PTBOCanada Celebrates Its 11th Anniversary With New Studio Plans

To celebrate the 11th anniversary of PTBOCanada on Thursday, owner Kirtus Evoy has announced that the company will have a new studio and office on Hunter Street on August 1.

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The property is owned by Ashburnham Realty and will be in the heart of East City. The PTBOCanada staff are excited and eager to move into the new office.

“The space will allow us the digital growth of our team and our product offerings. We wanted to do it in a vibrant area such as East City. We have some more big plans over the summer and we’re looking forward to growing with Peterborough.”

“The new office is going to open up a world of opportunities and creative outlets for PTBOCanada moving forward,” said David Tuan Bui, PTBOCanada editor. “We can have guests in the studio for interviews, we’ll have a wonderful atmosphere and we’re basically right in the heart of Peterborough doing it all.”

Former owner and co-founder Neil Morton expressed his congratulations for the company’s milestone after owning the business for over a decade back in 2010 in a Facebook post.

Since the new ownership, Evoy retained brand strategy director, Aaron Elliott and finance assistant, Kim Wilson. His new additions included Bui, 100.5 Fresh Radio’s Pete Dalliday and cameraman David Koski.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the PTBOCanada brand and team celebrating our 11th anniversary,” said Evoy. “Neil (Morton) and his team did an amazing job to get things rolling and we are super excited to keep growing with Peterborough and open up our new studio and offices.”

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Local Engineering Firm Celebrates 15th Anniversary

From starting as a small business unit in Lakefield, Cambium Consulting & Engineering marked its 15th anniversary this past week.

Photo Courtesy of Cambium Consulting & Engineering.

The firm cannot have a formal celebration due to the shutdown, the staff reflect on past accomplishments and the changes over the years as part of their milestone.

Cambium was founded in 2006 with nine people offering environmental engineering services from an office in the Fleming Industrial Park.

Photo Courtesy of Cambium Consulting & Engineering.

They expanded in 2010, relocating to a larger office on Hunter Street in East City. Cambium added Geotechnical and Construction Quality Verification to its service suite from a second location on The Queensway in the same year. They have over 130 staff at offices located in Barrie, Oshawa, Kingston and Calgary.

“When we started Cambium 15 years ago, we had no idea that it would become what it is today. We aimed to craft a workplace we would enjoy and seek people that shared our beliefs to join us,” says John Desbiens, CEO and president. “As it turns out, we keep finding those people.”

Photo Courtesy of Cambium Consulting & Engineering.

In the past year, Cambium has been renovating a 25,000 square foot facility at 194 Sophia St. that will merge several Peterborough operations. The renovations and relocation are scheduled to be completed by June this year.

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Local Man Celebrates Family Reunion Anniversary After Early Separation

Local realtor and paralegal Colin Elsby went through most of his life without knowing his biological family but marked his two-year anniversary of reuniting with his sisters on Thursday.

During their first reunion, the siblings cooked and played board games as their first activities together at the Airbnb. Photo courtesy of Colin Elsby.

He found his sisters through social media three years ago citing his biological aunt as a mutual friend that made the connection. He only had first names and birthdates as his only clues of his sisters.

“I did some digging and everything popped up. My sisters found the same aunt (we had) on Facebook 10 years prior to me finding her,” said Elsby. “ We didn’t know each other aside from first names and birthdates. I honestly never thought I’d meet and find them.”

He first connected with them when he saw a friend request from his sister on Facebook.

The 24-year old met his sisters for the first time at an Airbnb in Leamington, Ont. — since one sister lives in Windsor and the other in Tilbury, Ont. — where the experience was so overwhelming that the actual meeting was the opposite according to Elsby.

“It was such a calming and natural connection,” he said. “There was a possibility that we may not have clicked but it was surprisingly natural and it wasn’t super eventful, to be honest.”

Fran Reaume (left), Jennifer Reaume (middle) and Colin Elsby (right) all share the same biological mother. Photo Courtesy of Colin Elsby.

The three often keep in contact with each other especially with the distance between their towns, the pandemic and busy lives. Both his sisters have children of their own and work in healthcare which occupies a lot of time says Elsby.

He was taken into the care of Children’s Aid Society (CAS) at five months old and officially adopted when he was three. He was born in Toronto, adopted in Cobourg and has been living in Peterborough for the past 15 years.

He is a realtor for EXIT Realty Liftlock Brokerage and a paralegal. Elsby is a board member for the Kawartha Haliburton Children’s Foundation for over two years.

He went to high school at Adam Scott Collegiate Vocational Institute before attending Fleming College to be a paralegal, graduating in 2019. He studied to be a real estate agent while getting his paralegal diploma. He currently is studying online at the University of London for his Bachelor of Law (LLB) to become a lawyer.

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Peterborough Airport Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary With Epic Air Show

Peterborough Airport is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an Air Show featuring the most exciting lineup of aerial demonstrations that Peterborough has seen in decades. The show takes place on Saturday, September 21th and Sunday, September 22th.

Headlining the show are the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerial demonstration team and the SkyHawks Canadian Armed Forces parachute team. The Air Show will also feature aerial demonstrations by Rick Volker, Todd Farrell, MKT Aerobatics and the Great War Flying Museum. Static aircraft displays, local food vendors and activities for kids will round out the show.

“We are thrilled with the line-up of performances we have assembled to celebrate the Airport’s 50th anniversary,” says Airport General Manager Trent Gervais. “There really is something for everyone—from heart-stopping excitement to graceful manoeuvres and everything in between.”

A variety of ticket options are available. Adult tickets are $30, a family pass is $70 and a VIP Experience is $200, plus applicable taxes and fees. Ticket pricing is also available for children, youth/students, seniors and veterans.

For more info on the show and tickets, go here.

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Fleming College’s Official Song Remastered For 50th Anniversary

"Let the Deed Show", Fleming College’s official song that was commissioned for the College’s 25th anniversary, has been remastered and updated for Fleming’s 50th.
 
The song details the life of Sir Sandford Fleming, the College’s namesake, and his contributions to society. Written by local performer Danny Bronson, Bronson returned to the studio recently at Haggarty Studios in Peterborough with some of the finest studio musicians in Canada to record the new rendition of the song.

Danny Bronson (at left) in the studio recording

Bronson, who has breathed new life into the classic song, performs "Let the Deed Show" every year at all of Fleming College’s convocation ceremonies at its Frost and Sutherland campuses.

Bronson, along with students, alumni and employees, will be in attendance at the college’s Sutherland Campus 50th Anniversary celebration on September 22nd from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Watch the awesome video below...

Written and performed by Danny Bronson Recorded at Haggerty Studios - Peterborough ON

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Fleming College Has Special Ceremony On 100th Aniversary Of Sir Sandford Fleming's Death

On the 100th anniversary of his death, Sir Sandford Fleming’s life and legacy were celebrated with a ceremony and the unveiling of a portrait of historic significance Wednesday (July 22nd) at the Sutherland Campus.

Fleming College President Dr. Tony Tilly gratefully accepted a portrait of Fleming, on long-term loan by the Royal Canadian Institute For the Advancement of Science (RCI)—the oldest scientific society in Canada and one that Fleming and a small group of civil engineers, architects and surveyors founded in 1849.

Fleming’s great-great-grandson, Jock Fleming, Councillor of the RCI, and Helle Tosine, President of the RCI, presented the portrait to Dr. Tilly.

The portrait was painted in the early 1890s by J.W.L. Forster, the leading Canadian portrait artist of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Happy 50th Anniversary Of The National Flag Of Canada

Today (February 15th) marks the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag. Parks Canada employees at the Trent-Severn Waterway—along with volunteers from the Peteborough community—celebrated it by recently painting the Canadian flag on the ice in front of the Historic Lift Lock...

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Canada’s flag turns 50 today! We celebrated by painting it on the ice under the PLL. Check out the video! #FLAG50 http://t.co/BCmfO5knb1

— TrentSevern Waterway (@TrentSevernNHS) February 15, 2015

Watch the full video here of the flag being painted...

When Parks Canada employees at the Trent-Severn Waterway wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag, they invited the community of Peterborough to join them in a truly Canadian undertaking. Here's what community spirit, patriotism, and a little bit of winter built at the Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site.

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