Author Archives: Anca Pascalau

Age-Friendly Peterborough Survey

The Peterborough Council on Aging is seeking input from community members to develop an Age-friendly Plan for the Peterborough region. The Plan will identify the needs, priorities, and service gaps of older adults and outline strategies to support active and healthy aging across the region. A survey, open to all community members, is now available online. Your input will be used to gauge how age-friendly the Peterborough region is today and what could help make it more age-friendly in the future.

For more information, please contact Sarah Cullingham, Age-friendly Coordinator, at (705) 748-8830 ext. 3227 or .

2014 Active Transportation and Health Indicators Report

Black and white photo of a young woman bike riding on a busy urban streetPeterborough’s first Active Transportation and Health Indicators Report has been released! This report showcases the connection between rates of walking and cycling, infrastructure, policy, programming, human and environmental health, and safety. Containing hundreds of unique infographics, this report is among the first and most comprehensive benchmarking publications developed in a Canadian municipality.

2014 Purple Onion Festival

The Purple Onion Festival is a celebration of our local community, a more resilient and sustainable one, one that supports our local farmers and locally owned businesses by building relationships with them, by making connections and by living more locally. Come out to the Festival this Sunday, September the 21st, 11-4, at Peterborough’s Millennium Park, and celebrate local! Admission is free. For further details, including a list of events, please visit the Festival’s website at http://thepurpleonion.org/.

7 Days of Green is back!

7 Days of Green is back this year, June 1-7!  Visit their brand new website for detailed listings of events.  http://7daysofgreen.ca/

Sustainable Peterborough is proud to be one of the partners in the “Buy Local Cash Mob” event taking place on Wednesday, June 4th, at the Electric City Bread Company, 165 Sherbrooke Street, Peterborough, from 10 am until 5 pm.

Seniors’ Summit

The 2014 Seniors’ Summit will be kickstarting Seniors’ Month and will be taking place on May 29th, 12:30 – 7:00 in Trent University’s Wenjack Theatre.  For more details please visit this link:  http://www.peterborough.ca/Living/Seniors/Peterborough_Seniors__Month/Seniors__Month_-_Calendar_of_Events/Senior_s_Summit_s_p9862.htm?EventMode=View&EventOccurrence=0