Archive - 2011
October 13th
More than 350 runners from 10 schools participated Tuesday, October 11 in the ETSB Elementary School Cross Country Run in a super, weather-perfect day. Everyone ran about two kilometres.
Several Galt kids came to visit their former schools/teachers, and there was great parent support.
There are three runners missing from the medals picture.
Great effort, enthusiasm, concentration, determination, success and FUN! We’re proud of all of our ETSB runners!
Stanstead College will host the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools Senior Boys Invitational Soccer Tournament from Friday, October 14 to Sunday, October 16.
Twenty teams from British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada will converge on the campus for three full days of soccer on five fields.
The Bishop’s Gaiters football team now officially finds itself in a position they were hoping to avoid all season long, needing to defeat the powerhouse Laval Rouge & Or in order to have a chance at making a playoff run this year.
Laval has been seemingly untouchable throughout the year, other than a hiccup last weekend in which they lost to Montreal. The Rouge & Or have been virtually steamrolling through other RSEQ teams since the season began in September.
Legends are born in October. That’s the axiom that has been told to generations of baseball fans. While it’s important that you get it done over 163 games for six months during the summer, what really matters is the handful you play over the span of a couple of weeks.
That’s the belief system that seems to permeate the league’s front offices, often to the detriment of a team’s bankroll.
We’re watching movies and telling stories? Great! I would like large popcorn with extra butter and a matching supersized coke, please. What’s that? You want me to watch the movies first and then decide what type of snack I want?!
Well, if you’re looking for inspirational stories to help you reacquire that toned body you seem to have misplaced, you may want to check the following running movies that could get you off the couch and hopefully put a damper on those junk food cravings. Find the following titles at www.amazon.com or your local library.
Lunchtime diners at Louis Luncheonette restaurants in Sherbrooke yesterday may have noticed a few extra, oddly dressed staff members behind the counter.
Police officers and support staff from the Estrie branch of Sûreté du Québec exchanged their patrol cars for the kitchen as part of the ninth annual lunch to raise money for the Centraide Estrie campaign held Thursday afternoon.
“Police were on location to help with the service,” said SQ representative Louis-Philippe Ruel.
Small towns, big moons and bilingualism all hold a special place in Jill Barber’s music career, which is why it’s all too appropriate that the Canadian singer-song writer will be visiting the Centennial Theatre in Lennoxville tonight for the third time in three years.
Currently touring her latest album Mischievous Moon, released last April, Barber has already enjoyed her fair share of big city shows, including the Montreal Jazz Festival. Still, she said there’s just something about the small towns that helps an artist grow.
The anglicization of the Eastern Townships, and the rest of Quebec, is forcing French workers to communicate in their second language according to the Mouvement Québec français (MQF).
“The Anglicization threatens the right of employees to work in French in l’Estrie, which is replaced more and more frequently for English with Montreal businesses,” said the MQF’s president Mario Beaulieu in a statement released on Thursday.
Workers at the Estrie SPA are shocked and angry after a litter of puppies were found stuffed into a plastic container and dumped less than a kilometre away from their facilities Wednesday morning.
An animal health technician discovered the 15 puppies on the edge of a ravine on Hyatt Street, which runs behind the centre, when she was driving by.
Although left without food and water, SPA spokesperson Cathy Bergeron does not believe the puppies were left alone for very long. Employees had passed by the same spot and noticed nothing earlier in the day.
The story Friday in The Record
October 12th
Serving as a backdrop to the unfolding wind turbine story on the border is a recent story by John Nicol and Dave Seglins of CBC News that documents a decline in property values near wind turbines in southern Ontario.
According to the CBC, “Ontario’s rapid expansion in wind power projects has provoked a backlash from rural residents living near industrial wind turbines who say their property values are plummeting and they are unable to sell their homes.”
The full story in The Record Thursday
