Dear Editor:On prayer.Why pray?Because we have needs, not only selfish wants, but real needs. Even the unbelievers pray.At one point it seems to be the only way to go, to reach out to something or someone higher than us.The God of creation seems a pretty good place to
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Another season of amazing support
Dear Editor:Ideally, we would be able to list all of those individuals/business organizations and Public Servants for their generosity and support over the past year. However, you are just too numerous. For the above reason, we have chosen to thank the various groups in hoping we have missed no one,
Can strike at any age
Dear Editor:My thanks to Rev. Helmut Wipprecht[letter in the January 22, 2014 Speaker] for being willing to initiate a discussion on “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” or “PTSD” as a result of military action.The timing for me was perfect, as earlier in the day I had read the MacLean’s (Jan. 27)
Stress is cumulative
Dear Editor:Re: Letter of the week, January 22 2014. Reflecting on PTDS.It would be remiss of me to allow the letter by H.L. Wipprecht to stand unanswered.During my life, I have survived the German bombing of Merseyside, having to move from damaged homes three times, I helped in the recovery
Highway management needs overhaul
There is little that can top the news issue of the highway conditions in the region.But it is difficult to say that it is limited to the North as a problem.The Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s management of highways throughout Ontario seems to need a thorough overhaul.Transportation investments throughout the region
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Transfer of Sacré-Coeur students to St-Michel proposed
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TIMMINS – A review of École catholique Sacré-Coeur in New Liskeard has recommended the closure of the New Liskeard school.An accommodation review committee studying the school’s future has recommended that its students – who currently number 96 in grades 1, 2 and 3 – be transferred to École
Haileybury man faces charges
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A Haileybury man has been charged in connection with what police describe as a hit-and-run last fall.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say they were contacted shortly before 8 p.m. October 29 when a pedestrian was struck on Highway 65 East by a westbound vehicle that