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Fourth from Seaway Park woodlands
By Arpon Basu
St-Lambert Journal Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The number of commemorative bronze plaques missing in St-Lambert has risen to four after city councilor Claude Trudeau noticed last week the one at the Citizens' Woodland in Seaway Park was stolen.

"All's that's left are the bolts," he says.

Following the theft of the massive bronze plaue at Soldier Park with the names of the 122 St. Lambert residents who died in WW I and II, along with smaller plaques at the Royal Canadian Legion branch office and at Logan Park, Trudeau was left wondering where else in the city there were plaques outdoors.

On his way back from the monthly board meeting at the Rseau de transport de Longueuil last Thursday, Trudeau remembered there was a plaque commemorating the Citizens' Woodland on the eastern end of Seaway Park, right near Champlain College.

Upon his arrival, Trudeau found the stone where the plaque was once mounted was empty.

The City of St. Lambert had already begun looking into how much it would cost to replace the Soldier Park plaque, but the order is a lot steeper now than it was two weekends ago when the original story broke.

"At the beginning it was only one," Trudeau says, "but now we're up to four."

Pn the bright side of all this is that calls from concerned sitizens have begun coming in, and many are offerinf to pitch in to replace the Soldier Park plaque.

Reward

An anonymous donor who is a veteran of WW II has ffered a $1000 reward through the Montreal-based Sun Youth Organization for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever stole the plaque.

The city is also fielding calls, as is the Legion and Trudeau himself, who received a call from a war veterans' organization in PEI that offered some funding for the plaque's replacement.

A report last week that the city has already commissioned a new plaque was inaccurate. The city is now looking into pricing the work, but Trudeau says at the very least, it looks like the Soldier Park plaque will be back where it belongs.

"We can be assured that the plaque will be replaced," he says.

A report last week noted that the Soldier Park plaque, which measures 1.2 metres by .5 metres, would fetch about $200 for its metal, and that most scrap yards wouldn't be the least bit suspicious as long as it were cut up into small pieces.

Anyone with information regarding the plaque's theft is asked to contact city hall at 450-672-4444.