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Local Pontiac chef, Yannick La Salle, won a prestigious competition last weekend in Kelowna, British Columbia. The Bryson native, who is a chef at Les Fougères restaurant in Chelsea, won first place at the 2019 Canadian Culinary Championships. This prize will enable him to go to Africa or South America.

In its overview of the forest industry here in the Pontiac, CHIP 101.9 met the president of Fibre Pontiac, Pierre Vézina, who is also the promoter of the Biomass Conversion Center project which was identified at the beginning of the decade as a priority by the MRC. To increase the activities of the forest industry […]

VALENTINES DINNER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2019 6:00 p.m. ROAST BEEF DINNER WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS Entertainment with Gary Cummings and friends 4:00 – 9:00 p.m. $15.00 per person. Royal Canadian Legion Pontiac Branch 162, Campbell’s Bay,

The Position of Chair of the Western Québec School Board, which has be vacant since the passing of James Shea, will now be filled by Alain Guy, formerly the vice-chair School Board. Guy was appointed Tuesday night at the Council of commissionaires meeting and will now become the fifth person to hold this position since […]

The Warden of the MRC Pontiac, Jane Toller, talked about a meeting that was held yesterday at the MRC, called ”Community Therapy” which was led by the author of popular 13 ways to kill a community, Doug Griffiths. According to Toller, this meeting, organised in collaboration with SADC Pontiac, Emploi Quebec, the ministère de l’Éducation […]

The Warden of the MRC Jane Toller met with the CAQ’s ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Pierre Dufour, on Tuesday, in regards to the revival of the forestry industry in the Pontiac. During an interview with CHIP, Toller mentioned that during the meeting many topics were discussed. Topics such as the […]

Following last year’s fraud committed by a former employee of RPGL Avocats firm amounting to about $170,000, the MRC Pontiac said it still analyzes the procedures in order to prevent any risk of embezzlement in the future. CHIP 101.9 learned that the MRC wishes, in the future, to associate with another MRC to manage infraction […]

The Pontiac Sorting Center will have to pay more than $40,000 for breaking the law. The Pontiac Sorting Center, located in the Regional Industrial Park in municipality of Litchfield, will have to pay $40,747 for violating the Law on quality of the environment. The company was found guilty of four offenses under that law. According […]

The feature film Mad Dog Labine which was shot here in the Pontiac in 2017 by two young writers and directors, Renaud Lessard and Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr, will be presented in some theatres on April 5th. The film won the Quebec / Canada Focus Grand Prize at its premiere on October 9th, 2018 at the Festival […]

The 9th edition of the Pontiac Cup 3v3 tournament will take place from April 11th to 14th, 2019 at the Centre de Loisirs des Draveurs in Fort-Coulonge. The main organizer of this event, Danick Boisvert, gives some details on the date change for this 2019 edition: Four divisions will be part of the Cup this […]