The record, 3 novembre 2015, mardi 3 novembre 2015

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For a free 7 day trial, go to www.sherbrookerecord.com, click on e-dition, then Free Trial and fill in the information.For information or assistance call 819-569-9528 billing@sherbrookerecord.com g^jXships Abenakis hoping for double RECORD RECORD Study panel recommends keeping school board elections Sherbrooke to get a new substation Page 3 mTHE» RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 WEDNESDAY I0VEMBER 4TN AT 7 PM, - HOCKEY PHOENIX,CA 75 cents + taxes\tPM#0040007682 Tuesday, November 3, 2015 NH byelection: Guy Veillette downs Roxane Gutzeit-Godbout to win vacant council spot By Matthew McCully North Hatley Guy Veillettte said, \u201cI\u2019m very happy\u201d after winning Seat 3 on North Hatley council with 129 votes over Roxane Gutzeit-Godbout, who received 105 votes.According to town manager Daniel Décarie, 235 voters out of a possible 551 participated in the byelection, putting voter turnout at 42.6 per cent.Of the votes counted, only one was spoiled.Veillette won the election on Sunday, and the next regularly scheduled meeting of the village council was scheduled for last night.\u201cWhen you\u2019re in a new job, its mostly your eyes and ears that work more than your mouth,\u201d Veillette said, adding that his intention after being sworn would be to mostly listen and learn, taking his lead from the other more experienced councillors until he learns the ropes.Veillette said he plans to look at the different dossiers and priorities of the town in order to learn more about what he could contribute to council.\u201cThere are lots of decisions to make,\u201d Veillette said, adding that he intends to respect the character of the town when contemplating issues.New Megantic mayor [Record Staff] The region\u2019s other election on Sunday saw Jean-Guy Cloutier elected as mayor of Lac-Megantic, receiving 89.5 per cent of the vote.He replaces Colette Roy Laroche, who did not run again.He will be joined on council by Jasmin Brière, Pierre Mercier and Jean Bilodeau, who won contested races.Jean Cloutier, Pierre Latulippe and Julie Morin were all acclaimed.Lac-Megan-tic\u2019s elections were postponed from 2013 after the rail tragedy in July of that year.Community groups on strike Two-day event to highlight effects of provincial \u2018austerity\u2019 cuts y £ WTSpfjgHi nT*c \u2022< É* 4bm, WiUM r * \u2022 n \\WSn\\m ¦ ¦ - ^\u20141\u2014Jk Centre > local d\u2019emf: Sherbrooke J[lt IlLJ-i ¦ r»loi et \t r\t«B?\tm\tX\t-\ti GORDON LAMBIE Representatives from a variety of community groups protested outside the Sherbrooke local employment centre on Monday monring, as part of a two-day strike by 1,300 organizations province-wide.By Gordon Lambie Sherbrooke Once again the streets of Sherbrooke were filled with protest signs on Monday, this time from the region\u2019s community organizations.A wide range of community organizations across different sectors, but with a high concentration in the health and social services sector, staged public demonstrations of different kinds across the region and the province.The Caucus Estrien de Défense Collective de Droits, a collection of citizens\u2019 rights groups from the Sherbrooke area, took up residence in front of the provincial employment office in Sherbrooke as of 7:30 a.m.as a message to Sam Hamad, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity, that funding for collective rights organizations is unacceptably low.Though the protest initially took place within the office itself, the group was made to move their action outdoors.Another collective of community organizations, the Regroupement des Organismes Communautaires (ROC) de l\u2019Estrie, also engaged in the protests.Lennoxville Community Aid is a member of the collective, and executive director Sylvie Gilbert-Fowlis said that their approach to social action was more focused on education than direct protest.\u201cThe purpose is to help people be more aware of the impacts government cuts are having on the health system,\u201d Gilbert-Fowlis said, \u201cit\u2019s passing a increased need down on community organizations.\u201d The executive director said that Community Aid did not strike, but opted to put up informative signs and posters instead.More protests are set continue on Tuesday, including a large regional gathering at Sherbrooke\u2019s City Hall at 3 p.m. Page 2 Tuesday, November 3, 2015 newsroom@sherbrooker ecor d.com The Record The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.Wherever you are.Access the fall edition of the Sherbrooke Record as well as special editions and 30 days of archives.Renew or order a new 12-month print subscription and get a 12-month online subscription for an additional $5 or purchase the online edition only for $82.21.Record subscription rates (includes Quebec taxes) 1 year print: $155.91 6 month print: $81.85 3 month print: $41.57 12 month web only: $82.21 1 month web only: $7.46 Web subscribers have access to the daily Record as well as archives and special editions.Subscribing is as easy as 1,2,3: 1.\tVisit the Record website: www.sherbrookerecord.com 2.\tClick e-edition.3.\tComplete the form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather TODAY: AM RAIN, PM CLOUD HIGH 13 SUNRISE: 6:29 SUNSET: 4:32 ;/ ^ \\c\tWEDNESDAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUD HIGH 13 LOW 0 ,iJJ/\tTHURSDAY: \tMIX OF SUN \tAND CLOUD -J\tl\u2014 At\tJ\tJl\tHIGH 16 rj\" a\tLOW 4 \tFRIDAY: ^ )\t40% CHANCE C\tOF SHOWERS \tHIGH 19 j /i j\tLOW 6 171\tSATURDAY: \t70% CHANCE l.rzii J r J\tOF SHOWERS \tHIGH 9 LOW 4 The portal Halloween means dress-up time at the Quinn household.ilgYVff Dishpan Hands Sheila Quinn Bringing kids to any event \u2014 a birthday party, a play, the movies, heck, even grocery shopping \u2014 can be more than it was cracked up to be.They can be manners-challenged, wired, bored, demanding, behave like heathens.They can quite spontaneously become ill just about anywhere.You can prepare all you want, with checklists galore, double-checking what you\u2019ve packed and still forget some silly little essential that throws the whole shooting match off.Let\u2019s face it, getting a family ready to go anywhere or do anything requires a heck of a lot of flexibility and, well, sometimes you have to make like MacGyver, and make things out of duct tape.When you throw special needs into the mix, it\u2019s a whole other story.A story that goes from \u201cNobody move, because everything is hunky-dory,\u201d to \u201cOh crap he\u2019s drinking out of the aquarium!!!\u201d in seconds flat.There is a level of preparedness, energy, resilience and openness that develops over the years when someone with special needs is in your life.Every outing has a different set of variables.Sometimes that means, \u201cI am going to put out the garbage now.I have to make sure that he stays put.\u201d At other times, it means, \u201cWe are going somewhere several hours away for three days.I am so worried that things are going to be challenging.Lord, give me strength!\u201d This comes for what feels like our soul\u2019s marrow.It does something to us.We feel ourselves change, as though our DNA is shifting to a new thing \u2014 we develop new senses, our old senses are heightened, and there is a shock center in our brains that forms \u2014 one that sends bolts of electricity through our entire nervous systems when things go awry.But, if we\u2019re lucky, there is also a whole new chamber of the heart that grows.It grows slowly and strangely, over many years.There is also another lobe in the brain, one that is creative and that protects us as much as possible from extreme fatigue and pain.Ironically, it usually grows from those conditions as well.In the early years of caring for someone with special needs, the pain creates new spaces in our bodies that ultimately are cushions, places of firmness, kindness, protection, awareness.There is also a space that forms where the judgment of others goes.Even the judgment of all those whom we thought understood us, but it turns out don\u2019t.That is perhaps the most unexpected thing, and sometimes from the most unexpected people - we are baffled by those whom we judged as well, because we thought they were educated and aware - yet abruptly, we realize that they are not.Sometimes people we thought we were the closest to just do not get it.They want us to be the same person they thought we were.They aren\u2019t comfortable with what it means for their own reality that we care-givers are no longer who they needed or wanted for us to be.At first, that place is another place that hurts.We want them to get it.We want them to know that we\u2019re not our old selves any more, and that we never will be.We are changed.We are new.We are fledglings and need their support, but we\u2019re not getting it, and from some of them, we will never get it.We have to forgive their ignorance, and let them be.Judgment is the worst thing a caregiver can possibly go through - worse than their present situation, or the future they imagine and worry about.We find a way to let that go, because the only other alternative is allowing it to eat ourselves up.Sometimes love and support also comes from the most unexpected of people and places.Those help soften the blow.Our victories are never small.The smallest, tiniest thing can feel like the weight of the world just lifted.We are lighter; we can go on longer with every glimmer.Really, they aren\u2019t glimmers -these rays of light are portals to power.Although the others around us can feel the strength, they can\u2019t ever feel what it is truly like for a care-giver to experience that portal.Those portals feel like superpowers to the care-giver.They belong to us; and us alone.They are food for our souls.Others can experience the periphery of our victories.We, the care-givers, get the core.Last weekend, our friends held their annual Halloween party - an all-ages family affair that our kids look so forward to.I wondered how my eldest, Angus, who is cusping on 13 years of age and has autism, would fare.Last year\u2019s party was a 20-or-so minute experience for Angus, and that was just fine by us -I drove him back to my mother\u2019s, where we got him out of his elaborate costume that he loved, and he crawled into bed.I returned to the party, where we stayed with our other three until the witching hour.Cont\u2019d on Page 5 Ben by Daniel Shelton WHEPESTHE RESTOETHE GANG?1 THOUGHT WE WERE ©WSITTING ALL FOtJR KIR5 SOYOU ?'WOW/THIS k%YWE T HASN'T MAP MIGMOLASTO j p£N£R IN A Y LONG TIME IPONTSUFR35E HESTILLTAKESA NAP COES HEY NATHAN TOOK THE SHOP PINO, The Record newsroom@sherbr ookerecord.com Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Page 3 \t\t Local News\t\tThe three existing stations are currently nearing capacity as a result of growing demand Hydro-Sherbrooke to build fourth substation By Gordon Lambie Sherbrooke Following on a decision to build a new power substation agreed upon by Sherbrooke city Ccuncil last year, Hydro Sherbrooke, the city\u2019s power utility, presented an updated plan for the construction at Monday night\u2019s council meeting.The plan is to build the city\u2019s fourth substation at a site in the Rock Forest-Saint-Elie-Deauville borough by the end of 2018 owing to the fact that growing demand, particularly in the city\u2019s western sector, has municipal officials projecting power usage hitting a critical limit the coming years.The new station, the construction of which is expected to cost $32.5 million, will allow for an increase of between 6,000 and 25,000 new clients while also relieving pressure on the existing system.The most significant element of last night\u2019s announcement was the fact that the power utility has identified the site where the new station is to be built.Christian Laprise, the director of Hydro Sherbrooke, confirmed that the location of the new distribution center will be on property north of Godin Street, and said that the site was selected as the best of three possible candidates \u201cIt is a site that met all of our criteria, most notably its distance from existing residential neighbours,\u201d Laprise said, noting that the new installation will be at least 300 metres from the nearest house and will not greatly change existing sight lines because of the amount of foliage and configuration of the terrain.Mathieu Valiquette, an engineer in charge of the project with Hydro Sherbrooke, explained the breakdown of the concept.At the moment, he said, the power utility serves approximately 85,000 clients through existing power generation as well as three substations through which 120Kv power from Hydro-Quebec is transformed into 25Kv usable on the municipal infrastructure.The three existing stations are currently nearing capacity as a result of growing demand, particularly during the winter seasons, and that particularly in the West.On top of that, the taxed infrastructure is beginning to get old, which adds to the risks of outages and brownouts.The addition of the new station, Valiquette explained, will help extend the life of the existing system while also providing additional support for a growing population.Not that the site has been decided upon and acquired, the clearing and levelling of the location is set to take place over the course of the coming year.Construction of the basic buildings and structures is set to start in 2017, with the installation of electrical equipment taking place the year after, when the site is predicted to enter service.Laprise said that no public consultation has been planned for the project, but he pointed out that Hydro-Quebec is collaborating with Hydro Sherbrooke to hold an open house event relating to the plan in mid-December.This event, he said, will give local citizens who have concerns or questions a chance to bring them right to the experts for answers.An information package regarding the project is now on the Sherbrooke website.Supporters of blogger Raif Badawi met by closed doors at Saudi embassy By Fannie Olivier The Canadian Press Ottawa Supporters of Raif Badawi found themselves up against the closed doors of Saudi Arabia\u2019s embassy Monday as they tried unsuccessfully to deliver 31,000 letters demanding the imprisoned blogger\u2019s release.Badawi, whose wife and three children live in Quebec, was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for his criticism of Saudi clerics.Demonstrators gathered to hand over the letters and petitions, which come from about 20 different countries, primarily Canada.But unlike the first time they tried something similar earlier in the year, Saudi officials wouldn\u2019t open the door.Amnesty International said the timing was deliberate, with a new Liberal government to be sworn in on Wednes-day.Badawi\u2019s wife, Ensaf Haidar, says she would like prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau to work to end her husband\u2019s detention and help him return to Canada.Hopeful he\u2019d be released when the 23085-00 / 23086-00 INTERNATIONALE s DE FOUET IR CRÉÉ INTERNET ABIE SAOUDITE sp /tjw\tA «'nishe\tj \t THE CANADIAN PRESS/SEAN KILPATRICK Protesters take part in a rally outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ottawa on Monday; calling for the release of Raif Badawi The group had planned to deliver 31,000 letters as they call for his release but the embassy turned them down.year began, Haidar said she doesn\u2019t see on (the file), talk to Saudi Arabian gov-\u201ca bright side\u201d now.\ternment officials directly and ask that \u201cI would like for Mr.Trudeau to work Raif be released from prison,\u201d Haidar said.\u201cI hope soon Raif will be free with us.\u201d Beatrice Vaugrante, head of Amnesty International\u2019s Francophone branch based in Quebec, was with Haidar in February when she met with Trudeau, who condemned Badawi\u2019s \u201cinhumane treatment\u201d and called for the Canadian authorities to do more to secure his release.\u201cWe can hope that between February and now, there hasn\u2019t been a change in that position and now that Mr.Trudeau will be prime minister, he will take a clear position and intervene,\u201d Vaugrante said.Vaugrante called it \u201cextremely disappointing, even alarming\u201d that the embassy would not accept the letters, and wondered if it meant communication channels were becoming more rigid.Last week, Badawi won the Sakharov Prize, a prestigious human rights honour from the European parliament.Badawi was arrested in 2012, convicted in 2014 and received 50 of the 1,000 lashes in January during a public flogging.Haidar, who now lives in Sherbrooke with the couple\u2019s three children, fears the lashes are to resume shortly.Quebec sends cash to digitize concert halls Record Staff Sherbrooke The Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications has announced funding totaling $261,135, to four performance halls in Sherbrooke, Lennoxville and Coaticoolc to promote the modernization of equipment and the purchase of digital equipment in performing arts centres.\u201cThese digital facilities will give a new impetus to the activities programmed in the various places of dissemination for the benefit of the public,\u201d said Minister Hélène David in a statement.Sherbrooke MNA Luc Fortin, who joined Saint-François MNA Guy Hardy in making the announcement, added, \u201cI am pleased about the assistance granted by my colleague.The [University of Sherbrooke Cultural Centre] and the Granada are superb performance halls that should have the most sophisticated technical equipment to provide quality performances for their many spectators.\" The new sound, lighting, and video equipment will optimize the creative possibilities in the arts in the region.\u201cIt\u2019s important to me that venues like the Pavillon des Arts et de la Culture de Coaticoolc and Centennial Theatre in Lennoxville are able to present the public with high quality audio and visual programming,\u201d saidHardy.In total, more than $5.1 million has been allocated to 82 specialized multidisciplinary presenters from all regions of Quebec.Launched in September 2014, the Digital Cultural Plan will invest $110 million over seven years to support all cultural sectors in adapting to new technologies.More than 50 measures have been developed for the first two years, revolving around the three main lines: creating, innovating, and disseminating culture.In Sherbrooke, the Granada Theatre will receive $75,000 and the U de S Cultural Centre $50,570.The Coaticoolc Arts and Culture Pavilion will benefit from $67,500, while the Centennial Theatre at Bishop\u2019s University in Lennoxville gets $68,065.Consultation on Lennoxville fire plan Wednesday Record Staff Sherbrooke The City of Sherbrooke will be holding a public consultation meeting in Lennoxville on Wednesday evening to discuss its plans for the sector\u2019s fire safety management.The meeting will take place at the Lennoxville Fire Hall at 10 Samuel-Gratham St.at 7 p.m.and will be hosted by Borough President David Price, Sherbrooke public security committee chair Marc Denauilt, and Sherbrooke Fire Chief Stéphane Simoneau.The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Page 4 Tuesday, November 3, 2015 newsroom@sherbrooker ecor d.com The Record Who\u2019s Who in the Pews Encounter Student Ministries: Sharing life together in the Student Village COURTESY Members of the Encounter Student Ministries in a Bible-study session By Gordon Lambie Lennoxvtlle Encounter Student Ministries is pretty much the exact opposite of what the average citizen might expect to find in the middle of Lennoxville\u2019s \u201cStudent Village.\u201d Based out of 18A Conley Street, where Samuel-Gratham Street and Conley meet, the small team of four employees and associated volunteers carry out a simple mission of welcome and hospitality while trying to act as a bridge between the student body and local Christian communities.\u201cOur whole focus is about living out the gospel.It\u2019s being out and inviting others to come in,\u201d said Bear Lemlce, ESM\u2019s assistant director.\u201cThere\u2019s so many people here in Quebec, especially in my generation, where we\u2019ve heard the name of Jesus and we know we\u2019re not supposed to like him, but we\u2019re not really sure why because we\u2019ve never really met a real Christian before.\u201d Lemlce and ESM Director Lucas Aubé explained that the group, which is one part student club and one part nonprofit organization, has no direct link to any specific local church community.Instead, the group operates on the forefront of campus life and tries to open up a broader understanding of Christian life for a demographic that has moved away from, or never been familiar with, the details of the religion in the first place.\u201cA huge value for us is for students to feel like they belong right away when they encounter us,\u201d Aubé said.\u201cWe were formerly the BU Christian Ministries, and that\u2019s still us.The reason we removed the word Christian isn\u2019t because we\u2019re hiding it at all, that comes out very quickly, but we also want everyone to feel welcome.\u201d The Director explained that in the more secular context these days, many students felt uncertain about engaging with a group that called itself Christian if that was not a way they identified themselves.\u201cThe answer every time is a resounding yes.Not only can you come, but you are a part of our community if you want to be, wherever you find yourself.\u201d Aubé continued.\u201cJesus didn\u2019t have a set list of requirements that his followers needed to fit, wherever they were on the trajectory of their lifetime, they felt a real sense of belonging and that changed them.\u201d The two directors explained that the work of ESM mainly breaks down into three weekly activities.On Sunday nights, the group holds an informal worship service that is open to all in its hall at 18A Conley.The themes of that service are expanded upon or explored in a different way on Wednesday nights during a time of group bible study.Tuesday nights are likely what the group is known for best, however, as they host a weekly student supper that regularly welcomes between 200 and 400 participants.Lemlce called the suppers an experience of sharing life together and said that the whole point of the activity is to foster a sense of community and belonging, not to convert students to Christianity.\u201cEvery student that knows our name doesn\u2019t have anything bad to say about us,\u201d the assistant director said.\u201cI\u2019ll be talking about Jesus with someone here at the Tuesday student dinner, and they might be atheist or agnostic or whatever, but they\u2019ll be right back the next week because it\u2019s not forced down their throat; I\u2019m not trying to evangelize, I\u2019m just biblically being me.\u201d Lemlce pointed to ESM as a non-con-frontational ministry of service, saying that the team of four working on coordinating the activities strive to \u201cbe the hands and feet of Jesus,\u201d in the community.Though the youth of today are not known for overt statements of faith and tend to increasingly identify as spiritual rather than religious, the assistant director said that in his experience the people who don\u2019t like the idea of God or religion usually feel that way because of negative experiences of religion in the past.\u201cPeople don\u2019t like God because they think that God doesn\u2019t like them,\u201d Lemlce said.\u201cThat\u2019s not what I see in the Bible.\u201d The assistant director said that people are rarely aggressive toward ESM, but he said that he often finds himself speaking with people confused and put off by his Christianity \u201cPeople judge me because they think I\u2019m judging them,\u201d Lemlce said, \u201cbut we\u2019re just building a safe space to encounter the love of God.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re waiting for the judgement,\u201d Aubé added, \u201cbut they\u2019re not judged for who they are; we don\u2019t believe that\u2019s our job.\u201d Generally speaking, according to the director, barriers to religion are coming down.Aubé said that ESM holds the trust and respect it has earned from the local schools, the community, and the student body in very high regard.\u201cPeople are more open that they have been in a long time,\u201d Aubé said.\u201cWe still believe that Christianity, and Jesus himself more than Christianity, is truth so we want to point students to that; we\u2019re not afraid of saying that and they know that, but at the same time they\u2019re welcome to be wherever they are on their journey.We get a lot of people just exploring spirituality.\u201d On campus, the club works side-by-side with campus chaplain Heather Thomson, and the two directors said that it is largely through her that they interact with the community and other clubs.The group is open to and interested in exchange and partnership between community groups as well as interfaith exchanges, but said that so far the opportunities have been few and far between.\u201cWe welcome any local church that wants to partner in our work,\u201d Aubé said, pointing out that as a non-profit organization finding the time, resources, and energy for initiatives is always a challenge.The Director also directly challenged public perception of Bishop\u2019s students, referring specifically to the criticisms that often come up around the building just east of the train tracks on College Street, known locally as \u201cAnimal House.\u201d \u201cWe live in this community and we\u2019re serving this community and we don\u2019t think it is out of control and we don\u2019t think it is helpless,\u201d Aubé said.\u201cWe are living within it as a beacon of hope and light, and students are experiencing that.\u201d Lemlce, for his part, referred to it as a \u201ccommunity of love,\u201d and said that he has seen truly positive shift take place in the community during the time he has been present.\u201cWe don\u2019t do this as a job, we see it as a privilege and a responsibility,\u201c the assistant director said.\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to make better sinners; we\u2019re trying to transform lives.\u201d ¦ THE* RECORD \u201cThe only English daily newspaper in the Eastern Townships\u20191 For a 7-day free trial online, go to: www.sherbrookerecord.com, click on e-edition, then click on Free Trial and fill in the information.You will receive confirmation that your online subscription is activated.THERE FOR YOU 24-HOURS A DAY, 7-DAYS A WEEK, WHEREVER YOU ARE! PRINT iPADS/TABLETS iPHONES COMPUTERS Subscriptions: 819-569-9528 \u2022 billing@sherbrookerecord.conn The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, November 3, 20 15 Page 5 Halloween fun at PottorTs senior apartments Friday evening was a scary affair at the Potion Apartments.The Scoop Mable Hastings n enthusiastic group of Potton\u2019s seniors, friends, municipal officials and organizers gathered at the Potton Apartments on Friday for a Halloween party including supper, music, door prizes and fun.Organized by Roseleen George, who has been doing the lunchtime meals for the residence five days per week for the last two years, this event was the second musical evening she has made possible.The activity was originally planned for the enjoyment of those living in the apartments but it was expanded to include other seniors and neighbours in the area who wanted to attend.Roseleen was assisted by volunteers Clara Cote and Brenda Whitehead, who were a big help with decorating and running the evening.\u201cMany seniors don\u2019t drive and as fall comes it brings with it the colder weather and often the elderly don\u2019t get out much to socialize,\u201d explained George.\u201cRather than sitting and staring at the four walls, if I can organize events like this one, close to home, I am happy to do it.\u201d Most of the seniors residing at the residence were in attendance.At 4 p.m., supper was served, followed by dessert and coffee.Around 5 p.m.violinist Emilien Brulotte, accompanied by two talented guitarists had the crowd up and dancing.Anna Tomera, a local senior, also sang for the group.There were door prizes as well.A small donation was requested from those who attend and this helped to cover any costs for the performers.\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how great it felt to see a 96 year old gentleman dancing the two step and smiling from ear to ear,\u201d said George.\u201cHis daughter had joined him for the event and she told me how happy it made her father and what a great time she herself had.\u201d The last event, held a couple of weeks ago, featured the musical talents of Shirley Spencer and Arnold Davis.A third evening with other musicians is being planned for early December and will include a Christmas dinner and lots of other festive fun.\u201cWe appreciate the time and talents of anyone who plays music, performs comedy, magic.,\u201d added George.\u201cTo attend, people need only call me and let me know they are coming.\u201d There is a very positive feeling when entering the Potton apartments.With its big spacious dining area and reception room, it is the perfect location for good times, happy memories and the sharing of community fun.For information about future gatherings, contact George at 450-292-5638.COURTESY Missisquoi North Youth Centre haunted house was a scream in Potton i MABLE HASTINGS Saturday in Mansonville featured a haunted house at the youth centre.By Mable Hastings Mansonville Last Saturday evening, youth members of the Missisquoi North Youth Centre, Former Youth Involvement, and Students Against Destructive Decisions and volunteers organized and ran the annual Youth Centre Haunted House in Mansonville.Preparation took weeks and the actual event was an all-day affair for Julia Eldridge, Jessie Lee Johnson and Rachelle Lachance, the primary leaders who worked on the planning, make-up and decorating with a wonderful group of some 20 volunteers who put the plan into action.Outside the building, youth centre staff set up a Halloween themed photo booth and photos were taken of all youth and families who stopped by.There was also free hot chocolate and coffee served by one of the staff and this was a great way to warm up eager triclc-or-treaters and their parents.Approximately 150 people passed through the haunted house, while some debated and then decided it was just too scary! Treats were available for those who did not want to go beyond the front door.One parent commented that the stop at the Youth Centre gave families a gathering place where they could chat, warm up and regroup as they headed off to another of the festive haunts.From one end of town to the other and every direction in between, Mansonville went all out this year with many houses filled with dressed up ghouls, goons and goblins.The Round Barn offered a shadow puppet show; the Optimist Club had a decorated stop in the center of town and, perhaps because the event fell on a Saturday evening and people had more time to prepare, it seemed that everyone joined in the fun.Another parent commented how proud she was of the people of Potton who had made such an effort for the children.\u201cFor a small town,\u201d she said, \u201cMansonville really is amazing.\u201d Diane Marcoux, a municipal councillor, stopped from house to house and captured photos along the way.She, too, felt that people had outdone themselves.For the Youth Centre, the more children and families who came through and then offered words of appreciation and encouragement for the effort made was all the fuel they needed to start preparing for next year\u2019s haunt.\u201cThis is how we give back,\u201d explained Johnson.\u201cFor the three of us, it is our favorite holiday and if we can bring something back to the Youth Centre and its programs, like the rest of FYI and SADD, we are happy to do it.\u201d Dishpan Hands Cont\u2019d from Page 2 I still went to the many hours of trouble to co-ordinate another costume for Angus this year, because he deserves that.He loves to dress up, and I knew that even if it was for a few moments only, it was deeply worth it.That\u2019s another thing that people with special needs family members have to often justify - the bother.We can sense the subtle ways that they feel included, and the minute reactions that show their interest or involvement.We know the rewards of the bother.With a carnival theme at Haunted Beechmore\u2019s party this year, our family became the performers of the old-school Silver Circus.Our costumes were all black, white and silver with touches of purple.My youngest was our ringmaster, my step-daughter our performing horse, my step-son our tattooed strongman, and my guy was our Voodoo Villain.I was the circus clairvoyant.Angus was our silver-maned lion.As a rule, I spend 90 per cent of my time at the party on the dance floor, but this year was different.This year, Angus wanted to stay.And so, I spent my time with him, gladly, enthusiastically and with so much pride.This was a portal experience, as my beautiful boy enjoyed his time, with so many people, with loud music and strange costumes.He stayed as long as his siblings did - when 11 p.m.hit and I was rounding up the other three to head a few minutes away to Gramma\u2019s, that is when Angus left too.As I drove back to the party, after all four were in jammies, with make-up removed and teeth brushed, under Gramma\u2019s tired, but watchful eye, I felt so grateful for this portal.It is the kind of energy that never goes away.There are no small victories.For a special needs family, the good moments last, and the great moments last forever.I will look back on Halloween of 2015 at Beechmore Manor as one of the best nights of motherhood for me.Thank you to our wonderful hosts, Léo and Louis-Philippe, who don\u2019t really know the magic they have brought to our community.It has meant the world to our family.For all of you out there who are starving for those glimmers, hang on for the silver linings, because they power the world. Page 6 Tuesday, November 3, 2015 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Kdi\t[TORI\t[AL\tBut they went too far.In truth the exercise had the exact opposite effect and she came out looking stronger! Hillary Clinton battles on MllK SEENNE?TOM MULCAIR \u2018NDP LEADER\u2019 frÿlitÉyp MISSING SINCE OCTO&ER 20,2015 Tom Cavanagh Only a few Record readers will likely react to the name of Joe McCarthy either as American senator or by his nickname \u201cTail Gunner Joe.\u2019 No matter.He was a household name in the early 1950s when he gained considerable renown for his attacks on fellow American citizens who he judged soft on Communism.He claimed he had discovered them hiding in high government offices and elsewhere, and ultimately he headed up Congressional hearings on those American traitors who were aligned with Stalin, Russia and Communism to weaken and harm their homeland.The Cold War.How many of these \u201cscoundrels\u201d were there?Too many according to Joe and he would waive around a list of 200-plus names he had somehow tracked down.The names were hard to access and never made public.Indeed they might have been no more than his laundry or bucket list.But it was a deadly serious business.Who knows?The problem was that the head of the parade was Joe McCarthy, a liar and a fraud who for a while seemed a public hero who could save America from the bad guys.No one knows where the \u201cTail Gunner Joe\u201d nickname came from but he was never in a bomber flying over Germany.Was he ever even in an airplane?Who knows?I was in my late teens when McCarthy was at his strongest and he was a feared, powerful, and dangerous man.Television was new and public hearings were rare and for the first time televised in black and white of course; and that was how McCarthy saw the world.Restraint was not in his make up and, given the times, lives and careers were destroyed by his charges and his hearings.His methods were bullying, shouting down opponents, threatening, and using accusations, rumours, lies, inter- ruptions, distortions.For a long time those means worked for him and a lot of people suffered.My understanding of international politics in those years was shallow.I did however watch McCarthy on black and white TV.He was scary, and even fascinating.My simplistic worldviews were far from learned but I sure disliked him and sensed something was seriously wrong about his bearing and methods.I would have problems explaining my position but his methods seemed unfair and wrong.Over time we found there were many others shared those same feelings.The Senator\u2019s downfall was unexpectedly dramatic and relatively swift.A lawyer named Joseph Welch, who was not even on the panel, had finally heard enough and chastised McCarthy on the air with words that spread like wildfire around the country.Here is just a short part of Welch\u2019s damning criticism.\u201cSenator, may we drop this.Senator you\u2019ve done enough.Have you no sense of decency, sir?At long last have you no sense of decency?\u201d Additional witnesses were in place for questioning but instead, without warning, everyone in the room burst into applause for Welch.McCarthy was dumbfounded.The applause spread across America.Americans had had enough.McCarthy was bamboozled.The tough-guy intimidator had gone too far and finally he was through.Done.Game over.Back to the Present I have not thought about McCarthy-ism for years but it came strongly to mind last week with the Benghazi committee hearings.Benghazi, yes.But before it was over another real goal of the questioners was apparent: undermine Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential plans and hopes.Let us cut to the chase.It was an inquisition plain and simple \u2014 a witch hunt if you like.There were already eight investigations into the Benghazi attacks.In all, the one I was watching lasted for more than 11 hours.As two Associated Press writers observed, after five hours into the hearings no questions were asked about the night of the Benghazi attack.So what was going on?Well, how about this for an answer.The real purpose and direction of the hearing was to weaken and destroy Hillary Clinton\u2019s run for the presidency.How?Ask the questions over and over.Distort and intimidate.Complicate.Get her confused.Try to make her stumble and worse have her lose the handle.Repeat the question.Add damning implications.Repeat it again.Badger her.Lack precision.Repeat again.Force her to start shouting or lose control.Better still, crying.(That ain\u2019t gonna happen baby.) Items mentioned above are things to absolutely avoid for presidential wannabes.Hillary was totally cool, in charge, and under control for hours and hours.And how ironic it all was when over.It started with a real possibility for serious damage for Hillary\u2019s presidential run.That was the right-wing Republican raison d\u2019etre.But they went too far.In truth the exercise had the exact opposite effect and she came out looking stronger! And not just \u201clooking.\u201d She was the one you had to admire.It was a kind of harassment and a lot of people love the underdog.On that day that was her status - and she triumphed.Do you, dear reader, know anyone who could stand up to five hours of hectoring and questioning calculated to intimidate, coming from individuals who are skilled, trained, and committed to make you look bad?Well, I watched much more than three hours, and was amazed by her strength, self-control, and toughness over that long period.She showed wit, insights, and thought-fulness.sometimes courteous, sometimes not.(And yes circular at times, but she is human and think of her opponents.) Does America want a clear thinker for President who in stressful situations can stand up for her values and her country?Someone who can handle deviousness, pressure, distortions, and Putin?If that\u2019s what they want, then they\u2019ve got her.At times the bias was so over the top I was wondering if Republicans might resort to some variation of that old blooper question: \u201cI want a yes or a no.Are you still beating your wife?\u201d (Okay.Yes or no is not an option, plus there is also the gender problem.) My past support for Hillary has been qualified.Not today.Look at the opposition.Donald Trump stumbles around somewhere in the background.It is hard to imagine anyone worse.A possibility?I hope not.Hillary is the one.Smart, strong, stately, and steely.At one point she said to all those men in the room.\u201cYou know, I have given more thought to this than all of you combined.\u201d A gutsy comment and no challenges.So where is she now?Well no trophies, no medals.But she\u2019s running well and looking better every day.Don\u2019t underestimate her.Meanwhile there are interesting parallels and similarities in the irony of what happened a few days ago to Hillary Clinton and almost a lifetime ago to Joe McCarthy.Who better than poet Robert Burns to pull it all together for us in his poem, \u201cTo a Mouse\u201d.But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may he vain; The best laid schemes o\u2019 mice an\u2019 men Gang aft agley, An\u2019 lea\u2019e us nought but grief an\u2019 pain For promised joy! 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