TEMAGAMI (Staff/Special) -- The Temagami Artistic Collective is getting ready for this summer’s Temagami DeepWATER Music Festival.Organizer Carolyn Laronde says that the hope is to make the event an annual one, and to promote Temagami area music, arts and culture. She said the goal is also
Monthly Archives: May 2015
From the Editor’s Desk
Winter Highway MaintenanceA report by the Ontario Auditor General confirmed last week what many of us have long thought: winter highway maintenance has deteriorated since the provincial government began contracting out the work.“Over the past five years, winter highway maintenance service levels have declined
Letter of the Week
Liberals knowingly put lives at riskDear Editor:On April 29, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released a special report on Winter Highway Maintenance in Ontario. The report is damning, on all accounts. Northerners will not be surprised by her findings that the standards of winter maintenance have gone down
Exploring paths of joy
Dear Editor:During the week of May 3 to May 8, 2015 the Northeastern Catholic District School Board (NCDSB) will celebrate the significant contribution that Catholic Education has made to the community, the province and to Canada. Our Catholic Graduate Expectations challenge students to articulate in society those
Continued support appreciated
Dear Editor:The impressive amount of support in the form of food and money from the recent Spring events by the following four organizations: The Temiskaming Speaker, Curves, The Earlton Farm Show and CJTT-FM (Lifestyles 2015) leaves us volunteers at the Haileybury Food Bank awe struck.The prolonged and
Twenty Questions with Tammy Mackey
CANCER CARE DONATION
The third annual 2015 Denim & Diamonds Ladies Night Out held April 18 at Riverside Place in New Liskeard was a resounding success raising $11,000 for the Bikers Reunion- supported Community Cancer Care program. In three years this fun night out for local women has raised an impressive $27,000.
Curves Food Drive feeds the needy
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT —Curves wants to help people lose a few pounds… a few pounds of food that is during their annual food drive held from March 9 to March 31.This year’s food drive netted 1,300 pounds of donated food split evenly
Bunker offering something sweet
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- The Bunker Military Museum board volunteers are cooking up something special for Mother’s Day.A Mother’s Day Tea will be held at the museum in Cobalt on Saturday, May 9 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.In keeping with the historical theme of
Five free landfill days for Cobalt ratepayers
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- Cobalt ratepayers will be provided with a five-day amnesty period next week to take garbage to the Haileybury landfill.The town’s public works crew will not be picking up waste from people’s yards as it has done in past years.Ratepayers must take