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Peterborough Public Health Reminds Residents Of Prohibited Public Smoking and Vaping in City Outdoor Public Spaces
/Peterborough Public Health (PPH) has reminded residents and visitors that smoking and vaping are prohibited in area parks, playgrounds, beaches and sports fields announced on Monday.
Photo by Luke Best.
“Everyone deserves to enjoy these beautiful spaces free from exposure to secondhand smoke and vape products,” said Dr. Thomas Piggott, Medical Officer of Health. “Active enforcement of the Smoke-Free Ontario Act and the current bylaw will protect people from being exposed and support anyone who is trying to quit using cannabis and tobacco.”
Smoking or vaping in Peterborough at a park, playground, sports field or beach could result in a fine of up to $305. This includes anyone attending a Peterborough Musicfest concert at Del Crary Park.
“Our partnership with the health unit has been ongoing for several years and is quite successful,” said Tracey Randall, General Manager, Peterborough Musicfest. “We are excited to be back this season offering our concert series throughout July and August once again. As in years past, we want to make sure that the event is safe and enjoyable for everyone, which includes ensuring a smoke and vape-free experience at the park.”
Peterborough Police and Public Health Tobacco Enforcement Officers are enforcing the rules in local parks this summer according to PPH.
PPH says keeping parks smoke and vape-free keep children safe from the harmful effects of tobacco and help denormalize tobacco use. They also help protect the environment from toxic cigarette butts.
Anyone who is exposed to secondhand smoke is encouraged to report the exposure to Peterborough Public Health by calling 705-743-1000 or using the online report form available at PPH’s website and searching for “secondhand smoke.”
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StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Burleigh Beanz, Mom Bod Project, Community Futures Peterborough and Canada Day
/PTBOCanada is delighted to be running StoosNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…
Burleigh Beanz is a new coffee shop that recently opened on Highway 28, just South of Burleigh Falls.
Located in a small rustic cabin, and sharing the same parking lot as The Burger Box, Burleigh Beanz serves coffee, tea and cereal treats, as well as custom artwork, custom jewellery, and apparently the world’s best fire starters. Open at 6 a.m. every day. Stop in or find Burleigh Beanz on Facebook.
INSPIRE's newest project, the Mom Bod Project launches on Saturday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Venture North.
Celebrating and sharing the stories of all who identify as "MoM” in a fun, empowering project, plans include a festival of local businesses in the Venture North Parking lot. If you are a mom-preneur or local business with a mom/kid/family focus, or if you are interested in sponsoring the event, check out inspirethewomensportraitproject.com
Community Futures Peterborough and FedDev have responded to the recent storm with the Regional Emergency Relief Fund.
The fund provides interest-free loans of up to $50,000, to businesses that were impacted and in need of financial assistance. Businesses will be required to demonstrate loss or damages as a result of the storm and can cover everything from generators, equipment rentals, building damage repairs, lost inventory and more. For details visit communityfuturespeterborough.ca.
With Canada Day this weekend and the busy Summer Season ahead, a request to watch for the return of so many things we’ve missed over the last two years.
From 4th Line and New Stages Theatre to Showplace and Market Hall, from Friday Night Art Crawls to live music, from events and festivals to pow wows, from markets and fairs to tourist attractions, bars, restaurants and retailers, and on and on. Let’s all go out of our way to support all of the local businesses who have been so badly hurt by the pandemic.
Happy Canada Day, see you next week!
63 Year Old Peterborough Athlete Competing In World Triathlon Championship Series In Montreal
/Ab Doyle, 63, will compete in Montreal this weekend at the World Triathlon Championship Series in the Sprint Triathlon and The Sprint Mixed Relay.
Doyle, who lived in Northern Ontario working in mining as a Hoisting Engineer says he spent most of his time there playing baseball.
“The mines started closing and people started leaving, so we had to fold the league,” he said.
This left Doyle looking for something else to spend his spare time doing.
“I thought I should try something different. I ran my first triathlon in 2001 and loved it. I’ve done 151 races since then.”
When Doyle retired in 2011 he says he ‘got into racing pretty heavily’.
Since then he has attended the World Championships in Spain (2019) and in The Netherlands (2021) .
The championship hosts athletes aged 15 to over 80 and Doyle says he hopes to compete until he can’t anymore.
“Watching those younger guys, they’re obviously faster,” he said. “My only goal is to not finish last.”
As a curler with The Peterborough Curling Club Doyle’s training takes a back seat during the winter months, during which he is in the gym for about 10 - 12 hours per week.
During the summer he trains for over 15 hours each week.
“It’s quite satisfying,” he said. “It makes you look forward to something. I don’t know what would happen if I stopped.”
On Saturday, Doyle will compete in the Sprint Triathlon which consists of a 750m swim a 20 km bike and a 5 km run.
On Sunday he will compete in the Sprint Mixed Relay, swimming 300m, biking 5km and running 1.5km.
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Fleming College To Offer New Respiratory Therapy Program
/Fleming College will now be offering Respiratory Therapy diploma program through its School of Health and Community Services.
Photo by University of New Brunswick.
Registration for the Respiratory Therapy Advanced Diploma has already begun. Classes will take place at the College’s Sutherland Campus, in the purpose-built respiratory therapy lab with new, state-of-the-art equipment.
“Fleming is once again expanding our School of Health and Community Services to include programs that address a crucial need in our health care sector,” said Fleming College President Maureen Adamson. “There is a projected shortage of qualified respiratory therapists over the next decade in our region, in our province and across our country. The COVID-19 pandemic showed us how important it is to address that shortage.”
The six-semester interactive program begins in January 2023, reducing the program time from three years to two. During their time at Fleming students will learn how to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate safe, therapeutic cardio-respiratory interventions for a wide array of patients and clients. Students will graduate with the knowledge, skills, and clinical judgement to deliver optimal cardio-respiratory care.
Two 420-hour field placements take place during the final two semesters. Students will be able to complete the Indigenous Perspectives Designation offered in this program, adding a competitive advantage to their resumés.
The Fleming program has been developed to meet the National Competency Framework for respiratory therapists. Program graduates will be prepared for the Canadian Board of Respiratory Care national certification examinations to become members of the College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario.
Respiratory therapists are able to work in hospitals, long-term care homes, hyperbaric clinics with a family health team or work in a home, private business or in an independent practice. Employment income for respiratory therapists averages about $78,000 per year in the Peterborough region.
Free Admission To Canadian Canoe Museum On Sunday, National Canoe Day
/The Canadian Canoe Museum is celebrating national Canoe Day on Sunday by offering free admission to the museum.
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June 26th was coined National Canoe Day by The Canadian Canoe Museum following a CBC campaign that, in 2007, declared the canoe one of the Seven Wonders of Canada.
This will be The Canadian Canoe Museum’s final National Canoe Day celebration at their current location before they make the move to their new home on Ashburnham Drive.
This year, The Canadian Canoe Museum will be celebrating virtually and in person at the Museum so that those near and far can participate.
Construction Will Reduce Lanes On Lansdowne And Clonsilla This Summer
/Construction will begin on the Clonsilla Avenue and Lansdowne Street West Intersection on June 27.
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The project will include new storm sewers, sanitary sewers, watermain, concrete curb and gutter, road base and asphalt road structure, traffic signals, streetlights, sidewalk, tree plantings, pavement markings, installation of multi-use trails and regulatory signage as part of a full scope road and intersection reconstruction.
During construction Lansdowne Street will be reducedto three lanes; one eastbound lane, one westbound lane and one shared left turn lane.
Clonsilla Avenue will also be reduced to three lanes; one southbound right turn lane, one southbound shared through and left turn lane and one northbound lane.
There is a scheduled road closure of Clonsilla Avenue for the purpose of milling and paving operations near the end of construction. The milling and paving is expected to take four days. As a result, it is expected that local traffic may experience delays within the construction limits.
Dufferin Construction will be completing the project.
The work is scheduled to be completed by late fall 2022.
Undefeated 1974 Peterborough PCOs Honoured In Reunion at Lakers Game
/The band was back together for one night as the undefeated 1974 Peterborough PCOs lacrosse team was honoured in a reunion at the Peterborough Century 21 Lakers game on Thursday night.
Mitch Wilde, Brooklin transition; Ben Floyd, PCO coach and Robert Hope, Lakers captain in a ceremonial face-off before the 1974 Peterborough PCOs. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
The celebration was in recognition of the 150th anniversary of lacrosse in Peterborough. The PCOs were honoured prior to the opening faceoff in front of 2,334 fans at the Peterborough Memorial Centre.
Journalist Ed Arnold and his book, “Peterborough’s Perfect Season: With Benny and His Jets” was promoted and were available for sale with book signings from the 1974 team.
Roughly 18 members and staff of the team were present to accept the honour.
“When we did it (the perfect season), we didn’t think anything of it,” said Ben Floyd, 1974 PCO coach. “As the years go on and you realize that nobody has ever done that before or since, in any sport, hardly anyone has gone undefeated, it means a lot now.”
“The great thing about that is the tradition in Peterborough, if they didn’t continue to be successful which they have been over the last 20 years, it just goes to show you from the 50s, 60s and 70s and up to now, how that tradition continues so this is a big part of that tradition and I hope it continues,” said Bob Wasson, 1974 PCO captain.
(From left to right) David Soul, CLHOF executive director, RJ “Bobby” Allan, four-time Mann Cup champion (twice with the Lakers); Johnny “Shooter Davis, Mann Cup champion and Matthew Black, CLHOF chair. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
During the first intermission, the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (CLHOF) commemorated the city again with a scroll of honour that recognized the players, builders and teams involved in Peterborough lacrosse that have already been inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
The two CLHOF delegates had previously bestowed the honour to the city at the Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame last Friday.
The following are honoured members and teams of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame affiliated with Peterborough written on the scroll of honour:
1965 - Lloyd “Moon” Wootton
1969 - Ross Powless
1971 - Harry Wipper
1972 - Ike Hildebrand
1973 - Douglas Miller
1974 - Bobby Allan
1976 - Bob Oliver
1977 - Arnold Dugan
1980 - Pat Baker and Paul Parnell
1982 - John “Curly” Mason
1984 - Johnny Davis
1985 - Cy Coombes
1989 - Larry Ferguson
1991 - Ben Floyd
1992 - Terry Davis
1994 - Grant Heffeman and Lou Nickle
1995 - Don Barrie
1997 - Brian Evans
1999 - Jim “JJ” Johnston
2002 - Peterborough Timbermen (1951-56)
2003 - Bob Wasson and Jim Wasson
2004 - Tim Barrie
2005 - Ted Higgins and Clinton “Mick” Magee
2006 - Greg Thomas
2007 - Paul Evans, Kerri Hardill and Lee Vitarelli
2008 - John Grant Sr.
2009 - Ken Ruttan
2010 - Peterborough PCOs Team (1972-1975)
2012 - Bob Curtis and Craig Stevenson
2013 - Bill Armour and Joey Todd
2014 - Andy Ogilvie
2015 - Peterborough James Gang (1981-83)
2017 - Clinton “Jan” Magee and Peterborough Maulers (1986-87 & 1989)
2018 - Brian Hall
2020 - Jamie Batley and Paul Day
The Lakers earned a 12-7 win over the Brooklin Lacrosse Club after coughing up the first four goals of the game.
Peterborough never led until 11:43 left in the third period. They scored eight unanswered goals and shut out Brooklin 7-0 in the final stanza.
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Peterborough Transit Makes Temporary Seasonal Changes To Route Schedules
/Peterborough Transit is making a temporary seasonal adjustment to some route schedules starting Sunday to reflect reduced ridership during the summer.
Photo by Luke Best.
The adjustments mostly affect some early morning and evening service along with reduced frequency on some mid-day trips on some routes. Times for certain trips on Route 2 Chemong and Route 7 Lansdowne will be adjusted to improve connections with other service.
Route 2 Chemong
Times on Route 2 Chemong trips have been adjusted to improve connections with Route 6 Sherbrooke at the Peterborough Terminal.
Southbound trips departing from the Terminal before noon and after 6:30 p.m. will operate two minutes later between the Terminal and Lansdowne Place.
Southbound mid-day trips to the Terminal from Rowberry to Broadway between 12:35 p.m. and 5:55 p.m. will depart three minutes earlier.
Northbound trips from Lansdowne Place to the Terminal will operate two minutes later.
Route 3 Park
Weekday morning service will operate on an hourly frequency.
Route 4 Weller
Weekday service will operate on an hourly frequency:
Westbound from the Museum to Parkhill at Chandler between 8:23 a.m. and 1:23 p.m.
Eastbound from Parkhill at Chandler to the Museum between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m
Route 5 The Parkway
Weekday service will operate on hourly frequency:
Southbound from the Terminal to Fleming College between 8:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
Northbound from Fleming College to the Terminal between 9:10 a.m. and 2:10 p.m.
Route 7 Lansdowne
Weekday morning and evening service will operate on an hourly frequency between Willowcreek Plaza and Trent University at Gzowski College. Service along Lansdowne Street between Fleming College and Willowcreek Plaza will continue on a 30-minute frequency.
The weekday trip from Trent Gzowski at 5:05 p.m. will operate up to five minutes earlier through some intermediate locations to Fleming College.
The weekday trip from Willowcreek Plaza to Fleming College at 5:40 p.m. will depart five minutes earlier at 5:35 p.m.
Route 9 Parkhill
Weekday morning and evening service will operate on an hourly frequency.
Route schedules will be updated in September when ridership is expected to increase.
There will be no changes to the Community Bus schedules. On-demand service continues to be available throughout the summer.
Customers with questions on the route schedules can contact Peterborough Transit directly by phone at 705-745-0525 or by email at transitoperations@peterborough.ca.
Service Updates
Customers are encouraged to check their schedules and stay up-to-date with adjustments to Transit routes, including weather delays, service interruptions and cancellations:
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