NEW LISKEARD – The main streets of downtown New Liskeard – Armstrong and Whitewood Avenue — are closed to traffic for the next day or so due to repaving and maintenance work is expected to be completed by Friday afternoon (Staff Photo)
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Weekender – August 7, 2015
Election call
Eleven-week campaign underway for October 19 voteGordon Brock Speaker Editor DISTRICT – Temiskaming residents, along with voters across the country, are now in the first week of a federal election campaign that is one of the longest in Canadian history – 11 weeks. Reports say you have to
Investigation continuing into boaters’ deaths
TEMAGAMI (Staff)– Investigation is continuing into the deaths of a Harris Township couple whose bodies were found in a lake north of Temagami last week.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said foul play is not suspected in the deaths of Ginette Labonte, 51, and her husband, Rene Labonte, 54.
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Outage leaves 10,100 in the dark
DISTRICT (Staff) – A defective piece of equipment in a breaker is being blamed for a widespread power outage on the weekend.Power went out around 4:20 p.m. Saturday, August 1 across much of the southern Temiskaming area.It extended from Sisk and McLaren townships south of Temagami north
HEADING FOR A WIN
Gabrielle Landry, left, of Elk Lake and Sadie Turner of Bear Island near the finish line in a kids’ race during Elk Lake’s Civic Holiday Weekend festivities. While Elk Lake escaped the power outage that struck southern Temiskaming, it couldn’t avoid waves of rain. Weather was a factor in
Camp Jeunesse cooking
The Société Jeunesse en Marche recently received $25,000 from the Frog’s Breath Foundation to renovate the kitchen at Camp Jeunesse on Bass Lake in Coleman Township. Three outdoor shelters will also be replaced. Pictured in the front row (from left to right) are campers: Seth Poirier, Christopher Groulx-Walsh, Loic
International show mining for business
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Giving Northern Ontario’s businesses a global platform is the reason behind the region’s presence at a mammoth mining show.An expanded Northern Ontario Mining Showcase will return to the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in 2016.Temiskaming Shores will
From the Editor’s Desk
The long campaign[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]You have to go back to the 19th century – the year 1872 according to most national media outlets - to find the last time a Canadian
Diversify for a better future
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]I remember years ago when then Timiskaming MPP David Ramsay (and Ontario Agriculture Minister) argued against an expanded trade in dairy. He asked, what