Photo: Photo by Amanda Halm

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.

Derek White and daughter Meaghan help load hamper boxes and potatoes into volunteer’s trunk on hamper delivery day.

Photo: Source: Lauraine Gagnon

The happy ending to the story of Quebec City's three former zoo bears is finally complete. Toupie arrived safely at the Zoo de Saint-Félicien on November 9. The 30-year-old female Kodiak now lives in a naturalistic habitat beside the grizzlies Mary and Cody, who arrived one week earlier. It was a risky process to transport the three bears, especially during the hibernation period.

Photo: Lucy Girard

Stores around town have packed up all their unsold Halloween candy, costumes and decorations and already Christmas stock is being put on the shelves. Every year it comes as such a shock as the seasons change so quickly from mid-October to early November. It seems like just yesterday we were sipping cold drinks on the balcony and enjoying the last warm days of summer.

The first annual QuebeCrime Festival is just weeks away and tickets are already on sale. Four lucky Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph readers will win all-access passes to the event (a $50 value) by solving the trivia mystery. Find your clues online at www.quebecrime.com and be the first to email your answers to contest@qctonline.com.