Stuff to do in the Patch this Long Weekend

The judges from Search 4 a Star

Looking for something to do in Peterborough this long weekend?

Friday

- Search 4 a Star *final week* (6 p.m. until 8 p.m. - free) - Peterborough Square

- Ghost Walk (9 p.m. - $10 a person) - Corner of Hunter and Driscoll Terrace

- Mustang Drive-in  - (Opens at 8:15 p.m. - Ticket Prices) - what's playing

Saturday

- Trooper at Little Lake Music Fest (8 p.m. - Free) - Del Crary Park

- Mustang Drive-In  - (Opens at 8:15 p.m. - Ticket Prices) - what's playing

- The Wolf Presents "5 Minutes of New Rock Summer Party" - (9 p.m. - $5) - Historic Red Dog

Sunday

- Mustang Drive-In (Opens at 8:15 p.m. - Ticket Prices) - what's playing

Monday

Civic Holiday - Here is what is closed... so hit the beach instead (free!)

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Explore Peterborough's Spooky Side by taking a Ghost Walk

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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Workshop on Invasive Plant Species in the Kawarthas

Lakeland Alliance's Sue Prentice talks about the Dog-Strangling VineSue Prentice of the Lakeland Alliance lead an informative workshop, "Alien Invaders: Invasive Plant Species in Cottage Country", at Ecology Park on Sunday.

Invasive plants species are usually ornamental plants that have been moved from their native habitat to a new area such as our local gardens. Due to their aggressive behaviour, they will overtake local plants and can cause economic, environmental, social or cultural damage.

Plants that have been found locally include the Common and Glossy Buckthorn, the Dog-Strangling Vine, The Norway Maple and recently brought to the spotlight, the Giant Hogweed.

Due to the 2009 Ontario cosmetic pesticides ban, we can't combat the plants with harmful toxins. But Sue Prentice gave suggestions on other methods of cutting them back (for example, being careful about what plants you put in your garden in the first place) and using something called soil solarization to prevent them from bothering you again. —Evan Holt

[Related: The Green Update: Invasive Species]

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The Goods on the Worldwide Photo Walk in the Patch

There were 25 photo walkers (see pic above) who came from around Peterborough and even as far as Oshawa to take part in the Worldwide Photo Walk on Saturday. The two hour walk started at Natas Cafe—the staff were kind enough to open early to supply the photographers with java—then went across Hunter Street all the way to the Lift Lock. The walk then wrapped back around through East City across the footpath on the bridge at the end of Maria Street, and ended at Silver Bean Café.

On August 7th, the walk leader, Evan Holt (PtboCanada's creative director), will choose the best photo which will go on to compete again the other best photos from around the world. The grand prize winning photo, along with 10 finalists, will be chosen on August 14th.

[Worldwide Photo Walk]

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Smashed '10 Beach Volleyball Tournament for Easter Seals

Today and tomorrow (July 23rd and July 24th), the parking lot at Boston Pizza in Peterborough is filled in with sand as they host a volleyball tournament. All proceeds go to Easter Seals to help support children and youth with physical disabilities in the community. Get on out there and catch the action, and support a great cause.

Warming up for the tournament

[Smashed '10 Beach Volleyball Tournament]

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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.

 
[World on Mute Designs]

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Get the Best Gas Prices in Peterborough

It's always nice to know where the best deal is before gassing up. Well thanks to GasBuddy.com, you can. The site shows the best (and worst) gas prices in almost every city in North America—including Peterborough.

Also, if you have an iPhone and fill up at Petro-Canada, don't forget to check out their free app. It gives you directions to the nearest Petro-Canada gas station and tells you the current price per litre.

[Peterborough Gas Prices]

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Worldwide Photo Walk Is This Saturday in The Patch!

Peterborough is partaking in the 3rd Annual Worldwide Photo Walk this Saturday (July 24th). The photo walk leader in the Patch is PtboCanada's very own photographer, Evan Holt. All participants should meet up first at Natas Cafe at 8:45 a.m. ("torrential downpour" rain date is Sunday the 25th). After that, the group will set out across the Hunter Street Bridge, through downtown East City and over to the Lift Lock. The trip back will take the group past Rogers Cove and along the Millennium Trail. The walk ends at around 10:30 a.m. at Silver Bean Café in Millennium Park.

The idea is to capture great images, and submit your best one to the walk leader, Evan. The person selected as having the best photo of the walk will win a free photography book and go on to compete against the other best photos taken from Worldwide Photo Walk groups from around the planet—in 2008, there were 241 groups that participated in Worldwide Photo Walk; in 2009, there were more than 900 groups; and this year there are already more than 1,100 groups.

There is no fee to participate, but pre-registration is required. All you need is a camera—even a disposable will do—and feel free to ask any photography questions you may have to Evan. The day is about having fun and exploring a bit of Peterborough.

[Worldwide Photo Walk; Peterborough ON Worldwide Photo Walk]

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Ruth Greig of Plan to Inspire thanks everyone for a lovely evening.Thursday night at The Junction, local business Plan to Inspire: Conference and Event Management presented "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".

This was a cocktail party for ladies only and had appetizers, dancing, a fashion show from local online apparel boutique TiaStar.com, and numerous wares from local businesses for women. Partial proceeds went to the YWCA Crossroads Shelter.

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Peterborough Tweeps to Follow on Twitter!

Peterborough really is starting to go crazy for Twitter. In no particular order, here's people—or "tweeps"—to follow here in the Patch.

(If we missed anyone, email us, or DM or @ us on our Twitter page and we'll add you to the list below. But we'll continue to update this as we follow new people in the Patch who get on Twitter.)

@theunderdogptbo@loraleen@calebhunt@Vote4KeithRiel@CatsandMusic@arny_12@darrylparsons@Dan4aDifference@Garkey@HeatherHWatson@andreagauster@Bennett4Mayor@Joanne_Shearer@paulforget@debsloan@Tass73@KayMully@CrisMcCullough@scottdempsey@derekpurdy@streetsjustice@LyallRB@Retrochicrobot@messykarenjean@wakeupmaggie_@jennyautumn@nick_burd@JesseJacobTCM@DarTMac@mykawartharelly@PtboWedMarket@CHEXNewsWatch@ShowplacePtbo@greeneyewear@PtboSecurity@juniorwestlake@TVLA@jonnytrash@FireHouseGourmt@gemofanm@weshitvinyl@lsands22@josheakins@JohnstonsGreenH@kayakgirly@ptbochamber@paulscobie@TrentAboriginal@CHEX530@JeffreyMacklin@Scott_Hanes@HecallsmeIke@marsiemac@davidfeeley@JenAnneShearer@sosa_129@sofawned@marts1977@bulliebabe@SamuelButcher@mygirlthursday@ashleystrange@tjconnorstweets@sakoPTBO@gostewart25@WavePRM@onthelinksgolf@brandhealthACD@studioncreative@Patty_Smoke@KruzFM@tvcptbo@Traversing@chrisdoody@danigray@PtboNature@DerekRayfuse@stevehancock@buttercupcaren@ThePFF@thewolfca@VinceB@haveyouseenvid@lazergraphics@holidayinnptbo@c0nsiderthis@Scott_Abrams@codaofchoice@themomdept@lindamac11@canadiancindyb@celadon2@_vulpecula_@PStruwing@unprotectedtext@ptbo_com@rd_designs@kennedygordon@PeterSejrup@livbo@FlemingCollege@uniformgrey@johnwitzing@TheMarketHall@thebockster@michaelhurcomb@susanjm@kelly_leblanc@subschema@jacksoncreek@disstroy@caltek79@NomiBee@ganeca@thedunnboys@brucehead@sthq@Doug_Tilley@cgooderham@miskinlaw@ptbomoves@StickShots@SmallbonesJane@wendytgibson@jameshiggins@TheSpades@obviousjohn@sjmonkey@AshRossRealtor@Clint_kingsnake@ARTBEAD@missyknottmusic@HistoricRedDog@evmustang@maggiesavage@pattrudeau@AlanaCallan@petesavage@DavidMorton011@petedalliday@ptbogreenup@kawarthanews@JayScotland@worldonmute@_heathercollins@evanholt@CupcakeJu@cherylayres@TanyaFusco@candaceshaw@Ricwi@zfptbo@matthiggs@KawarthaTurtle@anndouglas@TrentUniversity@PboroExaminer@PtboMusicfest@TheMoHo@galleryonlake@MaaNey@FrostCampusSher@richelleclark@MonstersNStuff@dacrofty@rylalonde @TopTalentSearch@NiceGuy83@amandabrown_@BriGosselin@Wakeboard_Open@GregDavis99@drewskiONFiRe@tke_yk_55@IanSKnowles

[Related:Peterborough Is Going Twitter Crazy!]

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