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"Always, alw ay s p r e a c h the Gospel. I f necessary, use words" St. Francis of Assissi F a th e r E m m et Jo h n s, also baptised by Montreal’s street youth as Father Pops, is one of the city’s most appreciated citizens. Founder of Le Bon Dieu Dans La Rue (The Good Lord On The Street), Johns1 ministry has grown from a $ 10,000 loan to buy a used motorhome in 1988 (that broke down while dri ving off the lot) to a $1.5 million annual b ud get. Dans L a R u e ’ s brand new motorhome is now but the organization’s sideshow. Chez Pops is a drop-in center that offers meals, counselling, health services, art and music studios and even a highschool education whose grad uates1 average is higher than the provincial level. There is also The Bunker, an emergency shelter for youths between the ages of 12 and 19 that can accomodate 20 visitors. For the successes of Dans La Rue, much could be said besides it con tributing to the Catholic Church’s anemic public image in Quebec.
Gearing up for the Holiday season, Montreal's storefronts display winter wonderland splendour
Keep off the grass! Renovations to lower field alter McGill pastimes B y N ema Eth erid g e
Humble Beginnings How did this Montreal mira cle happen? What vision did Johns have that led to this unexpected s u c c e s s ? T he an sw er a ctu a lly begins with a humbling episode of J o h n s 1 life. W hen ask ed w hat motivated him to reach-out to the street youth, Johns referred back to a time when he was a disatisfied suburban parish priest suffering from a nervous breakdown and taking anti-depressants. “That goes back to those days when I was sick,” he said. “I had a little prayer book with a passage from Scripture on it saying T was hungry and you fed m e .’ “That bugged me."
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Events like Snow Air Pub, the broomball rink of the Engineering Undergraduate Society and Frosh are set to be relocated because of recent renovations to the L ow er Field. Over the summer, lower field w as re n o v a te d to rem edy a drainage problem created at the end of the winter, when snow melted and the field turned muddy. The University paid over $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 to have the field restructured and sod ded so that a grassy area could be accessible to students year-round. The renovations closed the field for the majority of the summer. Vice-Principal Administration and F in a n c e , M orty Y a lo v s k y , explained the status o f the lower field at the end o f la st w inter.
“Historically, as the snow melted at the end o f winter, we found the lower field to be non-usable - as a result o f u sage, it turned into a mud-bowl. To address the situa tion, the ‘lower field’ was closed in early spring, the soil was tilled, grass seed was planted and a fence was erected to restrict access. A drainage system was constructed, the Tower field’ was reshaped to have a crow n and sod was laid. The project was funded from the Universiy’s capital budget and the cost of the project was in the $ 1 10k ra n g e . T he T o w er fie ld ’ w as reopened in late August.” In order to keep up the renova tions, access has been restricted when the field is wet, a time when the grass is m ost su cceptible to being uprooted. “To allow the sod to root properly, lower field usage
was restricted to non rainy days and the use of tents on the field was limited,” said Yalovsky. O rg a n izatio n s like the E n g in e e rin g U n d ergrad u ate Society, which uses the field in the fall for flag football games, agreed to move their games to the resevoir when it rained. M artin S t-Je a n , E U S v ic e president internal explained how the agreement came about. “ A t the b egin n in g o f the se m e s te r, [the a d m in istratio n ] called a meeting with engineering and athletics,” he said. “W e met with Facilities M anagem ent and they told us they wanted to pre serve the field and that our football season damages it a lot. We came to an agreement not to use the field when it rains.” Although such an agreement
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inconvenienced flag-football play ers and their fans, a sport that StJean estimates attracting over 500 students and spectators, the EUS did not see it as a major problem in the beginning. “Originally, I thought that in the long run it would be ok ay,” said St-Jean. “W e agreed on not playing on the field so that it could get stronger, but now it seems like the look of the field is more impor tant than actually using it.” St-Jean is also concerned with the fate of the field during the win ter, when Engineering has tradi tion ally created an ice rink for b room b all gam es. “N ow they don’t want anything to go on the lower field during the winter,” he said. “I t’ s there for students to
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