Culture Days are back!
Over 50 activities taking place in Temiskaming region September 26-28DISTRICT (Staff) — For three days residents of the Temiskaming region will be treated to over 50 different cultural activities when Culture Days takes place Friday, September 26 to Sunday, September 28.The Temiskaming Culture Day extravaganza is part
COMING FULL CIRCLE
Cal Knight’s first exhibition of paintings is now on display at the Englehart and Area Historical Museum. The Charlton artist, better known for his work in digital images, has incorporated both acrylic paints and found objects into his most recent work. He’s pictured above with Gates of Hawk, one
Open Doors Studio Tour in Englehart area
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART -- This year’s Englehart area Open Doors Studio Tour is set to get underway Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28.The self-guided art studio tour throughout the area will include 14 sites from across Englehart, Charlton, Dack Township and Chamberlain Township.Committee chair
New Liskeard Fall Fair
Learn, laugh, share and grow[caption id="attachment_4609" align="alignleft" width="500"] JUNIOR AMBASSADORBrydon Burrows was chosen as the Junior Ambassador for the 2014 New Liskeard Fall Fair. Brydon entered the most categories
Harvest Queen and her court
The 2014 New Liskeard Fall Fair Harvest Queen and her court were chosen Friday evening, September 12. From left they are: Harvest Queen Hannah Fedechko-Conroy, First Princess Mélissa Maloney, and Second Princess Hailey Cole. Additional coverage of the Fair will be in the September 19 Weekender. (Staff photo by
Drum-a-thon this weekend
Event supports children with cancerDISTRICT (STAFF) — With September being Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a local group is organizing a “Get Up And Go For POGO” Drum-a-thon to be held at the Horne Granite Club in New Liskeard this coming Saturday, September 20 from 6 a.m. to 3
“Where Families Share”
Another successful Englehart Fall FairSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter [caption id="attachment_4483" align="alignleft" width="500"] Clowning around was Lynda McDonough.[/caption][caption id="attachment_4482" align="alignleft" width="500"] Alex
TWO VISIONS
Gwen Pollock, seen here, and fellow artist Suzanne Burke-Lalande were inspired to create a show called Two Visions, on display at the Englehart and Area Historical Museum until September 14. The duo would look at the same photograph and create their own personal interpretation of the scene. This work
VIEW FROM ABOVE
Suzanne Burke-Lalande is seen here with her work View From Above, which is merino/corriedale wools wet and dry felted, thread embellished. It is one of the pieces currently on display at the Englehart and Area Historical Museum in a show with fellow artist Gwen Pollock entitled Two Visions. The
First annual Silver Nugget Race winner
COBALT (Staff) -- The Cobalt Mining Museum’s first Great Cobalt Silver Nugget Race took place Saturday, August 23.Museum manager Anne Fraboni says the museum board hopes to make the event an annual one.There were 347 tickets sold at $10 each for this first event which saw silver