Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Call it a Temiskaming gold rush, best served cold.That’s a description fitting of the craft beer industry in Northern Ontario as small brewers create big opportunity with their products thanks to an increasing appetite for local food and drink.Whiskeyjack Beer Company is tapping into the
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Summer program offering more than work experience
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – There’s a new squad available to do odd jobs this summer.The young workers’ business slogan?“They can do everything for you.”Five senior elementary students from Temiskaming Shores and the Earlton area have formed a co-operative and launched “Les enfants en action.”The goal of the summer job
The h-word
There are nasty words out there known in polite circles by their first letter only. I’m not calling out letters - you know what they are.One we can say is the h-word – hypocrisy - and one of my personal bugbears.Take, for instance, the
Way down
The Speaker sometimes uses this space to give thumbs up or thumbs down to certain issues, encouraging, we hope, good news and good actors, admonishing others.This week it’s two big thumbs way
Elk Lake Civic turning 71
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – For decades, Elk Lake has been staging a party on the first weekend of August.The tradition is continuing with the 71st annual Civic Holiday Weekend festivities set to go.It kicks off tonight (August 2) with a bingo at the Royal Canadian Legion.But ball is at
Airport Authority applying for funding assistance
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ARMSTRONG TOWNSHIP - The Earlton airport is looking for funds to help with capital projects next year.The Earlton-Timiskaming Regional Airport Authority is currently in the process of submitting formal applications to FedNor and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC).The Airport Authority has now been in operation for
Church vandalism under investigation
COBALT (Staff) – Police are investigating the spray-painting of graffiti on the exterior of St. James Anglican Church in Cobalt.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say the vandalism at the Nickel Street church occurred between July 16 and 19.“Community people that go by it have expressed their dismay,” said Emma Laughlin, a
Drillers and muckers get shaking on Saturday
New water system for Charlton-Dack subdivision
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter CHARLTON-DACK - The Municipality of Charlton and Dack is preparing for a new water system in its Clarksville subdivision at the northwest corner of Englehart.Exp Services Inc. is the engineering firm designing and overseeing the project, Pedersen Construction will carry out the work.The project includes looping the Clarksville
Temiskaming reports first human West Nile virus case
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Temiskaming has recorded its first ever human case of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus.The woman was in hospital last week, said Adrienne Gullekson, public health inspector with the Timiskaming Health Unit.A human case of the West Nile virus “is unusual for our district,” said Marlene