Ode'min Giizis Festival Celebrates Game Of Lacrosse And Its History This Year

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PtboPics: Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival 2011

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Dragon Boat 2011 Although it ended early due to the weather, it was a great day at the Dragon Boat Festival. Here's some photos PtboCanada captured.
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Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival 2011 Is This Weekend

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Little Lake and Del Crary Park will be a busy spot this weekend as Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival gets underway, with opening ceremonies taking place Friday evening at 7 p.m. and the races getting underway first thing Saturday morning. With funds raised this year for PRHC's Breast Assessment Centre, the hope is that they will reach the $2,000,000 mark since the festival first began in 2001. Come on out and support our paddlers!  (Click here for pictures from last year's event.)

A team practices their stroke in preparation for race day. Photo - Evan Holt

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Trent Valley Archives Presents Guided Eco Heritage Bike Tour Starting This Sunday

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PtboPics: 10th Annual Peterborough Relay for Life

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Peterborough's DBIA Suggest "Care Meters" In The Downtown

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Dave Di Bella To Carry "Remember Flag" At Peterborough Relay For Life Event This Week

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The Canadian Cancer Society: Relay For Life is much more than just a fundraiser. It is an opportunity to get together with family and friends and celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fight back in the hope of finding a cure for this terrible disease.

This year Relay For Life is embarking on its 10th year here in Peterborough. It takes place June 3rd and 4th from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Rhema Christian School, and the public is invited to come out to the track and watch the relay, and show their support for all the teams participating. It starts Friday evening, and is a 12-hour event. Organizers hope to raise about $200,000.

This year, Peterborough's David Di Bella will be carrying the "Remember Flag" with his kids Kaitlin and Lukas as part of the opening ceremonies Friday evening. Dave's wife Kristen lost her battle with cancer, but Dave and his family are carrying on the fight. They will be on the stage for opening ceremonies, and the announcers will be reading a short note Dave prepared for the event.

[Peterborough Relay for Life]

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2011 Ode'min Giizis Festival Includes Performance Of "The Creator's Game" At Peterborough Lakers Game & Del Crary Park

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Image courtesy Nadya KwandibensOne of the major events at this year's Ode'min Giizis Festival taking place June 15th to June 19th in Peterborough is the performance of The Creator's Game, a celebratory work of contemporary dance combining choreography rooted in Haudenesaune (Iroquois) culture with the athletic prowess of lacrosse. A company of professional dancers and community lacrosse players perform this new work, with an original score by two-time Juno award winner Derek Miller.

An abridged performance will be held just before the Peterborough Lakers lacrosse game on the evening of June 16th, and the full performance will be shown on Saturday, June 18th at 3 p.m. as part of the Ode'min Giizis Traditional Gathering at Del Crary Park.

For more info on the festival—100 Indigenous artists ranging from musicians to visual artists to writers will be performing—contact Tara Williamson, Artistic Associate at Ode'min Giizis Festival, at (705) 745-1788 or email at tara@okw-arts.ca. Or go online to the Ode’min Giizis website.

Here is an article we did on the festival last year.

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Police To Target The Top 10 Intersections For Collisions In Peterborough As Part Of "Project Top 10"

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From a Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service Media Release today...

Over the past several years, the traffic unit has conducted Project Lansdowne.
This project was initiated as Lansdowne St had 6 intersections in the top 10 for the for the most collisions.
This remained the same for 2008 and 2009.
In 2010 the results of the project began to take effect as Lansdowne St. had only 3 intersections in the top 10 for the most collisions.
 
Due to the success of Project Lansdowne it will be expanded in 2011 to target all the high collision intersections throughout the city.
It will be called Project "Top 10"
It will follow the same concept and have a plainclothes officer standing at these intersections and calling out offences to uniform officers waiting in the area.
 
The statistics for 2010 showed the following intersections were in the Top 10 for most number of collisions.
1 Clonsilla and Sherbrooke
2 Monaghan and Lansdowne
3 Clonsilla and Goodfellow
4 Water and Parkhill
5 Parkway and Lansdowne
6 High and Lansdowne
7 Parkhill and George
8 Rubidge and King
9 Chemong and Towerhill
10 Armour and Parkhill.
 
The Traffic unit kicked off Project "Top 10" on May 30th.
 
Three intersections were targeted.
Monaghan and Lansdowne
Clonsilla and Goodfellow
Parkway and Lansdowne.
 
Officers will not only be looking for vehicles running amber and red lights this year but will also be targeting seatbelts and drivers using cell phones.
 
18 charges were laid in the first day.
1 red light
5 amber lights
3 seatbelts
3 cell phones
6 other HTA charges.
 
This project will continue on various dates throughout the summer.
 
Fines for noted offences are:
Red light $325.00
Amber light $180.00
Seatbelt $240.00
Cell Phone $155.00

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PtboPics: Kawartha Community Midwives Annual Picnic

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Each year, new parents come together to support and catch up with one another at Kawartha Community Midwives Annual Picnic. This year's event took place Sunday at the Riverview Park and Zoo.

 

 

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