Capitales and Aigles won’t play in the Frontier League in 2020
The Quebec Capitales and the Trois-Rivières Aigles will have to wait until 2021 to play in the Frontier Baseball League. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that the …
Freestyle skier Lewis Irving is training for the coming season
Charlesbourg’s Lewis Irving is back training at the Centre AcrobatX, at Lac-Beauport, for the upcoming FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup season. Irving will be training during the hot summer months …
CQSB schools work toward full reopening
Students, parents and school officials are preparing for an almost-normal school year after the Quebec government announced that all schools, CEGEPs, vocational training centres and universities would reopen in September.The …
Charlotte (née Boutet) JOLICOEUR
Charlotte (née Boutet) JOLICOEURCharlotte Jolicoeur (née Boutet), aged 92, a native of Quebec City, died in Verdun, QC, on October 29, 2019. Wife of the late Jacques Jolicoeur, she leaves …
Morrin Centre library services are back
The Morrin Centre is excited to announce that the library is now lending books again!Due to COVID-19, however, the Morrin Centre is reopening gradually in accordance with Government of Quebec …
OBITUARY: Violet KIRKWOOD (née Sharp)
Violet KIRKWOOD (née Sharp) May 11, 1923 – June 15, 2020On Monday, June 15, 2020, Violet “Vi” Kirkwood (née Sharp), our beautiful mother, grand- and great-grandmother, left us peacefully in …
Buzz is growing around gardening
At the offices of Les Urbainculteurs, an urban gardening nonprofit headquartered at the Grand Marché, the phones have been ringing off the hook for weeks. After toilet paper and flour …
Forty years ago … Terry Fox Marathon of Hope flashback
While digging through some old, mostly black-and-white, photos in the QCT archives, we came across this photo of Terry Fox with his brother Darryl and friend Doug Alward. The picture …
Montmagny’s rainbow of hope welcomes everyone
The giant white letters spelling MONTMAGNY were erected in 2015 to greet the 6,000 cyclists who passed through the town for the Grand Défi Pierre-Lavoie. The wooden letters were showing …
Violet Kirkwood (nee Sharp) May 11, 1923 – June 15, 2020
On Monday, June 15, 2020, Violet “Vi” Kirkwood (nee Sharp), our beautiful mother, grand and great-grandmother, left us peacefully in her sleep. She was 97 years of age. Born, 1923, …