From the editor’s desk
The Temagami VoteUnder mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures , voters on Thursday, August 19 in Temagami voted in a municipal by-election. Records show this was the first municipal by-election ever in our region.Temagami municipal clerk Elaine Gunnell on election night told The Speaker voter
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Raising the Roof!
Dear Editor:Passers-by on Highway 65 could be forgiven if, on Monday, they thought they saw workers on the roof of Hillview United Church and wondered what they were doing. Well, if they were there they would be checking for roof damage (tongue in cheek) that might have been
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Letter of the Week
Beyond the Call of DutyDear Editor:This is a thank you to Marissa Griese at the Little Clay Belt Homesteaders Museum.We were returning from visiting relatives in Timmins and stopped by your museum in New Liskeard. My mother-in-law came from New Liskeard as well as some of
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Our lone summer OlympianThere’s a bit of a tradition that every four years during the Summer Olympics this space and the Across The Years photo of that issue notes the achievement of this area’s only Canadian Olympian.The story of New Liskeard’s Mary Vandervliet Graydon is a sports
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Great experience at Temiskaming HospitalDear Editor:A very special thank you to everyone.My daughter, sisters, brother, sister-in laws, brother-in laws, nieces, dear friends, too many to mention by name but you know who you are.Thank you for all the visits and helping hands that I received
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Supporting an off-leash park
Dear Editor:My dog Misty and me have received many comments in support of this proposal of an off-leash park.The area being proposed is seldom, if ever, used and is between the north end of the swings at the main New Liskeard beach to the drainage ditch, from
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Our long hot summer• Horrific terrorist attacks occur almost weekly in Europe with the most innocent of society being the targets.• In the United States fatal shootings by police officers and of police officers have been happening if not at unprecedented rates, certainly at
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That truck driver
Dear Editor:This is an open letter to the westbound transport driver on the West Road in Haileybury the night of Thursday July 28, shortly before midnight.No thanks to you, I, as well as my car, survived our encounter with you without a scratch.I don’t know
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Letter of the Week
Dear Editor:This is regarding the cartoon in the July 20 Speaker:I have sent your Blue Jays cartoon of Kitty Cohen to my friend Leigh in North York to pass on to Kitty whom I know as a tap dancer. I was taken aback to see her featured
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After the Bikers Reunion
Dear Editor:During the last Bikers Reunion I spoke to many of the bikers as I took Misty on her many daily walks through the camp grounds.Every biker I spoke to expressed their disappointment at this being the last reunion.Other bikers mentioned that different locations were being
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