Photo: Jonathan Letellier-Black

The final pieces in the complete redevelopment of the Pointe-aux-Lièvres ecodistrict in central Quebec City are now under construction. Work began recently on a new bike and pedestrian bridge across the St. Charles River and a reception pavilion, which will replace the trailers currently being used in the large greenspace.

Comedian George Carlin, children of the ’60s will recall, earned a certain notoriety for his “seven words you can’t say on television” routine. We won’t list the words here, nor Lenny Bruce’s extended nine-word list.

This year, for its sixth annual Arts Alive Québec festival, the Morrin Centre will be presenting a special online edition called Streaming Sound Waves. You are invited to watch performances on the Morrin Centre’s Youtube channel on Aug. 20, 21, 22 and 23 starting at 7 p.m.

Photo: Lise Lafond

Canadian multidisciplinary artist Marcel Gagnon is the creator of a large-scale art project called Le Grand Rassemblement (The Grand Gathering), which consists of over 80 human-like sculptures that seem to be rising from the St. Lawrence River at low tide in Sainte-Flavie (on Highway 132, near Mont-Joli), where his art centre is located.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

In any other year, tour guide Claude Beauchamp wouldn’t think of going on vacation in July. For Beauchamp and his fellow guides, the summer months usually mean an endless flow of cruise ships and tour groups. But guiding, like so many other industries, has been turned upside down by the pandemic, and for months, tourists in Vieux-Québec have been conspicuous by their absence.

Photo: CASA

The Regional Development Network (RDN) has taken a major step forward towards enhancing the vitality and supporting the development of regional English-speaking communities across Quebec with the hiring of its first executive director, Cathy Brown.

Photo: Bataillon Facebook page

Track cyclist Lauriane Genest of Lévis is one of eight athletes from the province of Quebec to make the Olympic team that will go to Tokyo, Japan, in 2021.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

Voice of English-speaking Québec (VEQ) hosted a picnic on the Plains of Abraham on July 25 to meet and greet newcomers and make them feel welcome as they adjust to life in the greater Quebec City area. The activity was organized by VEQ’s newcomers co-ordinator Maria Castro.

Photo: Andrew K. Lairenge

For Rev. Andrew Kinoti Lairenge, walking into Chalmers-Wesley United Church was like coming face to face with history.

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This street is named in honour of Hector Laferté, a Quebec lawyer and politician.

Born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham in 1885, Laferté was educated at the Collège de Nicolet and Université Laval, where he was president of the university law students’ association. In 1909 he founded the Association de la Jeunesse libérale, and was one of its advisers.

Paul Jackson JOHNSON
1926-2020

Paul Jackson Johnson, formerly of Toronto, died peacefully in Quebec City on July 15, 2020. He was the son of the late Mrs. Myrtle Jackson and the late Mr. John Johnson. Beloved husband of the late Mrs. Mary Frances Stanton Johnson.

Photo: Kyle Chapman, from QCT archives

Douglas Dahlgren, a beloved and long-standing member of the Quebec Art Company (QAC), passed away on July 14, 2020, at the age of 85. Douglas was our musical director and accompanist from 1989 to 2007. He offered his immense talent, dedication, patience, warmth and wit to numerous productions. He moved to Saskatoon shortly after contributing to his last show, Oklahoma.

Photo: Christian Gingras-ISQ media

The Québec Diamants and the Charlesbourg Alouettes baseball organizations decided to play their games last weekend in front of empty stadiums at Stade Canac and Parc Henri-Casault. The teams played each other on July 24 and July 25, in Charlesbourg and Quebec City respectively.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

The Marquis de Montcalm (a.k.a. Benoît Gilbert, development and marketing officer of the National Battlefields Commission) dropped by this scribe’s office on July 16 with a special delivery of bags of seedlings, cultivated in the Plains of Abraham greenhouses.