Author: Marie Gionet
At the MRC Pontiac council of mayors meeting on Wednesday evening (December 21), Warden Jane Toller presented Portage-du-Fort Mayor Lynne Cameron with a plaque of recognition from the Fédération québécoise des municipalités (FQM) recognizing her 20 plus years of service as a municipal elected official. Cameron received the award from Toller alongside her husband and […]
Erin Davis talks about taking a group of students from Dr. S.E. McDowell Elementary School in Shawville to the CAP assisted living facility.
Local theatre troupe the Pontiac Community Players has another production in the works that will be hitting the stage at Pontiac High School in the new year. Director Val Twolan-Graham explained that the group has been working on their latest play “Hilda’s Yard” by Norm Foster since August. The cast of 6 actors as well […]
Director Val Twolan-Graham of the Pontiac Community Players talks about their upcoming production “Hilda’s Yard”, hitting the stage at Pontiac High School on January 18 to 21.
On Tuesday evening (December 20), Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifting siblings Naomie and Xavier Lusignan were named Female and Male National Athletes of the Year at the Gala Excellence sportive Outaouais 2022 in Gatineau. The two had been nominated for other awards in the past but this is their first time winning. The award comes with a cash […]
Bouffe Pontiac had help from the Sûreté du Québec during the distribution of Christmas baskets in the Pontiac. Sergeant Nicolas Tremblay, from the MRC Pontiac station, took the initiative to organize a team of officers to assist the organization with distribution in the community. In addition to the distribution, Sergeant Tremblay raised the sum of […]
Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifter Xavier Lusignan was nominated to the category of National Female Athlete of the Year at the Gala Excellence sportive Outaouais 2022. The announcement was made just hours before his younger sister Naomie was nominated in the female category at the same gala. This year Xavier won two gold medals in the 96 kilo […]
Mansfield-et-Pontefract weightlifter Naomie Lusignan was nominated to the category of National Female Athlete of the Year at the Gala Excellence sportive Outaouais 2022. The announcement was made just hours after her older brother Xavier was nominated in the male category at the same gala. This past year, Naomie won the gold in the Canadian Junior […]
Environment Canada has issued a special weather alert for the Pontiac region from Thursday evening (December 22) until Saturday (December 24). “Significant snowfall amounts, strong winds and blowing snow are expected over areas north of the St Lawrence River, while over the areas to the south, some of the precipitation will fall as rain,” the […]
MRC Pontiac has posted a job listing for the position of Director General, a little over a month after the departure of Bernard Roy on November 4. The post has been filled in the interim by engineer Kim Lesage. Among the requirements, applicants are asked to have a minimum of five (5) years of relevant […]