never know what he's going to throw at you next." In other little league action Monday, the Metropolitan Lennoxville 13-year old all-stars advanced to the national finals in Thunder Bay, Ont., with a tight 4-3 win over Valleyfield.The 14- and 15-year old squad wasn’t nearly as lucky, getting bombed 14-0 by Valleyfield in the provincial final.Pablo Boudreau.Fanned 14.