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[" \u2018Lennoxville in Lights Festival\u2019 winners named Page 3 RECORD LS CON THE VOICE OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS SINCE 1897 EKEND EDITION A Runner\u2019s Mind: Kathrine Switzer 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013 Coaticook freezes property tax, raises service fees Record Staff COATICOOK t a special meeting, on Tuesday, A+ City Council of the Town of aticook adopted its 2014 budget which features no increase in property taxes, based on anticipated revenues and expenditures totaling $20.4 million, a decrease $383,042, or 1.84 per cent.On the down side, service charges are going up.The average assessed value of a single family residence increased from $167,629 to $168,678, or 0.63 per cent.So, although the mill rate for 2014 remains at $0.80.8 cents per $100 valuation, homeowners can expect to see a slightly higher property tax assessment.Water, water treatment, and sewerage, fees will increase by 5 per cent and waste management, by 12 per cent, resulting, the city says, from increased costs.Overall, for a typical single family residence, the overall tax and services bill should jump by 2.3 per cent or $40.48.Tax on non-residential buildings and industrial non-residential buildings is also frozen for 2014 at $1,408 and $1,478 per $100 valuation respectively.The town is keen to maintain a high level of capital investment from the revenues and will set aside $1,943,560 in 2014 for this purpose.This investment, one of the highest, if not the highest in the history of the town will improve and maintain infrastructure without increasing the debt.\u201cI am very happy to have met the promise I made to citizens not to raise property taxes.Along with council and staff, we had to do some gymnastics to achieve that goal,\u201d said Mayor Bertrand Weedon CLSC to merge with CHSLD Gordon Lambie Special to The Record the committee of citizens for the urvival of the CLSC and CHSLD in Weedon had to fight back tears Thursday morning as she spoke of the decision by the administrative council of the Health and Social Services Centres (CSSS) of the Haut Saint Francois to combine the town\u2019s two services in one building.The vote, which passed with 12 for, five opposed, also sets in motion a process by which beds currently open in the Weedon CHSLD would be transferred to that of East Angus.| Gravel, spokesperson for \u201cI am deeply disappointed,\u201d Gravel said, \u201ceverything we said fell on deaf ears.\u201d The committee spokesperson expressed the result of the vote made it seem to her as if her four months of following the issue were all for nothing.She pointed to a large number of representatives on the administrative council being residents of the East Angus region, and suggested that the imbalance meant that the issue was decided before the question was even asked.\u201cWe had very few of them on our side,\u201d Gravel explained, adding that the final vote was a, \u201chuge loss,\u201d for the community.Originally brought to the table on the 18th of September, the CSSS\u2019s \u201cunder the same roof\u201d plan faced heavy criticism that resulted in the final vote being delayed three times.According to Gravel, 11 different local municipalities, including Weedon, passed resolutions supporting the committee\u2019s efforts to keep the CLSC and CHSLD where they are.\u201cFor us, for the whole population of Weedon, this is not a plus.\u201d Mario Morand, the Director General of the CSSS of the Haut St.François, expressed a very opposite view.\u201cWe work for the whole MRC, we don\u2019t just work for Weedon,\u201d Morand CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 3 Lampe Foundation winners Since 1973, CFUW Sherbrooke & District members have put aside funds for educational awards.The name was changed to Lampe Foundation in 2010.The Lampe Foundation is affiliated with CFUW Sherbrooke & District, one of over 100 clubs spread across Canada.Through personal donations, theatre events, and regular appeals, the Foundation raises funds for qualified students with financial needs.Recently, presentations were made to five of this year\u2019s scholarship winners: L-R: Jill Guthrie, Marie Soleil Lahaie, Jisca Marcellin, Vicky Paré, and \u20ac eve nd LE \u201ce 4 hE KX .CONT'D ON PAGE 5 Emily Prangley Desormeaux.- Source: Bev Taber Smith.DE pre - Ta Tae MA Er OFFER Record subscribers: Receive a full year\u2019s subscription to the online edition for only $5 with every new 12 month print subscription or renewal.: ar place.RECORD: ser Subscribers can view each new issue of The Record, as well as Brome County News, The Townships Outlet and our many special sections with just the click of the mouse.To subscribe, go to www.sherbrookerecord.com, click on e-dition and follow the simple instructions.For information or assistance call 819-569-9528 billing@sherbrookerecord.com Page 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com | The Record ~~ One more weekend for Great | Sherbrooke : : Market | SHERBROOKE pers have one more weekend ; 0 take advantage of Sher- at the Marché de la Ga Lac des Nations.I= minute Christmas shop- , re by the from 10 until 5.For this final weekend, the M ket is offering a program where visitors can meet the artists and craftspeople, warm up with tasty delights, shop for unique decorations or last minute gifts, and take in the festive décor of the Market setting, with the illuminated Ferris wheel and its spectacular view of the city lights.Skating.a last minute request to Santa, storytelling, and music are among the many holiday at tractions calling to the charming | winter site, : HIGH OF -3 LOW QF -8 SATURDAY: CLOUDY HIGH OF 4 : LOW OF -6 SUNDAY: .FREEZING | / RAIN HIGH OF -1 LOW OE -7 .MONDAY: } CLOUDY, FLURRIES HIGH OF 4 LOW OF -8 TUESDAY: SUNNY HIGH OF -11 LOW OF 17 ; s you're chilling the A coampssme.slipping ONEK ring DERBY LINE, VT.into your most elegant attire, and searching for those obnoxious, but necessary noise-makers you only use once a year, don\u2019t forget to dust off your dance shoes, practice those pratfalls, and hit some high notes at the piano because QNEK is holding auditions.International Theatre Company in Residence at the Haskell Opera House, QNEK Productions, will be holding auditions for its 2014 season at the First Universalist Parish of Derby Line on Jan.4, 11, and 12, 2014.From the heartstring-tug- ging humanity of a timeless classic tale, to a solid gold jukebox party; from the crowd-roaring hilarity of perfectly seasoned farce, to the nail-biting suspense of a terrifying thriller, QNEK Productions is pulling out all the stops for its Twenty First Season, including the addition of a second main stage musical that is sure to knock audiences socks off.| With four, full scale productions at the Haskell Opera House, the theatrical talents - of the Northeast Kingdom could not be in higher demand.\u201cBoeing Boeing\u201d by Marc Camoletti and translated by Beverly Cross, will open the season with its extravagantly hilarious plot twists and wonderfully absurd comings and goings.Directed by Jenny Dunne, this Tony Award Winning farce plays May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, and follows an American bachelor in Paris managing ra 23 Bonus Next grand prize (approx) $7,000,000 GUARANTEED $1,000,000 PRIZE (Non-decomposable compiets number) 34860738-03 s in 2014 with auditions Pg QNEK's 2014 creative team.Top to bottom (1 to r) \u201cSUDS\u201d Musical Director, Conductor Mark Violette, \u201cOliver!\u201d and \u201cSUDS\u201d Director Phil Gosselin, \u201cWait Until Dark\u201d Director Susan-Lynn Johns, \u201cBoeing Boeing\u201d Director Jenny Dunne, \u201cOliver!\u201d Accompanist and Conductor Janice Luce, \u201cOliver!\u201d Musical Director Anita Mayhew (seated), \u201cQNEK\u201d Founder and Artistic Director Lynn Leimer.three international fiancé stewardesses by their flight schedules.Things get turbulent when a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off his care ful planning.Throw in an anxiously timid visiting buddy and an exasperatingly disgusted French maid, and you've got a delicious comedy that will be just as much fun to be in than to watch.Charles Dickens\u2019 immortal characters live on as Lionel Bart\u2019s beautifully scored and scripted Tony Award Winning \u201cOliver!\u201d takes the stage July 25, 26, 27 and August 1, 2, 3.Directed by Phil Gosselin with musical direction by Anita Mayhew, and accompanied and conducted by Janice Luce, this wonderfully moving clas sic seeks a large cast of all ages to bring these timelessly fantastic characters to life and will certainly be a lot of fun for boys and girls this summer! Draw results: 2013-12-18 EF fay 01 16 2111p] k 26 31 44 [some] B Ffjtra 0132601 Mo Véro Tonight, $50 MILLION + \\WAXMILLIONS 50 prizes oF $1 MILLION (wren) In the event of discrepancy between this hist and the official winning list of Loto-Québec.the latter shall prevail \u201cSUDS: The Rockin\u2019 60s Musical Soap Opera\u201d from Melinda Gilb, Steve Gunder- son and Bryan Scott, is loaded with good clean fun, bubbling energy, and the best pop hits of the 1960s and plays September 12, 13, 14, 19, 20.Directed by Phil Gosselin with musical direction by Mark Violette this awesome jukebox musical tells the story of a young woman and her guardian angels who arrive to teach her about finding true love in, of all places, a laundromat.Channeling aspects of \u201cForever Plaid,\u201d this four-person dynamo will get everyone dancing to hits like \u201cRespect,\u201d \u201cYou Can\u2019t Hurry Love,\u201d and \u201cChapel of Love.\u201d As the weather outside darkens, so does QNEK\u2019s Twenty First Season.\u201cWait Until Dark\u201d by Frederick Knott, directed by Susan-Lynn Johns, is one of those knuckle- whitening, breath-holding, edge-of-your-seat-sitting thrillers that will give you a reason to be afraid when the lights go out.When a game of cat and mouse spirals out of control, an unsuspecting blind house wife and her young neighbour will have to hold their own if they want to survive against a gang of hardened con-men who will do any- Ben by Daniel Shelton thing to get what they want.All those \u201cLaw and Order\u201d marathons will come in handy for actors auditioning for this highly suspenseful drama, playing October 10, 11, 12, 17, 18.As the Queen of the Northeast Kingdom celebrates her 60th year on the planet, so do We all celebrate, and rejoice for such a smash hit Twenty First Season.Auditions will be held Jan.4 from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m., Jan.11 from 10 a.m.to 3:30 p.m., and Jan.12 from 2 p.m.to 5 p.m.at the First Uni- versalist Parish Hall, 112 Main Street, Derby Line.Boys, girls, men, and women of all ages are encouraged to attend.For a detailed schedule of auditions and callbacks, or more general information, visit qnek.com, find QNEK Productions on Facebook, or call the QNEK Business Office at (802) 334 - 2216.Though audience members will have to wait until May to be a part of this fantastic line up, QNEK Season Passes are now on sale by calling the QNEK Box Office 802- 334-2216, visiting qnek.com, calling the Catamount Arts Box Office at 888-757-5559, or by visiting catamountarts.org.Source: Phil Gosselin.mr.philgosselin@gmail.com ç THAT FOR ME?www.bencomicstrnp.com wow! ICANT WAIT TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS.\u201d 013 Daniel Shelton Distr.by MWAM The Record | newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013 Page 3 Winners named in \u2018Lennoxville in Lights Festival\u2019 SHERBROOKE e City of Sherbrooke an- | nounced the winners of the \u201cLennoxville in Lights Festival\u201d contest Thursday.The goal of the contest, which is in its fourth year, is to encourage business people in the Borough of Lennoxville to decorate their businesses for the holiday season.Weedon CLSC CONT'D FROM PAGE 1 said.\u201cThere are practically the same number of beds at the end of our plan as at the beginning.We have 101 beds right now, and in two and a half years there will be 100.\u201d The director general said that this shift is mainly a matter of repositioning resources so that they match demand.He phrased the decision opportunity to balance the number of beds, maximize resources and create additional services while also renovating a building in need of work.\u201cThere are too many beds in Weedon and not enough in East Angus,\u201d Morand explained, reminding that the region\u2019s population is distributed 30/70 between Weedon and East Angus, and pointing out that the services should match those numbers.Gravel said she sees this explanation as part of a process of slowly transferring all of the services from Weedon to East Angus, but Morand called that criticism \u201cunfounded.\u201d \u201cWhen someone is investing $5 million in a community, it is not so that they can close down services,\u201d the Director General said.\u201cThe only thing that is being transferred is the administrative offices, but they don\u2019t serve the community.Service will actually increase, facilities will be improved.\u201d Morand explained that the plan, which is currently waiting on funding approval from the Health and Social Services Agency of the Estrie blends an improvement of homecare services with facility renovations and a project to improve regional health infrastructure.While the numbers generally given have been that the CHSLD would be changing from 48 beds to 33, Morand said that the objective is actually 36, with six of those in double-occupancy rooms.\u201cWe're not sure yet if it will work,\u201d he said, \u201cwe will give that challenge to our architects to try to find space for three additional beds.\u201d The reduction in beds will save the CSSS an estimated $510,000 per year, according to A jury of Borough of Lennoxville residents determined the winning entries based on criteria, including the quality of the materials used, the composition of their decorative elements, the ambiance created, and the neatness of the premises.First prize \u201cHoliday Magic:\u201d Stevenson & Writers will have its business card published in the Borough newsletter free for a year, compliments of the Borough of Lennoxville.\u201cSpirit of Christmas\u201d prize: Fleuriste Lennoxville won a Visa gift card, offered by the RBC Royal Bank.\u201cBeauty of Christmas\u201d prize: Clinique de laser et d\u2019esthétique Gracia Jacquelin is the winner of a gift card from Pharmacie Jean Coutu.\u201cTwinkling Winter Wonderland\u201d prize: Boutique 88 merited a gift card from Provigo Robert Lafond.\u201cHoliday Nostalgia\u201d prize: Provigo Robert Lafond won a holiday gift basket, compliments of Boutique Nostalgia.Some 20 businesses participated in the contest, which has been gaining popularity every year.Jury members Lucie De Serres and her son Raphaél Gagnon, Sylvie Fowlis, Jane Loiselle, and Emilie Durocher, commend the efforts by merchants to beautify the Borough of Lennoxville\u2019s business core.The City of Sherbrooke congratulated the winners and participants of the \u201cLennoxville in Lights Festival\u201d contest via a press release issued on Thursday afternoon.Morand, and he said that the division of those funds has already been made: half will serve to partially finance the renovation work over the course of five years; $160,000 will be set aside to pay for three home-care employees, and $100,000 will be used for added Alzheimer\u2019s resources.\u201cWe also have access to a transitional budget from the agency to improve our home care services,\u201d the Director General said.\u201cWe will be adding personnel to that program starting in January.we plan to add two auxiliaries from health and social services and one auxiliary nurse, so three employees altogether.\u201d This staffing, he said, will allow for 4,000 more interventions per year.Morand defined an \u201cintervention\u201d as the presence of a care-worker with a client for between half an hour and two hours depending on the service rendered.While that increase in home- care services is set to start in the new year, the closing of the beds will be a more transitional process.\u201cThe beds will be closed as they become available,\u201d Morand explained, \u201cbut if there are people waiting, they will be admitted.We are not cutting admissions for the people who fit our profile.Those who don\u2019t, though, will go to home care.\u201d Gravel said she is still skeptical, however.\u201cI want to believe it, but I don\u2019t,\u201d the committee representative said, \u201cI don\u2019t believe the plan and I don\u2019t believe Mr.Morand.\u201d For the concerned Weedon resident, the problem comes in the fact that the CSSS is also looking to solicit the construction of a private home for noncritical Alzheimer\u2019s patients.\u201cI do not believe one bit in the home care system that is being presented,\u201d Gravel repeated, \u201cthere is a good percentage of the home care money that will go into that halfway house instead and it will be placed who knows where in the region.\u201d The home is part of what Morand called, \u201cnon-institu- tional resources,\u201d that he said would, hopefully, help support the system.He said that the CSSS is preparing a call for tenders to work on the project in the community, but pointed out that it is far from a certainty at this point.\u201cIt\u2019s all hypothetical, because if we can\u2019t attract a developer, then the money will all go into home care instead,\u201d the Director General explained.He added that, despite the uncertainty of the project at this point in time, the focus is on having it be developed in the Weedon area.\u201cIf we enlarge the search for developers to other territories, it\u2019s certain that we\u2019ll see more interest, but our focus is on having it be in Weedon,\u201d he said.For her part, Gravel expressed a great disillusionment and frustration with the ways she sees things moving in the world.\u201cThis is the beginning of the de-institutionalizing of Alzheimer\u2019s and Dementia patients,\u201d she theorized.\u201cThese are very vulnerable people and it would be very easy to try to save money by cutting back on services for them.\u201d New Year\u2019s Eve Pa t Hotel S ERNE ch ee December 312 starting at 8:30 p.m.Music with Carole Vincelette +, Buffet at midnight That in mind, she says that the committee of citizens for- the survival of the CLSC and CHSLD in Weedon will continue to exist, acting instead as a watchdog for public health concerns.\u201cThere is nothing to say that in two months, five months or a year they won°t turn around and tell us something different, because (Mr.Morand) never says the same thing,\u201d Gravel said.\u201cOur confidence is zero.\u201d awyerville \u2026 MS Branch 2000 fundraiser Sunday to Tuesday December 22, 23 & 24 at Provigo in Lennoxville (169 Queen) to leave your Christmas donations or buy our MS Rag Doll called \u201cLil Boo\u201d who steais the hearts of the young and younger.For more info.81 9-823-7167 ask for Lee.@ 2 É < = - > Z = i 2 S| o = LL B O [all taxes included].Or, with a 12-month print subscription, add $5.00 and get an additional 12-month online subscription (total of $134.00) Info: 819-569-9528 + billing@sherbrookerecord.com EE SR S | 170: oo FROM: + ) !.: i = - CA Te ; 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