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THE RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 COOKSHIRE FAIR > 7FJP®.2 AUGUST 19-20-21-22.2004 New blood with Cougars staff at football camp.SeeP.12 70 CENTS PM#0040007682 WWW.SHERBROOKERECORD.COM Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Group gets funding to preserve biodiversity 'ty'AK êbêm* ::1 ¦ ; :n S v?sffr?, -'iwSS; By Rita Legault Sherbrooke f |'jhe Société de conservation du cor-I ridor naturel de la rivière au JL Saumon has received a helping hand from three major partners to preserve the rich biodiversity in and around the Salmon River.The ecological group received $95,000 from the Canadian government through the National Strategy for the Protection of Species at Risk program of the Canadian Wildlife Service; $60,000 from the Fondation de la Faune du Quebec’s Wildlife at Risk program; as well as $48,150 from Hydro-Québec’s Foundation pour l’envi-ronnejnent.The Salmon River corridor pro- ject, which was launched in the fall of 2000, aims to conserve the rich biodiversity of some 290 square kilometres of land north of Mount Orford that includes 19 lakes, a dozen rivers and streams as well as some 40 major marshes and swamps.More than 80 per cent of the land is forested, including old stand maple bushes.Some of it is farmland.The Salmon River corridor provides habitat for a number of endangered and threatened species including the dusky and spring salamanders, a pair of rare amphibians that could be named threatened or vulnerable species in Quebec.The area is also rich in rare flora including wild leeks, American ginseng, and ferns that only grow on serpentine mounds too toxic for other plants to thrive.There are also scarce birds such as the precarious peregrine falcon and menaced mammals such as bobcats.See Environment, Page 4 Accident in Vdlcourt COURTESY OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DE CONSERVATION DU CORRIDOR NATUREL DE LA RIVIÈRE AU SAUMON The Société de conservation du corridor naturel de la rivière au Saumon received $95,000from the Canadian government through the National Strategy for the Protection of Species at Risk program of the Canadian Wildlife.STEPHEN MCDOUGALL/SPECIAL A Valcourt woman was struck by a car and killed Tuesday in front of her home on Route 222.See Page 3 for more details.Townships Stage at The (piggery (North Hatley, Qc) One Night Only - Tuesday, Aug.24 - 8 pm All Seats: $30 (taxes included) DAVE BROADFOOT Same Old Dog, All New Tricks Theatre fundraiser - Don't miss it! Tel: (819) 565-4957 or 1 -866-565-4957 / www.lownshipsstage.coin page 2 Wednesday, August 18, 2004 ; < «¦¦THE ¦ - RECORD Poland demands apology for CTV reference to concentration camp By Mike Blanchfleld Poland has asked the Canadian government to take unspecified actions against broadcaster CTV for refusing to apologize to viewers for referring to a Nazi German concentration camp in Poland as a “Polish camp,” the Ottawa Citizen has learned.In a letter to be sent to the Foreign Affairs Department today, the Polish government asks the federal government “to take appropriate actions to ensure that the dignity of the Republic of Poland, the ally of Canada in NATO, and the Polish nation is not affected by the untrue and detrimental information spread in Canada by the media.” The letter doesn’t specify what the government should do but suggests that “for the sake of good relations that have existed between our two countries” it might want to consider unspecified action through the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which licenses broadcasters.The letter is the latest salvo in an international dispute between the Polish government and the Canadian private broadcaster.It centres over wording in televised reports in November 2003 and April 30 about convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, a guard at the Tre-blinka concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germans in occupied Poland during the Second World War.The April 30 story referred to Demjanjuk being a guard at “the Polish camp of Treblinka.” Poland’s ambassador to Canada, Pavel Dobrowolski, demanded an apology and a correction from CTV News president Robert Hurst in a May 6 letter.“This choice of words is offensive to the Polish people and the government of Poland.The concentration camp in Treblinka was created by the Nazi Germans, who invaded and occupied Poland during the WWII,” Dobrowolski wrote.“Therefore, to call the concentration camp in Treblinka ‘the Polish camp of Treblinka’ is an insult to millions of Poles who sacrificed their lives in the fight against Nazi Germany.” In a May 28 letter, Hurst declined to apologize, saying the wording was not meant to insult Poles and that the context of the report made it clear that the camp was run by Nazi Germans in occupied Poland.“We sincerely regret that you were offended and that you feel that the usage of this term is insulting to the Polish nation and to Canada,” Hurst wrote.The reference, Hurst explained, was “to denote the location of the camps, not the country or the people responsible for the same.” The Polish government is not satisfied with CTVs response and wants the government to intervene.But a spokesman with the Polish Embassy in Ottawa would not specify exactly what action the government could take against the private broadcaster.Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, in a letter to the Ottawa Citizen to be published today, called on CTV to issue a public apology “in front of the same TV viewers who were exposed to this obvious insult harming not only the Poles of today but the victims of the Holocaust as well.” Hurst could not be reached for comment Tuesday.In his letter to the Polish ambassador, Hurst wrote that although he understood his concerns “and believe in the use of precise language, we believe the term was again used in an appropriate fashion.” Cimoszewicz said that the exact words used in the report are important.“It seems that the CTV executives are unaware that the only proper, internationally accepted and historians-verified term is ‘the Nazi concentration camp in Germany-occupied Poland.” Demjanjuk, an 84-year-old retired autoworker, lost his U.S.citizenship bid in an Ohio appeal court in April.Demjan- juk is in ill health, but has not exhausted his last appeal avenue, to the U.S.Supreme Court.An Israeli court convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity for being a notorious gas chamber guard known as Ivan the Terrible.Demjanjuk has maintained he is the victim of mistaken identity.Three days after Demjanjuk’s court appearance, the Associated Press newswire, which covered the news development, issued a clarification over how it referred to the Treblinka camp.".The Associated Press referred to Poland’s Treblinka death camp.The story should have specified that Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in the Second World War, and that death camps in Polish territory were operated by the Germans,” said a clarification issued May 3 on the AP wire.Some 5.5 million Poles, including more than three million Polish Jews, died during the three-year Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War.Six million Jews were systematically killed during the Holocaust.—CanWestNews Service Cooking for charity PERRY BEATON/SPECIAL The 10th annual Gala des Grands Chefs de l'Estrie takes place on Thursday, Sept.16 at La Toque Rouge.The seven-course meal is a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society and features eight of the best chefs from the Eastern 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escalate into full-blown strikes by the end of September, said Nycole Turmel, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada.“We have never seen this happen before,” said Turmel.“I’ve seen (governments) refuse a conciliator’s report, but never an agreement that has been nego- tiated and accepted unanimously by both sides.It’s the first time I’ve seen this.” PSAC is considering whether to take legal action and file an unfair labour practices complaint.Treasury Board is the employer for most bureaucrats and is responsible for collective bargaining with the 16 unions representing 171,000 public servants.Auditor General Sheila Fraser is an officer of Parliament and her office is a “separate employer” who is supposed to be independent from government and have more say than other departments in how it hires, fires and pays its employees.Treasury Board, however, has the authority to refuse a settlement negotiated by a separate employer, but it’s a right it rarely exercises.Lyn Sachs, who oversees human re- sources for the auditor general, said Treasury Board felt the offer to employees involved too much money and the office “went too far in its flexibility” in negotiating the contract.“We’re comfortable we bargained in good faith .and we were comfortable with the offer we put on the table and I am comfortable we could defend an action,” she said in an interview.The move, however, stunned those in labour circles, sparking speculation that the government plans to play hardball with its largest union and wants all pay increases kept between 2.5 and three per cent a year.PSAC is the largest union in the public service and is currently locked in six major contract disputes with the government that could end with 130,000 public servants on strike by the end of September.The 4,800 workers at Parks Canada led the way with a national strike that began last Friday.The deal with the auditor general’s office — which monitors the government’s books and scrutinizes how well, or how poorly, public funds are managed —was negotiated in early June and affected about one-third of the office’s 600 employees.The contract would have given these mostly office and clerical employees a 4.5-per-cent increase over two years.On top of that, some employees would have be in line for an additional increment to their maximum pay rate for their jobs of between $600 and $1,200 a year depending on the position.The union also negotiated five-day leave for same-sex marriage.—CanWest News Service The PEACE school: A place of learning, love and hope This was David’s second year at the PEACE School.He came to us virtually not knowing how to read or write at eight years old.Two years later, reading and writing is still difficult for him but he is making progress.David is also excelling in Math and in many other areas as well.He has created his own company called Movie Max.Movie Max has produced a documentary about the PEACE School and hosted several parties, including a dance party where David rented a hall, sold tickets, bought food and got a musician to play some tunes.We can’t make David’s learning difficulties disappear but we do strive to give him the opportunity to do what he loves and what boosts his self-confidence while helping him as best we can with that which is more challenging for him.Despite his learning difficulties, David believes he can do just about anything and so do we.Who we are The PEACE $chool is an alternative, private, non-profit bilingual elementary school located in the Town of Brome Lake.P.E.A.C.E.is an anachronism for la Petite École Alternative des Cantons de l’Est but we like the name PEACE so much that we have begun using it in French too, calling our school École PEACE.In September, 2002, we received our accreditation from the Ministry of Education and opened our doors to our first group of 12 students.PEACE’S mission is to offer, in collaboration with the family and at an affordable cost, an educational setting in which children can develop and share their full potential — emotionally, physically, intellectually, socially and spiritually.We pride ourselves on offering an individualized educational program for all of our students, a low student-teacher ratio and a four-day school week.We strive to be a democratic community where decision-making involves staff, parents and the children on various levels.Knowing how to be AND HOW TO LIVE A school is by definition, a place where we learn.However, the content of the teaching is too often alien to the learner, creating a dichotomy between the learner and the subject.At PEACE, our conviction is that we learn first from ourselves, from others and for our environment.That is why we have chosen a philosophy of learning which begins with the learner and turns outward toward the world.How DO WE DO IT?At PEACE, everyday shares a similar structure: Agenda time, circle time, academic time, work blocks for project and workshop.But each day is as different from the next for two reasons: Class activities often change and it is the students who determine to a large extent what they will do during the day.The circle Once the daily schedules are completed, it’s circle time.This is a time when teachers and students come together to talk and listen to one another about a myriad of subjects: Planning the day’s activities, organizing an upcoming outing, discussing a problem which occurred the day before and has not been solved yet, choices or decisions to be made, often involving the adoption or the changing of a classroom agreement.Circle time is magic.Everyday there is an unexpected gift that emerges from circle time and we feel blessed.Academics During academic time, students are grouped according to their academic abilities.Being a bilingual school, the groups aren’t always the same in both languages depending on their level of ability in either language.Each student has their own workbook in French, English and Math which corresponds to their level of ability in each of these subjects.Activities are proposed according to the needs of the students during academic time.$ome will work independently in their workbook one morning while others will follow a lesson on a concept they haven’t quite grasped yet.Writing a text pertinent to a project or a special event, playing a math game or working on problem solving are all possible activities for learning basic skills.There are still three places left for the 2004-2005 school year.If you would like more information, don’t hesitate.Give us a call at 450-243-1182.We’d be happy to answer your questions.liift Is your central vision becoming blurred?Macuiar degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in Canada.If you experience any change in vision, consult your eye-care professional.The Canadian National Institute for the Blind 1-800-513-7813 www.cnib.ca RECORD Wednesday, August 18, 2004 page 9 Antidepressant warning premature, ob/gyn says By Sharon Kirkey Canada’s obstetricians are urging pregnant women who take Prozac and other newer antidepressants not to rush to abandon their pills, saying Health Canada's recent alert about the drugs isn’t scientific.The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada also wants the confidential information collected by the government and drug companies that led to the advisory to be released.“It’s important that the public is not unduly alarmed.(But) there is nothing new that hasn’t existed before,” says Dr.Vyta Senikas, the society’s associate executive vicepresident.“We certainly would be very keen to see this ‘post-marketing’ study that they have.We have no idea as to the content of the information, its validity, nothing, be cause they haven’t published it.“The advisory was clear in that it said, ‘Speak with your doctor,’” Senikas says.But women are leery of taking any medication during pregnancy.“What (women) tend to do is stop the meditation first and foremost, and then speak with their doctor.” Health Canada warned women last week that newborns exposed to a widely prescribed class of drugs known as SSRIs and other newer antidepressants while in the womb can develop complications at birth, including breathing and feeding problems, seizures, jitteriness, rigid muscles and constant crying.The government says the advisory was based on international and Canadian reports as well as “proprietary” information provided by drug manufacturers.But a top Canadian expert on pediatric toxicology said the advisory did little more than create “huge anxiety” for already vulnerable women.“The advisory was not well prepared, it is not sufficiently evidence-based and 1 think it put hundreds of women at huge anxiety levels,” says Dr.Gideon Koren, director and founder of Motherisk, a Toronto-based program that counsels pregnant and breastfeeding women on the risks of drugs and other chemicals to their babies.“More scary, I believe that many (women) would consider maybe even stop cold turkey their SSRIs in pregnancy,” Koren says.Motherisk received hundreds of calls last week following Health Canada’s advisory about the potential adverse effects of antidepressants on newborns.The alert applies to SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and other newer antidepressants, including Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, Luvox, Re-meron, Wellbutrin and Zyban (Well-butrin’s smoking-cessation drug.) Health Canada stressed women should not stop taking the drugs without speaking to their doctor.But the advisory said doctors may consider slowly decreasing the dose in the third trimester of pregnancy.The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada says the advice “is not based on scientific evidence.” Koren went further, calling the advice “totally inappropriate.” He said case reports, as well as five epidemiological studies, show babies whose mothers took SSRIs and other newer antidepressants in late pregnancy can experience withdrawal symptoms.“Yes, there is a discontinuation syndrome, but in a very small percentage of babies — between five and 20 per cent.” None of the symptoms reported so far in babies exposed to SSRI appear to be life threatening, and Koren cautions that it can be far riskier to babies and their mothers for depression to go untreated during pregnancy.An article by Koren published in April in the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, now posted on the Society of Obstetricians’ Web site, warns untreated depression increases the risk of miscarriage, prematurity and growth retardation.Risks to the mother include suicidal thinking, suicide attempts and post-par-tum depression.“What does not come clear from the advisory is that the risk of the untreated depression is huge, and the risk of the discontinuation syndrome is limited, the numbers are not large.And that does not come through here," Koren says.SSRI-exposed babies who experience withdrawal need sedation, Koren says.The babies are now treated with Phénobarbital, an oral barbiturate.But the drug doesn’t reach the brain receptors that are craving the drug.Koren’s group is considering doing a study to determine whether it makes more sense to administer the same SSRI at birth and then gradually reduce the dose, the same way babies exposed to morphine or heroin are now treated.—CanWest News Service P ff ¦- «1 Z71 4X4 CREW CAB SI LVERADO 1500 nm SILVERADO GOT A LONGING FOR STRENGTH?THE SILVERADO HAS MORE STANDARD HP, TORQUE, PAYLOAD AND TOWING CAPACITY THAN FORD OR DODGE MODELS.1 36-month lease Monthly Payment Cach lor oqutvalont traOo-tn) $3£9 /month* $2,609 *442/mon,h* *0 CHEVROLET Lease at $349 /month* 36-month lease Freight and preparation included.With $3,323 cash o% purchase financing Up to 60 months.with O/D & Tow Haul Mode • Autotrac - Automatic 4WD • 4 Wheel ABS • Locking Differential • Dual Zone Electronic climate control • Power windows, Power locks with Keyless Remote, Power mirror, 6-way power driver seat • AM/FM CD Player/Cassette • Front high-back bucket seats • HD trailering special equipment • 17" aluminium wheels Enter the "Ring in and Win" contest until August 31 2004! ' Include» $1,000 automatic credit** page 10 Wednesday, August 18, 2004 ; ¦THE —i RECORD RCMP launches probe of Nortel By Vito Pilieci he hits just keep on coming for Nortel Networks Corp.The RCMP informed the telecommunications giant that it will launch a criminal investigation of Nortel's books.The RCMP's Integrated Market Enforcement Team had a letter delivered to Nortel’s head offices informing the company of the investigation late Monday.The company said it plans to cooperate fully.Rumours of an RCMP investigation have been swirling since Nortel cleaned house in May, firing CEO Frank Dunn, chief financial officer Douglas Beatty, and controller Michael Gollogly.after announcing that a major restatement of its 2003 income is needed.The news of the RCMP criminal investigation comes hot on the heels of similar action being taken by the North Texas district attorney’s office, which has subpoenaed financial documents going back to Jan.1, 2000, as part of a criminal investigation against the company now going on in the U.S.That ac- tion was announced in May.Nortel’s auditors have been frantically looking through the company’s books since it was discovered that a $732-mil-lion profit in 2003 was overstated by 50 per cent.The company has restated earnings for 2000, 2001 2002 and the first half of 2003.Nortel is examining its bonus system.The company paid out about $50 million US in bonuses to top executives last year for returning the company to profitability.It has since been revealed the company lost money in the first half of the year rather than making the reported $48-million profit.The company plans to release financial results for the first half of this year on Thursday.“The considerations are pretty severe,” Paul Sagawa, an analyst at Sanford C.Bernstein & Co.in New York, told Bloomberg News.“The sooner that Nortel can put this behind them, the better." The police probe “is not at all surprising when you consider the gravity of the situation, the size of the restatement and that three of Nortel’s executives have been fired for cause,” Sagawa said.The criminal investigations could be seeking to prove that certain individuals at Nortel have committed some sort of securities fraud.The concept of securities fraud includes the issuing of any materially false and misleading statements, which could include financial reports.Penalties for a conviction include lengthy jail terms.In the U.S., former Enron Corp.finance chief Andrew Fastow has agreed to serve eight to 10 years in prison, while former ImClone chief executive Sam Waksal is serving more than seven years.A mid-level executive at Dynegy Inc.was sentenced in March to 24 years in prison.The Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S.is believed to have referred the Nortel investigation to the Texas district attorney because Nortel has 4,300 employees in the region.Richardson, near Dallas, is its U.S.head- quarters.Aside from the two criminal investigations, Nortel already has plenty of legal problems on its plate, including two major shareholders’ lawsuits, regulatory probes here in Ontario and in the U.S.and a new lawsuit that seeks the right to sue 28 current and former directors and executives of Nortel Networks to recover losses due to the financial reporting scandal that has gripped the company for months.The company is also still dealing with a slumping market for its products.Last week, one analyst who follows the company closely, said Nortel will need to cut another 5,000 employees in order to trim costs.The cuts are expected to come in the areas of sales and administration.The expected cuts come hot on the heels of workforce reductions completed in 2003 that saw 60,000 Nortel employees lose their jobs due to a stagnant marketplace for telecommunications equipment.—CanWest News Service Irwin Cotier hopes review of terrorism laws will begin in fall By Janice Tibbetts Justice Minister Irwin Cotier says he hopes that a sweeping review of anti-terrorism laws will begin soon after rliament convenes this fall so that the government can determine the impact that they have had on civil liberties.The Anti-Terrorism Act, passed in De cember 2001 in response to the terrorist bombings in the United States, requires a review after three years, but Cotier said he hopes the inquiry extends to several other laws that were affected by the legislation as well.They include such things as tougher immigration laws and allowing airline authorities to give information to law enforcement agencies which can be used for purposes unrelated to terrorism.“I look forward to a comprehensive review,” Cotier said Monday at a meeting of the Canadian Bar Association.“I am open to the idea of an integrated and inclusive approach to appreciating the fallout with respect to civil liberties from our whole approach to anti-terrorism law and policy in this country which is not limited to the Anti-Terrorism Act.” The final decision on the extent of the review rests with the House of Commons justice committee.Preparation for the review has been underway for months and Cotier said he hopes the committee begins its work sooner rather than later.The Anti-Terrorism Act, which contained sweeping new powers for police to investigate acts believed to be related to terrorism, has been widely maligned as one of the most draconian laws passed during the Liberals’ 11 years in office.Regina lawyer Kerri Froc, who appealed to Cotier to make the review as extensive as possible, described the package of laws that was created or altered in the emotional months after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks as having “a serious impact” on privacy and individual rights and freedoms.The chief justice of the Federal Court, which deals with cases involving antiterrorism laws, went much further last week when he said that the security obligations imposed by the act created “absurd” situations in the court by forcing it to keep too much information secret.In comments during a decision, Justice Allan Lutfy questioned the need for the strict secrecy surrounding anti-terrorism cases in the Federal Court, and suggested Parliament reconsider certain parts of the law which may “unnecessarily fetter the open-court principle.” Cotier added Monday that the review will be accompanied by an assessment of a controversial section of the Security of Information Act, which RCMP cited last winter to search the home of Ottawa journalist Juliet O’Neill after she wrote a newspaper story about Maher Arar, the Syrian-Canadian deported by U.S.authorities to his home country two years ago as he was passing through New York.Arar was released last fall and returned to Canada.—CanWest News Service THE %*»* y n the cipher stands for another Today ’s due: N equals P “SPG BHYS GESXWHXZKOWXD NGXYHO K PWCG GCGX FOHUO KO BD AKTG U'WY (IPKAZ NHGS) BWSSKG YSGNWOGF.” — VKBBD IWXSGX 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CROSSWORD ACROSS 37 Raconteur’s forte 21 Abstain from 41 Make into law 1 Previous 38 City south of Moscow 22 Onetime female mil.group 46 Dine 5 Shuts firmly 39 Part 2 of quip 27 Marry another time 47 Sleeper’s comments?10 Pageant ID 42 Reclined 29 Doing battle 49 Stinging remarks 14 Kedrova of “Zorba the Greek” 43 Very long time 31 Soothing balm 51 Worship 15 French landscape painter 44 Battery terminals 32 Fancy marbles 53 Approves 16 Forearm bone 45 The Racer’s Edge 33 Temple team 54 Small harbor 17 Actor Sharif 46 Byrnes of “77 Sunset Strip” 34 Swell! 55 Singer Lenya 18 Have a loan from 47 Mrs.in Madrid 35 Fast forward 56 Lover 19 Gracile 48 Attorneys’ org.36 Wayside hotel 57 E-mail ancestor 20 Start of a quip 50 McShane or McKellen 37 Get the gold 58 Stinging insect 23 Take care of 52 Spirals 38 Bout stopping letters 59 Stack TV role 24 Corn order 57 End of quip 40 The living end 60 Black goo 25 Show on TV 60 26 Endeavor 61 28 Clodhopper 62 30 Feedbag bit 63 33 Kind of football kick 64 Tuesday's Puzzle Solved e|b|b|sMa|d|d|o|n M A T H 1 1 D E A T E N T C L O T H H E N 1 E E L A T T L D R E S S O 1 N k| B O E jjn E S T ¦ e F A L A B O R B L U R J 1 M M j! LIANA TRAP TOT OHA N N O Y E S H O R S ERIK O I U G O S LISE TOT R T ELLS INES M T Y A T I E L H 1 O N A L D A .5 A 1 L S E a| USHER LATE ANAS NOPE (C)2004 Tribune Media Services, Inc.ID I E T 8/18/04 Stadium level Ere Utah ski resort United___Emirates Tender places 65 Himalayan legend 66 Scarlet and crimson 67 Media members 68 Actress Anna DOWN 1 Deere output 2 Actress Anouk 3 Mark of “The High Chaparral” 4 Fortune cards 5 Dundee resident 6 Understated 7 Contest site 8 Quaker State product 9 Put in storage 10 Fish dish 11 Versatile 12 Fit of pique 13 Scenery chewer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • 14 i 15 17 ¦ ” 20 23 ¦ r « ¦ • 27 28 29 33 34 35 36 37 39 40 42 43 ¦ 44 45 46 ¦ 48 49 50 51 57 158 59 60 61 63 64 : 66 67 | 16 19 125 41 11 12 130 31 32 54 55 56 162 165 166 By Victor Fleming 8/18/04 page 20 THE RECORD Wednesday, August 18, 2004 ÿëJim SERVICE TRUST QUALITY, VALUE NE063MI04 20Û4 Si Canada FURNITURE -APPLIANCES • MATTRESSES Ouebec City Blvd.de la Capitale & Hwy.du Vallon (418) 260-9084 Sherbrooke Hwy.410 5 Blvd.de Portland (819) 564-3010 Ste-Foy Blvd.Duplessis 8 Blvd.Wilfrid Hamel (418) 871-9595 Trois-Rivières Hwy.40 S Blvd.des Recollets (819) 379-0992 Choose your destination.Sears décor stores or Sears department stores We have over 165 department, home, and décor stores for your shopping SAVE *100-230 YOUR CHOICE During Buyers' Best Buys ONLY 20.69 MONTHLY* Kenmore* easy-clean coil range • 'touch sensor' controls • serve warm’ feature «54202.Sears reg.699.99.save save save ivj Kenmore easy-clean Kenmore 18.2-cu.ft.fridge with top freezer smooth-top range • electronic oven control and timer • 2 smaB appliance outlets •60222 Sears reg.699.99.• quiet, energy-efficient design • 1 full and 2 half-width glass shelves #65842.Sears reg.829.99.convenience department stores APPLIANCES ¦ MATTRESSES % 0 Chicoutimi Place du Saguenay (418) 549-8240 financing 'til January 2007* on all major appliances Quebec Les Galeries Chagnon Levis (418) 833-4711 Quebec Les Galeries de la Capitale (418) 624-7311 Quebec Place Fleur de lys (418) 529-9861 when you use your Sears Card Quebec Place Laurier (418) 658*2121 Sherbrooke le Carrefour de lestrie (819) 563*9440 'Pay in 29 equal monthly «statlrnents.interest tree.«mW January 2007.On approved credit, only with your Sears Card.Minimum $200 purchase All applicable tares and charges are payable at bine of purchase.Monthly installments shown have been rounded uptothenearestcent.When billed, any unpaid portion of yoor Sean Card account ni» attract credit charges, commencing on the billing date for such unpaid portion.Excludes items in our UqwdationAMiet stores.Ouebec and Ottawa stores only.Oiler ends Sunday, August 29,2004.Ask for details.Payment options rod plan défais nay be changed or discontinued at any time without notice.Ask about other payment options.St.Ceorge-Oe-Beauce te Carrefour St.George (418) 228-2222 Irois-Rivieres Trois Rivieres Mall (819) 379-5444 Sale prices end Sunday.Auaust 22 or .-.here closed, Saturday, August 21, 2004, while quantities last Ificloriaville la Grande Place des Bois Francs (8I9)357-4000 visit us at www.sears.ca