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Wind Chill Warning for: New Liskeard – Temagami

ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA AT 11:03 AM EST Monday 6 January 2014

Summary

Wind chills from minus 40 to minus 45 into Tuesday.  Another blast of Arctic air has invaded Northern Ontario. Widespread wind chill values of minus 40 to minus 45 are expected into Tuesday.  Conditions will begin to moderate slowly by Wednesday. Extreme caution is advised for people heading outdoors. Exposed skin may freeze in less than 5 minutes.

 

Reviewing 2013 – City makes moves and movie in ’13

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – As 2013 opened, the city became the setting for a movie.As the year ended, producers were hoping to screen Skating to New York at film festivals and working on plans for a local showing.PROJECTSThe year

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Vehicle Accident – Update

Two-vehicle accident outside New Liskeard

DISTRICT (Staff) — A 15-year-old male was transported by air ambulance to Ottawa Monday morning, December 30 after a two-vehicle collision on Highway 11 outside New Liskeard.

The 15-year-old male was a passenger in the car involved in a collision with a minivan at the intersection of Highway 11 and Rockley Road at approximately 10 a.m.

Two other occupants in the car were taken by ambulance to hospital to be treated for non life-threatening injuries, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.

Two of the four occupants in the minivan were also transported by ambulance to the hospital for non life-threatening injuries, police stated.

Police are investigating the collision with the assistance of the Ontario Provincial Police Technical Traffic Collision Investigation Unit.

The highway was closed along the highway bypass of New Liskeard as the collision was being investigated.

More details will be in the January 8 Speaker.

Personality of the Year

Sarah Marsden: A champion for anti-bullying campaignSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — When you call someone a champion it’s usually because they have taken on a cause and made a difference in their community.They have worked with a goal to help others and raise awareness.Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie student 15 year-old

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Story of the Year

Gordon Brock Speaker Editor The Murder of Chris ParsonsDISTRICT – From the time in June the police called his death a homicide and right through to year’s end the questions have remained the same concerning the death of Chris Parsons.Who would want to hurt him and why?Mr. Parsons, known better to some

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A Cry for Justice

GORDON BROCK Speaker Editor Year ends with two unresolved murders and remembrance for a young Earlton teenDISTRICT – From early in 2013 to year’s end, the common thread in our community throughout the past 12 months seemed to be a cry for justice. Many of the top news stories in Temiskaming this

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Jeffery Douglas Foat

Jeffery Douglas “Jeff” Foat died peacefully at the age of 55 at the Temiskaming Hospital on Saturday, December 21, 2013 following a long illness.He was born May 13, 1958 at Long Beach,

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Truman Augustus Kelly

New Liskeard resident Truman Augustus Kelly died December 17, 2013.He was born in Bancroft, Ontario, on March 20, 1916, to J. James W. Kelly and Florence Ella Connell.Educated in Bancroft and New Liskeard, Mr.

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