Sustainable building a passion

Posted By ANDREA HOUSTON, EXAMINER EDUCATION WRITER thepeterboroughexaminer.com Photo courtesy of  Clifford Skarstedt, Examiner CAMP KAWARTHA ENVIRONMENT CENTRE: New facility at Trent University one of Canada’s most sustainable buildings For Jacob Rodenburg, the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre is an example of what’s possible when the passion for a sustainable future is combined with the will […]

Construction has begun

  Camp Kawartha Environment Center is taking shape at Trent University in Peterborough. Students in the Sustainable Building Design and Construction program at Fleming College have been hard at work for several weeks now. Camp Kawartha will use this sustainable building to deliver environmental programing to kindergarten to grade four students from the surrounding region […]

exposition wonhundred hommage aux Canadiens

Vanessa Schneider / 7Jours Vendredi soir avait lieu le vernissage de wonhundred, une exposition «célébrant la meilleure équipe de hockey au monde»: les Canadiens. Heureusement que leur présence aux séries éliminatoires est maintenant confirmée! L’événement joint l’utile à l’agréable, puisque 25 % des profits seront remis à la Fondation Gainey. L’exposition, des peintures originales, des imprimés […]

On the hot seat

Posted by ROY MacGREGOR Globe and Mail Pressure? You think Bob Gainey’s feeling the pressure these days? Just listen a moment to his mother-in-law, Bea Collins. She is 92 years old, hard of hearing and in a wheelchair. You’d be a bit worn out, too, if you’d raised 19 children, and yet her voice is […]

Gainey Concert brings in 122 000

Posted By BRENDAN WEDLEY, EXAMINER STAFF WRITER thepeterboroughexaminer.com Photos courtesy of The Peterborough Examiner Bob Gainey thanked an impressive lineup of Canadian musicians, sponsors and the Peterborough community for helping to raise almost $122,000 toward the Gainey Foundation last night. Gainey and his family created the foundation two years ago in memory of his daughter, […]