It’s a familiar script that’s as heartwarming as it is predictable: the Peterborough’s arts community coming together in a very big way to help one of its own.
Peterborough artist, actress and musician Sarah McNeilly has felt the love in a very big way the past few weeks.
Hundreds of years ago, French Canadian voyageurs used large birchbark canoes on the Great Lakes and the Ottawa River to transport and trade furs. This summer, you can experience a taste of the voyageur’s life by taking the Voyageur Canoe Tour, one of many “on the water” programs offered by Peterborough’s Canadian Canoe Museum.
In recognition of Canada’s Victims and Survivors of Crime Week (May 29th to June 4th), YWCA Peterborough Haliburton has launched a new website to collect stories from survivors of violence against women and from those who know women who have experienced abuse.
In this four-part series, local musician and greasy spoon expert Washboard Hank guides his daughter, food writer Eva Fisher, through some of the best diners in Peterborough. This week features The Speak Easy Cafe.
It makes much more sense to be near the creek with a paddle than up it without, and the sooner the better if you’re in any way connected to the Canadian Canoe Museum.
That was the core message passed on Thursday night at the museum (910 Monaghan Road, Peterborough, 705-748-9153), as the museum outlined the inspiration for the design for the museum’s planned new home adjacent to the Trent-Severn Waterway.
We fear what we do not understand. This simple yet elegiac adage has been the rhetoric of the X-Men since issue #1 was printed on September 10th, 1963, a time that is still greatly associated with rebellion and social-political upheaval.
For 15 years now, the Peterborough Children’s Water Festival (PCWF) has been delivering water-related education through a variety of hands-on, interactive activities.
As the school year winds down, high school drama groups all over North America are ramping up their annual year-end productions. But while the high school musical is the expected fare of the season, the students at Lakefield College School are taking on a much intense production.
In Lisa Clarke’s world right now, all roads lead to Thursday, June 2.
The community engagement and project manager with the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre (KSAC) is the lead organizer of the Sexual Consent Conference at Trent University which begins that day and wraps up the next.
If that’s not enough to make this busy woman busier, Lisa is also involved in the staging of “The Power Of Our Voices”, an event for survivors that takes place at Peterborough’s Market Hall on the evening of June 2nd.
The week features The Law Studio expanding to Peterborough, Fransky Mechanical opening in Peterborough, Delectable Fine Foods gourmet food store, Dandelion Day on Saturday, the nomination deadline for the Peterborough Chamber Business Excellence Awards, an a workshop on mobile technology for seniors.
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