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i review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.yea m rev|6w.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in m 1989 W ^ The people and events m that made it happen Thursday March 29, 1990 «¦____fagl tnacora ¦SSgl m m.* « M, l M ¦ .î ¦ Lb year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in 2 — The Record — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.yearin Anatole Maleporo: Peace marcher completes trip CHOPPER ] 731 Galt West Sherbrooke 569-9023 Imprimerie Carrière Enr.Commercial, Industrial.5957 Beaudette Rock Forest, Que.JIN 1E5 819 864-9327 Adam Lumber Inc.Waterloo, Quebec (514) 539-1858 SPOTLIGHTS, Speakers, Etc.For Your Particular Event! Theatre — Fashion Shows Entertainment — Ice Skating Shows 328 Bowen Street South, Sherbrooke 819-564-7898 By Rita Legault SHERBROOKE — Sherbrooke resident Anatole Maleporo spent much of 1989 walking the world to promote peace.Maleporo took his message of peace to 10 countries, walking more than 2053-kilometre in his “Crusade for Peace and Children.” The Central African Republic native aimed his peace crusade at the countries which spend the most on arms.He said his message was to stop spending so much on weapons and instead spend more on so- cial programs, international aid and education.That march earned him the respect of many locals who nominated the energetic 26-year-old for a Nobel peace prize.Maleporo began his crusade with a 613-km walk from Montreal to New York City — 43 kilometres a day representing the 43 years of UNICEF His peace mission then took him to England, France, Italy, West Germany, Spain, Egypt, Japan, Hong Kong and finally to Russia in early 1990.In each country he walked 160 km — one kilometre for each member country in the United Nations.The 10-country walk, which took three years to plan and was carried out mostly in 1989, promoted world peace, justice and a healthy envi ronment for the children of the world.Maleporo, who owns a small public relations firm in Sherbrooke, said he thinks his walk was a huge success, delivering the peace message to many thousands of people.Entrtprlss/EnttrprlM UNITCAST CANADA INC.455 Belvedere St.Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 4B7 564-1597 ; iWIf Nursing his aching feet.Anatole Maleporo walked over 2000 kilometres in ten countries.What Good Looks! 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first all-candidates debate on the language issue during the fall provincial elections she set the ball rolling for a series of all candidate debates by Townshippers'.Brand took her interest in community affairs into the municipal election and now sits as a member of the Lennox-ville town council Jake Vaughan: A former Bishop's and Champlain defensive back hung up his cleats after a professional career with the CFL's Toronto Argonauts to return to Lennoxville Vaughan became Champlain's Athletic director and the head football coach guiding the Cougars to post-season action for the first time in three years.Since Huard: Along with fishing buddy Real Hébert, Sirice Huard, long-time outdoors columnist in Sherbrooke La Tribune, was honored with the naming of the Fish and Game Ministry 's new building.Anatole Maleporo: This African-born local took his crusade for peace and children across the world in an effort to raise consciousness everywhere.Maleporo took his message to 10 countries, walking more than 2053-kilometre to promote world peace justice and a healthy environment for the children of the world.Nominated for the Nobel prize by local supporters, his world march is now complete.Michael Caluori: A social worker by profession, Caluori is also a member of the Brome Lake town council.The year 1989 marked a big milestone for one Caluori project—the opening of a group home in Cowansville for troubled English-speaking teenagers, after several years of lobbying led by him.1990 will be another big year, as the family man has a new job — co-ordinator for English-language health and social services for the region of Monte-regie Pierre Paradis: A veteran Liberal cabinet minister.Pierre Paradis: A veteran Liberal cabinet minister, after September’s provincial election the earnest MNA from Brome Missisquoi took over the hottest seat around Robert Bourassa’s table.Now in charge of the traditionally erratic environment ministry, Paradis has energetically taken on the unenviable task of supervising the clean-up of Quebec.Claude Métras: Already well-known in local business and political circles, this professional evaluator and Tory organizer put his energy to work as president of the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra, past president of Centre Léon Marcotte, at Charles Borromé Séminaire and always the man to call when help is needed in almost any related cultural event.Marie Brodeur: A dedicated nurse, Brodeur is the founder of Sherbrooke Hospital s palliative care service She was awarded the nurse of the year award in recognition for her work in helping dying patients cope with cancer.She has also organized a program to help bereaved families.^ 111 Stephan Lebeau: This young and dynamic Sherbrooke Canadien broke the all-time American Hockey League scoring race netting 134 points.Lebeau collected five AHL awards including the Les Cunningham plaque for the most valuable player The ever-popular Lebeau has now taken his career to the big leagues as a member of the Montreal Canadiens Georges Vaillancourt: Starting adult life with only Grade 3 education, Vaillancourt first earned a living working in the woods then in business selling clothing during the Depression After a stint as councillor and mayor of Coaticook, Vaillancourt was elected to the National Assembly in 1959 Always a die-hard champion of the ordinary citizen, he managed to keep Stanstead, later Orford riding Blue’ for 29 years.When he retired before Septem-ber s election, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.Réal Hébert: A life-long outdoorsman and one of the original conservationists, Réal is also a longtime contributor to the Record.He and a colleague were honored in Sherbrooke in 1989 when Hunting and Fishing Minister Yvon Picotte opened the department's new Eastern Townships regional headquarters, to be known as the Huard-Hébert building. 4 The Record — Vear in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 (SgdULES m 1274 South Street —514-263-0670 Tel.263-1434 COWANSVILLE BILINGUAL 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while the PQ did make some gains in other regions and in the popular vote,the PQ finished the election with the same number of Townssips MNAs it started with, as Johnson MNA Carmen Juneau and Shefford MNA Roger Paré held onto their seats.The PQ had hoped to make gains particularly in St-François where Women’s Minster Monique Gagnon-Tremblay was challenged by popular former PQ MNA Réal Maurice King Jean Paré Yvon Vallières Monique Gagnon-Tremblay Carmen Juneau The Record — Year in Review — Thursday.March 29, 1990 — 5 review.year in review.year in review.y the more they seemed to stay the same Rancourt, and in Sherbrooke ding executive Ashley Sheltus.In Brome-Missisquoi county, the where lawyer Jacques Blanchette “After examining the election re- riding of popular MNA Paradis, took out his campaign fangs suits we find that provincially, the Unity candidate Graham Neil shut against backbench MNA André J.Liberals won in eight ridings by fe- the incumbent out in three polls Hamel.wer than 500 votes,” Sheltus said, and came second, beating the PQ NEW FACE “In three, they won by less than and and Independant Heather The only new face, Orford MNA 1000 and in five by under 2000.If v.e Keith Ryan in 28 polls.Robert Benoit, replaced retiring ran candidates in those ridings, we Sheltus concludes: “If you put longtime Liberal Georges Vaillan- would have to take only 500-2000 Keith Ryan’s vote with Neils, the court.The Orford election race votes to defeat the Liberal candi- combined vote would have placed there was one-sided — as was the date and elect a PQ member,” them second in 29 polls and victo- Liberal candidate race, with Libe- Sheltus said after studying the par- rious in 4.” ral party president Benoit and his ty s performance at the polls.“After studying the statistics, I’d powerful organization crushing The Unity party didn’t set out to say Neil and Keith Ryan took 50 per Rock Forest Mayor Gaétan La- upset either PQ or Liberals.centoftheEnglish vote,“the Unity vallée.Party founder Maurice King told scorekeeper said.“Together they Also returning to the Assembly members from the outset it was un- were 1547 short of defeating the se-were Brome-Missisquoi MNA and likely Unity would send any repre- cond place Parti Québécois candi-powerful cabinet minister Pierre sentatives to the National Assem- date.” Paradis, Mégantic Compton MNA bly.The objective was to provide REGISTERED DISCONTENT Madeleine Bélanger, and Rich- voters with an alternative to the Of the 16 ridings of Mainland mond MNA Yvon Vallières.governing Liberal, following use of Quebec where Unity candidates But the most interesting election the notwithstanding clause to over- were on the ballot, voters registe-story for rural angle Quebecers ride charter rights.red their discontent with the Libe- had to be the rise of the anglo-right U.N.PETITION rals while re-inforcing the Unity Unity Party.King simultaneously sent a peti- platform of respect for individual Unlike the Montreal based Equa- tion to the United Nations, calling rights, lity Party which fielded candidates on the world body to investigate The greatest gain was in Pontiac in only Liberal strongholds during Quebec’s use of the clause to over- where the Unity candidate netted the last provincial election, the ride rights guaranteed in the U.N.600 votes.The Unity candidate in Unity Party didn’t diffferentiate charter.Richmond brought the lowest num- between the two.The notwithstanding clause is an ber to the polls, with less than 500 Dubbing the Liberals and Parti opting out clause contained in the votes.Québécois ‘Twiddledee and Twid- 1982 Canadian constitution which “Looking over the election re-dledum’, Unity founder Maurice allows provincial legislatures to suits, we know we have something King frequently told supporters override the charter in passing to build on,” Sheltus said, during the campaign that “A vote laws.Following the party’s recent for one is the same as a vote for the Disenchanted Liberals flocked merger with the Equality party, other.” to the new party in record num- the new party organization is plan- BALANCE OF POWER bers.And in at least two areas ning to boost membership in every “The best we could hope for was where no Unity candidates were region of the province making it a to become the balance of power,” lielded, Sheltus says over 2000 force to be reckoned with next time said Brome-Missisquoi Unity ri- people spoiled their ballots.around.Robert Benoit arrives for his first day at work only to find the doors locked.A name you find in the new realization ol modern construction FANAT ERRAZZ0 TUILE MARBRE LIEE.RINALDO CATTELAN, PRES.1400 12th AVE.TEL.564-1712 SHERBROOKE We are proud to be part of the Record's Annual Review BRUCE RUMSBY & SONS TRANSPORT INC.sand farm hours gravel septic systems fill house foundations excavation road building FREE ESTIMATIONS 576 Choiniere Rd.East Farnham, Que.Tel.(514) 263-3415 ( Ultramar 1 Canada Inc.OUR PRODUCT IS SERVICE 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in rev For or against.Municipal affairs: development By Ann McLaughlin and Sharon McCully SHERBROOKE — 1989 was an election year in Quebec, not only were the seats in the National Assembly contested, but almost every second municipality across Quebec had to renew its council.Certain municipalities had it tougher than others.Some towns re-elected their councils by acclamation, while battles raged in others.Orford, Sutton and South Stukely stood out.In these Eastern Townships municipalities, entire slates or teams of candidates were pitted against each other, their views mainly differing on questions of development.In Orford, moments before the nominations closed on a Friday af- ternoon, about 50 members of the citizens association Le Regroupement des Citoyens d Orford packed into town hall and presented a list of candidates to run against the former council.ORFORD Although 12-year veteran mayor Jean Dion — leader of the council pack — said he was too busy to be mayor anymore, the residents wanted his cronies purged.The new team was led by Sherbrooke architect Jacques Delorme.He said that although Or-ford s tax roll swelled from under $1 million to over $150 million during the Dion days, the pace of construction was too quick, and not enough attention was being paid to the average resident in town."The old village of Cherry River is fast disappearing and becoming a commercial strip.Building are going up one after another without any care for the old ones, Delorme said.The residents’ team also questioned the former council’s ethics.It is a well-documented fact in Orford that the former mayor was also the largest developer there.Dion purchased land from the town and built a mega-condominium and hotel complex.He was accused of wrong-doing but cleared of the allegations by the ministry of municipal affairs.CHERRY RIVER But what really got the citizens going, added Delorme, is when Dion changed the name of the town from Cherry River to Orford."That went straight to the heart of the people, especially people like Kidney Foundation Fund-Raiser -More Than Just Peanuts! The Kidney Foundation of Canada hopes that the public will go “nuts” over the Annual Peanut Campaign fund-raiser, by showing support of the Foundation by buying their bags of peanuts.Bobby Orr has signed up as Chairman for the campaign, and with an assist from him, and the support of a generous public, the Foundation hopes to sell over one million bags of peanuts, or 279 tons of product, which translates into over 2 million dollars! And that’s not peanuts.It’s money going for a good cause.Right now, people suffering from kidney failure must have their blood cleansed through a process called dialysis, which can take up to 5 hours at a time, 3 days a week.The only alternative to dialysis is a kidney transplant operation.Over 6,000 Canadians require this essential treatment, and of these, 1200 are on a waiting list, hoping to receive the gift of a new kidney.Brian Lloyd, seen here with Bobby Orr, was the world’s youngest recipient of a kidney transplant, at two and a half months old.Now, he has had his second transplant and is doing well, thanks to the tremendous strides made in research, i Bobby Orr, National Chairman of The Kidney Foundation of Canada s Annual Peanut Campaign, with Brian Lloyd, poster child m 1983 and 1984.which has resulted in an 80% success for kidney transplants.The Kidney Foundation is counting on the generosity of Canadians to ensure the success of this campaign, which will allow the continuation of vital programs of research, patient services and public education. The Record — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 — 7 review.year in review.year in review.yi at the top of everyone’s agenda the Buzzells and Catchpaws, whose families have been here for generations,” said Delorme.Descendant Steve Buzzell was one of the opposition nominees for council.When Nov.5 rolled around, the citizens won.ZONING Much of the year’s chaos in municipal politics in the Townships was provoked by provincial legislation that made every municipality draft a new zoning and land-use plan.The well-intentioned ministry of municipal affairs wanted towns to devise a vision of their future so development would not grow up uncontrolled through traditional piecemeal zoning.But forcing the councils to sit down, plan for the future and then consult the citizens about it, was quite the task as no one person necessarily had the same ideals and priorities as their neighbor.SUTTON There was a clear call for change in the Township of Sutton, when voters overwhelming rejected incumbent Mayor Winston Bresee’s and ousted all six members of his slate, including three incumbent councillors.The new municipal slate unofficially launched their election campaign through a citizen’s committee established some months before the election to serve as a watch-dog over municipal affairs, The committee headed by Raymond Robillard — later elected Jean-Paul Guillotte.500-name petition called for ¦ his resignation.the zoning issue, and refuted the petition at the same time by accusing the Picken clan of threatening residents into signing the petition.The night after the council meeting, a brick was tossed at a window of Mayor Guillotte’s village home.The thrower had bad aim and missed, but the brick was retrieved found on the lawn with a death threat written on a piece of paper stuffed in one of the holes.Handgun cartridges were wedged in the other holes.At the next council meeting, provincial police officers in plainclothes sat in the audience.The residents took offence.After residents became alarmed at the escalating violence, some took the political route.The zoning bylaw was passed and would become law unless enough people opposed to the project registered their dispproval in the town registry.Enough people signed and the issue went to referendum.“Yes” and “no” sides were formed.Driving through South Stukely, one could tell who was who in town, as homeowners put up their for or against signs on their front lots.The no side won the referendum.South Stukely council had two choices; scrap the zoning bylaws or amend them.But election time came along.The two sides formed slates of candidates for council.Although Guillotte opted out and did not run for mayor with the councillors who stuck by him, ironically his side won.Jean Dion.residents wanted his cronies purged.JNICI mayor — challenged a number of municipal moves prior to the November 5 vote.Winston Bresee, mayor of the Township for 14 years,was unable to sustain the necessary momentum once the call spread for change.Derek Hill, a former councillor in the Bresee administration, was re-elected on the Robillard slate.Also re-elected was Germain La-rouche, who ran independently and was elected by acclamation.SOUTH STUKELY The zoning plan blew up in South Stukely.Two opposing sides cropped up, and war was waged until a ceasefire was called after the Nov.5 election.A group of citizens led by the Picken family asked the council to zone several areas in town for industrial use rather than residential.The Picken clan had plans to open a recycling business along the main road through town.“We need jobs in here, to help a lot of people get off welfare,” complained Picken supporter Bruce Jones at one of many heated monthly council meetings.Mayor Jean-Paul Guillotte refused, saying that the town’s planning committee would create only one industrial zone, not several — and certainly not on Picken property.Picken supporters handed Guillotte a 350-name petition, calling for his resignation.Guillotte still refused to bend on CASTONGUAY FRÈRES LTÉE drilling • dynamita 5939 Joyal Road Rock Forest, Que.JIN 1A2 (819) 864-4201 METROLITHO IIMC IMPRIMEURS .LITHOGRAPHES • STUDIO D ART CREATIVE PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS 4001 Portland, Sherbrooke (Québec) J1L1X9 819/563-4001 Let’s Talk About Saving For Your Child’s Education Call me today for a free publication introducing Spectrum’s new Registered Education Savings Plan.SfHlfMi MMul Fu4> iad Sn Life DMriWIkia Service lac.(SaMto) >n wholly-owned safeidiaritt of Sm Lift of Canada The prospedos provides detailed infonulioo o* the securities offered.A copy ol the prospectas mey he ohuiard frooi nor office.Lise Giroux 2910 Portland Suite #1 Sherbrooke, Quebec J1L 111 (Off) 562-4711 (Res) 562-3904 Sun Life Distribution Services Inc.EXCELLENT PRICES NEW LUXURIOUS BEACH FRONT CONDOMINIUMS FOR RENT & FOR SALE Seashore Kealtij 1 & 2 Bedrooms with 1 & 2 Baths Sleeping up to 6 People Also available: SALES — RENTALS — ROOMS — MOTELS COHAGES - 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' _______________________ bodywork - painting BUY and SELL cars is proud to be part of The Record's 93rd Annual Review our sennce is what makes the difference Drop by and visit, you may find the vehicle you've been looking for.Lennoxville, Que.(819) 562-6133 year in review.y ear in review.year in re Does wonder drug 714x realy work?Trial of accused charlatan Naessens By Ann McLaughlin SHERBROOKE — For three weeks during the month of November, the Sherbrooke courthouse was the scene of a highly publicized criminal trial — that of Gaston Naessens.Or as his lawyer put it, the trial of alternative medicine in Quebec.The 65-year-old Naessens.a self-taught biologist, was brought before the courts for his cancer research — conducted in a non-traditional way in a basement clinic in his Rock Forest home.Naessens has no university degrees but for years has worked with his wife Françoise on finding a miracle cure for cancer and AIDS.And he apparently found it.The wonder drug called 714-X and it's an elixir made from camphor, water, sodium chloride and phenol.Naessens began treating terminally-ill patients with 714-X until the Quebec Corporation of Physicians got wind of it and had him arrested for being a charlatan.NEGLIGENCE.FRAUD, ASSAULT In Superior Court, the French-born researcher was charged with criminal negligence leading to the death of cancer patient Angèle Langlais, 62.He also faced two counts of fraud for having sold the potion and two counts of assault causing bodily harm for having injected the serum into the lymph nodes of Langlais and another desperate patients.Langlais died of generalized cancer in 1984 and her husband testified that she might have survived her breast cancer if she had not have trusted Naessens.“As she lay dying, she said to me that she had been lied to and be- trayed." husband Langlais told the court — emotion distorting his voice.Marcel Langlais described Naessens techniques, telling the jury that his wife received a series of 21 painful injections of 714-x in the groin area.“He said after 21 treatments the cancer would be gone, that there would be a full recovery," he said.After those three weeks the couple returned to their home in St.Eustache.For the next 10 months, more injections came, three days apart, administered by Naessens’ colleagues who lived in the Montreal area.SPENT SMALL FORTUNE The Langlais’ spent over $1000 for the serum, husband Marcel testified.A waitress from Ste.-Thérèse-de-Blainville testified that Naessens also promised her mother a cure for her cancer.Although Thérèse Cousineau was diagnosed as in the terminal phases of cancer prior to her visits to Naessens clinic, her daughter testified that, in her desperation to save her mother, she was duped into paying for the controversial treatment.Jacinthe Cousineau spent over $3000 on “alternative” medicine the court learned.Apart from the victims.Crown prosecutor Claude Mélancon also brought in medical experts.A veterinary expert from Guelph University testified that he conducted clinical tests with Naessens 714X on dogs.Not only did the dogs die, said Dr.Ronald Carter, but their health was so poor, other doctors in the hospital would hide prospective canines from his tests.The study was funded by the MacDonald-Stewart Foundation which finances cancer research within the recognized medical establishment as well as on its fringes.The foundation has been financing Naessens, off and on, since 1977.A pathologist from the Université de Montréal.Dr.Gaétan Jasmin, said the foundation also asked him to test 714X in 1977.SERUM USELESS After injecting cancer-stricken rats with dozens of injections, Jasmin concluded the home-made serum had no effect on cancer cells.“The tumors in the rats developed at the same pace and frequen cy as in the untreated ones," he told the court.After two weeks of damaging testimony, high profile defence lawyer Conrad Chapdelaine had his turn to chance the jurors’ minds about Gaston Naessens.He paraded a dozen witnesses who talked of being abandoned by the medical establishment because they were terminal — witnesses who had then put their last hopes in Naessens and were cured.The impressive Chapdelaine line-up included a French ambassador, a member of the National Assembly and a Quebec Court judge.Parti Québécois MNA Gérald Godin made a surprise appearance telling the court that although he had undergone surgery and chemotherapy in his five-year struggle with the disease, he claimed his tumors have decreased in size since he began injections of 714X.Judge François Wilhelmy took the stand in Naessens’ defence.Testifying in front of his colleague Justice Jean-Francois Peloquin on behalf of his dying wife, Wilhelmy rallied behind the unconventional FOREST GAfTAM lAVAUif Mayor iso"0 , w £ ' 5 i « 5 "o - 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PAQUETTE & FRÈRES ENR.DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES MANUFACTURER ASCOT CORNER, ROUTE (1) 112 SHERBROOKE Tel.: 562-6542 The Record — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 — 17 year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in of the planning process for future priorities named Bill 142 watchdog for Eastern Townships area services to its English-speaking clientele.Robert Courchesne, director for the CRSSS Estrie, said a massive consultation was undertaken by that health council in 1985 to identify the major concerns of professionals working within the institutions and the population served by them.“Eighty meetings were held, questionnaires were distributed and public consultations were held-in both languages,” Courchesne said.Michael Caluori '¥ ¦ PRIORITIES “In the end we came up with a list of priorities," he said.“Of the 12 priorities identified at the end of the consultation, services to anglophones was among them.” Lemieux says a similar situation exists in the Monteregie region where institutions have traditionally provided services to its English-speaking clientele.“The institutions indicated to provide the services, were, in most cases, already doing it,” Lemieux said.Both directors agree there is still work to be done to ensure services are available on a consistent level.“Particularly vulnerable are senior citizens,” commented Lemieux.“We have to be sure that when an older person must leave their home to be institutionalized, they will be able to be comfortable in their own language.” “This can be facilitated in many cases,” says Caluori, “by reorganizing some senior care facilities to ensure anglophones are in the same wing.” Special efforts will also be made to ensure that home care services dispensed by local CLSC’s are provided in English.A Canada-Quebec cost sharing program will help by providing language training to French-speaking workers who work with the elderly, Lemieux said.IF IT AIN’T BROKE Adopting the attitude “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, both Caluori and Kampeas say they’ll be relying on feedback from the users of the system to identify problems in accessing services in English.Listed in the order of council as institutions which must provide most basic services in English in the Montérégie are: Centre hospitalier Anna Laberge, L’hopital Barrie Memorial, Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins hospital, Hôpital Charles Lemoyne, Centre hôpital du comté de Huntingdon.Centre d’accueil Chevalier de Lé-vis, Centre d’accueil Henriette Cere.Centre d’accueil Champlain, Residence Courville, Foyer Sutton, CLSC Samuel de Champlain, CLSC La Pommeraie, CLSC Cha-teauguay, CLSC Huntingdon, CLSC La Presq’ile, Centre de Services sociaux Richelieu.Regional director Lemieux points out the list of institutions indicated above is not a complete list.The list of istitutions indicated for the Estrie region include: Centre hospitalier d’ Asbestos, Centre hospitalier Lac Mégantic, Hôpital St.Vincent de Paul de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke University Hospital, hôpital la Providence de Magog, Hotel Dieu de Sherbrooke, Centre hospitalier de Coa-ticook, Hôpital St.Loiris de Windsor, Youville Hospital, CLSC SOC, CLSC Gaston Lessard, CLSC Alfred des Rochers, CLSC Fleur de lys, CLSC Val St.Francois, CLSC La Chaumière, Domaine de la Sapinière, La Maison Blanche de North Hatley, Foyer de Richmond, Foyer de Sacré Coeur (Magog), Le Foyer St.Joseph de Sherbrooke, Centre de réadaption Estrie and the Centre de services sociaux de l’Estrie.Institutions listed in the access plan should be able to provide basic services to English-speaking clients today.If you have a problem.contact Michael Caluori in Cowansville at the CLSC Pommeraie at 263-2522.or Rina Kampeas at the CRSSSE on King Street in Sherbrooke at 819-566-7861.v, Pelletier aLA location AUTOS - CAMIONS 45 branches at your service economical rates daily • weekly • monthly Commercial rates available New cars, trucks, vans recognized credit cards accepted Kcl ll.l EuPERALKVDn SUPER LATEX ¦ I * rr: CSST Commission de la santé et delà sécurité du travail THE CSST’S NEW ASSESSMENT RATE For an even balance Objectives — For an accrued insurance protection — To incite prevention — To establish a more equitable plan Main points — Less units for more credible groupings — Grouping by sector — Limits per claim — Personalized rate — Retrospective plan The cost of the occupational health and safety plan In order to underline the importance of the cost of professional injuries, suffice it to mention that in 1988 the sums awarded for restoration totalled 1.2 billion dollars.Each year, the CSST receives over 200,000 claims that are distributed very unevenly.For example, said "minor" accidents consituted 92% of compensation claims; though numerous, these accidents represent only 24% of the cost of the restoration program.Howver, the said "serious" accidents, which represent only 8% of the claims, monopolize 76% of the restoration budget for them alone.Therefore, these are the accidents — the serious accidents — that have the most impact on the CSST financing, and, consequently, on employer contributions.As all enterprises cannot absorb the financial consequences of a serious accident in the same way, three measures have been foreseen which allow costs related to professional injuries to be distributed on a greater scale: the grouping in more ere-dible units, the grouping in sectors and the limits per claim.Less units for more credible grouping To avoid enormous fluctuations in the contribution rate, employers were regrouped within larger units.Within the former assessment system, many units were too small to allow sharing of the costs of serious accidents, Therefore, as soon as a serious accident occurred, employers saw their rate increase in a unmeasurable way.Within the former clas-sification, there were 849 units; within the new one, by the end of the transition period, there should be 334.The cost of accidents will therefore be supported by a greater number of employers, which will mean avoiding too great a fluctuation in contribution rates.For example in 1989, the rate for some employers was increased up to 27%.In 1992, once the transition period will be completed, the maximum fluctuation rising or falling of the unit rate will be limited to 15%.Grouping by sector Always looking to improve insurance techniques, another measure was introduced: grouping by sector.This second step consists in joining the units according to five large sectors of economical activities; primarily, manufacturing, construction, transportation and storage, and services.Supported by the principle of reassurance, the creation of sectors is still another way to distribute the costs of serious injuries among a larger number of employers.Limits per claim Always looking to nul the destabilizing effect of serious accidents on the unit rate, another measure was introduced: limits per claim.To determine the experience of a unit — which allows the establishing of a unit rate — a limit per claim has been fixed to twice the maximum annual insurable salary that, in 1990, should be $40,000.Thus, in cases where an accident costs $104,000, the surplus of $80,000, that is $24,000, will not be counted in the establishing of the unit's experience; it will be taken over by all the sector's employers.The same applies in establishing the employer's experience: a limit per claim equal to one fifth of the maximum annual insurable salary, that is $8,000 in 1990, was established, and any surplus will be taken over by all the unit's employers.The new method takes into account three levels of cost sharing: the employer, the unit and the sector.Personalized rate Besides offering an insurance plan that protects employers from financial risks related to professional injuries, the new assessment method incites prevention.The first method put forward is assigning a personalized contribution.This is an adjustment of the employer's unit rate resulted by comparing his experience with that of his unit.To be eligible for the pesonalized rate, the employers must pay annually a minimum of $14,000 in contributions, under this amount, his experience is not sufficiently credible.In 1990, $14,000 is in fact the limit above which it is impossible to grant a true statistical credibility to accident costs of an enterprise.The personalized percentage thus increases according to the contribution.With an an- nual contribution of $14,000, about 4% of the employer's experience is taken into account, with $134,000, nearly 40% and with $332,000,100%.As barely 7% of employers are affected by this measure, they hire 73% of manpower insured by the plan and pay about 80% of the total contributions.Retrospective plan For very large enterprises, those who pay over $332,000 in contributions, there is another plan added: the retrospective plan.This plan allows the employer to choose the limit that best suits his insurance needs and posteriori adjusts his contribution amount.Essentially an individual matter, this plan adapts to the particular situation of very large enterprises.Because of the direct effect on the global amount of contributions, the personalized rate and the retrospective plan are therefore two ways to convince employers that their investments in health and safety could become profitable.For an even balance For an even balance, that was the motive that guided the conception of the new assessment method.Small enterprises are better insured as well as protected against a too large fluctuation in the contribution rates; medium and large enterprises gain a contribution rate that translates the efforts deployed in prevention, and the very large enterprises benefit further from a retrospective plan adapted to their particular situation. 36 — The Record — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in revie Dying industry begins to see light at end of tunnel Thunder brews for local lamb and sheep producers By Claudia Villemaire KIRKDALE — There’s thunder brewing among sheep and lamb breeders in the region.For a while last year, it looked as though the sheep and lamb industry in the Townships would finally be a profitable option for a mbitious agriculture producers.Now there’s a dark cloud blocking the bright future breeders predicted and the storm is expected to break this weekend.Last year, sheep breeders finally began to see light at the end of the tunnel.Sheep production had dwindled to next to nothing by the 70's and returns on investments in the industry were at an all time low.Then the government stepped in.Subsidies for animals and buildings — always according to their specs — were put in place, stabilisation insurance was initiated and lo and behold, sheep and lamb producers began to reappear on the agricultural map.EDUCATING PUBLIC But educating the consumer took quite a while.Lamb was traditionally available only around Easter and maybe Christmas.Of course, imported lamb from New Zealand and Australia was always around and besides, it cost less.Consumers didn’t look for the higher-priced, albeit much better quality, lamb.Some breeders in the Eastern Townships formed a marketing agency.At the same time they upgraded their own expertise, calling on governments and individuals for help in finally developing a production that would bring lamb to producers year round.Pilot programs in the area tested artificial insemination, using lights and hormones to bring ewes to estrus anytime of the year.Traditionally, sheep breed in the fall only.Experimenting with new breeds noted for their prolificity, strong maternal instincts and ease in changing their estrus cycle became a priority activity on the enlarging sheep farms.Genetics took a new twist as breeding programs included breeds known for high lambing rate and mothering.Romanovs were brought from Russia, Finos from Europe and intro- duced into herds where traditional breeds needed some new blood.IMPROVED BREEDING Finally, using internal sponges and hormones, breeders managed to achieve a goal of three lambings every two years.But, as with everything else, production costs soared and market and consumer prices followed suit.Marketing was the key, so, armed with statistics and all manner of back-up documentation, some breeders sold the others the idea that a marketing board for sheep and lamb production would solve many production and amrketing problems.Included in the agency’s plans was a change to electronic auctions where buyers would make their choices from facts and figures displayed on a computer screen at designated sales barns across the province.Slaughtering facilities were limited to one large operation near Montreal, and producers who normally supplied the ethnic market were forced to go through the computerized auction system.Smiths keep their sheep ship shape By Claudia Villemaire KIRKDALE — The driveway is like an old-fashioned country road — a winding trail that takes you through a small patch of woods — then across fields where these sheep producers grow some of the grains and grasses to feed their 200 ewe flock during the long winters.The farm is a recluse’s dream.Far from the main road, hidden in a hollow perched on the edge of a wooded canyon, the old Ewing farm, more recently the Larivier place — had been empty and all but abandoned until Andy Smith threw his pack sack into a corner, purchased the property and settled in with a few sheep housed in one of the ramshackle farm buildings.A few chickens ventured around the barn yard pecking hopefully at a patch of spilled grain.A couple of heifers gazed placidly from their sheltered corner where the kitchen-cow — an old-fashioned term for the bovine who supplied the dairy needs for the kitchen — chewed her cud quietly as a chunky horse hamed Juniper Jake clip-clopped to the fence for an introductory pat.Andy wandered into the area nearly 20 years ago.DREAMS OF FARMING Fresh from a tour of Europe — gypsy style — and other corners of the globe, Andy epitomized many of his peers.Wary of the demands and entanglements of establishment ways and son of a family from Varennes where marginal farming and raising horses and sheep were the centre of family in terest, Andy turned up here, loo- king for a bit of farm work, with his hopes set on one day finding his piece of dream land.The Smith Farm today runs about 200 mixed-breed and pure breed ewes.“The first handful of sheep came as payment for work done,” he remembers.“The place had been up for sale for years and the price was right.” The Smiths are not fancy folk.Brother Mike joined the enterprise early on and soon, with his bride Ruth, the Smith boys earned a reputation for hard work and determination, in their hideaway where Mother Nature rules the roost.TRIAL AND ERROR Today new steel-sided buildings stand beside old style barns, some with cedar shingles still intact.Andy and Mike have learned by trial and error what producing ewes require for top efficiency.In the new buildings, pens with moveable bar riers divide pregnant and nursing mothers.Others hold freshly weaned lambs or are finishing pens for the lambs."Some lambs go to market at 50 to 60 pounds,” Mike’s wife Ruth explains.“They are the lights, much in favor during the Christmas and Easter season.“The heavies weigh around 90 to 100 pounds and that’s the lamb we hope you can find year round at the meat counter,” she added But reviving the lamb market was a long uphill struggle — one undertaken by Townships producers about ten years ago.Consumers could always by New Zealand lamb at lower prices.“Price “Now that’s what has almost killed us all,” Danny Morin, a sheep producer from St.-Felix-de-Kingsey said this week.“We lost about 60 per cent of our buyers because they traditionally buy animals they can see.” Morin explained ethnic buyers usually came to the farm, picked out the animals they wanted and slaughtered them on the spot.COMPUTER AUCTIONS “Now, with the computer auctions, all they see are numbers offered and bids as they come over the screen.So, they went elsewhere for their lamb,” Morin said.Most breeders feel the agency is more interested in the $2 checkoff per lamb.Animals sold at the farm gate don’t show up on the computer.“so, the UPA backed board had to try to stop that.“Now, because the buyers are going elsewhere, lamb prices have dropped out of sight and many breeders who turn up with a lot very often just turn around and take them home.or maybe over to On- tario,” he said.Another thorn in producers sides is the grading system, producers are supposed to grade their lambs themselves.“Then the federal inspectors grade the carcass at the slaughter house,” Morin said.“If there’s a difference, in spite of adjustments and so on, it’s’the producer who loses out.” So it's almost a state of war.With upwards of 300 breeders in the province — dissatisfied and angry with the way things are going — a special meeting called at La Maison de I’UPA in Longeuil Saturday could cause quite a stir.“We have circulated a petition,” Morin said, “and we’re aiming to get the board to stop electronic auctions of sheep and lambs.” “Just about every breeder we know is very frustrated with this setup,” he added.“Matter of fact, we were at a meeting last week where about 300 breeders were gathered and I’ve never seen so many really angry producers before.Should be fun Saturday I think.” — that’s the key word,” Ruth Smith says."Quebec lamb, although it’s more available than ever before, is still quite high-riced.But production costs are very high too,” she adds.“Creating a demand is the secret, searching out markets and keeping the consumer informed — that’s all part of being successful producers,” Mike Smith adds.Today, the Smith family have come full circle.Their 200-ewe flock is managed so that lambs are going to market almost every month of the year.Introducing different breeds to increase fertility and lengthen the breeding season have been combined with a scientific approach to nutrition and flock health.“1 spend lots of time out here,” Ruth Smith said.“Keeping tabs on the ewes and their babies is a retty-full time job.Lambs can become sick so quickly they’ve upped and died before you know it if you miss the first symptoms.” The day we visited, although the temperature was a chilly -25 degrees Celsius, Ruth and Mike were shearing their most pregnant ewes.“It seems cruel, but they are much better off at lambing, and if there are any problems to deal with, so are we,” they told me.Another building housed young females.“These are my young girls,” Ruth said chuckling.“They will be first—time mothers next spring and we take especially good care of them.” Future production animals are carefully picked and their pro- Andy and Ruth Smith with a market-ready lamb.gress recorded.But sheep producers are having marketing problems these days.Recent changeovers from live auctions to electronic auctions has resulted in a 20 to 30 percent drop in market price of lambs.Producers are angry as they see their ethnic market, buyers who came to the farm, made their choice from the flock and slaughtered the animals right there, slipping away because buyers insist on seeing the animals they buy.“The future looked pretty good last year.But, if we can’t get things ironed out at the computer auctions, we’ll be taking a step backwards again,” he said. The Record — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 — 37 Videotron The choice of images.of progress! The next two years will establish Vidéotron Ltée as an enterprise of progress, excellence and accomplishment.for those who still didn't know it! In a few months, most of the important improvement work to the technical network will be completed.In the Industrial Park, the new Vidéotron-Sherbrooke community television studios will be built.The real Vidéoway "concept", which will revolutionalize the use of the television set, is compelling Vidéotron to work toward its arrival in Sherbrooke.Let’s add to this proof of expansion the addition of new territories to be served, modem equipment, the introduction of new channels, the possibility of picking up a 24-hour a day news station, improvement to customer services, etc.Thanks to Vidéotron, television has greatly changed during the last 10 years.but apparently we haven't seen everything yet! NEW STUDIOS One of the most apparent improvements coming up will be the construction of new television studios, on the corner of Ouimet and Léger streets, in Sherbrooke's Industrial Park.Necessitating an investment of $500,000, these modem and multifunctional studios will offer a wide range of services.Five full-time employees will work there as well as our hundred or so volunteers who ensure, for some time now, the strength 1 Many telephone operators make sure to answer and assist clients served by Vidéotron-Sherbrooke, and with a smile.This scale model shows what the new Vidéotron studios will look like, built in a magnificent building in the Industrial Park.Quality control and technological improvement remain constant priorities with Vidéotron-Sherbrooke.of local community television.As of this September, they will be able to serve 78% of metropolitan Sherbrooke homes that are subscribed to Vidéotron.as well as new arrivals: the 900 potential homes in St-Denis de Brompton, who are joining the regional network, thanks to an investment of $600,000 injected by Vidéotron.WORK THAT'S ALMOST COMPLETE This expansion will coincide with the last efforts of the ambitious network modernization plan, undertaken two yeas ago.Soon, the work will be completed for the Rock Forest and St-Elie d'Or-ford subscribers: then, the residents in Sherbrooke's east ward will be able to count on a ^2 3 Œ 4 o 5 QD 6 o 7 8 @ 9 110 LD I 11 12 TVS/ Radio franc* International* WCAX CBS Burlington CMLT PAIH0NIC/TVA Snertnook* CFKS Quatre Saisons Sherbrooke CBMT CBC Montreal Bourse Horoscope Uie voyages CIVS Radio Quebec Sherbrpok* j INFO (ÀBLK ! WMTW rABC f.Auburn Communauia*'* CFCF Civ Monblai During the last few months, Vidéotron-Sherbrooke has largely improved its customer service which was already great.Working hours and service hours are now very flexible.E!s7 §, * network in excellent condition; it's their turn.The total cost of the investment is $5,153,000.All will be in place to greet the long awaited arrival of the Vidéoway system, that will be picked up in Sherbrooke residences.With fiber optics joining Sherbrooke to Montreal, the system could be ready by the end of 1991.Thus interactive and telematic television will take shape, which, thanks to them, the viewer will no longer be passive in front of his set: educational games, remote purchasing, instant replay of some games during a sporting event, etc.The Vidéoway possibilities are almost limitless.in opposition to its cost to the subscriber of less than ,50c per day.The addition of this jewel in visual communication will allow the addition of many channels in a specific way, which will, along with modernization, bring the total to 52; who would have believed it a few years ago?Yet at Vidéotron, they keep telling us the best is yet to come! People are requesting a wider choice, they claim; they must therefore get more and more.BETTER SERVICE In the same vain, the same subscribers have TELEVISION CHANNELS AVAILABLE asked for more service requirements.Therefore, better than anyone, Vidéotron-Sherbrooke now offers the availability of residential expert technicians on coll till 9 P.M.Besides, at this time, 95% of the service calls are salved within 8 hours.whereas at the offices on Galt West, promptness is the key word.The results don't delay; more and more, the growing clientele is showing interest in the multitude of services offered by Vidéotron.For example, the illustrated classifieds (cable 18) have become a much used sales tool for personal items.In a short time, on an average, the number of users has tripled.With over a million subscribers in Canada, an investment capacity very much appreciated, lasting improvements to the network, unrivalled service and products promising in number and quality, Vidéotron has been able to justify its slogan: CHOICES FOR EVERYONE.With the community involvement that has characterized Vidéotron-Sherbrooke for such a long time, the enterprise has no problem believing that its aspirations for growth are justified.Radio Québec info= câble bbc crcr 13 (?) CKSM » -C t Cogéc» Stte'&’Mkf ws • f'^|L CT: NBC # A «x HGÏi w w E££2 c£n£) & ?YTV B 14 ® WETK PBS Burlington 15 News Horoscope 16 ® WPTZ NBC PLATTSBURGH 17 MéieoMMia 18 Annonces Mustréet T dé annonces | 19 o CBFT Radio-Canada ! Montien 20 MustquePius 21 CD CFTM TVA Montieat 22 Assemblée Natrona* 23 CFTU teie t'tse*gner***nt 24 YTV Youth Channel 25 ROS l# Ftéseau Sow •NlWSnHRLD 27 28 29 30 ( 31 32 33 |OiJ invneuMfî \ léfè VIÔéo/ TBÏ Rencontre/ TM Auto Hebdo 35 Chambre des Communes TSN 1 he Sports Network INN The Nastafte Netwofk Super (cran Films Movie Channel CNN Cabli News Netwotk | Enviiomenrent Canada C9C Newsnoild AM t FM RADIO STATIONS AVAILABU ON FM CASH CBF CBF-10 38 — The Kecord — Year in Review — Thursday, March 29, 1990 review.year in review.year in review.year in review.year in review Theatre: Bigger audience finding their seats Bishop's new Studio Theatre, officially opened last .veflr.R,