Peterborough Petes veteran goalie Andrew D'Agostini is in the final season of his OHL career and just tweeted out these beauty pics of his new mask, an amazing tribute to Peterborough. The Lift Lock, "I'd Rather Be In Peterborough", the clock tower and more. So cool.
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Ingrid
[UPDATE: Huffington Post Canada picks up our story.]
Peterborough mother Susan Nelson has launched an impassioned Indiegogo campaign to help save her daughter Ingrid, who is fighting a serious Eating Disorder—and right now losing the battle.
Ingrid, 23, is in immediate need of being transferred from her current placement in a hospital in Ontario to a specialized residential ED program for life saving treatment. But Provincial Health Insurance does not cover residential treatment of Eating Disorders, so the family find themselves facing having to pay for Ingrid's treatment—something they simply can't afford to do.
The costs include four months at an Ontario residential treatment centre followed by months of private aftercare programs—both not covered by insurance.
Susan says on the Indiegogo campaign that not being able to afford treatment for their daughter is simply "one of the worst feelings any parent can imagine. There's nothing left for us to do other than ask for help from our extended community and beyond."
Ingrid, who is afraid she is going to die from the disorder—"I am barely alive," she says—writes that "Without a program, my eating disorder is becoming stronger and more intense, and I feel increasingly hopeless and consumed by this disease. My illness has progressed to a level out of my control. Unfortunately, they aren't experienced with eating disorders here at the hospital and I have continued to decline both mentally and physically. It is difficult for me to write honestly about the state I am in right now, as a huge part of my illness tries to minimize and ignore the severity of its hold on my life. But I have to push myself to face this reality, and to make others aware of what is happening."
Just days into the campaign, the family has already raised nearly $8,000 of their $60,000 goal—with 44 days left in the campaign. [**UPDATE January 16th: They've now raised close to $15,000.]
Make a difference: Help save Ingrid's life by donating to this campaign to raise money for the family to get her into the specialized program.
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Art Battle is a live competitive painting contest where each painter has 20 minutes to come up with a painting. The audience votes on the winners for each round, and the overall winner of the evening. Art Battle Canada is traveling coast to coast to look for artists that will compete at the 2014 Art Battle National Championship. Art Battle 87 took place last night at The Venue, and here were the paintings created...
Congratulations to Paul Nabuurs for winning the competition.
The next Peterborough Art Battle is February 20th.
[Related: PtboCanada Video from Art Battle Canada in Peterborough]
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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Adam Scott Performing Arts—which offers students Grades 7 through 12 professional level performance opportunities in Musical Theatre, Dance, Drama and Music—is putting on a new play, Guys and Dolls, from February 19th to 22nd. Check out their Facebook page for more deets or follow them on Twitter.
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Update: April 25th, 2014 - The Grand Opening has been moved up to May 10th.
Giant Tiger (currently at 2704 Lakefield Road) has a new location under construction (at 2657-2667 Lakefield Road) that will be much larger—18,557 square feet—and offer much more parking. The grand opening is Saturday, June 7th. The current location is next to the Selwyn Outreach Centre, and they will be moving across the street and up the road to this larger location.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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One of the great things about downtown Peterborough is that it houses the most unique shops in the area, and there are so many of them. Hardly anything is cookie cutter, and that is exactly what makes the neighborhood work. Another example of a shop that embodies this unique feeling is Circus, newly located at 382 George St N.
Previously located on Aylmer St, just on the outskirts of downtown, Circus made its big move at the end of July in 2013 and hasn’t looked back. Chris Norgan owned the original shop, and has since been joined by Steve Francis to form a partnership that works incredibly well for the both of them. With Chris’s wealth of experience in the industry and Steve’s expansive small business knowledge, they have combined their visions to create a great working relationship.
Circus is anything but a traditional shop. It focuses on art, rare historic furniture, and accent home décor pieces that you won’t find anywhere else! Just one step inside this unique store, and you’ll discover this immediately. Chris’s keen eye for exclusive pieces and buying contacts located in big cities like New York and Philadelphia are allowing him to bring in items you literally won’t find anywhere else.
Circus is like an anti-IKEA; it has an old-school fashion feel to it, regularly showcasing pieces produced from the 1920s to the 1950s. Their chairs, tables, dressers, hutches and cupboards aren’t of your everyday run of the mill variety. Vintage is key, and Chris and Steve both know this. They are constantly bringing in carefully selected new lines to display and put their names behind each and every one.
The store has an undeniable upscale vibe to it. Its location and layout with a great second floor allow Steve and Chris to set the shop up in an incredible way that enhances the products look and feel. You could literally spend hours walking through it, checking out the incredible selection. They know this is the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a big city and are happy to be able to supply it to our community. They also take great pride in the fact they are a very green reuse recycle store.
The men are very happy to have been able to relocate to the city’s downtown core, and have made it a point to continue to be involved in the community. They happily donate to the community and have been proud sponsors of the YMCA in the past. More recently, they have also been the setting of book readings by Peterborough’s own Jeff Macklin.
They invite you to come down and discover Circus—it's something you might not have known existed in our great downtown!
For more on Circus (188 Hunter St W), go to:
Website: CircusPeterborough.com
Facebook: CircusTrip
Twitter: @Circusshop
For more on Downtown Peterborough and the Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA), click here.
—By Aaron Elliott
The Canadian Canoe Museum has an interactive booth at the Toronto International Boat Show (which runs January 11th to 19th).
The booth has historic canoes, a paddle carving studio (in which you can sign up for a special one-day workshop on Thursday, January 16th or Friday, January 17th), a kids zone and an actual canoe building workshop.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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Jeremy Ward describing the steps it takes to create a Canoe
A 14' Canvas-Covered Canoe
The roads were treacherous Saturday in Peterborough due to icy conditions, and one woman is lucky to be alive after her slid off Water Street and into the Otonabee River.
Her car went off the road on Water St., hit a hydrant and ended up on the icy river.
Emergency crews were called to the scene and found the vehicle in a precarious position on the ice.
Fire Captain Wesley Lake says the woman is a bit shaken up but otherwise OK.
Multiple police, ambulance and fire trucks were on scene, and traffic was stopped during the rescue.
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Photo by Evan Holt
Exciting news for the city and region as Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism (PKT) has announced they will be hosting the 2015 Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC) Conference & AGM in Peterborough. This marks the first time the well known association has chosen to host its conference in a rural destination.
“We bid to host this conference because we recognize the tremendous value of having the opportunity to showcase our destination to a large number of travel media professionals. We were thrilled to learn that we were successful in our bid, and are looking forward to providing TMAC with an unforgettable experience in Peterborough & the Kawarthas,” says Fiona Dawson, Director of Tourism, Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism.
The annual conference is a place for members (writers, photographers, filmmakers, bloggers, social media mavens) to gather for story ideas on the region. “To say that Peterborough & the Kawarthas knocked our socks off as our choice for the 2015 TMAC conference is an understatement,” says Michele Sponagle, national president, Travel Media Association of Canada. “Our conference committee was wowed on every front, from the wealth of activities available to the tremendous hospitality they experienced from everyone they met during their site inspection. We are excited to introduce our members to this beautiful area next year."
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