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Englehart Bulletin Board
Englehart EchoesThis column continues Mrs. Helen Peterson’s story as related in an undated manuscript.“I worked in the post-office with nice educated people - Englehart was never a hick town - the rail-roaders weren’t hicks. The Post Office was down where Tommy Haley lives - across from the tele-phone exchange. I
Times are changing
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]Most of us have seen many a Northern winter. Most of us have seen the thermometers dip to -40 about the same time we learned to
The Best of 2013
DISTRICT (Staff) - How The Temiskaming Speaker remembers the year of 2012.STORYOF THE YEAR: The murder of Chris Parsons.PERSONALITYOF THE YEAR: Sarah Marsden. SPORTS STORYOF THE YEAR:. The upheaval in Midget hockey.FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Skier Katherine Denis.MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Para-Nordic skier Caelan Flannigan.COACH OF THE YEAR: Temiskaming
Reviewing 2013 – City makes moves and movie in ’13
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – As 2013 opened, the city became the setting for a movie.As the year ended, producers were hoping to screen Skating to New York at film festivals and working on plans for a local showing.PROJECTSThe year
Friendship and music unite generations
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- Twenty-five children from St. Patrick School in Cobalt and twenty-one seniors from the Tri-Town area are united in a bond of music and friendship.Thursday, December 19, was a special day when the Interlink Intergenerational Choir spent some time together singing and enjoying a Christmas luncheon in
Skating to New York awaiting release date
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Just when Temiskaming Shores will make its big screen debut isn’t certain.Early this year, the area was buzzing as film crews transformed the area into a fictional Lake Ontario town for Skating to New York.But no release date for the movie has been set.“We are
ACROSS THE YEARS
ACROSS THE YEARS100 YEARS AGOTaken from the New Liskeard Speaker and Temiskaming News-Letter dated December 5, 1913Temiskaming Gardens.In our last issue we started that the Jamieson Meat Company had purchased the Brillinger business. We are advised by Mr. Brillinger that the business was sold to Montreal parties, and not to
Santa’s Parade
The Indomitable Spirit of PeopleDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter NEW LISKEARD -- The indomitable spirit of people was evident once more this Christmas with the annual Temiskaming Shores Santa Claus Parade Saturday evening, November 30.Despite brisk winds and snow early through the evening, many floats and walkers gathered behind the Timiskaming
Peaceful Perspectives
The Temiskaming Shores Lioness Lions Club invited students at local schools to picture peace for the Lions Club International peace poster contest. Participants Lauren Griffith, left, of English Catholic Central and Hannah Holtz of Haileybury Public School received $50 cheques and congratulations from Lions District Governor Brian Closs. The students’