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.
Speak out, share your story, and end the silence around violence against women
Washboard Hank’s guide to the best breakfasts in Peterborough – Part 3
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.
Inspiration behind design for new Canadian Canoe Museum revealed at public meeting
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.
False idols – a review of X-Men: Apocalypse
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.
15 years of watering young minds at Peterborough Children’s Water Festival
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.
Lakefield College School actors tackle intense subject in The Laramie Project
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.
Raising the voices of victims and survivors of crime
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 Business Beat for May 23, 2016
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.
Washboard Hank’s guide to the best breakfasts in Peterborough – Part 2
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 Lock Street Diner.
New television series captures life on South Pond Farms in Pontypool
Danielle French, owner of South Pond Farms, is a busy woman. Between the weddings, workshops, supper clubs, and house concerts that are part of day-to-day life on South Pond Farms, she found time to speak with me about a new project: a reality television show.
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