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.

Considering that members of the Quebec National Assembly are elected in four-year cycles that start the moment the balloting results are known and finish the same way, it must seem to them at times as though their work never really ends.

On March 19, in collaboration with Montreal and Longueuil police departments, and the STM, Laval police officers participated in Project Venthouse, an awareness campaign for the prevention of theft of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. Laval police were present at Montmorency metro station, as well as at the Berri station in Montreal, to distribute the information targeted at reducing the theft rates of expensive mobile devices.

Revenu Québec and the province’s official business registrar have obtained a temporary court injunction against a Laval-based company, Info entreprises Québec, after the latter sent unsolicited invoices to businesses which resemble Quebec government documents.