The record, 4 mai 1994, mercredi 4 mai 1994

[" *STEPHANIE LAFOND CLASS 3N SHERBROOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL \u2014\u2014\u2014 Johnson, Rae puff on peacepipe for trade TORONTO (CP) \u2014 A ceasefire was signed Tuesday in the construction trade war between Ontario and Quebec when the premiers of Canada\u2019s largest trading partners agreed to a bilateral deal.The agreement on trade in construction goods and services was eight years in the making and will ensure Quebec businesses have freer access to Ontario markets, Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson said.\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous range prs 000 (LIRE.\"Will Liberals wait for fall vote?of opportunities that the Canadian economic union provides,\u201d he said after signing the document in a ceremony in the grand foyer of Queen\u2019s Park, the Ontario legislature.\u201cWe really had to get rid of some of these barriers, to make sure that we worried about our taxpayers and our citizens and our workers and our businesses.\u201d Ontario Premier Bob Rae said the accord levels the playing field for Ontario construction workers who were prevented access to that a small child was stuck or lost inside.But no child was found and none has been reported missing.For more, please turn the page.RECORDPERRY BEATON \u2018En ANT La ' ax 16 \u2018A supercharged atmosphere\u2019 ré sr os 20 aa WEES > Ls pin u RUE a Quebec construction sites because of restrictive provincial labor laws until late last year.At one point the spat led to a trade war which affected almost $1 billion worth of goods and services sold between the two provinces.Trade between the two provinces is worth about $30 billion a year.Quebec and Ontario took the first steps towards freer trade in December when they allowed laborers to freely cross their pro.vincial border in search of work.New Brunswick and Quebec signed a trade deal in March.Under the Ontario-Quebec agreement: @ Ontario workers will no longer face residency requirements when seeking construction work in Quebec.® The two provinces recognize each other\u2019s systems for assessing qualifications, skills and experience of construction workers.@ Government procurement 40 cents of services is opened up for goods, services and construction to suppliers from both provinces, effective September 1994.® Ontario recognizes Quebec health and safety training programs, and vice versa.In a private meeting before the ceremony, Rae said he and Johnson discussed a high-speed rail link and manpower training.They also agreed that the provinces must be \u201cdeeply involved\u201d in the federal social assistance reform process, he said.Pre-campaign stuck in slow gear By Don Macdonald QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Premier Daniel Johnson will likely decide today to forgo a spring election while he considers calls from within his own caucus to be more vigorous in defence of Canadian unity.Today is the last day that Johnson could call an election before the June 24 St-Jean-Baptiste holiday.Some Liberals had been pushing for a spring election after the party received a brief boost in public opinion when Johnson was selected as leader in January.But the climb in opinion polls stalled and the government, in the fifth year of its second mandate, has made up virtually no ground on the Parti Québécois.Recent polls have given about a 10-percentage-point lead to the PQ.That lead is more than 20 per cent among the crucial French- speaking majority.Many Liberals are now clamoring for Johnson to also take a harder line against the PQ\u2019s campaign for Quebec separation.\u201cIt has to be put on the table so that Quebecers understand their choice,\u201d Liberal backbencher Réjean Dayon said.\u201cPeople have to realize that to vote for the PQ means the deficit is going to increase, interest rates are going to increase and unemployment is going to increase.\u201d The Liberals are struggling to find star candidates for the election.Some , Liberal MNAs applauded Johnson for delaying the vote.\u201cPeople will have the time to Reformers spot an opening, plan quick push for Quebec By Larry Welsh -OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 The Reform party plans a fast-forward approach to growing a grassroots movement in Quebec.With a provincial election looming and a possible referendum on separation, Quebec\u2019s political pressure offers Reform a chance to build a credible presence quickly, Diane Ablonczy, Reform caucus co-ordinator, said Tuesday.\u201cThis is a supercharged atmosphere.Quebecers themselves know they have to move quickly to examine their options in a very cold-eyed way,\u201d she said in an interview.Reform MPs hashed over the party\u2019s strategy in Quebec at a caucus meeting this week, drawing on conflicting views from their constituents.Ablonczy said some party members favor waiting for Que- becers to decide whether they want to separate.Others want Reform to take a more \u201chardball\u201d approach in arguing against sovereignty.Reform Leader Preston Manning will draw on those comments as the party crafts its plan for Quebec expansion.\u201cCertainly by the time of the next party assembly, which is in October, we're going to have a road map that people are comfortable with and enthusiastic about,\u201d said Ablonczy.Manning made his first trip to See REFORM Page 2 : A signalman does maintenance on the rail lines in Sherbrooke while Canadian Pacific negotiates with two private companies interested in buying the Sherbrooke to Saint John, N.B.line.For more on the story, - please turn the page.RECORD/GRANT SIMEON ge see that Mr.Johnson and our programs are working,\u201d said Robert Thérien, chairman of the Liberal caucus.\u201cThe polls will follow.\u201d Thérien said some in the Liberal caucus now favor a date in late August for the election, which would mean a campaign throughout the summer months.Summer campaigns are unusual in Canada and considered very risky by many political experts.Voters and party workers may get cranky about being disturbed during their holidays.\u201cIt goes against all traditiens,\u201d political analyst Pierre Fournier said.\u201cI doubt that voters are going to appreciate holding a campaign in July and August when people aren\u2019t there.There could be a backlash.\u201d The attraction of a summer vote for the Liberal government could be that voter turnout is usually low, offering some hope of slipping by the PQ to victory.As well, angry public sector and construction workers will be on holiday and unlikely to mar the Liberal campaign with demonstrations.An election must be called by Oct.11 but Johnson is boxed in by a series of byelections that he must either hold this summer or supercede with a general election call.Municipal elections are also scheduled for early November.\u201cThe end of August, beginning hing af the Vey Cats | ! { i { i i Births, deaths .12 Classified .cceeueee.10 COMICS evene 11 Editorial .rescneaceres 4 Farm & Business .§ Living .ccuce.veuveusess 0 SPOFtS .\u2026\u2026\u2026osssrsscossosensees 13 Townships .\u2026\u2026\u2026cessescres 3 of September or the middle of September \u2014 that\u2019s autumn,\u201d Thérien said.\u201cWe're talking about dates from Aug.22.until Sept.15.After that you have to leave room for the municipal elections.\u201d Johnson has been hammering away on his job creation theme in speeches and the National Assembly and is hoping that an improving employment picture through the summer will boost Liberal fortunes.\u2018Vive le Canada\u2019 By Bob Cox MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Quebec separatists should take a lesson from the noble, forgiving attitude of new South African President Nelson Mandela, says Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.Mandela wants a united country of all races, despite his years in prison and South Africa\u2019s history of racial segregation and systematic humiliation of blacks, Chrétien said Tuesday.Chrétien to Quebec: Learn from S.Africa \u201cHe (Mandela) said, despite (all the difficulties they could have known, these very noble words that I would certainly like to see from the mouths of some of our fellow Quebecers,\u201d said Chrétien.\u201cNelson Mandela said: \u2018We can have our differences, but we form a single people with a common destiny, with our rich variety of cultures, of races and See CHRETIEN Page 2 Getting ready: aio, Although both have fans and collectors all over the world, neither sculptor George Foster of Way\u2019s Mills nor ceramic artist Chick Schwartz of Beebe Plain have shown their works in Sherbrooke.That will soon change with avjoint exhibition set to open later this week at the Musée des Beaux Arts.Watch for the full story in Friday\u2019s Townships Week.RECORDPERRY BEATON Thibaudeau wins key case Appeal court boots out tax on child-support payments By Jack Branswell QUEBEC (CP) \u2014 Single parents won a tax victory Tuesday when a court ruled they shouldn\u2019t have to pay income tax on child-support payments they receive from former spouses.The decision by the Federal Court of Appeal could affect thousands of single parents and remove millions of tax dollars from the federal coffers.But the judge who wrote the 2-1 majority decision cast doubt on how long the ruling would stand.\u201cThe chances of this court having the last word on the subject are rather less than those of winning first prize in the lottery,\u201d wrote Justice James Hugesson.The federal government can appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada or accept Tuesday\u2019s decision and rework the tax law.Ottawa was mulling over those \u201coptions Tuesday.\u201cIt really is a question of tax fairness,\u201d Finance Minister Paul Martin said in Ottawa.\u201cAnd it\u2019s also a question of what is the best way of providing the custodial parent with the maximum amount of support.\u201d The decision was a triumph for Susan Thibaudeau, the social See TAX OUT Page 2 SetaTa TUE sue\" IY BR IE TO ES PT Te ABADI BARDS LIRA ADT TRE\" VRE IRE 2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Wednesday, May 4, 1994 The Townsh rest of the summer.Clos \u20ac d « City workers spent Tuesday on Wellington Street, setting up terraces and preparing the street for the summer.The work is expected to continue for the rest of the week, and cars will be off limits for the ee Whither Sherbrooke Hospital?Environment-Quebec: Working in the wetlands?Don\u2019t forget your permit SHERBROOKE \u2014 If you have any plans for that swampland out back, you'd better get permission first.The Quebec government is reminding the public that any construction projects taking place on or near wetlands or Next week waterways require a special permit.Under article 22 of the Law on Environmental Quality a permit is required for any work or other activities that would directly change or otherwise affect the quality of the environment.This Star-gazers invite public to view solar eclipse SHERBROOKE \u2014 The Sherbrooke Amateur Astronomy Club is inviting the curious to come out to watch the solar eclipse on Tuesday May 10.The club will be meeting at Place de la Cité which is located behind the new courthouse.The eclipse is forcasted to begin at 11:58 a.m.and end around 3:20 p.m.The moon will cover 88 per cent of the sun at its peak at 1:41 p.m.Club members will be on hand with telescopes and glasses to watch the event.For those interested in watching the eclipse special glasses are on sale at Daguerre Photo which will allow sun gazers to watch in safety.The price is $2 per pair.The glasses will also be on sale at Place de la Cité on the morning of the eclipse.It is extremely dangerous to look at the sun without eye protection, even during an eclipse.Full or partial blindness can result.includes any changes or pollution caused by construction.The law is intended to give the Ministry ofthe Environment better control over the future of the province\u2019s wetlands, which are vital for wildlife.It was passed last December after the end of the construction season.As a result many people do not know about it.Article 22 also includes any work done on the sides of lakes, ponds, and rivers to make sure that minimal damage is done to the environment in or around any body of water.The ministry sees the law as an effective way to reduce the environmental damage caused by indescriminate abuse of wetlands andf other bodies of water.Besides requiring a permit to carry out construction, the law also demands tight regulation of any related activities, from forestry to home building to road construction.For more information about this law, contact the information service of the Ministry of the Environment at 1-800-561-1616.Community agonizes over health-care cuts By Stephen Heckbert SHERBROOKE \u2014 Will the Sherbrooke Hospital be the next victim of Quebec budget cuts and population trends?No one wants to say.\u201cWe have to be careful\u201d was all Health Minister Lucienne Robil- lard would say Friday about the possibility the bilingual hospital would close.Quebec\u2019s English-speaking communities have traditionally controlled their schools and health care institutions, and the system has always worked well, Robillard added.Many groups have raised a cry of alarm over the future of Sherbrooke Hospital, and stories and rumors about its possible closing have reached a fever pitch.But no decision has been reached and the regional health council continues to consider recommendations on local budget cuts.The regional board must cut $30 million from the Estrie region health care budget over the next three years.Last week the council invited interested groups to outline their visions for the future.RECOMMENDATIONS The medical faculty of the Uni- TAX OUT: Continued from page one worker from Trois-Rivières who has been waging the court battle since 1989 when she stopped paying taxes on her monthly sup- REFORM: Continued from page one Quebec since the election two weeks ago, holding media interviews in Montreal and meeting about 40 supporters at a downtown hotel.Manning, who is not fluent in French, faces a substantial versity of Sherbrooke recommended closing two of Sherbrooke\u2019s four general hospitals \u2014 Sherbrooke Hospital and St-Vincent- de-Paul.The CHUS also recommended that the city\u2019s remaining hospitals be grouped together under one administration.Similar recommendations came from local doctors.CHUS managers feel they should have the budget, and the beds, of Sherbrooke and St- Vincent since the CHUS is much larger than either of them.Their idea is modelled on a plan for hospitals affiliated with McGill University medical school in Montreal.But as the health minister said, Sherbrooke is not Montreal.- \u201cWe can\u2019t take one model and apply it to other areas of the province,\u201d Robillard said, \u201cbecause it might not be right for the area.\u201d The Townshippers\u2019 Association, for its part, asked for protection for the Sherbrooke Hospital.The Townshippers recognized the need to find savings, but described Sherbrooke Hospital as crucial to the survival of the region's English-speaking population.Indeed the hospital serves not just its immediate north ward vicinity but English- speaking residents of the entire region.\u201cWithout it, we wouldn't have a home here any more,\u201d said the Townshippers\u2019 Marisa Tessier.The Townshippers Association reminded the health board that provincial legislation \u2014 article 173 of Law 142, and more recently article 508 of Law 120 \u2014 guarantees that Sherbrooke Hospital will be the area\u2019s designated bilingual hospital.Because service in English is guaranteed by law to English-speaking Quebe- cers, the Townshippers\u2019 brief said the hospital is also guaranteed.The Townshippers also asked that cutbacks currently proposed for the hospital be reconsidered, .because it may not be able to absorb cuts like those outlined in the Regie\u2019s action plan for 1994-97.Officials of Hétel Dieu and St- Vincent de Paul suggested that some services be combined, with St-Vincent taking over psychiatric care and Hôtel Dieu providing gynecology and obstetric services.The hospitals\u2019 proposals avoided the question of whether all four general hospitals should continue to exist.If Monique Gagnon- Tremblay\u2019s words Friday were any indication, pressure from the various groups involved already has politicians mapping out alternative strategies.\u201cIt\u2019s way too early to say we'll close the Sherbrooke Hospital,\u201d Gagnon-Tremblay said.\u201cWe'd have to try every other means of cutting expenses first.\u201d The health minister too reiterated her desire to cut spending without hurting the citizens the system is designed to protect.\u201cWe're moving toward lighter\u2019 services,\u201d Robillard said, \u201cbut turning toward preventing illnesses doesn\u2019t mean we're going to ignore the sick, or stop providing services to those who need them.\u201d - \u2026 - .IMPORTANT Régie director Jean-Pierre Duplantie says he recognizes the importance of the Sherbrooke Hospital to the English-speaking community.In numerous conver- \u2018 sations with the Record Duplan- tie has said everything must be on the table, but he recognizes the distinct role of the Sherbrooke Hospital.As director of the regional board, Duplantie is in a difficult position.He must oversee $30 million in cuts without compromising patient care.At the same time, he must balance the interest of an aging anglophone minority with those of the rest of the Estrie community.Duplantie said he will not provide guarantees to any hospital \u2014 or any other organization that depends on the regional health council for funding.But the regional health council has stated that \u201caccess to services for English-speaking citizens\u201d is one of their guiding principles.SHERBROOKE \u2014 City police are looking for Valérie Lavallée, who ran away March 7.Searches by both police and Lavallée\u2019s mother have so far proven unsuccessful.She was last seen by her mother in Magog at or around April 24, but managed to escape.Lavallée is described as 5-feet, 3-inches tall, with brown hair and eyes, and weighing about 100 pounds.She is 16 years old and is French- speaking.At the time she was last seen she was wearing a white jean jacket, black jeans and sandals.If you have any information about this case please contact Sherbrooke Police at 821-5544.Last seen in Magog: Police seek runaway + ¢ LC.| i \u2018ny = ae \" { - Ta Valérie Lavallée.Missing.port payment of $1150.Her lawyers had argued that having to pay those taxes was discriminatory.The Federal Court agreed and ruled the taxes unconstitutional.Thibaudeau\u2019s lawyers said the decision \u2014 rendered a day after the deadline that federal income tax returns had to be filed \u2014 can be widely applied to thousands of other cases.\u201cI'm proud that I didn\u2019t give hurdle in selling to Quebecers the Reform message of cost- cutting, law and order and greater accountability for politicians.Ablonczy said the party is further handicapped by what she called misrepresentation of Reform as an anti-French party.Charles Bury, Editor Guy Renaud, Graphics CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 FAX: (819) 569-3945 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 Randy Kinnear, Publisher .weesseseecasstesterrsisessstosrnsenirstirsis Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager .Richard Lessard, Production Manager .Mark Gulllette, Press Superintendent .the FAX: 514-243-5155 569-9511 569-6345 569-9525 569-9931 569-9931 569-4856 Francine Thibault, COMpOSItiON een 569-9931 Subscriptions by Mail: \u2018 GST PST TOTAL Out of Quebec Canada: 1 year $78.00 5.46 6.68 $90.14 do not include PST 6 months $39.00 2.73 3.34 $45.07 \u2019 3 months $19.50 1.37 1.67 $22.54 Rates for other 1 month 816.00 1.12 1.37 $1849 Services available on request.Established February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).\u2019 Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division, Groupe Quebecor Inc.Offi ces and plant located at 2850 Delorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No.0479675, Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: .60¢ per copy.Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation \u201cThe mislabelling of Reform that\u2019s out in Quebec is that we're not sympathetic, we're not able to meet Quebec\u2019s needs.That is not correct.\u201d The western-based Reform party took two years to organize in Ontario and parts of Atlantic Canada afterit decidedin 1991 to expand nationally.Rather than parachute in party staff workers, Reform relied on local supporters to set up constituency associations and nominate candidates for the last election.Reform will still follow a grassroots strategy in Quebec, but the party doesn\u2019t have the luxury of two years to establish its network, said Ablonezy, a member of the party's expansion committee.up.\u201d Thibaudeau said at a news conference in suburban Ste- Foy.\u201cI don\u2019t have any words to describe the feeling.\u201d \u201cI had hoped that I would win for all woman across Canada,\u201d she said.Thibaudeau said hopes the decision makes single woman \u2014 who most often end up caring for CHRETIEN: Continued from page one of traditions\u2019 That's Canada.Vive le Canada.\u201d À crowd of about 1,500 at a Liberal fundraising dinner applauded wildly as the prime minister made the plea.It was the second time in recent days that the prime minister has appealed to Canadian values of tolerance and generosity to keep the country united.\u201cWhen you see the difficulties in the world today you understand that the values we have developed in this country are still the best,\u201d he said.\u201cIt is country that has proved [MEAL oonesbury A beautiful THATS JusT HOW WOULD OKAY?SHE JUST day today.PREPOSTEROUS! ow Now KNOWS! END OF Sunny with a oY $d nor MOM= SUBJECT! high of 15 and \\ \\ Z winds from the south at 15 to 30 km/h.Thursday will be cloudy with sunny breaks and a high of 15.MARK, MARK, A MOTHER KNOWS, the kids after a divorce \u2014 and their children a little less poor.People who receive child- support payments from former spouses \u2014 mostly women \u2014 are taxed on it while those who pay the money \u2014 mostly men \u2014 can deduct it from taxes.Michel Bernier, her lawyer, said the ruling supplies a precedent for others contesting the tax.But Bernier and other lawyers didn\u2019t advise people to withhold their tax because the ruling could be overturned by the Supreme Court.Bernier estimated that about 5,000 to 6,000 Canadians are refusing to pay taxes on support payments.to the world that if you have the generosity of mind, you can live together.\u201d It was the first time Chrétien has delivered a major speech in Quebec since the October federal election.He took few partisan shots at Quebec separatists and emphasized instead the economic benefits of Quebec remaining part of Canada \u2014 such as the North America Free Trade Agreement and the Pacific coast door to such future economic giants as China.It was a continuation of Chrétien\u2019s strategy of taking the high road to promote national unity and avoiding political street fights with separatists such as Bloc Québécois Leader Lucien Bouchard.\u201cWe believe that Canada is not bankrupt, Canada is a great success,\u201d said Chrétien.\u201cIt\u2019s a country that allows us to be francophone, to be proud of being francophone and to be at home everywhere in Canada.\u201cIts a country that allows some of the people in this room to be anglophone and to be at home in Quebec.The prime minister did not mention the upcoming Quebec election, or a possible subsequent referendum if the Parti Québécois wins.BY GARRY TRUDEAU LAAYLASAL PRESS SYMONCAYE IMMÂLE Trudses HOW BOUT GJÉCN MON THEMRED- LETS TRY 10 § .Letter from Ryan, another new secretary.South Stukely\u2019s problems haven\u2019t gone away By Sharon McCully SOUTH STUKELY \u2014 Taxpayers poured into the new * South Stukely town hall by the ~ dozens Monday night, carrying \u201c lawnchairs and a list of questions * for the municipal council chasti- : \"sed in a letter from Municipal \" Affairs Minister Claude Ryan for \u201cneglect in carrying out its duties \"as an elected body.In a no-nonsense letter to South Stukely Mayor Philippe * Maroulis April 6, Ryan warned council to formulate a recovery .plan to get itself out of its preca- \"rious financial situation \u2014 or else.\u201cIn the event your council fails AE TEN on merely curious.to give immediate attention to this correspondence, I will be obliged to consider other measures provided by law,\u201d Ryan wrote.At the time of the letter, the council was $285,000 into its $300,000 line of credit with the local Caisse Populaire and still had not received any municipal tax revenues to lighten the load.The town\u2019s annual budget is $600,000.\u201cThe municipality is being artificially supported through a line of credit in spite of the fact that municipal law prohibits this form of financing,\u201d Ryan wrote.Tax bills, with a mill rate increased from 78 to 93 cents, plus a $75 Some South Stukely taxpayers were angry Monday night Others were ah administrative tax, were not sent out by the municipality until April due to a change in computer programs.Ryan said when the bills were finally sent, they didn\u2019t include some $40,000 in arrears, resulting in a loss to the town of some $40,000.At Monday's council meeting, taxpayers wanted to know exactly how much was owing to the town in back taxes, and what the actual operating deficit was at the close of 1993.But Mayor Maroulis was unable to answer either question.Because of the rapid turnover of secretary-treasurers in the town over the last two years \u2014 including one suspected of defrauding the municipality of $75,000 to $100,000 \u2014 Maroulis said he couldnt say exactly how much tax is owing from the previous year.But he promised any previous deficits would be eliminated through a series of cost-cutting measures introduced at Monday\u2019s meeting.He said he was unable to provide details on the cuts, but $85,000 would be trimmed from this year\u2019s operating budget \u2014 about $35,000 of it coming from the road-repair budget.This caused a stir as taxpayers described potholes the size of craters.One citizen vowed to fix the holes on his street and bill the town.Others wanted to know how the fifth new secretary treasurer in two years intends to calculate back taxes from taxpayers who insist they've already paid up.Several taxpayers claim they paid their tax bills at the town hall but the payments were never recorded.Maroulis says chartered accountants want cancelled cheques as proof of payment, but many taxpayers are claiming they paid in cash.Maroulis told the crowd the town\u2019s credit problem was resolved earlier in the day when he negotiated a $250,000 loan from the Caisse Populaire.A resolution authorizing the loan was passed Monday night.Council also passed a- resolution to cut costs by closing town hall two days a week.Other cost- cutting measures include canning a plan to restore the Anglican Church, selling parcels of town land, and having volunteers co-ordinate recreational and leisure programs.Maroulis told the large crowd the town councillors even offered to forfeit their salaries, but Municipal Affairs Ministry officials advised against that.Spontaneous response from the crowd indicated taxpayers would have accepted the offer.Maroulis, the sole elected official to speak at Monday's meeting, steadfastly defended council\u2019s actions, even adjourning the meeting for half an hour to photocopy about 65 copies of his eight- page response to Ryan in defence of council's actions.Ironically, council had passed a resolution just moments before to charge 25 cents a page for photocopies, but nobody was charged for the mayor's letter.Maroulis said when he became mayor in 1992 the town\u2019s tax accounts were in a \u201cpityful\u201d state.The RECORD\u2014Wednesday, May 4, 1994\u20143 He said construction of a new town hall, the illness of one secretary treasurer and suspected fraud by another, all contributed to the town\u2019s financial demise.\u201cI accept that we have problems, but I won't accept blame,\u201d Maroulis said, \u201cNobody has worked harder, and we've already resolved 90 per cent of the problems.\u201d Although Maroulis blames staff problems for many of the town\u2019s current problems, Ryan doesn\u2019t.He says elected representatives failed to oversee the activities of their employees and even signed blank cheques.\u201cElected officials didn\u2019t take the necessary steps to implement corrective meassures recommended by the auditor,\u201d Ryan said.The municipality has yet another \u201cnew\u201d secretary- treasurer to replace the last one hired a few months ago.Patricia Standish, whom Maroulis praised only two months ago as a savior, has been replaced by Lise Coté.Maroulis said he and Standish were incompatible and \u201cthere 29835) village de srukely- sud was place for only one mayor in town hall.\u201d \u201cI told her, you're indiscreet, disloyal, and we won't discuss it,\u201d Maroulis said.He said Standish will remain as a consultant until her work is finished \u2014 then she\u2019s going to be fired \u2014 \u201cbut she doesn\u2019t know it Philippe Maroulis.I won't accept blame.\u2019 , South Stukely town council has been blamed for mismanagement by Municipal Affairs Minister Claude Ryan.\u201cBut only Mayor Philippe Maroulis had much to say Monday.RECORD PHOTOS/SHARON McCULLY' Wy je path RO ; x 3 i S.à = Sk Ag MRE Rid TR + Nothing down there Wild goose gone: Kids will 8 kids, and nobody knows that better than police.That\u2019s why Lennoxville-Ascot officers reacted quickly Tuesday afternoon after they received a call that a young child had become stuck in a sewer on Thibault Street in Ascot.Sherbrooke firemen were called to the rescue but a top-to-bottom search of the storm sewer turned up nothing but the usual debris.It was all in a day\u2019s work for the firemen, who attracted and after- school crowd of several dozen children.RECORD PHOTOS/PERRY BEATON \u2018Sherbrooke line \u2018 requires specialized knowledge\u2019 Investors negotiating for CP Rail eastern lin By Stephen Heckbert SHERBROOKE \u2014 Canadian Pacific administrators are negotiating with two companies they selected as likely candidates to operate the Sherbrooke to Saint John rail line.And Sherbrooke\u2019s regional development council couldn't be happier, even if neither company is from the Sherbrooke area.\u201cWe started marketing the line in early 1993, and we originally received 20 inquiries,\u201d CP spokesman Tim Humpheries said.\u201cIn early April six parties were left, and at the end of April we announced we would start talking to two of them.\u201d The two companies are Guil- ford Industries of Massachusetts = line to Eastern Canada in 1991.Since then, the regional development council has tried to get the government to force CP to keep the line open.Council director Robert Dion is happy the company is starting the selling process.\u201cCP thinks transcontinental means Montreal to Vancouver now,\u201d Dion said, \u201cso the line didn\u2019t fit into their plans.\u201d \u201cWe're know that whoever takes it over is going to be more dynamic in pursuing customers,\u201d he said.\u201cCP seemed to be letting business slide.\u201d But he added he didn't think CP really wants the line to close.DESSERT \u201cIt doesn\u2019t fit into their strategy, but it will still bring in business for them,\u201d Dion said.\u201cIt will just be dessert as far as they're concerned.\u201d Dion said the lack of local bids wasn\u2019t surprising.\u201cIt\u2019s not like opening a restaurant on the corner,\u201d he said.\u201cIt If the sale of the CP line goes through, trains will still run between Sherbrooke and Saint John.requires specialized knowledge that a group of doctors and lawyers investing in something wouldn\u2019t provide.\u201d Dion said CP thinks other companies can do a better job running these smaller lines while still feeding the national rail system.CP's Humpheries was careful to point out that nothing is definite yet, and negotiations will be complicated.\u201cWe have two countries, two provinces and a state involved,\u201d he said.\u201cWe're going in with a positive attitude, but there's no guaratee of success.\u201d CP has set May 31 as the day when it will pick one company with which to continue negotiating, but Humpheries said from his company\u2019s point of view there's no real deadline.\u201cCertainly it\u2019s just good business to continue with a minimum disruption of service,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we don\u2019t stop running the line until January 1, 1995, so there\u2019s still a fair amount of time left.\u201d 4\u2014The RECORD\u2014 Wednesday, May 4, 1994 | the The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Generation X: not all whining I am a member of what the media calls the X generation.Born after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, my generation has apparently been overwhelmed by the baby-boomers and feels lost in space.Well, some of them do.I don\u2019t.But the problems felt by many of my generation are worth looking at anyway, if only to | figure out what we can learn for the next one.The first discovery my generation has + made is that the sexual revolution and its many offshoots has not been entirely positive.The spread of AIDS through casual sex has already taken the lives of many I know, and it\u2019s a problem brought on by the pressures we felt to be free and liberal sexually.Now, the move is back toward saving virginity until marriage, and I'd be hard pressed to say that\u2019s a bad thing.Femiminism\u2019s attempts to paint all men as the powerful enemy have been proven false, just as the men\u2019s move- | ment\u2019s atttempts to link us all together through drum-beating and chanting have been largely dismissed.Most men respect most women, and most women, believe it or not, like most men.We have a different sense of family, since many of our parents\u2019 marriages ended in divorce or loveless commitments.But we have vowed not to make the same mistakes, and many of us are now taking those first tentative steps down the matrimonial path, despite some predictions that the day of the family is over.But there\u2019s no question that our : families will look much different than our \u2018 parents families.Unlike my parents, ' there\u2019s no way I'll have seven kids.But perhaps the biggest lesson my generation has learned is that we can\u2019t always get what we want.Most of us do not whine most of the time about our loss of opportunity because of our accidents of birth, but the victim society we live in started by the baby boomers has yet to release its hold on our psyches.Most of us realize there is no such thing as equality, that the brightest and best will always succeed, but it\u2019s been hard fighting the \u201cliberal\u201d trends of our parents.But big government and free spending is over, and my generation is here to clean up the mess.So next time we hear about Generation X\u2019s despondency or its lack of commitment, think again.The people who claim to be the spokespeople for my generation are only those with too much time on their hands \u2014 the rest of us are trying to change the world.; Just like our parents did before us.STEPHEN HECKBERT re Canada By Laura Eggertson WASHINGTON (CP)\u2014 An Ontario judge\u2019s order banning coverage of the Karla Homolka trial and the RCMP seizure of a CBC videotape prompted a U.S.human rights organization to rank Canada seventh in a survey of world press freedom.\u201cCanada falls just below the United States for having more stringent press laws and several cases of overt government limitation of news coverage,\u201d says the Freedom House report.The United States ranks sixth and Canada seventh among 186 countries surveyed.Both the judge\u2019s publication ban on the Homolka trial and the incident involving the CBC in St.John\u2019s, Nfld., caused Freedom House to dock points from Canada\u2019s free press rating, said Leonard Sus- sman, author of the report.\u201cAll of this we find troublesome,\u201d Sussman said from New York.\u201cOf course it\u2019s not just a single case, but it does reflect the kind of climate in which that occurs.\u201d Judge Francis Kovacs\u2019 ban on publication of the plea and evidence in Homolka\u2019s St.Catharines, Ont., trial, attracted a flurry of attention from U.S.press.Several U.S.newspapers, television and radio shows published or broadcast details ban- Letter ned in Canada.The RCMP seizure of tapes in St.John\u2019s last September followed an incident in a federal fisheries office in Grand Bank ransacked by rampaging fishermen.One CBC camer- man was roughed up by protesters worried about being identified after doing about $3500 damage to the office.Two Mounties seized the tapes for an investigation.\u201cIt\u2019s not only the government that we look at as being harmful to press coverage, but sometimes, in this case, it was citizens,\u201d said Sussman.\u201cThat of course happens and it\u2019s one of those things that is certainly bothersome to press freedom.\u201d The criteria for rating countries includes the laws or administrative decisions that influence the content of news media; the degree of political influence or control over content; economic influences on the media; and the degree of oppression in the country, from killing journalists to censorship.Belgium led the world in press freedom, followed by New Zealand, Australia, and Norway.Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland were tied for fifth place, followed by Luxembourg and the United States in sixth, and Canada, tied with St.Lucia for seventh.Government meddling on the rise 7th In free-press survey Canada has been slightly higher in the free press column in previous years, Sussman said, partly because the survey was not as intensive.Canada\u2019s free-trade partner, Mexico, is singled out in the report for the slaying of three journalists last year, among 70 killed in the last decade.After Canada and St.Lucia came Iceland, the Netherlands and Spain, followed by Costa Rica, Ireland, Barbados, Finland, Bahamas, Marshall Islands and Portugal.The 16-page survey, titled Press Freedom Worldwide: 1994, gauges the extent to which newspapers, radio and television permit a free flow of ideas to and from the public in 186 countries.Freedom House said the least free press was in Iraq.Others in the bottom echelon were Cuba, Tajikistan, North Korea, Burma, Turkmenistan, Sudan and China.Ofthe 186 countries listed, two \u2014 Afghanistan and Somalia \u2014 were deemed impossible to monitor \u201cbecause central governance has broken down, repression is complete and data are unreliable.\u201d Sussman, a Freedom House scholar in international communications, said: \u201cAlthough the press in the freest countries is the watchdog over government, many governments, even in some democracies, are seeking to be watchdogs over the news media.\u201d The study said press freedom peaked worldwide with post- Communist liberalizations in 1989 but has declined since.The survey covered Jan.1, 1993 to April 15 of this year and was released on the United Nations\u2019 International Press Freedom Day.Overall, 68 countries, or about 37 per cent, were judged to fall in the broad category of having \u201cfree\u201d media, meaning journalists are \u201c- nearly free\u201d of political pressure and other interference.The press was called \u201cpartly free\u201d in 64 countries, or 34 per cent, while 54 countries, 29 per cent, were said to have a press that is \u201cnot free,\u201d indicating a high degree of government control, including frequent physical threats against journalists.Freedom House said 76 journalists were killed in 27 countries in the period covered by the study.Freedom House is a New York- based, non-partisan group that monitors political rights and civil liberties around the world.It was funded with a grant from Freedom Forum, a foundation based in Arlington, Va., that promotes free press and free speech.pe ° 6 .9 * In \u2018magic\u2019 rituals MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) \u2014 The reputed \u201cgodmother\u201d and four other members of a Mexican cult were sentenced to more than 60 years in prison for the ritual slayings of 15 people, including a Texas college student.Sara Maria Aldrete Villarreal, who authorities said was the cult\u2019s godmother, was sentenced to 60 years in prison.Elio Hernandez Rivera, David Serna Valdez, Serafin Hernandez Garcia and Sergio Martinez Salinas were each ordered to serve 67 years.The sentences, handed down Monday by Judge Francisco Salvador Perez, were denounced by Aldre- te\u2019s lawyer.\u201cIt\u2019s an exaggerated sentence, totally outside the judicial reality of Mexico,\u201d Horacio Moyar Quintanil- : la said Tuesday.The bodies of 15 people were unearthed at a ranch west of Matamoros near the Texas border and at a nearby farm._ Among them was the body of Mark Kilroy, a Uni- .versity of Texas medical student who disappeared after bar-hopping in Matamoros during spring break in March 1989.His mutilated body was found at the ranch a month later.Authorities said the victims were killed by a drug- smuggling cult that performed the ritual slayings .seeking magical protection from the law and rival | smugglers.: \u201cI'm glad to hear that after five years they have * finally been given a sentence,\u201d said Kilroy\u2019s mother, Helen.#assscscssanncanaan \u201ceo ian \u201cea [ET VICHY.PETAIN.THE JEWS.The teaching of contemporary history is distorted in schools and through the media.In June, 1940, at the age of fifteen, I lived through the defeat of France.Traumatized and humila- ted, I saw the French Army routed.I saw soldiers in ragged, tattered uniforms, unshaven, idle, wine-soaked, insulting their junior officers, an infantry regiment at rest near Lyon.At Puy, during the Debacle, a general wearing his oak-leafed I AN 7 \"ANNUAL ECLIPSE.N\\ _ ETHIE HIRE RRR SS NN \\ _ _ _ kepi, separated from his unit, alone, was shaving in a public park like a tramp! My father, a veteran of the 152nd Infantry Division in 1914-1918, decorated with the Croix-de-guerre, a tough man! I was stupified to discover him crying with shame and humiliation while listening to Marshall Pétain announcing the Armistice.I also saw German troops, well- unifortned; their - officers- sharply: attired: a German field officer, proudly standing in his commander\u2019s car ~ Ral\u201d Oy 000070040000 0 Armen re 200 TR is 7 Se 22 POTS 2 TT 2 1 saw their suffering and their trials\u2019 at the head of his marching column along the wharves of the Rhone at Lyons.Some regiments of course fought well.Senegalese riflemen, \u201cLes doques de l\u2019Empire,\u201d were massacred north of Lyons while attempting to delay the arrival of German troops.Thus the Armistice was perfectly jusitifed at that time.Marshall Pétain thus saved France at - that moment.The Jews.from 1940 to 1944: 1 saw their suffering and their trials 7k \\ SON SN SN MANN NL.NS NI S S S NIN \u2014 S M #2 2 0077 (LS ALAN E a _ SSE LIAL IN) 200 7) rc TR ES pers TES EST 0) \u2018 7 as .Js COTE je A A Today in History ; 1970 \u2014 Four students died after National Guar- Ÿ dsmen opened fire at a demonstration at Kent State » University in Ohio against U.S.operations in + Cambodia.- WASHINGTON (CP) \u2014 The U.S.administration is reviving the idea of sending military trainers to Haiti, to underscore its resolve to return ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.President Bill Clinton said Tuesday Haiti's military rulers should hear the message that \u201cit\u2019s time for them to go.\u201d A previous attempt to send in U.S.and Canadian military trainers ended in failure last October, when Clinton ordered the vessel carrying the military personnel to retreat.Armed Haitian demonstrators were protesting on the dock in the capital Port-au-Prince.On board the vessel were more than 200 trainers and construction workers.The officials said if the plan is revived, the means of sending the troops will be changed to avoid repeating last fall's debacle.\u201cWe are working on it,\u201d Admiral Jeremy Boorda, the new chief of U.S.naval operations, said.But he declined to offer any details, saying he had given his opinion to administration officials.\u2018It\u2019s time for them to go\u2019 Officials added Haitian army chief Raoul Cedras has not been approached about the new proposal.Cedras gave his consent to the previous attempt at deploying trainers six months ago.The U.S.officials emphasized that military trainers would go to Haiti only after progress had been made on restoring democracy.Officials said the U.S.administration also is working with the United Nations on ways to tighten sanctions along Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic.Oil supplies are going through in violation of the embargo against Haiti.The officials said the UN Security Council may eventually authorize monitors to keep an eye on Dominican military enforcement of the embargo.Clinton said the first step is to tighten economic sanctions on Haiti, bringing pressure on the forces that ousted the democratically elected Aristide.\u201cThe military leaders of Haiti have abused their authority,\u201d Clinton said, pausing briefly as he left in France.Yet, we never suspected the scale of that tragedy.Furthermore, we had other preoccupations besides caring for the Jews: our own survival and that of our families.As for myself, I tried to escape being detected by the enemy during my ten months in hiding, from November 1943 to September 1944, while still participating in the activities of my Resistance network, the name .and structure of which I learned, by\" the way, only after the war.The events of 1940 have been for- gutten: two million French prisoners, involving eight or nine million people.Equally forgottenis the dividing of France into five areas, the demarcation line, two departments joined to Brussels, Alsace and Lorraine annexed to Germany, one zone closed off, food shortages.Blaming Pétain who at the age of eighty-four took upon himself the plight of France is historically wrong and morally unfair.The Jews.are the Chosen People of God and furthermore they are the nationality of the Crucified and ofthe Virgin Mary! They have given mankind men of intellect, men of science, philosophers and spiritual leaders.However, few as they are, they would have all for themselves: the power of money.they overdoit! This is why the \u201cGentiles\u201d rightly protest.ROGER ALACOQUE North Hatley Volunteer Resistance fighter in Les Druides network, S.R.Alliance, 1942-1944, France.Clinton to lean on Haiti\u2019s the White House for a foreign-policy speech in Atlanta.It remains unclear whether signs of increased attention to the military option mark a turning point, or whether they are only intended to scare Haiti's generals into surrendering power.Clinton said Haiti's military leaders are killing innocent civilians who are not involved in political life.He said the United States and the rest of the world are outraged.\u201cWe have done our best to work through this and the things we have done have not worked, so we are now doing this sanctions regime as recommended by President Aristide and others.\u201cBut we're not ruling out anything.\u201d In a new crackdown against supporters of Aristide, Haitian soldiers raided a peasant village, shooting and beating residents, hacking down crops and setting homes afire, the Miami Heraldnewspaper reported Tuesday.The raid on Bassin Caiman occurred a week ago, when up to 200 troops marched into the northern leaders?Haiti village to crush rebellious peasants, the newspaper said.Residents of the area said people were shot and knifed to death, with the number of dead estimated at anywhere between two and 50.Information about the attack was sketchy and slow to become public because soldiers have blocked roads into the remote, mountainous area, the newspaper said.The Bassin Caiman attack came on the heels of a similar army rampage in Raboteau, a seaside slum near the city of Gonaives.An estimated 20 residents were shot dead as they tried to flee by taking to the sea in small fishing boats.Meanwhile, former U.S.president George Bush said it\u2019s time for \u201ca significant shift in U.S.policy towards Haiti\u201d \u2014 not military action to support Aristide, but abandonment of support for his return to Haiti.Bush, quoted Tuesday in the Houston Chronicle newspaper, said it would be \u201ca tremendous mistake\u201d for the Clinton administration to use military action to restore democracy in Haiti.~ nue Education The RECORD\u2014 Wednesday, May 4, 1994\u20145 Pecotd Parents must make immersion decisions soon By Bruce Cheadle The Canadian Press For 17-year-old Ephratte Beck, the classroom is a window on the world.Beck dreams of travel, of literature, of politics and \u2014 one day \u2014 of receiving a master\u2019s degree while studying in France.Her ticket, she says, is French immersion.\u201cEvery minute was worth it,\u201d says Beck, an exuberant Grade 12 immersion student at Western Canada high school in downtown Calgary.\u201cIt opened up so much for me.\u201d Across the country, in Canada\u2019s only officially bilingual province, 13-year-old Peter Gregg of Fredericton will quit French immersion this spring.\u201cI just feel it\u2019s a disaster,\u201d says his mother, Penny Buber.\u201cThey're just going to be illiterate in two languages.\u201d This is the time of year when parents, students and school boards make decisions about French immersion next fall.To immerse or not to immerse?Should your child take the plunge?There is no pat answer.For every Ephratte Beck in this country, there is probably a Peter Gregg.Statistics Canada estimates that out of more than five million students in Canadian public schools, about 302,000 are enrolled in French immersion this year, with 2,063 schools offering the program.Dropout rates from French immersion classes are a slippery statistic, but everyone acknowledges attrition is high.LOTS OF INFO There\u2019s no shortage of information on the subject.Canada is the world leader in immersion programs and their evaluation.But immersion is more than statistics and studies.Language is an emotional, gut-feeling topic.\u201cOne of the things that has Immersion experiences, good and bad By The Canadian Press Some French immersion experiences, good and bad: Ephratte Beck CLASS: Grade 12 immersion in Calgary.AGE: 17.STARTED IMMERSION: Grade 7.PARENTS: Bilingual Hebrew-English upbringing.FUTURE: Wants to study politics or French literature at McGill University in Montreal; dreams of doing MA in France.QUOTE: \u201cIt shows people you have an open mind for another culture and another language.It says something about yourself that you can pick up another way of thinking and another way of looking at the world.\u201d Peter Gregg CLASS: Grade 8 immersion in Fredericton.AGE: 13.STARTED IMMERSION: Facts on immersion By The Canadian Press Facts and figures on French immersion in Canada: STUDENTS: There are about 302,000 immersion students in 2,063 schools this year.Six per cent of Canada\u2019s five million public school students are in immersion.BENEFITS: Immersion is considered the quickest, surest route to functional bilingualism.Holds promise of bilingual job opportunities, wider cultural perspective.CONCERNS: Certain learning problems may take longer to be detected than in the regular school system.There are fewer remedial and enrichment options.Parents may feel excluded from child\u2019s education.ENGLISH WRITING: Many studies show no long-term difference in English language skills of immersion versus English-only students.Grade 4.Is leaving program this spring.PARENTS: Unilingual.FUTURE: \u201cI'm going to try to salvage something.I'd like to think that when he\u2019s in Grade 12 he could apply for a job and not have to hire somebody to (write his application).\u201d \u2014 Parent Penny Buber.QUOTE: \u201cGo to 10 other parents whose kids are making 90s and youll get a whole different story.They might say Peter is just not working.It\u2019s true, but he\u2019s not stupid, either.\u201d \u2014 Penny Buber.Michelle Shepherd CLASS: Grade 2 immersion in Brampton, Ont, AGE: 8.STARTED IMMERSION: Kindergarten.PARENTS: Unilingual, one Quebec-raised anglophone.FUTURE: \u201cIt opens up more opportunities, whether it\u2019s career or just life.\u201d \u2014 Parent Kim Shepherd.QUOTE: \u201cTheyre so young and their minds are so open.Students enjoy co-op programs, businesses say it\u2019s good for them By Valerie Lawtgn The Canadian Press Todd Chernecki, 16, has two classrooms \u2014 one of which is filled with cadavers and body parts.When he\u2019s not attending Grade 11 classes in Hamilton, Ont., Chernecki is in the cut-up room of Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals taking samples from appendixes, spleens and gall bladders.\u201cEverything about it is amazing,\u201d says Chernecki, who plans to be a doctor and already has a stint as a morgue assistant on his resume.\u201cI've touched about everything j there is.\u201d Chernecki is in a co-op program, getting the type of hands- on experience that educators say is becoming more important in a tough economy.Ten years ago, just 12,000 Canadian students were in co-op programs.Now there are about 160,000.Theyre not paid, but they earn high school credits and acquire skills that may help them land a job.Chernecki\u2019s experience has made him more certain of his career choice.\u201cI've always wanted to be a doctor.I was never sure if I could handle it, though.I didn\u2019t know Bishop\u2019s student wins bursary Bishop\u2019s student Jean Briand of Brigham, Quebec received the CMA (Certified Management Accountant) Bursary last week.The $1,000 bursary is awarded for achievement in academic courses, especially those in management accounting.Richard Désy (far What\u2019s on LENNOXVILLE \u2014 The Len- noxville Elementary School \u201cVariety Club\u201d will be performing Thursday, May 5, at 7 in the school gym.Students have worked hard to put this show together, and it promises to be entertaining and fun.It\u2019s also free.RICHMOND \u2014 St.Francis Elementary will be putting on local writer Nick Fonda\u2019s play La maladie imaginaire next Thur- dsay and Friday nights, May 12 and 13.Fonda is also producer for the left), director of education for the Corporation Professionelle des Comptables en Management Accrédités du Québec and Steven Barolow, Dean of Business Administration at Bishop\u2019s, made the presentation, in Townships\u2019 schools production.More information on the play coming soon in the Record.LENNOXVILLE \u2014 On Wednesday, May 11, Lennoxville Elementary will be hosting a math competition for elementary schools from the school board.A number of stations will be set up around the school with a math problem at each.Parents will to help at a station are asked to call principal Richard Orzechowski at the school.* for sure if I could open up a dead body or see a dead body or look at a brain.\u201d Only a few weeks into his coop program, Chernecki talks with cool professionalism about helping a pathologist with an autopsy.HOLD RIBS \u201cA lot of times he needs someone to hold a rib cage back, or something.\u201d Students in co-op programs work in such places as hospitals, dentist offices, research firms, computer companies and government departments.Hilary Clark, 17, impressed her friends when stories she\u2019d written during an afternoon job at the Calgary Herald started showing up in the newspaper.\u201cThey thought I'd just be answering the phone,\u201d she says.Hilda Pollard, president of the Co-operative Career and Work Education Association of Canada, says kids are learning things on the job they couldn't possibly glean from books.\u201cMore and more we realize that schools can only do so much,\u201d says Pollard.The increasing importance of technology is partly fuelling the co-op boom, says Pollard.Some job placements offer experience with the latest hi-tech equipment.Human Resources Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who is radically transforming Canada\u2019s social safety net, says he wants to see more students take on-the-job training.In fact, Axworthy wants high school graduates to give up their right to welfare and unemployment insurance in return for apprenticeship programs, training, upgrading or work terms.RICHMOND \u2014 About 100 students from Richmond Regional High School are exhibiting their art this week.The exhibition is at the school and is being organized by teacher Jennifer Edwards.RICHMOND \u2014 The Richmond Regional High drama club is busy rehearsing Rehearsal for Murder, a play they'll be putting on this Friday, May 6, in the school gym.For more information, call the school at 826-3702.A Michelle\u2019s taking 90 per cent French right now and she can converse well.\u201d \u2014 Kim Shepherd.Jamie Murphy CLASS: Grade 2 alternative school in Ottawa.AGE: 7.STARTED IMMERSION: Junior kindergartern.Left program early in Grade 2.PARENTS: Anglophone with adult French language training.QUOTE: \u201c(Immersion) made him fundamentally an unhappy kid.He was hating going to school and within a week of switching he was loving going to school.\u201d \u2014 Parent Martha Scott.frankly bothered me over the years is that people have tended to defend French immersion as though it were a religion,\u201d says Gerry Neufeld, a professor of linguistics at the University of Ottawa.Neufeld set out to prove a pet theory: that university-age students from early French immersion programs had subtle problems with English skills.\u201cWell, if they're there, our battery of tests \u2014 the most rigorous ever given by far, to my knowledge \u2014 showed nothing of the sort,\u201d he says.Neufeld\u2019s study suggested immersion students had a more colorful, poetic grasp of English with no offsetting deficiency.Since completing the study, he has enrolled both his children in early French immersion.FIRST YEAR Immersion can begin as early as kindergarten or as late as Grade 7.Children are totally immersed in the first year or two, with increasing English- language instruction as they progress through the grades.Early is considered better than late by those who evaluate and run the programs.Children pick up French more quickly and are less self-conscious about speaking it when they start young.But there\u2019s no denying immer- Sawyerville practices play continues liberated woman.three to six has a job to do.at 7.Students at Sawyerville Elementary practice their lines for the anual Spring Concert to be held May 12 at 7:30.The production this year will be the musical-comedy It Takes a Wizard.The story is a satire on traditional fairy tales, as the King of More seeks out Sleeping Beauty for a bride, only to find she\u2019s really a fast-talking Many parent volunteers have helped out, and every student in grades Sawyerville students will also be performing some of their songs at a benefit to raise money for the grade five and six class\u2019 trip to Quebec City.The benefit will be at the Salle des loisirs in Cookshire on Friday, May 6, | BIÉHOPS sion can be a traumatic entry into the school system.Children: may react in a highly unsettling: fashion, with bed-wetting, sleep: and behavior problems, withdrawal or anger.And children with existing problems encounter more troubles in immersion.Michael Procyshyn is a staff psychologist working with learning disabled students for the Catholic school board in Peterbo- rough, Ont.\u201cThey call me the Darth Vader here of French immersion,\u2019 * says Procyshyn.He agrees children with lan: guage or hearing trouble are usually steered clear of immersion.But it takes longer to detect, certain learning problems in immersion than in the regular school system, Procyshyn says \u2014 contrary to what immersion advocates claim.\u201cThe party line is: we have early identification (of learning problems in French immersion} and we pick those kids up.But i doesn\u2019t happen.\u201cBy the time the kid gets tq Grade 3, they all-of-a-sudden discover he can\u2019t read, he doesn\u2019t know his sounds, he\u2019s lost.\u201d Gallery ° exhibition: wesescves eut © a UNIVERSITY We , |.#34 © BISHOP\u2019S UNIVERSITY ARTISTS\u2019 CENTRE EXHIBITION: Peter Calvert, Stéphane Lemire, Jean-Paul: Néron, Normand Toupin, Michel Veltkamp.Five artists : from Estrie who have received research grants in the Support Program for Professional Artists in Visual Arts and : Crafts from the Quebec Minis- * try of Culture and Communica- : tions for 1993-94, The exhibition will continue until May 20, 1994.Hours: Tuewday to Sunday 1 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday evening, 7 to 9 p.m.Free admission.The gallery is adjacent to the Foyer of Centennial Theatre.: bers as aan p 1 - What is a rolling boil?1950s.Olympics.preserving jar inside the jar.c.call 911, 3 - Once preserved food is cool, a.it is socially acceptable.¢.store in a cool, dark area.Ne a.A boil that cannot be stirred down.b.A dance that was popular in the late 2 - To remove any trapped bubbles from a a.perform the Heimlich manoeuvre.b.use a dinner knife or spatula to slide down J1IK 1A1 4 - Marmalade can take up to a a.millenium b.five full weeks c.week c.The newest sport recognized at the 5-A a.bird house b.solid cotton bag c.garbage bag 6 - \"Million Dollar Pickles\" are pickles a.that are really expensive.b.that have loonies in each jar.c.with thinly sliced cucumber with peel, small onions, green peppers and pimento.b.it will wear a leather coat and sunglasses.Deadline for entries is May 6 Mother's Day Cooking Quiz Contest The Record, in cooperation with Company's Coming Cookbooks, is holding a Mother's Day contest to give away 10 of Jean Paré's latest cookbook \"Preserves\".In order to win, answer the following skill- testing questions and send your reply to: The Record, 2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, Quebec, should be used for a spice bag if the mixture contains seeds.- to set.PE EE [A os.sr r00esvvevres rs oven yy ce \"+10. 6\u2014The RECORD\u2014 Wednesday, May 4, 1994 Living Pecord | Townshippers want visible support for hospital Keeping in Touch By Townshippers Association Keeping in Touch is a weekly column presented by Township- pers\u2019 Association.The Townshippers\u2019 Association presented a brief supporting the Sherbrooke Hospital during public hearings held last week in Sherbrooke by the Estrie Regional Health and Social Services Board (Regie regionale).The brief was presented by Marisa Tessier, Chair of Health and Social Services, who was accompanied by President Paulette Losier._ The Board is proposing a 2.4% decrease in the hospital's financial support this year along with reductions at other hospitals in Sherbrooke.\u2018 Contest winners gather \u201cFounded 106 years ago by English-speaking Township- pers, the Sherbrooke Hospital is at the heart of our community\u2019s health care system.For a large proportion of the English- speaking population, the Sherbrooke Hospital is our one and only alternative.Through its general services, this institution responds to the needs of people from all MRCs of the region.Without this institution, our community would have difficulty surviving,\u201d the brief, presented by Marisa Tessier, Chair of Health and Social Services, said.Townshippers\u2019 urged the Regie regionale to carefully consider the impact the cutback abd 4 } & oy = + 2 would have on an institution as small as the Sherbrooke Hospital and on its ability to provide services in English.The Association is also concerned about the possible loss to the English- speaking community of jobs if services are reduced.\u201cThe Sherbrooke Hospital is unique in terms of its size and its linguistic responsibility.These two factors must be carefully considered, particularly because the hospital is already operating within a tightly confined budget.A long-term look must be taken to ensure that the hospital\u2019s services are not so greatly reduced as to no longer serve as the heart of the English-speaking community\u2019s health services.\u201c All those wanting to show their support for the Sherbrooke Hospital are advised by Towns- hippers\u2019 to write or call the Hospital at (819) 569-3661, the Regie Regionale (regional health council) at (819) 566-7861, their Member of the National Assembly and/or write letters to the editor of their newspaper.Addresses and telephone numbers are available at the Association\u2019s Ascot office \u2014 call 566-5717.Townshippers\u2019 series of kitchen meetings on the health and social service system in the Eastern Townships continues next week in Rock Island at the White House, followed by one on May 24 in Mansonville at Citizen\u2019s Advocacy offices.For more information, call Magi at (819) 566-5717.YOUTH NEWS The fourth issue of Township- pers\u2019 Youth Newsletter is now available.With summer almost upon us, many of you are probably thinking about finding a summer job.With this in mind, the fourth issue is devoted to helpful tips for your summer job search.There are several articles on this topic, including how to make an effective job search, resume writing, interview hints and a listing of the employment centres for students in the Caritas campaign S REE Winners of the Rivage de la Val Saint-Frangois\u2019 poster poster contest ere announced yesterday.First prize winner Hélène Thibault of Windsor (middle) has had her oster laminated, and it can be seen on tour at the Caisses populaires in indsor, Richmond, Valcourt, and Bromptonville.Marthe Boisjoly of Racine (second from lL.) claimed the second prize of $50, and Serena Lester of Richmond Regional High School (second from r.) won the third-place prize of $50.pre - ! 2.S pt = seven ctencuesuoe 04,550 > + te falls short of goal SHERBROOKE \u2014 Caritas\u2019 32nd annual Campagne de pain partagé raised $172,033 this year.That falls just short of the campaign\u2019s goal of $180,000, but given current economic conditions in the Townships, and the fact many people weren't home Good Friday, that\u2019s a good total, campaign president Guy Rancourt said.The campaign had 53,000 loaves of bread available for sale on April 1.Event coordinator Richard Chamberland said the average donation worked out to about $3.25.\u201cThat means we still have some work to do to make people aware of the importance of making donations to the cause,\u201d Chamberland said.The total raised in the annual campaign has remainded fairly constant over the last three years.Caritas relies on the campaign for a substantial part of their funding each year.The organization has created and funds many charities in the Townships.+ + se * sanrrssamsnses a.ear.\u201d aati Bl EEOC CEE RE oa aa au \"aT \"0 sa\" 8 2 0h ££ 22283 0853800000 8HIIIIVISLIELY oa Ya! Lake Street, Newport, Vermont 802-334-2340 Make your Mom's day a special one by treating her to the East Side Restaurant.Delicious entrées, elegant dining on the water, and Victoria's complimentary dried flower corsage make the East Side the place to be on Mother's Day.Now accepting reservations for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner ®Mother's Day Breakfast Brunch® Served from 7 to 11:30 a.m.Deep Dish Quiche e Fritatas « Raspberry N Cream French Toasts * McKenzie Ham N Eggs Maple Sausage N Eggs e Fresh Fruits & Breakfast Pastries Posters entered in the contest were based on the theme of \u2018Mental ealth starts with you\u2019\u2019.Honorary mentions were given to Dereck Geor- e, Ysabel Jetté, Diane Tear and Elaine Mason.Thirty-four people entered the contest, and coordinator Helen Johns- .ton (right) was so pleased with the response she plans to do it again next PUS C CU VS ES VU UV VUS TOO SET, Eat Early & Save Big AU Breakfasts ordered from7 a.m.- 8 a.m.receive 15% off su.FLunch & Dinner Menu® 12:00 - 10:30 p.m.* Soup du Jour * Lobster Bisque * Fresh Fruit Cup * Shrimp Cocktail * Steamers * Seafood Marinara * Spaghetti w/Steamers & Scallops * Shrimp Alfredo * Fettucine Alfredo * Fried Scallops * Seafood Platter * Stuffed Chicken N Broccoli * Baked Ham * Chicken N Biscuits * Broiled Salmon Filet * Grilled Swordfish * Halibut Oscar * King Crab Legs * Stuffed Shrimp * Grilled Chicken N Shrimps * Crab Chicken * Scallops Mornay * Mom's Cut Prime Rib * New York Sirloin * Turf N Scallops * Marinated Sirloin * Chicken Primavera SATEAW SEE CECE IRE CCL ELIE IVECE IC SAO EE Eat Late & Save Big ; All Dinners served after 9:00 p.m.receive Ë 15% off 5 : * Because the East Side values our Canadian Patronage we keep our ë \u2019 exchange rate at a very reasonable 25%.Ss Townships.The issue also includes poems and artwork by students, a list of upcoming events, information on Students Against Driving Drunk, and helpful phone numbers and youth clinics.We are interested in receiving your comments on what you like and don\u2019t like about the newsletter and your suggestions for future issues.The final issue of the year will be printed in June and the deadline for receiving material for this issue is May 16.Here is your chance to submit poems, stories, artwork or cartoons.The newsletter is available to students at all English public high schools in the Townships.If you have not received a copy but would like one, or if you have comments or material for the next issue, call Erin (819) 566-5717 or Steve (514) 263-4422.SPRING FLING Here\u2019s a reminder to call the Ascot or Cowansville office of Townshippers\u2019 for your tickets to \u201cSpring Fling\u201c, the Association\u2019s annual dinner dance being held Sat., May 21 at Stanstead College from 5 p.m.to 2 a.m.They are also available from Andrew Ret- chless, Chair of Spring Fling, at Coming up in MAGOG \u2014 As it has every other year, Magog is organizing a large garbage item pickup for \" old furniture, branches, tires and other large objects that can\u2019t be picked up; on normal garbage days.This year, the pick-ups will be during the week of May 9 to 13.Anyone with anything they want removed is asked to put it out with their regular garbage that week.Branches must be no longer than 4 feet and must be bundled.Only two old tires will be taken, and citizens are reminded demolition, construction, or renovation materials cannot be accepted.{ The town of Magog hopes Thinking hubby is fooling around Dear Ann Landers: I am a 60- year-old woman.I believe my husband is having an affair with my sister, who lives nearby.Her husband's work makes it necessary for him to travel a lot, and I have a strong hunch that my husband goes to her apartment when he says he has to work late.I have asked myself that famous Ann Landers question, \"Would I be better off with or without him?\" and have come to the conclusion that I would be a fool to kick him out.Also, I have no proof that an affair is actually going on.Nevertheless, this whole thing is very disturbing, and I need to know what to do about it.No name, initials or city, please.- TOO OLD FOR THIS MONKEY BUSINESS DEAR T.O.FOR M.B.: Do nothing for the time being.Keep your eyes and ears open.Make no accusations.If, in time, you have real evidence of hanky-panky, consult a counselor regarding the Ann Landers best course of action.Dear Ann Landers: My husband and I have been helping his parents out financially for quite some time.We make their monthly car payments and give them extra money for incidentals.Ann, I wouldn't mind if I thought our help was needed or appreciated.We have a new baby and a lot of expenses we never had before.My in-laws have never once said \"thank you\" for anything.Meanwhile, they spend $20 every week on lottery tickets.My husband has two brothers who don't do one blessed thing for their parents.His folks apparently feel it's easier for us because we make a little more money than the others.Z 4Cenue Informan que internal CD-ROM unit (double speed) Se 7 Phone 316.839 2h 22 49 nd induded BY Informatic ue King Promenades Ke (inter mall) 2235, King Ouest st.Fax.: 819-822-4225 i H v ne Ad | eh IT RE je ' KA b] oo {; ) ,Ç \\ y 4 Re 4 - 0) 5 Er ; Qu 4 il - WOODKNOT BOOKSHOP A Complete Bookstore \u2014 Books \u2014 Magazines \u2014 Topographic Maps (Canadian and U.S.) 68 Main Street, Newport, Vi.(802) 334-6720 mn My husband insists that his parents are too proud to say \"thank you.\" I say if they can manage to forget their pride long enough to accept $5,000 a year from us, they should be able to express some gratitude.Am I out of line?I need an outside opinion.What do you say?- FORT LAUDERDALE DEAR LAUDERDALE: Your husband needs tc grow up and stop being a schnook.His first obligation is to you and the baby.Since his parents do not need the financial help, he should stop throwing it at them.Dear Ann Landers: This is for \"Offended in Wisconsin,\" who, when she went into an antique shop to browse, was asked to leave her purse at the counter.You thought it was an insult, the implication being that she might be a shoplifter.Social note GHRREERED 95th birthday 876-7305.NEW DIRECTOR The Quebec office of the Commissioner of Official Languages has a new Commissioner\u2019s Representative \u2014 Eva Ludvig.She replaces Jean-Guy Arse- nault.The office can be reached at 1-800-363-0628 for information on the Official Languages Law or to lodge complaints about lack of English service in federal government offices in Quebec.TESTING SESSIONS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POSITIONS \u2014 If you are interested in a job in the federal government in a clerical, secretarial or data processing field, you may wish to get your name in the National Applicant Inventory.In order to be considered for this inventory, you must write the following tests: Office Skills Tests and the Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Test.Testing sessions are being planned for the Townships in May.If you are interested in writing the tests call Erin Mallory at Townshippers\u2019 Ascot office (819) 566-5717 or Edwina Adair or Steve Kelly at the Cowansvil- le office (514) 263-4422.More details will follow in next week's Keeping In Touch column.the Townships\u2019 you'll use this service and: thanks all its citizens in advance.for their cooperation.SHERBROOKE \u2014 The\u2019 Women\u2019s Health Centre is offering the following series of courses before summer vacations: hits.Baby massage: Five meetings between May 24 and June 21.Breast self-examination: One meeting \u2014 May 26 and June 13.Menopause: Two meetings, May 17 and 24 from 7 to 10.Eating disorders: Five meetings, May 18 to June 22 from 7 to 10.Advance registration required.Phone 564-7885 to register.Space is limited.| 1 + with sister Here are two signs that I have seen | in antique shops around the ; country.I doubt that the intent was: to suggest theft but rather the possibility of accidental breakage.: In Tempe, Ariz.: \"Please restrain: your handbag, as well as your: children.Being bumped in here: doesn\u2019t mean skinned knees or hurt\u2019 feelings.It means death to a priceless object.\" In Portland, Ore.: \"Please allow us to have temporary custody of your parcels and handbags.While most breakage is accidental, it is always permanent.\" - A Realist in San Bemardino Dear Realist: Of course, you are right.The face with the egg on it is mine, Gem of the Day: There's no point in burying a hatchet if you are going to put a marker on the site.greetings Congratulations to James R.Grainger who is celebrating his 95th birthday on May 4.Love and best wishes from his family.Newport, Vermont CORRECTION Please note that in the advertisement of May 3, 1994 in The Record, the following should have read: All dinners served after 9 p.m.receive 15% off (and not 50% off).We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.Technical Vocational Education GENERAL WELDING SALES & MARKETING MACHINING TECHNICS SECRETARIAL STUDIES Classes begin September 1, 1994 | Register Now * That W° vks (GT DE TECRNOLOGIE (2 EASTERN ~ TOWNSHIPS = TECHNICAL INSTISŸ PO.BOX 502 TIM 129 FOR INFORMATION 563-JOBS (563-5627) Farm and Business The RECORD-Wednesday, May 4, 1994\u20147 fecord A Wheat war, transportation to top the agenda Goodale looking to iron out grain trade troubles By Nelle Oosterom WINNIPEG (CP) \u2014 Federal Agriculture Minister Ralph Goo- dale has called a meeting of major players in the grain trade to discuss some of the industry's troubles.Only six months into his job, the minister has a long list of problems he wants to discuss at the May 16 meeting in Winnipeg.\u201cEither it could be a one-hour meeting or it could last a hundred days,\u201d Robert Roehle, spokesman for the Canadian Wheat Board, said Tuesday.\u201cThere are a lot of issues there.\u201d At the top of that list \u2014 if it doesn\u2019t get resolved before the meeting \u2014 is how to get grain moving again.The industry is currently in the grip of a rail car shortage so acute that it has put shipments far behind schedule and caused some countries, notably Japan, to shop elsewhere.A House of Commons subcommittee was holding emergency hearings on the shortage this week.Ottawa is being asked to bend the rules to get around the system\u2019s inefficiencies.But the transportation backlog isn\u2019t the only thing weighing down the system.An escalating wheat war with the United States is another concern.The U.S.has threatened to put a cap on Canadian wheat imports by July 1.Farmers south of the border have been complaining about cheap Canadian wheat flooding their domestic market.Goodale is looking for immediate answers to these problems, Profits up while problems loom Petro-Can caught in a Gale By Jim Morris CALGARY (CP) \u2014 Petro- Canada announced a first- quarter profit of $73 million at its annual meeting Tuesday, but the good news was marred by a protest from a man representing a chain of New Brunswick convenience stores.Robert Gale, vice-president of operations for Daly Convenience Stores, accused Petro-Canada of breaking a 20-year contract to supply gas to some of the chain's 37 stores.\u201cWe will be severing our ties with Petro-Canada resulting in a loss of approximately 20 per cent of their New Brunswick share,\u201d Gale announced during the meeting\u2019s question period.He also demanded the resignation of Jim Stanford, Petro- Canada\u2019s president and chief executive officer, and Jim Pante- lidis, president of Petro-Canada Products.Gale and Stanford exchanged words before Gale left the meeting.Stanford later said the dispute with the Daly stores has gone to court.\u201cWe are in a court situation with Mr.Daly and his company.That's about all I can say,\u201d he said, adding he has no intention of resigning.The Daly stores are seeking \u201c- tens of millions of dollars\u201d in damages from Petro-Canada, Gale said.\u201cOur problem is the undue hardships and abuse Petro- Canada has put us through the last three years since we launched our litigation,\u201d he said.\u201cThey've ran our sites out of gasoline on a number of occasions.They've spread inflammatory remarks about our company.\u201d Gale encouraged shareholders to review the documents he supplied outlining his company\u2019s complaint against Petro- Canada.The first quarter results, following a $162 million profit in 1993, show the company\u2019s cost- The Record and Canada Employment Centres across the Eastern Townships are publicizing job opportunities iz the region.Persons who qualify for the job should contact their nearest C.E.C.office or phone Telecentre at 564-5983.2858381 SECRETARY, Sherbrooke.$12.47 to $14.12 dep.one exp., on call, replacement.Diploma in secretary, must have knowledge to work on software, Word 5.1 MacIntosh.Secretarial work, work on computer with software Word 5.1 MacIntosh.2857300 WELDER-FITTER, Sherbrooke.$10/hr and more dep.on exp., perm., full-time, 40 hrsweek, Monday to Friday.Per- Job Offers son wmust have min.three yrs.exp.of as assembler-welder mandatory.Assemble and weld different manipulating products (hydraulic tables, etc.).2857718 STEEL CUTTER, Sherbrooke.$8hr plus night premium 0.40, perm., full-time, nights (11 p.m.to 7 a.m.).Must have at least one yr.exp.cutting soft steel two inches thick and more, night work.Work in foundry to cut steel with torch.2856253 COOK, Richmond.To be negotiated, perm., evenings.Works during evenings from Wednesday to Sunday, one yr.exp in Italian and Canadian food, starting May 1994.Prepare and cook complete meals.- rad At 200 3200 King Street West Sherbrooke (Quebec) Salle d\u2019Armes, À, B, C PRESENTATION THEME: \u201cDemystify mutual funds\u201d SUBJECTS: abroad WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: \u2014 How do mutual funds work suits you your investment goals WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CIBC Investors Edge PRESENTATION ON CIBC MUTUAL FUNDS FOR SPRING 1954: SCHEDULE DATETIMEPLACE: Thursday, May 5, 1994 at 7:30 p.m.Hotel Le Baron \u2014 Basic financial 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year.But Stanford warned the robust earnings might not continue through the year.\u201cWe would be adverse if people took the first quarter and multiplied by four and said that's what we are going to do for the year.\u201d Petro-Canada\u2019s profit was enhanced by the $155 million sale of TroCana Resources, its subsidiary of non-core properties, to Penn West Petroleum Ltd.The company also reduced 500 different oil- and natural-gas- producing properties to 150.As well, Petro-Canada still wants to sell 10 per cent of its 25 per cent share in the $6-billion Hibernia oil project, Stanford said.but he also sees the meeting as a way to unite parties often at odds with each other, said Howard Migie, a spokesman for Goodale.The meeting is to include about 15 representatives from the grain industry, including labor unions, railways, grain companies and government agencies.The groups often disagree on the fundamental direction of the industry.Some want more deregulation, while others want 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complained about the way subsidies encourage inefficiency.In some cases subsidization makes it more economical, when arguments from those who want to criticize us.\u201d Maximum cutting areas will be reduced to 150 hectares in northern boreal forests, 100 hectares in mixed forests and 50 hectares in southern deciduous forests.Those limits are down from the current 250 hectare maximum across Quebec.Wood-cutting methods will be altered to encourage natural regeneration, biological diversity and resistance of forests to insects and disease.\u201cIt puts the clear-cutting era behind us,\u201d said Natural Resour- shipping to the U.S., to first send grain to the terminal i in Thunder.Bay, Ont.\u2014 even if that means going thousands of kilometres out of the way.\u201cIt\u2019s so ridiculous that the Americans laughed at us when we described the situation to them,\u201d said Allana Koch, executive director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association in Regina.\u201cIt\u2019s sort of 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AA) o's Tot et The RECORD\u2014Wednesday, May 4, 1994 i Wednesday, May 4, 1994 en BD JE 5-4-94 5 eJ9 \u201c2 vit ot #QJ1097 * ®J74 WEST EAST #1053 +872 VAQI09 63 4-62 4853 SAKQ10 #98532 < SOUTH + ®AKQ6 ot VK8542 Te *AK4 + +6 È Vulnerable: North-South Dealer: South South West North East rv Pass 1NT Pass 2e Pass 34 Pass 410 Dbl.All pass Opening lead: # K $88 see Rte ete From Baghdad to Nashville By Phillip Alder «There are many bridge professionals in North America.Some are high- profile players, winning national titles and world championships.But most stay primarily in the background, competing with clients in regional tqurnaments.However, many of these ate top players who also compete in North American Championships.One of \u2018the best is Chuck Said.\u201cBorn in Baghdad, Iraq, Said moved tothe United States in 1957.He is noted for his unflappable nature; even when things go wrong, he remains cajm.All bridge players lose more events than they win, but Said has won far more than most, in the process amassing over 16,000 masterpoints.Said played today\u2019s deal brilliantly.North's raise to three spades is at best debatable.But if he hadn't raised, there wouldn't have been a story.West doubled because he knew his oppo- nénts were in a 4-3 fit and his heart hoiding looked ideal.\u201cWest started with two top clubs.je < How should South play to try to make the contract?There was one chance: if West had 10-third of spades and two or three diamonds.Said ruffed the second club with the spade ace.He played a diamond to the dummy\u2019s nine and ruffed the club jack with the spade king.Said cashed the spade queen and diamond ace before leading the spade six and finessing dummy\u2019s nine.It held! Now came the spade jack, on which Said discarded his diamond king.When both opponents followed, Said claimed 10 tricks: three spades, five diamonds and two club ruffs in hand.© 1994, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.BRIDGE PHILLIP ALDER Wednesday May 4, 1994 Your Birthday Wednesday, May 4, 1994 In the year ahead you might take on more responsibilities than you did in the past year.Some of these assignments will be mandatory, while other may be of your own choosing.The benefits could be gratifying in both cases.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Be mindful of your social graces today, because if you do something unbecoming, it might be remembered for a long time.Conversely, the same will be true of good impressions.Taurus, treat yourself to a birthday gift.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions for the year ahead by mailing $2 and a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 4465, New York, N.Y.10163.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Even though you might be tempted to do so today, it's best not to take credit for things you didn't do.When this ploy is discovered, and it MS is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in Canada.Mulfiple Sclerosis SOCIETY OF CANADA 1-800-268-7582 will be, it could prove embarrassing.CANCER (June 21-July 22) You should do rather well getting what you go after today, yet you might not be overly pleased with the fruits of your victory.Keep expectations within reasonable limits.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) If you have any problems in your love life today, iron things out with your partner instead of bringing in a third party who could just muddy the water VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Today if you negotiate any important agreements, be sure everything is put in writing and not merely agreed upon verbally.This 1s for the protection of all concerned.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Persons whose help you might need where your work or career 1s concerned may take positions contrary to yours today Be prepared for the unexpected.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) What 1s merely a harmless flirtation today where you are concerned might be taken seriously by the person to whom you direct your attention.Be extremely careful.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Be mindful of those in your charge today without being unduly possessive.The tighter you attempt to hold them, the harder they will try to squirm out of your grip.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) The results are likely to be desirable today, provided you are working on labors of love.If you aren't, you might be too proud to sign your signature to your poorly preformed work.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) If you hope to receive today you must first set the example as a giver Others aren't likely to treat you generously if they feel you are being tight fisted with them.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Probabilities for material gains are reasonably good today, but don\u2019t do anything at the expense of others.Cut your profit down a little if it will keep your reputation intact.ARIES (March 21-April 19) You should be pretty good at grasping the big picture today, but you might fall short where details are concerned.Be equally attentive in both areas.©1994 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.* alll Your expanded daily horoscope 1-900-820-1444 Access Code 100 95 cents per minute.Touch-tone phones only.ASTRO-GRAPH BERNICE BEDE OSOL THE DEALS 1993 Lumina Stock # 93367 Light blue 4 door sedan Only 700 km Reg.price $19,297 Special: Stock # 93363 4 door Color: Mauve *15,500 1993 Delta LS © BEGIN?GM Executive Demo Reg.price $26,514 Special: Used cars 614 Craig St.Richmond 826-3501 FT Tat ee PERS Po Se *20,500 Chevrolet UCW meetings held around the Townships BIRCHTON \u2014 The UCW met on April 12 at 7:30 p.m.at the home of Basil and Muriel Prescott with eight members and one visitor present.A young neighbor, Troy Lavigne came at the opening of the meeting to tell us about the Youth Forum he had attended on the last weekend in March.Troy answered in detail the many questions asked.Perhaps his remark, \u201cWe were bored and not very lively before we went but when we got there things changed.We were full of life and participating eagerly in all the Christian activities, discussions and games.Greeting friends from previous Forums and meeting new ones was an enjoyable part of it also.\u201d Troy is looking forward to a week with them at Quebec Lodge when school finishes.Hazel Rogers thanked Troy for his interesting information, then he left to do his homework.The president, Heather Turchyn, asked us to repeat the UCW Purpose before the devotions led by Eleanor Taylor.We sang the hymn \u201cIn the bulb there is a flower, in the seed an apple tree\u201d, which we hope will be included in Voices United, the new hymn book.Eleanor used a prayer and a reading entitled \u201cNew Everyday\u201d from the Decision magazine.Heather read a poem from the same magazine called \u201cJesus lives and so shall I\".Plans were made for entertaining other church groups in our area at the hall on June 14.Heather will look after getting a speaker, Eleanor Taylor and Marion Sparkes will send out the invitations.Hazel Rogers brought the winter edition of the Quebec-Sherbrooke Presbytery and read articles from it which would be of interest to our group.A letter of thanks was read from the former Lois Latewood to all who helped at the time of the death of her father, George Latewood.A letter was read from Happenings and a donation was made to help in the production.The president reminded us of Summer Event to be held this year at Bishop\u2019s University on August 5, 6 and 7.Information packets were handed out.Hazel Rogers and Serena Wintle took part in a skit to explain the theme \u201cFlowers shall bloom in the AT Stock # 93366 White All equipped desert\u201d.Reports were given by the following: For Stewardship, Hazel Rogers told about Newfoundland students taken to an Elder Citizens\u2019 Home getting a better understanding of them and some began helping out.For Welfare, Rena Halsall reported having lots of clothing for the Garage Sale and for Community Friendship and Visiting.She had sent some cards.Mildred Judge reported having four boxes of articles for sale.Some things brought in were priced.For Church in Society, Muriel Prescott reported that Canadian Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church bad formed an organization called Development and Peace which has raised millions of dollars for community programs in Asia, Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and South America.The Garage Sale, which will be held in the hall on May 14 from 8:30 am.until 1 p.m., was discussed and plans were made.There will also be a sale of home baking.Doughnuts and coffee will be sold.The May 13th meeting will be held in the hall at 7 p.m.The president closed the meeting by reading a poem on spring from the book \u201cThe Word Is\u201d and refreshments were served.eee MELBOURNE RIDGE \u2014 The April meeting was held at the home of Shirley Jchnston and was opened by Marg Smith, president, with all repeating the UCW Purpose.She thanked Shirley for her hospitality.The devotional period was taken by Joan Morrison.She read an interesting little book titled \u2018Pain is inevilable, Misery is optional, so stick a geranium in your hair and be happy?We sang, \u2018What a Friend we have in Jesus.\u2019 Lee Hogle read from the Observer about special activities such as hayrides and Christmas camps at a church trying to make Sunday School more attractive to children.She also read an article titled \u2018Political Fragmentation in Canada\u2019.The minutes wre read and approved.Correspondence was a letter from the Federal Liberal Party asking for a donation, thanks from the Coote family for an In Memo- riam and a Sherbroke Hospital financial report.Lee Hogle read information on bringing children from Byelorussia, where radiation contamination is bad, to Canada for a few weeks to clear the radiation from their body and a chance to become healthier.She has applied for two to come to their home.À donation was given to her to help in their transportation.The name is Canadian Relief fund for ChernobylVictims in Byelorussia.Joan Morrison gave a favorable treasurer\u2019 s report.There were 16 cards sent, 10 calls and one hospital call made.Cards were signed for Leonard Driver, Cecil Johnston, Ethel Adamson, Annie Stevens and Chris Blake.Registration forms for Summer Event were given out.Plans were made for our Spring tea on May 14 from 2 to 5 p.m.at the Meoburne Ridge Church Hall.The next meeting will be at the hall at 9:30 am.when we will clean and prepare for the tea.Fach will bring a lunch for the noon hour.Marg closed with the benediction after which there was a sale of a few articles, followed by lunch served by the hostess.Canterbury Muriel Mayhew 657-4479 Stanley Lasenba, Smiths Falls, Ont., was an afternoon visitor of Doug and Muriel Mayhew.Easter weekend guests of Luvia and Sylvia Aulis were Wayne Aulis and his financée Lisa Coe, Mark and Pam Aulis and four boys, also Joanne Aulis and Stuart Picken, Brampton, Ont.Many from here visited the Funeral Home in Bury and attended the funeral for the late Lindsay Groom.Lindsay was born and raised in Canterbury, son of the late James and Annie Groom.He and Helen lived on the old Groom place until with ailing health, they had to sell and live in Bury.Sympathy goes to his wife Helen and children Wendell, Claudia and Larry.DYSON & ARMSTRONG The Greatest Deals On Wheels GM Demo Sale 1993 Ciera SL Reg.price 524, 325 Special: $ 1 6 9 300 1994 Camaro Stock # 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