Gatineau

Online/New Media by rochekellyJune 7, 2011August 7, 2011

2 dead in crash with bear

Members of a local band are mourning their drummer who was killed along with one other person in a horrific crash involving a bear late Monday. Steven Leon, 40, was in the back seat of a Nissan Pathfinder when the bear came crashing through the windshield after being hit by another car in the opposite […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyMay 31, 2011May 31, 2011

Champions return for annual fireworks fest

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/05/31/champions-return-for-annual-fireworks-fest The Germans are coming. The reigning pyromusical champions will be back to defend their title at the 16th annual Casino du Lac-Leamy Sound of Light festival in Gatineau this summer. Organizers say they’re trying to play up the event’s name. “We’re going to try to bring in more light: Fire, laser, black […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyFebruary 3, 2011August 7, 2011

School buses collide in Gatineau

A bus driver is seriously hurt but two busloads of teenagers are shaken but otherwise OK after an crash in Gatineau just past the Macdonald-Cartier bridge around 4 p.m. Thursday. “All I felt was a wrecking ball hit our bus,” said Andrew Godmere, a grade 10 student at Lester B. Pearson Catholic high school. Around […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyJanuary 19, 2011August 7, 2011

Gatineau fire leaves family of 7 homeless

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/01/19/16950701.html#/news/ottawa/2011/01/19/pf-16945271.html A family of seven is homeless after fire gutted their bungalow at 8 Rue du Cure-Labelle in the Templeton area of Gatineau around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. No one was injured but the family’s spirits are crushed. A woman wearing a white jacket and dark pants, who didn’t want her name used, is […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyJanuary 6, 2011August 4, 2011

Bomb accused was evicted in September

It isn’t easy finding Chad Baillargeon’s home. Along a seedy strip occupied by an old bingo hall, an electronics store, a pizzeria and run-down housing, the addresses listed for the Gatineau man charged in Tuesday’s home made bomb arrest — 397 and 274 Rue Notre Dame — don’t exist. But whether he actually lives here, […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyDecember 30, 2010August 4, 2011

More than 500 attend Zolpis funeral

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/12/30/16711086.html#/news/ottawa/2010/12/30/pf-16712846.html Family, friends, and strangers gathered at Saint Patrick’s Basilica Thursday to honour Alex Zolpis almost a week after his horrific death. Thursday afternoon’s mass led by Rev. Lawrence McCormick was packed with at least 500 people. Zolpis was cremated. His ashes, in a rectangular box, were on a small table beside a […]