After being open for about four years, the eclectic little clothing boutique The Funky Buddha in downtown Peterborough is closing. It's always sad to see a downtown business shut down.
It will remain open until January 22nd, and everything is 50% off until then.
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Yes, it's true. Reggie's HotGrill will be appearing on a new TV show slated to air later this year on Food Network Canada called You Gotta Eat Here!. Filming took place today at Reggie's, where PtboCanada's Julie Morris snapped the below shots.
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******[UPDATE: 1:17 p.m. Quinten Over has been located by family. The police thank the community for their assistance.]******
Missing Person
The Peterborough Lakefield Police are currently requesting the assistance of our community to locate a missing 14 year old boy.
Missing from the area of Barnardo Avenue is:
Quinten OVER, 14 yrs, 5'2, 80 lbs, short red hair. Quinten is wearing a grey toque, Black and White Rip Zone Coat, Black jeans and snow boots. He is carrying a brown back pack. Quinten was last seen at 9:00 this morning.
Please call 876-1122 if you have any info.
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Showplace had a great crowd out today to watch Peterborough Snofest Idol 2011. View the contestants and find out the finalists and winner.
The Scroll and Bow Strings Orchestra marked the opening of Peterborough Snofest today with a musical treat. Headed by Lakefield College music teacher John Kraus, they delighted the audience with their festive music.
Master of Ceremonies Catherine Hanrahan (pictured above) introduced many VIPs, including Mayor Daryl Bennett (pictured cutting the ribbon below), MPP Jeff Leal, Councillor Lesley Parnell and Snofest mascot Snofest Pete.
The ribbon cutting ceremony opens a week of events which can be viewed on their calendar, including Sunday's Snofest Idol at 2 p.m. at Showplace (free admission with nonperishable food donation is appreciated) and numerous food and game events throughout the week.
[Snofest]
[Words and Pictures by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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This past Friday night, two new art shows opened, in venues close together—a short walk on a cold January night that provided a sort of cleansing of the palette if you will. That cleansing was required as the shows, and the respective artists, could not have been more different. One was from the old guard of the Peterborough art scene, the other was a fresh new face.
ARTSPACE: MICKY RENDERS "PAINTING WITH LIGHT"
Artspace hosted new photographic images from longtime local personality Micky Renders. Renders, who teaches art at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, usually creates in oils with a brush and had been doing so for 30 years. This show titled "Painting With Light" represented a new foray for the artist. This time, her choosen medium was photography, and the light captured through the lens over space and time. This show is worth a look as it's interesting to see artists we think we know stepping out of their safe space.
"Painting With Light" is open at Artspace until January 29th. Artspace is located at 378 Aylmer Street North.
CANNERY ART CENTRE: JAMIE CAMPBELL "DON'T FEED THE MONSTERS - BOXED MONSTERS & OTHER CURIOSITIES"
Over at Cannery Art Centre, the upstairs gallery features new work from local artistic upstart Jamie Campbell and her show entitled "Don't Feed the Monsters - Boxed Monsters & Other Curiosities". Through stylized illustrations, whimsical colours and fun, quirky compositions (see pic below), Campbell is presenting an entire world of mythical creatures for us to wonder over. 
This is art for everyone. It's welcoming. The technique is bold and your attention will be pulled from one piece to the next.
"Boxed Monsters" is open at the Cannery Art Centre until the end of the month of January. The Cannery is located at 168 Hunter Street West.
[Artspace; Micky Renders; Jamie Campbell]
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Jeffrey Macklin]
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Elvis Stojko, that is. Not Elvis!
And he dug the crowd in the Patch!
[Pic by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
So we ordered a coffee in the Tim Hortons this morning on Lansdowne (the one in front of Sobeys near the Parkway), and asked one of the servers, What's up with the door being boarded up? (see pic at left).
She explained that yesterday morning during her shift, an older woman basically drove her car right into the store, then got out of the vehicle, came in the store (well, she was already in), ordered coffee, and sat down. The server said she (and the staff) had never seen anything quite like that before.
Obviously police were on scene shortly thereafter.
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The Canadian Canoe Museum held a free Open House on Sunday, and got help in the celebrations from model railroad enthusiasts. Clubs from Peterborough, Cobourg and Lindsay showed off their 1/87th scale trains and miniature villages.
The local group Peterborough Model Railroaders is made up of a group of nine who meet up monthly to talk about their passion. All of them have had a part in creating the display, which features a miniature village that would be reminiscent of Peterborough in the 1950s.
With working lights and sounds of an actual locomotive, the display captured the imagination of everyone in attendance as there were plenty of details to see.
[Words and Pictures by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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From their performances last week (December 29th) at The Spill in Peterborough:
Left: Matt Greco. Right: Ryan Ford
Darryl Matthews
[Ryan Ford; Darryl Matthews]
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