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THE— RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 75 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Thursday, April 12, 2007 Scam alert By Jen Young Record correspondent Tpwnshippers can get scammed, too.Or at least, scam artists can try.“We are pleased to inform you of the release of the Euro Mil-lones Lottery International Promotion Program,” reads a letter from Spain received by a Townshipper (who asked to remain anonymous).Despite not having entered the lot- tery, the recipient was advised that he won a small fortune in the drawing.And absolute secrecy, according to the lottery agency, is vital.“Your fund is now deposited in a financial outfit with your prize money insured in your name.Due to mixed [sic] up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated account as this is part of our security protocol.” And to get the cash, the official-looking document says a collection of personal details are needed.“It’s clear that it is fraud,” said RCMP spokeswoman Corporal Elaine Lev-ergne.“As soon as people are asking for too much personal information you Please see Fraud on Page 4 All Wet \ v V X .i v ?r-i® i 'smm t DAVID ANDERSON Sutton’s still open for skiing — but the Spring Snow on the Beach party added water into the mix! See page 14. page 2 Thursday, April 12, 2007 —THE RECORD The Pie bonspiel The Lennoxville “Pie” Bonspiel was — mostly — held March 11 to 17 with 26 regular teams and 18 senior teams (from Toronto, Branford, Baie Durfe, St.Lambert, and the Estrie region).The snowstorm on the Friday evening interfered and the senior portion of the event was actually held March 20.The regular was played.The Nichol, that goes to the top team in the bonspeil, was presented for the 75th time (it was donated by Wes and Howard in honor of their father John Nichol Sr.).A special pin sent to the winner, along with cash prizes presented by John Nichol (Jr).A $150 charity donation went to the borough’s food bank.1.1 .WOW ll/TJ ULTRAMAR S!l HUB HOOKE iniMawiiiBiia Mi Ultramar Trophy, front row winners, Sherbrooke (left to right): jean Langevin, Richard Lacrois, Marc Paradis and Gerald Marcoux.Runner-up Lennoxville: Rocky Chretien, Mike Mooney, Bill Smith (Ultramar), Lyle Sample and Mike Berard.I— Kill: HI; Nichol Trophy winners from Border, Border (back row, l to r): Josh Bronson, Daniel Camber, John Nichol (donor), Jamie Retchless and Steve Roy.Runner-up, Sherbrooke: Yvan Verville, Derek Lockwood, Gaétan Guillemette and Evin Mooney.U SSOW ij,j,| mMooXKVMKM Brantford - front row L to R: Stu Field, Al Smith, martin Helter, Ron Smith.Runner-up rear - Lennoxville, Rollie Dionne, Gerry Cannon, Denis Singher and Denis Oakley.Weather Today: Cloudy.Rain or snow beginning late in the morning changing to snow late in the day.Wind 30 km/h late in the morning.High plus 4.Friday: Periods of snow or rain.Low minus 2.High plus 5.Saturday: Sunny.Low minus 3.High 9.Sunday: Cloudy with 40 per cent chance of showers.Low zero.High 9.3 WELL?LOOKS LIKE TME KlPSVE PROBABLY EEEN GIVING HIM T00MUOJ fOOP Ben by Daniel Shelton C FISHWWT.N IF YOU KEEPGMNG THEM F00RTHEYU-JUST KEEPEATIMSIT-EVEN IF IT MAKES THEM SICK.> 1) mVA LIKE MVA9AT THANKS6MM6 UXX, HES&/EN EYING CM HIS SIRE /THE VJAYPAPPO&Ss PROBABLY WISHING FOP-A COUCH. ;a«£oü»: record; r ,'i /* RésWtt» domestiques daogemu HDD tuw—*»«*«* tm Sil Seniors overprescribed antipsychotic drugs COURTESY Magog’s Ecocentre opens for the season on Friday with extended hours, and the city is offering free clothing and textiles, free car tires and some construction materials to residents who want to re-use them.It will be open Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m.to 6:30 p.m., and weekends from 8 a.m.to 5 p.m.Fraud: Cont’d from Page 1 know it’s fraudulent.“A prize is a prize and you shouldn’t need to give out any banking information.” This false prize patrol attached a letter asking for bank account numbers, next of kin, addresses and a copy of personal identification.The company sending the “offer” is EuroMillones — and the Spanish business does in fact exist, and there is a real worldwide drawing that takes place.But the company website itself is warning of fraudsters using its name.“Have you received a letter, email, or phone call telling you that you have won a big prize?” reads the EuroMillones website.“It is very likely (TAKE FOR SURE) that this letter or mail is a scam, a lie, and the scammers will try to charge you commissions or other ‘costs’ before paying you the supposed prize.“This prize does not exist.There is a number of groups of criminals, of various nationalities, using the prestige and the commercial names of the Official Lotteries by fraudulent means in several countries, particularly in countries in the south-west of Asia and the Pacific, and countries on the American continent.They move with ease around the whole world and use mobile telephones, PO boxes, provisional or false addresses (including real addresses of official Spanish organizations), as well as names that bring to mind prestigious institutions (‘el Gordo’, ‘Euromil- /H ,rJ YOUR REF Fi*: .AMOUNT WON: 'MME OF BENEFICIARY: -.(LAST NAMEE HOME ADDRESS:.» f IF CODE COUNTRY:- , TELEPHONE _ EMAIL ADDRESS: 1 WANT TO BE PAID BY: ma.l»»» 1 i ib) KX«TffH»«8a&tt) ?NOTE; FOR CERTIFIED CHEQUE ONLY ADDRESS OF BENEFICIARY IS REQUIRED BANK NAME;.—____ ACCOUNT NAME;-_________ BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:.SWIFT CODE ;___________ TANK ADDRESS:.—- CITY:.NAME (MR/MRSL.HOME ADDRESS;.__________LAST NAME:.santalucia ^¦^KftHSECUNOSH m m m CALLE MAYOR 75, 29011 UAORBCSPAM TEL:-*3447W1W» FAX.' - ?3AR11-010-3» PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM Endeavour in airçiae fee, fcrm and ***«] wih a o#yw* psxntficknftye*.«*3TsOon*lpw(¥«t.dnvt»’i liLMXxcr aiy valid idwttytabor te same OTKoTtlKbaK&aay could be to )u*a^immcdaieiy This document asks for all sorts of personal and financial information, and if given out the recipient might well end up with a cleaned out bank account.lones’, ‘la Primitiva’, ‘European Lottery Commission’, etc.) They also forge the printed sheets and signatures of various banks.Therefore, when you are offered ‘prizes’ that seem to be linked to the Spanish Lottery, DO NOT PAY any amount.Likewise, we would be grateful if you could inform local authorities of these crimes.” Local RCMP officials warn consumers to never send any personal financial information over the Internet.They also advise individuals to shred any informa- tion related to credit cards and other financial details before tossing it in the trash, as the information can be used by people looking to impersonate you.If you feel as though you have been a victim of fraud, or there is someone promising big money in exchange for some information, contact Phone Busters, an organization supported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police specifically to fight fraud, at 1-888-654-9426, or by email at info@phonebusters.com.— Ontario study By April Lindgren CanWest News Service Toronto Ontario nursing homes are too quick to give vulnerable seniors antipsychotic drugs to keep them calm, suggests a disturbing new study examining prescribing rates for the drugs at 485 facilities.The study of 47,322 residents in provincially regulated nursing homes indicates the average rate of antipsychotic prescribing by home ranged from 21 per cent in the groups with the lowest average rate to 44 per cent in the highest category.Residents in nursing homes with high prescribing rates were three times more likely to be given antipsychotic drugs — whether they need them — than others in facilities with lower antipsychotic prescribing rates, indicates the research by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.“These results suggest antipsychotic therapy is not being prescribed based on their clinical indication,” the researchers write in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.“Rather, the decision to prescribe an antipsychotic therapy appears to be related to the nursing home environment, with some environments being more permissive about antipsychotic use.” The research also indicates among the 8,058 residents who had no condition requiring antipsychotic drugs, 10.4 per cent or 839 were nonetheless medicated.In the nursing homes with the highest antipsychotic prescribing rates, 16.6 per cent of patients with neither psychosis nor dementia were given the drugs.“Prescribing antipsychotic therapy to a resident with no clinical indication for the therapy has been identified as a measure of poor quality of care,” the study says.Lead researcher Dr.Paula Rochon said antipsychotic drugs have side-effects including sedation, higher risks of falls and hip fractures and Parkinson’s disease-type symptoms.“Sometimes people are using them for the wrong reasons,” Rochon said in an interview.“These are drugs that should be reserved for situations where the benefits outweigh the risks.They certainly are not drugs that should be used to deal with sleep problems or people wandering.” Rochon, a geriatrician, said that before drugs are prescribed, greater effort is required to address the reasons for residents’ agitation.Researchers in another study, for instance, found antipsychotic therapy was reduced by 19 per cent following the introduction of training and support programs focusing on alternatives to drug use for the management of agitated behaviour.“Initiatives such as this provide an important alternative to antipsychotic therapy and should be used more uniformly across nursing homes.” Rochon said concerns about high rates of use of an earlier generation of antipsychotic drugs prompted legislators in the United States to pass a law governing their use in nursing homes.Following the introduction of the 1990 legislation, use of those drugs fell to 17 per cent from 24 per cent with no documented evidence of detrimental effects to residents.Since then, new generations of antipsychotic drugs have been introduced and are being used more and more often, although it is now becoming clear there are serious safety concerns associated with them as well.Rochon stopped short of saying Ontario should introduce legislation dictating when nursing home residents should be prescribed antipsychotic drugs, but observed the rate of use of such drugs should be monitored by provincial regulators as one of the indicators of quality of care.Karen Sullivan, executive director of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, said the variation in prescription rates for antipsychotic drugs has more to do with attending physicians than with nursing homes themselves.Sullivan, whose association represents more than 400 profit and not-for-profit nursing homes, noted the researchers based their study on 2003 data and suggested the situation has improved since then because the province is now paying doctors more so they’ll spend more time with long-term care patients to better understand their needs. : ¦ ¦IHK» - RECORD Thursday, April 12, 2007 page 5 Sales Job PERRY BEATON A second federal Tory Cabinet minister visited the Townships in as many days, as the industry department's Maxime Bernier spoke to the Sherbrooke Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning about the the pluses of the Conservative budget that was released in the middle of the Quebec election campaign.A busy night for police Two muggers and a driver Staff Sherbrooke Police in Sherbrooke were kept busy on Tuesday night as they sought, found, and arrested two suspected robbers and happened upon an alleged drug dealer.The first theft occurred in the dog walk area of Camirand Park when a mugger attempted to steal the cell phone from a man walking his dog around 9:30.The would-be thief pushed the man, hit him and tried to rob his cellphone before fleeing on foot.The victim used the cell phone to call police who located a suspect not far from the park, said Sherbrooke police spokesperson Maryse Boulanger.The suspect, a 22-year-old man, resisted arrest, she said.He was finally taken into custody where police checked his record and learned he was breaking parole conditions.The man now faces charges of theft, resisting arrest, uttering threats, as well as failure to respect the conditions of his release.Later, around 12:05, a theft occurred at the au- tomatic teller at the Caisse populaire Desjardins Sherbrooke-Est on Bowen South.The victim was making a withdrawal when a man came in and grabbed the cash.An altercation ensued before the thief fled on foot with the money, said Boulanger.A suspect was located in the vicinity soon afterward.He was arrested and searched, during which time police uncovered a small amount of drugs, said Boulanger.The suspect, a 39-year-old Sherbrooke man, faces charges of theft and drug possession.Earlier in the evening, police happened upon a cache of drugs when they stopped a man who was weaving in and out of his lane on Bourque Boulevard around 9:30.Boulanger said patrollers noticed the man driving erratically and stopped him for a breathalyzer test.After stopping the vehicle, the officers noticed a bag filled with more than two dozen bags of a plant substancè that resembled marijuana on the back seat, she said.The 26-year-old driver was arrested and charged with possession with intent to traffic, Boulanger said.He was not intoxicated and will not face drunk driving charges, she added.Briefs Legalities and Alzheimer’s The Alzheimer Society Estrie has rescheduled a French-language information seminar on legal ways to cope with someone who is no longer able to manage their affairs.The workshop was cancelled in February because of bad weather.It will now be held at 7 p.m.on Thursday, April 19 at the salle Frances Whittle of the CSSS-IUGS (at 461 Argyll St.).For more information, call 819-821-5127.Agriculture hearings Farmers may want tc plan ahead.The provincial commission looking into the future of farming in Quebec is, slowly but surely, making its way to the Eastern Townships.The Commission sur l’avenir de l’agriculture et de l’a-groalimentaire québécois will be in Saint-Hyacinthe on April 19 and 20.Hearings will be held Thursday night from 7 p.m.to 10 p.m., and Friday morning from 9 a.m.to noon, at the Club de Golf La Providence (5055 St-Pierre West).The group gets to Sherbrooke May 1 and 2.Hearings are scheduled for Tuesday from 7 p.m.to 10 p.m., and for Wednesday from 9 a.m.to noon, at the Delta Sherbrooke (2685 King St.W).For more information, go to www.caaaq.gouv.qc.ca or call 418-646-1049.Bread (but no wine) The coordinator of Caritas Estrie said the annual Good Friday fundraiser missed its objective of raising $215,000 this year, but Michel Boulanger said money is still coming in this week.“We won’t have a final total until early next week,” said Boulanger.“But we should overshoot the target by a bit.” Some 3,000 volunteers went door to door on Friday, giving out bread and hoping for a $5 donation back.Caritas funds multiple social programs in the area.Magog money Federal Secretary of State for Agriculture Christian Paradis announced this week that Magog’s H.Fontaine Ltd.will receive a $292,000 loan.The company focuses on “water management products”, according to a press release, and was founded in 1964.It has 158 employees in 20 countries, and more than 80 per cent of its sales are to foreign markets, “a performance that earned the company the 2002 Canada Export Award.” The money will be used for new equipment, research and development and to expand its consumer reach.Fifteen new jobs will be created.Paradis is the MP for Megantic-L’Erable, and is the only Eastern Townships politician to sit at the federal Cabinet table.Michel Puval Advertising Consultant Tel.819*569*9525 Fax 819*821 *3179 mduval@sherbrookerecord.com RECORD Now with delivery to your dining room.Announcing the new www.sherbrookerecord.com THE RECORD page 6 Thursday, April 12, 2007 ^RECORD: Community Forum A Bury resident continues to seek democracy MAYBE ITÇ ÜUÇT ME, BUT CLIMATE EXPERTS ARE BEGINNING TO SOUND UKE TV evangelists.MW / Calls council secretive Dear Councillor James Cork, Municipality of Bury In reading your October 2005 platform for election, I would like to ask you where have your philosophies and promises gone?In our local journal, you stated that Bury must become more democratic and that citizens have every right to attend all council meetings.Yet, you and your fellow councillors have moved away from your very pledge and have, since your election, refused to post the dates and times of Special Meetings of council.Thus keeping Bury’s citizens even more in the dark about the operations of their municipal government.Past councils have always given their citizens the courtesy of notifying them when council was holding Special Meetings.Why do you and your colleagues have the need to shut the residents of our municipality out?Where is the Open Letter Leona Hodge transparency that your fellow councillors promised the people ofBury?In your platform, you emphasized the need for council to explain to its people the reason for “rendering a decision”.However, when asked to clarify why town director general Michèle Thériault was being dismissed, you and other councillors responded, “No comment”.Mayor Marc Jacques Gosselin answered, “I don’t have to tell you.The meeting is over.” As a citizen, you were not happy with the length of time taken by council to respond to written inquires and wrote that residents “must receive the same in a timely fashion.” Mr.Cork, do you consider five to six months for a response to a simple question a “timely manner?” In your campaign, you presented your vision of Bury and the operation of its council.Your vision however, did not include a municipality where taxes have become so high that residents are putting their homes up for sale, a Fire Department with insufficient qualified firefighters to adequately meet _______ the needs of its citizens, an in- frastructure offering the residents undrinkable water, council meetings where citizens’ emotions run so high that Sûreté du Québec officers need to be called and politicians require police escorts home, monthly meetings with security guards stationed behind the council table, and a municipality where the local government exhibits such disrespect for its citizens that dedicated volunteers have given up organizing events or offering their services to our people.Councillor Cork, your October 2005 vision for Bury and those of your fellow members of council made for good reading.Your team convinced the eligible voters of our municipality to cast their votes and, if not given the seat by acclamation, to grant them the opportunity to bring Bury forward.You are well into TO MEET THY MAKER// your mandate and to date, you have accomplished very little that could be viewed as positive improvements to Bury.Now is the time, Councillor Cork! Now is the time for you and your colleagues to put aside your personal agendas and work for the interests of all of the citizens of our municipality.Even though you have lost the respect and the trust of many of our citizens, you must embrace all that is good in Bury.You are the leaders of our municipality and it is time that you lead by example.Treat the people of Bury with respect and you in turn will be given it.The people of Bury, who you see as united against you, could be unified in support of you.It is your responsibility, Councillor Cork, and that of Mayor Gosselin, and your fellow members of council, to prove to the people that you warrant their trust and support.In your 2005 profile, you stated that you coached soccer.Now Mr.Cork, you’ve got the ball.You can score with the people of Bury or you can once again take your team out of bounds.It’s your play.Leona Hodge lives in Bury.No coyote hunters RECORD P.0.Box 1200 Shertrooke J1H 5L6 or 1195 Galt E, Sherbrooke JIG 1Y7 Fax: 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Group Limited Partnership.PM #0040007682 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Record.1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD.CNA, QCNA Dear editor In response to Fred Koczi’s Viewpoint, “Teach coyote hunters a lesson” (April 10 Record), 1 would like to clear up several things.First, I would suggest that the deer carcass in the open field was killed by coyotes or domestic dogs, when there was more snow, and it became visible when the snow melted.I seriously doubt a poacher would take the time to lug what was left of a carcass (hind quarters gone), out into a field clearly visible from the road.If it is being used to attract coyotes, the bait is placed in the woods where the coyotes feel safe, not in the middle of a field.If his dog never strays more than a few hundred feet from home, I am sure the discharge of a high powered rifle in that area would certainly have been heard.Coyote hunters do not use global positioning devices, but rather a radio tracking collar which can be picked up by an antenna (indicating general direction and distance by the strength of the signal).In the 23 years I have lived in Stanstead East and have known coyote hunters, I have never known them to have shot a dog.Rather, I might suggest that the ‘pet’ was possibly running deer and was shot by someone who saw it.Having sheep on my farm, I have had more problems with ‘pet’ dogs from 2 to 10 miles away, whose owners swear they never stray.I wonder, if the dog never strayed from home, why you would check ditches for several kilometers, searching to see if she was hit by a car.Also, I doubt that anyone shooting a dog close to residences in broad daylight, would take the time to pick her up and transport her somewhere else.I happen to know that there was no coyote hunting by the group of individuals Mr.Koczi refers to.In conclusion, get the facts, not just conjecture, to support your opinion.Arthur Laberee Stanstead East • TT ~~ RECORD Thursday, April 12, 2007 page 7 Because of a sign, an activist is born Tf1' en ba stt Save ‘our’ field ^lere’s a “for sale” sign on the ’empty lot kitty-corner to the back of our yard.I’m thinking of stealing it.The sign, that is, not the lot.I already think of it as “our” back field, even though technically it’s owned by someone in Sherbrooke or Coaticook.Every few weeks during the summer, the owner sends around someone to mow the grass and keep down the weeds.We like to tell ourselves he does this for our sake.The double-lot has been our soccer field, our baseball field, our soccer-baseball field, our romping space and our driving range (9-iron only).It’s the dark place where the little kids can run with sparklers and glo-sticks and still feel safe and close.It’s the place where out of nowhere every summer pop those brilliant orange flowers, which we call “paintbrush flowers”.Other times, you can walk through in your bare feet and stir up the scent of wild thyme.It’s been home to a bocce court and horseshoe pit.The latter resulted in a rectangle of trampled, gouged earth.It was the only time the lawn guy ever complained, not because of the mangled soil but because of a leftover broken beer bottle, probably hit by an Ross Murray Hells gets six years Cocaine trafficking By Neal Hall Vancouver Sun Jonathan Sal Bryce, the son of John Bryce, the 56-year-old president of Vancouver’s East End chapter of the Hells Angels, was sentenced this week to six years in prison for cocaine trafficking and extortion.B.C.Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm said he would have sent the 26-year-old Bryce to prison for up to 10 years had it not been for the relatively young age of the drug dealer, his expression of remorse in a letter to the court, and the fact that this was his first offence.Federal prosecutor Martha Devlin had asked the judge to send Bryce to jail for eight years, describing him as a “professional drug trafficker” and a low-ranking member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.The judge pointed out that after watching surveillance video Tuesday and listening to wiretap phone calls played in court by the prosecution, he found Bryce handled himself during drug deals “at a comfort level that absolutely scares me.” Dohm also noted that Bryce seemed to have access to unlimited quantities of cocaine, selling one-kilogram amounts on three occasions, including two sales that took place inside the Hells Angels clubhouse, and another involving two kilograms.At the time of the offences, Bryce was an official “friend” of the Hells Angels chapter, which is the start of membership in the outlaw motorcycle gang.He was later promoted to “hangaround member” after taking part in a beating of drug dealer Glen Louie in January 2005.The beating took place on a dark, remote road on Burnaby Mountain near Horizons restaurant.Provincial prosecutor Mark Levitz told the court that Louie was beaten because he was holding himself out to be a Hells Angels associate and was not sanctioned to use the Hells Angels name in order to sell drugs on the North Vancouver native Indian reserve.The beating was secretly recorded by a police agent, Michael Plante, who had in- filtrated the Hells Angels and was paid $500,000, plus a promised reward of another $500,000 after he testifies at several court cases this fall.Bryce was among 18 people, including six members of the Hells Angels East End chapter, who were charged with a variety of offences in July 2005 after a 23-month investigation code-named Project Epandora that culminated with raids of Hells Angels clubhouses in east Vancouver and Kelowna.At the time, a senior Mountie, Bob Paulson, said the East End chapter was specifically targeted because it is the most powerful Hells Angels chapter in B.C.errant horseshoe.I blame the kids.For the errant horseshoe, that is, not the beer.We’ve surreptitiously dragged our lawn clippings, broken branches and weeds across the field and dumped them in the tall grass at the back edge.We’ve helped ourselves to those branches come bonfire time.In other words, we’ve made ourselves at home in the field.The lot has been for sale for as long as we’ve been in this house, about 13 years.Up until a few weeks ago, its availability was advertised only by a hand-painted sign with a phone number and the advisory “S’no Dumping.” I was always comforted by the non-threatening ambiguity of that sign.It might have well read, “For sale, or not.No biggie.” But now there’s a bright realtor sign at the road edge.That means the owner has decided it’s time to aggressively promote this prime piece of residential property.Potentially, someone might take away our field.I know my town could use a couple of housing starts to improve its tax base.In fact, our entire economy is based on the concept of continuous growth.We’re always being warned that if the economy doesn’t grow, there’s trouble.But let’s apply the theory of continuous growth to other realities.I want my children to grow, yes.But at some point, they’ll have grown enough.If they con- tinue growing indefinitely, eventually they would be so freakishly gigantic that my household would no longer be able to contain or sustain them.Plus, where would we find proper shoes?Or say you have a balloon.Blowing air into the balloon helps it grow.This is good and much more fun than a flaccid piece of plastic.But if that balloon keeps growing, eventually what will happen?The balloon pops and all you’re left with is a bunch of crying gigantic kids.Based on these sound arguments, it’s clear that the entire growth-based economic theory of western civilization is severely flawed.Especially in my backyard.Unfortunately, no matter how sound my economic arguments (I also have theories about how gravity isn’t a law but an option and how Jesus really has better things to do than help professional athletes win sporting events), they’re not likely to deter anyone from buying the adjacent property.So I’d just like to state for the record that there is a possibility that the lot in question may be an ancient Indian burial ground.I’m not saying that disturbing the land in any way will definitely unleash horrific otherworldly poltergeists bent on revenge and destruction.I’m just saying it’s a possibility.Also, the prospective buyer should know that I do a lot of gardening in my back yard.Wearing only a bright red Speedo.And there’s a lot of bending involved.mëAv v:" kflSe to your donations .fT'"Æl,a~a—~ FONDATION CtfUS to purchase new equipment Cents* hospitaii** UNtVESSrc.-UBE ok Sbemsooke Purchase of an ultrasound and interferential machine at the Physiotherapy Department At a cost of $6,600 The Physiotherapy Department of the CHUS now has a machine used, among other things, for the treatment of fractures, tendinitis and bursitis using ultrasound or by interferential current.The ultrasound treatment creates an accumulation of deep heat.This heat activates blood circulation as well as the cellular metabolism that reduces pain, spasms, oedema and adherence.As for the treatment by interferential current, it is specifically used to reduce pain.Ginette Chabot and Marie-Ève Cronin, therapists* in physical réadaptation, show us how his equipment is used.Fondation du CHUS, 580 Bowen Street S, Sherbrooke QC JIG 2E8 / (819) 820-6450 - 1-866-820-6450 - www.fondationchus.otg ¦ Proud to contribute fw the better health of our community! everything starts with trust • NSUKAM t AMS * IHANCIAt St'ttVK tS rid PROMUTUEL ¦?!$y' page & Thursday, April 12, 2007 RECORD Omt School's Page Cooksi URE Elementary Some of the events happening in and around Cookshire Elementary school this month are: Cycle One is planning to welcome back the monarch butterflies they bid farewell to last autumn by planting nectar loving flowers for our community garden as well as milkweed flowers, which is the only plant the monarch larvae eat.Cycle two, year two dissected owl pellets to discover what an owl might devour for its dinner.We enjoyed our winter carnival day with many fun filled activities to participate in.These are just a few of the many exciting and joyful moments happening in and around our school.Cycle Two year one held a garage sale for recycled toys as part of their entrepreneurial project. 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