Video: Jay Scotland Busted On COPS Peterborough!
/Remember, all weathercasters are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Tweet Of The Week (And Month, And Maybe Year) In The Patch Is...
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[From our Fire Chief @TrentGervais]
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The Peterborough Festival Of Trees Gets Set Up In One Minute And 59 Seconds...
/...thanks to the wonders of time-lapse photography used in this video below. (It actually took four days to set up.) But dig it. And go see the Peterborough Festival of Trees at the Memorial Centre. It's on!
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Peterborough Is Apparently Full Of Shiny Happy People According To New Report
/It really is a wonderful life in Peterborough! Yes, we are one of the happiest places in Canada, according to this Centre for the Study of Living Standards report. To be more specific, we are ranked No. 7 in the country. So despite a lot of the findings here about so many people in the Patch desperately needing food and jobs and such, we're still happy! Well, OK. Money doesn't buy you happiness, right? Maybe it's all that gas, Kruz FM's Mike Melnik suggests.
So why are we so damn happy? Thoughts?
[Centre for the Study of Living Standards]
[Related: Highlights From New Community Assessment Report On Peterborough]
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Good Cause: Donating To "Samaritan's Purse" At Peterborough EMS
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The past few years, I have made it a tradition to fill a Samaritan's Purse: Operation Child shoebox. A well thought out trip to the dollar store along with some knitted slippers and my shoebox was quick to overflow this year.
I dropped off my box at the Peterborough EMS Headquarters on Saturday. When I went there to deliver it, I was greeted by a friendly paramedic. As he led the way to where the boxes were being collected, I could not believe my eyes when I saw boxes upon boxes ready to be shipped. What an overwhelming community response to such a wonderful cause.
I will continue to do this donation every year, as I can only imagine the smiles on the children's faces on the other side of the world on the day those boxes that were packed with such care arrive for them to open.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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Video: Dude On Bike Is Asked By Firefighter To Put His Cigarette Out Near Gas Leak
/Another video from near the scene. The smoking dude footage starts around 2:18 mark.
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[Related: Video: Here Is What The Gas Leak Looks Like In Peterborough]
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Video: Here is What The Gas Leak Looks Like In Peterborough
/Starts at 45-second mark where you can see the actual leak. Wow. And here was one of first shots from near the scene earlier this morning.
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Highlights From New Community Assessment Report On Peterborough
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The Peterborough Examiner ran a long article last week called "Who We Are" that summarized the key findings from the Peterborough County-City Health Unit's Community Assessment Report 2010. Some of the findings from the Examiner article include:
-Peterborough city's umployment rate is 8.1%, Ontario's is 6.4%.
-When it comes to money, private Peterborough households are bringing home a median of $51,660 per year, about $9,000 less than the rest of Ontario.
-Peterborough people are tops in Ontario for getting regular physical activity
-More Peterborough children live in families that worry about running out of food, or go without eating for an entire day, than the Ontario average.
-More and more Peterborough people are turning to food banks -- 54% more people have used food banks over the past seven years.
-Fewer than half of us (45.7%) are in the normal weight range while 17.2% are obese.
-About 22% of Peterborough residents smoke
-In 2005, 44 Peterborough people used methadone therapy; that number swelled to 920 people by 2009.
-Mental illness is affecting an estimated 26,616 Peterborough people while 10,646 of those people suffer from major depression.
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PtboPics: Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School Anti-Bullying Event
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Kim Driscoll (middle) pictured with students
The colour pink is prominent today at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School as they are holding an anti-bullying event spearheaded by teacher Kim Driscoll. The theme was to wear pink to send a message that students are taking a stand against any form of bullying.
Anti-bullying programs work, schools say, and more and more are focusing on stamping it out at their schools with such events. Kim Driscoll had T-shirts made for the event. Every one of them sold out.
Pink was chosen as the colour to be highly visible to help spread the message that the issue exists and for sympathy to those affected by it. Kim feels that it is a very real issue and is pleased by the involvement of the students and the teachers.
Even teachers participated in the event
[Words & pictures by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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PRHC Foundation Holding Info Session At Showplace This Thursday For "Closer to Care" Campaign
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Recently, the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation announced a community fundraising campaign to expand cancer care services at our hospital, including the addition of a single radiation facility at PRHC so more local cancer patients can get life-saving cancer treatment here rather than having to travel to other cities to get treatment. The campaign is called Closer to Care, and PRHC Foundation President Julie Davis tells us "many people have expressed an interest in getting involved."
So they are having a volunteer information session this Thursday (November 18th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.) in the downstairs lounge at Showplace on George Street, where they will share more details about the campaign and the different ways people can get involved.
Spread the word.
[Closer to Care: A Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Centre]
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