The record, 2 juin 1997, lundi 2 juin 1997

The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 To find out what’s happening in your community Sherbrooke: 569-9528 Knowlton: 242-1188 Subscribe to 60 CENTS Townships Digest Here is a list of candidates seeking election today Sherbrooke Jacques Blanchette - Bloc Québécois Martin Bureau - Liberal Jean Charest - Progressive Conservative Christian Simard - Natural Law Tom Vouloumanos - NDP Brome-Missisquoi Claude Boulard - P.Conservative Noël Laçasse • Bloc Québécois Denis Paradis • Liberal Nicole Guillemete - NDP Drummond Lyne Boisvert - Progressive Conservative Christian Méthot - Liberal Alexandra Philoctéte - NDP Pauline Picard - Bloc Québécois Richmond-Arthabaska André Bachand - P.C.Martin Bergeron - NDP Aldéi Beaudoin - Liberal Gaston Leroux - Bloc Québécois Compton-Stanstead Maurice Bernier - Bloc Québécois Gaétan Gernier - Liberal Christine Moore - NDP David Price - Progressive Conserative Lisette Proulx - Natural Law Frontenac-Megantic Jean-Guy Chretien - Bloc Québécois Carole Dodier - Progressive Conservative Manon Lecours - Liberal Sara Mayo - NDP Serge Trépanier - Natural Law Shefford Chantal Gareau - Liberal Karen Hurley - NDP Jean Leroux - Bloc Québécois Diane St.-Jacques - P.Conservative Today’s Weather Sunny Complete weather: page 2 Inside Ann Landers.12 Crossword .15 Births and Community Deaths.11 Forum .6 Classified.14,15 Record Album ____5 Comics.13 Sports .9 Monday, June 2, 1997 .Y-Vx ’ ¦ « «III ' ; : ; .Lennoxville is chosen best place to live for sports enthusiasts Wagonful of wishes PERRY BEATON Marie-Pierre Menard from Westbury benefits from the Children’s Wish weekend at the Ayer’s Cliff fairgrounds last weekend.If you hadn’t already guessed, she will be going to Disney World in Florida in the late fall.For more, please see page 5.By Rita Legault Sherbrooke Lennoxville has been selected the best place to live for sports enthusiasts in a reader’s challenge to find the best hometowns in Canada by Canadian Living magazine.The town was nominated for the award by resident Linda Allen who sent a winning letter to the magazine’s Hometown Proud Contest.Allen, an English teacher at Alexander Galt High School, said she is always encouraging her students to send their writing to various contests, “and 1 thought, I’m going to submit this.” “It was only 150 words, that was the tough part,” she said, adding that it was hard to keep it short.“It’s not great at writing,” she adds.“It’s just a list of the great facilities around here.” Allen writes that for a town of only 4,400 people, Lennoxville boasts an incredible array of sports for the young and old, and English and French- speak- ing residents.“A sports enthusiasts dream come true,” Allen writes, pointing to the 44-kilometre bicycle path which passes right beside the old Lennoxville Golf Course which is used by cross-country skiing enthusiasts in the winter.Allen points out that the municipality has an outdoor pool, tennis courts and a basketball court in the centre of town.The town also maintains two outdoor rinks as well as the home field for See Lennoxville Page 2 CENTRE OU GOUTURg You'd Love it! ^‘JUST MY STYLE” COLLECTION The ultimate In beauty Admire it! MEBCIER HARDWOOD FLOORING SHERBROOKE 820 Wellington St.South 566-7111 COATICOOK 1000 Child St.WON’T FADE page 2 Monday, June 2, 1997 *MSr Balançoires Deauville enr.j 6683 Bourque Blvd.864-7405 Cedar Swing SpeciaCists Open 7 days 7 evenings - ¦ ¦¦ THE ¦ Record REGIONAL FORECASTS MAX MIN Sherbrooke Sunny 20 3 Thetford Mines Sunny 19 3 Cowansville Sunny 20 3 Richmond Sunny 21 3 Stanstead Sunny 21 3 Lac Megantic Sunny 19 2 i ill LI if SOANYWW, Y WAS IN GREECE LAST MONTH ON 4 BUSINESS.w/L l/l 5 f\ JS) 1 ftlll \^|\ Art A s \ m , ,i 5) \ N|1 \//\ \|i 1 E Mail benolivitStotaLnSn /mycomranyi is IN THE MIPST OF A HIGH LEVEL BUYOUT OF OUR COMPETITOR OVER THERE IN ATHENS.' S—' BY POING SO, WERE HOPING TO INCREASE OUR CURRENT STOCK VALUE'S YIELP&Y A SUBSTANTIAL MARGIN, THUS LEVELLING OFF OUR „ MARKET SHARE BEFORECAPTURING economical PROVISIONAL PROFITS' V WELE YOU'VE CERTAINLY MASTEREP THE LANGUAGE 17 XT This time, the whole thing was paved BANFF, Alberta - (I probably wouldn’t have written this if it weren’t for the dogs.) It’s Victoria Day, and it’s been about 35 years since my first visit to this little Rocky Mountain town.Almost everything has changed.And contrary to the old saying (I think it was Voltaire), in this town anyway, the more things change, the more different they become.Canada’s premier internation al tourist destination is this pioneer national park, vacationland to the stars, jewel of the coast-to-coast rail network that dominated cross-Canada travel for nearly a century.Two paved streets, half-a-dozen gravel roads, a grocery store and two hotels, Banff was a safeguard loto-québec Charles Bury Draw 97-05-31 Bonus number: WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 0 $ 2 177 845,70 5/6+ 7 $ 93 336,20 5/6 290 $ 1 802,30 4/6 16 713 $59,90 3/6 307 771 $10 Total sales: $ 16 518 670,00 Next grand prize (approx.): $ 5 000 000,00 ¦SELECT Draw 97-05-31 WINNERS Bonus number: 4 MISE-TÔT 9 18 19 30 WINNERS PRIZES 64 $781,20 6/6 5/6+ 5/6 4/6 3/6 0 0 15 607 10711 PRIZES $ 1 000 000,00 $ 13 007,90 $ 1 445,30 $ 66,60 $ 5 Total sales: $516 849,00 Grand prize: $ 1,000,000 every Saturday Friday NUMBER 667399 67399 7399 399 99 9 Draw 97-05-30 PRIZES $ 100,000 $ 1,000 $250 $ 50 $ 10 $2 ira SATURDAY Draw 97-05-31 NUMBER PRIZES 912120 $ 100,000 12120 $1,000 2120 $250 120 $50 20 $10 0 $2 Draw 97-05-30 79 10 12 24 38 42 Bonus number: 22 WINNERS PRIZES 7/7 0 $ 6 000 000,00 6/7+ 2 $ 55 577,20 6/7 45 $ 2 161,30 5/7 2 611 $ 133,00 4/7 52 678 $10 3/7+ 47 896 $10 3/7 433 812 free play Total sales: $ 6 190 228,00 Next grand prize (approx.): $ 7 000 000,00 Next draw: 97-06-06 Claims: See back of tickets, In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list, the latter shall prevail.Today’s Weather X ' 1 Thbtfoxd.Mines 7 \ for the “““ spectacular scenery, a haven for wildlife.In the early days it was a starting point for prospectors, surveyors, miners, loggers, and eventually cowboys and other high-altitude settlers.Later it served as launching pad for skiers, hikers, climbers, paddlers, trail riders and other outdoors hobbyists.Fortunately, Banff is still almost all of those things.But the tiny park, which stretches only about 25 miles north to Lake Louise, can’t cope.Because as well as all its traditional roles, Banff is now also the number one travel destination for:A) Upper middle class families from all over the world in general, and from Korea and Japan in particular, and: B) Similar upper middle class families from just down the Bow River valley in Calgary.This means that Banff is overcrowded, overdeveloped, generally overdone.It has dozens of hotels, hundreds of shops, thousands of .permanent residents trying to score off the tourists, and on any given day, tens of thousands of tourists to take advantage of.Today’s typical international tourist comes to Banff in a rented Toyota or a GMC tour bus, stays one night in a posh hotel (two if they’re also ‘learning to ski’), spends several hundred dollars on souvenirs and such, typically at one of the many Asian-owned shops, enjoys supper at a Japanese or Italian restaurant, and never, ever leaves the pavement, even to take pictures.The average Albertan family, on the other hand, fancies itself as ‘campers’.They come equipped though, not with a few bits of nylon to hang from some poles, but rather with an $80,000 motor home, complete with all the trimmings.“No computer, no CD player on board.I draw the line at that,” says my hostess, who has kindly left the motor home behind this day on my behalf.We pull off the highway and into the parking lot at Johnson’s Canyon.When I was here in 1960-whatever it was, there was a rundown, rustic cabin where they sold postcards, and took a dollar from every tourist wanting to use the winding, mud-and-rock trail that climbs a mile or so to reach a spectacular waterfall.The last few hundred yards LENNOXYILLE: Continued from page 1 the Yankees Little League baseball team.In addition to town services, Bishop’s University offers many indoor recreational facilities to the community such as gymnastics, aerobics, martial arts and swimming.Citizens also have access to an indoor track, squash and racquetball courts, and weight-training facilities.A minor hockey league and a figure skating club operate out of the arena on campus.were on a rickety wooden trestle that had seen much better days; there was one spot where the guide allowed only one person at a time for fear the whole thing would collapse.There was even a bit of bonding among the tourists who climbed to the falls, the shared risk somehow bringing us closer.But that was last time.This time, the whole thing was paved.You couldn’t get your hiking shoes muddy if you wanted to.No chance of falling, no excitement.And the pedestrian traffic was as busy and as rushed as the shopping centre on Boxing Day - ‘Hurry, hurry.We’ve got to get through here by 9:30 if we’re going to be in Jasper in time for lunch.Hurry and take a picture so you can see later what the canyon actually looks like.Any tourist bonding was left strictly to the dogs.For some reason or other, every second North American traveller seems to need to take their dog along.The proper hiking-on-pavement protocol now is to let your dogs sniff each other but not your children or yourself.No time for human communication.You’ll never see these people again anyway.Don’t say hello, don’t even nod.But let your dogs be nice to their dogs.Poor little doggies, they just don’t understand.Like heck they don’t.Actually it’s the owners who don’t all grasp the obvious.Perfect example?The man whose clothes came from the L.L.Bean catalog but whose manners came from Hell.He insisted that his dog drop his load right in the middle of the trail.What a way to leave your mark.Anyway, the doggy-doo was the final disappointment.The 15-mile inside-the-park traffic jam on the way home was definitely an anticlimax.The university is also a mecca for spectator sports with Bishop’s fielding football, basketball and rugby teams - all avidly supported by the community, Allen points out.As well, both Lennoxville Elementary and Alexander Galt High School offer a range of after-school sports including soccer, football, badminton and track.The Hometown Proud article will appear in the July issue of Canadian Living which hits the newsstands on June 9.Winners received a $250 prize donated in their names to a charity of their choice.Allen donated her winnings to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.This is the second time Lennoxville has made it into Canadian Living as an ideal place to be.A few years ago, Lennoxville was among the top places in Canada to live.BEN ® by DANIEL SHELTON ¦ THEi Monday, June 2, 1997 page 3 Briefs Staff Granby gives treatment contract to Sherbrooke firm Ferti-Val of Sherbrooke has received a $2.7 million contract to treat the sludge from the city of Granby’s sewage treatment plant.The sludge will be made into compost over the next four and a half years.Granby will pay $28.92 per ton in 1997, $26.43 in 1998 and $21.42 in 1999.The previous contractor received $32.92 per ton during the last year of its contract.Looking for homes Bishop’s University needs English-speaking families for its English Immersion Program from July 12 to August 9.Families are needed to provide an “authentic Canadian experience” to Japanese university students.Remuneration will be provided.For more information contact the Bishop’s office of continuing education at 822-9670 Fish get some help The walleye pike of Lake Brompton got some much needed help from the Quebec Wildlife Fund.Last month the QWF gave a $15,000 grant to the Association for the protection of Lake Brompton in an effort to help clean-up the water and replenish the fish stock.The fish stock has dwindled since the 1970s because of poaching and a poor environment.Water pressure will be low Starting today, the city of Sherbrooke is spending the summer cleaning the water main.Water pressure may by affected from 8 p.m.-6 a.m.nightly.New women’s project underway The Memphremagog Women’s Centre is presenting “Au coeur de notre communauté.” The project’s goal is to create a social consensus surrounding non-violence and hold a theme day leading to concrete action on stopping violence against women.The centre hopes to reach women in Mansonville, North Hatley and Stanstead who are isolated and far from most resources.Compton farm earns award A Compton farm has earned an award from the Quebec government for its work in protecting its farmland soil and water.The ferme Jean-Noel Groleau Inc.won the environment minister’s prix du Mérite environnemental for the agricultural sector.The farm won the award for its fertilization methods.The farm has adopted a fertilization method that puts a priority on manure management.Chemical fertilizers are rarely used on the farm’s soil because since 1990 it has been using primarily organic fertilizers.They have also been producing fertilizers that reduce soil erosion and improve soil composition.Clean up crew gets help Action St-François is starting its fifth year of work to clean up the riverbed and shores of the St.Francis River and its tributaries.The non-profit organization began its activities on May 17 when a dozen volunteers dragged ten metric tonnes of scrap metal and garbage out of a stream in the Stanstead area.In the past five years, the community group has dragged some 90 metric tonnes of metal and garbage out of the St.Francis and other local waterways.This year, the river watchdog has received a small grant from the federal government under its Action 21 program which helps fund community groups which take on conservation and environmental protection and improvement projects.To carry out is work, the group depends largely on the help of volunteers - members and citizens concerned about the quality of their environment.Most activities take place on Saturday mornings between mid-May and mid-September.Other operations can take place during the week depending on the availability of volunteers.Those interested in getting involved can call Action St.François at 563-5362.EARLY HARVEST ' : ' SgpP « mm ?y' 4 It was a bad day for one 21-year-old man in Brompton-ville on Friday.East Angus police dropped in with a warrant to search for documents connected with a credit card fraud case, and with the help of Sherbrooke Police, who usually patrol the town, discovered a room with 467 marijuana plants growing in it.The man, who recently had knee surgery and is unable to walk, will soon be charged.PERRY BEATON U de S mulls solutions to cuts Staff Sherbrooke Faced with a new series of cuts to government funding the University of Sherbrooke announced last week it plans to cut its payroll by 10.5 per cent, or about $10.1 million.Over the next three years, the university will face radical funding cuts which, when added to those already announced, are expected to total $24 million.Rector Pierre Reid said the university has already trimmed other expenses.He said further cuts would seriously endanger the mission of the university as a research centre.Reid said the cuts will be spread equally among the various unions and associations represented at the university.The rector said the easiest way to attain the $24 million goal would be a 10.5 per cent reduction in salaries, but he called upon the representatives of union and worker associations to come up with appropriate means to reach the objective.Among them, he suggested using pension fund surpluses to enhance early retirement packages or buyouts for employees.He also suggests reducing the budget of continuing education classes, adjusting teaching requirements and class sizes, increasing work hours, and revising benefit packages or other such initiatives which would allow the university to meet its goals while minimizing or avoiding salary cuts.He said that negotiators have a firm mandate not to settle with any individual union or association until the overall objectives are met.This week's 'Township’s Magazine’ show, with hosts Walter Trudeau & Marisa Tessier features Uplands Museum’s exhibit “Daily News from the Eastern Townships: l OO years of the Sherbrooke Record” airing GowansvilleAVaterloo: Monday, 4:30 p.m.Magog/Ayer's Cliff(/North Hatley: Monday, 3:30 p.m.Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.Sherbooke/Lennoxville: Monday, 3:30 p.m.Wednesday, to p.m.Friday, 6 p.m.on your local cable channel.4^ Record page 4 Monday, June 2, 1997 Record Fluke fire i \ H ê % ^ «Is Fire destroyed the architecturally interesting equipment shed and shelter in Marin Park in Sherbrooke, between Galt and Roy Streets.The fire inspector, Michel Richer, concluded that the fire began as spontaneous combustion in a pile of wet grass and nearby gasoline.A $10,000 lawn tractor and a lawn mower were destroyed in the blaze.PERRY BEATON Vietnamese officials touring Asbestos Sherbrooke Representatives from the Vietnamese government will visit the Asbestos and Thetford Mines regions this week as part of Canada’s new policy on the management of chrysotile asbestos fibres.International Trade Minister Art Eggleton said the visit is important because of Vietnam’s influence with other Asian countries which represent a sizable market for chrysotile fibre.The Vietnamese delegation consists of members from different government groups including Vietnam’s Environmental Impact Studies Division, ministry of science, and ministry of health.The inspection will include a tour of the J.M.Asbestos mining facilities in Asbestos and LAB Chrysotile Inc.in Thetford Mines.The inspectors will meet with both the federal and provincial government as well as representatives from the mining companies’ health boards.The federal government installed the new policies last March to promote the responsible use of chrysotile asbestos fibres worldwide.The policies were a reaction to a French ban on all asbestos fibres that began in 1997.Both the Canadian and Quebec governments tried unsuccessfully to lift the ban but the federal government was able to block the ban from spreading throughout the European Economic Union without using recent scientific data to back it up.The report the French based their ban on has been criticized by Canadian scientists for using old data on other types of asbestos fibres.Got comments about The Record?Share them with us.can 569-9511 NOTICE 10 THE CITIZENS OF h H G 0 G TOWNSHIP SUITE -CflTIIEIINE-DE-lflTLE1 ' ; .- Compression Slafion TransQuébec & Maritimes Pipeline Inc.(TQM Pipeline) is currently planning an extension of its natural gas transmission line towards the Maritimes.With this extension of the system, it will be possible for the natural gas to reach Canadian markets by travelling from the Maritimes to Québec in addition to serving the northeastern United States by means of the PNGTS network.The unification of these two systems might necessitate the construction of a compression station in Magog Township or in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley.We invite you to attend an open house information 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