18th birthday spent in Toronto ICU
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TORONTO - Progress is being made by a Cobalt teen who is fighting for recovery in Toronto after suffering a stroke due to a blood clot in her brain.Jamie Morin-Kennedy celebrated her 18th birthday in Toronto Western Hospital while she was recovering from her second brain surgery that
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Fifth annual Country Christmas lights up Temagami
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI — A record number of people strolled through a winter wonderland in Temagami last weekend as the community welcomed visitors to the fifth annual Temagami Country Christmas.Held November 30 and December 1, the display featured thousands of Christmas lights set up at Peacock Woodcraft on the Milne-Sherman
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Fifth annual Country Christmas lights up Temagami
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI — A record number of people strolled through a winter wonderland in Temagami last weekend as the community welcomed visitors to the fifth annual Temagami Country Christmas.Held November 30 and December 1, the display featured thousands of Christmas lights set up at Peacock Woodcraft on the Milne-Sherman
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RED RIBBONS RETURN
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Temagami Country Christmas to shine
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMAGAMI – Christmas lights will brighten the long, dark winter nights in Temagami this weekend.The fifth annual Temagami Country Christmas runs November 30 and December 1.Visitors can stroll through the bush on pathways illuminated by thousands of festive lights.Displays will be tucked into clearings in and around Peacock
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DONATIONS BY THE KETTLE
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Safety tool proposed for those who wander
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter NORTH BAY – A new initiative to protect people who have a tendency to wander is being discussed in Temiskaming Shores.Project Lifesaver is a voluntary localization system, explains Josée Robichaud, Autism Ontario North/North East's family support coordinator based in North Bay.A child or adult who wanders – someone
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Students and staff smash pumpkins and stigmas at EHS
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — Smashing pumpkins at Englehart High School (EHS) post-Halloween was an event to end stigma about anxiety and mental illness and ease stress.And it worked judging by the massive mess that resulted when students enthusiastically smashed pumpkins outside the main doors of the school.“We had overwhelming success
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REMEMBERING THE FALLEN
Among the participants in New Liskeard's Remembrance Day service were Roy Nightingale, left, a New Liskeard army veteran of the Second World War, and Ed Wabie of Timiskaming First Nation, who served with the Canadian armed forces in Germany in '52 and '53 and in Korea in '54 and '55.
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A cheerleader, a football player, a budget and love
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES - The story of Peter and Sharron Graydon seems like an inspirational real-life story that would lend itself well to a movie.Two young teenagers - one a cheerleader and the other a football player - meet at high school, fall in love and go on to
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