WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. 54 No. 54c We are Westmount October 58, 6457 Dorchester ‘Mr. Fletcher’ says goodbye MUHC noise ‘eyesore’ finally emissions to come down nudging closer BK L9HE<<B SJ<<B<K to settlement It’s been an eyesore in the neighbour - hood for years and a thorn in the side of BK L9HE<<B SJ<<B<K district 8 councillor Theodora Samiotis. And now, what remains of a partially de - After more than two years, a settlement molished apartment building at 4216 appears close at hand in efforts by a group Dorchester near Greene is finally going to of local residents to have noise reduced be totally removed, city council agreed in from the ventilation units at the Glen site awarding a tender for work October 3. of the super-hospital. The building was A class action suit was launched last year razed by fire in 1998 and continued on p. 16 against the Montreal University Health Centre and the SNC-led building consor - tium, and was taken to Quebec Superior Court on their behalf in May 2015 by Westmount Page p. 18 lawyer Catherine Sylvestre. Lawyers from all sides who are involved Letters p. 6 “are working on dates Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 24 available to them and to continued on p. 8 BRIAN GRANT 514.249.1500 MARIE SICOTTTE Real Estate Broker VIVIAN GRANT Photo: Laureen Sweeney 514.592.4636 514 953-98088 [email protected] The Strength of TEAMWORK mariesicotte.com At the Westmount Metro store (Supermarché Fletcher) October 14, Graham Fletcher and longtime The Reputation for RESULTS custom e r Barbara Sp encer sha re a la ugh a week before his retirement October 22. See p. 3. 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CONSISTENTLY TOP 10 BROKER FOR RE/MAX QUEBEC* RE/MAX du Cartier Inc. Real Estate Agency/Independently owned & operated *Individual Broker for Re/Max Quebec 2012,2013,2014,2015 WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – October 18, 2016 – 3 Vic village store has been his place of business for 3 decades Fletcher retires after 50 years in the grocery business BK L9HE<<B SJ<<B<K city during the emergency operations, ac - Ingleside, Ontario, “15 minutes west of with him. Their son, Steven, however, will cording to Mayor Peter Trent. He has also Cornwall.” He moved there over the sum - be staying on as grocery manager. When Graham Fletcher retires October donated food to non-profits for fundraising mer after selling his house in Dollard des 22, it will mark more than 50 years in his activities throughout the years. Ormeaux. Almost fulltime commitment career in the grocery industry – fully 30 of Not only is the store one of the busiest “We get up at 3:15 in the morning to Fletcher’s whole career has been a full - them at the landmark store at Sherbrooke sales-wise in the Metro family, according to leave by 5 and be in by 6:30,” he explained. time commitment. “I don’t think I’ve gone and Victoria, where he has been manager Fletcher, but it carries the largest number “In the winter, it would be too tiring.” more than three days without calling the and franchisee, first for Steinberg and now of brands and SKUs despite its relatively The “we” refers to is his wife, Brenda store, even on vacation,” he explained. Metro Inc. small floor space. “I have products others Fletcher, who works in the store’s bakery He usually takes off “It’s the people – the employees and the don’t sell.” section three days a week and will ret ir e Sunda y and T ue s day b ut continued on p. 19 customers – I’ll miss the most,” he said last In all, he said, that’s 25,000 products week. “I’ll have a big lump in my throat and SKUs turning over in just 21,000 NEW PRICE when I say goodbye. I know so many cus - square feet for which a comparable store tomers by name.” doing the same volume would have at least And the impact of his role through three 40,000. “I do more volume than the Loblaw decades goes both ways. store on St. Jacques.” The city will recognize Fletcher’s com - mitment to Westmount by presenting him Time has come with a certificate of appreciation for “the At age 67, Fletcher has been pushing extent of his generosity to the community back his retirement date over the last year WESTMOUNT MASTERPIECE WESTMOUNT TURN-KEY PLATEAU GEM – AVE. LAVAL over the years.” but now has finally decided the time has Magnificent 8,000SF Mansion, 8 BR, Sunfilled property, renovated A-Z. Magnificent large stone house with During the ice storm of 1998, he is re - come. 6BATH, 5 Fireplaces. $1,950,000 Gourmet eat-in Kitchen. $1,795.000 2separate Bachelor Apts. $1,095,000 ported to have donated more than $50,000 He wants to avoid the winter drive to- worth of food and supplies for use by the and-from the new home he’s fixing up in 42 ACRES RENTAL How the store evolved Built in 1952 as a Steinberg’s grocery tions, he said. It was “good news” to store, the premises at Sherbrooke and Fletcher when redevelopment plans by Victoria was renovated and expanded to the property owner fell through in March the south in 1980, recalls retiring fran - (see story April 5, p. 1). This has pro - chisee Graham Fletcher. tected the employees as well as the cur - COUNTRY ESTATE – MANOR, GUEST HOUSE & BEAUTIFUL BARNS SUNFILLED WESTMOUNT APARTMENT It was enlarged again in 2000 as a rent nature of the store, he said. Magnificent reno’d sun-filled Manor. 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Views! $1,400/mo took over the spaces occupied by the closed and reopened as more of a 5 Miss Westmount coffee shop and Elec - Saisons operation, he explained. “I was trolux on Victoria. very happy for the staff.” “We were hoping to move into the It also enabled the leaky roof to be re - space now occupied by the pharmacy but placed over the summer. “There would the city wouldn’t let us.” This relates to have been no point replacing the roof the maximum size allowed for store - only to have it torn off” in a demolition. fronts regulated by the zoning by-law. – LS The store now needs more renova - B INTRODUCING INTRODUCING DANIELLE ALLARIE JUNE BAILY Residential Real Estate Broker Real Estate Broker 514.941.9105514.730.8708 Ville-Marie – 1700 Dr. Penfield # 25 514.941.9105 CSL – 5720 Rembrandt #804 [email protected]@gmail.com $575,000 | MLS 12019000 [email protected] $399,000 | MLS 14098513 4 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – October 18, 2016 INTRODUCING EXCLUSIVE INTRODUCING LISTING WSMT I UPPER BELMONT AVE. $ 2,550,0000 WSMT I EDGEHILL RD. $ 2,250,000 WSMT I SHERBROOKE ST O. $ 1,995,000 DETTAACHED HOME WITH POOL & GARAGE PRIVATE ROAD INCREDIBLE VIEWWS SPACIOUS FAMILLYY HOME INTRODUCING INTRODUCING INTRODUCING NEW PRICE EXCLUSIVE LISTING MTL I CH.