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[" T H E V O I C E O F T H E E A S T E R N T O W N S H I P S S I N C E 18 9 7 T H E An election refresher Page 5 Dian Cohen talks politics Page 4 $1.00 + taxes PM#0040007682 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Healthcare professionals denounce mandatory overtime, poor working conditions Coaticook ER open again full time By Gordon Lambie The CIUSSS de l\u2019Estrie \u2013 CHUS announced the complete reopening of the emergency department at the Coaticook hospital on Monday after just over a month of reduced hours.Originally cut back to daytime-only hours as of July 14 due to staf?ng shortages, the department will now receive people with emergency medical needs through the night as well.The partial closure was one of several similar situations that has developed in the region and across the province.Last week the CIUSSS announced the closure of the Val-des-Sources Hospital, but not its emergency department, for at least a month for similar reasons.As of Monday afternoon, ?ve of the region\u2019s eight emergency departments were over capacity.The Province of Quebec recorded 1,163 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, 409 of which were from Sunday.This increases the bringing the total number of people infected since the start of the pandemic to 381,996, with 2,924 active cases.There was one new death recorded over the weekend, but due to the withdrawal of one previously-reported death that was deemed not related to the virus the total number of deaths remained unchanged at 11,242.The number of hospitalizations increased by two, to 82, with 27 of those being in intensive care.The next update from the regional public health department in the Eastern Townships is due Tuesday morning, but according to Quebec\u2019s institute of public health, the INSPQ, the number of active cases in the area increased by MICHAEL BORIERO By Michael Boriero Sophie Delarosbil, an auxiliary nurse at the Brome-Missisquoi-Per- kins Hospital in Cowansville, has reached a breaking point, like so many healthcare professionals in the Eastern Townships, suffering from unbearable hours and demoralizing conditions.Delarosbil was one of several nurses to speak during a press conference in front of the hospital Monday.She spoke about her dwindling passion for the job, exhausted by countless mandatory overtime shifts, and a deteriorating workplace environment.It was a dream job when she started 16 years ago, she explained, but it has since turned into a nightmare, made worse by the ongoing pandemic and fourth wave of COVID-19.She often wonders when she will get home to her family and ?nd time to sleep.Healthcare professionals are not machines, Delarosbil continued, adding that she barely has time to spend with her three children.She has already seen many of her colleagues leave the public sector for better jobs, or take time off due to illness or burnout.CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 3 CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 3 PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 2 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Ben by Daniel Shelton The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week.Wherever you are.Access the full edition of the Sherbrooke Record as well as special editions and 30 days of archives.Renew or order a new 12-month print subscription and get a 12-month online subscription for an additional $5 or purchase the online edition only for $125.00 Record subscription rates (includes Quebec taxes) For print subscription rates, please call 819-569-9528 or email us at billing@sherbrookerecord.com 12 month web only: $125.00 1 month web only: $11.25 Web subscribers have access to the daily Record as well as archives and special editions.Subscribing is as easy as 1,2,3: 1.Visit the Record website: www.sherbrookerecord.com 2.Click e-edition.3.Complete the form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather TODAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUD HIGH 27 LOW 17 WEDNESDAY: CLOUDY HIGH 26 LOW 14 THURSDAY: SUNNY HIGH 29 LOW 15 FRIDAY: SUNNY HIGH 29 LOW 17 SATURDAY: MIX OF SUN AND CLOUD HIGH 27 LOW 16 Well, this is it.This morning, Tuesday, August 18th, 2021, is a kind of Christmas.Birthday.A celebration.A long-awaited gift.A year ago, Champlain College Lennoxville\u2019s Cougar Ambassador leadership team sat in Centennial Theatre, with two plastic-covered seats between each of them to establish physical distancing and make clean-up and disinfecting the seats they used easier.They had been out of school for a few months.Both days the group went outside to eat their boxed lunches, ordered from Sodexo on campus, but came back into Centennial\u2019s cool dark space.Returning students, they trained to learn how to welcome the incoming ?rst-years \u2013 helping them feel welcome and to get to know their campus and hopefully meet a few friends.That was the only time all year that the whole group was together in person \u2013 every other meeting for the rest of the school year, we met online, through the Zoom application.Occasionally a small group gathered, for the few activities we were able to hold, following rules and regulations to keep everyone safe.All in-person activities involved food \u2013 a Beaver Tails truck, Domino\u2019s pizza, mini-muf?ns from Lace Bakery, cinnamon rolls from Bekkah\u2019s Bakery \u2013 whatever they could line up for and leave with.We hoped that perhaps just once before the end of the school year, we\u2019d be able to gather again \u2013 we tried a few times, but it wasn\u2019t to be.The school year ended, and off they went into the world \u2013 some of them to other destinations for post-CÉGEP schooling at the university level, but a handful remain, leaders through one of the most challenging stretches to keep school spirit and motivation up.Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the Cougar Ambassador Leadership Team train together once again.IN PERSON.A different set-up this year, the spacious nature of The Gait, an exam space, the university pub on weekends, such a welcoming, broad and sunlit spot to get to know one another as a team, returning Ambassadors and newbies alike, just the opportunity to be together is not something we will ever take for granted again.Exchanging, moving around, looking one another in the eyes, it will be an adjustment after the last school year.With plenty of room in The Gait to respect space and distance, allowing for everyone\u2019s comfort zones to be taken into consideration, the anticipation of togetherness is long overdue.As they are all returning students, some had a pre-pandemic experience, others only know post-secondary learning from a pandemic standpoint.Campus tour training will be that much more important, as for the ?rst time, many of these student leaders hardly spent any time on campus last year.Unless they were studying nursing, science, visual arts or were required to come in for other reasons, many of them studied and learned from home, missing out on populating and claiming the halls, the classrooms, the learning commons, the sports complex, and all other nooks and crannies for their own.I think the school misses them.Anyone who works in a school can say that the buildings hum and breathe differently when the students leave \u2013 they exhale and rest when school is out for the day, for the weekend, for holidays, and at the end of the school year, the greatest exhale takes place, and then when cleaning, polishing, painting, primping, waxing ?oors and preparing the building and grounds for the students\u2019 return, the school begins takes new breaths again, ready for the students\u2019 return.Our school was so empty last year.Here\u2019s to the return, here\u2019s to the hum, here\u2019s to the hive, the ant colony, the population back in the buildings, and to taking precautions so that, with any luck, we can stay that way.Another year, another enthusiastic group of young people, prepared to give their time and energy to learn to lead, to learn to be present for others, to be a beacon and part of a safe space for brand new college students to land their worries.Érika, Zachary, Niomi, Hannah, Léa, Malayha, Paige, Simon, Tristan, Sam, Cecilia, Alexandre, Laurie- Anne, Amgad, Brendan, Emma B., Souleymane, Carolyn, Emily, Anne, Emma R., Alexandra, Élorie, So?a, Tanya, and Rylie, you are gems, stepping up to make this experience the best it can be! Cougar Ambassadors of 2021-2022, training days are here! All together now Sheila Quinn Dishpan Hands PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 3 Local News \u201cWell, since last month I stopped working, I went to see my doctor, and they gave me a month off, so to go see a psychologist because I can\u2019t carry on doing that.I come to work with anxiety, and I\u2019ve never been anxious during my life,\u201d said Boucher.CONT\u2019D FROM PAGE 1 40 over the weekend to reach 166.The INSPQ recorded 145 new cases of COVID-19 in the Townships over the last week as a whole.Speci?c case numbers were not available on Monday for the Haut-Saint-François, Des Sources, Val Saint-François, and Coaticook sub-regions, but the majority of the active cases were attributed to Sherbrooke, where there were 81, and the Haute- Yamaska, where there were 62.There have been no new deaths locally as a result of the virus, but the number of hospitalizations also increased to seven over the weekend, two of whom are in intensive care.When it comes to vaccination, 85.1 per cent of the eligible population has now received a single dose, while 73.5 per cent are considered adequately vaccinated.According to Health Minister Christian Dubé, the province\u2019s 18- 29 year-olds were 8,841 doses away from reaching 75 per cent coverage for a ?rst dose on Monday.Covid update Call for projects supporting culture in education Record Staff The Ministère de la Culture et des Communications has launched the fourth call for projects in support of cultural activities in the education system, which will run until Oct.1, 2021.With a budget of $2 million, the call for projects aims to increase and enrich the supply of cultural activities for young people in early childhood, preschool, elementary, secondary and college, and contributes, among other things, to supporting professional artists, writers and organizations that wish to submit a cultural activity project.Since the launch of the ?rst call for projects in August 2018, the ministry has granted a total budget of $7.5 million to carry out more than 250 cultural projects throughout Quebec.Eligibility requirements The call for projects is open to : - professional artists, including writers, and organizations listed in the Répertoire culture-éducation; - professional cultural organizations and professional organizations in the communications sector, as well as national cultural recreation organizations that receive operating assistance from the ministry; - public libraries, including municipal libraries and association libraries independent of the municipal administrative structure that are recognized as public and supported by the municipalities whose populations they serve; - higher arts training schools supported by the Operating Assistance for Arts Training Organizations program or belonging to the Conservatoire de musique et d\u2019art dramatique du Québec school network.Professional organizations that are not listed in the Répertoire culture- éducation, but have been working with young people for more than two years, are also eligible if they work in the ?eld of performing arts (such as dance, music, song, theatre and circus), Multidisciplinary, digital or visual arts, ?lm and video, media and multimedia, crafts, literature and new artistic practices.For more details visit the website https://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca under the programs and services/?nancial aid/ call for projects tabs.New public artwork in Sherbrooke Record Staff The City of Sherbrooke has announced the acquisition of the ?rst digital artwork to become part of the city\u2019s collection.As of Monday evening, the piece was set up and the population can now sail on Le ?ot, which will be projected at the halte des Pionniers, located on Wellington Street North, at the corner of Meadow Street.This digital work, designed by Julien-Robert, a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, is intended to be immersive, interactive and evolving.\u201cThe people who pass by will be an integral part of the work.Their steps and actions will in?uence its evolution in space,\u201d explained the artist.In addition to being in?uenced by passers-by, Le ?ot will evolve over the seasons, since the work, which will illuminate the halte des Pionniers in the evenings, will be presented for at least one whole year.Healthcare professionals \u201cThe health system is bleeding, and so am I.If this continues, I will choose my family,\u201d Delarosbil said with tears in her eyes.Her schedule consists of nine straight evening shifts and then ?ve days off.However, with the hospital overcrowded, and mandatory overtime shifts in place, she often ?nds herself showing up earlier to replace exhausted co-workers, and then staying for hours past her own shift.\u201cI do it about three or four times, coming in earlier or ?nishing at noon for a year now, or at least the past few months, this is the routine.We\u2019re working with one employee all the time and we\u2019re tired.It often happens to me where I cry in my car, sitting in the parking lot,\u201d she said.According to Delarosbil, one nurse is typically tasked with handling up to 12 patients at the same time.There are simply too many patients and not enough nurses on staff, she said, and the government has not taken any concrete actions to alleviate or ?x the situation.\u201cI have three children who are going back to school.Three children that need help with homework.So if I don\u2019t sleep at all, when will I have time to help my children,\u201d said Delarosbil, admitting that she will leave the profession in the next couple weeks if nothing is done.Joelle Boucher, a 24-year-old nurse, is already on burnout.She has worked at the hospital for three years.She has spent the past two years in the emergency room.Boucher said that when she shows up for her 4 p.m.shift, she never really knows when she will allowed to leave.\u201cWell, since last month I stopped working, I went to see my doctor, and they gave me a month off, so to go see a psychologist because I can\u2019t carry on doing that.I come to work with anxiety, and I\u2019ve never been anxious during my life,\u201d said Boucher.She told The Record that she often ?nds herself leaving the hospital at 4 a.m., clocking in a 12-hour shift.Boucher said she barely even has time to sleep before she needs to return to Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins.There is also the issue of irritated and aggressive patients.Nurses are expected to treat everyone with a smile, she said during the press conference, but too often patients come in spouting insults, complaining about prolong wait-times.It is disheartening, Boucher continued, and it happens almost every day.She added that it is not as simple as telling nurses to switch professions if they can\u2019t handle the pressure.Boucher loves her job.She has no intention of leaving her post, but she also wonders why healthcare professionals need to deal with poor working conditions.\u201cThe nursing profession is beautiful, valourizing, and motivating, and it pushes us intellectually, physically and emotionally.It is stimulating and gratifying [\u2026] we give care, we save lives, and we accompany people when they pass away,\u201d said Boucher.The Syndicat des professionnelles en soins des Cantons-de-l\u2019Est has demanded the Quebec government and the CIUSSS de l\u2019Estrie-CHUS to put an end to mandatory overtime.The union believes it is the ?rst step to reducing the workload for all healthcare professionals.The union\u2019s secretary-treasurer David Lambert said that it feels like they have hit an unbreakable brick wall with Premier François Legault, CIUSSS de l\u2019Estrie - CHUS President Stéphane Tremblay, and Health Minister Christian Dubé.Lambert said there was a meeting with Tremblay last week, but the union has not seen any changes, yet.Tremblay has stated that the local health authority is doing everything in its power to resolve the situation.Lambert remains unconvinced anything will happen soon.\u201cThe union has presented several solutions, and [Tremblay] tells us that they are doing their best, but their workers continue to suffer.Tomorrow, after this encounter, nothing will happen, it\u2019s status quo, and it doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d he said.CONT\u2019D FROM PAGE 1 MICHAEL BORIERO Sophie Delarosbil, one of many healthcare workers who have reached the breaking point PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 4 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Buy a big bag of salt and listen carefully to the stories told by politicians \u201cThe decisions your government makes right now will de?ne the future your kids and grandkids will grow up in,\u201d Prime Minister Trudeau said as he announced that we will vote for a new government on Sept.20.Not all statements made by politicians are as true as this one.The question confronting us is, \u201cHow do we decide and then tell our politicians how we want them to behave and what we want them to spend our money on?\u201d You have the next 36 days to think seriously about what kind of country you want to live in with your kids and grandkids.Politicians will be in your face every day until then.After that, unless it\u2019s another minority government, the die will be cast for the next four years.According to the Canadian Index of Well Being at the University of Waterloo, Canadian values include: fairness, inclusion, economic security, safety, sustainability, diversity and equity.According to the Angus Reid Institute, we are divided on issues of respect, fairness, national pride and hope for the future.Whatever kind of society you wish for, it comes with both bene?ts and costs.Everything in the April budget is now on the table \u2013 the $101 billion of new spending to get Canada onto a stable post-pandemic economic recovery, the $30 billion just announced for $10-a-day childcare in the rest of Canada, the $1 billion for rural communities to have high-speed internet.None of this is very controversial and I suspect most Canadians are okay with it.Ditto the $62 billion that the feds pay out for Old Age Security for seniors and the Guaranteed Income Supplement for lower income Canadians.Ditto the $43 billion the feds transfer to the provinces for healthcare.What about the $23 billion that goes to national defense?It\u2019s described as a continuation of Canada\u2019s 2017 \u201cStrong, Secure, Engaged (SSE)\u201d defence policy with no indication that it will reorient strategy towards the Asia-Paci?c as the US and America\u2019s other allies have done.How about the $354 billion de?cit and the $1 trillion debt \u2013 how do you want these to be resolved?No point in throwing up your hands and letting someone else decide.These issues are going to be addressed whether you vote or not.When M.Trudeau came to power in 2015, he raised taxes for people earning more than $200,000 in order to pay for the perks he proposed for middle-income earners.At some point in the future, taxes will be raised to pay for some of the perks in the April 2021 budget, if the Liberals come back to power.The Conservatives will have to deal with debt and de?cits too, even as they now tell us, \u201cWe don\u2019t want more of the same.\u201d There are some very easy pickings for the new government to look at.Billions of dollars of untapped revenue lie in the principal residence of the 7 million Canadian families who own their own home and are exempt from paying capital gains taxes on it.Fifteen million Canadians have opened a Tax-free savings account (TFSA).They have a collective $300 billion in them.That money is accessible without having to pay any tax on it.The legislation that created TFSAs can be changed to make them taxable.Capital gains tax on investments outside of an RRSP or other registered accounts has been changed many times: when it was introduced in the early 1970s, 50 per cent of the capital gain from an investment was taxable at the investor\u2019s marginal tax rate.In 1988, the Conservatives raised the capital gains rate to 66 per cent and in 1990 to 75 per cent.In 2000, the Liberals lowered it to 50 per cent.And of course, any increase in marginal tax rates will increase the taxes paid by retirees on the income they receive from their Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs).I\u2019m not suggesting that these things will happen \u2013 I\u2019m suggesting only that when governments need to ?nd money, they have a lot of places to look.And none of us should ever forget that while we are mostly the bene?ciaries of social and other programs devised by what politicians think will get or keep them in power, we are always the ones who pay the bills.Take all stories with a pinch or more of salt.Dian Cohen is an economist and a founding organizer of the Massawippi Valley Foundation.Cohendian560@gmail.com Dian Cohen Lake Massawippi still clear of zebra mussels Record Staff Non-pro?t conservation group Bleu Massawippi is completing the ?nal stages of a rigorous zebra mussel control protocol this week, and the results are good: no mussels in sight.Nevertheless, the organization is continuing to double its efforts by multiplying its actions, projects and regional consultation activities.While the Massawippi is free and clear of the invasive species at the moment, eight members of the Bleu Massawippi team went to Lake Magog on Tuesday for a zebra mussel collection at the Parc de la plage- publique de Sherbrooke (Deauville).Organized in collaboration with the COGESAF, the activity was part of a plan for monitoring the progression of the zebra mussel, which brings together the Memphrémagog MRC, the City of Sherbrooke, the City of Magog, several ministries and several lake associations, including Bleu Massawippi.\u201cOur scienti?c protocol is demanding.On the one hand, prevention, i.e.awareness and monitoring of boat washing, and on the other hand, veri?cation, i.e.the installation and analysis of traps, and, very demanding in terms of energy, the methodical active research on 40 sites that we are completing today,\u201d explained Michèle Gérin, general manager in a press release on Monday.For nearly 15 days, patrollers have been systematically diving all around the lake, a practice that has become a regular occurrence every August since the discovery of the ?rst zebra mussels in Lake Memphremagog three years ago.Having participated in similar activities in recent years, Vincent Lemieux, project manager at Bleu Massawippi, said the invasive zebra mussel is spreading at a noticeable rate: \u201cObviously, there is quite a good reproduction in Lake Magog and it is now impossible to think of removing them.There are really a lot of them here, thousands of them right here,\u201d Lemieux said.This relentless progression of the mussells has led to fears of the worst for Lake Massawippi, which is highly vulnerable to contamination.\u201cThe patrollers have seen with dismay what they don\u2019t want to see in Lake Massawippi and have increased their efforts this week,\u201d continued Gérin.\u201cThe results are encouraging, but we need to do more, much more, such as mandatory boat washes when leaving contaminated lakes.\u201d Bleu Massawippi has been working hard in 2021, notably with the ÉTÉ project in collaboration with the MRC and the riverside municipalities, and the \u201c Defence du lac à neuf \u201c project in collaboration with the Massawippi regional park and the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 5 Way\u2019s Mills farm in the mushroom business By Arianna Myers Special to The Record Forests are home to much of the world\u2019s biodiversity and absorb billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.A 2017 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called on \u201cforest sector decision- makers to re-imagine forests, not just as spaces for conservation, protection or production \u2026 but also as key to the world\u2019s food systems and diets.\u201d So, a farm in Way\u2019s Mills did just that.Way\u2019s Mills Agroforestry, a small organic mushroom farm located just outside of the village of Ayer\u2019s Cliff, is home to a 120-acre woodlot with nearly 3000 four-foot-long wood logs.The family-run farm specializes in the delivery of healthy, natural, and pesticide-free mushrooms straight from Southern Quebec\u2019s hardwood forest.The land where Way\u2019s Mills Agroforestry sits today was purchased by Daniel Heath and his Wife, Julie Smit in 2006.In 2009, the Quebec government gave them a small grant in support of agroforestry in order to support diverse land use in the Eastern Townships, shared Heath.\u201cThe Quebec government feared that we would use the land for traditional agriculture, such as to grow soybeans, which can take a toll on the environment\u201d explained Heath.\u201cSo, when we were offered the agroforestry grant, it really captured our imaginations.\u201d Today, at Way\u2019s Mills Agroforestry, people can purchase fresh or dried Shiitake mushrooms, or they can get the help they need to grow their own mushrooms.Shiitake mushrooms have an umami ?avour and meat-like texture that is oftentimes hard to ?nd in plant-based foods.They are also high in a form of protein that is easily metabolized and are a great source of bioavailable iron and B vitamins.For these various reasons, Shiitake mushrooms have been cultivated for medicinal, nutritional, and gastronomic purposes for centuries.From May to October, Way\u2019s Mills Agroforestry sells freshly-harvested Shiitake mushrooms.During the winter months, people can purchase dried mushrooms that have been thinly sliced, dried at 42 degrees Celsius under natural light to promote maximum nutritional content, and then vacuum sealed for safe storage.Those interested in growing their own mushrooms can purchase small hardwood logs that were inoculated with Shiitake mushroom mycelia last summer, and Way\u2019s Mills Agroforestry will be there to help with the care and maintenance process.Today, the importance of agroforestry has been highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has further threatened food security and the world\u2019s food systems.\u201cAgroforestry is very sustainable in the long-term, which is an issue that traditional agricultural has always struggled with,\u201d explained Heath.PHOTOS COURTESY OF DANIEL HEATH Inoculating trees with Shitake mushroom mycelia.A 2019 election refresher By Gordon Lambie On Sunday the Prime Minister kicked off a federal election, meaning that registered, interested and eligible voters will be able to head to the polls at the end of next month.The last time this happened was in October of 2019 which, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, might feel a little bit longer ago than it actually was.So what happened, again?In brief, after having spent four years in control of a majority of the seats in parliament, Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government fell into a minority position due in no small part to a signi?cant revival in the Bloc Quebecois.On the Federal electoral map, the Eastern Townships is made up mainly of seven ridings: Brome- Missisquoi, Compton-Stanstead, Drummond, Mégantic-l\u2019Erable, Richmond- Arthabaska, Shefford, and Sherbrooke.In the 2019 election Brome Missisquoi and Compton-Stanstead held their place as Liberal seats under political newcomer Lyne Bessette and established cabinet minister Marie-Claude Bibeau.In both cases the runner up was the candidate for the Bloc Quebecois, and the top two parties accounted for almost 70 per cent of the votes cast.Drummond, which includes communities like South Durham and Drummondville, shifted from the New Democratic Party of Canada to Bloc Quebecois candidate Martin Champoux in the last election.Champoux won with a more than 15,000-vote lead over the Liberal runner-up.Megantic-l\u2019Erable and Richmond- Arthabaska both remained Conservative seats in 2019, with incumbents Luc Berthold and Alain Rayes each managing a lead of at least 10,000 votes.The Bloc Quebecois proved to be the strongest competition in each of these races as well.In Shefford, Bloc Quebecois candidate Andréanne Larouche beat out Liberal incumbent Pierre Breton by less than 1,000 votes in one of the closest races in the region.In this case, the two frontrunner parties accounted for more than 75 per cent of the votes.Sherbrooke, meanwhile, was the region\u2019s red-eye election where the Liberals\u2019 Élisabeth Brière inched out a win in the early hours of the morning by just about 600 votes over the NDP MP, Pierre-Luc Dusseault.Bloc Quebecois candidate Claude Forgues also managed just over a quarter of the votes.Although it\u2019s generally accepted that past performance is no guarantee of future results, it can also be interesting to remember where things stood the last time Canadians were called on to make a decision about who will form government.At this point parties are still establishing their candidacies, with all but the Conservative party lacking a representative in at least one of the local ridings.Registration for candidates, including independents, will be open until 2 p.m.on the 21st day before election day.ELECTIONS CANADA WEBSITE PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL 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writer are not published, except by request.Please email your letters to newsroom@ sherbrookerecord.com.Preference is given to writers from the Eastern Townships.Letters DEAR EDITOR, I am writing to condemn the either stupidly naïve or inexcusably duplicitous announcements made recently that Canada would try to respond to the situation in Afghanistan by resettling 20,000 Afghans \u2013 implying that it would somehow give security at least to those vulnerable people in Afghanistan who have been part of the NATO project there.While Canada can easily ?nd 20,000 Afghans to resettle among the many thousands of refugees in Turkey, Greece and other places to which they have ?ed in recent years, included in this resettlement project will not be the 250 women judges and the many journalists, human rights defenders and aid workers who have been abandoned to face the Taliban as the Canadian embassy\u2019s doors closed this weekend So let\u2019s not pretend that Canada is doing anything substantial or even good at this point to respond to this situation.I am not sure the government ever intended to do more, since it started far too late and must have known it would come to this \u2013 as so many of us did.While Canada was never in a position to prevent the fall of Afghanistan, the time to act to help these vulnerable people was months ago \u2013 even last year when President Trump\u2019s sham \u201cnegotiations\u201d with the Taliban were going on.The belated announcements to ?y out translators and resettle Afghans have been far too little far too late, and frankly, seem like tawdry electioneering, an effort to project a positive image with regard to foreign affairs to unknowing Canadians in the wake of an election.Today is indeed a shameful day.MARY PURKEY SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls Vrinda Narain Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism; Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University Since the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan in July, the Taliban have swiftly taken control of large parts of the country.The president has ?ed and the government has fallen.Emboldened by their success, lack of resistance by Afghan forces and minimal international pressure, the Taliban have intensi?ed their violence.For Afghan women, their increasing power is terrifying.In early July, after Taliban leaders who took control of the provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar issued an order to local religious leaders to provide them with a list of girls over the age of 15 and widows under the age of 45 for \u201cmarriage\u201d with Taliban ?ghters.It\u2019s not yet known whether they\u2019ve complied.If these forced marriages take place, women and girls will be taken to Waziristan in Pakistan to be re-educated and converted to \u201cauthentic Islam.\u201d This order has caused profound fear among women and their families living in these areas and forced them to ?ee and join the ranks of internally displaced persons, adding to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Afghanistan.In the past three months alone, 900,000 people have been displaced.Reminiscent of brutal Taliban rule This Taliban directive serves as a stark warning of what lies ahead and a harsh reminder of their brutal 1996- 2001 regime during which women were subjected to persistent human rights violations, denied employment and education, forced to wear the burqa and forbidden from leaving home without a male \u201cguardian\u201d or mahram.Despite claiming they\u2019ve changed their stance on women\u2019s rights, the Taliban\u2019s actions and latest efforts to commit thousands of women to sexual slavery demonstrate quite the opposite.Furthermore, the Taliban have signalled their intention to deny girls\u2019 education past the age of 12, to ban women from employment and reinstate the law requiring women to be accompanied by a guardian.The gains made by Afghan women over the past 20 years, particularly in education, employment and political participation, are under grave threat.Offering \u201cwives\u201d is a strategy aimed at luring militants to join the Taliban.This is sexual enslavement, not marriage, and forcing women into sexual slavery under the guise of marriage is both a war crime and a crime against humanity.Article 27 of the Geneva Convention states: \u201cWomen must be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any other form of indecent assault.\u201d In 2008, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 declaring that \u201crape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity.\u201d It recognizes sexual violence as a tactic of war intent on humiliating, dominating and instilling fear in civilian members of the community.How to ?ght back The UN must now act decisively to prevent further atrocities against women in Afghanistan.I propose four policy actions for the international community to bring about sustainable peace.They\u2019re guided by Resolution 1820 that underscores the importance of including women as equal participants in the peace process and condemns all forms of gendered violence against civilians in armed con?ict: 1.Calling for an immediate cease?re to ensure the peace process can proceed in good faith.2.Ensuring that women\u2019s rights \u2014 enshrined in Afghanistan\u2019s Constitution, national legislation and international law \u2014 are respected.3.Insisting that peace negotiations continue with meaningful participation of Afghan women.Currently, there are only four women peace negotiators on the Afghan government\u2019s team and none on the Taliban\u2019s.4.Lifting sanctions against the Taliban must be conditional on their commitment to uphold women\u2019s rights.The European Union and the United States, currently the largest donors to Afghanistan, must make aid conditional upon women\u2019s rights and their access to education and employment.Women in Afghanistan and across the region would welcome efforts by the UN and the international community to ensure that survivors of sexual violence have equal protection under the law and equal access to justice.There must be no impunity for acts of sexual violence as part of a comprehensive approach to seeking sustainable peace, justice and national reconciliation in Afghanistan.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 7 Letters DEAR EDITOR, Further to the letter from C.Standish \u2018\u2019The election about nothing\u201d (Monday, August 16), it looks like all traditional federal options for Sept.20th seem detrimental to the English-Speaking Community of Quebec.Of course, we have seen this movie many times before, but we always seem to blissfully vote for the Liberal Parties of Canada & Quebec anyway.Maybe it is time for a change.I understand that the Rhinoceros Party may be ?elding candidates in Quebec this time.Anyone Interested?RON CREARY MAGOG My Take I\u2019m curious to see if the report released just last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will have any bearing on the electoral promises that are about to start washing over us.Possibly not, after all, the report was old news.The IPCC stated that climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying in every region of the world and across the whole climate system.They stated that strong and sustained reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are necessary to limit climate change.We have known these things for one if not two generations.Whether we spend our days glued to our multiple screens, or spend them outdoors, there is ample evidence for all but the willfully blind to see that our climate has been changing for a generation or more and that weather events are increasingly intense.Almost every day our screens randomly bring us images from somewhere on the planet showing droughts, ?oods, forest ?res, and storms of historic proportions leaving hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of people facing another humanitarian crisis.Outdoors the signs are less newsworthy (although we did have a rather spectacular ice storm two decades back) but just as unmistakable.This summer, the heat came unseasonably early and there has been abnormally little rain.The St.Francis River has noticeably shrunk, sporting sandbanks and outcrops of rock that had previously been submerged and invisible.Rivulets and even sizeable streams have dried up and some families are dealing with dry wells.That climate is changing is evident.It\u2019s equally evident (to all but the willfully blind) that a sharp decrease in human activity brings about a noticeable positive change to the environment.The entire planet witnessed this in the ?rst months after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.Within a short time of the economy shutting down, air quality in places like Beijing improved markedly.There\u2019s the rub.If the economy is shut down, environmental conditions improve.What the Covid pandemic demonstrated is that we can continue to live with a skeleton economy, and a skeleton economy with its greatly reduced carbon emissions is what we need to keep our planet livable.For decades politicians have been drafting policies to keep the economy roaring or robust or strong, or vibrant.Those policies\u2014we now know\u2014were misguided.Those policies are poisoning our planet.To make things worse, they are also widening the wealth gap, creating far too many millionaires and billionaires, and muddying the true value of money.I\u2019m curious to see which party will be the ?rst draft policies to correct all those issues by moving quickly towards a permanent skeleton economy, one that signi?cantly cuts back on carbon emissions, and keeps cutting back.That party will also have to take steps to remind all Canadians to act accordingly, remind us to take only one cruise per year instead of two, or go for a Sunday drive every second week instead of every week.The prime minister we very much need leading the next parliament is the one who is determined to heed the IPCC report and draft economic policies based on that report.NICK FONDA RICHMOND Surf\u2019s up What kind of Kahuna would want to ride this incoming wave for majority?What kind of beach-party would call a pop-up election when we are already wiped out?The last three waves taught us how dangerous complacency can be.It is time to wake up and call this out, before we lose our Capitol to insurgents.ERIC LANCASTER SHERBROOKE DEAR EDITOR, It would be very Canadian if our new governor general were to address all Canadians in her native tongue only.Visual and oral translators standing by to interpret to citizens.This method would ensure that her wisdome would be understood by all of the Queen\u2019s subjects on canadian soil.W.BEGBIE SHERBROOKE PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 8 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Death Death Death Death Death In Memoriam In Memoriam In Memoriam Stoddard, Richard \u2018\u2019Dick\u2019\u2019 1930-2021 It is with great sadness and relief that we announce the passing of Richard Stoddard on August 6th, 2021 at the age of 91, devoted husband of the late Ruth Adam.Dick leaves to mourn his two beloved sons Kirk (Penny) and David (Cynthia), his grandchildren Ceileigh (Mike), his great-grandson Carson, his grandchildren Alexis (Mathieu), Brooke (Olivier), Mitchell (Maelle), Dylan and Nathan.Dick had many accomplishments in his life from working at Pratt and Whitney (Bristol Air), and this attached him to the RCAF.Ater this, he and Ruth moved back to the family business at Adam Lumber.Dick had many activities on the go, he enjoyed his lying days, hunting and his golf.He also became interested and active in the purebred cattle business where he became president of the CSA.He leaves many memories with his friends and family and will be missed by all.he family wishes to thank the Manoir Lac Brome and his private caregivers for the exceptional care and love he received.Cremation was held in Granby at Les Jardins Funéraires Bessette.Following the most recent government guidelines, the family will receive condolences by rotation of visitors on Sunday September 12, from 12 to 2:30 p.m.at Les Résidences Funéraires Bessette of Waterloo.A private Chapel service by invitation only, followed by the burial at the Frost Village Cemetery in Waterloo, 147 St-Joseph, Waterloo, Qc J0E 2N0.In his memory, a donation to Waterloo Cemetery would be appreciated.Forms will be available at the Funeral Home.Les Résidences Funéraires Bessette PHONE: 450-539-1606 5034 Foster St., Waterloo QC FAX: 450-539-3035 www.famillebessette.com Member of the C.T.Q.Jennifer Lolley Sudlow (1946\u20132021) Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, resident of Ogden, and previously, Lennoxville, Montreal and England.In Sherbrooke, August 11th, 2021, died at the age of 75 years.She was the eldest daughter of the late Raymond Lolley and the late Elizabeth Keith.She is survived by loving husband, Michael Sudlow; sons Paul (Catherine Bjorndalen) of Calgary, Andrew (Caroline Ducharme) of St.Constant QC, and David (Stacey Perilli) of Calgary and her granddaughters Anna, Katie and Evelyn.She leaves her twin sister Helena (James Brodie) of Ayer\u2019s Clif, brother James (Brenda Barrie) of Gananoque, sister Rosemary Floyd of York, UK, Andrew (Jennifer Allen) of Saltash, UK, brother-in-law, as well as nephews and nieces respectively John and Heather; Sarah, Christine and Peter; Simon, Charles and Amanda; Aaron and homas, and twelve great nephews and nieces in England, Canada and the USA.She will also be sadly missed by brother\u2013in-law David Sudlow (Helen Pardy) of Hereford, UK and the Sudlow side of the family.A family service will take place at St.George\u2019s Anglican Church, Georgeville on August 21st followed by the burial at Apple Grove Cemetery.A celebration of Jennifer\u2019s life will take place at a later date.Donations in Jennifer\u2019s memory to Memphremagog Conservation Inc.; Société Animale Frontalière/ Frontier Animal Society (SAFAS); Memphremagog Hospital Foundation, or a charity of one\u2019s choice would be appreciated.hrough her nursing, her generosity and her goodwill towards others, she touched and enhanced the lives of so many.She will be in our memories forever.CASS FUNERAL HOMES PHONE: 819-876-5213 284 Child St., Coaticook QC FAX: 819-849-3068 info@salonfunerairecoaticook.com www.casshomes.ca Roberta Hazel (Sweet) Bresee Roberta Hazel (Sweet) Bresee passed away peacefully ater a long and happy life, at age 97, with family by her side in Lindsay, Ontario on August 14, 2021.Dear wife of the late, Douglas (1995).Loving mother of Maureen (Timo Toikkanen) of Lindsay, ON and Michael (Danielle Gilbert) of North Hatley, QC.Survived by her dear brother Norman Sweet (late Maida More) of Salt Spring Island, BC.Roberta was a proud and caring aunt to her nieces and nephews.Roberta graduated from Sherbrooke Hospital School of Nursing as an R.N.in 1945.Roberta is predeacesed by her parents Dwight and Ruth (Longeway) Sweet of Sutton, QC.and also predeceased by her brother Donald Sweet (late Joyce Darrah).Formerly of Sherbrooke, Roberta enjoyed the last 23 years ater relocating to Lindsay, ON.Cremation has taken place and Roberta will be laid to rest in her birthplace of Sutton, QC alongside her husband, her parents, and grandparents.A private family service will be held at the time of interment.If desired donations to Grace Village, 1515 Pleasant View St., Sherbrooke, QC J1M 0C6 would be appreciated.Condolences and donations can be made online through the Mackey Funeral Home at www.mackeys.ca.MACKEY FUNERAL HOME 33 Peel Street, Lindsay, Ontario www.mackeys.ca STAN GROVES SR.August 7, 1933 - August 17, 2014 In loving memory of my dear husband.Whenever I see a monarch butterfly A robin, a rainbow or a Beautiful cloud formation I know that you are with me.I hold you deep within my heart And there you will remain Until the chosen day arrives When we\u2019ll be together again.Forever, GLENYS We are remembering you with a smile today, You were never one for tears.We reflect instead on happy memories From all our happy years.And as long as there are memories We\u2019ll never be apart Our love for you will always be Living within our hearts.YOUR FAMILY August 17, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Mom\u2019s birth.She passed May 13, 2013 at the age of 91, a life well-lived, but still too soon.It\u2019s been eight years, I miss her and she lives forever in my memories.Gail Lorna M.Coote-Lynch 1921-2021 PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 9 ! \"\" #$ % &' () &* +( , TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 Today is the 229th day of 2021 and the 59th day of summer.TODAY\u2019S HISTORY: In 1585, European colonists disembarked at Roanoke Island in North Carolina.In 1863, Union forces began shelling Fort Sumter in South Carolina.In 1959, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck near Hebgen Lake in Montana, causing a landslide that later formed Earthquake Lake.In 1998, President Bill Clinton testi?ed before a grand jury and later apologized on national television for having a \u201cwrong\u201d relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS: Davy Crockett (1786-1836), frontiersman/soldier; Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Black Nationalist leader; Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974), ?lm producer; Mae West (1893-1980), actress; W.Mark Felt (1913- 2008), FBI agent; Maureen O\u2019Hara (1920-2015), actress; Robert De Niro (1943- ), actor; Jonathan Franzen (1959- ), author; Sean Penn (1960- ), actor/ director; Jon Gruden (1963- ), football coach/analyst; Donnie Wahlberg (1969- ), singer/actor.TODAY\u2019S FACT: At the time when he was providing key information on the Watergate scandal to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, W.Mark Felt was the associate director of the FBI, the bureau\u2019s second-highest ranking of?cial.TODAY\u2019S SPORTS: In 2008 in Beijing, swimmer Michael Phelps won a gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay, becoming the ?rst athlete to win eight gold medals in a single Olympic Games.TODAY\u2019S QUOTE: \u201cEvery good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined.And what the internet brings is lots of vulgar data.It is the antithesis of the imagination.It leaves nothing to the imagination.\u201d - Jonathan Franzen TODAY\u2019S NUMBER: 17,508 - islands counted within the territory of Indonesia, which declared its independence from the Netherlands on this day in 1945.TODAY\u2019S MOON: Between ?rst quarter moon (Aug.15) and full moon (Aug.22).Datebook Dear Annie TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 Dear Annie: I\u2019ve known this guy \u201cHenry\u201d for about six years now.We never got the timing right, and we\u2019ve cheated on our signi?cant others with each other.When I was single, he wasn\u2019t, and vice versa.Now I\u2019m in a healthy and happy relationship.Henry and I still talk, and it\u2019s hard to let him go.He\u2019s had trouble letting me go, too.I used to believe I was in love with him, and I still have feelings for him.His attitude has changed during the past year.He\u2019s been real sweet and asks me what I want in the future.We both want the same things out of life.We share similar interests and get along very well.He makes me feel a different way than any other man has.He has asked me to run away with him and start a life together in a new state.I don\u2019t know if he would actually go through with it.He\u2019s very spontaneous but also ?aky.However, my current boyfriend, \u201cMason,\u201d has been there for me through a crazy and tough time.Mason is real sweet, too, and he\u2019s helped me grow a lot as a person.He lives with me, and we want the same things out of life.Mason would do anything for me to make sure I\u2019m happy in the relationship.We communicate well and haven\u2019t had any issues yet.I don\u2019t want to make a stupid choice and regret everything.If I leave Mason, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any going back.But I worry I\u2019ll always wonder what could have been with Henry.- Love Dilemma in Vermont Dear Dilemma: I\u2019m not sure how happy and healthy your current relationship is if you are still lusting for Henry.Ask yourself if what you are feeling is more lust or love for Henry - and Mason - and that will give you your answer.Lust dissipates over time, while love persists.Whether Henry or Mason is more love or lust is a question you have to ask yourself.Start by asking, \u201cHow do I feel about myself when I am with this person?\u201d Don\u2019t forget that if Henry cheated on others, he will likely cheat on you.Dear Annie: My mother-in-law puts her husband ?rst in her family.His moods and feelings dictate everything in that house.Consequently, their children - my husband and his sister - do not know how to assert themselves in their relationships.They don\u2019t know how to sort out their true feelings.They weren\u2019t allowed to disagree in their early years at home.This nearly destroyed his sister, and it has caused problems in our marriage, which, thankfully, we have weathered.But the bottom line is they didn\u2019t learn to have a good relationship with themselves.Putting yourself last isn\u2019t always saintly, nor is it always healthy, for you and your family.- Sad Observer Dear Sad Observer: Your letter brings up a good life lesson.If your own personal and emotional cup is not full, how can you ?ll the cup of others?The answer is, you cannot.Take time every day to ?ll up your own cup when you can.Some good ways are through walks with friends, prayer or meditation, long relaxing baths, journaling, singing a song you like or spending time in nature.Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for ?ve years.We have a beautiful daughter, and we\u2019ve got a son on the way.But I keep ?nding my husband using dating websites and chatrooms for singles.When I ask him about it, he gets angry and says, \u201cThat\u2019s from months ago!\u201d But whenever I check the browser history, there are always more recently visited websites.He says that he never talks to anyone, just looks.How can I make him see that I love him and that those are not sites for married people?Should I just give up and end the marriage?I\u2019m at a loss.- Taken for Granted Dear Taken: You don\u2019t need to make him see that those sites aren\u2019t for married people.He already knows.He just doesn\u2019t care or is too addicted to the rush to stop.Whatever the case, his blatant disregard for your feelings is shocking, and the fact that he\u2019s doing all this while you\u2019re pregnant adds insult to injury.If you two are going to truly work through this, it will be with the help of a marriage counselor.If he refuses to go, then it might be time to start speaking discreetly with an attorney about your options.Dear Annie: My son, \u201cRick,\u201d and a former friend of his, \u201cCherie,\u201d had a baby together.I love Cherie and the baby so much, and I\u2019m fortunate that I get to see my grandson every other week.My issue is, how do I introduce Cherie to family members who have never met her?I\u2019m also not sure how to introduce the woman whom Rick is currently dating.I really don\u2019t care for her, but they live together.How should I introduce her to the family?- Mum Mom Dear Mum: Keep it simple.Introduce Cherie by name and as the mother of your grandson.Introduce Rick\u2019s girlfriend as Rick\u2019s girlfriend because that\u2019s what she is, whether you like it or not.\u201cAsk Me Anything: A Year of Advice From Dear Annie\u201d is out now! Annie Lane\u2019s debut book - featuring favorite columns on love, friendship, family and etiquette - is available as a paperback and e-book.Visit http://www.creatorspublishing.com for more information.Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 10 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Go grocery sho pping with diet itians.When you choo se products with the Health Chec k symbol, it's like shopping with t he Heart and Str oke Foundation\u2019s die titians, who eval uate every partic ipating product b ased on Canada 's Food Guide.www.healthche ck.org REALITY CHECK HERMAN ALLEY OOP ARLO & JANIS THE BORN LOSER FRANK AND ERNEST GRIZZWELLS THATABABY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW The Record newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 11 Call Sherbrooke: (819) 569-9525 between 8:30 a.m.and 4:30 p.m.E-mail: classad@sherbrookerecord.com or Knowlton: (450) 242-1188 between 9:00 a.m.and noon CLASSIFIED Deadline: 12:30 p.m.one day prior to publication Or mail your prepaid classi?ed ads to The Record, 6 Mallory, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1M 2E2 100 Job Opportunities 100 Job Opportunities 290 Articles for Sale Make your classi- iED stAnD out, add a photo for $10.per day.Deadline: 2 days before publication.Drop by our of- ice in Sherbrooke or Knowlton.819-569- 9525.ClAssAD@ sHErBrookErECorD.com 275 Antiques WE BUY from the past for the future, one item or a household, attic or basement, shed or garage.We like it all, give us a call.819- 837-2680.TOWNSHIPS\u2019 CRIER TOWNSHIPS If you want to drink, that\u2019s your business.If you want to stop, we can help.Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1-888-424- 2975, www.aa.org 125 Job Services SERVICES TLH.I have over 18 years of experience as a caregiver taking care of elderly, people living with a disability, young children.Able to provide: meal preparations, house cleaning, personal care, respite care and transportation to a appointment.Trustworthy, reliable, and responsible.Rates depend on service.In North Hatley area.By phone number: 8 1 9 - 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It\u2019s essential to test the waters.Mingle, share your thoughts and opinions, and listen to what others can contribute.Knowledge will help you gain insight into what\u2019s possible.VIRGO (Aug.23-Sept.22) - Proceed with caution when dealing with emotional matters.Sparring with a loved one will result in an irreversible change in your relationship.Bide your time, listen well and go about your business.LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23) - Friendly banter will help you get to better know someone who interests you.Socialize with peers, and you\u2019ll build respect and common ground that will improve your chance to advance.SCORPIO (Oct.24-Nov.22) - Be careful what you share with co-workers.A competitive situation will sprout quickly, leaving you in a vulnerable position.Concentrate on your work, not on trying to get others to like you.SAGITTARIUS (Nov.23-Dec.21) - Emotions will fester if you believe everything you hear.Someone will feed you false information to sway your opinion.Go directly to the source before you act.CAPRICORN (Dec.22-Jan.19) - Don\u2019t take unnecessary risks with your health or physical well-being.Abide by the rules and avoid indulgence.An intelligent and well-informed decision will help bring about a positive change.AQUARIUS (Jan.20-Feb.19) - Rely on facts and ?gures, not on hearsay.Utilize your skills and stamina to help you ?nish what you start.Opportunities are within reach if you are passionate about making a difference.PISCES (Feb.20-March 20) - Change will require action.Consider what you can do to put yourself in a better ?nancial position or ease stress.Don\u2019t give up or give in.Do your own thing.ARIES (March 21-April 19) - An open mind will help you gather information that will encourage better decision- making.Stick to the people and projects you trust to lead you down the right path.Always know what\u2019s expected of you.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Emotional matters will escalate if you jump to conclusions.Get everything in writing before you agree to proceed.You may desire change, but don\u2019t make a move that isn\u2019t in your best interest.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Be honest about how you feel, and ask direct questions to ?nd out where you stand with someone who is evasive.Spend time ?xing up your space.Making things more comfortable and convenient will give you a boost.CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Talk to someone who can offer guidance or knowledge regarding something you want to pursue.Knowledge is power, and without the facts in front of you, frustration and anger are likely to set in.TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 When is unbalanced better than balanced?By Phillip Alder Playwright David Mamet said, \u201cHere\u2019s what happens in a play.You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced.If nothing\u2019s unbalanced, there\u2019s no reason to have a play.If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad\u2019s not dead and asks him if he\u2019s had a good time, it\u2019s boring.But if something\u2019s unbalanced, it must be returned to order.\u201d As we found yesterday, a balanced 4-4 ?t will often produce one trick more than an unbalanced 5-3 ?t.But that isn\u2019t always the case.This deal highlights a time to prefer the 5-3 to the 4-4 - which is often easier said than done at the table.Two diamonds was New Minor Forcing, showing at least game- invitational values and asking for more information from opener.When South learned that his partner had three spades, he went for game in the 5-3 ?t.He did well not to look for a 4-4 heart ?t.West leads the heart queen.South wins with his king, draws trumps and plays a club.East wins with his ace and returns a heart, but declarer takes that on the board and cashes two clubs to discard a diamond loser.(If East shifts to diamonds, South will pitch his two heart losers on a winner in each minor.) Note that four hearts is hopeless, South losing one heart, two diamonds and one club.Pick the 5-3 when the side suits are strong, supplying discards.Finally, note that if it is only a game deal, the 5-3 ?t is in a major and the 4-4 in a minor, you will usually pick the major.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCounty News Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Estrie, Montérégie, Greater Montreal Residential, Commercial \u2022 English, Français, Italiano Chartered Real Estate Broker AEO, B.Ed, MFA, CMA 1.800.528.3533 \u2022 joanne.birtz@yahoo.ca Les Immeubles Coldbrook Inc., Real Estate Agency Bio: https://coldbrook.ca/en/agent/joanne-birtz/ Make it Happen! Joanne Birtz, CCIM 514.809.9881 BCN Staff The Jamais Sans Mon Casque tour of the Avec toute ma tête organization, made its way to Granby to raise public awareness with stakeholders and especially young people about the importance of wearing a protective helmet during recreational and sports activities.For the occasion, Simon Poulin, founder and director of Avec tout ma tête was accompanied by local politicians and dignitaries as well as Dr.David Fortin, regional spokesperson, neurosurgeon, and medical chief of the clientele program in oncology care at the Center hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke.According to the press release, the ambassadors of Tournée Jamais Sans Mon Casque encourage young people and adults to adopt the habit of wearing of a helmet while engaging in sports activities, especially when cycling, snowboarding, skiing or snowboarding.In the coming months, the Jamais Sans Mon Casque will stop in the 17 regions of Quebec to promote safety measures to prevent concussion and more serious head injuries in sports and recreational activities.According to statistics from the Canadian Hospital Injury Prevention Research and Information System compiled between 2016 and 2019, 41% of young people aged 13 to 17 who fell on their bikes were not wearing Avec Toute ma Tête raises awareness on helmet safety CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 2 CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 3 By Taylor McClure Special to Brome County News Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs, a 500-acre organic farm in Brom- ont that grows sun?owers and produces sun?ower oil, among other crops, held a unique event in their ?elds Aug.6.In partnership with the Town of Bromont and Tourisme Bro- mont, Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs opened its ?elds to the public with a 5 à 7 event, live music, and local food to help promote agro-tourism in Brom- ont.Family run, Joany Brodeur and her partner Martin Vallée, along with her parents who have 20 years experience as organic producers, have created a niche for themselves in the agricultural world of the Eastern Townships producing their sun?ower oil.\u201cIt was a partnership with the Town of Bromont and Tourisme de Bromont.They asked me in March if I was interested in opening the season with la Tournée Escale,\u201d said Brodeur.\u201cIt\u2019s a mobile show they created an event tdue to Covid hat just requires a van which transforms into a stage.They can go all over Quebec to do s shows.\u201d The event also included catering from La Buvette de famille.\u201cThey cook with a lot of producers in Brome- Missisquoi so they used our oil and all of our products here at the farm.They offered vegetable platters, charcuterie boards, with beer and cider stations.All of the products were from the Eastern Townships.\u201d Opening up their sun?ower ?elds, which Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs does every year during the last couple Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs gives visitors a little bit of sunshine COURTESY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 2 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews Brome County Community Bulletin Board helmets.This proportion rises to 61% in the case of skateboard accidents.The Avec Toute ma Tête initiative will make it possible to donate some 9,000 bicycle helmets to children from families in low income.\u201cIt is with pride that we will visit cities and municipalities across Quebec to educate young and old alike about these preventable accidents that leave serious consequences.Whether on a bike, scooter, inline skating, pumptrack or skatepark outings, a protective helmet is an essential piece of equipment for everyone.The same goes for winter activities on skis or skates, when wearing a helmet is essential,\u201d commented Poulin.Helmet safety CONT\u2019D FROM PAGE 1 Lac Brome Food Bank - if you need assistance, please call 450-242-2020 ext: 319.Pick up at 270 Victoria at the back.September 9 The Sutton Volunteer Centre will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, September 9, at 9:30 a.m., at the Olivet Baptist Church (7 Maple ST.Sutton) The full notice of meeting and the AGM Agenda can be obtained at the Sutton Volunteer Centre of?ce or on its website (cabsutton.com/en/ evenement/agm-2021/).Please con?rm your presence by email (benevole.sutton@gmail.com) or by phone (450-538-1919).Places being limited in order to comply with public health measures, priority will be given to members.We look forward to meeting and talking with you.CHURCH BULLETINS ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH \u2013 DUNHAM Sunday services at 10 a.m.\u2013 all welcome! The Reverend Sinpoh Han.Information: 450-295-2045.ANGLICAN PARISH OF BROME Sunday services cancelled until further notice.See the announcement for Grace Anglican Church to join the on line meeting on Sunday mornings.Information: Rev.Tim Smart 450-538-8108.BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Joint Sunday worship service via Zoom is available in partnership with Emmanuel, Cowansville.Sundays at 10:30 a.m.(For details, see Emmanuel United Church.) Our service on August 29 will be in Mystic, outdoors with Communion (no Zoom).We follow pandemic protocols whether outside or inside (in case of rain).Church of?ce: 450-248-3044; email: bedford.pastoral@ yahoo.ca CREEK/WATERLOO PASTORAL CHARGE Church worship services are available on Facebook Live for the foreseeable future.Please contact the Rev.Dave Lambie for virtual pastoral care.Creek United, 278 Brill Rd., West Bolton, St.Paul\u2019s United, 4929 Foster, Waterloo, Reverend Dave Lambie, minister.For information or to leave a message call: 450-539-2129.Sunday Service is available for now on Facebook Live through the page of none other than Dave Lambie.EMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH During the summer our two pastoral charges (Cowansville and Bedford) are cooperating in summer worship experiences.This Sunday\u2019s 10:30 a.m.Zoom worship service will be hybrid and outdoors at Emmanuel (with pandemic protocols followed).The Zoom link in the Friday newsletter.Minister: Rev.David Lefneski, 450-955-1574.Church of?ce: 450-263-0204; email: capcchurchof?ce@ bellnet.ca ÉGLISE CATHOLIQUE ST.ÉDOUARD CATHOLIC CHURCH Our 10:30 a.m.Sunday Mass has resumed as we adhere to the strict protocols established by the Quebec Public Health Department.Thank you for your understanding.For more information, call: 450- 263-1616 or visit the website http://unitedesvignes.org GRACE ANGLICAN CHURCH Grace Church Sutton now meets online on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m.Everyone is invited to join in.For an invitation, please email the Rev.Tim Smart at revtimsmart@gmail.com or go our Facebook page for the Sunday link.We are on Facebook at \u201cGrace Church, Sutton\u201d.KNOWLTON-MOUNTAIN VALLEY PASTORAL CHARGE Join us on the Facebook Church group \u2018Knowlton- Mountain Valley Pastoral Charge\u2019 for weekly Sunday services.Knowlton United Church, 234 Knowlton Road.For information please contact Rev.Steve Lawson at 450-242-1993.ST.PAUL\u2019S ANGLICAN CHURCH We continue to livestream our Sunday morning worship at 8 and 10 a.m.at St.Paul\u2019s Knowlton on Facebook.All services are also available for replay.At 24 St.Paul\u2019s Road in Knowlton, St.Paul\u2019s is a dynamic diverse community pursuing and serving Jesus in the Eastern Townships.Our mission is to grow in members and spiritual maturity so that we can reach as many people as possible with the love of Jesus.Everyone welcome! St.Paul\u2019s intends to re-open for Sunday (in person) worship on September 12, 2021 at 8 and 10 a.m.More details to follow.Telephone: 450- 242-2885 email: stpaulsknowlton@gmail.com TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH We welcome you to join us for our 10:30 a.m.Sunday morning church services in the church.We adhere to the protocols established by the Quebec Public Health Department and the Anglican Diocese of Montreal.To leave a message, please contact the church of?ce 450- 955-3303.By Louise Smith Outside of the Church of the Ascension, in West Brome, tables were set up by the Dunham branch of the Women\u2019s Institute on Saturday morning.Their garage sale brought in needed funds.More wares were available inside of the church hall and customers had a wide choice of items to peruse.A few tables were rented to outside vendors and they too were happy with the number of people who stopped by.Traf?c was steady throughout the day and no one was deterred by the light showers in the morning.Everyone was masked and it is to be hoped that sales like these will be able to continue throughout the fall.Dunham Women\u2019s Institute yard sale moved a lot of merchandise PHOTOS BY LOUISE SMITH Crafts were available as well as used goods.This vendor had a wide display of colourful Depression glass.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 3 Ivon Grondin The Ivon Hour Fridays at 9 p.m.Repeats Tuesdays at 11 p.m.\u201cThe Ivanator\u201d has been involved in music since 1963, doing Beatles covers back in the day.He still plays music in the area with his twin brother.www.cidi991.com Listen online!! Financial statements, Audit, Bookkeeping, Taxation, Corporations, Individuals, Estate planning and settlement, Farm and business transfers, re-organizations 127 Principale, Suite 105, Cowansville, QC, J2K1J3 duke-cpa.com T:(450) 263-4123 Fax: (450) 263-3489 CPA Inc.DUKE Société de comptables professionnels agréés Chartered professional accountants corporation BCN Staff Many participants enjoyed a unique starry evening to bene?t the Brome-Missisquoi- Perkins Hospital Foundation (BMP Hospital) Aug.5 for its Reach for the Stars BMP event.The VIP evening at the ObservÉtoile Au Diable Vert in Glen Sutton, serving as a fundraiser for the BMP Hospital, was a success with 103 seats sold to attend the starry show.According to the press release, more than $12,000 was raised so that the BMP Hospital could acquire on a trabeculectomy tray.Those who attended the event arrived at the foot of the ObservÉtoiles, at an altitude of 1000 feet, with musician Marc-Antoine Marois drawing in the crowd to the stands.To accompany this, cupcakes and hot alcoholic beverages were available to the public and guests were seated in the heated bleachers of the outdoor natural amphitheater, the ?rst open- air planetarium.In front of each seat was a gift bag specially designed for each participant.They could ?nd a blanket embroidered with the BMP Foundation\u2019s logo to keep them warm and a bottle of water.Once everyone was seated, the show began and guests had the chance to listen to the narration of various astronomers highlighting the history of the starry sky.At the end of the show, everyone left with their blankets and headsets to continue enjoying the sky at home.The BMP collaborated with partners Desjardins, Bessette Automobile, Métro Plouffe de Bromont, Brûlerie Virgin Hill, Ungava Spirits, LB Avocats Inc., and of course Au Diable Vert to organize the event.A starry night for the BMP Foundation COURTESY BMP FOUNDATION weeks of Aug., the event brought in hundreds from all over the region.\u201cWe had the sun, the beer, the food, the show, and the sun?owers, it was the perfect match with over 200 people at the sold-out event.\u201d Brodeur explained that the event was all about promoting local agriculture.\u201cThe goal of the event was to promote agro-tourism in Bromont and to support producers here in Bromont.La Tournée Escale also wanted to offer visitors to Bromont a special event.\u201d Brodeur and Vallé are just two of many agricultural producers in Bromont establishing a name for themselves with their organic farm Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs.While her parents take care primarily of producing the sun?ower crops and other products like soya, corn, wheat, and grain, Brodeur and Vallé produce the sun?ower oil after purchasing equipment from an oilerie in Valley Field in 2019.\u201cMy mom and step-father are producers with 20 years of experience as organic producers.My boyfriend and I bought the oilerie, the ?rst organic sun?ower oilerie in Quebec.We moved the equipment here and brought the customers.It\u2019s a family business where my mom and stepfather do the producing in the ?elds and I\u2019m transforming the seeds.\u201d Transformation of the seeds or \u2018grain\u2019 only occurs after the sun?owers have blossomed.\u201cThe ?owering is only two weeks, approximately the ?rst and second week of August, and after that the sun?owers start to produce grain.They are not dead, but they are not ?owering.The grain is what we are going to use to do the oil.We take the grain and press it to extract the oil in the grain.We can press 200 litres per day.It takes like ?ve ?owers to produce one litre of oil.Each year, we have approximately twomillion ?owers in our ?elds.\u201d Brodeur said that coming across an organic sun?ower producer is rare as it is a dif?cult crop to work with.\u201cWhen we make a ?eld of sun?owers, we can\u2019t use the same ?eld each year.We have to wait six years to replant the sun?owers there.We have to watch for disease and make sure we have good grain.We rotate our crops so next year, the sun?ower ?elds we have right now, will be corn and where we have wheat right now , we will plant sun?owers.With organic production, it\u2019s a must to do that.\u201d Huilerie l\u2019Arôme des champs opens up its sun?ower ?elds every year free of charge, but Brodeur said they appreciate it when people come to visit the boutique so that they can continue to promote what they do best.\u201cWe like it when people come to the boutique and we can explain what we are doing here and they can taste the oil.\u201d In the last year some 20,000 litres of sun?ower oil have been sold and they farm team hopes to continue to establish themselves in the area.\u201cThe oilerie that we bought was in Valley?eld so they developed the Montreal region, but now we are here so we want to develop the Estrie and Eastern Townships region.It was a big move for us to buy an oilerie to produce sun?ower ?elds.\u201d Huilerie l\u2019Arôme CONT\u2019D FROM PAGE 1 COURTESY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 4 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews 5-b VICTORIA ST., KNOWLTON, QUEBEC, J0E 1V0 TEL: (450) 242-1188 FAX: (450) 243-5155 Published weekly by 6 Mallory, Sherbrooke, QUEBEC, J1M 2E2 E-MAIL: newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com website: www.sherbrookerecord.com SHARON MCCULLY PUBLISHER .(819) 569-6345 MATTHEW MCCULLY ASSOCIATE EDITOR .(819) 569-6345 NICOLE MARSH SECRETARY .(450) 242-1188 JESSE BRYANT ADVERTISING .(450) 242-1188 PRINT SUBSCRIPTION TO THE BROME COUNTY NEWS: 1 year print subscription to The Brome County News and The Record (Tuesday only) mailed to your home - $58.00 (including taxes) Call our subscription department at 819-569-9528.CIRCULATION Distributed to all Record subscribers every Tuesday as an insert, and to households and businesses 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bcnnews@qc.aibn.com, or fax: (450) 243-5155.Visa and Mastercard accepted.Learn More.Achieve More.To improve reading, writing or math skills, look under LEARN in the Yellow Pages™ or visit www.LookUnderLearn.ca Pet of the Week: Opale I am a beautiful female mix Boston Terrier, Pug and Chihuahua, about ?ve years old.You can immediately see that I am special.I am very affectionate and stick to people like glue.I like to be warm in the arms of my humans and fall asleep like a baby.On the other hand, I am active and playful.I like to play and really appreciate a walk on leash.I have an exceptional sense of smell and hearing.This compensates for my eyes which are a little weak.You will have to take your time with me because I am a little stressed.I am looking for a family without children or other animals, with very present people.If you think that you are this family, please send an email to: adoptionspcamonteregie@gmail.com By Louise Smith Traveling from the Knowlton area on route 215 towards Sutton, at Mont Echo Road, a left turn brings you almost immediately to St.Aidan\u2019s Anglican Church.It is located at 132 Mont Echo Road.Louise Penny used this building as inspiration for the church she describes in the second chapter of Brutal Telling.There is an historic plaque outside the church.It tells the story of both the church and its next-door building, the community hall.The community hall is the oldest of the two structures.Nelson P.Emerson, a wealthy farmer at the time, sold a parcel of land to the community for the building of the hall.It ?rst opened in 1892.The year 1892 is painted at the top of the hall.Sixteen years later, in 1908, Emerson donated a second plot for the building of an Anglican church, the Church of St.Aidan.It was built by a local carpenter, Levi Noyes, with the help of other members of the community.It cost $1,400 at the time to build.The bell was cast in Baltimore, Maryland.The style of the church is Gothic Revival.Levi Noyes showed off his carpentry skills with the intricacy that he displayed in the styling of his arches.There is a story behind the naming of the hamlet\u2019s train station.This small community was called Sutton Junction because two railway lines intersected and formed a junction at this location, but the train station stop here was ?rst called Emerson because Nelson Emerson owned the land that the railway lines passed through.Over time the station took on the name of Sutton Junction.Louise Penny, through her novels, is bringing attention to interesting architecture in the Townships.Three Pines novel inspiration tour continued, this time in Sutton Junction Part 3 The Community Hall in Sutton Junction was built in 1892 on land donated by Nelson P.Emerson.The Church of St.Aidan was built in 1908.It inspired Louise Penny when she was writing \u2018Brutal Telling.The Church of St.Aidan\u2019s was built in the Gothic Revival style.Levi Noyes was the main carpenter behind the building of St.Aidan\u2019s COURTESY LOUISE SMITH LOUISE SMITH LOUISE SMITH PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 5 By Michael Boriero There will be live music again in Brome Lake, as the Community Singers and Knowlton Players prepare for their ?rst concert in nearly two years.The event will take place at Mill Pond Park in Knowlton, where spectators will gather under a massive outdoor tent.According to Lucy Hoblyn, who is directing the second half of the show with the Knowlton Players, they wanted to accommodate as many people as possible.\u201cThis is a good way of doing it and we\u2019re limiting the audience size to 150 people and we\u2019re going to be very Covid conscious, space between each of the reservations, following all of the rules,\u201d she said.The concert, which takes place on Aug.26 and 27, will start with a performance from the Community Singers, directed by Laura Barr with John Barr.Hoblyn told The Record that the duo have been pining for an opportunity to collaborate for years.\u201c[They are] going to be interspersing the choir with soloists who are going to be singing music from broadway, including Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Les Miserables, and quite a few other musicals,\u201d said Hoblyn.In the second half of the concert, the Knowlton Players will be tapping into fan-favourite performances from past plays.Hoblyn and other cast members decided to re-enact several songs from Mama Mia and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.The plan right now is to mix it up with different soloists, but they also wanted to re-emerge from the pandemic with something familiar and comfortable for everyone in town.It was a special moment for everyone when the crew was ?nally able to start practicing.\u201cWe missed each other, it was really amazing when we ?rst got to go to a rehearsal, of course extremely Covid separate from everybody, it was just so amazing to see everybody and start telling jokes,\u201d said Hoblyn, noting there is an age range from 10 to 89 years old.She added that the hardest part about the past couple years, aside from the pandemic, is the fact they were not able to get together regularly.They are a community theatre troupe, ?rst and foremost, she explained, and they felt isolated for a long time.\u201cIt has been really sort of tough, for us it\u2019s more the social aspect, we have all of these gangs of people, especially when you are rehearsing for a show, you see them once or twice a week, and then you don\u2019t see these people at all,\u201d Hoblyn said.Jody Murray and her 10-year-old daughter, Michaela Meacher, are part of the Knowlton Players.Meacher is the youngest member of the group, and she has already been involved for a number of years, alongside her mother.They felt disconnected since the pandemic.They used to see everyone twice a week, Murray said, and they craved the energy of being on stage with the Knowlton Players.Meacher said she missed rehearsals the most Knowlton Players return after two-year pandemic break CONT\u2019D ON PAGE 6 COURTESY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 6 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews throughout the pandemic, and Murray agreed with her daughter.\u201cPracticing together I think sums it up for me, too.Practice has given us so many opportunities to laugh at ourselves.The performances are great, but the practices are part of the fun,\u201d said Murray.Darleen Bell, a member since 1997, said returning to the stage side-by- side with her fellow members has been like riding a bike.The lockdown hit Quebec right when the group was about to start rehearsals for their next show.She is excited to see their loyal fans.\u201cI think one of the greatest things about Knowlton Players is that they are like an old friend.It doesn\u2019t matter how long it has been since you have seen them, as soon as you reconnect with them, it\u2019s like you have never been apart,\u201d said Bell.She added that they tried to connect through social media as often as possible throughout the pandemic, but it was never the same as being in person.When asked about the impact the pandemic had on the artistic community, Bell said it felt like they were overlooked.While she acts and sings in plays as a hobby, she has many friends who work professionally and suffered throughout the past two years.When people in the community lose their outlet, the ability to be creative, it could have a negative impact on their life.\u201cI think people underestimate the power of performance.How it helps a person, any person, whether it\u2019s someone who has been doing it like me for a long time, or someone new who wants to try it out,\u201d said Bell.People interested in the event can search Knowlton Players Thank You For The Music on https://www.eventbrite.ca/.The tickets are technically free, but Hoblyn and company are asking for donations from the community to keep the theatre alive.Knowlton Players CONT\u2019D FROM PAGE 1 BEN MCAULEY Michaela Meacher and Jody Murray By Taylor McClure Special to Brome County News For a ?fth year, Penny Corey and her husband Lonny Bates have organized the annual Dunham Ball Tournament Fundraiser for the Maison Au Diapason, a non-pro?t organization in Bromont that offers free specialized palliative care, psychological and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families in the Brome-Missisquoi and Haute-Yamaska regions.Running from Aug.5 - 8 in Dunham, 16 local teams came out to hit some balls in support of the cause.Despite the tournament coming to an end, the fundraiser has gained popularity and Corey and Bates have decided to keep it going for the next couple of weeks as donations keep ?owing in.\u201cMy husband and I started the tournament six years ago, but we lost one year because our ?eld was closed,\u201d explained Corey.\u201cI lost my father to cancer and he never got the chance to use Maison Au Diapason because it was right around the time it was just being built.This year, we ended up going bigger because we lost a good friend who went to the Maison.It\u2019s a great cause.\u201d Usually 12 teams take part in the tournament, but we decided the more teams the merrier.\u201cIt was kind of like a ?rst come, ?rst served.It ?lled up quickly this year.Every year we turn away teams and that\u2019s why we did 16.We didn\u2019t want to turn away teams that wanted to help.Everyone is on teams that we know from around here.\u201d Different activities were organized to raise money for Maison Au Diapason with a goal of $10,000.\u201cWe charge each team an entrance fee, we have sponsors, and pro?t from liquor sales.We sold hot dogs and corn with all pro?t going to the Maison,\u201d said Corey.New to the fundraiser this year was a half-and-half draw and an auction, as well as a dunk tank.\u201cI had a lot of requests from people who said that they would pay a lot of money to dunk my husband.We gave them ?ve balls for $10 and they used the balls to try and dunk the person.\u201d Most of the items and food for the tournament were donated by people in the community.A local brewery donated beer and some others donated an extra $100.The auction was led by friends of the organizers, Stacy Richardson and Etienne.What made the tournament that much more special were the actions taken by the teams and individuals involved in the tournament to make the fundraiser a success.\u201cWe have an A and a B pool, so we had a ?rst and second place from each pool that went to the ?nals and we give money to the winners.This year they all gave it back.Even the half-and-half winnings were given back.\u201d Despite the ball tournament being over, the fundraiser isn\u2019t ?nished just yet.\u201cWe still aren\u2019t ?nalizing the total because people still want to give so we said we would keep it open for another week or two.Last year we raised $6,000 and we had fewer teams.The ultimate goal is to raise at least $10,000, but we never know.Everyone was so supportive this year and we did a lot of new things so I\u2019m hoping to get a good amount.\u201d With its continuous success, Corey and Bates hope to keep the fundraising ball tournament going next year.\u201cWe are crossing our ?ngers.It\u2019s for a good cause.Hopefully the more that people are aware, they can expect it and come and help support the cause maybe every year.\u201d To donate to the fundraiser, reach out to Corey at penniesfromheaven3@ hotmail.com.Dunham tourney hits the ball out of the park for Maison Au Diapason Organizers of the event Penny Corey and her husband Lonny Bates PHOTOS COURTESY PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 7 By Taylor McClure Special to Brome County News Émilie Tremblay, a meat producer in Brome Lake with a certi?cate in animal production, wants to strike a deal with landowners in the area to help preserve the region\u2019s farmland, and at the same time expand her business Pâturages du Lac-Brome - Production animale régénératrice.She has already collaborated with two landowners in Brome Lake and most recently in Bolton-Ouest after Janic Gosselin and Jacques-André Dupont decided to lease part of their land for ?ve years to her for her agricultural activities.In the ?rst year of getting her business off the ground, Tremblay is just getting started with her project, but her partnership with Gosselin and Dupont has given her traction.Gaining experience in the entrepreneurial world, she wants to continue to ?nd other landowners willing to contribute to preserving the agricultural vitality of the area.The new partnership came about after a Facebook post by Gosselin and Dupont went viral.\u201cThey placed an ad saying \u2018we a have a piece of land, 30 acres out of a total of 150 acres, and they just said we would like to help a young farmer get started or to develop their business.It got shared over a 1,000 times and the two received over 100 projects so they were completely overwhelmed.They thought maybe they would have two or three ideas but they got over 100 so that\u2019s where they reached out to L\u2019ARTERRE.\u201d \u201cThey are leasing it to me, but they are leasing it for free so that I can raise sheep on their property,\u201d said Tremblay speaking on her new partnership.Described as a \u2018farmer matchmaker,\u2019 L\u2019ARTERRE is an organization that puts landowners or farmers who want to retire, sell or lease their land, in touch with other farmers looking for more land.\u201cI was waiting for an opportunity with L\u2019ARTERRE for over a year so when they reached out to them, the person in charge of the area (Élyse Cardinal) immediately considered my project for their place.\u201d Tremblay said that the efforts of Gosselin and Dupont couldn\u2019t have come at a better time.\u201cI was looking for more land because I also have 14 head of cattle, over 30 sheep, a lama, as well as ducks and chickens.\u201d Her collaboration with Gosselin and Dupont, and other landowners, shares the dual purpose of producing good quality meat and regenerating the land that isn\u2019t being used right now to make sure that we keep our farmlands.\u201cIt\u2019s a good solution to something that might become a problem if people buy the land because it\u2019s pretty not because it\u2019s good land to farm, so that\u2019s where I come in.\u201d She emphasized that the project is really a working relationship between her and the landowners.\u201cI help them identify the goal, what they want to do with the land, and bring in animals.If it\u2019s too small I might recommend something else.A lot of landowners have reached out to me to ask what I can do with their land.With most of my partnerships with landowners I don\u2019t pay a lot of rent, and some not at all, because I help them regenerate their land.The animals also do that.They gain in that exchange.\u201d Dupont has been helping her with the business side of things.\u201cHe has a good vision, he is a businessman.He helps me to make sure I am aligned with my vision and that I take the right action to go where I want to go and it\u2019s really a huge help.Meeting him, and him helping me with those things, gave my business a boost of like three years.With his help, things moved so much faster.\u201d Tremblay said it\u2019s nearly impossible for a farmer to get their hands on a piece of land these days which is why she decided to go a different route.\u201cEven if I were able to buy land, it\u2019s not realistic.I wouldn\u2019t be able to produce enough on that piece of land to justify buying it.In the area of Brome-Missisquoi, it would require an investment of millions of dollars and most people who have money to buy this land are not farmers.People are getting more conscious of it and I\u2019m glad that a project like mine might help open their eyes to other farmers.\u201d L\u2019ARTERRE protects local farmland while helping farmers PHOTOS COURTESY JACQUES-ANDRÉ DUPON) Jesse Bryant Sales Manager Let our readers know about your products & services Tel.: 450-242-1188 Fax: 450-243-5155 email: jbryant@sherbrookerecord.com PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 8 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 bcn@sherbrookerecord.com Brome County News PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY 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By Heather Ancliffe Project Manager for the Inclusive Mentorship Project For the fourth year in a row, the start of the fall school session marks the return of the Inclusive Mentorship (IM) initiative.This year, however, the Inclusive Mentorship initiative is more inclusive than ever.How, might you ask?Well, let me count the ways! 1.The IM initiative is now open to all students from English adult education institutions in the Townships (CRC, LVTC, New Horizons, Brome-Missisquoi Campus) who wish to improve their con?dence when speaking French, and it also remains open to health and social service students from LVTC and CRC.2.The initiative is open to students in any program / ?eld of study.3.The IM initiative is also now open to continuing-education students who are pursuing French as a second language at Bishop\u2019s University.4.The age range for student participation is 18-50 years old.5.A mentoring platform, Mentor City, is now available, which will help you to facilitate and organize your virtual IM meetings.What exactly is the Inclusive Mentorship initiative?The IM initiative facilitates the improvement of French-language communication skills to help with the comfortable and successful integration of English-speaking students into the workforce in the Estrie region.This immersive French- language mentorship helps to boost one\u2019s con?dence, increase one\u2019s employability and, ultimately, ?ll vacant positions in the region with diverse bilingual individuals.How it works: The project coordinator pairs English-speaking students from the Estrie region with French-speaking professionals based primarily on their ?eld of study/work, their location, and their availability.To provide an immersive learning experience, pairs are encouraged to meet once per week, virtually or in person*, to converse in French about a broad range of topics.Various learning resources and free group activities are also provided to facilitate this interactive learning experience.This non-judgmental environment provides the mentee with the opportunity to practice his or her French skills with a French- speaking professional who works in a similar ?eld.The opportunities to network, make new friends, and meet potential colleagues are boundless.The Inclusive Mentorship initiative starts in the fall and continues until March 1.We are presently seeking English-speaking continuing education students who are looking to improve their French.Limited places are available, so act fast! For more information, contact Heather Ancliffe: inclusivementorship@townshippers.org.*For in-person activities, we will follow the recommended COVID safety measures and guidelines.The Inclusive Mentorship initiative is made possible with the ?nancial support of the SRQEA (Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d\u2019expression anglaise).Upcoming activities Our health and social services teams are in the process of planning their fall and winter activity schedules and they\u2019d love to know what kinds of activities and presentations would interest you! Is there a health topic you\u2019d like to learn more about?Is there a local community organization or service you\u2019d like to connect with?Let us know what you are interested in, and we\u2019ll see what we can do to plan around your needs.We invite you to share your ideas with us by contacting Maggie (msevers@townshippers.org) or Michelle (ml@townshippers.org).This monthly column keeps you in touch with Townshippers\u2019 Association\u2019s activities and news.Other ways to keep in touch: Online www.townshippers.org Facebook.com/Townshippers Twitter @Townshippers In person 3-584 Knowlton Rd., Lac-Brome 3355 College St., Sherbrooke By phone 450-242-4421 819-566-5717 PHOTO COURTESY OF TOWNSHIPPERS\u2019 ASSOCIATION Participants in the Inclusive Mentorship initiative have many free opportunities to network and practice their French-language skills with French-speaking professionals.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 11 On Thursdays, August 12, Steven Guilbeault, MP, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Lyne Bessette, MP Brome Missisquoi made a visit to Potton\u2019s Round Barn located at 323 rue Principale in Mansonville, where they were hosted by GBMP Ex-President, Hans Walser, GBMP President, Edith Smeesters, Lorraine Rouillard (President of the Potton Heritage Association) and Municipal Councillors, Jason Ball and Bruno Cote.The Canadian Heritage contributed major grant funding to the project and it along with various fundraising campaigns and contributions from the MRC Memphremagog and Municipality of Potton have resulted in the transformation and evolution in the resuscitation of the building making it a highlight for visitors along Mansonville\u2019s Main Street.Also the location of the weekly Public Market and varied educational, social and cultural exhibitions, the barn has found new life and purpose.During the visit on August 12, those present were able to share with MP\u2019s Guilbeault and Bessette information on the transformation of the barn and the vision for the future.For the two members of parliament, this tour provided insight and assurance that the funds allotted for the project have been put to good use and that new life and celebration has been given to the barn recognizing its heritage, uniqueness and its value as a community gathering spot.If you would like to contribute to this project and be a part of bringing the Round Barn, constructed by Robert E.Jersey in 1912, back to life and the pride of the Eastern Townships there is still much to be done, please contact: the Municipality of Potton at 450-292- 3313 or Edith Smeesters (President of the GBMP) tel.: 450 292-0547 edithsmeesters@gmail.com Minister of Canadian Heritage visits Potton\u2019s Round Barn Lyne Bessette, Hans Walser (GBMP Ex-President), Bruno Côté, Jason Ball, Steven Guilbeault, Lorraine Rouillard (president of Potton Heritage Association), Edith Smeesters (GBMP President) COURTESY COURTESY Mable Hastings The Scoop BCN Staff Erin O\u2019Toole, leader for the Conservative Party of Canada, announced the candidacy of Vincent Duhamel in the federal riding of Brome\u2013Missisquoi for the next federal election.Vincent Duhamel is President and Global Chief Operating Of?cer of Fiera Capital, an investment management ?rm.As a member of the global management team, he oversees the various functional units of the company around the world, including the legal and compliance department, risk management, information technology, corporate communications.business and investor relations and human resources.As a member of the Strategic Development Committee, he also plays a role in strategic acquisition projects, while overseeing the development of the ?rm outside of North America.He also sits on the boards of directors of the divisions of Fiera Capital in Canada, the United States, Europe and of the Bel Air subsidiary.Vincent Duhamel new conservative candidate for Brome\u2013Missisquoi PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 12 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews It\u2019s been a rough year for artists and performers, with public gatherings banned, venues shuttered, craft shows cancelled and theatre performances put on hold.Brome County News wants to help kickstart the arts sector that contributes so much to the vitality and richness of Brome-Missisquoi.Each week the newspaper will feature a local artist, musician, writer or performer.Brome County News will also publish a comprehensive Artists Directory for Brome-Missisquoi to allow residents and visitors to ?nd musicians for live performances, pianists for weddings or special occasions, potters to create the perfect gift, to commission a painting by a Townships artist or to buy books written by Townships\u2019 authors.Calling If you are an artist, writer, musician, actor or artisan, or otherwise involved in the arts, send us an email and someone will contact you about your FREE listing in the directory.all Artists, Artisans, Musicians, Writers and Performers Check out the Brome County News website: www.bromecountynews.com bcn@sherbrookerecord.com This project has been made possible by the Community Media Strategic Fund o?ered jointly by the O?cial Language Minority Community Media Consortium and the Government of Canada h e Brome County News local news every Tuesday Your Community\u2026 Your Family\u2026 Your Interests\u2026 Yo ur Home\u2026 It\u2019s all a part of your lo cal newspaper! ONLY $58.00 a year (taxes included) Includes the Tuesday copy of h e Record & the Brome County News 450-242-1188 \u2022 819-569-9528 | billing@sherbrookerecord.com BCN Staff Registration is now open for the Chambre de commerce de Brome-Missisquoi (CCBM) annual golf tournament and bike rally event at Golf Club Farnham which will take place Sept.29.While the golf tournament will take place as planned at Golf Club Farnham, the rally will include three different tours with stops to allow people to rediscover the region.To start off the day, a brunch and cocktail for some 80 people will be organized by the golf club for 10 am.The brunch consists of an all-you-can- eat buffet including eggs, three types of meats (bacon, sausage and ham), baked beans, breakfast potatoes, fresh fruit and pastries.The cocktail includes one choice of 20 oz draft beer, a glass of white or red house wine, a Bloody Ceasar, or a beer from the Farnham microbrewery (Ale or Lager).If you choose to cycle, there are three different routes that can be taken.A short circuit (48 km), a medium circuit (63 km) that cuts between Dunham and Stanbridge East, and a long circuit (76 km).Different rates apply depending on the activities that are chosen and partnership plans also exist for the event.To register for the event and for more information on rates and partnerships, visit https://forms.zohopublic.com/chambrecommercebromemissis- quoi/form/FormulaireTournoiGolfRall- yeVlo/formperma/BntO3CIMSfSymzez- B84zQhK7AtunyOtD1jzsj51ZHQE or email evenements@ccb-m.ca Golf tournament and bike rally bring Brome- Missisquoi together Ben in Focus BEN MCAULEY Hmmm.PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 13 NOW OPEN.Call for a visit! By Christopher Kimball THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the kitchens of a trendy Madrid dinner theater called Florida Retiro, chef Joaquin Felipe introduced us to pisto manchego, a colorful combination of sauteed summer vegetables that is Spain\u2019s answer to French ratatouille.The fresh taste of the vegetables had come through - ?nely chopped bell peppers, tomato, onion, eggplant and zucchini, each ingredient still intact.The fruitiness of good olive oil acted as a binder without producing a greasy porridge.And the buttery, grassy ?avor of curls of manchego cheese elevated this dish above a mere side.Simply delicious.For the version in our book \u201cMilk Street Tuesday Nights,\u201d we suggest topping it with a poached or fried egg for a quick but tasty main course.The ?avorful tomato juices make crusty bread almost obligatory, but the dish also would pair wonderfully with rice or a baked potato.We liked the effect of using one red and one yellow bell pepper, but you could use just one color.Just don\u2019t use the seedy core of the zucchini, as it turns soft and mushy with cooking.The result was a lesson in contradictions.Simple yet trendy.Oil- infused, not oily.Delicate yet basic.What a good pisto manchego should be.SPANISH RATATOUILLE Start to ?nish: 40 minutes Servings: 4 12-ounce zucchini Two 8-ounce Chinese or Japanese eggplants, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes Kosher salt and ground black pepper 8 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1 large yellow onion, quartered lengthwise and thinly sliced 2 medium bell peppers (see note), stemmed, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 8 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano 14-ounce can diced tomatoes 1/4 cup chopped fresh ?at-leaf parsley leaves 2 ounces manchego cheese, shaved Trim off the ends of the zucchini, then slice lengthwise into planks, leaving behind and discarding the seedy core.Cut the zucchini planks into 1/2-inch cubes and set aside.In a medium bowl, toss the eggplant with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.In a large Dutch oven over medium-high, heat 6 tablespoons of the oil until shimmering.Add the eggplant in an even layer and cook, undisturbed, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.Stir, cover and reduce to medium.Cook, stirring, until tender when pierced with a fork but not falling apart, another 3 to 5 minutes.Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a paper towel_lined medium bowl and set aside.To the same pot, add 1 tablespoon of the remaining oil and heat over medium-high until shimmering.Add the zucchini in an even layer and cook undisturbed until well-browned, about 4 minutes.Stir and cook, stirring, until browned on all sides and tender when pierced with a fork, another 1 to 2 minutes.Using the slotted spoon, transfer to the bowl with the eggplant.To the same pot, add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and heat over m e d i u m - h i g h until shimmering.Add the onion and 1/2 teaspoon salt.Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.Stir in the bell peppers, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.Cover and cook, stirring, until the peppers soften, 3 to 5 minutes.Stir in the garlic, cumin and oregano, then cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.Stir in the tomatoes with their juice, then cover and simmer over medium until the ?avors have melded, 5 to 7 minutes.Reduce to low and stir in the eggplant-zucchini mixture.Cook until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes.Stir in the parsley, then taste and season with salt and pepper.Transfer to a platter and top with the manchego.Pisto manchego, Spain\u2019s answer to ratatouille PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 14 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews House Sale, 21 Curley Street, Sutton, Saturday Aug.21, 8 a.m.to 3 p.m.Antiques, rugs, glasswear, vintage and designer clothing, etc.Garage Sale, Saturday August 21, 259 Jackson Road, Brome.8:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.Lots of items, motorcycle jacket, shop vac and more! Call Sherbrooke: (819) 569-9525 between 8:30 a.m.and 4:30 p.m.E-mail: classad@sherbrookerecord.com or Knowlton: (450) 242-1188 between 9:00 a.m.and noon CLASSIFIED Deadline: 12:30 p.m.one day prior to publication Or mail your prepaid classi?ed ads to The Record, 6 Mallory, Sherbrooke, Quebec J1M 2E2 340 Garage Sale 340 Garage Sale KITCHEN SCOOP by Alicia Ross Suggested menu Carrot Bisque Spinach salad Wheat crackers Carrot Bisque Start to ?nish: less than 30 minutes Yield: 6 servings (about 1 cup each) 1 quart vegetable broth 2 cups water 1 large (1 pound) russet potato 8 medium-large (1 1/2 pounds) fresh carrots 1 small onion 1/2 cup 2 percent or whole milk 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon garlic powder Salt and white pepper to taste In 4-quart or larger Dutch oven or soup pot, combine broth and water.Bring to a boil over high heat.While broth is heating, peel and cut the potato, carrots and onion into bite-size pieces and add to the pot as you chop.When all the vegetables are in the pot, reduce heat to medium-high and cook for 10 more minutes, or until the largest vegetable pieces are tender.Remove from heat.Using a handheld immersion blender (see Cook\u2019s Note), process the soup until smooth.Stir in milk, ginger, nutmeg and garlic powder, and adjust seasoning with salt and white pepper to taste.Serve immediately.(Cook\u2019s Note: If you don\u2019t have an immersion blender, divide the soup into portions and use a blender to process until smooth.) Approximate values per 1 cup serving: 126 calories, slightly less than 1 g fat (slightly less than 1 g saturated), 2 mg cholesterol, 3 g protein, 28 g carbohydrates, 5 g dietary ?ber, 703 mg sodium.Alicia Ross is the co-author of \u201cDesperation Dinners!\u201d (Workman, 1997), \u201cDesperation Entertaining!\u201d (Workman, 2002) and \u201cCheap.Fast.Good!\u201d (Workman, 2006).Root vegetables are the heart of savory bisque WETLANDS ARE DISAPPEARING Protect them.Become a member today.www.ducks.ca 1-866-384-DUCK PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW BromeCountyNews Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Page 15 In Loving Memory James Tryhorn Jr.Always in our thoughts and in our hearts.Deeply loved Pat, Amanda, Simon Taylor & Alexa Card of Thanks In Memoriam Thanks to all my friends and family, who called and sent me birthday wishes for my special day.Georgia Bailey- Poirier ASK THE DOCTORS By Eve Glazier, M.D., and Elizabeth Ko, M.D.Hello again, dear readers, and welcome to the continuation of this month\u2019s letters column.Our volume of mail keeps growing, so we\u2019ll be adding extra letters columns as needed.- A reader asked about dietary supplements.\u201cMy doctor recently told me to stop taking probiotics and ?sh oil,\u201d he wrote.\u201cBut my wife and I have been taking them for many years.What say you?\u201d Probiotics and ?sh oil are among the most popular supplements.Our own preference is that these nutrients be obtained through food- based sources.Fermented foods like sauerkraut, ke?r, yogurt, kombucha and miso all contain bene?cial strains of bacteria.They\u2019re also less costly than supplements.The same goes for ?sh oil.It\u2019s better - and more delicious - to get your omega-3s by eating fatty ?sh like salmon, mackerel, sardines, herring and black cod.If you\u2019re buying a probiotic, please choose those with as many diverse strains as possible.But our ?rm belief is that a pill cannot replace a balanced, healthy diet.- Along those same lines, a reader asked about vitamin D.\u201cI take 1,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily in two forms - a tablet and a gel cap,\u201d he wrote.\u201cIs there any advantage of one form or the other?\u201d Vitamin D3 is better absorbed than D2.When it comes to tablets versus gel caps, there\u2019s no difference.It\u2019s important to note the upper limit is 5,000 IU daily.We advise getting vitamin D through dietary sources, including forti?ed dairy, mushrooms and ?sh.And, if there\u2019s no skin cancer risk, a bit of daily sunshine.- We\u2019ve been getting an important coronavirus vaccine question from a number of readers who are in treatment for cancer, or who are otherwise dealing with a weakened or compromised immune system.A reader in Naples, Florida, said that soon after her husband became fully vaccinated, a cancer diagnosis meant he began immunotherapy and chemotherapy, which suppress the immune system.\u201cDo you have any information on how much protection cancer patients have?\u201d she asked.\u201cInterestingly, the CDC didn\u2019t mention this group in their latest publicized guidance.I think it would be an important issue for your column to address, as there are many cancer patients, unfortunately.\u201d Due to the need to ?rst con?rm that the vaccines work in people with healthy immune systems, the initial COVID-19 vaccines studies did not include those who were immunosuppressed.And because we are still in the early stages of the vaccine rollout, it\u2019s not yet clear how effective the vaccines might be in these groups of people.Although it\u2019s possible the vaccines may not be as effective, it is still strongly recommended that most cancer patients, who are at increased risk from COVID-19, get the vaccine.Even a modicum of protection is better than none at all.Unvaccinated cancer patients should be sure to discuss the risks and bene?ts of the vaccine with their oncologist.Thank you, as ever, for taking the time to write to us.Please continue to take appropriate precautions against the coronavirus and, if you\u2019re eligible but haven\u2019t yet done so, please get the vaccine.Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health.Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.(Send your questions to askthedoctors@ mednet.ucla.edu, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1450, Los Angeles, CA, 90024.Owing to the volume of mail, personal replies cannot be provided.) Get nutrients from food, rather than supplements KITCHEN SCOOP by Alicia Ross Best Sugar Cookies Ever! Start to ?nish: 15 minutes preparation; at least 1 hour chill time; 8 to 10 minutes of baking time Yield: makes about 4 dozen cookies, depending on size and shape of cookie cutters.2 cups all-purpose ?our 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Old-Fashioned Confectioner\u2019s Icing (recipe follows) In a small bowl, sift together the ?our, baking powder and salt.Set aside.In the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar.Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix well.Turn the mixer to low and slowly add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture.Mix until a stiff dough forms.Transfer the cookie dough to plastic wrap and tightly secure.Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, up to 12 hours.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll out on a lightly ?oured surface to 1/4-inch thickness.Cut with cookie cutters of your choice (hearts are always nice this time of year) and gently place the cookies on ungreased cookie sheets.Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until very light gold in color.Allow to cool for 1 minute on the cookie sheet, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely before icing.Old-Fashioned Confectioner\u2019s Icing Start to ?nish: 5 minutes Yield: makes about 1 cup of icing; enough for 4 dozen cookies.1 1/4 cups powdered sugar, sifted 2 tablespoons whole milk (however, anything from whipping cream to low-fat milk is ?ne) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Food coloring of choice Stir together the ingredients in a medium bowl.Adjust consistency by adding sugar by the tablespoon to thicken, or adding milk by the teaspoon to thin.Divide the icing into several bowls.Using food coloring of choice, tint the icing to desired color.Icing can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.Bring to room temperature before spreading on cookies.Approximate values per 2-inch cookie: 61.5 calories (34 percent from fat), 2 g fat (1.5 g saturated), 11 mg cholesterol, 1 g protein, 9 g carbohydrates, trace amount dietary ?ber, 37 mg sodium.(Alicia Ross is the co-author of \u201cDesperation Dinners!\u201d (Workman, 1997), \u201cDesperation Entertaining!\u201d (Workman, 2002) and \u201cCheap.Fast.Good!\u201d (Workman, 2006).Sugar cookies PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW Page 16 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 BromeCountyNews PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PRESSREADER PressReader.com +1 604 278 4604 ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY .ORIGINAL COPY COPYRIGHT AND PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW "]