Warsaw Public School Participates In Plow Painting Program

Peterborough County has a neat plow painting program that area schools participate in...

The plow painting program has taken place for the past few years, and is in line with celebration of Public Works Week in Canada (which is May 16th to May 23rd this year). The program is to raise awareness in schools of municipal public works and what they do—maintaining roads for the safety of the travelling public.

One of the latest schools to participate is Ms. Tibbles Grade 8 class at Warsaw Public School.

**Plows were also sent to Havelock Belmont Methuen School and Ridpath Junior Public to paint.

The plows are used again the next season by the County—and then sent out again to be painted by more schools.

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Watch Strutt Program's Powerful "Make It Happen" Video For International Women's Day

Peterborough's Strutt Program has put together a Spoken Word Project celebrating International Women's Day.

Produced in conjunction with the Peterborough Poetry Collective, it's called MAKE IT HAPPEN—the theme for International Women's Day this year. It's written and acted by the young actresses of the Strutt Program—a program to empower girls and help them develop self-confidence and promote healthy body image—and directed by Wes Ryan and Christina Abbott.

Watch the powerful video below...

Uploaded by Strutt Central on 2015-03-08.

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A Pad Party Is Happening In Peterborough #PtboPadParty

Logo by Kate Ledeuce

Yes, you heard right. A Pad Party. It's actually a terrific idea. And here's why: As the Facebook event page explains, "We all get our periods and they suck. But imagine if you didn't have a home? If getting your period meant choosing between buying tampons, or eating that night? AND female menstrual products are taxed, which means the government makes money off our periods!"

The Pad Party will accept pads, tampons, diva cups, wipes, etc., for those in need.

***It takes place Sunday, March 29th from 3 to 7 pm at the Garnet, 231 Hunter St. W.

Learn more about the problem on taxing tampons and pads, which are a necessity, in these stories on Huffington Post and Vice.  Also, check out this petition at Change.org. 

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