Requesting help
Dear Editor:Once again, on behalf of the Little Claybelt Homesteaders’ Museum, I am requesting historical help from your readers. We have really appreciated the assistance that we have received in the past.Our first request is for a milk stool, either loaned or donated. We are doing displays this
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Thank You Very Much
Dear Editor:It has been over a month since the powerful tropical cyclone that devastated Philippines and portions of Southeast Asia. The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan has breached over 6,000 with nearly 1,800 people still missing and the homes of more than 16-million people flattened or damaged. The country appealed
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Why pray?
Dear Editor:On prayer.Why pray?Because we have needs, not only selfish wants, but real needs. Even the unbelievers pray.At one point it seems to be the only way to go, to reach out to something or someone higher than us.The God of creation seems a pretty good place to
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Another season of amazing support
Dear Editor:Ideally, we would be able to list all of those individuals/business organizations and Public Servants for their generosity and support over the past year. However, you are just too numerous. For the above reason, we have chosen to thank the various groups in hoping we have missed no one,
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Can strike at any age
Dear Editor:My thanks to Rev. Helmut Wipprecht[letter in the January 22, 2014 Speaker] for being willing to initiate a discussion on “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” or “PTSD” as a result of military action.The timing for me was perfect, as earlier in the day I had read the MacLean’s (Jan. 27)
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Stress is cumulative
Dear Editor:Re: Letter of the week, January 22 2014. Reflecting on PTDS.It would be remiss of me to allow the letter by H.L. Wipprecht to stand unanswered.During my life, I have survived the German bombing of Merseyside, having to move from damaged homes three times, I helped in the recovery
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Highway management needs overhaul
There is little that can top the news issue of the highway conditions in the region.But it is difficult to say that it is limited to the North as a problem.The Ontario Ministry of Transportation’s management of highways throughout Ontario seems to need a thorough overhaul.Transportation investments throughout the region
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Sticks Up
Dear Editor:Once again the people of south Temiskaming showed their generosity. On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Constable Rene Taylor organized a hockey game between the New Liskeard Cubs and the Ontario Provincial Police Officers.The residents of Temiskaming Shores, Cobalt and Englehart braved the snowy weather and delivered non-perishable food items
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Nonsensical diatribe
Dear Editor:Kudos to Darlene Wroe for writing the obviously tongue in cheek article on page 1 of Section C of the January 15 Speaker allowing MTO’s publicist, Gordan Rennie, to spout his nonsensical diatribe.Sometimes just exposing such nonsense in its entirety exposes the lack of logic and facts behind itIt
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Reflecting on PTDS
Dear Editor:The recent rash of suicides of soldiers, due to “post traumatic stress disorder” calls for some reflection.After the Second World War many millions of soldiers from both sides returned to civilian lives.Not only they, but also many civilians had to go through the horrors of war.I myself lived in
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