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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Weekender – September 19, 2014
Hwy.11 crash claims North Cobalt man
DISTRICT (Staff) – As was reported last week on The Temiskaming Speaker’s website, for the third time in three weeks a collision on Highway 11 between a motor vehicle and a tractor trailer has claimed a life. The Temiskaming detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
New Liskeard Fall Fair
Learn, laugh, share and grow[caption id="attachment_4609" align="alignleft" width="500"] JUNIOR AMBASSADORBrydon Burrows was chosen as the Junior Ambassador for the 2014 New Liskeard Fall Fair. Brydon entered the most categories
Municipal race is on
Most of Temiskaming going to pollsGordon Brock Speaker Editor DISTRICT – The October 27 municipal election campaign is officially underway this week with the usual hodgepodge of acclamations in some municipalities, full races in others, and a surprisingly high number of municipalities where there wasn’t enough interest
Harvest Queen and her court
The 2014 New Liskeard Fall Fair Harvest Queen and her court were chosen Friday evening, September 12. From left they are: Harvest Queen Hannah Fedechko-Conroy, First Princess Mélissa Maloney, and Second Princess Hailey Cole. Additional coverage of the Fair will be in the September 19 Weekender. (Staff photo by
Drum-a-thon this weekend
Event supports children with cancerDISTRICT (STAFF) — With September being Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a local group is organizing a “Get Up And Go For POGO” Drum-a-thon to be held at the Horne Granite Club in New Liskeard this coming Saturday, September 20 from 6 a.m. to 3
From the Editor’s Desk
The campaign beginsThe October 27 municipal election campaign officially begins this week and while three of our municipalities have acclamations, as do three of our school boards, and four of our municipalities, plus one trustee position on a school board, has to have nominations reopen, there are
On the shore of Lake Temiskaming
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]When I was a child growing up in the country outside Englehart, the big annual event was the church outing in which we all