Each year, this urban woodland welcomes many colorful bird species for nesting purposes. Come to see them as well as the rich flora of this habitat, May 26. This is an activity for all ages and levels.  Rendez-vous : 8 am in the parking lot of Aylmer’s Caisse populaire, corner Wilfrid-Lavigne and Blvd. des Allumettières, adjoining the [...]

The Caisse Populaire Desjardins donated $5,000 to the Symmes Inn Museum (located on Front Street near the Marina), May 10. “Thanks to the “Placements culture” program of the Quebec Arts Council (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec), the Quebec government will triple that amount, adding $15,000. The money will be kept in donation [...]

Photo : DD The Kelly Metro-Plus celebrated its second anniversary, joined by the Caisse Populaire Desjardins of Aylmer and the Brunet-Plus Pharmacy, both of whom celebrated their first year in businesses at their location off Allumettières at Wilfrid-Lavine Blvd, May 12.  The collective birthday celebration attracted a great crowd, all day long. Children were treated [...]

Known as Aylmer’s  “Reno Guru,” Steven Labelle works magic with wood.  “It’s all I’ve ever done.  I’ve loved working with wood since I was a kid.  I’d build go-karts, cabins in the forest, bird-houses, anything. It’s exciting to be driven by the passion to fix and renovate,” he told the Bulletin.  Renovation, he adds, “is about [...]

According to the results of Statistics Canada’s 2011 census, released February 8, Gatineau is growing—with 265,349 residents, the city is 9.6% larger than it was in 2006, when it had a population of 242,124.  The city’s 9.6% growth rate is the largest recorded since the 1991 census.  “Gatineau is a growing city, and it will continue to [...]

Gatineau has set goals and adopted a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its municipal vehicles.  The plan and its targets conform to the requirements of the Climate Program of the provincial Environment Ministry.  “This initiative is one of many actions we’ve proposed to make Gatineau a place that welcomes sustainable development,” Mayor Marc [...]

Although many developers have urged the city to change the deferred zoning on land, particularly in Aylmer, so that more new housing can be built, the city is so far denying the request, because it wants to promote construction near the downtown core, as part of its movement to densify Gatineau.   The developers want [...]

Photo:  Courtesy of the Literacy Foundation Aylmer children received 40 of the 1430 books distributed recently by the Literacy Foundation.  The donation, made to the Centre Communautaire Entre-Nous on Front Street, was part of the foundation’s “Gift of Reading” program, which “seeks to instill the joy of reading in under-privileged children, and thereby to prevent [...]