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Saying goodbye to Glebe House, where several hundred refugees spent their first nights in Peterborough
The New Canadians Centre will no longer use Glebe House on Brock Street as a welcome home for newcomers. Before the lease expired, people gathered in the empty house to say goodbye and share memories.
Non-profit that serves people with disabilities to close membership, limiting community control of its governance
Community Living Trent Highlands plans to restrict its corporate membership at upcoming AGM. It's part of a trend as civic engagement declines, one expert says.
Social assistance rates deemed “wildly insufficient” as United Way releases income inadequacy report
Living wage for Peterborough now pegged at $20.60 an hour
Council doubles down on plan to add 16 pickleball courts to Bonnerworth Park after testy debate
Pickleballers and skateboarders are excited for proposed Bonnerworth facilities, but neighbours decry loss of greenspace and fear excessive noise
Ban loitering? Report recommends changes to deter drug use at Peterborough Public Library.
Reports also calls for planting thorny bushes and altering benches outside library so people can’t sleep on them
Food Not Bombs defies city to continue giving out free meals without permit
Group says it has provided free community meals without a permit since 2005
Downtown businesses have a new number to call when they see someone in distress
Peterborough Currents hit the streets with the Unity Project, the downtown's new donut-carrying outreach team
Young and old learn side by side in Trent’s “intergenerational classroom”
Course focuses on the psychology of aging, and older adults are present every week to share their knowledge
Upcoming talk will discuss link between Black liberation and herbalism (February 22 Newsletter)
Also in this week's newsletter: Why Ontario's chief medical officer of health says provincial "austerity" could lead to health unit layoffs.
Saying goodbye to Glebe House, where several hundred refugees spent their first nights in Peterborough
The New Canadians Centre will no longer use Glebe House on Brock Street as a welcome home for newcomers. Before the lease expired, people gathered in the empty house to say goodbye and share memories.
Non-profit that serves people with disabilities to close membership, limiting community control of its governance
Community Living Trent Highlands plans to restrict its corporate membership at upcoming AGM. It's part of a trend as civic engagement declines, one expert says.
Social assistance rates deemed “wildly insufficient” as United Way releases income inadequacy report
Living wage for Peterborough now pegged at $20.60 an hour
Council doubles down on plan to add 16 pickleball courts to Bonnerworth Park after testy debate
Pickleballers and skateboarders are excited for proposed Bonnerworth facilities, but neighbours decry loss of greenspace and fear excessive noise
Ban loitering? Report recommends changes to deter drug use at Peterborough Public Library.
Reports also calls for planting thorny bushes and altering benches outside library so people can’t sleep on them
Food Not Bombs defies city to continue giving out free meals without permit
Group says it has provided free community meals without a permit since 2005
Downtown businesses have a new number to call when they see someone in distress
Peterborough Currents hit the streets with the Unity Project, the downtown's new donut-carrying outreach team
Young and old learn side by side in Trent’s “intergenerational classroom”
Course focuses on the psychology of aging, and older adults are present every week to share their knowledge
Upcoming talk will discuss link between Black liberation and herbalism (February 22 Newsletter)
Also in this week's newsletter: Why Ontario's chief medical officer of health says provincial "austerity" could lead to health unit layoffs.
