The Palace congress centre on De Corbusier Blvd. was the setting for a fun kind of event last Sunday when it became a mini amusement park for the third annual ‘Alesia’s Magnolias’ family fair for the benefit of the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

As part of a dual effort to focus on transportation needs while encouraging people to be active, the City of Laval plans to introduce measures to get people to walk more while getting around the territory and also to use their bicycles.

‘It’s never too early to start finding your direction in life,’ seems to have been the overriding theme of a career fair held at Our Lady of Peace Elementary School in Fabreville

Jean-Noël Lavoie, who was the first mayor of Laval following the merger of more than a dozen towns and villages on the island into a single city in 1965, passed away on March 17 at the age of 85 at his home in southern France where he was living in recent years.

Basile Angelopoulos, who has been city councillor for Chomedey for the past 16 years and president of the city’s executive-committee since 2009, caught a few people off guard last Tuesday evening when he announced during the April council meeting that he won’t be seeking another term in the municipal elections this November.

Agape, the Chomedey-based charitable organization which many residents of the area are increasingly turning to in moments of need, received a little help itself recently in the form of a monetary gift from some local young people who seem to understand the importance of supporting their own community.