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Limited time offer: financing on the 2016 ever so popular F- series pick up trucks.For service that makes you feel like family, come do business with family, ask for Mike or John Page.^Oistrm SHERBROOKE LINCOLN 819-822-8055 cell mike.page@valestrie.com 819a563a4466 office 819-578-1965 cell johnpage@valestrie.com Sherbrooke Carnival Page 3 T'V Champions l\\ u\t9u\\.I 3 sp°rts The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 WEEKEND EDITION 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Friday, February 26, 2016 Sutton ski hill receives a new bid By Matthew McCully Less than a month after a trio of investors led by ski hill general manager Jean-Michel Ryan made an offer to purchase Sutton Ski inc.the Thirion-Beaure-gard group announced yesterday that they have put forth a bid in the amount of $7 million for the ski hill.Mont Sutton\u2019s communications coordinator Mireille Simard confirmed the ski hill received a bid dated Feb.25, 2016 from a numbered company, 9337-4494 Québec Inc., signed by Philippe Thirion.Simard said the hill\u2019s board of directors and financial experts are currently examining the offer, and will comment in the coming days.The offer to purchase the hill made by Jean-Michel Ryan with business partners Sylvain Gervais and Pierre Chesnay, made at the end of January, had already been approved by the Boulanger family, the resort's majority shareholders.According to Simard, the minority shareholders were expected to meet on March 8 to vote on whether or not to accept the offer.Included in the original offer was a deal allowing the Nature Conservancy of Canada to purchase three square kilometers of land adjacent to the ski resort to extend the Green Mountain Nature Reserve.According to a statement released by the Thirion-Beauregard group, the new bid also includes the intention to negotiate an agreement with the NCC to purchase a portion of the Dos de l\u2019Orignal land.Floodwatch 2016 iv v ii'ii \twyj/\t\tA/, j \u2022'\ti - K N\t*1\t1 :i\tN A /\u2022] i / -y+f\t SÜ\t|S\tiMÈË\t1\tm\tÊ\ttèÉËÉ\tÜ MATTHEW MCCULLY The Spring-like conditions yesterday had the water level rising quickly in the St.Francis river.Just a few feet from breaching the banks in Lennoxville, residents were on standby for potential flooding in the area.By press time yesterday, the fields of Beaulieu farm on Route 143 already had a substantial amount of water.Frozen and blocked drainage pipes also caused problems on some streets in town leaving the water nowhere to go.The large chunks of ice seen in local rivers also risk jams, compounding the flood risk.¦ THE « RECORD GET a 7 DAY TRIAL ONL1NE SCR»*tioN\" Take The Record anywhere with you with an online subscription! iPads, tablets, iPhones, Android phones, laptops! For a free 7 day trial, go to www.sherbrookerecord.com, click on e-dition, then Free Trial and fill in the information.For information or assistance call 819-569-9528 billing@sherbrookerecord.com Study panel recommends keeping school board elections Townships Abenakis hoping for double RECORD RECORD Page 2 Friday, February 26, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.Wherever you are.Access the full 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.Visit the Record website: www.sherbrookerecord.com 2.Click e-edition.3.Complete the form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather TODAY: LIGHT SNOW SUN AND CLOUDS HIGH -8 LOW-17 SATURDAY: PERIODS OF SNOW HIGH -1 LOW-2 SUNDAY: PERIODS OF SNOW HIGH -2 LOW -5 MONDAY: SHOWERS HIGH -8 LOW-9 TUESDAY: 60% CHANCE OF FLURRIES HIGH -1 LOW-9 It sure is nice to make it into Heaven But, in truth, not everyone does.Good Reads Eleanor Brown For believers, Heaven is the ultimate goal.Author Mitch Albom\u2019s wildly popular, and inspirational, tale of an elderly man\u2019s trip Above is titled The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2003, filed in Large Print in the Lennoxville Library).It tells of Eddie, who grew up in the shadow of an amusement park, and returns from soldiering in Vietnam to give up his dreams and take over his father\u2019s job in maintenance.Eddie lives a quiet, grey life.He dies on the job, at 83, trying to save a child from being crushed by a ride gone awry.Given that spectacular exit, it\u2019s no surprise he goes flying off to Heaven.But before settling in, he first meets five people who each explain the role they played in his life - roles he may not have known, nor understood.This book may make you cry.And of course, it\u2019s a fable.Who knows what really happens when you die?Some who\u2019ve been clinically dead but have their hearts jumpstarted return with stories of lights shining at the end of a long tunnel - among other tales.One of the oldest is told by the philosopher Plato in The Republic (written in 380 BC, you can find copies online for free at Gutenberg.org), in which a soldier who was believed dead is mysteriously returned to life just as his funeral pyre is to be lit.Turns out the soldier received royal treatment in death, and is expected to tell the living what the other side is like: \u201cAnd there were judges sitting in the intermediate space, bidding the just ascend by the heavenly way on the right hand, having the seal of their judgment set upon them before, while the unjust, having the seal behind, were bidden to descend by the way on the left hand.\u201d More recently, there\u2019s Danny Orchard, who died and returned, and wrote a bestselling book about it, called The After.He zipped up to Heaven, met his dad, and returned with a wristwatch as proof of the brief visit.Fans and fellow travellers started Afterlifer groups around the world, sharing their experiences of happiness and joy, and some of the sadness of being stuck back on dreary old Earth.Orchard sits in on meetings every so often, just to listen.He\u2019s at an Afterlifer monthly gathering when an older woman gets the nerve, finally, to speak.She died.She did not go to Heaven.She descended by the way of the left hand.And when she was revived, she discovered she\u2019d brought someone dead back with her.It was her father, an evil ghoul who haunts her day and night.So begins Andrew Pyper\u2019s spooky novel, The Damned (2015).Soon, Orchard is haunted by his own twin, a sister who burned to death when she was 16.Not that anyone minded.Her death likely saved many other lives.But still.She minded.And still does.If Danny wants any kind of peace, he\u2019ll have to do as sis says.The Damned is filled with dread and drama, and the occasional brief bit of humour.You\u2019ll even hear echoes of Mitch Albom.It\u2019s filed in New Arrivals at the Lennoxville Library, and continues Pyper\u2019s eminently readable streak of supernatural novels.All feature writers of some sort, hauntings, and dead or dis- DAMNED A NOVEL ANDREW PYPER \u20221 INTERN ATI ON ALLY BEBTSELLINO AUTHOR OF THE DEMONOLOGIST, winner or rnc thriller Award ron near hardcover novel appeared young people.In The Killing Circle (2008), a Toronto child is kidnapped from a drive-in theatre; The Guardians (2011) is the story of four pals in small-town Ontario with a secret; The Demonologist (2013) stars a New York academic specializing in Dante who watches a demon kidnap his child, then desperately attempts to find her again.(All are filed in Adult Fiction; all are solid, spooky reads.) Pyper\u2019s a Canadian who places much of the action of The Damned in Detroit.It is as good a city as any in which to set a novel that obviously hopes to trigger the interest of a large American reader-ship.Entertainingly, 200 years ago this state of affairs went the other way \u2018round.Americans, that is, wanted in to Canada.Here\u2019s Canadian populist historian Pierre Berton: \u201cIt was from Fort Detroit that the Americans hoped to invade Canada in the summer of 1812.\u201d Although outnumbered, the British and Indians in the nearby Canadian fortifications \u201cturned the tables on the invaders and seized not only Fort Detroit but most of Michigan territory with scarcely a drop of blood spilled.\u201d Take that, Americanskis! Berton\u2019s overview of The Capture Of Detroit (1991, filed in C-140) is first in a series titled Battles Of The War Of 1812.Cont\u2019d on page 4 Ben by Daniel Shelton ^ BEN, COULP Y0(J STOP GY AH?PICKUP SOME-MILK?ANP, LH CARROTS.MAYEE SOME GREEN EEANSTCO SURE.A LOZEN PONT FORGET RESSERT f I THINK YOU PLANNEP THIS ^ALL ALONG.rP l LOVE POING GROCERIES TOGETHER' SUUUUUh asasBOP The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Friday, February 26, 2016 Page 3 ¦v\t[ ^\t3CAL .\tN\th\t:ws\t\u201cThe activities needing snow are guaranteed,\u201d Roussel said, \u201cThen all we need is 1 cm of snow on the ground and the site becomes festive again.\u201d \u201cThere will be snow\u201d Sherbrooke Carnival\t\t\t\t\t\t organizers not fazed by unseasonably warm weather By Gordon Lambie While construction equipment shoveled slush around the fields of Jacques Cartier Park on Thursday afternoon, Sherbrooke Carnival Coordinator Claudine Roussel said that the organizing committee of the 50th annual Sherbrooke Winter Carnival is looking forward to a great weekend.\u201cIf this was the weather on Saturday then we might not feel the same way,\u201d Roussel said, \u201cbut there will be snow.The forecast calls for snow throughout the weekend and colder temperatures so we are very optimistic.\u201d The event coordinator shared that the Carnival\u2019s ticket pre-sale numbers surpassed last year\u2019s totals earlier this week, meaning that even if the weather ends up being bad, the support for the event, both financially and in spirit, is clearly present.With regard to how heavy rain and 12 degree weather impacts the planning of a winter carnival, Roussel said the biggest concern is site safety.Throughout the afternoon, work was being done to break up the surface of ice and snow at the park to ensure that when the excessive amounts of water and slush freeze, they do so as an uneven, easily broken surface and not as straight sheets of ice.The coordinator went on to point out that while obviously it is preferable to have a winter wonderland to welcome visitors into, only a few of the planned activities are actually dependent on snow, and the snow needed for that was all manufactured in January.The evidence of this lies in great white piles set out for the dog sledding track and tubing run at the park, surrounded by mud and yellow-green grass.\u201cThe activities needing snow are guaranteed,\u201d Roussel said, \u201cThen all we need is 1 cm of snow on the ground and the site becomes festive again.\u201d The park is expecting 844 students today for the annual \u201cschool carnival,\u201d which is significantly lower than past years when as many as 2000 have come out to play.The coordinator was unsure as to the reason for the decrease in number, speculating that it could be any- thing from the mild winter to pressure tactics, but said that as far as she\u2019s concerned it just means a better overall experience for the kids who do come out.\u201cThere will be shorter lines,\u201d Roussel laughed.The Sherbrooke carnival takes place this Friday to Sunday in Sherbrooke\u2019s Jacques Cartier Park, with the event\u2019s annual \u201cnocturnal village\u201d in downtown Sherbrooke taking place on the Saturday starting at 6pm.Entry to all carnival sites is free, but certain activities require the purchase of a passport.GORDAN LAMBIE Carnival organizers remained optimistic that Sherbrooke was ready for a weekend of winter fun on Thursday despite springtime conditions outside.Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley launches updated website Carnaval de Sherbrooke - départ ¦ah* \u2022 i':;\t-V\"* PARCOURS À OBSTACLES Record Staff The municipality of Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley has set online a completely new version of its website at: http: //www.sainte-catherine- de-hat-ley.ca/ This new site is fully adapted for mo- bile devices such as, tablets and smartphones, and takes a more direct approach to users, inviting them to identify their needs in order to improve the choice of links to the topic responding to the query.\"It\u2019s because we want to make the website more user friendly to the mu- nicipality that the Municipality of Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley put its resources into making it a more effective and modern communication tool,\" says Councillor Nicole-Andrée Blouin.\"We want the citizens of the municipality as well as all those who visit the site to be able to find relevant information quickly.We also hope they will have fun discovering the history, environment, and the services that benefit our people and in so doing, we will be pleased to treat visitors or as full members of our community, Caught cooking the evidence Record Staff Memphremagog Police have arrested a man with a long history with the criminal justice system following a break and enter last weekend in Magog.Sometime between Friday evening and Saturday morning, a Sherbrooke St.business was the victim of a break during which a thief or thieves forced open the door of a storage area and stole more than $1,000 worth of food.The subsequent police investigation quickly led investigators to the arrest of Bertrand Lee Buzzell, a 35-year old Magog man with multiple previous convictions since 1995, mostly for theft, break and enter, mischief, assault, and possession of a prohibited weapon.Buzzell was arrested at his St-Joseph St.home, caught in the act to cooking some of the stolen meat.A number restaurant items were recovered with a value of over $1,000, Including meat, seafood, beverages, and desserts, all of which bore the victim restaurant's logo.Buzzell has been charged with break and enter and theft, three breaches of probation, possession of a amount of juana cannabis weapon.If that weren\u2019t enough, Buzzell stands accused in a case that was already ongoing prior to this latest adventure involving the theft of about $150 from a coffee vending machine at the Magog municipal library that occurred on February 14.The incident caused about $300 in damages to the machine.Buzzell is currently being held pending further proceedings.small mari-and resin, and possession of a prohibited Please Note: In Wednesday's article \"Victor Goldbloom remembered as an active ambassador and dedicated dad\" the name of Aline Visser was unintentionally left out of a list of Townshippers who have been honoured with the Sheila and Victor Goldbloom Distinguished Community Service Award in the past.The Record apologizes for this oversight.- ?Specialist of Chrysler and Dodge trucks for over 40 years.Michel Comeau thanks you for the support that you have shown him for the past year at Magog Concept Chrysler.Always a pleasure to serve you ! MAGOGCONCEPT CHRYSLI See you soon ! JfflicZe/ Comeau A.N.A.F.Unit 318 \u201cThe Hut\u201d UPCOMING DANCE It.Iamu i % ¦g DAY CELEECATICN Saturday, March 12 OS.Live music *// starts at 11 a.m.* ^ * with Jan Graham Irish coffee* S3\u201d CD 3025, Sherbrooke Street, Magog * 819 843-3380 Canteen open Admission $8.Ill Page 4 Friday, February 26, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Irish Activities in Richmond By Claudia Villemaire Richmond With St Patrick banners already fluttering or maybe it's shivering from the telephone and power poles on Main Street, it seemed the right time to organize a press conference at the Grand Central Hotel with representatives from government, nonprofit organizations such as the Canadian Legion and organizers themselves on hand to reveal the Month of the Irish program beginning once again this year with the Green Auction on March 5th.Some folks say it's something in the air.Others blame the region\u2019s propensity to party all month on a chance to chase away Winter blues while the died-in-the-cloth Irish folk insist activities promoting and celebrating their Irish heritage is nothing less than fitting, given the important role the first Irish settlers played in the development of the town and region they call home.Actually perhaps one could blame this determination to have a party every weekend, bring out the traditional Irish food and present the biggest St Patrick's parade in the area, and running a close second to such grand affairs as the Montreal Parade, on the faithful support of commerce, business, local, provincial and federal government.But most importantly, as president Erika Lockwood emphasized Tuesday to media people from the region, \"Our success through more than a century of Irish activities, actually 138 years, has been due, in large part, to the volunteers whose family history would reveal three and sometimes four generations re-appearing each year, ready and willing to donate the time and energy such a big program needs.\" With representatives of business, commerce and restoration on hand and of course, with the mascot in attendance, a full month of weekend activities was announced at Tuesday's conference.Beginning with the Green Auction March 5th, as well as the corned beef and cabbage supper.The traditional banquet on March 12th, an Irish Mass at St Bibane's church March 13th, parties at local bars and the Canadian Legion Hall on Fridays, A 'Green Bingo bringing English and francophone together at the local CHSLD, (Foyer Richmond) March 15 at 2pm,the 'Grand' parade and after-parade party at the Legion hall and St Famille Hall March 20 and the closing brunch March 27th where every parade participant gets a souvenir photo and prizes are awarded to the 'horse, large and small' contingent at the Canadian legion Hall.With past records showing larger and larger crowds attending these events, (spectators including dogs decked out in green trimmings, numbering around 10,000 in recent years), there's no doubt March is the month when anyone looking for a break from winter and could use a bit of Irish spirit(s) to chase away winter blues can find just the right com- or even a bination in Richmond.And with a bit o'luclc with the weather, another outstanding parade will tempt folks once again from far and wide to find a bit of green to wear, perhaps a warm toddy to keep the tummy warm too and enjoy days! For information - 819 826 3322 - Erika Lockwood, president, Richmond Region St Patrick's Society or 819 826 2535, Julie O'Donnel, vice president.E-mail - Rich-mondstpat@hotmail.com.CLAUDIA VILLEMAIRE Donald Dubuc has the 'Irish\" flowing already with his Irish pipe and his penchant for Irish jigs.Dubuc organizes one of the after-parade activities with his presentation of family fun and traditional dancing both Irish and Québécois at St Famille Hall.With traditional music, 'callers' to initiate folks in the patterns of square dancing and a 'groaning' board of a variety of foods, Dubuc offers a fitting St.Patrick celebration immediately after the parade.Good Reads Cont\u2019d from page 2 A main character is young John Richardson, the 15-year-old son of a white and an Algonquin, who volunteered to fight as soon as war was declared.For those living near the line between the two countries, of course, fighting was difficult; they were expected to shoot at relatives and neigh- Vkmhlrt PIERRE BERTON 1 he Capture of Detroit _ hours who\u2019d never before cared about the border.One hundred and fifty years later, Detroit was Motor City.It was Motown.And then it went into bankruptcy.In author Andrew Pyper\u2019s The Damned, the modern, downtown Detroit of 2015 is Hell.Detroit has been out of bankruptcy now for a bit more than a year, and some residents have hope (perhaps because they can have nothing else).An NPR story from December cites business leaders who \u201csay Detroit cannot survive by becoming, in essence, two cities: one of haves and one of have nots.City officials are tearing down tens of thousands of blighted buildings and offering cut-rate prices to those who will move in and fix up salvageable homes.But Detroit still needs more jobs and a better school system.\u201d And then there\u2019s us, in Canada.Pyper mentions this land to the north in The Damned, and more than once.We are so close, yet so far.LOST AUTHORS The reading world has already lost many authors this year.The Italian academic Umberto Eco died this month at 84.His Latin-filled The Name Of The Rose, a mystery set in a Medieval abbey, is his best known book.Find it (and others) in English Adult Fiction at the Lennoxville Library; other works are on the French Fiction shelves.Harper Lee died at 89.For decades, her only published book was the iconic To Kill A Mockingbird (available in both book and audio form).But before her death, the first version of that novel was finally published, a completely different creation in which white lawyer Atticus Finch is a blunt racist.Go Set A Watchman is filed in Large Print.Puerto Rican Rosario Ferré died at 77, and wrote in Spanish and English.She\u2019s best known for the family saga A House On The Lagoon, which she translated herself from the original Spanish.Canadian Constance Beresford-Howe moved to England decades ago.She died at 93, and was best-known for The Book Of Eve.The Globe And Mail wrote: \u201c[T]he 65-year-old heroine tries to explain why she bolted from her long marriage to a demanding invalid husband: \u2018You can\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be invisible for years on end.Never independent.Never free, even to use those four-letter words we all know, because the chief duty of females, we were taught, was to practise the restraints of civilization, not explore its possibilities.\u2019 Her heavy use of dialogue in all her books made them highly readable, while her sense of irony and deft social comedy led to comparisons with the English writer Barbara Pym.\u201d Some of her works are available in French translation via interlibrary loan.BOOK ENDS Our Saturday morning children\u2019s events are back, at 10:30 a.m.And the artworks of Françoise Comeau are up on our walls until March 5.Our Canada Reads evening will be March 15 at 6:30 p.m.The English-language Books And Brown Bags meets next at noon on Wednesday, March 8 (and every two weeks thereafter).Bring your lunch and a book you\u2019d like to chat about.Our monthly French-language book club meets March 11 at 13h30.Library membership is free to all residents of Sherbrooke.Books and audio books are always free for members; DVDs are $1 (the money will be used to keep building up the collection).If you're housebound, we can bring books and audio books to you through Books on Wheels.We have large-print books too, plus an Easy Reads section.There are sections for Young Adult novels and graphic novels, and children's non-fiction and fiction.The Lennoxville Library is at 101 Queen Street, corner of College.E-mail bibliolen@gmail.com or phone 819-562-4949.The website is at www.bibliolen-noxvillelibrary.ca.Older book reviews and reading suggestions are on our blog at bibliolennlibrary.wordpress.com. The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Friday, Feburary 26, 2016 Page 5 The Mae Sot Education Project looks ahead By Gordon Lambie The Mae Sot Education Project is thinking about its future.Like many similar non-profit, volunteer-based organizations, the program that has been sending student volunteers from Bishop\u2019s University and Champlain College to schools in the Mae Sot region of Thailand to teach English has relied on donations large and small to keep its mission going.Now 12 years into that mission, the project is at a point where some sources of funding are beginning to dry up and organizers are looking to find new ways to keep the initiative going.\u201cWe\u2019re at a juncture,\u201d said Mary Purlcey, who sits on the project\u2019s organizing committee.\u201cIt\u2019s not easy.\u201d Purlcey explained that the program started in 2004 from a connection made through the student refugee sponsorship program, but has gone on to become its own separate project.Though the project has matured and developed over that time, the committee member said that the size and scope, as well as the core mission of the initiative have remained mainly unchanged over that time.\u201cWe have deliberately chosen to stay small, Purlcey said, pointing out that only four volunteers are sent every year.\u201cIf we get too big then we become another kind of project.\u201d Instead of becoming mired in the bureaucracy of growing as a non-profit charity, the Mae Sot Education Project has focused on continuing to build relationships in the network of migrant schools it has been working with over the last 12 years.In doing so, it has brought more than 50 local students into a context very different from the one they experience day to day in Lennoxville.\u201cIt was very different from Canada,\u201d said Danielle Leblanc-Cyr, one of this past year\u2019s student volunteers.\u201cIt was the most different thing I have ever experienced.\u201d Leblanc-Cyr travelled to Thailand alongside Jonah Baldwin, Emily Smith, and Laurence Michaud, and shared that the experience offered a range of striking learning opportunities in everything from the weather to the way students behave in schools.\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more personal relationships than schools here,\u201d Leblanc-Cyr said, with Baldwin adding, \u201cand they\u2019re way more respectful of the teachers.\u201d Each of this year\u2019s volunteers shared a different reason from coming to the project, ranging from a long-time interest in volunteering on Baldwin\u2019s part, to the culmination of a degree in Special Care Counselling for Michaud and a background in teaching English as a second language for Leblanc-Cyr, but each said that participating in the project gave them a fresh perspective on life here at home.Cont\u2019d on page 6 PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARY PURKEY Mae Sot Education Project Volunteers Emily Smith, Laurence Michaud, Danielle Leblanc-Cyr, and Jonah Baldwin Jonah Baldwin helping some students in Thailand t ' Community Support for Connaught Home In May 2015, Dr.Ray Losito participated in a workshop at Hovey Manor with a group of concerned citizens regarding the future of Connaught Home in North Hatley and Grace Village in Lennoxville.These workshops were held at various venues throughout the region and included a survey designed to guide decision makers working towards a project for renewal for these two historic seniors\u2019 residences.It was at this meeting where Dr.Losito learned that Connaught and Grace are non-profit charitable seniors\u2019 care facilities reliant on the community at large for support.Dr.Losito was moved to contact the Connaught and offer his assistance.He then embarked on a volunteer mission to raise $3400 for the purchase of a new, state of the art, therapeutic bed.Using Jay\u2019s Restaurant in North Hatley as his headquarters, Dr.Losito galvanized the support of a few friends.Donating his own piece of artwork, a beautiful painting of a North Hatley winter streetscape, over the following months he visited several venues throughout the Eastern Townships raising awareness and funds one small contribution at a time.Dr.Losito is known for his commitment to his community and has over his lifetime invested many hours supporting various causes.Massawippi Retirement Communities and the Dr.W.J.Klinck Foundation are forever grateful to Dr.Losito and all those who supported his efforts to contribute to the ongoing mission to provide excellent, compassionate and loving care to the residents of Connaught Home.Retirement Communities loving care Come visit us for a cup of teal Tondation ( DR.W.J.KLINCK foundation Left to right: Caitlin Burton (Registered Nurse), Dr.Ray Losito, Marina St-Onge (Certified Caregiver) excellent, compassionate £ Grace Village 1501, rue Campbell Sherbrooke, QC J1M 0C1 Tel : (819) 569-0546 Fax: (819) 569-3829 info@massccmca Connaught Home 11, rue Main North Hatley, QC J1M 2C0 Tel: (819) 842-2164 Fax: (819) 842-2667 info@masscom,ca www.masscom.ca Page 6 Friday, February 26, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record \tH 1HT\trrnr\tR>T\tr a it\tMake no bones about it, the plastic bag manufacturing sector will come out J-\t\tL1 vJl\tK1\t\tkicking and screaming.In the bag! CANADIANS NO LONGER ALLOWED ON JEOPARDY.NOT THAT CANADIAN!!! security .I ! François Tanguay One thing you can say about Denis Coderre, he has an infinite sense of political timing.One week after the city of Brossard voted to put a ban on plastic bags, mayor Denis Coderre said this week that as of January 2018 Montreal will do the same.Other cities in Quebec have already done so, with some notables elsewhere like San Francisco being among the growing numbers banning some plastic-based product.How about Quebec City, Sherbrooke or Trois-Rivières?Considering the high pollution linked to plastics, bags and bottles being the prime suspects, it\u2019s a wonder it took so long to reach this decision.Last December the 82 municipalities of the Greater Montreal area had unanimously voted to go ahead with the gradual elimination of plastic bags within two years.Two down, eighty to go! Some elected officials are even complaining that the pace is too slow, the cut date too far in time.Obviously, we cannot afford to throw away 90 billion bottles and a gazillion plastic bags in the environment each year on this continent and think we will get away with it.Plastics, for the most part are not recycled, period.The grocery bags maybe used for all sorts of sec- ond uses, dog poop being a common one, but most of the time they are used only once and not recycled.Even with a second or third use, it\u2019s just a delay in pollution.It\u2019s obvious, things must change and options will have to be figured out, even for Fido and Prince.Remember when it was a crime to even think of walking out of a liquor store without the ubiquitous brown paper bag?Seems like a century ago.unless you live in Ontario! Make no bones about it, the plastic bag manufacturing sector will come out kicking and screaming.Claiming all sorts of lame excuses, they will talk about jobs, problems with good service to customers, production adjustments and what not, as if there had been no life before plastic bags.But the fact is the oceans are covered with plastic bits of all sorts, the stomachs of too many fishes lined with particles of the stuff.One time use of plastic bottles has nothing to do with drinking and more to do with being lazy.A heavy price should already be put on carbon-based products, this would accelerate the transition away from one-use containers, but politicians do not feel the public pressure to do so.Of course, eliminating one generation of plastic bags is only a small move when we look at the total heap of waste we produce.Add to this the opportunities missed, like composting our food residues, but believe me; any victory in environment is worth celebrating.So let\u2019s take this one and keep pushing for the others.We are still a long way behind most European countries in understanding our environmental responsibilities.Here is a reality check to remind us of the road ahead: according to a recent poll, made public by the CBC this week, less than half of the citizens in this country believe humans are linked to climate! This is astounding for someone like me with over 45 years of involvement in the environment.What will it take to pass this massive inertia, aside from pinning by force the costs of this collective neglect on what is nothing short of voluntary ignorance?We are witness to the impacts of climate change on a global scale on a continuous basis.Science is clear on the link between our carbon emissions these impacts, and yet a better half of Canadians remain in denial.More political action is urgently needed, like Mayor Coderre did this week, and hopefully others will follow suit.Part of the decision process must come from the COP meetings, like the last one in Paris last December.Some action must come from national governments, then provincial and municipal powers have their own field of decision making.Of course, we as citizens must think and act like we really care.Obviously, cutting waste is a no brainer, but we will need many tougher decisions to make a difference.Right now, we are not keeping up with the needs as much as we are falling behind the pace.Mae Sot Cont\u2019d from page 5 \u201cIt\u2019s given me a new appreciation for the kind of lifestyle we live here,\u201d Baldwin said.\u201cI don\u2019t care as much about my student loan anymore, I\u2019m just happy to have been able to get it.\u201d Purkey explained that the school communities that the Mae Sot Project works with are composed of students whose families fled Myanmar for a variety of reasons ranging from economic strain to political persecution.The refugee children often end up strangers in a strange land; lacking the official documents and language skills needed to enroll in Thai schools but no less capable of success if given the opportunity.The network of schools that the project works with, she said, provides a kind of -\tmTHEi\t- RECORD 1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, Quebec JIG 1Y7 Fax: 819-821-3179 e-mail: newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Website: www.sherbrookerecord.com Sharon McCully Publisher .(819) 569-9511 Stephen Blake Corresp.Editor.(819) 569-6345 Serge Gagnon Chief Pressman.(819) 569-9931 DEPARTMENTS Accounting .Advertising Circulation Newsroom .(819) 569-9511 (819) 569-9525 (819) 569-9528 (819) 569-6345 Knowlton office 5B Victoria Street, Knowlton, Quebec, JOE 1V0 Tel: (450) 242-1188 Fax: (450) 243-5155 PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS \t\t\tGST\tPST\tTOTAL Quebec:\t1 YEAR\t135.60\t6.78\t13.53\t$155.91 \t6 MONTHS\t71.19\t3.56\t7.10\t$81.85 \t3 MONTHS\t36.16\t1.81\t3.60\t$41.57 \tON-LINE SUBSCRIPTIONS\t\t\t\t Quebec:\t1 YEAR\t71.50\t3.58\t7.13\t$82.21 \t1 MONTH\t6.49\t0.32\t0.65\t$7.46 Rates for out of Quebec and for other services available on re-\t\t\t\t\t quest.The Record is published daily Monday to Friday.Back copies of The Record are available.The Record was founded on February 9,1897, and acquired the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879) in 1905 and the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) in 1908.The Record is published by Alta Newspaper Group Limited Partnership.PM#0040007682 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Record, 1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD, CNA, QCNA social safety net, but only so long as it can maintain funding.Though the Mae Sot Project is not the only one working in the area, the organizer said that many if not all the schools are facing significant financial difficulties as donors in other parts of the world turn their eyes elsewhere.Outside of the issue of funding, Purkey said that in many ways the Mae Sot Education Project is now stronger than it ever has been, with past volunteers getting involved in the committee or engaging in more long-term work in Thailand.Unfortunately the work can only go as far as the project can pay for it, and so they are now looking at branching out with new activities and trying to reach new communities of support.\u201cOne of the things we feel we really need to do is extend our reach in Sherbrooke more to the francophone community,\u201d the Champlain professor said.\u201cWe are already well established in English community.\u201d More information about the project is available at http://www.maesot.ubish-ops.ca.Letters The Record welcomes your letters to the editor.Please limit your letters to 300 words.We reserve the right to edit for length, clarity, legality and taste.Please ensure there is a phone number or email where you can be reached, to confirm authorship and current town/city of residence.Names will not be withheld but the address and phone number of the writer are not published, except by request.Preference is given to writers from the Eastern Townships. 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You\u2019ll face opposition if you don\u2019t live up to your promises.Have an explanation ready and an alternative solution in place.Protect your reputation and stick to the truth.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) - High energy coupled with interesting ideas will capture others\u2019 attention.An unexpected emotional response will lead to a better plan.Don\u2019t feel the need to act in haste.Time is on your side.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) - Added discipline will pay off.Don\u2019t let someone who is disgruntled or negative stand between you and victory.Put yourself first and celebrate your success with someone you love.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016 Follow a certainty, if you can find one By Phillip Alder Michael Crichton said, \u201cI am certain there is too much certainty in the world.\u201d Is that certainly true?Regardless of one\u2019s opinion, at the bridge table, it is certainly desirable to play your cards so that success is a certainty.Can you see the guaranteed line in this six-heart slam?What should South do after West leads a trump, and East follows suit?Although North has only 13 high-card points, he gets two support points for his singleton.Hence his three-heart jump rebid.(He also has a frve-and-a-half loser hand, which means it is between a three-heart and a four-heart rebid, but with such a low point-count, it is right to prefer the lower bid.) South then bid what he thought he could make.(Yes, he might have gone slower because seven hearts could have been making.Give North king-queen-jack-fifth of clubs, for example.) 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