Straight from the Hip
After watching the results of round one of the National Hockey League playoffs which ended in disaster for San Jose and St. Louis (who were supposed to go a lot further than predicted) I’ve come to this conclusion: it’s no longer an honour to be an NHL owner, general
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Nordic News
By Lynn Gibson, TNSC Public Relations DirectorWhat a difference one week makes in the amount of snow that disappears. It’s hard to believe some people were still skiing 10 days ago at the Temiskaming Nordic Ski Club (TNSC)!Get ActiveThe next Get Active
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SPLASHING FOR DOLLARS
Members of The Northern Loons swim club recently participated in their annual Swim-A-Thon at the New Liskeard Pool and Fitness Centre. The swimmers set many personal best times as they swam for two hours or completed 200 laps in less than two hours. Along the way they raised over
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Apollos reach Franco quarter-final
CASSELMAN (Special) – Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte Marie (ESCSM) competed at the annual Franco-Ontarien Boys Hockey Tournament in mid-April, reaching the playoff round.“Although losing out in the quarter-finals was disappointing, the kids played hard and represented ESCSM very well,” said coach Alex Bain.Held in Casselman April 15-17,
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Grandmaster checks in with local chess kids
DISTRICT (Special) – Students from Haileybury to Hearst took part in a chess tournament in Kapuskasing April 2 that was open to all schools from the Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes Rivières (CSCDGR).There were a total of 314 players, 31 coming from Haileybury’s Ecole catholique Ste-Croix,
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HOP, SKIP AND RUN
About walkers, runners and strollers took to the streets of New Liskeard for an Easter weekend run. The event was organized by 2013 Harvest Queen Micah Ton as she prepared to head to the Miss North Ontario regional pageant. In the 5-kilometre event, the men’s winner was Jordan Desjardins,
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Sport Shorts
I Had a DreamWhen Pierre de Coubertin said, “I had a dream” he created the International Olympic Committee (1894).He dreamt of changing the world of sport through the ideals of peace and brotherhood.For the most part his dream has been successful in bringing people
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Sports Digest
WALKATHONThe 45th annual Walkathon for Community Living Temiskaming South takes place Saturday, May 3. There’s the smaller Little Foot Walk – a five-kilometre (km) route from English Catholic Central School (where everyone registers on the morning of the event) that takes participants from the school to Sunnyside Road
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Straight from the hip
As the National Hockey League playoffs continue, criticism will always sneak its head into the mix whether on a referee’s call, a light or major suspension or anything that will give us something to talk about over a coffee or whatever.But the comment from HNIC’s Ron
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Multiple medals
TDSS fields the call as host site for meetsTEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – After a winter that seemed like it would never end, track and field season indicates the long wait is over.Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS) had their student athletes at two meets in southern Ontario last
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