Culture, Leisure and Sports

Jane McGuire, a young woman originally from Fort-Coulonge was recently named to the uOttawa hockey team, the Gee-Gees. The winger is coming off a successful season with College Universel out of Gatineau, leading the North American Prep Hockey League in points. She said that its been a long-time goal of hers to join the university’s […]

The official opening of the Shawville Lions Country Jamboree took place on Friday (July 19), with greetings from several local dignitaries including Pontiac MP Sophie Chatel, Warden Jane Toller, Shawville Mayor Bill McCleary and Clarendon Mayor Ed Walsh. The annual festival is in its 11th year with the Lions at the helm, and saw roughly […]

If you’re down by the docks in Campbell’s Bay after dark, you may notice a different ambiance, as the town has recently installed new strip lighting on the municipal docks and boat launch. In addition to the 220 feet of waterproof LED lighting, the municipality also added some tourism signage for amphibious visitors to the […]

On Saturday morning (July 13), the Municipality of Fort-Coulonge held the opening of their new pump track on rue Baume, attended by several local officials and plenty of local youth. In a French-language interview with CHIP 101.9, Mayor Christine Francoeur spoke about the creation of the track, which was built with the help of a […]

The Municipality of Otter Lake announced on Thursday last week (July 11) that they would be closing the public boat launch on Farm Lake due to the growth of a patch of an invasive plant species, Eurasian Milfoil. The municipality held a public meeting in May to educate residents on how to curb the spread […]

Last week, it was announced that three local ball diamonds would be receiving upgrades with funding acquired through the provincial PAFIRSPA program. The funding covers 66% of the overall project cost, with the remaining 34% being supplied by the local applicants. All three recipients told CHIP 101.9 that the projects still had to go out […]

The Shawville Lions Country Jamboree is returning next week from Thursday to Sunday, bringing dozens of trailers and RVs to Armstrong Heritage Farm just outside town. Lions President and Clarendon Mayor Ed Walsh explained that this is the 11th year that the Lions have put on the event, after taking it on from previous organizers. […]

The ice at the Centre de Loisir des Draveurs in Fort-Coulonge should be top-notch this coming season, as some brand new refrigeration equipment is set to be installed at the end of the summer. Stephane Beland, the president of the arena committee, explained that they had needed to replace their aging equipment for some time. […]

After six years in Swisha, the seventh annual car show put on by the Rapides-des-Joachims Downtown Life Committee has had to move off the island, a victim of its own success. This year’s edition will be held at 87 Brockhouse Way in Deep River Ont. on Saturday July 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]

The plan to repair the Norway Bay pier is in motion, as a proposal from the pier committee was unanimously accepted by Bristol council at their meeting on Tuesday evening (July 2). Following an engineer’s report in the spring that condemned the aged structure as unsafe, the popular community fixture was closed to the public. […]