Evanturel Harvest to Home Market wraps up season
Darlene Wroe Local Journalism Initiative Reporter EVANTUREL TOWNSHIP – This year’s Harvest to Home Market wrapped up on August 23 after four markets held since July 12. The …
Local French-language book club a rarity in Ontario
Darlene Wroe Local Journalism Initiative Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – The Temiskaming Shores Public Library is one of the few libraries in Ontario that offers a regular French-language book …
Hummingbird Garden Party hummed with 300 visitors
Sue Nielsen Local Journalism Initiative Reporter HILLIARDTON ‒ Hummingbirds are a joy to watch at backyard feeders but more magical to watch up close. Just over 300 people flocked …
MINI BIKER
Almost 100 people gathered on August 9 for the fifth and final annual Loud and Proud motorcycle ride and fundraiser for Community Cancer Care and a play space at …
ROOF REPLACEMENT
Sip, sip, hooray – the seventh annual North On Tap Craft Beer Festival raised $100,100 this year and has donated those monies back to three not-for-profit groups in the …
AUGUST BOUNTY
With a mile of beach, two playgrounds, a splash pad, a paved trail and a boardwalk at the New Liskeard waterfront, on this August day what was drawing the …
ELK LAKE CREATURE COMFORTS
With a bearded dragon on his head and a blue-tongued skink in his arms, 10-year-old Shane Sider smiled for his mother’s camera. The Fort Erie youth was in Elk …
SEEDING INTEREST
Eight-year-old Octavia Edwards of North Cobalt, at left, and A.J. Heaslip, 11, of New Liskeard got a feel for canola at Phillips Seeds Ltd. The pedigreed seed operation in …
Help for non-urgent patient transfers extended to BRH
Diane Johnston Local Journalism Initiative Reporter KIRKLAND LAKE – Blanche River Health is the latest Northern Ontario hospital to receive provincial funding help to transfer patients to out-of-town …
From Earlton to Honduras and back
Diane Johnston Local Journalism Initiative Reporter EARLTON – It wasn’t a single factor that led a 21-year-old university student from Earlton to volunteer at medical clinics in a remote community …
