The record, 2 juin 1989, vendredi 2 juin 1989

Weekend In Townships Week this week: Artist Patti Barrow-man talks about painting her best friends, Yeller, the Golden Lab and Pay Day, the Apaloosa horse.She also discusses her upcoming exhibition at Knowlton art gallery The Rose Window.Births, deaths .9 Classified .10-11-12 Comics .13 Editorial .4 Farm & Business .6-7 Living .8 Sports .14-15 Townships .3 Townships Week Introduttng Patti Karnm man ami Psiv t>a> Inside Lennoxville’s Ward’s garage — three generations of mechanics still gooing strong.For the full story see page 3.A Granby naturalist is worried about Eastern Township woodlots and marshlands.See page 5.In Sports, the Three Villages hold a torchlight run for the blind and handicapped.See page 15.Weather, page 2 Sherbrooke Friday, June 2,1989 50 cents Robert Bourassa: Rezoning of farmland will be investigated QUEBEC (CP) — Amid charges that businessmen associated with his provincial Liberal party could make up to $750 million from the rezoning of land near Montreal.Premier Robert Bourassa announced Thursday the Justice Department will investigate real-estate transactions in the area.“We’re not taking any chances with profits that could be made in real-estate speculation,” a testy Bourassa told the legislature.The Parti Québécois Opposition continued to hound Bourassa with accusations that the businessmen — including the treasurer of the Liberal party — could make huge profits if the government goes ahead with a plan to allow development of 4,300 hectares of farmland in Laval, just north of Montreal.On Wednesday, the cabinet postponed a decision on whether to free the land for development, and Bourassa aide Ronald Poupart said Thursday that rezoning permission will be withheld at least until the Justice Department has studied land deals in the area between Jan.1.1985, and June 1,1989.PQ whip Jacques Brassard said the developers who stand to make money from the zoning changes in Laval include Tommy D’Errico, treasurer of the Liberal party, and businessmen Alex Kotler and John Alper.AWAIT ZONING Montreal Le Devoir reported earlier this week that Mario D’Er- rico, Tommy D'Errico's son, owns 122 hectares of land in Laval and could make millions of dollars if the land is rezoned.But Mario D’Errico denied the charges, saying that a company controlled by his family controls 25 per cent of Pangen Development, which owns 46 hectares — and not 122 hectares.He also noted more than 4,000 individuals and com panies own land in the 4,300 hectares.Will Union Nationale be killed?By Don Macdonald MONTREAL 'CP) — Once the powerful personal machine of Maurice Duplessis, the Union Nationale has been reduced to a bickering band of 200 that admitted Thursday to selling a portrait of the former Quebec premier to pay a debt.“It was sold to the Quebec museum for $20,000,” party leader Michel Lebrun said with a shrug.“We don’t have many souvenirs left of Mr.Duplessis.” Indeed, the Union Nationale, which under strongman Duplessis ruled Quebec for most of the 1940s and 1950s, is now less than a shadow of its former self.With the party torn by internal dissension and drowning in debt, officials made their last stand Thursday in a small, airless hotel meeting room.Chief electoral officer Pierre-F.Cote invited arguments on why he should not withdraw the Union Nationale’s official status as a party, for failure to pay interest on its debts, as required by Quebec law.The debts run to about $370,000.Cote then sat stern-faced as a parade of middle-aged men in ill-fitting suits pleaded for a reprieve for a party that was in power for a total of 23 years before falling on hard times since the 1970s when its nationalist constituency was kidnapped by the Parti Québécois.Lebrun, one of two men who claim to be Union Nationale leader, told Cote the party’s finances are improving and loss of official status would only guarantee that creditors are never paid.PLAN REPAYMENT Lebrun also said withdrawing status would contravene members’ right to freedom of association.He promised to make a plan for the orderly repayment of the debts — some of which are to party members.“I’ve been hearing these kind of promises for three years now,” replied Cote, who is to give his decision on the party’s status in a few weeks.Lebrun, a short, bespectacled man who wore blue deck shoes to the one-day hearing, told reporters the Union Nationale has a chance to forge an alliance with an anglophone community disillusioned with the Liberal party.Cleaning up the environment Y Conservative spy in Mounties — Kaplan Schoolchildren at Lennoxville Elementary took an environmental break Thursday to clean up the yard.Children from Ruth Reed's Grade was a nice change from class.SIMEON 2 said it 110 tonnes of PCBs leave Montreal MONTREAL (CP) — Hydro-Quebec’s plan to get rid of the largest PCB stockpile in the province began Thursday as 110 tonnes of the toxic waste was hauled to the port of Montreal.The polychlorinated biphenyls, destined for an incinerator in Wales, will be on its way down the St.Lawrence River by Saturday morning, a port official said.The shipment, which left an east-end warehouse in two convoys, is a small part of Hydro-Quebec’s total PCB stockpile of 3800 tonnes.Francophone nurses find work in English hospitals MONTREAL (CP) — In a bid to offset a critical shortage of nurses, three anglophone hospitals in Montreal are recruiting un-ilingual French nurses and giving them crash courses in English.Hospital administrators hope the move will compensate for some of the 2000 nurses who leave Quebec each year for better paying health-care jobs elsewhere.Many of these are anglophone nurses who go to Ontario and the United States.“We are all sharing the same kind of concern about nursing shortages,” said Marsha Ptack, a nursing education consultant with the Jewish General Hospital which was the first to institute the new policy last year as part of a recruitment drive.The 46 nurses who have so far participated in the programs come from all regions of Quebec and are mostly recent graduates, Ptack said.They began their crash language courses with “varying levels of command of the English language.” In the training, they become familiar with English medical terminology and gain confidence in using English, she said.“We are all concerned with this nursing shortage.We can’t attract them and we can’t retain them.Everything else pales in significance because (without enough nurses) we can’t service our patients,” said Ian Mair, president of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s board of directors.OVERTIME BOYCOTT The low salaries paid to Quebec nurses and the resulting shortage is also at the root of a six-week-old overtime boycott the nurses are staging as a pressure tactic in contract negotiations.The boycott has forced many of the province's 140 hospitals to close beds, cancel elective surgery and refuse admissions.The nurses, who make between $24,000 and $32,000 depending on seniority, are pushing for a 20.5 per cent immediate raise as well as improvements in benefits.The utility, which has 20 per cent of the total quantity of PCBs in Quebec, plans to export at least 500 tonnes this year and to be rid of the entire stockpile by 1996.A Hydro official said shipping the waste overseas is the only means of disposal.The U S.and provincial borders are closed to PCB transport and there are no PCB disposal facilities in Quebec.“Our warehouse sites are full; we have to empty them,” Jacques-André Couture of Hydro-Quebec said in an interview.The PCBs are packed securely, he said, and each bin has an acoustic device so it can be tracked in the event of a wreck.“The risks are minimal,” he said.“Storing PCBs is more dangerous than transporting them.” PCBs, toxic compounds that were once widely used as insulators in electrical equipment, have been found to cause cancer and birth defects in laboratory rats.Last year Clifford Lincoln, then the environment minister, urged Hydro-Quebec not to ship PCB-contaminated material to Wales.He said he feared a ship carrying PCBs could sink in the St.Lawrence and said the shipments could hurt chances of Quebec getting its own incinerator.But now the Environment Department itself is inviting bids to transport PCBs overseas.By Jim Brown OTTAWA (CP) — The Conservative government is interfering in the operations of the RCMP and may even have infiltrated its own informant into the force to keep abreast of politically sensitive investigations, Liberal MP Bob Kaplan charged Thursday.But the allegations were immediately rejected as unfounded and irresponsible by RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster and other senior officers.Kaplan, in comments before the Commons justice committee and later to reporters, said he fears a special unit put together about four years ago to handle political corruption cases has been neutralized by the government.The unit, a division of the force's economic crime branch known as Special Federal Investigations, originally had four officers, said Kaplan.But two have since been transferred to other duties.“My submission is that this was done by the federal government to stop that unit from the very effective job that it was doing,” Kaplan told reporters outside the House.The unit was credited with the prosecution of former Tory MP Michel Gravel, who is due for release on parole next week after serving less than two months of a one-year sentence for bribery and fraud.Kaplan said the current status of the unit is unclear, and it is not apparent whether it played any role in the investigation of Richard Grise, another Conservative backbencher who quit the Commons this week after getting a day in jail and a $20,000 fine for fraud and breach of trust.LITTLE DETAIL Supt.John Bentham, a senior spokesman for the Mounties, would not comment in detail on Kaplan’s allegations but said the status of the special unit is unchanged and its work continues.“I don’t know what Mr.Kaplan’s talking about,” said Bentham.The Liberal MP — who was in charge of the Mounties for nearly five years as solicitor general in the former Pierre Trudeau government — also said at the justice committee that the government has infiltrated RCMP ranks.A senior civilian employee of the force has been passing confidential information to the government in violation of a “longstanding tradition that the RCMP operates independently of the solicitor general,” Kaplan later told reporters.He would not name his sources or cite any evidence for the allegation.Although he initially raised the issue during committee discussion of the April leak of the federal budget, Kaplan later said he was not alleging a government mole had passed information to ministers about that specific investigation.RCMP didn’t tell Tories to hush up OTTAWA (CP) — The RCMP never told the government its criminal investigation would be disrupted if a leak of the federal budget to Mutual Life of Canada was made public, Solicitor General Pierre Blais acknowledged Thursday.Government ministers, replying to opposition allegations of a cover-up, have insisted repeatedly in the Commons that disclosure of the Mutual Life leak when the budget was tabled in April could have undermined the police investigation.But Blais, under questioning by New Democrat Svend Robinson at the Commons justice committee, admitted the force had never advised him or the government that disclosing the leak to MPs would harm police efforts.“No, I don’t believe so,” Blais answered when Robinson asked if the RCM P had ever offered advice to him on the subject.“Because I didn’t ask for any advice ” The exchange came during a stormy committee session in which Blais repeatedly cut in to answer questions that oppostion MPs had addressed to RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster.“I’m not here to interfere with the RCMP,” Blais said atone point as Inkster sat silently and chuckles broke out in the audience.“The commissioner must maintain as much latitude as required to do his work.” Inkster did manage to answer one key question — confirming that a senior federal official consulted the RCMP and Crown attorneys on the laying of charges in the Mutual leak and a separate leak to Global television reporter Doug Small.Doug Rutherford, an associate deputy minister of justice, attended a meeting with Inkster and gave advice about whether charges should be laid under the Official Secrets Act, said the commissioner.Tories introduce bill to overhaul UIC standards OTTAWA (CP) — The government forged ahead into the unemployment insurance bog Thursday as it introduced legislation in the Commons to overhaul the massive support program.Opposition parties and labor groups quickly said they will try to sink the bill, which would implement Ottawa’s decision to cut $1.3 billion in benefits next year by tightening eligibility rules.The bill also allows Ottawa to cease its contributions to the $12.7-billion program that helps about three million people annually.The $2.9-billion portion now financed from general revenues will be shifted to employers and workers as increased payroll premiums Jan.1.Premiums for workers with maximum insurable earnings of $635 a week will rise by about $72 a year.Barbara McDougall, the employment minister, said the plan will bounce unemployed workers into jobs because $800 million is being channelled into training programs.NEXT STEP “The tabling of this bill is the next step in the process to develop a Canadian workforce that is able to meet the challenges of today’s demanding labor market,” she told reporters.The strategy, announced in April, also allocates $500 million to comply with recent court rulings that found the system to be discriminatory.It extends benefits to those over 65 and increases benefits for new mothers and natural fathers.McDougall adopted a tough stand on the bill, saying she will not change proposed rules that make it harder to get and keep benefits.But Ottawa will begin consulta- tions next week with labor and business about job-training programs, she said.Liberal critic Warren Allmand said it’s unfair to reduce benefits to people who use them to buy food and pay the rent.The Liberals will join forces with a national coalition of labor, church and social advocacy groups that want to scuttle the legislation, he said.Highlights of unemployment bill OTTAWA (CP) — Here are some highlights of a bill introduced Thursday in the Commons to overhaul the unemployment insurance system.— Increases the number of weeks claimants must work before qualifying for benefits to between 10 and 20 weeks depending on regional unemployment rates, compared to the current 10 to 14 weeks.— Decreases the length of time for which benefits are available.— Increases penalty for people who quit jobs without just cause.— Gives new mothers, who now get 15 weeks of maternity benefits, up to 30 weeks of maternity.narental or sickness benefits.— Allows natural fathers, for the first time, to claim benefits for up to 10 of those 30 weeks.— Extends benefits to workers over age 65 who lose their jobs.— Cuts parental leave to 10 weeks for adoptive parents; down from the 15 weeks now available to one of them.Original microfilmed at varying intensities because the text is printed on greyish or colour background, 2—The RECORD—Friday, June 2.19H9 The Townships fl r.r, txeasra 79-year-old former BMP nurse and volunteer plans wedding and move Heading west after half century in Brome Missisquoi Collins reminisces By Sharon McCully COWANSVILLE — There are some things Alice Elizabeth Collins won’t change as she approaches her eightieth birthday — and one of them is her name.After devoting nearly half a century to healing the sick — both as a registered nurse and supervisor, and later as a hospital volunteer, Alice Elizabeth Collins is leaving the Brome-Missisquoi region where she has lived nearly all her life, and heading west.This week she has been busy packing boxes, disposing of furniture and memorabilia, and saying goodbye to her many friends and former co-workers.And there’s not a sorrowful bone in her body.It “I’m being married, she said with a broad grin T'm marrying my cousin Hugh Collins, so I won’t even have to change my name." Moving swiftly around her apartment sorting through cards and gifts, Elizabeth Collins, with her snow white hair and gentle smile, exudes all the radiance and excitement of a bride-to-be.BUSY In addition to the numerous going-away-to-be-married parties she’s attended these last weeks, the prospective bride has been busy picking up the wedding cake, choosing a wedding dress, solicit ing donations for the church tea on Saturday, and packing for the move.Elizabeth Collins was one of six daughters born to David and Harriet Collins of East Famham.She trained as a nurse at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Montreal where she remained on staff for 21 years.She returned to her family home in 1953 and began a 23-year nursing career which ended with her retirement in 1976 from the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville.Collins lived with her older sister until the time of her death last year.“When 1 first came back from the Children’s, I worked at the old Sweetsburg Hospital — which at one time was a hotel,” recalls Col- T\ The old Sweetsburg Hospital was once a hotel.On curfew with rules F’burg man gets bail in Brigham case COWANSVILLE UMi Charged with threatening, burg lary, wilful destruction and public mischief, David Robinson, a man in his 30s from the Frelighsburg area, appeared for a bail hearing recently after he was found able to stand trial by forensic psychiatrist Dr.Pierre Gagné.Defence lawyer Claude Hamann waived reading of the indictable offences and elected jury trial Robinson is charged with threatening the lives of persons in Brigham, breaking and entering and theft from a dwelling, having burned personal belongings of Pamela Kemp, and public mischief.Crown attorney Sonia Rouleau said she would not object to Robinson being released under conditions imposed by the court.Quebec Court Judge Bernard Le- garé placed Robinson on a curfew, ordered him to abstain from direct or indirect contact with those close to the victim, not to consume alcohol, to continue taking the medi cine prescribed by Dr.Gagné, and to consult his psychiatrist in his Sutton or Montreal office when required.His preliminary hearing was delayed to June 16 to determine a date to proceed.tHaven,t I seen you somewhere before.’ Judge sends old flasher for new head tests COWANSVILLE (JM) — Arrested earlier this month for a series of indecent exposures, Louis Jourdenais, 64, of Bedford, has been sent to Sherbrooke Hospital for an examination by forensic psychiatrist Dr Pierre Gagné to see whether he is fit to stand trial.Crown attorney Henry Keyserl-ingk requested a bail hearing citing the public interest.He told the court the accused had a prior re- cord for masturbating and annoying neighbors as well as an arson in Cowansville when a neighbor sealed a window to avoid looking at him performing indecent acts.“The court can decide whether he should be freed or not,” Keyserl-ingk explained.Defence lawyer Claude Hamann obtained a publication ban and Quebec Police Force Det.Florent Blanchard was called as the Crown's only witness.Hamann then put his client on the stand.That jolted Quebec Court Judge Bernard Legaré’s memory.He had heard the arson case and handed Jourdenais two years in prison.Despite protests from Jourde nais that he was sane and the rest of the world cockeyed, the judge ordered a 30 day evaluation .Henry the K.wants grace notes Shades of 430-day Delaney’ COWANSVILLE (JM> — Crown attorney Henry Keyserlingk has another arrow in his bow when it comes to impaired drivers still under the influence when they appear before a Justice of the Peace.Keyserlingk has requested that court personnel take notes of their impressions of the degree of sobri- ety — or lack thereof — which could be used as a reminder if they are required to testify at a later date.According to a legend around Cowansville Court, during one impaired trial a police officer told the late Judge Pat Delaney that the accused motorist was out of his car but obviously very drunk when found half asleep on a lawn.“Was he holding on to the grass to stop slipping?” Delaney is said to have asked.“No,” the policeman is alleged to have replied.“In that case he wasn’t drunk, but impaired,” was the supposed reply of the judge who was known to the regulars as “30 day Delaney.” lins.“It was a wooden structure and I was always terrified of fire when I was on the night shift — especially with the laundry in the basement.” In 1954, the staff and patients moved into the new 100 bed BMP hospital.AILING MOTHER After working on the maternity ward, Collins was night supervisor which allowed her to remain at home during the day to care for her ailing mother.As a woman who has spent more than half her life in the nursing profession, Elizabeth Collins is following with interest the current round of negotiations between Quebec nurses and the government.“I’m from the old school of nursing,” she said thoughtfully.“When I was nursing in ’46 I’d have two days off one week, and one day off the next.” “Then, as now.there were good nurses and poor nurses,” she said.“The conscientious ones are always overworked.” Collins said she believes with the avenue of high-tech medical equipment and the bureaucratic structure which surrounds hospital care, the role of nurses has changed “We had more direct patient contact, less paperwork and we didn’t have to spend so much time moni toring equipment as nurses do today,” she said.But nurses have always had to accept a tremendous amount of responsibility, says Collins — often without recognition.NO DOCTORS “On nights at the BMP, there were no doctors in the hospital, they were on call,” she recalled.“When a patient came to the emergency, I would call the doctor and describe the case and I would 'Jk Elizabeth Collins.‘I’m from the receive my instructions over the phone.“I always worried about sending people home in case something would happen during the night.” Death is a daily part of a nurses life, Collins said.“When 1 was at the Children’s, I’d weep for the mothers who came in to visit their dying children and never shed a tear in front of them,” she said.“Even so,it was always much sadder to me when a young father or mother of four or five children passed away because of the responsibilities they had.” And did she miss nursing when old school of nursing.’ she retired from the profession in 1976?“Not a bit,” Collins laughed, adding she liked nursing, enjoyed the comradeship of her co-workers and made many friends.Shortly after retiring, she joined the hospital auxiliary, and worked as a hospital volunteer.She also occupied her retirement years as a literacy teacher, helping adults and children to read, and was an active member of the East Far-nham United Church Women.Following her June 10th wedding.the newlyweds will reside in Sherwood Park, Alberta, where Mr.Collins has a home.Leaky budget reporter becomes celebrity OTTAW A ( C PI — Meet the city ’ s newest celebrity.He can’t cross a street without journalists seeking some bons mots, without the paparazzi lurking in wait for that one candid shot, without the political insiders cosying up to him and saying way to go, way to go.There’s fret and frenzy around newsrooms in the capital about the deep-sixing of brown envelopes in Ottawa and the deep-freezing of those unnamed but always “reliable.’’ "knowledgeable,” “informed.” “well-informed" or, at the very least, “high-ranking” sources.But somehow Doug Small, the accused reporter from Global TV, is having his usual whale of a time.He’s been serving up one-liners and absorbing all sorts of goodwill and well-wishes.Someone even walked into his office out of the blue, slapped five bucks down on the desk and told him it was for his defence fund.Finally served with his summons last Tuesday, Small got around to finding a lawyer Wednesday in his case of the leaky budget.He has chosen David Scott, brother of the Ontario attorney general whose office will be prosecuting.And he could have had his pick of the litter, including a pretty respectable man of the bar who’s looking for some work fairly soon.“I would love to handle Doug Small’s case," said oneJohn Turner, by no means unserious about it.Scott's advice to his new client: “For God’s sake, act like a victim." Don’t bet on it.Contest time.Help fill the gap in the resume missed by the folks at the Fisheries and Oceans Department.Captain Morrissey Johnson was appointed last week as chairman of the Fisheries Prices Support Board, the government agency Capital Notebook By Kirk LaPointe The Canadian Press that investigates and recommends action to support prices of fish products when the bottom falls out of the business.“Captain Johnson, w ho is a master mariner and a businessman, was born and educated in Newfoundland,” the news release goes.“He is a director of the Newfoundland Shipowner’s Association and ¦ a member of the St.John’s board of trade.” What has he done lately?Well, we’ll just have to help.Johnson was bounced from office in the Nov.21 election after one term as a Tory MP.Fisheries Minister Tom Siddon, making his first appearance before a Commons committee since a rather chancy bump on the noggin while skiing, began his testimony the other day by reciting his wondrous accomplishments.We’re not talking point-form, either.Twenty minutes into his tale of wow, the opposition MPs began complaining that Siddon should shut up and start taking their questions.Then they moved a motion of cease and desist.Committee chairman Bud Bird, a Tory MP who obviously hadn’t had enough of the positive spin, broke a 6-6 tie and let Siddon reembark.Then, living down to form, Liberal MP Roger Simmons threw a tantrum.Then Siddon subsided.Then, after all the fuss, a lot of dull questions ensued.—____ftei nocara George MacLaren, Publisher.569-9511 Randy Kfnnear, Assistant Publisher.569-9511 Charles Bury, Editor.569-6345 Lloyd G.Scheib, Advertising Manager.569-9525 Richard Lessard, Production Manager.569-9931 Mark Guillette, Press Superintendent .569-9931 Guy Renaud, Graphics .569-4856 Francine Thibault, Composition .569-9931 CIRCULATION DEPT.819-569-9528 KNOWLTON OFF.: 514-243-0088 FAX: (819) 569-3945 Subscriptions by Carrier: weekly: $1.80 Subscriptions by Mail: Canada: 1 year- $74.00 6 months- $44.00 3 months- $30.60 1 month- $1500 U.S.& Foreign: 1 year- $151.00 6 months- $92.00 3 months- $6200 1 month- $32.00 Back copies ol The Record are available at the following prices: Copies ordered within a month of publications: 60c per copy Copies ordered more than a month after publication: $1.10 per copy Established February 9, 1897, incorporating the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) and the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879).Published Monday to Friday by The Record Division, Groupe Québécor Inc.Offices and plant located at 2850t)elorme Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K 1A1.Second class registration number 1064.Member of Canadian Press Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation There’s something about Fisheries — well, okay, it’s not just those guys — that wants to get out the good news.Weather Friday, a few sunny breaks with a chance of showers, the high 24.Outlook for Saturday.cloudy.Doonesbury Any day now.the prime minister’s office will have to name Pierre Juneau's successor as CBC president.With four years of budget cuts scheduled to start next year, the lineup for the seven-year presidency isn’t lengthening.Names still not being ruled out; broadcaster Patrick Watson, versatile culture-crat Pierre De-sroches, former communications minister Flora MacDonald, former CBC vice-president Peter Herrndorf.And someone who will play a significant king-making role — don’t even rule him out as the eventual king — is Bill Neville, the CBC board member best known these days as a tobacco lobbyist.BY GARRY TRUDEAU ( AKKII CihNDKr.mill I N I I I MI NI AN'i Yomi roue! ovœH&te' IT'S m, HUAN CTHN6 ! 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The Townships The RECORD—Friday.June 2.198ÎI—3 the #1___ JKccora Murray used to pump the gas at the Texaco when he was about 1 1 while his grandad did the windshields rhird generation of Wards builds family reputation for good business -V A & a v ¦ ¦ ' .e ._ _ J : ^ J .* » U .v at f f ^< l «a « ¦ 111 j >at l 1 M O •* iitb 3y Ann McLaughlin LENNOXV1LLE — Rarely will a ,'arowner walkout ol a mechanic's shop uttering i thought it would :ost a lot more." But these are the words one might hear when hanging out at Ward’s Auto Centre on the corner of Conley and Depot Streets.A mechanic's shop which logically but unusually has as its motto."If the car doesn't need the part, we won't put it in." After more than 30 years and three generations of Ward mechanics servicing the cars of Lennox-ville.the longstanding family business has developed an impeccable reputation of "good honest work'' — rarely found in this business.People's trust originates from the type of standards established when you know grandpa supervised dad’s work and dad super- vised sons's work THE PLACE TO GO If your car break's down in Len-noxville, any local will tell you Ward's is the place to go.And this is proven when trying to get an oil change or tires rotated."We're booked up for two weeks." said Rickie Ward.29.the younger partner of the latest generation of Ward's to run the business.“But we won't necessarily make you wait two weeks though." he added, discriminating between sudden emergencies, minor jobs needing less attention and friends, of course.“I know about 95 per cent of my customers by name." Rickie Ward said, adding with a smile that it sometimes isn't easy to accomodate everyone, though they try.There are a few more WTards pitching in to help run the show igppir: 'it % i; f|r ~ 2 'M Arlene Card.At 74 she still helps run the business.‘Sherbrooke is more than a city.down by the railway tracks Murray.the second Ward partner will tighten his vice grip on any part of a motor Then there is mum.dad and great aunt Arlene, who at 74 years old, manages the bookkeeping, payroll and generally keeps tabs on the whole shabang.LOCAL INSTITUTION Ward's Auto Centre is an institu tion in the townships, going back a long way.Though Grandpa "Pete" Ward dabbled in mechanics as early as the 1920’s, “assembling model T Fords.” says grandson Murray.He opened in his first shop on Depot Street in Sherbrooke in the mid '40s.Murray’s father, Ron Ward, began work at the Sherbrooke shop in 1946.After four or five years they moved to a Texaco station on the outskirts of Sherbrooke where the Ward familiy s relationship with the town of Lennoxville wmuld begin.“Murray used to pump the gas at the Texaco when he was about 11 while his grandad did the windshields," Arlene remembered.‘Ward’s Motor Specialties’ would remain on Lennoxville’s Queen Street for the next 30-odd years, first at the Texaco station for over a decade, in a Fina for nearly 18 years plus a few other spots as their expansion demanded.Though granddad Ward passed away in 1963, Ron Ward, now 65, is still active in the business — though he claims to be semi-retired he is obviously active doing paperwork and chipping in expertise.Ron Ward is from the old school — where you learned the trade by apprentice and knew the big Amer- .we’re a state ican cars inside out."I guess I'm a Ford man.though my favourite was fixing six cylinder Chevy 235 engines, he said Ron has since left the electronic engines devices, front wheel drives and state-of-the-art fuel injection and emmission controls for his offspring to figure out."But the biggest change in the business was when the boys bought this place," Ron added proudly of the move to Depot Street Brothers Murray and Rickey took over the business a few years ago and moved out of the service station business and solely into auto repairs.The partners' risk entailed buying an old maple products factory, renovating it them selves, and putting in the necessary equipment.“When we moved off the main street, we didn't know if business would follow us," Rickey Ward said.But it did.confirms hired mechanic Peter Fletcher.“We fix up to a dozen cars a day.or as much as many as we can do in one day." adding there is always someone driving up in need of repairs.“Customers come from all over the Townships, one guy comes all the way from Vermont and others come from as far as Rock Island,” Fletcher added.Another big change over the years, Arlene Ward pointed out, was the switch from American to Canadian customers.“We used to get a lot of Americans coming our way back then, before the highways were built,” she said.The most technical change in business Arlene has seen is the use of credit cards She — not the ma jor credit card companies was the collection agent the one send ing off the invoices and doing a job sometimes maybe a bit messier than the mechanics trade itself.Rickey, Ron and Murray Ward, family business.The second and third generation of the of mind and a feeling’ Sherbrooke gears up for Municipality Week with activities for everyone By Rossana Coriandoli SHERBROOKE — A boy too short to see beyond the podium spoke about the importance of understanding the role of municipalities at the launching of Municipality Week.Guillaume Page, a student in 4th f# sft* Guillaume Tapé, grade 4 student at Eymard School, is keen to take part in Sherbrooke's Municipality Week, as he was quick to point out during the launching ceremony.grade at Eymard School in Sherbrooke, told the audience the role of citizen means a lot more than just being able to vote.“Sherbrooke residents should all know all about the workings of city council,” Pagé said.“And all citizens of Sherbrooke should read, like me, the municipal bulletin.” Pagé was followed by Mayor Jean Paul Pelletier, who told him the boy he appears ready to take over the mayor’s chair, if only Pelletier himself were ready to vacate it.“Of course I’m not ready to leave yet,” Pelletier said.“But you better hurry up anyway.” About 400 Quebec municipalities responded to the call by the province’s ministry of Municipal Affairs and Union of Regional Municipalities and have created activities fitting in with the week’s theme.COUNCIL MEETING Among the activities scheduled for Municipality Week in Sherbrooke, a class from Eymard School will attend a regular meeting of Sherbrooke City council, and councillors will then visit the school to tell them about the role of the municipality and its elected representatives.The city will also take a look at the work done by the Ville en santé committee since it was created in 1988.According to committee coordinator Louise Gosselin, the group was successful in executing a num ber of projects, including the planting of trees, a collection day for domestic toxic waste products and the creation of non-smoking spaces.“Every year we start off reevaluating our goals and come up with new projects,” Gosselin said.“And this week we ll begin to envision what Sherbrooke will be like in the year 2000.” The Ville en santé committee is made up of representatives from local community health clinics, the Chamber of Commerce, community groups, school boards, the department of community health, and a citizens’ representative.The Maison de l’eau, operated by the environmental management group Comité d’Hygiène et d’as-sainisement des rivières Magog et St-Françcois known as CHARMES, will hold an open house on June 10, with free guided tours of exhibits.That same day CHARMES will sponsor a fishing competition on Magog River.NEW STATIONS OPEN The week will come to an end June 11 when Stations 3 and 4 of the Sherbrooke fire deparment open their doors to the public, including guided tours for visitors and entertainment for the children by the fire department mascot Sparky.During Municipality Week the city will also award bursaries totalling $32,000 to 38 of Sherbrooke’s best amateur athletes, sponsored by the Royal Bank and Coca-Cola in association with the city.Pelletier said the week’s theme is also an opportunity for Sherbrooke residents to take a good look at what the city has to offer, and for non-residents to come for a visit.“Sherbrooke is more than a city because we have much more to offer —we’re a state of mind and a feeling,” the Mayor said, alluding to the city logo, Plus qu 'une ville.“Call your friends to come and see what’s going on in Sherbrooke,” he said.He added that with the aging of the population, the city’s parks should include “more than just swings”.The mayor also said the week’s theme will give citizens an opportunity to take a look at the inner Louise Gosselin.'What Sherbrooke will he like in the year2000 ’ workings of city council, be it the high finance aspects or the social decisions made there., “We have enough information going out to ensure the population can seek all they need to know,” Pelletier said.“It should be easy for them to understand our role.” ‘Each complaint will be investigated’ New police chief plans crime crackdown By Sharon McCully WATERLOO — The new police chief here says he plans to build a force better equipped to meet the needs of the citizens of Waterloo.The best crime prevention is a strong police presence.Chief Claude Foisy said, indicating the town’s trouble-spots on the map during an interview at his office.“We’ve placed a pin every time a crime is committed in a particular area, and a second map indicates the location of accidents,” the new Police Chief Claude Foisy.prevent crimes and accidents before they happen.chief explained.“Our plan is to increase patrols in these areas to prevent crimes and accidents before they happen,” he said.Foisy, who joined the Waterloo force five months ago, will replace former Chief Rudolfe Larose, in jured in a job related accident last year.In addition to the Chief, the small municipal police force is comprised of three full time and two temporary officers.SYSTEMATIC APPROACH The new chief — with his 26 years experience — plans to crack down on crime by approaching each criminal act in a systematic way.“Each complaint will we investigated and followed up,” he warns.In keeping with his plan of a better equipped for Foisy said both police vehicles are now equipped with a radio-telephone which will allow a faster and more consistent response to calls, and offer 24 hour protection to residents of the municipality.Police patrols will be increased to 16 hours per day during the week, and 12 hours daily during weekends.Weekday office hours from 8-4 will remain the same.After hour calls will be taken by officers in their patrol cars.Last year 39 counts of break and enter were investigated in the town, 55 thefts, and numerous complaints of vandalism The new force hopes to improve that score this year.Listen, Sir: Mayor Lahue defends West Bolton roads against driver By Gil Smith WEST BOLTON — Mayor Fred Lahue didn’t take kindly to a rate-payer s attack on a section of the municipality’s roads at a recent council meeting, and his spirited defence highlighted the town hall get-together.“We spend good money keeping our roads in shape,” the mayor told West Bolton resident Douglas Salmon, who complained about damage to his car resulting from what he claimed was a washout of a culvert on Mizener Road.“We’ve been hard at work fjxing our roads since the winter ended, using big graders on some of them.Naturally, we can’t do them all at once, but the roads we’ve looked after are in better shape than the ones the provincial government is responsible for." A THOUSAND BUCKS?Salmon, who lives on Stukely Road, said that his Audi had sustained an estimated $1000 damage when it hit the section of Mizener Road with the offending culvert.“The car has a broken strut, a ruptured tire, and other undetermined damages as a result of that unmarked culvert," Salmon said of the accident that occurred in late April.“I’m lodging a formal complaint about it, and will request damages from this municipality.” Lahue replied that some of West Bolton’s roads are Quebec responsibility, while others are looked after by the municipality.Council receives a subsidy to look after certain roads.“I don’t care if the provincial government is responsible or not,” Salmon declared “It’s West Bolton’s problem.” ‘LISTEN, SIR’ “Listen sir,” the mayor replied, “I’ve just told you that every effort has been made to repair the roads.The damage done to roads this year was due to a severe winter that brought exceptionally large build-ups of ice, and caused wi-deaspread frost damage.” “Considering the conditions we’ve had to cope with, I feel that the roads are in pretty good shape.” Salmon said he wasn’t the only one whose car had been damaged by the Mizener Road menace.“Another man had his car’s fog lights knocked off by it,” he told council.Ratepayers attending the meeting in the antiquated town hall soon joined the discussion and some lively exchanges ensued.Floyd Sheerer of Bolton G len told Salmon: "You should realize that the roads are likely to be bad at this time of year.You can’t drive fast on them.You should be driving carefully.” “I wasn’t driving fast." Salmon retorted sharply."Don’t be ridiculous!” NOT A WASHOUT?Councillor Robert Quilliamssaid he too had driven along Mizener Road shortly after Salmon had, and had seen the broken culvert and had instigated efforts to have it fixed.“The culvert’s broken.It wasn’t a washout," Quilliams said.“I thought at first it was simply a frost hole.In any case, the matter is being looked after.It’s being repaired.” Salmon said the roadway at the damaged culvert was unmarked, with no flag to warn motorists, so the impending hazard was hidden from view.“I want to know who’s going to be responsible for the damages to my car,” Salmon demanded.“I blâme the road hazard.If I don’t get satisfaction here, I’ll have no alternative but to get the car repaired and file a claim holding West Bolton responsible.” TTie mayor said he thought it was forjunate, in view of the damage done by ice and frost this past winter, that only one Pad spot had emerged in the municipality’s network of roads.“Your words mean I’m getting badly done by,” Salmon told him, adding obliquely: “We ll see what’s going to happen about this.” Original microfilmed at varying intensities because the text is printed on greyish or colour background. 4—The RECORD—Friday, June 2, 1989 the1 —___M record The Voice of the Eastern Tomiships since 1897 Editorial Lincoln shouldn’t run for leadership Clifford Lincoln would make the mistake of his life if he made a stab at the federal Liberal party leadership.Not that there would be anything wrong with anyone campaigning for such as position or any other political position.But if there is a fact Lincoln should face, it’s that as far as federal politics go, he doesn’t stand a chance.It’s one thing to be a well-liked Member of the National Assembly and another to get onto the federal racetrack.The cards would be particularly stacked against Lincoln if former minister Jean Chrétien decides to enter the leadership race.Chrétien is among the best-known and well-liked ex-politicians in the country, and as a matter of fact he is even more popular now than he was when he tried for the leadership against John Turner.It would be a grave mistake for Lincoln to campaign against Chrétien for the leadership of the federal party.But even if Chrétien decided against running — and that is unlikely — Lincoln should still think long and hard about running, because the possible rivalry with Chrétien should not be Lincoln’s only concern.Canadians outside Quebec are not as inclined to like a politician for the same reasons as Quebecers.True, Lincoln is respected in Quebec for his integrity and strong sense of values as well as for having stood up to Premier Robert Bourassa’s government on the question of individual rights.But it will take much more than that to attract the support of party delegates from across Canada.Lincoln, as an experienced politician, should know this fact well-enough, and he should realize he doesn’t yet have the national image and reputation that will win him the Liberal leadership.ROSSANA CORIANDOL1 Old immigration posters for sale By Janice Neil LONDON (CP) — Half a century after they helped lure Britons from their homeland, posters promoting emigration to the wheat fields and farms of a young Canada are attracting a different crowd — art dealers and advertising historians.Three dozen brightly colored posters advertising cheap farm land in Western Canada and depiciting steamships, maple leaves and wheat fields were auctioned off in London this week.The posters from the 1920s and '30s were discovered beneath the floor of an abandoned travel agency and are in mint condition.“This was a wonderful collection,” New York art dealer Jack Banning said after plunking down the equivalent of about $1,000 Cdn for four posters.What interested him enough to travel across the Atlantic for the auction was not the beauty or design of the posters, but the wording of the sales pitches that were designed to help fill the Prairies with British farmers.Although they were published by shipping companies such as Cunard, Allan, and Royal Lines, they were offering more than a cruise across the Atlantic.White Star Lines referred to Canada’s Call to Women and showed a smiling woman overlooking a large wheat field at harvest time.THE RIGHT STUFF Posters for Canadian Pacific Railways sold the coun try as having The Right Land for the Right Man and offered Britons a chance to own a home in Canada on a Ready Made Farm.Robert Opie, who bought three posters for his advertising museum in Gloucester, said he was fascinated by the psychological angle they used to try to get Britons to leave, sometimes at a cost of no more than a week’s salary.“They were a great incentive, especially to people cooped up in Britain.” Banning said he found the posters interesting as historial documents because they encouraged immigration, “to come over and lead the good life and be right-thinking folk.” While thousands of the posters were printed during the 1920s and ’30s, Onslow’s Auctioneers said few have survived.The lot auctioned Wednesday was found in Dorset hy workmen demolishing a building that housed a travel agency until about 1940.They lifted the linoleum floor and found more than 200 posters underneath, used as lining on the floorboards below, said auctioneer Patrick Bogue.But none of the ancestors of the adventurous Britons who may have been enticed to Canada by the posters returned for the auction.The auction was not promoted in Canada because it would have been too expensive, Bogue said.But he added that he hopes many of the posters will themselves migrate to Canada after the British and American buyers re-sell them.The Canadian lot was part of 90 shipping posters on auction.Did you know that.BIG EATERS The weight of flies, moths and other insects consumed by spiders every year exceeds the weight of Canada’s entire human population, say researchers at the University of Guelph, Ont.DOWRY DEATHS The Indian government says about 1,800 brides were murdered in 1987 by disappointed husbands, who expected larger marriage dowries.FEARED FELINES Besides being powerful leaders, Napoleon, Mussolini, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan shared another trait: gatophobia, a fear of cats.B.C.Liberal leader ready for tough way ahead .rr»l_—» a a i a c* t i rtrt éVa o ?Vs A »¦ By Steve Mertl VANCOUVER