The record, 29 septembre 1998, mardi 29 septembre 1998

To find out what's happening in your community Sherbrooke: 569-9528 Knowlton: 242-1188 Subscribe to THE The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Thought of the Day The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.— James M.Barrie Cattle rustlers rob senior’s residence of vital revenue source 60 CENTS Townships Digest Naughty soldiers will be permitted to hold fund-raiser By Cathy Gibson Sherbrooke The fate of an annual fund-raising dinner for the CUSE was put in jeopardy yesterday when it was reported that all social activities at the Fusiliers de Sherbrooke Officer’s Mess had been suspended pending the conclusion of an investigation into inappropriate behavior at a recent regimental dinner.Ordinarily held at the armories in conjunction with military personnel, the dinner, which raises about $15,000 each year, was at risk of being cancelled.“What is ridiculous,” said David Price, MP for Compton-Stanstead and Conservative defence critic, “is that the military here has been working to strengthen community ties and cutting $15,000 from the community, it hurts.” Price said he contacted Defence Minister Art early Monday morning about the community’s potential loss and asked Eggleton to intervene.Price said he had the minister’s word that the problem was solved and the dinner would be held as previously scheduled.“Because of a rowdy event that took place earlier in September,” said Price, “the community shouldn’t be penalized for that.” Inside .16 Crossword .16 Community .15 Forum .6 18-19 Record Album __5 .17 Sports .14 By Rita Legault Alone heifer wandering on the highway led farm workers to discover that a dozen heifers and a beef cow had been stolen from the Wales Home farm overnight Sunday.Someone saw the calf wandering on Route 243 early Monday morning and reported it to farm manager Clayton Lancaster.When he went out to check on the cattle, he discovered all the cows had gone, reported Wales Home manager Rod Maclver.Maclver said the chains on the fence had been cut and the gate left open.“They must have backed in sometime last night and loaded them up,” he said.“And now they’re gone.” Police from the Richmond QPF detachment were called in to investigate.They Tuesday, September 29, 1998 discovered the tire tracks of one or more trucks in the mud.Maclver said the heifers, who were not yet producing milk, were in a pasture that is quite a distance from the home.The dairy farm is a major source of income for the farm which runs an annual operating deficit of around $1 million.Maclver said the lost cattle were insured.Fatigue may have caused fatal accident Staff Anight shift worker who may have fallen asleep behind the wheel may be at the origin of a fatal early morning in Bromptonville.Debbie Dunlavey, 19, of Cleveland Township was killed in the head-on collision which occurred around 7:30 a.m.on Route 143 between Brompton and Windsor, said Quebec Police Force spokesman Serge Dubord.Dubord said the 21-year-old driver of the car suffered multiple fractures and was rushed to the Centre universitaire de santé de l’Estrie in Fleurimont.Dubord said it appeared the Windsor resident lost control of the car, switched lanes, and hit the other car head on.Dubord also reported that the woman involved in a collision in St-Alphonse-de-Gran-by last Saturday had died in the Charles le Moyne Hospital in Longueuil.Lucie Tétrault, 21, of Granby suffered fatal injuries in a crash which occurred around 3:51 on Route 159 on Sept.26.Dubord said the crash occurred when the driver of the oncoming car changed lanes to pass a vehicle which was turning left.Heavenly Orford PERRY BEATON/CORRESPONDENT Tourists flock to the Townships for a taste of this fall panorama.¦ ¦ ¦V» ' ‘ 39 *jjji ** Q -!j4~ •'-•vÿîïÉ TOR I® iaiMS Ann Landers .Births and Deaths.Classified ___ Comics.THE NEW SUZUKI VITARA 1999 FROM *22,995 GRAND VITARA JX MANUAL 1999 TRANSPORT AND PREPARATION EXTRA $895 ¦ PHOTO MAY DIFFER $ SUZUKI ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DRIVE ON ' CENTRE 4367 Bourque Blvd., Rock Forest (819) 564-1600 • 1-800-567-4259 page 2 Tuesday, September 29, 1998 1 THEi Our only consolation is that Daddy is now at peace My father’s life was a gift to us - Mastine Last Wednesday, 1 wrote to myself in an attempt to answer unanswerable questions.“How can I help him?My dear Daddy.He’s has been in a state of medical shock since Sept.19.We spend as much time with him as we can.Does he know we are there?His nurses believe that he can hear us, and that our presence is reassuring to him.“He’s a fighter, my Daddy.But he has so much of a battle, and has fought so hard for so long.How can we ask him to keep fighting?1 struggle with the question - do I tell him to continue the battle, or to rest?If I encourage him to rest, will I make him feel unloved and unwanted?Is it selfish and unfair to wish that he be free of pain and at peace?“It was only on his fourth hospitalization, four months after his first stay, that doctors identified a rare fungus infection that had spread throughout his system, a fungus so rare that there are only 30 cases written about in world medical literature.Finally, treatment was begun.We sighed with relief.Our relief was to be shortlived.“Complications arose.Water on the lungs, a swollen arm, angina attacks.Then a heart attack, triggered we later learned by a deadly bacterial infection.This was followed by dangerously low blood pressure, lack of oxygen, irregular heart rate, kidney malfunction.” Tomorrow will be my Daddy’s funeral.Our last good-bye.Tears flow so easily, and memories flash to mind with such bittersweetness.My legs ache to rewalk the corridors down to his room in the Intensive Care Unit - taking those steps became so automatic.The faces of the caring nurses and doctors keep flashing back to mind.They tried so hard for nine long days and nights to bring him back to us.But, it wasn’t meant to be.In essence, he left us early on Townshippers’ Day.Now his hands are cold and lifeless.His voice, his smile are gone,.his gentle, teasing manner is just a memory.Our only consolation is that Daddy is now at peace.My father’s life was a gift to us, I must remember that.An ardent woodsman and maple syrup maker, my dad shared with his six children his fascination with airplanes - no matter where we were or what we were doing, at the sound of a plane overhead, we would rush out with him to get sight of it, and his belief that no dessert was complete without a generous helping of ice cream.Along the way, Dad transmitted his passion for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ford motor vehicles.Memories of family drives along the St.Francis River to the Oxbow coupled with ice cream cone treats, of the week I spent working alongside Daddy in sugaring when I was in my early 20s, of his favor towards a particular boy from the time I was ten till the young man married someone else - then towards the man who was to become my husband -it only took me ten years to see the light, will always be precious to me.Most importantly, Daddy’s deep love for and devotion to our mom - the woman he chose to marry nearly fifty years ago despite fierce opposition and whom he always cherished, and his passion for family celebrations - especially birthdays and Christmas, are his legacy to us.Susan Mastine Book readings at Brome County Museum Author! 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The Brome County Museum is the place to be this Sunday for book lovers, reading fanatics and people hungry for a good yarn.Townshippers’ Association, with a financial boost from Townshippers’ Research and Cultural Foundation, is presenting an afternoon of readings by local authors and a display of books written by talented Townshippers.The speakers will include Dr.Robert Hill, author of Voices of the Vanishing Minority.Dr.Hill’s book discusses the life of Robert Sellars, a Chateauguay Valley journalist 100 years ago who foresaw the exodus of English-speaking people from rural Quebec.Well-known author Bernard Epps will tell one of his Tales of the Townships, and two poets will read from their works: Maria Van Sundert from The Hungry Dark, and Kathleen McHale from The Intimate Alphabet.During the day you can discover what goes into creating a children’s book.Elaine Adams, children’s book illustra- tor, will be on hand during intermission, creating some of her quirky characters and everyone is invited to watch.There will also be a display and sale of more than 30 books by Townships’ writers.The Brome County Museum is located at 130 Lakeside in Knowlton and the event will take place Oct.4 from 2 to 4 p.m.Come see and hear what talent the Townships holds! T-Day T-shirts The special Townshippers’ Day T-shirts proved very popular last Sunday in Cookshire, and they sold like hot cakes.People who were disappointed that the commemorative T-shirts sold out so quickly on Townshippers’ Day can now order them from Townshippers’ Association (819-875-3771), (819-566-5717) or (450-263-4422).The cost for these eye-catching shirts is a low $10 ($15 by mail).The T-shirts make a wonderful and original present.They are made of 100 per cent cotton and display an original design created by local artist Denis Palmer.If you want a T-shirt it’s now or never, because today is the last day to place your order.Don’t miss out! Campaign Launch It’s that time of year once again and the Townshippers’ Research and Cultural Foundation is kicking off its yearly fund-raising campaign on Thursday, Oct.1.The campaign launch will be held at 7:30 pm at the Eastern Townships School Board Offices in Magog.David Price, Member of Parliament for Compton-Stanstead, will be the keynote speaker.Everyone is welcome.Over the past decade the Townshippers’ Foundation has given out over $550,000 to individuals and organizations throughout the Townships for a wide variety of projects, but it needs contributions to continue its good work.Bookstore Update People have been expressing a great deal of concern about the impending closure of Librairiesmith in the Sherbrooke shopping centre, Carrefour de L’Estrie.As one of only three English bookstores in the Townships its loss will be deeply felt.The bookstore is currently looking for a smaller location in the shopping centre where rent would be cheaper.Anyone wishing to express their concern for the future of the store should contact Chapters in Toronto.The phone number is (416) 243-3138, and the address is: 90 Ronson,Etobicoke, Ontario, M9W ICI.All comments and complaints should be addressed to customer service.Colloquium on Aging The Eastern Townships Research Centre is presenting a colloquium very pertinent to the Townships, entitled Rural Communities in an Aging Society.The event will take place at Bandeen hall at Bishop’s University, Saturday, Oct.3 from 8:30 to 6:00 p.m.The keynote speaker is Edward Keyserlingk, Director, Biomedical Ethics unit and Professor at McGill Medical School.Call (819) 822-9600 for more information.Today’s Weather j i TiirmmD, Mines à J Sherbrooke- \ /^CowANSviujf ; v |Stanstead i \ Richmond ¦ ?Iac>M£ganti^» REGIONAL FORECAST Tuesday: Mainly sunny with a few cloudy periods.BEN ® by DANIEL SHELTON OLIVIA HATLEY/ HOW ARE YOU?OH MS! IS THAT YOUR GRANPS0N?' T WHY HELLO THERE, YOUNG MAN/AREN'T YOU SO CUTE//CAN YOU SPEAK?PO YOU KNOW ANY WW6?HI, TARHNE YES.THIG IS NICHOLAS WHAT THE VMttV POES HE KNOW ANY WITH MORE THAN FOUR LETTERS -7/ "—— Tuesday, September 29, 1998 page 3 .the — i Record ‘We had to flee with the trophies under our arms’ - club prez Hot night at Knowlton Golf Club MAURICE CROSSFIELD : r - '* -i tils »sfc- : Fire at the Knowlton Golf Club quickly spread up a stairwell from the basement to the kitchen, and then spread to the second floor, damaging several bedrooms there.By Maurice Crossfield The Knowlton Golf Club narrowly escaped total destruction when a fire broke out in the basement of the main clubhouse Saturday night.An employee sounded the alarm around 7:20 p.m.after spotting the fire in the basement underneath the kitchen during the golf club’s closing dinner.Everyone was evacuated safely from the building, and no one was injured in the blaze.About 130 people were preparing for the dinner, which marked the end of the club’s activities for the summer.“We had to flee with the trophies under our arms,” said Knowlton Golf Club treasurer Robert Kearney on Monday.The fire quickly spread up a stairwell from the basement to the kitchen, and then spread to the second floor, damaging several bedrooms there.Within eight minutes the Brome Lake Fire department arrived on the scene and began battling the blaze.Shortly afterwards firefighters from Cowansville and Sutton were called in to help.The firefighters efforts were hampered by the building itself.The allwood structure was built in 1921, and lacked fire stops in the walls, allowing the flames to spread quickly.But despite the challenges, firefighters managed to extinguish the flames by 10:30 p.m.and by 1 a.m.Sunday morning they had rolled up their hoses and gone home.“The Brome Lake Fire department did a super job containing the blaze,” Kearney said.“We could have easily lost the whole building.” Damage to the building was limited to the rear wing and the back part of the clubhouse.Damage was heaviest in the kitchen, which was mostly destroyed.The front part suffered some smoke and water damage, but was otherwise unscathed.Monday morning many tables were still set, with cutlery and wine glasses at the ready, for the dinner.Kearney said the closing dinner usually marks the end of the use of the main clubhouse for the season.After- wards offices and records are moved to a nearby building for the winter months, and the clubhouse is closed up.Monday the fire scene was investigated by Brome Lake Fire Chief Pierre Laplante and investigators from the golf club’s insurance company.The most likely cause is considered to be an electrical wiring problem.Kearney said the management of the Knowlton Golf Club is now waiting to hear from the fire chief and their insurance company before deciding what to do next.Members wanted benefits for younger set Discount booklet for seniors unveiled By Cathy Gibson Magog f i jhe Memphremagog chapter of the 1 A.Q.D.R.(Quebec association for .X.the defence of the rights of the retired and pre-retired) has released the second edition of its popular discount booklet.This new and improved version is available to any member and contains listings for 120 businesses that offer discounts to people over 50 years of age.Each listing includes the place of business, its address, the discount available, what identification and what age is required to be eligible.The first version of the discount booklet was published in 1991.It included 42 places of business as well as listings for government and community services but was only available to members over 65.Enrolment in A.Q.D.R., has since grown from around 159 to 720, and the membership was asking for more.“The demand from our members prompted us to do this,” said Vicki May Hamm, co-ordinator of Memphremagog A.Q.D.R.“We have members who have been with us for ten years and they have had the benefits of the discounts the entire time.Since we increased our membership, it was time, it had to be done.It was also a good argument to sell our membership cards.” Forty per cent of the membership in the Memphremagog chapter is anglophone, and theirs is the only bilingual chapter in the province of Quebec.In addition to the discount booklets, the A.Q.D.R.also offers health information sessions, workshops on a variety of senior’s issues and acts as a lobby group to protect the rights of retirees and preretirees.Membership in the organization costs $6 per year; for more information contact Vicki May Hamm at (819) 868-2342.CATHY GIBSON The demand from our members prompted us to do this' - Vicki May Hamm, coordinator of Memphremagog A.Q.D.R.Briefs Vandals strike Cherry River cemetery again Sunday afternoon vandals struck the Cherry River Cemetery for the third time in a week, knocking over several gravestones and stealing the chain link fencing.In the first incident, the vandals knocked over a dozen monuments, and cemetery workers quickly set them back up.The second time one or more people knocked over 12 other stones, damaging two of them in the process.Sunday morning the cemetery workers returned again to remount the toppled tombstones.In the afternoon the vandals returned, knocking over 16 gravestones, damaging several.The chain link fence along the front of the burial ground was also stolen.Damage to the Cherry River Cemetery is estimated to be in the thousands of dollars.Anyone with information concerning the vandalism, or anyone who has seen unidentified vehicles coming off of the cemetery hill are asked to contact the Quebec Police Force at 1-800-461-2131.Blood testing clinic opens in Magog Monday the Magog Hospital launched its walk-in blood testing clinic.From Monday to Friday between 7:30 a.m.to 10 a.m.anyone with a prescription for a blood test can have one done, on a first come, first served basis.This new clinic replaces the old appointment-based system.If you already have an appointment for a blood test, you should have been contacted by a hospital worker to make the appropriate arrangements.In a press release from the Magog Hospital, lab head Armelle Apter asked for the public’s patience during the next few weeks as the workers adapt to their new system.Blue Seal Lennoxville Warehouse Outlet GRAND OPENING Come join the party! FEEDS ^at- ^Ct’ ^ 10:30-4:30 1000 libs, of door prizes to give away Refreshments served Frontier Animal Society pups/kittens Live musical entertainment featuring Rural Roots - Bluegrass Late Bloomers 11 year old fiddler Greg Davis 292 Queen St.Lennoxville 348-1888 page 4 Tuesday, September 29, 1998 — THE—¦ ' RECORD Some will never forget Red Cross Agency takes over blood system, seeks trust By April Lindgren Southam News Toronto Strips of black-and-white paper obliterated the famous red cross symbol on posters and signs in the Manulife Blood Donor Clinic in Toronto on Monday.The erasure of the Red Cross presence from this downtown clinic and hundreds of others across the country marked the beginning of a new era in the management and safety of Canada’s blood system.Officials of the new Canadian Blood Services agency officially assumed responsibility for the national system at a noon press conference during which they spent most of their talking about how they would prevent a repeat of the tainted-blood tragedy.In the worst public health disaster in Canadian history, thousands of Canadians were infected with the AIDS virus or hepatitis C while the blood system was under Red Cross responsibility.“Donations will not be made in ade- *Nothing to pay before January 1999 NOW'S THE TIME TO RENOVATE Bathrooms Complete line of wood or oil stoves Exterior siding ‘On approval of credit ut\i|o|&! Matériaux Magog-Orford me mQKSO 205 Centre St., Magog (819)843-4441 quate numbers if Canadians do not understand and trust the system,” CBS chief executive officer Lynda Cranston told reporters.While the red cross symbol will be replaced by the CBS logo featuring a maple leaf in a stylized drop of blood, Cranston said blood donors will not notice any significant differences when they go to a clinic.“But let me quickly dispel the notion that it’s going to be business as usual, or that we've simply grafted a new head onto the same old body.” The new system, she promised, will be more accountable, transparent and open.The CBS, with a $350 million annual budget, will operate at arm's length from governments and will have the power to make fast, efficient decisions about any tests or changes required to ensure a safe blood supply, Cranston said.Under the new system: •The CBS system will be responsible for the blood system across nine provinces and work closely with Hema-Quebec, Quebec’s blood supply body that also began operations Monday.•The 13-member CBS board of directors, which includes a chairperson plus two consumer-interest representatives, four regional directors and six represen- tatives of the medical, scientific and business communities is responsible only for looking after the blood supply.Under the old system, Red Cross directors dealt with the blood supply as well as with humanitarian relief and water safety training programs.• Independent auditors will conduct periodic safety audits of CBS operations and make the reports public.•All board meetings and agendas will be made public.•The CBS will be sufficiently funded and have the ability to borrow to take quick action if a new test or other change is necessary to protect the blood supply.Under the old system, the adoption of tests to detect the AIDS virus and hepatitis C was delayed by bureaucratic concerns about the availability of money.•The CBS and the board will be held accountable for the safety of the blood supply.“Previously, our system had multiple points of accountability, and this created cumbersome decision-making that led to uncertainty,” Cranston said.“No one person was in charge, so no one felt free to make a decision.” As of Monday, she promised, “the buck stops with the Canadian Blood Services.” Cranston, who noted that “trust cannot be earned overnight,” urged Canadi- ans to remember that each blood donation helps as many as eight people From a high of 1.1 million in the late 1980s, the number of donors declined to just under 700,000 last year.Jean Carr, a nine-year veteran volunteer at the Manulife Clinic, has seen the disturbing trend first hand.“We really need more donors,” she said as she hurried out the door Monday with the new white CBS T-shirt she was given to replace her blue smock with the red cross on the arm.“I used to have 75 people on my (two-hour) shift when I started here - today I had three.” Michael McCarthy, a director of the Canadian Hemophilia Society, said he hoped the new system will “be something better than the old system.I saw family and friends die under that system.” McCarthy contracted hepatitis C in 1984.For some, however, it is impossible to forgive and forget.“I hate the Red Cross,” said Bernadette Roy, a 64-year-old Ottawa woman whose husband died of AIDS contracted from a blood transfusion and passed the condition on to her.“They killed my husband and ruined my life.I’m alone and people are still afraid of me - they’re afraid even of my tears if they fall on my hand.” Protesters want probe into APEC activities to include PMO By Joan Bryden Southam News Ottawa Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to disclose the precise role he played in security arrangements for last year’s APEC summit.In Vancouver on Monday, the RCMP Public Complaints Commission was asked to declare that it has jurisdiction to investigate whether Chretien or members of his staff directed the police to crack down on student protesters at the summit.The request came in a notice of motion from Cameron Ward, lawyer for some of the students, who allege their civil rights were trampled by the RCMP in the police force’s zeal to protect Indonesian dictator Suharto from embarrassment.Dozens of students were pepper-sprayed and arrested without charges.If the commission won’t rule on the jurisdictional issue, Ward is asking that the matter be referred to the Federal Court.Whether the commission has the power to investigate the prime minister’s role in the affair has become a key question.Opposition parties have been calling for an independent public inquiry, contending that the commission can legally investigate only the RCMP’s behavior, not the prime minister’s.Chrétien and Solicitor General Andy Scott have said the commission has the authority to investigate all relevant aspects of the APEC affair.The commission is to begin hearings next week and Ward wants a clear statement on the scope of the inquiry at the outset.If the commission won’t investigate the role of Chrétien and his office, Ward said some students may not wish to incur the considerable inconvenience and expense” of participating in the inquiry.In the past, commission counsel Chris Considine has insisted the commission does have jurisdiction to investigate whether third parties, such as Chrétien or his staff, influenced the RCMP’s behavior.He refused to comment Monday on Ward’s notice of motion, other than to say: “My comments previously made still stand.” Meanwhile in Ottawa, both the Reform and New Democratic parties served notice that they will ask the Commons Foreign Affairs committee to delve into the prime minister’s role in security for the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit.Reformer Bob Mills filed a notice of motion requesting that the committee look into the suppression of legal protests at the summit and that it call Chrétien and Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy as witnesses.Mills also wants two top PMO aides - Jean Pelletier, Chrétien’s chief of staff, and Jean Carle, Chretien’s former director of operations - to testify.New Democrat Svend Robinson wants the committee to examine broader issues, including Canada’s membership in APEC, the policy of allowing armed foreign bodyguards into Canada and the extent to which Axworthy and his officials tried to ensure the “comfort” of Suharto.Committee chairman Bill Graham said the Liberal-dominated committee will consider the opposition motions at its next meeting. record Tuesday, September 29, 1998 page 5 Urban centres continue to entice many immigrants PQ helps new Canadians choose the Townships By Cathy Gibson Sherbrooke Immigration Minister André Bois-clair announced Monday the regional development council will receive $210,000 to help fund initiatives to attract immigrants to the Eastern Townships.As part of a provincially-directed program to regionalize immigration, the funds will be distributed in $70,000 allotments over three years.Unlike other financial aid programs, the minister will not be solely responsible for allocating the funds and determining the direction of the program but will act in collaboration with the CRD; this allows for individualized approaches to immigration, where projects can be developed to specifically impact the Townships region, Boisclair said.This is the fifth agreement of its kind in the province, four others were signed in the Outaouais, the Laurentides, Laval and Quebec, said Boisclair, stressing that each agreement reflects the specif- ic characteristics of each region.Immigration “brings cultural enrichment,” he said, “and a new perspective, but besides the cultural and social contribution there is also the economic contribution.” Last year, immigration directly created $32 million in projects in Quebec - not to mention the arrival of 400 entrepreneurs to the province.Each year only 10 to 15 per cent of immigrants to the province settle outside of the greater Montreal region.In 1996 immigration accounted for just 1.4 per cent of the population in the Townships region and of that 54 per cent settled in metropolitan Sherbrooke.On average Sherbrooke receives about 600 refugees and immigrants a year.“It is our initiatives,” said Boisclair, “that will familiarize foreigners with this region .and for that reason, it may happen that if someone has already made the choice to immigrate, they may make the choice to settle in this region.” Each year only 10 to 15 per cent of immigrants to the province settle outside of the greater Montreal region.In 1996 immigration accounted for just 1.4 per cent of the population in the Townships region and of that 54 per cent settled in metropolitan Sherbrooke.CATHY GIBSON Provincial Immigration Minister André Boisclair was in the Townships Monday to announce a new program to help attract new immigrants to the region.Landowners complaints against TQM mount Critics charge NEB is not much of a watchdog By Rita Legault After a number of public complaints, the National Energy Board has promised landowners it will assign more inspectors to supervise construction of the Trans-Québec Maritime Pipeline through the Eastern Townships.The board, which approved the pipeline conditional upon the execution of a number of a variety of environmental measures, is supposed to be a watchdog to ensure TQM follows the conditions of its construction permit.But reluctant landowners, who have been forced to welcome the pipeline on their properties, have complained the NEB does not have enough inspectors and TQM has ignored some significant conditions - particularly those that relate to the protection of vulnerable waterways including streams, ponds and springs.East Hereford farmer Lucie Roy-Alain of Ferme Yval complained to the NEB late last week that TQM blasted a brook on her land before it had permission to go ahead with work in the waterway.Blasting in the brook, which cut off the water supply to her pond, occurred two days before TQM received authorization from the NEB to blast there.Roy-Alain said she strongly suspects work has taken place in other vulnerable waterways before full authorizations were obtained.“We’re not protected at all,” complained Norman Benoit, president of a coalition of landowners which opposes construction of the pipeline.“We maintained that throughout the hearings, and we were right.“We said that if there were any shortcomings we’d be screaming loud and clear, but that didn’t phase them,” he added.Benoit, and East Hereford’s Roy-Alain, are two of the final holdouts who have not negotiated a deal with TQM.But that doesn’t mean those who have signed are satisfied with the care pipeline builders are taking as they tear up the countryside to bury the 213 kilometres of pipe that will transport natural gas to the United States.“I hate it,” says South Stukely resident Gary Richards.“I hate every day of it.” Richards, who was another leader of the coalition, said landowners are doing the best with a situation they don’t like.For the past month Richards has spent hours every day supervising the work on his land, talking to engineers and work- ers, trying to ensure they cause as little damage to his property as possible.But there are many things out of his control.On Saturday uninvited and unauthorized all-terrain vehicles buzzed up and down his private property using the roadbed created for the heavy machinery TQM must bring in to lay the pipe on his land.“This is a portend of things to come,” Richards prognosticated, bringing up oft-repeated concerns about landowners liability if accidents occur on their land.While the rights-of-way remain the property and responsibility of landowners, they are an enticing attraction to the operators of all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles seeking kilometres of open trails to practice their noisy and sometimes dangerous sport.They are also a favorite spot for the quieter sports of cross-country skiing, hiking and mountain biking.Richards is also concerned about the environmental impact of the pipeline, the second to cross his property alongside high-voltage Hydro-Québec power lines and an abandoned hydro servitude.“I was sick to my stomach when I saw them chipping my trees,” he said.“I even scurried around one day to save as many frogs as possible from the marshland and put them in the pond before the bulldozers came through.” He said delays caused by landowners also saved the nesting season ensuring the survival of hawks and owls dwelling and raising their fledglings on his property and others nearby.Next year many of the birds will have to find new trees to nest in.Richards, who spoke at length with the NEB’s agent last week, was somewhat reassured that field inspectors would be on hand to keep an eye on TQM.“Now that the NEB is on the scene and there is a more visible presence, we hope they (TQM) will be more respectful of the environment,” he said.He said landowners in the Townships have forced TQM to be more careful and the NEB to impose stricter conditions.And, he said, they intend to remain vigilant well after the upheaval of the construction period is finished.“The company will have no choice but to show more stewardship towards the land,” he said, adding that after the battle of the last few years, landowners plan to create sustained public awareness of pipelines. page 6 Tuesday, September 29, 1998 COMMUNITY FORUM Are these the actions of a dictatorship or a democracy?VIEWPOINT David Price MP Compton-Stanstead A T^at Canadian value is more sa-\/\/ cred than free speech?Protect-V V ing the Prime Minister’s reputation, apparently.Last fall, peaceful student demonstrators protesting the horrible human rights record of a hated dictator were shoved, pepper-sprayed and, in the case of female demonstrators, strip-searched without any charges being laid.South Africa in the mid-1980’s?How about the campus of the University of British Columbia in the fall of 1997?The visit to Vancouver by Indonesian President Suharto in October, 1997 for a meeting of the Asian-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) was supposed to have gone off without a hitch.The RCMP was assigned to provide security details and none of the visiting leaders was to have been offended.During the conference, a peaceful student demonstration against Suharto’s disregard for democracy back home and the hypocrisy of Canada doing business with him turned ugly.RCMP officers harassed protesters, ripped down signs, assaulted them with pepper spray, and held many of them without just cause.In the months since the APEC conference, even more disturbing details have emerged linking the restriction of the students’ rights to orders to the RCMP by the Prime Minister’s Office.Recently released documents show that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien involved himself inappropriately in the RCMP’s handling of security arrange- ments for Suharto during his visit to Vancouver.Concerns over embarrassing the dictator by exposing him to name-calling or posters seemed to have been at the forefront of the prime minister’s mind.At the back were concerns over Canadians’ freedom of expression and rights to peaceful demonstration.The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada has called upon the House Justice Committee to review the relationship between the PMO and the RCMP and have demanded that Chrétien explain before the House of Commons - in detail - his role in the APEC fiasco.While the limitation of the protesters’ rights is despicable, increasing evidence that the RCMP was only acting on the wishes of the prime minister is what Canadians should be most concerned about.I raised this issue in Question Period as the House reconvened this past week and pressured both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Immigration Lucienne Robillard to give full accounts of their roles in the APEC fiasco.While thousands of refugees flee to Canada because they yearn to express themselves, Canadians who demonstrate 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we put the 50-plus-l argument to bed?The idea is simply too fraught with risk to contemplate - and the risk is even greater for separatists.Just for a moment, forget the Supreme Court decision and pretend that the results of the last referendum were reversed.The Yes side wins by fifty thousand votes.PQ delegates visit every world capital seeking recognition.Negotiating teams are formed.Committees start designing a new constitution, and as background to it all, the most raucous, delirious party North America has ever seen is running non-stop.Every sovereignist is on a high, convinced that nothing is now impossible.Stories about suspiciously large numbers of spoiled ballots in anglophone ridings begin to surface.The losing No side demands a recount.Every ballot box in all 125 ridings is opened and counted.It soon becomes clear that ballots were illegally rejected everywhere, not only in a few ridings, and the full scope of the 1995 referendum fraud is exposed.Imagine the scene when, after a month of crisis, euphoria and endless victory celebrations, Mr Parizeau goes on TV to announce that the New Jerusalem has not yet been attained.Quebecers are not simply two groups of voters, one federalist, one separatist.Most would have watched the process warily, noted any lack of international recognition, compared the real financial situation with PQ referendum claims, assessed the hard line taken by the federal government and the new respectability of partition.On top of all this, proof of massive vote theft would end any claim that separation was no riskier than a summer stroll in the park.Suddenly the comparison would more closely resemble juggling too-few, too-small generators to power too many houses during the 1998 ice storm.It might be fifty years before any separatist would dare raise the subject of independence again.The trouble is that by then the die would be cast.Mr Parizeau might urge calm and blame ‘ethnics, money’ and any three other culprits selected at random from the PQ style book; but how can those dedicated separatists who have given so much for so long meekly step back after tasting victory?The threshold for victory in any referendum must be high enough so that no possible ballot manipulation or voter registration trickery can overturn it.Given the PQ record, I believe it must be set at no less than sixty per cent.John Sheltus Bedford ffMBMH Tuesday, September 29, 1998 page 7 —¦ RECORD _ SPECIAL REPORT Inside the mind of George Scott Doctor denies prisoners were used as By Mike Blanchfield and Jim Bronskill Ottawa George Scott remembered her as a stylish, aristocratic woman in her early 70s.She said she was a pianist, a graduate of Harvard University.She also happened to be a psychiatric patient at the Ontario Hospital in Brockville.It was 1936 and Scott was a 21-year-old University of Toronto medical school intern.His fascination with the human mind was about to lead him on a lifelong journey into the brave new world of psychiatry.The piano player from the Brockville mental hospital was one of his earliest stops on that trip.“She would always say to me ‘graduate of Harvard brother, fire in the furnace brother.’ I took an interest,” Scott recalls.He wanted to help the woman so he looked into the hospital pharmacy and found a chemical derivative of cannabis, “the technical name for the drug that’s in pot.” “I thought, ‘I’ll give it to the old lady.’ 1 got permission.It did help her in a way.” For four hours, the woman regained her ability to play the piano and then reverted to her psychotic state, Scott recalls.He considered it an experiment that “worked all right.” In the decades to come, George Scott would scale to impressive heights in psychiatry before a dramatic fall in 1995 that would see him stripped of his medical licence.He would open his own private hospital, he would become a senior staff psychiatrist for the Canadian penitentiary service.He has worn many faces: author, professor, researcher, academic, expert witness, television performer.Few in Canada would pronounce so authoritatively on the mind of the criminal as George Scott.At Kingston Penitentiary, Scott would become a key figure in a controversy that would only come to light earlier this year.Scott, the chief of psychiatric services for Kingston Pen, was in charge of research projects that relied on prison inmates as test subjects.He supervised a controversial 1961 LSD study involving inmates, an experiment that has landed him, fellow therapists and the federal government in court fighting a lawsuit filed in Ottawa earlier this summer.In 1961, Dorothy Proctor was one of 23 female inmates who received the then-legal hallucinogenic drug as part of a study.She has sued Scott, his fellow therapists and the government accusing them of using her as a guinea pig.Scott and the others have yet to file a statement of defence and the allegations against them are as yet unproven in court.Six months after the Ottawa Citizen revealed the LSD experiment, a subsequent Southam News/Ottawa Citizen investigation has uncovered more widespread use of Canadian prison inmates as test subjects for scientific research.The investigation found federal prisoners served as subjects in numerous questionable experiments throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, including the testing of unproven pharmaceuticals, sen- SOUTHAM PHOTO ; 1 > MÊI Hill Ethicist Michael McDonald sory deprivation and pain studies.The experiments were legal and approved by the federal government, which actively encouraged research.In the early 1960s, George Scott was on the front lines of research involving inmates in Kingston.In some instances, such as sensory deprivation studies, he designed the experiments.Since then, his fortunes have declined dramatically.In 1995, Scott was stripped of his licence to practice medicine after pleading guilty before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons to having sex with a female patient.In 1997, he was successfully sued for $400,000 by a woman who said he abused his position of trust as her therapist and manipulated her into a sexual relationship.The trial described how Scott used two highly invasive psychiatric treatments on his victim - electroconvulsive therapy (using electricity to induce brain seizures) and narcoanalysis (a rarely used form of drug-induced hypnosis).In fact, the woman testified Scott administered the narcoanalysis against her will.The 83-year-old Scott denies to this day ever having a sexual relationship with the woman, despite the court ruling.He says he hopes to one day get his licence back.For the record, Scott says inmate populations should not be used as scientific guinea pigs.He would never use an inmate in an experiment for the good of science, he stresses.But he does see himself as an innovator, someone who wasn’t afraid to take risks in the name of science.He’s fond of comparing himself to aviation pioneers the Wright Brothers, pointing out the ridicule they overcame to build the first airplane.“I don’t break any rules, but 1 sometime make my own rules,” he says.“You’ll never get to Spain unless you march to Spain.You’ll never find improvements unless you try things.” Something called Pillsbury’s Textbook of Psychology triggered Scott’s fascination with the human mind.He was 14 or 15 when he opened the book and saw several photographs of the same bearded man.Each face bore a different expression -hate, anger, frustration, impatience, sadness - 36 photos in all.The book belonged to a woman named Christine.She was one of the many Queen’s University students to board at the Scott house while he was growing up.“Everybody is capable of this,” young George realized.“One guy is capable of showing all those different faces.The man who is depressed, the man who was happy and so on and so on and so on .For some reason it clicked with me.” Less than a decade later, Scott was among the pioneers in clinical psychiatry, an era he calls, “the time of exploration.I just arrived when hundreds of psychiatrists and neurologists were just getting ready to explore.” In 1939, he read his first of many research papers on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).An Italian researcher noticed that mentally ill epileptics seemed a little more lucid several days after suffering violent seizures.The Italian began to experiment with different combinations of drugs to see if he could induce a seizure chemically.Scott read with interest, discovering how a colleague of the Italian researcher - “a little bit of an electrical bug” - had experimented with electric shock on animals.Eventually, the two Italians worked out the proper voltage to induce a fit in a human without killing them.In ECT, Scott saw hope in treating some of the lost causes he took care of during his two-year internship at the Brockville hospital.Though it is the subject of much controversy, ECT is an acceptable form of treatment in rare instances and as a last resort for the most unresponsive and life-threatening cases of depression.In the United States, only two per cent of psychiatric patients ever receive ECT.After the Second World War, Scott returned to Kingston to open a private practice and take up a teaching position at Queen’s University.In 1957, he opened the Institute of Psychotherapy, a two-storey private mental health hospital that is still in operation, run by his son Duncan, one of eight children from three marriages.Eventually, Scott added narcoanalysis to his therapeutic repertoire.Narcoanalysis is a treatment that involves drugs such as sodium pentathol and Ritalin.The patient is lulled into a half-awake state.The brain’s defences drop and the drugs act as a sort of truth serum in which “the person could let spill out some of the little things that are challenging them all the time.” Scott was well-established in his practice and well-versed in the new therapies by the time officials from Canadian penitentiary service lured him to Kingston Pen in 1960.He had always been captivated with what lay behind the walls of Canada’s oldest prison.He grew up within sight of the Prison for Women.Some of his friends’ parents were prison guards.The prison guinea pigs stirred “a deeper part of my soul.” It held an aura of mystery “like running into the sun; you can’t quite see what’s there.” In the late ‘50s, the government, through the Commissioner of Penitentiaries, encouraged research in Canadian prisons.Government policy-makers wanted to uncover and cure the root causes of criminal behavior.“This was a new practice for the federal penitentiary system, although such experiments had been taking place at American prisons since the 1910s,” says a 1984 Solicitor General working paper on prison medical services.“These projects were sanctioned if they were not seen as unduly interfering with the routine of the institution involved.” Scott pursued experiments in sensory deprivation, using inmates as his subjects.According to his 1982 book, Inmate, Scott sought the answer to one question: “Did complete sensory isolation produce any change in man’s psychology and mental functions?” With approval and funding from Ottawa, Scott designed an experiment in which 10 inmates “volunteered to engage in a program of complete sensory deprivation for a period of seven days, during which time they were housed in a dark sound-proof cell with limited movement.” His findings were reported in the Journal of the Canadian Psychiatric Association: “there was significant reduction in basic brain rhythm waves producing clinical changes of passivity and disinterest.” Scott concluded that the brain wave decline was reversible.One inmate reported after four days his fear grew to panic levels.Another hallucinated during the last two days, seeing the face of his dead brother.Scott says the inmates were told what they were in for.“You told them, 'you’re going to have a shit of a time brother.’” In her recent lawsuit, Proctor accuses Scott and other researchers of not explaining the risks of taking a dangerous drug such as LSD.There were no signed consent forms.Corrections Canada, in its report of Proctor’s complaint last year, agreed that even if she gave verbal consent (written consent forms did not become commonplace until the 1970s), that would be dubious in a coercive prison setting.Today, Scott denies using inmates as guinea pigs.“That’s a lot of nonsense," he says.“People have to understand the quality and the nature of the thing they are getting into, be safeguarded at all levels.We’ve never made a mistake in protocol yet.” He would never bend the rules, he says, in the name of science, not even a little.“You always live within the parameters you think are safe.” Over the years, some have disputed Scott’s judgment of what is safe.In August 1969, a Kingston Penitentiary inmate named Robert Renaud accused Scott of giving him electroshock therapy as punishment.Renaud was serving a four-year sentence for armed robbeiy.He complained he received the treatment on Nov.30,1968 and that it was against his will.For Part 11 of this story see tomorrow’s Record. page 8 Tuesday, September 29, 1998 Record “Each one rmh one, spread The Record Tradition” Having fhe ReCOfd in your home is a tradition.You depend upon The Record as your source of Townships news.Thus, you’re the perfect person to convince your friends and relatives who only occasionally read this newspaper to get a subscription and start their own tradition.At the same time, you and the new subscriber will earn chances* to win one of six cash prizes: $300(1) $75(1) $150(1) $25(3) Please sign up tfiis New Subscriber! 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Women’s rights groups see the church’s work in these cases as negative and intimidatory.“There is a pitched battle in Brazil over abortion,” Guarcira de Oliveira of abortion rights group Cfemea said."This is a little girl, who was raped, who may die if she has this baby.The church doesn’t care about any of that." In February, the church won its battle in a similar case in which an 11-year-old girl, known as M, became pregnant after a 37-year-old farmer raped her.He has since disappeared.The local diocese commission also offered to care for M until she gave birth, assuming all costs for her food, shelter and medical expenses, including a psychologist, and provided treatment for M's mother, who suffered from a kidney ailment.Provida Familia and other religious groups are hoping that CJ.S.will takes the same path as ll-year-old M.“Like we did with the other girl, we told the family that we would support the child, give her clothes," Viera said.“And once this girl realizes that she won’t die by having the child, she will say T’m not giving up my baby’.” The girl’s father told the a local newspaper he favoured the abortion “because I fear for my daughter’s life.I fear the wrath of God, but well go through with the abortion if the court says we can.” Fm just a person trapped inside a woman's body - Elaine Booster Got a news tip or a great story idea?Call The Record newsroom at ^ (819) 569-6345.Lennoxville LINK Serving the greater Lennoxville area Tuesday, September 29, 1998 What’s Inside f N The Eastern Townships Research Centre is home to the area’s history.Its latest initative is a weekend symposium, “Rural Communities in an Aging Society.” See story, page 2.Terry Fox’s dream of finding a cure for fancer is alive in Lennoxville.The 1998 edition raised more than $11,000 for cancer research.See story, page 2.There’s lots going on at the Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre.Take a course in French or learn about art -it’s all available.See story, page 3.After 60 years of service, Compton’s Geneieve Shepherd receives a tribute from St.James Anglican Church.See picture, page 3.For the first time in years the Bishop’s University Women’s soccer team is thinking about playoff action.See story, page 4.: : SInSI WiWSRSt Festival weekend Rain can’t stop fall’s fun By Nansy Jean-Baptiste Record Correspondent Lennoxville Despite the rain, Lennoxville was full of activity Sunday as the town hosted both the annual Fall Harvest Festival and the Pumpkin Festival.The third-annual fall festival while attracting young and old, is also a fundraiser for the Lennoxville Volunteer Firefighters.“There were people coming in and out all day long,” said Chantal Carrier, director of cultural, community and recreational activities for the town.The two festivals held within sight of each other allowed visitors to mingle at both events.The firefighters, famous for their pies, sold everything they had put out.More than 277 pieces of delicious hot pumpkin and apple pies were gobbled up before the day ended.When visitors weren’t eating or listening to music, they could visit booths selling various crafts or take their children to an activity area set up just for them.“The children’s activities also went very well,” Carrier added.Popular activities included face painting, and arts and crafts where the children made such Halloween-related items such as spiders, ghosts out of napkins and plastic bags as well as black bats.By far, the activity that put the most gleams in the eyes of the children was decorating their own miniature pumpkins.There was also entertainment for the parents.In the fire hall, were pumpkins, squashes and vegetables of all kinds to be seen and purchased by all.In addition to the exhibits, live music was a played throughout the afternoon.Some members of the band “Late Bloomers” came to play folk music, much to the delight of a few who took to the dance floor.See Fall, page 12 Trail Blazing ?.« JILif ?-r