The record, 2 septembre 2008, mardi 2 septembre 2008

75 CENTS + TAXES Lenn chiro shares her mission to Ecuador.See page 7 Lennoxville’s Manoir St.Francis threw open its doors to visitors last Friday.Music by duo Roger and Francyne and a corn roast was enjoyed by dozens.AL BARBER He says, SHE SAYS.“A lovely one finger salute!” -Myrna Whitelaw (FR1 DAY.Al IGUST 29TH) RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Come test drive one today! Suprem Automobile 819-821-9272 www.supremautomobile.com PM#0040(X)7682 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Salmonella Mania La Chaudière, Polo and Tradition cheese recalled By Nikki Johnston Knowlton Adding to the hysteria over listeria, another food-borne disease outbreak is affecting Quebec consumers.Friday morning, Quebec public health officials said that a Salmonella outbreak has caused 87 people to become ill and one person to die in the Chaudière-Ap-palaches, Mauricie, Central Quebec and Eastern Townships regions.The outbreak is completely unrelated to listeria, said Natalie Foster, media person for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.She was unable to specify how many cases of salmonella poisoning were reported in each region.Three cheese brands that are believed to have caused the outbreak have been recalled by the ministry.These include La Chaudière, Polo and Tradition, all produced by Fromages La Chaudières Inc of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.Salmonella poisoning is an infection caused by salmonella bacteria, which is found in the intestines of animals, particularly birds, reptiles, pore and volailles, as well as in certain people, according to a press release issued by Quebec health and social services.Symptoms may resemble gastroenteritis, said a press release from the minister of agriculture.Pregnant women, persons with weak immune systems, elderly persons, and young children are at particular risk.SEE CHEESE PAGE 3 •1 L Smash em ’ and bash em’, the name of the game in Cookshire COREY BEIi.AM Hundreds took to the Cookshire Demolition derby ring on Sunday, and thousands watched in awe.For more on the event see page 4.Ethics and Religion generates debate Coalition urges parents to pull children out of compulsory class By Rita Legault Sherbrooke Anew mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture course that begins in all public and private elementary and high schools this September is raising the ire of some individuals who say the program goes against the principle of parents’ freedom of choice in their children's education.The Coalition pour l’éducation libre is urging parents to pull their children out of the compulsory course while the province-wide group challenges the program in court.While the provincial Education Ministry says the goal of the comparative ethics and religion course is to help promote harmonious social relations in Quebec society, others insist it takes away from the right of individuals to freedom of conscience and religion.SEE CLASS PAGE 5 September 4-5-6-7, 2008 Petting Zoo • Crocodiles • Horses • Music • doggers • Sheep • Poultry • Magician.and so much more! www.exporichmondfair.com page 2 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 RECORD, Where’s Jacques-week 20 sees Quebec City By Murielle Parkes Record Correspondent Mansonville Twenty weeks after heading off for the trip of a lifetime, Jacques Marcoux - m LOTO QUfBEC Mansonville’s “crazy-guy-on-a bike” -rolled into Quebec City.The 63-year-young cyclist had pedalled through 20 states, the District of Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and was now in Quebec.It was Friday.Only three days away from reaching the finish line of a trip that began April 12.That morning, the keep-fit buff left St-Jean-Port-Joli for the nearly 100-km trip to Quebec to meet his wife Karen Muzerall and two friends - Alison Hannan and Jacques Hébert who were driving in from Mansonville.Hebert was in Quebec City to cycle home with Marcoux - “a source of inspiration to me and a dear friend.” Muzerall was travelling from Miramichi, N.B.By coincidence, Marcoux and Muzerall arrived at the hotel together.“It was three o’clock in the afternoon and I was on my bicycle and Draw results: 2008-08-30 1* 02 26 29 31 36 37 45 Bonus Winners 6/6 1 5/6+B 4 5/6 149 4/6 8,955 3/6 180,035 2/6+B 131,021 I Total sales Next grand prize (approx ) Prizes $15,299,334.00 $119,155.30 $2,642.50 $83.30 $10.00 $5.00 $22,860,686 $3,500,000 05 14 17 21 22 42 40 iSKtei7J 0103 16 18 22 28 43 Winners Phizes 6/6 0 $2,000,000.00 5/6+B 0 $75,000.00 5/6 19 $750.00 4/6 1,050 $75.00 3/6 18,247 $10,00 2/6+B 9,058 $5.00 Total sales $885,117.00 E|tra 1937074 Winners Prizes 0 $2,500,000.00 tB 0 $145,619.30 92 $1,582.80 5,111 $96.80 5610379 7/7 4/7 106,667 3/7+B 103,422 3/7 884,592 Total Sales Next grand prize (approx ) Hurry up! ¦D Deadline September 13th.Four-year-old Anthony Green has given The Record his masterpieces depicting your weather forecast.Weather TODAY SUNNY.HIGH 28.WEDNESDAY: A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUD.LOW 12.HIGH 27.THURSDAY: CLOUDY.LOW 14.HIGH 25.FRIDAY: CLOUDY.LOW 13.HIGH 21.had stopped for a red light.Karen had just parked the car,” explained Marcoux.“I was quite astonished that we got here at the same time.Karen left Miramichi this morning to meet me at l’hôtel Pur in the St-Roch quarter.it is pretty unbelievable that without consulting each other we arrived exactly at the same time.If we were to try to do that again, it would never happen.” The week had started off with Marcoux getting back on his bike for a few practice kilometres (he hadn’t been on his bike since arriving in Miramichi), boating with family and friends on the Miramichi River, and visiting Middle Island.The latter - an historic provincial site - commemorates the landing of Irish immigrants on famine ships in 1847, and also the building of two quarantine hospitals in 1873.Muzerall comes from Irish Acadian stock.“La famille Muzerall (Mazerolîe) sont très fier de toi [are very proud of you] mon Jacques O,” she wrote in his guestbook.By Saturday, after travelling from Miramichi to Renous and Plaster Rock (New Brunswick) to Notre-Dame-du-Lac, $10.00 $10.00 Free play $12,909,798 $5,000,000 In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list of Loto-Québec, the latter shall prevail St-Jean Port Joli and Quebec City (Quebec), Marcoux had added 609 km to his odometer for a total of 11,117 km.Back home, friends and family posted congratulations and can’t-wait-to-see-you messages in his guestbook (at j m a r -couxlgooglepages.com): Read one such remark: “We have followed your route and the excitement, but now we really want you back home! See you on Monday!” Another one lauded his incredible journey: “.Bravo encore! “C’est incroyable le chemin parcouru depuis le 12 avril dernier, tu as de quoi être fier de ton EXPLOIT!!! [you must be proud of your feat!!!]” Still others wrote of his “adventure” and “magnificent project," and even about his diminished size.“By the way, it seems all the rain you have encountered may have shrunken you - you are looking very svelte and fit.” To which Marcoux promptly replied: “I did shrink a little as you pointed out but not unduly.” As of yesterday, Marcoux’s journal -replete with facts, impressions and challenges for youth - had received 74,485 hits, for which he had posted 2,455 photos of signs and scenery, buildings and monuments, wild life and tame, including people encountered along the way.A few weeks back on the Cabot Trail, Marcoux snapped a picture of an unexpected meeting with a black bear.“We looked at each other and decided not to go further,” he wrote.Alas, Marcoux never got a picture of a moose.On that topic, he wrote: “I have now given up on the idea of seeing a moose in the wild.I so much wanted to take pictures of one.” Sunday morning, Marcoux and Hébert got on their bikes at 11:30 after being driven to Bécancour in order to get to Mansonville on time.Marcoux’s original intention had been to sleep over in Drummondville on Sunday and arrive in Mansonville “some time" the next day.However, that changed when he found out about a reception being held in his honour.Instead the two cyclists stopped in Acton Vale, some-80 km from home.If everything proceeded as planned, around 2:15 yesterday afternoon, the crazy guy bust through a banner located outside the youth centre that read “Bravo Jacques!” Followers of “Where’s Jacques?” can read that story next week.At the same time, the adventure cyclist will conclude his journal by adding pictures of the Mansonville area and writing his own observations “after this long trip.” Wrote one reader, “eagerly awaiting that last round of pictures and [Marcoux’s] closing thoughts.‘How do you summarize a journey like the one you’ve had?”’ Food for thought He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else Submitted by Connie Bellam Ben by Daniel Shelton rPAPPY?CAN WE HAVE A ^TREEHOUSE?r ¦1 HMM.1 PONT THINK-ANY'OF OUR TREES ARE 1310 ENOUGH TO FIT A TREEH0USE, unfortunately SORRY MICHAEL HOW'eOUT A SHRUBHOUSEv =— -RECORD^ Fraud victim thanked ‘He stopped me from losing money,’ Corey By Jen Young SHERBROOKE She gave them her name, and she even gave them her social insurance number, but thanks to Brad Crawford’s public plight last week ‘Lenn fraud victims warn others’, a fraudulent loan company didn’t get St.Armand’s Pebra Corey’s money.“I thought I was alone," stated a disabled Corey after reading last Tuesday’s Record.“I opened The Record and there it was.I want Mr.Crawford to know that they were not the only ones who were taken by this company.” Corey is referring to a classified ad that ran in The Record two weeks ago.It read: LOANS, LOANS, LOANS- good or bad credit, 24-hour response.Call Hayden & Matthews Financial at 416-761-5617.The ad was immediately pulled from the Record’s classified listing after Crawford told his story of fraud.“It was my mother in law that was taken for $78," he stated.“I just didn’t want anyone else to be a victim.” His intentions came to light as Corey says she was on the verge of being yet another unsuspecting target.“I’m disabled,” she told The Record late last week.“I needed help so I thought I would try and get a loan.When I opened The Record I couldn’t believe it was exactly the same ad that I responded to.I had already spoken to them.1 had to leave a message and they called me back, just like Mr.Crawford said.” She divulged her name, address, and social insurance number to the man on the other end of the phone line in hopes of getting some much-needed financial assistance.“They told me that I needed to send them $100.1 thought that was normal since they didn’t know who I really was, and I didn’t know them.Then I read the article in the paper.Had I not read that I would have sent the money.I just wanted to say thank you to him, or I would have lost that money.” Crawford says he was just trying to do what he feels others would do.“I’m glad telling the story helped someone,” he stated after being told Corey’s story last week.“I just hope there aren’t others out there that fall for it.” T—’T.CARITAS IS ZZ m •vi: v New committees announced PERRY BEATON Catholic charity Caritas Estrie announced the implementation of a new agreement among Caritas, The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sherbrooke and the Knights of Columbus last Thursday.'The agreement is aimed towards the decentralization of its regional services.The agreement creates 8 new committees, each of which will be responsible for the organization of the two major food drives, Pain Partagé and The Christmas Campaign.(McD) cheese: Symptoms include fever, chills, headaches, di-ahrrea, nausea and sometimes vomiting.Symptoms may appear between six and 72 hours after the consumption of a contaminated food product.Individuals can protect themselves by exercising common sense hygienic kitchen habits while handling food.Wash hands and counter surfaces before and after handling food.Don’t serve or prepare food if you experience gastro-intestinal problems, separate meats from other foods, wash all fruits and vegetables, quickly refrigerate foods and thaw frozen foods in ovens, microwaves, cold water or the fridge.For more information on symptoms and salmonella call info santé by dialing 811, or visit the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux online at www.msss.gouv.qc.ca.Tuesday, September 2, 2008 page 3 HISTORY ON ‘THE RECORD’ 100 years ago: The Eastern Townships experiences a severe water shortage causing the shutdown of the paper mill in East Angus.The city of Sherbrooke is also shutting off its streetlights to preserve electricity as the low water levels hamper power output.-Sherbrooke Fair’s horse races attract huge crowds.50 years ago: Sailors from Iceland board and seize British fishing trawlers in the opening rounds of what came to be known as the “Cod Wars”.-Fighting between Communist China and Formosa (Taiwan) heats up over disputed Quemoy Island.U.S.promises support to Formosa.-“Bridge on the River Kwai” opens at the Granada.Granby disc jockey joins Amherst N.S.colleague for 100 hour broadcast marathon.25 years ago: Korean airliner disappears, believed to have been shot down by “third party.” -Cowansville mayor promises water filtration plant by 1985.-René Levesque hints he may step down as Parti Québécois leader, saying lie might be to blame for party’s poor standings.DELAYS Transport Quebec announced that road works scheduled for Autoroute 10 over the next few weeks will force the closure of certain lanes until September 11th.Works on the interchange located near km marker 115 will force the complete shutdown of Autoroute 10 in the western direction (Montreal) between September 16th to -18th, and access to exit 115 will be closed, forcing drivers to use exit 106.From September 9th to 11th, both lanes will be closed going east (Sherbrooke).Vehicles traveling along route 112 from Magog going to Autoroute 10 will have to detour via route 141, accessing the highway by exit 118.During both closures, traffic along Autoroute 10 will be re-routed onto the opposite sides, alternating directions.Work requiring closures of three or more days will be done during off-hours in order to avoid congestion, but Transport Quebec expects traffic delays over the length of the project.-Inspections to the Jacques-Cartier Bridge are set for today between 8 a.m.and 5 p.m.One lane going south will be closed, but there will be one lane available to motorists in both directions.Individual - Couple - Family Counselling Interpersonal Conflicts Marital Issues Separation/Divorce Stepfamilies Loss/Bereavement Depression/Anxiety Stress Management EatingConcerns s Confidence Building ° Lies Ouwerkerk M.Ed., MFT (819) 842-3179 North Hatley, QC rs know mm m page 4 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 ¦RECORD mwf: ?~±y §$ 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