Here's a couple of pretty neat films a guy shot from his vacation trips to this area in 1970 and 1971. You'll recognize many local spots in them. (The film format was Super 8, so there is no audio unfortunately.)
[Buckhorn 1970; Return to Buckhorn -- 1971]
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Our zoo is fantastic—and free. And this year it is celebrating its 75th anniversary, with special events including their first annual fundraising Gala in August to help raise funds for an animal care building to house animals in need of special attention.
Be a tourist in your own city, and go check out our wonderful zoo—or if you've already been, go again and again.
Here are some videos that people have shot there over the years:
And hey, why not... take a ride to the zoo.
[Related: Interactive Tour of Riverview Park and Zoo; Simon & Garfunkel: At The Zoo]
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The media are missing the messages that really matter about the G8/G20 protests in Toronto this weekend.
That's what organizers of a peaceful rally and discussion held at Peterborough's Confederation Park on Sunday afternoon wanted the crowd of roughly 100 people who turned out for an afternoon of information and entertainment to know.
The event included speeches from Peterborough-area activists who participated in rallies and other events in Toronto this week; political analysis from other area activists such as John Etches, Jo Hayward-Haines and Roy Brady; a political dance performance by local dancer Ryan Kerr; and a music performance by Dub Trinity.
Members of The Peterborough Community Mobilization Network organized the event to raise awareness about the issues surrounding the G8/G20 summits.
Barb Woolner and Leah Finity, two Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) board members who attended the rally together, each expressed frustration about the media coverage the G20 protests in Toronto had received in the mainstream media—specifically the emphasis on the acts of violence at the expense of the important messages being carried by the protesters.
"I don't think that's what people are looking for from the media—not if they are critical observers. They are waiting, waiting, waiting for those other stories about why those peaceful demonstrators were out there," said Woolner. "The media has twisted what it means to be a demonstrator. They've lost sight of what makes the movement so rich. We're not all saying the same thing."
—video and text by Ann Douglas, PtboCanada contributor
[Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Mainstream Media About the G20 Protests]
[For all videos shot by Ann Douglas at the Peterborough rally, click here.]
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In the order they came in on our @Ptbo_Canada feed shortly after the Earthquake hit at 1:41 p.m., here were some of the initial tweets (and confusion) from Peterborough tweeps:
cherylayres
did you just feel that tremor!
jacksoncreek
earthquake
miskinlaw
I am in Whitby Ontario Canada. I think I just felt a serious earthquake. Wazzzzup?
TanyaFusco
Did anyone just feel that?
candaceshaw
Um, did anyone else in the Traill College area just feel the earth move? My house just shook in a way I've never felt before.
anndouglas
Our entire house is shaking and creaking. Construction crews digging nearby or earth tremor?
brucehead
Earthquake in Peterboorugh too!
cgooderham
Did anyone just feel an tremor? There were no trucks in my area and I just felt an earthquake... 1:43pm Eastern TIME #earthquake
jameshiggins
Ummm... eathquake, anyone?
ptbogreenup
Did we just experience an earthquake?
cherylayres
@miskinlaw I felt it here in west end Peterborough - felt like th house just slid sideways
Ricwi
Uh... Anyone else just feel the earth move?
subschema
Thought it was just me. So weird. RT @evmustang: Amazing. RT @cherylayres: did you just feel that tremor!
stevehancock
Did y'all just feel that?
StickShots
Did we just have earth tremors in peterborough? My apt was shaking
TanyaFusco
Earthquake?
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In the first part of this interview with Canadian folk singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing (from Blackie & the Rodeo Kings) after a recent gig at PCVS, Fearing speaks fondly of all of the old buildings in Peterborough. He marvels at the old PCVS auditorium in particular, calling it "easily one of the best venues I've ever played."
And here's video from Fearing's performance at PCVS:
[Stephen Fearing; Fearing at first PCVS music series]
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As it says here in the December 28, 2006 posting of the video on YouTube, "This pure work of art was created by two genius students at TAS Secondary School in Peterborough, Ontario. This was a physics project in grade 11. The objective was to create a cardboard chair which would hold at least 350 lbs, and up to 1000 lbs. Needless to say these two students took it upon themselves to make a creation above all creations. Making the chair was one thing... the second part of the project was to ADVERTISE it! So here you go. The iPad ad. Enjoy."
And the update given on January 27 of this year: "Yeah, I know... we had the name first, haha."
[The iPad]
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