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01
Dec

Heritage Home and Tree Tour: Dickson Mills Neighbourhood Walking Tour Map

The London Street Footbridge West Neighbourhood This Heritage Home and Tree Tour was the second walk I developed as part of the Shifting Gears program, run by Peterborough Green-Up. The purpose of the walks was to connect neighbours, learn cultural heritage stories, and discover natural heritage features throughout the neighbourhood. The London Street footbridge west neighbourhood, [...]

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14
Nov

Our Urban Forest Public Meeting

While I no longer coordinate this fantastic program at Peterborough Green-Up, it is still near and dear to my heart, and I love chipping in and lending a hand whenever I can. When I left, the Urban Forest Program also lost their webmaster (moi) and they don’t often get a chance to post their activities [...]

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29
Sep

All Candidates Debate on the Environment

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.

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29
Sep

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 [...]

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20
Sep

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 [...]

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13
Sep

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 [...]

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