Curbside Green Waste Collection Extended to Friday
/The City of Peterborough's curbside collection of green waste has been extended one week, ending on Friday.
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Voice of Business: The Chamber Wishlist For Ontario’s 2023 Budget
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While some businesses are leading our economic recovery and will be well-positioned for a potential economic slowdown, others continue to face significant challenges.
The Government of Ontario recently released the 2022 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review titled Ontario’s Plan to Build: A Progress Update.
As a Chamber of Commerce, we support the government’s emphasis on fiscally prudent investments targeted towards businesses and individuals in most need of relief. Directing assistance toward the specific businesses and sectors that most need it will help the government to focus on some key issues Ontario’s economy needs urgent action on, like healthcare.
For budget 2023, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce is urging the Province to introduce measures around:
Health: Develop a robust strategy to tackle the health human resources crisis (e.g., by leveraging technology and innovative scope of practice and patient care approaches). Implement Ontario’s life sciences strategy. Address the surgical backlog and deferred cancer treatments, diagnostics, procedures, and routine immunizations. Address the mental health action gap (including the opioid overdose crisis). Continue to expand virtual care and digital health. Support the aging population (e.g., through innovative models of care).
Housing affordability: Preserve and build affordable housing options along the housing continuum. Safeguard sustainable growth. Plan infrastructure around complete communities. Address regional challenges in housing supply. Attract and retain skilled workers. Streamline the development and permitting process.
Transportation and supply chains: Invest in land, air, rail, and marine infrastructure to support the efficient movement of goods and services, reduce gridlock, and protect against extreme weather events and other disruptions. Provide financial support to help small and medium-sized businesses adopt supply chain risk management and diversification strategies.
Transit: Support municipalities in filling transit gaps and adjusting transit services based on long-term changes resulting from the pandemic. Address gaps that have resulted from the withdrawal of regional bus service by expanding GO transit, partnering with the private sector, and re-establishing Ontario Northland transit service.
Broadband: Work with municipalities, the telecommunications industry, and local distribution companies to urgently address barriers to private sector broadband deployment (e.g., by exploring “dig once” strategies, future-proofing infrastructure, and identifying opportunities for better data sharing).
Procurement: Modernize broader public sector procurement to focus on long-term value creation over short-term costs. Introduce more flexibility in contracting arrangements to attract more investments. Help small businesses access procurement opportunities.
Energy planning: Adopt a more proactive approach to building transmission and distribution infrastructure. Optimize existing clean energy assets in the procurement and siting of new generation. Integrate low-carbon fuels and electricity solutions within the energy system.
Climate adaptation: Implement a climate adaptation strategy and commit to providing communities with adequate and sustained funding for climate resilience. Support the federal Task Force on Flood Insurance and Relocation.
Decarbonization: Support cleantech research and innovation at post-secondary institutions. Adopt a bold strategy for low-carbon exports. Support municipalities and businesses with electrification of their fleets. Fast-track investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Energy efficiency: Expand conservation and demand-side management programs that help reduce energy costs and consumption for households and businesses, with a focus on small businesses.
Small businesses: Help small business owners with succession planning as they age out of the workforce. Expand and scale small business digitization programs.
Municipal fiscal capacity: Commission an independent review of municipal responsibilities to assess which order of government is best placed to manage them. Undertake a comprehensive review of the province’s property tax system. Commit to funding all municipal services in which the Province controls some aspect of the operation (i.e. the pay-for-say principle).
Economic reconciliation: Support Indigenous partnerships, procurement, education, employment, and entrepreneurship by building on the innovative Three Fires Nations‐Ontario Southwestern Ontario Infrastructure and Economic Opportunities Table.
Cannabis: Provide a comprehensive update on the implementation of the recommendations in the Auditor General’s 2021 value-for-money report on the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation. Allow licence holders and retailers to enter into direct commercial relationships with each other to negotiate their own product mixes, prices and delivery terms.
Mining: Work with industry and Indigenous communities to develop critical mineral supply chains in Ontario. Further, streamline mining regulations. Increase the Ontario Flow-Through Tax Credit.
We’ve been through a lot of unprecedented situations and there’s no playbook for the path ahead. We’re on the road to recovery from a worldwide pandemic while heading into a possible global recession. What we need from Ontario’s government is a clear and predictable path toward long-term growth, productivity, resilience, and competitiveness.
Content provided by the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce.
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Five Counties Children’s Centre Announces Backyard Summer Social For June 24
/Five Counties Children’s Centre (FCCC) is hosting its second annual Backyard Summer Social on June 24 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. announced on Tuesday.
In 2021-22, FCCC served and supported 5,588 kids in the region. there is a waiting list of 2,516 children for therapy at Five Counties with an average wait time of 18-24 months. more than 90 per cent are waiting for speech and language therapy as well as occupational therapy. Photo courtesy of FCCC.
The event is in support of FCCC’s speech therapy and occupational therapy programs for children and families in the region. In its inaugural year, the event raised more than $45,000.
“Nothing says season’s greetings better than the gift of the summer season for loved ones on your holiday shopping list,” says Lyn Giles, FCCC director of fund development. “Getting an early-bird ticket to the Backyard Summer Social makes for a great holiday gift. The event is a celebration of the start of summer for guests to enjoy an afternoon of fun-filled activities that lets you be a kid again.”
The adults-only event is considered a ‘backyard picnic for adults’ according to the FCCC. The event is at Five Counties Children’s Centre, located at 872 Dutton Rd. It features food, fun and unique activities, live music, and live auction according to the press release. Guests can ditch their gala attire in favour of comfortable summer wear.
“This is a great opportunity to give your loved one a unique experience, while supporting a great cause,” said Giles. “Speech and occupational therapies make up 90 per cent of our waitlist at Five Counties. The more children we can get off the waiting list and into therapy services, the more opportunities they have to gain independence and enjoy a better quality of life.”
Tickets are available for $125 each and can be purchased online.
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Popular Children's Education Youtube Star Blippi To Perform at Peterborough Memorial Centre on Mar. 10
/Popular Youtube star Blippi is bringing his entertaining kids’ education antics to town at the Peterborough Memorial Centre for his ‘Blippi: The Wonderful World Tour’ show on Mar. 10 announced on Tuesday.
lippi has become a worldwide sensation with more than one billion monthly views on YouTube and more than 50 million fans around the world. Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Memorial Centre.
The character Blippi is being played by professional stage performers selected specifically for the stage show.
Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. with presales beginning Wednesday, November 30 at 10:00 a.m. They can also be purchased online, over the phone at 705-743-3561 or in person at the Grant Thornton Box Office.
Families can also purchase a photo experience add-on to meet Blippi’s portrayed character and get their picture taken with him in one of his machines at the end of the show. Children aged 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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City Council Sworn In During Inaugural Meeting
/The inaugural Council meeting for the swearing-in of the 2022 - 2026 City Council was held at the Austin Doran Hall in the Mount Community Centre on Monday.
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The ceremony’s venue was changed from Council Chambers at City Hall to allow for additional seating. To comply with room capacity limits, reserved seating was available for residents and family and friends of the newly elected Council members.
The meeting was live-streamed on the City’s website and the recording of the session is also available online.
This was the only agenda item forr the meeting. Council next meeting, sitting as Finance Committee and General Committee on Monday.
Fleming College To Host Virtual Housing Seminar For First-Time Landlords
/Fleming College and Places4Students are hosting a virtual housing seminar for residents in campus communities to become first-time landlords from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday.
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During the seminar, both representatives will answer questions attendees may have, including how to screen prospective student tenants, how to create a rental agreement and how to list a room on Places4Students. They will also offer free general listings to local landlords during the month of December.
You can join the free seminar virtually here.
For more information contact the off-campus housing office at och@flemingcollege.ca or by calling 705-749-5530 ext. 1125.
Peterborough Fire Services Extinguishes Wolfe Street Tent Fire
/Peterborough Fire Services aided someone out of a fiery tent on a property on Wolfe Street, east of Aylmer Street, on Sunday.
Peterborough Fire Services have responded to fires at the Wolfe Street tenting site eight times in the last four weeks. File photo.
Fire Services originally responded for a possible fire and found a campfire under a tarped enclosure. While extinguishing the campfire, firefighters saw a tent with a person inside that began to ignite. Firefighters and a pedestrian alerted the occupant and helped them get out. The fire was immediately extinguished shortly after. Peterborough Paramedics assessed the individual and did not go to the hospital as a result of the incident.
Tenting and open-air burning is prohibited on City property except where permitted in Beavermead Campground according to the City of Peterborough. In the winter, health and safety concerns are heightened with exposure to extreme cold and the increased risk of fire and carbon monoxide poisoning from unsafe heating sources.
Social Services outreach workers regularly reach anyone who are experiencing homelessness and who are tenting to offer assistance with accessing available shelter and housing services.
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Registration Now Open for Social Procurement Information Sessions in Peterborough
/Register and join a virtual information session on how the City of Peterborough’s recently-updated Procurement By-Law introduces social procurement priorities into decision making on City purchases on Dec. 6 or Jan. 11.
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Social procurement is a way for the City of Peterborough to elevate the social, economic, cultural and environmental impact by leveraging existing procurement activities to achieve positive social value outcomes.
Peterborough City Council voted on Sept. 26 to update the City’s Procurement By-Law to include social procurement, and the City has since started a three-year social procurement implementation strategy.
The City is offering information sessions on the social procurement policy and implementation. Anyone is welcome to join from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on both Dec. 6 and Jan. 11, but the content will be of particular interest to any current or potential vendors to the City of Peterborough.
The City will be email a link and call-in number to the meeting, either of which can be used to join virtually. Both information sessions will be held on Microsoft Teams.
During this engagement, you will:
Learn about the policy updates
Prepare for social procurement implementation
Have the opportunity to ask questions
To join:
Download the latest version of Microsoft Teams
Arrive a few minutes early
Be prepared to explore new possibilities together
Bring your questions
Register using the City of Peterborough’s website.
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Lakefield Foodland Giving Free Turkeys To Those In Need For Dec. 14
/Lakefield Foodland is getting in the holiday giving spirit by giving away free turkeys to local families in need will be brightening Christmas for local families on Dec. 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sarah Blestoe at Lakefield Foodland and Ross gave away turkeys last year to those in need on Dec. 15 PHOTO COURTESY OF LAKEFIELD FOODLAND.
“A lot of people can use a helping hand at this time of year. We want to offer our assistance to the people in Lakefield and area,” said Ross Bletsoe, Lakefield Foodland owner We have purchased frozen turkeys to give away to those in need. We support a lot of local charities, non-profit organizations, and sports groups, but this turkey giveaway lets us put our assistance ‘right on the table’ for those who need it most.”
Turkeys are limited to one per family while supplies last.
Recipients are asked to provide an address and identification prior to receiving a turkey.
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Peterborough Museum and Archives to Fund Signage Project Through Tourism Relief Fund Grant
/The Peterborough Museum and Archives (PMA) received $100,000 from Regional Tourism Organization 8 (RTO8) through FedDev Ontario to attract visitors and support future growth through its Signage Project.
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