From the skills competition portion of yesterday's United Way Hockey Challenge in Peterborough, which raised $165,000. Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo and Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence, were among the celebrities participating in the charity game.
[YouTube via TJConnorsBlog]
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Are you sure you're ready? OK, here we go... a video from a Uhane LomiLomi Hawaiian healing touch practitioner from Peterborough. Educational and (unintentionally?) funny/entertaining.
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Word is they put on a loud, energetic show at The Venue, and people went home happy campers.
More footage from last night at hystericallycalm's YouTube channel.
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Mike Watt, owner of hip Peterborough stores Plush, Flavour Fashion and S.O.S, tells PtboCanada he's not sure when the beard is going to go. For now, he says even though it does get itchy, it's staying put—and continuing to grow. When the beard comes off, we will break the news.
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[**UPDATE: Missing person Shaquille Pecco has been located. He was staying at a friend's residence and is fine.]
From Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service release...
Missing Person
Shaquille PECCO
14yrs
6', 170lbs, Medium Build, Short Black Hair with tight 2 inch Braids, Brown Eyes, Good Teeth wearing black jeans, black hoodie and carrying a black backpack.
PECCO left his Dublin Street residence on the 24th day of January 2011 at 1515hrs. He as not been seen since. He did indicate that he had lots of friends and places to stay, however there has been no luck in locating PECCO.
PECCO takes four types of medication which he left at his residence. Police and family do have concerns for PECCO's well being as he is not taking his medications. Any information please contact the Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service at 705-876-1122.
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[***UPDATE: Examiner reports that service should be restored by later tonight or Saturday morning***]
Starting roughly Sunday night, a hacker exploited their way into Nexicom's servers and was able to lockout numerous user's sites. Some of Nexicom's user's sites were defaced and left the users without the ability to change their site back or send and receive email.
Presently, Nexicom has removed the defamatory splash pages, but have yet to restore full service—check out The Canadian Canoe Museum site, for example—or issue an advisory bulletin. Remember, this started on Sunday. And it's now Friday. That's a long time with what's apparently only been sporadic service.
Obviously, Nexicom users in the Patch are growing increasingly frustrated and some are starting to look around for other web hosting companies.
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This Saturday marks the 3rd year for Hockey Day in Peterborough. Be sure to be at our historic Liftlock by gametime at 12:30 p.m., or watch live coverage of all the games on TVCOGECO.
For additional info, you can also check out the Hockey Day in Peterborough Facebook page.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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Many people are pissed about the proposed transit cuts in the Patch. And they showed it loud and clear during a city council meeting last night in a great show of democracy in action.
The next meeting on the proposed cuts is tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at Evinrude Centre, a bigger venue to fit everyone in.
[CHEX TV]
[Related: Facebook Page Launched To Raise Awareness About Proposed Cuts To Peterborough Public Transit]
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Yet again a local entrepreneur is headed to the den in hopes of securing a deal with the dragons on CBC's Dragons' Den.
This time it is Liz Lewis with her company Sexapalooza. She has asked for $100,000 for a 40% stake in her company. With the money, she has aspirations of taking her trade show company stateside.
Tune in tonight (January 26th) at 8 p.m. on CBC to find out if she was able to convince the dragons to invest.
[Pics from show via Dragons' Den]
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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Update
on 2011-01-27 12:41 by PTBOCANADA
No deal was made with the Dragons in last night's episode. More deets here.
Michelle Berry at Jackson ParkWe've been tipped several times via forwarded emails circulating to this recent post by a website called Numéro Cinq with local author Michelle Berry, who had a lot of things to say about what makes Peterborough unique:
Here's some excerpts from it:
"Peterborough is a town about 2 hours North East of Toronto. Population 78,000 or so (probably more since we got a Costco. A chicken or egg thing—Costco brings people or people bring Costco? I don’t know. I’m not a member. They won’t even let me in the front door.). So, let’s say population 80,000. A sleepy town? Perhaps. But you should see our new Mall, Lansdowne Place. It’s a sight. Now we only have to drive forty minutes down highway 115 to Oshawa for The Bay. We’ve got every other store you’d want right here."
"I live in an area called The Old West End which is made up of mostly young families in big, beautiful, old houses. I have two porches in the front of my house — one off my second floor office, one off the living room. I sit on these porches in three seasons as much as I can. I watch the kids play on the street, or the people walking their dogs. I read. Or just stare. At the tree, mostly. Sometimes I feel as if I’m in a 1950′s sitcom – Leave it To Beaver – the neighbours all calling back and forth across the street, coming over clutching snacks and wine, or coffee, joining me on my porch. It’s idyllic. Small townish."
"The thing about this city is the people. We aren’t stuck in traffic all the time, our houses are fairly inexpensive, there are spaces in the local sports leagues and the piano teacher has free days in her schedule. So we’re generally a happy folk. People have parties and get-togethers and go for walks and travel together."
"We have many friends who grew up in Peterborough, who moved away, but then came back to raise their children the way they were raised. To spend winter weekends at Devil’s Elbow ski hill, racing, or summers at the cottage. To spend Fall and Spring biking the paths."
Read the entire post on Numéro Cinq from Michelle Berry here.
[photo via Numéro Cinq]
[“What it’s like living here,” from Michelle Berry in Peterborough, Ontario]
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