4th Line Theatre Announces 2023 Summer Season Lineup

The 4th Line Theatre has announced their 2023 Summer Season lineup starting June 27, 2023.

The Cavan Blazers, 2011. Photo by Wayne Eardley, Brookside Studio.

The season will begin with The Tilco Strike, written by D’Arcy Jenish and directed by Cynthia Ashperger, who returns after directing the 2022 production of The Great Shadow.

The Tilco Strike recounts the year-long fight between 50 poorly paid women, and their hard-nosed male bosses at Tilco Plastics in Peterborough, who were determined to crush the women and their union. The strike began in December 1965 over a $25 bonus and escalated into an epic battle between organized labour and strike-breaking employers. The women lost their fight, but changed labour relations in Ontario forever.

In August, 4th Line will remount the theatre’s flagship play, Robert Winslow’s The Cavan Blazers.

The Cavan Blazers is a gritty, intense play that has the audience on the edge of its seat from start to finish. This drama chronicles the religious conflict between Catholic and Protestant Irish settlers in Cavan Township in the early to mid-nineteenth century. Violence erupts when a Protestant vigilante gang known as the Cavan Blazers tries to stop a Catholic settlement from being established.

Kim Blackwell, managing artistic director at 4th Line Theatre was thrilled to announce this lineup for the theatre’s 31st summer season. She is also directing the theatre’s production of The Cavan Blazers.

“I am excited to present one world premiere and to bring back the play that started it all at the theatre,” says Blackwell. “Both plays look at community and what it means to be part of a community, both the good and the bad of that. This eternal search to find a collective of like-minded people, is one of the complex aspects of the human condition.”

4th Line Theatre box office will open to the public to purchase gift certificates for the 2023 Summer Season as of Nov. 1. Gift certificates for single tickets, season subscriptions and charcuterie snack boxes can be purchased in-person at the box office at 9 Tupper Street in Millbrook or online at 4thlinetheatre.on.ca.

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Fleming College Fall Open House To Run This Saturday

Fleming College is welcoming prospective students at the annual fall open houses at Frost, Sutherland and Haliburton campuses this Saturday.

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From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., attendees can check out different events taking place at each campus and speak with instructors and professors from a wide array of programs, who will be on hand to answer questions and meet prospective students.

Guests can tour our campuses, learn more about the services that are available to students and get the latest information on financial aid options, the application process, residence life and making the transition from secondary school to Fleming College.

The Sutherland Campus will commence with a land acknowledgment at the front entrance of the Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre (KTTC). There will be fitness demonstrations put on by law and justice students and instructors, and the Child and Youth Care program will be running a sensory simulation lab for visitors. There will be many other displays and demonstrations throughout campus labs and at the KTTC throughout the day.

At the Frost Campus visitors can catch some live tree climbing and blasting technique demonstrations along with interactive demonstrations on the heavy equipment simulators. Displays of rocks, minerals, geophysical equipment and specimens from Frost’s Fish and Wildlife labs will be on display.   

Visitors to Fleming’s Haliburton Campus have a chance to tour the Haliburton School of Art + Design and try their hand at felting in the Fibre Arts Studio or hand building with clay in the Ceramics Studio.  

Fleming’s Pre Service Firefighter program will be hosting its open house at the Eastern Ontario Emergency Training Academy located at 36 Industrial Rd. in Norwood. 

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Peterborough Petes Trade Prospect Marko Stojkov for a 12th Round Draft Pick

The Peterborough Petes have acquired a 2023 12th-round OHL Priority Selection pick from the Flint Firebirds in exchange for the rights to Petes prospect Marko Stojkov announced on Monday.

This is the second trade that Peterborough and Flint have made this month. On Oct. 3, the Petes acquired overage forward Sahil Panwar from the Firebirds in exchange for three Priority Selection picks.

Stojkov was drafted 235th overall by the Petes in the 2020 OHL Priority Selection. He been playing for Frölunda HC J18 and J20 in Sweden for parts of the last three seasons

The draft pick originally belonged to the Guelph Storm before being acquired by Flint.

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Local Man Arrested After Allegedly Making Multiple Bomb Threats to Boston; Including Children's Hospital

A 42-yead old Peterborough man, Joshua Kimble has been arrested for allegedly sending multiple bomb threats to several areas of Boston announced on Monday.

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The investigation was between the Boston Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and the Peterborough Police Service.

Since Sept. 9, a series of bomb threats were sent online to Boston Children’s Hospital. Over the next four days, subsequent threats were made at the Prudential Center, the Orpheum Theater, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Public Library.

Peterborough Police Investigators were granted an arrest and search warrant for Kimble and his residence.

Kimble was arrested on Sept. 26 was placed under arrest. He is in custody awaiting trial in Canada.

Kimble is charged in Canada with:

• 12 counts of Public Mischief

• 12 counts of False Information

• Failing to Comply with a Probation Order

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Peterborough Petes Take Down Defending Champions A Second Time With 5-2 Road Win

The Peterborough Petes topped the defending OHL Champion Hamilton Bulldogs for a second time this on the road, 5-2 on Saturday afternoon.

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The first period went by fast with no penalties or goals. Peterborough led in shots 9-7 going into the second.

The second period was slightly more lively Bulldog’s Noah Roberts took a major spearing penalty three minutes in. Peterborough capitalized as Jack Van Volsen crashed the net and shovelled in a Tucker Robertson rebound to get the game’s first score into the third.

The Petes had layover powerplay time from a Hamilton penalty in the second. J.R. Avon extended Peterborough’s lead to 2-0. Seconds later Hamilton captain Logan Morrison cut the lead in half. Justin DeZoete restored the two-goal lead late into the period to make it 3-1.

Hamilton had a six-on-four powerplay with an empty net and capitalized to make it 3-2. The Bulldogs pulled their goalie again but Tucker Robertson tacked on the insurance marker to make it 4-2. Nick Lardis added a powerplay goal with five seconds left to make it a 5-2 final.

The Petes next game is against the Soo Greyhounds this Thursday at home on Halloween Night.

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Ennismore Community Centre Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Community members and Selwyn Township council and staff gathered to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the construction of the Ennismore Community Centre on Sunday.

Photo courtesy of the Ennismore Community Centre.

Deputy Mayor Sherry Senis, Ennismore Ward Councillor Donna Ballantyne, local historian Paul Crough and community members whose families were instrumental in helping build the centre celebrated the milestone with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque.

In October 1972, the community of Ennismore came together with the goal of providing indoor recreational space in the area. It was a big community effort, with residents and local businesses donating their time, money, labour and equipment, and the municipality (Township of Ennismore at the time) donated profits from the sale of surplus lands while the province provided a grant towards the project.

Since the original building was constructed, the Community Centre has seen several renovations, each one reinvigorating Ennismore’s community spirit and generosity.

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Mayoral Candidate Interview: Victor Kreuz

David Tuan Bui speaks with mayoral candidate Victor Kreuz for the upcoming municipal election. Bui and Kreuz discuss Kreuz's background, identifying the problems that needed to be addressed in the city and the environment being a foundation for developing Peterborough.

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Mayoral Candidate Interview: Coun. Henry Clarke

Felicia Massey speaks with mayoral candidate Coun. Henry Clarke for the upcoming municipal election this Monday. Massey and Clarke discuss the struggles citizens have in Peterborough, the environment, homelessness and the housing crisis.

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Former Peterborough Petes' Nick Robertson Scores Two Including Game-Winner For Toronto Maple Leafs in Season Debut

From missing the opening lineup to overtime hero, former Peterborough Pete Nick Robertson netted two goals including a walk-off score to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

Robertson spent three seasons with the Peterborough Petes from 2017-20. Photo courtesy of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Robertson made his season debut in the Leafs’ fifth game after failing to make the opening night roster.

He made his first goal not two minutes into the third period, seconds after Toronto’s powerplay expired. Robertson received a pass from Michael Bunting from the far-side corner, was uncontested when making his shot and sniped it past Stars goaltender Scott Wedgewood to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.

During overtime, Robertson created a turnover as the lone man during an odd-man rush for Dallas. Toronto had an odd-man rush of their own as Robertson slapped a one-timer goal off a give-and-go pass from star Leafs forward Auston Matthews to win the game 3-2.

After the game, Robertson credited his mother for having a memorable season debut.

“She’s my rock, she’s the reason why I’m here,” he said. “To have a night like this, it’s something you dream of. I definitely put the work in, she’s put the work in more than I have to get to this point.”

Nick made his season debut against his brother and Stars forward Jason Robertson.

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Photos: Peterborough Business Social Club Returns to Full Calendar Year, Celebrating Over 75 Years

The Peterborough Business Social Club (PBSC) celebrated their second event of the Oktoberfest Social at The Social on Wednesday.

2022 marks the return of a full calendar year for the club, celebrating over 75 years of the organization’s inception. PBSC is a networking club of key individuals from local businesses, aimed at developing relationships between their members.

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