ENGLEHART (Staff/Special) -- The Rotary Club of Englehart is joining other Rotary Clubs to raise awareness about the crippling childhood disease of polio.A fundraising walk is being held in Englehart on Tuesday, October 24 in honour of World Polio Day.The Walking to End Polio Now event will take place at
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso.The dust of a northern soul may indeed be cleansed by viewing the Englehart Area Artist’s 6th annual Juried Exhibtion featuring 40 creative works of art currently on display at the Englehart and
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate the theft of three new John Deere lawn tractors from an Armstrong Township dealership.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say the three lawn tractors were stolen from the Green Tractors Earlton property between October 4 and October 6.All
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – During an enforcement blitz on Thanksgiving weekend, Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police laid a total of 129 charges.Police noted that two drivers were charged with speeding at 141 kilometres/hour and 140 km/h respectively in a 90 km/h zone.A driver and passenger were charged with possession of a
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s about 950 kilometres from New Liskeard to Thunder Bay, where cancer’s return abruptly stopped Terry Fox’s run across Canada.All that happened in 1981, long before students – and some staff – at New Liskeard Public were born.But the school set a collective goal to
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – People sometimes need a little help to be successful in the workforce, said Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota.Thanks to new funding for the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group (TNWSG), “we’re making another step in that direction,” said the Liberal MP at the organization’s New Liskeard centre
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter COLEMAN TOWNSHIP — There are no benches in cross-country running and the roads are not paved.It takes a special kind of athletic skill to run cross-country and the 947 participants taking part in the 2017 Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS) Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club (TNSC) Cross-Country Invitational tested
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — He was in Temiskaming Shores to accept an award for his father’s writing skills (Hardy Boys ghost writer Leslie McFarlane), but 25-year Hockey Night In Canada broadcaster, Brian McFarlane, took time to talk about his broadcasting career, on being a successful writer of 100 published
Big Rock for Little Rocks FundRaiser DanceThe Cobalt Haileybury Curling Club Little Rock and Youth Curling extends a huge thank you to Jon Champagne of Haileybury Plumbing and Heating for sponsoring a very successful fundraising dance and concert, Big Rock for Little Rocks.On short notice Jon put together a concert, meal
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter HAILEYBURY — It’s hard to compress the scope of a person’s life and career onto a plaque and into an awards ceremony.The task is even that much more difficult when the life is as storied as that of former Haileyburian, Leslie McFarlane, father, famed ghost writer of the
