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The 2018 Food Drive for Bouffe Pontiac will be held on Thursday, December 6th, at three different locations here in the MRC. Volunteers will be collecting donations from motorists at the intersection of highway 148 and 301 in Campbell’s Bay, at the intersection of highway 148 and Pembroke Road in Isle-aux-Allumettes and they will be […]

Interventions by the Sureté du Québec will be intensified between November 29th and January 3rd, with a particular focus on impaired driving by alcohol or drugs. Among other things, road checkpoints will be set up randomly during this time to detect and arrest drivers whose driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or a combination […]

An agreement has been reached between the bargaining committee of the SAQ’s employee union and their bosses. This agreement should be submitted to the union’s general council in the coming weeks as well as to the 5,500 union members in the month of January. A vote will then be held on the agreement. The employees, […]

The Café du Village, located on Baume Street in Fort-Coulonge, reopened last Saturday. A full menu is available on their Facebook page. Breakfast will be served in the morning from 5 to 11am, and lunch from 11am to 2pm.

The Quebec Finance Minister, Eric Girard, tabled a motion to update the Fall budget to give $ 1.7 billion to families and seniors over the next five years. The different measures include implementing a Family Allowance, freezing the additional contribution for childcare in subsidized services starting in 2019, and wanting to introduce, starting in 2018, […]

The grand opening of the Brauwerk Hoffman, a new brewery in Campbell’s Bay, will be this Friday, December 7th, from 3pm to 8pm. The owner, Todd Hoffman, extended the invitation to the Pontiac residents and told CHIP about his hopes for the future of the brewery. More information about the grand opening is available on […]

Registration for Free French Classes in Aylmer, Shawville and Wakefield offered by the Regional Associations of West Quebecers (RAWQ) has begun as of December 3rd. In an interview with the French as a second language coordinator of the RAWQ, Vanessa Gatner, she told CHIP why they have decide to provide French courses in the region: […]

The Parc des Chutes Coulonge invites families to visit its site every Saturday in December as part of the 2018 Festival of Lights. Executive Director, Cyndy Phillips, told CHIP about some of the activities being offered this year. On December 8th, starting at 6 pm, the Festival of Lights will feature stories of wildlife encounters […]

Signs that construction on the Félix-Gabriel Marchand Bridge is progressing, the Mayor of Mansfield, Gilles Dionne, launched the idea of an inauguration as a way of reopening of the “Red Bridge”: The Félix-Gabriel Marchand Bridge in undergoing a complete repair of the bridge, namely: strengthening and straightening of the structure, replacing of the roof and […]

On November 28th, 4H Canada and the crop science division of Bayer Inc. renewed a national partnership that focuses and encourages youth to engage in science, technology, engineering and math(STEM). The communications business partner of the Crop Science division of Bayer, Komie Hossini told CHIP what impact the partnership could have moving forward for the […]