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The George Bryson Cultural House has created a new activity for the coming months, an escape room that will be offered to their customers. Geneviève Gagnon from the George Bryson Cultural House explained, in an interview with CHIP 101,9, the objectives of the project. The goal of the game; escape from a room in order […]

Hello Shawville, an online directory of businesses, services and events in Shawville, available on many platforms (web, Facebook and application), recently released their content in a new format called the Hello Shawville Magazine. In an interview at CHIP 101.9, the creator of this project, Carolann Barton, described her first impressions of this new platform for […]

Yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Regional council of Mayors of the MRC Pontiac, the council added a new item on the agenda, which will be permanently added to each beginning of the meetings in the future, stating the use of language of preference. This declaration will ensure that citizens asking questions or expressing […]

Tonight, the MRC Pontiac will hold its monthly meeting of the Mayors starting at 6:30 pm, in the Elsie-Gibbons Room, at the MRC office in Campbell’s Bay. The meeting is public and Pontiac residents are welcome to learn more about the latest developments in the MRC by attending the meeting.

The 2019 edition of the Shawville Fair, organized by the Pontiac Agricultural Society, will be held this year from August 29th to September 2nd. In addition to the so-called “classic” activities of the Fair, this year will include musical performances from such artists as Brett Kissel, The Hunter Brothers, and Sass Jordan. The Shawville Fair’s […]

The incumbent MP for the Pontiac, William Amos, who will be representing the liberals in the upcoming federal elections on October 21st in the riding of Pontiac, was at the flood meeting, held in L’Isle-aux-Allumettes on Monday night. He explained how last spring floods, in his opinion, affects the federal level of government. More details […]

Hydro-Québec confirmed an increase in the number of power outages in the municipality of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes. According to Hydro Quebec’s spokesperson, Julie Léonard, faulty equipment could be the cause of the amount of brief interruptions, those last 5 minutes and less. With regards to the power outages lasting more than 5 minutes, Hydro-Québec plans to study […]

On October 25th, the Bryson Recreation Association is organizing a Culinary Evening with the Pontiac native Chef Yannick La Salle, who will be accompanied by the co-owner and chef of Les Fougères restaurant, Charles Part, along with the Le Cordon Bleu Institute graduate, Kara Cahill. One of the organizers of the event, and member of […]

On Saturday August 24th the Bonnechere museum will be hosting the Queen Street Fiddlers who will be entertaining us with valley style music. This year most of the tunes will have been composed by fiddlers living within the Ottawa valley.

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