The record, 6 septembre 1990, Cahier B

Section B —___mi apgcom Thursday, September 6,1990 'Brome Countv News mmm SQ* Brome Reach Farm: A refuge for abused animals See page 3 PHOTO/LUCINDA FISHER INSIDE Bertrand: Pinnacle: Sutton: Baseball: THIS Local MP Coalition The hill CJAD/Legion SECTION: was brought set for was alive with game nets up on diet public the sound of $4,300 for of politics hearings wedding bells rescue unit 12—The RECORD—Thursday, September 6, 1990 ____________________Brome County Community Billboard Friday, September 7 A rummage sale will be held at the East Farnham United Church between G and 9 in the evening.The sale continues Saturday morning between 9 and 1.Saturday, September 8 A used sports equipment sale will be held from 9 to 12 at Heroes Memorial School in Cowansville.Articles to be sold should be brought to the school Friday, September 7 from 6:30 to 9:00.The annual sale is organized by the Heroes Memorial School Committee which retains 10 per cent of all sales.Donations of used sports equipment for sale by the school committee are also welcomed.The Creek United Church in West Bolton will hold its Annual Ham Supper from 5 to 8.Sunday.September 9 There will be a Ham Dinner at All Saints’ Anglican Church.Dunham, with two sittings, one at noon and another at 1.There will be all kinds of homemade salads and desserts.Admission charged.Tuesday, September 11 A rummage sale sponsored by the Evening Guild will be held at St.James Church Hall at 2.White grocery bag day.Tea and cookies available.Wedneaday, September 12 Everyone is invited to attend a fun night of the Brome Squares square-dancing club at 7:30 in the Cowansville United Church Hall (across from the centre d'accueil).Come and see how easy it is and how much fun you’ll have — not to mention the nice people you'll meet.The ‘family’ of Brome Squares will give you a warm welcome and its free.Thursday, September 13 The Mansonville United Church Women will be resuming regular meetings after summer recess.The first meeting will be held in the United Church basement starting with a lunch at noon.The regular Iron Hill card party will be held today and not September 8 as previously announced.Monday, September 17 Kahn-Tineta Horn will speak to the Yamaska Valley Branch of the Canadian Club at Chateau Bro-mont.ARTS Sunday, September 9 Come and listen to your favorite marching tunes as L'Harmoin^ uc I'Estrie from Magog will be THE NEWSPAPER: Memorial Masonic temple, gives its services voluntarily, allowing proccu .¦ ¦ c-:.The choir will perform in Kriowlton on September 15.1 or more information see ARTS.The Quebec Masonic Choir began with only six men with a few sheets of music.Now it has grown to its present membership of 20 choristers with an extensive repertoire.The choir, based at the Montreal A Family Affair No other source of information gives your family more.News, views, entertainment, special features.there's something for everyone in the _____««Il tcecora Subscribe today Call 569-9528 Sherbrooke>/243-0088 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The RECORl>—Thursday, September 6, liHW—B3 Patsy Cooper offers solace, shelter to abused animals By Cindy Fisher BROME — St.Francis, Patron Saint of Animals, must smile every time he casts a glance at Patsy and Chris Cooper’s Brome Reach Farm.These two people have demonstrated the true meaning of kindness to animals since they bought their 320-acre farm seven years ago.They have an assortment of donkeys, horses and a small pony — all but one having a history of abuse and neglect.Originally from Switzerland, Patsy Cooper spent some time in England before she and her husband decided to move to Canada.“We were originally going to come for five years,” she recalled, speaking from the kitchen of her cosy farmhouse.“But after we got here we realized what you could own in the way of land,” she said.“That was fifteen years ago!” NEOPHYTE Cooper admits she knew absolutely nothing about caring for animals when they first bought the farm.“My experience with horses was in Switzerland,” she said.“The horse was brought out for me to ride, all tacked up and ready to go.Once I was finised it was led away.I might have given it a carrot or piece of sugar but that was the extent of my dealings with them.” Since then she has learned through reading, watching and listening.Now she is more than comfortable and proficient in bringing in the equines to feed them, standing amidst her herd of eighteen Dexter cattle or acting as midwife when her tiny Sicilian donkey Pandora gave birth to a daughter named Pi-cadilly.Cooper remembers the day she acquired Pandora at an auction.“The poor donkey had feet so long that she could hardly walk,” she recalled, adding that she had originally gone to the auction to buy a second-hand saddle.“I came home with a saddle and a pregnant donkey in the truck,” she said.“The saddle was thrown out — it was broken.But we still have the donkey and with careful trimming, her feet are much better now.” MENAGERIE Dinner time for Cooper’s menagerie is signalled by a cheery call or a honk from the farm truck.Slowly across the top of the meadow come an odd assortment of animals who were blessed the day the Cooper family saw them and decided they needed care, affection and in most cases, extensive vet care because of cruel and abusive former owners.“Our tiny black pony called Lady was in such poor condition when we bought her that the pus was running out of her eyes from badly ab-cessed teeth,” recalls Cooper.“She put her head down for a week and ate until she put on about 50 pounds.” She is well over thirty years old now and had been expected to work in riding camps and schools at this advanced age, Copper said.Paddington, a large Spanish donkey is “a real brat” according to his present owners who laugh at his antics.“Paddington will get rid of anybody that he doesn’t know off his back by pulling on their shoe or boot until they fall,” she said.“One day he came up to the kitchen window with a nose full of porcupine quills; another time he pushed me right into a river and, believe me, he knew exactly what he was doing.” DAYS NUMBERED Unfortunately, Paddington’s days are numbered.When his mother died, he wa s f ed milk and honey by his owners.A vitamin and protein deficiency has made his hooves almost hollow and trimming must be done every four weeks to keep him reasonably sound and comfortable.“The blacksmith has warned us that eventually his feet will get so bad that we will have to put him down,” Cooper said.Paddington is also suffering from poor eyesight, no doubt a result of malnutrition as a baby.“I wasn’t even looking for a male donkey,” admits Cooper, “but I saw this poor, pathetic animal, stayed up all night worrying about him and finally decided to buy the poor fellow.” Another animal that has found salvation with the Coopers is Ro-mony, a white mare who got caught in a barbed wire fence and left there for two weeks.“She also had a foal and it used to come back to her at the wire whenever it wanted to be fed,” Copper said.Chelsey, a huge Thoroughbred/ Clydesdale cross was found trying to find enough to eat on top of a manure pile.17 DIFFERENT OWNERS “This poor animal had been through 17 different owners throughout the United States and Canada before it was two years old, and it had a lesion in its neck that was causing it to become more and more paralysed as time went on,” Cooper recalled.“We eventually had to have her put down.” Although the Coopers own a townhouse in Montreal, they find themselves spending more and more time in the country.“My husband was elected Mayor of Brome, and he comes down here for three or four days at a time to handle that job,” Copper said.Cooper obviously enjoys her country life and lovely farm now complete with a cosy barn and large paddocks.However, her kindness doesn’t begin and end at Brome Reach Farm ; she is also involved with an animal therapy group in Montreal and visits old age homes on a regular basis with her German Shepherd.“I learned about this program through a dog obedience class and I took my dog to the SPCA for testing to see if she was suitable,” she said.The SPCA re-enact a typical scene from an old folks home with canes, crutches and wheelchairs, she explained.PLACID DOG “If the dog even growls, they are not considered suitable,” she said.“My dog simply whimpered and retreated to a corner and because they are looking for placid animals, the dog passed the test.” Cooper says many of the older people in these homes have closed themselves off from the world, rarely talking or communicating."It is often a very emotional meeting between recluse and animal,” she recounts.“Frequently there are emotional outbursts and tears as people start to communicate through the animal, some spea king for the first time in months; many arc there against their will.” She also says her dog knows when she is about to visit because she begins to show off.“She licks hands and receives a round of applause upon her arrival.” Animal therapy has proved beneficial, not only to the elderly, but also to the mentally handicapped and prisoners ; most of whom have responded to life through an animal, whether it be a dog, cat or even a turtle or fish.TREATED RIGHT Perhaps Cooper sums it up best when she says .“Some people simply see animals as animals, forgetting that they too have feelings, physical and emotional.What you give to an animal is given back many times over if they are treated right.” To demonstrate that animals do indeed have senses of humour, Paddington, the donkey, stalked me as I attempted to take his photo despite warnings from Patsy Cooper.“He has a thing about cameras,” she cautioned.That was the understatement of the year.Paddington came closer and closer, stalking me, his long ears twitching, his eyes staring right down the middle of a six inch zoom lens.“I dare you!” he seemed to be saying.Did 1 persist or scale the paddock fence?No.I persisted until he finally shoved his donkey nose into the lens.All I heard was CHOMP!!!.Zoom lens for lunch! St.Francis must have laughed! B4—The RECORD—Thursday, September 6, 1990 ip* i Brome fair draws crowds Record crowds filled the grounds at Brome last weekend for it's 134th County Fair.There were horses and cattle to watch, lots of rides to enjoy — including the highest (100 feet) ferns wheel in Canada .not to metion corners aplenty where folks could sit a while, have a snack and watch other people doing the same thing.All in all, it was a grand-slam success.3P- * i*Si*«* jn *»« Kl ( < »KI ) Cl Al DIA VII I IM MKI The specialists in construction, home improvement, restoration Since 1948 719 Lakeside, Wile de Lac Brome Leo Dagenais (514) 539-1167 Guy Dagenais m (rfuhu/e Lo^t ‘ s The Feed Bag" Appetizers Ftcargol* Soup of the Day 2 50 A ia Provençale 5 25 Onion Soup 375 In Mushroom Cops 5.25 Caesar Salad 5.75 Seafood In Puff Paatrie 6.75 Salad ‘‘Curé’’ 4 00 7 25 Polynesian Salad 5.SO Fettuclnl Alfredo 6.50 Shrimp Cocktail 7 75 Brie Parcels 4.75 1 obtier Bisque 5 00 Potée de gibier Porto 4.25 • Main Dish • From our Grill Poultry and Meal Rib Steak “Fantastic’’ .;4 oj 17 25 Veal Scalloplnl 16.75 Nea York Slrlcn a f < 21 00 Sweet Breads in Calvados 19.50 *2 .12 o* 16.00 Pork Medallion Hungarian *3 .so, 13.50 style 14 75 Beef Tenderloin * oi 19.75 Cornish Game Hen 15 00 Loft Brochette 16 25 Brome Lake Duckling Lamb Chops 14 25 with fruits 15 25 House Special Pork Ribs.13.95 B & O v lie,'*, & Gtr'Jc btu(* K'.' Fith and Shell Fish Filet of Sole “Bonne femme ' Filet of Doré with Shrimp* Scollop* In Fine Herb* Scamplet In Garlic Sutter 14.75 18 00 16 75 Surf and Turf Saturday Special Buffet.17.95 Sunday Special Brunch Buffet 14.00 Serving 10 30 a m tc f:30 t> m mr~ 4L The RECORD—Thursday.September 6.1!W0—B5 Bertrand: Brought up on steady diet of politics By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE — Fifty-five years ago, Gabrielle Bertrand.13, sat at the dinner table with her three younger sisters and two brothers playing a game.The object of the game was to identify each candidate running for election in Brome-Missisquoi riding during the 1935-36 election.The young Giroux children were assisted in the task by their father, Louis Arthur (L.A.) Giroux, a political organizer and failed candidate in the 1931 provincial election.“We always worked at the committee room on election night,” Brome Missisquoi Member of Parliament Gabrielle Bertrand recalled in an interview last week.“I suppose I started to be politically active when I was as young as 7 years old.” Bertrand spoke about her lifelong association with politics from her Cowansville office — a stones throw away from the house in which she was born 68 years ago, and continues to live.100TH ANNIVERSARY Bertrand will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ancestral home in 2002.“My mother was about the first francophone in Cowansville.” Bertrand said, adding that today the Cowansville town council is 80 per cent francophone.Bertrand recalls when her mother came here in the early 1900’s, she had to learn to speak English to communicate with her neighbors — but it wasn’t reciprocal.“They never understood they lived in Quebec,” Bertrand said.Bertrand described her mother as a kind and gentle person who accepted people for what they were.“In 1976, when René Lévesque was elected, my mother was watching TV with us and she was very sad and upset,” Bertrand recalls.“She said I have so many English friends — what will happen now?” Bertrand said her mother was reminded by her grandchildren that now her English friends would have to demonstrate they were true friends.“Did they ever once try to speak to you in French,” Bertrand’s son Jean-Francois, later a PQ minister asked his grandmother?FEISTY GRANDMOTHER Bertrand said she was influenced not only by her father and grandfather, an aspiring politician who was defeated three times at the polls, but also by her fiesty grandmother.“My grandmother was a feminist before they were called that," Bertrand says.“She worked with Madame (Thérèse) Casgrain for the vote for women, and she would often give speeches outside on the church steps after mass.” Bertrand’s grandfather Felix Giroux, a lawyer, couldn't resist the call to office.“Every election, he would take a $2500 mortgage on the house,” Bertrand says."He’d pay it back between elections, then take out a new mortgage when the party would come back in four years and ask him to run.” While many French Catholic families were called to the priesthood, the Giroux family was summoned by politics.“Politics in our family meant service to the people,” Bertrand explained.“If you were fortunate enough to have the education and the qualities needed to serve the people, you felt obliged to run for office.” It was this argument Bertrand's father L.A.Giroux used to convince his young law partner Jean-Jacques Bertrand to enter politics.HUSBAND PREMIER Bertrand, as he was known to family, was never a man to seek out the public or to be at the center, Gabrielle Bertrand recalled of her See pane 6 3 TCtage Antiquités! - antiques! 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B6—The RECORD—Thursday, September 6, 1990 Women in politics have to make sacrifices Bertrand From page 5 husband Jean-Jacques Bertrand who went on to become Premier of Quebec.“I was 24 when he was first elected,” she noted.“We had three small children and I was expecting a fourth.I encouraged him to use his talents.” Bertrand said whenever possible, she would accompany her husband on business.“But when I couldn’t be there with him, I would do my part by staying at home with the children,” she said.Behind the scenes, Bertrand continued to play the role of confidant and political advisor."Bertrand would discuss every dossier with me.” unless it was something very confidential, she recalled.The untimely death of her husband in 1973 while in office, left Bertrand cut off from the political scene.For the 11 years that followed, Gabrielle Bertrand became a political observer instead of a participant for the first time in her life.SURPRISED “You can imagine my surprise when someone from the (Conservative) party came to me and asked me to run in the federal election,” Bertrand said.“At first I flatly refused." After some coaxing, the 62-year-old mother of seven agreed to accept the challenge.“I viewed the election in two parts: The campaign, which I could handle because I went through seven with my husband.and the post-election.” The latter was the part that had Bertrand worried.For her, politics in Quebec had always been centered in the National Assembly.“I worried about moving to Ottawa and I wondered if I was qualified to meet the expectations of the people who would be sending me there,” she said.“Then I thought, I’ll be at least as good as the guy who's there now,” she quipped.Ottawa held some surpr'ues for Bertrand, elected in the Conserva • live sweep in 1984 and re-e'tcled in ’88.“It was a great surprise to me to realize the Prime Minister ;md government ministers speak for the whole country,” Bertrand said.STRANGE "Sometimes when Mr.Mulroney or one of the Ministers stands up to speak, it is strange to me to hear them speak about Quebec at the same time as British Columbia or another province,” she said.“It makes me think it is a country which makes no sense.” Clearly disappointed with the failure of Meech Lake.Bertrand says it is the least Quebec has ever asked from the federal government.“(Maurice) Duplessis, (Jean) Lesage, Daniel Johnson all asked for more then Bourassa.” she said.She contends there is still widespread misunderstanding about Quebec, its people, and its history.As one of a handful of women MPs in Ottawa, Bertrand says she also has to encourage understanding among her male collègues of the issues facing women.sii*» ° m m ?1054 Chemin Knowllon West Brome 263-1289 René Cloutier PRESIDENT CMu/c^g tViCwu, feAk JARDINS PAQUETTE Enr.YES, WE HAVE THE BIGGEST SELECTION OF PERENNIALS IN THE EAST!! 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