Dancer Vanessa Goodman takes a bow with co-producer and musician Caroline Shaw at the end of Graveyards & Gardens. (Photo by Danielle Burns) 
Mayor Bruno Marchand, Bonhomme Carnaval and Tourism Minister Caroline Proulx announce the upcoming 70th Quebec Winter Carnival, which includes Bonhomme’s Ball. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
Members of the Community Christmas Hamper Campaign organizing committee gather for a group photo during a recent meeting. Gathered around the table are Lindsay Jarjour, Anne Martineau, Rodolfo Condal, Anthony Arata, Rev. Katherine Burgess, Susan Doucet, Shirley Nadeau, Elise Holloway and Nectaria Skokos. In the Zoom window are Ed Sweeney, Julie Le Floch, Andrée Lemieux, Nancy Boulanger and Brigitte Wellens. Not in the photo are Andrew Ayre, Moumy Diop, Djamen Cindy Joyce, Raphaëlle Verge, Vincent Laliberté, Rev. Darla Sloan and Jean-Sébastien Jolin-Gignac (who was behind the camera). (Photo by Jean-Sébastien Jolin-Gignac) Community Christmas Hamper Campaign gears up for a 28th year
Submitted by the Community Christmas Hamper Campaign
The 28th Community Christmas Hamper Campaign is now underway! Please help us deliver some goodness by giving to this wonderful community initiative before Dec. 16 in the following ways:
Donate: Write a cheque, give cash or donate online toward our $50,000 annual objective. Funds buy fresh produce and other goods to supplement donated items. You can mail a cheque or donate online using our easy and secure online do- nation form. Try scanning our handy QR code below or in the print edition.
Food: Drop off non-perishable food at one of several sites around town or at VEQ’s Holiday Happy Hour at the Morrin Centre on Dec. 12. Check best-before dates before donating food. No expired, homemade, used or opened items, please.
Volunteer: Help collect, sort and pack food and deliver the hampers to homes in need.
For details about how you can contribute, please visit qchampers.ca, email give@qchampers.ca or call Hamper Headquarters at 418- 684-5333, ext. 11835. Follow the Quebec City Community Christmas Hamper Campaign Facebook page to see how the community is supporting this initiative and share your fundraising events.
About the Campaign
Since 1995, the Community Christmas Hamper Campaign has been delivering goodness to over 200 homes in the Greater Quebec City region at Christmastime. The organizing committee of this huge annual initiative is composed of representatives from 18 organizations from the local English-speaking community. Heartfelt thanks to you – our donors, volunteers and numerous partners – for your unwavering devotion to this act of kindness toward those in need.
Over 400,000 public sector workers, including professors and staff at CEGEP Champlain-St. Lawrence (above) participated in a half-day strike from midnight to noon on Nov. 6 to protest proposed salary increases, pension incentives and staffing proposals they say are insufficient to recruit and retain public sector workers. (Photo by Cassandra Kerwin) 
Mayor Bruno Marchand announced the revised cost of the tramway system at a Nov. 1 news conference at City Hall. (Photo by Peter Black) 
This map shows possible routes for Phase 2 and 3 of the Quebec City tramway plan, with one line running to Charlesbourg and one to Lebourgneuf. (Image from Ville de Québec) 
This large monument on Place George-V near the Manège Militaire honours members of the Royal 22e Régiment who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. Their names are inscribed on the sides and back of the granite structure that supports the bronze bas-relief image of five soldiers. (Photo from Ville de Québec via manegemilitaire.ca)