PtboPic: Mark Steenhuis of the Peterborough Lakers in action at season home opener last night (the Lakers won 10-8)

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[photo submitted by Stewart Stick, @stickshots]

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Wild Rock Outfitters Is Staying Right Where They Are (But Renovating)

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There has been speculation that Wild Rock Outfitters is moving to another location, but those rumours have been put to rest. From co-owner Scott Murison in their just-released June newsletter: "I would like to say 'Wild Rock is NOT moving!!!!!'  We will be renovating our present building."

[News from Wild Rock, Wild Rock Outfitters]

[Related: Building A Mystery]

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It's A Reusable Exchange Weekend

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Looking for a new homeThis weekend is a Reusable Exchange Weekend in the Patch. Put your reusable items at your curb on Friday and if they haven't been picked up by Sunday evening, well, bring them back in!

[Reusable Exchange Weekend; Waste Management]

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Must See: Peterborough Dragon Boat Festivals

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This Saturday (June 5th) will mark the 10th Anniversary of Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival, which takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Del Crary Park on Little Lake.

More than 100 community teams are participating in this year's event, which is a fundraiser for the PRHC's Breast Assessment Centre.

The following weekend, from June 11 to 13, breast cancer survivor teams from around the globe will be here participating in the International Dragon Boat Festival on Little Lake.

Peterborough's Survivors Abreast is hosting this worldwide event, which is meant to raise breast cancer awareness internationally and encourage participation from breast cancer survivors.

Make sure to come out and support these wonderful events. Fun to watch and a great cause!

 

 

 

A team practice for the Dragon Boat Festival


[Peterborough's Dragon Boat Festival; International Dragon Boat Festival; Survivors Abreast]

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Building A Mystery

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Who's moving in?The "For Sale" sign has been taken down, but who will move in is still a mystery.

[Big Box-store at Co-op backed]

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Peterborough Artist Creates The Fastest Painting Ever!

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Every Hump Day: The Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market!

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Don't forget to check out the Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market on Wednesdays (8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.). It's at a new location this year in the Louis St. Parking Lot, just off of Charlotte between Louis St. and Aylmer St. N.

Market-goers can find a wide assortment of local produce and meats, coffee, fresh-cut flowers, perennial and annual plants, veggie and herb seedlings, lunches to go and much more from the 30 or so vendors.

For more on the downtown market, check out this excellent YouTube video:

 



[Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market]

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Peterborough Is Going Twitter Crazy!

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Further proof that Peterborough—or "Twitterborough", as @ptbogreenup would say—is catching on to this whole Twitter craze: This snapshot at right shows areas where people are tweeting from over the span of a few hours in our city. Looks like we've adopted it rather well!

[Source: Official Twitter app for the iPhone]

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Peterborough's Music & Arts Scene Rocks (Exhibit A: Bear Trees)

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Bear Trees are a new local pop band, spreading their collective wings across the local music scene. The band is lead by Mike Duguay, a multifaceted scenester who seems to display an unending energy to explore all facets of his creativity. On any given night, you might find him and his band opening for any number of touring musical acts passing through town. Then again, you might find him taking the stage for a play or performance piece as part of a local, improvised theatre troop.

It’s people like Mike Duguay, and projects like Bear Trees, which are forever springing out of the local arts scene. The lush arts community we are blessed to witness here in Peterborough on a daily basis would be nothing without people like Duguay and dozens just like him.

This town is ripe with folks wanting to collaborate, organize, promote and spread the gospel of the talented folks who create here. Peterborough's vibrant arts scene is a known calling card across this country. This town has long been a draw for artists of all disciplines, bringing great music, leading edge visuals and dynamic performance to venues across the city.

Renowned painter David Bierk and a team of like minds put Peterborough on the visual arts map when they initiated Artspace in the mid-seventies. Artspace was and remains a cutting edge nest of creativity where local and touring visual ideas brew. Recently, the much lauded debut album by roots-centric band Evening Hymns was born from a series of recording sessions within those same art covered walls.

You needn’t look very hard to discover music in this town. The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, choral groups, and singer-songwriters alongside punk and metal bands carry on a thriving existence here. Welcoming venues are peppered throughout the city, hosting live music on a nightly basis.

It’s this tangible, communal, supportive nature which benefits both the artists and performers as well as the audiences who have witnessed the spoils of this for decades.

--Jeffrey Macklin, PtboCanada contributor

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The Clock is Still Right, Twice a Day

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While renovation continues on Market Hall (reopening in March 2011), one of Peterborough's most iconic landmarks is stuck in time.

 

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