Letter of the Week

Locum Doctor Bids Farewell To Temiskaming ShoresDear Editor:I would just like to say farewell to Temiskaming Shores. For the past year I have had the pleasure of working as a locum doctor for the Haileybury Health Team. I have enjoyed the hospitality and good

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 20, 2014EditorialHaileybury Health Team, Health

EAT LOCAL

The 100-mile diet was popularized as a result of a book written by a Canadian couple putting the emphasis on buying locally grown produce within 100 miles of your front door.The book chronicles one couple’s experience eating only foods grown within 100 miles of their home.

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From the Editor’s Desk

[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]André Maheu’s projectAs a history teacher at Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie, he felt he should be in attendance. It was November 11, 2007, and André Maheu decided that

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 13, 2014EditorialRemembrance Day, war, World War I

Do the right thing

Dear EditorA steal of a deal!I want this experience to serve as a warning to anyone who is planning to hold a yard sale.There is a vexatious villain roaming around who is dedicated to stealing your belongings while you are out busily selling used items in

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 13, 2014Editorialcrime, theft, yard sales

Letter of the Week

The Speaker Gets ResultsDear Editor: The Speaker Gets Results! Let me say a very sincere thank you for publishing my letter to the editor a few months ago.I had just written a book called Mud, Muskeg & Mosquitoes - a story about my pioneer grandmother, Rose Ann Belanger,

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 13, 2014Editorial

Letter to the Editor

About blueberry sprayingDear Editor:This is an open letter to Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines Michael Gravelle.Dear Minister Gravelle:I am writing to request a moratorium on the spraying of blueberries on approximately one per cent of the proposed HERBICIDE (VisionMax and or Forza ) spraying

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 13, 2014Editorialagriculture, editorial, Letter to the Editor

From the Editor’s Desk

Our Next MegaprojectWe’ve finished the anniversary of one of the biggest megaprojects in the last quarter century in this area and we are approaching an anniversary of another.The 25th anniversary of the New Liskeard waterfront project was celebrated in June. That project included approximately two-kilometres of

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 6, 2014Editorialboardwalk, lake temiskaming, new liskeard

Bridging the concept of wonder

[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]The future is a brilliant thing. For some of us, we can’t even imagine it.The world of most children of today is something quite

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 6, 2014Editorialtoys

Letter of the week

Recognizing Peter BirnieDear Editor:The Canadian Mental Health Association Cochrane Timiskaming Branch would like to recognize the significant contributions of Peter Birnie to mental health services in our community and throughout the province. Mr. Peter Birnie was an important supporter and advocate of the community

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 6, 2014Editorialhealth services, mental health

Real city business

Dear Editor:This is an open letter to the mayor and councillors on Temiskaming Shores council:To All:I have a problem and it occurs to me that I may not be alone in this. We’ll see.I have before me, a letter from

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caAugust 6, 2014Editorialbylaw, plastic shelters

The Temiskaming Speaker

Temiskaming Shores Community Newspaper

Letter of the Week

EAT LOCAL

From the Editor’s Desk

Do the right thing

Letter of the Week

Letter to the Editor

From the Editor’s Desk

Bridging the concept of wonder

Letter of the week

Real city business