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Built in 1965 and officially opened in 1966, upkeep and repairs of the bridge have been constant and costly for years now.

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As for what is on the table –literally: the part called Air France Finest Tables consists of pairing, i.e. putting together chefs from different parts of the world to work with

By Sergio Martinez their colleagues in Montreal, preparing some exmtltimes.ca citing combinations of most anticipated sec- flavours coming from 15 tions: the gastronomical different countries. On one. For this edition, they this occasion three counare counting on the culi- tries are represented for nary presence of 20 the first time: Iceland, Iscountries, as usual with rael, and Panama. guest chefs who will be The Maison des Festiworking out the kitchens vals, on Ste. Catherine of some of the best- Street will be the centre known restaurants in for the Quartier Gourtown. mand, featuring tastings, In his opening remarks talks, conferences, and at the press conference, workshops. Another inJacques-André Dupont, teresting activity planned President and Director- for this occasion is the General of the event, re- Tastet's culinary tours, minded the journalists, conducted by Élise and about the challenges that Jean-Philippe Tastet they faced twenty years which will explore the ago when they decided presence of some re-

0th edition of Montréal en Lumière will take place between February 21 and March 3, 2019 also be present in the local cider producers that will be present durform of the traditional and to discover cider in ing the festival, all of its variations: them at the Astral: "Festival of our cheeses" all which will be there for sparkling, sweet, dry, ice, Whitehorse (February 23, 8 p.m), Dominique its 13th consecutive year and flavoured."

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…

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It's that time of year when shoppers are cheered (or annoyed) by songs of Christmas past and present that can be heard playing at just about every shopping mall in the country. One holiday classic with a little kick Let it Snow! popularized by Dean Martin in the 1960s and later reprised by Michael Buble conjures up magical scenes of snuggling by the fire inside while winter rages outside. These days fireplaces aren't considered eco-friendly, at least not gas fireplaces, and winter can still be pretty frightful despite warming trends. No matter. For winter fashionistas who bundle up in parkas and everyone else in dependable winter-wear, they can grin and bear it.

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By Deborah Rankin all day long. Quaker Canada is working with mtltimes.ca the Boys and Girls Clubs "For Canadian families-in- of Canada to provide need, warm winter cloth- winter coats to children ing often comes second from families-in-need so to providing the basics," a that they can feel the "joy spokesperson for of warmth."

For children in Verdun, Citoyen Optimum said.

According to a recent a borough in the southstudy by Quaker Canada, west sector of Montreal more than one in five Quaker's donation of Canadian parents (21%) warm weather clothing have struggled financially came just in the nick of themselves to ensure time. At a recent aftertheir child is appropri- noon-get-together at the have winter coats and warm clothes. To make matters worse, this year Old Man Winter showed up early.

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Dawson Boys & Girls Club of Verdun staff and volunteers helped kids unbox and sort warm winter coats followed by playtime much to their delight. Canada may not be the coldest country on the planet but it is known for its brisk temperatures and long

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Montreal Canadiens Congratulate Hornets Midget Football team on their wins A moment the Hornets will remember for a long time. Shea Weber, Brendan Gallagher and Paul Byron (and Youppi!) visited the team to congratulate them on their perfect season. Photo: Joseph Munro

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he Sun Youth Hornets Midget football team had a great season, an amazing season, winning the Quebec Midget Football League (QMFL) Provincial Championship and getting their hands on the Doug Britton Cup by beating the XXXX XX to XX. This victory lead them to take part in the Interprovincial Bowl where they defeated the Ottawa Knights 3X to X. While the last Midgets were awarded the Dough Britton Cup was in 2014, the young athletes in this year’s team were all part of the Bantam team that won both the provincial and interprovincial championships in 2017.

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Sun Youth’s former headquarters (Baron Byng on St. Urbain) to celebrate their victories with coaches and parents but the Habs had a special surprise in store for them.

In addition to the team’s mascot Youppi! (who caused quite a stir when he first walked in the room where the event was held), the Canadiens had sent three of their best men to congratulate the Hornets: Captain Shea Weber and Assistant Captains Paul Byron and Brendan Gallagher. “We heard about your season and we wanted to come and congratulate you guys”, said Montreal Canadiens Captain Shea Weber to the players in attendance. This event was part of the Montreal Canadiens’ “Random Acts of Kindness” initiative.

Bearing more than words of encouragement, the trio gave each player and

their family tickets to a January 2019 game against the Florida Panthers and Montreal Canadiens tuques. They also presented a $4000 cheque on behalf of Sports Experts to support Sun Youth’s Sports & Recreation program. After supper (also offered by the Canadiens), the Habs players and the Hornets went into the gym to throw the football and played a friendly game of touch football. Paul Byron scored a touchdown on an interception while all in attendance had a chance to see that Weber’s throw of the ball is as powerful as his one-timers.

It was also a very emotional moment for Sun Youth’s General Director Johanne Saltarelli, who wished the organization’s late cofounder Earl De La Perralle had been there to see the smiles on the kids’ faces. The last time Sun

Youth had the chance to welcome Montreal Canadiens’ players was when Mark Recchi was playing (between 1994 and 1999).

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Weber, Byron, Gallagher and Youppi! joining the Hornets in their team chant, a moment the young athletes will remember for a long time.

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As well, during the meeting, the members collected donations for

their annual Christmas baskets food drive, in which the chapter selects about 12 families that will receive these baskets, which contains enough food for 30 days.

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Fête des neiges de Mtl LaSalle Drivers facing with 18 new slides traffic nightmare

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The Pass also has other advantages, such as free admission to the Stewart Museum and the Biosphère, Environment Museum.

A one-of-a-kind ambiance Throughout the duration of the Fête, a variety of artists will be delivering outdoor, on-stage performances which will add to the event's festive ambiance. The artists scheduled to perform include Atchoum et ses microbes, Cool Kids, Ari Cui Cui, Duo Trad and QW4RTZ. Adults will be able to relive their youth through a special show marking the 50-year history of TéléQuébec, where seven per-

sonalities who were part of the network's programming over the years will be reuniting on stage.

Meanwhile, ice sculptor Nicolas Godon, who puts on a show that has been a signature event at the Fête des neiges for several years, will be astounding the public with his daily spontaneous artistic performances and a demonstration of ice sculpturing in which spectators will be invited to interact and help him in his craft.

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Then starting in mid-January, adding to the traffic woes, Transport QC will be demolishing part of the Angrignon overpass - and

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access to Angrignon Boulevard via highway 20 and Notre-Dame Street will be reduced to only one lane in each direction, with cars alternating in one direction at a time.

One of the only real options would be to use Hwy 138, but that highway is also used by drivers to access the Mercier Bridge and it already has a high volume of traffic and congestion at the best of times.

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Enjoy winter at its finest A must-attend winter event in Montréal, the Fête des neiges offers a wide array of outdoor, mostly free activities geared toward sports and entertainment, along with shows and special events.

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Cut your own Christmas tree

ow would you and your family like to go out into the country to choose or to cut your own Christmas tree?

Some local Christmas tree plantations offer this possibility over the coming weeks. Typically the farmers explain that they are selling a unique experience together with the tree. They suggest it’s a good way to ensure a freshly cut tree—many of the ones sold in parking lots were cut in October.

For those who have never tried it, a real tree adds a wonderful burst of greenery into your house in winter. The smell of most conifers is quite pleasant, and if you keep watering the tree, it stays alive and adds considerable humidity to the interior air at a season when many peoples’ houses are too dry.

Various decorations, sparkles and lights make the tree exquisite to look at.

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pines have excellent needle retention. White spruces have a good shape but you may find spruce needles to be “spiky” compared to the “friendly” fir or “personable” pine. Quebec Christmas tree plantations also export millions of dollars worth of trees to the U.S.A., Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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the dogs on leash. The farm is open seven days a week, but customers are advised to call first on weekdays. Like many small businesses, this Christmas Tree farm accepts only cash payments.

Because the experience often takes two hours plus travel time, families with young children are best to wait until after naptime. It’s best to verify the height of your ceiling before you go to cut a tree (trees look smaller against the sky). A roof rack will help get the tree home safely, but farmers also often provide assistance in attaching trees to cars without roof racks.

Many plantations have ‘shaking machines’ that will vibrate loose needles off the trees and watching tion, come for a ride on a button soup while your but usually ask for our this machine in action is of the fun. hay wagon pulled by a children give Santa their staff to cut it for them, part How to care for tree tractor. This will take you wish lists. Relive all the says Mary Cooper. “For once it is cut? Quinn addirectly to the [Christmas magic of Christmas and their $30, customers get vises leaving it outdoors tree] plantation to choose watch your kids’ eyes light their tree hauled back to for as long as possible, the tree of your dreams. up,” one Christmas tree the garage, the tree is net- standing upright and out One of our happy lep- farmer wrote to us by ted, and they can enjoy of direct sunshine. Once complimentary hot the “butt” of the tree rechauns [i.e. farm em- email.

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t’s not easy to admit that one is getting older, especially when your body and your mind are not what they used to be. Moving a family member into a senior care residence is never a simple decision. It may not be easy to broach the subject with your loved ones. In fact, they may be resistant to moving and they may fear losing their independence.

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balance, stroke, disease. or physical conditions, such as arthritis and osteoporosis.

2. Mental Behaviour – Cognitive, Language, and Decision Making Cognitive decline can have serious ramifications, especially if your loved one can't take medications correctly, is not able to fix a meal or doesn't remember to eat. If a loved one exhibits confusion, poor judgment, or other signs of cognitive impairment, assisted living is often a good next step.

3. Caregiver Stress There are the psychological costs of caregiving and of making difficult care decisions, which can be compared to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Caregivers may experience symptoms like disabling anxiety, hyper-vigilance and more.

The emotional, mental and physical toll of caregiving can be particularly pronounced for adult children or spouses of those who need care. In cases like this, when the demands of care become too great, it might be clear immediately. In other cases, it might not be so obvious.

4. Safety and Security This is a common reason why families consider a move. They noticed that their loved ones are not as sure on their feet as they used to be or their eyesight is less clear, causing them to be a fall risk.

According to the Canadian Public Health Agency, falls remain the leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations among Canadian seniors.

5. Loneliness It’s normal for activity to decrease with age. But if your loved one once enjoyed spending time in the yard gardening, or simply being with friends, and then chooses to no longer engage in these activities, or rarely leaves the house, it may be time to consider a senior living residence. This is a sign that behavioral changes are underway.

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AT ETERNITY'S GATE: Genius and madness Movie review

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Willem Dafoe displays all of his talent in his portrayal of a tormented Vincent van Gogh

e all know that genius is too often misunderstood, even subjected to abuse and mistreatments of all kinds. The case of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh is a case in point: his works are now hanging in the most prestigious museums and valued in the millions. During his lifetime, however, he had to live poorly and was the victim of a humiliating treatment on the part of bigoted and ignorant people.Yet, he loved that simple life close to nature, looking for that he moved to the small town of Arles in the south of France, and eventually to Auverssur-Orse, near Paris. The film "At Eternity's Gate" directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Louise Kugelberg, JeanClaude Carriere, and Julian Schnabel, highlights some of the many facets of the painter. Particularly his solitude and search for his own vision of nature.

Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) attends a meeting of the Impressionists in Paris, but he is not really convinced by the rhetoric of the group. One vocal

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critic present at the meeting is Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac) who, after van Gogh indicates his intention to leave Paris in search of the sun and na-

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Gauguin, who on one occasion visits him in the small town, made a terse but realistic description of the place and why he wouldn't like to stay there: "Vincent, you are surrounded by ignorant people…" He only counts on the generous assistance from his brother Theo (Rupert Friend).

The relationship between van Gogh and the town people would contribute to his growing sense of alienation from suffocating reality, and

By Sergio Martinez that his sinking into mental illness. Eventually, interned mtltimes.ca in the St. Remy mental ture, suggests that he asylum, the painter would moves to the south of be treated by Dr. Paul GaFrance. From that mo- chet (Mathieu Amalric) ment, the two painters and settles in Auvers-surwould share a lifelong Orse. It is there where friendship. he would be shot in an inThe movie manages to cident that was never capture very well that clarified: the movie makes connection of the painter the point that he was shot with nature, the beauty by two young guys from and the overwhelming the town, but in his own power of the elements, but also the meanness of words, he really didn't rethe inhabitants of the member anything.

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ext year (2019) will mark the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Expos’ inaugural season, which made them the very first Major League Baseball franchise to originate from outside the U.S. During its 36 seasons, the Expos nurtured a number of excellent players that have ever donned its red, white and blue uniform (before they went to greener pastures – and salaries – with other MLB teams), had experienced a number of memorable moments and seasons; and in turn, had undergone its share of days of infamy.

There’s the Expos losing the chance to win the National League East Division titles in 1979 and 1980 to the Pirates and the Phillies (in which both teams went on to become World Series champions); how about the 1994 season, when the Expos has the best record in baseball and had a strong chance of getting to the World Series …only to have it dashed when the season was cut short by a players’ strike?; then there’s owner Claude Brochu’s “fire sales”, when many of the Expos’ top players were traded off en masse because the team couldn’t afford the rising salaries of their rising stars; and of course, that day in October 2004, when after it was decimated by thenowner Jeffrey Loria, the Expos pulled up stakes and moved to Washington, D.C., where they became the Washington Nationals.

But the one day of infamy that still resonates deeply with Expos players and fans alike was October 19, 1981. That was when, during Game 5 of the National League Championship Series (NLVCS) at the cavernous Olympic Stadium, that Rick Monday of the opposing L.A. Dodgers hit a home run off of pitcher Steve Rogers (who was on the mound as a relief pitcher for starter Ray Burris), thereby winning the game for the Dodgers, and painfully robbing the Expos of their one and only chance of competing in that year’s World Series against the American League pennant winners the New York Yankees.

That Expos day of infamy has been forever known as “Blue Monday”, and is still regarded as probably the best remembered “might-have-been”s in the team’s 36-year history.

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Expos’ baseball legacy, adds to his Expos canon with a thorough look at that fateful day of infamy in October of 1981 with Blue Monday.

This thoroughly researched book (which also includes 73 interviews with many of the players and coaches from both teams who were a part of this dramatic NLCS) tells the complete story about “Blue Monday” the events that led up to it, that fateful pitch, and its wide-ranging aftermath.

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to 1977. That’s when veteran manager Dick Williams (who led the “Impossible Dream” Boston Red Sox to the 1967 World Series and the Oakland A’s to two consecutive world championships in 1972 and 1973) became the Expos’ manager after a disastrous losing season in 1976. Although his methods as manager were at times crude and controversial, Williams somehow nurtured the talents of players like Gary Carter and Steve Rogers, and thanks to the efforts of Jim Fanning and his team of scouts, introduce up and comers into the Expos fold like Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Warren Cromartie and Jeff Reardon.

The end result was winning seasons in 1979 and 1980, and that split season pennant run in 1981.

Besides offering detailed, blow-by-blow descriptions of some of the crucial games and series during the Expos’ drive to the World Series in 1981, Gallagher gives a balanced look at what happened during that NLCS from both benches, with an emphasis on some of the unknown stories (like Tim Raines’ father, who was promised by his employers an all expenses paid trip to the World Series if the Expos beat the Dodgers) and some of the unsung heroes (such as Jerry White, whose home run off Jerry Reuss won Game 3 for the Expos).

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due to the two players who faced off against each other that culminated in that fateful game 5 home run: Steve Rogers and Rick Monday. “The book is intended to give scope, depth, exposure, and added recognition to Rick Monday, not only for what he did that day, but outside that day,” he writes.

“Equally, the book pays tribute to Steve Rogers, who coughed up the home run to Monday. He has graciously faced the music ever since.”

And Gallagher certainly succeeds in that respect.

Thanks to his quest for scope and a sense of balance, we learn that Rick Monday was a player who was at the twilight of a 19year career in the Majors, was the very first pick of the very first MLB draft of amateur free agents in 1965, served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, and prefers to remembered for his feat during a game at Dodger Stadium in 1976, when he rescued an American flag from being burned by two spectators.

As for Steve Rogers, we find out about a pitcher who was drafted in 60th place, was never a favorite of Dick Williams (he was called a “fraud” by the manager), and was building up an impressive career as one of the best pitchers in the majors during his career with the Expos. And fortunately, he has found a sense of peace with himself following that Game 5 (he willingly wanted to pitch in relief during that game, not only because Jeff Reardon was sidelined with back problems, but as a sense of duty and loyalty to the team). However, he is no longer seen as a goat for delivering that home run pitch to Monday; many of Rogers’ teammates and fans see it as an example of bad judgement on Fanning’s part.

Blue Monday further cements Danny Gallagher’s reputation as an authority on the history of the Expos, and has effectively kept the team’s legacy alive through his books.

Although Gallagher is one of the many who firmly believes that Major League Baseball will return to Montreal one day, we can thank him and his books for keeping alive those fond memories of the Montreal Expos, and how “Nos Amours” gave us so any good reasons to catch them in action at Jarry Park and the Olympic Stadium, no matter how many might-havebeens and days of infamy we were unsuspectingly served up.

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