Stuff To Do In The Patch This Weekend

It's a busy weekend folks... enjoy the beginning of the festive season!

Less than a month until Christmas!
Friday: 

Kawartha Potters Guild Christmas Sale 2010 (3 p.m. to 9 p.m.)

Peterborough Festival of Trees (General Admission $5, Seniors $3, 2-12yrs $2 - 3:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.)

Showplace Performance Centre presents An Evening with Michael Burgess (Tickets $43 - 8 p.m.)

Saturday:

Peterborough Festival of Trees - Teddy Bear Breakfast (Tickets $10, 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.)

Peterborough Festival of Trees (General Admission $5, Seniors $3, 2-12yrs $2 - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Holiday Sampling Day at Firehouse Gourmet (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Kawartha Potters Guild Christmas Sale 2010 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Peterborough Green-Up Store's 1st Anniversary (Starts at 11 a.m.)

Peterborough Singers presents Carols of Brass (Tickets $30 - 7:30 p.m.)

Peterborough Festival Of Trees - Auction Night (Tickets $25, 7 p.m. - Midnight)

Showplace Performance Centre presents Showtime by Aces of Harmony (Tickets $25 - 8 p.m.)

Sunday:

Peterborough Festival of Trees (General Admission $5, Seniors $3, 2-12yrs $2 - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

Kawartha Potters Guild Christmas Sale 2010 (11 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

Have a great weekend Peterborough! Stay happy!!

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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!

[YouTube; PFOT]

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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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It's a Wonderful Life Peterborough

There will be two screenings of It's a Wonderful Life playing at Galaxy Cinemas in the Patch this December: 

Wednesday, December 8th @ 7 p.m.

Sunday, December 12th @ 1 p.m.

This Christmas classic should not be missed this holiday season.

[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]

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Good Cause: Donating To "Samaritan's Purse" At Peterborough EMS

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]

[Samaritan's Purse]

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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.

[YouTube]

[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.

[YouTube]

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PtboPic: Major Gas Leak

Developing story...  Major gas leak at Brealey/Lansdowne area. Stay away from that area.

[Listen in on Kruz FM and follow MyKawartha.com and Peterborough Examiner for updates.]

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Highlights From New Community Assessment Report On Peterborough

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.

[The Peterborough Examiner]

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PtboPic: Santa At The Lakefield Santa Claus Parade

Santa will be rocking the Peterborough Santa Claus parade December 4th.

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