TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – It can take 50 blood donors to help a car crash victim.That’s the message that Canadian Blood Services hopes potential donors hear.Summer usually sees the demand for blood rise, “but there are fewer donors,” said Kerns Township firefighter Mark Wilson.To restock supplies,
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Police patrols net Elk Lake charges
ELK LAKE (Staff) – Recent patrols in Elk Lake resulted in charges related to impaired driving.On July 29, Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say an officer observed a pick-up being driven aggressively at about 9:15 p.m. on Pine Street.Police stopped the vehicle.The driver, a 54-year-old James Township
EAT LOCAL
The 100-mile diet was popularized as a result of a book written by a Canadian couple putting the emphasis on buying locally grown produce within 100 miles of your front door.The book chronicles one couple’s experience eating only foods grown within 100 miles of their home.
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From the Editor’s Desk
[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]André Maheu’s projectAs a history teacher at Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie, he felt he should be in attendance. It was November 11, 2007, and André Maheu decided that
Do the right thing
Dear EditorA steal of a deal!I want this experience to serve as a warning to anyone who is planning to hold a yard sale.There is a vexatious villain roaming around who is dedicated to stealing your belongings while you are out busily selling used items in
Letter of the Week
The Speaker Gets ResultsDear Editor: The Speaker Gets Results! Let me say a very sincere thank you for publishing my letter to the editor a few months ago.I had just written a book called Mud, Muskeg & Mosquitoes - a story about my pioneer grandmother, Rose Ann Belanger,
Letter to the Editor
About blueberry sprayingDear Editor:This is an open letter to Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines Michael Gravelle.Dear Minister Gravelle:I am writing to request a moratorium on the spraying of blueberries on approximately one per cent of the proposed HERBICIDE (VisionMax and or Forza ) spraying
Incumbents running for Northeastern Catholic seats
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Incumbents have announced they are seeking re-election to the Northeastern Catholic District School Board.Board chair Rick Brassard and trustee Steve Malciw will run for the two seats representing the Englehart and Kirkland Lake areas on the regional English Catholic board.Incumbent Martin Drainville of
Food in spotlight at Foire gourmande
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter VILLE-MARIE – Will 13 be lucky for the Foire gourmande de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue et du Nord-Est ontarien?This weekend sees the thirteenth edition of the mammoth food fair in Ville-Marie, where visitors can sample foods from northwestern Quebec, Northeastern Ontario, and beyond.But while half a
Hummingbird Garden Party at the Marsh this weekend
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter HILLIARDTON — The Hilliardton Marsh Research and Education Centre is hosting a Hummingbird Garden Party this coming Sunday, August 17 from 8 a.m. to noon. They invite everyone to come to the Marsh to enjoy all the usual fun activities of songbird banding and critter