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NEW Wednesday, April 4, 2007 ËÊZ^B Michel Gazallle iunfaodu "rsssr* Food is everything Turn your groceries.into rewards Quality is our main ingredient.www.iga.net IGA Magog 231 Sherbrooke St.Open daily luM 8 a m.to 9 p.m.f 461 Knowlton Rd.IGA Famham 999 Principale St.E.- MUTUELLE PARKE S Cortney Laplume, Sandra Chartrand-Cote and Jean Sebastien Ducharme from École Le Baluchon show off some of their pelts.‘If you overuse it, it’s not going to be good anymore’ Youth learn about the land By Murielle Parkes Brome County News Correspondent Mansonville Grade five and six students from Man-sonville’s two elementary schools — École Le Baluchon and Mansonville Elementary School — had plenty to show the community and to each other last month.Twenty-seven young scientists registered in the Ruiter Valley Land Trust’s “Keeping Track for Kids” project.And they displayed an impressive collection of facts and findings on the life of Northeastern Canadian mammals at the Missisquoi North Volunteer Centre’s youth centre last Thursday.With wall-to-wall laptops and presentations ranging from PowerPoint to pelts and posters, the students were eager to show what they had learned.Focus animals included black bear, moose, bobcat, cougar, mink, river otter, coyote, fox, wolf, deer and beaver.The event concluded a series of workshops begun last year by the land trust, with animation coming from environmentalist Isabelle Gégoire.An enthusiastic member of a local tracking team with conservation as its ultimate goal, Grégoire has also developed an environmental program that she takes to various elementary schools in Brome-Missisquoi.The program includes both in-class and on-site sessions where students can study signs of wildlife Please see Youth on Page 12 No artists getting out of bed It’s a different kind of Awakening By Wendy Denman Brome County News correspondent As spring begins to unfold around us, Arts Sutton is presenting its first members exhibit of the year on the theme “Awakening”.The show, which opened Saturday, brings together the varied works of about 30 artists.“The curators were basically having a brainstorming session about future exhibits and someone mentioned that the next members’ exhibit would take place in the spring so why not work on the theme Awakening,” explained the show’s curator, Brigite Normandin."So we chose the theme to celebrate the arrival of spring.“The idea of a theme is to inspire the artists, for them to think, ’Wow I am going to run with this’.These are new works on display, created in the last three months.The theme is very open to interpretation — that is entirely up to the artist."Needless to say, we really weren’t looking for pictures of someone getting out of bed in the morning,” Normandin quipped.“That the exhibit coincides with spring opens all kinds of possibilities besides tulips pushing out of the ground.” Normandin says an awakening can happen at many different levels — emotional, in the mind, in the spirit.“It can bring enlightenment, the awakening of consciousness.“The show proves how versatile and talented our artists are.They have definitely risen to the occasion and produced some wonderful art.Some are cerebral, others more subtle.The artists interpret the theme as a Please see Theme on Page 12 IËI Pierre Marziaii Pharmacist Familiprix pierre.marziali@familiprix.coin Honrs: Mon.-Wed.9-8 p.m.Thurs.& Fri.9-9 p.m.Sat.9-5 p.m.408 South St., Cowansville - 2M2171 .Contractor ucDcin^an-iaiMi • Machinery work • Hydraulic hammer (rock breaker) • Private roads • Land shaping • Drainage • Artificial lakes/ponds • Septic systems • Demolition - Foundation f .% • Topsoil - Aggregate rVALLIÈRESJVsy?: ¦ ' ' mi K'V.United Church Auditions Cal! Letter to the Editor STOP SMOKING IN ONE HOUR Brome County News Wednesday, April 4, 2007 page 3 The tree will tell a story A dragon is C.COURTESY KNOWLTON LIONS CLUB Pictured in the front row are St-Édouard students Emma Dorion-Veillet and Alexis Belanger-Lapointe.In the second row: school library volunteer Shelly Coderre, principal Daniel Bédard, and Eileen Mason and Errol Frechette, treasurer and president of the Knowlton Lions Club.jects, but which really didn’t encourage just sitting and enjoying a book.It was uninteresting and cold looking.” Now the look will be zipped up.There’ll be fake stone walls, for example.“Everything is being rearranged.The shelves are being painted and redesigned and a section of shelves set aside for the younger students where the covers, not the spines, of the books show,” Bedard said.“We want the library to be a place where the teachers can bring their classes and just read a story and where the students are comfortable and will enjoy exploring books.We are setting up a cozy corner with cushions for the children to sit on.Shelly Coderre has designed a large talking tree with a recorder inside, so whenever they want the students can sit and the tree will tell them a story.“Our students have created a big dragon that will be the library mascot.After the construction is finished, and we’re right in the middle of it now, the students will have access to the library whenever they want.” K s INCOME TAX SERVICE & BOOK-KEEPING Bilingual fit Confidential Individual Income Tax returns Self-employed Small businesses Pick up 0 trl.:i'45(l)2.h6-2(l3l> fax 14'0)260-2000 www.;u:|>liisinc.pj>.ou make green building mandatory and suggests incentives, such as GST rebates on all Energy Star homes and appliances, would encourage home buyers to make greener choices.Since he started testing homes more than 25 years ago, Elliott has seen a huge shift in support for green building from both buyers and builders.“People aren’t stupid.People realize we had a boom of energy for a generation, but cheap energy is not going to be abundant for the next generation,” he says.“Houses are really big energy suckers and people are starting to clue in." In Nandram’s home, it’s mostly what you can't see that makes it so energy efficient.Like the thick layer of insulation wrapping the outside of the foundation walls keeping the basement dry, warm and mould free and the dense thermal edge spacers between the window panes to prevent heat loss.Behind a door in the basement is “the guts of the home.” There’s a compact heat recovery ventilator (HRV) that keeps the indoor air fresh and a hot water boiler that not only heats the house, but the inground Ottawa.“It is important to me because as a human being, we have to think about our environment and to leave something for our children and grandchildren that is meaningful." Ottawa Citizen am (Photo by Rod Macivor/Ottawa Citizen) Large overhangs on the front of Roy Nandram'is house effectively shade windows in the summer, keeping inside spaces cool.(Photo by Rod Maclvor, Ottawa Citizen Roy Nandram In the finished basement, where the couple’s 15-year-old son Andrew hosts regular parties for his friends, circular inlays of cork surround a curvy cherry and stainless-steel bar, which landed Nandram and Simmonds top honours at the annual housing awards in 2005.The remaining floor is covered in durable carpet tiles made from recycled material, which are not only eco- out having to rip out the entire floor.“I like the green concept," says Nandram, who studied mechanical engineering at Algonquin College and economics at the University of APPlus inc.KITCHEN CABINETS - VANITIES - CUSTOM FURNITURE LES PAVAGES mimièSL EXCAVATION Difference & Elegance Distributeur Techm-Seal PRODUITS DE QUALITE SUPÉRCURE ^ecJuuUocjde /Zleuetée Damage insurance and financial services office 1-800-465-4230 ^$MNBP**» page 8 Wednesday, April 4, 2007 ¦ Brome County News Help for hoarders » And grief, dreams, family law March was a difficult month to coordinate activities, with Spring Break and the freak storms, but we managed to have several successful events just the same.Avante Women’s Centre Organizing options Professional organizer Kathleen Murphy came out to Avante from Montreal to give us tips on getting and keeping our homes organized and free of clutter.Kathleen explained that it’s more than just throwing stuff out.“Everyone has their own style and we need to respect the spaces that are marked with belongings.But problems start when there’s abnormal hoarding and people really can’t let go of things.” Talcing photos of sentimental objects CLUB CHASSE ET PECHE BROME COUNTY FISH & GAME CLUB inc NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING May 3rd, 2007 Thursday 7:30 p.m.377 Rte de Mansonville (club office) as a keepsake can be one solution, and disciplining yourself so that anything new in the house means something old has to go.For clothing, each item has to meet four criteria: Does it fit, Do I look good in it, Is it comfortable, and Do I like it.Holding on to things that don’t fit, or projects you intend to do, is a con- _____ stant negative reminder that you really don’t need to have in your house, so Kathleen recommends to give it away.There are many resources that will take _____ donated items, and items that are practically brand new would be a real treat.International Women’s Day Every March 8th, there are special events commemorating the day that recognizes a woman’s role around the world.This year, Avante celebrated with close to 60 guests at the Georges Perron Centre in Bedford.We were entertained with live music from Bette Piette and Inger Woest, fabulous comedy from Gissa Isreal and poetry readings from Pam Dillon.Other women brought their works of art, including stained glass, photography, twig art, water colour and oil on canvas.Refreshments were served and a good time was had by all.April activities Avante always has something going on with our weekly stitching group on Wednesday mornings, our computer classes on Tuesday afternoons, and our monthly scrapbooking and cooking clubs.This month we have introduced two activities taking place in the afternoons, as a new time slot in our scheduled events.An Inconvenient Truth In observance of Earth day (April 22), Avante will host a viewing of A1 Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, on Thursday, April 26 at 1 p.m.If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are COURTESY On International Women's Day: Artist Gillian Marack (sitting) with Dianne Rhicard, Elsie Lackey and Mary Boomhower.HÔTELLERIE DE CHARME RESTAURANT LAC BROME \Juillmms aster Brunch Sunday, April 8rh .95 right, we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe involving extreme weather, floods, droughts and killer heat waves.Gore documents what exactly is happening to the earth and makes recommendations as to how we can work together to fix the problem we’ve all created.“It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly and wisely.” If you haven’t seen this movie yet, please share your afternoon with us as we learn together how we can make a difference in protecting the earth we all share.Grief & loss Townshippers’ Association has been coordinating a project funded by Health Canada to improve access to health services in English.One part of the program has been Telehealth Conferences, which are televised lectures by experts that allow you to ask questions during the talk.These have all been videotaped, and the program organizers want to know how useful these tapes are just to watch.They’ve asked Avante if we could have a focus group watch one lecture on video and evaluate it for its usefulness as a tool OPENING HOURS - 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