The record, 21 mai 2002, mardi 21 mai 2002

¦ THE »i RECORD CLASSIFIEDS 18191569-9525 THE The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 WWW.SHERBROOKERECORD.COM ^^TUESDAY, MAY21^ 2002 Funding will be used to beef up rural regions $90 million to make outlying communities attractive to new residents By Stephanie Lapointe Sherbrooke The Conseil régional de développement de l’Éstrie (Regional development council -RDC) announced that the Quebec government has allot- ted $90 million to the development of its rural regions during a meeting held at the King’s Hall Hotel in Compton on May 16.The funds are to be invested in “innovative plans” that will help rural areas attract more residents.The funds will be used to encourage new projects, develop land, create more employment and improve transportation services in rural regions.Encouraging youths and young families to remain or return to the regions is a main priority.“The rural policy will not solve our problems,” said Solidarité rurale spokesman Jacques Proulx, adding the money will provide the push needed to help development in rural areas.A panel comprised of representatives from Fédération québécoise des municipalités (Quebec Municipal Federation), l’association des régions du Québec, (Association of the Regions of Quebec) CLD of Estrie, Solidarité rurale, and RDC discussed ways to strengthen regions.During question period, François Fréchette, director of Carrefour jeunesse emploi in the MRC of Coati-cook, addressed the panel, citing a lack of employment opportunities for youth, which is why he said, more and more young people are moving towards urban centres.He insisted that more youths have to be part of the development process so that the next generation will not have to put up with the consequences of decisions made by others.Please see rural Page 3 Children in car with drunk driver are seriously injured By Stephanie Lapointe Sherbrooke Three children are seriously injured, one in critical condition, after their father, a 33 year-old Sawyerville resident, hit a Jeep Cherokee Sunday afternoon.According to witnesses, the Jeep failed to come to a complete stop at the intersection of New Mexico and Chemin Rivière du Nord in Newport and the two collided.Officers with the Sûreté du Québec’s MRC Haut-Saint-François detachment arrested the father who appeared to be drunk.He has been detained because he was also driving without a valid license and is to appear in court tomorrow.The six-year-old boy is in critical condition.The other children are aged three and nine.The father suffered minor injuries.He was brought to hospital where he refused to take a blood-alcohol test.The driver of the Jeep Cherokee suffered no injuries, but his wife was brought to hospital to be treated for shock.Both vehicles involved in the accident were towed for mechanical inspection.Celebrating 103 years PERRY BEATON/SPECIAL Gwen Hallam celebrated her 103rd birthday on Sunday.A few friends, neighbours and relatives gathered at the Drew Residence in Lennoxville for cake and coffee.MrlüB: Carrying On FtKKI BEA'IUIN/SPECIAL Staff at The Record bid a fond farewell to Velmore Smith Friday as he turns the page on a 44-year stint as paper carrier.For more please see Lennoxville Link inside. page 2 Tuesday, May 21, 2002 — THEi Actor held audience spellbound Leboeufs generosity spilled out in actions It was lunch-time.Several hundred administrators in the packed ball room at the Hilton Hotel were just finishing their first course of boeuf bourguignon, rice, green and yellow beans and onions.A well-dressed man paced slowly back and forth to the right of the podium, obviously concentrating on his soon-to-be-made presentation.At least one member of the audience was full of curiosity.What ^ loto-québec Results TVA, the network of draws Draw 2002-05-18 13 15 24 34 42 4Z Bonus: (23) ¦Hi Draw 2002-05-18 04 11 24 25 33 49 (3Z) Bonus: Draw 2002-05-17 14 17 20 23 24 Bonus: Total sales: Next grand prize: Egtra NUMBER 086342 (4Z) $102,092,406 $2,500,000 Draw 2002-05-17 PRIZE $ 100,000 Egtra NUMBER 668647 Claims: See back of tickets, in the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list of L-Q, the latter shall prevail.MISE SUR TOI could a well-known theatrical comedian and newspaper columnist have to say that would relate to the profession practised by those at the conference?It seemed a stretch.Without a note, Marcel Leboeuf held us spell-bound as he related his personal experiences carving out a ca-_______ reer.With fervour, intensity, sprinkles of humour and specific examples from his own life - good and bad, he communicated the importance of passion, team work, personal and work relationships, a sense of humour, determination, kind words, the support of those around us, and links with loved ones.Relationships with co-workers, customers, others in the same domain - and most importantly, with family are ever so important this speaker communicated to us.They must not be neglected as we get caught up in the passions of our lives, as Marcel has learned along the way.It was touching to hear about the actor’s close relationship with his grandfather, a lover of nature and of trees, and Susan Mastine WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 1 $2,000,000.00 5/6+ 2 $290,225.50 5/6 226 $2,054.70 4/6 12,534 $71.00 3/6 236.905 $10.00 Total sales: $13,863,831 Next grand prize (approx.): $2,000,000 WINNERS PRIZES 6/6 1 $1,000,000.00 5/6+ 0 $50,000.00 5/6 29 $500.00 4/6 1,445 $50.00 3/6 21,882 $5.00 Total sales: $571,927.00 WINNERS PRIZES 7/7 4 $9,460,492.60 6/7+ 12 $157,970.90 2 6/7 684 $2,425.00 5/7 38,790 $152.70 4/7 826,571 $10.00 3/7+ 774,207 $10.00 3/7 6,931,293 Free play Draw 2002-05-18 PRIZE $ 100,000 provider of not-too-tasty spruce gum, and of the closeness Marcel still feels with this man.Their bond is reinforced, Marcel related, whenever he walks the land his grandparent gave him before he died.Scatterings of pieces of broken dishes along the property line, put there generations ago to mark where one man’s terrain ended and another’s began, bring to the actor a sense that his grandpapa is still with him.Marcel also spoke of the dedication and support provided to him by members of his theatrical entourage.Sharing burdens, finding solutions together, supporting one another, and expressing compliments are all essential elements of this business man's style of management.His compassion and team work approach have created a working environment so much like a family atmosphere that most of his staff are still at the theatre he launched in Kingsey Falls well more than a decade ago.There is perhaps a lesson to be learned from this actor’s generosity of spirit.On one occasion, a patron was distressed and causing a fuss because he had arrived with previously purchased tickets, but was told there were no seats available.Marcel calmly offered him front row seats at no charge.As the man continued to mutter about incompetence, the theatre owner stood up for his employees, mentioning that, unfortunately, mistakes can happen.He again encouraged the theatregoer to accept the front row seats and a reimbursement of the amount he had paid for the tickets.A few minutes later, it came to light that the tickets the man had purchased were for a different show in different theatre in another location within the region.Marcel’s reaction was somewhat different from what you’d expect - he respected his offer of tickets and a reimbursement, and added to it - free tickets to the play that the patron was supposed to be seeing that evening in that other theatre for another performance.“It’s a good play.You should see it." And Marcel made sure that it happened.Baa, baa, black sheep.She had lots of wool.And lots of admirers - including one willing to pay $275 to take the Romney lamb from B.C.home.Although she’ll remain in our province, alas her new abode is not located on our farm.On the bright side, two black-faced, black-legged Suffolk ewe lambs were added to our stable following the auction at the Sheep Classic 2002.They, along with the flock of miniature goats - Charlie now has black Vanessa and oatmeal-coloured Sweet Pea as companions, will add to the baas-ful chorus created by the Border Cheviot sheep and their lambs.There was much baaing of sheep, primping of their woolly bodies and shivering of spectators at the show and auction this past weekend.The variety of breeds on site from across Canada, the presence of ovine-related kiosques, and the availability of lamb-burgers made it an unusual event.If only the weather had cooperated.Congratulations to the ladies who put on the Wales Home Tea and Silent Auction last Saturday.It was impressive to note the blend of generations, guests between the ages of less than one to ninety plus.What was most striking was the presence of several generations of the same families.Among the guests, at two tea settings, if not more, there were four generations of women - the older ones from close by, the younger ones from ‘away’.And among the volunteers, another rare vision, three generations from the same family helping out a cause.Traditions being passed on.Weather Today: Cloudy with clear periods and 40 per cent probability of showers.Clearing in the evening.High near 12.Wednesday: Sunny (Finally!) Low near plus 1.High near 17.Thursday: Sunny with cloudy periods.Low near 6.High near 20.Friday: Cloudy with a few showers.Low near 9.High near 17.Miom.vou CAN P0 IT/ CRAWL OVER TO PAPPY/ Ben by Daniel Shelton itsokayT^ IhERES NO HURRY .Y9U KNOW, YOU SH0UU?REALLY GIVE IT ANOTHER MONTH ANOTHER MONTH?/ ÊUT ITS ONLY FIVE FEET/CANT HE MOVE FASTER?I CANT WAIT HERE THATL0N6// HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE.HOPEFULLY YOU'LL GET MOMMY'S SENSE OF HUMOR £ Tuesday, May 21, 2002 page 3 — ii—THE ¦ - Record Grave digger found guilty of indignity to corpse Last cases like this were in 19th century’ -Judge By Rita Legault Sherbrooke Grave digger Normand Richer was found guilty Friday of indignity towards a human corpse - a crime Justice Yves Tardif noted is uncommon in the 20th century, much less the 21st.After a four-day trial and a just few hours of deliberations during which they relistened to statements from the Crown’s main witness and Richer’s tearful testimony, the jury of seven women and five men came back early Friday morning and declared the part-time cemetery worker guilty of committing an indignity to a human corpse.“The last cases of this sort of crime were during the 19th century,” the judge commented upon rendering sentence about an hour later.In past centuries, criminals robbed graves in the middle of the night and sold cadavers to doctors and medical students who performed clandestine autopsies to study the human body.But Richer’s crime, which the judge described as vile and odious, was not a premeditated act.“He just wanted to save time, considering the situation,” remarked the judge.Gruesome testimony revealed that while preparing the grave for Bertha Daniels Kendall at the St-Philippe-de-Windsor parish cemetery in April 2000, Richer and back hoe operator André Garant accidentally dug up her son’s body that was buried in the adjacent plot.The two men tossed Denis Kendall’s cadaver into his mother’s grave, flattened it with the backhoe, and then placed the mother’s coffin on top.Distraught by what he had witnessed, a third grave digger, who had informed the family of the crime, testified that Richer and Garant were smiling as they mishandled the corpse.Justice Tardif, who noted the maximum sentence for the crime was five years, acknowledged there was no premeditation and noted that the prosecution and defence agreed that a prison term was not appropriate punishment for the 66-year-old man.“Nevertheless we must punish such a reprehensible deed,” Tardif said as he handed Richer a three-year suspended sentence.As part of his probation, Richer will be unable to work in a cemetery for the next three years.Richer was also fined $3000 - money he has been ordered to donate to the Aube Lumière cancer hospice and for which he will receive no tax receipt.During sentencing arguments Crown prosecutor André Campagna, who admitted that Richer’s actions were not premeditated and simply done to save time, said the sentence should reflect the unspeakable crime.He suggested the three-year ban on working in a cemetery and a $5,000 fine.Defence Attorney Tom Walsh had suggested community services rather than a fine, noting his client lives on a $1600-a-month pension from Canada Post and that his monthly expenses total $1700.Police Briefs Runaway found during burglary By Stephanie Lapointe Sherbrooke A 14-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning for breaking and entering a residence on rue de la Station in Compton.The 14-year-old had run away from a youth centre.Her father had called the police because he heard she was seen in a car at the residence in question.When police from the MRC of Coaticook arrived on the scene, they saw people running out of the residence from the back.The police chased them and were able to catch the girl and the 22-year-old man.A third suspect got away but she left her coat behind, with her picture in it.Police are investigating to find and arrest her.At the residence, police found electronic and audiovisual material piled-up near the entrance.The 14-year-old has been placed in youth protection and is to appear in youth court.The 22-year-old is to appear in court tomorrow.Four arrested in Courcelles A stolen taxi from Montreal, 20 pot plants and the equipment to grow them were seized from a residence on Rang 8 South in Courcelle after a citizen tipped off police over the weekend.MRC Granit Police arrested four people after obtaining a search warrant.Three men, aged 18, 19 and 44, and one girl aged 15 were arrested.The 44 year-old man was the person living at the residence where there was a cannabis plantation.The other three are from Montreal.Everyone except the 19-year-old were released on condition they appear in court in Megantic within the next few weeks.The 19-year-old was detained because he had previous record and was accused of robberies in Montreal.They will be charged with possession of stolen goods and cannabis production.The investigation continues in collaboration with Montreal police.Teen used hammer Citizens helped in the arrest of a minor last Saturday, accused of robbing a jewelry store at Les Galeries Quatre Saisons.Witnesses saw the youth smash the glass counter with a hammer and jumped on him before he got away.Rural: Cont’d from Page 1 The panel had no response.Six MRCs of the Estrie region, Asbestos, Coaticook, Granit, Haut-Saint-Francois, Mem-phremagog and Val-Saint-François, will be receiving a portion of the $90 million rural pact.In a budget presented, $5.7 million will be shared by the six MRCs over the next five years.“What do we want our region to be tomorrow?” said Émilien Nadeau from the associa- tions of the regions of Quebec.We need “remedies of today for problems of today.” Marc Latulipe from CLD Estrie, also emphasized that money is there to help projects take off.The rural pact is part of the Politique nationale de la ruralité (national rural policy).It is a declaration, signed between members of the panel and the Quebec government, that favours the rural regions.Several hundred people attended the meeting to learn about the national rural policy and many voiced their opinions as to how the funds should be spent.] Take matters into your own hands 1877 369-7845 (514) 369-7845 www.osteoporose.qc.ca POi?riU& 6AIL&0AT6 BY TZUCK 16 SO DAÜ6«0Ü6/ WHM COfACb Wild YOK Uve?BEARS J omtz.speciklt^' SOMETWMG L SMD7 ,r* CRlfsRTl For Better or For Worse My SON-IN-LAVd IS ÔOIN6-TÔMCM& ME THE PROBLEM WITH NURSING HOMES IS SPACE.I’LL HAVE A SMALL ROOM AND A SHARED COMMODE^ "This is wh«t i’m '—- 1AKINÔ-.MOSTLY PHOTOGRAPHIA FAVORITE CHAlR.A READING .LAMP.I WON’T MISS THE \ ornaments OR THE I —FURNITURE-.1 PEOPLE- ARE My TREASURES, NOW.THESE ARE OUST ¦¦."Things.'' 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