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2007 WINNER CCNA BETTER NEWSPAPERS COMPETITION RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 VOLVO 3625 du Blanc Coteau, Shetbrooke % 19 56 j >"• ::t Wii'k VpiÿOSfae# ' '.in Come to our new location WEEKEND EDITION 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#004 RÉSIDENCE POUR LES AÎNÉS/ RETIREMENT RESIDENCE with 24 hr.supervision Social activities to enjoy with a warm and caring personnel Soins 24h sur 24 Programme d’activités et un personnel chaleureux Physio services available & doctor on call 28 Mount Echo, Knowlton, Québec (450) 2424663 E-mail: manoirlacbrome@bellnet.ca Web site: www.manoirlacbrome.com Rmmouy pear Remîtes du Quebec RECORD: Friday, April 6, 2007 page 3 page 4 Friday, April 6, 2007 ; ¦THE.I« RECORD Old Boys: Cont'd from Page 1 Jones, first vice-president Scott, and Richard Parenteau, argued proper procedure had not been followed.They sought and obtained an immediate Superior Court injunction to block the sale, which was finally annulled in 2005.But Grenier took the matter to Quebec’s Court of Appeal where, in October 2006, the lower court’s decision was confirmed: the camp had been sold and purchased in bad faith.Once again Grenier appealed, taking the case to the highest court in the land.Yesterday, three Supreme Court justices announced they would not allow Grenier’s lawyers plead the case.Old Boys president George Jones told The Record the membership will now be convened and members will vote on the future.Until now, a temporary court order allowed the executive to run the camp, but the association could not hold any meetings or make any changes until legal proceedings were concluded once and for all.“We’d like to try and bring the camp back to what it used to be,” Jones said, noting that recently it has mainly been used as a municipal day camp.He would like the camp to be open to Scouts and other groups as it was in the past.“We’re going to give this camp 100 more years,” promised Parenteau.Parenteau closed the door on past trials and tribulations and said it was time to plan for the future.“It’s not time to look in the rear view mirror I Spring is in the air.and RECORD is having a Spring Special! Subscribe today and Save SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Regular Rate _JJ30-2fS' $13 Spring Special $34.75* $68.00* $130.00* 3 months 6 months 12 months YES, I want the Spring Special Name: Address: _________ Telephone ?Visa ?MC Payment: L) cheque Card # Exp.Mail or call us today.819-569-9528 or 1-800-463-9525 Limited time offer, valid in Canada only RECORD 1195 Galt Street East Sherbrooke, Quebec J1G 1Y7 Act today, Spring Special is valid 'til April 6, 2007 anymore.It’s time to look forward.” Parenteau said the Old Boys will have to look at setting up some sort of nonprofit foundation to ensure the long-term future of the camp.“My generation is the last generation of Old Boys,” he said, recalling the school closed its doors in 1969.“After us there is no one left to pursue it.” Parenteau has a proposal to invest at least $3 million into the camp.In the meantime, Scott said the Old Boys will go ahead with long-delayed plans to build a playground.Before the controversial sale of the land and the injunction that put it on hold, Grenier had a contract with the camp to excavate part of the property to build a new playground with soccer fields as well as tennis and badminton courts.The 2002 Superior Court injunction did not prevent Grenier from continuing excavation, but in 2005 Quebec’s farmland protection board, the Commission de protection du territoire agricole, decided Grenier contravened the law by removing sand and gravel from 2.78 hectares of the property and ordered the land be restored.In the meantime, the Environment Ministry confirmed it is investigating to determine if Grenier was illegally operating a sand and gravel pit on the site.Old Boys lawyer Jean Beaudry said that while the saga surrounding the ownership of the camp property is over, the legal nightmares are not over for the association and its executive.Beaudry told The Record there are still a half dozen legal actions pending, including the most recent one where Grenier is attempting to get the courts to declare he owns the property where he has been operating a Is your central vision becoming blurred?Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in Canada.If you experience any change in vision, consult your eye-care professional.The Canadian National Institute for the BtinS 1-800-513-78Î3 www.cnib.ca quarry.“We’re being sued for everything under the sun,” said Jones, noting he is not too worried about the remaining legal battles in the light of yesterday’s decision.“We did everything legal(ly).” Grenier and his company Excavation Grenier earlier filed a pair of lawsuits against George Jones and Fred Scott for trying to prevent him from operating his quarry on the disputed land.In the first action, Grenier’s company is seeking $100,000 in lost revenues, $100,000 in expenses to restore the land, as well as $50,000 in exemplary damages.In the second, Grenier is seeking $250,000 in damages, claiming Jones and Scott acted in bad faith in launching legal proceedings against him and his company.Jones and Scott are also being sued by Old Boys Gerry Largy and Maurice Galvin.In one suit, they are demanding to know what has happened with the association’s money since 2002.In another, they are each seeking $85,000 for damages to their reputations.Beaudry said that in all, there are some $1.5 to $2 million in lawsuits pending — and he has yet to receive a cent for more than four years of legal work.“They have a lawyer with a big heart, because I have not been paid to date,” Beaudry said, noting he won court costs for the Superior and Appeals Court cases that Grenier will have to pay some day soon.“They are just trying to discourage us.They know the association has no money and they figure Beaudry will give up some day,” the lawyer said, noting he has not intention of giving up the war until it is won.The remaining court battles could drag on for another two years.“But the worst is over with,” Jones said.“Now we will be able to move ahead.” The St.Pat’s Old Boys Association includes all the graduates from the now-defunct English Catholic secondary school in Sherbrooke.There are hundreds of members from coast to coast, including more than three dozen local members.The association has been running the summer camp on the shores of Lake Stoke just outside Sherbrooke since 1954.Charles Grenier did not return The Record's calls.We could not speak with his lawyer Ghislain Richer, either.His law partner explained Richer was on leave. : ¦¦ —THE— ¦ - RECORD Friday, April 6, 2007 page 5 Caught with coils of wire Arrests in copper theft By Maurice Crossfield Knowlton Six people are facing criminal charges in connection with the theft of large rolls of copper wire from a Pacifique Street warehouse in Sherbrooke this week.“We aren’t sure of the exact date or time of the theft, but the complaint was filed yesterday afternoon,” said Sherbrooke Police spokeswoman Const.Maryse Boulanger.In the hours that followed, investigators tracked down enough information to get a search warrant for a residence on 7th Ave.North.There they recovered 10 rolls of copper wire, initially stopping nine people, three of whom were later released.Six were slated to be arraigned Thursday afternoon on a variety of charges that included breaking and entering, theft and possession of stolen goods.Boulanger said other charges and arrests may follow as the investigation continues.For the moment we don't have anything to indicate a connection to other thefts,” she said.“It is too early in the investigation for that.” Boulanger also said there’s nothing to indicate a connection to the recent theft of the bell from the Plymouth-Trinity United Church.That bell was recently recovered when police alerted a Montreal-area scrap dealer.“The bell was made of bronze, and thefts of bronze are quite rare,” Boulanger said.Police will, however, be looking at that theft and other recent metal thefts to see if there is a connection to the Pacifique Street burglary.Thefts of various metals, particularly copper and aluminium, have become more popular in recent months do to rising prices of the metals.MS lives here.Multiple sclerosis usually strikes people aged 20 to 40, in the prime of their lives.Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada 1-800-268-7582 www.mssociety.ca III ii,I sUUOfliO*" V»'P* »«•»« - 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However, the thieves were caught in the act and chased as far as a place called White Mill where they tossed their stash into the River Stour.Sinking fast in the mud, the bell proved too heavy for the locals to retrieve and may still be there today.The incident is recalled in the lines; Knowlton bell is stole And thrown into White Mill hole Where all the devils in hell Could never pull up Knowlton bell.Once a thriving village, Knowlton had been all but wiped out by the Black Death in 1485, but the church, set in the centre of concentric circular burial mounds dating back over 4,500 years to Neolithic times, continued to serve nearby villages until it fell into disrepair over 200 years ago.My wife and I have been wintering in nearby Bournemouth and visited the Knowlton Rings, as they are called, bringing back a few snapshots of the site, including the church ruins.Lionel Albert Knowlton She’s 80, and still waiting Dear editor This is a copy of a letter sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.1 was truly honoured and privileged to receive your best wishes and warmest congratulations on the occasion of my 80th birthday.I wish to thank you for your kindness.Am I not right in saying when you made the promise to grant the VIP [pension] to all the veterans’ widows back to the Second World War and Korean War, your intention to keep this promise was genuine, honest and sincere?Yet these veterans’ widows are still waiting for you to keep your promise.Their trust in the Conservative government most certainly [must be] wavering more each day, and can we blame them?In 2006 you asked the minister of Veterans Affairs to make up a package for the VIP for veterans’ widows and also to cost it out — which the Hon.Gregory Thompson did.How much longer do these veterans’ widows have to wait for the VIP which they are entitled to, to be granted to them?The occasion of my 80th birthday would be greatly enhanced by you keeping the promise you made grant the VIP and enable these veterans’ widows to stay in their own homes.You would also avoid spending an extremely larger sum of taxpayers’ money by preventing the veterans’ widows from having to be institutionalized.If they are treated with equality and justification, they may regain their trust in you.A promise made needs to be kept.Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s lavish spending on tax cuts and tax benefits unfortunately as always do not benefit the majority of Canadian citizens, especially citizens who are struggling to survive on poverty incomes.How many seniors are able to save on their pittance of an income to benefit from tax cuts promised in the budget?Where is the response of the government to meet the needs of all Canadian citizens?Joyce Carter Nova Scotia RECORD P.0.Box 1200 SherbrookeJIH 516 or 1195 Galt E, Sherbrooke JIG 1Y7 Fax: *19-569-3945 e-mail: newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Website: wwwjherbrookerecord.com Randy Kinneak Publisher .(819) 569-9511 Eleanor Brown Editor .(819) 569-6345 Richard Lessard Prod.Mgr.(819) 569-9931 Serge Gacnon Chief Pressman .(819) 569-9931 Francine Thibault Prod.Superv.(819) 569-4856 DEPARTMENTS Accounting .(819)569-9511 Advertising.(819)569-9525 Circulation.(819)569-9528 Newsroom .(819)569-6345 Knowlton office 88-A Lakeside.Knowlton, Quebec,JOE 1V0 Tel: (450) 242-1188 Fax: (450) 243-5155 MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS GST PST TOTAL Canada: 1 year 120.00 7.20 9,54 $136.74 6 MONTHS 63.00 3.78 5.01 $71.79 3 MONTHS 32.00 1.92 2.54 $36.46 Out of Quebec residents do not include PST.Rates for other services available on request.The Record is published daily Monday to Friday.Back copies of The Record are available.The Record was founded on February 7,1897.and acquired the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879) in 1905 and the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) in 1908.The Record is published by Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership.PM#0040007682 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Record, 1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD, CNA, QCNA oH ua* mo! IAJÇ Dom’T Clu& They Want Attention PERRY BEATON Members of the Coalition SOS Parc Orford held a press conference yesterday to say they wanted to meet with Quebec’s three major political party leaders to get the scoop on the privatization of a chunk of the park, which the the group opposes.They hope the surprise election results, leaving the Liberals with a minority government, will lead to change on the Orford dossier.Dope dealers continue to feel the Burn More arrests Staff To date, Sherbrooke Police have arrested 17 people in connection with its Project Burn anti-cocaine investigation.The 17th arrest took place Wednesday.While earlier raids and arrests netted significant amounts of cocaine and cash, this week’s police action was simply to arrest yet another suspect, said Sherbrooke Police spokeswoman Const.Maryse Boulanger.Project Burn has keep police busy.On March 28 a series of raids in various Sherbrooke boroughs, including Lennoxville, resulted in the arrest of 15 people, a dozen of whom were arraigned on drug-related charges.Police also seized $100,000 worth of cocaine, $8,000 worth of marijuana and hashish and $6,400 in cash.Then, acting on information garnered during that same operation, police raided a warehouse on Evaris Leblanc Street soon after.There they turned up a kilo of cocaine worth an estimated $100,000 and $350,000 in cash.Also recovered in the raids were scales, bags and other items used to weigh, package and sell the illegal drugs.Nature: Cont’d from Page 8 Graymont gets involved in the community VMONT fisheries.It means people losing their jobs, homes being repossessed, fathers being separated from families for long periods of time in an attempt to find employment in other provinces so they can continue to support their loved ones and prevent having to pack them up and move them away from relatives, friends and communities they call home.With almost one and a half billion people around the world depending on fish as their main protein source, most of these being some of the poorest people on earth who can not afford to turn to another source of protein and have few options, the sudden decline in fish stocks will result in mass starvation on a level the world has never seen before.Next week: Killing off a species one fin at a time.Because The Record will not publish on Monday, Life section columnist Anna May Kinney appears today.For many children s ind seniors.epilepsy is a MW epilepsy Mr canada 1-877-734.0873 IPÜPIIPPII A ¦ÆK&SÉ Stsa® Good life.Great price NE041H10?2007.Sears CanjdH li Offers end Wed., April 11, 2007 Sears will arrange installation by qualified contractors.Offers do not apply to previously signed contracts.Not valid in conjunction with any other discount or promotion.Not available in all markets ' Sears HomeCentral .“Products and Services from the Company You Trust Call now toll-free, for a no-obligation in-home custom estimate.Call or visit your Sears Retail store =RECORD= Friday, April 6, 2007 page 11 Not about victory, but about obligation to the dead Even Hitler saw beauty in Vimy memorial By Richard Foot Can We st News Service Among the countless people who’ve marvelled at the great Canadian monument on Vimy Ridge in northeast France, none are as infamous as Adolf Hitler, who strode among the monument’s shining white walls in the spring of 1940 as his conquering army swept toward Paris.This weekend, thousands of modern-day visitors, including Queen Elizabeth and scores of Canadian school children, will also gather there for a grand ceremony to remember the events of another war, and the remarkable Canadian achievement there 90 years ago this Easter.Hitler’s visit to the site has been largely forgotten in Canada today.And what many of this weekend’s pilgrims won’t know is that the monu- ment itself, which some consider the greatest war memorial ever built, has a history all its own, as turbulent and compelling as the famous battle it honours.When the First World War ended in 1918, the high escarpment at Vimy was a scarred landscape of shattered trees, artillery craters and crumbling trench-works, still holding the remains of some of the 3,598 Canadians who died capturing the ridge in the four-day battle of April 1917.Vimy was one of eight battlefield sites in France and Belgium where Canada sought and received permission to build memorials in honour of its 66,000 fallen soldiers in the Great War.While Britain, Australia and South Africa hired a common group of Commonwealth architects to construct their battlefield monuments in Europe, Ottawa took a different approach.It announced a Canada-wide competition for the design of a national memorial to be built at Vimy Ridge, considered the site Please see Vimy on Page 12 -; 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i—THE — i RECORD RLE PHOTO Hitler ensured that the Vimy monument survived the war.Vimy: Cont’d from Page 11 of Canada’s greatest wartime triumph.The undisputed winning design, chosen in 1921 from among more than 100 entries, was a daring proposal by Walter Allward.A renowned Toronto sculptor, Allward had already designed the South African War monument, which still stands today on University Avenue in Toronto.But unlike his South African memorial — a stone pedestal adorned with bronze soldier-statues, which reflected the Edwardian and Victorian tastes of the prewar period — Allward’s Vimy submission was radical in style and breathtaking in scope.“It was like no other war memorial that had gone before,” says Jacqueline Hucker, an art historian in Ottawa who served on the conservation team that recently restored the Vimy monument.His Vimy design used the clean lines and interpretive figures of classicism.His monument was also huge.Its twin pylons -symbolizing Canada and France — rise 30 metres above a sprawling stone platform.It’s adorned with sculpted figures symbolizing peace, sacrifice and mourning.Allward said the idea for the monument was inspired by a dream he’d had during the “blackest” days of the war: in his dream, Canada’s soldiers were saved by legions of dead comrades, rising up from the battlefield in their thousands to rescue the living.For the first time, says Hucker, here was a war memorial not devoted to triumph or the glory of a great military leader, but to a profound sense of duty towards the legions of ordinary men who filled the ranks of the dead.“Vimy is not a victory monument.There are no signs of victory there at all,” she says.“It expresses our obligation to the dead, and the grief of the living — sentiments of sacrifice that you do not see in war memorials until this time.” Building the monument was a mammoth, 12-year undertaking, supervised by Allward himself.Because the ground on Vimy Ridge was scattered with live shells and the remains of fallen soldiers, the foundations had to excavated slowly, with picks and shovels.Allward scoured war-torn Europe for the ideal stone veneer with which to cover the monument and sculpt its 20 large figures.He finally settled on a limestone quarry in Croatia, whose stones had been used by the Romans in the third century, to build the Emperor Diocletian’s palace.After years of public anticipation, 3,000 Canadians boarded ships in Montreal and crossed the Atlantic for the unveiling of Allward’s masterpiece, on July 26,1936.“Around us here today there is peace, and rebuilding, and hope,” said King Edward VIII, standing that day beneath the great, limestone walls, exquisitely inscribed with the names of 11,285 Canadians who had died in France in unknown graves.“In dedicating this memorial to our fallen comrades,” the King said, “our thoughts turn rather to the splendour of their sacrifice, and to our consecration of our love for them, than to the cannonade, which beat upon this ridge a score of years ago.” The monument became an instant icon for Canadians, a symbol of the notion that Canada had matured into an independent nation during the war.It also became a popular tourist attraction in Europe, visible for kilometres around the French countryside.Yet, only three years later, Europe was again at war, with Hitler’s Panzer divisions sweeping across France, pushing the beleaguered British soldiers onto the beaches at Dunkirk.As France fell under Nazi occupation, anxi- eties mounted in Canada about the fate of the Vimy memorial.Allward tried to calm fears, saying he knew when he was building the monument that the area around Vimy might one day become a battle ground again.“So we carved the figures of stone instead of casting them in bronze,” he said at the time.“Bronze figures might be melted down for munitions." By June 1940, Canadian newspapers began running dramatic accounts of the monument’s destruction by the invading “Huns” and “Barbarians.” “Vimy Memorial Smashed by Nazi Bombers,” said the Montreal Daily Star.Canadians were appalled and outraged.Hitler’s visit In response, Hitler himself decided to visit Vimy Ridge — his first journey to France since the start of the war — to prove news of the monument’s destruction was false.German newspapers published photos of him, accompanied by a retinue of Nazi officers in ankle-length leather coats, walking among the white pylons and touring the nearby trenches.Unlike many French war monuments the Nazis did tear down, the Vimy memorial carried no messages of Allied triumph over Germany.“It was dedicated to sacrifice, loss of life, and remembrance," says University of Ottawa historian Serge Durflinger.“Hitler admires it immensely, he says so at the time.As a result, the Germans respect the memorial all through the war.” Still, Canadians weren’t convinced until the area was recaptured by the Allies in 1944.Lt.-Gen.Harry Crerar, commander of the 1st Canadian Army, inspected the memorial a few days later, landing there in his personal airplane.“Not a bomb nor a shell has fallen near it,” wrote Canadian war correspondent Ross Munro when he also visited the site soon after its liberation.“From three miles away we saw the memorial sparkling in the sunlight.There was a cathedral-like quiet.The new front mercifully passed by Vimy.The new war hadn’t wrought its destruction on this hill of valour.” Got a question?See Tuesday's paper for the answer from your professionals.JPD JOLY RIENDEAU&DUKE ca (COWANSVIILM INC.3490 Galt St.West, Sherbrooke Tel.: 819-346-0333 • Fax: 819-566-2867 127 Principale St., Suite 105 Cowansville Tel.: 450-263-4123 William G.Duke, C.G.A., M.B.A.tyPOtlTIGNE m VOfflQE DE LESTRIE(I960| INC 2339 Les Promenades King.Sherbrooke 819-563-7343 525 1st Avenue, Asbestos 819-879-7188 Quebec Permit Holder Marthe Lecours President Suiim Groupe Sutton de I'Estrie Courtier immobilier agrée Helen Labrecque Aft.Real Estate Agent 1650 King Street West Suite 10 Sheitirooke Tel : 819-562-8024 819-823-7474 I Helen Labrecque — THE* Jo-Ann Hovey RECORD Jo-Ann Hovey 1195 Galt St.East, Sherbrooke Tel.: 819-569-9525 E-mail: jhovey@sherbrookerecord.com Consult our professionals first Send your questions to: The Record, P.O.Box 1200., Sherbrooke J1H5L6 Fax: 821-3179 • E-mail: production@sherbrookerecord.com INSIDE Sports Sport at 100?Yes, you can ,.see Page 15 Newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Friday, April 6, 2007 page 13 Faucher steps down from Cougar coaching job He felt more like a supervisor By Mike Hickey Special to The Record T^ie short but very successful Glen Faucher era at Champlain College is over after one season.Champlain Lennoxville athletic director Sylvain Laflamme announced yesterday that Faucher and assistant coach Dave McBride would not be returning to coach the men’s basketball team.While their time with the Cougars was brief, the two made an impact on the Cégep AA program.Despite dealing with a number of injuries throughout the year, the Cougars posted a 10-4 record, good for third place in the Estrie circuit.They advanced to the regional playoffs in Quebec City, and they were also selected as the league’s Most Sportsmanship Team, a reflection of the coaching staff.“I was pleased with the men’s basketball season this year,” Champlain athletic director Laflamme said Thursday.“We were 10-4 on the season and I thought the team took it to the next level.It is disappointing that Glen and David will not be back because they did a good job.” While the reasons for their surprise departures were varied, time commitment was certainly a major factor.McBride, who was recently appointed director of Advancement at Bishop’s University, explained that his new work responsibilities made it impossible for him to continue with the team.“It was a tough decision to step down after one year as I really enjoyed being back in the gym, working with basketball players again after so many years,” McBride said.“Unfortunately the demands of my new role means I have far less time to dedicate to Cougar basketball.If we ask our players to commit fully, then the same should be expected of coaches; I just can’t do that in the next few years.“It is sad that Glen Faucher is stepping down as I think he is truly one of the great young coaches in the area — there is no doubt in my mind he could have built a dynasty if he were staying on.” As for Faucher, the combination of time commitments with his teaching and family responsibilities combined with frustration over practice attendance forced him to leave a coaching position he thoroughly enjoyed.“I want to make it clear that I am not leaving because I’ve been fired or that I am angry or spiteful in any way, shape or form,” Faucher said earlier in the week.“This was a great year.We had a wonderful group of guys on the team' who worked hard and were committed to getting better individually and as a team.We had great success; unfortunately we had a rough four minutes in our first regional playoff game which effectively ended our season.” All things being equal, Faucher would have remained on the Cougar bench for several years but there were also frustrations.“I had a fun time coaching the Cougars this year but found it difficult in two ways: time away from home and commitment of the players.If everyone Please see Cougars on Page 14 mm Vert et Or PERRY BEATON Ben Youssef Meité and Marie-Christine Pruneau (at left) picked up top athlete of the year awards at the University of Sherbrooke's annual honours this week.At right, David Foley and Katie Protean were honoured as the school's most outstanding student athletes. page 14 Friday, April 6, 2007 f f ENERGY LOOK FOR THE ENERGY STAR ’SYMBOL MAKE A WISH FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND SAVE ENERGY AND MONEY! 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