Showing their colours on Orange Day
Editor’s Note: Hailey McCue is a Timiskaming First Nations resident and currently a grade 12 student at Timiskaming District Secondary School. She is taking a Co-op placement with The Temiskaming Speaker. After graduation this school year she plans to pursue a career in journalism.by Hailey McCue
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Fall food drive wraps up
[caption id="attachment_14215" align="alignleft" width="500"] In Haileybury, volunteers went door to door for food bank donations October 1. Among the crew were, from left, Jean-Luc Lacroix, Don Sauve, Gracia
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Bass Lake Road gets rail signals
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COLEMAN TOWNSHIP -- The final hookup for new railway crossing signal lights is expected to be in place by October 1, providing automatic crossing protection at the railway crossing on Bass Lake Road in Coleman Township.As the train enters the area, the signals circuit
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Assisting Future Development
Federal funding for city's sanitary lift stationDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES -- Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota has announced a $2.1 million investment by the federal government for the construction of the Gray Road Sanitary Lift Station, and other improvements for the sewage line at the north end
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SOBER DONATION
The Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Temiskaming Chapter were the recipients of $2,400 in donation money from a Mixed 3 Pitch Slopitch Tournament held Father’s Day weekend, June 17-19 in Earlton. Sue Paiement, the organizer of the tournament, noted there were 13 teams entered this year. From the left
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Centralized health care
Great Northern Family Health Team building set to open in spring 2017Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Collaboration, accessibility, sustainability and design have all come together at the new building presently being constructed on Shepherdson Road that will house the Great Northern Family Health
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New Liskeard library books $200,000 in repairs
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – The city is planning $200,000 in repairs to the New Liskeard library’s exterior.It’ll include a roof replacement, repairs to its stone masonry, and stabilization of the decorative parapet wall at roof level facing the street.Half of the cost of the work is being
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HOOKED ON DONATING
The annual Bassin’ For Kids fishing tournament fundraiser was held recently on Lake Temagami. The charitable organization donates to Northern Ontario hospitals and helps area families in times of need. Patrick Canuel of John’s Tackle Box, left, and Don Chartrand from Your Independent Grocer donated a $1,000 kayak to
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AIM AWARD
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry hired five interns to operate the Kap-Kig-I-Wan Provincial Park in Evanturel Township this summer. One of those interns, Kassandra Young, has received an AIM (Appreciation In Motion) Award as a member of the Stewardship Youth Ranger Team leads. From the left are
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Blood donor clinic exceeds goal
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Area residents rolled up their sleeves last week and gave, surpassing the donation goal of Canadian Blood Services.The August 30 clinic at Riverside Place in Temiskaming Shores collected an “outstanding” 125 units of blood, said Joanne Drake, the agency’s territory manager, in an email.
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