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Congratulations to Diane Lamarche-Venne and Suanne Stein Day, the new school board presidents.<\/p>\n
Congratulations also to the new Verdun and LaSalle school commissioners.<\/p>\n
Lester B. Pearson Reps<\/h1>\n
Mary Ann Davis, Verdun and the Bronx and<\/p>\n
Frank di Bello, rest of LaSalle.<\/p>\n
Marguerite Bourgeoys Reps<\/h1>\n
Sarita Benchimol in the Hampstead, C\u00f4te-Saint-Luc, Montreal West, eastern Lachine and northern LaSalle ward;<\/p>\n
Stefana Lamasanu in the East LaSalle South Verdun ward;<\/p>\n
Caroline Varin in the Verdun North, Nun\u2019s Island Ward; and<\/p>\n
Joanne Bonnici in the central south LaSalle ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Congratulations to Diane Lamarche-Venne and Suanne Stein Day, the new school board presidents. Congratulations also to the new Verdun and LaSalle school commissioners. Lester B. Pearson Reps Mary Ann Davis, Verdun and the Bronx and Frank di Bello, rest of LaSalle. Marguerite Bourgeoys Reps Sarita Benchimol in the Hampstead, C\u00f4te-Saint-Luc, Montreal West, eastern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4b3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15979,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/english-commissioners-verdun-lasalle\/","url_meta":{"origin":16061,"position":0},"title":"English commissioners in Verdun and LaSalle","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"October 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Voters in Verdun and LaSalle have to choose between two and four school-board commissioner candidates, depending on where they live. 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