From the editor’s desk
A NEW YEAR[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]It’s our first issue of the New Year and this is the first week where the community resumes life after the holidays. With that, a
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Letter of the week
The Bethlehem WalkDear Editor:We at the Thornloe Crossroads Baptist Church, extend our appreciation to you at The Speaker for your wonderful coverage of our recent Bethlehem Walk, both in the pre-announcements and in the photos and report which Darlene Wroe so ably prepared.We are also grateful
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Letter to the editor
At the Englehart Food BankDear EditorWith 2014 behind us, we at the Englehart Food Bank look forward to 2015 in serving the people in and around Englehart for another year.We had a successful year with some new clients and some leaving. With the help of many
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Murder Charges
This marks the 30th year that The Temiskaming Speaker has chosen a news story of the year. Rarely in that timeframe has the paper’s top story run over two years, but that was the case for 2013 and 2014.In 2013 disbelief was the catchword in Temiskaming Shores and
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From the editor’s desk
This time of yearThis last issue of 2014 of The Temiskaming Speaker comes out smack dab in the middle of what is called “the holiday season” – between Christmas and New Year’s. For those of us in the news media, it’s a most interesting time.For example,
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Lisa Buck
As a society, we see issues that we never thought were issues. As a society we see barriers that were once there but are no longer there.We like to think barriers are knocked down everyday. However it takes years to eliminate these barriers.That was the case
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Salvation Army says thanks
Dear Editor:The following is a “Thank You” letter to the community of Temiskaming Shores and surrounding areas regarding our Christmas efforts at The Salvation Army.We would like to thank Chartrands and Walmart for allowing us to set up in their stores for our Christmas
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Wishing you a Merry Christmas
Canada is a wonderful country--a place of ideals, rights, and freedoms.It’s a place where nations have been attempting to iron out an agreement where people of different backgrounds and beliefs can live side by side and in harmony to pursue their dreams and ambitions.It began with the
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From the Editor’s Desk
Christmas 2014A community newspaper editor, experiencing his 30th Christmas holding that title, flips through his notebook…THE FIREWithin a half-hour of getting an awakening phone call on November 29 about the New Liskeard downtown fire this year, yours truly arrived at the scene and found himself talking
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From the editor’s desk
About the “Yes, Virginia” editorial.As is stated to the left of this space, Francis P. Church’s editorial Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus was an immediate sensation, and became one of the most famous editorials ever written. It first appeared in The New York Sun in
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