{"id":1781,"date":"2022-07-20T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:10:36","slug":"le-patro-villeray-in-rosemont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/le-patro-villeray-dans-rosemont\/","title":{"rendered":"Patro Villeray: worth visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we do our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/schedule\/\">our weekly rounds<\/a>, we get to visit amazing organizations doing great work. Each one is unique. Patro is one of a kind and we always take great pleasure in setting up shop on Christophe Colomb Avenue when we drop-in to see them. Located a stone's throw from Jean-Talon metro station, Patro is a tremendous and spacious social environment that includes a swimming pool, gymnasiums, a library and even a bistro (among other things!).<\/p>\n<h3>Patro Le Pr\u00e9vost is dead, long live Patro Villeray!<\/h3>\n<p>Early in 2020, the Patro Le Pr\u00e9vost merged with the Lajeunesse Community Recreation Center and became Patro Villeray. You\u2019re probably wondering, what is a Patro exactly?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/patrovilleray.ca\/qui-sommes-nous\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to their website:<\/a> <em>this word is the diminutive of \"patronage\", which is defined as being a \"work which gives moral training to young people, organizes their leisure\".\u00a0<\/em> As you will find out in the following paragraph, the mission of Patro Villeray is even broader than that, but the idea of leisure is most central.<\/p>\n<h3>A dynamic organization<\/h3>\n<p>Boasting of a swimming pool and four gymnasiums as well as vast program of sporting activities, it\u2019s easy to lose from sight that Patro Villeray is also a community organization. Community involvement is in fact at the heart of their mission. They run a food program, another for French-language learning, a day camp during the summer, and activities for children with special needs including those on the autism spectrum. They also have a wonderful green terrace that\u2019s open when the weather gets warm and acts as a pick-up point for <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.lufa.com\/fr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fermes Lufa.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, somewhere between a dance class and an urban safety program, there's us. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/affordable-glasses-in-montreal\/#villeray\">We are there every Wednesday<\/a> offering affordable prescription glasses to the people in Villeray and surrounding neighbourhoods. Our mission is to make prescription eyewear accessible and affordable. We are proud to be part of the Patro's community ecosystem and we feel like we fit right in when we\u2019re there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lors de notre tourn\u00e9e hebdomadaire, nous avons la chance de nous arr\u00eater dans de superbes organismes tous aussi diff\u00e9rents les uns que les autres. Il n&rsquo;y a vraiment qu&rsquo;un seul Patro et c&rsquo;est toujours un peu sp\u00e9cial quand on pose nos valises sur l&rsquo;avenue Christophe Colomb. Situ\u00e9 \u00e0 deux pas du m\u00e9tro Jean Talon, cet&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/le-patro-villeray-dans-rosemont\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patro Villeray: worth visiting<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nos-partenaires","tag-montreal","tag-partenaires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}