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[" Quebec Lodge re-opens Page 3 -¦THE*- RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Fitzpatrick drafted Sports - Page 7 75 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Monday, June 27, 2016 Sherbrooke fly-in a soaring success j 1 w GORDON LAMBIE Local pilot Jim Innés standing with his 1946 Aeronca Champion.Brome- Missisquoi CLD expands accelerator program into tourism Record Staff Sherbrooke Following the success of its accelerated growth industrial Program, the CLD de Brome-Missisquoi last week launched a new version for tourism businesses.The new cohort consists of eight companies that will be accompanied for a period of one year in order to accelerate their development.The program includes high-level training in business strategy, marketing strategy, sales techniques, human resource management, and corporate finance consisting of more than 100 hours of training spread over 17 workshops, followed by a \"coaching\" to ensure that concepts learned in the group sessions are perfectly into the particular environment of each company.The program is also based on structured support for one year to increase the chances of success implementing best business practices in each company.The accelerated growth program is made possible by the financial contribution of Emploi-Québec Mon-térégie.Its purpose is for Brome-Missisquoi companies to show revenue growth with potential for job creation.Participating companies will also share their thoughts with other leaders in their business sector.By Gordon Lambie Sherbrooke\u2019s airport played host to the annual Fauchers de Marguerites fly-in for the 22nd year in a row this past weekend.This year the event welcomed over 160 small and medium sized aircraft and their pilots as well as more than 2000 visitors from the surrounding area for two days devoted to the love of flying.\u201cThe temperature is always the marker of success, but we do it rain or shine,\u201d said the event\u2019s president Real Paquette.\u201cThe airport is open to anyone with an airplane, and people come from a three to four thousand mile radius, generally.\u201d At $8 for adults and free for pilots and children, the event has been built up over the years as not just an easy opportunity for amateur aircraft enthusiasts to get together, but also inexpensive family fun.Though many came simply to take a look at the great assembly of small aircraft, Paquette pointed out that the event also had a plane set up that young kids could climb inside in order to manipulate the controls, face painting, and both airplane and helicopter rides for those interested in taking their experiences off the ground.For the crowd more interested in the field of aviation, the weekend also had a series of conferences on modern developments in the industry and a com- petition for those who have built their own aircraft.\u201cWe have planes of all values and backgrounds and many of the airplanes were built by amateurs,\u201d shared event treasurer Richard Audren, pointing out that the gathering has drawn everything from a F-18 fighter to recreations of first world war aircraft to a Dash-8 commercial airliner.\u201cWe want to show that aviation is not just for the rich.It is accessible to people of modest means as well.\u201d \u201cEveryone with an airplane knows that it\u2019s happening,\u201d Paquette added with a smile, noting that the 22nd edition was a definite success.THE» RECORD GET a 7 DAY TRIAL ONLINE SCRIPT*01*- 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 Abenakis hoping for a double RECORD RECORD Study panel recommends keeping school board elections , Towirthlps aressl^d'lli Printed and distribut' PressReader.com ?COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY sd by PressReader + 1 604 278 4604 Page 2 Monday, June 27, 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.\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: 40% SHOWERS, T-STORMS HIGH OF 28 LOW OF 17 i J r J l TUESDAY: SHOWERS HIGH OF 21 LOW OF 13 WEDNESDAY: CLOUDY HIGH OF 22 LOW OF 10 J j > THURSDAY: / SUNNY 1st J J j J, HIGH OF 26 LOW OF 12 FRIDAY: 60% SHOWERS HIGH OF 24 LOW OF 13 Rachel Writes Destination Sawyerville: Hotel is hub of new tourism plan RA GARBER New owner Jean-Sébastien Bachand and his partner Geneviève Dubé in their new bistro at the Complexe hotelier Ramana, the erstwhile Sawyerville Hotel.Rachel Garber Sawyerville Hotel has a new face, a new name, and a new vocation.It\u2019s now the Complexe hôtelier Ramana, and it is the focus of a new tourism plan, Destination Sawyerville.Partners in the plan are the hotel\u2019s new owner, Jean-Sébastien Bachand, and the town of Cookshire-Eaton, in whose territory Sawyerville lies.The idea is to create a health and wellbeing centre at the hotel, surrounded by a four-seasons recreational-touristic area and nature trail extending along the shores of the Eaton River that runs just behind the hotel site.The two-year plan was unveiled at the opening of the new Ramana complex last Wednesday evening.Some 70 citizens gathered to hear presentations by representatives of Cookshire-Eaton and Nature Cantons-de-l\u2019Est, as well as Bachand.\u201cI am really happy with Cookshire-Eaton\u2019s collaboration,\u201d said Bachand.\u201cIt was an important factor for me in deciding to buy the hotel.\u201d Bachand and his team have been working hard since they took over the hotel in May.They have redecorated the ground floor and opened up an inviting café area with fresh paint and furnishings.They have begun work on the upper stories, including a health centre on the second floor.The centre is to offer alternative services such as massage therapy, osteopathy, life coaching and more.On the lower level, surrounded by the hotel\u2019s massive stone foundation, will be a sauna/steam room, christened Spa Eaton.The spa will comprise the outdoor pool just behind the hotel, and eventually a larger spa down by the river.And on the ground floor is to be a new bistro serving healthy and vegetarian food.As soon as a chef is found, Bachand said.Outdoors, the nature trail is under the direction of Nature Cantons-de-l\u2019Est, the non-profit organization responsible for the Johnville Bog.Foreseen is a new nature trail on both sides of the river, from the Parc du barrage, the site of the dam just south of the bridge, and extending quite a distance above and below it.Approximately fifty percent of the costs of the outdoor work are to be contributed by private sponsors, whose names have not yet been revealed.A stellarium or virtual planetarium, a window to the universe of stars, is to be available by the end of 2016.Sawyerville lies well within the dark sky reserve surrounding the Mont Mégantic Observatory.In the plans for next year is a cooperative ecological village of small houses near the river, with a shared outdoor space and a school-park offering water games, pool, skating rink, walking paths, slides and more.Cultural activities and shows are also part of the plan.Special events are planned in collaboration with the Université sans frontière, and other organizations such as the Sawyerville Community Garden, said Blanchard.Cooking, yoga, meditation, personal development - the Ramana will offer all this and more.A series of Qi gong yoga classes are planned for July 13 to August 31, plus gentle yoga for your back, and children\u2019s yoga classes.A yoga retreat is scheduled for July 30-31, and a meditation retreat for August 27-28.Why Ramana?Bachand named the new complex after a famous sage in India, Sri Ramana Maharshi, who died in 1950.Bachand\u2019s personal values figure profoundly in his plans.He has traveled to India many times, he said.He has also established a charitable foundation to support an orphanage in Rishikesh, India, and hopes to lead a group of Cont\u2019d on Page 3 RA GARBER Both sides of the Eaton River, as it rambles northward from the dam and bridge in Sawyerville, are to be developed into an ecological nature trail.Ben by Daniel Shelton 1VE ALWAYS TAKEN A PARTICULAR PLEASURE IN TEElNO OFF FIRSTTUIIMC V M0NPAYM0RN1N0- BECAUSE irs QUIET ON THE COURSE?RECAUSE THAT'S WHEN REINO RETIRER ANP NOT H AVI NO TOGO TO WORK REALLY SINKS oressl^d'DJ Printed and distribut PressReader.com ?ad by PressReader + 1 604 278 4604 ND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW? The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Monday, June 27, 2016 Page 3 ^QCAI The ultimate goal is to become a sleepover camp again, Flaunt said.A new start for Quebec Lodge By Matthew McCully * fter being closed for 11 years due to financial difficulty and a legal dis-i Lpute over land ownership, Quebec Lodge, which has a 60-year history in the area, will re-open this summer for two weeks of day camp.Program director Duncan Plaunt explained that the new camp has an educational mandate, fostering environmental stewardship and experiential learning, turning the property bordering Lake Massawippi into an outdoor classroom.The theme for the camps first week, starting July 25, will be fire.Plaunt said the campers will learn about fire\u2019s role in the ecosystem, and also about fire safety, and how to cook with it safely and responsibly.The second week of camp, beginning Aug.1, will be on the theme of water.\u201cThere will be complementary activities so the campers don\u2019t feel like they are in school,\u201d Plaunt explained.He used the example of leading the campers on a canoe trip to cook a meal together on a beach across the lake.Plaunt added that the new Quebec Lodge is part of\u2018Leave No Trace Canada,\u2019 and will instill the principles of maintaining a low impact on the environment to the campers.In keeping with the educational mandate, Plaunt, an Ontario certified teacher himself, is maintaining a close QUEBEC LODGE For now, Quebec Lodge is a day camp, but as the development plan evolves in the coming years, it will become a sleepover camp, possible with a village of yurts like the one seen here.connection with Bishop\u2019s University, with environmental studies professors consulting on the curriculum for the camp.He also hired three Bishop\u2019s students as counsellors this year; two that study education, and one drama student.When Quebec Lodge closed in 2005, a portion of the property, owned by the Anglican Diocese, was sold to a private buyer, with the existing camp structures along with it.Plaunt explained that the new site for the camp, adjacent to the previous spot, retained the boathouse in the property deal, but new facilities will need to be built in the coming years.For this summer, Quebec Lodge is a day camp, Plaunt said, wanting to set attainable goals.A yurt has been built on the campground, and based on how it fares through the winter, organizers will decide whether or not to add more and create a yurt village.The ultimate goal is to become a sleepover camp again, Plaunt said.The significance of the yurt, which is like a circular tent, is that no campers would be stuck in the corner, Plaunt explained, wanting to create an inclusive environment.\u201cI think the potential is enormous,\u201d Plaunt said, pointing out how rare is for a new summer camp to open.\u201cIt\u2019s not a growing market these days,\u201d he said, referring to the price of land, and the fact that most camps already in existence can always take a few more campers, keeping the demand low for something new.\u201cIt\u2019s an uncommon project,\u201d he said, adding that building a new camp in 2016 means more efficient and sustainable structures, and lots of options compared to the familiar decades-old buildings some camps have been using for genera- tions.Plaunt said Quebec Lodge is almost at capacity for this year\u2019s day camp.The goal was to welcome 20 campers between the ages of seven and 15 for each of the sessions.Anyone interested in registering their child for Quebec Lodge for this summer or more information about future programs can call 819-574-7568 or email ql-programdirector@gmail.com.Scouts helping Fort McMurray scouts By Matthew McCully The 1st Lennoxville Scouts spaghetti supper fundraiser held at the United Church of Lennoxville on Saturday cleared $1,000.The money raised will be divided among four scouting groups in the Fort McMurray area, whose families were directly affected by the fires.Group commissioner Melissa War-burton said around 150 members of the public were served; competing with warm weather, the long weekend, and a local golf tournament, Warburton was pleased with the turnout.Warburton explained that rather than just handing over a cheque to the relief effort, the 1st Lennoxville scouts decided to help out their peers in Alberta.\u201cScouting is expensive,\u201d Warburton explained.She had been in touch with a central person overseeing the four scouting groups in Fort McMurray directly affected by the fires.According to her contact, two families had lost everything.Another scout leader had the fire reach just a block away from their house, and is only now getting to move back into the neighbourhood.The money raised by the 1st Lennoxville Scouts will help the Fort McMurray groups rebuild and support the families who lost their homes and belongings in the fire.a a z hotewuberge î'-ï .V ¦¦'\u2022s' 1 Sawyerville Cont\u2019d from Page 2 volunteers to visit and work there.He would also like to bring a spiritual teacher from India to visit the Complexe Ramana.All this is in addition to Ramana\u2019s vocation as a hotel, not instead of it.Rooms are still available for visitors, the bar still serves alcohol, as well as espresso, and the local citizens who attended the information session seemed delighted with the ecological, touristic and cultural initiative.\u201cWe\u2019ve lost all our industry,\u201d said Sawyerville resident, Jack Garneau.\u201cOur only chance is tourism.\u201d RA GARBER To the left: The outside of the Sawyerville Hotel - now Complexe hotelier Ramana - sports new black paint on the railing.y PressReaderN 604 278 4604 APPLICABLE L AW J press nd distributed by PressReader.com ?+1 604 ND PROTECTED BY Page 4 Monday, June 27, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record ASK THE EXPERTS.ASK THE EXPERTS.ASK THE EXPERTS.ASK THE EXPERTS.REAL ESTATE ASK THE EXPERTS OPTOMETRISTS OPEN HOUSE 4580 Route 143, Waterville Sunday, July 3: 2-4 p.m.13 large bedrooms plus poss.of more, hardwood floors, large country kitchen, 2 1/2 bathrooms.3 garages.I Please drop in\\ Helen Labrecque, Real Estate Broker Cell: 819-572-1070 hlabrecque@sutton.com SUTTON Groupe Sutton -immobilier Estrie 819-820-0777 BUSINESS DIRECTORY NOTARY \u2022\tINVESTMENTS \u2022 LODGING \u2022\tNOTARY \u2022 OPTOMETRISTS \u2022\tPROFESSIONAL PAINTING \u2022\tREAL ESTATE \u2022 TREE SERVICE OPTO RÉSEAU Dr.Meggie Faust - Dr.Alain Côté, Optometrists 160 Queen Street, Sherbrooke 819-563-2333 Lamoureux Leonard sencr/ Notaries & Solicitors ntic Ti molli y Leonard \u2022 Trust Wills \u2022 Mandates \u2022 Corporate Law \u2022 Estate Settlement \u2022 Protection of Assets 520 Bowen St.S., Sherbrooke (next to Hôtel-Dieu Hospital) 563-0500 Help your children learn about their community by reading ¦ THE i RECORD To subscribe, call 819-569-9528 or 450-242-1188 PROFESSIONAL PAINTING A V I S O P A I TING HOUSE PAINTING, roof painting, barn painting & more 30 years experience QUALITY WORK Restore your roof with Teehuo-Seal Good for asphalt shingles and tin roofs Frank Davidson m 9-62 TREE SERVICE INVESTMENTS INVESTMENTS ArboExcellence Stephen Goddard, prop.ISA Certified Arborist QU-0103A Professional Tree Service \u2022\tPruning \u2022Tree removal \u2022\tStump grinding \u2022\tChipping \u2022\tCabling & bracing \u2022\tHedge trimming \u2022\tPlanting \u2022\tLot clearing \u2022\tForestry \u2022\tConsulting Over 25 years experience Fully insured Free estimate www.arboexcellence.ca Every dream needs a plan.Richard F.Tracy Mutual Fund Dealing Representative 819-943-2075 GLOBAL MAXFIN INVESTMENTS INC.Helping clients 46 Speid St.,\tinvest for Sherbrooke, QC JIM 1S4 their future.Cell: 819-821 -0425 Tel./Fax: 819-562-1642 LODGING Emplacement Tranquille au Centre-ville Quiet Location Downtown | Lennoxville 94 Queen, Sherbrooke (Lennoxville) Québec, Canada J1M 1J4 ©(ÏÏO©OGa@W@ B Tel: 819-563-7525 motel@lennoxville.qc.ca Fax: 819-563-4763 www.lennoxville.qc.ca To place an ad on this page, call 819-569-9525 Tim Goddard Branch Manager Helping clients invest for their future.RRSP \u2022 RDSP \u2022 RESP \u2022 RRIF Life Insurance \u2022 Critical Illness \u2022 LTD \u2022 Annuities MAXFIN INVESTMENTS INC.151 Queen Street, Sherbrooke 819-569-5666 Locals serving locals in the language of their choice for more than 20 y ears.(*0nly Mutual Funds are offered and regulated through Global Maxfin Investment Inc.) 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(\tPrinted and distributed by PressReader'N pressings* Pr essR e ad£riom4+1o604 2J 8,4604 V\tCOPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW y The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Monday, June 27, 20 16 Page 5 Meet Your Neighbours Jonathon Ellison: Clowning for a cause AISHA KANE By Gordon Lambie For twenty five years, Jonathon Ellison of Kingscroft has worked as a landscape architect, helping to change the shape the world both locally and on the international level.Specializing in sustainable land use planning, Ellison has worked on projects all over the planet, ranging from houses to holy sites.For the last three years, he has also been working as a clown in Africa.\u201cI\u2019ve always been the class clown and the family clown,\u201d Ellison told The Record.\u201cIt\u2019s very second nature to me to clown at the dinner table to reduce tension.\u201d Though humour has been with him throughout his entire life, the landscape architect explained that it was in 2013, while working in Senegal on Africa\u2019s western coast, that the clown came out to serve a new purpose in his life.\u201cDuring my travelling I would witness these landscapes of women working that I wanted to find out a bit more about,\u201d Ellison said.\u201cI made the very typical western mistake of feeling that I could take photos without permission, and the women became very upset (.) The next day I showed up as a clown to say I was sorry and to offered to work to make that up.They found that hilarious.\u201d Ellison explained that as the clown he turns his own cultural and historical background on its head, laughing at himself, western privilege, whiteness, and male authority in order to help break down the walls between himself and the women in three different villages he has been working with.Once those barriers come down, the landscape architect turned documentary filmmaker said that he has only one job.\u201cThis project is about listening,\u201d Ellison said.\u201cI don\u2019t go in trying to fix anything or change anything.\u201d The clown, in his whiteface and bizarre clothing, takes on whatever task the women are doing in the community and follows their direction.In a situation where white people have a legacy of being the masters and women are subservient to men, Ellison said that initial reactions to his actions range from bafflement to uproarious laughter.Once the laughter comes, though, what follows after is a whole different take on humanity.\u201cThey\u2019re saying things that are very profound,\u201d Ellison said.\u201cI hear about the mistakes that Europeans made in Africa.I hear grandmothers talk of how, over their whole childhood, when they saw a white they would run and hide.I hear women talk about how we still control the majority of their economy.I hear them say that if 1,000 women ran every country then there would be no more war.\u201d Though Ellison has been working directly with the three communities in Senegal for the last three years, he said that the work draws on an interest he has played with in his comedy work for a lot longer.\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in the stupidity of the male brain,\u201d the clown said.\u201cI believe the common thread in all of what the world is suffering with right now is the male brain.It\u2019s not the only thing, but I think that\u2019s the biggest com- mon thread.\u201d That understanding of the world, he continued, is what automatically makes hearing women\u2019s perspectives on things fascinating for him.\u201c(This project) is not just about making a movie, it\u2019s about really hearing what potentially thousands of women have to say, and opening up that discussion,\u201d he shared.\u201cIn many instances if I wasn\u2019t dressed up as a silly clown there\u2019s no way I could do what I\u2019m doing.\u201d While Ellison gave credit to the confrontational style of documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore, he underlined the fact that he believes humour, and particularly humour that makes fun of the self rather than others, allows the conversation to go further.\u201cThe fool in Shakespeare is the only one who can speak the truth, everyone else gets their heads cut off,\u201d the clown said.\u201cWhat I\u2019ve found with humour is that it opens doors that wouldn\u2019t be there if the humour wasn\u2019t present.The further I push the humour envelop, the further I can go with more difficult questions, but if I went in as a serious white man with a serious white agenda, they wouldn\u2019t respond to that.\u201d Ellison emphasized that his work is not silliness for silliness\u2019 sake, but rather an organized self-mockery meant to open up deeper issues with society.\u201cI am part of the male brain and the white westerner, I can\u2019t separate myself from that,\u201d he explained \u201cThat\u2019s really important; I don\u2019t go in saying I\u2019m an exception to the rule.I am part of that.It\u2019s a really important part of the whole process that I mock that.\u201d Ellison\u2019s film project is ongoing, and he spoke of the possibility of other developments like a book in the future, but when asked about his objectives for the work, the clown and landscape architect turned back to his expertise in sustainable planning and said that from what he hears, the women he works with have something to show the world about how the west approaches international development and aid.\u201cWe have to be careful to not fall into the mistake of saying this works here so it will work there,\u201d Ellison said, explaining that he has seen plenty of examples of abandoned projects from large scale charities in his travels.\u201cListening is a big part of what we have to do differently.\u201d Ellison said that in his experience the women, who traditionally have very little voice in their communities, know very well what their communities need.By building the trust and taking the time to listen and learn from these women, he continued, the opportunity exists to help people build up their own communities from within rather than trying to impose outside solutions.\u201cThese women need to be at the forefront of their own decision making,\u201d Ellison said.Though he underlined the fact that he is not clowning in order to impact communities directly, Ellison also noted with interest the effect his presence seems to have had on younger boys.\u201cWhen I do \u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d and the little boys see it and they see their moms really happy, there\u2019s something happening there because they often come out and they start to mimic the clown,\u201d Ellison said.\u201cI\u2019m not telling them to do this, but they\u2019re mimicking what I\u2019m doing.I think we need a better understanding of why those little boys imitate the clown, and break cultural barriers.I\u2019m hugely inspired when I see little boys do that.\u201d AISHA KANE I ¦*'-* ¦9 J iiiiiAii Brome County RECORD Townships Outlet press ID PROTECTED BY Lois Grainger Advertising Consultant Serving the entire Eastern Townships with three publications Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada i\u2014.npen)an CD One number 819 569-9525 lgrainger@sherbrookerecord.com ^ »\t1 800 567-AC DM Until there's a cure, there's us. Page 6 Monday, June 27, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record \t\t\t\t v JL\t\tDITOI\tRIAL\tDespite the immediate and desperate attempts by millions to alter the result of this vote, much of the damage has already been done.Friday morning coming down Mike McDevitt This weekend, we witnessed one of the world\u2019s oldest self-governing nations and a model of democratic progress commit an act of popular self-destruction perhaps unrivaled in the modern age.Without apparently having the slightest idea of what it was doing, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, a highly successful, if difficult, working example of international cooperation.Immediately, the \u2018hangover effect\u2019 kicked in as hapless Brits awoke the next day in panic, remorse, and wondering what the heck just happened.What just happened was a coalition of right-wing zealots, nostalgic nationalists, and the alienated working-class managed to win its battle to turn Britain in on itself against the rest of the world.The potential consequences - and implications - are game-altering.First of all, the \u2018Brexit\u2019 vote represents a staggering victory for the politics of fear, misinformation, hysteria, and bullying that has become a standard feature of modern European politics, not only in Britain, but also in France, Italy, Poland, Germany, and now openly - in the United States.It is the politics of outrage, scapegoats, powerlessness, and rebellion against the restraints of\u2018political correctness,\u2019 which leaves the masses feeling voiceless and despised.It is a massive indication of the failure of\u2018representative\u2019 politics to satisfy huge swaths of the population.Despite the immediate and desperate attempts by millions to alter the result of this vote, much of the damage has already been done.It has completely changed the context in which the recent referendum on Scottish independence was held as best expressed by the overwhelming desire of Scottish voters to remain in the broader economy.Similar results were noted in Britain\u2019s more neglected areas like Northern Ireland and Wales, both of whom may feel similarly misused.Meanwhile, Great Britain has to figure out how to extricate itself from a complicated arrangement without a government leader, with half the country, and some of its components, actively working to render the vote void.Meanwhile, the scorned Union is basically saying \u201cIf you want to leave, make it quick, we have plans to make.\u201d The repercussions from the British vote perhaps have the most direct impact on Britain\u2019s young skilled workers, who will now be shut out of a huge labour market and the opportunities it promises.The collapse in the value of the currency, if it does not recover, will make it even more difficult for British consumers and local industry, which could be prevented from benefitting from that very thing by European import duties.Globally, the vote has of course had a profound impact on the world\u2019s financial markets as London remains a major financial centre and because the result came as a complete shock.The long-term impact of this is the subject of some debate, but positive forecasts are hard to find.At the very least, confusion will reign for at least a little while.Meanwhile, the politics of hate and crazy got a huge boost by this victory, encouraging right-wing parties across the world and of course, the clueless Donald Trump, who managed to disgrace himself magnificently in his first foreign affairs statement.Even here in Quebec, desperate sover-eignists clung to the hope that .the British vote could be a harbinger of the revival of its own nationalist dream.Having tried to exploit these same politics of Cont\u2019d on Page 7 RECORD 1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, Quebec JIG 1Y7 Fax: 819-821-3179 e-mail: newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Website: www.sherbrookerecord.com Sharon McCully Pubusher .(819) 569-9511 Stephen Blake Corresp.Editor.(819) 569-6345 Serge 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QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD, CNA, QCNA Letters Dear Editor, The Record recently published a cartoon of a man staggering up a steep hill pushing a full grocery cart with a large arrow indicating the ever-rising cost of groceries (all food?) and a few days later this quote attributed to Mario Cuomo, \u201cMost of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought-of two generations ago.We\u2019ve never had it so good, most of us.Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.\u201d In light of recently published agricultural statistics, I found the cartoon quite amusing and the quote very telling, I would like to share some of this information with your readers.In 1901, fifty cents of every dollar Canadians earned was spent on food.Today we spend just over ten cents.In 1901, there were 3.2 million, a decrease of 91%.In the same 110 year period the number of farms in Canada decreased by 60%, while our population grew from 5.4 million to 35 million, an increase of 548%.One farmer who fed 10 other people now feeds over 120, an increase of 1100%.In the last seventy years, since 1941, the value of farm land has risen from $17 per acre to $2227, an increase of 13, 000% (yes, that\u2019s 13 thousand).In 2011, the average age of a Canadian farmer was 54 years.Even with all the government incentives to lure young people in to the industry, recent figures are approaching 57 years.Just under half of Canada\u2019s farmers also have an off-farm job to earn additional income to support their families.Less than 2% of Canadians feed the other 98% and 49.9% have to supplement their farm income to feed their own families - a pretty sad commentary on the value we, as a country, place on being able to feed ourselves and not being at the mercy of imports.(Remember the price of cauliflower last winter?) It is unfortunate that agricultural statistics normally only appear in farming publications, but then again, the figures are out there for anyone who is interested enough to look for them.Sincerely, Roberta Sylvester Sawyervtt.t.e 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.r,,\u201e,cu «.d distributed by\t, presslï&MÏÏ Pressjeadercojnw+ 1JS04_278 4604 ,COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW S The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Monday, June 27, 2016 Page 7 \t\t\t\t \t[^/©C NEC OS ^ ^UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ^ SEEM TO BE SOME ISSUES 3 WITH SUPPLY AND OEMNNO, NOW IS MORE LOVE Y Frank And Ernest tvtzx TltAf ONt Of= UU^EPToOlL mmmikv ^ 20,SbTiME^A Soup to Nuts ©2016 Rick Stromoski Dist, by UmversalUclick Email: soup2nutz@cox.net coMe Tue ¦endimg OF EveRS3 ¦ STORY iS\"ime.Y I Lwep HappuY UveRAFTeg\"?me ReaLeNDiNG oFeveRY siôry taNDTPeNTideY wege, an PeapY m HERMAN Laughingstock Licensing Inc., Dist.by Universal Uclick, 2016 How much do you want for these brown ones?\u201d o * c f r» AAOSfcM ShOpP