Now that the deep freeze has left South Temiskaming (for the time being) and more balmy January weather is in place, people are thinking back to the cars that wouldn’t start, the frozen pipes and broken water mains.Take a moment, though, to give a big thumbs up to all

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter Here in the North, a white Christmas is what we tend to expect.Growing up in the North, Christmas mornings always tended to be punctuated with frosted windows, giant icicles, and wide expanses of snow-covered fields.On sunny mornings, the trees were often coated in silver sparkling in the sunlight.It