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The Economic Development Council of Ontario (EDCO) presented the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Economic Development to the Ottawa Valley Recreation Trail Partners Group. The award was presented at the annual conference of the EDCO on January 31st in the category “Collaboration and partnership and cross-border for communities of 50,000 to 250,000 inhabitants”. EDCO’s […]

The next Pontiac Chamber of Commerce General Meeting will be held on February 21st at 5:30pm at the Brauwerk Hoffman brewery in Campbell’s Bay. The members of the organization are invited to attend two presentations: the first will be given by Sylvie Séguin of the Saint-Laurent- Mont-Royal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to discuss the […]

The Board of Directors of the Shawville Fair elected a new president at their annual general meeting (AGM) on January 24th. Tyler McCann, a 10 year Board member, said in yesterday’s press release that he is ”honoured to continue the tradition of the fair and how it brings the community together every year. We have […]

According to the information obtained by CHIP 101.9, the American company Renmatix, which owns various industrial complexes in Pennsylvania, New York State and Georgia, is the company that has been singled out to establish a bio-refinery that could be settled in Litchfield as part of the development of a Biomass Conversion Center. The Warden of […]

A public meeting concerning the Résidence Meilleur du Haut Pontiac, the senior’s home in Chapeau, will take place this Thursday at 7pm at Harrington Hall in the Chapeau sector of l’Isle-aux-Allumettes. It will include questions about the project’s schedule, the budget, the process for registering to live there, and the various details for future of […]

Quebec municipalities are invited to apply for the opportunity to obtain one of the 21 “I work for my city” internship scholarships worth $ 3,000, offered by the Relève municipale committee. A committee consisting mainly of l’Association des directeurs généraux des municipalités du Québec (ADGMQ), of the Corporation des officiers municipaux agréés du Québec (COMAQ) […]

Teachers, management and educational resources of the Commission Scholaire des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais (CSHBO) made their way to New Brunswick at the end of January to participate in a seminar on education, in the city of Clair. Among the 23 members CSHBO who participated in the conference, ten of which were Pontiac staff members, including five teachers […]

Tuesday night, the Western Quebec school board appoint a new chair. Alain Guy, who will now be walking in the footsteps of his predecessor, James Shea, who passed away on December 31st, told CHIP that he is humbled to do so: The newly appointed chair of the school board became the fifth person to hold […]

Continuing along the lines of following up with the MRC Pontiac’s municipalities in terms of budget for 2019, CHIP 101.9 contacted three more municipalities, yesterday, to ask them about the changes made to their budget and what the citizens of their municipality can expect for 2019. First, from the municipality of Campbell’s Bay, Mayor Maurice […]

Following the meeting with the minister des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs for the CAQ provincial government, Pierre Dufour, Tuesday, in regards to the revival of the forestry industry in the Pontiac, the Warden of the MRC, Jane Toller, met with CHIP, where she answered a question in regards to the revival of […]