From the Editor’s Desk
A Flood of Memories[caption id="attachment_11947" align="alignleft" width="300"] Gordon Brock Speaker Editor [/caption]In February of this year we received a lot of snow. In the first few weeks of March we
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Letter of the Week
Our Hospital Staff is the BestDear Editor:Our family has just spent a fair bit of time in and about the Temiskaming Hospital.Beginning in emerg after a bumpy ride up Shepherdson Road in the ambulance we were in radiology and finally onto the floor where Team
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From the Editor’s Desk
Odds and EndsIt’s March Break week and a community newspaper editor flips through his notebook…TUITIONThe cost of post-secondary education has been a topic of conversation on these pages the past few weeks. Recently the Ontario budget announced that post-secondary tuition would be free for students coming
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Filling the shoe boxes
Dear Editor:I would like to thank The Temiskaming Speaker and the staff for their support, especially Diane Johnston who supplied great coverage this past fall in promoting the Operation Christmas Child shoe box campaign throughout our district. The support from The Speaker over the past twenty- three years
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Great Snow Job
Dear Editor:At 6 p.m. last Friday evening, a loader came and cleaned the lane leading to Cedar Street.I watched him and motioned for him to tip that bucket down to cut the top off the centre - - he did!He made four passes up the lane
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What is the true purpose?
Dear Editor:As a business person, I am responsible for my family, my employees and their families. We have endeavoured to run our firm correctly, profitably and ethically.Our provincial governments have not done the same, indeed the spend thrift ways of the past governments both Liberal, Conservative and
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Letter of the Week
Latchford and the Ferguson HighwayDear Editor:As all who have become familiar with me, I will always take exception to Latchford’s role in the North being downplayed in any manner, so let me provide a little history lesson on the Ferguson Highway. Latchford had long been
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Letter to the Editor
You call that hunting?Dear Editor:I find it sad to hear that the spring bear hunt has been reinstated.That means hunters are going to go way out into the bush, coerce a bear by using the bear’s nose to get him to find the most important thing
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A Caring Community
How is a caring community defined?Is a caring community defined by the strengths of each and every citizen and comes from a sense of belonging and support?Certainly a caring community is reflected in the words and actions of its citizenry.It comes from
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From the Editor’s Desk
Al WrightYours truly began employment at The Temiskaming Speaker in early September of 1984, about two months after Allan J. Wright retired.Al Wright began his career with this company in 1940 as a printer’s devil and retired in June of 1984 holding the titles of
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