Video: Those Were Quite The Fireworks At Del Crary Park On Little Lake
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Peterborough Blogs
Another Amazing Pedal For Hope Cycling Tour Completed For This Year
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PRHC Radiologist Wins "Dancing With The Docs: Disco Fever"
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PRHC Radiologist Dr. Sarah (Sally) Harvie and her dance partner Jesse DiLiello (with choreography by Deona Scott) danced away with top honours on Saturday night at Dancing with the Docs: Disco Fever.
Six local physicians shed their scrubs and hit the dance floor at a gala fundraising dance competition at The Venue in support of the PRHC Foundation’s Closer Campaign. The Venue was transformed into a Studio 54 inspired discotheque, right down to the coloured lights and glimmering disco balls.
More than 300 guests at the event were also treated to a delicious seventies-inspired cocktail reception and buffet dinner. A live and silent auction loaded with amazing items kept guests busy in between activities.
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Stuff to Do in Peterborough This Weekend
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The Art of the Turtle, Peterborough Public Library, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Tickets $20 for members/$30 for non-members.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels presented by The Peterborough Theatre Guild, Showplace Performance Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $25/Adults, $22/Senior, $15 Student
Saturday
Walk to Cure Huntington's Disease, Registration 9 a.m. at City Hall
Giant Indoor Yard Sale, Peterborough Armoury, (220 Murray Street) 9 a.m. -1 p.m.
Red Pashmina Walk, starting from the Silver Bean Cafe, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Dancing with the Docs - Disco Fever, The Venue, 6:30 p.m.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels presented by The Peterborough Theatre Guild, Showplace Performance Centre, 8 p.m. Tickets $25/Adults, $22/Senior, $15 Student
Sunday
2011 Walk of Hope, Beavermead Park, Registration 9:30 a.m.
Humanwave, Showplace Performance Centre, 1 p.m.
Sean McCann with Jeremy Fisher, Gordon Best Theatre, 7 p.m. Tickets $26 at Moondance
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PtboPic: Locals Do Their Part On McHappy Day In The Patch
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Pictured left to right: Former Peterborough Pete Brent Tully, local soccer legend Dave Di Bella of Freedom 55, Sandra (McDonald's), Brian Horton and Larry Gillman from Freedom 55.
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Video: Mother's Day Jane's Walk In The Patch In Honour Of Jane Jacobs
/[Related: Peterborough Participating In Worldwide "Jane's Walk" Event This Weekend]
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PtboPics & Video: Women's Business Network Of Peterborough Celebrates 50th Anniversary
/Congrats to the Women's Business Network of Peterborough, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary last night at The Venue.
Hosts for the evening were WBN's Co-chairs Amy Simpson & Jocasta Boone
Jocasta gives us a walk through the decades and the rise of women's rights and influences
A look back at the beginning of the WBN
Jocasta Boone wins the Member of the Year award
Keynote speaker and fiddler Natalie MacMaster
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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What It Was Like To Take Part In Kirk Wipper Memorial Portage
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Alana and Kyla, pictured at far left
It started out as a quick message asking about a Kirk Wipper Memorial Portage and would I be interested in participating. We were a group of Ontario Educators (aka "edutweeps") along with our families, who were immediately enchanted with being a part of this memorable portage that would end up at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough in time to mark the beginning of the Kirk Wipper public memorial.
Andy, Ross, Ryan, Jeff, Nick, Colin, Lynn, Anna, Kyla (my daughter) and I were a small but mighty team who were responsible for the first leg of the Peterborough leg of the portage. We all walked the portage and while the boys carried the canoe, Kyla and I had the chance to walk and talk with one of the organizers, Tim
McDonagh, and heard about his connection to Kirk, what the canoe meant to him, and how much he enjoyed walking with the canoe and meeting the people who had come out to participate in the portage.
Our leg of the portage was about 6 km (Hwy 28 starting at Springville United Church, up to Sir Sandford Fleming Drive, across and right onto Dobbin Road finishing at Lansdowne). After the canoe left us, I’m not
sure who carried the canoe or what their adventure entailed but I can tell you it was fun to participate in the memorial portage and be with friends who love to paddle, love to get involved, and are fun to be with. I'd like to think Kirk Wipper would have totally approved of our crew!
On a personal note, my daughter Kyla was the youngest person to carry the canoe and she was very proud to add her signature to the paddle that was given to his wife Ann Wipper after the memorial service. Although Kyla took some convincing to actually help carry the canoe, she was mighty proud to share her story with her dad at the end of the day.
For more pics from the day, click here and here.
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[Contributed by PtboCanada's Alana Callan; photo via Flickr]
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PtboPics: Exhibition "Walter Walker: A Life In Canoes" Opens At Canadian Canoe Museum
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A wonderful new exhibit opened last night at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough. Click to see the pictures...
PtboPics: 25th Annual Friends of the Peterborough Library Giant Book Sale
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[Peterborough Library book sale]
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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