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On April 2nd and 3rd, the École des Petits-Ponts competed in an oratory competition at ESSC high school for French elementary school students in the region. The winners are: Kindergarden: 1- Éléana Bouchard (NDSC/Chapeau) 2- Emma Labine (St-Pierre/Fort-Coulonge) 3- Ryder Condo(Ste-Anne/Ile-du-Grand-Calumet) 1st grade: 1- Chiara Turmel-Bonnet(Ste-Marie/Otter Lake) 2- Lexie Drapeau(Poupore/Fort-Coulonge) 3- Océanne Laroche(Poupore/Fort-Coulonge) 2d grade: […]

2019 Campbell’s Bay 3-Pitch Summer League Registrations will be held on Tuesday April 16th and Tuesday April 23rd. Both nights from 6:30pm to 8pm at the RA Hall in Campbell’s Bay. It’s $35 per player, 18+ and a maximum of 72 players, and games will be played on Sunday evenings starting on May 26th. Players […]

The Ottawa Valley Cycling and Active Transportation Alliance (OVCATA) issued a warning this week of the potential dangers of installing rumble strips on Highway 17 between Chalk River and the Nipissing boundary, being the only route for trans-Canada cyclists have for travelling through that section of highway 17 with no alternative roads available. Rumble strips, […]

The MRC Pontiac has made clarifications about a particular news story issued by CHIP 101.9. The MRC made a point to specify that the idea of re-launching the conversation of establish a bridge between Fort-Coulonge / Mansfield and l’Ile-du-Grand-Calumet is an initiative by ‘Jane Toller’ and not the MRC. They also made a point to […]

The businesses here in the Pontiac were invited to an information session in the municipality of Campbell’s Bay, on Thursday, to learn more about the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. The event, organized in part by the Pontiac MRC, was, according to one of the organisers, Claudee Galipeau, a success. Under the title “Building Partnerships for Your […]

CHIP 101.9, once again, had the chance to talk with Maryse Vallières, this university student from the Pontiac who is currently doing an internship in Africa, to talk about the progress she has made in her project over her stay in Senegal that, notably, is already halfway done: For the second half of the internship, […]

The Caisse Desjardins des Rivières Pontiac announced on its Facebook page, Wednesday, that there Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for this month has been cancelled, given that they had an ‘extraordinary general meeting’ last fall. A meeting which was held, essentially, to discuss the merger project of the two Caisses Desjardins in the Pontiac; Chapeau […]

The municipality of Portage-du-Fort elected Edward Thompson as the new municipal councilman filling seat # 6 during their by-election on March 31st. According to information obtained by CHIP 101.9, Edward Thompson ran against Donald Armitage who received 51 votes, against Thompson’s 57. The potential number of voters was 203. Note that councillor Allan Farrell, who […]

Three workshops are being organized in the Pontiac by Jardin éducatif du Pontiac in collaboration with the Table de Développement Social du Pontiac (TDSP) and the Comité Saines habitudes de vie. The goal of the three workshops is to teach people how to grow, maintain and harvest a pesticide free fresh garden that cost less […]

A portrait of current situation of toddlers in the Pontiac and Outaouais was compiled by the l’Observatoire du développement de l’Outaouais or Outaouais Development Observatory (ODO), details of which can be found in the latest edition of the Outaouais Sous la Loupe newsletter. According to the document, the results are lower than the observations made […]