May 28 - Westmount Independent

16 – WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – May 28, 2013
Water balloons tossed
into street
Three boys throwing balloons filled
with water and shaving cream into the
street May 17 were warned not to, Public
Security officials said.
Found near Clarke and The Boulevard
at 4:26 pm, they were told to clean
up, which they had already started to do.
The boys were aged between 14 to 16.
Classic Keaton silent screened at Westmount Park United
Famed Canadian film animator and director
Gerald Potterton, left, jokes around with
Hallowell Ave. resident Philippe Spurrell of the
Film Society just before a screening with live
piano accompaniment of the Buster Keaton silent
classic The General at Westmount Park United
Church May 25. Potterton, a former Westmounter
who now lives in the Eastern Townships, directed
The Railrodder, a 1965 National Film Board
short in which Keaton played his last silent film
role. According to Spurrell, proceeds from the wellattended
presentation will help the church
upgrade its organ.
Photo: Martin C. Barry
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A worker walks along The Boulevard and Clarke
Ave., where work is being completed on a section
of Westmount’s underground sewer system May
24. According to Public Works water and sewer
engineer, Christian Sipos, the steam is used to
cure a sock-like felt liner that is installed over and
covering the bricks, giving the line a new
structural capacity and an added 50 years of life.
The work has been going on for more that ten
years and is done block by block so as to reduce
traffic problems, according to Sipos. It takes
approximately a day to treat a block of sewer line.
Photo: Robert J. Galbraith