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[" Sherbrooke Hydro supports Centraide Estrie Page 3 ¦ THE\" RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Hope for Dylan and Austin Scoop - Page 6 75 CENTS + TAXES PM#0040007682 Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Wales home seeking long-term support for long-term care By Gordon Lambie While celebrating the groundbreaking for phase one of the home\u2019s new expansion, Wales Home Executive Director Brendalee Pi-ironen and executive committee President Glenn Brock emphasized that the ongoing work and improvement of the Eastern Townships most well-known Anglophone seniors\u2019 home will not be able to continue without dedicated financial support from the provincial government.Speaking specifically with regard to the plans to increase the capacity of the home\u2019s long-term care facilities (CHSLD) in phase two of the expansion, Piironen said that the success of the project depends on not just a one-time grant for construction, but also subsidization over a longer period.\u201cThe Wales Home saves the government about $8 million per year because we are operating this long term care facility,\u201d Piironen said, explaining that the CHSLD section of the home runs with a constant operational deficit that has to be bailed out using funds raised by the foundation.\u201cWe\u2019re not asking for $8 million; we\u2019re asking for a very reasonable amount so we can stop operating in a deficit and increase staffing.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not just subsidization of the existing beds,\u201d added Brock.\u201cWe want to create an expansion of thirty beds because we\u2019re just full up all the time and the need for such care is going increase substantially over the next ten years.\u201d cont\u2019d on page 3 As temperatures drop, it\u2019s time to share the warmth MATTHEW MCCULLY \\ \u201cI I is » vraat Pictured on the left is Kathryne Owen, community outreach coordinator for the LDWC.On the right is LDWC director Terry Moore, showing off a few of the jackets they have available at the centre for kids in need.By Matthew McCully T|he Lennoxville and District Women\u2019s Centre (LDWC) recently launched its Share the Warmth campaign, an initiative to provide winter clothing for local kids in need.LDWC director Terry Moore explained that while the centre accepts clothing donations throughout the year, the Share the Warmth campaign solicits donations so that volunteers can bring the kids shopping.\u201cIt\u2019s important that the kids come shopping and pick what they like,\u201d Moore said.This is the second year the LDWC has run the campaign, Moore said.Last year, there were over 50 families on the list in need of clothing, some with multiple children.LDWC Community Outreach Coordinator Kathryne Owen said that this is the time of year when parents bring out the winter clothing and often get a surprise.\u201cKids grow like weeds,\u201d Owen said.A recent visitor to the centre told Owen that she had purchased new snowsuits for her kids last year and thought everything would be fine, but her children had outgrown everything.Moore said the situation can be more serious for some families.She remembered making a food delivery on one occasion, to find a young girl home from school.\u201cKids are so honest,\u201d Moore said, explaining that the young girl told her she was staying home because she didn\u2019t have a winter coat to wear to school.Moore immediately remedied the situation, but wondered how many other kids and families in the area could be in a similar situation.\u201cPeople are honest about their Cont\u2019d on page 3 ¦ THE- RECORD GET a 7 DAY TRIAL ONLINE subscription.Take The Record anywhere with you with an online subscription! iPads, tablets, iPhones, Android phones, laptops! 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 Abenakis hoping for a double [RECORD RECORD Study panel recommends keeping school board elections id distributed by PressReadei press PressReader.com ?+1 604 278 4604 ID PROTECTED BY rreader MmM Page 2 Tuesday, October 18, 2016 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.Wherever you are.Access the full 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.Visit the Record website: www.sherbrookerecord.com 2.Click e-edition.3.Complete the form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather TODAY: PERIODS OF RAIN HIGH OF 17 LOW OF 10 WEDNESDAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS HIGH OF 18 LOW OF 7 THURSDAY: PERIODS OF RAIN HIGH OF 17 LOW OF 10 FRIDAY: CLOUDY HIGH OF 17 LOW OF 7 SATURDAY: PERIODS OF RAIN HIGH OF 9 LOW OF 3 Enough is enough Dishpan Hands Sheila Quinn We\u2019re waking up in the dark again.My Sunday night drives to pick up my boys, tuned to Randy Bachman\u2019s Vinyl Tap on CBC Radio One, shifting between the programmed slots of Montreal and Quebec City\u2019s spots on my dial as I drive through frequency zones are through black pavement and lit by tail-lights now.Somehow, even though we\u2019re broaching a third of the way through the month of October, the hillsides still glow with a real mixture of autumnal shades - we haven\u2019t made our way to that orangey-brown blandness that happens for a stretch before the next stage.I\u2019m in my very favourite (and very brief) season, I\u2019m trying to enjoy every moment, and somehow it feels like if I blink, I\u2019ll be at the next autumn, with a slew of memories behind me - another Christmas, a whole series of other birthdays, the kids will all be taller, another year of school past, another summer of hot green days, campfires, beach visits where I sit like another lifeguard, my eyes trained on one potentially unpredictable swimmer the whole time.Just writing this I deeply feel how fortunate I am, we are.We can talk about the weather.We can talk about the seasons.With any luck, our basic needs are being met.It is so easy to want more.to want stuff, to wish ourselves away to other places, to other times; sometimes we even ache for other people, maybe people we haven\u2019t even met! We reach out for other moments.How do we stop?How do we feel satisfied?With constant commercials and ads of all sorts surrounding us everywhere we go, there is a never-ending reminder of something we don\u2019t have.And, when certain things become the norm, like yearly, or even twice-yearly beach vacations - as though somehow we just won\u2019t survive without the beach a few times a year, it feels like something\u2019s missing if we remain in the area.\u201cWhat do you mean, you\u2019ve never been further south than New York state?!\u201d I\u2019ll admit, there are moments when I think it would be neat to visit one of these much-talked-about all-inclusives, but I read a lot.I feel like I\u2019m moderately well-traveled even if I\u2019ve hardly been anywhere.There are enough online dating commercials to prompt us even to feel like somehow not only are we not in the right place, but we shouldn\u2019t be alone, or we are not with the right person! So, I guess we are being trained to feel deeply unsatisfied.We don\u2019t have the right stuff.We aren\u2019t in the right place.We aren\u2019t with the right person.The present moment doesn\u2019t exist - we are just flowing towards new things, places and people.We\u2019re just all wrong, and if we just buy what they\u2019re selling (and buy it again when the next thing comes out), that\u2019s the ticket to feeling right.I could just let it stream like that, at the mercy of the flow.Born in the seventies, by the time Saturday morning cartoons (now a thing of the past with 24-7 cartoon channels) came along with all of their commercials, I was craving stuff, and thoroughly enjoying that temporary new stuff high when birthdays and Christmas came along.I still love new stuff - even if it\u2019s old, in fact, often, especially if it\u2019s old.How would we feel if a commercial came on like this?\u201cHello - today is October 18th, 2016.Do you have food?Shelter?Clothing?You are on the road to enough.Today, that is probably enough.Now, how about you turn off the television and go outside, and if you can\u2019t go outside, maybe spend some time looking out of the window.Enjoy this last stretch of autumn.\u201d Do we ever yearn for enough?Do we ever feel like we are enough?Maybe we just need to remind ourselves; and maybe each other once in a while, that we feel satisfied with what we have and where we are.Maybe, while \u201cmore\u201d has a thrill to it, a kind of drug of sorts that we jones for (crave), there is something to be said for the gratitude movement, no matter how cheesy it sounds or feels.Recently I heard that what people actually crave isn\u2019t really more, it isn\u2019t really wealth.What they (we) actually want deeply is freedom.Instead of feeling free, maybe as time rushes along, and as the seasons change, what we can allow ourselves to feel, instead of unsatisfied, maybe even embarrassed at our lifestyle in comparison with others, is a sense of freedom.There are freedoms that are earned, freedoms that are given, yet, I guess the most precious one is inside, and is where we liberate ourselves from the rat race, from the expectations, from the commercials, from the pressure, and from keeping up with the Joneses.This brings a whole new meaning to what a Jones is.According to mentalfloss.com, in the early sixties the term having a \u201cjones\u201d was used to refer to a craving - but strictly a craving for the drug heroin.In the late fifties, a code name for the drug had been Mr.Jones.Keeping up with the Joneses is a mythical, unreachable place, and probably much like a drug.Freeing ourselves from the never-ending pursuit of more will likely mean that this day, this season, this moment will be more appreciated.I hope today, you find yourself fed, clothed, and under a roof, warm and if we get really fortunate, I hope you are healthy, share love, have interests, and that this day you are able to feel satisfied, because you just might have enough.If you are reading this and missing any of those basic things, consider calling Moisson Estrie, at 819-562-5840, or Info-Santé at 811 to find out how you can have help to meet your basic needs.Follow The Sherbrooke Record on Facebook and Twitter! 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