Dear editor,Many patients aren’t sure if a Diabetes Education Program (DEP) is meant for them. Surely it’s only for the really sick people.“I thought my diabetes was only mild and that it was well controlled so why should I go to the Diabetes Education Program? I see

Hold politicians responsibleDear Editor:Heard on the news that 55,000 people have lost their electricity and 665,000 are in arrears.That’s 720,000 people paying 1.5 per cent a month penalty.The interest in itself could be viewed as theft.Just calculate 1.5 per cent a month on $1000

Great business communityDear Editor:Our Temiskaming Shores Business Community is composed of an amazing, dedicated group of people. From October through December of 2016, eleven businesses provided work experience placements to students from the Transitional Learning Communities (TLC) of Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS).Fourteen students participated in these

Temagami Country ChristmasDear Editor:This holiday season we took the opportunity to visit Temagami’s Christmas Village. It was an elaborate arrangement of lights and Christmas figures strung out through the bush on a well-cut and groomed walking trail. While the real Santa held court in the quaint and

Message to the graffiti writerDear Editor:I posted the following on my Facebook page after seeing that someone had spray painted the word “FAKE” across the front doors of First Baptist Church, New Liskeard where I serve as Pastor.It saddened me to see it and it saddened me

Dear Editor:This is regarding the cartoon in the July 20 Speaker:I have sent your Blue Jays cartoon of Kitty Cohen to my friend Leigh in North York to pass on to Kitty whom I know as a tap dancer. I was taken aback to see her featured

(NOTE: This poem by Scott Gray of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 33, New Liskeard, was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Somme offensive in Beaumont-Hamel, France, on July 1, 1916, by the Newfoundland Regiment.)Beaumont-HamelAs the poem goes, in the fields of