From the Editor’s Desk
Sunny Times[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]It’s Easter Week. It’s also the week when the ice huts are to come off Lake Temiskaming. Plus it’s the week we prepare for a long weekend
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Community Food Bank Drive
This coming Saturday, March 28 , from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Spring Temiskaming Speaker Community Food Bank Drive takes place. For several years this newspaper has been leading the charge by hosting two yearly food drives, one in the fall just before the Thanksgiving
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Fighting for the North
Dear Editor:I am writing this letter on Ontario Northland bus services.There was no reason to close the Englehart station and the Matheson station.How in the world are people going to be able to buy their bus ticket?I don’t understand it.I don’t understand why the
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Bent out of shape
Dear Editor:As I see it, we have linked all the disasters of trains moving oil into one basket. It’s unfortunate that these things happen. The accident in Quebec wasn’t caused by the train derailment as we have seen the past month. It was plain
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April campaign in city but not Englehart
Dear Editor:April is Cancer Month and there will not be a door to door canvas in the Town of Englehart and surrounding townships this April.Englehart is under the direction of the Timmins branch of the Canadian Cancer Society and they chose not to do the April campaign
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A great bunch
Dear Editor:I live in a small town and I love, love, living in my small town of Temiskaming Shores.I would like to send a dump truck full of red roses to the town employees, my plumber, and my neighbour Tracey – she’s a jewel!I was recently
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Change is in the air
Area residents are visibly cheered by the advent of the first signs of spring.Sounds of long-absent birds are now filling the air.A south wind feels like a free trip to the sunny south.Everyone is in a better mood.Area activities will also be picking up steam,
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Letter to the Editor
Enough is EnoughDear Editor:Attention: Northeastern Ontario and Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP John Vanthof and MP Charlie Angus and Premier Kathleen Wynne:I am writing this letter to invite you to see with your own eyes the hardships that is being put on many of the people in the Province of
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Editorial Page
Safety is most importantThe recent rail line derailments near Gogama, and the resulting oil spills, show the need to ensure the highest safety standards and investment in infrastructure, and in the vehicles that are transporting these goods.It is incumbent on us as consumers, on our government leaders,
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Renewable clean energy
Dear Editor:Have you noticed as you drive around Northern Ontario that solar panels are beginning to be a common sight? There are operating sites in Englehart on the arena roof, in Ramore, Kapuskasing, Harley Township and more are planned for Chamberlain Township, the Earlton arena and
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