WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. 9 No. 3e We are Westmount March 31, 20 15 Patrollers take keys from one driver Visual Arts window smashed PSOs catch, police charge, two for impaired driving By Laureen Sweeney Officers removed the car keys from one and in both cases the men were kept on Two men have been charged with driv - the scene until arrival of police “so they ing under the influence after public safety could be taken off the street and not cause officers found them between 3:30 and 4 a serious accident.” am March 19 and 21, suspected their con - dition and reported it to police, Public Se - Stopped to help curity officials said. The first incident occurred March 19 at One man had fallen asleep at the wheel 3:34 am when a patroller stopped to help and hooked a taxi on Sherbrooke near two people involved in a minor accident on Clarke. The other, who was pursued by a Sherbrooke near Clarke. One was noticed patroller, had almost hit the security vehi - to be unsteady on his feet and slurred his cle while driving on the wrong side of St. speech. An odour of alcohol also noted in Catherine St. near Lewis. his car. “In both cases, our patrollers suspected The other person, driving a taxi, said the Story: Michael Moore; with files and photo: WI impaired driving,” said Public Security di - man’s car had hooked the passenger side The front glass window of the Visual Arts Centre/McClure Gallery was seen the morning of March 27 rector Greg McBain. of his vehicle as both drove east. The man to have a jagged round-ish hole in it as if it an object had been thrown through it. Nothing was found admitted to have fallen asleep. inside, according to director Victoria LeBlanc. A three-foot 2x4 piece of wood lay on the ground in the Letters p. 6 A 50-year-old Longueuil resident was front of the building at 350 Victoria. According to police, it was an attempted break-in where somebody Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 21 detained, taken to the po - used a piece of wood to break the glass. The person didn’t get into the building, police said, nothing was stolen and the alarm didn’t go off. Police were called to scene that morning when the owners noticed it. Social calendar, Part II p. 14 li ce operations centre on continued on p. 17 There were no reports of any surveillance cameras or witnesses catching it. Charles ‘Tradau’ recreation deal up Pearo Ph.D. for revision with Montreal Real Estate Broker [email protected] By Laureen Sweeney Tradau, named for Trafalgar and Daulac, comprises 13 streets at Westmount’s east C. 704-1063 The time has come to revisit a financial city limits for which Montreal does not arrangement originally forged almost 20 provide neighbourhood services and was B. 934-1818 years ago that allows Montreal households prepared to “buy” them from Westmount. Integrity & in the Tradau district to access West - It was believed to the first time Westmount Expertise mount’s Sports and Recreation programs had made such an inter-municipal deal. Working and facilities, Mayor Peter Trent said last “We need to revise the for you! HERITAGE week. current costs,” Trent said. continued on p. 4 Real Estate Agency 2 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – March 31, 2015 C ROCHELLE CANTOR REAL ESTATE BROKER 514.605.6755 [email protected] INTRODUCING INTRODUCING INTRODUCING INTRODUCING WESTMOUNT | 475 STRATHCONA WESTMOUNT | 43 HOLTON WESTMOUNT | 427 MT. STEPHEN WESTMOUNT | 356 CÔTE ST-ANTOINE $1,895,000 MLS 10011964 $1,786,000 EXCLUSIVE $1,325,000 MLS 28946884 $1,475,000 MLS12089530 INTRODUCING INTRODUCING INTRODUCING WESTMOUNT | 515 ROSLYN AVE. WESTMOUNT | 618 AV. 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Info: 514.932.9349. A shopper heads into the Alexis Nihon Target looking for one last deal on March 27, the store’s final day in the Westmount shopping mall. When it opened in November 2013, the location was touted as a flagship store for Target’s initial foray into the Canadian retail space. Just 17 months later, however, the Alexis Nihon location is among the preliminary wave of closures being carried out by the American retail giant as it shuts down its entire Canadian operation after suffering billion-dollar losses. Photo: Michael Moore April maintenance Strikes head at café, signs to be in effect taken to hospital It may not feel like it yet, but April 1 is A Westmount resident was taken to hos - here. And with it comes the start of the pital March 17 after striking his head in a spring and summer maintenance periods, restaurant on Victoria, Public Security offi - Public Security officials said. cials said. 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(valid only until July 1) EPA DOE 4 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – March 31, 2015 mayor Pierre Bourque after various re - Tradau cont’d. from p. 1 quests from Tradau residents, as well as The last time this was modified was in from Trent, who had originally proposed 2006 when a fee of $123 per address was outright annexation of the area by West - established. mount in exchange for the Glen site. While 284 households are eligible to take “On March 19, 1996, I wrote Bourque a advantage of the agreement, the most re - letter proposing we annex Tradau so the cent city figures updated last week show frontier would be more rationalized,” he only 17 Tradau households have registered recalled. for this year. “If we didn’t, I suggested the possibility “For the little impact it makes on our that Westmount would furnish snow re - programs, I look on it as being a nice ges - moval, Public Security patrols and provide ture to these residents who live just outside access to the library and Sports and Recre - Westmount but have no similar facilities,” ational facilities for $300,000 a year. said city director general Mike Deegan. “Even before that, I had wanted to in - He also believes it’s time to update the fee, clude Public Works” (see separate story on however. Public Works arrangements, p. 5). Once this is paid up front, individual Trent’s first annexation proposal had family members may sign up for pro - been made to Montreal mayor Jean Doré, grams and facility cards including the li - Bourque’s predecessor. brary in the same way as a Westmount In the end, he said, it was decided to resident and at the same cost. Their only limit the agreement to Sports and Recre - exclusion is from inter-city sports teams, ation for which Montreal would pay West - which are “geographic specific,” he ex - mount an annual amount of close to plained. Tradau residents can only play for $30,000. The amount was worked out the Ville Marie borough. based on Westmount’s own per capita The 13 eligible streets are Trafalgar Ave., costs to local residents. During the mergers, the agreement was Map shows the streets straddling the border between Westmount (shaded area) and Montreal in what Trafalgar Heights, McDougall, Gage Rd., is called the Tradau district of the Ville Marie borough.