Making it a Reality
Dear Editor:I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge everyone who has participated in our “Care Close to Home” campaign for the benefit of our hospital. Thanks to you, pieces of equipment have been and continue to be purchased to improve local care. Minimizing the need to
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Letter of the Week
These new regulations are discriminatoryDear Editor:Recently I attended a T.M.A meeting where a government speaker was explaining the new regulations for municipalities in the next municipal elections. The one that disturbed me the most is that before you can run for municipal office (e.g. councillor or mayor/reeve),
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From the Editor’s Desk
At the mallLast week The Speaker carried on its front page a story about how a long-time tradition in Temiskaming – visits with Santa at the Timiskaming Square Mall – will continue this Christmas season thanks to the initiative of the Temiskaming Shores Lioness Lions Club.As has been
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Temagami Country ChristmasDear Editor:This holiday season we took the opportunity to visit Temagami’s Christmas Village. It was an elaborate arrangement of lights and Christmas figures strung out through the bush on a well-cut and groomed walking trail. While the real Santa held court in the quaint and
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Is there a Santa Claus?
Editor’s Note: The following editorial was written by Francis P. Church in the New York Sun in the year 1897. It has become the most reprinted editorial of all time.We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our
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Luminosity
Dear Editor:By our actions we can lift the spirits of those we meet.So when we wake each day think of something nice to do or say to help those in this world who a kind word can be all they need.Like springs of water in a
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Great reluctance
Dear Editor:On Saturday November 26, 2016 my wife and I went to a charity hockey tournament for little tykes in Haileybury. To our dismay, when we came out of the arena we had a parking ticket of $25.00.There is no parking area and you are lucky
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From the Editor’s Desk
Leaving the SpeakerThis is probably the first column written by the editor of The Temiskaming Speaker where the words “I” and “me” are used with frequency.Yours truly began working at The Temiskaming Speaker in September of 1984. I will be leaving The Temiskaming Speaker
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At the cenotaph
Dear Editor:In 2014, I was in South Porcupine for a two week period to look after a sick brother, and took him to his last Remembrance Day ceremony.Upon my return, apparently a storm had gone through the Tri-Town area and I found the cenotaph area littered with
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Making it a reality
Dear Editor:I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge everyone who has participated in our “Care Close to Home” campaign for the benefit of our hospital.Thanks to you, pieces of equipment have been and continue to be purchased to improve local care.Minimizing the need
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