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t’s that time of year again, Pete’s Birthday Bash, Saturday March 4th, 2017! Prices have been slashed; the BBQ Festival has been set up and is ready to serve you the best of the best!

Food will be ‘cooked to perfection on Real Hardwood Maple Charcoal’.

The live music will be all day starting at 1pm going well into the night. We’ll start the festivities off at 1pm until midnight!

Traditionally Pete and his beautiful lady love Melanie fly off to Mexico for a few weeks every year around this time, leaving Smoke Meat Pete’s closed for one month. Working 7 days a week equals some sun and fun near the ocean and they both de-

serve some downtime.

While the cats are away, the mice don’t play; Pete’s Smoke Meat gets their annual scrub down.

Round up your buddies and head over to Pete’s Grand Opening Birthday Bash celebration on March 4th. If it is anything like last year and the year before you won’t want to miss it. Free parking, fabulous smoked meat, ribs and steak all at your fingertips and of course a line-up of close very talented friends singing and playing the best and the latest blues. Don’t forget the free birthday cake, it’s always yummy! Come on down March 4th, to Smoke Meat Pete’s!

History never gets old: For decades the Varvaro

Pete’s Big Birth Bash will be held next Saturday March 4th at 283 1st ave., Île Perrot Inset picture: Pete & Melanie family has had restaurants pearances, along with drinks", Al Palmer (Mon- only famous for his food and nightclubs running many more international treal Journalist), once but he had a wide variety Imagine that, of costumers, including Al through their veins, they stars. She remembers her wrote. eat, sleep and breathe the father took it over and strongest drinks which Pacino, Celine Dion and culinary and entertain- had it going until 1962 or probably means; they did- Mordecai Richler.

Smoke Meat Pete ment world in and out- 63. Back then it was all n’t water them down, 514-425-6068 side of Montreal. Ile the fashion to attend those were the days.

Pete, his brothers and 283 1st.

Ave in L’ile Perrot Perrot’s Smoke Meat Pete cabaret clubs. The staff For more info give them comes from a long line of wore black and red, Aunt sister may have not been Varvaro men in the busi- Anna remembers bits and old enough or even born a call or visit their website: ness, his grandfather the pieces of those days, she yet when El Morocco was www.smokemeatpete.com late Dominic Varvaro, is so proud of her family’s making its big splash in took over the once fa- hard work, when you own Montreal, but they were mous El Morocco supper a business you end up involved in the next chapnightclub, located at 1445, working 7 days a week, ter of a family business.

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Maddy K on luxury events, female mentorship, and balance

Madelein Kojakian known as Maddy K

Maddy K Events Atelier Madeleine Kojakian started her inspirational empire back in 2003, beginning with Maddy K Events Atelier. Her focus was on wedding planning, a niche market she saw lacked the luxury services she now provides. “Back then there was a handful of wedding planners that you were not able to find easily because the web was not as developed as it is now,” she said. “I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to launch this business, especially because I was doing my graduate studies in E-Commerce.”

Maddy worked in Interactive Marketing while completing her graduate studies. This platform has allowed her to elevate her businesses and create new standards in the creative event planning industry. “That was my competitive edge,” she said. “It started as a project for one of my E-Commerce classes. I identified the lack in the market.

Combined with my experience from my previous jobs, it seemed like a natural fit.”

Now, Maddy K operates in both Montreal and Toronto, and has grown to include a few spinoffs of the brand. “Over the past five years, my business has evolved naturally,” Maddy said. “The first natural extension after wedding planning when we had created a niche for ourselves was event planning.” Upon diving into the corporate event planning world, Maddy K Events Atelier continued to see only success. “I have repeat clients • February 25, 2017

for corporate events.”

From corporate events, Maddy K moved onto organize the Bridal Boudoir Affair, and Maddy K Inspires. She also does motivational speaking, female entrepreneurial coaching, and still manages to balance her family life.

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The Bridal Boudoir Affair A few years after entering the corporate event world, Maddy K launched the annual Bridal Boudoir Affair. This event is a chance for brides and their wedding parties to interact with boutique vendors they could actually hire for their weddings. “Brides love it,” she said. “There’s a lot of entertainment, food stations, an open bar.” Some brides attend even after they’ve married.

“I realized that all of the wedding shows out there did not necessarily speak to my brides,” she said.

“My brides are the city brides: fashion forward, into pretty, into details.”

Again noticing a gap in the market, Maddy K created the intimate, fashion-centric, Bridal Boudoir Affair as a day-long outing for her brides.

This year’s show will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Montreal. About 70 vendors are in attendance. The vendors include cake designers, photographers, dress designers, as well as stationary and floral businesses.

There is also a men’s lounge for men to experience the fun in wedding planning as well.

Doors open at 10am.

The main event is a fashion show featuring worldwide high-end designers from 2-5pm. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online.

Maddy K Inspires Shortly after launching the Bridal Boudoir Affair, Maddy was in the market for another challenge: “Maddy K Inspires was born,” she said. Maddy and her friend Natasha Gargiulo run this inspirational initiative together for other women. “It’s a series of events. We do it to empower women, inspire them, connect them, and to also create a platform for likeminded women to get to know each other.”

Maddy K Inspires organizes an annual women’s retreat.This year it will be held at the Manoir SaintSauveur in Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, for yet another indulgence in self-care, collaboration, friendship, food, and coaching sessions.

“Alongside Maddy K Inspires, I have always mentored,” she said. The mother of two taught event planning at John Abbott College before pursuing mentoring relationships with her own personal clients. In the beginning, the women Maddy mentored had dreams of becoming event planners as well, but—as all of her initiatives and businesses seem to do organically—this area has grown as well.

“It’s grown to even women who want to launch their own creative business,” she said. “It could be anything in the creative realm.” She helps coach these women as they launch their businesses, and helps with their branding and social media.

Maddy K Moving Forward Madeleine Kojakian truly embodies an entrepreneurial spirit. As soon as one project is running smoothly, she’s looking around the corner for the next one to tackle.“We’ve been on growth mode for so many years,” she said.“I would like to see that growth continue, and maybe see new divisions.”

She would also like to see the divisions of Maddy K

Maddy K prides herself on perfection

Events grow into entities of their own, totally independent from herself and her primary event planning business. “I would love to continue things onto a larger scale, and be able to make a difference on a larger scale.”

Maddy K on Balance While running her businesses, coaching other women, and keeping her ears to the ground for the next opportunity,

Madeleine still manages to balance her work and personal life. Maddy’s outlook on balance is slightly different than many others. To Maddy, balance in the big picture is much more manageable than a day-to-day measure. “I can’t do daily balance,” she said. “Right now, the [Bridal Boudoir Affair] is on Sunday, so the word ‘balance’ just doesn’t exist.”

However, on a yearly basis, she manages to spend plenty of time focusing on herself and her family. In the world of entrepreneurship and events, some months are unavoidably slower than others. When it’s crunch time, her family supports her. Many of us could benefit from adopting a similar perspective on balance. www.maddyk.com

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or a fourth consecutive year, Sun Youth had the pleasure of celebrating Valentine’s Day with its annual fundraiser dinner to the benefit of its Heating Assistance Program. The evening was held once again at the Robin des Bois restaurant on February 15th, 2017. During this warm and entertaining evening, Sun Youth had the chance to reconnect with friends and faithful partners such as Tommy Kulczyk, the organization`s

former Director of Emergency Services and now Montreal's Commissioner of Youth, the Montreal Police Department whose representatives included their Director, Mr. Philippe Pichet, representatives from the Montreal Gazette, the Chronic Viral Illness Service of the McGill University Health Center, as well as representatives from Éconologis. And of course, the Perrault family were present and celebrated with us once again. There was

also a big surprise in store for the many guests: a chance to win tickets to watch the Montreal Canadiens from the Gazette lodge at the Bell Center.

Sun Youth would like to thank the Cadillac Music band for having entertained the crowd with a sing-along performance throughout this heartwarming evening. Thanks also to our loyal partner, Robin des Bois, for its warm welcome.Thanks to everyone and see you next year!

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a dangerous dog or order it to be euthanized - in severe cases.

On the other hand, Montreal's bylaw that was introduced last year targeted 'pit bull-type' dogs with 'Breed-Specific Legislation' (BSL), forcing owners to put muzzles on their animals and keep them on a short leash at all times when in public regardless of whether or not the dog had any history of being dangerous.

By Bonnie Wurst It had dog owners outraged and in tears when they had to place muzzles mtltimes.ca n February 8th on their beloved pets for the city of the first time. Despite the Laval's Mayor protests and the expert Marc Demers advice from the SPCA announced a new animal and veterinarians, despite control bylaw, which will the majority of those be voted on during the polled who were against it municipal council meeting and the cry from lawyers on March 14th and could and legal experts, Mayor come in effect as early Coderre still maintained April 1st 2017. Although his 'one muzzle for all' apthere are similarities to proach. Montreal's bylaw Montreal's new bylaw, has been in and out of the such as the mandatory courts, first being susregistering, vaccination, pended and then being remicrochipping and steril- instated - and soon to be izing of cats and dogs - challenged again. The apthey are choosing not to peals court reinstated the introduce breed-specific bylaw in the interim while the Montreal SPCA, who legislation.

As a matter of fact, has taken on the battle, Laval's bylaw puts the full continues to fight it in the responsibility on the own- courts.

The SPCA maintains ers to keep their dogs under control and does that 'there are proven not assume every dog is ways to reduce the incidangerous. The new regu- dence and severity of dog lations will not focus on bites and create safer and any specific breed and un- kinder communities for less recommended by an all. If the city of Montreal expert - no dog is re- truly wanted to ensure quired to wear a muzzle. public safety, it would not “For owners that don’t have forced a rushed follow their responsibili- adoption of controversial ties, they can face charges legislation which is unfair, of criminal negligence,” unenforceable and most said Laval Mayor Marc importantly, ineffective' but it fell upon deaf ears Demers.

Sandra Desmeules, the at city hall. Whereas city councilor in charge of Laval's city council took the file said the city took the time to hear advice a 'humane and ethical' ap- from specialists and deproach when it came to cided against Breed Spechanging the bylaw and cific Legislation when they believe in 'the re- drafting their bylaw. Mayor sponsibility of dog own- Marc Demers wants the 'crime of criminal negliers'.

The Laval bylaw states gence to include language that owners will face that specifically targets larger fines and the city dog owners who do not will also have more power control their animals'.

"We don't believe that when it comes to animals is a solution. And we don't deemed dangerous by a believe it's the cause of professional, meaning it the problem.

We think can force owners to send that part of the solution is them for treatment, seize to make sure that animals

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are being properly treated, and the owners of animals are responsible for what their animals do," he said.

Animals in general have inherent instincts and become defensive when they feel threatened - and can go on the attack. So do humans. Pit Bulls of today are descendants of the English Bull-Baiting dog, who were bred to be fighting dogs - powerful enough to attack and lock on to the faces and heads of large animals like bulls

and bears in the 'Pit'.

When Bull-Baiting dogs were finally outlawed in 1835, people started cross breeding them with smaller terriers in order to create a faster and more agile dog.They were trained to fight from the start - a horrible practice that unfortunately still goes on today in some areas. Today's 'Pit' Bulls, while genetically predisposed to those behaviors, are not automatically dangerous dogs.The development of their behavior

very much depends on their environment and how they were treated and nurtured, which brings us back to the human factor.

With the exception of unhealthy dogs, the problem really seems to be people here, not the animals. The city of Laval seems to understand that clearly. Montreal should take heed - and a really close look at putting the onus on the owner, not the dog. What is your opinion?

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DALLAS, TEXAS – I was a devoted fan of “Saturday Night Live” through its golden age, which was its first five seasons from 1975 to 1980, where such legendary cast members as Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Jane Curtin and the late John Belushi and Gilda Radner changed the face of late night and comedy television with such memorable characters as the Samurai, the Blues Brothers, Roseanne Roseannadanna, and the Coneheads. In fact, during that five-year-period, I made sure I was home by 11:30 every Saturday night to catch every new episode of 90 minutes filled with great comedy, memorable hosts and unforgettable musical guests (which became the talk every Monday morning with my friends at the Sir Winston Churchill High School cafeteria).

So imagine my surprise when last week, I was chosen to be the lead staff person during a Saturday morning talk session with former SNL staff writer Alan Zweibel, who worked with the show during that golden age, at BBYO’s annual International Convention, which took place last weekend in Dallas.

Zweibel fascinated the standing room only crowd made up of mainly teenage BBYO members from around the world, as he recounted to them his multi-faceted career as a comedy writer. He talked about his comedy influences (which included Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke), his rather inauspicious start as a stand-up comedian, and the realization that he could make better money as a comedy writer, in which he began by providing jokes to other comics and talk

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Stuart Nulman and Alan Zweibel show hosts, for which he (Steve Martin) and notwas paid a princely sum of so-favorite host (Milton $7 for every joke that was Berle); and his constant used. run-ins with the show’s Although he has written resident censor. for “Curb Your EnthusiAnd Zweibel announced asm”, has written several to his admiring audience books (including his affec- that he is currently writtionate memoir of his ing two new plays, is friendship with the late about to work on a new Gilda Radner called Bunny season of “Curb Your EnBunny) and screenplays, thusiasm”, and is releasing the main focus of a book called For This We Zweibel’s talk was his Left Egypt?, which is a paryears at SNL, and offered ody of the Haggadah, a a lot of great backstage prayer book that is used stories of how he came during the Jewish holiday up with some of his best of Passover (and will be sketches, and the hazards the subject of a future reof writing jokes and view in my Book Banter sketches for a 90-minute column). And after the live TV show on a weekly session was over, Zweibel basis. My favorite anec- spent about an additional dotes included his unusual 15 minutes chatting with job interview with Lorne some of the teen audiMichaels in 1975 for the ence members, in which job as one of the original he posed for pictures and SNL writers (he pro- offered advice to those duced a binder filled with who want to pursue a ca1,000 jokes, yet Michaels reer in comedy and comhired him on the basis of edy writing. As for me, reading only one of his Zweibel posed for a picjokes in the binder); how ture with me, and grahe sat under the “Week- ciously autographed my end Update” desk and copy of Live From New grinded out jokes while York, the excellent oral the segment was on the history of Saturday Night air, and handed them to Live, in which he was one the anchors when he of the many show’s alumni completed each joke; the who were interviewed for trouble with an out of that book. For a devoted control horse during a fan of Saturday Night “Bill Murray’s Celebrity Live’s golden years, it was Corner” interview seg- great to come in contact ment on Weekend Up- with one of the people date with “Mrs. Ed” in who made that golden 1979; his favorite host age happen.

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PetMeetofLucky thethe Rabbit Week

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ucky the rabbit is 'around two years old' and lives with Chantal and his 'forever family' in Kirkland.

Last summer while vacationing at a campground near Mont Tremblant up north, they were taking a walk in a part of the grounds they hadn't yet seen when they noticed a cage laying on its side next to a picnic table on a vacant lot.

"At first we thought it was empty, but then my youngest son cried out, 'Mom! There's something in it!' He ran towards it, I tried to stop him thinking maybe it was a trap for skunks or something‌ but it turns out it was a rabbit! And it was clearly a domesticated rabbit, not a wild one."

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But after a few years, I started to drink and enjoy white wines. I still was not into sweet wines , such as some Rieslings or Moscatos, but was developing a palate for higher acidity wines such as Sauvignon Blanc.

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By Marco Giovanetti one tropical pineapple, peach, citrus and apple commtltimes.ca bined with a dose of as the rich fish and vanilla, oatmeal, and nuts. seafood of the Mediter- Chardonnay looks very ranean and the exotic elegant in a glass with its range of Asian cuisine deep yellow to light from France, specifically around the Loire valley, such as Thai or Viet- greenish transparence. the Sauvignon Blanc can namese.. Some of the lesser-known favorites we 2. Sauvignon Blanc - An- also be found in New see in the Canadian mar- other wine that comes Zealand and Chile. Its flavor brings to freshness of the pastures around its area, reminding one of the Douglas Green Chenin aroma of freshly cut grass, the wine an herbaBlanc 2015. Western Cape, giving ceous flavor with hints of South Africa fruits. It is best to enjoy $ 55 this wine immediately as SAQ: 12698872 9. its fresh flavor doesn't last On the nose aromas that bring to mind green apples long. with yellow peaches and citrus fruits. On the mouth, 3. Chenin Blanc - Another medium body with zesty tropical fruit flavours. Simple child of the Loire valley, yet quite delicious. Have it with alfredo pasta and grilled this exceptional wine usuchicken ally goes under the radar

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as the underdog of the wine kingdom. However its flavors are wonderful with hints of tangy pineapple and lime combined with the sweetness of honey and licorice. Depending where it comes from, it can keep up to 10 years.

4. Gewurztraminer - The place of birth is from Alsace, France. A wine with an outgoing personality with hints of spice and floral taste.

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6. Riesling - a noble tealike, honey flavored wine coming from Alsace in France, or from Germany.

There are so many other kinds of white wines, all evoking elegant and luscious flavors that make them perfect companions for soft cheeses, white sauced pasta, fish and poultry. Of course one can have a glass with any meal or by itself depending on one's preference.

An entry level burgundy well made. Subtle touches of oak with classic chardonnay notes of pear, green apples and white flowers. On the mouth, easy going and round with a fresh acidity. Flavors are consistent with the nose bringing to mind gingerbread spice. Drink it know or keep it for a few years on the cellar. The ultimate wine for scallops

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