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Vinnies Opens New Location In Lakefield
/Vinnies brand new location in Lakefield (144 Queen St, Unit #1) is now open, with lots of people already dropping by to check it out.
The new space looks great. Here are some pictures from the new location that Vinnies posted to their Facebook page...
The Canal Is Green-Flagged For Skating!
/We are doing a triple axel with the news that the green flag is up on the Trent Canal, meaning conditions are safe to skate there!
Indeed, the City of Peterborough just tweeted out the great news...
It's A Girl! PRHC Welcomes First Baby Of 2018
/Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) has announced that their first baby of 2018 was born on Monday, January 1st.
Photos Above & below courtesy PRHC
Proud parents Sabina Perez and Chris Curwin of Port Hope welcomed their first child—a girl they named Ivory Kathaleen Curwin—into the world at 10:54 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Baby Ivory weighed in at 8 lbs. 4 oz. and measured 21 inches long.
Chris and Sabina at home with Ivory
Sabina and Chris arrived at PRHC at about 4:30 a.m. Monday morning, and Ivory came into a world just a few hours later. Chris, a native of Peterborough, said the couple had chosen to deliver at PRHC and that the experience was an extremely positive one for them.
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Couple MacGyvers Homemade Curling Rink & Rocks On Pond Near Kinmount
/Taras Pater and his wife Bonny Anderson had friends up to their property on Wasyl Pond near Kinmount, and were looking for a fun outdoor activity to keep them busy.
Since their visitors didn't have skates, Taras and Bonny suggested constructing a curling rink on their pond, and set to improvising both a rink and curling rocks in the most Canadian of ways.
Photo courtesy Taras Pater
Taras tells PTBOCanada how they built it:
"We shovelled off the snow and the ice looked pretty rough underneath. So we proceeded to cut a hole in the ice and poured buckets of water over the surface to smooth it out. As it was very cold out, the water froze fairly quickly.
The next trick was making curling 'rocks'. I cut some 4" slabs of pine and screwed in some old kitchen cabinet door pulls that I inherited from a reno to make the handles. When we first tried tossing them, they were way too light and did not glide well at all."
Photo courtesy Taras Pater
Photo courtesy Taras Pater
Bonny can up with a tweak that made all the difference and allowed the rocks to switchin' to glide, Taras tells PTBOCanada.
"My wife, Bonny, came up with the brilliant idea of dipping the bottoms of the rocks in the hole we cut. The water froze up quickly and after about a dozen or so dips and freezings of each stone, we had a good inch of ice on the bottoms of each rock."
"Not only did the stones get considerably heavier, but they also got a great amount of glide as well," adds Taras, who doesn't curl himself but whose mother-in-law Maxine is an avid curler in Lindsay. "We considered painting a house as well but opted for a wood stump as a target instead."
Photo courtesy Taras Pater
Here is a close-up of the rocks that Taras MacGyvered from 4" slabs of pine and old kitchen cabinet door pulls...
Photo courtesy Taras Pater
Oh, and one more neat timbit, er, tidbit from Taras about where the rink was constructed:
"I had the privilege of naming the pond, Wasyl, after my deceased father, as almost all of the pond lies on our property and I noticed it was unnamed on Google maps."
Bonny and Taras
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Sneak Peek: Inside New Lakefield District Public School
/Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board has put together a great teaser video taking people inside the new Lakefield District Public School.
The video shows the hard work taking place in preparation for the school opening on January 8th.
Watch it below...
How The Team At Riverview Park & Zoo Is Working To Save An Injured Reindeer's Eye
/Aurora the Reindeer came to the Riverview Park & Zoo in the fall of 2013 when she was just 6 months old. She has been a fixture at the zoo since then, delighting kids and parents alike.
But Aurora, now 4 and a half years old, has suffered a serious eye injury—the zoo suspects she was injured by one of the other reindeer's antlers, as they can be a little feisty with each other at times.
The zoo team works to save Aurora's eye
"When we noticed her injury, we corralled her into one of the holding buildings in the exhibit where she was sedated by one of our consulting veterinarians," Zoo manager and curator Jim Moloney tells PTBOCanada. "We then moved her to the Animal Health Centre here at the Zoo."
The injury was severe when they began treatment, Moloney tells PTBOCanada:
"Her eye had been somewhat dislodged and was protruding significantly from her eye socket. Consulting Veterinarians Dr. Sallaway and Dr. Cranfield were able to carefully return it to its normal position. They also flushed the eye and have taken precautions to keep it in place as well as to prevent infection."
Now it's a bit of a waiting game to see if Aurora's eye will heal properly, and whether she will regain her vision.
"There is a chance that there will be some permanent damage to her vision, but it is difficult to tell at this point," says Moloney. "We will have a better idea once she has had a chance to heal."
At this time, Aurora remains in the Animal Heath Centre—probably until next week—and has been having daily examinations/treatment by the Animal Care Team.
Our prayers to Aurora.
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McLean Berry Farm Shocked After Receiving Notice It Might Be Kicked Out Of Saturday Farmers Market After 27 Years
/Buckhorn's McLean Berry Farm has been a staple at the Saturday Farmers Market in Peterborough since 1991—the year Jane and Sam McLean bought the farm, and started attending the market—but their existence at the market is now under threat after receiving notice they might be evicted.
Indeed, they are one of seven local growers (the others are Circle Organic, Otonabee Apiary, Ashburnham Farms Gaelic Garlic, Finest Gourmet Fudge, Chef Marshal and Necessitea Elixir) who may be expelled from the market after allegations of disruptive behaviour that has hurt the market's reputation.
Photo courtesy McLean Berry Farm
In a heartfelt Facebook post that begins "Our farm is under attack....and we need your help" that is getting hundreds of shares, McLean's writes they are "shocked", "confused" and "hurt" by the possibility of being terminated from the market at a January 8th Farmers Market meeting that will determine their fate.
Here is an excerpt from the Facebook post...
"Just before Christmas we were sent a letter from The Peterborough Saturday Farmers’ Market (The Peterborough District Farmers Market Association Board) telling us (and the six other vendors) that a meeting and vote will be held on January 8th to terminate all seven of our memberships and our abilities to sell at the Peterborough Saturday Farmers’ Market.
We are so proud to farm, and proud to be a part of this community and have the amazing local support that we do have. It fills us with joy to hear that people love our farm, what we grow and that they they’re able to access fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets. We are so grateful for all of the community support over the years, because it means that our family farm has been able to grow and that the next generation can come in and continue this legacy; however losing the ability to sell at this market is undermining our success as a local farm, and it’s undermining the success of local agriculture throughout our entire community.
We don’t understand why our livelihood as a local farm who has been selling at the market for the last 27 years is suddenly in jeopardy. We don’t understand why speaking up and asking for openness, transparency, fairness and honesty has turned into wanting to remove us from the market."
You can read the Facebook post in its entirety below...
Erin McLean, who wrote the Facebook post on behalf of the family farm, tells PTBOCanada that the response to her Facebook post has "been generally phenomenal, if not a bit overwhelming."
"We have so many messages of kindness and support—I've been in tears more than a few times reading the amazing things people are writing about our farm and their love of us and local farms at farmers markets and why these markets need to continue to support local farms."
Photo courtesy McLean Berry Farm
