Since 1is June, Mycelium, the incubator of bio-food companies in Quebec City, located in the heart of the Grand Marché of Quebec, is under the governance of the Créneau d’Excellence Aliments Santé. Inaugurated in 2019, Mycelium has supported nearly 46 start-up companies. Over the next three years, 90 start-up and growing companies will benefit from the services of the new Mycelium team. In addition, Quebec City’s food incubator offers businesses: a 1,500 sq. Ft. Kitchen in which 4 or 5 businesses can work simultaneously to develop new products and familiarize themselves with the equipment of a commercial kitchen before move to scale up their production and the Innovation Space, a market validation tool to co-develop their products and packaging through consumer feedback to increase their chances of launching successful products commercial. https://myceliuminc.ca. In the photo, from left to right: Mario Asselin, deputy (CAQ) of Vanier-Les Rivières; Julie Daigle, Managing Director of Mycelium and Régis Labaume, mayor of Quebec.
50e wedding anniversary
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Rejeanne Dumont and Jean-Rock Roy, from Pohénégamook, are celebrating their 50e wedding anniversary. Both originally from this town in Bas-St-Laurent, they were married in 1971 at the Marie-Médiatrice Church in Estcourt. They have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Jean-Roch, semi-retired, is a heavy machinery contractor (Les Entreprises Jean-Roch Roy) specializing in excavation. Réjeanne has always kept the company’s accounts. The couple are now taking advantage of the deconfinement for meeting friends, playing golf and reading. The Dumont and Roy families congratulate them.
Nominations
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The Literacy Foundation announces the appointments of Sebastien proulx (left), former Minister of Education, Recreation and Sport and Minister of Families in the Government of Quebec, and Jonathan tessier (right), Director – Client Solutions and Business Intelligence at Kaleido Croissance, as a new member of its Board of Directors. Today a lawyer and strategic advisor at Gravel, Bernier, Vaillancourt, Sébastien Proulx is continuing his long-standing commitment to the cause of literacy. Manager in business intelligence, Jonathan Tessier also adds additional expertise to the board of directors, in addition to consolidating the organization’s presence in Quebec City. His appointment is also part of the pursuit of the close partnership between the Foundation and Kaleido, already official presenter of the Reading as a Gift program.
Happy Quebec Day
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This year, Quebec is celebrating two very special birthdays: its 413e founding anniversary (1608), today July 3, 2021, as well as the 125e anniversary of its town hall (photo), located at 2, rue des Jardins, inaugurated on September 15, 1896. For the occasion, several activities are offered free of charge, both in the city center and in the boroughs.
Birthdays
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Sebastian Vettel (photo), German Formula 1 racing driver with the team Aston Martin, 34 years old … Moises Alou, with the Montreal Expos from 1990 to 1996, 55 years old … Marie-Jo Thério, singer and actress, 57 years old … Tom Cruise, American actor, 59 years old … Claude rajotte ex-television host (Musique Plus / Musimax), 66 years old … Michel polnareff, French singer, 77 years old … Beatrice Picard, actress and actress, 92 years old … Jacques Latulippe, member of Knights of Columbus Council 4494 in Limoilou … Lionel Plante, a well-known retired hairdresser in Quebec, 100 years old.
Missing
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July 3, 1971: Jim Morrison (photo) 27 years old, American rock poet and singer … 2019 : Bernard Paquet, 75, one of the founders of Cossette communications in 1972 … 2016: Louise Rémy, 77 years old, actress (Ladies of heart)… 2016 : Lou Fontinato, 84, former defenseman for the Ny Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL (536 games), from 1954 to 1963 … 2014: Peter Whelan, 82 years old, British playwright … 2013: Dr Yvan Drolet, 74 years old, hemato-oncologist at the CHU de Québec and father of Julie Drolet from RDI … 2012: Sergio Pininfarina, 85 years old, Italian designer … 2001: Mordecai Richler, 70 years old, Quebec author and screenwriter … 2000: Luc Durand, 64 years old, Goblet in the children’s series Floor and Goblet… 1995 : Pancho Gonzales, 67 years old, one of the great tennis players of the 1950s and 60s … 1985: Jacques Giguere and Yves Stubborn, two police officers from Quebec City.
