Some of the 70 uniquely painted wooden canoe paddles that will soon be showcased on poles on the main streets of Bobcayeon, as part of the "Vibrant Village" efforts organized by Impact 32, a volunteer steering committee made up of local business owners and community organizers in Bobcaygeon. (Photo: Kawartha Mediums)
If you haven’t noticed, there’s been a lot going on in Bobcaygeon over the past couple of months.
Volunteers have been busy making the village fun and attractive for both residents and visitors this summer, as part of the “Vibrant Village” efforts organized by Impact 32, a volunteer steering committee made up of local business owners and community organizers in Bobcaygeon.
First up are the 70 uniquely painted wooden canoe paddles that will be showcased on poles on the main village streets. The canoe paddle was chosen to reflect Bobcaygeon’s heritage as a main waterway route for both First Nations and settlers, and local artists made a special effort to create work representing their favourite aspects of Bobcaygeon.
VIDEO: Bobcaygeon canoe paddles being varnished
Kawartha Mediums' on call handy man Ken Kidman varnishing all the paddles to be displayed around town ??
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The paddles are scheduled to be installed on the poles on Friday (June 22). At the end of the summer, the paddles will then be displayed at the Bobcaygeon Fall Fair and auctioned off to community members and merchants to raise funds for future Vibrant Village efforts.
While volunteers have also been hanging flower baskets in the downtown core, representatives from local volunteer groups have also joined together to enter Bobcaygeon in this year’s “Communities in Bloom” competition.
One of the hanging flower baskets decorating downtown Bobcaygeon. (Photo: Bruce Hobley)
Anyone who wants to help Bobcaygeon win the competition can go to the website www.bobcaygeoncommunitiesinbloom.com for tips, and look for “seed bombs” at any of a dozen merchants around town — these are little gifts you can plant for just $5.
To raise funds for continued beautification efforts in Bobcaygeon, Impact 32 is presenting “Bloom Town Bash” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 6th on the expansive patio at Kawartha Coffee Company’s new location at The Doctor’s Office at 58 Bolton Street. Featuring a Boho “flower child” theme, there will be food, karaoke, a henna artist, and more. Themed attire is encouraged but not required.
The expansive patio at Kawartha Coffee Company’s new location at The Doctor’s Office at 58 Bolton Street will be the scene for “Bloom Town Bash” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 6th. (Photo: Kawartha Coffee Company / Facebook)
Tickets are $30 each and are available at Kawartha Coffee Company, the Welcome Centre, and online at visitbobcaygeon.com. All revenues will support Vibrant Village initiatives.
Also back for the summer is Bobcaygeon’s bike share initiative. To rent a bike, all you need is a cell phone and a credit card. The bikes are located in two handy spots beside the locks, so they’re ready for residents or visitors to take for a spin.
Bobcaygeon’s bike share initiative is back for the summer. (Photo: Cheryl Henderson Designs / Instagram)
And if you’re cycling or driving around Bobcaygeon, you’ll notice the new paddle-shaped signposts, which were installed in May and designed to complement Bobcaygeon’s charming “old-time cottage meets today feel.
The new signposts were a collaboration of Environmental Action Bobcaygeon and Impact 32 with support from the Bobcaygeon Legacy CHEST Fund, Regional Tourism Organization 8, and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
Ontario is home to over 300 different species of bee including the bumblebee, an important agricultural pollinator. Like other native wild bees, bumblebees are experiencing a decline in population because of habitat loss, the mechanisation of agriculture, and pesticides. There are things you can do to help protect pollinators, including bees. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Summer has arrived, and with it comes the familiar sounds of early morning bird calls, leaves whispering in the wind, and cicadas calling in the treetops.
Each week, GreenUP provides a story related to the environment. This week’s story is by Danica Jarvis, GreenUP Environmental Education Coordinator and bee enthusiast.
But the once familiar buzz of a bee has become less common these days. Like most pollinators, bees are under threat. The good news is that there are many things you can do to help the bees. Join us in celebrating National Pollinator Week, which runs until Sunday, June 24th.
If you are to conjure up the image of a bee, what comes to mind? Most of us may think of its black and yellow stripes, hear its buzzing sound, salivate at the thought of tasting delicious honey, or maybe even cringe at the idea of a possible sting!
These traditional bee images we think of are all about the honeybee — but if you spend a few minutes watching flowers in your yard, you will realize that there is great diversity in the bee world.
It is estimated that 200,000 animal species pollinate plants, with bees leading the way. There are over 300 different species of bees in Ontario, each of them adapted for our environment here. Their relationship with flowering plants has evolved over the past 100 million years, with 20,000 bee species worldwide now relying on flowers as their buffet.
The blue orchard bee, also known as the orchard mason bee, is an important fruit tree pollinator. You can plant native plants, such as cherry, plum and apple trees, in your garden to help support blue orchard bees and other pollinators. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Most native bees are specialists, which means they feed from only one type of flower. Each species has its own tongue length, which suits a specific type of flower. For example, the Hoary Squash Bee exclusively feeds from and pollinates zucchini, squash, and pumpkins. In comparison, honeybees are generalists, which means they can feed from a wide range of flowers.
Approximately 90 per cent of wild native bees are solitary, living in ground nests, reeds, and old logs. For most, it takes between 15 to 35 trips to get enough food for each egg cell. For a Blue Orchard Bee, this means it is likely to visit 1,124 to 2,625 flowers to get enough food for one baby.
All those visits to flowers means that native bees are very skilled at pollination. One acre of fruit trees can be pollinated by 250 to 700 Blue Orchard Bees, when it would take two honeybee hives — each containing 60,000 bees — to do the same job.
A child attending an OpenHive! event at Ecology Park tastes honey directly from the comb frame that has been removed from a bee hive. Open Hive! events are a great way to get close with honeybees and to learn more about pollination ecology and the wonders of beekeeping. (Photo: Karen Halley / GreenUP)
From the Mining Bee to the Mason Bee, approximately one out of three bites of the food you eat has been pollinated by a member of the bee family. Honeybees seem to get all the attention but, surprisingly, they are not from around here. Honeybees arrived in North America from Europe with early colonists and since then, honeybees have remained here providing us with their pollination services and sweet honey.
But our world is ever-changing. Bees are disappearing at an alarming rate. This year, beekeepers reported 70 per cent hive losses, and there is no way of knowing how native bees have held up.
Why are bees in trouble? The best response I’ve heard is bees are dying “by a death of a thousand cuts.” There’s not just one definitive reason, but rather many reasons why bees are disappearing.
So what is happening to bees and how can you help?
Pesticides
Sprayed pesticides and genetically modified seeds are killing bees from the inside out. If a bee visits a flower that has been sprayed, it ingests the poison much like we would.
Contact with a pesticide may not cause death right away. A build-up of pesticides over time, like inside a honeybee hive, has catastrophic repercussions where the build-up is enough to poison the next generation of bees.
What can you do?
Avoid using pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Buy plants that have been grown in a greenhouse that does not use neonicotinoids. These chemicals will exist on the plant and in the soil of the pot that you purchase.
Buy native plants that have been grown in local conditions, are able to survive the local climate, and that will be more likely to feed our local native bees. You can find many species at the Ecology Park Garden Market at 1899 Ashburnham Drive in Peterborough.
Nutritional Deficits
Bees do not have enough food. Fragmented habitats, habitat loss, and fertilized lawns have replaced wildflower landscapes that once existed. New research is emerging suggesting that honeybees and wild native bees are competing with each other for forage.
As managed honeybee numbers are increasing in numbers and their hives are being moved around to respond to agricultural needs, competition for food between honeybees and wild bees is increasing — with wild bees losing out.
What can you do?
Plant pollinator gardens!
Start with removing a patch of lawn and replacing it with local, native species. Remember to consider blooming times.
Ideally, you want to create a garden that is beautiful and blooming all summer long, providing forage for pollinators at different times of the summer.
Climate Change
Trent University teacher candidates participating in the Learning Garden Alternative Settings Placement at GreenUP Ecology Park, cut sections of stems of the invasive Phragmites plant, which were later constructed into homemade native bee houses by children attending education programs at Ecology Park. (Photo: Karen Halley / GreenUP)
As the climate changes, summers become hotter and winters become colder and longer. Many honeybee keepers reported losses this year due to the extended cold spring. Like wild bees, honeybees depend on spring blooms to feed.
A prolonged cold spring can create bloom/forage deficits. When the temperature fluctuates so much during spring, emerging bees can be left with flowers that have not yet bloomed, or with a shortage due to die off of existing blooms.
What can you do?
To help bees in spring, honeybee keepers provide specialized diets in the form of sugar syrup and pollen supplements to help managed bees stay alive until flowers are in bloom.
To help wild bees, we can help provide habitat. To do so, be mindful while raking old leaves off the garden in spring; a new Bumblebee queen may still be hibernating underneath. You can leave open soil and wet mud for Miner and Mason Bees so they can make nests.
You can also construct native bee houses and place them around your yard. Leave old logs and hollow plants for bees to make nests in, or create a native bee house by drilling holes into a log.
Disease
Disease can be the cause of poor honeybee health and entire colony losses, so with so many other factors impacting bees disease can be the last foot in the grave.
One of the main culprits is the Varroa destructor disease, which consists of a miniscule mite that attaches itself to a honeybee and slowly depletes its fat reserves.
Do these diseases transfer to wild bees? Many beekeepers think so, but the science has not been proven on this topic.
What can you do?
There are many ways that beekeepers combat diseases. Keepers are vigilant with hive treatments to battle against mites. They conduct regular hive checks and keep a hive log to track any changes in the hive.
For wild bees, providing habitat and a variety of forage is helpful to combat disease; the more diversity of bees, the better!
When we plan for a larger variety of species, we can work towards complete ecological health.
Many wild native bee species, such as the Mason Bee, will use straw-like stems to lay their eggs. A simple bee house can be constructed with sections of the invasive European Common Reed, Phragmites, when it is tied together with string and hung from branches of trees or shrubs. (Photo: Karen Halley / GreenUP)
It’s important for us all to look beyond our yard and gardens at what is out there. The more we know about pollinators, the more we are able to save them. Slow down and check your flowers, you might be surprised at what you find!
To learn more about honeybees visit an Open Hive! at Ecology Park this summer. Open Hive! events take place this summer from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 14th and on Saturday, August 18th.
Someone broke into the Peterborough Challenger Baseball equipment storage bin at Turner Park and stole vital equipment used by the team, which provides special needs children and youth the chance to play baseball. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Challenger Baseball)
The founder of Peterborough Challenger Baseball, a special needs baseball league, is furious after discovering some of the team’s equipment has been stolen and vandalized.
Bernie Daynes discovered last night (June 20) that someone had broken into the team’s equipment box at Turner Park at Chamberlain and High streets, where the Peterborough Challenger Baseball Juniors plays every Wednesday night.
Daynes says three brand new batting helmets were stolen, along with the team’s seven bats and about a dozen balls. The bats are specially designed for special needs children, with a soft exterior and a harder core. The balls are the size of a regular softball, but are made of high-density soft foam to make them safer for players.
Daynes also says the thief or thieves stuffed an additional batting helmet into the basin of a portable toilet.
To night I discovered that punks and thieves will take anything … The Peterborough Challenger Baseball Juniors play every Wednesday night at Turner Park, and have since 2016. .. They stole all of our bats, balls and 3 helmets from our special needs junior ball teams.
— Peterborough Challenger Baseball (@PtboChallenger) June 21, 2018
Daynes believes the equipment storage bin was broken into between Monday and Wednesday night.
“The theft of this equipment was bad enough,” Daynes wrote on Facebook on Wednesday night, “but to make it worse, it was game night tonight and with the theft it looked like my band of happy fun loving ball players would miss out playing a game.”
Fortunately, Daynes writes, a young boy who lives in the neighbourhood lent the team three of his own bats. As Daynes carries a demonstration ball with him so show families interested in the game, the team was able to play.
Challenger Baseball, a national organization, is an all-inclusive league designed to give children and youth aged six to 18 who are living with cognitive or physical disabilities the chance to play baseball. (Photo: Bernie Daynes)
Challenger Baseball, a national organization, is an all-inclusive league designed to give children and youth aged six to 18 who are living with cognitive or physical disabilities the chance to play baseball. There are no outs, no strikes, no ball counts, and no score — it’s all about playing the game and being part of a team.
Daynes started a Peterborough league in 2016, which relies on donations and fundraising to operate. It will be expensive for the league to replace the missing equipment.
Daynes says that people or businesses who want to donate to help replace the equipment and show support for the team can drop off their donations at Hobies Sports (186 Charlotte St, Peterborough, 705-745-7770).
Sarah McNeilly makes her 4th Line Theatre acting debut in "Crow Hill: The Telephone Play", which runs from July 3 to 28 at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook. McNeilly plays the role of switchboard operator Alice Cameron, a character inspired by the life of Ona Gardner, a switchboard operator for Beatty Telephone System, owned by Dr. Alexander Carruthers Beatty in Garden Hill (north of Port Hope) for more than 30 years in the early twentieth century. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
As 4th Line Theatre readies its 2018 season-opening presentation of Crow Hill: The Telephone Play, it would be easy to say, write, or think ‘third time’s a charm.’ Easy but not even close to accurate.
Commonly used as a reference to something that that has been twice unsuccessful but perhaps will be successful the third time around, that phrase needs a minor tweak to better fit this case — something like ‘third time’s a charm … again.’
Premiered in 1997 at the Winslow Farm near Millbrook and staged again in 2004, Crow Hill: The Telephone Play is billed as “a poignant and humourous look at love, friendship, and community in a world where technological changes can irrevocably alter the fabric of society.”
Ian McLachlan co-wrote “Crow Hill: The Telephone Play” with Robert Winslow, who performs in the play as Doc Logie. The pair have written six plays together. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
Ian McLachlan, who co-wrote the play with 4th Line Theatre founder and creative director Robert Winslow — in total they’ve penned six plays together — agrees completely with that synopsis, particularly the community aspect.
Crow Hill: The Telephone Play
When: Performances at 6 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays (July 3-7, July 10-14, July 17-21, July 24-28, 2018) with additional performance at 6 p.m. on July 23, 2018. Opening night Thursday, July 5, 2018. Where: The Winslow Farm (779 Zion Line, Millbrook) How much: $38 adults, $32 youth, $66 season subscription (adult), $56 season subscription (youth), $28 for preview nights (July 3 and 4)
Written by Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow and directed by Deb Williams.
Starring Kait Dueck as Grace Dyson, Sarah McNeilly as Alice Cameron, Courtenay Stevens as Ed Milton, and Robert Winslow as Doc Logie. Musical direction and original composition by Justin Hiscox. Costume design by Meredith Hubbard. Set design by James McCoy. Choreography by Monica Dottor.
Tickets available by calling 1-800-814-0055 or 705-932-4445, online www.4thlinetheatre.on.ca, emailing boxoffice@4thlinetheatre.on.ca, at in person at 4th Line Theatre’s box office (4 Tupper St., Millbrook) or at the Peterborough Museum and Archives (300 Hunter St. E., Peterborough).
“We were thinking about writing a play about storytellers, and the technique and structure of stories … what makes a story effective,” says McLachlan.
“Then we found out a lot of people we were interviewing were older women who had been telephone operators in the pre-Bell era. Telephone operators and barbers know the most stories.
“Our focus started to change to a story of how telephones in rural Ontario started largely in doctors’ offices.
“The sense of a history of a community that’s told through a particular kind of work that’s done in a community is something that’s quite enduring. It goes on being interesting to people. In a way, this is a nostalgic play.”
McLachlan says that, long before the advent of social media, the telephone was “the one way people could come together” and, in that sense, was “a hub of the community.”
While capturing that in an entertaining fashion ensures a captive audience, McLachlan adds there’s something else at play here.
“It’s about two good people (Doc Logie played by Winslow and Alice Cameron played by Sarah McNeilly). It’s hard to write about good people. It’s easier to be an actor portraying a complicated, evil person.
Robert Winslow (right) as a rural doctor who opens the first telephone service in fictitious Crow Hill, with Courtenay Stevens as Ed Milton, a fast-talking salesman who makes a bid to open a rival telephone company. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
“Doc Logie and Alice are both morally driven people. It’s hard to find good people in unsentimental ways. Hollywood is full of sentimentalized good people, but not un-sentimentalized people who have problems like everyone one else. People relate to that.”
The storyline of Crow Hill: The Telephone Play follows what happens after Doc Logie opens the first telephone service in fictitious Crow Hill, taking on 15-year-old Alice as the switchboard operator.
Its writing was inspired by the life of Ona Gardner, a switchboard operator for Beatty Telephone System, which was owned and operated by Dr. Alexander Carruthers Beatty in Garden Hill (north of Port Hope) for more than 30 years in the early twentieth century (originally to keep in touch with his patients).
Sarah McNeilly portrays Alice Cameron from the of age of 15, when Doc Logie first hires her as a switchboard operator, to the age of 77. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
After Dr. Beatty died in 1946, his wife Sophia continued the system until her death in 1956 when it was sold to the neighboring Port Hope Telephone System of Newtonville and eventually to Bell Telephone Co.
In Crow Hill: The Telephone Play, when the potential to make money from the telephone becomes clear, fast-talking salesman Ed Milton (Courtenay Stevens) makes a bid to open a telephone company. That puts him in competition and conflict with Doc Logie and Alice.
Directing is Deborah Williams, an award-winning actress, playwright, and storyteller. She’s the third different director of the play, with Susan Spicer having guided the original staging and 4th Line Theatre managing artistic director Kim Blackwell doing the same in 2004.
Director Deb Williams chats with kawarthaNOW’s Paul Rellinger. She’s the third different director of the play, with Susan Spicer having guided the original staging in 1997 and 4th Line Theatre managing artistic director Kim Blackwell doing the same in 2004. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
“I haven’t had to re-invent the wheel but because there isn’t an archival video, there’s not much to actually base it on, so it’s what I saw the first time I read it,” says Williams.
“It really jumped out at me because my dad is a rural physician. He is Doc Logie. Alice is my dad’s receptionist. She didn’t have time to have her own family. She was so dedicated to the people of Summerland (in the Okanagan Valley). And I think it’s also about how we create family. Who is family and how does that happen if you don’t have your own direct family?”
“Kim gives me information if I ask, and she just lets me be if I don’t ask. She said, ‘This is your production.’ It’s not a remounting in the true sense.”
Robert Winslow as Doc Logie and Kait Dueck as Grace Dyson, a telephone repair technician. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
Along with Winslow, McNeilly, and Stevens, Kait Dueck also stars in the play, portraying Grace Dyson, a telephone repair technician who’s eventually won over by Stevens’ character. It’s her third 4th Line Theatre production.
“All of the characters are very human … everyone has their character flaws and their likability,” says Dueck in reference to the play’s enduring appeal.
“It’s nice to see the humanity of people, and flawed heroes are interesting…they have problems just like I do,” notes Stevens of the appeal of the play’s main characters.
Kait Dueck as Grace Dyson, who’s eventually won over by Courtenay Stevens’ character Ed Milton. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
“You cheer for them. You want them to succeed.”
Both Dueck and Stevens agree that the opportunity to perform in an outdoors setting was too good to pass up.
“It’s just such an unbelievably spectacular vista, it will never grow old,” assesses Dueck, adding “There’s lot of insects and it gets hot … pretending that it’s winter when it’s 40 degrees … so there are challenges but, by far, the good outweighs the bad.”
Kait Dueck as Grace Dyson, Courtenay Stevens as Ed Milton, Sarah McNeilly as Alice Cameron, and Robert Winslow as Doc Logie. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
“I love outdoor theatre to bits,” adds Stevens, a veteran of fresh-air acting who’s making his first 4th Line Theatre appearance.
“For the audience, there’s something about going outside and having an experience. You can’t cue the chipmunks. The unpredictability is exciting.”
Playing Alice from age 15 to 77, McNeilly says that’s opened her eyes to “how life changes us. You really need to understand the plot and the arc of the story to think about how that conditions the character.”
Sarah McNeilly as Alice Cameron. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
Like Stevens, McNeilly is also making her 4th Line Theatre debut — returning to the stage after being diagnosed in May 2016 with breast cancer at the age of 31.
“I’m thrilled. They sort of have a reputation for only hiring the coolest people ever. Every morning I get here and think ‘I am so lucky.’ This is bucket list material.
“The characters are so real. It’s challenging as an actor because there are so many layers and so many nuances and facets to it, but it’s really rewarding. None of the characters are perfect, but they’re all trying and I think that’s so real.”
4th Line Theatre managing artistic director Kim Blackwell at the “Box Office” at Winslow Farm in Millbrook. Tickets are now available for 4th Line Theatre’s summer season, with “Crow Hill: The Telephone Play” running from July 3rd to 28th and “Who Killed Snow White?” from August 6th to 25th. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)
With original composition and musical composition by Justin Hiscox, choreography by Monica Dottor, costume design by Meredith Hubbard, and set design by James McCoy, Crow Hill: The Telephone Play runs July 3rd to 28th, Tuesday through Saturday, with curtain at 6 p.m. There will be added performance on Monday, July 23rd, also at 6 p.m.
Tickets are $38 adults and $32 youth and can be purchased by phone at 705-932-4445, online at www.4thlinetheatre.on.ca, or at 4th Line Theatre’s box office in Millbrook at 4 Tupper Street and in Peterborough at the Peterborough Museum and Archives (300 Hunter Street East, atop Armour Hill).
The goal of this year's Lock & Paddle event is to allow as many paddlers as possible a chance to "lock-through" the Peterborough Lift Lock. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 24th, with registration beginning at 10 a.m. and lockage beginning at noon. Local vendors and entertainment will be on site for the duration of the event. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)
Last year’s Lock & Paddle at the Peterborough Lift Lock was a record-breaking event, with 328 canoes and kayaks filling the two chambers.
In fact, it was so successful that many disappointed paddlers were turned away. So, this year, the third annual Lock & Paddle on Sunday, June 24th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be something different.
In celebration of National Canoe Day and Free Lockage Day, the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site of Canada, in co-operation with The Canadian Canoe Museum and The Land Canadian Adventures, is making the event more inclusive by setting a new goal: to get as many paddlers as possible through the Peterborough Lift Lock between noon and 3 p.m.
Last year’s event in honour of Canada 150 saw a record-breaking 328 canoes and kayaks filling the two chambers of the Peterborough Lift Lock. Some paddlers were turned away, so the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site of Canada, in co-operation with The Canadian Canoe Museum and The Land Canadian Adventures, is making this year’s event more inclusive. (Photo: Parks Canada)
And the event will feel more like a paddling festival, with entertainment and local vendors on-site for the duration of the event.
Another big change for his year’s event is that paddlers wishing to participate will first have to register — for free. Registration begins Sunday at 10 a.m. at two locations: at the top side of the Peterborough Lift Lock at the McFarlane Street Bridge parking lot and at the bottom side of the Peterborough Lift Lock.
Paddlers are encouraged to arrive early, to ensure they are registered and to have the opportunity to visit the vendors before the lockage begins at noon.
At last year’s Lock & Paddle event, paddlers just had to show up. At this year’s event, paddlers wishing to lock-through the Peterborough Lift Lock for this year’s Lock & Paddle event will need to register (for free) first and obtain a coloured wristband. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)
The vendors will be located at the bottom side of the Peterborough Lift Lock, along the trail, and will include Ben’s Kettle Corn, Fresh Urban Plate, Kawartha Buttertart Factory, Parks Canada – Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site, Pedal Parlor Co., Peterborough and the Kawarthas Tourism, Rocky Ridge Water, Salmon River Kayaks, Smoke House Port Perry, Sugar Daddy, The Land Canadian Adventures, and The Canadian Canoe Museum.
Note that parking is not available at either registration location, although paddlers and their boats can be dropped off. Organizers are asking paddlers to register at the top side location at the McFarlane Street Bridge if possible (and paddle to the Lift Lock from there), leaving the bottom side location for paddlers with accessibility concerns.
Parking
While parking will not be available at either registration location, there are other places where you can park that are within walking (and paddling) distance to the Peterborough Lift Lock:
It won’t be quite this crowded at this year’s Lock & Paddle event on June 24th, as the goal this year isn’t to fit as many paddlers as possible in each chamber, but to give as many paddlers as possible the chance to “lock-through” the Peterborough Lift Lock. (Photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)
Paddling to the Peterborough Lift Lock
To allow paddlers with less experience or accessibility issues to register and put in at the Peterborough Lift Lock Visitor Centre, experienced paddlers should choose one of the following put-in locations. Note that if you are going through Lock 20 – Ashburhnam, you need to allow an extra 45 to 60 minutes to transfer and paddle to the Peterborough Lift Lock.
Beavermead Campground (2011 Ashburnham Dr.) – 5-minute paddle to Lock 20, 45-60 minutes to transfer and paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
Rogers Cove (131 Maria St.) – 5-minute paddle to Lock 20, 45-60 minutes to transfer and paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
Millennium Park (130 King St.) – 20-minute paddle to Lock 20, 45-60 minutes to transfer and paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
Del Crary Park (100 George St.) – 35-minute paddle to Lock 20, 45-60 minutes to transfer and paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
Warsaw Swing Bridge (Parkhill Rd, E. and Canal Rd.) – 20-minute paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
McFarlane Bridge (McFarlane St. & Ashburnham Dr.) – 10-minute paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock
Trent-Severn Waterway Headquarters (2155 Ashburnham Dr.) – 5-minute portage to launch at the top and west side of Lock 20, 20-minute paddle to Peterborough Lift Lock.
All participating paddlers need the following gear: a PFD (paddlers must wear it), a sound signalling device, a buoyant heaving line, and a bailer for each boat. Also bring sunscreen and a hat (or an umbrella or raincoat depending on the weather forecast) and a water bottle.
VIDEO: Lock ‘n’ Paddle 2017 at the Peterborough Lift Lock
Boat and gear rentals
If you want to rent a boat or gear, you can get it at one of the following local rental suppliers:
Salmon River Kayaks (Peterborough Lift Lock)
Pedal and Paddle (Millennium Park at the Silver Bean, 100 King St., Peterborough)
Wild Rock Outfitters (169 Charlotte Street, Peterborough)
The fourth annual Peterborough Pulse event, where people replace cars on downtown Peterborough streets, returns on Saturday, July 21, 2018. A media launch was held on June 20th beside the Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area)
Peterborough Pulse, the open streets event in downtown Peterborough, returns in 2018 for the fourth straight year on Saturday, July 21st. A media launch was held today (June 20) beside the Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market.
For one summer day, downtown streets are closed to vehicles and are instead filled with pedestrians, cyclists and roller-skaters, families pushing strollers, karate and fencing demonstrations, art and music, and more.
“Pulse is the ultimate way to experience our downtown,” says Susan Sauvé, Transportation Demand Management Planner with the City of Peterborough. “As a city, we are becoming more walk and bike friendly, and we know that the downtown is where the most demand for walking and cycling is.”
Peterborough Pulse runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with this year’s route running along George Street from McDonnel St. to Sherbrooke St. and will include Charlotte Street from George St. to Aylmer St.
Mike Doherty and Nathanial Kumarasamy of Dohjo Muay Thai show off their skills at the corner of Charlotte and George streets during the June 20th media launch for this year’s Peterborough Pulse. The one-day event on July 21st will feature a range of activities, art and music, food, and more. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area)
“Pulse is an amazing way to see what this community has to offer,” says Terry Guiel, Executive Director of the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area. “With more than 100 businesses and community groups involved, you’re going to have the opportunity to try some unique activities as well as see some new local dining and shopping possibilities.”
New this year is a snack hub on Charlotte Street, next to the George Street intersection, where healthy and nutritious food and drinks will be available for attendees (no alcoholic beverages will be served).
Also new this year is the Pulse Play Guide, which will promote recreation activities for the entire family all summer long.
Research shows that, in today’s technology-driven world, many Canadian families are struggling to “power off and play” by reducing screen time in the home. From axe throwing to star gazing, the Pulse Play Guide will offer families free access to some of the best recreation opportunities offered in Peterborough.
“This Play Guide will help local families create lasting memories all summer long,” says Hillary Flood, Pulse Coordinator with Peterborough GreenUP. “We are extremely grateful for the support from the Healthy Kids Community Challenge Power Off and Play program.”
Printed versions of the Pulse Play Guide will be available at local art galleries and museums (including the Peterborough Museum and Archives, Hutchinson House, The Canadian Canoe Museum, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, and the OFAH Heritage Centre) and a download option will also be available on the Pulse website.
For more information about Peterborough Pulse, including updates and vendor applications for the Charlotte Street snack hub, visit www.peterborughpulse.com.
Strawberry season is underway at McLean and Buckhorn Berry Farms, with pre-picked and pick-your-own options available. The farms have recently unveiled a new logo and website, and you can visit them at local farmers' markets in Peterborough (the Wednesday downtown market and the new Saturday downtown market), Lakefield, Stanhope, Haliburton, and Minden. (Photo: McLean Berry Farm / Facebook)
Kawartha Chamber Members Invited To Peterborough Chamber’s Summer Social PBX – July 3rd
Members of the Kawartha Chamber have been invited to the Peterborough Chamber’s county fair-themed Summer Social Peterborough Business Exchange at Kawartha Lakes Construction.
The event will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 3rd at 3359 Lakefield Road, Lakefield.
This is a great opportunity to meet and connect with fellow community members. There will be tons of games, prizes, and delicious refreshments to go around to celebrate the season and our community.
Chamber members have access to the Chamber’s Esso Business Card gas discount program! Sign up to get a 3.5 cent/litre fuel discount, as well as savings on oil, top-up fluids, and car washes.
Find out more about this and other great discount programs available to Chamber members on the Member Discounts page.
Five Minutes For Business: State Of The Economy
In this edition of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Five Minutes for Business series, Chamber Chief Economist Trevin Stratton (Ph.D.) examines Canada’s economic performance up to the mid-point of 2018 and considers what the latter half of the year might have in store for us.
The article examines such topics as tariffs, trade talks, pipelines, and electoral change. Read the full article.
Tourism Industry Awards Nominations Open
The Tourism Industry Association of Ontario has announced nominations for various tourism organization awards:
The Tourism Industry Awards of Excellence (TIAO)
Culinary Tourism Awards of Excellence (Culinary Tourism Alliance)
Ontario’s Choice Awards (Attractions Ontario)
Tourism Marketing & Travel Media Awards of Excellence (Destination Ontario)
Agilec Presents Turn The Tables On Hunger – June 21st in Lakefield
Agilec Lakefield is hosting their annual Turn the Tables on Hunger food drive.
Agilec’s Lakefield location will be hosting a food drive on Thursday, June 21st from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in partnership with Lakefield Foodland, located at 1 Queen Street. All proceeds will be donated to the Lakefield Food Bank, a local charity dedicated to helping those in need.
Turn the Tables on Hunger is a corporate social responsibility initiative that Agilec created and actively participates in year round. The company also chooses one day every June for all 180 staff members in 17 locations across the province to get out into their communities and contribute in some way to eradicating hunger. In previous years, Agilec has volunteered over 1,500 hours, raised more than $18,000, and donated over 2000 pounds of food to local charities.
McLean and Buckhorn Berry Farms New Logo And Website
McLean and Buckhorn Berry Farms has unveiled their new logo (above) and website at mcleanberryfarm.com.
Check out McLean Berry Farm at 2191 16th Line in Lakefield and Buckhorn Berry Farm at 3055 Berrie Road in Lakefield for fresh fruit, vegetables, jams, maple syrup and more. Pick your own and pre-picked options available.
Trent Lakes Streetscape And Master Plan Revealed
The Municipality of Trent Lakes has released survey information regarding their Streetscape and Greenspace Master Plan for Buckhorn.
Consultation with the public has lead to clear indications of what the residents of Trent Lakes feel are key targets for this plan.
A large majority of respondents (72 per cent) indicated that the primary focus of the development efforts should be on Lakehurst Road and the new park land areas. In terms of investment focus, 31 per cent of respondents indicated sidewalks and trails should be the focus, another 26 per cent chose streetscape improvements, and 20 per cent indicated waterfront amenities as a key area for investment.
Feedback from Trent Lake staff and community members analyzed by the firm Skelton Brumwell & Associates has produced a set of eleven recommendations for the Master Plan. These recommendations have been strategically devised as modules, to be implemented as funding becomes available.
The L’ll Big Band is performing at Cenotaph Park in Lakefield. (Photo: The L’ll Big Band)
In celebration of the Lakefield Jazz, Art, and Craft Festival’s 20th anniversary, the Township of Selwyn is hosting a promotional jazz tour on Saturday, June 23rd.
Jazz bands will be playing at different times and locations in Lakefield. Bands and locations include the The L’ll Big Band in Cenotaph Park, Pete Woolidge and Federico Pontani at The Chocolate Rabbit and The Nuddy Bean, Sean Hully at Lakefield Pantry and Happenstance Books and Yarn, Chris Smith at The Thirsty Loon, and more.
Lakefield Literary Festival 2018 List Of Authors – July 13 to 15
Canadian actor and comedian Mary Walsh is one of the authors coming to the Lakefield Literary Festival, which runs from July 13 to 15. Walsh recently published her debut novel “Crying for the Moon”, about a determined young woman coming of age in 1960s Newfoundland. (Publicity photo)
The authors’ list for the 2018 Lakefield Literary Festival has been revealed. The festival will take place July 13th to 15th.
Some great authors are involved this year, including Johanna Schneller, Michael Redhill, and Michelle Berry.
Tickets are available online at the website or at Happenstance Books & Yarn in Lakefield.
Camp Kawartha Surf ‘N’ Turf Gala Dinner And Auction This Weekend
Nestled on the shores of Clear Lake, and with more than 185 acres of wetlands, woodlands and meadows, Camp Kawartha’s Outdoor Education Centre and summer camp (1010 Birchview Road, Douro-Dummer) is a natural for outdoor learning. (Photo: Camp Kawartha)
Camp Kawartha’s annual Surf ‘n’ Turf Gala and Auction fundraiser is this weekend.
Attendees will enjoy a dinner of steak and lobster, and have the opportunity to bid on a variety of amazing items and services.
If your business or organization has a job opportunity you would like to advertise, you can add them to the Chamber’s website through your Member Information Centre account (or submit the description to info@kawarthachamber.ca) and the Chamber will share them in its next Newsflash.
Peterborough Public Health Resumes Water Testing At Public Beaches
Peterborough Public Health has announced that it will be resuming testing of water at many public beaches in Peterborough County for E. Coli bacteria, an indicator of fecal contamination, throughout the summer.
Follow @Ptbohealth on Twitter for regular updates on local water conditions. Beaches within the city will be sampled every business day, while county beaches will be tested on a weekly basis.
Peterborough Public Health would like to remind the public of some of the main factors that can result in unsafe levels of bacteria between inspection times: heavy rainfall, large numbers of waterfowl, high winds or wave activity, large numbers of swimmers.
Lakefield Triathlon – June 24th (map of road closures available)
The Lakefield Triathlon is scheduled for Sunday, June 24th. This is an Ontario Youth and Junior Cup series race, open to athletes of all abilities aged four to 19.
The event is expected to bring hundreds of athletes and their families from all over Ontario to Lakefield. Registration for the Triathlon closes on Wednesday, June 20th.
The races will start at Lakefield College School at 8 a.m. and spectators are welcome. Parking can be found at Lakefield College School until 8 a.m. and at the Lakefield-Smith Community Centre after that.
Great Canadian Giving Challenge on Now until June 30th
The Great Canadian Giving Challenge is on now until June 30th.
Give to any registered Canadian charity by the end of June and they will be automatically entered to win $10,000! Note that donations must be made through the charity’s donation challenge page.
This challenge makes it a great time to donate to a cause you believe in! Visit the Challenge website at givingchallenge.ca for more details and to donate.
Lakefield Farmers’ Market – June 21st (and every Thursday)
Camp Kawartha’s Surf ‘n’ Turf Gala Dinner and Auction – June 23rd
Jazz Tour Lakefield – June 23rd
Lakefield Triathlon – June 24th
Tek Savvy Seniors Seminar – June 27th
Family Paddle Day – June 27th
Lakefield Jamboree – June 28th to July 1st
Gallery on the Lake Mark Berens Exhibit Opens – June 30th
Canada Day Celebrations – July 1st
For more information about the businesses and events listed above, please visit the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism website at kawarthachamber.ca.
All photos supplied by Kawartha Chamber of Commerce except where noted.
Park Place Financial and Terry Windrem Insurance Agencies, both headquartered in Peterborough, have announced a merger. Pictured are Park Place Financial co-founders of Mike D'Alessandro (left) and Darrell Wade (right) with Terry Windrem of Terry Windrem Insurance Agencies, who will become the President and CEO of Park Place Financial. Staff from the two companies will merge and relocated to a renovated building at the location of the former Roland's Restaurant on Highway 7 East by the fall of 2018. (Photo courtesy of Park Place Financial)
Park Place Financial, a wealth and estate planning company headquartered in Peterborough, announced today (June 20) that it is merging with Terry Windrem Insurance Agencies, also located in Peterborough.
Terry Windrem will become President and CEO of Park Place Financial, and staff of the two companies will merge and relocate to a renovated building at the location of the former Roland’s Restaurant on Highway 7 East by the fall of 2018.
The focus of the firm will continue to be financial, succession, and business planning for professionals, entrepreneurs, and high net worth clients.
“We share the same vision for clients in our community, to help preserve and growth the wealth and families, family businesses, and entrepreneurs,” Windrem says. “This new partnership allows all of us to leverage the strength of our team, enhance our offering to our clients, and accelerate our growth and commitment to the greater Peterborough community.”
Terry Windrem Insurance Agencies was founded in 1984 and, as a partner of The Protectors Group, grew into one of Central Ontario’s leading financial services firm, specializing in the needs of business owners and professionals across the province. Park Place Financial was co-founded by Mike D’Alessandro and Darrell Wade in 2012 and has grown to become one of Peterborough’s leading wealth and estate planning companies.
“Our clients need specific and specialized services that are unique to family-owned businesses,” D’Alessandro says. “The breadth of knowledge Terry and his team are bringing to Park Place will further position us as industry leaders in Central Ontario.”
As part of the marger, Park Place Financial services will include Peak Benefit Solutions Inc. and clients will be able to access their services and expertise in employee benefits, retirement, and executive compensation strategies. Park Place Financial also plans to hire in-house tax and estate planning specialists, a full suite of investment professionals, and as well as ancillary services personnel.
“With our combined strength, we can re-invest in our business to add specialized services that will help add value to our current and future client experience,” Wade says.
Mike D’Alessandro. (Photo courtesy of Park Place Financial)
Mike D’Alessandro is the co-founder of Park Place Financial, a Certified Financial Planner, and a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Top of the Table — the premier association of financial professionals focusing on exemplary performance and the highest standard of ethics and professional knowledge.
With more than 10 years of experience in financial, succession, and business planning, Mike is recognized for specializing in aggressive growth strategies for motivated professionals, entrepreneurs, and high net worth clients. He frequently works with attorneys, chartered professional accountants, and lawyers to coordinate a team approach in executive, business and estate planning for his clients. Under his leadership, Park Place Financial has grown to be one of the most respected wealth management firms in Peterborough, with its team frequently recognized for both their investment performance and commitment to the community.
Mike has represented Canada at the World University Games as a hockey athlete and currently volunteers for his daughter’s hockey team as its head coach. He is also a co-founder and Past-President of HOPE, a non-profit organization that organizes the annual Gaskell Cup to raise funds for Hospice Peterborough, research into mental health and concussions in sport, and other great charities in the region.
He is also a founder of Startup Peterborough, providing mentoring and support to entrepreneurs in the region. As a co-founder of Startup Peterborough, Mike was part of a team that brought all the entrepreneurial organizations together for the first time to work more collaboratively to help businesses flourish in the region.
This resulted in Mike and a group of entrepreneurs, attracting and investing millions of dollars into the Peterborough community to create VentureNorth — a business hub that physically brings organizations together in one building to attract businesses and organically grow our entrepreneurial talent in the region. Mike worked tirelessly for over a year to bring this building to fruition and VentureNorth is now home to the Innovation Cluster Peterborough & the Kawarthas (including several tech companies and The Cube, an incubator with over 30 start-ups led primarily by young business owners) as well as Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development.
Mike lives in Peterborough with his wife and young children.
Darrell Wade
Darrell Wade. (Photo courtesy of Park Place Financial)
Darrell Wade is the co-founder of Park Place Financial, a certified Family Enterprise Advisor, and a lifetime member of the Top of the Table of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), demonstrating his exemplary performance and the highest standards of ethics and professional knowledge. In 2017, Darrell is the Canadian Chair of MDRT, a leadership role representing Canada amongst the world’s top financial advisors.
Darrell focuses on a comprehensive financial management process to build upon the wealth of clients while working closely with them on their family wealth and estate goals. With two decades of experience, he has developed an approach to investing, succession and proper stewardship of family wealth that protects the legacy of his clients and their families.
Darrell is commonly renowned for his solid investment performance and commitment to his strong family values. His guidance at Park Place Financial has been key to the success of a boutique firm of experts and its reputation as one of Peterborough’s leading wealth management firms.
Darrell is an active volunteer in his community and is committed to mentoring youth in the financial and agriculture fields.
He lives on a farm near Peterborough with his wife and four children.
Terry Windrem
Terry Windrem. (Photo courtesy of Park Place Financial)
Terry Windrem brings more than 40 years experience in financial, succession and estate strategies to his partnership with Park Place Financial. After successfully building several companies, including Terry G. Windrem Insurance Agencies, the two companies merged in spring 2018 where Terry now joins Park Place Financial as President and CEO.
Terry works with clients to establish long term relationships and built his successful business on the highest levels of trust, service, integrity and operational excellence. He is consistently recognized in the community and by his clients for helping business owners develop tax effective insurance strategies, investments, succession and estate plans. The Protectors Group and Peak Benefit Solutions have grown to be known leaders in Central Ontario.
Terry is continuously celebrated by both industry and the community and has received the National Quality Award from the Canadian Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors for over 35 years and is an invited member of CALU (The Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting). As an active member of the greater Peterborough community, Terry is a founding member of Kawartha Family Business Group, a local organization dedicated to ensuring continuity of family businesses in the region. He is a current Lakefield College School Trustee and a former charter member of Kawartha Rotary.
Terry served on the Peterborough Regional Health Care Foundation Board of Directors for nine years and, in 2017, was bestowed the title of Governor Emeritus. He previously served as a Corporate Chair for Juvenile Diabetes and served on the Board of Directors for United Way Peterborough & District and Trent Valley Literacy.
For 20 years, Market Hall in downtown Peterborough has been offering performing arts camps during the summer for children and youth. Registration is open for this year's camps, which run from July to the end of August, in the areas of circus arts, theatre, dance, music, film, and more run throughout the summer. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
For most students in the Kawarthas, school’s out for the summer on Thursday, June 28th. That’s the last day of classes for elementary school students and the last day of exams for high school students. So, if you still haven’t registered your kids for summer camps, you’d better not delay any longer.
And if your kids are interested in the performing arts (or maybe you want them to try something new), you have to check out this year’s Creativity Camps at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in Peterborough.
The high-energy and interactive weekly camps, which begin on Monday, July 2nd and run to the end of August, will both entertain and educate your children in the areas of circus arts, theatre, dance, music, film, and more.
Thomas Vaccaro, creative director for Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts, trains children on an apparatus in the Circus Extravaganza Camp. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
Chad Hogan, General Manager of the Market Hall, says the camps are designed to delight both novices as well as kids who already with some familiarity with the performing arts.
“There’s something for every child,” Hogan says. “There’s no experience or skill set necessary,”
For 20 years Market Hall has been offering Creativity Camps, instructed by local professional artists and teachers such as Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts creative director Thomas Vaccaro, musician and retired teacher Dan Fewings, filmmaker Brian Mitolo, and dance instructors Shannon Stanlick and Nicole Kelly,
“Many of them attended these camps when they were kids,” Hogan points out.
The instructors, who have many years’ experience directing summer camps, are assisted by a full-time teaching assistant who is present throughout the day.
Instructed by Dan Fewings, Green Roof Theatre Camp helps children explore their imagination through theatre games, writing, music, movement, and masks. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
The Creativity Camps are for kids between the ages of seven and 14, depending on the camp, with some camps offering versions for both younger and older children. The camps are a great way for children to increase their self-confidence while also making friends.
“Over the past few years, one of the biggest things that I’ve seen in children is their confidence levels (change),” says instructor Nicole Kelly.
“Once they’re in here for a couple of hours or by the second day, they seem like they’re at home and they’re comfortable. They make a lot of friends and they talk to people, and you get to see another side of them that they don’t necessarily always get to show.”
At the Creativity Camps, children and youth get to explore their imagination through theatre games, writing, music, movement, and masks. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
What makes the camps extra special is that the kids put on a performance at the end of the week for friends and family, so you can also experience and enjoy everything they’ve learned during the week.
“It’s my first year at an acting camp ever,” says one young participant, referring to her experience at one of the theatre camps. “It’s been really fun. Everybody has an equal part, everybody has a good moment.”
Summer 2018 Creativity Camp Schedule
Here is the 2018 Creativity Camp schedule. Follow the links below for fee information and to register for a specific camp.
For more information about the Creativity Camps and to download the registration form, visit markethall.org/our-events/creativity-camps/. Registration forms must be filled out for all campers prior to the camp start date.
July 2-6 (ages 7-10), July 9-13 (ages 9-14), August 27-31 (advanced class, ages 9-14)
In this week-long camp, students will learn the curriculum taught by Canada’s National Circus School!
Thomas Vaccaro, a graduate of the circus instructor/trainer program and creative director for the Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts, will be adapting the youth program taught by the ENC & Cirque du Soleil. The program focuses heavily on balance, acrobatics, aerials, and object manipulation, and uses games as a means to learn. No previous experience is necessary.
Circus arts are essential building blocks for developing self-esteem, physical fitness, good health, spatial awareness, and bringing your body and mind in harmony together.
The Circus Extravaganza Camp program focuses heavily on balance, acrobatics, aerials, and object manipulation, and uses games as a means to learn. No previous experience is necessary. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
The fabulous Green Roof Children’s Theatre camps are an established tradition of excellence working with children in a theatrically creative context.
The camps enable children to explore their imagination through theatre games, writing, music, movement, and masks.
Market Hall’s Creativity Camps both entertain and educate children in the areas of circus arts, theatre, dance, music, film, and more. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
Be a star in your own movie, learn to operate camera and edit, and learn to create special effects during this week-long movie-making camp. Lights, camera, action!
Note: due to the nature of the camp, each week-long session is limited to 10 participants.
Campers will combine acting, signing, and dancing onstage wnile receiving daily acting, singing, and dance training. They will also take part in a variety of choreographed and directed musical theatre numbers.
Each day, rehearsal and training will be intertwined with exciting camp games, activities, and crafts. Campers will also have the opportunity to choreograph and direct their very own musical theatre number.
The week culminates with the children starring in a magnificent musical theatre showcase that exhibits their newfound multiple talents.
Shannon Stanlick’s Triple Threat Dance Camp combines acting, signing, and dancing onstage. Children also take part in a variety of choreographed and directed musical theatre numbers. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
In this two-week camp, 20 participants will work together to create an original production to be mounted at Market Hall.
In addition to their collective creation, campers will partake in specialized workshops including movement, vocal music, masks and mime, theatre production, story telling, puppetry, stage make-up, and technical design.
Using skills gained from the workshops, campers will become their very own theatre company — experiencing firsthand what it takes to put their hard work onstage.
In the two-week Theatrical Experience camp, participants take the skills they learn at workshops covering theatre production, puppetry, stage make-up, technical design, and more to create an original production to be mounted at Market Hall. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
This week-long camp is designed for boys and girls to explore dance through creative movement.
Campers will not only explore jazz, hip hop, contemporary dance, ballet, musical theatre, and many more genres, but will learn also study how to become choreographers themselves.
At the Dance Factor camp, instructed by Nicole Kelly, children explore many dance genres including jazz, hip hop, contemporary dance, ballet, musical theatre, and more. (Photo: Bradley Boyle / Market Hall Performing Arts Centre)
Peterborough Housing Corporation CEO Darlene Cook and Homeward Bound manager Marnie Watson receive a cheque for $20,000 from Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough board chair Diane Richard and executive director John Good. Led by Peterborough Housing Corporation, Homeward Bound helps inadequately housed or homeless mother-led families achieve self-sufficiency. (Photo: Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough)
The Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough announced a $20,000 grant to the Homeward Bound program yesterday (June 18) at the foundation’s annual general meeting.
Homeward Bound is a program that helps inadequately housed or homeless mother-led families achieve self-sufficiency. The four-year program eliminates barriers and allows these mothers to take control of their lives by providing housing, child care, tuition for a two-year college diploma, and a 14-week internship leading to full-time employment in a living-wage job.
“Households led by single mothers have some of the highest rates of poverty and food insecurity in our area,” says Diane Richard, Board Chair of the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough. “It’s a complex issue, and that’s why we’re so pleased to be supporting Homeward Bound, because it’s a proven solution that will provide every support a woman needs to change her life and will help build up the vitality of our community overall.”
Peterborough’s Homeward Bound program is a replication of a successful program designed by WoodGreen Community Services in Toronto, which has helped 189 women and 299 children since it was first piloted in 2004. Based on the success of the program, WoodGreen received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replicate the program with partnering communities in Ontario.
The Peterborough program is led by Peterborough Housing Corporation in partnership with local organizations, including YWCA Peterborough Haliburton, Fleming College Sutherland Campus, Compass Daycare, City of Peterborough, and United Way Peterborough & District.
“This program has been ten years in the making here in Peterborough,” says Homeward Bound manager Maisie Watson.
“We’re fortunate to have been mentored and licensed by WoodGreen, and we’re grateful to all of our community partners and supporters who are making this possible. Our first cohort of four women and 11 children have already entered the program, so 15 lives are in the process of changing positively and forever, which is amazing.”
The grant is the result of a donation from an anonymous donor, and will support aspects of the program.
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