The record, 29 décembre 2015, mardi 29 décembre 2015

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WEDNESDAY % vs fjÿ DECEMBER 30™ AT T RM.W arandfather U your family member*! 75 cents + taxes\tPM#0040007682\tTuesday, December 29, 2015 City offers activity alternatives for local families GORDON LAMBIE Children enjoying the bouncy castles set up by the City of Sherbrooke at Julien Ducharme Centre on the east end ofFleurimont.Sherbrooke police in the right place at the right time By Matthew McCully On the morning of Dec.26, Sherbrooke police officers Sébastien Houle and Éric Simoneau performed life-saving measures on a choking 14-month old toddler in Lennoxville.\u201cYou can imagine the panic,\u201d said Martin Carrier, spokesperson for the department.According to Carrier, the two officers happened to be on patrol in the Lennoxville area when a 911 call was placed from a home on Pierce Street.Carrier said the call came in at 8:58 a.m.reporting a 14-month old boy had choked and was unconscious.Houle and Simoneau arrived on the scene at 9:02 a.m.After one officer laid the child across his arm and tapped on his back, he eventually started breathing and crying.An ambulance arrived shortly after to continue the intervention and bring the toddler to hospital.Carrier said it is not uncommon for police to arrive on a scene before an ambulance or fire truck.\u201cThey have more patrol vehicles,\u201d Carrier said, adding that they are usually out on the move already, and don\u2019t need to leave from a central location to get to a call.Last year, Carrier said officers had to support women in labour on two occasions.While medical interventions are sometimes required, Carrier believed working with a baby was a first time Houle and Simoneau.\u201cThey responded with calm and used the right techniques,\u201d Carrier said.Gordon Lambie Even with the turn toward more wintery weather that came over the weekend, a warmer than usual holiday season left many outdoor enthusiasts short of some of their favourite pastimes over the last few weeks.While some took this as an opportunity to prolong their jogging, wet and muddy outdoors left families with young kids needing a physical outlet short on options.In response to this, the city of Sherbrooke has set up inflatable games in one of the gymnasia of the Julien Ducharme Centre on the east end ofFleurimont.At the last City council meeting of the year Danielle Berthold, city councillor for the Desranleau district, in which the centre is located, highlighted the decision as a direct response to the continued inability to open Sherbrooke\u2019s outdoor skating rinks.Until the ice thickens up in the New Year, she said, families can stop into Julien Ducharme to try out the bouncy castles.The games were set up Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, from 10 a.m.to 8 p.m.on Tuesday and from 9 a.m.to 4 p.m.on Wednesday, and will follow the same pattern this week.Though not for those with an aversion to the smell of feet (as shoes must be removed to play on the inflatable structures) the free activity has proven quite popular, with families turning out in large numbers to participate.Continued on page 3 Page 2 Tuesday, December 29, 2015 newsroom@sherbrooker ecor d.com The Record The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.Wherever you are.Access the fall edition of the Sherbrooke Record as well as special editions and 30 days of archives.Renew or order a new 12-month print subscription and get a 12-month online subscription for an additional $5 or purchase the online edition only for $82.21.Record subscription rates (includes Quebec taxes) 1 year print: $155.91 6 month print: $81.85 3 month print: $41.57 12 month web only: $82.21 1 month web only: $7.46 Web subscribers have access to the daily Record as well as archives and special editions.Subscribing is as easy as 1,2,3: 1.\tVisit the Record website: www.sherbrookerecord.com 2.\tClick e-edition.3.\tComplete the form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather & TODAY: SNOW 15 TO 25 CM HIGH OF -12 LOW OF-15 WEDNESDAY: CLOUDY40& CHANCE OF SHOWERS HIGH OF 2 LOW OF-1 THURSDAY: CLOUDY HIGH OF 0 LOW OF-10 FRIDAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS HIGH OF -7 LOW OF-13 SATURDAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS HIGH OF -8 LOW OF-11 Thirteen Dishpan Hands Sheila Quinn Thirteen years ago I was secretly, down deep inside of myself, afraid of the lonely experience of giving birth for the first time.I felt the closest with my baby.That child (we had opted not to learn baby\u2019s gender prior to arrival) and I were about to go through something that was new to both of us.Angus, you started to arrive late at night, but everything slowed down for several hours in the morning before the real ordeal began.I couldn\u2019t believe what it felt like.I didn\u2019t feel like I was going to die or anything, but I sure as heck hoped it would be over soon.Thank goodness for our midwives.Thank goodness for your supportive Dad.You were Baby New Year of 2003.Nine pounds, ten ounces, and twenty-two and one-quarter inches long - the very same measurements as my father had been, we read in his baby book.Our first month was difficult.You had a very hard time latching on to nurse.I\u2019ll never forget when we finally got the hang of it - I can picture where we were sitting, the light in the room, and how proud I was of both of us.You grew to be so robust.You were what I called \u201cmy little barnacle\u201d.You needed to be constantly in my arms.Doing everything was challenging, but it was another of the firsts that I needed to learn about to understand how to be a mother.I would rarely have control of all of my faculties and senses again, from that moment on.I had to predict the future, understand the sounds of everything in every house I visited.I felt lost when it came to establishing a routine for you, but together we chipped away at all of those funny little bits of life.As of the holidays of 2015, you are not much more than an inch shorter than me.Your shoulders are wider than mine; your feet surpass mine by at least a few inches in length.Your hands are bigger than mine too, but that\u2019s not surprising, me with my little Cabbage Patch Kid hands and all.Your eyebrows, voice and especially your nose are undergoing that boy-becoming-man thing - becoming defined, refined.You are stretching out - you continue your long v-shape just like Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.Long arms, long legs, you are growing beyond coltish.Your interests haven\u2019t changed much.You still love all things Disney more than anything else in the entire world.The top on my bucket list is a trip to Disney world for you (and your brother too of course) - there\u2019s nowhere else I can imagine enjoying being more than with you there.I know you will be beside yourself one day when we finally realize that dream.I am looking so forward to seeing Finding Dori with you, the follow-up film to Finding Nemo, one of your absolute favourites.When I showed you the trailer you were slack-jawed and in disbelief that you were watching something new from your favourite characters.At one time, I felt like we would never get beyond a very, very limited diet.As with many folks with Autism, you have sensory sensitivities, and food textures is probably the most challenging of them.Your diet is more varied than ever now though, and I am so grateful for that.You have graduated from just chicken to being comfortable with fish, beef and pork (as long as it is all prepared in a relatively similar way).You still probably have the healthiest diet of all of us.You are about to turn thirteen years of age.Here we sit again, you and me and all of your many friends, family and fans.We sit with you on the verge of the teens.This is a time of many milestones that your neurotypical peers are already experiencing - first crushes, strange changes, first slow dances (or fast for that matter), a bit of a pulling away from the nest.I want you to be able to experience as much of that as possible.I don\u2019t know exactly how we\u2019ll manage it, but where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.I want you to live your own life to the fullest, not made to fit into the same trajectory as others.I just don\u2019t want you to miss out on anything that you hope for either.I feel so hopeful about your future.These days you have taken to lacing your fingers together with mine and stopping to focus.Sometimes I feel like you are trying to read my mind, or to understand what is happening around you when you do that.I stop everything when you do it too, so that I can be completely in that moment with you.I don\u2019t know what it means, but I want to, so I just sit and pay attention, and try not to restrict it too much.It feels powerful.I really like it.I love to learn, and you are a great teacher, because you have a billion times more patience than all of us put together.I don\u2019t know how you do it; get through this totally bizarre world we live in, without all of the trappings of communication that the rest of us can at least sort of navigate.I see the shadow of a mustache dusting your top lip.It\u2019s not overly present yet, but it will be.I know that helping you learn to shave will be like helping you to learn to brush your teeth or wash your hands properly or any of those other things has been like.You love to cook and help me grind coffee beans, and just need a little accompaniment through those processes.The same will go for shaving.I know that we will always go together through life.I know you won\u2019t branch off into the world the way your brother, step-brother, step-sister and cousins will, but every way you want to, I will help you to explore beyond this nest.There are no limits to this.There are no real rules.We\u2019re going to design our life together.They ain\u2019t seen nothing yet, Angus.They ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.Happy Thirteenth Birthday, my beautiful boy.Love, Mummy xoxo SHEILA QUINN Angus '\"1 Ben by Daniel Shelton Another -tJTuÆPrrr?r KIIsPaY SOZTCf YEAR HAS MNOTVjER\tkp .Soon* ^ ü RperrjoO 5o/ne