Artist redoing Stations of the Cross: No one knows who painted the oil-on-canvas paintings of the 14 stations of the cross depicting the final hours of Jesus’ life, but they were weathered and dark. They had been hanging on the walls of St. Alphonsus Church in Chapeau for about 100 years when parishioner Maurice Bissonnette decided to brighten their appeal.

The paintings were blackened by candle soot and the canvas suffered from condensation coming from the stone walls of the church.

“I had decided with the millennium coming, what was I going to do to celebrate?” says Bissonnette. “I approached the church and offered to restore the paintings.”

The artist also recently won the Royal Canadian Mint’s “Create a Centsation” contest for his coin design.
Globe experience benefits students: The Globe project initiated by the SADC had a successful year at Ecole Secondaire Sieur de Coulonge (ESSC).

The students went to Mexico to do some wheeling and dealing during their March break where they decided to purchase jewelry from the Mexican students and in turn, sold them ball caps and army bags.

Globe president Chantal Lesage, a secondary V student at ESSC, said the experience taught her all about
operating a business, as well as some good communication skills.