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The Carrefour jeunesse-emploi du Pontiac recently launched their new student employment days pilot project for the month of May, in order to prepare French and English-speaking students in Pontiac’s high schools and adult education centers for the job market. Project manager Mélissa Piché explained that the intention of this program is to help students aged […]

On Thursday last week, MRC Pontiac announced that their economic development director Cyndy Phillips would be stepping down from her role, effective May 27. Phillips was hired on as the head of the department in February 2020, taking over from Danielle Newman, who herself left the MRC in January 2020. She is the third economic […]

CHIP 101.9 Bingo, presented every Monday at 7 pm, will soon be getting some major improvements starting in June, as a way to be more generous and offer more money to its clientele. Following an extensive two-year consultation period with a variety of bingo players, CHIP 101.9 decided to raise its total prize pool to […]

Ontario Power Generation is advising motorists that use the bridge to Limerick Island near the Chenaux dam that it will be closed to traffic overnight for several days between June and September. The reason for the closures is work being done to upgrade the structure. The river crossing will be closed between 8 p.m. and […]

Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifter Xavier Lusignan finished 11th yesterday in his first appearance at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships, which took place in Greece. The 19-year-old athlete’s performance can be viewed here.

Visitors to the Pont Blanc beach in Mansfield-et-Pontefract will have a new activity to try out at the end of the month: axe throwing. The beach site, which is operated by the coopérative Aventure Hélianthe will officially open of the new lanes on May 29. Guillaume Lavoie-Harvey explained that while he understood the reservations some […]

There’s only a few more days for the public to comment on the MRC Pontiac’s Integrated Resource Management Plan, known by its French acronym PAIR. According to a press release from the MRC, the PAIR “is a short and medium term planning tool for the intramunicipal public territory of Pontiac (TPI). Its scope is to […]

At around 6:45 p.m. last night (May 8), MRC des Collines Police received two 911 calls from the same cell phone. According to a press release the police issued May 9, the reception was poor and the operator wasn’t able to determine exactly what was going on except that two people were in the water […]

Canadian Special Operations Forces Command issued a series of press releases today warning the public of several training exercises taking place in the area next week. On May 10 and 11, they will be in the area of the Chenaux Dam near Portage-du-Fort, and residents may see military vehicles and troops, as well as hear […]

Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifter Xavier Lusignan is currently competing at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships, which are taking place on the island of Crete in Greece from May 2 to 10. He will be in competition on Sunday May 8 at around 8 a.m. Lusignan told CHIP 101.9 before he left that he was aiming to place […]