Foley and Pape tops in art exhibition
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter HAILEYBURY -- New Liskeard artist Marty Foley has won the Best In Show category of the annual Temiskaming Palette and Brush Club exhibition.The show is on display at the Temiskaming Art Gallery (TAG) until Friday, February 14.Mr. Foley’s acrylic painting, titled 3035, was selected by juror Jean Paul
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Photos give voice to recovery
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Some locations in a new photo exhibit are immediately recognizable – the New Liskeard post office steps, a dragonfly mosaic, a stop sign.But when seen through the lens of recovery from mental illness, the familiar scenes take on new meaning.The steps indicate the journey to
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TDSS ROCKS
Alice Cooper’s No More Mr. Nice Guy brought Samantha Foley, guitarist Josh Lawrence and the rest of the band to the stage at Timiskaming District Secondary School. The Northern Rock concert wrapped up the semester’s rock music course. “This is their final exam, too,” said teacher Gail Menard as students
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’80s REVIVAL
The hair was big and the colours fluorescent at Riverside Place when Haileybury firefighters turned back time to the 1980s. Firefighters and friends – including, from left, Kevin and Nadine Hallworth and Steve Langford – sponsored an ’80s-themed dance at Riverside Place February 1 to raise funds for the Carter
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Wintry fun blasting Earlton
EARLTON (Staff) – Babies, baking and bingo will provide a break from the cold at Earlton Winter Festival ‘14.This year’s carnival, which runs February 6 through 9, will see the return of old favourites as well as the launch of new events.It kicks off February 6 with an evening bingo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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