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The Peterborough Petes Organization Is Hosting First Ever Town Hall Event
/On Thursday, September 15th at 7:05 p.m.—more on the 7:05 start time below—the Peterborough Petes Board of Directors will host season ticket holders in the first ever Petes Town Hall event at Market Hall.
The purpose of the event is to hold an open forum for questions about the Petes organization—particularly as it pertains to team governance, operations, and community relations.
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Season Ticket Holders will receive an exclusive invite to the Town Hall event inside their 2016/17 season ticket booklets. The booklets can be picked up from the PMC Collins Barrow Box Office starting at noon on Thursday, August 25th.
The free Town Hall event will be catered by downtown Peterborough-based blackhoney.
PTBOCanada historical file photo
“The Town Hall event is a way for the Petes and the Board of Directors to refresh our relationships with key local stakeholders,” says Petes President Dave Pogue. “We will be opening up the floor for higher-level questions about the operations of the team that we get asked consistently by many fans.”
Space is limited at this exclusive event, but if there is capacity remaining after the season ticket RSVP window closes, members of the general public will definitely be invited to attend as well, the Petes tell PTBOCanada.
PTBOCanada file photo
Now, as to the 7:05 p.m. start time: The format of the Town Hall will be similar to a Thursday night hockey game (which start at 7:05). First, second, and third period segments will be used to focus on team history, governance, community relations, hockey operations and business operations, with specific presentations and question periods scheduled for each topic.
This is a great idea by the Petes organization—a storied franchise—to host the Town Hall and we hope to see the Market Hall packed.
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Riverview Park & Zoo Train To Close Early This Season
/The Riverview Park and Zoo has announced that their miniature train ride will be closing for the season following Labour Day weekend this year.
Although the train normally operates on fall weekends right up until Thanksgiving, the ride is closing early this year to allow rehabilitation of the rail bed and tracks in some areas.
The zoo says this rehabilitation work is likely to carry on well into the fall.
To view photos of the original train construction back in the day, click here.
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Peterborough Chamber One Of Three Finalists in National Competition
/The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has announced the three finalists for the 2016 Canadian Chamber Competition, and Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce is among the three along with Burnaby Board of Trade and Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
This is a great honour for the Chamber team and Peterborough to be a finalist in such a noteworthy competition.
Peterborough Chamber team
Each year, members of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce gather for their Annual General Meeting, and the 2016 meeting is taking place September 16th to 19th in Regina, Saskatchewan.
As part of the AGM, the Canadian Chamber holds a competition based on a relevant theme. This year, the theme is “Membership in the Age of Google, How Our Chamber is Reinventing ourselves”. The aim of the competition is to profile chambers of commerce that are innovative in their approach, particularly as it pertains to the theme—and the Peterborough Chamber is one of the finalists.
The Peterborough Chamber submission focussed on the rebranding of the chamber under the “Strengthening Business” banner, as both a slogan and a way of doing business.
Chamber policy analyst Sandra Dueck speaking at OCC AGM 2016 in Oakville
“Our members drive us, and channeling the collective strength of the business community gives us a focused voice on a variety of issues," says Stuart Harrison, President & CEO of the Chamber. "Apart from the lobbying work we do, helping our members grow helps the local economy.”
Learn more about the recognition in this video the Chamber posted to Twitter...
30 Super Cool Tidbits About Peterborough Musicfest
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An amazing 30 years for Canada's longest free summer concert series
Read MoreIncredible Aerial Pictures Of Main Street Bobcaygeon Rocking Out To Tragically Hip
/Among the 11.7 million Canadians to watch CBC's three-hour broadcast Saturday night of Tragically Hip's last show were thousands of people on main street Bobcaygeon—the place from the Hip's beloved song "Bobcaygeon".
Bolton Street was shut down so people could watch the show together on a big screen. Kawartha Adventure Rentals took amazing aerial images of the festivities using a drone that they posted to their Twitter account. Here they are below...
Wow, like look at this...
Here's what it looked like from the ground on Bobcaygeon under the constellation...
photo via Kawartha ATV Rentals
Photo via TrentSevern Waterway
Peterborough Police Services Launch Postcard Campaign To Spread Fraud Prevention
/Peterborough Police Service have launched a postcard campaign called "You Are Their Next Target" aimed at getting crucial fraud prevention messaging directly into people’s homes.
“Our Service has done a lot of messaging and education around the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam yet we are still being inundated with calls from citizens reporting this fraud,” says Detective Constable Keith Calderwood, Peterborough Police Service Fraud Unit. “The scammers involved are extremely aggressive and convincing. There are people today who are losing $4,000 or $5,000 as a result of this fraud.”
One of three postcards available
The Peterborough Police Service’s Alternative Response Unit receives between 15 and 40 calls a day from people reporting the CRA scam. The fraud involves a person receiving a message either by telephone, mail or text message from someone pretending to be from the Canada Revenue Agency requesting personal information and using scare tactics to get people to pay a fictitious debt.
From January to August 2016, approximately 32 people in our area fell victim to the CRA fraud and lost anywhere between $1,500 to $5,600. “Our main message is simple: Don’t make assumptions about who falls for frauds and scams," says Detective Constable Calderwood.
One of three postcards available
“Through this postcard campaign, the message will be delivered directly into people’s homes and into their hands," adds Detective Constable Calderwood. "We want people to know it’s okay to hang up if they receive a scam call. Don’t panic. Don’t react. Don’t send money. Don’t fall for it.”
Through generous funding provided by the Peterborough Northumberland Crime Stoppers and funding from the New Horizons for Seniors, 21,000 postcards have been printed and will be distributed throughout the area served by the Peterborough Police Service: The City of Peterborough, the Village of Lakefield and the Township of Cavan Monaghan.
One of three postcards available
Participating locations include local banks, pharmacies, grocery stores, coffee shops, senior centres, township offices and service clubs.
Mac’s Convenience Stores is supporting the campaign and select Mac’s stores throughout Peterborough will carry the postcards. Mac’s Convenience stores have made it a corporate priority to educate their employees about the fraud in order that they can in turn warn and educate their customers.
The back of the postcard
“Through this education and awareness campaign, our hope is that people will read the message and then mail the postcard to someone they think would benefit from this warning," says Peterborough Police Chief Murray Rodd. "We don’t want one more person in our area to be victimized by this scam. We want people to read it, sign it and send it.”
Peterborough Police also want to spread the message about this campaign and the postcards through the power of social media—they have created the hashtag #postcardsforprevention—so share this campaign with others on your social channels.
For more information on the CRA scam, click here.
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Lacrosse Legend John Grant Jr. Was Just Given A Key To The City
/On Sunday (August 21st) in the Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame at the Memorial Centre, Mayor Daryl Bennett presented lacrosse legend John Grant Jr. with a key to the city.
It was a brief and private moment: Since Junior is a private and modest person, he thought a quiet ceremony would be fitting.
This is only the 13th time a key has been awarded by the city—a tremendous honour for Grant who has given so much to Peterborough sports.
This is Junior's last season with the Peterborough Lakers as he is retiring from his beloved team. Grant, 41, has been playing in the Lakers system since he was four years old.
Grant has won five Mann Cups while in Peterborough and MVP twice, and will retire as one of the biggest stars in Peterborough sports history.
—post by Scott Arnold
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East City Is Having An Open Air Movie Night On A 24 Foot Screen On Hunter Street E.
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