PtboPics: More Great Pictures from the Canada Day Parade in the Patch
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[photos submitted by PtboCanada contributor Desiree Fawn, @sofawned]
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PtboPic: The Peterborough Canada Day Parade On George Street Rocked!
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PtboPic: Kawartha Voyageur Cruise Ship Squeezes Its Way Into The Lift Lock This Morning
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[photo submitted by Anne and Dave from FireHouse Gourmet]
[Related: Ontario Waterway Cruises; Peterborough Lift Lock]
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What Will Become of Portage Place?
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Once upon a time, Portage Place was the mall you just had to visit. There were lots of stores and shops and food court options, and business was booming. But all that seems like distant memory now.
You know things are bad at Portage Place when one of the shops in there that customers are loyal to is forced to shut its doors.
As MyKawartha reports, The Gourmet Cup is closing today due to lack of business. The Gourmet Cup has been in the mall since the very beginning, and current owner Lorna Ray has run it since 1996.
"The landlord has done nothing to attract tenants," Ray tells MyKawartha. "It's the state of the mall."
A new management team has been brought in to turn things around at the mall and attract more tenants, but is it too late? Many of the stores in Portage are now vacant, and things appear to be getting worse and worse by the day. You hardly hear of anyone shopping at Portage anymore. It just feels empty.
What would you do to turn this mall around?
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Someone Told Us It's All Happening At The Zoo
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Our zoo is fantastic—and free. And this year it is celebrating its 75th anniversary, with special events including their first annual fundraising Gala in August to help raise funds for an animal care building to house animals in need of special attention.
Be a tourist in your own city, and go check out our wonderful zoo—or if you've already been, go again and again.
Here are some videos that people have shot there over the years:
And hey, why not... take a ride to the zoo.
[Related: Interactive Tour of Riverview Park and Zoo; Simon & Garfunkel: At The Zoo]
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Peterborough Activists Insist The Media is Missing the Message with the G8/G20 Protests
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The media are missing the messages that really matter about the G8/G20 protests in Toronto this weekend.
That's what organizers of a peaceful rally and discussion held at Peterborough's Confederation Park on Sunday afternoon wanted the crowd of roughly 100 people who turned out for an afternoon of information and entertainment to know.
The event included speeches from Peterborough-area activists who participated in rallies and other events in Toronto this week; political analysis from other area activists such as John Etches, Jo Hayward-Haines and Roy Brady; a political dance performance by local dancer Ryan Kerr; and a music performance by Dub Trinity.
Members of The Peterborough Community Mobilization Network organized the event to raise awareness about the issues surrounding the G8/G20 summits.
Barb Woolner and Leah Finity, two Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) board members who attended the rally together, each expressed frustration about the media coverage the G20 protests in Toronto had received in the mainstream media—specifically the emphasis on the acts of violence at the expense of the important messages being carried by the protesters.
"I don't think that's what people are looking for from the media—not if they are critical observers. They are waiting, waiting, waiting for those other stories about why those peaceful demonstrators were out there," said Woolner. "The media has twisted what it means to be a demonstrator. They've lost sight of what makes the movement so rich. We're not all saying the same thing."
—video and text by Ann Douglas, PtboCanada contributor
[Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Mainstream Media About the G20 Protests]
[For all videos shot by Ann Douglas at the Peterborough rally, click here.]
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June 26 is National Canoe Day: Visit the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough and Try some great Local Canoe routes
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Visit the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough. It rocks!June 26 (Saturday) is National Canoe Day, and you can learn about some of the local festivities happening here in Peterborough by visiting the Canadian Canoe Museum website.
In honour of National Canoe Day, Peterborough's Kevin Callan—a renowned expert on canoeing, camping, and the great outdoors—gives PtboCanada some great paddling routes for people to try in the Kawarthas:
Eels Creek
Route 1: Take Highway 28 north, through Burleigh Falls and before Haultain. Drive over Eels Creek bridge on highway and park immediately to the right. Put in and paddle downstream to Northey’s Bay Rd. Take out or simply paddle back up stream.
Route 2: Shortly before Haultain, turn right off Highway 28 onto Northey’s Bay Road, towards Petroglyphs Provincial Park. Use parking area on the northwest side of Eels Creek bridge. Paddle upstream to Highfalls and return via same route.
Crab Lake
Route: Take Highway 28 north, through Burleigh Falls and almost to Apsley. Turn left off highway onto Anstruther Road. Drive five kilometers and turn left on to small road leading to Wolf Lake public access. Paddle across Wolf Lake and take 107 meter portage to Crab Lake.
Lovesick Lake Wolf Island Provincial Park
Route: Drive north on Highway 28 to Burleigh Falls. Put in at the public launch on the northwest side of the falls. Paddle upstream to Lock 30 and circle Wolf Island.
Gold and Cold Lakes
Route: Drive north on Highway 36, north of Buckhorn, then yield right onto Highway 507 (at Flynn’s Corner store). Approx. 15 km make a right onto Beaver Lake Rd. A public access for Catchacoma Lake is about 3 km along but you can continue, crossing the bridge. Park along the road before the second bridge. Gold Lake is to your right. Paddle almost directly across to the 100 meter portage on beach, to the right of creek leading into Cold Lake.
Coon Lake Ponds
Route: Drive north on Highway 28. Shortly after Burleigh Falls, turn left onto Coon Lake Road. Watch it. It curves to the left after a couple of kilometers. After about 6 kilometers you’ll see a rough parking area and the Coon Lake access is down the grade to your right. Paddle across Coon, portage up and over a hill to the first pond and take shorter portages into two remaining ponds. Return via same route.
[Kevin Callan - The Happy Camper; Kevin's Explore Blog; The Canadian Canoe Museum]
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Spotlight: Peterborough's This and That Store
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This and That is a new store located at 768 The Kingsway and is just that... a lot of this and a lot of that.
This and That owner Anne Miller purchased a fair amount of goods from a Peterborough Liquidators auction and has set up shop there. There are new, vintage and one-of-a-kind items for sale, ranging from knickknacks to housewares.
The store houses quite a lot of goods, and Anne is still setting up areas of the shop. One section of the store, for example, will become the "Holiday" corner and have all of the Christmas and Easter items.
This and That is open Wednesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pop in for a look, because you never know what you might find. —Evan Holt
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One of the largest collections of bells in the Kawarthas
Local jewellery—including some created from computer parts
Moment in Twitter Time: The Day an Earthquake Hit Peterborough
/In the order they came in on our @Ptbo_Canada feed shortly after the Earthquake hit at 1:41 p.m., here were some of the initial tweets (and confusion) from Peterborough tweeps:
cherylayres
did you just feel that tremor!
jacksoncreek
earthquake
miskinlaw
I am in Whitby Ontario Canada. I think I just felt a serious earthquake. Wazzzzup?
TanyaFusco
Did anyone just feel that?
candaceshaw
Um, did anyone else in the Traill College area just feel the earth move? My house just shook in a way I've never felt before.
anndouglas
Our entire house is shaking and creaking. Construction crews digging nearby or earth tremor?
brucehead
Earthquake in Peterboorugh too!
cgooderham
Did anyone just feel an tremor? There were no trucks in my area and I just felt an earthquake... 1:43pm Eastern TIME #earthquake
jameshiggins
Ummm... eathquake, anyone?
ptbogreenup
Did we just experience an earthquake?
cherylayres
@miskinlaw I felt it here in west end Peterborough - felt like th house just slid sideways
Ricwi
Uh... Anyone else just feel the earth move?
subschema
Thought it was just me. So weird. RT @evmustang: Amazing. RT @cherylayres: did you just feel that tremor!
stevehancock
Did y'all just feel that?
StickShots
Did we just have earth tremors in peterborough? My apt was shaking
TanyaFusco
Earthquake?
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