The Cabaret du Blanchon | The Quebec Journal

The Le Petit Blanchon Foundation is celebrating this year the 10^e anniversary of its benefit evening Le Petit Blanchon en Folie. The 2024 presentation has been improved and will be even more festive on Friday, October 11, at the Le Diamant theater in Quebec. The Cabaret du Blanchon will feature 10 business and public figures as well as five professional artists, including Jean Ravel et Yvan Pedneault (photos), accompanied by seven musicians. The first part will allow you to hear numbers from candidates prepared as a team with their musical coach. In the second part, each of the 10 candidates will offer an individual performance. The friendly competition will determine a winning team, but also the best individual performance of the evening, thanks to three judges who will analyze the performances and award a final score after deliberation. A four-course meal will be served from 7 p.m., preceded by a cocktail from 6 p.m. Founded in 2011, the Le Petit Blanchon Foundation aims to improve the lives of vulnerable children who, despite their young age, have a serious history of violence, neglect or abandonment. Information at Fondationlepetitblanchon.com.

New service at MMS

Since September 30, Maison Michel-Sarrazin has been offering a new service. The Integrated Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic supports people with cancer and their loved ones during the palliative phase of the disease, in order to contribute to the management of symptoms and the journey of life with the disease. The team dedicated to providing services, made up of clinical nurses, pharmacists and doctors (photo), will support people and their loved ones during questions related to the progression of the illness or the determination of the level of care. . In addition, care may be offered in response to certain specific situations or complications, while respecting the values ​​and preferences of each person. These services are available to sick people from the greater Quebec region, mainly from the Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches regions. Health professionals from across Quebec will be able to benefit from telephone advice or advice given by videoconference as well as consultations by videoconference in the presence of the sick person. https://michel-sarrazin.ca/clinique-ambulatoire. In the photo, from left to right: François Piuze (doctor), Michele Plante (pharmacist), Valérie Couturier (doctor), Marie-Christine Lacroix (doctor), Marie Codino (clinical nurse) and Catherine Bouchard (doctor). Missing from the photo: Cindy Tremblay (pharmacist).

Patriots of the Year

Rodrigue Bironpolitician and businessman born in Sainte-Croix (Lotbinière) who was provincial deputy for Lotbinière from 1976 to 1985, first as leader of the Union nationale in 1976, before joining the Parti Québécois in 1980, and who was also Canadian president of the Knights of Columbus at that time, celebrated his 90th birthday on September 8. Last May, the Société nationale des Québécoises et des Québécois de Chaudière-Appalaches (SNQCA) presented the Étienne-Chartier 2024 prize, awarded to female and male patriots in Chaudière-Appalaches. The title of male patriot went to Rodrigue Biron. Were present, during the presentation of the plaque (top photo), from left to right in the photo: Jacques Barilformer provincial deputy, Odina Desrochersformer federal deputy, Rodrigue Biron et André Richard, administrator of the SNQCA. Furthermore, the title of female patriot of the year 2024 in Chaudière-Appalaches went to Marie-Josée Deschênesarchitect, resident of Saint-Henri, who works in the field of architecture and who has distinguished herself in the field of preservation of built heritage. In the bottom photo, she (left) receives her plaque from the president of the SNQCA, Lise Beaudet.

Birthdays

Jean-Marc Fournier (photo), who was MP for Châteauguay from 1994 to 2008 and for Saint-Laurent from 2012 to 2018, held, among other positions, the positions of Minister of Justice, Education, Municipal Affairs and Revenue, in addition to being the parliamentary leader under the Charest and Couillard governments and interim leader, 65 years old… Daniel BoucherQuebec singer, 53 years old… Simon CowellBritish music producer, screenwriter, television presenter, composer, director and actor, 65 years old… Gilles Courteauformer commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, 67 years old… Yo-Yo Ma, American cellist of French origin, 68 years old… Vladimir Poutine, President of the Russian Federation, 72 years old.

Missing

October 7, 2023: an attack carried out by Hamas against Israel, described as the bloodiest in Israeli history, leaves 1,205 dead and many others injured, while a year later, 97 hostages are still being held on the Palestinian territory… 2021: Ronald S. Stroud88 years old, historian of Antiquity and Canadian epigraphist… 2018: Celeste Yarnall74, American actress (Star Trek)… 2015: Gail Zappa70, widow of Frank Zappa and administrator of the Zappa family trust… 2013: Patrice Chéreau68 years old, French director, director and actor… 2009: Irving Penn, 92 years old, American photographer… 2006: Anna Politkovskaya48 years old, Russian journalist… 1998: Stéphane Morin29 years old, former Nordiques player (1989-1992)… 1991: Leo Durocher, 86 years old, who spent nearly 50 years of his life in major baseball… 1959: Mario Lanza, 38 years old, American tenor.