Culture, Leisure and Sports

Participants are being sought for a Christmas variety show in support of the Fort-Coulonge Knights of Columbus. Organizer Lise O’Reilly explained that she was looking for anyone with talents such as singing, dancing or acting to volunteer for the event. O’Reilly, whose husband is a musician, said that she had some experience putting on a […]

A Beachburg man in his 80s will be walking 10 km per day throughout the Pontiac this week as part of a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).  Russell Mackay, 85, affectionately known as “Papa” to his family, is an avid walker with a history of fundraising for health care services. Though […]

On Wednesday evening, the Municipality of Campbell’s Bay unveiled the newest additions to Maurice Beauregard Park, two sets of horseshoe pits and a shuffleboard court. Mayor Raymond Pilon explained that they had ordered the material for these additions the previous year and had installed them earlier this summer. The new additions to the community park […]

Yesterday (August 15), MRC Pontiac launched a call for projects for the Regions and Rurality Fund (FRR) – Component 2, an envelope with $350,000 for eligible projects made available through the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MAMH). This component is targeting projects that will “improve living environments and encourage the implementation of initiatives […]

On Tuesday evening (August 15), the Pontiac Agricultural Society held their annual Shawville Fair Ambassador competition. Youth from the local agricultural community compete for the title with short speeches about a chosen subject relating to the fair. There were four competitors this year: Felix Vereyken (Ag Awareness Division, Kathleen Kelly (Sheep Division), Ben Judd (4-H […]

A sequel to a successful charity walk will be held in the Pontiac   at the end of August. Russell Mackay, 85, will be walking 50 km throughout the Pontiac region to raise money for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). While that might be an ambitious feat for anyone his age, Mackay is also […]

Fans of Shawville author Luke Murphy won’t have much longer to wait, as his seventh novel “The Cradle Will Fall” is set to be published later this year. As the nursery rhyme title suggests, the novel is a continuation of Murphy’s earlier novel “Rock-a-bye Baby”, and he said he’s been working on the plot since […]

The Pontiac Community Players are gearing up for this season’s summer farce, with an interesting twist on a classic tale. The troupe will be performing the play “Marian” which is a female-led remix of the classic tale of Robin Hood. Tanya Leigh Maguire, a long-time member of the Community Players, will be directing and starring […]

The head of the Pontiac Senior Comets team, who talked about the team playing in an Ontario hockey league in the spring, just announced that they had to withdrawal from league. Team owner Sébastien Bonnerot confided in CHIP 101.9 after breaking the news, “it broke our hearts to have had to give up on the […]

This past weekend, the fundraiser ball tournament for the Fort-Coulonge Minor Hockey Association raised $11,000, money that the association will need after the Comets teams were denied approval to play in Ontario next year. “This year we had a record in the number of teams which was 13 teams in the family division and 4 […]