Must watch: Focus, which looks at local events, people, places and organizations making a difference in our community, begins its new season next Wednesday (September 14th) on Cogeco at 6:30 p.m. This year, it has a new host, Catherine Hanrahan from Kruz FM. Watch the trailer for the first show below:
[TVCogecoOntario; Focus on Cogeco]
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UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 13th, 3:30 p.m. Here's the latest from CHEX Newswatch's Greg Davis on the Fleming strike, the picket line, the students and the growing frustration on both sides.
UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 9th, 10:32 a.m. BREAKING NEWS: From Special Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service Release...
Youtube video leads to arrest:
Further to the youtube video that circulated that depicted a vehicle driving through the strike line at Sir Sandford Fleming College and the ongoing police investigation. On the 9th of September 2011 20 year old Isaac Tilstra of Peterborough turned himself into the Peterborough Police station. Tilstra is charged with Dangerous Driving and was held for a bail hearing on the 9th of September 2011 to begin the process to determine his guilt or innocence.
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UPDATE: Dumb and Dumber had the slight smarts to remove the video, but Donald Fraser over at Small Print blog made a copy before they did so which has now been passed around. So, if you haven't watched it, here it is:
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ORIGINAL POST
Sure frustation is mounting at the long lines, but this is utterly unexcusable. Someone could have been seriously hurt. Listen as the driver speeds up as he approaches the line. And they laugh about it. Dumb and dumber.
[YouTube]
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UPDATE: Thursday, September 8th, 11:09 a.m. Here's an interesting timeline sent to us by a tipster that reveals what went wrong with Nexicom switch... It's apparently put together by Nexicom employee.
Sept 5th – 11:45AM. Primary and redundant switch failure alarm generated. Both our primary and backup phone switch went offline and technician notified.
Sept 5th – 12:15PM. Technician onsite and investigating. Strong burning smell evident upon entry to building.
Sept 5th – 12:45PM . Additional technicians called to site to investigate – power disconnected to all phone switch equipment as per safety protocols.
Sept 5th – 3:00PM. Diagnosis of issue shows that the primary and redundant telephone switch had suffered un-repairable electrical damage.
Sept 5th – 3:00PM. Emergency procedures initiated and switch vendor notified.
Sept 5th – 6:00PM. Extensive troubleshooting and “heated” discussion with switch vendor. Switch vendor notifies Nexicom that there is no spare equipment available in Canada currently and must ship replacement equipment from their UK and/or California locations.
Sept 6th – 8:00AM. Updates received from switch vendor that they are still staging and preparing the equipment. Staging and testing process is very involved and complex with this kind of equipment – normally takes a minimum of 1 week.
Sept 6th – 9:00AM. Nexicom technicians began preparatory work for arrival of new equipment.
Sept 6th – 3:00PM. Switch vendor has confirmed shipments have left from the UK and also from California via air freight.
Sept 6th – 11:00PM. Nexicom technicians complete preparatory work required for arrival of new equipment.
Sept 7th – 7:00AM. Confirmation that replacement telephone switch equipment has arrived in Toronto and waiting customs clearance process.
Sept 7th - 10:00AM. Customs clearance confirmed and new switch equipment picked up by Nexicom.
Sept 7th - 11:30AM. Equipment arrived and technicians began installation.
Sept 7th - 1:30PM. All voice services restored.
Nexicom has extensive support and maintenance contracts in place with our telephone switch vendor so that situations like this can be dealt with very quickly. This situation has raised serious concerns that are resulting in a series of ongoing discussions with them in the coming weeks. Obviously our primary focus at this moment is to followup on the service restoration but you can be confident the discussions with our switch vendor will be a priority immediately after service restoration.
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[UPDATE Wednesday, 11:51 a.m.: Here are the latest emails that went out to all Nexicom customers this morning. Service should be restored later this afternoon.]
Message to all Nexicom Telephone Customers
Re: Phone Outages Update
Further to the update we sent a few hours ago, the switch has arrived in Millbrook.
Our technicians are currently working on programming the unit, and we anticipate that we should have full telephone service available to you by later this afternoon.
We will continue to keep you up to date on the progress.
Our next update should announce fully restored telephone service.
Thank you again,
The Nexicom Team
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Message to all Nexicom Telephone Customers
Re: Phone Outages Update
The replacement switch has been processed through Canadian Customs and is in transit from Pearson International Airport to Nexicom’s facility in Millbrook.
The switch will be programmed by our technicians upon its arrival and we hope to have your phone service fully operational by later this afternoon.
Once the equipment is in our facility undergoing programming, we will send you another update.
Again, we thank you for your patience and understanding.
The Nexicom Team
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[UPDATE: Here is the release that went out to all Nexicom customers this afternoon. It's looking like service won't be restored until by end of day tomorrow.]
From: "Do Not Reply" <donotreply@nexicom.net>
Date: September 6, 2011 3:38:07 PM GMT-04:00
To: <donotreply@nexicom.net>
Subject: UPDATE: Telephone Outage
Reply-To: support@nexicom.net
Message to all Nexicom Telephone Customers
Further to our message this morning, a new telephone switch has been configured, tested and we have confirmed it is in transit. It is anticipated that we will receive the new switch tomorrow afternoon after clearing customs. As soon as we receive the unit, every effort will be made to restore service by end of day tomorrow. We will send out another update tomorrow once we receive the switch.
Again, we thank you for your understanding.
The Nexicom Team
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CHEX Newswatch segment:
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[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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No doubt Peterborough is an amazing city in many many ways as we trumpet all the time here. We live in one of the greatest cities anywhere. But this post isn't about that great stuff. It's about the growing concerns many in the community have about unemployment, drugs (and more drugs), break and enters, robberies, domestics, and safety in the downtown (Exhibit A: man holds knife to a person's throat; Exhibit B: bloodied man with an axe).
Three people have been murdered in the city already this year—the latest earlier this week—and well, people are talking about this stuff and what can be done. Sure there is often a correlation between unemployment and crime, but still, people want answers about what can be done about it and safety in the community.
Cameras downtown and care meters and such are all good to a certain extent, but they are also bandaids. There has to be more effective ways for us to stand up and look after our community, and have each other's backs so to speak. If you allow all these things to fester, they don't just magically go away.
We raised the question on Twitter earlier this week about whether the Mayor's office should consider organizing a Town Hall meeting to bring the police chief, politicians and other community leaders together in one space to create a public forum for citizens to air their concerns, and to hear what our leaders have to say. Do it at the Memorial Centre, do it at the Venue, do it at Trentwinds—just find a space and try it. What's the harm? As one person on Twitter suggested, "The only way to effect change is through action. If the powers that be don't hear people's voices, we'll have more of the same."
Now we asked Mayor Bennett about the idea of a Town Hall meeting and here's 
what he had to say: "Thanks for the suggestion. The items that you have listed are some of the concerns that the City and Councillors address on a daily basis, and we have a public Committee process in place that is intended to engage people who are concerned about them. My suggestion is to direct concerns to your local Councillors so that they can assist by bringing the questions forward; contact the City Clerk so that you or a group of people can make a presentation to Council; and to take advantage of the currency of the Provincial election to compel some accountability for the many responsibilities that fall within the provincial jurisdiction. If my office can be of help in making any or all of these happen, just let me know."
So is that enough? Can they be doing more? Can we be doing more? What do you think about this notion of a Town Hall meeting? Or is this all being overblown and the same stuff happens in any community?
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[UPDATE: OK, it seems that bassoon thing is a joke that has made its way around the interwebs and there really is no dude in Peterborough looking for his bassoon. Still, there is some local dude who put it up here so it's funny nonetheless. We are not sure what phone number that will take you to.]
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Yeah, we had to Wikipedia it, too.
[via Kawartha Fresh]
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The Peterborough Co-Op Rural Routes (861 Lansdowne Street West) is having a moving sale and moving to Lansdowne Street East by Harley Davidson later this month.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Evan Holt]
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Vinnies does not want your garbage. Here is surveillance video that shows two people in a van unloading their stained, dirty, broken sofa's behind the store Tuesday night. This is just wrong, and those people know it, but don't want to pay to bring it to a dump themselves. Instead, Vinnie's has to foot the bill.
[chextvDOTcom; Related: PtboPics: Vinnies Grand Opening At New Location (The Old One To Be Converted Into Food Bank)]
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Local folks are raising money to help make a splash pad at Nicholl's Oval a reality for all the neighbourhood kiddies to enjoy, as there are currently no working splash pads east of the Otonabee River. The Help Make a Splash campaign is hoping to raise funds through various community activities and fundraising events. To learn more and how you can support the cause, go to their website, or their Facebook and Twitter pages.
[Contributed by PtboCanada's Julie Morris]
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