City fails to make connection
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The city has been sidelined from a revived initiative providing funding for municipal roads connecting to provincial highways.Temiskaming Shores is not among the 77 municipalities eligible for the new Connecting Links program announced last week.Expected to start in the spring
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EXERCISING COMMERCE
Jaykob Morrow, 10, was flanked by sisters Teaghan, 7, left, and Gabrielle Gibson, 10, as he tried out a Walkmaster treadmill. Everything from dishes to firewood – and even the proverbial kitchen sink – could be found at the fifteenth annual fundraiser for the Hudson Fire Department. (Staff photo
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New Liskeard roads on city’s to-do list
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Plans are nearing completion for $2.8 million-plus work on three steep, rough streets in New Liskeard.The project would see the reconstruction of Glen Road, Farah Avenue and Dixon Street.But given its magnitude, the city “will definitely require funding from senior
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Walking to Ottawa
The Truth and Reconciliation Walkers, travelling by foot from Cochrane to Ottawa for the closing ceremony of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission May 31 to June 3, stopped in New Liskeard as guests of the Hillview United Church Friday, April 17, then departed again the following day. Pictured here
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Concern about OPP speeds in Cobalt
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter COBALT -- A Cobalt councillor has complained about the speed at which Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) cruisers are travelling through the town.Speaking at council’s regular meeting Tuesday, April 7, Councillor Gary Bigelow related that his car came close to being struck by a cruiser
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Footsteps Forward
Patrick Etherington of Cochrane posed an interesting challenge for non First Nations people while in New Liskeard. He is part of a group walking from Cochrane to Ottawa for the closing truth and reconciliation ceremony.Observing that the next generation of First Nations people is exhibiting effects from their
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SMOKE FREE LEADERSHIP
The 1st New Liskeard Girl Guides recently hosted Timiskaming Health Unit (THU) Public Health Promoter Patricia Hewitt (standing far right), as part of a topic about leadership. Ms. Hewitt told the girls to believe in themselves, enhance their own personhood and she and THU Youth Engagement Lead Lynn Julien
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Blood donor clinic April 28
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – If you’ve got blood to give, mark April 28 on your calendar.The next blood donor clinic will be April 28 at Riverside Place in New Liskeard.“Giving blood is so vital,” said Canadian Blood Services in a press release announcing upcoming clinics.It may
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Hockey season never ends
The arena hockey season has wound down and these 11-year-old Puckhounds have turned to their off-season game of street hockey. Cortland Poirier (left) and Caylan Longlade, both of New Liskeard, were out enjoying the early spring weather recently. (Staff photo by Darlene Wroe)
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WW II VETS
Seeking public’s assistanceSince the millennium, The Temiskaming Speaker has conducted interviews with World War II veterans. Most of these interviews were published in The Speaker’s annual Remembrance Day tabloids. These previously published articles will be put together for a book the paper plans to publish in late summer
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