Westmounter McGlynn crowned Parade Queen

To be chosen she had to be considered the best overall by a panel of seven judges who listened to each of her three speeches.

McGlynn, who is working on her Masters degree in chemical engineering at McGill, decided to enter the competition just a few weeks ago.

“I wanted to get to know more about my Irish heritage,” said McGlynn, who was born of a French Canadian mother and an Irish father.

And that she will do. In addition to riding on the float in the parade that will be held this year on Sunday, March 18, McGlynn’s duties will include participating with her princesses at a variety of events at monuments and heritage sites throughout the city and throughout the year, including a Walk to the Stone, a commemorative monument for the victims of the potato famine suffered in Ireland.

“The United Irish Societies started as St. Anne’s Boys Club in Griffintown,” explained Jolyon Ditton, vice-president advertising and public relations for the Socieites.

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Hage to read at Atwater Library



Author Rawi Hage will read from his from acclaimed novel De Niro's Game with a panel including noted novelist Gaétan Soucy, next Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 6:30 p.m. at the Atwater Library and Computer Centre.

Co-sponsored by the ALCC and the newly-formed Lebanon-Quebec Cultural Forum, the evening will include a panel discussion in both English and French.

Author, visual artist and curator, Hage won the Quebec Writers’ Federation awards for first book and fiction. He was born in Beirut and now lives in Montreal.

The panel will include Concordia University creative writing instructor Marwan Hassan; Kathryn Radford who teaches in the translation department at McGill University and whose research interests include mythology, comic books and the translator as author; Najat Rahman, Assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal with specialty in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and poetry; and award winning four time novelist Gaetan Soucy, whose works have received rave reviews in Quebec and abroad.

Admission is free. For more information: Tanya Mayhew at 514-935-7344 or tmayhew@atwaterlibrary.ca Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Avenue





New address for Gap



Clients of Natasha Boca and Agnes Cirigliano of the hair salon Salon Gap will be happy to know the salon has finally found a permanent home.

Previously located just across the border in Montreal on Sherbrooke Street, the salon was flooded out a year and a half ago. While they were waiting for the space to be refurbished, which never happened, Boca and Cirigliano took temporary refuge with JoJo Le Guellec, owner of Mag & Rene Coiffuree & Esthetique in the Westmount Medical Building.

Wanting a street location, last year Boca rented a storefront on Sherbrooke Street, invested a lot of money into refurbishing it into a salon and gladly welcomed clients new and old into the new facilities.

After the landlord sold the building, Boca found herself out in the cold again. This month the salon relocated again with Le Guellec, this time permanently.

Le Guellec has experienced her own ups and downs in the 10 years since she purchased the salon that has been in Westmount for over 40 years and is now on the fourth floor of the Westmount Medical Building. She is clearly happy for the returned shop mates. For more information about Salon Gap phone 514-369-2844. For more information about Mag & Rene phone 514-482-9999.



--- Marilynn Vanderstay