Letter to the Editor
Get the pictureDear Editor:Thank you for your recent coverage of the opening of the Carter Antila Memorial Skateboard Park. The prominent and extensive coverage by your newspaper during the entire project has helped to bring the community together and everyone can celebrate in a facility that will
From the Editor’s Desk
Lucky 13[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]Shortly after the Canada Day weekend in 1985: two reporters on staff at The Temiskaming Speaker either were fired or resigned immediately; the editor could no longer
Letter of the Week
Here’s to our Youth Grads, Youth Orchestras and Skate Parks!Dear Editor:First of all I want to congratulate all the newest Temiskaming high school graduates. Well done!! These young people are the future of our community, our hospitals, volunteerism and so very much more. I wish them the
Letter to the Editor
Recent Temagami sightingsDear Editor:A couple of unusual sightings to report from Lake Temagami this June.On June 10 after walking into Kokoko Lake my fishing buddy and I observed a school of five carp in the shallows below where the stream from Koko Lake enters Lake Temagami.
From the editor’s desk
Weekend NotesA community newspaper editor flips through his notebook on a Canada Day-Bikers Reunion event that was a three-day weekend for some, a four-day weekend for others, and for the rest, the usual two-day weekend and a working-day Monday but with an unusual day off on
Sunshine on the clothesline
Speaker Reporter Darlene WroeIt happens to many of us. A spouse dies. According to statistics, often it is the husband who dies first. So it’s most often the woman who is left behind. Somehow, it seems, it is happening earlier and earlier in our lives. That’s scary.
Letter to the editor
Englehart food bank says thanksDear Editor:Another successful food drive was held by the M.N.R. with 345 items and almost $200 for the Englehart Food Bank.Donations like this keep the food bank able to supply the clients with food each week.Donations from the Food Forever fund
Letter of the week
Not so Happy Canada Day for a million CanadiansDear EditorOn this Canada Day, July 1, 2014 over one million Canadians will become second- class citizens.There is nothing to celebrate regarding the FATCA IGA that the Canadian government signed and stealthily rammed through parliament, and nothing to
Graduating classes
This week marks the end of school for many area students as they attend their graduation commencements.They have been supported in their learning endeavors by the various schools, school boards, teachers, educational assistants, parents, caregivers and their respective communities.It is a bittersweet time in
From the Editor’s Desk
This weekendThe New Liskeard Bikers Reunion.Technically it began in 1999.Officially it’s now celebrating its 11th anniversary and it has become not only a mainstream community event but it can be categorized as one of Northern Ontario’s premier attractions.Included in this week’s Speaker we have a