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It’s time for spring cleaning (and planting)

By Matt Higgs -
Help Peterborough's Urban Forest by planting trees on May 3rd from 10 to 12 at the storm water pond in front of Peterborough Regional Health Centre (photo: GreenUP)

On Tuesday (April 22), we marked Earth Day, a day set aside to recognize and celebrate the planet we call home.

Traditionally, environment-themed events were focused on Earth Day alone. But as awareness of our fragile environment grew over the years, so did the importance of taking action to protect it — thus Earth Day blossomed into Earth Month.

Here in the Peterborough area, Earth Month is celebrated extensively with events and clean ups that are aimed to improve the health of our local environment and to raise awareness of issues outside our immediate area.

Here’s just a sampling of some of the many events that you can participate in throughout April and into May.

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Small Business – The Heroes of the Economy

By Nic Cunningham -
Entrepreneurs who run small businesses, like those on George Street in downtown Peterborough, also support the local economy (photo: Pat Trudeau)

According to Industry Canada, 98.2 per cent of all businesses in Canada are small businesses. In Ontario alone, there are a staggering 381,000 small businesses, and 75 per cent of these employ fewer then 10 people.

These stats show us that what’s really driving our economy isn’t large multinationals or the government sector: it’s the small business owner.

Starting a small business by taking an idea and forming it into a reality is no easy task. It takes time, money, and a whole lot of courage. However, the rewards can be hugely satisfying. There’s also a badge of honour that comes from owning your own business — that wonderful moment at a party or networking event when someone asks you for the first time: “What do you do?”.

At that point, you realize that you no longer just have a job: you have an idea that you’ll passionately follow until it becomes something great.

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Water Gathering to host aboriginal speakers from around the world

By Matt Higgs -

Our region will soon be playing host to aboriginal leaders from across North and South America, coming together around the important, yet often over-looked, topic of water.

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A Thinking Person’s Sex Show

By Sam Tweedle -
Cameryn Moore

Montreal-based actress Cameryn Moore has returned to Peterborough, but is Peterborough ready for Cameryn Moore? Selling out The Theatre at King last summer with her one-woman show Phone Whore, Cameryn is back with the second part of her autobiographical trilogy — Slut (R)evolution (no one gets there overnight) — for three shows at The Theatre on King from Thursday, April 17th to Saturday, April 19th.

Cameryn is touring Slut (R)evolution throughout North America and England all summer. A bold and engaging discourse on her varied and colourful sex life, Cameryn shares with the audience her sexual history, from her upbringing in a Mormon household to her current status in an open relationship.

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Win a Seinfeld Night on the Town worth over $500

By Jeannine Taylor -

kawarthaNOW, Parkhill on Hunter, and Peterborough Inn & Suites are partnering to give one “lucky twosome” a SEINFELD NIGHT ON THE TOWN on Saturday, April 26th, 2014.

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A Stand-Up Guy

By Bruce Head -

It was big news last fall when we found out that iconic comedian Jerry Seinfeld was coming to Peterborough in April to do his stand-up routine.

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Hyperlocal Theatre

By Sam Tweedle -
Bri Shields and Kyle Chivers star in "A Carnal Thing" at The Theatre on King (photo: Theatre on King)

The fusion of theatre and politics have been a long-standing tradition for centuries. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, playwrights have often used the stage as a way to voice their political viewpoints in thought-provoking and innovative ways.

Trent students and first-time playwrights Victoria Silvera and Lauren Roberts continue this tradition with their brand new play A Carnal Thing, being presented at The Theatre on King until April 12th.

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May Gathering to Celebrate Water

By Matt Higgs -
Participants from a past Sacred Water Circle Gathering discuss the importance of water and how to convey the message of its sacredness to those who make important decisions that affect the community as a whole (photo: GreenUP)

Every day each one of us uses water, but it is a luxury we take for granted.

Here in the heart of the Kawarthas, water surrounds us — it is central to our survival, lifestyle and our economy.

Many people, faiths, and cultures recognize the sacredness of water. Locally, a group of individuals from a variety of different organizations and faiths have come together to celebrate water and to foster a community ethic that recognizes the deep connections we all share with this life giving entity.

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Building Community in Unlikely Places

By Jeanne Pengelly -
The Peterborough Huskies is an inclusive hockey team for people with special needs

Put together a dozen or more passionate parents — who long for their children with special needs to have a community — and a group of equally passionate volunteers who catch the spirit, and you have what is becoming known as the greatest new inspiration on ice in Peterborough.

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The Danger of the Reference

By Elliott Burton -
Concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his protege bellboy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori). Expect to see bellboy costumes aplenty at any hip dress-up party you're attending in the next two years.

At what point does homage become theft?

We are all students of Godard and Truffaut: masters who tore open the very fabric of film and reassembled the stale American state of affairs into their own visceral and subversive vocabularies.

Yes, the French New Wave is indisputably one of the crowning glories in film, and one whose shadow looms heavily over the catalogue of supposed auteur Wes Anderson.

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