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By Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Temiskaming Speaker TEMISKAMING SHORES – A committee has been established with the hope of being able to give Lake Temiskaming some “TLC.” At the September 2 Temiskaming Shores committee-of-the-whole meeting, city director of environmental services Steve Burnett outlined for council members that a partnership has been created between the city, the Timiskaming First Nation (TFN), L’Organisme de bassin versant du T\u00e9miscamingue (OBVT – the Temiscamingue Watershed Organization) based in Ville-Marie, and the Ottawa Riverkeeper. The hope of the partners is to be able to access funding now available through the Ontario Community Environment Fund to carry out an environmental restoration, remediation and monitoring project which would be beneficial to the lake. Burnett was seeking approval from council at the September 2 meeting to… <\/p>\n

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By Darlene Wroe, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Temiskaming Speaker TEMISKAMING SHORES – A committee has been established with the hope of being able to give Lake Temiskaming some “TLC.” At the September 2 Temiskaming Shores committee-of-the-whole meeting, city director of environmental services Steve Burnett outlined for council members that a partnership has been created between the city, the Timiskaming First Nation (TFN), L’Organisme de bassin versant du T\u00e9miscamingue (OBVT – the Temiscamingue Watershed Organization) based in Ville-Marie, and the Ottawa Riverkeeper. The hope of the partners is to be able to access funding now available through the Ontario Community Environment Fund to carry out an environmental restoration, remediation and monitoring project which would be beneficial to the lake. Burnett was seeking approval from council at the September 2 meeting to... <\/p>\n

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