Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter HAILEYBURY - There is much hustle and bustle at the Temiskaming Art Gallery as the winter season approaches.Interim gallery manager Kirsten Hill has been managing the reins of the gallery since executive director/curator Melissa Laporte has been on maternity leave.Hill, who originally hails from Johannesburg, South Africa, and
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT - As Remembrance Day 2017 is marked on Saturday, November 11, area residents have the good fortune of having a place where they can learn more about the lives of those who fought in wars past.The Bunker Military Museum, located at 24 Prospect Avenue in Cobalt, on
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — If a local campaign is successful, Temiskaming will be wrapped in purple.Throughout the month of November, in conjunction with Women Abuse Prevention Month, the Haileybury Pavilion Women’s Centre is asking people to support their Wrapped In Courage campaign by purchasing and wearing a purple coloured
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Striking faculty members at Northern College’s Haileybury campus say they were told they couldn’t go to a weekend comedy show held on the campus.David Silver, vice-president of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 653 and a teacher at the Haileybury campus, said college management
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A variety of drugs and firearms have been seized from a New Liskeard residence.Search of the home on Lakeshore Road followed the arrest of two New Liskeard residents late last month near Kirkland Lake.A 46-year-old man and a woman, also 46, each face a long list
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter SUDBURY – The recent blood donor clinic in Temiskaming Shores fell short of its goal by 46 units.Halloween may have slowed traffic at the clinic, said Joanne Drake, territory manager with Canadian Blood Services, in an email.The goal for day one of the clinic October 31 was 96
NORTH BAY (Staff/Special) – A Temiskaming Shores resident will offer input on how to improve the experience of health care patients in the Northeast.Charlotte Lavictoire has been named to the North East Local Health Integration Network’s first patient and family advisory committee.Lavictoire, a retired teacher and artist whose community involvement
By Steven LarocqueThis is my first column after my last vacation break of the year. It was a little later in the calendar than when I usually take one, but it was fine nonetheless.I like to call my holidays radical vacations.Not because I travel or go whale watching or do
Thumbs down to school strikes.Whatever the argument, whoever’s right (if anyone ever is more so than the other), there’s only one loser and that’s the student body.The current college strike is especially troublesome because you’re talking about (mostly) young adults who are spending their own money, or taking on
