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hospital.In a worst case scenario—an unconscious patient with no respiration and no pulse—the PRs secret weapon comes to the fore: the Automatic External Defibrillator, or AED.Tills hand-held device automatically analyzes a patient’s heartrate, recognizes dangerous arrhythmias, and delivers a life-saving jolt of electricity directly to the heart.Before the AED was invented, the survival rate of cardiac arrest victims was zero percent: after, it jumped to 24 percent.Training of the First Responders was led by Pierre Brien, a paramedic with 25 years’ experience whose enthusiasm and passion for the job, along with a large personal collection of enthralling and informative anecdotes, kept the class in high spirits.He was assisted by Michel Turgeon, a paramedic of 22 years who never hesitated to hit the floor and play the patient for anybody needing practice, often offering extra classes for those lagging behind.Justin Gauthier and Marie-Eve Poulin, two young paramedics from Cowansville, were also instrumental as assistant instructors, incorporating their own fresh experiences into the training exercises.Sutton’s First Responders service is scheduled to begin in early April.mapleleafpress@gmail.com COLUMBIA w ONCE AND FOR ALL.The service people' only *12550* Taxes Model assembly 3IAH55K4897/ extra 10528 PC 'VoU hom tklok» I toOdober 31,20111 ¦ By Claudia Villemaire Richmond f |"^he Mousquiri National Tournament here, traditionally attracts A.nearly 50 teams from across the province and the USA.An event of this size develops traditions, ceremonies and customs which have been ongoing almost from the first event 48 years ago.Here we find the red carpet rolled onto the ice for such important functions as presentation of the Jean Dion and Gerard Martel trophy to the volunteers of the year.The 2011 recipients, Michel Bourbeau, (posthumously) and Romeo Boutin were treated to a ‘red carpet’ walk to center ice where Mousquiri president Guillaume Cayer-Richard performed the honors in grand style last Tuesday evening.Friday, February 11 was official opening night for the tournament even though competitions began on the Monday before.The ceremonies and traditional customs are always a drawing card with stands well filled even before the first player of the game slated after the ‘opening’ made his appearance.Dignitaries including this year honorary president Yanic Perreault, Yvon Val-lieres, president of the National Assembly and deputy in Richmond County, Mathieu Lalonde, representative for André Bellavance, Bloc Québécois deputy, mayors from every municipality in the region, sponsors and supporters and of course, Mousquiri himself.CLAUDIA VILLEMAIRE Traditions at this event include a color party from the Richmond Branch 15 Royal Canadian legion, with Yanic Perreault on hand who, together with the president, Guillaume Cayer-Richard and Yvon Vallieres invited Georges Henri Poulin to take the ‘red carpet’ walk to receive the Prix d’Excellence René Thibault trophy awarded to the citizen of the year.Poulin, well known for his involv-ment in local sports and community organizations, especially the Cross Country Ski Club, Festival des Marineux, and, of course, the Mousquiri tournament, was this year’s proud recipient of his prestigious award.There were prayers, in French and English, by members of Richmond’s Atom team, the national anthem sung by Romeo Boutin, the official opening by president Cayer-Richard and the symbolic puck dropped jointly by Yanic Perreault and Cayer-Richard.A gift to the honorary president, a painting on slate by local artist Sandra Picken-Roberts was also on the Opening program.The Mousquiri Tournament has earned an enviable reputation with these traditions, local hospitality and even a birthday cake for every competitor celebrating his or her special day at game time.Volunteers, numbering over 200, prepare meals, assign sleeping quarters, take care of bumps and bruises and make sure every competitor is warmly welcomed.No wonder this event is the second oldest in the province.T T » T y f rfnr ^ - .if .*¦ ”.Il T ^ # v ,'y v • • >wm lo * * v 4 - * ' CLAUDIA VILLEMAIRE The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Pages Youth and adults pitch in for school success By Corrinna Pole Sherbrooke For the next four days the message to stay in school will be emphasised as institutions under the Eastern Townships School Board (ETSB) kick off the second annual Hooked on School Days.Under the theme “partnership" the weeklong initiative taking place in 14 re gions across the province, is aimed at re inforcing the importance of staying in school.Last year more then 160 schools and organisations in the Townships took part under Project PRÉE (Partners for Educational Success Estrie) from kindergarten to vocational levels.While the ETSB has been boasting a decrease in the school drop out rate from 39.4 per cent in the 2004-2005 school year to 22.7 per cent in 2008-2009, the board has expressed a desire to continue their efforts to keep students committed to their studies.To bolster student confidence to continue their education various schools started off by showcasing hardworking pupils and celebrating their achieve ments.Others encouraged their students with postcards or hosted school wide assembles and challenging activities to motivate those who are less academically inclined.Sutton Elementary students will don green to show their support for school perseverance and those who have not been absent or late since the beginning of the school year will be invited to sign in a gold book that will be left on display.Using cards, Sutton students will also be letting their parents know what they have done or can do to help them succeed in school.Waterloo Elementary will record their student’s genuine thoughts on school mixed with scenes of school life for a film that is being compiled by the volunteer efforts of a community filmmaker.“The goal is to have a truthful record of their best feelings about school and have this to show at the next assembly and talent show, so that the invited educators and parents can have a glimpse of the real priorities of these children,” stated the school’s activity description.Highlighting the important role com- munity members and parents play in supporting educational success, many schools will welcome guest speakers who will share information about the various vocations and professions available and the education required to pursue their dreams.Two visiting acrobats will help the students at Asbestos-Danville-Shipton Elementary experience circus related activities followed by a discussion about the educational requirements for different occupations available in the circus.Princess Elizabeth Elementary will take it one step further by encouraging students to interview their parents answers to the question “Why is school so important?” Students will film the parents with the top three answers for a short video clip promoting school perseverance.New Horizons Adult Education Centre will welcome the community at noon on Wednesday, February 16, for "Tell me a story”.Students, many of whom are immigrants, will share their personal life story through various mediums such as art, dance, play, technology, and more to encourage others to return to school as an adult.The event will be followed by a lunch with food from the different cultures represented in the school.The Lennoxville Vocational Training Centre will open its doors all day to the public on Thursday, February 17, to allow them to explore the nine programs offered, view demonstrations and speak with teachers and students.Images of trees took sprout in many buildings where members of the school community, including parents, were invited to write messages of encouragement on a paper leaf to be attached to a branch of the tree throughout the week.Encouragement tree’s can be found in the main entrance at Ayer’s Cliff Elementary, North Hatley Elementary and Sherbrooke Elementary.Twenty-two ETSB schools and centres will be participating in “Hooked on School Days’’ which runs from February 14 to 18.For specific school activities visit the ETSB website at www.etsb.qc.ca.Parents looking for tips to help en-cou age their children this week are in-vit d to visit the Projet PRÉE website at wv.w.reussiteeducativeestrie.ca The Scoop Love is ‘big’ like a statue Jacob, Jeremy and Ryan Hamilton: Their Grand By Mable Hastings My husband Jason and I recently had a discussion, quite out of the blue, about Valentine’s Day.We’ve been married for almost 13 years now and Jason is often entering the house with some reminder of his affection for me.His thoughts of Valentine’s Day do not reflect his views on love.Our conversation was a bit like an exchange between Lucy and Charlie Brown from the “Peanuts” cartoon.“I’m sorry to break this to you, Lucy but, Valentine’s Day has really just become some commercial holiday to encourage us to spend money,” my Charlie Brown stated.“Be sides, I know you love me and you know I love you, why do we have to say it on February 14 with flowers, chocolates and mushy $5.00 cards?” he concluded.Well, I was tempted, like Lucy, to get my Football out and hold it there while encouraging him to run at it and give it a kick however; our conversation really got me thinking.What is Valentine’s Day really all about?According to Wikipedia, “Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating MABLE HASTINGS dad is a special man.love and affection between intimate companions.” I changed the question to better suit my thinking and asked myself, “What does Valentine’s Day really mean to me?” The answer was simple.For me, Valentine’s Day is about, “love.” There, I had defined it but I did not necessarily feel that the greatest expressions of love could only be found between intimate companions.So, this Valentine’s Day I went searching for a Love Story of a different kind.I found it quite by accident Friday night and I’d like to share it with you during this, Valentine’s Day week.As I sat Friday night working at my “real” job as a Youth Director for the Mis-sisquoi North Youth Centre, a sixteen year old boy asked me if we could “talk?” He rarely asks for “alone time" so I was quick to oblige and eager to listen.I thought he might have a problem at school, “girl issues,” or something going on at work.The conversation however was about something else.Someone else.He started by telling me that, his Grandfather, Thayne Hamilton is the greatest man he has ever known.“I’d like to do something really special for my Grandfather,” he said, “something big.something awesome.” He told me he wished there could be a statue of his Grand dad in the town that would somehow convey his greatness in Jeremy’s eyes.We talked about how his grandfather used to be a Firefighter in Mansonville and about his years as the Caretaker at the Mansonville Elementary School.We talked about the things he’s taught Jeremy and his brothers and the time he takes to drive the boys places, help them fix things and about how he attends events in support of them even when he doesn’t always feel like attending because his foot or leg is hurting him.“Like the time my little brother wanted to ride on a “Thomas the Tank Engine,” in the Festival Parade.My Grand dad worked on that thing for months,” Jeremy said.The day of the Multi Cultural festival, there was little Jacob riding in that engine smiling from ear to ear.I listened and learned things about Jeremy’s Grandfather, Thayne that I did not know before.As the hour passed, and the conversation came to a close, I realized that I had learned a whole lot more too.I learned that, love is big like a statue.When love is real, present and flowing in the veins of the person who cares for you, love is huge.Love is shared between multitudes of companions and is measured only by the hearts giving and receiving it.I’d like to thank Jeremy Hamilton on this Valentine’s Day for reminding me through his feelings of respect and admiration for his Grandfather, what love is really all about.Whether it is between two intimate companions who want to profess their deep feelings by shouting from the mountain tops or whether it is a grandson who is ready to start pouring the cement to build some grand monument, love is alive and well in the world.There may not be a statue of Jeremy’s grandfather in the middle of Mansonville but, it could never compare to the one already constructed in Jeremy’s heart anyway.Happy Love Day (week, month) to you and yours.And to my Charlie Brown, if you were looking for me on February 14, I was out climbing the nearest mountain, standing at the top and shouting out your name! Police nab 78 minors in Thetford bar y I |he Thetford Mines division of the I Surete du Quebec executed an op-X eration last week that led to the arrest of 78 minors who were frequenting the Balmoral motel bar.Last Thursday night, 17 officers entered the popular establishment and asked everyone for identification.Many of the 78 underage partyers were said to be as young as 15-years-old.The police investigation and subsequent operation was aided in large part by information provided by the public.Each of the 78 violators faces a $100 fine, while the bar’s owner faces a $175 fine for each minor that was found in the bar - meaning the owner may have to pay over $10,000.This is not the first time the bar has been targeted for serving underage clientele.Five years a'go, about a dozen teens were fined at the Balmoral motel bar for the same offence.A A Page 6 Tuesday, February 15, 2011 newsroom@sherbrookerecord .com The Record Guest Writer Jean Charest promised to lower the school dropout rate, and he will do it even if he has to move the goal posts.ETSB laptop report: This is research?By Ronald Ewing Ulverton T}ie Eastern Townships School Board (ETSB) recently released research that maintains the laptop initiative “has a major impact on students’ academic success and potentially on their future academic and socioprofessional careers" (p.20 of Report).Note that the latter part of this quote could be said of any educational activity that takes place in a school or elsewhere.This is just one example of many vague claims.After reading the article in the Record (Feb.10).1 was left with a number of questions.Fortunately the Record provided a website address with access to the study.After reading it, I was left with my original questions and many more.I do not question the idea of students having some training and creative use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).The ETSB was quite advanced compared to the local French boards in terms of ICT before the laptop initiative, a situation that is somehow never mentioned by the Board when the latter is evaluated.The study never questions if the extremes of the laptop initiative were necessary.Could the same benefits have been achieved by having a certain number of mobile laptops per school and thereby not spend every unclaimed dollar on computer paraphernalia?Is it acceptable for a school board to provide students with laptops to take home without any means to supervise their use?Could the money have been used more productively elsewhere?These and other critical questions are never considered.Instead the only question seems to be: Did the one student/one computer policy have a positive or negative impact upon learning?In order to have its report, the ETSB went to Thierry Karsenti, holder of the Canada Research Chair on ICT in Education at the Université de Montreal.Is he likely to be a neutral observer?His position not only implies but demands that he will be favourable to a board that heavily promotes the use of ICT’s.Not surprisingly the tenth and final recommendation of the study reads, “Extend the ETSB experience to other school boards." (p.22 of Report).If the ETSB had found a professor who was the holder of a Research Chair on teaching healthy habits, who thought that young children needed more exercise, needed more contact with their real environment and that computers had positive and negative uses in education, then there might have been a more objective report.Most of the study is the compilation of various questionnaires that students, teachers and others filled out; however, there is no raw data.Without the source of the data available, one wonders if the usual cherry-picking did not take place.However, I was reading the document not for its feel-good agenda but to find more information about the claim, quoted in the Record and every other news source that covered the press release, that the drop-out rate had decreased from “39.4 per cent in 2004-5 to 22.7 per cent in 2008-9 and the ETSB’s leap from 66th to 23rd position, out of 70 provincial boards” and how these statistics were related to the laptop initiative.To my surprise, the study mentions these numbers and maintains the laptop initiative “is a primary factor to explain its leap.” (p.20 of Report) described above without any further descriptions or any references to their sources.This is incredible as these are the only two statistics used in the study to argue that the ETSB make improvements during the time of the laptop program.And this is supposed to be an academic research paper! This majestic leap of school position is never identified.Is it to do with average graduation mark?Or pass rate?Or drop-out rate?Or average History mark?Or maybe time spent on laptops?There is absolutely no further description of this number.I assume it is related to the infamous and generally discredited rankings by the Fraser Institute.The latest example of its handiwork was its recent rating of the very suspect elementary school in Bountiful, BC, which received a perfect 10/10 score.The drop-out rate is an even more contentious state of statistics.Once again no source for these statistics is provided.1 assume this time that they are part of the Ministry tabulations that change with great frequency.It has been well known for some years that the announced drop-out rates for English schools were very much inflated compared to French boards.Bureaucrats in Quebec City responsible for counting ¦ rm: ¦in RECORD ro.Box 1200 Shertmwke JM SU or 11% Galt E.Shfitawke JIG IY7 F*x km Nbwmoom 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published by Alta Newspaper Group Umited Partnership.PM#0040007682 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Record.1195 Galt East.Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC.CARD, CNA.QCNA drop-outs seemed unable to fathom the fact that more angles might be moving out of the province than francos.I even found a press release on the ETSB website wherein Chantal Beaulieu, the Director General of the ETSB, states that, “any student that leaves Quebec and goes to study in another province or country is considered a dropout.This migration of students leaving the province is more prevalent in the English sector and negatively impacts our dropout rate every year.” (April 6, 2010) These provincial migrations are no longer counted as drop-outs, which accounts for some of the supposed improvement.With such information easily at hand, one would expect a conscientious researcher to mention the fact of inflated drop-out rates and furthermore to examine the dropout rate of all the English school boards and to calculate their average decrease to see if the ETSB is superior or inferior to the other English boards.No such research was done.Jean Charest promised to lower the school drop-out rate, and he will do it even if he has to move the goal posts.Only last fall the definition of a dropout was changed.A dropout had been someone who had not graduated by a certain age; this age was raised in the new definition and just like magic, the dropout rate across Quebec was lowered by a number of percentage points.Other changes have been made during the last five years by the Ministry to lower the qualifications so that more students pass.Again one would expect a responsible researcher to note these points already reported in the media that have led to a numerical decrease in the dropout rate for all school boards in Quebec.None of these facts are mentioned in the study.Quite simply there may be no real improvement in the dropout rate throughout the province, merely a change in accounting.While the author provides no documentation or justification for the above statistics, he provides many titles of texts in his “References” to justify his research methodology, a “mixed-method ap- proach" that in turn leads to “triangulation, or the consideration of research results from diverse perspectives in order to appraise their convergences and confirm their validity” (p.4 of Report).This methodology seemingly allows the author to chronicle how much the students and teachers like their computers and then magically connects this finding with the above (never referenced and very suspect) numbers.In a most amateurish manner, the author tries to turn co-relational events into a cause and effect, without ever referencing, justifying or commenting upon the supposed effect.No wonder that scientists outside the field of education look upon such research as underserving of the name.The ETSB could have had independent research if they had invited researchers in when the process started.Then there could have been a control group established in another board.This was the original intent, but it never materialized.Before the laptop initiative started, the ETSB had been testing its students on a regular basis with a Canada-wide objective examination for many years.For some unknown reason, this testing was stopped a few years after the laptop initiative had begun.Thus, the only hope of having some type of real data that might be able to measure the change that took place was discontinued by the ETSB itself.The endless and compulsory provincial testing that has taken place over the last ten years is completely worthless in terms of comparing year-to-year changes.The test formats and contents and markings have changed with great regularity as the Provincial Education Reform was introduced, attacked and now finds itself being reformed.Quite simply the laptop initiative may have had a positive impact upon students, but there is no way to prove it, even with “triangulation”.Alternatively the schools of the ETSB might have ben-efitted more if other forms of school and teacher improvements had been promoted.Letter Dear editor.This is a letter for Anna May Kinney.Dear Anna May, I enjoy all of your articles in The Record and have saved many, sharing them with my kids.I wanted to ask if you have ever considered classes or seminars on some of the “how to’s” that you write about, specifically gardening & how to keep the gardening up through the autumn, how to plant properly so seeds work, (ha, I am a bad gardener), drying foods, meats, etc., a class on some of your non-yeast breads, (and are you familiar with non-gluten breads as well?), cooking, (since you’re a chef), how to incorportate using the good quality ingredients that you write about and well, there’s more but my brain has finished for this note.Please let me know.1 am interested as may be others?I’d come & probably one of two of my daughters as I’d like them to start learning early.R.Yonan Compton The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Page 7 porfs Head coach Steve Cassivi was pleased with the split including their loss on Saturday.Champlain hockey win streak hits seven Cougars split key basketball games with Lafleche By Mike Hickey Special to the Record f | |he Champlain College women’s basketball team split their weekend A- games with College Lafleche but won the battle of the point spread as they registered a 68-57 home win Friday night and then dropped a 73-68 decision Saturday in Trois-Rivieres.The split left both teams with just one loss for the season and if both clubs win their remaining games, Champlain would claim the regular season crown and earn a top seed in the upcoming regional championships.Head coach Steve Cassivi was pleased with the split, including their loss on Saturday.“Friday we played a good game.Our veterans played very well, including our big three of Jenae Grayer, Marie-Michele Paquin and Dani Lumley,” Cassivi said in a phone interview Monday.“We executed our game plan extremely well.” It was a different story on the road where the Cougars experienced major foul trouble and fell behind early.“We were in foul trouble the entire game,” Cassivi said.I think we had 34 fouls called against us and both Jenae and Dani fouled out.I was happy with the way players came off the bench and did a great job of getting us back in the game.We were down 18 points at the end of the third quarter and then Shar-ifa Clarke really gave a spark of the bench and we were able to cut the score to five points, and that gives us the tiebreaker in the standings.The player of the game Saturday was definitely Stephanie Allard who scored 19 points, including 14 of 16 from the foul line.” The men’s team won both ends of their series with Lafleche, recording an 87-60 victory Friday and then held on for a 65-60 win Saturday on the road.The twin wins solidified their third place standing as they hold a two-game lead over the fourth place Séminaire de Sherbrooke and a game behind the second-place Trois-Rivieres Diablos.The Cougars have three games remaining in the regular season.They host the Drum-mondville Voltigeurs this Friday and then hit the road to play Trois-Rivieres Sunday afternoon and St-Hyacinthe the following Friday.“Friday night we played well, maybe out best team effort from start to finish the entire season,” said head coach Doug McCooeye.“Saturday Lafleche played to their potential and it was a tougher game.I was pleased that we made plays when we needed to at the end of the game.” In hockey action the Cougars extended their Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League winning streak to seven games with a pair of wins this week and inched closer to the regular season title.Champlain defeated the Kahnawake Condors 7-2 Thursday night at the Eugene Lalonde Arena and next went on the road Sunday afternoon and posted a 10-5 victory over the Saint-Agathe Montagnards.The wins gave the Cougars a 34-9-1-2 record for 71 points, two more than the second-place College Francois of Longueuil.Both teams have three games remaining, including a February 22 showdown with Longueuil in Sherbrooke.Eight different Cougars recorded goals in Sunday’s win over Saint-Agathe.After a scoreless first period Champlain erupted for six second-period goals to put the game out of reach.Marc-Etienne Drapeau got things started with a power play goal and within the next four minutes the Cougars struck twice more as Matthew Oakley scored his second of the season followed by Benjamin Martin’s short-handed tally.Simon Foley scored for Saint-Agathe but the Cougars responded with three goals in the final three minutes of the period as Nicolas Poulin, Jerome Anctil and Janick Asselin scored a goal apiece.The final period was a wide-open affair with each team scoring four goals.Dario Pandurevic, Charles-Alexandre Drolet, Drapeau and Anctil scoring for Champlain while Vincent Couture scored twice and Joakim Arsenault and Jeremie Labelle had a goal apiece for Saint-Agathe.Alexandre Alain-Rajotte made 24 saves to improve his season’s record to 7-1-1.In Saturday’s contest the Cougars once again broke open a close game with a strong second period as they scored five consecutive goals in the second stanza to put the game out of reach.Anctil and Martin had a goal and two assists each to spark the Cougar offence.Poulin (1-1-2), William Gendron (1-1-2), Drapeau, Guillaume Dionne and Vincent Fournier scored for Sherbrooke while the reply for the Condors came from Jonathan Castonguay and Brody Amstrong.Champlain goaltender Charles-Étienne Martin allowed two goals on 24 shots to record his 10th win of the season.Champlain is back in action this Thursday when they play the Terrebonne Cobras.Border girls off to Games PHOTO BY FRANCE HUET Border junior girls will represent I'Estrie at the Jeux du Québec in Valleyfield February 25 to March 1 after beating Lennoxville in playdowns February 5 and 6.Left to right, John O’Gallagher jr.rep.; Victoria O'Gallagher, skip; Julie Jacques, third; Serena Brown, second; Chantal Lyonnais, lead.THE FASTEST WAY TO SKI REAL VERMONT.About an hour south of Magog, the home mountain to 47 Olympic racers is a quick, easy drive.But we’re not just about speed.With every inch of our 2011' of vertical, we cling to the reasons you love skiing Vermont-winding trails and big glades.And we’re in no hurry to change that./pimv uMoufttaüi FAMILY SKI-N-STAY FROM $179 P/N Includes lodging and lift tickets for 4.Book online .(CANADIAN AT PAR) skiBURKE.com Page 8 Tuesday, February 15, 2011 production@sherbrookerecord.com The Record DR.GOTT Chills in summer vex reader By Peter H.Gott, MD.DEAR DR GOTT: I have cold chills all the time.Even in the summer, I wear long sleeves and pants while others are wearing shorts.It started about five years ago, when my father was dying in the hospital.I thought I may have picked up a virus while visiting, but it hasn’t gone away.I don’t take any meds, don’t smoke, I am healthy, and my thyroid is OK.The doctors can’t explain it.My nose is red all the time, and people tease me and say 1 drink too much, but I don’t drink at all.I get goose bumps, and the hair stands up on my arms.I’m a 52-year-old female.Is it possible to be having cold chills instead of hot flashes?I hope you can help me.DEAR READER: You have certainly set up a confusing smoke screen for me.Tobacco use is known to affect circulation, but you don’t smoke.Alcohol can adversely affect the system, but you don’t drink.Some medications cause chills, but you don’t take any.Your thyroid is functioning normally, so that isn’t a contributing factor.Menopause can cause hot flashes but can also, in a small percentage of women, cause chills.However, you were 47 when you visited the hospital.That’s relatively early for menopause, which is common for women in their early 50s.This natural biological process occurs once a woman has been free of menstrual periods for one year.Perhaps you have perimenopause, a transitional condition prior to menopause that can occur as early as the mid-30s or 40s and last up to eight years.As with menopause, hormonal changes occur and estrogen levels rise and fall.A common symptom, however, is hot flashes, not chills.Your physician can order simple laboratory testing to determine whether you are in either stage of menopause.Other possible causes are infections of any type, such as strep throat or dental issues, autoimmune disorders, leukemia and lymphoma.Along these lines, you might choose to speak with your physician regarding additional testing to rule out other possible causes.Once you cover all the bases, you can put your mind at ease on at least a few of the possibilities for your chills.To provide related information, I am sending you a copy of my Health Report “Menopause.” Other readers who would like a copy should send a self-addressed stamped No.10 envelope and a $2 check or money order to Newsletter, P.O.Box 167, Wickliffe, OH 44092-0167.Be sure to mention the title or print an order form off my website at Death Death Death ’ ,;r—i Gertrude Mrs.Dorothy LUNT GRIMOND 1910-2011 Passed away peacefully at the Edith Kathan Home in West Brome on Sunday, February 6, 2011, at the age of 100 years and 6 months.Loving wife of the late Frank Grimond.She leaves to mourn her son David and daughter-in-law (Veronica).Her grandchildren, Christine, Christopher (Lynn Inglis), Lori-Ann Jeffrey, Her great grandchildren, Eric, Harmony, Emily, Nick, James, Katie, Noah and Chase.We wish to thank Cecilia Shufelt and Elaine of the Foyer for the loving kindness and care given to mom, thank-you from the bottom of our hearts.A family service will be held at a later date.Funeral arrangements by Les Résidences Funéraires Bessette 5034 Foster, Waterloo Tel.: 450 539-1606 or 1 888 73^6666 Fax:450 539-3035 Website: www.famillebessette.com www.AskDrGottMD.com.DEAR DR.GOTT: I get severe leg cramps when I use Benadryl.Is it because I get dry mouth from the medication?DEAR READER: There are a number of different Benadryl products on the market, each containing different inactive ingredients.And, as I have reported on countless occasions, all medications can carry side effects.As you have discovered, a common one in many Benadryl products is dry mouth.Furthermore, diphenhydramine/ibuprofen can cause numbness of an arm or leg and unusual joint or muscle pain.Consider a trial without this medication.If your symptoms stop, you will have the answer.If you feel you need an antihistamine, speak with your physician regarding a substitution.Dr.Peter H.Gott is a retired physician and the author of several hooks, including “Live Longer, Live Better,” “Dr.Gott's No Flour, No Sugar Diet" and “Dr.Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Cookbook," which are available at most bookstores or online.His website is wwwAskDrGottMD.com.Syl (n< flvia (nee Bélanger) HATCH With family by her side, on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at the age of 97 years, passed away peacefully Sylvia Bélanger, beloved wife of the late Albert Hatch.Beloved mother of the late Judith (Walter “Bill”) McComb, cherished grandmother of Gary Bowers (Maureen), Diane (Brian), Steve (Shelley), Lori ( eff), Kim ( Phil ) and her loving great grandchildren Katie, Lisa, Melissa, Mikey, Glenn, Jenny, Phillipe, Danielle, Steffany, Matthew, Mackenzie, Ashley, Katie and Brae-don and her great great grandson Jacob.Visitation will be held at St.Patrick’s church, 20 Gordon St.Sherbrooke, QC on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 from 1:30 to 2 pm followed by the funeral service at 2 pm.Father Pierre Doyon officiating.Interment in the St-Michel Cemetery.CASS FUNERAL HOMES 3006 College St., Sherbrooke QC PHONE: 819-564-1750 FAX: 819-5644423 cass@casshomes .ca www.casshomes.ca In Memoriam r!£XT TKHIP.Fig.16 > If this feels like a math test, visit mathliteracy.ca or call 1-800-303-1004.Malh solvts problems WRIGHT, Robert (Bobby): August 16, 1938 - February 15, 2006.Sadly missed along life’s way, Quietly remembered every day, No longer in our life to share, But in our hearts you’re always there.Dearly loved and missed, KEVIN KAREN KRISTIE KIMBERLY and FAMILIES Augusta (nee Grapes) MATHEWS Peacefully, with her family by her side, at the Cambridge _____ Memorial Hospital on Sunday February 13, 2011 at the age of 87.Loved wife for almost 60 years of Kenneth.Mother of Deb Fraser (Munro), Carol (Sean Smith), Martha Morin (Eric) and Sally Germond (Jeff).NanaofAubrie Peter, Maeghan, Emily, Becky, Stephanie, Connor, Dani and Jamie.Gertrude will also be missed by her sister-in-law Eliza beth Britnell and many nieces and nephews.Predeceased by her parents Galon and Frances Grapes, her sister Ruth McBurney and her brothers Douglas and Wilfrid.She was a longtime vol unteer at Cambridge Memorial Hospital and an active member of the Alpha Club and Jasper Unit at First United Church.Resting at Corbett Funeral Home, 95 Dundas Street, Cambridge where the 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