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Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 21 Underdog Club by C. Lee p. 11 Photo: Robert J. Galbraith Comin’ Up p. 16 Montreal fire fighters and the elite fire rescue team rescued an injured construction worker from a crane at the development at the corners of Greene Ave. and de Maisonneuve on February 20. Story, p. 14. First Don Wedge TANIA KALECHEFF awards this spring Selling fine homes An award in memory of civic activist and Indie columnist Don Wedge will be in Westmount and BRIAN GRANT awarded this spring by a jury composed adjacent areas 514.249.1500 of former city of Westmount sustainable 514-488-1049 development coordinator Joshua Wolfe VIVIAN GRANT 514-933-6781 514.592.4636 and two journalists. The award is for $300, although as many as four addi - finehomes@ tional prizes may be awarded for $50 kalecheff.com TThehe StrengthStreengthngth of TEAMWORKTEAMWORK each. www.kalecheff.com The contest is open to full-time Con - TThehe ReputationReputation forfor RESULTSRESULESULLTS cordia journalism stu - Fhe\ki_edH[WbjoH<H[Wb;ijWj[7][dYoFhe\ki_edH[Wbjo H< H[Wb ;ijWj[ 7][dYo dents. The deadline for continued on p. 6 WESTMOUNT Marie Jeannie Sicotte Moosz B.ARCH | REAL ESTATE BROKER Real Estate Broker Real Estate Broker Groupe Sutton Centre-Ouest, inc. Groupe Sutton Centre-Ouest, inc. 514.953.9808 514.299.3307 mariesicotte@ jeanniemoosz@ videotron.ca gmail.com “ rtfully uniting Extraordinary Properties Deeply Rooted Value with Extraordinary Lives”
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Michael I. Levine Louis-Philippe Barrette A team of physics students from The Study were overcome with joy on the evening of February 15 when Vice President and Portfolio Manager Vice President and Portfolio Manager they learned they will be travelling to Israel after winning the regional championship in Weizmann Canada’s annual Shalheveth Freier Physics Tournament held at St. George’s School. The international competition takes place in Israel during the week of March 18. From left: Janet Masella, mother of tournament winner Francesca Masella, Elyse Battat hugging her daughter Sarah (another winner), Levine Barrette Portfolio Management consists of Michael I. Levine and Louis-Philippe Barrette, Vice-Presidents and Portfolio Managers, TD Waterhouse Private Investment Advice is a division of TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. (Member Canadian Investor Protection Fund), Weizmann Canada’s Michele Bloomfield, and Jessica Lu, who is also one of the champs. Sabrina a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank. TD Waterhouse is a trade-mark of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, used under license Nolan was also a winner. Photo: Martin C. Barry NDG SOCCER ASSOCIATION DATES D’INSCRIPTION DE L’ASSOCIATION DE 2012REGISTRATION SOCCER DE NDG POUR LA SAISON D’ÉTÉ 2012 Saturday February 25, 2012 – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Samedi le 25 février 2012 – 10h-15h Saturday March 17, 2012 – 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Samedi le 17 mars 2012 – 10h-15h Sunday March 25, 2012 – 2-7 p.m. Dimanche le 25 mars 2012 – 14h-19h WHERE: Le Manoir Gym, 5319 Notre-Dame-de-Grace Ave (corner of NDG Avenue & Decarie Blvd). OÙ: le gymnase du Manoir, 5319, avenue Notre-Dame-de-Grace Ave (intersection du boul. Décarie). PLAYER PHOTOS PHOTOS DES JOUEURS –NEW PLAYERS–you must come to registration to have your photo taken. – NOUVEAUX JOUEURS – Vous devez venir à l’inscription d’avoir votre photo prise. –RETURNING 2011 PLAYERS–NDG Soccer will send you an email in January 2012 –JOUEURS DE 2011– L’ASNDG vous enverra un courriel en janvier 2012 pour vous aviser si vous IFYOU NEED a new photo. devez vous présenter à l’inscription pour qu’on prenne une nouvelle photo. –RETURNING PLAYERS FROM OTHER YEARS–If you last played with NDG – JOUEURS INSCRITS AVANT 2011 – Si vous avez joué au soccer à NDG avant 2011, Soccer in 2010, 2009 or earlier, you MUST come to registration to have your photo taken. vous DEVEZ vous présenter à l’inscription pour qu’on prenne votre photo. NDG Soccer Association cannot process the registration of any player who needs a player photo taken L’ASNDG ne pourra pas finaliser l’inscription de joueurs qui doivent avoir une photo mais qui ne se and is not at the registration in-person. présentent pas lors de l’inscription. NDG Soccer Association also requires copies of every player’s medicare card and a 2012 proof L’ASNSG aura aussi besoin d’une copie de la carte d’assurance maladie du joueur et d’une preuve of residence (Bell, Videotron or Hydro bill) with the player’s de résidence de 2012 (facture de Bell, Vidéotron, Hydro-Québec, etc.) family name on it. portant le nom de famille du joueur. NDG Soccer Association welcomes players from outside of the L’Association de soccer de NDG est ouverte aux joueurs qui ne résident pas dans CDN/NDG Borough. Ours is a full summer league from June to l’arrondissement de CDN/NDG. Notre saison d’été a lieu du mois de juin au mois de September and we have children from Westmount, Cote St. Luc, septembre et nous avons des joueurs provenant de Westmount, Côte St. Luc, Hampstead, Montreal West, Lasalle and Verdun playing on our Hampstead, Montréal Ouest, Lasalle et Verdun qui évoluent au sein de nos équipes recreational and competitive teams. SOCCER IS FUN IN NDG. récréatives et compétitives. ON A BEAUCOUP DE PLAISIR AU SOCCER À NDG. Come and join our expanding leagues! Joignez-vous à nos ligues en pleine expansion! COME AND PLAY THE BIGGEST GAME IN THE WORLD VENEZ JOUER AU SPORT LE PLUS POPULAIRE AU MODE WITH THE NDG SOCCER ASSOCIATION! 514-488-7784 – www.ndgsa.com AVEC L’ASSOCIATION DE SOCCER DE NDG! 6 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012
Letters to the Editor Park Restaurant opens in former Vic Market Compensate businesses Power grid antiquated for power shut-downs Just as the ice storm revealed enormous Over the past year, I have witnessed deficiencies in the design and construc - construction crews on no less than three tion of the Hydro Quebec power trans - occasions rupture a gas line while execut - mission system, so has the February 8 ing road repairs. Each time the fire de - blackout shown the appalling design defi - partment and Gaz Met repeat the same ciencies of the Westmount power grid. procedure to repair the rupture, and each The blackout extended over a very wide time those close to the site are evacuated – area, indeed in a crazy-quilt pattern, far be - with the exception being that during this yond any locality where there was risk of last incident, power to 6,000 subscribers any explosion from leaking gas. was cut for safety. Where there is a localized emergency, It seems this situation is recurring at it should be possible to close localized cir - such a frequency that the controls put in cuits, if need be feeding the rest of the grid place to prevent such incidents are clearly from locations away from the locale of the not working. Likewise, the cost of lost rev - emergency. enue to businesses, and in this case Hydro Of course, however antiquated the pres - Westmount, as well as the inconvenience ent system may be, we are certain to be seem to not be an issue to the contractors told that no major reconstruction is possi - executing the work. ble owing to cost. What is being done to assure that the Stephen Scott, Sherbrooke St. frequency of these occurrences is reduced to close to zero? And, I certainly hope that fines are levied against these contractors for amounts representative of the loss of revenue to Hydro Westmount, as well as a Electronic Independents penalty for the inconvenience to local busi - available nesses and the public. Enjoy the Indie at supper time This has to stop, before someone gets on Tuesdays! Park Restaurant’s executive chef Antonio Park prepares dinner for evening guests on February 16. seriously injured. Sign up by writing us: Ryk Edelstein, Upper Lansdowne offi[email protected]. By Martin C. Barry Weber, who are “big fans of Chef Park,” Hart said in an email. Celebrities and friends are among the “We are not doing any launch advertis - select few who are invited, during the ing and are just inviting friends and fam - WESTMOUNT month of February, to take advantage of ily for the month of February,” added Hart. pre-opening evening service at the most The former Vic Market outlet has been INDEPENDENT recent culinary addition to Victoria Ave. transformed into a full-service restaurant Although it’s located in the Victoria and bar with lots of seating, longer hours We are Westmount. Park block at 378 Victoria, Park Restaurant (morning, noon and evening), and an ex - is named, aptly enough, after its executive panded menu featuring organic, seasonal Weekly How Can We Help You ? Presstime: Monday at 10:30 am chef, Antonio Park, the former co-owner and sustainable Asian fare. Stories and letters of Kaizen Sushi Bar on St. Catherine St., In a press release the restaurant says Publisher & editor-in-chief: David Price Kristin McNeill: 514.223.3578 who is regarded as one of Canada’s lead - that reservations for evening service in editor: Kristin McNeill [email protected] ing chefs. February “will only be open for members, According to Jeff Hart, a minor partner friends, VIPs and journalists.” However, Chief reporter: Laureen Sweeney Advertising & Sales Arleen Candiotti: 514.223.3567 in the venture, among those who dropped brunch or lunch is open to the general Letters & Comments: [email protected] by to try out the menu on the evening of public. Call Park Restaurant at We welcome your letters but reserve the right to February 14 were Montreal Canadiens de - 514.750.7534. choose and edit them. Please limit to 300 We also publish the Free Press newspaper in Hampstead, fencemen P. K. Subban and Yannick words and submit before Friday 10 am to be Côte St. Luc and NDG. considered for publication the following week. Please check your letter carefully as we may be Accounting & Classified ads unable to make subsequently submitted Beth Hudson: 514.223.6138 Wedge award changes. If you do make amendments, please offi[email protected] “redline” them instead of resending the whole pendent sometime after March 19. letter. Email any letter or comments to 14,202 copies continued from p. 1 [email protected]. Applications can be submitted by email Audited by submissions is Thursday, March 8. Arti - to donwedgeawards@westmountinde - cles should be 800 words long and deal pendent.com or mailed to the Don Wedge Owned and published by: with an environmental issue in one of Memorial Journalism Award c/o the Inde - Sherbrooke-Valois Inc., 310 Victoria Ave., #105, Westmount, QC H3Z 2M9 Montreal’s demerged suburbs. The win - pendent . 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Stuart Webster Design wins How many Campbell Cohen Worsoff Avocats national landscape competition aggressive dogs? Barristers and Solicitors A resident of Bellevue Ave. complained to Public Security February 7 that when - ESTATE LITIGATION ever she walks her dog past a house on WILLS AND ESTATES Sunnyside, as she did the night before, a Doberman runs to the fence growling and INSURANCE CLAIMS sticks its head through bars in the fence, barking aggressively, accompanied by two smaller dogs. Michael Worsoff 215 Redfern, suite 118 The latest incident occurred only two Westmount, QC H3Z 3L5 hours after a woman living on Bellevue Tel: 514 937-9445 Fax 514 937-2580 told city council at its meeting February 6 [email protected] about another Doberman living on Sum - mit Circle that allegedly attacked her dog in Summit Woods (see February 14, p. 6). e buy ALL In the latest incident, Public Security officials said that officers who visited the gold – locally Sunnyside home found that the Dober - man seemed friendly and that the fence Incl. was high enough to contain it in the yard. broken The complaint was relayed to owners, jewellery and officers would be monitoring the sit - uation, assistant director Greg McBain and diamonds said. – LS Free estimates Stuart Webster (second from left), landscape architect and owner of Stuart Webster Design, and Annie Gold Buyers International Robinson (right), design manager and landscape architect, were presented on February 8 with the first 5897 Sherbrooke St. W. (at Royal) place Caterpillar Award of Excellence for Residential Landscape Construction/Installation representing Electronic Independents available Enjoy the Indie at supper time 514-419-0656 a property in Boucherville. It is the first time the prize was given to a Quebec company. On either side Mon to Thurs: noon to 5 pm; Friday: noon to 2 pm; are Véronique Pepin, president of the Association des Paysagistes Professionnels du Québec and Andrea on Tuesdays! Sign up by writing us: offi[email protected]. Sat: closed and Sun: noon to 4 pm. Marcotte of Caterpillar. Photo courtesy of Stuart Webster Design 8 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012
MICHAEL R.CONCISTER Author recounts history of CPR’s Glen Yards Avocat – Barrister & Solicitor By Martin C. Barry located in what was Specialist in real estate, then the town of West - On March 16 during the first lecture of mount. commercial lease, the Westmount Historical Association’s While it’s hard to and disciplinary matters (WHA) spring 2012 series, Michael Leduc, imagine the Glen 4115 Sherbrooke St.West, suite 420 the author of seven books on the history without the great arch of railways in Montreal, talked about Cana - that appears in photo - Westmount, Quebec H3Z1K9 dian Pacific’s (CP) involvement in the de - graphs taken more Tel: 514-875-5311 ext. 5 velopment of the former Glen Yards. than a century ago, Fax: 514-875-8381 Although Leduc never worked for a rail - WHA president Wesbsite: michaelconcister.com way, the Dollard des Ormeaux resident has Doreen Lindsay said had a lifelong interest in trains, especially she has seen pictures E-mail: [email protected] in the M ontr eal region. taken of women in the With a hobbyist’s curiosity, he was able Glen before the arrival to trace the construction of the historic of the railway, when stone arch that spans the Glen back to the area was regarded Bookkeep-it Lena 1892, when CP had no track leading from as an idyllic retreat. Bookkeeping, backoffice & consulting services Papadam western Montreal, and the Glen had to be When Glen Rd. crossed in order to build a service yard in was built around the Westmount. same time as the arch - -- According to Leduc, the opening of the way, the stream that info bookkeepit.ca yard became a necessity when CP no ran downhill towards Are you having trouble keeping up longer had enough room at Windsor Sta - St. Henri was buried with your payroll, DAS, GST and tion for its locomotive and rolling stock under the street and other paperwork? maintenance operations. incorporated into the According to railway historian Michael Leduc, the Glen Yards became a So in 1903, CP president Sir Thomas municipal sewer net - necessity when CP no longer had enough room to service its trains at Let me take care of the books, so Shaughnessy decided that a new facility work. Windsor Station. you can take care of your business. would be built somewhere between Wind - Leduc said the wasn’t always there as a plateau – it’s land - Bookkeeping – Accounting – Back Office sor Station and Montreal West. The fol - Glen Yards itself was built on top of an ar - fill basically – and they did all of that in Creation – Consulting lowing year, he announced it would be tificial plateau, which was created with any two years,” he said, adding that by May kind of landfill CP was able to obtain. “It 1906 the new railway yard was ready.
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Toyo and Mindy have each other’s adopted together. They have even gone on backs and have for some time now. Not hunger strikes when they were separated that going down memory lane is a pre - for even the shortest of times. ferred trek for these two down-on-their- Are you and your BFF really tight? So luck dogs. are Toyo and Mindy. Give them a double Quite simply, the duo is homeless since shot at happiness. Please contact the fine the backyard breeder, who had been using folks at the SPCA e-shelter today at them for far too long, shut down her op - 514.915.7311 or [email protected] eration, locked the doors and set everyone com. packing, so to speak. The Underdog Club supports any dogs of the Mindy and is a 4-year-old grey and hard knocks variety. Visit them at white shih tzu poodle mix and her pal www.underdogclub.org or email us at Westmount city councillor Patrick Martin made a presentation on the new recreation centre project to Toyo, a shih tzu Pekinese cross, is 6 years [email protected]. the Westmount Municipal Association on February 13. old. Both are good dogs, who even though sented, on schedule and within budget.” Before the public meeting, the mem - bers listened to a presentation on the proj - Hey, Henry Westmount ect by Councillor Patrick Martin. If you are running short on time, or have no time, Afterwards they debated the project’s or need assistance, I can help in the Animal budget. following ways: “I think what we can say is that what we ◊Driving to the airport or to your appointments Hospital have seen so far is satisfactory as far as ◊Running your errands Since 1969 we’re concerned, but an emphasis on ◊Checking your house while you are away building within the budget remains a pri - ◊Taking your animals to the Vet or Dog Parlor Dr J.Marc Vaillancourt • Anesthesia •Nutrition ority that needs to be looked at continu - And many other services too numerous to list! Dr Carolyne Hours •Dentistry •Surgery ously,” WMA president Jean-Pierre Picard Discount for Seniors •Laboratory •X-Ray said. For more information and details contact: Speaking for himself, Picard added Henry Price at 514-937-0649 514-487-5300 later that the updated plan the city made or henryfpriceyahoo.ca public February 6 “was an improvement 349 Victoria Avenue Just ask and I will do my best to accommodate your request. over the original concept.” www.hopitalveterinairewestmount.ca 12 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012
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Montreal fire fighters and the elite fire rescue team pull on climbing ropes to lower the stretcher holding an injured construction worker to the ground. An ambulance waits at the corners of Greene and de Maisonneuve. The worker had stumbled while trying to climb into his 100-foot high crane control booth and fell about 25 feet to an iron support platform below, striking his head. Photo: Robert J. Galbraith Crane operator falls 25 feet; suffers minor injuries
According to police, shortly before 7 am brought down by firefighters specializing February 20, the operator of a standing in high-angle rescue. crane slipped when almost at the top of The 44-year-old man was taken to the the crane’s ladder, hitting his head and one Montreal General Hospital by Urgences arm on one of the safety rings. He landed Santé suffering minor injuries. – LS on a platform about 25 feet below and was For another photo, see p. 1.
Loose dogs didn’t hang together Two dogs that escaped from a house be a brown Labrador and the other, a on Rosemount Crescent during the power black and white spaniel. outage February 8 were subsequently Licenced, both were returned home found in different locations, Public Secu - with a warning against letting dogs run rity officials said. One had wandered to loose. No tickets were issued, however, Westmount Ave. near Argyle; the other to given their escape could have been related Cedar between Clarke and Mountain. to the blackout that left much of West - Two calls for found dogs came in to the mount without power for more than 10 Public Security Unit at 6:23 pm within hours (see February 14, p. 3). seconds of each other. One turned out to THANK YOU WESTMOUNTERS! Contactivity Seniors Centre celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year, thanks to your participation, your volunteering and your support.
4695 de Maisonneuve West, corner Lansdowne Non-profit activities and services for seniors 514-932-2326 Photo: Eric Bindman WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012 – 15 When the lights went out in Westmount RETIREMENT SALE cause of a gas leak and that many shops drove at 20 kilometres per hour the whole had battened down the hatches, presum - way and kept my fingers crossed that the To view our store go to: Living in ably to preserve the thin veneer of civility lights would be burning again on the way TOLAMONTREAL.COM Westmount that kept locals from devolving into rabid home. Only some were, but the intersec - Click on ‘retirement sale’ looters and loading up getaway Range tions that remained dark were now under Jo Simonetti Rovers with kale salad, non-fat lattes and the direction of police. 30% Uggs. Vehicles fell back into the familiar steps But hang on a minute: Gas leak? of their start-stop road tango, not unlike I pulled hard on the door handle, but Where? my push-pull door merengue, except they 40% there was no give. I have trouble with The answer was delivered soon enough were actually getting somewhere. doors, always pushing when I should be via iPhone. The city of Westmount By the time power was restored later pulling and vice versa. I end up in a Chap - emailed residents with regular updates on that evening, my yearning for sea salt and 50% lin-esque struggle with the thing until the situation. I was impressed at the level lemon almonds had subsided somewhat, On all our carpets in store someone with healthier door instincts of communication and efforts to keep us but I decided that I would try the door at comes along to open it with seemingly no in the loop. Sunsource again the next day anyway. effort whatsoever. Later, driving east along Sherbrooke to Third time’s the charm. This was the second time in a week that pick up my son from school, I was struck Send comments and questions to I was denied entry to Sunsource. The first by how quickly things degenerate when [email protected]. time was due to a “back in 5 minutes” there is a breakdown in infrastructure. sign. (I only had about 90 seconds.) So in - With the traffic lights out between Lans - tensified by repeated frustration was my downe and Atwater, motorists suddenly Electrical fire on pole craving for sea salt and lemon almonds found themselves in an awkward dance A small electrical fire was reported to that I felt sure I could not go on living un - with nobody leading. I spotted a few cars have broken out at the top of a hydro pole less I procured a bag of the stuff immedi - stranded along the road, airbags detonated behind 80 Columbia February 8, Public ately. I tried again. and fenders bended, and could only hope Security officials said. It erupted during that nobody was injured. the restoration of power after the black - Veneer of civility Sherbrooke St. looked like a scene from out but did not result in loss of power to TOLA Carpets My slapstick routine was in full swing one of those apocalypse movies, where the the area. Firefighters were on the scene 235 Laurier West when someone stopped to tell me that first signs of The End begin to manifest at 10:37 pm. 514.272.8500 Westmount Hydro had cut the power be - and things start to go terribly wrong. I NOWUNDERCONSTRUCTION
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Stuff each pepper with the ricotta cheese, cream cheese, olive oil, in the fashion indus - some of the feta filling; transfer to an alu - parmigiano, red pepper flakes and try call the transition minum foil-lined baking sheet; chill for 30 chopped basil. Season with salt and pep - season. It’s spring minutes. Sprinkle peppers with grated per, and taste. Make desired seasoning ad - but really not. The cheese; broil peppers until cheese is justments. temperature tells the golden brown and bubbly, about 6 min - After the eggplant has been purged, Elliott Cohen truth. utes. Transfer peppers to a platter and rinse the slices well, then dry with paper So I would want serve hot. towels. to share spring recipes with you, hype Preheat a grill (or a big cast iron pan) lighter fare, give you some Passover Grilled Eggplant Stuffed with Ricotta and grill the eggplant about 3 minutes on recipes and push comfort food to the side and Basil each side (depending on thickness). Taste for another year, but I couldn’t live with Serves 4 to 6 a little piece before you remove it to make that lie. So I want to share two simple, 1 large eggplant sure it’s cooked through. yummy cold weather appetizers with you 1 cup ricotta cheese Place a small spoonful of the cheese until the next time we meet. Both involve 4 oz cream cheese, at room temperature mixture at the base of the eggplant, then cheese, one with ricotta the other, feta. 2 egg yolks 1 tbsp olive oil roll it up. Feta Stuffed Peppers Kosher salt and freshly ground black pep - 1/2 cup parmigiano reggiano, grated per to taste 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes Serves 4 to 6 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese 1/4 cup chopped basil Six 4- to 5-inch Anaheim chilies – red or 1. Arrange a rack 6 inches from the salt and pepper green broiler element and set oven to broil. Put Thinly slice the eggplant (down the 9 oz. feta, crumbled peppers on a baking sheet and broil – length of the eggplant, so you get the 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil turning once – until just soft, about 5 min - longest pieces possible), and sprinkle the 2 tbsp. Greek yogurt utes. Transfer to a rack; let cool. pieces lightly with salt. Place the eggplant 1 tbsp. minced fresh parsley 2. In a large bowl, use a hand mixer to in a colander and let it drain for one hour. 1⁄2 tsp. lemon zest whip feta, oil, yogurt, parsley, zest, This process is called purging and what 1 tbsp. fresh oregano, chopped Comin’ Up Thursday, February 23 pm in the reading room. Antiquarian pm. Tickets are available at the main cir - nations. Info: 514.931.5000. • Concordia University music professor booksellers Wilfrid de Freitas and Susan culation desk. Info: 514.989.5299. Ravdin will give opinion on the value of Friday, March 2 and jazz trumpet player Charles Ellison Monday, February 27 gives a presentation on history of jazz, special books. Fee is $2 per book for At - Concert A voce sola – Italian baroque 12:30 pm at the Atwater Library, 1200 At - water Library members and $3 per book • Westmount Public Library’s French Book music with Anne L’Espérance , soprano water Ave. Free. Info: www.atwaterli - for others. Club on Anne Hébert , 1 pm in the Board and Jonathan Addleman, harpsichord. brary.ca. Room. The meeting is led by Marie-Anne 7:30 pm at the Westmount Park United Sunday, February 26 Poggi. Discussion and coffee. Church, 4695 de Maisonneuve. Cost: $15; Saturday, February 25 Screening of an Oscar-nominated film at • Storytime at Centre Greene , 10 to 11 am. students $10. Info: 514.432.2867 or Atwater Library Books Roadshow , 1 to 4 the Westmount Public Library, 11 am to 1 For kids aged 2-5 years, every Monday. http://sites.google.-com/site/annelesper - Cost: $3.50 drop-in. 1090 Greene Ave. ancesoprano. Info: 514.931.6202. Saturday, March 3 Tuesday, February 28 A film for children will be screened in the Poetry workshop with Ann Lloyd , 2 pm in Storytime Room of the Westmount Public GoWestmount.ca the Westmount Library. A workshop to Library, 10:30 am. Other kids’ films will be help express yourself in verse. Come with screened Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, Our on line calendar has it all! thoughts to create a poem. Free. Info: March 6 at 2 pm in the Westmount Room. Donna Lach at 514.989.5386. Free. Register at the circulation desk or call 514.989.5357. Concerts, exhibitions, launches, events, Thursday, March 1 Dawson theatre students (second year) Monday, March 5 public meetings, community links, perform Almost, Maine , written by John • City council meeting at city hall, 8 pm. Cariani and directed by Jude Beny. Also • Centre Greene’s March break camp , 8 sports and hockey schedules Friday March 2 at 8 pm and Saturday, am to 6 pm. Runs until Friday, March 9. March 3, at 2 pm and 8 pm. Seats available Cost: $25 per day; $100 per week. Regis - on a first-come, first-served basis. Cost: do - ter: www.centregreene.org. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012 – 17 Business Watch Predators win at provincials
Vic village law practice focusses on avoid costly errors when they’re starting small businesses off. Kelly Francis wants to help young en - A lawyer with her own Westmount- trepreneurs and small business owners based practice since last September, Fran - cis specializes in business law. “I help young entrepreneurs and small business owners conform to the law,” said Francis, a 2010 McGill law graduate. “I point out any weaknesses they might have in their business and what the con - sequences could be if they don’t fix them.” Francis maintains that one of the most common errors made by new business owners is in not establishing a legal iden - tity for their business that is separate from their person. “Hindsight is 20-20,” she said. “When you’re already in trouble or being sued by From left, back row: Bruce Garfield (assistant coach), Michael Lashchuk, Gregory Walfish, Felix someone who’s trying to seize your per - Simard (assistant captain), Lucas Clarke, Max Shafter (captain), Tyler Arsenault, Sam Lee-Howes, sonal property it’s easy to look back and Michael Robb, Warren Garfield (head coach), Stephanie Gliksman (team manager); front row: Eric say, ‘I should have incorporated.’” Namts, Jordan Sager, Judd Garfield (assistant captain), Nicolas Romary (assistant Captain), Kelly Francis Francis’s website is www.kellyfran - Guillaume Falardeau; ice level: goalie Wesley Osterland. Photo: Bob Garfield cisavocate.com. – MCB The Predators Peewee A hockey team back from a two-goal deficit to win 3-2 won its second tournament of the season against Les Chevaliers de Gatineau. The by capturing the provincial Peewee tour - winning goal was scored by Lucas Clarke, Who owns this bike? nament in Rigaud February 12. MVP of the game, with less than one sec - The team beat the hometown HRS ond left in the game. Hawks in the finals by a score of 5-0. The The Predators beat out 11 teams from MVP of the final game was Predators all over Quebec. goalie Wesley Osterland. In the semi-finals, the Predators came HAIR Teenager walks into STYLING control box FOR MEN A teenager was reported to have walked into a control box for traffic & KIDS lights mounted on a post at the north - west corner of Sherbrooke and Victoria January 11. Public safety officers were called to the scene at 12:30 pm by a wit - ness, who said the height of the control box posed a hazardous risk. It is five feet 514.484.5987 from the ground, a standard height, of - 4970 Sherbrooke St. W. ficials said. No victim could be found. (at Claremont Ave.) The photograph of this bicycle was taken on February 12 on Sherbrooke St. opposite the Y. It seems to have been there for several months. Photo: Ralph Thompson 18 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012 Program targets light pollution, energy saving The name of your # Mars, Venus to star at I realized that it should be read in French, and is a joke: “ j’ai fini .” There must be Ruminations many in Westmount who could name Earth Hour, March 31 their house “Costaplenty.” George Bowser By Laureen Sweeney The telephone exchanges were located well as Johanne Roby. in real places, so the numbers related to A professor of chemistry at Sherbrooke actual words. With the proliferation of new Last year’s move and expansion of CEGEP, Roby will explain how “excessive three-digit prefixes that do not relate to Earth Hour activities from the Summit light of the wrong kind can adversely af - “I’ll call you at home,” said I to my real places, the romance of names has vir - lookout to Westmount Park and Victoria fect our health,” Moffat said. friend. “What’s the number again?” tually disappeared. Hall proved so successful, organizers say, In his ongoing dark sky pursuits, Mof - “Oxford five-four-three-two-one,” said My own cellular phone prefix is 241, that this year’s event on March 31 will un - fat asked Mayor Peter Trent at the January he, and we had an enjoyable chat about the which is a new prefix that has nothing to fold at the same venue from 6 to 10 pm. 16 city council meeting to meet with him old telephone exchanges in the Montreal do with a physical exchange. Sadly, some at the site of a prototype LED light head on Mars and Venus area, and what they meant. of the newer prefixes use the numbers 1 a city lamp post at Argyle and Côte St. An - I had thought that numbers beginning and zero, which don’t have letters assigned While Saturn was prominent in the toine to determine its effectiveness. A date with 93 stood for WEstmount – a reason - to them, and those people are locked into heavens for viewing through telescopes in has yet to be arranged. able assumption – but in fact the 93 rep - a nameless cell. previous years, this time Mars and Venus News of the LED head that would fit resents WEllington, which was the name For myself, I shall make believe that 24 will be key attractions, according to astro - Westmount’s Washingtonian light stan - of the exchange formerly located on Atwa - stands for BHarat, as I often have conver - physicist Tony Moffat, chair of the organ - dards came from one of last year’s Earth ter. sations with well-meaning individuals at izing committee for the Healthy City Hour displays. A dozen trade and organi - call centres in India. Those with 98 pre - Project. zation exhibits are on tap for this year. Old exchange names fixes can pretend it stands for ZUppa In - The 2012 theme of “energy” will be re - Trent is slated to open the Earth Hour When I arrived in Canada in 1970, the glese (yum yum). 59 could be LYric. flected in a presentation by MP Marc Gar - event, for which the city typically donates Montreal area used seven-digit numbers, There are still desirable, memorable neau, Canada’s first person in space, as $1,500. and many people still referred to the old numbers doled out only to a favoured few. Planet Earth film, music, food exchange names. CRescent 54321, for ex - Any number ending in 100, for example, Inebriated woman ample, or HUnter (respectively 27, the St. is much sought after. When my wife first This year’s line-up is also expected to Dominique exchange, and 48 for Monk - acquired a cellular telephone, the sales - topples onto street feature the continuous showing of the film land). man offered her such a number. He did so Planet Earth as well as musical entertain - That was then. Telephone calls were in a conspiratorial way, indicating that he A public safety officer on patrol Feb - ment, finger food and hot soup at cost. routed through exchanges that had names was giving her something very special, as ruary 12 spotted a man and woman At 8:15 pm, astronomers of the Royal to houses, and some of those had names, indeed he was. Businesses need to have walking west down the middle of Astronomical Society of Canada will help too. The English excel at giving odd names numbers that people can remember eas - Dorchester at 8:53 pm when the residents view the brightest planets and to their houses, ranging from “Wits End” ily, such as those that contain repeated dig - woman suddenly fell to the ground. stars through their telescopes, weather to “Far Corfe,” and this inventiveness is its like 8585 or the magical The officer went to her assistance and permitting. To celebrate the actual Earth not limited to the British. While enjoying seven-eleven-eleven. called Urgences Santé. The woman was Hour at 8:30 pm, citizens are asked to a weekend getaway in the country here in There are also numbers you don’t want. taken to the Montreal General Hospital bring bells and noise makers to “raise a Quebec, I often walk past a home that For example, you would not want to own in a reported state of inebriation. ruckus for Earth Hour 2012,” he said. bears the name of its owner, apparently a 867.5309, since that number was used in a man named G. Finnie. It was years before “pop” song (do I still have to put the word “pop” in quotes? Has the word itself be - come obsolete? Do I know what “rhetori - Just enjoying cal” means?) You also wouldn’t want a number that sunny day was very close to that of a popular hair- Convertibles aren’t simply for warm salon, plumber or worse. Or perhaps, if weather, as far as one driver is con - you live alone, you would. — SINCE 1840 — FUNERAL HOMES cerned. But it fooled public safety offi - COLLINS CLARKE cers February 11 when they spotted a George Bowser is a former Westmount Cabriolet with the top down outside 434 city councillor and a musician. MACGILLIVRAY WHITE Prince Albert in wind-chill temperatures ALL THE SERVICES OF A FUNERAL COMPLEX — THE AMBIENCE AND COMFORT OF YOUR HOME of minus 22˚ C. INTIMACY — COMFORT — PROFESSIONALISM Suspecting the car may have been Woman found safe broken into, and seeing books from the and sound 200 SEAT CHAPEL • RECEPTION HALLS Westmount Public Library in plain view, they managed to track down a family Urgences Santé called public safety of - FUNERAL PREARRANGMENTS member of the owner who said she was - ficers to help them gain entry to a West - CREMATION AND COLUMBARIUM n’t surprised the roof was down on a mount house February 12 when sunny day. out-of-town relatives of an elderly disabled 27 Salisbury Ave 5610 Sherbrooke West St. 307, promenade Riverside woman feared for her safety. Public Secu - (exit 49, highway 20) Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Saint-Lambert The driver of the car, shopping Pointe-Claire, QC H9S 3Z2 Montréal, QC H4A 1W5 QC J4P 1A7 nearby, subsequently reported all was in rity officials said that a hidden key was order but stated he would not leave city used and the resident was found in good Martin Allaire, Director - West Island/Montréal/South Shore property (i.e. the books) unsecured in condition. It was not known why she had 514 483-1870 - 1 888 342-6565 - WWW.DIGNITEQUEBEC.COM the future, Public Security officials said. not answered calls. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012 – 19 Real estate, on average
Number of transactions in parentheses. All dollar amounts are averages. February 7 January 10 December 13 November 8 October 11 September 16 August 9 July 5
Semidetached on the flat none $535,000 (2) none $1,750,000 (1) none $972,000 (5) $1,011,300 (5) none Semidetached, Mid-Westmount $1,234,333 (3) $1,030,000 (3) $1,163,333 (3) none $1,323,000 (3) $1,203,050 (10) $1,357,143 (7) $1,143,800 (10) By type Detached $1,444,438 (4) $2,375,000 (1) $1,455,000 (3) $1,695,000 (2) $2,783,333 (3) $1,823,000 (7) $2,087,500 (6) $1,610,000 (3) Semidetached $1,169,500 (4) $832,000 (5) $1,307,660 (5) $1,750,000 (1) $1,502,750 (4) $1,122,088 (17) $1,146,267 (15) $1,238,583 (12) Townhouse $850,167 (3) $420,000 (1) $989,000 (5) $1,247,500 (2) $827,000 (5) $994,909 (11) $843,750 (4) $872,000 (1) Duplex/triplex (1 unit) none $576,667 (6) $450,000 (2) $183,571 (7) $425,000 (8) $643,250 (3) $521,500 (2) $561,500 (2) Condo $847,500 (2) $815,000 (1) $1,197,500 (2) none $738,500 (2) $630,600 (5) $617,500 (6) $930,571 (7) Commercial none none none $920,000 (1) none none none $1,650,000 (1) Land none none none none none none $920,000 (2) none By area (excl. commercial and land) Upper Westmount $1,408,750 (4) none $1,614,575 (4) $1,700,000 (1) $2,042,000 (1) $1,384,000 (5) $1,787,500 (5) $1,712,500 (2) Mid-Westmount $1,087,875 (6) $1,243,000 (5) $995,833 (6) $1,087,500 (2) $1,512,636 (11) $1,253,063 (20) $1,165,444 (18) $1,078,867 (15) On the flat $846,333 (3) $835,833 (6) $958,571 (7) $994,167 (6) $782,000 (6) $882,333 (18) $813,875 (12) $1,074,250 (8) All transactions $1,130,865 (13) $1,020,909 (11) $1,126,076 (17) $1,093,333 (9) $1,298,500 (18) $1,113,098 (43) $1,133,771 (35) $1,148,154 (26) Percentage paid over valuation 20% 17% 24% 27% 20% 20% 17% 21% (arithmetic avg.) Percentage paid over valuation 18% 15% 20% 31% 16% 18% 21% 23% ($-weighted avg.) Data is by newspaper reporting date, not notarial registration or sale agreement date. The dividing lines between the three geographic areas are the middles of The Boulevard and Sherbrooke St. All data excludes parking lot, storage space and nominal-value transactions. All evaluation data is from the 2011 roll. Looking to find a home out of e-shelter Top scorers, Westmount For more information on these wonderful cats, please call bridge club 9 Lives 514.915.7311 or email adop - [email protected]. You Westmount tally bridge winners with Lysanne Fowler might also drop by for a visit of top accumulative bridge scores for the this emergency adoption facili - three best sessions in January were: ties. 1. Eithne Taylor – 10,000 points Your neighbour, Lysanne Sushi and Tiger are playful and sweet 2. Margaret Glassford – 9,800 points young cats that are presently at the Mon - 3. Florence Belfer – 9,500 points treal SPCA emergency shelter, hoping for 4. John Bower – 9,500 points 5. Humphrey Kassie – 9,000 points. Tiger a home and family soon. So, let’s help them get the word out that Summer Day Camp for ages – years they are ready for adoption in our neigh - Challenging Activities bourhood. for kids by professionals Sushi is the epitome of a fun cat. She is a very healthy 2-year-old tabby, who came including to the shelter from an inspection case. English as a Second Language She is playful, affectionate and great with and Senior Science Program cats and some dogs. July – , , at Royal Vale School Tiger is a special little girlie of about Somerled, corner Draper one-and-a-half years of age. A short-haired, Tel.: sleek black tiger-ette, she has soulful eyes that gaze into yours. She is truly a loving in collaboration with Royal Vale School darling, who will be a loyal companion. Tiger is good with calm cats but a little Sushi nervous around small children and dogs. www.explorationscamp.ca
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Franklin , and arts journalist Dorota Kozin - Social Notes ska were noted in the crowd of admirers, from Westmount as were Ingeborg Hiscox (formerly direc - tor of Stewart Hall), as well as award-win - and Beyond ning designer Michel Dallaire , vie des arts Veronica Redgrave editor Bernard Levy , and Christiane Si - moneau , director of the Galerie d’art du Parc in Trois Rivières. Westmounter Tobie Steinhouse , who is The Steinhouse show, “Reveries and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy Light / Songes et Lumière,” was aptly of Arts, was honoured at a retrospective of named: It captured the incredible light - her work on January 29 at the Stewart Hall ness of being in the artist’s luminous oeu - Art Gallery in Pointe Claire, whose direc - vres. Her art is represented in private and tor Joyce Millar curated the show. Renowned as a consum - mate printmaker, Stein - house is one of Canada’s most accomplished artists. The vernissage featured her oil paintings, water colours, etchings and calligraphy scrolls, for which she has won annual awards at the In - Lara Steinhouse and her uncle Adam Steinhouse. ternational Japanese Callig - raphy Exhibition in Tokyo since 2001. She studied in Paris from 1948 to 1959, where she had her first solo exhibition in 1957 at Galerie Lara Vincy. Steinhouse has participated in print biennials in Eng - land, Chile, Scotland, Venezuela, France, Italy and the US. In honour of her retro - spective, Steinhouse was Tobie Steinhouse in front of the painting that won her first joined by her sons, Stephan vernissage in Paris. – with his son Alexander and daughter Lara – and Adam , who flew over public collections around the world, in - from across the pond, where he teaches at cluding The National Gallery in Ottawa, the National School of Government in the the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the UK. Montreal Contemporary Art Museum and Westmounters and artists Jane Des - Le Musée national des beaux-arts du jardins , Lynn Watson and Hannah Québec. Michel Dallaire, Dorota Kozinska and Bernard Levy. 22 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – Februa ry 2 1-22, 2012 Demolition without Yaldei says no waiting list for permit? Public safety officers were called to the developmentally challenged kids office building at 345 Victoria Saturday morning February 11 for demolition work By Martin C. Barry with any developmental issues,” said being carried out without a permit on the Westmount resident Eliza Parkinson , sixth floor. Public Security officials said the Ben Baer says that many parents who whose 10-year-old daughter, Norah, began workers stated they had been hired to send their developmentally challenged attending Yaldei at 18 months after being clean up debris from demolition. They children to Yaldei tell him it’s “the best assessed as having a global developmental were told they could use a broom but no kept secret in town.” delay. tools, and a report was forwarded to the “We’re working with developmental de - Parkinson agreed that beginning treat - city’s Urban Planning department. lays, genetically-based development is - ment from a very early age “makes such a For owners’ plans for this building, see sues, and we’re working with children huge difference.” story in February 7, p. 4. who are profoundly challenged, all the way At a time when many parents of chil - to the gifted,” Baer, the director of clinical dren with developmental problems face services at Yaldei, said in an interview with lengthy waits for service at provincially- the Independent . mandated rehabilitation centres, Yaldei Located on the fifth floor of the Queen prides itself on having no waiting list. Elizabeth Health Complex on Marlowe “We can give a parent an appointment Ave. in NDG, Yaldei is a private, not-for- for a consultation almost right away within profit intervention centre, that offers a for- a few weeks,” said Lillian Vennor, Yaldei’s payment service to parents who need help director of development. “From that first getting their kids to blossom to their full meeting they can start treatment within a potential. month. It’s very rare you’ll find that in Yaldei claims to have the most intensive Montreal.” early intervention program in Quebec in “We have a pretty large staff,” said Baer, terms of the number of hours per week of explaining one of the reasons Yaldei’s wait - one-to-one services for zero- to 6-year-olds. ing list is short. “It’s a costly operation be - Based on the belief that children with cause of the number of staff, but it allows different developmental delays need dif - us to provide a comprehensive and inten - ferent therapies, the centre offers more sive program.” than a dozen different interventions. The Founded in 1997 by the parents of two problems faced by children who go to developmentally delayed children, Yaldei Yaldei include autism, Down syndrome, was created partly because of frustration ADHD, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy, with the lack of services in Montreal for global development delay and others. kids with developmental problems. From “It doesn’t matter what the diagnosis is that beginning, the founders were also de - – early intervention is the key for children termined to help others.
From left, Eliza Parkinson, her daughter Norah, son Jonah, and their dad Jack Buksbaum. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – February 21-22, 2012 – 23
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