April 17, 2018
WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. &' No. (c We are Westmount April &), '%&* Midget A, Peewee B *Cwin championships Gun on Greene
Westmount Wings No. 87 Adam Starr, seen here April 15, turns from dejected Thunderbirds goaltender This photo was taken at about 8:25 am April 12 at St. Catherine St. and Greene. Around the corner, Andreas Antonakopoulos after scoring one of the goals that gave the Wings a 5-2 victory. Westmount’s Dorchester westbound in front of the RCMP’s headquarters was closed to traffic. The RCMP was not Peewee B and C teams also won EHL banners. See p. 6 for story. Photo: Martin C. Barry. able to respond to the Independent ’s inquiries by press time. Montreal police had no information on the incident when the Independent talked to them on April 13. Photo courtesy of Jim Richards. Summer means construction “There are two seasons in Montreal,” residents, see Comin’ Up, p. 15. runs the old joke, “winter and construc - Work on the recently greenlighted 500 tion.” Claremont project is picking up, see p. 6. Well, the latter has begun. Also, work in and near southwest West - Westmount city council has approved mount continues on the McGill Universi - tenders for work on Argyle, Roslyn and ty Health Centre’s new entrance tunnel Burton (see “Reconstruction contracts …” from the Vendôme Metro station, see p. 11 BRIAN GRANT April 10, p. 5) and consultations with resi - for updates. 514.249.1500 dents have begun with residents of those And the grand-daddy of them all – the SUSAN RANSEN JEFFREY NADLER VIVIAN GRANT streets, see “Residents hear how Roslyn …” Turcot/720/136 construction in southern 514.815.5105 514.815.2313 514.592.4636 and “Argyle work gets head start.” on p. 4 Westmount (and elsewhere) – continues, Real Estate Broker Residential Real Estate Broker of this edition. uninterrupted by seasons or unhappy res - [email protected] [email protected] The Strength of TEAMWORK 1303 Greene Ave, suite 500, Westmount The Reputation for RESULTS There are pre-construction consulta - idents. See p. 6 and “West End residents Profusion Realty inc • Real Estate Agency Profusion Realty inc • Real Estate Ageenncy tions this week for Burton and Clandeboye calm, unhappy…” (April 3, p. 6). 2 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – April 17, 2018
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As well, having worked on Grosvenor, possible time delays to property damage there was a high-pressure gas con - would preserve and replace any of were heard from residents attending a city duit, a province-wide construction the driveway pavers that may have information meeting May 4 on the up - strike and unexpected repositioning to be removed, Brzeski said. coming reconstruction of Roslyn south of of Bell infrastructure. The work is not expected to in - Sherbrooke, according to District 5 coun - In presenting the Roslyn project, trude into the well-known garden at cillor Marina Brzeski. city Engineering director Elisa Gae - the northeast corner of de Maison - Starting next month, the work includes tano explained that a strike was not neuve created by the late Neill Cur - replacing the 1897 water main as well as anticipated but weather could delay rie and now tended by Victor Yel - the public water entries, electrical con - the work, which is scheduled to last ver ton Haines, whose own garden duits, lighting, sidewalks and roadway. from mid-May through October. on de Maisonneuve adjoins it. Some 25 or more residents were count - It is to take place six days a week, Haines, who told the Independent ed to have turned out. including Saturdays from 8 am to 5 he had asked about the garden dur - Among the concerns, she said, resi - pm at the discretion of the contrac - ing the meeting, was relieved that dents asked what might delay the estimat - tor, but permitted weekdays 7 am to This well-known garden at the northeast corner of de Maisonneuve no water service work would be ed 22-week duration, the undulation of 7 pm, if needed. and Roslyn, still covered by winter debris April 9, is not expected to done on the property, whose water new sidewalks, the narrow width for two- There will be times when sec - be touched by water service work during the reconstruction of Roslyn. service draws from de Mai son - way traffic, the impact on elderly and vul - tions will be without street lighting at wondered why they had to be redone,” neuve. “I’ll remove the cobblestones along nerable residents and damage to private night. The water work will be divided into Brzeski said. Concern over their undula - the sidewalk,” he said. property including a “fantastic garden” at three zones, each to be completed before tion created by driveway accesses was Residents wanting to take advantage of Roslyn and de Maisonneuve. the next is begun. Temporary water sup - noted, she said, adding that ways will be the opportunity to replace the private por - Many of the questions related to expe - ply is to be set up. One sidewalk will re - looked at to minimize the impact, as had tion of the water entry pipes if made of riences encountered during work in the main open at all times as will pedestrian been done in some stretches of Grosvenor. lead or galvanized steel were recommend - same block last year on adjacent Gros - access to homes. Road reconstruction will As well, project manager Shawn Aloy - ed to do so. “A few people asked about the venor, she said. But “the work on Roslyn conclude the work, carried out in two sius told the Independent the sidewalks cost,” Brzeski said. is simpler.” halves (north and south). and street won’t be narrowed. “We’re well She said she was delighted to know that Brzeski, who lived as a resident “One person at the meeting said he aware of how tight the (two-way) street is the city’s on-site point person would be through the Grosvenor work, said it had liked t h e sidewalks the way they were and during snow conditions.” The sidewalks Christian Enriquez of the Engineering are old and need redoing especially con - team, who was applauded for his work on sidering the new electrical conduit and Grosvenor (see story December 12, p. 9). lighting work will involve work under one “He was a phenomenal communicator.” of the sides. Argyle work gets head start B= L+:7..4 S<..4.= down the east side first. As the first of three phases, the work Reconstruction work that began last fall coincided with an information meeting to redo Argyle from Thornhill to The April 5 to outline the plans for this year to Boulevard resumed April 3 with the in - residents. Two attended despite notices stallation of new public water service en - sent to all homes, city offi - tries south of The Boulevard, working cials said. continued on p. 5
Workers continue installing public water service entries on the east side of Argyle south of West mount Ave. April 9. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – April 17, 2018 – 5
Argyle , cont’d. from p. 4 ing a lining in the existing water pipe, The work will take place in three phases which reduces the need to dig up the from April through October divided a- street, explained Sandra Avakian, assistant mong three contractors starting with the wa - director general for infrastructure. ter services and reconstruction of some por - The third phase of the project sched - tions of the sidewalk. This will be followed uled for August to October consists of by rehabilitation of the water main and then completing the installation of a new elec - LUXURY HOMES by street lighting and the roadway. trical conduit bank and lighting on the Because Les Entre prises Ventec had al - west side, followed by a new concrete side - ready won the $2.3-million contract last walk as well as the reconstruction of the August 7 to replace the water entries and new roadway by Cojalac. FOR RENT sidewalks at various locations, they had, Work on Argyle between Sherbrooke CHOOSE FROM OUR LARGE after installation of new street lights north and Thornhill took place over July and Au - SELECTION OF LUXURY HOMES FOR of Montrose, poured a temporary asphalt gust in 2015 and 2016 by Ventec, now RENT IN GREATER MONTREAL. sidewalk for the winter, confirmed Engi - doing the water services on the three neering project manager Shawn Aloysius. blocks north of Thornhill. Work on the water services is to be car - ried out down one side of the street at a time, he said. “They’re now working their WITH GROUPE COPLEY’S OWN way down the east side of the street to DEDICATED SERVICE TEAM, WE WANT TO ENSURE Thornhill and will then do the west side.” THAT YOUR RENTAL EXPERIENCE IS TRULY This phase will finish with replacing por - OUTSTANDING WITH US. tions of the sidewalk required on the east side of the street. New sidewalks had been put in not long ago so are in relatively good condition, he noted. View all our homes at At the same time, Bell Canada is to re - place its manhole at Argyle and Montrose. GROUPECOPLEY.COM The city’s site engineer for this project is Serving executives, athletes, Christo Kirkov, Aloysius said. QUESTIONS? ASK PENNY and professionals since 1998 The second phase from May to August [email protected] OR consists of rehabilitation of the water LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE 514.656.6437 ext.0 IN YOUR OWN HOME main by Aquaréhab. This involves insert -
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Looking south down the Glen Rd. toward the Home Depot around noon April 14, the last remnant of the Ville Marie expressway (visible in the background) over the roadway was all gone by noon the next day. The span in the foreground is the westbound St Jacques exit ramp, which remains. Photo: Ralph Thompson. Peewee B * C win in their divisions Westmount Midget A Wings win EHL division championship B= M+7914 C. B+77= in their match, being first to be scored derbirds net for a final 5-2 count. Even at the level of Midget A, the in - against, the 15- to 17-year-old players Thunderbirds coach George Warash tensity of the on-ice action during playoffs The Midget A Westmount Wings be - evened things up before the first period took the defeat in stride. “It’s just a game is such that players do sometimes get car - came the Eastern Hockey League’s 2017- was up. of hockey – back and forth – that’s the way ried away. As such, the game between the 2018 season champions in their division Although the Thunderbirds scored things go,” he told the Independent follow - Wings and the Thunderbirds had more on April 15 when they defeated the St. Lau - again early in the second period, West - ing the match. “All in all, both teams than a good share of penalties, as well as rent Thunderbirds 5-2 in a hotly contested mount soon caught up and never looked played really well.” player suspensions for mouthing off. match played on the Molson rink at the back after that, scoring two more goals in With the Midget A division champi - A coach’s work isn’t always easy under Westmount recreation centre. very quick succession before the end of onship secured at last, Wings coach Ed such conditions, Harvey acknowledged. Westmount decided to host the Eastern the second period. Harvey was upbeat in his assessment. “We “The hardest thing on the bench is keep - Hockey League finals at the WRC last With St. Laurent seemingly losing the finally figured out how to pass,” he said, ing the kids at this age calm so that they weekend. In all, 13 divisions played match - momentum they’d shown early in the noting that his players seemed to get the won’t take a lot of penalties,” he said. es on Westmount’s ice last Saturday and match, the third period belonged to the message after struggling to some extent Sunday. Wings, who raised the score to 4-2, while over the past season with the concept. Peewee B & C triumph, too While the Wings suffered a slow start landing their last goal in an empty Thun - “That was the big thing. We had trouble Westmount Peewee B and C teams also with that all year. Although we haven’t had won EHL banners at the tournament, any trouble winning, we had trouble with beating MRO (Outremont and TMR) WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT our teamwork. But this team in the end fi - teams 3-0 and 4-3 in overtime, respective - nally pulled together and became a team.” ly. 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Please limit to 300 words and submit before Friday 10 am to be considered for week that work has been focused on inte - movable (SCAOPI) by-law. This could publication the following week. Please check your letter carefully as we may be unable to rior design. “We were fortunate to obtain have generated a referendum but failed to make subsequently submitted changes. Letter writers should not expect to be published in a lot of very valuable feedback from West - generate a sufficient number of signatures every issue, or in back-to-back issues, or repeatedly in the same season or on the same topic. mount ers on our project during that peri - at a registry session (see story February 6, 14,500+ physical copies DW, plus low-resolution email and web versions od, so we have been incorporating much p. 1). 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Demolition meeting set for May ) Larger house proposed to replace 51 de Lavigne B= L+:7..4 S<..4.= tensions,” states a summary from archi - veloper. tect Rhona Goldenberg of Rubin and Efforts to obtain additional history on The two storeys of a stucco house at 51 Gold en berg architects in Westmount. the house from the Westmount Historical de Lavigne Rd. are proposed to be demol - The new basement will include provi - Association failed to turn up any histori - ished and the basement extended to sup - sion for a four-car garage, office, mud - cal significance, Goldenberg wrote. port a larger, higher three-storey home. room, laundry and mechanical room. In general, the city attempts to preserve A hearing to examine the request to On the ground floor, the larger house Category II buildings from demolition be - “deconstruct” what the city rates as a Cat - will gain a family room and large kitchen cause of their heritage rating as “impor - egory II heritage dwelling is scheduled to to add to a living/dining room and bath - tant.” This point is expected to be ad - take place May 7 at 5 pm preceding the room. On the second floor, it will have dressed at the demolition hearing. regular 7:30 pm council meeting. three bedrooms and two bathrooms while “The half basement will be replaced the new third, or attic storey, will have a with a full basement, which will require bedroom, bathroom and family room. further excavation and side and rear ex - The extended basement and additional storey are indicative of what Urban Plan - ning director Tom Flies recently stated as ways in which homeowners are finding to enlarge their homes given the limitations of their properties (see story March 27, p. 1). Building to limitations In this case, the extension of the base - ment is allowing for an additional 442.45 square feet of the allowable maximum of 446, according to plans at city hall. Plans for a larger home designed by Westmount- A short history of the house provided based architect Rhona Goldenberg are seen in this by the architect and included in the de - colour rendering at city hall. The new height is Demolition sign is seen last week outside the molition file, states it was built in 1953 by shown aligning with the three-storey house to the house at 51 de Lavigne. Forest Homes, a Town of Mount Royal de - east and at th e bo rder w ith Montreal.
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New construction hoarding was visible on April 10 (left-hand photo, see yellow arrow at right) on the portion of the McGill University Health Centre’s campus that is in Westmount. It was not up on March GOOSE ROCKS BEACH 9 (right-hand photo, see arrow at right). See also smaller photo from April 16. Another change from at KENNEBUNKPORT, March to April is the seeming disappearance of a telephone or electrical pole (see red arrows at left in MAINE !!!!!! both pictures). A truck was also seen in motion April 10. Photos: Independent. Spectacular Ocean Views and Listen What is happening on the portion of area, along with most of the work in the been no change to the [city’s March 2] to crashing waves! Available for rent! the campus of the McGill University immediate proximity (in and around the cease-work order. In fact, city inspectors Please consider a visit at any time Health Centre (MUHC) that is in West - MUHC’s Glen site) is related to renova - have been on site to verify several times mount? It is visible from the foot of Prince tions that are currently taking place at the over the course of the last two weeks and of year! 3 Bedrooms and 3 Full Albert, where it meets St. Catherine. Vendôme Metro station.” have not observed any violations.” Bathrooms and all the conveniences MUHC spokesperson Kristina Anasta - In an email of April 11, Westmount city She continued: “I should perhaps clar - for any Season. is home sleeps sopoulos told the Independent in an email councillor for the district, Marina Brzeski, ify that by ‘construction-related activity,’ 10 o ers bikes, kayaks and on April 11 that, “The work around that replied to questions by writing: “There has we mean activities such as crushing stone everything for the beach. For Rates or performing other physical work. Mov - and Availability: [email protected] ing trucks around does not constitute con - or call/text: 781-363-3759 struction-related activity.”
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Despite the chilling cold, the MUHC’s Le Bal Rouge was, well, red hot. The opu - lent Ritz-Carlton Hotel’s Oval Room shone scarlet for the night. Few LBD (Lit - tle Black Dresses) here. Crimson table clothes with matching serviettes were accessorized with soaring bouquets of sensational scarlet roses. Hostesses clad in flowing gowns – yes, red – welcomed guests. The glamorous eve celebrated the achievements of Dr. Gerald Fried , sur - geon-in-chief at the MUHC. He attended Howard Fried, Karen Goldberg Fried, Karen and Gerald Fried, Kimberly Richard and Sylvia Cruess, Renée Kessler and Norman Steinberg. with his wife Karen , his son Howard Fried Fried and Raffi Povitz. (with his wife Karen Goldberg Fried ), and Anna Martini with her husband François Sylvia Cruess , and David Eidelman at - ravioli and filet mignon. daughter Kimberly Fried , with her fiancé Hardy; Maarika Paul (Caisse de dépôt et tending with his wife Brigitte , as well as Guests danced off the chocolate cara - Raffi Povitz . placement du Québec) and Martin Fafard; Linda Shaw and Frank Motter , and Rick mel dessert to the live music of the famed Fried is a pioneer in minimally invasive Bombardier’s Olivier Marcil and Stéphanie Petersen with Annie Gauthier . 1945 band. surgery. In his honour, the MUHC Foun - Boutin ; Phyllis and John Rae; Norman Cocktail hour was made even more Bombardier, a long-time MUHC Foun - dation created the Dr. Gerald M. Fried Steinberg (Norton Rose Fulbright) and splendid by an electronic harpist who ser - dation supporter and patron sponsor of Chair in Surgical Innovation. Renée Kessler ; MUHC board chair Peter enaded guests while encased in a life-sized the night along with McKinsey & Compa - Ball co-chairs were Alain Bellemare, Kruyt and his wife Claire Mullins-Kruyt; snow globe! The Ritz-Carlton banquet ser - ny, was recognized for its landmark $4- president/CEO Bombardier, there with Kathleen Weil and Michael Novak , and vice lived up to its famed reputation. Cock - million donation to help fund the con - Marie-Josée Simard , and Marc Tellier, foundation pres Julie Quenneville . tail fare was scrumptious and included struction of the MUHC hospital at the partner at McKinsey & Company, with MCs were media celebs Leslie Roberts lime-marinated shrimp. Dinner was even Glen site. Mélanie Dubé . Noted amidst the star-stud - (CJAD) and Brigitte Bédard (TVA / LCN). more delightful: a squash and cinnamon The elegant eve raised $500,000 to sup - ded soirée were foundation board chair Also noted were doctors Richard and velouté soup was followed by lobster port the Dr. Gerald M. Fried Chair.
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City honours young athletes at Vic Hall sports banquet April p. 14, middle photo, most sportsmanlike team: inter-city hockey Novice A Wings with director general Benoit Hurtubise and Councillor Conrad Peart. Bottom photo, the 2017/2018 EHL season champions: Bantam A inter-city Wings with Councillor Philip Cutler and Councillor Marina Brzeski. p. 15 top left photo, Indoor Soccer Sportsmanship: Jerry Wang, Olivia Fortier and Floriane Baudin with Mayor Christina Smith and Councillor Anitra Bostock. Bottom left photo, the 2017/2018 Novice fall league hockey champions with Councillor Kathleen Kez, coach Ryan Scruggs, Councillor Cynthia Lulham and coach Martin Landry. Top right photo, most improved Novice inter-city player: Claudio Taravati-Rossi with Hurtubise and Peart. New medals for Westmount
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