The Peterborough Field Naturalists have posted the questions and candidates’ responses on the PFN’s website, at www.peterboroughnature.org. Go straight to the results PDF by downloading that here.
Letter to KPRDB Trusties, School Closing
Donald Fraser, a Peterborough writer and consultant, wrote this letter to the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Trustees about the closing of Peterborough’s downtown High School PCVS. There are some very good points here. The students, their parents, their teachers, and the schools’ support staff are all a part of the dynamic human ecosystem [...]
Heritage Home and Tree Tour: The Avenues of Peterborough Walking Tour Map
We don’t often feel excited for the end of summer, but I had a lot of fun in August and September developing three Heritage Home and Tree Tour walks for the pilot Neighbourhood Shifting Gears Program, run by Peterborough Green-Up. The purpose of the walks was to connect neighbours, learn cultural heritage stories, and discover natural [...]
Add This: A really neat tool for sharing
Here’s a great tool for your website that facilitates the sharing of content via social media links. It’s called AddThis and you’ve likely seen the little doodads at the bottom of news articles or blog posts. Heck, this blog sports them too, down there just above the “leave a comment” in this post. By linking [...]
Heritage Home and Tree Tours
It was such a hit two weeks ago that we’re offering it again; the Neighbourhood Shifting Gears Walks! I’m leading two walks this week: one in the Avenues Wednesday eve, and the second in the London Street Footbridge east neighbourhood on Thursday eve. For more info about the walks and this great program do check the [...]
A note of caution about a PayPal phishing scam…
Be on the look out for a sophisticated phishing scam that seems to be attacking PayPal transaction users and/or account holders. Here’s what happened to me recently… I paid for a fundraiser this week through the charity’s online payment process using PayPal. I also have a PayPal account for business so used the default e-check payment [...]



