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/Environment Canada has issued a fog advisory for Peterborough and surrounding areas 11 a.m. Thursday.
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U14 Peterborough Petes Take Home Gold in Aurora Hockey Tournament
/The U14 Mader Property Maintenance AA Peterborough Petes secured the gold at the 52nd annual Aurora minor hockey tournament over the weekend.
Photo courtesy of Craig Meredith.
In their first game, the Mader Property Maintenance boys played the Toronto Royals. Peterborough entered the third period down 2-1 but mounted the comeback, scoring three unanswered goals for a 4-2 win.
Their second game against the Aurora Tigers had the Petes down 2-1. The latter willed back into the game with a late third-period goal just 25 seconds after Aurora took the lead with the teams, ending in a 2-2 tie.
In the third of the tournament’s games, the Petes took on the Ottawa Sting. Peterborough held a lead late into the third period but an unfortunate bounce off a Petes player tied the game and eventual final score of 2-2.
The Petes faced off against the London Knights in their fourth game. The 2-1 score for the Knights eventually jumped to 5-1 as some penalty problems troubled the Petes in the third period resulting in the team’s first loss of the tournament but made the playoffs anyhow.
Their semifinal playoff match saw an immediate rematch against the Knights. The Petes got revenge for their prior loss, keeping their penalty troubles in check and securing the 2-1 win into the finals.
“Great effort all around from top to bottom as Peterborough put the (earlier Knights game) result behind them and played a full game,” said Craig Meredith, assistant coach. “Coaches (are) so proud.”
In the finals, the Petes had a good start, leading 1-0 against the Flamborough Sabres going into the second period. Peterborough rode their momentum in a big way, scoring five goals against the Sabres for a 6-0 lead. The Sabres’ fighting spirit was valiant, scoring two goals late in the third period but ultimately fell short of the wide margin and Peterborough came out as champions with a 6-2 win.
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4th line Theatre Holding Auditions For Two Upcoming Summer Productions On Feb. 4
/4th Line Theatre is holding auditions for two of their summer productions, D’Arcy Jenish’s ‘The Tilco Strike’ and Robert Winslow’s ‘The Cavan Blazers’ announced on Wednesday.
Cast members from Alex Poch-Goldin's The Great Shadow in 2022. Photo courtesy of Wayne Eardley and 4th Line Theatre.
Auditions and interviews are held at The Theatre on King located on 171 King St. (entrance at the back of the building) on Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Meetings are conducted based on the order of arrival. Prior acting experience is not required. The Theatre encourages those with limited acting experience but has an interest to consider auditioning.
“Volunteers have been the cornerstone of 4th Line Theatre’s creative activities for 30 years since its inception in 1992,” said Kim Blackwell, managing artistic director. “This is where the community and art meet. This is a real opportunity to express yourself, learn and grow and join our team.”
Cast members from Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow's Crow Hill: The Telephone Play of 2018. Photo courtesy of Wayne Eardley and 4th Line Theatre.
The Tilco Strike is written by D’Arcy Jenish and is directed by Cynthia Ashperger.
It recounts the year-long fight between 35 poorly paid women and their hard-nosed male bosses at Tilco Plastics in Peterborough who were determined to crush the women and their union according to 4th Line Theatre 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.
Cast members from Robert Winslow's The Cavan Blazers in 2011. Photo courtesy of Wayne Eardley and 4th Line Theatre.
The Cavan Blazers was written by Robert Winslow and directed by Kim Blackwell.
It 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 as stated by a press release.
Any questions about auditions can be directed to 4th Line Theatre’s artistic administrator Emma Hale at 705-932-4505 or emma@4thlinetheatre.on.ca.
Former Peterborough Pete Declan Chisholm Selected to AHL All-Star Classic
/Former Peterborough Petes defenceman and Manitoba Moose’s Declan Chisholm is headed to Laval, Que. as he was selected to the American Hockey League’s (AHL) All-Star Classic announced on Wednesday.
The Manitoba Moose is the AHL farm team of the NHL’s Winnepeg Jets. Chisholm played two NHL games with the Jets during the 2021-22 season. Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.
The two-day event takes place from Feb. 5 to 6 with the skills competition on the first day and a three-on-three round-robin tournament on the second.
Each division has 12 players with rosters determined by committees consisting of coaches and all 32 teams are represented by at least one All-Star. Chisholm is the only member of the Moose selected.
The Bowmanville-born defenceman has the second-most points with the Moose with three goals and 19 assists for 22 points in 30 games this season. He was a 2018 fifth-round pick of the Winnipeg Jets. Chisholm has 14 goals and 51 assists for 65 career AHL points in 111 games.
He spent three seasons with the Petes from 2017-20 playing 173 regular-season games. He scored 21 goals and 116 assists for 137 points while tacking on another two goals and two assists in five playoff games in 2019.
Local Service Clubs Launch ‘We Can’t Wait’ Campaign for Campbellford Memorial Hospital Redevelopment
/Various local service clubs have launched the ‘We Can’t Wait’ campaign, supporting the redevelopment of the Campbellford Memorial Hospital (CMH) as part of a larger Campus of Care.
In Oct. 2021, Campbellford Memorial Hospital announced that local farmer Jim Curle had donated nearly 50 acres of land for the proposed redevelopment of the hospital. Photo courtesy of Campbellford memorial hospital.
In addition to a new hospital, the proposed development will also contain a new Long-Term Care home, a Community Mental Health Clinic, the Geriatric Assessment and Intervention Network and future plans for supportive senior housing.
With various plans to build a new hospital talked about for decades and formal negotiations with the Province nearing the ten-year mark, executive director of the Campbellford Memorial Hospital Foundation John Russell has seen his share of starts and stops when it comes to redevelopment in his ten years with CMH.
“It really feels different this time. We have the land secured, we have partnerships in place, a local Long-Term Care home ready to redevelop alongside us, and even leadership donors who are beginning to indicate their financial support,” said Russell. “Local governments across the region have expressed their support, we’ve really never been this prepared to move to the next step.”
That next step, CMH says, involves securing a planning grant and the Provincial Government’s approval to move the project forward. Although the approval will not only provide the funds required to plan and design the new facility, it will provide the needed regulatory authorization.
“Simply put, we’ve gone as far as we can without that planning grant,” Russell continued.
photo courtesy of CMH.
Lawn signs in support of CMH can be seen throughout Trent Hills and the Kawarthas, directing residents to visit the CMH website to learn how they can help support the redevelopment process and join the We Can’t Wait campaign.
“We’ve always been huge supporters of the hospital,” said president of the Rotary Club of Campbellford Dave Sharp. “We wanted to find a way to help and right now what we need most is to show the Provincial Government that our community is behind this project one hundred percent.”
Sharp and the Campbellford Rotary Club are one of the local service clubs behind the We Can’t Wait campaign.
This sentiment was echoed by president of the Campbellford Lions Club Don May. The Lions have also shown their support behind the campaign.
“We wanted to do what we could to support this project. The proposed redevelopment will be a huge benefit to our community and everyone who lives here,” said May. “Our population continues to grow, continues to age, and we need this project approved now.”
Neighbouring Rotary Clubs in Stirling-Rawdon and Brighton are also supporting the campaign, and CMH says We Can’t Wait signs will soon start popping up in those communities.
photo courtesy of CMH.
A recent analysis of CMH showed that over the next ten years the hospital will need between $25 and $30 million in renovations and repairs to keep the facility up to current standards, and even if approval of a planning grant comes, it will still take up to seven years until a new facility is ready to open.
Over the past year Public Health has closed admission at the hospital twice during COVID-19 outbreaks as the hospital lacks the infrastructure to maintain private rooms and meet modern outbreak control standards. CMH says certain parts of the facility are 70 years old and as a result lack the accessibility, technology and patient flow designs that would typically be found at newer hospitals.
“It really comes down to one of two things; do you continue to spend money maintaining a limited facility, or do you invest that money to build a modern, state of the art hospital that will be able to recruit top talent and continue to provide the exemplary care our community needs,” explained Russell.
Residents who wish to learn more or get involved with the We Can’t Wait campaign can visit the website.
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Peterborough Petes Primed For Championship Run After Trade Deadline
/The Peterborough Petes are all in for an OHL Championship after making several moves prior to the trade deadline obtaining two current champions and two World Junior gold medalists.
(From left to right) Gavin White, Avery Hayes, Owen Beck and BRennan Othmann at a Petes press conference and will be in the team’s luneup simultaneously for the first time this Thursday. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
Brennan Othmann, Gavin White, Avery Hayes and Owen Beck are four new faces to the Peterborough Petes that were traded to the team and started the season on different clubs.
Othmann was obtained from the Flint Firebirds on Nov. 12, several months prior to the deadline. The Petes dealt Artem Guryev, two second-round and one third-round pick for Othmann. He has scored two goals and nine assists in 10 games with the Petes. He is fresh off a Team Canada World Junior goal medal won last Thursday. Othmann was drafted 16th overall by the New York Rangers in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
“What I'm focused on this year and what I was focused on out there is showing my details, that I've built good details and good habits over the last few months and that's the biggest thing the Rangers are looking at,” he explained.
Othmann had two assists in the gold medal game against Czechia at the World Juniors. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
Hayes and White were pickups from the defending OHL-Champion Hamilton Bulldogs where Peterborough sent Nick Lardis, Sahil Panwar, a 2023 third-round pick and a 2026 conditional sixth-round pick on Saturday.
Both players made an immediate impact in their Petes debut in a 3-2 win over the Kingston Frontenacs on Saturday, the same day their trade was announced.
Hayes scored the first two goals for Peterborough including a powerplay goal, all in the second period. He was awarded the first star of the game for his efforts in his first game as a Pete. He had 27 goals and 14 assists in 33 games with Hamilton prior to the trade.
“The coaching staff just said 'go out there and play and don't worry about the system too much,’” explained Hayes. “The two goals were big but getting the win was most important. That's what we were brought here to do, to help the team win.”
White had two powerplay assists including Hayes’s second goal and Tucker Robertson’s late third-period game-winning goal. The defenseman had seven goals and 15 assists in 22 games with Hamilton.
“Me and (Shawn) Spearing, only had one game under our belt but I thought we worked really well together,” said White. “He's pretty shutdown and he lets me kind of do whatever I want ahead of that which is fantastic and we developed that chemistry a little more and keep it going here.”
White (left) and Hayes (right) won the OHL Championship with the Hamilton Bulldogs last season and defeated the Peterborough Petes in a 4-0 sweep in the first round of the playoffs. Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.
Beck was also a part of Saturday’s trade frenzy, obtained from the Mississauga Steelheads in exchange for Jack Van Volsen, Justin DeZoete, Peterborough’s second and third-round picks in 2025, Erie’s second-round pick in 2025 and Peterborough’s fourth-round pick in 2026.
“I knew they (Petes) had done a good job up to that point, loading up for a big playoff push and possibly a championship,” said Beck. “To be a part of that and try and help out the team is going to be a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to it.”
Beck had one assist in three games in the World Juniors after being called up to the team on New Year’s Day. Photo by David Tuan Bui.
The Port Hope forward also won a gold medal with Othmann at the World Juniors. He was a late call-up to the team on New Year’s Day after an injury to Colton Dach. He had 17 goals and 23 assists in 30 games with the Steelheads this season.
Beck has yet to play a game with the Petes and is making his team debut this Thursday against the Sarnia Sting at the Peterborough Memorial Centre. All four players will be in Thursday’s lineup together for the first time this season.
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United Way Peterborough Accepting Applications For Its Community Services Recovery Fund
/As part of a $400 million investment from the Government of Canada, the United Way Peterborough & District is accepting applications for its Community Services Recovery Fund (CSRF) to aid charities and non-profits with the deadline of Feb. 21.
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CSRF aims to support the adaptation and modernization needs of non-profit and charitable Community Service Organizations facing immediate and long-term impacts of the pandemic as they continue to support communities according to a press release.
“The Government supports a more inclusive model of economic growth that creates opportunities for everyone in Canada as the long-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continues,” said Karina Gould, Minister of Families, children and social development. “The Community Services Recovery Fund will strengthen the ability of charities and non-profits to deliver services and resources where they have the most impact. Because of the National Funders’ strong connections with local organizations, they will ensure funding is distributed efficiently to organizations that provide services to communities in need across Canada.”
Funding supports one-time projects primarily focused on program and service innovation and redesign using information gained during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough will administer the Investing in Systems and Processes stream and Canadian Red Cross Ontario will administer the Investing in People stream.
“Agencies have been going above and beyond throughout the pandemic to continually support vulnerable community members who face complex social issues,” said Jim Russell, United Way CEO. “The Program and Service Innovation and Redesign stream is a valuable opportunity for local Community Service Organizations to formally adapt their programs and services to fit within the pandemic recovery context. We are proud to have been invited by the Government of Canada to manage this vital community investment.”
To apply, applicants can fill out the application online in English or in French.
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Voice of Business: Increased Investment Needed In Critical Mineral Production
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Demand for critical minerals is expected to increase by 400 per cent to 600 per cent by 2040, according to the report titled Enhancing Domestic Critical Mineral Supply Chains commissioned by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) Critical Minerals Council.
Critical minerals — like aluminum, lithium, and nickel — will underpin our push for net zero emissions. They are an essential part of building electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, and many everyday products.
Canada is positioned as a leader in mining both in terms of innovation and access to resources. As demand is set to dramatically increase, the report prompts that Canada needs to act quickly and decisively to address barriers standing in the way of capitalizing on this opportunity. Our county has the potential to increase mining, production and processing of minerals to meet global demand.
The CCC’s Critical Minerals Council is made up of members representing upstream and downstream corporations, academic institutions, and Indigenous associations.
The report notes the foundation for any growth in critical mineral supply chains in Canada is a commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, which includes meaningful and early engagement with Indigenous governments and organizations from project conception to development and oversight.
The report contains 14 recommendations, which include:
Incentivize consumers to recycle end-of-life products with critical mineral content
Increase the scale and awareness of exploration grants
Accelerate clean energy projects
Provide targeted infrastructure investment
• Support focused research and development
Read the full list of recommendations in the report: Enhancing Domestic Critical Mineral Supply Chains.
There are valid criticisms of the mining industry, including its impact on climate change. However, demand is increasing. As a nation, we need to work with Indigenous and climate stakeholders to be leaders in environmentally and socially responsible mining practices.
Producing critical minerals domestically allows the industry to provide products for global demand under the environmental, labour, and economic scrutiny we set up, rather than relying on producers like China.
Increasing our recycling capacity and opportunities will play a big role in moving forward, but our move to net-zero emissions and global demand for electronics will require a significant amount of mining.
According to the report, electric vehicles require a far greater quantity and breadth of critical minerals than conventional fossil fuel-burning vehicles. According to the International Energy Authority, it takes about 200 kg of critical minerals to produce a typical electric vehicle. These include lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, rare earth elements, copper, and manganese. China currently dominates the lithium-ion battery market, producing about 75 per cent of global anode and cathode production.
Alternative energy productions also require large amounts of critical minerals. Solar panels require a large array to produce absorbent and conduction layers and module frames. Wind turbines require large amounts of copper, rare earth elements, and aluminum for cables, electrical components, coils and permanent magnets.
Our government recently introduced the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy, which largely aligns with the report from the CCC. The future of our plans to aggressively reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and meet the targets we have set relies on our government working with industry to responsibly and sustainably increase our mining and improve our critical mineral supply chain to become global leaders in this sector.
Content provided by the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce.
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Public Information Centre for Proposed Organics Facility in Peterborough to be Held January 26
/A public information centre on the proposed Peterborough organics facility will be held on Jan. 26 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Gold Room of the Otonabee-South Monaghan Memorial Centre (24 Fourth St., Keene)
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