The gleaner, 26 mars 2003, mercredi 26 mars 2003

[" items from around the Valley Free rides to Friday's Job Blitz Juc.:n Taylor Lack of transportation is no reason to keep job-seekers away from Friday\u2019s giant Job Blitz in Valleyfield.Two chartered busses will provide a free ride to the giant job fair in the morning, and will bring passengers back in the afternoon.The first bus, serving Huntingdon and Ormstown, will leave the MRC building (Huntingdon Chateau) at 9:30 a.m.From there it will go to Ormstown, where it will make two stops, at the IGA on Bridge St.at 9:45 a.m., and in front of the 4 Seasons Restaurant, 38 Lambton St.five minutes later at 9:50 a.m.Arrival time at Valley- field\u2019s Plaza Hotel will be 10:20 a.m., leaving visitors well over three hours to check out the displays and job opportunities.The other bus will leave Ste-Martine Town Hall at 9:30 a.m., stopping in Beau- harnois.Melocheville.St-Timothée and [ See Blitz pages ] Fatal accident at Ste-Martine A 68-year-old man was killed as he walked along Route 138 at Ste-Martine on Wednesday Mar.19.Police said the section of the highway where the accident occurred had a narrow shoulder and poor visibility due to high snowbanks along the roadside.The driver of the car involved, a 69-year-old woman, was treated for shock following the accident.Police said the fatality is being treated as an accidental death and no charges are contemplated.(JT) Customs operating as usual despite war Juditn Taylor Last week\u2019s invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain has so far had little impact on Canadian Customs and Immigration operations in the Valley.\u201cOur U.S.colleagues may have tightened things up bit, but so far, we are operating normally,\u201d said Charles Wattie, a member of the staff at the Herdman border crossing on Monday morning.[ See Customs page 5 ] vitres d'autos, 2790 boul.Hébert a 0) St-Timothée, 371-3876 223 boul.St-Jean-Baptiste.Chateauguay 692-3876 www.duromax.com __ 24 pages 1,08* 2 Nine-year-old Cameron Hooker licks every last drop from a sample of still-warm maple syrup at the Ormstown-area sugar shanty of Stanley Lalonde (left).Most producers started boiling early last week, and yields so far have been erratic.The weather from here on in will determine what Kind of harvest the Valley\u2019s maple-syrup makers will have.(Photo: JT) ELECTIONS 2008 | Judith Tayi With the provincial election date now officially set for April 14, voters once again face changes to the configuration of the local constituency, which has lost the urban Beauharnois area and gained nearly 5,000 mostly rural voters from part of the former St-Jean riding on its eastern borders.In all, 40,401 voters will be eligible to cast ballots in what is once again known simply as Huntingdon riding, after spending 13 years under the name of Beauharnois-Huntingdon.Huntingdon riding has undergone half-a-dozen changes since it was first created away back in 1792.The historic Huntingdon County retained its electoral identity for 180 years before it was first altered in 1972.At that time, the riding was enlarged to include part of Chateauguay County to the north and part of Napierville-Laprairie to the east.Eight years later, in 1980, it added a whopping 10 more voters in a viindshueld rep.Mest the candidates Part I: \u201crue ] i HF Cl Sain ZA A InfArming the munity PHARMACISTS ?locations to better serve you £ dge Street, town § Open / days 21 Lambton, Ormstown 9IS214-141100 Open 6 days High rate of faise alarms means waste of time for hard-pressed SQ officers The local SQ detachment, faced with limited manpower and a large territory to cover, has asked all Haut-St-Laurent municipalities to help cut down on the number of false alarms called in to police.Lt.Pierre Thibault visited the March 12 meeting of the MRC\u2019s Council of Mayors to ask the five municipalities which have not already done so to pass by-laws setting penalties for false alarms.He said that last year, a total of 78 bogus calls originated in those five communities, a sizable proportion of the total of 539 calls, real and false, recorded during 2002.Of the five in question, Havelock was the location of 24 false alarms, while Elgin had four and Tres-St-Sacrement.three.Figures were not given for the other two, St-Chrysostome and God- manchester.but it would seem that between them.they were the origin of 47 false alarm calls.In 10 of the 78 cases.the offenses merited a ticket.Lt.Thibault said.The worst aspect of the false alarms.he stressed.is the diversion of much-needed manpower to check out the call.Top priority \u201cIf its at night.we send two police officers: in the davtime.it's two patrol cars.These alarms are given top priority.and then.90 per cent of the time, at turns out to be for nothing.\u201d the head of the Haut- St-Laurent SQ vetacEment old the mavers.\u201cWe have had as many as five false alarms in a single month, and those policemen have had to drop their regular traffic or crime-pre- vention duties to answer them,\u201d he added.In the eight municipalities which have passed by-laws on the subject.issuing three false alarms automatically means a ticket and a fine.and this seems to have had a deterrent effect.Thibault said.One mayor, Godmanchester\u2019s Pierre Poirier.said he plans to bring up the issue with his council.\u201cI'm quite sure that we will do something about the situation, similar to what's been done elsewhere, in order to correct the situation.\u201d he said.(PL/JT) Lt.Pierre Thibault of the Haut-St-Laurent SQ) detachment.New boundaries mean a more rural riding tiny part of Chateauguay riding; total number of registered voters at that time was just over 28,000.Beauharnois added In 1988.a dramatic change saw a section of the Beauharnois constituency annexed to Huntingdon.which lost some of its previous territory to the east.The total number of voters in the new Beauhamnois- [ See Map page 3 ] The new Huntingdon Riding, established in 2001, will see its s first election on April 14.(Map: Elections Québec) ZERC CLAIR À WINDSHIELD TREATMENT | ~ 2 » Morch 20, 2003 » The Glesser AT LAST \u2014 some real warm weather began on the weekend, giving us hope that the end of this difficult winter is at least in view.There was some high water during the past few days in the usual low-lying places, although the flooding has not been as bad as in previous years, so far anyway.Last week, a mechanical shovel was breaking up the ice on the Chateauguay at the level of the dam in Huntingdon, so maybe that helped! MEANWNILE \u2014 we hear that the unemployment rate in the Haut-St-Laurent MRC has undergone a pretty spectacular drop in the five years between the last two Census counts.Statistics Canada reports that the figure has decreased more than 30 per cent, from 9.4 per cent to six per cent.THE GOOD NEWS \u2014 pretty well duplicates the figures from the rest of the Montérégie, Se Teacher of the Week This edition of The Gleaner features the third in our series of five \u201cTeachers of the Week\u201d, Chateauguay Valley teachers nominated by their peers or their principals for an article which appeared in Schoolscapes Magazine recently.Sue Deme of Hunting- don\u2019s St.Joseph\u2019s School is described by principal David Brisebois as \u201can excellent planner (who is) also very patient\u201d.Sue says, The little kids in grade one with their big smiling faces just steal your heart\u201d.As well as teaching Cycle 1, she also works with the senior students on the Safety Brigade, and is involved with the Second Steps program which helps students deal with their anger in a constructive way.(Photo: courtesy Schoolscapes Magazine) which dropped form 9.3 per cent to 6.1 per cent.This is lower than the provincial average of 8.2 per cent in 2001, which is also down from the 1996 Quebec average of 11.8 per cent.EVEN BETTER \u2014 were the Beauhamois- Salaberry MRC figures, which went from 12.7 per cent to 7.1 per cent.In Vaudreuil- Soulanges, there is now only 4.8 per cent unemployment, compared to 7.3 per cent five years ago.TIME I$ SHORT \u2014 for those who want to make the most of late-season ice skating.With Minor Hockey and other leagues pretty well done for the year, the Huntingdon Regional Arena is offering pleasure skaters the chance to pay $2 to come and skate at any of the following hours between now and April 2: Today (Wednesday) 7-8:30 p.m.; Friday Mar.28, 6-7:30 p.m.; Saturday Mar.29, 7-8:30 a.m.; Sunday Mar.30, 5-7 p.m.; Tuesday Apr.1, 7-9 p.m.and Wednesday Apr.2, 7-8:30 p.m.THE ANNUAL MEETING \u2014 of Les Aventuriers de l\u2019Archéologie dans le Haut-St- Laurent, the group which oversees the Droulers Site, is coming up Tuesday Apr.1 at 7 p.m.at the MRC Building (the former Chateau) on King St.in Huntingdon.INCIDENTALLY \u2014 the Droulers Site people provided some information used in a recent article on the internet.Check out orig- inemag.net/reportages01/reportage.2asp#ha ut , an E-zine specializing in Quebec family history, for an article (in French) on the Role of Iroquois Women in the 17th and 18th Centuries.THINGS ARE QUIET \u2014 on the election front this week.We're told by Liberal organizer Viki Irving that MNA André Chenail will meet with farmers on Thursday Apr.3 in Ormstown.He wants to hear about farmers\u2019 concems about taxes, subsidies, the family farm and the future in farming generally.Place will be the Presbyterian Church; time is 8 p.m.For more information call Viki at 264-4380.IN CHATEAUGAY N.Y.\u2014 the Chateaugay Central School Musical Theatre group is presenting \u201cOnce upon a Mattress\u201d at the school auditorium this Friday and Saturday, Mar.28 and 29, starting at 7 p.m.and Sunday at 2 p.m.For information about prices consult last week's ad.(We can tell you they\u2019ll be taking Canadian money at par.and that\u2019s a good deal.) Canadiana Crossword Claimed but Untamed By Bemice Rosella and James Kilner ACROSS TT 13 1 Narrowly defeat > 6 7 8 9 0 In 5 Napkin ring 2 8 A Territories flag colour 13 14 12 Animal fat 13 Inuit knife 3 17 14 Eagle's roost 18 15 Jai __ 16 Nathan, for short 17 Theatre box 18 Ready-mix tea 20 Unfolded 22 Ervin, for short 23 Born of 24 Improve the family car 28 Territories aboriginals 32 Wager 33 Part of Tic Tac Toe 35 Meas.of profitability # 36 Territories offical flower (5 39 Territories World Heritage Site 42 Wood sorrel 4 44 Territories Coat of Arms [= colour 45 Fox.Territories critter 48 Map feature 4 Copyread 60 Flightless Australian bird 61 Cannabis, slang diamond mine site cle 5 Inuit for \"Our land\u201d 21 Smallest Prov.24 Inf.to come 31 Denotes three 34 Large deer of the tundra 22 A \u2014 Usque Ad Mare 6 Note in Guido's scale 37 Idea 53 New Brunswick Univ.7 Mattress 8 fi > M aar ; 8 Whalebone 40 He is, condensed 57 I 9 Trotsky or Spinks 41 Worships a rx 10 Impulse 43 Critical 59 One a z IMpse 11 Visually appraised 45 Place in Quebec or part- p serve 19 Before (poetic) ner of Andy 46 Breathe abnormally 47 Territories aboriginals 25 Increase the RPMs 49 Station DOWN 26 Fed 50 Electrical units 2 Valley 27 handler 51 Beams 3 Lac de , Territories 29 Pot 54 \u2014 de plume 30 Electrically charged parti- am NME EN NN AA Re THE COMMITTEE \u2014 serving retired people in this area (Dundee, Elgin, Godman- chester, Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon, Orms- town, St-Anicet and Ste-Barbe) will hold its annual meeting on Sunday Apr.9 at 7 p.m.at the Huntingdon CLSC, 10 King St.This Polyservices group's official title (translated) is the Retired and Pre-retired Persons\u2019 Committee of Huntingdon County (Southwest Section) and all seniors are cordially invited to attend.ON THE CULTURE FRONT \u2014 there's been lots going on in recent weeks.One of the best-kept secrets around, according to one Huntingdon reader, are country-music performers the Gibson Brothers, who hail from Ellenburg NY and who have been building a fine career for themselves in recent years.Their latest performance was a March 15 show at the Chateaugay NY Town Theatre, and now, it seems, they\u2019re off to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry to perform April 11.AS WELL \u2014 there's a young people's drama group in Howick which recently put on a fine variety show, we're told.It\u2019s a fun group, run by volunteers, which provides the youngsters with something different to do in that quiet community.Leaders Carole Ness Tannahill and Amy Goodall Tolhurst have made it all possible over the past several years, as the original members grew from young children to teen-agers.IN CAZAVILLE \u2014 the local Age d'Or Club is holding a conference on Alzheimer\u2019s disease on Saturday Apr.5 at 1:30 p.m.at the Club.located at 2315 Mtée.Cazaville.Speaker will be psychologist Julie Bélanger.who specializes in gerontology.There is a small admission charge.For more information call Thérèse at 264-6653.DAFFODIL DAYS \u2014 the annual fund-raiser sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, are coming up between April 3 and this year.In Hemmingford, Lise Philion tells us the cheerful spring blooms will be on sale at Tradition Hemmingford, and the local Caisse Pop and CIBC branches on Thursday and Friday.Apr.3 and 4.In Huntingdon, you can get your flowers at any of several local businesses between April 3 and 5, says Viki Irving.IN BEMMINGFORD \u2014 the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will celebrate its anniversary on Tuesday Apr.15 with a special 8 p.m.party at St-Romain\u2019s School on Frontiére St.(Use the back entry through the gym.) There's be refreshments, information and the chance to share one\u2019s own experiences.[ More on page 3 ] CHTETTR wuru.romaz -Quebeccom i MICHEL BEAUDIN gis Agent unmobiher atfihe ST-ANICET: Brick bungalow of superior construction.ge 43,859 sq lot with 258 fi along rie 132, 3 bedrooms, double gros 8x32, near village and igke St-Francots (view) Must vist | Michel Beaudin 371-8878 MB#7 - 7% HMIMHNH a.a pr gr Hrs Sox 7 pe de Le : 3 ST-ANICET: Nice bungalow, 2 bdr, located near lake St-François Tastetully decorated, landscape.Garage, shed including 2 bdr chalet One visit and you're convinced.Contact Michel Beaudin 371-8878 MB#27 Nice bungalow, located near to lake St- François, 30,000 st lot, 3 bdr, ceramics | _aëé and hardwood patio & I?shed of 10.3x12.3.Must see! Contact Michel Beaudin 371-8878 72425 Ci i 78 ; RE A ST-ANICET: Bungalow - 2 located near goîf course gt 3 bedrooms, goroge.8 with right of way fo ioke ÿ St-François.Possibility 10 buy all furnished.Ideal for sportsman.Contact Michel Beaudin 371-8878 m0+22 STE-BARBE: Luxureous pro- pen 3 bdr, large 10 ocre of.Fireplace, above ground pool garage 24x40.34 One visit to convince.Contact Miche! Beaudin 37148878 mb#32 mu} FRANÇOIS SAUMIER Affiliated Real Estate Agent 1124 Doguire, St-Anicet (450)264-4756 DC.REALTIES IMMEUBLES DU COMTÉ .CHARTERED REAL ESTATE BROKER 181 Garand, Châteauguay Tél./Fax: 699-8502 9!10023-0-260303 fo + Affilisted Real Estate Agent ° 1206 Rte 132, St-Anicet (450)264-4795 à 2 finish OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY MARCH 30, FROM 2 TO 4 PM » GODMANCHESTER : 4938 Rte 138 Beautiful brick house in the country with 3 bedrooms, attached garage, ed basement, 1.77 acre of land.$94,900.ST-ANICET : Large waterfront res dence with 2 bedrooms, garage, boathouse and many extras.$155,000.HUNTINGDON : Beauttul cottage near all services with 3 bedrooms on a 5000 sq.ft.lot.Very good for small family or first time owner, very well kept.Ready to move in.HUNTINGDON : 3 bedroom home, immediate occupancy, must sell.Asking price below municipal evaluation.0.p ST-ANICET : Beautiful bungalow with attached garage on a 14,400 sq.ft.lot, 120 ft on waterfront, many extras.Immediate occupancy.À must see FRANKLIN : Fermette of 20,978 sq.ft\u2026 renovated centennial house, garage 16x40, with 80x24 bam, etc.$155,000.WANTED : Waterfront cottages on lake St-Francis and residences in Huntingdon area.Tel.: 450-264-4795 or 450-264-4756 æ_ f ee ~~ a X THIS AND THAT IN TOWN ms NEXT MONTE \u2014 April 26 to be precise, the Ormstown 4-H Club will host the annual 4-H Square Dance Competition, a lively event for dancers and audience alike.Entries usually come from several clubs in other parts of Quebec as well as from the local chapters.All dancers must be paid-up 4-H members and no one can dance for two teams.Watch for more later.AN E-MAIL \u2014 arrived this week from Darlene Hills, asking for information about a possible memorial to her father Gordon Hills, who died in Davignon Park on July 4, 1996.We don\u2019t know anything about this, but if one of our readers does, please contact her by e-mailing hillsgrahamdarlene@hot- mail.com .She also gives a fax number: (514) 861-0850.ST.PATRICK'S CHBRCN \u2014 at Herdman is holding a Brunch on Sunday Apr.6, and hours are 10 am.to 1 p.m.Note that the location will be the St.Joseph\u2019s Parish Hall in Huntingdon.IN HUNTINGDON \u2014 the Legion Branch 81 will hold its Sth annual Spring Craft & Bake Sale on Saturday Apr.5 from 9:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.at the Legion Hall.There\u2019ll be crafts and gifts for all occasions.For information call Joan at 373-8129 or Esther at 264-6667.Map changes | «uw Huntingdon constituency rose to nearly 34,000.As governments continued to adjust riding boundaries to suit their own political needs, the next change came in 1992, when nearly 4,000 more voters from the former St-Jean riding came back into the Beauharnois- Huntingdon fold; once again, the voters\u2019 list grew, this time to over 38,000.In 2001, the changes were introduced which have left a non-hyphenated Huntingdon riding with over 40,000 voters for the first time.The constituency now includes a total of 30 municipalities bordered by the international boundary on the south, and running from the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve in the west to Lacolle and St-Paul-Ile-aux-Noix along the Richelieu on the east.The municipalities marking the northern boundary of the riding are (from west to east) Dundee, St-Anicet, Ste-Barbe, Godmanchester, Ormstown, Très- St-Sacrement, Ste-Martine, St-Urbain, St- Rémi, St-Michel, St-Edouard, St-Cyprien-de- Napierville, and St-Valentin.The Glosnor » March 20, 2003 » 3 A WORD \u2014 to the wise, about the rules for running community announcements in this column.If you plan to charge admission to your event, then we ask you to place a paid advertisement in the newspaper.If you do that, we will throw in a free mention of the happening in This and That.Any commercial operation is also asked to advertise.The only events we can publicize here without an ad are non-profit community events, for which no admission is charged.Thanks for your understanding; 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