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Thursday, February 2, 2017
VOL. 15 NO. 03
MRC moves forward with call to place Hydro-Québec under ombudsman’s watch John Jantak Your Local Journal
The Municipalité Régionale de Communauté (MRC) de Vaudreuil-Soulanges is going ahead with their demand that HydroQuébec fall under the domain of the provincial ombudsman despite a ‘very positive’ meeting with David Murray, the President of Hydro-Québec Distribution in mid-January, regarding the utility’s reported inadequate responses to customer complaints. MRC Acting Prefect and Mayor of l’Île-Perrot Marc Roy and MRC Director-General Guy-Lin Beaudoin provided the update during a press briefing January 26 at the new MRC headquarters on Harwood Boulevard in VaudreuilDorion about Hydro’s shortcomings in providing suitable service.
A track back in time
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Alain Bouchard – father of actor Justin Leyrolles-Bouchard - makes a cameo appearance as a station master in the filming of Pieds nus dans l’aube about the early life of Felix Leclerc. The crew from Production Attraction Images was filming the period piece at the Hudson commuter train station last weekend.
James Parry Your Local Journal
Movie making came once again to Hudson this past weekend when the town’s historic train station on Wharf Road was bustling with appropriatelydressed families re-enacting a scene reminiscent of the early 1900s. Not that
the train actually arrived nor departed – that will be added courtesy of computergenerated imagery (CGI) at a later date. The ‘passengers’ were there for a oneday shoot for the French-language film, Pieds nus dans l’aube, an adaptation of a book of the same title written by the late Québécois cultural legend, Felix Leclerc - and adapted by his son Francis and
Fred Pellerin - describing his days growing up in his beloved Quebec and where his childhood home in Vaudreuil-Dorion overlooking the Lake of Two Mountains is now a museum and visitor centre in his memory. Continued on page 13
Inside Vigil of support following Quebec City shooting
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Otters back in the water
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Where the streets have new names
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Great Gala launches 2017
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