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[" 40 cents IE August 9, 1994 Births, deaths .7 Classified .\u2026\u2026.8 COMICS .\u2026\u2026csosvenvesceemccnss 9 Editorial ces 4 Farm, Business .5 Living .\u2026uvossserensenessesers 6 SPOrts .cccervrveccercercennes 10 Townships .eens 3 WEATHER ° TER x PO and Liberals slam od | Qual) EAE WEE Be: ; Nat A à LE Be kn FG \u20ac » wih VA 4999 44 09 coil 13% bb5 LoN TERIANN GILMARTIN N.H.E.SAGE 7 AIDS: Three million infected each year By Daniel Q.Haney YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) \u2014 A record three million people caught the AIDS virus during the past year around the world, and a looming AIDS explosion in Asia could drive the toll far higher, experts said Monday.While the infection rate has levelled off in Western countries, the latest figures portray an epidemic that is raging out of control in much of the world, especially Africa and Asia.\u201cIt is so urgent to act here in Asia before we get an explosion of infection,\u201d said Dr.Michael Merson, head of the World Health Organization\u2019s AIDS program.\u201cWe are running out of time.There is no excuse.\u201d In all, the World Health Organization estimates about 17 million people have been infected with HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS.Three million people were infected last year alone, more than ever before.HARDEST HIT Sub-Saharan Africa is still the part of the world most devastated by AIDS.About 10 million infected people live there.But the virus is now each other as outdated By Eric Siblin The Canadian Press Plus ça change .The Liberals and the Parti Québécois accused each other Monday of being unable to offer real change and of peddling the same old stuff of discredited governments.Premier Daniel Johnson, campaigning in Saguenay-Lac- St-Jean, a hotbed of nationalism, branded the PQ as a party mired in its own past.\u201cThe promises of the Parti Québécois are that of a team which has already been rejected by the people,\u201d he said.Johnson was running interference for the young Liberal candidate in Jonquière, who recently dismissed the PQ as a party of \u201cold people.\u201d The premier downplayed Stéphane Dallaire\u2019s remark as the musings of a 24-year-old politician.Politics, said Johnson, has nothing to do with the age of the politician.But he took Dallaire\u2019s insult and ran with it.WHAT CHANGE?\u201cIt\u2019s a previous government that wants to return to power,\u201d Johnson said of the PQ, adding that 14 of the party\u2019s candidates served under the previous government of former premier Polls don\u2019t tell whole story By Paul Mooney MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Headlines trumpeted the latest Quebec election poll results with a single voice last weekend.The Gap Narrows.Quebec Liberals Surging on PQ.Readers could be forgiven for assuming that Premier Daniel Johnson's Liberals are poised to overtake the Parti Québécois and win a third term in office.But they'd be overlooking what's been called \u201cthe statistical illusion of Quebec politics.\u201d It\u2019s always a mistake to translate raw numbers on voting intentions into seats in a legislature.It\u2019s particularly hazardous in Quebec, pol- Isters warn.The heavy concentration of Liberal support among English and ethnic Quebecers living in pockets in the Montreal area, coupled with a large lead for the PQ among francophone voters would still point to comfortable PQ majority, said Claude Gauthier, vice-president of CROP.A CROP poll released on the weekend gave the Parti Québécois 48 per cent of support compared with 46 per cent for the Liberals.The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus three Decision '94 René Lévesque.\u201cIt can\u2019t be taken seriously when they talk about change.\u201d The PQ condemned Dallai- re\u2019s remark, saying in a statement Monday that such an attitude discriminates on the basis of age and warrants an apology.PQ Leader Jacques Parizeau was also talking about change Monday \u2014 about the Liberals\u2019 inability to provide any.Campaigning on Quebec's Lower North Shore, Parizeau visited a PCB storage site that stands as a toxic reminder to the 1988 environmental disaster at St-Basile-le-Grand, near Montreal.\u201cFive years later nothing has changed,\u201d said Parizeau, referring to the waste still remai- , ning in storage from the infamous fire that forced some 3,500 residents to flee their homes in August 1988.Liberal inaction on the dossier is a graphic reminder of the| government's immobility, the separatist leader said as he walked past containers filled with about 1,000 tonnes of PCBs.\u201cThe government hasn\u2019t decided on anything.\u201d A PQ government would move quickly to destroy all PCB\u2019 waste in the province, Parizeau said.The PQ leader avoided mention of sovereignty Monday after stating on the weekend that his party will concentrate first on providing good gover- niment if it wins the Sept.12 election.Achieving separation will come later, he added.A recent CROP poll suggested a majority of Quebecers would reject sovereignty in a referendum.Also on Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister André Ouellet likened the separatist leaders to a slap-stick comedy team.\u201cI look at them and it makes me think of Laurel and Hardy \u2014 two beautiful buffoons,\u201d Ouellet said in Quebec City.in a substantial majority because the party\u2019s ral map.support is spread broadly across Quebec\u2019s electo- With that level of support, the PQ would have wound up with about 80 seats in the 125-seat legislature had the vote been taken a week ago, Gauthier said.\u201cEven if the Liberals had 48 per cent and the PQ 46, I can almost guarantee you it would translate into a PQ majority government,\u201d he points to win.\u201d said.\u201cThe Liberals need a lead of four to five Even that might not be enough.In the 1966 Quebec election, the Liberals won 47 per cent of the popular vote and the Union Nationale 41 per cent.But the Union Nationale, government.election.percentage points, 19 times in 20.That level of PQ support would have resulted led by Daniel Johnson Sr., won a majority The danger of predicting seats based on popular support was underscored in last fall's federal The Tories had roughly the same level of popular support as the NDP but won just two seats compared with the New Democrats\u2019 nine, The Reform Party was only slightly higher in the popular vote, but won 52 seats.See POLLS: page 2 spreading fastest in Asia, and many fear a sweeping epidemic.Merson outlined the global epidemic at the 10th International Conference on AIDS, which is being held for the first time in Asia.So far, HIV in Asia is largely confined to India, Burma and Thailand, although it has started to appear in Vietnam and Cambodia.In these countries, it has spread mostly through prostitutes and drug addicts.In Thailand, however, the virus has moved into the general population.ARID & Please see page 3 for more.The WHO calculates that setting up basic AIDS prevention programs in Asia would cost between $750 million and $1.5 billion US.These programs might prevent approximately five million new infections by the turn of the century.The strategies to prevent a vast AIDS epidemic in Asia are the same ones that have been worked elsewhere \u2014 the use of condoms and treating venereal diseases, which make the virus spread much easier.DENIAL Merson said a major impediment is the unwillingness of Matthew, Lydia and Sally Smith pose in front of the United Church in Ulverton, where services are held but twice a year.The building, neglected for years, was due for a facelift, so members of the community are bringing their paint brushes and pitching in to add a little sparkle to the one of the village\u2019s oldest structures.qd) agit fuRdifi some governments to admit that AIDS is a problem.\u201cDenial is as strong in this region (Asia) as it\u2019s been anywhere else in the world,\u201d Merson said.Among other reports at the meeting Monday: \u2014A variation of HIV called subtype O that so far has only been seen in parts of West Central Africa.Because it is so genetically different, officials of the U.S.Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said some, but not all, of the tests use to screen for AIDS in the United States fail to detect it.RECORD: GRANT SIMEON Israel, Jordan open first link between two countries AQABA, Jordan (AP) \u2014 In a ceremony brimming with hope, Israel and Jordan today opened the first road link between the two once-warring countries, a harbinger of what their leaders hope will be a broader peace.Speaking in Hebrew \u2014 only one remarkable development here just north of the Red Sea where minefields were cleared up to the last minute \u2014 Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan quoted from the Bible, saying the events were \u201cturning the valley of troubles into a gate of hope.\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the first Israeli head of government to officially set foot on Jordanian soil, and U.SD.State Secretary Warren Christopher, shared the rostrum with Hassan as some 1,000 Israelis and Jordanians sat together in wooden bleachers.They wore white base- Taxpayers may be hit with $300 million bill ball caps to protect them from the scorching heat.\u201cThis is the first step on a long journey,\u201d Rabin said.\u201cTo prevent loss and sorrow we cannot afford to wait one day longer.\u201d , SHOOK HANDS A dozen Jordanian and Israeli war veterans shook hands and exchanged gifts.Two young girls, Zora Ginzburg, 10, a Kibbutz child, and Nancy Tayan, 12, of Aqaba, presented shears on velvet pillows for Rabin and Hassan to cut the white ceremonial ribbon.The border opening, which cannot be used by Israelis and Jordanians until there is a formal peace treaty, is one byproduct of the war-no-more agreement King Hussein and Rabin signed two weeks ago at the White House in Washington.Christopher, noting that the crossing connects the sun- kissed resorts of Aqaba and Eilat, said this \u201chas been a place of longing, where Israelis and Jordanians could stand on the beaches and see each other, but not know each other.\u201d There was a huge sense of euphoria on the Israeli side, with virtually the entire government present and flags from both countries raised in the hot desert air.Jordanians were more subdued.King Hussein did not attend, although he was to host a lunch for Rabin and four other Israeli leaders afterward.The country also did not raise Israeli flags.OPPOSITION CONTINUES Jordanian opposition groups, including Islamic fundamenta- See ISRAEL: page 2 Auditor: Atomic energy cleanup costs not budgeted By Gord McIntosh OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Taxpayers may one day be burned with hundreds of millions in nuclear liability costs because Atomic Energy Canada Ltd.hasn't accounted for cleaning up its decommissioned reactors, warns Auditor General Denis Desautels.For a third year in a row, Desautels has qualified his certification of the AECL annual report with a rebuke of the money-losing Crown corporation\u2019s accounting practices.Without-yearly provisions for future cleanup of old reactors, AECL\u2019s balance sheet doesn\u2019t fully measure up to generally accepted accounting principles, Desautels said in comments attached to the corporation\u2019s latest report.AECL has acknowledged Canada will face a bill in the next century of $200 million to $300 million to clean up decommissioned reactors.But it says it is too early to come up with an amount precise enough to budget on financial statements.TREASURY PAYS In addition, such costs have traditionally been borne by the federal treasury \u2014 not AECL \u2014 with some of the expense offset by sale of salvagable assets at the reactor site.\u2014 AECL prefers to leave things that way.\u201cManagement regrets that the corporation\u2019s auditor disagrees that this is the appropriate accounting approach in the circumstances,\u201d AECL said in its report for 1993-94.But Desautels said in his comments, included in the report, that AECL\u2019s full financial position is not spelled out without provision for those costs.Besides, he said, it is a matter of prudent accounting.\u201cGenerally accepted accounting principles require that these costs be recognized in a rational and systematic manner over the estimated useful lives of the .facilities,\u201d Desautels wrote.Without determination of liability costs, Desautels said he was unable to say what adjustment is necessary to AECL expenses, liabilities and * deficit.The corporation reported an operating profit of $15 million in 1994, but a net loss of $138.7 million after extraordinary items such as restructuring costs and writeoff of facilties.That left AECL with a consolidated deficit of $155.5 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1994.The consolidated deficit stood at $16.7 million a year earlier. 2\u2014The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994 \u2018Canadian doctors treats Rwandan patients with AIDS By Gloria Galloway GOMA, Zaire (CP) \u2014 Leslie \u2026.Shanks had just finished \u2018\u2018\u2019explaining that she always wears gloves to protect herself from AIDS.Now, her finger was bleeding.An intravenous needle under * a blanket in the dysentery hos- ital where she works had *-< penetrated the white rubber - glove.* \u201cI hate it when that hap- { pens,\u201d the young doctor said, * \u2018holding out the small cut for - another doctor to examine.More than 30 per cent of patients in this tent hospital !' that is staked to a piece of rock in the middle of Katale refugee camp, 60 kilometres north of Goma, are presumed to be HIV positive 0 a.sus : most likely to fall prey to dysen- :1tery, explained Dr.Dirven :: Perian of the Netherlands.:! Shanks tended to her finger and returned to her patients.:; An unusually high number \u2018died Sunday and she didn\u2019t eee 2.::+ The hospital is in the midst i+: 0f a sea of squalor and disease.12: Cholera, dysentery and malnu- 1+: }rition have killed tens of thou- '::8ands at refugee camps in the last three weeks.11! Doctors Without Borders, \u201cthe aid agency that runs the \u2018+ Hospital, does the best it can + : with the materials at hand but : everything is in short supply.Crisis :: By Tom Blackwell 1:71 TORONTO (CP) \u2014 It happe- ::med with the O.J.Simpson sto- :: y and the Boys of St.Vincent \u2018television drama.More of the \u2018Same is expected when Paul : Bernardo\u2019s murder trial begins.Some rape-crisis centres are Woman with legionnaires\u2019 disease di OSHAWA, Ont.(CP) \u2014 A woman diagnosed with legion- .naires\u2019 disease last week has ++\u2019 died in hospital.*-*\u2018\u2019\u2019 Lillan MeKendrie, 70, of Oshawa, died early Saturday at Oshawa General Hospital, after being diagnosed with the disease the day before.\u201cWe have no reason to believe there are any more cases at the hospital,\u201d said hospital Administrator Angela Cooper.:* McKendrie had been in hospital with other medical problems when Friday afternoon tests showed she had contrac- .ted the disease.The hospital \u201cISRAEL: \u201cWe have just our hands and our minds and our stethesco- pes,\u201d said Perian.There is no lab and sometimes there is no medicine.The patients lie within a hands-width of each other on blankets or mats that have been placed on a tarp.Under the tarp is rock.\u201cIt\u2019s horrible to walk on this stuff,\u201d said Shanks a 31-year- old Queen\u2019s University graduate from Barrie, Ont.\u201cLying on it is worse.\u201d The heat in the tent is oppressive and there is a lingering smell from diarrhea.Intravenous bottles hang from strings above the patients\u2019 heads and there are pools of human waste that nobody has had the time to clean up.Doctors By Gilles Trequesser MUGUNGA, Zaire (Reuter) \u2014 À virulent strain of dysentery is quickly spreading among Rwandan refugees in Zaire, threatening to push the cost of saving lives beyond the means of relief organizations, doctors say.Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu, speaking in Rwanda\u2019s capital Kigali Monday, said his country is broke and can\u2019t begin to recover until an estimated two million refugees return to rebuild the economy.Dysentery, a contagious intestinal disease characterized by bloody diarrhea, is pro- predicting a surge of distress calls as evidence from Bernardo\u2019s trial prompts painful memories among sexual assault victims.\u201cI certainly think there would be an impact on the number of calls we receive and did not know if the disease directly caused her death.The hospital has contacted the Durham Region health department and steps are being taken to investigate the case, said Cooper, adding that other patients at the hospital are being monitored as a precaution.Marlene Griffiths, McKen- drie\u2019s daughter, said her mother was in hospital earlier this summer to help control seizures.McKendrie was released and readmitted July 31, Grif- fiths said.SECOND OUTBREAK This is the second reported Continued from page one lists, handed the government a 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Agreement No.0479675, within a month of publications: .60¢ per \u2019 Member of (amc) Canadian Press + Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation DYSENTRY Babies watching their mothers in the throes off dysentery crawl about the tarp and then suck on their fingers.But at least there is electricity now, said Shanks.Until Sunday night nurses were changing IVs by flashlights and kerosene lamps.\u201cThis is only week one,\u201d said Shanks, grinning.\u201cIt\u2019s been going very slowly.\u201d Brought in from Bosnia to help with the Rwandan refugee crisis, Shanks is a veteran of this sort of mission.But Bosnia was luxurious compared to Goma.\u201cIt\u2019s not going away.This problem is getting worse.\u201d Watching people die because of a lack of facilities is very frustrating, said Shanks.\u201cSome people are alone and you convince yourself mabye its better that way.But some people have families waiting for them.That\u2019s particularly sad.\u201d And most of the hospital staff have their own diseases to contend with.\u201cEveryone is sick,\u201d said Shanks of the doctors and nurses she works with.\u201cEverbody has coughs and diarrhea and the mosquitoes are coming so next we'll all have malaria.\u201d MEDIEVAL CONDITIONS But the plight of the refugees keeps them working under these dangerous and medieval conditions.Three days ago a mother brought in her 17-year-old daughter.The girl was barely clinging to life.She had dysentery, said Shanks, but there was probably some neurological problem compounding her illness.On Monday morning she was still there and so was her mother.\u201cShe\u2019s still alive,\u201d said Shanks.\u201cShe\u2019s not much better but she\u2019s hanging in there.\u201d Everbody in this hospital has seen tragedy and Shanks says she marvels at the ability of the people to rise above the suffering.\u201cOne distinguished-looking man who looks after the tents for us came in four hours late one day,\u201d she said.\u201cHe said \u2018I'm sorry I'm late but my daughter > » died this morning.The death toll has dropped now but dysentery is more insidious than cholera.It\u2019s harder to cure and it takes longer for patients to get well enough to move on.That means the hospital must admit more people every day than it discharges and the already crowded conditions are becoming less and less tolerable.With so much disease in such a confined space there is a strong possiblity Shanks and her doctor colleagues will get cholera or dysentery themselves.But she is prepared for that eventuality.\u201cYou just take a day off,\u201d said Shanks.\u201cThen come back the next morning.\u201d fear rising cost of mercy mission ving resistant to cheaper antibiotics being used in the refugee camps.It has replaced cholera as the main killer of Rwandans in eastern Zaire.\u201cAntibiotics we use still seem efficient but the bacteria (carrying dysentery) has quickly developed other levels of resistance and we have to resort to more sophisticated, and more expensive medicine,\u201d said Dr.Michel Piperno of Doctors of the World at Mugunga camp.INEFFECTIVE \u201cYou can be using an antibiotic one day and three days later it can prove completely useless,\u201d said Col.François Merou- ze, head of the French military the kind of support women are asking for,\u201d said Nadene Elliott of the Metro Toronto Rape- Crisis Centre.\u201cTo have to go through this and hear the stories.of what took place, that will trigger some reaction in women who outbreak of legionnaires\u2019 disease in Durham Region recently.A 61-year-old patient at Ajax-Pickering Hospital, who died of cancer in June, also had the illness.The disease is contracted by inhaling tiny water droplets from an infected source.Symptoms include high fever, coughing, stomach pains and diarrhea.medical emergency unit operating at Goma airport.He said the drug most commonly used by health workers in the disease-plagued camps around Goma costs about the equivalent of $18 Cdn a person for a five-day treatment.New drugs could cost between $48 to $70 a dose, he said.Officials of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees say at least 25,000 people have died during the last three weeks in the Goma area from malnutrition, dehydration, cholera, dysentery and other diseases.UNHCR doctors fear 300,000 are survivors of violence.\u201d There\u2019s no way of saying exactly how much fall-out the trial, expected to start late this fall, will have on crisis lines, said Vilma Rossi of the sexual assault centre in Hamilton.But she said news about O.J.The largest outbreak of legionnaires\u2019 disease in Ontario this year occurred at a nursing home in Burlington, Ont., in July.Five cases were confirmed and 17 others were suspected.Four of the probable cases were chronically ill patients who died in the home, although none of the deaths has been directly linked to the disease.es wo Re th more people might contract dysentery, an extremely virulent disease transmitted through contaminated food and water as well as direct contact.The World Health Organization has estimated that up to one-third of the population could be infected with dysentery.LINGERING DYSENTRY Unlike a cholera epidemic, which lasts on average six weeks, dysentery could linger far longer, Merouze said.\u201cIt won\u2019t be immediately spectacular,\u201d he predicted.\u201cYou won't have 25,000 deaths in four weeks but it could take months, Simpson, the former football star charged in the killings of his ex-wife and her male friend, prompted many calls.So did initial reports about the sex slayings of schoolgirls Kristen French, 15, in 1992 and Leslie Mahaffy, 14, a year earlier.Bernardo has pleaded not guilty to charges of abducting, sexually assaulting and murde- png the two teenagers.Events such as his trial can crack the protective wall that victims of violence build around them to deal with their past, Rossi said.\u201cThey have experienced the world as an unsafe place and they have been able to cope with the reality,\u201d she said.\u201cThen something happens out there that .breaks into their consciousness.\u201d even years.\u201d But Rwandan refugees now plagued by intense bouts of vomiting and diarrhea could face an even worse affliction \u2014 typhus.At Mugunga, where an estimated 300,000 people are stranded, including thousands of soldiers of the defeated Hutu government, French military medics began spraying tents and patients with disinfectant.Piperno said the spraying was to kill body lice but did not rule out isolated cases of typhus, which causes fever, delirium and rashes.\u201cWe remain vigilant regarding typhus,\u201d Piperno said.lines expect calls when Bernardo trial begins Legal motions in the Bernardo case are expected to stretch through September and October.The jury will be picked and begin hearing evidence some time after that.Like other high-profile cases of violence against women, it will probably even have an impact on the case load of Vancouver\u2019s rape crisis centre, said agency spokeswoman Zara Suleman.pe \u201cIt sort of increases the fear .that women aren\u2019t safe anymore,\u201d she said.Some crisis centres were \u201c- flooded\u201d with calls from male sex abuse victims during the broadcast of the Boys of St.Vincent, a CBC-TV mini-series about sex abuse at a boys\u2019 school.Drapeau\u2019s Civic Party dies at 35 MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 The 35-year-old municipal party that gave Montreal its underground subway system, Expo 67, the Olympic Stadium and $3.5 billion worth of Olympic debt died Monday.But nobody seemed to mourn, except the man at the back of the small east-end hotel room who rose to ask why the Civic Party couldn\u2019t keep its name as it officially merged with the fledgling Montrealers\u2019 Party.Jerome Choquette, leader of the Montrealers\u2019 Party, quickly dismissed the suggestion, saying voters would be too confused by hyphenated party names.The once-powerful Civic Party, headed by former mayor Jean Drapeau, ruled Montreal between 1960 and 1986 but had long since become a doddering, debt-ridden shadow of its former self.Drapeau attracted international attention and throngs of reporters and photographers when he broke down crying during a news conference to announce his retirement from public office in June 1986.But with only four candidates and nobody willing to run for mayor in the Nov.6 municipal election, the party had no choice but to merge with the Montrealers\u2019 Party, interim president Frank Venneri said Monday.\u201cThe past eight years have been difficult for the party, which could not find an able leader to bring it together,\u201d Venneri said.\u201cThe best alternative was to join forces with a party that shares our ideals and commitments.\u201d Demonstration disrupts Johnson campaign JONQUIERE (CP) \u2014 Between 60 and 75 angry construction workers staged a noisy demonstration and tried to crash a Liberal meeting where Premier Daniel Johnson was about to speak Monday night, police said.Blows were exchanged between police and demonstrators, according to initial reports, but Andre Deschenes of the municipal police force in Jon- quière said that was not the case.Nobody was injured and the crowd at the local convention centre eventually dispersed, he added.The demonstrators were protesting the adoption last December of a law deregulating POLLS: the residential sector of the construction industry.Workers argue the law has led to job losses.In his speech, Johnson made no reference to the protest.Jonquière is located in the staunchly nationalist Sague- nay region about 200 kilometres north of Quebec City.Continued from page one In Quebec, the latest poll results suggested there was still a 17-point gap between support for the PQ and Liberals among French-speaking voters; 49 per cent of francophones questioned said they would vote PQ and 32 per cent said they'd support the Liberals.Among non-francophones, however, an overwhelming 80 per cent said they'd vote Libe- Doonesbury Cloudy today with a 70 per cent chance of showers and risk of thundershowers in the afternoon.On Wednesday, a 40 per cent chance of showers with a low of 13 and a high near 20.\u2014 I JUST DONT GET JT; RAY, EVERY CLOWN AND HIS MOTHER HAS CASHED INON OJ.\u2014 WHY NOTME?ral and just seven per cent would opt for the PQ.\u201cLiberal support is too concentrated in one area,\u201d Gauthier said.The Liberals were ahead 44 per cent to 38 per cent in the greater Montreal area, but the PQ was poised to win all the ridings in and around Montreal with a francophone majority \u2014 the east end of the city, the South Shore and the city of Laval, the CROP pollster added.BY GARRY TRUDEAU mp mam 1 WRG TT CIN APCE CS rr a a ES DEEE RAT Rp a ee = wd ame ee The Townships The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994\u20143 Record Farmers run to offer Townshippers Equality alternative Keenan and Langeveld mix politics and farming By Dwane Wilkin RICHMOND \u2014 When it comes to competitions, Equality party candidate Dennis Keenan is no rookie, but provincial politics still takes a backseat to horse shows and agricultural fairs.Like most of the party\u2019s candidates in the Eastern Townships, the 70-year-old-dairy farmer from Richmond has never stumped for political office.With the election just a little more than a month away, Keenan and his colleague Simon Langeveld in neighboring Johnson riding are more interested in getting their hay baled and into the barn while the weather is dry than in launching a full-scale, door-to- door political campaign.Running as a candidate for the staunchly pro-federalist Equality party is Keenan's way of giving local voters a chance to register their complaint with the ruling Liberal government\u2019s education and language policies.\u201cIf you're going to defend what you believe in, you've got to take a stand,\u201d says Keenan.FAIRS AND POLITICS But even county fairs are not safe from election.While showing his ponies last weekend in the village of St.Agapit, southwest of Quebec City, Keenan found himself shaking the hand of the Parti Québécois candidate for Lobtiniére riding.Keenan says small talk quickly bumped to a halt when he introduced himself as the Equality candidate from Richmond.\u201cWe didn\u2019t visit too long,\u201d Keenan recalls wryly.Dismissed as a fringe party by most political observers in the mainstream media, and operating on a shoestring budget, the -*People \u2018just want to help each other\u2019 Equality party is one of nearly two dozen small parties fighting uphill battles in the province to convince voters that there are valid alternatives to the ruling Liberal party and the poll- leading Parti Québécois.For the four Townships candidates, the campaign will likely not be no more complicated than stuffing rural mailboxes with party literature and sticking up posters.There is a certain practicality in this that other working farmers can no doubt appreciate: you can\u2019t milk cows and shake hands at the same time.CHANCES GROWING Each day the Liberal party gains in the polls, local Equality candidates say their chances of forming an effective, vocal opposition in the next government grow stronger.As long as the PQ doesn\u2019t form a majority government, the Equality party says elected members would be able to keep an eye on government policies affecting English- speaking communities.Among other things, Equality would like changes to provincial education legislation which restricts access to English schools.The party also wants to ensure that a provincial government never again imposes restrictions on freedom of expression such as the Liberals did by invoking French-only sign laws.Dennis Keenan wants people to stand up for what they believe in.\u201cSome people say the English don\u2019t have too much say in the province,\u201d says Keenan.\u201cBut if they pulled together, they'd have a lot of say.I'd like to get as many votes as possible.\u201d Equality\u2019s candidate for nearby Johnson riding, Simon Lange- veld, is also cautiously optimistic.He concedes that Equality\u2019s chances of electing candidates from the Townships are pretty slim, but he believes strongly in giving voters the chance to vote according to principles.DISENCHANTED VOTERS \u201cI don\u2019t think we are going to get votes just from the anglo community,\u201d says Langeveld.\u201cI think we're going to get a lot of RECORD: GRANT SIMEON 7s votes from francophones.I would like to think I could convince some lukewarm péquistes to vote for the Equality party.\u201d The ideal scenario for Equality, says Langeveld, would be to win seats in opposition to a minority Liberal government.He admits the party would be virtually powerless if it were to send a handful of members to sit in a majority PQ government.\u201cIf it happens that I'm elected, I'l do my best to represent, the people according to the principles of the party,\u201d says Langeveld.\u201cBut I'm not looking forward to five years of frustration in Quebec City.I'm a dairy farmer.\u201d Simon Langeveld thinks \u2018the Equality p party could attract voters from.outside the English-speaking community.Rwandan relief donations come flowing in at Caritas By Stephen Heckbert SHERBROOKE \u2014 Caritas has already raised $55,000 for disaster-relief efforts in Rwanda, but the Sherbrooke director of the international organization says more money just keeps coming in.Father Desève Cormier said the money has been raised solely through voluntary contributions made by people responding to newspaper stories about the fun- draising effort.\u201cPeople have developed the habit of giving to us when a major disaster strikes,\u201d Cormier said.\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t surprise me if the total reached over $100,000.\u201d Father Cormier said the local chapter sends all funds raised directly to Caritas International\u2019s main office in Rome.From there the funds are distributed according to the needs and abilities of organizations working there.\u201cWe're a Catholic church organization that operates wholly independent of the church, but there are some places we can\u2019t go, so we help fund the Red Cross or Oxfam or whatever organization has an operation there.\u201d Caritas Sherbrooke has been working locally for 35 years.Cormier said religious affiliation has never played a part in decisions.HELPING THE NEEDY \u201cNeed is the common denominator,\u201d he said.\u201cWe don\u2019t help individuals, but any community group that needs us we try to help.\u201d The money raised for Rwandan relief has come from a variety of sources.\u201cThe prisoners from the local jail sent a cheque for $200, while the students at a school in Brompton sent $400,\u201d Cormier said.\u201cAnd the money raised here is being combined with money raised in Somalia.Even after all their troubles, Somalia is helping Rwanda now.\u201d And $650 was raised through the sale of photos by local photographer Jacques Darche.Over 450 donations have already been received at Caritas Sherbrooke, including 42 received in the mail Monday.Cormier said that total made Monday the busiest day yet.\u201cAnd people keep bringing donations in,\u201d he said.\u201cPeople know we don\u2019t keep any of the money raised, so everything they donate goes to where it's needed.\u201d Cormier said donations are different now.\u201cSome people are giving more than ever,\u201d he said.\u201cWe got a $4,000 donation from someone last week, while other people are still giving more than they can afford to.Older people seem to be more conscious of their donations.\u201d NO GOAL There\u2019s no specific goal set for the campaign.Donations will stop when they stop, Cormier said.\u201cWe rely on the media to get the message out,\u201d he said.\u201cPeople want to do their part, but the media has to help them find us.\u201d Caritas raised $125,000 for Ethopian famine relief in 1989, and over the years the charity has helped 30 other organizations get up and running.All of this while running on a budget of $250,000 of which 90 per cent comes from private donations and an annual Good Friday bread sale.Father Cormier said that\u2019s the way he likes it.\u201cWe keep our hands free because our grant from the government was $23,000,\u201d he said.\u201cWe don\u2019t have to ask government first before we do something.\u201d Other programs currently underway include the volunteer centre, the refugee-welcoming centre, and the Aube-Lumiére hospice.\u201cPeople just want to help each other, and we want to help them do that,\u201d Cormier said.\u201cThat\u2019s what being a Christian community is all about.\u201d 5 3 Lin Father Desève Corm ous People just want to help each other.\u2019 RN Community pitches in to preserve Ulverton landmark Carol Ann McElrea is is helping coordinate the restoration of the Ulverton United Church.LS ; RECORD! GRANT SIMEON.\u2018We\u2019ve waited too long as it is\u2019 ULVERTON (DW) \u2014 Ulver- ton residents are pooling their resources and donating their time on weekends to help bring a 152-year-old architectural landmark back to life.It\u2019s been more than a decade since the United Church at the heart of this tiny village north of Richmond was used for regular Sunday services, and the years have taken their toll.Paint on the outside walls has dried and curled under the weather leaving broad patches of wood exposed to the elements.Inside, successive long cold winters have opened deep cracks in the plaster ceiling.Worried that the building might deteriorate beyond repair, a number of people in the community have begun volunteering their time to help spruce up this important part of Ulverton history.\u201cIt had to be done,\u201d said Carol Ann McElrea, who lives next door to the church.\u201cWe've waited too long as it is.\u201d The main body of the church was built in 1842 by a Methodist congregation on land donated to the community by Benjamin Reed, one of the early settlers in the area.A man named John Hariman was in charge of construction, according to resident Mary Mace.John Boreland was the Ulverton congregation\u2019s first minister.BELFRY PEELING The belfry in front of the church was added later and, for some mysterious reason, appears to have suffered the most from the effects of age.Earlier this summer someone in the community donated scaffolding so that work on the exterior of the building could be started.A local carpenter has already replaced some of the rotten clapboards, and the roof was covered with a badly-needed coat of paint a couple of weeks ago.The municipality of Ulverton has contributed some money for materials, such as paint, and an.McElrea says people have been appearing on the weekends with scrapers in their hands to prepare the clapboard for painting: \u201cThe community just got involved,\u201d said McElrea, adding that \u201cBasically, it\u2019s just the exfe- rior we want to finish this suin- mer, but the inside will have:to be done, too, sooner or later.\u201d \u201cIf anybody wants to help with the painting, we're going to organize a work bee within the ndxt few weeks.\u201d .In the meantime, anybojly who\u2019s been looking for a charice to try out that new caulking gun is welcome to drop by and re-sèal the church\u2019s stained- glass windows.Bilingual, nondenominational services are still held in the church twice a year \u2014 once in the spring, and once: in the fall.Anyone wishing to donate some time on the project can call McElrea at 826-3539, or Pauline Smith, at 826-3153.yea 4\u2014The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994 the The Voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 Editorial A love af-fair : With two of the Valley\u2019s three agricultural exhibitions (Ormstown and Hun- tingdon) now over for this year, it might be timely to look at just how hard it is produce a down-home, old-fashioned country fair in today\u2019s world.First and foremost, government funding for such events has been slashed.It used to be that there were substantial grants available for prizes in the livestock and other classes, money which governments considered well-spent as an incentive to local farmers to produce and display their quality cattle and produce.: Now, with agricultural matters assuming a rather lower national profile than they used to when a much greater percn- tage of the population lived outside the cities, prize money offered at the fairs aften doesn\u2019t even cover an exhibitor\u2019s expenses.That\u2019s if you win \u2014 and as we all known, there\u2019s only one winner per class.The costs of maintaining existing fairground facilities, let alone modernizing or adding new attractions, have become prohibitive.Much of the work is now done by volunteers, without whom fairs such as Huntingdon would soon cease to exist.And, while local people mostly continue to patronize their fairs in much the same way they always have, taking in a meal, watching the horse show, visiting with friends in the cattle barns, it\u2019s becoming ever harder to attract spectators from the city, many of whom have no connection at all with the agricultural way of life.Such people are used to visiting slick commerical amusement facilities, geared to the TV generation.Instead of a country fair, these folks often head for a theme park or other such place, where they are willing to pay top dollar for a pre-defined menu of specialized activities.Now we have nothing at all against theme parks.They help attract people to the area, they are in general well-run, and they come through on their promises of family fun.But, like fast-food restaurants and motel chains, they clone themselves across the continent, so it doesn\u2019t really matter where you are \u2014 you can nearly always find a watere park or a children\u2019s fantasy area very similar to the one you may have visited 2000 km away.Our fairs are not like this.Each one has its own specialities, its own flavor.Huntingdon Fair\u2019s pet show and mud bogg are uniquely its own.Ormstown Fair on a Friday is not the same as Orms- town Fair on a Sunday.Havelock Fair condenses the essence of the small fair into a single day.And each of these fairs varies from year to year, depending on weather, crops, or just plain happenstance.We love our fairs.The volunteers and other workers who struggle to keep them going under adverse conditions deserve our respect and our thanks.If we were to lose any of our local exhibitions, the Valley would lose an irreplaceable part of its history and its identity.JUDITH TAYLOR (Guest editorialist Judy Taylor is editor of the Huntington Gleaner.) - But what qualifications does he have?An editorial in the Island Farmer, a Prince Edward Island weekly, wonders about the recent appointment of Ray Protti as the federal deputy agriculture minister: His last position was about as far removed from farm issues as you can get.He was the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service \u2014 CSIS \u2014 our\u2018own version of the CIA, FBI, MI6 and Secret Service, all rolled into one.So what qualifications has Mr.Ray Protti got that make him just the right person for the top position (non-political) in the federal Agriculture Department?.Its hard to tell by looking at his employment history, but maybe he learned something as our top spy guy.Maybe he\u2019s a whiz at keeping secrets, covering things up or making things appear one way when the reality is something quite different.Séunds about right for a senior Agriculture Canada bureaucrat.From What Canada Thinks, a regular feature of The Canadian Press 4 Letters to the Editor Chronicling Canada Post While at Canada Post for over ten years as an Inside Worker and then as an Outside Sales Representative, I have decided to write a book on my experiences.A book that will inform the Canadian public about this Crown Corporation.We will look at its history, its products/services, its strengths, its weaknesses, its highs and its lows.I would appreciate your help by asking your readers, business or private customers, current or former employees, to write me with any interesting stories they may have had when dealing with Canada Post.These occurances may have been good or bad, happy or sad.But it will definately provide an opportunity to voice any comments or suggestions your readers may have.Stories can be sent with or without attached names.Please write me at: Dale Dor- sett, 17962 Shannon Place, Clo- verdale, B.C., V3S 1HS6.Sincerely yours DALE DORSETT A bird in It defies logic that any group whose sanity has not wandered, could be so naive as to deliberately plan and promote the destruction of its country and ultimately, itself.The closest analogy that comes to mind is the ungrateful attitude of a certain species of female spider who oddly, after having enjoyed being royally serviced, eats her lover.This leads to the happy fact that Canada is regarded globally as \u201cthe best country in the world to live in\u201d.But unhappily, if the separatist spider is not suppressed now, a once- in-a-lifetime \u201crare gift\u201d to a nation, Vy 2 AGE y HA, 4 7 \u201c4 7 P ag ds 2: bay Wy iter AG94.SY , Wr 7 NE Ge Be) 17777716 v4 MI 4 SANS 2 % a 7 IN Ari RN) IN a x SONY So] Sa ed D) SN A SN es Fe the hand may result in \u201cparadise-lost\u201d.Should such a catastrophy occur, we must brace ourselves to face an army of finger-pointing grandchildren whom we failed.We can but hope, when the province of Quebec's French, English and neo-Canadians go to the polls on September 12, they will blot out those perennial pie-in-the-sky promises and recall the wise old adage that reminds us \u2014 \u201ca bird in the hand is worth two in the bush\u201d.Sincerely, LEN MOSS-GINGRAS Lennoxville Such a SUCCESS Dear Mr.Bury, The members and parents of the Hatley branch of the Quebec Young Farmers wish to extend their appreciation to all those who made the 19th Annual Provincial Calf Rally, held at the Ayer\u2019s Cliff fairgrounds, July 7-10th, 1994, such a success.Special thanks go out to the Quebec Young Farmers\u2019 Provincial Federation staff, two very exceptional directors of the Ayer\u2019s Cliff Fair Board, the Lennoxville Research Station of Agriculture and Agri- food Canada for their display, our numerous sponsors, host families, judges, ring masters, M.C., security person, and the many other volunteers who brought in animals for the judging competitions, held animals for the participants to judge, acted as group leaders, and scored cards.Thanks also to the Record for their coverage and for printing the results of the Rally.Yours truly, SEAN STUART President Hatley QYF PQ campaign gets quick MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 The Parti Québécois has brought its election campaign in for a quick tune-up after two weeks of rough performance.Good government is in the front seat, separation firmly ensconced in the back.Political spokesmen and analysts say the repositioning is needed, if the PQ is to regain control of its campaign agenda.A top adviser to PQ Leader Jacques Parizeau confirmed the shift in strategy Monday and blamed media fascination with separation for sidetracking the party's good government message to this point.\u201cThere is an effort to get that part of our message .out to the people a bit more,\u201d Hubert Thibault, Parizeau\u2019s chief of staff, said in an interview.\u201cThe principal concern of the people is jobs.\u201cThat\u2019s the central issue of the campaign.The election is not a referendum.It\u2019s to choose a government.\u201d CP News Analysis By Don Macdonald Parizeau signalled the shift in campaign strategy on the weekend, saying his party will focus on providing good government first and achieving separation later.\u201cThis election is, first of all, a choice of a government and after we'll decide on sovereignty,\u201d Pari- zeau said at a major rally in Joliette on Sunday.The PQ\u2019s campaign \u2014 and campaign coverage \u2014 has been dominated so far by the independence question, with Parizeau making the benefits of separation a major theme in his speeches.Journalists have zeroed in on PQ plans to prepare for separation before a referendum \u2014 and statements by Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard that suggested he was uneasy about that part of the platform.Reports of a rift helped Premier Daniel Johnson who has been trying to turn the Sept.12 election into a referendum on separation.The PQ moved to refocus its campaign after the release of a poll that suggested the Liberal party had cut into its lead.The poll also reaffirmed that Quebecers are much more concerned about jobs and the economic situation than they are about the political status of the province.GOOD POLITICS Political analysts said that the PQ\u2019s campaign realignment is just tune-up good politics.\u201cWhat's clear is that Quebecers want first and foremost is a good government.They want to change governments,\u201d said pollster Jean- Marc Léger.\u201cThe PQ has to assure that the debate is on the record of the (Liberal) government.\u201cThe campaign\u2019s agenda so far has turned around the concept of separation or sovereignty and that\u2019s the victory of Liberals up to this point.\u201d Political scientist Pierre Fournier said Johnson's constant harping on the dangers of separation could backfire in the later stages of the campaign.\u201cThere is no one who seriously thinks that the PQ is going to achieve sovereignty without a referendum,\u201d Fournier said.\u201cSo Johnson has to do more than just talk about separation.He has to know when to stop too.\u201d La Bolduc legacy By Rob Bull NEWPORT, Que.(CP) \u2014 Mary Travers may have left the Gaspé 87 years ago but she\u2019s back in the hearts of many Gaspesiens.People in her hometown hope the allure of the woman who became a Québécois stage legend as La Bolduc will help them survive the collapse of the cod fishery.Travers, one of French Canada\u2019s first stars, is the focus of a new museum on the rugged southeast tip of the peninsula.A week-long festival and a new Canada Post stamp will mark the occasion in early August.\u201cIt\u2019s terribly unfortunate that we can\u2019t depend on fishing anymore,\u201d says Solange Fullum, the museum's executive director.\u201cNow, we really need her.\u201d In the grim 1930s, La Bolduc\u2019s recordings were standards in many working-class homes.Her wry, home-made lyrics and lilting, toe- tapping tunes helped sustain Quebec\u2019s poor through the Depression and inspired later generations of chansonniers.INSTITUTION When she died in 1941, she had become a well-loved institution in the province and beyond.After her death, her popularity faded.But now as hard times again buffet Newport, her songs have gained a renewed relevance.She was Fullum\u2019s great-aunt.\u201cI was born after she died,\u201d says Fullum, 36.\u201cBut we always listened to her records and sang her songs so much and all my relatives told me so many stories about her that she became a very important person for me.\u201d And such stories.Travers was born 100 years ago into an extended Irish- and French- Canadian family in this fishing village perched above a rocky beach overlooking the Gulf of St.Lawrence.She left at 13 to be a housemaid in Montreal.A job in a dressmaker\u2019s factory followed.helps former home At 20, she married a young plumber named Edouard Bolduc.He was a fiddler.She was too.She also sang and played the harmonica and the accordion.But it was not an easy marriage.Only four of their 12 babies survived.And Edouard Bolduc was often too sick to work.FAME AND FORTUNE In December 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, Travers paid a reluctant Montreal studio cash to record two of her own songs.They got good radio play.Within a month, 10,000 copies had sold.She was on her way.Her seven- member troupe performed light, French-language comedy and From housemaid to By The Canadian Press music throughout Quebec, Ontario and New England.They usually drove to their destination at a time when few roads were paved.They often played in church halls and basements.Before one concert in Sept-Iles, the women in the troupe had to change in a fish-plant refrigerator.Travers was always the life of th party, singing during the long journeys, praying after a concert and sending her troupe to bed early only to wake them up again to carry on all night.\u201cShe loved singing,\u201d troupe member Simone de Varennes recalled in an National Film Board documentary filmed in the 1960s.\u201cShe loved everything about life.\u201d folksinger A sketch of Quebec folksinger Mary Travers, known as La Bolduc: BORN: June 4, 1894, in Newport, Que., on the Gaspé Peninsula.EARLY DAYS: Left home in 1907 to work as a housemaid in Montreal.Worked in a clothing factory.Married plumber and fiddler Edouard Bolduc in August 1914.MUSICAL CAREER: Produced first recordings, La Cuisinière and Johnny Monfarleau, in late 1929.Sold 10,000 copies in a month.Toured French-Canadian communities in Quebec, Ontario and New England.Composed at least 100 songs.SONG SUBJECTS: The Montreal Police.Haying.The Dionne Quintuplets.Modern Dress.Village Firemen.In-Laws.The Flu.Labatt Beer.HER IMPACT: \u201cFor years hardly any of her records were sold at all.I was tired of hearing a certain kind of person say her songs were cheeky and vulgar.That's totally false.Parish priests accepted her songs.That says it all.\u201d daughter Fernande Bolduc at the opening of a museum in La Bolduc\u2019s honor.DIED: Feb.20, 1941, of cancer.An [& Farm and Business The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994\u20145 Becord Pulp and paper on a comeback |w By Allan Swift MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 New figures suggest Canada\u2019s massive pulp and paper industry is finally turning the page after several years of stagnation and for most companies, severe losses.For the first half of the year, shipments are up in all five sectors recorded by the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, with big gains for market pulp and packaging.In total, pulp shipments grew 21 per cent from January through June compared with the same period in 1993, reaching 4.1 million tonnes.After losing a combined $750 \u2018million last year, the industry is expected to break even in 1994, an economist with the association said Monday.Fiona Cook said demand for Canadian pulp is high in Europe, Japan and other Asian markets.\u201cWe think people are building up pulp inventories for speculative reasons,\u201d commen ted Cook.As well, paper makers are building up pulp inventories simply to meet growing demand.Increased demand \u201cwill translate into higher prices and pulp consumers can see that coming.\u201d Price increases for pulp and paper are bad news for publishers but would be welcomed by pulp makers who have been unable to make ends meet with record low prices.\u201cPulp came through a very difficult time during the last two to three years,\u201d said Cook.Its also good news for the 239,000 people directly ~ Kenyan scientist: Genetic breeding GUELPH, Ont.(CP) \u2014 Geneticists and cattle farmers may soon have something in common: a shared interest in breeding cattle so they are resistant to debilitating parasites and disease.\u201cIt\u2019s a realistic option,\u201d said Alan Teale, a Kenyan scientist at Monday\u2019s international genetics convention.Teale said cattle that are genetically controlled to fight disease without the help of pesticides or drugs will result in environmentally friendly, productive cattle farming around the world.\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be discouraged,\u201d Teale said.\u201cThere was concern among researchers that breeding and selection for disease resistance would not lead to better production.We're hearing this is not the case.\u201d Teale said promising deve- Stakes rise in bid By Susan Yellin TORONTO (CP) \u2014 The game got hotter as the pot grew larger for Lac Minerals on Monday when Royal Oak Mines upped its takeover bid for the gold-mining company.\u201d - \u201cIt looks like this takeover of Lac Minerals is suddenly getting interesting again,\u201d said Peggy Witte, chief executive officer of Royal Oak.\u201cCertainly Royal Oak has raised the bid and raised the ante in a very big way,\u201d she told a news conference.Rival bidder American Bar- rick Resources said it\u2019s standing pat on its offer.Lac Minerals said it won\u2019t comment yet on the higher stakes.But it urged shareholders Pension funds cash in on strong markets OTTAWA (CP) \u2014 Pension funds grew fat on capital gains in the first quarter of the year \u2014 a situation Statistics Canada calls unusual.For the first time since Statistics Canada began tracking pension portfolio performance, profits from the sale of securities surpassed investment income as the largest component of pension fund income in the first three months of 1994, Egged on by strong market conditions and low interest rates, pension funds managers booked net income of $6 billion \u2014 up 59 per cent over the first quarter of 1993 and the largest late Monday to reject Barrick\u2019s proposal, saying it was \u201canother opportunistically timed effort aimed at tempting Lac\u2019s shareholders.\u201d Lac did the same to Royal Qak\u2019s original offer three weeks ago.The new Royal Oak bid has a cash value of $16.50, up $3 from the original proposal.DEAL SWEETENED Witte said there had to be an increase in her company\u2019s offer after major Lac shareholders told her to sweeten the deal.But it was Lac itself \u2014 which recently announced greater gold reserves \u2014 that enabled Royal Oak to work out the financing for the higher proposal, she said.\u201c(It) gave us more confidence than we ever needed in deter- year-over-year increase in 17 years.In addition, the value of pension fund assets in Canada rose 10.7 per cent to $268.2 million between the first quarters of 1993 and 1994.That was the best year-over- year asset growth in 16 straight quarters, Statistics Canada said Monday.INVESTMENTS Since 1980 investment income instead of capital gains has been the largest component of pension fund revenue.In fact, throughout 1990, investment income represented between 53 per cent and 62 per cent of Business briefs Burns Fry, Nesbitt lay off 104 people TORONTO (CP) \u2014 Burns Fry Ltd.and Nesbitt Thomson Inc.have laid off 104 professional employees since Friday in preparation for their merger.Nesbitt chief executive Brian Steck said Monday the layoffs, split roughly equally between the firms, will likely be followed with 20 to 25 layoffs of support staff.In total, Steck said he expects fewer than 200 people will be laid off because of the merger.AGF funds to offer no-load option TORONTO (CP) \u2014 Mutual fund distributor AGF Management Ltd.is taking dead aim at financial institutions, particularly the big banks, in offering a no-load pricing option on its family of 16 funds, says president John Meyers.The banks, which offer no- load funds, have been the fastest growing group in the industry, said Meyers, whose company is Canada\u2019s fifth- largest independent fund distributor.Subject to shareholder employed by the forestry industry.Of those, 64,000 were employed in the production of wood pulp, newsprint, other papers and boards.The other sector showing the most growth is packaging grades of paper, called paperboard and boxboard.Used to ship and package consumer goods, packing paper has grown by 13 per cent in the first half.Although retailers and manufacturers are being encouraged by governments to reduce the amount of packaging for environmental reasons, Cook said sales are growing anyway as the economy improves.\u201cThe consumer sector is starting to come out.People are demanding more and more consumer products and they need to be packaged.\u201d future of farming lopments are spurring scientists around the world to make new genetic discoveries, resulting in improved livestock.But there\u2019s also interest, he added, because traditional alternatives are no longer working.Teale said recent attempts in Australia to control parasites with chemicals have not been effective.And producers currently bat- for Lac mining where we could price this deal,\u201d Witte said.The new proposal consists of $5 in cash and two shares of Royal Oak for each Lac share, or Lac shareholders can receive 2.87 Royal Oak Sharesfür'éach\u201d of their Lac shares.Royal Oak\u2019s previous bid was $3.75 in cash and 1.75 of its own shares for each Lac share.Or, Lac shareholders could choose 2.416 Royal Oak shares for each Lac share.American Barrick has valued its proposal at about $14 a share.Barrick officials are just beginning to meet with major Lac shareholders this week and won't pre-judge whether a higher bid is necessary, said company spokesman Vince quarterly income.In the first quarter of 1994, capital gains accounted for 37 per cent of portfolio income while investment income accounted for 35 per cent.The balance of income came from employer and employee contributions.\u201cContinuing low interest rates have caused this shift,\u201d Statistics Canada said.Low interest rates tend to push capital into stocks and bonds as fund managers search for the best return they can get.In the first quarter, pension fund managers were able to take advantage of a booming approval, the changes become effective Oct.1, with the exception of AGF Canadian Resources Fund, which has been delayed to Jan.1 because of outstanding warrants.AGF will offer three options: front-end, redemption fee, and no-load.An AGF spokesman said the no-load option likely will not generate a huge percentage of « IMAGINE YOUR CHILD 8 Up ITS FIRST STEP RETR TLE 2) Shipments from the other sectors during the first half: \u2014 Newsprint, up two per cent; \u2014 Printing and writing papers, up three per cent.\u2014 Sanitary papers, up seven per cent.Printing and writing papers are commonly used for fliers, magazines and books, all linked to advertising, a key economic index.Canadian printing plants bought 8.4 per cent more in the first half.Newsprint prices, after dropping to a low of $400 US per tonne at the beginning of this year, increased by about $50 to the current price of $450 to $460.Another price increase of $40 has been announced that will take effect in mid-August.tling cattle ticks by administering vaccines and promoting natural resistance are finding that ticks can develop a resistance of their own, said scientist Brian Kinghorn.Scientists recently discovered a major gene that helps cattle fight ticks, he said, and the same gene has led the cattle to develop a resistance to other stressors.Minerals Borg.CREDIBILITY?\u201cBarrick is going to go out and speak to the shareholders and argue that we offer the most credible and least risky way of converting .real and potential resources into value for their pockets,\u201d he said.Lac spokesman John Pearson said his company must evaluate Royal Oak\u2019s latest proposal before commenting.\u201cBut our chairman has stated it\u2019s his and the board of directors\u2019 mandate to get the best value for Lac shareholders,\u201d Pearson said.Share prices in Lac have risen about $2 since Royal Oak made the first bid July 7.They closed on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday at $145/8.stock market.The proportion of pension portfolios devoted to stocks in the first quarter stood at 35 per cent, compared with 19 per cent in the first quarter of 1980.Meanwhile, bonds, a traditional mainstay of pension funds, fell to a current low of 43 per cent in the first quarter.In the same quarter of 1980, bonds occupied 49 per cent of portfolios.Short-term investments accounted for nine per cent in the first quarter while mortgages, real estate and pooled investments made up the balance at 13 per cent.sales.AGF also said it wants to amalgamate its foreign equity funds into one new mutual fund company, to be called AGF International Group.The move would allow investors to diversify their portfolios and switch between foreign funds without undue tax consequences.What will Let's see.By mid-week Parti Québécois leader Jacques Pari- zeau had promised upwards of $3 billion of new spending on everything from a subway extension to a new regional hospital.The latter, surely a coincidence, would be in his own riding of I'\u2019Assomption.The $3 billion figure is, admittedly, somewhat arbitrary.Mr.Parizeau does not, as a rule, put a price tag on his promises.Money to be spent on Montreal\u2019s roads and other public works, for example, will amount to \u201cseveral billions\u201d of dollars.Arbitrary though it may be, the $3 billion figure is still on the conservative side.Nonetheless, as with so much else Mr.Parizeau promises \u2014 like the assured admission of a separate Quebec into NAFTA \u2014 it begs a number of questions.The most important one, of course, is where he will raise the money.Quebecers are already overtaxed so that source is closed.The province is already overborrowed too.It owes directly some $45 billion.Still, let's assume new lenders can be found.The next question, if not for today\u2019s taxpayers at least for their children, then becomes one of how much that $3 billion borrowing will ultimately cost.Let's start with the interest charges.At the very best, Quebec would be paying 10 per cent interest on that borrowed $3 billion \u2014 the equivalent of $300 million a year, or over a ten year term, $3 billion.So, in bor- rowing $3 billion, Quebec would assume a total debt, actual or pending, of $6 billion.None of Mr.Parizeau\u2019s expenditures are revenue- generating.So the $300 million in annual interest will also have to be borrowed at a further cost of $30 million a year, - $300 million over ten years.The $30 million will also have to be borrowed \u2014 and so on.\u2014 Business Sense .¢ By John Meyer In other words, in borrowing $3 billion to pay for his promised spending, Mr.Parizeau will have incurred total costs of at least $3.3 billion more by the end of ten years, $6.3 billion in all.If the loan is for twenty years, the total cost would be $9.6 billion.What must also be kept in mind is that Mr.Parizeau\u2019s promised spending is in addition to the spending already budgeted by the outgoing Liberal government.And that spending was some $4 billion more than expected revenues.These sort of calculations are far removed from the day-to- day concerns of most Quebecers \u2014 which is a pity.Because, if Mr.Parizeau is given the chance to implement his promised spending, they will be the ones who, as taxpayers, must eventually foot the bill.Job Offers The Record and Canada Employment Centres across the Eastern ~~ Townships are publicizing job opportunities in the region.Person who qualify for the job should contact their nearest C.E.C.\"' office or phone Telecentre at 564-5983.2887827 SERIGRAPHIST, Ascot Corner.$9hr acc.to exp., perm., 40 hrsweek, days.Must have exp.in serigraphy on clothes, responsible, resourceful, creative person.Printing on clothes, set up machine.2887568 SERVICE ATTENDANT, Lennoxville.Acc.to card, perm., full-time, 40 hrsweek.Mandatory: exp.in field and bilingual, available day and evening, will work Saturday or Sunday, qualification card.Refuel vehicules, check fluid levels, perform minor service and maintenance, towing, etc.2887721 LIFT TRUCK OPERATOR, Sherbrooke.$8hr, 10 to 40 hrs\u2018week, evening and weekend.Exp.minimum as lift truck operator (clutch), available to work evening and weekend, resume required.Drive a lift truck with clutch.2886191 MOTOR VEHICLE MECHANIC, APPRENTICE, Magog.According to card, could be come perm.Apprentice or Journeyman card, good physical shape.General mechanic, breaks, mufflers, etc.2886360 GRAPHIC DESIGNER, Stanstead.$425week, temp., full-time, 15 weeks.Section 25 project, must have unemployment benefits, drawing skills, bilingual, live in Beebe, Stanstead, Rock Island preferably.Design logos, make promotional material (folders, business cards), beginning 08-08-94 or later.2886351 COMMUNICATION TECHNICIAN, Stanstead.$425/week, temp., full-time, 15 weeks.Bilingual, communication skills, Section 25 project, must have unemployment benefits, live in Beebe, Rock Island, Stanstead preferably.Recruit volunteers, organize meetings, participate in production of a video, beginning towards August | 8 or later.2886116 NIGHT AUDITOR, Ayer\u2019s Cliff.To be negotiated, perm., 9 months/year.Good knowledge of bookkeeping, some English, able to work on computers, have transportation.Check bills, bookkeeping, answer *° phone, data entries.2886645 HOTEL FRONT DESK CLERKS, Magog.$6.90 hr, $7.30Mr after probation, ' perm., full-time.Responsible, '\u2019\u2019 resourceful, neat appearance, able to operate office equipment, , , related exp.preferable, bilingual, able to work on telephone system, Secondary V completed, \u2018\u2019 Answer phone, take reservations, welcome clients, billing, word processing, general office .work.2886869-7294 PAINTER- CARPENTER, Granby.$8hror.more dep.on exp., temp., approx.2 to 3 months.Able to work outside and unsupervised, have own tools, not afraid of heights.To paint and repair building: : windows.2886603-7322 CAR FRAME REPAIRER, Granby.Salary in accordance with competency card, perm., full-time, 40 hrsweek.Card as companion bodyman, exp.in repairing car frame, in body work and in changing car parts.2881029-5244 FLORIST, Gran- by.$7hr or more dep.on exp.and\u2019 competencies, temp., part-time, 15-20 hrsweek.Two yrs.exp.in trade, manual dexterity, like to: work with public, good presenta- te tion, exp.as salesperson.2880008- 0621 ASSISTANT MANAGER, Granby.$9hr or: more dep.on exp.and competencies, perm., full-time, 40 hrsweek.Three yrs.exp.in sale or in management an asset, like public, easiness to communicate, - dynamic, hardworking.THE NEXT STEP IS YOURS.AND ITS LAST, AT SEVEN OQ THE 1994 Muscu DYSTROPHY TEL LABOUR DAY WEEKEND: FROM SEPTEMBER 4TH TQ STH Radio Québec \u2018 bes ee cu Parizeau\u2019s| promises really cost?| .\u2026.a.424 4430222 RP ER PPT ESR CCT VIC LCT OOP ORS Crete SLL, cee cv aa Cassa PR cee sev vesTTIYtTTVvEOI -vsever ov 0 6\u2014The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994 Living Unmistakable pride « It seems impossible not to respond war- | mly to the beautiful, tiny bonsai trees that continue on display until tonight at the Sherbrooke municipal gardens at the corner of Portland and Vimy streets.These trees are the result of careful shaping and training by their owners and require the same attention as some pets.For some owners with dozens of trees, this daily attention can become a bit of a chore, so the chance to show them off is a bonus for all the years of hard work.Benoit Lemire, showing off a fully formed tree that is only a few inches high, works for the municipal garden and organized the show.His pride is unmistakable.Bonsai growers have certain goals, like harmony of branches, graceful trunks, or trunks that show the harshness of their early environments if they have been gathered from the wild.Some growers like to see the branches or the whole trunk descend below the shelf on which the tree is stan- I RS nt ding.In other cases spectacular root formations are the most important element of a plant.There are all sorts of plants that can be miniaturised.Even herbs like thyme and rosemary make beautiful plants, and their trimmings can be used in cooking.The show closes each evening at 7:30 and while many would argue that the evening light is best, these trees in their open or forest settings are well worth seeing at any time.Knowing when to harvest garden crops is trickiest part :By Lee Reich The Associated Press There\u2019s not much sense in growing vegetables if you don\u2019t har- :vest them at the right time.\u201cNo one needs to be told when :to pick a tomato, but how do you know when to pick an eggplant?«Or a cucumber, especially one that\u2019s puffed out at one end and skinny at the other end?\"Vegetables that are grown for their shoots, leaves, or roots generally taste best young and succulent.Ifleft to grow too long, shoots of asparagus and leaves of lettuce, chard, spinach and mustard become tough in texture and harsh in flavor.Spring-sown carrots, beets and radishes can be pulled from the ground any time they are big enough to eat.To get the most out of midsummer sowings of root crops, though, leave them in the ground to grow full size to eat through autumn and winter.Spring sowings become coarse and woody if left too long in the ground, but midsummer sowings grow slowly enough in autumn that the roots stay succulent.(Potatoes are an exception; they are tasty young or old.) Leafy vegetables that form heads \u2014 Boston and iceberg lettuces, cabbage and brussels sprouts, for example \u2014 need to be left in the ground at least until their heads form.Gently squeeze the developing heads with your hands.The heads are ready when they feel firm, except for the Boston lettuces, which taste best when the heads are still slightly loose.FRUITS DIFFERENT Vegetables that are, botanically, fruits, are trickier to harvest.(Botanically, a fruit is a matured ovary, which means that fruits usually have seeds.Tomatoes, botanically, are fruits.) Some vegetable-fruits are harvested when immature, which is before their seeds are hard and ripe.In this category are summer squash, okra and beans, all of which are ready to eat as soon as the fruits are big enough to eat.You can even eat small squashes whildtthey still have flowers attached.pos Peas are ready for harvest just as soon as they have filled out their pods.Snowpeas, though, are ready when the peas just barely bulge within their flat pods.Eggplant, cucumbers and corn are ready for harvest when they have reached full size, but before their seeds mature.Pick eggplants while their skins are still glossy.Pick cucumbers as soon as their wrinkly skins puff out.What about those cucumbers that are swollen at one end and skinny at the other end?Such cukes result from fluctuating Derby Historical Society annual picnic enjoyed by members and guests HOLLAND POND, Vt.(IH) \u2014 Ervin and Lillian Goodwin were again host and hostess for the annual picnic of the Derby Historical Society held at their summer home at Holland Pond.Those attending brought their basket lunch and beverages were \u2018served by the Goodwins.Bill Gardyne welcomed everyone and introduced the speaker, Edwin Stretch, a representative of the Gilman\u2019s Housing Trust.This is a trust company organized in 1985 for the purpose of acquiring and renovating old and historic buildings.At the present, two such struc- Happy birthday wishes .The family and friends of Mrs.Frances McAuley Hopps wish her :all the best on her 73rd birthday August 10 at La Providence Hospital, 2nd Floor, Magog, Que.J1X 3X3.Belated birthday greetings Belated birthday wishes are extended to Clifford Anderson of Bury, on the occasion of his 85th birthday on July 30.tures are being negotiated for, in Derby, with plans to spend approximately a half million dollars on these two buildings to restore their original Victorian area architecture.When completed they will be delegated for senior citizens residence, at a reasonable rent.This restoration will bring jobs and money to the community, said the speaker.A period of questions and answers followed.The company is hoping to be able to have photographs of buildings they restore that are originals.Research in the National Records is also being done prior to the start of the program.Bill thanked the speaker for his interesting and informative talk, and the Goodwins for once more having the lawn picnic on this beautiful location.soil moisture or incomplete pollination.Take your choice: Pick when the skinny end is ready and the fat end is overripe, or vice versa.CORN HARVEST Figure out when to harvest corn by first honing in on the.approxirfiate date, which Y#.about three weeks after the tas\u201d sels atop the plants shed their pollen.When the silks are almost dry, the ears will feel full even through the husks.Check the first few ears while they are still on the plant by peeling back the husks and pressing your fingernails into a kernel.If the ear is ripe, the juice that oozes out will be milky \u2014 not starchy or watery.Other fruiting vegetables taste best when truly ripe.Tomatoes are the most obvious example.Peppers, although often eaten green and underripe, become sweet, juicy, and red or yellow (or purple or chocolate on St.Luke\u2019s Guild meets MAGOG (CG) \u2014 Members of St.Luke\u2019s Anglican Church Guild met at the home of the president, Evelyn Jackson on Tuesday, July 26 with six members and two guests attending.The President welcomed all the ladies and opened the meeting with prayers.Secretary Doris Catchpaugh read the minutes of the last meeting.Approved as read.Treasurer Peggy Cowdrey gave the financial report and a satisfactory balance was noted.Plans were finalized concerning the Summer Luncheon and a discussion on the forthcoming Rummage Sale.Evelyn, assisted by Peggy served tasty refreshments which were thoroughly enjoyed.We military wives can never get enough respect : Dear Ann Landers: Why are military wives always shortchanged when it comes to the sacrifices we make for our husbands and families?No one ever gives us the credit we deserve.© My husband has an important job.Family and friends never tire of patting him on the back and congratulating him on the job he does.His parents brag about him constantly.They keep praising him and raving about his competence, his energy and his brilliance.No one ever says a word to me about the Ann Landers part I play in his success.Why don't these people realize that behind every strong man there is a woman who is just as strong or maybe stronger?That woman takes care of the kids, the house, the finances, the relatives (his as well as hers) and possibly a career of her own while her husband is gone for weeks, even months at a time.That woman may have to pick up and move the house and family five times in six years.She must adjust to frequent schedule changes due to the demands of her husband's job.She must be both Mom and Dad when he's away.She is also expected to cook and clean for all the relatives who decide they want to visit each new base (even though we just saw them two months before).I realize that my husband's job means he may fight in a war or two, but at least he knows that no matter what happens, his loving, supportive wife will take care of everything.- A MILITARY WIFE DEAR MILITARY WIFE: A few years ago, I spoke to several hundred military wives whose husbands were stationed at the Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha.Here's a 21-gun salute to all military wives, wherever they may be.They deserve the respect of a grateful nation.some varieties) when thoroughly ripe.Winter squashes are ripe when their skins are tough enough to resist indentation with a fingernail.There is no rush to harvest ripe winter squashes, because the fruits will store for.months at.this stagem als CP hé 0\" harvest miélons dépénd on the type of melon.Muskmelons are ready when they are fragrant and their stems are just starting to separate from the fruits.Watermelons?These fruits are the hardest ones to pick at the right time.Try thumping them with your knuckles and listening for a full sound, not too hollow and not too dull.Try watching for when the part of the fruit against the ground turns yellow.Try watching for when the tendril opposite the fruit withers.Honeydew melons also can be difficult.Watch for a slight yellowing of the skin.Any .vegetables: left?Unopened flowers are the edible parts of broccoli and cauliflower and they should be picked before the flowers begin to open.The easiest vegetable to harvest is the onion.This vegetable is edible at any stage of growth, from the young tender shoots that push out of the soil in spring to the bulbs maturing beneath the flopped over, yellowing leaves.And you \u2019re out: A bit of bean bag baseball was part of Sunday\u2019s entertainment as 150 members and volunteers of \u2018Rayon de Soleil de I\u2019 Estrie\u2019 got together for a party.Ray of Sunshine is a non-profit group that reaches out to people who have become isolated by age, bereavement or other reasons by bringing them together for a weekly meal.The members get a great meal and come in regular contact with a large group of people, get to know their names and stories (and there are lots of those), and come to care for each other as a family.All this takes money, and they were happy to receive $2,000 from the Sherbrooke mayor\u2019s golf tournament, proudly delivered by his aid Jacques Fortier.The group\u2019s president, Thérése Grenier, who learned English while living in Cape Breton, said the group would welcome members and volunteers from the English community.They began a group in Richmond, but it hasn\u2019t worked out.She feels it provides an important service to the community, and their long list of sponsors seem to agree. er) 3 J Townships Crier us LENNOXVILLE St.George\u2019s Church Hot and Cold Buffet Luncheon on Wednesday, August 10 from 11 a.m.to 1:30 p.m.Everyone is welcome and all proceeds will go towards repairing the stained glass windows.PHILIPSBURG Advance notice.Philipsburg Branch 82 of the Royal Canadian Legion will once again be sponsoring their annual Golf Tournament, August 27, at the Enos- burg Golf Club.Registration prior to August 20.For more information, please call Legion 248-2474, Elleen Gage 248-7143, Margaret Maurice 248-3809.WAYS MILLS Tea and Sale on Saturday, August 13 from 2 p.m.to 5 p.min the Union Hall, Way\u2019s Mills.Benefit of the Church of Epiphany and the Union Church, Way's Mills.Everyone welcome.Do come! LENNOXVILLE This summer come enjoy Afternoon Tea on the porch at the Uplands Museum.We will be serving tea and goodies Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m.to 4:30 p.m., every week, rain or shine, until Labour Day.Admission charged.50 Park St., Lennoxville.Information: 564-0409.HUNTINGVILLE Daily Vacation Bible School at Huntingville Community Church, August 15\u201419 frem 9 a.m.to noon.All boys and girls from age 4 and up most welcome.Our theme is «Running the Race with Paul» featuring Dave Dra- vecky, the Christian baseball hero, story.We will have games, crafts, stories and lots of fun.Registration on the first day.For more information, please call Melanie Taylor: 562-5767 or Kathy Jones: 563-5299.Also, please note our other DVBS at Mansonville from August 8\u201412, and Knowlton from August 22\u201426, from 9 a.m.to noon.Information telephone: 569-5780.KNOWLTON Military Whist on Tuesday, August 9 at 7:30 p.m.in the 1.0.0.F.Hall, 476 Knowlton Road.Sponsored by 1.0.0.F.No.98.Prizes and refreshments.All welcome.LENNOXVILLE A.N.A.F., Unit 318, Lennoxville annual Golf Tournament, for members and spouses only, at the old Lennoxville Golf Club on Saturday, August 20 starting at 2 p.m.9 holes.Vegas style, pick out of the hat.Supper at 6:30 p.m.Sign up at the Hut before deadline of Friday, August 12 or call 569-8892 or 566-2322.COWANSVILLE Beginners \u2014 Learn to Country Line Dance every Wednesday night in August from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m.at the Royal Canadian Legion, Cowansville.Admission charged.Information: 263-3543.Everyone welcome.IVES HILL Card party at the Ives Hill Community Hall on Wednesday, August 10 at 8 p.m.Sponsored by the Sherbrooke Ploughmen\u2019s Association.Prizes and lunch.Everyone welcome.e FRELIGHSBURG Card party on Saturday, August 13 in the B.S.M.Anglican Church Hall.Refreshments served at noon, 500 and Bridge card party to follow.LENNOXVILLE À great summer craft! Basketry Workshops at Uplands Museum, Lennoxville.Tuesday evenings and/or Thursday afternoons, August 9 to September 1.Beginner, intermediate projects.Information: 564-0409.SHERBROOKE L\u2019Escale de I'Estrie is in need of volunteers to accompany the ladies in their different trips outside of l\u2019Escale (C.T.Q., Welfare, etc.).Ifthis sounds interesting to you please call.We also need a television set (max.14 inches) and a VCR for our group activities.Thank you for your generosity.Call (819) 569-3611.° AUSTIN The annual Garden Party sponsored by the Austin Women\u2019s Institute will be held in the Town Hall on Saturday, August 13 from 2 p.m.to 4 p.m.Afternoon Tea will be served and added attractions are bake table, crafts, etc.Everyone welcome.This column accepts items announcing events organized by churches, service clubs and recognized charitable institutions for a $2.00 fee.Requests should be mailed, well in advance, to The Record, P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6, be signed and include telephone number and $2.00 (taxes included).Telephone requests will not be accepted.Admission charges and trade names will be deleted.No dances.This year there has not been a lack Of raspberries also known as black Again we felt dear Nature's theme All longed to see the sun again! Then when we did, its jungle heat The berries rounded out \u2014 to fill From the Pens of E.T.LET\u2019S CALL THEM BURGEONBERRIES! She hit us with some things extreme Last winter's snow, the springtime rains\u2014 Brought flowered canes of many feet Each flower seemed to thrive \u2014 until Our mouths with ruby colored juice \u2014 That leaves a stain on clothes like puce!! Note: In this area the black raspberries were unbelievable! Writers DORA SCOTT PARKER Glen Sutton, Que.The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994\u20147 BLUMENFELD, Katharina (Korman) \u2014 Wife late Kurt Blumenfeld.Mom to Nancy (Lenny), Robert (Marisa), Linda (Murry), Sandy (Sam).Grand- mom to Brooke, Holly, Frederick, Oliver, Felicia, Ariel.Mum to Warren.Loving friend to Joe.Cremation.Service to be announced later.BROWN, Elizabeth (Betty) \u2014 At the Connaught Rest Home, North Hatley, Que.on Saturday, August 6, 1994.Elizabeth McCrea, beloved wife of Robert F.Brown in her 65th year.Dear step-mother of Carol Campbell, Robert Jr.and Anne Bradley.A memorial service will be held at the St.Barnabas Anglican Church, North Hatley, Que.on Thursday, August 11, 1994 at 2 p.m., the Rev.Keith Perry Gore officiating.Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society will be gratefully acknowledged.Arrangements entrusted to the Cass Funeral Homes, Lennoxville, Que.\u2014 564- 1750.Scotstown Heather Beaton 877-2543 Mr.and Mrs.Don McCuaig of Ivy Lea, Ont., spent a few days with her sister Mr.and Mrs.Réal Boulanger.They were joined by Mr.and Mrs.Paul Fluckager and children MacKenzie and Spencer of Boston, Mass.Mr.and Mrs.Claude O'Reilly, Marie-Claude and Sarah have re- tumed from Boston where they were guests of the Fluckagers.During one of the many severe thunderstorms we have experienced lately the lightning struck \u201cThe Chimney\u201d, knocking off a few bricks and loosening others.This chimney is all that remains of the Cask Company Veneer Mills that used to be on both sides of the Salmon River.Mrs.Louise Coleman has returned home from Regina where she was visiting her son, David and his family.Amy MacAskill of Victoriaville spent a weekend with her mother and visited her father in the hospital.James MacAskill drove to Victoriaville and spent a few days with his sister Amy and Guy.He was accompanied home by Amy and Julie Paquette who had been visiting in Victoriaville.°°\" All are pleased to see Don MacAskill is out of the hospital.Although not able to get around yet, he is glad to be home \u2014 cast and all! Mr.Murdo Cloutier has returned to the Sherman Residence after spending two weeks in the hospital.Mr.and Mrs.Norman Campbell spent a few days at the Smith home while here to attend the 40th wedding anniversary party for Les and Madeline Irving.While visiting the Dell Cemetery they discovered that the toolshed had once again been broken into and cleaned out.Magog and Area Connie Girard 843-6671 Debbie Dingman-Dixon has returned to her home in Manitoba after spending a short time visiting relatives and friends in Magog.Frank and Ella Davidson and Joe Hutchings were in Sherbrooke to attend the birthday celebration of Lynn Grainger\u2019s 50th year.May you be blessed with good health and enjoy another half century, Lynn! Recent guests at the Davidson home were Mr.and Mrs.John Davidson and son Eric of St.Basil le Grand, Mr.and Mrs.Omer Mallette and son, Dennis and Christine Carr, Richmond, Mr.and Mrs.Bruno Lavoie, Melbourne, Mrs.Beulah Davidson, Richmond, and Miss Audrey Tibbetts, Grand Bend, Ontario.CARTER-GLEASON, Leah \u2014 At the Granby Hospital on Monday, August 8, 1994.Leah Carter at the age of 78.Wife of the late Archie Gleason.Dear mother of Neil Gleason (Denise Fontaine) of Ange Gardien.Grandmother of Sébastien, Marilyn and Francis.Sister of Florence Fuller of Waterloo.Also survived by many nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.No visitation.Funeral service will be held at the Granby United Church on Wednesday, August 10, 1994 at 2 p.m., the Reverend Tom Edmund officiating.Family and friends are to meet directly at the church.Funeral arrangements by Bessette & Sons Funeral Home Inc., 31 Drummond St, Granby.FOSTER, Campbell \u2014 At the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Que.on Saturday, August 6, 1994.Campbell Foster in his 84th year.Beloved husband of Mary McLaughlin.Dear brother of Stuart Foster from Victoria, B.C.Also survived by his sister-in-law Rita Lapalme of Cowansville, Que., many nephews, nieces, other relatives and friends.Arrangements entrusted to the Desourdy Wilson Funeral Home, 104 Buzzell St., Cow- ansville, Que.- (514) 263-1212.At Mr.Foster's request there will be no visitation and no service.A private interment will be held at the Sweetsburg Cemetery in Cow- ansville, Que.HUNTER FEE, Margaret \u2014 At her residence on August 7, 1994, in her 97th year.Predeceased by her husband Patrick Fee.Dear mother of John, Eileen, Thomas and Kathleen Green and Margaret, Patrick, Gerald, Maureen, James, Ronald, Ella and the late Patricia Fee.Dear grandmother of 19 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and 3 great- great-grandchildren.Resting at Desourdy Wilson Funeral Home at 104 Buzzell St.in Cowansville \u2014 263-1212.Visitation hours from 2 to 4 p.m.and 7 to 9 p.m.on Tuesday, August 9, 1994 and from 1 p.m.on August 10.Funeral service from the Chapel at 2 p.m., the Reverend S.Clarke officiating.Cremation will follow.Gould Heather Beaton 877-2543 Mrs.Douglas Beaton was visiting Murdo Cloutier and Don MacAskill at the Hotel-Dieu Hospital.On July 23 Clyne MacDonald drove Mr.Tom MacKay to Newport, Vt.where he took a bus on his way back to Arlington, Virginia, after spending a few weeks in this area.On July 31, a Sunday service was held in Chalmers United Church, with Mr.Justin Lowry of Sawyerville as speaker and Mrs.Madeline Irving of Scotstown as organist.Following the service, all were invited to the basement for pot luck lunch and a time to - visit and reminisce.It was heartwarming to see so many from the surrounding areas and we extend our appreciation to the churches, the speaker and the organist for supporting us in this annual service.Some who really made an extra effort to come and join us were Mrs.Velma Nicholson, Napanee, Ont., Mrs.Shirley Whitehead, St.Lambert, Mr.and Mrs.Duncan Elvidge, Cowans- ville, Mrs.Kay Young and Mrs.Lois Matheson, Lennoxville, and Bob Bell, Sherbrooke.A special thanks to those who made up an on-the-spot choir! Visiting the Beatons on North Hill were Mr.and Mrs.Roscoe Morrison and Mr.and Mrs.Erwin Watson of Bury.(Dupras) \u2014 Passed away at the B.M.P.Hospital on August 7, 1994 at the age of 65.She was the devoted wife of the late Ralph Leroy Raymond.She leaves behind three sons Johnny, Richard (Michele), Albert (Annick), and four grandchildren Sabrina, Miguel, Rebecca and Kayla.She also leave many relatives and friends.Visiting hours August 9 from 9:30 a.m.at Desourdy-Wilson Funeral Home (Davignon Blvd.), Cowansville.Service at the Iron Hill Anglican Church at 11:30 a.m.SPENCE, Mary A.Ryan \u2014 Surrounded by her loving friends at the CHUS on Monday, August 8, 1994.At her request there will be no visitation and arrangements private.Arrangements entrusted to A.Belisle Funeral Home, 505 Short, Sherbrooke, Que.\u2014 (819) 564- 6455.ANDERSON, David S.\u2014 In memory of a loving husband and father who passed away August 9, 1993.There is a bridge of memories From here to Heaven above, That keeps you very close to us It's called the Bridge of Love.As time goes on without you And days turn into years, They hold a million memories And a thousand silent tears.To us, you were very special What more is there to say, Except to wish with all our hearts That you were here today.Always in our thoughts and heart, SUE (wife) AND CHILDREN MICHAEL ANDREW GIRARD 1956 - 1993 To hear your voice, to see your smile, To sit with you and talk awhile, To be together in the same old way Is our dearest wish today.Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by FAMILY & FRIENDS WARNER \u2014 In loving memory of a dear sister, Irene, who passed away August 9, 1982.Sadly missed and aiways remembered by BERNICE & GLENNA WARNER \u2014 In loving memory of our dear parents, Mother who passed away August 9, 1982 and Dad on January 30, 1986.Sadly missed and always remembered by GALEN, DEBBIE, STEVE, RANDY, GREG & FAMILIES Subscribe Now! Pecord CALL COLLECT SHERBROOKE KNOWLTON 569-9528 243-0088 ELDRIDGE \u2014 | wish to thank Drs.Pincott and Barraket for their care while | was a patient in the B.M.P.Hospital.Thanks to the nurses and aids on the 3rd floor for their good care.Thanks to friends whd visited me and for gifts, plants and the many cards of good wisheg which | enjoyed.Thanks to my sons and family for their suppor} and love.: + MARJORIE McGILL ELDRIDGE, ELDRIDGE \u2014 | wish to thank the Cote Home for the good care ) received while | was a patient there.| especially want to thank Don for making me so comfortable and Paul for the good meals he served us with many laughs in the dining room.Thanks to the staff Helen, Maureen, Bessie, Marla and Timothy who were so kind td me.Thanks to all who sent cards and birthday wishes.It was appreciated.MARJORIE ELDRIDGE b\u2014 oo mee od SAWYERVILLE SCHOOL REUNION: To all involved \u2014 A rathet late but most sincere thanks to the committees responsible for making the reunion such a success.It was evident throughout the entire weekend that a great deal of thought and preparation resulted in a memorable time for all.It certainly was for us! 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semi-private room; 1 place in the infirmary available.Beautiful surroundings.Owners live on premises.Accept Alzheimer patients.Call Lucie (819) 564-3029.14609 \"LONDON RESIDENCE, Sherbrooke \u2014 Rooms with bathrooms, call-bell, nurse on call 24 hours, qualified staff.Call (819) 564-8415.1a { ) Job Opportunities RETAIL STORE MANAGER New retail store for hydroponic gardening equipment needs a perfectly bilingual Manager with experience in plants, garden centres, greenhouses, etc.Interesting opportunity.Good salary.Send c.v.to: Box 225 co The Record P.O.Box 1200, Sherbrooke, Que., | J1H 5L6 BILINGUAL RECEPTIONISTMu- seum Guide for Uplands Museum, Lennoxville.Previous experience not necessary.Applicants must be currently receiving social assistance.Information: (819) 564-0409.14505 DISHWASHER REQUIRED \u2014 Full time employment to start in September.Please apply to Dewherst Dining Hall, Bishop\u2019s University.14655 0] Job Opportunities MAINTENANCE PERSON for Uplands Museum, Lennoxville.Applicants must be currently receiving Quebec Social assistance and be eligible for EXTRA program.Information: (819) 564-0409.1s MANAGER B & B.Reliable, self- starter, live-in requirement, bilingual, previous experience not required.Must be comfortable with people.References.Please call (514) 243-0077.44535 Professional Services PSYCHOTHERAPIST Tony Badham, Psychotherapist, offering help in the areas of grief, loss, mourning, physical, mental or emotional abuse.Assisting in spiritual guidance towards a better sense and appreciation of the inner-self.(819) 822-2719.120 DAN'S SERVICE \u2014 Service on household appliances: washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, etc.Tel.(819) 822-0800.12236 LENNOXVILLE PLUMBING.Domestic repairs and water refiners.Call Norman Walker at (819) 563-1491.14æ3 Travel DON'T MISS the bus.to Branson, Missouri.The live entertainment capital of America specializing in country music \u2014 Sept.22 to Oct.1, 1994! Great shows and outstanding performances await you! Infofes: Randmar Adventures (819) 845-7739.Escapade Travel, Quebec permit holder.12e FALL FOLIAGE GUIDED TOUR \u2014 Quebec City, October 3-6.Whale watching, Manoir Richelieu Casino, Artisans, Ste.Anne de Beaupré, etc.Carol Soule, Escort.Voyages Bed- ford, Quebec permit.Call (514) 248-4552, 1-800-363-4545.44610 40 Cars for Sale 1981 GRAND LEMANS with 1975 Corvette motor.Good condition, body needs work.$800., neg.(819) 872-3391, veus * _.HELP WANTED to clean large house on a weekly basis.Georgeville Road.Please call (819) 868-2014.ss HOTEL RECEPTIONIST: immediate opening for a man or woman with hotel front-desk experience and basic computer skills.Must be bilingual, have a neat appearance and enjoy working with the public.This is a permanent full-time position.Sala- based on experience.Apply in writing to: Ripplecove Inn, Ayers Cliff, Quebec, JOB 1C0, Attn: Jeffrey Stafford.ese RETIRED PERSON to work 4-5 hours a day, Monday to Friday, as dining room checker.Please apply to Dewherst Dining Hall, Bishop's University.14663 1993 EAGLE SUMMIT, 15,500 km., Sports package, power steering, power brakes, tilt steering, sunroof.alance of Chrysler warranty.$9,250.Call (514) 243-0351.14612 Campers - Trailers 1979 DODGE CAMPWAGON, full size, sleeps 4, fully equipped, new tires.$4,950.Will dicker.Call (514) 292-3922.14564 Boats 14 FT.FIBERGLASS BOAT, trailer and 20 h.p.motor.May be seen at 9 Maple Street, Lennoxville.+3 57 Antiques Record |] This space could be yours! Call: 819-569-9525 \u2014 ae f Hélicetrie & = a REPAIR YOUR \u201cPROPELLER\u201d AND \u201cBROKEN FIN\u201d Professional Guaranteed Work Specialties: float Propellers/Boat Fias/Alvminum Boats For info 564-0448 \\_ 2121 King East, Fleurimont PINS STÉAMATIC.service de nettoyage complet .furniture VS cleaning Steamatic de Sherbrooke 2391 Hertel Sherbrooke 565-4343 and à + + * + \\ Carpet Granby area 777-3234 CENTRE DE CHAUFFAGE __ ET CLIMISATION TRANS-QUEBEC INC.Electrical / Plumbing Contractor Visit.our showroom Qil/ Electrical /Gas / Wood Furnaces, Pellet Stoves, efc.on display Accredited for Bi-Energy Program FREE PARKING IN REAR \u201c830 Belvedere S.SHERBROOKE 822-1121 ANNIVERSARY SALE \u2014 Pressed glass, art glass and collection items, knick-knacks, furniture, depression glass.Open every day from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m.A L'Etage Antiques, 144 Foster Street, Foster.Call (514) 539-2303.13191 160) Articles for Sale BEDROOM SET, 5 pieces, single, grey melamine, $400.Yamaha S-170 electronic keyboard, adaptor included, $100.F.Jones (514) 263-7809.1616 ELECTRIC STOVES, dryers, automatic washers, fridges, kitchen sets, sofa-beds, dressers, sofas and chairs, many household items, yellow propane kitchen stove.All items in good condition.Call (819) 875-3587.44511 ELECTRIC STOVE, 30\u201d, $75; fridge, 24\", $75; antique bedroom set, price to be discussed.Call (514) 243-6536 (Knowlton).sen GLADIOLUS FOR SALE.Willard Wright, 5160 Nichol Road, Lennox- ville.Call (819) 562-5012.+40 HAY FOR SALE: 4 x 4 round bales, no rain, 1994 crop; Normand tandem farm trailer with dump, 5x10\u2019, $2,000; airtight wood stove, 18\u201dx22\u201d, $150.Call (514) 298-5632.11s SATELLITE DISH \u2014 12 foot screen- type dish with receiver and steel base.Reasonable price.Information: call (514) 297-2519.ues STEVE'S CARPET & UPHOLSTERY \u2014 11 Queen, Lennoxville, (819) 566-7974.For all your floor covering and upholstery needs.Installation.Free estimate.was WINDOWS \u2014 New, make your offer! Samples of different types and sizes.Can be seen at Materiaux P.L.M.Inc., 2347 - King Shopping Centre, Sherbrooke.(819) 563-8728.ue WOOD STOVE, good condition, $200.Call (819) 842-2953.16 1988 FILTRATION SYSTEM for 24 ft.pool (pump, fitter, motor), 2 h.p., 230 volts.Call (819) 838-4830.wen Or mail your prepaid classified ads to: Bn =) \u2019 DEADLINE: 11 a.m.working day previous to publication - a - 2 P.O.Box 1200 Sherbrooke, Que.J1H 5L6 : | Articles for Sale 88| Business Opportunities £ | Astrology 5 PIECE KITCHEN SUITE, $75.Maple buffet and hutch, $450.Blue love seat, $250.Rose living room chair, $55.2 piece (Captain) bedroom suite, $75.Apt.size washer, $75.Dryer, $90.Small items, a few antique pieces.(819) 562-4515.14647 { Articles Wanted KENNEL FOR 75 lb.dog for air travel.Call (819) 884-5956.wna WANTED TO PURCHASE \u2014 Euro- ean, American and Canadian silver, urniture, paintings, watercolours or sculpture, Indian artefacts, ceinture fleche, jewellery and gold wristwatches.V.l.Antiques & Fine Art, 1165 Greene Ave., Westmount.(514) 288-7627.sss 62 Machinery FORD 555 BACKHOE \u2014 1983 new motor, mechanics very good.Call (819) 838-5686 after 6 p.m.A must see! us Hobbies-Handicrafts A GREAT SUMMER CRAFT \u2014 Basketry Workshops at Uplands Museum, Lennoxville.Tuesday evenings andor Thursday afternoons, August 9 to September 1.Beginner, intermediate projects.Information: (819) 564-0409.isu QUARTER HORSES and Morgan Horse for sale.Call (514) 538-0688 or 538-8433.14e Poultry TURKEYS - 2 weeks old and up; meat chickens.Mason's Feather Farm, Lennoxville, (819) 564-8838.14836 Pets COME & CHOOSE your future companion.Yellow Labs, purebred.$350 with certificate, $300 without.Call Pierrette at (819) 843-1867.usm )| Garage Sales WATERLOO Garage Sale on August 20 and 21, 9 a.m.to 5 p.m., at 14 Jones St., Frost Village, Waterloo.ses 82] Home Improvement CUSTOM DESIGNED residential door and window glass.Mirrors and glass of all types.Call Peter at (819) 569-0988 or visit Verrteck, 34 Jacques-Cartier South, Sherbrooke.14825 LES PLATRIERS de I'Estrie Orca.Taping, plastering, stuccoing.Specialties: repairs of all kinds, renovations or new construction.For free estimate call Dan (819) 820-7764, pager 556-6127.so Credit Services CREDIT REPAIR \u2014 Restore your credit.Canadian Credit Counsellors Ltd., BBB member, 1-800-774-5779.14384 VENDING ROUTE: Tired of get rich quick deals?Want a good, solid, real business?We got it! Priced to sell.1-800-820-6782.wes 89| Personal LONELY?Call your date now! 1-900-451-3560, ext.7240.$2.99Mminute.Must be 18 years.Newcall, Lid.(602-954-7420).167 SHERBROOKE GIRL\u2019S NUMBERS: 1-900-451-3564, ext.150, $2.99Mminute, 18 and over.Vision Exports, Inc.wuss: YOU CAN FIND your special someone now! 1-900-451-3560, ext.5701.$2.99minute.Must be 18 years.Newcall Ltd.(602) 954-7420.1s RATES IN 15\u20ac per word \u2018| Minimum charge $3.75 per day for 25 words or less.Discounts for prepaid consecutive il Insertions without copy change 3 insertions - less 10% 6 insertions - less 15% 21 insertions - less 20% #84 Found - 3 consecutive days - no charge Use of \u201cRecord Box\" for replies is $3.00 per week We accept Visa & MasterCard DEADLINE 11 a.m.working day previous to publication.Classified ads must be prepaid.Thank You For Checking Please look over your ad the first day it appears making sure i reads as you requested, as The Record cannot be responsible for more than one insertion.AUCTION SALE For MRS.AMBIA MORRISON 584, Main St.Bury, Que.SATURDAY, AUG.13, 1994 at 10:30 A.M.TO BE SOLD: Zennith table mode! color TV set with remote control, Sectional chesterfield set, Duncanfyfe type oak dining room table, 6 oak dining room chairs, oak rocking chair, and odd antique pressback chairs, 1 beautiful oak antique library desk, many nice antique tables, 1 flatop ladies maple desk, quantity of antique picture frames and mirrors, 5 piece chrome kitchen set, G.E.mini washer, G.E.vacuum cleaner, 1 four drawer steel filing cabinet, antique vanity with mirror, antique radio, antique bedroom set, bedroom set with twin beds, Kenmore electric stove, trunks, lawn furniture, floor and reading lamps, quantity of books, leg vise and quantity of tools, large quantity of linens and blankets, complete set of Rodgers silverware, many antique silver pieces, quantity of electrical appliances, quantity of china, glassware, cooking utensils, etc., other articles too numerous to mention, all to be sold without reserve, as Mrs.Morrison is giving up house keeping.Terms: Cash or cheques accepted.Lunch: Canteen ART BENNETT and ROSS BENNETT Bilingual Auctioneers Tel.889-2272 or\u2019 889-2840 Sawyerville, Que.LIVE PERSONAL PSYCHIC consult you on love and money!!! Call 1-900-451-3530, ext.5238.$3.99minute.Must be 18 years.Newcall, Ltd.(602) 954-7420.wuss YOU ALWAYS HIT THE MARK WITH THE CLASSIFIEDS AUCTION SALE For MRS.O.LETARTE of Sherbrooke & others To be held at Art Bennett's & Sons Auction Barn located on the Sawyerville-Cookshire Road, Route 253 Sud WEDNESDAY, AUG.10, 1994 at 6 p.m.TO BE SOLD: 1 Lowrey electric organ, excellent condition; beautiful eight piece Mahogany dining room set; five piece wood den set with round table; five piece chrome kitchen set, like new; den size chesterfield; Coldspot 2 door refrigerator, color green, like new; Kenmore 30 inch electric stove, color green, like new; Kenmore automatic washer, color green; like new; Kenmore automatic dryer, color green, like new; Panasonic microwave oven; many nice odd tables & chairs, some antique pieces; antique gingerbread clock; very nice modern bedroom set; three piece bedroom set with single bed; odd bureaus, commodes, and chests of drawers; lamps and radios; Allis-Chalmers 8 HP snowblower; LawnBoy power lawn-mower; Sunbeam electric snow blower; many electric tools, hand tools and garden tools; pitcher & basin sets; silverware pieces; electrical appliances, glassware, china, cooking utensils; odd dishes, etc.; other articles too numerous to mention.Lunch canteen.Terms: Cash or cheques accepted from known buyers.ART BENNETT & ROSS BENNETT Bilingual Auctioneers Sawyerville, Que.Tel.: 889-2272 CARRIERS WANTED TO DELIVER Record wn The Record needs carriers for the following routes: URGENT! Rte 555 North Hatley Sherbrooke Road and Merrill Park Delivery Only Please apply to: Circulation Department 569-9528 ¢ ~ 7 (\\ - , 2 Mm.F0G HELP WANTED a (NC)\u2014Here's a bright idea.Replace a burnt-out bulb with a compact fluorescent alternative.You'll save energy and money too.Go GREEN.x THis WEEK./ & EVERY WEEK, \u201cAA -r -r Tuesday, August 9, 1994 NORTH 3-9-94 aA 10 vJ973 *J 2 4K Q1076 WEST EAST 48752 aQJ 43 v6 5 YAS +Q 63 +A K 10 854 #9852 +3 SOUTH aK 96 vK Q 1042 697 æA J 4 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: East South West North East le lv Pass 2+ Pass 2v Pass 3% Pass 49 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead: + 3 More for the majority By Phillip Alder The American Contract Bridge League controls tournament bridge in North America.(For details, call 800- 467-1623.) The ACBL publishes a monthly magazine, called The Bulletin, which gives tournament results and contains many interesting articles.Just recently, the section comprising instructional material for the majority of the ACBL membership was expanded.The May issue contained today\u2019s deal, an excellent example of the Scissors Coup.North\u2019s two-diamond cue-bid showed a good hand, usually with heart support.South wasn\u2019t ashamed of his overcall, but he couldn\u2019t think of another rebid to make.However, when North issued a game invitation, South went on with alacrity.West led his lowest diamond.East won with the king and immediately switched to the club three.East\u2019s intentions were clear.He planned to win the first round of trumps, lead a diamond to his partner\u2019s queen and receive a club ruff to defeat the contract.Was there any way for declarer to thwart this dastardly scheme?Yes, there was, as long as East had both the queen and jack of spades.After winning the club switch, declarer cashed dummy\u2019s spade ace, played a spade to his king and led the spade nine.When West played a lower spade, dummy\u2019s diamond jack was discarded.By cutting the defenders\u2019 communication, South ensured that West never gained the lead and East never re- 4 Crossword ceived a club ruff.The declarer lost only three tricks: one spade, one heart and one diamond.BRIDGE PHILLIP ALDER \u201cYour Birthday Tuesday, Aug.9, 1994 Make an effort to maintain cozy relationships in the year ahead with fellow workers.They could be of enormous help to you in furthering your ambitions.LEO (July 23-Aug.22) You possess something \u2014 either knowledge, a product or a method \u2014 that is of more value to others than it is to you.Try to find your markets today.Know where to look for romance and you'll find it.The Astro- Graph Matchmaker instantly reveals which signs are romantically perfect for you.Mail $2 to Matchmaker, c/o this newspaper, P.O.Box 4465, New York, N.Y.10163.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) This is a good day to get together socially with two individuals who can help you further your current plans.Present your proposal with enthusiasm and do not omit any details.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) A situation that has caused you considerable consternation because it appears to be idling in neutral could suddenly shift into gear today.Be ready for anything! 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(96H NEVER GHIRE À BARON $ WITH A GRAFFITI ARTIST.y Jr % FEEL I WOULD IMPROVE \\ © 1994 by NEA, Inc \u201cI'm dieting.how much to wire just the fridge?\u201d 10\u2014The RECORD\u2014Tuesday, August 9, 1994 Sports Pecord Sher-Mont now 3-0 All-stars hit three homers in victory The Sher-Mont Little League all-star team improved its mark to 3-0 at the Canadian baseball championship for 11-12-year-olds.They downed the host team from Calgary 15-7 in rainy conditions on Monday.The win set up a clash for first-place today between Sher-Mont \"and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.Glace Bay beat Ontario representati- | ve, High Park, 1-0 yesterday.The winner of the Quebec-Nova Sco- tia game automatically advances to Saturday\u2019s final.Claude Mongeau, Kevin Bergin and Jean-Frangois Plante all homered in Sher-Mont\u2019s third inning as the team scored seven \u201cruns for a 9-1 lead.Calgary rallied for six runs against Jean-François Leclair in the - bottom of the third inning to make it 9-7.Nicolas Lessard came in to shutdown Calgary the rest of the way to save the game.Sher-Mont had 13 hits and committed four errors, while Calgary had seven hits and eight errors in wet conditions.Lucia wins two bronze E.T.athletes win 10 medals at track meet Three Eastern Townships athletes won a total of 10 medals at the Legion Games national track and field meet for midget and juvenile age athletes in Ottawa last weekend.Alexandre Marchand led the way with five medals, including one gold and three silvers.He was on two relay teams, the 4 x 100-metre and the medley relay, that won silver medals for Quebec.Dominique Bilodeau won three medals at the meet including one gold.She won the javelin with a throw of 41.10-metres.Bilo- deau also finished second in the shot put and won a silver with the Quebec medley relay team.Lennoxville\u2019s Adrienne Lucia finished with two bronze medals at the meet.Lucia was ranked fourth in the nation in the 80-metre hurdles and the long jump going into the meet.She finished third in the long jump with a leap of 5.1-metres and fourth in the hurdles., Lucia also won a bronze medal as part of the Quebec 4 x - 100-metre relay team.The team was ranked eighth in Canada, but posted a time of 51.03 seconds.Alberta won the race with a time of 48.87 seconds to establish a national record.Sherbrooke kayakers a force at provincials The Sherbrooke Nautical Club brought home 13 medals from the provincial canoeing and kayaking championship, all of them from kayaking.Sébatien Boulé won a total of six medals in three separate age categories and Pierre-Olivier Girard w n five.Both kayakers dominated in the boys midget (under ! ) category.Boulé won the gold in the 1,000-metr singles event and Girard finished second.They partnered up to win the gold in the 1,000-metre K-2 race and won the 1,000-metre K-4 with teammates David Lacroix and Frédéric Maréchal.Boulé and Girard won the bronze medal in the 1,000-metre K-2 for juvenile (under 18) kayakers and teamed up with Antoine Pratte and Guillaume Leprohon to finish third in the junior (under-20) 1,000-metres K-4 race.° Boulé, Pratte, Leprohon and Mathieu Perrault won the silver medal in the 1,000-metre K-4 juvenile race.Perrault and Lepro- hon teamed up to finish third in the juvenile 500-metre K-2 event.The Sherbrooke club also won two medals in the bantam (under-14) boys category.Maréchal was second in the 500-metre K-1 race and won the gold with Jean-Christophe Pothier in the 500-metre K-2.Catherine Croteau and Sonia Bouchard won a pair of bronze medals in the juvenile girls K-2 races, finishing third in both the 500 and 1,000-metre races.Nathalie Bilodeau, Catherine Jeandenan, Lucie Renart and Sylvie Girard captured the bronze in the junior women\u2019s K-4 500-metre race.Quebec Games qualifying \u2014 baseball The Drummondville Swift Textiles Pee Wee \u201cA\u201d won the regional qualifying final for the 1995 Quebec Games last weekend in Magog.They beat the Plessissiville Braves in the final.The Cowansville Cougars won the bronze medal.Another Drummondville team won the gold medal in the Pee Wee \u201cAA\u201d final.The Dodgers beat Granby Optimiste for the championship.The Orford Marlins finished third.Flames find financiers CALGARY (CP) \u2014 Two original owners of the Flames have been replaced by six new investors in a move that will keep the million.refused to comment on reports the pair\u2019s share is worth $25 National Hockey League club in Calgary, the new management team said Monday.No financial terms were announced but Flames chairman Harley Hotchkiss said the ownership restructuring adds the resources and experience needed for a Canadian small- market team to survive in the NHL.\u201cWe've got the kind of business experience and resources to cope,\u201d said Hotchkiss, who along with several partners brought the Flames to Calgary from Atlanta in 1980.\u201cWe have a mechanism to ensure this franchise stays in Calgary under the kind of private ownership we've had in the past.That was our priority, to keep the Flames in Calgary and in this building.\u201d Under the deal former Canadian Football League star Nor- mie Kwong and Sonia Scurfield have sold their combined 34 per cent interest in the Flames to the new partnership.Hotchkiss Three of the original owners \u2014 Hotchkiss, Byron Seaman and his brother Daryl Seaman, all successful oilmen \u2014 remain.The new investors are Grant Bartlett, president of Archer Resources Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company; Murray Edwards, president of EDCO Financial Holdings Ltd., a private merchant banking firm; Ronald Joyce, owner of Tim Horton Donuts; Alvin Libin, vice- president of Crownx Inc., a health care and financial service company; Allan Markin, chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., an oil and gas company; and John McCaig, president of Trimac Ltd., a trucking and oil and gas service company.He also is chairman of the new Calgary Regional Health Authority.Hotchkiss wouldn't give any details about the partnership but said he, the Seamans, Edwards and Joyce are majority shareholders.Expos baseball\u2019s best team Alou\u2019s three-run homer sinks Pirates PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 It\u2019s never been better than this for the Montreal Expos: first place, a big lead, the best record in baseball.Only now the worst possible thing might happen: a strike.Moises Alou hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning as the Montreal Expos beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Monday and moved 33 games over .500 for only the second season in franchise history.Gil Heredia (6-3) made his second consecutive strong start in place of the injured Jeff Fasse- ro, limiting Pittsburgh to six hits over seven innings.The Expos have won 18 of 20.Montreal's 72-39 record is the best in the majors.The Expos are 33 games over .500 for the first time since they were 94-61 late in the 1979 season.Those bo Hy / Lo 5 4 i à £ £a Gil Heredia providing strong outings as replacement starter.Expos went on to lose four of their last five games and the National League East title to the Pirates.\u201cWe're not worrying about a strike,\u201d Alou said.\u201cThe only thing we're worrying about is - winning games.We're still winning and gaining some ground on the Braves, and whenever we come back we'll still be in first place.\u201d The only uncertainty is when that will be: next week, next month or next year.\u201cWe don\u2019t see it that way,\u201d Expos manager Felipe Alou said.\u201cWe still believe some cooler heads and more intelligent people will take over.If we do strike, we hope it won't be a long one.We don\u2019t want to go into the playoffs after six weeks off.We think we're good enough to win - this thing if we play the rest of the season.\u201d The homer came four years to the day Pittsburgh traded Moises Alou, infielder Willie Greene and pitcher Scott Ruskin to the Expos for pitcher Zane Smith, who helped the Pirates win three consecutive NL East titles.\u201cReally?1 didn\u2019t remember that,\u201d Moises Alou said.\u201cBut if this was the fourth anniversary, I'm glad I hit a homer.\u201d Heredia is 2-0 with a 1.29 earned-run average in two starts since Fassero went on the disabled list July 23 with a strained muscle.Heredia struck out six and walked none.John Wette- land pitched the ninth for his 23rd save, striking out Don Slaught to end the game with two men on.Steve Cooke (4-11), winless as a starter since June 21 and 0-4 with a 10.93 ERA in his previous four starts, checked the Expos on two hits until Marquis Grissom singled for his second hit in 23 at-bats to start the sixth.Wil Cordero, hitting .500 (11-for-22) as the Expos have won six of seven from Pittsburgh, then doubled ahead of Alou\u2019s 22nd homer, on a 2-and-0 fastball from Cooke.\u201cHe pitched ahead in the McGriff lifts Braves CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Fred McGriff hit two two-run homers and Steve Avery struck out a career-high 11 Monday night to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 6-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.The Reds\u2019 third loss in the four-game series cut their lead in baseball\u2019s National League Central to one-half a game over Houston.The Astros were off Monday.McGriff drove in four runs with his 31st and 32nd homers off John Roper (6-2), who has won once since July 1.David Justice also hit a solo homer, his 18th, off Roper.Avery (8-3) allowed three hits over eight innings and walked three.He was so overpowering early that he reached his career high of 10 strikeouts in the sixth.Six of his 11 strikeouts were called.Greg McMichael got the final three outs for his 21st save.Mark Wohlers began the ninth and gave up an RBI single to Kevin Mitchell.Mike Stanton World Championship of Basketball Canada\u2019s medal hopes fade after loss By Doug Smith TORONTO (CP) \u2014 The road to the medal podium at the world basketball championship just got a lot longer for Canada\u2019s national team.Playing in front of a hostile crowd in their own country\u2019s largest city, a Canadian turnover with six seconds left and a fast- break dunk gave Greece a 74-71 victory in an emotion-packed game at Maple Leaf Gardens.Down 72-71 with 24 seconds left and with the ball, Canada worked it to Rick Fox of the Boston Celtics at the foul line for the potential game-winning basket.However, he lost control of the ball and an emphatic dunk by Panagiotis Fassoulas sealed the game, Canada must now face the talented Croatian team Wednesday at Maple Leaf Gardens needing an upset of huge proportions.Led by NBA regulars Dino Radja of the Celtics and Chicago\u2019s Toni Kukoc, the Croats destroyed China 105-73 in the opening game of Monday's doubleheader.Greece meets China on the same Wednesday twinbill.The top two teams from the pool advance to the semifinals, meaning two wins gives a team an automatic spot.Elsewhere in classification- round games in Hamilton, it was: Argentina 91, Egypt 66; Spain 98, South Korea 57; and Brazil 82, Cuba 76.Germany played Angola in a late game Monday.The fans never stopped chanting, singing and waving their flags from the first tip-off until the final buzzer for the Canada- Greece game.The crowd of about 11,000 was dominated by Greek supporters.Toronto's estimated Greek population of 65,000 has adopted the team as if the tournament was being held in Athens, showing more white and blue striped Greek flags than have been seen in Toronto in a long, long time.The Canadians were even booed when they came on the floor and took a razzing every time a player went to the foul line.Fans Christodoulo, a non- factor when Canada won an exhibition game 79-67 in London last week was a dominant force all night.He hit rainbow jumpers from all over the court and repeatedly beat Canadian defenders \u2014 particularly Kory Hallas \u2014 on drives through the lane.He scored a game-high 26-points while Fassoulas finished with 19.Hallas, who hit two straight three-point field goals as Canada rallied from a seven-point deficit with 1:19 to go, led Canada with 20 while Fox had 17.While Canada did an adequate job keeping Fassoulas in check in the first half, they were burnt time and time again by forward Christodoulo, who beat Hallas across the key on drives any time he apparently wanted.Hallas, getting a starting role Bettman wages \u2018economic warfare\u2019 NHL boss angers players with By Alan Adams TORONTO (CP) \u2014 NHL players feel league commissioner Gary Bettman is waging \u201ceconomic warfare\u201d with a 16-point rol- Iback pronouncement that would eliminate meal allowances and force players to pay their way to training camp and back home again at the end of the season.\u201cIt is certainly warfare,\u201d Mike Gartner, president of the NHL Players\u2019 Association, said Monday.\u201cThey obviously want to fight.Why would they be doing something like this unless they were trying to provoke us?\u201d Gartner, a veteran right winger with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was reacting to a letter Bettman sent to the NHLPA earlier this month which outlined a number of changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement unless a new pact is reached by Sept.1, the day before training camps open.The old pact expired last autumn.Bettman also proposes to eliminate salary arbitration, to reduce the players\u2019 playoff pool to $2 million from $9 million, to make two-way contracts mandatory for all players and reduce game roster sizes to 19 from 20.Players would also pay the first $750 of medical insurance while players earning more than $350,000 would have to pay their own life insurance, health care and disability premiums.Players would be prohibited from wearing the NHLPA\u2019s line of clothing when representing their club, and community service, public appearances and commercial appearances would be mandatory.If the changes were implemented, sources say the owners would save $20 million.Bettman\u2019s action is seen as a means to jump-start stalled contract talks with NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow, with whom he last held talks on March 16.Whether the letter served that purpose is open to debate, but the NHL obviously thinks it did.Bettman was unavailable for comment on the status of talks.However, he did issue a statement which said, in part, \u201cFor whatever reason, the players are now willing to meet with us to discuss the issues that must be resolved.\u201d NHL vice-president Jeff Pash said the league \u201ccouldn\u2019t understand why the players refused to meet for five months.Now we have their attention.\u201d The NHL said contract talks will resume Aug.18, with free agency and some form of a salary cap the main issues.Bettman\u2019s letter was the topic of much conversation at an NHLPA charity golf tournament Monday.Some players headed to the practice tee with a bucket of balls saying they were going to \u201c- tee off on Bettman\u201d while they thought about his proposals.\u201cThe reaction from players has not been very positive,\u201d said Goodenow, who described contract talks as being \u201cnot cordial and not moving along.\u201d \u201cIt (the state of negotiations) has taken a turn towards a more difficult, bitter confrontational approach.We see this as something that certainly effects the relationship we have with them.\u201cNeedless to say, this kind of an approach does not bode well Kings get defenceman INGLEWOOD, Calif.(AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Kings acquired defenceman Ruslan Batyrshin and a 1996 second-round draft choice from the Winnipeg Jets on Monday for free-agent defence- man Brent Thompson.Batyrshin, 19, played for the Russian junior team that won a count for five innings, but you saw what happened when he got behind,\u201d Pirates manager Jim Leyland said.\u201cI'm never encouraged when we lose, but I was very impressed with Steve Cooke.He pitched inside and broke some bats.\u201d Midre Cummings singled in the Pirates\u2019 first run in the second and doubled ahead of Slaught\u2019s run-scoring single in the seventh.Cummings was 3-for-4 after getting only three hits in his previous 29 at-bats.came on and hit Hal Morris with an 0-2 pitch to load the bases.McMichael got Reggie Sanders to fly out and retired pinch- hitter Lenny Harris on an RBI grounder before Thomas Howard doubled in two runs.Deion Sanders grounded out to end the game.The Braves padded their National League-leading home run total to 134 by hitting nine during the four-game series.McGriff had three of them.Both of McGriff's two-run homers Monday came with two out.He pulled one to right- centre field in the first and sliced one to left-centre in the third.Two pitches later, Justice hit his 18th homer and his second in two games for a 5-0 lead.Roper gave up six hits and five runs in 4 1-3 innings.Johnny Ruffin gave up an RBI single to Dave Gallagher in the sixth, but left-fielder Kevin Mitchell threw Rafael Belliard out at the plate as he tried to score on the hit.in favor of Spencer McKay for the first time in the tournament, picked up his third personal foul early in the second half and spent about seven minutes on the bench.Croatia 105 China 73 Dino Radja scored 23 points while Toni Kukoc added 13 points and 15 assists as Croatia thumped China.Arijan Komazec also had 22 points for Croatia, with 11 coming in the second half.Weidong Hu did his part for China, scoring a game-high 31 points, which included nine three-pointers, before fouling out late in the second half.Only one other Chinese player finished in double figures.The Croatians opened the game with a 14-2 run through the first 4:06, which brought the boisterious partisan Croatia gathering of about 5,000 flag- waving spectators to their feet repeatedly.Kukoc spearheaded the run with six points and Rad- ja scored four.proposals for bargaining and does not bode well for partnership and, frankly, flies in the face of the efforts we have made to try and work with the league.\u201d While players left little doubt they were upset with Bettman, it remains to be seen whether they have the resolve to strike for the second time in three seasons.\u201cDefinitely the players\u2019 resolve is going to be tested here if we are going to play under these conditions in September,\u201d said Ken Baumgartner of the Toronto Maple Leafs.\u201cWhat we are going to do, I do not know.We will be tested.\u201d Said Larry Murphy of the Pittsburgh Penguins: \u201cThe owners have decided they want to get things done and they've turned the heat up and now the ball is in the players\u2019 court and we will have to decide how to handle it.\u201d silver medal in the 1993 European Junior Championships.The Jets took him in the fourth round of the 1993 NHL entry draft with the 79th overall pick.He has played the last three seasons for Moscow Dynamo.Thompson, 23, had one goal in 24 games for the Kings.~~, eas "]