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THE P e s V i v 31 du I a » V di CoaTi'coo* August 7-8-9, 1998 The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Mutual Funds How do yours compare to the best?Call Calvin T.Chan Financial Advisor (819) 573-6006 / 1 800 561-3718 MIDLAND WALWYN 75 CENTS Friday, August 7, 1998 3&S * Cleaning Up PERRY BEATON/CORRESPONDENT Michel Cléroux and Bernard Lapointe stand on the shores of Lake Massawippi in Obadanaki Park.The municipal park, where the old railway line has been dug out and replanted to regenerate the shoreline, was created from land purchased from Canadian Pacific and donated by the association to North Hatley.For more, please see page 3.Hearings to study effects and possible safeguards Ice storm commission coming to Townships People may contest need for Hydro line Landowners can appeal expropriation orders - Vallières By Rita Legault Sherbrooke Landowners who are about to receive expropriation orders to make way for a controversial high-voltage line through the Eastern Townships will have a chance to appeal the purloining of their property by Hydro-Québec, says MNA Yvon Vallières.The Richmond MNA was reacting to the announcement Wednesday that the government had issued a decree allowing Hydro-Québec to expropriate the land of reluctant landowners opposed to the passage of the Des Cantons-Hertel line over their farms and properties.Vallières said he was not surprised by the government decree which allows Hydro-Québec to proceed quickly with the construction of the line it claims is needed in case of another ice storm next winter.The decree gives Hydro all of the tools it needs to fast-track construction of the line to meet the deadlines set by the Parti Québécois government which has passed four decrees to pave the way for the pylons, he said.SEE VALLIÈRES, PAGE 5 Beloved Townships artist Kay Kinsman dies.Page 7.By Maurice Crossfield After taking a break for the summer, the scientific and technical commission studying last winter’s ice storm is gearing up for public hearings in the Outaouais, Montérégie and Estrie administrative regions.The seven-member roving commission is charged with studying just what happened between January 5 and 9, when large portions of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes were hit by days of freezing rain.Accumulated ice and massive power failures led to what has become Canada’s most costly natural disaster.Under the terms of the Quebec government decree calling for the creation of the commission, it will look at the severity of the storm itself, the damage done, and ways to ensure the electrical grid remains operable in future disasters.It will also look at the communication of information and the state of readiness of communities and organizations during the crisis.Included in the commission’s final report will be an examination of the technical and scientific side of things, including weather forecasting tech- niques and the possibilities of predicting future disasters of this kind.The commission is also examining the state of the province’s power grid, and how to reduce future power losses.Included in that will be suggestions of how to assure increased security, such as the de-icing of lines and the production of stronger power pylons.Commission head Roger Nicolet had offered to set aside time to study the proposed Hertel-Des Cantons line in place of the usual public environmental hearings.However that point became SEE ICE STORM, PAGE 5 JiPPLEGOVE LAKESIDE DINING “INN” STYLE Open daily for breakfast, lunch and supper Live Classical Piano Saturday evenings Ayer’s Cliff www.ripplecove.com 819-838-4296 Çç$ïpwutf page 2 Friday, August 7, 1998 Local Hell’s no angel - in prison or outside Career criminal doesn’t fool parole board One of Lennoxville’s least favorite residents - who first went to jail for washing a floor - won’t loto-québec Draw 98-08-05 1 4 14 17 31 44 BONUS NUMBER: 27 6/6 WINNERS 2 PRIZES $ 2 500 000,00 5/6+ 14 $ 46 833,70 5/6 363 $ 1 445,00 4/6 19 827 $ 50,70 3/6 332 562 $10 Total sales: $ 17 103 921 ,oo Next grand prize (approx.): $ 2 200 000,00 jiim.fU'gr msm Draw 98-08-05 11 13 20 21 29 42 BONUS NUMBER: 23 6/6 WINNERS 0 PRIZES $ 1 000 000,00 5/6+ 0 $ 50 000,00 5/6 23 $500 4/6 1 038 $50 3/6 18 860 $5 Total sales: $ 502 474,00 E|tra Draw 98-08-05 NUMBER PRIZES 749985 $100,000 49985 $1,000 9985 $250 985 $50 85 $10 5 $2 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 be coming home just yet.The National Parole Board says David Rouleau must stay in jail because he won’t repent.And this is not a Bible story, so sensitive readers should turn off their ears.Parole board documents obtained this week by Montreal La Presse show that Rouleau, a top member of the Hell’s Angels Sherbrooke chapter, was refused probation after a hearing July 29.Parole board commissioners decided he hasn’t mended his ways.Rouleau comes from a good family but decided that a conventional career was not exactly his cup of tea.Instead he opted for the fast and easy life of a bandit biker, and found himself a rising ‘prospect’ in the Sherbrooke criminal milieu.It was 1984 and the Sherbrooke Motorcycle War had just ended.The war had begun in about 1978 in a raging gun battle in downtown Sherbrooke -which even extended into a hospital emergency ward.Eventually les Gitanes (the gypsies) had decimated their crosstown rivals the Atomes (the atoms) in a series of machinegun killings and bomb attacks.The three surviving members of the losing side were told they could remain alive only if they renounced the gang, gave up all criminal activity, held a public ceremony to bury all their biker paraphernalia, and had all their club tattoos blacked out.They did just that.Now undisputed heavyweight criminal champions of the Eastern Townships, the Gitanes offered their loyalty to the U.S.-based Hell’s Angels.The Sherbrooke group were accepted into the international Angels clan during a series of gruesome initiation rites that among other things required that each new member commit a major, violent crime.To become a real leader a candidate had to kill someone.David Rouleau’s star kept rising.Then came 1985.The Montreal-area chapter, the Laval-based Hell’s Angels ‘North’, was out of control.Its members were a wild and crazy bunch whose drugged-out behavior was attracting lots of unwanted attention.Headquarters in California sent orders that the gang’s other Quebec chapters must deal with them.The Sherbrooke gang called an allmembers provincial meeting to be held at their Queen Street clubhouse.Much to their surprise, when the Montreal delegation arrived they discovered that the meeting was all about them.Indeed a ritual trial was held, the North chapter was convicted, and all its five members present were immediately shot dead - one in the driveway when he started running, then four, with more decorum, in the homey clubhouse garage.A sixth member who missed the meeting was killed a few weeks later.The trouble was, a police informer saw the whole thing.Divers found the neatly wrapped and weighted bodies at the bottom of the St.Lawrence River near Lac St-Pierre, and Angel Robert ‘Snake’ Tremblay got 25 years for the killings.As for our hero David Rouleau, he was in the clean-up detail on that fateful day and got to clean up all the blood on the floor of the garage.The informer duly noted this and rookie Rouleau joined mentor Tremblay in prison.By the early 1990s Rouleau was out of prison, back in organized crime, and arrested in England where he was working with money men from the Mafia, La Pegre and various other cabals of organized crime, to put together a huge international drug smuggling and distribution system.Busted while waiting for a 558-kilogram cocaine shipment from Colombia, Rouleau was sent away for another eight years.Last month he had his latest parole hearing, and was told he would stay inside.The commissioners ruled that he had not renounced the criminal values and behavior which put him away.Their proof: He was caught at the head of a network dealing $6,000 a month in illegal drugs - inside the walls of the prison where he lived.So D.Rouleau won’t be back in the Townships anytime soon.But that’s okay with me.Charles Bury On the right track Thanks to George Matheson for setting me straight about the epic voyage of Marco Transport's newly repainted locomotive to its new home in East Broughton.I wrongly reported that the diesel engine had arrived in Sherbrooke on the Quebec Southern Railway and turned back at the missing switch.In fact it was Canadian National that made the delivery, as seen in George’s photo.A backhoe bent the rails around temporarily and JMG-1 actually made it home on the Quebec Central, washouts and all.How embarrassing.I won’t do the same thing to the person who misinformed me.- '-«g.?/ i Thbtpord.JS ,.« « ¦ trv?PERRY R E ATO N /CO R R F- S POND E NT Lake Massawippi Water Protection Association president Michel Cléroux and spokesman Bernard Lapointe say cleaning up the Tomifobia River and other water sources is the key to keeping the Massawippi healthy.Marshes and wetlands act like the lungs and kidneys ot the lake, oxygenating the water and filtering out impurities, points out Lapointe.“We are interested in acquiring more wetlands and managing them to ensure the health of our lake,” Cléroux adds.The Lake Massawippi Water Protection Association will present the five-year action plan to members at its annual general meeting this Saturday.The meeting will be held at 4 p.m.in the gymnasium of the Père Servites High School in Ayer’s Cliff.CORRECTION sports/experts INSERT Please note that the Sports Experts fiver inserted in The Record on Wednesday, August 5/98, Get Back in Style, is valid starting August 8/98 only, and not August 5/98.It was mistakenly inserted in The Record this week.See today’s flyer, Break the Ice, for specials that start this week at Sports Experts.The Record 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General page 4 Friday, August 7, 1998 Record RCMP Musical Ride will perform at Megantic Lake Home renovation outlet in the works Granby Rona to expand Staff f r'jhe Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s I Musical Ride will be in Megantic *£.Lake this weekend, raising money for children with heart problems.The Mounties will perform on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.at the Polyvalente Montignac.The show will be hosted by Lara Fabian.Ticket proceeds will go to En Coeur, the Quebec association for Children with heart problems.The Musical Ride is celebrating its 125th anniversary, as is the RCMP.Cre- ated in 1876, the Musical Ride gave its first public performance in 1897.Since then it has become known world wide for their excellent performances.Tickets are available at several places in Lake Megantic, and cost $3 for adults and $1 for children.In Quebec one child out of every hundred is born with a heart problem, ten times higher than any other child ailment.En Coeur helps to provide specialized equipment, as well as help for the families of the child.Staff The Rona hardware store chain has announced it will be building a regional home-renovation store in Granby.At their monthly council meeting Tuesday, the City of Granby voted to accept the offer to sell a 513,000 square foot section of land near the Super C to Guy Hébert and André Gagnon.On the land they will build a Rona Le Rénovateur Régional, a 90,000 square foot building filled with specialized boutiques offering everything from paint to patio chairs.“It is a new concept for Rona,” said spokeswoman Josée Masicotte.She explained that Rona is setting up similar stores across the province.In Chateauguay the first of these stores has already opened, while others in St-Jerome and Joliette will open this fall.The Granby store is slated to open sometime in 1999.But Masicotte said this will not mean the disappearance of the Rona store already in Granby - it will stay open and work alongside its smaller predecessor.“The concept will allow consumers to have access, closer to home, to an enlarged range of renovation and decoration products,” said Claude Bernier, vice president of marketing and development for Rona, in a press release.Just how much of an investment will be required, and how many jobs the project will create is not yet known.comptoir Gilles Pellerin Group Member Le comptaiR WAL-MART jL • DID YOU KNOW.that colds represent the most common infection in children?To reduce the chances of your child getting a cold, make sure he or she gets plenty of sleep and has a well balanced diet.• DID YOU KNOW.that 54% of all accidental poisonings in the United States involve children aged six and under?Remember to always keep toxic household products well out of the reach of children.• DID YOU KNOW.that a cold, diarrhea, seasonal allergies, asthma an eczema should not prevent your child from being vaccinated as scheduled?Remember it is important that your child receive all his vaccinations and booster shots.• DID YOU KNOW.that it is estimated that between 5 and 10% of al children aged five to ten will experience bed wetting problems and that once these children reach puberty, 2 to 5% will still have this problem.• DID YOU KNOW.that soya based products are a healthy alternative for childen who are allergic to cow’s milk?However, keep in mind that 10 to 30% of people who are allergic to cow’s milk may also be allergic to soya milk.• DID YOU KNOW.that your pharmacist is a health-care professional who can provide health-care information and advice for you and your family.If you need to know more about our medication, consult your pharmacist.Gilles Pellerin Group Member Le camptoiR WAL-MART JL Inside Wal-Mart, Terrasses Rock Forest, 4857 Bourque Blvd., Rock Forest (819) 823-1661 Monday to Friday: 8:30 a.m.to 9 p.m.• Saturday: 8:30 a.m.to 5 p.m.• Sunday: 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.your pharmacy inside Wal-Mart Guarantees (Part 1) The corporate veil is a useful tool for protecting oneself personally from liabilities associated with running a business.However, bankers frequently require owner-managers, or their immediate family members, to guarantee financial obligations (debts) of the business.What is a Guarantee?A guarantee is a contract whereby you (the guarantor) agree to reimburse a creditor (the lender) for a debt incurred by a borrower (e.g., a corporation of which you, or one of your immediate family members, are a shareholder) when the borrower defaults on its payments.Thus, a banker will make a loan to a corporation which is carrying on business but will require the owner-manager, or an immediate family member, to guarantee repayment thereof.If the corporation’s financial position becomes precarious enough that it cannot repay the loan as expected, the guarantor must pay the loan on behalf of the corporation.Is Loss Deductible for Tax Purposes?If as guarantor you are called upon to pay a creditor and you know that you will not be able to recover this amount from the borrower, you will want to know if you can deduct it in computing your income for tax purposes.The answer will depend on the nature of your business activities and the circumstances under which the guarantee was given: Thus: 1) If you are in the business of making loans or providing guarantees or if the guarantee was given in the normal course of business with a view to earning business income (e.g., to guarantee a supplier’s loan) the loss will be fully deductible as a business loss and can be applied against all other sources of income.2.In any other case, the loss will be a capital loss and will only be deductible if the guarantee was given with a view to earning income from a business or property.Tax Talks Revenue Canada generally considers that a guarantee will have been given for this purpose if there is a reasonable consideration e.g., annual fees paid by the corporation on whose behalf the guarantee was given.Also, in situations where a shareholder acts as guarantor, if the corporation itself invested the borrowed funds so as to earn income from a business or property, if it would not have been able to get the financing without the shareholder’s guarantee and if it ceases doing business for good, the shareholder’s loss may qualify as a capital loss.A capital loss is only deductible to the extent of 75% and only against capital gains.Business Investment Loss If your loss is a capital loss, it may qualify as an allowable business investment loss (ABIL).An ABIL is a capital loss that is deductible to the extent of 75% against all other sources of income, thereby making it more attractive.The rules to determine whether a loss qualifies as an ABIL are so complex that, if you lose money on account of a guarantee you have given, you should consult a tax specialist to determine whether you are entitled to this more advantageous treatment.You should think twice before signing on as a guarantor; the consequences can be tremendous! Christine Bellefeuille, CA Taxation Department Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton General Partnership Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton % LA FORCE DU CONSEIL Friday, August 7, 1998 page 5 Record Townships hearings start in Granby Township on Aug.19 RECORD FILES Roger Nicolet heads the traveling commission.i&r " Ice Storm: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 moot Wednesday when the Parti Québécois government issued a decree allowing Hydro Quebec to expropriate land from holdout property owners in Val St-François.Commission spokeswoman Lucie Labonté explained Thursday that the commission is in fact made up of two parts.The first part is a study carried out by experts in various fields.The second part consists of the public hearings which, by the time they are completed, will have visited every regional municipality (MRC) that was touched by the ice storm.Heading up the traveling commission is Nicolet, who has been mayor of Austin since 1977.The former PQcandidate is an engineer by trade, and headed up a commission studying the management of the dams during the Saguenay floods of 1996.He also sat as a member of the traveling commission that toured the Townships in 1995 studying the sov- ereignty issue.Joining Nicolet on the road is disaster researcher Helene Denis, Montreal lawyer Nicole Trudeau, St-Hyacinthe mayor Claude Bernier, engineer Louis Clouthier, Régie de l’assurance-maladie director general André Dicare and retired Canadian army major-general Armand Roy.The hearings themselves are also divided into two parts.Part one will feature formal briefs presented by concerned citizens, groups or government organizations.The second part will be an open forum in which members of the audience will be able to stand up and make their views known.“Those interested have until Aug.14 to submit their briefs,” Labonté said.Twenty-five copies of the finished briefs must be sent to the commission’s Montreal headquarters.For more details, contact Labonté at 1-800-550-5597.Where and When Labonté said the exact starting times and a schedule of the evening will not be known until the day before the hear- ings take place.However, here is a look at how the Townships leg of the tour is shaping up: • Things start in Granby Township on Aug.19.The hearings will be held at the Haute-Yamaska MRC building, 735 Dufferin Street.• On Aug.26 the commission visits the Acton MRC, at 1035 Beaugrand, Acton Vale.• The MRC Drummond will be visited the following evening, with hearings there taking place at the Drummond MRC headquarters, 436 Lindsay Street.• On Sept.1 the commission will be at the Richmond Arts Centre, 1010 main Street North, in Richmond.• The final Townships hearing will take place in Cowansville, covering the Brome-Missisquoi MRC on Sept.2.The hearings will take place at the Auberge des Carrefours, 111 Place Jean-Jacques Bertrand.The commission will wrap up in Montreal, holding hearings there over several days between Sept.9 and Oct.7.Its report is expected to be made public at the end of November.‘Hydro’s continued refusal to justify the project shows that it is not the easiest plan to defend’ Vallières: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But Vallières said landowners will be able to use Article 44 of Quebec’s expropriation law to contest the need for the line.He said Hydro could invoke an emergency clause in the law to justify going ahead with the expropriations immediately.But the utility would be forced to present a motion in Superior Court to prove the emergency.If it proves there is an necessity to act immediately, the ruling would be final and opponents could not appeal, he added.Vallières, who represented the riding which neighbors the Val St-François, said he can’t believe the government is proceeding in such an autocratic fashion.And he said that Johnson MNA Claude Boucher, who has wavered widely in his lukewarm support to landowners, was silenced by the Parti Québécois.“I can’t believe the people won’t have a chance to be heard and at least have a chance to influence the process,” he said, adding that hearings before the Nicolet Commission in September will be an exercise in futility if construction on the line has already begun.“Hydro’s continued refusal to justify the project shows that it is not the easiest plan to defend,” said Vallières, adding if citizens had had a chance to express themselves they may have concluded the line was necessary and accepted it.According to the law, landowners have 30 days after the receipt of the expropriation notice to appeal.Hydro-Québec wants to begin construction by mid-August.Ontario francophones want rights enshrined in Constitution Southam News Toronto Leaders of Ontario’s francophone community are pressuring the provincial government to ask that their rights be enshrined in the Constitution.But Ontario Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dianne Cunningham has made no promises, other than to take up the matter with Premier Mike Harris.Gisele Lalonde, of Operation Constitution, and other francophone leaders met earlier this week with Cunningham, Lalonde told reporters Wednesday.The purpose of Operation Constitution is to enshrine access to French-language education, health, legal and other government services.Though such access exists where numbers warrant through provincial legislation, advocates say only constitutional enshrinement can keep them from being one day stripped away.“Mrs.Cunningham struck us as an open-minded sincere person, not blinded by stereotype partisan politics,” Lalonde said.However, she added, Cunningham promised only to take the matter up with Harris at this week’s premiers' conference.Lalonde said she was hopeful that, although previous governments have refused to push for constitutional protection for Ontario francophones, the Harris government might be an exception.She pointed out that the Conservatives had protected education rights during their sweeping school-board reforms.However, the government, through its Health Services Restructuring Commission, has eviscerated Ottawa’s Montfort Hospital, the only fully French hospital in the province.Lalonde said Montfort was not discussed with Cunningham, because of a court challenge over the decision.21st Edition August 7-8-9,1998 Come visit Coaticook and its beautiful region! FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH 8 p.m.Super Bingo 9 p.m."Soul Attorneys" SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TH 9 p.m.Country Show “L'Express” SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH 8 p.m.Closing Show ”La Veillée Est Jeune" page 6 Friday, August 7, 1998 Record______ C:O M M UNITY FORUM On a clear day, you can see ‘Knowlton’ Awhile back I upset some language lambs by urging readers to speak English when shopping or dealing with government.But that doesn’t mean I refuse to speak French at all.Quite often when out walking, 1 assist French-Canadian motorists who stop to ask for directions.The question most frequently asked, right here in Knowlton, is “Can you tell me the way to Knowlton?” or “Are we in Knowlton?” What is the problem?The language fanatics who infest the provincial government like to eliminate English names from road signs.On Autoroute 20 towards the Ontario border, the exit that used to be marked “Coteau-du-Lac/Coteau Landing” is now marked “Les Coteaux.” That way, they got rid of the offensively anglophonic word “landing.” Never mind that Coteau Landing (like Dickinson’s Landing in Ontario) is a name that evokes our early history, when travel to Upper Canada was by boat and it was necessary to proceed around the cataracts of the St.Lawrence by disembarking and then piling into a cart which took the traveler to the next landing.The federal bureaucracy isn’t much better.The sign greeting travellers at the Blackpool customs house opposite Champlain, N.Y.has been changed to “St-Bernard-de-Lacolle,” despite the fact that St-Bernard is several miles away.The federal language fanatics didn’t go quite as far at the Philipsburg customs house opposite Highgate Springs, Vt.Instead of just plain Philipsburg, the sign now reads “St Armand/Philipsburg.” Back home, our exit sign on the Eastern Townships Autoroute reads “Water-loo/Valcourt/Lac-Brome.” There is no mention of Knowlton.(It’s true that Brome is an English name, too, but it doesn’t sound as offensively English as Knowlton.You can almost see “Brome.” Don’t laugh! The language fanatics actually turned Rosemere into “Rosemère,” even though ‘mere’ means ‘lake’ and ‘mère’ means ‘mother.’ Mamma mia! Some road maps don’t show Knowlton at all.Instead, the village is marked “Lac-Brome.” Now it is true that the town hall of the municipality of Brome Lake happens to be in Knowlton, but it also covers Foster, West Brome and others.Visitors heading for those villages are lucky enough to find them on the map.When the traveler has managed to take the right exit off the autoroute, he will eventually come to a little sign, half-obscured by foliage, reading “LAC-BROME (Knowlton).” On a clear day, the sharp-eyed visitor will know he is entering our village.Obviously, many motorists don't notice the sign.Hence those ‘stupid’ questions.In the bad, old days when the English language was welcome in Quebec, we were inundated with tourists, but the province was so prosperous we could look on them as a curiosity.The standard 1950s schoolboy joke was “Guess what! I was walking along St.Catherine Street and spotted a Quebec licence plate!” Now we are so poor we really need tourists, but the only ones we try to attract are the politically correct who go home and tell their equally earnest friends how fascinating Bill 101 is.Then, the next year, they probably head for Vietnam or some other benighted part of the Third World and come back to praise literacy or whatever some petty dictator claims to have “achieved.” Bill 101 is impoverishing Quebec, a process best described by that horribly apt modern French term “tiermondisa-tion” (“Third World-ization”).Viewpoint Lionel Albert a division of Communications Quebecor inc.2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, Que.J1K 1A1 Fax: 819-569-3945 Newsroom e-mail: record@interlinx.qc.ca Randy Kinnear Publisher .(819) 569-9511 Sharon McCully Editor .(819) 569-6345 Sunil Mahtani Corresp.Editor .(819) 569-6345 Susan Mastine Community Relat.(819) 569-9511 Julie Vinette Adv.Dir.(819) 569-9525 Richard Lessard Prod.Mgr.(819) 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coverage?Dear Editor, It is unfortunate that on Aug.4, you did not devote at a few lines to the fact that on this date the Queen Mum reached the grand old age of 98.She is a remarkable woman and looks great.At least television brought us some great pictures of her giving of her time to be among the people.Is The Record not interested in “Anglophone” news.John E.Morgan Sherbrooke A vital, friendly church Dear Editor, St.Peter’s Church, Sherbrooke, the first Anglican Parish in this district, recently celebrated their 175th anniversary.That was front-page news.Not the in-fighting at St.Barnabas.I recently attended a confirmation service at St.Barnabas and thought what a vital, friendly church it is.It is a shame to have its reputation clouded by the printing of information obtained from a cowardly anonymous letter.Marguerite Cotton Sherbrooke Humans are the number one invasive species Dear Editor, I cut out Charlie (Bury)’s photo of the Canada lily and his mention of the $40,000 fine and posted copies on a trail.Purple loosestrife, the invasive species threatening our wetlands, can be grown legally on our properties and this gives it a spring board.Why isn’t allowing it to grow illegal?The list of endangered plants given on July 23 should give us the French and Latin names (or an official reference).Why doesn’t the Quebec government encourage nurseries to sell (raised from their own stock) rare plants to be re-introduced into nature which does include our backyards?We humans, along with our destructive entourage of rats, cats, dogs, zebra mussels and purple loosestrife (not to mention noisy, dirty motorized contraptions) are the number one invasive species but still smart enough to do something about it.Each year many of us buy wild-flower seed mixes and I enjoy these flowers along with water gardens with blooming lotus, water lilies and various bog plants.One can understand stopping the ignorant removal of rare species from the wild but why discourage their re-introduction while the many invasive species get off scot free.George Foster Aver’s Cliff Friday, August 7, 1998 page 7 ‘An animated, enthusiastic, rebellious sweetheart’ Beloved Townships artist Kay Kinsman dies FILE PHOTO Her many friends remember Kay Kinsman as a vibrant artist with a passion for life.¦' ' ' .: 'I': p H liltE'l By Marty Patriquin One of the Eastern Townships’s most beloved and admired citizens died Wednesday morning.Artist Kay Kinsman, whose well-known and well-loved paintings inspired many throughout the Townships and beyond, died peacefully of pneumonia at her home in Lennoxville.“Kay was a big part of our lives and a big part of our community,” said Kinsman’s longtime friend, Monique Nadeau-Saumier, curator of the Musée des beaux-arts in Sherbrooke.“She was very young at heart,” added Nadeau-Saumier.“She always had new ideas.” Kinsman’s career spanned more than a half-century.Born in California in 1909, Kinsman studied in Cuba, Jamaica, France, England, the United States and Canada.She began her formal art training at the prestigious Parson’s School of Fine and Applied Art in Paris in 1930.Except for the period from 1972 to 1980 when she resided in England, Kinsman lived and painted in Quebec since 1939.Kinsman moved to Lennoxville in 1980, where she pursued a B.A.degree at Bishop’s University.In 1987, at age 78, Kinsman completed yet another degree in medieval history at McGill University.In 1990, Kinsman received an honorary doctorate from Bishop’s.Along with her painting, Kinsman was working on a book about the first song written in the English language.“Her serene paintings describe the simple things and subtle textures that are at the core of everyday life,” Nadeau-Saumier recently wrote of Kinsman’s works.“However, this is not a pictorial centered on reality.Quite to the contrary, her supple and sinuous drawing flows across the page, free of all constraints except that of transforming the subjects according to her fancy and imagination.” It was this imagination which fascinated many around her.Maria Ban-drauk, director of the continuing education department at Bishop’s University, said Kinsman was “an animated, enthusiastic, rebellious sweetheart.” “She was gifted in so many areas, and had an interest in everything,” Ban-drauk said.“She had a wonderful barometer for boring things.” During particularly stuffy speeches or concerts, Bandrauk explained, “she would offer you wonderful commentary under her breath.” With obvious admiration, Bandrauk tells a story of a Japanese student, who visited Bishop’s for several weeks and met Kinsman, who was taking a class at the time.The student was so enamored with Kinsman and her paintings that she donated $10,000 to the university.“She regarded Kay as a venerable saint,” Bandrauk said.Widowed in 1965, Kinsman is survived by daughter Jocelyn Mascarenhas, son Jeremy and six grandchildren.Free smart card valued at $25 with purchase of Ericsson handset only.Take advantage 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