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To find out what's happening in your community The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Sherbrooke: 569-9528 Subscribe to L Knowlton: 242-1188 A 60 CENTS Monday, January 5, 1998 Townships Digest Six involved in car crash in St-Joachim-de-Shefford One person was gravely injured and five others received minor injuries when two cars collided at the intersection of route 241 and 8th range in St-Joachim-de-Shefford on Sunday around 1:30 p.m.Quebec Police Force officials said the crash may have occured because one car ran a stop sign.The severely injured victim was taken to the Sainte Justine Hospital in Montreal.Fire causes SI20,000 damage A fire caused $120,000 worth of damage to the house at 2060 Lemire in Fleu-rimont on Saturday night.Hot ashes were left in a plastic garbage can next to the house and the fire spread up the wall and into the roof.The water used to extinguish the fire did the rest of the damage.A new you for the new millennium You don’t have a moment to lose -this is the time to start planning your neew millennium self.See page 10.Finns win World Junior Hockey Championships Suomi, how they love you, how they love you.The Finns provided a perfect finish to the World Junior Hockey Championships Saturday by beating the Russians 2-1 in overtime on a goal by Niklas Hagman.A sellout crowd at the 13,655-seat Hartwall Arena included the Finnish prime minister.Suomi, pronounced Soo-oh-may, is the Finnish world for Finland.See page 11.1997: The Townships Year In Review Part 1: January tojune.See pages 3,4, 5 and 7.Today’s Weather Freezing rain Complete weather: page 2 Inside Ann Landers .16 Crossword .19 Births and Community Deaths .15 Forum 6 Classified .18 Sports .11-14 Comics .1 %»'«4 A In the trenches PERRY BEATON/CORRESPONDENT Residents of the Dubreuil sector ofFleurimont who were evacuated from their homes Dec.30 due to another biogas leak from the municipal dump were allowed to return home the morning of Dec.31.The City of Sherbrooke advised the 20 evacuated families the gas problem was under control.Workers were busy digging trenches with three cranes on Dec.31 between the northernmost area of the Sherbrooke dump and the houses on top of the sandy hill (pictured).With the ditches dug down to the water table and gas extractors installed, the last means of passage of gas to the houses should have been cut off, city officials said.Avalanches claim eight lives in B.C.By Ian Mulgrew Southam News Kaslo, B.C.The bodies of six skiers lie entombed near the Woodbury Glacier in southeastern B.C.as roiling snow storms and the fear of further avalanches keep rescue crews at bay.The treacherous weather also hampered attempts by grieving relatives to reach this tiny community near where the tragedy occurred.Vince Nicola of Vancouver, whose daughter Lise is believed among the dead, stood stunned in the Cranbrook airport with his son, trying to find a way to get here.Planes into Castlegar, a much closer Interior airport, were canceled and car- rental companies in the area had run out of four-by-four vehicles that are essential to traversing the rugged highways.“We’re just going to drive through,” Nicola said as he and his son rented a car to make the four-hour drive to Kaslo.Five of the bodies were spotted Saturday by Kaslo Search and Rescue volunteers working from a helicopter.The sixth is believed nearby, said RCMP Const.Jay Arnold.“But the snow is still so unstable we can’t get anyone on the ground for fear of triggering another slide,” he said as night closed in, ending Sunday’s attempts to get into the cloud-choked valley.“We’re hoping the weather will clear (today) and we can get in.” Nicola said he was numb, knew little about what happened, and was hoping against hope that his daughter had survived.“I honestly don’t want to be part of a disaster story.” The skiers, who came from North Vancouver, Whistler, Penticton and Nelson, were among eight British Columbians killed during the weekend because of treacherous snow conditions in the mountains.A high avalanche alert was put into effect Thursday for the South Columbia Mountains where the deaths occurred.Sparwood RCMP said 38-year-old Murray Gray Perrin of Medicine Hat was killed at Elliott Lake when a slide hit him and his snowmobiling friends.Three others with Perrin survived.SEE AVALANCHES, PAGE 9 page 2 Monday, January 5, 1998 What goes around may eventually come around Happy New Year.You won’t get any resolutions from me.It’s not because you can’t teach this old dog any new tricks - I’m learning the latest every day - but rather because I know my 10 13 29 30 37 41 loto-quêbec Draw 97-12-31 BONUS NUMBER: 40 WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 1 $ 2 478 135,20 5/6+ 7 $ 106 205,80 5/6 249 $ 2 388,50 4/6 13 505 S 84,40 3/6 262 160 $ 10 Total sales: S 16 839 712,00 Next grand prize (approx.): $ 2 100 000,00 jucbec Draw 97-12-31 6 13 27 40 43 48 BONUS NUMBER: 42 WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 0 $ 1 000 000,00 5/6+ 1 $ 50 000,00 5/6 24 $ 500 4/6 1 017 $ 50 3/6 18 464 $5 Total sales: $ 606 128,50 Draw 97-12-31 NUMBER PRIZES 569069 $100,000 69069 $1,000 9069 $250 069 $50 69 $10 9 $2 TVA, the network of draws Claims: See back of tickets, in the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list, the latter shall prevail.usually diminished stock of willpower won’t sustain any resolution I would consider worthwhile.Instead, how about beginning ‘98 with some mildly good news, taken from the pages of the Boston Globe.As you’ll see, it’s a case of what goes around may eventually come around: ‘MONTPELIER - A California company is considering running a passenger train from Montreal through Vermont to the sea-coast, probably at Portland, Maine.’ ‘The St.Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, based in Auburn, Maine, is talking to the company, but no definitive plans have been made.The unidentified West Coast company “is looking at several options,” said St.Lawrence and Atlantic vice president Matt Jacobson.’ ‘The passenger train could hook up with cruise ships in Maine, and could make excursions to Boston for foliage and winter sports tours.“There are all sorts of different ways to do it,” Jacobson said.“I think we are going to get some train in some form.’” ‘Jacobson said the business is not ready to be publicly identified, but it is not Les Otten and the American Skiing Company, which have been involved in tourist train deals in Vermont and Maine.The St.Lawrence and Atlantic tracks run close to the American Skiing Company's Sunday River Ski Area in Bethel, Maine.’ ‘The St.Lawrence and Atlantic runs freight trains on 165 miles of track between Portland and the Canadian border at Norton, Vt.It crosses northern New Hampshire between North Stratford and Shelburne.’ ‘Jacobson said no decisions have been made on where the train would stop, but he said Island Pond would be a natural because it’s a crew-change point.’ ‘As talks proceed, something more definite might be announced next month, Jacobson said.’ ‘No passenger trains have run on the St.Lawrence and Atlantic rails in Vermont for 30 years.Many freight railroads need extensive track upgrades before they can carry high-speed passenger service, but Jacobson said the rail quality is fine for slower tourist trains.’ So why is this good news for readers of The Record?Because the way to New England from Montreal is through the Eastern Townships.To connect Montreal and Portland, the train in this story would have to travel though Acton Vale and Richmond, or Farnham and Magog, as well as Sherbrooke and Lennoxville.I think the Globe is a bit mixed up on the details.The St.Lawrence and Atlantic is the Canadian part of the original line from Montreal to Portland which became the Grand Trunk Railway and later the CNR.The American part, from Island Pond through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, was and I believe still is called the Atlantic and St.Lawrence.It too belonged to the Grand Trunk and later CN, although I believe CN has sold it off in recent years.The Montreal-Portland link was originally intended mainly to deliver travellers and cargo more quickly between Montreal and the ports of Europe.The Grand Trunk soon earned a second vocation moving factory workers between their homes in Quebec and their livelihoods in the mill towns of New England.Eventually still a third role developed for passenger trains - transporting vacationing Quebecers to and from their summering grounds around Old Orchard Beach.Then came the automobile, and demand for passenger service started to decline.The Grand Trunk trains ran half-empty, then empty, then not at all.Today only freight trains run on the old GTR - and few of them at that.Most of the cargo is container freight headed to and from Portland harbor, and except for paper mills in Windsor, QC, and Groveton and Berlin Mills, NH, neither CN nor the Atlantic and St.Lawrence have many major local customers.Plans to revive recreational passenger-train service are blossoming all over North America, but few of them ever bear fruit.Today’s travellers don’t like to be away from their cars for very long.If you like riding trains, keep your fingers crossed.Than when the time comes, buy a couple of tickets and take along a friend.loto-québec Draw 98-01-03 6 20 24 33 42 47 Bonus number: 25 6/6 5/6+ 5/6 4/6 3/6 WINNERS 1 6 362 15 865 245 202 PRIZES $ 2 224 062,30 S 111 203,10 $ 1 474,50 $ 64,50 $ 10 Total sales: $15 333 655,00 Next grand prize (approx.): $2 000 000,00 ucbcc 98-01-03 8 10 12 30 36 47 Bonus number: WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 1 $ 1 000 000,00 5/6+ 1 $ 50 000,00 5*6 14 $500 4/6 1 074 $ so 3/6 20 158 $ 5 Total sales: $ 557 169,50 Egtra Draw 98-01-02 NUMBER PRIZES 162178 $100,000 62178 $1,000 2178 $250 178 $50 78 $10 8 $2 Eitra “ SATURDAY Draw 98-01-03 NUMBER PRIZES 443197 $100,000 43197 $1,000 3197 $250 197 $50 97 $10 7 $2 Draw 98-01-02 21 22 27 28 32 44 47 Bonus number: 9 WINNERS PRIZES 7/7 0 $ 2 500 000,00 6/7+ 1 S 97 698,40 6/7 41 $ 2 085,00 5/7 1 999 $ 152,70 4/7 43 435 $ 10 3/7+ 40 650 $10 3/7 367 992 free play Total sales: $ 5 318 384,00 Next grand prize (approx.): $ 4 000 000,00 Claims: See back of tickets, in the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list, the latter shall prevail.Charles Bury Today’s Weather / /* Thetfokd., * .£,*j/ Mines* » 4 f Richmond >r \ / LAC-M ÉC ANTI tïV Sherbrooke», x J />V- /^COWANSVttUf > | Stanstlad REGIONAL FORECASTS MAX Sherbrooke Ocnl Rain 5 Thetford Mines Frzg Rain 2 Cowansville Ocnl Rain 3 Richmond Frzg Rain 2 Stanstead Ocnl Rain 5 Lac Megantic Ocnl Rain 4 MIN 2 1 1 1 3 3 Outlook for the Eastern Townships for Tuesday: Intermittent rain or drizzle, max 6 Environment Canada: The source of the weather BEN ® by DANIEL SHELTON fæ Imb&TI 0 ¦¦¦J HERE you GO IBRAmhss fruaiplek THAN POTATO PARPON?EMaitbenolivi(g)totati Monday, January 5, 1998 page 3 1997: The January After years of debate between rural separatists and the town, three sectors of Ascot break off to join Lennoxville, Wa-terville and Hatley Township.Volunteer firefighters in Hatley protest a move from town council to hand over fire protection services to neighboring Ayer’s Cliff because of a drop in the number of firefighters.On the advice of militants from the Townships, the Parti Québécois’ National Council passes three unanimous resolutions which could limit access for English-speaking Quebecers to health and social services in their own language.A record of more than 2000 voters from both the English and French-speaking communities turn out to vote for representatives on the board of the newly merged board of health care institutions in the Memphrémagog MRC.Observes say 80 per cent of those to cast ballots in some stations were English-speaking.The town of Lennoxville, which has been given seven months to make its signs comply to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language, seeks creative and inexpensive ways to make its illegal street signs legal again.While the law allows for words other than French on street signs, it says the signs must also contain a French qualifier such as “rue,” “chemin” or “boulevard”.After being visibly absent from the Eastern Townships for six months, CBC Radio has a new presence in its Lennoxville office as Gaspé reporter Ron Lavallée becomes a permanent fixture at the CBC office at 164 Queen St.in Lennoxville.Bedford school teacher Hank Avery begins a quest to have an unmarked slave cemetery in Bedford recognized as an historic site.The campaign continues.The municipalities of Sutton and Sutton Townships begin talks of a merger which would highlight municipal politics for the year and end in a referendum held during municipal elections in November.Township mayor Peter Stastny, a supporter of the merger, was defeated in the election.Townshippers’ Association joins other English-language lobby groups in the province in urging Quebec to accept health care access plans without sending them to the Office de la langue française for approval.The first six months Townships Year In Review $ ¦* RECORD FILES In February, Danville resident Glenn Later, accused of sexual interference with three girls between the ages of seven and 10, was released on bail.Marcel Bolduc, father of 22-year-old Isabelle Bolduc who was raped and murdered, launched a $2 million dollar lawsuit against Corrections Canada and three of its employees.Two of the three men charged with the brutal rape and murder of his daughter were on parole at the time, and the third was an ex-convict.Students return to a Coaticook high school after the Christmas break mourning the loss of three classmates who had committed suicide in separate incidents.There were more suicides in the weeks that followed.Well-known Thetford Mines businessman Raymond Setlawke is awarded the Order of Canada for his volunteer work with many Quebec charities.February The town of North Hatley gets the go-ahead from citizens to move its town hall to the community centre, but opponents of the move say voting irregularities in the referendum should annul the vote.North Hatley town councillor Murielle Pelletier’s name appears on a list of property owners who haven’t paid their municipal taxes for the past three years.Danville resident Glenn Later is accused of sexual interference with three girls between the ages of seven and 10 is release on bail.Worried that the government may close the Cowansville courthouse and transfer cases to Granby, a group of lawyers in the Bedford judicial district plans a 72-hour blitz to protest delays in renovating the old building.The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), approves the application of Can-West Global to purchase and expand tiny CKMI in Quebec City to become a regional English-language broadcaster serving the capital region, Montreal and Sherbrooke.The broadcaster promises the Townships will be reflected on the new channel.The Record celebrates its 100th birthday by launching a new look and a commitment to continue providing daily coverage of news in the Eastern Townships.A French ban on Asbestos in July, 1996 was finally getting the attention of federal and provincial representatives and Ottawa pledged a half million dollars to help promote the responsible use of asbestos and ward off new bans.Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard’s car was pelted with eggs when he arrived for a PQ fund-raising dinner in Sherbrooke.Police in riot gear held angry protestors at bay while the premier addressed party supporters inside.The CRTC granted Global a broadcasting license, and the network pledged more and better coverage of the Eastern Townships.Lawyers in Cowansville stage demonstrations to protest the delay in promised new construction and renovations at the RECORD FILES In January, Sutton and Sutton Township began talk of a merger which would highlight municipal politics for the year and end in a referendum held during municipal elections in November.Township mayor Peter Stastny (pictured), a supporter of the merger, was defeated in the election.Cowansville courthouse.Lawyers marched through the streets to raise awareness of the threat to legal services and, in a mock trial, they found Justice Minister Paul Bégin ‘guilty of delay’.Information meetings begin in several Townships towns on a proposed 220-km.natural gas pipeline that would affect 40 municipalities and 900 landowners.It was the beginning of a long process that became more heated as new information was unveiled.fW*r /¦ '.-M RECORD FILES In February, The Record celebrated its 100th birthday by launching a new look and a commitment to continue providing daily coverage of news in the Eastern Townships. page 4 Monday, January 5, 1998 THE Bar attached to chassis /frame via bolts As the body tries to roll, the Anti-roll bar Car’s frame (body attached here) Suspension pivot points Upper and lower control arms.How anti-roll bars work Ant-roll bars do more than simply keep a vehicle riding 'flat' while cornering.In the process of the keeping a vehicle level, they help prevent uncontrolled movement of the car's weight that might ‘toss’ it out of control (caused by rapid weight transfer with too little control).Anti-roll bars keep weight more evenly distributed amongst the tires.Here's how they work.Without anti-roll bar With anti-roll bar Without anti-roll bar ght transfers !flr corners Force Force More than 125 vehicles in our inventory.4141 King Street West Sherbrooke 563-4466 For information (toll-free) 1 888 MEGAPARK 634-2727 LEADER IN NEARLY NEW Force Force Bar secured to suspension by a rod about the size of a pencil.Rubber, or urethane bushings reduce wear, harsheness and noise.bar holds the car flat The bar is always mounted ahead of, or behind the direct line that joins the two wheels.Now.with the bar bent backward to reach the wheels, the suspension can still move up and down, the bar pivoting at the frame mounts, while working to keep the car level during cornering.Basically, each end of the anti-roll bar is anchored to each wheel via the suspension, which forms a rigid beam to which the body/frame are attached.For the body to roll now, one of the wheels has to actually lift off the ground.There is a small amount of roll, however, due to flex in the bar, bushings and the sidewalls of the tires With anti-roll bar height transfers r ear corners RECORD FILES Cookshire trailer park residents are forced to leave their homes as the Eaton River flowed over its banks.«MNI&JK > * 'W ¦¦ r ' p.* > X March About two dozen people from a Cookshire trailer park are forced to leave their homes as the Eaton River flowed over its banks and threatens to isolate them.This is the second time this year they have been forced to camp out.Flooding in Cookshire and the deluge in the French Valley, which flooded several farms near Island Brook, resurrects growing concerns about sedimentation in the Eaton River bed.Conservative leader and Sherbrooke MP Jean Charest jumps the gun and launches his re-election campaign for rumored spring election.The popular MP has still not been named the party’s candidate for the riding.After refusing to join two years ago, Township-per’s Association decides to take part in the Quebec Community Groups Network which exerts control over a big chunk of federal funding for minority language groups in Quebec.Education Minister Pauline Marois unveils a plan to reduce the number of school boards in Quebec from 156 to 70.Parents and educators at the Eastern Townships and District of Bedford school boards protest the new boundaries that would exclude schools on extremities.There is general consensus on the merger of the two school boards.Municipal Affairs Minister Rémy Trudel unveiled a plan for municipal mergers that would affect several small towns and villages in the Eastern Townships.The proposed map would see 411 Quebec municipalities with populations under 10,000 combined to form 176.For some Township towns with large anglophone populations such as Newport Township and Sutton Township, the merger meant higher taxes and risking the loss of bilingual status.Quebec introduced a buy-out plan to reduce the number of public sector workers by 15.000.The plan had a profound impact on public institutions as hundreds of experienced professionals opted for early retirement packages.Margarine was a hot issue for Eastern Townships dairy farmers as the government contemplated deregulation of the yellow stuff.Farmers estimated deregulation could cost them $11 million and threatened to bring their tractors to town in protest.Jean-Paul Bainbridge, a 26-year old ex-con and one of three men involved in the brutal rape and murder of Isabelle Bolduc, pleads for leniency in sentencing arguments.Bloc Québécois MPs in the Eastern Townships rallied to support Gilles Duceppe, the newly elected leader of the Bloc who replaced Michel Gauthier.Federal intergovernmental affairs minister Stéphane Dion takes a pro-active approach to national unity and begins a tour of Quebec selling the benefits of Canada to Quebecers and university students in particular.Tory leader Jean Charest launches his bid for re-election and gets support from provincial Liberals Monique Gagnon-Tremblay and Robert Benoit.The Complete Computer Course Aeasut aCt the Saûicd Evening course - Winter 1998 BCS 114 Computer Uses for Information Management and Decision Making This course introduces various ways of using computers in order to collect, organize and use business information for efficient communication and decision making.• A survey of on-line information sources; • Internet and the World Wide Web; • Word Processing - WORD; • Spreadsheet - EXCEL Mondays, 6:00-10:00 pm.starting on January 12, 1998 Office of Continuing Education Lennoxville, QC JIM 1Z7 y n i v i: i< s i t i: BISHOP’S UNIVERSITY Tel: (819) 822-9670 v.; :.; ' : ' Monday, January 5, 1998 page 5 RECORD FILES In May, North Hatley town council admitted several businesses are operating illegally in residential zones.April The Municipality of the Township of Stanbridge Hast becomes the first municipality in the Eastern Townships to pass a resolution supporting national unity.Bur unlike some in the Montreal-area, this “partitionless" resolution falls short of declaring the municipality’s intent to remain part of Canada if Quebec votes to go its own way.The court case opposing the village of North Hatley and the owners of a Table d'Hote it claims is operating illegally in a residential zone is delayed so the lawsuit can be amended.Residents of Sawyerville, many of them seniors with no means of transportation, protest a decision by the Bank of Montreal to close its local branch and transfer accounts to nearby Cookshire.Popular Lennoxville mayor David Price announces his intention to run as a Conservative candidate in the federal election.He did and handily won a seat.Some 40 farmers in La Patrie received $150,000 compensation for damage incurred during the flooding of the summer before.Much of the damage was not covered by the fund and farmers had to pay 50 per cent of the cost of eligible repairs.Quebec announces $15 million to cover cost of widening a deadly stretch of highway between Bromptonville and Windsor.Between 1989 and 1993 there were 495 accidents, 41 of them fatal and another 31 causing serious injury.Parents in Clarenceville and Drum- mondville fight move to have students transferred to other school boards in reorganisation of school board territories.Coroner Anne-Marie David begins an inquest into 13 suicides that occurred in Quebec prisons between January 1995 and July 1996.Hospital boards assess impact of health cuts announced by Health Minister Jean Rochon.Prime Minister Jean Chrétien calls a federal election for June 2 weeks after campaigning has begun.May The Lennoxville Research Centre announces a proposed swine research project which could raise a stink in the community.Philipsburg council faces citizens angered by a new pet control law which allows residents only one dog.Mayor Raymond Rosetti claims the law is necessary because many pet owners allow their dogs and cats to stray and disturb neighbors.After months of trying to keep a lid on a brewing controversy over home businesses in North Hatley, the pot blows up in council’s face as angry residents showed up to complain about the town’s double standards.Council admits several businesses are operating illegally in residential zones.With red lights flashing and sirens blaring, ambulance drivers, union officials, and ambulance company owners show up at a Regional Health Board RECORD FILES In April, popular Lennoxville mayor David Price announced his intention to run as a Conservative candidate in the federal election.He did and handily won a seat.meeting to fight for the survival of the regional ambulance dispatch centre.As part of $33 million in budgets cuts which it must absorb the regional health board is considering transferring ambulance dispatch service to Longueuil in order to save money.Pit bulls receive a temporary reprieve as Sherbrooke city council imposes a moratorium on part of their pet control law which would ban the controversial dogs within city limits.The prohibition was passed after a four-year-old was attacked by a pit bull on Leech St.in April.Doctors at the Centre universitaire de santé de l’Estrie flag a critical situation at the hospital’s emergency room as a result of a shortage of doctors.The District of Bedford School Board and the Eastern Townships School Board have come up with a counter proposal to Education Minister Pauline Marois's plan to merge the two institutions and modify the teritories they cover.The merger, which is part of Marois's plan to drastically reduce the number of school boards in the province creating 70 linguistic boards in place of the current 156 confessional ones, exclude the areas around Clarenceville to the west and Danville and Drummondville to the east.The counter proposal is to add the MRCs of Arthabaska and Drummond to the minister's proposed zone to ensure that students in the Danville Asbestos region and those from the Drummondville area continue to be served by ETSB. page 6 Monday, January 5, 1998 COMMUNITY FORUM Editorial time to look beyond our own interests If we all kept our new year’s reso-lutions, we’d be one skinny, sanctimonious lot, boring everyone within earshot with our miracle diets and compounding RRSPs.Fortunately, new year’s resolutions are more of an annual rite than a commitment to act.Nobody keeps them and nobody is expected to.But the exercise provides an opportunity to take a look at things that require attention: Expanding waistlines, maxed-out credit cards, the hazards of smoking.More importantly, it’s a time to look beyond our own interests to the needs of those around us.In case you haven’t noticed, we are surrounded by unnecessary human misery: Young people who feel they have no future.Old people, frightened and alone.Single parents wondering how they will feed and clothe their children.The unskilled, uneducated and unemployed.Children, neglected and abused.Workers who feel their work is undervalued and unappreciated.Looking back at 1997, it’s easy to see where each of us could have made a difference in alleviating some of the distress suffered by our neighbors with very little personal sacrifice.Words cannot describe the grief all of us felt for families in the after-math of teen suicides in 1997.We have a duty to try harder this year to understand the pressures faced by young people and not be so damned judgmental.And few things rile me more than hearing health care administrators talk about downgrading the quality of food served to the sick and elderly.I wonder what comes lower on the totem pole than the hot dogs and french fries currently served to seniors in some health care institutions.I personally pledge to picket outside the cafeteria if administrators approve this measure.And let’s agree to show zero tolerance in 1998 for big people who hurt little people.This year should not be marred by stories of people who failed to act when babies were being deprived of their basic needs.If there is a beacon for others to follow into the new year, we can look to the example of parents who have set aside their personal suffering to spare others: The Fisher family, who lost a toddler because of questionable safety practices, and Marcel Bolduc, the father of a beautiful young woman who was snatched from her family and her future forever by madmen.These grieving families’ determination to reform the system so that others won’t have to endure their pain has made them larger than the system that robbed them.Let’s hope we all do better in 1998.SHARON McCULLY Looking -back at 1997, it’s easy to see where each of us could have made a difference in alleviating some of the distress suffered by our neighbors the a division of Communications Quebecor inc.2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, Que.JIK 1A1 Fax:819-569-3945 Newsroom e-mail: record@interlmx.qc.ca 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There goes ANOTHER sport utility vehicle.” Got a job?The news on the employment front seems to be pretty good these days.Unemployment is down, new jobs are being created.But wait, what’s this news report that there are job offers, not high - tech ones, and no one is applying?How many times have we heard you can’t get a job if your name is English?How - many times do we whine we are disadvantaged in the job market because we don’t speak perfect French?Let me tell you about a situation I am dealing with.First off, there are some people in the “system” who want to give the English community a fair shake at jobs.We have a computer-assisted learning center in Mansonville which has six computer stations.A few volunteers have been going to great lengths to find monies to be able to offer computer and other courses to the local community.We have sent flyers, put up posters, applied for Viewpoint Heather Keith-Ryan grants, offered courses.What a relief to hear that the employment center and our member of Parliament believed in our project.Not one, but two projects were given the go ahead: The first is a pilot project to give high school eauivalen-cy to 10 people, and an English-speaking teacher would be hired; the second was to hire a bilingual coordinator for the learning center.The person responsible for the high school equivalency project, - a dynamic man in a wheel chair, put three big display ads in The Record.He received two applications for the teaching job.The coordinator job was advertised in two hebdos and three times in The Record.The candidate needed some computer skills and to have been on Unemployment Insurance within the past three years.We received three applications.One person was ineligible, one is working and the third, if she accepts the job, will have to work for free for half the term of the grant! Question: Have the rest of the unemployed given up reading ads?Or have they just given up? ¦MMNMMIHRIMPHi Blanihet scenic snchet fe est là pour 4 >¦ »• 13:00-15:00 NEW STUDENTS Birth Certificate required For credit courses your High School Diploma and Transcript are required 554 Ontario Street, Sherbrooke Tel.: (819) 563-9574 page 10 Monday, January 5, 1998 — THE Hopefully it’s time for a new, ‘doing-a-decent-job’ mantra Making a new you for the new millenium ’DOfiôflAN.wi f r~rr, Pip Wmsmm* '