An Adventure With The Kawartha Wilds Tracking Club

Craig Brant from Kawartha Wilds Tracking Club showed us how to identify tracks in the snow. 

Kawartha Wilds Tracking Club and 14 other people met at the Environment Centre recently to explore the nearby trails. The beauty of the adventure was taking the time to slow down and take a closer look at just how many animals had walked through the freshly fallen snow. By looking at the distance between tracks and the width of the indentation, we were able to identify the tracks of songbirds, mice, deer, grouse, fox and an ermine. Kawartha Wilds Tracking Club goes out once a month to identify tracks and record what biodiversity exists around us.

[Words and picture by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]

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Here Are The Just-Released Local RIDE Statistics For 2010 (And Compared to 2009)

From a Traffic Media release from Peterborough Lakefield Police today...

The RIDE statistics are in for 2010:

Total vehicles checked - 18,770
Roadside tests - 37
Tests passed - 26
Warns registered - 8
Fails registered - 3
Drivers licences suspended - 19
Impaired/over 80 charges - 9
HTA charges - 58
Other criminal code charges - 5

Total impaired and over 80 charges for 2010 were 80.

This compares to 2009 as follows:

Total vehicles checked - 14,259
Roadside tests - 30
Tests passed - 18
Warns registered - 6
Fails registered - 1
Drivers licences suspended - 8
Impaired/over 80 charges - 2
HTA charges - 24
Other criminal Code charges - 1

Total impaired and over 80 charges for 2009 were 61.

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Almost 250 Pieces Of Stolen Mail (Including Xmas Cheques) Recovered By Local Police

A special media release from Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service...

On 04Feb11, officers responded to an Adult Residence for Independent Living in the City of Peterborough. Staff had called after discovering almost 250 pieces of mail in the room of a resident. An investigation was conducted and it was determined that all mail had been stolen from the following list of residences over the period from November, 2010 through this date.

·    425 George Street
·    425 * George Street
·    426 * George Street
·    428 George Street
·    753 Park Street
·    195 Simcoe Street
·    190 Charlotte Street
·    552 River Road South
·    539 River Road South
·    943 Clonsilla Avenue
·    166 Brock Street
·    835 Park Street
·    751 Park Street
·    338 * Aylmer Street
·    328 Aylmer Street
·    491 Romaine Street
·    215 Edinburgh Street
·    193 Simcoe Street
·    164 Hunter Street
·    190 Hunter Street
·    211 Hunter Street
·    213 Hunter Street
·    215 Hunter Street
·    217 Hunter Street
·    219 Hunter Street
·    229 Hunter Street
·    231 Hunter Street
·    190 London Street
·    209 Simcoe Street
·    Two Family picture CD*s (we do have a family name)

Further investigation revealed that the party responsible did not have
the mental capacity to appreciate their actions.
Our Police Service in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health
Association will meet with the party involved in a diversion capacity.
Our Police Service will be making use of Auxiliary Officers to return
all mail over the next week. All items of mail had been opened, but all
appear to be intact. Many cheques (Christmas Presents) were located.
We will make our best efforts to return all property. If members of the
community are missing mail that they were expecting, they are welcome to
attend the station and if present will return property. Please have
proper ID available. Community members are asked to refrain from calling
the station regarding this investigation. 

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Stuff To Do In The Patch This Weekend (Including Watching A Polar Plunge!)

Saturday:

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra presents Latin Heat featuring Marion Newman - Showplace Performance Centre - 8 p.m.

Africville Productions presents Celebrating Difference - The Venue - 8 p.m., Tickets $25 at the door

Sunday:

Kawartha Wilds Tracking Club - 9 a.m., meet at the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre. An opportunity to track and trail local wildlife (map) - FREE 

Family Sundays at Art Gallery of Peterborough - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., FREE

31st Annual Polar Plunge (see graphic at right), Rotary Park, Ennismore - 2 p.m.

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After Recent Hack Attack Nexicom Issues Statement To Its Customers

After some Nexicom clients were without their websites and email for almost a week because of a hacker, this recent statement was released by the company:

Beginning immediately Nexicom will be notifying customers that we will be implementing a very focused plan to ensure all of our web hosting environments are migrated to new hardware platforms running the most current versions of operating systems and security software platforms. To the majority of our customers this migration will be transparent and will not have any impact on their system availability. The customer applications that are incompatible with the newer versions of software will be given a definite period of time to bring their applications into compliance or they will be deemed inoperable and taken out of service.

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Peterborough Police Advising Motorists To Stay Off The Roads If Possible

From Peterborough-Lakefield Community Police Service...

Winter Road Conditions:
With the present weather and road conditions, motorists are asked to stay off the roads. If you have to travel, please adjust your driving to the weather conditions. Drive with the utmost care and caution, lower your speeds, drive defensively and always be prepared for the unexpected.

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The Wheels On The Bus Will Continue To Go Round And Round, All Through The Town!

After Peterborough citizens stood up to the proposed transit cuts in an amazing show of force—exhibit A, exhibit B—city council last night reversed their decision to cut Peterborough transit, realizing, yes, it is an essential service.

"People were mobilized and they participated in democracy and they lit a fire under us…. I think that's fantastic," Coun. Dean Pappas told the Examiner. "It restores the service and that's the message that was clearly heard by all of us over the past two weeks."

[Peterborough Transit spared from service cuts after public outcry; Facebook Page Launched To Raise Awareness About Proposed Cuts To Peterborough Public Transit; Video: Amazing Turnout At City Hall To Oppose Transit Cuts]

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The Wolf's TJ Connors Does Fastest Lap Ever Around Memorial Centre Ice

From the skills competition portion of yesterday's United Way Hockey Challenge in Peterborough, which raised $165,000. Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo and Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence, were among the celebrities participating in the charity game.

[YouTube via TJConnorsBlog]

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Aloha Peterborough, Are You Ready For The LomiLomi Hawaiian Healing Touch?

Are you sure you're ready? OK, here we go... a video from a Uhane LomiLomi Hawaiian healing touch practitioner from Peterborough. Educational and (unintentionally?) funny/entertaining.

[YouTube]

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