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[" Le B\\BLIO7Z A 1999 \u201cIN.; \u20189 \u2014 AY, y Ne ye LY TEL.: 264-5364 Wednesday, October 6, 1999 FAX: 264-9521 stolen trucks (Gleaner staff) The Sûreté du Québec Crimes against the property squad have recovered four stolen semi-trucks worth $1 million at a Rang St-Joseph property in St- ome on September 30.Following an investigation involving the Haut-St-Laurent SQ, police raided the operation and arrested seven people.Two St-Chrysostome residents, Christian Trépanier, 42, and Claude Gauthier, 29, appeared in Valleyfield Court October 1, when they faced charges of theft, fraud and mischief.The five others were released and will be summoned to court.The four semis recovered were 2000 Western Stars stolen September 29 in Ville St-Laurent.The vehicles were located behind a garage, and other stolen truck parts were recovered on the premises.See POLICE page 6 Chimney fire spreads to attic A chimney fire which spread into the attic of a First Concession home in Elgin brought firemen from five brigades out late Sunday afternoon.Following the fire call at about 5 p.m., volunteers from Constable were joined by others from Westville, Hinchinbrooke, Godmanchester and Huntingdon at the Lyell Duheme home.About 90 minutes later the blaze was brought under control.Damages were not too heavy, said one fireman, adding, \u201cWe were lucky to get it under control that quickly\u201d.uD Founding meeting for recreation group The founding general assembly for \u201cCulture et Loisirs Huntingdon\u201d recreation group will be held on October 18 at 7:30 p.m.at St.John's Anglican Church hall on King St.in Huntingdon.Culture et Loisirs Huntingdon is an organization devoted to developing cultural and leisure activities for all residents.The public is welcome to contribute advice and comments, and during the meeting a board of directors will be elected, co-organizers Alain Boisvert and Serge \u201cosselin said.Or, hope to see everyone who holds dear the enrichment of community life turn out for this meeting.(VF) COVERING HUNTINGDON, ORMSTOWN, HEMMINGFORD, HOWICK, CHATEAUGUAY, FRANKLIN, ST-ANICET, STE-BARBE, VALLEYFIELD AND SURROUNDINGS FOUNDED IN 1883 Bau 20 pages .87* Tia web: www.rocler.qc.Tel.: (450) 264-6297 Fax: 264-6649 4 BRIDGE STREET, ORMSTOWN, QUE.E-MAIL: pdagg @ rocier.qc.ca ca/pdagg/ y JEAN-PAUL LALIBERTÉ PHARMACIST \u201cLes Galeries d'Ormetown\u201d OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK J \\.se Without snow, which piled up to a probab 't the earliest a did bore a lin frost pu carly Monday couple of s was on the Grimshaw Rd.near inches nowfall recorded here, it was particularly sneaky, t an end to the heavy rain turned to melting later in the flakes of .While it season.This shot Sharpe Rd.intersection in Franklin.(Photo: VF) $3 surcharge on new tires intended to reduce surplus in Quebec dumps (Gleaner staff) While Quebec consumers are now paying an extra $3 every time they buy a new tire, old tires from Ontario and the US continue to flood into the Franklin Tire Dump at a rate of over 400,000 annually.This figure includes not only tires from cars, small trucks and recreational vehicles, but also monster tires from heavy equipment, which can weigh up to 12,000 Ib.apiece.With his operating permit set to expire next February, dump owner Jean-Marie Béland is contesting the Environment Ministry's decision to cut the duration of the permit from five years to one, while reducing the annual intake of tires from five million to one million.Hearings on this issue, originally scheduled for October 18 in Montreal, have been put off until December 13.At that time, former Franklin municipal comecillor Monique Desnommée will testify that Béland has adhered neither to the limit on the number of tires stored, nor regulations governing the allowable slope of the piles of tires on the dump site, which should not exceed five per cent.Des- nommée, a staunch | environmentalist, will |.~ also point to dangers by the tires for the underground water table under the site, which is located See TIRES page 6 .« t Jean-Marie Béland 377-1707: emergency fall-back when 911 service doesn\u2019t work Judith Taylor THE GLEANER Even before Y2K hits, with all its possible snags to our technologized way of life, a reminder comes this week that it\u2019s just as well to have a back-up in case of emergency.This means being ready to call 377-1707 instead of 911, should a response not be forthcoming at the well-known emergency number.\u201cPerhaps people don't realize that they can't call 911 from a cellular phone \u2014 their calls could easily go to the wrong exchange,\u201d said Franklin fire chief Peter Ednie late last week.\u201cAnd if you're on a party line, the information which usually shows up on screen at our relay station when you call 911 won't come up at all: the computer screen will be blank.\u201d He also mentioned the fact that Bell Canada subscribers pay between 32 and 34 cents monthly for the 911 service for each phone line (or separate phone number).\u201cSome people may not want to pay for more than one line, but this means that if they use a second line to call 911, the data for that number will not be registered.\u201d Potential problems All in all, local Mutual Aid fire departments are aware that the potential for problems exists within the 911 system.And as if that were not enough, there have been at last a\u2019 couple of occasions See \u201c911\u201d page 6 Time runs out on merger plan for 3 institutions Valerie Furcall THE GLEANER A proposed merger of the Ormstown Barrie Memorial Hospital, the Huntingdon County Hospital and the CLSC governing boards isn\u2019t going to happen right now after all, despite nearly a year of serious negotiations among the three.In a surprise move, the Huntingdon Hospital and CLSC boards agreed at a joint meeting September 28 to merge, without the Barrie, and are now asking the regional health and social services council for approval to proceed with this new plan.Barrie Centre Board chairman Ann Whitehead was \u201camazed\u201d to learn last week from the regional council that a September 14 signed agreement between the Barrie and Huntingdon County was not going to go through.(The CLSC had by this time opted out of the merger plan.) \u201cThere have been hours and hours of meetings and great big handshakes \u2014 1 really don't know why Huntingdon backed out,\u201d she said, \u201cWhile an agreement was reached after much compromise from everyone, the process ran out of time to decree the composition of a new board.The Huntingdon partners wanted equal representation on a new board and it wasn't possible to accomplish this before the mid-September notice of election for representation from the population,\u201d HCH and CLSC executive director Guy Deschénes said Monday.\u201cWe ran out time and the whole thing fell apart.It came down to legalities,\u201d he added.Barrie reaction Meanwhile, the Barrie board met Monday night and digested the news before members expressed hope that the three institutions could work together anyway on a one-year long \u201ccapitation\u201d pilot project in the Haut-St-Laurent, funded by the federal government.Capitation means that medicare dollars follow a patient through his or her illness and/or recovery process, with needed additional See MERGER page 6 will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.Deadline for advertising for the October 13 issue will be 5 p.m.this \"i + \u2018Friday Oct.8.News items too STEVEN À.LATULIPE Affiliated Real Estate Agent MONTEBELLO REALTIES ENR.Chartered Real Estate Broker 264-0101 WE HAVE BUYERS FOR FARMS - ALL TYPES OF LAND & COUNTRY PROPERTIES | STE-AGNES 46.77 Arpents2 about STE AGNES, Victoroin cotoge with 35 Wioble (vegetables), 0 winding 4 br, wrop OrvuNd porch, à severat country lone brings you to @ 1901 bome ond on 8.4 ofiging! wosdwork, feen, Sim, Goon, Asking $120 000.CC © XX :2 \u2014 THE GLEANER \u2014 OCTOBER 6 1999 fi his and That one of the earliest memory in this area.Perhaps more unusual is the fact that it snowed before we had received a killing frost, said farmer/weatherman Peter Finlayson.He added that rainfall preceding the early morning snow accumulation means that probably were not wiped out by the snow itself.THE HAZARD \u2014 for soybeans and com still in the fields had to do more with their dryness, which left them vulnerable to being weighted down and severed from the plants by the sheer weight of the snow.With corn moisture running about 10 per cent below normal as of this date, dryer use should be down this year.But given fuel cost increases of seven or eight cents a pound, the savings for farmers may not be all that great, Peter said.STILL \u2014 it\u2019s looking like a record year for corn, with the heat unit count at September's end totalling 3,375, better than last year and way over the normal figure of 2,896.Late summer rains have replenished the soil moisture lost during the early part of the growing season, with September recording 166 mm or 6.5 inches of rain, well above normal for the month.TEMPERATURES \u2014 averaged 17.2°C.in September, compared to last year\u2019s 15.8° and the normal of 14.5°.All in all, it's been a splendid year for corn, as good or better than last year, while soybeans look to come in at about last year's level or a bit less, Peter said.LOCAL HISTORIAN \u2014 Robert McGee will outline the history of Valleyfield\u2019s Montreal Cottons plant for the Monday mo snowfalls w SAY IT ISN'T SNOW \u2014 but it was, on in Town .Salaberry and Histo Society on Oct.19 qt 7:30 at the Club N ue.As well, he will discuss the evo n of the cotton indus- in Canada and the role that nates like Andrew Gault and Hu Allan played in the t of industry and of V in the period 1870-1920.WORKING CONDITIONS \u2014 for men, women and children as well as plant architecture and manufacturing processes will also be touched on in the talk.For more information, contact Michel Paquette at 371-5534 or Robert Leroux at 373-6110.A FOLK SONG NIGHT \u2014 is coming up on Sunday Oct.17 at 7:30 p.m.at St.Joseph's Church in Huntingdon.Everyone is welcome to come out and sing along with choir members from Huntingdon and surroundings.OVER THE BORDER \u2014 Harvest Dinners are coming up on Sunday Oct.17 at two different churches: St.Mary\u2019s in Fort Covington and St.Jude's/St.Joseph's in Chateaugay NY.The first runs from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m.and features turkey, while the other has servings of Yankee pot roast at 12 noon, 2:30 p.m.and 5 p.m.More details on both can be found in advertisements next week.C.B.C.RADIO \u2014 is still working on improving reception here on its 88.5 FM frequency.Staff are now conducting a survey in southwestern Quebec to see where the problem is the worst, reports Neil Burdon of CVESPA.No improvement is expected until year\u2019s end, however, although Burdon says engineers have come up with some possible solutions to the problem.DANIEL TURP \u2014 M.P.for Beauharnois- Salaberry, presented a talk at Boston's Road work at Her bi EL N dman Transport-Québec is busy rebuilding a low-lying section of the Herdman Customs Rd., site of frequent flooding (and a drowning) in recent years.Traffic lights installed to tate one-way traffic around the construction area have been the target of vandalism, Haut-St-Laurent police reported this week.The Rockburn community was deeply saddened by the news of the death of Ronnie Maither on Saturday, Oct.2.Ronnie passed away at the Barrie Memorial Hospital after several months of illness.He lived and worked all his life in the Rockburn area where he was born.Ronnie will be sadly missed by all who knew him, and deepest sympathy goes out to his wife Iona, Rhonda and Lyndon, and all his family.Anniversary Special congratulations are due to Francis and Mary McCormick, who recently celebrated 57 years of marriage.A family gathering was held to com- » Shingle & metal roofs * Tinsmith work » Skylight installations & repairs * Chimneys For a free estimation or information EE EE FE EN EE It\u2019s time to do your roof over!!! Q RESTIGIOUS PR oorne 0 2/8 will be glad \\ = to do it (Photo: VF) iad EE pull res memorate this wonderful time.The McCormicks are living in their home on the First Concession and are doing well with the help of their family and care-givers.Best wishes and good health to you both! Get-well wishes Bessie Elliott of Brooklet has been under the weather these days and has been a patient at the Barrie Memorial Hospital in Ormstown.Good wishes, Bessie, for recovery.a speedy nf » Copper roofs e Roof ventilation e Special craftman\u2019s work Bernie Quigley (450) 371-5433 dt cu AGO G AGE» Centre d\u2019Accueil benefits The Ormstown Centre d\u2019Accueil volunteers\u2019 group received $200 from MNA André Chenail\u2019s discretionary fund, for residents of the Ormstown longterm- care facility.Volunteers Association president Yvette Lauzon (centre) accepted the cheque from Francine Créte Ouimet (right) executive of the Beauharnois-Huntingdon Liberal Association who represented MNA Chenail.Pictured (at left) is Lise Sauvé, Centre recreologist.The funds will pay for oil painting materials and instruction.Projects and crafts made by residents and supporters will be sold at the Centre\u2019s fundraising Christmas bazaar on November 29, for which some 86 pies have already been prepared and frozen.The volunteers usec monies raised for special activities, books and courses for residents.(Photo:VF) prestigious Harvard University this week.On Monday afternoon he addressed students on the topic of \u201cCanadian Federalism and Quebec's Future: Myths and Realities\u201d.A PROGRAM \u2014 entitled Women in the Jobs of the Future is currently being offered through the Option Ressource Travail, a Valleyfield - agency helping women to get back into the workplace.Women in the pro attend workshops, trainin sessions, and workplace visits, as we as trying their hand at various jobs and hearing from women who have already started new careers.For more information call 377-4949 or drop in at 19 Ste-Cécile in Valleyfield.THE FALL PROGRAM \u2014 of activities at Ormstown\u2019s Imaginelle Women\u2019s Centre listed in last week's Gleaner has been cancelled, we hear from board member Sandra Yule.A future board meeting will set new priorities and activities for the centre, which operates under the wing of the CLSC Huntingdon.As soon as we know more, we'll pass the information on.LAST WEEK \u2014 we mentioned that the Huntingdon CLSC is looking for home visitors.These ple are hired by the individuals needing help, who are then reimbursed by the government.The CLSC does not actually employ the visitors, says Gisèle Martin, who can be reached for an interview at 264-2992.DONATIONS \u2014 to the Federation of Quebec Alzheimer's Societies can be made through any branch of the Essaim Pharmacies until October 15.More than 75,000 Quebecers currently suffer from the terrible disease and the number is riding rapidly.C.V.R.ENGLISH TEACHER \u2014 Gre Edwards has been named to the Lyndon State College Scholars Rec tion Program by scholarship student Justin Moss of Elgin, who is majoring in ski resort management at the Vermont college.The honor cites Edwards as the teacher or counsellor who had the most influence on Moss.FROM HEMMINGFORD \u2014 comes a note from Hazel English, mentioning that her family held a happy reunion on Sunday Sept.12, with participants from as far away as Troutville, Va., Woodstock, Vt., and Smith Falls, Ont.The day was made more special by two wedding anniversaries being marked by family members.IN ORMSTOWN \u2014 St.Paul's United Church will hold a Rummage Sale on Saturday Oct.16 at 9 a.m.at MacDougall Hall.(Watch for details in next week\u2019s ad.) (JM) A LETTER CAMPAIGN \u2014 support} Quebec teachers is being initiated by the Student Union of Chateauguay Valley Regional High School.The student government will be contacting schools across the province, encouraging them to join the letter campaign.\u201cIf this campaign fails to create a reaction from the government, the student body of CVR and the schools contacted across Quebec will proceed with a rally on October 21,\" Union reps said.\u201cWe will send these letters to the Education Ministry in the hopes of securing the activities and services which benefit our educational experience.\u201d (VF) THE PARENTS ACTION GROUP \u2014 of CVR is holding its major fundraising activity, the Christmas Cheese and Trees drive, in support of a wide range of activities such as extra-curricular to hosting guest speakers and theatre companies.Should the school\u2019s extracurricular program not resume, the school has many needs in the areas of furnishings and computers, so the money will be used, explained Judi Roe, Parents Action Group chairperson.(VF) MONTREAL STORYTELLER \u2014 Denise Markhame will present Tales of Apples and Autumn (in English and French) this Saturday, Sunday and Monday trom noon to 4 p.m.at McMillan Orchards on Rte.202 in Franklin.For more information call 827-2748.(JT) HEMMINGFORD BICENTENNIAL YEARBOOK AND PHOTOS LAST CHANCE! FINAL DATE TO BOOK PHOTO SESSION OCTOBER 7th PLEASE CALL FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT LILA HOLMES 247-2080 DEBBIE GAESE 247-2571 LAST CHANCE! FORMER RESIDENTS, AND FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY, ARE MOST WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE NAVEL ORANGES CELERY Sz 24 / Quebec cg MASE Cela, gg Tol.: (450) 264-3161 J ULITOE so 88088 20st date.1 ailail ; SWRI EES | ocal history \u2014 Long forgotten monument found, People might be surprised to learn that an Anglican church and adjacent cemetery once existed in the parish of St-Rémi.Both were demolished to make way for a new road, but many years later, throught the efforts of Donald Black, a monument was erected in the vicinity by the Anglican Church of Canada.When Malcolm Orr (of Chateauguay d Riverfield) visited the municipal I of the St-Rémi Parish they said at they had no record of the existence of the church or cemetery, or what had happened to them.Mac presented them with pictures of the church as it existed in 1894 and the site\u2019s location today.The area had become overgrown with weeds and brush, so Mac himself has cleaned it up and cut the grass.The monument is no longer hidden from view and is once again part of the religious heritage of the community.Jean Furcall/vf Valleyfield Elsie Melanson - 373-7207 Flea Market On Saturday, Oct.106, St.Mark's Anglican Church in Valleyfield will hold a \u201cFlea Market\u201d in the church hall, from 10 am.to 3 p.m.Besides a table of baked goodies, there will be other interesting tables of knickknacks, etc.Light refreshments will also be available.Funds raised from the event will be go towards recent repairs to the church roof.Everyone is cordially invited to attend.nf i ® Centraide THE HAND THAT HELPS THE MOST INVITATI to the members of the Caisse populaire Desjardins Huntingdon Extraordinary assembly (To vote on the merger) October 12, 1999 at 7:00 pm at the St-Joseph\u2019s Parish Hall 13, York St.Huntingdon 1 CLR Pa : THIS MEMORIAL I ERECTED.To THE 4 GLORY OF cob 1° AE IN MEMORY: 07 [2 À PARISHIONE RS WHE [* boa VORTAL RE MAINS ARE PEBURIED NEARBY ANNE SOE STEEORGES (Hike Hi | L PARISH LF S4 M.Legros E.Caza H.Welbum P.Clément 0 RESULTS Oct.3: Pub 6, Panthers 2; Legion 6, Leduc 2.N=OOIF gases cos \u2014 GAMES Oct.10: 10 a.m.Pub vs.Leduc; 11:30 Panthers vs.Legion.New opening hours: Oct.17: 10 a.m.Pub vs.Legion; 11:30 8:00AM until 9:00PM, 7 days a week Panthers vs.Leduc.(JT.WELCOME ! ; Three senior golf events played at Ormstown Club Helen Smith was wise enough to stay warm The Grand Master (75 years and up) for 1999 is Wilbert \u201cWib\u201d Gruer, runner-up is Aime Lemieux.The other participants were Doug Lockhart and George McAdam.\u201cWise men\u201d were Punch Soucy and Raoul Soucy.For the Super Senior Competition, the winner for \u201899 is Raymond Lemieux, with Mazar Baksh as runner-up.Participants were Doug Elliott, John Whitehead, Glenn Waller, and Owen Ness.Wise men were Fernand Lepage and Martial Soucy.C.Dumas/vf A [MARCHÉ GREAT NEWS IN HOWICK ! 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