The Westmount examiner, 4 août 1994, jeudi 4 août 1994

[" Making all of Westmount your home Vol.LXVI, Westmount, Quebec, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 No.31 Finishing touches Gardener Tony Cavallaro puts the final touches on flowers near the municipal arena in prepartion for the arrival of judges for the provincial Villes, Villages et Campagnes Fleuris competition.Three judges toured the city Tuesday.Photo by PETER McCABE \u2018Chagnon expected to give Dawson expansion green light tomorrow By BERNIE O'NEILL The Examiner Education Minister Jacques Chagnon bas called a press conference for 11 a.m.tomorrow at Dawson College, at which he is expected to give the long-awaited go-ahead to a - $22-million expansion project at the school.When asked the subject of the, press conference, Chagnon's ._ Connie riding assistant, Is announcement.in his capacity ; as a minister.\u201d \u201cThe CEGEP is in the new riding of Westmount-St.Louis, which thc minister hopes to win for the Liberals in the Sept.12 election.The expansion would be the fourth and final phase of a 10- year expansion project at the ' Mother House at Atwatér and Sherbrooke.: Chagnon is an alumnus of ali ; cordia University and.the Uni- \u2019 \u201cversité de Montréal.On Monday, Chagnon made an informal campaign stop at the Contactivity seniors centre in Westmount, meeting with local residents.Placido said the MNA will likely schedule one public appearance in the riding per week for the remaining six weeks of the campaign.: (For more.on Dawson expan- a» MUCTC may.press charges: against resident who halted hus MUCTC fax uses expletive to tell resident where to go By CAROLINE KUTSCHKE The Examiner A Lansdowne Avenue resident\u2019s summer letter campaign against speeding buses on his street took a dramatic turn last Wednesday night when he stopped a bus in between Lansdowne and Westmount avenues and began berating the driver, allegedly hitting the bus with a small shovel.That resulted in a police investigation, a Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation driver on sick leave and the possibility of vandalism charges.Lansdowne resident Jon Feldman, a Montreal lawyer, has been complaining about what he says are speeding buses on his street.He claims that the worst times of speeding are during rush hours and that the buses also don\u2019t always stop at the stop signs.He says speeding buses pose a danger to the neighbourhood, especially to young children.He has also monitored bus speeds by trailing them in his car and taking down licence plate numbers.The father of two also launched a petition in his neighborhood demanded the city and the MUCTC deal with his complaint.Feldman admitted to the incident in a letter to MUCTC director-gen- eral Trefflé Lacombe the next day.He also sent a copy to THE EXAMINER.Feldman says he stopped the driver \u201cbecause of her speed and recklessness.\u201d In a bizarre twist to the situation, Feldman had one of his own letters faxed back to him from the MUCTC communications department with the words: \u201cF _ _k U!\u201d written along the bottom.\u201cIt\u2019s certainly nol acceptable,\u201d said MUCTC spokesman Pierre Laporte, adding that if indeed someone had sent the fax from the MUCTC, \u201cIt\u2019s an idiot; it\u2019s not brilliant.You can be sure we're looking into it.\u201d Feldman accuses the MUCTC and Lacombe of being unable to control the drivers and notes that he has already made a formal complaint.He also threatened to file an injunction against Lacombe and the MUCTC if nothing was done about one particular driver he says was speeding.(See RESIDENT, page 3) Helmets now mandatory for skaters, cyclists But sidewalk ban dropped due to public opposition By CAROLINE KUTSCHKE The Examiner In-line skaters now have to wear helmets in Westmount, but another proposed bylaw to ban them from the sidewalks has been shelved.The city speedily adopted the helmet rule \u2014 which also applies to cyclists \u2014 at a council meeting Monday night, but it annulled a motion to adopt a bylaw banning in-line skating from sidewalks, after a debate that included opposition from the audience.City councillors also adopted a bylaw banning in-line skaters from city parks except on the bicycle path.Fines under the bylaws range from $25 to $2,000, depending on the number of infractions.Montreal Urban Community police and Westmount's Public Security officers are authorized to enforce the law.A third bylaw adopted by city (See SIDEWALK, page 2) INDEX Between the Lines .7 Classified.12 Community calendar .2 Editorial een 6 Examining the files \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.7 Fire lOZ \u2026\u2026u\u2026vuvsveconsenserceneaneencence 8 Mayor\u2019s column \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026 6 MP's ColUMn \u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026rseses 6 This Week\u2019s Westmounter .9 Police 0g ere 4 SPOTIS ce wssecrsrosssemmnensenenensennsrs IA 2 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 BS VILLE DE | ghee CITY OF PROCHAINE SEANCE DU CONSEIL LE 13 SEPTEMBRE 1994, 20h00 NEXT COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 13 1994 - 8:00 p.m.ER HEURES D\u2019AFFAIRES D\u2019ETE - 1994 PERIODE: DU LUND! 6 JUIN AU VENDREDI 2 SEPTEMBRE 1994 INCLUSIVEMENT SERVICES ADMINISTRATIFS - HÔTEL DE VILLE ET ANNEXE: - DU LUNDI AU JEUDI INCLUSIVEMENT: 8h00 À 16h30 - VENDREDI: 8h00 À 13h00 SUMMER OFFICE HOURS - 1994 PERIOD: BEGINNING MONDAY.JUNE 6, AND ENDING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1994, INCLUSIVE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES - CITY HALL AND ANNEX: - MONDAY TO THURSDAY INCLUSIVE: 8:00 AM.TO 4:30 P.M.- FRIDAY: 8:00 AM.TO 1:00 P.M.HOTEL DE VILLE / CITY HALL 1333, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Westmount, H3Z 1E2 BUREAU DU MAIRE/MAYOR'S OFFICE BUREAU Du DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL DIRECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE BUREAU DU GREFFIER/CITY CLERK'S OFFICE SERVICE DES FINANCES/FINANCE DEPARTMENT SERVICE DE LA CONSTRUCTION ET DE LAMENAGEMENT/ BUILDING & PLANNING DEPARTMENT SERVICE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS/PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Génie/Engineering e Voirie, Parcs \u2014 24 heures/Roads, Parks \u2014 24 hours 989-5311 ANNEXE DE L'HÔTEL DE VILLE/CITY HALL ANNEX 15/19, rue Stanton, Westmount H3Y 3B1 RESSOURCES HUMAINES/HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICE DE L'INFORMATIQUE/INFORMATION SYSTEMS SERVICES DE PROTECTION/PROTECTIVE SERVICES Feu/Fire ET/AND Sécurité publique/Public Security 989-5208 989-5215 989-5222 989-5263 989-5251/989-5318 989-5249 989-5219 COUR MUNICIPALE/MUNICIPAL COURT 21, rue Stanton, Westmount H3Y 3B1 POLICE - Station 23 21, rue Stanton, Westmount H3Y 381 989-5260 280-2223 BIBLIOTHEQUE/LIBRARY 4574, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Westmount H3Z 1G1 VICTORIA HALL 4626, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Westmount H3Z 1G1 SERVICE DES SPORTS ET LOISIRS/SPORTS & RECREATION 4675, rue Ste-Catherine ouest, Westmount H3Z 1S4 SERVICE DE L'ÉNERGIE ÉLECTRIQUE/LIGHT & POWER Appels d'affaires / Business Calls Pannes d'électricité - 24 heures / Power Outage - 24 hours.BUREAU DES ACHATS/PURCHASING OFFICE 11, rue Bethune, Westmount H3Z 2L2 989-5201 EEE INCENDIE/FIRE POLICE AMBULANCE 989-5300 989-5226 989-5353 989-5400 989-5245 Community Calendar is a listing of happenings in Westmount.Please mail announcements to THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER, 210 Victoria Ave., Westmount, Que., H3Z 2M4 or fax: 484- 6028.Compiled by Yvonne LeBlanc Thursday, Aug.4 Visual Arts Centre; Registration on now for summer courses.Youth Program (4 to 17 years).Two-week courses given 3 times a week starting Aug.9.Choose from the following courses: Explorations (4 to 5 years), Look & Learn (6 to 7 years), Painting & Drawing (9 to 12 years), Glorious Mud (12 to 17 years).The Centre is located at 350 Victoria.Info: 488- 9558.Zoological Montreal; Society of Whale watching Sidewalk ban shelved .(Continued from page 1) council requires in-line skaters participating in Westmounl\u2019s recreation programs for the sport and those using city facilities to wear helmets and gloves.The issue of banning in-line skating from sidewalks remains difficult for the city to grapple with, Mayor Peter Trent stressed several times during the meeting.\u201cThe jury is still out,\u201d he said.Banning in-line skaters from commercial streets may only be \u201ca third option,\u201d he added.The issue of banning in-line skating from sidewalks remains difficult for the city to grapple with, Mayor Peter Trent stressed several times during the meeting.\u201cThe jury is still out,\u201d he said.Banning in-line skaters from commercial streets may only be \u201ca third option,\u201d he added.But despite Trent's comments, councillors present voiced serious reservations about the ban.In the end, councillors withdrew the motion - generating applause from local in-line skaters in the audience.Councillors instead agreed help form a committee to look for alternatives to banning in-line skating from sidewalks.Councillor James Wright encouraged the public to talk to the city and councillors on the subject.He and councillor Karin expeditions Aug.12 to 14 and Aug.26 to 28.Info: 845-8317.Sunday, Aug.7 Repercussion Theatre; Shakespeare-In-The-Park Festival presents Twelfth Night, 8:30 p.m.Westmount Park.Pay what you can donation, bring your own lawn chair.Info: 485-6000.Summer Concerts in Westmount Park; Mount Royal Saxophone Quartet; Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxophones, Classical and Light Classical and Popular Music.2 to 4 p.m.Info: 931-8046.Monday, Aug.8 The Film Society Screening: Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) in 3-D at 7 p.m.4450 Sherbrooke St.West.2nd Floor.Info: 938-5252.Temple Emanu-El-Beth- Sholom; Rabbi David Goldberg will lead a discussion on \u201cTraditions of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur\u201d.Time: 11:30 a.m.to 1:30 p-m.Lunch: 12-12:30 p.m.395 Elm St.Info: 937-3575.Tuesday, Aug.9 Repercussion Theatre; they can to dissuade people from going on the sidewalks,\u201d especially around heavy traffic areas like Sherbrooke Street and Victoria Avenue and along Greene Avenue.The elderly are terrified and are at risk from in-line skaters on the sidewalks, he added.Young in-line skaters \u201cshould know better\u201d than to skate from the top of Victoria Avenue to Sherbrooke and should wear proper equipment, he said.Very young children are also left to skate on streets without parental supervision, Wright added.\u201c| simply cannot support the prohibition of in-line skating on all public sidewalks,\u201d councillor Herbert Bercovitz commented.\u201cIt puts in-line skaters in undue danger and puts them in for more danger than the people we want to protect, namely pedestrians.\u201cIt\u2019s totally unacceptable,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cit\u2019s unfortunate that there are no places or thoroughfares for in-line skating.\u201d The city hasn\u2019t had time to look at a sufficient number of alterma- tives, councillor Karin Marks said, agreeing that in-line skaters are in danger on the road.\u201cI think with further discussion and other commentaries we may come up with a better bylaw,\u201d said Marks, who added she had never changed her mind so many \u201cI'm not prepared to support this until other possibilites are looked at,\u201d agreed councillor Shakespeare-In-The-Park Festival presents Twelfth Night, 8:30 p.m.Westmount Park.Pay what you can donation, bring your own lawn chair.Info: 485-6000.The Film Society Screening: Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) in 3-D at 7 p.m.4450 Sherbrooke St.West.2nd Floor.Info: 938-5252.Chess Club in the library at Centre Greene, 1090 Greene Ave.5:30 to 9:30 p.m.every Tuesday.Special section for children 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.Info: 931-6202.Westmount Recreation Dept.Walking Club, fitness walkers, 6:30 p.m.Meet in the arena.Intermediate Ballet Classes, Tuesdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m.Info: 989- 5212.Wed., Aug.10@ The Film Society Screening: Creature From The Black Lagoon in 3-D at 7 p.m.4450 Sherbrooke St.West.2nd Floor.Info: 938-5252.Westmount Swim Team meet; Westmount at Park LaSalle.Warmup starts at 6:30 p.m.Meet begins at 7 p.m.Swimmers not present by 6:30 p.m.are disqualified.= = Nicolas Matossian.\u201cWe have consensus - to vote against (the bylaw),\u201d a relieved councillor David Laidley added.Resident and longtime in-line skater Peter McGibbon commended the city for holding off on the sidewalk ban and said he was willing to sit on the committee to look for alternatives.In-line skating provides a good work out, is uplifting and a great form of transport and \u201cnot the type of thing you can have one, two or three meetings on and have major vote that would affect people's lives for a long time,\u201d McGibbon told the council.He also encouraged councillors and the mayor to try the sport, saying they would understand it better.McGibbon asked who on council had already tried in-line skating.Only councillors Gai! Johnson and Matossian put up their hands.The city isn\u2019t against in-line skating, Marks told McGibbon, adding that the question is how to do it safely.Trent said later he'd like to see other modes of transport other than vehicles take back the asphalt.\u201cThe problem is cars,\u201d mayor said.\u201cThat\u2019s the real sue.\u201d Resident Mimi Cukier agreed and said in-line skating is just as important as cycling.\u201cIt\u2019s an important social thing for kids in Westmount,\u201d Cukier said.\u201cThey're with their friends.\u201d Member Canadian Community Member Marks invited experienced in-line HELPING THE WORLD skaters to sit on the committee.\\ WRITE NOW Self-sufficiency through lteracy \u201cThe more input the better,\u201d times over a bylaw.o in tng developing world Wri ght said 2e For information, call 1-800-661-2633 , .in He added that he hoped Public Security officers would \u201cdo what The Westmount Examiner is: Editorial Dept: 484-5610 Published by Publications 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Régionaux du Québec Foes as Freeze on restaurants is official, pending study By BERNIE O\u2019NEILL ' The Examiner A freeze on new restaurants \u2014 pending a study \u2014 got the seal of approval after a public consultation meeting this week, with council pledging to come back in three months with its findings.Only one property owner spoke out against the restaurant ban, saying it has hindered negotiations with a prospective tenant wanting er a bakery.erry Kocisko, one of the owners of 1336 Greene Ave., said residents of Westmount are entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of their homes without noise, traffic and parking problems.\u201cBut the bylaw is so broad it affects commercial viability.\u201d Kocisko said the real problem was \u201ccertain establishments disguised as cafés when they are really bars.\u201d This is the issue the city should address, he said.He called the bylaw as it has been drafted \u201coverkill.\u201d \u201cWe fail to see how a bakery that serves a sandwich will create noise, create hardship,\u201d he said.In response, Mayor Peter Trent the bylaw was not intended to discourage the opening of a bakery.He said the city would look into a strict definition for what constitutes a restaurant.\u201cPerhaps there could be a way of tightening it up so that the net is not as large as it appears,\u201d Trent said.George Alevisatos, who operates Catering by George on Greene Avenue, and lives on Olivier Avenue in Westmount, suggested a simple definition: if there\u2019s eating on the premises, it's a restaurant.\u201cEating on the premises means washrooms, licences, inspectors, the whole gamut,\u201d he said.As both a resident and a local business owner, Alevisatos said he was torn on the issue.\u201cI don\u2019t like the racket, but I like the money,\u201d he said.\u201cAnother honest Westmounter,\u201d joked Mayor Trent.The mayor added that a city has few tools to deal with the issue.\u201cThe laws we have are blunt,\u201d he said.\u201cWe are given extremely rough wood to build with.\u201c[The freeze] is the best solution given the powers Quebec gives us.We feel that a freeze, perhaps temporary, will let us go from there.\u201d Councillor Karin Marks stressed that all restaurants that currently exist will be able to continue to exist and successive tenants will have the right to operate a restaurant in the same premises.Marks also stressed that there was no one restaurant, such as Marcos and Pepe's or the planned \u201cMess Hall\u201d on Sherbrooke Street, that prompted the city to act.\u201cWe want to create a balance,\u201d Marks said.She said when residents first came forward the city decided to take stock of the number of restaurants.While the number has doubled in 10 years, she said that in some ways that\u2019s a good thing in that they were there for the use of residents.But with them came noise and other problems.Café-terrace rules sent back for review Westmount will take more time to come up with just the right recipe for planned controls on café-terraces, following a public consultation meeting this week.And at least one councillor questioned whether the restrictions were necessary at all.\u201cl\u2019d like to inquire about how many noise complaints we've had,\u201d councillor Herbert Bercovitz said.City director-general Bruce St.Louis said the complaints have been \u201cin multiples of 10.\u201d The main concern raised by restaurant owners was the proposed 10 p.m.closing hour.\u201cIt\u2019s difficult as a restaurant on great nights to ask people to eat up or not order at 9:30 when they don\u2019t go out till late as it is,\u201d said Jim Ross of Bistro on the Avenue, noting the short summer season.Ross said his terrace on Greene Avenue currently closes at around midnight.Likewise Claude Legault of Marcos and Pepe's raised con- cems.He said his establishment has been used as a \u201cpunching bag\u201d over the years on this issue.But he said his bar-restaurant on Sherbrooke has done a lot to accommodate neighbours, including changing garbage pickup times, putting a sound-barrier on a back fan, and limiting terrace operating hours.\u201cAfter 10 years we\u2019re getting it down to a science,\u201d he said.He said in the last three summers they've received just 10 complaints.But Mayor Trent reminded him of the Prince Albert Avenue residents who came out to complain earlier this year.\u201cWe've heard equal numbers of residents complaining,\u201d he said.Antiquités Phyllis Friedman Quality Antiques and Accessories Interior Design Service Legault said the terrace brings in about seven per cent of his business over the year, and the front terrace brings in about 12 per cent of his volume.\u201cI'd like to avoid this situation on the side streets and not be a punching bag,\u201d Legault said.\u201cYou\u2019ve become a lightning rod,\u201d Trent said.Said councillor Marks: \u201cThis may be because you are more active in the alcohol-serving area\u201d although she agreed Marcos had taken steps to accommodate neighbours.She also said she had heard from at least one parent who said she preferred that her teenagers \u201clearned how to drink\u201d at Marcos right here in Westmount rather than at some bar downtown.Don\u2019t delay, (LIEU TS RL S Pr PEST CONTROL à 5012 Sherbrooke St.West Westmount, 483-6185 Member Canadian Antique Dealers Association The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 - 3 ETE RE: PT * hs Bi - This bus was spotted Sunday night using its brakes all the way down the hill to keep to the speed limit.Photo by PETER McCABE Resident stops bus .(Continued from page 1) Feldman could not be reached for comment this week.His office says he has gone on vacation.According to police reports, the driver called her supervisor for help when Feldman .arted yelling and banging on the door of the bus and then on the driver's side window.Her supervisor called the police.The driver also switched on an emergency communication device which recorded the incident.The police report adds that Feldman also hit the back of the bus with a pooper-scooper shovel.The bus driver, who was running the route for the first time, is now on sick leave, Laporte said.\u201cShe\u2019s still in nervous shock,\u201d Laporte said, adding that the Commission de 1a Santé et de 1a Sécurité de Travail is looking into the incident.It\u2019s possible the MUCTC may take action against Feldman for vandalism, Laporte added.Feldman\u2019s behaviour last Wednesday was \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d and will no longer be tolerated, said Lacombe in an telephone interview Tuesday.\u201cDamage to the bus is being assessed,\u201d Lacombe said, \u201cand you can be sure that he will get an invoice for the damage.\u201d He added that the damage was believed to be minor.Lacombe added that he doesn\u2019t yet know whether the company will press charges for vandalism.\"We'll have to wait and see,\u201d he said.The radio device clearly showed that Feldman \u201cprovoked fear and panic among the passengers,\u201d he said, adding that some passengers clearly thought he was crazy.\u201cI don't mind if people complain occasionally,\u201d Lacombe said, noting that the MUCTC has a group of investigators who always look into complaints immediately.\u201cIn general, I think our record is excellent,\u201d he said.In a letter sent to Feldman on Monday, Lacombe states that the MUCTC did immediately investigate his claims and that it warned all drivers on the route to observe the speed limit.The speed limit was also changed from 40 kilometres per hour to 30 km/h and additional MUCTC signs were also posted.Lacombe adds that MUC police radars picked up no speeding buses, but did catch several speeding Lansdowne Avenue residents.The driver\u2019s union is also looking into the matter, but so far isn't taking any action.* 24 Hour Service ¢ Airport Reservations e Luxury Cars at Regular Rates (By Request) Office Located in Westmount Efficient & Personalized Service Atwater \u2018Westmount 1 Medé-Centre rives 9359-1860 4040 St.Catherine St.West, Westmount (opposite Place Alexis Nihon) ATWATER 4 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 Banks hands over $4,000 for fake loto cheque The Banque Nationale branch in Westmount handed over $4,000 10 a woman in exchange for her fake Loto Quebec cheque last week.The bank discovered the chèque was false last Friday, a week after the woman opened an account at the bank and several days after the bank gave her the money.The woman claimed she was going to buy furniture with the cash.Police are investigating the suspect on the wrong side of the winning ticket.The woman was about 25 years old, French-speak- ing, blond, white, about 130 pounds and about 5 feet, three inches tall.Allegations of sexual assault made hy former resident Montreal Urban Community police are investigating allegations by a Montreal woman that her ex- husband sexually assaulted her young son and daughter when the family was living in Westmount.The alleged assaults are alleged to have started in 1992, The couple have since divorced and moved.The father, who has custody of the two children, now four and five years old, lives in the West Island.Thieves break in to Visual Arts Centre Thieves broke into the Visual Aris Centre on Victoria Avenue and stole to computers and a printer wor.1 a total of $3,000 from the third floor sometime last weekend.Operators discovered the theft Sunday morning.The thieves apparently used a piece of wel paper in the lock to prevent it from locking, police say.and entered later.They also broke through security bars on the third floor.* Thieves also broke into a apartment in a de Maisonneuve building and into two apartments AVIS PUBLIC est par les présentes donné à tous ceux qui peuvent être concernés que le Règlement 1162 intitulé «R EGLEMENT POUR RENDRE OBLIGATOIRE LE PORT D'UN CASQUE PROTECTEUR PAR LES CYCLISTES ET LES PATINEURS À ROUES ALIGNÉES» a été adopté par le Conseil municipal de la Ville de Westmount, lors d'une séance générale tenue à l'Hôtel de Ville le 1er août 1994.L'objet et le but dudit règlement est, notamment : 1) d'exiger que tous les cyclistes et les patineurs à roues alignées, circulant à Westmount, portent un casque protecteur approuvé; 2) de stipuler que l'application de ce règlement incombe au corps de Sécurité publique et au service de Police de la CUM; et 3) d'établir des amendes en cas d'infraction à ce règlement.Ledit règlement entre en vigueur conformément à la loi.Toute personne intéressée peut consulter ledit règlement et en obtenir copie au bureau du greffier de la ville de Westmount, 4333, rue Sherbrooke ouest, Westmount, Québec, du lundi au vendredi, inclusivement, durant les heures d'affaires, soit de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30 (pour la période du 6 juin 1994 au 2 septembre 1994, les heures d'affaires d'été sont: du lundi au jeudi de 8 h 00 à 16h30 et le vendredi de 8 h 00 à 13h00).DONNÉ à Westmount, Québec, ce 2e jour d'août 1994.Me Marie-France Paquet Greffier de la Ville Westmount AVIS D'ADOPTION NOTICE OF ADOPTION REGLEMENT BY-LAW 1162 1162 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to all who may be concerned that Bylaw 1162 entitled \u201cBY-LAW TO RENDER THE WEARING OF A PROTECTIVE HELMET MANDATORY FOR CYCLISTS AND INLINE SKATERS\" was adopted by the Municipal Council of Westmount at a general sitting held at the City Hall on 1st August 1994.The object and purpose of the said By-law is, among other things: 1) to require all cyclists and in-line skaters, in Westmount, to wear an approved protective heimet; 2) to stipulate that the enforcement of this by-law is the responsibility of the Public Security Unit and the MUC Police Department; and 3) to establish fines for infractions to this by-law.The said by-law comes into force according to law.Any interested person may consult the said By-law and obtain copies thereof at the Office of the City Clerk of Westmount, 4333 Sherbrooke Street West, Westmount, Quebec, from Monday to Friday, inclusive, during regular office hours, 8:30 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.(for the period of 6th June 1994 to 2nd September 1994, summer office hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:00 a.m.to 4:30 p.m.and Friday, 8:00 a.m.to 1:00 p.m.).GIVEN at Westmount, Quebec, this 2nd day of August 1994.Me Marie-France Paquet City Clerk.in a Kensington Avenue duplex July 27.In the latter case, suspects broke through two doors at the rear of the building to enter the first apartment and broke through a window in the rear to enter the second.The tenants in both homes were away at the time and police don\u2019t know what was stolen.* Police are hoping fingerprints left behind from a break in at another de Maisonneuve home between July 25 and 26 will point them to the perpetrator.The suspects forced their way in through the rear kitchen window with a screwdriver.* An elderly Roslyn Avenue resident reported a break-in that occurred in his absence sometime between noon and 1:20 p.m.Thursday, July 26 after spotting one his windows wide open.The window where police believe the suspect entered had been left unlocked and the screen was torn off.Money was stolen from a purse left on a table.Car and pedestrian collide, blame sun \u2018The elderly driver of a car heading northwest from Metcalfe onto Sherbrooke and the young pedestrian he hit both blamed the sun for the accident at the intersection July 25.Both the driver, 64, and the victim, 24, crossed in opposite directions on a green light and both told police they didn\u2019t see the other.The 24-year-old victim, a Montreal resident, sustained a slight injury to her left knee.Urgences Santé took the woman to Montreal General Hospital.Get a good lock to prevent bike theft: police Get a solid bike lock to prevent your bike from being stolen, said Const.Serge Vien this week, in response to continuing weekly reports of bike thefts in Westmount.The U-shape is the best lock and will take a thief five to ten minutes to cut through, Vien said said.\u201cYou have to lock the bike in a place where it\u2019s easily seen and where there is a lot of lighting,\u201d he added.\u201cGet a good lock and lock the bike through the frame, not the wheel.\u201d Thieves will only take the rest of the bike and leave a wheel behind he said.Take normal precautions to protect against rapist: police Women who may be worried about three recent rapes in NDG should use normal precautions to protect themselves, although there is no specific danger in Westmount, police at Station 23 say.Police recommend that women lock their doors and windows at night, even in the heat, and don\u2019t open doors to strangers, especially if they're alone at night, crime prevention officer Const.Serge Vien said this week.Police won\u2019t give out any public warning here because there isn\u2019t enough evidence or even an adequate description for police to give to the media, Vien and a senior detective at Station 23 said last week.Issuing a public warning in Westmount based on the evidence police have now from a case in a nearby municipality would only create an unnecessary panic, explained Lt.-Det Charles Martel.A special unit has been set up at Station 15 to search for the attacker.Police reports so far describe the suspect only as a white male with dark hair, in his late 20s, between five foot eight and five foot 11 and about 165 pounds.He has threatened the women in English and in French.The man attacked the women on three separate days, between 3 a.m.and 6 a.m.and entered through unlocked windows in the front or backs of homes.In one case, the suspect removed an air conditioner to enter.\u2014-Caroline Election bumps council meeting Westmount's next city council meeting will be held Tuesday.September 13.The date has been moved 10 avoid a conflict with the provincial election, which has been called for Monday, September 12.Kutschke WESTMOUNT PARK CHURCH Lansdowne Avenue and de Maisonneuve Blvd, We will be closed for the month of August.Services resume Sept.4th REVEREND JAN JORGENSEN ORGANIST STEVE LAPLANTE Creative Corner St-Andrew's-Dominion-Douglas United Church The Boulevard at Lansdowne * 486-1165 BUSES 66 and 124 STOP AT DOOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 7th 10:30 a.m.Morning Worship \"WILL AND WISH\" Robert J.Shank Crib Corner and program for tots Coffee Hour following Service Ministers: Rev.Robert J.Shank Director of Music: Margaret de Castro Staff Association: Joyce Schaaf For information call : 937-1146 SYNAGOGUE CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM 450 Kensington Avenue Friday, August 5th Shabbat Candle Lighting 8:01 p.m.Mincha-Kabbalat Shabbat 6:45 p.m.Saturday, August 6th SHABBAT MFVARCHIM Shachrit (in the Chapel) 9:00 a.m.Mincha at 7:30 p.m.followed by Seudah Shlishit and Pirke Avot session, and Maariv Havdalah 9:04 p.m.Sunday, August 7th Shachrit 8:30 a.m.Mincha-Maariv 8:00 p.m.Monday, August 8th Shachrit 7:15 a.m.Tuesday-Friday, August 8th-August 12th Shachrit 7:30 a.m.Monday-Thursday, August 8th-August 11th Mincha-Maariv 8:00 p.m.COLLINS CLARKE MACGILLIVRAY FUNERAL HOME 5610 Sherbrooke St.W., Montreal 483-1870 FUNERAL DIRECTORS John B.Fraser \u2014 Manager Pre-arranged funeral information available upon request WHITE © Dawson expansion to be a quiet one?Keeping noise under wraps will be part of call for tenders, city says By BERNIE O\u2019NEILL The Examiner Residents dreading the thought of another major construction project at Dawson College can rest easier \u2014 or sleep in a little, for that matter.In response to residents\u2019 concerns about potential noise \u2014 especially before 7 a.m, and after 9 p.m.\u2014 Westmount city hall says it has been told their worries will be addressed when the school seeks bids from potential contractors.\u201cThe only concerns raised were about the noise of construction,\u201d councillor Karin Marks said of the expansion, which would be the fourth and final phase of a 10-year building project at the Atwater Street campus.by Dramatis Personae, Summertime rhymes Amy Rosenthal reads poetry in Westmount Park as part of a special evening of poetry readings presented hd @ Photo by PETER McCABE \u201cAnd I have received assurances that these concerns will be addressed in the tender calls.\u201d The proposed $22-million expansion would start next year and be complete by 1996.The project has apparently won the final blessing of the provincial cabinet and will be the subject of a press conference by Education Minister Jacques Chagnon on Friday.The CEGEP wants to build a gymnasium topped by labs and classrooms.There would also be a greenhouse and a student lounge with the goal of putting all its students under one roof.\u201cThis project has been through a lengthy process of design review,\u201d councillor Karin Marks said.There has been an impact study on the effect of incorporating students from the Selby Street campus into the main campus at At- water.There have also been two public consultation meetings about a minor zoning 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been a party member for two or three years.According to party leader Marian Grant, Cooper will be one of 10 candidates the party plans to run on the island of Montreal.\u2014 Bernie O\u2019Neill and Call IY MICHAEL LALLY Real Estate Agent For Professional Advice Personal Service, me at 482-6472 or 934-1818 A LUTTE ROYAL LEPAGE IR IL Aim Higher EXPOSING YOUR PROPERTY The typical real estate seller enlists the services of areal estate agency for several commonly known reasons.They include help in pricing the property, qualifying the prospects, showing the property, negotiating, preparing the necessary agreements, helping the buyer to obtain financing, and following through with a mass of details involved with each transaction.Aside from these, there is one additional - never to be overlooked advantage; EXPOSURE.The speed of the sale and the price obtained are directly proportional to the number of qualified prospects that are made aware of the property being offered.See what your Realtor will provide by way of exposure.What media will they use?Local newspaper?Brochures?Yellow pages?Metropolitan newspapers?Mail-outs?Will they cooperate with other brokers on a referral and co-broke basis.The agency giving you the best exposure, is generally going to do the best and fastest job for you.LE I \u201cReal Advertisement CE state By Reg Morden CONDO CORNER 200 Lansdowe - The #1 best buy in Westmount Vacant 2 s condo offers 3 bedrgome.1) Fully loaded 4e} lé appliances.Air iudned, central vacuum, 2: car garage.Now at $259,000 and will negotiate.3577 Atwater - fic FORen Sunrigu a TR apartment with views l'E rete month.Long leasp fred.3435 Prud\u2019homme - Amazing valuc! Very spacious, 0 sq.ft.condo offers Too bath.separat © room.Open fi 0 Ch to admire at $119,500\" If the thought of condo living appeals to you.please call me.Reg Morden, = RE/MAX Westmount inc.# 1330 Greene Avenue, Westmount.Telephone: 933-6781 or 937-7061 RE/MAX Westmount inc.broker li y 1993 PRIZE Winn 3 RADIAN Comm ét C UNIFR TH EARVW.ES TIM U 4 acer.sane Examiner Publisher: T.Bruce Stevenson Editor-in-Chief: Craig McKee Advertising Sales Director: Patrick Frye Circulation & Office Manager: Nancy Guitard Staff Reporters: Bernie O'Neill, Caroline Kutschke 210 Victoria Avenue, Westmount, PQ H3Z 2M4 Published by Publications Dumont (1988) Inc.CATIONS DUMONT (((3)) coseco Page 6- Vol.LXVI, No.31 Thursday, August 4\", 1994 Stopping buses hy force IS not the answer to speeding hings are getting out of hand on | Landsdowne Avenue as the fight between a resident and the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corp.gets unpleasant and, at times, silly.If you follow the correspondence between Landsdowne resident Jon Feldman and the MUCTC you might think World War 111 was about to break out.For Feldman, it seems that it has.Feldman has been writing irate letters to Trefflé Lacombe, director-general of the MUCTC for months now.In these letters, he claims that MUC buses are barrelling down his small street at speeds in excess of 40 miles per hour, quite a feat given that the small stretch where he lives is on a hill.Drivers sometimes go the whole way with their breaks on to be able to make the stop sign.Feldman is angry.lle's taking things seriously - 100 seriously.Things got nasty last week when Feld- man forced a bus to stop on the basis that il was going too fast.He called police and a complaint was filed.Feldman wants the driver disciplined while the MUCTC might bring charges of vandalism against Feldman.Now civil disobedience is a valid course of action to take as a protest when the laws in place fail.But to take this course one must be willing to accept the consequences for one\u2019s actions.In this case Feldman\u2019s action seems well out of proportion with the gravity of what is happening.He has no business stopping buses or anything else for that matter.He has gone through proper channels to make his complaint and one would hope that the problem in being looked into and while it\u2019s frustrating when youn don\u2019t get results, there's only so much you can do.Now we find out that the woman whose bus he stopped was on her first day on the route.She is now on sick leave as a result of the \u201cshock\u201d from the incident.Things took a turn for the sillier this week when Feldman had his most recent letter sent back to him by fax from the office of the MUCTC communications department.On the bottom of the letter, in big black letters, was the suggestion: F_kU! One would have to presume that this response to Feldman\u2019s action was not official.Obviously, had this come from anyone in a position of authority it would have to be condemned in the strongest possible terms.But that\u2019s probably not what happened.Someone at the MUC, fed up with Feldman and his complaints, decided to tell him where to go, anonymously.It is up to the MUCTC to find out who was responsible and to discipline them accordingly, if that's at all possible.One would hope that if the speeding problem is as bad as Feldman says it is that the MUCTC is sincerely doing everything it can to insure that its drivers respect the law, and the fact that they are working in a residential neighbourhood.But resorting to the kind of action Feldman has is irresponsible and not likely to achieve the results he is looking for.\u2014 Craig McKee Sidewalk skating stays alive t Monday night's city council Aree the mayor and his ouncil took time for some sober second thoughts did a very wise thing.In reversing an earlier intention to ban in-line skating oft city \u2018sidewalks, our elected officials decided to favour safety over convenience, at least for the time being.They responded to the point that banning the increasingly popular activity on sidewalks would force rollerbladers to take to the streets where they would be putting their own safety, and perhaps that of motorists as well, at risk.The proliferation of rollerblading is a hot topic these days with legitimate concerns being raised on both sides of the debate.Pedestrians, particularly seniors, have every right to be alarmed at the idea of skaters whizzing by them at break-neck speeds.But if that is the case, we should be regulating reckless skating the way we do reckless driving.In other words, don\u2019t punish everyone just to punish the guilty parties.By all means the council should look for alternatives but I think it will find its decision to shelve the ban a difficult one to reverse.\u2014 Craig McKee our Mayor Peter F.Trent says.A love affair ends?y last column on the subject of bikes and rollerblades got me thinking \u2014 once again \u2014 about the whole question of cars.How does an early-20th century city like Westmount deal with late-20th century modes of transport?How can we come to terms with the car?Our city is already scarred with parking aprons and retrofitted garage doors bunged in where windows used to be.People buy an Edwardian row house designed in a car- free era, then they expect to accommodate a whole stable of cars \u2014 one for each member of the family.Yet, if we can't adjust to the next century's mode of living, we risk becoming a historical preciosity.Unchanging, un- adaptable, and undesired.What follows is a personal view as to the evolving attitude towards the car in our society.I don't know if it's helpful in dealing with the local condition: but it might put things in context.Where is the car going, figuratively speaking?My view is that the days of the car as a cultural icon are numbered.The thrill is going.Cars are becoming a commodity.We used to produce idiosyncratic, sometimes even lovable cars.Now they have become, like burger joints, uniform offerings with untraceable lineages.Like many things in the 90s, we are given the illusion of choice.But I must say they really are dependable.our M.P.David Berger says.Small business report ready in September t's done.Perhaps I should say it's almost done.It is the report of the House of Commons Industry Committee on financing for Small and Medium Size Business.After working on it through July, the third draft is completed.Now, all that is left is fine tuning and committee approval.While I had hoped to complete the report earlier, it became apparent in early July that a lot more work was required.The committee had undertaken a very ambitious project.The closer we got to our goal, the more elusive it became.Further questions came up and I concluded that it was better to take our time, to carefully consider the evidence and recommendations than to submit a half-baked report.So, throughout July, I spent three or four days a week in Ottawa working with several researchers and obtaining additional The number and variety of marques have dropped like a stone over the last few decades.The death of hundreds of car companies led to the emergence of a handful of international players.American, Japanese, and European cars are now indistinguishable and interchangeable.Look at the variety back in 1960.Germany, while producing the muscular Mercedes-Benz 300SL, also made tiny cars putting out less than 20 horsepower: the magnificently-named Goggomobil and the eight-foot-long, one-cylinder Isetta.No one would dare make something like that today.England then produced a whole slew of marques: Hillman, Humber, M.G., Morris, Riley, Rover, Singer, Standard, Sunbeam, Triumph, Vauxhall, and Wolseley \u2014 not to mention a dozen specialty car manufacturers.All R.I.P'd.Even Canada, had cars (sort of): the Meteor Montcal and the Monarch Richelieu .with their pre-Trudeau bilingual names.The recent homogenization and internationalism of cars is nowhere more apparent than in their strange names, presumably chosen for their ersatz polyglot sound.Did some motor-car maven decree that henceforth all model names must end in \"a\"?1 give you samples of this lingua franca: Integra, Elantra, Sentra, Ciera, Supra, Micra, Optima, Altima, Ultima, Maxima, Serenia, Previa, Precidia, Celica, Cressida, Festiva, Achieva, Corsica, Lumina, Berretia, Corolla, Sonata, Stanza, Impreza, Jetta, Miata.They sound like something cranked out of a computer programmed for pig Latin.What's next: Pretencia?By the way, can you have two Sentrae?I'll get on to more down-to-earth stuff like traffic and parking next week.information.It might be useful to provide an example.One of the many issues we are dealing with is the role of labour-sponsored venture capital funds.In early July, I received a call from Fernand Daoust, president of the Solidarity Fund of the Quebec Federation of Labour.The Solidarity Fund provides venture capital, or \u201cdevelopment\u201d capital as the fund prefers to call it, to Quebec businesses.A representative of the fund had appeared before our committee.Based on the questions that had been put by members of the committee, Daoust was concerned about what our report would say on the subject.While not wanting to \u201cdictate\u201d what should be in the report, he thought I might benefit from a meeting with him and the managers of the fund.I assured him that our report would be balanced, but welcomed the opportunity to chat.After the meeting, I told the committee that we had to add more detail to our report on the subject of labour-sponsored funds.While the third draft was completed las week, more work remains to be done, including translation and editing in both languages.This will take up most of August.Our revised goal is (0 table the report in September.LAW is a reflection and a source of prejudice.It both enforces and suggests forms of bias.\u2014 Diane B.Schulder The Westmount Examiner EXAMI FI 50 years ago \u2026 August 4, 1944 TRAM STRIKE: Repair crews who have been digging up diverse intersections in the city during past months have ceased their duties, according to an announcement from the Montreal Tramways (@iypany.ong the more elaborate, unfinished repair jobs were those at the intersections of Victoria Avenue and Sherbrooke Street, which will remain torn up until the strike is called off.40 years ago August 6, 1954 CHAMBERS SLAMS FIRST CROQUET BALL: Attending the annual gathering in the southwest comer of the St.Antoine-Westmount riding, and knocking out the first ball at a croquet club operated by Tramways employees at the Glen, Egan Chambers, local Conservative candidate in the forthcoming federal by-election has stepped up his door-to-door and man-to-man campaign.From the Liberal camp there is little sound of action with the expected Westmount nominee, the Hon.George Marler, federal transport minister, holidaying at Metis.30 years ago August 7, 1964 GAZETTE EDITOR SPEAKS: Edgar Andrew Collard, distinguished antiquarian and editor of the Montreal Gazette, went back to the early days of Westmount in a speech to the Rotary Club.He painted a picture of a time when the Nuns from Guy Street had their cows driven along a country road that became Dorchester Street in Westmount and when cattle were received at Westmount Station, then at the foot of Abbott Avenue.20 years ago August 1, 1974 DOGS NOW BANNED FROM PLAYGROUNDS: Dogs are going to be off limits at any time on Westmount\u2019s playing fields, play areas for children, games areas and any other places designated by the city as playgrounds.This could include most of the city\u2019s parks.Besides further restricting Fido, the obtaining of a licence henceforth will require an application clearly identifying the animal.Charges for impounding dogs are also steeply increased.Unchanged are the fines, of up to $100 for each day of infraction.Ten years ago August 2, 1984 L ALS LOOK FOR BIGGER WIN: A host 0 eral Party celebrities and some 200 local Liberals met in Westmount Park United Church Monday night to wish Hon.Donald Johnston an even greater margin of victory in September than in his three previous election battles here.As expected, Mr.Johnson was acclaimed at the meeting as the Liberal Party candidate for St.Henri-Westmount in next month's federal election.One year ago August 5, 1993 MONTREALERS WANT TO JOIN WEST- MOUNT: To a group of Montrealers, the grass is greener in Westmount.So much so that 324 residents to the east of the city want to separate from Montreal and join Westmount to prevent their neighbourhood from becoming more densely developed.The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 - 7 inally \u2026 AUGUST \u2026 m favorite morrth.\u2026 Fin a treat % SP maT prey Had amas Picking the right tomatoes can do a lot for a relationship yourself sometimes by picking up on something that has eluded you for years, like blowing bubbles or riding a unicycle or picking out half- decent fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, or whatever it might be \u2014 suddenly you can do it.For some reason, \"bang!\" someone bonks you on the head and then the clouds part \u2014 and what was once hidden is graciously revealed.Lo and behold, as they say.Some greater being decides to reward you for giving it one more try and then \"ging!\" you can tap dance and play the cello and sing like Pavoratti and pick out perfect tomatoes, all at the same time.\u201cBeen doin\u2019 this for years!\u201d you tell the CBC interviewer who chases you around the stage.Soon you have your own series, \u201cThe Singing Tomato Picker,\u201d which network brass hale as, \u201cCanada\u2019s answer to Seinfeld.\u201d And so on.That's how big things can get if you give something one more (ry.It can change your life \u2014 love, marriage, your fortune, your batting average, your complexion.Nothing is impossible.Which is what I am hoping for, after an incident at the grocery store last week.I'm hoping for the same sort of turnaround.You see there's this girl I know whose heart seems to vacillate between wanting to marry me at the court house tomorrow afternoon wearing any old dress she might find in the closet and using a guy we plucked off the | funny how you can amaze street as a witness \u2014 on the one hand \u2014 while on the cther hand wanting to perhaps become betrothed some time far off in the distant future, maybe.We would have tied the knot years ago if a) I had for some reason become stinking rich or b) I had developed a few more favourable domestic traits, such as \"the trained fruit eye.\" That's her term for the ability to travel to a grocery store and come home with fruit and vegetable purchases that are in fact fit for human consumption - a skill that has eluded me to date.She tried to counsel me but it didn't help.When she wanted bananas to make her world-famous banana loaf that night for guests, I brought home green bananas, which are not fit for banana loaf that night, which was news to me.They are fit for banana loaf in two weeks.\u201cOh,\u201d I said.One time she needed some parsley and I bought spinach, which is also dark green leafy stuff, I told her, and then bowed my head and wandered off.In fact every time I came home with something it was the wrong thing.While she tried to keep a stiff upper lip, I knew that deep down she was disappointed.Here she had invested years in a relationship that might peter out because one of us was an inept shopper.And then suddenly, last week, I gave it one more try.And somehow I managed to pick out two tomatoes that were just about perfect.In fact they looked so good and smelled so good that I brought them home and put pepper on them and bit right into them like they were a couple of apples.They were delicious.Ripe, but not too ripe.Red, but not like a firetruck.Firm, but not overly.These were two plump, luscious, fleshy tomatoes calling out to me.\u201cI'm impressed,\u201d she said, her eyes sparkling.But could I do it again?After all, I'd picked them out, but I'd also just eaten them.We'd need more tomorrow.So we went together to a fruit store in N.D.G.\u2014 where to my horror there were about 100 tomatoes in a huge mound and none looked edible.I waded through the pile like a desperate man.And then, lo and behold, I found one \u2014 and then two! I couldn't believe it! Nor could she.Two perfect, round, ripe, red, delicious tomatoes.We put pepper on them and bit into them as soon as we got home.It was downright romantic.Now she wants to get married \u2014 not tomorrow at the court house, but soon.Which shows you the importance of giving it one more try.You never know what can happen.\u2014 8 - The Westmount Examiner, Thursday, August 4\", 1994 City to have parking policy by fall, Trent promises residents Wesunount residents frustrated homes may sec a city solution by by limited parking near their fall.Tel.: (514) 484-3586 : Petra S.Dando B.Sc., D.D.S.Chirurgien Dentiste - Dental Surgeon Early morning, lunchtime and early evening appointments available 4880 SHERBROOKE ST.W., SUITE 150 WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC H3Z TH1 Le Club du Village We are closed from July 19th to August 8th We will re-open on August 9th at 11:30 am.Have a Tues.-Fri.11:30 a.m.-11 p.m.Sat.5 p.m.-11 p.m.i happy summer! FULLY LICENSED CLOSED SUNDAYS & MONDAYS ; | (except for private parties) ! => 4 Somerville J * (corner Victoria) 485-2502 == AVIS PUBLIC est par les présentes donné a tous ceux qui peuvent étre concernés que le Règlement 1163 intitulé «