Acts of kindness leaves large impression
Dear Editor:Kindness, although a more commonly used word, seems more appropriate than generous to express our feelings of your support of our Food Bank.Throughout the year we experience these acts by members of our community, who on a regular schedule visit our Food Bank to deliver food
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From the editor’s desk
REMEMBRANCE SIGNIFICANCEWithin the last fortnight two Canadian soldiers were murdered on Canadian soil. Depending on your political viewpoint this was an act of terrorism or simply, and tragically, two isolated incidents.It was the impetus though for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to skip a scheduled trip to China
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Join the fight
Dear Editor:I am writing you about my concerns with regard to bill C-377.I am the treasurer for my local union; OSSTF/FEESO District #1 in North Eastern Ontario. I am also the President of my local bargaining unit OSSTF/FEESO at Temiskaming District Secondary School.I take my
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Letter of the Week
Proud of Temiskaming HospitalDear Editor:I spent the best part of the summer of 2013 running up and down Highway 11 from Lake Temagami to the Temiskaming hospital with a blood clot in my leg. This summer it was a gall bladder that began acting up on May
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Letter to the Editor
Memories of that schoolDear Editor:I noticed in The Speaker a building that Lloyd “Strad” Wilson says was a school.It was also the home of the Second New Liskeard Scout Troop.I, along with Jim Grant and many others, started that troop.It began about 1957.My dad,
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Congratulating the candidates
The October 27 municipal elections in our area saw the voter turnout range from as high as 83 per cent in Latchford to as low as 23 per cent in Hudson.Elsewhere in the pages of this edition of The Temiskaming Speaker there are results and analysis
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From the Editor’s Desk
Election Night Notebook[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]A community newspaper editor who sat at the desk and compiled election night returns in 13 municipalities goes over his notebook:• The most striking aspect was
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Letter of the Week
About the move to TDSSDear Editor:This is an open letter to the director and trustees at District School Board Ontario North East:I am writing in regards to the board’s decision to move the New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) and Haileybury Public School (HPS)
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VOTE
Of the 19 incorporated municipalities in The Temiskaming Speaker’s circulation area, 11 of them will be holding elections on Monday.In a lot of those communities there is much interest in the municipal election, as demonstrated by the amount of people that are running for the council seats.
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