Culture, Leisure and Sports

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. […]

On Saturday (June 22) residents of Rapides-des-Joachims gathered at the municipal park for the inauguration of their new splash pad, named in honour of late mayor Doug Rousselle. Rousselle was elected mayor of the small, far-flung municipality of around 150 year-round residents back in 2021 and passed away from cancer in September 2023. The new […]

The community of l’Ile-du-Grand-Calumet is preparing to celebrate Quebec’s Fête nationale this Sunday June 23 at the municipal RA grounds (138 chemin des Outaouais) starting at noon. Organizer Tyler LaSalle explained that new this year there would be a maple syrup contest among the producers on the island. Admission is free and there will be […]

A teenager originally from Fort-Coulonge was drafted to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League this past weekend, selected 12th overall in the first round by the Gatineau Olympiques. Maxim Dubé’s hockey career has taken him all over, from the Fort-Coulonge arena to southern Ontario to New York most recently, playing for the Long Island Gulls […]