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ft 2007 WINNER CCNA BETTER NEWSPAPERS COMPETITION T 14 F RECORD The voice of the Eastern townships since 1897 ¦¦I——— » ——I — VOLVO 3625 du Blanc Coteau.Sherbrooke 819-553-8303 wv.v< v.olvosherbrooke corn Come to our new location WEEKEND EDITION 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Friday.December 14, 2007 The cheque’s in the mail Record raises record amount The Record has once again beat its own record, raising a whopping $911 to support Alexander Galt Regional High School’s annual Christmas basket campaign.Much of that came from The Record's annual staff bake sale on Thursday which raised $362.50, a considerable sum considering the staff of less than two dozen baked and sold each other cookies, pies, cakes, squares and all kinds of other goodies.Former Record editor Sharon McCul-ly even got in on the action, dropping off a couple of her tasty meat pies and two plates of cherry cookies — those last a favorite of production staffer Sheila Henderson, who bought both plates.Please see Galt on Page 4 Arm yourselves This is decorating war By Wendy Denman Record correspondent Residents at 63 Western Street in Sutton are battling each other this Christmas, arming themselves with wreathes, garlands, poinsettias, Santas, stockings and snowmen — anything Christmassy, anything jolly and bright.“It’s a real decorating war, with everyone trying to out-decorate each Please see War on Page 4 r iT’Stï t) 'Sijgsiï PERRY BEATON Sheila Henderson checks out the wares and spends for the Galt high school Christmas basket campaign.TOYOTA January 2nd, 2008 l *ltenrtw»ni» CLAUDE FAVREAU, B.BJL Consultant Financial Security Advisor, Mutual Funds Representative 10 years at your service 140 - 3425 King Street West, Sherbrooke, QC J1L1P8 Ph.(819) 566-0666 Ext 222 Toll Free (800) 569-4662 Fax (819) 822-1704 Res.(819) 847-2358 daude.favreau@investorsgrotip.com Member ot II» Pnwr Finane* CoponKoi Gram ol Campa*! Friday.December 14, 2007 RECORD PAGE $50 gift certificate courtesy of Lennoxville Tri-Us Projfim .— THE I.- RECORD 50937 Proud parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, show off your pride and joy in our “Babies of 2007" edition of The Record to be published on January 11, 2008.Although all babies are welcome and will be featured in our special issue, only those born in 2007 will be considered for a cover photo and story (randomly selected for this honour).Mail a photograph of the baby with: baby’s name, birthday, parents’ name, hometown and 10 words describing the little tyke, along with $20.(taxes included) and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The Record at 1195 Galt St.East, Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 OR 88A Lakeside, Knowlton, QC JOE 1V0.Deadline: December 31, 2007.and two 3 month subscription to Published on January 11, 2008.Prizes to be won: $50 gift basket courtesy of Chantal Richard Pharmacy 23 Notre-Dame W., Stanstead 819-876-5811 War: Cont’d from Page 1 other,” said Shannon Bayne.“It started with a few door decorations and it’s now spread to all four floors with everyone getting in on the act trying to make their hallway the best and most exciting.” Decorations have spread well beyond individual doors, now gracing the walls between apartments.Residents have even set up free-standing Santas and snowmen, tables of flowers, and small ornament-festooned trees.“A lot of seniors live in this building.This decorating craze has been really good for us; it’s got people in the hallways, talking to each other, getting to know their neighbours.The older folks are really enjoying the Christmas spirit.” Bayne, who has an apartment in the basement, is the daughter of the building’s long-time, and now retired, superintendent.“My mom and dad still live here and they’re just as decorating crazy as everyone else.The manager made a visit last weekend and we were holding our breath wondering what he would say about all this — but he was cool, he liked it.” Bayne credits first floor resident Shirley Chute with originating the idea.“Shirley was the first to decorate her door, then other people on her floor put out some and somebody said we should have a competition and it took off from there.What’s really good about this is that it’s involved people who otherwise would have a quiet Christmas.One lady said it’s the first time she’s bothered with Christmas since her husband died six years ago.” The benefits go well beyond the visual.“There’s eggnog, cookies, all kinds of delicious stuff being offered in the hallways and through open doors.by the time I reached the third floor to see the decorations there, I was very jolly,” laughed Bayne.“We want to keep this going, we’re planning a pot luck supper for just after New Year’s.We’re going to set up tables in the foyers and hallways and really have a celebration before we take the decorations down.” NANCY BAYNE First floor residents at 63 Western Street in Sutton are credited with starting the war.NANCY BAYNE The decorating extends through the hallways and apartments, with open doors and cheer for everyone.Resident Shirley Caron's poodle is doing his part.NANCY BAYNE Galt: Cont’d from Page 1 Henderson, who was our top buyer, also snatched an assortment of brownies and nanaimo bars — enough home baked goodies to feed a small army (or a house full of visiting relatives and friends).Among the more popular items this year were peanut butter-flavoured doggy biscuits baked by reporter Sarah Rogers, blackberry wine jelly made with some of newsroom secretary Judy Mansbridge’s home brew, not to mention sucre à la crème confectioned by the wives of retired production manager Richard Lessard and salesman Michel Duval.Thank you! Our staff looks forward to your generous contributions year after year.Over the past month Record employees also raised more than $400 with weekly half-and-half draws as well as more than $135 from occasional raffles, including yesterday’s draw of four copies of reporter Rita Legault’s personal cookbook.Editor Eleanor Brown, who won this week’s final half-and-half, donated her winnings of $93.The Record topped the total off to make it an even $1,000, the newspaper’s largest ever contribution to this community cause.Congratulations and thanks go to all the bakers and donors, most of whom left the building with their bellies and arms full.$50 gift certificate courtesy of Téléphoto * foto source* ï:** m £2» éi www.telephotofotosource.Wm OLYMPUS SP-550ÉMM l ütLVMIHItl ^RECORD.Friday, December 14, 2007 page 5 Cops helping kids in the hospital The gift of fun By Maurice Crossfield Granby Members of the Fondation Ordi-na-Coeur arrived at the Granby Hospital Thursday armed with boxes of movies and a commitment to contribute $20,000 to- MP says Day has no power over Stanstead streets Staff Sherbrooke Following what’s been suggested is an incorrect report that barriers were to be erected at Stanstead’s three unmanned border crossings, Compton-Stanstead MP France Bonsant is calling the situation “worrisome.” Bonsant’s concerns stem from a letter sent to Stanstead Mayor Raymond Yates and signed by federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.“The surveillance cameras and installation of signage may however be insufficient to address the security weaknesses in this location,” the letter reads.“The (Canada Border Services) Agency will therefore install barriers at various points of entry.” The letter was interpreted to mean that barriers would soon be erected at three unmanned border crossings in Stanstead — Church, Lee and Ball streets.Day’s office, however, denies that the letter was specific to Stanstead, saying the dispatch referred generally to border crossings across the country.When Bonsant spoke to a Canada Border Service Agency representative in the Townships, she said she was reassured that no decision had been made on barriers in Stanstead, but that Day would have the final say.“Stockwell Day has no right or reason to close streets in Stanstead,” said Bonsant.“(The government of Canada) does not have the authority to unilaterally build walls and disfigure Stanstead as it wished without consulting the town and its residents.” “The border is not governed by.(Day’s) department,” Bonsant said.The only new barrier that Day’s office could confirm is a triangle-shaped one to be erected at an already established port of entry on Route 143 (Dufferin Street).That barrier will be built in March 2008.New signage will be added at Church, Lee and Ball streets in the spring 2008 to redirect incoming traffic back to a port of entry.As a way to increase border security, Bonsant is calling for the region’s now-defunct RCMP detachments to re-open.The RCMP closed nine detachments near the border in 2004, including the Coati-cook and Lac Mégantic detachments.Bonsant says she would also like to see border posts modernized, open 24 hours and staffed by more than one agent.wards equipping the recreation room of the new pediatrics unit when it is completed in 2010.“It’s always surprising to see Ordina-Coeur arrive with carts overflowing with gifts,” said Nathalie Cabana, head of pediatrics.The foundation began in 1999 when St-Jerome police officer Benoit Delorme saw that kids in the hospital tended not to have much to do to take their minds off their problems.In six weeks he raised $14,000, with the aim of providing computers, TVs and games for the children to pass the time.As of 2007 the foundation has raised over $750,000, helping 2,500 young people in hospitals and palliative care centres across Quebec.The emphasis is on children with cancer, but donations go to help all sick kids.On Thursday Delorme arrived for a morning press conference armed with two boxes filled with $3,000 worth of movies and video games.Local Ordina Coeur supporters were unaware that Delorme would be bringing extra gifts.“We have 100 movies here, which we bought at a cost of about $3,000,” Delorme said.“They are all 2007 releases.” Delorme also arrived with some news: When the new pediatrics department is completed in 2010, Ordina-Coeur will put up a minimum of $20,000 to equip its recreation room with new televisions, video games and computers.That money will come from fundraisers held between Helping sick kids pass the time while they're in the hospital is one of the main aims of the Fondation Ordina-Coeur, which stopped by the Granby Hospital Thursday armed with videos and a commitment to equip the recreation room of the new pediatrics unit when it’s completed in 20W.Maurice Crossfield now and then by the Granby Police, including the annual spaghetti dinner held the first Monday in June at Restaurant Le Plus.Last summer’s event saw more than 600 pasta plates doled out by Granby police officers, firefighters and hospital employees.“Over the last three years we have doubled the number of meals we’ve served,” said Granby Police spokesman Const.Benoit Desautels.“The money is used to buy items in the region, so that the money from the people of Granby will be reinvested in Granby.” Desautels said it’s never fun for a child to be in a hospital, especially with a life-threatening illness.“If they get to watch a movie or play a video game, it helps them pass the time,” he said.Joyfiille Noyse The Georgeville Occasional Choir, the St-Georges Choristers and the Joyfulle Noyse Quiristers will present the Festival of Nine Lessons with Carols this weekend in both Georgeville and Lennoxville.The trio of groups, direction by Sarah Hoblyn and accompanied by Maryse Simard, will present the 28th Annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at St-George’s Anglican Church in Lennoxville on Saturday, Dec.15 and at St-Georges Anglican Church in Georgeville on Sunday, Dec.16.Both shows are at 4 p.m.The Nine Lessons tell the Christmas story and are read by people representing various aspects of life in their villages.Music is from the 15th and 21st centuries with a traditional pageant and Advent candle lighting ceremony.A freewill offering will be taken to help cover expenses.Kerosene lamps in Way’s Mills The annual Christmas service at the Church of the Epiphany in Way’s Mills — lit only by kerosene lamps — will be held this weekend.The music is played on a pump organ.The Christmas Carol Service will be held at 4 p.m.on Saturday, Dec.15 (followed by a social hour in the Community Centre).Remember to bring a flashlight! VV-TÉI VVV-HÉf «rW-rSÉ V 4“ 4* 4“ t 4* 4“ Announcement of Retirement DR.ELIZABETH CREPEAU General Dentist Wishes to announce that she has retired from active practice and that all her patient charts have been transferred to DR.GUY AYOTTE General Dentist Doctor Ayotte has been practicing dentistry in Sherbrooke since 1985 and will continue to provide excellent dental care to all her patients.His office is located at 91 Peel Street.Office 300 Sherbrooke 819-563-6292 4 4” t 4* 4“ à 4* 4“ 4" à 7.1 megapixels 18x optical zoom (28-504mm ) £ Dual Image Stabilizer Scm*Jma vo#******^ i $399," t OLYMPUS I FE-210[SgsQs \ i 7.1 megapixels g case \ > lSScm modes T Large2.5 screen 4 *169" 1 t f à OLYMPUS EVOLT510 10 megapixels mew Live vi Dustreducti ization ?699.> ! * > 218, Alexandre St.Sherbrooke 564-0033 VV—4É VVV-tSË VVV-1É VVV-4ÉI VVV—3É VVV-t4 Téléphoto * loto source** page 6 Friday, December 14, 2007 1111.¦¦ - .1—THK—i.—— —' pirrni?r> Community Forum Linguistic rather than confessional lines Schools and cultural accommoda tion This is excerpted from the Quebec English School Boards Association's (QESBA) brief to the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on cultural accommodation.It has only been 10 years since Quebec school boards were reorganized along linguistic rather than confessional lines.That said, our English public schools have a long tradition of welcoming students of diverse backgrounds.The notion of bringing together a wide variety of languages, races, religions and cultures has been central to English schooling for many years.Of course, prior to the adoption of the Charter of the French Language in 1977, a disproportionately large percentage of new immigrants to Quebec registered in English schools.In the years since, access to English schools is essentially limited to those children whose parents studied in English in Canada.Consequently, the diversity of the English school population has been less pronounced in the ensuing years.The 350 English public schools of Quebec represent a profile of diversity.There are one-room school houses on Entry Island in the Magdalen Islands and in Vau-dreuil-Soulanges, which is only 45 minutes from Montreal.Large high schools of over 1,000 can be found in large urban areas, as well as in smaller towns of the Eastern Townships and the South Shore.Some English schools serve students who live in majority francophone communities, others in communities that are ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse.For an increasing number of our students, the main language spoken at home is actually French.A further defining characteristic of our school network is its recognition and advancement of cultural, racial and religious diversity.Over the years, a second, equally defining characteristic of our schools has been the determination with which the system has addressed the priority of rendering our students conversant and comfortable in Quebec’s main language.It is a fundamental objective of each of the nine English school boards to equip students with the French language skills they will need to build their futures here in Quebec.As we grapple with our own challenges of retaining and strengthening our English-speaking communities across Quebec, the English schools in those communities are playing a very positive role in promoting the integration of their students into a changing Quebec society.What is important to us as educators is that our students be equipped with the tools and the information to make thoughtful and responsible choices as they inevitably address those questions themselves.QESBA has every confidence that the new Ethics and Religious Culture Program (ERCP) will play a valuable role.First, it is a constructive final step in the laicization of the public school system.Linguistic school boards replaced confessional structures only a decade ago, and have since provided the catalyst for the legitimate and widely-supported move away from Catholic and Protestant education programs in our schools.Second, the curriculum it prescribes is well-considered, reflective of a modern Quebec and respectful of its common values and history.The preamble to the program is inspired: “Our society is characterized by a multitude of beliefs and values, and this diversity adds to the richness of Quebec cul- ________ ture.If we are to fully appreci- - ate the extent of this contribution, however, we must recognize the contribution of the individuals and groups who make up the social fabric of Quebec’s society.But diversity can also be a source of tension.Living together in today’s society requires that we provide ourselves with points of reference for understanding the world around us, for engaging in dialogue and making informed choices.The ERC program opens the door to this knowledge.” In describing the religious culture aspect of the program, the preamble continues: “Instruction in religious culture promotes an understanding of the main constituents of religions and of the sociocultural contexts in which they take root and continue to develop.This program takes a special look at Quebec’s religious heritage, which has been shaped by For an increasing number of our students, the main language spoken at home is actually French.RECORD P.0.Box 1200 Shntoroke JIH 516 or 1195 Galt E, Sherbrooke JIG 1Y7 Fax: 819-569-3945 E-MAIL: newsroom@sherbrookereco rd.com Website: wwwAherbrookerecord.com Kenneth Wells Publisher .(819)569-9511 Eleanor Brown Editor .(819) 569-6345 Richard Lessard Prod.Mcr.(819) 569-9931 Serge Gagnon Chief Pressman .(819) 569-9931 Francine Thibault Prod.Superv.(819) 569-4856 DEPARTMENTS Accounting .(819)5699511 ADVERTISING .(819)5699525 Circulation.(819)5699528 Newsroom .(819)5696345 Knowlton office 88-A Lakeside, Knowlton.Quebec, JOE 1V0 Tel- (450) 242-1188 Fax: (450) 243-5155 MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS GST PST TOTAL Canada: 1 year 120.00 7.20 9.54 $136.74 6 MONTHS 63.00 3.78 5.01 $71.79 3 MONTHS 32.00 1.92 2.54 $36.46 Out of Quebec residents do not include PST.Rates for other sendees available on request The Record is published daily Monday to Friday.Back copies of The Record are available.7he Record was founded on February 7, 1897.and acquired the Sherbrooke Examiner (est.1879) in 1905 and the Sherbrooke Gazette (est.1837) in 1908.The Record is published by Alta Newspaper Group Umited Partnership.PM80040007682 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to The Record.1195 Galt East, Sherbrooke, QC JIG 1Y7 Member ABC, CARD, CNA, QCNA Catholicism and Protestantism.This heritage has also been influenced by Judaism and Native spirituality.Today, other religious and spiritual traditions also contribute to Quebec’s culture and inspire its various modes of existence, action and thought.By calling for dialogue in a spirit of openness and discernment, instruction in religious culture fosters the recognition of diversity.” It will be important to provide teachers with the necessary support and training to imple- -.—.ment this ambitious program.We reiterate that Que bee’s English schools are a vital partner in promoting the French language and culture, through their unconditional determination to help young students in our schools master the lan- ________________________ guage and - fully appreciate the culture.We endorse the ERCP objective of providing students with a grounding in Quebec’s predominantly Catholic and Protestant roots.And, incidentally, we deplore as wasteful and irrelevant any polemics on chiselling granite crosses off school buildings or banishing reindeer from Kindergarten story-telling.There is room in a modern Quebec for respectful recognition of common traditions.Thus, QESBA is very comfortable with the promotion of French as a common and shared value by all of us.We also endorse recognizing our common religious and historic roots.It is equally important to us that the historic and ongoing contribution of English-speaking Quebec, its language, culture and distinct place in this province, be recognized as a vital element of the Quebec portrait we share with newcomers to Quebec.It is important that this vital aspect of Quebec life be part of our public discourse.The English school system, like the communities we serve, has a positive and perhaps under-utilized potential to help bridge the gap between other minority communities and French Quebecers who have deeper roots in the the province and who form its majority.The value of equality, despite its self-evident morality, is more problematic, in our view.We refer specifically to sexual equality, and persistent suggestions that it be given a hierarchical value amongst other fundamental rights in Quebec.We reject the suggestion that there is a need to establish a hierarchy [of sexual equality over religious freedom] in order to properly defend and assure gender equality.The suggestion that religious symbols automatically indicate the subjugation of women is incorrect at best and pejorative at worst.Second, it invites the retrograde impression that there is only one way to be a Quebecer.Recommendations 1.Encourage the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports to develop a communications plan to explain the values and raison d’être of the new Ethics and Religious Culture Program to all Quebecers.2.Facilitate the greater involvement of English school boards and other English-speaking community establishments in integrating newcomers to Quebec, and in promoting Quebec’s common values.3.Recognize that, in order to fully play the larger role we propose in Recommendation 2, the long-term stability of Quebec’s English school network must be assured.It is perfectly pertinent for this commission to recommend that Quebecers undertake a serene and serious discussion of how this can be done, while maintaining the necessary and legitimate priorities of protecting and promoting French as the common language of Quebec.4.Reject any precipitous moves to amend Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights while inviting the government to entrench the Charter in a way that shields it from simple amendment by majority vote.5.Invite schools, government agencies and community organizations to multiply French-second language programs to be made accessible to non-francophone adults.6.Encourage the MELS to promote the presence and richness of Quebec’s diversity, in all pertinent areas of studies.7.Similarly, the Quebec government and all of Quebec’s public establishments and organizations should be invited to reflect Quebec’s rich diversity in their activities, their appointment of staff and nominations to their Board of Directors.8.Encourage the media to use self-restraint, to exercise responsibility in its coverage of the Commission and the important issues it has raised.9.In the final report of the Commission, offer clear guidelines on the limits upon/as well as rights conferred by reasonable accommodation.10.Invite corporate leadership to contribute its views, resources and expertise to a campaign to promote Quebec’s openness to immigration and diversity.11.Support positive efforts to promote the learning of French while rejecting any suggestion that citizenship in Quebec be linked to mastery of the French language.12.Encourage linguistic and cultural exchanges between English and French schools.13.Encourage cultural community associations and representatives to promote greater general awareness of their particular traditions, language and history: and encourage them to participate in the sensitizing their members to Quebec’s common values. ^RECORD, Friday, December 14, 2007 page 7 Revisiting Virginia’s Santa Claus Poetry, romance, , hope Just over 110 years ago, newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the following editorial in response to a letter from an eight-year-old girl asking whether Santa Claus existed.“Virginia, your little friends are wrong.They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.They do not believe except what they see.They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.“All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little.In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.Somebody’s Mother “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.“There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight.The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.” How would we answer such a question today, we who live in a skeptical age that far outdoes the skepti-_________ cism of the 1890s?What magic there is in the world has all been explained away by technology.Most of us cannot even begin to grasp how the Internet sends us text and images from around the world in seconds Ellen Goldfinch The number one school challenge Behavioural problems ¦ ¦ «he number one challenge facing ’schools today and the Quebec Education Program (QEP, also called the Reform), in particular, is the inclusion into the regular classroom of students with learning or behaviour problems.There is a statistical increase in the number of children whose behaviour is such that they may very well deprive the other students in the class of an opportunity to learn.This numerical increase may be due to changing definitions of misbehaviour, more effort put into the identification of such students, environmental damage which affects the health of children, lax parental involvement in the lives of children, changing societal val- I Beg To Differ Ron Ewing flat — but magic is definitely not how it only natural that we must call the exis-works- fence of Santa Claus into question.In If Santa exists as surely as love, generosity and devotion, then maybe it’s Please see Santa on Page 10 ues or the reader’s preferred explanation for the general decline of Western civilization.Whatever, it takes only one disruptive child to change the whole tone of a classroom.The QEP is based upon a constructivist pedagogy that assumes children have a certain amount of self-motivation and that they are willing to cooperate in order to do more stimulating activities than the “drill and kill” type.Children with severe behaviour problems can make it almost impossible to teach using the QEP because these children are not willing to cooper- - ate; their constant demands and interruptions make it very difficult for the teacher to follow her lesson plan.These problem students work better in highly structured classes with a Please see School on Page 10 uanderie edford LaundroMat OUVERT! 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Down!!! ii ¦ ' ; 'V*'v The Butler floor hockey team; a tournament will be held today in Sutton.When Jon, Will and Ting reached the door; Will went through then turned around and Ting hopped through.“Where’s my father?” Will said nervously.His father had always behind him at all the other doors.“He down” Ting said.“He fell down?” Will shouted.“I’m okay,” said a voice that sounded very familiar to him.Will peeked through the door and his father was sitting panting on the steps.Jon got up and walked through the door.“Are you okay?” asked Will.“Yes,” his father answered.“But my back is a little sore from carrying Ting.” “You can’t go on any longer,” remarked Will.“Okay mom." Said Jon sarcastically.Will picked Ting up with ease and they kept going.Every floor they went down Jon asked, “are you okay?” Finally when they got to the 58th floor Jon said, “okay I think I’ll carry Ting down now, you’ve carried her down for 17 floors now.” “ Okay” Will panted.On the 54th floor Jon slipped down two of the steps but amazingly fell on his feet.However, he twisted his ankle.They kept going until Will noticed that his father was limping.He put Ting down and Ting said, “I walk now.” No one believed her but Ting started walking and said “come.” So Will and Jon followed Ting to the stairs and Will tripped on a chair leg and fell flat on his stomach.With everyone injured what will happen next?By: Samantha Getty Boom!!! Will, his dad John and Ting just reached the landing on the 66th floor, and a wall is where the stairs should be.“Dad there’s a wall where the stairs should be.So what do we do?" Will asks his dad.“I have no clue.Let me take a look." But just before John reaches the landing he stumbles over his foot and falls with Ting still on his back.Now Ting is crying, she can’t bear the pain and John’s back is sprained.Now with two people in pain, Will asks his dad “what do we do now?You’re hurt and Ting is even more hurt than she already was.Plus the wall is still there!” Will takes a deep breath and he calms down.Too much is going on for him.John tells Will what he has to do, “go in and see if there’s another door leading to another staircase.Be careful, okay Will?” Will does what his dad told him.He looks everywhere on that floor.Will whispered to him self “Be careful.Look to see if there’s another door that leads to another staircase.I’m able.It’s just a door.But what if there’s NO door?Okay, calm down Will." He can’t find a door, no matter how hard he looks.Then suddenly he hears a bomb.Will runs off to the landing and screams “DAD, there’s a bomb! Duck!!!” 5,4,3,2,1.Suddenly.BOOM!!! The whole place exploded.Will in a low voice sang “and we all fall down." By: Alison Deringer We All Fall Down “Oh darn!!!" I yelled out.Then Ting said something in Chinese, which I think was a steady stream of swear words.The wall was looming over us and we didn’t know what to do.I kicked the wall in frustration.“Calm down Will, we’ll find a way." My father said in that calm voice of his.“You want me to stay calm when we’re in the tallest buildings in New York City and there’s a bloody plane right over us!!!" I yelled out.That really made my dad be quiet.I guess he really didn’t think of it that way.And then I heard some small crying, it was Ting.“We will never get out of this doomed place!” she whimpered out.My dad tried to reassure her, it didn’t work, she just kept on crying.My dad put Ting down and she sat down on the stairs.He signaled me to come and he asked, “Do you think we can break through?” “I don’t think we can cause it’s hard concrete we’re talking about, dad.” I replied.“ Ok, get ready to get hurt.” We got back as far as we could and counted it off, “ 1,2,3 GO!" he yelled out as we crashed into the wall and fell down hurt in every bone of our bodies.“ I guess that’s not gonna work.” He laughed out.I grunted with pain and pulled myself up.“ Let’s go into the office and looked for another stairwell." So my dad grabbed Ting and slug her over his shoulder as if she weighed a feather.We walked in the office and started looking around.We saw another door but the passage to that door was blocked by a whole load of debris.I gathered my strength and tossed aside the first chair that was in the way.For five minutes we plowed through all the stuff that was in our way we finally arrived at the door.I put my hand on the door, stone cold.I kicked the door open and I shuffled my way through.The way was clear.By: Olivier Chagnon World Trade Centre Will and his father had no where to go because the staircase to walk down was blocked but there was a door to the left that they could use.It was high if they fell though if something would go wrong.The flames blew open the door and the father fell on the hard, hot cement floor.Will changed his fear into worry and tried to help his father but John was knocked out.The girl that was COURTESY on John’s back fell down on the hard cement floor.The flames surrounded her and she lighted into flames.Will didn’t know what to do because now his father was knocked out and the girl was dead.Will tried to pick up his father and bring him closer to the door.Will tripped on the dead girl (Ting) and his father fell back on the hard cement floor.Will tried to open the door and it unlatched but it came bursting open and flames surrounded his father also.Will was really scared because he was on his own.He tried to open the other door but the wind from the broken window was forcing the door shut so Will had to go back to the staircase.The carbon dioxide was rushing through the air and was making Will dizzy, weak, and woozy.Will fell to the ground and fainted from the poison of the carbon dioxide.There were now people throwing each other out of the building and babies crying, seeing that they could not find their parents.Will opened his eyes just to say that they are open and people are rushing pass and over the dead bodies of Will’s father and Ting.The firefighters finally got there.They brought Will to the hospital and Will’s mother burst into tears and Will’s father’s best friend goes to hug Will’s mother so she can calm down.The whole family is in tears and they tried to make the firefighters go get Will’s father.They want him to go and find him but Will’s father’s best friend is arguing with the mother and saying to her, “it’s over they’re all dead” and Will gets out of the hospital bed and goes to see his mother.They both start Please see Butler on Page 12 % », ft ft ¦ • ft • * • ft > ft ftW\ft\V\ ft\ Vft.W \ft ^ V V V.ft.ft ft.ft ft ft v ft • ft ft.ft» ».» AA* * • W- - ftftVftaftftft.It ft ft ft * « • ft.ft • * y x ft. 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the right thing to do.Though some folks may spend their entire lives making millions upon millions only to leave it to their little dog (oh, Leona Helmsley, you were a mean lady!), others give their time and money to help those in need.Even Leona Helmsley left a large sum of money to a foundation that donates to charity.No matter how desperate the world situation becomes, no matter how nuclear Iran threatens to be or how many terrorists are waiting for their chance to wreak revenge on Western civilization, or how seriously Western civilization threatens the existence of the Middle East, there is always the hope that the love, generosity and integrity that is as much of our makeup as the aggression will win out in the end even if it’s because it is in all of our best interests that it does.What’s behind the idea of Santa Claus are all the values that Francis Pharcellus Church writes about so eloquently: love, generosity and devotion and one that I would like to add, hope.The Santa spirit is the spirit of hope and it is my own devout hope that this spirit lives on for many centuries to come.Ellen Goldfinch may be reached at radiomother@hot- MAIL.COM.Cont’d from Page 7 the past two weeks, a 19-year-old shot eight people and then himself in an Omaha shopping mall, three people were killed in and around Denver in two separate incidents by another gunman, and a 14-year-old threw a newborn baby out of a high rise apartment building window in Hong Kong.With wars raging in the Middle East and Africa, our world is not only a dangerous place but a dreary place.Love, devotion and generosity receive short-shrift if your neighbour is your enemy, or the member of a group that you hate.or the baby that you never wanted in the first place.It’s hard to maintain a childlike faith in magic, poetry and romance in such a prosaic world.“Everybody lies,” according to one of my favourite fictional TV characters, Dr.Gregory House.Why believe in Santa?Who can you believe?We have church leaders who have stolen money from the poor and gullible and have even gone as far as to molest young children.If you can’t believe in your spiritual leaders, who can you trust?Our politicians seem to work for their best interest rather than for the greater good.Trusting them is downright insane.Most of us are scared to death of our families — can we trust them?I say trust Santa.If we can email back and forth at near light speed, if we can talk into little cell phones and be heard halfway across the world, who’s to say that Santa Claus doesn't have even more highly developed technology like.like the Martians or the flying saucer people across the universe.It’s theoretically possible and “theoretically" -war donations fiassmêùd tk$ CM%)S to pure fas* new equipment Purchase of a tandem mass spectrometer for the Genetics department at a cost of $450,000 The CHUS-Fleurimont Hospital's genetics department was the first university hospital in Quebec to obtain a tandem mass spectrometer.This device performs analyses of several biomarkers in various fields, such as genetics, biochemistry and endocrinology.This new equipment not only provides new tests, more precise diagnoses and more effective health monitoring of Eastern Township's patients, but it also makes it possible to conduct research that could possibly ha ve a clinical application in the future.Pictured are biochemists Christiane Auray-Blais and Denis Cyr with this invaluable working tool acquired with the funds from the Fondation du CHUS.Fondation du CHUS, 580 Bowtn Street S, Sherbrooke Q€ J1G2H8 / (819)8206450 1 866 820 6450- www.fondtiionchus.ofg Proud to contribute f vrrtfthinq starts with trust for the better health of our community* rid PROMUTUEL School: Cont’d from Page 7 routine that varies as little as possible.As a supervisor of student-teachers I see classes that are plunged into chaos because two or three students will not respect the rules.I have seen student teachers shine with one class and then stumble with the same lesson with another class because a small number of students are constantly confrontational, argumentative and off-task.There is little that even the regular teacher can do to turn the individual situations around.Routines, rewards, consequences and innovative pedagogical systems can be introduced, but the long-term prognosis for improvement of behaviour for such students is low within today’s schools.These students need special attention.There are programs that can help, but this means the schools need more funds, and the Cégeps and universities would have to train more of the needed professionals.Teachers can not provide clinical help to these students while inspiring the other pupils in their charge and facilitating their learning; a teacher-aide for half an hour a day does nothing but provide teacher and students with a brief respite.The main attraction of private schools for parents is the absence of students with serious behaviour problems.I believe that this, more than any other variable, allows private schools to perform better in academic testing than public schools.Like so many aspects of the Reform the theory of inclusion is fine, but the practice is flawed.It is essential for the long-term wellbeing of a modern society that children with behaviour problems learn how to control themselves and succeed within school and society.This can only be accomplished by an infusion of cash that provides programs that work, and the staff necessary to make them work.The alternative is to spend much more money later providing these future adults with social and welfare services, unemployment benefits and even imprisonment.Unfortunately governments work within four-year plans and rarely champion the benefits of universal and equitable education for all children.There is a growing divide not only between public and private schools but between schools in economically advantaged areas and those in deprived areas.It should come as no surprise that children reared in poverty and in homes that do not value education will more often behave in an oppositional manner in school than their more favoured peers.Schools with a considerable number of such students do not have the means to integrate these students.The ideals of the Reform are impossible to attain in these circumstances.I am not a proponent of the theory of separate classes for students with learning or behaviour problems, but this is the only practical solution for schools if they are not provided with the finances they need to accomplish the goals set by the ministry of education. ¦*%r- ¦ Sat S S* fragrances sém THE RECORD Friday, December 14, 2007 page 11 Hie first 200 customers' Sal 8 Sun., Dec.15 S16 gel a K)Super Bucks 'Valid » our Oepaitnent Stores on date of issue only, on merchandise purchase of $50 a more, before tares.Hot applicable to timed specials and clearance offers See certificate for detailsand exclusions rira 50 Dustoreers in store at Sears Hone, Sears 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Although the play is finished I would recommend that people read the book and go to the museum because people should learn more about the Holocaust so we can stop it from happening again.Butler Sports Column The Cross Country run was held on Nov.8 at Massey-Vanier High School.It was a chilly day but our students who participated put in a wonderful effort with the run.Some of our top finishers included Philippe Chagnon who came in 6th place for the class one boys run.Samantha Getty finished in 9th place in the class two girls race and Brian Brault-Guthrie finished in 6th place in w w w g.boisvertw'vtdeotron.ca ! 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Other exciting news is the success of our recent fundraiser, the November Nickel race.During the month of November students brought in nickels from home and at the end of the month we had each class line up their nickels in the gym.Mrs.Haney’s grade 3 class brought in the most nickels but the real winners will be the families in the Bedford area who need support during the holidays.Butler Elementary is donating $316.25 plus sevefal boxes of food to the Centre de Benevole who will be distributing food baskets this holiday season.Upcoming Butler Events Some upcoming events this December include the floor hockey tournament being held at Sutton Elementary on Friday, Dec.14.We will be sending a co-ed team that includes Shawn Montange, Olivier Chagnon, Jordan Coderre, Katie McWilliams, William Robinson, Tyler Symington, Jordan Ravenelle, Noah Olsen, Erica Corey, and Juanita Miller.We all wish the much success and we hope that they enjoy themselves.The choir, which is made up of students from grade four through secondary one, has been practicing hard under the tutelage of Mrs.MacCal-lum and Mr.Viens.The choir will be performing at various locations in Bedford and Cowansville on Thursday, Dec.20 and the school will have the joy of hearing them the day after during the Christmas concert.The day before Christmas break the students will be putting on a little Christmas concert for their peers.The show will be filled with songs, dances and little plays to celebrate the holidays.The show will be taking place at 12:45 in the gym and parents are invited to enjoy the performance. 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