Lotto Max Draw Major Winning Ticket Believed To Be Sold In Peterborough
/According to OLG, tickets worth $1 Million in Tuesday nights Lotto Max draw were sold in Peterborough.
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Peterborough Musicfest Announces Summer 2022 Concert Lineup
/Peterborough Musicfest has announced their lineup for the 2022 summer concert series, on Wednesday at the Silver bean Cafe.
Volunteers and Board Members celebrate the 2022 lineup announcement. Photo by Angela O’Grady
The summer will feature 16 concerts, on Saturdays and Wednesdays beginning at 8 p.m. at Del Crary Park.
Organizers, sponsors and the public gathered at the Silver Bean Cafe on Wednesday awaiting the line up announcement.
This summer will feature musicians as follows:
July 1 - The Spoons, with fireworks to celebrate the start of the season.
July 2 - Gowan
July 6 - Sam Roberts Band
July 9 - New Pornographers
July 13 - ‘All Revved Up’ a Meatloaf Tribute
July 16 - Dwayne Gretzky
July 20 - Last Waltz a Tribute to The Band, with Special Guest The Webber Brothers with a tribute to Ronnie Hawkins
July 23, 27, 30 - To Be Announced
August 3 - JJ Wilde and Suzie McNeil
August 6 - To Be Announced
August 10 - The Strumbellas
August 13 - Chicago Transit
August 17 - Hotel California a Tribute to The Eagles
August 20 - Closing night, act to be announced.
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25th Annual Father’s Day Smoke & Steam Show at Lang Pioneer Village Museum Set For June 19
/The 25th Annual Father’s Day Smoke & Steam Show at Lang Pioneer Village Museum will take place June 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Photo courtesy of Lang Pioneer Village.
Local collectors will bring to life some of the oldest antique tractors and steam engines around as they compete for over 20 awards including Best Unique Exhibit, Best Display and Lang Pioneer Village’s Choice.
The tractor games, including lawn tractor races, begin at noon.
Tractor rides will be available, and the museum open as usual.
The day will conclude with a tractor parade through the historic village beginning at 3:15 p.m.
Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors (60+), $7 for youths (ages 5-14) and free for children under 5. Family admission is also available for $40 and includes 2 adults and up to 4 youths (ages 5-14).
Visitors may purchase admission in advance via the Museum’s online shop, but advance purchase is not required. For more information, please visit www.langpioneervillage.ca.
Voice of Business: A Bigger Mandate Comes With Increased Expectations
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Ontario has elected a Progressive Conservative government with an even larger majority but with it comes increased expectations.
As a Chamber, we would like to congratulate all of our elected officials on their successful campaigns, including Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith, Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini and Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott. We look forward to working with you to build a stronger community.
Additionally, we would like to thank all of our local candidates and their teams of volunteers who put in many hours knocking on doors, talking to residents, and tackling local issues. While it didn’t result in a seat in the legislature, those hours of community engagement have a substantial impact as we try to sort out our priorities for the future. Creating meaningful dialogue and grassroots momentum on local issues is at the core of the democratic process.
With the election behind us, it’s time to put our attention on governance. The first term of this government saw a host of newly elected MPPs — but now most, including our local MPPS, are seasoned veterans. They dealt with a worldwide public health crisis, sky-rocketing housing prices, record-breaking inflation, and a major labour force and skills shortage. But now those issues aren’t new. The expectation is that re-electing local leaders should allow them to take the last four years of experience and planning to hit the ground running. We expect to see results.
Our role as a Chamber is to be non-partisan on the politics and push our elected representatives to act on local business and community issues. We welcome the support of all parties and candidates in progressing policy that will build, support and provide opportunities for the local business community to thrive.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has a four-point plan called Vote Prosperity which lays out priorities for our newly re-elected government:
1. Improve Business Confidence and Predictability
Predictability is fundamental to business confidence, economic recovery and prosperity. Businesses need a stable policy environment with clear timelines, contracts, consultations, and strategies to help them plan for the future and make long-term investments. Given the uncertainty brought on by COVID-19, Ontario must also bolster its pandemic preparedness in response to ongoing and future threats.
2. Foster Business and Economic Growth
The dual economic and public health crises of the past two years have left many businesses and households in Ontario with record levels of debt and financial instability. Pro-growth measures for business will fuel economic recovery. Ontario will need to focus on actions that support business access to the capital, markets, and talent that they need to grow.
3. Build Resilient Communities
A strong economy is built by healthy and resilient communities. Ontario will need to address challenges within our health care system, the ongoing impacts of climate change, access to housing, municipalities’ fiscal capacity to support regional economies, and infrastructure deficits.
4. Support Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Ontarians’ entrepreneurial spirit is one of the province’s greatest competitive advantages. Ontario will need to foster an environment that encourages new business ideas and investments to boost productivity and create the jobs of tomorrow.
Building a stronger business community over the next four years needs to involve social change as well, including greater engagement and consultation with Indigenous communities, investing in growth that helps meet our climate change goals, and addressing the mental health, addictions and poverty issues that have become much more visible in our communities.
While our expectations for building a stronger community are high, we don’t expect our politicians to do it alone. In fact, we prefer them not to. Besides their local Chamber of Commerce, there are a host of community organizations, non-profits, charities, businesses and residents that want to help. We’re invested in building a more sustainable and resilient community and our expectations involve our local leaders working with the talent, experience, and voices available in Peterborough and the Kawarthas.
Content provided by the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce.
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Record Checks Can Be Obtained Online As Of June 13
/The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is moving record checks online as of June 13.
Stock Photo.
The online application process will allow members of the public to apply quickly, easily and securely for:
• Criminal Record Check (CRC)
• Criminal Record and Judicial Matters Check (CRJMC)
• Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC)
• OPP Non-Parent Custody Check (LE213)
Payment will be collected electronically as part of the online application process, with results delivered directly to the applicant through a secure portal link.
The fees for record checks remain unchanged:
• Record checks: $41.00
• Fingerprints: $90.00
• Volunteer checks: free
The new process will allow those living in OPP-policed communities to submit requests for police record checks at opp.ca/recordchecks.
Local Farmer Heading To Ukraine To Help Provide Food To Areas Destroyed By Russian Attacks
/Local man David Black will leave his own farm in Stirling behind and take off on Thursday to help operate a tomato farm in Polonne, Ukraine that provides seedlings to areas of the country that have been destroyed by Russian occupation.
David Black ( right, green jacket) with a group of refugees he helped to transport on his last trip. Photo courtesy of David Black.
Thursdays trip will not be Black’s first trip of the year to aid Ukraine.
Black travelled to Poland for about three weeks in March and, with a friend, volunteered to transport those fleeing Ukraine away from the Poland/Ukraine border.
After driving thousands of kilometers across Europe, Black decided that the 140km/s speed limits weren’t for him. His girlfriend also pointed out that joining the army may not be a good option for the semi-retired Private Investigator.
“What I can do is farm,” he said.
The Ukrainian Government has exempted farmers from military duty, though Black points out that many are still volunteering.
“They’re exempt from fighting, but there’s going to be a lot that say ‘well this is the right thing to do, this is my country.’”
Black reached out to friends he made during his last trip, and spread the word that the was willing to farm.
He received an email from a woman, written completely in Ukrainian. While he does not speak the language he recognized the word ‘ферма’ which means farm.
He contacted a young Ukrainian woman he transported to Germany and she has become his translator.
That mystery email lead him to connect with a family farm in Pollone, a town located between Lviv and Kyiv that was in need of help.
This farm grows tomato seedlings, which are then shipped to agricultural areas of Ukraine that have been destroyed by Russian bombs and fighting, in hopes to restore food production.
A local farm worker unloads Ukrainian-made fertiliser from a truck to use on a wheat field near the village of Yakovlivka after it was hit by an aerial bombardment outside Kharkiv. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Thomas Peter.
Black says the Ukrainian people he met on his last trip made such a lasting impact on him, he knew as soon as he left that he would be back.
When he finishes this trip, which he says will be three weeks long, he will return to his farm in Stirling to work what might be considered busy season in Canadian farming.
When that is over he says he will return to Ukraine for a third time to farm again.
During this trip he will bring with him a suitcase full of medical supplies and letters to Ukrainian children written by children at a local elementary school.
“The teacher asked if I could bring these letters with me and I thought it would be an absolute honor, to arrive with supplies in one hand and letters in the other.”
Initially, Blacks plan was to take a train from Lviv to Polonne though due to recent bombings in Lviv the trains have temporarily stopped. If they are not running by the time he arrives he plans to make the long trip via bus.
Black has been told that there is one farm hand there that took one year of English in high school.
“I think by the time I come back I’ll speak Ukrainian and they’ll speak English.”
Anyone that wishes to donate to David’s trip(s) can do so by sending an ETransfer to black.david100@gmail.com
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Anti-Islamophobic Vigil Commemorated Anniversary of Family's Death In London
/It was an incident that shook Muslims and the rest of the province as Stephanie Benn with New Canadians Centre (NCC) held a vigil outside city hall commemorating the lives lost from an attack last year in London, Ont. on Monday afternoon.
Hassan Mohamad, Kawartha Muslim Religious Association president, reflects on the Afzaal family killed on a Sunday walk in London, Ont. one year ago in an act of Islamophobia during a vigil. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
Roughly 30 people with signs and flowers gathered to honour the sudden deaths of the Afzaal family (Yunmah Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Talat Afzall and Salman Afzaal).
Their lives were lost by a car that deliberately jumped a curb and struck them. Yunmah’s nine-year-old brother at the time was the only survivor of the incident.
The attack was considered ‘hate-motivated’ according to the London police.
"I was pretty shocked but I wasn't surprised because of the incidents that happened priors to those,” said Hassan Mohamad, Kawartha Muslim Religious Association president. “The Quebec incident and the Mosque here in Peterborough that the community helped us support and bring it back to life."
Members of the NCC detailed the lives of each member that was lost during the ceremony and preached how Islamophobia needed to be curbed.
“I think it's important to recognize the issue and the hate that Muslims have encountered, not only in Peterborough but across the province and across Canada," said Mohamad. "I think education is important and they need to understand what Islam is and how Islam is peace and the clothes you wear are a manifestation of that peace.”
Mohamad says the incident should create more awareness and education for everyone to help bring down any stigma of being Islamic.
“It's not just the clothes that make a Muslim,” he said. “It's the faith, it's the teachings and the practices so I think it's important that people understand those ideas.”
Peterborough PSW Facing Charges After Incident Involving Fraudulent Cheque
/A 40-year-old Peterborough woman is facing several charges after an incident involving a fraudulent cheque.
Photo by Luke Best.
Recently, the Peterborough Police fraud investigator was made aware of an incident in which suspicious activity was noticed on their 92-year-old family member’s bank account.
Through investigation it was discovered that a cheque had been used and deposited to the account of a personal support worker who had been in the home.
Further investigation discovered a second cheque given to the accused’s child by a family member that was altered to reflect a different amount.
As a result, 40-year-old Darlene Wellington of Peterborough was arrested and charged with:
Possession of property obtained by crime under $5000 in Canada
Possession of a forged document with intent
The accused’s name in this case is being released because there is concern that there may be other victims in the community.
The accused was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
Peterborough Area Roller Derby Returns After Two-Year Hiatus
/The skates are being strapped on again as Peterborough Area Roller Derby kicks off their season with their first roller derby match since March 2022 announced Monday night.
The PARD last match was a win against Durham Region Roller Derby’s DRRD’y Farmers in March 2020, just a week before the world closed down. File Photo.
