Author: Marie Gionet
Over 400 people were in attendance at the Centre des Loisirs des Draveurs, in the municipality of Fort-Coulonge to watch the Flying Fathers take on a team of students and teachers from École Sieur-de-Coulonge high school. As a reminder, the Flying Fathers is a hockey team comprised of catholic priests that travel across North America […]
At the meeting held by the Table régionale de gestion intégrée des ressources et du territoire public de l’Outaouais (TRGIRTO) on public forest management in the region on Monday in Campbell’s Bay, a resident of the municipality of Otter Lake was on site to address his concerns; Other local citizens, such as Ronald Godin of […]
Students and teachers from Sieur-de-Coulonge High School will face off against the “Flying Fathers”, a hockey team composed of Catholic priests, on Tuesday, February 19th. The Flying Fathers travel across North America to play hockey while raising money for different causes. Father Justin, from the St-Pierre Parish in Fort-Coulonge and also a member of the […]
Renfrew County Fiddlers Monthly Dance on March 2, 2019 at Mateway Centre 7:00 to 11:30 pm. Feature Fiddler PETER DAWSON. Admission $6.00 Members $4.00 Everyone Welcome.
A 16-year-old girl from Petawawa, Trinity Poil, has been missing since February 13th. She reportedly left her home on Cleve Avenue, in the north of the city, between 10 pm and 4:20 am on the night of February 12. She was last seen wearing a black coat with a purple lining, a black tuque with […]
From February 18th to March 15th, the public is invited to participate in the Pontiac MRC’s public consultation on potential new areas of intervention, roads and other infrastructure that are set to be built on public land as part of the plan d’aménagement forestier intégré opérationnels (PAFIO) from 2018-2023 for the Coulonge, Basse-Lièvre and Haute-Gatineau-et-du-Cabonga […]
With the inauguration of the new Youth Center in Otter Lake, the Maison des Jeunes now haves four service centers in the Pontiac; Mansfield, Rapides des Joachims, Shawville and Otter Lake. Once again, the Executive Director of the Maison des Jeunes, Stéphane Durocher, explained the planning behind the expansion of the Maison des Jeunes in […]
Over 60 people were in attendance last Friday, February 16th, for the official inauguration of the Maison des Jeunes newest youth center being offered in the Municipality of Otter Lake in collaboration with the municipality. The mayor of the municipality of Otter Lake, Kim Cartier-Villeneuve explained why the partnership is important for the municipality: The […]
The Table régionale de gestion intégrée des ressources et du territoire public de l’Outaouais (TRGIRTO) invited Pontiac citizens to an information session in regards to forest management in the public forests. A representative of the TRGIRTO, Raymond Barrette explained the goal of the evening; Among the twenty people in attendance for the meeting, the Mayor […]
The Centre de formation professionnelle du Pontiac (CFP Pontiac) secretarial and accounting courses officially began on Monday morning. The director of CFP, Serge Lacoursière, gave more details on these two classes: The program currently has 11 students out of a possible 13 and as for the cooking class, the CFP Pontiac hopes to recruit enough […]