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Space chief ’s “got the fire”Adam Desaulniers

Westmount–Ville-Marie Liberal candidate andformer Canadian Space Agency chief Dr. MarcGarneau is back in the fray and there’s no stoppinghim this time. Wooed back to the fold by StéphaneDion after his 2006 loss in Vaudreuil–Soulanges, he’s taken the lessons of his politicalbaptism philosophically and during a recent visitto The Senior Times offices, proved still earnestand passionate enough to give a frank opinionwhere more battle-hardened veterans will stick totheir talking points.

“You can’t go to school and learn how to be apolitician,” he says of the experience, which pittedhim against a sitting Bloc MP who lived in theriding and made headlines when he suggested GillesDuceppe and André Boisclair might have a changeof heart after seeing the world from space. But afterthe trials and disappointments of political life he’sstill “got the fire” and insists his party is “readyfinancially and organizationally” to fight an election.Tomorrow? “Yes, tomorrow.”Yet the party’s post-2006 regrouping and reorgan-izing is still ongoing with a policy convention set totake place sometime before the end of the year anda new Commission of Regions just recently createdto tackle their situation outside the cities. Pressed forspecifics on whether a Liberal strategy to win backthe regions exists yet, Garneau says, “There’s noquestion that we have a challenge,” and asserts thatan issue-by-issue approach targeted to each riding iskey to winning. “I’ve been involved in helping mycolleagues in the regions – Saguenay, the Outaouais,the Eastern Townships, Rimouski – and people wantto talk about specific issues, whether it’s regionaldisparities, poverty issues, or job losses in forestry,agriculture, and manufacturing.” Falling back onbroader distinctions, he believes that “explainingLiberal philosophy and values” in contrast to thoseof the Conservatives will turn things around becauseLiberal values are “closer to what the majority ofCanadians feel they want from their government.”Foremost among those contrasts is environmentalpolicy, where the debate over a carbon tax loomslarge in the media, but Garneau is loath to let it takeon a life of its own. “It’s not that this is a Liberalpolicy on taxing carbon… the use of a carbon tax isan acknowledgement, supported by Canadians, thatwe must put a price on the use of fossil fuels… whatMr. Dion has been careful to say is that this is arevenue-neutral package focused on fiscal responsi-bility and revenues generated from this carbon taxwill be reallocated specifically to lower income taxesand also to lower corporate taxes. He talks about italongside the 30/50 plan – our plan to reducepoverty in five years by 30% among the general pop-ulation and by 50% among youth. So in that senseit’s bigger than just addressing the environment.”But where Garneau’s experience and enthusiasmtruly come to bear is in science and technology.

“We’re not optimizing our ability to innovate in thiscountry. Right now we have a relatively mediocrestanding, about fifteenth in the world in terms ofhow innovation is measured. We put money intoresearch and development and we provide incentivesto the manufacturing sector, but we haven’t focusedon our weakness – taking the fruits of research andturning them into viable products and services.There’s a weak link between the two.“I think there is a role for the federal governmentbecause the whole thing needs to be managedcoherently. A lot of the research is in universities orin hospitals or in government labs or at largerenterprises like Nortel and Bombardier. Smallercompanies don’t put necessarily enough into it.”He cites the example of Finland, transformed overthe past 50 years from a largely agrarian economy toa technological leader through free post-secondaryeducation and business incubators that focus ontaking research to market. “We’ve taken a lessfocused approach. The federal government certainlycan play a much greater role in helping to emulatethe best practices and models that other countrieshave adopted, and we also need to strengthen ourintellectual property laws.”The Westmount–Ville-Marie byelection has to becalled by July 25 and is expected to be held in the fall.The Conservative nominee is Guy Dufort and theGreen Party has nominated Claude Genest. Candi-dates for the Bloc and NDP have yet to be announced.

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Editorial: Remove the crucifix from the National AssemblyThere is a recognizable shadow in the elaboratewood paneling in the main courtroom of the Que-bec Court of Appeal on Notre-Dame. Because itwas until fairly recently covered with a cross, thewood paneling has not aged at the same rate. A cru-cifix-shaped outline is clearly visible.This central icon of Christianity has been removed

from the courtrooms of Quebec. For the samereasons, the crucifix should be removed from behindthe Speaker’s chair in the National Assembly andplaced elsewhere, among other artifacts that recallQuebec’s heritage.We were extremely dismayed when, under the

“leadership” of Premier Jean Charest, the NationalAssembly voted unanimously to reject the recom-mendation of the Bouchard-Taylor commission onreasonable accommodation almost as soon as it wasmade public. We heartily support the idea that, tounderline the secular nature of our most importantpolitical body, the artifact be moved from where itwas set in the mid-1930s. After all, separation ofchurch and state is basic to any liberal democracy.The commission, among its 37 recommendations, said

it should be relocated in the legislature building to a placethat emphasizes heritage value. That is where it belongs.Nobody is denying that the first Europeans to col-

onize Quebec – and subdue the native inhabitantsin paternalistic, abusive and often inhumane ways –were from France. No one is denying the role played

by the Roman Catholic Church and its religious or-ders in providing some education and health care.But Quebec has changed and the roles have changed.

The Quiet Revolution recognized the inadequacy ofthis system. And since the 1960s Quebec has become themost secular province in Canada, with a massive rejectionof the Church, in part because of the abuses some ofits institutions and clerics inflicted on innocent believers.The Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms has re-

placed religious dogma as the guarantor of each individ-ual’s standing in society. Quebec was a leader in grantingwomen the right to decide if they want to go ahead withunwanted pregnancies. Quebec pioneered gay-marriagerights. Quebec has the highest rate of common-lawunions in Canada. Retaining the crucifix is an anachro-nism that contradicts of all of these fundamental changes.But more importantly, today’s Quebec is a diverse

community of communities. Maintaining a religiousicon in our legislature sends the wrong message to ourlawmakers. With our need for continuing high levelsof immigration, the time is coming when there will bea Muslim premier. Or a Jew or atheist or agnostic mayfill that role. Future leaders and legislators should nothave to face a religious icon when making decisionsthat affect a multi-faceted and diverse population.The unanimous vote in the National Assembly was

an obvious pitch for old-stock Quebecers’ sentiment.The front-page story in La Presse on a recent Saturdayfeatured a smiling farmer beaming beside a dairy cow.

“The Quebec we love,” said the headline. But weknow that this bit of happy nostalgia is largely myth-ical. That Quebec was a place of limited educationand opportunity, banned books, misogyny, os-tracism for what used to be known as unwed moth-ers, xenophobia and economic and culturalstagnation. The quarter-century spent understrongman Maurice Duplessis, who had the crucifixinstalled, was known as the Great Darkness.The new Quebec is one of openness to the world,

of safe haven for immigrants, of individual rightsand freedoms, a rainbow of beliefs and respect forall. It is unfortunate that, among all the recommen-dations made by the commission, the first thing ourpoliticians did was to pounce on the crucifix-removal recommendation and reject it. It does notbode well for the other proposals, such as speedingup steps to recognize foreign university diplomas sothat qualified physicians don’t have to drive taxiswhile our emergency rooms continue to be over-crowded and understaffed.The commission suggested the Quebec Charter of

Rights and Freedoms be amended to ban public in-citement to discriminate, and urged “exceptional initia-tives” to fight anti-Semitism and Islamophobia anddiscrimination faced by all racialized groups, particu-larly Blacks. We urge the Quebec government to get onthe case and in doing so pay homage to some of the les-sons we should have learned from the crucifixion.


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nursing home care as a result of theadjustment in their disposable income.

This scenario is,accordingtoCharlton,notuncommon, and costly to redress. “To addinsult to injury, they’re being made to pay a5% penalty to re-file for an adjustment totheir return.I’masking thegovernment,at aminimum,towaive thepenalty,sinceseniorscan’t afford accountants to save them fromthe government’s false advertising.”


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Reduced joint mobility begins around age 35, asnatural fluids lubricating our cartilage becomemore scarce. For as many as one in seven of us, thisis compounded by the inflammation of os-teoarthritis. As new treatments to diminish painand extend mobility emerge and compete with es-tablished ones, healthcare providers have faced thechoice with caution, typically favouring the ap-proach with the longest track record except inmore severe cases.Where oral anti-inflammatories fail, steroid injec-tions (cortisone) have been standard treatment sincethe 1950s, targeting directly the inflammation of thejoint lining that eventually leads to cartilage and bonedamage. Where cortisone fails, the waiting list forjoint replacement has often been the next recourse.Hyaluronic acid injections, marketed as Synvisc®in Canada by Genzyme since 1997, are a “viscosup-plementation” treatment aimed at replacing thenaturally occurring molecule hyaluronan, secretedin diminishing quantities over time by our cartilage.Derived from eggshell membrane proteins, it offersthe possibility of delaying the need for joint surgery.Its use is also widespread as a filler for scar reduc-tion procedures, replacing shorter-lived collagen in-jections, and as a scaffolding material forcutting-edge tissue cloning and organ regenerationfrom stem cells.Because of its widespread use in surgery and itsmimicry of naturally secreted molecules, hyaluronicacid’s safety is not as much of an issue as its effec-tiveness versus cortisone or placebo. Clinical studieshave been mixed, but a systematic literature reviewfor the journal of the College of Family Physicians ofCanada, looking at five case series and thirteen ran-domized controlled trials, concluded that hyaluronicacid “appears to have a slower onset of action thanintra-articular steroids but the effects seem to lastlonger,” and that higher concentrations showed moreconsistent results in terms of pain relief and im-proved function. Effects of hyaluronic acid beginafter one to three months and last up to a year, com-pared with cortisone injections, which act morequickly but lose effectiveness after three months.Biologic Response Modifiers (BRMs) are a class ofdrugs whose novelty is discernible from their genericnames – Enbrel (etanercept), Remicade (infliximab),

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There must be a federal election by October 2009,or sooner if the Harper government falls on aconfidence motion in the Commons.In most Canadian federal elections there is no bigissue. The major parties dive for the centre ground,leaving notmuch substantive difference between partyplatforms.Canadian voters, I would guess,make theirdecision on what they think of the leaders. Are theytrustworthy, fair, competent, comfortable in theirskins? Charisma is not a factor in current federalelections because no leader has much of it.There hasn’t been a big issue in a federal contestsince the Free Trade election of 1988. Could the nextfederal election be decided on a big issue?Itmightwell be.The issue currently beingweighedonits pros and cons in party backrooms is the carbon tax.The rationale behind a carbon tax is quite straight-forward: that we should tax less the things we wantmore of (work, savings, and investments) and taxmore the things we want less of (pollution,greenhouse gas emissions, smog and waste). Theintention of a carbon tax is to reduce emissions ofcarbon dioxide and slow global warming. Such a taxcan be implemented by taxing the burning of fossilfuels – coal and petroleum products such as gasoline,aviation fuel and natural gas – in proportion to theircarbon content.This direct taxation is transparent. It can bepopular with the public if it’s revenue-neutral – inother words, if the revenue from the carbon tax is

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and put every single penny back into the hands ofCanadians through the right tax cuts.”Dion said jurisdictions like British Columbia,which will bring in the first carbon tax in NorthAmerica this summer, have taken the lead in amovement he hopes will “sweep the nation.”The latest polls show that 72 per cent of Canadianswould support some form of carbon tax.The Liberal leader also praised Quebec, whichimposed a carbon-based tax last fall that pumpsrevenues back into programs supporting greentechnology.The bigger fear among his own caucus members isthat Mr. Dion, who at the best of times is not a greatcommunicator in either official language, will beunable to sell his idea in 30 seconds at the door duringan election campaign. One caucus member put theproblem this way:“Voters do not want to hear how tobuild a watch, they just want to know the time.”But the Liberal leader is planning his carboncampaign carefully. He has already dispatched 30-year-old rookie Ontario MP Navdeep Bains to sellthe idea over this summer to young people.One of his staff members, Nick Gzowski – son ofthe late broadcaster Peter Gzowski – has produced aTV ad about climate change inspired by the MakePoverty History campaign, in which film stars areseen snapping their fingers. In the carbon ad, LiberalMPs are featured clapping. Dion says, “We’re up tothe challenge... Are you?”There’s no question that Dion and the Liberals areplaying a high-risk game. There’s also no questionthat a bold policy to improve the environment andbecome a world leader in climate change could wellengage the imagination of the Canadian voter, andbe a political winner to boot.It depends whether the Liberal leader can clearlyexplain the time, and not get bogged down trying tobuild a watch.


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The Council for Black Aging is celebrating 20 yearsof helping black seniors receive health care and so-cial services. In honour of their anniversary, theCouncil will host a dinner and dance Saturday, July 5, from 7 pm to 2 am, at 2741 Notre-Dame W.

The Council was formed in 1987 as an informalcommittee of concerned individuals who wanted tomake Montreal institutions more accessible to blackseniors who had difficulty obtaining services be-cause of emotional and cultural misunderstandings.

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but built of wood. Another persondeclared that it depended on yourorigins and that while Ontarianstended to opt for the word porch,Quebec Anglos were prone to saygallery. Veranda was thought to be aword from India, thus the insistence onit being covered and possibly screened.Itwas an interesting albeit inconclusiveconversation and I am happy to say itendedwithout toomuch rancourhavingbeen unleashed. Since I had started thecontroversy by my initial innocuousdeclaration of it being a veranda, andsince I was the supposed “languageexpert,” I was given the burden ofinvestigating this semantic debate.Here are my findings:I feel confident asserting that theassembled revellers were not revellingon a balcony. The Canadian OxfordDictionary (COD) describes balcony asa “usually balustraded platform on theoutside of a building, with access froman upper-floor window or door” andthe Encarta World English Dictionarydescribes it as“aplatformprojecting fromthe interior or exteriorwall of a building,usually enclosed by a rail or a parapet.”But after eliminating balcony,mattersbecome fuzzy.TheOxford Guide to Canadian Usage(OGCU) has this entry for porch,veranda, patio, deck: “A porch can belarge or small, covered or uncovered.Thus the term porch can be applied tothe structures that some people calleither verandas or stoops. Verandausually labels a structure that is quitegrand, attached to a large, elegant house.

Patio and deck are newerterms, describing morerecent additions todomestic architecture.Unlike porches, they aregenerally attached to aback or side entrance;neither is normally roofed.A patio is usually stone or

cement, while a deck is made of wood;both are large enough to allow severalpeople to sit in a group.”However, this entry does not addressthe regionality of these terms. TheCOD defines veranda from Hindivaranda, from Portuguese varanda,“railing,” as a “usually roofed porch orexternal gallery along one or moresides of a house, especially the front,”but it adds that in Australia and NewZealand it refers to “a roof over asidewalk in front of a shop.” If that isn’tconfusing enough, the COD’s firstdefinition of “porch” is “a coveredshelter for the entrance of a house,” butits second definition adds, “NorthAmerica, a veranda.” Also, a porchoriginally only referred to a coveredentrance affording protection, but inmany North American locales the termwould be widely used to refer to all butthe largest verandas.Excluded from the OCGU variety ofporch was the term gallery. The CODstates that in North America,particularly Quebec, Newfoundlandand the Gulf States, this is “a veranda,especially one surrounding a buildingon all sides.”In conclusion I will say that oneman’s veranda is another woman’sgallery is another guy’s porch…

Howard Richler will be attending theRuth Richler Memorial Lecture, AgingGracefully and Gratefully, Sunday,June 8 at 8 pm at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom. He can be reached [email protected].


One man’s veranda is another woman’s gallery is another guy’s porchDuring a recent party at a friend’ssummer home overlooking the St.Lawrence, I commented that the“veranda commanded a magnificentview of the river.”This anodyne declaration drew therebuke of another guest who insistedthat we were standing on a“porch”nota “veranda.” The hostess then saidrather firmly,“you’re both wrong. It’s agallery.”A spirited discussion then ensued.

Some people were insistent that averanda must be covered, while aporch need not be. To complicatematters even further, one personaverred that since the said veranda/porch was built well above the ground,why couldn’t it be referred to as abalcony or a deck? Here at last wereached some sort of consensus andmost of the attendees felt a balcony wassomething quite different and a deckwas at ground level, similar to a patio

The Word NerdHoward Richler

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Saturday, June 21,LesAlimentsM&Mand HudsonVillage Theatre offer anexpress train trip to the premiere ofthemusicalAll Grown Up, kicking offthe theatre’s 16th Summer Season.Written by Leslie Mildiner, Lori Val-

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Festival Lanaudière — music and so much moreKristine Berey

Montrealers must count their cul-tural blessings. Just as the greatly an-ticipated Jazz Fest winds down,another international music festivaldedicated to classical music opens,less than an hour away from the city.Now celebrating its 31st season, the

Festival Lanaudière has presented in-door and outdoor concerts performedby international artists in its spectac-ular Amphitheatre and beautiful her-itage churches, some of which dateback to the 17th Century. Though thefestival’s program has blossomed fromeight concerts in 1977 to 26 this July,the organizers’ vision to create “a placewhere a large audience can listen tobeautiful music performed by thegreatest musicians remains intact.”This year an array of activities are

geared toward young people makingthe festival an ideal opportunity forfamilies to spend time together andbuild a lasting love of music in theiryoungest members.The festival begins Saturday, July 5

with a resounding rendition ofCarmina Burana, Carl Orff ’s greatestmasterpiece that grandchildren willrecognize as the unmistakable inspira-tion for the soundtrack of the videogame Final Fantasy I. The score calls forfour choirs and a symphony orchestra –200 musicians performing together.Opera lovers won’t want to miss the

150th anniversary of Puccini’s birth,which the festival will honour withperformances of his great arias, from

La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly,and Turandot on Friday, July 11.Fledgling ornithologists will enjoy

learning that the great composerOlivier Messiaen loved birds so muchthat he actually recorded their songsand wove them into his music. All themusic performed on Saturday, July 12will be devoted to birds, and will in-clude Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques,Stravinsky’s Firebird, and Saint-Saens’Le rossignol et la rose.Afternoon activ-ities are free and will include a soundinstallation by Oswaldo Macia, anopen rehearsal of the night’s concertwith commentary, and an onsite exhi-bition of birds of prey. The eveningconcert will be accompanied by thewinning entries in the bird photo con-test organized by the Festival and theRegroupement QuebecOiseaux.Little astronomers can be fascinated

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along the St. Lawrence, featuring aboat trip to the Lac-Saint-Pierre Ar-chipelago, a unique nature reserve rec-ognized as a biosphere by UNESCO

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Saturday, June 7 from 12:30 – 3:30 pm, St. Mary’sChurch holds British Afternoon Tea with a bake sale,raffle, and door prizes, $10. Tea is in support of theWalk to End Breast Cancer at 735 Miller in Green-field Park. Info: 450-923-4879 or 450-672-8442Sunday, June 8, the Zoological Society of Montrealleads a field trip to Johnville Bog and Forest Park.$55. Info: 514-845-8317 or zoologicalsocietymtl.orgSunday, June 8 at 9:30 am, the Beth Zion Men’sClub presents Dr. Mitch Shulman discussing Every-thing you ever wanted to know about the EmergencyRoom but were afraid to ask. Breakfast and lecturefollow morning services at 5740 Hudson, Côte St-Luc. Info: 514-489-8411 x 24 or bethzion.comSaturday, June 14 at 1:30 pm, Branch 94 of theRoyal Canadian Legion holds its monthly CribbageTournament at 205 Empire, Greenfield Park. Reg-istration from 11:30 am – 1 pm. $10. Limited space.Info: 450-465-0845

Saturday, June 14 at 4 pm, the Royal Canadian Le-gion of Verdun holds its Pub Night serving fish andchips, with games, music and door prizes, at 4538Verdun (métro Verdun). $6. Info: 514-769-2489Tuesday, June 17 from 7:15 am – 10 pm, Concor-dia’s Centre for Canadian Irish Studies holds a groupfield trip to The Irish Memorial, with an island tourby noted Irish Quebec historian Marianna O’Gal-lagher. $65 covers bus and ferry. Info: 514-848-8711or cdnirish.concordia.caTuesday, June 17, St. Patrick’s Society holds its 13th

Annual Golf Tournament at the Bellevue Golf Club.$120 covers green fees, golf cart, dinner and wine.Info: 514-481-1346Thursday, June 19 at 11 am,Helvetia Seniors Clubholds its “All Swiss” lunch at Monkland Grill NDG.Info: 514-481-2928Saturday, June 21 at 9:30 am, the Montreal UrbanHikers Walking Club invites walkers to explore l’Ilede la Visitation Park. $15. Confirm before June 14.Info: 514-366-8340Thursday, June 26, the National Council of JewishWomen of Canada travels toQuebec City andThurs-day, July 3 to the Hudson Village Theatre as part oftheir summer trip festival. Info: 514-733-7589

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TheNewHopeSeniorCitizens’Centre,nowenter-ing its 29th year, is recruitingmembers and volun-teers and will be holding a barbeque and openhouseWednesday, June 18 at 11 am.Currently 150 members participate in weekly artclasses, discussions, trivial pursuit and bingo.Mandated to alleviate seniors’ isolation, the centre,with a staff of three, currently has 85 senior volun-teers. Meals on Wheels is New Hope’s largest out-reach program in NDG, delivering 70 hot mealsthree times a week.Community lunches are also served three times aweek. The volunteer chef cooks four days a week,serving 125 hot meals each day.“NewHope is like home to everybody,” says GerryLafferty, the centre’s Executive Director. “I’ve beenhere for two years and this is such a positive place. It’slike a big family.”New Hope Senior Citizens’ Centre is at 6225Godfrey. The barbeque will be partially sponsoredby Les Aliments M&M on Somerled.Info: 514-484-0425

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Talking toSusanFreedman is like talk-ing to an old friend. The last time wespoke was just before the MontrealFringe five years ago. At the time wespoke about her second play SixtyWith More Lies About My Weight, ti-tled after her first play in 1999 entitledFifty-Seven and Still Lying About MyWeight. Now she’s back with less of avengeance in her third installment,Sixty Four and No More Lies, and asshe put it on the phone from herhome inVancouver, she’s “a bit morethoughtful and vulnerable.”“Aftermyothershows,peoplewouldsay,‘she has no problems,’but after this one,they’re going to say, ‘she has problems.’”Freedman has just turned 66 butkept the title because she wrote theplay two years ago.Although we are seven years apart,Susan and I share the same worries.“Physical problemsaredefinitely apartofaging – and a part of the show,” she said.And then, there are“the kids”(actually intheir 30s) and how they talk to us and“react” to everything – or over-react.“They can only act like kids with us,”Freedman says. “They do it when

they’re 30 or 35 because, in lots ofcases, they’re still single and at theirage,we were probablymarried and hada kid. This generation is very different.“You can’t say a goddamn thing be-cause everything you say is wrong,” shesays. “If you say things that upsetthem, they respond, and everythingyou say upsets them.”In her third 45-minute one-womanshow coming to the Fringe this June,Freedman will “ruminate on life” inthe context of feeling chest pains.After blood work and X-rays, beingangry at her husband and kids about notbeingthere forher,andrationalizingabouthowthepainmustbe fromsomethingshedid at the gym, her character reminiscesabouther lifeandmakes“strongreferencesto the rocks in the path.”What does this theatrical expert onaging say about other relationshipssuch as marriage?“I’m an incorrigible optimist,” shesays. “I’ve been married three times.You realize it’s about letting things go.Not reacting to everything.”Like our kids do.Sixty Four and No More Lies is at theFringe June 13 to 22 at Geordie Space,4001 Berri. Tickets are $9.

e physical stuff, the kids, and relationships at 64… or is it 66?

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What is there about bags and ladies,especially old ladies, that go to-gether? Three women “of a certainage” explore this theme in their playThree Old Bags, playing at theFringe Festival this month.“We all knew each other and wewanted to do something together,” saidGissa Israel, one of the threeactors/writers, from her home inKnowlton. Israel and her contempo-raries, PinaMacku and Emma Stevens,all in their 60s, performed the play atTheatre Lac-Brome last summer. Thecharacters they play are in their 80s.Could this be because these actors don’tsee themselves as “old bags?” Only thedirector,MaryHarvey, is a“young bag,”Israel said.

“We carry our life in our bags,” Israelsaid of the double-entendre theme,which includes the notion of bagladies. But Israel doesn’t see the con-notations as negative.The message is hopeful, she said.“These three characters never give up.Each one has a situation in their livesthat would make her want to give up.“The hope is that there’s a renewedinterest in life. It’s about renewal andit’s about friendship.”Bring your bags to the performances

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Shelburne Farms is a 1400-acre working farm,National Historic Landmark, and non-profit or-ganization committed to teaching sustainabilityand the conservation of natural and agriculturalresources.The property is open until October 19 and

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Viva VermontUntil June 27, at the heart of the Art’sAlive Festival of Fine Art is the exhi-bition at the Art’s Alive Gallery atMain Street Landing’s Union Station,on Burlington’s scenic waterfront.The exhibition shows work by festivalartists and is the location of the open-ing reception and awards ceremonyon Sunday, June 7. The gallery is openMonday through Friday from 8 am -8 pm and Saturday from 9 am – 4 pm.

Tuesday, June 17 to Saturday, June28, Saint Michael’s Playhouse pres-ents the high-flying Broadway musi-cal Barnum about Phineas TaylorBarnum, directed and choreographedby Keith Andrews.With music by Cy Coleman, lyrics

by Michael Stewart, and book byMark Bramble, this Tony Award win-ning tale of the legendary showmanpromises thrilling circus performers,slapstick clowns, circus-ring stagingand buoyant songs. Saint Michael’s islocated in the McCarthy Arts Centeron the campus of Saint Michael’sCollege in Colchester, only minutesaway from downtown Burlington.Info: 802-654-2281 or 802-654-2617or saintmichaelsplayhouse.org

Saturday, July 5 from 10 am – 4 pm,artists will display work and givedemonstrations on Main Street inNewport. Members of the Mem-phremagog Arts Collaborative andvisiting artists celebrate the 4th ofJuly during the Annual DowntownChowderfest on 167 Main, Newport.Info: 802-505-1265 ormemphremagogartscollaborative.com

Sunday, June 22, The Green Moun-tain Opera Festival stages La Traviataat the Barre Opera House, 6 NorthMain, Barre. Info: 802-496-7722 orgreenmountainoperafestival.com

Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June28 from 11 am – 9 pm and Sunday,June 29 from 11 am – 6 pm,Vermontholds its favorite family-orientedfeeding frenzy. The 23rd annual GreenMountain Chew Chew Food andMusic Festival features 30 restau-rants, caterers and Vermont foodproducers. Each will serve three oftheir most tantalizing taste treats.The festival is held in downtownBurlington’s magnificent waterfrontpark, right on the shores of LakeChamplain. Info: 802-864-6674 orgreenmountainchewchew.com

Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28from 9 am – 6 pm and Sunday, June29 from 9 am – 3 pm, it’s New Eng-land’s oldest and largest quilt event,the Vermont Quilt Festival at theChamplain Valley Exposition, 105Pearl, Route 15 in Essex Junction.Enjoy over 400 beautiful quilts on dis-play, shop in over 80 booths brim-ming with quilts, fabrics, gift itemsand more, and choose from over 80classes and lectures. Take part in thecontest awards ceremony and theChampagne and Chocolate PreviewThursday, June 26 and have yourtreasured quilts appraised on Satur-day. Info: 603-444-7500 or vqf.org

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New York EventsTuesday, June 10 to Thursday, June 12, the Heart ofthe Park Antique Show & Sale features Adirondack-ania items, plateware, jewelry, furniture, framedprints and lithographs at Long Lake Central School,Route 30, Long Lake. Info: 518-624-3077

Thursday, June 12 to Sunday, June 15, the LakePlacid Film Forum offers film screenings, discus-sions and master classes. Info: 518-523-3456

Saturday, June 14 to Sunday June 15, LARAC ArtsFestival takes place at City Park on Glen Street inGlens Falls. The event is wheelchair accessible.Info: 518-798-1144

Friday, June 20 to Sunday, June 22, the 4th Adiron-dack Birding Festival celebrates the Boreal Birds of theAdirondacks in County Wide, Lake Pleasant, featur-ing canoe trips, walks, outings and seminars. Regis-tration required. Info: 518-548-3076

Friday, June 27 to Sunday, June 29, Lake GeorgeSummer Fest presents music, food, crafts, boats andmore at Shepard Park on Canada Street.Wheelchairaccessible. Info: 518-668-2688

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the Westbranch Gallery presents Be There BeSquare, an exhibition featuring square works at17 Towne Farm Lane. Info: 802-253-8943 orwestbranchgallery.com

Thursday, June 12 to Saturday, June 14, the Ver-mont International Choral Festival featureschoirs from across the United States, Canada andEurope. The performers will present individualconcerts in various community settings. Satur-day, June 15, 7 pm, Robert de Cormier directsThe Massed Sing performance, at the StoweChurch. Info: 802-862-2200 or 802-863-5966 ormusic-contact.com

Friday, June 13 from 12 pm – 3 pm, theBurlington Garden Club presents Growing To-gether, a National Garden Club Small StandardFlower Show, including designs created by Fed-erated Garden Club members. Learn aboutperennials, bulbs, arboreal and house plantsgrown in the area. Show takes place at the FaithUnited Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St.(south of I-89 overpass) in South Burlington.Info: 802-658-4061 or 802-373-4058

Thursday, July 17 to Sunday, July 20, a four-daywine tasting event takes place at Killington Re-sort. Sample wines from around the world.Events include educational seminars, live musicand a gala wine dinner. Info: 800-337-1928 orkillingtonchamber.com

Open 7 days a week year-round, Dakin Farm onRoute 7 in Ferrisburgh and 100 Dorset in SouthBurlington offers Vermont’s finest cob-smokedham, aged cheddar cheese, and pure maplesyrup, with free samples and ongoing exhibits.Info: dakinfarm.com

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Break the silenceTheNDGCommunityCommittee onElder Abuse is raising awarenessabout the abuse and victimization ofseniors, a subject many people con-sider taboo.“With elder abuse incidents contin-

ually on the rise, there is an absoluteurgency to raise awareness and preventthis phenomenon from escalating fur-ther,” says Maxine Lithwick, Head ofthe Elder Abuse Prevention Programat the Centre de santé et de services so-ciaux Cavendish.From neglect and emotional abuse

to financial exploitation and physical in-timidation, elder abuse takesmany formsandWest Island community groups arecoming together to bring greater vigi-lance and attention to the issue.

Elder Abuse Awareness Day will takeplace at the Cavendish Mall Wednes-day, June 11 from 1 - 4 pm in collabo-ration with the Centre-West Seniors’Committee and the Elder Abuse Con-sultation Team of the Centre de santéet de services sociaux Cavendish.Workshops will cover telemarketing

fraud, challenges of Alzheimer’s Dis-ease, and the impact of elder abuse onsociety.The day’s activities include enter-

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Part of the Association des PlusBeaux Villages du Québec, Knowltonis 100 km from Montreal and ismostly English-speaking. Loyalistsfrom New England founded the Vic-torian-style town in 1821. This ex-plains the village’s British flavour,notable as soon as you get there.OnKnowlton Road we see the town’s

three churches – Anglican, Catholicand United – which were all built soonafter the town’s founding.In the summer, outdoor and indoor

activities take over the town. There areband concerts at the Gazebo, paintingexhibitions, English plays at the LakeBrome Theatre, a wedding dress exhi-bition, from June 1 – 3 , and a tractorpull competition from July 18 – 20.The local theatre will present Inti-

mate Exchanges July 5, Richard Donatreads Stephen Leacock July 12, Let’s beFrank July 19, Woodswalker July 25,The 25th Century Belongs to CanadaJune 28, and The Dik and Mitzi An-niversary Show August 8.Each Labor Day weekend an agricul-

tural fair established in 1856 takesplace near Knowlton over four days.Brome Fair has talent shows, horses,cattle judging, attractions and rides, amagician, local band shows, and a 4x4truck pull contest.The major outside activity is the

Brome Lake Duck Fest during the lasttwo weekends of September from 11am – 5 pmwhen the town closes its two

main streets to celebrate. The festivalwelcomes visitors from Quebec, On-tario,Vermont andNewYork for a totalof 50,000 people over the two week-ends. They can taste the duck, specialdishes and local products like jams,wine, cheese and honey. Duck-relatedsouvenirs are available in the majorityof the stores and outdoor stands.The Auberge Knowlton Inn starts at

$120 per room,with two country-stylebreakfasts for just $15 more. The innoffers its guests 10% off at its restau-rant Le Relais. Attached to the inn, ithas an old-style ambiance, looking likea decorated barn with wooden tablesand chairs. Themenu consists of steak,chicken, seafood, and of course duck-ling, with prices varying from $18 to$30.All the wine served is locally madein vineyards around the Lake.Downtown is comprised of Lakeside

Street and Knowlton Road where thestores, cafés, restaurants, antique storesand accomodations are found.Knowlton changes depending on the

season in which you visit it. In thespring, multicoloured flowers hangeverywhere and in the summer every-one is outside. Autumn gives a mag-nificent view of the colourful trees, andin winter they’re lit up by lights andChristmas ornaments.Knowlton is a perfect escape for a

taste of the country, boasting a greatdeal of diversion on a reasonablebudget and is well worth a visit anytime of year.Jessie Archambault is a Dawson student.

One of the prettiest villagesin Quebec

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Here Be Monsters at the Château RamezayThe love-hate relationship between people and thesea from the 15th century is the subject of the ex-hibition Here Be Monsters, presented by theChâteau RamezayMuseum until October 19.Adapted from an exhibition created by La CorderieRoyale Centre International de la Mer in Rochefort,France,Here Be Monsters takes you on a voyage thatplummets to the depths of human imagination andthe deep blue sea. To early explorers, the sea was aworld without landmarks and inhabited by mon-sters, threatening tempest, sickness and piracy.The first obstacle settling the Americas was whenthe sea put its stamp on the cultural identity of Que-bec. From the shores of Europe to the banks of the St.Lawrence,maps, charts, travel accounts, cutlasses, andfigureheads reveal the secrets of this hostile universe.The Château Ramezay Museum is in Old Mon-treal, east of Place Jacques-Cartier and across fromMontreal City Hall. Info: 514-861-3708 x 225

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Peter Smith can’t recall which camefirst – swinging a golf club or dab-bing the paintbrush. But one thing iscertain: the precision of his putt is atpar with his painting.

Both have played an integral part inhis life for the past 35 years. His pursuitsof the perfect landscape to paint and theperfect golf course to play on have ledhim to the four corners of the world.Combining both while traveling, heclaims that the game of golf is not thatfar removed from the art of painting.

“I’m always looking for perfectionwhether it’s in the stroke on the golfcourse or the stroke of a paintbrush oncanvas. Inevitably, I rarely find thatperfection, yet I know it’s there. Inboth, I have to envisage and imaginewhat I’m striving for,” he says, havinggolfed and painted landscapes in 37countries. He has produced hundredsof paintings now hanging in galleriesand private collections all over the

world, but you need not travel far toenjoy the picturesque views he hascaptured – his paintings can be seen invarious store windows on Monklandand of course in his studio, where pri-vate collectors gather.

Although he is an award-winninggolfer and writer – having published15 books on golf and 14 on travel, pluscountless articles – Smith is far moreintent on talking about the challengesof painting.

“A painting is not like a photograph,which represents what the eye sees. Apainting is what the heart sees. I try tocapture that sense of enjoyment ratherthan a mere photographic image.”

He succeeds exquisitely. His paintingshave a striking quality of tranquility andtimelessness. His vast azure skies are asinteresting as the demure trees that giveway to the powerful horizon abovethem.Nothing goes unnoticed by Smith– just as his eagle eye helps nail a nine-iron, so too does it hone in on the mi-nutest of details destined for his

landscapes. Look at his leaning boats inthe painting Side by Side. It all seems ef-fortless, yet every shadow, texture andcolour is filled with detail. No matter thescene,each has an inherently neat,almostmanicured look. The effect is calming.

“For me, painting is a very peacefulactivity that at the same time demandsconcentration, just like golf. Interest-ingly, both involve strategies. With

golf, I have an end in mind and to getthe score I want, I need to use differ-ent tools and a plan according to theterrain and weather conditions. Simi-larly for a painting, I know how Iwould like it to look. The art is inachieving that end, through techniqueand feeling without compromisingspontaneity.”

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Since its inception in 1954, SunYouthhas always worked hand in hand withthe Montreal Police to make our com-munity safer for everyone, young andold alike. In 1984 our organizationstarted its Bike Patrol Unit, com-prised of 6 patrollers working withthe officers of one single station, theold Montreal Police Station 17(which has since then become theFirefighters museum).Now 24 years later, 30 patrollers will

once again act as the eyes and ears ofthe Montreal Police in the city’s parksand playgrounds, on bike paths and onmain streets. ThroughoutMontreal Is-land, patrollers will work in teams oftwo, with each team assigned to a dif-ferent neighbourhood police station ina total of 11 districts. For 6 of the pa-trollers, whose ages range from 14 to17, this will be their first working ex-perience. Hired as part of the “Teenson Patrol” unit, each will be pairedwith a senior patroller in a mentor-to-tutor relationship.The entire crew will be introduced to

the public on June 4th at the officialswearing in ceremony. Distinguishedguests will be in attendance, includingInspector Marco Carriera and Com-manderAlainLarivière,aswell as govern-ment representatives and city officials.Prior to the ceremony, patrollers willreceiveCPR training and a bicycle safetycourse from a longtime partner of SunYouth, Sergeant Pascal Richard.For the second summer in a row, the

Sun Youth bike patrol will work inpartnership with the CN Police toevaluate the number of people cross-ing over the CN railway outside of des-ignated areas, a dangerous behaviorthat CN Police officers are trying toeliminate. Bike patrollers will also have

a mandate to keep a close watch forpeople using their wireless phoneswithout hands-free devices while driv-ing. As of July 1 this will carry a $115fine plus a penalty of three license de-merit points.Throughout summer the patrol will

represent Sun Youth at many publicevents. Génie Vélo, a series of bikesafety workshops for children, will bepresented in association with theMontreal Police, with Sun Youth pa-trollers taking part in different crimeprevention projects.As in past years, the Bike Patrol will

pay special attention to senior citizens.Visits will be made to residential andlong term care centers, bringing com-pany and conversation to residents.During heat waves, the patrollers willgive advice to seniors on how to staycool. Patrollers will also be dispensinghome safety tips.Sun Youth and the Montreal Police

recently introduced a new member ofthe Force. His name is Flik! and he isthe newmascot of the SPVM.He is re-placing the former mascot, his fatherPolinours, who is retiring after 30 yearsof loyal service. The name of this newfurry friend was chosen in a contestwon by 9-year-old Nina McGregor, astudent from the Gerald McShaneSchool in Montreal-North. She hasbeen rewarded by Sun Youth with abrand new fully-equipped mountain

bike, in addition to being named Po-lice Officer for a Day. As for our pa-trollers, they will once again be usingSchwinn bicycles donated by Dorel In-dustries. All patrollers are equippedwith a first aid kit, blanket and Sun

Youth teddy bears. Each team is alsoequipped with walkie-talkies to com-municate with the Sun Youth head-quarters and with one another. TheSun Youth Bike Patrol will be activeuntil August 15.

The Sun Youth patrollers will be supporting the 100 members of theMontreal Police Bicycle Patrol. In this photo: our patrollers surroundedby Agent Cédric Lafrenière (left) and Sergeant Pascal Richard (right).

Patrollers Vanessa Di Tullio (left) and Rubens Ernest (right) posealongside Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme at an event

highlighting National Police Week.

Sun Youth’s new partner in crime… prevention!The Montreal Police’s new mascot Flik! surroundedby Inspector Sylvain Lemay, Nina McGregor, Directorof Sun Youth’s Crime Prevention Helio Galego andPolinours, the former SPVM mascot.

Sun Youth teams up with the MontrealPolice for a 24th consecutive summer

Here at Sun YouthNicolas Carpentier

While traveling on a cruise holiday afew years ago, I noticed that one of themost popular T-shirts for sale was asimple stylized kind with the slogan“Bank of Dad”boldly emblazoned ontop of a bank machine. I thought it tobequiteamusing,howevermy12-year-old daughter was even more amusedand insisted that I purchase it.It amazed me how she understood,

although in jest, the significance of thetraditional male role of providing for afamily and the expectations that herneeds would be met. Granted, that rolehas changed somewhatover the yearsbutstill, formostof usmen, it is a reality.Thatrole often continues evenwhen our ownchildrenaregrownandstill dependingonus financially for one reason or another.When hardship comes calling who elsecan you depend on but good old Dad?

Unfortunately for some of us, therole of provider can be seriously im-pacted due to an unexpected eventsuch as illness, accident, or in the worstcase imaginable, death.Fortunately there are some very sim-

ple solutions to ensure that everythingwill be covered should the need arise.It is always a good idea to have ade-

quate disability, critical illness, and lifeinsurance. As we go through life ourneeds change and we should periodi-cally review each component to ensurethat the family’s well-being will belooked after. In fact, as we approach theretirement years, there are some newinnovative products that take all theworry and risk out of whether you willoutlive your retirement money, thusensuring that the “Bank of Dad” neverruns out of cash!As Father’s Day approaches, sit back

and enjoy how much you are appreci-ated by others and what impact yourefforts have made in the lives of yourchildren and significant others, anddon’t forget that this is a day to relaxand treat yourself.


Enjoy the moment: embrace the experienceCaregivers tell me about shared laughter and spe-cial moments with the person they’re caring for.But most articles emphasize the stress related tocaregiving. What about the tears of laughter andwarm loving times?Caregivers will be more likely to find these special

times if they learn to balance their lives, are membersof support groups and are able to ask for help.Over-worked and exhausted caregivers who insist on doingeverything themselves will be less likely to experiencethese times. How sad. Stress robs us of our ability tobe clear-headed and make smart choices.The spouse who feels committed to care for their

loved one without any outside help,whether it be outof love, loyalty or obligation, will often end up burntout and unable to enjoy special moments. They havethe least to offer their loved ones with regard to qual-ity of life. They tend to the necessary tasks, but theydeplete their energy by not enlisting help. This leavesthem with little if anything to offer in terms of love,kindness, understanding, and warmth.I have met many cognitively-impaired individuals

who have a great sense of humour and interestingstories to share. They communicate through touchand facial expressions, beautiful music and art. Al-thoughAlzheimer’s robs the person of many of theirabilities, their essence is still present.

The individual may respond inappropriately to sit-uations, but a good caregiver may be able to find away to make the most of an awkward experience.Alzheimer’s is a long and difficult journey and dif-ferent stages will bring different behaviours.A friend told me that her mother now enjoys

singing old crooner tunes with her and eating icecream cones – experiences they haven’t shared inyears. Yet clothes shopping, which they used to love,has become a bore. As a caregiver you need to beflexible enough to adapt to new experiences.Those of uswithmost of our cognitive abilities intact

find living in themoment a difficult if not impossibletask. But a person withAlzheimer’s livesmostly in themoment – their memory impairment prevents themfrom remembering yesterday, and tomorrow doesn’texist for them. Howmany of us are able to do this? Ifthere’s no concern about what others think about us,

that’s truly living in the moment.Someone with Alzheimer’s may start singing or

dancing in the middle of the street while peoplestare. This is a joyful time for them. The question iswhether the caregiver can join in or try to stop thebehaviour out of embarrassment. A good momentshared is a joyful time. Allow yourself to enter themoment. Remember who the person you are caringfor was before the illness and get to know the per-son he or she is now.

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June is bursting out all over… How clever of myparents to have let me enter this world in June, themonth of roses, strawberries and romance.As a little girl I loved my birthdays, couldn’t waitfor them, and counted the days.My unwrapped gifts,carefully displayed on a white damask tablecloth,with a big bunch of sweet-smelling garden roses inthe middle – the special gift frommy father – are anunforgettable memory. I would have birthday par-ties for my friends in the afternoon with hot choco-late and fancy little cakes, and quite often my fatherwould come home from work early to celebrate.After everybody had left I’d preserve some of the softcool rose petals in one of the books I had received. Itwas all about fun and gifts then. Now I know I amcelebrating the gift of another year of life.It’s gifts I want to talk about. So often it’s hard tofind the right one, even for one’s best friends. Mymother habitually exchanged every gift she ever re-ceived – it was a family joke. Her presents werehanded over with a grin and the comment,“You canexchange it.”I have given the wrong gifts from time to time andone instance stands out with some discomfort. Ithought that a friend who collects shells and lovesthem would enjoy Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book

Gift from the Sea. I was wrong. She obviously didn’tlike it. “That’s not my kind of book at all,” she com-mented. It upset me because it happens to be one ofmy favorite books. I had ordered it well in advanceand it took weeks to come. She couldn’t know that,of course, but the experience taught me to give bookgift certificates instead. One Christmas, I put a se-lection of fancy teas together for someone else. Itdidn’t hit the spot either. “You should know we donot drink tea” - I probably should have. In Englandhostesses are supposed to know who among theirfriends takemilk and even remember howmany tea-spoons of sugar are required, if any.Chocolates are a reasonable choice but the recipi-ent had better not be onWeightWatchers. It’s trickyto give Eau de Toilette to anyone – too personal.Scarves and belts are neutral – that is, if you know

the belt size. Gift certificates for movies or a spa maybe a good choice but could cost you more than youplanned to spend. A new gadget perhaps? I hategadgets I have to study unintelligible manuals for. Acolourful umbrella makes a nice present but not fora superstitious recipient, as they might with opalstones if not presented in October.What about vases,cushions, or photo frames? Perhaps boring but fairlysafe. Of course there are always flowers or lunch ordinner out, or an invitation to a concert or a well-reviewed play.The nicest present I ever received was from mychildren for my retirement: a shiny tiny Scottish ter-rier wrapped in a Scottish blanket with a large silkbow on top, resting in a cardboard box. I loved thatdog on sight but he was a biter. He followed mearound wherever I went and at news time wewatched together. Sadly one day he bit a child… Istill miss him! Hopefully, when I can no longertravel, I’ll make myself a present of another dog forunconditional and reciprocal love. In the meantime,I enjoy other people’s dogs.

Byron’s Summer Solstice literary & music cabaretAfter the Fringe is over, theatre buffswho need further entertainment canhead to the Atwater Library Friday,June 27 for Byron Toben’s third annualSummer Solstice week literary andmusic cabaret. It begins at 7:30 pm andfeatures talented local jazz, Celtic, andbossanova musicians. The centrepieceis a dramatic reading of GeorgeBernard Shaw’s witty and snappy one-

act play about travel and marriage, AVillage Wooing. Readers Pierre Lenoirand Laura Mitchell will appear as wellas Paul Serralheiro, music commenta-tor for The Senior Times.Admission is by voluntary charitabledonation. Past beneficiaries have in-cluded Breast Cancer Action Montrealand Meals onWheels.Info: [email protected]

Breast talkWednesday, June 11 at7:30 pm, Dr. Mark Basikand Marielle Labrie-Gauthier, N. discussBreast Cancer: the fears,the facts, the future, at theJewish General Hospital,3755 Côte-Ste-Catherine.Register at 7 pm.This lecture is part of theJGH Mini-Med Schoolseries.Info: 514-340-8222 x3280 or jgh.ca/minimed

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Sunday, June 8 at 8 pm, TempleEmanu-El-Beth Sholom presents thisyear’s Ruth Richler Memorial Lecture,Aging Gracefully And Gratefully withDr. Michael Dworkind.The lecture will start at 8:45 pm.

Tuesday, June 10 at 7 pm, ProfessorAlain Deneault, author of Noir Canadaspeaks about Canadian mining inAfrica at Concordia, room 760, 1455de Maisonneuve.Info: 514-846-0644

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Bookish EventsAtwater LibraryWednesday, June 11, 12:30 pm adven-turer Tony Robinson-Smith reads fromBack in 6 Years about traveling theworld without boarding an aircraft.

Wednesday, June 18, 12:30 pm authorWilliam Weintraub reads from CrazyAbout Lili, set in Montreal in the late1940s.1200 Atwater at Tupper.

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Côte Saint-Luc LibraryWednesday, June 11, 2 pm, TeresaAnuza presents the latest onAlzheimer’s Disease.

Thursday, June 12, 2 pm, Barbara andJack Rosenthal discuss their journey tothe ancient synagogues in India. $3.

Thursday, June 19, 7:30 pm, Bowserand Blue perform behind the library.Free. Rain date Sunday, July 6 at 4 pm.

Thursday, June 26, 7:30 pm, ThomasCorriveau speaks about his role in theGraff-Hyperliens exhibition.5851 Cavendish Blvd.

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Jewish Public LibraryThursday, June 19, 8 pm, the YiddishCafé convenes Israel@60, a celebrationof Yiddish poetry and song. The eventis sponsored by the Yetta FeldmanChmiel Endowment. Admission $10,$5 members and students. 5151 Côte-Ste-Catherine.

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The Faculty of Dentistry at McGillholds its annual Summer Dental Clinicfor adolescents and the disabled Tues-day, July 8 to Thursday, July 31. The clinic treats over 1000 patients atits undergraduate facility at the Mon-treal General Hospital. The goal is to reach out to those who

do not have access to dental services. The clinic offers services such ascleanings, examinations, X-rays,sealants, and fluoride applications car-ried out by senior dental students su-pervised by McGill instructors. Info: 514-934-8441, 10 am – 12 pmand 1 pm – 3 pm

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Saturday, June 7 and Saturday, June21 from 12 pm – 4 pm, Cause 4 PawsFeline Rescue holds adoption days forstray cats of all ages. All cats are steril-ized, vaccinated and tested. Multi Cafe,9760 Gouin W, Pierrefonds.Info: 514-684-4810

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Byron’s picks for the 18th Montreal Fringe FestivalByron Toben

This year the festival runs from Thursday, June 12to Sunday, June 22. Fringe goers can get a free copyof the program to decide which of the 37 freeevents and 89 paid events they wish to see. It’s bestto buy the six-show Gold Card for $50 or the 10-show Platinum Card for $80. Both have a $2 serv-ice charge.When the credit on the card runs out, itcan be exchanged for a beer at the Fringe Centraltent on the corner of St-Laurent and Rachel. Theaverage cost for individual tickets doesn’t typicallyrun higher than $9, plus a $2 service charge.Fasten your seat belts:ThreeOldBags,featured inthis issue,starsaccomplishedBritish ex-pats Emma Stephens and Mary Harvey.T.J. Dawe, a Vancouver based fringe circuit veteran,is involved in three shows this year.He performs a 90-minute monologue about personal mythology inTotem Figures, and also directs Teaching The Fringe,written and performed by Keir Cutler from West-mount. The show, part of his award-winning “teach-ing series,” depicts a Fringe audience memberreporting Cutler toManitoba authorities. The subjectof the play was a teacher harassing a teenage studentand the complainant confused the fictional characterwith the actor.Rather than suppressing the event,Keirmade a show out of it.Dishpig, also directed byDawe,is a one-person show featuring co-writer Greg Lan-ducci. Landucci portrays 15 restaurant employeesduring a summer spent scrubbing dishes.Songs of an Immigrant, written and performed by

Marni Rice of New York, tells the story of an Amer-ican woman whomoves to Paris with her accordionto perform“old style” chansons. Those in need of anEdith Piaf fix should make a beeline to this act.The Beekeepers, a Toronto production, brings backsome of the people from last year’s popular King of15 Island, plus hundreds of new but flighty friends.Please, no jokes about Fringe buzz.Between Takeoff & Landing, written and performedby Michael Walsh of New York, recounts his experi-ence of being stranded with 6000 passengers in Gan-der, Newfoundland on 9/11. His flight was fromDublin, so if you’re stuck for four days, who better tobe stuck with than a bunch of Irish folk? Walsh washere last year with the popular show If Tap ShoesCould Talk.The Tricky Part, a true story of trespass, forgivenessand redemption, comes all the way from SouthAfrica. Running close to 90 minutes, it is one of thelonger Fringe performances, so it is a bargain.Wonderbar, of Winnipeg and Toronto, starsBritain’s one and only Alex Dallas who is fondly re-membered here as one of the Sensible Footwearfemmes, a hit from the early years at the MontrealFringe (during a time when the NewYork showHighHeeled Women reigned there.) This show exploresthe world of glamour and international fraud.FindMeAPrimitiveMan, fromLondon,England,hasa British beauty tutoring minor members of the RoyalFamily in a“scintillating cocktail comedy and drama.”GREED, from Perth, Australia, is the tale of fourlives influenced by unbridled big G, in 1987. Sounds

like they have been influenced by Gordon Gecko’screed, ‘Greed is Good.’Jem Rolls: How I Stopped Worrying And Learnt To

Love The Mall has been described as “dynamic” and“innovative.” Jem, of Edinburgh, Scotland, performshis rapid-fire wordsmith performance as he startshis annual trek across the Canadian Fringe Empire.If you haven’t seen his show, you should. If you al-ready have, you’ll want to hear his new material.Sixty Four and No More Lies brings back SusanFreedman of Vancouver, with her series of shows in-spired by advancing years. Remember Sixty andMore Lies About MyWeight and Fifty Seven And StillLying About My Weight from previous years? Thisfunny girl has a sinecure here as she marches intoher 70s, 80s and, we hope, beyond. She is worth see-ing and that’s no lie.Mating Rituals of the Aging Cougar stars Toronto’sAndrea Thompson, as she takes the art of the spokenword back to its roots. Fans of spoken word maywant to see her as a bookend to Jem Rolls.Barry Smith’s Baby Book will have its premiere atthis year’s Fringe. It’s based on Smith’s obsessionwith documenting every detail of his existence. Hepresents a multimedia show of his own Fringe hits,Jesus in Montana and American Squatter.Boom is a one-person show about people andbombs. Andrew Conner, from Seattle, portrays amultitude of characters as a sentimental returningprodigal with a dangerous plan to revive a smalltown. His voice and body change at a dizzying pace.Info: 514-849-FEST ormontrealfringe.ca

Redemption through foolishness:e Wise Men of Chelm

Kristine Berey

Long before the rise in popularity ofalternativemedicine, it was known thatlaughter is good for the soul. In Jewishculture, humour has been more thantherapeutic – in a very real sense it hasbeen a lifesaver.Perhaps the sufferingthat underlies the humour thatmakesone laugh fromthedepthof one’s soul– the kind of laugh that draws tearsand provides an incredible feeling ofrelief and rejuvenationwhen it’s spent– is also the source of its strength.In Freud’sWit and Its Relation to the

Unconscious he notes: “The occurrenceof self-criticism as a determinant mayexplain how it is that a number of themost apt jokes… have grown up onthe soil of the Jewish popular life. Theyare stories created by Jews and directedagainst Jewish characteristics… I donot know whether there are manyother instances of a people making fun

to such a degree of its own character.”FromWednesday, June 11 to Thurs-

day, July 3, the Dora Wasserman Yid-dish Theatre will present TheWiseMenof Chelm, a collection of stories culledfrom Eastern European Jewish Folk-lore, set to music by Eli Rubinstein anddirected by Bryna Wasserman. Chelmis a mythical town populated by fool-ish people and thought by some to bethe home of the famous schlemiel, thatstock character of Jewish anecdotes.While the main characters are foolish,they convey the lasting wisdom ofbeing able to laugh at oneself.Supertitles make the original Yiddisheasy to understand for everyone.Showtimes are Monday to Thursdayat 8 pm, Saturdays at 9:30 pm, andSundays at 2 pm and 7 pm (exceptSunday, June 15 at 1:30 pm). $25 - $47(group rates available).Info: 514-739-7944or segalcentre.org

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Daou family serves up Lebanese cuisine with flairGisèle Rucker

MycompanionandIdrove toVille Saint-Laurent fora late afternoon lunchatDaouand foundanoasis ofcalm.Uponentering,weweregreetedbyGladys,oneof four co-owners of this family establishment.She led us into the dining area, a spacious room

flooded amply by daylight thanks to large windowstopped with draped valences. Smartly appointed ta-bles, covered in green and cream tablecloths, wereset with fine china sporting D for Daou. The cush-iony upholstered chairs signalled the Daou family’saim to ensure patrons the utmost comfort. Artisticphotographs of Beirut, nature and an Egyptian god-dess graced the room, whose ceiling bore a woodentrellis, reminiscent of a garden patio. Soft music ofMiddle Eastern strings allowed easy conversation.Daou offers an equal opportunity menu: there’s no

need for a magnifying glass to read the English ex-planation of classic Lebanese dishes. For the modestbudget, three-quarter of the dishes listed come inhalf orders; for the smaller appetite, there’s a pitasandwich or ½ plate of salads; and for the vegetarian,there’s a large selection of salads and cooked dishessuch as Foule médamas (fava beans) at $7.50 orFalafel (fried balls of crushed beans and chick peas),half order at $5.50 or full order at $7.95.The menu features grilled meats and fish, and the

restaurant is completely licensed, offering aperitifs,

spirits and liqueurs, or beers from $5.25 to $7.25.As we perused the menu, our waiter, Bassam,

brought us a little dish of pickled turnips of a lovelydeep pink colour and green olives with a basket offresh soft pita bread on the house.According to Bas-sam, Daou is a good place to work. He feels like he’spart of the family, having served at their restaurantsfor 16 years.Under Gladys’ guidance, we were treated to plenti-

ful half-orders of cool and warm appetizers:Fatouche is a mixed vegetable salad of diced toma-

toes, lettuce and parsley, onions, lemon and oil, at$7.50. Chopped parsley is visible and texturally in-tegral to the salad.A chopped baked pita, theMiddleEastern version of the French crouton, providesadded crunch to the fresh crispy vegetables, lightlytossed with oil and lemon. “It’s like spring in yourmouth,”my companion said. Bassam explained thatall the ingredients are freshly sliced and chopped foreach new order.

Hommos-Tahineh, a chick pea dip with sesamejuice, garlic and lemon, at $5.75, was the silkiest Ihad ever tasted.

Rakakat are slim hot cheese rolls, crispy on the out-side with lovely smooth but not too salty fetahcheese on the inside, at $7.95. Scrumptious!

Yabrak are warm little fingers of rolled vine leaves,at $6.75, stuffed with rice and beef. The vine leaveshave a nice tart and spinach-y taste, but it’s the mix

of textures, the smooth lemony vine leaf joined tomincedmeat that makes this appetizer so delightful.For themain course, Bassam brought out the“pièce

de resistance”, the Grilled Chicken Breast with gen-erously cut fries at $13.95 for the half-plate, or $20.95for the full plate, garnished with a special mayonnaiseof garlic, lemon and oil.Grilled to perfection and sea-soned with a touch of oregano, the breast was succu-lent and plump. Not a morsel was left.To end the feast, we treated ourselves to Katayef, a

fluffy crepe stuffed with whipped ricotta cheese andcrushedpistachio in syrupperfumedwith rosewater at$4.75.All desserts are reasonably priced, so leave room.Gladys told us that since 1975, they have served

loyal customers at their older establishment at 519Faillon East (near Berri). After opening in VilleSaint-Laurent 14 years ago, they now have weekly re-turnees to 2373 Marcel Laurin. “When the familywas in Lebanon,” she said,“they had cooked, but justat home. They decided to open a restaurant whenthey came to Montreal.”The Daou family continues to grace Montreal’s

culinary landscape with Lebanese fine cuisine. Mycompanion decided she would bring her whole fam-ily to Daou next time. I suggest you do the same.

2373Marcel-Laurin,Ville Saint-LaurentInfo: 514-334-1199 or restaurantdaou.com

Vegging Out — the fast-food experienceEmmanuelle Glidden

After five years of being a vegetarian, I’ve learned athing or two about eatingmeat-free especially howtomaintain my lifestyle while out and about.At first, I avoided restaurants. I was skeptical about

finding meatless meals to eat.As it turns out, vegetarian options are not as elusive

as I once believed. In the first of a series on meat-free restaurant dining, I tried popular fast food jointsfor their green alternatives to good old hamburgers.The first veggie burger I sampled was BurgerKing’s Veggie BK,which resembles the standard fast-food burger – lettuce, tomato, onion and ketchup ona white bun. The only difference is the soy-based,meat-free patty.

A Veggie BK trio ($5.49) includes a drink and aside of fries, onion rings, baked potato or salad.Burger King is the only fast-food restaurant I’ve

encountered that offers veggie burger kids meals.These are perfect for little vegetarians or for thosewith smaller appetites.At Harvey’s, customers can personalize their veg-

gie burgers trios ($5.85) with their choice of sides,and a variety of vegetable toppings and sauces fortheir burger. My favorite is the pickled hot peppers.The choice of sides are limited to fries or onion

rings. Athough Harvey’s veggie burger easily satis-fies fast-food cravings, it isn’t exceptional. In fact, Ienjoyed the onion rings more than I did the burger.A&W’s Veggie Swiss (the most expensive trio at

$7.09) features a Portobellomushroom patty, topped

with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, Swiss cheese anda ranch-style sauce on a whole wheat bun.The Veggie Swiss is one delicious burger− well

worth its price. The difference lies in the Portobellopatty, which is juicier and more flavorful than thesoy-based alternative.Lafleur offers both veggie burgers ($6.57 for a trio)

and tofu dogs, ($6.93 for a trio) topped with ketchupand mustard, make a great midnight snack. Formore substance, try the veggie burger.Thanks to these restaurants,Montreal’s vegetarian

community need not deny their fast-food cravings.Even the meat-eating population can profit fromthese healthier alternatives.Next month, I’ll let you in on the Asian vegetarian

experience.

McGill University Faculty of Law Graduates of 1958 recently celebrated their50th Anniversary Class Reunion at the Chancellor Day Hall.

Third Row: D.C. Wadsworth, I.E. Blanchay, P. Jasmin, C.K. Irving, D. Johnston, J.R. NussSecond Row: Y. Fortier, R. Barakett, J.L. Wolofsky, P.E. Blitt, J.L. Baudouin, Dean Nicholas Kasirer, C.A. Sheppard

First Row: F.R. Lindsay, F.W. Benn, M.R. Stewart, Y. Goldstein, B.R. Benson

Yousuf Karsh travelled the world to take photographs so it is nosurprise that these stampswill also travel theworld in his honour.The domestic stamp features Yousuf Karsh, a self-portrait at 52

cents, the US stamp shows Audrey Hepburn at 96 cents and the in-ternational stamp is Sir Winston Churchill for $1.60.Of his first day in Canada as anArmenian refugee at 16,Karsh said,

“Everybody looked happy, and I was intoxicated by their joy. Forme,it was a new kind of dream experience, with dizzying dimensions.”A souvenir sheet including 24 famous photographs is available.

Osteoporosis clinic dayFriday, June 6, 1 pm - 3:30 pm, Catherine Booth Hospital holdsosteoporosis information day. Topics include nutrition, bone healthand more. Limited space. 4375 Montclair. Info: 514-481-0431

Advocacy garden tourSaturday, June 14, 9 am - 12 pm, West Island Advocacy holdsgarden tour and fundraiser. Info: 514-694-5850

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Townships art decoSaturday, June 7,9 am,Art Deco Mon-treal guides an Art Deco day trip by busto the Eastern Townships, returning viathe Ste-Agnes Vineyard in the SuttonMountains of southern Quebec for atour and dinner. Reservations required.Info: 514-931-9325or artdecomontreal.com

Catherine Burry at Mile-EndUntil Sunday, June 15, Mile-Endgallery presents an exhibition of visualart by Catherine Burry, 5345 Parc.Info: 514-271-3383or ame-art.com

Japanese photography to 1942Until Sunday, September 14, Shashin,Japanese Canadian Studio Photographyto 1942 is at the McCord Museum.690 Sherbrooke W.Info: 514-398-7100 x 262

WoodturningsUntil Thursday, June 26,BeaconsfieldCultural Services exhibits woodturn-ings by Rohit Kent. 303 Beaconsfield.Info: 514-428-4460

Pointe-à-Callière exhibitionUntil Sunday, October 12, Pointe-à-Callière presents exhibition France,new France, birth of a French people inNorth America. 350 Place Royale.Info: 514-872-9150

Inuit exhibitionUntil Tuesday, October 13, McCordMuseum presents Inuit, an exhibitionto connect cultures and communities.690 Sherbrooke W.Info: 514-398-7100 x 262

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Europe’s most populous city is split by theBosporus River into two distinct regions.Half of itlies in Europe and the other half inAsia.The BlackSea is to the north and the Marmara Sea to thesouth. Istanbul is the onlymetropolis in the worldthat lies on two continents, and over 10 millionpeople call it home.I arrived at Ataturk Airport at around 6 am with

several men asking me if I needed a lift to my hotel.I ended up having to haggle over the taxi fare to myhostel. On arrival my hostel room wasn’t ready so Idecided to take a walk around the neighbourhoodto acquaint myself with the city I’d call home for thenext few days.I was staying at the Bauhaus Guesthouse. It was

ranked #1 in the world at hostelworld.com and Iwould soon learn why. It’s located in an area calledSultanahmet, aka Tourist Town, with almost all themain attractions within walking distance. There isan area of about a one-mile radius packed with hos-tels and boutique hotels, each of them with beauti-ful rooftop terraces with views of the Bosporus, theBlue Mosque, and Hagia Sophia.My little walk didn’t last long. It seemed as though

every Turkish man I walked by called out to me, ei-ther for a date, or to buy a carpet. This was a cultureshock I wasn’t expecting and would be forced to getused to if I wanted to explore and enjoy this city. Ihurried back to my hostel, wrote an email to myTurkish friend,Ahmet, telling him how scared I was,and hid and cried for the rest of the day in my room.

I was going to be stuck in this town for a while.I met a Columbian guy on the rooftop. He’d been

there for about a week and was about to leave. Hesaid Istanbul wasmagical, though I was unable to seethe magic at that point. I didn’t like having to bar-gain for my taxi ride, nor was I amused by men whohassled me everywhere I walked. Ahmet, a man offew words, wrote back simply that everything wouldbe okay and that he would pickme up the next day at10 am to be my personal tour guide for the day.I hadn’t seen him since the summer of 2002 at

UCLA.When I left I didn’t know if I’d ever see himagain. There we were, five years later on his hometurf. He looked more distinguished and notablycomfortable, since I was used to seeing him on theUCLA campus like a fish out of water. I supposed itwas my turn to play the fish.After a brief stop for a cup of Turkish apple tea, we

headed straight to the Topkapi Palace. This massivepalace, which at the height of its existence was hometo about 4000 people, is not to bemissed.Topkapi washome to the royals from 1465 to 1853, including Sul-tan Selim the Sot, who drowned in the bath afterdrinking too much champagne. It was occupied bythe Valide Sultan (mother of the Sultan), who ruledthe harem, plus the Sultan, the Sultan’s wives, up to300 concubines and their children, and their servants.The royal residence is an exquisite display of Ot-

toman architecture, housing beautiful displays ofantique porcelain, weapons, and murals. We spentabout 3½ hours strolling through the four courts.

The murals are masterpieces by themselves. Don’tmiss the treasury. There I found a seemingly endlessarray of treasures including gold and diamond can-dlesticks, jewel-encrusted swords, a throne made ofmother-of-pearl, the Topkapi Dagger – decoratedwith three enormous emeralds – and the pièce de re-sistance, the Kasikci, aka Spoonmaker’s Diamond.The Kasikci is a teardrop-shaped 86-carat diamondsurrounded by 49 smaller diamonds. It is the fifthlargest diamond in the world.Steps away from the Topkapi Palace is the world-

famous Hagia Sophia. Originally built as a church in537,Mehmet the Conqueror had it converted into amosque in 1493, as it remained until Ataturk pro-claimed it a museum in 1935.As we walked into thismassive structure, I must have looked pretty sillywith my head tilted back and my mouth open wide.I was stunned at the indescribable grandeur of thisbuilding but it must have looked like I was trying tocatch raindrops in my mouth. Oh well, I assumemany others looked as I did.Both famished, we took a two-minute taxi ride

down to Eminounu (I guess we could have walked).From there we walked along the Galata Bridge, anexperience in itself. Hundreds of fishermen line thetop of the bridge, where restaurants lie underneath.I asked Ahmet why all those men were fishing. Heanswered simply, “to catch fish.”We ate at a nice Turkish restaurant with lots of veg-

etarian options for me. Turkish food seems similarto Israeli food, or maybe that’s just the Middle East.


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Loud singing from speakerphones suddenly inter-rupted our lunchtime conversation.What was that?!!Where was it coming from? I looked around and no-body seemed to take notice. I didn’t see any policeandAhmet continued eating. Should I be concerned?No, because once you’ve been in Istanbul for morethan a day you’ll notice these loud prayers from themosques penetrating the city 5 times a day. I was notpleased with the first one, which was at 6 am.From there we walked up through the 350-year-oldSpice Bazaar. There I found Turkish delight, spices,nuts, teas, lotions, potions and trinkets for tourists.A bit overwhelming at first, but it’s amere warmup toour final destination, the Grand Bazaar, aka paradise.The Grand Bazaar is no simple task. Take the ad-vice from themaster –moi – who after the first time,with Ahmet, conquered the labyrinth three timesthereafter. Put on your bargaining hat, take out thecompass andmap, hold your bag and brace yourself.There are over 4000 shops, with every shopkeepertrying to lure you in. From the carpets and pottery tothe jewelry and the belly dancing costumes you’ll besure to find what you want! I found the perfect belly

dancing costume, but $400 was a bit out of mybudget, so I settled on a beautiful turquoise and sil-ver bracelet. I bargained down from 120 lira to 50lira, and included matching earrings. I suppose thecarpet wouldn’t have fit in my suitcase.We spent the night partying with Ahmet’s friendsuntil sunrise at the bars and clubs across the GalataBridge in Taxim, the hip place to be.Ahmet was right. Everything was okay. I adapted toTurkish culture and was soon roaming around thecity on my own. Most people speak English and thepublic transportation is fast and simple. I even im-pressed myself by taking the train from Sultanahmetdown and across the Galata Bridge to theDolmabahce Palace,which served as the imperial res-idence between 1852 and 1922. The palace was alsohome toMustafa KemalAtaturk, the founder of mod-ern Turkey. It was Istanbul’s first European-stylepalace. It displays the world’s largest collection of Bo-hemian and Baccarat chandeliers, with the world’slargest chandelier hanging in the center hall. Fourteentonnes of gold were used to decorate the ceilings, soonce again I looked like I was catching raindrops.A good friend from Israel, Liron, flew to meet me.We decided to visit the Sultan Ahmet Mosque (theBlue Mosque). The women are asked to cover theirheads, which made me uncomfortable, but aftersome time in Turkey I accepted this rule.We stood infront of the mosque in awe. Liron told me howstrange it was to be so close to a mosque withoutfeeling scared. Themosque is decorated with tens ofthousands of blue tiles, giving it its unofficial name.Onmy last night in Istanbul, on the rooftop of thehostel with some new friends overlooking theBosporus, I remembered my Columbian friend. Hewas right. Istanbul ismagical. There is no other placethat compares. I was so unhappy when I arrived inIstanbul, and now I was so unhappy to leave. I sleptthrough the three alarm clocks I’d set to wakeme upin time to catch the shuttle to the airport, and if itweren’t for the 6 am morning prayers, I would havemissed my flight.

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draw, whether they are jazzers, like pianist HankJones, or jazz-related like the Queen of Soul ArethaFranklin, who is still belting it out. Locals like drum-mer Guy Nadon and pianists Oliver Jones and VicVogel are also in on the fun. All of these performersare appearing at the high-profile Festival Internationalde Jazz deMontreal. The two other festivals, the SuoniPer Il Popolo (run by the Casa del Popolo) and theOff Festival (run by and featuring Montreal musi-cians), have an equally interesting lineup, and thisyear they are teaming up to present a couple of events,the most prominent being the Sun Ra Arkestra.Led by Marshall Allen after Sun Ra’s passing in

1993, the Arkestra follows the big band tradition butwith an avant-garde twist, as likely to play When YouWish Upon a Star or There Will Never Be Another Youas they are to revisit Sun Ra’s quirky themes like We

Travel the Spaceways or one of the many tunes Allenhas penned. Formed in the 1950s, the Arkestra is stillthriving. I spoke to Marshall Allen, who still lives inthe Sun Ra house in Philadelphia, a couple of daysbefore his 84th birthday as he was preparing for a cel-ebration in New York at Sullivan Hall.I asked him about his long association with the

band and about his long life inmusic.“It contributesto my well-being and in my 80s, that’s what I’mdoing,” he said. “When you’re younger, you’ve gotadventure, you’ve got a strong drive tomove forwardand get something down.Now I’m not that youthful,but there are still things I want to do, and I don’thave to go through a lot of that stuff like when I wasyounger. Now I have more time to stay with themusic and more time to concentrate.”Hewent on to tell me about life before SunRa, play-

ing inParis,Germany,andEngland,and spending timein theArmyuntil hemet SunRa inChicago.“He lived afewblocks away frommeandhe rehearsedhisband,andI went to rehearsals and listened and his other band inNewYorkwasbreakingupand I got into thenewband.”That was 1958, and Allen waxed enthusiastic when

he realized that this year marks the 50th anniversaryof his joining Sun Ra. “Back in those days I didn’tthink I’d still be playing in the band in 50 years,” hesaid in his endearing Kentucky drawl.He has a simple answer to what keeps him commit-

ted to the band: “It’s the music! Sun Ra was a goodteacher and that was like a gold mine. All I had to do

was put in the time.”The time, in this case, has meanta whole career devoted to the Arkestra, which has re-quired a lot of study, given the founder’s unique vision.But there are also more practical issues: “Through

the years, music gets displaced, songs are there withno names on them. It’s quite a thing to try to get theparts back together. It’s like a puzzle.”He also still studies the challenging music: “Some-

times there’s time against time, or different times to-gether. He always had a large band and a lot of stuffgoing on. So I just do the main thing and sometimesrework some of the music. He has about a thousandpieces, some of which haven’t been played yet. Hewould write for different people, change things,chords, melodies, depending on the person whowould be playing… tailor made. So I still got somechallenges, interpreting the music.”The audiences are still coming to the concerts and

include lots of young people. “Wemake a little storywith the band going way back and coming right onup, so it’s like a music lesson for those who weren’tborn.We show themwhat they were doing in the 30sand early 40s and what they’re doing now.”The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Mar-

shall Allen will perform at the Sala Rosa Sunday,June 14 at 8:30 pm.Info: casadelpopolo.com

Notesof notePaul Serralheiro

Fifty years in the band still isn’t enough

Photo credits – Marshall Allen: Alan NahigianAll others courtesy of Montreal Jazz Festival

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