Dear editor,We would like to thank our communities across Temiskaming south for supporting the awareness campaign – Spread the Word to End the Word: Utiliser le Bon Mot – RESPECT for the past three years.We are overwhelmed with your support with the local efforts to promote the

Dear editor,I am writing this letter in regard to the closing of ARC Industries.I think it is an (awful) thing to do to close ARC Industries up, that’s not fair to the clients. It’s a place for them to go and learn things. I went to ARC

Dear Editor,All too often you hear people of the community complaining about our (Temiskaming) Hospital. Concerns about the wait time in the emergency department, the lack of care for patients, the doctors, just about everything they can complain about.I want it known just how wonderful our little

Dear Ministers of Health,We are encouraged by the unique opportunity offered by the Health Accord process and the federal commitment to increase investments in the mental health system for the first time in decades. Prioritizing the mental “wealth” of people in Canada will help us tackle the growing

Dear Editor,Yes indeed, Gord. How iconic and how ironic that in parting we should meet again. Please rest assured Gord, true to heart, that we (all of us) as a community strive for excellence. We look ahead with eager anticipation for a much brighter, more self sufficient and

Dear Editor,Seventeen persons gathered together at St. Paul’s United Church on Saturday evening, February 4, in a prayer vigil to remember the victims and all who are hurting in the aftermath of the recent horrendous events in Quebec City. They were people of all denominations, all faiths, all

Dear Editor,Good decision on the failure to achieve electoral reform? I think not.Surprisingly, the claim in your (February 8) editorial that “there is no evidence that the Canadian electorate want to change the way we elect our politicians” fails a test that I would expect The Speaker

Dear Editor:Empty planes, long haul trains and dicey roads for buses. We’ve got a simple plan-perfectly perfect ticket to ride; one direction — one way or another.Please pay attention, please pay heed. This is “all” about uncensored, uncankered political candor.We all know that it is politically

Dear Editor:May the sun always shine on Temiskaming Shores and on you Gord.For without you and The Speaker, my lifelong dream of becoming an editorial cartoonist would have never been a reality.Good luck Gordon where ever your next chapter in life takes you.Dave DickersonTemiskaming Speaker

Dear Editor:The big picture, when push comes to shove. This, all of this, has an enourmous amount of clout. Please pay attention, please pay heed.At home here in North America and several other civilized parts of the world we all live together in a “God given” Christian-established