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August 20, 2026

Caleb Nickerson

Luskville campers create land art

The children from the Municipality of Pontiac’s day camp showed off the results of their hard work with Wakefield artist Marc Walter on Wednesday (Aug.

It takes a village to have a fête

On Saturday, rue Baume in Fort-Coulonge was packed with people and vendor booths for the annual Village en fête. Organizer Danelle Bourque said that she

Luskville campers create land art

The children from the Municipality of Pontiac’s day camp showed off the results of their hard work with Wakefield artist Marc Walter on Wednesday (Aug. 12) at the Luskville Community Centre.  The group created a sort of a circular structure

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Café 349 hosts ‘Summer Breezes’ vernissage

A vernissage for a summer art collection took place at Café 349 in Shawville on Saturday afternoon.  Nine artists from around the Ottawa Valley region took part, submitting works based on the theme “Summer Breezes”, which has been on display

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It takes a village to have a fête

On Saturday, rue Baume in Fort-Coulonge was packed with people and vendor booths for the annual Village en fête. Organizer Danelle Bourque said that she organizes the event on her own and has been working to put everything together since

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Big youth turnout at 8th Calumet fishing derby

The Groupe L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet held its eighth annual fishing derby on Saturday, and despite the periods of showers, there was a record turnout of youth and teen participants.  Organizer Guylaine La Salle said that she didn’t know why there were so

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Pontiac lad fighting forest fires out west

A Pontiac native is among the teams of firefighters fighting the raging wildfires in British Columbia this summer.  When THE EQUITY caught up with Jeremiah Bastien in late July, he was working near 100 Mile House, where there were several

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