Rue Principale in Aylmer is about to get more fun and more Zen. Sérénithé, next to the Aux Deux Frères bakery will open its doors this summer. Veteran Aylmer business people Louise Blais and Normand Lacelle launched the idea six months ago. After losing their photo shop in the Glenwood fire seven years ago, they established [...]

Saturday, May 12, a tree will be given to the first 850 Gatineau residents having made the request via a reservation form available on the City’s Website: www.gatineau.ca or by calling  3-1-1, reservations started Monday, May 7.  While reserving their tree, citizens may select one of the eight offered tree essences (Showy mountain ash, Saskatoon-berry shrub, [...]

Want to sit opposite the region’s best chess players? They have established a club to help new and accomplished chess players. A weekly chess drop-in evening launches June 1 at the community center on Front Street. Marcel Laurin,?president of la Ligue d’Échecs de l’Outaouais is organizing the drop-in. He has helped establish one in Hull [...]

Leger Marketing has conducted two recent studies of Aylmer readership trends. The results show the Bulletin d’Aylmer by far the best-read of all newspapers in any language. The City of Gatineau commissioned Leger Marketing to survey newspaper readership in all sectors of the city in 2010.  The city places public notices and wished to be [...]

Celebrating 40 years in Aylmer, the Galeries Aylmer shopping center launched a new image, new website and a new advertising campaign, April 25.  Designed by Promo Pub and Zele Productions, the new image was unveiled at an APICA wine and cheese gathering in the Cinema Aylmer. The event included a live STO bus sporting the [...]

Attention English-speakers: The Regional Association of West Quebecers launched a survey, April 23, to garner information about how English-speaking residents are served in their mother tongue. Questions related to services from Gatineau City, from emergency services, and from health services are in the survey. The Association will use the results to help improve access to [...]

PHOTO : Bulletin Volunteer Danielle Boucher and Sylvain Bégin were going about their usual Sunday morning, April 29, when “loud crackling sounds” alerted their daughter around 10 am — the sign of a dramatic change in their lives. A fire had caught in the upper portion of this semi-detached home at 67 Bourgeau Nord. No [...]

Wine and spirit shoppers were shut out of the Aylmer store in the Galeries Aylmer, Thursday, April 5. Student protesters formed a human chain across the entrance. Between 5 and 9 pm, the store’s peak selling period, doors were blocked at eight Gatineau locations. Aylmer shoppers were of two camps with some yelling at the [...]

Photo : David-Lawrence Dumesnil Bulletin d’Aylmer and West Quebec Post staff members profited from a visit by Richard Tardif, the new manager of Quebec’s community newspaper association, QCNA, March 28. Pictured from left are Jennifer Hill, Advertising Sales; Lily Ryan, West Quebec Post Editor; Richard Tardif, QCNA Executive Director; Nadia Paradis, Classified Manager and Receptionist; [...]