School DazeWith the final Bikers Reunion and the Canada Day weekend in the books, let’s look at two other rather notable events that occurred in our area this past week but might have slipped under the radar.HILLIARD SCHOOLS REUNIONThere was a reunion July 2
The final rideVarious communities in Temiskaming will be staging Canada Day events July 1. However the focal point throughout the district this long weekend is the New Liskeard Bikers Reunion as a few weeks back chief organizer Barry Phippen said this 2016 version of the event would be
Stories behind storiesLast week this space talked about writing corrections and clarifications in The Speaker. That column ended with a brief note about receiving a phone call from a reader questioning the veracity of a recently published Across The Years photo.This week we pick up the story
Patient Transfer SystemThere are many issues facing the province that, if not unique to Northern Ontario, these challenges are certainly more profound here. One of them is the patient transfer system.However, this issue may have had a turning point — and if there is in fact a
Sporting chancesFor a segment of our population, the long weekend was spent doing yard work for the first time this calendar year. For others, it may have been opening up the cottage for the first time. For others, it may have been watching sports on television.
Gordon Brock Speaker Editor ODDS AND ENDSIt’s the issue before the Victoria Day weekend — considered our first “warm-weather” long weekend of the year. With
Odds And Ends A community newspaper editor flips through his notebook:CHARLIE ANGUSCharlie Angus has been the New Democratic Party MP for Timmins-James Bay since 2004. In that timeframe perhaps he’s had no busier stretch than what he’s been dealing with in the past
Representing Canadian hockeyA few weeks back when Justin Trudeau visited Barack Obama, a press conference was held in the White House’s Rose Garden where the President teased the Prime Minister that the Stanley Cup could be found in his hometown of Chicago. The President also could
Gordon Brock Speaker Editor Once in awhile a story from our sports department finds itself transcending into the news department. In this instance, it may or may not
Al WrightYours truly began employment at The Temiskaming Speaker in early September of 1984, about two months after Allan J. Wright retired.Al Wright began his career with this company in 1940 as a printer’s devil and retired in June of 1984 holding the titles of
