ST. PATRICK’ S DAY AT THE JEAN-COUTU Irish spirit was in the air this past Friday at the Jean-Coutu Pharmacy in Lennoxville, Que. as they held their annual Saint Patrick’ s Day party. Many years ago, Don Patrick, owner and operator of Patrick’ s Pharmacy, started this all. Don has long since passed, but the tradition lives on, and has certainly become a much-awaited event every spring.

This year, we asked Thelma Doherty, who is boss and organizer of the event, just how many years she has done it. Her answer was 26 years, and she also figures it has been going on for 50 years at least. Many local musicians were on hand, to include the“ Castaways,” consisting of Robert Woolerton, Beth Anderson, Anne Crawford and Leta Dustin. Also, Elmer Andrews, Shelia Andrews, Jan Graham, Wayne Nutbrown and many others played Irish songs and good old country music that kept toes tapping and dancing feet flying all morning.

Every year at the Irish Coffee table, there ' s a donation box for a local charity. This year, the charity was the Lennoxville Elementary School Breakfast Program

. At around 1:30 p. m., the money was counted and the total was $ 345. Jean-Coutu Pharmacy matched it, so $ 690 will be going to the Breakfast Program. Dawn Irving, principal for Lennoxville Elementary, told us that the programe provides a hearty breakfast of toast, juices, and cereals to around 60 young boys and girls every school morning. She spoke about the true life blood of this program, Mavis Robertson. Mavis has done this breakfast program for many years now, and the children sure love the lady. The party wrapped up at around 1:30 p. m. and all headed home with an Irish tune in their head.

– Corey Bellam

TERRY MOSHER VISITS BISHOP’ S UNIVERSITY This past week, the Chronicle attended a special event at Centennial Theater on the Bishop’ s University Campus in Lennoxville, Que. This event featured a very well-known Canadian political cartoonist, Terry Mosher – or as he is known in the business,“ Aislin.”

The show all kicked off at 7 p. m. sharp with Terry taking the stage and talking about how he got into cartooning over 40 years

ago at Montreal’ s English-language newspaper,“ The Gazette.” Terry said that the name“ Aislin” came to be because it was the name of his daughter, and he has used that nom de plume for over 40 years now doing political cartoons for the Montreal Gazette. About 160 people sat in the theater and listened to Terry ' s very comical way of describing politicians from both sides of the border that he has depicted in his cartoons over the years. He kept the crowd laughing for two hours.

Terry is President Emeritus of the Canadian Editorial Cartoonists. He was born Nov. 11, 1942, in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended 14 different schools in Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1967. As the story goes, he finally won entrance into this Fine Arts College after forging his High School graduation certificate – he calls this his first work of art, with a big grin.

Terry then began working for the Montreal Star, moving to the Montreal Gazette in 1972.“ Aislin” cartoons have appeared in many publications all over the world such as The New York Times, Harper’ s Magazine, The

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Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Terry Mosher visited Bishop’ s University in Lennoxville this past week, where he spoke about his career. Corey Bellam photo.