{"id":19514,"date":"2019-03-04T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=19514"},"modified":"2019-03-04T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:47:17","slug":"reseau-affaires-verdun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/reseau-affaires-verdun\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdun Business Community Honours National Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a hundred women and a few men celebrated International Women\u2019s Day a week early at Quai 5160 in Verdun.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which was organized by volunteers with the R\u00e9seau Affaires Verdun (RAV) \u00a0featured well-being, with presenters spending ten minutes inspiring people to create better lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sure you can enjoy hamburgers and fries every day if you want,\u201d said nutritionist Isabelle Huot. \u201cBut you may find yourself struggling to move.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jean Airoldi, the only male presenter, spoke about fashion. Thankfully, he didn\u2019t point out faux pas in the wardrobe of participants like me.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Joyal, from Strom spa, relationship coach Genevi\u00e8ve Desautels and workplace calm and design specialists Danielle Gagnon and M\u00e9lanie Boivin gave us all ways to create more peace in our lives. Jos\u00e9e Leger spoke about the pleasures of wine.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the evening took place right at the end, when Fanny Gauthier from Ateliers &amp; Saveurs, created three different cocktails for participants to try using Quebec wines from Les Vignes des Bacchantes. Each of them featured a different herb. What a great experience drinking the flavours of rosemary and basil.<\/p>\n<h2>Verdun Business Personalities of the Month<\/h2>\n<p>RAV recognized Strom Spa co-founder Guillaume Lemoine as their business personality of the month for January 2019. Maxime Bissonnette from Syst\u00e8me Int\u00e9gration Global Inc. (SIG) won for February 2019. For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/rav.quebec\/\">RAV website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Four Southwest Mayors Speak<\/h2>\n<p>The next event to connect the business community takes place on Tuesday, March 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Sofie Reception, 420 Avenue Lafleur. That\u2019s when the Grand Sud-Ouest 5.0 will hold a panel discussion featuring the mayors from Lachine, LaSalle, Verdun and the Southwest boroughs. Manon Barbe, Benoit Dorais, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Parenteau and Maja Vodanovic will speak about their visions for the future. Tickets cost $95 or $45 for students. For more information and tickets, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccsom.ca\/le-grand-sud-ouest-5-0\/\">Grand Sud-Ouest 5 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a hundred women and a few men celebrated International Women\u2019s Day a week early at Quai 5160 in Verdun. 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Sure you can enjoy hamburgers and fries every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19515,"comment_status":"closed","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":[21,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-report","category-lasalleposts","category-verdunposts","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-54K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18627,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/first-week-march-welcome-women-seedy\/","url_meta":{"origin":19514,"position":0},"title":"First week of March in Verdun: Welcome Wednesday, Women Thursday and Seedy Saturday!","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Can't believe all the events happening in Verdun this first full week of March! 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