letters to the editor Archives - The Temiskaming Speaker

Can only shake my head

speakeradmin — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:16:30 +0000

Dear Editor:As I sat in the hospital passing time, I came across an interesting ad of the Ontario Energy Board to customers of gas users.A cost of five to seven dollars a month average on your gas bill to cover cap and trade which they will have

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Pain or Gain

speakeradmin — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:15:32 +0000

Dear Editor:This is also a “Letter to the Prime Minister and all Political Parties”Honorable ladies and gentlemen, I am dismayed that this letter has to be written, but as I put pen to paper, I listen to a government announcement that thirty years after the collapse of

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Luminosity

speakeradmin — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:52:27 +0000

Dear Editor:By our actions we can lift the spirits of those we meet.So when we wake each day think of something nice to do or say to help those in this world who a kind word can be all they need.Like springs of water in a

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Great reluctance

speakeradmin — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:51:51 +0000

Dear Editor:On Saturday November 26, 2016 my wife and I went to a charity hockey tournament for little tykes in Haileybury. To our dismay, when we came out of the arena we had a parking ticket of $25.00.There is no parking area and you are lucky

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At the cenotaph

speakeradmin — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:18:34 +0000

Dear Editor:In 2014, I was in South Porcupine for a two week period to look after a sick brother, and took him to his last Remembrance Day ceremony.Upon my return, apparently a storm had gone through the Tri-Town area and I found the cenotaph area littered with

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Raising the Roof!

speakeradmin — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:14:14 +0000

Dear Editor:Passers-by on Highway 65 could be forgiven if, on Monday, they thought they saw workers on the roof of Hillview United Church and wondered what they were doing. Well, if they were there they would be checking for roof damage (tongue in cheek) that might have been

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Thank you for the support

speakeradmin — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:52:50 +0000

Dear Editor:On behalf of the Temiskaming Lodge Volunteers, I would like to sincerely thank the community who came out and supported our recent Fall Bazaar.It is only with the help of our neighbours and friends that we have been so successful in obtaining funds to help support

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You can fight city hall

speakeradmin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:03:31 +0000

Dear Editor:How much’s it cost for Counsel to say, “a tent is a tent”I guess that will become the new ratepayers lamentCouncil likes it on Bay StreetNo more need to be discreetIt’s not their money they’re using to pay the big rentCosts

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Importance of Remembrance

speakeradmin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:02:35 +0000

Dear Editor:I am a graduate of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program, and its Operation Legacy, which is made up of members and graduates of CHAMP who are dedicated to teaching the younger generation about the importance of remembrance.Amputee veterans started The War Amps nearly 100

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Bullying

speakeradmin — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:09:57 +0000

Dear Editor:Thank you for the space.I wrote you a letter in the past about bullies, I would like to add something.I was an RPN at Temiskaming Hospital for many years, I enjoyed my job very much, I was very good at it.When I was there,

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