Christmas in Canada

The Christmas season is now officially here.Ribbons are going up, the Christmas carols are playing on the radio, vendors are selling locally produced gift items, stores are sparkling, and everywhere there are people laughing and talking, and enjoying the newness of winter and the excitement of

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 25, 2015Arts & EntertainmentChristmas

Twenty Questions with Crystal Paige

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter This week’s Twenty Questions features an interview with Timiskaming Home Support (THS) Transportation Coordinator Crystal Paige.1. What is your full name?Crystal Paige.2. Where were you born?North Bay, Ontario.3. What is your job title with Timiskaming Home Support (THS)?Transportation Coordinator.

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Englehart High drama heading to North Pole

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART – When an unwanted gift makes the recipient seek revenge on Santa, the results are comic and dramatic.And that sets the stage for Rough Night at the North Pole, this year’s Christmas production at Englehart High School.But this year’s show, which runs

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 25, 2015Arts & Entertainment

Englehart Christmas Unveiling attracts large crowds

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter [gallery columns="4" ids="10428,10426,10425,10424,10422"]ENGLEHART — Hundreds of people took in various events around town while crowding the downtown streets of Englehart last Friday evening, November 20, as Englehart unveiled its Christmas spirit.Perhaps the only thing to steal the limelight was Santa, who made his appearance

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 25, 2015Arts & EntertainmentChristmas, Englehart, Englehart Christmas Unveiling

Twenty Questions with Maggie MacPherson

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter This week’s Twenty Questions features an interview with PhD candidate/Wildlife Biologist and Ornithologist Maggie MacPherson. She is a former Timiskaming District Secondary School Terra program student

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 18, 2015Arts & EntertainmentTwenty Questions

Tomstown quilter wins district first-place prize

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TOMSTOWN -- At the Matheson Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies district convention, a quilt created by Kathy Scott of Tomstown was awarded first-place for hand-quilting on an applique quilt.The first-place position makes her eligible to send the quilt on to the provincial convention in

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 18, 2015Arts & Entertainmentquilting

The Artist’s foil

During the recently-held Culture Days activities, Carolyn Laronde of Temagami, who has been working in stained glass for the past 12 years, gave demonstrations at her studio on the technique of foiling stained-glass pieces. Copper foil, she explained, is sticky and sticks to the glass. The glass is wrapped

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 18, 2015Arts & EntertainmentCulture Days

Hot off the press

Speaker’s 2016 calendar now availableSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — Do you have tons of appointments and events on the horizon, but nowhere to post them and ,worse, no way to remember them?Not to worry—The Temiskaming Speaker’s annual complimentary calendar comes out in this, the Wednesday,

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 18, 2015Arts & EntertainmentSpeaker Calendar

BOOK LAUNCH

In 1944, Roy Nightingale was an artillery observer on the front lines as Canadian forces battled through France. On the weekend, the Temiskaming Shores man was on hand as Survivor Diaries: Stories from Temiskaming’s World War II Heroes was unveiled. He autographed a copy of the book for Vicki

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 11, 2015Arts & EntertainmentRemembrance Day, veterans, WW II

Survivor Diaries

The second world war, through the eyes of temiskaming vets[gallery ids="10282,10280,10279,10278"]COBALT (Staff) – It was a book signing with a difference.Survivor Diaries: Stories from Temiskaming’s World War II Heroes was unveiled at The Bunker Military Museum in Cobalt on the weekend.Some of the 59 veterans profiled in

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 11, 2015Arts & Entertainmentveterans, WW II