Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — To honour a fellow student who has been battling cancer for six years, staff and students at Ecole publique des Navigateurs in New Liskeard raised $2,281.86 for the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) on Friday, October 13.POGO is an organization championing childhood cancer care

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s about 950 kilometres from New Liskeard to Thunder Bay, where cancer’s return abruptly stopped Terry Fox’s run across Canada.All that happened in 1981, long before students – and some staff – at New Liskeard Public were born.But the school set a collective goal to

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – People sometimes need a little help to be successful in the workforce, said Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota.Thanks to new funding for the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group (TNWSG), “we’re making another step in that direction,” said the Liberal MP at the organization’s New Liskeard centre

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — Staff and students at Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie (ESCSM) had an otherworldly experience recently involving blue and yellow teams of staff and students.The 6th annual Intergalactic Day, held Thursday, September 28, was a fun way for staff and students “to promote school spirit and celebrate

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — It was fifty years ago this year that Tom and Theresa McGrory and their three wee children left their homeland of Scotland travelling to Northern Ontario as newly arrived immigrants. The year was 1967, Canada’s centennial year.In 2017, during Canada’s sesquicentennial year, discussions have taken

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ELK LAKE - Three groups came together in Elk Lake recently to celebrate a "fantastic" crop from the second annual Elk Lake community garden.Harvested vegetables were incorporated into several tables of prepared food at the Elk Lake community hall where a free Community Fall Feast was held September

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – As the area prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving this weekend, the needs of others were in the forefront one week earlier.The Temiskaming Speaker Community Food Bank Drive was held September 30.Locations across the southern district accepted donations of food, personal items and cash to support food banks

Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — In this day and age of fast food and fast paced lifestyles, teaching nutrition to teenagers is an important activity and a rewarding one, as an ESCSM teacher found out.Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie (ESCSM) nutrition teacher Isabelle Peddie recently received the Teach Nutrition Award from