Peterborough Blogs
An Amazing Family Created This Canine Obstacle Course For Peterborough Police Service Canine Unit
/The Peterborough Police Service Canine Unit received a generous offer last year from a local citizen named Fred Comrie to use his property located outside the City as a Canine training facility.
Well that facility has now been set up, and the obstacle course on the Comrie property is an ideal spot to train Peterborough Police Service Canine units.
The obstacle course includes cement pads that vehicles are placed upon, catwalks, high fences and any other possible obstacles that the Canine Unit may encounter in a live situation.
Police say this of the Comrie family: "It is this type of community partnership that is the core of community policing and has contributed greatly to the success of the Canine Unit and the community it serves!"
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Premiere Studio of Dance Takes Home Top Dance Honours
/At the Bedazzled Dance Championships held at Showplace last weekend, Premiere Studio of Dance managed to win top honours in both the solo/duet/trio categories and group section.
This is the first time the studio has won this competition—with over 675 routines taking the stage.
Special congratulations goes out to Madison Sheward for winning the top solo with her contemporary routine "Uninhabited Light." The senior dancers also won top group with the routine "Misery" choreographed by Meaghan Sheppard (which also took home an award for top choreography of the entire competition).
Overall, the weekend was a great success. These routines and more will be taking the stage at Showplace in the Shine Dance Competition taking place April 14th to 17th. Admission is free. Come out and support some amazing local talent!
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Peterborough Teen Fulfills Lifelong Dream Today By Going On Set Of Jeopardy
/The TV show Jeopardy posted to their social media pages Monday (April 4th) about a Peterborough teen's special visit to a taping of the iconic show.
Quinn Heffernan, 16, who is a Jeopardy "superfan"—he never misses a show and even watches old shows online in his free time—got to go on set thanks to the Sunshine Foundation of Canada.
"We had the pleasure of meeting a J! superfan thanks to the Sunshine Foundation of Canada. Quinn has extensive knowledge of Jeopardy!, and we were so happy..."
It was a bucket list moment for Quinn, a Grade 11 student at Holy Cross Secondary School who lives with a rare disorder known as hemiplegia. He got to fly to Los Angeles with his family and sit in on three tapings of his favourite show.
He even got to meet his idol and fellow Canadian Alex Trebek, which was posted about on Jeopardy's Facebook page....
image via Jeopardy's Facebook page
After the taping, Jeopardy spoke with Quinn to get a sense of his amazing experience...
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A Photo Tour Through The Old Historic Peterborough County Jail
/UPDATE (May 11th): Our Scott Arnold was back on site as he documents demo for us and reports that this is pretty much all that remains of the old jail as demolition of the 151 year old structure continues...
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UPDATE (May 1st): Our Scott Arnold visited the site again on Sunday (May 1st) as the demo continues. Here are his pictures...
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ORIGINAL POST
The old jail at Peterborough County Courthouse is being demolished to be converted into a park, and PTBOCanada contributor Scott Arnold has visited the site on several occasions.
Scott has posted photos of the jail—which dates back to the 1840s—during the demolition process to his Instagram page, including these below...
"Break the Walls Down #iphonephotography #jail #demolition #destruction #prison #scenic #sky #sunset #sunrise_sunsets_aroundworld #seetheworld #discover..."
"Jail Break #iphonephotography #jail #court #house #historic #historicsite #scenic #sunset #sunrise_sunsets_aroundworld #art #artistic #explore..."
"A random door sits halfway up the brick wall leading into the historical, now closed, Peterborough County Jail; built in 1842 #iphonephotography #jail..."
More recently, Scott got an even better look at the demo site when he noticed that a door between the old jail and the courthouse had been left swung open.
"On the other side of the door was a narrow dark corridor," Scott says. "It was complete silence. I kept walking and was spooked when three pigeons started flying out from above. They scared the crap out of me. I kept going and there was an open air lounge area with a big set of black metal stairs with bright yellow stripes that I climbed."
At the top of the stairs, Scott got a much better look at the demo happening. "I was excited to get this view, I love capturing history and exploring historical buildings," he says. "I had never been in that jail, only heard the many stories, so it was pretty surreal—even with it being almost demolished."
Here are more photos below Scott captured from atop those stairs...
The Quaker tower sits in the background
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Peterborough Photographer Ellen Bond Is A Star On The Rise
/Peterborough photographer Ellen Bond is drawing rave reviews for her photography, including a powerful photo, "Movement", she took in Dundas Square in Toronto of Curve Lake's Leslie McCue (see below) and Lindy Kinosameg.
"I wanted to show the juxtaposition of traditional First Nation beliefs and the chaos of today," Ellen tells PTBOCanada, adding that Leslie is a former student of hers at Kenner from her high school teaching days.
Photo by Ellen Bond, taken February 22, 2016 in Dundas Square
Bond left teaching and is currently studying photography—her passion—at Algonquin College in Ottawa. She has quickly developed into an excellent editorial and portrait photographer.
Ellen Bond: Photographer on the rise
Ellen was published in the Ottawa Business Journal recently, and also got the chance to shoot for the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG)—she was on the field for every Ottawa RedBlack game last season.
Indeed, she took these great photos below of former Crestwood student Brad Sinopoli—who plays for Ottawa in the CFL—including one with his Dad.
Brad Sinopoli. Photo by Ellen Bond
Brad Sinopoli with his Dad, Sam. Photo by Ellen Bond
"Living in Peterborough inspired my photography," Ellen tells PTBOCanada. "It’s such a beautiful place and I would often wander through Jackson Park, or along other trails and take photos. When I began school at Algonquin, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer, but as I went through the courses, my passion has led me to editorial photography, with a side of portrait photography.
You can check out Ellen's website here and her portfolio here.
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This Stunning Composite Of Two Photos Reveals A Cinematic Like Downtown Peterborough
/Peterborough photographer Zach Baranowski posted a stunning image of Market Hall and the downtown that is getting hundreds and hundreds of likes on his Instagram page.
Zach says on his Instagram post (embedded below) that the image is a composite of two of his photos—it "makes you realize what's really there, masked by the city lights."
"©Zach Baranowski Photography ~ *spoiler alert* This is a composite of two of my photos. However it makes you realize what's really there, masked by the..."
Zach tells PTBOCanada more about how he created this cinematic-like image using technology:
"I took this shot of the Market Hall on my way home after a night of shooting some promotional photos for One Eighty Hunter," he tells PTBOCanada. "It was shot on my 5D mkii: Manual exposure, 25 sec, f/22, ISO 250. The sky photo was taken a couple weeks ago when I was hiking late at night up at High Falls trail (just down the road from Petroglyphs Provincial Park), and the sky was perfectly clear. The composite was created after I edited the Market Hall photo and decided that the pure dark sky was very uninteresting and took away from the rest of the photo. I then took both of the photos into Photoshop CC."
Zach sent us the beautiful original below that he posted to Instagram...
Photo by Zach Baranowski
