QART 2021

November 12, 2024

Dear QART members and friends,

Season’s Greetings!
I’m happy to announce that we are now taking names for the upcoming QART CHRISTMAS PARTY. Here are the details:

The QART Christmas Partywill be held at LE BORDELAIS restaurant, 1000 Gouin West, Montreal,
starting at 11:30 am, Thursday, December 5th. It is open to both members and guests.

The menu is as follows:

Cream of Vegetable Soup
Green Salad or Caesar Salad or Terrine
For the main meal, the choice is one of the following:

Grilled filet of salmon with capers and lemon
Lamb Confit in a Fine Herbs Sauce,
Pork Filet garnished with Pear and Ginger Coulis,
Grilled Chicken Supreme in Mushroom Sauce.

Baked Alaska or Chocolate Cake
Coffee or tea.
The cost is $60 per person. The tax and tip are included in the price but beverages and drinks are an extra cost.
Your payment is collected in advance as you enter the dining area.

Le Bordelais requires that outdoor clothing be checked in the cloak room. QART will pick up the $1.50 cloak room charge for all who attend this function.

Don’t forget that there will be drawings, open to QART honorary and paid-up regular members. Prizes include bottles of wine, $25 gift certificates for Winners, and two free meals compliments of QART. Each free meal has a value of $60.

There will also be a special charity draw, open to all, for the benefit of Chez Doris; tickets are $2 each or 3 tickets for $5. Half the money collected goes to Chez Doris; the remaining half is split among several lucky winners, with one other winner getting the tax receipt for the charitable donation.

To reserve your place, phone Annie Schaffhauser at (438) 342-8535 or email her at azuk1024@gmail.com. The deadline is Friday, November 30th. On that day, we fix our numbers with the restaurant.

The Bordelais Restaurant (1000 Gouin Blvd. West). Plenty of free parking.

Many ways of getting there. One possibility - Take Autoroute 15 to Exit #4 at de Salaberry, then east on de Salaberry, north on l’Acadie, and east on Gouin Blvd.

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In other news, we just had a very successful QART Commemorative Mass and Luncheon. Thanks to all the volunteers for making this mass and luncheon particularly memorable and meaningful. A special thank-you goes out to Father Joe Sullivan who once again celebrated the mass for us. A wrap-up of this event follows:

48 members and guests attended the mass; 47 members and guests attended the luncheon.

At the mass, $320 was collected for Our Lady of Fatima parish and its Christmas basket fund.
At the luncheon, Gail Ferraro, Maria Perluzzo, and Carlo Stepancic each won a free meal.
Claire Iasenza won a bottle of red wine, Anita Primeau, a bottle of white, and Cécile Doucet-Greene, a bottle of rosé.

We also gained a new member, Hilarie Cruickshank, a former teacher at St. Thomas High School in Pointe-Claire. Welcome aboard.

Attached, you will find a special QART bulletin with the names of all those who were commemorated at our QART mass.

Once again,

Season’s Greetings, and hope to see you at our Christmas party,

John.

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WHAT’S UP NEXT?

At this point in the normal QART calendar, there remains just one event, the AGM and accompanying luncheon. This is usually scheduled in May. No AGM could be held last year because of the pandemic. For the same reason, I do not foresee holding a physical AGM this year until the fall, at the earliest.

However, our financial year ends March 31st. Before we plan anything further, our treasurer, Steve Dursa, has to close the year and produce the annual financial statements. QART will send these to you in the next bulletin.

Once QART’s financial statements are published, we will be ready in May to start collecting next year’s membership fees. To do this, Steve Dursa will first send out invoices. A few days later, he will send you a statement of account. Please wait until you receive your statement of account before you pay. A large number of regular members have earned varying amounts of credits in compensation for the lack of physical events in 2020-2021. Waiting for your statement of account helps ensure that you pay the correct amount with your credits worked in.

This year, we will replace the May AGM luncheon with a stay-at-home event if it is financially possible. Before QART can return to normal group activities, we would need that a large percentage of the population be vaccinated, that social distancing be lifted, and that indoor locations, such as restaurants, be fully opened. I am not sure when all this will happen, but I believe that our memorial celebration in November and our Christmas gathering in December are definite possibilities.

Membership Dues

It's now that time when QART starts collecting the membership fees for the new year 2024-2025. Membership is the life blood of the association. We really depend on your support, generosity, and promptness. I thank you in advance in making this membership drive a success.

There has been no change in the fee amount. The regular membership is $30; an honorary member who has 25 years of membership attained before July 2013 pays $0; an honorary member who has 25 years of membership attained after July 2013 pays $12; a member at large who just wishes to receive the newsletter but not participate in any QART meeting or activity pays $12.

Membership forms are available in the latest QART newsletter or on this website (just click on this link ). Please mail your payment (cheque only) to:

QART
291 ave. du Parc
L'Ile-Perrot, QC
J7V 9Z
Attention: Steve Dursa

QART has an email address

Do you want to communicate with QART ? Perhaps you have a suggestion or a comment. You can reach QART or any member of the Executive Committee at just one email address, qart.mtl@outlook.com