How can we move through the stages of mourning, stuck as we are in pandemic limbo?
Author of the article: Louise Solomita • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 08, 2021 • 5 days ago • 3 minute read • Monique Girard-Solomita with daughter Louise Solomita in 2017. Girard-Solomita died on April 26, 2020, during the peak of Quebec’s first wave. Photo by Louise Solomita
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As Mother’s Day approaches and the prospect of large family gatherings slips further into the future, part of me is relieved. Despite a year’s worth of grumbling over subdued holidays at home and missing my extended family, I’m dreading our first family gathering after the lockdown. Because it will be the first celebration without my mother, and that empty chair will be devastat
By Jessica Vaughn
FOLEY - Every year, the Foley Beautification and Revitalization Committee presents awards to three businesses. The award winners are chosen by committee members after careful consideration and review of efforts made by businesses to touch up, renovate, and/or add landscaping to their businesses.
“The committee works very hard to choose these awards,” said Mayor Ralph Hellmich. The winners receive a sign to be put up at their business identifying it as a Beautification Award winner, as well as a certificate that can displayed inside the business.
The first 2021 winner was Local and Company Food+Drink, located at 812 North McKenzie Street.
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As Mother’s Day approaches and the prospect of large family gatherings slips further into the future, part of me is relieved. Despite a year’s worth of grumbling over subdued holidays at home and missing my extended family, I’m dreading our first family gathering after the lockdown. Because it will be the first celebration without my mother, and that empty chair will be devastating.
We’ve said goodbye to so many mothers over this last year, whether because of COVID or other cruel diseases. These women were the beating hearts of families who will only feel the loss more acutely when they’re finally allowed to gather around the table.
West Island senior s homemade applesauce is marketed through word of mouth and Facebook page.
Author of the article: Carolyn Boll • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: May 06, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 3 minute read • Ethel Smith helps her 88-year-old mother Sylvia peel apples at her home. In early 2020, Sylvia Smith started making applesauce at home and then selling it by word of mouth but has also launched a Facebook page to market goods with help of her daughters. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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In January 2020 Sylvia Smith fell. In the months following surgery, the formerly spry West Island senior had to find something to keep herself occupied. By October Sylvia and her two daughters, Ethel and Sheryl, had developed a successful recipe for how to respect her limited mobility and to do it together as a mother-and-daughters project.