WHAT A WINNER!
Timiskaming District Secondary School Elementary School Grade 8 student Morgan Dufresne (middle) entered a 2014 Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Poster Contest and won first place at her school level. She then placed first at the Branch 33 Level and went on to win first place at the Zone
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SHOWCASE 2015
The Cobalt Coleman Skating Club ended their season with a bang last Saturday night at the Father Les Costello Memorial Arena presenting their 2015 Showcase theme Random Collection of Thoughts. Pictured are skaters Faye Champagne (left) and Hannah Laframboise. (Staff photo)
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SNOWMEN AND PIZZA
Students in Junior and Senior Kindergarten at Paradis des Petits School in New Liskeard built snowmen and won a Pizza Hut pizza party from North Eastern Ontario Family and Children’s Services (NEOFACS) as part of their Snowman Campaign.(Staff photo by Sue Nielsen)
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Library corner
FICTIONThe Year I Met You – Cecelia AhernThe Daring Ladies of Lowell – Kate AlcottLast Family Standing – Jennifer AlleeEsrever Doom – Piers AnthonyThe Escape – David BaldacciWar Dogs – Greg BearThe Forgotten Girl – David BellPoison Fruit – Jacqueline
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RINK ROUNDS
Three-year-old Chase, at left, and one-year-old Kohen enjoyed the view as their dad, Glenn McCarrel of Coleman, toured them around the Dymond rink. They were among the skaters taking advantage of warmer temperatures on the weekend to enjoy the outdoors. (Staff photo by Diane Johnston)
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Twenty Questions with Roch Patenaude
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter This week’s Twenty Questions features an interview with Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie student Roch Patenaude who received the Personalité Franco-Témiskamienne 2015 (Youth Personality of the
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Seeking scribes
Hardy Boys Short Story 2015 writing contest launchedSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — Are you a youth between the ages of 8 and 19 years of age who has the “write stuff” to enter the Ghost of the Hardy Boys’ Short Story Contest?Young writers from across the Temiskaming
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Chamberlain celebrating winter
CHAMBERLAIN (Special) – Chamberlain Township offers a chance to banish the winter blahs this weekend.The township’s recreation committee is organizing a family winter fun day March 8.From 11 to 3 p.m., visitors are invited to drop by the Chamberlain Recreation Hall on Road 5.There will be
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PPKS presents James Hill-Ukelele Magic
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — After a long cold winter in Temiskaming, March brings the warm sounds of James Hill and his ukelele magic to the Classic Theatre, Thursday, March 12 (beginning at 6:45 p.m.) as part of the Pied Piper Kidshow series.Mr. Hill’s type of entertainment
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TDSS band earns gold ticket to TO
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Special) – Timiskaming District Secondary School’s senior concert band is going national.The band scored gold at the recent Northern Ontario Music Festival in Sudbury.“The big win earns our band an invitation to perform at the national level – MusicFest Canada,” said band director Gail Menard
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