Cutler is collaborating with Montreal university students to host the special event in the gallery in aid of victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. The fun will include wine and drinks, appetizers, and special treats including a live DJ, art auctions, dancing and much more.

Special guests will include former Montreal Canadiens hockey player George Laraque and some surprise guests, all hosted by emcee Mark Shalhoub of CJAD.

For more information visit www.Studio10King.ca or phone Tia Maric / Andrea Reyes / Peter Ferarrolis at 514-702-0993 or 514-886-6519 or 514-578-7591.

The congregation of Mountainside United church invites the Westmount community to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, the beginning of Lent, at their annual pancake supper that will be held on Tuesday, Feb 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the church hall located at 687 Roslyn Avenue. Cost is $5 per adult and $30 for children or $15 for a family. Good food and good fellowship are included, and all are welcome. For more information phone May at the church at 514-486-1165.

Shrove Tuesday is a term commonly known in English-speaking countries or the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian season of fasting and prayer called Lent. Pancake Day is associated with the making and eating of foods such as pancakes and is considered a last feast with ingredients such as sugar, fat and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the ritual fasting associated with Lent.

Nest week The Gallery at Victoria Hall will launch its latest exhibition, the works of three Westmount photographers: Diana Bruno, Richard Lock and Jaroslava Miler. The exhibition will be launched with a vernissage on Wednesday, February 17 at 6 p.m. and will continue until March 13. The Gallery is located at 4626 Sherbrooke Street West adjacent to Victoria Hall. For more information phone 514-989-5265.

Former Westmount resident and author of writer self help books published his latest book/ebook The Self-Bailout Strategy - How to Recession-Proof Yourself with Multiple Online Income Streams. In this new book, Fawcett details exactly how he has been making his own income online for the past number of years and shows readers how they can do it too. Last week the book was released world wide to an audience of not only

writers but those who want to get involved in online marketing. For more information about the book go to selfbailoutstrategy.com

To purchase the book or ebook at a discount online go to writinghelptools.com To purchase a hardcopy go to amazon.com

The Atwater Book Club, led by author Wednesday Mary Soderstrom, will discuss the acclaimed novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones on Wednesday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m.

The novel is based on the blockade in Bougainville in 1990 that began when the government of Papua New Guinea, supported by Australia, decided to take action against the traditional landowners and villagers of Bougainville in a way that has been compared to the clearings the Scottish and Irish governments did to their detractors.

Jones, a New Zealander who covered the story as a journalist, wrote the novel about the first few years of the blockade of Bougainville, the richest copper mine in the world, from the perspective of Matilda, a village girl who is 13 when it begins, and her relationship with Mr Watts aka Mr Pip, the last white man on the island, with his islander wife.

For more information phone the library at 514-935-7344. The Atwater Library is located at 1200 Atwater Avenue.