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Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
"Congratulations" to Dolly (Sabby to us few) Dennis who has a book coming out very soon ,the story is set in Montreal between the years of 1967 & 1970..........( I imagine we can all get into that timeframe) Dolly has been working hard for years & finally she will see the reality of her first novel ,as it is being published as you can read here an excerpt from the Canadian Authours of Alberta website:
http://www.canauthorsalberta.ca/uploads/files/BLMar12.pdf (just type in Dennis in the search window & it will bring you to the following ....... as printed here below,but checkout the whole site if of interest to future talents,it may be of use ................let's support our friend & ex-Montrealer & Buy Her Book,or at least read it ..........I know I will Dolly Dennis’ first novel, Loddy-Dah, has been picked up by Toronto publish-er Guernica Editions. The book is set in Montreal between 1967 starting with EXPO 67 and ends in 1970 with the FLQ Crisis and the War Measures Act. Loddy-Dah explores issues of self-identity, self-image, illusion, delusion and self-acceptance.
Here is the cover as promised: congrats again Dolly. I will post a photo of the cover as soon as I see one,along with the isbn number so you can borrow it from a library or buy your own copy from your favourite local bookstore.............Congrats again Dolly (for never giving up) ~LesF
ps: Dolly is an ex-Montrealer & a talented Verdun character,who is a writer living in Alberta.
Ahh!......... the over regulated police like state of La Belle Province,you know- where they have a police force, for everything (any similarity to the old communist countries is purely coincidental) - lol Common sense & more importantly Common Decency is severly lacking in the heads of overzealous power nuts working for the Bus Company. A real nice story of the ongoing lunacy of our once great city.It sure isn't the La Belle Province ,that ; Je me souviens................lol the following stoy is from the Gazette.
MONTREAL — More than a week after a mother and her 2-year-old son were kicked off a city bus and fined $219 for not having exact change, the STM says it has still not interviewed the bus driver involved in the Verdun incident.
Pauline Tantost, 24, who has since filed a complaint with the STM, was fined last Friday evening after attempting to pay the bus fare with a $5 bill.
STM spokesperson Amélie Régis said an investigation is underway and that all employees involved will be interrogated.
Tantost was headed home last Friday after spending five hours at the Montreal Children’s Hospital with her toddler, Xavier, who was suffering from an infection.
When she boarded the bus at 10 p.m., she asked the driver how much she owed. After looking in her bag for money, she told the driver she didn’t have $3 in change — only a $5 bill.
She offered the bus driver the money, but he refused, saying he only accepted exact change. He warned Tantost of being fined by STM investigators if she stayed on board without obtaining a proof of payment.
“I didn’t care, I just wanted to pay the bus fare and get home as soon as possible,” Tantost said in a phone interview.
She stayed on the bus and sat down behind the driver, with her $5 in hand.
A few minutes later, an STM vehicle rolled up. Two inspectors boarded the bus and asked to see her ticket.
“I left the bus on my own because I felt bad, I couldn’t stop crying, so I didn’t want everyone seeing me like that,” she said.
After the bus left, leaving Tantost on the sidewalk with her son, STM officers handed her a $219 fine for riding without a ticket. They told her she could wait for the next bus and show the fine as a proof of payment.
“I kept crying, I was really sad. Disappointed. I didn’t think something like this could happen,” she said.
Instead of waiting for the next bus, Tantost decided to walk home from the bus stop, which was 20 minutes away from her house in Verdun.
Although the STM has not yet spoken to the bus driver, officials have told Tantost that it wasn’t the driver who called STM investigators.
“It was just bad luck,” Tantost said.
But Wayne Larsen, who was aboard the bus when the incident occurred, is suspicious.
“To me, it looked like it was an ambush because these guys got on and targeted her right away,” Larsen said.
Larsen said that during the inspection last Friday evening, another passenger had issues with her ticket, but was let go with a warning.
“There was another person on the bus — an older woman — and they let her go. They didn’t take her off the bus or anything,” Larsen said.
Régis said Friday that she couldn’t give the specific number of random inspections that are conducted every year by STM investigators. ctonthat@montrealgazette.com
:Here is a youtube of the old advertising campaign from MTC
"Congratulations" to Dolly
(Sabby to us few) Dennis who has a book coming out very soon ,the story is set
in Montreal between the years of 1967 & 1970..........( I imagine we
can all get into that timeframe) Dolly has been working hard for years &
finally she will see the reality of her first novel ,as it is being published
as you can read here an excerpt from the Canadian Authours of Alberta website: http://www.canauthorsalberta.ca/uploads/files/BLMar12.pdf (just type in Dennis in the search window &
it will bring you to the following ....... as printed here below,but checkout
the whole site if of interest to future talents,it may be of use
................let's support our friend & ex-Montrealer & Buy
Her Book,or at least read it ..........I know I will Dolly Dennis’
first novel, Loddy-Dah, has been picked up by Toronto publish-er
Guernica Editions. The book is set
in Montreal between 1967 starting with EXPO 67 and ends in 1970 with the FLQ
Crisis and the War Measures Act. Loddy-Dah explores issues of
self-identity, self-image, illusion, delusion and self-acceptance. I will post a photo of the cover as soon as I
see one,along with the isbn number so you can borrow it from a library or buy
your own copy from your favourite local bookstore.............Congrats again
Dolly (for never giving up) ~LesF
ps: Dolly is an ex-Montrealer & a
talented Verdun character,who is a writer living in Alberta.
