TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – Temiskaming isn’t getting enough vegetables and fruit.“Only 38 per cent of Timiskaming residents are consuming five or more fruits and vegetables each day,” said Kerry Schubert-Mackey, the Timiskaming Health Unit’s director of community health, in a media release.But they have important health benefits.
LORRAIN VALLEY (Staff) -- Temiskaming Métis were able to take part in a variety of activities at the Tri-Town Ski and Snowboard Village on Sunday, March 5.Sponsored in part by the Tri-Town Ski and Snowboard Village, the event was designed to bring together Métis people from across the
DISTRICT (Special)— April is Daffodil Month in the South Temiskaming region.The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) says the Daffodil Campaign is an important fundraiser in the fight against cancer.During Daffodil Month you can support Canadians living with cancer:• Buy and wear a daffodil pin throughout April•
COBALT (Staff) -- Cobalt will not cover damage to vehicles caused by hitting potholes, Cobalt council concluded Tuesday, March 7, at its committee-of-the-whole meeting.The discussion took place after a letter, dated February 21, was received from a local driver who was seeking compensation for vehicle damage from an
Runners support local teen with leukemiaSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — A Temiskaming Shores couple are running in the oldest road race in North America to raise funds for research into acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a disease which affects a close family friend.
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Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART/TEMISKAMING SHORES - Students at a school in Kenya and at Holy Family School in Englehart will be forming a bond through student teacher Kaline Woods.[caption id="attachment_15889" align="alignleft" width="200"]
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – City council is joining a call for the province to put a moratorium on rural school closures until it has rewritten accommodation review guidelines.On February 21, city council endorsed appeals from Prince Edward County, on the eastern end of Lake Ontario,
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Financial incentives for new doctors serving the Temiskaming Shores area have been restructured.Newly recruited physicians will be offered $10,000 each year for four years if they set up a local practice or are credentialed to work at Temiskaming Hospital.In the
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES - In celebration of 150 years of Canada’s confederation, ACFO-Temiskaming (Association Canadienne-française de l’Ontario-Temiskaming) is developing a project to mark the contributions of francophone as well as anglophone residents in the district.Dominic Hamel is heading up the project throughout 2017, researching the
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — They packed their suitcases in anticipation of the annual Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies’ (OAAS) convention held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto February 16-18.Harvest Queen Friends of the Festival pageant director Sharron Graydon accompanied the 2016-17 Harvest Queen, Gabrielle
