Lakefield's The Chocolate Rabbit is opening a new location at 72 Hunter Street East in Peterborough's East City on November 21, 2023, with a grand opening celebration on December 2. Opened and operated by the Webster family of Lakefield, the East City location is the chocolate shop's third location. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)
There’s some good news and bad news for Peterborough residents with a sweet tooth.
The good news is that Lakefield’s The Chocolate Rabbit is opening a new location in East City just in time for the holiday season. The store at 72 Hunter Street East will open on Tuesday, November 21 with a grand opening taking place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 2nd.
The bad news is that Flossophy, a popular candy store located just across the street, will be closing after Christmas Eve.
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The Chocolate Rabbit’s East City shop is its third location, joining the original Lakefield location and a second location in Bancroft.
A signature shop in the village of Lakefield for the past 17 years, The Chocolate Rabbit at 11 Queen Street was founded by Lois and Larry MacEachern in 2006. When Lois decided to retire, Lakefield entrepreneurs Elaine and Scot Webster and their family took over the business in August 2021, committing to keep the MacEacherns’ traditions and legacies alive, including the shop’s popular “mudbugs” — bite-sized chocolate-covered caramel and almond candies lightly sprinkled with sea salt.
In July 2022, the Webster family expanded by opening a second location at 16 Bridge Street West in Bancroft, in the building formerly occupied by the Fudge Factory & Emporium.
The entrance to The Chocolate Rabbit’s new East City location at 72 Hunter Street East, which will open on November 21, 2023 followed by a grand opening celebration on December 2. Pictured in the reflection is East City candy shop Flossophy, located across the street at 75 Hunter Street East, which has announced it will be closing on Christmas Eve after more than two years. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)
The Chocolate Rabbit’s new location in East City was previously occupied by a barber shop and is currently being renovated.
“Even though this will be a third location added to the mix, it will still present each and every one of our customers with the same charm and village-like experience,” reads a media release on Saturday (November 11) from the Webster family.
“The grand opening will consist of getting to know the Webster family, checking out the new location in East City Peterborough, a draw to win a few personalized Chocolate Rabbit gift baskets and, of course, taste-testing some of our amazing chocolate. It will be fun for the entire family so feel free to bring yours along for this exciting and spectacular day that you won’t want to miss.”
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While East City will be welcoming The Chocolate Rabbit in December, it will also be saying goodbye to another popular independent candy shop. Danielle McIver, owner of Flossophy at 75 Hunter Street East, announced on social media on Friday the retail storefront would be closing after Christmas Eve after more than two years.
McIver first launched Flossophy — which initially specialized in multiple flavours of hand-spun cotton candy — as an online-only business in March 2020 during the pandemic. She opened the East City shop in June 2021 and began selling gourmet popcorn, homemade chocolate, candy apples, soft-serve ice cream, gummies, and novelty candy, expanding the product line earlier this year to include flour-based confections including Japanese mochi donuts.
While the East City storefront is closing, McIver says the Flossophy brand will continue.
“There are still things developing and I will tell you as soon as I am able,” McIver writes on Facebook. “We will make sure you know where you can get your Flossophy fix, don’t worry.”
This story has been updated with the November 21st opening date of The Chocolate Rabbit’s East City location.
Juno award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot, who moved from her hometown of Hamilton to the Haliburton Highlands in 2020, launches an Ontario tour in support of her latest album "Healing Power" with a performance at Market Hall Performing Centre in downtown Peterborough on November 30, 2023, with Ennismore musician Melissa Payne opening. (Photo: Mat Dunlap)
There’s something about the great outdoors that agrees with musician Terra Lightfoot, who recently released her latest album Healing Power and will be performing at Peterborough’s Market Hall at the end of November.
Whether walking alongside a rural dirt road in her Haliburton Highlands home or sitting atop a majestic Austrian mountain, the Juno award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist is at peace and, as such, inspired.
“The first time I was in Austria was about five years ago,” recalls Lightfoot, who was beginning a three-month European tour at the time. “Despite how well my career was going, I wasn’t feeling as great about it as maybe I should have. Healing Power is about where I was at that moment five years ago. I started to write songs about things I had never written about — friendships, a friend struggling with addiction, and my childhood. For me, that was healing.”
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Released in mid October, Healing Power is Lightfoot’s fifth studio album and the springboard for a tour of Ontario that includes a return to Market Hall Performing Arts Centre on Thursday, November 30th. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show, being opened by Ennismore native Melissa Payne, cost $20 ($25 for cabaret seating) and are available online at www.markethall.org.
On that Austrian peak, Lightfoot sang and played guitar in the shade of a lonely larch tree. For her, that tree symbolized perseverance. She resolved, then and there, to keep growing and changing.
“I later brought my husband to Austria to that same tree,” she says, referring to American musician Jon Auer (The Posies, Big Star, Sky Cries Mary), noting Auer shot the Healing Power album cover photo there. “We hiked up that same mountain. It took just as long, if not longer. When I was originally up that mountain, he was not in my life. I met him a few days later, which seems miraculous.”
Juno award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot released her fifth studio “Healing Power” in October 2023. The album cover features a photo of a tree in Austria symbolizing perseverance for Lightfoot. She later brought American musician Jon Auer, who she has since married, to that same tree. (Cover photo: Jon Auer)
“If you get the vinyl copy of the record, there are a bunch of hidden messages that we put into the design,” Lightfoot adds. “One of them is something we always say to each other before every show: ‘To the healing power of rock and roll’.”
“I know from being at shows, whether I’m an audience member or whether I’m on the stage, everyone feels better after. I’ve never walked out of a show feeling worse than I did when I came in. Music is healing for all of us, no matter what kind it is, no matter who’s playing it. It always feels good.”
Since Lightfoot’s first serious step onto a stage in 2010 as a member of the country-folk band The Dinner Belles, the Hamilton native has left her audience feeling more than good, her multi-octave mezzo-soprano singing voice and explosive electric guitar talent capturing, and keeping, rapt attention en masse.
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In 2011, Lightfoot’s self-titled debut album put forth a modern folk sound but, come 2014, that changed dramatically when indie rockers Gus van Go and Werner F came on board to produce her follow-up album Every Time My Mind Runs Wild. Now there was a rockier power-pop edge to Lightfoot’s sound that was here to stay.
If there’s such a thing as a breakout year, 2017 was it for Lightfoot as her third studio album, New Mistakes, was nominated for a 2018 Juno Award as the Adult Alternative Album of the Year. For his part, producer van Go was shortlisted for not only a 2018 Juno for Recording Engineer of the Year but also long-listed for a 2018 Polaris Music Prize.
In October 2020, Lightfoot released Consider The Speed with a new producer in Jay Newland. For Healing Power, however, the duo reunited.
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“He (van Go) and I have a really good thing going,” understates Lightfoot. “We just feel very comfortable together. We can say anything to each other. We can say ‘I don’t like that. Let’s move on’ or ‘You know what? I love that. Let’s chase it’. The inspiration is always there with us, and there’s a lot of trust. That’s really important in the studio. You’ve got to trust the person you’re working with.”
Reflecting on her evolution as a songwriter and performer, Lightfoot says it has been “a great ride.” That said, she notes her emergence as a solo performer wasn’t all that sure-footed.
“That first record, I was so afraid to share with anybody other than the band,” she recalls, adding “The band actually threatened to put it out under their own name if I didn’t go to (independent record label) Sonic Union and ask them to put it out.”
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“I think a lot of it for me has been confidence,” Lightfoot reflects. “That has often come from people ahead of me in the business, whether it’s Whitehorse or Blue Rodeo. Different bands that have brought me on tour, I got a lot of encouragement from them. Also from my old country band, The Dinner Belles, I got so much confidence.”
Noting her great aunt played lead guitar and sang in a country band in the 1970s and, in the decade prior, her grandmother played piano on the VIA train between Toronto and Montreal, Lightfoot says, in hindsight, it’s hardly a stretch that she followed her own musical path.
“As a musician, you always need to know there’s a reason to keep going,” says Lightfoot. “In my family, it was what people did. But I also love it. I love travelling with my friends. I have a great band. It’s a great thing to be able to go on the road and play music with your buddies.”
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Buddies like Melissa Payne, whom Lightfoot first met at the Peterborough Folk Festival and has become closer to over the past four years.
“She and I get along like a house on fire,” says Lightfoot. “She’s so much fun and so talented — a great songwriter. When I heard her song Darker Than Your Dark, my mind was blown. She’s always up for a laugh. That’s my favourite thing about her. I love playing with people who also have fun off stage.”
Payne isn’t the only local musician that Lightfoot is a fan and friend of. She mentions Jimmy Bowskill in the same vein. She recorded “Anyone But Me” — the first demo for Healing Power — at his Cobourg studio, which ended up on the album pretty much as is.
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Lightfoot is also no stranger to Peterborough’s Market Hall, having performed there last December with roots rockers Blackie and the Rodeo Kings — Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing, Colin Linden, John Dymond, and Gary Craig. In fact, she joined the Juno award-winning band as a special guest on every date of their 25th anniversary cross-country last year and has continued to tour with them this year.
“It feels really good coming back there (to Peterborough) on my own steam,” says Lightfoot. “I’ve always felt very connected to Peterborough, especially since I’ve become better friends with Melissa, James McKenty, and Greg Keelor. It’s such a great community. I’m not from there but I feel like I’m part of it.”
Married just this past August to Auer — she calls Healing Power “her honeymoon record” — Lightfoot is loving the country life, with the Hamilton native having moved to the Haliburton Highlands with her then-fiancé in late 2020.
Juno award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot with Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (left to right: Gary Craig, Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing, Tom Wilson, and John Dymond) enjoying a standing ovation from the audience after a December 7, 2022 concert at Market Hall Performing Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Bruce Head)
“There is a great sense of peace you obtain from living in the woods,” says Lightfoot. “I’ve been inspired in a way I never was before living here.”
“My trips to record in the city … you get that two and a half hour drive, which is great because I love to write when driving — pulling over and writing lyrics. I’ve stopped many times. Only one time was I stopped by a cop for pulling over at the wrong part of the highway. He called in on his radio and said ‘Uh, we have a 36-year-old female taking notes’. I was like ‘I’m not taking notes, I told you I’m writing a song’.”
The Healing Power tour, says Lightfoot, will wind up in her hometown, where she has been writing with fellow Hamiltonians Tom Wilson and Daniel Lanois.
Juno award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Terra Lightfoot, who moved from her hometown of Hamilton to the Haliburton Highlands in 2020 with her then-fiance and now-husband Jon Auer, finds the rural setting to be inspirational. (Photo via Terra Lightfoot on Facebook)
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“As an artist, there’s pressure to always be producing something new, which I don’t necessarily adhere to,” confesses Lightfoot. “But for the first time, I feel ready to start writing again as a new record is coming out. I’ve always felt so exhausted from touring but this time I’m like ‘Yeah, I can see myself doing that again’. I’ve normally taken about three years between records but I don’t think I will this time.”
Not lost on Lightfoot is the prospect of longevity in the music business and the challenges associated with that.
“How many women over the age of 50 are still touring? Not a lot. That’s part of my reason that I look to the future and think ‘OK, what’s going to happen if nobody keeps going?’. You’ve got to keep trying to make your best, most authentic work. What do we have if not that? I’m 37. I’m already over the hill so I might as well just keep going.”
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When all is said and done, Lightfoot is grateful for what has been “an amazing life.”
“I’m married to someone who had a very successful career. He’s a little bit older than me, so it’s very funny to have my career kind of blossom alongside having him with me. For him, it’s just normal but I’m like ‘Wow, this is really cool. It’s very exciting. Always.'”
For more information about Terra Lightfoot and to stream her music, including Healing Power, visit www.terralightfoot.com.
A 26-year-old Peterborough woman is facing a charge of first degree murder after a 60-year-old Lakefield man died on Friday afternoon (November 10).
At around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, officers were called to a home in the Queen Street and Burnham Street in Lakefield where they found a 60-year-old Lakefield man with serious injuries.
The man was transported to Peterborough Regional Health Centre where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
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Police arrested a 26-year-old Peterborough woman at the scene, who has since been charged with first degree murder.
The accused woman is being held in custody for a court appearance on Saturday.
There will continue to be a police presence in the Queen Street and Burnham Street area as the investigation continues.
Meg Nimigon is a Peterborough-based team synergy coach who helps teams and team leaders build synergy and create a workplace that endorses productivity through team culture. Largely focused on remote teams, Nimigon builds their work culture by getting to the root of the problem with one-on-one coaching with team leaders and through a Team Synergy Program which uses insight from individual interviews with team members to create a journey to building trust through facilitated workshops. (Photo: Jennifer Moher)
As the landscape of the workplace continues to evolve post-pandemic (if we can even call it that), so too does the debate around remote work.
But, according to Peterborough-based team synergy coach Meg Nimigon, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for what works best for each team and workplace. What’s most important, she explains, is that leaders recognize the change and are willing to adapt.
“We need to look at being open to different ways of working in the future,” Nimigon says. “Leaders today need to be forward thinking and have skillsets in adaptability, imagination, creativity, confidence and trust — all of these skills that we’ve always known to have been important but have almost gone to the backburner.”
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Using education in applied theatre (which uses theatre-based exercises to build connections) and having spent years working online long before it was mainstream, Nimigon has built a toolkit for helping remote teams and their leaders build what she calls a “dream culture,” with a large focus on teams who work remotely.
She nurtures these connections for teams through either one-on-one coaching with leaders, a team synergy program where she takes teams on a “journey” with intentional facilitated workshops based on individual team member interviews, or some combination of both.
“It’s very interesting to see the multiple perspectives on a team,” Nimigon says. “Leaders have one perspective of the team culture based on their own viewpoint, but that’s the tip of the iceberg. Underneath the tip, there are people at all levels who know different information and have different perspectives.”
For team synergy coach Meg Nimigon, the longstanding debate around remote work in a post-pandemic workplace does not have a one-size-fits-all solution, but depends on the core values of the organization and how they work together and build work culture. (Photo: Jennifer Moher)
But, Nimigon explains, it’s essential for the goals of the business, organization, or team to use these varying perspectives to create cohesiveness and culture.
“Most of the reasons that you’re not hitting your sales targets, or whatever it may be, is because the team isn’t working effectively together where people’s minds are being managed,” she says. “There’s a big tie to revenue, retention, (and) productivity because when people aren’t feeling connected with one another, what happens is they don’t reach out for help if they need it. Instead, they spin at their desks, they make assumptions, their confidence goes down, they don’t go above and beyond, and they just feel invisible.”
Nimigon states that in the ever-present debate around workplaces staying remote versus returning to the office, one of the central arguments against remote work is largely the result of a misguided belief.
“A lot of people have the mindset that you can’t build team culture remotely and if we want to connect or we want to have team culture, it needs to be in person,” she notes. “But team culture is not about your location, it’s not about whether you’re hybrid or remote or in person — that is neutral. It’s the story that you bring to it that’s going to define how successful you are with your team culture.”
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So how do leaders create a successful team culture? According to Nimigon, the first step is to be intentional in creating it.
“A lot of people have a mindset that it will be really hard, and it will take a lot of work and it’s going to be really uncomfortable,” she says. “But it’s actually really hard, takes a lot of work and really uncomfortable when you don’t do it. Eventually you have to just decide to be intentional about building it — it’s not going to build itself.”
Opposing what people might often think of team culture, she explains it doesn’t come from one afternoon of team-building exercises and it’s never a finished product, but rather something that must be attended to.
As work culture is constantly changing, one of the main arguments against remote work is a belief team culture cannot be built online. A longtime fan of remote work, team synergy coach Meg Nimigon says this is a myth. While remote work might not be right for every team, it should be an intentional decision based on the team style and preferences. (Photo: Jennifer Moher)
For Nimigon, team culture requires two things: a clear “scaffolding” of what is expected and what is not (outlining team values, business purposes, decision-making processes, and jobs), and understanding the human behaviours and what people need to feel valued and trusted.
“When we see bad team culture or when we see team culture that’s struggling, it’s usually a lack of trust because you’ve got the playbook but you don’t have people behaving in the way the playbook is. You’re not following your values and you’re not living them out, so people don’t trust you.”
She says doing a deep dive to understand the human needs of the team is what ultimately helps them adapt their culture, making it transferable from the office workplace to the remote workplace.
“It’s about finding out what’s really going on below the surface, and what people need in order to thrive,” she says. “Then it’s building that into the culture so that no matter what changes in the future in terms of the playbook, you have the relationships and the trust to navigate moving forward because things are changing constantly.”
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Nimigon uses this idea to refute an argument against remote work that leaders ultimately lack “control” over teams due to the flexible schedules and the combination of home and work life. She says a team that has already built up that trust and support won’t have those concerns.
“I always try to remind people that you can still create whatever culture you want — you just have to be clear about it,” she says, suggesting that leaders can certainly require teams to be online for meetings during certain times of the day, but the key is to lay out these rules to the team.
“Building that clarity might feel too controlling, but it’s actually giving people more freedom when they know what they can and cannot do and they don’t have to question themselves,” she explains. “It all comes down to having clear expectations and having common ground where everyone understands.”
In a constantly changing post-pandemic world, team synergy coach Meg Nimigon expresses the desire to see a work culture that is results driven as opposed to time-based driven, wherein team members feel trusted and supported in their work and understand the boundaries and guidelines that are set in place. (Photo: Jennifer Moher)
Nimigon adds that another way to manage this flexibility is to move towards a work culture that is more “results driven” as opposed to “time-based driven.”
“It’s another mindset shift, from needing to sit at desk for eight hours per day and taking your half-hour lunch,” she says. “We’re seeing that type of work style is actually not that valuable and (results in) a lot of wasted time and energy and that can burn us out.”
Through Nimigon’s coaching, one of her main goals is to have leaders questioning everything to make sure there is intention, purpose, and reasoning behind every decision.
“It’s important to understand the reason behind the rule and not just making rules for the sake of it,” she points out. “Some people will make a rule from the place of not trusting, which isn’t helpful because it just sends the message to the team that they’re not trusted. But when you’re creating a rule for flexibility, empowerment, and autonomy, and then you communicate that to the team, then there’s understanding that it’s there to help us thrive.”
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Though she’s in favour of remote work that is results driven, Nimigon recognizes it won’t work for every team. She encourages leaders to think about why they prefer hybrid or in person workplaces, and whether that’s related to a misconception about the difficulty of building work culture online.
“I definitely don’t think there’s one way to do it,” she notes. “You want to think very strategically about the value you want to provide to the world and what the best way is to do that with your specific team — and not worrying about what other teams are doing. Engage your own team in that conversation.”
Meg Nimigon combines her background as a personal coach with an education in applied theatre and years of experience working online to help leaders and teams build their “dream culture” in remote workplaces. (Photo: Jennifer Moher)
Creating that conversation, trust, and clarity, she explains, will go a long way to get to that human-centred future of work she’s hoping for.
“The thing I love about my work is that I help leaders become better leaders, and I help teams become better teams — but that really just helps people be more themselves and bring out their own gifts to the world which then effects a beautiful team culture,” she says. “Then outside of that, they become better human beings who aren’t stressed and feel the confidence that they need to show up and be their best selves.”
In 2020, the Ontario Provincial Police released a sketch of how Francis Harris might have looked like in 1992 at the age of 65 if she was still alive. Her husband Stan, who passed away in 2021, always maintained she had abandoned the family and he was not involved in her disappearance. (OPP-supplied image)
A police search earlier this week of a property in the Apsley area has found no evidence in connection to the cold case of Francis Harris, a 45-year-old mother of three who disappeared without a trace 51 years ago from her home on Highway 28 just south of Apsley.
On Tuesday (November 7), members of the Peterborough County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit, UCRT (Urban Search and Rescue Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) Response Team, and Canine Unit conducted a search inside and around a barn on a property originally owned by the family.
Police conducted the search based on information received from the public. On Friday (November 10), the OPP reported no evidence was found during that search that would assist in moving the investigation forward.
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The same property had already been searched in 2012, after police received a tip that prompted them to spend three days examining the vacant land that was once the site of the family home (it had burned down in 1990 and is now where the Apsley Veterinary Services is located). Ground-penetrating radar and heavy machinery found nothing.
Francis Harris was last seen on Friday, April 21, 1972. That morning, she had travelled with her 42-year-old husband Stan for one of his regular physiotherapy appointments at 9:30 a.m. in Peterborough. After leaving the appointment, the couple stopped in Lakefield on the way back to Apsley, where Stan went to the bank and Francis went to the post office.
A witness reported seeing the couple together in the family car on Highway 28 later that morning. Stan said the couple ate lunch together before he left for his job at the Department of Highways (now the Ministry of Transportation) by 1 p.m., although witnesses claimed seeing his car (along with another car) at the family’s home during that afternoon — a report Stan denied.
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Francis was never seen again. Stan — who reported her missing three days later — claimed she had abandoned the family, although many of her possessions (including her purse) remained in the family home. Subsequently, there were many rumours about the couple, including infidelity in the marriage. Stan, who had always maintained he was not involved in her disappearance, passed away in June 2021 at the age of 92.
On April 21, 2020, the OPP issued a media release stating they were continuing their investigation into Francis’s disappearance and included a forensic artist sketch of what she may have looked like in 1992 at the age of 65 if she were still alive. Today, she would be 95 years old if she were still alive.
The disappearance of Francis Harris continues to be an open investigation under the direction of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch.
Anyone with information about this case can contact the Peterborough County OPP at 705-742-0401 or 1-888-310-1122 (case #20090023). Anonymous tips can be made to Peterborough Northumberland Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or online at stopcrimehere.ca.
Anne Shirley Theatre Company's production of "Alice" by British playwright Laura Wade runs for six performances from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University. (Graphic: Anne Shirley Theatre Company)
Anne Shirley Theatre Company is presenting an updated version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale with a production of Alice by British playwright Laura Wade for six performances from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space.
First premiering at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 2010, Wade’s modernized take is a mash-up of parts of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from 1865 as well as its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass, while borrowing elements from The Wizard of Oz.
The dreamy Alice of the original story is recast as a modern-day teenager who, dealing with grief after a family tragedy involving her beloved brother, finds herself leaving her Sheffield home to enter a topsy-turvy world filled with surreal but familiar characters including the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter and the Hare, the Queen of Hearts, Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee, and more.
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Anne Shirley Theatre Company is a student-run, not-for-profit theatre organization at Trent University aiming to provide opportunities for students to experience all aspects of theatre, both on and off the stage. Established in 2003, the theatre company’s name comes from the title character of its inaugural production Anne of Green Gables.
The company’s production of Alice, directed by Paige Nelson and Liam Hammond, features a diverse cast and crew including Ava Becker, Harper Caldwell, Tristan Cruise, Samantha Daly, Oskar Ferguson-Glaspell, Lela Fox-Doran, Tia James, Ashton Kelly, Anand Kumar, Chancellor McGuigan, Everett McIntyre, and Callum Sywyk.
“We believe there is a lack of inclusivity within the theatre industry that causes new and experienced artists alike to stop performing and lose the joy that being a part of a production brings, which is why we are excited to continue our work to make theatre accessible to all with our upcoming production of Alice,” reads a media release.
For its production of “Alice” running from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space, Anne Shirley Theatre Company is offering pay-what-you-can days (minimum $5, cash only) on November 10 and 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside the Wenjack Theatre. (Photo: Anne Shirley Theatre Company)
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Alice runs from November 17 to 26 at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Gzowski College at Trent University (1600 West Bank Drive), with evening performances at 7 p.m. on November 17 and 18 and November 24 to 26 and a 2 p.m. matinee performance on November 19.
Tickets can be purchased online at anneshirleytheatrecompany.com for $15 plus a fee and on the Trent University campus for $15 cash only on selected dates until November 23.
Pay-what-you-can days (minimum $5, cash only) take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, November 10th and Wednesday, November 15th outside the Wenjack Theatre.
Sam and Ryan Weber of The Weber Brothers and Fiddling Jay Edmunds are reuniting as The Lazy Devils to perform their unique brand of western swing and gypsy jazz at the Black Horse Pub in downtown Peterborough on Friday night. (Photo: The Lazy Devils)
Every Thursday, we publish live music events at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region based on information that venues provide to us directly or post on their website or social media channels. Here are the listings for the week of Thursday, November 9 to Wednesday, November 15.
If you’re a pub or restaurant owner and want to be included in our weekly listings, please email our nightlifeNOW editor at nightlife@kawarthanow.com. For concerts and live music events at other venues, check out our Concerts & Live Music page.
With the exception of karaoke, we only list events with performing musicians. Venues may also host other events during the week (e.g., dancing, DJs, comedy shows).
Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Lee-Anne Quinn, president of the Frank Poley (Peterborough) chapter of the Canadian Association of Veterans in United Nations Peacekeeping, speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the UN Peacekeepers Monument in Peterborough's new urban park on July 1, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Sean Bruce)
Canadian Forces veteran Lee-Anne Quinn is one of six people named as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Peterborough, who will be celebrating the recipients with a dinner and ceremony next week.
Named for Rotary International founder Paul Percy Harris, Rotary’s highest recognition is given to both Rotarians and non-Rotarians who exemplify Rotary’s motto of “Service above Self” in the categories of community, international, vocational, youth, and environment. Each recipient receives a Paul Harris Fellow certificate and a Paul Harris pin.
The other five people named as Paul Harris Fellows by Peterborough Rotary are Myke Healy and Darlene Callan (youth), Dorothy Taylor (environment), Kathi Curtin Williams (community), and Kateryna Sysoieva (international).
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Quinn was named as a Paul Harris Fellow in the category of vocational service, which focuses on adherence to and promotion of the highest ethical standards in all occupations, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the contribution of vocational talents to solving the problems of society and meeting the needs of the community.
For 22 years in the Canadian Forces, Quinn worked as an air medical evacuation nurse and U.N. peacekeeper, deployed in Somalia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan as well as isolated First Nations and Inuit communities in northern Ontario and Yukon.
After retiring from the military in 2008 with the rank of major, she moved to her hometown of Peterborough where she continued to worked as a nurse practitioner in primary health care. She received the Governor General’s Award of Military Merit in 2006 and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2012.
18-year-old Syrian refugee Rashid Sheikh Hassan, who recently came to Canada with the support of a sponsor group including Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Lee-Anne Quinn, holds her hand during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of The UN Peacekeepers Monument in Peterborough’s new urban park on July 1, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Dave McNab)
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Now serving as the first-ever female honorary lieutenant colonel in the Hastings and Prince Edward County Regiment, Quinn is also part of a group of Peterborough-area residents who have sponsored Syrian refugees to come to Canada.
Quinn was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Peterborough’s meeting on Monday (November 6), where the key message of her talk was “every human on the face of this Earth deserves to be treated humanely.”
Members of the public are invited to help Rotary celebrate Quinn and the other five Paul Harris Fellows on Monday, November 13th at the Peterborough Golf and Country Club, beginning with a social gathering at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased by contacting Rotarian Bill Crins at bcrins@cogeco.ca and sending an etransfer to treasurerpeterboroughrotary@gmail.com.
Reggie Maranda of Mcthirsty's Pint (left) and Garrett Bulmer of Bobcaygeon Brewing Company (right), pictured with Mauricio Interiano and Paris Nguyen of the New Canadians Centre, raise a pint of West Coast Pale Ale, the third beer in the 'Community Brew' series, with a portion of sales to be donated to New Canadians Centre. (Photo: Luke Best / Bobcaygeon Brewing Company)
Bobcaygeon Brewing Company has released the third beer in its “Community Brew” collaboration series in partnership with McThirsty’s Pint in downtown Peterborough, where a portion of sales supports a local charitable organization.
The craft brewery launched the new brew on Wednesday (November 8) at its taproom at 649 The Parkway in Peterborough.
Bobcaygeon Brewing Company describes its West Coast Pale Ale, with 5.5% alcohol by volume, as having a “bold hop aroma and flavour, characterized by a clear, amber-gold colour and a balanced malt profile” and showcasing “citrus and pine notes from the hops.”
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With each beer in the Community Brew series, $1 from every pint sold and 50 cents from every can sold is donated to a local charitable organization. Proceeds from the West Coast Pale Ale will be donated to the New Canadians Centre in Peterborough, a non-profit organization that helps newcomers settle and integrate into the community.
The West Coast Pale Ale is available now in cans at Bobcaygeon Brewing Company and online at bobcaygeonbrewing.ca, and will also soon be on tap at the brewery’s taproom and at McThirsty’s Pint at 166 Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough.
The first two beers in the Community Brew series were Blackberry Raspberry Goose in support of One City Peterborough and Kolsch in support of the Otonabee Region Conservation Authority.
Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is located at 1 Hospital Drive in Peterborough. (Photo: PRHC)
A 16-year-old girl from London, Ontario has been arrested in connection with a bomb threat against Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) last week.
At around 11:15 a.m. last Tuesday (October 31), Peterborough police were informed by PRHC that the hospital had received several threatening phone calls, including one about a bomb threat.
As part of the PRHC’s emergency procedure, the hospital immediately declared a “code black” — an emergency code in response to a bomb threat — and initiated a perimeter lockdown.
Through an investigation, police determined the threat was not credible and was being made by a person in another community. However, in accordance with PRHC’s policy, Peterborough police and hospital security conducted a safety search of the building, and it was cleared several hours later.
On Friday (November 3), police officers in London executed a warrant on behalf of Peterborough police and arrested a 16-year-old girl, who has been charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.
The accused teenager was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in court on November 27.
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