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Wulftec offers
$10K head start
to Massawippi
clinic
A century
doesn’t seem
so long
Bishop’s remembers its fallen
By Gordon Lambie
Ayer’s Cliff
he Massawippi Valley Health Centre, the health cooperative that has
been gradually coming together in
Ayer’s Cliff over the last four years, received a financial boost from Wulftec International on Tuesday. Wulftec
managers Stephane Joncas and Priscille
Tremblay walked over to the clinic building at 1082 Main Street to personally deliver a $10,000 cheque in the name of
giving back to the community and contributing to the clinic’s ongoing development.
“We developed here in Ayer’s Cliff,”
Joncas said, explaining that the donation is a form of reinvestment in a community that has been the company’s
backbone since its founding in 1990.
“98 per cent of our work force comes
from the immediate area and a lot of
our employees have a hard time finding
family doctors” Tremblay added. “We
thought this was a great opportunity to
help give our employees access to more
medical care without having to be on a
long waiting list.”
Both Joncas and Tremblay highlighted the boost that the clinic is likely
to give to the overall appeal of the village
in attempting to draw new employees in,
and argued that the development would
likely result in a significant economic
boost to the region. They presented the
cheque as a way of “getting the ball
rolling.”
Carole Mooney, President of the
MVHC Board of Directors and Jean
Richard, Vice President of the MVHC
Board of Directors happily received the
contribution on behalf of all those working on the project.
“After four years, we’re getting close,”
Richard said, “when we got started with
ought we might have around 500 members when we opened, and to date we
have 675. It’s a dream on the brink of becoming a reality.”
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Bishop’s University’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony was held yesterday in St. Mark’s chapel.
Gordon Lambie
LENNOXVILLE
tudents staff and members of the
Bishop's community gathered together in St. Mark's chapel on
Tuesday morning to mark Remembrance Day in the school's annual ceremony. Led, as usual, by Reverend
Heather Thomson, the university chaplain, the ceremony featured a series of
guest speakers, most notably retired
Brigadier General Robin Gagnon, who
used the opportunity to speak to the
changing face of war in the modern
era.
“Modern conf licts are too often
characterized by belligerents who
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have an absolute disdain for human
rights, let alone human life,” Gagnon
said.
“I remain convinced that Canadian
soldiers are among the best in the
world and one of the main reasons for
this is our strong belief in our Canadian military values, which include
truth, duty, valour, courage, selflessness, and loyalty. Today’s soldiers understand that these values remain as
relevant as ever in a world that continues to grow in complexity.”
Gagnon explained that while he
sees the two world wars as battles
fought between young men who each
hoped that their side was fighting for
what was right, modern warfare has
become less clear. He underlined the
importance of reinforcing what he
identified as the prime Canadian values, and said that it is the fight for
what is right that sets Canadians apart
on the international stage. He identified Canadian action today as a direct
result of the effort to make the world a
better place.
“What have we learned from Rwanda?” the retired Brigadier General
asked, calling the Rwandan genocide a
terrible failure to act, “Something similar is happening in Iraq and Syria
today, and we need to not repeat our
mistakes.”
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LOCAL NEWS
“Roberge further states that because of his near-death experience, he has
‘decided to live all (his) fantasies and go ahead to realize (his) perv dreams’
Sherbrooke man wanted sex with boys after
near death experience, U.S. agent alleges
By Colin Perkel
The Canadian Press
Quebec man charged in an American sting cited a near-death experience for wanting to live out his
“perv” fantasy of having sex with a boy,
an American special agent alleges in
court documents.
In an unproven criminal complaint
filed in court in Florida this week, the
agent alleges Rene Roberge confessed to
flying to the U.S. to have sex with a 14year-old boy.
Roberge, 47, was arrested Sunday at
the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood airport
after a flight from Montreal. He was
charged with coercion and enticement
of a minor to engage in sexual activity
and travelling with intent to engage in
illicit sexual conduct.
According to the complaint filed
Monday by Vanessa Blanco, a special
agent with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, American authorities began the sting a year ago on a social networking site.
An undercover agent, posed as Remy,
the 55-year-old father of 13-year-old
named Donnie.
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Last month, a user with the handle
Erick Jones — later identified as Roberge
— contacted Remy, the complaint states.
Roberge, who belonged to an online
chat group called “how sick and twisted
are you,” indicated he was looking for a
dad willing to share a young boy, Blanco
states.
“Roberge further states that because
of his near-death experience, he has ‘decided to live all (his) fantasies and go
ahead to realize (his) perv dreams’,”
Blanco writes of an email Roberge allegedly sent last month.
He said he was willing to travel to
Florida to meet Remy and Donnie for a
“hot and horny time,” Blanco says.
“Roberge repeatedly stated that they
did not need to worry about the pain,
that he would be ‘kind and gentle’,” her
complaint alleges.
In a series of recent emails, he also
apparently told Remy they didn’t have
to worry about condoms because he was
a “clean, clean man, no disease” who always smelled good and said he had a
“serious medical problem” two years
ago and still walked with a cane, according to Blanco.
Roberge finally identified himself to
Remy last week, the complaint filed
with U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Florida alleges.
He also told the “father” he had made
hotel reservations in Pompano Beach,
was ready for the trip, and was “excited”
to meet them.
Police in Montreal provided a criminal history, biographical data and a photograph of Roberge, Blanco says.
Blanco also indicates Roberge told
her he had flown to Florida to have sex
with Donnie. He had with him gifts for
the boy, condoms and lubricant. A
search of his iPad turned up child-porn
images, according to the complaint.
Blanco says Roberge also admitted to
having booked a trip to Texas to have sex
with another boy.
Roberge works for TVA in Sherbrooke,
the broadcaster said Tuesday.
A bail hearing is set for Friday with
an arraignment hearing slated for Nov.
24. He has requested a French interpreter.
His legal-aid lawyer did not immediately respond for a request for comment.
Unco-operative customer for
Memphremagog police
Record Staff
23 year old man gave police a
pretty hard time in Magog Monday night and was arrested for
making threats against a person who
was to testify against him in another
case of uttering threats dating from
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last July.
The highly intoxicated suspect resisted arrest and obstructed police and
continued to raise a ruckus even at the
police station. In addition to uttering
threats and mischief, he will be
charged with several breaches of conditions and shoplifting.
MVHC donation
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The Vice President, standing in the
midst of rooms that were literally being
built as he spoke, presented a portrait
of a clinic that is open five days a week
with part time doctor and nursing care
spread out to provide full coverage to
members and the general population.
Asked about the specifics of staffing,
Mooney said that the clinic is very close
to signing deals with several professionals, but that those individuals
would rather not have their identities
revealed prior to arrangements being finalized. She said that the details were
essentially confirmed, however, to have
two part time doctors and part time
nursing care in the space, as well as a
podiatrist and a physiotherapist.
Though Mooney had previously stated
that the clinic was aiming for a late fall
2014 opening, she shared on Tuesday
that they are now looking at no earlier
than January 2015, just based on the
level of completion to date.
“Generally things are going well,”
Mooney said. “We’re working on it.”
Richard estimated that the facility itself would be complete as of mid-December, but emphasized that the clinic
only gets one opportunity to start, and
that the organizers want to make sure
that everything is well organized in advance.
“We want to start it right,” the Vice
President said.
Fellow board member Dian Cohen
encouraged those concerned to understand that a change in opening date of
a couple of months is very normal in
this kind of project. She pointed out
that all the volunteers working on the
project have a great number of loose
ends to tie up on a range of different
projects prior to the clinic’s opening,
and that any delay is simply in an effort
to produce the best end result possible.
The Board of Directors has planned
to hold a public update on the project,
including a staffing announcement, on
Nov. 24 with local MNA Pierre Reid. By
that time, Mooney said that the organizers expect to have a clearer picture
of when the MVHC will be completely
ready to open its doors.
The MVHC has been planned around
the idea of creating in Ayer’s Cliff a public health cooperative that will offer
friendly, bilingual emergency and primary health care services to citizens of
the Massawippi Valley.
GORDON LAMBIE
Carol Mooney (far left) and Jean Richard (far
right) of the MVHC accepting a $10,000
cheque from Stephane Joncas and Priscille
Tremblay of Wulftec International outside
the new clinic building in Ayer’s Cliff.
ELECTION RESULTS
Public notice is hereby given by Pauline Lazure, Returning Officer, that the
following candidates are proclaimed elected in the position/wards mentioned
below:
ELECTORAL WARDS
CHAIR
Michael Murray
COMMISSIONERS
Ward #1 Bedford - Farnham
Joy Humenuik
Ward #2 Cowansville
Gregg Thomson
Ward #3 Lac Brome - Sutton
Richard Gagnon
Ward #4 Granby - Waterloo
Alice McCrory
Ward #5 Magog - Orford
Daniel Brodie
Ward #6 Hatley - Stanstead
Claire Beaubien
Ward #7 Sherbrooke
Francis MacGregor
Ward #8 Fleurimont - Lennoxville
Gordon Barnett
Ward #9 Drummondville
Tina Pezzi-Bilodeau
Ward #10 Richmond
Gary Holliday
Ward #11 Compton - Mégantic
Mary-Ellen Kirby
STATUS
Acclaimed
Acclaimed
Elected
Acclaimed
Re-elected
Acclaimed
Elected
Acclaimed
Re-elected
Acclaimed
Acclaimed
Acclaimed
Given in Magog, this 7th of November 2014
Pauline Lazure, Returning Officer