Annual Maisons Fleuries Awards event showcases our extraordinary gardens

Côte Saint-Luc
held its   2013 Maisons Fleuries  Awards evening recently, with the mayor and
council presiding. The entertaining evening featured  music by “Sir” Edwin Brownell (below) and a surprise
and extremely funny video produced by Councillor Mitchell Brownstein.

Councillors
Brownstein and Sam Goldbloom co-chaired the event, with Harold Greenspon
serving as honourary chair.

In the summer,
our community is ablaze with colour as residents tend to their gardens in order
to best please our judges. Our City is proud of its residents and is pleased to
present these awards in recognition of their efforts.

Entrants of
single family, semi-detached and duplex residences are judged by political
districts. Depending on the quality and
quantity of entries received per category, one, two or three award recipients
are selected by our judges.   Our elite awards are comprised of winners from
the various categories who were selected for an award twice in the past three
years.    The grand prize is awarded for one property
amongst single family, semi-detached and duplex residences.  

Here are the
results

Apartment &Condominium
Buildings Category

3rd Place

Tour
Sunnybrook

7905 CSL Road

2nd Place (above recipients from the two buildings with members of council)

Le Rothchild 2

5850 Marc
Chagall  (District 2)

1st Place

Le Rothchild 1

6500 Mackle Road
(District 2)

Senior Residence  

Castel Royal

5740 Cavendish

Commercial and Public
Buildings  

Commercial
Building  

Canada Trust

5500 CSL Road

Public Buildings  

Mont Sinai Hospital

5690 Cavendish
Boulevard

Or Hahayim Synagogue

5700 Einstein

St. Richard’s
Church

Parkhaven

 Single Family & Semi-Detached Homes in
District 2  

Daniel Cohen
and Bonnie Roiter (Bonnie with me above)

5786 Ilan
Ramon

Single Family &
Semi-Detached Homes in District 3  

3rd Place

Ernesto
D’Allessandro

6541 Baily

2nd Place

Pat Cerulli

6545 Baily

1st Place

Mrs. Zelda
Rabin

5588 Randall

Single Family &
Semi-Detached Homes in District 4   

3rd Place

Ida Panaccione

8110 CSL  Rd.

2nd Place

Emery &
Micheline Sasvari

624 Smart

1st Place

Carmella
Baratta

628 Smart

Single Family &
Semi-Detached Homes in District 5   

3rd Place

Debbie Lydynia

5782 Blossom
Avenue

2nd Place

Tony Pitarelli

5639 Hudson
Avenue

1st Place

Ron Orsini

5727
Westminster

Single Family &
Semi-Detached homes in District 6   

3rd Place

Eric and Joann
Goldapple

5763 Einstein

2nd Place

Leah Benedek

5660 Parkhaven

1st Place

Rose Sacks

5793 Einstein

Single Family &
Semi-Detached homes in District 7  

 3rd Place

Marvin &
Linda Ostin

6848 Weizman

2nd Place

Hanna Sheffren

5609 Parkhaven

1st Place

Alberto
Cambone

6842 Kildare

Duplexes in
all Districts    

3rd Place

Luis Borges

6639 Baily Rd

2nd Place

 Mario & Kathy D'Alesio

6615 Baily Rd

1st Place

 Nina & Michele Alfonsi

5761 Melling

Elite categories (The contestants of the Elite awards
consist of the winners from the previous three years  -2010-2011-2012-from their respective
categories, who have won on two or more occasions. 

Elite Apartment &Condominium
Buildings  

3rd Place

Le Bristel (Marcia Reim with Ruth Kovac and Sam Goldbloom above)

6030 Cavendish

2nd Place

Monte Verdi

5500 Borden

1st Place

Mackle Manor

6635 Mackle
Rd.

 Elite Single Family and Semi-Detached Homes
 

Tied for 3rd Place

Irene Darrell

5710 Wentworth

Mario Poisena

5777 Rand
Avenue

2nd Place

Lucie Chemtob

6885 Banting

 1st Place

Lucie Bendahan

5616 Parkhaven

Elite Duplex  

3rd Place

Remo
D'Alesio 

6641 Baily Rd

2nd Place

 Antonio Giobbi

5862 Shalom

1st Place

Tony &
Florinda Alfonso

6647 Baily Rd

Elite Townhouses  

2nd Place

Susan &
Harvey Schwartz

6043 Cavendish
Boulevard

1st Place

Dr. Laurentia
de Vreeze

Grand Prize  

Single Family and
Semi-detached homes

Zelda Rabin (above with Mitchell Brownstein, Sam Goldbloom and Anthony Housefather)

5588 Randall

Côte Saint-Luc
wishes to thank our sponsors  Canbec
Inc., CMS Entrepreneurs Inc. and  Jack
Vincelli Inc. This  year’s judges
were  Joan and Bernie King, Louise
Ferland and Sammy Pinsky, Marsha Reim andfor the first time this year, from the
 CSL vCOP’s  (Volunteer Citizens on Patrol) Roz
Kasner,  David Guttman, Sandra Segal and Alice
Schwarcz. Maisons Fleuries Committee Members joining the co-chairs were
Director of  Parks and Recreation David
Taveroff,  Manager of  Leisure and Community Services Cornelia Ziga,
 Horticulture Foreman from Public Works Joane
Warren, photographer extraordinaire Rami Negev and Peter Kopitas

As for the
video,  Councillors  Brownstein, Goldbloom and Mayor Housefather
visited a number of the winners under the premise that they had been
disqualified. Given the fact that all three star in our very own CSL Dramatic
Society, it was not surprising to see such a hysterical screenplay.  For example, one garden was “disqualified”
because there was a kippa on a flower and a large cross inside – the Charter of
Values strikes again. It was all in good fun and the audience ate it all up.

 More coverage on Councillor Glenn J. Nashen's blog.