Evanturel Township will be hosting a Day at Kap Kig Iwan Park on Saturday, September 23.The event will include an opportunity for biking and hiking, a scavenger hunt for kids, a lantern launch at dusk at the lookout, a campfire with a wiener roast, camp songs, and karaoke entertainment. Those
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Weekender – September 22, 2017
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Funding for fifth annual Northern Ontario Showcase
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – FedNor is drilling down to extract funding for mining-related promotions.Federal monies of $535,000 will assist Temiskaming Shores and its partners in coordinating the fifth Northern Ontario Mining Showcase at the annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) International Convention in Toronto next spring.The FedNor
Brayden D’Arcey crowned 2017 Harvest QueenSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — In front of a standing room only crowd at the Horne Granite Centre, the New Liskeard Fall Fair Harvest Queen Pageant judges selected a new queen and two princesses on Friday, September 15.Brayden D’Arcey was selected queen, First Princess is
Englehart Horticultural meeting tonight
The Englehart and District Horticultural Society is having its general meeting on Wednesday, September 20, at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, 55 Third Street. This month’s program will be seasonal wreaths by Joyce and Bonnie. The competitions this month will be root crops and squash, with classes for youth
Ups and downs
• Thumbs down to the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (MNDM) actually considering an application to drill in, under or around Sass Lake.Sasaginiga Lake, in Coleman Township on the western edge of Cobalt, provides the drinking water to the town and many township residents.“The permit application was circulated to
Minimum wage-maximum impact
By Steven LarocqueThe new study that finds the move to a $15 minimum wage will cost 50,000 jobs is a bit of a “duh” moment.What did people think would happen?Workers and employers each have their own goals to fulfill in a capitalist society.The former wants to be paid as much
To mow or not to mow
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - At Cobalt's committee-of-the-whole meeting, a discussion about grass mowing turned to possibilities in the town to sell smaller lots for 16-foot wide homes.The meeting explored whether the town should be mowing properties that do not belong to the town. Numerous reasons were cited, such as grass
Annual Cow-Calf Roadshow comes north
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — Despite some cool, rainy weather, the Beef Farmers of Ontario’s (BFO) tenth annual Cow-Calf Roadshow rolled into the Temiskaming region bringing visitors from eastern and western Ontario to the farms of