Young mechanic in Sicily and Italy invasionsDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — It’s been 70 years since World War II, and for Jim Stephen, now 93 and living in Englehart, it is a dim memory.Mr. Stephen enlisted in 1942, and embarked on a journey that would take
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Randall McFarlane
Second-generation veteran remembers the warDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART — Randall McFarlane of Englehart grew up on a farm in the Charlton area. His father Alec McFarlane was a veteran of World War I and had seen action on the ground in France.
Harvey Switzer
Torpedoes to blackboards
WW II VETS
Seeking public’s assistanceSince the millennium, The Temiskaming Speaker has conducted interviews with World War II veterans. Most of these interviews were published in The Speaker’s annual Remembrance Day tabloids. These previously published articles will be put together for a book the paper plans to publish in late summer
Frances Bullock
Cooking through the warDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter GOWGANDA — Frances Bullock radiates energy and confident independence as she approaches her 91st birthday.Her home in Gowganda is reflective of decades of perfecting the art of providing for others.It’s a good sunny place, which is just right after
WW II VETS
Seeking public’s assistanceSince the millennium, The Temiskaming Speaker has conducted interviews with World War II veterans. Most of these interviews were published in The Speaker’s annual Remembrance Day tabloids. These previously published articles will be put together for a book the paper plans to publish in late summer
A father, a son, and a treasure
Brothers in service
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Canada has embarked on six years of events commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the country’s engagement in the Second World War.Last week, a dozen local veterans of the war were honoured at a ceremony at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 33 in
MP touts new help for veterans
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – “There’s a new team with a new minister.”So said Pierre Lemieux, the Conservative MP from the eastern Ontario riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell and parliamentary assistant to the minister of Veterans Affairs.MP Lemieux was in Temiskaming Shores last week