The record, 20 février 1990, mardi 20 février 1990

Tuesday Births, deaths .10 Classified .8 Comics .9 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .5 Living .6 Sports .II Townships.3 Sun and freezing cold Rachel Vincent The Record Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Tuesday, February 20,1990 40 cents Flooding would destroy wilderness, contaminate fish Lobby: James Bay II will be disastrous to wilderness By Penny MacRae MONTREAL(CP) —Quebec and U.S.environmental groups said plans for further hydroelectric development of James Bay spell ecological disaster as the National Energy Board began hearings Monday into Hydro-Quebec’s contracts to sell power to the United States.The flooding of vast tracts of northern Quebec wilderness will diminish waterfowl nesting sites, cause mercury contamination in fish and send millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from rotting vegetation, said Bernard Craik, spokesman for the Grand Council of the Créés of Quebec.“We must learn to live along with our environment rather than attempting to redesign nature as has been done in the Brazilian rain forest with disastrous results,” Craik told a news conference.The Crown-owned utility has a 22-year contract starting in 1990 to sell 450 megawatts of power to Vermont for $7 billion and a 20-year deal to supply 1.000 megawatts to New' York for $17 billion beginning in 1995.The contracts are part of Hydro’s push to close deals over the next 10 years to export 3,500 megawatts of uninterrupted power.Craik said the utility does not have the surplus electricity needed to sell to the United States, and it had thousands of power failures in Quebec in 1988-89 due partly to a decrease in precipitation.He said the utility is under pressure to seek permits for construe- The learners’ book "Don’t look now, but the captain is reading a book on water skiing." Muslim attack unsuccessful — Times WASHINGTON (Reuter) -Muslim fundamentalists recently attacked a nuclear weapons facility in the Soviet Central Asian Republic of Azerbaijan, but were turned back by Soviet troops, the Washington Times reported Monday.The Muslims stormed a nuclear weapons stockpile near Baku, the capital of the southern Soviet republic, said two unidentified U.S.intelligence officers quoted by the paper.The newspaper did not give the exact date of the attack.It is unclear whether the Muslims wanted to steal a nuclear warhead or sabotage the stockpile.The attackers were armed with automatic weapons and exchanged fire with Soviet troops, the intelligence sources said.‘‘Armed dissidents almost captured a nuclear weapon,” the paper quoted one of the officials as saying.The intelligence sources declined to discuss the incident in detail, but some U.S.officials were said to be worried that the Soviet government could not protect its nuclear arsenal during current ethnic unrest, which has spread through a number of republics.They also said that Kremlin officials are gravely concerned about the incident, which marked the first time the Soviet nuclear arsenal has been threatened.CIA Director William Webster told the Times last week that additional Soviet troops were moved into Azerbaijan during recent fighting between Aberbaijanis and Armenians to protect the nuclear stockpile.The Pentagon estimates the Soviets have about 25,000 nuclear warheads spread throughout the country.There are large nuclear weapons facilities in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, where public demonstrations have recently been held to call for secession from the Soviet Union.Joyce Duncan and Richard Stratton were two of the Eastern Townshippers on hand Monday to help write the learners’ book for literacy.Members of the adult reading program of the Eastern RECORD/GRANT SIMEON Townships School Board, they added their happy comments to those of fellow students across the province.Turn the page for the full story.tion before proper environmental and cost analyses can be completed.OPPOSE PLANS Jeffrey Wollock of the James Bay Defence Coalition said the New York environmental group planned to intervene at the hearings to oppose the development.“The people of New York — whether they like it or not — are investors in James Bay 11 to the tune of ($17 billion),” Wollock said, referring to the value of the New York contract.“What (New York energy planners) didn’t tell us was that we were making the down payment on the destruction of the largest, most intact wilderness territory in North America.” Bernard Roy, a lawyer representing the utility, told the federal panel that some environmental issues raised may be "passionately interesting,’’ but they don’t fall under the board's mandate “Hydro-Quebec is not here to submit its installation plans to environmental scrutiny,” said Roy, former right-hand man to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.However, the board maintains it has the jurisdiction to consider environmental impacts resulting from electricity exports EASE EFFECTS Hydro has always held there is “no environmental impact (from the further development of Hydro-Quebec) that cannot be mitigated,” said Jean-Claude Richard, the utility’s vice-president.Earlier, before the hearing began, the Cree complained about the lack of opportunity for public discussion of the project.Premier Robert Bourassa, who has hitched the province’s economic future to James Bay, has refused calls for an independent inquiry into the project.In the 1970s, builders of Quebec’s hydro dams created enormous reservoirs which the Cree and Inuit say poisoned the fish and created enormous environmental damage.The 15-year second phase to be completed early in the next century would flood an even greater area of northern Quebec and generate up to 28,000 megawatts of power.The Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec plan to travel by boat from Hudson Bay to Hudson River in New York State.The vessel will be half canoe and half kayak, in keeping with the two native groups whose traditional hunting grounds are affected.Lawyers to explain Meech to Canadians By Jack Branswell ST-SAUVEUR, Que.(CP) - The Canadian Bar Association is convinced Canadians don't have the foggiest idea what the Meech Lake constitutional accord is about — a situation the organization hopes to remedy.But some of the association’s members concede it may be too little too late.The association, which represents judges, lawyers and law students, unanimously passed a motion on Tuesday calling on lawyers to explain the accord to Canadians from a non-partisan position.“The average citizen is supposed to understand this (accord) and they don’t have the foggiest idea of what it is about,” said Thomas Heintzman, president of the Ontario branch of the association, which presented the motion.Heintzman said there has been much debate over the accord, designed to bring Quebec into the Constitution, but it has been too political.He acknowledged the lawyers’ motion is late in coming — the accord dies if not ratified by June 23 — but said an effort had to be made.An association committee will now study the accord, which among other things recognizes Quebec as a distinct society, and come up with a legal analysis.“From the bottom of my heart I hope it is not too late,” Heintzman added.The resolution attracted little de- bate.and no one from Quebec spoke to it.BACKED MOTION Francois Roland, the association's Quebec branch president, supported the motion.But in an interview before the vote, he admitted the move was probably too late to have any impact.The accord has to be approved by all provinces and Parliament.Manitoba and New Brunswick have not ratified the agreement and Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells has indicated he may with draw his province’s support.While the association has tried to stay out of the political debate over the accord and the current linguistic tensions, a few speakers left room for personal comments.John Jennings, association president, talked briefly about seeing an article in the Los Angeles Times last week on Thunder Bay decla ring itself English only.Jennings said he was in California and his American colleagues asked him why Canada was tearing itself apart.He said he was “saddened and dispirited” trying to answer the question.Before the Meech Lake resolution was passed, an Ontario delegate suggested only half jokingly that the association adopt another resolution never to meet in Sault Ste.Marie, which also recently declared itself English only.Earlier in the day there was an academic debate on the pros and cons of the accord.Some still suffer from hijack ordeal Mandela: Those 27 years were hell By Jim Brown OTTAWA (CP) - Some of the passengers on a bus hijacked to Parliament Hill last April are still suffering the psychological effects of the ordeal, an Ontario Supreme Court jury was told Monday.Crown attorney Julianne Par-fett, in an opening address summarizing the prosecution case, said Lebanese-born Charles Yacoub announced to fellow passengers as the bus left Montreal that he wanted to bring pressure on the federal government to help get Syrian troops out of Lebanon.“I am a Lebanese Christian,” she quoted the 33-year-old Yacoub as saying.“Don’t be afraid of anything if you co-operate with me.” Yacoub, who nows lives in Re-pentigny, near Montreal, has pleaded not guilty to five charges arising from the incident last April 7 in which a lone gunman seized the bus, bound for New York City, and diverted it to Ottawa.One passenger was dropped off at a toll booth on a bridge in Montreal.Eight others and the driver were released eight hours later following a standoff with the RCMP on the lawn in front of the Parlia- ment Buildings.Defence counsel may contend that the atmosphere aboard the bus was “pleasant and agreeable,” said Parfett.She told the seven-woman, five-man jury to expect testimony indicating the passengers were snapping pictures and Yacoub was sharing family photographs of his own with them.HAD A GUN But she said witnesses will also tell how he held a Colt .45 automatic weapon to the head of driver Roger Bednarchuk and claimed to have a remote-control device that could blow up the bus “at any second." After his arrival on Parliament Hill, he fired three shots, one of which narrowly missed a passenger, said Parfett.By the time the last hostages were released, they were in tears and "even now, a year after the event, some of them have nightmares and are under psychiatric treatment.” Yacoub, short, stocky, bearded and sporting a tan suit and matching tie, sal silently with defence lawyer Michael Kastneras Parfett outlined the Crown case.sitting several rows back in the sparse courtroom gallery was Ya-coub’s wife Louise, a jail guard by profession.Yacoub is charged with hostagetaking, forcible confinement, assault with a weapon, using a weapon to commit an offence and intimidating Parliament — the last a rarely used charge dating from the last century of which nobody has ever been convicted Parfett said the Crown will produce witnesses to show that Yacoub hoped to mobilize the Lebanese community by his action and to “push the Canadian government to intervene in the Lebanese-Syrian conflict.” Speaking later to reporters, however, she played down the political aspect of the case.“It is our position that this is a criminal trial and that what we’re trying to prove are criminal acts," she said.“That doesn’t leave any room for political grandstanding.” Earlier.Kastner had concentrated on media publicity of the hijacking while examining prospective jurors — asking whether they had already formed an opinion on the case and whether they could render a fair verdict.By Rich Mkhondo SOWETO, South Africa (Reuter) — Freed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, describing brutalities he and other prisoners suffered during his 27 years in jail, says the abuse could have broken many men.“The acts of brutality were too numerous for me to specify; some of them could have broken many good men,” he told journalists outside his Soweto home du ring the weekend.“At the beginning the treatment was very harsh and even brutal; many prisoners were assaulted,’’ said the African National Congress leader.Mandela, 71, described how Neville Alexander, one of South Africa’s most respected academics, was assaulted and said another prisoner, university lecturer Andrew Masondo.had his shoulder broken.“They then dug a hole in the cell, buried another prisoner but left his head and face exposed so that he could breathe.When he cried for water to drink, they urinated into his mouth.” Mandela, who was imprisoned for life in 1984 for plotting to overthrow white rule in South Africa, said he was punished in prison for refusing to do tasks he considered humiliating.The prisoners decided to fight back right from the start and earned the respect of their jailers, he said.EARNS RESPECT “If a man fights back, he is likely to get more respect than he would if he capitulated,” Mandela added.“On the very first day that I arrived on Robben Island prison, we were marching from the quarry at the rate at which we felt was a dignified way of walking.“The deputy commissioner of the prison resented that He ordered us to run.We refused.Some people were assualted, others were charged.“They took us to a cell filled with water and searched us.The searen consisted of taking off our clothes, searching them, and throwing them into the water.“We did not know what to do because the cell was wet, our clothes were wet.We had violent exchanges with the wardens, that was all we could do.” Mandela and nine others spent nearly two decades on Robben Island, a penal colony in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Town.He was forced to break rocks in a quarry for about 12 years.In 1982 Mandela and the others, including his closest ANC comrade, Walter Sisulu, were transferred to Pollsmoor prison outside Cape Town.After he was admitted to hospital in August 1988 for tuberculosis, Mandela was kept in a prison bungalow near Paarl.Most of his colleagues were released last October but Mandela was not freed until Feb.11, a few days after South African President F.W de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC and other dissident groups.» i ?r 2—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 26, 1MW The Townships Rock Forest: Quebec freaks as town debt goes over the top By Rita Legault ROCK FOREST — Citizens of Rock Forest will find out March 7 how much they will have to pay to wipe out the town’s accumulated deficit of about $1.7 million.That’s when the town must bring down a supplementary budget to deal with the deficit.Rock Forest Mayor Gaétan Lavallée and council must eliminate the $1,732,696.20 deficit within 15 days, they learned in a letter from Municipal Affairs Minister Yvon Picotte.More than lOOcitizcns attended a town council meeting Monday to show concern over the deficit and how much it will cost them.To the jeers of many, Lavallée said the deficit wasn’t his fault.DON’T BLAME ME “These are not bills from the Lavallée administration you are being asked to pay,” he said, adding that the debt is not from current operations but from accumulated debts.He said the deficit stems from payments for lawsuits the town has lost.Some of the lawsuits were from 11 ex-town employees fired without proper notice by the previous adminstration.Others suits were by contractors who lost business over public notices which didn’t conform to regulations.Lavallée said in an interview.Lavallée blamed Municipal Affairs Quebec for the second group of lost lawsuits.He said the province must assure that borrowing bylaws follow provincial rules.“It shouldn't be up to the citizens of Rock Forest to pay for the mistakes of provincial bureaucrats,” Lavallée said.“It is enough that they have to pay for the mistakes of their own administrators.” BLAME QUEBEC Lavallée said he is also angry with Municipal Affairs for forcing the town to adopt a special tax to pay off the deficit.He said the government promised to approve a town borrowing bylaw to deal with the debt if Rock Forest passed one.But he said when the town got its last bill for the deficit on Jan.10, he was told by Quebec that its bylaw must not cover the debts of earlier years.Lavallée said the difference between a borrowing bylaw and the special tax is that the tax is immediate, while a bylaw could have stretched the payments over five years.Lavallée said that looking back, he should have got the agreement in writing.He was blamed for it by many at the meeting, which turned loud and ugly under the watchful eye of three municipal cops.SELL LAND Lavallée said Rock Forest would prefer to pay off the deficit by selling land it owns worth more than $2 million.The city paid $2.35 a square foot for the property, loca- ted in the supposed future downtown of Rock Forest.Lavallée said it is now worth about $5 a foot, but that in the current financial downturn the sale is not possible.The one-time special tax will mean an extra $315 for a home valued at the town average of $65,000.In the meantime citizens have their own idea about how the municipal government should handle the special tax.PETITION A petition signed by 700 people asks council to take the money now as an interest free loan from taxpayers and then pay it back in tax rebates once the town has sold land it was planning for a new town hall.Lavallée said after the meeting he cannot legally do that.The head of a 100-member citizens committee which organized the petition said if Lavallée won’t take the interest-free loan from taxpayers, she would prefer the town be put under trusteeship by Municipal Affairs.“We have another V/2 years of Lavallée reign,” said outspoken critic Lise Lachance.“We don’t want to end up with another deficit to pay off.” Under trusteeship, a provincial-ly appointed adminstrator would look into the town’s books and take over until the next election.The town was under trusteeship during the adminstration of the previous mayor.Pot plants : Jury starts getting down to business By John McCaghey GRANBY — The jury hearing the trial of Richard Couture will receive their final instructions to day from Superior Court Justice Louis-Phillippe Galipeau.Couture, 27.of Stanbridge Station is charged with possession of 7000 plants of marijuana with intent to traffic on Sept.23,1988, and cultivation of an additional 335 plants in an adjacent field in the Bedford-St.Armand Ouest area where he was arrested three days later.Couture was apprehended and disarmed Sept.26 by off-duty Granby municipal constable Paul Coderre, a former neighbor of the accused who was assisting the Bedford RCMP.CONSPIRACY THEORY Federal prosecutor Serge Cham-poux attempted to convince the seven woman, five-man jury that there was a degree of conspiracy betyween the two events.He said drying sheds where the almost 3'/e tonnes of pot were found happened to be located on Couture’s uncle’s property, and his brother lived in a house facing the major access road to the fields.Champoux said Couture’s story that he was hunting when arrested with a loaded shotgun did not match up.Coderre, an avid hunter, said he had never seen Couture hunt.Champoux cited evidence found in a search of Couture’s home the night of his arrest, namely two joints and four photographs showing Couture cutting pot with an axe.The Crown asked the jurors to use their imaginations to link the two business transactions.Champoux said they had to have been conducted by Couture aloine or in concert with one or more unknown persons.He then told the jury their common sense would show no reason the accused should not be found guilty.GROWING vs.CUTTING Defence lawyer Donald Bisson-nette contended the Crown was confusing the terms cultivation and harvesting.He said cultivation means nurturing and weeding, while the Crown showed only that Couture had been found near 335 freshly cut plants •— which indicated that he was merely harvesting, if anything.Bissonnette said Couture was hunting.He reminded the jury that a police expert said anyone harvesting marijuana would have had had gum residue on their clothing, and that RCMP Cst.Pierre Lauzon testified Couture’s clothing had not been sent for analysis following his arrest.Bissonnette suggested the green residue found on Couture’s knife could have come from a hunting expedition.He questioned wheher the hunting knife would have been able to cut the stalks of the plants, found near an abandoned beaver dam.Bissonnette reminded the jury that Coderre and Lauzon approached the beaver dam in a noisy all-terrain vehicle, which might have disturbed the game Couture was hunting.DIDN’T FLEE “Couture heard the noise of the ATV, walked towards, then away from the beaver dam, and was confronted by an old friend, Coderre, who disarmed him, then told him somebody wanted to speak to him,” Bissonnette said.“Wouldn’t you be nervous under those conditions?” he asked the jury.“My client knew the woods near where the pot was found.If he had a guilty mind he would have been long gone and wouldn’t have gone towards a friend,” the defence lawyer argued.Bissonnette said the prosecution link between the two events was far-fetched because no one was arrested at the drying sheds.He said it took six RCMP officers eight hours to load the seized marijuana, and wondered how his client might have managed it on his own.Bissonnette said the Crown admitted the pot seized in the first raid had not been grown in that immediate area.“The Crown asked you to use your imnaginations.I ask you to use your logic, and acquit my client,” Bissonnette urged.No one else was charged in connection with the two raids.Fire: Sherbrooke, Lennoxville set to start talking Ascot?By Ann McLaughlin SHERBROOKE — As negotia-lions lag between Sherbrooke and Lennoxville over fire protection in rural parts of Ascot Township, the Sherbrooke fire department is taking extra precautions in the event it has to fight a major blaze on its own.Two 3500 gallon trucks are being rented to be ready and waiting — one in a garage near Bel Horizon-Belvedere this week and another On Roule 108 by next week — to be closer to homes in rural Ascot where there are no fire hydrants."It's only a temporary situation which could become permanent if an agreement between Sherbrooke and Lennoxville is not signed,” Ascot Mayor Robert Pouliot said Monday.Instead of signing fire protection contracts with the volunteer Len-noxville, Waterville and combined Hatley departments this year.Ascot has commissioned Sherbrooke for the job.The three other brigades were not supposed to be shut out.however, because Sherbrooke was expecting to sub contract for their services.NEGOTIATIONS Tam convinced that Sherbrooke can conclude an agreement with Lennoxville.Negotiations with the other two municipalities are going well,” Pouliot said.Residents of rural Ascot have been disturbed by the change in fire service, and have lobbied their town council to bring back the Lennoxville crew.Pouliot maintains that the switch was needed and does not regret it, although he said he hopes Lennoxville will eventually sign with Sherbrooke to cover the parts of the municipality it did for at least 13 years.Ascot decided to go with Sherbrooke’s full-time fire department this year after the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs urged towns to consolidate their fire protection, Pouliot said.Residents would have only the Sherbrooke number to dial, leading to less confusion in case of an emergency.BETTER FOR ALL “If all the municipalities sign with Sherbrooke we would be improving fire protection for everyone.” Pouliot said.“If an emergency situation arises tomorrow in Lennoxville, a fire at the experi- mental farm or a chemical spill from a train, they would need the special equipment that Sherbrooke has.” “And if we were to have kept our contract with Lennoxville, well, we could not oblige them to buy this kind of equipment,” he added.But Pouliot’s reasoning on fire protection does not seem to be shared by everyone else.The town of Lennoxville for one is quite satisfied with its own firefighters, and appears to be in no rush to negotiate with Sherbrooke to protect Ascot.TALKS The first “official” meeting between Sherbrooke and Lennoxville will take place Wednesday.Town council has mandated two Lennoxville officials to listen to what Sherbrooke has to say, and the entire council will take a position at next Monday’s semimonthly meeting.“We already have a system that works well on our territory and that’s our first responsibility.But we will go and hear what Sherbrooke is proposing,” said a blasé Lennoxville town manager Jacques Gagnon.Gagnon would not elaborate on details, not saying whether Sherbrooke generally wants more work in Lennoxville or whether firefighting authority on the scene is the issue.Pouliot, on the other hand, was more candid.He said authority is not the problem: “attitude is.” ATTITUDE “It’s a question of attitude on the scene of an emergency,” he said.“If there is an extreme case where Lennoxville would run out of water, or pipes burst.If Sherbrooke then arrives with a water tanker, I am sure they would not say leave your truck here for us, but would let them use their own equipment.” “If someone hires a general contractor to build a bridge, for example, who then hires subcontractors for some of the work, who would be the bestt one to be responsible for anything that happened on the site?” Pouliot asked.“Developing a strategy for a disaster scene is something that is negotiable," the Ascot mayor said, adding that this will be accomplished if both Lennoxville and Sherbrooke begin talks with open minds.Firefighters gearing up for major assault on burning tires The Canadian Press Fatigued volunteer firefighters rested Monday to gear up for a major assault on a week-old fire fuelled by millions of discarded tires at southwestern Ontario dump.Fire chief Buck Slote said regional workers are building a road and a temporary pipeline around the perimeter of the Tyre King Recycling yard in Hagersville.The pipeline will have hydrants built at various intervals.About 30 lirefighters from the Ministry of Natural Resources have been sent to help out and three waterbombers may be used today or Wednesday, a spokesman said.In Ottawa, Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard said soldiers are ready to help the exhausted volunteers, but the Ontario government doesn’t want their help.He added provincial and federal deputy environment ministers would meet today in Ottawa to discuss environmental and safety problems posed by tire dumps.Tens of millions of tires are estimated to be stored across Canada, but no accurate inventory is available.“We should make sure this never happens in Canada again,” said #¦___tel lEBCOra Randy Klnnear, Publisher.569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor .569-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Richard Lessard, Production Manager.569-9931 Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Guy Renaud.Graphics.569-4856 Francine Thibault, Composition.569-9931 CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $180 Subscriptions by 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Ontario doesn’t want the Canadian army I guess.” Lyle Clarke, a spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor-General.said the province does not need army help, although it might request it at some point.“We don’t anticipate that we’re going to need any assistance from the Department of National Defence at this time,” Clarke said in an interview.FACES RESTRICTION Defence Minister Bill MeKnight said that the Constitution prevents him from sending in troops unless there is request from Ontario.“We have been standing by, asking for that request,” said MeKnight.“We wish to help and upon request will respond as rapidly and efficiently as we can.” At one point, more than 1,600 people were advised to evacuate about 16 square kilometres surrounding the fire because of fears of toxic smoke.On Sunday, the evacuation area was reduced to about nine square kilometres.The fire is about 40 kilometres southwest of Hamilton.Slote said the new road and pipeline will allow firefighters to bombard the fire from all directions and make it easier to move cumbersome hoses when the wind shifts, he said.Quebec told to act now on stockpiled tires MONTREAL (CP) — Quebec tire dealers and retreaders are urging the provincial government to act now to rid the province of millions of stockpiled tires in order to prevent a fire like the one which has been burning more than a week in Hagersville.Ont.The Tire Retreaders and Tire Dealers Association of Quebec suggested on Monday a plan which would see a $5 surcharge added to the price of each new tire sold at the retail level.The money would be refunded when the worn tires were turned in.The money from the surcharge would be used to help fund scrap tire disposal and tire recycling research in the province “and elimi- nate a serious environmental hazard,” said Linda Carbone, general manager of the association.Since an estimated 4.2 million tires are sold each year in Quebec, Carbone believes the program could operate on the interest accrued on the money sent in by the dealers.Explaining how the plan would work.Carbone said the dealer would give the consumer a coupon for a $5 rebate for each new tire purchased.The dealer in turn would send the $5 to a non-profit corporation set up to supervise the shredding and recycling of the tires.The corporation would then pay the dealer $4 for every tire he turned over for recycling.SMALL COST “It would cost the dealer $1 per tire but that won’t affect him much because he already has to pay to have the tires removed from his lot anyway,” Carbone said at a news conference.The plan is unlike the one put into effect in Ontario where consumers pay a $5 tax on the sale of each new tire and do not get a rebate.Carbone said the association is trying to get the provincial and federal governments to contribute $500,000 to cover the costs of land and building the shredding plants.The corporation would set up five temporary transition sites throughout the province where dealers could take their tires.The corporation would then take the tires to the shredding plant and later transport the raw material to a recycling plant.Carbone said there are between 15 million and 20 million tires stockpiled in the province and the association is anxious to do something to keep the piles from growing and posing a threat to the environment.“First, we’ll handle the tires that motorists return every day then we hope the government will negotiate a deal with tire dump owners so we’ll eventually get rid of their rubber mountains,” she said.Weather Tuesday very cold, sunny and windy, the high -15.Wednesday temperatures should go up to about -5.Doonesbury UM,.0ewRemB*£AK H£P5, LORD HUNK-RA, FOR WHOM I CHANNEL, mJIV UKB TO COMMENT ON OUR SELF-ESTEEM COM-M1561 ON S FINAL REPORT.HEAR THIS! 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WET SHALL BURN IN HADES FOR imA MltlHUFAUmF* WHATP HE SAY?IT MS SORTOFA MINORITY REPORT.$ 4 The RECORD—Tuesday, February 20.19M 3 The Townships —__ uccom Hyundai: Sonata recall By Sharon McCully BROMONT — Hyundai Canada has recalled all 14,750 Sonatas which have rolled off the assembly line in Bromont since production of the South Korean automobile began there in January, 1989.Martin Abran, in charge of communications for the South Korean car manufacturer in Bromont said the cars are being recalled to repair faulty hood latches and poorly positioned retaining clips on the coolant hose.Abran said both the hood latch and the coolant hose, attached to the motor, arrive pre-assembled at the Bromont plant from South Korea.U S.TOO Bromont is the only plant outside South Korea to manufacture the Sonata.Since production began last January, 14,750 Sonatas have been assembled at the Bromont plant.Some of the cars were exported to the United States, where Hyundai is also recalling another 40,000 made in South Korea.Abran said all but 280 of the 11,888 cars sold in Canada have both the faulty hood latch and poorly placed hose clip, Abran said.“In the case of the hood latch," he said, “it’s possible the hood could fly open when you’re driving.” “It’s the secondary latch which should lock the hood that appears to be faulty,” he added, and seven Sonata owners have complained to the company about problems with the car hood.the first for Bromont plant TOO CLOSE Abran said clips on the coolant hose are placed too close to the fuel line and could puncture it.He said no accidents have been reported relating to the ill-placed clips.That problem, he said, was discovered by inspectors in Hyundai's Toronto plant.Abran said recall notices will go out this week to all 11.888 Canadian Sonata owners advising them of the problems.He said dealers will also contact their customers by mail about the defects.Cars will be returned to local dealers where Hyundai will foot the bill for new safety hatches,and re-positioned hose clips, Abran said.SOME FROM KOREA Abran added that a few 1988 Sonata cars manufactured in Korea and sold in Canada also have the defective parts.The state of the art Sonata with a price tag in the $14-18.000 range made its first appearance in Canadian showrooms in May 1989.The Hyundai spokesman said since the problem was detected, it has been corrected at the source and new models produced after January, 1990 will not be subject to the recall Abran could not say when the problem was first discovered by Hyundai.“It must have just been discovered." he said.“With problems like that you have to notify people right away." A Montreal newspaper reported the company has known about the defects since at least October.Reading: ‘How can I help my children when I can’t read?’ By Rachel Vincent SHERBROOKE — The love notes Carole Sheldon put in her husband's lunch boxes for over ten years were confusing, but he never said a word.It was their unspoken secret: Carole was functionally illiterate.Illiteracy is a label people often apply to people who are totally unable to read.But the vast majority of “illiterates” — one out of SHERBROOKE (RV) — The Quebec Book Voyage — part of the celebrations for International Literacy Year 1990 — came to the Eastern Townships Monday.every six adults in Canada — are functionally or marginally literate, meaning they can read and write but only barely.A typical functionally literate person has less than grade nine education.DIFFICULTY At 38, Carole Sheldon could read and write, but only with great difficulty.She raised five sons, helped run Literacy learner Terry Ashman of Beebe presented a large, red leather-bound book to local learners in a ceremony at the ETSB Adult Education Centre before her husband s carpentry and music businesses, and cared for many foster children — all without being able to comfortably read or write.By her own estimate, Sheldon was reading at a third grade level when she decided she could no longer keep her secret.Behind Sheldon’s decision was her youngest son Brent.Three years ago, Brent was kept back to repeat grade one.and something in about 50 learners, tutors, teachers and friends.Pages of the book — for the learners to write or draw their feelings about reading and writing — will be selected for a Canada’s Learner Book.In turn, this book will become part of a world wide literacy learning book.Marion Fear, literacy coordinator for ETSB, invited learners to come to the stage and share some of their experiences in literacy classes.HARD TO DO “It’s a hard thing to do,” Fear said.“Many learners are shy, but after a while they have more courage to talk about their experiences.” Four learners shyly came forward.Following the ceremony, learners lined up in front of Ashman to contribute their own special messages to other learners around the world.Some, such as Richard Stratton of Sherbrooke and Earlwin ‘Slim’ Tincarre of East Angus, wrote about their lives.Others, including Lee Barnes of Magog, wrote in sto-z ries or poems they had composed g for the occasion.“ The Book Voyage is an interna-\ tional project of the International g Task Force on Literacy (ITFL).^ Quebec’s Book Voyage was laun-§ ched last Thursday in Montreal in “ a ceremony hosted by the Quebec Literacy Group.her snapped.“I went to a ‘Parents as Partners’ program at the school board to try to figure out how to help my son read better,” she said in a recent interview.“I turned to the organizer of the program and said ‘But how can I help my children to read when I can’t read?”’ SCHOOL BOARD Sheldon had turned to the right person.Marion Fear is coordinator of literacy classes for the Eastern Townships School Board.Soon Carole was in a reading class with eight other Magog residents.All of them know what it’s like not to be able to read a newspaper or fill out a government form without help.Fear, who works from the ETSB Adult Education Centre in Sherbrooke, organizes literacy classes and individual tutoring according to local demand.There are presently two classes in the ETSB area : the one in Magog, and another in Stanstead.Fear said that while the demand for classes is low, the need is all too apparent.QUEBEC RANKS HIGH At 28 per cent, Quebec’s illiteracy rate is second highest in Canada, behind Newfoundland.According to a 1987 Southam study, 19 per cent of the Eastern Townships English-speaking population has a literacy problem.“Unfortunately we have more people willing to be tutors than to be learners,” Fear said.“Learners are paralysed by lack of confidence, by fear of learning.They don’t come forward because they are scared.” Lee Barnes, 33, said she had to overcome her greatest fear — to openly admit that she couldn’t re- _ member most of what she read — | in order to join the Magog literacy « class.| Like Carole Sheldon, who drop- g ped out of school after grade seven, g Barnes’ problem with reading 8 dates back to her school days.“ NO ONE NOTICED “I reached a point in my educa- tion where I should have been in a smaller class because I needed more attention," said Barnes, who left school after grade eight.“1 left because I felt trapped, frustrated.And no one really noticed.” Barnes said she told the truth to no one — not to her teachers, not even to her family.Helping learners help themselves is the goal of the reading program, according to Fear.“It’s an empowering process,” Fear said.“Part of what we are doing is to make people take control of their educations, of their lives.” As an adult, Barnes said she has paid dearly for her childhood lack of self-confidence.She’s had to forgo lots of jobs over the years — and lose her dream of being a hairdresser— because they all required at least grade ten.LET IT OUT Barnes said she realizes now that keeping her learning problems secret was a mistake.“I tell my kids that you’ll end up like me if you are too shy to talk to the teacher,” Barnes said.Barnes and Sheldon both said they have become literacy activists — through a group called the Learner’s Action Committee — because they believe sharing their experiences will help others come forward to get help "It’s hard for me,” admitted the soft-spoken Barnes.“But 1 speak out so others will not be afraid or embarrassed, or hide the truth about themselves from their families." Barnes said she plans to continue the literacy classes and someday in the not-so-distant future hopes to finish high school.As for Sheldon, she’s following her husband to Calgary next month, but said she that one of the first things she will do “Out West” is find another adult education class.Sheldon said she is leaving her address for her fellow classmates in the hope that they will write her.She said she has written her husband a long letter —not just a love note — every week of the three weeks he’s been gone.“It’s good practice." Terry Ashman of Beebe was proud to be part of the Quebec Book Voyage.Adults unable to read ‘don't come forward because they are scared, ’ says Eastern Townships School Board literacy co-ordinator Marion Fear.AW The book: Signing up for a better life Sharing: Wilbur Talbot is back in class—to teach where everybody else can see things that you can’t.” TRY RUSSIAN To illustrate the point.Talbot’s tutor Martha Shufelt asked the class to read a series of sentences written in Cyrillic, the Russian alphabet.Talbot and Shufelt, accompanied by Labauch literacy coordinator Donna Ross, spoke to nearly 250 high school students during three days of classroom visits.Their presentation opened with clips from a movie which portrays an illiterate truck driver who bluffs his way through life before finally having to take responsibility for a serious highway accident.Talbot — a truck driver himself — told the students he could identify with the actor in the movie.“I remember one time I was lost in Montreal for eight hours,” he said.“When I finally found the place, it was closed and I couldn't make my delivery.” WRONG WAY “Another time,” Talbot said, “I was fined $500 for going the wrong way in a tunnel because I couldn’t read the road signs." The father of two said he has been a ble to hold down a job in spite of his inability to read or write."I left school in the 4th grade at the age of 13 and started working at 14,” he said.Talbot said his parents and a brother — also unable to read — have started taking the Labauch literacy course as a result of his successful experience.The grade 8 students plied the speaker with questions.“Why couldn’t you read when you were in school?" “Did the other kids know?" "Did the other kids Martha Shufelt.Try some Cy- tease you?" “Did the teacher rillic.know?" “What was it like in school when it was your turn to read?” and all those other government “Did you have any girlfriends?” forms grown-ups have to fill in?” “How did you file your income tax Talbot answered candidly.‘Being illiterate is sort of like being blind,' Wilbur Talbot tells grade fi students at Massey Vanier high school.• “ o .- Being unable to read and write is chers who are interested in you and no fun' want to help you,” Talbot said.“You are here right now with tea- “Take advantage of it.” 'Did the other kids tease you?’ ‘Did the teacher know?’ By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE — It may take a little longer, but when Wilbur Talbot decides to do something, there’s no stopping him.Two years ago at the age of 32, Talbot decided to learn to read and write.After spending nearly all of his life unable to read a road sign or examine a restaurant menu, Talbot vowed that once he mastered reading and writing he would share his experience with others.Last week Wilbur Talbot told his story to students at Massey Vanier high school.“Being illiterate is sort of like being blind,” Talbot told a grade 8 class."It’s like a big dark world » t 4—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 20, 1990 —_____ftgl IRBCOITI The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial ^iSSmSS^^mSSSmSSSSSm It is up to the people Yet another ecological disaster is in the news.This time Tyre King Recycling in Hager-sville, Ontario, with its 14 million burning tires, is the culprit, but instead of bowing our heads in resignation, this unfortunate event should be used to gather momentum for the ever- ¦ growing public awareness of our env ironment.Fortunately, signs of this momentum are already beginning to appear.Monday the Tire Retreaders and Tire Dealers Association of Quebec suggested a $5 surcharge on all tires sold in the province.The money would be used to fund tire disposal and tire recycling research in Quebec.With about 4.2 million tires sold each year in Quebec, the surcharge would • generate $21 million.Another indication of growing public awareness can be found in our own back yard.In Lennoxville, citizens met last week to discuss an expansion of current recycling programs.Those attending want collection services broadened to include plastic, glass and metal.Events like the Hagersville tire fire can serve to harden the resolve of citizens concerned with recycling.And more important, such events will affront those who are still sitting on the fence when it comes to acting in an environmentally responsible way.Then there are the positive steps taken by Bishop’s University student Nina Lauder, who helped start a recycling program on campus, and who hopes to extend it to Lennnoxville.Students like Lauder often spark the latent enthusiasm of others, and she serves as an excellent role model.But all the good intentions in the world are not enough if thay are not accompanied by a strong political will.Politicians must ensure that recycling and safety programs reflect the public’s desire for a safe and clean environment.The Hagersville fire came after the province of Ontario ordered the dump’s owner to build a water reservoir to protect against fire.That was three years ago; the order has since languished in the courts.Still, measures should have been imposed so Hagersville residents be spared the fate of people in places like St-Basile le Grand.Then there is the problem of creating markets for recycled goods.Here again political will must do the job of making these items attractive to business people.The public has already shown that it is willing to do its part.Finally, action must be taken to ensure that Hagersville does not happen again.If only we could start preventing these environmental nightmares instead of scrambling for solutions after they occur.It is up to the people to make themselves heard, and more importantly, not to get discouraged.DAN HAWALESHKA Toxic real estate: Only tip of iceberg EDMONTON (CP) A man in coveralls crouches beside a railroad track and examines a lump of dirt.The land is for sale, and a potential buyer has hired him to find out what he is getting into.A laboratory test shows the dirt sample contains chemical contaminants.A subsequent study shows the chemical packaging company that owned the land had accidentally contaminated the area with toxic chemicals.It will cost $500,000 to clean up — enough to scare the buyer off.‘Toxic real estate" is not uncommon, says Francis Hugo, manager of Edmonton's waste management branch.“U s like an iceberg," he said.“We’re starting to see the tip of it."Anyone thinking of buying industrial land of any kind is on treacherous ground, because the owner is responsible, whether he made the mess or not.” Take the case of Westgreen Developments (North) Ltd.In 198(i Westgreen bought a piece of property near downtown Edmonton that had previously been occupied by a service station The company didn't know ; there had been a 21.000-litre gasoline leak and the equivalent of 1,000 truckloads of soil was contaminated.; Westgreen got struck with the clean-up bill, an esti-‘mated $500,000.BURIED TANKS ; Bob Innés, an environmental scientist with Stanley Associates Engineering Ltd., says the most common and dangerous problem is caused by underground storage tanks containing flammable fuels such as gasoline.A study by a committee set up to examine the pro blem of underground tanks shows there are some 18,000 buried in the province.Committee geologist Glenn Barry estimates at least five per cent, or 900 of them, are leaking Even more costly to clean up, Innés said, are sites polluted by old landfills and waste-water holding ponds.PCBs, asbestos, pesticides, inks, solvents and dry-cleaning and other industrial chemicals improperly Stored or disposed of all pose a potential health or envi ronmental hazard and ultimately, a financial one.The Alberta Fire Prevention Act and other provincial and federal legislation put the onus for the cleanup of -environmental hazards on the owner of record.“In effect, you could be buying a piece of real estate with negative worth, " said Matt Cohen, marketing ma nager for Stanley Associates.BUYERS CAREFUL ¦ Doug Hackbarth, a hydrogeologist with Stanley Associates, said increased media attention, more stringent pressure from government and the prohibitive cost of cleanup have made potential buyers more careful about purchasing industrial property.Letters Useless destruction of our aborginal sacred sights The Editor: I have something of interest that has to do with people who share this part of "Mother Earth" with all other creatures.The development of Pinnacle Mountain, near Abercorn, Quebec.The most important concern of Abenaki People would be our Sacred Aboriginal Sights on and near Pinnacle Mountain.Chief Homer St.Francis and the Tribal Council of the Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi has requested that I put my energy into stopping this develop ment as I, and the Abenaki Nation, strongly oppose it.The plan for Pinnacle Mountain as owner Mr.Tellier sees it, is a golf course, condominiums and a ski area.Even the fanciest sewage treatment facilities can’t guarantee that eoli- form bacteria, or weed control poisons from the golf course, wouldn’t leak into the steams and find their way down the Missisquoi River Valley and eventually into the Missisquoi Bay.The final question is “What about the protection of the Natural Habitat?The protection of the Natural Habitat is essential, such as deer yards, bear dens and a good probability of the Moose population expanding.The only path to the summit would be a ski lift itself, which would be available for large numbers of people.Such human intrusions in the springtime would violate the privacy that birds of prey especially the rare Peregine falcon.absolutely require for their nesting.Peregine falcons need high bare rocks and lots of open space for their nests, and such sites are already tragically few in number.People make your voices heard."SAVE THE MISSISQUO RIVER.STOP PINNACLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT." For more information on the Canadian side write: "Richard Sommer.President.Association for Conservation of Pinnacle Mountain, Abercorn, Quebec JOE 1B0.Dear Editor, The Village of Garson is celebrating its 75th year of incorporation with a reunion on July 26 to 29.1990 Because of the 75 year span and the enormity of the task, we are soliciting you support in contacting former residents of the Village of Garson, Manitoba and sur- The Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi has sent appropriate documentation and letters to the Canadian authorities We plan to stand by to stop this useless destruction of our aborginal sacred sights and the environment and its natural habitats, the animals.In Struggle.JOHN H.CHURCHILL Spokesman Abenaki Nation at Missisquoi rounding district in order that they may participate in our celebrations.For information contact the 75th Reunion Committee, Box 1990, Garson, Manitoba ROE 0R0.CATHY MARY NEWICH, 75th Reunion Committee 75th year of incorporation Comply with deceased's ultimate wishes Re.Reply to Mr.Nick Fonda’s letter addressed to the Editor, dated January 17, 1990.“Townspeople fight to preserve their patri mony” Dear Mr Bury : In reply to Mr.Nick Fonda’s letter entitled “Townspeople fight to preserve their patrimony’’ addressed to the Editor and published January 17, 1990, we hereby wish to specify that “a red brick building sitting on a couple of hundred acres of farm land" is actually a white wooden frame house sitting on thirty-acres of land.This immoveable property belonging to the Estate of the late Cora Frances Dunkerly was entrusted to Sherbrooke Trust by mandate on January 26, 1976.The deceased’s wish was to provide for her church, the Ul-verton United Church, thus not specifically for the Village of Ulverton.Since 1976, Sherbrooke Trust managed in accordance with the deceased's Last Will and Testament, an estate characterized by very little liquid assets.The property itself was, at the time, and still is in an advanced deteriota-tion state, requiring repairs amoun- ting to thousands of dollars.Because of that, and taking into account the fact that income generating assets composing the estate were insufficient to provide for such expenses, Sherbrooke Trust then seeked the passing of a private bill to render possible the sale of the property.The Trustee’s responsibility being to comply with the deceased’s ultimate wishes, never did seek in any way, to have a petition passed to render the whole Dunkerly Will null and void as alleged in Mr.Fonda’s letter.Finally, may we add that people at Sherbrooke Trust fully understand Mr.Fonda’s, as well as Ulverton’s residents’ concern, in the preservation of patrimonial inheritance.Sherbrooke Trust was effectively created in the heart of Sherbrooke in 1874 and is therefore known as the second oldest Canadian Trust Company.We only find regrettable that because of insufficient information, the story was reported somewhat inaccurately in Mr.Fonda’s letter.Sincerely yours, MICHEL LAVOIE Executive Vice-President and General Manager Sherbrooke Trust NOW.You’re in Control, RiQHT?Klerk mm 1he i-hr|stian Science Monitor Los Angeles Times Syndicate Eastern Europe still far from breathing free By Paul Majendie Reuters Smog blanketing Dublin became so thick that midday looked more like midnight on its gloomy streets.In Athens, a filthy brown cloud hovers almost daily over the ancient city, sending the elderly to hospitals in droves.The mayor of Milan banned trucks, urged motorists to abandon their cars and told people to turn down their heating.Across the heavily industrialized and densely populated countries of Western Europe, cars and coal are the main cause of the smog poisoning the air.But these problems pale in com parison with the environmental catastrophe of Eastern Europe, shak ing off communism but facing colossal pollution problems which have been ignored for decades.A one-hour stroll in Budapest is said to be as bad for your lungs as a pack of cigarettes.Broadcasts regularly warn against taking children outdoors during winter smogs.BITTER HARVEST In the grimy East Germart city of Bitterfeld, schoolchildren are sent to a Baltic resort for a month every year to breathe freely.Trees in Bitterfeld, in a stinking industrial belt south of Berlin, turn brown in June, and cars washed in the morning are covered in soot by evening.Prague's Hradcany Castle gives a panoramic view of the smog floating over the Czechoslovakian capital.In the Polish city of Krakow, the faces on medieval sandstone statues have crumbled away in steel-mill fumes.Pollution knows no frontiers, and huge amounts of money and political will are needed to eradicate the choking clouds poisoning millions of people.Rainer Frommann, environmental commissioner in Bitterfeld, puts Eastern Europe's case succinctly: “Trying to put a western antipollution device on these factories would be like putting a gold watch on the wrist of a corpse.We’re talking about technology from the 1920s.’’ The main smog culprit on Hungarian streets is the aging stock of east bloc cars — on average nine years old.Lead-free gasoline and catalytic con verters have been shelved for lack of resources.C ARS PARKED Pollution has fallen by 2(> percent in Warsaw since Jan 1, when the gov eminent doubled the price of gaso line, forcing many drivers to use pub lie transport.West European governments have also had to take drastic measures to curb car owners.When Milan Mayor Paolo Pillitteri introduced an experimental Surldav t>an on cars, pollution was cut by a third and citizens took to the streets on skateboards, horses and bicycles.Car fumes and industrial emissions trapped within the ring of hills around Athens forced the government to ban private cars from the city centre, close schools and cut industrial fuel consumption by half.Athens wants to hold the 1996 Olympics But a Soviet marathon runner competing in the European championships there gave his verdict : “My lungs hurt.It is a crime that races take place in such a dirty atmos-phere." Ireland has pledged to make the environment a top priority during its current six-month presidency of the European Community.Environment Minister Padraig Flynn matched the promise with a package of measures to clean up the Emerald Isle.He banned smoky coal in smog-ridden Dublin, where some 320,000 open coal fires were filling emergen cy wards with elderly people suffer ing from respiratory complaints.The coal smoke smogs of Victorian London "pea soupers" killed about 1.000 people as late as 1952 - have been swept away by draconian clean-air laws.Now the car is the main culprit.in Britain and elsewhere.The Scandinavians pride them selves on ha\ ing pollution levels far below those of most European cities.Copenhagen is proud of its reputation as a cyclists’ city — nearly a third of its people bike to work.In Madrid, meanwhile, some taxi drivers wear gas masks in the endless traffic jams.COMMUNITY ACTION Under European Community legislation, the 12 member states have until April 1993 to clean up their environmental black spots and keep their air within pollution limits.Monitoring would also be improved under a proposed European Environment Agency - but its site and the extent of its powers have not yet been decided.With fledgling East European democracies treating the environment more seriously, co-operation undreamed of only months ago is becoming feasible.East Germany, for one, has confessed to a horrifying catalogue of ecological sins and pledged to transform its image as the cesspit of Europe.With only 16 million people.East Germany leads the world in sulphur dioxide emissions — 5.6 million tonnes a year.Said an East German deputy minister of industry, heralding wliat may be a decade when Europeans get together to improve their air: “We want to create a clean room in the European house." r 4 The RECORD—Tuesday.February 20,1990—5 Farm and Business —_____ttcj ifscara Maine’s Mitchell couldn't head off an obstruction Clean air legislation will be a tough fight By John Valorzi WASHINGTON (CP) — Three weeks ago.Democratic Majority Leader George Mitchell counted heads and knew he was in trouble if he tried to push a tough air pollution control bill through the 100-member United States Senate.While a majority of senators supported new legislation to clean up America’s dirty air— and the acid rain pollution it generates in Canada — legislators from regions hit hard by the tough Senate bill planned to stall the measure in Congress.By Mitchell’s count, he had enough votes to win on floor fights, but was well short of the 60 votes needed to head off a filibuster if senators tried to obstruct the clean air legislation on the Senate floor.To avoid a politically embarrassing fight that pitted region against region and Democrat against Democrat.Mitchell suspended the bill Feb.1 and tried to seek a compromise with the White House.“Obviously, plainly and candidly, one of the objectives which I’ve had in initiating this process has been to reduce the likelihood of GST: Small a filibuster and the prospects for its success should one occur,” Mitchell recently told reporters.Today, after a 10-day congressional recess.Senate leaders resume negotiations with the White House to try to hammer out a deal on contentious parts of the legislation, the first changes in 12 years to the outdated U.S.Clean Air Act.AGREE ON CHANGES So far.White House and Senate negotiators have agreed on changes on some issues.But sharp differences remain on other areas of the sweeping clean air plan — from stiffer rules on auto tailpipe emissions to reductions in nitric oxides to cost-sharing for utilities faced with cleaning up acid rain.“We’re making progress, but there are concerns on both sides that haven’t yet been resolved,” said Bob Dole, Republican leader in the Senate.Mitchell, a staunch environmentalist from Maine, hasn’t set a target date to complete the talks or bring the clean air bill back to the Senate floor.He did say.however, that the political reality means both sides — industry and the environmenta- lists — will have to accept tradeoffs for clean air legislation to become law."Many will be disappointed," he said."But in the final analysis we had to make the judgment as to what’s the best, most comprehensive.fairest and cost-effective bill that can pass the Senate." Cost has emerged as the gut issue of the congressional debate over clean air legislation, a bill so technical it sent many legislators back to their high school chemistry books for a refresher on the complex terminology.The legislation being debated in the Senate, supported by environmentalists, would hit industry much harder than the bill President George Bush sent Congress last summer.HOUSE STARTS DEBATE Meanwhile, in the House of Re-presenatives, a version close to the White House plan will be debated by the powerful commerce committee in the next few weeks.In the U.S.political system, both chambers of Congress must pass legislation and the president must sign it for a bill to become law — a process that isn’t likely to be completed before late summer at the earliest.So far, all the congressional infighting over clean air has failed to weaken provisions Canada considers essential for its own program to clean up acid rain damage to rivers.forests and lakes in Ontario.Quebec and the Maritimes.W'hile U.S.legislators are pressing for cost-sharing help for their state’s utilities, there are no serious moves to weaken measures in the clean air bill that require a 10-million-tonne annual reduction in sulphur dioxide by the year 2001 and a cap on emissions after that."Overall, in terms of the acid rain issue.I think it has survived these negotiations quite well." Michael Perley.a longtime Canadian acid rain lobbyist, said in an interview Monday.“We should be pleased that they haven’t made much of a dent on the emissions cuts or the cap.” The Canadian government, which has pressed the U.S.for acid rain controls for years, estimates a 10-million-tonne reduction and a cap is essential to meet its demand for a 50-per-cent cut in sulphur dioxide emissions that now flow over the border from polluting uti-lities in the U.S.industrial Midwest.business to bear the brunt?TAX CREDIT ON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES You could qualify for the tax credit on products and services payable in December.At H & R Block we will prepare the required form which must be filled out with your income tax for 1989.If you have to fill out an income tax this year specifically to claim tax credits, we will prepare them for you at a very special reduced rate.Don't let yourself get into a frenzy over the fiscal laws that are always changing.Let us do all the work for you.H&R BLOCK Domaine du Parc 175 Principale, Cowansville 514-263-6405 Open Regular Hours Appointment Not Necessary Partage St-François Community Centre The Friend at the Poor 115 Galt West (corner Laurier) Sherbrooke, QC J1H 1X8 (819) 821-2233 A helping hand to the deprived.SHERBROOKE (JP) — Eighty-three per cent of the public surveyed by an Angus-Reid poll commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business believe that the proposed General Sales Tax is likely to be raised from seven to nine per cent after the next federal election.The December 1989 survey polled 1500 adults and shows that Canadians oppose the GST almost 3 to 1.Sixty-eight per cent of those who answered said they oppose the tax while 27 per cent support it.Another survey conducted in January shows that 78 per cent of CFIB members oppose the tax while 15 per cent support it.The stronger opposition from CFIB members comes from the problem collecting the tax that awaits them in 1991.CFIB Both surveys are part of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business' pre-budget submission to Michael Wilson, and deals mainly with the GST, the economic environment and deficit reduction.The CFIB deplores the cancellation of the consultation process for this year’s budget, especially with the introduction of the GST.“In a government that claims to put a great deal of value on the consultation process generally, it seems a perverse decision to conduct prebudget consultations in years when the econoi.y is in good health, yet cancel consultations when the economy is facing a slowdown and possibly a recession.” States the submission.The CFIB qualifies this decision of “Unconscionable” and uses figures from statistics Canada to show that the small medium-sized businesses is the main economic motor of job creation.MOST NEW JOBS In the period from 1978 to 1987, the SME sector accounted for 90 per cent of job creation.Firms with 50 to 499 employees have bred virtually all the new jobs created in the Canadian economy in the 1980s.As for the GST, the CFIB estimates that the total cost to the economy borne by small business will range between $1.2 and $2 billion.Not enough studies were conducted on the impact of a two-tiered sales tax in some provinces.“To be able to truly evaluate the impact of two sales taxes across Canada, what is really required is a technical paper for each province,” suggests the brief.Farmers will be in a constant state of refund.Since farmers will have to pay the GST on fertilizers, chemicals, fuels and many main-tainence services, farmers they will experience cash-flow and paperwork problems, says the CFIB.Another problem is the determination of “zero-rated” purchases.The submission ask Finance Minister Wilson “How do you determine whether farm purchases are clearly zero-rated, when most farmers have taken on work on an off-farm basis to supplement their in- come from farming operations?” MORE PAPERWORK The report answers it own question to some extent.“All purchases made to support these off-farm activities must be clearly separated, thus inviting more paperwork on a day-to-day basis.” The CFIB also wonders why hearings on the GST were not conducted in Quebec, the province with the largest number of small retail business outlets.The submission also warns agaisnt the evils of a high deficit, “.the current high level of the federal deficit, especially in a high interest rate environment, makes the outlook for Canada’s economy highly vulnerable to the vicious cycle of high deficits driving up interest rates which in turn increases debt service costs and drives deficits even higher.” Business brief TORONTO (CP) — CAE Electronics of Montreal is selling what it says is the first “advanced technology" flight simulator to be used in east bloc countries.CAE says Lufthansa German Airlines is buying a $9-million flight simulator that will be used to train pilots with Interflug, the East German national airline.NISSAN'S INSTANT CASH MACHINES 1990 Sentra l.llt-t-M,ll NISSAN 1990 Hardbody For a limited time, all Nissan Sentras and Hardbody trucks come equipped with something extra.Cash.A thousand dollars, to be exact, cash back to you.You can use it as part of your down payment.Or keep it all to yourself.It's all part of the big 25th Anniversary Celebration going on at your Nissan dealer.And to make it twice as attractive, you have a choice.If you'd rather not take the $1,000 cash back, you can get special financing instead.On terms up to 60 months.And you can even finance the full purchase value of the vehicle.Either way you save.Which means there's never been a better time than now to get into a new Sentra or Hardbody.Of course, the vehicles themselves offer plenty of great reasons to buy.The Sentra has long been one of the most reliable cars going, and now as proof, it's won the 1990 Canadian Automobile Association's Golden Pyramid for overall customer satisfaction and reliability.The Hardbody offers the most powerful standard engine in its class.A 2.4 litre, 134 horsepower plant that delivers 58% more horsepower than Mazda and 30% more than Toyota.RICHARD NISSAN WEST BROMI 263-4457 The 25th Anniversary Celebration rtrr^n Built for the Human Rare * 9 9 1**5 ?I f f 0 • * 4 YOUR 1989 INCOME TAX RETURN PEOPLE WITH QUESTIONS SHOULD I SEND IN MY RETURN NOW, OR WAIT TILL I GET ALL MY INFORMATION SLIPS?At tax time, many people want to send in their return quickly, especially if they’re getting a refund.And that’s a good idea, as long as you have all your information slips and required receipts.By including all the pertinent information and papers, you’ll help us process the return faster, and that means you should receive your refund sooner.And make sure you inform Revenue Canada by mail, if you have a change of address.That way, you’ll get your refund as quickly and directly as possible.Also, if we know about your move, we can make sure you get the proper guides you need next year.WHAT GUIDES DO I NEED?Revenue Canada produces a variety of special guides for people with different income situations.There’s an employment expenses guide, a guide for pensions and one for new Canadians, to name a few.Check the list in your General Guide.If there’s one you need, contact your District Taxation Office or call the special "request for forms” number listed there.WHAT’S NEW THIS YEAR?This year, the tax table, which gives you an automatic calculation of the tax you pay, has been extended to include tax calculations for incomes of up to $55,605.This will save many people from having to do the detailed tax calculation.Calculating your Canada Savings Bonds interest has also been made easier in this year’s form.WHAT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS?Check your General Tax Guide.It has most of the answers you’ll need, but if you still have questions, contact your local District Taxation Office and talk to the people at Revenue Canada Taxation.They’re People with Answers.Revenue Canadi Taxation pjpnu Canada éhM* -mm ¦ G—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 20, 1990 Living BecorH Cupcakes, frosting delights for all Moving, new schools develop character in youths What’s nicer than a batch of delicious cupcakes?And they always freeze so well for future use if in a hurry.A few suggestions (from a 1978 clipping»: GOLDEN CUPCAKES 3 cups sifted cake flour (I find I do not need to pre-sift since this recipe appeared our flour is already sifted) 2'/2 teaspoons baking powder Vi teaspoon salt V* cup butter or margarine (softened) I'/i cups sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla VA cups milk Sift flour, baking powder and salt onto wax paper.Beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a large bowl with electric beater at high speed for 2 minutes.Add the flour mixture alternately with milk, beating after each addition until batter is smooth Fill paperlined muffin pans half full.Bake in a moderate preheated oven (375°F) about 25 minutes or until tops spring back when pressed with fingertips.Remove from pans and cool before icing.Or may be frozen uniced for future use.Makes about 24 or slightly more cupcakes.Several nice frosting ideas.BUTTER CREAM FROSTING Vi cup butter or margarine 1 egg yolk 1 lb.package icing sugar 3 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Beat butter and egg yolk in a medium-size bowl with electric beater until soft.Beat in the icing sugar alternately with milk and vanilla until smooth and right for spreading.Will frost about 28 cupcakes.LEMON OR ORANGE BUTTER ICING Follow above recipe, omitting the vanilla.Add 2 teaspoons grated lemon or orange rind and use 3 tablespoons lemon or orange juice in place of the milk.MOCHA BUTTER FROSTING Use above recipe omitting both milk and vanilla.Dissolve 2 teaspoons instant coffee in 3 tablespoons boiling water.Kay's kitchen korner BY KAY TAYLOR SPICY OATMEAL CUPCAKES V/i cups (sifted) cake flour 1 cup quick-cooking oats V* cup firmly packed light brown sugar Vi cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda Vi teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon cinnamon 'A teaspoon cloves ‘A teaspoon allspice ‘A cup vegetable shortening 1 cup milk 2 eggs Combine flour, oats, sugars, baking soda, salt and spices in a large bowl.Add shortening and % cup of the milk.Beat at low speed with electric beater one-half minute to combine; then at high speed for a further 2 minutes.Add remaining 'A cup milk and eggs and continue beating an additional two minutes.Fill paper lined muffin tins half full.Bake in preheated oven ACK AT MY DESK.,, ftooM tom JoHuyod »0W DOMT I ALWAYS SAY TtlF-VISlOW GLAMORIZES (WTf?IAU WUAV/mf?It fWTPlAU W.UAVinf?/?FRANK & ERNEST® by Bob Thaves rjunfç © 11 Vr ' n'V rH£ Off ration MA OB A NFW ATAK OUT °F MB- THf one hap fOME JMONET in THE o r»4 U1 < EEK & MEEK® by Howie Schneider / MV MOTHER ALUJAVS SAID " 'SCHIMD BÆRV (^LAT MAW 1 THERL STAfODS A l/UOMA/U 'y y I TS) )© / AfX) mMUD WER .THERE \ [ SrAfJTS HER LAWJVLR / GR1ZZWELLÎSVS) by mu »cnorr irrrni^M ONWdTHÉRUAHP, yowvt SOT TO AFMIK HI5 ABILITY TO APART TO THF EH£fc0ACHM£NT OF ^NtUTATIOHu, rniTirn fiâiuü] WINTHROP® 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O 9 10—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 20,1990 Townships' Crier COURTESY OF RICHMOND The Richmond Quebec Farmers’ Association will be holding a 500 card party at the Richmond Legion Hall on Saturday, February 24 at 8 p.m.Everyone welcome.• DUNHAM Musical Variety Show featuring local talents and special attraction: Alice Mellish, clog dancer and Brome Squares, on Friday, February 23 at 8 p.m.in the Dunham Parish Hall (Main Street behind Catholic School).Benefit of the Fundraising Committee of Dunham United Church.Admission charged.Intermission: coffee and doughnuts.Tickets available at the door or by contacting: Barbara Harvey 295-2348, Joyce Martin 295-3251 or Shirley Vaughan 295-2355.• GRANBY The Granby United Church Women (UCW) will hold a Valentine Luncheon (soup, french bread and squares) from 11:30 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.on Friday, February 23.We hope to see you.• COWANSVILLE There will be a Beef Barbecue Supper at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 in Cowansville on Saturday, February 24.Entertainment to follow.Don’t forget we have a smoke-free atmosphere.So come and enjoy yourself, supper starts at 5:30 p.m.• LENNOXVILLE In preparation for the Rev.Billy Graham coming to our area for Mission Quebec from June 3-10, 1990, we invite everyone to attend a “Preparation Mission Rally” on Sunday, February 25 at 3 p.m.at Alexander Galt Regional High School, Lennoxville.Speakers: The Rev.Brett Cane, St.George’s Anglican Church, Montreal and M.Fernand St.Louis, Chairman, Mission Quebec.If you wish to sing in the bilingual choir, just come at 2 p.m.for a short rehearsal.• EATON CORNER The regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Compton County Historical Museum Society will be held in the Old Academy on Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m.• COWANSVILLE Prosperity Rebekah Lodge No.32 are holding a Military Whist on Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m.in the Fraternal Hall, 910 Main Street, Cowansville.Refreshments and prizes.Everyone welcome.BURY Social evening at the Bury Town Hall on Friday.February 23 at 7 p.m.Slide presentation of the 7th Canadian Scout Jamboree at Fort Amherst, P E L, on July 1989, which the Bury Boy Scouts attended.Lunch to follow.Everyone welcome.• BURY Advance notice.Annual Turkey Dinner on Sunday, May 6 from 4 p.m.to 6 p.m.at the Bury Town Hall.Benefit of St.Paul’s Anglican Church.• BURY Advance notice.Afternoon card party and Casserole Supper on Monday, March 12 in the Bury Town Hall.Sponsored by St.Paul’s Anglican Guild.• MAGOG Advance notice.World Day of Prayer 1990 will be held at St.Luke’s Anglican Church, corner of Pine and St.Patrick streets, on Friday, March 2 at 2 p.m.Everyone welcome.• LENNOXVILLE Bridge and 500 card party on Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m.in the Masonic Hall, Lennoxville.• LENNOXVILLE The St.Francis Valley Naturalists’ Club presents Councilman Michael Sudlow on Wednesday, February 21 at 7:45 p.m.in the C.L.S.C.Building when he will offer us a program concerning the Environmental Studies and Plans for Action in the Lennoxville region.• HATLEY Card party on Saturday, February 24 at 8 p.m.in St.James Church Hall, Hatlev.Sponsored by the A.C.W.This column accepts Items tree'or charge announcing events organized by churches, service clubs and > recognized charitable Institutions.Requests should be mailed, well in advance, to THE RECORD, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6, be signed and include telephone number of person forwarding the notice.Telephone requests cannot be accepted.Admission charges and trade names will be deleted.No dances.High Forest Alice Wilson 889-2932 Mr.and Mrs.Roland Lowry spent an evening with Mrs.Mary Nutbrown in Lennoxville.Mrs.Roland Lowry entertained at dinner in honour of Roland’s birthday.Present were their family, Garth and Marcia, Kent and Lynda, Christine, John, Jody, Kristopher and Katie Robinson and their guests Elbert Morrison and Julien Arsenault of Summerside, P.E.I.Chantel Crawford celebrates her first birthday In Memoriam ROCK ISLAND — On the occa sion of the first birthday of Chantel Crawford, on St.Valentine’s Day her parents Brad and Sharon Crawford entertained at a party on February 10.The home was trimmed with multi-colored balloons, and "Winnie the Pooh” decorations and the birthday cake was also in the shape of "Winnie the Pooh,” iced in yellow.Plates of hors d’oeuvres and assorted squares with punch were available on the table buffet style.As the guests had gathered, ice cream and cake was served with punch and coffee.Chantel proceeded to open the many prettily wrapped packages, which contained articles of clothing, toys and currency.Brad and Sharon expressed thanks to all for the lovely gifts.Karen Sheldon video-taped the whole event and it will be shown to those unable to attend.Guests were present from Montpelier.St.Albans, Island Pond and Newport, Vt., Sherbrooke and the local surroundings.From the Pens ofE.T.writers THE COMING OF SPRING The winter months are passing by Soon again the birds will sing And my heart is so longing To see the green of spring The snow keeps on falling It takes so long it seems I can not wait to open up the doors And get the outside windows clean February is so bright and sunny The days are longer in the hours March ushers in the spring Then on to April showers The earth takes on a brighter dress And in its beauty comes lovely May The time when all nature is awakening And God decks the world with blossoms gay Robin Red breast has returned Oh! how I’m longing for that day After lovely May comes the month The one that puts my heart in tune When the wild flowers scatter the fields The lilacs come out in purple hue And the roses start to bloom The time for love and romance The wonderful month of June Then next July and August Let me dream on if I may For there is nothing to compare To sitting in the sun by the water On a warm and sunny summer’s day Then autumn rolls around The time when earth in color is dressed Jack Frost turns the green to red and gold This is the time I love the best The harvest moon shines big and bright The crops are takemin November comes bleak and cold And the winter months again begin With the coming of each season We like the changes that they bring But now I’ve had enough of winter And it seems only human that I am longing For the coming of an early spring.EVELYN BRYANT BEAUDOIN Sherbrooke, Que.Knowlton Academy students and teachers have many activities and sports programs planned for the months of the school year By Kay Taylor A news letter is out from Knowlton Academy dated January 31.Term 2 ended on January 26 and reports were issued to students on February 2.Parents’ Night was held Tuesday, February 6 (by previous appointment only).All students must be registered for the 1990-91 school year during the month of February.New students- February 5-9.Those registering for Kindergarten must be five years of age before October 1,1990.A birth or baptismal certificate showing both parents is required.Every student must have a certificate of eligibility allowing them to be taught in English.Assistance may be obtained from the school in securing this.If the child has an older brother or sister with such a certificate, or the parents themselves have certificates of eligibility, one should be brought to the school with the birth certificate.A full application will be made at the time of registration if there are no brothers or sisters or the parents themselves do not have such a certificate.On February 12- students already registered at The Academy will receive a prepared form to take home, to be corrected, signed and returned the next day or as soon after as possible.This form now has a section showing Moral and Religious Instruction Catholic; Moral and Religious Instruction Protestant; Moral Instruction.The one selected for a child must be ticked.Be certain of your decision because this will form the basis of the child’s instruction for the 1990-91 school year.At the time the school letter was released there had been one week of the Ski program with all going quite well.More volunteer help would be appreciated.If anyone has time to spare, please call the school.If someone is looking after your child, you most certainly want them to do it right ! That is what the School Committee thought also, so they are offering a Red Cross babysitting course for students in Level 6 and Secondary 1.A self explanatory letter has been sent; all those interested should return this as quickly as possible.Students are hard at work now on their speeches, preparing for the annual Speak Off.The winners will represent Knowlton Academy at the Optimist Club Public Speaking Contest in February.Mrs.Graham and Mr.Colvil are sharing the Director’s Chair as another extra-curricular activity has been added to Knowlton Academy’s list.Interested students from levels 4 through secondary 1 were invited to join a play company.The goal is to produce a play which, if successful, will be taken “On the Road” to other schools in the district.It is felt this is an opportunity for students to have some fun and at the same time, explore yet another facet of their personality.At the moment practices are being held once a week after school.As of January 31, rehearsals will be every Wednesday.The basketball players are also hard at work practicing for the tournaments to come shortly.The dates: February 16- C Team at Heroes; February 20-A Team boys at Massey-Vanier; B Team girls at Massey-Vanier; February 22- A Team girls at Massey-Vanier; B Team boys at Massey-Vanier.The School Committee and the school nurse are now discussing possible activities for Nutrition month in March.A form was attached to the school letter for anyone interested in taking advantage of an offer by World Book Inc.for the 1989 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia sets at a price below standard.Help! The School Library is going to be in trouble! Unless help is given on Wednesday at the noon hour and from 9:00-2:00 p.m.Thursdays because the lovely ladies who worked these two shifts are needed elsewhere! If you can volunteer some time, please call Helen Rhicard at 243-0686 and thank you! While students have had a couple of days off, staff members have been working diligently on report cards one day and workshops the next.Some of the workshops attended were: Stress in the Classroom; Whole Language Development; French Language Workshop; Violence in the Home ; Meetings of various grade levels; Computer workshop.So if you thought they were taking it easy.They are now going to do that! From February 26 to March 2nd.The last day of school before the mid-term break will be Friday, February 23 and school will open again for students on Monday, March 5.STOTT, Steven — In loving memory of a dear father, son and brother who passed away February 18,1988 Your gentle face and friendly smile With heavy heart we recall.Your kindly words and loving ways And then you left us loved by all.Remembering you is easy We do it every day.The heartache of missing you Never goes away.Sadly missed by STEPHANIE, REBECCA, GLORIA, DAD, FRANÇOISE.RICHARD Beebe Eunice Aulis Mrs.Mildred Woodard, a highly esteemed citizen passed away recently.Her daughter Joyce Slade and family are extended the sympathy of the area.Magog & area Connie Girard 843-6671 In The Record dateline Thursday, February 15, the report of the Magog & area Birthday Club should have read Magog & area Christmas Club.The correspondent apologizes for this error.Knowlton Kay Taylor 243-0004 Mr.and Mrs.Gary Laflamme of Fulford, accompanied by Gary’s mother Mrs.Sadie Laflamme were supper guests of Mr.and Mrs.Neil Clarkson on the occasion of the birthday of the latter’s son Ryan on February 10 and also celebrating his grandmother, Mrs.Sadie Laflamme’s birthday two days later.Mrs.Beatrice Benoit of Waterloo and Mrs.Sadie Laflamme were visiting Mrs.Frances Frizzle at the Coldbrooke Residence on Sunday, February 11, prior to Mrs.Frizzle entering BMP Hospital for eye surgery the following day.Local friends were pleased to learn that Mr.Gordon Cousens of Waterloo returned home on the weekend from the St.Vincent de Paul Hospital in Sherbrooke where he was a surgical patient.He is reported as making splendid progress and best wishes are extended for a complete recovery soon.Island Brook Mrs.Garfield Spaulding 875-3671 On that weekend Douglas Burns, Mr.and Mrs.Malcolm Burns and Jonathan, also Mr.and Mrs.Robert Burns accompanied by Mrs.Irene Boggs of Sawyerville, were in Brockville, Ont., where many other family members gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of Mrs.Florence Burns Ross.This wonderful lady is the last living member of the late Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Burns.She was born and grew up in this area, so many of the older generation remember her very well.Congratulations are extended to this lady for reaching the 100 mark and wish her many happy returns.Afternoon visitors of Mrs.Evelyn Lister were Mrs.Peggy Buick, Straffordville, Ont.and Mrs.Burton Lowe, Bury.Mr.and Mrs.Ian MacAulay and Debbie of Westmount were weekend visitors of Mrs.MacAulay’s parents Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth Morrow.Mr.and Mrs.Malcolm Burns and son were New Year’s guests of the Hostetler family in Compton.& son ltd FUDERAl DIRECTORS 1-800-567:6031 SHERBROOKE 300 (ijeen Blvd.N SAWYERVILLE 55 C lOkshlre RICHMOND 295 Main S.STANSTEAU 39 Dutlerln LENNOXVILiE 6 Belvldeie COOKSHIRE SO Craig AYER S CLIFF 900 Clough BROWN.Ailsa — Widow of Edmund Vere Brown and mother of Carol Brown and Timothy Brown.Survived also by six grandchildren.Daughter of Alexander Mcl-ver and Nina Fauquier.Bom in Bury.Private arrangements made with the University Anatomical Branch at her request.CANNING, Anne Josephine Catherine — Peacefully after a valiant fight at the Montreal Convalescent Hospital on Monday, February 19, 1990 at the age of 47.Beloved mother of Shannon Mary Gardiner, dear daughter of Erma Canning and the late Joseph Canning, cherished sister of Lyman and Constance Canning and loving aunt of Jennifer, Melanie Canning.Service at St.John the Divine Church, Thetford Mines, 11 a m., Friday, February 23, 1990.Interment at Christ Church Cemetery, Lower Ireland.Our beloved daughter and sister At peace at last God bless her.KIRBY, Margaret Amy — On February 17,1990 in Victoria, B.C.in her 90th year, formerly of Cook-shire, Que.Sister of Vera McGreer (Eric) of Calgary, Alberta and aunt of many nieces and nephews.LARSEN, van der loo (Thyregod) Fanny — Suddenly at her residence in Waterloo, Que.on Monday, February 19, 1990 in her 81st year, Fanny van der loo (Thyregod) Larsen who came to Canada in 1927 from Denmark.Wife of Aage Larsen.Dear mother of Kaj Larsen of Welland, Ont., Elisabeth Larsen of Sorel, Que.and Edith (Sharp) of Coventry, R.I.Sister of Andreas Thyregod of Denmark.Survived by nine grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.Resting at the Bessette and Sons Funeral Home Inc., 5034 Foster St., Waterloo, Que.Funeral service will be held at the St.Luke’s Anglican Church on Thursday, February 22 at 2 p.m., the Rev.W.Davidson officiating.Interment at Warden Cemetery (in the spring).Visitation Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.PLEASE NOTE ALL — Births, Card of Thanks, In Me-moriams, Brieflets, and items for the Townships Crier should be sent in typewritten or printed in block letters.All of the following must be sent to The Record typewritten or neatly printed.They will not be accepted by phone.Please include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CARDS OF 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EDIT ANY ADVERTISEMENT.r i i i i i i i ¦ i ¦ i i i i i i i i The RECORD—Tuesday, February 2*.1! 11 Sports 1______fte.1 irecrnn Polar Bears prepare for semifînals after By Bruce Macfarlane LENNOXVILLE — After a terrible second half in the Quebec Women’s Intercollegiate Hockey League.the Bishop’s-Champlain Polar Bears are trying to bounce back for the upcoming playoffs.By Christmas break, the Polar-Bears managed a second-place finish in league play with a 2-4-1 record.Their poor record ousted them from second-place to third, washing away home ice advantage for the semi-finals.The Polar Bears finished the regular season with a 6-5-4 record for a total of 16 points last Friday night after a 4-2 loss to first-place Concordia.The Stingers record stands at 12-1-0, giving them 24 points with two games remaining.Being the first team to finish off the 15 game schedule, the Polar Bears will have lots of time to prepare for their two-out-of-three semifinal series with second-place Laval Rouge et Or.Game one of the semifinals is slated for Wednesday Feb.28 at 6:30 p.m.at the W.B.Scott Arena.For Polar Bears' head coach Jeff Cathcart this is ample time to get prepared.“One thing with us finishing our schedule early,” said Cathcart, “it gives us five practices before we play.We’ll do a lot of skating and get in shape.” he said during an interview Monday afternoon.ONE WEAKNESS Besides getting back into top shape, Cathcart believes he has discovered the secret to Laval's main weakness: forechecking.“To beat Laval, you have to fore-check the hell out of them,” he said." i heir wingers don’t come out over the blueline, they set up outside.Their centre is the only one who crosses the blue line.If you forecheck them properly, you kill them.” The second game is scheduled for Friday March 2 in Quebec City.If necessary, game three in the provincial capital is penciled in for the following afternoon.Cathcart and his team is hoping to annihilate the Rouge et Or in two games in order to get to the championship round.“If we win Wednesday, we go down without a hotel reservation hoping to take it in two,” said Cathcart with a smile.But there could be a minor complication concerning the QWIHL semifinals.NO-SHOW STUNT The Rouge et Or decided to at- tend the Quebec Women's Ice Hockey provincials on the weekend of Feb.10 without warning the league, or the McGill Martlets.The Quebec city university team didn’t show up for their scheduled game with the Martlets on the night of Feb.10.thus forfeiting the game to McGill.UQTR athletic director Jacques Grenier is fuming with the league convenor Cathy MacDonald be cause of Laval’s no-show’ stunt, S which mathematically eliminated 5 his UQTR team from the playoff 7_ picture.| Grenier has demanded action 5 from MacDonald that Laval be nul- S lified from the playoffs.If the league agrees with the mo- “ tion.Laval would be out and UQTR would be in.MacDonald couldn’t be reached for comment on Monday.third-place finish Polar Bears' head coach Jeff Cathcart hopes to defeat second-place iMval Rouge et 'Or in two straight games in QW IHL playoff action.Came One is slated for Wednesday Feb.2H at 6:30 p.m.at the WR Scott Arena.Lemieux to miss remainder of regular season PITTSBURGH (API —Mario Lemieux.the NHL’s leading scorer, probably will miss the rest of the Penguins' Mario Lemieux to undergo six weeks of therapy for a herinated disc in his lower back.regular season while undergoing six weeks of therapy for a hernia ted disc in his lower back, his doctor said Monday.“Realistically, we’re hoping to get him back for the playoffs .if the (Pittsburgh) Penguins make the playoffs,” Dr.Charles Burke said.“Hopefully, he won’t need surgery.” Lemieux flew to Los Angeles last Saturday to consult with Dr.Robert Watkins, a spine specialist, and will remain there for four weeks of isometric exercises, rest and therapy.At best, Burke said the two-time NHL scoring champion might play again in six weeks, following 10 days to two weeks of additional rehabilitation after he returns to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles.Lemieux’s back will be injected with cortisone today to “calm down the irritation in the spine and to help him tolerate the exercises, ” Burke said.“This program has worked with baseball players and golfers.There are a lot of people walking around with herniated discs that have learned to live with it.” Burke wouldn’t estimate Le-mieux's chances of returning this season “because this is an individual thing and 1 can’t even speculate,” he said.DOCTORS CONSULTED Burke, Watkins and Dr.Arthur White, a San Francisco spine specialist consulted by phone, have agreed surgery to remove the disc is a last resort because of a secondary, arthritis-like condition that is causing complications.“It’s a complex problem he has .and this treatment is the only chance he has of playing again this season.” Burke said.“If he doesn’t make progress, there’s a good chance he’ll have surgery .but there is some risk involved.“It’s not a simple herniated disc.If he has surgery and the abnormality in his back causes his bones to destabilize, he still might have back pain and have trouble returning to play.He might have complications the rest of his career.” Lemieux’s back is so painful he has problems bending down, leaning over and simply tying his skates.Because of the complicating arthritis, his problem is so unusual that doctors have few other cases involving athletes to compare it against.Burke said.Last week, Burke said surgery wouldn’t be career-threatening because of Lemieux’s age and physi-cial condition, but qualified that Monday by saying the arthritis is an additional worry.Lemieux didn’t aggravate his condition during his recent 46-game scoring streak, the second-longest in NHL history, Burke said.The streak ended last Wednesday against the New York Rangers when Lemieux, unable to tolerate the pain, pulled himself off the ice in the second period.Court nail’s penalty shot sparked Habs rally DETROIT (AP) — Russ Cour-tnall scored his third goal of the game on a penalty shot with 4:29 remaining in regulation Monday night to cap a dramatic rally that gave the Montreal Canadiens a 5-5 NHL tie with the Detroit Red Wings.Courtnall, awarded the penalty shot when Detroit defenceman Steve Chiasson covered the puck in the goal crease, skated within 10 feet of rookie goaltender Tim Che-veldae before beating the him with a rising wrist shot.The goal capped a rally that saw the Canadiens score three times in 57 seconds.After Dave Barr gave Detroit a 5-2 lead 6:38 into the final period.Brent Gilchrist began the comeback with his seventh goal at 14:34.Courtnall, who also scored in the first period, connected 20 seconds later after Guy Carbonneau won a faceoff in the Detroit zone to pull Montreal within 5-4.Sheldon Kennedy, Bernie Fe- derko, Yves Racine and Mike O’Connell also scored for Detroit.Todd Ewen got Montreal’s other goal.Montreal, which outshot Detroit 31-7 over the final two periods, fought off a Detroit power play in overtime to preserve the tie.The Red Wings broke a 2-2 tie on second-period goals by Racine and O’Connell and appeared in control after Barr’s goal early in the third period.Kennedy converted Gerard Gal-lant’s centring pass midway through the first period and Fe-derko netted his 14th on a power play less than seven minutes later as the Red Wings built a 2-0 lead before Courtnall answered for Montreal.Kings 3 Capitals 2 INGLEWOOD, Calif.(AP) — Wayne Gretzky scored three se- Scoreboard NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE CAMPBELL CONFERENCE Norris Division W L.T.F.A.P Chicago 33 22 4 243 220 70 St Louis 30 22 8 220 191 68 Toronto 31 27 3 271 266 65 Minnesota 26 33 3 211 231 55 Detroit 22 31 7 223 246 51 Smythe Division Calgary 29 19 13 249 204 71 Edmonton 29 20 12 239 208 70 Winnipeg 28 24 8 223 220 64 Los Angeles 25 29 6 262 253 56 Vancouver 18 35 10 183 243 46 WALES CONFERENCE Adams Division x-Boston 35 21 5 217 169 75 x-Buffalo 33 22 6 206 187 72 x Montreal 32 23 6 210 175 70 Hartford 27 26 7 210 208 61 Quebec 10 43 6 100 302 26 Patrick Division Islanders 28 27 6 221 218 62 Rangers 25 25 10 190 197 60 Pittsburgh 27 28 5 252 270 59 New Jersey 25 27 7 216 228 57 Washington 26 30 4 225 221 56 Phila 24 29 8 220 214 56 (x-clinches playoff spot) Sunday Results Philadelphia 3 NY Islanders 2 Chicago 6 Pittsburgh 4 Winnipeg 5 Calgary 1 Hartford 6 Buffalo 4 Edmonton 3 Minnesota 2 Boston 7 Vancouver 2 Saturday Results Chicago 3 NY Islanders 1 Montreal 7 Hartford 3 Toronto 5 New Jersey 4 St.Louis 6 Detroit 1 Los Angeles 7 Quebec 1 Monday's Games NewJersey at NY Rangers.1 35 pm Washington at Los Angeles 4 05 p.m Montreal at Detroit, 7 35 p m Tuesday Games Philadelphia at Pittsburgh 7 35 p m Buffalo at Winnipeg.8 35 p m Chicago at St Louis 8 35 p m Boston at Calgary.9 35 p m Edmonton at Vancouver 10 35 p m SCORING LEADERS Q A Pts Pirn Lemieux Pqh 44 71 121 78 tiret/ky.LA 33 83 116 4?Yzerman.Det 47 51 98 77 Messier Edm 34 64 98 56 Hull.StL 56 34 90 20 NichollsNYR 34 56 90 80 LaFontaine.NYI 47 41 88 38 Coffey.Pgh 23 58 81 75 Robitaille.LA 41 39 80 34 Kurri.Edm 31 49 80 36 Turgeon.Buf 27 52 79 27 Tocchet.Pha 32 45 77 156 Oates.StL 15 62 77 10 Francis.Hart 22 52 74 44 Leeman.Tor 41 32 73 42 Richer.Mil 37 36 73 37 Bellows.Min 38 34 72 44 OIczyk.Tor 27 45 72 58 Bourque.Bos 16 56 72 36 Neely.Bos 41 30 71 81 NieuwendyK.Cal 33 38 71 36 AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE Northern Division W,L.T.F.A.P Sherbrk 32 It 11 231 112 75 CaBreton 30 24 6 241 223 66 Halifax 27 27 5 236 224 59 Maine 24 24 10 221 223 58 Moncton 26 32 5 206 234 57 New Haven 2 5 34 4 232 260 54 Spnngfld 25 31 3 227 247 53 Southern Division Baltimore 33 23 5 235 206 71 Adirondck 30 19 10 258 227 70 Utica 32 24 3 269 244 67 Rochester 29 24 8 258 233 66 Newmarket 24 22 12 224 230 60 Hershey 26 29 4 229 226 56 Binghamtn 10 42 6 168 270 26 Sunday Results Moncton 1 New Haven 0 Baltimore 4 Newmarket 2 Binghamton 2 Adirondack 1 Cape Breton 7 Rochester 4 Springfield 7 Utica 6 Saturday Results Rochester 8 Halifax 6 Moncton 5 Maine 2 Sherbrooke 1 Adirondack 1 Hershey 3 Baltimore 1 Springfield 8 New Haven 5 Utica 7 Binghamton 2 Monday's Games No games scheduled Tuesday Games Maine al Cape Breton N New Haven at Sherbrooke N Moncton at Newmarket N Baltimore at Adirondack N SCORING LEADERS G.A Pts Richard Bal 41 41 82 fit/patrick.Her 34 48 82 Ysebaert.Uti 42 38 80 Donnelly.Roch 35 42 77 Pederson, She 42 31 73 Eaves.Adir 34 39 73 Audette.Roch 32 37 69 Vilgrain.Uti 32 37 69 Krentz.Adir 29 38 67 Bjugstad.NH 45 21 66 Biggs.Her 32 33 65 Tresl.Hal 30 35 65 LeBlanc.CB 39 24 63 Currie CB 28 35 63 Joseph.CB 24 38 62 O'Dwyer, Me 22 39 61 Dobbin.Her 28 32 60 Weinrich, Uti 12 48 60 Maltais.Bal 26 32 58 Priestlay.Roch 19 39 58 TOP 10 CIAU RANKINGS MEN Basketball 1.Victoria (3) 2 B C (4) 3 Western (1) 4 St FX (2) 5 Alberta (5) 6 Concordia (7) 7.Calgary (6) 8 Guelph (10) 9 P.E.I (9) 10 Brandon (8) Hockey 1 Calgary (2) 2 Waterloo (3) 3 Alberta (1) 4 UQTR (4) 5 Moncton (5) 6 Acadia (7) 7 Laurier (6) 8 Regina(8) 9 8C(NR) 10 McGill (8) Swimming 1 Calgary (1) 2 Toronto (2) 3 McMaster (3) 4 Victoria (4) 5 Laval (5) 6 Manitoba (6) 7 Alberta (7) 8 McGill (8) 9 BC (9) 10 Western (10) Volleyball 1 Manitoba (1) 2 Laval (2) 3 Calgary (4) 4 Saskatchewan (3) 5 Waterloo (5) 6 B C (6) 1.Sherbrooke (7) 8 Victoria (9) 9 Alberta (8) 10 Dalhousie (10) WOMEN Basketball 1 Calgary (1) 2 Laurentian (2) 3 Regina (3) 4 Lethbridge (4) 5 McMaster (5) 6 Victoria (6) 7 Winnipeg (7) 8 Lakehead (81 9 Bishop's (•) 10 Western (NR) Swimming 1 Toronto (1) 2 Alberta (2) 3 McGill (3) 4 Laval (NR) 5 BC (4) 6 Manitoba (5) 7 Montreal (7) 8 McMaster (6) 9 Brock (10) 10 Calgary (8) Volleyball iVicloria(l) 2 Regina (3) 3 Manitoba (4) 4 BC (2) 5 Calgary (8) 6 Saskatchewan (5) 7 York (7) 8 Laval (8) 9 Ottawa (9) 10 Alberta (10) conds after a Los Angeles power play ended to snap a tie and give the Kings a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals in NHL action Monday.Neither team scored in the final 25:06 of play as goalie Ron Scott registered his first NHL win since December of 1987, when he was playing for the New York Rangers.He stopped 17 of the 19 shots attempted by the Capitals.NHL roundup Gretzky’s goal, his 34th of the season, came with 5:06 left in the second period on a 15-foot rebound from the right side.The Kings took a 1-0 lead on Mike Krushelnyski 10th goal of the season at 7:04 of the opening period.Los Angeles attempted another shot 37 seconds later, but it was the Kings’ final shot on goal until 2:57 of the second period.The Capitals took advantage of Los Angeles’ dry spell of 15:16 to take a 2-1 lead on goals by Michal Pivonka at 7:56 of the first period and Geoff Courtnall just 68 seconds later.It was the 22nd goal for Pivonka and the 26th for Courtnall.The Kings tied the game on a goal by Jay M iller, his eighth, at 6 : 03 of the second period.Washington goalie Jim Hrivnak stopped 28 of the 31 Los Angeles shots.The victory was the second straight for the Kings, who had lost five in a row before beating Quebec 7-1 Saturday night.Rangers 4 Devils 3 (OT) NEW’ YORK (AP) — Brian Mullen’s goal with 13 seconds left in overtime gave the New York Rangers a 4-3 victory Monday over the New Jersey Devils and a share of first place in the NHL’s Patrick Division.The Devils had tied the score on Kirk Muller’s goal from the slot with seven seconds left in regulation time.Mullen stole the puck from defenceman Bruce Driver and beat goaltender Sean Burke with a slap shop between the pads from the right faceoff dot.The victory gave the Rangers 62 points in 61 games, tying them with the New York Islanders.The Rangers are 10-4-3 in their last 17 games.Kelly Kisio gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead at 2:48 of the third period when he took James Patrick’s breakout pass as Driver fell, raced down right wing and beat Burke from just above the right faceoff dot for his 12th goal.With Bernie Nicholls in the penalty box and Burke on the bench in favor of an extra attacker, Mul-lèr scored his 25th of the season off a scramble to tie the score.The slumping Devils are 0-4-1 in their last five games and have a 1-7-3 mark in their last 11.They are in fourth place with 57 points, one more than Washington and Philadelphia, after leading the division less than a month ago.The Rangers took advantage of two early power plays to build a quick two-goal lead.Nicholls put the Rangers in front at 3:10, ripping a slap shot from the left circle past Burke during a two-man advantage.Nicholls then set up Ulf Dahlen for a tap-in 43 seconds later with the Rangers still up a man.New York had another power-play chance four minutes later, but New Jersey’s John MacLean changed the momentum of the period with a shorthanded goal at 8:35.MacLean backhanded Patrik Sundstrom’s pass under John Van-biesbrouck on the Devils’ second shot of the period and their play picked up immediately.Cougars to face must-win situation By Bruce Macfarlane SHERBROOKE - The Champlain Cougars will lay out all their marbles Friday evening at the WB Scott Arena.The Cougars who are presently in a three-way dogfight for the fourth and final playoff spot in the CEGEP ‘AA’ league must defeat first-place Montmorency Friday evening.But it isn’t that easy for bead coach Rod McKell and his team.The playoff race is so tight that if the Cougars defeat Montmorency, they can still end up shining their golf dubs instead of participating in the playoffs.League rival John Abbott College holds the magical deciding card with two game,s in hand.If Abbott wins all their remaining games, they will end up elimi-nating Champlain from the playoffs.Champlain 7 Collège Français 5 The Cougars travelled to Montreal lo take on the third-place Collège Français.A game which the Cougars had to win in order to keep their playoff chances alive.Champlain's Carlos Assayag responded to coach McKell's cal ling by netting a hat trick in the 7-5 victory at the Paul Sauvé arena.Cougars’ captain Robert L’Heureux sta rted the comeback rally by scoring a shorthanded goal to narrow Collège Français’s lead to one.With six minutes left in the game, the Cougars scored three quick goals past an unsportsmanlike Longueil CEGEP squad.Carl Mercure’s goal tied the game at five a piece before Martin Savard scored the winning goal.Patrice Tardif scored the insurance goal with 53 seconds left in the game.Keith Gretzky enjoys hockey life in Scotland AYR, Scotland (CP) — It rains too much, there’s little privacy sharing an apartment with two roommates and there is no McDonald's to counter Big Mac attacks.But Keith Gretzky isn’t complaining.“I’m really happy I'm here,” he says, finally out from underneath the shadow of his superstar brother, Wayne, and once again enjoying the game of hockey.“I just wanted to play,” the younger Gretzky, 23, says of his decision to head for the town of Ayr, on Scotland’s west coast.“At home I wasn’t playing too much and I was a little upset.I thought I deserved to play.” Gretzky left the bench of the Phoenix Road runners of the International Hockey League for the ice of the curling rink where the Ayr Raiders play in the British Ice Hockey League.“I play 45, 55 minutes a game,” the spiky-haired Gretzky said after an 8-6 victory over the Durham Wasps.During the game, he was double-shifted and used on the power-play and penalty-killing units.He scored ohe goal and set up three.GIVE AND GO “That’s the hardest thing to try to teach these guys: just give me thepuckand I’llgiveit backtoyou, just go to the net,” Gretzky said.“I don't want to score as much as these guys.It doesn’t really matter as long as we score and we win.” Ayr coach Rocky Saganiuk, who spent six seasons in the NHL be-fore retiring in 1984, says Gretzky's unselfishness can actually hurt the team."He has to learn along the way that he has to be selfish at times,” says Saganiuk.“When he’s walking in all by himself on goal, instead of looking for someone else to pass it to, he has to start shooting the puck at the goal." Keith has “been stuck in a Wayne Gretzky shadow and he hasn’t been able to develop as Keith Gretzky,” Saganiuk adds.“He’s deteriorated; he’s rusted out a bit.” SABRE CUT Gretzky was the Buffalo Sabres’ third pick, 56th overall, in the 1985 NHL entry draft.However, he has yet to make it to hockey's major league.“ E v e ry bod y com pa red m e to m y brother,” he says.“I also had a knock against me that I was too small, I couldn’t take the hitting,” adds Gretzky, 5-9 and 160 pounds.“But I get hit here every night and I play well the next night,” he says, nursing a beer in a makeshift hospitality suite consisting of a wood-and-metal table surrounded by plain chairs.Millionaire team owner Glen Henderson is doing his best to keep Gretzky happy.Aside from his salary, which Gretzky didn’t discuss, he has been given a ear and an apartment, complete with two roommates.Gretzky admits he wouldn't mind more privacy.NEW ARENA Henderson’s company is putting the finishing touches to a new arena, complete with an oak staircase, brass handrails and a glass-enclosed bar, to be open for next season.Gretzky says his move is no short-term measure and he plans to continue his hockey career in Europe.CANADIENS DE SHERBROOI Information 82Î 5^5C Pilais des Sporls of the goinol molson (m) We're » 12—The RECORD—Tuesday, February 20, 1990 Women’s Institute meetings held around the Townships SOUTH BOLTON — The South Bolton W.I.February meeting was held at Marjorie Eldridge's home in Bolton Centre with ten members and three guests present.The meeting was called to order at 1 30 by vice-president Frances Tracy.Motto: Have a happy and healthy heart for Valentine’s Day and every day.The Mary Stewart Collect was recited.Frances asked everyone to remain standing in remembrance of Founder’s Day (Feb.19).A moment of silence was observed.Minutes from December meeting were read with one correction.Mrs.Pearle Yates of Dunham is the provincial president.Treasurer gave her report.Fearle Jewett made a motion for the club to purchase a new flag pole and flag.Vera Meilleur seconded the motion A program committee was nominated: Marjorie Eldridgeand Sheila Needham.Frances Tracy suggested we invite the Children’s Wish Foundation to send a speaker.No convenors reports.Meeting adjourned and Mrs.Mary Ward, a Mary Kay representative introduced her cosmetics and gave a brief history of them.Four of the ladies were given a facial: Sheila Needham, Jean Riley, Betty Needham, Frances Tracy participated and found out first hand how wonderful it is.Margaret Bloomfield was the lucky raffle winner.Marjorie Eldridge served tea and delicious refreshments at the diningroom table which was decorated with red heart shaped chocolates.Frances led us in reciting the W.I.grace.• MILBY — The W.I.met on Thursday afternoon, February 1st at the home of Nancy Grey in Compton and was opened by first Vice-President Gertie Beattie with the Collect and The Flag.Minutes of the last meeting were read by Secretary Mildred Lowry and accepted.Correspondence included thank-yous from The Wish Foundation, Sherbrooke Hospital and persons who had received Christmas baskets.Treasurer Ruby Booth presented her report with a good balance.Convenors’ reports: Education and Cultural Affairs- Evelyn Suitor mentioned that Sault Ste.Marie had declared its language to be English only.Home Economics and Health-Marjorie Suitor read an article, “Oat Bran not enough value for good health”.She also gave a household hint.To remove grease from clothes, sprinkle with talcum powder or cornstarch and leave to absorb before brushing off Jean Naylor reported taking Mildred Cairns and Dorothy Martin with her to visit a number of shut-in members and bringing each a plant.International Affairs- Luella Brady told us about the first McDonald's restaurant in Russia which fed many thousands each day at the price ot .75 cents.Publicity- Dorothy Martin sent the report of last meeting to the Record and County Convenor and read an article “Canadian eggs go to the needy ”.Canadians will don ate nationally the equivalent of almost 69,000 dozen eggs in shell form through the Canadian Association of Food Banks.Card Convenor Mildred Cairns had remembered the sick with cards.We were reminded of the World Day of Prayer on March 2nd at St.Anthony’s Church, Lennoxville.February being “Founder’s Day”, $1.00 per member was handed in.Dorothy Martin will be delegate at County meeting.Roll Call: Bring a Valentine greeting card for a shut-in.Program: Each member brought one dozen cookies for exchange.Next meeting at the home of Gertie Beattie.Meeting adjourned and mem bers retired to the diningroom where a delicious hot meal was served by the hostesses, Nancy Grey and Evelyn Suitor.DUNHAM — On February 7 Myrtle Selby hosted the regular meeting of Dunham W.I., with Pearle Yates and Mary Riordon assistant hostesses.Thelma Doherty, president, opened the meeting by all repeating the Collect and Salute to the Flag.She thanked Myrtle for open- ing her home and the co-hostesses.The secretary Mary Lou Bouth-iette called the roll which was answered by sixteen members giving microwave recipes which were varied and very interesting.She also read the minutes of the Janu ary meeting.The treasurer gave her report showing a good balance on hand and the auditors' report was read by the secretary.Correspondence included thank-you’s for Christmas gifts and a letter from Barbara Harvey, Provincial Publicity concerning the miniconference in Ottawa on June 1-2-3.Some of our members may plan to attend.It was moved we change our Rummage sale date to June 8th and 9th so members could attend the conference.The convenors who were absent at the annual meeting read their reports.Canadian Industries, Agnes Greig: Citizenship and Legislation.Pearle Yates, read by Thelma Doherty; Home Economics, Christine McLaughlin; all very interesting.Thelma asked for volunteers to help make the new programs and Joan and Ruby said they would help.It was moved to have a silent auction at the next meeting, proceeds to Camp Garagona, on Founder’s Day.February 19.Convenors reports - Joyce Martin, Agriculture, read Chickens with cold feet lay better.Agnes Greig, Canadian Industries, read an item on Bio de Gradable Plastics.International Affairs, Carol Phillips had an article on the different European Countries, Hungary.Germany, Greece etc.Publicity gave a condensed report from Bev Morrison who was delegate to the F.W.I.C.Convention.There are only 3.334 subscribers to the Federated News.We should support and read this magazine.It gives us an outlook on what the other provinces are doing.Christine McLaughlin held a contest of jumbled words found in the house.Betty Wilkinson won 1st prize and Thelma Doherty second.The special prize donated by Pearle Yates went to Pat Doherty.The travelling basket was brought in and taken by Elda Martin.This is a fun way to supplement our funds.The next meeting will be held at the home of Shirley Vaughan March 7 at 7:30 p.m.The hostesses served a delicious lunch and the table was decorated with valentines.A social hour was enjoyed by all.• RICHMOND HILL — On February 6, nine members of the Richmond Hill W.I.met at the home of Edna Smith.President Edith Farant opened the meeting with the Mary Stewart Collect.Motto: If you don’t practise what you preach, what you preach will not be practised.Roll call : Name a Canadian food product and tell where it is made.There were no minutes as our secretary Mrs.M.Hawker was ill.We all missed you and hope you will soon be feeling better.The treasurer's report was given showing a satisfactory balance on hand.A motion was made to pay all bills.Letters were read from the Minister of Health and Welfare, Quebec W.I., Richmond Youth Fair.March of Dimes and Butters Foundation.It was decided to give $20.00 to the March of Dimes and $25.00 to the Richmond Youth Fair.A donation was given to the Hoodless Homestead Foundation in memory of Nellie Mclver 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