The record, 9 décembre 1987, mercredi 9 décembre 1987

Wednesday Births, deaths .7 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Education .5 Farm & Business .6 Living .8-9 Sports .12 Townships .3 Judge ordered boys to her office mmmn/ RAIN 1ASMIN1 HKitl BCH l R SCTHXR./r b; f P Weather, page 2 SherhriHike Wednesday, December 9, 1987 40 cents Despite report Lavoie-Roux denies children at risk “How do I know they're not plastic?” QUEBEC (CP) — Health Minister Therese Lavoie-Roux denied on Tuesday that Quebec children were at risk although a committee’s report said 26 youngsters in the province died last year from physical abuse or neglect.Lavoie-Roux said about 3,000 children are on a list waiting to be evaluated by youth protection authorities or placed in group homes.But she told reporters that “we have a system of priorities to give attention to more serious cases." The annual report of the Youth Protection Committee said almost half the children who died were reported to authorities as being at risk.The committee, comprised of 14 members of the public, cited a lack of resources.But Lavoie-Roux said the government spent an extra $5 million over the last two years in an unsuccessful effort to solve the problem.“The waiting list is long because there are more cases,” she said.“There is more violence, more children left to themselves, more parents not in the proper position to take care of their children now.” LAUNCH STUDY The government has established a commission to study ways to ease the backlog.The problem so frustrated one youth court judge in St-Jerome, north of Montreal, that she ordered two 15-year-old boys delivered this fall to Lavoie-Roux’s Montreal office.Judge Andree Ruffo ruled that placing the two youths in a reception centre, the only facility available, would endanger their development and security.Lavoie-Roux said the judge likely believed she was acting in the youths’ best interest “but there were resources in this area where these children could get the care they need.” One of the boys was taken to the minister’s office by his lawyer but the minister was out and youth pro tection officials refused to obey the other court order.A health ministry spokesman could not say where the tw o youths were currently living.The government plans to contest the judge’s decision in Quebec Superior Court in January.Gorbachev: Sapling treaty may grow to peace tree Arms reduction deal a watershed By John Valorzi WASHINGTON (CP) —- President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev shared the same page in history Tuesday as they signed a landmark treaty that eliminates an entire class of superpower nuclear weapons.As the world watched, the two leaders hailed the accord as an important step toward arms control, holding out the prospect of future agreements to reduce the threat of nuclear catastrophe.They promised to work toward a second, more sweeping arms control deal during their three-day summit.“We can be proud of planting this sapling which may one day grow into a mighty tree of peace,” Gorbachev said during an elaborate White House signing ceremony Cotroni gets 8 for manslaughter MONTREAL (CP) — Frank Cotroni, once described by the Quebec Police Commission inquiry into organized crime in the 1970s as a Montreal underworld crime boss, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for manslaughter.Cotroni, 56, was originally charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Giuseppe Montegano, who was killed after he was shot four times in the head in June 1981.The slaying took place in an east-end bar owned by Cotroni’s son, Francesco.Daniel Arena, 33, was sentenced to seven years for his role in the death.Francesco Cotroni, 27, and Francesco Raso, 31, will be sentenced early next year in the slaying.The two men were freed on bail.Crown prosecutor Guy Dupre has recommended that Raso be sentenced to five years and Francesco Cotroni to three years.Police said last year they had cracked the case after Real Simard, whom they described as an underworld figure, turned informer.Simard became a key Crown witness at the nearly year-long preliminary hearing, which was conducted under a publication ban.Crown prosecutor Guy Dupre said Tuesday at the sentencing that the murder was commissioned by Cotroni after he learned that Montegano, an associate, had been talking to police.that was televised live in many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union.“May Dec.8,1987 become a date that will be inscribed in the history books, a date that will mark the watershed separating the era of a mounting risk of nuclear war from an era of the demilitarization of human life.” Reagan also saw the agreement as a landmark.“We have made history,” declared the president, basking in the glow of his administration’s first arms control agreement and the first international deal that reduces the number of nuclear weapons.“We can only hope that this history-making agreement will not be an end in itself, but the beginning of a working relationship that will enable us to tackle the other issues before us.” On the second day of the summit, Reagan is to take up the Afghanistan issue with Gorbachev, perhaps hoping the momentum of the missile treaty will propel the Soviet leader into setting a firm date to end the Red Army’s intervention in the country.The issue has scarred U.S.-Soviet relations.The Soviets already have indicated they are prepared to withdraw their estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan in a year’s time.But Reagan and his key advisers believe the Soviets might be so weary of the bloody conflict between the pro-Moscow government in Kabul and U.S.-aided Afghan rebels that they may be ready to accept a shorter timetable.Other regional issues to be discussed today include the Persian Gulf.Reagan wants the Soviets to support a U.S.drive for an arms embargo against Iran.The idea is to force Iran to accept a ceasefire in its seven-year war with Iraq.The missile deal, however, is the centrepiece of the summit.South Shore black man describes police assault MONTREAL (CP) — A young black man has testified in sessions court that he was assaulted by two off-duty Montreal police officers in December, 1986.Const.Pierre Trepanier, 39, and Const.Gerard Savard, 28, who have been suspended without pay since the incident, face charges of aggravated assault.Francis Ojo, 24, a salesman from the south shore suburbs, filed a $40,000 damage suit last week against six policemen, including Savard and Trepanier.Ojo told Judge Bruno Cyr on Monday the incident began when four men in civilian clothes started yelling, "go home dirty nigger” at him as he left a downtown restaurant with a white woman.He said the woman asked the four men to apologize to Ojo and was asked, “Do you want to die?” Ojo said he sought refuge in a nearby bar but that when he and another friend returned outside to confront the four men, Trepanier grabbed him by the collar and punched him.Ojo returned the blow, not realizing he was dealing with a policeman until one of the officers flashed a badge and a number of squad cars turned up.Two uniformed officers handcuffed him roughly and one struck him in the groin, he testified, before putting him in a police car.Inside the car, he added, Trepanier and Savard took turns hitting him and Trepanier ordered him to repeat three times the words “I am a nigger.” When Ojo complained, he added, two uniformed officers laughed in his face.Ojo said that when he was put in a police cell, Trepanier threatened to kill him.En route to Calgary: Townships leg draws crowds JMji ÊJÊÆ, Sharing the Olympic flame Everyone and their brother turned out in Danville (left) to snap pictures of the Olympic flame as it was relayed through the town.Wales Home director-general Rod Melver jostled to get his chance to touch the torch in Richmond as Maureen Home did her section of the run (bottom left).In Sherbrooke (bottom right), Stephanie Roy accepted the torch on behalf of all Sherbrooke youth.More on the Olympic flame’s odyssey on page 2.I l Mirabel: Accusations of loose management, land flips By Edison Stewart OTTAWA (CP) — A special audit team has been sent into the Crown corporation that controls land around the Mirabel airport to clear up what the auditor general calls unacceptable procedures, Public Works Minister Stewart Mclnnes said Tuesday.Mclnnes told reporters that Auditor General Ken Dye complained in July that “the managerial practices of the corporation were loose and should be tightened and in the present format, the way the financial information was presented, that was not acceptable to him.” Mclnnes promised that the corporation’s financial statements — now five months late — will be ready by Friday.But, speaking in the Commons, he again rejected Liberal demands for a royal commission into the workings of the company, known as Canada Lands (Mirabel) Ltd.The company has been the subject of controversy in recent days over the way it has sold back to its original owners surplus land that had been expropriated for the in ternational airport.More recently, one of the former land owners has claimed that he would only be allowed to buy back his land if he would later sell it to a numbered company of which Mario Taddeo, a Tory organizer, was president.Taddeo was shot dead at his office on Friday by a hooded gun man.Police have refused to say if the controversy and the shooting are connected.In the Commons, Ontario MP Don Boudria noted a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail that there have been at least 50 land flips of property around the airport in anticipation of a planned new highway linking Mirabel to Dorval airport and he pressed anew for an inquiry.Boudria also noted that Canada Lands (Mirabel) Ltd.still has not published its financial report for the year ended March 31, which should have been submitted by June 30.Under-30 welfare recipients unfit to work?Nobody’s healthy on $170 a month, insists clinic MONTREAL (CP) — A community health clinic will continue to declare young welfare recipients unfit for work, arguing that no one can be healthy living on $170 a month, director Denis Leroux says.The Pointe St-Charles area clinic is encouraging all medical professionals in health institutions to sign certificates of a recipient s inability to work on the same grounds, despite the suspended sentence handed to a doctor last week for a similar act, Leroux says Leroux says it’s absurd for the provincial government to expect someone receiving $170 a month — the amount paid to welfare reci- pients under 30 — to be fit for work or to be attractive to potential employers."The lack of a permanent home, telephone, food, clean clothes, and the inability to pay for a haircut or subway tickets are all elements that impede our clients from looking for and finding a job,” he says.“Neither should the government rely on the families of welfare recipients to bail them out.In fact, most of the families already live on welfare and often do not have resources to help their children." NO OTHER WAY Leroux’s comments are echoed by Arthur Sandbom, a social worker at the clinic, who says that, until the government fulfils its promise to increase benefits to those under 30, the clinic sees no other way to deal with an “unjust” policy.“If we do not sign a certificate for people who do not have any other choice, the results are prostitution, stealing, selling drugs or jumping off bridges,” Sandborn says.“I have a lot of prostitutes in my case load, and before you can tell them to get off the (street) you have to be able to tell them you're going to do something so they can keep their home." Sandborn says eight community organizations, including the Pointe St-Charles Legal Aid Clinic, support Leroux’s position and his.There are 123 younger clients at the Pointe St-Charles clinic, hp says, who are receiving higher be nefits as a result of that policy.It isn’t clear how many more will ask for certificates declaring them unfit for work, he adds, but there are 256 in Pointe St-Charles who now receive the minimum benefit.TRY AT CLINIC If private doctors refuse to sign medical certificates, as a result of a recent Quebec Superior Court judgment, recipients may go to the clinic where “there’s a good chance” they’ll get one, he says. 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, December 9, 1987 Olymic flame draws Townships crowds on 22nd day of odyssey J ctavpH m torch Wednesday on the way to RICHMOND (CP) — Maureen Home showed her sons the way Tuesday when she did her part to help the Olympic torch on its journey to Calgary, “My two sons are both jocks and were a bit disappointed they weren’t chosen to carry the torch too,” she said, adding her sons were happy for her.Home, 47, is a nurse at a community clinic in Lennoxville.Home has spent the last three weeks jogging around Lennoxville carrying a mock-up of the torch.It was made from weightlifting equipment by a colleague in the sports department of Champlain College.About 60 co-workers signed and wrote poems on a giant card that was presented to Home along with a congratulatory bouquet of balloons."And three carloads of people came down with Canadian flags from Georgeville, where we have our summer cottage.“It’s most amazing.” Home, who applied to join the relay because she wanted to get involved with the Olympics, was picked to carry the torch for one kilometre.The relay passed through Richmond on the 22nd day of its 88-day ?I ¦ trip to Calgary.The Olympic-bound caravan is to cross the Ottawa River into Ontario on Dec.16.Home teaches health education in local schools and a junior college and works on preventive medicine with parents of new-born babies.For recreation, she jogs, skis, swims, climbs mountains and plays tennis.Neither son was able to watch her run: both are university students in the midst of examinations.The Olympic flame travelled from Victoriaville to Sherbrooke Monday, with runners of all ages carrying the torch for varying distances.The runners were greeted by hordes of people who turned out just to see the flame, or to take part in ceremonies organized around the flame’s arrival.In Sherbrooke, freezing rain slowed down the progress of the last runner, Maryse Longchamps, who arrived 45 minutes behind schedule at the Mérite Sportif awards ceremony.More than 2000 people were on hand at the Eugène Lalonde arena, rising from their seats en masse to get a glimpse of the torch as it was paraded onto the stage.The lights were turned off as candles made to look like miniature Olympic torches were lit from the torch and passed around, gradually lighting up the arena.The Olympic flame stayed in Sherbrooke Tuesday night, and hit the road again at 8 a m.Wednesday, carried by Nancy Davignon Runners scheduled to carry the torch Wednesday on the way to Granby include the top male and female athletes of the year, wheel chair marathoner André Viger and Lady Gaiters Basketball coach Andrea Blackwell.OOQ Photos by Perry Beaton ¦ m 2 ¦m A ¦AmSSSml 'M '' '! ir pm* ÿSSl - 1 :, .::: RhCOKD/GUY RENAUD : SSm m m 9 Ns, H kL' ¦ ¦ % t.‘ I ?pPf T The RECORD—Wednesday.December 9.1987—3 The Townships #¦___gyj tfccora Social workers slam lack of money, bad communications Youth protection is no better in the Eastern Townships than elsewhere By Melanie Gruer SHERBROOKE—None of the 26 Quebec children who died from physical abuse or neglect last year were in the Eastern Townships but youth protection workers say that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen here.Chantal Corbeil, assistant director of youth protection in the Estrie region, said there have been cases in the Sherbrooke area in the past where children have died while waiting to see a social worker.Michael Caluori, a Cowansville social worker, said there must have been similar cases in the Montéregie area (south shore) in the past.The Youth Protection Committee’s 1986-87 annual report, released Monday, said many of the 26 victims were reported as risk cases to authorities.The report said more than 3000 cases of possible child abuse or neglect await investigation.Jacques Tremblay, provincial assistant director of Youth Protection, said the number of deaths is “dramatic” and three times higher than last year.LUCKY THIS YEAR Corbeil said 147 of those 3000 cases are in the Estrie region and that’s “not a very good situation.” “I was surprised by the report and I found it troublesome,” Corbeil said.“We were lucky this year but we have had cases where children have died in the past.” In the Montéregie region the situation is similar, Caluori said.He doesn’t know how many children are on the waiting list but “as a social worker I can say I’m full and I can’t take any more cases right now.” He said he’s not the only social worker in that situation.Caluori said he found the report “shocking but not surprising”.Often, he said, there are situations where there is one social worker and four cases that need to be dealt with immediately.“With one social worker and four serious reports, who gets left out?It’s not a question of preference.” “Certainly there are kids who are more disturbed today than they were yesterday because of the waiting list,” he said.Caluori child deaths “must have happened” in Montéregie in other years.Tremblay said the report blames the problem on a lack of financial and human resources.He said there simply isn’t enough money or staff to deal with the growing problem.But that isn’t the only reason.LACK OF COMMUNICATION There’s also a lack of communication, he said.Sometimes one or both parents are treated in hospitals or by psychiatrists who don’t identify the patient’s problems as being threatening to their children.“There’s not enough communication between those who could have helped.” “The rights of youths are little things when you are not affected.We have to respect those rights.” he said.“If the rights are not respected, then the problem multiplies.” Caluori, who has been trying to get the government to grant a youth group home in the Cowansville area for over one year said another part of the problem is the government’s “band aid approach” to youth protection funding.“Last year the ministry of health and social services generated $1 million into the youth sector in short doses.That’s a band aid way of dealing with the problem,” he said.Part of that money went to the Cowansville Richelieu Social Services office where Caluori works.The money was spent on hiring one social worker for one month.“It’s a part time job.He does a few evaluations and then it’s getting close to the end of the month so he can’t do any more,” Caluori said.“Then they hire him for another month and the same problem happens all over again.” “The government has tried to address the problem in a very temporary, band aid way,” he said.NOT ACCEPTABLE Corbeil said the long waiting list and subsequent deaths are due to “a chronic lack of resources — both financial and human.” However, she doesn’t believe the problem is due to a lack of communication between health and social services.“There is no lack of communication.We all work together.” “The number of children on the waiting list is not surprising.But there are catastrophies and that is not acceptable,” she said.Caluori said : "There is still some ignorance as to what people think they should report and what they shouldn’t.I think most people know what to do but because the waiting list is so long there is a per- SHERBROOKE (MHG) — Services for English-speaking juvenile delinquents have become a priority for next year, says the as-ssistant director of Youth Protection for Quebec.Jacques Tremblay said Tuesday that while no recommendations were made in the Youth Protection Committee’s 1986-87 annual report, services for minorities are "a priority for next year.” Tremblay said the report underlines the lack of services available to English-speaking youths who require placement and social services.However there are no recommendations in the report for a reception centre for English-speaking youths.The committee is aware of the lack of services, Tremblay said.But the committe hasn’t done ception that nothing will be done.” LESS EFFECTIVE "So the system becomes ineffective and because it is underfunded it becomes more ineffective.People say, why report it, nothing's being done,” he said.Caluori said it is up to citizens now to put pressure on the government to help the situation get better before it gets worse."This is the weakest group in our society — our children — and yet they’re our enough research into the problem to make recommendations yet, he said.“They have no services that they have the right to have,” he said.In the Eastern Townships there are no reception centres or group homes for troubled English-speaking youths.They must either be placed in French language facilities or be sent to Montreal or further.Sometimes youths are placed more than 100 miles from home.GROUP HOME WOULD HELP Michael Caluori, a Cowansville social worker, has headed a committee to get a group home in the Brome-Mississquoi area for over one year.While Caluori agrees one group home would not solve the problem, it would cer tainly help.Caluori said the committee's annual report may help his cause as it most precious resource Both Caluori and Corbeil said the problems underlined in the report are felt locally and just because the deaths did not occur in the Townships doesn’t mean they are isolated cases.“We didn’t have 26 deaths but there is still a lack of manpower, resources and prevention programs.It is a very real problem in the Eastern Townships,” Caluori said.lists 3000 Quebec youths currently waiting for social service care.At a Townshippers Association meeting on Bill 142 last Monday, the group home was listed as one of the priorities for English-speaking people.Bill 142 is a provincial go vernment bill introduced almost one year ago that recognizes the need for better health and social services for ethnic minorities.“The group home is being included in the Bill 142 recommendations and we hear that there is a report on the group home going upwards in the ministry,” Caluori said.Chantal Corbeil, assistant director of Youth Protection in the Sher brooke area, said there aren't enough English-speaking youths who require placement in reception centres to justify such a facility in the Sherbrooke region.‘No services that they have the right to have’ — Youth Protection E.T.English-speaking on short list next year?Mansonville kids get a glimpse of Chile The questions come timidly at first.Then there’s no stopping them.Joan Highfield’s combined grade five and seven classes at Mansonville Elementary have a visitor today : 12-year-old Gonza-lo Montero from Chile.He’s been there a week, but only today is there an interpreter on hand to help the Canadians ask questions of their guest.Most of them want to know about the earthquake.“Did his house really get smashed up by an earthquake?” one student asks.Yes, he answers.On March 3, 1985 not only his house but all the houses around were destroyed by an earthquake.None of his family was hurt ; they weren’t at home at the time.They rebuilt, but in a different spot.Gonzalo has been in Canada for the past three months, visiting relatives.He came to Mansonville to spend some time with Murielle Parkes, whose daughter is married to Gonzalo’s uncle.FOUND INTERPRETER Parkes arranged the week-long immersion at Mansonville Elementary, and the hour-long question and answer period with Glen Sutton resident Alma Fogden, a Costa Rica native, acting as interpreter.The kids mainly want to know how Gonzalo’s life is different from theirs.They have an endless list of questions about his school and his home.In Chile, he would be on vacation at this time of year, he says.School starts in March and runs until before Christmas.When school is in, there are classes from Monday until Saturday afternoon.The Canadian kids are suprised to find that Gonzalo studies many of the same things they do: art, religion, music, geography, math, and instead of English, Spanish.His life is like theirs in many ways, in fact.His family has a TV, there is junk food in Chile, and yes, there’s even car racing and dirt bikes, he says, in answer to one boy’s queries.But no, there’s no MacDonald’s restaurant, to his knowledge.He likes the Mansonville Laurel Sherrer school, and would like to come back some time, when he knows more English.After he learns English and French, he says, he would like to learn German.LARGE VOCABULARY Gonzalo actually knows more English than it would appear, Parkes says.He’s just shy in front of the whole class.During his visit she has been putting labels on household items to help both of them out, and he’s picked up quite a large vocabulary.“He actually puts words together when he’s not on display,” she says.“It’s an experience; it’s a real experience,” she says.She’s been toting around her two little Spa-nish-phrases and Spanish-for-travellers books all week, undergoing a bit of an immersion course herself.Gonzalo has apparently enjoyed going to school in Mansonville, she says, although his second day there he had some trepidation and came down with the classic schoolday stomach-ache and wanted to stay home.“I don’t think he thought about what it was like to be in a place where no one can talk to him,” she says.For teacher Joan Highfield, Gonzalo has been little trouble.The other kids are patient with his inability to speak English, and did their best to communicate with gestures, right from the first day.“By afternoon that little group of boys over there had just taken him under their wing,” she says.In the coming weeks Gonzalo will be attending a French school in St-Bruno for a similar cultural immersion, and will head back to Chile some time in the New Year.Chilean 12-year-old Gonzalo Montero with translator Alma Fogden at Mansonville Elementary School.kkcordi aurfi sherrer Only room for one trial at a time Cowansville court overcrowded: 800 cases may move COWANSVILLE — Life in the court here may be considerably disrupted during February and March because of a lack of space in the 125-year-old building.Lengthy jury trials for several Town of Brome Lake police and former police will occupy the only large space in the courthouse for much of the winter session, meaning that other procedures will probably have to be held at the larger courthouse in Granby.Crown attorney Henry Key-serlingk has formally advised defence lawyers and his federal counterpart Serge Champoux that all dates for trials and preliminary hearings in February and March are subject to change.Superior Court has ruled that jury trials in the winter term of the assizes will be held here.“That means up to 800 cases would possibly be moved to Granby unless that decision is reversed,” Keyserlingk said.“The ideal solution would be to delay the establishment of set dates on a pro forma basis until Jan.19 when Judge Guy Genest can assign fixed dates in Sessions Court.” Champoux and a defence lawyer established Feb.16 as the date for a preliminary hearing in a drug importation case.Both indicated they would be happy to proceed either in Granby or in Cowansville.Cowansville’s Sweetsburg cour- thouse consists of two public rooms, one large and one small.There is a main room which can accomodate a jury trial on the second floor.Alterations and renova-tions to the prison and court completed at a cost of about $450,000 two years ago allow prisoners to be brought directly from the adjacent jail into the courtroom.The second court, a small room that can accomodate a total of about 28 people, including court staff and the judge, is located on the ground floor.It is primarily used for youth rotection cases, but sometimes handles the spill-over from Sessions Court.TOO DANGEROUS Judge Bernard Legaré said last week it would be too dangerous to hold trials in the mini courtroom as prisoners could possibly get loose as they were being led through the lobby of the courthouse.He said that could endanger the lives of the public, the court staff and guards.He neglected to mention it also gave prisoners the possibility of two doors to escape through.The main case to be heard during the winter term is that of former Brome Lake police chief AlyreThi-reau and ex-constables Mario Beaumont and Paul Roy.Thireau and Beaumont are char ged with assault causing bodily harm and illegal confinement of David Allen Gauthier on March 1, 1982.Roy is charged with assault causing bodily harm in the same incident.That trial could run from three to five weeks Company threatens Ottawa move Buses running as usual after Voyageur 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gecora ‘Hey, Mik, call me Ronny’ ‘Da, Ronny’ Amazing the way people act sometimes.The U.S.and the U.S.S.R.signed a modest arms-reduction treaty at their leaders’ summit in Washington Tuesday.It’s a simple plan to reduce the numbers of one type of nucleararmed missile — leaving the rest of the superpowers’ arsenals untouched and the leaders still able to destroy the world at the push of a couple of buttons.The Soviets and Americans didn’t agree to ban the bomb, to cut out their Star Wars research, to pull troops out of the innocent countries each occupies, or even to put more buttons between payday and Doomsday.But the hype and ballyhoo reached new heights.For example: In a multi-million dollar bad taste campaign for bad teeth, Coca-Cola is celebrating the summit with a TV commercial boosting peace and Coke that will be shown on U.S.news programs 10 times today.Beautiful people standing around, waving soft drinks and singing the Coke jingle.The real thing?Tit for tat: the U.S.importer of Stolichnaya vodka plans full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today.After meeting for the third time, U.S.President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev apparently are on a first-name basis now, the Associated Press told us.The suggestion to dispose of the formality was made by Reagan in a conversation at the White House on Tuesday while the two were posing for photographers.“It’s a comfortable situation.” ‘Hey, Mik, call me Ronny.’ ‘Da, Ronny.’ The White House proudly published the perfect menu for peace — served at the state dinner given by Ron and Nancy Reagan for Mik and Raisa G.on Tuesday: “Columbia River salmon and lobster medallions en gelée, caviar sauce, fennel seed twists ; loin of veal with wild mushrooms, champagne sauce, tarragon tomatoes, corn turban ; medley of garden greens, brie cheese with crushed walnuts, vinegar and avocado dressing; tea sorbet in honey ice cream.” “The wines served were: Jordan Chardon-nay, 1984; Stags’ Leap Cabernet Sauvignon Lot 2,1978; Iron Horse Brut Summit Cuvée, 1984.” The wife watchers of the world were out in force as well.“I’m going mad,” said Sergey Komolev, a young Soviet spokesman assigned to the international press centre.Komolev’s biggest problem Tuesday was Raisa Gorbachev’s schedule: reporters wanted it and he said he didn’t have it.U.S.and European reporters, many of whom had travelled across oceans or continents to get a glimpse of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s wife, called Komolev by telephone.They badgered him.Sometimes, they became huffy, AP reported.‘‘He doesn’t know anything,” groused one reporter.Since when has an official spokesman known anything?Komolev, 27, works in the Soviet Foreign Ministry’s information office in Moscow.He might be excused for expressing frustration.After all, he’s probably not used to dealing with foreign reporters.‘‘You are very persistent,” Spartak Beglov of Novosti, the semi-official government news agency, told the western journalists.Komolev wasn’t the only one going mad.Elsewhere in Washington the menu wasn’t so hot but somebody had enough of the whole show.The Reuters news agency reported that a “shabby, long-haired man with a football tucked under his arm was arrested on Tuesday as he charged toward Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s motorcade.” “A police spokesman said the man was seized on a central Washington street at midafternoon.” “He was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor punishable by a $25 US fine.” No one said whether Ron and Mik placed friendly bets.“The spokesman identified the man as 34-year-old David Steinbacker of Dun Loring, Virginia.” Steinbecker for president.CHARLES BURY The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Steady trickle of would-be refugees at Gander By Nelle Oosterom GANDER, Nfld.(CP) —In the lobby of a budget hotel in this bleak central Newfoundland town, the children of refugees play peekaboo while their parents pore over maps of Canada.“Toronto, ’ ’ an Iranian woman says, pointing to the map.It is one of the few English words she knows.“Montreal,” says an Iranian man, indicating where he and his family plan to settle.“St.John’s?” the Iranian woman asks, wondering if Newfoundland’s capital city is as big as Gander or as cold.It is bigger, she is told, and just as cold.This group of a dozen people—from Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Poland and West Africa — is part of the small stream of people who arrive at Gander International Airport each year seeking refugee status.EASY TO ENTER The town, a remote community of 10,000 in Canada’s most isolated province, seems an unlikely gateway to freedom for the world’s oppressed.Yet it is known around the globe as one of the easiest places for a refugee to enter the western world without a visa.While large-scale landings of refugees — such as a group of Tamils in Newfoundland in 1986 and Sikhs earlier this year in Nova Scotia — draw national attention, the slow but steady steam of would-be immigrants through Gander goes largely unnoticed.Gander is a refuelling stop for airlines such as Aeroflot of the Soviet Union, Interflug of East Germany and Cubana of Cuba.Passengers are allowed to disembark to stretch their legs in the airport lobby.Rarely a week goes by that a few of the passengers don’t approach a security guard or an RCMP officer to ask for political asylum.They are taken to the immigration office at the airport, an interpreter is called in and they are checked into Gander’s Airport Inn, where they wait for their claims to be heard by an immigration inquiry panel.MORE THIS YEAR As of mid-November, there were 159 such cases, up from the total of 110 last year.Terry Loder, Gander immigration manager, says those at Gander represent a small fraction of the number of refugees who show up at other Canadian airports, especially in Toronto and Montreal.He isn’t surprised at the increased number of refugees at Gander “because there’s been a significant increase in overall traffic over last year.” There were 2,106 aircraft landings at the airport last year and traffic is expected to be up by 39 per cent this year.About 85 per cent of the refugees come from communist countries, mostly Cuba.The number of Iranians, Iraqis and Sri Lankans has dropped from two years ago, Loder said.QUICK FOR SOME Those from the east bloc or Cuba are frequently allowed to leave Gander for other parts of Canada in three days or less because they are often classified as self-exiles or defectors— not refugees — and are eligible to be processed through a special review committee.Third World claimants wait a month or so for their refugee claims to be heard and checked out.The waiting is tedious.Apart from television, there are few diversions and going outdoors doesn’t offer much more than a stroll along the Trans-Canada Highway in the bracing wind, past service stations and convenience stores.Most mill about the hotel lobby all day, sipping coffee, making plans and chatting amiably.“Last night I stay awake until three o’clock worrying,” said a 30-year-old Sri Lankan man, who, like the others, didn’t give his name because he feared reprisals against family members in his homeland.He said he’d watched his father gunned down by government troops in his family’s restaurant in 1984.Tears misted his eyes as he talked about how much he missed his wife and two small children, who left Sri Lanka and settled in Toronto several months earlier.LOCALS HELP Locals take in stride the presence of the refugees in Gander.A hotel employee teaches them a little English in his spare time and staff at a nearby restaurant where they have their meals patiently explain what’s on the menu.“Canadian food makes you fat.” jokes an Iranian man as he cuts up some sweet and sour chicken while eating at the restaurant with his wife and three small children.A pharmacy worker, he points to his clean-shaven face, saying that in Iran men must wear beards, and, as he put it, must look unwashed and un western in order to get jobs.His wife, a hospital clerical worker dressed in slacks and a sweater, lived in constant fear of being apprehended by religious police in Iran for working outside the home.After many years of trying to leave, they obtained permission to go to Damascus, Syria, for a pilgrimage Once there, they paid a middleman to ar range a flight to G ander via East Ger many.With limited English, the Iranian gropes for the right words to explain why they fled Iran.“It is bad for women.No place is safe.Everywhere danger.Terror.” Letters Consider our desperate situation An Open Letter to Mr.McKenna, premier of New Brunswick, Parliament Buildings, Fredericton, N.B.Dear Sir, In questioning the Meech Lake accord agreement I noted you expressed concern about maintaining the rights of the French-speaking minorities outside Quebec.Would you please include the destruction of the rights of the English-speaking minority within Quebec, whose rights of free speech and expression has already been nuli-fied in Bill 101 and is about to be entrenched at the federal level in the Meech Lake accord.Consider the effect to a New Brunswick person who might be transferred to Quebec by a company.He or she couldn’t send their children to an English school unless the parents were themselves educated in an English school in the province of Quebec.They could not erect an English sign on a business they wanted to start — such as “Mr.Jones and Sons”.Both word “AND” and “SONS” are illegal inthis province.They would be sub- : vSÿSS ¦*v i vs © v£N I ?/ *y * ject to fines for using either word on a sign.Other people in Quebec have been so treated for doing so.As the English-speaking people of this province is, I believe, greater than New Brunswick’s population, consider our desperate situation and vote against the Meech Lake Accord — both for us and your own citizens who may some day be transferred to Quebec by their employers.As Mr.Chamberlain’s appease ment policy didn't work with Hitler, neither will the Meech Lake accord be effective for long in Quebec Help to prevent English from becoming just a regional language.Yours truly, RUTH DEN 18ON, Richmond Chair in use at the home Friends; The White House Committee, Stanstead, is pleased to say that the “Enid Cooke and Community Electric Chair” is in use at the home This is our public acknowledge ment of and tribute to those in the community (and from afar) who responded so generously to the appeal for funds.We also thank Fred and Gardenia Robertson who generously participated.Our thanks to Shirley Moss of Beebe who gave her time as coordinator of finances.This is an outstanding example of the co-operative self-held that is part of what makes our communities a “nice place” to live.Thanks again, DELLA GOODSELL, Chairman The White House Committee Stanstead Capitalists buying Gorby dolls like hotcakes Did you know that.FORMED LINE The world's longest conga line, formed in Edmonton in 1986, involved 10,442 people.EAT A LOT Barge sailors on the Rhine River are reputed to be the world's heaviest eaters, consuming an average of 5,200 calories a day.PLAY GAME The biggest game of musical chairs started with 4,514 participants at Ohio State University in 1982.BAN DOGS Chinese authorities banned all dogs in Beijing in 1983, and owners were required to have their pets destroyed by Nov.1 of that year.WASHINGTON (CP) — Cabbage Patch and Barbie move over — make room for the Gorby doll.The small rubber bust of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been selling like hotcakes lately as entrepreneurs, in true capitalist fashion, cash in on the hype surrounding the superpower summit that opened in Washington Tuesday.Becky Pugh, owner of one trendy downtown Washington boutique, can’t seem to keep up with the demand for the doll and she’s got back orders in the hundreds."I’m so worn out from handing out these things,” she said after a particularly hectic day when she sold over 100 busts of Gorbachev and about 25 of U.S.President Ronald Reagan.“My customers really take a fancy to them.” It’s one of the signs of a Gorbachev mania that has gripped the American capital.Hip boutiques are selling Gorbachev Tour 87 T-shirts, hammer-and-sickle earrings, red “CCCP” suspenders, and shorts emblazoned with glasnost and perestroika — catchwords of the new Soviet policies of openness and restructuring.There are other signs of Gorbachev mania.NO MORE FLAGS Novelty stores are running out of Russian flags; television networks are engaged in bidding wars for Soviet experts and Washington socialites are scrambling for invitations to Gorbachev.Hello dolly.next Tuesday’s state dinner for a chance to glimpse the man that has captured the imagination of the world.One Washington restaurant will even hold a Raisa Gorbachev look-alike contest.The charming Gorbachev and his fashionable wife are suddenly hot properties, as they say in show business.“Everything Soviet is suddenly cool and interesting,” says Cleo Racine, a Washington secretary who bought two Gorby dolls and several red star T-shirts as Christmas gifts.“But I don’t really think it has much to do with politics or showing support for the Soviet Union.A lot of it is just the new style.” Pugh believes it’s the public perception of Gorbachev as an open, genuine reformer that has created the newfound interest in the Soviet Union.“He’s a new man for over there and he’s caught people’s attention.“The guy’s got personality; he doesn’t look like some leader they dragged out of a coffin.” Ten years ago, Americans might have laughed at anyone who bought anything that smacked of Russia, or picked fistfights with people bold enough to wear a makeshift red star T-shirt or hammer-and-sickle pants.American sociologists believe the stereotyped image Americans had for years about the Soviet Union — of a backward, bureaucratic and lifeless society led by colorless old men — is starting to break down under Gorbachev’s leadership.On television news, the Soviet people arc looking better and better and American viewers are beginning to see a more interesting and human side to the country.SEEMS CHARMING Gorbachev’s personality has something to do with it.He appears to many as more charming and less fearsome than any Russian leader in the Soviet system’s 70-year history.In last week’s televised NBC interview from Moscow he tended to disarm cri- tics with a ready smile and a friendly expression.“There’s a fascination with the man and the country,” says D’Royce Mit chell, a salesman at a downtown clothing store frequented by people who favor off-beat and funky fashions.“People are starting to get a new image of the Soviet Union, and by wearing clothes with Russian motifs they want to show that they re hip and cosmopolitan.” Tickets for state dinners are usually hard to come by, but the lineup of people scrambling for a chance to meet Gorbachev at the coming affair is a social secretary’s nightmare.Summit fever hasn’t stopped at consumers or socialites.It’s also grip ped the international news community.More than 5,000 journalists and 1,000 technicians from around the world have been accredited to cover the superpower summit, the first in Washington in 14 years.Academics, Soviet experts and translators are being courted by news organizations.Canadian and American television networks are planning specials each night and coverage that dips into the daily schedule, whenever a major briefing or news event occurs.There will be Soviet briefings.White House briefings and impromptu news conference, as well as demonstrations by anti-Soviet and anti-American groups hoping to capture world attention Education The KEt'ORD—Wednesday, December 9, 1987—5 Citrus sale raised $12,000 for late buses, activities at MVRHS The rainbow hued leaves of autumn have fallen from their roosts and Jack Frost has begun to nibble at our noses.As the temperature plummets and the winter season descends upon Massey-Vanier Regional High School, the weather does not deter the hard work and enthusiasm shown by the students.Hot summer blood still runs freely through their veins as they immerse themselves into another productive school year.Winter, usually regarded as a time of slowing down and dormancy, is quite the opposite at Massey-Vanier where we become more productive, more robust and ready for work.Mr.Rose, Intermediate House Principal, and Mr.Price, Senior House Principal, have settled into their new positions gracefully.They have contributed much to the new school year and their presence has been made known.Due to their collaborating efforts with the Prin-cipal Mr.R.K.Douglas, the school’s spirit has rejuvenated.Through these gentlemen’s’ guidance it has been elevated to new heights.In the immortal words of Senior House principal, Mr.Evan Price,: “Be courteous!”, “Work to your potential!”, and “Get positively involved!” Massey Vanier News THE AGRICULTURE CLUB This year, as in every other, Massey-Vanier presents many sports programs and worthwhile extra-curricular activities.There is none so appropriate to this farming region that we live in as the agriculture club.The club is still organized by Mr.Robert Farr and its current president is Willy Stu-der.On trips to be taken this year Mr.Farr is very optimistic.The club plans to visit: The artificial insemination centre in St.Hyacinthe, MacDonald College Agricultural Open House, Studer Dairy Farm and Show Cows, as well as various other places including a sugar shanty, a dairy farm, a hog farm and a chicken operation.So far, the agriculture club has visited the Gérin Farm near St.Sebastien where they were shown Percheron horses, Charlois cattle and great hospitality.No one knows what the plans are to make money, however they will be reported as they arise.A special thanks and congratulations to Mr.Farr, Willy Studer and the club.CITRUS We are proud to announce that Massey-Vanier students raised over $12,000 this year.Money raised will go towards late buses as well as many other extracurricular activities This achievement is, in all part, due to all the individuals who encouraged Massey-Vanier students by buying boxes of fruit.Again, we would like to thank you all for your support and we are glad it paid off.MRIC The annual Moral and Religious Instruction class trips were a success.Every year, Mrs.Maguire takes her MRIC classes on field trips to visit religious houses of worship.Level five students visited the St.Benoit-du-Lae Monastery and learned about the history of the church through the process of experiencing a few hours of life in a monastery.Level four students went to a Hindu Temple and a Jewish Synagogue where each religion was explained.These trips are used to educate students as well as to make the learning process more stimulating.The trips make learning facts much easier and students are able to remember better.The trips have received a very positive res- ponse from all the individuals involved REMEMBRANCE DAY For the students.Massey-Vanier presented its most memorable Remembrance Day on November 11.There was more student participation and variety.This year the whole purpose of Remembrance Day and became apparent to the students with guest speaker Mr.Wes Gage, the students realized how horrible the war was.There were various songs, speeches, and poems composed by students and teachers that were simple, but emotional.Watching the last of the Air Cadets march off the stage affected students in such a way where they felt sad and respect for those who fought in the war.“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." Thanks for risking so much for our peace.GRADUATION COMMITTEE The Grad Committee has demolished its two junior committees for From and the Day of Gradua tion.They are now working as one group in fundraising.The students are preparing for graduation rings and events for the Holiday season.So far, there have been several meetings concerning fundraising and by now there will have been doughnut sales during noon hour.BANK CONCERT It is really quite amazing that Massey-Vanier has a music program at all.In fact, Massey-Vanier is one of the few remaining schools in the province of Quebec which offers a music program and it is due, to a large extent, to the supportive principals which the school has.Thus.Massey-Vanier’s band is an excellent achievement which just puts icing on the cake The band is comprised of two beginner groups, one senior beginner group and one experienced senior group.The first three learned how to read musical notes in only in September.They began playing instruments in October and learn one piece of music per week.Each group is comprised of 25 to 26 members and will contribute fourof five musical pieces to the concert.Mr.Barr, head of the music department, will conduct the beginners on their maiden voyage.The latter group.The Senior Jazz Band, is comprised of ten advanced musicians who are interested in doing concerts outside of school and will do so if called.Some of the members of the Jazz Band group are serious musicians and desire to make a career in the mu sic field Thus, the upcoming Massey Vanier High School Band Concert promises to be a good, worthwile event.Seventy-eight students are involved, sixty of whom are only beginners.Musical pieces from Bach to Chuck Berry to Glen Miller.The concert will take place in the Massey-Vanier Auditorium on December 11.1987 at 7 p.m Tickets will be $3 for adults, $1 for students All proceeds will go into a fund towards purchasing new instru ments.R.C'.A.ARTILLERY BAND On Friday.November 27, Mas sey-Vanier students were treated to the annual visit of the Royal < a nadian Band concert They played popular songs from both past and present, and this year even out did their usually excellent performance A special thanks to the RCA Band and to the students of Massey-Vanier for making this year’s performance a huge sue cess.CONTRIBUTORS Barry Bates Editor in Chief Christine Bieri Chris Porter Soo Hang Wong Students have age-old, iron-clad excuse for grouchiness: Exams It’s Christmas time at BCS.That means many things to the students here: crunch time, exams, carols and finally, a much needed vacation.Monday the 30th, 11 students and two teachers went to Quebec City to spread Christmas cheer, in the form of shoeboxes filled with gifts.There were four “shoebox boys": Dominic Bradford, Timon Galt welcomes all to book sale Galt News By Shelley Clark The annual School Book Fair takes place Dec.14,15 and 16 in the Conference Room.If you like to read or just browse, go down and look around.You just might find that Christmas gift you’ve been looking everywhere for.In support of the Upland’s Cultural Center in Lennoxville the L’Or-chestra Symphonique des Jeunes de Sherbrooke will be at the St.George’s Church on Dec.12 at 8.Tickets are available from Mrs.K.McKercher in Purple Staff.Once again, it’s the time of year to help those who are less fortunate than others.Christmas baskets are being passed around during homeroom again this year.Please donate as it is for a very good cause.Canned goods are also very helpful.This past weekend (Dec.4 and 5) the 18th Annual BU-CRC High School Hockey Tournament got underway.The Galt Pipers played their first game against Davignon.Galt won 9-1.Shawn Demers and Phil Gallagher with 4 and 3 goals respectively were the high scorers of the game.Next day, the Pipers were back out on the ice playing Loyola.Galt won again 4-3.Ross La vallee scored two goals.That afternoon, the Galt Pipers played once more, this time against Lake-field.Unfortunately, Galt lost 8-2.The Galt’s senior boy’s basketball team had the privilege — on Dec.3 to 5 — to participate in the 5th Annual Hub City Coca-Cola Hoop Classic in Moncton, New Brunswick.It was attended by seven Maritime teams, and Galt.Although we got off to a slow start in the first game by losing to the eventual tournament winners, we won one out of three games which was very commendable with the calibre of teams participating.It was an unforgettable tournament with many added luxuries and fond memories.A team players was chosen at each game.Tom Janidlo, Craig Costello and Jay McHarg were chosen for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd game respectively.A first and second all-star team were chosen.Craig Costello was chosen as one of the players of the second all-star team.Many thanks are extended especially to our coaches Don Caldwell and Kimball Smith for making this trip a great experience for the team.Bish Biz By Caroline Mitchell Deitchman, Mike Fulford and James Thomas, as well as students from the community services activity.They delivered 73 shoeboxes —- made by approximately 140 students — along with a $202.50 donation.Also Monday, Mr.Cruickshank named three boys to the Headmasters List for outstanding contribution to the school: Thane Calder, Mike Fulford and Charlie Scott.The BCS teams were flying high Wednesday.Senior volleyball, in its first league match, won four out of the five games played The junior basketball team defeated Sacre Coeur 42-32 and senior basketball continued the victory parade, trouncing Galt 57-41.Our chaplain.Rev.Patricia Peacock, began scouring the school in search of readers for the service of nine lessons and carols at the end of the term.If Wednesday was a day for sports Thursday was a day for music.In the weekly Thursday morning recital, Helen Hawketts, on the baritone, played “Cradle” by Jacob Arcadel, accompanied by Mr.G.Thompson on piano.The Bertha Bell award, given to senior students who have made an outstanding contribution to the music department in their years at the school, was awarded to Helen Hawketts, Caroline Lavallée and Leslie Major.At lunchtime students were serenaded by a group of musicians (from BCS) raising money for the Round Square Project in India, in which two of our students are participating.The talen ted band was compost'd of David Algire, Don Booth, Dominic Bradford.Helen Hawketts and Leslie Major.Throughout Thursday architects Bruce Anderson.Philip Webster and Ron Evens toured the school, composing a “new look" for BCS.The sixth form drama classes performed the comedy After Liverpool at noon, and at dinner the senior band directed by Mr.Gaston Coté performed, for the enjoyment of the diners, classic carols and such popular tunes as the theme to the Flinstones Also on Friday, senior basketball beat Triolet 64-57.Saturday was a special day for the old girls of Kings Hall, Compton.It was the 95th birthday of Dr Adelaide Gillard.former headmistress of the school.Her old students came from all over the country to honor her at a reception in Gillard House, BCS, The musicians raising money for the Round Square Project in India played in the Carrefour de l’Estrie from 10 a m.to 2 p.m , where they raised $270.Saturday the action was at Glass House (a girl’s residence), which held an Open House.Rooms were open to the entire po pulation of the school (for one night only) and movies were shown Pro ceeds went to the Old Brewery Mis sion in Montreal, a home for desti tute men The karate team, in its first match, beat Bishop’s 5 games to 4 30 children bet ween the ages of nine and 13 added a twist to the service of morning prayer on Sun day.The Estrie Young Singers, led by Nancy Rahn and accompanied by Cheryl Dutton on piano were a beautiful beginning to the day.Monday, Pugwash held a bake sale, perhaps to sweeten the idea of exams, which began on Thursday KKs (Kris Kringles) begin (his week as well KKs are people who do nice things, send notes, or small gifts during exams anonymously to 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