Culture, Leisure and Sports

Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifter Xavier Lusignan hoisted his way to a Canadian clean and jerk record last week while competing in Bahrain at his first World Weightlifting Championships as a senior athlete. Lusignan, competing in the 102 kg weight class, lifted 161 kg (355 lbs) in the snatch and 202 kg (445 lbs) in the clean and […]

Quebec City’s Château Laurier recently hosted Les Jours de la Radio, a flagship event for the province’s French-language radio industry. Organized by the Association des radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Québec (ARCQ), the gathering brought together over a hundred participants at the end of November to reflect on the challenges and future of this essential medium. A […]

On December 16, staff at Pontiac High School called an assembly during their annual Christmas Cup volleyball tournament to hold an official ribbon cutting for their newly installed bleachers. Darcy Findlay, a phys ed. teacher and one of the instigators of the fundraising drive for the new seats, explained that they had been more than […]

MRC Pontiac is hosting the opening of a free art exhibition at the Shawville arena on Friday December 27 by local painter Ruby Ewan entitled Suite for a Hill. The MRC has decided to develop an itinerant exhibition that will be shown in each of the venues. Therefore, it is intended that the paintings be […]

Just as in years previous, the Chutes Coulonge Park in Mansfield-et-Pontefract will be hosting their Festival of Lights during the weekends leading up to the new year, but with a bit of a twist this season. Visitors will be able to walk the scenic route next to the waterfalls every Friday and Saturday evening in […]

The Artist of the Month project between CHIP and the high school continues, and the student committee for the project, led by teacher Isabelle Nadeau, has selected their new artist of the month. For December, the students have chosen Sara Dufour.   Sara Dufour also talks about forests, ATVs, and snowmobiles in her songs, themes […]

The results of several community archeology projects that took place over the past two years in the Chats Falls area were celebrated in a presentation in Quyon on Friday morning (November 29). Called Archéo-Pontiac, the project was a collaboration between local historical group Friends of Chats Falls and a cooperative of archeologists, supported by several […]

Again this year, there will be some changes to the bingo broadcast schedule during the holiday season, both for CHIP’s bingos and those of the Knights of Columbus. For CHIP, the schedule is as follows; Monday, December 2 at 7 PM Tuesday, December 3 mega bingo at 7 PM Monday, December 9 and 16 at […]

The Christmas parade of the Mansfield & Fort-Coulonge brigade will take place this year on December 7th. One of the organizers, Claudette Pleau, also invites the entire population to participate in large numbers this year   The recent events were a great success thanks to the many businesses and organizations present, much to the delight […]

The local organization Les Amis du Sault-des-chats will hold an event to celebrate the success of the 2024 public archaeological excavations that took place last September at the site of the former Hudson’s Bay Company trading post in the Municipality of Pontiac. The excavations were open to the public for 4 days, and an additional […]