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Great Pumpkin Ball at Botanical Garden A huge fall celebration at Space for Life! The Botanical Garden is celebrating the 27th edition of its Great Pumpkin Ball. Events feature the everpopularpumpkin-deco- John Symon Special rating contest and Esmeralda, the friendly witch. At the Insectarium, spiders will be the stars of the show, showing off their spectacular skills in a number of original presentations, like Acrobatic Spiders. It is an unusual experience that puts a different "spin" on things!At the nearby Biodôme (a zoo), there are other activities during the festive October 27-28 weekend. Central to these activities is The Great Pumpkin Ball which features a pumpkin-carving contest. Who will win the prize for the best-decorated pumpkin? Or the biggest one? The public is invited to put creativity to work and see what can be made with recycled materials. There are individual, family or group contests, and five age categories with cash prizes for the winners.The pumpkins will be on display in the Botanical Garden's Main Exhibition Greenhouse from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily through October 31. The friendly witch,Esmeralda, accompanied by her cat,Abracadabra, and her broom, Gontran, invites children to recite some intriguing magic spells. There is also a play for ages 4 to 8 (in French): "Il était un petit Pépo" where Pépo is having an identity crisis. Marie, the market gardener, tries to calm him down by explaining how he grew from a tiny seed into a pumpkin. There is also the Little Monsters Courtyard - an outdoor play area for the under-10 set. From pumpkin-aroos to battling monsters,Insect Soup,a hungry frog toss and a squash hunt, children are sure to enjoy themselves in this Halloween-themed play area. Games of skill, races, jumping - there's plenty of fun in store! Can they make it across the shaky bridge? At the Squash Kiosk, the spotlight is on the Cucurbitaceae family. The public can learn about the sixty different varieties of squash, try the squash quiz or take home some pumpkin seeds and a collection of tasty recipes! Daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (until 7 p.m. on Friday & Saturday) The Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) kiosk provides the public a chance to meet local agricultural growers. On weekends, come and talk with the farmers who put healthy, delicious food on our tables. Halloween Origami lets the public discover how to transform a simple square of paper into a pumpkin, spider or black cat. This is done through the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. Naturally, it takes place at the Japanese Pavilion,weekends, from 2 to 4 p.m. At the Insectarium (an indoor facility on the grounds of the Montreal Botanical Garden), there is a show entitled: Spiders Unmasked. Spiders are true tightrope walkers, champions at lassoing,sprinting,weaving and tagging.They're amazing athletes who steal the spotlight wherever they go! One of the Insectarium's nature interpreters and an acrobatic colleague offer a thrilling tribute. Also at the Insectarium there are some other shows, including one called "Insects onTour" where the public can meet spiders and insects dressed up as superheroes and out of Credits: Montréal Botanical Garden (Michel Tremblay) Kids have fun at Little Monsters' Courtyard their vivariums for Halloween. There is also "Pop-capsules" where some odd characters who know all about entomology will be waiting to reveal all kinds of secrets about spiders. The public is equally invited to learn about jumping spiders which are smart and have some surprising tricks for attracting the opposite sex. Other Halloween activities will take place at * OCTOBER 20, 2012 3 555102912 the Montreal Biodôme where many of the resident animals will be challenged to open pumpkins filled with their favourite foods. This fun-to-watch enrichment activity keeps the animals alert and curious, just as they are in the wild. More info: montrealspaceforlife.ca Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca

Bullying message more poignant than ever Two weeks ago, The Times ran a headline story and interview about the need to stop bullying.Since then,there was a high profile teenage suicide in Coquitlam, BC after the victim was experiencing John Symon Special cyber-bullying.Videos of the 15-year-old show her holding scribbled messages, the last one of which reads: "I have nobody. I need someone. My name is Amanda Kids need adult role models... Todd." This case, which involved years of bullying and torment, has now prompted debate in the Canadian Parliament.It is unclear if proposed legislation on bullying will be adopted in Ottawa, but Quebec already has legislation on this. Our original article quoted Barbara Victor, clinical director of Montreal-based Ometz Services. We went back to her for more comment: "Bullying is not an institutional issue," underlines Victor. "It's the community that must respond. That is what the evidence seems to say; we must build a culture that doesn't support this type of behavior . A lot of kids are really struggling; we absolutely don't want them to kill themselves!" "Amanda seemed to feel that nobody could help her. If any youths reading The Times feel the same way, I urge them to go to school and talk to all adults who will listen, and to keep talking. There are also the CLSCs (local centres for community services) and parents." Research suggests that only about four percent of bullied youths talk to adults about the problem. Victor insists that schools must convey the message that"we will listen to you." And part of this involves proper training of teachers and of other adults to help them become good listeners. Much of the Todd case involves the Internet and technology;a field where youths sometimes know more than their parents. Victor suggests that adults must take responsibility and make an effort to learn about the mediums (texting, Facebook, etc) that their children are exposed to. There is essentially no respite from this technology; messages using it can be sent to recipients everywhere. "Technology is a very loud voice today. But we Image of Amanda Todd from Facebook must ensure that the loudest voice in a youth's soundscape is that of a positive, adult role model. This is the best protection against what happened to Amanda. It is the same thing with drug abuse; to cope properly in today's world, youths must be exposed to strong social skills. They need strong relations with adults to learn these skills." Victor speaks positively of Quebec's anti-bulling legislation, Bill 56 that aims to build strong communities. "Quebec was one of the first places in Canada to have anti-bullying legislation;it holds people responsible. Some people criticize the Quebec government for not putting much money into this initiative, however. But even with little money the issue is to hold the community accountable.We must create a culture that doesn't support bullying." Victor is optimistic that kids being sent to 3,000 schools in Quebec early in 2013 will help achieve just that. Ometz Services, which operates out of Cummings Square,5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road/ 514-342-0000 , takes its name from the Hebrew word for "courage." By coincidence, Amanda Todd was recently described by her father, Norm, as "courageous." Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca 4 OCTOBER 20, 2012 *

111121612 Vol. 18, No. 8 Saturday, October 20, 2012 Hudson, St. Lazare, Senneville, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Baie d'Urfe, Beaconsfield, Chateauguay, Kirkland, Pte. Claire, Pierrefonds, D.D.O., Dorval, Lachine, NDG, CSL, Ville St-Laurent, Mtl-West, Hampstead, Westmount, Montreal, Lasalle, Verdun, Laval What's in Our Heads It's amazing what you can accomplish when your heart and your mind are in the right place. Amazing we never know for sure who or what will steer us there. Anthony Calvillo and his brothers are cases in point, their intertwined fates explored in the great new documentary "The Kid From La Puente" forTSN's ENGRAVED ON A NA- TION series. Rick Moffat Sports It is inspiring viewing for families, cancer patients, and of course for football fans too, although director Shelley Saywell confessed to me this week she didn't know anything about the CFL or our big-hearted quarterback of the Alouettes before making the film. She reveals the story of why Anthony wanted to avoid wearing the #13. Yet he's carried it on his back like a cross to bear while 999102812 his older brother carried the gangland tats of Puente-13, a street-gang from their barrio in East LA, to prison and back. Saywell also revealed to me, in an interview for CJAD 800, that she wanted Anthony to do the narration, but the guy is so darned humble he couldn't bring himself to say any of the nice things about himself in the script. AC finally lost a starting job. Younger brother Mario narrates. True to form, AC hasn't watched the final cut. Too busy with film study of the Riders this week. It is a story of healing and closure. YetAnthony's father is not interviewed. Saywell tells me Calvillo and his dad have had their private reconciliation. It is not addressed on film. The quarterback who has aired it out like no other on the field is not about to air all the family laundry. Now Saywell admits-she's a fan. The only thing cooler than Brandon Prust tweeting an impromptu ballhockey invite on the very day Bettman went on the Lockout PR powerplay would have been Geoff Molson coming down from his Bell Centre office to join the game with fans. Prust was optimistic after sleeping on the owners' new offer. Me? Not so 111012713 much. If I was Aislin, I'd have drawn Bettman and Fehr sitting in the backroom of a gelato shop stuffing millions into their hockey socks. Prust is listed as a LW on the Habs website but admitted to me in an interview for the Andrew Carter Morning Show that he feels he can be more involved and have a bigger impact playing at centre. I swear I could almost hear him speaking with a Danish accent and channelling Lars Eller. For a guy who doesn't care about individual stats or accolades, Shea Emry sure is having fun with his first career CFL touchdown. The heel-toe kick after flapping his ball-hawk wings in the endzone of Rogers Centre to clinch an Alouette home playoff date became his twitter feed profile picture this week. Truth is Shea is taking his life to a higher level on and off the field. "Being back on the field making plays and helping my team win is such a great feeling," says Emry, rewarded by Coach Trestman with 2 days off in a row, a rarity for a short turnaround week in the CFL. The painful twists and turns along the road to recovery from concussion 111012713 suffered last July against Calgary led directly to that joyous jump that also sparked friendly teasing on his facebook page. Concussion stigmata are bad enough in football without ever having to deal with the least-talked about after effects. Depression. From the Latin "concutere"--"to shake violently"--a concussion self-diagnosis was on Emry's mind by the time he hit the bench on the sideline last summer even though it was the first time he'd been concussed as a player. It wasn't the first time his brain had shaken him violently or emotionally. Concussions threaten bouts of depression. Emry,bullied in his younger days, already had experience with battling the demons of emotional illness. "It was something that threatened my livelihood. When that identity as a football player is questioned it hits home," admits the 5th year Alouette. "It made me do a lot of soul-searching in the offseason. I got back to the basics. I take every game and situation outside of football as a blessing and an opportunity to make myself better." "I had to get my mind right and my soul right." His football c.v. says he's a 1st Round Draft pick from UBC in 2008. It doesn't tell you that he'd left EasternWashington after fighting depression. ""The depression came from feeling like an outsider...and here I was again after the concussion, feeling I wasn't part of the team. You're sitting on your butt sedentary,finding some kind of self-worth and it's difficult ....facing the abyss of life. I took a long time to recover." "My emotional state was difficult to deal with," recalls the Vancouver-native listed at 220' pounds of muscle on a solid 6' frame. "I kept calling my parents telling them to get me out of there. I had to take sleeping pills to go to sleep, I was crying myself to sleep,my mind was racing." "I'm glad I had football. When I came out of a cloud of depression,I came out of my cloud of bullying. Football helped me take out my aggression." "Last year I really wanted to get back, I really felt like I was letting my teammates down. Some symptoms would come back...the team handled it with a lot of class,allowed me to take my time." "I was practising at the end of the year without symptoms, but I felt the anxiety of whether I could still do it at the level I wanted to." Shea visited Montreal-area 777082612 schools with theAlouettes "Together in School" program in the off-season to tell his story, help kids, but also to heal himself. "I wanted to do whatever I could to give back. At the same time I wanted to make myself a better person and use my brain in a different way. I was taking French classes at McGill too, all to make sure my brain was in a better state of mind and soul." The next big leap for Shea on the field is teaming up with defensive coordinator Jeff Reinebold to smooth out the inconsistencies of theAlouette defense for the playoffs. The next big leap off-thefield could be teaming up with "Saidat", a hip-hop artist named Saidat Vandenberg who has developed an anti-bullying program called "Music, Movement & Motivation." Their hearts and heads are surely in the right place. Rick Moffat is Sports Director and Voice of the Alouettes and Montreal Impact on CJAD 800, www.cjad.com follow on: twitter@RickMoffat . If you would like to send Rick a letter please e-mail: rickmoffat @westendtimes.ca Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca * OCTOBER 20, 2012 5 888090212 ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS FOR ONLY $41. 25/ PER MONTH MIN. 12 MONTHS Call for more details 514-457-7656 555091011

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Any reproduction in whole or in part and in print or in electronic form without express permission is strictly forbidden. Permission to reproduce selected editorial may be granted by contacting the publisher in writing. The recent and tragic death of an 18-year-old cyclist in Lachine is cause for sadness, but also cause to ask questions. Tyrell Sterling was struck by a tractor trailer at the intersection of the Lachine Canal bike path and another bike path on St. Pierre Street. While Sterling rode a bike with no brakes, it is not clear that this contributed to the accident. More importantly, it seems that the truck driver never saw the youth. Lachine officials often boast of having "the most beautiful bike paths in Canada," which is possibly true, but what about safety and practicality? Lachine municipal workers hurriedly painted a crosswalk on Berge du Canal Street after the accident, but why was this not done earlier? Why is there still no crosswalk painted across the entrance to an adjacent Tim Horton's restaurant? Why has nobody cut vegetation there that obscures vision for both cyclists and motorists? Why are there still so many glaringly dangerous spots on Montreal's bike path network? The Lachine Canal bike path is the oldest bike path in Canada- dating from 1978-and the second-most popular with some 800,000 cyclists, inline skaters, and electric scooters annually. The St Pierre Street bike path is the main access to the former Ville St. Pierre, Montreal West, western NDG, and parts of Cote St. Luc with a combined population of probably over 70,000. This is a major bike route and making it safe should be a priority. Montreal prides itself on being a "Mecca" for cyclists in North America and with considerable justification. But we still have a long way to go before Montreal is comparable to Amsterdam or Copenhagen, for example. A short distance from St Pierre Street is the intersection of du Musee and St. Patrick Streets, recently described by Lachine Mayor Claude Dauphin as "perhaps the most dangerous for cyclists" in Montreal. But another contender for that title is the intersection of de Maisonneuve and Decarie Boulevards in NDG. And de Maisonneuve Blvd is the most popular bike path in Canada with one million cyclists a year. Very often, the solution for fixing these intersections is relatively inexpensive-$480,000 for a bridge in the case Opinion Why is bicycling still unsafe in Montreal? of Decarie Blvd-and given the volume of cyclists involved, this seems like a very worthwhile investment. Part of the problem, however, is the piece- John Symon Symon says... meal manner in which dangerous intersections are addressed. Cyclists might typically travel many kilometres per day, traversing various boroughs of Montreal or independent municipalities, each with its own codes and priorities. One borough might create a beautiful bike path that encourages many cyclists while the next borough refuses to address a flagrant death trap. This could be said of how the St. Laurent borough has created a decent bike lane on O'Brien / Ste Croix Ave., but this bike lane suddenly and dangerously disappears as the road crosses into Town of Mount Royal (TMR). The O'Brien / Ste Croix / Lucerne Rd corridor, by the way, is one of the few routes where cyclists can cross Highway 40 on the western part of Montreal Island. As such, cyclists on those beautiful Lachine bike paths must make long, dangerous detours to ride to bike paths in the adjacent St. Laurent borough and vice versa. For bike paths to be truly successful, they need to be safe and practical, efficiently leading to-and- 6 OCTOBER 20, 2012 * 39 th from where local citizens live, work, study, have fun, and shop. At present, many bike paths seem instead designed for magical mystery tours on Sunday afternoons. Next week read: How Montreal can make bike paths safer On another cycling matter, I wrote on September 1st about Lance Armstrong, predicting that the doping allegations had substance. Remember where you read it first! Also, it is widely reported elsewhere -and incorrectly- that Armstrong has now been stripped of his seven Tour de France victories. The final call on this point belongs to the International Cycling Union which has made no decision to date. Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca

Pizza Pizza closes national pizza month with fundraiser for Children's Miracle Network Pizza Pizza personnel are smiling a lot these days,and it's not because someone said "cheese"; but rather because Canada's children's hospitals, which continue to need dough, are getting a good amount of it through the company's Slices for Smiles Foundation. Founded in 2007, the program has now reached its one millionth dollar raised and Pizza Pizza is interested in doing more with the support of its broad base of customers, employees and franchise operators.The company announces that fundraising efforts resume today, October 15 to November 11 with a special fundraiser that allows customers to purchase designated pizzas at a reduced price with proceeds going to benefit a total of eight Children's Miracle Network member hospitals. "We've always felt that pizzas and smiles go 'hand-in-hand'," said Pat Finelli, Chief Marketing Officer for Pizza Pizza."Saving and improving the lives of children is something that is important to our franchisees, our staff and customers.We feel fortunate that we can bring a smile to the lives of children and their families, through this initiative." The menu items that fall into the fundraiser are a 10" half pepperoni pizza topped with a smile, available until October 28 for $2, as well as a medium cheese or pepperoni pizza, which is available for $4.99.All traditional Pizza Pizza restaurant locations across Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS FOR ONLY READ US ON-LINE Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia will participate in the fundraiser,with proceeds going to the local Children's Miracle Network member hospital in that region. In addition, customers can support the fundraiser by adding a donation to orders placed by phone, online, instore and through the Pizza Pizza iPhone app. OHL athletes are also driving-home efforts in their local communities by serving up pizza and hosting local pizza parties to raise funds and awareness. "In Pizza Pizza's community of customers, partners and franchisees, there are a number of people who have a connection to a children's hospital," said John Hartman, Chief Operating Officer, Canada for Children's Miracle Network."This fundraiser is a tremendous way to give back - it's easy, fun and delicious. We are delighted to have Pizza Pizza and its customers join us in raising support for critical services,leading-edge research and excellence in care for millions of kids in Canada." The Slices for Smiles Foundation was created in 2007 during National Pizza Month to commemorate Pizza Pizza's 40th anniversary. Since its inception, the Foundation has raised over $1 million for children's charities in Canada and has been working with Children's Miracle Network for five years. For more information or to donate to the Slices for Smiles Foundation, visit: www.pizzapizza.ca . www.westendtimes.ca $ 19. 90 /WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS = $995 PER YEAR Call for more details 514-457-7656 info@westendtimes.ca * OCTOBER 20, 2012 7

Social Distortion For as long as there has been rock n' roll, there have been songs about the difficulties we face during our existence. Mike Ness has battled demons throughout his life, struggled with drug addiction, been homeless and gotten into trouble with the law, resulting in two years spent going in and out of rehabilitation centers and jails. Perhaps best summed up by his comments on a music video that was shot for a song named "Machine Gun Blues", off the groups most recent album;"I just wanted to portray a robbery that went wrong, no one was supposed Kieron Yates Special to get hurt, and I wanted to portray how your life could change in a matter of seconds" says Ness, who's lyrics have often dealt with similar topics, of strife and the difficulties faced by the working class. "I'm kind of like you, I'm a journalist, and I report what I see or what I experience and sometimes I do it auto-biographically or sometimes I do it through character writing but it's really just down to experiences" explains Ness, briefly pausing to sigh,"It's very therapeutic. I'm in the process of writing a book about my life and it's the same thing, it helps me process things that have happened and somewhat understand why they have happened and song writing is very similar." More than three decades later, Ness still sings about the hardships and the setbacks."It's my beginnings, you know, and the good news is when you come from dirt, you can only go up, but, it's important to remember where you come from." Pausing for a minute to chat before playing to a sold out crowd in Michigan, Ness tells me that how it normally takes a short while to get used to life on the road."We got into town today and our hotel wasn't ready, just luck I guess" he says, "Its hard work but we obviously love it or we wouldn't do it so much. On one hand I'm very lucky to have made a living doing what I love to do, but it has a price, you know? Leaving my wife and kids at home for long periods of time several times a year, missing out on a lot, it makes consistency a very hard thing, and that's what kids need and what a relationship needs, so it's challenging and luckily I have a strong women who has stood by me." Ness also has a pair of solo albums under his belt, on which he focused more on his interests in folk and bluegrass, but has been quiet on that front since 1999."I did a little tour a couple of years ago just to let people know I'm still into it and I have a lot of material to do another solo record, it's just finding time. I want to do another Social Distortion record, and then do an acoustic record with Social Distortion and then I want to do a Mike Ness record, probably in that order. I'm very happy with the last record and what we established with it, we re-established our love for American roots music." Social Distortion roll into town to play the Metropolis on October 23rd, and although tickets are still available, they have sold out every show on this tour thus far! Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca Get with the Times - westendtimes.ca 8 OCTOBER 20, 2012 *

It was voted "Best Radio Station in the City" year after year by readers of the now defunct Montreal Mirror, many of its shows were also recognized as best on the annual list of Best of Montreal in that paper, recognition for some of its shows has also come from its peers in the Sergio Martinez Special form of NCRA's Standard Award for Programming Excellence, yet all the programming at CKUT is done by unpaid volunteers. The dedication of its members keeps the radio going 24 hours seven days a week, no matter what the weather is. In the end professionalism has nothing to do with being paid. CKUT is a campus-community radio station, a CRTC category involving broadcasters based on a university or college campus, whose members are mainly but not exclusively drawn from the student body and which also have a projection in the community at large. University radio stations could well be considered as extensions of those institutions into the community. Something that is appreciated by Louise Burns, a member of the collective management at CKUT, who told me that "being attached to McGill is a very good thing" and she added"it is like constant teaching." A 25-YEAR HISTORY, BUT WITH SOME "PREHISTORY" During the conversation Louise told me that even though CKUT in its present form has existed since 1987 when it was granted a license to broadcast by the CRTC, a campus radio existed since 1960 when it was born in the basement of the Students Union CKUT is very much a McGill voice in the community (photo Sergio Martinez) CKUT: McGill based radio station turns 25 Building (the Shatner Building). But she also told me that even before, and as far back as the 1920s and then in the 1940s there were instances of a radio club at McGill. It seems that at that time what moved McGill people to make radio was more the fascination with the technology than with the medium itself.She pointed at the fact that even though some documents on those instances exist, they are incomplete and it would be great to have those involved in those clubs at McGill to come forward and provide information, photos or other memorabilia from that time. CKUT is presently collecting that information and would be thankful to anyone who may provide it. In the recent past however, it was in 1966 that CFRM was broadcasting on campus only, in 1982 it got a cable license, and in 1987 CFRM became CKUT Radio McGill and since then it could be found at 90.3 on the FM dial. ACCESSIBILITY AND DIVERSITY Being a campus-community radio station, CKUT main goal is to provide members of the university and the community at large, access to broadcasting. If one looks at the station's grid one may find all kinds of programming, lots of music shows for sure,but also a large variety in the spoken word category. Shows are also available in languages other than English: there is a large section in French as well as shows in Creole, Arabic and Spanish (for those interested in Latin American issues, in practicing their Spanish, or in listening to a variety of Latin music, from salsa to tango, the author of this article may be heard every Sunday morning between 9 and 10:30 on Latin Time). That diversity is also reflected in special activities like the summer camp which last time gave the opportunity to 33 children to learn the basic elements of radio. Although in its beginnings CKUT had the support of the McGill administration, in recent years the relation hasn't gone too smoothly. In 2007 the administration requested that the station officially drop the name McGill,apparently afraid of any liability ithat could come as result of a possible judicial action given that CKUT at times has tackled controversial issues.There have also been disagreements regarding the opting out of fee payments that students can do online (the station has asked for a less impersonal approach). CKUT must also face every five years a student referendum about its own existence and funding. Despite these difficulties CKUT is in a healthy financial state,it has gotten a large support in each student referendum, and in terms of its audience is a very active player in the English-language radio scene in the Montreal region. Since 1998 CKUT has been run by a collective management. The 25th anniversary is also the theme for the annual funding drive being held from October 25 to November 4 (the funding drive helps finance the station, other sources being the student's fees and some advertising which is limited for non-commercial stations). CKUT may also be listened to on the Internet at www.ckut.ca and for those who may provide some information on the pre-CKUT radio days at McGill please contact: alumni@ckut.ca Comment on this article at: www.westendtimes.ca * OCTOBER 20, 2012 9

Dragon, Jim Treliving, the f r a n c h i s e baron behind Boston Pizza and Mr. Lube (and one of the stars of CBC-TV's hit show "Dragon's Den"), was always a firm believer in the power of the decision. There is one early decision that he made that forever changed his life.And it all had to do with choosing be- 999102112 111040113 111120912 Stuart Nulman Book Banter Harper Collins, $28. 95 tween Chinese food and pizza. It was a cold December night in 1966 and at the time, Treliving was working as an RCMP officer in Edmonton. After finishing a night shift, he was returning home with his friend Don Spence, an officer for the Edmonton police department, and they were about to stop for a late night bite to eat.Treliving wanted to eat at a local Chinese restaurant, but Spence convinced him to opt for Boston Pizza, a pizza restaurant that was about two blocks from his home, but he largely ignored. After sampling the food, Treliving was impressed by both the food and the service and became a regular customer of Boston Pizza. In fact, he not only took a moonlighting job as security guard for the restaurant, but he gradually started to Book Review by Stuart Nulman Decisions by Jim Treliving ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS FOR ONLY $41. 25/ PER MONTH MIN. 12 MONTHS Call for more details 514-457-7656 999110412 learn about the restaurant business through Gus Agioritis, one of Boston Pizza's original owners. By that time, Treliving was tired of the grind of being a police officer, and was looking for a new line of work and the challenges that went along with it.This is where he made another decision: to leave the security of a regular job with the RCMP and take the risk of being a restaurateur and open the very first Boston Pizza franchise (which was located in Pentincton, BC). From there, he managed to evolve Boston Pizza into a billion dollar business with over 400 stores in three countries, and as a result of that, became one of Canada's most successful entrepreneurs. ...And all because of what he calls the"smallest big decision I ever made" back in December of 1966, when he chose to eat some pizza in a local restaurant. In Treliving's newlypublished memoir - which is entitled,appropriately, "Decisions" - he explains how his road to success in business and in life all weighed upon the decisions he made, both good and bad. A native of the small town of Virden, Manitoba and the son of the town's barber,Treliving recounts his life where he was brought up with old-fashioned, small town values.As well, he writes about the rigourous training he endured at the RCMP academy in Regina, and how the importance of teamwork and working with good people played a major role in his early career in law enforcement and later as a successful businessman. But the main focus of this book is how the decisions he made - whether they be unpopular, risky or sensi- ble - were integral to seeing himself through difficult times when Boston Pizza was on the brink of failure, to his eventual mega success. For example, there was his decision not to reduce staff and operations when Boston Pizza was at Expo 86 in Vancouver, and endured the first few weeks when it went through a period of driving rain (which worked to his benefit after the weather cleared up); then there was his decision to establish - and later shut down - Boston Pizza franchises in China and Ontario when he realized they weren't working out the way he and his partners hoped they would; and finally, his surprise decision to turn down CBC's offer to be one of the original dragons when "Dragon's Den" was about to debut in 2006, which he later reversed thanks to the encouragement from his wife Sandi (for which he is probably eternally grateful for). "Decisions" is the fifth book by a member of "Dragon's Den" (along with Kevin O'Leary,Arlene Dickinson, Robert Herjavec and BrettWilson). What makes the book so enjoyable, is that it echoes the unassuming, homespun style that Treliving projects on the TV show. He writes with a great deal of honesty and insight (where he gives the proper credit and responsibility where it's due), and interlaces his life story with his business acumen without any complicated business school principles. As a result, we get a reader friendly, completely understandable look at how to succeed as an entrepreneur in Canada. As well,Treliving shows his charitable nature (his Boston Pizza Foundation donates funds to such charities as the JDRF and the Heart & Stroke Foundation); and all royalties from the sale of this book will also be donated to several charities of Treliving's choice. So whether you know how to make a decision or suffer from indecisiveness, Jim Treliving's book offers practical, inspirational advice to how you can be a success in business and in life just like Treliving, which he managed to do one decision at a time. Stuart Nulman's "Book Banter" segment is a twice-a-month feature on "The Stuph File Program" with Peter Anthony Holder, which now has almost 150,000 listeners per week. You can either listen or download it at peteranthonyholder.co m , or Stitcher.com or subscribe to it on iTunes. Plus you can find it at www.Cyber- S t a t i o n U S A . c o m , www.KDXradio.com , TrueTalk Radio,streaming on www.PCJMedia.com, and over the air at World FM 88.2fm in New Zealand, Media Corp in Singapore and WSTJ, St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Stuart can be reached at: bookbanter @hotmail.com . Comment on this article at:www.westendtimes.ca 10 OCTOBER 20, 2012 *