Photo: Morrin Centre

The Morrin Centre’s Book Quest Natural World summer reading program for children was a great success. Some 55 children took part in the club, but over 100 children participated from time to time.

Emily Breault, the Summer Book Quest co-ordinator, led all 14 activities on Saturday mornings for children three to seven, and for children eight to 12 in the afternoons.

When I was in Grade 13 – folks of a certain age from Ontario will recognize this as the basically useless final year of high school before university – my English teacher invited me and one or two other students to excuse ourselves from classes and take on “special studies” projects.

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September 9, 1819 – The Quebec Gazette
Emigration

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

On the beautiful afternoon of Sept. 8, large numbers of people learned about Quebec City’s rich history. The National Battlefields Commission has a strong tradition in organizing a free Historical Day. Each year in September, it presents important moments that have shaped Quebec City, Canada and North America. This year, the theme was Québec, Besieged City.

Photo: Danielle Burns

It was music to childrens’ ears at the Morrin Centre when education co-ordinator Azanie Roy introduced two new programs at Storytime on Sept. 7, one of which is an instrument-lending library. Members can borrow one of five boxes of assorted instruments such as maracas, sleigh bells and castanets as well as larger instruments like a ukulele, timber drum, djembe and xylophones.

George LAVIOLETTE
1928-2019

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of George Laviolette, husband of Jean (Durette) Laviolette, at Jeffrey Hale Hospital on September 1, 2019, at the age of 90 years.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

After 43 years of business, La Vieille Maison du Spaghetti, located in a historic house on Grande Allée, closed its doors for the last time at the end of August.

Photo: Wellness Centre

According to a recent province-wide survey taken by the Regroupement pour la Valorization de la paternité in collaboration with Community Health and Social Services Network, English-speaking fathers raising children across Quebec experience specific vulnerabilities in a number of areas, as compared with their French-speaking peers.

Photo: St. Lawrence Lions Facebook page

The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions men’s soccer team took to the field for the very first time this past weekend, playing two games within 24 hours in the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) college division.

There was a mixed soccer team in previous years. This is the first all-male soccer team at St. Lawrence.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

Send your answers to [email protected] and you may win a free three-month subscription to the QCT, or a three-month extension to your current subscription. You have until Sept. 13 to submit your answer. If we receive more than one correct reply, we will draw a name. The winner’s name will be published in the Sept. 18 edition.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

The MondoKarnaval parade made its way up 3ième Avenue from Rue des Sables to 13ième Rue on Aug. 31, leading everyone they met along the way to the carnival site at Parc Cartier-Brébeuf for a weekend of free activities until Sept. 2.

Photo: Peter Black

As the Pink Floyd song says: “Shine on you crazy diamond.”

In this case the “diamond” is Le Diamant, the dazzling new $57-million performing arts centre in the heart of Quebec City; and “crazy” is how Lynda Beaulieu, sister and business partner of famed director Robert Lepage, describes how the project may have been perceived when the two first pitched it 15 years ago.

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September 2, 1819 – The Quebec Gazette
Death of the Governor-in-Chief

Photo: Lise Lafond

Single-use items are a real problem: they produce tons of trash.

Paper towels and napkins are on the single-use items list but they can easily be replaced by longer-lasting items. This would help reduce waste, which is the number one solid-waste management priority (ahead of recycling) in both the United States and Canada.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

Imagine climbing Mount Everest in a limousine … a combination of comfort, luxury and adventure. This is the concept behind sailing aboard the Scenic Eclipse, which bills itself as “the world’s first discovery yacht.”