Culture, Leisure and Sports

With a new executive at the helm of local non-profit Art Pontiac, the group has big plans for the upcoming year. David Perrett, the newly elected vice-president of the organization, is a sculptor with more than 20 years experience who moved to the Pontiac a little over a year ago. With experience sitting on the […]

The Pontiac Agricultural Society, the non-profit group behind the Shawville Fair, held their annual general meeting on January 25 at the fairgrounds. At the meeting, President Vaughan Bastien stepped down after three terms at the helm of the organization. He thanked all the members of the board for their hard work and support over the […]

At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on January 24, council voted in favour of two resolutions allocating up to $10,500 from the tourism budget to pay for episodes of two different tourism shows produced by TVA Sports. MRC accountant Annie Vaillancourt explained that they were approached by TVA Sports to produce two episodes […]

A musician with Pontiac roots released her debut project earlier this month, and is excited to share it with the world. Colleen “Leeny” Jones, who hails originally from L’Isle-aux-Allumettes, dropped her first EP Burn Out with a sold-out show at Irene’s Pub in Ottawa on January 12. She said that the project has been in the […]

Ski Pontiac is already gearing up for another season of sliding on their network of trails at Astra Estates in Norway Bay (formerly the Norway Bay Golf Course). President Ariane Cloutier said that their popular moonlight ski and snowshoe events would be returning this year, with the first scheduled for January 27 at 6 p.m. Participants […]

Connexions Resource Centre is holding a series of five focus group meetings for English-speakers across the Pontiac region. Connexions is a non-profit organization serving as a bridge between English-speaking Quebecers in the Outaouais and various health and social services. There were six people in attendance at the meeting in Shawville on January 16, along with […]

A press conference was held at the office of the Carrefour jeunesse-emploi du Pontiac on Wednesday morning (January 17) to unveil a new ski lending program that will be run out of a cabin next to their office. The project is a part of Projet Circonflex, an initiative through Loisir Sport Outaouais along with Ski At […]

This past weekend (January 12-14), the Shawville arena once again was host to the Pontiac Provincial U15/U18 Hockey Tournament, bringing in minor hockey teams from both Ontario and Quebec to battle it out for trophies and bragging rights. There were 16 teams competing in this weekend’s action, while 15 turned out to the annual U11/U13 […]

Regional sports and recreation body Loisir Sport Outaouais is launching a new initiative to offer sporting equipment sharing across the region, with locations in the Pontiac as well. Sylviana Geoffray, a development officer with LSO, explained that Project Circonflex, as the program is known, is meant to offer equipment like cross-country skis and snowshoes to […]

Local theatre troupe the Pontiac Community Players have a new performance in the works that they’re nearly ready to show the world. Named “The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong”, the play follows the misadventures of an amateur theatre troupe who, as the name suggests, have quite the time staging their production. Director Greg Graham explained […]