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Weekly. Vol. 4 No. 7b We are Westmount July 13-14, 2010 Council: Public pool not a quiet ‘kids-free zone’ Westmounters Look up.... Compromise ends hot issue can go Hogg By Laureen Sweeney A large group of parents had been ask - wild again ing the city to allow them to share the pool A distinct flavour of summer pervaded and main deck with the adult lap swim - By Isaac Olson the July 5 meeting of city council, leading mers. The adults had requested continued off with a compromise on pool policy that exclusive use and a quiet time. (See story, After a six-month spell in neighbouring allows families to stay within the pool June 15, p. 1.) NDG, a site swap with the SAQ and some compound during the adult-only swim The compromise, Duncan told the renovation delays, Westmount’s long-time from 6 to 7 pm. council meeting, stemmed from a recom - hardware store is rolling back into town The new protocol means children aged mendation that had garnered support nearly two months later than expected, but 6 and under – always accompanied by an from representatives of both parents and staffers are ready to hit the ground run - adult – may use the toddlers’ section of the adult swimmers who participated at a ning. pool while older children and teens will be meeting she had chaired June 29 to find a “We’re excited,” said co-owner Al Hogg, able to go to the upper deck. Previously, solution. taking a break from stocking shelves for kids were forbidden in the pool and on the Council members who spoke out on an interview. “We’ve had customers ask - decks during adult swim. the issue supporting the recommendation ing us everyday when we’re going to open “This will be the new policy going for - described it as a stop-gap solution for the here. We’ll be happy to be back in the ward,” said Councillor Kathleen Duncan, remaining eight weeks of the pool season, swing of the community.” Sports and Recreation commissioner, expected to be the Slated to open at though no formal vote was taken. final one until the continued on p. 3 4855 Sherbooke at the continued on p. 2 Inside

Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 10 Bixi program fraught A summer of Comin’ Up p. 9 with complexities It might be your last chance to see it. See p. 3. By Laureen Sweeney have to be chosen and that eight to 10 docking stations would probably be re - The installation of Bixi stations in West - quired at a prescribed distance from each Béatriceéa r ce mount would not be easy to implement other. BAUDINET and fit into an overall traffic plan, Mayor As well, “the program has an agree - AffiliatedAAffiAfffifillii tdt d RReall EEtEstatet t AAgentt Peter Trent told the city council meeting ment only with Montreal,” Trent pointed July 5. out. Replying to a question from Paul Mar - Marriott suggested that the mayor, as riott, vice president of the Westmount Mu - president of the Association of Suburban nicipal Association, he said a route would Mayors, work to include other municipal - C. 514.912.1482 ities in the Bixi program currently run by www.baudinet.ca The Indie is now on its summer the non-profit Public Bicycle System Com - break. We’re back in the office the pany (PBSC) under a mandate from Sta - tionnement de Montréal. HÉRITAGE COURTIER IMMOBILIER AGRÉÉ week of August 2. Look out for the FRANCHISÉ INDÉPENDANT ET AUTONOME Jurisdictional is - [email protected] DIAMOND AWARD WINNER for 2009 next issue on August 10. (awarded to the top 3% of Royal Lepage Realtors in Canada) continued on p. 6 St.Ambroise Canada’s truly authentic Pale Ale. 2 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 Hogg back in Westmount of Home Hardware, said Hogg, meaning continued from p. 1 the national company will supply the corner of Victoria on July 15, Hogg Hard - store’s product line. ware’s new location is about 30 percent “You have to buy your nuts and bolts smaller than the store’s original site, but from somebody,” said Hogg, “We’ll be the administrative offices will no longer be wearing Home Hardware shirts, but pro - in the store, said Hogg. viding that same Hogg service.” With home ware such as kitchen uten - Be it a kayak or a specific tool, if a cus - sils and cleaning supplies on street level tomer can’t find an item in the store that is and construction products, ranging from otherwise available in Home Hardware’s paint to screws, in the basement, the de - extensive catalogue, he continued, it can sign will be similar to what shoppers are be ordered. used to. The size of the basement floor Sylvain Lavoie, a store assistant for 18 space means a “renovation hiccup” de - years, said he too is excited about opening layed opening as crews were forced to in - at the new location, but also a little nerv - stall a second staircase to meet city fire ous because everything has been moved codes, he said. A new sprinkler system around. It will take time, he said, to adjust and other features were added as well. to the new space. “The city has been very vigorous in Erin Hogg, Al Hogg’s daughter and making sure we conform to every fire store cashier, said she is looking forward From front to back: Erin Hogg, cashier, Sylvain Lavoie, store assistant, and Al Hogg, co-owner, stock code,” said Hogg. “Which is good, because to getting everything set up and have the shelves last week readying for Hogg Hardware’s grand opening on July 15 of its new location at the we want to make sure we are up to store running at full capacity again. As the corner of Sherbrooke and Victoria. scratch.” heat wave pounded the region last week, Other than meeting fire codes, the she said she also is excited for the air con - near-20-year-old hardware store won’t be ditioning because their temporary, altering the location much beyond what cramped NDG location at the corner of Electronic Independents available the SAQ left behind. In fact, said Hogg, Vendôme and Sherbrooke, had none. Enjoy the Indie at supper time on Tuesdays! Sign up by writing us: they even purchased SAQ’s old checkout offi[email protected]. counter. Hogg Hardware will now be an affiliate

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Real Estate Agency 4 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 Letters to the Editor

4300 reno bothers to me that they are considering moving. I A panhandler’s portrait council, and the team at Public Security neighbours feel the same way. I was also told that have done their part; it is now up to the some people have enquired to rent apart - rest of us to do ours. I need to share with your readers the ments in 225 Olivier, but when they heard I hope that, with solutions in hand, considerable distress being experienced by of the future construction, they said that each and every Westmount taxpayer will myself and lots of other people in our they would rather wait and see how this take the initiative to notify city hall when neighbourhood due to the ongoing reno - project develops. they come across graffiti. vations at 4300 de Maisonneuve. PS: I want to offer my congratulations Dorothy Lipovenko, York St. I live in a nearby building, and the to your excellent newspaper. You have noise produced by the machinery and come a long way in a short period of time. Let the kids swim brickwork, together with the dust and dirt Keep up the good work. We wish to respond to two letters in the generated and sent into the air for all to Jerry Jacob, Olivier Ave. July 6 issue regarding adult swim. breathe, are making life pretty unpleasant. Mrs. Turner, working parents would I gather this has been going on for sev - Sgt. Colquhoun cited also “relish an after-work swim.” Unfortu - eral years and is likely to continue for at At 1:30 am on July 5 , a mentally ill per - nately, we get evicted because a few adults least another year. This is most unfortu - son settled herself in the outer lobby of our want an “oasis of calm.” It would be an nate and unhealthy. building at 52 Academy Rd. and began try - “inconvenience” to move adult swim later I hope that this project may be con - ing to gain entry to the building. I called because you wish to “get on with your cluded as quickly and efficiently as possi - the Public Security Unit, and very quickly evening”? This is a public pool. Further - ble. Sergeant Colquhoun and another officer more, children don’t have all day at the Louise Halperin, Clarke Ave. responded and took charge of the situa - pool, not with working parents. Les 5 Saisons reno might tion. Mrs. Bowes likes “peace and quiet” at Colquhoun eventually got the person the pool after “working in a hot office all Pastel drawing by Doug Robertson. bother neighbours into a taxi to be taken to the MGH. I was day.” We believe the public pool is not the Your article about 5 Seasons and the extremely impressed by her sensitive han - I thought I should contact you in re - place for adult-only quiet time, especially zoning change needs a lot more research dling of a potentially difficult situation. gards to my drawing of Jean-Guy Hébert, at hours when all would like to use the and closer studies. Colquhoun was professional, calmly took the panhandler, completed only a few days pool. No resident should be excluded. I live at 225 Olivier, on the fourth floor over, treated the woman firmly but re - before I read the column in the Independ - Most pools practise pool-sharing: corri - facing 5 Seasons. This construction proj - spectfully and sorted things out quickly. ent (“Panhandlers’ stories as diverse as res - dors for lap swimming and/or a perma - ect will inconvenience a lot of tenants. It was an education to watch her han - idents’ views,” June 23, p. 7). I used to see nent swimmers’ lane. If the sound of There will be noise, dust and also, not to dle the situation, and I’m very grateful to him sitting in front of the Royal Bank happy children is unbearable, we have a li - be forgotten, a lot less sun. And our future her and the officer who accompanied her. building in all kinds of weather. brary and a park. view will be of another building. Peter Weldon, Academy Rd. One particularly cold day, he was sitting Mrs. Bowes, adults have a record three- Some of the tenants have already told on the ground after a recent snowfall, all and-a-half hours a day of exclusive pool bundled up to protect himself from the use – not two. No other pool offers that cold. He had a scarf covering most of his much. “Often in the evenings there are face so that you could only see his eyes and swim meets”. There are only three home WESTMOUNT part of his nose. He looked so pathetic that meets per summer, and it is general swim I gave him some money, for which he that loses an hour, not adult time. INDEPENDENT thanked me. I asked him if I could take a Recently our mayor welcomed new few photos and he nodded, and you could families into our “family friendly” neigh - We are Westmount. see by his eyes that he was smiling. bourhood. Surprisingly, reality is more of I worked from the photos and came up an intolerance towards children, seem - Weekly with the enclosed. The artwork itself is 14” Presstime: Monday at 10:30 am ingly silently supported by council. When How Can We Help You ? x 10” and is drawn in pastel. I thought you our children are grown, we will sit by the Publisher & editor-in-chief: David Price might find it interesting. Stories and letters pool, welcoming the happy sounds of our editor: Kristin McNeill Doug Robertson, Lansdowne Ave. fellow citizens’ children. This is what a Kristin McNeill: 514.223.3578 Chief reporter: Laureen Sweeney “family-friendly” community should be – [email protected] proofreader: Stella Mindorff Time for residents to do accepting of all, young and old. Advertising & Sales their part on graffiti It is sad that this intolerance toward the Letters & Comments: Arleen Candiotti: 514.223.3567 I would like to thank Councillor Gary younger members of our society exists. We welcome your letters but reserve the right to [email protected] M. Elvir, N. Palmer, L. and P. choose and edit them. Please limit to 300 Ikeman for the excellent solutions he put Accounting forward at the July 5 council meeting to ex - Commier, M. Popova, A. Lopez, A. words and submit before Friday 10 am to be Caricote, J. Andres Pedroza Torres, considered for publication the following week. Beth Hudson: 514.223.6138 pedite the cleanup of graffiti. Please check your letter carefully as we may be offi[email protected] Since his election last November, Coun - C. Hernandez, A. Monty. unable to make subsequently submitted cillor Ikeman has listened (patiently) to changes. If you do make amendments, please 13,789 copies concerns about the proliferation of graffiti, “redline” them instead of resending the whole evaluated what was impeding the report - Correction letter. Email any letter or comments to Audited by ing and removal of graffiti within a rea - The graffiti fine for a first offence for an [email protected]. sonable time frame, and has presented adult is $500, not $150 as reported in “City Owned and published by: practical solutions that treat the whole heats up graffiti fight,” in the July 6 issue, Sherbrooke-Valois Inc., 310 Victoria Ave., #105, Westmount, QC H3Z 2M9 problem, and not just one isolated aspect. p. 10. The fine for a juvenile, according to Fax: 514.935.9241 Councillor Ikeman, his colleagues on Public Security officials, is $100. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 5 Oh Canada: Averting oil spills from sea to sea creation of an oil-spill contingency plan in nation of the risks related to drilling under tainly can do more. Increased regulation partnership with the provinces. Arctic ice. of sensitive environments and of the oil in - At Second Last year, the McKenzie Valley Joint Re - For Garneau, oil spills in Canada’s dustry is a step in the right direction. view Panel asked for such a plan for the north pose a distinct environmental threat: The Liberals’ policy on oil spills can be Glance Beaufort Sea, but at the moment none ex - “We don’t know the impact of an oil spill found in the June 21 media release at Heather Black ists. on ice – or how to clean it up.” www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/media-re - Yet as wells are increasingly drilled in leases. difficult terrain, the risk of spills is higher. Accountability includes human costs Heather Black is a Westmount However, governments are increasingly al - And then there is the matter of costs. communication designer. Contact her at As Canada currently protects only one lowing companies – like British Petroleum Analysts predict that by August when BP’s [email protected] percent of its oceans, the recent Gulf oil (BP) in the Gulf – to forgo relief wells. relief well is in operation, BP will have spill is a wake-up call. But what measures Here in Canada, both BP and Imperial paid $50 billion in clean-up, fines and will prevent a similar event here? Oil requested permission to drill in the compensation. Yet, in Canada, absolute li - To answer that question, I spoke to Lib - Beaufort Sea without a relief well. For Gar - ability limits on companies are set at $30 eral critic for Industry, Science and Tech - neau, it is crucial that relief wells be in to $40 million. nology, Marc Garneau, who is member of place before oil operations start. The Liberals would raise that amount, parliament for Westmount-Ville Marie. He Campbell Cohen Worsoff so taxpayers do not pay for industry’s mis - identified reforms in three areas: contin - Avocats Moratoriums takes. They would require companies to gency plans, moratoriums and fiscal ac - While the federal and Nova Scotia gov - cover not only clean-up costs, but also Barristers and Solicitors countability. ernments granted a moratorium for compensate those whose livelihoods have ESTATE LITIGATION Contingency plans Georges Bank until 2015, the Liberals been affected. would stop oil drilling or transport in all Garneau spoke of the social costs in - While the federal government has as - WILLS AND ESTATES environmentally sensitive areas. volved including the stress of unemploy - sured parliament that drilling permits On the west coast, the Liberals support ment. In the case of the Gulf oil spill, INSURANCE CLAIMS would not be approved without the neces - the existing BC crude oil tanker morato - fisheries and tourism will be affected both sary precautions, the Liberals want an in - rium through the Dixon Entrance, Hecate there and along the eastern seaboard. dependent review of Canada’s offshore Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound. And in Michael Worsoff oil-spill prevention and response capabili - 215 Redfern, suite 118 Canada’s North, they want all new leasing Shiny seas ties. Westmount, QC H3Z 3L5 and current oil exploration activities As Australia protects 32 percent of its Following this review, they call for the Tel: 514 937-9445 Fax 514 937-2580 stopped pending an independent exami - oceans and the US 16 percent, Canada cer - [email protected] Hogg Hardware is back in Westmount! We are opening on Thurs. July 15 at our NEW LOCATION at Victoria & Sherbrooke (4855 Sherbrooke St., where the SAQ used to be).

Our phone number has not changed: (514) 934-4644 No change to our Nuns’ Island location: 7 Place du Commerce – (514) 761 4441 6 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010

By Laureen Sweeney July 5 city council news Bixi viability under study Greene to Arena moving Bixi advocates such as the Westmount continued from p. 1 Walking and Cycling Association have cost more forward sues aside, being included in the Bixi pro - been pressing the city to push forward The refurbishment of Greene Ave. is Design details for the arena/pool proj - gram also depends largely on how eco - more aggressively, but Campbell empha - expected to cost some $700,000 to ect are moving ahead with a preliminary nomically viable expansion into sized that “You can’t just get the bikes on $800,000 more than budgetted, it was re - design to be presented to the city’s Plan - Westmount might be for the Montreal a whim. It has to be based on solid studies vealed at the July 5 city council meeting. ning Advisory Committee (PAC) July 6, program, city director general Duncan and a definite plan.” The original $2-million amount ($1.6 Councillor Patrick Martin told the city Campbell told the Independent . There are Former mayor Karin Marks requested million plus $400,000 for new electricity council meeting July 5. also many Montreal boroughs already a meeting regarding Bixis a year ago, fol - work) related to the basic infrastructure The design will be further advanced lined up to receive the limited number of lowed by a written request by Mayor Trent work and did not include later additions after the construction holiday and will be bikes, he said. earlier this year, he confirmed. related to design, landscaping and sus - made public after Labour Day. This overview of the process was pro - While the city did not hear back for tainability aspects including the creation Martin, who chairs the project commit - vided to Westmount officials at a long- some time, the June 8 meeting was finally of the village square. tee, was asked by Patrick Barnard of awaited meeting June 8 with senior arranged with Roger Plamondon, the pres - The original amount coincides with the Melville Ave. to update citizens on what personnel from the Bixi program, he ex - ident of Stationnement de Montréal, who cost of work being undertaken this year as planning was taking place and if the ar - plained. “Just because you may want Bixis, chairs the PBSC, and Alain Ayotte, PBSC approved at the city council meeting. The chitectural work was still under the origi - doesn’t mean you’ll get them,” he ex - president. Along with Trent and Campbell, total amount of the completed project in nal Lemay contract. “Indeed, the process plained. “You have to fit their economic councillors Gary Ikeman and Theodora the next year or two will reach closer to is continuing non-stop,” Martin said. model.” Samiotis attended on behalf of West - $2.5 million, explained director general City director general Duncan Campbell As a result, the next step will be to meet mount. Duncan Campbell. This figure also ex - explained that the work is going ahead more informally with Bixi personnel at a cludes the $400,000 for electrical work. under the original contract. The agree - more operational level. While no date had ment requires updating because the ar - been set, it was expected this month. chitectural fees are based on the value of Meanwhile, the ball is now in the Bixi More pleas for dog run fencing the project, which has increased. Citizens court to analyze Westmount as an eco - would be kept informed, he said. nomic model, Campbell said. If tennis players can have 10-foot high tion by a public safety officer and a Public fences to keep balls inside the court at Works employee in the repair of defective Limited number of bikes Murray Park, why can’t dogs have similar maintenance gates at the Lansdowne dog “My understanding is that even if the restraints at the dog run? run. Not only did the gates close poorly, system is considered to be viable here, it That’s the question Paul Creighton put but they left a hole beneath large enough Few cool off at will become a political decision. There are to city council at its July 5 meeting in his for a deaf puppy to walk through. Fortu - only a limited number of bikes. Do we crusade to gain enclosures that keep dogs nately, he said, the little dog was retrieved Vic Hall jump the queue in front of the many Mon - from jumping over fences and hedges – safely. While Westmount adapted programs treal boroughs that are waiting for them?” especially when snow banks give them a But together the city workers accom - and practices to cope with last week’s “Working with Montreal toward the in - starting boost. plished something in a short period of heat wave, only one person took advan - stallation of Bixi stations” was identified as “We don’t want fences all over the time that had needed to be done for years, tage of Victoria Hall as one of 108 island- one of the city’s sustainability actions for park,” said Councillor Cynthia Lulham. Creighton added. wide cooling centres, city officials said. 2010. While considering aesthetics at the same As a result, it was operated as a shelter Creating master traffic and transporta - time as providing safe runs, “we’re trying only on Wednesday afternoon, Thursday tion plans are also among the goals for the hard to please everybody.” Windows smashed and Friday morning – July 7 to July 9. current council (see story, July 6, p.3) Creighton commended recent quick ac - at 11 Hillside Large turnouts were recorded at the Sailing for heart and Three young men were intercepted by pool, however, which was kept open an WESTMOUNT TRAIN ACTION GROUP police July 5 in connection with the hour later to 10 pm at night. GROUPE D’ACTION DU TRANSPORT stroke foundation smashing of windows at the rear of 11 “We paid close attention to monitor - DE WESTMOUNT Jack Alexander Hillside, Public Security officials report. ing water quality and cancelled a swim Lee, a Montrose res - Owners of the vacant building, former team competition event,” said city direc - WTAG – GATW ident, is sailing site of the Caledonia Curling Club, are tor general Duncan Campbell. The pool Become a part of the effort to 3,000 nautical miles awaiting a demolition permit (see story was open for general swimming modernize our transit systems around Great Britain June 22, p. 5) to allow for the building of throughout the day, even while morning to raise funds for the a 42-condo-building project. lessons were underway. Become a part of WTAG – GATW Marine Conserva - Public safety officers, answering a call Public Security vehicles were stocked Let your voice be heard. tion Society (MCS) just after 11 pm from a nearby resident with bottled water and public safety offi - Send your coordinates to and the Heart and for breaking windows, found police al - cers kept an eye out for anyone appear - Stroke Foundation ready on the scene with a trio of “young ing to suffer from the extreme heat. As PO Box 53 of Quebec (HSF). So males.” They were apparently released well, employees and the city’s day camps Victoria Station far, Lee has raised over $45,000 in total. after identification. Along with several were asked to tailor their activities to the Westmount H3Z 2V2 For more information, visit: www.SailBri - broken windows, PSOs spotted a section heat. Contractors, however, were noticed or email [email protected] tain.org. of a back wall missing. still working on road construction jobs. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 7 A personal remembrance of Eva Prager Artist leaves colourful Top marks brushstroke on community for The Study: By Veronica Redgrave steps, also painting in oils at first, then later with the lightness of watercolours. Artist Eva Prager, officer of the Order of Eva Prager added her colourful person - All 31 of its 2010 Canada, would have loved these recent ality to everything she touched. days of azure skies. Her favourite colour Her funeral was held July 9. A celebra - was blue – a hue she not only wore almost tion of her life is planned for September. every day with abundance but added to all graduates accepted her paintings. Born in Berlin in 1912, Prager lived in London from 1933 to 1949, after which into the post-secondary she moved to Montreal with her husband, Ritchie, now deceased, and son Vincent, MJTUFE
who is a partner at the law firm Stikeman institutions CFMPX of their Elliott. Prager’s portraits are charming. She sensitively captured the essence of her first choice. subjects, which ranged from Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a chief justice of the Supreme congratulations to Stephanie-Marie Iacuessa Court, to Russian ballet soloist Maya Plisetskaya – and my daughter! Although Talya Boisjoli Anastasia Johnson she also painted lyrical landscapes, she Julianne Brock Catherine Lépine loved portraits best as she enjoyed “the in - teraction with people,” reminisced Vin - Asli Buyukkurt Brooke Levy cent. Her father, Joseph Oppenheim, was a Tatiana Cantarovich Natasha Marvento renowned artist, whose paintings are in Cristina Catania Jessica McKnight collections all over the world, including Montreal’s Musée des Beaux Arts. Prager Sophie Chabanne-Salbaing Taylor Nayman followed in her father’s illustrious foot - The late Eva Prager. Photo courtesy of Vincent Prager Nadine Chalati Anne Simone Nichols Kirsten Crandall Elizabeth Pelletier-Goulet No noise on a legal holiday Anna Dai Lara Perry Following complaints from neigh - This was a Sunday when noise regulations Victoria Di Genova Alexandra Quigley bours, public safety officers shut down are the same as legal holidays. Work was work at 14 construction sites on July 1, a also stopped the same day at two other Dominique Ferland Raquel Roth legal holiday in Westmount, according to sites: on Roslyn where a hydraulic lift was Sarah Fortin Joanna Rose Schacter Public Security reports. “It shows how being used by workers to access the top of busy we were that day,” said Sgt. Greg a wall they were painting, and on Spring - Kristina Fryml Natalia Vilanova McBain. field where three workers were installing Eva Halabian Jessica Weibel A certain amount of confusion reigned plywood on a roof. over the July 1 holiday, which some con - No tickets were issued at any of the lo - Amelia Hirst Sascha Wodoslawsky tractors did not know was observed legally cations because workers complied with re - in Westmount, he explained. Contractors quests to stop. had already suspended work for the St. Jean holiday, June 24. “Three contractors Neighbours riled up actually came to our office the day before to ask us about it.” over noisy party At one of the 14 sites, officers found A resident of Bruce Ave. is being tick - heavy excavation work underway at a pri - eted for disturbing the neighbourhood vate property on Arygle at 7:20 am. At the when a noisy party in the early hours of rear of another house on the same street, July 1 brought public safety officers to UIF
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While June crime statistics have fol - School soccer game lowed quickly on the heels of those from Back home, officers, including Plourde, May, both tell a similar story for criminal joined teachers at Westmount Park School activity in Westmount, said Station 12 com - mander Stéphane Plourde. “It’s very quiet.” Even an earlier rash of graffiti seems to have sub - sided. This has enabled offi - cers to focus in particular on bicycle safety, issuing 54 tickets in May. Most were for failing to obey red lights and stop signs mainly on the bike path at major intersections. Only two, however, were given out in June. Speaking to some 40 listeners in the Westmount Public Library’s Storytelling Garden on June 12, Chief An unexpected police Police and teachers vs. grades 5 and 6 at Westmount Park School soccer Topleaf (above) told aboriginal stories on topics ranging from how racoons got their markings to how a bicycle safety operation game. Photo courtesy of Station 12 snowshoe hare lost its tail. With National Aboriginal Day on June 21, the library currently has a display has been planned for July across the is - to play four games of soccer June 18 of aboriginal artifacts, including bead work, art and moccasins. There is also a small display of land, Plourde said. “It’s a big concern against students from grades 5 and 6. aboriginal books. Chief Topleaf is Mohawk and grew up in Kahnawake. He has been invited to return everywhere.” “They were pretty good,” he added. While this fall to do a presentation on how animals prepare for the winter. Photo: courtesy of Westmount Public Library In Westmount, 18 traffic accidents in - police wore special shirts. “We were volving injury were reported in May and dressed like soccer players, and the kids eight in June, compared with eight in April kept asking us if we were real police.” and three in March. “A number of these involved cyclists,” he said. Bike given to student A total of 214 tickets for moving viola - Earlier in the day, Constable Alain Di - tions were issued to cars in May and 125 allo offered his own bicycle as a prize to a in June, down from 301 in April. grade 5 student who wrote the best essay on helmet wearing following a class dis - ‘Vacationing’ at G8 cussion on the issue. It was won by Samil Interestingly, the station sent 12 of its Mehedi, 11. The young winner picked up 60 officers to Ontario to work from June his prize at the station on June 21 “and he 20 to 28 with the integrated security force was so excited.” At the end of a bicycle for the G8 and G20 summits, Plourde course for grades 4 and 5, drawings were said. “Those 12 were on vacation, so it had held to win police soccer balls. no impact on our service to the commu - In other station news, local personnel nity.” The local officers were detailed to the were in charge of the Canada Day Parade, G8 event in Huntsville. July 1, because it originated at Fort and St. A total of 325 police officers from Mon - Catherine in the Station 12 district. treal, all on vacation, joined the contingent For the remainder of July, Lieutenant from across Canada for both meetings, he Pierre Liboiron will be in charge of the sta - said. The officers were reportedly offered tion during Plourde’s vacation. Selected crime stats from Station 12 January to June ’10 – Westmount Type of crime reported Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June Break and enter 23511 12 5 Robbery (theft with violence) 02246 1 Theft from vehicles 10 10 21 25 10 14 Theft of vehicles 5210 52 Graffiti 7 11 13 27 12 16 Hit and run 13 14 19 32 23 19 WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 9 Comin’ Up

Sunday, July 18 Sunday, August 1 • Summer concert in Westmount Park Summer concert in Westmount Park with with the Robert Burman Trio , 2 to 4 pm at Avalon Motel , 2 to 4 pm at the lagoon. the lagoon. Rain location: Victoria Hall. Rain location: Victoria Hall. Info: Info: 514.989.5226. Monday, August 2 • Beryl Wajsman , editor of the Suburban , City council meeting , 8 pm, at city hall. discusses “What you’re reading, thinking and talking about” at the Congregation Saturday, August 7 Shaar Hashomayim. Lunch at noon and Shakespeare in the Park presents “Romeo lecture at 12:45 pm, Cost: $5. Reserve at & Juliet” in Westmount Park, 7:30 pm. 514.937.9474, ext. 139. Free, donations invited. Monday, July 19 Sunday, August 8 • City council meeting , 12 noon, at city Summer concert in Westmount Park pres - hall. ents “L’Esprit de la Musique ” – swing and • “Rock Out with Nick” for ages 13 and up jazz from the 20s, 30s and 40s, 2 to 4 pm at the Westmount Public Library, 4 pm. at the lagoon. Rain location: Victoria Hall. Play Guitar Hero and DDR with other Info: 514.989.5226. teens. Info: 514.989.5229. Sunday, August 15 Thursday, July 22 Summer concert in Westmount Park pres - An activity for children at the Westmount ents Claude Lavergne Trio , 2 to 4 pm at the Public Library: Design a self-portrait in - lagoon. Rain location: Victoria Hall. spired by artist Andy Warhol , 4 to 5 pm. Register at the Children's Desk with your Centre Greene has summer day camp child's library card. Info: 514.989.5229. for ages 5 to 14. The centre offers weekly Sunday, July 25 sessions from June 28 to August 20. ToTo celebrate,c we areare Summer concert in Westmount Park with Info: www.centregreene.org, or call the Sheila Smith Quartet , 2 to 4 pm at the 514.931.6202. lagoon. Rain location: Victoria Hall. Tuesday, July 20 DOUBLING Shaar Hashomayim film presentation of Unsettled , a story about religion and democracy, soldiers and civilians, and kids our on the front lines, 6:15 pm. 425 Metcalfe  Ave. Cost: $5, Info: 514.937.9471. FREEFREE frameframe Summer film club for selection. kids at the library in August Every Wednesday at 2 pm during the month of August, anyone over the age of 13 can gather at the library to view a film recently released on DVD, followed by a discussion. Westmounter and Gazette film critic Brendan Kelly will take part in the 3L-H\IV\YN :[L *H[OLYPUL last session on August 25. Register at 1620 Ste. Catherine St. W. 514.989.5386 or email dlach@west - (corner of Guy St. Guy-Concordia) mount.org.  

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Adrian (with Amanda Jelowicki ). Alcorn, Will and Henry Cundill, Susan Nee.nah, two gold tickets to the Toronto Social Notes Wine was graciously donated by West - McConnell, Barbara Molson , Micki and 2010 Rogers Cup, and a night for two at from Westmount mounter Bob Johnson . Other Westmoun - Peter Morton, Diana Henry, Rick and the elegant Hotel St. Paul after seeing and Beyond ters included Reed Scowen and Cynthia Susan Hart , and Susan Bell . Sting and the Royal Philharmonic at the Ryan, Margie and William Stavert, Sharon Other guests seen enjoying the amus - Bell Centre. Veronica Redgrave Klinkhoff, Claire and Peter Kruyt, Leslie ing moments were Leslie Bronstetter and The event raised $60,000 for Tyndale Raymond Setlakwe . St. Georges, a non-profit charitable organ - The Tyndale Silent Auction ization focused on services for youth and The prestigious Mount Stephen Club had amazing items, including serving the Little Burgundy community hosted a fundraiser for the Tyndale St. flowers delivered to the home since 1927. Georges Community Centre on May 18. A once a month for six months by hard-working committee for the 7th an - Westmount Florist, a designer nual dinner-auction benefit made it a sold- necklace from Westmount’s out evening. Committee co-chairs were Betty Infil - ise , who attended with hubby Tony , chair of the Tyndale board of directors, and Westmounter Brian Dunn , auctioneer ex - traordinaire. Dunn attended with his wife Leslie, who offered a month’s delivery of a batch of her “priceless brownies” as well as six month’s worth of healthy muffins in the Tyndale Silent Auction selections. Also at - tending were their daughters Stephanie and Gillian (with Brandon Faubert ), Dunn’s brothers Stuart (with Christa) and Peter , and nephew, Westmount resident

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www.peaumontreal.com Oliver Jones and Patricia Murphy WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 11 Gerdy and Underdog Club take home Secret rules of parenting proceeds from Westmounters’ pet ads so in case you’re reading this, here are some of the unspoken parenting rules we Parenthood usually abide by for and with one another: Uncensored Birthday parties: scheduling a birthday party before 11 am on a weekend should Sophie Tarnowska be punishable by a good spanking (for the parents). Ditto for asking parents to drive their kids any further than 10 km. I don’t We all have different parenting styles: care how cute the ponies are out on that the way we educate, clothe, feed and so - farm in St. Loin de Faraway, or how green cialize our kids is a reflection of both con - the grass. If you do this, please don’t be scious and unconscious decisions we surprised when other parents ram your make about who we are and who we want car in the school parking lot. our kids to be. And how tired we are at the Invitations: never offer someone’s child time. to come for a sleepover/play date unless For example, some parents think sugar you’ve spoken to their parents first. Seems is kryptonite and will only buy it if the box logical. And yet we’ve all encountered the says it was hand-squeezed from an en - parent who gets carried away so that by the dangered sugarcane crop by a cross-eyed time you show up to pick up your child, chimpanzee tribe somewhere deep in the she’s planned her social life up to her 17th Congo. At the other end of the spectrum birthday, and you have to break the bad are the parents who gave Kellogg’s a rea - news that no, she can’t attend the pole son to produce pre-made Rice Krispies dancing party for 8-year-olds after all, after squares, Sugar Crisp cereal and chocolate which she throws a tantrum so massive From left: Gerdy Gouron of Gerdy’s Rescue and Adoptions and Westmounter Gael Fraser-Tytler (with syrup that tastes like pure diabetes. that she has to be sedated. Good times. her dog Kef), accepted cheques July 6 for their organizations from money raised by the Westmount Some parents schedule every waking TV shows and movies: please stay Independent in the special pet tribute section, June 8. The amount of $202.50 was raised for each. moment of their kids’ lives in the belief within the appropriate age category – my Photo: Ted Sancton that this gives them the best chances at child does not need to watch her first hor - success in life, while others think child - ror movie and wonder whether our family Westmounters support Mehel hood is about giving kids a chance to pet will come back to life as a death-breath - be…bored. ing zombie. Nor does she need to surf the Some parents play Jay-Z to their tod - net – I don’t want my 6-year-old to add de - dlers, others won’t play anything but Raffi mands for a Facebook account to her al - until they’re out of their car seats. And ready long list of some parents think kids should be both Mum-you-are-not-as-nice-as-the-other- seen and heard – and often. Others, not so mummies grievances. much. I could go on, but I won’t. Not only do However there are certain unspoken I want to be able to walk around West - rules between parents – a code of honour mount without being run over by a sugar- and a form of respect for one another’s loving, Terrebonne-birthday- parenting styles, so that even if you sus - party-planning, horror-movie-promoting pect that that kid’s parents run the neigh - parent, but I know this parenting thing is bourhood crack den, you will hesitate an imperfect science, and I’m sure that before snitching on them. Bad example? I’ve broken someone’s parenting rules at But there are parents out there who just some point, however mistakenly. Does From left, Westmounters Denis Lépine and Roxanne Dyer, joined Akihiro Takazawa, Diane Bélanger, don’t get it (those who know me are in - that mean I should close down the neigh - artist Mehel and gallery owner Michael Banks at an event in Old Montreal for her exhibition “Voyages vited to let me know if I’m one of them), bourhood crack den? Just kidding. Immobiles” June 16. Twenty-five paintings and eight sculptures by the Algerian-born artist were on exhibition by appointment until June 21. Photo courtesy of Diane Bélanger 12 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 The sunscreen controversy heats up Sunscreen protects against two com - American watchdog on public health is - creases some forms of skin cancers, while mon forms of skin cancer, squamous cell sues, recently reviewed 1,755 sunscreens others show that their use reduces other Health carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. How - and found that only 8 percent blocked both forms of skin cancer, thus the controversy. ever there is some evidence that several UVA and UVB radiation, while also being Here’s what I do to stay healthy: round-up common sunscreen ingredients (i.e., oxy - free (or nearly free) of ingredients with • Purchase sunscreen judiciously: it must Barry Nashen benzone, benzophenone, octocrylene and known or suspected health hazards. block UVA and UVB radiation and con - octyl methoxycinnamate) may be linked to Both UVA and UVB radiation from the tain none of the suspect ingredients. increased risks of malignant melanoma, a sun (and tanning beds) can cause skin • Use SPF 30 to SPF 50 – those above SPF Last summer I wrote about the sun and rarer but more deadly form of skin cancer. cancers after too much exposure, however 50 have negligible extra benefit. how we must judge just how much we Other sunscreen ingredients (namely, octi - for some reason most sunscreens only • Apply liberally when I expect to be in the allow it to shine on our exposed skin. I noxate and homosalate) are potential hor - protect against the less harmful UVB ra - sun for more than 10 or 15 minutes, es - then alluded to the sunscreen controversy. mone disrupters. diation, and not against the more danger - pecially at midday. One year later, the controversy continues. Rem ember, too, sunscreen use has ous UVA component of the spectrum. • Wear a hat. been linked to vitamin D deficiency. Why We can summarize the concerns: • Take a vitamin D supplement daily. is this important? Because there are indi - • Potentially dangerous properties of some Finally, I give additional consideration cations that vitamin D deficiency may lead sunscreen ingredients, to my lips. Lips are also at risk of painful to skin cancer. Confusing, isn’t it? We use • Vitamin D deficiency caused by reduced burns and worse, lip cancer, too. Fortu - sunscreen to reduce our risk of skin can - exposure to ultraviolet light, nately, safe lip sunscreens are available. I cer, and then we learn that we may not be • Incomplete protection against the full ul - purchase them using the same considera - getting enough sun, which our skin needs traviolet spectrum. tions as outlined above for skin sunscreen. to produce the sun vitamin. In fact, vita - There have been many sun exposure Barry Nashen is a Westmount IT min D is produced in our skin after expo - studies involving thousands of people over consultant who is interested in health issues sure to ultraviolet B (UVB) light. After the past decade. Possibly due to the many and shares his personal experiences in this some processing by our liver and then kid - kinds of sunscreen used, the amounts of column. He is not a health professional and neys, this vitamin will defend our bodies sunscreen used, the self-reporting in - his comments should be read in that light. against microbial invaders and also pro - volved in most studies and the different Medical problems should be discussed with a www.stuartdearlove.com mote the healthy mineralization, growth countries (at varying latitudes) in which doctor or appropriate health professional. For and remodeling of bone. Finally, vitamin the participants lived, the results have comments: [email protected], or D also reduces inflammation often been contradictory if not inconclu - http://goodhealthguru.blogspot.com/ The Environmental Working Group, an sive. Some show that use of sunscreen in -

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Joanne Poirier, director of Urban Planning, left, looks on at a series of canvases painted by Domna Niflis, also with the department. An exhibition of art works created by Westmount employees opened with a vernissage at the Gallery at Victoria Hall on June 30. The exhibition can be seen Monday to Friday from 10 am to 9 pm, and on Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm until July 30. Photo: Martin C. Barry

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He baking recipes for goodies offered at Na - adventure trip to Bail, Indonesia’s lone has the lead role in Winnipeg-based com - tional Trust sites (tea rooms in castles, Hindu ouptost. But what she didn’t expect edy-drama series Less Than Kind , and he lighthouses and other historic sites) in was a different kind of adventure – a can be currently be seen in theatres with Britain. This collection includes recipes plunge into a world of incense, offerings Montreal star Jay Baruchel in The Trotsky . for sweet and savory English treats. Con - and self-reflection that revealed an impor - Camacho has also struggled with obe - versions and North American equivalents tant truth” by Ellie Rubi in Outpost , sity since childhood, and has decided this for ingredients plus a brief history of tea May/June 2010, p. 32. summer that it’s time to get his weight time traditions are included. “A Thousand Islands of Summer: Es - under control. 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He realizes that An Education – A coming-of-age story needed some motivation to hit the gym. grade 11 class when he got his casting call losing the love of his life is more devastat - about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban The spark came in the form of a re - from Less Than Kind . “I’d promised dur - ing than a disease. London, and how her life changes with the quest from the producers of his show. “I ing my campaign that I’d be around for L’horizon by Patrick Modiano – Like all arrival of a dashing playboy nearly twice don’t know what they’re planning exactly, the school year,” he told the Independent books by the Goncourt winner, this one is her age. but I think it involves my character getting with a laugh, “and then a month later I better described in terms of atmosphere The Timekeeper – Eighteen-year-old involved in sports. The call came at a per - landed the show and was gone. Everyone than of plot. You will visit Paris’ XVIe ar - Martin Bishop lands a job as a timekeeper fect time, because I was really wanting to was great about it though – I think they rondissement, take a side trip to Switzer - on a Northwest Territories construction do this for me. I’ve been blessed with find - understood.” site. A lucrative endeavour, but in this re - mote, isolated camp from which there is no escape, corruption is a way of life. The July at the art galleries workers, a bunch of rag-tag idiots and thieves selected precisely for their defects, Division Gallery – Group show “Peinture Gallery at Victoria Hall – Group show: city dare not complain. Extrême”. Exhibit continues to August of Westmount employees. Exhibit con - In Home Nursing Care Art books for children 14. 1368 Greene, 514.938.3863. tinues to July 30. 4626 Sherbrooke St., Galerie de Bellefeuille – Paul Béliveau: 514.989.5226 Paris in the Spring with Picasso by Joan paintings, exhibit July 3 to 14. Group Han Art – Dominic Couturier, Serge Respite Care Yolleck – Children will love the energetic show “Art 2010,” exhibit July 3 to 14. Lemoyne, François LeTourneax, for Parents paintings in this picture book about the Darlene Cole: paintings, exhibit July 17 Leopold Plotek and Claude Tousignant artists and writers, who lived in Paris at to 28. Carmelo Blandino: paintings, ex - “Extreme Painting”. Exhibit continues Of children with special needs the turn of the century. hibit July 17 to 28. Robert Marchessault: to July 10. 4209 St. Catherine. L’art en miroir by Sonia Chaine – The Relieve caregiver up to paintings, exhibit July 31 to August 11. 514.876.9278. author presents 15 masterpieces and com - Simon Casson: paintings, exhibit July McClure Gallery - Visual Arts Centre – 6hours per week pares them to modern and contemporary 31 to August 11. 1367 Greene, Ehab Lotayef, Helga Schleeh and Victo - Referral required pieces, which have been inspired by the 514.933.4406 ria Block “As We Are”. Exhibit contin - originals. Children and adults will dis - Needs Assessment by Galerie D’Este – Group show “Peinture Ex - ues to July 17. 350 Victoria, cover a new appreciation of art through trême,”exhibit July 14 to August 15. 514.488.9558. Registered Nurse: this fascinating book! 1329 Greene, 514.846.1515. Parisian Laundry – Group show “Sum - 514-866-6801 Galerie V. Trimont – Eugène Abrams “Art mertime in Paris”. Exhibit July 22 to formerly VON Montreal and Sport,” etchings, pastels and paint - August 28. 3550 St. Antoine, ing. Exhibit continues to July 11. 4259 514.989.1056. www.novamontreal.com St. Catherine, 514.658.7214. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 17 Selwyn House initiates first athletic hall of fame By Isaac Olson quet so our student athletes could see how successful these gentlemen were in pur - Westmount’s Selwyn House School suit of their passion for sports and how may be a centenarian, but the institution, successful they are in life.” which has 30 sports teams from the ele - Both a photo and a brief biographical mentary up through high school level, has - write-up will go on the hall of fame wall n’t had an athletic hall of fame until now. outside Mitchell’s office. Graduating from Officiated at the school’s annual sports Selwyn House and playing sports at an banquet in late May, Karel Nemec, class of upper level are examples of the hall of 1979, and Tim Fleiszer, class of 1992, are fame’s eligibility requirements. The goal, the school’s first inductees into a program he continued, is to have one or two in - that Steven Mitchell, the school’s athletic ductees every year, but the list of potential director, said has been in the making for candidates is already long enough to keep about three years. the athletic department busy for at least a “It wasn’t just a snap decision,” said decade. Tim Fleiszer, class of ’92. Photos courtesy of Selwyn House Mitchell. “The induction ceremony was “We’ve had some very successful young combined with our regular athletic ban - men go on after Sel - Karel Nemec, class of ’79 continued on p. 20

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Fully Licensed Tel: 514 845 0101 1222 Bishop St., below Ste-Catherine 1180 de MAISONNEUVE WEST, corner Stanley 514-866-7667 18 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 St. Matthias’ Church marks Finnegan, a textbook terrier His people have worked closely to cor - centennial of cornerstone rect these problems, and Finnegan is a By Martin C. Barry another celebration two years from now to Underdog much better behaved dog than he used to mark a century since construction of the be. He’s crate-trained and accustomed to Although parishioners at St. Matthias’ church was completed. Mary Lamey being confined when his people are out. Anglican Church held a reception on June Nearly 100 church members gathered Finnegan would do well with an expe - 22 for the 100th anniversary of the laying to re-enact the events of June 22, 1910, rienced terrier owner because he is a text - of the building’s cornerstone, there’ll be when the cornerstone at St. Matthias’ was book example of the breed. He needs firm solemnly put in place. The history This week’s Underdog is a Welsh ter - but patient handling. A house without a of the church actually dates back to rier whose humans love him to bits. They dog or failing that, a house without an 1873 when services were first held are expecting a baby, however, and the mix alpha dog, would be ideal. in a house near the present site. The of a strong-willed rescue dog and defence - For more information on Finnegan, or first worship service in the stone less infant would not be prudent. any of the other Underdogs, visit www.un - church was held on April 28, 1912. Ten-year-old Finnegan is 18 lbs of pure derdogclub.org. You can also call The founders, who were mem - terrier, who has been with his current 1.877.43.DOGGY or send an email to bers of St. George’s Anglican owners for six years. He is a good buddy [email protected]. Donations Church downtown, had set out to who takes an active interest in everything can be made online. start a mission church in what was going on around him. Still, he’s up for a Please consider giving a dog a new then the countryside of Westmount. cuddle and quiet night in front of the TV. leash on life by providing a foster home. The first church, built of wood in In fact, he doesn’t demand the late 19th century, was demol - a ton of exercise. ished in 1934 to make way for an ex - We all have our issues pansion of the stone church. Other and with button-eyed expansions soon to follow included Finnegan, that issue is the north transept, which was made food. At some point in his into a memorial chapel. dark past, Finnegan didn’t Westmount-Ville Marie MP Marc get enough to eat and that Garneau, who attended a reception makes him a terror when it at the church held prior to the re-en - comes to his dish. actment ceremony, said he felt it He’s been known to was only natural he should drop in snap at anyone – four- to say hello. “I go by it all the time legged or two – who gets when I walk my dog,” he said. “I too close to his kibble. He sometimes come in and attend a also has some leash-aggres - service as well.” sion issues that cause him to lunge at other pooches. Finnegan Photo: Nicole Leger With rector Kenneth Near (centre), St. Matthias’ Church parishioners and guests are seen here on June 22 pointing at the cornerstone, exactly 100 Building permits M What’s permitted years after it was first laid. The following permits for exterior con - rear; in the rear façade; struction, alterations and renovation were 74 Gordon Cresc: to landscape front 431 Wood: rear landscaping to include all subsequently approved in order of list - yard, including work on stone steps, re - a new terrace and retaining wall; ing. taining walls and driveway pavers; 655 Grosvenor: to replace some win - 344 Redfern: landscaping in the front, 800 Lexington: landscaping work in dows and doors; side and rear yards; back yard to include an in-ground pool 716 Upper Roslyn: landscaping in front 3641 The Boulevard: landscaping in and construction of a wall in natural stone; and side yards to include new steps and front yard, including new steps, railing 4363 Westmount: at a Category 1 to walk; and driveway pavers; redo landscaping in front and year yards 47 Rosemount: at a Category 1 to re - 59 Oakland: to replace most windows and install a 6-foot gate behind the build - place a garage door at the Category 1 and doors, modify window openings to the ing line on the driveway and to erect a house; south and west and replace roofing mate - fence along the side; 4200 Sherbrooke: at a Category 1 to rial; 77 Sunnyside: at a Category 1 house to modify stair and landing at Category 1 519 Clarke: at a Category 1* house to increase the area on an existing rooftop ad - building; redo and increase landscaping in front and dition matching the height of the existing 451 Victoria: to replace a front door; side yards, including the creation of a di - building; establish a rooftop terrace, re - 501 Mount Pleasant: to reconstruct bal - rect driveway to access the garage replac - place all windows and doors, close some cony rail; ing the previous semi-circular one; to openings and create new ones; 567 Grosvenor: to replace basement relocate the garage doors from the south 509A Claremont: to replace all win - windows; side; to introduce a water basin. dows; 18 Renfrew: to replace four storm win - 4102 Dorchester: to enlarge a side win - 40 Burton: to replace all windows and dows and re-open a former basement win - dow opening to make a door; doors; dow; 43 Holton: at a Category 1* to replace 21 Barat: to replace basement windows; 125 Clandeboye: to replace some win - some windows and doors at the front and 666 Grosvenor: to create a new opening dows in the Category 1* house. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 19 Westmount Art Scene Interpreting humanity – Abrams and Vitali By Heather Black film camera, he captures individuals set Shop Westmoun t! against vast and cinematic environments Recently finished Westmount exhibi - in mural-size prints. tions took a different look at individual In “Scala dei Turchi, Aerial View”, indi - moments. At Galerie V. Trimont, Montreal viduals – barely discerned on white rock – painter Eugene Abrams captured the vi - are set against a spectacular azure-blue tality of soccer players. Photographs by sea. This interesting rock formation is also HAIR STYLING FOR MEN Massimo Vitali at Galerie de Bellefeuille, the subject for “Scala dei Turchi 3”. But 514.484.5987 on the other hand, depicted individuals here, the sea-level perspective creates an 4970 Sherbrooke St. W. within nature. interesting, almost monochromatic com - (at Claremont Ave.) position. Eugene Abrams at Galerie V. 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WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 – 21 Computers go to Jamaica thanks Groundbreaking anglo/franco project to Rotarians and Roslyn Scouts’ expedition to Africa By Martin C. Barry development department. This is just the beginning of what could has Westmount roots Students attending Oberlin High become a larger project, according to Ko - Westmounter Maggie Shaddick is well role for HIV/AIDS teaching, regardless of School in Jamaica will be able to experi - belansky. “We hope to do this in other known in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and the continent. She did an informal survey ence the advantages personal computers schools, as well,” he said during a formal the world for her enthusiastic support of of Canadians and found that 80 percent of bring to education, thanks to a donation of presentation of the computers to repre - Scouting. the respondents thought that there was a 10 refurbished desktops made possible by sentatives of Oberlin High School held on Nevertheless, it took a visit to South cure for the disease. the Rotary Club of Westmount and stu - June 16 at Roslyn. Korea, where Shaddick met Christian Per - The reality, explains Shaddick, is that dents at Roslyn School. The computer refurbishment program reault – the national commissioner of the “There is no cure, and HIV/AIDS knows The computers were re - L’Association des Scouts du Canada – to no boundaries.” built and reprogrammed as start developing a joint project between Scouts Canada would like the HIV part of an after-school pro - the anglophone Scouts Canada and the badge to be offered as a continuing proj - gram started last December francophone association. ect to Rovers across Canada. by Allan Kobelansky, a volun - One of the first such collaborations will teer parent at Roslyn, who is be taking place soon: on July 21, six Rovers also a technology specialist. and Routiers will be attending a world Twelve Roslyn students from Scout moot in Kenya. Woman injured in grades 3 to 6 took part. Four members of this Canadian con - Kobelansky, assisted by tingent will stay on for 13 days to earn the altercation on street parent James Aitken, taught African Scouting Region’s Red Ribbon Police and ambulance personnel were the students how to refurbish HIV/AIDS badge. called by public safety officers to help an obsolete computers with Shaddick is not the only Westmount injured woman at Weredale Park who parts from donated comput - connection. The 2nd Westmount Rover claimed to have been struck in the face ers that were being thrown crew was involved three years ago in an by her boyfriend. The aggressor could out. The refurbished ma - overseas development project in Namibia, not be immediately located, but the chines were then repro - homeless couple was well-known to was being set up when Rotarian Don and joining them were two of the Rovers grammed with Linux system open source emergency personnel, Public Security of - MacKinnon heard from Gordon Black - now going to Kenya (see “Scouting trio software. ficials said. man, whose wife, Olive, is an alumnus of fundraise for charitable trip to Namibia”, In January, members of the Rotary Public safety officers had found the the high school. MacKinnon and the Ro - March 26, 2008, p. 1). Club were recruited to help out. They built woman with a bleeding lip and swollen tarians had previously worked with Black - In addition, Westmounters were early a workspace with cabinets in an available cheek when responding to the scene man to ship computers to Trinidad. financial supporters of the HIV badge and room at Roslyn. Obsolete computers were after a call June 30 at 12:52 am that came “We appealed to Allan to see if there its work in Africa, as previously reported picked up by the Rotarians from West - in as noise complaint. She was described was a possibility of sending some of the (see “Fundraiser helps African Scouts”, mount residents and businesses, in con - as intoxicated. completed computers to Jamaica – and the December 7, 2007, p. 18). junction with the city’s sustainable answer was yes,” said MacKinnon. Shaddick sees an ongoing, important Soccer is bigger in Westmount than you probably think...

part of my day is looking at Westmount soccer program over the past few years. I loss and two ties. We finished tied for first Park during soccer when every inch is cov - attribute this to the increasing love of soc - place. Off-Sidel ered with soccer players from all ages.” cer and the demise of the Expos,” Maislin “The girls had fun and showed up to There used to be a time when the island said. “Soccer is a sport that everyone can play, which pushes the mentality of team Noah Sidel of Montreal was a baseball town first and participate in from the weakest player to sports and the responsibility of being there foremost – you’d be hard-pressed to con - the best. Our coaches foster a great learn - for the team,” Sckolnick added. “At this jure up memories of great soccer pro - ing environment for all who participate, level the kids are really just starting to get grams in the ’80s and ’90s anywhere in and follow the guidelines that all players into the game and learning more about Hockey might be Canada’s national this city. play equally and fairly.” positioning and camaraderie. We always pastime, but soccer is definitely its fastest With the decline of the Montreal Expos Soccer parent Julie Sckolnick echoed had a cheer and a handshake, which of growing sport – and that is certainly re - in the ‘90s and then the team leaving town Maislin’s thoughts. course any 9-year-old girl would love!” flected in this community’s embrace of for greyer pastures in Washington in 2004, “I was very lucky to be assistant coach The outdoor soccer program for boys the “beautiful game.” however, fútbol became more and more with Danny Fillion for the “Dartmouth” and girls runs during the months of May “Soccer is the most important the game of choice for the youth of this team in the 8-9-10-year-old girls’ division and June. Indoor soccer takes place be - spring/summer activity for us at West - city. this season. I would call Danny a real pro - tween November and March. The National mount Sports and Recreation,” said An - Now with the Montreal Impact poten - fessional in the way he handled the team, Soccer camp consisting of four one-week drew Maislin, who coordinates the sport tially joining North America’s top soccer constantly switching the players’ positions sessions is offered to kids between 6 to 14 for the department. association, Major League Soccer, sched - and giving each girl a chance to try some - years old, held June and July. For more on “We have over 1,200 participants at the uled for 2012, the sport should only con - thing new. Gifted or not, all were treated community soccer, call 514.989.5353 or kids’ level and another 80 at the young tinue to grow. equally, and that’s what soccer is about,” visit www.westmount.org. adult and adult levels. We have 88 soccer And Westmount Rec. will do whatever she said. You can always reach me at noah - teams playing during our season. The best it can to encourage that. “Fortunately this worked because in the [email protected] “We have seen a steady increase in our end we had won all games except for one 22 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – July 13-14, 2010 A close shave for a good cause Westmount beauty talents help launch new online jewelry site

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