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WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT We are Westmount Weekly. Vol. No. d September , Online licensing tool to provide two-way dog info B L S Lost a dog or found another? Soon West- mount-licensed dog owners will be able to alert hundreds of others registered in the city, along with Public Security, by re- laying photos and pertinent information. This is just one of the features of an on- line tool to be implemented by the city as part of a dog permits management sys- tem announced last week to the Indepen- dent by Councillor Cynthia Lulham, com- missioner of Parks and Sustainability. The new web-based platform will en- able dog owners to obtain annual licences online and interact with the city. It will also allow the city to send out dog-related reminders or notices on dog run closures and manage data on dogs in Westmount. The system should be ready to use by November in time for obtaining 2017 dog licences, Lulham said. “This will give us a great way to com- municate with dog owners,” she said, “es- pecially next year during phase 3 of the restoration of Summit Woods when we’ll be closing off certain trails for rejuvena- tion. “It offers a number of good features, and I’m very excited by it,” added Lulham, who came across the system while attend- ing the annual conference of the Union of Quebec Municipalities in 2015. While some municipalities on the South Shore use the system, she said, West- mount will become the first on the island of Montreal. Called Emili.net, the dog permits man- agement system was developed for the municipal sector. Dog owners can choose ei- continued on p. 5 josephmontanaro.com B.ARCH | REAL ESTATE BROKER 514.660.3050 sothebysrealty.ca Real Estate Agency | Independently owned and operated A LEADER IN WESTMOUNT REAL ESTATE JOSEPHMONTANARO BRIGID SCULLION [email protected] www.brigidscullion.com REAL ESTATE BROKER -- Foot pain? Heel spur? Bunions? Consult Dr. William Constant podiatrist 514-439-5112 245 Victoria #525 Westmount 1303 Greene Ave, suite 500, Westmount Profusion Realty inc Real Estate Agency CARL RÉMILLARD FONTAINE 514.726.2077 Of-leash dogs take of in ‘all directions’ A patroller at the Forden entrance to King George (Murray) Park September 15 spotted a woman with off-leash dogs run- ning “in all directions,” Public Security of- ficials said. She finally managed to get three of them back to her car but the fourth one took off running in the street. It took some 10 minutes to bring it back. She was issued a $77 ticket for the dogs being off leash. The woman was described as a pro- fessional dog walker living on Hill Park Circle just off Côte des Neiges Rd. She was noticed at 8:18 am. Man found sleeping in Olivier foyer Public safety officers report being called at 8:15 pm September 15 for an intoxicated man sleeping between the front doors of the apartment building at 267 Olivier just south of de Maisonneuve. Department officials said the man pro- vided several contradictory stories but claimed to live in the building though he could not produce a key. Police were called and were reported to have already had three documented inci- dents of intervention with the man in the last month. He was finally identified as a 37-year-old Montreal resident. The future is now A time capsule project brings together St. Léon students and the Westmount Public Library. See story, p. . From the left on September were Westmount Public Library archivist Lora Baiocco, former St. Léon students Luiza Tatos, Celeste Courchesne and Fu Pei Jiang, city councillor Nicole Forbes, Michael Tomiuk, children’s librarian Wendy Wayling and the school’s grade six teacher Isabelle Doré. Photo: Martin C. Barry Don’t Miss It Hazardous waste collection, Sat., Oct. near the Westmount Public Library. See p. . Letters p. 6 Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 14

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WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENTWe are WestmountWeekly. Vol. 10 No. 9d September 27, 2016

Online licensing tool toprovide two-way dog infoBy Laureen Sweeney

Lost a dog or found another? Soon West-mount-licensed dog owners will be ableto alert hundreds of others registered inthe city, along with Public Security, by re-laying photos and pertinent information.

This is just one of the features of an on-line tool to be implemented by the city aspart of a dog permits management sys-tem announced last week to the Indepen-dent by Councillor Cynthia Lulham, com-missioner of Parks and Sustainability.

The new web-based platform will en-able dog owners to obtain annual licencesonline and interact with the city. It willalso allow the city to send out dog-relatedreminders or notices on dog run closuresand manage data on dogs in Westmount.

The system should be ready to use byNovember in time for obtaining 2017 doglicences, Lulham said.

“This will give us a great way to com-municate with dog owners,” she said, “es-pecially next year during phase 3 of therestoration of Summit Woods when we’llbe closing off certain trails for rejuvena-tion.

“It offers a number of good features,and I’m very excited by it,” added Lulham,who came across the system while attend-ing the annual conference of the Union ofQuebec Municipalities in 2015.

While some municipalities on the SouthShore use the system, she said, West-mount will become the first on the islandof Montreal.

Called Emili.net, the dog permits man-agement system was developed for themunicipal sector. Dogowners can choose ei- continued on p. 5

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Off-leash dogs take off

in ‘all directions’A patroller at the Forden entrance to

King George (Murray) Park September 15spotted a woman with off-leash dogs run-ning “in all directions,” Public Security of-ficials said. She finally managed to getthree of them back to her car but the fourthone took off running in the street. It tooksome 10 minutes to bring it back. She wasissued a $77 ticket for the dogs being offleash. The woman was described as a pro-fessional dog walker living on Hill ParkCircle just off Côte des Neiges Rd. Shewas noticed at 8:18 am.

Man found sleepingin Olivier foyer

Public safety officers report being calledat 8:15 pm September 15 for an intoxicatedman sleeping between the front doors ofthe apartment building at 267 Olivier justsouth of de Maisonneuve.

Department officials said the man pro-vided several contradictory stories butclaimed to live in the building though hecould not produce a key.

Police were called and were reported tohave already had three documented inci-dents of intervention with the man in thelast month. He was finally identified as a37-year-old Montreal resident.

The future is now

A time capsule project brings together St. Léon students and the Westmount Public Library. See story,p. 7. From the left on September 9 were Westmount Public Library archivist Lora Baiocco, former St.Léon students Luiza Tatos, Celeste Courchesne and Fu Pei Jiang, city councillor Nicole Forbes, MichaelTomiuk, children’s librarian Wendy Wayling andthe school’s grade six teacher Isabelle Doré.

Photo: Martin C. Barry

Don’t Miss ItHazardous waste collection, Sat., Oct. 8near the Westmount Public Library. See p. 5.

Letters p. 6Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 14

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Anyone who may think they have dis-covered a secret spot to park may be in fora surprise now that no-parking signs havebeen set up on the west side of Prince Al-bert from Sherbrooke to the laneway.

The original no-stopping signs at this lo-cation alongside the Lululemon building

had been removed for reconstruction ofthe street earlier this summer, according toPublic Security director Greg McBain.

When the work was finished, however, itwas thought the small zone might be ableto accommodate some parking, he said,which is needed in the commercial dis-trict.

But once the city’s Traffic Advisory Com-mittee saw that three parked carsnarrowed the southbound drivinglane too much near the intersec-tion of Sherbrooke, it was decidedto reinstate the previous no-stop-ping zone, said city traffic special-ist Jonathan Auger.

The appropriate signage will re-place the temporary no-parkingones once poles can be installedin the sidewalk, he explained.

Some new spots had beenopened up on the north side ofSherbrooke by the implementationof the pay-by-plate parking system,McBain added. The city is on thelookout for more – but the zone atPrince Albert and Sherbrooke hasproven not to be one of them.

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A car struck the median on St. CatherineSt. at Lansdowne September 13 about 6:56am, Public Security officials said. The im-pact blew the front tire on the driver’s sideand damaged the bumper. Since the driverdid not have a cell phone with him, heused one from the public safety officer tocall for a tow truck. The man claimed hehad lost focus in an effort to avoid hittinga cyclist.

Jumping the gun onleaf blower use

Three more landscapers were ticketted$271 each September 15 and 19 for using aleaf blower before the start of the fall sea-son October 1, Public Security officials saidlast week. All three had been warned be-fore and were described as “well aware ofthe by-law.” They were caught while work-ing on Rosemount, Montrose and UpperBelmont. The tickets came on the heels ofthree others issued the previous week (seestory September 20, p. 17).

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Hydro Westmount work on GrosvenorAve. outside Roslyn School was completedrecently after closing the sidewalk, whichcreated difficult access for students re-turning after the summer. Both police andpublic safety officers have been on hand toassist.

Temporary asphalt was put on the dam-aged sidewalks on Thursday (September15), said Hydro Westmount director BenoitHurtubise.

While the addition of new hydro cablesand conduits was part of the reconstruc-tion of Westmount Ave., a series of com-plications led to the work coinciding withthe return to school, Hurtubise said.

“We re-engineered the back-up networkin that area to distribute the load moreevenly. This operation was time sensitiveas we could not leave that area without re-serve circuits.” As a result, the sidewalkhad to be dug up to install the new under-

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weeks,” he said. This is to take place “oncethe school is finished with the playgroundwork as the sidewalks also need to be re-done in that section.” This work would be“coordinated with school officials.”

The school grounds have been under-going a major facelift since the beginningof July (see story June 7, p. 1).

Slips off new PrinceAlbert sidewalk

A resident of Prince Albert fell on thenewly built sidewalk outside number 383September 16, according to Public Securityofficials. She was reported to have beenwalking too close to the curb and hadslipped off. Urgences Santé took her tothe Glen site super-hospital for treatmentof a swollen right temple and a cut on theforehead. The mishap occurred at around3:24 pm.

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ther English or French versions.Westmount currently has 1,189 dogs reg-

istered, of which 183 live just outside thecity limits but obtain licences here to beable to use the dog runs. Most are reportedto live in eastern NDG or in the Ridgewoodarea.

Lulham said the city is not proposing toincrease the cost of dog licences for nextyear.

After Public Security director GregMcBain and IT division head Claude Val-lières met with representatives ofEmili.net, they reported to council mem-bers July 4 during a meeting of the generalcommittee that the system uses an identi-fication tag with an integrated chip. This

enables the tag to be read by an officer us-ing a hand-held device.

The system will cost the city an annualfee of 25 cents per resident for the firstyear, amounting to about $5,000. The feeis lowered to 10 cents for the second andthird years, estimated to be about $2,000.

In the minutes of the closed door com-mittee session, it was reported that Coun-cillor Philip Cutler recommended lookinginto the possibility of offering the system’slost and found program to other pet own-ers.

According to Lulham there were 1,006dogs living in Westmount licensed thisyear at a cost of $30 each. The 183 non-res-ident dog owners paid $50 to obtain aWestmount licence to use Summit Woodsand the fenced-in runs.

People who aren’t users of the new per-mits system will still be able to report lostor found dogs to Public Security, as theycan now, Lulham said.

Dog licences cont’d. from p. 1

Dog licences, by year, random sampling

1936 1,4231937 1,6361940 1,6461952 1,0241954 9621984 6851994 7052000 1,283

Source: City of Westmount annual reports

Dog licences 2016 2015 2014issuedResidents 1,006 834 866Non-residents 183 201 209Total 1,189 1,035 1,075

Source: Cynthia Lulham

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Quaker open house, 11 am at CentreGreene, 1090 Greene Ave. Followed atnoon by lunch and question period. Info:514.935.1608.

Saturday, October 8

Household hazardous waste collection,9 am to 5 pm outside the Westmount Pub-lic Library.

Tuesday, October 11

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Friday, October 14

A movie night in support of the eatingdisorders program at the Douglas MentalHealth University Institute, organized byPauline Belliveau from Marianopolis Col-lege, 7 pm at Cinema Guzzo Marchée Cen-trale. Info: 514.268.9891.

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WMA weighs in on pool opening

The Westmount Municipal Association(WMA), at its September 19 board meet-ing, passed a resolution calling for theswimming pool season to be extended.With climate change continuing, we havejust experienced one of the warmest sum-mers on record. The final day of summerfeels more like early August than lateSeptember, with a high of 27 degrees C.

Westmount is fortunate to have a LEEDGold certified recreation centre that usesthe waste heat from the ice-making pro-cess of the hockey rinks to heat the swim-ming pool. This essentially allows the poolto be heated without additional runningcosts.

The WMA therefore believes that itwould benefit our increasingly aging pop-ulation to open the pool as early as April,where we saw temperatures in the low 20s(C) this year, and extend the season intothe fall. In the recent past, we have hadThanksgiving Day temperatures in the low20s (C) also.

The board also supported the idea ofkeeping the pool open until 10 pm in theevening, one director noting that the oldpool used to remain open sometimes un-til 9:45 pm.

We believe the logistical challenges ofstaffing the pool with lifeguards outside ofthe traditional student holidays can easilybe overcome as other nearby communi-ties, such as Cote St. Luc, are able to keeptheir pools open during these proposedextended times.

Noting that the debt incurred to buildthe Westmount recreation centre has beenretired early, we believe Westmount tax-payers should be rewarded for their con-tributions with a facility that can benefitthe community for a much longer periodeach year than has been the case since thepool was put into service.

Paul Marriott, president of theWestmount Municipal Association

Remembers the bridgeThis is an image of a painting completed

in 1955 of a stone bridge in WestmountPark. (see photo.)

This winter scene was the work of Con-

stance Haines (1901-1977). She lived at 222Prince Albert from 1950-1974 and tooklessons from Adam Sherriff Scott.

I saw the recent article (“The first bridgein Westmount,” September 13, p. 28) andthought you might be interested in seeinga painting. I remember the bridge as I fre-quently crossed it on my walks back andforth to school (the old Westmount SeniorHigh School*).

Grendon Haines, Westmount Square* Editor’s note: This is now Selwyn House.

– KM

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The Westmount Public Library and Vic-toria Hall’s Community Events divisionhave a long-standing tradition of present-ing varied and accessible activities andevents for the residents of our city. Thisyear, information about the schedule ofevents can be found online on the libraryweb site (www.westlib.org) and city website(www.westmount.org,) as well in thecolourful new brochure available in mu-nicipal buildings.

October

To start off the line-up of fall events, ArtWestmount presents over 60 artists and,new this year, authors, on October 1 and 2in Victoria Hall. The public is invited tocome and meet the talented Westmoun-ters and their works, which will be for sale.Some of the authors will be reading from

their books as part of Les Journées de laculture.

The month of October has a variety ofevents scheduled including a dance withBallroom Blitz on October 15, a lecturewith Alexandre Trudeau October 19 and atango concert with dancers on October 22.

November

In November, the longstanding traditionof an artisans’ festival continues with anew look this year on November 12 and 13.The library book sale will be held the fol-lowing weekend on November 19 and 20.

The Gallery at Victoria Hall begins itsseason with an exhibition by artist, BonnieShemie on Friday, Oct 13 with a new col-lection every month.

There is a lot going on in our commu-nity. Events and activities presented by thelibrary, community events, volunteer com-mittees and community groups. Refer tothe websites and booklets for more eventscoming up later on in the fall or call514.989.5226 to talk to us.Councillor Nicole Forbes is commissioner of

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Image courtesy of G. Haines

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Four of the former grade six students,who graduated in June and are now ingrade 7, were on hand at the library onSeptember 9 when the “time capsule” wasplaced on a shelf in the archive room byLora Baiocco, the library’s official archivist.

The box contains letters written to futurestudents who hopefully will open and readthem in the year 2050.

According to Baiocco, this was the firsttime that a time capsule was placed in thearchive, which contains a variety of docu-ments pertaining to the history of the li-brary and Westmount.

According to grade six teacher at St.Léon Isabelle Doré “We wanted to create achallenge for our students to imagine whatlife might look like in 2050, while writinga little bit about what their lives as stu-dents are like today and what’s importantto them now.”

She explained that the project was one ofthe last tasks the students completed thispast June before they graduated from theschool. In all, three grade six classes witha total of 75 students took part.

See photo, p. 1.

St. Léon ‘time capsule’archived at library for students in 2050

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‘Record-breaking’ numbers forsummer reading club, closes with a party

The Westmount Public Library closed out the children’s summer reading club September with aturnout of some 250 people, according to children’s librarian Wendy Wayling. “We had record-breakingnumbers this summer,” she said “with 475 participants who read for 5,815 hours!” An audience is seenhere watching a production of The Wind in the Willows by the Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre.

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The fall lecture series of the WestmountHistorical Association will feature“strolling the streets of Westmount.”

In announcing the schedule, the pro-gram states that “Westmount’s streets haveundergone many transformations over theyears. This series focuses on three West-mount roads: Sherbrooke, Dorchester andthe closed portion of Summit Circle. Theirhistory will be followed, and interestingdevelopments will be highlighted.”

The meetings take place on the thirdThursday of the month from 7 to 9 pm inthe Westmount Room of Westmount Pub-lic Library. They are open to non-mem-bers of the public at a cost of $5 a lecture.

The open first session, which took placeSeptember 15, explored the developmentof Sherbrooke, as discussed by historianLorne Huston. (See story below.)

At the next meeting scheduled for Oc-tober 20, District 8 councillor Theodora

Samiotis will explain the council’s “visionfor restoring the urban fabric” in West-mount’s south-east area.

Along with WHA president CarolineBreslaw, she will describe how the Victo-rian residences on the north side were ex-propriated and demolished so the streetcould be widened.

The city’s plans for transforming thenorthern section of Summit Circle are tobe discussed November 17 by CouncillorCynthia Lulham, commissioner of Parksand Sustainability, with city arborist Nico-las Mory. This uninhabited portion ofSummit Circle was closed to traffic in2009.

The final event of the season on De-cember 15 will be a social evening at TheGallery of Victoria Hall for WHA mem-bers and invited guests to honour pastpresident Doreen Lindsay. – LS

First on tap: Sherbrooke

Historian and WHA board member Lourne Huston speaks during the WHA’s September 15 lecture.

By Ralph Thompson

The Westmount Historical Association’s(WHA) fall lecture series opened at theWestmount Public Library September 15with the theme of the history and devel-opment of Sherbrooke St.

“The history of Sherbrooke St. can bebroken down into four periods,” explainedhistorian and WHA board memberLourne Huston: The early period, 1893 to1914, 1920’s and after 1930.

Shortly after Sir John Coape Sher-brooke’s return to England in 1818 after hisbrief two-year term as governor in chief of

British North America, “Sherbrooke St.was a short road running along the top ofthe Montreal escarpment,” said Huston.“…but there were two visions for develop-ment of western region of Montreal, whichwas at the time mainly agricultural. Somepreferred that it remain agricultural andothers wanted it developed. With the tram-line extending only to Greene Ave. and themain road being Côte St. Antoine, therewas little chance for development withoutan extended mass transit system.”

In the late 19th century, the tramlinewas extended to Victo-ria Ave., looping around continued on p. 12

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The Westmount Horticultural Societykicked off its fall monthly programSeptember 13 with an address by photog-rapher/gardener Reggie Millette on “Howto avoid big mistakes when creating yourgarden.”

And in keeping with planning for thespring, the October 11 monthly meetingwill hear about how to plant floweringbulbs to bloom indoors and outside. Theguest lecturer is listed as David Wees of theMacdonald campus of McGill University inSt. Anne de Bellevue.

The society’s monthly meetings are heldon the second Tuesday of the month in theWestmount Room of Westmount PublicLibrary starting at 7 pm. Non-members

are welcomed at a cost of $5.The session November 8 will start off

with a short annual general meeting. Thiswill be followed by a demonstration byMark Reynolds on creative ideas for in-door gardening. These will include win-dow gardens using hydroponic systemsmade from a variety of materials. Reynoldsis studying herbal medicine at Concordia’sCity Farm School.

The meeting on December 8 will takethe form of a holiday party and wreath-dec-orating workshop, featuring floral arrangerOrysia Krywiak. This takes place excep-tionally at the Westmount Lawn BowlingClub at Sherbrooke and Kensington, adja-cent to city hall. – LS

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and back along what is now Sherbrooke St.to Greene Ave. This established West-mount’s main shopping areas, Victoria vil-lage and Greene Ave. Expansion quicklyfollowed with Westmount Park openingfor the Jubilee in 1897, the first luxuryapartment building at 4168 Sherbrooke,synagogues and eventually an EnglishCatholic church constructed by bypassingthe archbishop of Montreal and obtainingpermission directly from the pope. “It’sinteresting that Westmount along Sher-brooke St. was largely developed by 1930,”said Huston who had consulted an aerial

photograph from the period in the pos-session of Caroline Breslaw. In the early20th century, architectural masterpiecesby famous architect Robert Findlay andothers (the library, Victoria Hall and cityhall) were established in Westmount alongone of the longest streets on island of Mon-treal – Sherbrooke St.

The WHA has three more lectures thisfall. (See story, p. 10.) The fall walking tour,free, is scheduled to take place Sunday,October 16, starting at Queen ElizabethGardens west of Atwater. The English tourbegins at 1 pm; the French tour at 1:30pm.

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AVIS DE DÉPÔT DU RÔLE D’ÉVALUATION FONCIÈREPOUR LES ANNÉES 2017-2018-2019

AVIS PUBLIC est donné que le rôle d’évaluation foncière de la Ville pour lesexercices financiers 2017-2018-2019 a été déposé au bureau du greffe parl’évaluateur de la Ville de Montréal, le mercredi 14 septembre 2016.

Toute personne peut prendre connaissance de ce rôle au bureau du greffe à l’hôtelde ville (4333, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Westmount) du lundi au vendredi durant lesheures de bureau.

Toute demande de révision concernant ce rôle doit être déposée au plus tard le30 avril 2017, au moyen de la formule prescrite et être accompagnée de la sommed’argent déterminée par le Règlement sur les tarifs de l’Agglomération de Montréal,à défaut de quoi elle est réputée ne pas avoir été déposée. Les formulaires sontdisponibles au bureau du greffe de Westmount ou à l’un des bureaux du Service del’évaluation foncière de la Ville de Montréal.

La demande doit être déposée auprès du Service de l’évaluation foncière de la Villede Montréal à l’un des endroits suivants :

La demande peut également être acheminée par courrier recommandé à la DivisionCentre au 255, boul. Crémazie Est, bureau 600, Montréal (Québec) H2M 1L5.

DONNÉ à Westmount, ce 27 septembre 2016.

NOTICE OF DEPOSITOF THE REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTROLL FOR THE YEARS 2017-2018-2019

PUBLIC NOTICE is given that the Real Estate Assessment Roll of the City for thefiscal years 2017-2018-2019 was deposited at the Office of the City Clerk by theAssessor of Montréal on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.

Any person may examine the roll at the Office of the City Clerk at City Hall,(4333 Sherbrooke Street West, Westmount) from Monday to Friday during regularbusiness hours.

Any application for review regarding the roll must be filed no later then April 30th,2017, by means of the prescribed form and be accompanied by the sum of moneyas determined by the Règlement sur les tarifs de l’Agglomération de Montréal,otherwise the application is deemed not to have been filed. The forms are availableat the Office of the City Clerk of Westmount or at one of the offices of the Servicede l’évaluation foncière de la Ville de Montréal.

The application must be filed with the Service de l’évaluation foncière de la Ville deMontréal at one of the following locations:

The application may also be sent by registered mail to the Division Centre at255 Crémazie Boulevard East, Suite 600, Montréal (Québec) H2M 1L5.

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Clandeboye woman comes face to face with intruderBy Martin C. Barry

The following news story is based on in-formation from police reports provided by aStation 12 constable in an interview with thereporter.

A Clandeboye Ave. woman who left herhome unlocked while she stepped out for15 minutes came face to face upon her re-turn with a man who claimed he enteredher house while pursuing a cat.

Following the incident on August 31, thewoman told police she became aware ofthe intruder’s presence after hearing noisecoming from the second floor of herhouse.

“She then came face to face with an in-dividual, who was at the top of the stairs,”said Constable Adalbert Pimentel with lo-cal Station 12.

According to the police report, the sus-pect told her he entered the house in orderto catch a cat that had gone in. “The plain-tiff then asked the suspect to leave, which

he slowly did,” Pimentel said.Further investigation by the police failed

to turn up any evidence of the presence ofa cat.

A few hours after the suspect left, theplaintiff noticed that some money she kepton a table in a hallway was missing. Policeare looking for an adult male, 5’ 9”, around30 years old.

While Pimentel acknowledged that Sta-tion 12 has been dealing lately with morecalls in Westmount’s southeastern sectorfor infractions, such as publicly consum-ing alcohol and disorderly conduct, he saidthere’s been no noticeable increase in bur-glaries.

On September 7, police from Station 12succeeded in apprehending two men sus-pected of stealing a Subaru Outback SUVthat had been parked the previous eveningand overnight on Sherbrooke St. near thecorner of Kitchener Ave.

The arrest was made before the owner ofthe Subaru was even aware that his vehicle

had been stolen, said Pimentel.

Daycare broken into

A heatwave that swept through Mon-treal in early September, leading manypeople to leave their windows open, is be-lieved to have been a contributing factor ina break-in that took place during the earlyhours of September 2 at a children’s day-care on Hillside Ave.

According to a police report, a burglaralarm went off at the daycare at aroundhalf past midnight. Although an alarmcompany official responded, he left afterfinding that everything at the scene ap-peared to be normal.

But a daycare employee who turned upto open the facility around 6:30 am foundtwo windows on one side of the buildingwere open. While the employee also founda cupboard door ajar, nothing in it or else-where in the daycare appeared to havebeen stolen.

Upon further investigation, police offi-

cers found that an outer screen on one ofthe windows had been removed. They con-cluded that because of the weather some-one at the daycare neglected to shut thewindows at the end of the previous day.

An undisclosed amount of money wasstolen from cash registers at a Greene Ave.business during a burglary committed be-tween September 10 and 12, while the staffwas away on Sunday.

After closing up around 5:30 pm on Sat-urday evening, the employee returned onMonday morning around 9:30 am to findthat the business’ rear entrance doorwouldn’t open normally. Entering throughthe front door, she found that the cash reg-isters had been emptied.

“They don’t know how someone got inbecause the alarm didn’t go off,” said Sta-tion 12 officer Stéphan Laperrière. Headded that the only sign of forced entrywas that the key to the rear door no longerworked as it should, suggesting the lockhad been tampered with.

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Homage to the Gewurzs raises funds for MADA

Bob Perras’ valet team valiantly man-aged the Manhattan-style traffic mayhemon Peel St. as guests arrived June 7 at LeWindsor for the homage to Brenda andSam Gewurz. Some guests simply lefttheir cars and walked a block to arrive ontime through the traffic chaos.

In spite of initial disgruntlement aroundstreet construction, guests were soon smil-ing. The eve was amazing; it was held toraise funds for the MADA CommunityCentre. Arriving ladies wore smart cocktailsuits or dresses.

Co-chairs were Renee Lieberman andHelen Cons. Amid the sartorially stylishwere hard-working committee members,local res Diane and Jack Altman, Thereseand Jacob Attias, Renee Baltuch, Wendyand Danny Bensoussan, Etty and RalphBienstock, Dale and Nat Boidman, Susanand Steven Cummings, David Douek,

Penny and Gordon Echenberg, JulieShugarman and Ilan Gewurz, Marc Gold,Michael Goodman, Saryl and StephenGross, Westmounters Marlene and JoelKing, Dean Mendel, Joseph Paperman,Barry Pascal, Donald Pearson, Barbara andStanley Plotnick, Mona and Sol Polachek,Danny Ritter, Bluma and Mark Rosen-stein, Vivian and Howard Stotland and Su-san and Jonathan Wener.

Westmounters noted enjoying the cock-tail hour included Evi and Ralph Schachter,Susan and Peter Varadi, Meryl and Shel-don Elman, Barbara and Phil Silverberg,Sheila and Arthur Greenspoon, MarvinEpstein, Dana and William Bell, Helenaand Eddie Wiltzer, Jane and Herschel Se-gal, Alta and Harvey Levenson and Arleneand Henri Abitan.

The Windsor’s hallway and main roomwere decorated with simple bouquets:Charming yellow tulips poked out amidstbright sunflowers and white roses.

Both Gewurzs spoke eloquently aboutMADA, whose mission is to help people inneed with the basic necessities of life whilehelping them become self-sufficient mem-bers of a community.

Emcee Ilan Gewurz (son of Brenda andSam) introduced child prodigy pianist,Ethan Bortnick, who reportedly has raisedover $40 million for charities around theworld.

The audience of over 600 guests alongwith generous sponsors helped raise $2.2million, which goes to MADA’s capitalcampaign – the financing of its new com-munity centre on Decarie. Last year,MADA served more than 330,000 mealsand re-donated more than $1.6 millionworth of food to other food banks and non-profit organizations in the city. Sponsors ofthe evening included founders ($500 to$999,000) – the Cons Family, Helen andStanley, Debbie and Ronnie and Leslie andMichael) and Brenda and Samuel Gewurz,and benefactors ($200 to $499,000) Saryland Stephen Gross and family, and theMashaal family.

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This weekend, Art Westmount 2016 willshowcase nine authors as well as artists atVictoria Hall. A first for the popular bien-nial event, I spoke to writer Muriel Gold onwhat visitors can expect, as well as herown interesting work.

On stage

At the suggestion of Gold and others,participation by Westmount authors at ArtWestmount become areality. For the firsttime, visitors to Victo-ria Hall will be able tobrowse publishedworks and chat to Goldand her fellow authors:Marie-Andrée Cantil-lon, Susan Doherty,Mary Hagerman,Sidonie Kazenel (Kerr),Nicole Peretz, CoraSiré, Alfred Garson,and Donna Yates Adel-man.

Visitors can attend areading by each author,scheduled on either Sat-urday or Sunday after-noon in the WestmountRoom of the West-mount Public Library.

As a writer, Gold isrecognized for her workon Quebec theatre his-tory. Named to the Or-der of Canada in 2007 for her contribu-tion to drama and theatre, Gold was theartistic director of the Saidye Bronfman

Centre Theatre from 1972 to 1980. There,with a belief that “drama can serve as abridge between cultures,” she introducedMichel Tremblay’s novels to English the-atre goers. Her book on the centre, A Giftfor their Mother: The Saidye Bronfman Cen-tre Theatre – A History, was published in2007.

Gold continues to write on Quebec the-atre and The Dramatic Legacy of DorothyDavis and Violet Walters, The Montreal Chil-dren’s Theatre 1933-2009 was published in2010. Her most recent book on MadameJean-Louis Audet (Yvonne Duckett),“known for her acting studio,” is currentlybeing published in French.

For her books, Gold draws on her owndirecting experience, such as the 2000 pro-

duction of SamGesser’s Fineman’s Dic-tionary at Place desArts, as well as her aca-demic expertise. Sheholds a PhD in theatrefrom Concordia, as wellas a MA in develop-mental drama fromMcGill.

Writer’s advocate

A former TheatreArts instructor at Daw-son, McGill and Con-cordia, Gold’s career asa writer started with apaper on her innovativeacting technique “thefictional family.” Firstpublished in a Britishdrama journal, when acolleague expressed hisinterest in knowingmore, Gold replied:“Why, that would take a

whole book!” However, she persevered andThe Fictional Family in Drama, Educationand Groupwork was published in 1991.

As this technique is also of interest topsychologists and educators, Gold also au-thored Therapy Through Drama: The Fic-tional Family in 2000, as well as DramaAcross the Curriculum: The Fictional Familyin Practice in 2010.

An advocate of journal writing, Gold be-lieves that “Every one has a story that is ofinterest to someone.” She herself re-counted her parents’ lives and courtshipbased on their correspondence during thepivotal years 1912 to 1920 in Tell Me WhyNights are Lonesome, published in 2004.

Throughout her career, Gold has alsoorganized and led writers’ workshops,many on “staged reading.” With a belief infostering “supportive and nurturing envi-ronments,” she continues to conduct work-shops in Florida each winter.

New tradition

Gold hopes that authors at Art West-mount 2016 will “catch on” and attract fu-ture participants. As for Westmounters,this is a wonderful opportunity to listen tonine local story tellers, speak one on onewith the authors and purchase personallyautographed books.

Muriel Gold on Art Westmount and more

Muriel Gold at Victoria Hall, September 17.

In conversation

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Hits parked car toavoid large truck

A patroller came across a northboundcar that had hit another parked outside 451Clarke September 14, Public Security offi-cials said. The driver stated the accident oc-curred as she tried to avoid hitting a largeoncoming truck heading south at about1:16 pm. She was a Westmount resident.

Four get ticketstotalling $745

Three young people at the Summit look-out September 14 were issued tickets for$149 for consuming alcohol, Public Secu-rity officials said. A fourth, who was notseen drinking, was ticketted $77 for pos-sessing alcohol. One of the group was alsogiven a ticket for $221 for failing to identifyhimself, which required police interven-tion. None lived in Westmount.

In two separate incidents September 14and 15, patrollers issued tickets for $77 tofour people for breaking the midnight parkcurfew, also at the lookout.

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