Boiling Over's Coffee Vault at 148 Kent Street in downtown Lindsay opened in 2015. (Photo via Boiling Over's Coffee Vault website)
Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault, the popular independent coffee house in downtown Lindsay that has been closed since last August, won’t be reopening.
Owners James Myette, Jamie and Taryn Bergin, and Laura LeMiere made the announcement on Facebook on Wednesday (June 15).
“As our old landlord places a ‘for rent’ sign in the window of our old location, we felt we should update our patrons because it will become clear that we will not be returning to 148 Kent Street,” they write.
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Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault first opened in 2015 as a “cozy, casual, upscale coffee house” and quickly became a mainstay for locals, hosting live music and other social events.
In August 2021, a leak from a sewage pipe caused significant damage to the location. What was originally to be a temporary closure stretched into many months, while customers anxiously inquired about a reopening date.
“Our struggles over the past ten months as we waited for the building to be ready don’t make it feasible (to reopen),” the owners write on Facebook. “One never knows what comes next. But we want to thank the community for being supportive over the years. We thank all the wonderful people who made Boiling Over’s Coffee Vault so special.”
A person familiar with the matter, who has asked not to be identified, told kawarthaNOW the delay was because the damage involved raw sewage. Environmental sampling was required, and it took almost six months before the insurance company provided clearance for the landlord to proceed with repairs.
This story has been updated with a correction (the damage was caused by a leak from a sewage pipe, not a water leak from the apartments above), and with further information as for the reason for the delay in repairs.
Peterborough rock quartet the Austin Carson Band is returning to the stage for the first time since 2019 and kicking off a summer resort tour in the Kawarthas with a show at the Red Dog Tavern in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, June 18 with special guests Nicholas Campbell and The Two-Metre Cheaters. (Supplied photo)
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, June 16 to Wednesday, June 22.
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.
A tornado at Sturgeon Lake in Kawartha Lakes on June 23, 2020. (Photo: Amy Reeds @amy_reeds / Twitter)
UPDATE – Thu Jun 16 4:48pm – The tornado watch for Hastings County and the severe thunderstorm watch for the greater Kawarthas region have ended.
Environment Canada has issued a tornado watch for Hastings County and a severe thunderstorm watch for the rest of the greater Kawarthas region for Thursday afternoon into early evening (June 16).
Thunderstorms are expected to develop early Thursday afternoon with the potential for quick intensification as they progress eastward.
In Hastings County, a tornado or two will be possible in the afternoon before the threat transitions to primarily wind.
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For the rest of the Kawarthas region (Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton), a tornado or two cannot be completely ruled out, but damaging winds and hail will be the primary threats.
For all areas, wind gusts of 90 to 110 km/h are possible along with nickel to ping pong ball sized hail.
A tornado is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation. In the event of a tornado, or if a tornado warning is issued for your area, it is recommended you take the following actions:
Go indoors to a room on the lowest floor, away from outside walls and windows, such as a basement, bathroom, stairwell or interior closet.
Leave mobile homes, vehicles, tents, trailers and other temporary or free-standing shelter, and move to a strong building if you can.
As a last resort, lie in a low spot and protect your head from flying debris.
The Morton Nature Sanctuary is a 133-acre ecologically significant property that Peterborough philanthropists Patricia and David Morton have donated to Kawartha Land Trust. (Photo: Patricia Wilson / Kawartha Land Trust)
Peterborough philanthropists Patricia and David Morton have donated a 133-acre ecologically significant property to Kawartha Land Trust.
The Mortons donated the property to the non-government charitable organization, which is working to protect land in the Kawarthas, in December to ensure its protection from future logging or development.
The new Morton Nature Sanctuary, which is home to at least two species at risk, is densely forested with stands of sugar maple, mature hemlock, and old-growth red and white pines. Throughout the rolling landscape, exposed and fractured granite is visible, and the property’s deep valleys are home to vernal pools that support frogs and salamanders in the region. The property also features a 1.5-kilometre natural and undeveloped lakefront shoreline.
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“I think it is especially important to protect our forest for the sake of its sequestering of carbon and tremendous environmental benefits,” said Dr. Patricia Morton, an emeritus professor at Trent University. “And especially for the sake of all of the wonderful habitat, wildlife, and ecosystems that it sustains.”
The Morton Nature Sanctuary is part of the “The Land Between” transitional landscape zone, and almost 60 per cent of the property falls within the Kawarthas Naturally Connected (KNC) natural heritage system.
To ensure the preservation of its sensitive habitats, Kawartha Land Trust is not disclosing the location of the Morton Nature Sanctuary and, at the request of the Mortons, the property will not be open to public access.
David and Patricia Morton. (Photo courtesy of Morton family)
“Dr. Patricia Morton and David Morton, through their donation of the 133-acre Morton Nature Sanctuary, have ensured the preserved habitat for species at risk like the eastern ribbonsnake and eastern wood pewee,” said Kawartha Land Trust executive director John Kintare.
“We’re extremely thankful to the Mortons for taking action to secure critical habitat in our region to ensure it is protected for wildlife that might otherwise be lost if the land was developed.”
The Mortons originally discovered the property in the 1970s while paddling near their cottage and fell in love with it. They acquired the property from a real estate company that had originally been planning to develop it.
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“I love that the Morton Nature Sanctuary provides habitat for bears and much wildlife, including lynx, deer, and also moose,” Dr. Morton said. “And I love that this property contains hidden, shallow little bays and many wetlands that are such rich habitat and, like the forest, comprise natural carbon sinks that are vital to curbing climate change.”
The property also features a small interior lake, constructed by beavers by damming a creek. The Mortons have called the lake “Walden’s Pond,” after 19th-century American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent over two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond on a property owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. This resulted in Thoreau’s book Walden; or, Life in the Woods, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
“We’ve known of Kawartha Land Trust and have long appreciated its work in other areas of the Kawarthas,” she added of the couple’s decision to donate the property to the organization. “We have thus seen the trust that other large landholders place in it. We have also seen the planning and careful and caring protection it provides to the lands donated to it, and the diversity of these lands which in some cases are accessible to the public and in other cases, like ours, are not. We thus feel entirely able and very happy to entrust our beloved land to the protection of KLT.”
Home to at least two species at risk, the Morton Nature Sanctuary is densely forested with stands of sugar maple, mature hemlock, and old-growth red and white pines. The property also features an interior lake with 1.5 kilometres of natural and undeveloped shoreline. (Photo: Patricia Wilson / Kawartha Land Trust)
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“We are not really losing the land by giving the property away,” Dr. Morton said. “Instead we are largely losing our worries about its future, by donating it to KLT as a nature sanctuary, to be forever protected and preserved, in perpetuity.”
Kawartha Land Trust now protects 27 properties comprising 4,800 acres, providing additional safe havens for wildlife in the Kawarthas and securing important ecological landscapes help combat climate change.
"Proxy pupil: Knowing the world but blind to the sphere" by Laura Thompson, one of the many art exhibits on display at the Erring at King George multidisciplinary arts festival in Peterborough in May 2022. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)
The Electric City Culture Council (EC3) has launched a pilot program offering grants of up to $1,500 or $3,500 for professional artists in the Peterborough area.
There are two components to the program, with the first offering grants up to $1,500 for creative research and professional development and the second grants offering grants up to $3,500 for the creation, production, and presentation of innovative new projects or works in progress in any artistic discipline taking place virtually or live in Peterborough in the next two years.
The pilot program is supported by the City of Peterborough with additional funds provided by the not-for-profit EC3, which is designing, delivering, and administering the program.
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To be eligible for the grants, professional artists must reside in the city or county of Peterborough or Curve Lake or Hiawatha First Nations and be 18 or older. Student projects are not eligible
Not all plastics are synthetic polymers derived from petrolium oil. Cellulose is a naturally occurring polymer found in the walls of plant cells. Some cellulose-based packaging has been developed, like this option used by local soap-maker, Sherrie La Masurier of Simply Natural Canada. This packaging may look like single-use plastic made from fossil fuels and destined for the landfill, but this cellulose-based wrap will biodegrade in a standard backyard composter or municipal composting facility. (Photo: Kristen Larocque)
Each week, GreenUP provides a story related to the environment. This week’s column is by Kristen LaRocque, Coordinator of the GreenUP Store and Resource Centre.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” So says Juliet in Shakespeare’s tragic romance Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is bemoaning the fact that a name may carry negative or positive connotations that are separate from the qualities and characteristics of the subject itself.
What is plastic, if not just a name we give to some polymers and not others? The word polymer means “of many parts.” One of the most common natural polymers is cellulose, which is biodegradable and found in the cell walls of plants.
Synthetic polymers, or plastics, are most often made from the abundant carbon atoms available in fossil fuels. Fossil fuel extraction has enormous negative impacts on the environment, including habitat destruction, the use and contamination of freshwater, and infringement upon the lands and rights of First Nations peoples.
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I’d like you to step back and consider the name “plastic” in this tragically wasteful romance. What do we actually mean when we say something like, “plastic is bad and we should stop using it”?
I am not here to defend plastic or waste. I am here to say that figuring out how to live more sustainably is not just about absolutes. We must think about the nuances of a problem or we may end up blindly accepting solutions that only cause more problems without even recognizing the underlying problem.
Let’s create some space to think about the complexity of our romance with plastics and the waste management strategies necessary to keep ourselves and the planet healthy.
A billiard ball made of cellulose nitrate, an early plastic predating oil-based plastics that eventually became known as celluloid (and was later used for early photographic film). John Wesley Hyatt developed the new substance in 1868 as a usable substitute for ivory in billiard balls. Hyatt formed the Celluloid Manufacturing Co. in 1871 and patented the world’s first injection moulding machine. (Photo: National Museum of American History)
How did this problem of commercial plastic begin?
In 1869, John Westley Hyatt — an inventor living in the United States — discovered that cellulose and camphor could produce a pliable material which he called celluloid. Hyatt was prompted to create this malleable material by manufacturers of billiard balls, who were desperately looking for a substitute for ivory. The invention of plastic helped to reduce, in part, the demand for ivory that drove the hunting of endangered elephants.
This is not the only application of plastic that had some environmental value.
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Let’s take a more familiar example: shrink-wrapped cucumbers. That thin film of plastic is designed to double the refrigerated shelf life of that cucumber from one week to two weeks. By using plastic packaging, the producer of that cucumber made an effort to prevent food waste.
Food waste is a big problem that contributes to climate change. When organic materials decompose in the landfill, they release a surprising amount of methane. Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, trapping heat in the atmosphere 25 times more effectively than carbon dioxide.
Shrink-wrapping cucumbers seems like an attempt to balance the carbon emissions and waste from that plastic with the emissions produced by food waste.
The plastic shrink-wrap on English cucumbers is intended to prevent food waste. Shrink-wrapping cucumbers is an attempt to balance the carbon emissions and waste from that plastic with the methane emissions produced when wasted food is sent to the landfill. (Stock photo)
There are biodegradable plastic packaging options in development that may be able to solve the waste problem created by shrink-wrapping food. We can also reduce methane emissions by composting instead of landfilling organic waste.
But the underlying problems remain: how we source and distribute food, and how we plan our meals so that we reduce food waste.
Even with that shrink wrap and other methods of extending shelf-life, a whopping 47 per cent of wasted food comes from households. With the rising cost of food these days, that amount of waste is a big problem for personal budgeting and for creating methane emissions in our landfills.
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Plastic will continue to be the material of choice for manufacturers the world over. Unlike good ol’ glass, plastic is often very lightweight. The cost of production for most types of commercial plastics is similar to the costs for glass; however, glass is heavier and therefore requires more fossil fuels to transport.
For this reason, it can be hard to convince corporations to bottle things like beverages in anything other than plastic and harder still when the environmental benefit is offset by a marked increase in the use of fossil fuels for transportation.
Here’s another plastics puzzle. Which option is more sustainable: food storage containers made from stainless steel that was mined and manufactured in China and then shipped overseas, or from recycled plastic reformatted in North America and transported by truck to your local shop?
Which to choose? Stainless-steel food storage containers manufactured in China, or containers made in North America from partly recycled plastic? The choice matters, but so does the commitment to keep examining underlying wasteful problems that need solutions, like how we reduce food waste and how we keep moving towards a more circular and sustainable economy. (Photo: Leif Einarson)
If we look at the whole life cycle of these materials, it’s difficult to identify a definitive winner. The environmental impact associated with mining the raw material used to make stainless steel is huge. Then consider more carbon emissions from shipping from China to Canada by air or sea.
By comparison, the materials used to manufacture recycled plastics are available locally, and that reduces the impacts of shipping to the recycling facility and to market.
But plastic recycling is an energy-intensive process, and plastics in general are less effectively and frequently recycled when compared to steel. Also, unlike those nearly indestructible stainless-steel containers, plastics do age and break.
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While the stainless steel may have a slight edge over recycled plastic, either way we are dealing with underlying problems that still need solutions.
One underlying problem is the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Another underlying problem is that too many products are designed without consideration for a circular economy.
What does “circular economy” mean? In a circular economy, products are designed for change and sustainability. Products are made with as much re-used materials as possible and as few raw resources as possible. Products are intentionally designed so they can be repaired, re-used, and re-purposed into new products long before they need to be recycled or sent to the landfill.
Our entire romance with everything “plastic” doesn’t have to be tragic. We need to appreciate and tease out the nuances. In those nuances we can find the underlying problems and the solutions that avert environmental tragedies.
Long-term solutions need to move beyond banning single-use plastics. We need legislation and funding that empower the circular economy.
Lock 22 - Nassau Mills is one of seven locks along the Trent-Severn Waterway Parks Canada is closing on June 17, 2022 until further notice due to high water levels and flows. (Photo: Parks Canada / Twitter)
Parks Canada will be temporarily closing some locks along the Trent-Severn Waterway beginning Friday (June 17) due to high water levels and flows.
The locks that will be closed until further notice are Lock 19 – Scotts Mills, Lock 22 – Nassau Mills, Lock 23 – Otonabee, Lock 24 – Douro, Lock 25 – Sawer Creek, Lock 26 – Lakefield, and Lock 27 – Youngs Point.
Over the past 15 days, the Trent-Severn watersheds have received significant amounts of precipitation, the equivalent of 100 to 200 per cent more than the normal amount expected for this time.
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Parks Canada says the partial closure will protect boater safety and help to prevent shoreline erosion and property damage experienced by local residents and businesses. All boaters are strongly encouraged to lower their speeds and watch their wake, and residents and visitors are advised to exercise extreme caution around and on the water.
Residents around Lock 19 – Scotts Mills will see a controlled breach of the construction site at the dam over the weekend, to aid in the movement of water down the Otonabee River. This will be a controlled breach with no danger to public safety.
Parks Canada says it will reopen individual lock stations in stages as soon as it safe to do so.
Status of lock stations along the Trent-Severn Waterway as of June 17, 2022. (Graphic: Parks Canada)
M. John Kennedy as Tyrone Powers and Julia Scaringi as Maddy Donegal during a media event on June 15, 2022 for 4th Line Theatre's production of Alex Poch-Goldin's play "The Great Shadow", which premieres at Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 28 and runs Tuesdays to Saturdays until July 23. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW
Over the past two summers, something very unsettling descended on Robert Winslow’s beautiful farm property near Millbrook off Zion Line.
It was eerily quiet to the point of being spooky as 4th Line Theatre, not unlike live performance venues around the globe forced to close as the COVID-19 pandemic ran its course.
Now what was right before becoming not right is right again as 4th Line Theatre prepares for its milestone 30th summer season, presenting world premieres of two plays, opening with Alex Poch-Goldin’s The Great Shadow on Tuesdays to Saturdays from June 28 to July 23.
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Set during the Roaring ’20s, The Great Shadow is based on the true story of the effort to bring Hollywood to Trenton, Ontario via the establishment of a motion picture studio. The storyline follows one man’s dream to build a film industry in Canada, as well as a single mother’s search for love following the devastating Great War loss of her husband.
All this occurs in concert with the ‘Red Scare’ — the palpable fear that Communism was poised to put an end to Western democracy.
This is the third Poch-Goldin play premiered by 4th Line Theatre. The first, The Right Road To Pontypool, was staged in 2009 and 2010, and the second, The Bad Luck Bank Robbers, debuted in 2015 and was brought back for 2016.
“The Great Shadow” director Cynthia Ashperger speaks with kawarthaNOW’s Paul Rellinger during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
During an event for local media at Winslow Farm in Millbrook on Wednesday morning (June 15), kawarthaNOW spoke with The Great Shadow director Cynthia Ashperger, actors Shelley Simester and Sochi Fried, and 4th Line’s managing artistic director Kim Blackwell.
For Ashperger, whose first exposure to 4th Line Theatre was as an audience member for The Right Road to Pontypool, the opportunity to direct a Poch-Goldin play has her over the moon.
“Now I’m directing another Alex Poch-Goldin play with a big heart — a sweeping epic with lots of humour, just like The Right Road To Pontypool,” she says.
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“The last thing I did before COVID was direct a 4th Line Theatre workshop for The Tilco Strike, which was scheduled for (full staging) in 2021,” Ashperger recalls. “(The Great Shadow) was scheduled for 2020. This is my first return to a professional engagement of this nature since March 2020. I’m really going into it like ‘Wow … I get to do this.'”
Teaching acting at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) for close to 30 years now, Ashperger, a veteran actor and director, appeared in two 4th Line Theatre productions — The Berlin Blues and Who Killed Snow White? — following her initial exposure to the company.
“Having bought a cottage in Curve Lake, I knew I was going to spending a lot of time here, so I reached out to (founder and creative director) Robert Winslow. I said ‘Here I am. I’m Cynthia Ashperger. I’m an actor and director from Toronto. I love your farm. I loved The Right Road To Pontypool. Anything, anything, anything — here I am.'”
“The Great Shadow” actors Sochi Fried and Shelley Simester perform a scene as Luella Parson and Hedda Hopper during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
Winslow took Ashperger up on her offer, not only bringing her into the mix for The Berlin Blues and Who Killed Snow White? but also pegging her to direct The Great Shadow. She couldn’t be more thrilled.
“What’s beautiful about the farm — I’m in love with the farm, I confess — is anything can be anything here,” she says. “It really allows for (the staging of) an epic. We have Lenin on the balcony and then we have the famous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper on the balcony, and another gossip columnist, Luella Parsons, in Manhattan. We have a big studio lot. We have a Trenton family that’s enveloped by, and immersed into, this new culture of Hollywood Northeast.”
Two of the actors taking direction from Ashperger are Shelley Simester, portraying Hopper, and Sochi Fried, who plays Parsons. For Simester, it’s her fourth role at the Winslow farm while Fried is making her 4th Line debut.
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“I think our characters are appealing because we’re so smart,” Fried says. “Our audience will find us utterly hilarious but somewhat treacherous, which I find entertaining.”
Portraying Hopper, acknowledges Simester, “is a lot of fun. The playwright has captured these two characters and peppered us throughout the script as very fast, comic, witty, cutting people.”
A scene preview presented on Wednesday morning for the media bears out what she describes as she and Fried, in their roles as gossip columnists for competing publications, took pot shots at one another — all the while trying to be cordial, but failing miserably at convincing anyone of their sincerity.
kawarthaNOW’s Paul Rellinger interviews “The Great Shadow” actors Sochi Fried (right) and Shelley Simester during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
As excited as Ashperger and the cast are to be back doing what they love so much to do, longtime 4th Line Theatre managing artistic director Kim Blackwell is bursting with pride.
“It’s incredibly gratifying to have led an arts organization through a pandemic that shuttered arts organizations across the globe, and with an incredible team — you don’t do these things alone,” says Blackwell who, with a small group led by Robert Winslow, gave new life to the farm property in 1992 before the inaugural presentation of The Cavan Blazers.
“On the larger level of the 30th (season), I was 25 when I started here. I’ll be 56 this year. More than half my life I’ve spent at this place. Hard work, some luck, perseverance … there’s a lot of pieces to that. My real love of people and stories and history has melded here.”
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But while she’s convinced The Great Shadow is “the right production for this time,” Blackwell remains uncertain whether audiences will flock to theatre in the same way they did before the pandemic.
“I think people are wary … not quite ready to come out,” Blackwell reflects. “Also, our audience has aged by two years, so we’ve aged out some, while at the same time we didn’t being a new audience in for two years.”
“(Ontario Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries) Lisa McLeod talked of at least five years of recovery and I think that’s probably true. People have become comfortable at home in their pajamas while streaming. We have to remind people of what an incredibly transformative experience it is to experience something live together, whether it’s theatre or music or dance.”
“The Great Shadow” actors M. John Kennedy and Julia Scaringi during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
The Dark Shadow, notes Blackwell, is an excellent starting point.
“Alex (Poch-Goldin) is probably the second most embraced playwright in 4th Line’s history aside from Robert (Winslow),” says Blackwell. “He has a beautiful way of combining the funny and the tragic into a beautiful package.”
“People really respond to his fish-out-of-water characters who come to small towns and how they clash with small town people. It’s the perfect production because it’s very funny. It’s not going to knock you over the head with any darkness. There are 25 in the cast (including) lots of local people. It’s everything we do well.”
4th Line’s managing artistic director Kim Blackwell speaks with with kawarthaNOW’s Paul Rellinger about “The Great Shadow” during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
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Sponsored by CIBC Wood Gundy – The Pyle Group, The Dark Shadow also stars professional actors M. John Kennedy and Julia Scaringi in the roles of Tyrone Powers and Julia Scaringi. Local actors in the cast include Sarah McNeilly, Matt Gilbert, and — fresh off her performance in the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s production of Annie — 11-year-old Indigo Chesser.
Behind the scenes, musical direction is by Justin Hiscox (who also penned the play’s original compositions), choreography is by Bill Coleman, fight direction is by Edward Belanger, costume design is by Laura Delchiaro, and set design is by Esther Vincent.
Performance dates for The Great Shadow are Tuesdays to Saturdays from June 28 to 30, July 1 and 2, 5 to 9, 12 to 16 and 19 to 23, with curtain at 6 p.m.
“The Great Shadow” actors Shelley Simester and Sochi Fried during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
Previews take place on June 28 and 29, with opening night on Saturday, July 2nd — also 4th Line’s 30th anniversary season opening night gala, which begins at 3:30 p.m. and features farm-to-table food from Black Honey Catering and hard and soft drinks, a silent and live auction, a ticket to The Great Shadow, and a post-show reception including a champagne toast with the cast and crew. Tickets are $140, which includes a $35 tax receipt,
For more information and to order tickets for The Great Shadow (as well as the opening night gala), visit www.4thlinetheatre.on.ca.
You can also order tickets by calling 705-932-4445 (toll free at 1-800-814-0055) or in person at the 4th Line Theatre box office at 4 Tupper Street in Millbrook starting July 2.
“The Great Shadow” actors Julia Scaringi and M. John Kennedy, director Cynthia Ashperger, 4th Line managing artistic director Kim Blackwell, actors Shelley Simester and Sochi Fried, and 4th Line general manager Lindy Finlan during a media event at 4th Line Theatre’s Winslow Farm in Millbrook on June 15, 2022. (Photo: Heather Doughty / kawarthaNOW)
Members of Dragons Abreast, the first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team in Toronto and one of the first in the world, with the five-foot model of a dragon boat they donated to The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough on June 15, 2022. The model is a scale replica of the dragon boat built in 2008 by the Avalon Dragons, Newfoundland and Labrador's first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team. (Photo: The Canadian Canoe Museum / Facebook)
While The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough doesn’t have room in its collection for a 40-foot dragon boat, it now has a five-foot model of one thanks to Dragons Abreast — the first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team in Toronto and one of the first in the world.
Members of Dragons Abreast presented the museum with the model on Wednesday (June 15), the day before they embark on a journey along the Trent-Severn Waterway from Bobcaygeon to Rice Lake to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Support Fund, a charitable organization that provides short-term financial support to breast cancer patients so they can focus simply and solely on fighting their disease.
“To celebrate the team’s 25th anniversary, we’re donating a beautiful large model dragon boat to The Canadian Canoe Museum,” said Dragons Abreast chair Akaash Singh. “Tomorrow begins our six-day, 125-kilometre Trent-Severn Waterway fundraising adventure to raise $25,000 for the Breast Cancer Support Fund, and spread the word about the benefits of dragon boating for breast cancer survivors.”
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The model dragon boat is based on the boat built in 2008 by the Avalon Dragons, Newfoundland and Labrador’s first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team. Under the tutelage of coach and naval architect Bruce Whitelaw, they were the only team in North America to build their own boat. The boat is still used and stored at their practice site in Octagon Pond In Paradise, Newfoundland.
Dragons Abreast asked Whitelaw if he could build a model of the Avalon Dragons’ boat for the Canadian Canoe Museum. He agreed and built a one-eighth scale model that replicates the original boat, including the dragon head and tail (originally designed by well-known Newfoundland artist Dianna Dabinett), the drum at the front, and the steering oar at the back.
On Thursday, members of Dragons Abreast will begin paddling a 40-foot dragon boat from Bobcaygeon to Rice Lake, proceeding through 12 locks, passing the Curve Lake First Nation and finishing at the Hiawatha First Nation at Rice Lake on Tuesday (June 21).
Dragons Abreast chair Akaash Singh speaks at The Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough on June 15, 2022. Toronto’s first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary presented the museum with a five-foot scale replica of a dragon boat prior to embarking on a six-day, 125km fundraising paddle along the Trent-Severn Waterway. (Photo: The Canadian Canoe Museum / Facebook)
“Our gratitude is extended to the First Nations for their care and teachings about our earth and our relation to it,” said Louise Menezes, the team’s Trent-Severn committee co-chair.
During their paddle, Dragons Abreast will also be carrying a scroll with the names of the 50 team members lost to breast cancer, and the six who died from other causes, since the team was formed in 1997.
Breast cancer survivor dragon boat paddling began in 1996 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with Dr. Don McKenzie. A sports medicine physician and exercise physiologist, Dr. McKenzie challenged the prevailing medical thinking that women treated for breast cancer should avoid rigorous upper body exercise for fear of developing lymphedema, a debilitating and chronic side effect of treatment.
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Dr. McKenzie developed a program to determine the impact of exercise on breast cancer survivors, choosing dragon boat paddling as the epitome of strenuous and repetitive upper body exercise. He trained 24 breast cancer volunteers in a gym for three months, introduced them to dragon boats, and taught them paddling techniques. At the end of the three-month season on the water, none of the volunteers had lymphedema.
While Dr. McKenzie’s program was underway, the women found they were fitter, healthier, and happier. They loved the camaraderie and support of their fellow paddlers, and felt they had regained control of their lives. They realized that dragon boat paddling could become a means to raise awareness of breast cancer and of the ability of survivors to lead normal lives.
Since then, the movement has grown to 262 member teams from 32 countries and six continents.
Ryan and Sam Weber of The Weber Brothers, from the Hootenanny on Hunter Street in Peterborough in August 2015. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW)
Peterborough’s Pathway of Fame has announced the inductees for its 25th anniversary year, including musicians Ryan and Sam Weber and performer Kate Suhr.
Organizers announced the nine inductees on its Facebook page on Wednesday morning (June 15).
Established in 1997, the Pathway of Fame honours people who have contributed to the arts and humanities heritage of the Peterborough. Nominations are submitted annually by the public in the categories of visual arts, literary, dramatic arts, entertainment/musical, cultural betterment, community Samaritan, media, and community builder.
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The nine inductees, and the category in which they were nominated, are David Carley (Dramatic Arts), Kate Suhr (Entertainment), Ryan and Sam Weber (Entertainment), Donald Glen Forde (Cultural/Community Betterment), Jacob Rodenburg (Cultural/Community Betterment), Lois Tuffin (Cultural/Community Betterment), John F. (Jack) Bardeau (Community Builder), and David Adams (Community Builder).
No inductees were announced this year for the literary, community Samaritan, or media categories.
An induction ceremony will be held on Saturday, September 10th at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough.
Here are bios of each inductee as provided by the Pathway of Fame.
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David Carley (Dramatic Arts)
With more than 450 Canadian and American stage, radio and television productions having resulted from his storytelling talent, including several locally-staged plays, David Carley has won, and been nominated for, a number of honours, including a Governor General’s Award finalist distinction.
Kate Suhr (Entertainment)
Blessed with abundant musical and theatrical talent, Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School graduate Kate Suhr has sung and acted her way into the hearts of audiences both near and distant while always taking the time to unselfishly perform in support of organizations and causes right here in her native Peterborough.
Ryan and Sam Weber (Entertainment)
Ryan and Sam Weber came to Peterborough from Maryland in 2000 to learn all they could about making and performing music from the legendary Ronnie Hawkins, learning very well to the tune of numerous studio albums, memorable performances locally as well as across North America and Europe, and charitable support of several local causes.
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Donald Glen Forde (Cultural/Community Betterment)
As a former executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peterborough, Donald Glen Forde set the organization on the path to success, all while contributing to his community as a minor hockey executive and as a multi-instrumentalist who performed with the likes of Del Crary and Bobby Kinsman during big band music’s heyday.
Jacob Rodenburg (Cultural/Community Betterment)
For more than 30 years, Jacob Rodenburg has made environmental stewardship, sustainability and education his business, not only as executive director of Camp Kawartha and as a Trent University environmental education teacher but also as a developer of forward-thinking ‘green’ related programs and initiatives.
Lois Tuffin (Cultural/Community Betterment)
From the time she arrived in Peterborough, former Peterborough This Week editor Lois Tuffin has tirelessly employed her considerable communication and organizational skills to the benefit of a number of causes and events, including the Great Turkey Exchange that she started and has since fed more than 17,000 people during the holiday season.
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John F. (Jack) Bardeau (Community Builder)
A combination of musicianship, service work and sports involvement saw John F. (Jack) Bardeau rarely sit still during his 44 years in Peterborough, the RCAF veteran’s work supporting the hearing impaired as a member of the Telephone Pioneers earning him Bell Canada’s Community Chest Award for Outstanding Citizenship.
David Adams (Community Builder)
For 26 years, David Adams was the face of the Five Counties Children’s Centre as its foundation’s executive director, endlessly promoting and heralding the groundbreaking treatment provided children with physical, communication and developmental needs while volunteering his time for a wide variety of community organizations and events.
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