The record, 5 janvier 1990, vendredi 5 janvier 1990

Weekend V Births, deaths .8 Classified .10-11 Comics .12 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .7 Living .6 Sports .14-15 Townships.3 In Tow'nships Week, the page 5 feature, a story with a surprise ending, is written by Sherbrooke University Writing student Ann Henderson.You’ll also find the saga of Archibald Alexander Mackenzie — an honorable Scotsman — written by Suzanne Rothe, another student in the same class.Inside A West Bolton music teacher has challenged the town to take action on re-cycling garbage and everything else.Page 2 Bernard Epps tells the tale of a Coaticook doctor who was as well known for inflicting pain as curing it — Dr.Gilbert Trenholm.Page 5 Veteran sports writer Gil Smith remembers hockey great Doug Harvey • Page 15 Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, January 5,1990 50 cents Refuses to enter plea on drug charges Noriega tells court he’s a political prisoner MIAMI (AP) — Deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega told a U.S.judge Thursday that he is a political prisoner and refused to enter a plea to charges he accepted $4.6 million US to turn his country into a way station for the cocaine trade.“Gen.Noriega refuses to submit to the jurisdiction of this court because he is a political prisoner brought to this country illegally,” Noriega lawyer Frank Rubinotold U.S.District Judge William Hoe-veler.The judge then entered a not guilty plea for Noriega.Noriega surrendered Wednesday night to U.S.troops outside Panama City’s Vatican Embassy 10 days after he took refuge there, and was flown into Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami Thursday night.Masked thieves nab 75 firearms ST-REDEMPTEUR, Que.(CP) — Quebec provincial police are seeking two suspects wanted in the theft of about 75 firearms from a gun shop in this community south of Quebec City.Maurice Briand, a provincial police spokesman, said Thursday that two masked gunmen also robbed the shop of at least $800 in cash and helped themselves to an undetermined amount of ammunition.The estimated value of the stolen guns — including at least two semiautomatic rifles, one Uzi submachine-gun and .357-magnum and .38-calibre revolvers — is $50,000, Briand said.Briand said the suspects entered the shop around 8:30 p.m.Wednesday, then ordered the only employee and four customers to lie on the floor."* A customer who raised his head was kicked in the neck by one of the robbers and told he would get a bullet in the head.The bandit was then urged by his partner in crime not to kill the man right away.Witnesses said the men wore dark, one-piece snowmobile suits, tuques and scarves.Appeal court raises dad’s jail sentence MONTREAL (CP) — A two-year sentence imposed on an east-end resident who sexually abused his young daughter was doubled by the Quebec Court of Appeal on Thursday.From the age of five, the girl was forced to endure sexual fondling over a period of five years and the abuse was only discovered after she showed baffling physical symptoms, testimony showed.Around the time she turned 10, the girl had difficulty walking and could not articulate.Specialists at two Montreal hospitals initially couldn’t find anything wrong, but through a series of psychological tests, doctors were able to determine the child’s condition resulted from holding back the secret of her father’s abuse, spanning a period from 1980 to 1986.The girl said she lived in fear because her 51-year-old father, who owned a handgun, threatened to kill her if she ever disclosed his relations.During his trial, the court was told the fondling and masturbation occurred several times a week during some periods, while the mother was absent.In a ruling issued Thursday, three appeal court judges agreed the two-year prison sentence was insufficient in the circumstances.Writing for the panel, Mr.Justice Melvin Rothman said the girl, who underwent 15 months of treatment, will probably carry mental scars for the rest of her life.Rothman, raising the prison sentence on charges of indecency and sexual assault to four years, said the case justified more severe punishment, reflecting “the community’s strong disapproval of using young children as objects of sexual gratification.’’ The judge pointed out that the father showed no signs of remorse at the time he was convicted last June.St.Francis grove revisited Don Mealy, Ronald Ewing and Nick Fonda discuss the drawn-out legal battle over the tiny, controversial grove next to St.Francis Elementary School in Richmond.The three men — with the grove in the background— RECORDER ANT SIMEON are among supporters of a year-long effort to save the woodland from being turned into condominiums.Their legal battle is apparently over, with the fate of the grove in the developer’s hands.For the full story, turn the page.U.S marshals with binoculars scanned the downtown area from atop the federal courthouse and patrolled halls in plain clothes, but otherwise kept a low profile in what Hoeveler said was an effort to treat Noriega like any other defendant.REJECTS IMMUNITY Exactly a year ago, Hoeveler ruled the United States has jurisdiction over Noriega, rejecting defence claims of immunity for a head of state.The judge said the U.S.State Department never recognized Noriega's political legitimacy.Several experts in international law said Noriega has little basis for the claims.“As far as I know, the things Noriega is accused of doing have nothing to do with his being a head of state,” said Alfred Rubin, a professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston.Noriega co-counsel Steven Kol-lin has noted other potential legal pitfalls in the case, including pretrial publicity and Noriega’s links Hotline rings: with U.S.intelligence agencies.But U.S.Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said he is confident the case is solid.White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President George Bush and other White House officials will be careful about what they say lest they prejudice the trial.JOY OVER SURRENDER Noriega's surrender was met with celebrations in the streets of Panama City and Miami that continued on Thursday.“The people feel a sense of peace knowing that the monster is leaving our land.” said Panamanian President Guillermo Endara.An indictment accuses Noriega, who is in his 50s, of accepting $4.6 million in bribes from Colombian drug cartels to aid and protect their smuggling and processing — charges that carry 145 years in prison and $1.1 million in fines.He is not covered by the new U.S.law allowing execution of drug kingpins, an assurance Noriega is reported to have demanded before turning himself in.He also faces drug charges in Tampa.Mulroney thanked for backing Panama coup By John Valorzi WASHINGTON (CP) — President George Bush called Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on Thursday to talk about the surrender of deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega and to personally thank Canada for supporting the U.S.invasion of Panama.White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters the president telephoned Mulroney, who is vacationing near West Palm Beach, Fla., “to thank him for his government’s support before the United Nations and to discuss with him the outcome of the (Panama) operation.” Fitzwater said Bush also called Hunger strikers won’t give up until families safe MONTREAL(CP)—Federal immigration officials met with fasting Latin American refugee claimants Thursday in an attempt to end their pressure tactics aimed at bringing relatives to Canada.The officials met privately with each of the 14 refugee claimants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile and Guatemala who have been spending their days stretched out on mattresses in empty offices above the Spanish Christian Church in east-end Montreal.“They (immigration officials) are proposing to accelerate as much as possible the cases and to treat them in the context of lives that are in danger and children who have been abandoned,” said Juan Iturriaga, a spokesman and pastor of the church.But he complained that the Immigration Department’s criteria to determine which lives are in danger are too limited.“The criteria are too restrictive; it doesn’t give them much hope,” said Iturriaga.“It’s disappointing because they have to live in countries with bombs falling to prove their lives are in danger.” The immigration officials arrived late in the afternoon Thursday after reviewing the cases to decide whether the wives and children the claimants left behind are in sufficient danger to warrant bringing them immediately to Canada.The five people who are in their fourth week of fasting appeared to be suffering the most, lying with eyes closed as friends rubbed their temples to comfort them.Juan Aguilera, 40, one of the first to join the fast Dec.13, was taken to hospital Wednesday complaining of extreme dizziness, headaches and kidney pains.He was treated and rejoined the fast, having been advised to take plenty of liquids to avoid endangering his health.Harold Ortegaray, 28, joined the fast Dec.27 and was also taken to hospital in pain Wednesday, marking the second time he has been removed by paramedics.He also was treated and resumed his fast.The refugee claimants have been joined by four Canadians — the fourth joined late Wednesday — fasting with them in sympathy.Conservative MP Benoit Tremblay told the group Wednesday he had contacted Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall’s office, as well as local immigration officials in Montreal, and authorities agreed the evaluations of wives and children for admissibility into Canada should be carried out immediately.The refugee hopefuls came to Canada between 1985 and 1989 and form part of a huge backlog of claimants, now totalling about 124,000 people.Quebec to negotiate autonomy with Mohawks Pope John Paul and other international leaders, but he refused to name them.Canada, Britain and El Salvador were the only countries to publicly back the Dec.20 invasion of Panama.They also supported the U.S.at the United Nations, which voted 75-20 last week to condemn the American military action.Only hours after the U.S.invasion began, Mulroney said the U.S.was justified in using military force to get rid of Noriega, whom he dismissed as “a thug and drug-runner” who had looted his poor country.Although the Canadian government regrets the use of military force, Mulroney said, the invasion was justified given the brutality of the Noriega regime and the failure of U.S.efforts at a negotiated peace in Panama.NORIEGA IN COURT Noriega, in a 25-minute appearance in a Miami court Thursday, refused to recognize that the U.S.could try him on drug-trafficking charges, forcing a judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf.Dressed in a military uniform for his court appearance, Noreiga had been brought to Florida after handing himself over to American officials at the gate of the Vatican Embassy in Panama City.Mulroney’s decision to stand behind Bush’s military assault on Panama was sharply criticized by Latin American diplomats, who said Canada’s quick approval of U.S.gunboat diplomacy had tarnished Canada’s image in Latin America as an independent voice.MONTREAL (CP) — The Mohawks of Kahnawake are being offered an innovative formula for judicial autonomy which may snowball to native communities across Canada, federal Indian Affairs Minister Pierre Cadieux says.Negotiations between Ottawa, Quebec, and Kahnawake will soon be accelerated, Cadieux said, in the hope that an agreement in principle for administrative autonomy can be reached by March.Cadieux’s comments were reported in Montreal Le Devoir today.Cadieux, who has met with band council Chief Joe Norton four times since last summer, said the Quebec minister responsible for native affairs, John Ciaccia, has formulated an offer to the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a volatile reserve south of Montreal.Although the substance of negotiations has been shrouded in secrecy, they are thought to be based on Quebec’s municipal courts, which deal with minor criminal offenses, such as parking tickets, and municipal bylaws.“In Quebec, it’s easy to imagine, for example, a Kahnawake court just as there exists a Montreal court,” Cadieux said, adding that the concept would be more difficult to implement in other provinces where municipal courts have been eliminated.Changes will have to be kept within the framework of the band council structure, Cadieux said, alluding to a simmering conflict which has surfaced between the reserve’s council and militant members of the traditionalist Warriors Society.“Will we be able to solve problems to the satisfaction of everyone.the band council and the Warriors?That’s another thing But I think that we re moving in the right direction, ” the federal minister said.Tension between the council, the Quebec government and the Warriors Society has recently flared up over an illegal bingo hall operated by the heavily-armed traditionalist group.Cadieux hinted that there could be room for compromise on the bingo hall, which features cash prizes up to ten times that allowed under the provincial limit.“If Quebec wants to raise the value (of the prizes), it’s withinits jurisdiction.” Cadieux added that the federal government cannot prevent Quebec from ceding territory to the Mohawks.Police expected to fall upon one gunman, not two MONTREAL (CP) — Police got more than they expected Thursday when they responded to a routine noise complaint and ended up being shot at by one man and then tumbled into a second armed man during a struggle.Lieut.Jean Presseault, a Montreal police spokesman, said one shot was fired at the two officers inside the north-end apartment complex but neither was hit.The officers were getting off the elevator when they came face-to-face with a man holding a 20-centimetre-long knife in his left hand and a 9-mm pistol in his right hand.Presseault said.One of the officers jumped the gunman in the hallway after the single shot was fired.In the ensuing struggle, the officer and assailant fell into an apartment where they were confronted by another man armed with a .32-calibre revolver.Although no further shots were fired, police reinforcements were called, Presseault said The 55-year-old woman who lives in the apartment was found sitting in a pool of blood.She had suffered a severe beating which left her unconscious.The victim, a man who had undergone a sex change, was taken to hospital were she remains in serious but stable condition.One of the suspects is a 33-vear- old man who was on Christmas leave from a Montreal detention centre.The other, 23, is on probation for drug-related charges.Both were scheduled to appear in court today to face several charges including attempted murder for shooting at the police officers, possession of weapons, aggravated assault for the beating and violating orohation Success story: Iberville's Micheline Beauregard displays pictures of her son Stéphane, a Winnipeg Jet prospect who is fighting for a spot with the NHL team.Turn to page 15 for the full story. 2—The RECORD—Friday, January 5,1990 ‘We can do a lot’ Gail Watt Bolton Glen teacher wants action on recycling waste By Gil Smith WEST BOLTON — If Gail Watt has her way, this municipality will soon rank second-to-none on the list of pollution free areas.Watt, a dance and music teacher who has lived in the Bolton Glen area since 1986, wants to form a citizens' group to discuss a clean environment.She has already written to town council asking that they recycle letterhead paper and photocopy material."My prime interest is in getting people to create less garbage,” Watt said in a recent interview.“Recycling can help, but consumers should also be more careful when buying products that have too much wrapping or packaging.” Watt added that manufacturers often use packaging to attract attention and that consumers usually just throw out, “adding to the garbage pile-up.” "People should demand less packaging of goods as part of an environmental clean-up,” she said.Watt is in good company in her environmental concerns.Polls show about eight of every ten Canadians to be highly concerned about environmental issues.“Something very fundamental is shifting in Canadians' views of the world,” one Southam newspaper survey noted.“As recently as 1984, environment matters did not rank so highly among Canadian concerns.Now they are a prime factor.” GETTING TO WORK Watt says locals should group to work for less pollution, to make an example of the community.“Just getting together as citizens with a common aim to ensure a clean environment would be a good first step.Then, if 10 people or so could convince another 10 to avoid waste and pollution, so much the better,” Watt said.“People need to be informed about controlling pollutants on an ongoing basis,” she added.Watt wants people in the Glen to meet after the holiday season, to discuss environmental matters.She said she hopes to start with a small group of interested residents, and grow from there.“If numbers warrant it, we might even get a regular meeting place,” she says.“Not a place where we’d have to pay rent thought.We don’t want that expense.” SUZUKI Watt was inspired to act on the environment issue by a recent article by former broadcaster David Suzuki.He gave examples of women who started groups in Vancouver and Toronto to develop strategies for individual action.The groups have been highly successful in reducing pollutants.The The Canadian Green Consumer Guide published by McClellan & Stewart also provided Watt with environmental guidelines.It’s available at the Mag Plus store at 293 Knowlton Road in Knowlton.Knowlton also has a depot for dropping off old newspapers, she points out.It’s toward the rear of the Dépanneur Rouge at 483 Knowlton Road.“People often throw away things that are returnable,” Watt said.“If we become more aware of environmental issues and co-operate in taking action to preserve the environment, we can do a lot to improve it.” “We should be especially alert to things like junk mail, which causes a lot of waste and paper garbage.We should protest against the amount of junk mail that’s regularly sent out,” she said.NEWSPRINT Ecologial groups have approached members of the Canadian newsprint industry, as well, demanding that they begin recycling papers voluntarily.There are no laws in Canada requiring recycling.Only three per cent of Canadian newsprint is made from recycled newspapers.Removal of ink is the key step in turning old newspapers back into pulp but it costs $40 million to $100 million to build a de-inking plant, Watt said.“It costs about the same to produce a ton of newsprint from recycled fibre as it does from virgin pulp,” an official of Donohue Inc., a Canadian paper manufacturer said recently.Recycling of newspapers won’t eliminate the need for virgin pulp, say paper officials.Newsprint can only be recycled from three to eight times.Watt would like to see such problems tackled closer to the source.“Buy less products that can’t be recycled,” is her advice.“People who are concerned and who speak out about problems that affect the environment can make a difference,” she added.Watt can be reached by calling 243-0708.MRC numbers too high -mayor West Bolton council notes WEST BOLTON (GS) — Mayor Fred Lahue has told council he is not approving the Brome-Missisquoi regional municipality’s official budget because of his opposition to the valuation figure assigned to West Bolton.Lahue said West Bolton property values are overstated by the regional municipality (MRC).He’ll send the MRC a letter outlining his position on the matter.Randy Smith, the town’s new road contractor, is earning praise from residents for keeping roads well-plowed despite record snowfalls this winter.Without the efficient work of the road crews the condition of West Bolton’s 43 miles of roads, many of which are hilly, would’ve been truly grim.The charge for garbage pick-up is going to be increased to $50 per household from $49, in the 1990 municipal budget.The town currently pays $1729 monthly to Services Sa- nitaire Edward Hardy Inc., for the garbage removal contract.Building inspector John Martin says the recent slump in permits has ended.Martin has been kept hopping through December filling requests from contractors who want to start work despite weather conditions.A month ago the town sold only two permits for the grand total fee of $20.The value of the work done was listed at $14,200.Re-cycling starts at home, says Bolton Glen resident Gail Watt.But that’s only the beginning 5 S Predictions: Royals to have miserable year The Canadian Press Generally speaking, 1990 is going to be a pretty awful year for many of the world’s big-name newsmakers.The Queen will encounter health problems and feel isolated.The Queen Mother faces an emotional shock, likely caused by someone within the Royal Family.Prince Charles will suffer personal dissatisfaction.It will be British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s most difficult year in public life.Pope John Paul’s cross will grow heavier.U S.President George Bush will have family and health troubles.But the outlook is not all gloomy: 1990 will be a “positive and successful” year for Barbara Frum of CBC-TV’s The Journal, and a year of ‘ ‘tremendous personal growth” for hockey great Wayne Gretzky.Who says so?Well, Robin Armstrong says so, in his Astrological Almanac for 1990 (Somerville House, $14.95).The book by the Montreal-born astrologer, who lives in Toronto where he is best known for radio and television appearances, also lists famous people bom on each day of the year, explains the nature of astrology and shows how to set up a celestial observatory at home.PROPHET MOTIVE?Now, a lot of folks don’t believe in astrology — or predictions of any kind.Cynics note that none of the year-end predictions of a year ago even faintly foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall.So, for what it’s worth, Armstrong predicted a miserable 1989 for Canada as a whole.For 1990, he calculates that scandals and issues of patronage will rise as the government ‘‘gets more and more out of touch with the average Canadian.” “An era of corporate control has begun,” he adds.Worse, “the biggest shock will be a major disruption in the bilingual nature of Canada." Not surprisingly, Armstrong sees little joy for Brian Mulroney, caught between a Pisces sun and a Pisces moon.Described by Armstrong as a “major manipulator” whose problems “will always come from trying to do too much or trying to appear too sincere,” the prime minister will have a year of emotional confrontation.But he will not give up — “He will hang in and tough it out.” Mulroney’s wife Mila, Armstrong adds, will be hemmed in by her responsibilities in 1990 and “is likely to get depressed and feel imprisoned.” Quebec police not touching ‘touch’ dance club THURSO (CP) - In a small booth in a bar in this West Quebec town, customers can pay $10 to fondle an exotic dancer, the Ottawa Citizen reports.Touch dancing is apparently a new wrinkle in the Quebec strip-bar scene and The Capitol is the only touch bar in the capital area.There are more popular in northern Quebec and the Montreal area, where police have laid charges such as indecency and keeping a bawdy house against dancers, management and clients.Some bars have also had their liquor licences suspended.But in Thurso, — about 50 kilometres northeast of Ottawa — Quebec police have not intervened and business is good most nights.On a recent Thursday night, a reporter from the Citizen watched one stripper accompany a man wearing a blue tuque to the booth.Through a metre-wide opening into the cubicle, the reporter saw the man sit in a chair while the dancer stood between his legs.When the song began, she placed the man’s hand on her breast.The writhing stripper pulled down her tights and the man began caressing her bare thighs and buttocks.Again the woman took his hand, this time placing it between her legs.On several occasions, the stripper ran her hand over the man’s crotch.When the song ended, the stripper gave the man a long kiss and was paid before returning to the bar area.The scene was repeated by other patrons and strippers.Quebec’s liquor laws outlaw dancers from talking, sitting or drin- king with patrons as well as letting themselves be touched.Quebec Police Force Cpl.Allan Richard, of the Hull region’s morality squad, said the force recently received a complaint regarding the dancers at the Capitol Hotel.SAW NOTHING But undercover police who visited the bar just before Christmas failed to observe any illegal activity, Richard said.Thurso Mayor Desmond Murphy said he was unaware of the activities at the bar.“That surprises me.I knew they had strippers but I’m surprised it’s that advanced.” Andre Foley, the owner of the Capitol, could not be reached for comment.Pauline Larose, a day manager at the hotel, said she was not aware the dancers were allo- wing themselves to be touched.Larose said dancers are allowing the touching without the knowledge of management.Sgt.Gaétan Villeneuve, of the Montreal Urban Community police morality squad, said the touch-bar trend has been partly caused by the frustration of regular customers.“I imagine, that after a time, it’s nice to watch but they would like to touch also,” said Villeneuve.Ottawa police know of no touch bars in Ottawa or surrounding cities.Frank Bentivoglio, a local businessman who owns three strip bars, said that “the law does not even allow the girls to talk or hang around a table .It’s basically just prostitution.” #¦___faei Keanu Randy Klnnaar, Publisher.569-9511 Charlea Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Schelb, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Richard Leasard, Production Manager.569-9931 Mark Gullletta, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Guy Renaud, Graphics.569-4856 Francine Thibault, Composition.569-9931 CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $180 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year- $74.00 6 months- $44.00 3 months- $30.60 1 month- $15.00 U.S.1 Foreign: 1 year- $15100 6 months- $92.00 3 months- $62.00 1 month- $32.00 Back copies of The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: 60c per 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The Townships The RECORD—Friday, January 5, 1990—3 —____ftqi UBcmti Notliing left to fight with, teachers dropping suit Richmond: Last gasp for saving the St.Francis grove By John Tollefsrud RICHMOND — Legal costs and complications have finally overwhelmed teachers trying to save a wooded grove from the chainsaw and a spokesman admits the year long battle is lost.Ronald Ewing, a St.Francis Elementary School teacher who holds power of attorney for the protesting group, told the Record Thursday that a falling-out with the group’s lawyer over billing has cut off legal avenues for the committee."The misunderstanding over the fee is what caused us to discontinue our case,” Ewing said.“All of the teachers and the Save the Grove supporters believed that we had a maximum fee of $5000.” After months of legal wrangling it also appeared Thursday that yet another out-of-court settlement is being attempted.BITTER CONFLICT The bitter conflict dates back to the fall of 1988.It became public that December when a group of St.Francis teachers joined forces and sought community support to save a parcel of woodland next to the school.The grove, as it came to be known, had been sold to a Richmond man for $8000 by the St.Francis College Board.The SFCB is a non-profit public trust set up in 1854 to advance educational goals at St.Francis.New grove owner André Gou-dreau has said he is planning to build condominiums on the site.He could not be reached for comment Thursday.LEGALITY CHALLENGED But the grove committee challenged the legality of the SFCB sale, arguing it violated the board’s own charter.Led by teachers Ewing and David Laberee, the group sought to protect the grove as green space.They argued that as the only such site in the area the tiny wood provided education and recreation for pupils.SFCB chairman Bill Stevens has defended the sale of the grove, sticking by the argument that the money raised would help the students.The SFCB and its supporters have argued the grove is a nuisance and has been out-of-bounds to students.Goudreau has not touched the .72-acre grove since it was surveyed a year ago.But he could have since the Eastern Townships School Board lease on it expired June 30, 1989.Stevens said Goudreau has probably left the land alone to avoid bad publicity.Donald Healy, a Melbourne cabinet maker was elected chairman of the Save the Grove committee at a public meeting last Feb.8.It was at that meeting the apparent mixup over fees occured WENT TO COURT Those present voted 47-23 to go to court to save the grove.Lawyer Robert O’Donnell said Wednesday that at the time he believed his fees would not exceed $5000.He said they rose because of the complexity of the case and the SFCB opposition.Save the Grove has already paid O’Donnell $4000 and has about $1000 left in its bank account.All the money was donated by the public.Ewing said a collective decision was made last fall that the group could not continue to raise money in good faith merely to pay legal fees.CONCILIATION O’Donnell sent Ewing’s group another bill July 12 but they have declined to pay.The matter is now ( hairman of the Save the Grove committee Donald Healy: The $5000 lawyer’s fee was a package deal.Lite».Never will she turn her smile away Having trouble?Feeling sad?See Monique Martin for help By André Robichaud LENNOXVILLE — By the end of her second semester she had become one of the more popular teachers at Champlain Regional College.Spunky and energetic, Monique Martin took to teaching as easily as a Yuppie takes to a BMW.Ever so open in her approach to students and teachers alike, she quickly became a friend to many of the campus (and the local pub) regulars.Having trouble with your Intro to Psychology assignment?See Monique.Wondering about what courses to choose for next year?Talk to Monique.Feeling sad because of a rupture in your love life?Get a hug from Miss Martin.BUSY AGENDA If you'd like to meet Monique, make sure you get a copy of her agenda.Eleven months of the year she’s either teaching, in her office If you'd like to meet Monique Martin, make sure you get a copy of her ****** f *4et grading papers, counselling a student or friend, attending a union meeting, organizing a lecture or party, helping her son with his homework, reviewing textbooks for the Psychology department, or “playing” with her computer.Maybe she sleeps once in a while.Maybe! Though she’s such a hard worker, her sense of humor and her knack for story-telling and gossip make you wonder just how serious this lady is — and lady is a term that fits Martin to a tee.DON'T MENTION.If you’re short on time, don’t mention anyone she knows intimately — or you’re in for a long conversation.She seems to know half the people in the Eastern Townships Martin probably knows you.Her popularity might give the impression that she’s been in the area forever.But about 25 years ago she was still in her native Gaspé region, contemplating a move to Montréal to further her studies.Six years later she moved to a commune in the Massawippi area where she got ‘hands on’ experience with — let’s call it — group therapy.This experience, she says, “Really showed me how important it is to share.” SHARES HER SMILE And share she does.Never will she turn her smile away from someone.During the twelth month of her year, July, it’s quite simple to get in touch with Martin.Just take a walk down a certain dirt road along Massawippi Lake, cut through the woods, head toward the lake, and you'll spot a beat-up.old hammock hanging between two trees.If Martin's in it.leave her be If she's not, jump in it yourself and wait.She’ll eventually show up.Let yourself sway in the breeze When Monique Martin arrives, she'll offer you a refreshing drink Accept it, lay back, and let her tell you a story.This might be one of the most peaceful and enjoyable before the St.Francis bar for conciliation by trustee Charles Leblanc.If a compromise cannot be reached binding arbitration will follow.The conciliation process also prevents O’Donnell from suing for the extra fees.In the meantime O’Donnell is still acting as go-between for SFCB and the teachers.On Wednesday and again on Thursday O’Donnell told Ewing that SFCB lawyer Marc-André Martel — who is also Richmond's mayor — had proposed that the board accept a Nov.23 offer by the teachers to drop the case, with each side paying its own legal fees, if Goudreau (also represented by Martel) would drop a $35,000 counter-suit against Save the Grove for “fraudulent manoeuvres.” SFCB declined to settle out of court.Ewing said Wednesday he was puzzled by the sudden flurry of activity this week.“I found it very interesting that on the day that you announce that you’re going to interview Mr.Healy and Mr.Stevens, he (Martel) comes with an offer at 3:30,” Ewing told The Record.The latest otter comes with strings attached.Martel confirmed that it hinges on the teachers allowing SFCB to revise its ancient charter.There's some confusion as to how that might take place.The thrust of the teachers’s legal argument is that the SFCB charter makes all St.Francis teachers members of the board — hence enabling them to void the sale of the grove.Stevens said revising the rules would prevent teachers from suing the SFCB on the same grounds over future decisions.Over the summer and fall the SFCB rejected at least one other offer to settle out of court.Stevens said the worry that the SFCB could be sued again made revising the charter a must.He said the board will try to change the charter to remove the teachers’ decision-making power Stevens said the board is not considering elections for the board.Stevens also denied he is in conflict of interest by being both SFCB chairman and ETSB commissioner for the Richmond area.REGRETS Stevens said he feels no particular relief that the matter may be resolved He said he regrets that while the board has given $42,000 to St.Francis and Richmond Regional schools over the past 15 years there will be nothing this year thanks to legal expenses.“Personally, it bothers me to pay our lawyers with students' money — but the teachers wanted it that way anyway.” Ewing too expressed a regret: that the teachers had to assume responsibility for the grove.“Part of the problem is that the people who should have been fighting this thing were on the other side: the St.Francis College Board, the Eastern Townships School Board and the principal of St.Francis (Richard Orze-chowski)," he said.“They’re the ones who should have been fighting to save this piece of land.^ Orzechowski shrugged off Ewing’s remarks.“Everyone has „« their own opinion and he’s entitled to his.I 'm just glad it’s over — is it over?" Whatever the grove’s fate, its supporters still have hope.At an , interview arranged with Healy and Ewing Wednesday afternoon, 18 others dropped by to show their solidarity.St.Francis College Board chairman Bill Stevens: ‘It bothers me to pay our lawyers with students ’ money Witness has trouble finding good help Davignon: Lawyers dither By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE — Taxpayers who have been religiously following the inquiry into administration practices at the Davignon school board left disappointed Thursday after waiting all afternoon to hear testimony from notary Jean-Pierre Dion, a business partner of former director general Fernand Barsalou.Dion’s lawyer Alain Boisvert spent the early part of the afternoon huddled behind closed doors with his client and Education Ministry prosecutor André Laverdière.When the doors opened, Boisvert asked inquiry chairman Claude Gagnon for a two hour adjournment to study the file further.When Dion and his lawyer returned late in the afternoon, Boisvert asked Gagnon for a second adjoun- ment of at least a day and a half.Boisvert said he wanted to determine whether representing Dion would constitute a conflict of interest for him professionally.“That’s your problem,” Gagnon told Boisvert politely.“Your client has a right to legal representation and the protection of the charters.If you can’t represent him, then he will have to find somebody who can.” LITTLE NOTICE Boisvert argued that Dion only received a subpeona ordering him to appear Thursday on December 29 — a time when most lawyers were on vacation.“It would be very difficult for Mr.Dion to find another lawyer who would have sufficient time to study the file by next Tuesday,” Boisvert said.Gagnon, who many in the au- dience have dubbed Columbo for his quiet manner of assembling the pieces of the puzzle, pointed out that his report was due February : 15 and he had every intention of meeting that deadline.After hearing Boisvert’s arguments, Gagnon agreed to postpone j testimony from Dion until Thursday — at which time he instructed Boisvert to either be prepared to ! proceed.“If you decide you are unable to ! take the case, please advise Mr.Dion in time for him to find another lawyer who is prepared to proceed on Thursday morning at 9:30,” Gagnon said.Gagnon said testimony would continue Tuesday as planned.j It is expected Gerard Toussii gnault, the board’s interim direct' tor general, will be the witness.* From Sweetsburg to the Citadel?Tory MP for Lt.Governor?Gabrielle Bertrand.‘You seem to have more information than I have.’ With CP files MONTREAL — The rumor’s back that Conservative MP Gabrielle Bertrand will soon be named the Queen's official representative in Quebec.La Presse reported Thursday it has learned that potential candidates in the Eastern Townships riding of Brome-Missisquoi have been approached by the Conservatives with a view towards replacing Bertrand, the widow of Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec premier between 1968 and 1970.Bertrand refused to comment on persistent rumors that she has been chosen to become the province’s first woman lieutenant-governor.“You seem to have more information than I have,” she said Quebec’s present lieutenant-governor, Gilles Lamontagne, was appointed to the largely symbolic post in March 1984, and is fast approaching the end of the five-year term fixed by tradition.The first woman to serve as a lieutenant governor in Canada was Pauline McGibbon, named in Ontario in 1974.When the Bertrand rumor first surfaced last fall Tory organizers scoffed at the suggestion.Provincial Liberal insiders wondered Thursday whether La Presse had new information or was victim of a quiet week for news.They say a more likely choice is Finance Minister Gérard D.Lévesque, a widely-respected 29-year veteran of the National Assembly wars * k I I—The RECORI>-Friday, January 5,1990 #1___ftgl «Bcara The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial Roads: In worse condition than the drivers Since Richard Bilodeau had a trucking accident in the state of New Hampshire which left three men dead last November, there have been many mixed feelings about the affair on both sides of the border.After the bizarre legalities and technicalities surrounding the Bilodeau case many people felt that the Coaticook truck driver was getting a raw deal from the American state troopers, who were being accused of a vendetta against truckers.The support for Bilodeau was shown by the large amount of money that flowed into his defence fund after he was kept in jail for close to three weeks, before his bail was reduced to a more reasonable amount.And that was, and still is, before his defence counsel have been allowed by state prosecutors to see the proof against him.Nonetheless, many Canadians can relate to Bilodeau, in the sense that the average person does not have a few spare hundred thousand dollars lying around to pay the costs of the American judicial system, should they be involved in a traffic accident.INTIMIDATING But on the other hand, sympathy wanes when drivers everywhere remember closing their eyes behind the wheel and fearing for their lives when an 18-wheeler sped by them on a icy curve or narrow road.Transport trucks are intimidating, there is no question about it.I don’t know how many times a Mack truck has been over the double-yellow line in a curve when I came along from the opposite direction in my four-cylinder eggbeater.For that matter, I don’t know how many times I’ve seen family cars committing the same error as well.But if the unfortunate happens and a tragic crash results, should drivers be charged with criminal acts and thrown in jail?That is the question I’ve been asking myself in the wake of the Bilodeau incident.I’ve been unusually attentive lately as to how drivers, including myself, handle country roads.And there is really only one conclusion.The roads out there are in a lot worse condition than the drivers themselves.TOO NARROW B’irst of all, I’d be curious to know through what method of engineering it was decided, way back when, that lanes were to be just a bit larger than the width of a car.For some reason I doubt that this rule was derived from engineers living in a winter climate.Take the old Route 143 from Sherbrooke to the Vermont border.See how many times you accidentally slide your wheels over the line for a split second.Now obviously, as taxpayers we cannot spend tremendous amounts of money on revamping our entire road network, but if the shoulders were paved to give drivers an extra three feet to manoeuvre on each side—instead of gravel sunken a few dangerous inches below the pavement — perhaps the roads would be a bit safer.WHAT LINES?Then there are the lines themselves, a driver’s guiding hand when the weather goes bad.But this guiding hand often turns out to be a slap in the face as the lines often disappear into oblivion when most needed — when the lights go out or when the snow and fog come in.Can’t the boys at Transport Quebec give the lines a second coat of paint in the fall?Another thing is that the width of the line separating oncoming traffic is never more than a few inches wide.If our double or single middle-lines left two feet of colored space between lanes, then maybe cars would be less inclined to move over into the wrong lane.Our highways are pathetically hazardous and I think we pay enough taxes to have a little more spent on road safety.Sending the snowplows out, salting and sanding more frequently would drastically improve road conditions.And more guardrails and lights would also help the driver see where he is headed should the painted lines fail.ACCIDENTS If citizens do not push their governments for better roads then the number of fatal accidents will not decrease.And aside from when alcohol or extreme negligence is the case, people should not be thrown in jail for traffic accidents, because it is just that — an accident.Although no one really knows why Mr.Bilodeau’s truck lost its lumber on a twisting road that tragic night in New Hampshire, the evidence will be heard when his trial comes up in the spring.And the roads of that American state are just like the ones here in Quebec.So perhaps Mr.Bilodeau should be the one pursuing charges of negligence against the state.ann McLaughlin Not all waste need be throw away Today in History January 5, 1990 By The Canadian Press The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the War Measures Act — a statute that confers emergency powers on the federal cabinet — 47 years ago today, in 1943 Passed in 1914, the statute allows the cabinet to govern by decree when it perceives the existence of “war.invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended.” The act was proclaimed in force during both world wars and during the October Crisis of 1970 in Quebec.By Ian Bailey MISSISSAUGA, Ont.(CP) — If you can use about 25 tonnes of spoiled toothpaste, 50,000 used railway ties or 20 ships sunk off the East Coast, Bob Laughlin wants to hear from you.These and other apparently useless — and hard to dispose of — commodities are on the bill of fare of the Canadian Waste Materials Exchange, a national matchmaker for industrial waste that Laughlin has run out of his office since the late 1970s.The manager for ORTECH International, a non-profit research agency, proposed the exchange to the federal Environment Ministry and manages it as a sideline with about $60,000 a year in federal, provincial and industry contributions.It moves about 300,000 tonnes of waste annually — about 17 per cent of the items brought to his attention and listed in a bi-monthly catalogue that’s sent to 3,500 businesses, mainly in Canada.“If we get a call, we match them with the guy who has the listing,” Laughlin said in an interview at his office in this city just west of Toronto.“At that point, we really step out of it.We’ve made the introduction so it’s up to them to get together and see whether the deal works.” All the regulations applicable to transporting wastes apply when companies make trades through the program, says Laughlin.FINDS HOME He recalls a popcorn producer found a home for masses of stale popcorn when the service directed him to a pig farmer who used it for feed.Most listings in the exchange’s De- cemuer uuneun are basic items such as spent ammonia and sulphuric acid.The acid can be used for removing water from oil, while elements can be removed from ammonia for fertilizer, says Laughlin.Some requests in the bulletin come from overseas, including Israel and Pakistan.“They come into Canada looking for Canadian garbage,” said Laughlin with a smile.Nothing is too exotic for the exchange, which once tried to aid a drug manufacturer offering two-million litres of urine from pregnant mares, but found no takers.‘‘We’ve always said we’ll list anything,” says Laughlin, noting he would draw the line at nuclear waste, PCBs or some other forms of hazardous wastes.Some critics say the program needs more funding so it can increase its success rate.Others note it has diverted waste otherwise bound for landfills or lakes.WORKS WELL “What the exchange can do is limited, but what it does, it does well,” says Bill Glenn, a consultant who’s helping the Toronto-based environmental group Pollution Probe prepare a book on industrial-waste disposal.The exchange has spurred the creation of regional operations in Ontario Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia.There are also more than a dozen exchanges in the United States.A 1988 consultant’s report on exchanges prepared for federal and provincial environment ministers called for creation of six regional exchanges co-ordinated by a national body.“It’s a relatively efficient way of handling waste," said Ian Hill, a spokesman for Acres International Ltd., which did the study.There’s little profit to be made in running an exchange so it’s really up to the government to fund such organizations, Hill said in an interview from Niagara Falls, Ont.The government commitment suggested in the Acres report could make the exchanges a vital part of the waste-disposal process, says Laughlin.More companies are discovering that waste management “is costing them something,” he says.“Previously, it was a small absolute number that got buried in the balance sheet of most corporations.All of a sudden the numbers are standing out.” Spokesmen for some of the estimated 100 companies who annually use the exchange say it’s a useful aid for finding wastes, although some have complaints, especially about the listings.“You call about an item thinking it’s still there, but it’s gone,” says John Rocchi, president of Retek Resource Recovery Inc., who often looks for wastes like nitric acid, which can be turned into fertilizer.But he concedes the program has its virtues for any company seeking gold in garbage.“What’s neat about the exchange is that it lists new and different things people haven’t thought about,” he said from his Brantford, Ont.office.“It’s amazing how many things that are waste to one guy are product to us.” !/ / MOT SIKH A ÊAD GEORGE.YûUCjOTATIE.YOU GOT SUPPERS.You might Still GET A RjORIECjA.The Christian Science Monitor Los Angeles Times Syndicate Letters A word from the Legion Members of Royal Canadian Legion BRIO Sherbrooke and the Ladies Aux.wish to thank the Record for doing our write-ups, publicity and advertising in the past year.We wish you all the best in 1990.VIOLET McNAB, for BRIO Sherbrooke Ethiopians need our help now Dear Editor: Five years ago Canadian entertainers mobilized massive amounts of funding to assist starving people in Ethiopia.Steelworkers negotiated a penny an hour wage deduction to aid the hungry.Governments and citizens alike dug deep into their pockets and came to the rescue of this drought ridden country.Now a famine of unprecedented proportions has put four million at risk of starving to death by this spring.Ethiopia is affected by both famine and war.It is more difficult now, than in 1984, to get relief to the people in this country via government protected routes.The territory most affected by the famine is in rebel hands.Canada should reject the Ethiopian government’s resistance to food aid being brought into the rebel areas.Our government should act now to support the existing “back door” route from neighbouring Sudan.It is time for the Canadian government to insist that Ethiopia, and the liberation fronts, put their people first and agree to the safe passage of food.With Canada’s recent cuts to foreign aid ($1.8 billion over five years) there is a risk that Ethiopia may be abandoned, or that desperately needed relief will be taken from other important programmes.Abandoning Ethiopia now would only serve to un-do Canada’s seven years of support (the world’s third largest donor in 1987) and would be morally unpardonable.To delay now will condemn our past efforts and mean certain death for the children who once thanked us.Yours truly, BRUCE ALLEN President Northern Lights for Africa Society E.GERARD DOCQUIER President Steelworkers Humanity Fund Looking back at the 1980s: Life was like a cheap-plastic imitation of TV sitcom The 1980’s will be remembered.Some of us will recall the good things that happened, others only the bad.The world was, if nothing else, an interesting place to be, and certainly better than whatever was number two.Most of us realized that if we didn’t do something about the ecology we wouldn’t have much of it around much longer.People held down for years by repressive governments suddenly arose and demanded their rights, to the delight of the world.Unfortunately, it hasn’t happened in Canada yet.There were lots of good things and lots of bad things about living on this planet during the 1980’s, however it was only in the last few years of the decade that my own, personal, grievance came into being.With the advent of the upwardly mobile nitwits that have taken over cities, suburbs and even begun to filter into rural areas, came a number of innovations.The car phone is a good example.“I’m calling from my car,” became a popular phrase to throw at those who did not own a Jeep or a BMW.“Just a second my other line is ringing," was the obvious answer.The car phone led to such instant successes, in the business world.as the phoney car phone — a plastic replica that those who wanted to be mistaken for yuppies, but couldn’t afford $1100 for a car phone, could hold to their ears at stop signs, traffic lights and traffic jams.Wow.Another phenomenon of the 80’s was the increasing popularity of desi-gner children.As the thirty-something faddishly inclinded “disco- Where the pavement v ends JIM LAWRENCE vered" the joys of children hordes of perfect, obnoxious youngsters were turned loose on the poor unsuspecting world.Each dressed in identical designer jeans and T-shirts with little animals crouched in fear on the pockets.Discussing the problems you were having with your “au paire” girl was an ideal way to impress your less fortunate friends.Some people are forced to look after their own children and may not appreciate the intraca-cies of managing a household made up of housekeepers and au paire girls.In my mind however the least pleasant development was the advent of the Christmas Family Newsletter.If you, as yet, haven’t had the pleasure of receiving one of these pleasant epistles, let me describe them: without fail they are a cutsey form letter, written on one's personal computer and printed in great quantities to be included with one’s seasonal greeting cards.I suppose the underlying message is “I’m far too busy with important things to bother writing you a personal letter.” Or maybe “I’m far to shallow to be able to write more than one letter a year.” (That may be closer to the truth).The ones we received ranged from brief, everything-is-fine notes to long-minded, dull six-page epics that detailed, minute-by-minute, uninteresting summer vacations or extended trips.They all have a number of common themes: everything is wonderful, the children are perfect and doing well, everyone is making loads of money and all the relatives, neighbors and friends are happy and healthy.They are universally filled with little private jokes, which nobody but the writer understands, and cute little funny comments.They are generally pretty boring, unless you’re a grandparent of one of the letter writers and even then you find them dull, and once you’ve read one or two of these gushy letters you tend to speedread them and file them under “G" (for garbage).The overall presumption is that everyone in the world is interested in the writer’s life and how wonderfully it really is.I wrote a newsletter this year.In a moment of democratic furor I submitted it to the family for comment.Nobody thought it was funny and Eve flately, for all of the above reasons refused to insert it into any of the cards we sent out.Well I was crushed ! So much for democracy.Here I’d gone to the effort of writing a delightfully amusing, accurate assessment of our 1989, which got filed under “G” as it came out of the printer.I had to agree with her, however, that next to the newsletters which we’d already received it read like the “Grapes of Wrath” or “Candide” — all is for the best in this best of all pos- sible worlds.Anyhow we didn’t send it out.I was going to reproduce it here but knowing that Uncle Chuck probably wouldn’t print it and even if he did Eve wouldn’t speak to me again, I decided to let the item drop and, except for some bitter complaining, forget about it.In all the Christmas newsletters we received there seemed to be a number of similar, parallel thoughts.The writers assume, without fail, to believe you know every member of their family either by their first name or nickname.This leads to sentences that read: “Smelly, Max and Duffey spent a week last summer visiting Aunt Sally at her summer cottage.” If we had any idea who Smelly, Max and Duffey were, or who Aunt Sally was or where her cottage was, we might have been more interested.Some of the items you rarely find in these letters are lists of relatives who got divorced, were sent to jail or packed off to institutions.You never see bankruptcy notices or a description of the family home as it burned to the ground.All the really interesting, warm, intimate, juicy details about most families are glossed over in an attempt to make life in the 1980’s sound like a cheap-plastic imitation of TV sitcom.In fact sending out a general newsletter is a very plastic i mitation of Christmas cheer.It only takes a moment more to scribble a shorty note.Even a few lines that were of a personal nature would be better than pages of impersonal yuppie gup.} The RKCORD—Friday.January 5.1990-5 History 1____toi tcecora Judge: ‘The defendant deserves to be imprisoned’ That pugnacious Dr.Trenholme of Coaticook In January of 1896, says the History of Compton County, 27-year-old Dr.Gilbert A.Trenholme left a “large practice” at Eaton Corner to return to Coaticook “home of his youth .where he is gradually securing his share of the practice.” Trenholme’s unconventional methods of “securing his share” of patients was made public three years later in a sensational trial in Sherbrooke.He was accused of breaking the nose, blacking the eye, cutting the cheek and cracking the rib of a colleague in the medical profession, Dr.Charles N.Stevenson, in the sickroom and presence of a lady patient.Bernard Epps of Kingsey, and Mr.Peter Cramer, the elder, and two sons of Mr.Cramer, set off from the back settlement in this Township with a view of exploring certain Lots of wild land in the adjoining Township of Ely, upon which they proposed to commence a settlement.“After having visited and viewed some of the Lots and decided upon their movements for the ensuing day, they pitched their camp for the night on the line between the two townships, about the distance of eight miles from the settlements of Melbourne.“Desirous of providing against the loss of their fire, (as the night 'f 1 IN ‘Unworthy of professional gentlemen or any person having the slightest claim to manliness.’ throughout Stanstead and Compton counties.He graduated in 1893, began to practice in Eaton Corner and then moved back to Coaticook.Less than five years after he narrowly escaped prison for assaulting Dr.Stevenson, he was again in court before Judge Mulvena for a brawl — this time as plaintiff.Trenholme informed the court that his sister, wife of Dr.Edwin ‘Come out to the King’s highway and I will trim you!’ Coaticook’s Mrs.T.H.Fox had been very ill for some time and had a private nurse in attendance.On Tuesday morning, November 28, 1899, she took a turn for the worse and her husband telephoned Dr.Stevenson in Hatley.He was told to go home first for his medical bag.The nurse said they’d better not wait that long and so Mr.Fox telephoned young Dr.Trenholme who came right away.Half an hour later, Dr.Stevenson drove up in his buggy.Fox met him outside and told him Dr.Trenholme was attending the patient.Dr.Stevenson said he should send Trenholme home because Mrs.Fox was his patient.Fox agreed, said he’d pay Dr.Trenholme and let him go, led Dr.Stevenson in by the back door and asked him to wait.Dr.Stevenson washed his hands at the sink and was informed by the unhappy Fox that Dr.Trenholme wanted to speak with him.Stevenson entered the sickroom and said ; “What are you doing here?This is my case.” THE FIGHT Dr.Trenholme ordered the older man out of the house and said he had no business there.Stevenson retorted that if anybody left it would be Trenholme.Trenholme said that if Stevenson didn’t go, he’d be obliged to throw him out.Stevenson turned to Fox and asked which of the two physicians he preferred to attend his wife.Fox answered, “You, Dr.Stevenson.” Stevenson was standing three-quarters turned with his back toward Trenholme when he was hit very hard on the right side of the face and knocked partly down on the bed and partly on the floor.He was struck twice more, kicked in the ribs and dragged to the door while the nurse and patient squealed and Fox tried to interfere.Dr.Leroux, who examined Dr.Stevenson two or three days after the incident, described his injuries to the court.He had a fractured nose, a v-shaped cut on the right side of the bridge, a V/i inch long cut splitting the right nostril, another cut on the right cheek — possibly caused by a signet ring — red and black spots on the arm and a broken third rib.The case was heard before Judge Mulvena who called it “an almost unprecedented case in which two professional gentlemen, called to the bedside of a lady patient, should engage in a conflict over the privilege of attending her.” THE SENTENCE It was a pity, he added, that neither defence nor prosecution had seen fit to call Mrs.Fox to give her version of the incident.“This squabble in the presence of a patient, whose condition required delicate consideration, was brutal and disgraceful and unworthy of professional gentlemen, or any person having the slightest claim to manliness.” The defence had argued it was a gross violation of professional ethics for one medical doctor to enter the room of a patient while another was already there.Judge Mulvena said that there was clearly no trespass, Dr.Stevenson had been invited in by the owner and Dr.Trenholme had no legal right to eject him nor any excuse for “a brutal and unprovoked” assault on a man older and physically weaker than himself.“The defendant deserves to be imprisoned without option of a fine, but the Court hesitates to impose a stigma of imprisonment upon a young man at the outset of his professional career, and therefore imposes a penalty of $50 and costs or thirty days in jail.” THE TRENHOLMES Dr.Gilbert A.Trenholme came from a distinguished Eastern Townships family.His father was Captain R.G.Trenholme who ran a woolen mill in Coaticook and was mayor of the town in 1891.Dr.Edward A.Trenholme, a celebrated gynecologist and one of the founders of Bishop’s Medical Faculty, was an uncle and Judge Norman William Trenholme, professor of Roman and Public Law at McGill — later Chief Justice — was another.Clementina Fessenden, organizing secretary of the Daughters of Empire and founder of Empire Day (later, Victoria Day), was an aunt.Her first son, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, inventor of AM radio and a thousand other things besides, was therefore his first cousin.His grandfather was Edward Trenholme of Trenholm, mill ownerand inventor of a grain elevator, a grain cooler and a railway snowplow that caused his death at the age of 54.He was breakfasting at Chamberlin’s Hotel in Sherbrooke one bitter January morning when he received word that the CPR was about to test his invention.He’d snatched his coat and hat and went huffing and puffing towards the station but collapsed in the winter streets and died.Edward's brother, William, also died an untimely death when he bought an island in the St.Francis River with his wife’s inheritance, and drowned while heading there in a borrowed canoe.Their father, William Sr.— Gilbert’s greatgrandfather— had come from England in 1819 to settle on some 400 pioneer acres along the river in Kingsey Township and was killed in 1826 in a way best described by notary D.Thomas in a letter to the British Colonist: THE LETTER “Melbourne, Monday Eve, 11th July.“On Friday morning last, Mr.Wm.Trenholme.of the Township threatened to be a rainy one) they at the suggestion of Mr.Trenholm put fire to a dry, hollow pine tree or stub, standing not far distant from their camp which soon fell in an opposite direction from them, and lodged against another tree.“Imagining they had no cause for apprehending any danger from the burning tree, they laid themselves down to repose, after Mr.Trenholm had drawn his Watch observing it was half past nine o’clock, and invoked the blessing of heaven through the night.THE ACCIDENT “Scarcely had they begun to indulge in sleep, when the tree weakened by the fire, parted about eight or ten feet from the ground, and the body being pushed by the detached part further from them than the top, it quitted its hold upon the other tree and fell directly across the camp, killing Mr.Trenholm instantly, and so wounding Mr.Cramer that he survived only about twenty hours.“On Saturday morning, one of the young men returned and gave the alarm, when about twenty men promptly repaired to the spot, and preparing two Biers, commenced their return with the two bodies.I met them at some distance from the forest and can assure you it was some spectacle, the view of which of which would not fail very sensibly to affect even the most obdurate heart.“Some axe-men were in front cutting with all their might, & removing the bushes & branches, to make a passage, then came a bier supported by four men almost exhausted by fatigue, on which was Mr.Cramer, bereft of reason, and alternately screaming and groaning, apparently in the last agonies of expiring nature, and these were followed by the other bier, with the dead body of Mr.Trenholm.“The mournful procession arrived at the house of Mr.Cramer about six o’clock, P.M.and the body of Mr.Trenholm was conveyed to Kingsey the same evening.The Rev.Mr.Wood, Rector of Drum-mondville, attended and the bodies of Mr.Trenholm and Mr.Cramer were committed to the tomb, the former last evening, and the latter this morning, in presence of a numerous assemblage of friends and neighbours.” THE DOCTOR Gilbert A.Trenholme had been born in Kingsey Township on March 24, 1868.He attended Coaticook High School and then worked three years as a clerk in the Canada Express Company offices in Montreal before attending his uncle’s Bishop's Medical School His summers were spent working for his father's mill in Coaticook and buying wool from farmers Armitage Tomkins, had been staying at the Stanstead Hotel when her trunk was broken open, $13 in money taken, lamp oil spilled over the contents and set afire.Unsatisfied with the explanation offered by the hotel, he drove to Stanstead one Saturday afternoon and arrived about 3:30.He put his horse up at the hotel stable and asked after his sister but was told she wasn’t there.He next walked down Stanstead’s main street talking to merchants about the theft and fire and coUec-ting signatures of a petition calling for an investigation.THE HOTEL The Stanstead Hotel was owned and operated by Charles Nettleton and George Hall.Hall was from Dunham, had run a livery business in Knowlton before buying the La-keview Hotel there.Then he’d managed the Hall Hotel in Waterloo and tried his hand at farming before going into partnership with Nettleton at Stanstead.They did not want an investigation, believing there had been quite enough trouble already over the incident and that Dr.Tomkins was satisfied to leave things as they were.Instead, Dr.Trenholme had arrived to stir up more trouble and Nettleton angrily climbed to Mrs.Tomkins’ room to ask if she’d authorized her brother to stick his nose in.She said she had not and asked Nettleton to send her brother up and she’d talk to him.Nettleton met Trenholme in the yard of his inn and gave him the message.Trenholme said there’d be an investigation just the same.Nettleton got even angrier and called Trenholme “a big stiff!” (or so he told the court) and Trenholme retorted; “Come out to the King’s highway and I with trim you!” THE BRAWL Walter Saunders saw the men square off on the public street and Dr.Trenholme knock Nettleton’s hat off.Nettleton responded three or four times and Trenholme went down.He scrambled up and George Terrill, from a barber’s chair in the hotel, saw Nettleton hit him over the eye and the doctor went down a second time.But as he got up for the second time, Dr.Trenholme pulled a revolver from his pocket and that’s when George Hall, who’d just been told of the donnybrook out front, rushed out and struck him from behind.Walter Saunders took the Dr.Gilbert Trenholme.doctor’s pistol away from him.Asked what he was doing with a revolver in his pocket, Trenholme told the court he’d seen several people on Stanstead’s street looking at a partridge in a tree and had returned to his wagon for the gun he always carried.He’d been intercepted by Nettleton on his way back to shoot the partridge.He said that Hall had hit him from behind, that he fell to the ground and Hall kicked him while he was down but he nevertheless rose up with both men on his back and that’s when the revolver fell out of his pocket.He picked it up, he testified, and threatened to hit anyone with it who came near.Judge Mulvena generously overlooked the revolver, fined Nettleton $5 and half the costs, Hall $10 and the other half.George Hall, he said, deserved the stiffer sentence because he had not been provoked and to attack from behind was “unworthy of a man even in the heat of temper.” RICHMOND MELBOURNE The village of Trenholm, in Kingsey Township near Richmond.The young doctor.IK L £ * Wsïïü, mêM ! .jtei SssSss ' v.« rî 'W?' .w.-r* » «-The RECORD—Friday, January 5, 1990 Living #¦____ftga ttecora Fake time to understand violence in the 90’s The 1990’s, just another decade or is there something special about this time?I know it’s special for me, because 1 am alive here and now.I am part of “history becoming” along with billions of other humans and species, all life on this planet.As an individual, just one point of that life, what do the 1990’s mean to me, and what can I possibly mean to it?.1 don’t know whether it’s be cause I am turning 50 soon, or because of all the changes happening out there in the world, changes that feel fast.Those who were enemies are now friends.Friends, lovers and husbands, now not friends, lovers or husbands.Change on the political front and on the personal front.What I do know is that lam changing.The 1980’s for me has been a time of meeting the best and the ?worst in myself.A time of realizing that the world would not necessarily go on with some people creating problems and others discovering solutions.A time of coming to see that we are all in the same boat together, we are all a part of the problem and we all will find the solutions together or not.1 come into the 1980’s full of vision and hope.What could possibly stop people of goodwill from creating a better world?Now that we saw where our approach of security through strength, divide and conquer, bigger is better, greed etc.had gotten us, to the brink of nuclear distinction, now we would turn around, turn toward each other, work together to find new ways of defining and living secure, cooperative, egalitarian, ecological, non-sexist, non-racist, respectful, peaceful lives.I go into the 1990’s having to acknowledge that more than vision and goodwill is necessary.The 1980’s did bring about shifts in political blocks, an openess, a possibility.For me, they helped peel layers off the onion only to expose the deeper horror and challenge at the core.P'or me, I have moved from prea- Learn French This Winter INTENSIVE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS French 092 - Pre-University level French 2 nights per week French 102 - Cours de français premier degré II 1 night per week CLASSES ARE LIMITED, PLEASE APPLY EARLY For information: (819) 822-9670 ching non-violence to acknowledging that to live non-violently, I have to look at the violence in myself that I didn’t even know was there.Evil is real to me now.It is the pretense, the veil, the denial that I am anything but good.I do believe that human beings, as a part of nature, move toward wholeness, interconnectedness naturally.I don’t believe we are born with “original sin”.I do however experience that there is “evil” which can enter me through the fear and deep rage when it isn't acknowledged and expressed.How do I experience it?Very concretely as a shakiness, a physical shakiness when there is a choice of speaking my truth.With all the “goodwill” I believe I have, there is a part of me that is so terrified for my life, that the veil comes in and settles over my true feelings leaving me choking for words.I experience that there is something there 1 need to see or say, but it is just out of my reach.Some of the feelings I have uncovered recently are deep rage, deep pain and a deep void.I sense that this is the experience of the infant child in me who did feel her life was BISHOPS UNIVERSITY NEW YEARS DANCE SAT.JAN.6 Music by RUSSELL'S BUSHWACCER'S at BULWER COMMUNITY CENTER Everyone Welcome Admission Charged f IS GETTING UP TO CRUISING SPEED (1) ROAST BEEF AU JUS (2) CRACKLING STEAK (3) SMOKED MEAT (4) SCAMPIES, GIANT SHRIMP MANY GREEK, CANADIAN, ITALIAN PLATTERS ONLY AT 385 BELVEDERE ST • Reservations: SHERBROOKE 821-2636 Your Hosts Annie & John SUPER BRUNCH SERVED EVERY SUNDAY 11 a.m.to 2 p m T threatened, who learned not to express her anger and rage in order to please her caregivers.It is in that gap, the 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I am Kenneth Love, vice president of the National Scoliosis Foundation, 93 Concord Ave., P.O.Box 542, Belmont, Mass.02178.Thanks for your help, Ann.— Been There I responded: Dear Friend: I hope you have an energetic staff.You’re going to need it.Thanks for the opportunity to help millions of children.If ever an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure, this is it.Dear Ann Landers: Why do doctors tell men who come in for checkups that they have the body of a man half their age?To boost their egos or what?My husband is 68 and not in terrific shape.But now that his doctor has told him he has the body of a man half his age, the old fool brags all over town and has become extra frisky in the bedroom.Please tell those doctors to knock it off.— Mutton Dressed Like Lamb Dear Wife: No way.A doctor who can make his patients feel extra frisky can’t be all Ba-aaaa-aaaad.Get-well wishes » Uib Best wishes are extended to Mrs.Lily Sharman and to her daughter Mrs.Trixie Mathews, who have both been “under the weather” during the holiday season.Friends all hope that you both will be feeling well again very soon; they are also glad to note that Frank Mathews has recovered from his bout of flu.Card shower Mrs.Edna Moffatt will be celebrating her 84th birthday on January 10.Would all her friends and relatives please send a card to help make her day a happy one?She is formerly of Waterloo but now residing at Box 158, 412 Duhamel Street, Bedford, Que.JOJ 1A0.Happy birthday! 70th wedding anniversary Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to M r.and M rs.George Patterson who will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on January 7,1990.From all your Brigham friends and family.Au Bon Marché's Semi-Annual Grab Sale «s Starts Tuesday, Jan.9 at 9:30 a.m.Don't Miss It! 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York.“The likelihood (of bankruptcy) is increasing as time goes on and the move today is a perfect example.” Campeau owns a real estate empire that ran into difficulty with the purchase of two U.S.retail chains —Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores.The securities seized by the National Bank Thursday were provided as collateral by Robert Campeau Capital Inc.for a National loan granted to the numbered company.“Since the loan was in default, and since the restructuring in the U.§.has just started, we felt it would be important for all the parties concerned that we consolidate our position,” Andre Berard, National Bank president and chief executive, said in an interview Thursday.The bank did not reveal the amount of the loan, which Berard said is “in default and not considered current.” FOLLOW SCENE Berard said the bank intends neither to dispose of the Campeau securities nor acquire additional ones.“The rationale for making the move was not liquidating the shares or putting the company up into liquidation; just securing our position and telling all the parties involved ‘Hey, we’ve now got 35 per cent of the vote and therefore we intend to follow the scene very closely’”.Campeau earned a short reprieve earlier this week when Citibank, major creditor for Allied and Federated, extended from Sunday until at least Jan.15 a foreclosure deadline on a loan of $2.3 billion US.In the event that Campeau goes bankrupt, Berard said: “We haven’t made any scenario as to what would be the value of our securities ; the one fact remains — if you exclude the investment in Allied and Federated where we don’t know the real value — Campeau has a very high quality real-estate portfolio, a market value higher than the book value.” Analyst Mangano said the seizure "needs to be done, in prudence, given the likelihood that seeking Chapter IKbankruptcy protection) for Federated and Allied is now more likely than it was a month ago.” She added that the shares seized by the bank “are worth a fraction of what they were worth when Mr.Campeau purchased them.” OFFER DEPENDS Olympia and York Developments Ltd.of Toronto have offered Campeau an $800-million Cdn mortgage bridge loan.But this depends on the sale of Federated’s flagship Bloomingdale’s department store chain.After revelations Wednesday that Christmas sales fell short of expectations.Mangano said, “I don’t think Campeau will get the price for Bloomingdale’s that he requires.” On Wednesday another bidder for Bloomingdale’s, Taokyu Department Stores, dropped out, leaving only two or three bidders, said Mangano.Carol Sanger, a Cincinnati-based Federated official, said brusquely: "This is a personal situation involving the bank and Robert Campeau; it is both premature and inappropriate for the company to comment.” Campeau shares dropped 25 cents Thursday to $3.40.NT A derails attempts to save Via Wilson faces tough job at IMF By Larry Welsh OTTAWA (CP)— Finance Minister Michael Wilson, embroiled in controversy at home over his proposed goods and services tax and upcoming budget, faces one more problem at his new job at the International Monetary Fund.The United Nations agency this week appointed Wilson chairman of a powerful 22-member committee that sets policy for the fund, which lends billions of dollars to poor countries and promotes a stable world economy.But Wilson’s skills in stickhandling tough budgets and his unpopular tax should help resolve an international dispute over how much to increase the financial resources for the IMF, some economists said Thursday.“Mike is not an aggressive guy that is going to beat ’em up around the ears but will be soft spoken and well reasoned and that may well lead to an improvement,” said Mike McCracken, president of Ottawa-based Informetrica Ltd.And the new job for Wilson could be a subtle sign that he plans to stick around for some time yet as finance minister in Canada despite political heat he is feeling over his deficit-cutting policies, McCracken added.Wilson can keep his post as chairman of the IMF’s interim committee as long as he is Canadian finance minister.“It certainly scotches any rumors that he is likely to be departing in the next month or two,” McCracken said.‘ Tt would be very awkward for Canada to accept the post and then for Mike to be out in a short period of time.” RECORD SOLID the Royal Bank of Canada."There has been a substantial difference of views among the members of the interim committee on that increase,” Neufeld said.“His big challenge will be bringing about a consensus," he added.“There is tremendous pressure to get it done very quickly.” The Wall Street Journal said Thursday a special meeting of the committee could be held as early as the week of Jan.22.The IMF had hoped to reach agreement on increasing funding by the end of last year, but slow progress forced the agency last November to extend discussions until the end of March.The lending agency — faced with heavy demand for money from countries in 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between Esquimalt and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.The B.C.court said that train had to be operated under the agreement that brought the province into Confederation in 1871.Justice Minister Doug Lewis, who has the final say on the appeal, is studying a report from his officials on the ruling.Via’s trains are to be cut by half Jan.15 because federal financial support is being slashed.The Canadian Railway Labor Association, an umbrella group representing rail unions, told the agency that CN and CP should be required to operate passenger trains on lines losing Via trains.The federal Railway Act requires railways to carry any traffic offered them and that should include passengers, association executive director Ed Abbott said.The agency said the cabinet order authorizing the Jan.15 cuts also relieved CN and CP of any pas- senger-train obligations that might fall back on them.Abbott said in an interview he planned to seek legal advice on whether there was grounds to appeal the agency’s ruling, “but I’m not hopeful.” WANTED APPEAL He had hoped the agency’s decision would have given him clear-cut grounds to appeal to the Federal Caurt for a hearing on whether CN and CP were obligated to carry passengers.He had planned to ask the court for an injunction to stop the train cuts at least while it was hearing his appeal.Barrette said agency lawyers have determined that at least three of the Via trains — Toronto-Havelock, Montreal-Sherbrooke and Moncton-Edmundston — could not be saved by a legal technicality.Several groups including Transport 2000 have been urging provincial or municipal governments to challenge the cabinet orders that terminate the three trains.They say the orders shouldn’t apply to the three trains because, for technical reasons, they were operated by Via under different rules than the other trains which are being cancelled.But the agency said Via could have cancelled the three trains any time it wanted because they were operated on an experimental basis rather than orders from the former Canadian transport commission.Barrette said the same circumstance may also apply to Via’s Mon-treal-Quebec City trains which ran through Trois-Rivieres.The Quebec government was said to be considering a court challenge to try to save that line.CONTINUING EDUCATION BISHOPS - UNIVERSITY Certificate in Foreign Languages 30 credits The following evening courses will be offered in the Winter 1990 semester: MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Italian 102 Russian 102 Spanish 102 Spanish 306- M-W 4:30 pm German 102 Japanese 102 Arabic 202 Italian 202 FOR INFORMATION 819-822-9670 Lennoxville, Que.JIM 1Z7 Nicolls Building Room 209 Among the lines being kept are several regional services in the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario.A number of other services are being reduced in frequency.Mayors try to save Via FREDERICTON (CP) — The mayors of New Brunswick’s six cities have asked the provincial government for help in a last-minute attempt to stop Via Rail cuts in the province.And 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TOMORROW I START GROW ING- MY BEARD.GRIZZWELLS® by Bill Schorr HON PIPPVERVWE WkEHXfcNE HWfearr, TiicvcERT.pip-ncy THINK trTus,is THAT THE 60OK I GAVE YA 'CHRISTW'S* rte we 6ALK Anne LI0W.WHERSYA HEADIN', "WITH ^ FRANK & ERNEST® by Bob Thaves TWO tiXTcjiép, G/eoK/v-typ ANP ÏRIBP.i • y ARLO & JANIS® by Jimmy Johnson WRE REALLY GOING TO WORK IM THIS SLOP?YOU KNOW THE COMPANY'S UNAMBITIOUS SLUGABEDS SNOW POLICY,.> MAY STAY HOME/ 0 KIT ‘N’ CARLYLE® by Larry Wright NÇVÉfc ie\ A cat prtoTûCtPApH YûU UKH H£P~ CAT.® 1989 by NE*.Inc SNAFU® by Bruce Beattie The RECORD—Friday, January 5, 19M—13 Friday, Jan.5,1990 WEST NORTH l-S-H ?J 7 6 ?A Q 7 6 ?A J5 ?Q 5 3 EAST ?Q 10 5 3 ?982 V 5 3 * K J 10 2 ?9 4 3 2 ?86 ?J 4 2 ?A K 10 6 SOUTH ?A K 4 *984 ?K Q 10 7 ?987 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South South West North East 1 ?Pass 1 * Pass 1 NT Pass 3 NT All pass Opening lead: ?3 Defensive signal backfires By James Jacoby Defense signaling can backfire, allowing a shaky game contract to be made.South opened a flat 12 high-card points, trading on the diamond 10 and his three quick tricks, and soon arrived in three no-trump.West led a spade, and the jack won in dummy.Although declarer had nine tricks if the heart king was with West, he thought East would return a spade if he won an early heart trick, so he protected against West holding J-10 of hearts.He played to his diamond king and led the nine of hearts, playing low from dummy as West followed with the five.East won the 10 and returned a spade.Declarer won and played the heart eight, West following with the three.East won the jack and returned his last spade.South won, and played a diamond to dummy's ace and the diamond jack back to his queen.East discarded a club.Declarer now cashed his last diamond, shedding a low club from dummy.East discarded the 10 of clubs.Declarer decided that West had given count honestly when he played the five and then the three of hearts.That would leave East with K-2 of hearts, so the only chance to make the contract would be for East to also hold the A-K of clubs.Declarer led a club.East had to take the A-K and give the last two tricks to dummy’s A-Q of hearts.If West had never bothered to high-low in hearts, declarer would probably have led a third heart and been set.James Jacoby’s books ‘Jacoby on Bridge’ and ‘Jacoby on Card Games’(written with his father, the late Oswald Jacoby) are now available at bookstores.Both are published by Pharos Books.© 1990, NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.BRIDGE JAMES JACOBY Friday, Jan.5,1990 cfour birthday Jan.5,1990 In the year ahead there are indications you will take constructive measures to reorganize your life in several areas.The rearrangements you make will be effective and the results will be rewarding.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Gestures of good will from friends and social contacts could be offered to you in rather large measures at this time.Advantageous benefits could result.Get a jump on life by understanding the influences which are governing you in the year ahead.Send for your Astro-Graph predictions today by mailing $1.25 to Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Envision the way you would like to see things work out today and then proceed accordingly.If you keep positive results in focus, the results should be positive.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Conditions in general look quite hopeful for you in this cycle.There is a likelihood that you could succeed in situations where the attempts of others fall short.ARIES (March 21-April 19) This could be one of those fortunate days for you when things of a material nature come your way with little or no effort on your part.Make the most of your opportunities.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Lessons you've learned from past experiences can be utilized to your benefit today when you may have to contend with similar circumstances.Trade on your knowledge.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A situation that has been somewhat problematical for you can be readjusted more to your liking today.Don't be reluctant to make necessary change.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Several key people will make it evident to you today that they are on your side in a matter where you need the approval of the majority in order to proceed.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) This is an interesting day where your successes could come in pairs rather than singularly.The area where this will be most noticeable is where your career is concerned.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) You will operate more effectively today if you The Kidney Foundation Of Canada broaden your perspective.The smaller pieces will fall into place once the general outline is perceived.UBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) There's a possibility you might be let in on some confidential information today that could be of benefit to you in financial ways Be careful not to let the cat out of the bag.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Your companions will recognize that your judgment might be a shade better than theirs today and it's likely they'll call upon you to do the deciding when decisions have to be made.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Give top priority to matters that are meaningful to you in financial ways.This is a good time to look at situations that could help supplement your income.Jan.6,1990 In the year ahead it looks like you'll be moving in more prominent social circles than those to which you have become accustomed.Influential people will take to you and these contacts will prove valuable.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) Persons you encounter in social situations today will be drawn to you because they'll admire your persona.They'll try to learn your secrets for being so adaptable.Know where to look for romance and you’ll find it.The Astro-Graph Matchmaker instantly reveals which signs are romantically perfect for you.Mail $2 to Matchmaker, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) Free time is too previous for you to squander today.Try to share it with persons you love and whose company you enjoy, especially if you’ve been neglecting them a bit lately PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Hopes and expectations continue to be achievable, because you will go after your aspirations in a practical fashion.Be a dreamer, but be a pragmatic one.ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you're looking for something to do today, try browsing in shops where you've gotten bargains previously.Your discerning eye could spot a gem or two.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Associates will have no doubt as to where you stand today, but more importantly, they’ll respect you for your candor.Others might try to play games, but you'll be forthright.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) There's a possibility you could recoup an old obligation today if you approach the debtor in a way where she/he will get the message without resentment or embarrassment.CANCER (June 21-July 22) You might be approached today to head a committee in an organization in which you’re involved.The task may be tough, but your peers will have faith in your ability to get it done.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) Situations that have competitive elements should be your cup of tea today, because deep down you may feel you have a bit more reserve upon which to draw than others do.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) Experience is often the best teacher and this could be especially true for you today.You'll studiously avoid making a mistake similar to one that represents a bitter past memory.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) A shrewd promoter who considers you an easy mark in business could be in for a rude awakening today.When it gets down to the bottom line, you'll be the one who is tougher and smarter.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) Although you'll be capable of making a one sided agreement today, you'll take pains to do things fairly and this is why both parties will benefit equally.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) Conditions that pertain to your financial security continue to trend in your favor again today.Keep your mind focused on ways that will help you add to your resources.Jan.7,1990 A major personality change could be in the offing for you in the year ahead, because your ambitions and assertiveness will be amplified.You'll no longer take a back seat and let associates edge past you.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) No one can do more with your ideas at this time than you can do yourself.If they require some type of presentation to others, be your own spokesperson.Capricorn, treat yourself to a birthday gift.Send for your Astro-Graph, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 91428, Cleveland, OH 44101-3428.Be sure to state your zodiac sign.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) The encouragement you’ve been secretly needing may start coming your way today from several different sources.Acknowledgment and recognition will spur you on to greater heights.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) Conditions in general continue to remain hopeful for you during this period.Don't let your impatience induce you to lower your expectations.ARIES (March 21-April 19) This is the day to call attention to yourself for something you've recently achieved.Your efforts will not go unappreciated if the right party is aware of them.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A partnership arrangement in which you're presently involved could have far more significance than you realize at this point in time.It's an alliance that's destined to grow in importance.GEMINI (May 21-Juna 20) As ol today some changes could begin to take place that should prove beneficial to you where your work or carer if concerned.However, it will be up to you to recognize their values.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Today you may have a stimulating conversation with a person who shares interests similar to yours.The result of this discussion could inspire you to take some bold measures you haven't considered.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) If you've been thinking about going on a diet or health program, this is a good day to get the ball rolling.Your chances of seeing it through to a successful conclusion are encouraging.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) You should do quite well today in any type of venture or arrangement that permits you to exercise your initiative.Don’t wait on others, let them catch up to you.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) Several matters that are meaningful to you financially can be concluded to your satisfaction at this time.For the sake of your security give them top priority.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) You're the catalyst who has the ability to bring people together today for either a social or commercial purpose.If there is something positive you want done, lead the way.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Doc.21) Don t discount your instincts or hunches today where business is concerne*.Your perceptions are your aces in the hole that will give you a slight edge over others.© 1990 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN ASTRO-GRAPH jfe— BERNICE r , y BEDE OSOL ti _______ (M .The District of Bedford Regional School Board Adult Education Services THE ADULT ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL ACADEMIC - FULL TIME WHAT IS IT?It is separate school for adults in Massey-Vanier High School.It has its own area and classrooms.This school offers full time academic courses to help you obtain your High School Leaving Certificate (DES) or to help you upgrade your education.WHY RETURN TO SCHOOL?Maybe you have always wanted a second chance at getting a belter education.Maybe you need if fa get a job or to qualify for vocational training or to go to CEGEP.WHO IS ELIGIBLE?You must be at least 16 years old and NOT presently enrolled in a regular high school.WHEN DO CLASSES START?January 15, 1990.Monday to Friday — 8:45 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.COURSES OFFERED: We offer the following courses at all levels.1.ENGLISH - Composition and Literature.2.FRENCH 2ND LANGUAGE.3.MATH.4.OPTIONAL COURSES - Biology, Bookkeeping, History, Quebec Political Life, Word Processing, etc.Analysis of your academic strengths will help decide your placement in the program SPECIAL SERVICES: 1.2.3.4.Educational, Vocational and Personal counselling 5.Individualized ond group instruction 6.Small classes 7.Adult student lounge For an appointment or more information CALL 263-3775 as soon as possible after January 9th between 9 a.m.and 4 p.m.and ask for LYNN IRVING Adult students' committee Transportation available People on welfare are eligible to receive one extra allowance.MAKE A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION AND PLAN TO JOIN US IN JANUARY * Part Time courses are also available.An important announcement about Unemployment Insurance The Government of Canada recently presented to Parliament a series of amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act (UIA).The purpose of the proposed amendments is to improve existing legislation and to provide additional funds for programs and job training in areas critical to Canada’s economic future.Major improvements include additional maternity/parental benefits and the extension of coverage to people who choose to work beyond age 65.Although passed by the House of Commons on November 6th, 1989, Bill C-21 is still under consideration by the Senate and will not become law on December 31.Under one section of the current law, workers may qualify for regular UI benefits with at least 10 to 14 weeks of work during the previous year.That section of the law expires January 6th, 1990 and until amendments to the Act are adopted the following interim rule applies: Anyone making a claim for regular UI benefits that would have started on or after January 7, 1990, must have worked a minimum of 14 weeks during the last year to qualify.For more information contact your local Canada Employment Centre (CEC).There are more than 500 CECs across Canada; phone numbers are listed in the Federal Government section of your phone book.1+1 Employment and Emploi et Immigration Canada Immigration Canada Canada 1 « 14—The RECORD—Friday, January 5, 1990 Sports 1____9*1 HBCOTu Basketball girls competing for Cougar paw By Bruce Macfarlane SHERBROOKE — With academic life returning to normal at high schools across the province next week, some students will be dribbling a basketball up and down the court this weekend.The Fifth Annual Lady Cougars Invitational basketball tournament will take place at the John H.Price Sports centre in Lennoxville with eight high schools sending their midget girls teams to the college campus.According to tournament supervisor Gilles Gaudette, there could be a few surprises.“The defending champions for the past two years, Vaudreuil Catholic High School will be returning,” he said.“But Collège Sacre-Coeur from Sherbrooke has a very good chance of winning the tournament.” The field of competition will include teams from various regions of Quebec.Centennial Regional High School will truck down the autoroute from Montreal.Polyvalente J-H Leclerc from Granby, Polyvalente de La Salle from Three-Rivers as well as Polyvalente Dominique-Racine from Chicoutimi will also drive down to the annual tournament.Richmond Regional and Alexander Galt will be the local representatives along with Sacre-Coeur.Fierce competition is in store for the full three-day weekend of basketball.RECRUITING PITCH But it will not just be basketball on Gaudette’s mind.As head coach oftheChamplain Lady Cougars, he will also be out in full force doing some recruiting.He hopes to lure some potential graduating high school players to his program.“First, it is to promote the program to the good teams in the province,” he said.“These teams produce some of the best basketball players in the province.” Even though many of the tournament participants are coming from afar, Gaudette believes there are potential CEGEP ‘AAA’ players right in our own backyard.“At Collège Sacre-Coeur, there are five junior Quebec players,” he said.“Galt has a lot of good players, including Amy Sharman and Richmond has a junior Quebec team member, Cindy Crack." Gaudette’s recruiting technique will include massive amounts of literature on Champlain College, complementary t-shirts and a meeting with all the players “My first year with the tourna- ment I recruited 75 per cent of my team,” said Gaudette.The Lady Cougars coach is hoping that he will able to repeat the same thing this year as he is looking for a few particular individuals.“I am looking for some forwards, I need some big girls who are able to compete in the ‘AAA’ league,” he said.“Also, we need a team player, a girl who wants to learn with our systems so she can improve.” CSC TOURNAMENT While the midget girls are bouncing up the court in Lennoxville, basketball action will be also be bouncing around in a juvenile tournament taking place at Collège du Sacre-Coeur in Sherbrooke.The same format will be used for the 14-year-old juvenile girls as the midget tourney : eight teams will be competing for a championship crown.The list of participants include Chavigny (Three-Rivers), St-Exupery (Montreal), Ste-Marie (Montreal), Jésus Marie (Quebec City), Centennial, Galt and two CSC squads fighting for the CSC title.The tournament will start Friday afternoon at 11:30 and continue until Sunday at noon The CSC tourney will have a bit of a different twist than the Lady Cougars’ own.There will be several contests conducted during the weekend for the players, including a three-point shooter, and one-on-one as some of the highlights.Collège Sacre-Coeur is located at 155 Belvedere N.in Sherbrooke.Gilles Gaudette hopes to draw out potential recruits at the fifth annual Lady Cougars tournament this weekend.Gaiter B-bailers seek big win over Toronto SHERBROOKE (BDM) — Bishop's mens basketball players have erased their brief Christmas holidays and their consolation victory at the Stu Aberdeen Classic tournament from their memories and have started to re-focus on regular-season play.The Gaiters resume their OUAA schedule Saturday night when the University of Toronto Blues visit Lennoxville Saturday night at 8:00 p.m.According to veteran forward Jeff Harris, the squad could have its hands full with the Blues.“I haven’t seen them play this year,” said Harris after catching a few zzz’s upon his return from Nova Scotia.“They lost their point-guard Merv Busby but they are still an experienced team,” he said.“They have strong forwards, two of them are six-foot-nine, Mark Harvey and Rob Wilson.” “We haven’t had a big win over a big team yet,” Harris said.“Toronto is highly regarded and it would be a good boost opposed to a team like Ottawa or Carleton.” Gaiter captain Warren Newberry believes that the team can perform to its full potential with their complete bench now.“A lot of rookies played against Guelph, but they came out against SMU (St-Mary’s) with a lot more confidence," he said.Newberry believes that the problem doesn’t lie within the opposition.“I believe we don’t have to worry about other teams, we have to wor-ry about ourselves,” said Newberry.As both teams face-off on the courts.Gaiters’ head coach Eddie Pomykala will be experiencing a different twist.This summer he was hired as a coach with the Canadian Junior National team.It so happens that he is teamed up with Ken Olynyk.And Olynyk is the head coach of the University of Toronto Blues and it will be the first time the two will be going head-to-head.After the Blues game Saturday night, the Gaiters will be searching for quick winks as they play OUAA cellar dwellers, the Ryerson Rams, Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.at the John H.Price Sports centre.Tradition-conscious curlers debate different rules MONCTON, N.B.(CP) — Former world champions playing in curling’s richest tournament are divided on the need for rule changes in their traditionconscious game.At this week’s Moncton 100 — a 16-team bonspiel offering a potential first prize of $65,000 — leads are forbidden from knocking an opponent’s stone out of play.The idea originated a year ago with 1987 world champion Russ Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont., as a panacea for boring games featuring dozens of takeouts and few finesse shots.The innovation has yet to be proven, Howard admitted Thursday, but he believes it should be implemented at every level of the game to encourage spectator interest.“We’re not taking away from curling,” he said.“We re just encouraging more aggressive play.“It’s normal curling.It doesn’t take away from tradition, it just guarantees more rocks in play and that’s what people want to see.” Howard has backing for his idea from fellow Ontarian Ed Were-nich, the colorful and outspoken 1983 world champion from Toronto and one of the game’s best clutch shooters.PRETTY BORING “Curling as we know it right now is basically a pretty boring game,” Werenich said.“If we don’t make the change, I think we re in a lot of trouble.“The only way we can impress spectators is through the excitement this would create by forcing certain types of shots to be made.” Reigning world champion Pat Ryan supports the innovation in bonspiels like the Moncton 100 but he does not want it to become part of curling’s official rules.“The traditional style of game shouldn’t be tampered with because it’s a successful formula,” said Ryan, who moved to Kelowna, B.C., after winning the 1989 world title out of Edmonton.“If you’re talking about the whole world changing the style of curling, I really don’t think that should happen.” Ryan’s position is supported by Linda Moore of Vancouver, the 1985 world women’s champion and winner of the curling gold medal at the Calgary Olympics.The other six world champions who are in Moncton — there are 10 in all — are skeptical but willing to consider suggestions for refinements to improve competition and attract new fans.EYES OPEN “I’m happy with the way curling is now but I’m perfectly willing to keep my eyes open,” said Rick Folk, 1980 world champion from Kelowna.“If it looks like it’s good and doesn’t destroy the game, it might be what we’re looking for to put some finesse back in it.” Suggestions like Howard’s need time to be cautiously tested and modified, said two-time champion Sport shorts A1 Hackner of Thunder Bay, Ont.He cited time clocks, which were first used at bonspiels and are now standard equipment from regional playoffs to the world cham pionship.“To change this game, which has been going for more than 100 years, is a big deal and before you take those steps you need to weigh them heavily.” The Moncton 100, co-sponsored by Lahatt Breweries and Air Canada, is a double knockout tournament with a total purse of $250,000.Teams are paid set amounts for each victory.A rink that goes through the competition undefeated — five straight wins — would pick up $64,000 for the victories and a $1,000 bonus for its perfect record.Sunday’s final alone is worth $30,000 to the winning team.Don’t leave home without your ‘friend’ Ice-fishing season has been ¥ ” Kflk OT open since December 20.in zones I V?d l 04—05 and 06, and will close _ «he .««O8P„rt outdoors fishing regulation book for the lakes and rivers where ice fishing is permitted.This brochure has all the regulations concerning winter fishing.However, let me remind you must have a fishing permit to do this, and you are limited to only five lines.I would like to remind you to be careful at all times, respect the environment and to be a good citizen.The wildlife conservation officers are authorized to arrest polluters.Don’t be surprised if you leave your garbage on the ice, to be charged and to be required to present yourself at the courthouse for breaking environmental laws.By having said that, I wish you good catches this winter season on the ice.Whatever your outdoor activities are this winter, don’t forget to bring your camera.Wherever you're headed, the times it will come in handy will be many, not only for the ubiquitous “action” snapshots, but also to record our inviting natural landscape.FAITHFUL FRIEND Your camera is a faithful friend that can capture for you those wonderful moments outdoors.Thanks to your photo collection, you can relive hikes and outings and share them with friends and family.To do successful winter photography, let me pass on some tips: in cold, cold weather, keep your camera in your jacket to keep it warm.Exposure to the cold for a period of time will be detrimental to the smooth functioning of the mechanisms and will sap the power from the batteries.A good habit to get into is to put spare batteries in a pocket next to your body, along with unexposed film.Takeoff your lens caps only when you’re ready to focus.Also, use an ultra violet or skylight filter to eliminate ultra-