Quaker Canada Day Breakfast Nourishes At Quaker Foods City Square
/Quaker Canada hosted a complimentary breakfast at Quaker Foods City Square to help kick off Canada Day in Peterborough on Saturday.
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QUAKERborough Releases New Commercial Highlighting Plant Employees in the Peterborough Community
/Quaker Oats (PepsiCo Canada) has released a new commercial for the QUAKERborough brand, which includes employees from the local Quaker Plant at 34 Hunter St. W.
Photo courtesy of citizen relations PR.
“In 1902, Peterborough welcomed Quaker into the proud community we now like to call QUAKERborough – a place with great food and welcoming neighbours who make you feel right at home,” says Logan Chambers, Senior Director of Marketing with PepsiCo Canada. “Acknowledging the warmth and support that Quaker has received over the years, the brand is on a mission to personally welcome newcomers to the city with open arms with the help of our dedicated plant employees and the New Canadians Centre in Peterborough.”
The process started in April of this year, when Peterborough’s New Canadians Centre advertised a casting call on social media for a family new to the community.
Now two months later, the commercial shows the QUAKERborough van driving around the community, and assisting the new family in moving a couch into their home.
Stroll Through 120 Years Of Quaker Oats History With Heritage Walks This September
/Lakefield Heritage is will be hosting four heritage walks celebrating Quaker Oats' 120 years in Peterborough on Sept. 17.
Photo by Luke Best.
Walks will begin at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. each one will be under one hour long.
Tours begin at the Quaker Parkette at the northwest corner of Hunter St. E. and Driscoll Terrace.
On the walks participants will learn about Quaker and the Hunter Street bridge development, the impact Quaker Oats had on Peterborough’s economy during World War One and much more.
Parking will be permitted by the Kawartha Credit Union, at their two north parking lots off Driscoll Terrace.
For more information email lkfd_her@cogeco.ca
Quaker Oats Celebrates 120th Year On Hunter Street With Limited Edition Clothing Line
/Quaker Oats is celebrating the 120th anniversary of its Peterborough factory with the release of a limited edition, Canadian-made clothing line called QUAKERborough.
The limited-edition clothing collection is inspired by the durability grit, and confidence of the hard-working employees at the Quaker Peterborough plant, with 100 per cent of the proceeds being donated to Food Banks Canada.
With an emphasis on the generations of Canadians that have worked at Quaker, the QUAKERborough line is manufactured entirely in Canada by Province of Canada, a manufacturing company located in Toronto.
Jason Wilkins, illustrator, live event artist, muralist and workshop instructor from Peterborough is the creative mind behind the QUAKERborough design.
Wilkins illustrations are featured on the backs of the hoodie and long sleeve.
“I was approached December 2021 to illustrate for their high quality hoodie and long sleeve,” said Wilkins in a social media post on Tuesday. “Something that would incorporate all the awesome that we have here in Peterborough, while presenting that feeling we all get while walking across the Hunter Street bridge. the smell that can not only make a bad day better, but immediately transport us back to childhood.”
The exclusive collection is available online now and with limited quantities of each piece available at quakerborough.ca.
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A Day in the Life of the Breakfast Program At Queen Mary Public School
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The Queen Mary Breakfast Program is a free program available to all of the close to 400 students who attend the school. The program, which has been running for more than 10 years now and continues to evolve, provides nutritious foods to students right in their classrooms. The program's motto: By having full tummies, kids’ minds are engaged in the classroom, making the most of their time there.Explore Peterborough's Spooky Side by taking a Ghost Walk
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Bruce Fitzpatrick leads the walk through Peterborough's spooky past.
Every Friday night at 9 p.m.—through the rest of July and August—a hooded tour guide named Bruce Fitzpatrick will take you through some spooky stories on Eerie Ashburnham Ghost Walks. Ashburnham is chock full of interesting tales involving Quaker Oats, the Hunter Street Bridge and numerous old houses that date back hundreds of years.
The Ghost Walk is put on by the Trent Valley Archives and costs $10 to participate—no reservations are necessary. Meet your guide at the corner of Hunter St./Driscoll Terrace.
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Peterborough's Adam Kemp is a rock star of poster design
/Twenty-five-year-old Adam Kemp first got involved with graphic design in 2002 when he began making movie posters for fun. What started as a hobby has now become one of his jobs at his business World on Mute Designs, where he develops websites (for The Spades, for example), provides web maintenance, and does graphic design (from logos to invitations to his awesome posters). "I love the arts, from the clean to the wacky style," he says.
World on Mute is a curious name for a company—and here's where Kemp says it came from: "The name 'World on Mute' originated from a group of friends that was gathering to make a movie about me and my hearing impaired disability. I loved the name and it just stuck with me for quite a long time. When I was at Sir Sandford Fleming [he's a graduate of the Web Developer program there], I was asked by one of my teachers, 'What are you going to name your business?' And I knew right away. I remembered 'World on Mute' and wanted to use that."
Chances are you've seen some of his eye-popping posters at The Historic Red Dog and elsewhere in downtown Peterborough. "I'm glad that Ryan Kemp [his brother] of The Red Dog gave me a chance to express my creativity through these posters that I've designed for the Red Dog," says Kemp, who was born and raised in the Patch. "I've received so many compliments from the bands that just loved their posters that I did."
Kemp recently moved to Port Credit, Mississauga's Village on the Lake—"it reminds me of East City in Peterborough but without the good old Quaker Oats smell," he says—but gets back to Peterborough as much as he can.
Below are some of his favourite posters he's designed.
