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Lansdowne Place Has These Great Reminder Signs On All Their Doors
/For several years, Lansdowne Place has been putting up these signs at all their entrances in summer to remind people not to leave their pets or kids in the car.
"We get a great deal of positive response from having these notices up," Emily Dart, Marketing Director of Lansdowne Place, tells PTBOCanada.
The signs are a vital reminder not to risk your pet or child's safety, even if you're "just running into the mall to quickly grab something." The mall showed great initiative to put these notices up, taking a pro-active approach to an important issue that still occurs way too often.
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Why A Peterborough Waving Jogger's Happiness Is Contagious
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Jim McLean lives life to the fullest
Read More15 Neat Facts About The Construction Of The Peterborough Lift Lock
/1. The Peterborough Lift Lock on the Trent-Severn Waterway—aka Lock 21—was built between 1896 and 1904 in an era when the strength of people, horse and steam power was shaping the transportation systems of a growing nation.
Opening Day: July 9th, 1904
2. The Lift Lock was part of a larger construction project to canalize the Otonabee River—allowing the Kawartha Lakes to connect with Peterborough's commercial centre.
3. To establish the foundations for the Lift Lock at Armour Hill during construction, 76,000 cubic yards of sand, soil and gravel were excavated until the limestone bedrock was reached 40 feet down.
4. The presswells for the hydraulic rams were excavated a further 75 feet into the rock.
5. A foundation of granite blocks—some weighing a whopping ten tons—was lowered to the bottom to provide a footing for the rams.
6. When completed, over 26,000 cubic yards of Portland cement had been poured, without a single piece of *reinforcing steel.
7. The Lift Lock was at the time the largest structure ever built in the world with unreinforced Portland cement. To compress the Portland cement, Rogers employed hundreds of hand-held air driven compactors.
8. The installation of the steel chambers and hydraulic rams by Dominion Bridge Company of Montreal began in 1901 and was completed in 1904.
9. The original steelwork is still in use today, modified by zinc refinishing and welding on the boat chambers. (New aluminum gates were added during the mid-60s.)
10. Peterborough's Richard Birdsall Rogers (aka R.B. Rogers)—a civil and mechanical engineer from Peterborough who studied at McGill—oversaw the design and construction of the Lift Lock.
RB Rogers, pictured in the dark jacket near the centre, with his team of engineers.
11. As originally built, the Lift Lock could generate all the necessary compressed air and water pumping pressure to operate the gate pivot engine, gate water seals and control systems by opening a water penstock set in the lock's upper reach.
Lift Lock nearing completion, 1903
12. The natural gravity fall of water powered the lock's internal machinery. This included a Taylor hydraulic air compressor, water turbines, water driven gate-engines and pumps.
13. The dual lifts are the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, with a lift of 19.8 m (65 ft).
14. The Lift Lock opened July 9th, 1904 to a huge crowd (see photo at top of post).
15. The Lift Lock, which was designated a National Historic Site in 1979, took eight years to construct.
*In the era of construction, the use of reinforcing steel was only just beginning, and the technique was viewed with professional skepticism.
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Photographer Captures These Beauty Pics Of Strawberry Moon On Summer Solstice Off Airport Road
/Peterborough photographer Niki Allday captured great pictures of the full moon during last night's Summer Solstice. This was the first strawberry moon to fall on the same day as the summer solstice since 1967.
Photo by Niki Allday
Allday tells PTBOCanada she captured the pics at 10 p.m. using a Nikon d7000.
"It was a once in a lifetime photograph, I was very excited to see the storms pass early so we could witness this," she tells PTBOCanada.
Photo by Niki Allday
PTBOCanada Interview: Axe Throwing Club Is Coming To Peterborough
/Looking for a fun night out or great time building day with your work colleagues? Doors will open at the Peterborough Axe Club on August 2nd on Perry St., and you can sign up for league nights and private events now.
Watch our interview with the founders Carlo Raponi and Kalen Davidson below...
Peterborough Axe Club will be demonstrating axe-throwing at Peterborough Pulse community event on July 16th.
—post by Evan Holt
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2nd Annual Peterborough Yoga Festival Included Yoga Right On Little Lake
/It was an absolutely beautiful day at Del Crary Park on Saturday by Little Lake for the 2nd annual Peterborough Yoga Festival.
Our Scott Arnold—a yoga enthusiast himself—captured these contortionist pictures...
There was even a yoga class happening right on Little Lake...
See this Instagram photo by @scottarnold12 * 85 likes
—By Scott Arnold
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We Just Experienced Under Water Dining At Lock 21 Dress Rehearsal & It Was Epic
/UPDATED POST: March 28th -> Peterborough & the Kawarthas’ newest travel experience, Under Water Dining at Lock 21—which takes visitors on a hands-on, historical dining experience through, inside and under the world’s highest hydraulic lift lock—is now sold out. Tickets for this new experience went on sale at 10 a.m. yesterday, and sold out in less than 12 hours.
“We expected tickets to sell quickly, but we were overwhelmed by how quickly they sold out—the response has been incredible,” says Tracie Bertrand, Director of Tourism & Communications for Peterborough Economic Development.
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UPDATED POST: March 27th -> Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism has announced it is launching Under Water Dining at Lock 21 (see our recap of our dress rehearsal last summer below), which will take visitors on a hands-on, historical dining experience through, inside and under the world’s highest hydraulic lift lock. They are expecting tickets to sell out quickly. Tickets are now on sale for four dates in 2017. Seating for each experience is limited to 16 people, and tickets are $265 CDN per person (+ HST). To learn more about Under Water Dining at Lock 21 or to purchase tickets, click here.
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ORIGINAL POST
We were among a select group of 12 people invited to a beta test of a unique experential tourism experiment on Thursday (June 16th): Under Water Dining @ Lock 21.
We started in a Voyageur canoe—dressed in Voyageur gear, of course!—and made our way up to the top of the Lift Lock with great tour guides from the Canoe Museum.
We then learned from the amazing Trent Severn team about the functionality and technology behind the Lift Lock, an engineering marvel that is the highest hydraulic lock in the world with a rise of 65 feet (19.8 metres).
Then we had a quick yummy food & drink break in front of the Locks...
After that, we had an amazing tour inside the bowels of the historic Lift Lock, which opened in 1904.
Manager of Canal Operations Chad Buchner
Then the highlight of many highlights: eating delectable food literally right under the Lock prepared by world class local chefs. The 6-course meal included Fennel & Buttermilk Flan, Trout, McLean's Asparagus and much more...
Like, seriously, we ate right under here...
We then retired to another room right next to the tunnel where cars go through—we could hear the honking right next to us through the wall—to have dessert and hear ghost stories from Ed The Lockmaster...
Ed The Entertainer Lockmaster telling ghost stories
