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Members of the Peterborough Area Roller Derby (PARD) during a recent practice. PARD's double-header season home opener takes place on May 27th at the Douro arena and will support the Peterborough Humane Society. (Photo: Scott Tromley)

Roller derby goes to the cats and dogs

Peterborough Area Roller Derby season opener May 27 at Douro arena to support Peterborough Humane Society.
Peterborough Public Health advises there is no significant risk to drinking water as a result of the City of Peterborough's wastewater treatment plant entering by-pass mode, and that residents residents who live on the municipal water system are not affected. The health unit reminds residents who draw water from the river to check their water treatment systems and for well owners to test and disinfect their water.

There is no “boil water advisory” for Peterborough residents

Both Peterborough Public Health and Peterborough Utilities confirm city drinking water is safe.
Major League Baseball has selected Katherine Evans Davidson of Lindsay as the 2017 Honorary Bat Girl for the Toronto Blue Jays. (Photo: Katherine Evans Davidson)

Lindsay’s Katherine Davidson selected as Honorary Bat Girl for the Blue Jays

Living with stage four breast cancer, Davidson will be recognized at Jays game on Mother's Day .
Jordan Honsinger (banjo, vocals) and Trevor MacLeod (lead guitar) of country rockers Cold Creek County, who headline the Country Wild Music Festival on June 3 at Victoria Park in Cobourg. (Photo: Cold Creek County / Instagram)

Cold Creek County headlines Cobourg’s first country music festival

Country Wild Music Festival on June 3 also features Runaway Angel, Gentlemen Husbands, and six more Canadian country bands.
If you missed Manitoba country singer-songwriter Kayla Luky when she performed at The Garnet in Peterborough last week, you can see her at the Arlington Pub in Maynooth on Saturday, May 6. Luky, who describes her music as "too country for folk and too country for country", is touring her new album "Back to Dirt". (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – May 4 to 10

Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, May 4 to Wednesday, May 10.
The 3 Alarm Choir, Peterborough's own drop-in choir, gets together monthly at The Junction in downtown Peterborough to rehearse and perform a popular tune in three-party harmony. The next "sing" is on May 8 when the choir will learn and sing U2's "Pride (In The Name of Love)".

Coming together for the love of song

3 Alarm Choir will perform at Market Hall and as a flash mob at Peterborough LIVE Music Festival
Terry McCullough, Vice President and General Manager of Savage Arms Canada in Lakefield and a member of the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism, has been appointed to the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development's Board of Directors. (Photo: Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

What’s new from the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce & Tourism – May 3, 2017

Featuring BOSS seminar, rural education strategy session, Ontario budget, BALL Real Estate grand opening, and more.
Voluntary participants in the national Canadian Health Measures Survey will be interviewed in their home and have a physical examination at a mobile clinic.

Statistics Canada to examine health of Peterborough-area residents

500 participants will be selected at random for an interview and physical examination.
Higher-than-normal water levels in Lake Ontario have increased the risk of shoreline flooding and erosion (photo: Wikipedia)

Flood watch upgraded to warning for Otonabee region watershed

Higher-than-normal rainfall has increased potential for flooding during May
National Girls Learning Code Day on May 13 will be celebrated in Peterborough with a workshop for girls aged eight to 13, along with their parents or guardians, at The Cube in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Ladies Learning to Code)

Girls can learn to code at May 13 workshop at The Cube in downtown...

Workshops held in 29 communities across Canada on National Girls Learning Code Day.

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