Time to Talk
It is increasingly anticipated there will be a provincial election this spring.This is an opportunity to review our concerns and to address them to the candidates.Now is the time to ensure you have as much information as
A New Year
[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]This issue of The Temiskaming Speaker is our inaugural one of 2014.Befitting a community newspaper’s first issue of the year, we have the New Year’s Baby, “lookaheads” with various municipal leaders
WE QUOTE
• “I think this will be an exciting year,” – Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd.• “We’re in good shape,” – Armstrong Township Mayor Robert Ethier.• “Wood heat is great if you have got the energy and youth,” – Latchford Mayor George Lefebvre. He stated that he personally feels the town
THE YEAR 2014
We live our lives by time.From seconds to minutes to hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades to centuries to millenniums.We live in an era now where we have experienced all of the above.We begin this year as we do every year since The Speaker was
Looking back on 2013
It’s the last issue of the calendar year and time for some reflection.NEWS STORIESThree out of the four top news stories in our area, as chosen by The Temiskaming Speaker’s editorial department, involved deaths of area people and how the judicial system handled it. Our story of the year, the
Sarah Marsden
The news thread in 2013 has been the community’s cry for justice –the sentencing into the death of Alex Duguay, the murder of Chris Parsons, the not-guilty verdict in the David Pannell murder case…all these stories left many in the community wondering about justice for the victims of crime.A side
Murder in Haileybury
Disbelief.That was the catchword in Temiskaming Shores and Cobalt in June upon learning that 42-year-old Chris Parsons was found murdered in his downtown Haileybury apartment.As the year ends the community continues to ask, and the police continue to deal with, many questions.Chris Parsons was a hardworking, happy, simple man who
Respect our Christian faith
Dear Editor:I have a question for you.Is it disrespectful to us who want to wish a Merry Christmas publicly without having to think, “Which faith are they?”.We believe that December 25 was the day chosen to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Nowadays, December 25 has, or eventually will be called,
Humans and sheep
Dear Editor,If we know anything about sheep, it is that they seldom, if ever, do what you want them to do.That is why God taught man to be the sheep’s shepherd. The sheep bleat, run off into dark corners, and have to be found; walk near the shepherd but act
Christmas 2013
Is there a month in the year that flies by as fast as December?For those that answer in the affirmative with that rhetorical question, the reason for that is probably – undoubtedly—because of the self-imposed pace of the Christmas season.Now, it’s come down to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.Yours truly