Author: Marie Gionet
A new organization has been created in the Pontiac to provide outdoor entertainment for families this summer. Campfire Cinemas, which will present movies all summer on a giant screen installed outdoors in various municipalities across the Pontiac. The main organizer, Robert Lance, spoke to CHIP 101.9 about the concept. The first film was due to […]
The Canadian Armed Forces were in Fort-Coulonge once again earlier this week to help remove the sandbags and plastic from the large municipal dikes. Today, the municipality plans to work on removing the sand from the dikes and the citizens of Fort-Coulonge who want to remove their sandbags can drop them at the back of […]
The Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board recently stated that the water levels are expected to decrease at an accelerate rate over the next few days. It was also indicated that the reservoirs located North of the watershed are now full, according to the Planning Board, since no significant precipitation is expected in the next few […]
While several residents are still waiting to return home a month after being evacuated, many families in Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield have helped each other and have generously hosted disaster victims. Maxime Delisle and his family have welcomed in five evacuated residents and now that number has increased to eleven. Several people believed that the evacuations would not […]
The 2019 floods have had an impact many sectors here in Pontiac. On Friday, Eric O’Brien spoke to Christine Rieux, of the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, to learn how the floods have had an impact on the farming industry.
On Sunday night in Campbell’s Bay, one of the organizers of the 3-pitch fun league and municipal councilmen for the municipality of Campbell’s Bay, Tim Ferrigan, presented the donation of $9, 000, from the league to the municipality, that has led to the newly added shelter covering the bleachers at the municipal ball field in […]
A few days after announcing the creation of a parliamentary commission on the future of the news media, an interdepartmental committee, chaired by the Minister of Finance, was created to identify the help that can be provided for print media, with only a few weeks before the commission. That same committee is proposing to table […]
The subject of the use of the bike path has resurfaced in recent weeks. CHIP 101.9 spoke with Remo Pasteris, from the Green PPJ Verte group, who said that he was disappointed with the MRC’s decision to only include elected officials on the committee that will consider the use of the bike path and its […]
The 2019 floods have had an impact many sectors here in Pontiac. On Friday, CHIP 101,9 spoke to Christine Rieux, of the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, to learn how the floods have had an impact on the farming industry: To help farmers during the floods, a one-stop shop for information has been set up by […]
The water level of the Ottawa River remains high, but according to the Ottawa River Regulation planning Board, river is expected to continue to decline over the next few days. After having been stable for a few days, the water from l’Isle-aux-Allumettes to the municipality of Pontiac is expected to decrease soon. As for Fort-Coulonge, […]