The record, 16 décembre 1987, mercredi 16 décembre 1987

Wednesday Births, deaths .8 Classified .10 Comics .11 Editorial .4 Education •#•••••#••••••• 5 Farm & Business .7 Living 02i _ « ¦UZZARO HOBIR1 UMtOCHE I t NNOW Il l-l.E1ÜMBNTARY SCHOOL Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Wednesday, December 16, 1987 40 cents Shii"::::::::::::::1' CSIS erased wiretap tapes, bungling Air-India case “A rubber bone, a ball that squeaks when you bite it, what else?” OTTAWA (CP) —Canadian security agents have bungled the investigation of the worst mass murder in Canadian history by erasing wiretap tapes that could have provided clues to the 1985 downing of an Air-India jumbo jet, opposition MPs charged Tuesday.But Solicitor General James Kel-leher, hunkering down against the storm of criticism in the Commons, continued to insist the RCMP will eventually find the people suspected of planting a bomb that brought down the plane and took the lives of 329 passengers and crew.“In no way has the investigation been bungled,” Kelleher told the House.“We’re trying every way we can to catch those responsible.” The assurances left Liberal John Nunziata and New Democrat Svend Robinson incredulous in the wake of revelations that the Canadian Scurity Intelligence Service erased an undisclosed number of wiretap tapes that were later sought by the Mounties as potential evidence.CSIS director Reid Morden and RCMP commissioner Norman Inkster confirmed in television interviews aired Monday that some tapes had been destroyed.Both insisted, on the CBC current affairs program The Journal, that the loss of the tapes will not permanently damage the investigation.But Nunziata maintained that any charges laid by the Crown are sure to be challenged on the grounds the court has been deprived of vital evidence.“The Charter of Rights and Freedom will be the first thing a defence lawyer will reach for if all the evidence is not available for a person to make a full defence,” Nunziata said outside the House.“Regardless of what happens, the fact that tapes have been erased will hinder a prosecution.” Those views were echoed by Michael Code, a Toronto lawyer who earlier this year successfully defended five Sikhs accused of conspiring to commit terrorist bombings and kidnappings in India.The RCMP handed over transcripts of its wiretaps in that case, but CSIS never responded to a defence request, filed last February, to provide records of additional bugged conversations.One woman’s labor of love *¦ RECORD/LAUREL SHERRERj Gloria Morgan tidies up a couple of second-hand rag shelter in Knowlton.More on this woman \v mission dolls to give as Christmas gifts to the children of on page 3.battered women who have stayed at the Agapé House Exempt us from U.S.trade bill Shellfish toxin kills second man OTTAWA (CP) — All live Atlantic mussels, clams, oysters and quahogs have been removed from sale across Canada and new shipments of inspected shellfish are expected to appear in retail outlets by the end of this week, a federal official says.Nicole Deschenes, a spokesman for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, said today the department does not yet know the quantity and value of the product removed from sale.She said those figures were expected to be known sometime today.The health and fisheries departments warned Canadians on Dec.1 not to eat Atlantic mussels after reports that dozens of people had become ill after consuming them.The warning was extended to clams, oysters and quahogs — a large clam — on Dec.11.A Montreal man died last week after eating toxic mussels.And on Tuesday an 82-year-old Toronto man became the second victim.David McLaughlan ate toxic mussels and suffered a stroke after he was taken to hospital on Nov.22.He was out of intensive care but was semi-comatose before his death.More than 100 other people have become sick after eating toxic mussels, and about a dozen were in hospital on Tuesday.In a release today, the health and fisheries departments said officials contacted more than 52,000 retail outlets, restaurants and other establishments to implement the recall.The release also said outlets are being urged to indicate to consumers that new supplies have been inspected and ound to be safe.By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA (CP) — Youth Minister Jean Charest hopes to introduce a strategy in the coming year to ensure young people drawing unemployment insurance or welfare are also taking some form of job training.The system offers disincentives to young people on unemployment insurance or welfare to go out and get work or to take job training, Charest told the Commons employ- OTTAWA (CP) — It’s easier to educate consumers than to regulate credit cards — at least for now, Consumer Affairs Minister Harvie Andre said Tuesday.Andre announced his department will publish a monthly bulletin on the rates banks and retail stores are charging, along with pamphlets telling people how to use their credit cards wisely.Last March the Commons finance committee issued a scathing report that said the government should step in and legislate limits on what can be charged for unpaid balances if the banks, trust companies, retailers and other issuers of credit cards don’t give consumers a fair shake.But Andre told a news confe- I fence that legislating limits on credit card costs wouldn’t be OTTAWA (CP) — Canada should withdraw from the proposed free-trade agreement with the United States unless it is exempted from the omnibus trade bill now before the U.S.Congress, a Commons committee recommended today.The report by the Conservative-dominated committee was tabled in the Commons by chairman Bill Winegard.The recommendation on the omnibus trade bill was one of five on which Tory and opposition members of the committee agreed.However, they were sharply di- ment committee Tuesday.“We have to develop more incentives,” he said, to ensure that young people take the training they need to obtain jobs.That will be part of the government’s youth strategy, which Charest said he hopes will be announced within a year.But he denied a suggestion by NDP MP Howard McCurdy that the government may be planning a “work-for-welfare” program un- practical.There are too many factors involved, such as when issuers start to apply interest rates and how it’s calculated, to make legislation workable, he said.Instead, Andre wants to teach consumers how to get the best price from credit cards — something he says the average Canadian doesn't do very well now.“Comparing interest rates alone will not give a true indication of the cost of using credit cards,” Andre said.“Consumers need to understand the fine print so they can decide which credit card to use and how to use it.” One thing Andre plans to teach consumers is that even though bank cards have interest rates that are approximately 10-percentage points lower than other cards, the method of calculating interest on a retail store vided on the merits of the comprehensive trade deal after five weeks of public hearings across Canada that included appearances by more than 200 witnesses.As expected, the Conservative majority report strongly endorses the agreement while NDP and Liberal minority reports call the deal a sellout of Canadian sovereignty.But Winegard, despite his conditions on the free-trade pact, rejected suggestions Canada’s economic and cultural independence are threatened.der which young people would be refused welfare if they refused work or on-the-job training programs.It’s not clear what the minister is planning, McCurdy said in an interview later, “but it may be a work-for-welfare program for youth .if you’re going to collect welfare or unemployment insurance benefits you’re going to have to be working to do it.” Charest agreed the government Watch out card could make that card cheaper to use.For example, for $850 worth of Christmas purchases with a January payment of $450, the inte-j rest charges in mid-Februaryj would be $22.20 for a bank card and only $9.60 for the retail store card — even though the bank card carries an annual rate of 18.9 per cent and the retail card 28.8 per cent.This is because on the bank card the interest is charged daily and from the date of purchase until the date of full payment.On the retail card, interest is based on the monthly closing ba lance.In addition, interest is not charged until the statement date and payment exceeding 50 petj cent of the balance s deducted be) fore interest on the January statement is calculated.He called the 2,500-page treaty a step in the right direction for Canada.NDP committee member Bill Blaikie rejected the free-trade agreement, but said if the government plans to press ahead it must respond quickly to the report’s recommendations.But both sides agreed that free trade should not proceed if the United States passes new protectionist legislation before the proposed free-trade deal takes effect.See also RIGHT, page 2.— Charest believes young people should be encouraged to take training rather than sit back and collect jobless or welfare benefits.“More and more young people need a basic level of training, contrary to 20 or 30 years ago, to be able to have access to the labor market,” Charest said in an interview.In the past, young people could drop out of high school and easily find jobs in the country’s natural resource sector but that is no longer the case, the minister told the committee.TRAINING NEEDED Unfortunately, he added, many young people are still not completing high school and don’t have the necessary training to land jobs in the growing services industry.Charest said it is up to the government to put in place policies to ensure there are jobs, and it is doing that.But the serious problem facing the country is whether young people will have the training to take those jobs when they are available, he said, adding that Ottawa is trying to tackle that problem in ; co-operation with the provinces.“One of the questions .is! whether we should not try to deve-lop a system where young people who have access to the income-support systems, we should evaluate them and make sure that they have that basic level of trai-J ning.” Youth job-training incentives a must Pitfalls of credit cards: "Once they're on notice that this material is of interest, 1 think they have an absolute obligation to preserve it,” said Code."1 would hope for their sake the tapes they’ve erased don’t pertain to our case." APPEAL MADE The conspiracy trial in Hamilton, Ont., ended in acquittal when the Crown refused to identify an informer whose tips helped the RCMP to obtain judicial permission for its wiretaps.But the verdict has been appea led and Code warned that he will renew his demand for the additional CSIS transcripts if a retrial is ordered.Among those acquitted in Hamilton was Talwinder Singh Parmar, leader of the fundamentalist Bab-bar Khalsa religious sect who was also investigated in the Air-India crash.He was charged with another Sikh in Duncan, B.C., in November 1985 but no evidence was ever produced to tie either man to the downing of the plane.Charges against Parmar were dropped while his fellow defendant was convicted of a minor offence and fined.Kelleher has refused to say how many tapes related to the Air-India case were erased.He has also refused to say when the information was destroyed, how many tapes were involved and who gave the order.The CBC reported that the missing tapes included surveillance of suspected Sikh militants before the Air India plane went down, as well as after the crash.Minority rights guaranteed Bill one step closer to English boards By Penny MacRae QUEBEC (CP) — The government introduced legislation Tuesday to redraw the province’s school map along linguistic rather than religious lines but said it would refrain from implementing the bill until it got a ruling from the courts.The bill, which would also increase parent participation and guarantee minority representation, is the latest attempt to move Quebec toward a more secular school system.The change has also been sought by the anglophone community as one way to guarantee that English-speaking education remained under its control.“It is no longer possible to reflect the totality of the Quebec population solely through a (Roman) Catholic or Protestant prism,” Education Minister Claude Ryan told a news conference.The government hopes to pass the bill next year but plans to refer the parts changing the nature of school boards to the Quebec Court of Appeal for a ruling before putting the law into effect, Ryan said.“We want to find out exactly what are the powers of the National Assembly,” he said.AVOID UPHEAVAL He was hopeful the courts would uphold the legislation but was taking a cautious approach because he did not want to “inflict any upheaval” before he was certain.The Quebec Superior Court struck down an earlier law passed by the previous Parti Québécois government.The court said that law violated Section 93 of the British North America Act guaran- See SCHOOLS, page 2.Air Canada tentative agreement By John MacKinnon The Canadian Press Christmas travel plans for thousands of Canadians were revived when Air Canada and its machinists reached a tentative contract settlement early today, ending a bitter dispute that shut the national carrier down for nearly three weeks.The settlement was reached with the help of federal mediator Bill Kelly and is subject to a ratification vote.Both Air Canada and the union called on the workers to return to work immedlately to get the airline flying again as soon as possible.A return to work today would mean that the airline, which normally carries up to 40,000 passen- See UNION, page 2.w RECORD/Pt Get off my back! Attempting to recover a loose puck, fast-skating centre Gilles Thibaudeat tries to thwart pressure (with the help of an elbow) from an equally determined Mariner Tuesday night.Thibaudeau’s efforts were in vain however.Sherbrooke lost 3-1.Story, page 15.' \ ' .—-—.- .J 2—The RECORD—Wednesday, December 16,1987 Right to reject trade deal?Hnatyshyn rules OTTAWA (CP) — The Senate foreign affairs committee will ask federal Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn to produce any legal opinions he has on the right of the provinces to reject the proposed free-trade agreement with the United States."1 understand there are legal opinions on this,” chairman George van Roggen, whose committee is studying the sweeping trade deal, said during a committee meeting Tuesday.Van Roggen said he would press the government to produce those studies after Trade Minister Pat Carney declined to answer questions at the meeting about Ottawa’s power to implement the proposed treaty in areas of provincial jurisdiction.Van Roggen, a Liberal, said the government might well refuse to produce those opinions.If that’s the case, he said the committee will commission its own legal work.“We will try both avenues,” he said.The issue could be the first major skirmish between the Liberal-dominated Senate and the Conservative government over free trade.Some Liberal senators have already threatened to hold up and amend the implementing legislation the government will need passed in order to comply with the treaty before it would take effect in 1989.The question of provincial rights under the proposed trade deal will be a key issue at Thursday’s first ministers’ conference on free trade in Ottawa.Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island oppose the agreement and a constitutional battle is already brewing over their right to reject the deal.Other provinces either support free trade or have reserved judgment.Prime Minister Brian Mulro-ney clearly has the power to sign treaties, but the question remains whether he has the right to force the provinces to follow provisions of those treaties in areas of provincial jurisdiction.Only limited areas of the treaty, such as liquor distribution and regulation of the service sector, come under provincial powers.Mulroney has said he has the authority to implement the agreement over provincial opposition, but has consistently ducked questions on exactly how he could do that without creating a constitutional crisis.Schools boards along secular language lines Continued from page I teeing education rights to Roman Catholics and Protestants.Ryan held out the possibility of creating a parallel linguistic school board system that would exist alongside the curret confessional system, if the courts ruled against the new law.The proposed legislation would leave intact four denominational boards — the Montreal Catholic School Commission, the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal and the two original Protestant and Catholic school bards in Quebec City whose existence was guaranteed under the British North America Act.The bill would also allow schools within the linguistic system to choose to be designated as Roman Catholic or Protestant if a majority of parents so wished.“A lot of people want to keep that character and we want to respect that,” said Ryan.He promised a parliamentary hearing on the legislation, adding that he wanted to move forward “with the greatest possible consensus.” The bill got a favorable response from Roman Catholic and Protestant representatives as well as Alliance Quebec, a lobby group representing anglophone Quebecers.NEED CHANGE “The demographics makes it essential that we move from a confessional system,” said Royal Union, management: Get airplanes moving Continued from page I gers daily during the Christmas rush, could be in full operation Friday when school holidays begin, airline spokesman Esther Szyn-karsky said.It would take three days to get all the airline’s 109 planes flying again, Szynkarsky said.The 8,500 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countries simply don’t have the resources to monitor chemical use, said Bill Neff, a chemical association vice-president.Canada should continue working with international groups to improve methods of coping with toxic substances rather than taking “unilateral action that won’t help the people we’re trying to help,” Neff said.The export rules could also create some confusing situations, he said.For example, it could be illegal to export crude oil to the United States without the U.S.government’s approval under the environment law, Neff said, because crude oil creates benzene — a petroleum component that will pro-bably be labelled toxic and subjected to controls under the new law.The two groups, who appeared separately at the committee hearings, are also worried that the law will result in jurisdictional clashes with the provinces.The federal government has a clear responsibility to protect the environment, Roberge said, but it should try to achieve that goal by developing mutually acceptable standards that the provinces could implement rather than by imposing standards.Roberge also said his group feels the sanctions in the law are too severe.The legislation would provide for fines of up to $1 million per day for the worst environmental infractions and jail terms of up to three years for the executives of companies that violate the law.News-in-brief Taddeo estate left to children Tax troubles for women?Orr, president of the 40,000-member group."The amalgamation of Catholic and Protestant school boards is critical to the survival of the English-language system.But Orr and John Simms, president of the Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards, said they would like to see the existence of linguistic boards entrenched in the Constitution.Ryan said that it was too early to say whether the government might seek such changes in future constitutional talks.Premier Robert Bourassa has said changes to Section 93 should be a priority in a future round of constitutional negotiations and Alliance Quebec has urged him to seek whatever modifications are necessary to ensure the creation of linguistic boards.Passage by the PQ of the 1977 Charter of the French Language obliging immigrant children to attend French schools resulted in a huge increase in French enrolments in the traditionally English-speaking Protestant system and the closure of many English schools.Between 1975 and 1986, the English student population of Quebec dropped by 53 per cent and English-speaking educators feared that anglophones would lose control of management of their education ystem unless linguistic boards were introduced.Machinists and Aerospace Workers — were locked out Nov.27 when Air Canada president Pierre Jeanniot shut down the airline following a series of rotating strikes by the union.Szynkarsky said no planes are expected to fly before Thursday, after final maintenance checks.About 200 to 225 pilots and flight attendants would be placed in overseas locations such as London and some domestic stations where such crews are not based.MONTREAL (CP)— Mario Taddeo, a Conservative party organizer who was shot to death 12 days ago at his business office, left most of his estate — worth an estimated $5 million — to his five children, court documents indicate.The will, dated Aug.28,1985, was verified by Mr.Justice Pierre Pinard of Quebec Superior Court on Dec.11, one week after Taddeo was shot in the face.A masked gunman burst into the offices of Taddeo’s gravel quarry, north of Montreal, and also fatally shot an employee of Taddeo, Pierre Blanchard.Police have made no arrests.Glue makes kids sick HULL (CP) — Thirty-six elementary-school children were treated in hospital Tuesday for an illness that the school principal blamed on glue fumes from a new carpet in a church.The children, who were all released from hospital, became ill shortly after going from a church service to their Lac-des-fees school.Eight ambulances were called to the school.The children, in Grades 2 to 6, were back from the church for about 10 minutes when one of them felt ill, said principal Gilles Labrosse.“That leads us to believe that the glue from a new carpet at the church caused the illness,” said Labrosse.Petro-Canada to give awards OTTAWA (CP) — About 100 academic awards will be given to post-secondary student athletes and coaches starting next year under a new program announced Tuesday by Petro-Canada.The awards — $2,000 for university students, $1,000 for other post-secondary students and $8,000 for coaches — will be drawn from the interest from a $4-million Petro-Canada fund established through the sale of glasses commemorating the Winter Olympics torch relay.Federal Sports Minister Otto Jelinek said in a release that the fund represents “a first step toward a larger fundamental university scholarship program.” POW spouses’ pensions to rise OTTAWA (CP) — Spouses of deceased veterans who were prisoners of war will receive higher pensions under legislation passed by the Commons this week.The bill, which must also receive Senate approval before becoming law, also provides more generous qualifying guidelines for veterans who spent time as prisoners of war.The widow of a POW could receive increases of up to $350 a month depending on the time her husband spent in a POW camp.Veterans Affairs Minister George Hees told MPs that the bill is a further indication of the government’s commitment to the “continued improvement of benefits and services for veterans.” Canada will raise human rights OTTAWA (CP) — Canada will likely raise the question of human rights and democracy in Haiti at the next session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, External Relations Minister Monique Landry said Tuesday.Landry told the Commons human rights committee that Canada wants to work with other countries to urge democracy in Haiti, in the wake of the election debacle there Nov.29.Haiti’s first election in 30 years was cancelled after gangs of thugs wielding guns and machetes attacked voters, journalists, candidates and election officials, killing at least 34 and injuring at least 75 more.Epileptic needs marijuana BRAMPTON, Ont.(CP) — A Toronto man suffering from epilepsy who says he needs marijuana to control seizures has been acquitted of a possession charge after a 10-year battle.Terrance Parker, 32, was acquitted Tuesday after provincial court Judge Kenneth Langdon accepted the argument of medical necessity.It was Parker’s fifth marijuana-related charge.OTTAWA (CP) — The income-tax system discriminates against women, says a report made public Tuesday by the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women.“The tax system still falls gravely short of treating women equally,” says the report by University of Victoria law professor Maureen Maloney.“When major tax reform is contemplated, it is unfortunate that the government did not take the opportunity to rid the tax system of its systemic bias against women.” The council is an advisory group to Barbara McDougall, the federal minister responsible for the status of women.The report was made public just one day before Finance Minister Michael Wilson was to make public the government’s final tax-reform package.One of the most common forms of discrimination against women is the tax break people can claim for spouses who earn little or no income of their own, Maloney says.Hard times coming CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) — Coming off a record year for potato sales, Prince Edward Island farmers are now bracing for possible disaster in 1988 as Ottawa forecasts a 42-per-cent drop in their net income.The Agriculture Canada figure predicts a national decline of 8.3 per cent in net farm income -what a farmer has left after paying his bills - but P.E.I is forecast to be by far the biggest loser.The numbers were released Tuesday in Ottawa as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced a $1.1-billion support payment program for farmers.Potatoes dwarf other farm products in P.E.I., and a worldwide potato glut is the cause of the expected hard times.Urbin Laughlin, P E L’S member on the board of directors of the National Farmers Union, said huge swings in world potato supplies and prices leave Island farmers at the hands of a global marketplace.There is gold in that there sack RICHMOND, B.C.(CP) — RCMP have recovered a 20-kilogram sack of sand-like gold worth an estimated $400,000, but they’re tight-lipped about the case as a prospector who’s struck a mother lode but hasn’t staked a claim.“The case is still under investigation and there won’t be anything more until charges are laid,” Staff Sgt.RondeRoon said in an interview Tuesday.“It’s kind of nice to get what we were looking for,” he said of the recovery “somewhere in the Lower Mainland.” DeRoon said the gold was being analysed at a Vancouver laboratory to determine if it’s the booty from a Yukon mine taken last June while it was being shipped by air to Vancouver from Whitehorse.Although the thefts occurred in two separate incidents, he said, the 20 kilograms was recovered at one location.Tanker sinking off Atlantic MIAMI (AP) — The crew of a 175-metre oil tanker fought to contain flooding today after the vessel slammed broadside into a cargo ship in the Atlantic, U.S.Coast Guard officials said.Meanwhile, a 13-metre fishing vessel with nine people aboard was reported sinking late Tuesday off the California coast.The U.S.Coast Guard sent a rescue helicopter and patrol plane in search of the Explorador.In the Atlantic, none of the approximately 50 crew members of the two vessels that collided were injured in Tuesday night’s accident 700 nautical miles off the coast, said Mitchell Russell, a U.S.Coast Guard lieutenant The Kuwaiti tanker Qarouh is said to have suffered a gash in its bow.Petty Officer Brian Lincoln said the crew is not in immediate danger and there has been no listing.Weather Another 10 cm of blowing snow expected today.High of 0.Flurries tonight and Thursday.Low tonight of - 8, high Thursday of • 4.Doonesbury Pollution control underway ATHENS ( Reuter)—Cars will be banned from the centre of Athens, buses will have special exhausts and the number of taxis in the city centre will be halved under steps announced Tuesday by the Greek government to reduce pollution.Agamemnon Koutsoyiorgas, deputy premier and minister of justice, said smog in Athens is a “major problem which harasses the people on a daily basis.” The measures are to become effective during the first two months of 1988 and their implementation will be strictly supervised, the government said.Ships attacked in Strait MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — An Iranian gunboat attacked a Greek-flagged tanker today near the Strait of Hormuz in the southern Persian Gulf, and Iraq said its warplanes hit a ship off Iran’s coast in a midnight raid.The Iranian gunboat fired “three shots” into the World Produce tanker off the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, said maritime salvage executives based in the Persian Gulf.The shells hit the crew’s quarters and the engine room but there were no casualties, said the executives, who were speaking on condition of anonymity.The attack started a small fire aboard the 29,990-tonne tanker, which was sailing up the gulf, but it was quickly put out by the ship’s Greek crew, the officials said.Plane crash in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — All 29 people aboard were presumed killed when a Brazilian air force cargo plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off northeastern Brazil, an air force spokesman said Tuesday.The coast guard pulled wreckage and body fragments from the sea about nine nautical miles from the island territory of Fernando de Noronha following the crash late Monday night, said Col.Eden Asvol-Insque.“We haven’t found any complete bodies yet, but from the state of the wreckage, there weren’t any survivors,” he said from Brasilia, the capital.The U.S.-made C-130 Hercules plane was carrying construction materials, medicines and food supplies from the northeastern city of Recife to the island community, Asvol-Insque said.He said a crew of six and 23 passengers were on the plane when it plunged into the ocean shortly before it was due to land.Israel mobilizes army GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (CP) — Israel’s army staged a show of force today in the occupied Gaza Strip, sending hundreds of soldiers and several tanks through the streets of the largest city.The crackdown appeared to contain much of the violence, in which Palestinians hurled stones and erected barricades of burning tires in the ninth straight day of unrest in the occupied territories.Also today, Israel’s parliament began debating five motions of no confidence against the coalition government’s tough handling of the unrest in the occupied territories.Polls closed in South Korea SEOUL (AP) — Opposition groups said the government was resorting to fraud to retain power as polls closed in South Korea’s first direct presidential election in 16 years.The National Coalition for Democracy said it had reports of voting irregularities by government supporters in Seoul and other cities.The opposition alliance claimed 3,000 cases of fraud in Seoul alone.Radical students also accused the government of fraud, but college campuses and other radical strongholds where demonstrations often break out remained quiet as voting went on with no major troubles.BY GARRY TRUDEAU tue'u ms you, your .SPACESHIP I / .i * DU L_ ANPI YOU, CONFRERE.BUT CROWN ANP PUTY CALL! \ J53 ^3 YOU'RE REALLY 5TAYIN6INA CASTLE* 'V Airway» THE PURE WOULDN'T TAKE NAY FOR AN ANSWER! / LISTEN, Z, THINKING BACK ON YOUR UTTLE >( £ rWc PONT PRY YOUR SOCKS IN HIS TOASTER OVEN.€ 1.IHAP NO!PEA THAT BOTHERED YOU.\ A1 The RECORD—Wednesday.December 16.1987—3 The Townships —_____tbc-i ifecora Agapé House provides shelter for abused women Churches in the Brome Lake area will give some of the proceeds of special holiday offerings this year to a shelter for abused women in Knowlton.For many, it probably comes as news that such a thing exists there.That’s because it started quietly about a year ago and has only recently called upon the community to help keep it going.Agapé House is the initiative of one woman who has opened her own home to any woman who needs a temporary place to stay.Over the past year it has been a refuge for 23 people.Gloria Morgan, like many of those who feel a calling to help battered and abused women, went through an abusive marriage herself.In her case it was mental abuse; a husband who seemed to care more for his possessions than for his wife and children, and who made unreasonable demands of her as far as the care of his belongings.DEVELOPED CONVICTION After a divorce, Morgan’s deep Christian beliefs helped her break free of the low self-esteem generated by the situation.She developed a conviction that she somehow had to help women in trouble.She came to Knowlton from Montreal, wanting to live in the country as she had in her childhood in Ontario.Morgan bought her three-bedroom house with the intention of opening a tea room, with the profits going to help abused women.But before this project could get off the ground, abused women began coming to her door, having heard of her desire to help.The tea room plan fell by the wayside, and Morgan’s house became a temporary home for a wide variety of women, and sometimes their children.Tuesday afternoon, Morgan was busy making Christmas gifts for some of the people who had spent time at the shelter this year and are now back on their own.“I know they wouldn't be expecting anything for Christmas,” she says.Through her own life and her contact with battered women, Morgan has found that abused people often feel they deserve what they get, and hesitate to ask anyone for the things they want and need.An unexpected Christmas gift tells them they deserve better RENOVATIONS WAIT The old house Morgan bought was in bad need of renovations and sprucing up.Some of that has been done, but the urgency of some of the women’s need for food and shelter took precedence, and there are still some unfinished floors and unpainted walls.The house is sparsely furnished because unnecessary furniture have been sold off to keep the house open.Even some of the necessary furniture is lacking; there’s room for more beds, for example, if only someone would donate them, along with badly needed sheets and blankets.Morgan has frequently had a full house, with people sleeping on the couch in the livingroom, and has sometimes had to turn people away.At other times the house is empty, waiting for the next knock on the door.“My greatest dream now is soon to have a bigger place,” she says.Although a comfortable place to stay is the top priority for abused women, Morgan tries to make Agapé House more than that.She uses her own motherly ways and understanding of battered women to try to build up her guests’ sense of self-worth.She recalls one woman who, at Laurel Sherrer first, asked not to have drapes and a bedspread in her room because she didn’t deserve that kind of thing.Eventually she came to understand that she was worthy of the same pleasant surroundings anyone else expects.Another changed from wearing dark, drab clothing to whites and bright colors, saying that at last “I’m beginning to feel pure.” “When they’re beaten and abused, they’re really told they’re bad,” Morgan says.“When you’re told you’re bad and you’re no good, you believe it until somebody says, no, you’re not bad.” “You watch their faces come alive,” when they’re treated as worthwhile human beings, she says.“It’s really a delight to see them.” So far, Agapé House (from a Greek word for love) has remained independent of the government social services network, except that Morgan makes refer-rals to government social workers and other professionals.For funding, she wants to rely on the community for the time being.Rev.Harold Manson of Rich-ford, Vt.is one of the clergy of the region who has taken an active interest in Agapé House.He uses his counselling experience to help the women who come there.GRASSROOTS To him, the grassroots nature of the home is critical.“Right now it’s important to crawl before you can run,” he says.He says it’s gratifying to see how the home is beginning to bring the different religious denominations in the area together.“It has drawn together the various churches so there’s a united spirit there,” he says.Although the women who come to Agapé House are not forced to practise Christianity, he says, they are encouraged to join whatever church in the area they may feel closest to.Women who are in need of help, or anyone who would like to donate money, bedding, furniture, food or clothing to Agapé House, can call Gloria Morgan at (514) 243-0867.iMtol Gloria Morgan.‘You watch their faces come alive.’ ‘The people involved don’t seem to be putting much energy into it’ — Royal Orr Alliance: Bill 142 getting the slooooow treatment By Charles Bury SHERBROOKE — Alliance Quebec says anglo-Quebecers’ newly-acquired right to health and social services in their own language isn’t being put into practice fast enough.Alliance president Royal Orr says in some regions, including parts of the Eastern Townships, bureaucrats are being too casual about a 1986 provincial law requiring government agencies to provide services in English.“In a lot of places they're not taking it seriously,” Orr said in an interview from Alliance Quebec's office in Montreal.Passed a year ago, Bill 142 designated as bilingual some 68 health and social care institutions across the province.Those institutions and the agencies responsible for them were required to prepare ‘access plans' for each administrative region, detailing how, when and where English services would be available to the province’s 800,000-plus English-speaking residents.TWO WEEKS Deadline for completion of the access plans is Dec.31 — two weeks from now.Every regional health and social services council (Conseil régionale de Santé et des services sociaux — CRSSS) must have its plan complete by then.But Orr held a press conference in Montreal Tuesday to declare Alliance Quebec’s impatience with the lagging process.“If there are no access plans there is no service,” Orr said "The plans should be complete by the end of the month but a lot of them won't be." "It’s up to each regional council and other institutions within the network to make this legislative reality a practical one.” he said.“But in some places that's just not happening.” TWO WORST Orr said the worst offenders are the regions of Greater Montreal and Montéregie -— the huge Montreal South Shore region, which includes the Eastern Townships as far east as Lake Memphremagog, Mansonville and Eastman.Designated as institutions required to provide services in English as well as French in Montéregie are: Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital, Château Richelieu, Foyer Régal, Foyer Wheeler Inc., Nesbitt Anglican Residence.Résidences ancestrales.Résidence du parc, Butters Home, Centre de la Grande Ligne, Pavillion Foster, and la Résidence Patrician Inc.The Estrie region, which includes most of the rest of the Townships, is faring much better.“They seem to be taking it a bit more seriously there,” he said, adding that the Association of English-speaking Townshippers have been keeping a close eye on Sher-brooke-area developments.Designated institutions in Estrie are: Sherbrooke Hospital, Foyer St.Paul (Bury), Résidence Wales, Résidence Rolling Hills and Dix- ville Home.DIRECT RELATION?Attention to Bill 142 by bureaucrats seems to decline in direct relation to the proportion of English-speaking citizens in a given region.At the top of the Alliance list with their plans nearing completion, for example, are the regions of Quebec City and Laurentides-Lanaudière.which have only relatively small English speaking components.At the bottom of the list appear Greater Montreal and Montéregie, with the province's highest proportion of English-speakers.In between, Orr said, are regions such as Estrie, Gaspesia and Abitibi — which have some anglo residents but not too many.In spite of the deadline staring bureaucrats in the face, “Montéregie has had only two meetings and the people involved don't seem to be putting much energy into it," Orr said.“Montreal is definitely the worst.” he said.“It's more of a fight There’s that much more of a language problem there.” LACK OF SUPPORT Part of the problem is a lack of support from the Ministry of Health and Social Services Health Minister Thérèse Lavoie-Roux and her parliamentary assistant, Mon treal-area MNA Chistos Sirros, who is responsible for apllying Bill 142, don’t seem to be putting their weight behind the law, Orr said.Orr said applying Bill 142 should come in five easy steps: • Access must insure that every Royal Orr.'They’re not taking it seriously.' English-speaking person must be able to obtain health and social services in their language; • Those services must be available either within their own region or, by agreement, in another region; • Representatives of the English-speaking community must be full partners in negotiating regional access plans; • Access plans must be reviewed and updated every year; • And the minister must provide the resources necessary to implement Bill 142, both in planning and in delivery of services.Estritech wants to build more than just a building Fight to build Sherbrooke’s mapping branch building By Jack Branswell and Melanie Gruer SHERBROOKE — Awarding a contract to build the city’s long-awaited cartography institute is rapidly becoming a political issue, says MP Jean Charest.Dennis Wood, the president of Estitech, one of several bidders on the multi-million-dollar complex, held a press conference Tuesday to reaffirm his group’s position amid rumors that its proposal is not being considered seriously.Tenders have been submitted for the contract and the federal government is in the process of deciding which bid it will accept.But Charest said later in the day the bid ding “has become politicized.” In town for a local Conservative Christmas party, Youth Minister Charest, a member of the powerful priority and planning committee of the federal cabinet, said the situation has changed since the government decided it would call for tenders.This is after a few prospective bidders, including Estritech, asked for a public tender system for the awarding of the contract.PLANS CHANGED Charest said that since August, Estritech has come out with a different stance in the form of viewing “cartography as a principle energizer for the development of the region.” This, he added, was not the group’s original position.There have been rumors that Es-tritech’s bid was not being given equal footing with the other bidders.The bids range from $118.36 to $225 a square foot, with Estri-tech’s at $178.38, Wood said.The Estritech proposal, the only one of its kind, includes plans for the development of other high technology anu microelectronic industries on a site yet to be chosen.Although not wanting to comment on the issue — due to the public tender process — Charest did say he saw some merit in the idea of plans that would enable future expansion into other technological fields.But Charest also ques- tioned Estitech’s proposal.“I can see certain possibilities sure, but what it comes down to is at what cost and if it (the technological park) is supported by others, and what is behind Estritech?There are a lot of questions still.” EAGER At his press conference Wood repeated Estrietech’s “eagerness” to get the contract for the cartography centre.Even though the group’s offer to build a home for the cartography institute isn’t the lowest, Wood believes it is better because of the plans for the site to become a high technology research park.The Estritech tender proposes to build the cartography institute on University Blvd.across from Le Triolet high school.Wood said if Estritech was awarded the contract, the cartography centre would become a catalyst for the park.The bid is “the cornerstone of the research centre we want to build,” he said.While Wood hopes the park would eventually include high technology and microelectronic industries, he hasn’t had any promises companies will set up shop on the site yet.But he said the University of Waterloo and Carleton University in Ontario got involved in similar projects and when they were built research industries moved in.Wood said he would understand if the federal government chose the lower-priced contract over his offer of $178.38 per square metre.“We all pay taxes.I can understand,” he said.‘MINOR INVESTMENT’ Wood said if the lowest priced offer was chosen it would mean the government would only have to contribute about 10 per cent of the institute’s costs.“That’s a minor investment for the government of Canada to make to help the economic situation of the region.” If the Estritech site is chosen, Wood says the federal government investment would be close to 13 per cent.“We have had no problems up until now,” he said.When Prime Mi nister Brian Mulroney was in Sherbrooke this fall Wood asked him for his support on the project but Mulroney has not yet responded.Wood said he has had no contact with Charest so he doesn’t know where his proposal stands.Charest would not comment on Estritech's chances except to say “it is the usual practice of governments to state that they will not be held to the lowest bid.” But he ad ded that there would have to be good reasons not to take the lowest.Estritech, an 18-month old pro-fit-making organization, is made up of members from non-profit groups such as the Sherbrooke Chamber of Commerce, the Société du développement de Sherbrooke, the Sherbrooke CEGEP and the University of Sherbrooke.Wood’s proposal has already received support from the Assemblée de concertation et de dévelop pement de TEstrie and the Sherbrooke regional municipality (MRC).Conditions were good for routine flight East Angus pilot dead in New Brunswick crash BATHURST, N.B.(CP) — An Eastern Townships pilot was one of two men killed Monday when a twin-engine charter airplane crashed near here Monday.The plane broke into pieces when it hit several trees, an investigator said Tuesday.Police said the bodies of pilot René Dufour, 33, of Bathurst and East Angus, Quebec, and his roommate Daniel Kenny, 32, were found inside the wreckage about 12 kilometres south of Bathurst.The Piper Aztec, owned by Air New-Bec Ltd.of Bathurst, went down in swampy, alder-covered ground within minutes of its scheduled 10:30 p.m.arrival at the Bathurst airport.It was returning home to the northeastern New Brunswick town from Moncton with no cargo after maxing an around-the-province circuit under its regular charter to Purolator Courier Ltd.Charles Ross of Moncton, an investigator with the federal Department of Transport, said sections of the plane were strewn about the crash site.He declined to speculate what caused the crash but said weather and flying conditions were good Monday night.EXPERIENCED Local flyers said pilot Dufour was an experienced flyer who had flown the route five times a week for more than a year.The two engines would have meant the pilot had a margin of safety, and the plane was flying light because all cargo had been delivered.A search was started when the flight control centre in Charlo, N.B., didn’t receive the routine message pilots send when their flights are nearly complete.An air search was begun using high-intensity flares along the flight route, but the crash site is in rugged country and was missed in the initial search.The wreckage wasn’t located until 8:30 a.m.Tuesday, half an hour afte sunrise.A search helicopter lowered a man, who found both men dead.Staff Sgt.Mannie Munroe of Bathurst RUMP said the swampy land and the thick alder 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Send your donations to: Jules and Paul-Émile Leger Foundation 130, de I’Epee Avenue, Outremont, Québec H2V3T2 (514) 495 2409 4_The RECORI>—Wednesday, December 16, 1987 fl.TT mam The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial A boost for English education The provincial government has introduced legislation to change the shape of school boards from religious lines to linguistic ones.Where the province’s boards are now grouped into Roman Catholic and Protestant categories, if the legislation passes, they will be formed into English and French boards.While some may view this as yet another step to secularize our education system, it does seem to make sense.English-speaking Quebecers have been seeking this as a means to guarantee that they can maintain some form of control over the direction of education.With the present system, English Roman Catholics are under boards dominated by French Catholics.To some extent the same is true for French kids going to French Protestant schoools under English dominated boards, such as the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal.As language has been a divisive factor in this province, there is a need for the linguistic boards.It doesn’t seem logical that French administrators could be as sensitive to the problems facing English education as they need to be.The reverse, of course, is also true.While secularization may or may not be a good thing, depending on your religious views, regrouping along linguistic lines may give English education a much needed boost.Despite the religious differences that were once very prevalent in the province between Protestants and Roman Catholics, English Quebecers no longer have the luxury of being exclusive.In short what this means is that the formation of linguistic boards will provide the opportunity for a stronger voice in educational matters for the province’s anglophones.The challenge is to work together and create common goals.If this can be achieved, then maybe English education will be in a stronger position than it is now.JACK BRANSWELL Readers find press boners from around the world Rotten readers were up to their tricks again this past year, gleefully pouncing on press boners for the New Yorker and Punch magazines to splash around the world.Some examples of what they found to chortle about : The parking in Wellington at the moment is ridiculous with unsuspecting mums coming into town and being towed away.— Post, Wellington, N.Z.Mrs.Seaga was also a vision of love-liness in a black and gold one-shoulder creation which fell to the floor.— Gleaner, Jamaica BACK TO BASICS FOR CIRRICU-LUM — Boulder (Colo.) Daily Later in the day, Gabriel Canellas, president of the autonomous community, will lay the first stone of a new pensioners’ home and a giant will be cooked and served in the local sports ground.— Bulletin, Majorca Debbie is 27 and says she still has her 24-34-24 Miss Great Britain figure and doesn’t want motherhood just yet.— Liverpool Echo, England TOWNSHIPS WILL MEET OVER SEWER — Hanover (Pa.) Sun In our opinion, we would like to ask the Ministry of Education to maintain its regulation that any girl who either partially or totally gets pregnant be sent home for good.— Sunday News, Tanzania EXHIBITIONISTS NEEDED AT CURRY ART GALLERY — Oskaloo-sa (Kan.) Free Spirit During the search, members of the Take my word By BOB TAYLOR reserve prepared a sacred hut and brought in a medicine man from Ontario who called on spirits to help find Mrs.Grisdale.They also held a bingo session and raised $200.— Globe and Mail, Toronto We have been informed that there was a typographical error in the notice announcing the 26 February meeting of Forum, the public speaking group of the Australian Institute of Management.The topic, “Being a tease,” should have read, “Being at ease.” _ Age, Melbourne, Australia CAN SEX ONCE A WEEK HELP FEMALE INFERTILITY?— Southfield (Mich.) Northwest Newsday EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of the women interviewed in the following story have been changed to disclose their identity.— Richmond (Va.) Register Twenty suspected smugglers and two donkeys have so far been arrested this year by men of the customs and excise in Gongola state.— Times, Nigeria CUTS ARE HURTING PATIENTS — Chronicle, Newcastle, England The hotel’s personnel, specially the hall porter must fondle clients, making his stay at the hotel as pleasant as possible.— Plaza magazine, Madrid Kuwait Cultural Centre will take part in a rhubarb and violin concert at the Sadu House on March 16.— Arab Times COUNCIL CONSIDERS AND REJECTS PREGNANCY — Avon (Conn.) News We cannot understand your complaint because you were put up in the best hovels.— Midday, Bombay, India Gary Copper and Gene Kelly exchange marriage vows as the clock on the wall begins the tense countdown to High Noon.— Ann Arbor (Mich.) Ob-server RESEARCHER SAYS NAZI GUARD WAS A GERMAN — Canberra Times Happy parishioners filed into the Mission church of St.Andrew at Steart at the weekend for a celebration service after the church was struck by lightning and burnt to the ground.— Bridgwater Mercury, England Lane Cove Council is an equal opportunity employer and provides a work free workplace.— Herald, Sydney, Australia MOST GPs WILL BE WOMEN BY YEAR 2000 — General Practitioner, England The concert as a whole was amazing and received a standing ovation throughout.—Sutton Coldfield Observer, England As the forecaster is off the island, there will be no weather this weekend.— Chronicle, Northeastern Caribbean ARMED RUSTLERS STEAL 364 GOATHERDS IN ITALY — Saudi Ga-zette Police in Broken Hill have charged a man with stealing a vinyl jacket from a German shepherd pup.The dog, which was tethered outside a hotel on Saturday night, was left wearing only a T-shirt.—Herald, Sydney, Australia The attractive 17-year-old who wants to be a police woman some day like her dad, won the coveted title from a glamorous line-up of 18 contestants.— Sunday News, New Zealand PATIENT TOASTS NEW ORGANS — Burnie Advocate, Australia For every one time you go to a movie, you walk away 10 times feeling you've just wasted your money.— Denver Post Allah’s forgiveness and mercy are needed in all situations and after every errar.— Arab News Bob Taylor welcomes letters about language but cannot promise to answer them individually.He is editor of the Canadian Press Stylebook ($12 including postage) and CP Caps and Spelling ($10).The address: The Canadian Press, 36 King St.E., Toronto, Ont.M5C 2L9.Letters Suggestion would not spell votes Japan tries out sonic fish farming SAIKI, Japan (Reuter) — Scientists in Japan are experimenting with a sort of sonic fish farming, in which fish are attracted by sounds broadcast underwater in a bay at feeding time.Though free to swim out to sea, many fish stay permanently in the bay.The idea takes the methods of Soviet scientist Ivan Pavlov, father of the conditioned reflex, into deep water.Instead of training dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, as Pavlov did, scientists at Saiki on the Pacific coast of Kyushu Island have persuaded Red Sea bream to huddle round a food trough at the sound of the note E on a synthesizer.Akira Yasumura, director of the publicly funded Ma-rinopolis experimental station, said the method could I prove commercially viable.| TASTE GOOD Fish at the institute are probably raised more cheaply than those in ordinary fish farms and they taste as good as fish caught in the open sea, he said.“If you raise fish under the conventional farming methods, they grow more greasy and fatty than natural fish,” he said.“But the fish we raise taste like any others.” His institute raises bream from eggs and releases them into a small coastal area enclosed by nets when they reach 1.3 centimetres in length.“Then we condition the fish acoustically for between 30 and 60 days, combining sound waves and feeding until they reach 10 centimetres in length,” said Yasumura.“When they have learned the sound waves and are conditioned to respond, we release them into the ranch.” MANY STAY The “ranch” is a bay which has no barriers to keep the fish inside.They are free to swim out to sea, and many of them do.But an estimated 20 per cent are kept in the bay by the synthesised beeps in E, broadcast by two solar powered buoys moored in the bay.“We feed them six times a day between 7 a m.and 5 p.m ,” said Yasumura.“We emit the sound for about eight minutes, in the middle of which feed is released for about one minute.“After a year, they are commercially saleable and we can harvest them.” He said that in conventional fish farming, 70 per cent of overheads go on labor and feed.But the Marinopolis method requires very few employees and not much fish food.“The fish depend (largely) on natural food to survive.We only release enough to keep them around ' CONFUSED FISH When the experiments started in 1983, the bream were treated to piano melodies and drum solos.“But the fish didn’t like the mixture of high and low tones,” Yasumura said.“It confused them.So we switched to the synthesizer.” He said he knew of only one other place in the world working on the same idea.“Soviet experts who visited us last year said they were doing something similar with rainbow trout in the Baltic.” Inspired by the Marinopolis experiment, a fishing community nearby has installed two sonic feed buoys of its own and a solar generator to power them for a total cost of about $400,000 US.Japanese long-range fishing fleets have faced increasing problems in recent years as more countries enforce 200-nautical-mile economic zones.Yasumura believes sonic fish-farming, which should work for all types of fish, could produce cheap supplies in Japan s own coastal waters."The aim of the experiment is to provide economic stability for the fisherman, to make supplies more stable," he said.“We are now trying to persuade the fishing industry of how profitable this system could be.” Dear Sir, If, as reported in Friday Oct.30 newspapers, Canada owes $264.1 billion, why does our government waste $9 billion to aid and abet the tyrants who control South Africa’s neighbouring countries?When Uganda, under Idi Amin, was in the news for murdering, and arresting political foes, Canada did not suggest sanctions against that country.Could it be that no Canadian votes were at stake when one tribe destroyed another tribe if both were black?During the francophone summit in Quebec we were aware that one African leader was deposed by a coup in his country —- Burundi.Again one African tribe destroying another.Once again no sanctions considered by Canada — it couldn’t possibly affect Canadian votes.At the same summit in Quebec another African tyrant (the third richest man in the world) was condemned for human rights violations.It was disclosed that the average daily wage in his country was under 40 cents per day.Yet no sanctions were considered when blacks are oppressed by other black tribes.These conditions couldn’t in- fluence the Canadian voters.I have read in the Financial Post that one-half of the 39 francophone African countries are military dictatorships.They have been condemned by Amnesty International for indulging in tribal racism, torture and murder.Yet all these military regimes agree that apartheid in South Africa is a wicked thing.In the same article it stated (according to Freedom House) only one-half of the 49 Commonwealth countries could be classified as free.The other countries were accused of crimes against their own people — torture, imprisonment MUSSEIS?.FtREE, trade! S' •Rol&f THERECCRP without trial, killing and brutality Yet all condemn South Africa for les ser crimes than their own.Zimbabwe engages in race war with its minority, Matabele (40,000 said to have perished).A short time ago a reporter on TV said that Margaret Thatcher thumbed her nose at the other Common wealth leaders.Maybe one should consider her a heroine for not consen ting to the destruction of South Africa’s economy.In a letter to the editor by W.R Lawson (executive director, the Ca nadian South African Society) stated that Easu Mahlatsi, mayor of Lekoa, a black municipahty of South Africa, made a simple plea to Canada to stop punishing his people by taking away their jobs.The Zulus, the largest South African tribe, have the same opinion as Mr.Mahlatsi.If a politician will nulify the human rights of the English-speaking of Quebec through the Meech Lake accord (swapping one-third English-speaking votes for the two-thirds French-speaking votes).Could one not assume Mr.Mulroney has alterior motives in applying sanctions against South Africa?Is it the expectation of gaining the black Canadian vote?Instead of exporting our tax dollars to the military dictatorship neighbours of South Africa, why not use the money to either reduce Cana da’s $264.1 billion deficit; or if the government really wanted to help Africa, give the money to the Aids Research Foundation as the aids disease is more prevalent in Africa than in other countries.Of course this sug gestion would not spell — VOTES VOTES!! VOTES!!! Is it not time for Canada to stop comparing South Africa to European or North American countries, but to compare their government to other governments within Africa?Yours truly RUTH DENISON Richmond Rising sea levels threaten cities — Dutch scientists By Marcel Michelson MARKNESSE, Netherlands (Reuter) — The world is getting warmer and many cities may be at serious risk as melting ice causes sea levels to rise, prominent Dutch scientists say.New York and New Orleans are among the cities likely to find the water encroaching, and many North American coastal and beach areas may also be endangered, they say.It’s all because of what scientists call the greenhouse effect — a buildup of carbon-dioxide and methane in the upper layers of earth’s atmosphere forms a shield around the globe, preventing heat loss.As the North and South Poles, glaciers and snow fields are slowly melting, oceans and lakes are expanding and the water threatens to swallow the surrounding land.WORLD WARMS Scientists forecast that the average world temperature will rise 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C over the next hundred years.“That means the sea level could rise by about one metre over the next century,” said engineer Pier Vellin-ga, deputy director of the Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, one of the world's biggest institutes researching water flows.The laboratory, appropriately located in one of the Dutch polders — land reclaimed from the sea — has been commissioned recently by the United Nations to study the effects of rising seas on the world’s coastlines.Since two-thirds of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and is susceptible to sea level changes, Dutch engineers are eager to point out the dangers.The institute is not alone in its warnings.World experts agreed on the projections at a conference in Austria.MELT PERMAFROST “Most people like the idea of warmer temperatures," Vellinga said in an interview.“Amsterdam may have the temperature of Paris, and Nordic countries will be able to use permafrost areas and sail on what are now ice seas.” But, he added.“1 don't dare to estimate the number of lives lost in floods if we don’t act to contain the sea rises soon.” Fossil-fuel burning power stations, aerosol cans, the manufacture and disposal of polystyrene, floating rice paddies and cattle are the main producers of the gases that clutter the higher layers of the atmosphere, Vellinga said.“For the coming century the da- mage is already done, we can do nothing about it except prepare ourselves for the sea level changes and try to avoid major natural disasters.” Southeast Asia — with its large ci-ties like Calcutta, Shanghai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo and Osaka — is probably the most endangered part of the world.Elsewhere in the world, London, New York, New Orleans, Venice and Rotterdam will also experience the effects of a higher sea level.AFFECT WATER “Cities will probably organize insulation from the rising sea and will not be flooded, but they will have serious problems with drinking water,” Vellinga said.Because of the higher sea, salt water will penetrate inland and render more and more surface and ground water undrinkable and useless for agriculture.There will be more frequent and more severe floods like the one this summer in Bangladesh which killed more than 1,600 people.“These changes take place gradually and 1 fear governments will act to prevent catastrophes only after the first disasters have taken place,” Vellinga said.“Political decisions have to be made very soon.The sea-level rise is irreversible and the planning and building of adequate coast line prtec tion takes years.” COSTS HIGH The cost of protecting coastal areas will also be high, he said.“To insulate the East Coast and Gulf Coast shoreline of the United States would cost about $100 billion plus a large amount for yearly main tenance.“There are also great social, politi cal and legal problems.For instance the poorer countries in Southeast Asia face floods as a result of pollution from Western countries’ industries.’ In many countries, the responsibili ties for coastal protection are dispersed among a patchwork of local authorities and it is doubtful they could come up with a feasible overall solution, Vellinga said.“I’m glad the United Nations has started the studies and discussions because only a supra-national organi zation like the UN can fully cope with the worldwide scope of this problem.’ Although higher sea levels are ine vitable for the coming century, Vel linga said further temperature rises and still higher v/ater levels can and should be prevented by changing ma nufacturing, energy production and agricultural methods now. The RECORD—Wednesday, December 16, 1987—5 Education #1___tel record Spanish students are heading home soon Manuel (left) and Jorge Costa will soon be going back to Spain Have any of you ever wanted to live in Spain before?I ask that because we have two students from Spain who have been coming to Galt since the start of the year.Their names are Manuel and Jorge (pronounced Horguay) Costa.They are from Valencia in Spain, on the Mediterranean coast.They have been in Canada since June.The reason the Costa’s are here is because of their father’s work.He is a professor of botany, currently working at the University of Sherbrooke.Their mother stays home in Lennox ville, where the family is living.Galt News By Shelley Clark I asked Jorge what he thought of Galt after being here for four months, he answered, “Cool ! ” Both went to a private school in Spain.Manuel misses his friends Jvan, Javier, Eduardo and Cesar while his other brother misses Quique and Yago.Manuel said it “was hard at first to leave home and friends but it’s easier now.” Jorge very definitely agreed with this.They have been to Canada before (in 1981), the United States, and Ireland all because of Mr.Costa’s work.In the summer, the family spends a month and a half in Ireland, where Manuel and Jorge learned their English - which they speak extremely well.Their favorite sport is (what else?!) soccer -they were both on our teams this fall.Jorge also likes basketball.I asked Jorge what he thought of Quebec.He replied, “It’s OK.There are too many French, and it’s hard because I do not speak it (the language).” But asked if the two would like living in Canada, the answer was, “Yes, but it’s too cold, some places anyway.” In Spain, their winter is nice and the summer is cold.The opposite of the weather here - although it’s hard to tell sometimes.The Costa’s are leaving to go back to Valencia Dec.28, so that means they’ll be here for Christmas.At home, in Spain, on the eve of Christmas, the family comes together for a big dinner.When the day arrives, there is a lunch with the family once more.Some of you may wonder “What about church?What about gifts?” The answer to that is, church is on Saturdays or Sundays and the gift exchanging takes place April 6.I asked Jorge and Manuel what their plans are upon returning to Spain.Manuel said he has to “study a lot, I don’t want to, but I have to." Jorge said school was “different this year, not bad." He plans on studying too.Before they leave Manuel and Jorge Costa have one message for us - Feliz Mavidad y Prospero airo Nvevo in English - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.I, too have my own wish for them - Feliz Navidad to you both, good luck, and God bless.We will miss you.Have a safe trip.Aggressive children linked to TV and toys TORONTO (CP) — Some say television is to blame, or the expensive superhero dolls under many Christmas trees.Whatever the reason, many parents and teachers see a rise in aggression among children, including the very young.“I think if you put the question to the board members sitting around our table here, the answer would be yes — they have seen an increase in that kind of behavior,” says Heather-Jane Robertson, director of professional development for the Canadian Teachers Federation.“The child who acted up was once a rarity.Now it’s more commonplace.” Carolyn Warberg, co-ordinator of the early childhood education program at Centennial College in Toronto, has been alarmed to see children in day care imitating superheroes while fighting over something as small as a cookie.Children entranced with He-man, a TV and toy superhero, will utter his chant—“By the power of Greyskull! ” — as they plunge into combat, Warberg says.They also use the incantation as they are about to defy their parents over such issues as putting on coats or going to bed.“It’s like they’re using the phrase to bridge the situation and take control over it,” Warberg says.She blames violent television programs and TV-related toys for much of the aggression.So do many other child-care experts, though they warn that the link is not simple.Some of the most aggressive children, they say, come from homes that strictly control exposure to violent TV and toys.KIDS GO WILD “Sometimes the kids just get out of that situation and go wild,” Warberg says.“It has a lot to do with control.” At the Alfred Adler Institute of Ontario, director Bella Seiden says she hears a lot about children being more difficult, or not as motivated as youngsters in past decades.Parents, she says, simply don’t know where to turn and many of the ideas that worked when they were young don’t measure up today.The Adler Institute’s parent-education centre bases its counselling on the work of Rudolph Drei-kurs, an American psychologist who predicted in the 1960s that aggression among children would in-crèase as society became more democratic.As they watch television or listen to their parents and hear of growing demands for human rights, children naturally start to demand rights as well, the theory goes.Not all people involved with children are convinced that child aggression is a novelty.Mark Barnes, president of the Canadian Association for Child Play and Therapy, says he is not certain whether there has been real growth in child aggression or whether it is just being increasingly noticed and labelled.FAMILIES CHANGE Many educators point to changes in family structure, and the widespread loss of the stable nuclear family, as a cause of aggression.They say that the more pressure children experience, the more likely they are to lash out “When we treat aggression, we also have to treat the pain underneath — whatever it is that’s causing the sadness and the anger,” Barnes says.The teachers federation’s Robertson theorizes that aggression is linked to a trend toward “kids raising kids,” as busy parents leave young children in the care of older ones.“You’ve got to understand that a child has a limited repertoire when it comes to asserting control,” Robertson says.“Often aggression may be the only way they have to take charge.” At school, she says, increasingly harried teachers may overlook low-level problems of fighting and bad manners.“Ordinary anti-social behavior may end up low on the list of priorities,” she says.“I think that what was once seen as evidence of a major problem now may be accepted more as normal behavior.” Drug education: Get them while they’re young VANCOUVER (CP) — Kindergarten is where efforts to stop children from using alcohol and drugs must begin, a symposium on substance abuse was told Tuesday.“The data tells us that by high school you have a population which is at risk in some cases and beyond that in others,” said Ross Ramsey, former executive director of the Alcoholism Foundation of Manitoba.“We want to get at kids before they’ve made that decision to use drugs,’’he added, “andthatmeans you start in kindergarten.” Ramsey is now president of the Kaiser Substance Abuse Foundation, which sponsored the three-day symposium.The foundation was formed in 1985 with a $2.5-million endowment from the family of Vancouver industrialist Edgar Kaiser.The symposium brought together about 300 representatives from the provincial ministries of health and education, school boards, parent groups and private organizations.They heard several North American experts tell how the anti-drug message could be delivered most effectively to children.A goal of the conference was to work toward having a drug education program in British Columbia schools by the fall of 1989.A provincial Health Ministry survey released in November indicated three out of four B.C.adolescents had used alcohol during the year preceding the survey.More than 15 per cent had used prescription drugs and 30 per cent had used marijuana in the last year.The Education Ministry now is revamping its health and guidance curriculum and Ramsey hopes drug education will be an integral part of any new curriculum.Celebrate With Us! a hundred years of design Birks Jewellery Factory has been producing jewellery of the finest quality for 100 years now.To celebrate, we created our very special, limited edition, diamond Princess ring.Inspired from a ring in our archives, the Princess is a glorious marriage of the best of the old.and the new.17 brilliant diamonds are set in an exquisite 18kt yellow or white gold filigree mounting.$3400.Presented in our specially commissioned sterling ring box.* CARREFOUR DE L'ESTRIE Only Shirks Christmas spirit fills the hallways at BCS Christmas spirit is alive at BCS! This past week graduation committee has been busy selling candy canes.Not to be out done, carnival committee joined in the festive fun with their “Santa’s Se-wants" campaign.They sold off various members of the group who in turn had to wait hand and foot upon their new owners at Friday’s supper.“But Anne, won’t you settle for seven pieces?It’s not as easy as it looks to cut an apple in nine even pieces ! ! ” The Round Square is busy organizing a poverty meal for a local underprivileged families.We all hope it will help spread a bit of Christmas cheer! Sometimes one of the best gifts you can give is time.A bus load of carollers accompanied Mrs.Peacock and her community service volunteers to the Grace Christian home.The impromptu choir was “helped out” by the school’s brass quintet.better luck next time Dominic! A very special ‘gift’ arrived in India on Wednesday.Sophie Coffman and Leslie Major will be spending five weeks there as part of the Round Square International Service program, They will be helping a village to get organized, digging a well and helping with their bridge.They’ll get a good taste of foreign culture and help enrich us with accounts of their expeiences on their return.This sharing emphasizes the true meaning of Christmas.Would you like an apple?Spotlight on your Charlie.we think.“After Liverpool” put on by the Sixth Form drama class was the first of what we hope will be many Bish Biz By Caroline Mitchell noon hour plays.The school survived the "culinary expertise" of Hugh Scott and Nick Oldland and their Pugwash members as they organized a bake sale to help support their cause.The seldom-heard-from artsy folks of campus announced "Glad Tidings of Great Joy" at Friday morning’s chapel.William's Housers are now the proud parents of Pegasus, a humpback whale, resident of Stellwagen Bank, Cape Cod.Massachusetts.The official papers state that "no person shall interfere with said whale’s right of way or pursuit of happiness under pain of said.Protectors’ severe displeasure." Martine Bordeleau entertained the student body with a beautiful flute solo.It lifted many low spirits before exams.exams.exams.the great blight before Christmas vacation.Exam time isn’t really all that awful at BCS.For starters there is no more crease.In the holiday spirit, many houses pick K.K.’s.This stands for Kris tringle.You do something nice each day during exams for the name you pick It can really make your day! The choir is well into “crunch time” for the BCS annual service of 9 lessons and carols.With whip in hand, choir master Geoffrey Thomson conducts vigorously in hopes that this carol service will out do the rest.Quite a tall order.Merry Christmas BCS! Not an average course TORONTO (CP) — Is that certain someone you’ve got your eye on clearing her throat, or perhaps flicking lint from his jacket?It could be a sign they’re returning your interest, instructor Orli Kohn tells a group of about 20 men and women who are diligently taking notes.The students, mostly men, have paid $25 each to learn How To Find a Lover.During the three-hour session at a downtown hotel, they are given tips on what to wear — “women don’t like any traces of dirt or grease” — and taught to spot those subtle body movements that just might reveal romantic interest.Strategies for meeting people are discussed during the class, including staking out frozen-food sections at supermarkets or checking obituaries in order to take casseroles to strangers whose spouses have died.The course, and others like it, have been called the McDonald’s of education.They’re offered by the Learning Annex, a company that serves up short, practical courses to thousands of adults in Toronto every month, at rock-bottom rates —and a tax receipt on request.MAKES MILLIONS “Learning was never like this,” is the motto of the U.S.-based firm, which set up in Canada in 1986 and is grossing $9 million in the 1987 fiscal year at its 16 locations across North America.Courses range from the unusual to routine: Exploring Past Lives, How to Begin and Continue a Conversation, How to Meet the Right Mate, Understanding Computers, Basic Knitting.The U S.schools are one step ahead, with courses on crossdressing, cheating on your spouse and what to do when your psychiatrist is away on holiday.Director Linda Reed said the Toronto courses attract mainly professionals in their 30s, about 70 per cent of them women.They include her parking lot attendant, who is learning to be a private investigator, and corporate vice-presidents.“I think it’s definitely just the beginning of the iceberg for this type of industry,” Reed said in an interview at her office.We offer a university education and a career to make the most of it.Ask about the Canadian Foices Regular Officer Training Plan for Men and Women.• have your education subsidized by the Canadian Forces at a Canadian military college or a mutually selected Canadian university upon acceptance.• receive a good income, tuition, books and supplies, dental and health care and a month's vacation il your training schedule allows.• choose from a large selection of Ist-year programs.• have the opportunity to participate in a number ol sporting and cultural activities.• on graduation, be commissioned as an ollicer and begin work in your chosen field.It's your choice, your future.For more information on plans, entry requirements and opportunities, visit the recruiting centre nearest you or call collect - we're in the yellow pages under Recruiting.CANADIAN < ARMED FORCES 6—The RECORD—Wednesday, December 16, 1987 Living Job searching a little easier these days Woman who shows off breasts has fetish The Canada Employment Centres in Sherbrooke and Asbestos are offering an interesting new service for the job hunter.This innovative service, known as “coda-phone” allows anyone seeking employment to receive information on available jobs through a recorded telephone message.A telephone call will connect you to a recorded message which gives the job title, offer number, and a short description of the job being offered.The numbers to call are 564-5803 (Place Jacques-Cartier), 564-5885 (Olivier Street) and 879-5492 (Asbestos).To ensure that the recorded message is not overly long, a limited number of jobs is described on the codaphone but the message is renewed frequently so that the list is Keeping in touch By William Floch up-to-date.The “codaphone” service is available twenty-four hours a day and is offered in both official languages.If a caller is interested in any of the jobs mentioned on the recorded message, the next step would be to visit the CEC office to get further details and make an application.The CECs are to be congratulated on this innovative service which gives the job searcher quick and convenient access to informa- tion on some of the available employment opportunities.PS.Plans are already underway for the 1988 version of Spring Fling.For the second consecutive year, Townshippers’ Association’s Dinner Dance will be held at the Polyvalente La Ruche in Magog.Organizing Committee Chairperson Harvey Catchpaw promises a bigger and better sequel to last year’s event which was a rousing success.Watch this column for further information.P.S.S.Townshippers’ Association’s quarterly newsletter Crossroads is being published and distributed later this week.All association members receive this newsletter as a part of their membership privi- leges.If you are not a member and are interested in joining, please call (819) 566-5717 or (514) 263-4422 for more information on joining the Townshippers’ Association.The directors and staff of Townshippers’ Association extend sincere season’s greetings to everyone.Townshippers’ Keeping in Touch is a weekly column written by the Townshippers’ Association.Any comments, criticisms or ideas for future columns are most welcome, and should be sent to: Townshippers : Keeping in Touch c/o William Floch Townshippers’ Association 2313 King St.West, Suite 308 Sherbrooke, Que.J1J 2G2 New Quebec hot-line serves battered women By Cathy Simon for Mainland Press QUEBEC CITY — There’s a new recourse for battered women in Quebec.A toll-free hot line began taking calls this month from women all around the province who need help.Some 30,000 Quebec women are reported to suffer some form of physical abuse every year.Confident the need for such a hot-line service exists, trained operators are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.During its first week of operation, the service handled several hundred calls, and successfully referred 40 women to shelters in their areas.(The hot line is a referral service.With only one phone line, for now at least, an operator cannot afford to spend more than a few minutes with each caller.) “I try to make the caller feel better, and to comfort her, but I can’t listen to her whole story.I’ll refer her to the appropriate place for follow-up," says one operator.MANY REGIONS Operators have answered calls from Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Hull, Val d’Or, the Gaspé, the Magdalen Islands, the North Shore, and the Laurentians.“Some women call for information about our service, some want to talk, and some need to leave home." The first step for the operator is to find out just what the caller's needs are.“If she’s considering going to a shelter, I can call the nearest one in her region — that saves her the long-distance charge — and I can stay on the line to help make arrangements if she wishes.” The office is equipped with a thick referral book of services province-wide.SPECIAL SERVICES “We are here primarily to refer women to shelters.But if women call with other problems, like alcoholism, loneliness, or just the need to talk, we refer them to somewhere that specializes in dealing with their specific situation.” Many of the women who have called are not ready to go to a shelter.“This is one of the most difficult and scary decisions to make, especially when you have a child to consider.And it’s even more intimidating when a person has to travel quite a distance to the nearest shelter.” Most shelters can help organize transportation and help finance it, if necessary.“If the caller hasn’t decided whether to leave home, I can put her in contact with a shelter, so she can find out more about it.Or I can refer her to another service which provides trained listeners to help her work through her difficulties.Then she can think things over and call me back.” CALLS FROM MEN Often the phone rings but the caller hangs up as soon as someone answers.“That’s really disappointing, because we want so badly to help.You just hope the person will call back and stay on the line long enough to realize we can do something for her.” The service has also received a few calls from men who are afraid of their own aggressive tendencies and who want to change.They are welcome to call the hot line, but they will then be referred to an appropriate service.The hot line claims to offer bilin- gual service, but most operators are not fluent in English.Nonetheless, they will understand if English-speaking callers talk slowly, and they are able to communicate the necessary information clearly.Staff also say that they can meet the challenge of tracking down an English-speaking contact person at almost any shelter around the province.* * * If you think you need help, call 1-800-363-9010 any time, day or night, any day of the week.There’s always someone there.Cathy Simon is a journalist in Quebec City.c Legions of dollars Dear Ann Landers: I can understand a male having a fetish that involves women’s breasts, but is it possible for a woman to have an obsession that compels her to display them?My wife has pulled a number of stunts that are fairly transparent.She will stroll into the living room stripped to the waist when I have a business meeting and say, “Oh! I didn’t know anyone was here ! ” She has sabotaged her bikini top on several occasions so it falls off at the beach.Her fake embarrassment fools nobody.She denies that any of this is deliberate.They are all “accidents.” When I suggest that she needs help, she just laughs.Perhaps you can persuade her to look into the problem.When she feigns embarrassment it is my face that is red.— Beet-Faced in New Jersey Dear Face: People who get their jollies out of such antics are exhibitionists.The excitement they experience is far greater than the embarrassment of being told, “You are doing it on purpose.” This is, of course, disturbed behavior and I recommend counseling.Motherhood and age might cut down on her performances, but don’t bet the rent.Dear Ann Landers: A good way to find out who your friends are is to get divorced.I was married for 17 years to a man who loved parties.Three or four nights a week we entertained or were invited out.Most people would consider it exhausting, but we loved it.Two years ago, out of the blue, my husband asked for a divorce.I was stunned.He insisted there was no other woman.He just wanted out.Of course there was another woman.Where he found the time to cheat I will never know, but the relationship must have been well-established because they were Ann Landers married the week after our divorce.Our friends dropped me like a hot rock.His new wife (a rich widow) has a beautiful home and their parties are far more lavish than the ones we used to give.I am finding it hard not to be bitter.Please help me sort this out.— Hurt in New York Dear New York: Those former friends were not friends at all.They were merely acquaintances who liked to go to parties.(Some people will go to the opening of a can of tuna.) Write them off with the sure knowledge that you have lost nothing.Dear Ann Landers: When our grandson was born recently I noticed on his bassinet in the hopsital that his last name was a combination of his mother’s maiden name and our son’s last name.We assumed this was a mistake made by the hospital, but we have since learned that it was by choice.Our son’s wife insisted that the two names be used.We are upset, Ann, because this puts an end to our family name.Will you give us your opinion in this matter?— Miami Dear Miami: Even though you are understandably disappointed that the family name will not be carried on, your son and his wife have the right to name their child whatever they wish.Accept it with grace.To do otherwise will only put additional strain on a relationship that I suspect is somewhat fragile.Study to look into long pregnancies for details Claudette O’Malley (left), the president of the Ladies A uxiliary of the Sherbrooke Legion, presents a $2000 cheque to Guy O’Malley for the legion’s building fund.Treasurer Vi McNab looks on at the banquet for the ladies, held by the men of the legion.REGINA (CP) — Two Saskatchewan hospitals are taking part in a national study to learn more about how to deal with pregnancies that last longer than what is considered normal.The study, which hopes to involve more than 3,400 women at a cost of about $1 million, is to look at whether labor should be induced in women whose pregnancies go past 42 weeks.The other option is to monitor the fetus frequently to make sure the baby isn’t in distress.Started in July 1986, the study “is the largest of its kind,” project director Dr.Mary Halpern, an obstetrician at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, said in a telephone interview.The project has already received about $500,000 from the Medical Research Council of Canada.Halpern said at least the same amount will be needed to complete the study in 1991.Halpern said there’s no evidence that inducing labor is less useful or more dangerous than simply monitoring pregnancies.“Perhaps the results of the study will offer1 more clear cut guidelines for how these pregnancies should be treated.” No results will be compiled until at least 500 woman agree to take part in the study.About 400 women at 13 hospitals — including the Regina General and University Hospital in Saskatoon — have participated so far.SPECIAL AFTER CHRISTMAS BEFORE CHRISTMAS® STARTING NOW UNBELIEVABLE savings UP TO reductions 2X> ChHlBFAM ^ k.^ ^ a )H 3050 Portland Blvd.Sherbrooke 172 Wellington St.N.Sherbrooke Department Store for Children, sizes: Birth to 16 Years SEES RISK Dr.A.K.Joshi, a perinatologist at Regina General, said some studies indicate there’s a greater risk of death or damage to the fetus if late pregnancies are allowed to take their course without medical supervision.However, inducing labor if the mother’s cervix isn’t “ripe” may mean having to perform a caesarian section to remove the baby.“The first thing this study will do is give a clearer picture of how many pregnancies are truly late, or whether it’s simply a matter of miscalculating the date of conception,” he said.Women who choose to participate are randomly placed into two groups.In one group, labor is induced using a drug called intracervical prostaglandin E2, in the final stage of testing by the Upjohn Co.but not yet on the market.In the other, pregnancies are closely monitored using ultrasound and other tests.To be eligible for the study, a woman must be at least 41 weeks into her pregnancy with no serious medical problems and a cervix that is not ripe for delivery.CHRISTMAS DANCE BULWER COMMUNITY CENTER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 9 p.m.• 1 a.m.Music by SCOTT LOWD BRUCE ft SHARON PATTON STEWART DEACON Pot-luck lunch Door prizes Everyone welcome Admission charged i i ) The KKCORO—Wednesday, December 16, 1987—7 Farm and Business Seconl Cut auto import duties says Nissan president TORONTO (CP) — Canada should cut import duties on autos to make up for overseas car manufacturers being excluded from Auto Pact membership, says the president of Nissan Automobile Co.(Canada) Ltd.“Now our biggest concern is import duties,” says Roy Hoshino, assessing his company’s concerns about the proposed new free trade deal between Canada and the U.S."Among the summit countries (the group of seven industrialized nations), who has such high duties (as 9.2 per cent)?” asked Hoshino.“The U.S.has 2.5 per cent.Japan doesn’t have any import duties.” The free trade deal precludes new carmakers from enjoying the Auto Pact benefit of duty-free imports of vehicles and parts from any country in the world.Overseas carmakers that buy parts or make vehicles in Canada are guaranteed only limited forms of duty relief for varying periods ending no later than the end of the 1990s.Susumu Yanagisawa, president of Toyota Canada Inc., suggested Japan may consider registering a complaint with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade over the double standard.Hoshino said Nissan and other Japanese carmakers will definitely want to see Canada's import duty reduced under the current round of multilateral GATT trade negotiations.Lower duties might help keep the new Asian-owned car plants in Canada competitive with those in the U.S., which import overseas parts at a lower cost.But, after duties on U.S.imports are phased out over 10 years, it would also reduce the one remaining penalty Canada will have to impose on Auto Pact companies that fail to meet the Canadian production safeguards.Asian carmakers committed to investments in Canada said their initial plants are not jeopardized by the new free trade deal.But, they said, their companies will have to consider the impact of the deal on any expansion plans.$98,750 grant awarded to Coaticook factory COATICOOK — A company specializing in hunting, work and protective clothing recently received a $98,750 grant from the federal Department of Regional Industrial Expansion to expand its Coaticook factory.Megantic-Compton-Stanstead MP François Gérin announced the grant to Codet Inc.Dec.1, saying the move will generate more than $400.000 in investment and create 10 jobs.“Having successfully penetrated the American market, Codet Inc.will now be able to expand its facilities and acquire new machinery,” Gérin said in a press release.“It will then be better equipped to meet the growing demand in this area and to concentrate on exporting its products.“The clothing it designs and manufactures has made this firm Canada’s foremost producer of protective apparel.” The grant is provided under the Industrial and Regional Development Program adminstered by DRIE.Agent adds personal touch to real estate ads By Dale Leach COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It was an imposing brick house “in an absolutely perfect setting” and on the front lawn was a sign, For Sale By Owner.“I almost drove my Jaguar over the lawn,” says Sarah Simpson, recounting her dash to the front door to persuade the owner to list the house with her agency, Sarah Simpson Inc.“There are certain houses that I really want to represent,” Simpson said in an interview.“There’s some houses I feel I have to represent.” But not many.In the metropolitan area of Columbus, where the average sale price for a house is a bit more than $81,000, Simpson deals almost exclusively in houses that go for $200,000 or more.And not any old quarter-million-dollar house will do.“1 don’t work in subdivisions,” she says, “and I only list houses that I Uke.” ADS WITH STYLE She does it all with a style that defies traditional methods of real-estate advertising.The house that one company might advertise as “4 BR, WBFP, neutral colors,” becomes in a Sarah Simpson ad “an architectural treasure with four sleeping rooms, a fireplace to warm the face after a day of riding, and sugar-white walls.” “And if I sound like a snob, I am,” she says.She has come by her snobbery quite naturally.The 47-year-old daughter of Lancaster, Ohio, bankers, Simpson has enjoyed a life of relative financial comfort, “except for supporting two ex-husbands.” Simpson entered the real estate business in 1965 and set up her own company six years later.“In 1971, when I opened the business , I decided to specialize in unusual houses, period,” she said.“I thought there was an interest, a need for some sort of exclusive agent.” SOMETIMES LOSE At the time, when perfectly good houses in central Ohio were selling for $50,000, she refused to list anything worth less than $100,000.She refused to list houses she didn’t like, and occasionally it cost her.“I've been now through three recessions,” she said."Atone time, I closed my office/’ But business these days is good for Simpson and one assistant.“This summer, I carried more than 20 (listings) at a time,” she said.And the $200,000-$350,000 house — "my bread and butter” — has proven to be a popular commodity in (he current market.She prides herself on her ability to offer competent appraisals, based more on legwork than instinct.She keeps a file of the per-square-foot prices of each house in the Columbus market that sells for more than $200,000.Her banking background has also served her well among the rich and sometimes famous, who benefit from her healthy skepticism.SKIP OPEN HOUSE Simpson rarely holds open houses, believing they provide an open invitation to would-be burglars to familiarize themselves with the layout ; and she won’t even talk to potential buyers until she’s talked to their bankers.Amid the Sunday real-estate ads, it is her prose that sets Simpson apart.She described an $800,000 home as “a family respite brimming with character.an urbane, gifted blend between the four acres and the wooded structure .softly yet powerfully contemporary .it looks without to trees and lake and within to the stone fireplaces and joyful family spaces.” A half-million-dollar “adult hideaway” offers “a bold dash of architectural excellence.the undulating lines were created of brick and softened by decking .a natural paradise of trees, ravines and waterfalls.” Between the house ads, readers can take a side trip to visit Ethel Power Biggs and her husband, W.E.E.Biggs — characters Simpson has created to introduce a bit of levity to the classifieds.The Biggses, for example, have weathered the recent stock market tumult and “feel dreadfully superior divesting in July.” Simpson says writing the ads satisfies a creative urge.She will often spend an evening with friends tossing around ideas for next week’s ads.“That’s just happy time,” she said.“My hobby is writing.What I’m writing for fun is poetry." Will it % tkeep aeatin zz^zz g?lb It de on BeaRI Bloo pend YOU ED CROi d Donor :x ' is ss ¦ Plenty of lawsuits over computers in ’87 It seems I never learn Last year at this time I suggested that no one would be too upset if I took three weeks off.My ego was bruised by the alacrity of the editor's agreement.You guessed it.I said about the same thing this year, with the same deflating speed of agreement.Nonetheless, I want to wish my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.Have a happy and safe holiday season.This seems to be the ideal column to review the year past and look in my crystal ball to predict the year to come.The big story in micro computers this year was obviously the introduction of the Personal System 2 by IBM.Although this system was introduced at the beginning of April, it really is next year’s story, or perhaps 1989’s story of the year.The new Micro Channel Architecture and more than 100 other patents by IBM require a new operating system to prove their advantage.This new operating system (OS/2) is still not released.It’s due early next year, but the programs that use the new advantages may not really arrive until 1989.MANY LAWSUITS To me, the big story of the year was the number of lawsuits.Apple won a law suit that prohibits other companies from copying the code included in the ROM chip.This has put a major hurdle in the path of potential COMPUTER EASE By Norman J.Longworth Apple clone manufacturers.Many computer pundits claim the reason that IBM has changed from using "off the shelf” compo-nents to using proprietary components is it gives them more opportunity to sue clone makers.While on the subject of lawsuits, there is Lotus' infamous “look and feel” suit.This suit claims that if it looks like Lotus and feels like Lotus, it’s against the law.The case should be settled next year creating another potential story of the year.Another legal landmark established this year was the sentencing of a Toronto businessman to a number of months in jail for pirating software.This puts all “evaluation clubs” in jeopardy.You may have noticed that Maison de Logiciel has closed.I’m not sure whether the reasons were legal or financial.Either way it’s gone.Apple, too, made some major moves this year.It opened its architecture to third party development the same year that IBM started to restrict third party involvement.It also introduced DOS compatability just before IBM announced that it was moving to OS/2.LESS MARKET A much quieter story is the de mise of the daisy wheel printer.Don’t misunderstand me.they're still being made and sold, but there is less and less market for them.The new 24 pin dot matrix printers are cheaper, faster, can do graphics, and are available to print in color.The quality of the NLQ (Near Letter Quality) mode is now so good, only the fussiest people won’t accept it.These fuss pots can now buy a Laser printer for the price of a quality daisy wheel printer.I am not continced that these printers can stand up to day in day out hard use, but they’re becoming much more popular.They can produce output that approaches typeset quality, not just typewriter quality.All this and they’re quiet too.I certainly don’t need a crystal ball to see that OS/2 will be one of the stories of 1988 Whether it’s accepted as the new do facto ope rating system or not, the decision will be a major store PREDICTS BATTLES My crystal ball and I are willing to go out on a limb and predict that 1988 will have some major software battles, Microsoft will challenge the dominance of Lotus in the spreadsheet market.With their experience with Multi- plan and the Mac Intosh’s Excell it should be an interesting struggle The winner in this type of battle should be the user.It w ill be a busy year for Lotus Corp.At the same time that Microsoft will be attacking their spreadsheet market.Lotus will be attacking the personal user Data Base market with Agenda.Ashton Tate will also have a busy year with their market share in this same market steadily eroding.They have high hopes for their new dB ASEIV which will be ready early next year.The only hardware story I am capable of forseeing, is the introduction of color laser printers.All in all 1988 should be the year of software innovations, not hardware.If you have any computer questions, write me care of this column.Questions that are of general interest will be answered in Norman J.Longworth has been working in Data processing since Iktit, and is currently a computer systems consultant tor La Clef de Curseur in Sher-bntoke.the column.Shredding other firms’papers is his business OTTAWA (CP) — Scott Smith’s job is a grind.He provides businesseswith a door-to-door answer to unwanted files and documents — a mobile paper shredder.A machine in the back of Smith’s truck will chew up half a tonne of documents in an hour.For $150 an hour it can mulch paper, carbon, plastic, three-ring binders and all."We’ve done boots, ashtrays and umbrellas,” Smith said in an interview after shredding a load of financial records for Royal Trust.The mulched material is compacted and stored in a container in the truck that can hold up to 2,700 kilograms.The mulch is eventually dumped at a local landfill site.SEVEN TRUCKS Smith manages Proshred, a Toronto-based company that specializes in the destruction of classified records.It was started two years ago and now has seven mobile-shredder trucks.This fall, the company opened a small office in Ottawa to serve ci- ties in eastern Ontario.Smith, 30, won’t name most of his clients for security reasons, but says he has up to 14 in Ottawa, including telecommunications firms, government offices, compu ter companies and small busi nesses.As part of his sales pitch, Smith handed prospective clients his “scare sheet,” a copy of a newspa per story about two cardboard boxes of confidential federal files discovered behind a Toronto office building.The files of the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion included financial statements, audits, forecasts and business strategies of privately owned companies.“It could have been avoided,” he says.WORKERS BONDED The shredder truck is run by two men who are bonded, uniformed and wearing identification.They load the hydraulic feeder that turns files into confetti at the flick of a switch.INFORMATION ABOUT ATLANTIC CLAMS, MUSSELS, OYSTERS, AND QUAHAUGS As of December 15, 1987 all live Atlantic clams, mussels, oysters and quahaugs will have been removed from the Canadian retail market.A new supply of products will re-enter the marketplace as inspection services are able to ensure that they fully meet health and safety requirements.A toll-free telephone service is in place to provide up-to-date information on Atlantic clams, oysters, mussels and quahaugs.If you have any inquiries, telephone: 1-800-267-2004 between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm (ESI) Service is available in both official languages, seven days a week.¦ ¦ Health and Welfare Santé et Bien-être social I I Canada Canada Canada \ l 8—The RECORD—Wednesday, December 16, 1987 Social notes from around the Townships Windsor Mrs.C.McCourt 845-3416 Friends of Mrs.Pauline Morey were sorry to hear she was a surgi* cal patient at the St.Vincent de Paul Hospital and send along best wishes for an early recovery.Mrs.Ivy Raymond is a patient at the Sherbrooke Hospital.Best wishes are going out to her."THE ASSOCIATES" Professional Services for Individuals & Businesses We Settle Estates Estate and Income Tax Planning Full Range of Consulting, Tax & Accounting Services Assistance with Financing, and Government Grants Family Farm Transfers W.D.DUKE ASSOCIATES LTD.109 William St.Cowansville, Quebec J2K 1K9 514-263-4123 W D.DUKE, B.Comm., C.A.J.R.BOULE, B.A.WILLIAM G.DUKE, B.Comm., MBA JOHN GLOVER VICKY DYBALL, Estate Officer Mrs.Ralph Healy of Richmond and her guests Mr.and Mrs.Brian Cowan of Ottawa were afternoon callers of Mrs.C.McCourt.Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Jandron were pleased to learn that their eldest son, Wm.Jandron, of Halifax was chosen to be a part of the Olympic Torch Relay, running in the Pictou - Truro area.Congratulations, Bill! The St.Andrew’s Church Sunday School have planned a Christmas program to be presented on Saturday evening, Dec.19at7:30p.m.in the church hall.Entertainment to AYER S CUFF STANSTEAO 819 876 5213 ss & son ltd FuntRAl DIRECTORS Webster Cass SHERMOOKi 300 Queen Blvd N liNNOX Villi 6 Belvider* St 819-564 1750 R.L.Bishop & Son Funeral Chapel SHERBROOKE 300 Queen Blvd N 819-564-1750 Gordon Smith Funeral Home SAWrERVIllE COOK SHIRE 819-564-1750 / 889 2231 will be recitations, carols and skits, with coffee served after the program.South Stukely Myrtle Hilliker Mr.and Mrs.0.Gamache of Waterloo and Mrs.Myrtle McLellan were dinner guests on Saturday Nov.14 of Mr.and Mrs.Dean Martin and daughters Melissa and Crystal at Pigeon Hill! Mrs.Ethel Loach and Mrs.Pat Winslow of Lennoxville were Sunday guests of their sister and aunt Myrtle Hilliker.Mr.and Mrs.Roland Blampin of Ottawa, Ont.were guests of Mrs.Lucy Wright and Mr.and Mrs.Clifford Wright before leaving Dec.1st for Florida, where they will be spending four months.Rev.Wilmur Davidson of Waterloo held church service Sunday morning, Nov.22 at 9:30 with Morning Prayers at the home of Mrs.Mildred Bowering.Mr.and Mrs.Gene Shepard spent the American Thanksgiving at their home in Sugar Hill, N.H.Bishopton Mrs.Cyril E.Rolfe 884-5458 The Christmas Club met with Mrs.Grayce Betts on Tuesday eve- —-—' iiiiiny, ning.The evening was spent playing 500 with Reta Downes and Laura Fleury winning prizes.Lunch was served by the hostess at the end of the evening.The next meeting will be the Christmas gathering on December 18 with Clara Herring.Mrs.Grace Rolfe spent a week in Ste.Foy with Mr.and Mrs Bill Pol-lick, Sean and Jason.Mr.and Mrs.Gordon Joyce spent a week in Pointe Claire with Mr.and Mrs.Ken Goslett and two daughters.Miss Irene Harrison was in Lennoxville for a couple of days to help Mrs.Lloyd Harrison celebrate her birthday on November 19.Mrs.Flora McIntyre has improved enough to leave the Sherbrooke Hospital and is spending some time recuperating at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Durwood Dougherty in Brookbury.Mr.Irving Willard celebrated his 84th birthday on Nov.27.On Saturday a family dinner was held to celebrate the occasion.The guests were Mrs.Joan McGillivray and son Chip of Toronto, Mr.and Mrs.Lindsay Groom, Mrs.Winnie Buchanan, Bury, Mr.and Mrs.Gray-don Main, Jimmie Main and Miss Maureen Morrison, East Angus and Mr.and Mrs.Stuart Main and Michael of Bishopton.ALLANSON — Mark and Carol (James) are pleased to announce the birth of their last child, Matthew Joseph, 8 lbs.loz.,December 10, 1987.Brother to Brent, Meghan and Curtis.SYLVIA SAGER BEARD In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother who passed away December 16.1983.Love and remembrance last forever.ARDELL MASON (daughter) LILLIAN HADLOCK (daughter) AND GRANDCHILDREN FULLER, Lloyd — In loving memory of a dear husband, father and grandfather who passed away two years ago today, December 16,1985.Your presence we miss, Your memory we treasure, Loving you always, Forgetting you never.Always remembered by, THELMA & FAMILY HERRING — I would like to thank all those people who have made my 90th Birthday party such a memorable occasion.A special thank you to the organizers, the decorators, the food specialists and the orchestra.Thanks for the gifts of flowers, plants, candy, money and the many cards which nearly reached my age in number.Lastly, thanks to the host of friends and neighbours who came.IVAN HERRING ROTHON, Grace (nee Dymond -Beaucage)—Passed away December 14,1987, after a lengthy illness, at Fergus, Ont.She leaves to mourn, her husband William (Bill), one son Robert Beaucage and his wife Solange from Williston, Vt., also one daughter Norma Riddell and her husband Malcolm of Vau-dreuil Terrace, Que., and one sister Eunice Stowe (Oliver) of Cowansville, Que., one sister Beatrice Vergeylen who predeceased her in 1957, 6 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.Cremation and service being held in Fergus, Ont.WHEELOCK, Mildred (Wootten) — At the Sherbrooke Hospital on Wednesday, December 16,1987, in her 81st year.Beloved wife of the late Raymond Wheelock.Dear mother of Owen and his wife Daphne.Survived by 2 granddaughters Debra Wheelock and Karyn (Mrs.Jim Newell).Also survived by several nieces and one nephew.Resting at Cass Funeral Home, 39 Dufferin Rd., Stanstead.Funeral service will be held on Friday, December 18 at 2 p.m.at the Stanstead South United Church, Rock Island, Que.Rev.R.Rogers officiating.Interment at the Crystal Lake Cemetery.Visitation Thursday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.In her memory, contributions may be made to the Stanstead South Church In Memoriam Fund and would be greatly appreciated.ON SALE: WED.-SAT.DEC.16-19 OPEN DAILY TO 9 P.M.p mtpm All Ladies’ Fashions All Fashion Accessories All Men’s Fashions All Jewellery & Shavers ery Special Event! Earn DOUBLE CLUB Z POINTS on every fashion purchase! 200 points for every dollar spent! • All Children’s Fashions • All Family Footwear • All Infants’ Furniture & Accessories • All Handbags & Luggage Shopping Anywhere Else Is Pointless Carrefour de TEstrie Galeries Quatre-Saisons Galeries Orford r-» WuiQ CvdUI tllilillHllIllil KELLAS — My grateful thanks to Dr.Ma-rosi and the staff of the operating room Sherbrooke Hospital, and to the nurses and assistants of second floor, who took such good care of me before and after my operation, and to Mrs.Haddon who helped me to walk again.Thanks to relatives and friends who visited me and for the lovely flowers, cards and letters.Special thanks to my son Bill and to Ivan for being there for me always, also to Martine and Luc for their help.Special thanks also to Elmore and Ellen for caring for me at their home, and to Bob and Norma for their caring concern.Thank you all.MRS.RUTH KELLAS LANGLOIS — We wish to thank everyone who helped us during this sad time in our lives.The loss of our mother, Majorie Langlois.Thank you to Dr.Allen Fien, the staff of 2nd floor at La Providence Hospital for the tender, loving care and support for Mom and her family.To al I our friends who brought food to our homes, came to visit at the funeral home, to those who sent such beautiful flowers, as well as cards, the donations to Ayer’s Cliff Cemetery.Thank you to Rev.Diane Blanchard, Father Yvon Ma-louin, also Father Paul Paré, for a warm, loving funeral service.To Janice Vog-genreiter for the hospitality towards our family.Last but not forgotten, Irene and all the ladies who prepared a delicious lunch in Mom's name.Mom loved you one and all.Never forgotten, from the bottom of our hearts.ANN GOULET NANCY TILTON JERRY ROBINSON ALPHONSE LANGLOIS SELBY — I would like to thank all my friends who called on me with lovely gifts and cards, to celebrate my 98th Birthday.I did appreciate your kind thoughts.Sincerely, ANNICE SELBY Nesbitt Residence, Cowansville, Quebec PLEASE NOTE ALL — Births, Card of Thanks, In Me-moriams, Brieflets, and Hams lor the Townships Crier should bo sent In typewritten or printed In block leHers.All of the following must be sent to The Record typewritten or neatly printed.They will not be accepted by phone.Please include a telephone number where you can be reached during the day.BRIEFLETS (No dances accepted) BIRTHS CARDS OF THANKS IN MEMORIAMS 75* per count line Minimum charge: $3.50 WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS, SOCIAL NOTES: No charge for publication providing news submitted within one month, $10.00 production charge for wedding or engagement pictures.Wedding write-ups received one month or more after event, $15.00 charge with or without picture.Subject to condensation.ALL OTHER PHOTOS.$10.00 OBITUARIES: No charge il received within one month of death.Subject to condensation.$15.00 if received more than one month after death.Subject to condensation.All above notices must carry signature of person sending notices.DEATH NOTICES: Cost: 75' per count line.DEADLINE (Monday through Thur-sday): 8:15 a.m.Death notices received after 8:15 a m.will be published the following day.DEADLINE FOR FRIDAY RECORD ONLY: Death notices (or Friday editions ol The Record may be called in between 10:00 a.m.and 4:00 p.m.Thursday, and between 8:00 and 9:30 p.m.Thursday night.Death notices called in Friday will be published in Monday's Record.To place a death notice in the paper, call (BIB) 569-4856.It any other Record number is called, The Record cannot guarantee publication the same day I ^ Women’s Institute meet The RECORD—Wednesday, December lb, mi—9 i FORDYCE — On Wednesday, December 2nd, the Fordyce Institute gathered at “La Station Restaurant” in Cowansville for their Christmas celebration.All enjoyed a delicious turkey dinner after the Institute Grace was said by all.Before leaving, Mrs.Williams, President.on behalf of all present, thanked the manager and waitresses for this sumptuous repast and excellent service.Following this we went to Emmanuel United Church to hold our regular meeting in the hall there.Mrs.Williams welcomed all with a special welcome to our guest, Mrs.Vennemen, whom we hope will join our group.There were 39 ladies present.The meeting was opened by all repeating the Collect, Salute to the Flag and Motto: “Christmas is the warmth that comes with sharing - The Joy that prevails with Giving”.For the Roll call each one paid for their dinner and $2.00 to give to Heroes’ Memorial School for Christmas dinner.It was decided to also give a donation to St.Leon’s School.A letter was read from the Principal of St.Leon’s heartily thanking us for a donation given them earlier to help with lunches there.The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary Mrs.Royea and approved as read.Mrs.Barrand, Treasurer, reported on the finances.Christmas cards were read from Mrs.Kaye Paquette and our County President Mrs.Jane Greig.A letter from CBC asking for knitted goods for the poor.A letter from the Prov.Pres, informing us about reflectors to be sold and it was decided to order 48 A letter from Sheila Washer informing us of the increase in the price of the Macdonald Journal.We were informed that all reports must be in by January.It was decided to hold a card party of 500, Bridge and Cribbage, on January 23rd A card was signed by all present to send to Mrs.Pollie Jones as she was ill and unable to attend.After the business was dispensed with, the members read a Christmas poem, followed by an exchange of gifts.Pennies for friendship were collected and birthday money, the birthday ladies being Mrs.Mason, Mrs.Williams and Mrs.Raymond.The meeting was adjourned and all enjoyed punch and cookies served by Mrs.Paquette, assisted by several other ladies.Mrs Paquette also had the hall attractive- ly decorated for Christmas.While the refreshments were being enjoyed.Mrs.Evelyn Clarke played Christmas carols on the piano and later the ladies joined in singing some of the favourite ones.• BROOKBURY — Seven members gathered at the home of Carolyn Hardcastle for the November meeting of the Brookbury W.l.which was chaired by the Vice-President, Shirley Addis, who opened with the Collect and Salute to the Flag.On business arising from the minutes.Peggy reported on the County card party; our share of the armistice wreath was $11.67 and it had been laid by Faye Coleman: the bill for treats iRice Krispie squares and chocolate milk) for the students of Pope Memorial School was $24.88.It was decided to give $50.to the school cafeteria and $10 to each of the Brookbury Cemeteries.Names were drawn for exchange of Christmas gifts.Peggy will host the Christmas meeting.Carolyn won the drawing.She also moved that the meeting adjum.after which she served a delicious dinner.E.T.young farmers participate at Fair By Eileen Perkins RICHMOND — Cindy Crack, daughter of Butch and Phyllis of Richmond, Jason Wheeler, son of Malcolm and Gloria, of Windsor, John Beerwort, Brome, and three potential young farmers of the future, from Victoriaville, participated in the Hayes Scotia Bank Classic, or National 4H Dairy Show at the Toronto Royal Winter Fair held recently.These young people had gone to the Royal to show their calves and were representing south western Quebec.Groups of six exhibitors and calves were formed from all across Canada.Up until now Newfoundland young people had not been able to participate, but Air Canada flew them and their calves to the Royal this year The group from around this area really did very well.Cindy and Jason took on the showmanship class and she placed 5th, with jason not far behind with 9th spot.The young people were competing against 88 others in the class.The grand finale of the whole show was when 248 exhibitors filled the arena at the Fair with their calves.Each group, ours being the ones representing southwestern Quebec, themselves chose what they considered to be their best three calves, and then they presented them to the judges, to be judged on the merits of the animals only.Three calves, one owned by the Crack family, one by a family in Victoriaville and one bred on a farm in Warwick took 2nd place in the competition (see photo).Bravo-and congratulations to you all.Incidentally the top winners were from Halton County in central Ontario.On November 28 a number of young leaders who have excelled in the Richmond area, be it in leadership, sports, community work, arts, or other activities, were honoured at an evening prepared and sponsored by the Optimist Club of Richmond.Cindy Crack was honoured at this event for her work and dedication to the farming community, being President of the Richmond Young Farmers.Again, I am sure we are all proud of these young people and wish them continued success in their future endeavours.Grand finale of 248 exhibitors filled the arena.BOARD ADULT EDUCATION SERVICES FRENCH CONVERSATION COURSE French Second Language Courses are designed to improve the communicative skills of the students in the French language.Intensive Courses ETSB Adult Ed.Center 50 Grandes-Fourches S.Sherbrooke January 18,1988 5 afternoons/week 1:00 - 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