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18 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – April 27-28, 2010
St. George’s gets busy packaging and
baking for the underdogs
Members of the Underdog Club from St. George's School gathered together on April 15 to assemble
donated dog supplies – that they collected individually from well-wishers as well as picking up goods
dropped off at Bark & Fitz – into attractive baskets to be given to the Westmount-based Underdog Club.
The club will distribute the packages to the rescues it supports, including Gerdy's Rescue and Adoptions
and Sophie's Dog Adoption. Also included in the baskets were homemade dog biscuits that the students
baked themselves, using a recipe from Nine Lives' columnist Lyzanne (find the recipe in the February
9 issue, p. 16.) Photo: Sherri Bloom
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Ages: 2 ½ to 5, 5* to 12 and 13 to 17
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4585 Sherbrooke Street West, Westmount
• Different themes every week: physical fitness, world music,
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• Parents are welcome to take part in the daily morning assembly.
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• For ages 13 to 15, camp programming in the morning and city
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work with children.
* Kindergarten completed
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Guessing games for a good cause
A Selwyn House School grade seven student, Yanni Metrakos, left, poses with classmates, from left,
Thomas Woodfine-MacPherson, Adam Borshan, Ricky Lopez and Brendon Ribeiro-Dorrington. Led by
Metrakos, the students hosted a raffle for an Easter gift basket and guess-the-number-of-eggs-in-the-jar
contest to generate $646 for Celebration of Life, an organization that raises funds to purchase patientcare
equipment for the Royal Victoria Hospital transplant wards. The money was presented to the
organization’s founder during its annual dinner and dance on April 10. Metrakos, the son of McGill
University Health Centre’s division chief of the multi-organ transplant team, already raised $1,050 for
the cause when he asked friends and family to make donations in lieu of birthday gifts.
Photo: Trafalgar School
Photo: The Study
From Fräuleins to felines
Photo: Selwyn House School
Above: Several Trafalgar students living in
Westmount will be appearing in the upcoming
senior play, “The Visit,” scheduled to be performed
at the school on April 29 and 30 at 7 pm. The play
is a “tragi-comedy” by Swiss playwright Friedrich
Dürrenmatt. Tickets, selling for $10 for adults
and $5 for students 12 and under, will be available
at the door. From left: Claire Kelly, Tai
Mackenzie, Olivia Gutherz, David Pelletier
(director), Zoe Freedman and Beatrice Scharf-
Pierzchala.
Left: Thirty high school students from The
Study performed “Cats” before a sold-out
audience on April 22, drawing standing ovations
from the estimated 200 audience members packed
into the school’s theatre. The award-winning
musical was performed as this year’s senior school
drama production, and it proved to be just as big
of a hit in Westmount as it was on Broadway.
From left: Taylor Nayman, Christelle Beauboeuf,
Asli Buyukkurt and Elizabeth Oehrlein.