THE JOURNAL FILE PHOTO/JAMES ARMSTRONG Vaudreuil-Soulanges MP Peter Schiefke (right) will continue his duties as Parliamentary Secretary for Youth in addition to his new role in border security. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Vaudreuil-Soulanges MP Peter Schiefke as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, the Honourable Bill Blair. Schiefke’s office made the announcement on Friday, August 31. “It’s a brand new ministr

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Road woes Dear Editor, Why do we have a Public Security department? There is a contractor that dug up a house connection at the corner of Lakeview and Elm Streets and left a large depression in the street. Public Security never bothered to install security cones. The situation has existed for at least three weeks. Can someone tell me who is responsible to get the situation straightened out? Is it the mayor or perhaps the manager of Public Works? Most towns with this type of s

Thank you Dear Editor, As the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Hudson Music Festival (HMF), I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who made the 12th edition of HMF a very successful, capacity filled, and exciting week of great music. HMF could not put on this week of music and art without the continued support of the Town of Hudson, Caisse Desjardins de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, Hawkesbury Ford, MRC Vaudreuil Soulange

PHOTO COURTESY PEXELS The L'Actuel Foundation will host its annual fundraising cocktail September 18 at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites located at 33 Cité-des-Jeunes-Est Boulevard in Vaudreuil-Dorion. To participate, donors are invited to become one of the 50 founders of the very first Village L'Actuel. They are invited to make a Maisonette donation of $ 1 per day, a Bungalow donation of $ 2.60 per day, or a Cottage donation of $5 per day. It is also possible to make a donat

PHOTO COURTESY PEXELS Do you live close to a pipeline or near the tracks where freight trains pass? Would you like to know how to reduce the risk of drinking water contamination? Les Citoyens au Courant invite you learn more at an event Saturday, September 8 from 12 to 5 p.m. at the Community Centre located at 2842 rue Principale in Sainte-Justine-de-Newton. Le Show Courant will feature music, kids’ activities, corn roast, bar, and five experts who will talk about the protect

PHOTO COURTESY PEXELS Greenwood Centre for Living History presents its own ‘Antiques Roadshow’ with Treasures in the Attic on Saturday, September 15 at St. James Church Hall, 642 Main Road in Hudson from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your own treasures to be evaluated ($5 per item) with our experienced appraisers of china, silver, antiques, jewellery, costumes, old books, vintage toys and more. Gold buyer will be on the premises. Also, enjoy our vintage sale of collectables, furnit

PHOTO BY JOHN JANTAK Provincial Liberal MNA Marie-Claude Nichols, pictured outside her Vaudreuil riding office at 105 St. Charles Avenue in Vaudreuil-Dorion, is seeking a second mandate in the upcoming provincial election. Provincial Liberal electoral candidate Marie-Claude Nichols is asking for cooperation among the regional mayors including Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue regarding the afternoon rush hour traffic backlog on Highway 20 West. Ste. Anne’s Mayor Paola Hawa announced la

PHOTO BY JOHN JANTAK Soulanges Liberal candidate Lucie Charlebois (left) and St. Henri-Ste. Anne Liberal candidate Dominique Anglade (second from left) chat with Hudson residents during an informal election campaign meeting in Hudson on Tuesday, August 28. Two provincial Liberal party members, Lucie Charlebois and Dominique Anglade, took their election campaign directly to the electorate by sitting down amongst a small gathering of residents in the cozy confines of a resident