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This Saturday, November 03rd, the Pontiac Senior Comets take on the Maniwaki Foresters at the Gino-Odjick arena in Maniwaki at 8pm. The Comets full season schedule is available here.

With Winter fast approaching, It’s that time of the season again to turn your clocks back an hour, the time change is on Sunday morning at 3am and becomes 2am.

On Halloween day, Sergeant Yves Martineau and officer Marc-Olivier Chabot of the SQ, dressed up as Batman and Robin, paid a visit to eight schools across the MRC Pontiac and over 600 preschool students from grades 1-3. At the schools, they gave a speech explaining the basic rules of how to stay safe on Halloween. […]

L’Abattoir Les Viandes du Pontiac Inc. will hold an open house tour of their facility this Saturday, November 3rd, from 10 am to 4 pm, for all breeders that will potentially use the slaughterhouse in the future. The president of the company, Sofiane El Ketroussi, gave more details about the event: There will be a […]

Nancy Dagenais, the Administrative Assistant at the MRC Pontiac, wrote a poem to mark the tenth anniversary of the closure of the Smurfit-Stone pulp and paper mill in the municipality of Litchfield near Portage-du-Fort. The poem in question tells the story of the closure, on October 31st, 2008, of the mill. Ode to the Portage […]

A group of eight students from the Pontiac Adult Education Center, home health care program are fundraising to be able to go to San Jose de Ocoa, in Dominican Republic next May for a humanitarian mission. This ten-day internship would provide these students with work experience outside the country. CHIP 101.9 met a one of […]

Many organisations in the Pontiac and in the Outaouais will be organizing a week of activities for National Caregiver week. The Project coordinator at the Connexions Resource Center, Arnaud de la Salle, told CHIP about the activities they will be organising in the Pontiac: As for the MRC Pontiac, there will be 2 events next […]

The Outaouais’ heritage and history representatives met last week to discuss the creation of a regional museum. The General Manager of the Réseau du patrimoine de Gatineau et de l’Outaouais (RPGO), Louis-Antoine Blanchette, told CHIP 101.9 what elements could be used to represent the Pontiac heritage in this museum. The full interview in French with […]

With Halloween approaching, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) reminds people to stay vigilant. In an interview with CHIP, the SQ Sergeant, Marc Tessier, gave people a few instructions to ensure an enjoyable Halloween night: It’s important to make sure your child is visible to vehicles and pedestrians, it may be preferable to choose a multi-coloured […]

The Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais (CISSSO) will be launching its’ 2018-19 Flu Vaccination Campaign on November 1st. This year, two important changes have been made to the vaccination service, the medical consultant at the Outaouais Public Health Department, Carol McConnery, told CHIP that these changes will improve the vaccination […]